Fresco Cafe North Opens in Goleta
Fresco owners Mark and Jill Brouillard have tasted success with their always crowded Five Points, but their attempts to open new locations have not quite experienced the same following.
Year: 2008
Tibetan Lama Visits Santa Barbara
For centuries, Tibetan Buddhists have practiced a unique brand of Buddhism in their high-altitude corner of the Far East, remote from contact with most outsiders until fairly recently.
Three Reasons to Come Together for 2008’s Unity Tour
In July 2006, consummate eclectics 311 took to the road alongside Pepper and the world-renowned Wailers for what would become the band’s inaugural Summer Unity Tour.
The Quirky Cafe Quackenbush
In 1998, Ralph QuackenÂ-bush saw charm and potential in an old building on Bell Street in Los Alamos that had once housed the town’s General Store.
Positively State Street
While Crosby, Stills & Nash and Brandi Carlile spent their recent time in Santa Barbara representin’ for the good ole U-S-of-A with their similar but divergent forays into American folk rock, last week’s offerings from Club Mercy took a decidedly different-and undeniably worldly-approach to things.
WORD Isla Vista Arts & Culture Mag
“In I.V., the population is always continuous. It changes like every four years,” said D.J. Palladino, a volunteer adviser for Isla Vista’s newest arts and culture periodical, WORD.
80-Year-Old Bert Shaw Completes the AIDS Ride; Plus, Santa Barbara’s RAAM Riders
Abad accident turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to Bert Shaw.
News to Yous
On June 12, the National Endowment for the Arts released a study that named the Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc metropolitan area as the nation’s ninth-largest concentration of working artists.
Pride Goeth Before the Dog
When it comes to golf, I don’t know a birdie from a bogey. It ain’t my game.
Give a Little
Shop for cool deals and super savings while supporting the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History (956 Maple St.).
