Be a Model Before You’re Married

It’s a recent Saturday afternoon, and I-at long last-am a male model. I’m dressed in stylish clothes, sitting atop the colorful pillows of Chef Karim’s Moroccan restaurant, and holding my head at the perfect tilt beneath the bright lights.

Eyes Open on Quietness

Painters of the Desert: The Arid West. At the Wildling Art Museum. Shows through March 25.

Painters of the Desert: The Arid West, now on exhibit at the Wildling Art Museum, documents the abundant beauty that, for certain artists, exists in the quiet of the desert.

D Is for Droll

Tenacious D. At the Arlington Theatre, Tuesday, February 13.

Fusing the power of Kyle Gass’s mighty guitar and actor Jack Black’s theatric vocals, Tenacious D introduced a homemade brand of mock rock with its eponymous release back in 2001.

Wedding Etiquette

Weddings are one of those seemingly inevitable milestones that come along somewhere between the diaper eras. Whether as a bride, groom, participant, family member, or guest, these social events are impossible to avoid, particularly if you are me.

Quotidian Spy Games

The Lives of Others

Sebastian Koch, Ulrich M¼he, and Martina Gedeck star in a film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
First-time German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s engaging The Lives of Others was one of the sensations of the recent Santa Barbara International Film Festival and is also Germany’s bid for the foreign film Academy Award for good reason.

Law and Disorder

Former Santa Barbara News-Press editor Jerry Roberts sent out emails last weekend urging support for the Lawyers Alliance for Free

Singing Seim’s Praises

manfred_eicher.jpg Joe reports that the fourth annual Portland Jazz Festival boasts a celebration of the prolific German jazz label, ECM records, as well as the North American debut of saxophone sensation, Trygve Seim, the “real coup of the festival.”

Land and Sea

The Goleta City Council unanimously turned down former Councilmember Cynthia Brock’s request that it try to stop Comstock Homes sewage

Trend Killer

Back when the man who’s now my husband and I were deep in the throes of planning our wedding, we made a decision: To hell with the seating chart!

Heroine’s Journey

The Chalk Circle. At PCPA, Saturday, February 17. Shows through March 11.

Bertolt Brecht wrote The Chalk Circle in 1944 while he was a German exile living in the United States. Based on an ancient Chinese story, The Chalk Circle is a modern parable with a happy ending.

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