Mother Earth Love Quiz
Mother Earth Love Quiz
Year: 2006
Kick out the Jam
S.B. Chapter Underneath a beautiful sliver moon and in between rain clouds, the newest old American pastime officially arrived in Santa Barbara two Thursday nights ago.
How to Fund a Steelhead Trout
City Arts Grant Applications Now Open
Nearly half a million dollars in grant money awaits artists and art groups right now at the City of Santa Barbara, according to Ginny Brush, the brand-new executive director of the County Arts Commission. City arts grant applications forms are now available to be downloaded and county arts staff members are even holding workshops to help artists write good proposals. Brush primarily wants people to know that this money serves a purpose beyond keeping organizations alive. Its underlying agenda-and barely hidden motive-is the promotion of a Santa Barbara culture. And that money’s significance has only grown for this community, points out departing, though still-active commissioner Patrick Davis.
SLIP FEE BATTLE ON THE HORIZON:
The good news is that the City of Santa Barbara’s proposed budget unveiled Tuesday is balanced for the first time in five years; the bad news is that a major showdown is brewing between harbor boat owners and City Hall regarding a proposed four percent hike in slip fees.
Qoute of the Week
‘She’s as westernized as Anna Nicole Smith.’-UCSB economics professor Robert Crouch on his Iranian-born ex-wife, Samantha Carrington, whom jurors awarded $27.5 million because she had been profiled as a possible terrorist.
Dough Girls
Friends with Money
Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, and Frances McDormand star in a film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener.
Considering Jennifer Aniston’s puzzling super-celebrity status, perhaps it’s worth noting that this movie is not TV’s Friends with money, though that cast certainly pulled down gobs of the stuff. Nay; this Friends is the next film by Nicole Holofcener of Lovely and Amazing and Walking and Talking fame. A clarifying fact that will no doubt help you predict that Friends with Money is probably a Catherine Keener vehicle (check) in which a small clique of contemporary Angelenos rehearse the bittersweet to hilarious foibles of coming to terms with the rules of life’s rich game (double check). Add to that a slew of subtexts nicely rendered, though.
Going Green
Toxic-Free City Spaces
A quiet revolution has been taking place in our city parks and public spaces. In 2004, the City of Santa Barbara officially adopted (although the groundwork had been laid for a number of years by then) an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program that aimed to reduce the use of toxic chemicals in the maintenance of parks and urban forests.
Top Five Reasons to See The Shape of Water
At her students’ insistence, UCSB professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani got a camera and shot 74 hours of footage of women creating positive change through grassroots projects in remote corners of the world. The result is the hopeful The Shape of Water, which premiered to sold-out crowds at our February film fest and has since gone from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. on the film-fest circuit. Before its May screening in Turkey, we will get a chance to see it for free at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center on Wednesday, April 26 at 6 p.m. Here are five reasons to go:
Portrait of the Alcoholic as a Middle-Aged Man
Dublin Carol
At Ensemble Theatre Company, Friday, April 14. Shows through May 7.
“I find that there’s enough conflict in one person to make a whole play-all those swings, the oscillation in the mind, the self-doubt, the uncertainty, the stupid courage, the terrible feelings of inadequacy-that’s more than enough.” It’s no wonder that playwright Conor McPherson, who made this statement a few years ago, has a penchant for writing monologues.
Naples
To visit Naples in springtime is to bear witness to the sublime. The Gaviota coastal mesa is a sea of swaying mustard grasses that give way to the shimmer of the Pacific and the majesty of the Channel Islands beyond. A rolling patchwork of green foothills and centuries-old agricultural land climbs inland toward the Santa Ynez Mountains in a procession of oak trees, willows, sycamores, sage scrub, and wildflowers.
