Summer hasn’t quite given its last hurrah, but life is returning to a more regular schedule with the kids back in school and a tad fewer tourists to navigate around in town. Is it time to do something for yourself? Most assuredly. One of the things to consider would be honing your gardening skills and knowledge. There’s a slate of classes and courses starting up that can teach you more about our natural world and just how to make our gardens the best they can be.
Writer and photographer Gabriel Hutchison reports on Silverlake’s annual music and culture bash, held this past August.
Cities Barbecue’s illustrious, ever-color-changing rooftop cow got a make-over Sunday, September 3. The artist was Color the Cow contest winner Madison Lewandawski (age 7), whose design-dubbed the Cowger
BEAUTIFUL BOVINE: Seven-year-old Madison Lewandawski won Cities Barbecue’s Color the Cow contest..
Santa Barbara was originally built with the oldest known construction material: mud. Santa Barbara’s buildings were made from adobe brick, the word adobe deriving from the Spanish adobar, “to plaster.” Santa Barbara’s early Spanish settlers found a landscape largely devoid of trees, and lumber was virtually impossible to come by. An alternative building material had to be found and the answer turned out to be adobe brick.
Barney discusses Ronald Reagan’s burial place and an intriguing stone pyramid, both topics in the recently released book about the Santa Barbara Cemetery called The Best Last Place.
The Indy‘s occasional pop-rock critic Levi Michaels, who spends his days as a student at San Marcos High School, gets to the bottom of the former Santa Barbara-based band’s latest release Lights Out.
Be careful of anonymous Web postings
Well-informed sources tell me that two more News-Press staffers have flown the coop to greener pastures. That, along with the departure of sports copy desk staffer Kim Burnell, who fled Tuesday, makes a total of 19 newsroom denizens who have resigned since early July.
At the risk of generalizing, jazz trumpeters often fall into one of two expressive camps: there are those who chase the high and fast notes, and those who work the brooding lower range of the instrument. Maynard Ferguson not only fell into the former, stratospheric blower category, but his name came to symbolize that school of playing, from the ’50s on through the final chapter of his last several years.
