Year: 2006

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Donald the Cat

STORIED POP-SMART BOMBS: It’s tempting to view Donald Fagen‘s upcoming show at the Arlington on Friday as a poetically-just matchup of artist/venue. With its faux Spanish village interior, our beloved kitschy theater seems to house untold stories, ghosts, and imagined characters, lurking in those bogus rooms and lairs behind the facade. And so it goes with the unique songspinning of Fagen, half of the braintrust behind Steely Dan. The work of a former literature student, Fagen’s fab new solo album, Morph the Cat, is richly populated by characters and elliptical narrative threads, like unfinished short stories cleverly tucked into pop song structures.

By Indy Staff

PICTURE THIS:

Some people don’t like to face conflict, but the students at the Brooks Institute of Photography aren’t afraid to snap

By Shannon Kelley

Elite Peeps

NCAA Basketball at Sharkeez

I’ve always been a fan of the underdog. I blame my parents for this utterly unfortunate condition: The pair of Catholic bleeding-heart liberals instilled this value in me from the time I was young, favoring as they did the poor, the disenfranchised, Dukakis, Mondale, the San Francisco Giants.

Food & Drink By Emily R. See

Classes and Weekly Wine

Single and hungry? Check out Restaurant Nu’s singles cooking series. Spend each Tuesday in April learning cooking techniques, from sauce basics to advanced meat and seafood preparations, designing menus, shopping at the farmers’ market, exploring food and wine pairings, and making new foodie-minded friends. Classes begin April 4; call 965-1500.

Uncategorized By Gerald Carpenter

With Feeling

CAMA presents the Russian National Orchestra

Conducted by Mikhail Pletnev, with Alexander Mogilevsky, piano. At the Arlington Theatre, Saturday, March 25.

The Russian National Orchestra has a beautiful sound, smooth yet emotional-the sound of an all but cosmic excellence that belies the mere 16 years since it was founded by Maestro Mikhail Pletnev, who has led it ever since.

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Trading Naples

A week after receiving unfavorable feedback from Santa Barbara County supervisors, the authors of a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) feasibility study for the Santa Barbara Ranch found far more sympathetic ears at the Santa Barbara City Council meeting Tuesday night. With a pending application to build between 54 and 72 luxury estates on the oceanfront hills of Naples, open space advocates and environmentalists are urgently seeking a way to protect what many consider the gateway to the Gaviota Coast. The TDR plan would exchange some development rights from the 800-acre Naples area to city-owned property in downtown Santa Barbara and some county holdings.

By Indy Staff

WEST BEACH MOUSETRAP:

Agreeing that the maze of bikeways, sidewalks, parking lots, and driveways connecting Stearns Wharf to the Harbor was a mess, the S.B. City Council unanimously voted to spend $2 million in Redevelopment Agency funds to make the area more pedestrian-friendly for tourists and natives alike.

By Indy Staff

RUNNING GUNS:

Santa Barbara County probation officer Darin Siegel was arrested Friday by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) on federal charges of conspiracy to sell firearms illegally.

Angry Poodle By

A Specious Species

WHO’S WATCHIN’ THE MAN? Thank God the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force finally stumbled onto the Raging Grannies. I know I’ll be sleeping better at night. For those unfamiliar with the Grannies, they’re peace activists who subscribe to the impudently impish notion that it’s better to be outrageous than to be outraged. To this end, the Grannies wear big hats and goofy costumes and write clever songs against the war, which they belt out with more gusto than polish in public places. The Grannies boast sleeper cells-which they cleverly call “chapters”-just about everywhere on the Pacific Coast except, naturally, for Santa Barbara.

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