VOICE Magazine: June 27, 20255

4th of July Concert

FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2025, 5:00 PM

Santa Barbara Courthouse Sunken Garden, 1100 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara

Prime Time Band and the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation present an afternoon of lively music celebrating freedom and the heroes who inspire us. Sing-along favorites and patriotic classics pay tribute to military heroism and American stage and screen heroes.

Highlighted selections will include music from Band of Brothers, Top Gun, and Wicked along with other favorites.

Arrive early to claim your spot on the grass; Bring your picnic, blanket, and low beach chairs.

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Music Academy To Promenade Pictures At An Exhibition

By Mark Whitehurst and Kerry Methner VOICE

STUNNING

BRASS

CHORALE, NOW FAMOUS BY WAY OF MODERN MEDIA, opens Ravel’s arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, which will be performed by the Music Academy of the West’s Academy Festival Orchestra, with conductor Anthony Parnther at the helm at the Granada Theatre on Saturday, June 28th at 7:30pm. The performance will also feature Mosher Guest Artist Randall Goosby as violin soloist for Chausson’s lyrical Poéme and Valerie Coleman’s Seven O’Clock Shout. Under Parnther’s sure and experienced baton, the orchestra’s diverse energies and talents will come together in the service of music.

“I’m looking forward to diving into the score and seeing how far I can push this virtuoso collection of musicians over the next few days,” Parnther related in an email interview.

Pictures at an Exhibition is an homage to Victor Hartmann, a close friend of Mussorgsky, and a remembrance of an 1874 exhibition of watercolors and drawings by Hartmann, who died suddenly at the age of 39 before the exhibition was staged. The piece forms a series of ten sonic canvases. Ravel’s exceptional orchestration breathes soulfulness into Mussorgsky’s piano suite, as each movement creates a unique musical portrait.

“I remember playing Pictures for the first time around thirty years ago,” Parnther recalled. “We focused only on the last two movements, Baba Yaga and the Great Gate of Kiev, sparking my curiosity about the rest of the work. I finally found a tape of the complete piece (we didn’t have Spotify back in the 1990s) and it was a bit of a revelation - each movement evoked such vivid imagery in my mind.”

Anthony Parnther

Equally at home in Hollywood studios and the stage of Carnegie Hall, Anthony Parnther arrived in Hollywood 15 years ago with little but the bassoon on his back. Since landing his first engagement there, as a performer in Pixar’s 2009 hit film Up, he has become a mainstay of the Southern California cultural scene, prompting the LA Times to dub him “the quintessential L.A. musician of our day.” Appearing regularly as both a bassoonist and a conductor, he is now highly sought-after in Hollywood, where he has conducted the scoring sessions for a catalog of blockbuster films, including Oscar winner Oppenheimer, Grammy winner Encanto, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Avatar: The Way of Water, as well as those for TV and video games, including League of Legends and the Emmy-winning Star Wars: The Mandalorian.

As one of the foremost conductors of film scores in concert, he is in demand with leading orchestras

nationwide. He returns this year to the Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Ravinia Festival, following recent debuts with ensembles including the Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and Seattle Symphony.

The Music Director of the San Bernardino Symphony since 2019, he is at home in Southern California.

“This is my sixth season as the Music Director of the San Bernardino Symphony, which is just a few hours away,” Parnther added. “However, I spend approximately 40 weeks a year guest conducting around the world. I’ve called Los Angeles my home for nearly twenty years, and I hope that the warm, sunny vibe of Southern California creates a relaxed and inviting atmosphere for the fellows. It’s a wonderful environment for them to learn and find inspiration!”

There, he has expanded the orchestra’s endowment by more than 2.5 million dollars, hired 31 new players, founded the San Bernardino Symphony Youth Orchestra, and

created a summer festival that attracts the largest crowds in the SBSO’s 96year history.

As the Artistic Director of Burbank-based nonprofit Musicians at Play, he founded the Civic Orchestra of Los Angeles as a training ground for young orchestral hopefuls, as well as collaborating with Disney and Netflix to create the RISE Diversity Project, which introduces talented Black and Latino musicians to the world of studio work.

He is looking forward to working with Randall Goosby on the AFO’s performance of Poéme by Ernest Chausson.

“I’m excited to be collaborating with Randall for the first time!” he related. “I had the pleasure of working with his brother, Miles, who was my principal cellist at Music Academy a few summers ago for our performance of Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony.”

Photo by Dario Acosta

Anthony Parnther

Randall Goosby

Goosby is a rising star and comes to the Academy as a Mosher Guest Artist. A former student of Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho, Goosby received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Artist Diploma degrees from the Juilliard School. He is an alumni of the Perlman Music Program and studied previously with Philippe Quint.

Signed exclusively to Decca Classics in 2020 at the age of 24, he is acclaimed for the sensitivity and intensity of his musicianship alongside his determination to make music more inclusive and accessible, as well as bringing the music of underrepresented composers to light. He’s a perfect choice to provide the intensity and spirit required by Poéme.

“For me, personally, music has been a way to inspire others,” the Music Academy quotes him as saying.

Goosby was the First Prize Winner in the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In 2019, he was named the inaugural Robey Artist by Young Classical Artists Trust in partnership with Music Masters in London; and in 2020 he became an Ambassador for Music Masters, a role that sees him mentoring and inspiring students in schools around the United Kingdom.

He plays the Antonio Stradivarius, Cremona, “ex-Strauss,” 1708, on generous loan from Samsung Foundation of Culture.

Goosby’s focus will easily be matched by Parnther with his history onstage, around the world, and tucked in at some of LA’s most respected recording studios. These two intense, talented pros will be met by this season’s exceptional Academy Fellows. They’ll be making music and magic together.

“In addition to the excellent music-making and the chance to learn from our world-class faculty, one of the most invaluable aspects of the Music Academy is the lasting network that these young musicians will build with one another. I know many esteemed alumni of the Music Academy who consider their experience here to be a pivotal moment in their musical development.

A special pre-concert talk with conductor Anthony Parnther and Mosher Guest Artist Randall Goosby will take place on stage at 6:30pm. All ticket holders are welcome to attend.

The Music Academy is committed to ensuring the Santa Barbara community has access to experience the Soundtrack to Summer. $10 Community Access Tickets are available, subject to availability, in person at the Music Academy Carsey Ticket Office and online.

The Music Academy’s 7-17s FREE program welcomes families to bring young people to Festival events. Young people receive a ticket free of charge when accompanied by a ticketed adult. For tickets and info email ticketoffice@ musicacademy.org or call 805-969-8787.

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ReSource Center Lawsuit to Proceed Against County of SB

District Judge Denies County’s Motion to Dismiss Suit Over Breaking Contract for $140 Million Project

By Daisy Scott / VOICE

ORIGINALLY

COMMISSIONED TO

SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL

PROGRESS, the $140 million ReSource Center project is now the catalyst for a breach of contract lawsuit against the County of Santa Barbara. On June 13th, U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani denied the County’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit and ruled that all claims brought against the County may be pursued in court.

The lawsuit is brought by MSB Investors LLC (of Mustang Renewable Power Ventures), which helped launch and operate the ReSource Center in partnership with the County. Located at the Tajiguas Landfill, the ReSource Center processes commercial and residential waste to decrease materials sent to the landfill. It also generates renewable energy via its Anaerobic Digestion Facility.

The County named Mustang as the ReSource Center project’s private partner in 2011. Delays in contract negotiations and

construction pushed the facility’s opening to 2021. Two years later, in December 2023, the County Board of Supervisors voted to terminate the contract with Mustang.

“The County is supposed to act for the benefit of its residents, not based on the whims of its employees,” said David L. Cousineau, partner at Cappello & Noël LLP, the firm representing Mustang. “That is clearly not what happened here.”

The County declined VOICE’s request for comment. Lael Wageneck, Public Information Officer for the SB County Public Works Department, stated they do not comment on ongoing litigation.

As the ReSource Center’s operators, Mustang was expected to help generate revenue. The County, as the Center’s owners, would supplement these funds to help cover operational costs and assume more financial risk. Tip fees, or a per ton fee

charge for all the waste delivered to the Center, were implemented.

Cannabis Taxation and Expenditures Reviewed by Grand Jury

IN A RECENT INVESTIGATION, the 2024-25 Santa Barbara County Grand Jury reviewed Santa Barbara County cannabis tax revenue and cannabis tax expenditures and how they are reported. During its investigation, the Jury learned that Santa Barbara County’s tax revenues from the cannabis industry have been declining steadily since cannabis was approved for recreational use in the County in 2018. In this same period of time, the County’s expenditures in regulating the cannabis industry have increased. As a result, the County’s expenditures covering the Cannabis Program are projected to become a financial burden in the near future unless the County takes corrective measures.

The Jury also found that a significant number of growers have left the Santa Barbara County cannabis industry due to high cost of operations, price collapse, and market oversupply in part due to black-market competition.

Currently, budgeting, tax collection, and compliance activities are the responsibility of different agencies and departments in the County. Inefficiencies in the management and required reporting of the Cannabis Program can be mitigated by the creation of a centralized information database that tracks the budget, tax revenues, expenses, and administrative activities related to licensing and compliance. In addition, Cannabis Program spending can be reduced by allocating tax revenues to support only operating expenses directly related to it. Given the volatility of the cannabis market, the Jury further recommends that the County maintain the solvency of the Cannabis Program by ensuring that expenditures do not exceed cannabis tax revenues each year.

This Grand Jury Report was based on an investigation conducted from August 2024 to May 2025. The Report was in the final stages of production on June 3, 2025, when the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors initiated significant changes to the County’s Cannabis Program, many of which are consistent with the Findings and Recommendations in this Report. This Report was not altered or amended in any way following the Board’s actions.

The Santa Barbara County Grand Jury is a basic part of government within the judicial branch. All Grand Jury reports and agency formal responses to them are posted on the Jury’s website (www.sbcgj.org). The form and timing for required responses are specified by California Penal Code § 933 and 933.05.

Yet about 75 percent of revenue was anticipated to emerge from Mustang selling recyclable materials to third parties. This plan proved problematic as the COVID-19 pandemic hit the recycling market and increased the amounts of single-use, nonrecyclable materials. These materials could also not be used to generate renewable energy.

Mustang’s lawsuit challenges the County’s reasons for contract termination. As outlined in a 2023 article written and posted on the Center webpage by ReSource Center Manager Carlyle Johnston:

“Unfortunately, the Santa Barbara County Public Works Department seeks to terminate this contract as of November 3, 2023, due to MSB’s inability to complete final acceptance testing, maintain site safety, respond to Notices of Violations from local and state agencies and achieve the high environmental standards of the project.”

Additional reasons cited by the County included odor issues and financial problems, including Mustang’s not being able to pay subcontractors. In December 2024, the County Supervisors approved spending up to one million dollars to fight Mustang’s lawsuit.

In its complaint, Mustang claims that the County’s reasons are groundless. It asserts that “all of the alleged breaches were, at best, ‘curable events,’” meaning the County could not terminate the contract before extending Mustang the opportunity to amend the situation in question.

“The reasons included in the notice of

termination were clearly pretextual and lacked a reasonable basis to terminate a contract, especially one as big as this into which Mustang had invested tens of millions of dollars,” said Cousineau.

Mustang also alleges that personal vindictiveness on the County’s part played a hand in the contract’s termination. After a potential 2022 contract between the Center and the City of Santa Maria fell through, Mustang CEO John Dewey said to County Supervisors that the then-Deputy Director of Public Works mishandled the deal. In its lawsuit, Mustang claims that it experienced hostility and withholding of assistance for the Center after this moment.

By denying SB County’s request to dismiss the lawsuit, District Judge Almadani has opened the door for Mustang to pursue not only a breach of contract claim, but also a breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and a violation of equal protection and retaliation.

The lawsuit is expected to go to trial in the spring of 2026. Currently, the case’s final pretrial conference is scheduled for March 16th, 2026, after which point a court date will be set.

Cappello & Noël LLP also intends to file an amended complaint in July 2025. This amended complaint emerges after the District ruling, which gave counsel leave to also present allegations and claims against the County specific to MSBG Partners, LLC—the faction that handles the ReSource Center’s renewable, natural gas work.

To learn more about the ReSource Center, visit https://lessismore.org

U.S. Already in Recession?

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the US ticked down by 0.1% in May 2025 to 99.0 (2016=100), after declining by 1.4% in April (revised downward from –1.0% originally reported). The LEI has fallen by 2.7% in the six-month period ending May 2025, a much faster rate of decline than the 1.4% contraction over the previous six months.

By Harlan Green / Special to VOICE

ARE WE ALREADY IN A RECESSION? The Fed doesn’t think so, but the Conference Board’s Index of Leading Economic Indicators conjectures we will be in a recession soon, if not already. The LEI is a tricky read because it looks at indicators spanning longer periods, hence its name.

The Conference Board’s index of Leading Economic Indicators is now signaling that a recession might have begun in May 2025, though Fed Chair Jerome Powell and the Fed Governors don’t think so. Powell said after last Wednesday’s FOMC meeting that interest rates will stay on hold for now.

month growth rate of the Index has become more negative, triggering the recession signal.”

The Conference Board creates several surveys, including the Consumer Confidence Index, so it puts the most weight on consumer expectations for business conditions, which has been dropping sharply in its surveys.

ECONOMIC VOICE

By Harlan Green

And the ISM’s New Order Index and private housing building permits have continued to decline as well, thanks to the Fed’s intransigence on reducing interest rates further.

in an interview on CNBC. “I think we have room to bring [rates] down in July (the next FOMC meeting).”

“The economy is in solid shape, so the labor market is not crying out for a rate cut,” said Powell. (Therefore, the Fed has time to “learn” more about the economy.)

However, Justyna Zabinska-La Monica, Senior Manager, Business Cycle Indicators, at The Conference Board, said “With the substantial negatively revised drop in April and the further downtick in May, the six-

So the LEI is hedging its bets just as the Fed is doing by taking a longer wait and see. “The Conference Board does not anticipate recession, but we do expect a significant slowdown in economic growth in 2025 compared to 2024, with real GDP growing at 1.6 percent this year and persistent tariff effects potentially leading to further deceleration in 2026.”

Federal Reserve President Chris Waller, one of the Fed Governors, is a dissenter: “I don’t think [the inflation impact of Trump’s tariffs] is going to be that big,” Waller said

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Almost everyone in congress and President Trump also want lower rates because the new fiscal budget’s annual interest expense could be close to $1 trillion annually on approximately $38 trillion in debt.

This is unsustainable, so everyone is waiting to see if the Republican congress succeeds in driving the U.S. economy over the cliff with their new fiscal budget. Then what good will any amount of import taxes (tariffs) do to fill the debt void?

It’s becoming evident that Republicans will do anything to get their tax cuts, and Democrats don’t seem to be shouting loud enough to win at least two Republican House members to their side that don’t want to bankrupt the U. S. economy.

That’s all they require to block the looming budget disaster. This is while it looks like Trump’s tariffs will ultimately equal those in 1930. And we know the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs that raised prices on imports was one of the reasons for the Great Depression.

