In 1989, the late, great Polish director Krzysztof KieÅlowski released a 10-part television series called The Decalogue, in which he addressed the lessons of the Ten Commandments in as many episodes. The series translated beautifully to the big screen and is considered one of the cinematic masterpieces of the last quarter-century.
Fiesta Drunkathon? So there are two Fiestas: one a delightful community block party, the other a drunkathon for people who hit town with no interest other than mass partying downtown.
Ventura’s Le Meu Le Purr formed in October 2003 as the bandmates’ separate projects were ending. Robin dared Aaron to write 10 songs in a month, who in turn asked Scott to jam on the songs together, and it’s been indie rock love ever since. The 10 songs Aaron completed on his dare became the band’s first album, The Sweet Smell of Asphalt. I fell in love with LMLP at an impressive SOhO show in May, watching them burst off the stage with energy in a speaker-climbing, genre-bending rock show, producing a whole lot of sound and feeling for just three guys.
The International Student Film Festival will be airing the award-winning films from its fifth annual jamboree at studentfilmfestival.org. The awards ceremony will also air in August on Santa Barbara’s Arts and Education Channel 21. The winners are broken down by genre, which include drama, comedy, documentary, animation, horror, experimental, and public service announcement.
This Week in History
Ban the bottle! Bottled water-which is officially a “food product” and therefore supervised by the FDA and not the EPA-is the marketer’s revenge on Earth. The bottles create unnecessary waste since they are often made from petroleum, and the water gets shipped great distances, which burns fuels and adds to global warming.
There is no food more simple and elegant than the humble egg. Each egg is a single, perfect cell, miraculously able to poof a souffle, smooth into a hollandaise sauce, or transform a dish of fresh salsa into huevos rancheros.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Santa Barbara County’s Emergency Operations Center in Goleta on 8/3 to sign a declaration of emergency
Following the announcement last month that the U.S. Forest Service may allow commercial logging companies into the Los Padres National
He was in retirement or exile for so long, effectively since 1979, that many American film lovers believed he had already died. But Ingmar Bergman, gone last week at 89, never wavered during that long isolation on his island home of Faro, and he never softened his intense scrutiny of the all-too-human condition, as can be seen readily in his last film, Saraband, which explored all the familiar wrenching themes: art in an existential age, love’s close kinship with rage and death, and a mystical devotion to the mysteries of women.
