Year: 2007

What’s for Dinner?
Food & Drink By Laurence Hauben

What’s for Dinner?

What constitutes an “Earth-friendly” approach to eating? Is it to revisit the vegetarian principles of the book, Diet for a Small Planet, or to look for organic ingredients? Are locally produced foods the answer, and if they are, can we keep these sources from drying out? It seems these questions are on the minds of many, so when nutritionist Gerri French asked me (as a representative of Slow Food Santa Barbara) if I would participate in a workshop titled Earth-Friendly Cuisine: The Farmer, Chef, and You, I, of course, said yes.

What an Education
News By Martha Sadler

What an Education

A dozen UCSB students began a hunger strike on Wednesday morning, May 9, with some pledging to fast until the University of California agrees to stop “engineering, testing, and manufacturing nuclear weapons.” Last year, the UC system received $15 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California.

Bright Eyes at the Arlington Theatre
Arts & Entertainment By Sarah Hammill

Bright Eyes at the Arlington Theatre

Bright Eyes’s Conor Oberst has been called many things, from a has-been indie star to the next Bob Dylan. One thing he hasn’t been called-thanks to his loyalty to Nebraska-based Saddle Creek Records, the indie label he has remained with despite numerous big-label offers-is an egomaniac.

Travel By Indy Staff

Reverential Ecology Retreat

How will the western U.S. be affected by global warming? Can we expect water scarcity, energy shortages, heat waves? We’ve heard a lot about how to mitigate the effects of climate change, but what about adapting to the new landscapes we will likely inhabit?

Briefs By Indy Staff

Jimmy’s Sign Goes Missing

The famed sign of the now-closed Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens was reported missing on 4/30. The building’s current owner – the

Forum Explores Response to Gangs
News By Chris Meagher

Forum Explores Response to Gangs

Almost two months after a fatal gang-related stabbing in downtown Santa Barbara, community leaders continue to wrestle with the city’s gang problem. At the same time, new details about the events leading up to the death of Luis Angel Linares raise questions about how El Puente Community School and the county probation department deal with at-risk youth and whether any policy could have prevented Linares’s death.

CND2: The Elite Training Team for Spain’s Compa±-a Nacional de Danza
Dance By Elizabeth Schwyzer

CND2: The Elite Training Team for Spain’s Compa±-a Nacional de Danza

France has the Paris Opera Ballet, and Russia has the Mariinsky Ballet Company, which was formerly the Kirov. America has New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre, and Holland has the renowned Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT). But until the late 20th century, Spain had no national ballet company. Although classical ballet was studied in Spain, it was an imported art form-and far less popular than the flamenco, or the sevillanas, the fandango, and the paso doble.

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