Summer Music Indoors and Out
Perfect July weather in Santa Barbara seems to include beautiful music, equally ravishing indoors at the Lobero and under a full moon beside a picturesque lake in wine country.
Charles Donelan
Recent Stories
Twelve Angry Men
Center Stage Theater has been transformed for this excellent production of Twelve Angry Men.
Hank Pitcher: Montecito Beaches 1978-2008
With the plans for Rick Caruso’s hotel project at Miramar making headlines, and the newly refurbished and thoroughly re-imagined Coral Casino now open for business, there has never been a better time to take a closer look at the legendary beaches of Montecito.
Courthouse Jazz Series Going Strong in Year Two
Premiere Events’ last-Friday-of-the-month jazz series heats up Santa Barbara’s Sunken Gardens.
Documentary Film The Unforeseen Examines Texas Land Development
For residents of Santa Barbara, few subjects rival the provocative power of the debate over the pros and cons of land development.
Katie Laris Directs Twelve Angry Men
Trial by jury occupies such a central place in the American system of justice that it can be easy to forget that it does not enjoy the same exalted status in other parts of the world.
Rumors
Upstairs, Charley Brock, the deputy mayor of New York, is recovering from a minor, apparently self-inflicted bullet wound, while below, in the living room of the Brock’s elegant, old-fashioned New York mansion, four couples participate in a kind of inadvertent contest to see who can make up the most outlandish story about what happened to him.
Lee Rosenberg’s Vineyard Valley Theatre Company Gets Amorous with The Voices of Romance
Something about the Santa Ynez Valley gets people like Lee Rosenberg thinking big.
SBCC Theatre Group’s Rumors
Neil Simon has very few rivals when it comes to scripting stage comedy.
Academy Festival Orchestra
The thrill of the opening Academy Festival Orchestra concert comes from a sense that everything is on the line for these young musicians, and that everything is possible. Imagine the pressure.
