KTYD DJ and classic rock racounteur If you do the morning drive in Santa Barbara, then you'll know Lin Aubuchon as the voice of KTYD's morning show. For those out of town KTYD is our city's long-lasting, well-loved classic rock station. Lin visited...

Owner of Sullivan Goss Gallery Frank Goss has been a tastemaker in the Santa Barbara arts scene since 1994 after opening his gallery with his wife Patricia Sullivan Goss. This year is one of changes: he's selling the building that hosts the gallery...

  Santa Barbara's Poet Laureate Just over a decade ago, the Santa Barbara Arts Commission decided to create its own Poet Laureate position, where one of our city's many poets gets to serve for two years, being called on to create poems for...

Founder of Skateboard magazine and the Santa Barbara Surf Museum, and collector of ephemera I met Jim O'Mahoney when I wrote an article about a documentary on the Signal Hill Speed Run, and visited him at his museum. I soon got a tour of the...

Continuing our chat with the lingerie-clad vlogging comedians! Last week, we began our chat with Cate Imperio and Sam Fairley aka the brains and the bras behind "Unlicensed Professionals" their rude, nearly nude, and boundary pushing weekly video...

Lingerie-clad vlogging comedians! Cate Imperio and Sam Fairley have a NSFW weekly video series called "Unlicensed Professionals" in which they deliver a barrage of humor, criticism, pet peeves, and observation, all dressed in bra and panties and more...

Yarn bombin' artist, entrepreneur, and eternally curious man Stephen Duneier is not the only Yarnbomber in existence, but he is the first to grab the domain name. "It was a way to deflect attention from myself," he explained in our talk. For those...

A live version of the FZ podcast at the Psyched opening Howdy folks! Having presided over a few art talks recently at MichaelKate Interiors--a swanky furniture store in the heart of the FunkZone that also puts on art shows--I asked to turn the last...

Fine artist and former graphic designer Maria Rendón recently finished her Masters at UCSB and has a new show up at SBCC's Atkinson Gallery to prove it. Called "Missing Rib," it's a collection of her watery acrylic abstracts that float on the...

Lead singer of alt-surf band Dante Elephante Dante Elephante's first e.p. German Aquatics has been out since 2012, and it was this and relentless gigging that got Ruben Zarate and his band the chance to record a full album with Jonathan Rado of...