Moldy Fruit
MOLDY FRUIT: Hundreds of thousands of strawberries were ruined this week after an unusually late rainstorm rolled through Santa Barbara County last weekend.
Year: 2006
FILM FEST ENTRIES:
Filmmakers wanting to enter the Austin Film Festival’s screenplay and teleplay competitions must submit their scripts by June 1. Visit austinfilmfestival.com. Aspiring documentarians should take note that the 2007 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is accepting applications as well. The fourth annual event will take place February 15-21, 2007. That deadline is September 1; visit bigskyfilmfest.org.
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In the Know:
Epiphany is celebrating five years in business with two new additions. Each Wednesday it will offer a three-course tasting menu for $28 and half-price bottles of wine with dinner. It’s are also starting “Fancy Pants” Happy Hour, weekdays from 5-7 p.m. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and half-price drink specials make for a fantastic end to the workday. 21 W. Victoria St., 564-7100, epiphanysb.com.
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In the Pink:
Chrystal Clifton has just released her 2005 Botesa di Palmina. This delightful Italian-style dry rose is special enough on its own, but with a portion of each bottle’s price being donated to the Dr. Susan B. Love Breast Cancer Research Foundation as part of Palmina’s Pink Wine for the Pink Ribbon campaign, it would be a sin not to buy it. For more information on this and other Palmina wines visit palminawines.com or
call 735-2030.
Birthday Tidbits
Epiphany celebrates five years in business with two new additions;
All Dressed Up
Down in the Valley
Edward Norton, David Morse, Evan Rachel Wood, and Rory Culkin star in a film written and directed by David Jacobson.
This is a frustrating film. I could recommend it quite highly on the strength of Edward Norton’s performance, or David Morse’s, or on the strength of it being an exceptionally well-made independent film that takes risks in terms of its subject matter and characters.
Podcast Nation
PODCAST NATION: The revolution may not be televised, but it will be available online, according to the folks from the Santa Barbara Independent Media Center. In a sparsely attended event at Santa Barbara Public Library’s Faulkner Gallery, folks from the media center and various other new media converts gave a crash course in podcasting and its implications for the future of information consumption.
Q: Who is the Wyles Collection out at UCSB named after?
The William Wyles Collection is housed in the Department of Special Collections in the Davidson Library at UCSB. The collection contains materials relating to Abraham Lincoln, and issues surrounding slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and ethnic groups of the American West. It was deeded to UC Santa Barbara College in 1946 upon the death of William Wyles. Wyles was fascinated by Lincoln, considered him one of the country’s greatest heroes, and for decades had been collecting everything he could get his hands on about him.
2nd District Supervisor Janet Wolf
To be a supervisor on the Santa Barbara County Board, you can run, but you can’t hide.
That’s a lesson the four candidates now running for the 2nd District are fast learning. At interminable forums, from Mission Street to More Mesa, constituents have posed the same conflicting questions that have turned the board into a bitterly divided group. What is needed is a representative who can best navigate the treacherous terrain that is current county politics-one who will not hide behind a wall of rhetoric or a mask of making nice. That candidate is Janet Wolf.
Projectile Destruction
Last Saturday, the Vandenberg Peace Legal Defense Fund and local activist MacGregor Eddy held a protest at Vandenberg Air Force Base calling for an end to U.S. space domination and nuclear testing in the North Pacific Ocean. Vandenberg-just north of Lompoc-is a key player in aerospace technology and a launching site for missiles landing in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