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Harlan Green has been the 18-year Editor-Publisher of PopularEconomics.com, a weekly syndicated financial wire service. He writes a Popular Economics Weekly Blog. He is an economic forecaster and teacher of real estate finance with 30-years experience as a banker and mortgage broker. To reach Harlan call 805-4527696 or email editor@populareconomics.com.

Make the world brighter for patients by giving blood with the Red Cross and goodr

AS THE BUSY FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY WEEK GETS CLOSER, the American Red Cross is asking donors to celebrate by making a blood donation appointment to help power the blood supply through mid-summer. While all blood types are needed, donors with type O blood are most urgently needed.

Making and keeping donation appointments now is critical to ensuring blood products are available for all patients – including those in trauma situations that may require several lifesaving transfusions – in the weeks to come. Type O negative blood is often reached for in emergencies when there isn’t time to match a patient’s blood type. Type O positive is the most common blood type, so it’s important to keep type O blood and all blood types on hand at hospitals for people facing both chronic illness and sudden, life-threatening conditions.

To add a blood donation appointment to your summer calendar visit RedCrossBlood.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS, or use the Red Cross Blood Donor App.

The Red Cross and goodr to promote blood donation. All who give between July 1st and 14th, will get an exclusive pair of Red Cross x goodr sunglasses, while supplies last. For details, visit RedCrossBlood.org/goodr.

Those who make it in to give by June 30th, will receive a $15 Amazon.com Gift Card by email, plus be automatically entered to win one of two $7,000 gift cards.

See RedCrossBlood.org/June

Blood donation opportunities through July 14th in Santa Barbara County:

Montecito: 7/9/2025: 10am - 4pm, Rosewood Miramar Beach, 1759 S Jameson Ln

Santa Barbara: American Red Cross, 2707 State St

6/30/2025: 11am - 5pm

7/8/2025: 10am - 4pm

7/14/2025: 1pm - 7pm

How to donate blood:

Simply download the American Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit RedCrossBlood.org, call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or enable the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device to make an appointment or for more information. All blood types are needed to ensure a reliable supply for patients. A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at checkin. Individuals who are 17 years of age in most states (16 with parental consent where allowed by state law), weigh at least 110 pounds, and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood. High school students and other

donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.

Blood and platelet donors can save time at their next donation by using RapidPass® to complete their pre-donation reading and health history questionnaire online, on the day of their donation, before arriving at the blood drive. To get started, follow the instructions at RedCrossBlood.org/RapidPass or use the Blood Donor App.

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Randy Says He’ll Run Again

“I’ve Still Got that Passion for the City”

Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse looks ahead to a 2026 re-elect race as he discusses the new budget shortfall, housing, homelessness, State St. - and comparisons of him to Donald Trump

By Jerry Roberts / SB Newsmakers / 6.21.25

SANTA BARBARA MAYOR

RANDY ROWSE disclosed on Friday that he will seek re-election next year, saying his job “is about service, not about politics” as he contrasted his pragmatism with more ideological views of potential rivals.

The 70-year old Rowse, elected mayor in 2021, confirmed his intentions amid a swirl of political scenarios and speculation among City Hall insiders, political hacks, and other viewers of Newsmakers TV, where his comments came during an interview with Josh Molina and the genial host that also touched on a range of policy matters.

As a political matter, the mayor’s statements effectively kickstart the local 2026 campaign season. One or more of his current City Council colleagues is expected to challenge him on issues like rent control, the city budget, and future plans for State Street, controversies in which he often has been on the losing end of decisive votes.

“I’m planning on running,” Rowse said in his return to our “Ask the Mayor” program. “I still have a real passion about the city, and I have a real passion about its future.”

“My concern is recognizing what this job is, and what it’s not,” he added. “This job is about service, it’s not about politics. I’m kind of an ad hoc, line item person. I go back to my old analogy of being the town busboy: I’m the one that provides service here — streetlight doesn’t work? I happen to know the streetlight guy.

“Those kinds of things, that is not a global way of thinking, I get that,” the mayor said. “But this isn’t a global job. The job is very specific to the city.”

Anyone can run for mayor, of course, but to this point, Rowse’s most formidable possible challengers seem to be a trio of fellow council members who will be termed out of office next year: Eric Friedman, Meagan Harmon, and Kristen Sneddon.

Of the three, Sneddon seems the most likely contender, and has repaired her oncerocky relations with the local Democratic Party, which lost its hegemony on local elected offices when Rowse - a political independent - ousted one-term Mayor Cathy Murillo in 2021. Friedman, a more moderate Democrat, has been much-mentioned in gossip about the mayor’s race; he told us he has not ruled it out, but is still working to regain full health after a recent scary medical emergency. Harmon, who recently advanced up the California political ladder with her election as chair of the state Coastal Commission, seems least likely of them to run.

“I don’t think she would run for mayor,” Rowse said of Harmon, with whom he has a good personal relationship, in spite of gaping political differences. “Meagan can make a ton of dough as an attorney, she’s got three beautiful children…she’s still going to be chair of the Coastal Commission. I think Meagan’s going to be out of city politics.”

On other issues, Hizzoner also:

Objected to a raid on city emergency reserves that transferred $2 million to a special housing fund and that was supported by four council members — Sneddon, Harmon, Oscar Gutierrez and Wendy Santamaria - in voting to approve a $577 million spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1; the move leaves Santa Barbara with a projected $1.2 million budget shortfall — six months after residents voted to tax themselves with an increase in the sales tax rate to cover a previous projected deficit.

Suggested that a push by downtown property owners to re-open at least some of the nine blocks of State Street may be gaining traction. Since the move was made during the pandemic in 2020, it has remained a political sore point, as gauzy fantasies of a downtown pedestrian “promenade” gave way to the stark reality of barren urban stretches that please almost no one - beyond restaurant owners with lucrative outdoor dining facilities, heedless e-bike operators and an influential bicyclist coalition in whose pocket a majority of the council resides.

Expressed frustration that the much-ballyhooed “Fostering Access, Resilience and Opportunity” downtown navigation center for homeless people, aka as FARO House, swiftly ran afoul of neighbors, with angry health and safety complaints about some of its clients, leading to a legal face-off between the city, which has the lease for the property, and ACT UP, the contractor hired to run the program: “How it gets cured is still kind of up in the air, but our intention is to cure it.”

Demurred discussing details about a proposed, eight-story blockbuster apartment building proposed to be constructed behind the Mission, using Sacramento’s galling “Builder’s Remedy” legal pathway, because the mysterious out-of-town developer pitching the project has sued the city, alleging unfair delays. “I think if there’s ever going to be a time when I join in on civil disobedience, that might be it,” Rowse said.

Laughed off efforts by left-wing political opponents to equate him with Donald Trump, as at least one protest sign did at last weekend’s big, anti-Trump “No Kings” rally. Not exactly a big fan of the game show host president, Rowse acknowledged that, “I’ve put on a couple of pounds and I have actually altered my golf score before, so there may be something to it.”

“Leadership does set the pace,” he added, addressing more seriously questions about the recent series of nationwide violent and deadly attacks against elected officials.

“When you are working through chaos, when you don’t have civility and decorum as past of your M.O., I think it trickles down pretty easily. So you get what we had on January 6,” he said.

“People saying these things out loud, it seems to be permissive, and all you need is somebody with a little touch of crazy to go, ‘I’m legitimate, I’m going to do this,’” Rowse added. “We have really come to a boiling point on so many levels, and the president doesn’t seem to be able to take the temperature down. He seems to bring a little can of kerosene to the barbecue and…that’s not the kind of leadership this world needs right now.”

All this and more, right here, right now on Newsmakers TV.

Check out our conversation with Mayor Randy Rowse via YouTube or by clicking this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfi-T38dyg.

The podcast is on Apple, Spotify and other platforms, and on Soundcloud. TVSB, Channel 17, airs the show every weeknight at 8pm and at 9am on Saturday and Sunday. KCSB, 91.9 FM, broadcasts the program at 5:30 p.m. on Monday.

Find SB Newsmakers at: https://substack.com/@sbnewsmakers

Jerry Roberts has worked in the news business for 50 years. Before cofounding Newsmakers in 2017, he served as Managing Editor of the

and wrote a biography of Senator Dianne

San Francisco Chronicle

Feinstein.

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Trust in peacekeepers linked to reduced violence

New research from UCSB political scientist William Nomikos explores how perception shapes peacekeeping outcomes

By Debra Herrick

The UC Santa Barbara Current | 6.11.25

WHAT DOES PEACE LOOK LIKe in places where violence is part of daily life?

For UC Santa Barbara political scientist William Nomikos, the answer starts small: with a sense of trust in the peacekeepers who serve their communities.

“Peacekeepers were more effective when communities viewed them as impartial,” Nomikos said. “That perception changed how people behaved. It gave them confidence that disputes could be resolved fairly, and that reduced violence.”

Nomikos, who directs the Data-driven Analysis of Peace Project (DAPP) lab at UCSB, studies international interventions in fragile settings, particularly where local conflicts are shaped by climate stress, weak institutions and communal divisions. His new book, “Local Peace, International Builders: How the UN Builds Peace from the Bottom Up” (Cambridge University Press, 2025), makes the case that United Nations peacekeepers are most successful not through force or presence

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alone, but by earning the trust of the people they aim to protect.

The book examines how peacekeeping efforts function in places where conflict is deeply rooted in everyday life, such as in disputes over land, water access, cattle grazing and farming. These kinds of tensions are intensifying around the world, Nomikos said, as climate change, forced migration and extremism continue to destabilize vulnerable communities.

To understand how UN missions affect these dynamics, Nomikos compiled a georeferenced dataset tracking the deployment of more than 100,000 UN peacekeepers across Africa from 1999 to 2019. He paired that with extensive fieldwork in Mali, where international actors have tried to stabilize conflict for more than a decade. He interviewed nearly 50 local leaders, conducted behavioral games with more than 500 participants from 14 ethnic groups, and surveyed 1,400 civilians.

Mali, he explained, is a nation where violence between groups is increasingly tied to resource scarcity and environmental change. “Farmers and herders traditionally shared land in Mali, rotating use across seasons,” Nomikos said. “But as climate conditions worsened and land grew scarce, those cooperative arrangements broke down. That’s when the conflicts started to escalate.”

The Malian government, with limited infrastructure and capacity, has struggled to manage these local disputes or prevent retaliatory violence. That vacuum created space for international peacekeepers to intervene, he noted, but their effectiveness has varied widely. As Nomikos found, communities responded differently depending on how they perceived the interveners.

“Malians generally saw the United Nations as impartial,” he said. “But France, as the former colonial power, was viewed as biased. That made a difference. People trusted the UN to mediate disputes fairly.”

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What your brain score says about your body

Simple tool can be used to identify risk factors for cancer and heart disease too, says new study

Mass General Brigham Communications • 6.10.25

A“SCORECARD” DESIGNED TO ASSESS a person’s risk of developing brain-related conditions works similarly for heart disease and the three most common types of cancer, according to a new Mass General Brigham study published in Family Practice.

The McCance Brain Care Score, developed at Mass General Brigham, is a list designed to assess modifiable risk factors that influence brain health. The scorecard also serves as a practical framework to help individuals identify meaningful, achievable lifestyle changes that support brain — and possibly systemic — health. Previous studies showed that a higher score, indicating better brain care, associates with a lower risk of stroke, dementia, and late-life depression.

“While the McCance Brain Care Score was originally developed to address modifiable risk factors for brain diseases, we have also found it’s associated with the incidence of cardiovascular disease and common cancers,” said senior author Sanjula Singh of the McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General

Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

“These findings reinforce the idea that brain disease, heart disease, and cancer share common risk factors and that by taking better care of your brain, you may also be supporting the health of your heart and body as a whole simultaneously.”

Neurological diseases such as stroke, dementia, and late-life depression are often driven by a combination of modifiable risk factors. Similarly, cardiovascular diseases — including ischemic heart disease, stroke, and heart failure — and the three most common cancers worldwide (lung, colorectal, and breast cancer) share many of these risk factors. At least 80 percent of cardiovascular disease cases and 50 percent of cancer cases are attributable to modifiable behaviors such as poor nutrition, physical inactivity, smoking, excessive alcohol use, elevated blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar, as well as psychosocial factors like stress and social isolation.

Given this overlap, researchers used data from the UK Biobank to analyze health outcomes in 416,370 individuals aged 40 to 69 years. They found that a 5-point higher Brain Care Score at baseline was associated with a 43 percent lower risk of

developing cardiovascular disease over a median follow-up of 12½ years. For cancer, a 5-point increase in Brain Care Score was associated with a 31 percent lower incidence of lung, colorectal, and breast cancer.

The authors acknowledged several limitations. First, while the findings reveal strong associations, the study does not establish causality — although prior evidence suggests that some individual components of the Brain Care Score, such as smoking, physical activity, and blood pressure control, have causal links to specific outcomes. Second, because the UK Biobank includes only participants aged 40 to 69 at enrollment, the findings may not generalize to younger or older populations. Lastly, while the score provides a broad, accessible measure of brain health, it is not designed as a disease-specific predictive model.

“The goal of the McCance Brain Care Score is to empower individuals to take small, meaningful steps toward better brain health,” said lead author Jasper Senff, who conducted this work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Singh Lab within the Brain Care Labs at Massachusetts General Hospital. “Taking better care of your brain

missions played a critical role, Nomikos noted. “You had troops from Uruguay, India, Senegal, Kenya — a mix of backgrounds and no colonial history with Mali,” he said. “That diversity helped people see the mission as neutral.”

He emphasized that UN peacekeepers are not passive observers. “They’re armed professionals,” Nomikos said. “If someone is attacking a civilian, peacekeepers can and do intervene with force. But their power comes from being seen as fair and uninvolved in local politics.”

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by making progress on your Brain Care Score may also be linked to broader health benefits, including a lower likelihood of heart disease and cancer.”

“Primary care providers around the world are under growing pressure to manage complex health needs within limited time,” said Singh. “A simple, easyto-use tool like the McCance Brain Care Score holds enormous promise — not only for supporting brain health, but also for helping to address modifiable risk factors for a broader range of chronic diseases in a practical, time-efficient way.”

Funding for this study was provided by the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association.

Printed with permission: Harvard Gazette online article, June 10, 2025

UN peacekeepers and members of the Malian military discuss outbreaks of violence with village residents in Mopti, Mali.

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On the Street with John Palminteri

No Pledge Under These Circumstances

CARPINTERIA CITY COUNCILMEMBER AND VICE MAYOR

MONICA SOLORZANO abstained from standing and saying the Pledge of Allegiance on June 9. It takes place at the beginning of each meeting. She asked for permission to read a statement :

“I’ll be abstaining from the flag salute today, exercising my constitutional right to freedom of speech, and in acknowledgment of the federal government’s violence in Los Angeles and across the country. I take this action not out of disrespect, but to stand even for a moment in solidarity with the people being marginalized, silenced or harmed all under the auspices of our flag. When I came on to city council, I took an oath to defend the constitution of the state of California and the United States against enemies foreign and domestic. I believe that this small act of dissent, guided by conscience, is a vital part of doing just that.”

