Local News
By Ethan Maday In a marathon city council meeting, residents, business owners, and community members voiced opinions about the City of Santa Barbara’s State Street Master Plan: a heated topic of conversation since the central street’s closure in 2020. On Tuesday, Sept. 1, the city council voted 6:
Humor Column
By Andrew Sheshunoff As I drove slowly on the half-open section of the 101 the other day, I gawked at a construction worker using a hammer…to build a highway. I saw dirt gathering in the joints of sleepy machinery while the metal bones normally hidden beneath concrete skin
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By Caroline Wang Santa Barbara has faced a housing shortage for decades. Under California’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), the city must plan for 8,001 new homes over the next decade. But as Santa Barbara grows, there’s another question to consider: what will that growth mean for
Lifestyle & Culture
By Sadie Bush As the California nights grew warmer, a gaggle of over one thousand Santa Barbara locals dusted off their lawn chairs to soak in Arts & Lectures month-and-a-half run of weekly summer films. Returning to the historic Courthouse location, A&L debuted their newest
Humor Column
By Andrew Sheshunoff
Lifestyle & Culture
By Tristan Gerdesic The decline of movie theaters since the Covid-19 pandemic has been a well-covered, broadly bemoaned phenomenon. Santa Barbara, for a city of its size, has an unusually large number of cinemas and movie theaters. People, particularly young people, seem unaware that not only are there
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By Ava Jane Damery Welcome to Unmuted, where the next generation speaks for itself. We are a local, modern, and decentralized news platform for everyone, written by the genuine young voices of Santa Barbara County. Our writers are unique storytellers because they are curious, intelligent, and honest local youth with