Film Review | ‘Familiar Touch,’ Home Away from Home
‘Familiar Touch’ deals with transition into a memory care facility in an engaging, empathetic, funny, and even feel good way.
Josef Woodard
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ON the Beat | Post-Modern Madhouse Party, Academy Notes Begin
The Crosby Collective, joined by Jackson Browne, bedazzles and inventively medley-mashes a boomer setlist at the Lobero, and Music Academy of the West hits its first concert downbeat.
Review | Astral Planar Roadhouse Troubadour
Unique hybrid-genre artist Valerie June took charge of the Lobero Theatre with her earthy and ethereal charisma.
In Memoriam: Brian Wilson (1942-2025)
Beach Boys Co-Founder Brian Wilson, creator of the great album “Pet Sounds” and a masterful songbook, passes, though his songs remain immortal.
Serious Musical Summer Harvest Ahead
Takács Quartet’s 50th Anniversary Concert marks the launch of the Music Academy of the West’s promising 78th annual Summer Festival.
Everything Must Converge in Todd Capps’s Popping World
Multitalented musician Todd Capps releases a polished and potent solo album debut, “Everything Must Go.”
Sheen, Polish, and Social Substance
Painter Leslie Lewis Sigler’s ‘Kindred’ exhibition at Sullivan Goss expands on her signature super-realist style.
Listening With and To the Sounds and Sites of Ojai
Last weekend’s Ojai Music Festival, designed by flutist Claire Chase, was a nature-leaning contemporary music garden of delights and challenges.
ON the Beat | Dynamic Sibling-Powered Duo, Live Oak Festival Calling
Isata Kanneh-Mason and Sheku Kanneh-Mason return in duo mode, closing out notable A&L season, Live Oak Festival calls from SLO.
Black History Meets Film History
Varied, carefully-curated series of films make up the “Juneteenth Cinematic Celebration” at Riviera Theatre.
