Johnny Cash’s Personal File: It’s a good thing someone searched the House of Cash after Johnny died, because they came across a collection of recordings that he’d dubbed “Personal File.” This posthumous album brings these songs, recorded mostly in the early ’70s, to all us fans, so … Pick it Up!
Paul Vercammen, KEYT’s news director and Friday night anchor, was terminated last Tuesday, just days after his news department won an Emmy for best evening newscast. Vercammen’s departure, which was a surprise to many of his co-workers, came a few weeks after new station general manager Cathy Jacquemin assumed direction of Santa Barbara’s first local television station.
County staff delivered a progress report on Tuesday regarding its emergency plan in the event of an avian flu or any other pandemic. The S.B. County Health Department presented a report from its Isolation and Quarantine Project team leader, Paige Batson, which outlined six phases of pandemic response.
When it comes to summer fashion, why let bygones be bygones? Heather Fields, owner of Bygones vintage shop located on East Ortega Street just behind the Greek Italian Deli, has spent years collecting relics that are simply too fabulous to let disappear into the past.
Metropolitan Theatres mogul Bruce Corwin will distribute a list of 10 ways to help reduce global warming to theater patrons attending Al Gore’s environmental jeremiad, An Inconvenient Truth, which opens at Paseo Nuevo this week.
The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously endorsed countywide plans to place a three-quarter cent sales tax on this November’s ballot and use the proceeds $1.5 billion in 30 years to fund freeway widening, road repairs, commuter rail, and alternative transportation projects.
Arguably the world’s most popular flightless bird had its coming-out party at the Santa Barbara Zoo last week. After about seven weeks in quarantine, nine Humboldt penguins made their first public appearance last Friday to mark the official opening of the new Crawford Family Penguin House.
Cast Your Ballot: June 6 is Election Day-that fevered rush to find your polling place, remember what you read about the candidates, and embrace your fundamental rights as an American. For first-time voters and veterans alike, casting your ballot can be a hassle, but there are simple steps you can take to ease the process. To find your polling place, go to smartvoter.org/ca/sba and type in your address. The Web site also provides information on candidates.
At SOhO, Tuesday, May 23.
I lost my car keys last Tuesday night and showed up 30 minutes late to the Coalition of the Willing show at SOhO. It had been a while since I had felt the sweaty panic and jaw-clenching frustration of searching for something that “f*&*ing vanished 10 minutes after I put them on the goddamn kitchen table!” Similarly, it had been quite some time since I had felt the sweet rush of relaxation you get after you find your keys stuffed in some weird corner of your house, sitting under a hanging window curtain as if that was where they belonged all along.
At Artamo Gallery, through July 9.
I’ve never realized how much I identify with whichever piece of art I happen to be standing in front of. Apparently, there is a deep, primitive part of my brain that does not understand visual illusion and that sees the whole work-of-art-as-window-on-the-world thing as nonsense. This part of my brain takes each canvas not just as an archetypal skin, but as my skin, and furthermore, as my body.
