The New Year is always a special celebration where, despite the conflicts of the past, we celebrate renewal and look to the future with a positive energy. A perfect complement to the merrymaking has to be music—music that makes you smile, dance, and welcome the midnight hour. While the New Year will be celebrated all […]
The Santa Maria Public Library boasts the spacious Shepard Hall, which the city uses to display art year round in exhibits that rotate every month. The library can afford lots of room for art, which helps give its current exhibit, a focus on large works, a comfortable home. “Churning Myths into Mountains: Large Scale Oil […]
As soon as Thanksgiving passes, familiar melodies seem to weave their way into our lives via radios, television, and, of course, live music. The holiday season has inspired many a song and countless albums that capture the essence of what the time of year means to all of us. The Santa Maria Town Center has […]
While the big box stores are clotted with cutthroat corporate consumers this holiday shopping season, locals have a chance to enjoy a serene, inspired experience thanks to the Lompoc Valley Art Association’s “Christmas Holiday Show” showing at the Cypress Gallery in Lompoc. The Lompoc Valley Art Association is a collective of local artists, numbering in […]
Great music is forever. Whether written today or nearly three centuries ago, it will resonate in people and throughout time. And some musical pieces, depending on their potency, will come to epitomize an ideal and personify an experience or feeling. Such is the case with the great oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel. Having long […]
La Purisima Mission has stood the test of time. Sure, it’s had some help along the way, but rebuilds and restoration aside, the beautiful landmark is one of the Central Coast’s most prized landmarks. La Purisima Mission State Historic Park is celebrating the 225th Founding Day at the historical mission site with a daytime mass […]
You may wonder if Solvang’s annual Julefest celebration has something to do with jewelry, but you’d be wrong. The “J” makes a “Y” sound in the Danish tongue, and so Julefest is a celebration of the Yuletide season in Solvang with a sleigh-full of community revelry and fun. “Julefest has been going on for a […]
Some plays define the genre of theater they exemplify. The Sound of Music has come to be known as one of the most quintessential musicals of all time, immortalized in the 1965 film starring Julie Andrews. And now, thanks to the acclaimed talent and skill at Nipomo High School’s Drama Department, the play is going […]
Music is a special thing to share with children, but an even greater gift is to invite them to join in on the music making. Local educators and performers Nina Ryne and Jan Grigsby will be performing a free kids concert at the Toy Zoo, where they’ll not just perform, but will invite kids to […]
In a school system plagued by standardized testing and diminishing budgets, any program that prepares kids for real-world challenges and careers should be put on a pedestal. But often those same programs, even if they get support from the county, could still use support from the community. The Righetti High School Farmers Market is a […]
While fictional heroes tend to possess extraordinary powers due to radioactive spider bites, coming from another planet, or receiving an alien ring, some get by solely on the power of their brains. Local author Farah Shaw found inspiration for her series Sherlock Academy in the classic Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle due […]
The sun had already set over the Lompoc skyline, and North H Street was lit by the lampposts, still open businesses, and cars speeding down the city’s main drag. We pulled into the parking lot of an unobtrusive building with the name Certain Sparks Recording Studio and Music Lessons emblazoned on the side. Since this […]
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