Big Caliente Hot Springs
When old friends visit me from my native Boston, I am often taxed with combating their West Coast prejudices. Nature usually does the trick.
Month: June 2007
Sheriff Leads Gang Crackdown
Fifteen members of the Goleta 13 gang were arrested, five by immigration agents.
Art Museum Wants Your Cell Photos
Your cell phone photos will be on display at next month’s SBMA Nights, our town’s most popular monthly see-and-be-seen -in-your-best-duds-while-drinking-fancy-cocktails shindig
The Ecology of Fire
What is it that makes for such fires? Simply put, it is chaparral plus wind plus people. As I sit here at my computer writing these words, staring out my window at a magnificent view of an oak forest, chaparral hillsides, Figueroa Mountain in the distance, the fact that fire is an overwhelming necessity is not something that is immediately comforting. I have chosen to live in the midst of this fire-prone land.
Learning to live with Wildfire
Today, the realization has come that to live in Santa Barbara is to have to learn to live with fire. The question is how.
Small Fire Burns Stearns Wharf
An improperly stamped-out cigarette is the likely cause of the blaze.
Teacher Gets High With Student, Arrested
Melissa Dunning allegedly smoked marijuana with a student while she was supposed to be tutoring him.
Woman Arrested for Leaving Kids in Car
Arrested officers said the children could have suffered heat-related injuries.
N is for Neuroscience
Nicole de Ayora approaches Professor Aaron Ettenberg with a few questions about neuroscience, and following a minor tiff over protocol, the two have a lovely emailed conversation about the drug habits of runway model rats.
Bottled Water Ban
While San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom grabbed headlines this week by banning his city’s departments from buying bottled water for city functions, the City of Santa Barbara quietly did the same thing two months ago with little fanfare. As part of City Hall’s broader sustainability campaign, no more plastic bottled water will be purchased for city meetings or events.