Budget Guru Diaz Resigns from School District
Diaz is the second fiscal official to quit amid the budget woes.
Year: 2007
Iron Chef’s Cat Cora Comes to S.B.
Usually if you see a chef surrounded by smoke, you assume some steaks are firing up on the kitchen’s open grill. But since 2005, TV’s Iron Chef America has provided a smoke-shrouded opening so grand it might make Leni Riefenstahl blush. Each Iron Chef is shot from below, lit from below, a commanding figure coming out of the fog.
Jane Eyre
This ambitious stage version of Charlotte Bront»’s novel Jane Eyre, adapted several years ago in England by Polly Teale and directed here for Westmont by Mitchell Thomas, is likely to be remembered for a long time, both as a successful show in its own right, and as an example of an adaptation that fulfills the promise of its source material.
Court Interpreters Go Back to Work
At the urging of California State Senator Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles), striking court interpreters in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties returned to work on 10/18.
A Tour through Winemaker Daryl Sattui’s Napa Valley Ch•teau
About 14 years ago, rumors started to spread across the Napa Valley that long-time resident and vintner Daryl Sattui (owner of the famed V. Sattui Winery and tourist destination) was building himself a castle. I was living in the Napa Valley at the time, and many of the locals gossiped about how the castle would be gaudy, tacky, and would lead to the “Disneyland-ification” of the Napa Valley. Well, rumors be damned.
Juvenile Flees CHP in 100 Mile-Per-Hour Chase
He emerged barely bruised from a multiple rollover accident.
Pedestrian Killed on Northbound 101
CHP are withholding the man’s name pending notification of his family.
Local Veterans Group Seeks Donations
Care packages to ship to overseas soldiers.
New Department Head Selected
Massachusetts import Ann Detrick will take over as head of Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Services.
Dueling Wind Collectors
Nobel Prize-winner Alan Heeger is another feather in the cap for Clipper Windpower of Carpinteria. W2 enters first round of capital development.
