Story Archive for July 2007

Tuesday, July 31

• Zaca Fire Continues Its Eastward Spread

• Camping Wars

• Indie Band The 88 Plays Velvet Jones

• Reefer Madness

Monday, July 30

• City Looks Into Dead Koi

Sunday, July 29

• Zaca Fire Moves Into Santa Cruz Drainage

• Your Worship

Saturday, July 28

• Zaca Fire Update

• Zaca Mesa Fire Again
  Sends Smoke to Coast

• County Residents May Save on Property Taxes

• Southward Bound

Friday, July 27

• What's Selling?

• Alternative Rocks' Oldies and Newbies

• Sheriffs Make Drug Busts in North County

• Microsoft to Acquire AdECN

• Working for Fairness in Bahrain

• Star Lane Vineyards Dodges the Zaca Fire Bullet

Thursday, July 26

• Plans Move Ahead for Highway 154 Suicide Barrier

• Still Got It

• Dividing Lines

• Blast of Cold Air

• SB Rotary Talks Service Clubs, African Customs

• Fire-Related Los Padres Closures Reduced

• Compassionate Care

• Concrete Garden

• Bucking Tradition

• Closed-Door Policy

• Truth and Reconciliation

• Carp Bar Patron Busted for Dealing Coke

• IV Stabbing Suspect Was Already in Jail

• Tears Shed as Stabbings Continue

• Women Anointed Catholic Deacons, Priest in S.B.

• Zaca Fire Burns On

• City Experiences Driest Year in Over a Century

• Capps Urges Labor Board to Pick Up the Pace

• An Interview with Paul Laverty, Screenwriter of The Wind That Shakes the Barley

• The 88 Plays Velvet Jones

• Rescue Dawn

• Increased Summer Residents in I.V. Lead to Increasingly Trashy Beaches

• Two Margarets

• Summerscape

• Viva la Vino

• Thirteen

• In Appreciation of Robert Isaacson

• Jazz Calendar Markers

• Quiz: Beach Days

• Bus Driving Comedian Jim Eaton

• Pick it Up

• Kiss Me, Kate

• Dogs Not Wogs

• Reexamining Israel and Palestine from the Ground

• Ulysses S. Jasz at
  The James Joyce

• Thomas Hampson, baritone, and Wolfram Rieger, piano.

• The Takács Quartet.

• Snow Patrol, with Hot Hot Heat.

• Sonotube Forms: Contemporary Art and Transport

• New Paintings, by Richard Schloss.

• Sing out, Louise

• Concerts in the Park

• Delaney Gibson

• Positively State Street

• The Man Who Would Remake the Miramar

• Politics and Power Tables

• Company XIV

• Nothing but Broadway

• Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser Are Working Their Way to the ’08 Olympics

• Garden Spice

• Farmers Market Forays

• Chef Nancy Silverton Offers Quick Meals from Jars, Cans, and Boxes

• Showdown Over Wide
  Open Spaces

• Sinning Senators Are So Ho-Hum

• Chef Nancy Silverton’s Top 5 Pantry Staples

• I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

• Persian Mulberries

• Prepping for Fiesta with Vino Sabroso

• Black & Blue Peeps

• Do This: Libations

• This Week in History

• Give a Little

• Adult Literacy Program Seeks Volunteers

• Week Spot Photo

• A French Patisserie Comes to Loreto Plaza

• Fiesta Preview 2007

• Why You Should Go to Ventura on July 29

• Height Limits Elude GabFest

• City Seeks to Regulate Growth of Pot Dispensaries

• MachineTalker, Inc. Acquires Tech Company

• Hedge Fund Chairman Buys Property in Carp

• UCSB Graduate Professor Receives $60,000 Grant

• New Christian High School in the Works

• King of Jordan Rides through SB

• Dos Pueblos Graduate Receives Scholarship

• MTD Governing Board Gets Two New Members

• Grant Money to Fund Near-Shore Study

• Supermarket Employees Reach Contract Agreement

• New Sun Nutrition Corporation Changes Name

• Restaurant Group Purchases Freebirds World Burrito

• Yardi to Manage $23 Billion Real Estate Portfolio

• County Sues Civil Service Commission over Fired Social Worker

• County Counsel Stark Announces Retirement

• County Medical Director Leaves Job, Faces Charges

• City Awarded $142,000 in Prop. 46 Allocations

• City’s Public Works Chief Announces Retirement

• Goleta Looks to Build Housing for City Employees

• Coastal Commission Keeps an Eye on Butterfly

• High Speed Chase Ends in Car Crash on 154

• Coroner’s Report Released on Deceased Motorist

• Planning Commission Approves Mixed-Use Building

• Parents File Suit Against Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club

