Cary Brothers
Upon the mention of an indie concert featuring three up-and-coming popularly eccentric bands, a high-heeled dinner crowd under dim lighting isn’t exactly the first scene that pops into mind.
Year: 2007
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills, who gave a great performance on Sunday night, knew it was funny to be playing a junior high school auditorium, and he didn’t let the audience forget it. Yet even when joking around, Stills revealed traces of the passionate seriousness of his generation. “Chemistry class is cancelled today,” he told us. “They blew up the lab.”
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By the Numbers
Rough Crossing
The song that ends the first act of a Broadway musical is traditionally a key moment in the development of the show’s story. In Rough Crossing, Tom Stoppard’s antic meditation on musicals, the first act ends with this type of big number, and the question it asks is one an audience is likely to be asking as well: “Where do we go from here?”
Jesse Alexander’s Photography.
Jesse Alexander is a jewel in Santa Barbara’s fine art lineage, with a successful photography career and a body of work that span decades. As a complement to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s current Made in Santa Barbara exhibit featuring the work of more than 40 area photographers, the Patty Look Lewis Gallery offers a modest but revealing show of Alexander’s iconic racecar images from the 1950s and ’60s alongside his more recent ventures into nature photography.
Ain’t No Fleas on Me
IT’S CHINATOWN, JAKE: Once upon a time, Goleta Water District meetings offered the best show in town. That’s if your idea of a good time is watching roosters claw one another to death or pit bulls chomp each others’ necks. Otherwise staid, sensible, middle-aged, propertied, and very white boardmembers could be counted on to lose their collective cool and throw a punch or two.
A Look at Santa Barbara’s Unsung Musicians
It’s a classic scene. The kid, acne-ridden and unapologetically angsty, sits in his room cradling a guitar, seeking six-string solace from the throes of puberty. Perhaps it’s a picturesque cliche, but have no illusions-the wild-eyed appetence of the teenage musician is not something to be marginalized.
Incubus
This column features the final two contestants participating in the Almost Independent contest. To read more of their entries and to vote for your favorite, click on the Almost Independent button. Voting ends on Friday, July 20, at 5 p.m.
Give a Little
• The Children’s Neurobiological Solutions Foundation will host its first annual Bowling for Brain Repair charity tournament at Zodo’s Bowling and Beyond on Sunday, July 22. Participants are asked to register in groups of four or more. Entry fees are $100 per team and prizes will be given for highest score, team spirit, and biggest smile. Zodo’s is located at 5925 Calle Real, Goleta. Call 898-4442 for details.
Adelaide Ortega Sees Past Her Blindness
I met Adelaide Ortega in April at the conclusion of the California Blind Golf Classic in Lompoc. She had parred the 17th hole and her emotions were soaring on the wings of eagles. Her drive carried a water hazard and skirted two sand traps to reach the green. “My first par,” she grinned broadly, looking toward her coach, “he was so excited.” Playing golf while blind is a team sport. Major responsibilities rest on the golfer’s coach, the person with working eyes who scouts the landscape, advises on club selection, and aligns the golfer with the ball. Ortega’s coach is Chip Milne, 71, a retiree who shoots in the 80s at Muni.
