Downtown Organization Executive Director Steps Down
Mark Chaconas resigned from his position as executive director of the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization just two months after taking the job.
Year: 2007
Cinema e Vino Paradiso
If you’re a wine connoisseur, an avid movie buff, or a karaoke aficionado, we advise you to head on up to Santa Ynez this week for the season’s final installment of the Cinema e Vino Paradiso film series. Throughout the summer, the folks in charge of Cinema e Vino Paradiso have been dishing up spectacular private tastings, Tuscan dinners, and classic films at wineries across the Central Coast.
CAF Celebrates Tri-County Artists with True Metier
When Miki Garcia and Frederick Janka, cocurators of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum’s 2006-’07 Call for Entries exhibition, gathered to create its curatorial framework, they hoped to find a form flexible enough to encompass the eclectic yield of this year’s four winners: Bob Mask, Ethan Turpin, Christine Gray, and Team Hyperbole. As they took stock of the jurors’ selections, culled from more than 1,000 images, certain strains emerged.
Give a Little
• The 8th Annual Boys and Girls Club Golf Tournament fundraiser will be held Wednesday, September 26, at 11 a.m. at the Sandpiper Golf Club (7925 Hollister Ave., Goleta). Proceeds will benefit antiviolence youth programs in Santa Barbara. $225 per player, with sponsorships ranging from $150 to $5,000. Call 962-2382 x34 or visit boysgirls.org for info.
Goleta and Red Cross Form Partnership
The City of Goleta, the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce, and the American Red Cross have collaborated to form the Goleta Partnership for Preparedness.
Art Master
ART MASTER: Art critic and independent curator Heather Jeno has been contributing her art-world insights to The Independent for some months. With an MA in art history and museum studies from USC, Jeno brings considerable expertise to our visual art section. Originally a Minnesota girl, Jeno considers herself fully California-fied after seven years in the Sunshine Stateshe’s even married to a surfer.
Firefighters’ Union Will Not Endorse Candidates
The Santa Barbara City firefighters’ union announced it will not make endorsements for this fall’s council election.
Bad Dog and Other Plays
Janice (Laurel Lyle), the protagonist of Michael Smith’s Bad Dog, is a mother, a presidential candidate, and a former terrorist. Like the ancient Greek Prometheus, Janice sins against the gods by bringing the gift of fire to the people. In her case, that gift takes the form of homemade bombs and the spirit of violent 1970s radicalism.
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Question: How old is the Santa Barbara Museum of Art? -Arlene Kupchella
Santa Barbara already enjoyed a reputation as the most significant art colony between San Francisco and Los Angeles when the new S.B. Museum of Art opened in late spring 1941, an event that would only enhance this reputation.