Solorzano also did not say the Pledge of Allegiance at the meeting on June 23rd. She said it was in opposition to the bombing in Iran without Congressional approval.

A Sticky Wednesday Spill

AN ADHESIVE SPILL left behind a sticky mess in Montecito. Cleanup continues on San Ysidro Road from Montecito Union School area to San Leandro near the roundabout. It is not harmful, but it’s gooey.

BBQ with a Cop

The Santa Barbara Police Department had a tasty gathering called BBQ with a Cop Tuesday evening. It was a casual meet and greet about local police topics along with a recruitment effort which brought in several people who wanted to join the SBPD ranks. Food samples were provided by the host Shalhoob’s in the Funk Zone.

Fiesta Ranchera ~ Food, Music, Dancing!

THE 2025 SANTA BARBARA OLD SPANISH DAYS SPIRIT OF FIESTA

Natalia Treviño showed off her amazing skills as part of the Fiesta Ranchera event Thursday night at Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta. Fiesta 2025 will be July 30th to August 3rd.

Two Fires Out!

TWO VEGETATION FIRES ALONG THE GAVIOTA COAST west of Goleta were met by a ground and air attack quickly Tuesday. Santa Barbara County Fire, Cal Fire and US Forest Service were on it. CHP had lane closures for equipment. Union Pacific stopped trains.

Changes at Local Car Lots

Some shifting gears in the auto business in Santa Barbara-Goleta. Nissan is out on Kellogg Ave. The Nissan signs have come down. Acura signs are showing up. Toyota and Honda flank this site. More changes are expected in the car sales business locally.

John Palminteri is a veteran news reporter and anchor for Newschannel 3-12 TV and both KJEE and KCLU radio in Santa Barbara/Santa Maria/Ventura. Off the air, he’s often bringing his smile and positive energy to the microphone at fundraisers and civic events. John’s social media presence has one of the largest followings in Santa Barbara, and this page has the weekly highlights.

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Photo by Cory Bantilan

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Free Summer Movies

ASERIES OF FREE SUMMER MOVIES AT REFUGIO STATE BEACH will be possible because of a collaboration between the NatureTrack Foundation and California State Parks. The Summer Screening Series will feature an outdoor film experience, showcasing world-class nature and adventure documentaries against the breathtaking backdrop of Refugio State Beach, a palm tree-lined coastal paradise.

“We’re thrilled to partner with California State Parks to bring these incredible stories directly to our community at this spectacular location,” said Sue Eisaguirre, Founder and Executive Director of NatureTrack Foundation. “There’s something magical about watching films about nature while actually surrounded by it – under the stars, with the ocean breeze at Refugio State Beach.”

The series launches Saturday, June 28th with an exceptional double feature highlighting the transformative power of nature. The evening’s centerpiece will be Fish People, the celebrated 2017 documentary from director Keith Malloy and his award-winning production company Bimarian Films. This Patagonia-presented film has captivated audiences worldwide, following a unique cast of ocean devotees – from professional surfers to deep-water divers, open-ocean swimmers, to youth workers – revealing how the sea transforms lives in profound ways. The opening night begins at sunset with The Long Kiss, an intimate

exploration of connection in the natural world, followed by Fish People.

All screenings are free and open to the public, designed especially for families with children and nature film enthusiasts seeking to experience cinema under the stars. This community-focused approach mirrors NatureTrack’s broader mission of removing barriers to nature access – just as the organization provides free transportation and eliminates costs for school field trips, the Summer Screening Series ensures that economic factors never prevent community members from participating in inspiring outdoor experiences.

The Summer Series will take place at Refugio State Beach, 10 Refugio Beach Road, Goleta (20 miles west of Santa Barbara); Sunset screenings begin at approximately 8pm.Admission is free and ample parking is available near the beach. Beach wheelchairs will be available at no cost. Restrooms and pathways are accessible.

The Education Center opens one hour before each screening, offering visitors interactive displays. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, low-back chairs, and picnic dinners to create the perfect family-friendly outdoor movie experience.

Plaza Del Mar Band Shell To Feature Jazz

JAZZ AND SCAT WILL RESOUND AT THE PLAZA DEL MAR BAND SHELL this weekend when the band NYSA will take the stage on Saturday, June 28th at 1pm. The free performance will be presented by The Parks and Recreation Community Foundation in partnership with Santa Barbara Beautiful, Montecito Bank & Trust, and the Santa Barbara Department of Parks and Recreation.

Additional performances this summer will include “Brass at the Bandshell,” in partnership with Music Academy of the West on Saturday, July 26th at 11am and Prime Time Band on Saturday, August 24th at 2pm.

“The Academy is thrilled to offer more concerts in the community, particularly at the newly renovated bandshell, which traces its historical roots to classical music performances. This concert, “Brass at the Band Shell” will feature the Academy’s brass fellows and teaching artists in a family-friendly, outdoor chamber music performance,” said Indigo Fischer, Artistic Administrator.

The recent restoration of the Plaza del Mar Bandshell marks a significant milestone for Santa Barbara and underscores PARC Foundation’s commitment to fostering an inclusive space where all community members can gather and enjoy free artistic performances.

The public is encouraged to bring a picnic basket and blanket, hats and sunscreen. parcsb.org

The movie schedule: June 28: The Long Kiss and Fish People; July 19: 8,000+ (paragliding world record documentary) and Stumped (adaptive climbing inspiration); July 26: Wild As A Raspberry, Two Point Four (family big wall climbing adventure), and Otter Space (sea otter conservation); August 16: By Hand (epic 2,200-mile Alaskato-Mexico paddleboard journey); August 30: Ursa Major (animated northern lights tale) and Under An Arctic Sky (arctic surfing expedition); September 13: Looking For the Wild (9-year-old’s worldwide wildlife journey with seven emblematic animals).

https://www.naturetrackfilmfestival.org/summer-screening-series

Amateur Radio Operators to Demo Emergency Communications

WHEN CELL TOWERS FAIL AND INTERNET CONNECTIONS GO SILENT, one form of communication continues to deliver: amateur radio. Each year, the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club joins thousands of operators across North America to demonstrate this essential technology during the nationwide Amateur Radio Field Day, held this year on June 28–29 at Chase Palm Park.

New for 2025, SBARC will also be activating a special radio station on State Street as part of the City of Santa Barbara’s centennial reenactment of the 1925 earthquake. The station will showcase how amateur radio can provide critical communication in disaster scenarios when modern infrastructure is compromised.

At the Chase Palm Park Field Day site, SBARC will operate three High Frequency (HF) stations, powered entirely by emergency generators. The public is encouraged to drop by, ask questions, and learn how these stations connect with others across the globe—entirely off-grid.

In 2024, more than 20 local children and teens participated in Field Day, sparking curiosity and even helping scouts fulfill requirements for their Radio Merit Badge.

SBARC has served Santa Barbara since 1920, fostering public service, technical experimentation, and emergency preparedness. The club maintains a robust network of repeaters, remote stations, and trained operators dedicated to community resilience.

Chase Palm Park from Saturday, June 28th at 11am through Sunday, June 29th at 11am. Activities will be ongoing throughout the day and night. www.sbarc.org

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Keith Malloy’s Fish People will kick off the summer screening series at Refugio State Beach on June 28th

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The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club invites people of all ages to participate in the nationwide 2025 Amateur Radio Field Day at Chase Palm Park June 28-29.

Clean Air Express Fares To Increase

TO OFFSET RISING COSTS, the Clean Air Express will implement a fare increase on July 1, 2025 as part of a three-year adjustment plan approved by

Santa Barbara County Association of Governments. Fares will be increasing across all Clean Air Express trips with, monthly passes at $170, 10-ride ticket books will be $57, and cash fare for a single trip will be $8.

“Fare increases are never easy,” said SBCAG Director of Multimodal Programs, Aaron Bonfilio. “We’ve taken a phased approach to help riders gradually adjust while ensuring the Clean Air Express remains the dependable, high-quality service they count on.”

Passengers using the Tap to Ride contactless payment system will continue to receive discounted fares: Single Trip via Tap to Ride: $7 (always $1 less than the cash fare); Daily Fare Cap: $11.40 (equal to the cost of two one-way

Cabrillo and Los Patos

trips using a 10-ride ticket).

This marks the second of three annual fare increases approved by the SBCAG Board of Directors in December 2023. The phased approach is designed to give riders time to adjust while maintaining the service’s quality and reliability.

Bonfilio emphasized that public transit remains cost-competitive when compared to the rising expenses of owning and operating a personal vehicle. “For many commuters, Clean Air Express is a smart financial decision – saving on gas, maintenance, and wear and tear – without the stress of driving every day.”

In addition to the fare adjustments, SBCAG has introduced upgrades to improve the rider experience, including the Tap to Ride contactless payment system that makes it easier to pay and track fares. The Clean

Roundabout Project Completed

A NEW ROUNDABOUT HAS OPENED AT CABRILLO AND LO PATOS by the City of Santa Barbara, which was a joint project with the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments. Roundabouts reduce congestion and improves safety at the City’s busiest coastal corridors.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Wednesday, May 28th, to celebrate the official opening of the new roundabout at East Cabrillo Boulevard and Los Patos Way.

“This project was reviewed and approved by the historic landmarks committee, who helped City staff to design a truly beautiful and inviting intersection,” said Supervising Engineer Eric Goodall. “This serves as a gateway to the City from those coming from the south or from Coast Village Road area.”

The City oversaw the design and construction of the project, with funding support from SBCAG. State and federal funds covered the design phase, while Highway 101 funds through the Regional Surface Transportation Program paid for construction.

“This project is yet another example of what can be achieved for our community through strong collaboration between local, regional and state partners,” said SBCAG Executive Director Marjie KIRN. “We’re proud to have supported a project that not only improves safety and traffic flow today but also will help reduce disruptions as major Highway 101 improvements move forward in Santa Barbara.”

This project marks the first phase of broader improvements planned along East Cabrillo Boulevard between Los Patos Way and the Cabrillo interchange. The transformation of this intersection from a two-way, stop-controlled junction into a single lane roundabout provides both immediate and longterm benefits to the Santa Barbara community.

Project Benefits Include:

Air Express also expanded its service in April with the addition of midday trips, offering riders more flexibility.

The new schedule has been well-received by passengers seeking options beyond traditional morning and evening commutes. cleanairexpress.com

Proyecto de rotonda en Cabrillo y Los Patos finalizado

LA CIUDAD DE SANTA BÁRBARA SE COMPLACE EN ANUNCIAR LA FINALIZACIÓN DE LA ROTONDA EN CABRILLO Y LOS PATOS, un proyecto realizado en colaboración con la Asociación de Gobiernos del Condado de Santa Bárbara (Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, SBCAG). Esta nueva rotonda reduce la congestión vehicular y mejora la seguridad en uno de los corredores costeros más transitados de la ciudad.

El miércoles 28 de mayo se celebró una ceremonia de corte de cinta para inaugurar oficialmente la rotonda ubicada en la intersección de East Cabrillo Boulevard y Los Patos Way.

“Este proyecto fue revisado y aprobado por la Comisión de Monumentos Históricos, que colaboró estrechamente con el personal municipal para diseñar una intersección atractiva y acogedora,” señaló Eric Goodall, ingeniero supervisor. “Ahora funciona como una puerta de entrada a la ciudad para quienes llegan desde el sur o desde el área de Coast Village Road.”

La Ciudad se encargó del diseño y la construcción del proyecto, con el respaldo financiero de SBCAG. Los fondos estatales y federales cubrieron la fase de diseño, mientras que la construcción se financió a través del Programa Regional de Transporte Superficial con fondos del Highway 101.

“Este proyecto es otro ejemplo de lo que se puede lograr para nuestra comunidad gracias a la sólida colaboración entre socios locales, regionales y estatales,” comentó Marjie KIRN, directora ejecutiva de SBCAG. “Nos enorgullece haber apoyado un proyecto que no solo mejora la seguridad y el flujo vehicular en el presente, sino que también ayudará a reducir interrupciones mientras avanzan las principales mejoras al Highway 101 en Santa Bárbara.”

Increased Safety: Creates a safer travel corridor along East Cabrillo Boulevard for drivers, pedestrians, and bicyclists.

Improved Connectivity: Enhances access to the Waterfront and nearby residential/ commercial areas along Los Patos Way and Coast Village Road.

Reduced Congestion: Improves mobility and traffic flow through the construction of a single-lane roundabout designed to handle high volumes of vehicles, bicycles, and foot traffic.

Key features of the project include upgraded crosswalks with pedestrian safety islands, a landscaped central island, a striped pedestrian and bicycle lane along northbound Channel Drive, and a new left-turn lane from southbound Cabrillo Boulevard to Channel Drive.

We thank the community for its support and patience during construction and are proud to deliver a safer, more accessible, and more efficient roadway for all users.

SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CabrilloRoundabout

Este proyecto representa la primera fase de una serie de mejoras planificadas a lo largo de East Cabrillo Boulevard, entre Los Patos Way y el intercambio de Cabrillo. La conversión de una intersección con señales de alto en ambos sentidos a una rotonda de un solo carril brinda beneficios tanto inmediatos como a largo plazo para la comunidad de Santa Bárbara.

Los beneficios del proyecto incluyen:

Mayor seguridad: Mejora la seguridad para conductores, peatones y ciclistas a lo largo de East Cabrillo Boulevard.

Mejor conectividad: Facilita el acceso al Waterfront y a las zonas residenciales y comerciales cercanas en Los Patos Way y Coast Village Road.

Menor congestión: Aumenta la movilidad y mejora el flujo vehicular mediante una rotonda de un solo carril diseñada para manejar altos volúmenes de automóviles, bicicletas y peatones.

Las características clave del proyecto incluyen pasos peatonales mejorados con islas de seguridad, una isla central ajardinada, un carril peatonal y ciclista señalizado en el sentido norte de Channel Drive, y un nuevo carril de giro a la izquierda desde el sentido sur de Cabrillo Boulevard hacia Channel Drive.

Agradecemos a la comunidad por su apoyo y paciencia durante la construcción, y nos enorgullece ofrecer una vía más segura, accesible y eficiente para todos los usuarios.

SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CabrilloRoundabout

Photo Coutesy of Clean Air Express

SB Grand Jury Looks at E-Bike Safety

ASKING WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE THEM SAFE, because electric bicycles, or e-bikes, have become an increasing part of the everyday commute, the Santa Barbara Grand Jury reviewed the matter.

The SB Grand Jury found the issue of safety especially true in the City of Santa Barbara, where city officials have redesigned city pathways to encourage bike, and now e-bike, traffic. However, frustrations and dangers have accompanied this transition from car traffic to bike traffic, mostly due to the increasing popularity of fast-moving e-bikes, especially among young people. Public safety is at risk.

Their report continues: “It is with a sense of urgency that the 2024-25 Santa Barbara County Grand Jury studied the matter of e-bikes in the City of Santa Barbara. Numerous postings on social media by local citizens increasingly cite bad behavior and near accidents involving e-bikes. Police and hospital reports of increasing numbers of accidents and injuries involving e-bikes only served to underscore these complaints.

