Story Archive for December 2007

Monday, Dec. 31

• New Laws for the New Year

• Santa Barbara News-Press Body Slammed in NLRB Decision

• Happy New Year’s to Fired News-Press Reporters

• Judge Says News-Press Violated Federal Labor Laws

• SBIFF 2008 Slate

Sunday, Dec. 30

• Gauchos Defeat Eastern Washington

• Alleged Teen Stabbing in Eastside Attack

Saturday, Dec. 29

• Is Bhutto’s Assassination the Death of Secular Democracy in Pakistan?

• Police Pursuit Ends In Collision

Friday, Dec. 28

• One Arrest Made in Goleta Bank Robbery Investigation

• Close of Friday, December 28

• Area Greenie Blasts EPA Decision

• Start the New Year With Resolutions for Your Pet

Thursday, Dec. 27

• Swearing Off New Year's Promises

• A New American Epic

• Indy Shutterbugs

• Top 5s of 2007

• Santa Barbara’s Reigning Film Fanatic Runs Down His Top 10 Films of 2007

• The Independent Says Goodbye to 2007:
  The Year in Photographs

• Looking Back at Highlights of the Arts in 2007

• vol. 22, no. 102, Dec. 27, 2007 - Jan. 3, 2008

Wednesday, Dec. 26

• One Santa Barbara Survivor in Panama Plane Crash

• The Great Debaters

• White Christmas

• A Year of Montecito

• The Slime of Santa Barbara

• Serious Shopping, Santa Barbara-Style

• Now What?

• What the Master Is Thinking

Tuesday, Dec. 25

• 2007 Holiday Movie Guide

• Bodies Recovered From Panamanian Plane Crash

• Three Santa Barbarans Reported Missing in Panama

• Forget About Jesus, What About Me?

• My Loneliest Christmas

Monday, Dec. 24

• P.S. I Love You

• Another Greka Leak

• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

• Hit-and-Run Homicide Conviction Upheld

• Have Yourself a Creative Christmas

• Holiday Spirit in Goleta

Sunday, Dec. 23

• The Kite Runner

• Charlie Wilson’s War

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

• Dust-Up Over Conflict of Interest

• Suit Filed Against Feds in Attempt to Protect Red-Legged Frog

• Is Aunt Edna Worth a Sweater?

• John Kuhn’s Mission Pool Tables

• Santa Barbara Baptists

• Firestone Supports Romney in Presidential Race

Saturday, Dec. 22

• 70-Year-Old Sailor Rescued From Santa Cruz Island Wreck

• Happy Birthday, Indeed

• Various Artists

• Independent Challenges Court's Contempt Finding

• Weird Zoology

Friday, Dec. 21

• UCSB Workers Target Chancellor’s Home

• Seasons Greeting From Chairman Nava

• Close of Friday, December 21

• Coal Oil Point Methane Mystery Solved

• A Good Christmas

• The Beginning of the Surfers' Journey

• What Kind of Pet Should I Adopt?

• Sufjan Stevens

Thursday, Dec. 20

• Graffiti of the Skies

• Fatal Collision Temporarily Closes Northbound 101

• Fire Season: Officially Over

• Largura Project Hits Another Wall

• Man Killed in Collision Identified

• “Stuff the Bus” Event Gathers Christmas Bounty

• Water, Water Everywhere … For Now

• Smoochin’ the Pooch

• Former Soccer Star Faces Eight Years Behind Bars

• The Dance Permit Shuffle

• City Council to U.S.: Withdraw from Iraq

• Inside The Kite Runner, The Savages, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Juno

• The Monarchs of Ellwood

• Rolling Stone’s Top 10 Songs of the Year

• How Nature Nurtures Children

• Goleta Seeks Bike Route Money

• DePaola Passes Unexpectedly

• Healthcare May Be Difficult To Obtain, Says Study

• Westmont Professor Receives Grant for Faith Study

• UCSB Scientists Attempt to Understand Proteins

• Pacifica Commercial Realty Absorbs SLO Firm

• Teachers' Association Ratifies Calendar

• Capps Pushes for Enviro Legislation, Flood Protection

• The Indy’s Annual
  Peace on Earth Issue

• Setting the Pace in Energy-Efficiency Standards

• State Assembly Passes Healthcare Bill

• And the Internet Shall Bring Us Chocolates

• SB Targeted for Anti-Meth Campaign

• Some SB Home Sales Among US's Most Expensive

• Rundown Features S.B. High Standout Roberto Nelson and Three Christmastime Tournaments

