The Spices of Life
Aparna Khanolkar teaches Ayurvedic cooking to Santa Barbara.
Year: 2008
Holy Guaca-moly!
The awesome avocado gets its own tribute at the 22nd Annual California Avocado Festival.
Environment 10-2
Looking to fortify the state’s authority over oil spillers, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger approved five pieces of legislation, including one authored by Santa Barbara Assemblymember Pedro Nava.
Three Reasons to Dig Poetry at the S.B. Poetry Series at CAF
Now in its 11th year, the Santa Barbara Poetry Series regularly hosts readings by area poets and visiting ones, both those whose work has received national recognition and those who are just getting started.
News-Press Loses SLAPP Suit
The Santa Barbara News-Press and its owner, Wendy McCaw, lost a legal tussle over the First Amendment last week in Orange County, where a Superior Court judge affirmed that none of the 33 alleged libelous statements contained in Susan Paterno’s December 2006 American Journalism Review article “Santa Barbara Smackdown” were provably false.
Fellowship to Aid UCSB Student in Studying Population Activity
Research could help in evacuation emergencies, resource allocation.
Media 10-2
The same week as Coastal Woman publisher Barbara Lanz-Mateo announced that the women’s interest magazine had ended its six-year run-due, in part, to economic stresses that Lanz-Mateo alluded to in an open letter published on the magazine’s Web site-it was announced that a Santa Barbara-specific edition of the North American and European Edible magazine chain will begin.
Cesaria Evora’s Unforgettable Voice Transcends Nostalgia
Does the soul of a song lie in literal meaning, in which case the listener must understand the song’s language?
Beach Town, Oil Town, or Something in Between?
The seaside city of Carpinteria finds itself at a crossroads: Will it live forever as a tourist-dependent and farmer-friendly beach town or will it accept the big money bequests of oil, and allow a towering drill in the middle of town?
Take Me Out presented by Ensemble Theatre Company.
If Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is the sprawling canonical epic of the new gay theater, then Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out, which is now being given a splendid production at the Ensemble Theatre under the direction of Jonathan Fox, may be its most important tragicomic sequel.