After years of delay, the Santa Barbara City Council enacted an e-bike ordinance in February 2025, which made certain unsafe riding behaviors subject to administrative fines. The Santa Barbara Police Department will now have the legal tools it needs to cite unsafe riders, but no extra staff or funds to help carry out the added duties. The Grand Jury recommends a more consistent and strategic approach to unsafe actions by e-bike riders to bring about needed changes in behavior.

Moreover, education is an important part of achieving desired changes in behavior around e-bike usage. The Grand Jury recommends an expanded community-wide public information campaign, as several other counties in California have successfully done with regard to new e-bike laws, to get all of those who use our public roads to recognize the value of safe riding.”

The Santa Barbara County Grand Jury is a basic part of government within the judicial branch. All Grand Jury reports and agency formal responses to them are posted on the Jury’s website (www.sbcgj.org). The form and timing for required responses are specified by California Penal Code § 933 and 933.05.

Santa Barbara Visual Artists

Gallery 707

#707 Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara

June 1 - July 31, 2025

Artist Receptions

Music by MellowTonin

Gayle Nagy has helped hundreds of California homeowners obtain Reverse Mortgages, enabling them to remain in their homes or access their home equity for other

SBVA consists of active Santa Barbara artists

Santa Barbara’s Cultural Night Downtown

July 3 rd • 5 to 8pm

Galleries, Museums, & Art Venues

1. Voice Gallery • La Cumbre Plaza, 110 S. Hope Ave, # H-124 • Challenge is an exhibition of work by Santa Barbara Printmakers, artists dedicated to creating and presenting prints made using hand and press printing techniques. SBP evolved from a small group of artists back in 1989, known as the Monotype Guild. The group held weekly monoprint workshops and several exhibitions annually.

2. SBIFF’s Santa Barbara Filmmaker Series • SBIFF's Education Center, 1330 State St #101 • On Thursday, July 3rd we are featuring five short films that were made last month by 30 teenagers during SBIFF’s Film Camp. Camp was in partnership with United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County. Campers will be at the screening to present their films. Showtimes: 5:30pm, 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm. Runtime: 15 mins.

3. Santa Barbara Fine Art • 1321 State St • Summer in SB: Santa Barbara Beaches – John Comer, Richard Schloss, Kelly Hine, Arturo Tello, Michael Drury, John Wullbrandt, and Rob Robinson. Honorary local, Rodolfo Rivademer. Guest artist, Andy Vogel. Photographer Robert Werling & Larry Iwerks, Marcia Burtt, Ray Strong & more!

1ST THURSDAY is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara that takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Participating art venues offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm. 1st Thursday venues also provide additional attractions, such as live music, artist receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. State St also comes alive on 1st Thursday with performances and interactive activities.

4. domecíl • 1223 State St • Come and experience the beautiful expressionist works of painter and poet Jessika Cardinhal. Her large-format paintings are inspired by the rugged landscapes of the Gaviota Coast, where she lives and works. This imagery reflects the magical encounters one can have in nature, as well as the cycle of life shared by both plants and animals.

5. Benchmark Eatery • 1201 State St • David J. Diamant will be showing his series titled Unsalted. Each wooden panel provides a spray & acrylic painted snapshot of the same lake during the end of summer, at different times of day, with

different weather conditions. This show is dedicated to Amy and the Shulers & the Butchers.

6. 10 West Gallery • 10 W. Anapamu St. • Engaging The Muse: Group show. An artist’s intention may begin with an unconscious doodle or swath of color. Only then does the magic happen and the muse steps forth to lead (or follow) the artist from concept to completion of a piece.

7. Colette Cosentino • 11 W. Anapamu St. • This summer's soirée is a special one, with a sneak peek of a 16 ft x 8 ft maximalist work on canvas that will be auctioned for Lotusland's upcoming sold-out gala. Its ultimate intent is to be hung as a work of art for the fortunate auction recipient. Come view and take your photo in front of this magical work.

8. Sullivan Goss • 11 E. Anapamu St. • Join us for the opening of an artistic collaboration with Lotusland, presenting an exhibition of art inspired by the gardens: Jardin de Rêves, or Garden of Dreams. Also on view: Leslie Lewis Sigler, and our Summer Salon.

9. Santa Barbara Museum of Art • 1130 State St • Bring the whole family for hands-on creativity

15. Vendors will offer their ware at the Canary Hotel while Finch & Fork serves up cocktails and more!

8. An artistic collaboration between Lotusland and Sullivan Goss has resulted in Jardin de Rêves.

5. See the work by David Diamant in Unsallted at Benchmark Eatery.

13. The Yes Store offers work by local artists and gifts for all.

6. See the work of Iben Vestergaard (above) and 10 West Gallery artists in Engaging the Muse

2. Slice of Light is celebrating their 2nd Anniversary!

during Family 1st Thursday from 5–7 pm in SBMA’s Art Learning Lab! Afterward, explore the galleries and experience the Museum’s newest exhibitions: Letter Forms, Portraits Revealed, and Vian Sora: Outerworlds. Free and open to all until 8pm!

10. Gallery 113 • 1114 State St #8 • Exhibit by members of the Santa Barbara Art Association. Artist of the Month is Odessa Burrow. Also featuring Carol Zepke, Elizabeth Flanagan, Jeanne Carr, Corinne Trujillo, Lily Sanders, and Carey Appel. There will also be a group exhibit featuring various artists.

11. Waterhouse Gallery • 1114 State St #9 • The Gallery will be highlighting the work of Derek Harrison, Fiesta Artist 2025.

12. Slice of Light • 9 W. Figueroa St. • Join us for Slice of Light Gallery’s 2-year anniversary! To celebrate our time in Santa Barbara, we'll be displaying gorgeous photography and art from J. K. Lovelace, Ben Coffman, and Eric States. This event is one you're not going to want to miss.

13. The Yes Store • 1015 State St • Come celebrate the long days of summer—while enjoying music, drinks & treats. View the work of all our incredibly talented local artists. Looking for locally handmade gifts or something special for yourself? Look no further than The Yes Store—Local Arts Gallery.

14. Amazon • 1001 State St • Art Show – New works by Danielle Renee Methmann. Featuring paintings made with recycled acrylic paint on canvas and wine-infused pigments on paper, this collection blends sustainability with creativity. Bold textures and vibrant colors emerge from repurposed materials, while delicate, organic tones flow through the winebased pieces, reimagining traditional art in a fresh and innovative way.

15. Finch & Fork | The Kimpton Canary Hotel •

31 W. Carrillo St. • $2 oysters, cocktails, and shop local— all under one roof! Every 1st Thursday the Canary Hotel lobby transforms into a haven for art and music lovers. Join from 5–8 pm to shop jewelry, clothing, and art from local vendors. Take a seat at the bar and enjoy oysters, cocktails, and bites while DJ Dansauce provides the beats.

16. SB Visual Artists • 707 Paseo Nuevo • Join us to meet the artists and view beautiful artwork, enjoy music by MellowTonin. SB Visual Artists are known for their quality artwork that has an energy of diverse media, color, and style—with a wide range of realism, portrait, still life, abstract/ abstract realism, and landscape/ seascape artworks.

17. Paint at Paseo • De La Guerra Place, Paseo Nuevo • Paint at Paseo is a free all-ages painting class provided by Paseo Nuevo and artists at MCASB. Each month, different local artists will lead you through a 90-minute acrylic painting session designed for all ages and skill levels. All materials are provided, and you'll take home a beautiful painting!

18. Santa Barbara Historical Museum • 136 East De La Guerra St. • Join the Museum after-hours for wine and music by guitarist Tony Ybarra in the courtyard. At 6:00 pm, join historian Neal Graffy for a free guided tour of our latest exhibition, 1925! Santa Barbara Remembers the Earthquake, on view through July 6.

Entertainment

Slideways Trombone

Quartet

• 800 Block of State St. • A sub-group of the 20+ member Santa Barbara City College Trombone Choir, the “SlideWays” trombone quartet performs both formal concert music as well as popular works and jazz standards. In addition to performing at SBCC events, you can find the SlideWays quartet around the greater Santa Barbara area.

Bottom Line

Brass Tuba

Quartet

• 800 Block of State St • The Bottom Line Brass is an all-tuba band that can be seen year-round at the many taverns of

playing your favorite polkas, waltzes, marches, and drinking songs! Recent performances include The Brewhouse, Institution Ale, Draughtsman Aleworks, and Captain

Santa Barbara and Goleta,

Fatty's.

3. The talent of Derek Harrison resonates in figurative and landscape works at Waterhouse Gallery.

18. History comes alive at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum's 1925: Santa Barbara Remembers the Earthquake.

Bottom Line Brass Tuba Quartet will play in the 800 block of State Street.

10. Stop by Gallery 113 to explore the incredible variety of work by Artists of the Santa Barbara Art Association.

7. See Colette Cosentino's 16x8 foot work on canvas that will be part of Lotusland's auction.

The Slideways Tromebone Quartet will play in the 800 block of State Street.

4. Discover the poetry and expressionist paintings of Jessika Cardinal at domecíl.

16. The magic of artists coming together will be on view at Santa Barbara Visual Artists newest pop up gallery: 707, in the Paseo Nuevo.

14. Color and a lively perspective infuse the work of Danielle Renee Methmann at Amazon

3. Be inspired by summer light and beautiful beaches at Santa Barbara Fine Art, such as in this painting by Richard Schloss

2. SBIFF will screen five short films made by 30 teens during last month's film camp.

9. Enjoy family art activities and view new exhibitions during the Santa Barbara Musuem of Art's free evening.

1. Take the Challenge and visit an exhibition of work by Santa Barbara Printmakers and sculptor friends at Voice Gallery.

Shark Attack: Music Academy of the West Celebrates JAWS at 50

By Robert F. Adams, Special to VOICE

IN AN ADVENTURISTIC LEAP OF A SEASON OPENER, the Music Academy of the West’s first full-fledged symphonic concert was a resplendent evening celebrating film music. Held just hours after the community’s Solstice Parade, the concert and film screening beckoned a diverse and rapt audience into the historic Granada Theatre, last Saturday.

This musical-visual event was meant to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the 1974 blockbuster, Jaws. A packed house filled the seats to witness the John Williams’ score played by the full Academy Festival Orchestra in combination with a screening of the original film. The momentous film was a revisit to an era when Jaws scared and intrigued long lines of moviegoers, providing director Steven Spielberg with a blockbuster hit movie that set the standards for popular thrillers thereafter.

emphasizes moods ranging from lurking suspense to adventure fanfares. The music is laced with nostalgic themes. The arrangements echoed Bernard Herman’s score for Hitchcock’s 1960 Psycho and in the northeast harbor and beach towns, seemed to recall Aaron Copeland’s suites as well as popular British sea shanties. Some of the scenes are jump-scare terrifying, and some scenes are gently comical, as reflected by the screenplay. Williams’ score follows the directive, effectively delivering a gentle multi-layered experience.

“It is thrilling to both Steven and me that this unique film captures the imagination of viewers after so many years, and that the audience will enjoy the movie live, accompanied by a magnificent orchestra like the Academy Festival Orchestra,” Williams wrote of the event.

Following welcoming remarks by Academy CEO Shauna Quill, bedecked in a feathery Solstice hat, the conductor Ben Palmer arrived at the podium to embark on this live to movie concert. Palmer, the Artistic Director of the Covent Garden Sinfonia as well as a frequent guest conductor for California and Western European orchestras, was hand-picked by composer John Williams to conduct his legendary cinema scores. He knows the music of film, and is an expert at conducting live musicians to picture. Palmer has conducted over 50 film events. The large symphonic sound was provided by the youthful AFO, with a full array of instruments including strings and brass and punctuated percussion, peppering the score in suspenseful moments. The result was a vivid sound and celluloid narrative experience where the audience felt the thrills of this movie about a terrifying marine predator.

The musicians had to delicately wait and emerge between large sections of dialogue, somewhat ponderous in the numerous scenes setting up the thrills of the shark chase after the intermission. This Academy Award-winning score features a now famous two-note leitmotif, signaling the monster shark’s impending strikes. Williams’ score

The film boasts a low-key and steady performance from lead actor Roy Scheider as a tough yet endearing chief of police, so we follow the story through his eyes. Scheider was a subtlety charming actor, a kind of everyman. Matched up against him was the stoic and sexy Lorraine Gary as his wife and the upstart sparks offered from a young Richard Dreyfuss, probably at the height of his career. Alongside the aforementioned cast, English actor (and playwright) Robert Shaw created a lyrical and memorable performance as the drink-loving, rough and rowdy shark catcher, Quint. Also on hand was Murray Hamilton, playing to full effect the weasel-like, weak Mayor, too dependent on public opinion. Outside of the memorable score, these actors with their sly humor or ominous dialogue made the movie especially memorable, one of the finest casts director Steven Spielberg ever assembled.

The concert was dedicated to donor Bob Weinman and produced by Film Concerts Live, a joint venture between two talent agencies. There were also key staff involved including sound remixers and technical consultants as well as Universal Pictures, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, and the Granada staff, among others. Quite a feat to pull off in terms of timing and cues, the orchestra was gifted a standing ovation at the conclusion of the thrilling and fun-filled concert.

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Conductor Ben Palmer

MAW’s CEO Shauna Quill and the AFO

Linda Taylor, Never and Always

Patricia Post, Holding on to the Dream

Duncan Brown, Spheres 3

Inés Monguió, In, Out, Up, Down

Rich Kaplan, Medusa Vanquished

Siu Zimmerman, Exposition

Rosemarie Gebhart, Reverie

Marcia Rickard, Primal

Elizabeth Hallowell Out of the Cradle Endlessly

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Friday 6/27

COMEDY

Friday Night Laughs • LA

Comedians • Java Station • $20 • santabarbaracomedyclub.com • 7pm, Fri.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

Santa Barbara County Courthouse Docent Tours • Free • www.sbcourthouse.org • 10:30am Mon-Fri & 2pm daily.

Meditation Class • Mahakankala

Kadampa Buddhist Ctr @ 1825 State Street (Upstairs) with Kadam Keli • $15 • meditationinsantabarbara.org • 5:30-6:30pm Fri.

MUSIC

Numbskull presents: Wolves of Glendale • comedy rock trio made up of Ethan Edenburg (guitar), Eric Jackowitz (drums), and Tom McGovern (keys). Music & comedy • SOhO, 1221 State St • $27 • sohosb.com • 9pm, Fri, 6/27.

Karaoke Fridays on State • Longoria Wines • 6:30-8:30pm Fri.

Journey USA Tribute Band • Enjoy hits like Don’t Stop Believing, Open Arms, Separate Ways, and Any Way You Want It • Lobero • $35-68 • Lobero.org • 8pm, Fri, 6/27.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Maker House Celebrate 5 years of Clay and Community! • paella, birthday cake, toasts, games, pottery fun, live music with the Summerland Band! Space is limited • Maker House/ Clay Studio, 1351 Holiday Hill Rd • $35 • makerhouse.org • 4-7pm, Fri, 6/27.

