Gabbi Basa – The UCSD Guardian

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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A&E’s Weekly Song Pick: ‘Watching All Your Friends Get Rich’ — The Home Team

Gabbi Basa, Outgoing A&E Editor
Jun 1, 2026

Honoring our mothers through the media that raised us

Sonia McSwain, Meng-Shan Otero, Avery Heid, Kaitlyn Lots, Tara Vatandoust, Winter Moritz, and Gabbi Basa
May 11, 2026

FYI, BTW

Jay Kurtz and Gabbi Basa
Apr 27, 2026

‘One Piece: Into the Grand Line’ sails strong, catches second-season blues

Jay Kurtz and Gabbi Basa
Apr 7, 2026

Inside the 2026 San Diego Latino Film Festival

Gabbi Basa and Thi Tran
Apr 6, 2026

‘Project Hail Mary’ dazzles at playing it safe

Gabbi Basa and Tara Vatandoust
Apr 2, 2026

DISREGUARDIAN: FYI, BTW, JK

Gabbi Basa, Tara Vatandoust, Jay Kurtz, and Kaitlyn Lots
Mar 30, 2026

DISREGUARDIAN: A&E’s Weekly Slop Pick: ‘Charlie Kirk FUNK’ — Nxxkz

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor
Mar 30, 2026

Long Reads and Pleasant Rants: ‘Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil’

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor
Mar 2, 2026

AS Meeting Recap — Winter Week 6

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor
Feb 17, 2026

‘This is not an expedition, it is an execution’: Markiplier’s ‘Iron Lung’

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor
Feb 17, 2026

Kalieva, Svajda pull off upsets to claim San Diego Open title

Alan Zhang, Gabbi Basa, and Lionel Liu
Feb 8, 2026

A&E’s Weekly Song Pick: ‘Something Stupid’ — Lola Marsh

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor
Jan 26, 2026

A&E Showdown: ‘Stranger Things 5’

Winter Moritz and Gabbi Basa
Jan 5, 2026

Long Reads and Pleasant Rants: ‘The Strength of the Few’

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor
Nov 12, 2025

FYI, BTW

Gabbi Basa and Amrutha Ravi
Oct 20, 2025

Metal queen mania comes to San Diego: Poppy at The Observatory

Adalia Luo and Gabbi Basa
Oct 20, 2025

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

Thi Tran, Tara Vatandoust, Olivia Barkwill, Leea Caddell, and Gabbi Basa
Sep 29, 2025

Nameless worship: Unmasking the rise of Sleep Token

Gabbi Basa, A&E Editor
May 19, 2025

Long Reads and Pleasant Rants: ‘The Blade Itself’: A daring gauntlet for modern fantasy

Gabbi Basa, Associate A&E Editor
Apr 28, 2025

A&E’s Weekly Song Pick: Bon-Bon Blanco’s ‘BON VOYAGE!’

Gabbi Basa, Associate A&E Editor
Apr 14, 2025

A&E’s Weekly Song Pick: Thornhill’s ‘Lily and the Moon’

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Jan 27, 2025

Long Reads and Pleasant Rants – ‘The Will of the Many’: The boy who survived

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Jan 6, 2025

Poppy pays tribute to modern metal in ‘Negative Spaces’

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Nov 25, 2024

A&E’s weekly song pick: Covet’s ‘shibuya’

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Nov 11, 2024

Long Reads and Pleasant Rants: ‘Hyperion’: a catch-all classic

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Oct 28, 2024

Long Reads and Pleasant Rants: ‘Perdido Street Station’: Monsters that evade meaning

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Oct 14, 2024

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

Gabbi Basa, Senior staff writer
May 19, 2024

Historical fantasy falls flat: “The Familiar” book review

Gabbi Basa, Senior Staff Writer
Apr 28, 2024

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

Gabbi Basa, Staff Writer
Mar 10, 2024

The place inside the blizzard

Gabbi Basa, Staff writer
Feb 18, 2024

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

Gabbi Basa, Staff writer
Jan 14, 2024

A&E’s favorites of 2023

Yamile Peel, Gabbi Basa, Xuan Ly, and Kamiah Johnson
Jan 7, 2024

A Christmas with Stephen King

Gabbi Basa, Contributing writer
Dec 3, 2023

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

Gabbi Basa, Contributing writer
Nov 12, 2023

Punchy, Polished, Polyphia

Gabbi Basa, Contributing Writer
Oct 29, 2023

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