Multi-Mediated Artistic Adventures
UCSB MFA exhibition, “Incandescent,” spans media, installation work and personal-political issues in challenging ways.
Josef Woodard
Recent Stories
Bringing on the Serious Musical Summer
The 77th annual Music Academy Festival kicks off another rich slate of classical summering.
Film Review | Grotesque Saintly Verses
Ethan and Maya Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ pays moving tribute to the life and work of Southern author Flannery O’Connor.
Double-Header on the World Folk and Blues-infused Rock Circuit
Santa Barbara’s music calendar gets serious, and folksy-bluesy as the season ebbs.
Collier Returns, Goes Big and Wide
Precocious British musical force Jacob Collier, in solo mode here last fall, returns in full-bodied, full-band mode at the Arlington.
Santa Barbara Family Gone Viral — Again
Groundbreaking 1973 PBS Doc “An American Family,” closely chronicling the then-Santa Barbara–based Loud Family, is intimately explored in a new family podcast.
Joshua Tree by Day and Night, Town and Rugged Country
Joshua Tree makes for an alluring escape, with its own ancient and modern groove.
Film Review | Dangerous Day Jobbing
The Fall Guy brings together “Barbenheimer” stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt in an action-packed, insider homage to stuntmen.
ON the Beat | Tale of Two Societies
The venerable Santa Barbara Blues Society and the Santa Barbara Choral Society do it up this weekend.
Swinging and Rhapsodizing, in Jazz and Symphonic Style
Jazz pianist Marcus Roberts returns for a double-header, in jazz mode at the Lobero, and as guest artist with the Santa Barbara Symphony, in Gershwin mode.
