The objects created by Anissa Mack currently on display at the Contemporary Arts Forum are all about near misses and moments after-things that didn’t quite happen, and things that just happened. They are treated with a wry New England sensibility that’s filtered through Mack’s casual intellectual command of the vocabulary and tradition of contemporary art-making.
SantaBarbaraNewsRoom.com – the Teamster-funded project that has former News-Press reporters posting free articles online – is now soliciting donations to
Seven Santa Barbara News-Press writers resigned in as many days, citing their distaste for the alleged “smear” and factually dubious article connecting former Executive Editor Jerry Roberts to a computer containing pornographic images.
As one of the planet’s more surreal and sinful spots, Las Vegas has a natural lure to filmmakers. But it’s a subject lined with danger, like the city itself, where even strong directors can lose their way. Martin Scorsese scored artfully with Casino, and Mike Figgis painted his masterpiece with Leaving Las Vegas, but Paul Verhoeven failed fabulously with Showgirls, a golden turkey we love to hate.
Hankering to commit a poem or two? These days, haiku practice is where involvement with poetry writing often starts. The form looks so appealingly simple: Three lines consisting of five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables again, and that’s it. But for accomplished haiku (the plural’s the same as the singular), there’s more to consider.
Several car dealerships on lower Chapala Street will soon be driven out of their spaces, as two different real estate developers have recently purchased the properties.
A baby male Channel Island fox popped into the world at the Santa Barbara Zoo on 4/12, the first member
AT&T’s estimate of the number of phone calls made to moms on Mother’s Day.
source: mothersdayworld.com.
Probably the most popular vegetable crop grown in home gardens is the tomato. Surely one of the reasons is that while store-bought tomatoes bear a passing resemblance to tomatoes from the garden plot, they fail miserably to come anywhere near them in flavor and juiciness. The number of varieties of tomatoes is also orders of magnitude greater than the handful to be found at the grocer’s. Here’s everything you need to know about growing these luscious fruits yourself.
Summer showed up a few months ahead of schedule this week and sent the mercury soaring throughout the South Coast.