• Natural Highs

• Poems of Peace

• Naples on the Gaviota Coast

• NLRB Maintains Union Elections

• Rojas Retires

• Greka Spills Again

• Taylor Named 2008 El Presidente

• CLUE Aims To End Homelessness

• Salvation Army Breaks With United Way

• vol. 22, no. 101, Dec. 20 - 27, 2007

• Bipartisan Yule

• S.B. Symphony Heralds the New Year

• New Year’s Eve Guide

• You Call That Science?

• School Speed Limits Reduced

• Waging Peace at Vandenberg Air Force Base

• Dedication to Unity

• No Legislator Left Behind

• Crazy for Kucinich

• Spritz Cookies

• Barely Botanic

• The Terror of Secret Santas

• More News-Press Drama

• A Viable Rail System Trumps Widening the Freeway

• Gilles Apap and Friends.

• LaVoie Denied Next Term

• City Council Pushes Rail Improvements

• UCSB’s New GLBT Director

• Ode to Kathryn Bailard and Elizabeth Drouin

• StylePhile

• Brooks Students Go Catalog

• KT Tunstall

• Popovich Comedy Pet Theater

• Goleta to Appeal Mobile Home Park Condoization

• Tori Amos

• ’Tis the Season for Giving

• Westmont Expansion Approved

• Galerie 707

• The Day the Music Stopped

• 25°

• Quiz: A Winter Wonderland

• Bouchon Uncorks Seagrass

• Rachel and Waldorf

• Never Fear, Acupuncture Is Here

• Former Cop Convicted of Sex With a Minor

• Yuletide Peeps

• Kenny Edwards Maintains the Mystery

• The Poetry of Peace (and War)

• A Medical Team Gives Aid to the Homeless

• The NutCracker, presented by State Street Ballet.

• The Mad Caddies Celebrate a Year on the Road with Two Hometown Shows

• I Am Legend

• Baker’s Dozen Disc Bazaar

• The Seelbach Cocktail

• Juno

• Karl “Papa Bee” Wollarth 1913-2007

• Rasmuson Released Into Homelessness

• Water Water Everywhere...For Now

• Question: ‘What can you tell me about the author Kate Wiggin?’

• Positively State Street

• Where Are the Homeless When You Need 'Em?

• Stein Released After Boy Scout Incident

Wednesday, Dec. 19

• Coach Charged With Sexual Assault

• Casting Lots for College?

• Pedestrian Killed by Garbage Truck

• The Killers

Tuesday, Dec. 18

• Westmont Wins, Miramar Moves, and Montecito Association Nominates

• Slow to Crawl

• Rainy Day Makes Mission Creek Flow

• Gaucho Women Beat Pepperdine in Final Seconds

• Sugarchild

• Lighten Up, It's Christmas!

