If you’re worried about being able to squeeze into that dress or suit for the office holiday party, but there’s no way you’re giving up an extra helping of Mom’s peach cobbler, fight off those extra pounds this weekend with a heart-pumping hike.
Early in this latest Coen brothers film-a darkly funny, and then plainly dark adventure that ranks at the top of their films so far-our everyman protagonist (Josh Brolin) happens upon a grisly after-the-carnage scene.
GOLDEN STATE: The Muddy Waters Cafe (508 E. Haley St.) will host three different sets of traveling troubadours on Saturday, November 24: The Northern Two, The Mutineers, and Fast Heart Mart. While it would be easy to shove each one of these groups under the vague label heading of “indie rock,” that sort of description unfairly narrows the range of their quirky but poignant styles.
The Arlington crowd for this concert was so enthusiastic that there was a moment at the start of the second encore when it seemed as though it would not let Queen Latifah leave the building.
Much like the locations it features, Rachel Thurston’s soon-to-be-released travel guide is brimming with beauty, culture, and history. Featuring rich, bold images from Brooks Institute’s Chuck Place, The Beautiful Santa Ynez Valley falls somewhere between coffee-table book and well-organized brochure.
Get your voice heard. On Saturday mornings, from 11 a.m.-noon, progressive radio KIST 1340 AM’s Richard Dugan welcomes on-air guests to his new show. Contact richard@richarddugan.com or visit richarddugan.com.
Need a place to send the relatives and kids while the turkey’s roasting? At the S.B. Zoo (500 Ni±os Dr.) kids can feed giraffes and lorikeets and work up a healthy appetite. Receive $1 off admission if you bring a canned food item for the Zoo Food Drive! Hours today are 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Call 962-5339 for more info.
With no more than a cursory glance, you could be forgiven for overlooking the intricate visual perspective of Jeff Jones’s color photographs, now on view at the Milpas Street Corridan Gallery. What sets these images apart from other landscape photographs is the thoroughness of their vision.
The image of a firefighter battling the Zaca blaze, the largest forest fire in Santa Barbara County history, exemplifies what it means to be a hero. Our community is filled with heroes who do the extraordinary all the time, and The Independent celebrates their actions in its annual Local Heroes issue. (This year, it starts here.) Cover photo by Gene Blevins/Los Angeles Daily News/Corbis.
A semi truck carrying nitrogen-refrigerated liquid jackknifed on southbound Highway 101 just south of the Milpas Street off-ramp at around 2:30 p.m. on 11/15…
