2007 - Page 143 of 521 - The Santa Barbara Independent

Living By Virginia Hayes

Strawberries from Your Garden

In a county that boasts strawberries as one of its largest commercial crops, it might seem ridiculous to suggest that you grow your own at home. But if you’ve ever eaten a freshly picked strawberry as you wandered down the garden row, you will know there is a great difference between store-bought and home-grown in flavor, juiciness, and color. Industrial agricultural operations also rely heavily on fungicides and other treatments to keep their plants in top shape, practices that most of us shun.

Dance By Elizabeth Schwyzer

Artist Sara Wookey Walks Los Angeles

When dance artist Sara Wookey moved to Los Angeles in 2004 after 10 years in Europe, her first impression was of being stuck on fast-forward. The onetime N.Y.C.-dwelling dancer had adjusted to the mellow pace of Amsterdam. L.A., by contrast, screamed for her attention, its text-laden billboards, posters, and shop windows flying by at freeway speeds.

Briefs By Indy Staff

State Water Curtailed for Endangered Species

South Coast water officials are less alarmed by the reductions in state water deliveries than water agencies further south.

Living By Indy Staff

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Opinion By Barney Brantingham

Feeling Foxy

Santa Cruz Island’s Foxes Freed: Triumph or Tragedy? After 36,000 feral sheep and about 5,000 pigs were killed on Santa Cruz Island-and $18 million spent-the rare and endangered Channel Island foxes are making a comeback from near-extinction and the island’s ecosystem is regenerating from crisis.

Events By Indy Staff

Gypsy Kings

On Wednesday, October 15, UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Gypsy Caravan, an uplifting documentary that follows five distinct Gypsy bands as they unite in a six-week concert tour across North America. Tickets are $6, and the film screens at 7:30 p.m. at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Call 893-3535.

Living By Indy Staff

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Don’t you just love it when treating yourself doubles as a way to contribute to a worthy cause? Santa Barbara-based skincare company TESS (Teen Everyday Skincare System) will support Breast Cancer Awareness Month by donating 10 percent of the proceeds from all pink-or strawberry-products purchased on the Web site (tessskin.com) during the month of October to the Santa Barbara Breast Cancer Research Center (bcrcsb.com).

Film & TV By Indy Staff

Into the Wild

With Into the Wild, a soulful and bittersweet odyssey of a film, Sean Penn has edged his way into Werner Herzog land. Herzog loves extremists and escapists, those who court the edges of society, or seek to transcend its clutches and its hypocrisies. For Penn’s project, which will naturally trigger memories of Grizzly Man and Rescue Dawn, the point of departure-literally and literarily-is Jon Krakauer’s book about Christopher John McCandless.

Arts & Entertainment By Perie Longo

Poet Ellen Chavez Kelley and Photographer Patricia Clarke Collaborate

Thirty years ago, two women met in a childcare co-op, and struck up a friendship. They often talked about their creative impulses, and daydreamed about one day starting an artistic collaboration. Thus began an alliance that has spanned decades, and expanded and nurtured their art.

Living By Chris Meagher

County Continues Contract Talks With Employees

Workers say a strike is not planned.

Year: 2007