When asked to sketch up an idea for the cover of the Independent’s city hall issue, I took the idea of city hall mayhem and ran with it (maybe a little too far since they ended up going in a less chaotic direction). Here was the low down : Santa Barbara’s entire city council is up for reelection. Like any rip-roaring-fun-time local election, there’s a fair share of he said she said and a few outside interests (particularly one man from Texas with a lot of money to burn) who are pushing to get their pet initiatives passed. The other confusing thing about the election is that it’s vote by mail only. These ideas are evidenced by the hungry mail box, funny looking people doing funny things like tearing down city hall and hitting each other with “measure B” bats and the cowboy riding a plane (…it’s a plane….not anything phallic for those of you who want to go there….although I admit that it’s an easy mistake to make, whoops) . So yes, it didn’t graze the cover but it did get a bit of love in the Super Santa Barbara art show that opened last night. The show features local artist’s takes on the future of our beloved city and ideas about building height limits and the like. It will be up for a week or two and for putting together a show in two weeks, everyone came up with some amazing stuff. Swing by and check it out, you can get all the info at supersantabarbara.com