Story Archive for October 2007

Wednesday, Oct. 31

• Casa de la Raza's Haunted House Fundraiser

Tuesday, Oct. 30

• Hazmat Soaks Up Small Chemical Spill on Figueroa Street

• Taxes, Roads and Rails

• Tricks, Treats, and More from the "Ghost" Village

• Casa de la Raza Holds Dia de los Muertos Celebration

• KJEE DJ Makes Waves in Basketball World

• All Hail Halloween

• Patient Advocacy for Pain Care

• Tricks—Not Treats—for Pets This Halloween!

• Radiohead

Monday, Oct. 29

• Police Seek Man Injured in Goleta Bike Accident

• Two More Teen Stabbings

• Forest Foundation Honors Yvon Chouinard, Robert Lagomarsino

• Citizens March for Peace

• Bardem to Receive SBIFF’s Montecito Award

Sunday, Oct. 28

• Giving Halloween Back to the Children

• It All Started When They Published His Address

• Primer on Election 2007

• Riding At Night With The SBPD

• Another Unremarkable Night of Debauchery in Isla Vista

• Santa Barbara Seventh-Day Adventist

Saturday, Oct. 27

• Warrant Issued for Alleged ATM Vandal

• County Firefighters Continue to Fight Southern Fires

• First Night of IV Halloween Goes Off Without Incident

• Goleta Valley Fetes New Water Plant

• Touring the Santa Barbara Cemetery

Friday, Oct. 26

• Who’s Got the Money?

• Newspapers Respond to Juarez Case Subpoenas

• Art Museum Offers Aesthetic After-School Alternative

• USC Marching Band Rolls Into Town

Thursday, Oct. 25

• Red Flag Alert Cancelled

• SB Firefighters Join Southern Blaze Battles

• Once Upon a Cool Mom

• Red Flag Alert Extended

• High School Survival Guide

• Have Your Say on Goleta’s General Plan

• Sierra Club’s Executive Director Carl Pope on Global Warming, Water, and Al Gore

• Feds Slow in Regulating Dirty Ship Emissions

• Hatch & Parent to Merge With Major Colorado Firm

• Borrowers Beware

• Zaca Fire Soot Casts Haze Over Weekend

• SBCC Cancels Adult Ed Housing Series

• Questioning Condoleeza

• More Yeses on Measure A

• Go Giddens

• Opera Santa Barbara Brings Hansel and Gretel to the Marjorie Luke

• Positively State Street

• Jarrett Patrol, Continued

• vol. 21, no. 093, Oct. 25 - Nov. 1, 2007

• The Darjeeling Limited

• Lust, Caution

• Week Spot Photo - Shiver Me Timbers

• Eco-Philosopher Joanna Macy on Interdependence, Politics, and Poetry

• Growing Mushrooms In Your Garden

• Yea on A

• A Ladies

• Solar Financing

• Good Karma Party

• Stateside Sets Sail

• UCSB Hosts Holocaust Lecturers

• Your Tablas Waiting

• 2007 Surf Issue - Surf Season Returns

• "Best of" Bunk

• Inmate Concerns

• Director Craig Gillespie on Dolls, Ryan Gosling, and Lars and the Real Girl

• I Am the Medium Brings Live Art to UCSB

• Iron Chef’s Cat Cora Comes to S.B.

