Opening night panel for Body Electric with James Tutwiler, Kimberly Pratt, Karen Zazon, and Ambra Tesora Yes folks, it's our bi-monthly chat with the artists in the latest show at MichaelKate Interiors, curated by Jess Hinds. James Tutwiler James...

Artist, painter, instructor, jewelry maker, cool person   This week I sit down with Jill Sattler, a fascinating fixture of Santa Barbara for some time. Here's an except from her bio: Jill Sattler is a free-lance photodramatist and painter in...

The Santa Barbara singer-songwriter returns after 10 years with a brand new album. In our first podcast with live music, we sat down with singer-songwriter Cory Sipper to talk growing up in Santa Barbara, what caused her to get off the music industry...

Photo ©The Independent and most probably Paul Wellman Abstract artist, app maker, co-founder of the Wine Cask, promoter of the Presidio Neighborhood Hugh Margerum has worn many hats over his lifetime in Santa Barbara and continues to do so....

Playwright and co-founder of Dramatic Women and ACCESS Theatre I've seen several of Ellen K. Anderson's plays over the years of reviewing theater in Santa Barbara and so have had the chance  to interview her many times. She's always engaged in...

Abstract painter and fine artist Julie B Montgomery paints out of a cool studio near the tracks of Carpinteria. (Listen for the train to pass by while we talk!) A year or so ago, I was part of a group that went on a private studio visit, where I met...

Abstract painter of melting flowers   Jeanne Dentzel currently has her show "Flowers: Seen & Unseen" up at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club. In it she explores the classic still life subject through an abstract painter's eye, trying not to...

Creator of the Santa Barbara Arts Blog Since coming to Santa Barbara by way of Iowa/Portland/Burning Man, Nathan Vonk has advocated for the arts, either in his work at Sullivan Goss gallery, on various arts boards, or by publishing his go-to page on...

Photo by Kaori Funahashi Author of The Mad Crush, about the 1995 zinfandel harvest In 1995 a college student named Sean Christopher Weir joined the harvest at Saucelito Canyon Vineyards and worked on that year's zinfandel. Bill Greenough, the owner...

Live podcast with artists Clara Berta, Shelby Lynn Joyce, Amber Goldhammer, Kimberly Hahn Hey folks! They let me back in to record another live podcast at MichaelKate Interiors for "Deep Disguise," a second show of abstract art curated by Jess Hynds....