Quiz: Your Inner Fashionista
1) Released in 1985, the Nike-designed Air Jordan shoe gained publicity when the NBA banned it, giving what reason?
Year: 2007
The Brave One
It was not much of a stretch to accept Kevin Bacon transforming from relatively mild-mannered everyman to violence-spewing vengeance-seeker in the recent revenge flick Death Sentence. With Jodie Foster, who takes that same transformative trip in The Brave One, the effect is more startling, partly because her role as the aggrieved lover and victim who turns into a vigilante killing machine is more plausible, and partly because Foster gives the role such a scary lucidity.
Food-ical Chairs
Of late it seems Santa Barbara restaurants are as interested in how to seat you as how to sate you. Joe’s Cafe (536 State St.), as part of its retro-styled renovation, has added plush new black leather booths. Jeannine’s (3607 State St.) in San Roque now has those thick-thatched strawish chairs that elevate the place into a bit of a more French bistro look. The Wine Cask’s (813 Anacapa St.) new owner Bernard Rosenson opted to put his stamp on the look of the restaurant with contemporary furniture that should spark an interesting contrast in the usually prim-and-proper Gold Room.
Ship Kills Blue Whale
Although blue whales are making a remarkable recovery from the devastation meted out during the peak whaling years of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the endangered species still occasionally runs afoul of human activities. The blue whale found dead in the Santa Barbara Channel on Tuesday, September 11 was confirmed to have been killed by a large vessel traveling through the shipping lanes in the channel.
Carwashes Swept
Officials issued more than $1 million worth of citations to 60 car wash owners in Southern California during a two-day enforcement sweep.
The Jupiter Finger
Does it point the way to leadership?
Dead Man Found Near Highway 154 Identified
Adan Cervantes Ruiz, 23, was shot to death and dumped next to Highway 154.
News-Press Takes the Offensive
While lawyers begin bargaining with the union, the paper is again seeking to cancel employers vote to unionize.
Bill Clinton Golfs with Jimmy Connors
The former president teed off with the tennis legend at Montecito Country Club on Tuesday.
Who Will Succeed Firestone?
Following Brooks’ decision not to seek a second term, tongues wag about who will lead the county’s 3rd district.
