It is with deep sadness and great pride that The Santa Barbara Independent must say goodbye to George Thurlow, the paper’s publisher for the last 12 years. He will leave later this month to become the new assistant vice chancellor for Alumni Affairs, and executive director of the University of California, Santa Barbara Alumni Association.
Sparking a firestorm of outrage from his three challengers and immigrant rights advocates, Sheriff Jim Anderson – now running for reelection-voiced interest in a provision of a federal bill that would give local law enforcement officers the authority to detain and arrest immigrants for being in the United States illegally.
Every Thursday afternoon, a small group of men and women, ages ranging from 25 to 82, gathers at a downtown studio for a private yoga class, which includes sun salutes, chanting, and other elements of a traditional hatha yoga practice.
This Hope Ranch bulldog pokes his head into the house to see what’s up.
At The Easton Gallery. Shows through May 21.
If you’ve been to Easton Gallery more than once, you probably think you know what to expect there. The gallery specializes, after all, in contemporary landscape painting, mostly by local artists of local landscapes, and mostly in a Realist/Impressionist idiom. The current show, featuring William B. Dewey and Patricia Hedrick, however, isn’t quite what you have come to anticipate. Both artists play strongly off of expectations about contemporary landscape in disorienting and provocative ways.
Sat., Apr. 29
Parkinson Association of S.B.:Hosts a free seminar on living with Parkinson’s disease. Health professionals earn credits. 9am. Wake Center, 300 Turnpike Rd. Call 683-1326.
Blood Drive:Hosted by AssemblyÂ-member Pedro Nava and Tri-Counties Blood Blank. 10am-2pm. S.B. County Courthouse. Call 965-7037.
The four candidates vying for the 2nd District supervisor seat struggled to define their differences on slippery issues of growth control, congestion management, and maintaining the South Coast quality of life at a Monday night debate hosted by the League of Women Voters and the Citizens Planning Foundation.
Keke Palmer, Angela Bassett, and Laurence Fishburne star in a film written and directed by Doug Atchison.
Eleven-year-old Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) is a student at Crenshaw Middle School in Los Angeles. When we first meet her, her teacher is handing her a graded spelling test (we can’t see the grade) and asking her how long she studied for the test. “I didn’t study,” she answered.
The truth is always in the middleat least according to the revised draft Environment Impact Report for the offshore liquid natural gas (LNG) facility proposed near Oxnard. The documentreleased by the California State Lands Commission last weekpredicted a worst-case scenario accident could result in a massive “vapor cloud of fire” that could travel as many as seven-and-one-half miles, leaving it six miles from shore.
Jane Fonda will be at UCSB on May 1 for a lecture based on her autobiography, My Life So Far, which has just been issued in paperback. Already a bestseller in 15 languages, Fonda’s book blends a fluid retelling of her extraordinarily eventful life with a series of progressively more challenging ideas about how we all perceive and construct our identities. I spoke with Fonda on the phone last Sunday as she stopped over in San Francisco. What came through in our talk was a mixture: a tremendous, somewhat intimidating sense of honor and responsibility that at first comes across as wariness; and a willingness to think out loud, laugh, and play in the moment that is thoroughly charming.
