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Mariachi in the Big Al Fresco House
Pardon the pun, but mariachi and Old Spanish Days have long enjoyed a happy cultural marriage. This is the time when the great American Mexican regional music with roots dating back 150 years in Jalisco, often heard on a small scale at weddings, parties, and in roaming revelry, takes the big stage of the Santa Barbara Bowl for the much-heralded Santa Barbara Mariachi Festival. It’s a fundraising event, benefitting scholarships for Latino students, on the Saturday of Fiesta for 27 years and counting.
The Palace Grill Is Closing After 39 Years
••• The Palace Grill on E. Cota Street will close after 39 years in business. Its tentative last day is September 8. ••• The Old Town Coffee outpost at Mosaic Locale on State Street has closed, reports Restaurant Guy. Goodland Waffles & Melts has taken over the space and is making coffee and tea. And apparently Buena Onda has left as well.
WAY BACK WHEN IN SB – Ancient Romans in Montecito
“The New Faith” was a religious drama that was the first commercial movie filmed in Montecito. Scenes were filmed at James Waldron Gillespie’s El Fureidîs estate. This was the most popular spot for filming silent movies in Montecito. “James Waldron Gillespie’s Italian villa in Montecito was used...
Late Artist Chris Potter’s Artwork Selected as Official NatureTrack Film Festival Poster
Late local artist Chris Potter’s portrait of “Potter’s Point” bluffs was selected as this year’s official NatureTrack Film Festival poster. The city of Goleta also recently renamed those very bluffs in honor of the late artist, who passed away from a rare form of cancer earlier this year.
‘Grounded: Works Inspired by, Connected to, and Reclaimed from Lotusland’
One of the most dramatic examples of the diversity, beauty, and resilience of nature is right in our backyard at Ganna Walska Lotusland in Montecito. An ingenious and inspiring art exhibit titled Grounded: Works Inspired by, Connected to, and Reclaimed from Lotusland, presented in conjunction with the nonprofit garden’s annual fundraising gala this weekend, proved to be a clever way to underscore and uplift the mission of Lotusland to advance our understanding and appreciation of the importance of plants in our lives and in the life of the planet.
Summer Activities Still Hot at Goleta & Santa Ynez Valley Libraries
With more than 1,000 participants reading books and earning prizes at their local library branches, so far, the Goleta & Santa Ynez Valley Libraries, is moving into the final chapter of the 2024 Summer Reading Program, Adventure Begins at Your Library. There is just over a week left in the...
Music Academy’s Choral Program Presents Concert of Young Voices
YPC National, a national choral organization, brings the Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC), Music Academy’s Sing! Children’s Chorus, and Concinamus, the national chorus of YPC National, together for a weeklong residency at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, July 22-29. The residency...
Sullivan Goss Show Spotlights Work of Artist Wosene Worke Kosrof
Sullivan Goss will present “Labyrinth of Words,” its third solo exhibit by contemporary painter Wosene Worke Kosrof. The exhibit runs July 26-Sept. 23 at the gallery, 11 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara. The show features 16 new paintings and will be accompanied by a catalog that includes a...
SB Funk Zone Live Series Thrives on Mutual Support and Admiration
SB Funk Zone Live, a series of bimonthly arts, wine, dine, and shop events, will host its next event 5-8 p.m. July 26. SB Funk Zone Live started on March 29 supports locally owned Funk Zone businesses that open their doors late, 5-8 p.m. the last Fridays of every other month (November’s event is swapped to December due to the holiday season).
Come to the Cabaret — in Solvang
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome! to Joe Masteroff’s Cabaret, coming to the Solvang Festival Theatre August 2–25! This production, part of PCPA’s summer series, is directed by Associate Artistic Director Emily Trask. For those who don’t know: the bones of this classic musical frame the anti-romance between an American and a showgirl who meet at the Kit Kat Klub in Berlin. The meat of the show is about living blindly, passively, refusing to attend to storms on the horizon.
Vinography Unboxed: Week of 7/14/24
Hello and welcome to my weekly dig through the pile of wine samples that show up asking to be tasted. I’m pleased to bring you the latest installment of Vinography Unboxed, where I highlight some of the better bottles that have crossed my doorstep recently. This past week included...
Junior Spirit of Fiesta Continues Century of Youth and Tradition
[Noozhawk’s note: One in a daily series leading up to Old Spanish Days Fiesta.]. The Junior Spirit of Fiesta has been a part of Santa Barbara’s Old Spanish Days Fiesta since 1965 when Jeannine Lopez was selected as the first Junior Spirit of Fiesta. There have been 58...
Erin Graffy: Musical Legends Take Stage for Ensemble Theatre Company
Ensemble Theatre Company was celebrating 45 years of its professional theater in Santa Barbara with its Curtain Up! Gala — an evening of entertainment in two acts. Act One was in the New Vic Theatre. Here they told us of the theme for ETC’s 46th season, “Legends and Legacies.”...
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