Water Warrior: Attorney Bob Goodwin received countless threats while defending the Goleta Water District hookup moratorium back in the 1970s and ’80s. Goodwin, who died last week at 64 in Livermore, was one of the main targets of the infuriated development interests who’d been busy trying to pave every inch of Goleta.
A key player in the Goleta water wars of the 1970s dies in Livermore.
Barney talks to Ashleigh Brilliant, reports on the declining health of Rincon, and looks forward to Minnie Driver’s SB debut.
Fiesta Drunkathon? So there are two Fiestas: one a delightful community block party, the other a drunkathon for people who hit town with no interest other than mass partying downtown.
Just back from the Festival of San Fermin, Chris tells Barney how he was knocked down, but two other runners were killed during the annual event.
Our intrepid reveler continues eating his way through Fiesta, this time experiencing the leisurely delights of El Mercado del Norte.
Barney continues his tradition of eating his way through Fiesta.
The Supreme Court justice whom Mercedes Eichholz married missed becoming president by an eyelash of fate, but she may have inspired his best opinions. “Merci,” as her friends call her, is best known in Santa Barbara for philanthropic work with nonprofits and as former chairman of the Museum of Art board; but, as a young woman, she was close to the vortex of power in Washington, D.C., for four decades and the wife of Justice William O. Douglas for 10 years.
Not long after dawn on the day of the Fiesta Parade (Fri., Aug. 3), trailers will start rolling onto the Pershing Park greensward. Hundreds of heads of prize horseflesh will be arriving. Stepping out onto the dewy morning grass will be big black Friesians that will be pulling La Presidenta Kelly Magne’s carriage.
It’s time once again for another Barney’s Kulture Kwiz. If you correctly answer all 25 questions you get a big star on your class paper. (Answers at right. Please, no peeking.) But watch it. I’ve thrown in some trick questions. Ready?
