Hunter Easterling was a whale of a football player on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest. He scored 28 touchdowns in his senior year for the Island High Vikings. But at 5ʹ8Ê° and 150 pounds, he wasn’t attracting big-time college recruiters. So the speedy wide receiver looked to continue his gridiron career at a Southern California community college. His search ended at a place reminiscent of his scenic home.
CallWave, a company publicly traded on the NASDAQ, announced that its voicemail-to-text service hit one million transcriptions.
After Walk the Line, his crowd-pleasing and critically acclaimed biopic of Johnny Cash, director James Mangold resurrects the Western with a remake of 1957’s 3:10 to Yuma. Starring Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe as a train-robbing outlaw and Christian Bale as the rancher who’ll deliver him to justice, the film proves a deep character study of good, evil, and in between, set against a backdrop of the gutsy and grimy Old West. I recently sat down with James Mangold to discuss his film.
Westmont College is now home to a 24-inch reflector telescope.
A MASTER’S PASSING: Max Roach‘s recent passing-on August 16 at the age of 83-was duly noted in circles wherever jazz has any influence. But in the larger context of American culture, not nearly enough respect has been paid to the man, master, social activist, and architect of music as we know it. As composer, bandleader, genre-crossing visionary, and maker of his own kind of meta-swing in life and music, Roach was much more than just a drummer, to the extent that he illustrated the folly of the common, diminutive phrase “just a drummer.”
Amy Chong may have already set a record as being one of The Indy‘s longest-serving internsshe’s been with the paper off and on since last Januarybut now she’s about to do what no one’s ever done for us: deliver an online weekly column about life as a high school senior at Santa Barbara High called “The Senior File.”
Nuns to Be Evicted: It’s “wrong,” Sister Angela believes, for the small Eastside convent where she’s lived since 1964 to be sold to help pay for the sins of priests accused of molesting children. Sisters of Bethany have been serving the low-income neighborhood since the 1950s, but now must leave due to church scandals within the L.A. Archdiocese.
One of the differences between Eastern and Western palmistry practices is how to tell time on the lines of the hands.
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic is launching its educational outreach with funding from the dyslexic founder of Kinko’s.
ATK of Goleta and Santa Barbara won an $8 million contract to supply rocket motors for sale to South Korea, Kuwait, Chile, Germany, and Portugal, and a $1.8 billion contract to develop the next-generation human space flight vehicle.
