Turns out you can sell cheese-indeed, be surrounded by more than 125 different types of cheese, from cow and sheep and goat, from Red Dragon to St. George, from Australia to Zamora, Spain-for four years and still like it.
Never one to undermine the efforts of fellow comrades involved in organized workers’ struggles, let’s just say it pangs me to point out that movies like this tend to deflate the currently striking Hollywood writers’ contention that they should henceforth be treated like artistes.
The Rubicon Theatre Company (1006 E. Main St., Ventura) will be holding general auditions for the 2007-08 season on Monday, December 10, starting at 10 a.m. Upcoming performances include William Inge’s Bus Stop, Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and an adaptation of Willa Cather’s My Antonia. Interested parties should prepare two contrasting monologues, and arrive with two headshots and a resume. Call 667-2912 x230.
The Uneasy Chair is a social satire directed at the British class system and its idiosyncrasies. Five actors transport the audience into an antiquated world of spinsters, drawing room repartee, and ornate verbosity-but one that reflects a modern sensibility all the same.
For more than 40 years, Santa Barbara-based photographer Santi Visalli has turned his lens upon the world with purpose and grace. From elegant architectural studies to intimate portraits of the rich and famous, Visalli’s portfolio is as diverse as it is prolific, and includes many of the major cultural and social icons of our era.
What appeared to be a bomb at Lompoc’s Celite mining plant on Miguelito Canyon Road on 12/3 turned out to be a hoax.
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Just in time for the holiday season, What Would Jesus Buy? arrives on the scene with a simple but subversive message: “Stop shopping-start giving.” Despite the title, this documentary-produced by Morgan Spurlock (of Super Size Me fame)-is light on religious dogma and long on humor.
Gardening for Golfers: Trim Your Shrubs with Your Clubs is a new, self-published book by Santa Barbara’s Peter Blair, a VP at Rincon Technologies by day, youth golf volunteer by afternoon, and funny guy from morning to midnight.
Fighting the Good Fight: There are times to stand on principle, as we’ve all learned in the past 18 months or so. Just as I’m proud of The Santa Barbara Independent‘s courageous stand against turning over unpublished photos to the county, I find it shameful that the News-Press, so ready to unleash its legions of lawyers at the drop of a headline, didn’t join the fight.
