Running Down A Dream
The Dirty Knobs, featuring Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, return to SOhO again this Friday, January 27.
Year: 2006
Riding Shaggy to Hell
In just over two years and on the back of two albums, Po’ Girl-the urban-minded but banjo-toting trio of Trish Klein, Diona Davies, and Allison Russell-has been riding around in their van named “Shaggy” to deliver a synthesis of everything Americana to crowds throughout the States, Canada, and the U.K. Their latest Vagabond Lullabies entails everything from countrified rap to citified twang. They come to the Lobero Theatre’s Sings Like Hell music series this Saturday, January 28, with opener Jake La Botz, an accomplished singer-songwriter from Chicago. -Matt Kettmann
The Sound That Slices
The Scimitar Cooperative, a group of music fans dedicated to drawing indie, punk, and metal bands to Santa Barbara venues, has made January 27 a big day for hardcore-hungry locals.
Celebrating Experimentation
New Works, presented by the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance. At Center Stage Theater, Friday, January 27.
Unlikely Love
Other dancers contributed performances that fleshed out the fantastic mood. Silvia Rotaru’s lead faerie leapt from a dream. Autumn Eckman and Alyson Mattoon were gorgeous demi soloist faeries, and Sergei Domrachev (in drag) provided his usual delightful comic relief as one of Beauty’s sisters.
Street Dancing
For ballet so close you can almost touch the dancers-and a glass of vino-drop by the Central Coast’s only professional ballet company’s second Evenings at State Street Ballet Studio series, on Saturday, February 4, at 7 p.m.
The Emotional Journey of Naomi Watts
Rewarding the Australian Actress’s Diverse Career
Montecito Award, Saturday, February 4, 8 p.m.,
at the Marjorie Luke Theatre.
L.A. Stories, Continued
Robert Towne’s Ask the Dust Kicks Off the Film Fest. – Even if Robert Towne had decided to quit the business a quarter century ago, his significant place in film history would have been secure and his epitaph would have read: “Here lies the creator of one of film’s most perfect screenplays.”
A Spine-Cracking Good Time
The main course of the Film Fest is joined this year by an explosive side dish of movies dedicated to sports that may kill you. Awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, and death-defying athletic antics are par for the course in the To the Maxx category-which is sure to have audience members chugging Mountain Dew and doing upside-down inverted flaming headstands in their theater seats all week long.
Dose of Reality
Sometimes we peek into people’s bedrooms or their cultures. Sometimes the subject is funny, other times it is brutal. But documentaries also express the passion and prejudices of the filmmaker, which means that they can also be self-indulgent, too long, and even wildly disturbing.
