The Goleta City Council spent nearly an hour last Monday debating whether to honor the appeal of homeowners who painted their new house bright Crystal White rather than the more subdued Arizona White previously approved by the city’s design review board.
Dozens of concerned South Coast citizens turned out Tuesday night to a scoping hearing about a proposed Venoco oil project along Carpinteria’s coast.
Arts organizations routinely compete over the toughest consumer territory there is — the space of wonder. And here in Santa
People in Santa Barbara generally know quite a lot about making themselves more attractive. For our skin, we have spas. For our hair, salons. For our bodies? There’s every exercise regime and clothing option imaginable available here. But what to do about our minds? Even for those already blessed with outward beauty, the mind matters, because it’s where we can all become still more attractive – not only to others but also to ourselves. An exciting convergence of these two approaches to beauty is happening at Nights, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s monthly summer event, which continues tonight with a tribute to the human form in art. In keeping with this theme, it would be safe to assume that, at Nights tonight, the human form will be on generous display. And so will the art.
Al Gore stars in the documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim.
This is truly a great film on a worthy subject. It is an eloquent mass-mailing to the citizens of Earth: The system is blinking red. Our so-called civilization has contracted a life-threatening illness known as global warming – brought on by human activity – and all the present signs indicate our condition is critical. In a decade, give or take a year or two, it will become terminal.
This is the knowledge Al Gore has been carrying around since his college days, in the 1960s. As a freshman congressman in the 1970s, he held the first hearings ever on the subject of global warming. After his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 (remember Michael Dukakis?), he began to work up a touring slide-show presentation about it, but then Bill Clinton took him to the White House in 1992, and he was pretty busy after that.
Santa Barbara County’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Brown (pictured) demonstrated his continual ability to centralize power during Monday’s budget hearing, tucking a controversial agenda into a reassuringly secure budget that even places $12 million in reserves. Thanks to Santa Barbara’s tirelessly rising property values and a state budget expected to pass through the legislature on time for the first time since 1986, the CEO presented the Board of Supervisors (BOS) with a virtually finished budget for 2007-08 that provoked little controversy during the first day of hearings.
At Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, Wednesday, June 7.
The accent was definitely on youth in Lotte Lehmann Hall Wednesday evening. It wasn’t until the awards ceremony at intermission that there was someone over 25 onstage – unless the conductor, Sean Newhouse, is a lot older than he looks.
The Coup
Pick a Bigger Weapon
Epitaph; April 2006
Neko Case
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Anti; March 2006
Hot Buttered Rum
Well-Oiled Machine
Harmonized
Editors
Back Room
Kitchenware Records; April 2006
JAZZ FAN ALERT: Run, don’t walk or mosey, over to SOhO on Monday night, when the rightly acclaimed pianist Jean-Michel Pilc (pictured) brings his strong-yet-sensitive trio to town. Pilc is an “overnight sensation” who has enjoyed heaps of praises in the last few years, but who has been honing his wares for decades.
When Meredith Moore called to invite me to the return of the Wine Festival- Santa Barbara’s original wine festival, which returned this year after a six-year hiatus – at the Museum of Natural History last Saturday, I had to consider. Now, as we’re all pretty much aware, it’s not that I have anything against wine, or nature, but my family was going to be in town to help me celebrate the first anniversary of my 30th birthday, and I wasn’t entirely sure they’d be into the idea.
