Last year, UCSB’s Arts & Lectures successfully combined excellent filmmaking with global awareness by launching the first annual Human Rights Film Festival. This coming Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, May 21-23, the festival returns for round two, once again delivering documentaries and feature films that blend beauty and art with consciousness and consequence. Here’s a rundown.
The Buddha taught that everything is burning, a metaphor that reminds us of the impermanence of everything around us. According to this way of thinking, things that actually burn only manifest this nature more obviously and dramatically than those that don’t. This is probably of little consolation to Christi Westerhouse and David Cort, owners of Caruso-Woods Gallery/Frameworks, which was recently destroyed in a fire.
It was at Eric’s funeral at Arlington National Cemetery when Kruger came up with the idea for a memorial concert in honor of her brother. After gathering with family and friends for her first tribute show in Dallas on what would have been Eric’s 41st birthday, Kruger decided one show was not enough. Her goal: to perform in her brother’s name in every state in the Union.
New releases from Mother Hips, Mammatus, Joanna Newsom and Norah Jones
Quiz: The Deep Blue
For the record, though it pains me to admit it, I used to be a boogie boarder. While I have long since evolved beyond the lay-down sponge riding, the fact remains that not only did my love affair with surfing begin years ago in the prone position but also, when the conditions are right, I still occasionally kick my way into a beach break barrel or two, sliding merrily along, belly down and ass up, on what the Australians so affectionately refer to as an elephant’s tampon.
Santa Barbara’s diverse habitats make for some interesting hikes. With the Santa Ynez Mountains virtually descending into the ocean and the Channel Islands National Park an hour’s boat ride away, you can disappear into a wealth of ecosystems teeming with freshwater springs, riparian corridors, and majestic sand dunes. Here are three hikes you’ll never forget. (Be sure to bring plenty of water, sunscreen, a hat, sunglasses, lunch, and a camera.)
UCSB’s Chicano Studies Department is screening Voces Inocentes-a film about boys who survived the bloody, U.S.-powered civil war in El Salvador-on Tuesday, May 22, at 7 p.m. at the MultiCultural Center. The film is based on the life of Osc¡r Torres, whom some UCSB students have tracked down and convinced to come.
Hang with Helene: City CouncilÂ-member Helene Schneider kicks off her re-election campaign. 5-7pm. SOhO, 1221 State St. Email friendsofhelene@hotmail.com.
I recently met Wolf for lunch at Arts & Letters Cafe to talk about her new role as 2nd District supervisor. I’d never eaten at Arts & Letters before; to find it, you need to walk through the Sullivan Goss art gallery, perhaps a surreptitious way to entice your love of art as well as food. Once there, you find yourself in an open-air courtyard with a fountain punctuating your conversation, surrounded by watercolors and photographs.
