Year: 2006

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Wearable Art, Wearisome Prose

Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator

At the UCSB University Art Museum, through August 27.
This exhibition, which brings together works of art that reference clothing, includes many remarkable and interesting pieces, but its presentation gets bogged down in jargon-ridden intellectual pretentiousness. The main title of the exhibit, Pattern Language, has been hijacked from Christopher Alexander’s 1977 treatise on architecture, which is nowhere to be found in the show’s published bibliography. Stenciled sentences on the gallery walls bristle with abstractions and the occasional subject-verb agreement problem. The works themselves fall into a few relatively predictable categories, such as pieces that make clothing out of alternative materials, pieces that add unnecessary but symbolic features to standard designs, and pieces that poke fun at social conventions.

By Indy Staff

Citizen’s Alert

Thu., July 13
Free Public Forum: Discuss local solutions to peak oil with Randy Udall and Larry Saltzman. 7:30pm. SBCC, Earth and Biological Sciences Building, Rm. 309. Go to relocalize.net/groups/santabarbara.

Fri., July 14
TGIF: Environmental Defense Center hosts Friday happy hour during the summer, with live music, food, drinks, and a raffle. 5:30-7:30pm. 906 Garden St. $10 at the door to benefit EDC. Call 963-1622.

Uncategorized By Hudson Hornick

The Original Locals

Native American Music Fest Celebrates First Peoples’ Music

Oftentimes we forget what it means to say we’re “local.” Sure, we’ve got our claims to this neighborhood, that bar, or some surf break, but fundamentally we’re all transplants from somewhere. And while we see many a rock band claiming to be homegrown, it’s rare that we’re presented with a chance to see the original locals play their traditional music.

By Sarah Hammill

lectures & workshops

Thursday 7/13

Specialty Photo Lab’s Black-and-White Printing Workshop Pro instruction in a small group setting. Every Thu. Free. Call 962-6765 to register.

Smoking Cessation Class For those ready to quit. 5:30-7pm. Health Program Ctr., 915 N. Milpas St. Call 963-8566 x220.

By Indy Staff

WINE ARTISTS WANTED

A Spanish winery called Terras Gauda is hosting an international competition to design its new labels and marketing materials. For more information, see terrasgauda.com.

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Just Like Starting Over

Strangers with Candy

Amy Sedaris, Deborah Rush, and Greg Hollimon star in a film written by Stephen Colbert, Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Mitch Rouse, and directed by Dinello.
Turning cliches on their ear and fourth-wall tactics make for the generally delicious modus operandi of Strangers with Candy, a proud, satirically salty variation on the high school comedy genre which brings to the big screen a series first explored on the small screen several years ago. The result is a film full of politically incorrect gags that amuse even when not inducing out-and-out laughs. It’s a fine product by alumni of that American comedian factory, Chicago’s Second City, including Amy Sedaris (sister of David) as the protagonist and Stephen Colbert as co-writer and actor, from just before he became a hugely public pundit/sensation.

Briefs By Indy Staff

Setback Battle Looming Over Veronica Meadows

Although developer Mark Lee has downsized his proposed Veronica Meadows development from 23 to 15 houses in compliance with City Council wishes, two city commissions are pushing the embattled would-be builder to provide even greater setbacks from Arroyo Burro Creek than the council originally demanded. Members of the City Parks and Recreation Committee and the Creeks Advisory Committee voted to increase the creek setback from 50 feet to 100 feet.

By Indy Staff

UNLAWFUL LAWMAN:

Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department officials arrested one of their own last week for alleged sexual misconduct with a minor.

By Indy Staff

1 Million

The number of protesters who converged on Washington, D.C., on April 24, 2004, to march for the preservation of women’s reproductive and health rights. source: www.alternet.org/story/18507

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Buying Time

Devereux Rapist’s Sentencing Delayed

With a packed, emotionally charged courtroom looking on, what was meant to be the final chapter in the Darren Boyer Thomas rape trial took an unexpected turn this week when the sentencing hearing was put on hold midway through the proceedings. Armed with jailhouse research conducted by Thomas-a former Devereux supervisor-defending attorney Steve Baylash made a successful last-minute motion to continue the matter in order to explore the possibility of a retrial. Despite the postponement of the sentencing, Judge Brian Hill allowed a majority of the hearing to proceed, including sentencing arguments from prosecutor Joyce Dudley and half a dozen heartfelt impact statements from the victims’ friends and family.

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