• Trying Times

Monday, Dec. 17

• Frimpong Found Guilty of Rape

• Year's End Financial Strategies

Sunday, Dec. 16

• UCSB Scientists Try to Explain the Mysteries of Life

• High School Tennis Coach Arrested for Having Sex With Teen

• First United Methodist Church

• Waves of Weirdness

Saturday, Dec. 15

• Grant Helps Westmont Prof Research Faith, Science Link

• S.B.’s Homeless Get a CLUE

• Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

Friday, Dec. 14

• News-Press Election Upheld, Again

• Close of Friday, December 14

• The Spirit of the Season

• Keeping Pets Safe This Holiday Season

Thursday, Dec. 13

• Defense Rests in Frimpong Case

• Emilio’s Founder Dies

• How to Protect Your Identity

• Third Annual Playwriting Competition Puts Science on the Stage

• Defense’s Case Winds Down

• QED Embezzlement Cases Proceed

• Film Festival Gives Out More New Awards

• Discrimination Ruling Anti-Climactic

• New Cabrillo Sidewalk Moving Forward

• Goleta Water Board Cuts Carryover, Seeks Review by Outside Attorney

• The Naples Battle Rages On

• Merry Solstice

• Frimpong Case to Jury by Friday

• School District Finalizes Facilities Master Plan

• Man Arrested for Alleged Lewd Behavior

• Coloring the West: Watercolors and Oils by Edward Borein

• School Board Considers Options for Property Holdings

• Danny Riley 1988-2007

• Disgruntled Groundsman

• Search Saviors

• Goleta’s Nozasearch.com Makes Fundraising Easy for Nonprofits Everywhere

• Lovely Leftovers

• Fallout from the Atomic Dog

• Showtime Down Under

• SBMA’s Changing of the Guard

• Calling All Trendsetters

• Get Your Dance On

• Jonathan Richman

• Car vs. Christmas Tree: Car Loses

• Plane Makes Emergency Landing near Santa Ynez

• Question: ‘What is the story behind this drawing of Santa Barbara?

• Woman Pleads No Contest in Hit and Run

• Point Sal Access Still Unresolved

• Suspected Gang Members Arrested

• Camerata Pacifica

• Tom Russell and Eilen Jewell

• Eugene Chadbourne, with Bill Barrett and the Colter Frazier/Rob Wallace Duo.

• Woman Steals DHL Van

• Firefighters May Get Pay Increase

• Zoo Brings Snow for Snow Leopard Festival

• Tomes for the Holidays

• Four Sisters, Four Seasons

• Bishop Defeated by Santa Clara

• The Nutcracker, presented by Santa Barbara Ballet Center.

• Boys and Girls Club Now Open on Saturdays

• A Horse-Racing Roundup, Featuring Earl Warren’s Off-Track Betting and Santa Ynez’s Stars

• Adult Ed Woodworking Classes Create Toys for Kids

• Risotto with Asparagus, Oyster Mushrooms, and Ridgeback Shrimp

• Electric Martini Shaker/Stirrer

• Heaux, Heaux, Heaux

• Catholics Celebrate La Virgene de Guadalupe

• Gaucho Men's Basketball Sees 7th Consecutive Win

• Tori Amos on Touring, Writing, and Surviving the Music Industry

• Give a Little

• Winter FUNderland

• This Week in History

• The Failure of Testing to Address Actual Proficiency

• Capps Endorses Farr in Third District Race

• Tannenbaum Peeps

• The Inns

• A Gift for Regifting

• $859

• Quiz: ’Tis Better to (re)Give

• It’s the thought that counts

• Disaster Preparedness

• Singer/Songwriter Yoav Takes His Show on the Road with Tori Amos

• Margot at the Wedding

• Historic Landmarks Denies Garden's Terrace

• Carls Jr. Opened In Pago Pago

• RICO sues McGhan-Owned Corporations

• UCSB’s STAGE Playwriting Competition

• Indy Reporter Does Sleep Study

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Sleep but Were Too Tired to Ask

• Trouble in Lompoc

• The Old Rule of Thumb

• Starting WWIII

• Fringe Arrogance

• Crimes Against Footballery

• Feinstein's Fine

• Civil Rights Violations

• Boosted By Bottoms

• Thank You, SB Bank & Trust!

• Bilateral Problems

• Blue Casa Sees Record Revenues

• Captive Actors

• Whistle Blower Needed

• Farmers Market

• Samarkand Discrimination Victims Eligible for Compensation

• Working My Way Through a Sleep Disorder

• Sugar Plum Party

• Paintings & Poems/Poems & Paintings.

• Fish & Game Expands Lead Ammo Ban

• Santa Barbara Among Most Secure Places to Live

• Confessions of a Man and His Insomnia

• Carla Bard 1928-1997

• Les Patineurs and The Night Before Christmas

• The President’s Refusal to Compromise in Formulating a National Budget

• The Word from Around Town

• Dad Combines Love of Reading, Parenting, and Sports

• Sitting Down with Joe Wright, Director of Atonement

• vol. 22, no. 100, Dec. 13 - 20, 2007

• Griffin Saxon

• CallWave Touts Virtual Fax as Eco Friendly

• Judge Denies Delay for Start of News-Press Lawsuit

• Sounds for Any Season

• Here, There and Back Again; Photographs from Texas, Japan and California by Kate Connell.

