Thirty jazz artists and poets gathered Monday night at the Largo restaurant on Rue St. Joseph, raising $3,000 that will go to help victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. …

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will mark its 25th anniversary next week with a special sidebar featuring more than a dozen films during a sidebar entitled “Focus on Quebec,” …

“He always had a smile on his face.”So said Michele Thibeau, a former editor of the Chronicle-Telegraph, who worked at the paper with James W. Coates. Coates, 37, was working …