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This story has been updated. Another image has been added. For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did not exist.

“Let’s get out of here. I don’t want to see anybody.” Those were the words of polymath thinker, actor, entertainer and director Mike Nichols ...

The gigs were initially announced without revealing the band's identity. By Sophie Williams Wet Leg performed two intimate shows in Brighton and London earlier this week (Mar. 23 and 24), ahead of ...

Masaki Kashiwara received the honor, often regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, for work that combined different mathematical fields to solve challenging problems. By Kenneth Chang Masaki ...

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There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will become Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate. I will be passing the laurels onto ...