Year: 2007

Is HBO’s Comedy Fest Moving to S.B.?
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Is HBO’s Comedy Fest Moving to S.B.?

On May 11 in New York City, HBO announced that the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival (CAF) will not take place in Aspen, Colorado next year. Immediately following the announcement, an HBO spokeswoman (who requested that her name not be used even though she was on the record) confirmed that Santa Barbara was being considered as the 2008 location for the festival, which has attracted thousands of HBO stars, independent comedians, and entertainment industry executives to Aspen annually for 13 years.

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Give a Little

• Pacific Pride Foundation hosts the first annual Get Out and Golf Women’s Classic on Friday, May 25. Contests include the longest drive and the closest pin. Dinner, an auction, and a raffle will follow the afternoon activities. The event begins at noon and takes place at the Glen Annie Golf Club and Frog Bar & Grill, located at 405 Glen Annie Road in Goleta. For info, call 963-3636 x103.

UCSB’s 16th Annual Reel Loud Film Festival
Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff

UCSB’s 16th Annual Reel Loud Film Festival

On Friday, May 25, UCSB hosts what is arguably the most creative and noncomformist film fest in Santa Barbara, a town replete with cinematic celebrations. It’s called Reel Loud, which for 15 years has been pairing short (less than six minutes), silent student films with live bands to deliver quite an exciting evening of filmic fun.

Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff

Ojai’s Art in the Park

The 30th annual Art in the Park event goes down this Saturday and Sunday, May 26 and 27, at the Libbey Bowl in Ojai. It’s a great reason to get out of town and see some art from this mountainous town in the highlands of Ventura County. For more details, see OjaiArtCenter.org.

Positively State Street
Positively State Street By Indy Staff

Positively State Street

WRIGHT ON: Loudon Wainwright III, like so many musicians of the ’70s and ’80s, was once billed as the next Dylan. Unlike others, Wainwright, a soulful and slightly ironic folksinger who combines poetry and humor with a generational message, is still around.

The Indy Awards
Theater By Drew Mackie

The Indy Awards

As if to outdo the previous 13 seasons of Independent Theater Awards, this year’s event did, in fact, include everything and the kitchen sink. That’s because presenters handed out this year’s iconic black “i” statuettes at Center Stage Theater on the set of the current Santa Barbara Theatre production Miss Julie, all of which unfolds in a kitchen. The location didn’t mean that the Indys had departed from its characteristic aversion to the edge-of-the-seat tension that plagues so many award shows. By eschewing categories and nominees and cutting straight to the good stuff, the Indys have set a 14-year precedent of honoring the best theater in the region with minimal pitting of actors, directors, and technical people against one another.

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