vol. 22, no. 141, Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 2008
Probably the scariest thing Sam Kornell (right) learned while researching for this week’s cover story about climate change, he said, was how sharply the Sierra snowpack is projected to diminish.
Year: 2008
Sex and the Single Second Baseman
Take Me Out Pulls Baseball Out of the Closet
City 9-25
The city’s Ordinance Committee took its first steps toward creating a measure to rival the strict 40- to 45-foot height-limit measure for downtown buildings, which is slated to appear on the November 2009 ballot.
Why Climate Change Could Wither Santa Barbara Agriculture
For 40 years, Richard Sanford has grown some of Santa Barbara’s most admired pinot noir wine grapes
Igor
Beginning screenwriters spend inordinate amounts of time worrying whether they are original enough.
Todd Hannigan at SOhO
Globetrotter of the Week
Law and Disorder 9-25
Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 84-year-old James Wheeler on 9/17 on charges of trying to murder his dementia-stricken wife, Betty, and also commit suicide by filling their home with carbon monoxide via a hose attached to a running car in their driveway.
Gerald Locklin Receives Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poet Fellowship
Charles Bukowski once called Gerald Locklin “one of the greatest undiscovered talents of our times.
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I Remember You
Like the musical theater from which it draws its repertoire, the fantasy world of the piano bar encourages accents and costumes; it thrives on passion and longing, and it doesn’t ask any nosy questions about who one really is or what one is doing there.
