Story Archive for March 2008

Monday, March 31

• Detectives Find Sophisticated Goleta Grow

• UCSB Profs Fascinated by Squid Beaks

• Zaca Fire-Ravaged Areas of Los Padres to Reopen Friday

• Saturday Night Police Chase Ends in Arrest

• On the Road — Into the South

• Peter Morén

Sunday, March 30

• COW Needs Funding

• Pagan Pizza

• The Mythology of Violence

Saturday, March 29

• Egg McMuffin Creator Dies

• How to Raise Financially Savvy Children

• Glen Phillips

Friday, March 28

• Official Rescue Called Off

• Mussel-Deterring Measures Begin at Cachuma

• Markets: Close of Friday, March 28

• Show Me the Money

• Protecting Your Pooch

• Another Look at Gang Violence

• Left Behind

• Missile Observation Platform Dedicated at Vandenberg

• On the Road — Tornado Alley

• The Kills

Thursday, March 27

• The State of the City

• UC Names New President

• Drug Bust Yields Cash, More Than a Pound of Cocaine

• Judge in News-Press vs. Independent Copyright Suit Dies

• A Different Art

• Search for Another Sailor Lost at Sea

• Don't Pigeonhole Natalie Cole

• Invasion of the Plant Species

• If Los Angeles Can Do It, Why Not SB?

• Coast Village Complainers

• What You Can Do With That Rebate

• Top Sporting Events: March 27-April 6

• On the Road — Kansa Art

• UCSB Looks to 2025

• Out with the Old

• UCSB Women Fall to Virginia, NCAA Men Get Messier

• South County Handed Lion’s Share of New Housing

• Supes Attempt to Prevent Mussel Invasion at Cachuma

• After Touring Europe, Devon Sproule Ventures Stateside

• Over Rainbows and Down Rabbit Holes: The Art of Children’s Books

• Quote of the Week

• I’m Virtually Popular!

• Apple Cofounder Steve Wozniak Shares His Thoughts on Technology

• CH-CH-CH-CHANGES

• Garden Hoses’ Safety

• Nrityagram Dance Ensemble

• Louise Hogarth’s Angels in the Dust Introduces Viewers to South Africa’s Orphans

• Resignation Rocks S.B. Political World

• What to Learn from the Murder of Lawrence King

• Priceless

• vol. 22, no. 115, Mar. 27 - Apr. 3, 2008

• March of Alleged Progress Threatens a Good Land Gem

• Chanchito (Peruvian Pulled Pork) with Onion Tomato Salad

• Museum of Tolerance Speakers Address Youth at Los Prietos Boys’ Camp

• Can Salud Carbajal Really Be Everything to Everyone?

• Mustache March

• Cat on the 101

• Quiz: (Facial) Hairy Questions

• Sounds for the Spirit

• 12.5 feet

• Eve Marie Carson 1985-2008

• Doubt, presented by Santa Barbara Theatre

• Week Spot Photo - Still Blooming

• This Week in History

• Oak Group Show

• Give a Little

• Sister City Exchange

• Kinky

• Hot Off the Press

• Natan Moss: A Quiet America

• Story Master

• Mates of State

• Ring My Bell

• Embrace Your Inner Author

• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

• Norwegian Woodard

• The Devil Makes Three

• SFJAZZ Collective

• City League Peeps

• Ultrasound Helps Reveal Anomalies in Dense Breasts

• Monthly Concert Series Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary

• A New Translation of The Persians Reinvents the Chorus

• Dog Eat Dog, or K-9 Kannibalism

• ‘What is the story behind the battle of Santa Barbara?’

• Chad’s Leaves Us Hanging

• Cherimoya: The Ugly Betty of Fruit

• Sope Tuesdays at Super-Rica

• Sarah Weddington, Then and Now

• Bici Centro

Wednesday, March 26

• Ted Baxter, R.I.P.

• CSN Joins the SB Bowl's Summer Lineup

• Commission Reaffirms That Social Worker Was Unjustly Fired

• County Association of Governments Sued Over Measure A

Tuesday, March 25

• Setback for SB Waterfront Makeover

• City Council Aims to Stymie Gang Involvement

• Matthew McAvene Unveils Shadowland EP

• We Are Scientists

• On the Road — Santa Fe Trail

• Spring Fling

• The Lawyer Who Won Roe v. Wade

Monday, March 24

• Verdict in Nelson Sexual Assault Trial

• Assessment and Orientation

• Planning in the Goleta Valley

• On the Road — The Great Plains

Sunday, March 23

• Built to Spill

• School Nutrition Hits Network T.V.

