Story Archive for April 2008

Wednesday, April 30

• Top Sporting Events: May 1-11

• Developer Levy Named Tax Delinquent

• Activists Oppose Fiddling with State-De La Vina Intersection

• A Man of Many Cons

• Retirement Home Says It’s Easy Being Green

• Minus the Bear

• Change for the Better, Council Says

• Capps Endorses Obama

• Finding Bombs at Vandenberg and Beyond

• Why Fatherless Boys Go Bad

Tuesday, April 29

• Montecito Water District Curtails Use

• Healthcare Advocates Protest Looming Insurance Cuts

• Boys & Girls Club Employee Arrested for Stealing Donated Funds

• Woman Sexually Battered on State Street

• Playing Games

• Independent.com Nominated as Best Weekly Website

• She & Him

• Environmental Lecture and Workshop

• To Life!

• What’s Ventura Got that We Don’t?

Monday, April 28

• Highway 101 Accidents Claim Two Lives

• Longtime Gaucho Supporter Phil Womble Honored

• Lakewood Woman Dies in Saturday Accident on 101

• Fatal Accident on 101 Slows Morning Traffic

• UCSB Alumni Honor Walter Capps

• Democracy Now! Host Speaks at Casa de la Raza

Sunday, April 27

• Purple State of Mind

• Measure V Gaining Momentum

Saturday, April 26

• Warrior’s Cry

• Meeting Up With Weirdos

• Algae or Regular?

• Basic Facts About Advisors

Friday, April 25

• DFG Offers Classes to Identify Invasive Mussels

• Lively Tunes

• Markets: Close of Friday, April 25

• Thirty Days of Awareness, a Year-long Problem

Thursday, April 24

• A Warrior by Any Other Icon

• $5,000 Reward Offered in Missing Goleta Woman Case

• Sheriff Seeks Suspect Who Stole Cash Register

• Capps Speaks on Slain Oxnard Student for National Day of Silence

• Fire Department Warns of Unscrupulous Scammers

• Saying Goodbye

• Red, White, and Better

• Demand the Impossible

• Anger and Remembrance for Armenian UCSB Students

• Voices: An Informal Evening of New and Revived Dances

• Montecitans Are Analyzing Cityhood

• School District Cuts $4 Million

• Chumash Dictionary Breathes Life into Moribund Language

• Okay on Larger Cottage Hospital Development Plans

• Dark Cloud Over Mental Health

• City Council Waits for More Data Before Capping Downtown Structures

• Fair Enough, Never Enough

• Chef Cecchini Finds Safe Harbor

• UCSB’s Second Annual All Gaucho Reunion Takes Over This Weekend

• Quote of the Week

• S.B. Photographer Tells the Stories Beneath the Tattoos

• Safari Adventures in Botswana

• Three Easy Weekend Excursions to Plan for in 2008

• Chatting with the Makers and Stars of Young@Heart

• Springing Forward

• Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea, and Jack DeJohnette.

• Australia’s Gin Club Bring Their Eclectic Sound to the States

• The Pillowman

• Health

• Education

• Business

• Environment

• Developments

• County

• City

• Law and Disorder

• Avant-Garde Dance Duo Eiko and Koma Visit

• Poppin’ and Lockin’

• How to Handle the Brave New World of i, X, IM, and Wii

• News to Yous

• 3 Reasons to Lounge Around CAF’S Animation Festival

• Colin Campbell Cooper: An American Impressionist in Context at City Hall

• Quiz: Flying High

• $40,000

• Forbidden Kingdom

• My Blueberry Nights

• Political Satirist Andy Borowitz on Why Politics Is So Damn Funny

• Aurélia’s Oratorio

• Mudcrutch

• The Beautiful Girls

• Dengue Fever

• It’s a Dog’s World After All

• Zaca Fire Impacts Drinking Water Treatment

• Appreciating Unconventional Unions

• UCSB All Gaucho Reunion

• This  Week in History

• Bowl a Little

• Operation Prom Dress

• Living Page Photo: Scary Golfers

• Life Is a Highway

• Goin’ to a Garden Party

• Travelin Man

• Beautiful Blooms

• vol. 22, no. 119, Apr. 24 - May 1, 2008

• Piatti’s Arancini

• South Coast Deli

• Eating Your Way Through Paris

• Memoir by Murat Kurnaz, Survivor of American Torture, May Help U.S. Face Reality

• Book Objects: Recycled, Reseen.

• ‘When did the singer Lotte Lehmann live in Santa Barbara?’

• We’re Here. We’re Just Like You. Get Used to It.

• Can Vitamins Save the World?

