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All 24-hour party people are welcome at the first annual Vegas Music Conference, which is headquartered at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino this weekend. Conference events, which began last night, Wednesday, September 20, will continue all weekend, straight through until early Tuesday, September 26.
A solo exhibition by the abstract artist.
Shows through Sun., Oct. 8, Artamo Gallery, 568-1400.
Alia El-Bermani’s Perceptions of
Beauty A feminist painter’s investigation of the way
human physical beauty is socially constructed. Shows through
Wed., Oct. 18, Sullivan Goss Gallery, 730-1460.
Adrian Spence welcomes Warren Jones (piano),
Catherine Leonard (violin), and Ani Aznavoorian (cello) to the
first concert of the Camerata’s new season, featuring Beethoven’s
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Opus 47, “Kreutzer,” and works by
Rachmaninoff and Schubert.
War, politics, adventure, literature,
and nature shine in this season’s book and lectures circuit. And
don’t forget the annual S.B. Books and Author Festival, which goes
down at the end of this month. Once again, it’s a great time to be
a reader in Santa Barbara.
Much Ado About
Nothing A PCPA Theaterfest presentation. Through
Sun., Sept. 17, Solvang Festival Theatre, 922-8313.
Southern California’s sole fully
professional ballet company ushers in a new season with this
showcase of dances celebrating the restlessness and innovation at
the heart of American culture.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. And the more the leaves change, the more the Santa Barbara music scene offers a healthy cross-section of live acts for music fans. Indeed, as we slip into the colder months, we have both classic sounds-Lou Reed, Gladys Knight, Paul Simon-and newer fare such as Abijah, TV on the Radio, and Xiu Xiu, to help us make the transition.
Get off the beach. Put away the sun block. Just face it: summer has breathed its last gasps and you must now return to being a real person. But don’t let chilly reality dampen your spirits too much, for Santa Barbara’s movie houses have a delightful autumn season planned. And isn’t better to escape for the afternoon and not have to shake sand out of your pockets?
A new sculpture on State Street has set off a sometimes angry debate about public art, free speech, and the rights of corporations to protect their logos. The work-titled “W”-is by Santa Barbara artist Colin Gray, and is on display outside the Bank of America on the corner of State and Canon Perdido streets.
Any jazz season which includes an appearance by the great Sonny Rollins is a fine season, automatically. When the looming jazz icon brings his longstanding band to Campbell Hall on October 22, we’ll get another lesson in what’s cool and hot about the idiom of jazz, as only he can tell it.
