Month: November 2011

News

County Stops Commercial Weed Trade

November 3, 2011 by Megan Meyer

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved a ban on all medical marijuana dispensaries in the county at its Tuesday meeting after months of deliberation and failed alternate proposals. The board voted 4-1 to prohibit storefronts...

News

Police Blotter

November 3, 2011 by Jack Crosbie

While trick-or-ticketing the fertile hunting grounds of Del Playa Drive this weekend, Santa Barbara Sheriff’s deputies stumbled upon an 18-year-old man in possession of a criminal quantity of Halloween spirit. Officers approached the susp...

Opinion

Caffeine: How To Kick the Habit, Or at Least Abuse Correctly

November 3, 2011 by Opinion Editor

Maybe you’re intimately familiar with the groggy feeling of “waking up” in the morning, slowly and begrudgingly biking over to Cajé and mumbling something the cashier assumes means “large coffee.” Or maybe you know well the seemi...

News

BYOB: A Simple Solution to Our Plastic Bag Problem

November 3, 2011 by Opinion Editor

Bring your own … bag? Santa Barbara has the potential to be the next county to ban single-use plastic bags to protect our oceans and to significantly reduce our plastic consumption. Approximately 12 billion single-use plastic bags are was...

News

Exiled Iranian Rock Group To Give Performance

November 3, 2011 by Alan Tam

Iranian electronic rock band The Casualty Process, whose members are political refugees now based in New York City, will perform at a free concert in the Hub at 8 p.m. The band’s members, Cis Nadjafi, Natch Nadjafi and Shayan Amini, were ...