Santa Barbara Independent, 10-03-2013

OCT. 3-10, 2013 VOL. 27 NO. 403

Heiress Leaves Oceanfront Estate to Santa Barbara

by Charles Donelan

110 N New OIL WELLS APPROVED, p. 15

JIMMY’S REOPENS as Pickle Room, p. 46 LUCIDITY VIBES Rise at Arlington, p. 59

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Supported in part by the Cohen Family Fund of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

Michael Douglas Visiting Artist Presented by the Department of Theater and Dance An Afternoon with

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One Radio Host, Two Dancers

This American Life’s Ira Glass with Monica Bill Barnes & Anna Bass

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“People who like This American Life will probably like this because it is just like the radio show, um, if you picture dancers during all the stories.” – Ira Glass Supported in part by William & Christine Fletcher

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DEFEATED: Plastic-bag defender Stephen Joseph left no stone unturned trying to persuade councilmembers that a bag ban was necessary, but he proved no match for the coalition of environmental activists.

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Penny Estes, the “green” construction contractor who allegedly scammed 10 Santa Barbara homeowners who lost their houses in wildfires out of millions of dollars, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to all 25 felony counts against her.

Estes’s charges — which carry enhancements that she targeted senior citizens and fire victims — include grand theft, obtaining services by false pretenses, diversion of construction funds, and tax violations. A number of fire victims had contracted with Estes and her construction company, Green Building America, to rebuild their homes with eco-friendly materials, but officials say Estes spent much of their money on personal items and travel expenses. She is set to return to court on 10/14 for a preliminary hearing.

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BY N I C K W E L S H he Santa Barbara City Council voted 6-to-0 to pass an ordinance banning plastic grocery bags from distribution within city limits and imposing a 10¢ fee on shoppers for each paper bag they are given instead. The idea behind the new ordinance — which goes into effect in two stages — is to promote the use of reusable shopping bags. Six months from now, large grocery stores and pharmacies — 10,000 square feet or bigger — will be required to implement the new regulations. There are about 20 of those in town. Six months afterward, the ordinance will extend to about 64 smaller outlets that sell food.

The measure was passed over the strenuous and at times vituperative objections of the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, whose spokesperson Stephen Joseph contended the ordinance was utterly unnecessary because there is no evidence that plastic-bag litter posed a threat to Santa Barbara’s aesthetic sensibilities, let alone to its waterfront. He dismissed claims that plastic bags kill marine life, arguing that recent studies have documented the deaths of only seven fish and one bird at the hands of seaborne plastic bags.

He lambasted as “terrible” the environmental report documenting the impact of the ban, arguing that it grossly understated the spike in paper-bag consumption the ordinance would engender. “It’s the same old spin and misinformation,” he said. Joseph denounced the environmental review process because he was not sent a draft of the final report until a day after the Santa Barbara Planning Commission had approved it.

(He had recently moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles).

But Joseph ultimately proved no match for the coalition of environmental organizations — the Community Environmental Council, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper, and Save the Mermaids — who’ve been lobbying the council off and on since 2007 in favor of such a ban. Their advo10

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cates argued that because plastic bags don’t dissolve in the ocean, but rather break down into tiny specks of micro-trash, they pose a threat to fish, sea birds, and sea mammals. One Surfrider Foundation representative said he had encountered a dead cormorant in just the past week with a plastic bag wrapped around its neck.

Likewise, the environmental activists argued that during various beach cleanup days they sponsor, plastic bags rank in the top five or six kinds of trash left or tossed on the beach.

Kathie King with the Community Environmental Council noted that Santa Barbara city residents use 47 million plastic bags a year.

She acknowledged that many of those bags are reused multiple times — to line trash cans and pick up dog poop — but noted, “We don’t have 47 million dogs.” Likewise, she took exception to Joseph’s argument that most people use reusable bags a handful of times before throwing them out. Leaving the podium, she held her personal reusable bag high in the air, declaring, “This is my bag, which I keep in my purse. I’ve used it twice a week for the past four years.” Nor did it hurt the bag-ban cause any that the California Grocery Association — which represents the state’s biggest chains — has not only endorsed the proposed ban but consistently lobbied on its behalf. Its representative, Sarah Sheehy, said that supermarkets have experienced a 94 percent drop in plastic-bag use in communities that have enacted bans.

Councilmember Bendy White expressed great frustration that the State Legislature never tackled the issue and left it up to cities and counties throughout California to waste “a lot of time, energy, and creativity” devising piecemeal solutions. When the Santa Barbara ban was first proposed in 2007, only San Francisco had one. Now, 60 more cities throughout the state have adopted one. City Hall tried an educational outreach campaign to get consumers to change their habits but found only limited

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success. Joseph has fought bans up and down the state in court, successfully arguing that they required environmental analysis to be passed.

When the council contemplated the $66,000 price tag of such a report, the effort nearly died.

But Councilmember Grant House devised a cost-sharing scheme with seven other coastal cities in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and the price tag for Santa Barbara shrank dramatically. More strategically, the report could be used by any government in the two counties as the basis to enact bans of their own. To date, the City of Santa Barbara is the first to approve the EIR and the ordinance language, but the County of Santa Barbara is currently in the process of drafting a very similar measure, and activists are pushing the City of Goleta to begin the process, as well. The City of Carpinteria passed a much more restrictive measure two years ago but has since suffered legal setbacks in the courts.

