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The annual I Madonnari Street Painting Festival returns to the historic Santa Barbara Mission this weekend for its 40th event. Some 40,000 people are expected to drop by not only to witness professional chalk artists labor for three days to create (under our watchful eyes)  spectacular drawings on the blacktop plaza. The festival is also […]

While great works of art have survived centuries and millenniums, with each new generation having the chance to appreciate what came before, there’s also something magical about embracing the ephemeral. Perhaps it’s in the parallel to our own lives, which – though they span many decades on average – are only a brief instant in […]