Countdown to Film Center Ecstasy
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s grand Film Center project plunges into renovation mode, with fundraising efforts afoot.
Josef Woodard
Recent Stories
Review | L.A. Phil Shines, as Expected, in Home and Away Games
CAMA’s orchestral season closed with another dazzling performance by the L.A. Philharmonic at the Granada Theatre, although without the earlier promise of Boulez on the menu.
Embracing the “Viva,” with Access for All
As the idealistic “¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara!” Latin music series nears the 20-year mark, an endowment project signals the final goal of retiring Arts & Lectures director Celesta Billeci.
Shaham in the Symphonic House, Times Two
Santa Barbara Symphony season finale features celebrated violinist Gil Shaham in two separate programs at The Granada Theatre.
Paying Filmic Respects to a Jazz Trailblazer, on Screen and Stage
Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis heads to the Arlington to give the West Coast premiere of the modern silent film ‘LOUIS,’ with extra music on the side.
Artistic Sub-Texts
Sullivan Goss exhibition explores the space where words meet and mesh with art.
ON the Beat | Frivolity in Serious Clothing
Opera Santa Barbara ends an inspired, if traditional, season on a comic operatic high note, with ‘The Daughter of the Regiment.’
Feelgood to Go Festivaling
In its second annual nesting in Santa Barbara, the Illuminate Film Festival brought its feelgood and new age–adjacent big top downtown.
CAMA Unveils Season 107, with a Change at the Top
CAMA’s next season promises another strong plethora of orchestral and chamber concerts, while long-standing Director Mark Trueblood retires after nearly three decades.
ON the Beat | Sublimity, in Slices
The Santa Barbara Symphony and new Chorus give a moving reading of Brahms’ ‘A German Requiem,’ but undercut its power by interweaving Mahler songs.
