Nathan Towne, an Orcutt-Santa Maria area native and professional performing musician, plays just about everywhere across the Central Coast. He’s played coffee shops, restaurants, bars, wineries, tasting events, food festivals, farmers’ markets, and private parties. Starting to see a pattern? Towne, who I must admit in full disclosure, is a friend, goes where the food […]
Nathan Towne performs music for every taste at The Market in Santa Maria
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Wildling Museum opens bird exhibit, holds trunk show
The Wildling Museum hosts a national traveling exhibition organized by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wisconsin, Birds in Art 2014, showing June 12 through Aug. 10. The Yawkey Woodson museum plays host to a juried competition for the finest bird art in the world each year, and only the finest creations make it […]
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DANA receives donation from Nipomo Lions Club
The DANA Cultural Center received a donation of $500 from the Nipomo Lions Club on June 2. The money will go toward the support for the development of the nature education facility slated for completion in 2016. The DANA Cultural Center is open to the public on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and […]
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Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara awarded NEA grant
Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to further the programs, performances, and education outreach in 2015 and 2016. The NEA awarded $20,000 for next year’s round of free concerts, school assembly performances, and educational outreach sessions in Santa Barbara, Isla Vista, and Guadalupe. […]
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Scratch Kitchen brings locally sourced food and libations to Lompoc
Described by some as the restaurant Lompoc has been waiting for, Scratch Kitchen restaurant and wine bar opened for business on May 1. “It’s a restaurant that Lompoc deserves,” replied co-owner and chef Augusto Caudillo. “We are fertilizing the epicurean desert that has been Lompoc for a long time, and we want to give Lompoc […]
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Where do you go on the Central Coast for art?
Mark Booher PCPA artistic director “Mostly, I go to Pacific Conservatory Theatre. Maybe it’s because of how busy we are, but most of my art enjoyment is bound up in the life of Allan Hancock College. So, the Concert Band, the amazing ceramics that happen on campus, the design department, the chorale group; there is […]
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No thanks; I just ate
Here’s the deal: my wife won’t eat anything you cook. Nope. She won’t do it. It has absolutely nothing to do with being a vegetarian, a fear of GMOs, or only eating organic food. In actuality, my wife is a total foodie; she’ll eat just about anything—the more GMOs the better. Well, she’ll eat anything […]
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Political Watch 6/4/15
• Justin Fareed—running for the California’s 24th Congressional District seat in 2016—will be speaking at the Santa Maria Country Club on June 14 at 6 p.m. The Santa Maria Valley Republicans are playing host to a dinner and meet-and-greet. On the menu: raspberry walnut salad, a choice of beef casino roll or grilled chicken breast, […]
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Community Notebook 6/4/15 – 6/11/15
MONDAY, JUNE 8 • The Santa Maria City Block Grants Advisory Committee has its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the City Hall Conference Room, 110 E. Cook St., Santa Maria. • The Solvang City Council has its regular meeting at 7 p.m. in City Council Chambers, 1644 Oak Street, Solvang. Agendas are available at […]
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Spotlight on: Amit Sarin, franchisee
If you’ve ever eaten at a Subway restaurant in Santa Maria, Orcutt, or Guadalupe, chances are it’s owned by Amit Sarin. He; his wife, Reshmi; and his father, Vishaw, are franchisees of Subway and own several restaurants in Northern Santa Barbara County. They operate as a company in Santa Maria. Immigrating with his family from […]
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Updated digs: The Sun takes a tour of the SMPD’s new headquarters so you don’t have to
Wearing stained yellow work boots, denim jeans with a tucked-in light blue button-up shirt, Bob Prescott recently led a group of citizens room-to-room through the Santa Maria Police Department’s new headquarters at 1111 Betteravia Road. It’s directly across the street from McDonald’s; you can’t miss it. Prescott looked more like a middle-aged construction worker than […]
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Two central Santa Barbara County libraries could fold into one
The Buellton library is facing an administrative shake-up to save costs and cut operating hours by combining it with Solvang’s library. “It’s been talked about for quite a while. It doesn’t make sense that they’re up there in the Santa Ynez Valley quite close to one another but they belong to two different [library] systems,” […]
