• In honor of Rideshare Week, Santa Barbara Traffic Solutions is offering prizes to people who pledge to try using alternative transportation. Sign up and bike, walk, take the bus, carpool, or vanpool to qualify. Rideshare Week stretches from Monday, October 15, through Friday, October 19. Call 964-1650 or visit trafficsolutions.info to participate.
The UCSB CALPIRG campaign joined the national U.S. PIRG Education Fund to inform students of traps used by credit card companies.
The Santa Barbara Zoo broke ground on 10/11 for its biggest-ever expansion.
In the land of trendsetters, Laurie Tilson has dished up a lunch recipe so unique that Montecito’s ever-overbooked Lady Leaders are ditching philanthropic fundraisers, putting aside political tte- -ttes, and trashing their normal on-the-dash noon nibble to grab a seat at Tilson’s table. For your vicarious epicurean enjoyment, I offer the Tilson formula for nourishment that provides way more than calories:
Director Sara Martinovich and her Loose Affiliation of Artists (LAA) have accomplished a lot in a little over a year. The company has developed a signature style and established itself as a theatrical team, complete with stars, ingenues, and a growing coterie of fans. LAA delivers much of what Santa Barbara theatergoers want: excitement, accomplished acting, sophisticated dialogue, and a healthy dose of sex appeal.
Starshine envisions world peace. And it’s wearing a Hershey’s wrapper.
At this weekend’s Festival of Art at the Sunken Gardens, the Santa Barbara Art Association will present the annual Beaver Awards to the winners of an art show juried by Westmont professor Susan Savage. Sponsors Jerry and Helene Beaver, who first attended the event last year, raised the award amount to $2,400, and it will be presented on the courthouse steps at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 13.
UCSB announced on 10/9 that a $10-million donation from the Charles D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation will fund the establishment of a national program-based at UCSB-focusing on law and neuroscience.
Note to self: Never mess with any Japanese-style fighters. After hearing knees pop, seeing tongues sliced in half, watching concrete blocks smashed on the groin of a man lying on a bed of nails, and witnessing 450-pound men pick up other men of similar stature by their belts and toss them out of the ring, I don’t think I’ll need a reminder anytime soon.
Among mature people, love develops in a series of small moments,” explained Pete Hamill, on the phone from New York City to discuss his new novel, North River. “It’s about needs, desires, and understandings. It’s not like Wuthering Heights; that’s not the way people connect with each other. I wanted to do a love story for grownups.”
