MUDDY STUDY:
Fourteen months after the fatal La Conchita mudslide, Governor Schwarzenegger announced funding for a study designed to protect the small seaside community from future disasters.
Year: 2006
Keith Fishman Witnesses Silently
A Santa Barbara Photographer’s Hurricane Odyssey
As Keith Fishman drove through the forbidding landscape of coastal Mississippi in fall 2005, his car was loaded with supplies not usually associated with a photographer: copious bottles of water, packaged food, a box of diapers. Through his windshield, he saw that homes were reduced to mere foundations and found the streets-whose signs were completely blown away-were blocked with washing machines and amusement park rides. The progress as he nosed his car into the once thriving community of Lamont was slow and surreal.
Outdoor Education
Santa Barbara area beaches, mountains, and creeks are some of the most interesting places to visit for tourists and locals alike. The area is also blessed with numerous organizations and institutions that make it their business to study and interpret these natural wonders to the citizenry.
Eden Marriott Kennedy
If you spot a T-shirt emblazoned “Writing Well Is the Best Revenge,” chances are the wearer knows Mrs. Kennedy. Or feels they do.
Whitcraft’s New Digs
Do something for 30 years and you’re bound to get pretty good at it. During his three decades in the wine business, Chris Whitcraft has learned just about every aspect, from selling to reselling to writing. And finally, Chris Whitcraft the winemaker has a roof over his head that’s all his own.
Measure D
Sound-Off
Mass transit and alternative transportation advocates from 22 community organizations called on the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) to place just one $1.6 billion bond measure on the November ballot, instead of the two separate bond measures-A and B-now proposed.
Leading from the Heart
Shelly Rudolph and a World Filled with Soul
While music can transport a listener to far off places emotionally, spiritually, and even geographically, it also leads its creators on an equally tantalizing journey. In presenting her evocative variety of soul, Portland-based musician Shelly Rudolph has traversed the breadth of our nation. From Los Angeles to New York, she has fed her musical muse with the experiences of life. And those experiences have not only invigoratingly worked their way into her sound, but have molded and shaped her heart and soul.
Poetry Month Brings W.S. Merwin to UCSB
Under the stone sky the water
waits
with all its songs inside it
-from W.S. Merwin’s “The Well,” in the collection The Carrier of Ladders
REVERENT POET: The much-admired poet W.S. Merwin returns to Santa Barbara as the crown jewel of another extensive April Poetry Month. On this visit, he serves as distinguished visiting fellow at UCSB’s College of Creative Studies and will read from his work at Campbell Hall at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 13.
Memories of Istanbul
German Documentary Unearths Turkish Musical Treasures
When Alexander Hacke arrived in Istanbul to produce the music for Fatih Akin’s acclaimed film Head On, he had little idea where this cinematic journey would inevitably lead. Least of all did he expect it to take him back in the city and place him in the midst of another film. But as the famed bassist from German proto-industrial band Einst¼rzende Neubauten leads the world on a magical exploration through Istanbul’s rich musical landscape in Akin’s new documentary Crossing the Bridge, we discover that just like this musical maverick’s own wanderings, Turkish music is also oblivious to political and cultural borders.
STOP RURAL THIEF:
Santa Barbara has joined a rural crime prevention network that includes most counties in the Central Coast and San Joaquin Valley.
