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White House Denial of Food Funds Elicits Local Solidarity
By Isaac Hernández de Lipa / VOICE
AWHITE HOUSE DECISION
TO DELAY FUNDING FOR FOOD for those in need during the government shutdown has created community solidarity and a wave of efforts to feed people.
In a New York Times report today, November 5th, “Millions of low-income Americans will see staggering cuts and delays to their food stamps this month — with some receiving potentially nothing at all — because of the way that the White House has chosen to pay partial benefits during the government shutdown. For many people enrolled in the program, the losses may soon prove to be far greater and more severe than the Trump administration has publicly acknowledged, underscoring the magnitude of its refusal to fully finance the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the largest federal anti-hunger initiative.”
The local effect of the White House decision will be catastrophic to the over 55,000 people in Santa Barbara County relying on SNAP benefits for food, known in California as CalFresh.
With this information, VOICE decided to listen, and to spoke to local organizations fighting to feed the broader community in the face of this crisis.
“In the Spring, we noticed a distinct drop in the number of people coming to our public Healthy Food Fairs, so we surveyed our clients to learn that 60 percent of our clients say that fear of immigration enforcement prevents them or their family from accessing services. So we decided to change our food distribution format,” commented Lori Lander Goodman, CEO of LEAP.
past the end of this month,” said Erik Talkin, CEO of FoodBank of SBC. “Three quarters of the people receiving benefits are children, seniors, or adults with disabilities. These are the people whose health is being sidelined, the people who the FoodBank has to urgently find enough food for.”
“We’ve seen more families and individuals with food insecurity over the past two months than we have seen in years past,” said Sylvia Barnard, Chief Executive Officer of Good Samaritan Shelter (goodsamaritanshelter.org). “You can sponsor the delivery of a Harvest Box for a family in need. They’re filled with fresh produce grown in their Bridgehouse Farm, by their farm trainees in Good Samaritan’s job training programs. Good Sam is also partnering with KCOY for the Annual Turkey Drive on November 20th.”
The FoodBank of Santa Barbara County (foodbanksbc.org) was already dealing with losing 25 percent of its USDA funding due to federal cuts. With the help of donors, they’d reduced that gap to 14 percent of the eleven million pounds of food they deliver each year through a network of 200 nonprofit partners.
“Current indications from the government are that the government is not committed to even partially funding the program
Both LEAP (leapcentralcoast.org) and Carpinteria Children’s Project (carpchildren. org) provide food, diapers, and other community services. “In moments like these, when families are stretched thin, community is what sustains us,” said Teresa Alvarez, Executive Director of Carpinteria Children’s Project. “Our mission has always been to make sure every child in Carpinteria has the foundation to thrive, no matter what challenges their families are facing.”
Lander Goodman added that LEAP, which distributed 90,703 pounds of food and 61,798 diapers last year, “We now have an emergency food pantry. We’re seeking donations to fill the pantry. Clients in need can come pick up food. We have increased our diaper distribution. And we’ve experienced a 158% increase in demand for immigration related services,
launched a Critical Needs Response Fund, providing grants of up to $50,000 to nonprofits responding to crises in Santa Barbara County.
“By providing timely and targeted support, we can help alleviate the pressures faced by our local nonprofits and residents during times of crisis,” said Jackie Carrera, SBF president and CEO.
Education Center.
Parks and Recreation (sbparksandrec.santabarbaraca.gov) hosts weekly food distributions with no pre-registration required; first come, first served in a bring-yourown-bags format.
compared to last year.”
“Although SNAP is losing funding, the Library’s Community Resource Specialist can help connect patrons with other local services such as the FoodBank and Unity Shoppe,” said Brandon Beaudette, Santa Barbara Public Library Director.
“Appointments for one-onone assistance are available at both the Central and Eastside Libraries.”
The Library also hosts two People’s Pantries, where community members can take what they need and leave what they can.
“In the Spring, we noticed a distinct drop in the number of people coming to our public Healthy Food Fairs, so we surveyed our clients to learn that 60 percent of our clients say that fear of immigration enforcement prevents them or their family from accessing services. So we decided to change our food distribution format.”
- Lori Lander Goodman, CEO, LEAP
Unity Shoppe (unityshoppe.org) is conducting their Season of Hope food drive, collecting non-perishable food items at fire stations through December 12, the day of their 39th Annual Telethon, live on KEYT Channel 3, 5 to 8pm.
At the Organic Soup Kitchen (organicsoupkitchen.org) which provides organic meals for people with medical diagnoses, and to lowincome residents, Founder Anthony Carroccio shared, “For many of the people we serve, SNAP was their last line of defense against hunger. These are our neighbors, seniors, and people with chronic illness, who already live on the edge. With these benefit cuts, many will simply go without food unless we step up as a community.”
In response to a significant uptick in funding requests from organizations that provide essential services, The Santa Barbara Foundation (SBFoundation.org)
At the Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara (girlsincsb.org) Goleta location, the girls help tend and harvest fresh produce onsite. “These elements are part of our focus on nutrition education, gardening, and connecting girls to where their food comes from,” said their CEO Cydney Justman. “By keeping our programs deeply subsidized and free for many families, we allow parents to direct their limited resources toward essential needs. Girls participate in high quality programs without their families having to choose between childcare and putting food on the table. For many families, the affordability and stability of Girls Inc. creates breathing room in their monthly budget when SNAP benefits and other safety net supports are shifting.”
Taylor Swan, Chief Development Officer of the United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County (unitedbg.org), noted, “72 percent of our members are living on or below the poverty line. Through our Zero Hunger Food Program, we provide nutritious meals and snacks every day to hundreds of local youth who rely on our Clubs for nourishment, stability, and care.”
La Casa de la Raza (lacasafounders.org) has recently added a mobile pantry; they also run a community pantry as well as other services through The Restorative Justice
United Way of Santa Barbara County (unitedwaysb.org) offers several community programs “focused on a comprehensive and long-term approach to household security – ensuring families have the tools they need to be resilient at home, at school, and in times of crisis, for people in need referred by their case manager.”
“CalFresh benefits are 100% federally funded and there is no mechanism for the State or the County to provide interim funding for the benefits,” said Santa Barbara County Social Services. “The County will continue to receive and process applications and renewals so that when the federal shutdown ends those delayed benefits can be issued at that time.”
Lander Goodman concluded with, “At this moment, our organization and clients are facing tremendous fear and uncertainty. Our clients are worried about ICE, about the safety of members of their families, and about retaining the benefits they rely upon. During the COVID crisis, we also faced tremendous fear and uncertainty, especially in the beginning. In times of fear and uncertainty, we know that LEAP needs to be a steady presence. We did not and will not retreat from our commitment to serve our community. One big difference is that during the COVID crisis, the government stepped up to support businesses, nonprofits, and families. At this moment, the federal government is removing support.”
Lori Lander Goodman
Photo by Isaac Hernández de Lipa
Photos courtesy of La Casa de la Raza
Feel the Beat of Te Fiti!
EEL THE TROPICAL WARMTH AND WELCOME of Polynesian culture extending an embrace to local children and their families at the Santa Barbara premiere of Disney’s Moana Live-to-Film Concert on Sunday, November 16th at 2pm at the Arlington Theatre. Presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures, the live extravaganza will include a fulllength screening of the movie and a live stage performance with singers, instrumentalists, costumes, and more.
Part of Disney Concerts and AMP Worldwide Disney’s Moana Live-To-Film Concert North American tour, the event’s on-stage musical ensemble is comprised of top Hollywood studio musicians, Polynesian rhythm masters, and vocalists celebrating the music and songs from the award-winning Walt Disney Animation Studios classic. The audience can join in the celebration by coming in costume and singing along at important moments.
Musicians will include Vaea A‘etonu, lead guitar, vocals; Kai Kalama, drum set, percussion; Ryan Keau Kalama, bass, vocals; Erica Kika Parra, Music Director, percussion; Lester Paredes, woodwind; Anthony Kauka Stanley, percussion; Sioeli Tameifuna, percussion; and Nina Sosefina, vocals.
The story of Moana looks to Polynesian history for its roots. Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged
The Fun Starts Early!
Arrive at 1pm for pre-show music and prizes in the Arlington Breezeway with KLITE host Catherine Remak
across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping film about an adventurous teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, Moana (Auli‘i Cravalho) meets the mighty demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson), who guides her in her quest to become a master wayfinder. Together, they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds. Along the way, Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and discovers the one thing she’s always sought: her own identity.
The original Moana score was created by Mark Mancina who teamed up with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa’i.
Disney Concerts is the concert production and licensing division of Disney Music Group, the music arm of The Walt Disney Company. Disney Concerts produces concerts and tours, and licenses Disney music and visual content to symphony orchestras, choruses, choirs and presenters on a worldwide basis. Disney Concerts’ licensed concert packages include a variety of formats, such as “live to film” concerts and themed instrumental and vocal compilation concerts that range from instrumental-only symphonic performances to multimedia productions featuring live vocalists and choir. Featuring concerts from the largest movie franchises in the world – from Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Pixar and 20th Century Studios – current titles include the Star Wars
Lion King, Up, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, and The Muppet Christmas Carol.
The Corporate Event Sponsor is Cottage Children’s Medical Center. Special Thanks to K~LITE 101.7. The UCSB Arts & Lectures 20252026 Season Sponsor is Sara Miller McCune and the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli are 2025-2026 Community Partners.
Film Concert Series, Toy Story, Aladdin, Disney Princess - The Concert, Coco, The
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Santa Barbara Symphony to Bridge Past and Present
Mozart’s Requiem
By Daisy Scott / VOICE
CELEBRATING MOZART’S SOUL-STIRRING REQUIEM by
uniting 100 local voices on the Granada Theatre stage, the Santa Barbara Symphony will deliver its next long-anticipated choral concerts on November 15th and 16th. One of the most hauntingly beautiful works in the classical music canon with great potential for modern connections, Mozart’s Requiem will be thoughtfully paired with the Symphony’s premiere of its specially-commissioned Double Trombone Concerto
While the two works may seem wholly distinct, Music & Artistic Director Nir Kabaretti explained during the season’s preview event that the works complement each other by centering dynamic pairings. In commissioning the concerto, he asked composer Andrea Tarrodi if she could engage with Mozart’s Requiem
“I asked if it would be possible to touch in your music the Tuba mirum, which she did,” said Kabaretti. “It is sort of a dialogue between two instrumentalists. It is beautiful and also looks back to Mozart; it’s really exciting.”
Requiem’s history is as complex as the composition itself. Mozart was commissioned to compose the Requiem to honor a count’s wife after she died at the age of 20. Yet, as fate would have it, Mozart himself died before he could finish the work. Requiem was ultimately completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr and promoted by Mozart’s widow, ensuring that this tour de force was not lost to time.
Its blend of choral and orchestral harmony has elevated the Requiem to become one of the most memorable and best recognized classical works, especially where its compelling Lacrimosa is concerned. So that all audiences may enjoy the work’s lyricism, the Symphony will use supertitles translating Mozart’s Latin.
The orchestra will join forces with the Santa Barbara Symphony Chorus, a singular group of community members united by their shared love of choral music.
rehearsing with the whole orchestra and chorus.
“All of a sudden, you’re inside the music, and it’s so loud and intense and beautiful, and I find myself standing up there singing a requiem—a Catholic mass for the dead—and I’m grinning ear to ear, because I’m so happy and excited and moved by the music that I get to sing,” she laughed. “And then I have to remember during the performance, don’t smile!”
For Dillon MacIntyre, the Symphony’s principal trombonist, the concert will also mark a full circle moment as he plays alongside Christian Lindberg, an internationallycelebrated trombone master who he has long admired. A renowned soloist, Lindberg has premiered hundreds of works for the trombone and played with orchestras around the world.
Nicole Callahan, who also sings with the Quire of Voyces, jumped at the chance to be a part of the Symphony Chorus. A singer since her days with the Santa Barbara High School Madrigals, she has now returned to her hometown from New York, where she taught at Columbia University. She is eager to once again sing with Kabaretti’s expert direction alongside community members, many of whom are also participants in regional choirs.
“I’m just so blown away I get to be doing this, to be performing this caliber of music with this caliber of musicians in a town as small as Santa Barbara,” shared Callahan, who is now Board Vice President for State Street Ballet.
After singing with the Symphony Chorus for Brahms’ A German Requiem last spring, she is eager to once again experience the thrill of
MacIntyre is an established trombonist, having worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Denmark’s Prinsens Musikkorps in addition to Southern California studios for film scores. He has taught at CSU Los Angeles and CSU Northridge.
Interntionally-acclaimed trombonist and guest artist
“It is one of my life missions to show audiences, and also composers, that the trombone can play very lyrically and play soft, delicate melodies just as well as any other instrument can,” shared MacIntyre.
In addition to referencing Requiem, Tarrodi’s Double Trombone Concerto reflects the music she heard in her childhood—including pieces such as Flight of the Bumblebee, which her father, Lindberg himself, has famously performed.
The result is an innovative work that provides what MacIntyre calls “a textural journey,” adding that he feels “Andrea Tarrodi creates paintings through musical imagery.”
Part of this effect rests in the layered entrances of the orchestra’s various instruments as they accompany the central trombones.
“At some points, it’s almost like they’re competing with each other,” said MacIntyre. “One trombone comes in after the other, or one trombone is playing the thematic idea number one, and then the second one kind of interjects with the thematic idea number two. Then, at the end of the piece, we come together.”
The Symphony will also present Kernis’ Musica Celestis, completing the program’s ethereal energy. For tickets visit thesymphony.org
Photo by Mats Bäcker
Photo by Nik Blaskovovich
One hundred community members make up the Santa Barbara Symphony Chorus, who will perform Mozart’s Requiem on November 15th and 16th
SB Symphony Principal Trombonist Dillon MacIntyre
Photo courtesy of SB Symphony
SB Symphony Chours member Nicole Callahan
SB Symphony Music & Artistic Director Nir Kabaretti
Photo courtesy of SB Symphony
Photo courtesy of Nicole Callahan
Photo by Nik Blaskovovich
Christian Lindberg
Master film editor Walter Murch with film studies students
Tuesday, November 11 • 11:00 AM, sharp!
Santa Barbara Cemetery, 901 Channel Drive, Santa Barbara
Mesa Artists Studio Tour This Weekend!
MESA ARTISTS WILL HOST THEIR 21ST ANNUAL OPEN STUDIO TOUR from 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday, November 8th and 9th. Open to the public and free of charge, this unique event invites art enthusiasts and the curious alike to explore the working studios of ten professional local studio artists.
Participating artists include: Karin Aggeler, Misa Art, Wendy Brewer, Helena Daybreese, Sol Hill, Brian Kuhlmann, Jim Martin, Chris Owen, Lena Savage, and Ellen Yeomans.
Visitors will enjoy strolling through the scenic Santa Barbara Mesa and Westside, witnessing firsthand the artists at work, and engaging in dialogue about their creative processes.
