Ryan is of the firm belief that I need to exercise less caution in my relationship with The Biker (speak up about any super-ex-fears etc.), forget about my fling; The Writer (he called this “a comfort thing that goes nowhere”), and be open to new friendships and perhaps more, as long as I’m not in an exclusive relationship. Time to go with my primal instincts!
Sara Donates $1.5 million: Sara Miller McCune, although nursing a shoulder injury suffered in a fall, has donated $1.5 million to CAMA (Community Arts Music Association), the highest single gift in its 88-year history.
The free broadsheet has become the local daily of choice especially for those who prefer not to patronize the Santa Barbara News-Press.
Design Within Reach is featuring the eco-chic prefab residences of Los Angeles-based Marmol Radziner + Associates in a free digital slide show.
Read All About It! Sustainable Comedy at the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce Breakfast, Design Within Reach Goes Prefab, and more!
While most know “Santa Barbara” means “Saint Babs,” the roots of the name lend it such translations as “Holy Foreigner,” “Holy Bumpkin” and-best of all-“Holy Blah-Blah-Blah.” We’re jive, sanctified.
Amy-Jane Griffiths, a doctoral candidate in UCSB’s Clinical, Counseling and School Psychology department, provides options for how the Santa Barbara community can cope with and prevent gang violence.
Got a rack full of Santa Barbara County wines? Walk over to it, yank out a bottle, and inspect the label. Odds are that in your hands is a wine whose grapes came from Bien Nacido Vineyards, the 800-plus acre spread along the northeastern flank of the Santa Maria Valley. Nope? Well, then double-or-nothing that your bottle passed through the Central Coast Wine Services (CCWS) somewhere along the line from the vineyard to your cellar. Don’t believe me?
If you’ve driven down upper De la Vina Street between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, you’ve probably noticed Replay, the used toy and collectible store. Though the uninitiated generally refer to it as “that place with the stuff in front,” if you’ve been in Replay, and if you have a child in your life-or if you are the child in your life-you’re likely the member of a growing and devoted following.
According to Maya, anyone who professes not to like chocolate just hasn’t had the good stuff yet. And, with her newly opened shop, Chocolate Maya, she’s setting out to change that. Former owner of the Comeback Cafe, Maya Schoop-Rutten sold the restaurant to open a chocolate shop-something, she said, she has always wanted to do.
