When Summerdance Santa Barbara programmed Mikhail Baryshnikov and Hell’s Kitchen Dance to perform at its 10th annual festival, organizers Dianne Vapnek and Laurie Burnaby knew they’d achieved something big. Founded by Vapnek in 1997, the festival had grown during the course of a decade from a one-week, one-company affair to a three-week extravaganza.
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.
The defunct collection of partially broken-down Montecito beach cabanas known as the Miramar is once again on the market after
Fri., Dec. 1
AIDS Day: A number of events and activities are planned to recognize the 19th annual World AIDS Day. For a full list, call the Santa Barbara County Department of Public Health at 681-5120 or visit
www.sbcphd.org.
Twenty-five million people have died of AIDS worldwide since the disease was first identified in 1981. Of those, 480 were
Victory has rarely left so bitter an aftertaste as it did for Cottage Health System at last week’s City Council meeting. Though the Santa Barbara City Council overwhelmingly approved Cottage’s long-simmering plans to build 115 workforce condos-81 at substantially below-market rates-on the site of the former St. Francis Hospital, Councilmember Brian Barnwell castigated Cottage administrators for what he described as their high-handed and unilateral approach.
A restoration project at Mesa Creek and the Arroyo Burro Beach estuary is set to be completed in December. The
-SBPD spokesperson Lt. Paul McCaffrey, on the young woman who, after lying down in the street after a fight with her boyfriend, was run over.
For years now, the leading lights of Santa Barbara’s civic community have wondered just how long Bill Levy, Santa Barbara’s iconic wheeler-dealer developer, could remain aloft financially. Last Friday, they found out, as Levy’s carefully crafted house of cards came crashing down.
The long arm of the Internet stretched out from Santa Barbara this past Thanksgiving holiday, as the music video for
