Although it may seem incongruous to imagine, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an excellent violinist and wrote his violin concertos in much the same spirit as his piano concertos-as works that could be conducted by the soloist.
As varied and expressive as the moods of the ocean are the personalities and purposes of the men and women who ride her waves. In a fabulous and occasionally brilliant rendering of this variety, Edward Cella Art + Architecture offers up two separate collections of anything but traditional photographs.
“Through darkness and light”-it sounds like a wedding vow, but it’s the name of UCSB’s fall dance concert, opening this Friday at the Hatlen Theatre. It’s no coincidence that the name conjures both the mercurial quality of human experience and the commitment it takes to stick with it; the works included touch on everything from love and grace to insanity and death.
Todd Haynes’s head-trippy quasi-biopic of Bob Dylan is not the first film to utilize the jarring effect of multiple actors for a single role. Among the notable experiments in the subgenre are Luis Bu±uel’s surreal That Obscure Object of Desire and, recently, Todd Solondz’s Palindromes, which aims to unsettle the viewer even beyond the inherently bizarre conceit of musical chair actors.
In conjunction with each of its shows, Gallery Ocho has begun hosting Dinner in the Gallery, featuring food from bouchon, expertly paired wines, and a facilitated discussion with the artists.
Since the gang related murder of 14-year old Angel Linares on State Street last March, city police state gang violence has resulted in one additional murder, 25 serious assaults, eight robberies, numerous acts of vandalism, and witness intimidation.
I could start this by giving you some terrifying facts about polar bears drowning in the Atlantic Ocean.
The tricky part about food with a view is once the sun sets, you’re left gazing at your date or your plate. That is, you can be perched Pacific-side, hung over the Grand Canyon, or tethered to a hot air balloon, but in the dark, all the scenery in the world doesn’t matter.
No writer on the American literary scene could get people steamed up the way writer Norman Mailer, who died last Saturday at the age of 84, could. While few questioned his skill and his name always elicited a certain kind of awe, it seems that nearly every special interest group, none more than feminists, had a gripe against him.
Members of the Campus Democrats and Queer Student Union of UCSB marched across campus 11/27 to rally support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).
