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8•Days• a•Week We Ain’t Got Nothin’ But Love, Babe…
by Jeremy Harbin
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Space is limited, but if you have an event, exhibit, performance, book signing, sale, opening, trunk show, or anything else interesting or creative that readers can attend, let us know at 805-845-1673 or email us at tim@santabarbarasentinel.com. We’ll consider all suggestions, but we will give extra consideration to unusual events and/or items, especially those accompanied by a good visual, particularly one that has yet to be published.
Friday August 16
Arts Fund Group Exhibition
The Arts Fund Gallery is holding its opening reception tonight from 5 to 8pm for the Teen Arts Mentorship Group Exhibition. I had a peek at a couple of the pieces earlier this week and was impressed. From what I saw, they’re these textural, 3D, shadow-box, mixed-media thingies that had me asking, “these are by teenagers?” Yes, very talented ones. The exhibition stays up until September 21. Find the gallery at 205 Santa Barbara Street. Go to www.artsfundsb.org for more information.
Saturday
subset of the population: people that are super into flowers. Instructor Mary Carroll will take participants on walks around the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and teach all about the Aster Family of plants. That’s the family that includes sunflowers, goldenrods, and other wildflowers. The $60 for SBBG members and $75 for non-members seems like a small price to pay for those that crave plant knowledge. The class starts today at 4pm and ends at 7pm; it runs through August 26. Go to www.sbbg.org to sign up, or call 805.682.4726 for more information. The Botanic Garden is located at 1212 Mission Canyon Road.
Tuesday August 20
Deacons of Jazz-Rock Return
August 17
Party Like You’re Famous
“Decadent and luxurious styles with a bohemian chic edge,” you say?! I feel like somebody finally gets me. Media design company DNA Imagery is throwing its third Hautebox event. Beginning at 6pm at a private Montecito estate, Hautebox III consists of a fashion show with pieces by designer Lotta Stensson, lots of music – including DJ aRod and local band Freakin’ on Speakers – throughout the night, and a professionally lit photo-shoot area so everyone can pretend to be celebs. Of course, it wouldn’t be a party without beer, wine and food – and this one’s also got a tequila tasting. Tickets start at $75 and are available at nightout.com/events/hautebox. Though a portion of proceeds benefit the non-profit Youth Interactive, this event is 21+. See www.thednalife. net for more information.
Sunday
If you said I don’t own a promo copy of Steely Dan’s The Royal Scam on translucent gold vinyl, you’d be wrong, dead wrong. If you’re lucky enough, I’ll corner you and make you look at it before we sit in silence and listen to the whole thing (by lucky, of course, I mean very unlucky). And here you thought you were just at a normal dinner party with a new friend. As you know, we’re talking about the band consisting of the greats – yes, greats, I tell you; don’t argue – Donald Fagen and Walter Becker that’s responsible for so many sides of straight up jams it’s almost like their return to recording studio albums of original material in 2000 and everything that’s come since has been totally unnecessary. Almost. And Keith Carlock’s on drum duty this tour? There will be no smoother jazz-rock anywhere in the known universe tonight than what’s happening at 7pm at the Santa Barbara Bowl (1122 North Milpas Street). The Deep Blue Organ Trio opens the show. Tickets are available at www.sbbowl.com.
Wednesday
August 18
August 21
Wags n’ Whiskers
So are you thoroughly hungover from the fashion show last night? Maybe spent a little too much time in the tequila tasting area and not so much around the runway? Well everybody knows cuddling up to a sweet wittle puppy dog will cure a hangover quicker than a plate of chorizo, bacon and egg biscuits with gravy and a side of grease. Only problem: you don’t have a puppy. Lucky for you the fifth annual Wags n’ Whiskers Festival is at Girsh Park (7050 Phelps Road, Goleta) from 11am to 4pm today. There, you can adopt a dog, a cat or even a rabbit from over 25 shelters and rescue groups. Presented by non-profit C.A.R.E. 4 Paws; see care4paws.org for more information. It’s free, of course.
Songwriters at SOhO
Singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov goes on at SOhO Restaurant and Music Club tonight with songs from his new album The Weatherman. So that puts Isakov in the small camp of folksters who disagree with Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”; I can see him at the merch booth now, CDs in hand, saying, “No, you DO need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Kris Orlowski opens; doors at 6:30pm; $14; tickets at www. sohosb.com; 1221 State Street; an extra $25 to punch me in the face for that joke the next time you see me.
Monday
Thursday
Flower Knowledge
Dr. Love Loves Fishes
August 22
August 19
OK, I have the perfect event – actually it’s a whole class – here for a pretty specific
1431 San Andres Street
I actually heard some buzz around the Sentinel office earlier this week about this event. (Some people might have engaged in conversation; I silently eavesdropped from another room like a true weirdo.) Apparently this book by marine biologist Milton Love, Certainly More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast, is actually very funny. Dr. Love will give a talk with slideshow about the book tonight at 7pm in the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Central Library (40 East Anapamu Street). Granada Books will be there with copies of the book for sale so you can get it signed by its author; some proceeds will benefit Friends of the Santa Barbara Library. See www.sbplibrary.org for more information.
Friday August 23 FYF Fest
BoHenry’s
www.bohenry.com
When you get home tonight, start preparing for FYF Fest. That starts tomorrow in Los Angeles at L.A. State Historic Park and goes until Sunday. We don’t normally include L.A. items here, but the Sentinel will be in attendance – as fans of bands like Beach House, My Bloody Valentine and Deerhunter will want to be – and we’ll report back for this one. More on that next week. For a list of bands, check out www.fyffest.com.