• SB Film Festival Honors Ryan Gosling

• UCSB Scientist Discovers Life Between Layers of Mica

• Westmont Business Competition Produces National Competitors

• La Cuesta Relocation Considered by School Board

• Positively State Street

• Ethiopian Night

• 30 Meals, 1,000 Dishes

• The Blind Boys of Alabama Bring the Down-Home Xmas Cheer

• Atonement

• SB Bank & Trust Opens Boys & Girls Club Saturdays

• Blue Casa Rolling in Green

• CallWave Attacks Fax Use

Wednesday, Dec. 12

• An Enviable Position

• Short Life Lines Can Be Fantastic!

• News-Press Motion to Delay Trial Against Indy Denied

• Merry-Making, Montecito-Style

Tuesday, Dec. 11

• Lead Ammo Ban Expanded

• Yule Prevails

• Permitted: Stateside Lounge to Boogie Down

• "Kid-Planned" Unity Shoppe Benefit Tonight

• Emergency Landing in Santa Ynez River

• Andalucia Getting Renamed

• Sunset Rubdown

• The Play's the Thing

Monday, Dec. 10

• Frimpong's DNA Not on Victim, Criminalist Testifies

• Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital’s Future Now Secure

• David Courtenay

Sunday, Dec. 9

• Winter Wonderland

• Bishop Diego Cardinals Go Down in Overtime Thriller

• Your Worship: Holiday Spirituality

Saturday, Dec. 8

• Weird UCSB Alumni

• Greka Spills Oil Again

• A Swell to Remember

• UCSB Hosts Largest Computer Hacking Competition Ever

• Reid Spencer

• UCSB Beats Utah Valley to Go 9-1

Friday, Dec. 7

• UCSB Scientist Hypothesizes That Life Began in Undersea Mica

• Close of Friday, December 7

• Goleta Seeks to Banish the Oil Barge

• LAFCO Tables Lakeview's Services Proposal

• A Double Loss to the News-Press Copy Desk

• Battle of the Bands comes to Santa Barbara High School

• Ave Caesar

• The Guinea Pig: Who Could Resist This Face?

Thursday, Dec. 6

• Frimpong Trial Screen Video of Alleged Rape Victim's Examination

• Citizens Warned About Storm Runoff Dangers

• Sheriffs Bust Boy Scouts Volunteer for Lewd Conduct

• 2008 Film Festival to Honor Actor Gosling

• Lady with Butcher Knife Steals Delivery Van

• Fast for Darfur

• The Nana-Fest Manifesto

• Global Feet on Last Legs

• Rincon Sewer Plan Backed Up

• Pot Dispensaries Face City Rules, Federal Crackdown

• Frimpong Accuser Testifies

• A Possible Fix for the Mental Health Deficit

• Nicky Shane’s Heavy Metal Harmonica Brings Help to the Santa Barbara Foodbank

• A Voice from Heaven, a Gift of Painful Wisdom

• Seasonal Changes

• Maverick Photographer Santi Visalli Calls His Own Shots

• Kiddie Art

• Holiday Fun

• New Phaidon Publication Illuminates the Work of Edward Hopper

• Fringe Gift Guide, 1.0

• P Is for Principle

• Michael John Sutherland 1966-2007

• vol. 22, no. 099, Dec. 6 - 13, 2007

• C’est Cheese Celebrates an Anniversary

• First Blush Offers Healthy Swigs

• Holiday Gifts for Conscious Shoppers

• Made in Santa Barbara

• The Uneasy Chair

• Devotional Chanting Finds a Growing Home in Santa Barbara

• Goleta Calls for the Closure of Ellwood Terminal

• Santi Visalli

• Combat Photographer Visits UCSB

• Local Teacher Gets Helps Kids Help Kids

• Jewish Studies Program Coming to UCSB

• ABC, Easy to Drink as 1-2-3

• Goleta Council Designates New Meeting Days

• This Week in History

• Goleta Selects New Mayor

• Give a Little

• Eco Film Night

• Through Darkness and Light

• Facility Opened for Foster Care Graduates

• All in the Timing

• County Sherriff Names New PIO

• County Works to Reduce Use of Toxins

• Luis Muñoz

• What Would Jesus Buy?

