We asked you to kick the tires and light the fires, dear readers, and you responded. In our annual Best of Northern Santa Barbara County issue, we’re giving an “attaboy” to the eateries, drinkeries, businesses, and people that you said were alphas, top dogs, air bosses. We didn’t have room for any goon ups or…
Tickets are available in advance for country singer-songwriter Dustin Lynch’s upcoming concert at Chumash Casino Resort. The concert is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 15, at 8 p.m., in the resort’s Samala Showroom. Admission ranges between $99 and $169. Visit chumashcasino.com for more info. The casino is located at 3400 Highway 246, Santa Ynez.
There were 118 opioid overdose deaths from Jan. 1 to July 31 in Santa Barbara County this year, with 63 related to fentanyl—an opiate 50 times more potent than heroin—according to the Sheriff’s Office. This compares to 105 overdose deaths during the same period in 2022, with 70 related to fentanyl. “These numbers reflect the…
Originally set to expire in 2021, the tentative tract map for a 17-acre mixed-use project in Buellton is on track for its third time extension. The Buellton Hub—an upcoming plaza of residential apartments, business offices, and recreation areas planned for Industrial Way—was revisited by the Buellton Planning Commission during its Aug. 17 meeting to consider…
Hang around Find out more about Pico Los Alamos at picolosalamos.com, or by calling (805) 344-1122. The restaurant is located at 458 Bell St., Los Alamos. Admission to the Fresh Wine Festival on Friday, Aug. 25, from 6 to 8 p.m., is $40 per person. The next Winemaker Hang, with winemaker Jason Mergenov, will take…
STRAYS What’s it rated? R What’s it worth, Glen? Matinee What’s it worth, Anna? Matinee Where’s it showing? Regal Edwards RPX Santa Maria, Movies Lompoc, Regal Edwards Arroyo Grande Josh Greenbaum (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar) directs Dan Perrault’s script about a dog named Reggie (voiced by Will Ferrell), a gullible border…
Hijack What’s it rated? TV-MA When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus Created by Jim Field Smith and George Kay and starring Idris Elba as Sam Nelson, a corporate business negotiator, the series follows the hijacking of a seven-hour flight from Dubai to London. Desperate to get safely back to his son, Kai (Jude…
The Beanie Bubble What’s it rated? R When? 2023 Where’s it showing? Apple TV Plus In 2021, Beanie Mania, a documentary on the absolute wild ride that Beanie Babies had in the ’90s was released. Now we have The Beanie Bubble, which dramatizes the story of Ty Warner (Zach Galifianakis) and his business partner, Robbie…
Three rounds of presentations, 41 public comments, and an hour of deliberation led to inaction from the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on a proposal to install safety valves on the pipeline that caused the 2015 Refugio oil spill. With only four supervisors on the dais, the board voted 2-2 twice on the issue…
• U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) issued a statement on Aug. 1 in response to reports of former President Donald Trump’s indictment on four counts related to his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S. “Over the past two and a half years, more than a thousand…
Growing up on a dairy farm in upstate New York, Mary Maranville said she always felt a deep connection to farming and saw value in understanding where our food comes from. “When I moved to California 24 years ago, that connection continued and led me to want to educate students on where our food comes…
Let the record show that Leah Braitman from “beautiful Lompoc” flipped 5th District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino off during an extremely entertaining hearing about valves on an oil pipeline. In what may have been a first for the longest-serving supervisor on the dais, Braitman was over her time limit during the public comment period, took her…
It never ceases to amaze me how the powers that be, including the Board of Supervisors and the county Planning Commission, can abuse the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to punish some applicants and reward others. Two recent cases demonstrate the county’s bias when applying CEQA requirements and its own land use code requirements. The…
For years I have been hearing that California has a “housing crisis.” Where is this growing demand for housing coming from? It appears to me that what California actually has is a “population crisis.” The marketing forces imposed on locals by an ever-increasing population of nonnatives is driving up the cost of existing housing and…
See the tree Visit wildlingmuseum.org or call (805) 686-8315 for more info on the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, located at 1511 Mission Drive, unit B, Solvang. It can take anywhere between 20 and 50 years for an oak tree to fully mature. But after just two months, three volunteer artists behind a new…
Local filmmakers are encouraged to submit short films to the Central Coast Showcase, a film screening event that will be held during the upcoming Central Coast Entertainment Expo at the Clark Center for the Performing Arts in Arroyo Grande. The deadline for film submissions is Friday, Sept. 15. The expo will take place on Saturday,…
