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Santa Barbara

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Marijuana Being Shut Out of Santa Barbara After Feds' Medical Crackdown

    Obama recently said it: "Big" marijuana business would not be immune from federal prosecution, even in medical weed states like California. Today the U.S. Attorney's Office in L.A. announced that the feds are walking that walk: They raided four pot operations, filed legal papers to seize the asse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    How to Enjoy L.A. Arts and Culture Without a Car

    When someone asks me if they have to rent a car when visiting L.A., I really, really, really, really want to say no. Of course you can experience L.A. without a car. I do it every day. But for me to explain all the quirks of navigating our transit-nascent city to a wide-eyed visitor, I'd pretty much ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    What's In Season at the Farmers Market: The Many Colors of Rhubarb

    Rhubarb doesn't do well in L.A. gardens. The sleeping rhizomes that sit dormant underground in winter need many chilly days and nights in order to even think about poking above ground in spring. Freezing, chilly weather doesn't help either, as they are barely frost tolerant. Their ideal situation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Santa Barbara Film Feast: Dinner and More Than 195 Movies

    Santa Barbara's International Film Festival (SBIFF) echoes Cannes' famed film festival -- both are held in lovely seaside towns betwixt mountains and the ocean, stars come out in force and there is ample fresh local seafood. But unlike the French Riviera version, SBIFF prix fixe menus are deals: For ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    5 Local Farmers Who are Doing it Right

    Felicia FriesemaThe Hollywood market earlier this year.​After reading Beth Barrett's piece about farmers markets this week, it might be tempting to hang up the locavore hat and head out for an angsty and cathartic mouthful at the local McDonald's. We're envisioning an army of market goers as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    [Updated:] Deal Reached in Grocery Store Labor Feud

    L.A. County Federation of Labor​ Update:9/26, 10 a.m. On Sunday night, workers voted and approved a new contract, ending an eight-month dispute with Ralphs, Vons, Pavilions and Albertsons. According to insiders, workers will pay $7 a week for health insurance, or $15 per week for a family. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    Trader Joe's Will be Swarmed as Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons Workers Take a Last Step Toward a Strike

    vallartasupermarket.com​Updated: It's ova. A settlement has been reached, city Councilman Eric Garcetti tweeted. First posted at 7 a.m. Friday Looks like you're going to be shopping at Trader Joe's, the dollar store, and maybe Vallarta. That's because the workers at Ralphs, Vons and Albertso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    Q & A with Chris Phelps and Zak Walters, Part 2: Favorite California Products Why No Dungeness Crab

    Andrew FrougChris Phelps and Zak Walters at Salt's Cure​ In part one of our interview with chefs Chris Phelps and Zak Walters of West Hollywood's butcher-shop-turned-restaurant Salt's Cure, they explained that wet aging is hocus pocus and that the pigs they buy from Napa Valley live more glamo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Your Local White Meat: Abalone

    Kathy A. McDonaldAbalone and kelp thrive at The Cultured Abalone, Santa Barbara​Dining on sea snail may sound less than appetizing. Dining on abalone sounds luscious. But abalone's white, delicately flavored briny flesh is essentially that of a sea snail: a muscled mollusk, which consumes alga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Your Memorial Day Weekend Wine Event Report

    Flickr/Xipe Totec39wine glasses​ Beer and barbecue are definitely on the Memorial Day Weekend agenda but with three days to fill, make some room for a glass or two of wine. In Santa Barbara, one of the region's most illustrious winemakers Jim Clendenen opens a tasting room after decades in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Wine on Tap: Restaurants Get Into the Flow

    Vinson PhotographyWine Cask Santa Barbara​ Wine has always been tapped from barrels. Rarely though, except at a winery, can you drink it that way. That is changing as more California winemakers are packaging wine in multi-gallon kegs and restaurants junk bottles for tap systems. Draft wine is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    The Brothers Launch a Cookbook Their Filet Mignon Crispy Tacos Recipe

    B. HansenMatt and Jeff Nichols, with their new book​Brothers Matt and Jeff Nichols weren't in the kitchen, and their popular restaurant, Brothers at Mattei's Tavern in Los Olivos, was closed on a recent Sunday afternoon. Then why was it full of people eating great food and drinking local wines ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Randy Quaid Housing Crisis Comes To A Head After Squatting Alleged In Santa Barbara County

