Resort Tidbits
A season for everything : The Four Seasons Biltmore reopens its restaurant after a surprisingly speedy renovation.
Year: 2006
Rime and Reason
LeAnn Rimes
At the Chumash Casino, Thursday, April 13.
As LeAnn Rimes cavorted and twisted her way around the stage, raising her arms and clutching her heart, the cascade of hits that flowed freely and readily through the Chumash Casino were not restricted to her own considerable catalogue. Sure, she bellowed out her resounding breakthrough single “Blue” and delivered a vibrant rendition of “Can’t Fight the Moonlight,” but the singer also threw forth an intriguing selection of measured covers. Drawn from the songbooks of the likes of Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, and Grace Slick, old blended with new to present a cavalcade of musical conquests that spanned five decades.
Maternal Instincts
Cindy Sheehan Calls for an Immediate Pullout of Iraq
Which is the lesser evil-the continued expenditure of billions of dollars and loss of American lives in Iraq, or a withdrawal that would likely result in bloodshed far surpassing anything we’ve seen thus far? Do we stay or do we leave?
In-Flight Discrimination
In a landmark racial profiling case, Samantha Carrington-a part-time Santa Barbara resident born and raised in Iran-won a $27.5 million judgment last Wednesday against Southwest Airlines.
66%
The energy saved by replacing a 100-watt incandescent light bulb with a 32-watt compact fluorescent bulb; that translates to a $30 savings in energy costs over the life of the bulb. Source: Energystar.gov.
Hands of Fury
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccai, and Gilles Cohen star in a film written by Jacques Audiard and Tonino Benacquista, based on the screenplay by James Toback, and directed by Audiard.
In this fascinating and avidly filmic tale about a mobster’s son with a secret life as an aspiring concert pianist, French director Jacques Audiard succeeds in placing us inside the conflicted head of his young protagonist. Loosely based on the 1978 James Toback film Fingers, with Harvey Keitel in the lead role, Audiard’s own approach to the material-at once sensitive and violent-roughly mirrors the dualities and conflict within Thomas (Romain Duris).
It’s Academic
BACK TO THE BOOKS: It looks as if, for the next month or so, the university has become our major provider of classical music. Certainly for the next week, just about every musical event either happens at UCSB or under its sponsorship.
FOSSIL-FREE GARDEN:
Although developer William Levy plans to turn the vacant lot on State Street near the beach into a parking lot for his proposed Ritz-Carlton Club condos, several utopian landscapers have a backup plan in the works.
Rebel Music of the Week
Right to Resist Tour
As the taxman raps voraciously at the door, this year the average Californian will cough up $4,406 in federal income taxes, and, according to data extrapolated by the National Priorities Project, the U.S. military will swallow about 38 cents from every hard-earned clam. Thankfully, to offset the staggering four-cent stipend for education, No Child Left Behind and the Solomon Amendment ensure that military recruiters will be hard at work in the public school system.
TRIED FOR MURDER:
After a preliminary hearing last week, Carlos Varela (pictured) is set to stand trial for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, former UCSB student Holly Lake.
