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Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff | Thu Sep 14, 2006 | 12:00pm

Fall Arts Preview

Based on this autumn’s jam-packed arts and music schedule, it’s clear that even when summer goes away, Santa Barbara continues to play. It also means that it’s the time of year to unveil our annual Fall Arts Preview, featuring the best and brightest of the season’s cultural offerings. This time around, however, we compacted the guide into short listings-plus a handful of critic’s picks-in order to make more room for Brett Leigh Dicks’s Fall Arts feature on the upcoming 20th season of Sings Like Hell. But don’t fear, the extended events calendars are featured online at independent.com.

Arts & Entertainment By Indy Staff | Wed Sep 06, 2006 | 11:35am

Top Three Reasons to meet Colin finlay

The world’s underbelly is the heart of photojournalist Colin Finlay’s work.
A 42-year-old UCSB graduate who comes to the DoubleTree on September 15, 7 p.m., for a free lecture as part of an Adobe-sponsored national tour, Finlay has spent the past 17 years globetrotting to such downtrodden spots as Rwanda, Haiti, Romania, Sudan, and Bangladesh to cover famine, disease, war, child labor, and other atrocities.

Visual Arts By Darian Bleecher | Thu Aug 31, 2006 | 12:00pm

Spins Art

You may have already seen the paper versions of these clever postcards around town. Iconic beach town images get the graffiti, mustache-on-the-“Mona Lisa” treatment. But it’s the virtual versions of these images currently displayed on the Santa Barbara Conference and Visitors Bureau Web site that really say it all. Through the miracle of modern digital animation, we see these wholesome images go cutting-edge as the animated overlay appears and spreads before our eyes: a 1940s-era sunbather appears and is then covered in tattoos. A clean-cut Gidget-era surfer sprouts a Mohawk and stylized licks of flame. The images were designed to promote Off-Axis, the big new contemporary art festival coming to town this month, and the caption for all of them reads the same: “Edgy. Progressive. Mind-blowing. Not the adjectives you’d necessarily expect from Santa Barbara.” Exactly.

Arts & Entertainment By Randy Campbell | Wed Aug 30, 2006 | 11:22am

Dark Shadow of ‘Heaven’

“Heaven” floated on the summer airwaves in 2004, creating a career for the brothers Garza and their trio Los Lonely Boys (LLB). Beyond the tight guitar of Henry Garza and the tidy harmonies added by bassist bro Jojo and drummer Ringo, Los Lonely Boys’ number-one song showed this band was, most of all, authentic.

Visual Arts By Morgan Petrovich | Thu Aug 24, 2006 | 12:00pm

Concentric Circles

After a brief rain in Santa Fe Springs, the black remains of oil previously splattered across asphalt gather to form perfectly concentric circles. Shigemi Uyeda, a Japanese-American photographer, takes notice, but the lighting is not right. He waits, and checks back the next morning, hoping the arrangement has not been destroyed. With a stroke of luck and the help of the sun, the circles are still there, looking up and nearly glowing. The image is so perfect that it seems prearranged. It is abstract enough as a photo that the viewer may even wonder what the subject is. Click.

Arts & Entertainment By Matt Kettmann | Mon Aug 21, 2006 | 1:14pm

The Wendy McCaw Song

A funny, original ditty on the News-Press owner and her cohorts.

Arts & Entertainment By Ethan Stewart | Sun Aug 20, 2006 | 10:07am

Reggae on the River

Faced with the doldrums of being a surf addict living in a Santa Barbara summer, I sought out a little adventure a few weeks back and popped my Reggae on the River cherry. What follows is an attempt to document something that really can only be experienced.

Arts & Entertainment By Matt Kettmann | Wed Aug 09, 2006 | 12:35pm

Meet the Marleys

On Friday, August 11, the Roots, Rock, Reggae tour brings Ziggy and Stephen Marley, as well as Bunny Wailer and Ozomatli, to the Santa Barbara Bowl for a night to celebrate the musical legacy of Bob Marley.

Music By Alison Meeder | Thu Aug 03, 2006 | 12:00pm

Angst Rock Returns to the Eastside

The rebirth of Casa de la Raza, the old and new home for hardcore and punk.

Arts & Entertainment By Charles Donelan | Thu Jul 20, 2006 | 12:00pm

An American Adam in the Big Eden

It’s Tuesday morning, and Frank Goss has invited a thousand people to the Saturday night opening of his big new contemporary-art exhibition space on East Anapamu Street. That’s just five days away, and the cavernous former home of the Odd Fellows and the Book Den is still literally roaring with the sounds of multiple power tools and teams of men at work. As we enter, stepping over orange extension cords snaking this way and that, scores of electricians, carpenters, and painters swarm around us, and a fragrant polish shimmers on the expansive, raw stone floors. Goss could be concerned about his impending deadline, but you would never know it from his manner.

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