Ed. note: Longtime Sun friend John Ready recently talked his way into the 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance event and brought back proof of his journey in the form of celebrity sightings, tales of classic cars, and plenty of chest-clutching swooning over the Benzs and Bugattis. While this annual event has come and gone, the […]
Allan Hancock College faculty member John Hood will host a trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Nov. 14. The bus leaves from the college’s student center at 7 a.m. and will return at 10 p.m. The trip will include opportunities to see art shows such as The Art and Craft of […]
Members of the Central Coast Follies are putting their toe-tapping, heart-singing efforts into their seventh annual show to benefit Parkinson’s disease research. This year’s exciting show, Love is in the Air, is under the direction of Jason Sumabat of Blue Dove Productions, and will showcase music showing the ups and downs of relationships. Hear such […]
Since Stix Hooper and the Universal Guild for Jazz and Progressive Music began the Solvang Jazz Festival three years ago to promote the genre to a wider audience, the event has only grown, attracting more audiences, spilling an educational component to the schools, and providing a stream of talented jazz artists to the community. […]
The atmosphere at Cuesta College’s Sept. 2 Board of Trustees meeting was tense—and understandably so. Nine jobs were at stake outright, and another three dozen staff members stood to take substantial losses in pay. People were losing their homes, insisted Allison Merzon, president of the Cuesta College Federation of Teachers. In an 11th-hour save […]
The Santa Maria Civic Theatre announced auditions for the second show of the 2009-2010 season, the comedy, Wake Up, Darling, written by Alex Gottlieb and directed by Meg Smith. Auditions will be held on Sept. 21 and 22 at the theater at 7 p.m. Santa Maria Civic Theatre is located at 1660 N. McClelland St., […]
The inaugural Lompoc Valley Artists Studio Tour will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 3. Lompoc artists—including Linda Gooch, Vicki and Gil Andersen, Tonya Schultz, Debby Fuller, and Elizabeth Monks Hack—will open their studios for a first-hand chance to see where and how they create. Ten studios will be open […]
It’s one of the most intriguing and captivating ways people communicate. A primitive and yet enduring method of teaching, storytelling continues to be a favored way to pass along information and teach about the world. As a young Latina in East L.A., listening to stories was a way for Olga Loya to connect with […]
Yes, the middle word in the title is sex. Do we even need some kind of catchy introduction to get your attention? Actually, Santa Maria Civic Theatre’s latest show is mostly about over-the-top comedy. Premiering in 1979, it was the first of 23 plays written by the team of Billy Van Zandt and Jane […]
See more than 130 quilts on display at the 2009 Garden Party Quilt show, set for Sept. 26 and 27 at the Anderson Recreation Center, 125 W. Walnut Ave., in Lompoc from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission costs $5 per person. There will […]
The Town Center Gallery will host its next artist reception on Sept. 18 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. This month’s reception will include a silent auction. In addition, all of the contributing artists will introduce themselves and briefly speak about their background in the world of art, their medium, and other tidbits. Some of the […]
How did a mural on the side of Santa Maria’s Chamber of Commerce building end up in a book? It was all the doing of author Kevin Bruce, inspired by his admiration of muralist John Pugh and his fascination with small-town murals. Not that Pugh created the Santa Maria mural depicting Broadway circa the […]
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