I want to applaud the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Hematology Oncology Medical Group and Radiation Center Medical Group for taking a stand to save lives by endorsing Proposition 29, the California Cancer Research Act, on the June 5 ballot.
De la Guerra Plaza was briefly reoccupied this week.
As students face rising tuition costs at state and private colleges, the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara during a ceremony last week doled out $7.35 million in awards to hundreds of S.B. youth, helping them access a higher education that would otherwise have been out of reach.
U.K. singer/songwriter Ben Howard heads stateside for a show with Bahamas.
Bassist Nikki Monninger talks shop in anticipation of the band’s June 1 headlining gig at the Santa Barbara Bowl.
These new one-act plays all explore the experience of loss.
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros have that special ability to summon big group sing-alongs with the sheer magnitude of their sound, which they relayed so intensely on 2009’s Up From Below.
Over spring break, the Dusette, Stormo, Pfeifer, and Nelson families from Santa Barbara embarked on a 100-mile mountain-bike ride on the White Rim Trail in Moab, Utah, and had to take turns reading The Santa Barbara Independent while at the White Crack campsite (above).
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