Los Angeles-based abstract painter and friend of Santa Barbara I met Liv Zutphen back when she showed her art in 2013 as part of a show at MichaelKate. I even reviewed it for the News-Press at the time. She's turned up now and again at Roy Restaurant...

Santa Barbara's arts journalist and avant jazz guitarist   I met Joe Woodard back in the days when I wrote at the Independent. Later he and his group Headless Household would score my second short film Walk Cycle. Since then I'e...

Santa Barbara's best known architect A Jeff Shelton building is unmistakable once you know his style. And as he is a Santa Barbara native *and* devoted to only building in his home town, so Santa Barbara is the only place you'll see his curvy, Dr....

Philip and me in the shed! Multi-media artist and Funk Zone resident! I met Philip Koplin through Dan Levin, because the two have shared a studio down in the corner of the FunkZone, right next to some dumpsters, in a room that used to be a...

Screenwriter, mystery novelist, and co-creator of Where the Bears Are I met Rick Copp one day when one of my best friends from my high school days came to town to stay. They were friends and Rick had given him a lift up to SB from LA, so the...

Abstract painter of dots and more! As you do in Santa Barbara, I was down in the Funk Zone for a series of gallery openings and ran into Giuliana Mottin and her work. An abstract artist who has turned recently to dotted paint canvases, Mottin spends...

Santa Barbara's historian I've interviewed Neal Graffy a few times, most recently for an article about the 90th anniversary of the Santa Barbara Earthquake, so I used that opportunity to invite him on the show. An affable gent, as you will soon here,...

Artist, art collector, art curator I like Nancy Gifford, and not just because two of my art works are in her private collection, along with works by major Santa Barbara artists. No, it's because she does her damndest to promote art in Santa Barbara...

The very arts-friendly mayor of Santa Barbara We've never had a politician on the podcast...until now! Mayor Schneider has been a strong supporter of the arts in Santa Barbara and I wanted to see if she was amendable to a  sit-down chat. So I...

Artist, screenwriter, and author I met D.A. Metrov when he submitted a work for an art show that is temporarily on hold. The work, though wonderful, didn't really match the theme I was working on, but have since changed anyway. Instead we started...