It seems that the coolest clubs are always the hardest to find. Travel north to San Fran or south to L.A., and you can spend the length of a band’s entire set wandering some dark back alley, searching for a specific colored door among a stretch of concrete walls or a doorman lurking in the shadows.
ON THE COVER: This week’s issue of The Indy covers the weekly (or, sometimes, nightly) practice of hitting up S.B.’s favorite watering holes, from where to boogie or imbibe to how S.B. partied back in the day. Go HERE to read all about it. Cover illustration by Jason Crosby.
Early last month, the first blue whale of the season was spotted in the waters of the Santa Barbara Channel: an approximately 70-foot leviathan spied by passengers on an Island Packers boat near Santa Cruz Island.
Bone marrow drive • Polynesian food, dance, music, and culture • Texas Hold ‘Em Poker Tournament
‘I would like to know more about one of Santa Barbara’s early doctors, Belle Reynolds.’ -Paula Sanderson
A review of this Santa Barbara bakery that’s “hot spot with a choice for everyone.”
Corktree Cellars Wine Bar and Bistro (910 Linden Avenue, Carpinteria, 684-1400) has recently nestled in downtown Carpinteria.
1. What year was the first audio radio broadcast playing the first record transmitted?
20,000
In Bernardo Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty, the director trained his camera extensively on Liv Tyler’s then-teenaged countenance, to the point where the film seemed a meditation on the elusive nature of beauty, the bridge between innocence and experience, and the contours of this particular woman’s face.
