WHY MUSIC MOVES:
Music touches us all. How it moves us, both individually and in a social context, will be the forum of
Year: 2006
SUT PUAILOA DIES:
Popular longtime San Marcos High School football coach and athletic director Sut “the Smilin’ Samoan” Puailoa died last weekend after a long illness.
KITTY LITTER KILLS:
A bill seeking to protect the threatened southern sea otter population was introduced to the state Assembly last week.
Politics at SOhO
ARIA GETS NAKED: A new artistically inclined multimedia organization called ARIA Global is hosting a multi-band, all-acoustic event called “NAKED” at SOhO this evening, with proceeds going to the Save Naples Coalition, which is opposing development on a sensitive portion of the Gaviota Coast. Heads-up to S.B. music lovers: All the bands slated to play claim our area as home. Buellton’s Ona, with its heavy electric sound and Incubus-esque vocals, should be interesting to hear unplugged.
THEATER CHANGES:
Changes in the Santa Barbara Theater’s production and schedule have been made for the 2005-2006 season. Hughie, by Eugene O’Neill,
WHAT’S FOR LUNCH?
The Santa Barbara School District is considering revamping the district’s lunch preparation practices so that all meals would be prepared in one centralized kitchen.
TOP FIVE Reasons to See Pianist YUNDI LI
Yundi Li’s piano-playing is a revelation. No one plays Chopin more beautifully right now, and the lightning speed with which he negotiates the tricky scherzos of the world’s most beloved composer for the solo piano only complements the ease and delicacy of his phrasing. After he won the International Chopin Piano Competition when he was 18, Deutsche Grammophon signed him to a multi-year recording contract and he began to star in his own solo programs and as guest artist with some of the world’s great symphony orchestras. He comes to UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Tuesday, April 11, ready to shred.
Wilderness Retreat
Feel like it’s not vacation unless you’re working?
If so, the Los Padres Forest Association has the trip for you.
Spotlight On… CollectAir Aviation
A life-long love of aviation has kept CollectAir Aviation Art owner Stephen Remington busy for more than 25 years. A former aeronautical engineer, Remington’s personal collection of aviation artifacts led to his De la Vina Street art gallery and online collectors’ business, selling everything from original oil paintings to antique models to boxed airplane sets from 1939. A seven-foot-long wooden jet model from the Cold War rests in the center of the gallery, surrounded by rare vintage display models from airplane manufacturers, hand-painted military training models, Comet wooden airplanes, and just about everything else sky-related.
