“It’s never too late to become what you already are,” said George Eliot, who was 40 when Middlemarch was published. Dos Pueblos High School drama teacher Clark Sayre is 46, and he is taking his new one-man show, Inventures and Life Lessons, to Broadway in pursuit of a dream.
Even given the presence of jazz-phobia in America, it’s strange to reflect on how rarely jazz and Hollywood interact in this era.
Acid jazz seeped out of some laboratory or another in the ’90s, from the mouths and fingers of musicians bowing to the groove and interested in creating a latter-day variation of ’60s soul-jazz.
Sparked by a sense of despair about the war in Iraq and inspired by an article in the New Yorker, Laura Poitras set out on a dangerous, difficult, and ultimately rewarding film project: to express the complexities of the situation in Iraq through the eyes of Iraqis.
Mm-hmm, that’s good satire. We all know send-ups can be broad like Airplane!, rich and diffuse like Kung Fu Hustle, or lovingly cut from the same cloth as in Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness.
In his most famous performances, including Primal Fear, American History X, and Fight Club, Edward Norton has shown acting chops involving chilling layers of meaning, where edginess mixes with icy control.
Can the Santa Barbara Foresters move downtown? Can Bush be impeached? All that and more in this midweek Poodle update.
With the forced lobotomization now taking place at the News-Press, reporters and editors who’ve accumulated any body of knowledge of the town or their beats are being chased out by a series of management “reforms.”
Your eyes are not deceiving you.
For 24 years after Santa Barbara’s city government was formed in 1850, the ever-growing number of city departments were housed in buildings scattered around town. Initially, City Council met in members’ homes; by 1870, the city was spending $60 per month to rent a meeting room for the council in a commercial building. In a sense, therefore, there have been innumerable “city halls” throughout the years, but there have been just two buildings devoted solely to housing the machinery of the municipal government.
There are commercial products galore to assist gardeners in every task that they may face. One such need is for a flexible, plant-friendly material to gently keep a plant growing in the direction you have chosen. Among the most common items on offer that can help corral these wayward stems are man-made plastic tape and plastic-coated wire.
