Story Archive for May 2008

Saturday, May 31

• Greka Spill at Union Sugar Lease

• The Egyptian Riviera?

• Fellowship to Aid UCSB Student in Studying Population Activity

• Santa Barbara Law Enforcement Agents Lauded

• H202

• Food as Medicine

• Community Kitchen of Santa Barbara Low on Donations

Friday, May 30

• Markets: Close of Friday, May 29

• Best of I Madonnari

• Goleta Holds Inaugural State of the City Event

• Santa Barbara High Wins SoCal Golf Championships

• Super Metroid

• Planned UC Worker Strike Called Off

• Monitoring Program Initiated for Coal Oil Point

• Protest Over Cancellation of Anti-War Lecture

Thursday, May 29

• Three Arrested for Attempted Murder

• Pedestrian Struck by Car at Foothill and Cieneguitas Roads

• Do You Have to Like Your Kids?

• UC Workers Announce Strike

• Union Reporters Remain Confident

• Governor Schwarzenegger’s Lottery-Lending Scheme

• UCSB Increases Minimum Average Credits per Quarter

• Santa Barbara’s Fourth Jewish Film Festival

• Supes Put Oil Tax on Slow Track

• ETC’s Old Wicked Songs Comes Home

• Cash Flows in Judge, Supe Races

• News to Yous

• Fence Plan Teetering

• Mesa Café

• Montecito Café

• Big Money in 3rd District Race

• This Week in History

• Grandparents Are Great!

• Give a Little

• Eye on the Oil

• M is for … Mayo’s Taqueria Y Carniceria

• Mole Enchiladas at Altamirano’s

• Nature, Nature, Everywhere

• 5 Reasons to Buy Armando de la Rocha’s Ceramic Art

• Port O’Brien

• Going to the Dogs

• Mark Morris Dance Group

• On the Verge Teaches Teen Choreographers

• Flying High

• You’ve Got Meal

• State Street Ballet Unveils a New Carmina Burana at the Granada

• Why Hezbollah Stopped

• 5768 Years of Propaganda

• Warrior Traits

• One Sided Trail

• American Pie’s Thomas Ian Nicholas Hits the Road with a Debut Solo Album

• Neutering Rocks

• Warrior Icon’s History

• Another Campaign Surrogate Heard From

• Pappas Ads Legit

• Remembering Father Virgil Cordano

• Island Wishes Benefit Show

• A Million Bucks or Addicts Face Jail Time Instead of Treatment

• Live Prepares to Rock the Majestic Ventura Theater

• Dan Duderino

• Defending Sweetie

• Multicolored Music

• 3 Cities, 3 Choreographers

• Days in the Desert

• 100,000 cubic miles

• Under the Baobab Tree

• The Lure of Going Lite

• Tea Is for Time Out

• Quiz: Spaced Out

• I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar

• My Ántonia

• New Plays, Program B

• Tragic Notes 5/29

• Bowling for Bowl Shows

• Development 5/29

• Business 5/29

• Education 5/29

• Paul Willis Publishes New Book of Poems

• Health 5/29

• Environment 5/29

• City 5/29

• Give Plants to Remind Your Friends of You

• The Italians Remember

• Law and Disorder 5/29

• County 5/29

• The Vitamin for My Soul

• Quote of the Week

• Nina Chang

• Writing Father Virgil’s Life Story

• Schwyzer Undistracted

• Debra Lee Baldwin’s Designing with Succulents

• Schwyzer So Wrong

• vol. 22, no. 124, May 29 - June 5, 2008

• The Fall

• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

• With Dog at My Side

• Virgil’s Last Altar Boy

• Recall and Response

• A Helping Hand Through Death and Divorce

• Father Virgil’s Memorial Service

• Father Virgil: A Love Story

• Charles Lloyd Senses Eternity

• Never Ask the Wind

• Camerata Pacifica’s Season Finale and Tour

• A Father Remembers

• Driving to Danville at 4 a.m.

