Fine Arts

Diane Rodriguez, How Saying No to No Paved Her Way to Success

October 31, 2014 by

Being told no is no fun. It’s something that everyone can agree on. It makes you sad. It makes you wonder why, and it can defeat you if you let it. At this year’s “Kick-Off” for the Theater an...
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A Mid-Autumn Midsummer

October 27, 2014 by

The course of true love never did run smooth, but the course of Naked Shakes’ fall production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” certainly did. Naked Shakes, in the words of Director Irwin Appel, ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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