Holiday Fun
This month, the Molly Inspires Foundation is bringing the canine St. Nick to Santa Barbara! Kids and pooches can take their picture with Santa Paws for a $15 donation, which benefits the foundation.
Year: 2007
Brief Fire On Fairview Arouses Concern
Residents on upper Fairview Avenue were threatened briefly with the prospect of wildfire raging through their community when sparks from work being done to replace power poles apparently ignited the nearby brush.
Goleta Selects New Mayor
Michael Bennett replaced Jean Blois as the City of Goleta’s mayor on 12/3.
Yuletide Peeps
Each year when the days start getting shorter, the commercials start getting merrier, and all that remains of the Thanksgiving turkey is the wishbone (and an excess pound or two), I find myself stricken with an overwhelming sense of dread.
Tom Russell at Sings Like Hell
Aside from bringing us some of the most talented singer/songwriters who are blazing new trails in the Americana music genre, Sings Like Hell introduces us to some of music’s most intriguing characters.
Anchor Christmas Ale
Even if the season descends too soon, there’s no harbinger of the holidays more welcomed at our house than the release of Anchor Christmas Ale. Those clever brewers in San Francisco who make Anchor Steam and the one-time hops benchmark Liberty Ale (remember those simpler times?) are releasing their 33rd annual ale with a pine tree label and bit of resinous kick, to boot.
County Sherriff Names New PIO
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department officially announced the appointment of a new spokesperson-Sergeant Alex Tipolt.
The Theater, Darling
My girlfriend, Jackie, looked at me perplexedly when I explained where I had just been-a lecture at UCSB by Felice Picano, one of the leading historians on gay culture in the 1970s and ’80s and author of the recently published Art and Sex in Greenwich Village.
An Interview with Frank Langella, Star of Starting Out in the Evening
Frank Langella has been choosy about the roles he decides to play on the big screen. Meanwhile, he has cultivated a remarkable career in the theater, winning three Tony awards, including one for best actor this past June for his instantly legendary portrayal on Broadway of President Richard Nixon in the play Frost/Nixon.
All in the Timing
David Ives’s All in the Timing is aptly named. The success or failure of this series of one-act comedies depends mainly on a quick and sparkling delivery. The subject matter is abstruse, hilarious, and often strange-ranging from existential philosophy to copulation with furniture-and it can be a challenging show to put on, even for professionals.
