Decrying a “disappointingly negative” race for 2nd District Supervisor and attacks on his supporters, City Councilmember and supervisorial candidate Das Williams vowed to engage in “civil dialogue” about the contentious issues affecting the 2nd District.
Santa Barbara resident Michael Warnken is campaigning to expand the California State Assembly from 80 members to about 800, which would limit each assemblymember to 40,000 constituents.
The movement to cleave Santa Barbara County in two took a blow this week when county supervisors roundly criticized the proposal and voted to draft an official ballot argument against the split.
Santa Barbara Island was officially closed to visitors February 7 as the endangered brown pelicans living on the island entered their breeding season.
‘Proponents are putting a lot of lipstick on this pig, but this pig just isn’t going to fly.
-County split opponent George Pierce speaking to the Santa Barbara County
Board of Supervisors this past Tuesday.
Last Friday was high noon for two-thirds of the murderous Jones family in a Santa Barbara courtroom as Judge Frank Ochoa handed down sentences to Philip Jones, 51, and his daughter Kelee Davidson, 27, for their roles in the execution-style murder of Kelee’s ex-husband and UCSB grad student Jarrod Davidson.
Gavin Gamboa is a student, so any technical review in terms of craft will be left up to his mentor, but he has the makings of a star. His playing is polished and engaging, and he is tall, slim, and dramatically good-looking, with a very personal approach to the four composers whose works he performed last Saturday.
Camerata Pacifica’s February programs-1 and 8 p.m. Friday, February 17, in Victoria Hall-will feature the luminous talents of pianist Warren Jones and violinist Catherine Leonard, plus the flute-playing of Adrian Spence and new-comer Colin Fleming.
It was a day to remember, January 24, 1836. That morning, one of the most prominent Americans in Alta California was wed to a daughter of one of the grandest of the California rancheros. It happened in Santa Barbara and the joyous occasion was immortalized in a best-seller of the period, Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast.
For any professionally driven and/or neurotically habitual visitor to the NAMM show at the Anaheim Convention Center each January, the meaning of the term “too long at the fair” is bound to strike. It might be two days or two hours into the sprawling music merchants and instrument expo (NAMM = National Association of Music Merchants). You reach a point where the sheer muchness of the experience wears on your mental receptors.
