This Week in History
This Week in History
Year: 2007
Environmentalist Paul Hawken
at the Lobero Theatre
In the past decade, global warming has shifted from a little-understood concept to the planet’s most pressing concern-environmentally, politically, and socially. While every nation on earth seems to agree we have a major challenge on our hands, it’s unclear who the leaders are in the movement to tackle the issue and work for a solution. Sounds alarming, but that’s exactly what gives Paul Hawken hope.
Citizens’ Alert
Brian Boosters: City CouncilÂ-member Brian Barnwell kicks off his reelection campaign. 5-7pm. Bricks Cafe, 509 State St. Call 899-8855.
Saturday Art Market
There’s a new art market in town, and this one sets up shop across from the Saturday Farmers Market at 624 Santa Barbara Street. The market is sponsored by S.B. Pro Imaging shop owner Paul Garcia and runs from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Weekly vendors vary, but include sellers of screen-printed T-shirts, pottery, fused glass, paintings, cement solar fountains, and hand-sewn tropical clothing.
Farewell But Not Goodbye
FREEDOM HITS THE ROAD: Trying to wrap your mouth, let alone your brain, around the synthetic word pfMENTUM is a challenge. In some way, it belongs to the catalog of absurd utterances, like the “pshit” of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, suitable for meaning whatever you care to bring to it. What better handle to give a record label and general cultural worldview such as those maintained by Jeff Kaiser?
Election Races and Solitary Confinement
Poli-Tricks: With three incumbent Santa Barbara City Councilmembers running for reelection this year, savvy politicos are already looking ahead to the Big Enchilada in 2009: the mayoral race.
iSpeak French
Although I studied French for six years during high school and college, I never became very good at it. Then I went to France for two months and my language skills improved; I could say important stuff like “O¹ est la boulangerie?” and “Je viens des tats-Unis.” Not scintillating conversation, but it got me around.
Seacliff Beach Colony is Your Ticket to Oceanfront Living
Santa Barbarans are a bunch of beach bums. Office workers take long lunch breaks to surf when Rincon is breaking in the winter. Kids frolic in shore break and beg to be buried in the sand all summer long. And all those fanatics love to boast that they live near the beach, but not many can claim that they actually live on the beach.
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Using Shovels and Trowels
in the Garden
One of the earliest tools that prehistoric humanoids used was apparently a sharpened stick for digging. Even before Homo sapiens began fiddling around with the plant world and growing crops near the cave, instead of having to go off on long journeys to forage and collect their food, they and their earlier relatives were using sticks to unearth edible tubers and roots.
