After more than four hours of debate and repeated, strong-willed head-butting sessions among boardmembers, the spirit of compromise reigned at the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors this week. As a result, the long-overdue updates to the County’s Uniform Rules were finally approved.
Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies seized what may be the largest number of marijuana plants in county history.
For the first time since 2005, white sea bass were released into the Pacific Ocean off Stearns Wharf.
This week, you’ve got two opportunities to catch diverse and talent-filled installments of the ongoing Indie Music Show concert series. On Thursday, September 27, head on over to Rocks (801 State St.) for performances by Antara with Bill Lanphar, folk rockers Gates & Goodell, pop-rock band Fingersmyth, and Michael Minnis.
Nobody can accuse cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, best known as the author of How the Mind Works, of lacking ambition. The Harvard professor of psychology is not only tireless in asking probing questions about language and human behavior; he also makes bestselling tomes out of the answers. Pinker’s recently released The Stuff of Thought investigates how what we say exposes the way we think. I caught up with Pinker over the phone to discuss words, ideas, and his upcoming visit to Santa Barbara.
So who’s to blame? Well, the same people who shouldered the bulk of the burden. Pictured, from left, are Senior Editor Matt Kettmann, Webmaster Robert LeBlanc, Managing Editor Michelle Drown, and Associate Arts Editor Aly Comingore, and and they’re just the four who showed up early enough on Wednesday to get their picture taken.
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With the start of school come a number of on-campus programs, screenings, lectures, and performances. Starting this Wednesday, avid and casual litterateurs alike are invited to take part in the weekly Literature Symposium at UCSB’s Old Little Theater in the College of Creative Studies. This week, famed poet Sandra Alcosser (A Fish to Feed All Hunger, Except by Nature) will open the season with a reading of her works.
The two ranch workers accused of starting the Zaca Fire appeared in a Santa Maria courtroom on 9/20, but their arraignment was delayed until 10/15.
Two Santa Barbara County car wash owners were fined $10,000 each for failing to register with the California Labor Commissioner’s office.
