Boehm Art Middle Class “Classy”
EG sent me a photo of a magnificent seventeen and a half inch porcelain Blue Jay perched on raspberry branches. Its brilliant plumage modeled in hard-paste porcelain and hand-painted with …
Gale McNeeley My Life In Song
Actor and clown Gale McNeeley joins guest host Richard Dugan to talk about his new show, My Life In Song, which he will perform Sunday, August. 23, 3 pm at Unitarian …
French Circus Poster A Memorial Of Time
This week FF sent me a French advertising poster with the narrative theme of enjoyment at the circus. Well-dressed 1930s crowds enjoy a carnival, (buy your tickets!) signed Émile Finot. …
Elijah Rock: Memories Unleashed
Elijah Rock talks about his one-night-only show at Ensemble Theatre Company on Saturday, August 22 at 8 pm. Watch Video
Fashionable Singerie Monkeys
Singerie, you say? Yes. DD owns a delightful group of color lithographs ‘after’ Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin‘s celebrated Le Singe peintre and Le Singe antiquaire. One monkey is an artist, the other …
Ensemble Theater Company’s 48th Season
Executive Artistic Director Scott DeVine talks about the play lineup for Ensemble Theater Company‘s 48th Season — “California: Here and Now.” Watch Video
Kerosene Lamp Carries Rich Story Over 2,460 Miles
This little green kerosene lamp proves a point. Objects possess much the same uncanny property as the old theory of “six degrees of separation.” The principle suggests that any two …
Santa Barbara Studio Artists Open Studios Tour
Artists Leslie Ekker, Sarita Reynolds, and Danuta Bennett discuss the Santa Barbara Studio Artists Open Studios Tour which returns Labor Day weekend, September 5th – 7th. Watch Video
Music Box Captures Memories of Romanticism and Ragtime
LB owns an 1898–1902 Symphonion crank-operated tabletop music box. It spins perforated seven-and-a-half-inch steel discs on a double-comb movement patented in Leipzig by Symphonion Musikwerke. The photograph shows a bound …
Carpinteria History
Dr. Jim Campos a.k.a. “Mr. Carpinteria” talks about Carpinteria history. Watch Video