Year: 2006

The Chanteuse Thing

“REAL JAZZ” SINGERS’ CLUB: Last week, the calmly remarkable jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton strolled onstage at SOhO, appearing with the hot, Los Angeles-based Chris Walden Big Band. It was as if she were just a girl singer who drove up for the gig, instead of what she is: one of the very finest living jazz singers – of the “real jazz” singer category. That odd “real” qualifier attests to stylistic fuzziness in the current jazz singer trade, with vocalists freely taking side trips.

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD:

Santa Barbara City Hall’s efforts to craft a neighborhood preservation ordinance have been anything but easy, and they promise to become even more cumbersome. After touring neighborhoods threatened by McMansionization last week, a clear majority of city planning commissioners favor a new ordinance that sets limits on the size of residential remodels and expansions.

Goooooooal in a Glass

Bringing Wine to the World Cup

My father and I have been exchanging emails about FIFA’s World Cup Soccer. I was born in the Azores Islands, about 800 miles off the coast of Portugal, on one of the smaller islands named Terceira. Soccer is our island’s collective sport of choice.

The Gamer’s Soundtrack

Lompoc’s MoonTech Studios Makes the Music for Video Games

When a video-game player races an automobile over a virtual landscape, detonates buildings, and destroys enemies with fantastic weapons, it’s the visual action that provides the bulk of the experience. Yet the soundtrack of a video game, though perhaps secondary to the onscreen action, comprises a powerful dimension of emotional stimuli.