Sunburst Sanctuary and Organic Farm, the longtime center for holistic learning, healing and conscious living created and overseen by a cooperative community, jumps right into the new year with a meditation retreat from Thursday-Sunday, January 9-12, at the Lompoc center. The retreat offers an immersive opportunity to learn scientific meditation practices in the lineage of […]
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The ballet, The Nutcracker, is a perennial holiday favorite for its recognizable melodies and a touching storyline set during the Christmas season. This story is an introduction to a multisensory concept that I just put to the test, and with delicious results: Does pairing Tchaikovsky’s sweeping music with wine heighten your enjoyment of it? Or […]
Lea másAs a secular humanist, I don’t do Christmas. But I enjoy the end of year ritual of sending “holiday” cards. A few dozen people get real cards, and a larger circle get emails. Some of these people are close friends. But some are family and friends with whom I rarely have contact. Sometimes for years […]
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“It was a happy accident,” Oliver Welch recalls. It was June of 2022, his first summer out of college on the gloomy east coast; he’s on Maui to surf, dive, throw pottery, and hopefully find a farming gig to support the whole thing before going home to Santa Barbara. “I’m at dinner with my dad’s […]
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It shouldn’t be necessary to do this, but I feel the time has come when somebody needs to say something against grief and grieving. Lately these topics have been getting a very positive consideration in the relevant journals. The word has gone out far and wide from highly qualified experts that, at least in certain […]
Lea másRF has two exquisite Japanese woodcuts, and while she couldn’t quite make out the signature, I can. It is that of Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), a leading artist of the Shin-hanga (“new print”) movement of the early 20th century in Japan, which focused on the techniques of traditional woodcut or watercolor, but borrowing from the Western […]
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Chabad Montecito’s 2nd Annual Chanukah celebration and public Menorah lighting took place on Thursday, December 26, from 4 to 6 pm at the Corner Green in front of Pierre Lafond on East Valley Road. The celebration was led (and originally established) by Chabad of Montecito’s Executive Director Rabbi Chaim Loschak and his wife Mushkie Loschak, […]
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Carpinteria’s Ad Hoc Harbor Seal Advisory Committee may recommend the city close the Harbor Seal Rookery to human access year-round to save the declining harbor seal population. That would close approximately 1,500 feet of the beach, which contains the rookery. The Ad Hoc Committee’s late December meeting was to review the findings of the seal […]
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Often I think my poor oldheartHas given up for goodAnd then I see a brave new face,I glimpse some new neighborhood..– Mancini/Mercer And here we are again. Another …. New Year?! This is a reportedly cyclical occurrence, begat by an explosion that, for reasons I’ve stopped trying to grasp, gave birth to both Time itself […]
Lea másEsbee, the Montecito-based clothing brand founded by partners Andrew Schmoller and Eli Gill, is expanding its overall brand image with a foray into sports partnerships. With the mantra of “Perfect Fits, Best Fabrics, and Made in the USA,” the dynamic duo has announced its partnership with the Santa Barbara-based Grunion Rugby Football Club. “It’s a […]
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Santa Barbara Revels Winter Solstice Celebration The Ghosts of Haddon Hall at the Lobero was last produced 11 years ago and this year’s production was undoubtedly one of the best and sleekest productions staged by founder Susan Keller’s talented company. The colorful, energized show directed by Matt Tavianini with Dauri Kennedy as the new music […]
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Adam’s Angels celebrated their fifth annual Holiday Community event at the Veterans Building when more than 100 volunteers prepared 650 meals of both meat and vegetarian lasagna, salad and dessert to make sure no one was left hungry during Yuletide. A ‘pop up shop’ had racks of new jackets, warm gear and shoes provided by […]
Lea másPrince Harry was one of the British Royal Family’s most popular members, but his decision to move to Montecito and publicly criticize the historic institution has seen his popularity plunge. On October, 2019, the Duke of Sussex was liked by 71 percent and disliked by 22 percent of the British public. But data from last […]
Lea másMontecito’s Terry Pillow had more cause than most to quaff Champagne over the New Year when a photo of actress Portia de Rossi appeared in the London Daily Mail carrying one of his popular Homer leather bags at her new Cotswolds estate with wifeEllen DeGeneres. “The phones were ringing off the hook on Coast Village […]
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