3 Mar 2026
Scanning Electron Microscope Imagery
Each segment in this elegant structure is a chamber that once sheltered an individual animal. In effect, it’s an apartment block just a millimeter wide. The image is black-and-white because it was taken with a scanning electron microscope, a device that creates images of tiny objects by bombarding them with electrons rather than sensing visible […]
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Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute
Plenty of local folks probably aren’t aware of CIMWI, let alone what the acronym stands for – Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute – despite the local 501(c)(3) nonprofit’s primary mission of helping a significant subset of (mostly) cute critters that call our local waters home. It’s partly understandable. It’s not all that likely, after […]
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Our High-Flying Flagg
I arrive at the Santa Barbara Club with the jitters. The delightful and enviably energized Maria McCall has invited me to this MClub Lunch & Learn with a Valentine theme. The implausible Fannie Flagg – multifarious village litterateur / Manhattan night club bon vivant / bowling companion to Jack Nicholson – will be holding deadpan […]
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An Italian Villa Wine Getaway in Paso Robles
Two and a half hours up Highway 101, California begins to feel different. The marine layer fades, the sky stretches wider, and the hills take on a golden hue that holds even in winter. When I visited Paso Robles earlier this month, daytime temperatures climbed to a sunlit 78 degrees, transforming January into a warm-weather […]
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Art Lost & Found
MD enjoyed buying storage lockers whose owners had defaulted on payments. He bought one in the early 2000s in San Diego and stuffed boxes of books and papers into his own storage locker here in Santa Barbara. Newly retired, he had the time to sort through boxes of paperwork. In one old box he found […]
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Hot Off the Conference Presses
Just back after a wonderful week as a guest of the San Miguel Writers’ Conference. Many of the best-selling authors I met have terrific books I wanted to make sure were on your radar. ‘Without Consent’ Greta Rideout’s harrowing tale is an empathetic investigation into a once-controversial subject in Sarah Weinman’s Without Consent: A Landmark […]
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Longevity Living with Petra Beumer
Longevity is less a sprint toward the finish line and more a quiet devotion to how we spend our ordinary days. Petra Beumer openly describes herself as a recovering “Type A high achiever,” shaped by a culture of rigor and accomplishment. Over time, she began to notice the toll that constant striving takes: burnout masked […]
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‘Little Women’ Showcases Timeless Themes
Madeline Fanton remembers the first chapter book she read as a child: Little Women. Now the visiting professor of theater arts directs Westmont’s production of the novel by Louisa May Alcott, adapted by Kate Hamill, on Feb. 27-28 and March 6-7 at 7:30 pm; Feb. 28 and March 7-8 at 2 pm, all in Porter […]
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Alums Give Back Through Day of Service
The Westmont Alumni Office launched its first Alumni Day of Service for alumni, students and staff with more than 50 volunteers serving on Feb. 7 across five different sites. Teams worked with The Bucket Brigade, The Turner Foundation, Olive Crests’s Hope Refuge, the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation and Doctors Without Walls. “This growing service program […]
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Dallas Willard Book Award Finalists
Westmont’s Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Research Center have announced the finalists of their annual book award. The winner of the Dallas Willard Book Award – created in 2015 to highlight Willard’s intellectual legacy – will be announced in May or June. Willard was a best-selling author and beloved philosophy professor at USC. The award […]
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Taylor Made: New Santa Barbara Resident Dayne’s Local Debut
Taylor Dayne always wanted to be a pop star, going back to her days growing up on the South Shore of Long Island when she was known as Leslie Wunderman. As soon as she could, the singer began working in rock and roll bands, patterning herself after similarly big-voiced belters as Pat Benatar, The Pretenders’ […]
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Chaucer’s Choices: Naughty When Nature Is Naught and Concert in the Park
Kathleen Lockyer draws on almost three decades of practice as an occupational therapist as well as her own story to offer a powerful re-framing of how children develop and how adults can heal alongside them. In her new book Wild Inside: How Nature Protects Your Child’s Mental Health and Restores Yours, Lockyer offers parents, educators […]
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News on Pasta Santina
Meanwhile, deep into homemade pasta we go with Chef Sergio Chierego’s new location for his brand – Pasta Santina, now in Carpinteria, located at 4185 Carpinteria Avenue, #5. Here you can walk in daily and pick up freshly made pasta while serenaded by vinyl spinning on a record player. Suitably laid back. Chierego is from […]
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More on Monte’s
More spoiler alerts on Monte’s Restaurant (1198 Coast Village Road) Montecito! First up – Chloe Lobdell, a Santa Barbara native, is now the Rincon Hill Farm Director, replacing Aiden Ostrowski. Seen making deliveries to the restaurant are local sea urchin merchants, as well as purveyors of tableware and décor. Inside views from peeps include the […]
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Pickleball Court Still Under Construction
I stopped by the pickleball courts at Upper Manning Park on Sunday, February 22, to find that the site is still surrounded by construction debris and taped off by yellow security tape along its side facing San Ysidro Road. The short side of the courts’ grounds area is cleaned up with a lawn, bench, and […]
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Troop 33 Announces Four new Eagle Scouts
Scoutmaster Nathan Camp – Scoutmaster of Troop 33 Montecito, under the Los Padres Council of Scouts of America Pacific Coast District – proudly announces promotion of four Troop 33 scouts to Eagle Scout. They are Dylan Seawards, senior at SB High School; Leo Brownstein, senior at SB High School; Noah Slotnick-Lastrico, senior at San Marcos […]
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Dragon Q Energy Onboards with AI’s Massive Energy Consumption
Dragon Q Energy has been accepted into the NVIDIA Inception Program. This program is said to support companies advancing technologies for AI and high-performance computing. And we have all heard on our socials the huge energy consumption associated with adopting AI globally. The importance of new pathways that can mitigate AI’s outsized energy consumption cannot […]
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Stories of Strength at ShelterBox’s Annual Panel
Montecito understands what it means to rebuild. That lived experience makes ShelterBox’s International Women’s Day panel especially resonant here, where recovery is part of the community’s recent history. In a time marked by conflict, climate disasters, and widening inequities, the United Nations’ 2026 theme for International Women’s Day feels immediate: “Rights, Justice, Action. For ALL […]
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Fried Greens & Pink Hearts
Montecito Bank & Trust’s MClub recently spent a delightful morning with Fannie Flagg, beloved Southern storyteller and author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, during an intimate Valentine’s-themed Lunch & Learn at the Santa Barbara Club. She shared personal stories of her childhood, her challenges with dyslexia, the inspiration behind each of […]
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