• A Tour through Winemaker Daryl Sattui’s Napa Valley Château

• A Post-Loveline Adam Carolla Signs On to Host the West Beach Music Festival

• Winners of The Independent’s Locals Only Music Contest

• A Journey to Anacapa Island’s Dark Side

• McKinley Steps Down as DA Second-in-Command

• 2007 Endorsements

• Feathered Hunters

• Protesters Rally Against Capital Punishment

• Branden Aroyan

• SB Carpooling Proves Effective

• Channel Keeper Teams with EDC against LNG

• Deckers Secures Top Honors in Forbes

• Pro-Development Law Firms Merge

• Get Your Shoes! Wes's Gets Evicted

• La Purisima to Expand

• Court Interpreters Go Back to Work

• Los Padres Closed to Public

• Museum of Art to Receive Rousseau

• Zona Seca Gets New Directors

• City Toughens Energy Efficiency Standards

• Milpas Post Office to Close

• Truck Catches on Fire Downtown

• Actor's Son Arrested for Cocaine Possession

• Car Rolled on 101

• Man Arrested for Coke and Meth Possesion

• Day-Tripping in Northern California

• Halloween Tales from Storyteller Michael Katz

• Xenophobic Tendencies

• This Week in History

• It’s Magic!

• Give a Little

• 16,000

• To Cork or Not to Cork

• Awakening the Dreamer Symposium

• Budget Guru Diaz Resigns from School District

• My Almost Secret Life

• Krispy Kanines

• Two Teens Killed in Goleta Crash

• UCSB Professors Receive Honors

• One Man Band

• Aly's Aberrations

• Kucinich Questions

• Activist Friar

• UCSB Receives Increased Federal Funding

• Energy Escalation

• Sage & Onion’s Red Dragon Soufflé

• Glass Love Honors the Art of Surf

• Judy Jones's Journey

• Candy We Thought Was Dandy

• More Students Transferring into District

• Hip-Hop Dance Class

• Katz Scares Libraries

• Sara Quin Sings the Praises of Friends, Family, and Staying Balanced

• Recent Works by Chris Messner

• The Heart Gallery of Santa Barbara County.

• Oliver Gagliani: Scores of Abstraction.

• Paired

• Capps Objects to More War Funding

• UCSB Scientists Find Evolutionary Key

• Start Smart

• Feeling the Future

• Over the Tavern

• Jane Eyre

• Carmen, presented by State Street Ballet.

• Camerata Pacifica

• Santa Barbara’s 48th Big Game and Other Sports Headlines

• Eating French

• Child Proofed: Halloween Activities

• Santa Barbara Men’s Conference

• Question: ‘Wasn’t there another mansion where the Clark Estate is today?’

• Beehouse Records

• Dianne Reeves

• Living Page Photo - Que syrah, syrah:

• Music from the Crooked Road

• Solid Blues

• Peeping Pink

• Quiz: Wine-Ohs!

• Six Degrees of Stellastarr*

Wednesday, Oct. 24

• Juvenile Flees CHP in 100 Mile-Per-Hour Chase

• Pedestrian Killed on Northbound 101

• Local Veterans Group Seeks Donations

• New Department Head Selected

• Dueling Wind Collectors

• The Roar Is Gone

• Anti-War March and Rally Planned

• All Clear

• The Story of the Double Life Line

• Aiding the Courageous

• I.V. Braces for Halloween

• Authorities Brace for IV's Halloween Party

• Blaqk Audio

Tuesday, Oct. 23

• Montecito's Citizens of the Year

• UCSB Biologists Claim to Have Pinpointed Development of Vision

• SB Museum of Art Receives Rousseau Painting

• Los Padres Forest Closed

• Sedgwick Fire Contained

• Saying Goodbye

• The Beautiful Girls’

Monday, Oct. 22

• UCSB Touts $176 Million in External Research Funding This Fiscal Year

• The Great Turning

• Milpas Station Sets Closing Date

• Sedgwick Fire 50 Percent Contained

• The Easy Way Out

Sunday, Oct. 21

• New Fire Burns in Northern SB County

Saturday, Oct. 20

• Bowled Over

Friday, Oct. 19

• The Night the Lights Went Out in SB

• Close of Friday, October 19

• Walking Across the State to Oppose Capital Punishment

• Car Flips Over on Northbound 101

• A Color-Blind Education

• Drawing Lines in the Goleta Valley

• Milpas Post Office Closing

• The One AM Radio

• Puppy Love: Is It for You?

