Month: August 2007

Sports By Shannon Kelley

The Countdown Is On for The Indy‘s Triathletes

It’s down to the wire for our Indy-sponsored triathletes. D-Day is this Sunday, August 26, and, after months of training and two dry runs, they’re ready to get this show on the road. In addition to the grueling physical training, Danny Brire and Cynthia Stewart have come up against all sorts of unexpected obstacles and picked up a couple top-secret tricks of the trade, too-you know, critical stuff, like how to get the sand off their feet in record time, and the anti-chafing benefits of baby powder.

Food & Drink By

How to Help the Hungry

Despite our county’s wealth, Santa Barbara has one of the highest rates of food insecurity-a condition in which people lack the basic food intake to provide them with the energy and nutrients for fully productive lives-in the state. Luckily, we have numerous agencies trying to alleviate that problem, and everyone can help.

One County Agency Provides Solutions for Domestic Violence
Living By Elizabeth Schwyzer

One County Agency Provides Solutions for Domestic Violence

“I felt like it couldn’t happen to me.” Kelly*, the woman seated across the table from me, is young, attractive, and articulate. She speaks confidently and openly, looks me straight in the eye as she talks, her hands resting in her lap. Nothing on the surface suggests a problem, and that’s exactly what she’s trying to explain. She didn’t think it could happen to her.

ThisWeekinHistory
Events By Indy Staff

ThisWeekinHistory

August 25, 1954

Guitarist, vocalist, and new wave pioneer Elvis Costello is born in London, England.

Bald Eagles on the Rise on the Channel Islands
Living By

Bald Eagles on the Rise
on the Channel Islands

The distorted bishop pine stood out like no other within a narrow canyon full of evergreen trees on northern Santa Cruz Island. The top of it was mushroom shaped, crowned with sun-bleached sticks and branches woven into a sturdy nest eight feet in diameter, its center padded down with dried grasses, twigs, and discarded fish bones.

Volunteers Needed
Living By Virginia Hayes

Volunteers Needed

Some of us have more time than money; some of us just believe that our community will only be as good as its members. Whatever your situation, if you’d like to pitch in to have a greener, friendlier place to live, there are lots of ways to lend a helping hand. The skills you’ve learned in your garden and the joy you derive from working on your own projects can be put to use for the community at large.

Okra and Snap Pea Green Curry
Food & Drink By

Okra and Snap Pea Green Curry

While okra is usually thought of in Creole/Cajun food, it also works well in other highly spiced cuisines. Some think it tastes somewhat like eggplant, which means it substitutes effectively in Thai-inspired curry.

Red Dog Rising
Angry Poodle By

Red Dog Rising

UNHINGED AND UNCORKED: First, we need to get a couple of points out of the way. It happens to be the case that I am far and away the sanest person I’ve ever met. I may, in fact, be the only sane person I’ve ever met. In the world of ideas, there’s what I think-which happens to be clear, accurate, insightful, and, above all, unbiased-and then there’s what everybody else thinks, which is just the opposite. Throughout the years, I’ve been forced to learn the wisdom of masking such notions.

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