Santa Barbara prosecutors filed misdemeanor manslaughter charges against Marcos Angel Almaguer, the asphalt truck driver who accidentally ran over UCSB tri-athlete Kendra Payne as she rode her bicycle up winding Gibraltar Road last January.
UCSB Bren School researcher Walter Rosenthal, 58, died last week in a tragic incident at the Southern California ski resort Mammoth Mountain.
At Victoria Hall Theater, Friday, April 7.
Two unusual and overtly confrontational pieces in the first half of this concert-by Alfred Schnittke and William Bolcom-set the stage for a marvelously warm, if not exactly relaxed Shostakovich cello sonata in the second. Psychologically and, in the case of the Bolcom, chronologically, the evening harkened back to the 20-year era of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union known as detente, when the Cold War melted a little around the edges.
The Jewish holiday Passover is the eight-day observance of the Israelites’ breaking the bonds of Egyptian slavery and their ensuing exodus from the tyrannical Pharaoh Ramses II.
Season number 19 is about to begin for Sings Like Hell, so save money, get your season tickets now, and
The City of Goleta received a letter from the State of California that developers hope will put the kibosh on the city’s strict building constraints.
Santa Barbara Police Chief Cam Sanchez took the witness stand Monday to defend himself, his department, and the City of Santa Barbara against claims of broken promises, homophobia, and discrimination filed by gay ex-cop Ruben Lino, who quit the force in 2003 after three years of service.
At UCSB’s Campbell Hall, Tuesday, April 4.
It’s good to hear the simple truth, whether it’s pretty or not. It relieves us from the burden of denial, and it restores our faith. As artists, author Anne Lamott and singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter are stylistically distinct, but on the final night of their first joint tour, they both ministered tenderly to the audience by telling their truths.
They haven’t met Hugh Heffner yet, but that didn’t stop three UCSB undergrads from hyping their scantily clad Playboy spread in Isla Vista last Tuesday as part of a publicity tour.
For years, the UCSB Dance Department’s faculty members have been waiting for the right combination of elements to come together in order to produce a Jose Lim³n masterpiece with their student
company. Finally, with this year’s company-the biggest ever-that time has come, and 15 dance majors in the final year of their degree program will have the honor of learning and performing Psalm, a Lim³n classic from 1967.
