Fired News-Press Printer Speaks Out
Upon having ended his 26-year employment in the Santa Barbara News-Press printing plant, Carl Batchelder discusses what may have led up to the end of his job.
Month: February 2007
Maldonado Battles Metal Theft
State Senator Abel Maldonado hopes measure will slow one of fastest growing rural crimes.
Goleta Tire-Slasher Sentenced
The Goleta man who punctured and slashed 316 tires faces five years in prison if he vandalizes again.
Barney’s Weekend Picks
Get out of the rain and into whatever Barney tells you to. Barney’s Weekend Picks once again direct you to the brightest and best that Santa Barbara has to offer you for these drizzly days.
Update #1: The Bikers Are Coming
Yesterday’s stage was a real deal photo finish and with sunny skies back in the swing of things along the South Coast today’s time trial in Solvang looks primed to set the pavement on fire.
Tour of California Rolls into Santa Barbara
Amgen Bike Tour Returns
By the time you read this story the madness will have already begun, with dozens of the world’s best bike racers blazing south through the state of California in a spellbinding, death-defying blur of brightly colored Lycra.
I is for Investing
Rajnish Mehra, a Professor of Finance in UCSB’s Department of Economics, tries to explain the stock market to Martha Sadler.
A Return to Tradition
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices,” observed the poetRalph Waldo Emerson. When it comes to weddings, it’s good to keep that in mind. The best of weddings makes people bonkers. We at The Independent believe that’s because of how far the whole wingding has drifted from its formal roots and etiquette. Everything costs a fortune, anything goes, and people seem to have forgotten all about manners and tradition.
So in this, our annual wedding issue, we’ve put together tips on how to get back to the basics of wedding decorum. Read about the history of bridesmaids; find out what really goes on at that age-old send-off known as the bachelor party; check out a return to style via Fashion Engagement photos; and get some suggestions of where to have a rehearsal dinner the whole correct-salad-fork-using family will enjoy.
Dickinson on Stage
Worlds scoop their Arcs-And Firmaments-row
-Emily Dickinson, as quoted in poet David Starkey’s play How Red the Fire.
Poets like to write about their promethean forebears. But David Starkey, noted poetry master, anthologist, teacher, and widely published, told me that earlier in his career he didn’t like Emily Dickinson, who’s the subject of his new play, How Red the Fire, which opens February 22 at SBCC’s Fe Bland Forum.
Peach Taffeta Nightmares
The “thrice a bridesmaid, never a bride” curse can be broken, I’m told, by being a bridesmaid seven times or more. Which means I’m back in the running.