Social Consciousness
Whether it’s environmental awareness, the death penalty, or the Iraq War that gets your fire burning, there are social movements in town for protesters and do-gooders of every stripe:
Year: 2007
Auditioning for MTV’s The Real World
This is the story of several dozen strangers, who stood in line outside Q’s on a Tuesday morning, all of them desperate to live in a house and have their lives taped-except for one reporter, who was freaked out by the experience.
Anissa Mack: On Loan at the Contemporary Arts Forum
The objects created by Anissa Mack currently on display at the Contemporary Arts Forum are all about near misses and moments after-things that didn’t quite happen, and things that just happened. They are treated with a wry New England sensibility that’s filtered through Mack’s casual intellectual command of the vocabulary and tradition of contemporary art-making.
Santa Barbara News Room Requests Donations
SantaBarbaraNewsRoom.com – the Teamster-funded project that has former News-Press reporters posting free articles online – is now soliciting donations to
Seven News-Press Writers Call it Quits
Seven Santa Barbara News-Press writers resigned in as many days, citing their distaste for the alleged “smear” and factually dubious article connecting former Executive Editor Jerry Roberts to a computer containing pornographic images.
Card Shark Bait
As one of the planet’s more surreal and sinful spots, Las Vegas has a natural lure to filmmakers. But it’s a subject lined with danger, like the city itself, where even strong directors can lose their way. Martin Scorsese scored artfully with Casino, and Mike Figgis painted his masterpiece with Leaving Las Vegas, but Paul Verhoeven failed fabulously with Showgirls, a golden turkey we love to hate.
The Varied Art of Haiku
Hankering to commit a poem or two? These days, haiku practice is where involvement with poetry writing often starts. The form looks so appealingly simple: Three lines consisting of five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables again, and that’s it. But for accomplished haiku (the plural’s the same as the singular), there’s more to consider.
Condos to Replace Chapala Dealerships
Several car dealerships on lower Chapala Street will soon be driven out of their spaces, as two different real estate developers have recently purchased the properties.
Channel Island Fox Born at SB Zoo
A baby male Channel Island fox popped into the world at the Santa Barbara Zoo on 4/12, the first member
122.5 Million
AT&T’s estimate of the number of phone calls made to moms on Mother’s Day.
source: mothersdayworld.com.