• At Home with the Angels

• When the Heavens Wept

• Hearts to Open: Remembering Fr. Virgil

Wednesday, May 28

• Fired Reporters Denied Immediate Reinstatement at News-Press

• Santa Barbara School Board Seeks Revenue Sources

• Santa Barbara Drag Artists Step Out of the Shadows

• Fire and Ultralight, a US Forest Service Recon

Tuesday, May 27

• Capps Resolution Aims to Aid Mothers Worldwide

• CAF Salutes Six Area Designers in Bellwether Exhibit

• Grown-Up in Vegas, for the First Time

• Rummaging Rampage

• Saints Alive!

Monday, May 26

• The June 3 Primary IS Important

• Five Years and Counting

• Portrait of Bravery

Sunday, May 25

• Dons Take Second Place in CIF Men’s Volleyball

• I Madonnari Shakes Off Cool Weather

• Honoring Father Virgil Cordano

• First Ever Stargazer Bowl at La Playa Stadium

• Hypermiling

• How to Get a Divorce

Saturday, May 24

• Santa Barbara High Schools Make Grade in National Rankings

• The World Weird Web: Rocking in Latin

• Calling All Students…To Lead

• Where Do We Go From Here?

• A Voice of Dissent

• Legislators Try to Keep People in Their Homes

Friday, May 23

• Markets: Close of Friday, May 23

• One Down, One to Go

• Arraignment for Man Arrested for Naked Break-in, Attempted Murder

• We Are All One

• Calling All Developers

• John Cleese's Home Sells to Craig McCaw

• Who Killed Eight Belles?

Thursday, May 22

• Father Virgil Cordano Dead at 89

• Dons Men’s Volleyball to Face Valencia in Division II Final

• It’s Official: Sewers for Rincon

• Business Leaders Ponder Homeless Problem

• Bacara:
  Access and Environment

• TrackMania Nations Forever

• Carp Residents to Choose Between Nature, Oil Money

• Despite Some Opposition, Cold Spring Bridge Plan Advances

• Gravel Haulers Prohibited Through Ojai, Los Padres

• Why California’s Government Doesn’t Work

• UCSB’s 3rd Annual Human Rights Film Festival

• Whispering Dogs Don’t Bark

• Three California Choreographers Collaborate

• Google-icious

• The Winehound Opens

• A Week of Eating Colors

• Cherimoya Sale

• 212,938

• Quiz: Poppy Day

• Parents: Baby Films

• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

• The 16th Annual Independent Theater Awards

• No Charge for Mantra

• Khasy Modisette and Friends

• “AND THE EPpy GOES TO … INDEPENDENT.COM!”

• vol. 22, no. 123, May 22 - 29, 2008

• Father Virgil on Peace

• Same-Sex Marriage Ban Overturned by California Supreme Court

• 2008’s Lightning in a Bottle Brings Art, Music, and Green Living to Live Oak

• S.B.’s Only Rattlesnake

• Get Out of Pets’ Business

• Pappas Ads Bunk

• No Uncertain Terms

• Ads Anti-Semitic

• Freedom to Marry — or Not

• Prop. 98’s Effect

• Mutually Assured Support

• Quote of the Week

• Tragic Notes

• Education

• Media

• Development

• Environment

• County

• City

• Goleta

• Law and Disorder

• June 2008 Endorsements

• Wolf Howls at Talk of Parking Fees

• Somethin’ for the Kids

• Plumfield, Iraq

• News to Yous

• Tommy and the Hip Hop Clowns

• Partner Up!

• Richard Helgerson 1940-2008

• Permanent Agriculture

• The Indy’s Gay Columnist Chimes In on Thursday’s Marriage Ruling

• Extravaganza

• Saving the Sea

• This  Week in History

• Give a Little

• Courthouse Jazz

• A Poet Laureate’s Luscious Verse

• A Bottled Hobby

• 3 Reasons to to Hit the Dance Floor with Datarock at Sandbar

• Make - Believe Peeps

• Paul Rodriguez

• Real-Life Spy Puts 007 to Shame

• Beauty and the Beast

• The Wedding, presented by Lit Moon Theatre Company.

