Documentary Chronicles Marta Becket’s 40-Year Solo Career
The eastern California desert is a beautiful, desolate place-a land of sand and tumbleweed, creosote bushes, wild burros, and gusts of wind that whip clouds of dust high into the sky.
Month: June 2008
Songs of Heartbreak and Hope from the everybodyfields
In listening to the everybodyfields’ latest release, Nothing Is Okay, one gets the sense that they are being led on an emotional exploration.
This Is Our Town
Swing by Embarcadero Hall (935 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista) to check out Deanne Ledebuhr’s exhibit of thought-provoking photographs representing the growing street art phenomena and diverse occupations of Isla Vistans.
Brandi Carlile
“I’m gonna do a cutesy song,” giggled Sunday-night opener Priscilla Ahn. “It’s called ‘Living in a Tree.'”
Fresco Cafe North Opens in Goleta
Fresco owners Mark and Jill Brouillard have tasted success with their always crowded Five Points, but their attempts to open new locations have not quite experienced the same following.
Tibetan Lama Visits Santa Barbara
For centuries, Tibetan Buddhists have practiced a unique brand of Buddhism in their high-altitude corner of the Far East, remote from contact with most outsiders until fairly recently.
Three Reasons to Come Together for 2008’s Unity Tour
In July 2006, consummate eclectics 311 took to the road alongside Pepper and the world-renowned Wailers for what would become the band’s inaugural Summer Unity Tour.
The Quirky Cafe Quackenbush
In 1998, Ralph QuackenÂ-bush saw charm and potential in an old building on Bell Street in Los Alamos that had once housed the town’s General Store.
Positively State Street
While Crosby, Stills & Nash and Brandi Carlile spent their recent time in Santa Barbara representin’ for the good ole U-S-of-A with their similar but divergent forays into American folk rock, last week’s offerings from Club Mercy took a decidedly different-and undeniably worldly-approach to things.
WORD Isla Vista Arts & Culture Mag
“In I.V., the population is always continuous. It changes like every four years,” said D.J. Palladino, a volunteer adviser for Isla Vista’s newest arts and culture periodical, WORD.