Surrounded by friends and family, Sheriff’s Lieutenant Butch Arnoldi (pictured) threw his hat into the ring this week as a candidate to replace his boss, Sheriff Jim Anderson. During the Monday morning press event at the Santa Barbara Courthouse, Arnoldi, 55, alluded to a recent rash of scandal surrounding the Sheriff’s office and pledged to restore “leadership and integrity” to the position and “trust and respect” to the department.
Gerry Moro grew up watching his family make wine in Italy. So when they immigrated to the U.S., Moro had winemaking in his veins. But he had sports in his blood, too. He trained for the U.S. Olympic team, competing in the 1968 decathlon. Moro didn’t win a gold metal there but has gone on to receive several awards for his wines.
Despite city housing policy calling for the preservation of existent rental stock and increased density, Santa Barbara’s planning commissioners voted to greenlight a West Beach condo development last Thursday, shedding few tears over 13 rental units to be razed to make way for five upscale condominiums near the corner of West Yanonali and Bath streets. Squeezed into a converted 1940s motel and a two-story Craftsman-style dwelling next door, 11 of the 13 doomed rentals measured below current legal square-foot minimums; the current tenants jockey for seven total parking spaces.
Twenty years ago, the notion that hundreds of doctors, nurses, patients, lawyers, and curious citizens would gather in a drab conference room to see scientists present research papers and hear physicians discuss the therapeutic benefits of marijuana was little more than a stoner’s fantasy. But in 2006, 10 years after Californians started a national trend by voting to allow sick people to smoke, eat, or otherwise imbibe marijuana to ease their pains, this notion is a reality-and it’s happening this April here in Santa Barbara.
Thu., Feb. 23
Jazz in the Borderlands: Prof. Gaye Johnson discusses Mexican music and black identity in New Orleans and Texas. 4pm. Women’s Center Library, UCSB. Call 893-3778.
Just as college students seek extra help in the form of study groups or CliffsNotes, Evan Patak has taken a similar approach in his fight to be a healthy contributor to UCSB men’s volleyball. Injuries have been a constant of the 6’7″ junior’s career with the Gauchos. But after a sore right shoulder kept him out of three full matches and a part of another this month, the 2005 All-American sought and found treatment for the ailment with a Montecito massage therapist.
Two young Latino men clad in thin T-shirts and jeans marched up State Street, hands buried deep in their pockets in search of respite from Monday’s harsh, chilly winds. As they approached Victoria Street, they were startled by the sight of giant fish-six feet long, three feet in diameter, and ornately painted with a fly-fishing fantasy scene straight from the pages of Field & Stream-beached atop a green metal pole jutting seven feet into the air.
On a cold winter’s day sip a Hot Buttered Rum in the bar at 31 West; on a warm winter’s day, enjoy it on the rooftop terrace. 31 W. Carrillo St., 884-0300.
Rumors are flying around Pascual’s. Word has it that owner Pascual Gamboa has sold to his partner, Lucky Comin, who plans to remodel and change the name and concept. There’s still a glimmer of hope for those who rely upon the margaritas: Signs in the windows read “open until further notice.” 30 E. Victoria St., 965-4461.
A salient and slightly infamous Italian film, The Best of Youth is a matter of scale: 6.5-hour films rarely dent public consciousness. But that lavish time frame and epic scope is also one of its virtues-the film pulls us into its temporal tapestry of familial intrigue and turns in Italian history we have either forgotten or never known.
Fate and family spread out during four decades and multiple sub-narratives in Best of Youth, which opens in 1966 Rome and finishes in Norway, circa 2003, where a new generation continues on. The high idealism of youth-especially that of the generation coming of age and expressing activist rage in the ’60s-manifests itself in radically different directions among characters.
