Los Angeles-based artisan coffee roaster Caffe Luxxe is thrilled to announce the official Grand Opening of Caffe Luxxe Montecito! Join us on Saturday, May 11 to check our our new space, meet our Montecito team, and enjoy a free americano or cappuccino on us.

Gaiman will tell and read stories, answer questions and, in his own words, “amaze, befuddle and generally delight. It will be fun and odd and not like any other evening with Neil Gaiman."

The New Works Lab presents bare bones developmental productions of half-hour scripted and devised plays. The program provides a simple 'fringe festival' level of technical and design support so that each work may evolve in content and structure through the final performance. Works are selected every November through an open application process. The process is supported by a weekly spring quarter class in which NWL student actors, designers, playwrights, directors, stage managers and publicists working on the productions convene with faculty and staff mentors to view and critique staged iterations of each work.

Performance Dates:

May 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2019 - 8:00pm

May 11, 18, 19, 2019 - 2:00pm

The Santa Barbara Symphony concludes its sensational 2018-2019 season with the beloved classic Romeo & Juliet, conducted by Maestro Nir Kabaretti on Saturday, May 11 at 8:00 pm at The Granada Theatre (1214 State St).

Concluding their 65th Anniversary, The Santa Barbara Symphony will close the season with Romeo & Juliet and Dvořák Symphony No. 8 on May 11th at 8:00 pm and May 12th at 3:00 pm at the Granada Theater.

 The Santa Barbara Symphony concludes their 65th Anniversary season with Romeo & Juliet on Saturday,  May 11 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, May 12 at 3:00 pm at The Granada Theatre.  

Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Santa Barbara Cactus & Succulent Society. Annual show and sale

International Astronomy Day at Camino Real Marketplace and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

The Santa Barbara Public Library's Volunteer Fair is 10am to 12pm on May 11th in the Central Library.

We will be hosting our 4th annual Mother's Day Cupcake and Wine pairing on Sat. May 11th. Add a trio of 3 cupcakes to your wine flight for $6.00. These cupcakes are the best we have ever had, from Food Network's Cupcake Wars winner Alison Riede of Sugar Cat Studio. Cupcakes will sell out so come by early or you may miss out!

Graduate composer Marc Evanstein will present a PhD Composition Recital on Saturday, May 11th at 12:30 pm in Karl Geiringer Hall in the Music Building. The program will include a questionably-titled work for viola and piano performed alongside violist Jonathan Morgan; works for piano and electronics based on algorithms, as well as on not-algorithms, performed by the composer; a ridiculous piece that uses Fourier analysis to de- and re-construct Ravel's Bolero as a work for percussion quartet and impossible electronic orchestra, performed by four clones of Kramer Elwell; a work for oboe and guitar deriving material from the second movement of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata; the premier of a piece for solo flute, written for and performed by Adriane Hill; and Alban Berg's formidable piano sonata, performed along with a live visualization of the harmony and other aspects of the music. Mr. Evanstein has studied with UCSB faculty members Clarence Barlow, Joel Feigin, Curtis Roads, and Charles Asche.

As part of the Fiftieth Anniversary Carillon Recital Series, UCSB University Carillonist Wesley Arai will present a recital from the carillon in UCSB's Storke Tower on Sunday, May 12, 2019 at 2 pm. Listeners are encouraged to bring a blanket or lawn chair to sit on the grass outside the tower during the recital.