Even Santa Barbara council conservatives Dale Francisco and Frank Hotchkiss — both of whom expressed keen skepticism about the ordinance and the underlying environmental report — gave their approval. Francisco said the regional approach saved City Hall $58,000, and because of that he voted for it. As for Councilmember House, now in the waning twilight of his council career, he took pains to “appreciate” everyone who partook of the discussion, including Joseph, of whom House said, “Hey, he’s just doing his job.”

Councilmember Cathy Murillo was far more pointed, saying Joseph had no one but himself to blame for not knowing when the Planning Commission deliberations took place. “If you didn’t do your job,” she said, “it’s not our fault.”

Councilmember Randy Rowse recused himself from the deliberations, declaring that because his wife distributed reusable cotton bags to raise awareness for a nonprofit dedicated to keeping teens clean and sober, he had a conflict of ■ interest.

Former County Fire Department employee Robert Perez (pictured on left) pleaded not guilty 10/1 to charges of grand theft and tax evasion for allegedly stealing $114,000 from his firefighters union between 2006 and 2012. Before retiring earlier this year, Perez had been his union’s insurance administrator for eight years; the alleged theft was discovered in March during an audit. Perez turned himself in in August after an investigation by the Sheriff’s Office and was later released on his own recognizance. Perez’s lawyer, Steve Balash, said his client has been cooperating with authorities and that the case stems from “a lot of misunderstanding on both sides.”

Perez faces up to eight years in prison if convicted. His preliminary hearing is set for 10/16.

The trial for a Montecito church employee charged with molesting his step-granddaughter ended in a 9-3 hung jury 9/26 after four days of deliberations, leading Judge Frank Ochoa to declare a mistrial. Prosecutor Benjamin Ladinig said a retrial is “a definite possibility.”

Carlos Ruano, 67, was arrested after a 2012 incident at his Eastside home. Ruano told detectives that while he was watching over three young children, his step-granddaughter’s brother jumped on her, causing her to suffer stomach pain. Ruano said that he rubbed ointment on her stomach to alleviate the pain and that he may have accidentally touched the girl’s underwear. The girl — 7 years old at the time — told detectives Ruano also touched her inappropriately and exposed himself.

San Francisco prosecutors on Wednesday charged 28-year-old Santa Barbara resident Dustin Semenza with attempted murder, alleging he stabbed one of his friends in a hotel room during a drunken argument. Semenza, the 28-year-old victim, and the victim’s brother — all three live in Santa Barbara — had traveled to the

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In two different lawsuits filed in January and September of this year, 39 former clinical psychology PhD students are claiming that their alma mater, Pacifica Graduate Institute, knowingly misled them about one of its key accreditations, an alleged omission that the ex-students say robbed them of thousands of dollars in tuition and fees and future income. For more than 10 years, the lawsuits allege, Pacifica misrepresented its clinical psychology program’s accreditation status with the American Psychological Association (APA), which the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation have endorsed as a top accreditation for professional psychology programs.

The former students claim that prior to and during their years at Pacifica, the school told them its program was APA certified or had accreditation pending; the school first applied for the APA stamp of approval in 2008 but was rejected. Eric Woosley, the lead attorney for the former students, said that each student discovered the issue at different times but were unable to transfer units from a non-APA school to an APA school. As a result, the lawsuits state that the students are each about $150,000 in debt — from tuition, student fees, and commuting expenses — and those who are not living in California, where APA accreditation isn’t required to get licensed, are having trouble finding work.

Erik Davis, Pacifica’s director of communications, released a statement on the lawsuits: “We are proud of our standard of education and the programs we provide. We have always been forthright about our APA accreditation status, and we are confident that our clinical psychology programs provide our graduates with knowledge and skills sought after by employers across the country.” Davis also added that all of Pacifica’s programs are accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).

According to Jeffrey Thomas, the assistant executive officer of the California Board of Psychology, clinical psychology graduates of schools with WASC accreditation can get licensed in California, but other states may require APA accreditation. Woosley said specific dollar amounts have not been set in the cases but that the ex-students are suing the school for the program’s expenses, loss of future earnings, and attorney’s fees. Woo— Lyz Hoffman sley said he expects more former students to join the lawsuits.

Bay Area on Sunday to watch the San Francisco 49ers play the Indianapolis Colts. At the court hearing, Semenza asked for a court-appointed attorney and delayed entering a plea until October 9. He remains in jail without bail.

A Long Beach gang member who was arrested and served time in Santa Barbara County Jail after a March 2010 high-speed chase along Highway 101 was killed in a gun battle with Long Beach police Wednesday morning. Erick Balint, 32, had been sentenced in Santa Barbara Superior Court to five years and four months in state prison — he pleaded guilty at the time to a number of felony charges, including domestic violence, robbery, vehicle theft, and recklessly evading officers — and had been recently released. Police shot Balint after they responded to a domestic-violence call and he opened fire on officers, officials said.

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Leaders from different corners of Santa Barbara’s faith community gathered Friday at the Unitarian Society to sign a pledge saying they would work to reduce the carbon footprint of their individual houses of worship. The event was put on by ECOFaith, a collaboration of area religious groups that formed in 2008 after Rev. Wallace Shepherd (pictured center) of Second Baptist Church spoke with Rep. Lois Capps about align-

ing religious principles with environmental stewardship. Shepherd and the other founding members of the group — Imam Yama Niazi of the Islamic Society, John Reed of Holy Cross Church, and Dr. Ivor John, the organization’s chair — talked on Friday about spreading the “green” message not only to their congregations but also to government officials. “We’re waking the mind up of people as to why the environment is important,” Shepherd said. “The word of God says that we should be good stewards over the environment and take care of everything around us.”

