Timothy Henry

Santa Barbara boaters were told in June to clear out of the city’s Seasonal Anchorage to make way for a new field of paid moorings. The change had been under consideration for two to three years following concerns from the city’s Public Works Department about anchoring near underwater infrastructure. But the June 1 notice made the city’s plans concrete: Boats had to leave by June 15, and roughly 20 city-owned moorings were expected to take their place. But the conversion hit a snag.

This current number-one movie at the box office features a story about an event-filled cruise through the Med many years ago. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has made over a half-billion dollars in a mere two weeks, simultaneously thrusting classic literature into contemporary culture while featuring real-life replicas of ancient ships — albeit from another era of sailing. I first read the nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem by Homer in October 2001.