Year: 2006

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California Native Plants for the Garden

Los Olivos might seem like an unlikely address for a publishing house, but in this electronic age, anything is possible. Their latest publication, California Native Plants for the Garden, is also authored by one very local woman, Carol Bornstein, and two other Southern California residents, David Fross from Arroyo Grande and Bart O’Brien, a fifth-generation Californian from Claremont. Their collaboration has resulted in a beautiful, useful, and well-written book all about gardening with California native plants.

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Going Native

The case for planting California natives has never had a stronger voice than that of the three authors of a new book on that topic.

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I Yap Therefore I Yam

Christmas-New Year’s maelstrom. And I would wager every one of you is sporting a similar bite mark on your own behind as well. How’d it get there? Remember the federal spending bill passed by the Senate with a one-vote margin of victory during the Christmas vacation? That’s the one for which Vice President Dick Cheney had to cut short his visit to Iraq to cast the tie-breaking vote.

Riders on the Storm
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Riders on the Storm

Neck tans, aching shoulders, sandy wetsuits, ignored responsibilities, chilly mornings, evening glass, and waves in our backyard-the surf season returned to Santa Barbara in a big way during the latter part of 2005 and continued straight on into the New Year. Our normally quiet cobblestone point breaks and sleepy kelp-covered rock reefs did their annual transformation into legitimate surf spots. And the best part is that-with a little luck-this trend will continue with some frequency until the Ides of March have come and gone.

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Knots in the Grain

MUSICAL RELIEF EFFORTS: Just as Time magazine’s person of the year has sometimes gone to an influential evildoer, any reflection on the most impacting personality in American music in 2005 must settle on one name: Katrina. Her fury laid bare social and political inequities-not to mention dormant racism in America-while also focusing the world’s attention on one of this planet’s most soulful cities.

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