As technology becomes more advanced, we find ourselves more and more reliant on it. I can hardly go a day without checking my e-mail at least three times. Meanwhile, television beckons with its dumbed-down version of reality. How can we escape this language of text message abbreviations that would have George Orwell rolling in his grave?
The Hispanic-American civil rights struggle is rooted, in part, in the Mexican-American War and the resulting Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). The treaty was negotiated by the United States ostensibly to prevent American settlers moving west from seizing land that belonged to Mexicans before the war. With the gold rush in full throttle, however, the treaty was quickly abandoned, as pioneers seized land indiscriminately and without care for Mexican Americans.
On 7/27 UCSB’s Office of Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs released a statement that effectively banned camping on the university’s
Philip Collins, in his well-measured, gorgeously photographed (as a good drink is at least half illusion of glamour) book, The Art of the Cocktail, offers up an Americana, which just might be too hard to swallow these days. So I renamed the drink the Peach Fizz, and it couldn’t be easier if you have chilled champagne flutes on hand (that’s about 10 minutes in the freezer).
More than 30 koi were found floating belly-up in the pond at Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens on 7/29, forcing
Responding to the recent comeback of the Zaca Fire, authorities issued an evacuation order for the Peachtree community and an
If Fiesta brings out the Grinch in you, there’s no better way to celebrate than by renting a copy of Cutter’s Way, a genuinely grimy noir thriller set in Santa Barbara during Fiesta. Starring Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn, this 1981 film follows a trio of painfully dissolute losers who, after stumbling onto a murder, hope to make big bucks by blackmailing the murderer.
Low-cost daycare provider Casa Alegria Children’s Center was forced to temporarily close its doors on 7/26 after mold was found
To quote Yogi Berra, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” Applicable to almost everything, it’s particularly true of a flamenco performance; you can’t be sure the entertainment has ended until the stage is completely empty. FlamenColores, a night of song and dance from Spain’s Sonidos Gitanos, was filled with color, light, and life, from the moment the musicians walked on, to the very last group exit.
Danny Boyle is an unpredictable director. His breakthrough feature was a hilarious, lively tale about heroin addicts (Trainspotting) and his last two efforts included a family film (Millions) and a zombie movie (28 Days Later). The team behind 28 Days Later (writer Alex Garland and star Cillian Murphy, in addition to Boyle) regroup for Sunshine, a science-fiction film about eight astronauts who must deliver a massive nuclear payload to the center of the sun in order to reignite it.