Saturday 6/28

CHILDREN

Storytime @ the Sea Center • Stories of the sea • all ages • Free with admission • SBNature.org • 10:30–10:45am Sat & Sun.

Explore Together • Ages 0-7 •

Interactive science, math, literacy and art learning activities • Central Library • 10:15-11:15am, Sat.

Musical Learning with Lanny • Grace Fisher Clubhouse La Cumbre Plaza • Free • 11am-12pm 1st & 3rd Sat.

COMEDY

South Coast Stand-Up Comedy at the Alcazar Theatre • Three Top Headliner Comedians will deliver the hilarity you’ll be talking about for weeks to come • The Alcazar at 4916 Carpinteria Ave • $15 • thealcazar.org • 7pm, Sat, 6/28.

DANCE

The Dance Network presents Series 7 Go for Broke! • Audiences will enjoy a dynamic mix of tap, hip hop, jazz, ballroom, contemporary, and more performed by dancers ages 2 to 80! • 751 Paseo Nuevo • General $30 Student $20 • centerstagetheater.org • Junior show 2:30pm Senior show 7pm, Sat, 6/28.

Lake Street Dive - Good Together • Good Together arrives as a body of work both gloriously defiant and primed to inspire unbridled dancing and ecstatic singing-along • Santa Barbara Bowl • $46-$82 • sbbowl. com • 7pm, Sat, 6/28.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

Nature Journaling • at the Presidio. Learn about native California plants. Free journals, zines by Solange Aguila & seeds • Free • sbthp.org • 10:3011:30am Sat, 6/28.

Explore Together • Ages 0-7 • Interactive science, math, literacy and art learning activities • Central Library • 10:15-11:15am, Sat.

SB GO Club • Play or learn the ancient strategic board game. All levels • Questions: Lorin 805-448-5335 • Free • Mosaic Coffee, 1131 State St • 11-4 Sat.

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Crafternoon: Craft for the Earth

• EE Makerspace, 302 East Cota St • $8 • exploreecology.org • 2:30-4:30 Wed; 11:30-1pm Sat.

MUSIC

25th Anniversary Yachty by Nature Concert • Put on your captain’s hat, bring your best dockside style, live music, food, drinks, and harbor views that can’t be beat • Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Way • $125 • sbmm.org • 6-9pm, Sat, 6/28.

Lake Street Dive • crosspollination of soul, folk, jazz, classic pop • Santa Barbara Bowl • $47 - $83 • sbbowl.com • 7pm, Sat, 6/28.

The Magical Music of Motown

• SUPERBAND with internationally acclaimed artists. Performances of: The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas, The Four Tops, The Jackson Five, Smokey Robinson • Lobero Theatre • $59-$79 • Lobero.org

• 8pm, Sat, 6/28.

Alison Tuma With Dillon Kearns On Piano • A jazz Duo • The Blue Owl, 5 W. Canon Perdido St. • Free • theblueowlsb.com • 7pm, Sat, 6/28.

OUTDOORS

Power Hour • with Napoleon Jinnies • De La Guerra Place by Paseo Nuevo Cinemas • Free • all levels • 10-11am Sat.

SPECIAL EVENTS

THE GREAT QUAKE • A Centennial Commemoration • live entertainment, educational exhibits, interactive displays, hands-on workshops, Earthquake simulator, Kid zone and history walk, musicians and storytellers and Disaster preparedness • State Street (between Figueroa & Anapamu) • Free • eq25.org • 12-4pm, Sat, 6/28.

1925 Earthquake History

Downtown Walking Tour • See the sites of buildings that crumbled, rescues and recovery, and resilient structures that inspired the city’s iconic Spanish Colonial Revival style • SB Historical Museum, 136 East De la Guerra • $20 • eq25.org • 6pm Mon-Fri 6/23 - 6/28.

THEATRE

Developing New Plays

LAUNCH PAD 2025 SUMMER READING SERIES invites professional playwrights to join the UC Santa Barbara community as artists-in-residence as the main component of a summer theater course. In three fast-paced four-day workshops, students learn the vital and specialized skills of working on plays. At the end of each week, a reading of the play is shared with its very audience. - featuring award-winning writers Louis Bayard, Melinda Lopez, and Lia Romeo on Thursdays June 26, July 3, and July 10 at the UC Santa Barbara Studio Theater. Free and open to the public. RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/3dw4cvcf

Theatre Listings:

Young Frankenstein • A Mel Brooks classic brought to life and presented by Ojai ACT • $0-30 • ojaiact.org • Through 7/20. Waitress • heartfelt story of love, liberation, and the pursuit of dreams • Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St, Solvang • $25 • pcpa.org • 8pm, Everyday 6/27 - 7/6.

Holmes and Watson • A twisty, tantalizing mystery to uncover the truth behind three men claiming to be Sherlock Holmes, in Jeffery Hatcher’s adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s original tale • Marian Theatre, Santa Maria • $25 • pcpa.org • Thur- Fri, 6/26-6/29.

The Wizard Of Oz: Youth Edition • heartwarming stage adaptation of the celebrated 1939 film • Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main St. Ventura • $20 • rubicontheatre.org • 6/28-6/29.

Launch Pad Summer Reading Series • three fast-paced four-day workshops, students learn the vital skills of working on plays • UCSB’s Studio Theater • Free please RSVP • theaterdance.ucsb.edu • 7pm, Thur, 7/3.

culinary delights. An afternoon in the Museum’s oak woodland along Mission Creek • Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History • 2559 Puesta del Sol • Early Entry: $175 General Admission: $130 • sbnature.org • 2-5pm, Sat, 6/28.

Santa Barbara Lavender Festival

Amateur Radio Field Day • perfect introduction to the world of radio for all ages • Chase Palm Park • Free • www.sbarc.org • 11am, Sat, 6/28. Santa Barbara Wine and Food Festival® 2025 • sip and savor 100+ of the Central Coast’s best wineries and

• Hundreds of vendors offering fresh live Lavender plants and arrangements, various unique wares, food vendors, and beverage options • SBCC West Campus, 721 Cliff Dr • Free • santabarbaralavenderfestival.com • 127pm, Sat, 6/28.

Sunday 6/29

CHILDREN

Storytime @ the Sea Center • stories of the sea • all ages • Free with admission • SBNature.org • 10:30–10:45am Sat & Sun.

DANCE

Dance Me A Story • Westside Dance ensemble dancers and summer camp students • The Luke Theatre 721 E. Cota St •westsidedancesb.com • 4-5pm, Sun, 6/29.

Untitled Measurement Play written by Mia Chung and directed by Risa Brainin in Summer Reading Series 2019

Photo courtesy of launchpad.theaterdance.ucsb.edu

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

THE GREAT QUAKE: A Centennial Commemoration

JOIN EQ25 FOR A FREE, FAMILY-FRIENDLY STREET CELEBRATION

commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake on Sunday, June 28th from noon to 4pm on State Street between Figueroa and Anapamu. Enjoy live entertainment, educational exhibits, interactive displays, hands-on workshops, and themed surprises. Highlights include: Earthquake simulator (experience a 7.0 quake!); Kid zone; history walk; Earthquake-themed food and booths; Stage events with musicians and storytellers; Disaster preparedness info and resources; and Chalk Artist Rod Tryon.

Earth Quake Chalk Painting at Central Library

Illustrating the The Great Earth Quake, a 3D Chalk painting will be a part of the event commemorating the 100th anniversary at the Santa Barbara Central Library on June 28th and 29th. The painting by artist Rod Tryon will be sponsored by the ARTS District of Santa Barbara.

In a nod to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel The Lost World, Tryon’s piece will depict the ground opening up and revealing a lost world of dinosaurs and other extinct creatures. The Great Quake event, created and presented by EQ25, eq25.org is a community-wide celebration of the centennial of this defining chapter in the history of Santa Barbara. The ARTS District is proud to participate with EQ25, by sponsoring this wonderful and entertaining piece of art.

Last month the ARTS District collaborated with Children’ s Creative project and I Madonnari to bring a whimsical chalk painting by Ann Hefferman to the street in front of the Arlington Theatre. This latest sponsorship and collaboration with The Great Quake event continues the work of the ARTS District to bring art in its many manifestations into our everyday lives in delightful and unexpected ways. artsdistrictsb.org

Also part of the commemorative activities, The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club will be an Amateur Radio Field Day, demonstrating how important radio was and continues to be in times of emergency.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Christine Gallagher talk and signing • Ruby’s Revenge • Chaucer’s Books • Free • chaucersbooks.com • 3-3:45pm Sun, 6/29.

Empathy Cafe • practice listening & empathy • Riviera Theatre upstairs • Free • theempathycenter.org • 11am Sun.

The Earthquake That Built a City • reflect on the cultural, architectural, and civic transformations • Lobero Theatre 33 E. Canon Perdido • Free • lobero.org • 5pm, Sun, 6/29.

OUTDOORS

The 2025 SYV Polo Classic • tented seating, polo matches, ranch style BBQ lunch (vegetarian options), wines, beer and soft drinks • Happy Canyon Vineyard and Piocho Ranch in Santa Ynez • Members: $106.25; Non Members: $125, Under 21: $35 • happycanyonvineyard.com • 11am3pm, Sun, 6/29.

Mujeres Makers Market • SB Trust for Historical Preservation presents vendors, food options & vibes • El Presidio • sbthp.org • 10am-4pm, 1st Sun.

Domingo Tour • presented by AFSB • guided stroll through SB’s Architectural charm • begins at SB Downtown Library • $20 • afsb.org • 10am Sun.

Sundays At The Ranch • Barn animals, outdoor fun & tractor rides! GV Hist. Society, 304 N. Los Carneros Rd • Free First Sunday Concerts! • 11am – 2pm Sun.

MUSIC

Whole Hog Band • bluegrass band eclectic selections of Americana music • SB Carrillo Rec Ctr, 100 E Carrillo • Free • wholehogband.com • 6-9pm, Sun, 6/29.

Monday 6/30

CHILDREN

Lunch at the Library • Kids and teens: enjoy free, nutritious lunches all summer! First come, first served - no income requirements, sign-ups,

Barbara Ghost Tours

or registrations. During lunch join in Summer Reading activities, fun games, and hands-on crafts • Central Library • 12-1pm Mon-Fri.

Surf Happens • full-week of drop-in

Surf Camp sessions • 3825 Santa Claus Ln • $100/day • surf happens.com • 2-6pm, Mon-Fri, through 8/29.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Scrabble Club • Louise Lowry Davis Center • All levels/ English/Spanish • Free • 1-4pm Mon.

Parallel Stories: Sea of Ice, Ocean of Sand Part 2 • Romantic era series by artist Tony de los Reyes and poet Brendan Constantine • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street • Free • sbac.ca.gov • 2:30-4pm, Sun, 6/29.

De-Stress the College Essay Process • two-part workshop with college essay coach Taylor Ross • Central Library 40 East Anapamu St

• Registration Required • calendar. library.santabarbaraca.gov • 5:306:30pm, Mon, 6/30.

Parliamo • Italian conversation, all levels • Natural Cafe, 361 Hitchcock Way • parliamo.yolasite.com • Free • 5-6:30pm Mon.

SPECIAL EVENTS

“Curtain Up!” Gala • theatrical experience in two distinct acts honoring longtime board member Dana White •

The New Vic (33 W Victoria St) and SB Club (1105 Chapala St) • $375-$1000 • etcsb.org • 4pm, Sun, 6/29.

Tuesday 7/1

CHILDREN

Lego Club • Ages K-6 • Central Library • 4-5pm, Tue.

Bilingual Songs & Stories • Ages 0-5 • Eastside Library • 11-11:30am, Tue.

Local Kids, Local Chefs Cooking Classes • Make healthy and delicious creations with local chef, Dalan Moreno! • Eastside Library 1102 E Montecito St. • Reg required 30 min prior • calendar.library.santabarbaraca. gov • 2-3pm, Tue, 7/1.

COMEDY

Carpinteria Improv Drop-In

Class • Learn improv with friends • Alcazar Theater • $10 at door • thealcazar.org • 7-9pm Tue.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Family Caregiver Support Group • adult survivors of brain injury • zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84933596481 • 9-10am 2nd Tues.

Interm. Spanish Conversation • Central Library • calendar.library.santabarbaraca.gov • Free • 10-11am Tue.

ACADEMY’S SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL

Music Academy of the West Week 2

FRIDAY June 27

Double Bass Masterclass • with Alexander Hanna • Weinman Hall • 1pm

Oboe Masterclass • with Xiomara Mass • Lehmann Hall • 1pm

Solo Piano Masterclass • with Jeremy Denk Hahn Hall • 3:30pm

LVI SERIES: Opera Scenes • Hahn Hall • 7:30pm

• Experience a full range of theatrical excerpts from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly to Kevin Puts’ The Hours, staged by Lehrer Vocal Institute directing fellow Vanessa Ogbuehi.

SATURDAY June 28

AFO SERIES • Pictures At An Exhibition, Anthony Parnther conductor • Granada • 7:30pm; 6:30pm pre-concert talk • Program: VALERIE COLEMAN Seven O’Clock Shout; CHAUSSON Poème, Op. 25, with Mosher Guest Artist Randall Goosby, violin; MUSSORGSKY ARR. RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition

Week

3

MONDAY June 30

Collaborative Piano Masterclass • Hahn Hall • 3:30pm with Jonathan Feldman

TUESDAY July 1

x2 SERIES: BEETHOVEN PIANO TRIO • Hahn Hall 7:30pm Program: HAYDN Piano Trio No. 43 in C Major • BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3: Erin Keefe, violin; Julie Albers, cello • MOZART Quintet for Horn and Strings in E-flat Major, K. 407: Richard O’Neill, viola; Alan Stepansky, cello

WEDNESDAY July 2

Concert & Conversation • Mosher Guest Artist ANDY AKIHO • Hahn Hall 7:30pm • Program: ANDY AKIHO In/Exchange: Andy Akiho, steel pan; Prometheus Quartet • AKIHO Selections from Five

Movements for Piano Trio • AKIHO Murasaki (Purple): Andy Akiho, steel pan; AKIHO Aka (Red): Andy Akiho, steel pan; Prometheus Quartet • MATTHEW AUCOIN Sources of Lift: Conor Hanick, piano; TORŪ TAKEMITSU And then I knew ’twas Wind: Karen Dreyfus, viola

THURSDAY July 3

Harp Masterclass • Weinman Hall •1pm with JoAnn Turovsky

Violin Masterclass • Lehmann Hall •1pm with Erin Keefe

Double Bass Masterclass • Weinman Hall • 3:30pm with Howard Hall Robinson

SPECIAL EVENT: PERCUSSIONFEST • The Granada Theatre • 7:30pm Program: Pre-concert talk with STEWART COPELAND • 6:30pm; STEWART COPELAND The Bells (West Coast premiere); ERIK GRISWOLD Strings Attached; GENE KOSHINSKI The Mermaid; SCOTT FAIRDOSI The Kid; ANDY AKIHO Empty Your Mind; AKIHO Selections from Sculptures; ANDY AKIHO to wALk Or ruN in wEst harlem; JOSEPH TOMPKINS Board Games; CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Bonham

FRIDAY July 4

Independence Day!

