Missing Person, Trampled Transient, and Copper Cable Caper
Three midweek reports from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department.
Month: June 2008
AIDS/Life Cycle Ride to Move Through Central Coast
San Francisco-to-Los Angeles effort aims to raise cash, awareness.
Santa Barbara Warned of Oil Shortage Impacts
Encouraged to act “regionally” and work with Ventura, San Luis Obispo.
Making Prop. 36 Cuts Sting Slightly Less Painfully
Jail diversion participants contemplate budget cut strategies.
Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Measure Will Be on November Ballot
Would legally define marriage as being between one man, one woman.
High Price for Neglect
Grand Jury faults County for shortchanging mental health.
High Price for Neglect
In a toughly worded nine-page report, the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury took elected officials and administrators to task for failing to seriously enough consider the needs of the mentally ill.
Namaste
Charles Lloyd is in top form, and this may be his best quartet ever, which is saying quite a lot. Made up of Eric Harland on drums, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Lloyd’s latest discovery, the amazing Jason Moran on piano, the “New Quartet” has the depth, grace, and indefinable allure of a classic group on the order of John Coltrane’s 1960s quartet, or the bands that Miles Davis put together in the 1950s and ’60s.
Ojai Calling
THE REICH STUFF: Given that the justifiably world-famous Ojai Music Festival has played host to many “serious music” greats of the past century- including Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Pierre Boulez (multiple visits), Olivier Messiaen, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Gyorgy Kurtag, etc.-it’s surprising to learn that this year’s Steve Reich focus is Reich’s first Ojai visit since 1973.
Babes in Clubland
Saturday night was date night, but Friday it was out with the boys. It was funny how it all evolved, actually. I don’t mean out with the boys; I mean just going out, period.
