Santa Claus is coming to town! For the first time in decades, Old Saint Nicholas is returning to the Country Club Plaza, ...

6 pm: The Smurfs: “It’s A Smurfy Life/The Abominable Snow Beast/Journey To The Center of the Smurf”- A series of festive, ...

Barney was covering political races when we met, as I was volunteering on a number of them shortly after I moved to Santa Barbara in the early 1970s. I am lucky enough to say that our friendship ...

Barney Brantingham, a great journalist who embodied Santa Barbara the way Mike Royko did Chicago, Jimmy Breslin New York, and Herb Caen San Francisco, died last week, his family announced Monday. He ...

Barney Brantingham, a master hand of journalism, a quintessential newspaper reporter and columnist in Santa Barbara, has died. He was 93. Credit: Courtesy photo Barney Brantingham, a master hand of ...

Here’s your “do you feel old yet?” moment for today: It was a half-century ago today that ABC-TV debuted “Barney Miller,” about an eclectic squad of police detectives working out of a run-down ...

Omega-level mutants are the most powerful of all mutantkind: there’s weather-wielding Storm, the telepath Jean Grey, and Magneto, master of magnetism, to name a few. But the mightiest — and merriest — ...

Brittany Mahomes and Patrick Mahomes are getting into the holiday spirit. The couple took their 3-year-old daughter, Sterling Skye, and 2-year-old son, Bronze, to take photos with Santa Claus, per ...

Santa Claus and his reindeer are rocketing around the globe, with billions of stops to make in less than 24 hours. Father Christmas has already soared past locations around the world, from Nunavut, ...

You know what I love during the holiday season? A tradition. And so, since I am, as dictated by tradition, off this week, I am re-running my traditional column originally published on Dec. 23, 2021, ...

Christmas is almost here so that means Santa is on his way. Jolly Old St. Nick will soon be making his journey around the world to make sure all those not on his naughty list receive gifts under their ...

As the year winds down, a notable phenomenon captures the attention of investors and financial analysts alike: the Santa Claus Rally. This term refers to the consistent rise in stock market prices ...