With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethical concerns have been raised about whether AIs can be conscious. And whether they can suffer. I find this interesting for many reasons. Notably, we already know that the animals we eat can suffer, yet we raise them in horrific factory farming conditions. Why the speculative concern about […]
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About 400 new students arrive at Westmont for Orientation and Warrior Welcome from Aug. 26-30. First-generation students and 21 international students, including dual citizens, missionary and third-culture students, arrive early on Tuesday, Aug. 25, for First Connections. The pre-Orientation program emphasizes the cultural transition and interpersonal connections vital to thriving in college. The Orientation Team […]
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Westmont marks its 89th year with an historic event: full accreditation for the college’s first graduate nursing programs. The WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) has officially approved two off-campus graduate nursing programs: a Master’s Entry Program in Nursing (MEPN) and a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). “These new graduate programs meet a […]
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The Westmont Observatory opens to the public for a near total lunar eclipse on Thursday, August 27, beginning at 8:30 pm with the max eclipse set to happen at 9:12 pm. Members of the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit will also attend with telescopes to share. Jennifer Gee, assistant professor of physics and director of the […]
Lea másRestraining Order / 1200 block Channel Drive — Friday, August 07, at 10:56 hours The Reporting Party (RP) is the protected party in a civil harassment order served on subject as the restrained party. On this date, around 10:30, the RP was walking on Channel Drive and spotted the subject, who began to walk in her […]
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The old adage “write what you know” pretty much has not applied to John Romano. The East Coast scribe holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Yale and spent the first years of his career teaching English at Columbia University, authoring a book on Charles Dickens Dickens and Reality and reviewing lit for […]
Lea másThe past 12 months felt heavy with our son’s upcoming departure for university. The marathon of applications, studying, testing and waiting finally gave way to victories; getting into a college he loved, Prom, Graduation, and senior trips. Then, the final days of summer arrived. And while he will always have a home here, my daughter […]
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Twenty-five years is a long time to spend building…anything. For AJ Precision Concrete, it represents thousands of projects, countless relationships, and a reputation earned the old-fashioned way – through consistent, quality work. This August, the Santa Barbara-based company celebrates its 25th anniversary. The milestone traces back to 2001, when founder Antonio “AJ” Gijón set out […]
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Walking onto the wedding site I’m struck by the sense of happy commotion, energized folk crisscrossing the rural property with buoyant industry, faces prone with unconscious half-smiles as they each set to the task at hand. These striding busy bees wear a variety of tats, indelible ink mostly dedicated to soft-spoken renderings of the plant […]
Lea másIt seems like only yesterday we were kicking off summer with Memorial Day, the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice parade weekend, the Rosewood Miramar re-anchoring its floating offshore platform out for all to enjoy… and then the 4th of July came and went and boom, all of a sudden we are looking at Labor Day. Where […]
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“We are so lucky to have an incredible world-class zoo right here in our little community,” said Janet Garufis, president and CEO of Montecito Bank & Trust. “The benefits are generational. Children who grew up coming to this zoo are now bringing their own children here. It crosses generations – children, parents, grandparents.” Those generations […]
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“My favorite part of the game is always the beginning,” said Sy Zahedi. “You have that nervous energy, and then once the ball is thrown in, everything becomes slow motion.” That calm arrived just in time at the Pacific Coast Open, where Zahedi Chogan staged a roaring comeback to edge Mrs Momma Bear 11–10 in […]
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Polo players traded ponies for putters – and mallets for mulligans – at the 8th Annual Polo Training Center Charity Golf Tournament, held Monday evening under the stars at Glen Annie Golf Club. Organized by Rhys Williams and Claudia Uretz, the afternoon brought together a wonderfully competitive assortment of polo families, Montecito families, professionals and […]
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The 1920s saw the result of worldwide revolutions, not the least of which, according to Frederick Lewis Allen in Only Yesterday, was a revolution in manners and morals. Women, who up until then were considered the guardians of morality, were getting their sexual hangups psychoanalyzed, bobbing their hair, revealing their gams, and wearing rouge. The […]
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Friendship Center has never needed much of an excuse for a party. There is Senior Prom, the Fourth of July celebration and, most recently, a full Fiesta week of music, dancing, art and performances. Then there was this summer’s Polo Soirée, where nearly 100 guests helped the organization surpass its $75,000 fundraising goal. So when […]
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