Three Ways Arts Alive! Is Saying Out With the Old for ’08
Since changing hands late last year, Santa Barbara’s all-ages gallery-meets-studio-meets-learning center, Arts Alive!, has been going through a world of changes.
Month: January 2008
Art Film Installations
For the first time this year, two art film installations are being shown in conjunction with the film festival.
Authorities Continue Search for Missing Student
Authorities are looking into possible connections between the disappearance of Santa Barbara City College student Brianna Denison…
James P. Lenfestey Featured at Santa Barbara Poetry Series
The second Santa Barbara Poetry Series of the season welcomes Minneapolis poet James P. Lenfestey, cofounder of the Ojai Poetry Festival, as he makes his way around Southern California to promote his latest book, A Cartload of Scrolls: 100 Poems in the Manner of T’ang Dynasty Poet Han-shan (Holy Cow! Press, 2007).
Looking a Gift Dog in the Mouth
READY, FIRE, AIM: Voodoo economics is hardly new, but it used to be the exclusive domain of starry-eyed Republicans who never recovered from having read Milton Friedman in their youth.
vol. 22, no. 107, Jan. 31-Feb. 7, 2008
ON THE COVER: Tommy Lee Jones is an imposing figure on and off the screen, and his performances this year in No Country for Old Men and In the Valley of Elah prove that fact.
Lights, Camera
LIGHTS, CAMERA: The Santa Barbara International Film Festival got started last Thursday evening under a cloak of heavy rain and blustery wind.
Montecito Road Construction to Cause Delays
Drivers on South Jameson Lane in Montecito, at the intersection with Eucalyptus Lane, will suffer major traffic delays…
Strawberry Growers Flee North
Santa Barbara County may see an influx of strawberry cultivators fleeing Ventura County to avoid the impacts of new air quality regulations.
Jake’s
I’m going to ignore using the rest of Jake’s name -okay, it’s Cottage Cuisine Cafe-as that makes the place sound too cutesy by half. This place is a square-shooting, old-time joint that just happens to serve market-fresh ingredients in a pleasant, airy atmosphere.