Celebrated literary icon and founder of San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is coming to UCSB’s Campbell Hall tonight, Thursday, November 2. Last week, he discussed with me the plight of independent bookstores, the current administration, and the resonant spirit of the Beat generation.
I spent last year teaching at a university in Cyprus, which gave me many opportunities to explore that culturally rich yet divided island. Until recently, it was difficult to tour the whole region because the border that partitions Greek from Turkish Cyprus was hard to cross.
A divorced friend of mine recently told me about an adventure he had with a woman from his high school class. “Trust me, this one was really gorgeous,” he assured me. Their high school’s 40th reunion was about to take place and the ethernet was buzzing with classmates reconnecting.
Two species of a genus that is relatively new to horticulture are in full bloom now and their flowers come in vivid shades of yellow, orange, and red-just right for the fall season.
The Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara (RISB), the only freestanding rehabilitation hospital between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, is having its annual Hot on Life workshop on Saturday, November 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the UCSB Recreation Center.
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s :
a hot air balloon. Adventures Out West, a Colorado-based company, recently expanded its operations to the Santa Ynez Valley, and they are offering flights daily at sunrise, weather permitting.
t’s low tide at 1,000 Steps Beach as gray skies and …
If the rich live differently from the rest of us, the royals live on a whole other plane of different. That detachment from the world of mortals is the primary subject of director Stephen Frears’s latest film, The Queen.
Making a movie out of a memoir that many of my friends call “the best book ever” can’t be easy, as expectations are necessarily going to run high. But adapting a beloved book well does guarantee an immediate audience.
For those who have never been to planet Plaid, a short tutorial is in order. The four singers who make up the cast of Forever Plaid were killed in a traffic accident on the way to the first American Beatles concert in 1964.
