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1 month ago | 
independent.com | Starshine Roshell
Democracy Dies in Darkness. That’s the Washington Post’s lofty motto, and it’s always given me goosebumps, in the best way. But news from the Post sent unwelcome chills down my neck this week — along with a sickening déjà vu.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
independent.com | Starshine Roshell
It starts like this: Young men standing on a local freeway bridge waving signs that say, “YOUR BODY, MY CHOICE.” A dude strolling Carpinteria in a T-shirt bearing the same phrase. High-school boys texting it to female classmates. The phrase is a derisive flip of “my body, my choice” (see what they did there?), which feminists chanted for reproductive freedom in the 1960s … and again recently as we lost that hard-won right.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
independent.com | Starshine Roshell |Isabelle Walker |Ryan Cruz |Rebecca Horrigan
They call it the Proust Effect: when a sensation triggers a vivid and specific memory from our past. For Proust himself, the sensation was taste: a morsel of madeleine cookie melding with tea on his tongue in In Search of Lost Time. For some, it’s smell: a whiff of your mother’s perfume, or the unmistakable scent of whiteboard markers. Starshine and John Roshell get their 80s vibe on | Photo: CourtesyBut for me, this summer, it was sound that ferried me back to a bygone era.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
independent.com | Jerry Roberts |Starshine Roshell |Melinda Burns |Rebecca Horrigan
This story first appeared at Newsmakers with JR. Framing the election as hope versus fear, Democratic speakers at the first night of their national convention, sounded themes of freedom, patriotism and optimism for the future that would have made Ronald Reagan blush. “I mean, they’ve flipped the script, right?” said Kamala Harris biographer Dan Morain, on the scene of the convention in Chicago’s United Center.
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May 21, 2024 | 
noozhawk.com | Starshine Roshell
With half of U.S. adults getting their news from social media and YouTube, it’s tough to know what to believe anymore — but it doesn’t have to be that way. Three local journalists are offering free workshops to help Central Coast community members become savvy, responsible media consumers. Their presentation, Moment of Truth: Sorting Fact from Fiction in the Misinformation Age, includes practical tips and customized for each audience.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
independent.com | Jack Magargee |Josephine Trilling |Ryan Cruz |Starshine Roshell
Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse offered a proclamation for National Poetry Month on Tuesday, April 9 at the City Council meeting. As part of the ceremony, Dos Pueblos High School student Anna Matthews recited her award-winning performance of "The Listeners" by Robert Frost. She is the regional champion of the Poetry Out Loud Competition.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
independent.com | Dennis Allen |Jack Magargee |Ryan Cruz |Starshine Roshell
Wildflowers inspire poets and songwriters, photographers and artists, nature lovers and preservationists alike. There's something about their singular beauty assembled in an astonishing carpet of color that stirs the imagination. We attribute characteristics of persistence, determination, and freedom to the flowers that bloom wild - in our gardens or in parks, preserves, and special places where they are given space to flourish.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
independent.com | Nick Welsh |Jack Magargee |Ryan Cruz |Starshine Roshell
EAT, SPRAY, LOVE: I was sawing away at a slab of French toast when she wheeled up with her suitcase and sat down across the banquet table from me. She wore a blue T-shirt and occupied the indeterminate bracket known as middle age. She had dirty blonde hair piled on top of her head and blue eyes that leaked hot smoke. Out of her mouth poured every four-letter word in the book and many more that have yet to be published. Maybe, I thought, this was her version of prayer. Often, it's mine too.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
independent.com | Ryan Cruz |Nick Welsh |Jack Magargee |Starshine Roshell
There were a record number of 30 cruise ships that visited Santa Barbara in 2022, and though that number dropped to 22 visits in 2023, the city began to take a deeper look into ways to improve the 20-year-old cruise ship program by making it more environmentally friendly without losing out on a potential half a million dollars a year.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
independent.com | Ryan Cruz |Callie Fausey |Jack Magargee |Starshine Roshell
There's something special happening out at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta. Students of the DP Media programs - which include yearbook, video editing, photography, and the school's daily broadcast DP News - have been enjoying the brand-new, 14,000-square-foot Virgil Elings Media Arts and Communications Center, and the high-level work these students have been churning out this spring semester has earned them recognition among the best young journalists in the nation.