SATURDAY July 5

ACADEMY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA SERIES STRAUSS & AKIHO • David Danzmayr conductor • The Granada Theatre • 7:30pm; 6:30pm pre-concert talk • Program: ANDY AKIHO Sculptures with Mosher Guest Artist ANDY AKIHO, percussion • (Music Academy co-commission); RICHARD STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra

LVI = LEHRER VOCAL INSTITUTE

AFO = ACADEMY FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Photo by Casey Wood

x2 SERIES will feature two piano trios and MOZART’s Quintet for Horn and Strings in E-flat Major, K. 407 with Richard O’Neill (above) on viola and Alan Stepansky, cello on Tuesday, July 1st at Hahn Hall.

The talented Mosher Guest Artist Andy Akiho will be center stage at two events this week: Concert & Conversation, July 2nd, and Percussionfest, July 3rd.

Photo courtesy of MAW

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Continued

Prime Time Band on the 4th

BRING A BLANKET AND BEACH CHAIRS and be ready for a 4th of July Celebration for the whole family this 4th of July at the Santa Barbara Courthouse Sunken Gardens. Festivities, presented by the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation, will include the Prime Time Band playing patriotic favorites. Guests may set out blankets and chairs any time after 12pm noon on the 4th.

Chess Club • Louise Lowry Davis Center • All levels/ English/Spanish • Free • 1-4pm Tue.

Collage Zine Workshop • Discover the art of DIY publishing • EE Makerspace, 302 East Cota St • $20 register at exploreecology.org • 6-7:30pm Tue.

Wednesday 7/2

CHILDREN

Bilingual Music & Movement • Ages 0-5 • SB Public Library • 10:1510:45am, Wed.

Read to a Dog • Practice reading with therapy dog Tallulah! • Free • Eastside Library • 3-4pm, Wed.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

Crafternoon: Craft for the Earth

• EE Makerspace, 302 East Cota St • $8 • exploreecology.org • 2:30-4:30 Wed; 11:30-1pm Sat.

Knitting & Crochet Club • Louise Lowry Davis Ctr • All levels/ English/ Spanish • Free • 9-11:30am Wed.

Mending Matters • Sewing & mending • Explore Ecology, 302 E Cota St • $15 • exploreecology.org • 5:30pm7:30pm Wed.

Le Cercle Français • French conversation, all levels • The Natural Cafe, 361 Hitchcock Way • https://tinyurl.com/5ejbd9ye

• Free • 5-6:30pm Wed.

Meditation Class • Mahakankala Kadampa Buddhist Ctr @ 1825 State Street (Upstairs) with Charles DeLisle • $15 • meditationinsantabarbara.org • 6:30-7:30pm Wed.

On The Couch • Jonathan Malindine and his deep commitment to Native American Culture, sovereignty and decolonizing research • The Alcazar 4916 Carpenteria Ave • General $20 Senior $15 • thealcazar.org • 6:308:30pm, Wed, 7/2.

OUTDOORS

Nature Journaling in the Park • To inspire mindfulness, attention, and connection to the natural world • Rocky Nook Park, 610 Mission Canyon Rd. • Registration Required $5 • sbnature.org • 3:30-5pm, Wed, 7/2.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Santa Barbara National Horse Show • Multi Breed Show featuring horse breeds and ponies • Earl Warren Showgrounds • earlwarren.com • Multi-Breed 7/2-5; Welsh 7/3-5; & Hunters & Jumpers 7/9-13.

Thursday 7/3

COMEDY

Backstage Comedy Club • Home to hilarious stand-up comedy • The Red Piano • $20-$25 • theredpiano.com • 7:30pm, Thu.

Karaoke Fridays on State • Longoria Wines • 6:30-8:30pm Fri.

SPECIAL EVENTS

4th of July Concert • lively music, celebrating freedom and the heroes. Presented by Pierre Claeyssens • SB County Courthouse Sunken Garden, 1100 Anacapa St • Free • sbac.ca.gov • 5-7pm, Fri, 7/4.

4th of July Cookout at the Canary • Exec Chef John Vasquez brings soulful flavors of his Southern heritage to the rooftop • Canary Hotel 31 W Carrillo St. • Early Bird $30/$40 • • 6-10pm, Fri, 7/4.

July 4th Firework Cruise • fireworks show from the decks of the Condor Express. Light appetizers, no host bar • Sea Landing • $70-90 • sbscchamber.com • 7pm, Fri, 7/4.

SB July 4th Fireworks & Celebration • Music, Community, Fireworks • West Beach • Free • SantaBarbaraCA.gov/July4 • Noon9:30pm, Fri, 7/4.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

The Art of Science: Drawing Natural History • drop-in community drawing sessions for art lovers ages eight and up • 2559 Puesta del Sol • Adult $15 Child $12 • sbnature.org • 2:30-3:30pm, Thur, through 8/28.

OUTDOORS

Santa Barbara Flea Market • at Earl Warren Showgrounds • $7-32 • Earlwarren.com • 7am-3pm, Thu. Music & Movement • Shoreline Park • develop early literacy skills through music, dancing, and creative play • Shoreline Park • Free • calendar.library.santabarbaraca.gov • 10:30-11am, Thur.

1st Thursday Art Walk • art openings, live music, artists’ receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities • 5-8pm, Thur, 7/3. See more on pages 14 & 15

Friday 7/4

Independence Day!

MUSIC

The Oak RidgeBoys • Farewell Tour celebrating 50 plus years of touring! • Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Highway 246 • $49-$79 • chumashcasino.com • 8pm, Fri, 7/4.

Saturday 7/5

CHILDREN

Storytime @ the Sea Center • Stories of the sea • all ages • Free with admission • SBNature.org • 10:30–10:45am Sat & Sun.

DANCE

Dance Camp Performance

• Goleta School of Ballet presents Coppelia (Girl With Enamel Eyes) and the Toyshop – A comedy story • 751 Paseo Nuevo • $20-25 • centerstagetheater.org • 7pm, Sat, 7/5.

LECTURE & WORKSHOPS

Explore Together • Ages 0-7 • Interactive science, math, literacy and art learning activities • Central Library • 10:15-11:15am, Sat.

SB GO Club • Play or learn the ancient strategic board game. All levels • Questions: Lorin 805-448-5335 • Free • Mosaic Coffee, 1131 State St • 11-4 Sat.

OUTDOORS

Goleta’s July 4th Drone Lightshow & Celebration • Music, Community, Food trucks, Drones. Bring a blanket or beach chair • Dos Pueblos High School football stadium, 7266 Alameda Ave • Free • SantaBarbaraCA.gov/July4 • Show takes place around 8:30pm, Fri, 7/4.

4th of July BBQ Celebration in the Gardens • at San Ysidro Ranch with a decadent spread, live music, lawn games, festive decor • $80-230 • https://www.opentable.com/ stonehouse-at-san-ysidro-ranch • 124pm Fri, 7/4.

Twilight Tour at Lotusland • Delight in the changing light as you stroll through the garden • Ganna Walska Lotusland Cold Spring Rd. Montecito • Non-members $75 Members $30 • lotusland.org • 4:306:30pm, Sat, 7/5.

SPECIAL

EVENTS

Open House • Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library will shall treasures from their collection • SBMAL, 2201 Laguna St • Free • sbac.ca.gov • 9am-12pm, Sat, 7/5.

Summer Showcase

Art, Dance, and Music

ENJOY A SUMMER NIGHT OF JAZZ AND DANCE at TWO-TIME GRAMMY AWARD WINNER TED NASH and internationally known choreographer and dancer Vanessa Isaac will share their inspiration when they are featured in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Summer Sets/Summer Steps, an event inspired by the exhibition Modern Life: A Global Artworld, 1850-1950. Gather between 5 and 6pm on Sunday, July 6th to enjoy music and dance on the Museum’s Front Terrace during this free event. Local drummer Ed Smith, Los Angeles bassist Trey Henry, and guitarist Anthony Wilson will join saxophonist and composer Nash. SBMA.net

CINEMA

“The Long Kiss” & “Fish People”: Refugio State Beach • for families with children and nature film enthusiasts seeking to experience cinema under the stars • Refugio State Beach Park 10 Refugio Beach Rd • Free • naturetrackfilmfestival.org • 8pm, Sat, 6/28.

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CALENDAR

Continued

5th of July with More Energy • Rooftop party, sunset, city views, and great music! • Kimpton Canary, 31 W Carillo St • $20 • sbscchamber.com • 6pm, Sat, 7/5.

Sunday 7/6

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Empathy Cafe • practice listening & empathy • Riviera Theatre upstairs • Free • theempathycenter.org • 11am Sun.

OUTDOORS

Mujeres Makers Market • SB Trust for Historical Preservation presents vendors, food options & vibes • El Presidio • sbthp.org • 10am4pm, 1st Sun.

Domingo Tour • presented by AFSB • guided stroll through SB’s Architectural charm • begins at SB Downtown Library • $20 • afsb.org • 10am Sun.

Sundays At The Ranch • Barn animals, outdoor fun & tractor rides! GV Hist. Society, 304 N. Los Carneros Rd • Free First Sunday Concerts! • 11am – 2pm Sun.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Summer Sets/Summer Steps • A summer night of art, jazz, and dance • SB Museum of Art • Free • sbma.net • 5-6pm, Sun, 7/6.

To have your events included in VOICE Magazine's calendar or arts listings, please email info to Calendar@ VoiceSB.com by noon the Monday before publication.

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PUBLIC NOTICE – June 2025

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, the Finance Department of the City of Santa Barbara, County of Santa Barbara, State of California, declares that the following monetary sums have been held by the City of Santa Barbara and have remained unclaimed in the funds hereafter indicated for a period of over three (3) years and will become the property of the City of Santa Barbara on the fourth (4th) day of August, 2025, a date not less than forty-five (45) days or more than sixty (60) days after the first publication of this Notice.

Any party of interest may, prior to the date designated herein above, file a claim with the City’s Finance Department which includes the claimant’s name, address and telephone number, Social Security Number or Federal Employer Identification Number, amount of claim, the grounds on which the claim is founded. The Unclaimed Money Claim Form can be obtained from the City’s Finance Office at 735 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara, CA 93102, or from the City’s website at https://santabarbaraca.gov/escheatment. Proof of identity such as a copy of a driver’s license, social security card or birth certificate may be required before funds will be released. Funds will be reimbursed via check mailed to address on file at the time. Please contact the City of Santa Barbara, Finance Department at (805) 564-5359 with any questions.

This notice and its contents are in accordance with California Government Code Sections 50050 et seq. Check Check Amount

Date Number Payee ($) Fund

7/29/2021 730884 1031 Del Sol LLC 37.00 General Fund

1/20/2022 737144 3 SIDES CLEAR LLC 599.71 General Fund

1/3/2022 736573 Aaron Kopperman 125.00 General Fund

10/7/2021 733428 ACME 702 ANACAPA Downtown STREET LLC 116.78 Parking Fund

7/1/2021 729786 Ademola Adamolekun 150.00 General Fund

12/2/2021 735600 Adriana Campo 300.00 General Fund

6/4/2021 671101 AISPURO, HIPOLITO 188.95 General Fund

2/17/2022 738150 ALEJANDRO S GUERENA 82.50 General Fund

7/29/2021 730803 Alexa Everson 39.00 General Fund

6/24/2021 729199 Alexandra Jasso 15.00 General Fund

8/19/2021 731601 ALLEGIANT 39.55 General Fund

10/14/2021 733666 ALPHONSO SANCHEZ 215.00 General Fund

9/23/2021 732800 Amazon SB Team 300.00 General Fund

9/2/2021 732184 Andrew Weed 41.00 Water Operating Fund

9/2/2021 732164 Anikouchine & Associates 186.94 General Fund

2/17/2022 738113 ANNA KARCZAG 384.64 Water Operating Fund

1/27/2022 737577 Araceli Aguilera 1105.00 Fleet Maintenance Fund

3/24/2022 739582 Araceli Aguilera 150.00 Fleet Maintenance Fund

6/17/2021 728897 ARNOLD KNUDSON 61.96 General Fund

6/24/2021 729206 Arturo Serrano 125.00 General Fund

6/10/2021 728573 Ashley Medina 75.00 General Fund

5/12/2022 741317 Avanti 100.00 Downtown Parking Fund

7/29/2021 730810 Backroads Utah 125.00 General Fund

9/24/2021 672826 BARRERA, IVAN G 190.71 Thomas Fire/Debris Dec17-Jan18

3/11/2022 674908 BELL, WALKER 61.06 General Fund

3/24/2022 739311 Blanca Rangel 24.00 General Fund

4/21/2022 740380 Blanca Rangel 125.00 General Fund

6/10/2021 728574 Bonnie Beedles 199.00 General Fund

7/29/2021 730813 Bree Williams 75.00 General Fund

9/23/2021 732806 Brigitte DeGiacomi 188.00 General Fund

1/27/2022 737352 Bryan R. Smith 17.29 General Fund

7/1/2021 729540 Carey Caulfield 750.00 General Fund

4/14/2022 740052 Carly Barnes 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/14/2022 740053 Carly Barnes 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/14/2022 740054 Carly Barnes 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

10/28/2021 734289 CHANG LEE 148.32 Solid Waste Fund

9/16/2021 732626 Chris Thierfelder 19.00 General Fund

10/14/2021 733692 Chris Thierfelder 75.00 General Fund

4/28/2022 740779 CHRISTIAN ECKERT 40.00 General Fund

9/2/2021 732119 Christopher Thomas 125.00 General Fund

6/24/2021 729181 Corey Basehore 84.00 General Fund

1/20/2022 737154 County of Santa BarbaraGeneral Services 445.00 General Fund

9/23/2021 732811 Courtney Bell 125.00 General Fund

7/15/2021 730242 Cristian Soto 20.00 General Fund

12/3/2021 673720 CRUZ, ALEXANDER J 148.78 General Fund

1/3/2022 736584 Dane St. George 75.00 General Fund

3/24/2022 739321 Daniel Kennedy 125.00 General Fund

8/5/2021 731163 Daniela Lorenzano 39.00 General Fund

4/21/2022 740352 DeMoney, Scott 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/21/2022 740353 DeMoney, Scott 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/21/2022 740354 DeMoney, Scott 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/21/2022 740355 DeMoney, Scott 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/21/2022 740356 DeMoney, Scott 320.00 Downtown Parking Fund

11/18/2021 735118 Denver Chavez 150.00 General Fund

4/7/2022 740042 Devon Wardlow 50.00 General Fund

5/5/2022 741269 Devon Wardlow 100.00 General Fund

4/21/2022 740357 Dixson, Madison 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund Check Check Amount Date Number Payee ($) Fund

4/21/2022 740358 Dixson, Madison 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/21/2022 740359 Dixson, Madison 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/21/2022 740360 Dixson, Madison 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/21/2022 740361 Dixson, Madison 160.00 Downtown Parking Fund

