Clearly confused about what sort of wall that everyone on the planet is calling for, the N-P‘s top brass decide to erect a fence further separating the newspaper from its increasingly alienated audience. We wanted a wall between the newsroom and the editorials/advertisers, silly rabbits, not between the paper and the public!
Santa Barbara wouldn’t know it from the sunshine and 80 degree weather we’ve been enjoying lately, but the season known elsewhere as “winter” is already descending upon the rest of the northern hemisphere. Good thing we’ve got Warren Miller to remind us…
What began as a goofy Thanksgiving song has exploded into a worldwide phenomenon. Spencer the Gardener‘s music video for their new holiday tune “The Gobble Song” amassed more than 312,000 views on YouTube over the Thanksgiving weekend, making the video one of the popular website’s most watched clips ever.
BusinessWeek gets in on the News-Press mess; Editor & Publisher produces another report; Travis takes aim at Indy columnists; Barry Capello gets hired to scare away the Teamsters lawyer; and we wait for an NLRB hearing.
We missed the live show by this Swedish songwriter at Rocks on November 11, but we like the dancepop on this EP release.
The YouTube premiere of Spencer the Gardener’s new music video for “The Gobble Song,” the first Thanksgiving tune of all time! See it here first!
The Pixies’ frontman delivers one of his best shows ever at the House of Blues, and Independent.com is there to record the action.
Today’s online article in the American Journalism Review is by far the most comprehensive, objective, and touching take on the meltdown at the Santa Barbara News-Press.
The Balkan-themed restaurant on the backside of Victoria Court has closed tomake room for a private dining area for Olio e Limone. We mourn the loss.
On October 22, a six-month-old California condor chick rose from its nest and flew 15 feet. In so doing, the chick became only the second of its extremely endangered species to take flight in the wild in 14 years.
