PRIMAVERA IN THE CITY: This week’s music is rather skewed toward next week, with only one concert over the weekend, albeit an interesting one. On Saturday, April 15, at 8 p.m. in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, the UCSB Department of Music will present pianist Philipp Richardsen, in a doctor of musical arts recital. Admission is free.
The Goleta City Council this week heard a proposal for an industrial business park at the southwest corner of Hollister and Los Carneros, formerly the Delco property.
About 350 high school students waving Mexican and American flags marched early Tuesday morning in protest of the immigration control measures currently under consideration by Congress.
SONG OF THE WEEK DEPT.: For a taste of what makes Mixtec/Minnesotan singer Lila Downs so tantalizing, proceed to track 12, the traditional Mexican tune “Arboles de La Barranca,” on her super cool new CD, La Cantina. Downs sings its looping melody with her usual boldness and warmth, while Aneiro Ta±o‘s deliciously whacked arrangements spin out crazy chromatic lines and echoes of Nino Rota and psychedelic circus music.
Appeals from three conservation groups and the California attorney general to stop plans for oil drilling expansion in Los Padres National Forest were denied this week.
A known sex offender spotted watching schoolchildren at the Foothill Elementary School was arrested last Friday at 5:30 p.m. by an off-duty Santa Barbara police officer.
Since childhood, Andree Steele has had a passion for history. Growing up in the 1920s and ’30s in Choisy-le-Roi, a suburb west of Paris, Steele read her history textbooks “way before the other students,” and was always at the top of her classes.
Benno F¼rmann, Guillaume Canet, Dany Boon, and Diane Kruger star in a film written and directed by Christian Carion.
One of the key early scenes in this disarmingly joyous and implicitly sad anti-war film hints at a powerful thematic subcurrent in this crowd-pleasing WWI-era film from French writer/director Christian Carion. In the scene, a young pair of Germans, an officer and his wife, sing the glorious lines of Bach’s “Bist du bei mir” for a gathering of officers, and the message rings clear both in this scene, and later in the film: Music is unique in its universality and power to transcend differences, even those ominous enough to start and fuel wars. Or so this story goes.
I didn’t love, or even really like, Elliott Smith the first time I heard him. A friend burnt me a copy of Either/Or a few years ago and I drove around with it in my car for eight months without listening to it much. It wasn’t until I moved to San Francisco that I rediscovered that old, burned CD. Maybe it was the isolation of living in a new city, surrounded by strangers. Maybe it was the pouring rain and the sirens at night. Whatever-suddenly Elliott made so much sense.
At the Lobero Theatre, Sunday, April 9.
“It just takes passion, dedication, and desire,” they claimed. “And a lot of dance classes.” The MCs of this year’s social dance showcase, Cathy Rice, Derrick Curtis, and Santa Barbara Dance Alliance Executive Director Julie McLeod, hosted an evening dedicated to highlighting the passion for dance that burns in our community, and the devotion it takes to bring that passion to the stage.
