Bridlewood Estate Winery
It will be three years ago this month that the powerful and driven Gallo family purchased Bridlewood Estate Winery.
Year: 2007
Youth Movements
In the fictitious criminal case People vs. Campbell, the San Marcos High School mock trial team took out private high school Laguna Blanca to take home top honors in this year’s regional Santa Barbara competition.
Renaissance Man
Poet, essayist, artist, and above all, pianist Alfred Brendel will play the Lobero Theatre next week, and the rest of us will just have to try to do our jobs adequately. The concert features works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert-as it should, for Brendel is well-known as one of the world’s great interpreters of all four composers.
30 Years After
OPEN LETTER TO CRAZED VISIONARY JAZZ FANS: Okay, shit happens to the best of us. So do typos. This scribe still cringes at the memory of stating in an Allman Brothers review that Butch Trucks was one of the band members who had died-rather than original bassist Berry Oakley.
Quote of the Week
‘Mr. Rove is still on the presidential payroll.’
-Former ambassador Joseph Wilson, husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame, on President Bush’s promise to rid the White House of all leakers of CIA identities.
Gaucho Gossip
UCSB is considering a bid for the construction of Loma Paloma, an addition to the Manzanita Village dorm project that would include student facilities like lounges and spaces for recreational activities.
1st Thursday Peeps
As a recovering Gaucho, I’m a big fan of Thursdays: They were the unofficial start of the weekend (assuming, of course, I’d taken off Wednesday night), but comparatively mellow, and the tourist factor was kept to a minimum.
Turning the Other Cheek on Spanking
Americans have an odd relationship with corporal punishment. On the one hand, we are an enlightened country that professes civil rights for all citizens. We don’t allow business owners to beat their workers. We no longer tolerate husbands who wallop their wives.
Rock of the Ages
If waltzing one’s way through the previous thousand years of popular music wasn’t a daunting enough prospect, being a significant part of the next musical era surely must be. But if anyone can pull it off, Richard Thompson can.
A New Blueprint
As of March 1, there’s a new contemporary art gallery in town-the current endeavor of local art dealer Edward Cella. Many know the young art connoisseur as the gallery director at Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, where he worked for 11 yea
