Results tagged “santa barbara county”
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Weekend Trips:
Jalama Beach, along California's Central Coast, offers oceanside camping in one of the most desolate locations available.
Catalina Island's Avalon Harbor remains the most polluted beach in the state.
SoCal Spirits:
"It takes a lot of Amaro to recover from prodigious good wine consumption."
SoCal Spirits:
"We talk a lot about philosophical things, but at the end of the day you want a wine that pleases you, one with a lot of complexity, structure, and balance."
Santa Barbara:
In her photographic work, Barbara Parmet addresses the degree to which witnessing remains the fundamental constitutive human act.
Livestock:
A Lompoc farm will deliver eggs to your door ... or chickens and a pen, if you prefer.
SoCal Spirits:
Some of the more interesting new wines out this year, and where to find them.
Safety:
Mowing grass seems innocent enough, but during dry season, it's a leading cause of wildfires in California.
A number of wildfires in Southern California have air quality officials putting out warnings to the public this week.
West Is Eden:
Starving sea lion pups are washing up on Southern California beaches in record numbers -- at a rate five times the norm. It has gotten so bad the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has declared an "unusual mortality event."
Santa Barbara:
The Pacific Conservatory of the Arts is a professional resident theater company and a two-year vocational program.
SoCal Spirits:
"Goodland is our attempt to find the best wine expression of the different AVAs of Santa Barbara County -- the best combinations of site, soil, climate, grape variety, viticultural management, and winemaking techniques."
West Is Eden:
What happened to us? When did we become so elevator-silent, so dour, so proper, so scrunch-faced, so mature?
Climate Change:
Twenty California counties have endured weather-related disasters since January 2007 that were damaging enough to merit 41 Federal disaster area declarations, and two-thirds of Californians live on counties struck by those disasters.
SoCal Spirits:
Firestone Walker's new barrel aged wild ales program in Buellton is worth the drive.
Travel News:
The original 1942 building is still there, just moved around a bit.
Santa Barbara:
Rachel Rossner, curator of "California Dreaming: Plein-Air Painting from San Francisco to San Diego," shares observations about the beginnings of the plein-air landscape painting movement in California.
Vote:
Your votes will help determine which Artbound article from last week will become a video.
Santa Barbara:
Photographer and Santa Barbara native Morgan Maassen's career in the surf editorial world is on a meteoric rise.
West Is Eden:
The end of Jalama Road in Santa Barbara County may be beautiful, but dawdling along it can be just as rejuvenating.