    ​Los Angeles has one of the most intractable homeless populations in the nation. Its Skid Row is the Skid Row. In Venice, people have taken to living in RVs. The real estate crisis has put people on the streets, plain and simple. But who knew times were so hard that even Hollywood actors were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Earthquake Weather? 4.0 Shakes Santa Monica Bay

    ​There are true believers in the concept of hot and dry earthquake weather. They got some fodder for their theory when a 4.0 struck the Santa Monica Bay Monday night. The quake centered three miles north-northeast of Santa Barbara Island struck at 10:42 p.m. according to the Southern Californ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Municipal Winemakers: Bike Your Way To Free Wine Delivery, Or Just Join Club Awesome

    Municipal WinemakersWill Bike For Wine​Before you commit to a lifetime of padded bike shorts after watching Alberto Contador win the Tour de France on Sunday, we suggest you start with a leisurely ride to Municipal Winemakers' Santa Barbara tasting room (only 100 miles, versus this year's 2,26 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Protecting Southern California Toad Would Cost $789 Million

    ​According to a study by U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the cost to protect the endangered arroyo toad in Southern California could amount to $789 million over 25 years. The study looked at a proposal to protect more than 112,000 acres of critical habitat for the toad in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Gulf Oil Spill Prompts Guv to Drop Offshore Plan

    Dept. of Energy (via TPM)​For the last couple years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has lobbied to boost state revenues by allowing expanded drilling off Santa Barbara.The Tranquillon Ridge plan accounted for $100 million in the governor's proposed budget.Well, so much for that. In view of the vast an ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    HEY BATTER!

    Dept. of Energy (via TPM)​For the last couple years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has lobbied to boost state revenues by allowing expanded drilling off Santa Barbara.The Tranquillon Ridge plan accounted for $100 million in the governor's proposed budget.Well, so much for that. In view of the vast an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Q & A With Remi Lauvand: Berkshire Pigs, Michel Richard with a Cigar & the Santa Barbara Food World

    Fran CollinChef Remi Lauvand​Chef Rémi Lauvand does not have a pop up restaurant, but he's been popping up a lot in the last few years. Before he came to rest at his current home, Café Pierre in Manhattan Beach, Lauvand popped up in BreadBar last fall as part of the Hatchi series. Before tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Playing With Food: FungiFest at Machine Project

    There are many things capable of filling an Echo Park art gallery on a Saturday night, namely the promise of free booze, which makes any art opening a draw for the young and perennially broke. But usually there is at least some promise of pop culture-infused paintings or gender bending performance a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Good Head: Eating Barbacoa at Lilly's Taqueria

    For decades, Angelenos have been making the 90-mile drive up to La Super Rica, the Santa Barbara taco shack that is invariably identified as Julia Child's favorite Mexican restaurant. The food was like nothing in Los Angeles. And while many of us began to realize that the gorditas, alambres and ques ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    In Plane Sight: Scenes from the Piper Freeway Landing

    ​​Nothing like a tailgating motorist to ruin the perfect freeway landing of your private plane. Last Sunday's textbook touchdown of a vintage Piper Comanche two-seater on the 101 Freeway outside Santa Barbara is a good example of why drivers should always allow one plane-length for every 10 mile ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    The Theory of Relativity as it Relates to California Pinot Noir: How Much is 'Best Ever' Worth to You?

    Blame it on the Rain. The current issue of Wine Spectator has the phrase "BEST EVER California Pinot Noir" splashed across the front page. The editors are referring not only to Sonoma, but as far north as Anderson Valley in Mendocino County and as close to home as Santa Barbara. The reason? Near per ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    Most Lobster Trap Escape Ports Deemed Illegal: One Santa Barbara Lobsterman Goes Gonzo Journalist

    When Santa Barbara lobster fisherman Sam Shrout received a letter from the California Department of Fish and Game last month saying that they were going to start enforcing a 33-year-old law regulating the escape ports for short lobsters on his traps, he was noticeably angry. So angry he took to YouT ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Jesse James Hollywood Trial: Closing Arguments

