Cannibis Clubs Close
Fall-out from a Federal Drug Enforcement Agency letter-writing campaign to property owners of buildings rented to medical marijuana dispensaries continued this week.
Year: 2007
Pizza Guru’s White House Pie
Sure they’ve got vegetarian and even vegan pizza, but Pizza Guru (3534 State St., 563-3250) has a way with grilled chicken, and so, White House Pie is the way to go. The white sauce isn’t too rich or thick, and is so redolent of garlic you have to eat the pizza with people who (already) love you. The artichoke hearts, basil, onion, and sun-dried tomatoes give it a pleasantly Mediterranean cast, but the cilantro makes it a pan-global delight.
Manu Chao
Globalista Manu Chao returns with his first studio album since 2001’s Proxima Estaci³n: Esperanza. A champion unifier who has inherited the anti-real politik pundit mantle of Bob Marley and The Clash, Chao once again takes on globalization, denounces Bush, gives kudos to the Zapatistas, and poetically preaches truth to power. Tunes sung in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Wolof, and Arabic can be dug on grooves like “Rainin’ in Paradize” and “Me Llaman Calle,” which incorporate ska, reggae, rumba, and fusions of world music with rock and dub-all in classic Chao style.
Dawg-toberfest Rules!
Why not lead a German shepherd to the Brewhouse’s Oktoberfest that directly benefits DAWG (Dog Adoption & Welfare Group) on Sunday, October 7? And if Oktoberfest beer-generally more malty, more amber than your average lager-from the Brewhouse and elsewhere isn’t enough, there’s bratwurst and sauerkraut to be had.
Learn How to Pair Food and Wine Like an Expert
Okay, you might not land a job as sommelier at Paris’s La Tour d’Argent after four evenings with Sharon Coffield at the Wake Center, but you can put an end to showing up at dinner parties with an expensive bottle in your hand to cover the fact that you had no idea what to buy. Coffield’s immensely popular Adult Ed course, Food & Wine Pairing, begins again at the Wake Center on October 18.
Arturo Tello’s Mishopshno, Whitney Brooks Abbott’s Harvest, and Tom Henderson’s Slices of Life.
Fifty years ago in this town, Aldous Huxley gave a series of incisive, prophetic lectures, the third of which was entitled “More Nature in Art.” In it, the brilliant social satirist and late convert to Eastern and psychedelic mysticism argued that painting had become “an escape from the concrete : into descriptions : of our technological civilization.” What was needed, he claimed, was “something profoundly religious in landscape painting : to explore and express the layer of the unconscious which is beyond the personal unconscious.”
Meet the Band Contest Judges
Here are the deejays from KCSB, KTYD, KJEE, and KCRW who are helping us judge our bands contest.
Third Blue Whale Killed in Channel
The rotting remains of a 70-foot whale killed in the Santa Barbara channel washed ashore in Malibu this week,
The Dance of Culinary Secrets Unveiled
Too often when we think of food at the beach we think of ants amuck in our to-go cups. But Loa Tree Presents has a different idea, and so are offering two afternoons at Orella Ranch in Gaviota that will unite gourmet and good view in ways you always hoped were possible. On October 7, Edible Bliss from the Earthen Oven will feature the food stylings of Simone Temkin of Abundance Catering as she leads a class that features chicken marbella (fresh herbs, white wine, Spanish olives, and prunes).
Tony Bennett
As the Bowl season stretches deep into fall this year, and the concert-going experience becomes familiar through repetition, it’s a rare artist who can draw in even the most jaded Bowl regulars and win them over completely. On Sunday, Tony Bennett made it look easy. Dressed in a traditional white dinner jacket and sounding absolutely glorious at 81, Bennett appeared with a four-piece jazz combo.