• Screaming and Speechifying

• Destroying Village to Balance Budget

• Good for GOO

• Second Hand Roses

• Off the Leash Law

• Beware the Codicil

• Old but Not That Old

• Imaginary Preservationists

Wednesday, April 23

• Jamie Lidell

Tuesday, April 22

• Updated: Greka Pipe Allegedly Leaks Underground

• Gaucho Footsteps Worth Following

• Meet the Neighbors

Monday, April 21

• The Federation

• Santa Barbara’s Interfaith Seder

• A Good District

• Earth Day at the Santa Barbara Courthouse

Sunday, April 20

• Ultimate Champion

• Should You Worry?

Saturday, April 19

• Wheels of Hope

• Garden Club Gets Creative at Natural History Museum

• World Weird Web: Too Much Information

• Third District Candidates Debate on Radio

• Down, But Still Kicking

• Foals

• Only 1/365th of a Year?

Friday, April 18

• Markets: Close of Friday, April 18

• Goleta Water District to Flush Mains

• Authors on Middle East Speak at UCSB

• God and War

• A Student in Gangster's Clothing

• Gary Louris

• Samarkand Neighborhood: Enter at Your Own Risk

Thursday, April 17

• Ceasefire in Downtown Height Fight

• Sheriff Strongly Encourages Responsible Merrymaking

• Morninglory Not Being Uprooted

• Spring Cleaning

• City Moves Toward Purchasing Bath Street Land

• Bren School, Others Back Sperling Green Energy Initiative

• Sayonara, Spudnuts?

• Lowe Nanny Says Actor Touched Her Inappropriately

• City Plans for $3.75 Million in Budget Cuts

• Guns, Violence, and Jesse James Hollywood

• County Mental Health Preps for Crippling Cuts

• Senior Living Conflicts

• County Arts Commission Considers the Future of Arts Funding

• Dengue Fever

• Eddie Vedder

• UCSB Professor’s Memoir on Japan, America, Film, and Literature

• Isabelle T. Walker

• Amjad, presented by La La La Human Steps.

• BASSH, presented by the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance.

• ‘How did Natoma Avenue get its name?’

• Will Spens 1950-2008

• Mimi’s Cheesecake

• Slipping It to the Monkey Machines

• Guys and Garages

• There’s the Beef

• Style Phile

• Fiesta’s New and Improved Poster Contest

• What’s Shakin’

• News to Yous

• Staging Ground

• e-Waste Disposal

• Take Your Child to Work Day

• Give a Little

• Teach Your Children Well

• This Week in History

• Earth is the #1 Planet!

• Earth Day Events to Celebrate and Benefit the Planet

• 20 million

• Quiz: Lean Green

• Fringe Festival, V. 2

• Living Page Photo

• Wangechi Mutu’s Impossible Women and Others

• Thirty Years Later, Mudcrutch Resurfaces with a Debut Album and Tour

• 18 Minutes and 45 Seconds with Man Man Frontman Honus Honus

• Before the Dog Knows You’re Dead

• David Ford Goes to Hell

• Red Herring

• Seattle Symphony, presented by CAMA

• Street Kings

• Camerata Pacifica

• Santa Barbara Symphony

• Winning Poems from the 2008 Young People’s Poetry Contest

• Four Reasons to Get your Groove on with Beautiful Girls

• Environment

• Vintners’ Festival Turns 26

• Greka’s Monkey Business

• Law and Disorder

• City

• Developments

• Politics

• Business

• Education

• Science

• vol. 22, no. 118, Apr. 17 - 24, 2008

• Life Is My Designated Driver (and Dog Is My Co-Pilot)

• Is There Enough Water for a Bigger UCSB?

• Comme Ça

• Green Star Coffee

• County Mental Health Cuts a Self-Sabotaging Strategy

• Santa Barbara Breakers Crash into Second Season and a New League

• Quote of the Week

• Sarah Plummer’s Further Adventures

• Dense Breasts

• Robbing the Disabled

• Trouble with Mascots

• The Withering Shade

• Cutting Electives to Spite Education

Wednesday, April 16

• Jane Goodall Visits Montecito Union School

• Peak Oil Means Much Higher Prices

• Good Tips For Going Outdoors

• Big Wave Woman

• Top Sporting Events: April 17-27

Tuesday, April 15

• The Indy’s Gay Girl Hits SBCC

• Bursting with Talent

• Small Earthquake Follows Big Earthquake Prediction

• On the Road — Fallen Heroes

• To Hell With Graduation Reminders

• The Libertines

• My Favorite Planet

Monday, April 14

• Tibetan Protesters Face Heated Opposition

• County Firefighters Help Battle Santa Maria Blaze

• Three Arrests Connected to Sunday Night String of Police Calls

• County Ag Brings In Over $1 Billion

• Toyota Pledges $400,000 to UCSB Bren School

• Snoop Dogg to Visit Santa Bizzle

Sunday, April 13

• Gallegly Awarded for Pro-Business Voting Record

• Mid-Life Financial Crisis

• Santa Barbara Episcopalians

Saturday, April 12

• Private, But Not Exclusive

• Amy Goodman Stopping Here

• Smell Something?