Thursday, Oct. 18

• Michael Douglas's Son Could Face Cocaine Charge

• New Goliath in Town

• Truck Catches Fire on Figueroa

• Head-on Crash Kills Two in Goleta

• Activist Horowitz to Bring Islamo-Fascism Week to UCSB

• Comments to Nava's Staff Deemed "Not Threats"

• Jackson Announces End of Political Retirement

• Burglary Twins Released, Sent to Rehab

• State to Inmates: Get Out and Stay Out

• Rincon Septic-to-Sewer Plan Approved

• Governor Signs Lead Bullet Ban

• Condos vs. Tenants

• Supes Vote to Raise Parking Fees Only at Cachuma and Jalama

• S.B.-Born Spilborghs Cleans Up in Colorado

• Questionable Review

• Frank Black

• Screams of the Dog Whisperer

• Santa Barbara's Best of Readers' Poll 2007

• U.S. Leadership Is Needed for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

• Wants to Needs

• Zaca Fire Impacts Will Linger for Years

• One-Sided Council

• Rugrats to Kitty Cats

• Santa Barbara and Goleta Seek Ways to Use Trash

• Roses to Rings

• Roof to Roots

• SB Books You May Have Missed

• Jocks to Rocks

• Two Women Killed in Crash Identified

• Highbrow to Get Down

• Trailer Park Owner Sues Goleta

• City Appoints New Fire Marshal

• Man Treads Water to Avoid Law Enforcement

• Hit-and-Run Suspect Apprehended with Meth

• Zaca Fire Suspects Appear in Court

• City Settles with County Over Election Funding Lawsuit

• HAZMAT Responds to Small UCSB Chemlab Explosion

• No New Dispensaries in Goleta

• Burgers to Bistros

• Union Officials Still Await Agreement with County

• Goleta Puts Off Bond Issue

• City Coucil Adopts Temporary Parking Plan for Modoc Condos

• Creeks Division Tries to Explain Foam

• Great White Seen in Carpinteria

• Vote No on Measure A

• Dreaming of Graceland

• This Week in History

• András Schiff

• Santa Barbara Symphony

• Madwoman in the Attic Gets a Makeover at Westmont

• Jamaica Farewell

• Turkish Writer Orhan Pamuk Discusses His Love of Literature

• UCSB Lecture Series Fosters the Holocaust Narrative

• Sharkwater

• It All Adds Up

• Resurrecting Charles Burnett’s Classic 1970s Film Killer of Sheep

• Calling All Representatives

• Heads in the Sand

• Jackson to Run for State Senate

• For the Love of the Work

• Bomberos Without Borders

• Michael Clayton

• We Own the Night

• Best of Baby

• Governor Signs School Speed Limit Bill

• vol. 21, no. 092, Oct. 18 - 25, 2007

• Green Greeting Cards

• Introducing the 4th Annual Santa Barbara Ocean Film Festival

• Food From the Heart

• Quiz: Dawg Days

• Ed Diamond on The Singing bee

• John Sonsini, The Santa Barbara Project.

• Jolie Selected for Honors in Upcoming Film Fesival

• Carp Poetry Bash

• Parade Wants Eco Friends

• The Gargoyle Gourmand

• Caddell & Williams

• Chef’n Spatula

• The Tales Continue

• Talent Needed

• Tres Hermanas Vineyard & Winery

• Ragin' Cajun Comes to Montecito

• StylePhile

• Child proofed: After-school specials

• Growing Garlic

• Question: When did Santa Barbara get its first sidewalks?

• Caffeine to Cocktails

• Bren Shares In Nobel Honors

• UC Makes Agreement With Union

• Doppeldressers

• The Sound of Music

• Butchers to Bakers

• Bumper to Bumper

• Reminiscing with Tony Ochoa

• Head to Toe

• Someone Save Arts Alive!

