Just the word “Montecito” conveys an image of posh, privilege, and pricey, but the village isn’t all gilded in gold. Tucked between San Ysidro Ranch’s $120 Montecito Margarita and the endless multimillion-dollar home sales, there are some gift items in the Village that would force even the most discerning discount-Grinch to grin.
Driving to meet Paul Portuges on a cool Sunday afternoon, I noticed a fan of birds opening wide, then closing, and taking off again, and thought-a metaphor for Portuges’s words in his new book of poetry, The Body Electric Journal (Plain View Press, 2007).
Bryan Risdon, of Carpinteria, faces felony charges following his attempted theft of a 27-foot Radon fishing boat on 11/24.
An entertaining combination of animation and live action (but heavy on the latter), Enchanted takes every trope of classic Disney animation-helpful forest critters, love at first sight, poisoned apples, the very concept of the movie musical-and puts them up against the forces of modernity, with unexpected results: an updated fairy tale that could almost be characterized as feminist.
In an effort to minimize chances of a flu or pneumonia epidemic in the Casa Esperanza homeless center this winter, county health professionals and volunteers staffed what is arguably Santa Barbara’s most ambitious public health event of the year…
“Art was my savior,” Larry Rankin says as we walk toward his Santa Barbara studio courtyard, where a giant mound is barely visible in the waning evening light. “After I came back from serving in Vietnam, art gave me the opportunity to express things.
The body of an Ethiopian-born woman-Zerfie Getahun, 33, of Los Angeles-was found in a ditch off Highway 101 near Santa Barbara last week.
Doctor Zhivago star Julie Christie was announced this week as the recipient of the new Cinema Laureate Award.
One of the great joys of being a professional chef is someone else cleans up your messes. The Silpat makes you more like a pro, since it helps you make no mess, even during the heavy holiday baking season. Slide one of these silicon-on-the-outside, fiberglass-mesh-on-the-inside mats onto a cooking tray and there’s no stick and no ick-no extra butter or oil or glop from an aerosol necessary.
When Leerone joins Sea Wolf at Velvet Jones on Friday night, Santa Barbara will be treated to a tantalizing look into the current dynamics of the Los Angeles music scene. By inhabiting venues the likes of Spaceland and Tangier, both acts have carved reputations for themselves that are now bringing their sounds to the masses.
