The Monday Club Opens Its Doors
The Monday Club, founded in 1924, is celebrating its Centennial Anniversary during a special Doors Open California event on Saturday and Sunday, September 28 and 29. Doors Open California is…
Guadalupe’s Royal Theatre Needs Operator
The City of Guadalupe is requesting proposals for a nonprofit performing arts organization to operate its Royal Theatre after all construction work is complete in 2027. Plans call for the…
Jubilee Honors Two Major Milestones
This event is scheduled June 15, 2024. Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) and Solvang Theaterfest are celebrating two significant milestones this year: PCPA turns 60 and Solvang Theaterfest turns 50. A…
SB Museum Director Sparks Controversy
Amada Cruz, the new director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, has abruptly canceled a scheduled exhibition over a lack of diversity among the two dozen represented artists. Cruz,…
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures: Worth the Wait
In “Field of Dreams,” Kevin Costner is called to turn his Iowa farmland into a baseball field. “Build it and they will come,” he is told. The same thought must…
Music Under the Oaks
Singer Lyle Lovett and I have at least one thing in common—we both made our first visit to the Libbey Bowl in downtown Ojai last week. California has been my…
Multicultural Center & Salon Opens in SLO
R.A.C.E. Matters celebrated the grand opening of Texture with a ribbon-cutting June 2, 2023. Texture has arrived, and for many people of color in SLO County, the opening of this…
Local Spring Concert Preview
Winter Dance Party at the Clark Center May 6 These concerts were scheduled April 29-June 17, 2023. At last, spring has sprung and that means the long, wet winter of…
The Eagles Soar Over San Jose
Photos by David Congalton This concert was onstage at the SAP Center in San Jose on February 21, 2023. Yes, I do know the way to San Jose, having made…
Two Dramas for the Price of One
The distance between Kabul and Santa Barbara is roughly 7,631 miles as the bullet flies, but for 100 minutes a rapt audience at the Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) at the…