When Santa Barbara County opened the doors to legal cannabis operations in 2017, officials designed a tax system without precedent. “There was no model to work from because we were the first ones in the boat,” 5th District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino said. During this time, consultants presented the county with two options: taxing the gross…
New York-based heavy metal and comedy group Green Jellÿ will perform at the Flower City Ballroom in Lompoc on Saturday, April 6, at 7 p.m. According to press materials, Green Jellÿ has touted itself as “the world’s worst band” and attracted a cult following during the 1980s and ’90s for its cartoonish style and use…
Love Lies Bleeding What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Full price What’s it worth, Anna? Full price Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Regal Arroyo Grande Rose Glass (Saint Maud) directs a screenplay she wrote with Weronika Tofilska about Lou (Kristen Stewart), a gym manager who falls for Jackie (Katy O’Brian),…
The Gentlemen What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Guy Ritchie (Snatch, Sherlock Holmes, The Covenant) created this action comedy TV series, which is a spinoff of his 2019 film of the same name, about newly minted 10th Duke of Halstead Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who inherits his father’s 15,000-acre estate only…
The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2024 Where’s it showing? Netflix Masked as schools with a focus on “healing troubled teens,” Ivy Ridge and its sister schools run by the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (known as WWASP) aren’t out to help teenagers become better people, they’re…
Pizza port Off Base at Hangar 7 is located at 107 W. Ocean Ave., Lompoc. The restaurant is open Wednesday through Saturday, from 5 to 9 p.m. For more info, follow the eatery’s Instagram page, @offbaseathangar7. Pepperoni. Pineapple. Prime rib. Pear slices. Curry sauce. Some wood-fired pizzas at Off Base at Hangar 7—a cozy pub…
Incumbent 1st District Santa Barbara County Supervisor Das Williams called candidate Roy Lee on March 14 to congratulate him on becoming the next supervisor representing Montecito, Summerland, Carpinteria, and Cuyama come January 2025. “I wanted to do what none of my opponents in 21 years had done, actually have a personal concession and wish him…
Previously disputed by Lompoc’s legal counsel, a local resident’s 2023 complaint against the city’s tourism board and its accounting practices ignited a Santa Barbara County grand jury investigation. In a report released on March 22, the jury concluded that the Lompoc Tourism Business Improvement District’s annual reporting “shows hundreds of thousands of dollars in unaccounted-for…
After a Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge ruled that the Board of Supervisors acted within its rights to deny the 4,000-acre Rancho La Laguna subdivision project, attorneys representing the developers filed an appeal to the decision. That appeal was short-lived as the developers later withdrew it, letting the Superior Court decision stand, said Linda…
To help Santa Barbara County residents file their taxes and get tax credits they’re eligible for, United Way of Northern Santa Barbara County teams up each year with Cal Poly and Allan Hancock College to host free, in-person tax filing. The program launched about 18 years ago with United Way helping file taxes in Lompoc,…
• The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced legislation that prevents Coast Guard Academy cadets from punishment when reporting an incident of sexual assault, and language in that legislation was proposed last year by U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara), according to a March 22 statement from Carbajal’s office. The bill advanced by the committee also…
The cannabis industry isn’t what it was cracked up to be in California. With bigtime dispensaries like MedMen going down, legal grow operations not raking in the amount of money they were projected to, and a thriving illegal market—what gives? Hey, word on the street is that it’s still illegal at the federal level, which…
Winston Churchill famously observed that Americans will always do the right thing, only after they’ve tried everything else. It seems that San Francisco may be trying to emulate Churchill’s pithy observation. Yes, this is another rant about San Francisco’s descent into dysfunction and squalor. Criticizing the mess in San Francisco is so easy that I…
I wrote President Joe Biden a letter early last year with regard to our current threat to democracy and the attempted coup of Jan. 6, 2021. I sent him copies of excerpts from The FBI Story as published in 1957, which indicates that our country’s balance of power would never allow a tyrant to take…
Catch the show Email friendssyvlibrary@gmail.com for more info on Gale McNeeley’s upcoming one-man show, sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Santa Ynez Valley, at the Santa Ynez Valley Grange Hall. To find out more about McNeeley, visit galemcneeley.org. For better or worse, some actors are inseparable from certain roles they play well, often,…
Mid-April will mark the conclusion of two local music competitions, both organized by Songwriters at Play. The featured musicians slated to perform at the two finale events—scheduled for Saturday, April 13, at Solvang’s High Roller Tiki Lounge and Sunday, April 14, at the Cambria Center for the Arts Theatre—were juried finalists from monthly Songwriters at…
