It was 1931, and a great year for the monsters. James Whale’s Frankenstein was number one at the box office, but Tod Browning’s Dracula and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde didn’t do so badly, either. Street-smart monsters flourished too: James Cagney was The Public Enemy, Edward G. Robinson became Little Caesar, and Peter Lorre sailed into criminal immortality in M.
The owners of three water pumps placed in Montecito Creek are under investigation by the National Marine Fisheries Service for
An eagerly anticipated double bill of rockabilly revivalists the Stray Cats and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Pretenders proved to be an endearing and enduring mix, trotting out hits from the common intersection of their MTV beginnings to the delight of the sold-out tattoo-and-comb-over crowd at the Bowl.
Santa Maria-based Quintron, designer and installer of large computer networks, hopes to double its annual sales to $30 million by
S.B. Central Library’s Faulkner Gallery will be screening the documentary Journey to the Flames: 8 Years of Burning Man on Thursday, August 16, at 7 p.m. The film follows a group of friends who trek to the festival and features eight years’ worth of footage. Admission is free, but donations are accepted.
For the remainder of August, the lovely folks at the Goleta Valley Historical Society present Music at the Ranch every Tuesday. This free and family-friendly weekly concert series invites an eclectic collection of bands from around town to take the stage at one of the oldest and most picturesque landmarks in the Goleta Valley. On Tuesday, August 21, the kid-tested, parent-approved sounds of Hot Lava will rock the crowd.
The Music Academy of the West loves its alumni, and that love was amply requited last Tuesday as one of its most distinguished alums, clarinetist David Shifrin, appeared in all four pieces on a program that could have easily been titled “con amore”-with love.
A one-of-a-kind life that began with a lovely bunch of coconuts; skyrocketed during conversations with presidents, global icons, and Hollywood heavyweights; intertwined itself into our culture via game shows; and rode off into the sunset on the backs of racehorses and world-class hotels has ended. Merv Griffin died last weekend after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 82, and he was my great-uncle.
Next Wednesday, August 22, Lisa B. Martin, founder and executive director of the Netza Project, will be the featured guest speaker at the Santa Barbara Sunrise Rotary Club breakfast meeting. The Netza Project collaborates to create equal access to quality education, literacy, and sustainable community development for all people; to honor the collective spirit of indigenous culture and celebrate diversity; and to work for social justice, cultural understanding and healing, and an end to poverty by empowering youth, women, families, and communities across ethnic and international boundaries.
You’ve seen those T-shirts: “If you’re rich, you live in Santa Barbara; if you’re famous, you live in Montecito; if you’re lucky, you live in Carpinteria.” (If you’re humorless, and not from what the Chumash long ago called Mishopshno, you may even have found them annoying.)