• City Council Amends, Approves Subdivision Plan

• County Issues Stop-Work Order on McCaw’s Beachfront Project

Wednesday, July 25

• Worker Housing Idea

• Freebirds World Burrito Chain Sold

• Thrift Store Opening

• Reggae Cruise Benefits Area Charity

Tuesday, July 24

• Murder, Museums, and Media Blackouts

• The Smashing Pumpkins at the Fillmore San Fransisco

• The History of Palmistry

• Union Ratifies Contract

• Rainy Season Officially Dubbed Driest Since 1898

• Kiss and Tell

• Life in the Fast Lane

Monday, July 23

• Capps, Miller Tell NLRB to Make Decision on News-Press

• Modest Mouse to Headline Bowl Show

• Cold Spring Suicide Barrier Meeting Wednesday

• High-Speed Zooms from 101 to 154

Sunday, July 22

• Your Worship

Saturday, July 21

• King of Jordan Motors Through SB

• Coroner's Report Clarifies Circumstances of 101 Death

• Better Than Perfect

Friday, July 20

• Partying for Obama

• German Film Honors Anti-Nazi Heroine

Thursday, July 19

• FRS Lands 7-11 Deal

• Mobile Home Owners Pay Landlord’s Court Costs

• Zaca Fire Heats Up

• Westside Teen Fatally Stabbed

• City To Face Wrongful Death Suit

• Homegrown Tomatoes

• Tales from Planet Keith

• 4th Annual California Wine Festival

• Adult Literacy Tutors Needed

• Concert Review: Tuesdays at 8

• Sound and Fury 7-19-07

• 12%

• Plant to Enhance

• Teens Speak Out in Quarterly Publication, Shape of Voice

• Cary Brothers

• Education and Nuclear Weapons Don’t Mix

• Side Street Café’s Chef Patrick Rand: Enfant Terrible

• Inventors Save Planet

• My Best Friend

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

• Freedom of the Press

• Ain’t No Fleas on Me

• Stephen Stills

• Summer Daze

• This Week in History

• Give a Little

• Musical Dining

• Hairspray, Redux

• Visiting Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival

• Family-Friendly S.B

• Rams Come to L.A. to Celebrate 70th Anniversary

• Homeland Debate

• Ethics in Entertainment

• Reflections on the 2007 Venice Biennale

• Austin McCormick’s Neo-Classical Choreography

• Positively State Street

• For Your (Guilty) Viewing Pleasure

• The People’s President

• Alexa & Hannah Borroel Meet Sugarland

• Get Nights Tickets Now

• The Academy Festival Orchestra, with Jeffrey Tate, conductor.

• Rough Crossing

• There’s No Tasting Room Like Home

• S.B. and California’s Population Explosion

• Fiesta Art Contest

• Artful Depictions

• Quiz: Goin’ to the Chapel

• SBIFF Wants You

• Pick it Up

• Jesse Alexander’s Photography.

