UCSB announced the opening of its Center for Nanotechnology in Society, hailing it as a “large-scale international collaboration of social scientists, humanists, and scientific partners” studying the social ramifications of emerging nanotechnologies.
At UCSB’s Campbell Hall, Monday, May 1.
Even though last Monday was a day of protest, Campbell Hall was still filled with people holding Jane Fonda’s newly published autobiography, My Life So Far, balanced on their laps. Fonda walked on stage to rumbling applause; she was followed by her small white dog, Thulia, who is keeping Fonda company while on tour.
Forget what you know about cover bands-Richard Thompson’s tops them all. While sparse-with only a percussionist, himself on acoustic guitar, and the occasional backup singer-Thompson’s band is also grand, with two hours of Western Euro-centric secular fun drawn from the last millennium’s hits. He calls this epic journey 1,000 Years of Popular Music and it’s a show, playing this Friday at the Lobero as part of Sings Like Hell, that includes 16th-century Italian dance music, Durham coalfield complaints against scabs, minor classics from the tall-ships era, The Who, Squeeze, and a little number called “Oops! I Did It Again,” made popular by a famed chanteuse known as Britney Spears. Cool-but why?
The proposal to convert Santa Rosa Island into a private hunting reserve for the armed forces, retired veterans, and their friends and family is once again under consideration in Washington, D.C. after Republican Representative Duncan Hunter from El Cajon introduced the bill for a third time last week.
After Innocence, a new documentary by the filmmaker Jessica Sanders, tells the less dramatic-but equally poignant-story of what happens to American prisoners after they are exonerated by DNA evidence. Sanders follows seven men as they try to reenter society after decades in prison. In the process, she reveals the often shocking lack of support provided by the criminal justice system that wrongfully convicted and imprisoned them in the first place. Sanders (interviewed below) and exoneree Herman Atkins will present a screening of After Innocence at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Thursday, May 11, at 7:30 p.m.
The most important vote you can cast this June is the one against splitting Santa Barbara County. If Measure H should pass, it would be a cataclysmic disaster for us all-those stuck in the economic chaos of the new Mission County and those stranded in what would be left of Santa Barbara County. If we approve Measure H, the only thing that will not start falling on our heads will be the sky. One doesn’t need to be Chicken Little to know this.
San Marcos High School junior Graham Heimberg (pictured) aims to politically activate a largely ignored demographic by launching an on-campus voter registration drive.
For the second time in the past month, a healthy bald eagle chick hatched on Santa Cruz Island last week.
As the late 1800s faded into the early 1900s, a number of America’s wealthy from the East Coast and Midwest discovered the beauties of the oak-covered hills of Montecito and built palatial residences there for either permanent or part-time residence. Among these newcomers was Jonathan Ogden Armour of Chicago.
Deep in the throes of midterms, UCSB students were locked out of their main research library for two hours last Saturday morning as Governor Schwarzenegger came to campus pitching his new $37 billion bond measure.
