Learning Romance from Disney

romance.jpg For a generation who learned about love from Disney, can Isla Vista ever find its way back to romance? Mollie hopes so, and gives some suggestions on how to make that happen.

Bully Pulpit

Barney’s take on the latest round of bullying by News-Press owner Wendy McCaw, why Woody’s jazz smokes, and how Empty Bowls are getting filled.

The Who

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Hannah Tennant-Moore tries to determine just who The Who are trying to be this time. Are their songs just rehashed oldies without the help of bandmates Keith Moon and John Entwistle or do “the Two” of Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey make it work? Read on.

Monolingual Maya Thoughts on Apocalypto

apocalypto1.jpgDespite director Mel Gibson’s intentions, Apocalypto fails to accurately capture either the Maya world or its untimely end. In all, sadly little differentiates this winter release from the loud, violent action films that Gibson wants to distance it from. UCSB’s Maya expert Anabel Ford explains and tells why the language spoken in the film is entirely inadequate for true Mayan speakers.

Eight Days a Week for Wednesday Records

wednesday_rec.jpgA friend of mine once told me the best way to make a small fortune in independent music is to start off with a large one. But in a day and age when music is freely reaching the ears of more people than ever before and downloading decreases the need to purchase CDs, the emergence of a record label is becoming a rare event. Nonetheless, Wednesday Records was recently launched in Santa Barbara.

McCaw Warpath Leads to Small Business

It appears that News-Press employees, City Hall, The Indy, Vanity Fair, the American Journalism Review, the Teamsters, public access laws, and former boyfriends are no longer the only ones being targeted by Wendy McCaw on her legal brief-lined warpath. Now Santa Barbara’s small business owners are under attack: McCaw’s hired bulldog/superstar lawyer Barry Cappello is now sending intimidating letters to stores who post anti-Wendy signs in their windows.

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