Rearranging the Deck Chairs
SPJ honors Santa Barbara journalists with Ethics Awards; Union move results in News-Press Shakeup
Barney Brantingham
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On the Beat
The Story on Kate: The reason why KEYT’s long-limbed “weather babe” (as Craig Smith’s blog calls her) Kate WentÂ-zel left the station comes down to the familiar expression: creative differences, Smith said. Newscast ratings were down and the weather was seen as a weak spot, Smith reported on his blog.
Barney’s Fiesta Blog for Sunday, Aug. 6
Day Five of Eating My Way Through Fiesta, 2006
I didn’t find the perfect taco during Fiesta 2006, but to be honest I wasn’t looking too hard.
Barney’s Fiesta Blog for Saturday, Aug. 5
Day Four of Eating My Way Through Fiesta, 2006
I love the smell of pancakes in the morning, especially under the trees at Alameda Park, and especially on Fiesta Saturday.
Barney’s Fiesta Blog for Friday, Aug. 4
Day Three of eating my way through Fiesta, 2006
As Parade Day dawned it was raining — raining! Never in all my years here has it ever pelted down on this special day in August. Blazing hot, scorching, yes.
Barney’s Fiesta Blog for Thursday, Aug. 3
Day Two of Eating My Way Through Fiesta, 2006:
El Mercado Northside at MacKenzie Park more than lived up to its reputation.
Fiesta 2006
Cover image courtesy S.B. Historical Society
Born out of the tradition of history-based civic celebrations, Fiesta became an annual event in 1924 and continues to be a grand tribute to Santa Barbara’s past. In this special issue, you’ll find a complete schedule of events to the weekend’s festivities, everything you can expect to see in the parade, plus the scoop on the spirits and El Presidente Roger Perry. Also in this issue, Barney Brantingham recalls some
of the more memorable Fiesta mishaps; Bob Isaacson dishes on the rodeo; and Walter A. Tompkins separates truth from legend in an excerpt from his posthumously published book, The Yankee Barbare±os. ¡Viva la Fiesta!
Barney’s Top 10 Fiesta Food Memories
This is my 46th year of gobbling everything edible Fiesta has to offer, and the memories come flooding back like
On the Beat
And Then There Were None: The 10th and 11th journalists to resign from the Santa Barbara News-Press during the ongoing meltdown are Lindsay Foster, a young copy editor and designer; and Camie Cohee, a Montecito and Carpinteria reporter, just back from her honeymoon. The new hubby: Santa Barbara City Councilmember Brian Barnwell. As I understand it, when Camie returned to work Tuesday she ran into so much unprofessional flak from management that she quit in protest, to the applause of her fellow journos.
Barney’s Fiesta Blog for Wed Aug. 2
Day One of eating my way through Fiesta, 2006:
So where’s the best food at El Mercado de la Guerra? A guy dashed past me just after the booths opened at 11 a.m., saying, “You can tell how good the food is by how long the line is.”
