If there’s a role model for summer romps lacking invention, conviction, or even enough good ideas to warrant the use of celluloid or film reels, it may well be the shameless claptrap that is the third Rush Hour film. Funny thing is, though, the natural affliction of bland-ifying sequelitis and cynical, phone-it-in compromises don’t hurt the viewer as much as it should.
Having blazed a defiant musical path to become one of the most dynamic and lauded musicians of our time, in 2003 Alejandro Escovedo’s life took a dramatic turn. The Texan collapsed while on stage in Arizona and fell critically ill as a result of the medication that was meant to be saving his life. Not only did Escovedo battle his way back to health with grace and humility, he did so with a renewed lust for life.
The County of Santa Barbara’s general fund had $11.4 million in undesignated revenue left over from the 2006-07 fiscal year,
Jason and Colleen met on her front porch years ago while smoking cigarettes and fell in love. He didn’t sing or play guitar, she didn’t play drums, and so naturally they decided the only thing to do was start a band in their living room. Although they had no real intention of recording, The Spires have since released three EPs under their own label, Beehouse Records, which now boasts half a dozen other Ventura County artists.
The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce is organizing efforts to gather donations for firefighters currently stationed at Earl Warren Showgrounds.
We’ve always heard that we are what we eat. But now, it seems, we are whom we eat with.
The last time The Whoreshoes trundled into town, they had a packed Brewhouse stomping and hollering. Their rollicking brand of saloon-drenched roots music was an instant hit and left Santa Barbara craving more. Armed with a new recording titled Get Lucky, a longing to escape from their San Francisco home base, and a wit sharper than a Dwight Yoakam suit, the all-female ensemble returns to town on Saturday night to satisfy the masses with an all-ages show at Muddy Waters.
A spoken-word artist and professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University, Gina Athena Ulysse was born in Haiti and migrated to the United States with her family in her early teens. Her dramatic monologue, Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, Me, and the World was staged last Saturday as a benefit for a new documentary film on Haiti, Poto Mitan: Haitian Women Pillars of the Global Economy, and was hosted by UCSB’s Center for Black Studies Research.
Santa Barbara County is investigating conversion technology as a way to address the 54 percent increase in trash production it
On Sunday, University of California President Robert C. Dynes announced that he will resign next year. Dynes, who began his
