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A 45-year-old homeless man was found dead on the sidewalk on Castillo Street near the entrance to Pershing Park at about 5:30 p.m. on 1/5, marking the third transient death near the oceanfront park since October. Police said they responded after a neighbor reported the man lying unresponsive on the sidewalk. The death was not suspicious, said police, and drug use was not noted at the scene. The man’s identity is being withheld until his next of kin is notified. Westside gang members Marcial Garcia and Christian Botello were sentenced last week to 35 years and 21 years, respectively, for a robbery outside an Eastside market in August 2012. Both had prior convictions. In the incident, the two robbed a man in a car parked outside Mi Fiesta Market after he denied any gang affiliation. Their lookouts, Luis Jaimes and Juan Carlos Gomez, were sentenced to five years and five years and eight months in prison, respectively.

BY LY Z H O F F M A N n what the tribe labeled a “landmark ruling” that county representatives vowed will be appealed, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) granted the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians’ controversial plan to annex 1,400 acres of Santa Ynez Valley land — known as Camp  — into its existing reservation. The 36-page ruling came on Christmas Eve but not as a surprise to the players involved, given the favorable environmental analysis released by the agency in October. The approval marks one of the final steps in a saga that heated up nearly 18 months ago when the Chumash submitted an annexation application to the BIA. But a bevy of concerns expressed by valley residents, environmental groups, and the County of Santa Barbara over the tribe’s takeover of the property — especially in the wake of fast-moving plans to expand the existing reservation to include a 12-story hotel tower — could mean appeals that would tie up the property’s future for years. Last month, the Board of Supervisors voted to appeal October’s environmental study — which county officials argued wasn’t thorough enough — and initiate legal proceedings should the BIA grant the tribe’s request. Following the Christmas Eve approval, County Counsel Michael Ghizzoni said the county has 30 days to file its appeal with the federal Interior Board of Indian Appeals. Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr, who represents the valley, said she and other officials “will continue to do everything that we think is right to protect the interests” of valley and county residents. “We knew from the beginning that the odds were pretty stacked

against us,” Farr said, noting the proclivity of the BIA’s Pacific Division to approve fee-to-trust applications. Between 2001 and 2011, all of the 111 fee-totrust applications submitted to the BIA’s Pacific Division — which oversees upward of 100 tribes in California, including the Chumash — won approval, according to a 2012 report published in the Pepperdine University law review. And in the Camp  ruling by the BIA, an agency accused by many opponents of wielding a rubber stamp, one of the sentences mistakenly references San Diego County instead of Santa Barbara County. Remarks made in early 2014 by Kevin Washburn, the assistant secretary of Indian Affairs for the Department of the Interior, noted a goal set by the Obama administration to take 500,000 acres of land nationwide into trust by the end of his presidency. In 2013, the federal department placed 32,148 acres into trust, granting 438 feeto-trust applications; since 2009, 240,500 acres have been transferred to trust. Washburn will also likely play a heavy role in the appeals to the Camp  decision, as a policy change issued in 2013 gives him jurisdiction over challenges to properties bigger than 200 acres. How many approvals from the Pacific Division have been appealed — and successfully so — remains unclear; a BIA representative didn’t respond to a request for comment. Santa Ynez Band Tribal Chair Vincent Armenta cheered the BIA’s decision, saying that the agency conducted a “thorough” study of the tribe’s plans — their only plans, Armenta has repeatedly stated — to build 143 housing units for members and descendants on the land, which the tribe bought for $40 million from Fess Parker in 2010. Armenta has said previ-

ously that he would expect appeals in the face of an approval, pointing to the nine years of legal back-and-forth it took to annex 6.9 acres of land across the street from their reservation. That’s where federal legislation — pushed by the tribe and introduced in the fall of 2013 by Northern California Representative Doug LaMalfa — could come into play, Armenta said. While that particular bill, HR , is now technically dead, it could be revived in the new session of Congress. Kevin Eastman, a representative for LaMalfa, said the congressmember was “pleased to see the tribe’s eﬀort to address housing needs moving forward, and he’ll continue to support it legislatively until the situation is resolved.” Representative Lois Capps, who expressed her disapproval for the bill when it was introduced, issued a statement on the BIA’s approval. “I will continue to work with members of the community as this process moves forward,” she said. But while the Chumash insist that they don’t want to build another casino on the land — HR  included a no-gaming clause — valley residents and county oﬃcials have been vocal about what could happen once the land is no longer the county’s. With annexation, the 1,427 acres — which aren’t contiguous to the reservation, but sit 1.6 miles away — would be removed from the county’s tax rolls. According to the BIA, the land contributed more than $83,000 to the county’s $632 million propertytax pot in 2012-2013; if the parcel goes into trust, the county could lose up to $311 million in property taxes over the next 50 years. Most worrisome to opponents is that annexation of Camp  — so named, Armenta said, cont’d page 12

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Efstratios “Elias” Argyropoulos and his ﬁrm, Prima Capital Group, agreed last week to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over fraud charges. The SEC alleged the Santa Barbara–based stock promoter had defrauded investors out of nearly $3.5 million by pretending he would buy Facebook and Twitter shares for them before the companies’ initial public offerings. Instead, Argyropoulos used the money to day trade stocks and options, the agency said, and as hush money for clients who complained he hadn’t bought the shares.

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FRESH DIALOGUE? “I’m hoping this board will take the time to sit and talk to the tribe in this new year,” Tribal Chair Vincent Armenta told the supervisors at their ﬁrst meeting of 2015.

Ryan Zietlow-Brown, a 28-year-old neo-Nazi skinhead, pleaded no contest this week to attempted murder and mayhem for stabbing a black man walking down State Street in August 2011. He will be sentenced in February to more than 22 years in state prison. Zietlow-Brown, who has a shaved head and gang tattoos, used scissors to stab the victim in the head several times.

Jerry Bonhomme (pictured), 33, will go to state prison for 19 years for raping two women, Judge Frank Ochoa ordered last week. He will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and pay costs associated with the women’s therapy. Ochoa, presiding over one of his ﬁnal cases before retirement, didn’t mince words: “In my 32 years on the bench, I have never seen a more sophisticated manipulation of a position of trust and friendship,” he said to Bonhomme. “I cannot give you enough time for what you did.”

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Big Love, Small Jabs Jokes, hugs, songs, and inspirational quotes — briefly peppered with a few pointed comments — infused the fourth floor of the County Administration Building on Tuesday, where reelected officials and judges took their oaths of office and the Board of Supervisors performed their annual changing of the guard (pictured). Assembled by 2nd District Supervisor Janet Wolf, who took the helm as chair of the board after getting sworn in to her third term, the ceremony featured the Los Prietos Boys Camp color guard, two crowd-rousing songs by 13-year-old Mary-Grace Langhorne, and a speech by awardwinning journalist Ann Louise Bardach, who kicked off her remarks by citing former House Speaker Tip O’Neill. “All politics is local,” Bardach said, calling cities “microcosms of what plays out on the national stage.” Bardach alluded briefly but notably to the controversy over Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider’s stance on the Highway 101 widening (see this week’s Angry Poodle) — a “local brouhaha” on which Bardach has been vocal — before ending her remarks with another quote from O’Neill: “It’s easier to run for office than it is to run the office,” she said. Fifth District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, before handing the gavel over to Wolf, reflected on his past year as chair and first term in office; he was sworn in to his second term earlier in the morning. For the first time since 2008, Lavagnino said, the county experienced a surplus, capping off a year also marked by a shriveling unfunded pension liability, a beefy strategic reserve, and a new plan to funnel $100 million to infrastructure projects over the next decade. Lavagnino’s comments echoed those he wrote in a recent op-ed that drew a rebuttal from 4th District Supervisor Peter Adam — the lone vote against that $100 million maintenance plan in June after his Measure M was narrowly defeated — that charged Lavagnino with wearing “rose-colored glasses.” But Lavagnino said Adam’s accusation reminded him of a quote from Winston Churchill: “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Chosen to serve as vice chair, Adam, the sole objector to pay raises for certain county employees later in the hearing, kept his statement short. “I’m usually a man of few words, and I’m going to take the opportunity to shut up and leave the aura of camaraderie perfect and whole,” he said. Wolf, looking ahead, noted the “genuine caring” the five supervisors have for each other. “I know that together we will work through some — Lyz Hoffman very challenging things,” she said.

Claiming that her 2004 Toyota Highlander seatback was defective, among other allegations, the family of retired Santa Ynez teacher Linda Wall ﬁled a wrongful-death and product-liability lawsuit in December against Toyota and several other defendants, including a towing and an ambulance company. Wall was killed in December 2013 when Rebecca Sandoval slammed her 2010 Jeep Wrangler into her vehicle as she slowed for a red light on Highway 246. Last month, Sandoval pleaded not guilty to DUI and second-degree-murder charges.

COUNTY The county’s unemployment numbers for November showed 5.7 percent of workers were unemployed countywide, down from 6.4 percent in November 2013. November also saw employment jump by 5,000 positions, up to 228,200 from 223,200 the year before, though the Workforce Investment Board cautioned the surge likely reﬂected temporary holiday retail positions. On the negative side, Lompoc’s unemployed suffered an increase to 10.3 percent from the previous month’s 9.7 percent, and Guadalupe followed with an increase to 10 percent from 9.4 percent. Solvang enjoyed the lowest unemployment rate, now at 2.1 percent.

Shuji Nakamura, the UCSB professor who recently won a Nobel prize in physics, won another national award this week for his pioneering work on LED lighting. Nakamura will share the Draper Prize with four others. “These LED pioneers created technologies that brought new light to our lives, spawning an industry that today boasts hundreds of thousands of jobs while making energy consumption more efﬁcient,” said Draper Laboratory president and CEO Kaigham J. Gabriel.

FEDERAL In addition to signing the $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep the government open through September, last month President Obama signed a bill authored by Rep. Lois Capps to make support, counseling, and breastfeeding supplies available to military moms covered under the TRICARE federal insurance plan for servicemembers. Similar benefits are already required in the Affordable Care Act. The Moms Improvement Act marks the fifth Capps bill signed into law last year, with Obama designating a Lompoc post office as the Federal Correctional Officer Scott J. Williams Memorial Post Office Building in another Capps bill. cont’d page 12

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Feds Award Dies Family $2.5 Million Settlement

Mallory Dies’s father, Matt Dies, and Congressmember Lois Capps

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fter a year of legal haggling and political haranguing, the U.S. government has agreed to pay the family of Mallory Dies $2.5 million for the death of the 27-year-old Santa Barbara resident by congressional aide Raymond Morua. Morua, then a district representative for Congressmember Lois Capps, hit Dies in a drunk-driving accident last December. Capps’s office repeatedly denied that Morua was working at the time, but the Dies family and their attorneys maintained he was indeed on the clock. They filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the government earlier this year and signed the settlement on November 1, three days before the general election. The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the agreement, which stipulates the government doesn’t admit any liability in Dies’s death. Dies family attorney Robert Stoll, however, dismissed the document’s language as pro forma. “Implicit in the payment is a full admission of liability,” he said. It isn’t clear why the deal had not been openly discussed until now. Throughout Morua’s criminal case, Dies was vocal in his criticism of Capps for what he viewed as an avoidance of responsibility for the behavior of one of her staff members, and he disputed her claims that Morua was not representing her in an official capacity the night he hit Mallory. Capps was not personally named in the family’s lawsuit, Stoll explained, because the federal government assumed the legal burden in the civil case. Neither Capps nor her office was involved in settlement negotiations. Shortly after Morua’s arrest on December 6, 2013, Capps’s office said it was unaware of his criminal record when he was hired two years earlier and that it had followed standard House vetting procedures — which didn’t include a criminal background check — as he was considered for employment. Morua had been arrested in recent years for two prior DUIs, a previous hit-and-run, driving with a suspended license, and grand theft. Capps representatives said independent.com

they have since updated their hiring practices. Morua was fired shortly after the incident and, after pleading guilty to manslaughter and hitand-run charges, was sentenced in May to 20 years to life in prison. In the lawsuit, Stoll alleged that Capps hired Morua knowing full well he had a history of “alcohol and drug abuse” and that she and her staff acted negligently by asking him to drive as part of his work duties. Stoll also said he had multiple pieces of evidence — including photos and texts — that proved Morua was working in the hours and minutes leading up to the accident. In a statement he read aloud during his sentencing hearing, Morua himself declared he was on the job that night. Capps’s office issued this statement about the settlement: “This lawsuit and the agreed upon settlement is between the United States Government — represented by the Department of Justice — and the Dies family. I respect the decision between the two parties to settle the case. This senseless tragedy is a reminder of the horrible consequences of drinking and driving. My thoughts and prayers continue to be with Mallory Dies’s friends and family.” Matt Dies said a large portion of the $2.5 million will go toward growing the anti-drinking-and-driving group — VowMal — he and others formed in the wake of Mallory’s death.“It will allow us to keep my daughter’s legacy alive and save lives in Santa Barbara,” he explained. But at the end of the day, he went on, “It’s not about the money. It’s about the government stepping up and saying we did wrong by your daughter and your family.” On St. Patrick’s Day, Dies said, VowMal will spearhead a “provide a ride” program to cover the costs of designated taxi rides from downtown bars. The group is partnering with Lyft, Uber, RockStar Transportation, Lucky Taxi & Limousine, and others. “We just want you all to be safe,” Dies said. “We’re very proud of what we’ve been able to do so far, and with the settlement, we’ll be able to make an even greater impact.” ■

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egg prices could spike by $1 a dozen, predicted Cisneros, but should stabilize at about 20 more cents a dozen.

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A Paciﬁc Northwest grocery chain, Haggen Food & Pharmacy, will be taking over three Albertsons — Mesa, Five Points, and Lompoc — in Santa Barbara County as part of a federal antitrust arrangement allowing a megamerger between grocery titans Safeway and Albertsons. Federal regulators insisted the two divest some holdings before approving the merger, thus allowing Haggen — an 18-store private company headquartered in Bellingham, Washington — to buy 146 stores throughout ﬁve states. Haggen stated it intends to honor all union contracts, and the transition here should be done by July 4.

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“The same people who voted for Prop. 2 are now saying they don’t know why the cost of eggs is going up,” said David Cisneros, chief operating ofﬁcer of Dakota Layers, the parent company of Santa Maria’s Rosemary Farm. “It’s cause and effect.” After January 1, state law requires that hens laying any eggs sold in the state be housed in twice the space — 115 square inches — they occupied before. In the short run,

Santa Barbara–based Select Staffing, one of the 10 biggest temp companies in the country, announced this week it is merging with EmployBridge in Atlanta. Select Staffing went through a massive restructure after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year, the Pacific Coast Business Times reported, and will move its headquarters to Atlanta. Much of its operations, however, will remain in Santa Barbara. Select Staffing matches approximately 300,000 temporary employees with accounting, finance, and IT companies every year. ■

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cont’d ’ from page 110 FIGHTING ON: Supervisor Doreen Farr said she will keep her Santa Ynez Valley constituents apprised of the county’s moves around Camp 4, including a likely appeal.

because it was the fourth stop on a route between San Francisco and Arizona during the stagecoach era — will also remove the land from the county’s strict planning regulations. Many, including Supervisor Farr, have suggested that the tribe go through the normal county process if its only intention is to build housing. “We’ve said, ‘If housing is what you want, let’s talk,’ ” Farr said, adding that one of her main concerns is that the tribe “never established need” for the fee-to-trust route. In its ruling, the BIA shot down that argument, calling it “unreasonable” to “specify why holding the land in trust is more beneﬁcial for tribes.” Further, the BIA stated, it “relies on the tribe’s assurances regarding the proposed use and is not required to speculate about possible or potential uses.” Overall, the ruling continued, the BIA

granted the approval because the tribe made a successful case for its need for additional land. Eighty-three percent of the tribe’s population — 136 tribal members and 1,300 descendants — aren’t living on tribal property, and the majority of the existing 137-acre reservation is already developed, the agency wrote. “The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians is a strong functioning tribal government with many capabilities and a growing economy,” the report stated. “These are some of the tools necessary to sustain future generations, increase the tribal enrollment, and build an ever-stronger functioning tribe in the future. Another critical element is land as a

basic resource.” Armenta, in an interview prior to the approval, bristled at any mention of opponents’ views, attributing them to a small but loud minority of valley residents.“Probably 10 people want to kill me; thousands want to give me a hug,” he said, noting the small number of people who attended a public meeting on the expansion plans. At the time, he derided the supervisors’ ahead-of-time vote to appeal any approval, bringing the issue back to what he said is the need for the county to treat the tribe as its governmental equal. Moving forward, Farr said she will continue working with the California State Association of Counties to beef up counties’ input when tribes with state compacts issued in 1999 look to renew them, as the Chumash will do ■ by 2020.

