As he shared from the Granada stage last Saturday night, it turns One805’s Rock for First Responders benefit concert grew out of Glenn Phillips’s idea to put something together in the wake of the Los Angeles fires to support both local and L.A. first responder fires, as well as the nonprofit Music Cares that helps […]
State Street Ballet, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, made quite a splash with the world premiere of its latest highly entertaining production The Little Mermaid – based on the classic 1837 fairytale of Hans Christian Andersen – at the Lobero. Choreographed by Artistic Director Megan Philips and Executive Director Cecily MacDougall the nautical adventure […]
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Local longevity specialist Dr. Steven Gundry was so oversubscribed at an MClub lunch at the historic Santa Barbara Club that he had to speak twice – with 80 guests at his first performance and 75 at his second an hour later. The cardiothoracic surgeon and four times New York Times bestselling author’s ninth tome The […]
Security was paramount at the Granada when Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company performed as part of UCSB’s popular Arts & Lectures program. A small number of protesters were present, carrying disparaging placards. More than 18 Santa Barbara police officers were stationed in and outside the theater and guests had to go through metal detectors placed in […]
More than 115 guests turned out for the venerable Granada Theatre’s annual “l Love Your Theater” open house when supporters were allowed to see the “innards” of the 2,000-seat auditorium with wine and canapés on the capacious stage which a week earlier had hosted the historic London Symphony Orchestra, part of CAMA’s international program. Jon […]
Last weekend, terminally ill mother Traci Glynn from Atascadero traveled up the coast to Solvang where the historic Alisal Ranch hosted her, her husband, and son Sean, 21, for the weekend of final memories and a dream come true. A lifelong horse owner and experienced rider Traci, 42, who was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, […]
Dr. Geoffrey Dudley Phillips, 77, of Montecito, California, died January of 2025 in Montecito. Geoffrey will always be remembered for his skills at stitching up a wound, carrying a tune and some of the BEST FÊTES Montecito knew in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s! Geoffrey was born December 7, 1948, in Trinidad and Tobago, which […]
Jodi House chose this issue to be the focus of this week’s Giving List column because March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. The nonprofit, which has been around for more than 40 years, has launched its first-ever weeklong Brain Injury Awareness campaign. The effort includes developing video content around the voices of the organization’s […]
ShelterBox president Kerri Murray went to pot when she met King Charles and Queen Camilla at Buckingham Palace last week! Kerri also met Camilla at an event at the tony twosome’s private residence Clarence House, formerly the London home of the late Queen Mother. The latest event celebrated the anniversaries of four humanitarian organizations, ShelterBox, […]
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Opera Santa Barbara’s latest production of Mozart’s classic work The Marriage of Figaro turned into the Love Boat when head honcho Kostis Protopapas and director Sara E. Widzer, set the location on the ocean liner SS Seville on the Mediterranean in the 1930s. The two-hour 40-minute Lobero show, with set and projection design by Yuki […]
One805 hosted a grants reception at the Montecito Club handing out a record high of $1,003,000 in checks to First Responder agencies and the One805 Mental Wellness Fund. The chiefs of all First Responder Agencies in Santa Barbara County were present, including SBC Fire Chief Mark Hartwig, Montecito Fire Chief David Neels, and SBC Sheriff […]
Disco fever reigned supreme when the Firefighter Foundation of Santa Barbara South Coast hosted a pulsating Disco Inferno event with more than 200 guests at the Bella Vista, Summerland, estate of Pat and Ursula Nesbitt. The boffo bash, co-chaired by Ursula, Arlene Montesano, Gail Kvistad, Jim Nigro and Greg Hons, featured a performance by the […]
Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West was packed when artists from the visiting London Symphony Orchestra via CAMA performed with academy alumnae, including flute, clarinet and harp, with works by Mozart and Ravel in the latest performance from the Mariposa concert series… The final work, another Mozart piece, “Clarinet Quartet in A […]
International surfer Lakey Peterson is coming to the big screen in 805 Beer’s Making Waves documenting her rise to fame and focus on mental wellness, including how narrowly missing the Olympic roster became her catalyst for deeper discovery. “You don’t remember the wins or the losses,” she reflects. You remember the in-between moments – being […]
