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- Story: Coyote Fire: Sept 22-Oct 1, 1964 (Wednesday, September 30, 2009)
... fast, like lightning. Then they're gone. Wildfires start deceptively sma ... k us into thinking we can tame them with puny hoses carried by brave people ... bout wildfires. They aren't acts of God. They're nature striking back at m ... amatically from the shoulder of the city and create the juxtaposition of sea ...
- Story: 2007 Surf Issue - Surf Season Returns (Thursday, October 25, 2007)
... coastline of Santa Barbara. The all-too-short annual love affair between our ... swells officially opened this month with a spattering of sublimely surfable ... ounty, and the hungry hordes were on it. Get ready for crowded beach par ... coastline of Santa Barbara. The all-too-short annual love affair between our ...
- Story: Last Calls (Thursday, July 27, 2006)
... on East Canon Perdido Street whose pagoda façade is the last reminder of Sa ... ing Chinatown—would be closing for good on Saturday, July 29. The reason? ... for a comfortable chunk of change, with which he’ll enjoy his golden year ... change, with which he’ll enjoy his golden years. The news descended slow ...
- Story: Letters 11/2/2006 (Wednesday, November 1, 2006)
... ired about the same number of years ago. As an avid employee and reader, I h ... ired about the same number of years ago. As an avid employee and reader, I ... of resignations and dismissals. Now it’s Melinda Burns, whom I think ... ns, whom I think is the best news writer the paper has ever employed. After ...
- Story: Voices of the Evacuated (Friday, November 14, 2008)
... UPDATED CONTINUOUSLY: Accounts from witnesses and people most affected by th ... affected by the Tea Fire. While it is unclear precisely which addresses ... e than 2,500 people have evacuated, with more than 200 hunkered at the San M ... hool shelter, many watching the map with a view to trying to figure out if t ...
- Story: New Pornographers Frontman Heads to SOhO (Thursday, February 26, 2009)
... wman. As the frontman and lead songwriter for the Canadian-American indie co ... iest, and most structurally complex ditties of both his genre and his genera ... ar, yet equally impressive records, with the latest (the recently released G ... lve,” Newman starts his onslaught with the following doozy: “There are m ...
- Story: California's Prop. 8 Defeat: A Bungled Campaign (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
... I found myself strongly disagreeing with their assessment, and I found mysel ... rs bust down the front door of the White House for an African American, and ... single biggest reason for the Proposition 8 loss was an ineffective and ine ... dership of the No on 8 campaign, Despite raising record-shattering amounts o ...
- Story: Wedding Ways (Thursday, February 16, 2006)
... hat blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream …,” lisps Impressive ... ons. Georgia Freedman discovers that it takes a village to create the perfec ... orthodox nuptials — complete with matchmaker; and Josh Brayer finds b ... tepdad. Also find out how one couple got sponsors to help defray the costs o ...
- Story: Good Night & Good Luck (Thursday, April 27, 2006)
... long overdue. Inside, Shannon Kelley Gould takes an up-close-and-personal lo ... d cocktails. After the sun has done its daily dance into the Pacific and th ... the Pacific and the moon has begun its nocturnal climb high above the twin ... a, downtown Santa Barbara transforms itself from a tourist-riddled shopper ...
- Story: Getting Better with Age (Thursday, October 26, 2006)
... ith the Legendary John Prine Here's th ... n Stewart's once-in-a-lifetime chat with songwriter John Prine, who comes to ... s once-in-a-lifetime chat with songwriter John Prine, who comes to town this ... to town this Saturday, October 28, with Jim James, frontman for My Morning ...
- Story: John Prine Comes to the Arlington (Thursday, October 26, 2006)
... ith the Legendary John Prine Here's th ... n Stewart's once-in-a-lifetime chat with songwriter John Prine, who comes to ... s once-in-a-lifetime chat with songwriter John Prine, who comes to town this ... to town this Saturday, October 28, with Jim James, frontman for My Morning ...
- Story: Local Heroes 2008 (Wednesday, November 26, 2008)
... ue of The Santa Barbara Independent. It was also our first honor roll of Loc ... r first honor roll of Local Heroes, with stories of men and women who truly ... ue of The Santa Barbara Independent. It was also our first honor roll of Loc ... r first honor roll of Local Heroes, with stories of men and women who truly ...
- Story: Are Primary-Care Doctors Going the Way of the Dodo? (Thursday, August 27, 2009)
... e doctor I didn’t like to another, good fortune led me to the offices of N ... n earthy, fifty-something internist with a maternal streak. She earned my lo ... a snap. As a fellow working mother, it felt safe to kvetch about life as we ... was closing her practice. The hours it demanded had become inordinate, she ...
