Alex Herbaugh, Author at KCSB-FM

UCSB Reads: Exiled: Loss and Resilience Among Refugee and Forcibly Displaced Youth and Communities

On January 22nd, the UCSB Library presented a lecture by Dr. Maryam Kia-Keating in conjunction with UCSB Reads, exploring some of the themes found in this year’s book, The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. KCSB's Daisy Kershaw speaks with clinical psychologist…

Gender Inequality in the Field of Archaeology

KCSB's Tianyi Huang speaks with Amber VanDerwarker about why women in Archaeology choose careers in cultural resource management (CRM) over academia and inequalities in the field.

news central coast March 4, 2019

Debris Disposal at Goleta Beach

The county is looking to expand debris disposal at beaches, KCSB's Hayden Harris has the story.

health & science news February 28, 2019

The ‘Dirty Dozen’ on our Beaches

Tired of pieces of trash ruining your beach day? Then dig deep into the dirty dozen with Julia Keane, an Environmental Educator with Santa Barbara’s Explore Ecology, a local environmental education and arts nonprofit. She explains the most popular pollutants tainting our beaches…

news central coast February 26, 2019

Warming Centers in Santa Barbara Considering Opening more Often

In the current stormy and cold weather, homeless people in Santa Barbara turn to shelters such as the Freedom Warming Centers--which have been looking to lower their threshold for entrance. Fatima Mobin has more.

news central coast February 26, 2019

Arto Halonen on his Movie Murderous Trance

Murderous Trance, directed by Arto Halonen and starring American Josh Lucas, is in part a psychological thriller based on real events set in Norway. The central figure hypnotizes young men to commit bank robberies to raise money for a secretive pro-Nazi movement though…

news central coast February 26, 2019

Sisters of the Valley visit SBIFF

The documentary Breaking Habits about the Sisters of the Valley in Merced, recently screened at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. More than a celebration of the cultivation of marijuana, it is a ringing endorsement of women independently organizing, cultivating, healing and offering positive…

current affairs news February 26, 2019

California Senator promotes “Blue Card” system for foreign farm workers

The past three years of federal politics has been characterized as divisive, to say the least. But one area being furthered by bi-partisan collaboration might be where it's least expected: foreign agricultural labor policy. KCSB's Kody Chong has more on the issue.

news ucsb February 26, 2019

UCSB’s Hidden Asphalt History

Recently, a public demonstration took place outside of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s regional office in remembrance of the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill and to bring attention to the plans to drastically expand offshore drilling operations. Even with petroleum at the…

news ucsb February 26, 2019

U.S. Poet Laureate Visits UCSB

On January 31st Tracy K Smith, current U.S. Poet Laureate, visited UCSB to do a reading as part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures series. KCSB reporter Jenny Boyar attended the event.

Author page: Alex Herbaugh

UCSB Reads: Exiled: Loss and Resilience Among Refugee and Forcibly Displaced Youth and Communities

Gender Inequality in the Field of Archaeology

Debris Disposal at Goleta Beach

The ‘Dirty Dozen’ on our Beaches

Warming Centers in Santa Barbara Considering Opening more Often

Arto Halonen on his Movie Murderous Trance

Sisters of the Valley visit SBIFF

California Senator promotes “Blue Card” system for foreign farm workers

UCSB’s Hidden Asphalt History

U.S. Poet Laureate Visits UCSB

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