Amy Katz
Op-Ed: Be a Rainbow In Someone’s Cloud
Please be especially kind to the unsheltered this time of the year— it’s very challenging to be without a home when it’s rainy and cold! Maya Angelou once said, “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." Santa Barbara sure…
Collision on Alamar Ave Sends One Person to Hospital
At 1:00 pm today (Friday), neighbors heard a car speeding and then a loud crash. A family of five with several seniors was traveling westbound on Alamar when an older Mercedes came speeding down Puesta Del Sol and entered the…
Op-Ed: Has Evangelical Influence Taken Over Pacifica Graduate Institute?
For nearly 50 years, Pacifica Graduate Institute (PGI) has been both a college offering graduate-degree programs in counseling and clinical psychology leading to board licensure, and an institute of alchemy and every-day magic, akin to Hogwarts for Harry Potter and his allies. Students…
Olive Mill Underpass in 2018 and 2024
Cars with golden headlights on a muddy and rainy Highway 101 under the Olive Mill Rd. overpass, in Montecito on February 5th at dusk — just South of Santa Barbara. This same area was under massive amounts of sludge and…
Angels Spotted at the Montecito Holiday Magic Parade
The Montecito Association held their annual "Montecito Holiday Magic Car Parade” on Saturday at 5:00 pm. Twenty-five local organizations participated by driving festively decorated vehicles from the Upper Village to Coast Village Road. Nonprofit organization Adams Angels, the Montecito Water…
Chanukah Menorah Lighting on State Street
Santa Barbara celebrated the first evening of the 8 nights of Chanukah by lighting a giant Menorah at the corner of State Street and Canon Perdido at sundown on Thursday. Hundreds of people dropped by to help make fresh oil…
Op-Ed: Tensions Ran High at Pro-Palestine Rally on State Street
The same International organization that broke into the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Wednesday to stage a sit-in, in support of Gaza and Hamas, resulting in 305 of their members being…
Candle Light Memorial Service for Israel at De La Guerra Plaza
Candle Light Vigil for Israel in Santa Barbara: Prayers for all Hundreds of heartbroken Jews from various denominations in Santa Barbara — Reform, Conservative and Orthodox — were unified in their love and grief for Israel during a Candlelight Memorial…