Indy’s Sizzling Summer BBQ Contest Goes Down Tonight
A slate of contenders is ready to throw down over the grill.
Indy Staff
Recent Stories
Getting to Know Zavalaz
The Mars Volta frontman on his new band, the breakup, and becoming a dad.
Scott Kaufman
Though the paper has certainly traveled in recent years, The Santa Barbara Independent made its holiest stop yet last month when our distribution manager, Scott Kaufman, dragged a copy along with him to visit the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
Scaling Mountains
Many well-know rock scalers have visited the Santa Barbara hills, including Yvon Chouinard and record speed climber Hans Florine.
Name-Calling
It never ceases to amaze me when I see or hear people resort to personal attacks and name-calling when they don’t agree with someone’s opinions or beliefs.
2013 Blue and Green Guide
These early summer days, with their long-lasting and warm evenings and cool foggy mornings, provide the perfect backdrop to get out and enjoy all the wonders of Santa Barbara’s truly vast and varied natural playground.
Journey Not Over
Jesse Rugge’s parole hearing used to be every two years but, thanks to Marsy’s Law, it is now every three.
volume 27, number 387, June 13-20, 2013
Our Annual Ode to the Great Outdoors
Gangbuster or Gangbanger?
Arrest of Raymond Macias casts shadow on La Palabra.
People Need Homes
The DAWG promotion in the June 6, 2013 Independent, and the hope expressed for a world where “every dog has a home” is kindly and compassionate in nature but seems almost cruel when we consider that there are hundreds of people living in Santa Barbara’s streets, many of whom are in their sixties, seventies, and even eighties.
