In its third go-around with Casa del Mural, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved funding to continue the residence’s existing program for at least a year rather than switching to a different program run by a different vendor. That latter, rejected alternative had been recommended by county staff, much to the consternation of Casa del Mural advocates and clients.
Michael Salsbury founded American Riviera Bank one year ago in July as a completely local bank.
The three staffers who kept the surf culture publication alive quit on June 22. Can it stay afloat?
Locally, there have been neither reports of damage nor much notcie by residents.
This frequent special at Los Arroyos (14 W. Figueroa St., 962-5541; 1280 Coast Village Rd., Montecito, 969-9059) is not just a mouthful to say, but also a mouthful to devour.
Tim, my son, had just recently arrived in Baghdad when he sent me this report:
They have a new kind of explosive device here that cuts through our armor. In my armor, I am a tight fit in my truck, and as we are driving down the road, I find myself very conscious of where my arms are. These new devices always take off some part of you, usually a leg or two. The other day, a driver lost both legs above the knee and an arm. So, there you are, driving down the road, trying to figure out how to reduce the number of appendages you will lose when the bomb goes off.
The Center of the Heart at 487 North Turnpike Road is hosting singer/songwriter Tina Malia-with opener Lakshmi Devi-on Friday, June 29, at 8 p.m. Often compared to Joni Mitchell and Sarah McLachlan, Malia’s angelic voice is a perfect fit for the center’s belief that “beauty and nature and love are expressed everywhere.”
Quiz: Go Fourth and Celebrate
“Girls used to give me their phone numbers; now they’re trying to sell me real estate,” Goo Goo Dolls’ frontman John Rzeznik confessed to his audience after a woman in the front row tossed her business card onstage. The statement is an apt metaphor for the trajectory of the Goo Goo Dolls’ career, which began some 12 years ago with the smash hit “Name.”
July 2, 1937
Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan disappear from the skies while attempting to fly around the world.
