Citizen’s Alert
Thu., Feb. 22
Gimme Shelter: The Affordable Housing Task Group will discuss the El Carrillo housing project. Noon. Townley Rm., Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Email Linda Dunn at ldunn@santabarbaraca.gov.
Year: 2007
Opera Santa Barbara presents Rigoletto at the Verdi Festival
A Conversation with Maestro Valery Ryvkin
This weekend, the second annual Santa Barbara Opera Festival, Giuseppe Verdi edition, presents Rigoletto at the Lobero Theatre on Saturday night. Next week, the festival will continue with Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, or “The Masked Ball.”
Roads More Travelled
Taking a first step toward converting to biodiesel, the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District voted on February 13 to start
The Blue Agave
After working up a small appetite discussing wedding photography, I asked for an appetizer menu and mulled over the choices. Though at first I was slightly dismayed by what seemed to be uncreative bar bites-have my taste buds been spoiled by our town’s uber creative chefs?
Mickey’s Malt Liquor
Maybe you were thinking this column would only be for the finer drinks in life. Nope. Even malt liquor and the 40 oz. bottle gets plays here.
Searching for Love, Sex, and Everything In Between
Welcome to “Sex, Love, & Santa Barbara,” Independent.com‘s new online dating column. Here, our nicely pseudonym-ed dating fanatic Chasseur d’Homme (who we’ll call “Chassy” for short) will be telling tales from her love life and looking to her readers for advice. It’s the first interactive dating column we’ve ever heard about, so we’re stoked to have Chassy ready to throw her personal life to the whims of you folks while she searches for that perfect man. What follows is her welcome column, and we’ll get her first official column up real soon. Feel free to post your advice as a comment below, or just send her an email at dating@independent.com. Thanks for reading!
Hopeful Health News
All health-related news doesn’t necessarily mean bad news. Dr. Michael Seabaugh discusses various studies indicating what modern science is looking into as possible measures for prolonging and bettering human life-sometimes through means that aren’t half bad.
Foosball in Samoa del Sur
Proving that there is life after ear infections, Captain Liz gets back in the saddle again after returning stateside for medical relief. Not yet 100 percent but speeding fast on the road to recovery, Liz returns to Costa Rica and dives headlong into repairs, paper work and an international match of foosball.
Speaking of Stories Gets Romantic
The Speaking of Stories series makes with the love on Valentine’s Day with readings by T.C. Boyle, Faline England and Dan Gunther.
Going Gay: Why Should Preachers Have All the Fun?
I’m bored to tears with being straight.
It seems all the really cool people these days are gay: T.R. Knight from Grey’s Anatomy. Sarah Paulson from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother. From NBA player John Amaechi to ‘N Sync heartthrob Lance Bass, it’s in to be out.
