They Encounter Them
‘Disclosure Day’, Steven Spielberg’s latest outer space-y film, is an optimistic blast of kitsch.
Josef Woodard
Recent Stories
Jazz Belongings and Other Adventures
Branford Marsalis Quartet, at 30, still shows how it’s done, with a substantial and era-hopping set at the Lobero.
Online Art Gaming
“Random Access: Internet Art,” at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, showcases artists’ inventive and subversive takes on life with the internet.
Memoirs of Culture-Based Incarceration in America
Multimedia artist Tama Takahashi’s MCASB exhibition recounts family trauma during Japanese American interment during WWII.
Film Review | In Search of a Song
‘Power Ballad,’ from John (‘Once’) Carney, is a sturdy, agreeably sentimental music dreamer saga showcasing new talents from Paul Rudd.
Review | Salonen Scores Big with Ojai @ 80
Ojai Music Festival, now 80, brings back veteran — and ever-young — master composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director, to winning ends.
ON the Beat | Academy Sounds Ahoy
Music Academy of the West kicks up its serious musical heels, launches summer festival, Live Oak Festival does up Father’s Day Weekend.
Curatorial Democracy in Action at MCASB
At the Annual “Arte de Pueblo” exhibition at MCASB, all are welcome, resulting in a democratic potpourri of art from these parts.
A Serious Summer Musical Cavalcade
The Music Academy of the West’s 79th annual festival feast begins, enriching the otherwise fallow summer months.
ON the Beat | Belonging Revisited, à la Marsalis
Marsalis Brood in Town, Continuing Santa Barbara has, thankfully, been pretty welcoming to live performances of the Marsalis brothers for
