Santa Barbara News

The next concert of the Santa Barbara Music Club - free as usual - will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Faulkner Gallery of the Santa Barbara Public Library , 40 E. Anapamu St.

Words & Images by: L. Paul Mann Jon Anderson :: 11.15.09 :: SOhO :: Santa Barbara, CA Jon Anderson :: 11.15 :: Santa Barbara, CA A special last minute show was added to the calendar at Santa Barbara's premiere live music restaurant and bar venue, SOhO .

Three members of King Wilkie are coming to California. Shown are, from left, band members Dennis Lichtman, Reid Burgess, Steve Lewis and Jay Foote.

JOHN TRAVOLTA and ROBIN WILLIAMS were once mistaken for celebrity impersonators when they crashed a wedding in the 1970s.

Despite raucous student protests at UCLA that poured onto the streets of Westwood, the University of California Board of Regents approved a 32 percent fee increase Thursday that will push UC tuition above $10,000 for the first time.

When the community was in crisis during recent fires, Santa Barbara School District site staff and district administrators worked around the clock to make sure students were safe to help meet the community's needs for shelter for displaced families, housing for firefighters and landing sites for firefighting helicopters.

On Saturday, the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission celebrated the graduation of nine men and women from the mission's 12-month residential drug and alcohol treatment program.

TomA seen Foleya TMs "A Celtic Christmas" recreates the joy and innocence of a night before Christmas in an Ireland farmhouse, when neighbors gather around the fire to grace the long wintry night with the laughter of their stories and the joy of their music & dances.

Recent fires above Santa Barbara have increased the likelihood of flooding in fire areas and downstream within the city during winter rains.

Fire investigators are looking into an early-morning blaze that damaged a classroom at Cleveland Elementary School yesterday.

On Saturday morning, September 6, 2009 deputies responded to a report of found human remains in the area of the Jesusita Trail north of the San Roque Reservoir.

Are you a "Twihard" who wants a chance to get an early, sneak-peak at the latest film in the vampire saga? "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," the second movie released, will be shown at the Arlington Thursday night.

Since the earliest days of the region as a Mecca for wealthy families, philanthropy has been part of the social scene.

The Santa Barbara Police Department conducted DUI checkpoints Friday and Sunday.

Twenty third-graders at Hollister School recently got the chance to pluck, shake, blow and beat an array of instruments, all without fear of being shushed by nearby adults.

"Ralph Sipper, owner of Ralph Sipper/Books, said that people who collect rare books are interested in the books as artifacts.

Santa Barbara officials have yet to do a full debriefing of the city's first mail-only election, but they plan to recommend using the model in 2011 and beyond.

Weighing in for the first time on the controversial question of whether to close Santa Barbara's only fully bilingual elementary school because of low test scores, the Santa Barbara Board of Education on Tuesday night deliberated until well past midnight before a jam-packed crowd - and appeared divided.

Supporters and opponents of what would be the first new offshore drilling in state waters in 40 years are looking toward the selection of a new lieutenant governor as the next act in a long-running regulatory drama that has thus far kept the Tranquillon Ridge project at bay.

Investors buy Bank of Santa Barbara from Michigan company It's official: Bank of Santa Barbara is now run from Santa Barbara and not Michigan.