• On the Road — Washington DC

Friday, April 11

• Gayle Beebe: Officially Westmont’s Eighth President

• Taste of the Nation

• Feeling (La)Fond of Earth Day

• SB Enviros Endorse Offshore Oil Proposal

• Ian Baker to Speak About Travels Through Tibet

• Bigtop on the Edge

• Doggie Danger

• Markets: Close of Friday, April 11

• Dos Pueblos Students Win State Economics Contest

• Unincorporated County Areas Recycling 69 Percent of Waste

• Westmont President Beebe Inaugurated Today

• Fighting for the Arts… Again

Thursday, April 10

• Carpinteria Councilmember Opens Public Relations Firm

• Candidates for 3rd District Talk Bacara, Naples

• Kindling the Spirit of Old Spanish Days

• Top Sporting Events: April 10-20

• No Child Left Indoors

• Shame by Association

• Sold Out in Solvang

• Cold Costs

• Downhillers’ Demolition Derby

• Oaks Bowled Over

• Remove Alien Criminals

• Who’s Responsible for Katie Janeway?

• Surfers, Skaters, and Snowboarders Vie for Boardriding Crown

• Thou Shalt Have No False Dogs Before Me

• Hops Prices Soar Due to Shortage of Crop

• Santa Barbara School Board Embarks on Historic Budget Slashing

• Legendary UCSB Women’s Basketball Coach Mark French to Retire

• Author and Adventurer Ian Baker to Speak About His Travels in Tibet

• Dengue Fever in Two Languages

• UCSB’s Spring Dance Concert Features a Rare Collaboration

• Return of the Oak Moth

• Law and Disorder

• City

• Developments

• Environment

• Business

• Education

• Science

• Leatherheads

• Shine a Light

• Jazz Comes to the New House

• All the Word’s a Play

• Cynthia Cooper at Victoria Hall

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  Sports & Games

• Ani DiFranco

• Brandi Blue

• vol. 22, no. 117, Apr. 10 - 17, 2008

• Journalists Steve Coll and Robin Wright Present Their Visions of the Middle East

• Summer Camp Guide 2008

• Rape Survivor Overcomes Trauma

• The Academic Focus Block Schedule

• When Straights Take Over the Gay-borhood

• David Samuels’s Two New Books on America

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  Special Needs

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  Overnight

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  Girls Only

• Living Page Photo

• Hello Mother, Hello Father …

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  Full Day Camps

• Musings on Summer Camp

• America

• Don Carlos

• 6 million

• Iration

• Breast Cancer Resource Center’s Day of Play

• Margery Cronshaw 1923-2008

• ‘Who is responsible for setting up Santa Barbara’s first library?’

• Paint It Blackbird

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  Scholarships

• Jonathan Biss

• Picasso at the Lapin Agile

• Three Reasons to Check Out Westmont’s Fringe Festival

• Circus Circus!

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  The Arts

• This Week in History

• Give a Little

• Ojai Film Society

• Paradise Found

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

• News to Yous

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  Teens

• Four by Four, presented by Janusphere Dance Company.

• Small Spaces — open gestures, presented by Nugent Dance.

• Pen Drawings by Mac Oliver at Elsie’s

• Quote of the Week

• Keeping Representative Walter Capps’s Legacy Alive at UCSB

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  Science, Nature & Computers

• Vandenberg Offers Access to Shut-Off State Park

• Author Syrie James Joins the Jane Austen Fan Club

• Midori Masters the Violin

• Summer Camp Guide 2008
  Enrichment & Academics

• Beads Re-Opens Year After Fire

• Healthy Kids Day

Wednesday, April 9

• Ferry Corsten

• Save the Music

• Follow That Saguaro

• City Generates Revenue, Despite Negative Economic Forecasts

• Chamber of Commerce Announces Opposition to Height Limit Measures

Tuesday, April 8

• Michael Towbes Announces $5 Million Gift to Granada Theatre

• Musical Tourism Goes Global

• Cold Springs Waterfall

• Point Sal Now Open

• Self-Esteem: How to Seek It and Keep It

• Float On

• The Black Keys

Monday, April 7

• UPDATED: Injured Cyclist in "Stable But Critical Condition"

