The Passion Flower and Fruit
“Don’t judge a book by its cover” is an old adage that everybody understands to mean that the outer appearance of something may not be wholly indicative of what’s inside.
Year: 2008
vol. 22, no. 128, June 26-July 3, 2008
The culture of abalone diving saw its heyday in the 1970s, and even though sea snail searching will never again be the same, a San Miguel Island fishery may be in the works.
Beach Style
For our Beach Style issue, Indy photographer Jen Villa hit the sands taking snapshots of the men, women, and children in their swimming togs enjoying hot fun in the summertime.
Solstice Peeps
Certain things are better when they’re only brought out for special occasions, like that ultra-hot pair of undies, or the vampy “I Am Not a Waitress” shade of nail polish, or daytime drinking, or grown men in spandex :
S Is for : Square One
If you want to go to a fine dinner where you will be both surprised and pleased, you can’t beat what Chef Jason Tuley is doing at Square One.
21st Annual Santa Barbara Wine Festival
A lovely lazy afternoon can’t get much lovelier or lazier than when you get to enjoy the offerings from 60 different wineries and 15 different restaurants and bakeries.
This Week in History
The first Newbery Medal, honoring the year’s best children’s book, is presented to The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon.
Greening Grasses
Certainly one of the sneak-attack highlights of last year’s musical calendar in Santa Barbara was the early summer’s night at SOhO when Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet showed up and demonstrated for us one possible future for progressive bluegrass music.
Republican Tony Strickland Offers a Stark Alternative to Hannah-Beth Jackson
Tony Strickland made his political bones at the age of 10, when he performed a star turn as Ronald Reagan in his fourth-grade class’s 1980 presidential election.
County 6-26
Record-breaking dry temperatures along the Central Coast have required the Santa Barbara County Fire Department to increase the number of firefighters on hand in order to ensure that all three of the Type III firefighting engines have extra staff through the remainder of the fire season.
