All Ball Sports: Neal Perlmutter staying put at Mira Costa

by Paul Teetor Despite swirling rumors to the contrary, Mira Costa boys basketball coach Neal Perlmutter insists he has no intention – or desire – to move up in the coaching hierarchy, either to a bigger high school program or even to a college program. “I’m happy right where I am,” Perlmutter told All Ball […]

All Ball: Mira Costa’s one win from history

Expect another typical Mira Costa game in Saturday’s Championship, with bodies strewn all over the floor, on every play by Paul Teetor Thirty-two minutes of hell. That’s what the Mira Costa boys basketball team unleashed on the Santa Barbara Dons in front of an ecstatic, adoring, standing-room-only home crowd last Saturday night. Mira Costa is […]

Bouquets of beauty: Manet’s late paintings

Flowers, femininity and fashion “Manet and Modern Beauty” at the Getty As one of the key Impressionist painters of the 1860s and ‘70s, Édouard Manet (1832-1883) needs no introduction. However, most of the work we’re familiar with was created during the earlier part of a career that was, unfortunately, cut short by illness and death. […]