Dear Stormy: New Year’s Resolutions
Stormy thinks about why we make New Year’s resolutions.
Year: 2013
Animals Victories in 2013
From Meatless Mondays to “Ag-gag” bills being blocked, here are a few other successes of 2013.
Highway Beauty
Let’s leave the Olive Mill Road to Summerland corridor exactly like it is … beautiful.
Of Relationships and Fast Food
Fast food, like lusty Eskimo goddesses with a proclivity for painkillers, possesses its own set of perils.
Lavagnino Sends Letter to Congressman Sponsoring Camp 4 Annexation
S.B. supervisor says it’s important Doug LaMalfa know the “whole story.”
Review: Saving Mr. Banks
Emma Thompson stars as the woman behind Mary Poppins, who goes head-to-head with Walt Disney in this historical behind-the-scenes drama.
The Year in Pictures 2013
The Santa Barbara Independent presents our annual collection of super shots.
Paul Wellman
“Don’t you want a real photographer?” was Paul Wellman’s response to Indy Editor in Chief Marianne Partridge when she tapped him in 2002 to take over the reins as the paper’s sole staff shooter.
Review: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Will Ferell returns as Ron Burgundy in this hilarious — and shockingly topical — sequel to the cult classic.
Air Pollution Control District Hears from Climate Change Denier
Thursday’s presentation was critiqued and criticized by many.