While you might get fed up with what your children are fed at school, few parents are like Amy Kalafa and Dr. Susan Rubin, who ended up making a film about their frustration. The pair, believing traditional school food programs have failed to safeguard the health of America’s children, started a grassroots revolution and produced the film Two Angry Moms, which you may have read about in the New York Times or heard of on KCRW’s Good Food.
1) What famous speech was given in November 1863?
Do you want to light the trees along Christmas Tree Lane in the Downtown Holiday Parade and appear as a special guest on the radio? Enter the 55th Annual Downtown Holiday Parade Prince & Fairy Contest! As the Holiday Prince or Fairy, you’ll lead the December 7 Holiday Parade and light the trees along the way with a magic wand. Runners-up get to ride in Santa’s sleigh.
Many towns can claim themselves as comfy nexuses of country music. There’s Bakersfield, which harbored Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard, or Austin, Texas, home to Willie Nelson and Alejandro Escovedo, among many others.
It’s bad enough I have to read about Britney Spears’s parenting failures in my entertainment magazines. I can’t get through an issue anymore without facing a photo of the former teen queen’s by-now-all-too-familiar upper thighs. Now-thanks very much-I have to smell her, too.
Actor Javier Bardem was added to the list of those to be honored at the 2008 Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Despite the drizzle, about 60 people came to the downtown Rally for Peace at Vera Cruz Park on 10/27.
The Emerson String Quartet took the Campbell Hall stage in their signature formation last Tuesday, with Philip Setzer and Eugene Drucker, violins, and Lawrence Dutton, viola, standing in a semicircle, and David Finckel, cello, seated on a platform, all facing the audience. By looking straight out at the audience, they’re challenging us to do more than just overhear them as they play-they want us to come with them on a trip to Russia, by way of Vienna.
UCSB announced on 10/25 that five of its academics were among the 471 awarded fellowships by the American Association for the Advancement of Science this year.
The magic number for Aaron Sharp and J.T. Service was 2:22:00-the time that would put them on the road to the Olympics. Sharp achieved it last December, finishing 10th at the California International Marathon in Sacramento in 2 hours, 20 minutes, and 24 seconds. Service broke the barrier in June, clocking 2:21:29 to place eighth at the Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota.
