Cloud Climbers Jeep Tours

The best way to experience the Wine Country… Back-country roads & oak-shaded canyons with stops at 4 wineries. Custom jeeps, local driver/guides, door-to-door p/u.

Rodney’s Steakhouse

Open nightly at 5:30p. Reservations recommended. V MC AE. Featuring USDA prime-grade steaks, fresh seafood, baked lobster and nightly chef specials. Decadent deserts.

Spencer’s Limousine & Tours

884-9700. VOTED BEST of SB 7yrs in a Row! Specializing in wine tours of all Central California wineries with complimentary tastings and discounts. Gourmet picnic lunch also available. See our website for an additional discount: spencerslimo.com (TCP 16297)

Santa Barbara Winery

Two blocks from both the beach and State Street. This venerable winery is the county’s oldest (est. 1962), and offers many internationally acclaimed wines from their Lafond Vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley.

Luxury Limousine Service

LUXURY LIMOUSINE SERVICE: Custom wine tours. Call 805-965-4900 to Experience the Difference. (TCP# 15380-B)

SuperRide Wine Tours

683-9636 or www.SuperRide.net. Join us for a day of fine wine, gourmet food and breathtaking surroundings. Whether you’re looking for a romantic getaway or an afternoon with friends, SuperRide is exactly what you need. TCP 016456-P

Ehn-igmatic Journey

Erik Ehn’s The Saint Plays: A Director’s Journal

As an assistant professor in the Theatre Arts program at Westmont College, I am always on the hunt for interesting new material. In spring 2005 I discovered The Saint Plays by Erik Ehn, a series of short pieces Ehn describes as his “exploded biography, or the means by which the self is overmastered by acts of the imagination, by acts of faith.”

Swept Away

DEFINING OPERA: “What on earth,” asks the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark, “has given opera its prestige in Western civilization-a prestige that has outlasted so many different fashions and ways of thought? Why are people prepared to sit silently for three hours listening to a performance of which they do not understand a word and of which they very seldom know the plot?

Dueling Flutes

Camerata Pacifica. At Victoria Hall, Friday, February 17. Classical flute players — at least the Irish ones — are really rock stars. After a

Dizzy Fingers

Santa Barbara Symphony, conducted by Kynan Johns,
with pianist Fabio Bidini. At the Arlington Theatre, Saturday, February 18.

Well, that’s the way it goes. This was to have been Kynan Johns’s big roll of the dice, his chance to knock our socks off and be proclaimed the Santa Barbara Symphony’s new music director by popular acclaim, or something like that. In fact, Johns did about as well, and made as good an impression, as it is possible for a conductor to do in one rather short program of three works.

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