One hundred years ago today, downtown Santa Barbara was devastated by an earthquake centered just offshore. The main commercial district, State Street, was in ruins. Some buildings completely ...
DUBLIN, Ohio — The sight of Jack Nicklaus crying on live television last June during the final round of the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday underscored the momentousness of the news he was ...
Sundance: Brydie O’Connor’s Barbara Hammer documentary is a veritable goldmine of queer cinema history, and a film worthy of its peerless subject. The film is structured around Hammer’s life, ...
No need to bookmark—get it straight to your inbox. Santa Barbara’s grand Hotel Californian has endured for nearly a century—the Spanish Colonial Revival hotel was built in 1925—but a makeover in 2017 ...
As an avid traveler, I spend a lot of time exploring new destinations, and I rarely reach for the word “perfect.” Still, Santa Barbara may be the closest I’ve come to finding a place that truly ...
The Barbie movie hit theaters last Friday after literally years of anticipation, and people are still clamoring for tickets a week later. The movie of the summer (sorry, Oppenheimer fans) raked in US ...
“Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything,” a documentary about the iconic late journalist executive produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, has set its Hulu debut. The film will begin streaming on June 23 ...
Tanya Spears Guiliacci was the first Black Santa Barbara native I ever met, five years into living in this city. We met through my job at the Independent, the only two Black people working in our ...
Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation is pleased to announce a new exhibit at Casa de la ...
Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work. By Glenn Rifkin Barbara Holdridge, who ...
After teaching herself to knit, she invented and cataloged stitch patterns, publishing seven foundational books that sold hundreds of thousands of copies. An excerpt from the 2011 video interview ...
When we think about resources in short supply across California, our minds turn to things such as housing, water, and day care. But we also should think about the shortage of reliable news sources.