Gloria Swanson starred in Cecil B. DeMille’s silent film Male and Female, but the leading player in this 1919 photo is Santa Cruz Island. If you look closely at the beach, you can just make out a few of the palms Paramount used to dress up the rugged location of Frys Harbor. “Two large barges […]
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“Grief is just the receipts for love,” Scott Galloway told a sold-out Arlington Theatre during an evening that began with masculinity and modern America, but ended somewhere more personal. Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures, the NYU professor and New York Times bestselling author joined Talk Easy Host Sam Fragoso for a conversation inspired by […]
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“If I had the ability, I would buy every one of these.” California Rangeland Trust CEO Michael Delbar had barely arrived at the Faulkner Gallery before the walls of sweeping ranchlands had him smitten. “They have captured so well the open space, the life, the beauty of these amazing landscapes,” he said. Delbar drove down […]
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver It was a fitting question for the 14th annual Heroes of Hospice luncheon at the Hilton Santa Barbara, where #1 New York Times bestselling author Cheryl Strayed joined Hospice of Santa Barbara supporters to reflect on […]
Lea másUnknown Subject / Ennisbrook Drive — Sunday, September 20, at 18:51 hours Deputies contacted the subject after having pushed the button at the gate of the above location. Security answered via the intercom and asked for the resident of the house. The resident does not know the person and security turned him away and called […]
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Last month, I was invited to Wiesbaden, Germany, for the 2026 VDP.GROSSES GEWÄCHS Sneak Preview, where Germany’s leading wine estates unveil their latest dry wines from the country’s finest classified vineyards. By my third day, I’d tasted my way through row after row of riesling, spätburgunder (pinot noir), silvaner, chardonnay, and more, and my palate […]
Lea másOh the memories. Look at this grand old photo. Once upon a time! Me clutching a baseball glove! Under that sweet baseball cap there was hair all over my head, I can promise you that. I remember it well. Me and Maurice Chevalier. One other thing. “The moments are infinitely precious.” Yeah, I get it. […]
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Across the U.S., Democrats Are Poised for a Midterm Election Triumph. In Santa Barbara, the Party Is Looking for Its Own Blue Wave. Article II, Section 6 of the California Constitution states that all county, school, and city elected offices in the state “shall be nonpartisan.” What a quaint notion. Political parties won the legal […]
Lea másOn September 28, Cold Spring School was awarded and recognized by the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media as, a “Common Sense Media School.” “We’re honored to be recognized as a Common Sense School. Our students deserve to move through the digital world with confidence and care, today and for whatever comes next. This recognition reflects […]
Lea másMy work in Santa Barbara has long focused on public health and safety, prevention, and bringing community systems together to address difficult problems. That experience shapes what I look for in public leadership: an understanding of how policy works, a willingness to ask hard questions, and the ability to move from ideas to implementation. Devon […]
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The 1985 film adaptation of Clue has become a beloved cult classic over the years for its clever way of turning the board game into a movie. Not so much the poorly-conceived 1997 Off-Broadway adaptation Clue: The Musical that planted the dagger firmly into the heart of the madcap murder mystery farce. Fortunately Sandy Rustin’s […]
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Brian McDonald has no trouble admitting to being a big fan of Barbra Streisand. “From when I first saw Funny Girl as a kid, I was just mesmerized,” he said. “I’ve just always found her incredible.” Which is part of what makes McDonald the perfect choice to star in Ensemble Theatre Company’s season-opening production of […]
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Westmont men’s soccer (3-5-4, 1-1-1, PacWest) powered through 95-degree heat at Thorrington Field on October 3, delivering a 3-0 shutout victory over conference opponent Jessup (2-6-1, 0-1). Following a scoreless first half in which both teams recorded three shots on goal, the Warriors broke through in the 53rd minute. Julius Oehmichen lofted a pass across […]
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Westmont men’s and women’s cross country competed at The Master’s Invitational in Santa Clarita on October 3 with the men finishing as the top NCAA Division II team in the field. The men, who scored 107 points to claim third place among 17 teams, were led by freshman Phillip Contakes who placed 10th with a […]
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Encounter Virginia Woolf, a lonely puppet, a curious opossum, and two worms who fall in love all in a single evening as the Westmont College Theatre Arts Department stages an eccentric, fast-paced slate of short-form storytelling. Performances of The Future is Short, set in a variety of site-specific locations in and around Porter Theatre, take […]
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Join the Couture Pattern Museum in Santa Barbara for the exclusive West Coast premiere of Chanel in Vogue, the extensive, two-volume artbook published earlier this year that traces the 110-year history of the design house in the world’s most famous fashion magazine in both words and stunning photography. Vogue first featured Gabrielle Chanel in the […]
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Beatles tribute bands are not uncommon. Heck, one of them, simply named Yesterday, performed at SOhO in mid-September, and another one known as Sgt. Pepper will be playing this Sunday afternoon, October 4, at the Avocado Festival in Carpinteria. But make no mistake, the “Orchestrated Tribute to The Beatles” benefit concert at the Arlington Theatre […]
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This week I join the ranks of Saint Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Tolstoy. Like these towering, culture-affecting giants, I offer my Confessions to a waiting world, to posterity. You see, we great thinkers must ultimately unburden ourselves. What choice have we, huh, Tolstoy? By opening our hearts in this act of generous self-abnegation, we defang […]
Lea másThe week before we dropped our son off at college, we had the great joy of being at a dinner with a large group of his friends and their families. One of his friends made a joke about someone’s summer tan peeling and teasingly suggested he should have injected it instead. I needed clarification. These […]
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This piece of Monterey Shale reveals the work of our local boring clams, so called because they bore into the rock to create a secure home. Curators at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History who study bivalves (clams, oysters, scallops, and mussels) don’t find these animals boring at all. The mollusks have a rough […]
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