Year: 2006

Community By Virginia Hayes

The Story of Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden

Alice’s Garden: Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden celebrates its silver anniversary this year.

Hot on the heels of the Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens’ publication Trees of Santa Barbara, the garden has released another lovely book just for Santa Barbarans. Alice’s Garden, written by Anne-Marie Castleberg, is a tribute to the wonderful public garden in the heart of town affectionately known to many as “Alice.” Castleberg is a writer and consultant, as well as wife of the principal designer of Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden, which is celebrating its silver anniversary this year.

By Indy Staff

GREEN PARTY:

Hundreds of students and multigenerational community members came together in Isla Vista’s People’s Park on Sunday to celebrate sustainability at the first annual Chilla Vista festival. The event was the brainchild of sociology student Jake Lehman, who enlisted his friends’ help to turn a class assignment into an all-day event.

Uncategorized By Martha Sadler

Colors of Pride

The six-color rainbow flag that has symbolized the gay pride movement since 1979 is flying high on State Street for the first time this week to commemorate Gay and Lesbian Heritage Month. The bent rainbow pattern was designed by Paul Mills – the late art director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art – who also created the first city flag to fly on the downtown flagstaffs more than 25 years ago.

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Games People Play

The Break-Up

Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star in a film written by Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender and directed by Peyton Reed.
Somewhere in the middle of this pleasant blur of an extended sitcom, you may find yourself lost in a distracting reality check. As even a casual peruser of tabloid covers, stuck in grocery store lines with nowhere more compelling for your eyes to go, you know about Jennifer Aniston and her breakup with that other guy and the arrival of this less Adonis-like but solid jokester in her life. Meanwhile, the Pitt/Jolie side of the sordid saga continues, another branch of this breaking news story of mediocre, beautiful thespians.

By Indy Staff

GREENOUGH FLICK:

The S.B. Maritime Museum presents surfing innovator George Greenough’s legendary flick Crystal Voyager on two Thursdays, June 8 and 15, at the Munger Theater. The film follows Greenough on his search for a perfect wave, which culminates in a trippy translucent crescendo, with music courtesy of Pink Floyd. The movie starts at 7 p.m. both nights.

Uncategorized By Indy Staff

NO WIRELESS IN THEIR BACKYARD:

Citing health concerns from wireless electromagnetic frequencies, Carpinterians in the Shepherd Mesa neighborhood gathered more than 75 signatures to prevent a cluster of cell phone transmission towers from popping up near their homes.

By Gerald Carpenter

Class Act

The UCSB Wind Ensemble’s annual Spring Concert was, as usual, an extravagant potpourri, with a stage full of eager young wind players and a program full of delightful and/or fascinating pieces largely unheard by the average music lover. After opening with Jack Stamp’s Fanfare for a New Era, they got right to the main event – the scholarship Mosher Woodwind Quintet and the Ensemble performing David R. Gillingham’s 1983 Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Wind Ensemble.

By Indy Staff

HURRY UP AND WAIT:

In an unexpected turn of events last Thursday, prominent local Democrat Brett Wagner distanced himself from efforts to recall 3rd District Supervisor Brooks Firestone, while simultaneously listing endorsements from prominent Democrats for his run against Firestone in 2008. A former congressional candidate for the 24th District, Wagner began publicizing the recall campaign in early March, a matter of days after dropping out of the federal race.

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