What I’ve Been Reading – 12/12/2022
Waterworks Tunnel for Gibraltar Dam Project | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library A Brief History of Dumplings | Open Culture The Incendiary History of San Francisco’s Cliff House | Laughing Squid Why New Brunswick, New Jersey’s House Show Scene is So Iconic | Alt Press Have a good week!
What I’ve Been Reading – 9/5/2022
Santa Barbara Public Library Bookmobiles | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Fire Island Is a Surprisingly Faithful Jane Austen Adaptation (Albeit With More Poppers) | SlateA Chef Who Offered Chinese Food in Spanish | The New YorkerDriven | Gabriella GageApparently the Brontës all died so early because they spent their lives drinking graveyard water. | LithubWhy the…
What I’ve Been Reading – 8/29/2022
Santa Barbara Public Library Staff | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Staff show off changes to new community library space and programs | Coastal View NewsWhere the Crawdads Sing: Why Author Delia Owens is Wanted for Questioning in a Real Life Killing | Vanity FairCamille Herron on Racing Through Her Period | Runner’s WorldIt’s been a hard time for librarians. Enter…
What I’ve Been Reading – 8/22/2022
Unitarian Church | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library In Memoriam | Ryan Leone: 1985 – 2022 | Santa Barbara Independent Susan Orlean Falls Asleep to the Dateline Podcast | Vulture The Magic of Your First Work Friends | The New York TimesStop Calling It Asian Salad | Consumer ReportsIt began as a typical ferry ride in Kachemak Bay. Then a minke whale went airborne. |…
What I’ve Been Reading – 7/18/2022
Santa Barbara Lighthouse (1890) | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library On Domesticity | From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy Why Are People With No Social Media So Damn Hot? | DazedHow to Identify What You Enjoy | The Atlantic Have a good week!
What I’ve Been Reading – 5/2/2022
“The Dog” (1905) | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Every Drink Brand Should Follow AriZona’s Lead | The Takeout12 Things You’ll Find In Every Midcentury Church Cookbook | The Takeout Every Midcentury Church Cookbook | The TakeoutThe Story behind Bay Area ‘Sugar Town’ and that iconic sign | SFGateThis Steakhouse Keeps SF’s Classic Spirit Alive | The Bold Italic One…
What I’ve Been Reading – 4/11/2022
Near Cuyama (1940) | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Photo Essay: What a Miscarriage Looks Like | The CutAre There Nightclubs in Heaven? | The Cut Have a good week!
What I’ve Been Reading – 3/7/2022
County Library Books Delivered (1920) | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Red Beans Parade Honors a Culinary Tradition | Louisiana Travel Teaching in Context | KHÔRAWhat Song Is Playing on a Never-Ending Loop in Your Personal Hell | Cup of Jo Have a good week!
What I’ve Been Reading – 2/28/2022
Studies of Clouds. (1868/1869) | Lone Mountain College Collection of Stereographs by Eadweard Muybridge – The Bancroft Library How Saturday Night Live Gets Made Each Week | Open Culture One of NYC’s First Substations Will be Demolished Soon | GothamistDiscovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks | NPRSanta Barbara Coast is a nursery ‘hot spot’ for great white sharks | KEYTBig Seep…
What I’ve Been Reading – 2/21/2022
“Luncheon on a County trip,” possibly librarians touring the county libraries (1921) | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Celebrating the Birth of Surfing in California | Santa Barbara Independent Andrew Leonard’s Santa Barbara Scenes | Santa Barbara Independent The Racism of the Great Outdoors | Washington PostWhy Printers Are the Worst | NPRIt all amounts to something…
What I’ve Been Reading – 2/14/2022
Gaviota Library (April 1920) | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Good news (for now) for one of SoCal’s Most Popular Surf Spots | LAistRule plans to retire from Cabell County Public Library | The Herald-DispatchReturn of the Pied-a-terre | The New York TimesI tackled my climate anxiety by becoming a Parks Department Super Steward | New York Magazine91-year-old Lassen…
Postcard map of counties with established County Libraries (1910) | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Stacey Abrams and Michael Connelly On Plot, Persistence, and Passion | ElleHow ‘Two Minutes to Late Night’ Created the Web’s Wildest Quarantine Covers Series | Rolling StoneLooking for Bison in the Wichita Mountains | Texas MonthlyOn the Profoundly Modern Marriage of…
What I’ve Been Reading – 1/31/2022
Three young girls reading books (1930) | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Lompoc Theatre Project Uncovers “Secret Room” Containing Historical Snack Shop Equipment | Lompoc RecordDave Grohl explains how music – and a hitchhiker wearing a Kurt Cobain t-shirt — helped him heal | WBURThe Tax Loophole That Helps America’s Richest Families Stay That Way | The New York…
What I’ve Been Reading – 1/24/2022
Carpinteria Branch Public Library (1939) | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library Rosslyn Metro Escalator | Atlas Obscura 24 hours in a diner? This Ridgewood quartet’s tradition is so Jersey | Daily RecordThe Sandy Hook Pilots | The New YorkerA Glimpse at the People and Cars of L.A.’s Lowrider Scene | Los Angeles MagazineThe Last Great Mystery of the Mind: Meet the People…
Andree Clark Bird Refuge | Edson Smith Photo Collection – Santa Barbara Public Library “Now Everyone in the World Can See This”: Folklife and the Internet | Library of CongressIt’s Never Too Late to Learn How to Swim | The New York TimesJohn Palminteri | Santa Barbara Independent Beauty from Disarray | Harvard MagazineEve Babitz and the Hollywood Library | Los Angeles Public LibraryHustling to…
From the Edson Smith Photo Collection, Santa Barbara Public Library File Under L | Rutgers University Alumni Association Lessons From Past Taught in Santa Barbara Backcountry | NoozhawkLove the Fig | The New YorkerVivian Stephens Helped Turn Romance Writing Into a Billion-Dollar Industry. Then She Got Pushed Out. | Texas MonthlyOn Witness and Repair: A Personal Tragedy Followed By Pandemic |…
What I’ve Been Reading – 9/20/2021
The story behind the mysterious crests on old San Francisco homes | SFGateLibrary in Tiny Alaskan Village Tackles Housing Shortage | Programming LibrarianAt the edge of Santa Barbara County, Cuyama is Central California’s cowboy valley of enchantment | SFGate Have a good week!
What I’ve Been Reading – 7/26/2021
The Biology of Grief | The New York TimesA Brief History of the Midwest Supper Club | TasteBenji is One Down Dog | Texas Monthly Why We Watch Relationships Fall Apart | The AtlanticEverything you need to know about the region’s data centers | Northern VirginiaMelvyl Through Time | UC Libraries Have a good week!
Life Lately – 6/15/2021
Deafheaven – Great Mass of Color listening :: Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR and the Deafheaven spoiler tracks; eating :: Trader Joe’s vodka sauce (doctored with red pepper and cream, topped with mozzarella), and also the best, homemade chocolate-dipped biscotti from a friend; thinking :: about baking biscotti, and options for a media tabletop/general storage cabinet (Thanks, Ikea). I am also thinking…
Lately – 11/2/18
Well, this week has been a week and it is still not over. #SaturdayLibrarian eating :: McConnell’s Maple Squash and Ginger Cookie ice cream (not right not, but some coworkers and I went on a taste-test and this was 100% better than expected); thinking :: some news at work, Thanksgiving menu planning for Kaytlyn’s visit (we’re thinking burgers and pumpkin ice cream pie), about my phone…