COUNTY The Goleta City Council voted unanimously 10/1 to allow the developers of the Rincon Palms Hotel (proposed for the corner of Hollister Ave. and Storke Rd.) extra time to rework the project after councilmembers and dozens of Goleta residents voiced their concerns — mostly about traffic and obstructed mountain views — at a council meeting on 9/3. The developers came to Tuesday’s meeting with possible changes: decreased building elevation, building height, floor area ratio, and conference-center size (which could reduce the parking). They’re also exploring moving the building farther back from Hollister and reverting back to the original plan for a rooftop deck. The new revisions will be presented to the council at a date to be determined.

Vandenberg Air Force Base had a busy week, successfully launching three rockets from its seaside facilities. At 3:33 a.m. on 9/26, it carried out the second of the launches, sending an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental missile across the Pacific Ocean to a test range in the Marshall Islands. The first launch was another Minuteman test mission on 9/22, and the third was the SpaceX show on 9/29. “It is so exciting to see our mission in action,” said Col. Brent McArthur, 30th Space Wing vice commander. cont’d page 12 “We have the potential to

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BY T Y L E R H AY D E N three years, the Falcon  — named after Han t was one small step for commercial space Solo’s Millennium Falcon in Star Wars and for travel, but it was a giant leap for the star- its nine liquid-oxygen-burning engines — will shooting company that shuttles private be fitted with a small capsule to carry humans. satellites into orbit and is developing reus“Launch was good,” Elon Musk, SpaceX’s able rockets to put people on Mars in 10 to 20 founder, CEO, and lead engineer tweeted Sunyears. day. “All satellites deployed at the targeted orbit On Sunday morning at 9 a.m. under a per- insertion vectors.” Before the launch, Musk said fectly clear sky, Space Exploration Technolo- that he hoped to recover the Falcon ’s firstgies Corporation — better known as SpaceX stage cylinder after it dropped back to Earth, fir— launched its upgraded Falcon  rocket from ing its engines to slow its descent speed to near Vandenberg Air Force Base in a “demonstra- zero before it splashed into the Pacific Ocean a tion mission” that released few hundred miles south a small Canadian research of Vandenberg. Musk gave satellite above Earth. the recovery plan a 20 percent chance of succeedBecause the launch was ing, which turned out to technically a test of the new rocket and had a 50 be a fair prediction, as the percent chance of failing, recovery system failed and the client — aerospace the equipment was lost.

This time, though, the first contractor MacDonald, stage made it back through Dettwiler and Associthe atmosphere before it ates (MDA) — got a big smashed to pieces on the discount at $10 million; SpaceX normally charges water. In all other launches, $56.5 million for such it had exploded upon reenservices. tering the atmosphere.

ALL SYSTEMS GO: From its new The mission was Vandenberg facility, SpaceX is Musk, who cofounded PayPal, is much of the SpaceX’s first from the scheduled to launch an Argentine Southern California base satellite next year that will monitor brains and money behind — five Falcon s have natural resources around the globe.

Tesla Motors and was the inspiration for Robert taken off from its Cape Canaveral launch pad — and the Hawthorne- Downey Jr.’s portrayal of Tony Stark in the Iron based company’s manifest says it has 12 more Man movies, has repeatedly said that one of Vandenberg launches planned for the next four SpaceX’s central goals is to create reusable rockyears. SpaceX broke ground on the Vanden- ets to dramatically drive down the cost of space berg launchpad in July 2011 with a visit from travel. To that end, the company recently tested Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who said its Grasshopper rocket, a 10-story space vehicle the venture would help reverse the downward with four spindly steel legs that rose 1,000 feet trajectory of U.S. space travel. Since then, the in the air then dropped back down to its launch company has added 50 missions to its sched- pad in a perfectly straight line. And though Sunule, representing close to $5 billion in contracts, day’s rocket wasn’t recovered, it provided engiand signed a $1.6 billion deal with NASA to fly neers a ton of usable data for the next attempt. cargo to and from the International Space Sta- “The most important thing, we believe we have tion. Now in its 11th year, SpaceX has around all the pieces of the puzzle,” Musk said during a 3,000 employees, a few hundred of whom are teleconference. Mostly, he was pleased the Falstationed at Vandenberg. con  delivered on its promise. “It’s certainly a Sunday’s launch was a success, according huge relief to have successfully delivered [the to SpaceX and MDA representatives. “It was satellite] to orbit,” Musk said.“It’s been weighing an amazing flight,” John Insprucker, Falcon  on me quite heavily.” product manager, said in a company webcast.

Vandenberg officials said Sunday’s launch “There’s tons of data coming back. It looks was part of an ongoing process to vet SpaceX like it was a picture-perfect flight; everything to see if it’s capable of delivering a larger miliwas looking good, right down the middle of tary satellite into orbit. That market is currently the track.” Perched on the nose of the 224-foot- monopolized by United Launch Alliance, a joint tall rocket, the couch-sized MDA satellite was venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Air deployed 14 minutes into the 17,000-mph flight Force Captain Blake Turnquist, who oversaw and is beaming back data on how space storms mission flight support, said SpaceX has worked affect radio communications and GPS naviga- at a frenetic speed to get its rocket in the air tion. Four smaller research devices were also and challenged the military to keep up with its released that will measure solar flares, calculate fast and fluid pace. For the sake of competition, the drag on satellites in low orbit, and improve Turnquist said, more launch providers would be ■ GPS accuracy to the millimeter level. In two to a good thing. october 3, 2013

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Although Mayor Helene Schneider has taken her foot off the accelerator in her quest for campaign cash, she’s still managed to raise nearly $95,000 in political donations, roughly 40 times as much as her opponent Wayne Scoles — longtime Mesa activist and City Hall critic, known for his angry council diatribes about gangs, homeless, and the city Police Department. To date, Scoles has raised $800 in donations and loaned his campaign $2,000. Given Scoles’s lack of financial support, the mystery is why Schneider would raise such a blistering sum. Equally curious is how — or why — the mayor has managed to spend nearly $60,000 so far in a race in which her victory is regarded as dead certain.

