22 Jul 2025
Bremner Breaks the MLB draft
UCSB pitcher Tyler Bremner impressed scouts, prospect prognosticators, and fans who came out to the ballgames to watch the fireballing right-hander. Bremner turned in a stunning sophomore season in 2024, resulting in his being rated pre-season this spring in the Top 10 for the 2025 draft. But his stock had slipped in the early weeks […]
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‘Stir it up with the Foresters
Turning to a local baseball team still playing this summer, the Santa Barbara Foresters are continuing their winning ways, closing out last weekend still in sole control of first place in the CCL South. The team, which has won an unprecedented 10 National Baseball Congress World Series titles, will be headed once again to the […]
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Creating a Spiritual Formation Hub
Workers have begun constructing a new $7 million building on Westmont’s campus north of the Global Leadership Center to house the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture. Crews expect to complete the 3,700-square-foot complex and 1,500-square-foot deck in about 15 months, replacing the existing structure at 909 La Paz Road. Private donors are funding construction […]
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Cultivating Community in Age of AI
The fifth annual Impact Conference, Cultivating Community in the Age of AI, brings together senior technology leaders in higher education to explore ways to apply AI to strengthen – rather than replace – human connections on July 24-25 in Westmont’s Global Leadership Center. Purchase tickets, which cost $129 per person for two full days with […]
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Heading North to the Tavern, and Beyond
Tales from the Tavern’s new six-concert season begins Wednesday night, July 23, with a doozy of a show pairing roots and country-inflected singer-songwriters Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore in an “almost acoustic” duo concert. But first there’s a special Audience Appreciation concert off-site, a mini music festival on Sunday, July 20, at a venue […]
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Going South
The venerable Ventura Music Festival – once merely a classical-meets-jazz affair spread over two weeks at various venues around the town – has evolved into multi-genre five-day bursts held more than once a year. The summer installment takes place July 24-28 at The Performing Arts Center at Ventura College, beginning with “Rising Stars from the […]
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Swingin’ Sounds at SOhO
Lucinda Lane, the self-described “IndieBossaJazzTwang” band that has singer Nicole Lvoff and songwriter-guitarist (and music journo) Joe Woodard as its core members, often appears as a duo at various venues around town. But their gig at SOhO on July 21 vastly expands the universe by adding the rhythm section of bassist Jim Connolly and drummer […]
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Cheri Amour
Play It Forward is the annual benefit for Ensemble Theatre’s Education and Outreach programs, uniting award-winning theater pros and Broadway performers with talented young actors and community artists. This year’s benefit performance features a new concert version of All of Me, the comedy-musical formerly known as Hello! My Baby, written by longtime Montecito resident Cheri […]
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Tarotpy 101: When Psychotherapy and Divination Meet
The first time I got a Tarot reading, it was a quick disaster. My amateur fortune teller friend pulled a card from the deck, and immediately mumbled: “Better not show him this one.” Surely it was illustrating imminent death and endless suffering. Which was all I needed to know that Tarot was not my cup […]
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A Night of Note(s)
It was an evening of high note when the Music Academy of the West hosted its annual gala for a record 410 guests on the Upper Lawn of the Montecito Club, raising $750,000 to support life-changing programming and the 78th summer festival with 150 fellows, out of 2,000 applicants from 19 countries worldwide. “It helps […]
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This Year’s Saint Barbara!
Old Spanish Days has chosen its latest Saint Barbara, a tradition dating back to 1926. This year’s halo wearer is Julie Romero Hathaway, a three-year member of the Native Daughters of the Golden West Reina Del Mar Parlor No. 126, whose mother held the coveted title in 1946. She is a graduate of Carpinteria High […]
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Royal Reconciliation
King Charles and Prince Harry’s senior aides held a secret peace summit in London at the weekend. It’s the initial stage in an effort to restore the fractured relationship between the Duke of Sussex and the rest of the Royal Family. Harry is represented by Meredith Maines, his communications officer and head of his Montecito […]
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Raids, Resistance, & Resilience: ICE Presence Shakes Central Coast Communities
Over the past few weeks, a palpable tension has gripped communities in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties as unmarked vehicles, masked agents, and unannounced detentions have marked a dramatic rise in immigration enforcement. At the center of this escalation stands last week’s explosive ICE raid on Glass House Farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo — a […]
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AB1893 x SB79 x Local Zoning Control – Its “Apt.-Complexed”
The saying, “Its complicated” or should we say, “it’s apartment-complexed”, suits the ongoing debate over the Mission LLC group owners Craig and Stephanie Smith’s project to construct an 8 story, two building, 270-unit housing complex at, wait for it, 505 East Los Olivos Street, Santa Barbara, the private residential property behind the SB Mission and […]
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Crime in the ‘Cito — Sheriff’s Blotter 93108
Burglary / 2200 block Camino del Rosario — Monday, June 23, at 08:19 hours An unknown subject was seen on security camera in the back of the residence. Deputies found where he entered the residence from the back French doors. The unknown suspect ripped off the alarm keypad once he was inside the house (probably […]
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15 Jul 2025
Oui, We’re Going to the Dogs
UCSB Arts & Lectures’ annual series of free summer film screenings outdoors under the stars at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens might have come up with its smartest theme yet. Dubbed “Dog Days of Summer,” the series sports seven nights of dog-themed movies in one of the more spectacular venues in the heart […]
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Polo & Friendship: An Afternoon of Polo with the Friendship Center
Next week, Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club will play host to more than a thrilling afternoon of sport – it will serve as a chance to learn about a local nonprofit that’s been quietly making a difference for nearly 50 years. On July 18th, from 3:30 to 6:30 pm, the Friendship Center will host […]
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What Is It Worth?
In the early chapters of the Old Testament, we find the story of two brothers, Jacob and Esau, one of whom (Esau) sold his entire inheritance (his “birthright”) to his brother for a single simple meal (a “mess of pottage”). That might be regarded as a very bad bargain. The more civilized method of determining […]
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Jay Simmons: April 25, 1968 – July 5, 2025
James Daniel Simmons, known as Jay to most, passed away peacefully on July 5, 2025, at the age of 57 after his short battle of liver and kidney disease. Born and raised in Oxnard, California, Jay was a proud graduate of Rio Mesa High School, class of 1986. Jay was a devoted husband to his […]
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