    Jesse James Hollywood's six-week murder trial is winding down in the blink of an eye, when compared to the five years during which he was on the lam before being apprehended in Brazil. Hollywood was a 20-year-old West Hills marijuana dealer in 2000, when Nick Markowitz, the adolescent half brother o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    School Board to Cut $1.6B The LAUSD has voted to make deep cuts in a three-year budget, almost guaranteeing further layoffs and the elimination of summer school. L.A. TimesHollywood Denies Murder Former pot dealer and fugitive Jesse James Hollywood told a Santa Barbara jury he did not order the murd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Weekend Agenda: Wine Festivals, Champers Galore, Sunday in the Park with Gauls

    'Tis the weekend of competing wine events and food festivals. The mega LA Wine Fest happens at Raleigh Studios Hollywood on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, with hundreds of wineries representing, and special educational seminars ($55 one-day pass, $100 weekend pass). The Wine House's Santa Barbara W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Jesse James Hollywood Trial Coverage

    L.A. Observed has flagged for reader consideration Natasha Vargas-Cooper's courtroom coverage of Santa Barbara's Jesse James Hollywood Booking PhotoJesse James Hollywood trial. Writing in the Awl, Cooper explains that she had been junior high school friends with Nicholas Markowitz, with whom she'd g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Not in My Back Sky The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked Santa Monica's ban of fast private jets from its municipal airport -- until an FAA review of the proposed restrictions is finished. L.A. TimesPorts o' No Call L.A.'s twin harbors can expect a 13.5 percent drop in traffic this yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2009

    Road Trip Agenda: California Weekend Wine Fests

    If you're willing to spend a long day on the road and splurge for a food-and-slosh fest, then the second-annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine gathering held April 16-19 merits the effort. Consider: 250 wineries. 50 major chefs. Tastings. Demos. Meals. Names on the roster that are near and dear to Angele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Today in Photographs: March 13, 1969

    Goo Goo Muck:  Santa Monica Beachgoer Roslyn Leone and lifeguard Tom Johnson play in the black ooze that spewed from the Union Oil Company platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, more than 100 miles north. Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

  • Music

    September 25, 2008

    Rock Picks: Pacha Massive, Calexico, Juliana Hatfield

    Also, We the People Festival, Temple Bar farewell, Mad Juana and more

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2008

    Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl: August 24 and August 25

    Yep, just announced: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl on August 24 and 25, which is a little weird because it's a Sunday and a Monday. Presales begin April 9. The entire second leg of the American tour: August 6 - Parc Jean Drapeau - Montreal, QC August 8 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Li ... More >>

  • News

    January 25, 2007

    Beat the Press

    And Hoopla: harrumph, hurrah

  • News

    January 11, 2007

    Wendy's Posse

    High-paid yes men and women guide newspaper owner McCaw further into the mire

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    10 Emerging Artists

    High-paid yes men and women guide newspaper owner McCaw further into the mire

  • News

    August 4, 2005

    Condor Has Landed

    The forest service gives the go-ahead to find more oil in Los Padres

  • Stage

    August 19, 2004

    A Little Night Music

    The forest service gives the go-ahead to find more oil in Los Padres

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    The Nick Nolte Pride in Photography Collection

    The forest service gives the go-ahead to find more oil in Los Padres

  • Columns

    November 13, 2003

    Brain Worlds

    Hawking, Derrida and living with the other

  • News

    January 31, 2002

    Loud and Proud

    Remembering an American icon

  • Calendar

    May 10, 2001

    Style Style

    Remembering an American icon

  • Eat+Drink

    March 29, 2001

    One Mojito, Two Mojito, Three Mojito, Floor

    Remembering an American icon

  • Stage

    August 31, 2000

    Island of Bliss

    Remembering an American icon

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Poetry in Locomotion

    Remembering an American icon

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Bump, Set, Spike

    South Bay Volleyball with the Best of ’em

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Game Over

    An interminable time-out at Santa Barbara Plaza

  • Stage

    August 26, 1999

    Handel, With Care

    An interminable time-out at Santa Barbara Plaza

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    The Accidental Populist

    Magic Johnson gives some back

  • News

    May 28, 1998

    Councilman Fouls Magic

    Ridley-Thomas fumes as Johnson passes on Coliseum

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