• Rosa Martha Villarreal’s The Stillness of Love and Exile

• Cellar-Worthy Discoveries

• The Founding Mothers

• Citizens' Alert

• A Look at Santa Barbara’s Unsung Musicians

• Reasons to Get Offside This Week

• The Seven-Year Itch

• Charcoal Chimney Gadget

• Adelaide Ortega Sees Past Her Blindness

• Honoring Flamenco

• Incubus

• Living Photo

• Zucchini Ratatouille

• Love Bites

• Capps, Nava Praise City's Longest Running Track Club

• Santa Barbara Swimmer Sets New Record

• Bill Levy Closes Up Shop

• Santa Barbara Water Czar Resigns

• City Begins Work on Solar Panel Plan

• Success for City's Composting Project

• Buellton Puts the Breaks on Sphere of Influence Study

• Teacher Arraigned for Smoking Pot with Student

• La Rumba Bar Cited for Serving After Hours

• Judge Reduces Bail for Hulsey

• Los Angeles Archdiocese Settles with Santa Barbara Residents

• Police Confiscate 100 Pounds of Pot

• Cops Nab Juvenile for Sexual Battery Incidents

• NLRB Issues Subpoena to The Independent

• Landecker Named New Director of Environmental Defense Center

• Goleta City Council May Turn Focus to Housing

• Pollution Control Chief Discusses Global Warming

• Mammoth Skeleton May Come to SB Natural History Museum

• Neuter Bill Withdrawn Due to Opposition

• Capps Praises Bill to Reduce College Loan Costs

• UCSB Professor Wins Eni Italgas Prize

• Carpinteria Man Killed By Amtrak Train

• Missing Diver Found Dead By Coast Guard

• Santa Barbara Surfer Excels in Roxy’s Longboard Championships

• Santa Barbara Newsroom Calls it Quits

• Oprah to Host Fundraiser for Obama

• Ojai Residents Speak Out Against Mine Proposal

• Polish President Visits Vandenberg Base

• Westmont Names New President

• Goleta Counters Santa Barbara’s Sphere of Influence Plan

Wednesday, July 18

• Santa Barbara Art Studios

• County Counsel Announces Retirement

• Ballroom Dancing, Granting Wishes

• Zaca Ridge Still Holds

• Grant Writing and Sightseeing

• Dr. Gayle Beebe Named Westmont's Eighth President

• What UC Regents Can Learn from their UCSB Visit

Tuesday, July 17

• Residents Only

• Super Sweet 21

Monday, July 16

• The Good Old Summer Time

• Landecker Named Executive Director of Environmental Defense Center

• What's Selling?

• Fire Fighters Brace to Hold McKinley Ridge

Sunday, July 15

• Your Worship: Trinity Episcopal Church

• Outstanding In Our Field

Saturday, July 14

• Your Magic Mountain Blows

Friday, July 13

• Close of Friday, July 20

• Judge Rejects Measure P-Related Lawsuit

• Stopping the Presses

• Close of Friday, July 13

• Yes, It's Just Smoke

• More Mesa Still on the Market

Thursday, July 12

• More Areas Now Off-Limits Due to Zaca Fire

• Westmont Gets New President

• Body of Missing Diver Found

• Tegan and Sara to Play Halloween Show in SB

• Sheriffs Say Ride-By Fondler Finally Captured

• Environmentalists Rally Behind Green Energy Bill

• Portraits of Survival

• In Environmentalism's First Flush

• The Price of "Freedom"

• Sick Diatribe

• Sheriff Make Another Marijuana Bust

• Frimpong to Stand Trial

• Zaca Fire Rages in Backcountry

• Ojai versus Big Trucks

• Judge Throws Out City vs. Poet Lawsuit

• Kelee Davidson Released After Less Than Two Years in Jail

• Meet the Indy-Sponsored Athletes Training for the S.B. Triathlon

• Flights of Fancy: To First-Class Passengers Everywhere

• Peeping ’80s Night at Q’s

• Kenny Loggins Plays Santa Maria

• Santa Barbara’s Healthcare Heavies Weigh in on SiCKO

• Homogenization Be Damned

• Quiz: Ladies' Night

• Living Photo: Lovely Ladies

• License to Wed

• SBCC Theatre Group Brings Stoppard’s Rough Crossing to the Garvin

• Janusphere Dance Company at Center Stage Theater.

• Citizens' Alert

• Creedence Clearwater Revisited

• SBMA Exposes Santa Barbara Photographers

• The Lives Of Others- And Us?

• Circle 13

• Pick it Up

• Going Green

• Safe in a Sonotube

• Positively State Street

• Warhol About to Pop

• Songwriting Contest

• Surf &Turf

• 2003

• Kayaking the Salton Sea

• Rikka Z and Friends at SOhO

• Canine Conniption

• Week Spot Photo

• This Week in History

• Harry Potter Release Party

• Carp Wine Co

• School of Hip-Hop

• Nate Birkey Does SOhO

• The Art of Wine Tasting without Getting Drunk

• Computer Dating’s Happy Endings

• Transformers

• Give a Little

• Mark Warkentin’s Open-Ocean Quest for the Beijing Olympics

• Harry Flaster, PhD, MD 1953-2007

• Senior Activities

• Food Bill on Capitol Hill

• The Pacific Pride Festival Returns to Chase Palm Park

• Hot Hot Heat Opens for Snow Patrol at the Bowl

• Angela Perko. At Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery.

