Review | Believe the Hype of ‘The Odyssey’
Writer-director scores an action/art-film-ish triumph with his adaptation of “The Odyssey,” creating a thinking person’s summer blockbuster.
Author: Josef Woodard
Expressions, Writ and Wrought Large
“Scaling the Walls,” gracing the walls of Channing Peake and City Hall galleries, celebrates the long-standing culture and new creations in the local mural field.
Grand, Adventure-seeking Pianist Takes the Spotlight
Respected pianist Conor Hanick, veteran Music Academy of the West faculty member, takes center stage in Samuel Adams’ Piano Concerto, at the Granada Theatre.
ON the Beat | Fjord-side Jazz Ventures, Opera on the Local Brain
The columnist returns to the historic Molde Jazz Festival, with ears wide open; Music Academy of the West gets operatic.
Dick Dunlap 1939–2026
Dick Dunlap was not an open book kind of guy. He had an air of mystique and soft-spoken introspection about
Review | Ready for Their Close-Ups
“Rose of Nevada,” from genuine auteur Mark Jenkins, gives an alluring artistic sheen to the supernatural thriller genre.
Chamber Music Matters, in Dialogue and Practice
Echoes of the now-defunct Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra filter into the Lobero Theatre with a special evening of “Dessert with Mozart,” featuring longtime SBCO maestro Heiichiro Ohyama.
ON the Beat | Notes from the Road, Rotterdam Ahoy
Music Academy of the West keeps the beat; columnist heads to the North Sea Jazz Festival — @ 50 — on a jazz-seeking, brain-cleansing pilgrimage.
Operatic Powerhouse on the Town and on Campus
Noted composer Kevin Puts heads to town via the Music Academy of the West, featuring his one-act opera “Elizabeth Cree.”
ON the Beat | Alive and Kicking and Thinking at the Music Academy
As the Music Academy of the West season moves forward, the first in the “living Composer” component, the famed Missy Mazzoli, swings through town.
