Recent Stories

Tough Weeds

Weeds come in many different shapes and sizes, but the key to getting the upper hand when they invade is in understanding how they grow and reproduce.

Hot Chip

Hot Chip’s new album, In Our Heads, plays out like a jubilant disco-funk house party.

Your Sister’s Sister

Lynn Shelton makes a thoughtful and thought-provoking film about family, love, and sexual taboos.

Local Stores Know the Territory

The most truly local of all Santa Barbara’s characteristics must be the physical land and its many opportunities.

Cool or Not Cool?

Sometimes my kids ask me questions that rattle my mind like a cold, brass church bell, like when my teenager riddled me this: “Why don’t old people at least try to be cool?”

Coastal Commission to End ‘No Otter’ Zone

By unanimous vote, the California Coastal Commission yesterday confirmed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) proposal to terminate the failed southern sea otter translocation program is consistent with the coastal protection policies of California’s Coastal Act.

Login

Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription

Not a member? Sign up here.