2007 - Page 354 of 521 - The Santa Barbara Independent

Angry Poodle By Nick Welsh

A Watchdog, Not a Lapdog

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: When the phone rings in our house after 10 p.m., it means one of two things: Either somebody just died or Annie Bardach is on the horn. Annie tends to call from places like Miami, where she’s dredging up some of the nastiest political corruption practiced anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. As a reporter, Bardach is famous for her tick-like tenacity, which has landed her not one, but two interviews with Fidel Castro and one-on-ones with a host of other high-profile also-rans.

Arts & Entertainment By Alastair Bland

Harrison Swalley

In 1997, big things were set in motion for a very little guy when his parents couldn’t find him a babysitter and had to bring him along to music class, which his mother, Winnie, taught at Hope School. Then just three years old, Harrison Swalley sat in each week and listened to the band, in which his older brother played the euphonium. Eventually Swalley developed a hankering to play.

Food & Drink By Hannah Tennant-Moore

The Last Meow

When I drove across country to California in search of a new place to live, I assumed it would be a town with a healthy gay scene; from what I’d heard about the Golden State, the only people who didn’t frequent gay bars were nuns.

Film & TV By D.J. Palladino

Jindabyne

Once upon a time, Australia was the mystical capital of the cinematic world. Films like Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout, Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, and even Philip Kaufman’s pastiche-y blockbuster The Right Stuff featured the didgeridoo-haunted outback for woo-woo moments.

Living By Hudson Hornick

A Bartender’s Life

“Baby, I love you, but I’m 20 years your elder.” “That don’t matter. That don’t mat-“

Living By Elizabeth Schwyzer

24 Hours in Tijuana

At 5 a.m. the next morning I was standing in my kitchen, a towel on my head, wondering vaguely how a teenage girl had materialized in my house before sunrise, and trying to remember whether teenagers drank coffee, or whether I should offer her tea instead. By the time Angie and I got behind the wheel of my car, the caffeine had begun to kick in, and we headed over to the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara to meet up with the rest of the team: the five other 8th-grade members of the Coming of Age program, and my co-leader, Kir.

Living By Indy Staff

Finding Solutions

Next Monday, June 4, Domestic Violence Solutions for S.B. County will begin a new series of training classes on the issue of domestic violence. The training meets the requirements for state certification for people who wish to work directly with victims or perpetrators of domestic violence, and aims to inform participants about domestic violence; challenge myths, beliefs, and attitudes that perpetrate domestic violence; and call participants to action.

Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff

Cross Art Exhibit

The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation is unveiling Forged in Iron: The Expressive Art of the Roof Cross Tradition in Chiapas, Mexico at Casa de la Guerra through November 11. The exhibit is based on a book by guest curator Virginia Ann Guess, and features more than 20 crosses from the past 100 years.

Film & TV By Max Burke

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.

At their best, great adventure films can set up sequels that trim the fat from the original film, beef up the finer elements, and deliver an improved version with the same themes. The first Pirates of the Caribbean did just that. It was a pleasant surprise, an unexpectedly good-natured swashbuckler with choice supernatural elements, and a fantastically unhinged performance by Johnny Depp.

Arts & Entertainment By Brett Leigh Dicks

The Crowning Jewel

Before the members of The Snake, The Cross, The Crown arrived in Santa Barbara, they hadn’t ventured much outside their native Alabama. Yet they had experienced enough of the outside world to know the south wasn’t really the place for them. Sharing a passion for music and adventure, the four childhood friends decided to venture west, and while they didn’t have much of a plan, they did have a destination.

Year: 2007