• Obama’s Term of Endearment Leaves Bitter Aftertaste

• Ferns Are Good for Any Garden Situation

• Laura Bialis Presents Refusenik, a Documentary About Alienated Jews in the USSR

• Hi‘iaka, Journey of a Goddess

• Son of Rambow

• A Legal Rundown on the Decision to Allow Gay Marriage

• Meet the Judges Who Made the Decision

Wednesday, May 21

• Surfrider Hosts Wayne Rich Fundraiser

• Question: ‘What is the history of Los Alamos?’

• Slam-Dunk Signing

• Colin Hay Gives People Reason to Stare

• Gay as in Happy

• Dr. John La Puma’s New Book on Culinary Medicine Is Rooted in Santa Barbara Soil

Tuesday, May 20

• Three Vie for the Black Robe

• I Madonnari’s Second Life Began in Santa Barbara

• Murder by Death

• Sue, Sue, Sue Again

• Adult Supervision

Monday, May 19

• Be Kind to Animals

• Water Worries Return

• Adult Ed Class of the Week

Sunday, May 18

• Polar Adventurer Brings Sustainable Yacht to SB

• Naked Man Charged with Attempted Murder

• Both Sides Now

• Counting on Social Security?

• Faith in the Community

Saturday, May 17

• Capps Votes Against War Funding

• Boo, Moo: Ghost Cows at Chad’s

• New UCSB Women’s Basketball Coach

• First Heatwave of 2008

• Petro-Food vs. Organic

• Four Arrested in September Murder

• Doreen Farr Gets Support of County Firefighters Union

Friday, May 16

• Jumping the Last Hurdle

• Markets: Close of Friday, May 16

• Slow Going on Northbound Highway 101

• Santa Barbara Gays, Allies Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

• Stepping Out

• Reyes Peak Hike

• Channel Islands Seabird Considered for Endangered Species List

Thursday, May 15

• News-Press Lays Off Another One

• Subpoena for UCSB Student Newspaper Photos Dropped

• Independent.com Wins the EPpy

• California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban

• Grand Theft Auto IV

• Warriors Speak Up

• City Council Task Force to Tackle Homelessness

• UCSB Scientist Co-Publishes Global Warming Study

• Companies Compete for Tajiguas Trash-to-Energy Contract

• No Oil Agreement With Exxon, Vandenberg Says

• State Cuts Could Hurt Santa Barbara Police Programs

• UCSB Names Women’s Basketball Coach; SBCC Names Track Coach

• A Spectator’s Guide to Sacramento’s Latest Budget Mess

• County Supes Venture Toward Oil Tax

• Ruling Vindicates S.B. Prosecutors, Judges

• David Horowitz Provokes Extreme Response with Anti-Arab Remarks

• The Santa Barbara Symphony’s Final Performance at the Arlington

• For 3rd District Supervisor: Doreen Farr

• Scenes in the City

• Modern Dance Legend Mark Morris Returns to Santa Barbara

• This Week in History

• Lit Moon Theatre At Home and Abroad

• vol. 22, no. 122, May 15 - 22, 2008

• Beers Say ‘Can It’

• Tom Jacobs

• Kathleen Edwards Returns to Santa Barbara

• Dancing with Destiny

• DRi Scrambles to Aid Myanmar, China

• County

• Business

• Quote of the Week

• Treading Lightly

• Wheels & Waves

• Living Page Photo

• One Inch

• Quiz: What in the World?

• Pirate-y Peeps

• Pico Iyer’s New Book The Open Road Distills the Dalai Lama’s Teachings

• Roman de Gare

• Speed Racer

• From Muggle to Cacher in the Global Treasure Hunt Known as Geocaching

• A Guide to Bouldering Lingo

• Infected Mushroom

• Michael Bublé

• Victory, presented by Santa Barbara Theatre.