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Business Owners Prod Edison over Blackouts he fizzling patience of Santa Barbara business owners finally popped last week after another recent bout of downtown blackouts. Complaining that the outages have cost them dearly and that Southern California Edison isn’t doing enough to keep the lights on, a group of bar and restaurant owners is circulating a petition to prioritize equipment upgrades and repairs in their area. Edison public affairs director Cathy Hart refuted their claim, saying ongoing utility upgrades meant the average Santa Barbara customer was left in the dark for 82 minutes in 2013, compared to 535 minutes in 2008. The owners of Opal Restaurant & Bar and Olio e Limone Ristorante spearheaded the petition addressed to SoCal Edison president Pedro Pizarro. As of this Wednesday, 73 more HIGH VOLTAGE: An Edison crew repairs power lines. movers and shakers along State The city’s electric systems were some of the Street’s influential business core had signed on, including bankers, retailers, and hoteliers. first in the region to go subterranean 50-plus The outages that made downtown crack were years ago. While burying transformers and the back-to-back blackouts on October 2-3 that other gadgetry is nice for aesthetics and curaffected 20,000 customers. Tony Bennett’s con- rently mandated by city code, it presents maincert at the Granada Theatre was cancelled, st tenance and repair challenges when water and Thursday events were scrapped, traffic snarled, debris get into the vaults. During interviews alarms sounded, and those eating and drink- last week, Opal co-owner Richard Yates — who ing around State Street went home. One bar sent the emailed petition to about 1,000 owner estimated he lost around $20,000 over inboxes the day after Christmas — said busithe course of the weekend.“One or two more of ness owners understand when an earthquake, those, and I’m out of business,” he said. fire, or rainstorm kills the power, but they didn’t In response, Edison dispatched three corpo- get why Edison could claim “equipment failure” rate heavies, including Hart, to speak at recent for so many other outages. “That just means Downtown Organization (DO) and Chamber they aren’t maintaining their equipment propof Commerce meetings. They presented cir- erly,” Yates said. Last year, broken transformcuit maps and reliability reports, explaining ers, switches, and conductors accounted for that though Santa Barbara had been one of 61.8 percent of blackouts; tree branches and their worst districts in 2008 for blackout fre- animals led to 9.9 percent of them; and fire quency and duration, steady upgrades to the and weather were responsible for 6.6 percent area’s aging infrastructure buoyed it to one of of the incidents. A number of businesses have their best in 2013. Edison serves 35 defined dis- submitted claims to Edison to recoup lost earntricts throughout Southern California. Santa ings, but they’ve all been denied. Others have Barbara’s, which stretches from the Ventura invested in generators. County border up to Gaviota, is at the end of Hart said the utility is devoting considerable the company’s transmission line before PG&E time and money in coming years to replacing old equipment along State Street and beyond. takes over. Concerns lingered after the meetings, and Right now, she said, engineers are planning one participant said he was actually left “more specific projects and bearing down on problem scared” by what he learned. Since numbers for areas, though she had no details. Since 2012, 2014 were not available, anecdotal claims of 57,682 feet of fresh cable had been laid, Hart more blackouts this year compared to last year said, 266 new power poles erected, and 159 couldn’t be vetted. And Edison wouldn’t budge transformers replaced. from its rigid schedule of improvement work Hart gently disagreed with petitioners that on downtown’s six circuits, the business owners Edison’s prioritization strategy is corporate and complained. Instead of robotically allocating inflexible. The company’s overriding policy is resources to one of the other 33 city circuits if to replace a piece of equipment before it fails, it shows more problems, they argued, Edison Hart said.“If we could wave a magic wand should give the commercial corridor prece- everywhere tomorrow, we’d certainly do that,” dence because through it flows Santa Barbara’s she said, “but it takes time to plan this work, to ■ lifeblood. get the permits we need.”

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‘Illegal’ Language Immigrant License Law Takes Effect; Protest Planned over News-Press Headline

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ore than 50,000 Californians this week took part in a hallowed American tradition for the first time: waiting in line at the DMV. Under a new law that went into effect last Friday, they applied for driver’s licenses without having to prove U.S. citizenship. They’ll still have to verify their identity, state residency, and pass the necessary tests before they can get behind the wheel, but the regulations now make California the 10th state to allow immigrants living in the country illegally to drive. There’s been no shortage of controversy over Assembly Bill (AB) , which reversed a 1993 ban on the allowance, and DMV offices around the state have braced for the influx of customers by hiring 900 new employees and extending hours. On Tuesday morning at the Castillo Street branch, dozens of applicants queued up even before the doors opened. The DMV says it expects to process around 1.4 million AB  applications over the next three years. And as the debate continues over the law’s expected benefits (safer roads, better accountability, etc.) and potential drawbacks (insurance messes, rewarding law-breakers with driv-

Gomez and his supporters noted that the Associated Press (AP) dropped the phrase “illegal immigrant” from its stylebook in April 2013. The change has been adopted by most media outlets around the country and was considered a significant victory for immigration-reform advocates. Those that still use the term tend to be conservative media groups, like Fox News. “The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term ‘illegal immigrant’ or the use of ‘illegal’ to describe a person,” explained AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll in 2013. “It tells users that ‘illegal’ should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally.” Carroll noted the change is similar to describing a person as “diagnosed with schizophrenia,” not “schizophrenic.” It’s not clear how strictly the News-Press adheres to AP standards. Phone messages left with three different editors have not been returned. The article’s author, Taylor Knopf, on the receiving end of much of the criticism, directed complaints to her editor, recently tweeting: “[P]ersonally, I agree w[ith] the Associated Press. Email the editor w[ith] complaints.” Knopf also said she hadn’t wanted her byline on the article. Tuesday afternoon, PODER (People Organizing for the Defense and Equal Rights of Santa Barbara Youth) issued a press release condemning the headline and calling out Santa Barbara media as a whole for its “history of biased reporting [and] less than objective analysis of the question of race and class in Santa Barbara.” The group demanded a correction and said it will boycott the News-Press until one is issued. Santa Barbara City College student and PODER member Savanah Maya said while area reports are not all so blatantly racist, there is often a “lack of acknowledgement of a little less than half of the population,” and she lamented there was no major Spanish-speaking media outlet locally. Maya, born and raised in Santa Barbara, admitted the correct way to refer to immigrant and Latino populations, here legally or illegally, can be “complicated.” PODER’s own press release refers to “undocumented” immigrant workers, a word the AP Stylebook shies away from. So what language should news writers use? Maya said she and PODER would prefer if people weren’t labeled and instead were described in individualized, less stigmatizing terms. Santa Barbara has a long history of racism, Maya went on, blaming “movers and shakers’” indifference. PODER had to fight for a translator during recent gang-injunction deliberations at City Hall, she claimed. Maya credited the nationwide movements around racial equality spurred by the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner with starting the city’s rally against injustice.“The masses are moving, we’re in solidarity with each other, and we’re going to make a change,” she said. ■

‘The masses are moving, ... and we’re going to make a change.’ — Savanah Maya ing privileges, and so on), a Santa Barbara–style kickup is playing out in a big way. A protest is planned for Thursday in front of Santa Barbara News-Press offices after the paper published a front-page headline on Saturday — “Illegals line up for driver’s licenses” — that organizers say was inaccurate and offensive. A petition that demands a retraction is circulating online, as well. The story also featured a photograph of identifiable but unnamed men and women waiting at the DMV. The piece attracted the attention of a UC Santa Barbara doctoral student, who snapped a picture of the paper and forwarded it to former classmate Filiberto Gomez. Arguing “illegals” is bigoted and dehumanizing — as well as pointing to the use of the phrase “illegal aliens” in the first line of the story — Gomez posted the photo to his website and announced a call to action.“The Santa Barbara News-Press is notorious for their poor headlines but this time they have gone too far!” the posting reads. “Help us tell the Santa Barbara News-Press to not be offensive!” More than 500 people have registered on Facebook for the  p.m. protest, and nearly 2,100 have signed the petition. The outcry was detailed in a story published Monday on Cosmopolitan.com and a number of other online sources. 14

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MAN OF CHANGE: UCSB professor Richard Appelbaum said teaching and mentoring young people gives him hope.

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Do you have concerns that efforts to limit growth effectively limited supply of housing but still allowed enough commercial development to increase demand? We argued at the time that to be eﬀective, two conditions had to be met: Growth control had to be region-wide, and it had to focus on controlling commercial expansion rather than limiting housing expansion. Needless to say both of these have been harder to achieve. Limiting housing is relatively easy (you down-zone); limiting commercial expansion — especially on a region-wide basis — not so easy. Years ago, when I was more focused on housing, rent control, and homelessness, I did some research on comparable California coastal communities (some with growth controls, some without) and found that housing costs were uniformly high in all cases. Still, it is clear that many of the people who work in Santa Barbara are priced out of the local housing market, particularly as homeowners. All you need to do is drive south at 5 p.m. on a workday to appreciate how serious a problem this is. I would say that growth control in Santa Barbara has had mixed results — it has preserved the local quality of life, but contributed, in part, to higher housing costs. Perhaps smart growth can pave the way to a better solution.

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BY N I C K W E L S H ich Appelbaum may be the most influential Santa Barbaran whom most people have never heard of. Certainly, his fingerprints are all over not just the South Coast’s political landscape but the actual streetscape itself. A quintessential activist-academic, Appelbaum — who recently announced his retirement as a UCSB sociology professor — was a major contributor to the city’s now-famous Impacts of Growth study. Likewise, Appelbaum’s work had a profound effect on how State Street would evolve. Were it not for his political opposition to a downtown Bullock’s department store in 1983, there likely would be no Paseo Nuevo today. Unlike many eco-minded slow-growthers, Appelbaum was equally focused on issues of economic justice. His studies on rent control seem once again urgently interesting, given the South Coast’s astronomical rents. Appelbaum has since shifted his focus to international labor and sweatshop working conditions and, more recently, to preparing graduate students on how to effectively run nongovernmental organizations in less-than-third-world circumstances. When Appelbaum isn’t busy struggling to save the world from itself, he and his family while away the hours climbing mountains or riding their bikes up Santa Barbara’s steep, scenic, forbidding Gibraltar Road. All this he manages to do with an utterly deceptive “Look, Ma, no hands” casualness. Santa Barbara Independent editor Nick Welsh emailed Appelbaum with more questions than anyone should ever have to answer. An edited version of their exchange follows. For more, including short films by videographers Phyllis de Picciotto and Stan Roden about the professor’s formative years and various cohorts, visit independent.com.

We ﬁrst met during the Bullock’s battle. In hindsight, what do you think that accomplished? The Bullock’s project was a bad idea from the start. It would have used redevelopment money to put a single department store in a part of Santa Barbara that clearly was not in need of redevelopment. And of course, apart from that, it brought on the wrath of Penny and Terry Davies and the loyal clientele of the Earthling Bookshop. Ben Bycel ran the campaign, John Davies did the media part, and I did the research. It was a tough sell: We took on the mayor, City Council, and the Redevelopment Agency, and we forced a referendum on Measure D, which was a pro-Bullock’s measure. We had a live televised debate, and we hosted a public design

charrette. We won the referendum hands down. We showed that a small group of people could prevail at the ballot box in Santa Barbara, even against elected officials. A victory for democracy in action! We brought a Nordstrom to town, and — while I can’t attest that this resulted in Nordstrom anchoring the Paseo Nuevo — I like to imagine that it at least whetted the family’s appetite. And I learned a great deal about how redevelopment and tax increment funding works. I also learned not to believe doomsday pronouncements (the powers that be constantly claimed that Santa Barbara was doomed if Bullock’s didn’t come to town). You were among the crew who established Santa Barbara’s 85,000 population limit. How big a deal was that? The Impacts of Growth study was a very, very big deal. The City Council had called for a study, and the standard approach was to project out past trends, thereby creating a self-fulfilling prophecy requiring public officials to accommodate to the prediction. [UCSB sociology professor] Harvey Molotch would have none of this, and created a team of five: Harvey, myself, Paul Relis, Jennifer Bigelow, and Henry Kramer. Our strategy was to argue “growth is not inevitable; it should be the result of policy decisions, not past trends.” We identified seven different “population impact point” scenarios: no growth (the city’s population at the time was 73,132); making permanent the temporary half-density ordinance that the city had adopted pending the outcome of the study (117,486); full build-out to the maximum permitted by the General Plan (139,720) or zoning (170,039); and probable build-out for the half-density ordinance (93,555), General Plan (103,444) and zoning (119,460). To make a long story short, we involved hundreds of people in what I now understand was an example of “participatory action research” — research whose goal is to make a difference, not only in terms of outcomes, but also in terms of “empowerment”: providing research participants with skills and knowledge that would enable and encourage them to become engaged activists long after the research was completed. The study of growth impacts had many impacts of its own. It led to a down-zoning, both commercial and residential. It brought many young planners to Santa Barbara since the study and city’s approaches were considered to be models. And I think it can take some credit for Santa Barbara remaining the paradise that it is.

You teamed up with Paul Orfalea and Mark Juergensmeyer to create a graduate program for people seeking a career in community nonprofits. Where have your students ended up and what kind of footprints have they left? The MA Program in Global & International Studies was something I had been pushing for since the early 1980s. When Mark joined the UCSB faculty, he and I pushed together. The first result was the Global & International Studies Program, which soon acquired an undergraduate degree in Global Studies (there are now 1,300 majors). The MA degree, which was to produce scholar-practitioners, remained elusive — until Mark befriended Paul, who had been teaching an undergrad Global course in business practices every quarter. Paul promised a generous endowment if we could get proposal approved within nine months or so. I took the lead on the proposal, the chancellor went to bat for us, and the rest is history. By now we have graduated more than a hundred students. When I last looked at it (two years ago), our students have populated nongovernmental organizations from Direct Relief to the Clinton Global Initiative; business groups like Google, The Gap, and the Royal Bank of Canada; become academics at universities in California, New York, and around the world; worked for the government at the DOD; and taken advanced degrees here, at Harvard, Leipzig, and probably more by now. What’s the coolest thing about students today? The most frustrating? The students in Global Studies (GS) are terrific. The undergrads are motivated as global citizens. Our GS major, for example, sends more students on Education Abroad’s year-long study program than any other department in the entire UC system. I love teaching Global  (intro to global studies politics and economics), and I asked to be recalled for one quarter each of the next four years so I could teach it. I find young people challenging, stimulating, and activist. UCSB has one of the most active United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) chapters anywhere. I have used undergrads (and of course grad students) to do research on labor issues, some of which has been published by the Center for American Progress. Hanging out with people and the many grad students I work with in Soc, Global, and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, who are not yet jaded, gives me hope. Now that you’re retired, what lake would you most like to jump into? Labor issues. UCSB labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein and I are currently editing a book on global labor that grew out of a conference we cohosted at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, in the fall of 2013; we are also writing a book on the topic. I just returned from Bangladesh, where fires and building collapses have claimed the lives of some 2,000 apparel workers over the last decade. My retirement energies will largely go into doing research and providing whatever assistance I can to the ■ global struggle for workers’ rights.

