Michael was born in Santa Barbara to Rod and Crystal May. He grew up and lived most of his life in Santa Barbara, where he became a skilled craftsman in the construction industry. With his gentle, patient, sweet, and thoughtful way, to know Michael was truly to love him. Even with moviestar good looks, he was content to let others take the spotlight while he cheered from the sidelines.
In an unprecedented confluence of job openings in the performing arts, UCSB and SBCC are both looking to hire fulltime
Rumors ran wild last Thursday that federal authorities had raided two of Santa Barbara’s medical marijuana dispensaries. However, despite Thursday
Vandenberg Air Force Base reported that 26 members of its Air Force contingent were deployed to Southwest Asia – which includes Iraq
On Wednesday, February 14, one of the world’s great sopranos, Dawn Upshaw, will grace the stage of the Lobero, along with pianist Molly Morkoski. Upshaw began her career at the Metropolitan Opera in 1984, and soon became known for her warm, rich tone and her ability to take on an enormous range of challenging roles in operas by Mozart, Stravinsky, and Poulenc, among many others. More recently, she has collaborated with composers on new operas, including John Harbison’s The Great Gatsby, Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin, and Osvaldo Golijov’s chamber opera Ainadamar, which she performed at the Ojai Music Festival last June. I recently spoke with Upshaw in anticipation of her Valentine’s Day concert.
In announcing the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts’ founding in England, Boy Scouts of America executive Justin Jepson told
Santa Barbara’s first municipal street lighting system was established in 1872, with the introduction of gas lights in portions of the downtown area. Yet this was not the first attempt to illuminate the city’s streets. The first attempt dates back to 1852, two years after Santa Barbara officially became an American city.
A week after reporter Anna Davison was fired, a half-dozen of her colleagues went before work to the Anapamu Street pedestrian bridge above Highway 101, holding a banner over the side that read, “Cancel your newspaper today!” That was on the morning of Friday, February 2. The following Monday, reporters Dawn Hobbs, Rob Kuznia, and Barney McManigal were called one by one into a conference room where associate editor Scott Steepleton and an attorney asked whether they had taken part in the banner display. Each answered yes and was handed a brief letter explaining that they were being terminated for disloyalty.
Thu., Feb. 8
UCSB Panel Discussion: UCSB faculty members Lisa Hajjar, Kaia Stern, Avery Gordon, Richard Falk, and Russell Samolsky present Teaching Human Rights: Torture and America’s Future (Part I). 4pm. McCune Conference Rm., Humanities & Social Sciences Bldg., 6th Fl., UCSB. Visit www.complit.ucsb.edu/projects/tortureandthefuture/events.html.
Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore star in a film written by Karen Leigh Hopkins and Jessie Nelson and directed by Michael Lehmann.
Because I Said So may just dish up a double-layer cake of poetic justice. Firstly, the mother/daughter characters of this fluffy, frothy comedy are bakers/caterers by trade, and of course, there’s a recurring gag of a cake dropping and splattering. Alas, the joke is unfunny the first time, let alone the last, and many of the other actual joke content in the film arrives DOA. In the script about a well-meaning but meddlesome mother (Diane Keaton) and her chatty catch of a daughter (Mandy Moore), the feel-good cliche pistons are working overtime, and you generally wonder if the film was released in this off-season for a reason.
