Santa Maria High School’s annual Saints Talent Show is scheduled for March 8. Organized by SMHS Drama Club participants, the show features 85 performers from the students and faculty in a variety of genres and styles. Piano, guitar, singing in English and Spanish, as well as the administration staff’s rock band No Class will all […]
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Santa Ynez hosts dinner and a film
The NatureTrack Film Festival (NTFF) will host Canadian painter Cory Trépanier, director of Into the Arctic: Awakening, at a Spotlight Dinner and film event on March 23. Trépanier began filming his plein-air painting expeditions in 2001, which led to the development of several television documentary series. At the dinner, he will give a presentation about […]
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Spoken word performance featured at Wildling Museum
The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature will present a new poetry reading on March 10 as part of the museum’s ongoing poetry series. A Conversation in Poems and Stories features spoken word artists Jerry DiPego and Ron Colone. DiPego, who resides in the Santa Ynez Valley, is a writer with screenwriting credits including Sharky’s […]
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Local actor Brian Kasicki tackles challenging ‘Elephant Man’ role in Orcutt Community Theater’s production
The first time actor Brian Kasicki tried to contort his body to accurately imitate the physical ailments of John Merrick, he experienced some notable physical pain. “It’s very interesting to try and re-create that,” he said. “I had to try and figure out how can I try and re-create that comfortably but still do [it] […]
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Chef and owner Gustavo Nunez opens Souvla Cafe in Santa Maria
Santa Maria has a new Greek restaurant, and don’t worry, I promise not to make any tired jokes about Olympian gods or whatever while I tell you about it. Souvla had a soft opening on Feb. 23 in Santa Maria, and the first day was pretty much an epic success. Crowds filtered in throughout the […]
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Marilyn Benson brings her colorful work to the Santa Maria Public Library
It’s almost impossible to not immediately recognize a Marilyn Benson painting. Benson, an active member of the local arts scene whose work frequents many exhibits and public displays, is currently the featured solo artist at Shepard Hall in the Santa Maria Public Library. The exhibit of her charming and radiant acrylic paintings runs through March […]
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Orcutt Community Theater presents ‘The Elephant Man’
The Orcutt Community Theater’s latest production is The Elephant Man, which runs through March 10. The show, written by Bernard Pomerance, tells the story of John Merrick, a man with a physical deformity who lived during the 19th century in London. Merrick had several rare skin and bone diseases and eventually became part of a […]
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Gallery Los Olivos hosts Artistic Paths exhibit
Gallery Los Olivos presents its latest exhibit, featuring the work of Peggy Fletcher and Patricia Watkins. Fletcher is a soft touch realistic watercolorist whose subject matter often includes florals, animals, landscape, and many other scenes from nature. She merges realism with an impressionistic style in order to convey complexities in nature. According to her artist’s […]
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The play’s the thing: PCPA celebrates the Bard with ‘Shakespeare in Love’
Not everything comes easy to writers. Not at first, anyway. This is one of the central ideas tackled by playwright Tom Stoppard and his screenwriting partner Marc Norman in the 1998 movie, Shakespeare in Love. Audiences remember it as the film that won Gwyneth Paltrow a Best Actress Oscar and the very best eight minutes […]
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Ménage a trois: Presqu’ile Winery offers a trio of special vintage wines meant to be sipped, not saved
I used to have a friend who delighted in collecting vintage toys and collectibles. He spent every spare penny he had snapping up everything from original Star Wars toys to comic books to Ghostbusters memorabilia and lots more. The thing is, he never really seemed to enjoy it much. They sat in pristine boxes on […]
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Orcutt Children’s Arts Foundation to honor Pryor Baird
The Orcutt Children’s Arts Foundation will honor The Voice contestant Pryor Baird, who originally hails from Orcutt, at its annual fundraiser on Feb. 23 The foundation’s primary fundraiser directly benefits local arts education. The evening will also include a silent auction, dinner, and performances by local students and Baird celebrating his dedication and passion for […]
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CORE Winery to host Los Angeles and Santa Maria poets
CORE Winery’s Second Saturday poetry series will feature Los Angeles poet Laurel Ann Bogen as well as Santa Maria poet Dorothy “Dot” Winslow. Winslow recently earned her MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles and is currently in training to become a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator. She is a teacher for California Poets in the Schools […]