Attendance Is a Bright Spot in the Latest California School Dashboard
Chronic absenteeism dropped to 20 percent last school year, but that is still higher than the pre-pandemic rate of 12 percent.
Year: 2024
Cloud Hands and Camaraderie
Our Cardio Confidential columnist checks out tai chi in Santa Barbara’s Oak Park.
UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
The Grammy-winning bluegrass band is set to debut a new album in Santa Barbara.
Color and Form Take and Make a Holiday
Danish-American Roland Petersen, the veteran Bay Area painter, brings bursts of color and artistic complexity to the Elverhøj Museum in Solvang.
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis Come Play to Santa Barbara
Ensemble Theatre Company’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ brings the famous Sun Records session to life.
Got Rooms
I counted over 1,600 hotel rooms by the beach from Montecito to Goleta.
101 Closed Saturday from IV to Las Cruces
Traffic accidents caused by first rain of the season.
California’s ‘Trump-Proofing’ Likely Won’t Include AI — at Least Not Yet
President-elect Trump has vowed to rescind an executive order that imposed AI safeguards, and could use tech to enable mass deportations. How far will California go in the other direction?
Abortion Access Linked to Future Economic and Educational Success
UC Santa Barbara sociology professor Cate Taylor coauthors newly published research that studied women who grew up in areas with fewer restrictions on abortions and women who had abortions in adolescence.
The Ellwood Special Route
The early Goleta Valley rail ran from 1897 to 1901.