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IS HER HONOR A GONER? To steal a well-trod line, I come not to praise Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider but to bury her. Based on

the high-voltage public smackdown inflicted on Schneider in recent weeks by her erstwhile comrades on the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG), one might think Schneider’s stellar political career has become such burnt toast that no amount of butter or jelly could salvage it. At issue, as usual, is Schneider’s long-standing disagreements with the SBCAG board over Caltrans’ $450 million plans to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 101. Schneider flamboyantly jumped the shark in October when she penned a widely circulated op-ed article announcing her support for a lawsuit challenging the environmental impact report (EIR) for the freeway-widening plan.“We fully encourage and will be publicly supporting private parties who have filed lawsuits,” she — and Santa Barbara City Councilmember Bendy White — wrote. If the mayor was looking for a hair-on-fire reaction, she got one. If she wasn’t, it’s hard to imagine what she was thinking. In any case, Her Honor’s fellow SBCAG members (who include representatives of Santa Barbara’s eight cities and all five supervisors) retaliated by dropping a few napalm bombs of their own. In a well-orchestrated public drubbing conducted shortly before Christmas, they got everyone except for Schneider’s grade-school teachers to show up and denounce the mayor’s actions. Then they very publicly voted 11-to-2 to

deny Schneider the board position, a post that would otherwise have gone to her this year. After that, they went behind closed doors and voted to deny Schneider any opportunity to participate in discussions about SBCAG’s response to the Highway  lawsuit. What would she tell the other side? As a result, only SBCAG’s fourperson executive committee will hear such matters; Schneider, conspicuously, does not sit on that committee. This change in protocol suggests Schneider’s fellow SBCAG members — 13 in all — have come to so distrust her that eight gave up their own ability to participate. Talk about cutting oﬀ one’s collective nose to spite Schneider’s face. Houston, we have a problem. Just in case no one got it, County Supervisor Janet Wolf invited one of Schneider’s most outspoken and rhetorically colorful critics — nationally syndicated writer Ann Louise Bardach — to deliver the keynote address for this year’s ﬁrst county supervisors meeting, always a ceremonial high mass for Santa Barbara’s political classes. Although Bardach’s remarks were subdued compared to her usual standards, she still managed to suggest — however obliquely — that Schneider was an opportunistic stooge for special interests contemptuous of the democratic process. Personally, I hate to see anyone as smart, talented, and dedicated as Schneider self-destruct so gratuitously. Making this meltdown worse is that on the facts, Schneider is absolutely right. Although the freeway widening will ease rushhour congestion for workers commuting to

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Santa Barbara from Ventura, it will also increase congestion for city drivers on the streets once that pulse of northbound commuters hit Santa Barbara’s Westside. It ain’t gonna be pretty. To this significant problem, the environmental impact report dedicated a scant half a sentence. That’s right: one-half. The rest was buried in an appendix. I understand people want the freeway widened right now for real and urgent reasons. But we should go into it eyes wide open, not sewn shut. Schneider’s drubbers have told us, ad nauseam, how 79 percent of the voters in 2008 endorsed spending $140 million in future sales-tax revenues to widen the freeway. That’s true. But no one ever bothered to ask the voters’ opinion in 2010 when SBCAG committed to spending an additional $360 million — over the next few decades — on the freeway widening. That vote caught a lot of people by surprise, even several members of the SBCAG board who were reportedly furious to discover what they’d done. By then, however, it was too late. That $360 million will come from state and federal gas taxes that would have otherwise gone to a host of desperately needed local road-improvement projects. Last I checked, $360 million qualified as real money that could have helped fix such things as the Castillo Street onramps — flagrantly mis-engineered and massively overused. Next time you’re there, think about that. Like I say, eyes sewn shut. The great mystery is how someone as skilled as Schneider failed so utterly in winning over other SBCAG members. But for a host of rea-

sons, she didn’t. Last January, SBCAG voted 11-to-2 to support the project as proposed. It doesn’t get much more overwhelming than that. My hunch is that Schneider’s message — which had been endorsed by her planning commission, city administrator, and transportation planner — got lost in the commotion generated by her longtime political campaign manager Jeremy Lindaman. He led the unsuccessful charge on behalf of a group of Montecitans who attacked the freeway-widening plan in hopes of preserving the left-lane off-ramps serving Montecito. Given close connections between the two efforts, it became hard to tell whose tail was wagging which dog. What Schneider needed was an acceptable Plan B. One existed. Yes, it required a perilous level of trust on her part, perhaps even magical thinking. But it also gave her potential veto powers down the road should such trust prove misplaced. Instead, Schneider doubled down on Plan A. First, she tried to get her own City Council to challenge the EIR in court. When that failed, she embraced the private parties suing instead. When other SBCAG members complained Schneider had a conflict of interest where the  lawsuit was concerned, she argued over the legal definition of what constituted a conflict of interest. Technically speaking, she was correct. But that’s not the point. Appearance is. Trust is. Some arguments you lose simply by being in them. Even when you’re right, you’re still wrong. This is one. Here’s hoping Schneider manages to dig herself out. I really don’t feel like burying her. — Nick Welsh

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our letter “Racial Proﬁling on the Westside” [independent.com/racial] about being stopped by a police oﬃcer for no apparent reason other than the writer being black reminded me of an encounter I had several years ago that has stuck with me and bothered me ever since. I was having breakfast and reading the newspaper at McDonald’s on Milpas Street, and as I was leaving, a black man, probably in his forties, asked if he could read the sports section, if I were done with it. It was in my truck, but I told him he could have it. He walked toward my truck as I left, but at a long distance behind me, and when I got to my truck, he had stopped quite a ways away. I walked back and gave him the paper. I later puzzled over this encounter, thinking that had he been a white guy, he would have walked with me to the truck. Then I realized he had kept his distance for his own protection. He was probably concerned that if he came too close, I might become afraid and cause some kind of commotion that would bring in the police. This really brought home to me how black men must be constantly on guard and fearful of creating any remote appearance of threat. What a terrible indictment of our society. I have felt bad about this ever since, and I am ashamed that our country has not overcome this terrible legacy. — Betsy Gallery, S.B.

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found the “Police Prejudiced Against ‘Blacks and Browns’?” [independent.com/ police] article on the profiling forum extremely interesting. It brought out in public the experiences of people who live in the community as well as the clearly defensive stance of the Santa Barbara Police Department. I found it remarkable but not surprising that Deputy Police Chief Mannix stated that officers need “some elevated level of suspicion” to justify a stop and pat down (or evidently just running the person’s ID through the computer). And he thought that this required level of suspicion “could be seeing someone in a certain neighborhood during a specific time of day notic-

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ing they have bulky pockets, and so on.” If that isn’t a good definition of racial profiling, I don’t know what is. It means that a black man walking home toward the Westside late at night fits the description perfectly, even if he has no other distinguishing features. — Susan Shields, S.B.

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vidently, I have ruﬄed the feathers of Mayor Helene Schneider when I wrote about her crusade to kibosh the  widening initiative [independent.com/voices]. However, she should direct her beef to SBCAG — the facts in my op-ed came from a public letter from her esteemed colleagues on that august panel, the same governmental entity that last month voted

her out (11-2) of the chair position she was set to assume that very day. Ouch! The mayor also takes umbrage that I mentioned a City Council vote (5-1) held in closed session nixing her entreaty to sue Caltrans. “There was no public statement about who voted for what,” she writes. Good heavens! A political leak! For the record: In 2010, the mayor, as an SBCAG member, voted for Measure A’s Strategic Plan, along with the designation of the  widening project as the county’s highest regional transportation priority. In April 2011, the mayor voted for Appendix C of Measure A, again aﬃrming  widening as the region’s #1 priority — explicitly stating these funds would not be available for local road projects — as she advocates now. So how does one defy a 79 percent voterapproved initiative and an 11-2 SBCAG slap down? Well, sue! Fortunately for the mayor, she and her consultant, Jeremy Lindaman, evidently had a cozy relationship with legal sharpshooter Marc Chytilo, who has a well-deserved reputation for ferreting out enough uncrossed Ts to scotch any EIR. But if there is any daylight between, Lindaman, Schneider, and attorney Chytilo, I’d sure like to know about it. Because this time of year, the days are quite short — without a whole lot of sunshine. And Jersey girls, like me, are always up for some — Ann Louise Bardach, S.B. extra rays.

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n her op-ed, Helene Schneider wrote: “If we move forward with the  Highway Widening Project as proposed, in 20 years the highway will be widened, local traﬃc will be worse, and

we will have to tell voters that we don’t have the funds to pay for reducing congestion because we already spent our local money on a state highway.” This is like saying, don’t ﬁx the leak in the roof, because we won’t have money 20 years from now to put new shingles up. It’s like saying, don’t ﬁx the water faucet, because 20 years from now we won’t have enough money for a new faucet. Why should I blow my nose now? I’ll just have more congestion later! — Gray Blacks, S.B.

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t’s really a sign of our times to see local leaders ganging up on Helene Schneider like Puritan inquisitors against a wayward woman. Not that they have nothing to hide, like decades of inaction on almost every critical issue from homelessness to Isla Vista to a countywide sustainable coastal development protocol. For longer than any of us can remember, our transportation nightmare has been a continual catastrophe. So what has our leadership decided is The Answer? Freeway widening and carpool lanes! I drive south almost every morning around 7 a.m., and the new southbound carpool lane is completely empty! Wasn’t a ﬂaming nutcase named Mike Dukakis in town some years ago to talk up the revolutionary idea of a light rail system integrated with countywide public transit? Too radical for SBCAG. Instead, 15 years of freeway widening and community disruption is underway. Challengers are publically “shunned,” and Helene Schneider has become our Hester Prynne. And I thought WASP Santa Barbara was a thing of the past! — Philip Grant, S.B. cont’d p. 21 >

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Christmas Carols Open Letter to Mayor Schneider and Council: any folks celebrate Christmas Eve as a holiday. In my neck of the woods, the Westside, it’s the day most of my neighbors celebrate Christmas south of the border and here. Yet that didn’t stop the meter maid from ticketing our cars this afternoon. My neighbor banged on the door to alert us, but too late. The meter maid not only ticketed us and many of my neighbors’ cars; she was wearing a Santa hat! How mean-spirited to do this to one of the poorest parts of town. Those two tickets will cost us about $90. For most of my neighbors, that ticket cost them what they had set aside for their children’s Christmas. Sending the meter maid to ticket on this day, of all days, is Dickensian in its charity. The fact that the street was full of cars that normally would not be parked on a Wednesday is testament to the fact that I was not alone in believing this to be a holiday. I am asking that the city waive the tickets for this day. Oh, and for tomorrow, too, — Celeste Barber, S.B. while we’re at it.

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senior citizen on a ﬁxed low income, I live in an ole people’s inmate center. A multitude of us here are impaired in many ways, and I shop for my friends without cars in my antique. At the Turnpike Vons, I suggested to the lady behind me with two items that she go ahead of me, but she declined. I told her about how I do favors for the old ladies in my complex who can’t drive and am happy to do it. My neighbor charges money for these things; I do it because it is the nice thing to do. Out in the parking lot, a large van was near my 1988 Crown Victoria, and the driver rolled down her window. After wondering “Uh oh, what did I do?” I went over, and

she handed me a $100 bill, saying, “Here, this is for you because you are such a nice person.” I thought this was the nicest thing that has ever happened to me, other than my sons, of course. A Christmas miracle.

— Sarah Todd Thorne Miano, S.B.

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’d recently joined the trendy homeless population in the Santa Barbara community, when offered a lastminute holiday catering job but had no work clothes or funds available to purchase. I sought out some of the caring, generous, always-available charitable organizations running thrift stores downtown. You’d think they would be amenable to helping a clean-cut, sober guy like yours truly on the path toward solvency. Hardly. When I approached one place where I have on more than one occasion left sizable donations, I was given the runaround by staff and finally the shaft by the manager, who told me store policy forbade him from giving away anything, even when I promised to pay for the donation the following day. Nothing. Another place well-known in the community for its generosity gave me the hand. They even had the audacity to tell me they were a business and would go out of if they just started giving stuff away. I’m beginning to wonder what clientele these places are trying to serve. Or is it because I came in through the front door? Needless to say, I won’t anymore.

— Gerald Perez, S.B.

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¶ In the news item “Homeless Move into New I.V. Digs” on December 18, Father Jon Hedges should have been named assistant pastor at St. Athanasius Orthodox Church, not chaplain at St. Marks.

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Chester Hugh Marsh

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Hugh died suddenly on December rd at Cottage Hospital Emergency from a heart malfunction. He was . Hugh was a much-beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather and a steadfast friend to many. He was born in Embro, Ontario, Canada, to Chester John Valentine and Grace Marsh. His father was a miller; his mother a teacher. Hugh and his brother Barry enjoyed an idyllic childhood at the mill and farm. He was stricken with the polio virus at , became a paraplegic and used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. In  the family moved to Ontario, California, and Hugh graduated from high school and Claremont Men’s College. He married his college sweetheart Karin in  and their daughter Eden was born in . Hugh worked as a disability advocate and publications editor in the first Jerry Brown administration in Sacramento; he was instrumental in starting the first Independent Living Resource Center in Berkeley. He worked in the aerospace industry at Aerojet and at Hughes Aircraft in Santa Barbara. In  he joined the faculty at UCSB, teaching writing in the Engineering Department and the Writing Department. He loved teaching, and his students adored him, many of them still keeping in touch after his retirement. In  he married Frances ‘Shannon in Santa Barbara. They honeymooned in France and Switzerland and later enjoyed travels to Guam, Hawai‘i eastern Canada, New York and many road trips in California and the western U.S. Hugh was a lifelong scholar, an avid reader and writer, a member of the Shakespeare class at SBCC, where he had many friends. He loved music and theater and was seen at concerts and theatrical events throughout the year, most particularly at his favorite Music Academy of the West summer classes and performances. He was a

member of the American Humanist Association, the Society for Technical Communication, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Hugh was a loyal friend to many and will be remembered with love and affection for his courage, kindness, tireless optimism, his intelligence, sense of humor and sharp wit. He was a hopeless romantic and appreciator of all things beautiful. Hugh is survived by his loving wife, Frances Shannon Marsh; her children Constance, (Felice), and Jonathan; his daughter Eden, (Jay), granddaughter Lauryl, (Dustin), great-grandson Etienne. He is also survived by his brother Barry, (Cindy), and nephews Tom, Tim and Steve, and his honorary grandson Bruce Kim Jr. The family will have a private celebration in Hugh’s honor. In lieu of flowers, a contribution can be made to The Music Academy of the West in Hugh’s honor.

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Lynn Burtness passed away on December nd, , after a valiant fight with leukemia. A celebration of her life will be held on Thursday January th at El Montecito Presbyterian Church at  PM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Santa Barbara High School Alumni Association or the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club endowment fund.

