‘What was Santa Barbara like in the 1850s?’

When California became a state in 1850, less than 20 percent of Santa Barbara’s population was Anglo and many of these inhabitants had adapted to life in Mexican California by converting to Catholicism, marrying into Californio families, and developing fluency in Spanish.

Cat Power at the Lobero

Like Basil Hallward of Oscar Wilde’s The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Cat Power (Chan Marshall) is a performer who seems to reveal a piece of her inner most soul with every performance she gives.

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