O A lot has gone down since we scribbled on a blackboard over last checked in on the closet-sized uct/fat specials so disturbingly the door, change with the season. Cota street haven known as the prevalent on menus today are bad However, “must try” dishes like Palace. Inevitably some of the enough. But to desecrate what is Jambalaya and Key Lime pie can changes, though minor, are meant to be a delightfully heavy be had virtually year-round. questionable. Nevertheless, they oral-sense fiesta! How many One last surprise to throw in the represent decisions that will people do we really have to ap­ grab bag. From the new found probably do little to affect the pease here? confidence gained from his first good feelings and great food Sponder shrugs. After a venture, Sponder plans to soon which emanate from this place. phenomonally successful first open another Santa Barbara Its undisputed popularity in Santa year, he’s experimenting — but restaurant. A hark back to his Barbara, like die element in those thankfully just a little bit. Run­ south Florida childhood, “Key proofs that gave you hell in high ning out of crawfish can do that to Largo” will be an upbeat and school geometry, is a given. a guy, you know. The risk-taking, informal Caribbean style eatery I suppose a spot like this has to however, has presented some (no, there won’t be Hawaiian be thought of as hip. Hey, I ’m up pleasant surprises to offset an­ shirts or reruns of “South Seas” on my trends. Cajun-creole noyances like Palace-label — and the straw hats will be kept cooking is all the rage these days. mineral water. Local solicitation to a minimum). Sponder’s new Spin off restaurants are popping landed a collective brass section place plans to feature regional up all over the place, and (largely comprised of UCSB seafood (like stone crab claws- everyone from The Sizzler to students) to entertain patrons ooh, all the East Coast transplants State & A is blackening lined up outside waiting for a are wincing) and specialties like SOMETHING. The Cajun ap­ table. And through collaboration Cuban black bean soup and fried pellation has been tagged on with notable Zaca Mesa winery, bananas. concoctions that would surely the Palace now features an ex­ As a Scott Joplin rag punctuates escape the vocabulary of the cellent house Sauvignon Blanc, the momentary silence in the average Louisianian. Yeah, sure complete with an appealing label informative bull session with — just throw in a little pepper and that depicts the trademark Sponder, my attention is diverted spices and whistle dixie — no trumpeter painting which to the heavenly aroma of the crab problem. dominates the restaurant’s main claw appetizer placed under our Owner Steve Sponder counters wall. noses. Ah, to be back at the that, “We wouldn’t have done it The rest of the Palace remains Palace again. Not a frequent (go strictly Cajun-creole) if we ever-pleasing, creating a feeling occurrence when the parents thought that people would stop that, as Sponder likes to say, “It’s aren’t in town. Yet thanks to an coming.” But Cajun light dishes?! right.” An establishment which ever-hospitable owner and his Talk about an extreme addition to rightfully prides itself on amiable staff (if you’re lucky, one the food fare! Sure there’s authenticity, it’s hard to discount will even tease you with magic something positive to be said for his integrity while being stared tricks), a persistent and ap­ America’s well-being obsession. down by gallon-sized Tabasco preciative Isla Vista refugee was People generally feel better about bottles and a vacated alligator able to satiate his craving for themselves when healthier and head idling on the bar. The Palace REAL food while quelling it’s good preventive maintenance. has dedicated itself to its Cajun- recurrent Cajun withdrawal But restaurants are a release creole specialization, a culinary symptoms. It seems the novelty from our personal dietary tradition which goes back about will never wear off of this regimens; a time to let someone 200 years. Menu selections, establishment. Check it out soon. else take care of you for a while. augmented by the daily specials — Brent Anderson The “diet plates” and reduced entertainment m More Movies UCen Gallery Alice on the Rocks Twist and Shout n On the Surface w Capades Soul Man Beneath the Surface Cooper 2A Thursday, October 30,1966 Daily Nexus Abrams Paints the Personal Melba Abrams manages to another. One is a wooded land­ pression that, even though perhaps paint very unpretentious pain­ scape in which the trees are unconsciously, that home is where tings of which one can sense her discernable; in others the land­ they were destined for. deep personal involvement. scape has been obliterated with a For reasons beyond my grasp, Born in 1913, she first raised a single color and we only see its the paintings of Melba Abrams are family and only at the age of 40 remnants in spaces in the paint. obviously by a woman. It could be did she turn to art as a serious In others, figures are just the subject matter, the flowers and occupation. She seems to have (jiscemable, and flowers in still- landscapes and the occassional given the same amount of love life form the subject matter for figure, that gives this impression. and devotion (which the blurb in others. The work shows a strong Or it is perhaps the fluid the literature assures us in words element in tradition for its time, pleasantness on the pictures which almost embarrassingly perhaps a belief in the past and might drive a man to despair as he irrelevant) she had previously security. seeks sharper lines and a greater given to her children and garden. The most satisfactory pictures degree of self-assertiveness. But whether she had been a Melba Abrams did not woman or not, and a nur­ pursue her career at a turing, life-affirming professional level, and this woman at that, does not add almost seems to be conveyed or take away from her in the pictures themselves. work. They are certainly saleable, They are nice pictures, but they have a sort of inner which, although they will comfort and acceptance. not gain a major place in They do not ask or demand the history of art of the last attention, nor did their two decades (particularly creator seek attention for as they ignore the artistic them. changes and developments The show presents half a of this period), concentrate career instead of a full one. on the use of imagery It is the fate of most women developed in the 50’s and to spend their time in the before. There is an af­ care and upbringing of their filiation with Ex­ children. This is not a bad pressionism, we are bound fate neccessarily, but it is up here with feelings — difficult to pursue another though they have the career when this one is so lightness of some Im­ demanding. pressionist pictures rather than for me are those which depart The exhibition is during the the melancholy of the E x ­ totally from any recognizable inaugral year of the Melba Abrams pressionists. subject matter and show a simple Prize, which has been instituted by These are very personal painting with a relatively uniform her husband and is to be paintings, not painted for a color scheme. I find these pic­ distributed by the Women’s Center market or to say something or for tures also the most disconcerting, in her memory. The grant is for art fame, but because she wanted to as you appear to be gazing almost supplies and is open to all students $40.33 paint them. at UCSB. at a void, albeit a pleasant void. offany 18K ring. Each painting confines itself to These works have a domesticity The artist died in 1984 and the a limited color range. Orange about them and would be more show covers the previous 23 years, being predominant in one, dark comfortable in a home than a 1960-1984. We are presented with green in another, light blue in gallery. And one gets the im- the artist’s life, not only the pic­ tures. She seems to have led a $30.13 happy and contented life — there is offanyMK ring. no hint of the disquiet that haunted the Expressionists. The pictures have almost been reared as children and lavished with love and affection. This is indicated in $15.63 the blurb which says “Melba Abrams did not sign her works nor offanylOK ring. paint them to sell.’’ All enquiries about the Abrams For one week only order and save on the gold ring of your choice. For complete Prize and annual lecture should be details, see your Jostens representative. made at the Women’s Center. — Anthony Emerton JOSTENS Night classes? 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