With eyes on more than 400 environmental and safety concerns, the U.S. Coast Guard officially stopped the clock last week on the approval process for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project planned for the southern stretches of the Santa Barbara Channel.
A doom-and-gloom forecast of Santa Barbara County’s fiscal status from staff-echoed by 3rd District Supervisor Brooks Firestone-preceded efforts by the Board of Supervisors during its November 6 meeting to approve what it could from a lengthy list of expansion requests remaining from June’s budget hearings.
Former Santa Barbara School Board member and recent mayoral candidate Lanny Ebenstein prevailed in court Monday in a dispute with his tenants, who had charged that Ebenstein evicted them in retaliation for their complaints about the condition of their 27-room rental home on Glendessary Lane.
Since its plot unfolds in scenes arranged out of chronological order, one can’t help but wonder why the first shot of Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead had to be the one depicting Phillip Seymour Hoffman baring his ass and thrusting atop Marisa Tomei in some of the most mechanical lovemaking ever glimpsed in a movie.
Members of the Santa Barbara chapter of Veterans for Peace commemorated four years of the Arlington West war memorial in its usual location by Stearns Wharf on 11/4.
Theater is back and in full swing this season, and, at least in Santa Barbara, thespians are out to prove that taking in a play isn’t just for Mom and Dad. With a number of fun, divergent entertainment choices currently rolling through town, we encourage you to grab the kids and head on out to some of these children-friendly productions.
Exactly 100 years ago, a seasoned cowboy boarded a train for New York, hoping to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional artist. When he returned to his native California a dozen years later, Edward Borein was considered by many to be among the finest interpreters of the American West, an artist whose depictions of cowboys, Native Americans, and the rapidly disappearing culture of the Old West were valued as much for their accuracy as for their artistic merit.
Few plays have as tangled a history as Woyzeck, the acclaimed Late Romantic masterpiece by tragically short-lived playwright and agitator Georg B¼chner. B¼chner packed about as much literature, philosophy, and risk-taking into his 23 years as it is possible to imagine. And Woyzeck is the distillation of his precocious genius, a play that anticipates Brecht and Marx by decades while fulfilling the German Romantic quest for a drama to rival Shakespeare’s force, tension, and propulsion.
A congressional subcommittee hearing was held at UCSB on 11/3 to discuss reauthorizing the U.S. Marine Sanctuaries Act. Passed in 1972
UCSB’s third STAGE (Scientists, Technologists, and Artists Generating Exploration) International Script Competition is underway, and science-minded playwrights are encouraged to submit their script by the December 31 deadline.
