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Best of Santa Barbara is the biggest issue of each year for The Santa Barbara Independent — we even successfully trademarked the name a couple of years back! — so that means our sales team is out in force for many weeks leading up to this week’s edition, booking more than 300 display advertisements that then get made pretty by our stellar ad-production design team.
The Santa Barbara Independent’s Brandi Rivera, Cassi Lindberg, Robby Robbins, Bryan O’Quinn, Megan Packard Hillegas, Nicole Wichowski, and Marianne Kuga got together last Saturday to participate in the annual AIDS Walk, a fundraiser put on by the Pacific Pride Foundation.
A political junkie since his Michigan upbringing, Independent news reporter Chris Meagher (pronounced “marrrr”) — who penned this week’s cover story on the race between Rep. Lois Capps and challenger Abel Maldonado — takes that addiction one giant leap further this coming Tuesday, when he takes the stage of UCSB’s Pollock Theater in front of 300 people alongside political science professor John Woolley to moderate a debate between those two Congressional candidates.
The Santa Barbara Independent‘s Masters of Mixology Mix-Up kicks off tonight at the Wildcat Lounge with two semifinal rounds from 5-8 p.m. where Santa Barbara’s top professional bartenders will be showing off their best drinks.
All Jack Crosbie wants to do is write the news. During his two years at the UCSB student paper the Daily Nexus, he was known for putting in long hours — often sleeping in the office — and churning out voluminous copy.
Sometimes writers stumble upon stories because they relate to their sources, but other times they find they have nothing in common at all.
Noleta resident Joe Alarid joined nearly 20 of his family members on a trip this summer to Ecuador, where they took in the cities of Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuenca, the Galapagos Islands, and the rainforest, and marveled at hummingbirds, the use of “Ellwood Cooper’s accursed eucalyptus” in construction, a blossoming recycling program, and the low price of gas.
Thirty years ago, back when skinny jeans, scraggly hair, and furry mustaches were cool (oh wait …), a rootsy, New Orleans–inspired rock band rattled the cages of Santa Barbara’s music scene.
“I’m trying to encourage the art of building forts,” said Gabrielle Dimaranan after revealing she recently created a large one in her bedroom.
