Labour of Love: Globe comes to Santa Barbara

By STEVE LIBOWITZ — Nov. 13, 2009

UCSB’s Arts & Lectures turned 50 this year, but we keep getting all the presents. Case in point: the Santa Barbara debut of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, considered perhaps the world’s greatest keepers of the Bard’s immortal works. But of course: The ...

Flying Karamazov Brothers come to the Granada

By STEVE LIBOWITZ — Oct. 22, 2009

The juggling and comedy troupe Flying Karamazov Brothers have starred everywhere from the streets of Santa Cruz to the stage of Broadway, on TV and in movies and in concert halls across the country and around the world over a 35-year career.
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Tomlin plays the Lobero

By STEVE LIBOWITZ — Oct. 16, 2009

The great actress-comedian Lily Tomlin seems to only be improving with age, so maybe the five-month gap since her originally scheduled date at the Lobero last May and this weekend’s make-up gigs at the Lobero tonight and tomorrow (due to the Jesusita ...

Stop, hey, what’s that sound? New Noise music conference arrives

It was no accident that Michael Franti was booked to play the kickoff concert for the inaugural New Noise Santa Barbara conference tonight at the Arlington Theatre. The band that backs up the socially conscious, multi-ethnic singer-songwriter is called Spearhead, and the hip-hop infused funk-folk-reggae outfit is doing exactly that, serving as the big name live attraction of the ambitious new event.