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Noting the Tour's status as the world's marquee cycling event, pro cyclist Anna van der Breggen says, "It's long been a dream for many of us to compete in a women's Tour de France."

The Chicago Bulls' come-from-behind win against the Toronto Raptors in the NBA Playoff Play-In tournament game was fueled by the screams of 9-year-old Diar, daughter to Bulls forward DeMar DeRozen.

Cuando se prohibió la transmisión de música en inglés en 1982, los grupos de rock argentino encontraron una oportunidad.

An unpredictable and exciting college football season is coming to a close. This weekend's first-round slate is set up for two tight games and two blowouts — but in the playoffs, anything goes.

Join other artists for a series of three open model drawing sessions at your Museum: 10/12, 10/26, 11/9. Models will be clothed and nude. Organized by artists Cathy Barroca and Barbara Brown. Chairs and easels will be provided; artists must bring their own supplies, paints not permitted. Note: this is not an instructional class. The fee for all three sessions is $50 for MVC members and students and $65 for non-members.

This is a great opportunity for artists of all skill levels to work from a live model to develop their life drawing skills. 10-35 participants per session.

About Cathy Barroca: A Ventura County artist and arts educator, she holds an M.F.A. in painting and printmaking from the University of Kansas and has been teaching with the Ventura College Art Department since 1998 and directed the Ventura College Art Galleries from 2001 to 2005. Catherine completed “Portrait of a Neighborhood”, a 100 foot mural in the interior of the Casa de Anza Library in 2001, and is featured in prestigious art collections such as the City of San Buena Ventura, the City of Oxnard, the Ventura County Museum of Art and History and the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas. She presented a one-person exhibit of her bas-relief paintings at the Ventura County Museum of Art in 2008 and represented the Museum at the Los Angeles Art Show in 2009. Learn more about her at https://sites.google.com/site/daybarroca/.

About Barbara Brown: Barbara Brown is a California-based artist interested in figurative and landscape work. She is influenced by the Hudson River School, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, John Singer Sargent, Diego Velasquez, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Lucian Freud. She received her MFA in Painting from Laguna College of Art and Design and has studied at Harvard Business School and the University of California Santa Barbara in Fine Art. Much of her work was destroyed in the Thomas Fire in 2017. Her subsequent series on that cataclysmic event was a part of her recovery. Her work since then has been an integral part of her healing process. Learn more about her at https://www.barbarabrownartist.com.

Join this unique class to immerse yourself into the philosophy and the beauty of Ikebana Flower Arrangements, a six-hundred-year old Japanese cultural art form that is loved and practiced worldwide. With instructions from the teacher, you will collect branch and green materials off the lands of the Botanical Garden to create your very first Ikebana arrangement. You will learn the elements of Line, Color and Mass and the principles of Asymmetry, Space and Depth to incorporate into your design. Your completed project, a Moribana design, will adorn your home with its serene beauty. Please wear comfortable shoes, gloves, and bring pruning shears and a lunch. For more information about registering for this program, email millie@slobg.org or call (805)541-1400x302.

It’s Free Family Day—the day of the month when admission to the garden is waived all day for all guests! Help us celebrate by bringing your family down to SLOBG to explore the beautiful plant collection, talk to docents and plant experts throughout the garden, and participate in fun family activities!

This Free Day, we’ll be teaching some kid-friendly ways to up-cycle your old clothes and turn them into something you love again! Bring any old clothes, shoes or accessories that you are ready to give some new style to, and we will be painting, dying, distressing, and learning some basic sewing skills! For more information about this program, please email millie@slobg.org or call (805) 541-1400 x302.

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) presents “Global History and the California Missions: A Sea Story” with author, artist, educator, and native Californian Janet Dowling Sands on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:00. This beautifully illustrated presentation will explain how the missions were inextricably linked to global maritime history and prehistory, including the latest research on the origins of California’s indigenous people, whose ancestors came to the Americas thousands of years before the first European soldiers and missionaries arrived.

Cost is free for SBMM’s Navigator Circle Members, $10 for all other members, and $20 for members of the public. There will also be a pre-lecture reception for members only from 6:15-6:45pm. Register at: https://sbmm.org/santa-barbara-event/ and become a member at https://sbmm.org.

About the Speaker
Janet Sands, author of On a Mission: The Real Story of the California Missions, has developed a unique perspective on history—shaped by extensive research and by many years of engagement with educators, scientists and historians. She is a California native with a degree in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a lifelong student of history, art, and the natural world, and a collector of American regional art. She is currently working to complete her next book, Collision of Cultures: A Traveler’s History of the American Southwest.

This event is generously sponsored by Marie L. Morrisroe.

What if the parts of yourself you have thrown away were the very things that could set you free?

This August, Trash Club, a new solo storytelling show by acclaimed writer and performer Elaine Gale, invites audiences to laugh, cry, and dig deep into the messy magic of being human. Directed by Teagan Rose, the show will run August 6 and 7, 2025, at 7 PM at the Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara.

Born out of a real-life Trash Club Gale started on the streets of Los Angeles, this raw and irreverent performance mixes storytelling, stand-up, ritual, and a dumpster dive into the fire of human spirit. Through tales of divorce and heartbreak, midlife reinvention, the death of her mother, and a once-in-a-century pandemic, Gale asks one central question: “What parts of myself have I thrown away, and am I brave enough to dig them back out?” Along the way, unlikely sages help her decide what is worth repurposing.

Tickets and Details
When: Two nights only – August 6th and 7th, 7-8:15 pm
Tickets: $27 ($32 at the door)
Purchase Now: www.centerstagetheater.org/show-details/trash-club-a-storytelling-show
All ticket sales are final. General admission, with no late seating once the performance begins.

The storied civil rights organization accused Gov. Ron DeSantis of having "waged war on Black America" by championing legislation to dismantle diversity and inclusion efforts at public schools.