SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT: Contrary to popular wisdom, it turns out patriotism is not necessarily the last refuge available to scoundrels; that distinction belongs to selective amnesia. But in the case of our memory-challenged Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, both appear to be true.
Members of UCSB Associated Students and public interest group CalPIRG presented Chancellor Henry T. Yang with the 2007 Climate Change
Physics professor David Gross – who shared a Nobel Prize in 2004 and heads UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Edward Cella has two compelling shows running concurrently this month, and both artists exhibit fully realized potential. For instance, it’s exhilarating to look for references in the art of Davis Birks-is that Agnes Martin, Robert Smithson, and Cy Twombly?-but after the initial, giddy rush of contact with such apparent visual intelligence wanes, a second aesthetic awareness of the artist’s firm conviction kicks in.
The outpouring of community support keeps on coming for The Frameworks/Caruso-Woods Gallery, which was severely damaged by a fire last month.
What started with an audacious bang as a plan to cut the building height limit in downtown Santa Barbara by one-third ended with a whimper on the floor of the City Council chambers late Tuesday afternoon, capping a nearly three-hour debate over the scale and pace of growth. Rather than pass an amendment to the city’s charter-as first proposed-or an interim ordinance to reduce the height limit from 60 feet to 40, the council opted for a meeting of City Hall’s main review agencies to discuss the tools they already have to limit building size.
Ever since Measure P, the ballot measure to relax enforcement of marijuana laws, passed with an overwhelming majority last November,
Jimmy’s made news again when the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation secured a $500,000 loan from the city earlier
Coyote Bones’ Gentleman on the Rocks: Since Bright Eyes enraptured the indie world, Omaha has become a musical mecca of sorts, and this project from Jet by Day’s David Matysiak is the latest team effort from Nebraska. With help from members of Neva Dinova, The Faint, Tilly and the Wall, and Flowers Forever, this debut is jangly, melancholy, and fun, and equal parts poppy, subdued, and synthesized.
Is there something about the fragile state of the world that enhances our appreciation of culture far from these shores, far from the stomping grounds of “What, me worry?” corporate America, idiocy-baiting mass media, and “American Idolatry”?
