Artsweek

Ray LaMontagne Brings Brilliance to the Bowl: The Shy Supernova Shines On

October 25, 2014 by

As the lavender blue sky began to set on Saturday, Oct. 18 at the Santa Barbara Bowl, the anticipation building through the crowd was clear. The cool night was filled with chill vibes as more and more...
read more

Audience Hungers for More Hall & Oates at the Santa Barbara Bowl

October 25, 2014 by

I arrived at the Santa Barbara Bowl as people were trickling into their seats, just in time to catch the opener. His name was Mutlu, and he set the tone for the night with soulful love songs accompani...
read more

Graphic Novelist Art Spiegelman Awes With Multimedia Show at Campbell Hall

October 25, 2014 by

The lights lowered. With hushed voices, the mostly balding, erudite and otherwise hipster-bespectacled crowd leaned towards each other’s eager ears, their eyes rendered inert by the expanding blackn...
read more

New Noise Music Conference & Festival 2014 ft. Cherub

October 23, 2014 by

New Noise Conference & Music Festival 2014 ft. Cherub
read more

Massive Attack and TV on the Radio Deliver More than Just Music at SB Bowl

October 22, 2014 by

Last Friday, Oct. 17, Santa Barbara was graced by another pleasant evening with a beautifully clear, vibrant sunset. A cool breeze blew through the city’s Bowl, setting an extremely comfortable atmo...
read more

Modern Crowd vs. XXYYXX: Marcel Everett’s Show in Santa Ana Met Mixed Reactions

October 22, 2014 by

After years of waiting and ample missed opportunities, I finally caught a live performance of the young prodigal DJ who goes by XXYYXX (real name, Marcel Everett) last Thursday, Oct. 16 at The Observa...
read more

Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus: The Rise and Fall of Mozart and Salieri

October 22, 2014 by and

From the melody of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” to his “Requiem Mass in D Minor,” the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is forever imprinted in our culture. Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play “Am...
read more

Cage the Elephant Throws Private Show and Sweat onto the Funk Zone

October 22, 2014 by

On Wednesday Oct. 15, Cage the Elephant defined themselves as the performance band of our generation. Filmed at The Artists Den in the Funk Zone as part of a PBS television series, the private show wa...
read more

Community Gathers for ‘Meet Your Neighbors Day’

October 20, 2014 by and

The first annual Isla Vista “Meet Your Neighbors Day” was held throughout I.V. this past Saturday and drew hundreds of students and community members to various parks in the area.
read more

Nonprofit Bigwig Speaks at Campbell

October 20, 2014 by

Walter Isaacson, current president and CEO of the nonprofit Aspen Institute and renowned author, spoke at Campbell Hall on Thursday about his new book entitled The Innovators: How a Group of Inven...
read more

50 Years in the Making: Architect Barton Myers’s Retrospective

October 18, 2014 by

Between now and Dec. 12, UCSB’s Art, Design, and Architecture Museum (AD&A) is hosting an exhibition titled “Barton Myers: Works of Architecture and Urbanism” — a retrospective based on My...
read more

Lessons Learned from “Gone Girl,” Spoiler Alert!

October 18, 2014 by

Before going to see “Gone Girl,” the only two things I knew about the movie were that David Fincher directed it, and that it’s about a girl who’s … gone. Needless to say, I didn’t really k...
read more

From Childhood, to College, to Cartooning: An Evening with Matt Groening and Lynda Barry

October 18, 2014 by

When Matt Groening and Lynda Barry stepped onto the stage of the Arlington Theatre on Friday, Oct. 10, it was in a style only two cartoonists could pull off: wearing knit hats shaped like “Futurama...
read more

Getting To Know North of Nine

October 14, 2014 by

Artsweek reporter Heeba Kaleem sat down with Guthy and guitarist Michael O’Grady to get the scoop on the band’s origins, hair obsessions and what it’s like to work under a manager like Randy Jac...
read more

Lorde of the Dance: Lorde Plays SB Bowl

October 13, 2014 by

“There’s a humming in the restless summer air,” she began. Then she danced.
read more