Download or print the tour map at sbmesaartists.com
517 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara
1:00-5:00 Thursday-Sunday
805 962-5588 www.artlacuna.com
Through Nov 16 Coastal Life and Randall David Tipton Reception
Sunday Nov 9 11:00-2 :00
Sol Hill’s Habitat Loss, Metagraph
A “Hot Topic” Facing City Council
A RECENT PUBLISHED EDITORIAL brings up one of the hottest topics facing City Council currently. “Rent Control” surfaces periodically as a solution to the relatively high cost of living in a city where demand for affordable housing has traditionally out-paced supply. Due primarily to our high-functioning Housing Authority, Santa Barbara actually does enjoy a relatively high percentage of dwellings made affordable by covenants and subsidies. The demand, however, persists. As the article points out, solving the issue with the onepronged approach of demonizing property-owners and landlords as the cause of this phenomenon is neither fair nor practical. And the result of these programs has been played out in cities all over the world to the eventual detriment of the rental dwelling market and thus the tenants.
The latest scheme proposing capping rent increases at 60% of CPI does not take into account realities of inflation, utility costs, price, and availability of insurance and may not cover annual property tax increases. Lastly, it disproportionately punishes structures built prior to 1995, which, while aging and prone to needing repair, provide a major source of below-market opportunities for tenants.
Santa Monica, a city almost identical in population to ours, runs a rent control program at the cost of $6,000,000 per year, and finding an affordable unit there is no slam dunk. Where would we find that money?
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Artificial market mechanisms, preferred by politicians as a panacea for socio-economic issues, are rarely successful in the long run and have unintended consequences. Price supports, wage floors, rent caps, and, my new favorite, tariffs, are all actions that gain political favor but result in adverse consequences down the line. A very real example of that is AB 1482 which caps rent at 5%+CPI. The result has been rents increasing at about 10% per year not out of “greed,” but for fear of losing base value, an unintended consequence based on uncertainty. Voters in California, including within the City of Santa Barbara, voted against Prop 33, which would have made it even easier for localities to increase the scope of rent control. A majority of voters understand the concept that rent control is simplistic, reactionary, and historically unsuccessful. Socializing a private asset in the name of the “Greater Common Good” goes against the grain of this country, and diminishes the notion of individual achievement.
Solutions to Santa Barbara’s housing issue may be elusive, but there are mechanisms that don’t place the burden squarely on one element of the private sector. The previously mentioned Santa Barbara Housing Authority leverages tax-credit financing to produce units, State programs allow bonus density for the production of deed-restricted units, and the Average Unit Density program inserts smaller units into the housing stock to
provide more opportunity. Some of the larger employers have been participating in subsidizing employee housing. A robust voucher program could help a lot of folks once a financing mechanism is realized. Lastly, the article mentions supply. Could demand ever be satisfied without becoming Santa Monica ourselves?
Research for the proposed rent control ordinance will require much precious staff time and take away from ongoing efforts such as the Short Term Rental ordinance. This proposal is political, not practical, and would be to the detriment of the tenants that it purports to serve.
Randy Rowse
Santa Barbara
Retraction and Apology
A photo published on 1/10/2025 in VOICE Magazine, with an article titled Firestorm Devastates Los Angeles, was the licensed property of the Associated Press. VOICE Magazine, apologies to the Associated Press for the error of publishing the photo, which was an unlicensed use of the image. The photo was immediately removed from the VOICE Magazine website upon notification.
Supervisors Vote To Prepare A Denial Of Transfer
Of Development Permits To Sable Offshore
By Mark Whitehurst / VOICE
THE TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT PERMITS for an oil pipeline system was at issue when the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to prepare findings to block the transfer of the use permits to Sable Offshore Corp., who purchased the pipeline system from ExxonMobil in 2024. The pipeline system’s revival and repair, the location of one of California’s worst oil spills located near Refugio State Beach, has been at the center of multiple lawsuits.
“The board was right not to hand over these permits given that Sable hasn’t demonstrated it will operate responsibly and didn’t put up a single cent to guarantee it will stick around to decommission its facilities once the oil stops flowing,” said Rachel Mathews, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “A corporation that’s defied state agency orders and disregarded the sensitive coastal ecosystem has no business profiting from our coast.”
The use permits were discussed at the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission in an October 2024 meeting. The Commission voted 3-1 to transfer the permits. The Center for Biological Diversity and Wishtoyo Foundation appealed the vote, as did the Santa Barbara Environmental Defense Center and their clients, Get Oil Out! and the Santa Barbara County Action Network.
When the transfer issue was presented to the board
of supervisors in February 2025, their vote tied 2-2. Following the vote, Sable sued the county in May.
In July the Environmental Defense Center intervened in that lawsuit on behalf of its clients, which resulted in a court ruling stating the board’s tie vote resulted in “no action,” and ordered the board to hold another hearing and vote to affirm, change, or reverse the planning commission’s decision.
Sable purchased the wells, platforms, and pipeline system called the Santa Ynez Unit from Exxon in February 2024, which has been shut down for ten years.
Environmental violations have led to criminal charges against Sable Offshore, Inc, filed in September by Santa Barbara County District Attorney John T. Savrnoch. The criminal complaint alleges Sable Offshore Corp. committed five felony violations of the California Water Code for knowingly discharging dredged or fill material into waters of the United States; eleven misdemeanor violations of the California Fish and Game Code for substantially diverting or obstructing, or substantially changing or using material from the bed, bank, or channel
of any river, stream, or lake; and five misdemeanor violations of the Fish and Game Code for placing excavated materials in or where they could pass into the waters of the State.
Starting last year, Sable received multiple notices of violation related to its repair work from agencies including the State Department of Fish & Wildlife, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the California Coastal Commission. Sable also ignored cease-anddesist orders from the Coastal Commission, leading to a record $18 million fine and a third cease-and-desist order from the Commission in April. However, following the Commission’s enforcement action, Sable immediately continued its work on the pipeline until a Superior Court judge issued an injunction halting repairs. According to the Commission, much of the work destroyed or disrupted sensitive habitats or species in the Coastal Zone.
The supervisors will revisit the transfer matter and hold a final vote on December 16th.
Supervisor Steve Lavagnino voted for the denial of transfer of permits to Sable Offshore
Cottage Cardiology Clinic Welcomes Two New Cardiology Specialists
DR. ELIZABETH J. HUTCHINS, MD, MS is boardcertified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in adult comprehensive echocardiography and internal medicine and specializes in cardio-oncology. She earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Master of Science in Clinical and Molecular Nutrition from Columbia University’s Institute of Human Nutrition. Dr. Hutchins completed her internal medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and fellowship training in cardiovascular medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also served as Chief Fellow.
SB International Film Festival Names 2026 Virtuosos Award Honorees
DR. CHEE YUAN NG, MD is a board-certified specialist in clinical cardiac electrophysiology and cardiovascular medicine, with expertise in diagnosing and treating complex heart rhythm disorders. He earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and completed preclinical studies at the International Medical University in Malaysia. Dr. Ng completed his residency in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the UCLA School of Medicine, followed by fellowship training at Loma Linda University Medical Center and at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He previously practiced at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he performed advanced cardiac electrophysiology procedures. cottagehealth.org/heart
$1 Million is Available for SB County Families of Newborns and Young Children
SCHOLARSHIPS THROUGH CALKIDS are available to 100 percent of all children born on or after July 1st, 2022. Each child automatically has a CalKIDS Scholarship account valued up to $175 waiting in their name — helping families jumpstart their savings for higher education.
“As a newer parent, the CalKIDS Scholarship symbolizes a belief in our child’s potential and a shared commitment to their future. It’s an inspiring first step toward college and everything that journey represents,” commented a parent.
In Santa Barbara County more than $1 million has been set aside for local newborns. To learn more and sign up visit calkids.org
Sutter Health to Acquire Hayashida Physical Therapy
A RESPECTED PROVIDER OF OUTPATIENT PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICES, Hayashida Physical Therapy, is to be acquired by Sutter Health. The acquisition aims to ensure the practice’s longterm sustainability and maintains trusted relationships between patients and providers. Patients of Hayashida PT will be able to continue seeing the same physical therapists, with little to no disruption in services. Both the company’s Goleta and Santa Barbara locations will be acquired.
“We are excited to become part of Sutter Health’s expanding and innovative organization and feel aligned with our mutual ambitions to continue developing clinical excellence while creating new access points for our active community” said Maury Hayashida, DPT, who founded Hayashida Physical Therapy in 2002 as an orthopedic and sports rehabilitation center.
Hayashida’s orthopedic physical therapy residency program will continue to expand as it joins Sutter’s orthopedics and sports medicine service line. As a combined department, it will serve as a host site for post-doctoral specialty training. sutterhealth.org
SELECTED FOR DELIVERING EXCEPTIONAL AND SIGNIFICANT CINEMATIC PERFORMANCES, eight actors will be presented with the 2026 Virtuosos Award at the 41st Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Honorees Jacob Elordi, Chase Infiniti, Amy Madigan, Wagner Moura, Renate Reinsve, Sydney Sweeney, Teyana Taylor, and Jeremy Allen White will discuss their work and receive their awards in person on Sunday, February 8th, 2026. Dave Karger, Turner Classic Movies host, will moderate the awards ceremony for the 16th year running.
“This year’s group of Virtuosos are as impressive as they are eclectic,” said Karger. “We’ve got three international actors, two megastars from acclaimed television series, two breakouts from the latest Paul Thomas Anderson film, and even one veteran performer who earned an Oscar nomination 40 years ago. I can’t wait to return to Santa Barbara for my 16th year and chat with them all.”
The Virtuosos Award was created to honor a premiere group of actors whose noteworthy performances put them at the center of cultural and cinematic conversations. Past honorees include Kieran Culkin, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Clarence Maclin, Mikey Madison, Lily Gladstone, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Greta Lee, America Ferrera, Andrew Scott, Austin Butler, Kerry Condon, Nina Hoss, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jeremy Strong, Ariana DeBose, and Jamie Dornan, among others.
The 41st Santa Barbara International Film Festival will take place February 4th to the 14th, 2026 and will include screenings, filmmaker Q&A’s, industry panels, celebrity tributes, and more. Purchase passes and learn more at sbiff.org
Cultural Arts Grant Recipients Announced
STRENGTHENING SANTA BARBARA’S CULTURAL VITALITY, the City of Santa Barbara recently awarded more than $240,000 in Cultural Arts Grants to 32 local nonprofit organizations. The city has a longstanding commitment to catalyzing artistic innovation and expanding access to the arts. The SB County Office of Arts & Culture helped administer the grant programs.
The Organizational Development Grant Recipients are: ARTSPACE Inc. (Center Stage Theater); Children’s Creative Project; Creative Netwerk; Explore Ecology; Flamenco Arts Festival; Gunpowder Press; Notes for Notes; Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative; Santa Barbara Choral Society; and Santa Barbara Gay Men’s Chorus.
The Community Arts Grant Recipients are: Gateway Educational Services; Hillside House Inc; Mental Wellness Center; MOXI – The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation; Music Academy of the West; Santa Barbara Asian American Pacific Islander Solidarity Network; Santa Barbara Chamber Players; Santa Barbara Dance Institute; Santa Barbara Symphony; Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network; Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation; Santa Barbara Vocal Jazz Foundation; and Tomato Theatre Company.
The Community Events & Festivals Grant Recipients are: Brandwell Arts; Ceylon International Film Festival Foundation; eji event co. (Coffee Culture Fest); Elings Park Foundation; Grace Fisher Foundation; La Piazza Inc.; Parks and Recreation Community Foundation (Arts in the Open at Plaza del Mar); Santa Barbara Police Activities League; and Santa Barbara Chinese School.
The 2026 SBIFF Virtuosos Award honorees are: Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein; Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another; Amy Madigan Weapons; Wagner Moura The Secret Agent; Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value; Sydney Sweeney, Christy; Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another; and Jeremy Allen White, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Dr. Chee Yuan Ng
Dr. Elizabeth Hutchins
Photo by Sara Prince
Hayashida Physical Therapy
Goleta School of Ballet Receives Business Recognition Award from City of Goleta
IN HONOR OF THE GOLETA SCHOOL OF BALLET’S FOUR DECADES OF SERVING THE COMMUNITY as a successful, womanowned enterprise, the City of Goleta presented the dance school with an award through its Business Recognition Program on October 21st. The Program recognizes establishments that shape Goleta’s identity, strengthen its economy, and enrich the community.
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“I am honored and grateful to have the Ballet School in Goleta for 40 years,” said Lisa Abshere, the Goleta School of Ballet’s Artistic Director. “The best part of this journey has been seeing the students I teach as children grow up to become wonderful students and mentors for the next generation. Thank you for this amazing recognition.”
The Goleta School of Ballet started in 1986, when it took over a small ballet program at the Goleta Community Center. In 2011 the school moved into its custom-designed studios on Magnolia Avenue in Old Town Goleta, further cementing its roots in the
community. Each year, students take part in classic productions such as The Nutcracker, a February mixed repertory program, and a full-length classical ballet in the spring.
Nominations are open to the public for Goleta’s Business Recognition Program, and self-nominations are encouraged. Nominations may be submitted at any time. Award recipients are selected by City of Goleta staff in consultation with the Greater Santa Barbara Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce.
To learn more about the Goleta School of Ballet visit goletaschoolofballet.com
To nominate a business for City recognition visit cityofgoleta.org/your-city/city-manager-s-office/economicdevelopment/business-recognition-program
Tom Garrand Honored as Extraordinary Educator
The City of Goleta is inviting local community partners to become part of its growing Parks and Recreation Contract Camps and Program. Participants will expand recreational, educational, and social programming, with a strong focus on serving youth and senior residents. Interest forms for Summer 2026 are due by 5pm on December 1st.
“This is an exciting step forward in expanding how we serve Goleta’s residents,” said Justin Wilkins, Parks and Recreation Manager for the City of Goleta. “By working with trusted local experts and service providers, we can offer meaningful experiences that foster connection, learning, wellness, and fun — from early childhood through the golden years.”
Priority consideration for partnerships will be based on experience, alignment with community needs, affordability, and quality of programming.
To fill out an interest form visit www.CityofGoleta.org/Camps
Vista Del Mar Union School District Celebrates New Playground, Field Campaign
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TOM GARRAND was presented with the Down Syndrome Association of Santa Barbara County’s Extraordinary Educator 2025 Award during the organization’s 14th Annual Hoedown at the Santa Barbara Carriage Museum. DSASBC’s award recognizes local educators for their outstanding work with individuals with Down syndrome as well as others with special needs in the community. Garrand has taught at Lompoc High School since 1999. He currently teaches Economics and Independent Study teacher in addition to serving as the Girls Golf Coach. He began serving in Special Olympics as a golf coach 15 years ago, going to the Special Olympic world games and bringing home a gold medal with his athlete partner for USA in 2015. Garrand started Unified Sports at Lompoc High with Unified basketball in 2017-2018, taking the Lompoc High Unified team to the Nationals in Seattle. He also started a Brave Unified club on campus and creating a safe group for inclusion. The girls high school golf team participate in Special Olympics after their practice each week and donate their time because of Garrand’s influence. His wife, Lori, also coaches Golf for Special Olympics.