• Governor Vetoes Rent Control Bill

• Bells to Whistles

• Texas Connection: Michelle Y. Williams & Ray Phillips

• Adopt-a-Dog Month

• Driven to Distraction

• Kris Kristofferson Offers a Personal View of the World

• Nashville Stalwart Launches New Season

• The Hero and The Victor Celebrate

• Steve Tyrell and The Hollywood Jazz Orchestra.

• Positively State Street

• The Bowl that Almost Was

• Give a Little

Wednesday, Oct. 17

• Deep Water

• Santa Barbara Looks at More Stringent Energy Efficiency

• Reading the Angel of Mercury

• Walk to School in Montecito?

• Santa Barbara-Area Gay and Lesbian Students Receive Scholarships

• Jayco Brothers

Tuesday, Oct. 16

• City, County Settle Election Cost Dispute

• Vandenberg Solider Wounded, Receives Purple Heart

• Police Make Arrests for Burglary, Meth Use, Trespassing

• Montecito Auto Crash Victims Identified

• Man Flees Police, Land

• New Counsel for Goleta City Council?

• Unearth

• Wasted Website

• Mando Diao

• Write or Wrong

Monday, Oct. 15

• Coroner Still Awaiting Notification of 101 Crash Victims' Kin

• Chemicals "Go Boom" at UCSB Science Lab

• Busy Weekend for Isla Vista Foot Patrol

• Bren Congratulates Staff for Role in Nobel Prize Win

• Poiré Becomes New SB City Fire Marshall

• James Carville Rallies for Planned Parenthood

• Westmont College Creates New Endowed Chair

• Donation to UCSB Establishes Endowed Chair

• SB Film Festival to Honor Angelina Jolie

• Poetry Out Loud

• Mae

Sunday, Oct. 14

• Two Die in Accident on 101

• Health Department Plans Flu Vaccine Clinics

• Our Lady of Sorrows

Saturday, Oct. 13

• Santa Barbara Strangeness on the Net

• Devon Sproule

Friday, Oct. 12

• Group Raises Funds for Earl Warren Showgrounds

• Close of Friday, October 12

• Mount Eerie

• Details of UC Student Employee Contract Revealed

• Capps Praises Gore for Nobel Prize Win

• Teaching Students to Learn

• Cat Scratch Fever

• Condors Come to SB Zoo

• The Stranger’s Six

Thursday, Oct. 11

• Man Walks From Crash With Drugs Falling Out of His Pocket

• Scissors for Lefty

• David Barsamian Speaks on Iran

• Inside Goleta’s General Plan Housing Workshop

• Royalty for a Day

• Standoff Over Psych Admissions Continues

• Budget Hunting

• State Housing Honcho Visits, Offers Solutions

• Tempers Flare on Goleta Water Board

• Many First-Year Students Self-Medicate to Cope with College Life

• The Clean House

• Pete Hamill’s New Novel, North River

• Poet Ellen Chavez Kelley and Photographer Patricia Clarke Collaborate

• The Magic of Myths

• Into the Wild

• Elizabeth: The Golden Age

• Ag Board Members Removed Amidst Conflict-of-Interest Investigation

• Why a No Vote on Measure A Is Good for S.B.’s Election Process

• Positively State Street

• Babyshambles

• Informative Cuisine

• Detroit’s Electric Six Hits the Road and Heads to Velvet Jones

• Keyboard Sublimity

• Quiz: October Days

• Living Page Photo - Pumpkins

• Stand up Straight: The Alexander Technique

• 6 million

• Lights Out, Santa Barbara!

• Santa Barbara Zoo Breaks Ground for New Exhibit

• ExpressJet Now at Santa Barbara Airport

• 2007 Endorsements: Santa Barbara City Council

• City Council Hashes Over Development Proposals

• Why Dan Dickau’s L.A. Clippers Are the SoCal Team to Watch

• Lamb Loin Chops in Syrah-Shallot Sauce with Gremolata

• Larry Adams 1936-2007

• Island, Island on the Mountain

• Question: When did Babe Ruth come to Santa Barbara?

