Talking Life and Music with ALO’s Zach Gill

zach%20gill.jpg The extended chat between ‘s Matt Kettmann and Zach Gill, of the Animal Liberation Orchestra. The two chatted for nearly three hours last week, about everything from the band’s forthcoming album, which was recorded in the Santa Barbara foothills, to what happens when life catches up with a band. Read on for Gill’s insights into music and the world at large.

From the Mouths of Babes

During the Christmas holidays, some of us might be lucky enough to spend time with loved ones, hunkered down in the embrace of sweet indolence. But for some, the holidays will be defined by sand, grit, grime, fear, and extreme vigilance. These are members of the armed forces, pursuing a military mission that every day seems increasingly doomed to failure.

Letters Abroad

Notes from Servicemembers in Iraq

Vision Quest

S.B.’s Direct Relief International Brings Sight to Salvadorans

Letters Abroad

In 2004, Santa Barbaran Sally Brown started sending care packages twice a month to a family friend who was serving in Iraq. Word spread about what she was doing, and soon people inquired as to how to get their loved ones on the list-and so began the group effort, headed by Brown, called the Santa Barbara Angels.

Vision Quest

S.B.’s Direct Relief International Brings Sight to Salvadorans

Fifty-five cents was all Rosalina needed. Fifty-five cents for the bus so she could take her son to San Salvador, where a doctor might be able to help him. The boy was eight years old, with severely impaired motor and mental skills. He had not learned to walk until he was four, and he had never spoken a word.

The Latest and Greatest Longevity Pill

seabaugh_face.jpgDon’t mourne the bygone days of wonder tonics like Geritol. Researches may have found a medicinally sound youth formula in the form of Resveratol. It keeps even the most gluttonous mice young and healthy, but will it one day work the same magic for people?

Tarantino Filming in Santa Ynez Valley

Grindhouse.jpgWord on the backroads is that Quentin Tarantino is filming his latest flick up on Figueroa Mountain and popping up in hotels, restaurants, cafes, and public places all over the Santa Ynez Valley. Look for our oak forests in Grind House, which is slated for an April release.

Jerry Roberts Lambasts McCaw’s AJR Lawsuit

roberts%20gets%20award.jpg Wendy McCaw, owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, used her lawsuit against an American Journalism Review writer to “publicly attack and defame” former editor Jerry Roberts, his attorney contends.

Nature’s Nitrogen

Suppose you never had to fertilize your garden again? Suppose all you had to do was include a few special plants in your garden design to produce all the nutrients your garden needed? Sound too good to be true? It’s not. Farmers all over the world, from India to Mexico to Hawai’i, have been doing just that for ages.

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