CAF Home Raffle

The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum is at it again! CAF has recently launched its 4th Annual Million Dollar Home Raffle, which culminates with a drawing for either a beautiful million-dollar home in Santa Barbara or $1 million in cash.

Top Four Reasons Why You Can’t Miss Chuck D

It’s hard to believe in this day and age of blinged-out narcissistic rants that there was once a time when it seemed hip-hop music could save the world. The music was bold, fresh, and gave voice to a generation that so desperately needed to be heard and understood. Leading that charge was the militant, socially conscious sound of Long Island’s Public Enemy.

Young and Restless

In a bold demonstration against inhumane imprisonment, several Laguna Blanca upper school students gagged themselves and locked themselves in small

Q: “Did the temperance movement ever catch on here?”

The temperance movement, the campaign to outlaw liquor consumption, arrived in California riding a wave of controversy in the mid 1870s. Campaigns to install “local option” ordinances took place up and down the state and Santa Barbara was the scene of an especially lively battle between the “wets” and the “drys.”

Land and Sea

The slow and steady suck of muck from Santa Barbara harbor’s ocean floor is now underway, with all of the

Pick It Up

Mudkids’ Basementality: This Indianapolis hip-hop trio achieved some national recognition with a Colts-related song called “Go Blue,” but the band’s fourth record is the real reason America should take note.

Fat Tuesday Trivia

1) Who led the French exploration party that
landed 60 miles below New Orleans on Fat Tuesday in 1699 and named
the spot Pointe du Mardi Gras?

Roads More Traveled

Michael Self of Santa Barbara Safe Streets attracted about 70 transportation partisans from both sides of the “traffic calming” debate

New Developments

Three months after declaring bankruptcy on his plans to develop Ritz-Carlton condos on lower State Street, Bill Levy invited investors

Quote of the Week

‘This administration has taken arrogance, stubbornness, and incompetence to
new heights.’

–Lois Capps 23rd Congressional District representative

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