Carpinteria’s Segregated Past
Carpinteria, the pleasant little city on “The World’s Safest Beach,” has an embarrassing, shameful secret buried in its not too distant history.
Month: February 2011
Bench Relocation Put on Back Burner
Council votes to shelve the divisive $50,000 project.
Whistling Through a Megaphone
Our film fest vet wraps up SBIFF 2011.
Wild Card Race
Dems jostle over new election rules as GOP leaders bemoan their party’s “death”
Recognizing Santa Barbara’s Black History
A look at how African-Americans helped shape modern life on the American Riviera.
Black History Month Events
Exhibits, Films and Lectures.
Clear as Smoke
De la Vina dispensary denied.
King of Clubs, Hogs, and Trash
Remembering Otto Hopkins, the most important Santa Barbaran you’ve never heard of.
volume 25, number 265, February 10-17, 2011
How the African-American Community Helped Build Today’s Santa Barbara
Marguerite Monroy
Fifty-seven-year Santa Barbara resident Marguerite Monroy Sanchez boasts many passions, one of which led her to witness the 2010 incarnation of Oberammergau, Germany’s “Passion Play,” a haunting performance of Jesus Christ’s last days that’s been happening once every decade since 1634 and requires the theatrical services of more than 2,000 villagers.
