Open letter to the County Supervisors: The Carpinteria Valley Association was both shocked and vindicated to read in the May 5 issue of the Santa Barbara Independent that Venoco, Inc. is engaged in “fracking” activities at two sites near Vandenberg, and that the County Energy Division was unaware of it.
Four beaches at warning level in this week’s report.
Calder Nold is likely armed and dangerous, authorities say.
Community Environmental Council shows the community how easy it is to go solar.
CNN host and Google exec talk tech and revolution.
The bassist of 311 visits young Santa Barbara musicians.
South African writer and daughter of playwright Athol Fugard discusses her 2006 novel, Skinner’s Drift, in advance of her appearance at the sixth annual Women’s Literary Festival on May 14.
This outstanding Santa Barbara painter has worked all over the Central Coast, Wyoming, and Montana.
Gets folks sighing for acai.
Werner Herzog makes his first foray into 3-D filmmaking with this wonderful documentary about the French Chauvet Cave and its ancient cave paintings.
