BIKES AND STRIPES:
The Transportation and Circulation Committee unanimously decided last Thursday to re-stripe upper Chapala Street to accommodate a bike lane and eliminate one of the two vehicle lanes.
Year: 2006
FISHY FOOD:
The California Department of Health Services issued a warning to seafood lovers after excessive levels of domoic acid were found in mussels and sardines harvested in Southern California waters.
A Spirited Quiz
A Spirited Quiz
California Poppy
Springtime in California is heralded by a glorious burst of color as the state flower, the California poppy (Escholtzia californica), blooms in a continuous wave from south to north. California poppy grows in almost any soil type and climatic zone including inland deserts, foggy coasts, and the high meadows of the Sierra.
Sunny Side Up
One Last Thing : Makes Its Premiere at the Lobero
by Molly Freedenberg
One Last Thing : isn’t exactly the type of movie Sunny Mabrey is known for-if she’s known for anything. Action fans might recognize her from XXX: State of the Union, in which she played a senator’s daughter known for her cleavage. And sci-fi die-hards might remember her from a 2002 episode of the Buffy spin-off TV show Angel. But her turn in this sweet, funny independent film by childhood friends Alex Steyermark (director) and Barry Stringfellow (writer) might just change all that.
Hot New Bar drinks
As a bartender at Elsie’s, I know that most people’s drinking habits don’t change much. The hefeweizen drinker always orders hefeweizen.
Homemade Granola
by Laurel Miller
Having trouble facing another dreary winter morning repast of crappy gas-station coffee and trans-fat-filled pastry? Or maybe your morning bowl of Special K just isn’t cutting it anymore. Whatever the reason, give yourself something to live for with this simple, super-tasty granola, courtesy of Alison Vercruysse.
Right This Way
Lawrence Gipe’s Zirkus and Variete
At the Ro Snell Gallery. Shows through April 13.
This exhibition of recent paintings by Lawrence Gipe builds on the metaphor of humans performing in a circus until it contains a world of subtle implications and buried historical references. Acrobats leap and tumble toward one another across eerily empty spaces while teams of unicyclists approach the viewer in tenuous formations. Gipe, who has been a mainstay of the Santa Barbara scene for years, also has a major retrospective at the Arizona State University Art Museum, now through June 10. Like one of his inspirations, Gerhard Richter, he demonstrates technical virtuosity in the service of a highly conceptualized approach to his subject matter. Beginning with photographs and building his images from a mixture of analysis and experimentation, Gipe creates iconic representations that address the contradictions of modernity and urbanization with fresh, subversive, and often dark perspectives.
Grapevine
Pinot noir fanatics are a rare breed. Unlike other wine lovers with more general tastes, the hardcore pinot noir fanatic will traipse around the globe in search of the best pinot noirs. Now, what they consider “the best” varies from fanatic to fanatic. There are pinot lovers that profess that only Burgundian-style pinots are representative of all the poetry and beauty this temperamental varietal has to offer.
Doldrums of measure D
Members of the Board of Supervisors said next to nothing after listening to 20 speakers blister efforts to expand or renew Measure D-the half-cent sales tax surcharge that has funded most road improvements countywide since 1989. Most of the speakers complained Measure D gravely neglected buses, trains, bikes, and other forms of alternative transportation and vowed to oppose it unless this changed.
