my writing for the Independent to date

MOST RECENT TO LEAST

Features

Electronic Poetics at SBMA
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/feb/21/sbmas-emelectronic-poeticsem-brings-community/

Gift for Regifting
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/dec/13/gift-regifting/

Interview with Deva Premal
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/sep/27/deva-premal-becomes-one-audience/

Dr. Mac's Music
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/02/dr-macs-music/

Arts Fund Teen Mentorship
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/jun/14/teens-work-closely-master-artists-arts-fund-progra/

Perie Longo Invested as Santa Barbara Poet Laureate
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/apr/05/perie-longo-gets-invested-new-santa-barbara-poet-l/

Replay, the used toy store on De La Vina
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/mar/29/replay-reuse-recycle/

Poetry Out Loud in Santa Barbara
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/mar/08/plugging-poetry/

Tamayo Retrospective at SBMA (Cover)
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/feb/15/andtamayo-makes-four/

A Journey Through "Picture Stories: The Art of Europe and the Americas" At SBMA
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/jun/15/hang-time-a-journey-through-pi/

Poets-in-the-Schools Program Changes Lives
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/apr/13/poetry-in-motion/




Poetry/Writing

Poetry Marathon at SBBAF
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/sep/29/2008-book-author-festival-poetry-reading/

Paul Willis Visiting Home
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/may/29/paul-willis-publishes-new-book-poems/

Philip Levine at SBWC
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/apr/03/philip-levine/

Elizabeth Gilbert at UCSB
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/apr/03/elizabeth-gilbert/

Reading in Honor of William Stafford
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/jan/24/connecting/

Reading for Dads and Kids
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/dec/13/dad-combines-love-reading-parenting-and-sports/

3 Questions with David Starkey
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/23/3-qs-david-starkey/

Interview with Christopher Buckley
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/jul/05/poet-christopher-buckley-wins-guggenheim-after-20-/

Ray Bradbury/Gail Tsukiyama
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/jun/28/ray-bradbury-and-gail-tsukiyama-santa-barbara-writ/

Ojai Poetry Festival
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/may/24/ojai-poetry-festival-libbey-bowl-ojai-friday-may-1/

First Half of Poetry Month in Santa Barbara
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/apr/26/first-half-poetry-month/

Mary Oliver At Campbell Hall, UCSB (Review)
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/apr/26/our-lady-poetry/

Community Poetry Game on Arts Life
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/apr/05/strip-show/

Poetry Out Loud on Arts Life
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/mar/22/poet-stacy-hill/

Review of Ted Kooser Lecture and Master Class
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/mar/20/pleasure-everyday/

Interview with Ted Kooser
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/feb/08/inspiration-in-the-everyday-1/

W.S. Merwin At Campbell Hall, UCSB (Review)
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/apr/20/reading-by-lightning/



Food

Popcorn Connoisseur
http://www.independent.com/news/2009/jan/29/popcorn-connoisseur/

Fairview Gardens CSA
http://www.independent.com/news/2009/jan/06/whos-your-farmer/

Chinese Christmas Eve
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/dec/18/christmas-gifts-east/

Chamomile Cafe
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/nov/26/chamomile-caf/

Spiritland Bistro
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/jul/12/vegetarians-catered-spiritland-bistro/


Living

Starr King Rummage Sale
http://www.independent.com/news/2009/feb/05/big-sale/


Theater

Peter Pan at the Lobero
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/dec/24/empeter-panem-lobero/


Music

Khasy Modisette and Friends
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/may/22/khasy-modisette-and-friends/


Art Reviews

Fall 2007/Winter 2008

Members Collect III at the Wilding
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/feb/07/emmembers-collect-iiiem/

Edward Borein at the History Museum
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/dec/13/emcoloring-west-watercolors-and-oils-edward-borein/

Paintings/Poems at Artamo
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/dec/13/empaintings-poemspoems-paintings-em/


Summer 2007

SB Art at East/West
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/23/emsb-art-view-here-em/

Vessels Show at The Art Fund
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/16/emvessels-function-and-whimsy-clayem/

Rafael Perea de la Cabada at Studio 3 East
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/09/emperception-and-reflectionem/

Rooftop Crosses in Chiapas
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/jun/28/forged-iron-expressive-art-roof-cross-tradition-ch/

Winter/Spring 2007

Buddha Abides at Sullivan Goss
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/may/17/embuddha-abidesem-presented-frameworks-sullivan-go/

Edgar Ewing at Sullivan Goss
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/apr/19/time-out-time/

Henry Chapman Ford at the Santa Barbara History Museum
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/apr/05/age-innocence/

UAM Architecture show
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/mar/22/buy-book/

Julia Pinkham at Artamo
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/feb/22/senses-and-sensibility/

Linda Saccoccio at Caruso Woods
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/feb/15/forever-young/

Surrealism at Sullivan Goss (Please note: this was heavily edited. I don't use the phrase "special place." Ever.)
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/feb/01/flash-forward-1/

Fall 2006

Alice Burr: A California Pictorialist Rediscovered. At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/nov/29/discovering-the-discoverer/

Artists at Continent’s End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/nov/27/bohemian-rhapsody/

Married 2 Art. At the Jewish Community Center
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/nov/27/the-art-of-marriage/

Phoebe Brunner at the Easton Gallery
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/nov/09/californiana/

John Nava at Sullivan Goss
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/nov/02/expression-protest/

Dali’s Divine Comedy. At UCSB’s University Art Museum
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/oct/26/comedy-divine/

Mythic Visions: Yarn Painting of a Huichol Shaman At UCSB’s University Art Museum
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/oct/18/shaman-stories/

Something New for Another Sunny Day At the Contemporary Arts Forum
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/oct/12/rain-or-shine/

Alia El-Bermani At Sullivan Goss
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/oct/04/mirror-images/

Spring 2006

Jack Mohr At Artamo Gallery
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/jun/01/body-of-work/

Buddha Abides At Caruso Woods
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/may/25/no-buddha-no-end-of-buddhas/

Behind the Scenes with Drawings: Renaissance to Rococo At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/may/18/own-reward-1/

Steve Huston at Sullivan Goss
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/may/11/challenging-male/

Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A.R. Valentien At the Wildling Art Museum
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/may/04/art-blossoms-1/

William B. Dewey and Patricia Hedrick at The Easton Gallery
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/apr/27/where-am-i/

Journey: Dan Eldon’s Images of War and Peace at the UCSB University Art Museum
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/apr/20/tragic-beauty/

Whitney Brooks Abbott at the Easton Gallery
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/mar/16/shining-through/

Nicole Strasburg at Sullivan Goss
http://www.independent.com/news/2006/mar/09/complex-miracles/