13 Aug 2024
Kate Farms Plants the Flag
Brett Matthews is showing me around Kate Farms’ Innovation and Quality Center, a lab and office complex the size of an airplane hangar. Bewilderingly complex machines festooned with tubes are being tended to by folks in clean room suits. We stop outside a sealed central workspace and stare through a glass wall. The largish, inelegant […]
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SB Cottage Health’s President & CEO Ron Werft Retires
President & CEO of SB Cottage Health Ron Werft first made his announcement to retire via internal hospital communication last week, resulting in a press release the same day. The announcement initially caught both internal staff and the town a tad off guard, in view of his full-on 37-year career at SBCH, one marked by […]
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ProSurfer Lakey Peterson, 805 Beer, and the U.S. Open Surfing 2024
Firestone Walker Brewing Company’s 805 Beer is the official craft beer partner of the World Surf League North America. At the U.S. Open Surfing Competition in Huntington Beach, look for the Cold Beer Surf Club podcast by legendary pro surfer and 805 Beer Authentico Conner Coffin. Coffin takes the deep dive with his interviews of […]
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Fiesta’s Centennial Finale
The 100th anniversary of Fiesta came to a glorious close with the 25th anniversary of the Fiesta Finale when 170 guests descended on the historic El Paseo restaurant raising around $100,000 for the John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts which helps musicians, dancers, artists, actors and authors chart their career paths. More than $250,000 […]
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All White and Blanc
Santa Barbara winemaker Doug Margerum celebrated the launch of his new sauvignon blanc with a boffo bash fieldside at the Santa Barbara Polo Club where the new label is being sold. His “all white” party for 150 guests at the weekend, featured all of his labels, including his popular Rhône varietal M5 and a host […]
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A Finnish Finit
It’s a wrap! The Music Academy of the West marked the finale of its 77th Summer Festival with the Academy Festival Orchestra at the Granada under Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu playing Mahler’s “Symphony No. 6 in A Minor, ‘Tragic.’” Lintu, 56, graduated the Sibelius Academy in 1996 and took up the baton as chief conductor […]
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Think Ink
In search of the ‘shibui’ in life, Montecito author William Dalziel touches upon inspirational musings and insights while doodling and sketching his way through observations, life lessons, and experiences in his latest book, Ink & Inklings. Bill portrays life with its many twists and turns, through colorful portraits, daily renderings and fantastical graphic designs as […]
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Can You DIGS it?
The party animals were out in force for one of Fiesta’s most popular parties, Celebración de los Dignatarios: DIGS!, when a record 1,600 guests converged on Santa Barbara Zoo to raise more than $130,000 split equally between Old Spanish Days and the charming 30-acre menagerie. KEYT-TV weatherman Evan Vega joined in the fun with a […]
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The Condor for Dolphins
No wonder Condor Express owner Hiroko Benko is smiling. Inside Hook, a lifestyle magazine, has just named her to the Top 7 as one of the best places globally to see dolphins. Writer Hudson Lindenberger says Hiroko’s 75 ft. vessel, which plies the waters around Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands – around 1,430 miles […]
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A Winning Duo
The Music Academy of the West has awarded its 2024 Duo Competition winners to cellist Shengyu Meng and pianist Yoshino Toi, with each receiving $5,000 cash and digital assets for career promotion. Meng, from Shanghai, is earning her bachelor’s degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. She was former principal cellist at the California Young […]
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Market Research
Meghan Markle took a private jet with entrepreneur Jamie Kern Lima to attend a one-day business summit in the oh-so tony Hamptons. The Duchess of Sussex, 42, was in attendance at the G9 Ventures Summer Summit hosted by Amy Griffin, wife of billionaire hedge fund founder John Griffin, at their $13 million home. The Riven […]
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6 Aug 2024
SEE International
It was back in 1974 that Dr. Harry Brown founded SEE International to address the global lack of access to high-quality clinical eyecare. His team soon developed an efficient mobile eye surgery system consisting of intensive, short-term surgical clinics that could travel to medically underserved populations in remote areas worldwide, performing sight-saving surgeries. What began […]
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Summer Thrills
‘Scandalous Women’ Author Gill Paul imagines a friendship between two glamorous women in her latest, Scandalous Women. Jacqueline Susann was the first to shock the publishing industry with her now iconic Valley of the Dolls, which remains one of the all-time best-selling novels in history. Two years later, in 1968, Jackie Collins published The World […]
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One Day Event to Bring Art, Music, and More to CVR
In the midst of Coast Village Week is the Coast Village Road Art Walk on August 8, from 4 pm – 7 pm. The addition of art, music, literature, culinary arts, fashion, jewelry, leather, and pet jewelry crafters to celebrate all things art is spearheaded by Beth Sullivan, Executive Director of the Coast Village Association. […]
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The Love You Take: Michael and Gabriella Salsbury’s Implausible Parental Nightmare
On a lark, Michael and Gabriella Salsbury walked into Madame Rosinka’s fortune-telling shopfront on Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara. Rudderless and adrift on the open ocean of unspeakable parental sorrow, the couple were emphatically not looking to Madame Rosinka for the answers that had otherwise so eluded them. The Salsburys were not seekers after the […]
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Some Want to Watch the World Burn?
In the 1980s I was Action Coordinator for the Central America Response Network. We were a small group of very dedicated volunteers who worked to stop Reagan’s terror campaign of rape, torture and murder in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras. We did direct aid to the victims, public education, political lobbying, organizing rallies and […]
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Award Vase
HT sends me a photo of a sterling silver tulip-shaped engraved vase, won by her great-grandfather for ‘Best Dahlias’ in the 1904 Santa Barbara Flower Show. HT’s great-grandfather was quite adept at winning flower shows, as he was a Master Gardener trained in the fine mansion gardens of England. Relocating, he lived and worked in […]
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Santa Barbara’s Newest Art Collective: double dutch
Look at your shelves. It’s not the framed photos or unread books that make those shelves uniquely yours. It’s those knick-knacks, collectibles, and tchotchkes you’ve kept, moved, and refused to throw away over the years. What do these trinkets mean about us? Sam Fitz and Bella Vasquez, the co-founders of Santa Barbara’s newest art collective […]
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Holding Together
Much of our basic technology has to do with attaching things. Of course, in the new world of computers, documents can be made to stay together by a very simple command, like “Attach.” But in the world behind those electronic frontiers, the world of actual Things, it was – and still is – not quite […]
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