The City of Goleta stood fast against an attempted end-run around its mobile home rent control ordinances-namely Daniel Guggenheim’s bid to subdivide his Rancho Mobile Home Park and sell its 150 parcels for about $250,000 each. It is a strategy that has been used successfully by park owners throughout California, led by activist Sam Zell.
When a long-awaited, new and upgraded Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinic opens in Santa Maria this summer, Santa Barbara’s own VA outpatient clinic on Calle Real will begin incrementally sending its specialty care services there, until only general and mental healthcare remain in a pared-down version of the 27-year-old health center. VA officials say the transition will take about two months.
Santa Maria Valley, long considered one of the premiere wine growing regions along California’s southern Central Coast for pinot noir, chardonnay, and cool-climate syrah, has formed its own vintners association. The association is following in the footsteps of associations founded in recent years in other county appellations, including the Santa Rita Hills Winegrowers Alliance and the Santa Ynez Valley Wine Trail.
Cursed with insight into the most egregious aspects of contemporary relationships, Neil LaBute has forged ahead with his new-fangled theater of cruelty to a degree that would have been hard to imagine when he started out a decade ago.
Santa Barbara will be home to one of the first eight “green” Wachovia banking offices, an environmentally-friendly campaign the financial
UCSB presents a series of summer concerts, beginning each night at 8 p.m. They start June 7 with Streaming the New America featuring UCSB’s most talented young players and faculty musicians in Lehmann Hall. On June 8, also in Lehmann Hall, the UCSB Gospel Choir performs a staged production directed by Victor Bell, featuring a selection spanning the entire history of gospel.
Second District Supervisor Janet Wolf sought to insert additional environmental protections into a flood control project slated for San Jose
See a Tree: The sixth annual Goleta Valley Beautiful Heritage Tree Tour visits notable trees in the area. 9am-noon. Kellogg School, 475 Kellogg Dr. Call 685-7910.
“Here,” said Robby Robbins, The Indy’s director of new media, handing me a Styro-foam cutout in the shape of an enormous bone along with what appeared to be an overgrown cheese grater, “shape this.”
When Maestro Heiichiro Ohyama and pianist Max Levinson walked onstage together, they hardly paused before getting down to the business of ending the season. Appropriately enough, they chose the last work Beethoven ever performed with an orchestra: the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Opus 58.
