federal cannabis patient to lead medical marijuana march the santa barbara independent santa barbaracausa theyll be protesting the recent threats by the federal government to punish santa barbara landlords who rent to state and citysanctioned cannabis .........
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behindthescenes studio footage featuring the reunited lineup of the legendary santa barbara metalpunk rock hybrid snot original members mikey doling guitar john tumor fahnestock bass jamie miller drums and sonny mayo guitar along with the groups latest addition former divine heresy vocalist tommy cummings a.k.a. tommy vext can be viewed below. as previously reported snot played its first show...
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the reunited lineup of the legendary santa barbara metalpunk rock hybrid snot featuring original members mikey doling guitar john tumor fahnestock bass jamie miller drums and sonny mayo guitar along with the groups latest addition former divine heresy vocalist tommy cummings a.k.a. tommy vext played its first show in 10 years last night wednesday august 20 at velvet jones on state st. in santa bar...
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passengers through the santa barbara airport have certainly noticed an annoying new tariff checked baggage fees. as of june 15th american airlines customers who purchase domestic economy class tickets will be charged 15 each way for the first checked bag and 25 each way for the second checked bag. ps in a related note skycap service at the santa barbara airport will ...
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a few speculators dominate vast oil market regulators swiss energy firm holds 11 percent of contracts on nymex regulators had long classified a private swiss energy conglomerate called vitol as a trader that primarily helped industrial firms that needed oil to run their businesses. but when the commodity futures trading commission examined vitols books last month it found that the firm was in...
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the a.v. club interviews woody allen. the new orleans timespicayune profiles author bill loehfelm who won the first amazon breakthrough novel award. prefix calls vampire weekend the most punk band of 2008. the waterloo record experiences a trip to the seinfeld bus. how did it come to this how did the most successful sitcom of the past two decades a show so groundbreaking it changed the ...
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when it comes to rounding up john edwards news and links i cant hope to compete with deceiver. mickey kaus riellehunter 1 2 kaus also links to a story i missed from the aug. 14 santa barbara independent. the last few weeks are kind of a blur but i think i glanced at that one and dismissed it because of the angry poodle drawing. doh it says that rielle is underneath that extravagantly new age exte...
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this week editor publisher announced its 8th annual 10 that do it right a top ten not for the top ten best newspapers but for ten who are doing exceptionally well in one particular aspect from marketing to online video investigative journalism to interactive features that merits consideration and maybe even emulation by their peers. milwaukee journal sentinelthe journal sentinels top leadership...
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in bittersweets recent interview with the indy there was lots of talk about struggling to survive in the industry.......
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the black van slid to a halt and the good doctor ejected himself from the shotgun seat. were evacuating he said as he and two friends racewalked toward his house next door to ours. hed had to talk his way past the police to get up the hill from cathedral oaks sliding by only because his friends from carp had left two labs in his back yard before theyd gone to dinner. suzanne and i had been having ...
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first kudos again to edhats news list for not only gathering info from many sources but for giving equal weight to both professional and amateur sources and for hosting a great many comments on some of the postings. as an interactive local news service ed does a fine job. when surfing for the latest on the fire its a good place to start. others among these are good as well inciwebs page for the ...
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...ently and noted with alarm the many fireworks stands which are present. sources fireworksanity.blogspot.com fourthofjulyecards.blogspot.com semiluminous.livejournal.com vtacore.livejournal.com www.independent.com go.lubbockonline.com......
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last night around 715 the power went out to my building. after walking outside and surveying the neighborhood it became obvious that it was at least my block and probably most of downtown. after the sun went down it became obvious that it was indeed all of downtown but i learned that the outage also affected everyone from like gaviota to ventura. thats just crazy so i lit a couple candles and ...
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inciwebs latest on the gap fire tag sbgapfire. hashtag sbgapfire is 10 hours old it says as of 1217am thursday morning. most of keyts 11pm newscast was devoted to the fire. currently theyre reporting 1200 acres burned 5 containment. the winds are not santa ana grade but do come down from the nnw flowing sse over the santa ynez mountains where the fire burns above santa barbara and goleta directly ...
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there are orange clouds to the west. turns out this is the gap wildland fire. tag sbgapfire. hashtag sbgapfire its only 35 acres so far but its very close to civilization. heres an la times story that shows the fire itself near lizards mouth a favorite local hiking site off west camino cielo. here are some pictures i took a couple years ago. it started late yesterday afternoon and evacuation order...
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last week was another world wide panorama event and since i was still moving in i wasnt sure id participate. curious for ideas one of my housemates named paige helped out and showed me how to get to old san marcos pass which is a real windy road that heads up into the hills. the modern san marcos pass is highway 154 which has a speed limit of something like 55mph. signage is a bit more spa...
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abc news gma exclusive rev. pflegers confessions pfleger said that he does not apologize for being passionate i dont apologize for being free.but i apolo gize when my passion or my freeness and my flawedness of character get in the way of a content which is much more important to me tags barack obama 2008 michael pfleger supreme court strikes down d.c. gun ban the campaign spot on national rev...
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abc news clinton im backing obama 100 percent i am 100 percent committed to doing everything i possibly can to make sure that sen. obama is sworn in as the next president of the united states next january here in this capitol clinton told reporters on capitol hill. right..... supreme court gun ban ruling expected tomorrow d.c. wire gaypatriot breaking election newsgaypatriot exclusivejohn mcca...
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if you want to go to a fine dinner where you will be both surprised and pleased you cant beat what chef jason tuley is doing at square one.......
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prison healthcare facility okd camarillo prison ventura county star tags camarillo california prison day by day by chris muir june 19 2008 tags day by chris muir arnold schwarzenegger barack obama watch no public financing tags barack obama iran nuclear watch ahmadinejad the west could not break us tags iran nuclear mahmoud ahmadinejad gored obama could win vote lose election harry sie...
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prison healthcare facility okd camarillo prison ventura county star day by day by chris muir june 19 2008 barack obama watch no public financing iran nuclear watch ahmadinejad the west could not break us gored obama could win vote lose election harry siegel politico.com the santa barbara independent hannahbeths comeback bid use a car cell phone go to prison politics lungren backs nuclear wa...
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readers of the independent may have noticed that longtime local columnist barney bratingham has a new illustrated picture for his column in the world of blogs this could be barneys avatar. an avatar is a computer users representation of himself or herself a picture or an object representing the embodiment of the user. to get your personal avatar for use in the comments section of santa barbaras bl...
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the album was recorded with the help of solar energy in johnsons los angeles studio. jack johnson is the first musician who has recorded an album using solar energy exclusively also setting a new world record with the release. over 15 million omalley to name pg hospital authoritys members nbc4.comcheverly md. maryland gov. martin omalley and prince georges county executive jack johnson are sc...
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20 million miles to earth tcm sunday june 8 8 p.m. est first men in the moon tcm sunday june 8 930 p.m. est few names are revered by us fantasy film geeks as much as that of special effects wizard ray harryhausen item in sheryl crow finds her way with detours newsdaysheryl crow seemed destined to meander down one of those winding roads she claims that every day is adrift into adult ...
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a busy week and i am a bit embarrassed not to have gotten to this story yet former newspress reporters called it a speed bump at the santa barbara independent and heres the basics about the judges decision which supported newspress management this weekjudges tend to be reluctant to issue injunctions under these circumstances but some found it disconcerting that a judge would find that an employer...
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