• Breast Cancer Awareness Month

• UCSB Scientists Observe Galaxy 100 Times Lighter than Milky Way

• Jazzy Peeps

• The Mayas’ Ancient Eco-Wisdom

• Gypsy Kings

• This Week in History

• California Archaeology Month

• Give a Little

• Poetry Out Loud

• Robert Shields, Festival of Fools

• Movin’ Out

• Santa Barbara Symphony Opens Last Season At the Arlington

• Artist Sara Wookey Walks Los Angeles

• Nearly Human by Andrew Y. Grant

• Artist Robert Shetterly Honors America’s Real Defenders

• Solid Blues Rocks the Luke

• Walking Company Opens New Stores

• Raytheon Receives Air Force Contract

• $10-million Donated to UCSB for Law and Neuroscience

• Rita Returns

• MoveOn Rallies for Healthcare

• The Curse of the Perro

• Man's Best Friend

• Reconsidering Biofuels

• Endless Deployment

• Student for Life

• Inside Last Weekend’s Tsunami Extreme Fight Productions’ Martial Arts Showdown

• The United States of Arugula

• Paul Farmer and Thomas Tighe Discuss the Practical Ways to Cure the World

• Botanic Bliss

• Foxes Released on Santa Cruz Island

• Coastal Cleanup Day Nets a Lot of Trash

• County’s Second-from-the-Top Dog Retires

• Cool Beans

• Good Scores for All Students

• Check Your Dictionary

• UCSB Hosts Credit Card Ploy Forum for Students

• vol. 21, no. 091, Oct. 11 - 18, 2007

• Sticks and...Knives

• Moorpark Mammoth at Museum of Natural History

• Race Card, Revisited

• Humpty Dumpty, presented by the Loose Affiliation of Artists

• Feeling Foxy

• Thomas Tighe

• Multitasking Munch à la Montecito

• The Shins

• Gibraltar Road Closed for 40 Days

• Strawberries from Your Garden

• The Beaver Awards

• Poetry Out Loud

• Meet the Intrepid Fox

• Why Benise Is Spicy Hot

• How the Health Insurance Crisis is Ruining Antiques Roadshow

• Texas Company Seeks to Change Oil Rig into LNG Terminal

• Woman Falls Off Cliff on Mesa

• The Many Benefits of Measure A

• Not Winging it with Wine

• Boy Hit By Car Still in Hospital

• Poetry in Paint: New Works by Ben Brode.

• András Schiff Scales the Greatest Solo Piano Challenge

• Road Rage Ends in Hospitalization

• Human Skull Left at Ojai Police Station

• State Water Curtailed for Endangered Species

• Hotchkiss Attacks Park Expenditure

• Forrest Service Re-Opens Some Areas

• Zaca Fire May Affect Reservoir Capacity

• Get Out!

• CIty Reorganizes Top Personnel

Wednesday, Oct. 10

• County Continues Contract Talks With Employees

• Preventing Identity Theft

• Largura Makes Case to Montecito Association

• Stars

Tuesday, Oct. 9

• Safe Routes to School Moves Forward

• What's Selling?

• Island Foxes Freed

• The Mercury Finger

• Sondre Lerche

• Falling Up

Monday, Oct. 8

• Woman Struck, Killed by Suspected Drunk Driver

• New Dimensions in Personal Mythology

• L.A. Clippers Shoot It Up in Santa Barbara

Sunday, Oct. 7

• The Ideal Trail Partner

• Christ Presbyterian Church

Saturday, Oct. 6

• Mark Olson

Friday, Oct. 5

• Avocado Safety and Potion Permits

• Close of Friday, October 5

• Them Terribles Compete for Fame on MTV2

• Protesters Urge Capps to Override Healthcare Veto

• The Weakerthans

• Legalize Pot, Help the Uninsured

Thursday, Oct. 4

• Perry Farrell’s Secret Sandbar Show

• Still "The Good Land"