However, the race for the City Council — with two incumbents among the eight credible candidates chasing after three seats — is anything but certain. (Candidate Cruzito Cruz is not raising money, and Matthew Kramer has dropped out, though his name will still appear on the ballot.) The incumbents — moderate Councilmember Bendy White and conservative Councilmember Frank Hotchkiss — have raised $51,000 and $49,000, respectively. But the real fight, at least according to the conventional wisdom, has always been for the third seat. In that regard, candidate and former twoterm councilmember Gregg Hart has raised $75,000, and David Landecker, another former councilmember, has raised $70,000. While Hart and Landecker represent different shades of the gray within Santa Barbara’s Democratic establishment, they represent subtly different viewpoints and constituencies. (Hart, for example, was endorsed by the Democratic Party while Landecker — who is urgently backed by Mayor Schneider — was not.)

Among the first-time candidates seeking a seat, Lesley Wiscomb — who has served on the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission — has raised $46,000. Wiscomb is backed by Santa Barbara’s coalition of traditional slow-growthers and political conservatives that’s formed in reaction to the high-density agenda of smartgrowthers seeking to build more affordable housing. Megan Diaz Alley — the most outspoken political progressive in the race — raised $36,000, with $7,500 coming from the Service Employees International Union, which represents City Hall workers. Jason Nelson, the former Marine seeking to add 20 new cops, raised $34,495, the largest donation coming from the Police Officers Association (POA), which gave $5,000. (The POA donated the same amount to Hart and White. The firefighters union — which traditionally has acted in conjunction with the POA — has not yet decided which candidates it will endorse and has made no donations.) Michael Jordan, a member of the city’s Planning Commission and an outspoken middle-of-the-roader, has had a hard time gaining political traction, raising just $12,000. Although election ballots will be mailed out next week, the results will not be tabulated until the first Tuesday — Nick Welsh in November.

news briefs cont’d launch three times this week, and the last time we did that was back in July of 2004.”

This week, the federal government approved the creation of the Ballard Canyon American Viticultural Area (AVA), welcoming yet another wine-growing appellation to the Santa Ynez Valley, which also witnessed the creation of the Sta. Rita Hills and Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara AVAs over the past decade. The move comes more than two years after the first filing of the application, which made the case that the soils and climate of the thin canyon located between the towns of Solvang, Buellton, and Los Olivos make for distinctive wines, particularly for grapes such as syrah and grenache originally from France’s Rhône Valley. Among the 15 vintners included in the new Ballard Canyon appellation are Stolpman, Jonata, Larner, and Rusack.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Tuesday authored by State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson that will expand the definition of family in the state’s existing Paid Family Leave Program. As the law stands — the new provision will kick in July 1, 2014 — employers are required to award their workers partial pay when taking time off to care for a sick spouse, registered domestic partner, child, or parent. Jackson’s addition, SB 770, will see that family members such as grandparents, grandchildren, siblings, and in-laws are also included. In 2002, California became the first state to institute a paid family leave program, which covers up to six weeks of such leave per year.

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Rite Aid Corporation will pay more than $12.3 million in penalties after dozens of California district attorney offices — including Santa Barbara’s — charged that 600 of the company’s California stores illegally dumped hazardous materials in landfills over the course of six years. The Santa Barbara DA’s Office joined the lawsuit not because any of the area’s six stores had participated in the illegal dumping but because of risks the toxins could pose to all of the state’s residents and environment. Santa Barbara’s cut of the settlement will include $18,000 in civil penalties and cost recovery for the District Attorney’s Office and $17,000 for the county’s environmental regulators.

EDUCATION Students and faculty gathered Tuesday morning to break ground for UCSB’s $76.4 million library addition and renovation. Expected to be completed in just under two and a half years, the certified LEED project will add on a 60,000-square-foot, three-story building, and renovate roughly 92,000 square feet of current space. The updated structure will house a grand walkway, new special-collections facility, new arts library, 24-hour information center, naturally lit reading galleries, expanded wireless access, more power outlets, and a faculty collaboration studio. The renovations will also wrap up efforts in recent years to seismically retrofit several buildings on campus.

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PRO BONO POWER: Rusty Brace (right) successfully took on the federal fishing regulators on behalf of Jason Robinson (left) and his brother Shane.

Brothers Prevail over No-Fishing Zone Charges

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wo Santa Barbara brothers accused of violating federal laws related to a no-fishing zone off San Miguel Island beat the charges in late August when a federal judge determined that the government presented insufficient evidence to prove the crime. The decision highlighted deficiencies in the vessel monitoring system (VMS) used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to watch fishing boats and enforce the rules surrounding marine protected areas (MPAs), prompting an ongoing review of the system with changes likely on the way.

For longtime fishermen Jason and Shane Robinson, the decision saved them from paying more than $17,000 in fines, which is a relatively low amount compared to other penalties, in part because they were only charged with idling in an MPA too long, not for fishing there, which can bring fines of up to $140,000. But the case also revealed what they believe is an unfair culture of guilty until proved innocent when it comes to commercial fishing laws.

“They threaten you based on the fact that it costs more to fight these than to accept a settlement,” said Jason. “That’s what they told me, and that’s how they did it. In my mind, this is their ATM machine. … It feels like extortion.”

