Teens Learn Life Skills
A week-long workshop teaches teens how to live on their own after leaving the nest.
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Recent Stories
Wild, Wild, West
Author Joan Tapper to host book-signing, talk at Chaucer’s this week.
Expensively Educated and Underemployed
It’s 11:30 on a Thursday morning. I’m sitting at a worn, round table next to the stairs in the Santa Barbara Public Library. I just came from outside, where I was having an impromptu conversation with Kenny the hobo from Hell’s Kitchen, New York.
Self-Help, Vampire Romance, and Atheism
Phil Zuckerman visits the Humanist Society and a Ventura Book Festival rundown.
Beach Plan Cruel
As a 35-year resident of Goleta, I have seem many bad ideas for our community brought before the Board of Supervisors, but the proposal to eliminate accessible parking at Goleta Beach is the worst idea yet
Justice Is Blindsided
Since Ruben Mize and Bryan Medinilla were 15 at the time of the alleged homicide of Lorenzo Carachure, is the reporter for The Independent sophisticated enough to parse the differential application of the separate gang allegations?
Mini-Cakes
While the word “cupcake” has become synonymous with insignificant fluff, Santa Ynez teen Blake Colvin has found a way to turn the diminutive dessert into a weighty wad of cash.
Waiting Out Granada
I enjoyed your cover article this week about architect Barton Myers’s unique steel and glass house in upper Toro Canyon.
Volunteers Depart on Bolivia Mission
Eleven Santa Barbarans will conduct outreach in disadvantaged communities.
Ocean Friendships Possible
I respect my critics’ right to disagree. However, it seems that my core message was missed by a few readers.