4/14/2022 740069 DON’T WONDER PRODUCTIONS

8/19/2021 731603 EAD INVESTMENT LLC

4/28/2022 740669 EAN HOLDINGS LLC 706.00 General Fund

12/23/2021 736216 Edgar Ramirez

7/8/2021 729798 Efrain Lopez

12/16/2021 735956 EMILIE ELZEIN

9/30/2021 733137 Erica Monson 50.00 General Fund

4/14/2022 740070 ESTRELLA EMPORIUM LLC 18.20 General Fund

12/17/2021 674028 FRAUSTO, ROSE M 260.36 Measure D

1/14/2022 674254 FRAUSTO, ROSE M

2/11/2022 674553 FRAUSTO, ROSE M

3/11/2022 674873 FRAUSTO, ROSE M

1/28/2022 674402 GALLAGHER, STELLA R 442.17

5/12/2022 741287 GFO LLC

12/23/2021 736197 GROUPE LARGENT LLC

2/11/2022 674474 HOFFMAN, BARRETT D 248.80 General Fund

12/16/2021 735938 Homer Kanevsky

1/13/2022 736894 Homer Kanevsky

6/24/2021 729185 Iurii Khodov

11/18/2021 735101 Jack Buttler

4/21/2022 740363 Jain, Anisha

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7/29/2021 730793 JAMES BROWN OR 22.00 General Fund

4/21/2022 740364 Janssen, Ruben 960.00 Downtown Parking Fund

8/26/2021 731845 Jennifer Hinrichs 40.00 General Fund

1/3/2022 736552 JEROME WILLIAMS 195.00 General Fund

4/21/2022 740365 Johnson, Taylor 960.00 Downtown Parking Fund

12/2/2021 735626 Jose Munoz 541.00 General Fund

2/10/2022 737868 JOSEPH R DI BARTOLOMEO 39.00 General Fund

3/24/2022 739337 JP Morgan Chase 380.00 General Fund

7/29/2021 730840 Julie Fishman

General Fund

8/12/2021 731397 Kaitlyn Shorrock 54.00 General Fund

10/21/2021 734003 KAREN KEARSLEY 34.34 Water Operating Fund

5/19/2022 741552 KAYLEN JELINSKE 22.00 General Fund

12/16/2021 736114 Kevin Moore 100.00 General Fund

7/8/2021 729816 Kim Simi 275.00 General Fund

2/10/2022 737871 LA PALOMA CAFE 100.00 General Fund

6/24/2021 729221 Laurel Wilke 90.00 General Fund

9/30/2021 733152 LeAnn Ashton 15.00 General Fund

1/3/2022 736603 Lisa Jevbratt 125.00 General Fund

7/8/2021 730009 LITTLE CAESAR’S PIZZA 160.00 General Fund

6/4/2021 671102 MAC NEVIN, DONALD A 180.84 General Fund

7/2/2021 671563 MAC NEVIN, DONALD A 180.84 General Fund

8/13/2021 672288 MAC NEVIN, DONALD A 180.84 General Fund

12/3/2021 673843 MAC NEVIN, DONALD A 180.84 General Fund

3/11/2022 674918 MAC NEVIN, DONALD A 180.84 General Fund

3/25/2022 675063 MAGUIRE, CARLO J 238.96 COVID-19 Pandemic

1/13/2022 736929 Maria Sjoting 22.00 General Fund

10/14/2021 733675 MARK LYONS

3/10/2022 738710 Men’s Wearhouse

6/3/2021 728358 Mike Shimer

General Fund

Downtown Parking Fund

General Fund

5/12/2022 741314 Million, Colleen 105.00 Downtown Parking Fund

5/26/2022 741830 Ministerio Monte Sinai 294.00 General Fund

10/21/2021 734038 Miranda Andrade 30.00 General Fund

8/26/2021 731856 Mirthe Peutz

7/8/2021 729835 NICK’S HOME & APPLIANCE SVCS

3/30/2022 739641 Nora Bohn

7/2/2021 671516 NORTON, MADISON O 24.33 General Fund

3/11/2022 674851 ORDONEZ ZARCO, ALONDRA J 650.02 Thomas Fire/Debris Dec17-Jan18

6/24/2021 729247 Palihouse

5/12/2022 741304 PATRICK HIMES

12/2/2021 735655 PETSMART (BLL)

7/29/2021 730800 PHIYADA SINPRU 22.00

735085 RALPH REDDINGER 50.00 General Fund 2/17/2022 738131 RANCHERIA VILLAGE APTS, LP 142.48 Water

9/23/2021 732843 Richard Pertsulakes 1521.48 Waterfront

740750 Rick

672094

675089 RODORACIO, WILLIAM A 324.20 General Fund

1/3/2022 736743 Roxana Bonderson 100.00 General Fund 2/10/2022 738061 Roxana Bonderson 100.00 General Fund 8/19/2021 731600 Roy Hildestad 410.88 Waterfront Operating Fund

9/10/2021 672758 SALMERON, NELSON

3/30/2022 739644 Sandra Flores

8/5/2021 731188 Sandra Soria

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6/17/2021 729073 Santa Barbara Police Managers Assoc

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740495 Santa

5/19/2022 741557 SAUL MALDONADO

730870 Shelby Messner 566.00 General Fund

7/29/2021 730871 Shira Kupperman Boehler 217.00 General Fund

12/16/2021 735965 Sonia Takeuchi 45.00 Water Operating Fund

2/3/2022 737626 Sprint 592.00 General Fund

7/29/2021 730614 State of California 453.56 Wildland Fire Suppress Assesmt 4/7/2022 739880 State of California

General Fund 4/7/2022 739881 State of California 74.00 General Fund 7/15/2021 730270 Stephanie Uribe 93.00 General Fund 10/7/2021 733417 Steven McIntosh 75.00 General Fund

9/16/2021 732644 Susi Vasquez 300.00 General Fund

8/12/2021 731407 Tammy Rodriguez 24.00 General Fund

3/24/2022 739390 Tanja Kristin Guske 30.00 General Fund

4/28/2022 740769 THE MAY FIRM INC 48.86 General Fund

11/4/2021 734580 Tiny Village Picnic Co. 50.00 General Fund

4/8/2022 675164 URQUIZA, JULIANA E 428.50 Thomas Fire/Debris Dec17-Jan18

5/5/2022 741024 Vanessa Balcazar 300.00 General Fund

7/29/2021 730875 Vanessa Kuroda 150.00 General Fund

1/28/2022 674429 VILLEGAS, JACOB D 539.48 Winter Storm - January 2023

2/11/2022 674617 VILLEGAS, JACOB D 818.74 Winter Storm - January 2023

11/4/2021 734596 WARBLER RECORDS 294.00 General Fund

9/2/2021 732258 West Marine

734311 WILD WOOD KITCHEN

735342 WILLIAM MOLLIE 527.24 Water Operating Fund 2/17/2022 738138 WILLIAM MOLLIE 400.00 Water Operating Fund

4/21/2022 740432 zenitra kumar 125.00 General Fund

7/1/2021 729575 Zoe Michael 30.00 County Library

9/10/2021 672731 STEELMAN, ASHER V 27.79 General Fund 4/8/2022 675196 BAHAMONDE-PARTLAN, ISABEL 101.06 General Fund

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THANK YOU!

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who made the 51st Annual Solstice Parade and Festival another whimsical, creative and fun celebration of collective joy!

Thank you to everyone who attended and enjoyed the celebration, making our community a better and more vibrant place for us to live, by connecting, collaborating and being part of this big, special and unique part of the DNA of our community Solstice reflects who we are as a community!

Thank you Artistic Director Riccardo Morrison, the Parade Coordination and Tech Team, artists-in-residence, workshop assistants, logistical, admin and technical staff, dancers, parade participants, ensemble leaders, media, makers, musicians and volunteers who are the backbone of the parade!

Thank you to our supporters, donors and sponsors Thanks again to Santa Barbara Beautiful for the Portal in the Park and float wheels; and Santa Barbara Bowl for sponsoring the CommUnity Stage and young artists.

Eric Lassen 1936-2025

The 2025 Solstice Parade was dedicated to Eric Lassen Thank you Eric Lassen for your support for Solstice, the arts and our community throughout the years!

Thank you to our Mayor, City Council and other local dignitaries in the Pass the Hat Ensemble in the Parade. Thank you to the Police and Fire - and all City employees who work hard to keep us safe.

Thank you to our new Festival Director Olivia Sorgman and her rockin’ team.

Thank you to the amazing bands and performers at the Festival from Friday Kick-Off through Saturday Solstice to Reggae Sunday. Thank you to all those artists who donated their time and talent, and to all the arts, crafts and food vendors in the Festival marketplace.

Thank you Executive Director Penny Little for keeping it all together

Thank you to Board President Justin Gunn and our Board of Directors and Advisory Board.

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Senegal Date Palm ~ Phoenix reclinata

By David Gress / Special to VOICE

SENEGAL DATE PALM is stunning in the landscape. Its multiple trunks spread outward gracefully, creating the ambiance of a lush tropical oasis.

It has been planted in the Santa Barbara community since the late 1800s. It was available for purchase through the 1893 mail-order catalogue of Ralph Kinton Steven’s retail plant nursery, which was located on what is now the grounds of Ganna Walska Lotusland, where a large grove of old specimens still stands.

Senegal Date Palm is distinctive from other palms in that it has multiple trunks growing from the base of a single plant. The trunks are slender (4- to 8-inches in diameter) and tall (from 25- to 40-feet in height).

and frond bases. With age, the trunks shed these fibers and old fronds to expose a rough light-gray surface.

Senegal Date Palm is endemic to tropical and subtropical Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoros Islands. It is usually seen in riparian areas with abundant water - but can also be found on dry rocky hillsides and grasslands.

Part of the Arecaceae (palm) plant family, its botanical name is Phoenix reclinata. The genus name, Phoenix, is Greek and means “date palm.” The specific epithet, reclinata, is Latin and means “leaning” or “reclining.”

Close crowding of the trunks results in the younger ones leaning at a strong angle away from the base - often almost horizontally - for many feet.

Each trunk is crowned with bright-green, arching, pinnate (feather-like) fronds (10- to 20feet long and 2- to 3-feet wide). Each frond has up to 80 leaflets (up to 15-inches long and 1-inch wide) on each side of its midline – so, up to 160 leaflets per frond! The leaflets are stiff, pointed, smooth and shiny on the top sides, and wooly or scaly on the bottom sides. Fair warning: lower leaflets can become dangerously sharp spines.

In its native habitat, indigenous people have traditionally utilized Senegal Date Palm for a variety of purposes, including food from the fruits and palm hearts, palm wine from the sap, carpets and brooms from the leaf fibers, and dye from the roots.

Senegal Date Palm is easy to grow here, as it is well-suited to our Mediterranean climate. It adapts to many types of soil and can survive light frost and salt spray. It is drought tolerant - but looks better with occasional watering. It performs best in full sun - but can accept partial shade. It is low maintenance, except for pruning to remove old/ discolored fronds and for picking up the fruit that falls beneath female palms. In confined areas, it can be pruned to a single trunk. It is simple to propagate from seed, germinating in one or two months.

Senegal Date Palm is “dioecious”, which means that male flowers occur on one palm and female flowers occur on a separate palm. In June through July, both male flowers and female flowers develop on their inflorescences (flowerbearing stems), which emerge from within the frond crown, are 3-feet long, are multiplebranched, and are initially protected by boatshaped spathes that will then dry and split to release the developed flowers out into the air. Pollination is primarily done by bees.

After pollination, female flowers develop their fruits, which hang in large clusters of bright orange dates that ripen to become brown or reddish black in color. The fruits are technically “drupes”, because they each bear a single seed inside a layer of flesh and a thin outer skin. They do resemble commercial dates that are sold for human consumption - but are smaller (only 1-inch in length). While edible by humans, they lack the sweetness and soft flesh of commercial dates. However, birds and rodents still find them delightfully tasty - and disperse the seeds.

Young trunks are covered in brown fibers

Like all other palms in the genus Phoenix, there can be considerable variability in trunk size and growth habit, because such closely-related palms freely hybridize with each other. A pure-bred P. reclinata may be hard to find.

Senegal Date Palm is a handsome palm that can provide a dramatic focal point in any landscape, if provided with sufficient room for its size and shape at maturity. In our area, it is perfect for parks, commercial landscapes, and larger private gardens.

Mature Senegal Date Palms can be seen in East and West Alameda Parks, in Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden, in Vera Cruz Park, in Chase Palm Park, on the grounds of the County Court House, around the Cabrillo Pavilion, at Ganna Walska Lotusland along the Great Lawn, and in the landscaping at the harbor.

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Earthquake Centennial

Exhibition commemorates the centennial of the Santa Barbara Earthquake with hundreds of photographs, newspaper clippings, and artifacts.

By Isaac Hernández de Lipa / VOICE

WHEN

AN EARTHQUAKE SHOOK SANTA BARBARA

AT 6:42AM, ON JUNE 29, 1925, “first with a big jolt, as the fault dropped, and then rolling from East to West, for 19 seconds,” Neal Graffy, curator of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum’s 1925! Santa Barbara Remembers The Earthquake recounts that having one’s story in a museum 100 years later probably didn’t cross their minds.

Eleven people lost their lives that morning. But it could have been much worse. William N. Engle, night watchman at the Edison Power Plant on Castillo St. (where Pershing Park is now) must have thought of the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed more than 80 percent of San Francisco and ran to shut down power to the city “as the room and walls collapsed around him,” as the label reads next to the famous switch featured in the exhibit, which was donated by Russel Ruiz in 1972. At the same time as Engle, Henry Ketz of the Gas Company was shutting down the gas, saving our town from tremor-caused fires.

A highlight of the exhibit are 17 magnificent testimonies of earthquake survivors, recently digitized, edited and posted online at: https:// soundcloud.com/gledhill-library-200509729/ sets/1925-santa-barbara-remembers

“Many people cooked and slept outside due to aftershocks that lasted throughout the summer,” said Emily Alessio, Director of Education, to VOICE. “We are fortunate to have the actual words of earthquake survivors preserved in oral history recordings.”

“It was the first Monday after the schools had been closed for summer holiday,” recounts Margaret Mellinger Griffin, whose father was in the City Council, in one of those recordings. She remembers how the house shook, as they went down the stairs and onto the street in their night clothes. “I can’t believe that my mother would go outside in her night clothes! With a robe, of course.” Her father rescued a woman who had been crushed by her chimney. My birthday being on the 30th of July, I recall the only present I got was one orange and one plum. There were no stores open to get anybody a birthday present.”

“As soon as we got our wits together, Daddy got us into the car in our nighties, let’s go downtown and see what’s happening,” says Heartie Look in another recording. “I remember seeing the San Marcos Building, and that was pretty pathetic. And then we got all the way down at the end of State Street. And there was the hotel that had a whole wall that fell off. It looked like a dollhouse. It was funny. Apparently I think there was a man taking a bath when the whole wall fell off.”

