Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara has invited Santa Barbara’s finest artists and celebrities to create their own versions of one of the world’s most treasured symbols of girls’ childhood: the doll. Drawing from Girls Inc.’s motto-“inspiring all girls to be strong, smart, and bold”-these artists were invited to offer their unique interpretations of “strong, smart, and bold” in the form of a one-of-a-kind art doll.
In an official ribbon cutting ceremony featuring performances by music students, the Dos Pueblos High School Performing Arts Center had its grand opening on 11/27.
Santa Barbara County’s Superintendent of Schools, Bill Cirone, was named chair of the national Teachers Network this week.
While Household Ink certainly celebrates its love of experimentation, the “pretty tunes” to which Woodard alludes include a handful of carefully polished pop gems-including Christensen’s recent release, the effervescent Where the Fireworks Are.
I couldn’t help but notice a large group of Local Heroes who were missing from the Independent’s annual acknowledgments.
Gather around the “campfire” as you listen to amazing star stories and find out how the night sky impacted Native-American life. Renowned storyteller Joseph Velasco will tell the tales of the cosmos in a program titled Look Up! Native-American Star Stories.
Grand Canyon National Park slices the Colorado Desert like a deep, open wound, the Colorado River flowing freely like a severed artery. Teetering on the South Rim, I imagined the canyon’s visitors as something akin to being medically corrupt-a throng of grunge surgeons hovering above the imposing gash.
As the Santa Barbara Museum of Art prepares to close its Asian art galleries for construction, Asian art curator Susan Tai has organized a special exhibition of more than 80 Chinese silk garments, representing approximately half of SBMA’s permanent collection.
Cardinal Roger Mahoney and all California bishops announced today that they will celebrate the Virgin of Guadalupe on 12/2 by denouncing the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment sweeping California and the nation.
Idon’t crave a mascara that lengthens as it thickens as it curls. I don’t require a lipstick that renews as it stains as it plumps. I don’t even need a hairspray that protects as it freezes as it boosts. I just want to be pretty. Is that so much to ask?