SBCC Partners with Mentavi Health For Clinically Validated ADHD Evaluations
ADHD ASSESSMENTS FOR STUDENTS will begin at Santa Barbara City College as it adopts Mentavi Health’s Diagnostic Evaluation for students seeking academic accommodations. The partnership enables SBCC to reach accommodation decisions faster, when appropriate, and helps students stay on course during the term’s most demanding weeks.
“Early identification and treatment of ADHD and related mental-health conditions is crucial for improved academic and personal outcomes,” said Mentavi Health Chief Medical Officer Barry K. Herman, M.D., MMM. “Timely diagnosis enables students to access the accommodations and support they need to succeed.”
Students complete Mentavi’s evaluation online and can share their report with SBCC’s DSPS office to determine accommodations or meet with a Mentavi clinician for follow-up therapy, medical treatment, or coaching. Each evaluation is reviewed by a licensed clinician—not by automated AI—and is available for $189, a fraction of the cost of typical in-person assessments.
A BRAND-NEW, STATE-OF-THE-ART PLAYGROUND
STRUCTURE and freshly laid blacktop area are now being enjoyed by Vista Del Mar Union School District students. These significant upgrades mark the first phase of an ongoing effort to create safer, more robust outdoor learning environments that support the district’s mission as an Institute of Environmental Studies. Next, the district will turn its attention to the school field, launching a major fundraising campaign to make it safer for students. The school field has become severely compromised by the natural environment. It is riddled with gopher and squirrel holes, making it hazardous for students to use for physical education, recess, and environmental studies. The fundraising campaign will support work to repair, re-sod, and install necessary subsurface deterrents to protect the field. To learn more or donate visit vdmusd.org/en-US
Goleta School of Ballet receiving the Business Recognition Program Award Certificate: Mayor Pro Tempore Stuart Kasdin, Lead Dance Student Aaron Kamps, Mayor Paula Perotte, Artistic Director Lisa Abshere, Lead Dance Student Madelyn Ito, Lead Dance Student Charlotte Costello, City Councilmember Jennifer Smith and City Councilmember Luz Reyes-Martín
Students celebrate their new playground structure
Tom Garrard and Melissa Fitch, President of DSASBC
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Battling Personal & Creative Demons
By Robert Adams / VOICE
AMOVIE ABOUT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S CREATIVE PROCESS
is the subject of writer-director Scott Cooper’s intriguing new film, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. The unconventional biopic screened for a full house on Sunday, November 3rd at the Riviera and was followed by an interview with Cooper.
Based on Springsteen’s memories of a specific, torturous period in the rock figure’s artistic development, the story
is a gentle reconnaissance of the dark days in 1981 and 1982 when Springsteen somehow survived with “suicidal ideations,” as director Cooper termed it.
Cooper made sure Springsteen was involved in the production of this film, which, like many of Cooper’s works, such as the wonderful Out of the Furnace from 2013, focuses on characters “on the margin, people that people do not usually make moves about.” Cooper has a special lens for characters that he brings to his films. The movie is almost documentary-like and uses
New Committee to Tackle County’s Housing Crisis
A COMMITTEE OF LOCAL HOUSING LEADERS has announced the formation of The Home Team, a new countywide advocacy organization dedicated to building public support and driving policy change to ensure that everyone in Santa Barbara County has access to a safe, stable, and affordable home.
“The Home Team is about aligning our community around shared purpose,” said Jackie Carrera, President & CEO of the Santa Barbara Foundation and Steering Committee member. “Housing is foundational to every aspect of a thriving community—from our workforce to our schools to our small businesses and every local employer.”
The Home Team steering committee includes, Jackie Carrera, President & CEO of the Santa Barbara Foundation; Russ Levanway, Executive Vice President, REACH; Alejandra Mahoney, EconAlliance; Ken Triguiero, President & CEO of People’s Self-Help Housing; Megan Turley, Housing Advocate; and Lucas Zucker, Co-Executive Director, CAUSE.
Nearly half of all Santa Barbara County residents are renters, and more than half spend over 30 percent of their income on housing. Between 2021 and 2023, rents rose by 31 percent, pricing many working families and essential workers out of the county.
“There is a role for everyone to play in creating a housing ecosystem that serves all our neighbors,” said Ken Trigueiro, Steering Committee member and President & CEO of People’s Self-Help Housing. “The Home Team gives us the structure and shared vision to work collectively—so that every effort adds up to real progress.”
Maricela Morales has been named the founding Director of The Home Team. A respected Central Coast leader, Morales previously served as co-founder and Executive Director of CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy), as the first Latina Mayor and Councilmember of the City of Port Hueneme, and as an alternate appointee to the California Coastal Commission from 2013 to 2022.
“There is tremendous opportunity to build the momentum for housing solutions in Santa Barbara County at this moment in time” said Maricela Morales.
a variety of camera setups that get very close to Springsteen’s personal, on-theground perspective.
One of the main themes is Springsteen grappling with depression due to a rough upbringing at the hands of his father. The film often visits past transgressions by the father in blunt black and white, as if a lingering bad memory keeps reappearing. The interesting element is that during this same period, Springsteen was also writing and recording one his most authentic albums, Nebraska. It becomes apparent that his depression helped inform a creative spark, and the question of suffering for great art comes to the forefront. A universal question for all kinds of writers of poetry, songs, films, and novels, is the darkness that becomes a flashpoint and a harbinger of something unique. Should artists suffer? They often do within their realm of personal demons.
This move elevates the film into a personal authentic statement rather than any kind of by rote story of a rock star’s rise to success. The coverage is on a human scale, and it is bound to disappoint Springsteen fans expecting a full delivery of musical performances. This reviewer appreciated the intimate scale along the lines of what Cooper excels at.
The cinematography, another strong element, was shot by Masanobu Takayanagi, and seems to reference the autumn colors seen in Terence Malik’s masterpiece, Days of Heaven. The last shot of Springsteen walking away from the camera into an amusement park carousel is especially memorable. There are also echoes of George Steven’s Giant and the grittiness of Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde. Cooper knows how to capture a landscape and old-school interiors to create an authentic atmosphere and that particular talent is evident in almost every frame. The soundtrack blends gentle foreboding piano music from composer Jeremiah Fraites, with excerpts of Springsteen’s music and also offers the sometimes weird music that Springsteen was obsessed with.
The concert footage sequences were very accurate but not the main thrust of the story unlike other recent bio-pics such
as 2022’s Elvis with Austin Butler and Rocketman, the story of Elton John’s rise and resulting consequences. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere veers far from Springsteen’s transformative hits and instead focuses on his artistic struggles.
Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong’s pivotal performances make this movie lively, as Allen White plays Springsteen and Strong plays real life manager Jon Landau with grace and restrained subtlety. Both actors are engaging without being showy and both will be recognized for their work in this film, a credit to the sensibility of director Cooper. Cooper may be one of the top actor’s directors working right now. The supporting cast is superlative as well featuring a comically tinged performance from Paul Walter Hauser and Odessa Young, who plays Springsteen’s strong, yet jilted, girlfriend.
On Sunday, the amiable Cooper glided onstage with moderator and SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling for a short interview after the screening. He is someone who loves to go to the Riviera to screen his films. Cooper got his big break with Jeff Bridges agreeing to star in Crazy Hearts. Jeff Bridges was even in the audience to see Cooper’s new film. According to Cooper, “Bruce allowed me to do the film, as I would be honest in the approach. He approved the screenplay and the actors playing the leads, and was fully supporting us throughout the production. I wanted to show the dark side of being a rock and roll figure, and there are aspects of depression, and seeking and finding help, so there is hope to coming out on the other side of depression. The story was influenced by Flannery O’Conner’s short stories as well as Terence Malik’s Badlands, connected to Springsteen’s childhood.”
This film is personal, and many may be able to relate to the journey that Springsteen was on. The movie is release now in theatres across the country, giving audiences a glimpse of Springsteen’s songwriting talents.
Film still from Deliver Me From Nowhere
Jeremy Allen White and Odessa Young in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Writer/Director Scott Cooper discussed his creative process with the SBIFF Cinema Society
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Open Turns: From Dutch Girl to New Australian
By Kerry Methner, PhD / VOICE
ASENSITIVE INQUIRY INTO THE DEPTH OF HER EXPERIENCES after surviving World War II’s Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, in Open Turns
Hendrika de Vries recalls her younger self’s sometimes unwilling adventures as her family transports her from her beloved Lyceum, friends, and swimming pool in Amsterdam, into a new life as a 13-year-old Australian immigrant.
“Henny” as de Vries is known, takes on the tasks of every teen such as separating from her parents, finding her voice, and embodying her dreams. She also begins to metabolize her wartime experiences as she struggles to find her way and her feet.
De Vries, with her crisp, easy to read writing style engages the reader’s attention from the first page, as this 13 year old takes shape on the deck of a Dutch ocean liner converted into mass transport for post WWII European migrants.
That young girl, with strong ideas about who she would be and how the world should be ordered emerges and grows into a young woman over the space of just over 200 pages as the memories of a decade are a formulated with insight into Henny’s story a rich and textured lifetime later. The person who comes into focus is fiercely connected to her family and her dreams and grounded in the power of her own experiences.
She is also a wonderful, fast swimmer, who works her soft, travel-worn high school body into an elite swimmer. Along the way, her new country also plays a role as the stars in the night sky of the Southern hemisphere are etched in her mind and memories.
The young woman who the reader meets on the deck of the MS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and gets to know in Adelaide, went on after this memoir ends to earn a BA, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Colorado, an MTS cum laude in theological studies from Virginia Theological Seminary, and an MA in counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.
The book itself boasts a cover in rich blue with an image of Henny at an Australian pool where she won competitions and was a contender for the Australian Olympic team. It also includes praise from some of her former Pacifica colleagues including Maureen Murdock, author of The Heroine’s Journey, who shared “This coming-of-age story reveals the working of destiny. It will inspire the migrant within each
Hendrika de Vries is a retired family therapist, a teacher, and a writer. Her life experiences with oppression and resistance in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, migration, competitive swimming, misogyny in 1950s Australia, and feminism in the US infuse her writing with historical depth and personal perspective on challenges facing women and anyone deemed other. She is the author of When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew, award-winning memoir of her WWII childhood. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.
of us seeking home. You won’t be able to put this book down!”
Renowned scholar and author Christine Downing, PhD, who wrote, The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine, said, “What a powerful continuation of Hendrika de Vries’ story! It begins in 1950 when thirteenyear-old ‘Henny’ and her family emigrate to Australia, a completely new and different world with no understanding of the war trauma she has just survived. I loved the way this honest, sometimes sad, but ultimately hopeful book evoked memories of my own experience as an immigrant and as an adolescent.”
Dennis Patrick Slattery, Distinguished Emeritus Professor, and author, most recently, of The Fictions in Our Convictions: Essays on Cultural Mythology, adds, “Open Turns asks three essential questions: Who am I apart from my talents and dreams? What destiny is calling me to become who I authentically am? What does remembering my past add to the texture of who I have become? Moving between becoming and being, Hendrika’s coming-of-age adventure into herself and out to the world resonates with all of us who have wondered about our identity, our destiny, and our purpose in life.”
As the final page is turned of this second memoir by de Vries, this reader hopes the thread will continue. De Vries’ story certainly did.
Open Turns: From Dutch Girl to New Australian was published by She Writes Press and is distributed by Simon & Schuster. Find it at Santa Barbara’s
Bookstore and online.
Chaucer’s
Henny at 13 before her family emigrated to Australia
Photo courtesy of the author
Photo by Ann MacNair Shaw
Hendrika de Vries
Written by Jessica Bedford, Kathryn MacMillan, Charlotte Northeast, and Meghan Winch
Directed by Robert Kelley
On the Street with John Palminteri
Tiny Humans Do Big Things
I’LL DRINK TO THIS! A lemonade stand was set up in front of Frequency Wine on Anacapa Street on November 2nd, run by “tiny humans doing big things” for the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County during a federal funding crisis. 100 percent of the proceeds went right to work to buy food this week.
Local Business Closures
AFTER 15 YEARS, the Santa Barbara Rock Gym on lower State St. will be closing on Saturday, November 15th. The owner cites several reasons, including rising operation costs and other factors that have made it difficult to go on.
TONDI GELATO CLOSED on November 2nd in Santa Barbara. It was a five-year run but a month ago the owners made this painful decision and announcement.
First Responders Updates
A WOUNDED MAN with a reported pellet gun injury was located in the area of the bike path by Ward Memorial Drive around 8:30am on Wednesday, November 5th. He is getting medical aid. No other details have been released. SB Sheriff’s Deputies, County Fire and AMR were on it.
SEVERAL WEAPONS, including a stolen .357 magnum revolver, were recovered during the Saturday, November 1st night enforcement in Isla Vista. Just as Halloween ended, right after midnight, SB County Sheriff’s deputies stopped a group of five juveniles and one adult at the beach access point near the 6500 block of Del Playa Dr. The juveniles were detained for violating the county’s nighttime curfew. A 16-yearold male allowed officers to search his backpack. Inside, several fixedblade knives were found. The discovery lead to a probable cause search of the juvenile, in which a loaded .357 magnum revolver was found in his pants pocket. The firearm was confirmed to have been stolen out of Arizona. The Sheriff’s office says the juvenile in possession of the revolver has been arrested and booked in Juvenile Hall. The remaining minors were cited and released to their parents.
First Glimmers Gala Raises Funds for Pediatric Cancer Research
THE INAUGURAL GLIMMERS
GALA was a sold-out success this month at 28 VIC in downtown Santa Barbara. It benefited Glimmers Childhood Cancer Foundation, founded by 13-year-old Ava Decker, who passed from osteosarcoma on May 9th, 2024.
The modern, elegant black-tie evening featured cocktails, an exclusive silent auction, and a live auction highlighted by $20,000 diamond earrings. Speakers included Vanessa Decker (Foundation President), pediatric cancer researchers, co-chairs Michael and Stacy Brylawski, and Geoff Green, CEO of the California Nonprofit Association. Live music came from The Academy, Brian Mann, Courtney Lemmon, and Miriam Dance. The evening spotlighted the urgent need for pediatric cancer research—still receiving only four percent of federal cancer funding despite being the leading diseaserelated cause of death in children and teens. Fundraising totals will be announced soon, but it was a tremendous success, with support from Kevin Costner, Jordana Morfit, and others. glimmersfoundation.org
UCSB & IV Turns Out for Election Day
UC SANTA BARBARA STUDENTS AND ISLA VISTA RESIDENTS showed their determination to vote in the November 4th election. Many did not have their paperwork or ballots but were taking care of voting issues and provisional ballots on the spot at the Isla Vista Community Center Polling Place. Santa Barbara County Election workers staffed the poll and allowed everyone in line at the 8pm deadline to cast their ballot, which is the policy.
Halloween Brought Big Crowds Downtown
SANTA BARBARA’S NEW DOWNTOWN PEDLETS got a workout last weekend with Halloween crowds filling the walkway to get street vendor food from several carts, lining up for nightclubs, and moving up and down the street. Several business owners said it was “like a Fiesta” crowd scene and very profitable.
Light Up the Night Distributes Free Bicycle Lights
ILUMINANDO LA NOCHE (LIGHT UP THE NIGHT) came back after a few years away! From November 3rd to the 7th, MOVE was out across southern Santa Barbara County giving away hundreds of free, rechargeable bike lights to local cyclists. The program helps hundreds of riders stay visible and safe during the darker winter months while supporting MOVE’s mission.
