So it was Friday night, and I was getting dolled up, because I was pretty sure I was having a heart attack, and I wanted to look good when the paramedics got here. OK, well, I was pretty sure I was not having a heart attack, but you can never be sure. My chest felt […]
When a community begins to change toward the negative, residents take notice, though few typically get up and do something about it. Joelyn Lutz saw such a change in the works and wanted to combat it, so she began the Santa Maria nonprofit WonHeart, with a vision of creating more social cohesion and harmony in […]
An early morning mist weaves in and out of the brush lining the trails at La Purisima. This time is a quiet time, broken only by the rustle of a small animal and the occasional footsteps of a passing walker or jogger. Peaceful hours like this make La Purisima Mission a favored location for people […]
Singer Jasmine Binney of Santa Maria took home the winner’s trophy and a $1,000 check the night of March 10 in the third annual “Santa Maria Has Talent” competition at Santa Maria Veteran’s Hall. The talent award was sponsored by Coast Hills Credit Union. The Sun’s own executive editor, Ryan Miller, won second place singing […]
The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, 4th District Supervisor Joni Gray, and 5th District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino will be host to a Brown Bag Lunch from noon to 1:30 p.m. on March 21 in the Betteravia Government Center’s Board of Supervisors Conference Room at 511 E. Lakeside Parkway in Santa Maria. Hear the latest about […]
An April Fool’s Day art show reception and silent auction, featuring work by members of the Artists Guild of the Santa Ynez Valley, will highlight a number of works by serious artists. Now on display at Avant Tapas and Wine Bar, 35 Industrial Way in Buellton, are the works of 21 artists who created a […]
Duffy Hudson, a veteran of Broadway and film, will bring his one-man entertainment show, The Relativity of Albert Einstein, to the Santa Maria Public Library at 4 p.m. on March 20 in Shepard Hall. Hudson will explain, in his humorous fashion, the famous physicist’s life and his Theory of Relativity. Knowledge of physics isn’t required, […]
The Town Center Gallery is host to Chinese brush painting classes for adults Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. with Stephany Andrews at the Town Center Gallery, 321 Town Center West, B6. The class is $15 for members and $17 for nonmembers per class. Materials will be supplied for the first class. For more information, […]
Solvang’s initial Famous Jazz Artists Series is off to a running start with its second concert, featuring jazz guitarist Ron Eschete, scheduled for March 17 at the Terrace Dinner Theater, upstairs at Manny’s Restaurant. Ruth Hoover of Solvang and Charlie and Sandi Shoemake of Cambria launched the famous Jazz Artists Series in February. The Shoemakes […]
It’s become a popular production to present as of late, but Larry McLellan, president of Lompoc Civic Theatre, didn’t know that when he added Almost, Maine to the theater’s season lineup. “The play is getting a reputation that everybody has to do it,” he said. The show recently ran in Cambria, and it’s currently in […]
Mohammad Mohabbat has been many things: a foreign-exchange student, a war prisoner, a musician, an author, a proponent for women’s rights, a preacher at the Islamic Center, and a photographer. Recently, however, he’s become what many of his clients call a modern-day Cupid: an old-fashioned matchmaker. Mohabbat first came to the United States as a […]
Some people can look at a guitar and see a finely crafted instrument. Leigh Rubins looked at a guitar and saw a cow. [image-2] Of course, the creator of the long-running Rubes comic strip may have a propensity to see cows in things, being as much of his subject matter involves anthropomorphic bovines. Nevertheless, when […]
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