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Santa Barbarans are a bunch of beach bums. Office workers take long lunch breaks to surf when Rincon is breaking in the winter. Kids frolic in shore break and beg to be buried in the sand all summer long. And all those fanatics love to boast that they live near the beach, but not many can claim that they actually live on the beach.
How will the western U.S. be affected by global warming? Can we expect water scarcity, energy shortages, heat waves? We’ve heard a lot about how to mitigate the effects of climate change, but what about adapting to the new landscapes we will likely inhabit?
The Santa Barbara Fair & Expo starts today, and here’s a story about why you must go.
The Scottish Society of Santa Barbara will hold its annual Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan-the blessing of the ancestral plaids-this Saturday, April 29, at 3 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church. The event, which dates back 350 years, will feature bagpipers and singing, as well as a couple unique Scottish traditions. To honor their heritage, Scots-many wearing their clan kilt and dressed in full regalia-will present their family tartans for blessing.
The Indy‘s arts editor Charles Donelan reports on his second year in a row at Miami’s Winter Music Conference.
The floor is littered with apple cores, road maps, and someone’s discarded socks. The smell of cattle overtakes me from time to time. And after the third hour, my butt begins to ache.
The snow fell steadily, quickly covering the streets and sidewalks in a blanket of white. Snow storms are uncommon in Vancouver, the locals told us, but the weather had been unusually harsh for the past few months-high winds, heavy rains, and the white stuff-thanks to global warming. Or so Vancouverites deduced.
We Santa Barbarans just love dogging our Angeleno neighbors to the south. But as much as we disdain their traffic, scold their smog, and try to hold their sprawling ways at bay, there comes a time when a weekend trip to Los Angeles beckons. Whether to indulge in big city music, art, and dining or just to experience a more electric, metropolitan vibe, we Santa Barbarans often find ourselves traveling south for a City of Angels escape.
A bit judgmental, perhaps, but we at The Independent tend to agree with the sentiment that traveling is a good thing. Therefore, we are in the process of expanding our travel coverage-in print and online at independent.com-to include more features, helpful information about popular destinations, and other travel tips we hope you’ll find useful.
New Orleans may be Bacchanalia on the Bayou, but this year’s Mardi Gras celebration is also tinged with a gritty determination to overcome the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. The good times are rolling in the French Quarter, largely untouched by 2005’s Katrina, but blocks and blocks of homes in surrounding neighborhoods are boarded up.
