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Month: August 2007
Firestone Sells Wine Company
Brooks Firestone announced the sale of his wine company to William Foley of Foley Vineyards
Bad Apples presented by Rubicon Theatre Company.
As with anything, when seeing a play, first impressions are important-and the set of Bad Apples, cleverly designed by Trefoni Rizzi, makes quite an impression. For one thing, there’s an enormous hole in the floor of what otherwise appears to be a typical suburban living room.
County Approves IV Master Plan
The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on 8/21 to approve the Isla Vista Master Plan.
Toxic Uproar at El Puente School
On downtown’s busy Gutierrez Street, in the middle of an industrial zone, sits a school that, by design, is easy to miss.
Unlike most public schools, El Puente Community School has no grand entrance announcing its presence at 430 East Gutierrez Street, across the street from Ace Hardware. With its dull-ivory fa§ade and dirty awnings, the building looks more like a gas company than a school.
IV Noise Ordinance Tweaked
Isla Vista will be more carefully scrutinized during Halloween this year.
High School Teacher Marian Musmecci’s Debut Novel
To most women, Leah Callaghan’s life appears ideal: a custom-built house, two precocious tots, and a fulfilling job guiding troubled adolescents, not to mention a firefighter husband. The jealousy ebbs when a revelation shakes this charmed existence-and Leah’s stoic perfectionism-to their foundations: a sealed letter from Leah’s long-dead grandmother, if opened, threatens to bend her seamless world beyond recognition. In Marian Musmecci’s Thin Places, domestic idyll intersects the often ethereal, sometimes frightening planes of Celtic legend.
Local Higher Education Nationally Ranked
UCSB is tied with four other schools for the 44th spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” issue.
Local Teacher Receives Honors For Chalk Art
Santa Barbara resident and Laguna Blanca School art teacher Delphine Louie was awarded first place in the Madonnari Semplici (amateur) category at the I Madonnari Chalk Painting Festival in Mantova, Italy.
Positively State Street
PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC: In the male-dominated world of dance deejays, Colette stands among the small complement of women to have donned the headphones. Deejays of the feminine sort were once unfortunate novelty acts, but Colette has no shortage of credence to her name, including the chart-topping dominance of her most recent release, Hypnotized.
