Not if America’s Romance Guru Leon Scott Baxter has his way. Baxter will host a seminar for expectant couples this Saturday, March 24 titled Pregnancy and Your Relationship, which will cover such hot topics as why romance is so important during pregnancy;
ALL IN THE GETTING-TOGETHER: Collaboration and dialogue are part of the unique creed of jazz, given the music’s fluidity and its built-in improvisational imperative.
All gardeners are on the lookout for new and interesting plants to add to their garden. Regular trips to the nursery can prove disastrous to the pocketbook, however.
D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back: ’65 Tour Deluxe Edition: In this bolstered rerelease of the film that redefined concert movies, documentaries, and Bob Dylan, we’re presented with endless commentaries, an hour of additional scenes, a word-for-word follow-along program, and a flipbook of the ground-breaking “Subterranean Homesick Blues” video.
Starting up a minor league professional basketball team in Santa Barbara is hardly the riskiest thing Curt Pickering has ever done. Pickering, 51, has spent most of his adult life on the fringes of the hoop world as a traveling NBA scout and as a coach in far-off locales (Kuwait City, Winnipeg, Dubai, and Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela).
Greg Brown knows a thing or two about life. As any one of the songs from his 30-year career will tell you, he is a man who gets to the heart of the matter.
It’s a simple enough statement: “I want to dance better at parties.” It’s also a simple premise: take five men’s description of the role of dance in their lives and tell those stories on a stage using professional dancers.
Quiz: March Madness
This is the first entry in Five Dollar Words, a new Independent.com column about words, with a specific focus on those used particularly often in Santa Barbara. Yes, Indy reporter Drew Mackie acknowledges that writing about words is the kind of navel-gazing effort that makes writers feel good about themselves and, given the nature of online columns, will only result in reader comments – or writing about writing on writing. And Drew thinks that’s funny.
Almost like annual clockwork, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival programs a bit of French fluff to appease those film fans who like sweets with their bitters, cinematically speaking. This year’s model was Avenue Montaigne, France’s bid for the foreign film Oscar.
