Barbara Bodine was not one of the 13 million Americans who tuned in to ABC’s The Path to 9/11 last weekend. “I didn’t watch it,” the former Clinton administration official said Monday morning, “and I have no plan to watch it.” The two-part docudrama, which aired Sunday and Monday evenings, took to the airwaves amid a storm of controversy.
Keanu Reeves has one. Charles Darwin seemingly maintains a site too. Even The Santa Barbara Independent is lurking out there. These days, you just aren’t anyone unless you have a MySpace page. That’s especially true for bands, since MySpace is quickly becoming one of the fastest ways of getting their word out. So who are Santa Barbara’s most listened-to musical acts on MySpace?
War, politics, adventure, literature,
and nature shine in this season’s book and lectures circuit. And
don’t forget the annual S.B. Books and Author Festival, which goes
down at the end of this month. Once again, it’s a great time to be
a reader in Santa Barbara.
t is enticing to be told that someone is madly, deeply, uncontrollably in love with you. In order to play matchmaker and entwine the hearts of sworn bachelor Benedick and sharp-witted bachelorette Beatrice, their friends and family conspire by strategically dropping hints about the way each pines away for the other.
A fire had burned 15,687 acres in the Los Padres National Forest east of Santa Barbara County as of press
Adrian Spence welcomes Warren Jones (piano),
Catherine Leonard (violin), and Ani Aznavoorian (cello) to the
first concert of the Camerata’s new season, featuring Beethoven’s
Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Opus 47, “Kreutzer,” and works by
Rachmaninoff and Schubert.
Much Ado About
Nothing A PCPA Theaterfest presentation. Through
Sun., Sept. 17, Solvang Festival Theatre, 922-8313.
Fostering the American spirit has always been central to State Street Ballet’s mission. Since its conception in 1993, Southern California’s only fully professional ballet company has prided itself on bringing a distinctly American approach to what is traditionally a Russian, French, and Italian art form.
The Harder They Fall: Len Wood, soft-spoken, highly respected Santa Barbara News-Press photo chief, gave notice Monday, according to sources, which attributed it in part to the ongoing Michael Todd/Ana Elisa Fuentes dispute.
When Teddy Thompson made his third appearance at Sings Like Hell to conclude its 19th season Saturday night, the audience members were on the edge of their seats-and Thompson and his band delivered. This was Thompson’s first time holding the stage as a headliner, and he took to it as part of a year of touring in support of his acclaimed album Separate Ways. The scion of a legendary family-Teddy’s parents are folk-rock legends Linda and Richard Thompson-Thompson has opened for both Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams this year.