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Death Notices Juliette M. Whiting, , passed away in Buellton on December rd, . No services planned. Grazia Francesca Lo Cicero, , passed away in Santa Barbara on January nd, . Services will be private.

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grew up on the family ranch in Carpinteria. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in  and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. His college career was interrupted by  years of US Army service, during which time he was stationed at the San Francisco Presidio. After being honorably discharged from the Army at the end of WWII, he continued his college career at UC Berkeley, where he was the Student Manager of the Golden Bears Football team. It was at Berkeley that he earned his nickname “Oso.” After graduating from Berkeley in , Oso went to work in the San Francisco Bay Area and started his long and very successful career as a stock broker with Irving Lundborg, Kidder Peabody and Paine Webber. Oso met the love of his life, Sue, at a Halloween party in downtown San Francisco in the late s. Oso and Sue married in Carmel in  and settled in Portola Valley, where they raised their children, Brad and Julie, and where Oso lived until his passing. Over the years, Oso was an active member of a number of charities and community service organizations, including Chi Phi Fraternity, Rotary Club, Alpine Little League, The Atherlons, and Sons in Retirement. Oso was well known to all of his family and friends as extremely gentle, kind, loving, caring, funny, perpetually optimistic (to a fault), and passionate. His lifelong passions were led by the love he had for his family, friends, and neighbors, followed closely by his passions for Cal Bears Football (missing only  home games over + years), Napa Cabernet, world traveling, tennis, skiing, photography, fruit growing, and chocolate in almost any form. Other than a few opposing college football coaches and politicians, Oso never had an unkind or harsh word to say about anyone. Oso also had an amazing memory for facts and statistics of all kinds, and was well known for turning the subject of the most mundane conversation into an interesting story about a Cal football player, a tasty wine, or a memorable tennis match. His optimistic spirit, broad smile, deep laughter, warm hugs, bushy eyebrows, bald head, and clever sense of humor will survive in the hearts of all his family and friends. Oso is survived by his wife of  years, Suzette Thomas; son Brad and wife Krissy of Santa Barbara; daughter Julie and husband Steve San Filippo of San Carlos; sister Jacquelyn Law of Honolulu; nephew Robert Law of Sonora; nieces Cecily Woods of Newport Beach and Kathy Czar of Maui; and grandchildren Patrick and Charlotte Thomas and Marisa, Dominic and Joseph San Filippo. Should friends and family desire, memorial contributions may be made in Oso’s name to Cal Football through the Cal Athletic Development office (Bear Backers). Checks

should be made to “UC Regents,” with Cal Football on the memo line, and mailed to  Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, CA . Arrangements are in the care of Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Chapels in Santa Barbara. GO BEARS!.

Dr. Joseph Francis Maguire // – //

Dr. Maguire practiced anesthesia for  years. He enjoyed soaring in gliders, motorcycling, model trains, raising Hyacinths Macaws and miniature horses. Friends and family remember how invested he was in people and how he could always be counted on for help or advice. Professionally and personally, he was a man who made others’ lives easier for knowing him. Services will be held at Mr. Carmel, East Valley Road, at eleven o’clock., January , .

Bruce W.W. Harger, Ph.D. //  //

Dr. Bruce William Walter Harger passed peacefully, surrounded by family, on December , . Born in Indiana, Bruce moved to Hope Ranch when he was . It was in Santa Barbara that he began his lifelong relationship with the ocean and raised his family. At San Marcos High School, in the ’s, Bruce met his lifelong best

friends. He loved music and formed a rock ’n ’roll band with his brother Steve and friends. The Boss Bananas was inspired by and played the music of the Yardbirds and the Byrds, among others. As an undergraduate student at UCSB, while waiting to catch waves at Campus Point, Bruce found his calling sitting near the kelp beds. His lifelong love of science began with his study of the giant brown kelp, and he became a marine botanist. At UCSB he met his professor and mentor, Dr. Michael Neushul, who shared Bruce’s passion for the giant brown kelp plant. Bruce completed his MS degree at the University of Hawaii, studying the island algae. He lived and worked in an undersea habitat off of the coast of Puerto Rico. Bruce’s doctoral fieldwork was on the giant brown kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera in the Santa Barbara Channel, and his scientific findings were published in the years that followed. For two years, he completed postdoctoral work in Panama working for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studying algae growth in the Atlantic. Bruce married his wife, Devon, in . They met at the UCSB Marine Science Institute and shared a love of the ocean, traveling throughout the tropics with many underwater adventures and most recently a trip with their children to Hawaii. Completing his Ph.D. at UCSB, Bruce continued working with Dr. Neushul for  years at Neushul Mariculture, Inc. Bruce became the primary owner of Neushul Mariculture and later established his own company, Sunnyside Sea Farms, named for his grandfather’s Sunnyside Farm in Indiana. Bruce loved to combine his love of science with education. With his colleague, Dr. Miriam Polne-Fuller, he brought science in the form of “kelp beads” to science nights at Santa Barbara schools. Sunnyside Sea Farms educational products also include bioluminescent dinoflagellates (Lights from the Sea) which continue to bring marine science education to a national and international audience of students and educators. Bruce assumed the role of CFO for his brother’s company, Professional Packers and Forwarders, Inc., which provided a means to support his family and continue his passion for science and education. A true Christian in his heart and soul, Bruce made First Presbyterian Church his second home. From leadership roles during high school to serving as an elder and with the Childrens and Youth Ministry, he used his time and talent in service to his faith community. Bruce was blessed beyond words by his three children, Benjamin, Isabelle and Lillian. Watching his children grow and change brought him so much joy! Bruce was a kind and loving husband, father, brother and friend. With the wisdom and patience that grounded his family immeasur-

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In Memoriam ARTS PATRON: Léni Fé Bland was a great friend to the music and dance communities.

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land and would have celebrated her 100th birthday on January 10. Her father was a gifted musician, and all three of his daughters were well educated, as well as talented vocalists who enjoyed classical music greatly. Léni had tremendous mathematical abilities, and she eventually trained and qualified as a chartered accountant (the British equivalent of the certified public accountant). Her first husband died at a relatively young age, and her son died at the age of 50 of multiple sclerosis. She is survived by her daughter, Valerie van Gelder, of Paris and Santa Monica, and her grandson, Alexis van Gelder, of San Francisco, a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and currently a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves. Léni enjoyed many sports, including horseback riding — despite enduring a serious fall and recuperating from a broken back — golf, walking (it was more like speed walking with her!), and swimming, a sport she loved and did almost every day until the tender age of 97. She was also a lifelong dedicated and skilled bridge player. Her mathematical abilities undoubtedly contributed to her formidable skills at the game and made her a favorite partner at her bridge club. And she never needed a telephone book — she preferred to memorize often-used telephone numbers after listening to them spoken to her once and repeating them back twice. Her training as a chartered accountant was put to good use during the Second World War, and she became the managing partner of her firm during that period. Her second husband — Baron Léon Fé Bland — was a Swiss national , and they maintained their primary residence in Switzerland for many years. Sometime in 1984, they decided to build a second home in Montecito, seeking a balmier climate for the winter. After the baron died, she kept their home in Montecito as her primary resi-

dence. There she established the Léni Fé Bland Foundation in 1992. She also maintained a modest pied-à-terre in London for many years. The administration of the Léni Fé Bland Fund was transferred to the Santa Barbara Foundation in 2013. While her own foundation was her major philanthropic priority, Léni was also a generous supporter of many other causes in Santa Barbara. These included the Music Academy of the West, the Santa Barbara Symphony, and the State Street Ballet company, which she encouraged Rodney Gustafson to found in 1994 — serving on the board and as treasurer for its ﬁrst decade. She was also a generous patron of SEE International, the Rescue Mission, Transition House, the UCSB Arts & Lectures program, and Casa Esperanza. In 1998, she became one of the founding boardmembers of the Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts, serving for a decade until after the completion of the renovation of the Granada Theatre and its gala reopening in March 2008. She also served as the cochair of the Ensemble Theatre Company for the New Vic Theatre’s renovation campaign, which opened anew for the Ensemble’s 20132014 season. Léni Fé Bland’s wisdom and experience served countless boards and committees by making them more purposeful and successful in achieving their goals. Her charm and dignity enhanced any dinner party or event she attended, and her well-informed mind and wittiness enlivened any conversation. She will be greatly missed by so many in our community and remembered with great respect, love, and gratitude. As a friend, she was a delight — thoughtful, prompt, caring, honest, and honorable. She was forthright, insightful, intelligent, and well read, and she always maintained an optimistic outlook on life. She was one of a kind and truly ■ unforgettable.

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obituaries con’t ably, Bruce lived a life always aware of God’s presence. Bruce is survived by his wife of  years, Devon, son Benjamin () and twin daughters Lillian and Isabelle (), brother Steve Harger (Dana), his sisters, Judy Williams (Bob), Elizabeth Young (Dale), seven nieces and nephews, sisters-in-laws, Régan Cohen, Dana Herkelrath (Felipe Golez), mother-in-law, Jan Herkelrath. Services and a Celebration of Life will be held at the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara,  E. Constance Avenue, Saturday, January , at  pm. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be directed to the “Childrens and Youth Ministry” First Presbyterian Church, Santa Barbara

Ursula Bond  – 

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Ramakrishna and His Disciples, she is acknowledged for her invaluable assistance and insights. In , Anandaprana moved to Santa Barbara to join its Vedanta convent. Until a debilitating stroke in , she was regularly to be found at the Vedanta bookstore, where she worked until she became quite elderly. After her stroke, Anandaprana needed continual care. Her last months were spent at Casa Rhoda, where the loving staff treated her as an honored member of the family. She passed away on December , , her face serene and tranquil. At her death, someone who saw her said, “It looks like she melted into something really beautiful.” Her memorial will be January th at : am at the Vedanta Temple. Anandaprana is survived by her monastic sisters and brothers and lay devotees in Santa Barbara and Hollywood. She is also survived by her daughter Carolyn Bond (Sumitra). One of her favorite quotes, from Shankara’s Crest Jewel of Discrimination, sums up beautifully her passing: “My mind fell like a hailstone into that vast expanse of Brahman’s ocean. Touching one drop of it, I melted away and became one with Brahman.”

Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Stoltze Pravrajika Anandaprana (Ursula Bond) was born to a wealthy Jewish family of great culture in Berlin. Fleeing the Nazis, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in San Francisco. Extremely intelligent and highly motivated, fluent in multiple languages, she graduated with honors in English literature at UC Berkeley. After graduation, she married Robert Bond, and they moved to Pasadena, where she worked at the Huntington Library. While there she discovered the Vedanta Society in Hollywood and became keenly interested in its teachings. Eventually her interest deepened to the extent that in , after much soul-searching, she made the wrenching decision to leave her husband and small daughter to join the Vedanta Society’s convent in Hollywood. In  she took final vows of renunciation, sannyasa, and was given the name Pravrajika Anandaprana (“she whose life is in bliss”). Anandaprana was a dedicated nun throughout her long life. An indefatigable worker, Anandaprana became the private secretary of Swami Prabhavananda, the founder of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. She was equally involved in the Vedanta Society’s literary activities, editing the magazine Vedanta for the West for many years as well as editing Swami Prabhavananda’s Sermon on the Mount according to Vedanta. She assisted in the preparation of many Vedanta books; in Christopher Isherwood’s book

A year later, working for Ozark Airlines on a flight to St. Louis, Mary met a handsome insurance salesman named Frank Stoltze. They married within a year and moved to Los Angeles, then to Santa Barbara in . Frank and Mary were together  years, until his death in . Mary was a member of the La Cumbre Golf and Country Club. She was a superb putter. She loved fishing Cameron Lake in Canada, and frying up rainbow trout for breakfast. She was a member of the National Charity League and VNA Auxiliary. She loved sports, especially the Lakers and Florida State Seminoles. Most importantly, Mary was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, offering unconditional love and support that enriched and nourished the lives of those around her. Mary is survived by a brother Morris Williams; daughters Sharon Lark, Sandy, and Susan, and son Frank; grandchildren Brent Humphreys, Emily Davis, Stephanie Davis and Hunter Davis; and great grandchild Scarlett Humphreys. Services will be held at the La Cumbre Golf and Country Club Saturday, January  at pm. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Easy Lift, or Santa Barbara Rescue Mission.

from San Marcos High School in . Todd displayed at an early age an exceptional talent in the field of electronics, leading him through an Electronic Trade School in Los Angeles, CA. Todd began working for Lightning Protection Corp. of Goleta at the age of  and maintained employment with Lightning Protection for  years, finally becoming their Quality Control and Special Projects Manager. Todd also was a photographic genius and photographed numerous TV shows for The Ken Boxer Live series. Todd’s personal life included trapshooting (Master marksmen) and billiards, winning many awards and trophies. He fished and camped with many friends, some of whom he had known from childhood, a giving and loving person, he will be deeply missed by all. Todd is survived by his mother Jennie, A Knudsen of Goleta, CA and father, Paul D. Knudsen of Phoenix, Arizona. Arrangement for cremation were made through Simply Remembered of Santa Barbara. A celebration of life will be held Jan. th at  N. Kellog #C, pm.

Charles Frazier  – 

 – 

Mary was a Southern girl at heart. She grew up in tiny Lake City, Florida, where she was known as Betty. Her father was R.O. Williams, a teacher and school superintendent. Her mother was known as Miss Ida, a woman who loved to bake, quilt and occasionally dip tobacco. Born in , Mary was raised during the Great Depression. She learned to love Jesus from her parents and by attending Methodist youth camp. She was a devout believer all of her life, a loyal member of her bible study, and a longtime member of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara, where she served as an Elder and Deacon. Her high school class voted her “Most Witty” and “Most Friendly.” At age , she saved enough money working as a telephone operator to attend airline stewardess school in Minneapolis. Much to the chagrin of her family and friends, she boarded a train north. It was a fateful decision.

