This original article involved a man who plead no contest to assault, but content has been removed because the charges were retroactively dismissed and his record cleared by judges order pending successful completion of probation.
Michael Smith’s latest production starts tonight, Thursday, September 13 at 8 p.m., and plays September 14, 15, 20, 21, and 22 at 8 p.m., plus a 2 p.m. matinee on September 22, all at Center Stage Theater. Here’s why you should go:
Selden “Denny” Spaulding’s work of the 1960s ought to spark a widespread revival of interest in one of Santa Barbara’s most original abstract artists. Spaulding was educated at Laguna Blanca School where his father, Edward Selden Spaulding, was the first headmaster, and at Princeton, where he majored in art and archaeology. After serving in World War II, Spaulding relocated to the French countryside in 1950.
The number of truckloads of sand used to construct the world’s tallest sandcastle, which was built on Myrtle Beach, SC, in 2007. The sculpture was 49.55 feet high and took 10 days to construct.
The three kayakers stepped out of their brightly colored Scupper Pro kayaks and onto A±o Nuevo Island, part of a natural preserve 55 miles south of San Francisco. The only structure on the island was an abandoned house that once served as shelter for the lighthouse caretaker and is now home to various seals that group around the fireplace like a family in winter.
After nine months of negotiations, the State Legislature passed AB 8 on Mondaya broad healthcare reform bill that could bring coverage to at least half of the state’s 6.5 million uninsured residents.
A bill to prevent mobile home park owners from subdividing and condo-izing their rent-controlled parks failed in the State Senate on 9/7, after passing in the Assembly.
The upscale and luxurious Santa Ynez Inn has decided to make visits there even more memorable by naming Heather Lee Henry as its executive chef. A graduate from the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, Henry has worked throughout California, most recently as Chef de Cuisine at The Porch Restaurant in Los Olivos.
Identical twins were arrested in connection with several burglaries.
Frankie Manning, ambassador of the lindy hop, dancer extraordinaire, and living legend in swing dance history makes his annual pilgrimage to Santa Barbara this weekend. As a pioneer of swing dance in the 1930s, Manning was at the epicenter of the movement that gave refuge to many Americans during two of the country’s greatest periods of disenchantment and strife: the Depression and World War II. Decades later, he was equally instrumental in the resurgence of swing in the ’80s and ’90s.
