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2 days ago · Founded in 1986, the Santa Barbara Independent is the leading source for news, arts & entertainment, and lifestyle coverage in the greater Santa Barbara area.
‘Lack of Planning on Your Part Doesn’t Constitute an Emergency …
Oct 31, 2024 · In a world that glorifies hustle and celebrates busyness, it’s easy to get swept up in the idea that urgency equals importance. But one thing is clear: A lack of preparation on your part does not give you the right to hijack my time
Obituaries - The Santa Barbara Independent
Dec 16, 2024 · Find In Memoriams, death notices and obituaries in the Santa Barbara Independent. Published weekly in-print and online.
Santa Barbara Votes: 2024 General Election Results
Nov 5, 2024 · It’s the 2024 General Election, and in the biannual independent.com tradition, we’ll be using this page to deliver results, reactions, and reports from the various election night parties happening throughout Santa Barbara County.. Our reporters will be out and about to get the scoop while Executive Editor Nick Welsh writes these updates, which typically run …
Book Review | ‘Tell Me Everything’ by Elizabeth Strout
Oct 16, 2024 · I honestly don’t know how much I would have enjoyed Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, Tell Me Everything, if I hadn’t already been familiar with the major characters from her previous books.There’s cantankerous but big-hearted Olive Kitteridge of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and also Olive, Again.Then we have novelist Lucy Barton of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Lucy by the Sea, and ...
Best of Santa Barbara® 2024 - The Santa Barbara Independent
Oct 17, 2024 · Welcome to the Independent’s annual Best of Santa Barbara® issue.This is the time of the year when we publish what you, our readers, have voted for what you think are the most wonderful things about Santa Barbara.
String of Fatal Vehicle Collisions Claim Three Lives in Santa Barbara ...
Oct 1, 2024 · The last two days brought a series of vehicle collisions in Santa Maria and Santa Barbara that cost three people their lives, including that of an 11-year-old girl.
Opinion Archives - The Santa Barbara Independent
Though Joseph Conrad described the darkest amoral tendencies of human aspiration most eloquently, Monty Python’s Eric Idle countered with the simple admonition, “Always look on the bright side of life.”
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Santa Barbara’s Hospitality Game-Changers
Dec 12, 2024 · The first investment is the initial training, which is incredibly intense for each of these companies. On a Saturday morning in October at 11 a.m., Slovakian sommelier Lenka Davis stands in the middle of Lion’s Tale — the bar just opened two days before by the Good Lion team — and explains to the assembled cast of servers, from wine experts to neophytes, how to open a bottle of champagne ...