More than six months after David Klotz suffered fatal injuries outside the Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen’s Club, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s office concluded its investigation last Wednesday, opting not to file any charges in the death.
More than 167 people showed up on 3/13 for the Jerry Roberts Roast, a San Francisco event to raise money for Roberts’s legal defense against the $25 million lawsuit News-Press owner Wendy McCaw has brought against him.
1) The word “whiskey” is an Anglicization of the Irish term “uisce beatha,” which translates to what?
After a string of early upsets-including the emphatic elimination of UCSB’s men-the Big West Basketball Tournament came down to the best against the best Saturday at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Aye, me Uncle Walter was eccentric, to be sure. He was the one, don’t you know, who used to coast his car down hills to save gas, spread newspaper on the floor to preserve the linoleum, and believed in his soul you could revive a flashlight battery in the refrigerator.
In the 1950s, a new sound emerged from Jamaica that merged popular American jazz, blues, and R&B with the rhythm of Africa. It became known as “ska,” and the fathers of this sound took the name the Skatalites.
Freeway shooter Keith Everett Tomlinson was sentenced to a total of 202 years in state prison on seven counts of attempted murder for shooting at vehicles driving on the 101 and another 13 years for 15 counts of assault with a deadly weapon for throwing rocks at them.
UCSB is proclaiming its collection of 70,000 documents and 700 audio recordings relating to U.S. presidents as the definitive online compendium of such primary sources.
I am not a singer. Sometimes, I’ll sing in my car, but only if I’m alone, and only if the windows are rolled up. At parties I’ve been known to lip-sync the words to “Happy Birthday” so as to avoid humiliating myself. And, as far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing more horrifying than the prospect of speaking in front of a large crowd.
Congregation B’nai B’rith will host A Concert of Yiddish Song on Sunday, March 18 at 4 p.m. Nationally renowned cantors Herschel and Judy Fox will perform an exciting mix of Yiddish and cantorial songs, Broadway show tunes, and comedy.
