June 2007

Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff

Summer Arts Preview

Taking the Solstice Parade theme of “Stars” as its cue, this summer’s art season promises galaxies full of everything the creative astronomer could possibly desire. From the blazing musical glory of John Star Wars Williams at the Santa Barbara Bowl to the delicate verbal magic of Shakespeare in the De la Guerra courtyard, we will be tempted by outdoor entertainments of every magnitude. Wherever you enjoy your art this season-indoors or out-remember to take up summer’s offer and make the night sky your constant companion. The stars are close. Just lean your head back and look up.

Positively State Street By Indy Staff

Positively State Street

BOYS HIT THE BOWL: Last week, the Beastie Boys vowed to inject our coastal haven with some much-needed punk-rap debauchery when they added the Santa Barbara Bowl as a stop on their summer tour.

Living By Ethan Stewart

Life and Death in the Sandy Shadows of Coastal Armor

Whether or not Al Gore is responsible for it, mainstream America seems to be fast waking up to the realities of global warming and the associated doom and gloom of Earth’s rising sea levels. And while these new ocean heights will no doubt equal polar bears dancing on ice cubes and State Street going all Lost City of Atlantis, they also portend some very real and disturbing scientific trends, the depths of which the scientific community has just now begun to examine.

Opinion By Barney Brantingham

Man vs. Urinary Infection

Sicko: My own temperature was 104.7 and soaring to the Mojave-Desert-in-July level. I was approaching the dreaded your-brain-is-mush state. I couldn’t stand up or walk without help. I was as weak as Brianna, my one-year-old great-granddaughter. And her future looked a lot brighter than mine.

Events By Indy Staff

The Indie Music Show

There’s a new music venue in town, and you don’t even have to leave home to check it out. Starting this week, The Indie Music Show hits Santa Barbara Channel 17, broadcasting taped performances by S.B.-based musicians five days a week.

Starshine By Indy Staff

My First Fisticuffs: The Good, the Bad and the Bloody

Starshine attends her first boxing match and quickly learns that man fights aren’t all they’re cracked up to be

Living By Virginia Hayes

Elephant’s Ear

These plants look as if they belong in one of Rousseau’s lush paintings, for they have that quintessential tropical look. Their common name equates them with elephants because their large leaves bear some resemblance to those huge flapping ears that made Dumbo famous. In botanical terms, their leaf shape is known as broadly sagittate, meaning like an arrowhead, but elephant’s ear is so much more fun.

Events By Indy Staff

This Week in History

June 25, 1950

Communist North Korean troops invade South Korea, sparking the three-year long Korean War.

Theater By Charles Donelan

Company, in Concert, presented by PCPA Theaterfest.

The 1970s references in this production began before a word was uttered, not only with the period-perfect costumes, but with such details as the vintage answering machine that Robert (Colum Parke Morgan) listens to when he first appears on stage.

Film & TV By Indy Staff

La Vie en rose.

When Edith Piaf opened her mouth to sing, what poured forth came like a commanding but never overstated torrent. She had “lung power,” as an observer says in La Vie en rose, but there’s some deeper emotional voltage contained in that confident delivery; it’s as if, in the spotlight and at the microphone, she summoned a personal way to crystallize the pain of her humble, hardscrabble youth spent in a brothel, a circus, and on the mean streets of Montmartre in the ’30s.

Month: June 2007