Every year, the gardening gurus and their ilk tell us this is the best season of all to plant things. There is lots of evidence that they are right. Experience has shown that planting into the warm soil of late summer and fall provides many kinds of plants the environment they need to get well established before the cool-down. So, with that in mind, here are some tips on what to plant in the next month or so.
So you’re not Brazilian, you’re not one for revolutions, and you didn’t even know they speak Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be celebrating the fun-loving country’s independence day on September 7, because it’s sure to be one of the more happening weeks for Santa Barbara’s healthy population of Brazilian ex-pats. Here’s how to join in on the fun:
Friday, 8/31 saw the wrap-up of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences at UCSB.
Labor Day weekend saw the installation of story poles around the site of Montecito’s Miramar Hotel.
He was a quiet and gentle man, John Pitman, FAIA. Having been his friend for almost 30 years, I now wonder how I came to know him at all; in so many ways we were so different, and it’s hard to get to know a quiet man.
Rodney Brown is the new president and CEO of the California Bankers Association.
In her last entry in the Your Worship series, the delightful Hannah Tennant-Moore focuses on Tibetan philosophies.
The endangered giant vultures, 70 of whom now live in the wild in Southern California, eat the bullet fragments left in the carcasses of slain animals.
Born of Scott Weiland’s self-destructive poetry and the remains of Guns N’ Roses unbridled instrumentals, Velvet Revolver seemed like a ticking time bomb from day one. Skeptics were humbled by their commercially successful 2004 debut, Contraband, but with the weight of the egos involved, the project seemed poised to collapse at any moment. But it didn’t.
The pool portion of the Coral Casino Beach Club reopened on 8/31.
