Film Discusses Diminishing American Freedoms
On Friday, February 22, the Faulkner Gallery will be presenting a documentary by Frank Russo on the threat posed by the national identity card system and other privacy creeps.
Year: 2007
Double Record Release Party at SOhO
Santa Barbara-based indie label Corporate Nightmare holds a double party for the debut of two artists’ new albums: Zach Madden’s Don’t Come Back Too Small and The White Fires of Venus’s Skin and Light at SOhO on February 28.
Peel’s Self-Titled Release
Rachel Weight weighs in on Peel, an under-the-radar but soon-to-break indie band that’s been the talk of Austin following their 2006 debut.
Barney’s Weekend Picks
According to Barney, 
the best way to enjoy our recent spate of warm weather might just be spending the weekend relaxing in Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens. But for those dead set on going out, Santa Barbara offers a good weekend full of activties, from theatrical productions on stage to Oscar nominees on screen.
UCSB Students Protest War, Block Highway 217
What began as an anti-war protest centered in Isla Vista eventually sent UCSB students marching across campus and down the university’s main roadway entrance. There, protestors were met by California Highway Patrol officers who instructed them to march no further.
S.B. Teachers Protest Fails
More than 400 Santa Barbara School District teachers crashed the party at the S.B. School Board meeting Tuesday night hoping to break the stalemate in their current contract negotiations with the district. But despite the raucous, occasionally heated, and constantly high-energy union-organized demonstration, the two sides – still miles apart in their now several-month-old negotiation process – failed to reach an agreement during Wednesday’s eight-hour final round of state-mediated talks.
Mai Tai Museum?
Months after the closing of Jimmy’s Oriental Garden, Santa Barbara City Councilmembers debate the merits of turning the now-vacant building into a museum dedicated to the history of the city’s Chinese-American residents.
Attention Shoppers!
Home is where the style is: Punch Intérieur
(4950 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria) has an amazing new line of
textiles for the boudoir: Caressa Allen’s Luxury Lab Linens feature
fresh, edgy designs and boast 300 thread counts of the finest
Egyptian cotton.
Love Songs for Hire
A group of high school girls show off their singing skills and help spread Valentine’s Day love by renting out their voices. Whether it’s “I Say a Little Prayer for You” or “My Guy,” the Beach Girls can
Val Verde Book
Gail Jansen, executive director of the Austin Val Verde Foundation, will be signing copies of the book Austin Val Verde:
