Almost everyone’s heard the true tale of the person who taught a gorilla named Koko to use sign language, so it’s pretty well accepted that primates can learn a lot from humans. But did anyone consider the opposite: Humans might actually be able to learn how to live better by watching our primate cousins?
UCSB archaeologist Anabel Ford brings El Pilar forest gardeners to town this weekend.
As fall delivers chillier weather and darker skies, there’s no better place to be than the rustic Cold Spring Tavern (coldspringtavern.com) off San Marcos Pass, where warmth is exuded everywhere, from the comfort food and homey staff to the burning fireplaces and historic decor. What better way to temper that encompassing heat than with a few quaffs of brew from Carpinteria’s Island Brewing Company (islandbrewingcompany.com), which is hosting an informational beer-pairing dinner there on October 17.
Aren’t great artists always tortured?
That seems to be the case for one America Martin, a successful Los Angeles painter whose fans include such actors as Kirsten Dunst, Danny Devito, Giovanni Ribisi, Juliette Lewis, and Ted Danson. She’s coming to Koehler Winery in the Santa Ynez Valley for a gala on Saturday, October 6, from 3 to 6 p.m., which is how I stumbled upon her artist’s statement. Artists’ statements tend to be out there, but Martin’s is a real doozy.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s Imperial Life in the Emerald City dissects postwar Iraq.
Who said there’s no homegrown music scene in Santa Barbara? We here at The Independent have always believed our town’s music-making tradition was alive and well, so we decided to put our opinions to the test and publish this inaugural live music issue. When we asked Santa Barbara musicians to tell us about their bands, we figured 30 submissions would be a success. We were clueless. More than 100 bands and singer/songwriters responded. Now, we are presenting the fruits of our findings to you in our first-ever Locals Only music issue, a comprehensive list of the musicians who submitted the required materials.
News-Press owner tells her side of the story as NLRB hearing nears the end.
The Southeast Asian country of Burma remains an elusive destination for many a globetrotter. The country-which is held on a tight leash by the military government, sanctioned by the West for numerous human rights violations, and known officially as Myanmar-has only been open to tourists for 15 years, and it still gets fewer than one million visitors per year. Lucky for Santa Barbara, then, that the Museum of Art is bringing Asian art expert Donald Stadtner to town to sign his new book, The Birth of a Sacred Site, and give a lecture on the spiritual highlights of this hidden land.
A dead 70-foot blue whale may wash up on the Santa Barbara coastline this week.
In the fourth week of the trial of the Santa Barbara News-Press on charges of unfair labor practices, lawyers for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continued to call former News-Press writers and editors to the witness stand to testify that Ampersand Publishing, the paper’s parent company, retaliated against legally protected union activities. Barry Cappello, defending Ampersand, insisted that the NLRB had it exactly backward: Union activists tried to interfere with legitimate management prerogatives; in so doing, they were the ones who violated the rules of engagement.
