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- Story: Nothing to Hide Anymore (Thursday, November 12, 2009)
... scars of sexual abuse one day at a time. I was sexually molested when I ... hen I was 10 years old. It has taken me more than 35 years to be able to wri ... sentence you just read. It’s taken me just as long to be able to process w ... be able to process what happened to me. I’m not over it, and I don’t th ...
- Story: Voices Rarely Heard (Thursday, November 13, 2008)
... roup PUEBLO began interviewing undocumented immigrants about their lives her ... Organizing) began interviewing undocumented immigrants about their lives her ... iences of working without proper documents, driving without a license, and d ... se histories of the pertinent Latin American countries. All of the profit ...
- Story: Last Calls (Thursday, July 27, 2006)
... includes the restaurant, bar, and home in the back—for a comfortable chun ... includes the restaurant, bar, and home in the back—for a comfortable ... ure seems destined to succumb to the mega-corporations continually staking ... Pearl, Sal, and all the other longtime employees, and bid a heartfelt farew ...
- Story: Letters from a Santa Barbara Soldier in Iraq (Thursday, June 28, 2007)
... ntly arrived in Baghdad when he sent me this report: They have a new kind o ... These new devices always take off some part of you, usually a leg or two. T ... ntly arrived in Baghdad when he sent me this report: They have a new kind ... These new devices always take off some part of you, usually a leg or two. T ...
- Story: The Price of Redemption (Thursday, June 7, 2007)
... nside story of Phillip Gladden, a former meth addict and alleged child moles ... e story of Phillip Gladden, a former meth addict and alleged child molester- ... d molester-turned-preacher who has come to Santa Barbara to reveal God's pla ... anta Barbara to reveal God's plan. Some say the registered sex offender is a ...
- Story: Rape Survivor Overcomes Trauma (Thursday, April 10, 2008)
... boyfriend. I imagined he would bring me single red roses, shower me with com ... ld bring me single red roses, shower me with compliments, and love me foreve ... ngle red roses, shower me with compliments, and love me forever, like in Hol ... shower me with compliments, and love me forever, like in Hollywood movies. H ...
- Story: Chuckie's Story (Thursday, April 19, 2007)
... n’t talk much and kids made fun of me. Something was wrong, but I had no i ... talk much and kids made fun of me. Something was wrong, but I had no idea wh ... wrong, but I had no idea what that something was. I didn’t have close frie ... n’t talk much and kids made fun of me. Something was wrong, but I had no i ...
- Story: Live Releases It’s First Concert DVD (Thursday, April 9, 2009)
... n Ed Kowalczyk is ensconced in his home in Ojai, amiably answering my questi ... lczyk and the rest of the band—drummer Chad Gracey, bassist Patrick Dahlhe ... Chad Gracey, bassist Patrick Dahlheimer, and guitarist Chad Taylor—have f ... Chad Taylor—have finally landed some down time after a long stint on the ...
- Story: Understanding the Complex Lives of Our Transgender Community (Thursday, February 19, 2009)
... mering bright day in Los Olivos, I sat ... f St. Mark's Episcopal Church, the same church President and Mrs. Reagan att ... Refugio Canyon ranch. On a shimmering bright day in Los Olivos, I sat ... St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, the same church President and Mrs. Reagan att ...
- Story: Humanitarian Greg Mortenson and Economist Jeffrey Sachs Chat with Howard Schiffer (Thursday, May 1, 2008)
... ra's Vitamin Angels interviews the famed humanitarian and poverty-ending eco ... ook The End of Poverty. So when it came time to find someone to interview Sa ... he End of Poverty. So when it came time to find someone to interview Sachs a ... erty. So when it came time to find someone to interview Sachs and humanitari ...
- Story: Monkeys He Will Make of Men (Tuesday, September 19, 2006)
... en Gears Up for Best Album Yet For someone who’s been winning in the rap g ... ne who’s been winning in the rap game since his 1991 debut, Del tha Funky ... lling in the dough and a household name like many of his contemporaries. The ... ecord label Hieroglyphics that’s home to such underground stars Souls of M ...
- Story: Mary Anne Stevens Chapman 1916-2007 (Thursday, June 21, 2007)
... me to say please and thank you. She was ... will resonate. My mother taught me to say please and thank you. She was ... her bed like little lost lambs. He came in and started singing “Come Fly w ... He came in and started singing “Come Fly with Me” to Mary, which made u ...
- Story: KT Tunstall Talks Touring, Posing, and Living the Dream (Thursday, May 1, 2008)
... mes to Santa Barbara on Sunday, May 4. ... re just on tour in the U.K. at the moment actually. And just in a place call ... y global this year. We did a bit in America in January, and we’ve just com ... erica in January, and we’ve just come back from Japan, Singapore, New Zeal ...
