More Review for Gaviota Mega-House

Tentative plans to put a luxury home longer than a football field on top of a ridge at the southern gateway to the Gaviota Coast came to a grinding-though perhaps temporary-halt this week. For nearly three hours on Tuesday, June 19, Santa Barbara County supervisors struggled to make sense of an occasionally heated three-way version of “he said/she said” among their own staff, the advocates of the 13,333-square-foot Ballantyne home, and those opposed to the construction of the massive single-family home.

Jerry Roberts Raises Cash

Former Santa Barbara News-Press editor Jerry Roberts is still stunned. A benefit party held in his honor last Saturday night at the Hope Ranch home of former county supervisor Susan Rose raised $135,000 to help him wage his legal battle against News-Press owner Wendy McCaw, his former boss and current nemesis.

D.A. Launches Frimpong Rape Case

While the rest of the UCSB men’s soccer team was fted by President Bush in a June 18 White House ceremony honoring its undefeated championship season, star player Eric Frimpong was sitting in Santa Barbara County Superior Court facing rape charges. During a preliminary hearing, Deputy District Attorney Mary Barron called two sheriff’s investigators to the stand to describe their interviews with Frimpong’s accusers.

Summer Arts Classical Music Preview

Ask those who have attended the concerts and masterclasses of the Music Academy of the West faithfully for years what the best parts of the festival are and you are likely to get many different answers. Some love the picnic concerts, while others are devoted to the Tuesdays at 8 series. Masterclasses offer the higher level of pleasure that can accompany witnessing new musical inspiration strike. Whatever your taste, the academy’s extensive schedule of programs is bound to offer something to please you.

Summer Arts Visual Art Preview

Nights and 1st Thursday may occupy our summer evenings, but the wealth and diversity of art on view this season will lure us into the cool sanctuary of Santa Barbara’s museums and galleries all summer long.

Summer Arts Film Preview

Sony scored a major coup a few years back by opening Spider-Man in May, and ever since then, the summer blockbuster season has begun earlier and earlier. By the time you read this, most of the major summer releases will have already bowed. But that doesn’t mean there are no more surprises in store, both from UCSB’s venerable Arts & Lectures and the love-to-hate-it Hollywood movie machine.

The Goo Goo Dolls Give Back

When a pop rock band becomes a household name, one that rings a bell to your mother, one you hear every day on the radio, and whose words resonate after decades, you have to wonder what it was that caught your ear from the beginning. How did the voices of these strangers become woven into your life?

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