“Heaven” floated on the summer airwaves in 2004, creating a career for the brothers Garza and their trio Los Lonely Boys (LLB). Beyond the tight guitar of Henry Garza and the tidy harmonies added by bassist bro Jojo and drummer Ringo, Los Lonely Boys’ number-one song showed this band was, most of all, authentic.
SUPASTAR AT VELVET: Amid their steady offerings of punk, indie rock, and the sort of music that makes SoCal scream, Velvet Jones on State Street occasionally throws in a hip-hop superstar.
INDIA CALLING: Of the world’s serious music forms, Indian classical tradition holds a special, profound place. With its centuries-old vocabulary and emphasis on improvisation and oneness of mind, soul, fingers, and instrument, the music reaches depths of emotionality and spiritual resonance untapped by other musical forms.
Thethrongs of tourists and smattering of locals who flock to the Sunday-morning art walk on Cabrillo Boulevard often stop to see Ali Shahrouzi and his lush landscape photographs. Nearly every week for the last eight years, Shahrouzi, 41, has exhibited in the same spot near Stearns Wharf.
Twelve years ago, I wrote a cover story for this newspaper on the Santa Barbara Foresters summer baseball team. It began, simply enough, “This is a story about baseball.” Well, this is another story about baseball, and a dozen years, more than 600 games, and an endless chain of hot dogs later, that story finally has an ending.
Caroline Hazard’s father was enchanted by Santa Barbara in the early 1880s, when he stayed at the luxurious Arlington Hotel. Soon after, he bought property up in Mission Canyon and built the estate Mission Hill in 1885. This began daughter Caroline’s own love affair with Santa Barbara, where she would spend all or part of the next 60 years.
Former News-Press editor Jerry Roberts and eight others (including this columnist) were given awards by the Society of Professional Journalists over the weekend. Said SPJ president David Carlson, “We pay tribute to the courage and principled sacrifice of these nine journalists, who opted to risk their livelihoods rather than remain in a position where they felt their journalistic ethics and professional credibility were being violated.”
In the hit ‘n’ miss game that is live rap, Oakland’s innovators Digital Underground happily delivered an entertaining concert on Sunday night with their trademark fun-loving, positive, nontraditional hip-hop.
See who exactly Todd Snider is referring to in this music video for his new song “You Got Away with It (A Tale of Two Fraternity Brothers).”
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