‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ tops box office

By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” was a game changer when it opened last weekend.

Based on the Nintendo game, the movie knocked “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” a film inspired by the Hasbro game, from its No. 1 spot.

“The Super Mario Bros. Movie” grossed a whopping $146 million.

That left “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” in the No. 3 spot with $14.5 million.

“John Wick: Chapter 4” remained in the No. 2 spot with $14.6 million.

The movie about the Air Jordan shoes, “Air,” opened in fourth place with $14.47 million.

“Scream VI” has less to scream about. It dropped to fifth place from fourth with $3.32 million.

“His Only Son,” based on the Biblical account of Abraham being called on to sacrifice his only son, dropped to sixth place from third with $3.25 million.

“Creed III” fell to seventh place from fifth with $2.82 million email: dmason@newspress.com

Starring Ventura native Zachary Levi, “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” fell to eighth place from sixth with $1.6 million.

“Paint,” about a public television painter who has it all until a younger artist takes it all away, opened in ninth place with $750,000.

“A Thousand and One,” about a mother who kidnaps her son from the foster care system, dropped to 10th place from seventh with $600,000.

SOLVANG — The Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society and Solvang Library are hosting a lecture and author event this week to celebrate the publication of the new book, “Bristlecone Forest Wildflowers.”

This discussion will take place at 7 p.m. April 19 at the Solvang Library, 1745 Mission Drive, Solvang. This author event will also be live-streamed on Zoom. The link will be posted onto the website, www.syvnature.org, before the event.

The book’s three authors — Cathay Rose, Karen FerrellIngram and Stephen Ingram — share a story about different wildflowers and plants growing along trails and alongside the oldest living trees on Earth. The talk will cover these concepts, as well as different plants and trees that grow along trails of the Schulman and Patriarch Groves of the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.

The same trio of authors has previously co-authored the book “Rock Creek Wildflowers.” Ms. Rose is a retired English teacher and botany enthusiast. Ms. FerrellIngram is a former native plant

STEPHEN INGRAM PHOTO propagator, and Mr. Ingram is a botanist, photographer and writer. The SYVNHS’s lectures are open and free to the public.

“Rock Creek Wildflowers” discusses plants such as raspberry buckwheat and Stenotus.

For more information, contact syvnhs@syvnature.org.

— Kira Logan

Poetry contest deadline is Friday

Submissions are due at 5 p.m. Friday for “Instructions on Not Giving Up,” a poetry contest inspired by U.S. poet laureate Ada Limon, who will speak at a UCSB

Arts and Lectures event on April 25. Submission instructions are at thematic-learning.org/2022-2023. Winners will be announced

April 21 at thematic-learning. org/2022-2023. For more information, go to www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

— Dave Mason

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Ms. Hedden said, “Art has been a part of my life since I can remember. My family encouraged my interest to study art and design throughout my education. In the late 1990s, I started painting en plein air.” Eager to learn, she sought out workshops with gifted artists, including Ray Roberts, Randall Sexton, Kevin McPherson, Matt Smith, Jean LeGassick, Michael Drury, John Comer, Marcia Burtt and most recently, Colley Whisson. She is a member of the Oak Group, Santa Barbara Art Association, SCAPE and the California Art Club.

“Nature’s sublimity is what compels me to paint outside. I love standing in an open field, on a bluff’s edge or a beach contemplating and creating a personal expression of the beauty before me,” said Ms. Hedden. “Through painting, I aim to capture a moment of nature’s time and evoke in my viewers a sense of the divine, belonging and stewardship for our natural world.

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RADIO FOR HERE FROM HERE and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 23. There is limited onstage seating, for ages 12 and older, and that costs $40. Other tickets cost $35 for general admission and $20 for college students and seniors. To purchase, go to centerstagetheater. org. Those 17 and younger get free admission but must show their ID at will call. (A pre-show concert starts at 7:30 p.m. April 15, and the bar will be open during the pre-show.) For more details, see the story that will appear in Friday’s News-Press or visit www. outoftheboxtheatre.org.

APRIL 16

2 p.m. Out of the Box Theatre Company will perform “Once” a musical about Guy and Girl, who meet on the streets of Dublin at

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“Rooted and Reaching” will be on view through May 28 at the Palm Loft Gallery, 410 Palm Ave., Loft A-1, in Carpinteria. Hours are 11 a.m.to 6 p.m. daily with visits by appointment for those who have been vaccinated, and wearing of masks indoors is recommended. For more information, call 805-684-9700 or visit palmloft. com.

“Armed with paints and brushes, I set up where I feel inspired. Light, color, composition or nuance will catch my attention and rope me in. Looking carefully, searching for my subject, trying to really see it — what am I feeling? What am I trying to say?

“So many things come into play — playing with the composition, values, color, all the while considering the design. Pushing and pulling shapes, creating depth and atmosphere, developing the surface and edges, continually stepping back and questioning: Is it working?

“I am drawn into the process, into a creative reality where time stops,

Center Stage Theater, upstairs at Paseo Nuevo in Santa Barbara. Curtain rises at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through April 23. There is limited onstage seating, for ages 12 and older, and that costs $40. Other tickets cost $35 for general admission and $20 for college students and seniors. To purchase, go to centerstagetheater. org. Those 17 and younger get free admission but must show their ID at will call. (A pre-show concert starts at 1:30 p.m. April 16, and the bar will be open during the pre-show.) For more details, see the story that will appear in Friday’s News-Press or visit www. outoftheboxtheatre.org.

3 p.m. The Santa Barbara Symphony will perform “Beethoven Dreams” at The Granada, 1214 State St., Santa Barbara. The all-Beethoven program will include a collaboration with the Ensemble Theatre Company’s artistic director, Jonathan but things take shape. My paint becomes my voice, my painting my song. Sometimes slightly out of key, but always a song from my heart.”

Tom Henderson, who was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., in 1949, became interested in art at a young age, “since my father was a professional cartoonist. In my early 20s, I went to study art in Mexico at Instituto Allende but soon became sidetracked with a music career.”

In his 30s, he decided to give art another go at Santa Barbara City College on the G.I. Bill, studying with Bob Frame, Ken Nack and Ron Robertson.

“I later saw the work of artists like Charles Movalli, Edward Norton Ward and George Post and took numerous workshops with Movalli and Ward. They were both extremely loose painters and influenced me greatly,” said Mr. Henderson.

“I try to make my paintings more of a reaction to what I see versus a rendering — free to change as needed, shapes, colors etc. My first love is watercolor, but I love painting with oil and acrylic paints as well.” email: mmcmahon@newspress.com

Fox. Mr. Fox will direct the West Coast premiere of Ella Milch-Sheriff’s staged monodrama, “The Eternal Stranger,” based on one of Beethoven’s dreams. The concert will also feature the symphony playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Symphony No. 4. The concert’s piano soloist is Inna Faliks. Tickets cost $35 to $175. To purchase, go to granadasb.org.

APRIL 25

7:30 p.m. The American Theatre Guild will present “Anastasia” at The Granada, 1214 State St., Santa Barbara. The new Broadway musical follows a brave young woman on a journey to discover the mystery of the past. This production transports the audiences from the twilight of the Russian empire to Paris in the 1920s. Tickets cost $54 to $129. To purchase, go to granadasb.org.

— Dave Mason