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The dead are rising in Orcutt, and this time they’re running for a paws-itively good cause. The Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation’s Zombie 5K Glow Walk/Run returns October 17 at Blast 825 Stockyards, inviting humans, leashed dogs, and even cats to walk, run, or shuffle their way through a glow-in-the-dark 5K benefiting vulnerable shelter […]

I rarely carry a phone. I feel like a visitor from another planet watching my fellow hairless apes walk around like zombies, staring and poking at tiny screens. Which is master and which is slave? Phone or user? Phones use us to make more phones, like a virus. Quite a prolific virus. Over 17 billion […]

“Thrill the World” is a global event that happens each year on the Saturday before Halloween, when thousands of enthusiastic zombies gather to perform “Thriller” – unleashing their inner zombie for fun and for charity. From Arizona to West Virginia, Austria to Taiwan, people of all ages will rise from the undead at the same […]

It’s one of those strange quirks in rock ‘n’ roll history that The Zombies had already broken up by the time their second studio album, the Beach Boys/Beatles-influenced psychedelic-chamber pop classic, Odessey and Oracle, became a big bestseller on the back of the hit “Time of the Season” in 1968. They’d scored before with the […]

World Dance for Humanity was dead on time when the Ensemble Theatre Company hosted its 4th annual Ghost Light Night, starting at the venerable Santa Barbara Club and concluding at the New Vic two blocks away. The dancers, wonderfully made-up as zombies, kicked off their artfully crafted show with “Monster Mash,” the 1962 novelty song […]