Year: 2006

By the indy

Too Much Music? Never.

EXTRA-COOL: Get ready for Extravaganza 2006! On Sunday, May 21, the UCSB Associated Students Program Board hosts its annual free, all-day music festival, this year starring Bay Area rapper E-40, whose song “Tell Me When to Go” is topping the charts. Pepper, an S.B. favorite surf/skate-inspired dance trio, revisits UCSB after a sold-out 2005 show, and old-school ’90s hip-hoppers The Pharcyde will drop their underground rap with a full band. The ever-exploding jam band ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) returns to its alma mater, which inspired them so much that they’ve even got a cut called “The Isla Vista Song.” Reggae band Rebolution rounds out the lineup. Doors open at 1 p.m. -Stephanie Cain

Uncategorized By James Hanley Donelan

Piano from the Old School

Classical Master Andre Watts Comes to UCSB

On Thursday, May 18, a powerful representative of traditional classical music will play a challenging solo piano recital in Campbell Hall. Andre Watts made his debut in 1963, when Leonard Bernstein chose him to appear on one of the televised Young People’s Concerts in front of the New York Philharmonic. For that appearance, he played Liszt’s E-flat piano concerto, one of the most challenging in the entire repertoire, and the result was inspiring: a new American prodigy performing on the CBS television network.

Blue & Green Guide 2006
Blue & Green By Felicia M. Tomasko, Matt Kettmann

Blue & Green Guide 2006

Our Annual Blue & Green Guide
In one of our region’s oddest years of weather ever, this year’s cold, wet winter slipped into the June gloom we all know before we even entered May. But sunshine actually broke through for a few hours last week, offering us a glimpse of a hopefully bright summer to come. So it’s with perfect timing-fingers crossed-that we unveil our annual Blue & Green Guide to the great outdoors.

The Well-Worn Wisdom of Bob Mitchell
Books By

The Well-Worn Wisdom of Bob Mitchell

A man on the precipice of death due to a massive heart attack, his life flashing before his eyes, haggling with God about getting more time as a corporeal being, accepting a challenge to save his soul-these elements are nothing new to storytelling. But this time, in Santa Barbara author Bob Mitchell’s fast-selling novel Match Made in Heaven, the challenge is playing 18 holes of golf against 18 of our world’s most famous characters, from Leonardo da Vinci and Socrates, to Pablo Picasso and Marilyn Monroe.

Volleyball by the Sea
Sports By Steven Libowitz

Volleyball by the Sea

In an era when more than half of all marriages end in divorce, everyone knows it’s hard to make relationships last. But the rate at which the top men’s beach volleyball teams broke up last off-season made even those notably precarious Hollywood hook-ups look like life-long commitments by comparison.

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Energy Fracas Fricasseed

Around the same time the California Democratic Party embraced an energy platform written almost entirely by the Community Environmental Council (CEC)-Santa Barbara’s oldest environmental think tank-a Washington, D.C., public policy organization announced it will air TV ads in Santa Barbara disputing the existence of global warming and decrying efforts to curtail carbon dioxide emissions as economy killers. Produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), the ads’ punch line is, “Carbon dioxide: They call it pollution. We call it life.”

By Indy Staff

BOBBY ROLLS ON:

Santa Barbara Westside native Bobby Martinez continued his giant killing on the Association of Surfing Professionals World Surfing Championship Tour last week, taking home first place in the bone-snapping surf of Teahupoo (pronounced cho•pu) in Tahiti.

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Rough Music

Sings Like Hell presents Richard Thompson’s 1,000 Years of Popular Music

At the Lobero Theatre, Friday, May 12.
The trio-Richard Thompson, Debra Dobkin, and Judith Owen-entered from the rear of the theater and marched down the aisle to the stage. Followed by a single spotlight, they were already singing and generally making a racket. It felt like the beginning of a medieval ceremony, a piece of the “rough music” that brought the workers of the 12th century out to the commons for a bit of a good time. And so it was, for Richard Thompson’s marvelous new show about the history of popular music really does begin in the year 1190, and then proceeds to pour endless, effortless draughts of popular music from the intervening centuries as though it were all so much golden British ale.

Uncategorized By Tyler Blue

Super Group of the Week

Coalition of the Willing

While some musicians are content to stay the course, those like Bobby Previte can’t ignore the little voice inside asking, “What if?” As in, “What if I recruited three of the hottest, avant-garde jazz players on the scene and created a ‘super bar band’?” And, “What if we called it ‘Coalition of the Willing’?” Sure : that sounds good. But who the heck is Bobby Previte?

By Virginia Hayes

Tall Trees

California’s Redwoods

California has two official state trees, the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). Each is the only species in its respective genera, but both belong to the same family, the taxodiaceae. Both are evergreen conifers and bear small, rounded, woody seed cones typical of their family. There the resemblance ends.

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