Classic rock icon Leon Russell takes the Lobero stage Thursday, June 21. Russell’s list of collaborations is a veritable who’s who
of rock gods, including Bob Dylan and George Harrison, pictured above. For ticket info, call 966-4946.
On the deepest level, the pursuit of wave riding has much more in common with high art than it does with sport. Each wave is a once-in-a-lifetime canvas, providing the opportunity for the artist to draw lines whatever way he or she chooses.
This self-titled debut album demands you just throw some f*ckin’ Ds on your Caddy and get to poppin’; but really, you’ve got Rich Boy all wrong.
Taking the Solstice Parade theme of “Stars” as its cue, this summer’s art season promises galaxies full of everything the creative astronomer could possibly desire. From the blazing musical glory of John Star Wars Williams at the Santa Barbara Bowl to the delicate verbal magic of Shakespeare in the De la Guerra courtyard, we will be tempted by outdoor entertainments of every magnitude. Wherever you enjoy your art this season-indoors or out-remember to take up summer’s offer and make the night sky your constant companion. The stars are close. Just lean your head back and look up.
BOYS HIT THE BOWL: Last week, the Beastie Boys vowed to inject our coastal haven with some much-needed punk-rap debauchery when they added the Santa Barbara Bowl as a stop on their summer tour.
Whether or not Al Gore is responsible for it, mainstream America seems to be fast waking up to the realities of global warming and the associated doom and gloom of Earth’s rising sea levels. And while these new ocean heights will no doubt equal polar bears dancing on ice cubes and State Street going all Lost City of Atlantis, they also portend some very real and disturbing scientific trends, the depths of which the scientific community has just now begun to examine.
Sicko: My own temperature was 104.7 and soaring to the Mojave-Desert-in-July level. I was approaching the dreaded your-brain-is-mush state. I couldn’t stand up or walk without help. I was as weak as Brianna, my one-year-old great-granddaughter. And her future looked a lot brighter than mine.
There’s a new music venue in town, and you don’t even have to leave home to check it out. Starting this week, The Indie Music Show hits Santa Barbara Channel 17, broadcasting taped performances by S.B.-based musicians five days a week.
Starshine attends her first boxing match and quickly learns that man fights aren’t all they’re cracked up to be
These plants look as if they belong in one of Rousseau’s lush paintings, for they have that quintessential tropical look. Their common name equates them with elephants because their large leaves bear some resemblance to those huge flapping ears that made Dumbo famous. In botanical terms, their leaf shape is known as broadly sagittate, meaning like an arrowhead, but elephant’s ear is so much more fun.
