For this summer group show, Contemporary Arts Forum has commissioned 35 works based on the Sonotube, the cardboard cylinder used for the transport of art. Each participating artist was sent an empty Sonotube with the request that something related to “nomadism, interconnectedness, networks, and globalization” be returned, along with instructions for gallery installation.
July 26, 1775
The Second Continental Congress establishes the United States Postal Service.
The weather has certainly been off-again, on-again in the heat department. The trend, however, is toward warmer and warmer (those bouts of fog notwithstanding). The time to enjoy the exotic flowers of gingers comes soon. And the season to plant them is now while the soil is warm.
The long, hot summer days signal the approach of Santa Barbara’s favorite party-Fiesta. This year’s celebration promises to be as fun-filled as ever with myriad events including mercados, flamenco dancing, music, stock horse shows, and parades. Although Fiesta officially kicks off on August 1, as the following listings show, there are plenty of things to do during the run-up to Fiesta. So, dust off your Old Spanish Days garb and fill your pockets with cascarones and ¡viva la fiesta!
Delaney Gibson says she tries “to write interesting music that is still catchy, with kick-ass vocals.” But her music is more than “catchy.” Classically trained in opera and art since age nine, Gibson boldly breaks the mold of untalented, young female artists playing generic (read: annoying) pop songs, and brings her own genre to the table, labeling it “AlternatiVixen.”
Like Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady, Todd Rogers has guided a raw understudy into high society-in this case, to a position of preeminence in American beach volleyball-but Rogers’s relationship with the younger man, Phil Dalhausser, is one of equality and exquisite balance.
Robert Isaacson’s poetry comes out of the lineage of William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, William Stafford, Robert Hass, and Ted Kooser. Like them, he is a poet engaged in the wonders of this world-its land, plants, animals, and people. Like them, his talk is mostly plain talk. His poems sound the way we speak. His stories engage. Isaacson’s voice is emphatic, but not sentimental-a hard balance to keep. You read the poems and you want to know the man, to take a ride with him on his ranch, have a drink with him in a bar, share jokes.
While Nancy Silverton’s cookbook A Twist of the Wrist contains an impressive 137 recipes, at The Independent’s prompting she came up with the top five things in jars, cans, bags, and boxes to keep in your house to be able to whip up a satisfying meal any time.
Whether it’s through the infamously awkward “talk” with one’s parents or in a private conversation with a blushing friend, we all eventually learn that our lives did not begin when a stork dropped us at the doorstep. But today more than ever, pregnancy is less likely an accident and more often the product of careful planning, with many women having just one or two children, and doing so much later in life.
In one of the Music Academy’s highest profile concerts of the season, the Tak¡cs Quartet played three of the most popular string quartets in the classical repertoire on Thursday to a large and enthusiastic audience at the Lobero.
