Ajury of nine women and three men took less than a day of deliberation to find former UCSB soccer player Eric Frimpong guilty of rape, leaving a 19-year-old victim relieved the trial is over and a group of Frimpong’s supporters wondering what went wrong.
The Angry Poodle tells the Santa Barbara City Council a good way to make money: rent to cannabis dispensaries.
The Sperling Preserve at Ellwood Mesa is home to one of the largest monarch butterfly over-wintering sites in California and is well worth a visit this holiday season.
Movie studios wait until the end of the year to release their best stuff, so they can capitalize on the many awards being handed out around now.
While stocking my arsenal of available online information in preparation for Thursday’s concert at the Arlington Theatre, I couldn’t help but think, as my subject does, in grand and relatively obscure allusion. In the case of Tori Amos and her American Doll Posse tour, art, in many new and revisited forms, reveals itself while the artist quite visibly peacocks on stage.
The best things in life are free, or so the promise goes. It is hard to believe that one in this hothouse atmosphere of consumerism that engulfs us this time of year. Like a lot of folks my age, I am trying to simplify my life, get free of “stuff.”
Playing with tradition is a bold move, and one Rodney Gustafson, artistic director of State Street Ballet, is not afraid to try. Last weekend, the company presented its annual holiday production-a 1930s Hollywood twist on The Nutcracker.
1) Which of the following ancient temples honors the Winter Solstice?
• Stonehenge in England
• Chichen Itz¡ in Mexico
• Newgrange in Ireland
As 2007 comes to a close, there’s no better time to make a sonic time capsule in the form of a mix-tape. Use this list as a jumping-off point when creating your tape, CD, or MP3 playlist of fun, and wait for good times to roll as you recall the last 365 days in total clarity when you listen to it a few years from now.
Each December invariably brings, along with candy canes and fruitcake, Christmas albumsfor better or worse. This year, Scottish songstress KT Tunstall has cut a six-song holiday EP that is definitely better.
