Crazy Billionaires Quiz
Crazy Billionaires Quiz
Year: 2006
Five Reasons to Check Out
Jann Arden is a singer/songwriter from Calgary, Canada, who has sold more than two million records and won eight Juno Awards, including Songwriter of the Year in 2002. Her single “Insensitive” went Top 10 globally in 1995. She opens for Michael Buble at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Friday, July 21.
{1} Jann Arden’s distinctive sound is powered by a small band that includes a drummer who plays the Cuban “caj³n.”
Dog in the Fog
READ AND WEEP: In a perverse way, I’d like to thank embattled News-Press owner Wendy P. McCaw and her bilious right-hand man Travis K. Armstrong for all the uproar now engulfing the News-Press and the whole town. The sad soap opera unfolding at the De la Guerra Plaza digs of Santa Barbara’s oldest paper has succeeded in diverting our attention-if only a little bit-from the gathering storm clouds of World War III now spreading from Lebanon and Israel. Even for the most defiantly chirpy among us, these are scary times indeed.
THIRD DISTRICT JOCKEYING
Brooks Firestone announced he will seek another term as 3rd District Supervisor and hosted a $125-per-plate kickoff dinner at his Santa Ynez winery home. The announcement, coming more than two years before the end of his term in 2008, sent the message to those positioning themselves for a run that the Firestone Tire heir is not the one-term hobbyist he was rumored to be.
Heart and Home
Between recording as a solo artist and reigniting the enigmatic Toad the Wet Sprocket, life’s recently been a balancing act for Glen Phillips. But while his musical career requires a little juggling, it’s not the only thing Phillips is balancing, for it’s his family that affords him the greatest riches. So when the singer/songwriter brings both musical chariots back to Santa Barbara next week-with a solo show at SOhO on Tuesday, July 25 and as part of Toad at the Marjorie Luke on Thursday, July 27-one senses the greatest reward for Glen Phillips will come from simply being home.
PARADISE SOLD
The certifiable Shangri-las of Rancho El Cojo and Jalama Ranch have officially been sold, with escrow expected to close in early September. Though the buyer and the amount paid have yet to be disclosed, the asking price was about $120 million for the total package of 8,580-acre El Cojo and 15,813-acre Jalama.
Goleta Race Heats Up
The Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce said it supported the campaigns of two City Council challengers and held a press conference on Monday to express concerns about Goleta’s draft General Plan, with Chamber President Kristen Amyx saying the plan needed significant revision. The current City Council would like to write the ordinances implementing the plan, but that wish may be derailed by the outcome of the City Council race.
DIRTY OCEAN, CLEAN CREEKS
According to data presented at a Heal the Ocean press conference, the concentration of fecal bacteria along the ocean’s edge at East Beach is nearly a thousand times higher than it is just a few hundred yards up Mission Creek, a fact that defies conventional wisdom linking creek flow to polluted oceans.
Q: What is the history of the Rochin adobe on Santa Barbara Street?
This modest adobe, sheathed in clapboard of pinkish hue that sits at 820 Santa Barbara Street is among the oldest in the city. The families who have lived here through decades have lineages that stretch back to the earliest days of Santa Barbara.
RECONSIDERING SANTA YNEZ
In light of attacks last week on the draft Santa Ynez Valley Community Plan, the Board of Supervisors this week decided to create an ad hoc subcommittee to iron out disagreements before voting on whether to adopt the plan.