• Albertsons Sizzling Santa Barbara Super Chef Cook-Off

• Hello, Kitty

• News to Yous

• Reel Loud Film Fest Brings Live Music

• Eye-Popping Colors

• Santa Barbara Music Club

• Six Great Places to Get Outdoors

• Poet Laureate Charles Simic Shares His Latest Book

• Biting Dogs Don’t Bark

• 2008 Blue & Green Guide

• Renaud’s Pain au Chocolat

• Let Go My Gelato

• Shake, Snicker, and Doodle

• Kayaking Trips at Channel Islands National Park

• Lions and Rattlers and Bears, Oh My!

• Star-Studded Movie Screening

• Glam

• Barbara Lebow’s New Play Tackles Iraq

• 2008 Blue & Green Guide Listings

• Money and Other Strangers

• Cool & Cultured: Museums

• Give a Little

• Camp Ronald McDonald

• Mothering the Mothers

• Cuts Are a Self-Sabotaging Quick Fix

• Victory for V

• Down With V

• Push Miramar Back

• Timing is All

• Sterilize the Purebreds

Wednesday, May 14

• Letter from Teamsters' Nicholas Caruso to News-Press Newsroom Employees

• African Dinosaurs on Display

• Green Hotels

• 3 Reasons to Travel Down the Rabbit Hole for SBMA’s Nights

• Emmanuel Jal

• Question: ‘Who is Mason Street named after?’

• Diavolo

• Carpinteria High Grad Tyler Dumm to Be Inducted into Santa Barbara’s Sports Hall of Fame

Tuesday, May 13

• Used Computer Sales Up

• UCSB Closes in on Women’s Basketball Coach

• Drunk Driver Sentenced to Three Years

• Spitting Nickels

• Crispin Leather Closes

• Santa Barbara International Film Festival Hires Two

• From I.V., on Mother’s Day

Monday, May 12

• Recognizing Emotional Baggage

• Goleta’s Finest

Sunday, May 11

• Arraignments Delayed for Murder Suspects

• Goleta Honors Its Best and Brightest

• How to Make Money in Real Estate

• UCSB to Reap Benefits of Stem Cell Grant

• Paper Dolls

• Triple Bottom Line

Saturday, May 10

• State Could Give Jail Funding

• MacKinnon Gets Endorsements from DA, Sheriffs Association

• Goleta Man Breaks Leg in 101 Motorbike Accident

• Help with Assisted Living

• City Council Approves New Public Works Director

• Nuns Leaving Town

Friday, May 9

• Reclaiming the Erotic

• Markets: Close of Friday, May 9

• Where Your Heart Ends

• Septic to Sewer, Sewer to Lawsuit?

• Cat Training

• A Dance of Hope

• Feeling Lucky?

• She Was Their Guest

• Behind the Scenes @ Independent.com, Take One

• Sierra Club Endorses Farr in 3rd District Race

• “Suspicious” Fire Engulfs Orcutt Building

• Jeschke Headed to Trial

Thursday, May 8

• Sanchez Press Conference on Arrests

• Assassin’s Creed

• Cheaper Energy From Beyond Edison?

• New SB Condo Breed Inches Toward Reality

• School District’s Eric Smith Helms CASBO

• Supes Pass Spay/Neuter Ball Back to Staff

• Bawling for Dollars

• Up Against the Backlash

• Judge Joe Lodge Dies

• Turtle Island Quartet Plays Coltrane in Ventura

• Filmmaker Bill Carter Documents the Human Face of War

• Pangea Day

• S.B. Fair & Expo’s Delicious Delights

• You’d Be Remiss to Miss Mimosa

• Warren Schultheis: Vector/No Vector

• Photographer Joel Meyerowitz and His 9/11 Archive, Aftermath

• Leslie Lehr’s New Book on Life After Marriage

• 5 Reasons to See Beauty and the Beast at SBHS

• Los Angeles Philharmonic

• Iron Man

• Santa Barbaran Cycles and Surfs for Charity

• Wheels of Hope

• Quiz: Mother’s Day

• Law and Disorder

• County

• 4.3 million

• Mourning, presented by Eiko and Koma

• Omnium Gatherum

• The Hidden Costs of Mountain Biking

• In the Valley of the Dogs

• U.S. Military Measures Climate Change

• Living Page Photo

• Duran Duran

• Silver Foliage Turns a Humdrum Bed into a Star

• Question: ‘Who was the mayor of Santa Barbara during World War II?’

