Professional football has a new look in Los Angeles-it is the game of soccer, known as football throughout the world outside the U.S., and its human face is that of David Beckham, the English star whose impending debut with the L.A. Galaxy has prompted much hyperventilating by the media multitudes.
Arts Alive!’s annual Fiesta Art Competition is awaiting entries with the 2007 Fiesta theme, Celebrate Santa Barbara. Ages 5-13 are welcome to submit one 24″ x 24″ entry before the July 23 noon deadline. A $100 La Presidenta Purchase Award as well as first- through third-place prizes from businesses will be awarded to age groups 5-9 and 10-13.
TWANG THANG: It is no secret why artists Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang are headlining their current tour together; in terms of musical style, their compositions and creations are all over the board and the songs they craft, they craft well-very well.
The enigma of Iran-a country, much like America, where an extremist leader is disdained by many citizens-is on full-frontal display in the film Offside, Jafar Panahi’s “comedy” about women trying to watch their national soccer team in a males-only stadium. It shows at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Wednesday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m.
not-so-cuddly cougar: A capable stalk-and-ambush predator, the cougar hides in the underbrush or drops out of trees onto its prey.
There is much folklore out there about why marriages/relationships don’t make it. One of the most enduring is The Seven-Year Itch. Support for this phenomenon runs the gamut, with marriage counselors able to provide plenty of anecdotal evidence. I have definitely noticed the largest number of couples who enter counseling cluster around year seven of the marriage.
More than 100 years old, the Venice Biennale is the world’s best known and most prestigious fine arts fair. Filmmaker and University Art Museum Acting Curator Natalie Sanderson traveled to Venice this year with her mother for the biennale’s vernissage, a ritual installation/opening event originating in the grand salons of 19th-century Paris. The following are her selected impressions of this gargantuan collection of exhibitions.
At 23 years old, Brooklyn-based dancer and choreographer Austin McCormick is in possession of a body of knowledge and a skill set that few dancers of any age possess: the ability to read notation for Baroque courtly dances and to reconstruct them. Born and raised in Santa Barbara and now working in New York, McCormick brings his six-member Company XIV to Center Stage Theater this weekend to share his new take on an old tradition.
New releases from The Horrors, Keller Williams, Interpol and The White Stripes.
Now that just about everybody but Exxon has finally admitted that global warming is a reality, the opportunity to make money is obvious. From the labs of multinational corporations to suburban garages, inventors all over the globe are trying to find ways to rescue the world and get rich doing it.
Santa Barbara, which likes to think of itself as the birthplace of the environmental movement, is holding its own pretty well in this contest. The array of astonishing inventions pouring out of UCSB now includes film-thin photovoltaic cells as well as super-efficient LED lights. In the world beyond academia as well there is a groundswell of green innovators, and people eager to cultivate them.