The brothers were only able to fight the charges, which date back to a fishing trip they took on May 17, 2010, because attorney Rusty Brace of the Santa Barbara firm Hollister & Brace took on the case pro bono. Had he been tallying his time on this complicated matter, which he says the feds fought tooth-and-nail despite no hard evidence, the bill would have far exceeded the fines, costing perhaps as much as $80,000 when all was said and done.

Brace said that this was the first time he could find where the feds based their arguments solely on the VMS, which sends one signal per hour from every boat working the commercial groundfisheries of the West Coast to NOAA. Usually, said Brace, NOAA presents a witness or other evidence to bolster its charges. In this case, the Robinsons weren’t alerted to the fact that NOAA was going to charge them until 10 months after the alleged crime; at that point, they could not recall what they had been doing, but now believe they were probably crossing the MPA back and forth over the four- to five-hour period in question as they waited for their fishing gear to soak.

“It’s impossible to say what they did,” said Brace, which is basically what the judge determined, as well. Brace appreciates how difficult it must be for the government to watch the entire West Coast and the roughly 1,000 boats working the groundfisheries (the area close to the bottom where many fish swim), and he understands how VMS makes the monitoring somewhat possible, even if he finds the constant tracking somewhat oppressive.“It’s a great way to identify suspect behavior, but it’s not a viable way to prove a case,” said Brace. “You have to have other corroborating evidence.”

The government, meanwhile, is standing by its case. “NOAA believes it presented sufficient evidence to find by a preponderance of the evidence that the respondent committed the violations charged, but accepts the Administrative Law Judge’s finding to the contrary,” explained John Thibodeau, a communications specialist in NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement. “Neither NMFS [National Marine Fisheries Service] nor its enforcement partners have the resources to effectively monitor the various restricted fishing areas off the California coast, so we must rely on the data provided

by VMS to determine the activity of fishing vessels at sea.”

Due to the judgment, adjustments may be on the way.“NMFS is currently reviewing what changes, if any, will be required in light of the Initial Decision,” Thibodeau explained in an email. One idea, which will be discussed at the next Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting in November in Costa Mesa, is to increase the frequency of the VMS signaling to every 15 minutes rather than once an hour. The increased costs would likely be passed down to fishermen, though, who already pay about $50 a month for the VMS and could see that cost multiplied with the additional signals. “That could go up to $150 or $200 a month,” said Jason, who plans to speak at the upcoming hearing. “That’s pretty significant for us.”

Though he’s happy to have prevailed, Jason described the whole situation as “disheartening” and believes he would have been “steamrolled by the government” if it weren’t for the unpaid efforts of Brace, who has known the brothers’ father for years. “My brother and I spend a great deal of time researching the ever-changing regulations and have no intention of violating any regulations made,” said Jason. “There is no one out there who wants a healthy viable resource more then the people ■ who depend on it to feed their family.”

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nominations out of more than 500 candidates across the country, Kopeikin was recognized by Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI) Nursing Education for her leadership, professionalism, and inspiring ways. Kopeikin said she was especially excited to receive the honor because her students will get access for a year to Nurse’s Touch software, which includes interactive video clips, tutorials, and case studies.

More than 100 preschoolers from El Camino, Ellwood, and Isla Vista elementary schools participated in a free health fair Friday morn-

ing at Isla Vista’s Teen Center. The fair was the first of three upcoming events to check lowincome preschool kids’ vision, hearing, teeth, height, and weight. More than 20 area clinics, nonprofits, and prevention centers contributed resources. Last year, the screenings found that nearly 40 percent of participating pre-K kids had dental decay and another 40 percent were in the overweight or obese range. The fairs expect to serve nearly 750 children total from Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and Lompoc. The next two events are slated for October 18 at the Franklin Community Center in Santa Barbara and for October 25 at the Lompoc Unified School District’s Adult Education Center.

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Not Too Cool for School Santa Barbara County elementary school students are attending class at much higher rates than their peers across California, according to a report released this week by state Attorney General Kamala Harris (pictured at right). The recent statewide study found that 13.6 percent of K-6 kids in the county were truant — absent or tardy by more than 30 minutes without an excuse three times in a school year — compared to 29.6 percent of truant kids statewide.

Efforts have been made at the district and county levels to help K-12 students stay in class, like increased communication between school staff and parents, after-school meetings, administrator sit-downs, and gatherings of the Student Attendance Review Board (SARB). District Attorney Joyce Dudley restored a truancy program called CLASS last year, which costs less than half of what the previous $500,000 program did and returned 96 percent of the 6,849 K-12 students initially reported as truant back to school during the 2012-2013 year. Deputy District Attorney David Chen, who runs CLASS, said SARBs at the 20 county school districts often resist punitive measures and instead opt to offer resources from area social-services agencies. Of the 226 students who continued to ditch school without a valid excuse, only three cases required court intervention during the program’s pilot year.

The county fares better than most of the rest of the state, which Harris declared is facing an “attendance crisis,” calling recent findings “stark” and “alarming.” Noting the link between early truancy and high school dropout rates and the fact that 82 percent of prisoners nationwide are high school dropouts, she called for several hands-on measures, most of which Santa Barbara’s school districts have already — Kelsey Brugger implemented.

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Pacific Pride Foundation will hold its 23rd annual fundraising walk this weekend to raise money for services offered to low-income county residents living with or somehow affected by HIV/AIDS. According to a 2012 study by the county’s Public Health Department, there are 553 people living with either HIV or AIDS in Santa Barbara with 29 new cases reported last year.