• The Ballad of Taco and Ono

• Horse Show

• Going Post-Voicemail

• Business

• Four and a Half Historical Fictions

• Education

• Environment

• Jacques Heim Brings L.A.-Based Diavolo to Santa Barbara

• Baby Mama

• This Week in History

• 3rd District

• So You Think You Can Dance?

• Hop on the LifeCycle

• Yo-Ho, Yo-Ho! A Pirate’s Life for Me!

• Give a Little

• Mary Heebner’s Hamlet

• vol. 22, no. 121, May 8 - 15, 2008

• Five Candidates Vie for the County’s Hottest Supervisorial Seat

• KT Tunstall

• An Interview with Willie Brown

• Harry Chanson 1913-2008

• Quote of the Week

• Santa Barbara Cyclist Adam Duvendeck Sets His Sights on the Summer Olympics

• A Taste of Hotel Café Helps Bid SOhO’s Anna Zamir a Fond Farewell

• The Chris, Julie, and Malakye Potter-Palooza

• Open Season

• Bob Mitchell Releases Once Upon a Fastball, a Novel about Baseball, History, and Life

• John Fogerty

• Running to Wine Fun

• News to Yous

• Awesome Art

• Another Wine Futures

• Numbers and Orchestral Maneuvers

• Defenders: The Anti-Government

• Reviewer vs. Rushdie

• Not So Belle

• Can the Happy Talk

• Tillers vs. Toilers

• Smyser’s Record: Check

• Senior Living Revisited

• Grief and Hope

Wednesday, May 7

• Portishead

• Seven Arrests in July Stabbing Death

• Santa Barbara Spends to Save Steelhead

• School Health Offices Could Close Early Next Year

Tuesday, May 6

• Zap Goes the Bombot

• Montecito Debates Rick Caruso’s Miramar Remodel

• News-Press, Indy Settle Lawsuit

• Literary, Liberal, Affordable Santa Barbara

Monday, May 5

• Trails Council Hosts Multi-Use Trails Conference

• Absentee Ballots Hit Mailboxes

• Avril Lavigne Postpones Tuesday Bowl Show

• Reclaiming Nature For Kids

• Thought Provoking Films

• Santa Barbara Celebrates Israel at 60

• What Is Best for Bishop Ranch?

Sunday, May 4

• San Marcos High Grad Qualifies for Beijing Olympics

• Big Bounty on Billfish

• Why Mountain Bikes Need Regulating

• Ground Breaking Construction at Live Oak

• Upper Manzana Creek Trail

• Slain DA Investigator Remembered as Upstanding, Hardworking

• Lower Manzana Creek Trail

• Hell's Half Acre & Beyond

• White Rock Trail

• Camuesa Connector Day Hike

• Munch Canyon

• Arroyo Burro Backside

• East Pinery Loop

• Devil's Canyon Loop

• East Pinery Out n’ Back

• Red Rock Loop

• Ranger Peak Loop

• Matias Potrero

• Fir Canyon & Jeepway

• Figueroa Mountain Lookout

• Zaca Peak overlook

• Nineteen Oaks Via Santa Cruz Trail

• Lower Oso Kid's Hike

• Aliso Canyon Trail

• Snyder Trail

Saturday, May 3

• Moderate Injuries Result From Quadruple Car Accident on 154

• Rape Whistles for Homeless Women

• Green Green Green

• In-Flight Weirdness

• Magic Mushrooms, Fantastic Fungi

• Bluffs on the Block

• San Antonio Creek Trail

• Roths Revisited

• Toro Canyon

• Polo Club Trail

• Greenwell Trail

• Valley Club Loop

• Ennisbrook

• Elings Park Hikes

• Ellwood Monarch Groves

• Students Observe Holocaust Remembrance Day

• West Campus Loop

• Through-the-Roof Burglary Nabs $14,000 in Carp

• Lake Los Carneros

• UCSB Researchers Focus on Animal-to-Human Disease Shifts

• Catway Road

• Figueroa Mountain Loop Drive

• Subsidized. Affordable. Beautiful?

