PREACHING POLITICS:
Santa Barbara clergy and laypeople packed the Unitarian Society Hall Sunday night for a forum on just how political they can legally get.
Month: March 2006
DOLLAR DUEL:
Thanks to a $40,000 loan to himself, incumbent County Sheriff Jim Anderson (pictured left) posted a dramatic financial lead over his closest rival and predecessor Jim Thomas (pictured right) in the race for the county’s top law enforcement post.
Zorro Rides Again
Zorro in Hell, presented by Culture Clash.
At the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Saturday, March 18.
The comedy troupe Culture Clash, currently performing Zorro in Hell at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, returns to the Bay Area where the group originated 22 years ago. Zorro, invented in 1919 by Anglo author Johnston McCulley, was a Spanish folk hero who defended the Mexican people of California.
Dancing on the Line
NCAA Madness & Hope in Las Vegas
This story has nothing to do with fear and loathing and everything to do with hope. This is a tale about heavenly light in the dark depths of a starless night, glimmers of triumph in the face of certain soul-snapping failure, and rising from the ashes of financial destruction to cover a nine-point spread in double-overtime. It’s about booze-soaked, cigarette-stained faith in the underdog, about risk and reward and having irrational confidence in the latter.
Great Depression
Q: ‘What happened in Santa Barbara during the Great Depression?’
-Susan Hahn
The horrendous economic slump of the 1930s affected all parts of the United States. Santa Barbara initially attempted to meet the crisis with its own resources, only to find conditions worsening year by year.
Immigration’s 11th Hour
Bill Frist’s Presidential Posturing Undermines Immigration Debate
by Nelson Harvey
The bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee was a hot zone last Monday as Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and Arlen Specter (R-PA) wrestled over and ultimately passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill that-if signed into law-would give some 11 million people currently living illegally in the U.S. a realistic shot at citizenship while creating annually 400,000 new green cards for foreigners wishing to come live in America. Turning up the heat was Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who set an immutable March 27 deadline for the committee to release an immigration proposal; if they failed, Frist warned, he would bring his own enforcement-only immigration bill-aimed at beefing up the borders and allowing local police to enforce immigration law-to the Senate floor this week.
BLUE WATER BALLIN’:
Cabrillo Arts Pavilion for Santa Barbara Channelkeeper’s annual Blue Water Ball. The event’s keynote speaker was Waterkeeper Alliance Executive Director Steve Fleischli, who oversees the 153 affiliated Channelkeeper groups worldwide.
BOARD BUSINESS:
Surfboard industry heavyweight and South Coast local Al Merrick announced last week that his world-famous, locally made Channel Islands surfboards will soon be sharing store racks with a price-point, pop-out label of his own design called Anacapa Surfboards.
Top 5
As the cold clings to our coast a little longer, satisfy your need for the kind of stuff that sticks to your ribs.