Arts

When they met, Tim Webb and Michele Simonsen discovered they shared a love of photography and filmmaking. Then Simonsen introduced Webb to Trininty River in Northern California, which inspired their latest show “Threshold: Over and Under Water Photography.” The show includes water-themed photography by the Allan Hancock College film and video instructors taken over years […]

When friends Kathy Hayes and Kerry Main Aller invited me to join them on a one-day bus trip to tiny Cayucos by the Sea, 53 miles away— one stop before Cambria and two stops before San Simeon—I gasped with glee. The price was right and the destination, irresistible. Cayucos is the home of the famed […]

Photographer Mel Felix has a rebellious streak. He likes to break the rules. It’s an urge he’s had his whole life, but fortunately he keeps his rule breaking to his artwork. With a background in advertising design and marketing, Felix made a career of staying within the lines, so to speak. Now that his art […]

The first thing to strike you about “Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912” may well be Pablo Picasso’s enigmatic Man with a Clarinet, which greets viewers upon entry. Or it may be the exhibit’s unorthodox color scheme, which eschews a sterile white cube aesthetic in favor of the palette and style of the artists’ […]

A group of former inmates recently voluntarily went behind bars again, joining together to spend the night at Alcatraz as part of the Poetic Justice Project. “It was, for me, being an ex-con and having been locked up before, an awesome thing to be on the island and be with there with the other guys […]

I’m not sure who was in a worse mood, the sky or me. My hot-air balloon ride in Tehachapi had been canceled, which brought my plans for the perfect daytrip tumbling down. On top of that, my house was being fumigated, I hadn’t slept well, I hadn’t showered, and I still needed to write my […]