24 Jun 2025
Montecito Association’s Annual Village 4th
The Montecito Association Annual Village 4th committee, led by MA Events Chair Mindy Denson, has been working for the past year to make the 2025 July 4th celebration one for the books. The event is being co-sponsored by the Montecito Community Foundation. This year’s Grand Marshalls are Cold Spring School Superintendent/Principal Amy Alzina and MUS […]
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Local Scout Leads Flag Drive — And Other News Bytes
Leo Brownstein, a Life Scout with Montecito’s Troop 33, is leading a community flag drive as part of his Eagle Scout project in collaboration with American Legion Post 49 and the Montecito Association. The drive will run from July 4 to July 18, with a flag collection box located at the Montecito Community Hall. Troop […]
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Sheriff’s Substation to be at Rosewood Miramar Beach
The Montecito Association June 2025 meeting was held on Tuesday, June 10. The Montecito Association [MA] June 2025 meeting was held on Tuesday, June 10. Present were MA President Doug Black; 1st VP Leslie Lundgren; Executive Director Houghton Hyatt; Rebecca Caraway News Reporter for Noozhawk; Philipp Posch Sr. V.P. of Hospitality for the Rosewood Miramar […]
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Our Town’s Graduations: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (OLMC) 2025 Eighth Grade Graduation – “Go Lancers!” – was held on Friday, May 30 at 2 pm at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. The graduates processed into the church to “Pomp and Circumstance,” wearing a traditional cap and gown in the school colors of blue and white. Students […]
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NatureTrack
Summer is often a slower season for NatureTrack, the nonprofit organization which was founded with the goal of creating opportunities for people of all ages to foster a lifelong fascination with nature. That’s because the main thrust of NatureTrack’s day-to-day activities is providing K-12 students with outdoor field trips in Santa Barbara County. NatureTrack takes […]
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You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Band
Great White sharks are known to patrol the waters off Santa Barbara and even the coastline on a regular basis – an occasionally toothy swim zone barely a few hundred yards away from the Music Academy’s Miraflores campus. Tonight’s opening concert –by the fellows-powered Academy Festival Orchestra (AFO) – takes place Saturday night at the […]
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School’s Out… And In
The summer session at SBCC’s School of Extended Learning – known fondly as Adult Ed in days of yore – is already underway, with a number of classes geared toward raising the spirit, awareness, or body-mind intelligence – both in person and online – with weekly or one-day options. The good news is that it’s […]
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Disney Figurines
R sends me two Disney ceramic figurines from the 1950s, both under 6.5” – a dapper Jiminy Cricket, and a very frustrated Donald Duck with his fist raised in anger. These were sourced by R’s parents from a Disney artist… are they valuable prototypes or production pieces? The first of its kind is always most […]
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“No Kings” Protest: Thousands Fill Cabrillo and Beyond in National Protest
A sea of demonstrators filled Cabrillo Boulevard on Saturday as part of the nationwide “No Kings” protest, joining millions across more than 2,100 U.S. cities in opposition to what organizers describe as presidential authoritarian overreach. Estimates for the Santa Barbara turnout ranged from 5,000 to as high as 18,000, making it potentially one of the […]
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Broadcasting, British Style
As a child, I had grown up in America, in pre-television days – and radio was a major influence on my life. Since practically all the programs were commercially “sponsored,” their primary purpose was to attract and maintain customers in the form of listeners, which they did by providing entertainment, mainly in the form of […]
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Viewing Stars Mars, Moon and Comet 29P
The Westmont Observatory offers views of Mars, a comet, and the Whirlpool Galaxy on Friday, June 20, beginning at 8:30 pm and lasting several hours. Westmont hosts a free, public stargazing event on the third Friday of every month in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Society, whose members bring their own telescopes to share. […]
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Biologist Tackling Divide Between Science & Faith Retires
During his 44 years teaching at Westmont, Jeff Schloss explored the fascinating relationships between biology and Christian faith. The author and co-editor of major works on biology and love, morality and religious commitment, he served for the last 15 years as senior scholar for the Biologos Foundation. He lectured and held fellowships at major universities […]
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Balancing Finance and Fame
Debbie Price caught the Hollywood bug when she glimpsed festival klieg lights. “It was opening night of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at the Arlington Theatre,” she says. “I saw Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Kirk and Michael Douglas, Peter Cetera and others arriving – my first celebrity sightings.” She has since attended 36 of […]
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Stephen Edward Geremia: April 15, 1942 – May 10, 2025
Stephen Edward Geremia died peacefully on May 10, 2025, in Santa Barbara, California. He was 83 years old. Born on April 15, 1942, in Providence, Rhode Island, Stephen was the son of Dorothy Townsend Lovell (born 1914 in Washington, D.C.) and Eduardo Geremia (1912–1986), originally from Vairano Patenora, Caserta, Campania, Italy. After several family moves, […]
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Leila Carpenter
Leila Carpenter passed away in her sleep, alongside family, on June 7. She was 83 years old. Soft-spoken and reserved, Leila was a fiercely independent and loyal person. She grew up in southern Sweden, the middle of three children. She was a star tennis player and studied at Stockholm University. After moving to Manhattan Beach […]
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Homelessness Across the State & In Our Backyard: Part 1
On June 10 our Community Service Department (CSD) provided the Board of Supervisors with their Annual Homelessness Update. Last year I focused exclusively on CSD’s very solid and data-driven work, but this year I thought I would widen the aperture with a two-part article that looked just a bit at state and city homelessness as […]
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Taking Stock of Summer Theater
Santa Maria-based PCPA theatrical conservatory’s Santa Ynez Valley summer season takes place at the charming Solvang Festival Theatre, the recently renovated open-air amphitheater in downtown Solvang. Launching the four month run of shows under the stars is Waitress, the “deliciously empowering” story of Jenna, a server and talented pie-maker. Trapped in both an abusive marriage […]
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Monsters on the Loose
Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks’ musical adaptation of his classic comedy film, was nominated for Best Musical at the 2008 Tony Awards. Now a humorously horrifying new production kicks off two successive shows at the Ojai Art Center, both dealing with well-known dangerous characters but strictly for laughs. The present production is about the reluctant grandson […]
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Come Together at the Ensemble
Ensemble Theatre winds up its 2024-25 season with one final weekend (through June 22) of Justice, a nearly new three-character musical that explores the first women appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court (Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor) early in their lives and careers up through the height of their judicial power. […]
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Change of Plans
A gala to honor Meghan Markle as “a champion of underserved communities” has been scrapped because of Los Angeles’ erupting ICE protests. Guests had paid a minimum of $1,500 to see the Duchess of Sussex, 43, give a speech at Saturday’s Night of Wonder bash at the city’s Natural History Museum. But the star-studded event […]
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