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Hank Pitcher: Montecito Beaches 1978-2008
With the plans for Rick Caruso's hotel project at Miramar making headlines, and the newly refurbished and thoroughly re-imagined Coral Casino now open for business, there has never been a better time to take a ...
Most Happy Fellow: Montecito's happiest man is probably Ty Warner. Remember, he bought the wrecked Miramar, aiming to rebuild it, and was hailed as a local hero.
Developer Rick Caruso, owner of the Miramar Hotel, and his staff are in the midst of emergency meetings with the Montecito Water District , just days before his renovation project for the Montecito hotel is ...
This hike's all about attainable goals
If folks are looking for the challenge of a lifetime, this is not it. But if they are trying to get in a good climb, hike or walk, this is great.
Controversial Montecito Project Okayed
Greenlighted: City Councilmembers Grant House, Roger Horton, Helene Schneider , Mayor Marty Blum, and Dale Francisco check out the scene at the gas station site.
FETCH! Pet Care(TM) Expands Into Santa Barbara, California
FETCH! Pet Care, the nation's largest pet care brand offering professional pet sitting and dog walking services, today announced it has launched a new location in California's Santa Barbara region to provide ...
In La Canada Flintridge, architects bring an artful...
WITH its classic stucco facade, romantic courtyard and North African tile shimmering in the summer sun, the 1925 house in La Canada Flintridge looks like the pinnacle of Spanish Colonial Revival -- a Wallace ...
(Evelyn Keyes)"Gone With the Wind" Actress Dies
Actress Evelyn Keyes, who played Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister, Suellen, in "Gone With the Wind," has died at age 91.
Santa Barbara Real Estate for January through June'08 including...
Santa Barbara Real Estate for January through June'08 including Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito, Hope Ranch and Goleta.
Now that summer is here and the sun breaks through the June gloom by noon, it's time to start taking advantage of our lunch breaks.
Work Beginning at $1.5B Gaming Resort in Kazakhstan
July 1, 2008 By: Gail Kalinoski, Contributing Editor After a year of planning, work on a seven-phase, $1.5 billion hotel, casino and recreational complex at a 2,500-acre resort area in Kazakhstan is getting ...
New Anti-Gang Effort Makes Debut
Last year's fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Luis Angel Linares during a State Street melee focused all of Santa Barbara's attention on its gang problem.
Celebrity Estate Wrap: Jamie Foxx, Pete Sampras, John Stamos, More
Actor Jamie Fox is selling his three-bedroom Tarzana home. It's listed at $2.23 million .
Surpise firefighters helps Rocky Point
Fifty-one-year-old Jorge Ramos has two passions: shrimp breeding patterns and firefighting.
An unidentified man, found nearly drowned in a Westside apartment complex swimming pool on 6/22, died at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital this week.
- How long did the famous actress Judith Anderson live here?'
She had first come to Santa Barbara in 1929 to appear in the play Strange Interlude.
In response to what it believes may become a water shortage emergency that would include rationing, the Montecito Water Board met in the auditorium at Montecito Union School on Thursday, June 19, to present its ...
Picnicking beneath the oaks on a summer evening while enjoying the talents of a local musical hero, it's easy to forget that the rest of the world isn't quite so peaceful.
The beach culture blitz on mainstream America during the middle part of the 20th century was an assault of untold and unfathomable proportions.
The flick of a few golden spades by city, county, and state dignitaries signaled the commencement of the Milpas-to-Hot Springs Highway 101 widening project , which is scheduled to take place over the next four ...