Naomi Shihab Nye set the tone for her seventh visit to Santa Barbara with a quote by Rumi: “In this earth, in this soil, in ...

Dear Annie: I’ve learned something surprising over the years as a step-parent: Holidays don’t have to be confined to specific dates. In our family, Christmas Eve is just as special as ...

On the heels of the release of his new book of poems, Santa Cruz’s Gary Young draws new interest in the art and life of his mentor, the painter and illustrator Gene Holtan. An exhibition is on now at ...

In the case of the Hyundai Santa Fe "radically transformed" barely does it justice. Out has gone the inoffensive but generic look of old, and in its place you’ll find a much more striking and ...

Since the city's founding in 1610, the Santa Fe Plaza has been its cultural hub. Today, surrounded by numerous centuries-old buildings like the Palace of the Governors, the plaza continues to be ...

Patricia De Maria, a hardworking salesperson and native Staten Islander, died on January 17 at the age of 72. The cause of death was Alzheimer’s. Patricia was born in 1952, the daughter of ...

By Meryl Cates The ballerina Maria Tallchief was having dinner with her husband, the choreographer George Balanchine, at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan when the impresario Sol Hurok approached ...

The woman's name was Maria Zaytsava, and she was then just 19 years old. She was among tens of thousands of people, many of them young, who had taken to the streets to protest the reelection of ...

Former European Parliament member Maria Arena was charged with participating in a criminal organization amid the Qatargate corruption scandal, she told Belgian media. Several MEPs and officials are ...

In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...

The strong Santa Ana winds that fueled much of the L.A. wildfires’ destruction are expected to relax for a few days. Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images The fires around Los Angeles ...