World-renowned, contemporary-leaning Ojai Music Festival celebrates 80 years, with the master Esa-Pekka Salonen as the focus and music director.

Singer, songwriter, actor, and filmmaker Hunter Hawkins refuses to be confined to a single medium, instead weaving together music and cinematic storytelling into work that is as v ...

For most teenagers, choosing a college and a future career feels less like a decision and more like a referendum on the rest of their lives. But for Chase Alderton, the path ahead felt largely written ...

Sun Kil Moon, Jalama Ranch, Willie Nile, Ojai Festival calling.

I am writing in strong support of Judge Thomas Adams and his reelection to the Superior Court bench. Judge Adams has devoted decades of service to Santa Barbara County with integrity, fairness, and ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, CA — As inflation, housing costs, and healthcare expenses continue to rise, more Santa Barbara County residents ...

Art-watchers in Santa Barbara understand that one reliable time and place for finding more challenging, mold-breaking, and potentially trailblazing work is out at UCSB, come the end of each academic ...

From one angle, the current showing of work by New York artist Hunt Slonem at the Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery might seem like an anomaly, in a space largely dedicated to artists from or connected to ...

Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.-24), and members of the California congressional delegation are launching an inquiry into Sable Offshore’s efforts to restart oil drilling off the California coast ...

Born from school budget cuts in 1980, Arts Outreach continues to bring theater, music, and visual arts directly to Santa Ynez Valley students.

California dignitaries and scholars filled the Lobero Theatre on May 27 for the inauguration of UCSB Chancellor Dennis ...

The district says some safeguards already exist and more are in the works, but some parents worry it’s too little, too slow.