David Starkey’s imaginative play How Red the Fire blends truth and fiction to unveil the mystery of Emily Dickinson’s genius and to reflect on her losses and regrets.
Former ambassador Barbara Bodine is hardly the first to itemize the many U.S. policy failures in the Iraq War, but she may be one of the most qualified such critics, having been placed in charge of reconstruction efforts the month after the invasion.
Officially it turns 30 this year, but the facts are a little misleading. The Santa Barbara Blues Society, now the oldest in the country, actually began a few years before that.
A classic cautionary tale played out at this week’s Santa Barbara City Council meeting, where a cadre of Los Angeles consultants gave city councilmembers reason to be careful what they wish for.
Murray Perahia, who holds the position of principal guest conductor of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, remains one of the most traveled and best known American pianists, successfully combining scholarly attention to the music with passionate performance.
Playing guitar on a unicycle is just one trick that these Santa Barbara “technical autism folk rockers” have up their sleeves.
March 1 marks the second running of First Thursdays, the evening of art, music, and culture sponsored by the S.B.
On February 5, 26-year-old Caitrin McKiernan made two remarkable public appearances in Santa Barbara: a chancellor’s reception for approximately 60 people at UCSB, and an assembly at San Marcos High School for 1,300 students.
It begins as a shock. A hooded figure is seated in the dark, so close to us he might be a piece of wood. Flames flicker here and there against a field of black. We pull back and see a figure in all white, head down, in a bare room.
In an email to Mayor Marty Blum, former News-Press editor Bob Giuliano said the real reason for his termination was that owner Wendy McCaw was upset that Mayor Blum was quoted too many times in an article Giuliano approved.
