The Year of Hope and Fire
We present to you our annual Year in Pictures edition, version 2008. Happy remembering!
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Wendy Foster
Grande dame of Santa Barbara fashion.
Harvey Milk’s Living Legacy
Thirty years ago, Harvey Milk-the first openly gay person to ever hold a significant elected office-was assassinated while sitting at his desk in San Francisco City Hall.
Tis the Season 2008
It’s the most wonderful time of the year again in Santa Barbara, and The Indy‘s newest holiday-spirit enforcer, Devon Claire Flannery, wants to make sure you celebrate our warm-weather winters to the fullest.
Local Heroes 2008
On Thanksgiving Day in 1986, we published our first issue of The Santa Barbara Independent. It was also our first honor roll of Local Heroes, with stories of men and women who truly deserved our thanks for making Santa Barbara such an amazing place to live.
The Brief but Violent Life of the Tea Fire
When firefighters at Montecito Fire Protection District Station 2 looked up into the dark hills of Montecito Thursday evening around 5:45 p.m., a red glow already portended a crisis in the making.
Voices Rarely Heard
One year ago, a group of professors, students, and other activists within the social justice group PUEBLO began interviewing undocumented immigrants about their lives here.
Enter the Allosphere
Inside UC Santa Barbara’s three dimensional immersive theater, the 21st century face of our discipline-bending university.
Santa Barbara, Surfers, and the Interweb
When the first west swell of the season began making its way toward the all-too-sleepy shores of Santa Barbara a few weeks ago, the hype machine was in full effect.
The Independent’s Best Of Readers’ Poll
In this scary new world we’re living through right now, it’s hard to imagine anyone employing any version of that hackneyed old Dickens lead. But here goes: It was the best of times-for economic woes-and it was the worst of times-to cherish consumer dreams.