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IVTV Halloween Special pt 1 The kids up there tell us it still is. If you see some LAisters up there tonight dressed as guest commentors (aka the dead), say hi. And if you go out tonight, be safe, don't drink and drive, and when you take pictures, make sure to upload them onto flickr and tag them "laist", and tomorrow and Friday we will feature the best of them on this very website....

Regina Spektor - "Us" @ Coachella, 2007 Maybe you're like us. Maybe you already have been to every great Halloween that Isla Vista has to offer. Maybe you are tired of scaring the little kids in your Dick Cheney costume showing them how Social Security will be wiped out by the time they're 40. Maybe the West Hollywood omg I'm a slut costume has worn thin(ner). Maybe you just want to get away from...

For the second year in a row UC Santa Barbara was ranked the 10th Best Party School by the Princeton Review. In their newly released 2008 edition of The Best 366 Colleges, the university 90 minutes north of LA was the only California school to make the Top 10. The top ranked party school this year was West Virginia University, a school that has made the list seven times in the past 15 years....

- According to Pat Saperstein of Eating LA, the LA Times is starting a food blog…ooooh, how 2005 of them! - Jonathan Gold checks out ChiliMySoul. Damn him. Now we've got to go to Encino. - EaterLA finally gives a shout-out to LAist's fabulous food reporting, and mentions Callie Miller's excellent expose of bakery Sweet Lady Jane (more like Pissy Lady Jane). - There's beer in Santa Barbara??? No! You'll never make us believe...

Now that classes have wrapped up at UC Santa Barbara, this is the best time for a weekend getaway 90 minutes north of LA in Isla Vista. If parties are your thing, this weekend should find Del Playa and Sabado Tarde sprinkled with farewell bashes as the kids pack up for a summer back home. But if peace and quiet are your thing, cruise up the 101 in a week or two when pretty...

Someone needs to tell Wendy McCaw that they canceled the soap opera Santa Barbara years ago.

Madness ensued 90 minutes North of LA after the unranked Gauchos upset the heavily-favored UCLA Bruins in the National Soccer Finals. Hordes of suddenly enthusiastic UCSB soccer fans celebrated in an unusual way by rushing the campus soccer field, yanking a goal from its foundation, and racing it through the streets of Isla Vista before sending it to its watery grave on the beach below the cliffs of Del Playa (video after the jump)....

- If LAist smoked (cigarettes) we'd be so pissed at Santa Monica - Martini Republic

It's true, LAist loves Isla Vista. It's our LA away from LA, OK? And what a better place to rage than a college town with excellent Mexican food, too many beaches, and more weed than Snoop Dogg's glove compartment after the Burbank airport cops "searched" through his Caddy. This weekend UCSB lived up to the myth and flickr user lightscripture documented the fashion show. After the jump, sample a small percentage of his fabulous...

It's hard for us not to move our gaze northward when we think of Halloween as everyone knows the best Halloween party in LA is in Santa Barbara.

- Mass: Man Beats GF After She Takes Him Off Her MySpace Top 15 - UPI - LA: LA Beaches Worst in State - LAT - Indiana: Researchers conclude that Men are "always" thinking about Sex. - UPI - LA: USC Teen Produces Spaghetti Vomit on the streets of Isla Vista - Daily Nexus - New Mexico: While Busting a Scientist for Meth, Cops Discover Classified Nuclear Documents - AP - LA: White Powder...

Halloween in Isla Vista sounds like something we might wanna do this weekend. You know. There's also that rock concert festival in Vegas. And Halloween Horror Nights, and Magic Mountain is always a little scary at night.

After breif stint off the Interwebs, stereogum returned today saying that yes they were hacked but no the hackers did not leave the clever ha ha message that we wrote about the other day.

Kids, I wrote that. The intention wasn't to punk the blogosphere -- what hacker correctly uses 'whom' and posts a Bob Dylan MP3? -- but to amuse you while we were pwned. I see how it would appear a hacker wrote it. Sorry for the confusion. (Well, not that sorry. Gawker love's hard to find if you're not Crazy 'Us Weekly' Guy™.)

"Love Pearl Jam. But Pearl Jam now is like the Gap crowd. The baggy trousers. It's a date. It's nice, lovely music. You know, there is a whole other world out there. But people are snobbish and don't want to mix with it. We love those people. We embrace them. They are as loyal as they can be." - Sharon Osbourne, LA Times 7/6