• On the Road — Over the Rockies

• Alternative Spring Break

• County Health Offers Tobacco Health Programs

Saturday, March 22

• Cycling Tourism Boosts Business

• On the Road — Cruising Highway 70

• A Three Hour Tour…

• Writing a Check to Uncle Sam

Friday, March 21

• 16-Year-Old Dies of Rabies in Santa Maria

• Miller McCune Launches New Magazine

• Top Sporting Events: March 22-30

• New “Gateway to Montecito” Approved by Planning Commission

• Watchdog Sues Goleta Water District

• Markets: Close of Friday, March 21

• Sand, Sun, and Synagogue

• Washing Feet, Giving Hope

• A Sunnier Isla Vista as Winter Quarter Ends

• Saying Goodbye

• On the Road — The Ancient Ones

• Testing the Test

• Travels with Barney

Thursday, March 20

• Nelson Case Goes to Jury

• Beware of Snake Oil Salesman

• Spork It Over

• Save Redwood Houses

• Distilling the Myths and Washing Down the Rumors of Absinthe

• Feds Pull Funding for Key Channel Data Stations

• What to Do About Greka

• Supes Vote to Halt Noleta Rezoning

• Santa Barbara Cannabis Clubs Get Official Ordinance

• 2008 Spring Dance Preview

• NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! Comes to Santa Barbara

• 2008 Spring Pop and Rock Preview

• 2008 Spring Theater Preview

• 2008 Spring Visual Arts Preview

• 2008 Spring Film Preview

• The Infamous Stringdusters at Lobero

• State Symphony of Mexico

• Born Yesterday

• Riff and Raff

• Execs, Politicos, Journos, Enviros Talk Eco-Trends at Bacara

• Philip Levine’s Latest Collection, Breath

• Anne Luther: Relics & Offerings

• Gary Lang: Hybrid Variations

• Nina Gaddis 1923-2008

• The Bank Job

• The Vegan Monologues

• Art Adventures Come Alive

• Ballet Santa Barbara presents A New York Perspective.

• Kolache, but Slovak Style

• Mysterious Asparagus

• Perú Negro

• Child-proofed: Egg hunts

• Wildflowers in Bloom

• Adventurous Ad Pro

• Give a Little

• Hop on Board the Easter Bunny Express

• This Week in History

• Egg Hunt Extravaganza

• Collective Dreaming

• vol. 22, no. 114, Mar. 20 - 27, 2008

• 2008 Spring Arts Guide

• Go Online, Get Outdoors

• Natalie Cole

• 2008 Spring Classical Music Preview

• Positively State Street

• 2008 Spring Books and Lectures Preview

• 2008 Spring Jazz Preview

• 12,000,000 tons

• Quiz: Hold the Meat!

• Three Reasons to Get Your Movie On in Ojai

• North by Northwest

• Shall We Dance?

• Annual Concert Puts Naples Center Stage

• StylePhile

• UCSB Gaucho Women Head East for NCAA Tourney

• Growing Macadamias in S.B.

• s’Cool Food Initiative

• Recipe from My Italian Grandma

• Saul Williams Talks Poetry, Politics, and His Life as Niggy Tardust

• Quote of the Week

• The Buckhorn Panel

Wednesday, March 19

• Five Years in Iraq, as of Tomorrow

• Downtown Organization Gets New Director

• Seizure Causes Driver to Flip Car on 101

• On the Road — Colorado Plateau

• Steve Aoki

• Long Live Maharishi

• Beautiful Tribute

• More Oceanic Moments

• Naming and Shaming

• Little Shop of Errors

• Head Chopping Incident

• Mudcrutch Announce SB Tour Stop

• Dead Man Found on State Street

Tuesday, March 18

• Dog Got Your Tongue?

• Nelson Case Continues

• Santa Barbara’s First Ever St. Patrick’s Day Parade

• Indy Writer Begins Trip Across America

Monday, March 17

• Mustache March Rocks Santa Barbara

• Give to Goleta What Is Goleta’s

• A Spring Season Without Wilderness Trails?

