With little in the way of advance advertising and no discernible media hype, Joe Woodard’s Headless Household consistently fills Center Stage Theater for an annual Christmas concert that doesn’t include any Christmas music.
How fitting that our persistently Freudian culture should produce its own theatrical genre, the “transference drama.” The story is always the same: An intergenerational odd couple, thrown together by chance, falls into a non-sexual love that recalls for each of them their families of origin.
A multiplicity of woodwinds and brass brought color, drama, and even some comic relief to the second concert of the 2006-07 Santa Barbara Symphony season. Mendelssohn’s incidental music to Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream opened the program…
It’s never easy admitting you are wrong, especially to a stranger. In Jeff Baron’s play Visiting Mr. Green, an ambitious young New Yorker named Ross Gardiner hits an elderly Jewish pedestrian with his luxury car and as punishment, the court orders him to do community service by “visiting Mr. Green”
Subscribers to Sings Like Hell expect nothing less than the best from programmer Peggy Jones, and she delivered with this double bill, offering two underground sensations at different but complementary stages of their respective careers.
People danced in their seats and the aisles for most of the night at this concert, a rare local appearance by a Top 40 soul artist. Standing or sitting, the crowd showed their love for these singers by keeping up a steady stream of squeals from the girls and encouragement from the guys.
They’re surrounding us, and we don’t even know it. People from all walks of life, doing special deeds to help their fellow human. These are heroes of the highest order, individuals and groups who dedicate their time, money, and skills to helping the less fortunate, empowering the powerless, and teaching the students who require it most. These are Santa Barbara’s Local Heroes, a breed that we at The Independent honor every year with this annual issue.
So here we go again. We give to you 23 individuals and groups who deserve our thanks and praise. Read on and be inspired to do your own works of good.
Click Here to read the Local Heroes Honor Roll 1986-2006
There are many reasons people have dinner parties, but how many are given for the express purpose of bringing together people of different faiths for an open dialogue about religious belief?
At the Lobero Theatre, Saturday, November 4.
Leo Kottke’s devoted fans got what they came out for-and more-on Saturday at the Lobero. Kottke delivered a powerful and typically eccentric set, and openers Honkytonk Homeslice showed themselves to be more than equal to the task of warming up for this acoustic guitar legend.
For those who have never been to planet Plaid, a short tutorial is in order. The four singers who make up the cast of Forever Plaid were killed in a traffic accident on the way to the first American Beatles concert in 1964.