Todd Douglas Knudsen // – //

Todd was born on January , , in Santa Barbara, California, where he lived his entire life until Good Lord called him on November , ; he passed away peacefully at Cottage Hospital after a brief illness. Todd was raised by his mother and father in Hidden Valley neighborhood of Santa Barbara. He attended a local grade school and graduated

Charles Edgar Frazier, , of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully on September , , at Serenity House Hospice in Santa Barbara. Born January , , in Jacksonville, FL, Charles attended Grady High School and Georgia Tech in Atlanta and graduated from Emory University. In  he earned a Master of Divinity degree, Cum Laude, from Emory’s Candler School of Theology, where, in recognition of scholarship and distinction, he was elected to the International Society of Theta Phi. From -, Charles served as Minister of Education at First Methodist Church in Athens, GA, after which he became Director of Youth Work for the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC). During this time, Charles helped organize the first racially desegregated Methodist youth conference in the state of Georgia. He also made lifelong friendships at the UMC’s Camp Glisson in the North Georgia Mountains. Charles’s work next brought him to Evanston, IL, where he served first as associate minister of the

First United Methodist Church and later in several roles at the UMC’s Board of Global Ministries. During this time, Charles developed an interest in the field of aging, earning professional certification from the University of Michigan’s Institute of Gerontology. Before leaving Evanston, he would serve as assistant administrator at United Methodist Homes and Services in Chicago, IL, and as Assistant General Secretary of the Section on Aging for the UMC, and would travel on various international delegations dedicated to improving services for the aging. From  until his retirement in , Charles served as executive director of the Vista del Monte Retirement Community in Santa Barbara, CA. During that period he oversaw the complete redevelopment of the community, including the creation of one of the first fitness and aquatic centers for seniors in the state. (His family smiles at the pleasure he would get, knowing that when you Google “best senior fitness and aquatic centers,” Vista’s is the very first entry to appear!) Two years ago, he took great pride in becoming a resident of his beloved Vista del Monte. In retirement, Charles, known in later life to friends as Charlie, enormously enjoyed time on the Pacific Ocean around the Channel Islands, nature photography, international travel and four-wheeling in the Southwestern US with family and friends, and visits with family members scattered around the US. The only thing Charlie loved more than having an adventure was recording and replaying that adventure on whatever new iGadget he’d recently purchased. Charles is loved and missed by daughters Elizabeth Rosen (Lee) of Buffalo, NY, and Carolyn Frazier (Todd Israelite) of Evanston, IL, much-loved grandchildren Eliza and William Rosen, and Stella and Josey Israelite, former wife Emily Stamos (John) of Evanston, sister Ivylyn Scott (Richard) of Scottsdale, AZ, niece Donna Edwards (Bruce) of Atlanta, and many longtime friends from Vista and Vieja Gardens, where he lived for  years. The family would like to specially thank the staff of Vista’s Rehabilitation and Care Center as well as Serenity House for their compassion and care during Charles’ illness and last days. We will long remember your kindness. A Celebration of Life service will be held at pm on Feb. , , at Vista del Monte,  Modoc Rd., Santa Barbara. All are welcome. Memorial donations may be made to: The Vista del Monte Fitness & Aquatic Center (checks made to Fact Foundation, noted “C. Frazier FAC”),  Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara, CA  or Camp Glisson Dining Room Fund,  Camp Glisson Rd., Dahlonega, GA .

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Question Marks for 2015

NOT YET? Trying to brainstorm what 2015 has

in store for Santa Barbara County, I came up with a big fat bunch of question marks. NOT YET, MIRAMAR: Since it’s not what

developer Rick Caruso demands, but what the community needs, on January 21 the Montecito Planning Commission will ponder parking and other knotty issues involved in rebuilding the seaside resort. NOT YET, DISTRICT VOTING: It’s not what

the Santa Barbara City Council wants, but a Superior Court trial is set for April 6 (unless there’s a settlement ﬁrst) on whether the city should switch to district elections. Attorney Barry Cappello, who ﬁled the suit, claims the present at-large system is biased against Latino candidates and wants a switch. The Council decided to leave it to the voters and scheduled an election next fall. (Prediction: Get ready for a district system.) NO, NO, ROAD RAGE: All the hair-pulling and

insult-smearing over the freeway redo calmed down while we celebrated the birth of the Prince of Peace. But we haven’t heard the last of it. DOWNTON ABBEY: Speaking of the New

Year, the hit Brit TV serial Downton Abbey has returned to the air, this time taking us to 1924.

For those inspired to look even farther back, I recommend David Cannadine’s The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. (Warning: It’s a b-o-o-k.)

SBIFF-Y: This year’s ﬁlm fest brings Desert Dancer, which is about young Iranians who braved the country’s ban on dancing.

ZEROING IN ON LOIS: Rep. Lois

Capps was reelected, but no sooner were the votes counted than her rivals-to-be were painting bull’s-eyes on her posters. Will Lois run again? Only Lois knows. DEMOCRACY: Elections can be

nerve-jangling — which is one reason why so many people don’t vote. (Along with laziness.) But I’m still a staunch believer in democracy, no matter what the U.S. Supreme Court says. (A couple of justices live in the legal world of the 1700s.) Winston Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other forms that have been tried from time to time.” He said that, by the way, after having been turned out of oﬃce in 1945 after leading the English people to victory in World War II. (He returned to power in 1951.) CULTURE & KULTURE: UCSB’s Arts & Lectures,

a real treasure, will be staging a full menu of cul-

ture (for example the Mutter-Bronfman-Harrell Trio — violin, piano, and cello — on April 17) to kulture (the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, a group of plucky strummers, on January 20.) A&L brings former CIA director and secretary of defense Robert Gates on March 19 (and does he ever have a lot to explain). A&L has also booked singers, musicians, and dancers from around the world — even cooks such as TV food queen Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, February 19.

FILM FEST: Impresario Roger Durling is open-

ing his Santa Barbara International Film Festival on January 27 with Desert Dancer, a true story of a self-taught dancer who risked his life by defying Iran’s ban on dancing. The January 27-February 7 movie orgy sparkles with celebs, including Jennifer Aniston; screens newly hatched films from around the world; devotes one whole batch of flicks to films of social significance; and encourages local filmmakers. — Barney Brantingham

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Substance abuse is an epidemic in the United States. Chances are someone you know is an addict or alcoholic. It could be a neighbor’s kid or the woman who cuts your hair. Maybe it’s a colleague at work or your parent or your child. Maybe it’s you. One in 10 deaths among adults is due to excessive drinking, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In America, more people die every day from prescription drug addiction than gunshot wounds, car accidents, or suicide. Heroin, a cheaper alternative to opiates such as OxyContin and Vicodin, is now killing university students all over the country. Santa Barbara is no exception. Despite the clichés that we are all living in paradise, our statistics reveal an underbelly of addiction. According to the county’s Alcohol and Drug Program, which directly treats about 4,000 people just for addiction at any given time, the baseline statistic is that of the 440,000 people countywide, a third of those who are of drinking age, will run into a “transitory problem,” such as a DUI or job loss, and 10 percent will develop a “fullblown substance use disorder,” explained the program manager, John Doyel. While methamphetamine abuse still runs rampant in North County, the South Coast’s new drug of choice is prescription pills, jumping from 5 to 20 percent of those being treated in the past decade. Adolescents, meanwhile, keep turning to marijuana. “Addiction knows no bounds,” said Doyel.

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Jackie knew she was in trouble. Her need for drugs and alcohol had become the most important thing in her life, jeopardizing everything, and the problem was getting worse. She’d even been hiding the addiction from her therapist, until one desperate day, she ﬁnally confessed. He bluntly informed her that unless she got help, he would be forced to call Child Protective Services. “That got my attention,” recalls Jackie today. “I was feeling insane, living this schizophrenic existence — PTA and car pools versus tequila and cocaine. Something had to give.”

Law enforcement statistics are also disconcerting. In 2012 alone, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ’s Office arrested 1,026 people for felony drug offenses and nearly 5,000 for misdemeanor drug and alcohol offenses, and issued more than 2,200 citations for DUI. Of the more than 14,000 enforcement actions (not including traffic citations) made in 2012 by the Santa Barbara Police Department, more than 6,100 were directly related to alcohol and/or drugs, meaning that more than 40 percent of the cops’ collective time is spent dealing explicitly with substanceabuse disorders. “And those are just the major ones,” said police spokesperson Sergeant Riley Harwood, who’s seen alcohol or drug issues tied to many of the aggravated assault, domestic violence, and other arrests made in his 23 years in law enforcement. “There are a lot of arrests we make where alcohol or drugs are a peripheral factor.” Hospital records tell a similar tale. As a snapshot, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital treated about 480 alcohol poisoning and 167 drug overdose patients in 2012. Pulling that focus back to the past decade, You’ve got to change Cottage’s Santa Barbara and Goleta everything so that Valley emergency rooms dealt with drugs and alcohol no nearly 5,500 alcohol-related cases longer run your life. from 2004-2013. According to Gordon Coburn, the chair of Santa Barbara City College’s addictive disorders counseling department, “Lower State Street has become a war zone of drinking after 10 p.m.” Referring to young women in particular, he concluded,“We don’t have an epidemic; we have a pandemic of substance abuse in Santa Barbara County.”

Perhaps it’s not surprising that, amid Santa Barbara’s celebratory culture and libatious nightlife, we have a large recovery community in which untold numbers of people are working hard to transform their lives. They come from every race, age, religion, socioeconomic status, and political background. They are “people who would normally not mix,” as it says in the Alcoholics Anonymous book (a k a the Big Book), “like passengers of a great liner the moment after rescue from shipwreck when camaraderie, joyousness, and democracy pervade the vessel from steerage to Captain’s table.” Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is the oldest and most prevalent program in Santa Barbara, but it’s just one of many ways to get clean and sober. Treatments are manifold and sometimes controversial. Many join 12-step programs like AA that require participants to remain anonymous and ﬁnd a higher power “of their own understanding.” Others rely on medical or psychiatric methods. Some just go cold turkey without any support. There is no silver bullet. Despite the diﬀerences, all programs acknowledge that recovery entails much more than just not using. Ned, a 79-year-old retired Ventura judge who’s been sober for 42 years, cautioned that there is no cure for this life-and-death illness — it is a lifelong commitment: “You’ve got to do the work,” he said. “And you’ve got to change everything so that drugs and alcohol no longer run your life.”

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PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF Every single day of the week, whether in church halls, at the beach, or in private homes, Alcoholics Anonymous members are gathering to support each other. There are more than 200 meetings each week in the area, with gender-specific, LGBT, and Spanish-speaking options, as well as ones open to nonalcoholics and closed to anyone not expressing a “desire to stop drinking.” Despite demographic disparities — it’s not uncommon to find Hollywood celebrities mingling with homeless itinerants — these men and women have established a network of compassionate, nonjudgmental support. AA is a spiritual program, not a religious one. But Judge Ned, who’s sponsored many newcomers, always cautions wary candidates to first just attend an open meeting: “Sit in the back, and never say a word to anybody,” he advised. “If you don’t like it, you can always leave. And it won’t cost you a dime, but it just might save your life.” It took Dr. Blain a long time to realize that. A successful, articulate, well-groomed physician and family man, he struggled with reconciling his life with that of an addict, which is not unusual for high-functioning users. He’d been drinking heavily for 15 years when he found himself shooting Demerol to mitigate his hangovers. “Within three months, I was using 1,000 milligrams daily,” he said.“They give about 100 milligrams to cancer patients in hospitals.” An intervention by four employees and a psychologist brought him to his first treatment center. But denial is a dangerous symptom of the disease, so once there, Dr. Blain convinced everyone he didn’t really have a problem, that his condition was an aberration due to stress. He was out in 11 days and did stop the drugs but not the booze. Two and a half years later, the doc was back in rehab. Upon coming home, he chose AA as his ongoing treatment program, despite his agnostic beliefs. “My job as a physician is to figure out what’s going on with the patient and come up with the best course of action,” he explained. “In this case, the best treatment plan, in my opinion, is AA. If you take the God part out and use it as a program of ethics and morals, it works.”

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is no talk of higher power in SOS. We support each other and know that it is up to us to stop our addictions.” Others eschew programs altogether, such as Eileen, a former high-level executive in her sixties who’s dressed in the sophisticated style of her East Coast roots when we meet at Jeannine’s in Montecito. Reluctant about the interview, it’s quickly apparent that talking about alcohol makes Eileen uncomfortable, even though it’s been 10 years since her last drink. Indeed, she wishes she still could drink. “I just feel that my life is not as much fun,” she admitted.“I’m a loner, and booze was a social lubricant. It’s a lousy card to be dealt. If I could handle it, I’d love to be able to have three drinks, but I can’t. I would need three bottles.” Eileen tried AA, but it wasn’t for her. “The whole ‘God thing’ was a total turnoﬀ,” she recalled. “People said they were thankful to be an alcoholic, and I just couldn’t relate. But I heard enough to understand that I was really lucky that I never had a DUI or lost my job or killed anybody with my car.” For Diane, it was actually the lack of religion that turned her away from AA. Sitting on a bench in Alice Keck Park Memorial Gardens, she explained that the “higher power” notion was not enough for her. Instead, Diane needed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, so she joined Celebrate Recovery, a program based on both the 12 steps and the Bible’s beatitudes that meets at Hope Community Church in Santa Barbara, First Baptist Church in Carpinteria, and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Goleta. The message is clear: “Heal with Christ.” And that works for Diane. “Some people think religion or Christ or God are crutches,” she said. “But heck, we all need crutches when we are limping.”

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Danny was a 19-year-old college kid fueled by alcohol and Quaaludes when he shot and killed a man in Westwood on a Friday night in 1981. He served 31 years, 9 months, and 12 days, a sentence that was extended frequently due to bad behavior and dirty drug testing. It turned out that getting drugs in prison was easier than on the street. “I got loaded every day,” he remembered. “Heroin, speed, marijuana, alcohol — it’s big business inside. Corrupt cops, visitors smuggling stuff — there’s nothing that an ingenious con can’t get.” He fooled himself and placated the parole board by attending self-help groups and AA meetings yet never stopped using. “I looked like Mr. Recovery,” he said. “I wrote articles for the newsletter, sponsored guys. But it wasn’t real.” Then in 2002, a member of AA’s Hospitals and Institutions Panel, which brings meetings into prisons, pulled him aside to talk. Something clicked. “I became ‘free’ in there,” he said. “It was remarkable; my whole attitude toward life changed, and prison just became my address. It wasn’t my way of life anymore. It took another 10 years, but I got out.” Today 53 years old, Danny doesn’t look or sound like a man who was locked up for decades — with no tattoos or piercings, he speaks softly with the vocabulary of an educated man. He sponsors many recently released men in Santa Barbara through AA and Narcotics Anonymous (NA), meeting them on Monday nights at the Alano Club on East Cota Street, where they chat about not “picking up” again. Danny is a strong mentor because if he can stay clean after 32 years behind bars, anybody can. “I’ve never relapsed,” he said. “I know my actions under drugs and alcohol. It ruined three decades of my life. I could probably go out and drink tonight and be fine. Maybe five times, maybe 10. But the 12th time could bring me down. It’s Russian roulette, and I might as well grab the gun and put a bullet in it.”

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RELAPSE REALITIES dope, and I’m certifiably insane when I pick up.” Now under medical supervision, Erik takes Suboxone, a highly controversial drug for opiate addiction. He says it’s “worse than heroin” to kick but hopes he can titrate off it within the next six months. He’s also eating well, going to therapy, and attending meetings, and he believes he’s finally surrendered.“It’s so easy to get drugs in Santa Barbara, to connect through the party scene in Isla Vista or in the back of clubs all around town,” he said. “I have to accept that everything needs to change: my phone number, Facebook, all my old friends, and especially my thinking. That’s the real surrender.”