- Story: Letters 8-17-2006 (Thursday, August 17, 2006)
... Most recently he covered the courts with an understated ease that belied the ... erstated ease that belied the complexity of the assignment. … [A]nyone who ... [A]nyone who’s spent five seconds with Schultz knows … with Chuck there ... five seconds with Schultz knows … with Chuck there is no hidden agenda; wh ...
- Story: Talking Life and Music with ALO’s Zach Gill (Thursday, December 21, 2006)
... o what happens when life catches up with a band. Read on for Gill's insights ... at large. An Early Morning Spent with the Frontman for the Animal Libera ... or the Animal Liberation Orchestra It’s 9:15 a.m., and I am knocking ... home adjacent to the Ellwood mesa. It’s an early morning for what wa ...
- Story: The Outsiders (Tuesday, October 13, 2009)
... confronted by a host of mayoral and city council candidates who did not rise ... through the ranks of established political organizations. Every two y ... confronted by a host of mayoral and city council candidates who did not rise ... through the ranks of established political organizations. Typically, these ...
- Story: Living the Arctic Meltdown (Thursday, August 31, 2006)
... it Community Struggles with Climate Cha ... ity Struggles with Climate Change When ... ith Climate Change When polar explorer ... orer Will Steger comes to town to visit Montecito philanthropist Virginia Ca ...
- Story: Catching Up with NorCal’s the morning benders (Thursday, October 23, 2008)
... it the ground running and head to UCSB. ... ers’ recent sold-out touring gigs with The Kooks and Ra Ra Riot, a soon-to ... Ra Riot, a soon-to-be-released live iTunes session, their S.F. Weekly Music ... on, and a slew of glowing reviews, write-ups, and praiseworthy pats on the b ...
- Story: Executive Privileges (Thursday, February 5, 2009)
... dministrator for the past six years. It was the supervisors’ first chance ... ion to former personnel director Ann Goodrich, who claimed Brown had retalia ... the review wasn’t just concerning Goodrich—there were other concerns ab ... the verge of a dramatic shift, a reality that wasn’t lost on the superviso ...
- Story: Shoot-Out at the Roundabout Corral (Monday, May 28, 2007)
... sloppy design and half-truths from city staff. Here's a 3,500-word report o ... ort on what happened at last week's City Council meeting and why it's not qu ... week's City Council meeting and why it's not quite as simple as neighborhoo ... y Council meeting and why it's not quite as simple as neighborhoods versus C ...
- Story: Sheriff Unveils Plan for New Jail, Expanded Prevention Program (Thursday, February 14, 2008)
... itics, makes for strange bedfellows. Wh ... ta Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown took his plans to relieve chronic overcr ... in of events set in motion 27 years ago by a convicted hitman named Dennis B ... motion 27 years ago by a convicted hitman named Dennis Boyd Miller. His ...
- Story: The Grownup’s Guide to Indie Rock (Thursday, August 20, 2009)
... ning: The following article is not suitable for young adults, particularly t ... n he does anyway. But if you do read it, please email the author with the na ... do read it, please email the author with the names of said bands. That way h ... e avant-garde art form nowadays, and it’s called indie rock. Think about i ...
- Story: Local Heroes 2007 (Wednesday, November 21, 2007)
... s come in all shapes and sizes, and with this 22nd annual Local Heroes issue ... spire in extraordinary ways, nurses with saintly dedication to their patient ... to making other people’s lives a little bit better. Nowhere is this es ... ing other people’s lives a little bit better. Nowhere is this essence o ...
- Story: Eating (Thursday, October 15, 2009)
... ition Store Gourmet Food Store Sa ... Health Food/Nutrition Store Gourmet Food Store Salad Bar Lazy ... y Acres’ salad bar as a microcosm. It has all the icon-foods of the health ... ower seeds, and broccoli stalks. Yet it also features some gourmet flourishe ...
- Story: Feeling the Future (Thursday, October 25, 2007)
... r Joanna Macy on interdependence, politics, and poetry. The hour is striki ... d sharp / That all my senses / Ring with it. / I feel it now: there’s a po ... arp / That all my senses / Ring with it. / I feel it now: there’s a power ... l my senses / Ring with it. / I feel it now: there’s a power in me / To gr ...
- Story: A is for Astronomy (Wednesday, November 15, 2006)
... o Curioser and Curioser: Plain Talk with Brilliant Scholars, yet another new ... this space, you can find interviews with noted scholars on topics ranging fr ... g from science to society, arts to arithmetic. We’ll be going through the ... iety, arts to arithmetic. We’ll be going through the alphabet for the next ...
- Story: Growers' Pains (Thursday, September 7, 2006)
... cars 13 deep stacks down the block waiting to park for this paradise of prod ... ise of produce. The sidewalk swirls with shoppers, smiling children, signatu ... ature-gathering liberals, and a man with snakes offering up photo opportunit ... ith snakes offering up photo opportunities next to a nearly full bike rack. ...