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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
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Vanessa Decker, Glimmers Foundation President and Ava’s mother
Are We Flying Blind?
"The United States economy is like a poker game where the chips have become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and where the other fellows can stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit runs out the game will stop." Marriner Eccles
By Harlan Green, Special to VOICE
THE FAMOUS ABOVE QUOTE BY ROOSEVELT’S FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN, Marriner
Eccles, on what he believed caused the Great Depression is a warning that the U.S. economy is now flying blind during this government shutdown.
Eccles should know. He guided Federal Reserve policy during the Great Depression that created the New Deal.
Economic downturns occur when consumers are tapped out and begin to borrow more than they spend. It is the reason that retail sales and consumer confidence surveys are important signs of whether consumers will continue to shop, or drop, as the saying goes.
And given the economic chaos being sown by the Trump administration during what looks like a record government shutdown, we don’t have any official data being released on when it might happen and what it will look like. So we are flying blind.
administration allowing tariff rates to rise to unacceptable levels that choked off foreign trade on which many countries, including America, relied on.
There was also the too easy credit conditions of the “Roaring Twenties” that weren’t regulated yet, which allowed the American public to borrow and invest in the stock market for the first time. The October 1929 “Black Friday” market crash followed that precipitated the Great Depression.
So we can take our pick: Trump’s too high tariffs, or too little market regulation allowing shadow lending markets (or junk bonds) to flourish outside of regulated lending channels might cause the next downturn.
Trump’s newest Federal Reserve pick, and former chief economic advisor, Stephen Miran, is even sounding the alarm in calling for larger Federal Reserve rate cuts.
By Harlan Green
There are past recessions that economists look at; the Dot-com bubble that burst in 2001 from overinvestment in fiber optics that didn’t pan out immediately because it took years for the Internet to be adopted. Now there is over-investment in AI that could follow the same path as the so-called Dot-com recession.
And the Great Depression was largely due to the Herbert Hoover
“If you keep policy this tight for a long period of time, then you run the risk that monetary policy itself is inducing a recession,” Miran said in a recent interview cited by the New York Times
Another danger sign is The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) latest report that American manufacturers contracted for the eighth month in a row with no end in sight because of the Trump administration tariffs, reports MarketWatch, which cited several anecdotes in the ISM Manufacturing report.
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“Business continues to be severely depressed. Profits are down and extreme taxes (tariffs) are being shouldered by all companies in our space,” said one executive at a maker of transportation equipment.
“Steel tariffs are killing us,” another manufacturer told ISM.
“The tariffs are still causing issues with imported goods into the U.S.,” an executive at a chemical maker said. “The inflation issues continue.”
The closely followed manufacturing index slipped to 48.7% in October from 49.1% in the prior month, the Institute for Supply Management said Monday. Any number below 50% signals contraction.
I’ve already reported that consumers are feeling less confident in the University of Michigan Sentiment survey.
“Consumers continue to express frustration over the persistence of high prices, with 44% spontaneously mentioning that high prices are eroding their personal finances, the highest reading in a year. Interviews this month highlight the fact that consumers feel pressure both from
the prospect of higher inflation as well as the risk of weaker labor markets,” said Survey Director Joanne Hsu.
The real danger is that we are gleaning all these signs from industry reports outside of the ‘official’ government reports on employment, inflation, and consumer spending just before the holidays.
So, the U.S. economy is flying blind without the usual flight data that tells us where we are headed. Is there a soft landing, or crash landing ahead?
Follow Harlan Green on Twitter: https:// twitter.com/ HarlanGreen Harlan Green has been the 18-year EditorPublisher 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 805-452-7696 or email editor@populareconomics.com.
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Tax Results for the City of Santa Barbara
TRANSIENT OCCUPANCY TAX RESULTS FOR THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA were announced on September 30th, 2025. Collections totaled $3.3 Million in Transient Occupancy Taxes (TOT) for the third month in the City’s fiscal year.
Year to date, the City has collected $11.6 Million in overall TOT, of which approximately $10.1 Million came from hotels and $1.5 Million from short-term rentals. Year to date, total TOT revenues are coming in 0.8 percent above budget.
TOT is a Tax on "Transient" guests staying in any hotel, inn, motel, or other commercial lodging establishment for a period of less than 30 days.
The City’s adopted TOT budget for all funds is $35.5 Million, of which $29.5 Million is budgeted in the General Fund.
The City’s TOT tax rate is twelve percent, of which ten percent goes to the City’s General Fund and the remaining two percent goes to the Creeks/ Clean Water Fund.
For additional current and historical financial data, visit the City’s Budget & Reporting webpage at https://santabarbaraca.gov/finance/budgetreports
Resultados fiscales de la Ciudad de Santa Bárbara
LA CIUDAD DE SANTA BÁRBARA RECAUDÓ $3.3 millones en Impuestos de Ocupación Transitoria (TOT) en septiembre 2025, el tercer mes en el año fiscal de la Ciudad.
En lo que va de año, la Ciudad ha recaudado $11.6 millones en TOT general, de los cuales aproximadamente $10.1 millones provienen de hoteles y $1.5 millones de alquileres a corto plazo. A la fecha, los ingresos totales por concepto de TOT se sitúan un 0.8% por encima del presupuesto.
El Impuesto de Ocupación Transitoria (TOT) es un impuesto que grava a los huéspedes "transitorios" que se alojan en cualquier hotel, posada, motel u otro establecimiento comercial de alojamiento por un periodo inferior a 30 días.
El presupuesto adoptado por la Ciudad para el TOT, considerando todos los fondos, es de $35.5 millones, de los cuales $29.5 millones están asignados al Fondo General.
Consulte la tabla del Impuesto de Ocupación Transitoria. El tipo impositivo del TOT en la Ciudad es del 12.0 %, de los cuales el 10.0 % se destina al Fondo General de la Ciudad y el 2.0 % restante al Fondo de Arroyos y Agua Limpia.
Para obtener más datos financieros actuales e históricos, visite la página web de Presupuestos e Informes de la Ciudad. https://santabarbaraca.gov/finance/budget-reports
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NUMBER: 25CV06568
Petitioner: Elliot Oberlin Murray Osborn filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Elliot Oberlin Murray Osborn to PROPOSED NAME: Elliot Oberlin Murray. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: January 9, 2025; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 4; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [x] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 11/3/2025 /s/:Donna D. Geck , Judge of the Superior Court. Legal #25CV06568 Pub Dates: November 7, 14, 21, 28, 2025.
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STATEMENT: The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as TONY’S ON PALISADE at 116 S. Palisade Dr, 114, Santa Maria, CA 93455. FOOD INCORPERATED LLC at 116 S. Palisade Dr, 114, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on October 09, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2025-0002330. Published October 24, 31, November 7, 14, 2025.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT: The following Married Couple is doing business as SHEPPARDX at 335 Capitol Dr, Santa Maria, CA 93454. MICAH S SHEPPARD and DINA I SHEPPARD at 335 Capitol Dr, Santa Maria, CA 93454. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on October 27, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2025-0002468. Published October 31, November 7, 14, 21, 2025.
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NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONS ON APPLICATIONS REGARDING PROVISIONS OF TITLE 28 AND/OR 30 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA (SBMC)
The Secretary of the Planning Commission has set a public hearing for Thursday, November 20, 2025 beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street.
On Thursday, November 13, 2025, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Thursday, November 20, 2025 will be posted on the outdoor bulletin board at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/PC. Agendas, Minutes, and Staff Reports are also accessible online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/PC.
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WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT: Public comments may be submitted via email to PCSecretary@SantaBarbaraCA.gov before the beginning of the Meeting. All public comments submitted via email will be provided to the Commission and will become part of the public record. You may also submit written correspondence via US Postal Service (USPS) addressed to PC Secretary, PO Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. However, please be advised, correspondence sent via USPS may not be received in time to process prior to the meeting and email submissions are highly encouraged. Please note that the Commission may not have time to review written comments received after 4:30 p.m. the Tuesday before the meeting.
All public comment that is received before 4:30 p.m. the Tuesday before the meeting will be published on the City’s website at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/PC. Comments provided via USPS or e-mail will be converted to a PDF before being posted on the City’s website. Note: comments will be published online the way they are received and without redaction of personal identifying information; including but not limited to phone number, home address, and email address. Only submit information that you wish to make available publicly.
APPEALS: Decisions of the Planning Commission may be appealed to the City Council. For further information and guidelines on how to appeal a decision to City Council, please contact the City Clerk’s office at Clerk@ SantaBarbaraCA.gov as soon as possible. Appeals may be filed in person at the City Clerk’s office at City Hall or in writing via email to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov and by first class mail postage prepaid within 10 calendar days of the meeting at which the Commission took action or rendered its decision. Appeals and associated fee postmarked after the 10th calendar day will not be accepted.
NOTE TO INTERESTED PARTIES: Only those persons who participate through public comment either orally or in writing on an item on this Agenda have standing to appeal the decision. Grounds for appeal are limited to those issues raised either orally or in written correspondence delivered to the review body at, or prior to, the public hearing.
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Project Description: Front and Interior Setback Modifications, Junior Accessory Dwelling Unit, and 2nd Story Addition
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Assessor’s Parcel Number: 035-200-009
Zoning Designation: RS-7.5 (Residential Single Unit) Application Number: PLN2025-00253
Applicant / Owner: Sarah Bronstad, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP / Parris Family Trust 9/10/03; William S. Parris, Trustee
Project Description: Four-Lot Subdivision and Two New Residences with Accessory Dwelling Units
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NUMBER: 25CV06181
Petitioner: Juana Ramirez Avelino, Antonio Ascencion Victoria filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Camila Ramirez to PROPOSED NAME: Camila Ascencion Ramirez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: December 10, 2025; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 3; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [x] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 10/27/2025 /s/:Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Legal #25CV06181 Pub Dates: November 7, 14, 21, 28, 2025.
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NUMBER: 25CV06125
Petitioner: Veronica Sanchez filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Alexander Maximo Adan Sanchez to PROPOSED NAME: Job Sia Reyes Sanchez; and PRESENT NAME: Michael Gabriel Adan Sanchez to PROPOSED NAME: Michael Gabriel Reyes Sanchez. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: December 8, 2025; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 5; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [x] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 10/15/2025 /s/:Colleen K. Sterne , Judge of the Superior Court. Legal #25CV06125 Pub Dates: October 24, 31, November 7, 14, 2025.
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Witness the natural world on film when the first Wild & Free Film Festival makes its debut at Camino Real Cinemas this weekend, Friday, November 14th through the 16th. Presented by SB Honda and Acura SB, the festival will screen dozens of features, short films, documentaries, and more! Opening night will highlight the Central Coast premiere of Checkpoint Zoo, followed by a reception at SB Fish Market Goleta Courtyard.
For tickets visit wildandfreefilm.org
CINEMA LISTINGS
Ojai Film Festival • View documentaries, features, animation, and more, all celebrating independent film! • Ojai Art Center & Matilija Auditorium • $20-220 • ojaifilmfestival.com • Th, 11/6 through Su, 11/9.
Foreign Film Series: Santosh • A widow inherits her husband’s job as a police officer in rural India • Alcazar Theater • $12-15 • thealcazar.org • 6:30pm Th, 11/13.
Warren Miller’s Sno-ciety • Screening of this film on how folks connect with snow • Lobero Theatre • $35-39 • lobero.org • 7:30pm Fr, 11/14.
Wild & Free Film Festival • Films celebrating animals and our natural world • Presented by SB Honda and Acura SB • Camino Real Cinemas • $5-75 • wildandfreefilm.org • Opening night 6:30pm Th, 11/14, screenings 11/15 & 11/16.
Heaven’s Gate: Director’s Cut Restoration
• Screening and in-person introduction by Susan & Jeff Bridges • Arlington Theatre • arlingtontheatresb.com • 12pm Sa, 11/15.
Disney’s Moana Live-to-Film Concert
• Film screening with live orchestra and Polynesian rhythm masters and vocalists • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Arlington Theatre • $23-63 • arlingtontheatresb.com • 2pm Su, 11/16.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Opera Santa Barbara: Cavalleria Rusticana
WHEN A SOLDIER RETURNS HOME TO FIND HIS LOVE MARRIED IN HIS ABSENCE, drama, seduction, and revenge are sure to follow. This weekend, travel to the heart of 19th century Sicily and experience Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana when Opera Santa Barbara brings this Italian classic opera to life at the Lobero Theatre at 7:30pm on Friday, November 7th.
Starring Xavier Prado as the solider, Turiddu, and Angeline Petronijevic as Lola, his would-be-bride, Opera SB’s production will capture the doomed romance and beauty of Mascagni’s music. Rounding out the cast will be premiere singers Max Potter, Todd Thomas, and Adrien Roberts, with Opera SB Artistic & General Director Kostis Protopapas conducting.
The Sunday, November 9th matinee performance at 2:30pm is presently sold out. For information and tickets to Friday’s performance ($159-250) visit operasb.org
Friday 11/7
COMEDY
Magic with Gene Urban • Magic and mind-reading • Satellite SB, 1117 State St • Free • satellitesb.com • 6-9pm Fri.
• Meet activists and discuss local initiatives • CEC Hub • Free, RSVP: cecsb.org • 3:30-5pm Fr, 11/7.
An Evening with Robert Ooley
• Pearl Chase Society hosts author to discuss new book • Alhecama Theatre • Free, donations appreciated • pearlchasesociety.org • 6pm Fr, 11/7.
SPHEREx: NASA’s New 3D Cosmos-Mapping Machine • Talk by Caltech Research Scientist Phil Korngut • SB Museum of Natural History, Farrand Auditorium • Free • 7:30-9pm Fr, 11/7.
Fr, 11/7 & 2:30pm Su, 11/9.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Calm At Heart • Inspiring presentation and lunch hosted by Calm • Rosewood Miramar Beach • $1$2,500 • calm4kids.org • 11am-1:30pm Fri, 11/7.
Intimate Impressions: Art, Wine, and Music • Admire art, wine, and music by Kristen Lee Sergeant • SB Museum of Art • $120-150 • www. sbma.net • 3:45-6pm Fr, 11/7.
Saturday 11/8
CHILDREN
Explore Together: 1000 Books Before Kindergarten • Interactive learning fun for kids and families • Central Library • Free • 10:15-11:15am Sa, 11/8.
Story Time At The Sea Center
• Fun, learning and ocean magic • Sea Center, Stearns Wharf • $12-15 • sbnature.org • 10:30-10:45am Sat, 11/1.
SB Reads: Vietnamese Stories and Crafts • Storytelling and crafts with students from the Vietnamese Student Association at UCSB • Montecito Library • Free • 11am-1pm Sa, 11/8.
Gaby Moreno • Latin pop, rock, and Americana • Viva el Arte SB/UCSB Arts & Lectures • Isla Vista Elementary • Free • 7pm Fr, 11/7.