• The Lovell Sisters at the Lobero Theatre.

• Vegetarians Catered to at SpiritLand Bistro

• Live Girl-on-Girl Action!

• S.B.’s Top Chef

• 49 Reasons and Three Legends about Stephen Stills

• Executive Director to Leave Post at Domestic Violence Solutions

• Company Ranks Santa Barbara in Forclosure Study

• Veeco Metrology, Inc. Lays Off Ten Percent of Employees

• Alleged Counterfeit Tool Salesmen Arrested

• Alleged Molestation Victims Lobby to Move Trial to SB

• Goleta Water District Votes to Raise Meter Rates

• Man Pleads Not Guilty in Fatal Hit-and-Run

• Coast Guard Continues Search for Missing Diver

• Yardi Announces Acquisition of SiteStuff

• Preliminary Hearing Date Set in Juarez Case

• Craig McCaw Buys $20 Million Beachfront Property

• State Approves Funding for Farm Worker Housing

• Cleese Announces Plan to Sell Montecito Estate

• School Board Moves Ahead in Academy, La Cumbre Merger

• Middle School Students Volunteer in Bolivia

• Music Academy’s Archives to Move to UCSB

• New Bill Requires CalTrans to Recycle Concrete

• Blum, Nava Butt Heads Over Spay and Neuter Bill

• Census Bureau Says California Population to Greatly Increase by 2050

• Fire Helicopter Crashes Near Figueroa Mountain

Wednesday, July 11

• Yardi Acquires Sitestuff

• Doing Good

• Pines Down, Palms Up

• Sheriffs Seize $195 Million in Pot

• Beleza Pura Shakes it at SOhO

Tuesday, July 10

• Can't You Smell That Smell?

• Plans Unveiled for San Ysidro Pharmacy Property

• United Way Expands Kids' Summer Program in Carp

• SBIFF Now Accepting Entries for 2008

• Craig McCaw Buys Near Bacara

• Meeting Emad in Bahrain

• Full Text of SiCKO Q&A

Monday, July 9

• Hurricane Deck Engulfed

• Busy Weekend for SB Police

• Giant Salmon Swims Into SB

• Alert Cellular Files for Bankruptcy

• Grunge Rock 2.0

• Topsy-Turvy "Bus Chase" at Sea

• The Warrior Line

• A Bug's Life (and Death)

• Zaca Fire Crosses the Manzana

Sunday, July 8

• Zaca Fire 'Copter Crashes

• San Rafael Wilderness in Danger

• Three Pea Succotash with Wilted Swiss Chard

• Your Worship: Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara

Saturday, July 7

• Picture Perfect Landscapes at Kings Canyon

Friday, July 6

• Zaca Fire heads Towards Wilderness

• Close of Friday, July 6

• Music Academy Moves Archives to UCSB

• Zaca Fire Spreads Into Los Padres

• Mentor's PurTox Would Challenge Botox

• Lou Cannon Tears Up Wendy McCaw

• Gallery Spotlight: Delphine Gallery

• Ahoy!

• Skimming the Surface

• Black Friday

Thursday, July 5

• Allsup Knows Best

• Cinematic Hell

• Bimbo Porn? Big Whoop.

