As you probably guessed, Disturbia is Hitchcock’s Rear Window infantilized. In the original, James Stewart plays Jeff, an obsessive career photojournalist laid up nursing a broken leg and his brooding fear of commitment in a hot New York apartment made hotter by Grace Kelly. It’s a grown-up thing.
With countless opportunities to view dance performances from all over the world, here’s your chance to learn and practice a variety of them for just $1 a class.
From Java Jones, which now offers organic, fair-trade coffees and compostable plastic utensils, to travel business Green Pleasures, which at no extra fee makes contributions to offset your trip’s carbon usage, Santa Barbara’s small businesspeople are making exceptional efforts to be environmental citizens. Since 2000, the annual Green Awards have honored five businesses that exceed the call of commerce to save the Earth.
No human feelings cut so close to the heart as those engendered by the relationships within a family. Romantic love, intense as it can be, takes a backseat to the emotions stirred up by siblings-bonds formed from birth always take precedence, especially in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart.
The floor is littered with apple cores, road maps, and someone’s discarded socks. The smell of cattle overtakes me from time to time. And after the third hour, my butt begins to ache.
L.A.-based electric car manufacturer Little Radio EV will be in town for Earth Day, and you can check out its silent, plug-in wheels at a couple of locales.
There were so many singers onstage with the Santa Barbara Symphony for this performance of Brahms’s A German Requiem that it took a while for all of them to reach their places. It was beautiful to watch the rows of eager faces gradually fill five deep to the top, and a thrill to then see their 148 music books open in unison at a signal from the podium.
If any sector of Santa Barbara life should be on the cutting edge of environmental know-how, it should be our colleges. It’s no secret that UCSB has long been a bastion of clean living, at least as far as the environment is concerned. Its Environmental Studies Department has educated many about what must be done to live sustainably.
When I met director Edgar Wright, he walked into the room with an unbridled enjoyment that reminded me of a kid on Christmas morning. And why shouldn’t he be this way? His film Shaun of the Dead-a kinetic, romantic zombie comedy-became a worldwide sleeper hit in 2004 and now is a cult classic with legions of fans.
Assigning a grade to Santa Barbara County is a difficult prospect, as efforts toward reducing its residents’ impact upon the land involves examining the likes of college students in Isla Vista, affluent families in Montecito, and ranchers in North County. However, the county has made notable progress to ease the burden it and its residents place on the land on which they live.