Cavalleria Rusticana • Opera SB performs an ill-fated romance • Lobero Theatre • $99+ • lobero.org • 7:30pm
1131 State St • 11am-4pm Sat. MUSIC
Free Organ Concert • Thomas Mellan plays Liszt, Chopin, and originals • SB Music Club • First United Methodist Church • 3pm Sa, 11/8.
Scottish Concert • Traditional music by Folk Orchestra SB & special guests • Marjorie Luke Theatre • $40 • folkorchestrasb.com • 7pm Sa, 11/8.
Gaby Moreno • Latin pop, rock, and Americana • Viva el Arte SB/UCSB Arts & Lectures • Guadalupe City Hall • Free • 7pm Sa, 11/8.
Psychedelic Symphony • SB Symphony and Doublewide Kings perform ‘60s & ‘70s rock • Granada Theatre • $35-160 • granadasb.org • 7:30pm Sa, 11/8.
Queens of the Stone Age • Rock concert • Arlington Theatre • www. arlingtontheatresb.com • 8pm Sa, 11/8.
VOZ DE MANDO + NUEVOS REBELDES • Mexican regional concert • Chumash Casino • $49-89 • chumashcasino.com • 8pm Sa, 11/8.
OUTDOORS
SB Half Marathon & 5K • Also enjoy a free kids run and Chase Palm Park Festival • Race starts on Cabrillo Blvd, festivities at Chase Palm Park • Details/registration: https://santabarbarahalf.com • Festival 11/8, Races start 7am Su, 11/9.
Storytime @ the Sea Center • All ages • Free w/ admission • SBNature.org
• 10:30–10:45am Sat & Sun.
DANCE
Annual Choreography
Showcase • Benefit dance show by Be Momentum • Center Stage Theater
• $28-48 • centerstagetheater.org • 7pm Sa, 11/8.
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
SB GO Club • Play or learn the ancient strategic board game. All levels • 805-448-5335 • Free • Mosaic Coffee,
Nature Walks at Elings Park • Annie Ayers & Sarah Cusser discuss pressing plants for museums • Elings Park, meet in parking lot • Free • 9-10:30am Sa, 11/8.
Architectural Walking Tour • History of buildings in SB • 229 E. Victoria St • $20 • afsb.org • 10am, Sat. Fall Plant Season Kickoff • Shop seeds and plants for autumn gardening • SB Botanic Garden • early admission for members, RSVP required for all: sbbotanicgarden.org • Included with entry • 1-3pm Sa, 11/8.
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Local Author Max Talley at Chaucer’s DIVE INTO THE HEART OF 1969 SAN FRANCISCO to follow the adventures of a gallery ownerturned detective when local author Max Talley signs his new book, Peace, Love & Haight, at Chaucer’s Books at 6pm on Tuesday, November 11th. chaucersbooks.com
Star Party • Observe the night sky • SBMNH Palmer Observatory • Free • 7-10pm Sa, 11/8.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Holiday Boutique • Shop handmade decor, gifts, treats, and more • First Presbyterian Church • 10am1pm Sa, 11/8.
Santa Barbara Ghost Tours Walk with Professor Julie as she
Xavier Prado will sing as Turiddu Angeline Petronijevic will sing as Lola
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Veterans Day Ceremony
HONOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE SERVED OUR COUNTRY at a free, community Veterans Day ceremony at 11am on Tuesday, November 11th at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, presented by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1649 and the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation. The event will include presentations, music, and a flyover by The Condor Squadron. pcvf.org
Carp Photo Club Steals The Show • Theatrical photography exhibition to support Alcazar • Alcazar Theatre • $15, $25 for two • thealcazar.org • 7pm Sa, 11/8.
TEENS
Youth Climate Workshop • Hands-on workshop on environmental advocacy for grades 6-12 • CEC Hub • Free, RSVP: cecsb.org • 1-4pm Sa, 11/8.
Sunday 11/9
CHILDREN
Sundays at the Ranch • Fun for the family. Enjoy barn animals and tractor rides • Stow House, 304 N Los Carneros Rd • Free • goletahistory.org • 11am-2pm Sun.
Bilingual Storytime • Stories/ crafts, museum admission included • SB Museum of Art Learning Lab • Free • 11-11:40am Su, 11/9.
DANCE
Fundraiser for Dance Hub • Live music, dance performances, and bites • Begins at Dom’s Taverna, moves next door to The Dance Hub for show • $150 • dancehubsb.org/dh25 • 4-7pm Su, 11/9.
MUSIC
Colin Richardson Quartet • Hosted by the SB Jazz Society • SOhO • $10-15 at the door • 1-4pm Su, 11/9. Carillon Recital • Free outdoor concert • UCSB Storke Tower • 2pm Su, 11/9.
Scottish Concert • Traditional music by Folk Orchestra SB & special guests • St. Mark’s in the Valley • $40 • folkorchestrasb.com • 4pm Su, 11/9. Gaby Moreno • Latin pop, rock, and Americana • Viva el Arte SB/ UCSB Arts & Lectures • Marjorie Luke
• $85 • iceinparadise.org • 9am-3pm Tu, 11/11.
Veterans Day Hockey Camp • Skaters ages 4-11, must have own gear and skating experience • Ice in Paradise • $59 • iceinparadise.org • 8:30am12:30pm Tu, 11/11.
COMEDY
Carpinteria Improv Drop-In Class • Learn improv with friends with Kymberlee Weil• Alcazar Theater • $10 at door • thealcazar.org • 7-9pm Tue.
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
Student Tea Session • Observe a Japanese Tea Ceremony lesson • SB Botanic Garden, Tea Garden • Included with admission • 10am-12:30pm Tu, 11/11.
An Evening With Martín Espada
ENJOY AN INTIMATE READING AND CONVERSATION with National Book Award-winning poet Martín Espada when UCSB Arts & Lectures welcomes him to Campbell Hall at 7:30pm on Thursday, November 13th. Grounded in his Puerto Rican identity, Espada’s most recent collection of poems, Jailbreak of Sparrows, addresses injustice, hope, and poetry’s power. For tickets (Free-$20) visit artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
Theatre • Free • luketheatre.org • 6pm Su, 11/9.
Aly & AJ • Pop concert • Arlington Theatre • www.arlingtontheatresb.com • 7pm Su, 11/9.
OUTDOORS
Beach Cleanup • Care for our shores • Explore Ecology • Arroyo Burro Beach • 10am-12pm Su, 11/9.
Sunday Architecture Tour
• Guided stroll through SB’s Architectural charm • Begins at SB Downtown Library • Architectural Foundation of SB • $20 • afsb.org • 10am Sun.
SPECIAL EVENTS
The Beach Ball • Benefit for CASA. Champagne, brunch, surprise guests and music • San Ysidro Ranch Gardens • RSVP: e.givesmart.com/events/ISb/ • 12-2pm Sun, 11/9.
Scrabble Club • Louise Lowry Davis Center • All levels/ English/Spanish • Free • 1-4pm Mon.
Parliamo • Italian conversation, all levels • Natural Cafe, 361 Hitchcock Way • Free • parliamo.yolasite.com • 5-6:30pm Mon.
Tuesday 11/11
CHILDREN
Veterans Day Ice Skating Camp
• For skaters ages 4-11 • Ice in Paradise
English Conversation Group • Practice speaking English • Central Library • Free, register: library.santabarbaraca.gov • 1-2pm Tu, 11/4.
Chess Club • Louise Lowry Davis Center • All levels/ English/Spanish • Free • 1-4pm Tue.
Chaucer’s Book Signing • Local author Max Talley discusses his novel Peace, Love & Haight • Chaucer’s Books • Free • 6pm Tu, 11/11.
Area Meeting • SB Arts
Collaborative and Patrick Melroy offer a place for creative exchange • Community Arts Workshop • $10 • sbcaw.org • 6-8pm Tu, 11/11.
MUSIC
Louis Lortie, piano • All-Ravel program • CAMA • Lobero Theatre • $48-58 • lobero.org • 7:30pm Tu, 11/11.
OUTDOORS
Morning Bird Walk • Walk led by Rebecca Coulter • SB Botanic Garden • $20-30 • sbbotanicgarden.org • 8:3010am Tu, 11/11.
Wednesday 11/12
CHILDREN
SB Reads: Comic Chaos • Ages 8-12 welcome to share love of graphic novels • Central Library, Island Room • Free, add to waitlist: calendar.library. santabarbaraca.gov • 4-5pm We, 11/12. Bilingual Music & Movement •
Ages 0-5 • SB Public Library • 10:1510:45am, Wed.
Read to a Dog • Practice reading with a therapy dog! • Eastside Library • Free • 3-4pm, Wed.
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
Water, Wealth, and the Ancestral Circular Economy • Talk by University of Hawai’i professor Kamanamaikalani Beamer • UCSB McCune Conference Room, HSSB 602 • Free • www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu • 5pm We, 11/12.
Romance Book Club • Discuss Soul Searching by Lyla Sage • Faulkner Gallery, Central Library • Free • 5:306:30pm We, 11/12.
Your Voice, Your Future • Hear from two Carpinteria city council members • AWC-SB • Workzones, Paseo Nuevo • Members free, guests $25 • awcsb.org • 5:30-7pm We, 11/12.
Knitting & Crochet Club • Louise Lowry Davis Ctr • All levels/English/ Spanish • Free • 9-11:30am Wed.
Le Cercle Français • French conversation, all levels • The Natural Cafe • https://tinyurl.com/5ejbd9ye • Free • 5-6:30pm Wed.
MUSIC
Open Jam • At Revolver Pizza. Bring an instrument. Jam with other musicians • 1429 San Andres St • Free • revolversb.com • 6-9pm Wed.
OUTDOORS
Guided Walk Rancho Tajiguas Preserve • Learn about the landscape and history • RSVP to josie.gonella@gaviotacoastconservancy.org • 9:30-11am We, 11/12.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Chaucer’s Book Fair • 25% in store purchases support Brandon Elementary • Chaucer’s Books • 5-7pm We, 11/12.
Sewing & Mending Club • Get support for your projects, ages 13+ • EE Makerspace • $15, register: exploreecology.org • 6-8pm We, 11/12.
Thursday 11/13
CHILDREN
Music & Movement • Shoreline Park • Free • calendar.library.santabarbaraca.gov • 10:30-11am, Thu.
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
Chat with a Firefighter • Locals and kids invited to meet first responders • Eastside Library • Free • 10-11am Th, 11/13.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Continued
Brasscals! Album Release Party
CELEBRATING ITS FIRST ALBUM, LOCAL BRASS BAND BRASSCALS! invites all to celebrate with a party and fundraiser for Casa de la Raza, hosted at the Casa from 7 to 10pm on Saturday, November 15th. After a concert from Brasscals! the night will feature DJ sets from DJ Turtle and DJ Rob, as well as performances from World Dance for Humanity and SB Rollers. Suggested $15 donation. https://brasscals.weebly.com
SBMM Book Club • Discuss nautical and marine reads • Email jjsharkbait@hotmail.com for this month’s book • SB Maritime Museum • 10-11:30am Th, 11/13.
SB Reads: Book Discussion • Discuss The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen • Faulkner Gallery, Central Library • Free, register: calendar. library.santabarbaraca.gov • 5:306:30pm Th, 11/13.
An Evening With Martín Espada • National Book Awardwinning poet • UCSB Arts & Lectures • Campbell Hall • Free-$20 • www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu • 7:30pm Th, 11/13.
Astronomy on Tap • Talk by Dr. William Wester, Scientist Emeritus at Fermilab, presented by Las Cumbres Observatory • M. Special • Free • 7:309:30pm Th, 11/13.
MUSIC
Lookout Mountain • The Music of Laurel Canyon with Special Guests, Henry Diltz & Glen Philips • Lobero Theatre • $50-125 • lobero.org • 7:30pm Th, 11/13.
Southern Culture on the Skids • Foot-stomping rock and roll, ages 21+ • SOhO • $20-25 • sohosb.com • 8pm Th, 11/13.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Knit ‘n’ Needle • Join others to knit, crochet, and more • Montecito Library
OUTDOORS
Family Nature Night • Nighttime walks and activities • SB Botanic Garden • Sold out • 5-7pm Fr, 11/14.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Kindness Cards Workshop
• Guest Artist Sondra Weiss leads creation of cards for folks helping our community • EE Makerspace • $20 per family, kids 12 and under free • 4-6pm Fr, 11/14.
2025 Riviera Gala: A Journey of Hope • Celebrating and supporting American Cancer Society • Ritz-Carlton Bacara • $275+ • riviera.acsgala.org • 6-11pm Fr, 11/14.
Saturday 11/15
CHILDREN
Pathfinders: From Acorns to Oaks • Ages 8-13 will learn about how oaks grow • SB Botanic Garden • Free, register: sbbotanicgarden.org • 11am-12:15pm Sa, 11/15.
LECTURES/MEETINGS
• Free • 2-3:30pm Th, 11/13.
Weekly Protest • Protesting current administration and calling for human rights • Women’s March SB • SB County Courthouse • 4-6pm Thu.
Holiday Soup Social • Italianinspired holiday feast, live music, and more to support Organic Soup Kitchen • Organic Soup Kitchen Distribution Headquarters, 126 E Haley St ste A4 • $45 • paybee.io/in-person-event/osktasting/4 • 4pm Th, 11/13.
Chaucer’s Book Fair • 25% in store purchases support Foothill Elementary & Goleta Family School • Chaucer’s Books • 5-7pm Th, 11/13.
Whale Trivia Night • Flex your facts and support SB Maritime Museum • Night Lizard Brewing • 7pm Th, 11/13.
Friday 11/14
MUSIC
Eilen Jewell • Roots-noir, altcountry, and Americana • SOhO • $3035 • sohosb.com • 6pm Fr, 11/14.
Composer’s Concert • Westmont students • Deane Chapel, Westmont College • Free • 7pm Fr, 11/14.
UCSB Chamber Choir Fall Concert • Evening of choral pieces • Trinity Episcopal Church • Free-$13.25 • https://music.ucsb.edu • 7:30pm Fr, 11/14.
Writing in the Galleries • Write inspired by art, led by poets Omar Pimienta and Natalie Escalante • SB Museum of Art • Free for students and with SBMA admission • Register: sbma.net • 11:15am-12:45pm Sa, 11/15.
Qigong, Breathwork and Acupressure Workshop • Embracing grief and sadness through Traditional Chinese Medicine • Santa Barbara Yoga Center • $45 • sbyc.com • 2-4pm Sa, 11/15.
Book Signing • Local author Christine Frisina, Lost in Silicon Valley • Tecolote Book Shop • Free • 3pm Sa, 11/15.
MUSIC
Mozart Requiem • SB Symphony plays Mozart and newly-commissioned work • Granada Theatre • $45-198 • granadasb.org • 7:30pm Sa, 11/15 & 3pm Su, 11/16.
Brasscals! Album Release Party
• Enjoy live music, DJ sets and dance performances, and fundraise for Casa de la Raza • Casa de la Raza • Suggested $15 donation • 7-10pm Sa, 11/15.
