Story Archive for February 2007

Wednesday, Feb. 28

• The Spires Play the Mercury Lounge

• If I Ran the Zoo

• Thomas Friedman's Flat Earth

Tuesday, Feb. 27

• Gag Order Denied in Frimpong Case

• UCSB's Peace Out Week in Review

• Meet New Montecito Association Prez Bill Palladini

• Former News-Press Editor Spills Bias Beans to Mayor

Monday, Feb. 26

• Botanic Garden Variety

• Pay to Play the Dating Game

• Tyrone Wells's Hold On

• AMGEN Wraps Up, Leipheimer Holds On

• Crimes and Verdicts in Isla Vista

• Teasing: A Real Problem and Solutions

• The Lines of a Teenage Hand

Friday, Feb. 23

• Jeff Cohen and Scott Ritter Speak at Victoria Hall

• Bike Racing, Solvang Style

• Former News-Press Reporter Responds to Accusations

• UCSB Heralds Developments in Energy Efficient Lights, English Ballads

• Indian Environmentalist Speaks at UCSB

Thursday, Feb. 22

• Fired News-Press Printer Speaks Out

• Maldonado Battles Metal Theft

• Goleta Tire-Slasher Sentenced

• Barney's Weekend Picks

• Update #1: The Bikers Are Coming

• Tour of California Rolls into Santa Barbara

• I is for Investing

• A Return to Tradition

• Money Talks

• Man With a Plan

• Party Like It’s Spay Day!

• Family Resemblance

• Letters 2-22-2007

• Two-Wheel Racing

• Un Gran Día en El Barrio

• Quotidian Spy Games

• Scratch Your L.A. Itch

• A Concert That Cares

• $72 Million

• Be a Model Before You're Married

• The Five-Minute Rule

• Wedding Moves

• The Truth about Bachelor Parties

• Peach Taffeta Nightmares

• The Pre-Game Show

• Wedding Etiquette

• Dickinson on Stage

• James C. Durham 1934-2007

• Capital Loss

• Party Like It’s Spay Day!

• Citizen's Alert

• Health and Wellness

• Trend Killer

• Ninety Years Young

• Bridesmaids, Rejoice

• Nuptial Knowledge

• Boy Ploys

• Popular Genius

• D Is for Droll

• Ms. Parton, Meet Dolly

• Smokin Fiddle

• Sweet Talk

• Bolero Andaluz

• Songs of Life

• The Uses of Enchantment

• Opera Santa Barbara presents Rigoletto at the Verdi Festival

• RFK Under Fire

• Quote of the Week

• Law and Disorder

• Gaucho Gossip

• Singing Seim's Praises

• Four Fables

• A Mother Runs through Them

• Heroine's Journey

• Holiest Night

• Tiki Tuesday

• Four Short Books You Must Read

• Cultural Encounter

• Future After Oil Film

• Free Matinee

• Up With People Concert

• Muddy Waters

• A Democratization of Verse

• Silent Partners

• Pick It Up

• Sound and Fury 2-22-2007

• Land and Sea

• Roads More Travelled

• New Developments

• Eyes Open on Quietness

• Popular Science

• Senses and Sensibility

• The Blue Agave

• Mickey's Malt Liquor

Wednesday, Feb. 21

• Searching for Love, Sex, and Everything In Between

• Hopeful Health News

• Foosball in Samoa del Sur

• Will News-Press Owner Wendy McCaw Wake Up?

• Speaking of Stories Gets Romantic

• Going Gay: Why Should Preachers Have All the Fun?

• On the Beat 2-22-2007

• Westmont's Wins, Water's Raises, and Rick's Slick

Tuesday, Feb. 20

• Let's Get Ready to Rally

• The Volt per Octaves at Elsie's

• Former Hate Group Member Speaks at SBHS

• Roasting Roberts, Cold Shouldering, and More

• Small College Town Is Full of Big Surprises

Monday, Feb. 19

• Transit District Votes to Switch to Biodiesel Blend

• Gallegly Bill Aims to Stymie Illegal Immigrants

Saturday, Feb. 17

• Mudkids Basementality

Friday, Feb. 16

• Film Discusses Diminishing American Freedoms

• Double Record Release Party at SOhO

• Peel's Self-Titled Release

• Barney's Weekend Picks

Thursday, Feb. 15

• UCSB Students Protest War, Block Highway 217

• S.B. Teachers Protest Fails

• Mai Tai Museum?

• Attention Shoppers!

• Love Songs for Hire

• And Then There Were Nuns

• Wicked Winter

• Winter Wine

• One Sick Puppy

• On the Beat 2-15-2007

• Meeting of the Folk Music Minds

• Get Your Guilty Pleasures

• New Developments

• A Call to Conscience

• And Tamayo Makes Four

• Forever Young

• Reframing the Stage

• Call Your Ma

• Story Tellers Best Sellers

• Happily Ever After

• Citizen's Alert

• Q: "Did the temperance movement ever catch on here?"

• Changing Course

• Sexy and Spirited

• Storm at See

• Tragic Notes

• Young and Restless

• Roads More Traveled

• Land and Sea

• Money Talks

• Quote of the Week

• Reversal of Fortune

• 100%

• Near and Far Getaways

• Pick It Up

• Top Four Reasons Why You Can’t Miss Chuck D

• 3rd Annual County Arts Symposium

• Val Verde Book

• Oliver Lake Talk

• Talk on Radio Art

• Caution: Women at Work

• The Young and the Restless

• Putting Africa in Santa Barbara

• Golden Years

• Twelfth Night in the Big Easy

• Bringing Back Banff

• Fat Tuesday Trivia

• Sound and Fury 2/15/2007

• CAF Home Raffle

• Cold-Hearted or Hot-Blooded?

