On the Beat 3-30-2006

Sara Donates $1.5 million: Sara Miller McCune, although nursing a shoulder injury suffered in a fall, has donated $1.5 million to CAMA (Community Arts Music Association), the highest single gift in its 88-year history.

Newspaper Hits One Year Mark

The free broadsheet has become the local daily of choice especially for those who prefer not to patronize the Santa Barbara News-Press.

Eco-Chic Show

Design Within Reach is featuring the eco-chic prefab residences of Los Angeles-based Marmol Radziner + Associates in a free digital slide show.

Holy Foreigner, Batman!

While most know “Santa Barbara” means “Saint Babs,” the roots of the name lend it such translations as “Holy Foreigner,” “Holy Bumpkin” and-best of all-“Holy Blah-Blah-Blah.” We’re jive, sanctified.

Helping “Homies” Heal

Amy-Jane Griffiths, a doctoral candidate in UCSB’s Clinical, Counseling and School Psychology department, provides options for how the Santa Barbara community can cope with and prevent gang violence.

Wine Legends

Got a rack full of Santa Barbara County wines? Walk over to it, yank out a bottle, and inspect the label. Odds are that in your hands is a wine whose grapes came from Bien Nacido Vineyards, the 800-plus acre spread along the northeastern flank of the Santa Maria Valley. Nope? Well, then double-or-nothing that your bottle passed through the Central Coast Wine Services (CCWS) somewhere along the line from the vineyard to your cellar. Don’t believe me?

Replay, Reuse, Recycle

If you’ve driven down upper De la Vina Street between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, you’ve probably noticed Replay, the used toy and collectible store. Though the uninitiated generally refer to it as “that place with the stuff in front,” if you’ve been in Replay, and if you have a child in your life-or if you are the child in your life-you’re likely the member of a growing and devoted following.

Chocolate Maya

According to Maya, anyone who professes not to like chocolate just hasn’t had the good stuff yet. And, with her newly opened shop, Chocolate Maya, she’s setting out to change that. Former owner of the Comeback Cafe, Maya Schoop-Rutten sold the restaurant to open a chocolate shop-something, she said, she has always wanted to do.

To Walk Again

Brad Ebner has reached two milestones that were once a dim hope. On March 2, he turned 18 years old. Today, March 29, he is six months into his new life.

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