Year: 2006

Still Hurting

The Exonerated

Presented by the Actors’ Gang and directed by Tim Robbins. At UCSB’s Campbell Hall, Thursday, April 20.
One of the standard rules of playwriting is to avoid the use of a narrator, as the play will fall into the realm of the short story. Of course there are exceptions, like Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, and recently performance artists such as Anna Deavere Smith and Cultural Clash have taken this hybrid form to a new level. So it is with the Actors’ Gang and their current production, The Exonerated.

Ladies First, Last, and Always

WONDROUS WOMEN: This week I celebrate two extraordinary musicians, two extraordinary women. One is a composer and organist, the other a virtuoso pianist. I refer, of course, to Emma Lou Diemer and Egle Januleviciute.

MEDICARE CLOCK TICKING:

As the May 15 deadline approaches, one-third of California senior citizens still have not signed up for the Medicare prescription drug benefits plan. Some 150 local seniors attended a workshop hosted by Congresswoman Lois Capps and Assemblymember Pedro Nava in Goleta last Saturday.

Barr Brings It Together

Jazz Meets Classical in the Chamber Orchestra’s Annual Gala

This year’s version of a Starry, Starry Night, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra’s annual benefit concert, is an exciting invitation to a wider audience from the 26-year-old pillar of our cultural and educational life. A stellar quintet, comprised of the cream of the area’s jazz musicians, and supported by an excellent classical string section, will celebrate mainstream vocal and instrumental jazz at the Lobero Theatre this Sunday evening, April 30.

CARPING ABOUT VENOCO:

An increasingly large contingent of Carpinteria residents has joined the battle against the Paradon Project, Venoco Oil’s proposal to pump offshore oil and gas via slant drills behind Carpinteria City Hall and above a harbor seal rookery.

GET TIX NOW:

The folks at Nederlander are super busy these days booking Bowl and Lobero shows left and right. A rundown of the Bowl tix that are on sale now: Brad Paisley on May 19; Ashlee Simpson and the Veronicas on June 5; Chicago and Huey Lewis and the News on June 10; KJEE’s Summer RoundUp with The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Yellowcard, and more on June 11; Martina McBride and The Warren Brothers on June 22; Fiona Apple with Damien Rice on June 25; Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits) and Emmylou Harris on June 29; Rob Thomas with Jewel on July 2; Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth on July 13; Linda Ronstadt on July 14; Gipsy Kings on July 23; Ben Harper and Damien Marley on August 15; Los Lonely Boys with Kinky on August 24; John Fogerty and Lucinda Williams on September 3; and Bonnie Raitt on September 10. And lastly, T Bone Burnett and Jakob Dylan will play the Lobero on June 17. It’s gonna be a good summer.