Stepping into the world of photographer Kate Connell is like drifting between a meditative consciousness and a dream where memories of familiarly foreign landscapes float in and out of one another. The sky is a hazy white; the earth is dewy and tangled with vines. In Connell’s world, what is real effortlessly flips between a sharp focus and a soft blur, leaving much to the imagination.
As the 12/26 deadline approaches, no claims have yet been filed against Chicago-based Covenant Retirement Communities, whose facilities include Samarkand of Santa Barbara.
Despite rare and ruthless brain tumor, this popular UCSB student and great musician lived his short life to the fullest.
Nonprofit visionary Craig Harris founded Noza to help charities across the country “raise more money, and spend less money doing it.”
Writer and director Trinity Amanda Kesselring’s claim that Four Sisters, Four Seasons is inspirational may be a little overblown-but not much. Acting Out Theater Company, the amateur group Kesselring founded when she returned to Santa Barbara recently from Los Angeles, is both a theater class and an opportunity for anyone who’s ever wanted to be on stage to show their stuff.
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art has announced the appointment of a new director, Larry J. Feinberg, formerly of the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition to his scholarly and curatorial activities, Feinberg is a renowned leader in the areas of educational outreach and international relief effort.
What is the first thing people want after a disaster? It’s not shelter, or food, or comfort. It’s information, says Troy Harris, who is the outgoing president of the Montecito Emergency Response & Recovery Action Group (MERRAG). His point was made evident last summer when the Zaca Fire licked the backdoor of Montecito.
The alarm clock becomes a haunting reminder as you calculate just how long it is until the sun rises and it becomes socially acceptable to be as awake as you are. Perhaps you get up and read a book or watch some television in order to, as you tell yourself, “fall back asleep.” But the fact is you never were asleep and you don’t see the sweet embrace of slumber coming anytime soon.
SOMETHING PISSY THIS WAY COMES: Greka Oil has done it again. And again and again and again. At a time when oil companies like Chevron and BP are spending many millions to greenwash us into believing they can be environmentally caring and sharing, it’s good to have down-and-dirty operators like Greka keeping it real.
The Santa Barbara School District maintained the status quo for schools that share sites within the elementary and secondary districts.
