While the ubiquity of reproductions of great modernist classics has made it easy to imagine that the late 20th century was dominated by large images and grand statements, connoisseurs know that some of the best work of even such familiar names as Jasper Johns and James Rosenquist was done in the more subtle but no less imaginative arena of the print studio.
I confess: I’m on record as a source in a story in the newspaper that used to be the News-Press as a Fiesta naysayer. I offered my favorite comparison-borrowing from Hunter S. Thompson’s blistering “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved”-calling Old Spanish Days “a jaded atavistic freak-out.” I’ve been known to throw Fiesta for the Rest-a-Us parties, avoiding the whole official shebang as if cascarones contained Ebola and not confetti.
Michael Mehas – whose novel, Stolen Boy, is based on the 2000 kidnapping and murder of Nicholas Markowitz in Santa
Water Warrior: Attorney Bob Goodwin received countless threats while defending the Goleta Water District hookup moratorium back in the 1970s and ’80s. Goodwin, who died last week at 64 in Livermore, was one of the main targets of the infuriated development interests who’d been busy trying to pave every inch of Goleta.
Life is short, but flowers are forever. Well, they may begin to fade after a week or so, but they’re a very nice gesture and the Dream Foundation, based in downtown Santa Barbara, has been donating bouquets of colorful blossoms to the sick and elderly for 12 years through a program called Flower Empower.
The Rhythmic Arts Project (TRAP) will be hosting a day of art at the Carpinteria Valley Arts Council (855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria) on Saturday, August 18, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. J. Dan Gibbs will help kids paint with oils and Brian Vinson will perform an acoustic concert. Art by disabled artists will be on display and for sale. A portion of the proceeds will benefit TRAP, which uses percussion and music to aid in the development of the disabled. Admission is free. Call 745-8280 or visit traponline.com.
This recipe will keep Fiesta fresh on our taste buds. Supposedly, it’s also good for hangovers, if any of those linger, too.
Santa Barbara’s Historic Landmarks Commission approved plans to stripe a 1,000 foot-long Light Blue Line throughout downtown Santa Barbara, depicting
Summer vacation is to students what weekends are to working adults-an agreement about time off so seemingly universal that it’s hard to imagine life without it. But the current, standard American school year of 180 school days and nearly three months of summer vacation is a relatively recent development, and not something often observed in other parts of the world.
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