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The 65-team NCAA men's basketball tournament begins this week. Defending champion Florida, North Carolina, Ohio State, and Kansas are the top seeds. In picking this year's at-large teams, the selection committee favored clubs from the power conferences.

The 100th Anniversary Celebration is a celebration event recognizing local organizations and individuals for their contributions to the community and United Way. Awards are given out in a variety of categories. Join us for United Way's 100th Anniversary Celebration, celebrating decades of partnership with local organizations, businesses, and service agencies committed to building brighter futures for local individuals, children, and families.

For his exhibition at SLOMA, San Luis Obispo-based artist Barry Goyette shows a series of portraits taken by a very specific mulberry tree as a site for portrait photography guided by the models, of varying stages of life. Attempting to reverse the traditional dynamics of power in portrait photographer, Goyette offers his camera in service to those he photographs, and they bring their own props, costumes, and stories – with the beloved mulberry tree as a key motif in all the images. Utilizing aging techniques in photography, Goyette seeks to activate slower ways of looking in the history of the medium.

John Magufuli, the new president of Tanzania, aims to cut over-the-top government spending and improve services. Opponents hope he fizzles out.

Thirty of Santa Barbara County’s top wineries will serve tastings, chefs will serve appetizers, and Grammy-nominated musicians will play jazz in a shady park at the 17th annual Los Olivos Jazz and Olive Festival on Saturday, June 10.

Singer Denise Donatelli will again lead her all-star “A Team” band of Los Angeles musicians from 1 to 4 p.m. in Lavinia Campbell Park in charming downtown Los Olivos.

Local makers of olive oil and related products will also be offering free samples and sales of their wares.

Enjoy signature cocktails and light bites while hobnobbing with more than 300 of the region’s top plant experts, collectors and aficionados. You’ll have the opportunity to bid on numerous rare and specimen plants and vie for the chance to take home exceptional botanical treasures. Featuring impressive contributions propagated in Lotusland’s nursery as well as donations from botanic gardens, universities, private collectors, landscape designers, horticulture specialists, and Southern California’s most esteemed nurseries, this is a must-attend event for anyone passionate about plants, and an opportunity to support the preservation and care of Lotusland’s extraordinary plant collections. Advanced reservations are required.

“Ladies Only Intuitive Party” is a gathering for women featuring a fun social night of interactive experiences at a relaxed pace. Come and experience pendulum work, tarot readings, contact mind reading and psychometry (readings from personal items).

Your guide through this adventure is professional mind reader, hypnotist and mentalist Allen Gittleson. Allen is featured on The Discovery Channel, TED and NPR. He is a member of the world famous Magic Castle, and Redfin named him one of the "Top Tarot Experts in North America.”

Admission is $20 (seating is extremely limited).

To make a reservation or for more information visit: https://ladiesintuitiveparty.eventbrite.com

We would like to invite community members to join us in connecting with local nonprofit and public service organizations.

With many changes and challenges this past year, it is the perfect time for agencies to share available volunteer opportunities and for our local population to seek out new areas of interest in volunteerism.

Join us for this FREE first time event! Special performance by the Conejo Senior Dance Orchestra. Over 25 local non-profit and public service organizations will have booths there.

State of Wonder, Ann Patchett's voyage to the Amazon, debuts at No. 4.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Alessandra Sampaio, journalist Dom Phillips' widow, and Jonathan Watts, Phillips' friend and colleague, about finishing the book Phillips was writing when he was killed.