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

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Angelina Jolie shares that she began acting to help her mom stay out of debt during a Q & A at the 40th Annual Santa Barbara ...

Garagiste Wine Festival returns to Solvang this weekend for a special wine tasting event at the Veterans Memorial Hall on ...

Though the spotlight often is on the “international” aspect of the 12-day Santa BarbaraInternational Film Festival, the ...

A 48-year-old Carmichael man is dead after colliding with a chain link fence on Interstate 5 near Lebec Service Road.

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.