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The return to drinking and using after a period of abstinence is heart-wrenching. Erik, a cleancut 25-year-old, is a “hope to die” heroin addict, his arm tattooed with a line written by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World:“I want God. I want poetry. I want danger.” When I spoke with Erik this summer, he’d been sober for 110 days — this time. He’d detoxed at Cottage Hospital’s psychiatric inpatient unit, spent time at the hospital’s residential rehabilitation program, and shared a room in New House, one of the sober living facilities for men in Santa Barbara. He’d previously been clean for nine months but went back to using after a breakup. “I went through hell in detox, cleaned up, and was on ﬁre for a while,” he explained of his previous clean period.“Then I met a girl, and when she relapsed, I relapsed. I started shooting meth. The needle is addictive in its own way. The bathroom turns into a murder scene after a while when you’re trying to ﬁnd the spot to shoot.” His best friend recently overdosed at age 25 from benzodiazepine, alcohol, and heroin, devastating Erik.“I know I’m young, but I don’t have any delusions that I have any more chances,” he later said.“If I have a drink, a week lat ateer I’m shooting

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APPLIED SCIENCE: For the past 12 years, San Marcos’s AP economics students have been raising funds for in-need youths as Kids Helping Kids. This weekend, singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson (pictured) headlines KHK’s annual beneﬁt concert at the Granada.

nating in a very big-deal benefit concert at the Granada Theatre in January. And when all is said and done, the KHK students divvy up proceeds to in-need youths (both local and international) of their choosing — and put those handy economics lessons to real-world use. “It’s not so much a light-switch moment as it is a slow awakening,” said DeVries of his students. “It takes some time to realize that there are two people on either side of the equation. There are the students, whose lives are hopefully being changed by learning how to sacrificially give, but also the kids on the receiving end.” This Saturday, January 10, KHK brings platinum-selling singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and Jon McLaughlin to the Granada. In addition to presenting the show, the students will take tickets, act as ushers, and host a silent auction for VIP attendees. “We’ve sold over 1,000 tickets, and we’ve already grossed over $56,000 in ticket revenue,” gushed DeVries over the break. Before New Year’s, the Granada show officially sold out, though parties interested in donating can still do so at kidshelpingkidssb.org. The money raised at this Saturday’s concert

(as well as the rest of this year’s fundraising efforts) will be allocated to multiple in-need individuals and causes, to be determined by the students following the show. “It’s fun to see that you can make a difference,” said KHK CEO Peter Greig. “I would have never imagined that I could raise money to help a kid that’s dying of cancer so that his parents could spend more time with him, or help these kids in Nicaragua,” added Direector of Public Relations Tiana Gong, “just doing these things that you would have never imagined doing and then actually doing them.” Meanwhile, DeVries is helping to grow the Kids Helping Kids model beyond San Marcos. There are now versions of the nonprofit in Agoura Hills, Sacramento, Ojai, and Denver, Colorado. And based on the enthusiasm witnessed locally this Christmas Eve Eve, it’s a model well worth expanding on. “There’s no one taking roll; I’m not checking off any boxes,” laughed DeVries.“They just show up because they really want to help.” For more on Kids Helping Kids, visit kids —Aly Comingore helpingkidssb.org.

BLONDE REDHEAD BARRAGÁN New York trio Blonde Redhead’s ninth studio album, Barragán (Spanish for “warrior”), is a low-key, minimalist aﬀair that might take the unacquainted listener some time to adapt to — and put oﬀ some longtime fans due to its change in direction. But on repeated listening, an intriguing Zen-meets-krautrock aesthetic becomes evident. The title track is an understated instrumental beauty featuring woodwinds and acoustic guitar, while the sensual “Lady M” hooks the listener with its pleasurable melody and singer/guitarist Kazu Makino’s cryptically cooed lyrics: “Moon child Lady M / Lady M is for … / How many times have you? / Afterwards do they?/ Are they supposed to?” The third track, “Dripping” — which features drummer Simone

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Pace on vocals — is probably the album’s most accessible and danceable song, with its synthpop atmospheric flavor and dreamy, falsetto chorus: “I saw you dripping sunlight / I saw you dripping moonlight.” Makino’s seductive phrasing is both airy and enigmatic on the bouncy sketch of a song “Cat on Tin Roof,” where she purrs: “I’ll let you know when I go away / You’ve got to move away.” Midway through, sung almost as an aside, she adds, “Maybe we should work on it a little bit more,” as though to emphasize the ephemeral, work-in-progress nature of the tune. Meanwhile, “The One I Love,” with its psychedelic structure and lyrics, could almost be a cousin to Pink Floyd’s early classic “See Emily Play.” Happily, “No More Honey” is the nearest song to the

old-school Blonde Redhead shoegaze sound, replete with My Bloody Valentine–esque guitar warps. Although not for everyone — and arguably underdeveloped — Barragán is a grower for those with a taste for experimental and sparse arrangements and an appreciation of ﬂeeting fragments of phantom songcraft. —Sean Mageean

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Brooklyn kl may be b New N YYorkk City’s Cit ’ mostt protean t borough. Once a byword for street-smart authenticity and home of the tough-sounding dialect known as “Brooklynese,” today multifaceted Brooklyn is more often employed as shorthand for hipster. In Brooklyn Boy, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright TO Donald Margulies pits these CARPINTERIA dueling cultural identities against one another through the experiences of Eric Weiss, an acclaimed author who returns to Brooklyn after publishing an autobiographical book about growing up there. Over the course of the action, Weiss — who will be played by Ed Giron in DIJO’s upcoming production at the Plaza Playhouse Theater in Carpinteria — gets pulled in many different directions. In some scenes he’s meeting with the Hollywood creative team that’s working to bring his story to television, while in others he’s visiting his cantankerous father in the hospital or talking to his best friend from high school. For DIJO producer and veteran actor Jerry Oshinsky, Brooklyn Boy is also a homecoming of sorts, as he graduated from Brooklyn College before going on to attend Columbia Law School in far-off Morningside Heights. Like any good Brooklyn boy, Oshinsky can rattle off a litany of great Brooklynites, from Barbra Streisand to Woody Allen, but in explaining this play, he makes it clear that the show is about more than nostalgia. “It’s set in Brooklyn, but it’s about everywhere,” he says. “Eric’s father is not my father; he’s everybody’s father.” William Waxman will direct the show, which runs January 8-18. The Plaza Playhouse Theater, which has recently upgraded its technical facilities to make way for even more live theater, has proved to be an excellent venue for the kind of regional theater at which DIJO excels. There’s real passion in this work, as each of the participants embraces the opportunity to go deeper into the plays that they love. Asked what drew him to this particular script, Oshinsky goes beyond the coincidence of common origins to praise the writing, saying, “It’s lyrical — I fell in love with the music of the language, and now I walk around with it in my head.” For tickets and information, visit plazatheater carpinteria.com. — Charles Donelan

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he exhibition How to Make the Universe Right: The Art of the Shaman in Vietnam and Southern China, which is on view at the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture (AD&A) Museum January 17-May 1, consists of scroll paintings, musical instruments, clothing, and ceremonial objects from the collection of Santa Barbara residents Jill and Barry Kitnick. It represents the greatest scholarly effort to date to organize and present full sets of these objects in context, and thanks to the curatorial team of Barry Kitnick, Dan Mills, and Bates College professor of art history Trian Nguyen, there’s a splendid catalogue to preserve it, as well. Based primarily in Daoism, but with elements drawn from Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, and animism, these spectacular objects and images reveal a way of life that has by Charles Donelan existed for millennia, but which is today threatened as never before due to recent historical events in the regions where these people live. From 1954-1990, the Communist governments of China and North Vietnam suppressed shamanism, and in the process thousands of important religious artifacts were destroyed as symbols of an outdated form of superstition. In addition to this pressure to modernize, there was considerable disruption and poverty as a result of the Vietnam War. The culture of the Yao and other ethnic Chinese minorities living in North Vietnam was already at risk due to the precarious relation between their everyday spoken language of Vietnamese and the scholarly Chinese and Nom writing necessary to understand and enact shamanic rituals. Finally, because these are not merely aesthetic objects to their makers, but rather the personal ritual tools of individual shamans, they are sometimes destroyed by members of the shaman’s own family upon his death in order to protect his spirit and that of his family from potential misuse. For Barry Kitnick, who studied anthropology at UCLA and has been collecting these artifacts seriously since 2001, the adventure began reluctantly.“Originally I never wanted to go to Vietnam,” he explained. “My entire cohort was decimated by the Vietnam War, and although I was very interested in Asia, that was one place I did not feel like going. It was my wife, Jill, who finally convinced me to go by saying, ‘It’s a country, not a war — let’s see it.’” From the Kitnicks’ first visit, Barry and Jill became enamored of the culture, and in particular, they became interested in the art associated with these ethnic Chinese minorities. As they continued to visit the country, they began to collect what they perceived as “people’s art — as opposed to imperial art.” The appeal was twofold: This was an important field of East Asian art that was not yet valued appropriately, and the ritual shamanism in which these objects were used radiated a positive attitude the Kitnicks found appealing. The exhibition’s title expresses the mission of these shamanic practices — to make the universe right — and that message is one that clearly continues to resonate with Barry, who identifies with it, saying, “We must rebalance, and these people had the courage to believe that it could be accomplished.” The acquisition of the collection, while challenging enough in its own right, was only phase one of what has grown into a full-time project many years in the making. The next phase was to find the right scholar to make sense of what had been acquired. Very few scholars of Asian art knew much about these works, and only a handful had the linguistic skills to decipher them. Fortunately for the Kitnicks, the right person for the job did eventually come into view. Today, Trian Nguyen is a distinguished professor at a prestigious liberal arts college, but before he came to this country, he was an ordained Buddhist minister in North Vietnam. As a young man, he learned to read Chinese and French in addition to Nom, the Chinese-derived

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character system used to write the Vietnamese language prior to the switch to the Latin alphabet that was made there in the 1920s. Professor Nguyen would prove to be an ideal partner in what has become an international project of outstanding scope and impact. Sections of these scrolls that he was not able to translate were copied and sent to Beijing, where other scholars were recruited to assist. In tandem with Barry’s dedication to assembling complete sets of ritual paintings, such as the 18 images that make up the pantheon of a fully ordained Yao shaman, Nguyen’s scholarship affords a fascinating glimpse of the intensity required to keep a complex 2,500-year-old ritual tradition alive without the benefit of permanent sanctuaries such as churches or temples. Each shaman was entrusted to conduct funerals, prayers for the sick, and even exorcisms based on his ability to create a makeshift shrine or altar out of these portable elements. Passed from generation to generation by direct descent, these dazzling sacred objects were very nearly lost to posterity. Through the efforts of those responsible for How to Make the Universe Right, that catastrophe has been averted, and these images are now available to the public.

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The Luke Theatre and UCSB Arts & Lectures present the 3rd of 5 FREE family concerts in the Viva el Arte SB series. This all female group hails form NYC and is committed to bringing its diverse array of musical backgrounds — salsa, Afrobeat, Broadway musicals, hip-hop and pop — to mariachi music. For more info please visit www.facebook.com/VivaelArteSB or call 805-884-4087 x1. Bring your dancing shoes!

SUN JAN 25 3:00PM “BLACK HISTORY MONTH WORSHIP & CELEBRATION”

Visions of Hope presents its 5th annual FREE event as a tribute to a century of black life, history & culture. The gospel music featuring recording artist Emmitt Nevels Jr. & powerful message by Reverend Jacob D.R. Johnson are intended to bring the community together in a unified vision of hope. For more info please e-mail visionsofhope@cox.net or call 805-319-1762. See you there!

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Santa Barbara Humane Society. Come help the people & animal populations of SB while enjoying an old fashioned, family friendly variety show. Lobby opens at 6:00pm with a selection of local artists & vendors. Tickets avail at the door, for more info please visit www.ebfproductions.org or call 805-963-6440. There’s something for everyone!

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GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME: Michael Urbano pounds out a backbeat behind (from left) David Lowery, Victor Krummenacher, and Jonathan Segel.

he hiatus between Christmas and New Year’s got a lot more festive on Monday, December 29, when the extended version of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven rolled into town for a pair of long sets featuring music old, new, and even sometimes borrowed. Cracker cofounders David Lowery and Johnny Hickman were joined onstage by a rotating crew of musicians that on this night included the following players: for Camper Van Beethoven, Lowery, Greg Lisher, Jonathan Segel, Victor Krummenacher, and Michael Urbano; for Cracker, Lowery, Hickman, Thayer Serano, Jordan Shapiro, Krummenacher, and Urbano. Their initial entrance was choreographed to the opening bars of the Gypsy Kings’ memorable cover of “Hotel California,” the first of several sly references to The Big Lebowski. As Californian as they come — Cracker’s new double album is titled Berkeley to Bakersfield — Lowery nevertheless seemed to be searching for some kind of connection to Santa Barbara and had to be reminded of the band’s only other appearance here, an opening slot at the “County Bowl” for Natalie Merchant back in 1988. As the evening progressed and the players loosened up, sparks began to fly. The oh-so-quotable “Teen Angst” brought the audience together, as did other hits like “Low” and “Take the Skinheads Bowling.” Even on brand-new material such as “Torches and Pitchforks” and “El Comandante,” the band demonstrated its knack for direct communication, putting over lyrics that were as easy to understand as they were interesting to ponder. Lowery and Hickman are not exactly proud of what’s become of metropolitan NorCal, a sentiment that powers such recent songs as “March of the Billionaires,” the lyrics of which include the following lines: “Give up your rights / Your most private thoughts / Don’t make us label you some kind of Luddites / It’s better for us, therefore it’s better for you.” Although nearly anyone can relate to Lowery’s lyric as expressing skepticism about the data-based business models of social-networking and search-engine companies, those who have been following his career as an artist’s rights activist will recognize an even more personal meaning here. After the release of his 2012 San Francisco MusicTech Conference speech on, among other things, the unfairness of the way that streaming services pay musicians, Lowery, who teaches a course in the economics of the music business at the University of Georgia, has become the go-to guy for hard facts and harsh criticism of the new media landscape for music. Despite, or perhaps because of, the fire he’s feeling in his belly on the subject, Lowery is also burning up the stage right now, as is Hickman, whose voice and guitar style complement Lowery’s more full-throated roar perfectly. The second set was predictably heavy on the rockers and thoroughly satisfying as a result. Jordan Shapiro’s pedal steel soared over the ensemble blend, and Thayer Sarrano’s backing vocals added layers of harmony as the group charged through the big stompers from the new album, many of which, like “Waited My Whole Life,” bear no hint of protest or angst, teen or otherwise. The encore, a cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Man in Me,” summoned the spirit of The Dude in the fullest possible sense, and a happy crowd left the theater firm in the knowledge that, ■ for now at least, he abides.

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SHARP SHOOTERS: White Arrows are (from left) Andrew Naeve, Mickey Church, and John Paul Caballero. They play SOhO in support of their sophomore album, In Bardo, on January 15.

ook up the term “bardo,” and you’ll uncover a spiri- How did the process for In Bardo differ? This was the first time tual treasure trove of information. The Tibetan word we recorded in a proper studio with a proper producer. It translates directly to an “intermediate state,” but it feels cohesive. It was done in one point in time, so there’s can also reference a specific Sanskrit idea involv- lyrical congruency threaded throughout the album. In ing the condition of existence that takes place between hindsight, every single song deals with sex, religion, or a person’s two lives. According to Buddhist teachings death — not death in a bleak way but in a circle-of-life kind specifically, in this time between death and rebirth, our of way. That’s why In Bardo came about. This record kind of consciousness disconnects from our physical body, result- stands as our transitional period — of us finding a sound, ing in a whole slew of trippy phenomena. being in one place, and creating that sound. Following an especially grueling start, L.A. band White Arrows latched on to the term in no small way. In 2012, the I’m fascinated by that struggle. To me it feels like there’s a constant group’s quickly constructed debut put them on the road back-and-forth between touring to make money and taking just for the better part of two years. And when it finally came enough “time off ” to write and record new music. It doesn’t seem time to return home to write album number two, they all very conducive to creativity. It isn’t. But now I realize why you agreed that a rebirth was in order. Last Sepcan’t have one without the other and why there are such tember, White Arrows released In Bardo, specific cycles for things. If you spend too long writing and recording, you are completely in an 11-track collection of psych-tinged your head, you feel insane, and you think you guitar music that delivers moments of ecstatic dance grooves, propulsive never want to do it again. But the same thing rock anthems, and soulful down- EMBRACE THE SPACE BETWEEN ON goes for touring. You go from being onstage tempo. Next Thursday, January 15, playing an amazing show to a great group the band returns to Santa Barbara of people to driving 10 hours and playing a for a headlining show at SOhO in shit show and wondering what the hell you’re by Aly Comingore support of the record. I recently caught doing with your life. You’ve got to go back and up with frontman Mickey Church to talk forth, back and forth and hopefully find a balance. liminal states, industry expectations, and what It’s totally manic. the future holds for White Arrows. What do you enjoy about making music? What drives you to keep I’m curious to hear how you think the first album, Dry Land Is Not doing it? It’s kind of a cathartic release. And I’ve learned a Myth, compares to In Bardo. What made this the “transitional to enjoy it, because at first I had a preconceived notion of record”? I mean, if it were up to me, I would call this the first what it should have been. That’s another thing to go along record and the other one kind of a collection of songs. The with this album: It’s the first time that I kind of said,“Fuck first album was really the first piece of music I ever wrote it. It really doesn’t matter anymore. If nothing happens and recorded.“Coming or Going” was the first song I wrote beyond this, I don’t want to have made any sacrifices to when I was living in New York. I showed it to some people, make something for someone.” I wanted to make a record and it went around online, and then Nylon posted about for my friends to like now, and I wanted to make someit, and all of a sudden I was being contacted by managers thing that I could look back at and be proud of. It allowed and lawyers and people in the U.K. It was nuts. I got freaked me to go to darker places or heavier places because I out and kind of had to regroup after that. I finished school wanted it to mean something to me, and that was difficult and moved out to L.A. and formed the band, but because at times, but it was also really freeing. there was that little bit of heat, we were offered tours before We the Beat presents White Arrows at SOhO we even had anything to release, so we ended up writing Restaurant & Music Club on Thursday, January 15, the first record in between all these tours that we couldn’t at 9 p.m. with openers Trails and Ways. The show is ages 18+. turn down. We recorded it all piecemeal in all these differCall 962-7776 or visit wethebeat.com for tickets and info. ent headspaces.