Wednesday, Feb. 14

• The Snobs at Creekside Inn

• Q&A With Jacqueline Winspear

• Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

• Fired Editor May Hold Key to News-Press Bias

Tuesday, Feb. 13

• UCSB Students To Strike From School

• Valentine's for Overall, Tom's, and the Miramar

• Going Long for the Valentine

• Surfing the Waves Between Notes

• The News-Press Speaks (To Their Employees)

• Boycott Not the Answer

• Springtime Is Wartime Rock I.V.

• News-Press Under Microscope

Monday, Feb. 12

• EXTRA: Jack Overall Selected for MPC

• Bricks Cafe's $5 Martini

• Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

• Arigato's Valentine Roll

• A Palmist’s Intuition Is Always Right

• Wake Up Wendy (McCaw) Wednesday!

• The Doubting Illness: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Friday, Feb. 9

• News-Press Protesters March to Cappello

Thursday, Feb. 8

• Alleged News-Press Threats Incur Charge of Unfair Labor Practices

• Letters 02-08-07

• LAND OF THE GOOD

• Naming Names

• Taking it to the Streets

• Fresh Flora

• Arts Commission Hosts Symposium

• Songs from a Marriage

• Mother Daughter Act

• Suffer the Children

• Men in Tights

• Covering Common Ground

• Comeback Tour

• Top Three Rivals Of Abraham Lincoln

• Pick It Up

• Spotlight On the Jane Deering Gallery

• The Revolving Door

• Cajun Son

• Renewing an Old, Deep Groove

• Q:  ‘When were street lights first used in Santa Barbara?

• Senegal

• Sex Is in the Star

• Following the Silk Road

• Somewhere There's Music

• Getting Centered

• News-Press Bloodletting Intensifies

• Quote of the Week

• LAW AND DISORDER

• IN TIME OF WAR

• MONEY TALKS

• Festival of the week

• Album Art Contest

• S.B. Reads Island

• Dance Jobs Galore

• Citizen's Alert

• Richard “Bomer” Manzullo 1967-2005

• YOUNG BLOOD

• LAND AND SEA

• Two Jims

• In the End, They Will Listen

• Royals and Rebels

• Wine and Song Champagne Supernova

• Barney's Weekend Picks

• Michael Aaron May, 1981-2006

• John Tarasovic 1979-2006

• Inspiration in the Everyday

• Ian Bezman 1981-2005

• Charles Skye Campbell 1974-2005

• The Scariest Man on the Planet

• Sound and Fury 2-08-2007

Wednesday, Feb. 7

• Is My Cat Eating Correctly?

• Top News-Press Protest Chants

• Terrorism and Torture on Stage

• On the Beat 2-8-2007

• Russian Singing and Hip-Hop at UCSB's MultiCultural Center

• The Third-Grader’s Guide to Girls

• Expert Speaks on the Future of Japan

• Bloc Party's A Weekend in the City

• Audience Choice Award Top Ten

Tuesday, Feb. 6

• Palladini for President?

• News-Press Reporters Ready to Rally

• Our Best Fest Photos

• The Woodard File

• Al Gore for President?

• News-Press: Melissa Evans and Tom Schultz Also Cut; John Zant Probably Next

• The Gore-y Truth About the Environment

• Hot, Cold & Everything In Between

Monday, Feb. 5

• A Pain-in-the-Ear in Paradise

• Three More Fired from News-Press

• EXTRA: Montecito Association Frontrunner Withdraws

• Opening Palms, Opening Night

• Leon Is Nuts

Saturday, Feb. 3

• Persephone's Bees

Friday, Feb. 2

• H Is for Horticulture

• Oil Spill Threatens Condors

• Taking It to the Overpass: News-Press staff protest

• Wising Up

• A Week in the Life Backstage

• Surfer Peeps

• Bud Light

• Missing Puppies Returned

• Cinematic Self-Love

Thursday, Feb. 1

• Pay It Forward

• Indie Chanteuse Sings at UCSB

• An Anonymous Paradise

• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

• Letters 2-1-2007

• George Guntermann 1917-2007

• Even Steven

• LAW AND DISORDER

• MEDIA MADNESS

• NEW DEVELOPMENTS

• PUBLIC EDUCATION

• Quote of the Week

• A Year of Grief

• First King of the Festival

• Pelican Party

• Highbrow Humor

• Citizen's Alert

• Con Brio

• Notes on Film

• Change Is in the Wind

• Barely Insured

• LAND AND SEA

• GAUCHO GOSSIP

• Jack Meyer 1953-2007

• Celebrity Nosh-a-Rama

• In the Style of a Genius

• Sound & Fury 2-1-2007

• Barney's On the Beat

• A Postcard from Berlin

• Katzenjammer Dogs

• Strings and Things

• Working At Peace

• Long Time Passing

• Q: ‘What is the history of the area near Carpinteria called Sandyland?'

• Super Bowl Wars

• Bowling for Trivia

• Don’t Try This at Home

• Touchdown Wines

• Before and After the Bomb

• Flash Forward

• America, Reclaimed

• What Lurks Behind the Lines

• Broken Premises

• TALE OF TWO TALKS

• BIKE FILMS NEEDED

• GOSPEL WORKSHOP

• WIlderness of the Week

• Top Reasons to Get Fit with Bollywood

• Chicago Days

• Opuntia ficus-indica

• Access Gets Sexy!

• $42,000

• The (805) Deli

• A Stellar Centerpiece

• Notes on Film

• First King of the Festival

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