BORN AGAIN: Lyrics Born (aka Tom Shimura) is a hugely influential rapper in the underground community. His work more than 10 years ago with Lateef in the Latyrx duo was one of the myriad achievements of the Bay Area hip-hop collective known as SoleSides, which also included DJ Shadow and Blackalicious.
Montecito’s Miramar Hotel and Resort has generated a long history in Santa Barbara, leaving many fond memories in the community.
On Saturday, March 10 at 10 a.m. inside Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort, CALM (Child Abuse Listening and Mediation) is hosting its Celebrity Authors’ Luncheon, which features Q&As and book-signings with writers big and small.
Times are tough in the Santa Barbara School District. With declining enrollment having progressed from a troubling trend to a harsh reality, the task of balancing budgets in both the elementary and high school districts has grown exponentially more difficult.
Thu., Mar. 8
Wonder Woman: Marketing expert Jane Applegate speaks as part of the campus celebration of International Women’s Day. 5pm. UCSB’s Student Resource Bldg. Email sharon.hoshida@sa.ucsb.edu.
Quiz: Dog Daze
Flowers have been around for more than 100 million years, and although humans have been able to bend them to our will to a small extent, they have evolved with other issues in mind besides providing us with eye candy.
Joe Wilson will never get his wish to watch President George W. Bush’s longtime political advisor Karl Rove “perp walked into jail” for telling reporters that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was an undercover CIA operative.
As a small crowd of curious onlookers stepped back, Jesus Arroyo bent over a sheet-covered cage containing a frightened skunk. Maintenance workers at a huge Isla Vista apartment complex had trapped the skunk after it destroyed some stored mattresses and made a nest in an electrical cabinet.
Q: ‘Who was Anna McCaughey?’
