Stop-Loss
If the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan depict the invasion of Normandy as grisly yet harrowing, then it follows that Stop-Loss should begin with an ambush in some Tikrit back alley
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School Board Considers Options for Property Holdings
The Santa Barbara School Board continued deliberations over the future of its Hidden Valley and Tatum property holdings at a special hearing on 12/4.
Putting Africa in Santa Barbara
Putting Africa in Santa Barbara
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.”
Wants, Needs, and Two Lots of Land
S.B. School District Weighs Development Options
It has been almost exactly two years since the Santa Barbara School Board decided to explore the possibility of developing their two open-space property holdings in the name of district revenue and perhaps employee housing.
School Board Developments
After nearly a year of researching and polling local teachers, UniDev finally presented the draft results of a controversial feasibility study to the Santa Barbara School Board about the possibility of building high-density affordable homes for school employees on two district-held properties. The presentation was attended by nearly 75 neighbors of the Hidden Valley and Tatum properties, all of whom-despite living in Santa Barbara and Goleta, respectively-expressed their concern and upset over the possibility of increased density in their neighborhoods.
They’ve Got Class
Santa Barbara School Board Candidates Clash Over Budgets, Teachers’ Housing, and Personalities
Given the vital role public schools play in forming the minds of our community’s next generation, the case could easily be made that this fall’s race for two vacant seats on the Santa Barbara School Districts Board of Education has the most local significance of any election this November.
Hitting the Books
The New School Year Ushers In Old and New Concerns
Monday marked a return to academia for thousands of students throughout the combined Santa Barbara School Districts. From Santa Barbara High School on Anapamu Street to Monroe Elementary on the Mesa, school buses jockeyed with minivans and SUVs in the early-morning hours as backpacked, binder-toting kids prepared for day one of the 2006-07 school year.
The Spirit Informs
Charles Lloyd, in Conversation
Tenor saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd’s career has spanned more than 45 years. Born in Memphis, Lloyd was bathed in the music of Phineas Newborn, Art Tatum, and Charlie Parker at a young age, and came to California at the age of 18.
Teachers Need Houses Too
A series of public forums discussing the Santa Barbara School District’s tentative plans to develop employee housing-for teachers-drew small crowds at La Cumbre Junior High but sparked plenty of tension on Monday. Faced with significant teacher turnover in a region boasting some of the highest housing costs in the nation, the district contracted the Maryland-based development firm UniDev late last year to conduct an economic feasibility study on its Hidden Valley property near Veronica Springs and the Tatum property in the eastern Goleta Valley.
Jazz Singer
Brazilian Chanteuse/Pianist Eliane Elias Plays the Lobero
Eliane Elias’s latest release, Dreamer, is so in demand that even her management company can’t get copies. It’s gone through a second pressing and her label still can’t keep up with the orders. Luckily, the artist herself is a little more available than her disc. I recently spoke with the Brazilian pianist and singer by phone at her home in New York City.
