Like Crazy
Drake Doremus’s compelling young-love saga bucks the trends and comes out a winner.
Month: November 2011
All Grown Up and Learning to Read
About a year after I retired from teaching, I decided to volunteer to become an adult literacy tutor through the Santa Barbara Public Library system.
News to Yous
The Santa Barbara Dance Alliance’s annual Artizan’s Ball, a benefit for Sarah House Hospice, is set to take place Saturday, December 10.
Give a Little
Lompoc-based animal rescue group needs volunteers; Holiday Boutique will benefit Garden Court’s low-income senior-citizen residents.
Tempted by War Bucks
The CBS program 60 Minutes recently reported on the latest double-standard benefiting the privileged: the legality of insider trading by Congress, which has influenced the outcome of our laws.
News to Yous
This 1st Thursday, December 1, 33 Jewels will host an art opening for Painting Toward Grace, an exhibit by S.B. artist and late-stage ALS sufferer Michael Orchowski.
The Politics of Marine Conservation
There are many here who will not soon forget the process of designating reserves within the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
Of Parliaments and Hobbits
I’ve been in New Zealand for two weeks this time out, in that weird in-between space where you’re outside the U.S. and yet still feeling attached — looking in as an alien at both your own society and the one you’re visiting.
Beads of Life
Santa Barbara lays claim to a number of amazing global activists: men and women who are saving elephants in Sri Lanka, shipping vitamins to India, witnessing human rights violations in Colombia, building orphanages in Tanzania.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I
Every tween’s favorite finale gets sliced in two, and part one leaves something to be desired.
