Best of Baby
With Best Of deadlines approaching and stress levels rising, The Indy’s editorial designer Ben Ciccati had to bow out early to welcome this little bundle of joy into the world. Meet Chlo» Bee, Ben and his wife Michelle’s first child.
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Thomas Tighe
Tighe was delighted to speak with Farmer, whom he respects enormously. “He could not have been more gracious,” said Tighe. “He kept trying to ask me what I thought about the questions I was asking him, ‘as a contemporary and a colleague.'” We’re honored to publish their conversation, which begins here. Cover image of Paul Farmer in Rwanda supplied by Partners in Health.
Cool Cat
Santa Barbara native Elena Gray-Blanc has been lending her observant eye and her way with words to our arts coverage for some months, and has recently taken over Independent cyberspace with two weekly online columns. Weird Santa Barbara will be busting something strange in the neighborhood every Saturdaycheck out this week’s column on mountain unicyclistswhile Sunday’s Your Worship takes a look at spiritual centers and practices all over town.
Meet the Editors
So who’s to blame? Well, the same people who shouldered the bulk of the burden. Pictured, from left, are Senior Editor Matt Kettmann, Webmaster Robert LeBlanc, Managing Editor Michelle Drown, and Associate Arts Editor Aly Comingore, and and they’re just the four who showed up early enough on Wednesday to get their picture taken.
Art Master
ART MASTER: Art critic and independent curator Heather Jeno has been contributing her art-world insights to The Independent for some months. With an MA in art history and museum studies from USC, Jeno brings considerable expertise to our visual art section. Originally a Minnesota girl, Jeno considers herself fully California-fied after seven years in the Sunshine Stateshe’s even married to a surfer.
Epicurious George
Though George Yatchisin came on board The Independent this June as our new food editor, there’s a good chance you had read his byline even before articles like his story on Downey’s 25 years on State Street [Aug. 23] made our cover. After landing in Santa Barbara in 1994 to teach writing at UCSB, Yatchisin began contributing to The Indy‘s music and book sections long before he became our resident foodie. A native of East Hanover, New Jerseyhome of NabiscoYatchisin has so far restrained himself from sneaking Oreos and Triscuits into the food page. “Santa Barbara is great,” he said of his current home’s reputation as a culinary hotspot. “There’s a lot going on here, from what’s being grown to how it’s presented.”
The Senior File
Amy Chong may have already set a record as being one of The Indy‘s longest-serving internsshe’s been with the paper off and on since last Januarybut now she’s about to do what no one’s ever done for us: deliver an online weekly column about life as a high school senior at Santa Barbara High called “The Senior File.”
Our Man Obst
Contributor David Obst knows just how to put a cultural leader like Music Academy of the West’s NancyBell Coe in generational context. He has written a book, Too Good to Be Forgotten: Changing America in the ’60s and ’70s, that brings together his experiences as a literary agent for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during and after Watergate with his role in the publication of the Pentagon Papers and his assistance in bringing the My Lai massacre to light.