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Best Of By D.J. Palladino

Santa Barbara’s Best of Readers’ Poll 2007

We love your barnacled beaches, especially the ones where we can walk our dogs (Hendry’s). And while we are by the seaside, we love to dive (Anacapa Dive Shop), and surf (Rincon), and wear hot swimwear (Bikini Factory), too.

We marvel at your mountains, purple and otherwise, and, as we stare up at their grandeur, we dream of camping (S.B. Outfitters) and buying cars (Milpas Motors) or renting them (Enterprise) to motor into the valley to visit wineries (Sunstone). If you had winter here, we would ski (Mountain Air Sports), too.

Food & Drink By Indy Staff

Caddell & Williams

Buy American! I don’t just say that out of patriotism, I say that out of taste. If pleasing patriotism and taste buds at the same time is your idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of drunkenness, you need to look into Caddell & Williams (), keepers/sellers of a brilliant portfolio of craft distillers.

Food & Drink By Indy Staff

Chef’n Spatula

Every so often every chef-professional or duffer-gets in a scrape. That’s why you can’t have too good a spatula. One of the best is a double-edged “sword” from Chef’n called the Switchit, as the whole thing is silicone and usable on either its wider or thinner end, with artfully curved lines that might make a protractor jealous.

Film & TV By Indy Staff

Introducing the 4th Annual Santa Barbara Ocean Film Festival

Oceans cover 80 percent of Mother Earth and contain many of the true last frontiers for exploration and discovery that our planet has to offer. With that comes a responsibility to keep them intact and conserve their pelagic resources while we revel in their boundless energy. And in that spirit, we welcome this weekend’s fourth annual Santa Barbara Ocean Film Festival, which boasts a diverse throng of shorts and feature-length documentaries revealing epic close encounters with apex predators, the world’s best wave riders, exploration from a seat of a kayak, and the ocean’s largest threat: us.

Events By Indy Staff

Child proofed: After-school specials

: City@Peace invites kids 13-19 years old to the Carrillo Recreation Center (100 E. Carrillo St.) every Wednesday from 4-8 p.m. for theater improv, singing, playwriting, and songwriting. The group’s meetings will culminate with a performance at Center Stage Theater in 2008. Call 963-6765 or email jvelascocap@yahoo.com.

Bottles & Barrels By Sao Anash

Tres Hermanas Vineyard & Winery

Luke Lindquist has winemaking in his blood. His father, Bob, is one of the most celebrated winemakers in the United States, having produced syrahs of great character, year in and year out, for more than 15 years under his iconic Qupe label. His brother, Ethan, has established a loyal following with his Ethan brand of wines. Now Luke, 32 years old and boyishly handsome, has joined forces with Santa Maria Valley’s esteemed Teixeira family, a well-respected agricultural family who farms row crops successfully and runs large herds of cattle.

Opinion By Barney Brantingham

For the Love of the Work

Who knows where the time goes: Where the heck did the last 50 years go? I’m marking a half-century in the newspaper racket and wondering how a life of thousands of deadlines went by so fast. On the other hand, I have no idea how else I would have spent my life. What else was I equipped for? Maybe teaching, certainly an honorable, equally low-paying profession.

Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff

The Bowl that Almost Was

BOWLIN’ FOR ACTS: As The Shins’ endearingly awkward James Mercer spewed his tasty, polysyllabic art pop into the night air at the Bowl recently, a thought crept in: This Bowl season is almost over. Bowl, we hardly knew ye. For all artistic intents and purposes, the triumphant Shins show was the season’s real last hurrah, before a couple of pop tarts wrap things up, including an encore performance by Gwen Stefani.

Theater By Indy Staff

Dreaming of Graceland

The Mentor Theatre Company presents and Center Stage Theater plays host to two one-act plays, titled Dreaming of Graceland. Ellen Byron’s dramedy tells two touching stories of a young girl trying to hold fast to the things that matter most to her. Furthermore, all the proceeds from opening night ticket sales will benefit Dream Foundation, a wish-granting nonprofit for adults with life-limiting diseases.

Best Of By Indy Staff

Wants to Needs

Best of Readers’ Poll 2007 – Wants to Needs

Year: 2007