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Santa Barbara County abounds with story potential. Whether you are interested in a general destination overview or covering a new trend in travel such as green tourism, we have releases and materials to support your research. Some of the more popular themes include foodie travel, movie tourism and architecture. Search the menu of releases by keyword and, if you can't find what you are looking for here, please contact us. Current news and fresh story ideas are outlined in the monthly "Short Cuts" media newsletter, and our blog, The SB Post, features weekly scoops.
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September 2010 Short Cuts: Santa Barbara Travel News & Story Ideas 9.1.2010 SOL FOOD FESTIVAL CELEBRATES LOCAVORE MOVEMENT — On Saturday, October 2, the 1st annual SOL Food Festival will be held at Plaza Vera Cruz Park (130 East Cota Street) in downtown Santa Barbara. In partnership with the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County, a group of food enthusiasts created this...MORE |
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“EPICURE.SB” YIELDS A 31-DAY FEAST FOR THE SENSES 8.24.2010 Santa Barbara bursts with flavor this October during the second annual epicure.sb: a month to savor santa barbara. The 31-day, community-wide culinary extravaganza features food and drink festivals, cooking classes, wine blending seminars, special seasonal menus, epicurean-inspired art exhibits and...MORE |
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August 2010 Short Cuts: Travel News & Story Ideas 8.2.2010 The “Spur of the Moment Santa Barbara” last-minute deals website SantaBarbaraWeeklyDeals.com has averaged about 3,500 views each week since debuting in July. The web posting is updated every Monday with the best hotel rates available that week, along with two-for-one activity offers and timely event...MORE |
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SANTA BARBARA RESPONDS TO LAST-MINUTE TRAVEL TREND 7.2.2010 “Spur of the Moment” weekly posts give visitors access to the best available hotel rates and special discounts all summer long...MORE |
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July 2010 Short Cuts: Santa Barbara Travel News & Story Ideas 6.30.2010 The Santa Barbara Conference & Visitors Bureau created a new tool for travelers planning last-minute escapes this summer. Starting July 6, a weekly “Spur of the Moment Santa Barbara” web posting will go live every Monday on SantaBarbaraWeeklyDeals.com, listing the best hotel rates available for the...MORE |
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Green Santa Barbara Micro-Site Provides Visitors with Eco-Minded Resources 6.11.2010 The Santa Barbara Conference & Visitors Bureau and Film Commission (SBCVB&FC) is pleased to offer GreenSantaBarbara.com, a planning resource for the sustainably-minded visitor on the official Santa Barbara County visitor website (SantaBarbaraCA.com). From exploring car-free and eating...MORE |
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June 2010 Short Cuts: Santa Barbara Travel News & Story Ideas 6.1.2010 TRAILER MADE FOR SUMMER — If you like the idea of camping but are not the “roughing it” kind, Vacation Trailers 2 U is your ticket to a low maintenance glamp-out. The full service company rents, delivers, sets up and picks up their fleet of deluxe, fully equipped 2010 model travel trailers by...MORE |
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May 2010 Short Cuts: Travel News & Story Ideas 5.4.2010 FESTIVAL FREE FOR ALL — Santa Barbara’s peak festival season is summer, when visitors can count on a free festival or cultural celebration nearly every weekend. Summer kicks off with the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival (May 29-31), a Memorial Day weekend tradition at Mission Santa...MORE |
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SANTA BARBARA SETS THE STAGE FOR IT’S COMPLICATED 12.18.2009 It’s Complicated, a new film from writer/director/producer Nancy Meyers, opens Christmas Day and beautifully showcases Santa Barbara’s enduring aesthetic appeal. Meyers directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in this comedy about love, divorce and everything in between. Much of the story...MORE |
