Third Annual Playwriting Competition Puts Science on the Stage
UCSB’s Professional Artists Lab and NanoSystems Institute co-sponsor STAGE, which offerskett a $10,000 prize.
Author: Matt Kettmann
UCSB’s STAGE Playwriting Competition
For the third year in a row, science meets theater at UCSB, where the Professional Artists Lab and NanoSystems Institute are yet again co-sponsoring an annual playwriting competition for scripts that explore scientific or technological themes.
Goleta’s Nozasearch.com Makes Fundraising Easy for Nonprofits Everywhere
Nonprofit visionary Craig Harris founded Noza to help charities across the country “raise more money, and spend less money doing it.”
News-Press Motion to Delay Trial Against Indy Denied
Judge rules against daily’s attempt to buy more time before January 29 jury trial.
UCSB Hosts Largest Computer Hacking Competition Ever
Friday’s event, which was won by a team from Milan, Italy, brought together 35 universities.
Use Your Golf Clubs for Gardening
Gardening for Golfers: Trim Your Shrubs with Your Clubs is a new, self-published book by Santa Barbara’s Peter Blair, a VP at Rincon Technologies by day, youth golf volunteer by afternoon, and funny guy from morning to midnight.
Saving the World with Inflatable Trees
In the past decade, human- caused global warming has gone from a hotly debated theory to a widely accepted, scientifically validated truth. Simultaneously, many of the world’s countries have banded together under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and in various climate-related treaties to fight back, cut greenhouse gases, and hopefully cool the heat before more damage is done.
Teamsters File Another Charge Against News-Press
Union alleges labor law is being violated by newspaper’s hiring of temp workers.
Spencer the Gardener
While you were chowing down on mashed potatoes and gravy last Thanksgiving, a music video filmed at Farmers Market on State Street was conquering the World Wide Web. Reaching the coveted front page of YouTube.com by turkey time was “The Gobble Song” by Spencer the Gardener, a brilliantly simple and ferociously catchy seasonal ditty about America’s national holiday.
Win, Losses for News-Press in Case Against Independent
Most of the federal case is dismissed, but the copyright claims will go to trial after Monday’s ruling.