- Story: Letters 10-26-06 (Thursday, October 26, 2006)
... s best club deejay [Oct. 19] was written and handled. Matty Matt Moore ... y Matt Moore out ... P is For Priorities It seems Chief Sanchez did not r ... Moore out ... P is For Priorities It seems Chief Sanchez did not read Mea ... not read Measure P closely before writing his opinion piece [“Joint C ...
- Story: Convenient Lies (Thursday, June 15, 2006)
... uld’ve been an animated car and Al Gore? You can just see Jay Leno salivat ... arison. But we live in funny times. Gore’s movie, of course, is An Inconv ... glaciers, dry lakebeds, and flooded cities, Gore — belying his reputation ... s, dry lakebeds, and flooded cities, Gore — belying his reputation for sti ...
- Story: Letters 8-3-2006 (Thursday, August 3, 2006)
... efforts to get beyond simplistic “good guy/bad guy” accounts of the fig ... that, “In times of war … the ability to define the beginning often means ... orts to get beyond simplistic “good guy/bad guy” accounts of the ... 8220;In times of war … the ability to define the beginning often mean ...
- Story: Riding At Night With The SBPD (Sunday, October 28, 2007)
... pend Saturday night on a ride along with one of Santa Barbara finest, Office ... rting in and out of traffic on Montecito Street. We arrived outside JJ’s L ... ol he had consumed, and he became a little testy when officers tried to get ... his Taser, but didn’t have to use it. On the way to County Jail (our o ...
- Story: Letters 8-31-06 (Wednesday, August 30, 2006)
... minists, we are extremely concerned with your views on women’s rights, LGB ... ncern. However, we gave you the benefit of the doubt because we assumed you ... we gave you the benefit of the doubt because we assumed you would undertake a rat ... urse on issues relating to our community...... Dear Ms. Laura Schlessinger ...
- Story: Goleta’s Tug of War (Thursday, September 28, 2006)
... ity Council Candidates Fight Over Fast ... Over Fast Growth vs. Slow Growth The Goleta City Council race pits three inc ... t Growth vs. Slow Growth The Goleta City Council race pits three incumbents ... Growth The Goleta City Council race pits three incumbents who have served si ...
- Story: Why We’re Hopelessly Devoted to Beach House (Tuesday, September 23, 2008)
... it to the fine folks at Club Mercy to b ... z seems to be wearing off. Leave it to the fine folks at Club Mercy to b ... Scally are currently gearing up to hit the road and tout the songs behind t ... and a sound that will not soon be forgotten. Since forming in 2005, Scally a ...
- Story: Big Questions (Thursday, September 7, 2006)
... in Iraq, Chats About Iran and Iraq with The Indy's International Affairs Ex ... Five years after September 11, the United States is engaged in a war most Am ... now feel was unnecessary and most military experts now acknowledge cannot be ... nnot be “won” in any traditional sense of the word. But just as ...
- Story: The Scariest Man on the Planet (Thursday, February 8, 2007)
... ry scary map on a wall of the University Club, Santa Barbara’s citadel of ... University Club, Santa Barbara’s citadel of tradition and accomplishment. ... ub, Santa Barbara’s citadel of tradition and accomplishment. The map, prep ... , was of downtown Santa Barbara. But it showed a very different city from th ...
- Story: Jocks to Rocks, BOSB'06 (Thursday, October 19, 2006)
... amping Gear Store Santa Barbara Outfitters 1200 State St., 564-1007 ... Jessica Barcelona. “We have a good crew and a lot of loyal customers ... t of loyal customers and that helps, too,” she said. Finalist Big 5 S ... she said. Finalist Big 5 Sporting Goods --> Sporting Goods Store; Place ...
- Story: The Making of Selden Edwards’s Novel, The Little Book (Thursday, August 7, 2008)
... itude that’s easier to espouse than t ... lly when the project in question has gone on for decades and the chances of ... . “Never give up” is an attitude that’s easier to espouse than t ... lly when the project in question has gone on for decades and the chances of ...
- Story: Made In Santa Barbara, 2006 (Thursday, December 7, 2006)
... , we’ve decided to do something a bit different than previous years. Since ... different than previous years. Since it’s our 20th anniversary, we thought ... hat — if anything — our little hamlet had created that has broke ... ry and become nationally recognized. It was surprisingly easy to come up wit ...
- Story: Letters 6-22-06 (Thursday, June 22, 2006)
... nvenient Lies,” June 15], I assume it was supposed to be portrayed as news ... perhaps The Independent, has his political views, which are comfortably on ... the left side of the spectrum, but little things like “100% of scientists ... y false and irresponsible for any legitimate journalist or newspaper to use. ...
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