Ep. 6: Diana Raab

Host Fred Klein converses with Diana Raab about her long career as a writer, memoirist, essayist, poet and teacher, and about her new book Healing With Words. Literary Gumbo: Diana …

Butterflies Alive!

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History offered a butterfly enclosure with thousands of the winged beauties in the Summer of 2009.

Plastinated Dolphin Model

Michelle Berman of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History shows the plastinated dolphin model at the grand opening of the Ty Warner Sea Center, April 2005.

Marcia Meier: Author and Journalist

Marcia Meier, author of Navigating the Rough Waters of Today’s Publishing World, spoke to the Screenwriters Association of Santa Barbara on June 10, 2010. Marcia Meier: Author and Journalist from …

Women of Achievement Awards Luncheon 2010

The Association of Women in Communications Santa Barbara chapter honors Publisher, author, and philanthropist Sara Miller McCune and journalist, author, and former SBWC Director Marcia Meier on Friday, June 4, …

AWC-SB: Clearing Clutter

Everything you always wanted to know about clearing clutter but were too disorganized to ask. Panelists: Cindy Faith Swain, Lori Cooper, and Juli Shulem. Recorded at the April meeting of …

Ep 5: Barnaby Conrad

Host Fred Klein welcomes Santa Barbara Writers Conference founder, Barnaby Conrad, who discusses his many books, including Matador and Name Dropping, as well as his latest book The Second Life …

The other Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Island is an important breeding ground for Western Gulls and Brown Pelicans, and has several unique native plants. Looking around I saw clusters of stubby, stark trunks that looked dead, but these Giant Coreopsis are very much alive. In late winter and early spring they flaunt their bunches of yellow blooms. At the beginning of the trail I saw a nice specimen of the endemic Santa Barbara Island buckwheat.