- Story: Coming Out Stories (Sunday, October 5, 2008)
... member when they told the world they we ... the people around us—but the epitome of an ongoing experience. In celebra ... Penny Patterson I Could Go for Some Veggie Pot Pie “Okay, so when a ... ot pie?” my friend asked after I came out to her. I had just started that ...
- Story: From I.V., on Mother’s Day (Tuesday, May 13, 2008)
... nough for everything that you do for me. You answer my panicked phone calls ... phone calls during finals week, slip me money when you think nobody is looki ... ooking and make sure I never leave home without a heaping plate of leftovers ... vers to put in my fridge. You remind me to take my Airborne, ask me if I’m ...
- Story: Saying Goodbye (Tuesday, October 23, 2007)
... lives. My first boyfriend’s name was Robert Ayres, but everyone calle ... alled him Bob. He had a crazy, curly mess of blond hair and the kind of eyes ... passion was music, and he first won me over by playing a pitch-perfect rend ... avorite song. I was fourteen when we met, and he was already sixteen. Even t ...
- Story: The Tale of Mr. and Mrs. Squirrelly (Sunday, April 5, 2009)
... oice to Santa Barbara’s wild and domesticated animal communities, and reve ... k. About six years ago, a squirrel named Mr. Squirrelly began to frequent th ... bird feeder ran empty and he sighted me within the house, he chattered angri ... n the house, he chattered angrily at me to refill it. One day about a year a ...
- Story: Hauntings at the Bacara: Fact or Fiction? (Thursday, October 28, 2004)
... things that go bump in the night for me are my neighbors when they come home ... for me are my neighbors when they come home from one too many spirits at ye ... me are my neighbors when they come home from one too many spirits at ye olde ... and Ouija boards are for the uninformed and the misguided, and ghost storie ...
- Story: The Danger Zone (Friday, April 20, 2007)
... an email from ProjectPilot inviting me to take a flight lesson. I immediate ... ting me to take a flight lesson. I immediately replied, typing out what coul ... ld just as easily be a transcript of Meg Ryan’s phony orgasm scene in When ... s phony orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally … . “Yes, yes, yes!!!” ...
- Story: Pretty Women? (Monday, November 20, 2006)
... menon. It’s Playboy meets MySpace.com ... cultural phenomenon. It’s Playboy meets MySpace.com, as brought to you by ... It’s a Web site. It’s erotica. Some say it’s punk-goth-softcore porn. ... eminism’s third wave. It’s the same old misogyny with Manic Panic hair c ...
- Story: Tale of Two Sisters (Sunday, November 15, 2009)
... Ann Winter heals her pain by making amends with the sister decades later. ... l school years in the 1950s. Math to me was a foreign language from another ... ount of study or tutoring could make me see its logic. Being math challen ... aused much verbal humiliation and shame. One Sister in particular was mercil ...
- Story: First King of the Festival (Thursday, February 1, 2007)
... ing of Scotland, Forest Whitaker becomes the notorious Ugandan dictator Idi ... o deliver the performance of a lifetime — and one that’s likely to l ... t crazed northern rebels. Whitaker comes to the Arlington Theatre on Saturda ... ing of Scotland, Forest Whitaker becomes the notorious Ugandan dictator Idi ...
- Story: New Pornographers Frontman Heads to SOhO (Thursday, February 26, 2009)
... nd lead songwriter for the Canadian-American indie collective The New Pornog ... aphers, Newman has helped to craft some of the smartest, catchiest, and most ... ature hook-laden punch, as well as some truly clever lyrical content. On the ... Newman recently phoned in from his home in Brooklyn to discuss the making of ...
- Story: Father Virgil: A Love Story (Thursday, May 29, 2008)
... ng with Father Virgil for years, I came home from the Mission one day and to ... th Father Virgil for years, I came home from the Mission one day and told my ... ng with Father Virgil for years, I came home from the Mission one day and to ... th Father Virgil for years, I came home from the Mission one day and told my ...
- Story: Getting Better with Age (Thursday, October 26, 2006)
... n of Ethan Stewart's once-in-a-lifetime chat with songwriter John Prine, who ... at with songwriter John Prine, who comes to town this Saturday, October 28, ... his Saturday, October 28, with Jim James, frontman for My Morning Jacket. ... 10 years, after all, he has both become a father and battled cancer. But whe ...
- Story: A Cautionary Tale about Airports and Holiday Horrors (Thursday, December 18, 2008)
... iving and Christmas and have always emerged unscathed at my final destinatio ... the friendly skies conspired against me for three days straight, eventually ... e days straight, eventually breaking me and keeping me in the 805 for Santa ... , eventually breaking me and keeping me in the 805 for Santa’s big night. ...
- Story: Near Naked Ambush at the Gym (Monday, March 26, 2007)
... so much to those of you who emailed me and commented with your blind date d ... o those of you who emailed me and commented with your blind date disaster st ... hly entertaining, and certainly made me feel like a lot less of a failure in ... of a failure in the first-date-department. Also, I was excited to see that a ...
