TEAM TITANS:

Earth’s annals echo with the names of famed duos: Shadrach and Abednego, Lennon and McCartney, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bert and Ernie, and the Olsen Twins leap most saliently into our collective mind. Perhaps none of them compares, though, we believe, with the unsurpassable teaming at this publication of photographic frissoneur Paul Wellman (left) and lexicological elucidator D.J. Palladino, who do hereby humbly proclaim themselves (with lots of help from The Santa Barbara Independent editorial and design staff) the Best Best Of Issue Buddies this universe has ever known.