The 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival came to a close on Sunday, but one of its highlights came three days earlier, with the last of the filmmaker tributes that serve as the spine of the fest. On Thursday evening, inside Santa Barbara’s historic 2000-seat Arlington Theatre, veteran stage and …
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MONTECITO — In the town of Montecito, where the median home costs $5 million, Bentley drivers leave their car windows open as they hop out to grab something from the market and residents refer to Gwyneth Paltrow as simply “Gwyneth,” it’s hard to imagine anything ever goes wrong here. And most …
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A work crew cleans up an area of Highway 101 that flooded in Montecito. MONTECITO: Tens of thousands of people were under evacuation orders in California on Tuesday as the state was ravaged by the latest in a barrage of storms that have left at least 17 people dead.Torrential downpours …
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MONTECITO — Greg Downs and his dog Snickers walked along the Montecito Creek on Tuesday morning, with the sun straining to break through the clouds. The waterway gurgled steadily, but the flow was not as violent as on Monday, when water spilled out on the adjacent Olive Mill Road. Downs, who …
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It was five years ago to the day that Trina Grokenberger watched a 30-foot tree trunk barrel past her Montecito house on a river of deep black mud that later tore her front door off its hinges. She and her husband were among the lucky ones. Rescuers guided them to …
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SAN FRANCISCO: Damaging winds and heavy rains hit California on Thursday, knocking out energy to tens of hundreds, inflicting flash flooding, and leaving a baby useless after a tree fell on a house. Officers had ordered evacuations in a high-risk coastal space the place mudslides killed 23 folks in 2018 …
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