Year: 2006

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Lonely Town

Hughie, directed by Michael Uppendahl

At Center Stage Theater, Saturday, April 8. Shows through April 15.
In the late 1930s, A.J. Liebling wrote a series of pseudo-ethnographic essays for the New Yorker about the Broadway hotel culture of “telephone booth Indians.” These small-time hustlers stood all day in the lobby payphones of the less fashionable midtown Manhattan hotels, waiting for personal calls, too broke to make anything outgoing, but still desperately looking for an edge, some angle that would allow them another score.

Uncategorized By Stanley Naftaly

Packing a Pleasing Punch

John Pizzarelli

At the Lobero Theatre, Thursday, April 6.
John Pizzarelli lit up the Lobero Theatre and everyone in it Thursday evening by channeling Nat Cole and Oscar Moore, while also establishing his own group in the continuum of tasty, swing-based, jazz guitar quartets led by Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Herb Ellis, and his own father, the legendary Bucky Pizzarelli.

By Indy Staff

CALM YOUR ENGINES:

The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously agreed to permanently install seven of the 19 traffic calming devicessuch as roundaboutsslated for the St. Francis neighborhood.

Uncategorized By Brett Leigh Dicks

The Spirit of Place

Lila Downs’s Journey of the Soul

When it comes to embracing diversity, there are few who do it as energetically or passionately as Lila Downs. In forging a sound where traditional American folk sensibilities blend seamlessly with the boisterous wanderings of Mexican ranchera music or the aching lament of slowly crooned jazz, Downs doesn’t just cross cultural borders-she eradicates them.

Uncategorized By Molly Freedenberg

Movie for Music Fans

Coachella

Radiohead, Jane’s Addiction, Beck, The Crystal Method, and other musicians star in this documentary directed by Drew Thomas. It screens next Friday, April 21, as part of the Magic Lantern Film series at Isla Vista Theater at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
“You can’t trust radio or television because it’s all about commerce and there’s tricks being played everywhere : There’s faith in live events,” explained Perry Farrell, DJ and Jane’s Addiction frontman, in Coachella, a documentary that comes across a bit like a long commercial for its namesake two-day SoCal music festival (which is understandable, considering the festival’s promoters produced it).

By Martha Sadler

Gender Breakdown

The Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center (SBRCC) is issuing a special call for men to train as counselors for sexual assault survivors, and to act as community educators with the center’s Speakers Bureau. Each April-Sexual Assault Awareness Month-SBRCC coordinates an educational push; this year, the center aims to recruit more men to actively fight sexual violence as part of a statewide campaign called My Strength Is Not for Hurting.

Living By Shannon Kelley

Sudoku Seduction

A Thanksgiving tradition around my parents’ table is that of the “Thank-you-gods,” wherein the large group of loud, alcoholically lubricated guests each give public thanks before digging into the traditional first course of Oysters Rockefeller.

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The Bright Side of Darkness

Lonesome Jim

Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, and Seymour Cassel star in a film written by James C. Strouse and directed by Steve Buscemi.

Little things count for a lot in this cool and evocative “small” film directed by Steve Buscemi, right down to the small town-Cromwell, Indiana-where the comic-drama unfolds. Meet our anti-hero Jim (Casey Affleck, all tousled, mopey charm), a wannabe writer suffering from “chronic despair,” who returns to his hometown from a failed sojourn to N.Y.C., penniless and with tail-tucked-between-legs.

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