• The Rhythmic Arts Project (TRAP) will sponsor a Day of Art at the Carpinteria Valley Arts Council (CVAC). Children and adults are invited to purchase and peruse works made by numerous artists with disabilities, as well as learn oil painting and enjoy live music. Proceeds from all art sales will benefit TRAP and CVAC. Saturday, August 18. CVAC, 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Call 745-8280 or visit traponline.com.
The S.B. County Action Network (aka SBCAN. Get it? SBCannes!) is hosting a new film series that screens popular movies with underlying themes of social justice and then follows the flick with an open conversation between our town’s political and cultural heavyweights. Here’s why you should check out the next one on Monday, August 20, at 7 p.m., at the Metro 4. A $10 donation is suggested.
Of the 45 dogs available for adoption at the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department’s (SBCPHD) Animal Shelter, 15 are pit bulls or pit-bull mixes. Like a MySpace page for pooches, each dog has its own photo and profile on the shelter’s Web site (k-9pals.org). Take Abby, for example, a caramel brown two-year-old female: “This sweet, submissive little girl wants to be your baby.”
Testimony went for and against 14-year-old murder defendant Ricardo Juarez at a preliminary hearing in the continuing case. Authorities testified
Sudoku may serve to keep your brain healthy and young, but there are other ways to keep the gray matter going than twisting it around a numbers game. School is starting soon for students both young and old. You don’t need to sign up for an advanced degree to benefit from some of the excellent learning opportunities in our community.
CROONING KRALL: With her striking good looks, distinctive husky voice, and more-than-proficient piano skills, it’s no surprise that Diana Krall is a modern-day jazz legend. What is a surprise, however, is the way she manages to keep making music that is simultaneously comfortable and cutting-edge-no small feat for an artist whose career is mostly built on covering well-known American standards.
Early in the morning of 8/8, a fire at La Patera Ranch in northern Goleta killed a man whose identity
Let’s face it: Our pets are members of the family, no longer relegated to a backyard doghouse. Decorating with your pet dog or cat in mind is really just one part of what we call lifestyle design. Simply put, it’s relatively easy to make a room look like it’s been pulled from the pages of a magazine if no one has to live there. It’s an entirely different undertaking to make it look and feel great, while also accommodating the demands of your lifestyle, including children and pets.
Cynthia Waring Matthews makes no claim to psychic powers. Nothing she does is supernatural or beyond the bounds of the scientifically possible, she would tell you; nevertheless, her abilities and experiences are surprising, intriguing, and a little bizarre.
“You must plan a murder carefully,” states one of the suspects in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and while the novel itself may have started out being planned carefully, Charles Dickens inconveniently died while still writing Drood, so any careful planning of its ending on his part was lost.