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Art, Design & Architecture Museum – Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures, through May . UCSB, -. Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Pamela Benham: Pamela Benham Paintings; Evita, Abstract Art Collective: AbstraX, through Apr. ; multiple permanent installations.  W. Anapamu St., -. Rancho La Patera & Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Valley Historical Society.  N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, -. S.B. Historical Museum – Under the Umbrella: Lutah Maria Riggs, through spring; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission.  E. De la Guerra St., -. S.B. Maritime Museum – Patti Jacquemain: From the Mountains to the Sea: Woodblock Prints and Mosaics, through Feb. .  Harbor Wy., -. S.B. Museum of Art – Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Collection of Michael Armand Hammer and Martin Kersels’s Charm series, ongoing exhibitions.  State St., -. Ty Warner Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations.  Stearns Wharf, -. Wildling Museum – Charley Harper: Beguiled by the Wild-ling, through Jan. . -B Mission Dr., Solvang, -.

GALLERIES Allan Hancock College Library – Children’s book illustrations, ongoing.  S. College Dr., Santa Maria, -. Architectural Foundation Gallery – Kids Draw Architecture , through Jan. .  E. Victoria St., -. Artamo Gallery – Michael Kessler: Water & Stone, through Jan. .  W. Anapamu St., -. Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr. – Voices, ongoing.  Chapala St., -. The C Gallery – Natural Tendencies, through Jan. .  Bell St., Los Alamos, -. Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit.  Pueblo St., -. Channing Peake Gallery – Near and Far: Plein Air in County Parks, through Feb. . S.B. County Administration Bldg.,  E. Anapamu St., -. ElverhØj Museum – Eyvind Earle: An Original American Master, through Jan. .  Elverhoy Way, Solvang. -. Gallery  – Gail Lucas, through January. La Arcada,  State St., -. Gallery Los Olivos – Small Treasures, through January.  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -. Harris & Fredda Meisel Gallery – Friends & Family, through Jan. .  De la Vina St., -. The Lark – Kevin Eddy, ongoing.  Anacapa St., -.

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OLYMPIC METTLE Unbroken. Jack O’Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, and Domhnall Gleeson star in a ﬁlm written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson, based on the book by Lauren Hillenbrand, and directed by Angelina Jolie. Reviewed by Kit Steinkellner

n Angelina Jolie’s second turn as a director (her first film was Balkan War drama In the Land of Blood and Honey), she once again turns to the battlefield for inspiration. ON TRACK: Jack O’Connell stars as Olympian-turned-WWII vet Louis For Unbroken, Jolie worked off of Lauren Zamperini in the skillfully constructed but otherwise unoriginal biopic Hillenbrand’s best-selling book about the life Unbroken. of Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell), a U.S. runner who competed in the 1936 Olympics only to have his mettle truly put to the test a decade later scenes and sequences (though, oddly, the script doesn’t when he was thrown into the maelstrom of WWII. As a include two of the book’s best moments: a chance pilot, Zamperini and fellow fliers Phil (Domhnall Gleeson) encounter between the protagonist and Adolf Hitler at and Mac (Finn Wittrock) were forced to make a crash- the 1936 Olympics, and the POWs watching one of the landing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where they atomic bombs that ended the war explode on the horiwaited for 47 days to be rescued. Eventually the trio was zon). Behind the camera, legendary cinematographer picked up, but by a Japanese warship, which transferred Roger Deakins works wonders. All that said, it’s hard to them to a POW camp. The story then follows Louis’s time unequivocally recommend the film. As much as there is to in prison, which shows us precisely what kind of steel this like, there’s also too much we’ve all seen before. Too often, biopics fall into a formulaic, paint-by-numbers mentalman was made of. There’s much to like about Unbroken. It’s a skillfully ity; as impressive as Unbroken is, it doesn’t feel original or constructed biopic, and Jolie and O’Connell both deliver essential. But if ingenuity isn’t a priority for you, and you’re strongly. The film is also blessed with an enormously in the mood for a movie with a good old-fashioned hero watchable supporting cast and a series of truly great to root for, Unbroken is still a solid bet. ■

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el Marsh House hasn’t changed much since last we dropped in on the murky old manse. There’s still SAME PLACE, DIFFERENT TIME: Set at the haunted Eel Marsh House during World a crucifix out there in the muddy floodWar II, The Woman in Black 2 doesn’t add much to the franchise. plain, and that one room with the door that keeps popping open still shelters the creepiest col- slightly more terrible than reality. But director Tom Harper lection of monkey, clown, and baby dolls ever assembled. never really makes the connection weigh on us, with the Nowadays, though, in place of Daniel Radcliffe dropping strong exception of a scene set on a decoy RAF airbase. by, the place is inhabited by a coterie of traumatized Instead, the story winds around character flaws, though London kids. They’ve been transplanted to the morbid Harper doesn’t build on his corrupt foundations. countryside due to the blitz, it being World War II and all. Virtually violence-free onscreen,  is a kind-of cozy As for that titular revenant in the gloomy gowns, despite ghost story — which is especially weird considering the assumptions you might have made at the end of the last England’s super-bloody Hammer Studios made the flick. film, she never left. And yep, she’s still luring the kiddies to Meanwhile, Susan Hill’s neo-Gothic novella is now in untimely dooms. Some things stay the same: 19th-century danger of outliving its usefulness. The book spawned a play — the second-longest running on the West End ever ghosts need sequels, too. Sad to say, however, this doesn’t really strengthen the — which became a BBC television show, then a film, and franchise, though the irony factor is strong. The first scenes now this. If you get a chance, don’t pass up the American of The Woman in Black  feature kids hiding underground ghost thriller The Lady in White. This basic black-dressed from German bombers. So the ghostly doings are only spook just seems out of fashion. ■ independent.com

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PREMIERES American Sniper (132 mins.; R: strong and disturbing war violence, language throughout including some sexual references)

A decorated Navy SEAL sniper returns home and struggles to reconnect with civilian life after four tours of duty.

Camino Real/Metro 4 (Opens Thu., Jan. 15)

Blackhat (135 mins.; R: violence, some language)

A man (Chris Hemsworth) is released from prison in order to help authorities catch a cyber criminal.

Camino Real/Fiesta 5 (Opens Thu., Jan. 15)

SCREENINGS ✯ Gone Girl

(145 mins.; R: a scene of bloody violence, some strong sexual content/nudity, language)

When Nick’s wife goes missing and the media starts to swarm, he quickly becomes a suspect in her disappearance. Ben Aﬄeck and Rosamund Pike star. Director David Fincher makes a sprawling downward spiral seem compellingly watchable. (DJP)

Fri., Jan. 9 and Mon., Jan 12, 7 and 10pm, Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte

✯ Inherent Vice

(148 mins.; R: drug use throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity, language, some violence)

In 1970s Los Angeles, a detective investigates the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend. This ecstatically good version of Inherent Vice not only captures author Thomas Pynchon’s dominant moods and most of his ideas, but it also works as a piece of unexpectedly ﬁne and unconventional ﬁlmmaking. (DJP) Paseo Nuevo

Invictus (134 mins.; PG-13: brief strong

carrying on an aﬀair with one of his students. Metro 4 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (144 mins.; PG-13: extended sequences of intense fantasy action violence, frightening images)

Bilbo and his crew are forced into a war to keep a darkness from obliterating all of Middle Earth. The padding out of what was once a nice little adventure book isn’t boring, but it frequently seems pointless.

Camino Real (2D)/Metro 4 (2D)

✯ The Imitation Game (114 mins.; PG-13: some sexual references, mature thematic material, historical smoking)

Morgan Freeman stars as Nelson Mandela in this story about how the South African president tried to unite an apartheid-torn country through rugby. Clint Eastwood directs. Mon., Jan. 12, 7pm,

Benedict Cumberbatch plays English mathematician Alan Turning, who helped crack the Enigma code during World War II. In the end, The Imitation Game is a good (not great) Hollywood ﬁlm about the growing pains of a genius. (DJP)

Paddington (95 mins.; PG: mild action, rude

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry

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Author Michael Bond’s beloved talking bear heads to the big screen in this animated story about Paddington and a family he befriends at a London train station.

Mary Dore directs this documentary about the founders of the modern women’s movement.

language)

Granada Theatre, 1214 State St.

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Selma (127 mins.; PG-13: disturbing thematic

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David Oyelowo stars as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in this historical drama about the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Arlington/Fairview

A foster kid has her life turned around when a business tycoon and politico makes a ploy to take her in.

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Four Hispanic high school students decide to start a robotics club on a string budget and end up competing against the reigning champs at MIT.

Fiesta 5 (Opens Thu., Jan. 15)

Taken 3 (109 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language)

A retired government operative is accused of a murder he didn’t commit. With authorities in pursuit, he sets out to ﬁnd the true killer and clear his name.

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The Wedding Ringer (101 mins.; R: crude and sexual content, language throughout, some drug use, brief graphic nudity)

A shy groom-to-be hires a stand-in best man to impress his future in-laws.

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rude humor)

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(105 mins.; PG-13: thematic elements, brief strong language)

Tim Burton directs the story of painter Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), whose work found major success in the 1950s— under her husband’s name. This is a surprisingly sweet tale from the authentic world of Burton, who hasn’t made a movie this good in a long time. (DJP)

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✯ Foxcatcher

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This true-life story follows wealthy heir John du Pont as he meets and coaches a young wrestler in the months leading up to the 1988 Olympic Games. Three chillingly good performances, combined with Bennett Miller’s taut pacing and direction, make Foxcatcher one of those magical cinematic perfect storms. (AC) Plaza de Oro The Gambler (111mins.; R: language throughout, some sexuality/nudity) Mark Wahlberg portrays a professor and gambler who’s struggling with debts and

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(124 mins.; PG: thematic elements, fantasy action and peril, some suggestive material)

A witch (Meryl Streep) recruits a childless baker and his wife to reverse the curse that was placed on his family tree. Despite some Disneyﬁcation, Into the Woods is a solid adaptation of the Sondheim musical, with messages for kids and adults alike. (JF) Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (98 mins.; PG: mild action, some rude humor, brief language)

When the magic that brings the museum exhibits to life starts to fade, Larry (Ben Stiller) unites his historical friends for a trip around the world. Fairview/Fiesta 5

February 21, 2015 Finale at the Granada Theatre Jan. 10th: Teen Star Workshop Jan. 19th: Application Deadline Jan. 22nd: Auditions in Santa Maria Jan. 24th & 25th: Auditions in Santa Barbara

✯ The Theory of Everything (123 mins.; PG-13: some thematic elements, suggestive material)

James Marsh directs and Eddie Redmayne stars in this story about the early life and trials of physicist Stephen Hawking. While Marsh’s sure-handed direction and Redmayne’s knockout performance anchor the ﬁlm, it’s Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking that really sets Theory apart. (JF) Metro 4

Who is eligible to audition? Any student enrolled in a SB County school, 7th–12th grade

✯ Wild

(115 mins.; R: sexual content, nudity, drug use, language)

After the death of her mother and the end of her marriage, a woman embarks on a solo 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. Based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed, Wild is a near-perfect film about the inherent imperfections of life. And much like the book, its empowering magic will stick with you long after its final scene. (AC) Paseo Nuevo

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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): In his novel Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut describes a character, Ned Lingamon, who “had a penis eight hundred miles long and two hundred and ten miles in diameter, but practically all of it was in the fourth dimension.” If there is any part of you that metaphorically resembles Lingamon, Aries, the coming months will be a favorable time to fix the problem. You finally have sufficient power and wisdom and feistiness to start expressing your latent capacities in practical ways … to manifest your hidden beauty in a tangible form … to bring your purely fourth-dimensional aspects all the way into the third dimension.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): Novelist E.L. Doctorow says that the art of writing “is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” This realistic yet hopeful assessment is true of many challenges, not just writing. The big picture of what you’re trying to accomplish is often obscure. You wish you had the comfort of knowing exactly what you’re doing every step of the way, but it seems that all you’re allowed to know is the next step. Every now and then, however, you are blessed with an exception to the rule. Suddenly you get a glimpse of the whole story you’re embedded in. It’s like you’re standing on a mountaintop drinking in the vast view of what lies behind you and before you. I suspect that this is one of those times for you, Taurus.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Most people have numerous items in their closet that they never wear. Is that true for you? Why? Do you think you will eventually come to like them again, even though you don’t now? Are you hoping that by keeping them around you can avoid feeling remorse about having wasted money? Do you fantasize that the uncool stuﬀ will come back into fashion? In accordance with the astrological omens, Gemini, I invite

time to suppress your quirks and idiosyncrasies. That’s rarely a good idea, but especially now. Say NO to making yourself more generic.

CANCER

(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): Doug Von Koss leads groups of people in sing-alongs. You don’t have to be an accomplished vocalist to be part of his events, nor is it crucial that you know the lyrics and melodies to a large repertoire of songs. He strives to foster a “perfection-free zone.” I encourage you to dwell in the midst of your own personal perfection-free zone everywhere you go this week, Libra. You need a break from the pressure to be smooth, sleek, and savvy. You have a poetic license to be innocent, loose, and a bit messy. At least temporarily, allow yourself the deep pleasure of ignoring everyone’s expectations and demands.

