The UCLA Bruins were gifted their third consecutive Pac-10 title by the referees in their game against the #7 Stanford Cardinal. With less than two seconds to go at the end of regulation Darren Collison drove to the basket and pulled up for a five-footer. Lawrence Hill went up and blocked the shot. Replays clearly showed that Hill got all ball and absolutely no body contact. So of course Hill got called for the......

Well, whatcha know, Radiohead's In Rainbows, which hit stores on New Year's Day, sits atop the Billboard charts nearly three months after the band offered the album as a pay-what-you-want digital download via their Web site. Today we have confirmation of the cities (albeit neither venues nor dates) that our favorite Glaswegians Englishmen will visit this summer. California stops include Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and San Francisco:The first leg will come prior......

Gearing up for another War on Christmas, combative conservative columnist David Horowitz and the College Republicans are calling out to their hate squad and killing Halloween (not to mention a week of breast cancer awareness month) with what they've dubbed "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week." Ann Coulter, recently listed as charging a $25,000 speaker fee by the Premiere Speakers Bureau (and now "call for fee") will speak in the name of Islamo-Fascism Awareness tomorrow night at USC.......

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......

A long time ago in a peninsula far far away (if a 90 minute drive is far), there was a college newspaper so good that Matt Welch's only regular writing assignment was the two or three sentences in the Weather box. Though this was late-'80s Santa Barbara and the weather for an entire year was Sunny and Mild (we were in the midst of a year-long drought), somehow Welch's Weather box was one of......

Lakers 101, Pacers 87 - The Lakers won their third in a row to stay atop the Pacific Division in a commanding win over Indiana. Kobe Bryant scored 21 but left the game in the third quarter with a sprained ankle. He returned to the bench shortly after going to the locker room. Before the game, coach Phil Jackson benched starting center Andrew Bynum due to questions over his work ethic, though the 19-year-old......

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).......

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......

Los Angeles real estate company Conquest Student Housing accused of changing their name to 6626 Picasso LLC in order to hide the fact that they bought a 55-unit apartment complex at UCSB, and then attempted to evict all the tenants - Daily Nexus Silverlake Music Academy has their 5th annual recital and Spin magazine discovers that the kids would love to jam with Panic! at the Disco or dead classic rock bands - Spin......