Every third Thursday of the month for the past year, Frameworks’ (131 E. De la Guerra Street) owners and operators David Court and Christi Westerhouse have been throwing fabulous soirees in which house deejays spin wheels o’ steel and people mix and mingle.
Between Thursday, October 12 and Sunday, October 22, Santa Barbara’s stages will be transformed by seven cutting-edge theater companies performing radical reinterpretations of the Bard’s classic tales.
The newest installment of the Harry Girvetz Memorial Lecture Series takes place this coming Thursday, October 19 at 8 p.m. in the form of a discussion with political observer Kevin Phillips.
For those looking for a meaty exploration of art’s philosophical implications, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB presents a talk with Dennis Kennedy, professor at Dublin’s Trinity College.
The Volt Per Octaves are no ordinary band, performing live what most musicians could create only in the studio. Adamant about not using any CPU’s, they’re bringing back live analog electronic music with Moog synthesizers, which is an old-school way of saying they rock electronica with a touch of class.
Ellen’s Buying in Montecito: Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who’ll host the 2007 Oscars, is in escrow to buy a 1926 Spanish Colonial Revival Montecito home designed by George Washington Smith, according to my local sources. Price for the four-acre mansion is said to $16.5 million, just below the asking price.
We Really Are Worth It: A Montecito investigator who likes to toy around with tax numbers says Montecito is a hefty contributor. Using the fresh tax-assessment numbers for the county’s 2006-07 fiscal year, we’re told Montecito’s secured property-tax value is $6.4 billion. That value will generate some $65 million in tax revenues, raised from Montecito alone (using the Fire District boundaries). While some of those tax funds are returned to Montecito for schools and special districts, a huge chunk goes to benefit our whole county. Now, there’s a good neighbor policy! Our ledger-sleuth also reports that Montecito’s assessed tax value is a whopping 4.5 times that of Carpinteria.
Brace yourself-what I’m about to say may shock you. Believe it or not, making out with someone whose breath reveals the intimate details of every drink they consumed over the course of the evening, while six other couples share the same dirty DP couch, is not the end all and be all of the I.V. dating scene.
Prom. The word holds a certain power, doesn’t it? Though I thought by now I’d be immune to its influence, clearly I am not. I received an invite to the Wildcat’s second annual Fabulous Gay Prom-which this year was also a benefit for the Pacific Pride Foundation (PPF)-several weeks before going under the knife (or the scope, if you want to get all technical about it), and, as the event was scheduled for a week and a half after my upcoming knee surgery, replied with an enthusiastic YES. Ever the optimist, I figured I’d be up and around by then, no problem.
A Santa Barbara man who claims city police illegally beat and detained him after he exited a State Street bar on Halloween two years ago has sued the City of Santa Barbara in federal court, claiming civil rights violations.
