Dreamtime Visions, Past and Beyond
Santa Barbara Museum of Art exhibition culls art of diverse types and media mostly from permanent collection, around a theme of dreams.
Josef Woodard
Recent Stories
American Symphonic Moves
Santa Barbara Symphony focused on music from America in its latest concert program at The Granada Theatre.
ON the Beat | Enlightened Musical Garden Party
Lotusland ushers live music into the Garden; Elmer, Kronos, Pat, and James on the week’s calendar.
Pat Metheny Returns to a Favorite House
With “Side-Eye III+,” Pat Metheny reunites with the Lobero Theatre, an admitted favorite venue for the legendary guitarist.
Preaching the Gospel of American Opera
Contemporary American opera “Elmer Gantry” closes out the 10th season of Opera Santa Barbara from the multi-hatted Kostis Protopapas.
Kronos Quartet, 51 Years Deep and Counting
Celebrating American stories, Kronos Quartet returns to Campbell Hall with the West Coast premiere of ambitious new multimedia work “Three Bones.”
ON the Beat | Might as Well Jump
A buzzed-about and bedazzling David Byrne extravaganza, Lobero hoppings, serious Indian sounds, and more.
Putting the Art in Artifice, and Vice Versa
‘The Christophers’, the latest in Steven Soderbergh’s prolific output, is an artworldly cat-and-mouse game and an Ian McKellen showcase.
Review | Sonorous Bows and Girls
Danish String Quartet returns to town, with special spotlight on the Danish National Girls’ Choir, and the U.S. premiere of a David Lang piece.
On the Far Side of Normal
‘Normal’ fits neatly in the post-‘Fargo’ niche of film genres, where things seriously go bump in the night of small-town America.
