We’ve got free tickets to give away to The Animation Show, the animated short film extravaganza that comes to Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre next Tuesday, January 16. So come inside, answer our easy questions, and win free tickets.
The former home of Hibachi on Milpas is a quaint, colorful place for some of the best Mexican food in town.
In a sternly yet clear December 27, 2006 letter to Stanton L. Stein, the attorney hired by News-Press owner Wendy McCaw (pictured) to sue newspapers and magazines (including The Santa Barbara Independent), the American Journalism Review‘s attorney flatly refused to run a retraction of the article on the News-Press meltdown written by Susan Paterno.
A boycott of the Daily Nexus, UCSB’s student paper, is being considered by some members of student government who object to the paper’s running of an advertisement for the former Cedarwood apartments.
Though this week’s city council meeting saw the possible allocation of further Granada Theatre money pushed back to Ja. 30, future requests may be bet with stipulations from city councilmembers.
In the hushed chambers of Santa Barbara’s U.S. Bankruptcy Court, developer Bill Levy‘s intricately crafted house of cards came crashing quietly down late Thursday morning, leaving a small army of investors and creditors holding an empty bag on $90 million worth of promises.
Ownership and day-to-day management of seven stations will transfer on Jan. 16 to the Rincon Broadcasting.
Sitting in the terraced garden of Fred Sidon’s gracious Hope Ranch home, Philippe Larrieu looked and acted every inch the career French diplomat, from the correctness of his attire to the charm and intelligence of his conversation.
Never one to win a popularity contest amongst his fellow Santa Barbara School boardmembers, Bob No»l was once again on the hot seat last Tuesday as he officially pitched his plans for a new charter high school. Last month, No»l shocked the board with the announcement that he had received nearly $500,000 in state start-up funds to create a new charter school.
In the singular Perry Mason moment of the Santa Barbara News-Press case against the Teamsters, embattled editorial page editor Travis Armstrong on Tuesday all but accused lead Teamster organizer Marty Keegan of stalking him. In a federal hearing room, Armstrong testified he was the acting publisher at the time of the suspicious incidentpublishers Wendy McCaw and Arthur Von Wiesenberger having left for the Mediterranean-and that he was having trouble sleeping.
