Eating Fiesta, Barney-Style
Here’s Barney Brantingham’s guide to the food booths in El Mercado and El Mercado del Norte.
Barney Brantingham
Recent Stories
Newspaper Wars and a College Food Fight
As political prankster Dick Tuck wisecracked in a 1966 concession speech, “The people have spoken, the bastards.”
Santa Barbara: The New Monaco?
A few of us were whooping it up wildly over non-fat, non-dairy desserts the other night when it occurred to someone that it’s high time Santa Barbara became a principality.
La Patera Elementary Reunion
About 30 of the Goleta school’s first students after it opened in 1964, gathered there Friday, July 22, 2011, to open a time capsule.
Who Was Jane Doe?
Our columnist ponders the mystery surrounding the dead girl at the center of Sue Grafton’s Q Is for Quarry.
To Venice with Love
The most famous quote about Venice was coined by humorist Robert Benchley, who after arriving sent this telegram: “Streets Full of Water. Please Advise.”
Take Barney’s Kulture Kwiz
Who’s Glen Annie? Did Japan Attack Goleta in 1942?
Boy Sues Scouts, Alleges Large-Scale Abuse Cover-Up
In a lawsuit with national implications, a Santa Barbaran says he was sexually abused at age 13 by an area Boy Scout leader, and accuses Scout officials of a long-standing cover-up of thousands of cases nationally.
Five Years Since the News-Press Meltdown Began
What was once a proud, fine small-city newspaper cannot even be called a newspaper any longer, not because we’re not there but because journalistic standards don’t exist on De la Plaza any longer.
Lawyer Disbarred
A former Santa Barbara attorney who advertised “Don’t Let Others Steal Your Elderly Parent’s Estate” has been disbarred after $367,409 was missing from her client’s estate.
