Steven Libowitz

Back in the category of regular December doings, the Alcazar Ensemble once again holds forth for the holidays in presenting the beloved holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street remounted for a fourth year.

Next year marks the 80th anniversary for Hillside, the residential home for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who receive not only quality care, but also whatever degree of independence they can handle, as well as integration within our community.

If there were no Pee-wee Herman, there probably wouldn't have been a Pink Martini.

Nonprofits understandably like to make a big deal about anniversaries, noting with pride and gratitude how long they have been a part of the community and the ways in which they've adjusted their services to meet evolving needs. On the other hand, Mission Scholars hasn't been around long enough to trumpet their decades of service, or even a single decade, having just notched six years since its founding in December 2018.

If you want to take in all of the choral programs happening this weekend, you'd better figure out how to clone yourself quickly. By some quirk of fate, or quirky communication between them, seven different mostly choral concerts are taking place this week, including an astonishing five between Saturday and Sunday, four of them from some of the bigger organizations in town.

Those six shows will have to hold you ‘til Tuesday, when the 42nd annual Messiah Sing Along takes place at 7:30 pm in the First Presbyterian Church, a Santa Barbara holiday tradition that benefits Unity Shoppe.

If Monty Python's Eric Idle could spoof the Legend of King Arthur with the sweet-and-starchy-ground-pork-and-ham product in Spamalot back in

If all you want for Christmas is some tasty blues rock with teeth, look no further than SOhO on Friday night, December 20. That's when the veteran guitarist-singer-songwriter Alastair Greene will be throwing down at his old stomping grounds, taking to the stage in a reunion with his longtime SoCal based band mates Jim Rankin on bass and Austin Beede on drums.

Starring as the Duchess in The Ghosts of Haddon Hall – the 2024 production of “The Christmas Revels: A Winter Solstice Celebration” this weekend – is

Thirty years ago this coming April, FEMA-Certified Canine Search Specialist Wilma Melville and her black lab Murphy spent a week rummaging through the rubble of the Alfred P.