Year: 2006

Dorothy Was Wrong
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Dorothy Was Wrong

Circle Bar B Proves Some Places Are Better than Home

“There’s no place like home,” the saying goes, but after spending two nights at Circle Bar B, I beg to differ. The staffers are so friendly and hospitable; the accommodations so cozy and comfortable; the homemade food so delicious-it’s better than being at home. It’s more like staying with your best friend, who just happens to have 18 guest houses, a pool and hot tub, a game room, a sitting room with a huge stone fireplace and saloon-style bar, a stable full of horses, and a dinner theater.

By Indy Staff

LAND AND SEA

Santa Barbarans awoke last Sunday morning to visions of the apocalypse – or at least a lot of nasty ash generated by

By Indy Staff

LAW AND DISORDER

Jovanna Vasquez, the once popular childcare provider, was sent to county jail last Friday for violating a court order prohibiting

By Indy Staff

UNDER ONE ROOF

As their eviction deadline loomed near, the 25 Cedarwood Apartments families remaining out of the original 51 huddled with legal

Dr. Albert C. Svoboda, Jr. 1931-2006
By Indy Staff

Dr. Albert C. Svoboda, Jr. 1931-2006

Dr. Albert C. Svoboda, Jr., was born on July 27, 1931, and died at home surrounded by his family on September 14, 2006. Al came to Santa Barbara in 1966 to join the Sansum Medical Clinic where he worked as an internist and gastroenterologist until 1996. Having grown up in Chicago, he welcomed the California weather. We met while working together at the clinic, and were married here in Santa Barbara in 1985.

By Hannah Tennant-Moore

Viva El Voz

Pepe Aguilar

At the Santa Barbara Bowl, Saturday, September 16.
When I expressed less-than-maximum interest in spending my night grooving to Tejano ballads, my editor jokingly accused me of being racist. I laughed, but as it turned out, race played a bigger role in my night than I’d expected. Though my enjoyment of the king of contemporary mariachi was certainly not colored by racism, it was partly hampered by the cultural blockade separating me from most other concertgoers. As one of a handful of white faces with a limited understanding of Spanish, I experienced the show as more of a spectacle than a concert.

Arnold Revs Up The People’s Machine
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Arnold Revs Up The People’s Machine

Gregarious and solidly built, Joe Mathews-a reporter for the Los Angeles Times-has spent the past three-and-a-half years as a fly on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wall. With California’s gubernatorial election just seven weeks away, Mathews’s book-The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy-is just now hitting bookstores. Mathews gives readers an enormously engaging blow-by-blow account of the recall campaign that propelled Schwarzenegger to political power and what he’s done with it in the years since.

Pick It Up
By Indy Staff

Pick It Up

The Bushwhackers’ Beatin’ Round the Bush

Footwear Genius
By Shannon Kelley

Footwear Genius

The Man Behind GBMI

It’s fair to say that Global Brand Marketing Inc. founder and CEO Killick Datta stumbled into his career in the world of footwear marketing. Born in Mumbai, India, Datta was shipped off to Oxford by his parents at the ripe age of 14 in order to begin the schooling he’d need to become a biochemist. After finishing at Oxford, he went on to the University of Durham, England’s third oldest college, to earn his MBA, which, Datta said, was “a frowned-upon degree in England; they call it an ‘American degree.’

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