Barfoot Snowboards Turns 30
A look back on the history of snowboarding and its lesser known origins in our neck of the woods.
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2008 Wedding Guide
Sometimes it begins with a look, sometimes a happenstance meeting. Sometimes love grows from a tiny spark or follows a fireworks display.
The Granada Begins a New Century
The most anticipated renovation since the Parthenon is about to be unveiled in a marathon of special events
Sheriff Unveils Plan for New Jail, Expanded Prevention Program
History, like politics, makes for strange bedfellows. When Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown took his plans to relieve chronic overcrowding at the county jail to the Board of Supervisors this past Tuesday, he was responding to a chain of events set in motion 27 years ago by a convicted hitman named Dennis Boyd Miller.
From Birth to Victory, The Saga of a Santa Ynez Valley Racehorse
It was a starry night in the Santa Ynez Valley when the racehorse to be named Gentle Romeo came into the world.
An Introduction to the 2008 Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Yes, it is crunch time on Chapala, as the city’s proudest and most successful festival operation gears up for another 10 days of film-obsessive activity. Our rich little tourist town will host stars, artistes, craft people, seminars, panels, swanky parties, homegrown filmmakers, and what is, for some of us, the festival’s heart and soul: films from around the globe inviting us to reflect on both the state of the world and the state of the cinematic art form.
Big Waves, Beat Downs, and the Birth of Modern Surfing
In 1975, there was no such thing as a world champion in the sport of surfing. There was no professional tour, no big money contests with international sponsors, no chain stores in middle America selling surf clothes to pale-skinned teenagers who have never seen the ocean.
The Man Who Is Creating a World Without Poverty
Muhammad Yunus is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize or his path-breaking work in bringing microcredit (tiny loans for small businesses) to millions of impoverished Bangladeshis through the creation of the Grameen Bank.
S.B. Memoir Contest Winners
Aplace of natural beauty, a history rich with culture, a town awash in political intrigue and civic drama, the interface of the tremendously wealthy and the staggeringly poor. There are perhaps few cities with as many potential storylines as Santa Barbara.