Dogs on a Plane

STINK FEST FOLLIES: The enduring dust-up at the News-Press calls to mind the old schoolyard axiom: 10,000 flies can’t be wrong. In other words, something supremely stinky’s going down at Santa Barbara’s oldest daily despite the hyperventilated protestations to the contrary by owner-publisher Wendy P. McCaw, her in-house hit man Travis K. Armstrong, and her professional mouthpiece Agnes Huff, PhD.

Vice and Violence

Deadly Incident in Doorway of Local Strip Club

Anight of celebration for a local wedding party ended in tragedy last weekend, as a 26-year-old accountant from San Francisco died after an altercation in front of the Spearmint Rhino Adult Cabaret on Montecito Street.

Unanswered Questions

A Grieving Mother Wonders What Really Happened on 9/11

On September 11, 2001, our daughter had her life cut short at the age of 35. After practicing law in the Navy JAG Corps and then with a corporate law firm in Washington, D.C., she accepted her dream job to become the head women’s gymnastics coach at UCSB. Her condo was up for sale, the movers had picked up her furniture, her car had been shipped, and then she boarded American Airlines Flight 77 to begin her new life…

Barney’s On the Beat

Author Doing 45 Years: I wasn’t optimistic about being allowed to interview Lompoc federal prisoner Michael G. Santos, but I tried anyway. Result: denial.

This, I was told by Lompoc prison’s Public Information Officer Erwin Meinberg, was “due to safety and security concerns.” Concerns for my safety? I asked.

Death of Superman

Hollywoodland Director Allen Coulter Discusses His Feature Debut

Hollywoodland is a uniquely compelling exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood’s most infamous real-life mysteries: the death of George Reeves, the actor famous for playing Superman on television.

Chamber Punts on Measure D

Supporters of Measure D, the $1.6 billion countywide congestion relief measure, came up short when the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce declined to take a position on the controversial sales tax measure.

UNDER ONE ROOF

Santa Barbara County won the dubious distinction of being the nation’s eighth least affordable county for potential homebuyers. San Luis Obispo came in 10th, and the Los Angeles/Long Beach area took top “honors.” The National Association of Homebuilders, in its quarterly survey of housing affordability,…

Growers’ Pains

On a recent Saturday morning, the action at the downtown Santa Barbara Farmers Market is absolutely dizzying. A line of cars 13 deep stacks down the block waiting to park for this paradise of produce. The sidewalk swirls with shoppers, smiling children, signature-gathering liberals, and a man with snakes offering up photo opportunities next to a nearly full bike rack. Inside, hundreds of happy people casually make their way down aisle after aisle of plump tomatoes, glistening table grapes, sprouts, cucumbers, peaches, peppers, and cherries-the sound of guitar drifting across tuber rose-scented air. The full harvest moon of fall is but a few weeks away and the dozens of family farm stands that line the aisles are showing it well, each of them pregnant with the bounty of a season’s hard work. A man and his wife-both sporting the telltale contrived casual appearance of a couple on vacation-share a laugh and a love-filled smile as they approach Lane Farms’s stand at the far end of the market.

YOUNG BLOOD

The new Hollywood sports movie The Gridiron Gang chronicles the efforts of former Santa Barbara resident Paul Higa to redirect the energies of hard-core juvenile offenders in Los Angeles from criminal behavior to the football field…

Big Questions

James Fallows, Author of Blind Into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq, Chats About Iran and Iraq with The Indy‘s International Affairs Expert Sam Kornell

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