A Preview of the Santa Barbara Foresters 2007 Season
They’re called the ‘Sters, which is more than an abbreviated nickname for the Santa Barbara Foresters. It is a homonym for the way they play: They stir up things on the baseball diamond.
Year: 2007
Citizens’ Alert
You Go, Girls: Girls Inc. holds an open house. 4:30-5:30pm. 4973 Hollister Avenue. Call 963-4757.
Winners of Last Week’s Indy Awards
Woops! In last week’s cover story about our newspaper’s annual Indy Awards for shining stars in Santa Barbara theater, we forgot to include a comprehensive list of the winners. So here’s that list, because we’re firm believers that late is better than never. Congratulations again to all the Indy Awardees, and keep up the good work!
Ensemble Theatre Tries on Neil LaBute’s This Is How It Goes
By working successfully in both theater and film, playwright and director Neil LaBute has realized something few artists, even very talented ones, have ever accomplished. In the process, LaBute has used the experiences to enrich and reinforce one another, drawing material gathered while working in one medium to nourish the other.
God Grew Tired of Us
First it showed at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, then at UCSB’s Human Rights Festival. Now God Grew Tired of Uswinner of both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festivalis being presented by HopeDance Media.
Benefit for Jerry Roberts
Cruisin’ for a Court Bruisin’? The City of Santa Barbara may be laying itself wide open to be sued for discrimination due to an unfair voting system. The potential charge: that its at-large system of electing the city council raises an almost insurmountable barrier for a Latino to win a council seat, although Spanish-surnamed people make up more than 30 percent of the city’s population.
Picture of the Week
Aussie natives The Phoenix Foundation contributed six songs and three instrumental pieces to the already buzzed-about Miramax film, Eagle vs. Shark, said to be an Australian Napoleon Dynamite. The band takes Velvet Jones by storm this Wednesday, June 6, at 8 p.m.
684 Feet
684 Feet
This Week in History
May 31, 1859
The hands of London’s clock tower, Big Ben, are set into motion for the first time.
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
No matter what you have planned for the evening, the fun has to start somewhere. And, in a town stuffed to the gills with bars, restaurants, wannabe L.A. lounges, and somewhat seedy dives, deciding where to warm up your engines can be daunting. When the rat race releases its daily grip on your soul and the brain in your stomach pains for libations and platters of food, the questions begin to swirl among the happy hour set: Downtown?
