Church Alternative of the Week
The weekly free-form dance gathering proves to be part nightclub, part prayer session.
Year: 2009
Books by the Inch
Annual Book Faire to cater to bargain hunters and bookworms alike.
The Morgues
It’s a rare treat to find a band that hooks you after only three songs, which may be part of the reason we love The Morgues.
Old Town Frown
I frown because Old Town has the potential to be the heart of Goleta, as opposed to the plain, unattractive, almost neglected-looking strip that it is now.
New Life for Blue Whale Skeleton
Natural History Museum gets $100,000 from Dreier family toward restoring science icon.
News to Yous
Santa Barbara’s stellar youth music program Notes for Notes currently is in the running for funding from Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal’s BonTaj Collective Action Fund, which donates a percentage of the artists’ ticket sales to nonprofs across the country.
Secular Coalition of America Lobbies for Separation
At a Santa Barbara fundraiser, Executive Director Sean Faircloth points finger at military proselytizing and religious exemptions.
Get Your Wig On
At Kimberley Hairpieces & Wigs on State there’s one for every occasion.
La Entrada Revisions Face Little Opposition
City planning commissioners complain of “demolition by neglect,” but like changes.
What Can You Tell Me About S.B. Artist Robert Hyde?
Robert Wilson Hyde was one of the architects of Santa Barbara’s arts and crafts colony, which flourished here in the early 1900s.
