Tag archives: block party

Big Bad Swinging in the Sunshine
By Steven Libowitz   |   August 13, 2024

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the swing music and jump blues band whose members hail from Ventura and Santa Barbara, got its start in the early 1990s with club gigs that include twice playing the Santa Barbara Independent’s Christmas party at El Paseo Restaurant. As the swing revival hit SoCal, BBVD scored a pivotal on-screen appearance […]

Coast Village Week Celebration
By Joanne A Calitri   |   July 30, 2024

Executive Director of the Coast Village Association Beth Sullivan invites everyone to the upcoming Coast Village Week, Saturday, August 3 through Saturday, August 10.  Sullivan mentioned, “After a successful launch of this event in 2023, the Coast Village Association is proud to announce the First Annual ‘Coast Village Week,’ a weeklong celebration that will showcase […]

The 2nd Annual Summerland Business Block Party
By Joanne A Calitri   |   July 30, 2024

The 2nd Annual Summerland Businesses Block Party is on Saturday, July 27, from 11 am to 4 pm. Chairing the event are local business leaders Aimee Miller, owner of Home Crush; Marie Ferris, owner of Juniper; Leslie Person Ryan, owner of Farm to Paper and Sweet Wheel Farms; D’Arcy Cornwall, President of Summerland Beautiful; and […]

Check(er) Mate Sill Twisting
By Steven Libowitz   |   May 23, 2023

It’s startling to realize that while the Lobero Theatre has been a beacon for the arts in Santa Barbara for 150 years, Chubby Checker has been around for more than half of those years, and is still going strong. As part of the Lobero’s year-long Ovation celebration, the now-81-year-old 1960s rocker who propelled “The Twist” […]

Block Party Revival 
By Joanne A Calitri   |   May 10, 2022

Spring has sprung, bringing with it the revival of our town’s neighborhood block parties. Recent Montecito town gatherings were the Holiday Tree decorating on San Ysidro Lane in December, and the last block party in April 2019 before the lockdowns. Both events were spawned by members from the Montecito Association, whose love of our town […]

Block Party in Montecito
By Montecito Journal   |   April 26, 2018

(Editor’s note: The following was sent to us from Mindy Denson.) Montecito residents living on Santa Rosa Lane, San Ysidro, Lemon Grove, Sea Cliff, Court Place, and Mira Monte attended the bash last weekend, with typical fare including hotdogs and burgers with all the fixins! Everyone brought side dishes such as the homemade potato salad […]