Jason and Colleen met on her front porch years ago while smoking cigarettes and fell in love. He didn’t sing or play guitar, she didn’t play drums, and so naturally they decided the only thing to do was start a band in their living room. Although they had no real intention of recording, The Spires have since released three EPs under their own label, Beehouse Records, which now boasts half a dozen other Ventura County artists.
The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce is organizing efforts to gather donations for firefighters currently stationed at Earl Warren Showgrounds.
We’ve always heard that we are what we eat. But now, it seems, we are whom we eat with.
The last time The Whoreshoes trundled into town, they had a packed Brewhouse stomping and hollering. Their rollicking brand of saloon-drenched roots music was an instant hit and left Santa Barbara craving more. Armed with a new recording titled Get Lucky, a longing to escape from their San Francisco home base, and a wit sharper than a Dwight Yoakam suit, the all-female ensemble returns to town on Saturday night to satisfy the masses with an all-ages show at Muddy Waters.
A spoken-word artist and professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University, Gina Athena Ulysse was born in Haiti and migrated to the United States with her family in her early teens. Her dramatic monologue, Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, Me, and the World was staged last Saturday as a benefit for a new documentary film on Haiti, Poto Mitan: Haitian Women Pillars of the Global Economy, and was hosted by UCSB’s Center for Black Studies Research.
Santa Barbara County is investigating conversion technology as a way to address the 54 percent increase in trash production it
On Sunday, University of California President Robert C. Dynes announced that he will resign next year. Dynes, who began his
The Ojai Healthy Schools Program presents Locally Grown 2, a benefit concert featuring Perla Batalla, Brett Dennen, and the winners of the youth battle of the bands on August 27 at the Libbey Bowl in Ojai. Tickets start at $20, with VIP passes at $100. Seefoodforthoughtojai.org.
Ed Cassano – former director of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum and former commanding officer of the Channel Islands National
Electronic voting machines across the state aren’t safe from tampering and must be fixed before the spring 2008 elections. So
