Kin Folk
When you’re born and raised in a place like Lakefield, Canada, ancestral roots reach rather deep.
Year: 2006
Rousing Thunder
Dougie MacLean’s name might not be instantly recognizable here in Santa Barbara.
Letters That Will Live Forever
Writer/director Randal Myler and musician Chic Street Man share the relaxed confidence of veteran performers. Myler won a Tony for It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, and Spunk, Chic Street Man’s collaboration with George C. Wolfe in adapting the work of Zora Neale Hurston, is legendary in the theater world.
Quote of the Week
Das wants people to think he’s Joe Guzzardi. But I already am Joe Guzzardi. And let me tell you, he’s
Custody Battle
Former childcare provider Sylvia Vasquez, already charged with child abuse involving three of her four adopted children, faced additional abuse charges Monday after the court learned that Vasquez’s digital camera contained “several lascivious, nude, or partially nude photos” of her 12-year-old adopted daughter.
Cry Falluja!
Former deep-sea diver and guerilla-doc filmmaker Mark Manning spent the last 18 months grappling with a lethal wrinkle on the age-old riddle: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to see it, did it really happen? For Manning, the fallen tree in question is the Iraqi city of Falluja, toppled in November 2004 by American troops who forced the exodus of some 250,000 residents and killed unknown numbers more.
Citizen’s Alert
UCSB Lecture Series: Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, discusses Inuit perspectives on climate change and human rights. 5:30pm. Buchanan Hall, room 1910, UCSB. Call 893-8726.
What a Dump
Beginning February 9, Californians won’t be allowed to throw electronic devices, batteries, mercury thermostats, or fluorescent light bulbs into the trash anymore.
Budget Blitz
Congresswoman Lois Capps lashed out at President Bush’s proposed $2.7 trillion spending plan, calling it “fiscally irresponsible” and “unrealistic.”
Widows and Orphans
Families of the postal workers killed in last week’s murder spree by Jennifer Sanmarco won’t be left high and dry financially, at least for the immediate future; victims were automatically granted U.S. Postal Service (USPS) life insurance, conferring to beneficiaries or next of kin a payment equivalent to each victim’s annual salary plus $2,000.
