Love or Money
Pianist Timothy Smith, professor of piano and head of piano studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage, will play a recital in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall (UCSB) at 8 p.m. Friday, February 10.
Month: February 2006
A Pale View of the Hills
Flautist Linda Holland is an artist of the pleasant surprise. In this concert, as in the Current Sounds concerts, the appearance of a contemporary composition on the program presents no occasion for resistance.
Rocking, Instrumentally, in the Free World
Stephen Perkins, the be-mohawked drummer, has rocked South Coast houses many times throughout the years-houses like the Arlington Theatre, the Bowl, and Ventura Theatre, where Jane’s Addiction, Porno for Pyros, and Love and Rockets have landed.
Wave Rider
It’s only fitting that the name of the environmental foundation being launched at SOhO this Friday is called “Next Wave.”
Kin Folk
When you’re born and raised in a place like Lakefield, Canada, ancestral roots reach rather deep.
Rousing Thunder
Dougie MacLean’s name might not be instantly recognizable here in Santa Barbara.
Letters That Will Live Forever
Writer/director Randal Myler and musician Chic Street Man share the relaxed confidence of veteran performers. Myler won a Tony for It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, and Spunk, Chic Street Man’s collaboration with George C. Wolfe in adapting the work of Zora Neale Hurston, is legendary in the theater world.
Quote of the Week
Das wants people to think he’s Joe Guzzardi. But I already am Joe Guzzardi. And let me tell you, he’s
Custody Battle
Former childcare provider Sylvia Vasquez, already charged with child abuse involving three of her four adopted children, faced additional abuse charges Monday after the court learned that Vasquez’s digital camera contained “several lascivious, nude, or partially nude photos” of her 12-year-old adopted daughter.
Cry Falluja!
Former deep-sea diver and guerilla-doc filmmaker Mark Manning spent the last 18 months grappling with a lethal wrinkle on the age-old riddle: If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to see it, did it really happen? For Manning, the fallen tree in question is the Iraqi city of Falluja, toppled in November 2004 by American troops who forced the exodus of some 250,000 residents and killed unknown numbers more.
