Santa Barbara CA

Singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey popped on stage for a quick song at Institution Ale while walking on State Street in Santa Barbara. On Saturday, September 27, local band “The Fastest Kids in School, were performing a cover of Del Rey’s 2014 hit “West Coast” when she happened to be nearby. She then approached the band...

The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) Santa Barbara will host Hollister Rand, an internationally renowned medium, in a talk called Everything You Wanted to Know About the Afterlife, but Were Afraid to Ask, 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8 at Unity of Santa Barbara, 227 E. Arrellaga St. Rand will...

We’re standing on a hill overlooking the ocean near the Santa Barbara County-San Luis Obispo County line. It’s a gorgeous view of the coastline. You wouldn’t know it now, but this was once a massive oil field, with hundreds of wells. "Right now, we're standing on a...

“The story is not just what you remember but how it comes to mind,” wrote Max Schott in 2014. He was in the midst of trying to recall and imagine his adolescence and his hero of that time, the cowboy and horse trainer Ralph Camarillo. Schott is a writer,...

Here are the stories we are following on Daybreak: Train crashes with fuel truck in Guadalupe: A scary scene in Guadalupe after an Amtrak train full of...

There’s never a period of calm in the Santa Barbara restaurant scene. This past week Madam Lu’s and Tondi Gelato announced they would be closing while Dom’s Taverna opened in the former Trattoria Vittoria location, Wingstop is possibly coming the Mesa neighborhood, Erewhon teases a connection to Santa Barbara, and...

Rumors spread fast in a small town, and in the age of social media, anything goes these days. Earlier this week, Santa Barbara’s social media cognoscenti lost their minds because of a single post by Erewhon, the country’s most expensive grocery store. The company posted on Instagram that...

After a surge of business during the pandemic years, the wine industry isn’t doing so hot these days. The preponderance of alcoholic and social inebriant options (such as cannabis), the rise of sobriety movements (both the wellness and temperance kinds), and the inherently high price of California wines in a...

Santa Barbara County could lay off more than 100 people in multiple departments as a way to balance budget shortfalls ahead of next year. The county’s Social Services and Public Health departments have proposed eliminating a total of 176 positions between the two, according to county staff reports released Thursday.

Unsafe and Unsanitary Conditions Found at Illegal roadside and sidewalk stands. The Santa Barbara County Health Department’s Environmental Health Services (EHS) reminds the community that unpermitted roadside and pop-up food vendors often operate illegally and without proper food safety practices. For over 100 years,...