On the threshold of Independence Day, thoughts naturally turn to patriotic displays, festive parades, and family barbecues. Sensing an opportunity for a little pre-holiday fun, two local wineries have come up with a sure-fire way to jumpstart the celebration. On Saturday, June 26, the folks at Longoria Wines and Buttonwood Farm Winery invite oenophiles, picnickers, […]
Red, white & blues
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It’s ag art!
Shepard Hall Gallery at the Santa Maria Public Library will feature the work of artist Sunni Gibbons during the month of July. The exhibit, titled Farm Workers of the Central Coast, showcases the produce teams that are at the agricultural heart of the valley’s economy. Gibbon’s work features farmland settings, the harvesting and assembly teams, […]
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See silk at Chef Rick’s
Something different is coming to Chef Rick’s. Barbara Alloway, known for her landscapes and abstracts on metal and foil, has turned her brush to silk. She has created a series of paintings emphasizing the colors and character of the Central Coast. Vivid bunches of grapes, a dream of wine, and haunting landscapes, characterized by Alloway’s […]
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Connors is a featured artist
Gallery Los Olivos will feature artist Mary Jean Connors, whose work will hang in the Artist’s Guild Section of Gallery Los Olivos, for July. Occupying one wall of that section will be Mary Jean’s luminous, colorful florals. Connors began painting after her retirement from a career as a reporter, editor, and corporate executive in the […]
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Show time
Whatever you’re doing this weekend, you may want to shelve it if you’re a musician and get those last minute entries into the New Times Music Awards Showcase to meet the June 21 deadline. Last year’s inaugural New Times Music Awards Showcase was—in our humble opinion—totally amazing. It attracted 300 entries from some of the […]
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De la ventana de mi vida
What else is a man/ than what he can provide/ to the people that he loves/ and live his life with pride,” asks a singer in Los Cenzontles’ most recently released album American Horizon. The band’s 18th album was released in November of 2009, and already the Mexican folk music troupe is putting the finishing […]
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What’s your fondest memory of summer?
Kim Sabedra registered nurse “Spending every summer with my grandma in Virginia from age 4 to 17. We would go to the beach, swim at the pool, and went to Washington, D.C. She was my mom for the summer.” Kelly McLoughlin youth minister “Going barefoot, staying up late, and playing outside longer because of the […]
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Discover the wild, wild west
In honor of Father’s Day and the recent Elks Rodeo, the Discovery Museum will be holding its first-ever Rodeo Roundup on June 13, from noon to 2 p.m. Kids who attend will have an opportunity to ride ponies from Happy Trails Pony Rides and watch two local youth roping champions: Nick, 14 years old, and […]
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They screamed for ice cream, but nobody was home
On June 2, Central Coast residents and business owners gathered outside Doc Burnstein’s Ice Cream Lab in the village of Arroyo Grande to show their support of owner Greg Steinberg in a counter-protest against a union’s ongoing “bannering” of the business. The group of more than 100 people then marched several blocks to stand outside […]
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Maldonado pushes for Proposition 14
After campaigning in Monterey and Santa Cruz for Proposition 14—a ballot measure that would create open primaries in California—newly minted Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado finished off his last-minute campaign trail on June 7 at the Swiss Chalet Restaurant in Santa Maria. Maldonado greeted the customers, who were all grins as they talked to the Santa […]
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Hancock’s Class of 2010 turns the tassel
After Allan Hancock College’s 89th commencement, it was neither the school’s president Jose M. Ortiz nor the keynote speaker, Henry A.J. Ramos, who had the final word on the occasion: It was the Allan Hancock College Concert Band, which, after the recession of the graduates, performed the Looney Tunes theme song “That’s All, Folks.” Graduates […]
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County officials crunch numbers and plan for funding cuts
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors spent much of the week of June 7 mulling over ways to close the county’s more than $40 million budget shortfall. The 2010-11 budget proposals presented by county employees included some drastically bleak money-saving measures, including a $14.8 million reduction in staff positions and benefits; using $29.5 million […]
