Held annually on Frederick Douglass’s birthday, the decade-old collaborative initiative takes up the Colored Conventions and ...

Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) of Santa Barbara will conclude its 2025-26 Masterseries at the Lobero Theatre on March 12 with a special performance by the acclaimed Sphinx Virtuosi.

Hundreds gathered to honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day with speeches and a march up State Street on January 19.

Sierra Madre Playhouse will present SCI-FI SOUND BATH, a unique auditory experience, on February 13. This event combines ...

Santa Barbara Airport first closed down in the middle of the night, it reported in a Facebook post: “As of 1:15am, Santa Barbara Airport is temporarily closed due to flooding on the airfield,” the ...

A YouTube account created the fabricated song as one of its "hilarious AI-generated song parodies." In the lead-up to Christmas 2025, a purported risqué song in the style of 1940s or 1950s "oldies" ...

The Santa Barbara Police Department responded to a bomb threat in a Santa Barbara neighborhood Wednesday evening, eventually calling in a bomb squad to assist. The Santa Barbara Police Department ...

Santa Barbara County apparently can’t get enough of Wingstop. One of the fast-growing restaurant chains in the country has opened another store, this time on Santa Barbara’s Mesa. Commercial real ...

Santa Barbara’s flourishing food and beverage scene reached new heights in 2025. Although this affluent beach town is best known for its idyllic charm, scenic mountain-meets-ocean landscape and many ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Lines of folklorico dancers, norteño musicians and lowrider bikers normally burst with cultural pride at the ...

Santa Barbara’s longtime Milpas Street Holiday Parade will not take place this year after organizers said many Eastside families and participants expressed fear about attending a large public event ...

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden will celebrate 100 years as the first botanic garden in the United States dedicated exclusively to native plants. Since its founding in 1926, the garden has remained ...