• Flipped Jetta Blocks Highway 101’s Sheffield Road Exit

• Ferry Corsten to Spin at New Santa Barbara Club Statemynt

• Fatal Collision Early This Morning on 101 Near Goleta

• SBCC Trustees Select New President

• Lewis Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

• Radiohead Confirms August 28 Santa Barbara Bowl Show

• How to House Goleta

• On the Road — Coal Town

• Stay Sharp and Learn Something New

Sunday, April 6

• Baby Saved by Super Surgery in Santa Barbara

• Eddie Vedder Rocks Santa Cruz

Saturday, April 5

• Carpinteria’s “Hot Dog Man” Gets Big Boost

• Ninjas of Santa Barbara

• Santa Barbara Middle Schoolers Walk Into Spanish History

• It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Tax Deadline

• On the Road — Kentucky Bluegrass

• Who's the Fairest of Them All?

• Yurt Schmurt

• Wake Up and Walk Slowly

• Look Closer

• Whole Breast Ultrasound Plus

Friday, April 4

• White Sands National Monument

• Return to Point Sal?

• Markets: Close of Friday, April 4

• Contract Awarded for Four-Year 101 Revamp

• Dial-a-Hoodwink

• Population Control

Thursday, April 3

• Live to Dream Opening Night a Success

• Ten New Planets Discovered Outside Our Solar System

• Gaucho Soccer Coach
  Fined for Comments

• Desperately Seeking Middle-Class Housing

• UCSB Coach Mark French Is Retiring

• Thank You, Officer. No Really.

• Goleta-based Bargain Network to Close Call Center

• Mission Possible Targets Guv

• Costly Missile Defense System Dedicated at AFB

• Veterans United for Truth at War

• Did Prosecutors Go Too Far in the Jesse James Hollywood Case?

• Coliseum Attendance Record Recalls Unforgettable 1959 Game

• Grace (Eventually) Author Anne Lamott Finds the Holiness in Being Human

• The Low-Budget Sound Doctor

• Intrepid Reporter Saves Forgotten Generation

• XanaMOO

• A Conversation with La La La Human Steps Artistic Director Édouard Lock

• ‘I am interested in the artist Margaret Webb, who I think lived here for a time.’

• Bobby Lesser’s Film Role Puts America on Trial

• vol. 22, no. 116, Apr. 3 - 10, 2008

• Sure Glad I Didn’t Step in It

• Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, presented by CAMA.

• The Santa Barbara Master Chorale Presents Music of English Pageantry

• Quote of the Week

• Scene and Heard

• News to Yous

• Reflections on the Escalating Situation in Tibet

• John Doe Takes a Break from X for a Solo Performance in Santa Barbara

• Punk Rock Never Dies

• Goodies from the Garden

• Spirit of Fiesta Auditions

• My Barbarian at CAF’s Forum Lounge

• JAIME OF ALL TRADES

• Give a Little

• An African Afternoon

• La Crème de la Milk

• Three Reasons to Venture From Streets to Studio with Project Renaissance

• Tragic Notes

• Health

• Education

• Developments

• Business

• Environment

• Politics

• County

• City

• Law and Disorder

• L.A. Coliseum Hosts a Record-Breaking Ballgame

• Passion-Based Cuisine in the Heart of Solvang

• Sidney Gordin: Russian-American Constructivist

• Setareh Shahbazi: Why Not Bazar

• Stop-Loss

• Elizabeth Gilbert

• Philip Levine

• Married Life

• This Week in History

• In Case You Missed It: Citizen McCaw

• Quiz: Fruit of the Loom

• Laurie Anderson Brings Homeland to Campbell Hall

• Open Table

• 225

• Ani DiFranco Talks Past, Present, and Future Projects

• Shilo Market

• Garrison Starr’s Musical Meanderings

• The Syringa Tree, presented by the Ensemble Theatre Company Production

• Tips for Remedying Stress

• O Superwoman

• Can’t Help It if They’re Lucky

• Everything’s Coming Up Poetry

• Sweet-Fragranced Wisteria

• The Persians, by Aeschylus.

• Living Page Photo

• Be Kind to Little Animals

Wednesday, April 2

• Top Sporting Events: April 3-13

• Vandenberg Launches Test ICBM

• Clinic

• Telephone Scam Reportedly Attempted in County

• Indy Short Story and Poetry Reading Kicks Off Tonight

• New Rent Plan for Maritime Museum?

• Capps Leaning Toward Neither Clinton Nor Obama

• City Pesticide, Herbicide Use Down

• The Female Touch

Tuesday, April 1

• Cutest Vegetarian Alive?

• Forest Service Reopens Burn Areas

• April Fool's Day, KJEE Style

• On the Road — Water, Water Everywhere

• Healthy Appetite

• McDonald's Myth Dies Hard

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