The Virginia EP: The sonic accompaniment to director Vincent Moon’s rockumentary A Skin, A Night, The Virginia EP is a welcome gift to old National fans-and a nice little bonus trinket for those who fell in love with the band following last year’s breakthrough album, Boxer.
A review of the Santa Barbara restaurant “to get your New York sandwich” fix.
It’s a familiar sight all over town as a small street tree or a decorative shrub in commercial planters. Home gardeners love it as well, probably because the flowers are so showy and come in myriad warm colors.
Summer’s here and the time is right for grilling. But if you’re too lazy, don’t have a yard to grill in because this is real estate-impacted Santa Barbara, or you just prefer dining out, our panel of food writers has immodestly decided to name Santa Barbara’s Top 5 Burgers, one of which, in true S.B. style, doesn’t even have meat but still passes muster.
The City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department, the Franceschi Park Advisory Committee, and the Riviera Homeowners Association are hosting a Franceschi work day Saturday, June 7, from 9 a.m.-noon.
In the big-screen version of Sex and the City, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) tells her husband, Steve: “I changed who I was for you.” Viewers will no doubt relate, but fortunately for those eager to reconnect with Miranda, Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) four years after the hit HBO series went off the air, the film remains mostly true to the spirit of the show, with clever writing and characters who struggle with their own failings but never give up on their friends.
Since the advent of the album cover, visual art and rock ‘n’ roll have gone hand in hand. And while the epic collage from the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the dazzling cover of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon are just some of the works that hold significant spots in the music-meets-art canon, nowadays bands and artists are taking the cross-medium collaboration to a whole new level.
In a feast for the ears and the eyes, the Edelweiss Choir of S.B. joins with L.A.’s Swiss Singing Society Harmonie for an afternoon of American, Swiss, and German classical music and alphorn pipes on Sunday, June 8, at 3 p.m., at Trinity Lutheran Church (909 La Cumbre Rd.). Donation of $9. Call 682-1537.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy • Mohandas K. Gandhi • Benjamin Franklin
It is December 1954 at the Lompoc Theater on H Street, and a pretty young woman in a cardigan sweater and prim scalloped collar sits in the ticket booth, her eyes demurely downcast.
