Vital Link in the Food Chain Threatened
UCSB molecular ecologist Gretchen Hofmann has returned from an Antarctic research mission focusing on the pteropod…
Month: February 2008
In Bruges
In Walt Disney’s most beautiful movie, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket tries to explain what a conscience is.
¡Bailamos!
Santa Barbara’s newest folklorico dance ensemble, Xochipili, is on the hunt for people interested in learning and performing native dances from Chihuahua, Durango, Guerrero, Sinaloa, and more.
Getting Personal with Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate has novels, poetry, film criticism, and countless essays to his credit; one can legitimately call him a novelist, a poet, a film critic, or an essayist.
Goleta’s Shelby Trust Moves Toward Re-zone, Development
The City of Goleta took a giant step toward converting its remaining agricultural lands into urban use, starting with the Shelby Trust’s 14-acre parcel on the city’s edge.
Mountain Movies
UCSB Arts & Lectures brings back the Banff Mountain Film Festival, with new and exciting films each night on mountain climbing, extreme sports, the environment, and mountain culture.
Pro Ballplayers Train at Santa Barbara’s Peak Performance Project
Baseball stars are ditching the steroids and training near the railroad tracks in Santa Barbara.
Polly Caldwell Bookwalter’s Butterfly Beach
If you have ever ventured out to Ellwood to admire the thousands of butterflies that make their home there each winter, you might wonder how long the beautiful bugs have been coming, or why they come back every year, or maybe even what the other animals on the beach think of them.
Smoke Detector-less House Burns
A trash bin fire scorched a Goleta house located on 4511 Auhay Drive on 2/12.
Jazz Takes a Bow
AFTERGLOW: For “normal” music lovers in the pop cultural swim, the capper of last week’s Grammy shindig may have seemed anti-climactic, as this vaguely familiar character named Herbie Hancock fumbled for his notes and (deservedly) took the Best Album prize for his masterful Joni Mitchell tribute, The River.
