By Robert Bernstein February First Thursday had us running non-stop from opening at 5PM on to 9PM, an hour after the official end. Here are my photos and here are my videos. We ran into my friend Tokai and her daughter Luna (orange top) and Luna’s friend as we began our race. Here my wife Merlie (far right) posed with them. We told them about Opera Santa Barbara performing at 5:30 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. But we stopped first to check out Legacy Art Santa Barbara at 1230 State Street and admired the diverse display of traditional and modern art in a variety of media. We rushed over to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for the Opera Santa Barbara performance with singer Elijah Cineas and pianist Timothy Accurso. Our friends Tokai and Luna were inside. But the capacity of the room was only 35 and it was completely full. We were not allowed in. Ever more people kept arriving, frustrated that they could not enter. After a couple of performance pieces, Tokai kindly stepped out so that I could go in and take some photos and videos. I followed up with Opera Santa Barbara later. Pianist
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