Special Issues
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Introduction

Avatar photo by Camillia Lanham

Well, well. It’s that time of year again. Readers weighed in with their thoughts, we tallied up the votes, and the winners of the Best of Northern Santa Barbara County readers poll are in this issue! This year, though, we have even more winners for you with 176 categories. Whew! If you’re curious, open up […]

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55 Fiction 2019

by Sun Staff

Brevity is the soul of our annual 55 Fiction short-story contest, and we invite readers from far and wide to pick up their pens to submit their tiny tableaus. Our judges this year—including Arts Editor Caleb Wiseblood and Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey and Staff Writer Karen Garcia from our sister paper, New Times—read through […]

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Pride Issue 2019

by Sun Staff

On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn uprising, the city of Santa Maria gets to participate in its third annual Pride Celebration and Resource Fair on June 28, 2019, hosted by the House of Pride and Equality (HOPE). In the couple of years since HOPE first started, the voice of the LGBTQ community in […]

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Winning Images 2019

by Sun Staff

Give us the most poignant, interesting image of something we have never seen before. That’s what we ask Central Coast photographers to submit to us every year in our annual Winning Images contest. Because a photograph can captures a moment as unique as the individual who took it. Photographs can make you feel a certain […]

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Summer Guide 2019

by Sun Staff

I know it doesn’t really feel like summer is right around the corner, but I promise that the sun will come out eventually. Those low-hanging soggy clouds full of wet will part, leaving you with the dog days of summer staring you straight in the face. How will you ever fill all of that daylight? […]

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