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Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff | Thu Apr 27, 2006 | 12:00pm

Good Night & Good Luck

Welcome to The Independent‘s 2006 tribute to S.B. nightlife and the annual Spring Fashion issue. We figured a marriage of these parties was anything but a stretch, if not long overdue. Inside, Shannon Kelley Gould takes an up-close-and-personal look at the deejays of Santa Barbara; Sarah Hammill searches for love on State Street and a sober first kiss; and Ethan Stewart tries to find an answer to the question, “Do you dance?” The faces and figures pictured throughout will no doubt look familiar as local photography wizard Kenji snapped some of S.B.’s more recognizable deejays, bartenders, and dancers doing their thing for our fashion spread. So relax and enjoy-after all, there is no dress code or velvet rope for this party.

Arts & Entertainment By Russ Spencer | Thu Mar 16, 2006 | 12:00pm

Saint Patrick Davis

Patrick Davis, one of the most important public figures in the history of Santa Barbara, retires from public life this week. Only a few civic leaders have been as visionary, or as successful in creating meaningful change in Santa Barbara. Pearl Chase in the 1920s, Supervisor Sam Stanwood in the ’30s. Bob Lagomarsino in the ’60s, Robert Kallman in the ’70s, Hal Conklin in the ’80s, and a few others. But certainly in the last 30 years, no one even comes close to Patrick Davis, in terms of his ability to carry out and implement his view of the kind of town Santa Barbara should be. Years ago, Pearl Chase gave us outer beauty, and so it became Patrick Davis’s job in the ’80s and ’90s, as the town’s most active arts advocate, to nurture our inner beauty. The Santa Barbara we know and love, the arts community by the sea, the place of film festivals and solstice parades and world-class entertainment all in a Mediterranean setting with an intimate small-town vibe-it’s got Patrick Davis written all over it.

Arts & Entertainment By James Hanley Donelan | Thu Mar 09, 2006 | 12:00pm

The Rebirth of the Old Masters

If you enter the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from State Street,
walk past the fountain in Luddington Court and through the ancient
Greek and Egyptian art into the McCormick Gallery, the first thing
you’ll see is a stark reminder that fine art wasn’t always so
gloriously easy to access.

Arts & Entertainment By Nick Welsh | Thu Feb 23, 2006 | 10:55am

Fish Out Of Water

Two young Latino men clad in thin T-shirts and jeans marched up State Street, hands buried deep in their pockets in search of respite from Monday’s harsh, chilly winds. As they approached Victoria Street, they were startled by the sight of giant fish-six feet long, three feet in diameter, and ornately painted with a fly-fishing fantasy scene straight from the pages of Field & Stream-beached atop a green metal pole jutting seven feet into the air.

Film & TV By Indy Staff | Thu Feb 09, 2006 | 8:05am

Up from the Underground

Yes, it’s well and good that the world at large has come to know the name Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose knock-out performance in Capote is rightfully racking up trophies in the awards season (a Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critics Award so far, and an Oscar nomination with good odds for winning).

Film & TV By Indy Staff | Thu Feb 02, 2006 | 9:56pm

By George, He’s Got It!

Roger Durling Chats Movies and Life with George Clooney. It’s been quite a year for George Clooney, from writing, directing, and acting in the acclaimed Ed Murrow vs. Senator Joseph McCarthy black-and-white epic Good Night, and Good Luck to his dedicated onscreen work – weight gain, bad injury, and all – in the controversial Syriana, a film about going to war over oil.

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