Pacific Pride set a goal to raise $100,000, and Jason Patton, the foundation’s development director, said meeting it is crucial. Patton noted that budget cuts by lawmakers in recent years, starting with former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, have slashed funding throughout the state for HIV-related programs. “In 2009, we lost a $700,000 contract and laid off more than half the staff,” he said, noting that four people now juggle 50 cases each. The federal sequester has only made things worse, he went on, and the looming real-world effects of the Affordable Healthcare Act remain uncertain for many, especially those financially disadvantaged.

Patton said the HIV-related work, like free, anonymous screenings and condoms, education, and medical case management, are the organization’s “meat and potatoes,” but there’s also the needle exchange program, which provides 80,000 clean syringes each year. Pacific Pride also still sends its mobile unit out to bring free screenings and counseling to area college campuses, a demographic widely recognized as “at risk,” and farming communities, where migrant workers often lack easy access to affordable medical services. “We don’t turn anyone away,” he said.

A recent $30,000 grant has helped the organization, but as future government support is uncertain, so too is Pacific Pride’s ability to maintain free and affordable help. So far, a little more than a quarter of the $100,000 goal has made it to the coffer.

But Patton explained the nonprofit often sees the amount double the day of the event. Patton also stressed that 90 percent of every dollar goes to what he calls “the necessities of life.” The 7-kilometer Heart & Sole walk begins at 10 a.m. on Sunday at — Kyle Rokes Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort.

MONEY IN THE MUCK? Santa Maria Energy’s drilling plan was first proposed in 2009. Supporters of the project say it would be a boon for job creation and tax revenue.

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fter the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission voted 3-2 last week to approve the Santa Maria Energy Oil Drilling and Production Plan — 136 oil wells across 32 acres near Orcutt — people on both sides of the vote began to worry that the project could set a precedent. The vote was in favor of limiting the project’s greenhouse-gas emissions to a 29 percent threshold, meaning that instead of the project’s projected 88,000 metric tons of emissions per year, just under 67,000 will be allowed.

While those who voted for the 29 percent mark deemed it too restrictive, others said it doesn’t nearly go far enough and makes this project the first in the county to able to release more than 10,000 metric tons of emissions per year.

The Environmental Defense Center (EDC), which has argued that Santa Maria Energy could technically limit its emissions to zero, is likely to file an appeal by the October 7 deadline, said Nathan Alley, an EDC attorney. If appealed, the approval would go to the Board of Supervisors. Alley said the Planning Commission’s thumbs-up to the higher-than-normal limit merits some questions. “They had used the 10,000-metric-tons-per-year threshold for other projects, so at the very least, we were hoping the county would be consistent,” he said.

Immediately after the commissioners’ vote, Santa Maria Energy released a statement, saying “We are pleased with the Planning Commission’s approval of our project and want to especially thank all of our supporters. The decision was well-deliberated and we hope that is fully considered before someone decides to appeal.” Without an appeal, said public and government affairs manager Bob Poole, the company could move forward with the permitting process for the 110 new wells — there are already 26 pilot wells on the site — along with two steam generators, a crude-oil pipeline, and a water pipeline that will transfer recycled wastewater from the Laguna County Sanitation District for the steam generators. The oil will be produced through a process called cyclic steam injection, which involves injecting steam into the wells to get the oil to flow. The steam generators will be the producers of the greenhouse gases.

The initial vote for the project was 3-2 against a proposed 16 percent emissions threshold, which commissioners Daniel Blough (th District) and Larry Ferini (th District) sup-

ported. The final vote, also 3-2, approved the 29 percent threshold, which st District Commissioner Michael Cooney and rd District Commissioner Joan Hartmann voted against, saying it wasn’t high enough of a restriction on the greenhouse gases.

The 29 percent and 16 percent threshold designations came in the wake of the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, otherwise known as AB . Under the law, California is aiming to get its greenhouse-gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020, with a statewide threshold of 16 percent. Santa Barbara County’s threshold is higher, at 29 percent.

What Cooney wanted, he said, was for the project’s total emissions to not exceed about 29,000 metric tons per year, a number accounting for the 18,000 metric tons that the existing wells produce now, plus an additional 10,000plus for the new project. The 29,000 metric tons would be more than the 10,000-metricton limit — which has been imposed on projects such as the Goleta Storage Area and Key Site  in Orcutt with the understanding that under that limit, no mitigations are required, Cooney said — but preferable to the 67,000 metric tons approved.

“I have a strong belief that new stationary projects like this one should try to eliminate more greenhouse-gas emissions than the Planning Commission approved,” Cooney said, adding his fears about a precedent. “It’s not going to be good enough to just run in place.

We have to make up for lost ground.”

If the project were to go over the 29 percent threshold, Alley explained, Santa Maria Energy will have to buy credits to mitigate the excess. Buying credits is a process by which other energy companies can sell credits when they clock in under their own thresholds.

There aren’t currently any trading programs in the area, Alley said, but that implementing a program in the county would be good for the economy and the environment.

Although he voted in favor of the 29 percent threshold, Commissioner Blough said he thought the state standard of 16 percent would have been fairer.“I wouldn’t call it a good compromise,” he said. “I think it’s a bad precedent.

I’m not going to do anything to thwart [Santa Maria Energy’s] ability to do business.”

Barring an appeal, construction on the project could start next year, Poole said, with the wells drilled over the next few years.

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GOOD DEED PUNISHED? When Sonia Wisniewska agreed to let the County of Santa Barbara use some of her land to help the tiger salamander, she never envisioned the mess that would transpire. Today, the county is relying on the power of eminent domain to finalize the deal, which Wisniewska sees as the worst possible outcome.

