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Las Noches de Ronda celebrates Spanish performing arts with live singing, dancing, flamenco, and folkl³rico dances. Latin-inspired treats will be provided by Elements Restaurant. Fri., Aug. 3-Sun., Aug. 5, 8pm. Courthouse Sunken Gardens. Visit oldspanishdays-fiesta.org.

Lyle Lovett, with k.d. lang.

Kindred alt-country crooners Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang both emerged on the country music scene as genre-bending mavericks. Both are gifted with captivating voices and a quirky wit. Each has garnered four Grammys. And both mesmerized the crowd beneath a dusting of ash and a mandarin moonrise at the Bowl last Saturday night.

Hail to the Chief

This year’s Fiesta Presidenta, Kelly Magne, witnessed her first Fiesta 20 years ago, and it was love at first sight. She started helping with the computers for Fiesta in 1995, somehow found herself in charge of 100 flower girls two years later, and has been a boardmember in charge of various committees since 1995. Elected in 2005 to coordinate this year’s Fiesta, Magne has chosen the theme Come Celebrate Santa Barbara, which she said describes “an amazing city, where it doesn’t matter where you are from; it embraces you and makes you part of a family.”

Kitchen Aid Coffee Grinder (and More)

If you’re making curry paste for Thai food, you might want to do it the traditional way-mortar and pestle-or you might decide you have a life and appreciate electronics. If so, nothing beats the KitchenAid Blade Coffee Grinder, which actually is the right size (compared to a food processor), and even has more oomph than the small ones.

The Incredible Lightness of Moving

My first move as an “adult” was when I packed all of my earthly belongings into my 1969 Toyota and headed west from Missouri to UCLA. How I crammed everything I wore and everything I had for setting up housekeeping into that square little Japanese car that looked like a shoebox on wheels is really beyond my comprehension. I even had a futon bed crammed in the backseat.

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