GUILTY OF RAPE:
It took a jury little more than two hours to find former Devereux School employee Darren Boyer Thomas guilty of raping and impregnating a developmentally disabled former resident of the school.
Year: 2006
Days and Nights of Wonder
Arts organizations routinely compete over the toughest consumer territory there is – the space of wonder. And here in Santa Barbara, where every bend in Mountain Drive reveals another astonishing vista, the natural environment itself is perpetually capable of producing the elusive “wow” factor that all of our cultural institutions covet. Perhaps that’s why our best arts organizations are constantly innovating – to keep pace not only with each other, but with the infinite capacity of our natural setting – to saturate everyday life with unforgettable beauty.
Saving Grace
Single Mom Survives Cancer to Help Others
Last summer, single mother of two Tami Finseth began feeling tired. Very tired. A lump appeared under her arm; another on her thigh; another under her chin. She’d always been healthy – worked as a mortgage broker, went to the gym, volunteered at her church and her kids’ school – and denied that anything was wrong for as long as she could, but eventually, she realized she knew that something wasn’t right. She had no medical insurance for herself, so she called her kids’ pediatrician, who told her to see a surgeon immediately.
Over The Net
Local dude and beach volleyball player extraordinaire Phil Dalhausser is set.
Windy City Goes West
An Interview with Chicago’s James Pankow
Chicago, the Windy City-born, L.A.-based horn pop band that won’t die, spent decades dodging Santa Barbara on its touring map. But lately, the band has become the veritable house band in town. When Chicago stops at the Bowl on Saturday, on a double-header with Huey Lewis and the News, it will be its fourth S.B. show in less than two years.
Big Band Tag Team
Chris Walden and Tierney Sutton Hit SOhO
Chris Walden is a truly brilliant big-band composer/arranger. His first American release, Home of My Heart, was nominated for two Grammys and his new release, No Bounds, is a fascinating example of intelligent, forward-thinking, and powerful writing and playing. Last year, Tierney Sutton was voted jazz vocalist of the year by Jazz Week, nominated for the jazz vocalist Grammy, and currently is nominated for the Jazz Journalist Association’s female jazz vocalist award. The two of them brought down the house at SOhO last summer and are poised to do it again on Monday evening, June 12.
Musical Residency
The Greencards Immigrate to Americana
If you were to wander last year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the lineup of bands resembled a Sings Like Hell roll call. While it’s a pleasure to revisit old musical friends, the real delight lies in discovery – like stumbling across the dynamic overtones of Nashville-based band the Greencards. This vibrant three-piece brandishes an infectious mix of Americana, which is ironic given the band is two Aussies and a Brit.
ELECTION RESULTS AT A GLANCE
COUNTY
2nd District County Supervisor
Dan Secord 30.6% (6,203 votes)
Janet Wolf 29.0% (5,885 votes)
Das Williams 20.8% (4,225 votes)
Joe Guzzardi 19.4% (3,944 votes)
One Night Stand of the Week
S.B. DRIVE-IN
In this age of DVD players, hi-def cable TV, and multiplexes on every corner, the drive-in movie theater should be little more than a fading relic of our country’s past. But we Americans are a sentimental lot, which accounts for the surprising fact that drive-in theaters are actually a stable force and, in some
of our country’s corners, a growing trend.
Doomed to Repeat My Lai
by David Obst, Santa Barbara resident and journalist during the Vietnam War. Obst helped Seymour Hersh expose the My Lai massacre and Daniel Ellsberg reveal the Pentagon Papers.
Sergeant George Cox (Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry) and Lance Corporal T.J. Terraza (Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment) were born a generation apart, but had a lot in common: They were both well-liked by their bunkmates, they were both killed in combat, and both of their deaths unleashed a brutal massacre of civilians by the men who served with them.
