Bob Porter is looking for a new lunch spot. Porter — sometimes with his family, sometimes without — has been a regular at Barbara’s Home Cookin' in Grassland for years, ordering the poppyseed chicken ...

If you spend time scrolling through TikTok, you might have heard a German rap going viral. Most people on the platform admit they have no clue what the words mean, but they can’t get it out of their ...

Tanya Spears Guiliacci was the first Black Santa Barbara native I ever met, five years into living in this city. We met through my job at the Independent, the only two Black people working in our ...