She’s big, she’s powerful, she plays center on the world’s best team, but don’t come to a water polo game expecting Kami Craig to score a ton of goals. Her role on offense is to occupy as many defenders as possible and create openings for other shooters. In six games with the gold-medal winning U.S. women’s team at last month’s FINA World Championships in Melbourne, Australia, Craig was credited with three goals.
Richard Kaufman led the Santa Barbara Symphony for this pops tribute to the music of the Beatles, joined by Classical Mystery Tour, a successful Beatles cover band with a unique angle: They perform the Beatles’ music exactly as it was written, but with the assistance of various symphony orchestras around the world. The concept originated with Jim Owen, who has sung and played the part of John Lennon in the Broadway musical Beatlemania! and in other Beatle bands since the early ’80s.
Most Santa Barbarans knew Rex Marchbanks from his presence at the Santa Barbara Bowl. He was the burly guy with the bushy hair who always stood just behind the wooden crowd barriers in the plaza. He would be there in his Hawaiian shirt, shorts, and flip-flops after a full day of overseeing all of the things that went into putting on a show: getting the buses up the hill and unloaded, hauling the equipment onto the stage, and so on.
As part of May’s 1st Thursday, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents a collection of 18 animated music videos. “The Amazing Animated Jukebox” is free Thursday, May 3, at 7 and 8:15 p.m. at CAF in Paseo Nuevo. For more info, call 966-5373.
As testimony in the former childcare provider’s trial continues, the defendant tries to explain the poor living conditions her foster children we subjected to.
The proposal may calm the rowdy downtown scene, hoteliers hope.
Dale Pavich spoke to the Board of Supervisors About the Facility’s Potential Closing
Starshine questions how the shootings at Virginia Tech could have happened on a college campus when such places should be bastions of freedom and idealism.
Author Marisha Pessl talks about Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her debut novel.
The opposition comes in reaction to a spill near the Sespe Condor Sanctuary.