- Story: Winning Poems from the 2008 Young People’s Poetry Contest (Thursday, April 17, 2008)
... d wagon among leaves of grass, words memorably strung together can remind us ... Believing You must know This moment — this is not about you ... cker up from the warm ground Like messengers from a beautiful, hidden wor ... ong of the earth A singing that comes from nowhere and everywhere A be ...
- Story: Inside The Kite Runner, The Savages, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Juno (Thursday, December 20, 2007)
... are dealing with their father’s dementia; The Diving Bell and the Butterf ... is; and Juno, a hysterical, moving comedy about teenage pregnancy. In the pa ... This book was his baby, and he gave me the baby for a couple years to take ... e years to take care of. The best comment I received throughout the course o ...
- Story: California Gold (Thursday, May 25, 2006)
... after college at UCSB I moved back home to San Francisco and lived the idle ... iven day in this vocation might find me riding my bicycle across a terrible ... In fact, there is scarcely a dull moment in my occupation. There’s no mon ... after college at UCSB I moved back home to San Francisco and lived the idle ...
- Story: Our Annual Poetry Contest (Tuesday, April 7, 2009)
... onth, as declared by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, and celebrated t ... as if it were an act of Congress. (I mean, they are the unacknowledged legis ... Wood Woman The only one left Just me: verdant and lonely I’m highly ... lammable, too I despise matches and men in hard hats, But most of all— ...
- Story: John Prine Comes to the Arlington (Thursday, October 26, 2006)
... n of Ethan Stewart's once-in-a-lifetime chat with songwriter John Prine, who ... at with songwriter John Prine, who comes to town this Saturday, October 28, ... his Saturday, October 28, with Jim James, frontman for My Morning Jacket. ... 10 years, after all, he has both become a father and battled cancer. But whe ...
- Story: Joey De Alba 1984-2007 (Thursday, April 5, 2007)
... re made for each other. He even told me one night after a few months of know ... a lot of Jack Daniels) that he loved me since the day he met me. Our familie ... s) that he loved me since the day he met me. Our families introduced us with ... hat he loved me since the day he met me. Our families introduced us with the ...
- Story: Our Comrade in Cuba (Saturday, September 26, 2009)
... detached from its body. Jorge called me up from his third story balcony, and ... omfortably narrow stairwell. He welcomed me into his home, speaking Spanish ... rtably narrow stairwell. He welcomed me into his home, speaking Spanish at a ... stairwell. He welcomed me into his home, speaking Spanish at a speed I thoug ...
- Story: Rex Marchbanks 1949-2007 (Thursday, April 26, 2007)
... hill and unloaded, hauling the equipment onto the stage, and so on. Mos ... hill and unloaded, hauling the equipment onto the stage, and so on. But aft ... everyone in Santa Barbara feel welcome with bear hugs and a big smile. S ... h cancer. Fittingly, he was at his home on the Bowl property, surrounded by ...
- Story: Say Hi to Fred (Sunday, January 27, 2008)
... for drawing a lot of high-profile comedy acts. While the screenwriters’ s ... o now that Armisen generally likes some music in with his comedy. (Or is tha ... rally likes some music in with his comedy. (Or is that comedy with his music ... ic in with his comedy. (Or is that comedy with his music?) His unplanned tim ...
- Story: The Pain of Denial (Thursday, April 20, 2006)
... Memory of Rape “If you want to find ... iniscing out loud. Recovering the Memory of Rape by Dorothy Segovia R ... her blond. Beelzebub (not his real name), he took me boogie boarding on Tha ... lzebub (not his real name), he took me boogie boarding on Thanksgiving morn ...
- Story: Oil Meets Girl (Thursday, August 23, 2007)
... h a beautiful woman. That is, she seemed attractive — I didn’t actua ... h a beautiful woman. That is, she seemed attractive — I didn’t actua ... en played with for a while. Her name was Elsa, and she was a masseuse bei ... he was a masseuse being paid to give me a hot stone massage. But “hot” b ...
- Story: L Is for Lesbian (Thursday, April 19, 2007)
... B as a couple and who chair UCSB's Women's Studies and Sociology Departments ... Women's Studies and Sociology Departments, respectively. Carla Amurao s ... and Verta Taylor, who chair UCSB's womens' studies and sociology departments ... womens' studies and sociology departments, respectively. These two professo ...
- Story: Farewell, Teenage Wasteland (Thursday, April 26, 2007)
... h any more since it is officially deemed National Poetry Month. Within the c ... h any more since it is officially deemed National Poetry Month. Within the c ... here she challenges the young to mix memory and desire, stir their dull root ... r dull roots with spring rain, and come out with some strong words. This yea ...
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