Intrepid Reporter Saves Forgotten Generation
Former News-Press writer Jeff Gordinier releases his pop culture epic X Saves the World with a Chaucer’s appearance.
Year: 2008
Philip Levine
When Philip Levine got up to lead the masterclass at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference Poetry Conference last Sunday, he began by telling the audience that writers’ conferences are a bad idea.
Laurie Anderson Brings Homeland to Campbell Hall
Stories are so powerful that it’s a wonder people don’t put more effort into them.
Tragic Notes
Herb Peterson, the man credited with inventing the McDonald’s Egg McMuffin breakfast sandwich, died on 3/25 in Santa Barbara at age 89.
JAIME OF ALL TRADES
Jaime Diaz admitted early on that he’s “a bit of a workaholic,” but all he needed to do was list his various employers and we would’ve believed him.
Scene and Heard
While the weekend may have appeared a fairly quiet one in terms of the where to go, whom to see, and what to do, it also made for plenty of less-than-obvious musical meanderings.
Goodies from the Garden
At Vieja Valley Elementary School, children are learning that sometimes the best things in life do grow on trees.
This Week in History
The first Pony Express mail simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. The Missouri team, finishing in 10 days, beats the Sacramento team by two days.
vol. 22, no. 116, Apr. 3-10, 2008
It’s what every actor dreams ofgetting that big break in a film you really believe in.
Three Reasons to Venture From Streets to Studio with Project Renaissance
No one was prepared to deal with the great travesty that took place on March 14, 2007, when our quiet, seaside streets were ransacked with a horrific incident of gang-related violence.