• More Than Just A Number

• Prodded by PETA, Carl’s Jr. Takes First Step Away from Factory Farming

• Transfer of Development Rights at Gaviota Gateway Debated Again

• Ecko Asks BrandNew to Brand His Ball

• Das Williams Leads Money Chase

• Superintendent Brian Sarvis on Budget Woes, Mini-Victories, and the Noël Factor

• Why Placing Suicide Barriers on the Cold Spring Bridge Is Not the Answer

• On the Road Again

• Steve Tyrell and the Hollywood Jazz Orchestra Come to Campbell Hall

• How the Botanic Garden’s Master Plan Meets the Community’s Needs for Education and Open Space

• Positively State Street

• The Jane Austen Book Club

• Cool Cat

• Peter Case Kicks Off Tales from the Tavern Music Series

• Social Commons Architecture

• Vote on S.B. Bands

• Duane “Dog” Chapman’s You Can Run But You Can’t Hide

• Six Events Flying Under Your Radar

• American Martin at Koehler Winery

• Three Bethany Nuns
  Get To Stay in Town

• Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go’s Returns with the Band

• From Doggerel to Verse

• Playing the Race Card

• Ethel Wells 1916-2007

• Arturo Tello’s Mishopshno, Whitney Brooks Abbott’s Harvest, and Tom Henderson’s Slices of Life.

• Fresh Food at our Farmers Markets

• Debra Ehrhardt Bids Jamaica Farewell

• Blanchett Gets Top SB Film Festival Honors

• Margaret Mills

• Ann Magnuson Brings ’80s Avant-Garde to CAF

• vol. 21, no. 090, Oct. 4 - 11, 2007

• Third Blue Whale Killed in Channel

• The Shins’ James Mercer Dissects His Rise to Fame

• Pickin’, Grinnin’, and Thinkin’

• Festival of Fools Honors the Legacy of the Late Marcel Marceau

• Ed Inks: Sculpture Garden.

• I Killed the Tooth Fairy

• Organic Materials

• Manu Chao

• Over Your Head

• Classical Quandary

• Sex Ed Snafu

• Hawks In Doves' Clothing

• Caruso To Proceed With Development at Miramar

• Bonkers for Botanical

• Giddy for Giddens

• Pizza Guru’s White House Pie

• An Artistic Community

• The Story of O, O, and O.J.

• Capoeira Batizado

• The Scoodie

• Quiz - Oktobertest

• S.B. High Alum Gets a Shot at the Big Leagues

• Judge Orders Mental Evaluation for Fake Gun-Wielding Man

• Man Whose Arm was Broken By Police Settles

• UCSB Buys Land at Coal Oil Point

• SB County Beaches Cleaner Than Last Summer

• Cannibis Clubs Close

• Cell Phones More Popular Than Internet

• Tony Bennett

• Peeping-a-Plenty

• Morrissey

• Tragedy of Errors

• Feast of Love

• Learn How to Pair Food and Wine Like an Expert

• Conquered Fortress

• This Week in History

• Magic Lantern Film Series

• Give a Little

• Heart and Sole Aids Walk

• The Dance of Culinary Secrets Unveiled

• All About a Friendship

• Dawg-toberfest Rules!

• Question: Can you give me a little history on the town of Guadalupe?

• Dos Voces para un Baile

• Les Petits Ballets Santa Barbara

• The Catch Heard ’Round the World

Wednesday, Oct. 3

• Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day Coming Soon

• Can Naples Be Transferred?

• Dialing for Dollars

• George Carlin

• Largura Project to be Appealed

• Against Me!

Tuesday, Oct. 2

• “The Bachelor” Firestone to Wed Yugoslav Model

• Caruso Not Ditching the Miramar

• Natural Incense

• Sweet Subleaser

Monday, Oct. 1

• Collision Victims Remain in Serious Condition

• Necropsy Rules Out Domoic Acid Poisoning

• Nuns Avoid Exile

• UC Teaching Assistant Strike Averted

• The Pom Poms

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