Don Miller sat riveted to his television, watching wind-blown embers dance fire through Malibu and San Diego. As he watched, his temper smoldered. “I just kept thinking how the hell I would get my family out if we had a firestorm like that here in Montecito,” Miller said.
KJEE Morning Show co-host Adam Lundquist conducted an interview-also broadcast on YouTube-with Los Angeles Clippers point guard Sam Cassell.
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PICTURE BOOK RAPTURE, TRUCKER DIVISION: Kim Reierson is a onetime and still sometime Santa Barbaran whose photographs have a way of being cool and beguiling and deceptively casual. Her photographic gifts arrived weekly when she was in the hot seat as The Independent‘s photographer in the ,90s, and she mixed such treats as a photo essay on local lowrider culture in with her assigned pictures.
Jeffrey Alan Mira, 37-charged with burglary for opening an ATM at the Santa Barbara Bowl on 10/13-was apprehended by police on 10/29 during a traffic stop in Lompoc.
Ann Detrick will take over as the new head of Santa Barbara County’s Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services Department on 1/2/08.
Halloween celebrations in Isla Vista this weekend carried an arrest tally of 200, with 275 citations issued.
World’s Richest Cop: Back when I was a kid growing up in Chicago, the town harbored “the richest cop in the world.” Daniel “Tubbo” Gilbert was a brutal thug, dirty police captain, corrupt union boss, crooked district attorney’s investigator, Mafia henchman, and political fixer. And reputedly worth millions.
With the hustle and bustle of midday Milpas Street traffic providing an unexpected backdrop, 14 tons of syrah grapes arrived on Santa Barbara’s Eastside last week, their sweet, intoxicating aroma detectable from several blocks away. Grown in the sun-kissed climate of the Santa Ynez Valley and plucked fat from the vine just hours before, crate after crate of the deeply hued purple delights were being forklifted off a flat-bed truck parked on Montecito Street just outside Jaffurs Wine Cellars, which received the delivery into its state-of-the-art production facility for the next step in the fruit’s seasonal journey.
Big Tom’s Backyard BBQ at Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez was the destination of choice for area motorcyclists on 10/27, as it hosted a fundraiser benefiting the tri-counties’ youth projects designed to deter gang activity.
