SB Native Wins Student Film Contest
Nico Constantinides’s film explains why cash donations best help relieve disasters.
Month: May 2007
Good Clean Stand-Up
Radio personality, screenwriter and all around funny guy Lord Carrett will perform his standup at the Comedy Esquire Club in Ventura on May 11th and 12th, along with Blaine Capatch, host of MTV’s game show, “Beat the Geeks.”
Chumash Donate $1 Million to Cottage Hospital
The money will help the Santa Ynez hospital towards its $10 million renovation.
Only Pinocchio Nose for Sure
That Disneyland glow masks a world of lies.
The Church/State Debate
“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion,” said James Madison. In a country in which 75 million voters self-identify as fundamentalist Christians-that is, biblical literalists-let’s just say no one’s clamoring to inscribe Madison’s words above judicial benches.
Tab Hunter, NP Update, and Condos at Cabrillo Ballpark
Hollywood Confidential: When Santa Barbaran Tab Hunter heard that others were planning books about him, he decided to write one himself. “I thought people should get it from the horse’s mouth rather than a horse’s ass,” he said. He spent three years writing what became the surprise best-selling Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star. Then he looked for a ghostwriter to put the book in shape.
Sci-Fi Surfing
It’s easy to forget these days, but at the core of the surfing experience is a proud past of counter-culture antics and hilarious prankster precedent. Long before surfboards started being shaped by uncalloused hands in landlocked Asian factories and the “surf-style” became a fashionable way to dress for just about everybody this side of Paris, there was a tradition of good, clean, laugh-out-loud fun that began in the water and carried over seamlessly to the shore with stink bombs in movie theaters, parking lot hijinks, and radical Vietnam draft evasions. I
The Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra at the Lobero Theatre
What a pleasure to hear the music of Aaron Copland as performed by the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. The original 1944 score of Appalachian Spring remains very moving, full of memories and longing for lost innocence. Copland wrote the piece for dancer Martha Graham, and, so the story goes, Graham is the one who titled it.
Spider DogZ
SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT: Contrary to popular wisdom, it turns out patriotism is not necessarily the last refuge available to scoundrels; that distinction belongs to selective amnesia. But in the case of our memory-challenged Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, both appear to be true.
Chancellor Yang Presented with Climate Change Award
Members of UCSB Associated Students and public interest group CalPIRG presented Chancellor Henry T. Yang with the 2007 Climate Change
