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Year: 2008
Seeing Stars
If you’re looking for ideas for a more secular family outing this season, head on over to the Ty Warner Sea Center at the S.B. Museum of Natural History (211 Stearns Wharf) to take part in the latest of their Species 101 educational series.
Give a Little
Back Yard Harvest, SkyLine Construction, and Silver Services Landscaping are promoting and organizing a community event to help re-forest the area burned in the Tea Fire.
City 12-18
The Santa Barbara City Council on 12/16 voted to replace outgoing Planning Commission member George Myers with longtime slow-growth proponent and former Santa Barbara mayor Sheila Lodge.
Get Classical, Santa Barbara
The quality of classical music offerings in Santa Barbara is world class, and it’s never too late to open your ears to it.
How Gourmet Was My Valley
A survey of the grocery stores in the Santa Ynez Valley.
The Christmas Revels
All holiday shows draw to some extent on traditions that stretch back further than the stage and extend outward into the audience.
Neal Graffy’s Street Names of Santa Barbara
A sense of the past hangs over Santa Barbara like a strong perfume, but by the time most residents can differentiate between the Carrillos and Castillos-or discover that former Mexican Governor Micheltorena’s poor battle record was caused by a killer case of ‘rhoids-they’ve been forced out of town by the one-two punch of Santa Barbara’s astronomical housing prices and low paying jobs.
Carl Herman 1910-2008
Carl Herman was my grandfather, born in 1910 and raised on a farm in Kansas.
A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley at the Granada
Among the most intriguing aspects of the Granada’s mission statement is a pledge to become the originating organization for large-scale, professional theater.
