9 Dec 2025
Let’s All Light Up a Life
Hospice of Santa Barbara (HSB) is back brightening up the holidays with its annual Light Up a Life series of events spanning Montecito, Carpinteria, Goleta, and Santa Barbara within the span of a week or so. These events bring people together to remember and honor loved ones who might be particularly missed during December’s festivities. […]
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Music and Meditation Makes its Debut at the Music Academy of the West
Starting Friday, December 5, at 2 pm, this new series – which we first shared about more than a month ago – finds pianist Antonio Artese and meditation guide Jessica Kolbe (also a prolific Qi Gong teacher) teaming up to create an intimate event where guided meditation meets live classical music. Each one-hour program is […]
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Las Cumbres Observatory Updates
In what would be one of her last LCO agenda items, Scientist and LCO Development Director Sandra Seale,Ph.D, announced that the organization is the recipient of a $3.8 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. These funds will purchase new cameras for LCO 1-m telescope global network, providing a significant enhancement in efficiency […]
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New Vice Provost Promotes Innovation
Eileen McQuade arrived at Westmont in 2004 to teach biology, and she embraced the task with her usual enthusiasm, passion, and positive spirit. She collected accolades such as Teacher of the Year, the Jane Higa Award for Academic and Co-Curricular Partnership and a Faculty Research Award, which acknowledged her many published papers and outstanding research. […]
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Revved Up for RC Car Showdown
Westmont’s junior engineering students are revved up to battle it out in a three-part competition that includes racing around cones and distance jumping off a ramp on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 1:15 pm in front of Kerrwood Hall. Students use the 500-piece remote-control (RC) car they’ve made as part of their Machine Design class. This […]
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Men’s Basketball Rolls in Alaska
The Westmont men’s basketball team won both of their games in the Sprite Tundra Tip-Off Nov. 28-29 in Anchorage, Alaska. The Warriors defeated Alaska Fairbanks 72-66 on Saturday before taking down Alaska Anchorage 64-58 the following day. The Warriors have been led offensively by senior guard Jarrett Bryant, who is averaging nearly 16 points a […]
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Swim Honors Its Seniors
The Westmont women’s swim team hosts its only home meet of the year, welcoming Azusa Pacific to the Tom and Meg’s Aquatic Center on Saturday, Dec. 6, at 10:30 am. The Warriors will honor nine graduating seniors during the meet. The Warriors broke three school records, set 32 lifetime best marks, and 99 season bests […]
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Some Jobs Should Not Be Done?
Trump has lawlessly used Federal agents in U.S. cities and against law-abiding immigrants. Many protests have resulted. At one August protest in D.C., Justice Department employee Sean Dunn threw a sandwich at one of the heavily armed and armored federal agents. Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi went after Dunn with the full force of prosecution […]
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Tis the Season to Give the Gift of Stories
‘Baldwin’ For the bio lovers in your life, Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs is an epic, masterful deep dive into the genius that was James Baldwin; a complex, driven man who bravely tackled his sexuality in his writing despite warnings from the publishing world. Boggs does a terrific job of bringing the man […]
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All About Austen, Abridged
It takes a lot to coax theater veteran Robert Kelley to head five hours south from his Bay Area home. After all, it’s been five years since he retired as the artistic director of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley (TSV), that retirement preceded a year earlier by his company (founded in far-off 1970) winning a coveted Regional […]
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Hello Yellow Brick Road and More Theater Things
Given Wicked: For Good recently opening to box-office-busting business – even as star and likely role-repeating Oscar nominee (and EGOT hopeful) Cynthia Erivo receiving SBIFF’s 18th annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film at the Bacara on December 4 – was there ever a better time to revisit the original The Wizard of Oz? […]
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These Boots Are Made for Broadway
At the opposite end of the professional spectrum, and a hero’s journey of a decidedly different kind, the 2025-26 Broadway in Santa Barbara Series at the Granada Theatre gets underway December 9-10 with a revival of the official touring production of Kinky Boots. Winner of the Tony, Grammy, and London’s Olivier Awards for Best Musical, […]
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Montecito at the Movies
Gwyneth Paltrow takes the backroads to SBIFF’s Riviera Theatreon Alameda Padre Serra on December 5 for a post-screening discussion of her latest film, Marty Supreme, a consensus pick for an Oscar nomination as Best Picture, with Paltrow herself currently sitting just outside the Top 5 for a Supporting Actress nod. Writer-director Josh Safdie’s film, which […]
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Jane Goodall and Her Message of Hope Jane Goodall, 1934 – 2025
Many people know of Jane Goodall as the woman who lived with the chimps and changed our understanding of animals and ourselves. But her work didn’t stop there. From the very beginning, Jane saw her work as a way to serve a greater vision – one that involved caring for all creatures on the planet […]
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Ben Kendall Paints a Picture
Someone unwisely humblebrags about their artistic skills and you take the bait. When they obligingly doodle a horse on the back of an envelope, it looks like a spider scrawled with the wrong hand by a tilt-a-whirl drunk wearing a blindfold. You nod and fail to sound convincing, which you later regret. “Wow. Now that […]
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Grazing Our Way Across Victoria, B.C.
Ahhh!… now we knew we were tucking into an authentic, iconic, traditional English afternoon tea: There were plates of finger sandwiches. My wife, Merry, and I sat in the white-columned tearoom at The Empress hotel, a stately dowager that has stood facing the Inner Harbor in Victoria, on Canada’s Vancouver Island, for 117 years. A […]
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Home for the Holidays: Week 2
Week Two of our four-part Gift Guide is here! Have a look inside to find new times from your local vendors. There is never a bad time to live in an enchanted village, but a certain seasonal swoon amplifies the hometown magic like a loving slap. December arrives with all its largesse. The weather turns […]
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Raising Rosemead: The Story That Wasn’t in the Lexicon
As Lucy Liu’s new film Rosemead comes to the Santa Barbara Cinema Society, the actress discusses where the film falls – and where she herself falls – on the American cultural landscape. Lucy Liu is speaking from NYC, though she won’t be there long. Award season has come in like a lion, and with it […]
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Sheriff’s Blotter — 93108
Trespassing x FLOCK ID / 900 block Hot Springs Road Sunday, November 16, at 15:28 hours Deputies were contacted by the homeowners of the 900 block of Hot Springs Rd reporting an unidentified pair were seen trespassing, prowling, and casing the residence. The suspects fled in a vehicle prior to law enforcement arrival. A check […]
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CVR Tree Lighting
Light up the holiday spirit this Dec. 4 from 4-6 pm with the community and Coast Village businesses. The tree is already in place in front of Richie’s Barber Shop, and the lighting will be accompanied by Rosewood Miramar hot chocolate, Santa Barbara Youth Symphony Quartet, letter box for Santa letters, and more. Montecito County […]
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