Built in 1886 as a stagecoach stop on what is now Highway 154, the Cold Spring Tavern has maintained its reputation as a down-home, welcoming restaurant and entertainment venue for more than 100 years. Every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the tavern stage is home to some of Santa Barbara’s most loved bands that play to crowds of well-fed listeners. And with a management team set on preserving the historical feel of the tavern, there’s just no place quite like it.
Here’s the inside story of Phillip Gladden, a former meth addict and alleged child molester-turned-preacher who has come to Santa Barbara to reveal God’s plan. Some say the registered sex offender is a healer of epic proportions and that he speaks the word of God, so The Indy‘s Sarah Hammill, herself a practicing Christian, decided to spend a revealing year in Gladden’s evangelical world.
A few chicken bones may prove the theory that Chumash Indians and Polynesian people interacted several hundred years ago. Researchers
Westmont College chair of theatre arts and Lit Moon Theatre Company director John Blondell has always been drawn to progressive, experimental drama. So, when in 2005 Blondell received an email from Finnish theater director Mikko Viherjuuri asking to visit Santa Barbara to discuss new Finnish plays, Blondell accepted immediately.
In terms of physical distance, the Ventura chapter of the Hells Angels is a mere half-hour cruise-less on a motorcycle-down the coast from UCSB. The image of the outlaw biker, though-that seedy cowboy on two wheels-seems worlds away from the sunny enclave of our nearby campus, where sandal-clad coeds spend more time preening and tanning than disturbing the peace.
Santa Barbara residents will be paying about $2 per month more for their water and another $2 a month for
Plans to build a new community of 7,500 homes a few miles between Orcutt and Los Alamos – North Hills
Beauty joined to energy -from “Museum Piece” by Richard Wilbur
Judd Apatow is a pretty talented guy. He delivered Freaks & Geeks, one of the great television programs of the early ’00s and then went on to write and direct The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which simultaneously turned Steve Carell into a household name and revitalized the flagging enterprise known as contemporary American comedy.
Santa Barbara hosted the Coastal Cities Issue Group subcommittee of the League of California Cities on 5/30. Discussion focused on
