In the latest of the ongoing departures from the staff of the Santa Barbara News-Press, Tom Jacobs, the paper’s highest-profile full-time arts writer, announced his resignation last week. Jacobs, who has written about theater, classical music, jazz, popular music, opera, and books, will be assuming the role of communications director for the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura.
Santa Barbara attorneys representing those molested by Franciscan friars will argue in Los Angeles this week in favor of the
Business First National Bank, founded in Santa Barbara in 2001, is merging with Paso Robles-based Heritage Oaks Bancorp, the two
Police have arrested Edwin Orlando Bay, 20, in connection with a gang-related stabbing that occurred on 5/24, and are currently
The Sojourner Cafe, established in 1978, has now become the very first business in the county to start composting all
Starshine does a little digging and gets the dirt on the all-male getaway weekend.
This month’s 1st Thursday, tonight, June 7, will feature non-native exhibits to fit the theme of the travel season. The Brooks Institute of Photography’s Cota Street gallery will be featuring David Litschel’s Images of Northern Italy along with Dan Merkel’s photographs from the Pacific Northwest.
Six nearby craft breweries are founding the area’s first brewers’ guild with the hopes of making marketing and educational resources
We all know them. And, truth be told, we have even felt like one every now and then.
Animal rights group PETA protested a state bill overturning the ban on sales of kangaroo skin. Two activists and a
