Orcutt Community Theater will present a new production, Mama Won’t Fly, a comedy written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten in April. The show runs April 13, 14, 20, and 22 at 7 p.m. and on April 15 and 22 at 2 p.m. The fast paced comedy is billed as a “race against […]
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A pair of travel photographers show their work in Santa Maria
Lee-Volker Cox always had a love affair with photography, from as far back as he can remember. Even when he was in the U.S. Air Force, he tinkered with the hobby. In 2007, he had the opportunity to take an assignment as installation commander at Thule Air Base, a remote location in Greenland. Cox used […]
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The Solvang Library’s poetry challenge seeks to awaken the inner poet in area youth
Whatever you do, don’t call it a contest. Local poet Steve Braff will politely correct anyone who makes that mistake. “It’s not a contest,” he said. “It is isn’t about who’s best or anything like that.” Braff is one of the co-organizers of the Solvang Library’s annual youth Poetry Challenge, which invites seventh and eighth […]
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Santa Maria Civic Theatre tackles difficult stage comedy with ‘Noises Off’
Even as he does an interview to help promote the new play at the Santa Maria Civic Theatre, actor and director Cody Fogh is busy working. At the moment, Fogh, a UC Santa Barbara film school graduate, is painting the stage floor, holding a phone in one hand and a brush in the other. It’s […]
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Lompoc’s CK Wings offers a new spin on classic chicken wings
Be forewarned if you should be moved enough by this review to seek out Lompoc’s newest chicken wing venue, CK Wings: The restaurant is so new, it doesn’t even come up on Google Maps yet. That was one hurdle I didn’t mind navigating on my search for the restaurant, after hearing rumor of a place […]
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Rebecca Rose offers some important advice to millennials
Millennials! How do they work? Apparently, millennials don’t buy soap or diamonds anymore, which is slowly causing the physical Earth to bend in on itself and create a vortex into a dark parallel universe where human suffering is a currency among demonic overlords. At least, that’s what I gathered from reading articles about millennials online. […]
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Dance Spectrum opens at Hancock
Allan Hancock College presents the dance program’s annual spring show, Dance Spectrum, from March 15 to 18 in the Marian Theatre on the Santa Maria campus. Dance instructor Jesus Solorio will direct the cast of more than 60 dancers in 14 original works, including ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary, tap, Chinese, pop, and Latin fusion. […]
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Art show in Santa Maria spotlights travel photography
St. Mary of the Assumption Church presents a Fine Art Travel Photography Show featuring San Francisco-based artist and photographer, Frederico Domondon and local photographer Lee-Volker Cox, from 1 to 5 p.m. on March 25. Domondon and Cox have traveled extensively throughout the world, to places including Asia, North and South America, the Arctic, and Europe. […]
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First United Methodist Church brings The Last Supper to life
Santa Maria’s First United Methodist Church is hosting a one-night only performance of The Living Last Supper, a play based on Renaissance painter Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting. The musical drama depicts the story of the moment when Jesus Christ told his disciples one of them would betray him. The music was written by Ruth […]
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The World of Pinot Noir featured more than 200 wineries showcasing their best
I will freely admit that I was floored when I set foot in the Ritz-Carlton Bacara’s Grand Ballroom in Santa Barbara for my very first ever World of Pinot Noir. The event is sort of legendary. Every year, hundreds of winemakers in California gather to show off their best and boldest pinot noirs. Sure, I […]
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‘Tony’s Zoo’ returns to Waller Park in sculpture form
Residents of Santa Maria who are old enough to remember “Tony’s Zoo” are in for a big surprise. Thanks to a collaboration between several county and nonprofit organizations, the animals are back in Waller Park, if only in sculpture form. Four large animal sculptures created by the late artist Morris Squire are on loan from […]
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The Elverhoj Museum of History and Art’s latest exhibit reimagines the book
Artists live to reinvent the visual world they embrace. This is a consistent theme in many contemporary exhibits. Reinventing, repurposing, reimagining, and reliving experiences, taking traditional perspective and turning it upside down, and asking the question: “What if this thing we know and trust and are comfortable with was actually an entirely different thing?” The […]