Don’t forget that next Thursday, July 5, is the monthly 1st Thursday event all throughout the galleries, eateries, and public spaces of downtown Santa Barbara. The Indy is sponsoring a performance by Reid Spencer at Borders, and there’s plenty more fun from 5 to 8 p.m.
It’s halibut season, and the firm, subtle, yet full-flavored fish can stand up to more than most fellow formerly finned creatures. Plus it seems to do well in concert with other tastes, as opposed to some fish that are happiest sushi grade and solo (e.g., salmon). I wanted to try to crust Alaskan halibut, but that seemed too hard to pull off-or stick on, as the case may be.
One of Jamaica’s most famous reggae bands, The Itals-formed in 1975 by Keith Porter and Ronnie Davis, later adding David Isaacs and Porter’s daughter Kada, a onetime UCSB student-are coming to SOhO tonight, June 28, in a benefit concert for the Santa Barbara chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.
New Releases from Nine Inch Nails, Stars, Rjd2 and Klaxons.
The Santa Barbara Symphony presents the 20th Annual July 4th Concert. The free show will feature various musicians, beginning at 3:30 p.m., and music by the New Sousa Band at 5 p.m. Events take place this Wednesday, July 4, at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens, on the corner of Anacapa and Anapamu streets. Call 898-9386
After more than 25 years in business, Wine Cask owner Doug Margerum has sold his company to healthcare mogul-turned-restaurateur Bernard Rosenson, who’s owned and operated the Sky Room in Long Beach and will be opening the Yellow Rose in Summerland at the former Big Yellow House in the fall.
EL BUKI IS BACK: Though the feathered locks and sequined costumes of Los Bukis are long gone, the qualities that made Marco Antonio Sol-s the group’s unstoppable force-his flair for the dramatic, consummate musicianship, and dashing good looks-are alive and well.
While in Portland, Oregon, for a journalism conference last week, I boarded a rumbly old school bus for a tour of the city’s all-nude strip clubs. The bus was crowded, as good journalists never miss the chance to peek into a furtive subculture or, it turns out, to look at boobies.
What do you get when Jack Johnson’s heartbeat-steady drummer Adam Topol is let loose on his own creative path and teams up with Franchot Tone on guitar, The Eels’ Koool G Murder on keys, TV on the Radio’s Dave Ralike on horns, and Sheryl Crow’s singer Chris Joyner?
Few people know California as intimately as Bill Dewey does. For more than 20 years, the photographer has been exploring the state’s natural and cultural legacy from a variety of perspectives. A licensed pilot and aerial photographer by trade, Dewey has amassed one of the most comprehensive and diverse collections of regional imagery.
