Degree recitals have a rule book-but Philipp Richardsen, with a nod to the audience, threw it out the window for his Doctor of Musical Arts recital Sunday night and took us on a trip instead. He didn’t play the mandatory baroque and classical era pieces, and we didn’t hear a single sonata.
This Friday, May 4, KCSB and La Casa de la Raza are bringing a slew of hip-hop to town, starting at 8:30 p.m. Call 893-2064 for tix. Here’s why your attendance is required:
The Jurkowitz Theatre at SBCC was a fittingly intimate venue for this drama about the knots of love and its evolution. The story follows a mature married couple, Charlie (Andrew Grenier) and Nancy (Marion Jessup Freitag), to the bluffs overlooking the seashore as they discuss their varying ideas of the way they each would like to spend their retirement years.
The actor and author comes to Borders on State Street to sign his new autobiography.
Quiz: Extreme Challenges
Santa Barbara beekeeper Bill Williams has imagined this scenario more than a few times during his 35 years on the job: Food sources would dry up due to an absence of pollination in orchards and fields and farmers would suddenly have no income. And, perhaps most importantly of all, society would gain a newfound appreciation of beekeepers (and bees) as regal stewards of the earth’s ecosystems and humankind’s fruit, grain, and vegetable supplies.
The Wine Cask Futures Tasting has become one of the most popular wine events in the county. Held twice annually-once in March and again in April-it attracts wine lovers from all over the southern Central Coast and Los Angeles.
The maxim that “little things make a difference” is affirmed in millions of ways every day, but perhaps never so explicitly as in the game of baseball. Case in point: The key hit in Santa Barbara High’s 4-0 victory over Dos Pueblos last Friday, April 27, was a bunt.
David Sedaris has a mean streak. I guess I should have been prepared for it from having read his books, but somehow, what comes across as a wicked sense of humor on the page sounds downright cruel when it’s said out loud.
In the Hole: Michael Santos, the Lompoc federal prison inmate who wrote three books and earned a master’s degree while behind bars, has been tossed into solitary for reasons that aren’t clear. From what I hear, prison officials claim that his latest book, Gangsters and Thugs, with true stories and a wake-up call to at-risk young people, is a business and therefore not permitted.
