A Toast to Fiesta
Take away the parades, the mercados, the dancing, the music, all the pomp and circumstance, and what still remains as a Fiesta tradition? The alcohol.
Recent Stories
California Beats France in Bottle Shock, Coming Soon to Santa Barbara Movie Theaters
There’s a great degree of inevitability in even the most Earth-shattering discoveries.
Earthquake Felt in Santa Barbara
Long rolling sensations felt at 11:44 a.m.; early reports suggest large quake in Chino, CA.
Taxi Timebomb
Despite the hard work of taxicab drivers to keep the city safe at night and moving during the day, they’re complaining that they’re being treated as second-class citizens by City Hall, which has approved unprecedented numbers of taxi companies and cabs in recent years yet done little to accommodate the growth.
How to Throw a Street Bash
Though the once famous Castro family block party, held every Fiesta along De la Guerra Street, has become a faint memory, and block parties have become more of a tradition on such occasions as Solstice and the Fourth of July, we as Santa Barbara citizens have the chance-moreover the responsibility-to rekindle the joy of neighborhood soirees.
Gap Fire Nearly Gone
Front country scare all but gone with 90 percent containment by Sunday night.
Three Reasons to Get Caught Up in Mongolian Melancholy: Tuya’s Marriage at UCSB’s Campbell Hall
Internationally focused cinema is getting quite the showcase in this season’s run of films presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures at Campbell Hall, with The Band’s Visit (a charming tale about an Egyptian orchestra arriving in Israel) and Sharkwater (a stunning story about the worldwide disasters that occur as a result of shark hunting) already hitting the screen.
Firefighter Profiles
On the Fourth of July, S.B. County Fire Captain Patrick Byde of Engine Company 30 in Solvang was awaiting the flames on Farren Road in west Goleta.
Wildfire Burns Above Goleta
Flames visible from Santa Barbara; evacuations ordered for La Patera and Glen Annie canyons; other residents warned.
Brooks Hansen’s New Book Reveals the Perilous Path to Parenting
For Santa Barbara-based author Brooks Hansen and his wife Elizabeth, the road to parenthood was perplexing and perilous, fraught with physical and emotional pain, tormenting personal introspection, and more medical failures and bureaucratic nightmares than any mere mortal should be expected to endure.