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Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill
EXPERIENCE THE EMOTIONS, HEALING, AND EMPOWERMENT at the heart of Alanis Morisette’s monumental album on the stage when Out of the Box Theater Company presents Jagged Little Pill at Center Stage Theater. Fueled by Morisette’s music, this musical drama dives into the personal struggles and triumphs of a seemingly-ideal suburban family. Opening night will be 8pm on Friday, November 14th, with performances running through the 23rd. An ASL Interpreted Performance and Post-Show Talkback will take place for the Sunday, November 16th performance. For tickets ($30-40) visit centerstagetheater.org
CLICK! You Didn’t Say It
Was Haunted • Eccentric guests navigate a haunted house • San Marcos High School Theater • $6-20 • smhstheaterdept.com • 7pm 11/7 & 11/8; 11/13-11/15; 2pm 11/9.
The Breakfast Club • Stage version of this ‘80s film • SB High School Theater • $10-25 • sbhstheater.com • 7pm 11/7 & 11/8; 11/13-11/15; 4pm 11/9 & 11/16.
Million Dollar Quartet • Four of music’s most legendary icons— Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins—meet for an impromptu jam session that would make rock n’ roll history • Rubicon Theatre • $55-$95 • rubicontheatre.org • Through 11/9.
Disney’s Frozen • Broadway musical version of animated favorite • PCPA, Marian Theatre, Santa Maria • $25 starting • pcpa.org • Through 12/21.
Fleisch Gordon and the Space Amoeba of Doom • Yiddish twist on ‘30s Flash Gordan space series • Shtetl Home Companion • Casa Covarrubias at the SB Historical Museum • $20+ • 3pm & 6pm Su, 11/9.
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley • Festive sequel to Austen’s classic novel • Theatre
Group at SBCC, Jurkowitz Theatre • $10-20 • theatregroupsbcc.com • 7:30pm We, 11/12, through 11/22. POTUS: Or, Behind Every Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive • Political comedy about a presidential blunder • UCSB Performing Arts Theater • $13-19 • theaterdance.ucsb.edu • 7:30pm 11/14, 11/15, 11/20-11/22; 2pm 11/15 & 11/22.
Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill • A story about a family’s journey to healing and empowerment inspired by Morissette’s award-winning album • Out of the Box Theater Company • Center Stage Theater • $30-40, students under 18 free • Recommended ages 13+ • centerstagetheater.org • 8pm Fr, 11/14, 11/15, 11/21, 11/22; 2pm 11/16 & 11/23.
Quetzali and the Comic Book Queen vs. the Alebrije of Darkness: Live in the School Cafeteria • A story of self-discovery and friendship, for grades K-5 • Severson Theatre, Santa Maria • $10 • pcpa.org • 11am & 2pm Sa, 11/15.
Photo courtesy of Out of the Box
Photo courtesy of Brasscals!
Two Instruments, One Voice: Pieces of Home
Meet 2025 Alumni Performance Award Winner Gerbich Meijer
By Daisy Scott / VOICE
MAKING A TRIUMPHANT
RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES AND HER MUSICAL OASIS, SANTA BARBARA,
clarinetist Gerbrich Meijer will join forces with critically-acclaimed pianist Conor Hanick for a landmark concert at the Music Academy of the West on November 19th.
Celebrating “Pieces of Home,” the Mariposa series concert includes the world premiere of composer Derek Bermel’s Bells of Westertoren. The night will also formally present Meijer with the Academy’s 2025 Alumni Performance Award.
she did not know the name “clarinet,” she was immediately captivated and asked her mother if she could have lessons so that she too could make such beautiful music.
“The sound really drew me,” said Meijer. “I think for this concert, it’s really fun that the clarinet has historically come from so many different corners of the world and so many different styles.”
Meijer has blazed a bright path across international concert halls, including her recent solo debut with the National Radio Orchestra of the Netherlands at TivoliVredenburg and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
known for debuting new, exciting works as well as being the Academy’s director of Solo Piano. This concert will be the first time the two will play as an intimate duo, conquering the task of performing the world premiere of Derek Bermel’s Bells of Westertoren
Commissioned by the Music Academy, Bermel’s work acts as a tribute to Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Given that Bermel is also a clarinet player, Meijer feels excited about the serendipitous, personal connection she feels to the piece.
“The piano and clarinet are two such different voices and two instruments with such different capabilities,” shared Meijer to VOICE. “I think the program that we decided on is very versatile, so it’s really exciting to me to see how we can bring these voices together into one, in every piece, in a different way.”
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Meijer was nine years old when she first heard someone playing the instrument that would become her passion. While
OUTDOORS
Turkey Trot 5K • Run with friends and neighbors • UCSB Lagoon Lawn • recreation.ucsb.edu/turkeytrot • $25-35 • 8:30 check in, race 9:30 Sa, 11/15.
Elings Park Transformation Project • Volunteers needed to help clear weeds, monitor plant health, and more • Learn more and register: sbbotanicgarden.org • 9am-12pm Sa, 11/15.
Anticipating Rain: Autumn’s Subtle Beauty • Walk and talk by horticulturalist Carol Bornstein • SB Botanic Garden • Sold out • 9-11am Sa, 11/15.
Walk to End Alzheimer’s • Walk to suppoer the Alzheimer’s Association • Chase Palm Park Great Meadow • Join a team or walk individually: https://tinyurl.com/58d35s4u • Registration 9am, walk 10:15am Sa, 11/15.
Day in the Park: Sustainability Community Fair • Learn about sustainability and connect with local resources • Leroy Park, Guadalupe • Free • 12:30-4pm Sa, 11/15.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Mini Photo Sessions With Vails & Tails • Holiday photoshoots for families, couples, dogs, or yourself, supports Elings Park • Godric Grove, Elings Park • Reservations required: elingspark. org/events • All day Sa, 11/15.
As a 2020 Music Academy of the West fellow, Meijer deeply appreciated the Academy’s commitment to supporting students amidst the pandemic. She returned to the Academy in 2021 and 2022, finally studying in person in Santa Barbara, which she refers to as “like a fairy tale place in real life.”
“The Music Academy is one of the places where really my vision of how I want to be an artist started to take shape,” said Meijer. “They just really activate the entrepreneurial mind of a musician.”
On November 19th, Meijer will return to Hahn Hall to perform alongside Conor Hanick, a nationally-celebrated pianist
Holiday Makers Market • Shop handmade gifts • Living Faith Church • 10am-3pm Sa, 11/15.
TEENS
Young Adult Clothing Swap • Exchange clothes for new items, open to ages 12-23 • Faulkner Gallery, Central Library • 2-4pm Sa, 11/15.
Sunday 11/16
LECTURES/MEETINGS
Estate Planning Essentials Workshop
• Free workshop hosted by Museum’s Planned Giving Advisory Council • SBMNH Fleischmann Auditorium • RSVP: sbnature.org • 2-4pm Su, 11/16.
Solvang’s Rich History of Danish
Baking • Talk by Bent Olsen, owner of Olsen’s Danish Village Bakery. Treats & Q&A to follow
• Neal Taylor Nature Center at Cachuma Lake • Donations appreciated • 2pm Su, 11/16.
MUSIC
Santa Barbara Music Teachers’ Assoc. of CA • Local youth perform music of the 20th21st centuries • First Congregational Church • $10 • 4pm Su, 11/16.
Judy Collins & Tom Rush • Icons of the ‘60s folk revival join forces • Lobero Theatre • $97-157 • lobero.org • 7pm Su, 11/16.
“It’s been quite a beautiful turn of events,” explained Meijer. “We realized we have a lot in common. He worked and lived in the Netherlands and he studied there, so he has a big connection to my country. And he’s going to write something for a Dutch person that will be premiered in his country, the U.S.”
The concert as a whole will ask listeners to reflect on what home means to them while listening to sonatas for clarinet and piano composed by Poulenc and Weinberg, as well as Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen’s Romanze in F Major The night will conclude with Béla Kovács’ stirring Sholem-alekhem, rov Feidman!
Meijer feels that the concert will serve as a welcoming, informative entry point into the world of classical music for those audiences who are interested in
Help Care for Elings Park
TEND FOR OUR NATURAL LANDSCAPES by volunteering to help the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s transformation project at Elings Park. The next volunteer meeting will be from 9am to 12pm on Saturday, November 15th and include clearing weeds, monitoring plant health, planting as needed, and more. Register for a shift online at the Botanic Garden website. sbbotanicgarden.org
OUTDOORS
discovering more about the genre.
“I’m trying to take away the boundaries of the elitism of it, the idea that you need to be crazy informed, to be allowed to listen to it,” said Meijer. “It’s the same idea that you would not be allowed into a museum if you hadn’t studied history.”
Meijer will also collaborate with the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony during her local stay, a decision that is very much in keeping with her ongoing work to support music education.
“I look forward to coming to Santa Barbara to serve the community, and not just to have Santa Barbara serving me as an artist,” she said.
For tickets ($55-70) visit musicacademy.org
Beach Cleanup • Join the Sea Center in a cleanup • Meet at East Beach behind Skater’s Point skate park and the adjacent Palm Park parking lot at East Beach • Register: sbnature.org • 10am12pm Su, 11/16.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Winter Holiday Market & Silent Auction
• Vendors, bounce houses, and more to support Starr King Parent Child Workshop • 1525 1/2 Santa
Barbara St • Free, RSVP: starrking-pcw.org/winter-market • 3-7pm Su, 11/16. Chaucer’s Book Fair • 25% in store purchases support UCSB Children’s Center • Chaucer’s Books • 2-4pm Su, 11/16.
Photo courtesy of Music Academy of the West
Pianist Conor Hanick
Photo by Milagro Elstak
Clarinetist and Music Academy of the West 2025 Alumni Performance Award Winner Gerbich Meijer
Photo courtesy of SB Botanic Garden
Community News
Downtown SB Names Halloween Decor Contest Winners
SPOOKY DELIGHTS ADORNED DOWNTOWN SANTA BARBARA last month as shopkeepers decorated their businesses for Halloween and the Downtown Santa Barbara Improvement Association’s annual Halloween Decor Contest, held last Friday. DSBIA staff and volunteer judges explored over ten festive storefronts downtown to select the winners.
First Place was awarded to 33 Jewels (814 State Street). Owner Diane Garmendia enchanted judges with a beautifully detailed fall foliage display. The colorful, handcurated pieces were expertly blended with spooky elements such as a skull, pitchfork, and eerie crows.
Second Place was awarded to The Red Piano (519 State Street). This display proved to be frightful and interactive! Featuring hanging bats, giant spiders, skeletons, and zombies, The Red Piano created a truly memorable, chilling scene.
Third Place was awarded to Art & Soul (1323 State Street). Art & Soul secured a top spot
with a clever display featuring a skeleton painting on an easel, surrounded by tombstones marked with witty quotes such as “Art never dies,” and “All art is immortal.”
The top three winners each received a framed certificate recognizing their outstanding effort.
The following businesses were named runner-ups:
Fourth
There was one Honorable Mention: The Unity Gift
(1209 State Street).
SB Reads Invites Entire Community to Join In for a Season of Reading and Fun
BE
A PART OF A COMMUNITY-WIDE BOOK CLUB
this fall by participating in the 2025 Santa Barbara Reads Program, which invites all locals to read Trung Le Nguyen’s heartfelt graphic novel The Magic Fish. Free copies in Spanish and English are available for pick up at Santa Barbara Library locations, while supplies last. Ebooks and digital audiobooks are also available in English through the SB Library website.
Free events themed around The Magic Fish will engage the Santa Barbara community across library locations through the middle of November. From children-focused craft activities to a special Cultural Storytelling event, the SB Program aims to spark important conversations and celebrate belonging.
“I based a lot of the characters in The Magic Fish on the experiences of my own family that I observed growing up in the United States and learning English and learning the culture alongside them as well,” said author Trung Le Nguyen to KPBS in 2022.
Full of engaging illustratrations, The Magic Fish follows Tiến, a second generation Vietnamese-American boy, as he tries to navigate life and communicate with his parents through their cultural and language barriers. All of these feelings grow more complex as Tiến tries to find the right words to communicate his sexuality to his parents. Through it all, fairytales emerge as a point of connection.
These core ideas of intergenerational and immigrant family dynamics are made all the more accessible through beautiful illustrations, making this graphic novel compelling for a wide range of readers.
Upcoming SB Reads events include the final community Book Discussion on Thursday, November 13th at 5:30pm at the Central Library. The next day, Friday, November 14th, SB Speaks: Cultural Storytelling will showcase locals performing their own stories about their cultures, identities, and more from 6 to 7:30pm in the Faulkner Gallery.
Kids looking to get involved in the fun can participate in Comic Chaos from 4 to 5pm on Wednesday, November 12th at the Central Library.
All events are free but some require registration to participate. Visit library.santabarbaraca.gov/classes-events/special-events/sb-reads-2025
Place: Santa Barbara Pizza House (515 State Street), Fifth Place: Cleopatra Ink Tattoo & Piercing (619 State Street), Sixth Place: Renaissance Fine Consignment (1118 State Street).
Shoppe
First place decor contest winner 33 Jewels
Art & Soul took third place
Red Piano won second place
Memory & the Natural
By Kerry Methner / VOICE
HE
DENSE FORESTS OF OREGON AND
SANTA BARBARA’S COASTAL LIFE will swirl with lush color and vitality as they meet within the walls of the Marcia Burtt Gallery for the opening reception on Sunday, November 9th from 11am to 2pm. The tandem exhibits, Coastal Life and Randall David Tipton, are part of a new rhythm at the gallery, as opening celebrations welcome the community to join in and appreciate the artists’ close connections with the natural world.
The Tipton exhibit is a solo collection of work by an artist with a lifetime of creative experience and an eleven year relationship with Burtt.
“I met Marcia Burtt through a fan letter I wrote to her. She was fearless with color and she also represented another Pacific Northwest artist I had followed for years. I wanted her to see my work,” Tipton related in an email interview from his home near Portland.
Tipton works in a variety of media from watercolor to oil, but it all hangs comfortably together.
“All my work, in any medium, is based on my relationship with the outdoors, particularly my local environment,” Tipton noted. “I’ve always harbored intense and private feelings about nature. This involvement becomes visible in my paintings and hopefully the regard does as well.”
This fits well with the oeuvre of the group exhibition, Coastal Life as well as Burtt’s own work.
Tipton’s commitment to art came early. “I began painting with serious intention when I became a teenager” he explained. “The hormonal changes came with a deep depression and my parents got me involved with a local arts group. I learned I could live with my emotions by expressing myself through art.”
Coastal Life
THE PAINTINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS in Coastal Life according to exhibit notes explore the interplay between our coast’s topography and the harbors, buildings, and routes along the shoreline.
From there he has grown into his place as an artist in the community whose role is to “offer a unique way of seeing natural phenomena.” He elaborated, “I’m frequently told a certain landscape, maybe in a particular light, made them think of my work. I wouldn’t want to assign a value to that influence, but when I hear such things, I realize I’m communicating with a larger world than just my studio.”
Tipton seems very happy being associated with the Marcia Burtt Gallery. His final comment? “Marcia Burtt is an uncommon, truly generous woman. There is a purity of perception in her work that is clean and inspirational. Knowing her has been an educational pleasure.”
The artists transform boats and piers into liquid organic shapes in undulating ocean reflections. Dramatic views show buildings miniaturized by the ocean and mountains beyond. Diffuse light of the marine layer creates atmospheric vistas; rendered roads and paths lure the viewer to discover this region through fresh perspectives.
