Dance Review | A Dazzling Evening Dancing with the Stars
Popular TV show’s live tour brings excited tweens, moms, and me to Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre.
Recent Stories
Review | Four Decades and 400 Million Plucks Later, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Is Still Strumming Strong
April Fools’ Day show at UC Santa Barbara is a zig-zagging evening of fun.
Revelations Are Afoot from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Cultural phenomenon performs for two nights at the Granada.
ON Culture | Springing Into a Joy-Filled, Jam-Packed Season of Music, Books, and Thought Provoking Events
This edition of ON Culture was originally emailed to subscribers on March 28, 2025. To receive Leslie Dinaberg’s arts newsletter
A Passage to Novelist
An exploration of masculinity, race, class, violence, families, and football flavor Sameer Pandya’s “Our Beautiful Boys.”
Theater Review | ‘Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations’
The music is the real star in the Broadway touring show about Motown royalty.
Terminally Ill Mom Gets One Last Horseback Ride with Her Family in Solvang
Dream Foundation and Alisal Ranch helped bring Traci Glynn’s final Dream to life.
ON Culture | The Bowl, Buttigieg, Britain’s Famous Ukes, and a Museum Free-for-All
This edition of ON Culture was originally emailed to subscribers on March 14, 2025. To receive Leslie Dinaberg’s arts newsletter
Let Your Taste Buds Travel to France
Santa Barbara’s La Gourmandise handcrafted pastries and desserts brings a taste of the délicieux to town.
A Fair Pair Do ‘Fare Trade’
The immigrant experience via taquerias and lunch bars in a new photography exhibition from Patricia Houghton Clarke and Brett Leigh Dicks at Santa Barbara Architectural Foundation Gallery.
