• PUEBLO’s Third Annual Plaza Del PUEBLO Dinner, Auction, and Celebration takes place this Sunday at the Rockwood Woman’s Club from 5-10 p.m. Volunteers are needed to help set up, manage, and take down the event. To volunteer, email carmela.galvez@gmail.com or Vanessa at vsolis8@yahoo.com. For ticket info, visit sbpueblo.org.
The radiant smiles that broke out in the violin section during the third movement of John Adams’s piano concerto Century Rolls said it all. David Robertson and Orli Shaham delivered everything a young musician could hope for in a conductor and a soloist, respectively, as they led a rousing first orchestra concert of the academy season at the Lobero.
If you’re an avid reader, you’re always interested in what other people are reading, especially people with discerning taste. In compiling this year’s Summer Reading Issue, we decided to go to some of the city’s connoisseurs-highly acclaimed published writers-for a sample of the books on their bedside tables and in their carry-on bags this summer. Take note, all you budding writers, book group members, and bibliophiles. Here’s what Santa Barbara’s writers are reading.
Whether because of a lack of discipline or simply a tin ear, many of us have a great appreciation for music, yet have never mastered an instrument. For those whose creative forte is more visual than musical, this year’s Art From Scrap (AFS) Assemblage Art Show is an opportunity to create a masterpiece from a musical instrument-no sight reading required.
“Aren’t you a little young to be going to see Carol Burnett?” asked the woman behind me in line. Remembering being asked the same thing when I went to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show, I wondered if Carol Burnett’s humor would turn out to be more risque than I’d been led to believe.
It used to be that I would simply lean back at bedtime and fall sweetly into sleep, watching bright cinematic dreams unfurl until daylight touched my face. Not anymore. “A good night’s sleep” has become an elusive sort of fantasy.
It seems like there are plenty of book titles covering every topic, with a book for every season, and yet, new titles arrive on the stacks daily.
When Colette Waddell was studying Navajo culture in Utah as part of her UCSB undergraduate honors thesis, she acquired a Navajo name that translates to “woman who asks many questions.” She’s not sure if it was meant as a compliment or as a warning to anyone who might try to engage her in casual conversation, but one thing is certain: The Navajo family that named her knew her well.
Last month, the National Theatre Company in China wrapped up a five-night run of Caitrin McKiernan’s play, Passages of Martin Luther King, in Beijing. McKiernan attended Stanford where she majored in Chinese and African-American studies and originally hails from Santa Barbara.
Although I pity the image of the poor bovine with two bandages crisscrossed on his rump, unable to swat at pestering flies, I cannot stop eating the oxtail the Hungry Cat (1134 Chapala St., 884-4701) serves with grilled scallops, cauliflower, and curry in one of the odder, yet couldn’t-be-righter surf-and-turf plates.
