Microsoft Buys Carpinteria-based AdECN
On 7/26 Microsoft announced it would acquire Carpinteria-based AdECN, Inc., a Web-based exchange that buys and sells Internet ad space
Year: 2007
Eats & Peeps
It’s a pretty well-known, widely accepted truth that the quickest way to a reporter’s heart is through her stomach. Booze and caffeine are important, of course, but at The Indy, we set our clocks to the free food schedule. Some may call it bribery, but the fact remains that we’re all here on deadline days, fingers fueled by pizza, bagels, and burgers and fries (that’s Tuesday noon, Wednesday 8 a.m., and Wednesday noon, respectively).
A List of Wrongs
I’ve been seeing someone behind my boyfriend’s back.
It all started innocently enough. He eased my stress when I put up my place for rent, and when I was thinking about getting a new job. But things have gone from casual flirtation to full-blown addiction. I check in with him every morning when I wake up, again when I get to work, and about five more times throughout the day.
Pick it Up
The Clash’s The Singles: So maybe a $60 price tag is daunting, but what other band elevated punk as an art form while simultaneously making it a stronger, widespread instrument of change? Plus, not only do you get “London Calling,” “I Fought the Law,” and “Rock the Casbah,” but there’s also replica sleeves, bonus tracks, B-sides, and a 44-page booklet with thoughts from such contemporaries as Mike D, Pete Townsend, and The Edge.
The Junior Spirit of Fiesta
Marissa Cordero might only be 10 years old, but she knows she has what it takes to be the Junior Spirit of Fiesta. “I have sassiness and spunkiness. So I think that’s why I won,” she said. Chosen over 19 other girls who auditioned for the role, Marissa said she was inspired to start dancing by her mother, who once auditioned for Spirit of Fiesta, and her great-grandmother, who danced in the first Fiestas of Santa Barbara.
G. Love & Special Sauce Prepare to Headline the Bowl
With airy instrumentals and carefree lyrics, G. Love & Special Sauce could almost pass for Santa Barbara natives. But while its untroubled philosophies might be at home on the West Coast, the band has proud roots in Philadelphia, where front man Garrett Dutton formed the band as a duo in 1992.
Queen Latifah is Dana Owens
Look for a date to be announced soon for the November appearance by none other than Queen Latifah at the Arlington, performing under her jazz singer (and real, given) name, Dana Owens. The concert, which is being presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures, will feature songs from Latifah/Owens’s new record, Trav’lin’ Light, which will be in stores on September 25. Tickets for the concert go on sale August 10. Visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu later this week for information.
Police Begin Pre-Fiesta Gang Sweeps
Since the gang-related killing of a Westside teen on 7/16, Santa Barbara police have arrested nearly 40 known and suspected
City Discusses Resident-Only Parking for Hacienda Neighborhood
City of Santa Barbara transportation officials met with residents of the Hacienda neighborhood near Modoc Road on 7/30 to discuss
Artist Jana Zimmer Acknowledges the Holocaust, Respectfully
A man in hat and overcoat walks beside a little girl, who looks over at him questioningly. The landscape through which the father and daughter walk is fiery orange, as if they’re walking through an inferno. This image is superimposed atop a Czech government document confirming that Josef Zimmer has removed his name from Prague’s record of members of the Jewish religion. The form is dated May 1939, two months after Hitler entered Prague.