The exhibit includes hundreds of scans from the extensive collection of the Museum’s Gledhill Library including over 100 digitized lantern slides never seen before, and other artifacts like the cracked seal of the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce. There’s also a Then & Now projection of pictures of damaged buildings which scroll to show the same location today. Yours truly took the 2025 photos. Santa Barbara rose from the rubble to adopt the Spanish Mediterranean architectural style. “It was also a pivotal time,” said curator Graffy, “because without a fire, engineers, seismologists, architects, and contractors had the chance to look at a city damaged by an earthquake and see what survived and what didn’t. We can look to the Santa Barbara earthquake as setting part of the guidelines for the seismic retrofitting that we do today.”

Admission to 1925! Santa Barbara Remembers the Earthquake is free. The exhibition is on view through July 6th. sbhistorical.org

Residents slept outside much of the summer as aftershocks rattled the community.

Artifacts found in the rubble of the San Marcos Building Red Cross station on the lawn outside the damaged library.

Firemen and workers removing the third floor of the Morning Press building at 813 State Street.

Santa Barbara Junior High School (previously the high school) at the NE corner of De la Vina and Anapamu Streets.

The Santa Barbara Motor Co. Studebaker Dealership at 320-322 State Street

Ruins of the San Marcos Building at the SW corner of State and Anapamu Streets. Dr. James C. Angle and Sigismundo Mosteiro died here.

Curator Neal Graffy

Photos courtesy of Santa Barbara Historical Museum

Photo by Isaac Hernández de Lipa

Ralph Waterhouse

Waterhouse Gallery

La Arcada at State & Figueroa Santa Barbara • 805-962-8885 www.waterhousegallery.com

10 West Gallery • Engaging the Muse through Aug 10 • 10 W Anapamu • 11-5 We-Mo • 805-7707711 • 10westgallery.com

ART EVENTS

La Cumbre Plaza 3rd

Friday Gallery Row Art Walk • 5 galleries, music, art activities, & more! • 5-8pm Fri, 6/20. (See page 25 for details)

Opening Reception • plucked from a dream: Work By 9 Local Artists • Indah Gallery • 5-7pm Thu, 6/26.

Santa Barbara’s 1st Thursday • A cultural night out • see pages 16 & 17.

Opening Reception • Between Earth and Sky by Photographer Deborah Kalas • Gallery Los Olivos 2920 Grand Ave Los Olivos • Free • Gallerylosolivos.com • 1-3pm, Sat, 7/5.

Opening Reception • To Fluidity and Beyond • Work by Chris Jeszeck • Cypress Gallery, 119 E Cypress Ave, Lompoc • Free • www.lompocart.org • 1-3pm, Sun, 7/6.

ART VENUES

Architectural Fdn Gallery •

Marcia Rickard: Gimme Shelter ~ through Aug 9 • 229 E Victoria • 805-965-6307 • 1–4 some Sa & By Appt • afsb.org

Art & Soul Gallery • Blue Skies & Shimmering Seas: Brad Betts: through Jul 20 • 1323 State St • artandsoulsb.com

Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB • Reopens Sept 13 • museum.ucsb.edu

Art From Scrap • Explore Ecology: Environmental Educ. & Artistic Expression • exploreecology.org

The Arts Fund • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S Hope Av #F119 • through June • 11-5 We-Su; Free Fri • 805-233-3395 • artsfundsb.org

Atkinson Gallery, SBCC • gallery.sbcc.edu

Bella Rosa Galleries • 1103-A State St • 11-5 daily • 805-966-1707

The Carriage and Western Art Museum • SB History Makers

Exhibit: Silsby Spalding, WW Hollister, Dixie; Saddle & Carriage Collections • Free • 129 Castillo St • 805-962-2353 • 9-3 Mo-Fr • carriagemuseum.org

California Nature Art Museum

805-565-5653 • casadelherrero.com

Casa Dolores • Bandera Ware / traditional outfits ~ ongoing • 1023 Bath St • 12-4 Tu-Sa • 805-963-1032 • casadolores.org

Channing Peake Gallery • Form and Frame: Abstraction, Community, and the Language of Art • 105 E Anapamu St, 1st fl • 805-568-3994

Colette Cosentino Atelier + Gallery • 11 W Anapamu St • By Appt • colettecosentino.com

Community Arts Workshop • 631 Garden St • 10-6pm Fri & By Appt. • sbcaw.org

Corridan Gallery • La Primavera

- The Early Spring by James Paul Brown; James Paul Brown A Joyful Vision & gallery artists • 125 N Milpas • 11-5 We-Sa • 805-966-7939 • corridan-gallery.com

CPC Gallery • By appt • 36 E Victoria St • cpcgallery.com

Cypress Gallery • To Bamboo! through Jun 29; To Fluidity and Beyond by Chris Jeszeck • Jul 3 to 27 • 119 E Cypress Av, Lompoc • 1-4 Sa & Su • 805-737-1129 • lompocart.org

Elizabeth Gordon Gallery • Contemporary Artists • 15 W Gutierrez • 805-963-1157 • 11–5 TuSa • elizabethgordongallery.com

El Presidio De Santa Bárbara

• Nihonmachi Revisited; Memorias y Facturas • 123 E Canon Perdido St • 10:30-4:30 Daily • sbthp.org

Elverhøj Museum • Cloth as Canvas ~ 11 local artists through Jul 6 • the history and Danish culture of Solvang & promoting the arts • 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang • 805-6861211 • 11-5 Th-Mo • elverhoj.org

Faulkner Gallery • 40 E Anapamu St • 10-7 Mo-Th; 10-5 Fri, Sa; 12-5 Sun • 805-962-7653.

Fazzino 3-D Studio Gallery • 3-D original fine art • 529 State St • 805-730-9109 • Fazzino.com

Gallery 113 • SB Art Assn • 1114 State St, #8, La Arcada Ct • 805965-6611 • 11-5 Mo-Sa; 1-4 Su • gallery113sb.com

gracefisherfoundation.org

Indah Gallery • Plucked from a dream June 27-Aug 3 • 12-5 Fri-Sun • 2190 N Refugio Rd, Santa Ynez https://www.maxgleason.com/indah-gallery

James Main Fine Art • 19th & 20th Century Fine art & antiques • 27 E De La Guerra St • 12-5 Tu-Sa • Appt Suggested • 805-962-8347

Jewish Federation of Greater SB • Portraits of Survival interactive ~ Ongoing • 9-4pm Mo-Fr • 524 Chapala St • 805-957-1115 ext. 114

Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum • The Stamp Act: Manuscripts of the American Revolution ~ through Jun 30 • 21-23 W Anapamu • 10-4 TuSu • 805-962-5322 • karpeles.com

Kathryne Designs • Local Artists • 1225 Coast Village Rd, A • 10-5 Mo-Sa; 11-5 Su • 805-565-4700 • kathrynedesigns.com

Kelly Clause Art • Watercolors of Sea & Land • 28 Anacapa St, #B • Most weekdays 12-5 • kellyclause.com

La Cumbre Center For Creative Arts : Fine Line Gallery; Elevate Gallery; Illuminations Gallery • Multi-Artist Stuido/Gallery Spaces • La Cumbre Plaza • 12-5 Tu-Su • lcccasb.com

Marcia Burtt Gallery • Highs and Lows and Manny Lopez through Jun 29 • Landscape paintings, prints & books • 517 Laguna St • 1-5 Th-Su • 805-962-5588 • artlacuna.com

MOXI, The Wolf Museum• of Exploration + Innovation • 10-5 Daily • 125 State St • 805-770-5000 • moxi.org

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara • Arte del Pueblo through Jul 27 • 11-6pm Tu-Sun • 653 Paseo Nuevo • mcasantabarbara.org

MCASB Satellite @ the Riviera Beach House • In Motion: Marie McKenzie & Marlene Struss through Oct 12 • 9am-9pm Daily • 121 State St • mcasantabarbara.org

Museum of Sensory & Movement Experiences • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S. Hope Av #F119 • through June • seehearmove.com

SB Arts & Crafts Show • Local artists & artisans

• Yosemite: Sanctuary in Stone, Photographs by William Neill through Sep 1 • 1511 B Mission Dr, Solvang • 11-4 Mo, Th, Fr; 11-5 Sa & Su • calnatureartmuseum.org

Free

236 E Cabrillo Blvd • 10-5 Sun.

Carpinteria Creative

Arts Market • Local pottery, beach art, cards, jewelry, and sewn articles • 8th St & Linden Av • Free • 2:30-6 Thur.

Casa de La Guerra • Telling Stories of Mexican California: Real Life & Myth Making • June 26-Aug 31 • $5/ Free • 15 East De la Guerra St • 12-4 Th-Su • sbthp.org/casadelaguerra

Casa del Herrero • Gardens & House • by reservation • 1387 East Valley Rd • tours 10 & 2 We & Sa •

Gallery Los Olivos • In Full Bloom: Susan Kounanis through Jun 30 • Daily 10-4pm • 2920 Grand Av • 805-6887517 • gallerylosolivos.com

Ganna Walska Lotusland • Gardens • by reservation • 695 Ashley Rd • 805-969-9990 • lotusland.org

Grace Fisher Fdn • Inclusive Arts Clubhouse • Paintings by Grace Fisher • 121 S Hope, La Cumbre Plaza • We-Su 11-5pm •

Lompoc Library Grossman Gallery • 501 E North Av, Lompoc • 805-588-3459

Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center • A Piece of Carpinteria • through Aug 3 • 12-4 Th-Su • 865 Linden • 805-684-7789 • carpinteriaartscenter.org

Maker House • Slingshot/Alpha Art Studio Exhibition • 1351 Holiday Hill Rd • 805-565-CLAY • 10-4 Daily • claystudiosb.org

Carpinteria

ART VENUES • CONTINUED

Palm Loft Gallery • 410 Palm Av, Loft A1, Carpinteria • 1-6 Fr-Su & By Appt • 805-684-9700 • palmloft.com

Patricia Clarke Studio • 410 Palm Av, Carpinteria • By Appt • 805-4527739 • patriciaclarkestudio.com

Peregrine Galleries • Early CA & American paintings; fine vintage jewelry • 1133 Coast Village Rd • 805-252-9659 • peregrine.shop

Peter Horjus Design • Studio • 11 W Figueroa St • peterhorjus.com

Portico Gallery • Jordan Pope & Gallery Artists • Open Daily • 1235 Coast Village Rd • 805-729-8454 • porticofinearts.com

Santa Barbara Art Works • Arts Education for All • 28 E Victoria St • 805-260-6705 • M-F 8:30-4:30 • sbartworks.org

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden •

Join the Enlichenment through Dec 7 • 1212 Mission Canyon Rd • 10-5 daily • 805-682-4726 • sbbg.org

Santa Barbara Fine Art • SB landscapes & sculptor Bud Bottoms • 1321 State St • 12-6 Tu-Sa & By Appt • 805-845-4270 • santabarbarafineart.com

Santa Barbara Historical Museum • 1925: Santa Barbara Remmebers the Earthquake through Jul 6; Don Louis Perceval: His Vision of the West through Aug 17; Edward Borein Gallery and The Story of Santa Barbara ~ ongoing • 136 E De la Guerra • 12-5 We, Fri-Su; 12-7 Th • 805-966-1601 • sbhistorical.org

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum • The Swiftest Recovery: Island Fox Chronicles through Aug 24; The Chumash, Whaling, Commercial Diving, Surfing, Shipwrecks, First Order Fresnel Lens, and SB Lighthouse Women Keepers ~ Ongoing • 113 Harbor Wy, Ste 190 • 10-5 Daily • 805-962-8404 • SBMM.org

Santa Barbara Museum Of Art • Math + Art through Aug 24 • Sea of Ice: Echoes of the European Romantic Era through Aug 24; Proscenium: Elliott Hundley through Aug 31; By Achilles’ Tomb: Elliott Hundley and Antiquity @ SBMA through Feb 22; Vian Sora: Outerworlds through Sept 7; Letterforms through Sep 14; Guides to Enlightenment: Tibetan Paintings through Aug 17 • 1130 State St • 11-5 Tu-Su; 5-8 1st Th free; 2nd Sun free TriCo residents • 805-963-4364 • sbma.net

Santa Barbara Museum Of Natural History • Butterflies Alive! through Sep 1 ; Drawn from Nature: Antique Prints through Sep 7 • 2559 Puesta del Sol • 10-5 We-Mo • sbnature.org

Santa Barbara Sea Center • Dive In: Our Changing Channel ~ Ongoing • 211 Stearns Wharf • 10-5 Daily (Fr & Sat 10-7 until 7/27). • 805-6824711 • sbnature.org

Santa Barbara Tennis Club - 2nd Fridays Art • Aquatic ~ through June 29 • 2375 Foothill Rd • 10-6 Daily • 805-682-4722 • 2ndfridaysart.com

Sahyun Genealogical Library

• 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake: Stories and Lives Remembered. 316 Castillo St • Tue/Thu 10-4; Sun & 3rd Sat 1-4 • https://SBGen.org

Slice of Light Gallery • Ben Coffman Exhibit; PassagePhotography by JK Lovelace • 9 W Figueroa St • Mo-Fr 10-5 • 805-3545552 • sliceoflight.com

Stewart Fine Art • Early CA Plein Air Paintings + European Fine Art + Antiques • 539 San Ysidro Rd • 115:30 Mo-Sa • 805-845-0255

WITH PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1925 EARTHQUAKE, City to Rise Again on Ruins, is a special exhibit on view June 28 through June 30 at the Santa Barbara Public Library’s Faulkner Gallery from noon to 4pm. Featuring images from the Edson Smith Photo Collection alongside newspaper clippings, rare ephemera,, and archival footage, the display captures the devastation and resilience that shaped Santa Barbara’s rebuilding.

As part of the EQ25 commemoration, the exhibit presents new research and a vivid look at a pivotal moment in the city’s history.

Sullivan Goss • Leslie Lewis Sigler: Kindred through 7/28; I; Summer Salon through July 28; JARDIN DE RÊVES: Lotusland Celebrates at Sullivan Goss • Jun 27 through Jul 28 • 11 E Anapamu St • 10-5:30 daily • 805-730-1460 • sullivangoss.com

Susan Quinlan Doll & Teddy Bear Museum • 122 W Canon Perdido • 11-4 Fr-Sa; Su-Th by appt • quinlanmuseum.com • 805-687-4623

SYV Historical Museum & Carriage House • Art of The Western Saddle ongoing • 3596 Sagunto St, SY • 12-4 Sa, Su • 805688-7889 • santaynezmuseum.org

Tamsen Gallery • Reminiscence’ by Loan Chabanol; Work by Robert W. Firestone • 1309 State St • 12-5 We-Su • 805-705-2208 • tamsengallery.com

UCSB Library • Creative Currents through Sep 16 • library.ucsb.edu

Voice Gallery • Santa Barbara Art Association through 6/28 • La Cumbre Plaza H-124 • 10-5:30 M-F; 1-5 Sa-Su • 805-965-6448 • voicesb.art

Waterhouse Gallery Montecito • Notable CA & National Artists • 1187 Coast Village Rd • 11-5 Mo-Su • 805962-8885 • waterhousegallery.com

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Waterhouse Gallery SB • Notable CA & National Artists • La Arcada Ct, 1114 State St, #9 • 11-5 Mo-Sa • 805-962-8885 • waterhousegallery.com

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum Of Art • westmont.edu/museum

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