Oct 31, 2024 · In a world that glorifies hustle and celebrates busyness, it’s easy to get swept up in the idea that urgency equals importance. But one thing is clear: A lack of preparation on your part does not give you the right to hijack my time

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Oct 16, 2024 · I honestly don’t know how much I would have enjoyed Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, Tell Me Everything, if I hadn’t already been familiar with the major characters from her previous books.There’s cantankerous but big-hearted Olive Kitteridge of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and also Olive, Again.Then we have novelist Lucy Barton of My Name Is Lucy Barton and Lucy by the Sea, and ...

Oct 17, 2024 · Welcome to the Independent’s annual Best of Santa Barbara® issue.This is the time of the year when we publish what you, our readers, have voted for what you think are the most wonderful things about Santa Barbara.

Jan 23, 2025 · Find In Memoriams, death notices and obituaries in the Santa Barbara Independent. Published weekly in-print and online.

Nov 4, 2024 · An incredible roller coaster of a film, I can easily imagine Bill Hader’s Stefon character from Saturday Night Live describing Emilia Pérez: “It’s got drug kingpins, drag queens, courtroom drama, characters returning from the dead, a Bonnie and Clyde–level kidnapping, but it’s also a family drama, a story of female empowerment, an exploration of …

Oct 25, 2024 · This article was originally published in UCSB’s ‘The Current‘. Renowned author Percival Everett’s celebrated new novel James (2024) reimagines the escape of the enslaved character “Jim” from Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) canonical American classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). A National Book Award finalist and on the shortlist for the Booker Prize, Everett joins only ...

Nov 12, 2024 · In some ways, Richard Powers’s new novel Playground is a double bildungsroman, showing us the youth and early adulthood of Todd Kean — white; a native of Evanston, Illinois; and the son of a wealthy family — and Rafi Young — Black, born on the West Side of Chicago, the son of bitterly divorced working-class parents.Both Todd and Rafi are classic Powers characters: brilliant, conflicted ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Aisha Carrie-Marie Johnson, born on Sunday, December 20, 1987, at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, was a proud 805 native and a beacon of love and light to all who knew her.

Mar 3, 2024 · Unlike the fast fade of a Polaroid image, Sarah Jarosz has a voice that lingers long after she’s left the stage. Thursday’s show at the Lobero — the last leg of the first part of her band’s Polaroid Lovers Tour, in support of the new album with the same name — was somewhat of a triumphant return for the singer, who has appeared at the venue multiple times before as both a …