Environment 12-24
Environmentalists-and two “bag monsters” representing the 500 plastic bags the average American uses annually-protested the use of such bags outside Santa Barbara City Hall on 12/18.
Year: 2008
Get Your Pom Red
Time to get your fix of the maroon-globed fruit.
Elliott Carter Turns 100
American composer Elliott Carter is still making music as he enters his second century.
Give a Little
Goleta Valley Beautiful needs volunteers to plant acorns for the next generation of oak trees at the organization’s greenhouse (UCSB’s Devereux Campus) on Saturday, December 27, and Saturday, January 3, from 9 a.m.-noon. Call 685-7910 for more info or to RSVP for the project.
Law and Disorder 12-24
A 12/21 car crash near the Alisal Guest Ranch and Resort in the Santa Ynez Valley killed Solvang resident Michael Earnest Moore, 17, and injured an 18-year-old woman.
East Beach Art Show
Every Sunday starting at 10 a.m., head down to East Beach (Cabrillo Blvd. at Stearns Wharf) for an amazing display of painting, sculptures, and other fantastic creations by more than 250 local artisans.
Geisha Secrets
As a foreign exchange college student in Japan, Liza Dalby didn’t realize she would be setting the course of her adult career-studying geisha culture.
Fishbon’s Art of Participatory Celebration
To know what something like Fishbon is really like, you have to actually do whatever it is they are up to.
Meet the Purple Hands of Santa Barbara
Assistant winemakers gather for second annual tasting dinner.
Hazy Outlook
Next week, mosaic artist Betsy Gallery’s cloud artwork exhibit, Shiny Tempters Formed of Air, Symbols of Desire, will roll into S.B.’s Gallery 113.
