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One of Santa Barbara’s most important and distinctive charities, Surgical Eye Expeditions International (SEE), has been hit with a lawsuit by four employees-one of whom has since been fired-who are accusing the organization of racial discrimination and harassment.
The 8th Annual African Heritage Film Series Comes to Town
It’s a common observation by many an out-of-towner that Santa Barbara lacks a visible population of African Americans. But, explained Gwendolyn Hampton, who cofounded the S.B. African Heritage Film Series with her husband, Friday, back in 2000, “We are here. Just because there’s not quote-unquote a community or a neighborhood doesn’t mean we don’t exist.”
With frustrations in full flare, the gloves came off at the Santa Barbara County Supervisors’ meeting late Tuesday afternoon as the board attempted yet again to take action on the long-simmering proposed changes to the Uniform Rules, which govern what can and cannot be built on 90 percent of all privately owned county land.
Peter O’Toole, Jodie Whittaker, and Leslie Phillips star in a film
written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Roger Michell.
In the movies, May-December romances or flings are a recurring theme, often fueling the male fantasy machine. With Venus, though, the genre gets a goosing.
It was seven years ago when I first heard progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek. They were touring with Glen Phillips and I caught their show at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco. Since then, Nickel Creek, which includes Chris Thile (mandolin) and the Watkins siblings-Sara (fiddle) and Sean (acoustic guitar)-has been nominated for and won several Grammy awards and Phillips has released two critically acclaimed albums, Winter Pays for Summer and Mr. Lemons.
LEAPS AND BOUNDS: Eliot Morris has been taking some impressive musical strides of late, the biggest of which is his major label debut, What’s Mine Is Yours. Though Morris was eager for the end product during the album’s production stage, the process was by no means rushed. “I recorded it off and on for about a year,” explained Morris.
Santa Barbara foursome The Snobs don’t think they’re too good for Goleta. Catch them the evening of Friday, February 16, at the Creekside Inn in Goleta.
Elizabeth Schwyzer speaks with the author of the Maisie Dobbs mystery series, England native and Ojai resident Jacqueline Winspear, about her entry into the world of fiction and where she draws her inspiration.
Of Montreal put out their eighth album this January called Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? The name of this album sums it up pretty well.
UCSB Students opposed to the escalation of the war in Iraq have chosen to strike from school on Thursday, February 15, in recognition of the four-year anniversary of a similar protest before the war began. The event will be followed next week with “Peace Out University,” a program that encourages professors to lecture in an Isla Vista park and discuss war-related issues.
