Subject: Santa Barbara

• Hear The Earth Move

  Via the excellent BLDGBLOG: German artist Florian Dombois translates the subaudible sound of plate tectonics into something the human ear can hear, revealing unique geological characteristics of brewing earthquakes around the planet. Says Dombois: Usually seismic waves have a frequency spectrum below 1 Hz and therefore cases are rare where earthquakes are accompanied by hearable sounds. The human audio spectrum ranges between 20 Hz - 20 kHz which is much above the spectrum of the earth's rumb

  November 13, 2006

• Foothill-South: "The Wrong Direction To Take"

  Don't worry about the Transportation Corridor Agencies getting their lawsuits moved to federal court. Federal regulations may be less stringent than any state restrictions, but it's not all bad news. Today the State Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 met to discuss, among other matters, a staff resolution suggesting they oppose the Foothill-South toll road. After hearing arguments from both sides, Chairman Pedro Nava (D-Santa Barbara) made himself my all time American Idol. "It just seems to be

  May 3, 2006

• Not the Missionary Position

  Some people visit California's old Spanish missions for spiritual reasons. Some visit just because the old places are beautiful. And then there's Alfred Thomas Steven of Huntington Beach. KSBY, the NBC affiliate in for Santa Barbara [added: and San Luis Obispo], reports: Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies come across a bizarre encounter at La Purisima Mission in Lompoc. Around midnight they found a 69-year-old Huntington Beach man...naked and covered in oats. Deputies say the man had c

  September 7, 2006

• Where be the Bird Man?

  June 8, 2007

• Last Night: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars at the Irvine Barclay Theatre

  Review by Marco Villalobos Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars Irvine Barclay Theatre / Cheng Hall Febuary 13, 2008 Better Than: Heidi Klum giving a goodbye hug to some soon-forgotten designer on a fresh Wednesday night episode of Project Runway. Download: Clips from the documentary or some tunes. Africa is a beautiful planet full of melody and grace so articulate that with its sensibility, even the pain of war can be transformed into an expression of peace. Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

  February 14, 2008

• Radiohead's N. American Tour Dates Announced

  Closest the British mope-rock kings come to OC is a two-date run at Hollywood Bowl, Aug. 24 and 25. Pre-sale tix are available April 9 and general on-sale April 12. Grizzly Bear support Aug. 3-15, Liars Aug. 19-28. Radiohead have good taste. August 1 - Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL August 3 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Indianapolis, IN August 4 - Blossom Music Center - Cleveland, OH August 6 - Parc Jean Drapeau - Montreal, QC August 8 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Pa

  April 7, 2008

• Chapman Journo Professor Defeats Wacky Santa Barbara Publisher

  In these days of horrible news, something great: Chapman University School of Journalism professor Susan Paterno successfully defender herself against a libel and defamation suit filed by Wendy McCaw, the controversial owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press and a rag owner that makes Hearst look like Pulitzer. Even better, per a Santa Barbara blog, McCaw will pay at least part of Paterno's legal fees. Can't wait to get a reaction from Paterno, who has taught two classes of journalism students eve

  September 26, 2008

• The Zine Scene

  June 10, 1999

• Never Cruel

  November 21, 2002

• Dreaming in Blue

  August 14, 2003

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  December 11, 2008

• "Citizen McCaw" Comes to Chapman. Sue Paterno is Ready

  Citizen McCaw, a documentary on the journalistic war (or war on journalism) in Santa Barbara, is heading down coast to Chapman University, which counts one of this war's correspondents among its faculty.McCaw would be Santa Barbara News-Press owner Wendy McCaw, whose bizarre publishing reign came to light in July 2006, when editor Jerry Roberts and five of his colleagues quit the paper over co-publisher McCaw's "abandonment of journalistic ethics," something McCaw has steadfastly denied. What ha

  March 12, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Citizen McCaw,' 'Absurdistan,' More

  March 19, 2009

• Tooting Our Own Horn

  November 1, 2007

• Writers on the Storm

  November 14, 2002

• Aug. 11 - Aug. 18

  August 11, 2005

• The Wrath of Wendy

  February 15, 2007

• What I Miss About Drinking

  March 9, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  November 24, 2005

• So Board With the USA

  Seeking low wages and lax environmental laws, OC boardmakers reluctantly find themselves in Asia

  October 6, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 11, 2005

• May 12-19

  May 12, 2005

• Earth Daddy

  April 22, 2004

• Mission Impossible

  February 12, 2004

• Fear of a Brown Planet

  September 11, 2003

• Vacuuming in the Nude!

  May 29, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 2, 2002

• If I Were Gordon Dillow

  July 19, 2001

• Not Merely Bad, But Also Dangerous!

  January 18, 2001

• Union Maid

  May 25, 2000

• What's Humming Through the Skulls of Orange County?

  May 4, 2000

• Letters

  January 20, 2000

• OOOOMPAH!

  January 6, 2000

• Trout Mess Replica

  June 3, 1999

• Up in Smoke

  May 6, 1999

• Orange County's Scariest People!

