Harsh Words
Cursed with insight into the most egregious aspects of contemporary relationships, Neil LaBute has forged ahead with his new-fangled theater of cruelty to a degree that would have been hard to imagine when he started out a decade ago.
Month: June 2007
Wachovia Launches Earth-Friendly Campaign
Santa Barbara will be home to one of the first eight “green” Wachovia banking offices, an environmentally-friendly campaign the financial
UCSB Summer Concerts
UCSB presents a series of summer concerts, beginning each night at 8 p.m. They start June 7 with Streaming the New America featuring UCSB’s most talented young players and faculty musicians in Lehmann Hall. On June 8, also in Lehmann Hall, the UCSB Gospel Choir performs a staged production directed by Victor Bell, featuring a selection spanning the entire history of gospel.
Wolf Lobbies for Creek Protections
Second District Supervisor Janet Wolf sought to insert additional environmental protections into a flood control project slated for San Jose
Citizens’ Alert
See a Tree: The sixth annual Goleta Valley Beautiful Heritage Tree Tour visits notable trees in the area. 9am-noon. Kellogg School, 475 Kellogg Dr. Call 685-7910.
Parading Peeps
“Here,” said Robby Robbins, The Indy’s director of new media, handing me a Styro-foam cutout in the shape of an enormous bone along with what appeared to be an overgrown cheese grater, “shape this.”
The Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra at the Lobero Theatre.
When Maestro Heiichiro Ohyama and pianist Max Levinson walked onstage together, they hardly paused before getting down to the business of ending the season. Appropriately enough, they chose the last work Beethoven ever performed with an orchestra: the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Opus 58.
Middle Eastern Oasis
Across the burning Middle Eastern desert the outline of palms against the sky means not only relief from the incessant sun, but that water will be close to the surface to slake parched throats. These landmark trees are Phoenix dactylifera, the date palm. Most palms require plenty of water and these desert-dwellers are no different.
The Westmont String Trio, presented by the CAMA outreach program.
An hour before the beginning of Memorial Day weekend, the auditorium of Goleta Valley Junior High nearly burst with the energy of hundreds of students awaiting a long weekend of freedom-but, good kids that they are, they all stayed in their seats to hear the Westmont String Trio play Baroque and Romantic works.
Meena Nanji’s View from a Grain of Sand
When we pick up a handful of sand and let it run through our fingers, there’s something about it that feels ordinary, tangible, everyday. It reflects the simple, fluid nature of life, even though, as filmmaker Meena Nanji captures in View from a Grain of Sand, the passing of sand through fingers can occur amid war, violence, and oppression and in refugee camps far from one’s homeland.
