Year: 2007

Author Diana Raab Digs into Family History
Books By Ellen O'Connell

Author Diana Raab Digs into Family History

Closets have a tendency to accumulate artifacts that eventually become buried in time and dust. Sometimes these mementos of vacations, friendships, and family history are carefully organized; more often, they’re deposited in a haphazard pile whose layers represent the various periods of an unfolding life. As Santa Barbara resident Diana Raab points out in her new book, Regina’s Closet, a journal is a similarly stratified record of the eras it describes.

A Master’s Passing
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A Master’s Passing

ETERNITY TIME: Joe Zawinul could cut a tough image with the best and worst of them. The great Vienna-born jazz keyboardist loved boxing, like his old boss Miles Davis, and was often putting up his dukes and perfecting his stern gaze (also like Davis). He seemed to rule his bands, especially Zawinul Syndicate, with pugilistic, killing stares-the better to guide the spontaneous flow of the music and avoid predictability.

Anita Roddick 1942-2007
Opinion By Matt Wallace

Anita Roddick 1942-2007

On Monday, September 10, surrounded by her family, Dame Anita Roddick, OBE-a seemingly unstoppable force of nature-passed away after 64 amazing, hell-raising, consciousness-blazing years.

Living By Shannon Kelley

Beautifully Giving Peeps

In Santa Barbara’s social scene, fundraisers reign supreme. Naysayers need only have witnessed last weekend’s lavish Spanish-themed garden party benefit for the Breast Cancer Resource Center to be persuaded. And I, well, I only needed to survive the humiliating ritual of handing over my car keys to one unlucky valet faced with the unenviable task of taking to the wheel of my well-worn ride, leave the constructs of my writerly life behind, and pretend I belonged.

Camerata Pacifica
Arts & Entertainment By James Hanley Donelan

Camerata Pacifica

Among the dinosaurs and butterflies at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the crowd sensed something powerful would arrive soon, and it did. Barry Douglas and a string quintet of Camerata Pacifica veterans-Catherine Leonard and Stefan Milenkovich, violins; Richard O’Neill, viola; Ani Aznavoorian, cello; and Timothy Eckert, double bass-began delicately with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, but soon rose up in full strength and brilliance.

Judy Collins Comes to the Marjorie Luke Theatre
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Judy Collins Comes to the Marjorie Luke Theatre

With an exemplary career that spans nearly five decades and one of the world’s most pure, perfect, and instantly recognizable singing voices, Judy Collins could be forgiven for taking things easy, but that’s not her style-at all. With a new record of Lennon and McCartney songs out on her own label and an established second career as an author, she is as lively and perhaps more ambitious than she was in her early twenties when she took the 1960s folk movement mainstream.

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