• Erin Go Bragh

Sunday, March 16

• Easter Bunnies

• Fire Canyon

• Gauchos to Head to NCAA Women’s Tournament

• Can’t Stop the Music

• Santa Barbara Unitarians

• City College Continues Search for New President

Saturday, March 15

• UCSB Names David Awschalom Research Lecturer of 2008

• SB Cottage Hospital Adopts “Filmless” X-ray System

• Allegiant Air to Begin Direct-to-Vegas Flights

• Warning: Credit Card

• Plasmatron Oscillators and Psionic Helmets — Available Now!

Friday, March 14

• UCSB Men Lose in Big West Tourney

• Victim Testifies in Nelson Sexual Assault Trial

• UCSB Women Win, Head to Big West Finals

• Faulty Air Conditioner Results in Fire Department Action

• Markets: Close of Friday, March 14

• Governator Pushes Green at ECO:nomics on Friday

• Culture and Community

• Vets Against War Prep for Saturday Protest

• Strangers on a Strange Campus

• Best of Both Worlds (?)

• Vandenberg Successfully Launches Atlas V Rocket

Thursday, March 13

• Coast Village Story

• Presidential Candidates’ Reps Talk Green at ECO:nomics

• Citizen Ad Mission

• Killing Conversations

• What's in a Headline?

• Jackson Refinances Neverland

• Activists Infiltrate ECO:nomics, Briefly

• State Supreme Court Declines to Hear Indy Contempt Case

• ECO:nomics Begins at Bacara

• Notes from the Citizen McCaw Red Carpet

• Nelson Sexual Assault Trial

• The New 3rd District Supervisor

• Area Nurseries May Be Selling Invasive Plants

• Is Greka Still Spilling?

• School District Gives Transfer Students the Boot

• Sheriff Defends Shooting

• Hollywood U2 Delivers a Tribute Show of Epic Proportions

• vol. 22, no. 113, Mar. 13 - 20, 2008

• Sweet Pea Basil Pesto

• McMaster’s Steak & Hoagie

• Don’t Balk at Bok Choy

• The Right Time for Feminism

• The Granada Grand Opening Gala

• Planned Parenthood Offers a Host of Delicious Donating Options

• Bellinis and Bikinis

• The Band’s Visit

• 10,000 B.C.

• No Country for Old Dogs

• Kid Millionaire Cashes In

• Talking with S.F. JAZZ Collective’s Robin Eubanks

• Samantha Power’s New Book, Chasing the Flame

• Santa Barbara’s PyroSpin

• Living Page Photo: Bench Boxer

• On the Streets Where We Live

• Ask Your Mother

• How Other Towns Celebrate St. Paddy’s

• Give a Little

• To Market, to Market

• 34.7 Million

• His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1911*- 2008

• Height Fight on Chapala

• Positively State Street

• Match Made in HTML?

• Quote of the Week

• The Hotel Café Tour

• Wine Auction to Benefit DRI

• The Versatile Hopseed Bush

• Three Reasons to See Biblical Expert Elaine Pagels

• Art for Hamachi and Hot Dogs

• March of the Interns

• Natalie Cole Speaks Out on Music, the Grammys, and Life

• Happy Birthday Twelve35 Teen Center!

• The Comeback Fish

• Isaac Julien: Fantôme Afrique

• Santa Barbara Theatre to Stage Doubt

• ‘Can you give me some background on the artist Frank Morley Fletcher?’

• Rufus Wainwright

• Gauchos Nail Top Big West Tournament Seeds

• Extreme Brewing

• This Week in History

• Ballet Santa Barbara Honors Its New York Roots

• Chris Rock: No Apologies

• Amanda Granfield’s Scar Stories at Muddy Waters Café

• Year of the Rabbit

• For the Kids

• ¡Viva la Fiesta!

Wednesday, March 12

• Investigating, Fixing Hidden Hunger

• SB School District Sends Out Pink Slips

• Stabbing Could be Gang Related

• Various Artists

Tuesday, March 11

• Hiphop Violin on a Mountaintop

• Carbon Sciences Technology to Reduce Worldwide CO2

• Citrix Takes the Prize

• Top Sporting Events: March 12-23

• Shots from Citizen McCaw

• Marching Orders

• A White January

• Too Sexy for Garcia

Monday, March 10

• Granada's Re-Opening: Suitably Grand?

• Duran Duran Heads to the Santa Barbara Bowl

• Frimpong Gets Six Years

• Bowl Announces James Taylor Show

• Local June Races Heating Up, Cooling Down

• Healing or Harming the Spirit

• Chris Walla

Sunday, March 9

• From Hate to Hope

• Will The Backcountry Trails Be Opened Soon?