Conservationist’s Lompoc Land Deal Goes Awry

Is Eminent Domain the Only Option in Tiger Salamander Habitat Case?

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ight years ago, the County of Santa Barbara accepted responsibility for killing two tiger salamanders, a federally protected species that lives in rural ponds and vernal pools, and the wheels of bureaucracy have been slowly grinding ever since to make things right. But along the way, the woman who tried to save the county from the expensive wrath of federal wildlife officials says she’s been most thoroughly wronged and is dismayed that the county is now blaming her for the need to unleash its powers of eminent domain — the government’s right to take private property for public use — to finalize the deal.

“This could have been handled with the feathered touch of diplomacy,” explained Sonia Wisniewska, formerly Anderson, who let the county create habitat and a conservation easement for the rare creature on 16 acres of her ranch near Lompoc, in hopes of showing her regulation-fearing North County neighbors they could work with the government toward mutually beneficial results. “Instead, they came out with the A-bomb,” she said.

The specifics of the real-estate transactions that led to today’s situation are tremendously complicated, and there are fundamental disagreements about who should have done what and when. But everyone agrees that the “A-bomb” of eminent domain is a last resort, especially in an agricultural region where worries about further regulations are already explosive.

“Had there been an easy and straightforward way of doing this, like sitting down and signing some paperwork, the county would have done so,” explained Renée Bahl, the county’s assistant CEO, who clarified that the move is to simply record the easement, not acquire the land itself.

“This is not the county’s preferred route. It is the only option.” Even ultra-conservative Supervisor Peter Adam, whose th District includes the property in question, has accepted that this is the only way to record the conservation easement.

As he explained during the May 21 hearing that kicked off the eminent-domain process, “We may be in a box that we can’t get out of.”

LIENS AND CONTRACTS AND LOANS — OH MY!

With tiger salamander blood on their hands and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife breathing down their necks, County of Santa Barbara officials spent years trying to find a property that was suitable for creating salamander habitat. Wisniewska’s remote property — a 160-acre ranch located three miles up Gypsy Canyon amid the Sta. Rita Hills wine grape appellation — offered an attractive solution. “I bought the land in a critical habitat zone because I am a conservationist,” she explained. “It is my goal to put land into conservation.” So in 2010, the county paid her $240,000 for the deal, began setting up the new ponds, and asked Wisniewska to get the other lienholders — then, Wells Fargo and Santa Barbara Bank & Trust (SBB&T) — to agree to the easement.

That’s where things got a little messy. The county says that only Wisniewska would have been able to get the lenders to approve the easement because she was the one who had the loans. But Wisniewska and her supporters — including her friend, Robert Haugan, the attorney who now owns the property after buying her out — find that arrangement to be suspect, and they wonder why the county would have cut the check without finalizing the deal.

“You have a legal team, and you have real-estate experts who work for you, and you’re gonna leave it up to some random individual to go out and protect your interest?” asked Haugan.“That, to me, is absolutely silly.”

Regardless, Wisniewska believes that she did present the county with all of the paperwork and signatures required to seal the deal but that the county’s real-estate agents moved as “slow as molasses on a cold, wintry day” and “bumbled the transaction” by producing a “flawed document.” At the last minute, the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, which was to hold

the easement, dropped out of the picture when Wells Fargo wouldn’t pay for further review of the contract. But with federal officials losing patience, the county needed to finalize the transaction anyway, so they added a two-year window to get the lenders on board and paid Wisniewska. At that point, she claims that county officials told her not to worry about the easement agreement and that they — none of whom are still employed by the county, incidentally — would handle it.

Wisniewska didn’t worry until a couple of years later when she went through a divorce and fell on hard times. By summer 2012, the banks were ready to foreclose on the ranch, and Wisniewska realized they would be doing so without the conservation easement in place.

So to protect the deal and stall foreclosure, she made the only move left. “I threw myself into the flames and filed for bankruptcy,” said Wisniewska.

The county is not admitting any mistakes, but Bahl agreed that the whole deal was “unusual” and a “bit of an anomaly.” She explained, “This was the only land they could come up with, and the county knew there were risks associated with it.”

WHO’S HOLDING THE BAG NOW?

Today, though Wisniewska still lives on the property, it is officially owned by Wells Fargo and Haugan, who bailed her out and also acquired the liens once owned by SBB&T. When the county hit Haugan with the eminentdomain plans earlier this year, he foreclosed on the property without the conservation easement in place. But Wisniewska believes that, even now, the county could get the easement recorded if they just reached out to Haugan and Wells Fargo rather than pursuing the controversial and expensive steps required of eminent domain. The county’s Los Angeles–based eminent-domain attorney, Duff Murphy, did not think that was possible. “If they say they

are ready to subordinate,” said Murphy, “have them give me a call.”

Haugan would be happy to do so, though he’d want to be compensated, and there seems to be a wide gap between what he wants (he proposed $175,000 as a starting point, figuring that would get chopped down) and what the county will pay (Haugan heard that they were thinking more like $40,000). Wells Fargo’s position is unknown, as a call to the bank’s attorney Glenn Wechsler was not returned, and attempts to get a response from anyone associated with this property inside the bank were unsuccessful. But mortgage experts contacted for this article questioned why a bank would ever agree to a conservation easement that devalues an already highly leveraged property, especially back in the comparably cash-strapped times of 2010.

No matter what, Haugan believes that negotiating would be smarter, more predictable, and, ultimately for taxpayers, a cheaper move than the risks and legal costs associated with eminent domain, in which a judge will decide the final outcome. Among other findings, that judge will have to decide whether this is a new deal, which would require the county to pay again in full, or merely the end of the first deal, which would mean less of a payout. That’s what the county is betting on.“We already purchased the conservation easement,” said Bahl.

