DOING METAL RIGHT: Tired of trekking to L.A. for a good metal show? Weary travelers, look no further, because Santa Barbara’s own StompRocket will be playing at Velvet Jones on Saturday, December 8, and promise to put on a show that will shake up the local music scene just a little bit more.
In a climate zone that is conducive to growing just about anything all year ’round, it is often hard to find examples of the changing seasons. Sure there are a few deciduous trees with colorful fall foliage like ash, elm, and ginkgo, but many Southern California gardeners seem to forget the beauty that many other species reveal once they have lost their leaves.
This question is actually a little trickier than might appear at first glance. The first sermon preached by a Protestant minister in Santa Barbara took place in 1854. The first group to hold regular services was the Congregationalists, beginning in 1866.
NOT SO FUNNY, MR. CLAUS: Although there are still 18 shopping days before Christmas, the overwhelming frontrunner in this year’s Scrooge Award contest is the Bridgehouse Homeless Shelter up the road in the fair city of Lompoc.
Though the evening was cold on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, somewhere between 350 and 400 people bundled up and made their way to the Warren Hall. The crowd included college students, yoga devotees mostly in their twenties and thirties, families with young children, New Age-minded baby boomers, senior citizens, and a good smattering of the general population.
Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies are looking for any information that could lead to the arrest of three men who robbed the Rabobank.
Crosby Loggins is nothing if not his own man. Despite his impeccable musical pedigree, the Santa Barbara-based singer/songwriter has never been content with having anything handed to him.
Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum and Councilmember Das Williams are pushing a resolution demanding that the U.S. withdraw its troops from Iraq.
In the wake of the oil spill into San Francisco Bay from a marine freighter, the City of Goleta sent a strongly worded letter urging the State Lands Commission to retire ASAP the Ellwood Marine Terminal…
Combat photographer Ashley Gilbertson, 29, came to lecture at UCSB on 11/27.