Participating artists include: Manny Lopez, Marcia Burtt, Joseph Mendez, Michael Drury, Mark Kerckhoff, Erling Sjovold, Robert Abbott,
Chris Chapman, Donald Archer, Bill Dewey, Marilee Krause, Ian Roberts, and Ray Roberts.
Spring Meadow, watercolor, by Randall David Tipton
The Cloud Lifts from the Mountain, watercolor, by Randall David Tipton
Night Falls on the Winter Orchard, oil, by Randall David Tipton
Overcast Bay, oil by Mark Kerckhoff
Low Tide, acrylic by Marcia Burtt
Randall David Tipton
ART VENUES
Ralph Waterhouse
Waterhouse Gallery
La Arcada at State & Figueroa Santa Barbara • 805-962-8885 www.waterhousegallery.com
10 West Gallery • Festive Fall• Through Dec 7 • 10 W Anapamu • 11-5 We-Mo • 805-770-7711 • 10westgallery.com
Ann Foxworthy Gallery • Dreams & Revelations by Paulo Lima • through Dec 4 • Alan Hancock College, 800 South College Dr, Bldg L, Santa Maria.
RUTH ELLEN HOAG www.ruthellenhoag.com @ruthellenhoag 805-689-0858 ~inquire for studio classes~
Architectural Fdn Gallery • Kids Draw Architecture • Nov 16 through Jan 4 • 229 E Victoria • 805965-6307 • 1–4 some Sa & By Appt • afsb.org
Art & Soul Gallery • Emerging: Work by Bella DiBernardo • Nov 6 through Nov 30 • 1323 State St • artandsoulsb.com
ART EVENTS
Maurizio Barattucci: Observation, Reflection, Response • Printmaking retrospective with the artist • Community Arts Workshop • Free • Through 11/15. Current Impressions Opening Reception
• Music, munchies, and art by The Inkspots, San Buenaventura Printmakers • 643 N. Ventura Ave, Ventura • Free • 5-8pm Fr, 11/7.
Mesa Artists Studio Tour • Private studio spaces open to the public • Mesa, Santa Barbara • Free • sbmesaartists.com • 11am-4pm Sat & Sun, 11/8-11/9.
HOME • Art show by The Institute of Absurd Affairs • Community Arts Workshop • Free • 11am-3pm Sa & Su, 11/8-11/9.
Sketching in the Galleries • Draw inspired by art • SB Museum of Art • Free with admission & to students • RSVP: sbma.net • 11:15am-12:15pm Sa 11/8.
Adult Art Studio Class En Plein Air at Lotusland • Led by SBMA Teaching Artist Nicola Ghersen • Lotusland • $125-175 • RSVP: lotusland.org • 1-4pm Sat, 11/8.
Portrait Drawing Workshop & Studio Tour
• Hosted by artist Rich Wilkie • Location given on registration • $70 • Richwilkie.com • 1-4pm Sa, 11/8.
Art KIT: Archiving & Pricing Your Work
• Calculate costs, set goals and learn pricing • Community Arts Workshop • $10 •sbcaw.org • 1-3pm Su, 11/9.
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB • Beyond the Object; Mexican Prints: The GarciaCorrea Collection from local collectors Gil Garcia and Marti Correa de Garcia; Environmental Communications: Big Bang Beat LA; Joan Mitchell 100 • through Dec 7 • 12-5 Wed-Sun • museum.ucsb.edu
Art From Scrap • Explore Ecology • exploreecology.org
ArtLabbé Gallery • 111 Santa Barbara St, Suite H • artlabbe.org
Atkinson Gallery, SBCC • Up Next: Fall 2025 Student Show • atkinsongallerysbcc.com
Bella Rosa Galleries • 1103-A State St • 11-5 daily • 805-966-1707
The Carriage and Western Art Museum • SB History Makers: 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 • Lulu Hyggelig: California’s First Thomas Dambo Troll • ongoing • Wild in California • Through Feb 23 • 1511 B Mission Dr, Solvang • 11-4 Mo, Th, Fr; 11-5 Sa & Su • calnatureartmuseum.org
Opening Reception • View Coastal Life and Randall David Tipton • Marcia Burtt Gallery, 517 Laguna St. • Free • 11am-2pm Su, 11/9.
Opening Reception • Between Planes: Exploring Sculpture Through Print • Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art • www.westmont.edu/museum • 4-6pm Th, 11/13.
Opening Reception Between Planes: Prints by Sculptors • Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum Of Art • 4-6pm Thu, 11/13.
Opening Reception: Earth That Remembers • Featuring the art of Wrona Gall and Hung Viet Nguyen • Rubenstein Chan Contemporary Art, 410 Palm Ave, B3, Carpinteria • Free • rubensteinchan.com • 2-5pm Sa, 11/15 • Also four additional galleries and studios at the Palm Lofts complex in Carpinteria will be open: Patricia Houghton Clarke Photography, Jan Harrington Art, Laurel Mines studio, and the Palm Loft Gallery.
Kids Draw Architecture Gallery Opening • Holiday party celebrating artwork made by local students • Architectural Fdn of SB, 229 E. Victoria St. • Free • 1-3pm Su, 11/16.
Carpinteria Creative Arts Market • Local pottery, beach art, cards, jewelry, and sewn articles • 8th St & Linden Av • Free • 2:30-6 Thur.
SB Arts & Crafts Show • Local artists & artisans • Free • 236 E Cabrillo Blvd • 10-5 Sun.
Casa de La Guerra • Santa Barbara 1925 – 2025: A Portrait in Maps • $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 • 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 • 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 • Joellen Chrones: Hot Glass and Warm Fuzzies • Through Nov 23 • 119 E Cypress Av, Lompoc • 1-4 Sa & Su • 805-737-1129 • lompocart.org
El Presidio De Santa Bárbara • Santa Barbara 1925 – 2025: A Portrait in Maps • 123 E Canon Perdido St • 10:30-4:30 Daily • sbthp.org
Elverhøj Museum • history & Danish culture of Solvang • 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 • 1011 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
Gallery Los Olivos • Five O’Clock Shadow: Garrett Speirs through Nov. • Daily 10-4pm • 2920 Grand Av • 805-688-7517 • gallerylosolivos.com
Grace Fisher Fdn • Inclusive Arts Clubhouse • Paintings by Grace Fisher • 121 S Hope, La Cumbre Plaza • We-Su 11-5pm • gracefisherfoundation.org
Indah Gallery • Kellen Meyer’s wild weavings: stories of wonder • Nov 15 through Dec 21 • 12-5 FriSun • 2190 N Refugio Rd, Santa Ynez • 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 • a million+ historical documents • 21-23 W Anapamu • 10-4 Tu-Su • 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
La Cumbre Center For Creative Arts • Fine Line Gallery; Elevate Gallery; Illuminations Gallery • Multi-Artist Studio/Gallery Spaces • La Cumbre Plaza • 12-5 Tu-Su • lcccasb.com
Lompoc Library Grossman Gallery • 501 E North Av, Lompoc • 805-588-3459
Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center • Blue through Nov 23 • 12-4 Th-Su • 865 Linden • 805-684-7789 • carpinteriaartscenter.org
Maker House • A Gesture Repeated • 1351 Holiday Hill Rd • 805-565CLAY • 10-4 Daily • makerhouse.org
Marcia Burtt Gallery • Coastal Life and Randall David Tipton • through Nov 16 • Landscape paintings, prints, & books • 517 Laguna St • 1-5 Th-Su • 805-962-
•
Evening Light, Santa Barbara Courthouse - featuring in an exhibition at Palm Loft Gallery, Carpinteria
5588 • artlacuna.com
Mate Gallery • beach images alongside vintage oils, gifts • 1014 Coast Village R • 805-895-6283 • mategallery.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 • San Milano Drive: DJ Javier • 11-6pm Tu-Sun • 653 Paseo Nuevo • mcasantabarbara.org
MCASB Satellite @ the Riviera Beach House • Makahiya: I Wanted You to Feel the Same by Godofredo Astudillo • through Apr 12 • 9-9pm Daily • 121 State St • mcasantabarbara.org
Museum of Tibetan Art & Legacy Arts International • Wed-Sun 12-8pm • 310-880-6671 • lamatashinorbu.org / legacyartsb.com
Patricia Clarke Studio • An American Girl project; Primal Wild; Correspondences, Erasing Lines, and Facing Ourselves • 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
Rubenstein Chan Contemporary Art • Earth that Remembers: Wrona Gall and Hung
Viet Nguyen through Dec 24 • 410 Palm Av, Unit B3, Carpinteria • 805-576-6152: info/appt • RubensteinChan.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 • Ludmilla Pila Welch: Serene Santa Barbara through Mar 26; Pop-Up History through Nov 23; 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
• Redwoods of the Sea • through Jan 4
• 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
• The Impressionist Revolution and Encore • Through Jan 25; By Achilles’ Tomb: Elliott Hundley and Antiquity @ SBMA through Feb 22 • 1130
State St • 11-5 Tu-Su; 5-8 1st Th free; 2nd Sun free Tri-Co residents • 805963-4364 • sbma.net
Santa Barbara Museum Of Natural History • The Living Print through May 30; Drawn from Nature through Mar 26 • 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 • 805-682-4711 • sbnature.org
Santa Barbara Tennis Club2nd Fridays Art • Western Edge • through Dec 2 • 2375 Foothill Rd • 10-6 Daily • 805-682-4722 • 2ndfridaysart.com
Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum • 3596 Sagunto St • 124pm Wed-Sun • santaynezmuseum. org.
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
Seimandi & Leprieur • Whose Paradise?: Karine Tailame; Pierre Roy-Camille; Dora Vital; Ricardo Ozier-Lafontaine; Anabell Guerrero through Nov 22 • 33 W Anapamu St. • Wed-Sat 11-6 • 805-610-1203 • seimandileprieur.com
Slice of Light Gallery • Fall 2025; Photography 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 • 11-5:30 Mo-Sa • 805-845-0255
Sullivan Goss • Irresistible:
Jim Balsitis
LCCCA Fine Line Gallery La Cumbre Plaza www.coyotetrack.com
Flowers & Their Admirers through Dec 22; Nathan Huff: Within Wilds through Nov 24; Fall Salon : through Nov 24; • 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 • Inside Heaven’s Gate – Behind the Scenes with Susan Bridges through Dec 31 • 1309 State St • 12-5 We-Su • 805-705-2208 • tamsengallery.com
UCSB Library Ocean Gallery
• Art of Science through Mar 17; Unyielding Voices: Global Resistance and the Black Radical Tradition ~ drawn from the Cedric J. and Elizabeth P. Robinson Archive 8 through Jun 12 • library.ucsb.edu Voice Gallery • Anything Goes by SBAA • through Nov 29 • La Cumbre Plaza H-124 • 10-5:30 M-F; 1-5 SaSu • 805-965-6448
Waterhouse Gallery Montecito
• Notable CA & National Artists • 1187 Coast Village Rd • 11-5 Mo-Su • 805-962-8885 • waterhousegallery.com
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 • Between Planes: Prints by Sculptors • Nov 13 through Dec 20 • Weekdays 10-4, Sat 11-5 • westmont.edu/museum
Artists: See your work here!
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Santa Barbara’s
Cultural Night Out
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ST 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 handson activities. State St also comes alive on 1st Thursday with performances and interactive activities.
November 6th • 5 to 8pm
Galleries, Museums, &
Art Venues
1. Voice Gallery • La Cumbre Plaza, 110 S. Hope Ave, H-124 • The Santa Barbara Art Association’s Anything Goes, a juried exhibition at Voice Gallery, runs November 2–29. Featuring a vibrant mix of mediums and artistic visions, the show celebrates creativity in all its forms. 2nd Receptions: Nov 21st, La Cumbre Plaza’s 3rd Friday Artwalk.
2. Waterlight Studio • 18 W. Micheltorena D. • Handcrafted ceramic vessels by Suzanne Schwager, blending intricate glazing techniques with decades of artistic practice. Inspired by her studies at UCSB and mentor Sheldon Kaganoff, Suzanne has been perfecting her ceramic work since the 1970s. All pieces are handmade in Santa Barbara and available for purchase.
3. SBIFF’s Santa Barbara Filmmaker Series • SBIFF’s Education Center, 1330 State Street STE 101 • On Thursday, November 6th, we are featuring Selah Blackwell’s Who Are You, Molly Baker?; Winner of SBIFF’s 10-10-10 for High-School. Overachieving high schooler Molly is sent into a tailspin when she loses her school’s presidential election. Showtimes 5:30pm, 6pm, 6:30pm, and 7pm. Runtime: 10 mins
4. Art & Soul • 1323 State Street • Art & Soul is proud to present Emerging, the debut solo exhibition of Bella DiBernardo—a rising artist whose creative voice has been intertwined with the gallery since its earliest days. Exploring a personal narrative through bold, intuitive expression, Bella shares a deeply personal collection that reflects her journey and echoes the creative spirit that has come to define Art & Soul. Fine wines, lite bites.
5. Santa Barbara Fine Art • 1321 State Street • Paintings from Across the Channel by John Comer. “In the 70’s this was a favorite place to anchor along with Smuggler’s to the east after swordfishing for the day.
14. Waterhouse Gallery offers a range of beautiful works by respected artists.
13. The Square Foot Show at Gallery 113 is a benefit exhibition open to the community!
16. Have you visited The Yes Store yet this season? It’s a one stop shop for creative gifting!
19. It’s Burger Night at Tyler x Lieu Dit! And, they’re exhibiting Ignacio Meza’s travel photography.
8. Jazz, local wine and bites and a chance to win tickets! Don’t miss The Granada’s 1st Thursday.
7. Jenna Gibson’s figurative portraits will be featured at domecíl
22. Catch printmaker Maurizio Barattucci’s retrospective at CAW
6. Inside Heaven’s Gate by Susan Bridges is on view at Tamsen Gallery.
10. Celebrate a Festive Fall, which includes Tom Peck’s Smooth Horse at 10 West Gallery
15. Photography by J K Lovelace, Ben Coffman, and Eric States is on view at Slice of Light Gallery.
9. If you love flowers stop by Sullivan Goss for Irresistible: Flowers and Their Admirers
There could be a whole fleet of older wooden fishing boats there. I was on Santa Lucia built in 1917. This spot feels very calm after crossing a windy lane in the channel. It was part of the Gherini Ranch, now National Park.”
6. Tamsen Gallery • 1309 State Street • Visit Tamsen Gallery in downtown Santa Barbara for Inside Heaven’s Gate – Behind the Scenes with Susan Bridges. Experience the captivating world of filmmaking through Bridges’ lens, featuring her intimate photographs from the iconic film. Exhibition is open until Dec 31st, with artist talks and special programs throughout its run.
7. domecíl • 1223 State Street • Stop by domecíl to view the art of Jenna Gibson whose beautiful work is figurative and portraits based, with a hint of history and natural elements intertwined throughout.
8. The Granada Theatre • 1214 State Street • Stop by The Granada during November’s 1st Thursday Art Walk and enjoy local wine and refreshments while listening to the sounds of our fabulous Jazz Quartet. There will also be a drawing for tickets to upcoming Granada performances! See you there!
