In the Know:
Epiphany is celebrating five years in business with two new additions. Each Wednesday it will offer a three-course tasting menu for $28 and half-price bottles of wine with dinner. It’s are also starting “Fancy Pants” Happy Hour, weekdays from 5-7 p.m. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and half-price drink specials make for a fantastic end to the workday. 21 W. Victoria St., 564-7100, epiphanysb.com.
In the Pink:
Chrystal Clifton has just released her 2005 Botesa di Palmina. This delightful Italian-style dry rose is special enough on its own, but with a portion of each bottle’s price being donated to the Dr. Susan B. Love Breast Cancer Research Foundation as part of Palmina’s Pink Wine for the Pink Ribbon campaign, it would be a sin not to buy it. For more information on this and other Palmina wines visit palminawines.com or
call 735-2030.
Epiphany celebrates five years in business with two new additions;
Edward Norton, David Morse, Evan Rachel Wood, and Rory Culkin star in a film written and directed by David Jacobson.
This is a frustrating film. I could recommend it quite highly on the strength of Edward Norton’s performance, or David Morse’s, or on the strength of it being an exceptionally well-made independent film that takes risks in terms of its subject matter and characters.
PODCAST NATION: The revolution may not be televised, but it will be available online, according to the folks from the Santa Barbara Independent Media Center. In a sparsely attended event at Santa Barbara Public Library’s Faulkner Gallery, folks from the media center and various other new media converts gave a crash course in podcasting and its implications for the future of information consumption.
The William Wyles Collection is housed in the Department of Special Collections in the Davidson Library at UCSB. The collection contains materials relating to Abraham Lincoln, and issues surrounding slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and ethnic groups of the American West. It was deeded to UC Santa Barbara College in 1946 upon the death of William Wyles. Wyles was fascinated by Lincoln, considered him one of the country’s greatest heroes, and for decades had been collecting everything he could get his hands on about him.
To be a supervisor on the Santa Barbara County Board, you can run, but you can’t hide.
That’s a lesson the four candidates now running for the 2nd District are fast learning. At interminable forums, from Mission Street to More Mesa, constituents have posed the same conflicting questions that have turned the board into a bitterly divided group. What is needed is a representative who can best navigate the treacherous terrain that is current county politics-one who will not hide behind a wall of rhetoric or a mask of making nice. That candidate is Janet Wolf.
Last Saturday, the Vandenberg Peace Legal Defense Fund and local activist MacGregor Eddy held a protest at Vandenberg Air Force Base calling for an end to U.S. space domination and nuclear testing in the North Pacific Ocean. Vandenberg-just north of Lompoc-is a key player in aerospace technology and a launching site for missiles landing in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
For several months after college at UCSB I moved back home to San Francisco and lived the idle life of day jobs, stale air, and silly little rat races. But I fast grew bored with it all. I turned to the violin for a while, and then dabbled in painting, and out of desperation I modeled for art classes. But when I took up adventuring I knew I had found my calling. Any given day in this vocation might find me riding my bicycle across a terrible desert, romancing a damsel, or outwitting enemies. In fact, there is scarcely a dull moment in my occupation. There’s no money either, but it beats a day job.
Since the weather gods seem to have missed the memo, one could be forgiven for not realizing that summertime-in the Santa Barbara nightlife sense, anyway-has arrived. As far as I’m concerned, the sunny season’s unofficial kickoff is marked not with a groundhog, a solstice, nor the last day of school, but instead with the start of the Nights Third Thursday parties at the S.B. Museum of Art, a milestone that passed last Thursday with Renaissance to Rococo, which went off with a characteristically fabulous bang.
