Beach Sampling Results, Oct. 11
One beach at warning level in this week’s report.
Year: 2010
Maldonado Strengthens Coastal Protection
He signs an executive order at Tuesday’s Goleta Beach ceremony.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
While it lacks the strength of earlier Fleck/Boden films, this film offers enough quirky goodness and emo warmth to make for a decent night at the movies.
Symphony Opens Season As Director Announces Departure
Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony John Robinson has said that he will resign his post in order to relocate to San Francisco.
Ballet Santa Barbara Gives Us the Kid-Friendly Show of the Week
The company prepares to perform four shows at the Lobero Theater; one for the public, three for school children.
New Aerial Dance Studio La Petite Chouette
Santa Barbara’s first aerial dance studio trains students to defy gravity; owner Ninette Paloma has extensive training in gymnastics, dance, and circus arts.
Whodidelicious
Wendy Jones’s yummy world of Whodidily Cupcakes grows.
Santa Barbara’s Sole Certified Cicerone
Zachary Rosen is world’s youngest sommelier of beer; plus, upcoming brew events.
Expecting Different Result?
Since 1980, California has built 23 prisons and one university. This construction has been matched by harsher sentences, increased policing, and a shift in financial priorities from health and human services to policing and prisons. These changes have caused the prison population to go from 20,000 to 170,000, proving that the number of cages determines the number of people locked in them.
Cease Early Release
All of the last four Sheriffs (Carpenter, Thomas, Anderson and Bill Brown) have struggled under a court order that forced them to release criminals from jail before their sentences were finished, solely because of an inadequately sized jail system.
