Last weekend, terminally ill mother Traci Glynn from Atascadero traveled up the coast to Solvang where the historic Alisal Ranch hosted her, her husband, and son Sean, 21, for the weekend of final memories and a dream come true. A lifelong horse owner and experienced rider Traci, 42, who was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, […]

Dr. Geoffrey Dudley Phillips, 77, of Montecito, California, died January of 2025 in Montecito. Geoffrey will always be remembered for his skills at stitching up a wound, carrying a tune and some of the BEST FÊTES Montecito knew in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s!  Geoffrey was born December 7, 1948, in Trinidad and Tobago, which […]

Jodi House chose this issue to be the focus of this week’s Giving List column because March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. The nonprofit, which has been around for more than 40 years, has launched its first-ever weeklong Brain Injury Awareness campaign. The effort includes developing video content around the voices of the organization’s […]

For the past three years, the nonprofit One805 has staged a big boisterous benefit bash in late summer at Kevin Costner’s surfside Summerland spread to raise a big percentage of its funds. The money is earmarked for all the first responder organizations throughout Santa Barbara County to help with equipment, mental health services and more. […]

The Carpinteria Girls Inc. held their first “Red, Black and White” Gala on Saturday, February 22, at their newly renovated Carpinteria campus, transforming both the inside and outside area into an elegant ballroom, with decorations by the girls in their programs.  Girls Inc. has humble beginnings – the national organization was founded in 1864 after […]

Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West was packed when artists from the visiting London Symphony Orchestra via CAMA performed with academy alumnae, including flute, clarinet and harp, with works by Mozart and Ravel in the latest performance from the Mariposa concert series… The final work, another Mozart piece, “Clarinet Quartet in A […]

International surfer Lakey Peterson is coming to the big screen in 805 Beer’s Making Waves documenting her rise to fame and focus on mental wellness, including how narrowly missing the Olympic roster became her catalyst for deeper discovery. “You don’t remember the wins or the losses,” she reflects. You remember the in-between moments – being […]

Marvin Agather Bauer, known to friends as “Marv” and family as “Tink,” was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Legend has it that his mother, Agatha, once remarked that she couldn’t improve on perfection, and thus he became an only child. Raised in Chicago, Marv went on to become an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin and […]

There was no doubt that top staff at the nonprofit YouthWell would show up at the sold-out Arlington Theatre last week to hear social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talk about The Anxious Generation, his new book that examines why, after more than a decade of stability and improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the […]

“911. What is your emergency?” The phrase we so commonly hear in TV shows and movies and yet hope to never hear ourselves.  Until we make the call. Until we need the reassurance of the voice on the other end telling us that help is on the way.  With the recent fires down in Los […]