47.07 inches
47.07 inches
Year: 2006
Citizens’ Alert
Citizens’ Alert 11-9-2006
Dancing Around A Two-Step Flip
Condo Conversion Given the Boot
Bill Mahan may speak softly, but he wields a big red pencil. Just ask developer Bob Hart, who until last Thursday had dreams of converting the four two-bedroom rentals on top of an office building he owns in the 3400 block of State Street into condominiums. That’s when Mahan-an eight-year veteran of the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission and an architect by profession-went to work. Pulling out his fabled red pencil, Mahan did some quick and dirty calculations that turned Hart’s dreams, then before the commission on appeal, into a nightmare.
Blown Away
The Los Angeles Philharmonic, with Joshua Bell, presented by CAMA
At the Arlington Theatre, Saturday, November 4.
Growing up in Santa Barbara, I’ve been to the Arlington a generous number of times, and whether for the symphony or the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean II, my ritual remains unchanged: I settle myself into my seat, run a cursory glance over the familiar Spanish courtyard fa§ade, and fight the creeping sensation that I’m ensconced in a kitschy underground cavern. Yet after Saturday night’s concert by the LA Philharmonic and Joshua Bell, I find I can no longer look at our eccentric theater in quite the same light; the music cast a spell over not merely every audience member but the theater itself, leaving the Arlington-faux balconies and all-transformed forever.
MEDIA MADNESS
Just a matter of days after a high-profile pre-festival event was cancelled, organizers of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Gone His Own Way
Lindsey Buckingham
At the Arlington Theatre, Sunday, November 5.
While billowing smoke, electronic snare, and blasts of overstated keyboards at times may have seemed a bit retrospective, for the most part Lindsey Buckingham’s Sunday night performance defied time and place.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
With his deadline clock loudly ticking away, developer Bill Levy has initiated preliminary construction efforts at the lower State Street
Green Cheese
Lunar Sea, presented by MOMIX
At the Lobero Theatre, Friday, November 3.
When I was a kid, I used to wedge myself in the kitchen window on the sill, so one arm and leg hung outside the house while the others kept me anchored inside. When the sun was at the right angle, the windowpane became reflective, mirroring my limbs so I appeared like an oversized spider hanging in midair, waving appendages in perfect symmetry.
LOCKER TALK
Acting on a citizen complaint, officials shut down Skater’s Point for a couple of hours on Friday because dozens of
On the Beat 11-9-2006
New Hotel or Maybe Dorm? Seems as though the Spearmint Rhino strip joint might give way to a 50-room budget hotel, or even a 100-unit City College dorm. At least that’s the thinking of property owner Bernie MacElhenny. When I called to check out a rumor, Bernie cheerfully claimed that he has preliminary city okay (the city denies this) to strip the Spearmint Rhino to the ground and build a hotel there on Montecito Street on the ocean side of the freeway. He’s even dubbed it Hotel Bernardo.