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Celebrate Eat Happy with a Cookbook Celebration

Anna Vocino, comedian, voice actor, culinary tastemaker, and founder of Eat Happy Kitchen, has a new cookbook, Eat Happy Cocktail Hour: Deliciously Gluten Free and Low Carb Sips, Dips, and Bites. To celebrate the release of Vocino’s new book, join an evening of mixology, food, and community on Thursday, October...

Los Olivos, CA · 15d
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2026 Best of Santa Barbara® Eating

Photos by Ingrid Bostrom | Illustrations by Ben Ciccati. Find more Best of Santa Barbara 2026® winners here. “What keeps us excited is the opportunity to keep evolving while staying true to what has made Loquita special for the past 10 years,” said Skyler Gamble, director of operations. “We’re constantly inspired by the flavors and traditions of Spain, the incredible ingredients we have access to here on the Central Coast, and the creativity of our team. But more than anything, it’s the people. Seeing longtime guests continue to celebrate special moments with us while welcoming new faces through our doors is what keeps us inspired year after year.”

Santa Barbara, CA · 16d
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Santa Barbara County Animal Services Looks for Foster Homes after Seizing 300 Birds, 21 Dogs in Santa Maria

Santa Barbara County Animal Services took in 300 birds and 21 dogs after a major rescue effort in Santa Maria on October 14. Due to limited space at the County’s three animal shelters, the agency is looking for foster homes for the mix of pigeons, chickens, cockatiels, parakeets, and dogs that it possessed through the recent operation, said Animal Services Director Sarah Aguilar.

Santa Maria, CA · 19d
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Greek Grab & Go Is Coming Up

••• The famous (in my house, anyway) clam pie leads the lineup for Bettina‘s anniversary specials, available from October 26 to November 1. But wait, there’s more: “We’re leaning into some Italian classics this year with grilled oysters, wings, lasagna, tiramisu, and thin/crispy pies. Pizzas and wings available lunch and dinner. Oysters and lasagna dinner only. Clam pie will also be available at Tina’s Pizza [in Linden Square] all week, all day.”

Santa Barbara, CA · 17d
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Wild pigs damage turf at Rice Ranch Park in Orcutt

Damage to the grass fields at Rice Ranch Park in Orcutt, attributed to wild pigs, is raising concern among local families and youth sports organizations.

Orcutt, CA · 18d

Santa Barbara Independent

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Ex-Prodigy Delivering on Continued Promise

We knew him when and have observed his maturation process over years now. Lang Lang, the Chinese-born piano phenom and one of the world’s “household name” classical celebrities, has made Santa Barbara a stopping and stomping ground fairly regularly since his local debut in 2003, at the almost-ripe age of 20. His latest stop came in a grand Granada Theatre recital, a starry kickoff to the classical portion of the UCSB Arts & Lectures series.

Santa Barbara, CA · 16d

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Roman-style pizzeria PEGASLICE opens near DPHS

PEGASLICE, a restaurant specializing in Roman-style pizza, opened this summer in the El Encanto Heights neighborhood near Dos Pueblos High School. Owner McLeod Noormand said he opened PEGASLICE to fulfill his dream of opening a restaurant. “The owner of the property I had met a couple years prior, and [he]...

Santa Barbara, CA · 17d

Lompoc Record

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Central Coast space history on display at Vandenberg museum

Locals and visitors can learn about the history of spaceflight and missile development, with exhibits that highlight the region’s contribution to the nation’s space program at the Space and Missile Technology Center on Vandenberg Space Force Base. Referred to as SAMTEC, the center presents historic models, artifacts, and...

Lompoc, CA · 16d

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CAPA Pet of the Week: Dancer

Dancer is a blind 12-year-old female brown brindle Australian Cattle Dog mix weighing approximately 27 pounds, available for adoption at the Lompoc Animal Center, located at 1501 West Central in Lompoc. Dancer is a sweet senior dog with "the adventurous spirit of a dog half her age," staff say. Dancer...

Lompoc, CA · 18d

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Solvang ghost tours spotlight local lore after dark

Ghost tales and reports of unexplained encounters take center stage during Solvang's haunted walking tours that give visitors a chance to experience the lesser-known side of town. The Haunt offers evening guided strolls through downtown, combining stories tied to local buildings with gear — dousing rods, sprit boxes and electromagnetic...

