Indy Wins Some Loses Some in News-Press Lawsuit
A federal judge ruled on 11/19 that The Independent violated Santa Barbara News-Press copyrights…
Author: Matt Kettmann
Jake Shimabukuro at SOhO
For such a tiny instrument, the ukulele-at least in the hands of virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro-can unleash quite a massive sound. The Honolulu native, who comes to SOhO on Tuesday, November 13, has been playing the four-stringed instrument since he was four years old, and it shows, for he can take any genre of music and uke-ify it with jaw-dropping results.
Robert Grande Weiss Is Dead
The legendary Santa Barbara theater director succumbs to cancer.
News-Press Circulation Free Falls
More than 5,000 subscribers have jumped ship in the past six months.
“Semi-Official” City Election Results
Williams, Schneider, and Francisco set to win, Measure A to lose.
Beware the Box
UCSB conference to discuss past, present, and future of shipping containers.
Pinot Noir and a Highway 246 Blaze
Wine sippers watch as fire crews quickly put out Saturday’s brush fire.
Fewer Grapes Mean Better Wine for Santa Barbara County’s ’07 Harvest
Those who complain that California doesn’t have a discernible autumn haven’t been to the Santa Ynez Valley in late October. There, when the bright harvest moon gives way to a rising, fog-burning sun, the endless rippling lines of red, gold, and orange leaves are as vibrant as any East Coast display-but even better, for beneath the foliage hide clusters of deep purple, the promising color of yet another successful wine grape harvest for Santa Barbara County.
Vaquero Legacy in Hawai’i Unveiled
Think Hawai’i-surfing, sand, sun, hula, and pineapples, right? Better add cowboys to that island mix, because the 49th state is home to one of the proudest horse-riding and cattle-corralling cultures in the world, a ropin’ ‘n’ wranglin’ tradition that harkens back to the 1800s and persists today on some of the largest ranches in the United States.
Music from the Crooked Road
There’s a place in the backwoods of southern Virginia where grandpas play banjo, their grandkids play fiddle, and everyone else in town sings along. This is the birthplace of American music, the geographic locale where the European fiddle (in the hands of the Scots-Irish) met the African banjo (brought over by slaves) and spawned country music, bluegrass, and the like.
