Year: 2007

Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff

Get Alive!

Arts Alive! Is offering new fall classes after school and on weekends. Children ages 3-5 can explore art and dance while kids ages 6-12 can learn sewing skills, comic-book making, or ceramics. Teens are able to make clay creations, design fashion, or showcase art in a teen exhibition. Adults can join in with breakthrough open mike and digital art classes. All ages are welcome to use the pottery wheel, to create/refurbish books, or to play harmonica. Register online at artsalivesb.com.

Briefs By Indy Staff

New Transit Center Under Discussion

Santa Barbara City Hall and the Metropolitan Transit District are hoping to transform the Chapala Street transit center into a new “transit village,” capable of accommodating a significant increase in bus ridership.

Epicurious George
About Us By Indy Staff

Epicurious George

Though George Yatchisin came on board The Independent this June as our new food editor, there’s a good chance you had read his byline even before articles like his story on Downey’s 25 years on State Street [Aug. 23] made our cover. After landing in Santa Barbara in 1994 to teach writing at UCSB, Yatchisin began contributing to The Indy‘s music and book sections long before he became our resident foodie. A native of East Hanover, New Jerseyhome of NabiscoYatchisin has so far restrained himself from sneaking Oreos and Triscuits into the food page. “Santa Barbara is great,” he said of his current home’s reputation as a culinary hotspot. “There’s a lot going on here, from what’s being grown to how it’s presented.”

Galactic
Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff

Galactic

When New Orleans’s jam-funk kings Galactic hooked up with the hottest independent rappers-from Lyrics Born, Boots Riley, and Gift of Gab to Juvenile, ladybug from Digital Planets, and Chali 2na-the result was exactly what you’d expect: lyric-laden party music with a socially conscious bent.

Plugging In, Swinging Left
Arts & Entertainment By

Plugging In, Swinging Left

JAZZ, TUNED IN, TURNED ON: By some serendipitous fate, the new fall jazz season launches next week with a definite theme, having to do with the tasteful but unapologetic use of electricity. Young N’Awlins-born/NYC-based trumpeter Christian Scott brings his moody-groove sound to SOhO on Monday, and then the great John McLaughlin plays the Lobero next Thursday, September 20 with his fiery band the 4th Dimension.

Load More

Login

Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription

Not a member? Sign up here.