Review | Souffle Gone South
“The Invite,” a funny-and-cringey dramedy directed by and starring Olivia Wilde, was one of the summer’s surprise hits, continuing its life on the small screen.
Author: Josef Woodard
Heavy Petal Pushing, Country Royalty in Training
Rising country star Sierra Ferrell juggles traditionalism with her own private musical muse, at the Santa Barbara Bowl.
ON the Beat | Further Adventures on the Miles-Coltrane Trail
Tenor saxist Ernie Watts burns up Grand on State, on a Miles-Coltrane tribute theme; Fiesta and MAW in the rear view.
Honey and True Grit
‘The Rivals of Amziah King,’ a genre- and gravity-defying film, takes on the “Bee Arts,” with thriller touches, feel-good vibes, and rootsy fine music.
Tales of Betty and other Folk Lore, Outta Cuyama
Folk band Cuyama Mama & the Hot Flashes plays SOhO in the wake of releasing an impressive debut “concept” album, ‘Betty Arlene’.
Zooming In on Arid Wonders
Paulette Donnellon’s exhibition “The Untamed Desert,” at Solvang’s California Nature Art Museum, celebrates the wonders and animal inhabitants of the Anzo-Borrego Desert.
Artistic Tides of Possibility
Veteran landscape/seascape painter Nicole Strasburg stretches her conceptual frame with her latest Sullivan Goss exhibition.
One Wonder Hit
Rick Springfield, still spry and kicking at 76, fired up the Chumash Casino crowd, closing with the elephant mega-earworm in the room, “Jessie’s Girl”
Spring Gone Wild, Minimalist Rebirth
Samuel Adams’s captivating “almost” Piano Concerto “No Such Spring” commands a bright spotlight at Music Academy Orchestra concert.
ON the Beat | Viva la MAW and Mariachi
A perennial, and peripheral, highlight of Fiesta is the Mariachi Festival, at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Saturday; Music Academy of the West, winding down, hits the town.
