
George Yatchisin
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
Avocado Commission poster in the lobby | Photo: George YatchisinI was somewhere around Camarillo, on the edge of the Conejo Grade, when the avocados began to take hold. This was late April, and I was one of “a diverse mix of journalists, content creators, and retail and foodservice professionals from across the Western United States.” At least that’s how the California Avocado Commission described us in their attractively presented Briefing Book. We were all on a junket to learn to love Big Green.
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3 weeks ago |
independent.com | George Yatchisin
Sometimes the interview questions write themselves.
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1 month ago |
independent.com | George Yatchisin
Book Review | ‘What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory’ by Brian Eno and Bette A.
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1 month 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.
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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.
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