A one-of-a-kind life that began with a lovely bunch of coconuts; skyrocketed during conversations with presidents, global icons, and Hollywood heavyweights; intertwined itself into our culture via game shows; and rode off into the sunset on the backs of racehorses and world-class hotels has ended. Merv Griffin died last weekend after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 82, and he was my great-uncle.
Next Wednesday, August 22, Lisa B. Martin, founder and executive director of the Netza Project, will be the featured guest speaker at the Santa Barbara Sunrise Rotary Club breakfast meeting. The Netza Project collaborates to create equal access to quality education, literacy, and sustainable community development for all people; to honor the collective spirit of indigenous culture and celebrate diversity; and to work for social justice, cultural understanding and healing, and an end to poverty by empowering youth, women, families, and communities across ethnic and international boundaries.
You’ve seen those T-shirts: “If you’re rich, you live in Santa Barbara; if you’re famous, you live in Montecito; if you’re lucky, you live in Carpinteria.” (If you’re humorless, and not from what the Chumash long ago called Mishopshno, you may even have found them annoying.)
Three Ventura County residents – Michael Leake, 18; Taylor Hill, 18; and Cynthia Wigton, 38 – were arrested for allegedly
The harmless fringe of an earthquake rattled the homes of sleeping Santa Barbara, Camarillo, and Ventura residents around 1 a.m.
Housing affordable to middle- and upper-middle income workers is the intended result of the Santa Barbara City Council’s unanimous decision
An unidentified man took an undisclosed amount of money from the Bank of America at 3790 State Street around 4:40
It was bound to happen. All its old-world charm-visions of sun-ripened clusters hanging on the vine; cool, dark, fragrant cellars lined with oak barrels; teams of harvest workers picking pinot clusters by hand-doesn’t seem to lend itself to the computer age. But, in fact, many wine lovers these days discover wines, meet fellow wine lovers, and, yes, buy wine, all via the Internet.
Kirk Reynolds will not likely attain the prominence of the great quarterbacks groomed by Bill Walsh-namely, Joe Montana and Steve Young-but he was the last person to call the signals for the legendary football coach. It was a heady experience for Reynolds, a Goleta native who pursued a career in sports publicity after graduating from UCSB. He was the San Francisco 49ers’ director of public relations for six years.
American Modernism is the backdrop for this month’s Nights event at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The evening includes an impressive display of American Modernist art, live jazz, signature cocktails, and DIY craft projects. The gala takes place Thursday, August 16, from 5:30-8 p.m. Visit sbma.net/nights for tickets.
