Computer Dating’s Happy Endings
Kate and Computer Dating: After her divorce, Kate (I’ll call her) had trouble meeting men. “I hadn’t dated in 20 years,” she told me. “How do you meet someone?”<
Year: 2007
Rikka Z and Friends at SOhO
On Sunday night, SOhO became a hip, country music bar that yearned for a more appropriate setting (like Austin, Texas; or Nashville, Tennessee). There was singing and dancing, as well as a few enthusiastic “Yee haws” hollered from the crowd. However, don’t let Rikka Z, Wil Ridge, and Forest Sun fool you: They’re all California natives, proving that quality country and folk-rock music isn’t always conceived in the South.
Circle 13
Husband and wife, Brent Brehony and Crista Carroll have been Circle 13 for three years, since Brent asked Crista to lay down some hooks for a solo project, and the two realized they were better together. They co-wrote 13 songs for their debut Come Feel This, a distinctive hip-hop album whose socially conscious lyrics should both inspire audiences and fill a void in S.B.’s hip-hop scene.
Angela Perko. At Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery.
In her second solo exhibition at Sullivan Goss, Angela Perko demonstrates that she has grown quietly into a position of preeminence among contemporary Santa Barbara painters who employ abstraction in their treatment of landscape. In dialogue with nature, her work glows with inner warmth, and the mirror of reflection yields to the lamp of imagination.
Positively State Street
DEVIL’S ADVOCATE: I’ve never been a big Incubus fan. Then again, I was never a fan of much of anything labeled industrial rock, alt metal, or even mainstream rock, for that matter. Not because I didn’t care for it, mind you, but because-growing up in the Sacramento suburbs with perfectly manicured lawns and matching minivans parked in each driveway-I didn’t exactly have access to music like that.
Kenny Loggins Plays Santa Maria
When last we checked in on our longtime neighbor Kenny Loggins, he was about to embark on a tour with his former musical sidekick Jim Messina. “That was two summers ago, and it was great,” said Loggins, calling from his Montecito home, where he’s currently psyching himself up for a menage un tour.
Nate Birkey Does SOhO
Trumpeting crooner, longtime Santa Barbaran, and current Manhattanite Nate Birkey kicks off a touring summer with a show at SOhO on Wednesday, July 18. So check him out before he heads to Italy for shows in Rome, Palermo, and Termoli. See natebirkey.com.
S.B.’s Top Chef
It’s one thing to lose; it’s another to lose in front of two million TV viewers. That’s what Clay Bowen had to face when he was the first of 15 “cheftestants,” as they’re billed, to be eliminated on season three of Bravo’s Top Chef. Of course there’s always consolation going back to a job in Santa Barbara, where Bowen works as sous-chef at the University Club (1332 Santa Barbara St., 966-0853).
Food Bill on Capitol Hill
Every five years, a legislative comet flies by and emblazons the D.C. political skyline. Unlike the celestial variety, its history and arrival is not illuminated or put on the front page by the media. For example, the 2007 Farm Bill, currently being debated in Congress, is sweeping legislation with the power to dictate our country’s future in food availability, genetic engineering, food safety, school lunch programs, water quality, organic farming, and so much more.
Creedence Clearwater Revisited
“My father used to tell me to turn this track up whenever I played it,” my father reminisced three days before I (unknowingly) was to review Creedence Clearwater Revisited. The track was “Born on the Bayou,” which happened to be the opener of Thursday’s concert at the Chumash Casino.
