2007 - Page 482 of 521 - The Santa Barbara Independent

Opinion By Matt Kettmann

Wake Up Wendy (McCaw) Wednesday!

CORRECTION: The date of this protest, which is being organized by the community and not the former employees, is February 21, not February 14 as first reported. There will be a Valentine’s Day protest on February 14, but it will be the normal sort of protest that’s been happening for the past week. For many Santa Barbarans who once enjoyed reading an informative daily newspaper called the News-Press (whose website has also started majorly hiccuping today), Wednesday, February 21, will be the day to have their voices heard. That’s because on Wednesday, February 21, at noon, there’s a large protest being planned for De la Guerra Plaza, directly in front of the headquarters for the once esteemed, now internationally tarnished newspaper.

Columns By The Gervitz School

The Doubting Illness: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Though once thought a rarity in American minds, research has showd that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is more common that most realize. Fortunately, help exists from those plagued by unwanted thoughts.

Opinion By Drew Mackie

News-Press Protesters March to Cappello

Protesters marched from De La Guerra Plaza to the sidewalk beneath News-Press attorney Barry Cappello today to express their anger at this week’s firings. Videos included.

Opinion By Drew Mackie

Alleged News-Press Threats Incur Charge of Unfair Labor Practices

Union supporters officially filed a charge of unfair labor practices against the News-Press for what they say are threats made by the paper’s lawyer, Barry Cappello.

Uncategorized By Bojana Hill

Songs from a Marriage

A Time for Love

At the Rubicon Theatre, Saturday, February 3.
This musical valentine is a witty, charming, and poignant story of love and marriage created by Tony-award winner Richard Maltby Jr. and Grammy- and Academy Award-winner David Shire. The two artists may know something about successful relationships, apart from a conventional marriage, as they have successfully collaborated for almost 50 years. The audience’s warm response to A Time for Love suggested they identified with the show’s universal message, which is that love and marriage are unpredictable.

Uncategorized By Indy Staff

Renewing an Old, Deep Groove

The Spanish Harlem Orchestra Serves Authentic Salsa, New York-style

When the skilled veteran pianist/arranger Oscar Hernandez first assembled the Spanish Harlem Orchestra in 2000, the underlying energy was partly nostalgic. He wanted to recreate the powerful sound of real salsa, deep and feisty stuff that has not been watered down for mass consumption-the kind he used to play while growing up in New York City.

By Indy Interns

Arts Commission Hosts Symposium

This year’s installment of the annual event – hosted this year at the Cabrillo Arts Pavilion – will focus on sustainable funding models and ways to improve access to the arts in schools under the current “No Child Left Behind” Act.

Uncategorized By Elizabeth Schwyzer

In the End, They Will Listen

The Island presented by Market Theatre of Johannesburg

Written in 1970s South Africa in the midst of apartheid, Athol Fugard’s The Island is a play about righteous defiance and is itself an act of defiance.

By Charles Donelan

Somewhere There’s Music

UCSB’s Arts & Lectures rewarded the faithful on Tuesday evening with a return concert by Bobby McFerrin, this time leading his extraordinary 12-voice choir, Voicestra. McFerrin is moving so fast right now that it’s hard to keep up with him. Of all the wonderful concerts I have attended in Santa Barbara in recent months, this one provoked the most outright disbelief from the audience. People left the theater actually asking each other, “How did they do that?” It was like a magic act.

Uncategorized By D.J. Palladino

Suffer the Children

The Messengers

Kristen Stewart, Penelope Miller, and Dylan McDermott star in a film written by Mark Wheaton and directed by the Pang Brothers.
Horror connoisseurship is at a weird juncture right now. The dominant U.S. studios and distributors have betrayed the fans by insisting on PG-13 ratings to get teens into the theaters, thereby defanging everything. Who knows if vertiginously terrifying films can be made in America, the land that gave us The Exorcist and Lady in White? On the other hand, the emerging new masters of the form, like Takashi Miike, Hideo Nakata, and our own Eli Roth work in an irrational vein, which is not readily identified by big fans as classic horror.

Year: 2007