Quiz: Go Fourth and Celebrate
Quiz: Go Fourth and Celebrate
Year: 2007
Goo Goo Dolls at the Santa Barbara Bowl.
“Girls used to give me their phone numbers; now they’re trying to sell me real estate,” Goo Goo Dolls’ frontman John Rzeznik confessed to his audience after a woman in the front row tossed her business card onstage. The statement is an apt metaphor for the trajectory of the Goo Goo Dolls’ career, which began some 12 years ago with the smash hit “Name.”
This Week in History
July 2, 1937
Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan disappear from the skies while attempting to fly around the world.
1st Thursday Reminder
Don’t forget that next Thursday, July 5, is the monthly 1st Thursday event all throughout the galleries, eateries, and public spaces of downtown Santa Barbara. The Indy is sponsoring a performance by Reid Spencer at Borders, and there’s plenty more fun from 5 to 8 p.m.
ShiiMac Halibut
It’s halibut season, and the firm, subtle, yet full-flavored fish can stand up to more than most fellow formerly finned creatures. Plus it seems to do well in concert with other tastes, as opposed to some fish that are happiest sushi grade and solo (e.g., salmon). I wanted to try to crust Alaskan halibut, but that seemed too hard to pull off-or stick on, as the case may be.
See The Itals, Save the Coast
One of Jamaica’s most famous reggae bands, The Itals-formed in 1975 by Keith Porter and Ronnie Davis, later adding David Isaacs and Porter’s daughter Kada, a onetime UCSB student-are coming to SOhO tonight, June 28, in a benefit concert for the Santa Barbara chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.
Sound and Fury 6-28-07
New Releases from Nine Inch Nails, Stars, Rjd2 and Klaxons.
Seeing Red, White and Blue
The Santa Barbara Symphony presents the 20th Annual July 4th Concert. The free show will feature various musicians, beginning at 3:30 p.m., and music by the New Sousa Band at 5 p.m. Events take place this Wednesday, July 4, at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens, on the corner of Anacapa and Anapamu streets. Call 898-9386
Wine Cask Sold Without Los Olivos Restaurant
After more than 25 years in business, Wine Cask owner Doug Margerum has sold his company to healthcare mogul-turned-restaurateur Bernard Rosenson, who’s owned and operated the Sky Room in Long Beach and will be opening the Yellow Rose in Summerland at the former Big Yellow House in the fall.
Positively State Street
EL BUKI IS BACK: Though the feathered locks and sequined costumes of Los Bukis are long gone, the qualities that made Marco Antonio Sol-s the group’s unstoppable force-his flair for the dramatic, consummate musicianship, and dashing good looks-are alive and well.
