While in Portland, Oregon, for a journalism conference last week, I boarded a rumbly old school bus for a tour of the city’s all-nude strip clubs. The bus was crowded, as good journalists never miss the chance to peek into a furtive subculture or, it turns out, to look at boobies.
What do you get when Jack Johnson’s heartbeat-steady drummer Adam Topol is let loose on his own creative path and teams up with Franchot Tone on guitar, The Eels’ Koool G Murder on keys, TV on the Radio’s Dave Ralike on horns, and Sheryl Crow’s singer Chris Joyner?
Few people know California as intimately as Bill Dewey does. For more than 20 years, the photographer has been exploring the state’s natural and cultural legacy from a variety of perspectives. A licensed pilot and aerial photographer by trade, Dewey has amassed one of the most comprehensive and diverse collections of regional imagery.
Even if our coastal gardens are tottering along toward summer under the morning fogs, interior valley gardens are busting out with all the most flavorful summer crops. Very sweet corn, luscious peaches, plums, nectarines, and apricots, and many others are showing up in supermarket bins.
PIPE DREAMS AND SLIPPERY SLOPES: Calling all crackpots! If you’ve got a half-baked, hair-brained scheme for creating rain and making the desert bloom, it’s high time to haul it out of the closet.
Last week, my grandmother passed away. It was, relatively speaking, pretty quick and painless, and not entirely unexpected. Although those details were beside the point when talking to my dad, who’s mourning his mother and dealing with the shock of his newfound status as an orphan.
U and S.B.: The next Plan Santa Barbara meeting allows citizens to give input regarding the future of the city. 6-9pm. Westside Community Center, 423 W. Victoria St. Email info@youplansb.org.
Evening is a deeply emotional film based on the beloved novel by Susan Minot, who adapted it for the screen with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham (The Hours). It deals with the timeless love that binds mother and daughter, seen through the prism of one mother’s life as it crests with optimism, navigates a turning point, and ebbs to its death.
The names Payton and Jordan go together like Sweetness and Air, which happen to be the nicknames of Chicago sports legends Walter Payton and Michael Jordan. But long before they made headlines, a lad named Payton Jordan from Pasadena was one of the fastest human beings you never heard of.
Studio Three East’s director, Erika Carter, makes the most of her extensive social network with this exhibit, which allows Philip Koplin and Virginia McCracken, who happen to live together, to show as a team.
