History, like politics, makes for strange bedfellows. When Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown took his plans to relieve chronic overcrowding at the county jail to the Board of Supervisors this past Tuesday, he was responding to a chain of events set in motion 27 years ago by a convicted hitman named Dennis Boyd Miller.
The original leaders of the charge were there-including Bud Bottoms, Mark McGinnes, Paul Relis, and Estelle Foster…
It was forever ago, I know. But not so long ago that I’ve forgotten.
Orchid Fever! is the theme for the 63rd Santa Barbara International Orchid Show. As usual it is held at Earl Warren Showgrounds.
This Valentine’s Day, Solvang-based Web site thinkgiving.com is launching a video philanthropy contest; you can send a video thanking a person, charity, or organization for having a positive impact on your life.
Farmers market right to your front door every week!
It figures that Elements Restaurant and Bar (129 E. Anapamu St., 884-9218), named after the four states of matter-earth, wind, fire, water-would care about those very things.
Oh, Valentine’s Day. Every year, you come around and make those of us who don’t happen to be paired with someone else hyper-aware of our solitary condition.
After having murder charges against him dismissed last week, 15-year-old Ricardo Juarez pled not guilty on 2/11 to the same charges…
SENSUAL SEDUCTION: If Valentine’s Day has you feeling blue, come out of your shell on Friday, February 15, and enjoy the upbeat sound of Blue Turtle Seduction at SOhO (1221 State St.).