• Awake

• All That Jazz

• Top Design

• Rubicon Casting Call

• Use Your Golf Clubs for Gardening

• Tom Russell at Sings Like Hell

• An Interview with Frank Langella, Star of Starting Out in the Evening

• Smyser to Run for Third District Seat

• Positively State Street

• Issa (formerly known as Jane Siberry).

• PUEBLO names new director

• SB Museum of Art Appoints New Director

• Blum Faints, Hospitalized in Vegas

• The Dog that Ate the Cat that Ate the Rat

• Childrens' Museum Tentatively Approved

• City to Pay Poet's Legal Fees

• Brief Fire On Fairview Arouses Concern

• Small Fire Ignites Near Brubaker Canyon

• Record Auto Theft This Year Say City Police

• Three Men Rob Rabobank

• Bomb Scare in Lompoc

• Yeah, There Are Too Many

• Cardinals Head to Championship

• The Good Stuff

• The Theater, Darling

• Metal Monstrosity

• More Data Needed II

• Philip Ficsor’s American Double and The Bolcom Project

• More Data Needed I

• Sacrificing the Sacrificers

• A Question of Entitlement

• Question: ‘When was the first Protestant church established in Santa Barbara?’

• Am I Old?

• Medicare Confusion

• Zuihitsu 2: “Following the Brush” by Barry Spacks.

• Crosby Loggins Closes Out a Year on the Road at SOhO

• Williams, Blum Call for Troop Withdrawal

• Kucinich Speaks Out on Global Warming

• Willard Thompson’s New Book, Dream Helper: A Novel of Early California

• Anchor Christmas Ale

• Las Positas Creek Development Denied by Court

• Big Waves Hit the South Coast

• Butterfly Tours to Commence in Goleta

• The Razor’s Edge of Middle East Peace Talks

• California Democrats Call for Feinstein’s Resignation

• Ridgeback Shrimp in Pernod Cream

• Quiz: Pass (on) the Fruitcake!

• Four

• Free LED Bulb Exchange

• Get Ready to Read

• Yuletide Peeps

• No Gain for the Holidays

Wednesday, Dec. 5

• County Gears Up for Rain

• ESL Program Gets a Makeover

• Surf's Up and That's Great

• S.B. Museum of Art Appoints Chicago Curator as New Head

• Elizabeth Kucinich Talks Climate Change

• More On Whorls

• Car Plunges Over Side of Old San Marcos Road

• Despite Lawsuit, Westmont’s Expansion Moves Forward

Tuesday, Dec. 4

• Blood Rubies Come to Town

• Risen: Rising?

• The Consequences of Cockiness

• Sigur Rós

Monday, Dec. 3

• Sheriff Announces New Public Information Officer

• Lower Oso Single Track

• Los Olivos Metric

• Tour of the Valleys

• Point Sal

• Jalama Beach

• Casmalia Loop

• Cat Canyon Loop

• Drum Canyon/Harris Grade

• Nojoqui Falls

• What Would a Goleta Oil Spill Look Like?

• Alisos Canyon Loop

• Figueroa Mountain Loop

• Foxen Canyon Wine Tour

• Zaca Station Loop

• Ballard Canyon Loop

Sunday, Dec. 2

• Edison Work Sparks Fire

• Surf News: Major Set Approaching

• Keeping Up With Commerce

• LED It Shine

• Kids Helping Kids — By Raising $100,000?

• Lois Capps, Local Clergy Talk Faith and Politics

Saturday, Dec. 1

• Bishop Diego Football Heads to CIF Finals

• Westmont Prof Talks Mind Control on A&E Channel

• What to Do With Kenneth Rasmuson?

• Mesa Lane — Gateway to Heaven

• Douglas Preserve

• Arroyo Burro Beach

• Shoreline Park Beach Walking

• Santa Barbara Harbor

• East Beach Walking

• Eucalyptus Lane

• Butterfly Beach

• QED Embezzlement Cases Proceed

• Screen Gems of the American Riviera

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