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The Student News Site of University of California - San Diego

The UCSD Guardian
Gabbi Basa

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor

Third-year Neurobiology major whose heart belongs to her Goodreads favorites shelf. Lover of liminal spaces and all things (serve the beam) Stephen King.

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FYI, BTW

FYI, BTW

Gabbi Basa and Amrutha Ravi
Oct 20, 2025
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Metal queen mania comes to San Diego: Poppy at the Observatory

Adalia Luo and Gabbi Basa
Oct 20, 2025
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A&E’s Weekly Song Pick: ‘The Ghost in You’ — Counting Crows

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor
Oct 6, 2025
A&E’s 2025 Summer Favorites

A&E’s 2025 Summer Favorites

Thi Tran, Tara Vatandoust, Olivia Barkwill, Leea Caddell, and Gabbi Basa
Sep 29, 2025
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Nameless worship: Unmasking the rise of Sleep Token

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor
May 19, 2025
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Long Reads and Pleasant Rants: ‘The Blade Itself’: A daring gauntlet for modern fantasy

Gabbi Basa, Associate A&E Editor
Apr 28, 2025
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A&E’s Weekly Song Pick: Bon-Bon Blanco’s ‘BON VOYAGE!’

Gabbi Basa, Associate A&E Editor
Apr 14, 2025
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A&E’s Weekly Song Pick: Thornhill’s ‘Lily and the Moon’

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Jan 27, 2025
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Long Reads and Pleasant Rants – ‘The Will of the Many’: The boy who survived

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Jan 6, 2025
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Poppy pays tribute to modern metal in ‘Negative Spaces’

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Nov 25, 2024
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A&E’s weekly song pick: Covet’s ‘shibuya’

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Nov 11, 2024
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Long Reads and Pleasant Rants: ‘Hyperion’: a catch-all classic

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Oct 28, 2024
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Long Reads and Pleasant Rants: ‘Perdido Street Station’: Monsters that evade meaning

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Oct 14, 2024
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A&E’s Summer Favorites

Jonathan Shlesinger, Matthew Pham, Leea Caddell, Xuan Ly, and Gabbi Basa
Sep 30, 2024
Giving glory and gore: “Gideon the Ninth” book review

Giving glory and gore: “Gideon the Ninth” book review

Gabbi Basa, Senior staff writer
May 19, 2024
Historical fantasy falls flat: “The Familiar” book review

Historical fantasy falls flat: “The Familiar” book review

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Apr 28, 2024
A failed landing: “3 Body Problem” series review

A failed landing: “3 Body Problem” series review

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Apr 7, 2024
“Dune: Part 2” is the ultimate cinematic science fiction experience

“Dune: Part 2” is the ultimate cinematic science fiction experience

Gabbi Basa, Staff Writer
Mar 10, 2024
The place inside the blizzard

The place inside the blizzard

Gabbi Basa, Staff writer
Feb 18, 2024
Essay: fairy tales of the future — a quest for speculative fiction

Essay: fairy tales of the future — a quest for speculative fiction

Gabbi Basa, Staff writer
Jan 14, 2024
A&E's favorites of 2023

A&E’s favorites of 2023

Yamile Peel, Gabbi Basa, Xuan Ly, and Kamiah Johnson
Jan 7, 2024
A Christmas with Stephen King

A Christmas with Stephen King

Gabbi Basa, Contributing writer
Dec 3, 2023
Too clean/too heavy/too Spiritbox – “The Fear of Fear” EP Review

Too clean/too heavy/too Spiritbox – “The Fear of Fear” EP Review

Gabbi Basa, Contributing writer
Nov 12, 2023
Punchy, Polished, Polyphia

Punchy, Polished, Polyphia

Gabbi Basa, Contributing Writer
Oct 29, 2023
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