Goleta Water Treatment Facility Receives Federal Money
The Goleta Water District’s newly renovated Corona del Mar Water Treatment Plant was presented with two checks for $290,000.
Year: 2007
If You Build It :
Starting this Thursday, November 1, UCSB’s University Art Museum will showcase a collection of images depicting contemporary leaps in architectural thinking. Titled Gritty Brits: New London Architecture, the exhibit features works from six up-and-coming London architectural firms, including Adjaye/Associates, muf, and Sergison Bates.
Lars and the Real Girl
It’s hard to know exactly where Lars and the Real Girl fits in the range of film genres, and that accounts for this odd, thoroughly lovable film’s fundamental charm and power. Lars hovers between eccentric comedy, drama, and European-esque drollery, and just as we find our responses to what’s on screen wavering, it poses a central, narrative-guiding question: How do you respond to a man who has fallen in love with an inflatable love doll?
Two Teens Stabbed On Westside
Two males, 15 and 16 years old, were stabbed in two separate incidents on the Westside on the evening of 10/28.
Chocolate de Vine
Chocolate. Wine. Benefit for a great cause (S.B. Rape Crisis Center). Need I write more to tempt you? And we’re not talking just any chocolate, but some of the best this town has to offer, from Chocolate Maya to Bella Dolce.
Getty Foundation Awards Grant to UCSB
The Getty Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded grants totaling $400,000 to UCSB’s University Art Museum.
Genevieve Erin O’Brien Brings The Monk Who Licked Me to UCSB
Genevieve Erin O’Brien’s dark night of the soul took the form of an abusive relationship, a lost job, and a trigger-happy president. With nothing left to lose, the young performance artist fled Los Angeles in 2003 to seek spiritual healing in the refuge of her parents’ house in Vietnam, just as the U.S. was about to invade Iraq.
The God of Hell at Center Stage Theater
Genesis West opens Sam Shepard’s apocalyptic post-9/11 farce this weekend, and you can expect fireworks-or at the very least, long, arcing electric sparks emanating from Haynes, a representative of a secret U.S. agency who is on the lam after being exposed to radiation.
Local Environmentalists Honored
Robert Lagomarsino and Yvon Chouinard were honored on 10/27 by the National Forest Foundation for their contributions to the protection of public lands.
Robin Gowen: Nature Takes Its Course.
“Nothing is worth painting without an element of jeopardy,” Robin Gowen maintains. It is a philosophy that yields a fascinating diversity in her current exhibit of landscapes.
