This Week in History
The first Newbery Medal, honoring the year’s best children’s book, is presented to The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon.
Month: June 2008
Greening Grasses
Certainly one of the sneak-attack highlights of last year’s musical calendar in Santa Barbara was the early summer’s night at SOhO when Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet showed up and demonstrated for us one possible future for progressive bluegrass music.
Republican Tony Strickland Offers a Stark Alternative to Hannah-Beth Jackson
Tony Strickland made his political bones at the age of 10, when he performed a star turn as Ronald Reagan in his fourth-grade class’s 1980 presidential election.
County 6-26
Record-breaking dry temperatures along the Central Coast have required the Santa Barbara County Fire Department to increase the number of firefighters on hand in order to ensure that all three of the Type III firefighting engines have extra staff through the remainder of the fire season.
Crosby, Stills & Nash
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash are no strangers to the Santa Barbara Bowl.
The Trial of Mata Hari
Elaine Kendall’s latest historical drama could hardly have a more sensational or fascinating subject.
Eulah Laucks 19092008
I first met Eulah Laucks in Salina, Kansas, at a dinner organized by biologist and MacArthur fellow Wes Jackson.
Nature Cruise
Lake Cachuma has cruises of its wonderful waters year ’round, but right now the park naturalists have announced there are some adorable baby grebes, coots, ducks, herons, and fawns hanging out with their mamas just waiting for you to observe their cuteness with your own precious little one.
Get Smart
An aura of full circularity buzzes about the mostly hilarious and summery fine big-screen version of Get Smart, which will inherently mean different things to those who watched TV’s goofball secret agent spoof and those who didn’t.
Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
She came sailing down APS, head turned away from us, cell phone glued to her ear.
