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Too little ado was made of the recent regional appearance of Lawrence “Butch” Morris, the fascinating-can we call him visionary?-inventor of “conduction.” With this trademarked system of signals and a distinctive boundary-crossing conducting style, Morris idealistically mixes guided ensemble improvisation and written-out scores, jazz and classical, and other supposedly non-cooperating notions.
Carpinteria palmist Batya recalls an example of how reading the lines on one’s hands can sometimes startle people with insight into their personal lives.
-Fired S.B. News-Press reporter Rob Kuznia.
Worn out from the S.B. Film Festival’s relentless party scene? Well, brace yourself, because there is now officially a festival season in Santa Barbara and we are smack in the middle of it. Beginning on Friday, February 9 and continuing through Sunday, February 18, the Santa Barbara Symphony will be sponsoring a guitar festival.
Goleta City Councilmember Roger Aceves named Julie Solomon, a marketing consultant, to sit on the city’s first Planning Commission. The
Dwight Reynolds, a professor with UCSB’s department of religious studies, lectures on the historical impacts of the Silk Road.
CEREBRAL SIX-STRINGER PARADE: Guitar may be the most overrated and overexposed instrument in the world, given its ubiquitous thrum-and-strum on our stages, screens, CD players, iPods, et al. Below that noisy, primal, and simplistic musical surface, however, more musically intensive work is being done on the instrument. Next week, the Santa Barbara Symphony’s International Guitar Festival celebrates guitar as a serious expressive tool, in a way never before witnessed in this town.
“What’s your sign?” may have outlived its usefulness as a clever pickup line, but self-proclaimed astrosexologist Kiki T. believes the best way to seduce a man (or dispose of him) is written in the stars. Smitten with a Scorpio? “Call him on one of his many sexual innuendos : whipping back a dose of sexual banter filled with 10 times more smut.” Peeved by a Pisces?
Offering an alternative to the typical white-cube gallery, Jane Deering, owner of the eponymous space in Montecito, has turned her part-time home into a gallery space celebrating the contemporary art of two coasts and two continents. Between January and April she lives in Montecito, dividing the remainder of her time between Massachusetts, where her home is also a display space for contemporary artists, and London.
Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore star in a film written by Karen Leigh Hopkins and Jessie Nelson and directed by Michael Lehmann.
Because I Said So may just dish up a double-layer cake of poetic justice. Firstly, the mother/daughter characters of this fluffy, frothy comedy are bakers/caterers by trade, and of course, there’s a recurring gag of a cake dropping and splattering. Alas, the joke is unfunny the first time, let alone the last, and many of the other actual joke content in the film arrives DOA. In the script about a well-meaning but meddlesome mother (Diane Keaton) and her chatty catch of a daughter (Mandy Moore), the feel-good cliche pistons are working overtime, and you generally wonder if the film was released in this off-season for a reason.
