Arrests at the East Yanonali Street labor line sent 56 to jail on 4/12 on charges ranging from sale and possession of cocaine to possession of drug paraphernalia and violations of parole and probation. The 400 to 600 blocks of the street have long been the city’s pick-up spot for workers seeking day labor; however, the Santa Barbara Police Department has been investigating the presence of drug traffic among the workers.
An Orange County judge dismissed 33 of 36 libel claims the News-Press had filed against American Journalism Review writer Susan Paterno, who penned an article about the paper’s meltdown last summer.
Gassing Up: There was a time in this great land of ours when most of us didn’t give a hoot about such things as how many miles per gallon the family bus got. Or, for that matter, how much air pollution we were spewing. Ignorance was bliss. We just bought what Detroit rolled off the assembly lines.
Two years ago, while cooing over a friend’s baby, the new mom told me the best recent addition to their household-aside from the wee one-was an air purifier. “It’s amazing,” she said.
A UCSB graduate living in Switzerland allegedly wrote a letter to UCSB’s student paper, the Daily Nexus, claiming he was a witness to the 1969 bombing of the campus’s Faculty Club, which killed live-in custodian Dover Sharp.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, photojournalist Mark Edward Harris turns away from catastrophe and conflict, revolution and revelry, instead concentrating his gaze on the moments in between. The Los Angeles-based photographer’s current exhibition at East/West Gallery is an expansive selection of everyday moments, masterfully distilled.
GO FIGURE: The only reassuring news to come out of the Virginia Tech slaughter is that we need not fear suicide bombers as long as we remain on American soil. Given our propensity for other forms of murder, suicide, and mayhem, most suicide bombers will seem beside the point here.
EMO CORE: If current alternative radio’s reliance on epically emotional groups with a clever, self-deprecating aesthetic leaves you cold and yearning for the jangly, genuinely “emo” groups of yore (think early Jimmy Eat World, The Promise Ring), look no further than local rockers the Little Heroes.
MUSICAL PLEASURES, BIG AND PERSONAL: It’s a big week for intimate musical pleasures. Between the Assad Brothers on Monday night and uncommonly fine pianist Stephen Hough on Tuesday, Santa Barbara should be embarrassed by its cultural riches in a two-day stretch
The new season of Sings Like Hell blazes into the Lobero Theatre this Saturday night, marking one of its most eclectic lineups yet. The concerts bring back a host of past favorites, such as Jesse Winchester and Alejandro Escovedo, and also offer a bevy of exciting new inductees, including first-time S.B. visitors the Lovell Sisters and Nathan.
