There was no better place to be in Santa Maria on the night of Feb. 28 than the Grace Baptist Church on McCoy Lane. There, a glorious confluence of chorus, symphony orchestra, and dancers delighted a packed house. The light rain did not keep away several hundred people who came to hear the Santa Maria […]
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We couldn’t hear the surf and there wasn’t a grain of sand in sight, but A Day at the Beach delivered the promise of summer fun and frolicking for a good cause. Hawaiian shirts, floral prints, sandals, espadrilles, and summer casual fashion was the dress code that let us know we were in Beach Boys […]
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Wunderbar! “Passport to Vienna,” the Santa Maria Philharmonic Society’s annual dinner and fundraiser held at the Radisson on Saturday evening, Feb. 9— was truly wonderful. It was not exactly a night in Vienna: chocolat mit schlag, opera, a walk along the Ringstrasse, and all of that. But there were Strauss waltzes (think Blue Danube) bolstered […]
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Bippity boppity boo! What, when, where, and who? The Bippity Boppity Boo Ball delivered its dynamite debut on Saturday evening, Oct. 29, at the Discovery Museum. “It was time for something new,” said the museum’s executive director, Kelly White O’Neill. What a smashing success. Almost all the 200 or so attendees came in costume. Chances […]