Sunday I was selling my wares at the Arts and Crafts show near the beach in downtown Santa Barbara along the sidewalk. There I was, sitting somewhere in the craft section as on most Sundays I usually do, behind a table covered with little acrylics, watercolors and hand-painted cards. I display lyrical renditions of goddesses, beach scenes, birds, plants, palm trees, faces, bodies. My style is impressionistic, vivid and colorful.
The State of California finally returned its decision on the City of Goleta’s housing plans, which were adopted in November as part of the newly established the city’s first general plan. In a word, the answer from the state’s Housing and Community Development (HCD) division is “no.” The
At lunchtime today, Wednesday, March 21, “Operation Cold Shoulder” — the community group supporting fired News-Press staffers and advocating for owner Wendy McCaw to get out of the newsroom — are staging yet another protest outside of the newspaper’s headquarters in De la Guerra Plaza. This time, however, the protest will focus not just on the allegedly illegal firings, the unionization drive, and unethical mismanagement of the paper. This time, the protest will also draw attention to the paper’s response to last week’s gang stabbing on State Street. According to protest organizers, that response was unfair, irresponsible, and vicious to City Hall.
Transportation Activist Gets Honored by COAST; Young Tynan in NYT; Steadman Speaks; And More
GAIN BUT NO PAIN: Let’s see, rob a bank and, if the gendarmes collar you, do they just let you hand back the bucks and walk?
No punishment, no fines? Sneak out of a jewelry shop with a fistful of diamonds and Rolexes? Same thing. Hand them back and all is forgiven?
Delights and Shadows has been on the Poetry Foundation’s list of best-sellers for fifty-eight weeks, a record matched only by Billy Collins and Mary Oliver. The man himself arrived for an extended visit to the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference weekend Poetry Conference on March 16-18 and addressed a full house.
From noisy neighbors to gutless guys; too much Mexican food to too little money; prima donna professors to stolen side-view mirrors; and tons of trash to lousy Laundromats, life just seems to have taken a turn for the worse, much like the foggy weather that has pooped on everyone’s good-weather parade. Got beef? Join the club.
In response to the gang-related murder of Luis Angel Linares one week ago today, the community center Casa De La Raza is holding a forum to discuss gang violence and the shared responsibility to prevent it. The forum begins at 6 p.m. on March 21 at 601 E. Montecito Street.
Chassy goes on a blind date with a Johnny Depp look-a-like, worries about running into The Biker, and then sparks up a text message conversation with The Writer. And she’s wondering what everyone else’s blind dating life is like, so let her know!
Santa Barbara High School stepped up its security measures Friday afternoon and prepared more than 500 of its students for what school officials believe is going to be a tense weekend. Athletic students were instructed to attend a mandatory sixth period assembly, when most of them would normally be at their sports practice.
