His Super Ex-Girlfriend And Other Deal-Breakers

After a bummer of a night in Los Angeles, where drinks were spilled and threesome requests were uttered, Chassy realizes that she may be falling for The Biker. But he’s got a super-ex, so she begins pondering what makes a deal-breaker. And, of course, she wonders what you think consitutes a no-go too.

Montecito Montage

“San Ysidro Road traffic and congestion is a community problem that is going to get worse,” Dan Eidelson, past president of the Montecito Association said. “You’ve got multiple problems: speeding and congestion.”

Kid’s Mother’s Day Issue

For 13 years, The Independent has joined with students at a South Coast elementary
school to produce a Mother’s Day edition, and this year’s school was Adams
Elementary. As a Character Counts school, Adams both teaches and instills
responsibility, respectability, and a solid work ethic in its Tigers. Not only do the
students embody these virtues, but students and teachers alike show an admirably high
level of pride in their campus.

On the Beat 3-9-2007

At this rate, all the fired News-Press journalists will be on Social Security before the National Labor Relations (NLRB) Board finally hears their case.
Whenever the feds schedule a hearing, the News-Press commits a whole new raft of alleged unfair labor practices, the union files complaints and the NLRB postpones its hearing.

Pick It Up

Sounds Eclectic’s The Covers Project: KCRW’s Sounds Eclectic radio show-renowned for finding the best unknown music-delivers a compilation in which well-known songs are handled by slightly more….

Challenging Aesthetics

“It’s really important for an artist to look out, look in, look out, look in,” said Xaviera Simmons, a New York-based artist whose work is currently on display at the Contemporary Arts Forum. Part art photography exhibition, part installation, and part study space, the show exemplifies Simmons’s interest in shifting perspectives-personal and universal, theoretical and experiential, popular and rarefied.

Stycking It

With more than 35 years of touring behind them, the mighty classic rock maniacs of Styx gave the greater Santa Barbara area a night of their best hits at the Chumash Casino on Thursday. Every song the five members played was accompanied by a crowd-sung chorus that filled the venue.

Daisy Inger 1994-2007

Iam Lee Stone. It is not important for you to remember me or know me. What is important is that I remember Daisy, the longest serving therapy dog at the Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara. Recently, she lay down her head as if to sleep and unexpectedly crossed over what pet lovers refer to as “the rainbow bridge.”

Goleta Gets a Do-Over

Negotiations over Goleta’s future, which have so far taken place out of the public eye, were ushered into the spotlight before a packed house at the Goleta City Council chambers on the evening of 3/5.

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