Friday, May 2

• Holocaust Survivors Remember

• UPDATED: Highway 154 Head-On Kills DA Investigator

• Markets: Close of Friday, May 2

• Families Can Get Fit at Mother’s Day Walk-Run

• Sheriff Launches New Sex Offender Locater Service

• Staying Quiet to Break Silence

• Wildlife Deserve a “Brake”

• Henry Brant (1913-2008)

• Laborers Rally for Rights at UCSB

• Fire Season—It’s Coming

• UPDATED: Who’s the Queen of the May?

Thursday, May 1

• News-Press Axes Ten

• North County Spill Contained, Fire Department Reports

• Wanting Hands

• Fourth District Supe Candidate Gets SEIU Endorsement

• School Board Budget Update

• Layoffs at the Santa Barbara News-Press

• A Croc of Shoe

• Rincon Vote Awash in Fraud Allegations

• Prop 98 Targets Mobile Homes

• Developers Set Sights on Bishop Ranch

• County Axes Senior Care

• Humanitarian Greg Mortenson and Economist Jeffrey Sachs Chat with Howard Schiffer

• Celestial Fantasy Brings Glen Phillips Full Circle

• Australian Insect Sucks the Life Out of Plants

• Jacob Snyder 1980-2008

• Salman Rushdie to Discuss Enchantment

• Health

• Education

• Sacred Music with Snatam Kaur

• Media

• Politics

• No Dogs Need Apply

• Quote of the Week

• A Rundown of San Marcos High’s Sports Highlights, from Books to Brawlers

• Falafel! Falafel!

• Marmalade Puts the Big in Brunch

• Santa Barbara Wine Futures at the Wine Cask

• KT Tunstall Talks Touring, Posing, and Living the Dream

• City

• The Presidio at Three Pickles

• Take Back the Nightlife

• County

• Justine Sutton

• Drummer Stanton Moore Puts Music in Parentheses

• Environment

• A Chat with Haaz Sleiman, Star of Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor

• Lila Downs Finds Herself

• Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

• Surf Legend Gerry Lopez to Speak at UCSB

• The Visitor

• vol. 22, no. 120, May 1 - 8, 2008

• David Parsons Defends Accessibility

• Ojai’s 9th Annual Storytelling Festival

• 3 Reasons to Get Your Geek On at Worldwide Free Comic Book Day

• Break! The Urban Funk Spectacular

• Spencer the Gardener

• $60,000

• Quiz: Fashion Forward

• Mirror, Mirror on the Web

• Solutions for Youth

• Pretty Painting

• This  Week in History

• Helping the Hungry

• Give a Little

• Family Fun Night

• Erotic Intelligence

• s’COOL Food Says Feed Your Children Well

• Man Man

• Spiritualized

• Coachella ’08 Brings Old Favorites, Fresh Faces to Triple-Digit Indio Desert

• That’s Show Biz

• Law and Disorder

• Catching Up with Two Sheds’ Better Half, Caitlin Gutenberger

• Community, an exhibition of documentary photography by Rod Rolle.

• On Sacred Ground: New Work by Bobbi Bennett.

• The Natural World

• Robert Black

• News to Yous

• Eyes of Spring at Carpinteria’s Galerie Eye

• Why the Biggest Acts Love to Play in Our Backyard

• Philharmonic Convergence

• Sterilize the Mixed Breeds

• Guest Worker Farce

• Height Makes Right

• Invest in Arts

• Missing Voices

• Greasy Guilt

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