On the Beat
The Goleta Postal Murders
San Marco, 44, was obsessed with racial hatred and so paranoid that she thought her former workmates were conspiring against her. Read story.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Barney's Film Festival Notes
It was so misty-moisty on Saturday morning that directors’ panel moderator Peter Bart told a Lobero audience, “I didn’t know if I was coming to Santa Barbara or Downton Abbey.” Read story.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sex, Love, and Saving Elephants at the Film Fest
Sex * Drama * Environmental Crises * Forbidden (and Unforbidden) Love * Movie Stars on the Red Carpet * All coming to a theater near you! Read story.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
They Didn't Get a Sporting Chance
Watching President Obama's inauguration on MLK Day, I reflected back to when as a boy I watched the Chicago Bears and the Cubs play and saw no black faces on either field. Read story.
Monday, January 21, 2013
The Kalashnikov and I
There are an estimated 100 million AK-47 assault rifles in the world, but I couldn’t find one to buy in Santa Barbara this week. Read story.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
The Not-So-Friendly Skies
“We are old enough to remember the glory days of flying, when flight attendants were happy, attractive people, eager to please,” muses Montecito’s Bill Tomicki, publisher of the witty travel newsletter ENTREE. Read story.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
He Demanded Olympics Purity, but Not His Own
For decades the most powerful man in amateur sport, Santa Barbaran Avery Brundage fawned on Hitler and believed that athletics was the proper province of the rich. Read story.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Death Valley Rocks
If ever there were an ideal place to harness solar energy, it’s sun-drenched Death Valley National Park. Read story.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree
The other day, Sue arrived home with the skinniest, scrawniest sliver of a tree I ever saw. Read story.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Confessions of a Nude Dancer
She went to all-girls boarding schools and USC, and looks back on her sans-clothes career without regret. Read story.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Untying Knots of the Past
The former Boy Scout lost self-esteem and jobs as a result of abuse suffered as a teen. Read story.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
I Confess: I Liked Ike
Ah yes, those 1950s, a decade so many cherish as the good old days. Read story.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Getting Naked for Minimum Wage
Owners of the Spearmint Rhino had a great little deal going. They didn’t pay their exotic dancers a cent. Read story.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Ballots, Bullets, and Booze
Gangs of violent wives terrorized saloon keepers during the moral crusade that led to Prohibition, 1920-1933. Read story.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Wallflower at the $6-Billion Orgy
It’s finally over, and we ended up with the same president. Fortunately. Read story.
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