Solvang, CA · 17d

Santa Barbara Independent

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Full Belly Files: This Year Halloween Falls on a Weekend

Sign up to get Matt Kettmann’s Full Belly Files, which serves up multiple courses of food & drink coverage every Friday, going off-menu from our regularly published content to deliver tasty nuggets of restaurant, recipe, and refreshment wisdom to your inbox. Today’s headline is a reference to “My Mind...

Los Alamos, CA · 17d

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Ventura's Old Sears Becomes Bowling Hall With 14 Japan-Trained Restaurants

The old Sears at Pacific View Mall in Ventura has a new life: a two-story bowling, arcade and dining complex that opened its doors on October 10, bringing with it something that has never existed anywhere else in the world. Round1 Bowling & Arcade's new Ventura location debuted alongside YUU Japanese Food Hall, billed as the first YUU food hall anywhere, packed with 14 restaurants celebrated across Japan.

Ventura, CA · 22d

Santa Barbara Independent

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Will The Muse Light the Fuse for Downtown Santa Barbara?

Young kids were singing and celebratory champagne flutes were getting tipped last Thursday evening as five ceremonially hard-hatted movers and shakers with the Music Academy of West leaned forward for the cameras and turned their silver-plated shovels full of dirt as part of the official groundbreaking for what will soon become a humming musical hot spot at the longtime vacant corner of State and Canon Perdido streets.

Santa Barbara, CA · 17d

San Luis Obispo Tribune

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Starving seabirds are washing up on SLO County beaches. Here's why

Swaddled in a towel, a small and stout tuxedoed seabird sat on an exam table waiting for blood work on Oct. 12. By then, this once-emaciated common murre had been receiving treatment from Pacific Wildlife Care for more than a week, and he was almost healthy enough to be returned to the wild. From Sept. 1 to Monday, the nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation clinic Pacific Wildlife Care admitted 867 common murres for care — more than ever before, development coordinator Kelley Boland said. “It’s the biggest influx of common murres we’ve ever seen,” she said. Most of those seabirds arrive at the clinic emaciated as part of what seems to be a mass starvation event off the Central Coast, Boland said. But the murre getting his blood work done on Oct. 12 had finally recovered, and he weighed a whole 1 kilogram. “He’s very fat,” rehabilitation technician Sophie Swan said with pride before drawing his blood. Murres resemble penguins with dense, waterproof feathers that look like a tuxedo and function like a wetsuit — trapping a layer of air against their skin to keep them warm and dry, Boland said. They spend most of their lives at sea, then during the

Santa Barbara County, CA · 17d

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Katy Perry’s Firework Foundation runs camp for 85 Santa Barbara County youth

Santa Barbara native Katy Perry and her sister, Angela Lerche, recently hosted Firework Foundation's 12th annual Camp Firework event, bringing together more than 85 children from throughout Santa Barbara County, including young people from two North County organizations. Over three days, children ages 10 to 13 from Lompoc, Goleta and...

Santa Barbara County, CA · 18d

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Golden Quadrangle Megamansion Sells for $56.1 Million

Seven-bedroom, 20,000-square-foot mansion designed by Francis T. Underhill in 1917 on 10.5 acres of primest Montecito. Listed: $74 million in July 2021, cut twice to $59.9 million, raised to $60 million. Closed: $56.1 million. Photo: Courtesy Riskin Partners. ·············...

Montecito, CA · 20d

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A Leaking Wading Pool Inspires Ideas For New Chumash Cultural Element at West Beach

New ideas are coming forward for the West Beach wading pool which has been closed due to a leak. Changes could include Chumash historical elements. The post A Leaking Wading Pool Inspires Ideas For New Chumash Cultural Element at West Beach appeared first on News Channel 3-12 .

Santa Barbara, CA · 18d

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New Vintage Shop With “DGAF Mom Energy”

••• Old Town Goleta gets in on the vintage/resale wave with Plunder Thrift, a new shop at 5733 Hollister Avenue that promises “remarkable secondhand, radical prices, and DGAF Mom Energy.”. ••• I had an enjoyable coffee with two of the founders of Student Bees, the new company...

Santa Barbara, CA · 19d

Santa Barbara Independent

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Large Exotic Animals Meet Small Batch Wines at Folded Hills in Gaviota

“Do you want to come out to the ranch and meet the Clydesales?”. They had me at the chance to taste their delicious but perennially sold-out Lilly Rosé, but adding the famous Anheuser-Busch mascots to the mix made me want to stampede to the Folded Hills Winery, Ranch, and Farmstead immediately for a tour.

Santa Barbara County, CA · 18d