The Mujeras Makers Market was honored as Business Champion of the Year in Santa Barbara. It started out as a small parking ...

A major redevelopment project is in the works for La Cumbre Plaza in Santa Barbara to replace the old Sears with a 443-unit ...

Rademaker's small museum in Santa Barbara, Calif., aims to preserve the paper sewing patterns women used to make French ...

Fly to Santa Barbara today, and you land in Goleta. For a short time, a century ago, you would have landed in Carpinteria.

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Founded in 1911 by a group of Danish-Americans seeking to escape the harsh Midwestern winters, Solvang has blossomed into a ...

Solvang: a little slice of Denmark in the heart of California, where you can eat your weight in pastries, pretend you’re a ...

Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce took the stage Thursday night to talk about what many are calling their best performances to date. “I’m ...

A Californian Visual Language” at UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum explores how artists use text to challenge ...

I think Santa Barbara has the best panels of any film festival.  The writers, producers, women's, international features, ...

At the Santa Barbara Film Festival writers panel, Jesse Eisenberg, Mona Fastvold, Peter Straughan, and more dig into their ...

The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the hire of Ana Briz as Assistant Director ...