State Street’s Sandbar was packed full last Wednesday with a crowd of young hipsters sporting trendy mullet haircuts, fedoras, and super-low V-neck shirts. They were there to see Datarock, the up-and-coming Norwegian discopunk band.
Joe Lodge was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1932. His father was a businessman, his mother a piano teacher. There were no lawyers in his family, but he decided as a teenager that he wanted to become one. His father wanted him to go into the family business, while his mother supported him in his desire to go away to college. His mother prevailed.
The 62nd annual Ojai Music Festival-the preeminent celebration of 20th- and 21st-century classical music in our region, and for that matter the West Coast-opens tonight, which makes this an excellent time to assess the state of contemporary composition.
From the spire of the Arlington to the sands under Stearns Wharf, our main drag is consumed by businesses that cater to the idea of going out on the town, which is why State Street is a party mecca for anyone in a 100-mile radius.
“If Vienna were a piano,” an Austrian music professor tells his American student in Old Wicked Songs, “World War II would be a delicate shawl draped over the whole thing.”
According to the statistics, Bob’s dad, Joe, was only one of many widowers who quickly and enthusiastically re-enter the dating world. “He’d been married to my mom for 50 years,” Morris recounted. “He was a very romantic man who loved holding hands and singing into somebody’s ear; he wasn’t going to stop just because he was 80 years old.”
Looking for something fun and active to do on a Wednesday night? Then check out Run Santa Barbara’s Nite Moves.
SUMMER BREEZE: Who knew that Jen Villa would find herself ensconced in the enviable California lifestyle after growing up in Massachusetts?
This month in Hot Off the Press, we’ve got a pile of personal stories by and about a set of names you could safely call legendary.
When the idea of peeping every bar and club downtown was suggested for our Nightlife issue, I wasn’t nervous.
