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It’s been more than a decade since our big-shot photographer Paul Wellman started snapping pics of our region’s newsmakers, which means that the Santa Barbara native — who grew up for a time on the East Coast, returned to finish high school, and then worked for many years at Morninglory Music — has probably seen more of the good and bad sides of town than anyone.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but most people agree that a gaudy red and/or green knitted garment with an abstract of Santa throw-up covering every inch is, indeed, unattractive — except for possibly grandmas, who are often inexplicably the givers of such “gifts.”
When Santa Barbara Independent Associate Production Manager Sarah Wilkinson isn’t in the office creating eye-catching adverts for clients, she spends her time manipulating the Kelsey Excelsior tabletop press she uses to make hand-crafted cards.
“The Revels slogan is ‘Join us and be joyous,’ so that’s what I did,” said The Indy’s Robby Robbins, when Revels founder Susan Keller asked him to join the ensemble.
Jean Yamamura, a Santa Barbara Independent copy editor of about a decade and counting, and Marz Miller, an Independent intern, have known each other for 17 years, give or take nine months, the sort of acquaintance that gives them the ability to end each other’s sentences, if only to kill each other’s jokes.
You’re looking at a classroom of young students in Dali, China, where Santa Barbara native Erin Packard has been living for two years with her boyfriend to teach these kids English.
Last Friday, on 11/11/11, longtime Santa Barbara Independent news reporter Ethan Stewart took the hand of architect Anna Jensen in marriage on the shores of El Capitán State Beach, with ceremonial orange flags, requisite “Huzzah!” placards, and Danger Dog on ring delivery.
A few years ago, we assigned contributor Darian Bleecher an article about the childbirth options in Santa Barbara, and the experience convinced the longtime writer/editor — who’s the author of this week’s cover story on the recently opened S.B. Birth Center — to become a doula herself.
The Santa Barbara Independent’s Aly Comingore (second from left) was baptized by fire as our music editor in 2007, jumping into the job just a couple months before our inaugural Santa Barbara Bands issue.
While social-media–fueled protests were kneecapping autocratic regimes across the Middle East and North Africa this past spring, Alex Luhrman was right here in Santa Barbara keeping the lines of communication open.
