Viva!

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Susanna Vapnek’s Fiesta party brings together old friends and family to partake of good company, good libations and delicious gourmet Mexican food expertly prepared by her good friend, the globe-trotting food and spirits writer Nils Bernstein. In the true spirit of Santa Barbara’s annual “Old Spanish Days”Fiesta, this was a very colorful party filled with…

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It All Begins Tomorrow!

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DANCEworks Santa Barbara begins its 9th iteration Monday Aug. 7 on the stage of the Lobero Theatre, and appropriate to the change to this steamy month, the new work this year’s artist-in-residence choreographer Kate Weare will be creating in collaboration with artistic director Esteban Moreno of Union Tanguera (FRANCE) promises to be hot! The dancers…

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Twanged!

Jimmy Dale Gilmore and Bill Kirchen perform at Sings Like Hell 7/29/17 The Lobero Theatre

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The July edition of Sings Like Hell was an evening of slinky licks, great songs, a little nostalgia and a lot of what is now called “Americana” music. Headlining that night were Jimmy Dale Gilmore and Bill Kirchen. Gilmore, a founder of The Flatlanders with Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, which arguably kicked off…

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