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George Yatchisin

Santa Barbara

Writer and Editor at Santa Barbara Independent

Writer, eater, drinker, maker, promoter, dj, etc.

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  • 1 week ago | independent.com | George Yatchisin

    Book Review | ‘What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory’ by Brian Eno and Bette A.

  • 2 weeks ago | independent.com | George Yatchisin

    Editor’s Note: As has become a tradition, when a new Poet Laureate is installed, they read a poem to the Santa Barbara City Council in honor of the occasion. Given that our newest Laureate has made the ‘Santa Barbara Independent’ his “journalistic home” for the past 20 years (primarily in the Food & Drink arena), we jumped at the opportunity to share his new poem here.

  • 1 month ago | independent.com | George Yatchisin

    It would be easy to spend a ton of time teasing out where writer/musician Stuart Murdoch ends from where the main character of his debut novel Nobody’s Empire, Stephen Rutherford, begins.

  • 1 month ago | independent.com | George Yatchisin

    It’s no coincidence that the two main subjects of Sameer Pandya’s second novel Our Beautiful Boys are family and violence. Set in a vaguely Santa Barbara–ish fictional Chilesworth, CA (Pandya is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at UCSB), the book focuses on three high school football players and a vicious attack of a fourth student at a post-game party in a spot called the Cave House.

  • 2 months ago | independent.com | George Yatchisin

    Lodestar Whiskey Launches in Santa Barbara Have an Old-Fashioned with Your Men’s Fashions at The Optimist By George Yatchisin Thu Mar 06, 2025 | 3:30pm Add to Favorites Lodestar Whiskey founders (and cousins) Anna Axster and Wendelin von Schroder | Photo: Courtesy Lodestar Whiskey | Photo: Courtesy Whiskey could sort of use a de-stuffy-cation, no? Images of it harken to Western movies (which nobody makes anymore) and hardboiled writers or actors like Dashiell Hammett and Humphrey Bogart....

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