SB Asset Management to Direct New Mutual Fund
Santa Barbara Asset Management will be directing a new small-to-mid-cap mutual fund for Nuveen Investments of Chicago. The Nuveen Santa
Month: August 2007
Quiz: School Daze
Quiz: School Daze
Launching Rocket Science by Jeffrey Blitz, Winner of Best Director at Sundance
Ateenager tackles the mysteries of life, love, and public speaking in Rocket Science, a wry comedy of adolescent angst by Jeffrey Blitz, director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Spellbound. Making his feature narrative debut, Blitz leaves behind the conventions and cliches of coming-of-age tales to instead conjure a world where everyone, regardless of age, is befuddled by desire and the longing for human connection.
Im(press)ions: Contemporary/Modern Prints 1960-Today.
While the ubiquity of reproductions of great modernist classics has made it easy to imagine that the late 20th century was dominated by large images and grand statements, connoisseurs know that some of the best work of even such familiar names as Jasper Johns and James Rosenquist was done in the more subtle but no less imaginative arena of the print studio.
Surviving Fiesta, The Week of Eating Dangerously
I confess: I’m on record as a source in a story in the newspaper that used to be the News-Press as a Fiesta naysayer. I offered my favorite comparison-borrowing from Hunter S. Thompson’s blistering “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved”-calling Old Spanish Days “a jaded atavistic freak-out.” I’ve been known to throw Fiesta for the Rest-a-Us parties, avoiding the whole official shebang as if cascarones contained Ebola and not confetti.
Mehas Refuses to Respond to D.A.’s Subpoena
Michael Mehas – whose novel, Stolen Boy, is based on the 2000 kidnapping and murder of Nicholas Markowitz in Santa
Bob Goodwin’s Good Fight
Water Warrior: Attorney Bob Goodwin received countless threats while defending the Goleta Water District hookup moratorium back in the 1970s and ’80s. Goodwin, who died last week at 64 in Livermore, was one of the main targets of the infuriated development interests who’d been busy trying to pave every inch of Goleta.
Dream Foundation
Life is short, but flowers are forever. Well, they may begin to fade after a week or so, but they’re a very nice gesture and the Dream Foundation, based in downtown Santa Barbara, has been donating bouquets of colorful blossoms to the sick and elderly for 12 years through a program called Flower Empower.
Trap Art Day
The Rhythmic Arts Project (TRAP) will be hosting a day of art at the Carpinteria Valley Arts Council (855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria) on Saturday, August 18, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. J. Dan Gibbs will help kids paint with oils and Brian Vinson will perform an acoustic concert. Art by disabled artists will be on display and for sale. A portion of the proceeds will benefit TRAP, which uses percussion and music to aid in the development of the disabled. Admission is free. Call 745-8280 or visit traponline.com.
Chile Verde Chowder
This recipe will keep Fiesta fresh on our taste buds. Supposedly, it’s also good for hangovers, if any of those linger, too.
