The sun finally shone after days of May Grey on the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, which hosted its annual dinner for 200 guests at the historical museum. More than $7.1 million was given to 1,780 students in Santa Barbara County, with 1,700 turned down because of limited funds. The foundation has now awarded more […]
The racketeers were out in force when the Santa Barbara School of Squash celebrated its annual gala with the theme the Magic of SBSOS 2024 in the charming La Arcada complex. More than 100 guests descended on La Arcada’s Courthouse Distillery for the fun fête, emceed by ubiquitous magician Mark Collier, raising around $40,000 in […]
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Santa Barbara Symphony concluded its latest season commemorating the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue @ 100: Jazz Comes to the Symphony” concert at the Granada. The show also featured fan favorite The Marcus Roberts Trio, part of a residing artist collaboration with the nearby Lobero Theatre. Marcus Robert also performed his Gershwin-inspired composition […]
Casa Dorinda staged its latest exhibition featuring the works of resident Michelle Joanou and her late husband Phil curated by Penny Arntz. Michelle is an accomplished fiber artist with a Carpinteria loft studio, while her former New York ad agency CEO husband, who died ten years ago, only started as an artist at the age […]
Camerata Pacifica, Adrian Spence’s popular chamber music group, ended its latest season in grand style at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall with a specially commissioned work “Petite Suite” by Grammy-nominated Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad. Top flight accordionist Julien Labro was the featured soloist on stage in the work which also featured marimba, […]
Compassionate Care of Carpinteria attracted 125 guests and raised around $45,000 when it hosted its sixth annual lunch “The Light Shines Ahead” at the Rincon Beach Club. The boffo bash, chaired by Marybeth Carty and emceed by Tim Cohen, featured keynote speakers Jessica Clark, a successful restaurateur, who lost her first husband Eric Pintard in […]
The Santa Barbara Choral Society’s season finale at the Trinity Lutheran Church was a sellout, the 70-voice chorus accompanied by a 28-piece orchestra with guest soloists soprano Elissa Johnston, Michal Dawson Connor, Jimmer Bolden, and choral society alto section leader Becca Clarke in a “Visionaries, Then & Now” concert. The entertaining program began with a […]
Pianist Bruce Liu, 27, showed his very obvious talent in a 90-minute concert at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall, part of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures program, with works by Chopin, Kapustin, Rameau, and Prokofiev. Born in Paris and brought up in Montreal, Canada, Liu was the first prize winner of […]
Everybody was clearly in the right aria when Robert Adams, opera critic for Voice magazine, and his art historian wife Nancy Caponi threw a Silver Anniversary garden party at their charming downtown home. More than 50 guests turned out to congratulate the tony twosome who were married at the Mission after a lengthy courtship after […]
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Former chanteuse Libby Aubrey-Porter and her husband childcare pioneer Rick held a Celebration of Life bash at the Rosewood Miramar’s Manor Bar. The dynamic duo, both regulars at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club with their immaculately groomed West Highland terrier, invited 50 guests to help mark the occasion after 10 years of marriage […]
It was a royal tour in all but name when Prince Harry and his actress wife Meghan Markle touched down in Nigeria for a 72-hour visit. Just hours after arriving in the capital Abuja, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were visiting children of the Wuse Lighting Academy, which is supported by the twosome’s Archewell […]
Santa Barbara City College hosted its fifth annual Spring Forward! college foundation gala on the Great Meadow on the West Campus under new CEO Bobbi Abram, who had only been on the job four days after moving from a similar position in Pasadena. “Let the fourth be with you!” she told the more than 300 […]
A torrent of tony tête toppers descended on the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club when social gadabout Rick Oshay and Teresa Kuskey, founder of the popular La Boheme dance troupe, hosted their fourth annual Run for the Roses bash, celebrating the 150th Kentucky Derby. Known as the Greatest Two Minutes in Sport, the Churchill […]
Cinco de Mayo took on a whole new complexion when the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club launched its 113th season with the 12-goal Lucid Motors Pope Challenge, a hotly-contested match between Antelope – led by Grant Palmer, whose father Geoff is a L.A. real estate tycoon – and Budweiser beer heir Andy Busch’s Folded […]