(June 21 - July 22): “Nothing was ever created by two men,” wrote John Steinbeck in his novel East of Eden. “There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.” In my view, this statement is delusional nonsense. And it’s especially inapt for you in the coming weeks. In fact, the only success that will have any lasting impact will be the kind that you instigate in tandem with an ally or allies you respect.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): I live in Northern California, where an extended drought led to water-rationing for much of 2014. But in December, a series of downpours arrived to replenish the parched landscape. Now bursts of white wildﬂowers have erupted along my favorite hiking trails. They’re called shepherd’s purse. Herbalists say this useful weed can be made into an ointment that eases pain and heals wounds. I’d like to give you a metaphorical version of this good stuﬀ. You could use some support in alleviating the psychic aches and pangs you’re feeling. Any ideas about how to get it? Brainstorm. Ask questions. Seek help.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): Actress Uzo Aduba’s formal ﬁrst name is Uzoamaka. She tells the story about how she wanted to change it when she was a kid. One day she came home and said, “Mommy, can you call me Zoe?” Her mother asked her why, and she said, “Because no one can say Uzoamaka.” Mom was quick to respond: “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, and Michelangelo, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.” The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: This is no

LIBRA

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): “I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can,” wrote Jack Gilbert in his poem “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart.” Judging from the current astrological omens, I’d say that you are close to accessing some of those lost vocabularies. You’re more eloquent than usual. You have an enhanced power to ﬁnd the right words to describe mysterious feelings and subtle thoughts. As a result of your expanded facility with language, you may be able to grasp truths that have been out of reach before now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): “If you have built castles in the air,” said philosopher Henry David Thoreau,“your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” That may seem like a backward way to approach the building process: erecting the top of the structure ﬁrst, and later the bottom. But I think this approach is more likely to work for you than it is for any other sign of the zodiac. And now is an excellent time to attend to such a task.

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): Songwriter R.B. Morris wrote a fanciful poem in which he imagines a smart mockingbird hearing rock and roll music for the first time. “When Mockingbird first heard rock / He cocked his head and crapped / What in the hell is that? / It sounded like a train wreck / Someone was screaming / Someone’s banging on garbage cans.” Despite his initial alienation, Mockingbird couldn’t drag himself away. He stayed to listen. Soon he was spellbound. “His blood pounded and rolled.” Next thing you know, Mockingbird and his friends are making raucous music themselves —“all for the love of that joyful noise.” I foresee a comparable progression for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. What initially disturbs you may ultimately excite you — maybe even fulfill you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): Do you recall the opening scene of Lewis Carroll’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Alice is sitting outside on a hot day, feeling bored, when a White Rabbit scurries by. He’s wearing a coat and consulting a watch as he talks to himself. She follows him, even when he jumps into a hole in the ground. Her descent takes a long time. On the way down, she passes cupboards and bookshelves and other odd sights. Not once does she feel fear. Instead, she makes careful observations and thinks reasonably about her unexpected trip. Finally she lands safely. As you do your personal equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole, Aquarius, be as poised and calm as Alice. Think of it as an adventure, not a crisis, and an adventure it will be.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): You are positively oceanic these days. You are vast and deep, restless and boundless, unruly and unstoppable. As much as it’s possible for a human being to be, you are ageless and fantastical. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could communicate telepathically and remember your past lives and observe the invisible world in great detail. I’m tempted to think of you as omnidirectional and omniscient, as well as polyrhythmic and polymorphously perverse. Dream big, you crazy wise dreamer.

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When a young winemaker is such a garagiste that he’s best known for his chenin blanc, that’s a hint he’s not making much juice. But such is the case with the talented Ryan Roark, who likes to lease rows where he can farm and do everything himself. Enter his delicious sauvignon blanc, sourced from Vogelzang and McGinley vineyards. It walks a knife‑edge of fruit and acid so well it’s practically thrilling, a fine sipper as an aperitif or a perfect accompaniment to a meal (say all that great halibut getting caught right now). He ages the wine in both natural oak and stainless, and that no doubt helps create this balance and accentuates its mineral character. If sauv blanc has been boring you, try some of this, but move fast as there isn’t much of it and it’s just $18 a bottle. See roarkwinecompany.com. —George Yatchisin

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COMING TO GOLETA

XANADU TO CLOSE: I called Xanadu French Bakery

at  Coast Village Road in Montecito and was told they plan to close permanently on January 15. The busi-

MOST TURNOVERS: Last week’s year-in-review column included a section titled “Most Turnovers.” I wrote that during 2014 the space at  De la Guerra Plaza was the home of TonyRay’s, Beto’s Subs, and Harold’s Caribbean Kitchen. It ended the year on a bright note, becoming the new home of Killer B’s BBQ & Bar. Reader David tells me that a ﬁfth restaurant occupied that space in 2014. A Mediterranean restaurant named One Thousand and One Nights opened and closed at  De la Guerra Plaza just before Harold’s Caribbean Kitchen.

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message that Gina’s Pizza (next to the movie theater in the Camino Real Marketplace in Goleta) has closed. He said that the windows are covered over with no signs of life. I stopped by, and a cleanup crew told me that Gina’s is gone for good and that they don’t know what type of business will replace it.

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anta Barbara’s popular coffeehouse The French Press will open its third South Coast location and its first in Goleta, according to Radius Commercial Real Estate & Investments. The popular hangout for coffee connoisseurs currently operates two downtown Santa Barbara locations at  State Street and  Anacapa Street. The French Press recently signed a lease to occupy approximately 1,800 square COFFEE FOR ALL: The popular coffeehouse The French Press is coming to feet of the former Bicycle this building near Storke and Hollister in the Good Land. Bob’s at  Storke Road near the corner of Storke Road and Hollister Avenue, across the street from the Camino Real ness closed temporarily from July 2010-January 2012 Marketplace. About 3,100 square feet of space remains after a fire damaged the building. available in the building. Radius agents Rob Hambleton, Mike Chenoweth, CAFÉ DEL SOL UPDATE: I recently posted a story and Bob Tuler brokered the deal. The company’s renova- that negotiations were underway that could result in tion plans include a more open layout and new patios Café del Sol reopening in Montecito under the same for patrons to enjoy their locally roasted brews and ownership as The Nugget restaurant. Montecito Journal homemade baked goods. columnist Richard Mineards writes that negotiations have collapsed and the quick return of Café del Sol is PIZZA HUT OPENS: Reader Bowen tells me that Pizza not going to happen. Hut has opened in December at -A Calle Real in PIE APPEAL RESULTS: This just in from Mac’s Fish & Goleta, the former home of YoYumYum. Chip Shop at  State Street:“Hi John, Happy New Year GLOBE TO OPEN: Reader Brendan let me know that to you and yours. Just a quick note to say that we beat an alcohol license sign is up in the window of the space last year’s Pie Appeal sales target, selling a total of 209, at  East Cota Street in the former home of Café Luck. resulting in a donation to the Food Bank of Santa BarThe name of the business listed is Globe. My research bara County of $1,045, so thanks for helping us spread revealed that Globe will be a restaurant, and I’ll offer the word on your blog and in The Independent. It clearly more details as they become available. makes a huge difference to reach a wider audience than our little (but vociferous) shop community, so thanks THE MEX TO OPEN: Reader Brendan also let me for helping us do that and being part of our event. Kind know that an alcohol license sign has appeared in the Regards, Mac.” window at  State Street, the former Pace restaurant. CRUSHCAKES MOVING: This just in from owner The business name is listed as The Mex. Shannon Gaston:“Hi John, Crushcakes Kitchen & TastNEW SUSHI RESTAURANT: This just in from reader ing Room is relocating to allow Yellow Belly to expand Steve: “Hi John, The former Adama location [at  and have the entire space at  De la Vina. We are curChapala Street] will be a SUSHI restaurant. Don’t know rently in negotiations for a new space for Crushcakes name. May open by mid-January. Happy New Year!” Tasting Room; new location to be announced soon.”

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Legals Administer of Estate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: KATELYN DANE PORTER NO: 1469993 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of KATELYN DANE PORTER A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: KATHLEEN JO PORTER in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that KATHLEEN JO PORTER be appointed as personal representatives to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 01/29/2015 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: Five SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: HOMER G. SHEFFIELD JR.; ROGERS, SHEFFIELD & CAMPBELL, LLP 427 East Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 963‑9721 Published Dec 24, 31 2014. Jan 8, 15 2015. NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BRUCE R. BERNSON NO: 1469956 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of BRUCE R. BERNSON A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: KARYN SHAUDIS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Veronique Taylor Textiles & Home at 15 North Salinas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Veronique Taylor (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Veronique Taylor This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 2, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003365. Published: Dec 31. 2014. Jan 8. 15, 22 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Plumbing Factory at 122 Vernal Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93105; The Plumbing Factory (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Daniel J. Brock This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 11, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003444. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Genesis Account American Outdoor Schools at 5750 Stagecoach Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; San Marcos Oursoor Education, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jason Lekas, Officer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003474. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Caitlin Slutzky, MFT at 2429 Bath Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Caitlin Slutzky 833 Willowglen Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Caitlin Slutsky This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003470. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Goodland Floors at 6115 Coloma Dr. Goleta, CA 93117; John Ramierez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John Ramirez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003469. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Oil Slick Beach Tar Remover at 2553 Santa Barbara Ave. Los Olivos, CA 93441; John Harmon (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John Harmon This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2014‑0003472. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bone Joint Walk OUt Orthopedic Clinic, South Coast Orthopedic Clinic, Orthopedic Institute of Santa Barbara, Riviera Orthopedic at 320 West Junipero Santa Barbara, CA 93105; William R Gallivan, JR., MD, Inc 146 Canon Drive santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kim Johnson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 12, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003450. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Action Roofing at 534 East Ortega Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; JM Roofing Co Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Sharon S. Fritz Secretarty/Treasurer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 8, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003411. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tournefortia at 38 Santa Ynez Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Gregory J. Arnold (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gregory Arnold This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 24, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jaysinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003314. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Radis Electric at 3923 Santa Claus Lane Carpinteria, CA 93013; I Koch Electric, Inc 333 Alameda Padre Sierra Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Ingo Koch This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 9, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003416. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Morguelan And Associates Psychological Services at 610 E Pedregosa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Fred Morguelan PHD (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 11, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003439. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Kestrel John at 211 W Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; John P Needham 727‑A Lilac Drive Montecito, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John Needham This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 25, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003331. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Yoichi’s at 230 E Victoria St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Yoichis LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Yoichi Kawabata, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2014‑0003507. Published: Dec 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8. 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Made By Dawn at 4195 Carpinteria Avenue Suite 3 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Made By Dawn Inc 1072 Casitas Pass Road #117 Carpinteria, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kirk Peterson‑President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 8, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003414. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Intriplex Technologies, Inc. at 751 South Kellogg Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Intri‑Plex Technologies, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Lawney Fallon This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 23, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003551. Published: Dec 31. 2014. Jan 8. 15, 22 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Stay Modern at 1506 Shoreline Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Stay Modern LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Stacy Smith, Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 16, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer FBN Number: 2014‑0003509. Published: Dec 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8. 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Video Journal of Orthopaedics at 255 Las Alturas Road Santa Barabra, CA 93103; MED 21, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Judith Effron, Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 16, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by tara Jaysinge. FBN Number: 2014‑0003485. Published: Dec 31. 2014. Jan 8. 15, 22 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB Tactical at 673 San Felipe Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; SB Tactical (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Todd Manes This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 2, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2014‑00033639. Published: Dec 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8. 15 2015. STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Gardens And Villa at 1615 Villa Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 12/3/2010 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2010‑0003609. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Levi Hayden 1015 Villa Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 17 2014, I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. for Published. Dec 24, 31 2014. Jan 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Country Squire MPH at 4680 Vieja Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Danny Patrick Foley (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Danny P. Foley This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 17, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2014‑0003499. Published: Dec 31. 2014. Jan 8. 15, 22 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Swoon California at 271 San Rafael Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Jennifer Arreguin 1131 Luneta Plaza Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Natasha Burton 271 San Rafael Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Jennifer Arreguin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 17, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2014‑0003502. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Sofi Hot Dogs at 1012 Cacique Street #4 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Elena Ibarra Guillen (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Elena Guillen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello FBN Number: 2014‑0003513. Published: Dec 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8. 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Surf Snacks, Surf Snax, The Surf Box Company at 7563 Newport Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Kyle Ashby (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kyle Asby This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 05, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000023. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Sipping Syndicate at 1242 San Miguel Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Albert Martinez 2116 Kern St San Bernardino, CA 92407 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Albert Martinez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 19, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christina Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003525. Published: Dec 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8. 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jumpstart Interior Design at 332 La Marina Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Leann Anderson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Leann Anderson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 05, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000018. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PPM Industries at 3025 Hermosa Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Ian David Parker (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ian D. Parker This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 02, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000004. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Gypsy’s Spirit Path at 1263 Calle Cerrito Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Karen Luckett (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Karen Luckett This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 09, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adele Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003420. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Advanced Estate Planning at 922 State St, Ste A7 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jamie A Plemons 2684 Montrose Pl Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jamie A. Plemons This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 29, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003563. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22,29 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rancho De Lado Organics at 2480 Grand Ave Los Olivos, CA 93441; Fred Razo (samea address) Loretta Razo (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Loretta Razo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 23, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2014‑0003548. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Golden Spiral Audio at 2810 Ontiveros Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Ky Takikawa (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ky Takikawa This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003482. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22,29 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Down Syndrome Association of Santa Barbara County at 1111 Chapala Street Suite 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Foudation (same address)This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Dee Jennings, CFO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 19, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003531. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Morello Wines at 5330 Debbie Road #200 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Debbie Road, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: David L. Chesterfield This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 18, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2014‑0003516. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ECO.SB Design, ESB Design & Drafting & Constructions, ESB Design, ESB Design & Drafting at 1418 Alta Vista Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Eduardo Santiago Bell (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 23, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003555. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Norwich Press at 950 Arcady Road Montecito, CA 93108; Linda Ochiltree (same address) Stuart Ochiltree (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Stuart Ochiltree This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 30, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003587. Published: Jan 8. 15, 22, 29 2015.

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ASSOCIATE TECHNI CAL ACCOUNT MANAGER Enjoy the Central Coast lifestyle and work minutes from the beach! Yardi Systems is hiring for Associate Technical Account Managers to join their growing client services team. If you have a background in Economics, Business or IT and you are interested in applying your experience or educational background to a different type of career this may be the opportunity you have been seeking!

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IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF AILEEN CHANG ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469501 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: AILEEN CHANG TO: AILEEN FULLCHANG FROM: OMARI FULLER TO: OMARI FULLCHANGE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Jan 14, 2015 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Nov 20, 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 18, 24, 31 2014. Jan 8 2015. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DAVID DANIEL LOPEZ ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469693 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: DAVID DANIEL LOPEZ TO: DAVID DANIEL ESCOBAR CAMPOS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Jan 28, 2015 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at

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least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Dec 9, 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 18, 24, 31 2014. Jan 8 2015. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF RUBY REGINA IBARRA ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469816 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: PEDRO ADBIEL IGNACIO‑IBARRA TO: AILEEN RUBY IGNACIO‑IBARRA THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Jan 21 2015 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Dec 9, 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 18, 24, 31 2014. Jan 8 2015. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JOAN B AMON ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469668 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: JOAN B AMON TO: JOANIE FRITZ THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Jan 21, 2015 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Dec 6 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 24, 31 2014. Jan 8, 15 2015.

Public Notices SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ANACAPA STREET DIVISION Case No. 1469190 (PROPOSED) ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF CONTINUED HEARING ON MOTION TO DECLARE JULIAN NAFAL AS VEXAATIOUS LITIGANT JULIAN NAFAL, PETITIONER, vs. GORDON FORBES, III, RESPONDENT Date: February 3, 2015 Time: 9:30 a.m. Place: Dept. SB‑5 Assigned to: Hon. Colleen B. Stern, Judge The Court having vacated the dismissal for failure to obtain consent with a request for affirmative relief pending on December 1, 2014, finds good cause to Order a continuance of the previously noticed Hearing on December 1, 2014 to February 3, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in this

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Summons SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): RON COLEMAN, an individual, and DOES 1 through 10, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): MICHAEL MELIDEO, an individual NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the

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