A few weeks back, in the afterglow of a special late-season west swell, the recently opened Dan Merkel Gallery played host to living legend Greg “Da Bull” Noll. On a night normally associated with college kids’ booze-soaked thrills, the most colorful character in modern surf culture held reluctant court in the back of the gallery.
SonneBlauma Danscz Theatre is a group of creative dancers and choreographers, facilitated by artist Misa Kelly. They’ve premiered pieces at the Dance Alliance’s New Works, dazzled crowds at the Monterey Dance Festival, and stopped pedestrians and passersby with their performances in parks. SonneBlauma is presenting its next work in an open studio showing at the Montecito School of Ballet on Sunday, May 20. Call (908) 569-0389 to reserve an audience spot or see sonneblauma.com. Here’s why it’ll be worth your while.
Poetry and the Voice of the Earth, the theme of this year’s Ojai Poetry Festival, is a fitting heading for the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/essayist Gary Snyder. Snyder’s new book, Back on the Fire, contains 27 brief essays that demonstrate his lifelong interest in “eco-poetics” (poetry on the environment), Buddhism, and various Eastern philosophies, and bits and pieces of his hip autobiography.
With the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors headed toward another tight budget in the coming fiscal year and departments looking for ways to cut costs, local users and supporters of the county’s services for the uninsured mentally ill are nervous about a new system that will soon introduce older, cheaper medication-that is, those from pharmacological generations that have more side effects-onto lists of approved treatments for patients.
A Santa Barbara County civil grand jury report on jail operating costs estimates that the county spent between $277,000 and
An unidentified hang glider found himself in a rather precarious position on 5/13, and in the end, only a $10,000
Suman Kasturia-a third-year art major and one of many UCSB students on a hunger strike to protest the University of
The Santa Barbara City Council took the first step toward banning plastic grocery bags and polystyrene fast food containers within
The Santa Barbara County Grand Jury faulted the Carpinteria Water District for sticking its smaller residential water customers with the
Nearly three years after the state first publicly noted the dangers of certain Mexican candies, the California Department of Health