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CELEBRATE A CENTURY OF CINEMA ON THE AMERICAN RIVIERA 12.2.2009 Santa Barbara offers film lovers, stargazers and history buffs a cinematic feast this winter. 2010 marks the 100th year of filmmaking in Santa Barbara, where California’s film industry originally planted roots before migrating south to Hollywood. Kicking off the milestone, It’s Complicated, a new...MORE |
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Sip & Savor the Flavors of Santa Barbara: Food & Libations Story Ideas 10.1.2009 Come visit Santa Barbara in spring to taste the new barrel samples at one of over a hundred boutique wineries. Our fields will be blooming with sweet, juicy strawberries, cattle grazing on rolling hills greened by seasonal rains, a reminder of our ranching history that is celebrated in the famous...MORE |
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“Sip & Savor” Web Video Gives the Inside Scoop on Santa Barbara’s Dining Scene 9.23.2009 Get the dish on where locals eat and drink from celeb residents like Iron Chef Cat Cora, “Brothers & Sisters” Star Rob Lowe and “The Bachelor” Andrew Firestone...MORE |
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Santa Barbara Overview 7.1.2009 Webster could run out of adjectives trying to describe Santa Barbara. Sexy, playful, alluring, romantic, gorgeous, easygoing, relaxed, sophisticated, cultured, friendly, peaceful, re-energizing, invigorating and dramatic are just a few wholly appropriate descriptors that come to mind. Oh yeah, and...MORE |
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Santa Barbara Story Ideas 7.1.2009 The rich and famous and savvy travelers have been escaping to Santa Barbara for the past century. Located just 90 miles north of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara is a world apart, and offers a soothing realm of distinct and subtle pleasures, and an intoxicating appeal that arises from the convergence of...MORE |
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Suggested Activities Cheat Sheet 7.1.2009 Whether you have a day or a week to experience Santa Barbara, this cheat sheet of suggested activities will help you create a must-see, must-do list....MORE |
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Santa Barbara Fact Sheet 7.1.2009 Set on the Pacific with 100 mi/160 km of sweeping coastline, Santa Barbara and its environs (including the Santa Ynez Mountains, wine country and seaside cities) lie just 92 mi/148 km north of Los Angeles and 332 mi/534 km south of San Francisco. Visitors may arrive via scenic Highway 1 (101), daily...MORE |
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Architecture on the American Riviera® Takes its Lead From the Sunny Mediterranean 6.1.2009 Few cities can claim architecture as unique as Santa Barbara’s: a satisfying blend of Moorish, Spanish Baroque, Spanish and Portuguese Colonial, Andalusian and other Mediterranean styles, plus aspects borrowed from Hopi and Pueblo adobes in our own American Southwest. The result is a consistent, and...MORE |
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Find Your Stoke in Santa Barbara: Vacation Ideas for the Surf Curious 7.31.2008 New Surf Exhibit Highlights Santa Barbara’s Surf Culture, Local Legends and Their Impact on the International Surf Scene...MORE |
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Livin' La Vida Locavore in Santa Barbara 4.1.2008 It's official. The "locavore" lifestyle has gone mainstream. "Locavore" was named the "2007 Word of the Year" by the New Oxford American Dictionary. And there is no better place to study up on what "livin' la vida locavore" is all about than in Santa Barbara, California-the American Riviera-where...MORE |
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Beyond the Rooftops: Santa Barbara's Red Tile Walking Tour 8.1.2007 Before their trip, travelers bound for the American Riviera can watch Beyond the Rooftops: Santa Barbara’s Red Tile Walking Tour to get a preview of historic adobes and more recently constructed buildings that embody the best of the seaside city’s Spanish-style architecture, with its wrought-iron...MORE |
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A Toast to the Coast: Santa Barbara County’s Cool Wine Country 12.12.2005 Any winemaker worth his toasty oak will tell you that great wine presupposes great grapes. And a prerequisite for great grapes is that the elements of terroir – geography, topography, sun, rain, temperature and soil type among them – align in a rare and highly favorably way. In Santa Barbara County,...MORE |
