County Approves IV Master Plan
The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on 8/21 to approve the Isla Vista Master Plan.
Year: 2007
Toxic Uproar at El Puente School
On downtown’s busy Gutierrez Street, in the middle of an industrial zone, sits a school that, by design, is easy to miss.
Unlike most public schools, El Puente Community School has no grand entrance announcing its presence at 430 East Gutierrez Street, across the street from Ace Hardware. With its dull-ivory fa§ade and dirty awnings, the building looks more like a gas company than a school.
IV Noise Ordinance Tweaked
Isla Vista will be more carefully scrutinized during Halloween this year.
High School Teacher Marian Musmecci’s Debut Novel
To most women, Leah Callaghan’s life appears ideal: a custom-built house, two precocious tots, and a fulfilling job guiding troubled adolescents, not to mention a firefighter husband. The jealousy ebbs when a revelation shakes this charmed existence-and Leah’s stoic perfectionism-to their foundations: a sealed letter from Leah’s long-dead grandmother, if opened, threatens to bend her seamless world beyond recognition. In Marian Musmecci’s Thin Places, domestic idyll intersects the often ethereal, sometimes frightening planes of Celtic legend.
Local Higher Education Nationally Ranked
UCSB is tied with four other schools for the 44th spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” issue.
Local Teacher Receives Honors For Chalk Art
Santa Barbara resident and Laguna Blanca School art teacher Delphine Louie was awarded first place in the Madonnari Semplici (amateur) category at the I Madonnari Chalk Painting Festival in Mantova, Italy.
Positively State Street
PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC: In the male-dominated world of dance deejays, Colette stands among the small complement of women to have donned the headphones. Deejays of the feminine sort were once unfortunate novelty acts, but Colette has no shortage of credence to her name, including the chart-topping dominance of her most recent release, Hypnotized.
Oil Meets Girl
Irecently had a brief but torrid love affair with a beautiful woman. That is, she seemed attractive-I didn’t actually get a good look at her.
SBCC’s Adult Ed Offers Learning Opportunities for All Ages
New backpacks and new clothes-the ritual of back to school is playing out all over the country. But in Santa Barbara, it’s always time to go back to school. It’s part of our city’s unique culture: We love our food and wine, we love our land and sea, and we love to learn.
Talented Chefs Keep Santa Barbara Kitchens Creative
With a new cooking reality show popping up virtually every week on television, a Whole Foods coming soon to upper State Street, and interest in cooking and greenmarkets at an all-time high, we decided to take a look inside the workings of two of the most happening restaurants in town-Downey’s, a Santa Barbara institution, and the Hungry Cat, a new restaurant started by a celebrity-chef couple from Los Angeles and run by some young potential rising stars in the Santa Barbara culinary firmament. George Yatchisin sat down with John and Liz Downey to discuss their legendary restaurant’s 25th anniversary, while Charles Donelan chased the crew from the Hungry Cat through the Farmers Market and then ate the consequences.
