Tag archives: Brian Mann

The Grand on State, the new jazz club located one door away from the Granada at 1218 State Street and founded by longtime Santa Barbara keyboardist Brian Mann and his wife Jenna Berg, is still in its soft-opening phase. But the venue is celebrating the hiring of its new French chef this weekend with a […]

UCSB Theater’s new show is generating historical perspective for the challenges of the pandemic UCSB Theater’s Generations, a new piece devised for Zoom and directed by Anne Torsiglieri, aims to make the best of the bad situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps finding the silver lining in the seemingly endless sequestering. Fashioned as an […]

Every minute twenty people are forcibly displaced, driven by conflict to flee their homes.” There is an organization called ShelterBox located both here and Florida which since 2000 has sought to help. John McGovern opened his Summerland home and gardens to the group to promote and make local folks aware of their work. Tequila and […]