UCSB’s Gross Elected to Philosophical Society
Physics professor David Gross – who shared a Nobel Prize in 2004 and heads UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Month: May 2007
Davis Birks: Strata and Susan Manchester: New and Recent Works on Paper. At Edward Cella Art+Architecture.
Edward Cella has two compelling shows running concurrently this month, and both artists exhibit fully realized potential. For instance, it’s exhilarating to look for references in the art of Davis Birks-is that Agnes Martin, Robert Smithson, and Cy Twombly?-but after the initial, giddy rush of contact with such apparent visual intelligence wanes, a second aesthetic awareness of the artist’s firm conviction kicks in.
Frameworks Benefits
The outpouring of community support keeps on coming for The Frameworks/Caruso-Woods Gallery, which was severely damaged by a fire last month.
Cut Down to Size
What started with an audacious bang as a plan to cut the building height limit in downtown Santa Barbara by one-third ended with a whimper on the floor of the City Council chambers late Tuesday afternoon, capping a nearly three-hour debate over the scale and pace of growth. Rather than pass an amendment to the city’s charter-as first proposed-or an interim ordinance to reduce the height limit from 60 feet to 40, the council opted for a meeting of City Hall’s main review agencies to discuss the tools they already have to limit building size.
ACLU Defends Measure P Sponsor
Ever since Measure P, the ballot measure to relax enforcement of marijuana laws, passed with an overwhelming majority last November,
Preservation Trust Secures Loan for Jimmy’s
Jimmy’s made news again when the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation secured a $500,000 loan from the city earlier
Pick It Up
Coyote Bones’ Gentleman on the Rocks: Since Bright Eyes enraptured the indie world, Omaha has become a musical mecca of sorts, and this project from Jet by Day’s David Matysiak is the latest team effort from Nebraska. With help from members of Neva Dinova, The Faint, Tilly and the Wall, and Flowers Forever, this debut is jangly, melancholy, and fun, and equal parts poppy, subdued, and synthesized.
Fair Musical Trading
Is there something about the fragile state of the world that enhances our appreciation of culture far from these shores, far from the stomping grounds of “What, me worry?” corporate America, idiocy-baiting mass media, and “American Idolatry”?
Quiz: The Mother of All Quizzes
Quiz: The Mother of All Quizzes
Give a Little
The Ty Warner Sea Center is in search of sea-loving volunteers to join its Volunteer Sea Crew. Participants will introduce museum visitors to fish, marine invertebrates, and marine mammals of the S.B. Channel. A three-session training commitment and six hours of work per month is required. Call 962-2526 x104.
