That ’70s Pop Culture Quiz
That 70s Pop Culture Quiz
Year: 2006
Cello of the Gods
Judgement Day Brings String Metal to Giovanni’s
The term “heavy metal” ordinarily conjures a very distinct group of images: things dark and evil, involving studded black leather, Viking sword fights, and fog machines. At the very least, an electric guitar should come to mind. After all, the backbone of every hard-rock band is the chainsaw guitar riff-unless that hard-rock band is Judgement Day, an Oakland trio whose members play drums, cello, and violin. No guitars, no kidding.
HIPSTER HAIKUS:
Gotham has hooked up with Broadway Books to bring the writing public the hippest poetry contest of the modern age: Hipster Haiku. To enter, write a 17-syllable haiku on the topic of society’s trendiest stereotype, the hipster. Send it to writingclasses.com/ContestPages/haiku.php before June 8. The winner will have his or her haiku published in Hipster Haiku and receive a 10-week Gotham writing workshop.
Peeping Tom’s “Peeping Tom”
Peeping Tom’s Peeping Tom (out May 29): The awaited release of Faith No More’s Mike Patton blends his heavy pulses with the suavity of collaborators ranging from Kid Koala and Dan the Automator to Norah Jones, Odd Nosdam, and Dub Trio.
SAFE IS SEXY
Three thousand UCSB students are perhaps more sexually educated and satisfied, thanks to the school’s May 17 Sex Affair, hosted by sex and relationships interns from the UCSB Student Health Center.
Eagle Eye
EAGLE EYE: The first bald eagle baby to hatch on the Channel Islands in more than 50 years is coming soon to a computer screen near you. Having cracked out of its shell earlier this spring, it is already the star of its very own reality TV show.
Paradise Lost
PARADISE LOST: A private slice of paradise just south of Jalama Beach County Park known as the Cojo Ranch is officially up for grabs. Widely rumored to be on the block for some time, the 8,580-acre ranchwith nine miles of untouched coastlinewas only recently listed on the Internet sites of Sotheby’s International Realty and Kerry Mormann and Associates.
Three Qs with . . . Rizorkestra
Rizorkestra, the one-man-hipster-blues-band extraordinaire, is on tour throughout the summer and is coming to Santa Barbara to perform at Elsie’s on Tuesday, May 23, and will also be broadcast live on KCSB 91.9 FM at noon on Monday, May 22.
Own Reward
Behind the Scenes with Drawings: Renaissance to Rococo
At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, through July 9.
Do you ever get the feeling walking through an art exhibition that the curator is worried you could be out looking at other images-bigger, more colorful, high-definition images? I’ve been in some galleries lately that were so multimedia and so high-impact that they ought to be on medication for attention deficit disorder.
This is not a problem for the current drawing exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Behind the Scenes with Drawings: Renaissance to Rococo gives you both your own space and rewards you for stepping in front of each of its works. In some cases, such as Luca Cambiaso’s “The Infant Jesus Taking His First Steps” (pictured), the reward is the charm of a simple family scene and a sure, light touch with pen and ink.
Big-Wave Peeps
Surf Film Chasing Dora Premiere
Last summer, while on vacation in Kaua’i, I attempted surfing for the very first time. (I confess I’ve never had much desire here; I’m too much of a baby to deal with the frigid water and the uncomfortable wetsuits it necessitates.) As we paddled out, my instructor Sparky (no joke) took a look around at the overcrowded waves and said, “It’s a travesty to the sport of surfing.” Admittedly, the overcrowding did prove to be annoying; the first time I managed to stand up, I found myself headed straight for another student’s head, and jumped off the board scarcely in time to avoid being party to an unintentional decapitation.
