When some people talk, everyone stops and listens. For others who have something to say, it’s hard to get anyone’s attention, let alone their respect. All too often, teens fall into the latter category, and their voices go unheard. Thanks to a coalition of community groups, dedicated volunteers, and talented teenagers, Santa Barbara’s youth have a new forum for making their voices heard: the quarterly newspaper, Shape of Voice.
In case you’ve missed the latest reality TV dating show spectacle, let me enlighten you. NBC’s Age of Love put The Guy, aka 30-year-old Aussie tennis pro Mark Philippoussis, in the awkwardest of positions when it presented the flock of ladies from which he’ll select his Ms. Right-or, if reality TV dating show tradition holds, his Ms. Right Now.
This Week in History
Quiz: Goin’ to the Chapel
Better Off Knowing: Pacific Pride Foundation offers Santa Barbara residents free HIV testing. 11am-1:30pm. Pacific Pride Foundation, 126 E. Haley St., Ste. A-11. Call 963-3636.
Now that school’s out for summer and the kids are getting restless, numerous museums, parks, and businesses have decided to beef up their kid-friendly programming and provided parents with some fun, educational, and creative alternatives to shipping the youngin’s off to day camp.
How do you perform the Mona Lisa in concert? Jeffrey Tate and the Academy Festival Orchestra, magnificently arrayed in white on the Lobero stage Saturday night, faced a problem nearly that difficult-how to perform Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the most familiar work of symphonic music in history.
Your home is on the market. You’ve patched the roof, fixed all the leaky faucets, maybe even painted a room or two. You’re not going to put in a whole new landscape, but there may be a thing or two you can do to make the garden more enticing as well.
It’s okay to enjoy an elegant meal of leftovers when the hubby’s out of town. Starshine explains why.
On 7/11 the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department arrested an underage male they believe is responsible for the sexual battery