9. Sullivan Goss • 11 E. Anapamu St. • Sullivan Goss invites you to join us for the opening reception of Irresistible: Flowers and Their Admirers. The show includes floralinspired works by many of our favorites alongside other nationally recognized artists. Also on view: Nathan Huff, and our Fall Salon.
10. 10 West Gallery • 10 W. Anapamu St. • Festive Fall — Ten contemporary artists from the Santa Barbara area plus a new selection of
exquisite contemporary pottery from Mata Ortiz, Mexico. 10 West Gallery features abstract, impressionist and figurative paintings as well as sculpture in stone, bronze and other media.
11. Seimandi & Leprieur, Art Gallery • 33 W. Anapamu St. • Whose Paradise? continues this 1st Thursday at Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery. Through painting and photography, five artists explore the myth of the “tropical paradise”, between fantasy and lived reality, light and resistance. The palm tree, both witness and symbol, anchors a reflection on history, nature, and identity. Join us for an evening of art and conversation, with a wine tasting hosted by Au Bon Climat Winery.
12. Santa Barbara Museum of Art • 1130 State Street • Join us for 1st Thursday at SBMA; our main galleries are free and open from 5 to 8 pm! Explore our diverse galleries, see new photography and collage exhibitions, and drop by the Art Learning Lab for a hands-on art activity related to our exhibitions!
Our featured exhibitions The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse and Encore, remain ticketed.
13. Gallery 113 • 1114 State Street #8 • The Square Foot Show Anniversary open community show and Gallery113 fundraiser features artists from Santa Barbara Art Association and the community. All art is priced at $113. $50 will go to the artist, $50 will go to the gallery for needed improvements, and $13 will go to C.A.R.E.4Paws, an incredible local organization supporting pets and their owners.
14. Waterhouse Gallery • 1114 State Street #9 • The Gallery features figurative works, interiors, and cityscapes, by some of today’s finest nationally known local and Oak
Group artists. Enjoy works by Ray Hunter, Derek Harrison. Wyllis Heaton, Camille Dellar, Ann Sanders, Thomas Van Stein, Nancy Davidson, Rick Garcia, Ellie Freudenstein, and Ralph Waterhouse.
15. Slice of Light • 9 W. Figueroa St. • Slice of Light Gallery’s Fall Exhibition is up now! We’re displaying gorgeous photography and art from J K Lovelace, Ben Coffman, and Eric States. Stop by to enjoy fine wine and a beautiful array of art and photography.
16. The Yes Store • 1015 State Street • Come celebrate the holiday season while enjoying local arts, music, drinks, and 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.
17. 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 5pm - 8pm to shop jewelry, clothing and art from local vendors. Take a seat at the bar and enjoy $2 oysters & cocktails and bites whilst DJ Dansauce provides the beats.
18. Maker House Annex • 913 State Street • Maker House Annex is a Downtown satellite space in the heart of State Street, featuring resident artists, a shared gallery, and a retail area. Artists from Maker House will showcase and sell their work while engaging the public through exhibitions, demos, and events that celebrate our vibrant studio community.
19. Tyler x Lieu Dit • 23 East Canon Perdido Street • Join us for Thursday burger night at Tyler x Lieu Dit! Starting at 4 pm, we will be serving French-bistro style burgers and opening large-format and library wines alongside photographer Ignacio Meza’s portfolio of travel photography.
20. Paint at Paseo • Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara • Paint at Paseo is an 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, including canvases, paints, aprons and brushes, are provided, and you’ll take home a beautiful painting. Best of all, this monthly event is free! Bring your family and friends to share the joy of creativity.
21. Santa Barbara Historical Museum • 136 East De La Guerra St. • Join the Museum after-hours for wine, live music by the Tony Ybarra Trio, and a chance to see our latest exhibitions, Ludmilla Pilat Welch: Serene Santa Barbara, Pop-Up History! and Images from the Gledhill Library. Free admission!
22. Community Arts Workshop (CAW) • 631 Garden Street • Santa Barbara printmaker Maurizio Barattucci is having an artist’s retrospective of his works which dazzled the art world during an exciting era of experimentation. His prints are masterworks of technical virtuosity, and his subjects, usually inspired by nature, have an exuberance and immediacy that continue to resonate today. Please join us for a rare opportunity to meet the artist at a retrospective exhibition of his work.
18. The Maker House has a new Annex downtown with gallery and retail space, demos and more!
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Entertainment • The 805 Blues Collective will play in the 800 Block of State Street. They’re dedicated to fostering the local blues rock scene with heavy inspiration from BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, and more. It will be screaming guitar over a cemented rhythm section with an infectious raw energy.
11. Whose Paradise? at Seimandi & Leprieur Gallery offers five artists’ take on the question via painting and photography.
5. See John Comer’s Yellow Banks at Santa Barbara Fine Art.
12. Stop in at the SBMA’s Art Learning Lab for a hands-on art activity!
20. Try your hand at painting is this fun workshop at Paseo Nuevo!
1. See Keepers of the Coast by Odessa Burrow in SBAA’s show at VOICE
21. The Tony Ybarra Trio, wine and free reign to view exhibitions are on the menu at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.
4. Emerging, by Bella DiBernardo is on view at Art & Soul.
17. Vendors will offer their wares at the The Kimpton Canary Hotel while Finch & Fork serves up cocktails & more!
3. See Selah Blackwell’s Who Are You, Molly Baker?; Winner of SBIFF’s 10-10-10 for High-School.
2. See handcrafted ceramic vessels by Suzanne Schwager, at Waterlight Studio
Venezuela’s Oil, US-led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics
The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs & Sybil Fares / November 4, 2025 / Common Dreams
THE UNITED STATES IS DUSTING OFF ITS OLD REGIME-CHANGE PLAYBOOK IN VENEZUELA. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists,” the objective remains the same, which is control of Venezuela’s oil. The methods followed by the US are familiar: sanctions that strangle the economy, threats of force, and a $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as if this were the Wild West.
The US is addicted to war. With the renaming of the Department of War, a proposed Pentagon budget of $1.01 trillion, and more than 750 military bases across some 80 countries, this is not a nation pursuing peace. For the past two decades, Venezuela has been a persistent target of US regime change. The motive, which is clearly laid out by President Donald Trump, is the roughly 300 billion barrels of oil reserves beneath the Orinoco belt, the largest petroleum reserves on the planet.
In 2023, Trump openly stated: “When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil… but now we’re buying oil from Venezuela, so we’re making a dictator very rich.” His words reveal the underlying logic of US foreign policy that has an utter disregard for sovereignty and instead favors the grabbing of other country’s resources.
What’s underway today is a typical US-led regime-change operation dressed up in the language of anti-drug interdiction. The US has amassed thousands of troops, warships, and aircraft in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The president has boastfully authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela.
On October 26, 2025, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) went on national television to defend recent US military strikes on Venezuelan vessels and to say land strikes inside Venezuela and Colombia are a “real possibility.” Florida Sen. Rick Scott, in the same news cycle, mused that if he were Nicolás Maduro he’d “head to Russia or China right now.” These senators aim to normalize the idea that Washington decides who governs Venezuela and what happens to its oil. Remember that Graham similarly champions the US fighting Russia in Ukraine to secure the $10 trillion of mineral wealth that Graham fatuously claims are available for the US to grab.
Nor are Trump’s moves a new story vis-à-vis Venezuela. For more than 20 years, successive US administrations have tried to submit Venezuela’s internal politics to Washington’s will. In April 2002, a short-lived military coup briefly ousted then-President Hugo Chávez. The CIA knew the details of the coup in advance, and the US immediately recognized the new government. In the end, Chávez retook power. Yet the US did not end its support for regime change.
In March 2015, Barack Obama codified a remarkable legal fiction. Obama signed Executive Order 13692, declaring Venezuela’s internal political situation an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security to trigger US economic sanctions. That move set the stage for escalating coercion by the US. The White House has maintained that claim of a US “national emergency”
Jeffrey D. Sachs, who recently received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leader award, is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs was Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University, and SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General António Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18). www.JeffSachs.org
ever since. Trump added increasingly draconian economic sanctions during his first term.
Astoundingly, in January 2019, Trump declared Juan Guaidó, then an opposition figure, to be Venezuela’s “interim president,” as if Trump could simply name a new Venezuelan president. This tragicomedy of the US eventually fell to pieces in 2023, when the US dropped this failed and ludicrous gambit.
The US is now starting a new chapter of resource grabbing. Trump has long been vocal about “keeping the oil.” In 2019, when discussing Syria, President Trump said “We are keeping the oil, we have the oil, the oil is secure, we left troops behind only for the oil.” To those in doubt, US troops are still in the northeast of Syria today, occupying the oil fields. Earlier in 2016, on Iraq’s oil, Trump said, “I was saying this constantly and consistently to whoever would listen, I said keep the oil, keep the oil, keep the oil, don’t let somebody else get it.”
Now, with fresh military strikes on Venezuela vessels and open talk of land attacks, the administration is invoking narcotics to justify regime change. Yet Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter expressly prohibits “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” No US theory of “cartel wars” remotely justifies coercive regime change.
Even before the military strikes, US coercive sanctions have functioned as a siege engine. Obama built the sanctions framework in 2015, and Trump further weaponized it to topple Maduro. The claim was that “maximum pressure” would empower Venezuelans. In practice, the sanctions have caused widespread suffering. As economist and renowned sanctions expert Francisco Rodríguez found in his study of the “Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions,” the result of the coercive US measures has been a catastrophic decline in Venezuelan living standards, starkly worsening health and nutrition, and dire harm to vulnerable populations.
The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. The US has repeatedly undertaken regime-change operations in pursuit of oil, uranium, banana plantations, pipeline routes, and other resources: Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Congo (1960), Chile (1973), Iraq (2003), Haiti (2004), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and Ukraine (2014), just to name a few such cases. Now Venezuela is on the block.
In her brilliant book Covert Regime Change (2017), Professor Lindsay O’Rourke details the machinations, blowbacks, and disasters of no fewer than 64 US covert regime-change operations during the years 1947-1989! She focused on this earlier period because many key documents for that era have by now been declassified. Tragically, the pattern of a US foreign policy based on covert (and not-so-covert) regime-change operations continues to this day.
The calls by the US government for escalation reflect a reckless disregard for Venezuela’s sovereignty, international law, and human life. A war against Venezuela would be a war that Americans do not want, against a country that has not threatened or attacked the US, and on legal grounds that would fail a firstyear law student. Bombing vessels, ports, refineries, or soldiers is not a show of strength. It is the epitome of gangsterism.
Bioblitz Reveals Hidden Biodiversity in the Santa Barbara Channel
By Sonia Fernandez / UCSB Current 10.20.25
THE SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL IS A HOTBED OF BIODIVERSITY, thanks to the many species whose ranges meet and overlap in the area. As a transition zone between the cold water of the California Current and the warmer seawaters of Southern California, the channel hosts a variety of fish, birds and marine mammals that live in, feed in and travel through it.
And yet, we may only still be scratching the surface of its biodiversity.
“There’s a hidden biodiversity in our reefs. By ‘hidden,’ I mean the great number of small species that we generally overlook,” said UC Santa Barbara marine ecologist Bob Miller, who directs the National Science Foundation-supported Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research (SBC LTER) program, focused on kelp forests and their connections to the shoreline and open ocean.
While many of the fish, cetaceans and other more conspicuous or “charismatic” animals have been well studied, a whole world of less noticeable creatures exists on the sea floor, hiding in rocky reefs and burrowing in the sand. These invertebrates — worms, mollusks, sponges, sea stars and others — are the unseen predators, recyclers of organic matter, filterers of water, and the base of the local food web, which is why it’s necessary to get a clear picture of these species, Miller said.
Enter the “bioblitz,” a concentrated effort to describe as many species as possible in a designated area, in this case the SBC LTER.
For one week, eight taxonomists from across the country joined UCSB researchers and students to collect and classify these cryptic creatures — from morphology to genetics — in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution.
“The sea floor is changing,” said Skylah Reis, a doctoral student researcher in the labs of Miller and fellow marine scientist Mark Page. Reis coordinated the collection and classification efforts for UCSB and will use the data in her dissertation. Events like “the Blob,” a nickname for an underwater heat wave that occurred from 2014-2016, disrupt life on the sea floor. The heightened temperature affects how the inhabitants feed and causes stress to the locals, while increasing the range for their warm water tolerant cousins and rivals, who move in and set up shop.
it’s important to get a sense of the population — which species are native, which are invading and which may always have been there but have never been officially noted. For that, Reis added, there needs to be a set of measurements that serve as a baseline.
To do this, the researchers headed into the water and retrieved several Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS), stacks of nine-inch (22.5 cm) square PVC plates left on several reefs in the channel for the cryptics to colonize. After extracting these sea life-encrusted ARMS and sampling other seafloor habitat around them, the researchers began sorting the marine organisms from the chaff in labs at UCSB’s Campus Point, carefully documenting the process.
As they sifted through debris and extracted the marine creatures, samples were handed to the taxonomists in the group based on their specialties — the worm expert, the bryozoan specialist, the clam connoisseur and so on — for classification. The animals were carefully photographed and assigned identification numbers, and packed up to be sent to collaborators at the Smithsonian, who will then sequence their genetics. Results will be entered into species databases.
“I don’t know yet if we have discovered any new species from the bioblitz or not; I’ll need more time to find out,” said UCSB marine biologist and bioblitz participant Thomas Turner, who recently found several new species of sponge in the Channel. “I’m certain that there are new species to be discovered there, however.”
Given ongoing phenomena such as ocean warming and acidification, Reis said,
In addition to being a census for the animals of the Santa Barbara Channel floor, the data collected will also paint a clearer, current picture of species diversity and richness and, according to Reis, a better understanding of how the environmental gradients of the channel impact biodiversity of both known and cryptic species.
“We sampled across a temperature and runoff gradient; we were also able to sample in areas of differing levels of marine protection,” said Reis, whose own work involves the ecosystem function and biodiversity of artificial reefs compared to natural reefs. The variety of samples, she said, “will help us assess the effects of marine protection on species that are not usually focused on.”
In the meantime, the scientists look forward to having an additional library of organisms to help identify the ones they collected in the channel. It’s also another huge piece in the interlocking puzzle of animal communities that live in waters of the region, and it will serve as a baseline for population changes on the sea floor.
The bioblitz was made possible with the help of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the Southern California Bight Marine Biodiversity Observation Network, supported by NASA, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and NOAA.
Printed with permission of UCSB Office of Public Affairs and Communications
Photo courtesy of UCSB Current
Volunteer taxonomist Gustav Pauly from the Florida Museum of Natural History, left and SBCLTER lab technician Darrin Ambat on a morning dive to retrieve Autonomous Reef Monitoring
Structures from the sea floor
A brittle star, bryrozoan colony and anemone share the sea floor in the Santa Barbara Channel
Members of the bioblitz team get a sense of the terrain off the coast at the Dangermond Preserve located north of the campus, along the Gaviota Coast
The Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures are made of PVC plates to be colonized by sea life and collected for identification
