GAUCHO GOSSIP
Rumors coming out of UCSB appear to be true this week that former President Bill Clinton is coming to town
Year: 2006
YOUTH MOVEMENTS
A star football player for Dos Pueblos High School was in critical but stable condition after a freak injury in
Unsung Stewards of the Earth
UCSB Archeologist Anabel Ford Rewrites the Book on Maya Farming Practices
The prevailing view of the collapse of the Maya civilization goes something like this: The Maya, despite their beautiful art, monumental architecture, and highly developed forms of government, astronomy, and mathematics, never learned to farm their land.
Starshine and Seabaugh Find Independence
What have we here?
Eye on Isla Vista
I’ll be honest, right now all I can think about is how hungry I am. Here’s the deal, I am currently fasting in observance of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur-the holiest day of the year for most Jews and a day on which most Jews fast to atone for the sins they committed during the year.
CITIZENS’ ALERT
Thu., Oct. 5
Candidates’ Forum: Second District supervisor and county sheriff’s forum. Sponsored by S.B.’s League of Women Voters. 7-9pm. Goleta Valley Community Center, 5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Call 967-1237.
Read Aloud: Authors will read from My California: Journeys by Great Writers. 7pm. Townley Room, Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Call 544-5634.
Jumping for Jill
November 1992 was the last time I voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. Following that election, I changed my party affiliation from Democrat to either Independent or Not Affiliated. While I continued to cast votes for a few Democratic candidates, my decision was due mainly to feeling disaffected from not only the Democratic Party, but both major parties and what they failed to stand for.
They Shoot Dogs, Don’t They?
PUNK’T: Poor Lois. She never had a clue. By Lois, I mean Lois Capps, our Congressional representative in Washington, D.C. What Lois was clueless about is more precisely a “who”-in this case Duncan Hunter, the raging Congressional right-winger who represents the good people of El Cajon and others living east of San Diego, an inland empire where hot desert winds snuff out errant ocean breezes.
Barney’s On the Beat
Guests were arriving at the Old Mission, but soon what should have been a heavenly nuptial experience turned hellish. According to a Superior Court suit filed by former Fiesta El Presidente Al Pizano and his family, they were “assailed” by Mission personnel “demanding money” and threatening to cancel the wedding if certain rules weren’t obeyed.
Dreamworldliness
The Science of Sleep. Gael Garc-a Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in a film written and directed by Michel Gondry.
Among all media, cinema is best suited to aspire to dream states, and Michel Gondry is among the current filmmakers most likely to go there.