As of last week, La Arcada Court’s newest hotspot, Stateside Restaurant & Lounge (1114 State St.) has been granted a dance permit by the City of Santa Barbara. In addition to their newly announced Tuesday night comedy show, Stateside is now offering up fine cuisine, live music, and a cool place to get your groove on seven nights a week.
On 12/11, U.S. District Court Judge Edward Rafeedie denied an attempt by the News-Press to delay the start of its copyright infringement case against The Independent.
Out of boredom and the desire to challenge myself with a simple cooking experiment came the idea to test my stubborn persistence: make a unique homemade dish every day for a month. To bring this one zany idea to fruition I needed:
Santa Barbara-based Blue Casa Communications, provider of land line phone service, received $36 million in venture capital from Adams Street Partners.
At the risk of being boring, I’m bringing up a frequent topic of mine again-mulch. It is looking like a dry year, so water will be at a premium for a while. Mulching your garden can go a long way toward easing the water woes.
Despite goose-down comforters, space agency-designed memory foam, hypoallergenic pillows, and 3,000-thread-count sheets, America still can’t sleep. Turns out some of the restless work at The Independent. Here are their stories.
Despite what the advertising machine might have me believe, as far as I’m concerned, it just isn’t Christmastime until I get my tree. Especially in Santa Barbara. It doesn’t matter how many times PayLess wishes me Merry Christmas or how many shopping days there are left; if there are blue skies out my window, such details do nothing to coax my Christmas spirit out of the box in which it hibernates, alongside the lights and ornaments.
It’s official. The boom is over. Everyone is downsizing for economic or environmental reasons, or both. The good news is you no longer need to feel guilty about regifting. On the contrary, regifting just might become your whole gift-giving strategy. Especially if you are the parents of small children and certain holidays are looming.
Words can have a deadening effect on images, and images can do the same to words. An image can be stopped in its tracks by an interpretation that shuts down the ongoing play it offers, and an image can become a mere illustration to a text, cutting off the imagination’s trajectory.
GORED, NOT BORED: Writer/artist/raconteur Barnaby Conrad is sending out holiday cards showing photos of matadors getting tossed and gored. The caption: “You See, Things Could Be Worse.”