  November 5, 1998

• Sexual Heaving

  October 15, 1998

• Congressional Candidate Krom's Son Dies in Fall

  Beth Krom Congress 2010 Facebook pageThe Kroms in 2007 (from left): Hershel, Abby, Noah, Solly and Beth.The Weekly, which has taken jabs over the years at a certain Irvine city councilwoman and announced congressional candidate, expresses its deepest condolences to Beth and Solly Krom, who are mourning the death of their 22-year-old son."It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of our son Noah Krom in Santa Barbara on Friday night," the couple wrote on Beth's congressional campai

  June 8, 2009

• Attention Turns to Hours Before Noah Krom's Death

  Noah KromWe told you yesterday about the tragic death of 22-year-old Noah Krom, the eldest son of Irvine's Solly Krom and City Councilwoman and announced congressional candidate Beth Krom. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's investigators are now trying to piece together the events that took the UC Santa Barbara senior to the steep cliff he eventually fell off of before plunging to his death on the Isla Vista beach below Friday night or early Saturday morning. The

  June 9, 2009

• Stars Of Santa Barbara--And Other Upcoming South Coast Plaza Wine Events

  Charlie Palmer's monthly 50 for 50 sell-off, with bargains aplenty, has come around again. It's this Saturday, June 13, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm, in the Next Vintage Wine Shop.Antonello Ristorante has started a "wine mixer" once a month, featuring eight wines for $30 per person, followed by a sale of wines at retail prices. The next one, showcasing a trio of Napa Valley wineries, takes place on Friday, June 26, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm. Reservations are required: call (714) 751-7153--as is business ca

  June 9, 2009

• This Week In Food

  Starbucks and Subway inexplicably made it to the top of Zagat's latest fast food and chain list.There was news of another OC Restaurant Week in September. Can't wait!More stuff to look forward to: Stars of Santa Barbara--complete with top DJ!--at South Coast Plaza, and SOL Cucina in Newport Beach.And we chowed down on everything from boring but healthy sandwiches at Corner Bakery Café to stunningly good (and not-so-healthy) donuts (sorry, beignets) at Scott's Seafood.

  June 12, 2009

• Talk Talk: KCRW Music Director and 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' Host Jason Bentley (Part 2)

  KCRW music director Jason Bentley and I chatted for so long, that I was left with little choice but to split the Q&A into two parts. Part one is here, and enjoy, if you will, part the second, where we talk about upcoming Morning Becomes Eclectic guests, the Stars of Santa Barbara benefit event at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa tomorrow (Wednesday, June 24) and more.Q: What acts coming up on MBE are you looking forward to?A: Phoenix [June 29] is going to be awesome. Adele is going to stop in

  June 23, 2009

• Pedo-Priest Gus Krumm Fighting to Keep His Personnel Files Personal

  If you want to fight for the side of truth and justice, join members of SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) this Sunday around 8:30 in the morn as they distribute fliers outside Sts. Simon and Jude Catholic Church in Huntington Beach. They'll alert parishioners about what Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown never bothered to do: that someone recently filed a lawsuit against admitted pedo-priest Gus Krumm, a Franciscan (pedo-friar?) who served for years at the parish during the

  June 25, 2009

• TONIGHT: Dinner with Dave and We Are the Pilots

  Yes, it's time for another twice-monthly installment of Dinner with Dave, where Dave Mau cooks up some free food, a local DJ spins, and a local band plays. Tonight it's two dear Heard Mentality favorites, DJ Oldboy and Anaheim's We Are the Pilots, pictured. WAtP bassist has referred to it as "the first hipster soup kitchen," that's a fairly accurate assesment. It all goes down at Memphis in Santa Ana, with the DJin' startin' at 9, and the live music-in' startin' at 10. Not sure what's on the men

  June 24, 2009

• KCRW's Jason Bentley to Appear at...South Coast Plaza?

  Jason Bentley (seen looking very sly in that picture over there) took over as host of Morning Becomes Eclectic--and KCRW music director--on December 1 of last year, but though the taste-making Santa Monica-based public radio station's signal covers Orange County comfortably, Bentley hasn't had the chance to make it out here recently.That changes next Wednesday, June 24, with Bentley up in our area for the first time since taking over from the venerable Nic Harcourt. He'll be DJing the "STARS of

  June 18, 2009

• Wax On, Wax Off: Oil and Water - Surfrider Foundation Defeats Tranquillon Ridge Project

  John Wiley​Ever since the State Land Commission shut down the proposed Tranquillon Ridge Oil and Gas Project in a 2-1 vote in January, a battle has raged between its opponents and proponents. On friday, while we were chasing the big swell around, our reps in the California State Assembly scored a big one for the ad hoc resistance movement that has sprung up in opposition to the offshore project. Our very own Surfrider Foundation is leading the charge. Chad Nelsen, Surfrider's Environmental Dir

  July 29, 2009

• 'Wicked' Composer Stephen Schwartz Readies First Opera

  Kristin Chenoweth in 'Wicked.'​You've probably heard his catchy songs from that best friend of yours who loves Wicked, or from the mouth of Amy Adams in Enchanted. And you can't help but sing along, even if you don't like musicals.Stephen Schwartz, the composer of Wicked, as well as the lyricist for Disney's Pocahantas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Enchanted (and whose musicals have played at OCPAC), has recently announced that he will be writing an opera, which will have its world premier

  July 30, 2009

• Irvine Spared in Professor's Plan to Close UC Campuses

  UCI.orgAll's quiet in the center of campus at "second-tier" UC Irvine.​Capitol Weekly reports about a radical proposal to spare the UC system major financial pain amid massive budget cuts: close three campuses.Don't worry: UC Irvine makes the cut. Barely.

  August 5, 2009

• KCRW Returns to Orange County with Summer Nights Dance Party

  ​Is September 12 still summer? Sure, technically, it's before the autumnal equinox, so I guess it's fair play. That's the day the Orange County Performing Arts Center will host the Summer Nights Dance Party, featuring KCRW DJs Jason Bentley (pictured, the host of Morning Becomes Eclectic and the station's music director) and Jeremy Sole both doing live DJ sets--as well as a performance from Sole's genre-bending eight-piece band, Musaics.It takes place from 9 to 11:30 p.m.; what KCRW is calling

  August 19, 2009

• The Ataris

  September 24, 2009