Playing Chicken at Burgergate
They dubbed it “Burgergate” back when Burger King’s Upper State Street drive-in got okayed under suspicious circumstances.
Barney Brantingham
Recent Stories
Who’s Right? The Lady or the Cop?
A woman steps out onto a Milpas Street crosswalk, has a close encounter with a van, is knocked down and injured. A Santa Barbara police officer arrives — and writes her a ticket.
He’s in a Taco State of Mind
Fiesta snuck up on and hit me with a raging appetite for Mexican food.
No Merit Badge for BSA
Boys Scout leadership is on the wrong side of history — unlike the big, green, new Albertsons in Carpinteria.
Her Life Was an Opera
Marital happiness and cheers from opera critics eluded Ganna Walska, but she created one of the world’s great botanical gardens in Santa Barbara: Lotusland.
There’s Hope at Hacker Hostels
Is a Miramar business incubator in the South Coast’s future?
Driving to the High Country
To the average Santa Barbaran, I suppose, a drive around the county’s entire circumference is of little interest. What’s there to see up there on the county’s northern roof, anyway?
Cheapskates in Arizona
When summer temperatures soar in Arizona, room rates at Phoenix-Scottsdale resorts plummet to affordable levels for cheapskates like me.
Santa Barbara’s B-24 Disasters
Tragedies stemming from the crashes of two B-24 Liberator bombers in S.B. during World War II took the lives of 16 people.
He Bought a Hawaiian Island
Part-time Santa Barbaran Larry Ellison, worth an estimated $36 billion, just spent some of it to buy the sixth largest Hawaiian island.
