30 Sep 2025
Opera on the Ocean: A Night to Remember
Condor Express owner Hiroko Benko hosted a romantic evening cruise along the Santa Barbara coastline, delighting opera lovers with a stunning live performance at sea. Guests enjoyed powerful numbers by American Idol contestant and soprano Micaela McCall, baritone Brian Hotchkin, and pianist Renée Hamaty, who performed opera favorites during the two-hour sunset cruise. Hotchkin sang […]
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Harvest Brunch Celebrates Santa Barbara’s Heritage
Santa Barbara locals gathered at Casa de la Guerra for the first annual Harvest Brunch, a joyful celebration of community and history. Guests enjoyed a brunch buffet, mimosa bar, silent auction, and live flamenco guitar by Chris Fossek – all in support of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP). Proceeds from the event […]
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The Ritz-Carlton Bacara Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Santa Barbara’s Ritz-Carlton Bacara marked its 25th anniversary this year with a resort-wide transformation led by award-winning design firm Meyer Davis. The project included redesigned guestrooms and suites, new restaurant and bar concepts, updated lobby and public spaces, and refreshed pool and cabana offerings. On September 16, the resort hosted a 25 Years of Bacara […]
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23 Sep 2025
Community Environmental Council
The Community Environmental Council (CEC) signature fundraising event, known as the Green Gala, is returning to the Bakery Block, the newest event venue in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone, for its 2025 event on Saturday, September 27. The Green Gala brings together an influential group of community leaders, philanthropists, and climate activists to help fill the […]
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Dream Big: UCSB Coach Joe Pasternack Brings Lessons to Crane School
On Tuesday, September 16, UCSB men’s basketball coach Joe Pasternack and two of his players, Luke Zuffelato of Santa Barbara and Koat Keat Tong of South Sudan, visited Crane Country Day School for an all-school assembly to share life lessons and encourage students to dream big. The main theme of their talk was “attitude” and […]
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The Sauce Whose Name Shall Not Be Spoken
You’re the top, you’re Mahatma Gandhi. You’re the top, you’re Napoleon Brandy. You’re the purple light of a summer night in Spain. You’re the National Gallery, you’re Garbo’s salary. You’re cellophane. Cole Porter’s famous lyric was surely written about the human race. Yeah, we’re the top! [cut to outdoor shot – two strangers on Coast […]
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School Attendance, Groundwater Monitoring, and More at Board Meeting
The September Board Meeting of the Montecito Association provided important updates on community priorities, featuring reports from law enforcement, local schools, the water district, Caltrans, and the fire department. The Sheriff’s Department began with an update on public safety, noting recent red flag days and continued enforcement of parking restrictions at Hot Springs Trail, where […]
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Crime in the Cito: Sheriff’s Blotter 93108
Civil Issue / 3500 block Via Real — Monday, August 18, at 10:21 hours Deputies responded to a civil issue. E-bike Theft / 1281 Channel Drive — Monday, August 18, at 19:20 hours Victim reported his e-bike was stolen from in front of Coral Casino. The suspect was described as a Hispanic adult male. The […]
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Westmont College Art Professor Wins 2025 Avo Fest Design Contest
Scott Anderson, MFA, professor of art at Westmont College for 27 years, is the winner of the 39th Annual California Avocado Festival’s Art Design Contest for its posters and t-shirts. The reveal was done on Thursday, September 11, at the Carpinteria Farmers Market where the Avo Fest set up a booth. I met Avo Fest […]
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Casa del Herrero Centennial Gala
This week’s Society Editis bringing you the exclusive report on the Centennial Gala of Casa del Herrero, held on Saturday, September 6. As the only press person requested by the organization to cover the event, here are the illustrious details! I arrived early to meet with the Casa del Herrero (the Casa) Board of Trustees […]
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Rescue Roundup: Upcoming Fundraiser to Support Search and Rescue Volunteers
Santa Barbara County residents will gather on Friday, October 10, for an evening that combines celebration with a serious purpose: supporting the all-volunteer Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue (SBCSAR) team. Rescue Roundup 2025, set for 6 to 10 pm at the Santa Barbara Carriage Museum, promises lively entertainment, memorable food, and unique demonstrations of […]
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War Words
One thing wars are good for (if anything) is the spawning of new words and expressions. Soldiers are particularly involved in this, especially when they’re far from home, and have chances to leave their own form of calling-card. In World War II, one of the most widely spread expressions inscribed, usually by American troops, was […]
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Laundry Time Over the Ages
What are these objects I list here, and what were they used for? Washbats, washboards, a washbox, washing dollies, peggylegs, possers, poss sticks, dolly pegs, peggy, maiden, plunger, ponches, and punchers – all of these were used to wash clothes with or without a wash-tub, and sometimes at the edge of a stream or river, […]
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CRI Report: International Org Urges Halt on Sable Pipeline
In a September 10th report by Climate Rights International (CRI), authored by researcher Trevor Stankiewicz, the organization urged Governor Gavin Newsom and California regulators to halt Sable Offshore Corp.’s plans to restart the Las Flores oil pipeline system in Santa Barbara County. In the report, the group called for a full environmental review, public hearings, […]
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PART III: A Roadmap for Affordable Housing & Positive Change
In this, the last part of the series, I wanted to focus on certain hopeful, albeit early, steps that the Council, our award-winning city Housing Authority, and downtown property owners have taken to build affordable housing and improve the downtown corridor. Together these folks believe in a soaring State Street future and are spending real […]
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‘Side by Side.’ High School Senior Teaches Children About Coping Mechanisms
Seventeen-year-old Santa Barbara High School senior Hannah Hedrick was volunteering at All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church following the Palisades Fire when she had an epiphany. Sorting through donated clothes and books for victims of the fire that burned down an entire community, including her cousins’ and aunts’ houses, she had a sense that she could make […]
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Last Chance for One805LIVE! Tix
The first three One805LIVE! Rock for First Responders benefit concerts at Kevin Costner’s Summerland-Carpinteria estate – created to continue to support the first responders of Santa Barbara County in the aftermath of the Thomas Fire and Montecito debris flows – were smashing successful affairs. Past artists have included P!NK as You+Me, Maroon 5, John Fogerty, […]
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¡Viva la A&L
For most of its history, the UCSB Arts & Lectures-produced program ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! operated under the radar of the usual A&L events. That wasn’t an accident. The idea was always to cater to the Spanish-speaking segment of the community, one that frequently might have been overlooked not only by A&L but […]
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Indie Fest Returns
We’re still more than four months away from Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the behemoth 11-day giant of a cinematic confab affectionately known as SBIFF that stages its 41st annual event from February 4-14. But there’s another festival that could go by that acronym, but has wisely chosen to sidestep the moniker, that holds its […]
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Among Giants
The seabirds must’ve seen what I was seeing and were reveling in the explosion of late season winter rains and consistent fog drip on Channel Islands National Park. I was enjoying the best giant coreopsis bloom I could remember on the southeast end of Santa Cruz Island, mostly from the seat of my kayak. It […]
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