• Virtual Meeting Focuses on Environment

• Green Nation

• Interfaith Listening

• Sordid Appeal

• Opportunity to Serve

• The Golden Bowl

• Island Living

• Captain Liz Resurfaces

• Man Arrested in Fatal Hit-and-Run

• The Bowl 2.0

• CEC Seeks to Harness Wave Power

• Report Says California Housing Must Grow to Accommodate Population

• Supermarket Battle Lines

• Capritto to Replace Turnbull as SBHS Principal

• Fire Season ’07 Roars to
  Life in Los Padres

• Introducing S.B. Foresters’ Powerhouse First Baseman, Rebel Ridling

• Music at the Museum

• The Historic Lompoc Theater Receives a Major Renovation

• Don’t Kick a Dead Dog In the Mouth While It's Down

• New Study Predicts
  Greater Sea-Level Rise

• Over Sees

• This Week in History

• Kids Summer Reading Program

• Give a Little

• To Market, To Market

• Why Santa Barbara’s Schools Need a Parcel Tax

• Free Flicks at Wilding

• Get Funny on Campus

• Action Movies on Display

• 3 Faulkner Novels to Read This Summer

• Pick it Up

• Gwen Stefani at the Santa Barbara Bowl

• Carol Burnett, the Humanist Humorist

• Art From Scrap’s Sixth Annual Assemblage Art Show and Benifit Auction

• The Virtue of Wine Tasting

• Down With Uptalk

• Positively State Street

• Culver City Dub Collective

• Read All About It

• Reid Spencer Brings New Meaning to the Phrase ‘One-Man Show’

• Citizens' Alert

• Paradise Lost by Kara Maria.

• Summer Reading 2007

• Gabby Women, Silent Men

• Hot Off the Press

• Tequila Te-Conversations

• Talkin’ ’bout My Grill

• Oxtail

• Poetry Matters

• Poet Christopher Buckley Wins Guggenheim after 20 years of Trying

• UCSB Arts & Lectures Screens Two Films About Andy Warhol

• NP Meltdown Anniversary

• The Audrey Rest

• Frederick R. Sidon

• Wine, Wine, Wine Went the Trolley

• Author Colette Waddell Sees History Through the Eyes of a Survivor

• Gove County String Quartet.

• New Books about Gardening

• The Academy Festival Orchestra

• You Kill Me

• Confessions of an Insomniac

• Sicko

• Jensen Guitar Brings Rock ’n’ Roll to the Next Generation

• An Intimate Evening of Dance Theater

• Darion Smith Brings Janusphere Dance Company to Center Stage Theater

• What Writers Read

• Sea Tales

• Quiz: Book Worm

• GoodReads.com

• $8,802,500

• Living Photo: Bookwork

• Sheriff's Gang Unit Makes Fifteen Arrests

• Teacher Arrested for Smoking Pot with Student

• Mother Arrested for Leaving Twins in Car

• City Raises Trash, Water, Sewage Fees

• Cairns Wins Championship at Annual Paddleboard Race

• Chinese Government Detains Visiting Lawyer

• Carpinteria Landslide Victim Honored

• State Law Requires Grocers Provide Recycling for Plastic Bags

• Sanchez Becomes First Latino President of California Teachers Association

• Montecito Woman in Serious Condition After ATV Accident

• Plane Veers Off Runway at SB Airport

• Tegal Corporation Donates $350,000 to UCSB

• Santa Barbara School Board Approves '07-08 Budget

• Capps to Oppose Coal-Based Alternative Fuels

• Santa Cruz Island Reopens to Public

• Small Fire Erupts on Stearns Wharf

• Man Crashes Car on Camino Cielo Road

• Senate Approves Bill to Ensure Affordable Housing

• Physician Looses Medical License After Second DUI

• Police Standoff Ends Peacefully

• Environmental Groups Lobby Against City Planning Workshops

• Molestation Suspect Identified, Arrested

• City Council Denies Buellton Sphere of Influence Study

• County Fights to Curb Chronic Homelessness

• Snack Recalled After Causing Salmonella

• Habitat for Humanity Completes Low-Income Condo Project

• City Expands Street Sweeping to Bel Air Knolls, Upper Mesa

Wednesday, July 4

• Steve Fort Hits the Press Room

• Italian Bakery Leaves Loreto, Turns to Mama

• Other Folks Talk About the News-Press

• Fun and Friends at Caliroll Express

Tuesday, July 3

• Caltrans Locks Sycamore Canyon Again

• Heroes of the Rancho Fire

• Reading to Learn

• Raytheon Supplying Thermal Sights

• The Other Sister

• America the Not-So-Beautiful

• Lots of Firsts in Bahrain

Monday, July 2

• KCRW Takes on News-Press Meltdown

• Fire Department Encourages Fourth of July Safety

• Costco Dogs Gone No Longer

Sunday, July 1

• Rancho Wildland Fire Photographs and Update

• Rancho Wildland Fire 50% Contained

• Your Worship: Santa Barbara's Vedanta Society Temple

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