• UCSB Conferences to Focus on Religion, Sex, and Politics

Saturday, March 8

• UCSB Basketball Victories

• Top Sporting Events: March 6-13

• Tax Time

• Park Officials Review Plan for Shoreline

• Capps Honored by Planned Parenthood

• News-Press Settles Suit

• The Beauty of Scars

• The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Friday, March 7

• Updated: No Retrial For Frimpong

• NLRB Files Motion Against News-Press to Enforce Employee Return

• UCSB Hosts Statewide Sustainability Powwow

• Sheriff Deems San Antonio Creek-Area Shooting “Tragic”

• One Enchanted Evening

• Peacekeeping by Power

• Markets: Close of Friday, March 7, 2008

• Trails Council Honors Kalon Kelley

• Abandoned Critters

• The Marching Dons Play the Granada

• Tegan and Sara

• Speaking of Two-Timing Carpetbagging Politicians

Thursday, March 6

• Drug Bust Results in Westside Man’s Arrest

• Westmont Telescope Captures a Supernova

• Vandals Break Into Franklin Elementary

• Sheriff's Deputies Shoot Man in San Antonio Creek Neighborhood

• Gipsy Kings Announce SB Tour Stop

• The Game of LIFE

• Asymmetrical Terrorism

• Cradle to Grave

• Cold Springs Bridge Barrier: Yes

• Mexican News in Review

• News-Press, Union Negotiations Crawling Along

• First of Bloodless Sundays Signifies Hope for Peace

• UCSB Grad Returns, Rallies Against Genocide

• Cary Brothers and His Café Buddies Hit the Road

• Julia Fordham

• Why You Should Eat Fruits and Vegetables from S.B.’s Soil

• Quote of the Week

• Cheers and Raspberries

• Party for a Cause

• Barfoot Snowboards Turns 30

• Bianca Licata

• vol. 22, no. 112, Mar. 6 - 13, 2008

• Frimpong Retrial

• Positively State Street

• This Week in History

• Indoor Soccer Sign-Ups

• Give a Little

• Two Athletes Eschew the Pros to Finish College

• Week Spot Photo: The Best at Brooks

• You Are What You Eat

• Judah Folkman, MD 1933-2008

• The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, presented by CAMA

• L’ Elisir d’Amore, presented by Opera Santa Barbara

• The Morning Benders

• Richard McCurdy Ames 1924-2007

• Taking the Peeps by the Horn

• The Crêpes of Brittany (in Santa Barbara)

• Barnstorming and Rainy Day Dreaming

• Wine, Dine, Dance, and Direct Relief

• Best if Far from Busiest

• Lentil Soup

• Philip Glass: An Evening of Chamber Music

• Finding Motivation When You Hate to Exercise

• Hello, Logo

• Summer of Art

• Six Stylized Ways to Get Your Dance On

• Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra

• ‘What did the interiors of homes look like in the early days of Santa Barbara?’

• Stephen Sondheim and Frank Rich Stage A Little Night Conversation

• San Fran Explodes with Five Days of Indie Rock

• Santa Barbara County Wine Futures

• Photographic Exhibition Celebrates Santa Barbara’s Workforce

• Rincon Classic Turns 25

• Andrew J. Bacevich on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan

• Santa Barbara Junior High Celebrates 75th Anniversary

• The Other Boleyn Girl

• Online Only

Wednesday, March 5

• Stabbing on Lower Westside

• The Race for 3rd District

• You Can’t Take It With You

• Phoning It In

Tuesday, March 4

• Bring on the Dancing Girls

• Whose Mark is This?

• Calcutta’s Villages and Chennai’s Slums

• Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

• Love, War, and Funny Suits

Monday, March 3

• Greka Spills Again Again

• At-large Prison Escapee Found at UCSB

• Police Nab Suspected Taxi Robber

• 3rd District Supervisor Candidates' Forum to be Held in Isla Vista

• UCSB Professor Receives E-mail Threat

• Peace Activists Still Protest Missile Tests

• The Saintly Doctor and Krishna’s Curse

• La Patera Rancho and the Stow House

Sunday, March 2

• Learning Religion

• Cortez Leaving County for UCSB

Saturday, March 1

• The Fear Beneath

• The Very Incomplete Idiot’s Guide to Santa Barbara

• County Bureaucrat Busted for Fraud

• Good Saver, Bad Saver

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