1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake
Author and Pearl Chase Society President Cheri Rae talks about rebuilding Santa Barbara after the 1925 earthquake, and historian and author Betsy J. Green shares stories of survivors. Watch Video
Vintage Graphic Design Work
A gift the universe gives the right person is rare. Take Emma Howard, a talented local designer who gave me permission to use her name. She owns Studio 3 Hand …
Pearl Chase Society & Art of the Table
First, author and Pearl Chase Society President Cheri Rae talks about Pearl Chase’s influence on Santa Barbara as documented in the new book, A String of Pearls: Pearl Chase of …
Art Pottery of the Arts and Crafts Movement
ES owns a eight-and-a-half-inch tall matt blue vase accented with a purple peony design with the “flame” mark for Rookwood pottery. The date stamp reads 1926. ES, your little vase …
Summer Solstice Celebration
Board President Justin Gunn, mask maker and puppetmaster Emma-Jane Huerta, Festival Director Olivia Sorgman, and Executive Director Penny Little talk about Santa Barbara Summer Solstice parade and festival, June 20-22. …
Moving Miss Daisy and Chuck Graham
First, owner Glenn Novack share the latest news about Moving Miss Daisy. Then Chuck Graham, author, photographer, and longtime Channel Islands National Park guide, talks about his upcoming presentation, From …
American Stainless and Sterling Flatware Hot Today
DS owns a set of Stanley Roberts International House of Design stainless flatware accented with inserted rosewood running down the handles. Very modern, and hot today, as American modern stainless …
AlloSphere
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara Board President Frederick Janka and Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility and Professor of Media Arts and Technology …
Cringeworthy Midcentury Table Lamps
What one object personified KITSCH in a midcentury living room in the 1940s to early 1950’s? Those figural lamps that make us roll our eyes today, those non-politically correct, exotic …
Porcelain Faced Doll Too Lifelike To Stomach
Confession! I have a doll phobia. They call it “paedophobia,” an intense irrational fear of a humanoid form when appearing too realistic, seemingly too close to becoming one of US. …