Film Review | Spies Like Us, and Don’t
Steven Soderbergh’s taut new ‘Black Bag’ is an entertaining joyride of a spy film.
Josef Woodard
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Review | Troubadour on the Mend, by His Lonesome
Luminous singer-songwriter-guitarist Jason Isbell returns to the Arlington with a new solo album and new family status in tow and in song.
Chineke! Orchestra Earns Its Exclamation Point, Heads to Town
After its 2020 concert was cancelled due to the pandemic, the all-Black London-based Chineke! Orchestra plays The Granada Theatre.
The ’70s Revisited, by an Insider/Survivor
Steve Postell, member of The Immediate Family, goes solo on record and helps pay tribute to CSNY at the Lobero on April 2.
ON the Beat | Savory Sounds from Colombia, Gonzo Pop Dude
Last Week’s musical highlights included woman-powered Colombian band Las Guaracheras and the Madcap Pop gem-polisher Benji Hughes.
Review | From Memphis and Montecito, with Love
Montecito-based jazz legend Charles Lloyd performs with his new Delta Trio, for his 20th appearance in the hometown haunt of the Lobero Theatre.
Review | Musically Swept Away by yMusic, with New Gabriella Smith Piece, ‘Aquatic Ecology’
Bold young composer Smith scores another winner at Hahn Hall concert.
Art Review | Explored and Inherited Memory Banking
Interdisciplinary artist Hương Ngô’s ‘Core Memory’, showing at Riviera Beach House, blends lyricism with family identity and displacement themes.
Review | Life as a Cadenza, Gilles Apap in His Elements at the Lobero
The regional and global star violinist ventures from classical music upward and outward in a Lobero evening in Santa Barbara.
Several Deadly Talents, Storm Large Goes Weill
Famed Kurt Weill interpreter seizes the spotlight in the Santa Barbara Symphony’s take on “The Seven Deadly Sins.”
