Supermarket Lines Are Far from Totalitarianism
The combination of crisis-related anxieties and a politically polarized election cycle is resulting in disturbingly extreme rhetoric.
Year: 2020
Will Santa Barbara County Measure Up to New Reopening Standards?
The Lompoc Prison outbreak hinders reopening and two additional COVID-19 deaths were reported.
White Is Not a Color
When you put Latinos in one category, people of color, what color does this refer to? Latinos are a rainbow of colors.
Santa Barbara’s Nordstrom Says It’s Closing by August
Yet another massive hole is opening on State Street.
Sam Mott: 1988-2019
Sam Mott, handsome and athletic, did not search out the spotlight — though his personality and acts were luminous, and sometimes larger than life.
Santa Barbara Businesses Crack the Door Ajar
Foot traffic returns to parts of downtown as businesses make curbside deliveries and take phone requests for goods.
Ling Ma’s ‘Severance’
Author’s novel manages to serve up a fresh imagining of the end of the world.
Review | ‘Normal People’ Shines Light on Intimacy
Viewers feel the characters’ desires, but also their hesitations, their insecurities, and the rapturous delight when those self-inflicted impediments fall away.
Pandemic Exposes Race and Class Divide
Deeper pattern of inequity affects deaths among black and brown people.
‘Santa Barbara County Got Hosed’ by Newsom’s Reopening Criteria, Says City Manager
There’s little hope of relaxing restriction further while Lompoc prison stats are included in Santa Barbara County’s case count.
