Food not Lawns
Author Heather Flores’s picture of an urban utopia looks more like a Fruitopia.
Year: 2008
Jeannine’s Opens in La Arcada Court
Santa Barbara’s beloved bakery opens a downtown location.
Reflections on Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World
When the triumvirate of legendary adventurers Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Roald Amundsen initiated and, 20 years later in 1917, ended the so-called “Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration,” the last corner of our globe was checked off the undiscovered list, and those hoping to grow up to be explorers were immediately out of luck.
World Series Now?
Santa Barbara sports fans discuss why postseason baseball drags on into football season.
Kristi Becker
Clarence Barlow’s name is well known in avant-garde contemporary classical circles, especially within the bit of the Venn diagram where North Indian overlaps with computer-generated music.
Concert for a Cause
SOhO Restaurant & Music Club (1221 State St.) will host a special night of music benefiting S.B.’s Glendon Association on Sunday, October 12, at 8 p.m.
Richard Leaky Talks Extinction
If you’ve ever wanted to hear a controversial and world-renowned paleontologist, wildlife conservationist, Kenyan political figure, and climate-change expert share his words of wisdom on the state of the world, here is your chance.
Shannon Griggs
Friendly and quick to smile, Shannon Griggs is a recent addition to The Independent‘s advertising staff.
Education 10-9
The Massachusetts-based Minerva Biotechnologies announced on 10/4 the discovery that the protein MUC1* functions as a growth receptor on human embryonic stem cells that can stimulate cellular differentiation, produce all the different cell types of an organism without producing a complete organism, and prevent spontaneous differentiation.
Chinese Bell at the Vedanta Temple
Chinese Bell at the Vedanta Temple
