Gerstner and Sons Toolbox Shows Off Tools
FG owns a H. Gerstner and Sons toolbox from the 1950s at sixteen inches, tall, nine inches wind, twenty-five inches long, found in a Goleta garage. Its origins go back …
Gagaku and The Accessible Outdoors
UCSB Professor Fabio Rambelli talks about the Gagaku: Music of the Imperial Ceremonies of Japan, One Thousand Years of Elegance and Harmony event at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art …
Piero Fornasetti and Practical Madness
HH sent me a box with a distinctive classical Renaissance PalladianPalladian print superimposed upon it, with a unique perspective, I see a near illegible signature beginning with “F” and ending …
TIPPING POINT: Too Much / Not Enough
Guest host RT Livingston speaks with artists Tom Pazderka and Marlene Struss about the TIPPING POINT: Too Much / Not Enough show all three exhibit in at Abstract Art Collective through …
Why a Fruit Bowl Lamp?
JP’s fruit bowl lamp at about twenty-four inches tall looks like a strange combination for us to see today. It’s a bowl of fruit sculpture and a lamp; Why? This “period …
Chicago & Shadow Art: Influences and Inspirations
First Justin Baldridge talks about Santa Barbara High School Theatre‘s production of Chicago, which runs through April 16. Then Sameer Pandya discusses his presentation Shadow Art: Influences and Inspirations, on …
Midcentury Modern Kitsch Chalkware Lamp
SS’s husband picked up a chalkware lamp at a garage sale. The figure shows the full body of a young gondolier with pink lipsticked lips, dressed in Venetian bloomers and …
Comedian Buddy Winston
Comedian, author, and former staff writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Buddy Winston talks with Guest Host Richard Dugan about comedy and the world today.
Whatz it Worth Event
If you live in, or plan to visit, the Santa Barbara area, join me for a public Whatz it Worth event at the Music Academy of the West on Sunday, …
Olden Days Beaded Handbag
These days an average woman’s handbag measures roughly sixteen by twelve inches. We fill them with a cellphone or tablet, make up, money, ID, vaccination record, dog potty bags, wallet, …