TEMPEST IN A FLESHPOT: Santa Barbara is overdue for a good sex scandal. Or, at the very least, a romantic entanglement of epic proportion. After all, Los Angeles has one as the marriage of its mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, unravels amid revelations that he’s been carrying on with some hoochie mama TV reporter assigned to cover his office for Telemundo.
Dear Front-of-the-Planers,
Let us introduce ourselves. We are those less-fortunate passengers who shuffle humbly past you toward the back of the plane, trying not to bump your proud shoulders with our awkward-sized carry-ons. Ultimately, we have the same destinations as you: Des Moines. O’ahu. D¼sseldorf.
Fusion Dance Company will host four days of intense hip-hop training next Monday-Thursday, July 16-19. Guest teachers will include Misty Rasconsmith and Rick Ligon, who’ve worked with artists including Britney Spears, Omarion, Christina Aguilera, Ashley Tindale, 3LW, OutKast, Kirk Franklin, and Snoop Dogg; and local dance instructors Beth Deopante, Shawn Henry, Cynthia Norton, and Kara Stewart.
Grilled bone-in pork chop with red onion marmalade and blackened rainbow trout with uni sauce drizzle. University Club sous-chef Clay Bowen, a recent contestant on TV’s Top Chef (see feature on page 51), offers up this unique surf-and-turf combo:
Mark Warkentin is a rare human being who might be able to hang with a pod of dolphins. He’d be the funny-looking one with the long, skinny flippers and the tiny snout.
LOVELY LADIES: Adrienne Maclain (left) and Connie Berardi share a post-wedding-vows kiss at UCSB’s annual Queer Wedding.
Photo by Sheila Schirlls.
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When I first started visiting wineries and tasting wine in earnest about 20 years ago, I was too embarrassed to spit out my wine. Besides, dump buckets are gross and the last thing I wanted to look into after tasting a nice wine was somebody else’s spit. Yuck. So, I’d go wine tasting (at that time, up and down Highway 29 in the Napa Valley) practically every weekend just to educate my palate, but, truth be told, there were numerous occasions upon which I really shouldn’t have been driving toward the end of a day of wine tasting.
Comparing the Lovell Sisters to the Dixie Chicks is easy. Both groups consist of three women playing folk/country music, but that’s where the comparison ends. All three of the sisters have exceptional musical talent and impressive stage presence that far surpasses the Chicks-plus, they aren’t bad looking. But when they took the stage Saturday night as part of the Lobero’s Sings Like Hell series, the audience was suspicious.
Domestic Violence Solutions, a countywide agency that works to prevent in-home battery, announced on 7/6 that Rebecca Robertson will end
