Fine-Tuned Chamber is a Classic for Good Reason
Camerata Pacifica, the bold enterprise founded in Santa Barbara and now established around Southern California, embarks on its 34rd season.
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Recent Stories
ON the Beat | A Few Tasty Platters of ’23
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Venturing Behind and Within Santa Barbara Artists’ Studio Doors
Labor Day weekend’s S.B. Studio Artists’ Tour invites the public inside the artistic process and incubators.
Review | Between, Bewitched, and Bothered on the Sexual Divide
‘Passages,’ at the Riviera Theatre, explores a confused character’s split sexual affinities
ON the Beat | August Pop (and Anti-Pop) Harvest
Irony king Father John Misty, Frampton still coming alive, and Croz in the homage late summer spotlight.
By the Sea, Out of Mind at Sullivan Goss in Santa Barbara
Painter Nicole Strasburg further explores a blend of seascape realism and abstracting adventures.
Pictures and Riffs Telling Stories in Santa Barbara
Fine art photography and live jazz, plus wine and food, land at this CAW pop-up.
Review | Thinking, Sounding Big, Young the Giant Livens Up the Santa Barbara Bowl
Adventurous yet accessible band Young the Giant made a triumphant return to the Bowl on Friday, in a four-hour, three-act night.
Pop Queen Dionne Comes to Ojai’s Al Fresco House
Pop queen Dionne Warwick, 82, brings her vast, hit-filled songbook to Ojai’s Libbey Bowl.
Film Review | Coming Clean in ‘Between Two Worlds’
“Between Two Worlds,” with Juliette Binoche as an undercover writer in the janitorial world, screens at the Hitchcock.