“We are securing the investment we made.”

Currently, the eminent-domain case is set for its first hearing in November, at which point Wisniewska’s dream of showing farmers and ranchers how easy it would be to save the tiger salamander with government help will be over. Instead, their fears about regulators coming in and forcibly taking land will be confirmed. “This is going to perpetuate that negative perception, and that upsets me,” said Wisniewska. “I wanted to set an example for my neighbors that, instead of destroying this habitat, they should nurture it. Instead, the county is making everyone’s worst nightmare ■ come true.”

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GREEN EGGS AND HAM: Without Dr. Seuss, there would be — could be — no Bob Dylan.

Likewise, hip-hop would not — could not — ever exist. For my money, Dr. Seuss — a k a Theodor Geisel — belongs on the same jammed pedestal of American letters as Mark Twain and Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame.

For generations, the good doctor — not really an MD — provided the subliminal psychic metronome by which so many of us explored the exhilaration of our own twisted syncopations.

So when I saw Senator Ted Cruz, the one-man Texas Tea Party, pimping out the Dr. Seuss masterpiece Green Eggs and Ham as part of his faux filibuster against Obamacare last week, I was inclined to grind my teeth a few miles past the gum line. Certainly the ironies overflowed up like a backed-up toilet. In real life, Dr. Seuss was as progressive as they came and would have no doubt winced at the reactionary hysterics of Cruz and his coconspirators. At its core, Green Eggs was a cautionary tale against digging in one’s heels and just saying, “No.” With Cruz and other Congressional Republicans having now voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act no less than 42 times — each time with no hope of success — clearly they have not taken that message to heart. In fact, it’s impossible to imagine that the self-proclaimed Texas Tornado ever cracked the book’s spine, let alone ever read it to his kids.

Given that the Tea Party members and Republicans in Congress saw fit to shut down the federal

government over Obamacare — on the very first day the health-care exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act were open for customers — these insults have become mere incidental details to the more profound injury inflicted by the sublime dysfunction of Congress. Little wonder the popularity of that legislative body — now at 10 percent approval — has plunged lower than that of a colonoscopy.

For something supposedly so heinous, there was a striking abundance of interest among Californians about signing up for the new insurance exchanges on day one (but the new law doesn’t go into effect until Jan. 1). Most news outlets report there were 2.8 million e-mail hits, causing the system created by Covered California to crash or freeze multiple times. Like many of my knee-jerk ilk, I regard the passage of the Affordable Care Act as a genuinely historic and imperfectly positive achievement. That’s not to say it won’t be a huge mess. It absolutely will be.

At least for a while.

Along the Central Coast, an estimated 58,000 people will benefit by vastly improved health care access because of the Affordable Care Act. About 30,000 will now find themselves eligible for Medi-Cal coverage for the first time. That’s because the eligibility rules were expanded to include people who make 138 percent the federal poverty level. Given that the cutoff had previously been no more than 100 percent of poverty — defined by the feds as $11,000 for a single

individual — we’re talking seriously poor. The other major good news is that 28,000 locals now without insurance will be eligible to sign up for one of the two insurance exchanges set up in Santa Barbara. Yes, insurance will be mandatory. But so is car insurance, and I don’t see the Tea Party going to the barricades because city cops issue approximately 1,029 citations a year to motorists for driving without proof of insurance. Yes, it will cost, but even families earning up to $95,000 a year can get subsidies.

The whole plan hinges on the availability of primary care physicians of which we have a national and local shortage. It came as a huge shock to me to find out that Sansum Clinic — by far the biggest outpatient care provider in the county — is not part of this new exchange system. Sansum CEO Kurt Ransohoff told me that he’d always assumed Sansum would be involved, but that as recently as a few weeks ago, Sansum was never approached by either of the two exchange providers, Anthem Blue Cross or Blue Shield. At that time, he said Sansum approached the providers, only to be informed that Sansum was excluded. Sansum, it was explained, had failed to respond in a timely manner to an inquiry the providers had sent out.

Ransohoff said Sansum has no records of any such inquiries having been made. Since then, he said Sansum and the exchanges have been talking multiple times a week. But the problem, it turns out, goes well beyond the my-dog-

ate-my-homework variety. Ransohoff said the reimbursement rate the exchanges were offering to pay Sansum for treatment provided fell well below the line of economic sustainability.

He said Sansum was willing to eat some form of discount but said what the exchanges were demanding was beyond huge. There are many primary care docs outside the Sansum orbit, but many are already booked solid and are likewise leery about the low rate of return offered by the exchanges. Cottage Health System, it should be noted, has signed a contract with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield exchanges, but hospitals are not in the business of outpatient care, despite the intense use of emergency rooms by those without insurance. It’s assumed by many medical professionals that the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics will provide primary care for many of these new patients, and maybe that’s the case. But it’s worth remembering that the Neighborhood Clinics have been bleeding hundred-dollar bills and are currently undergoing emergency intervention. Despite all the optimism expressed over the changes being made, it remains to be seen the extent to which they can shoulder the load. Like I say, there are a lot of bugs still to be worked out. How that happens I don’t pretend to know. I am certain, however, you can’t get from here by shutting down the federal government and voting — 42 times — to repeal Obamacare. As a start, I’d suggest Senator Cruz and his cohorts reread Green Eggs and Ham. Better yet, read it for the first time.

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Newton Wayland, son of Helen Hart and L.C. Newton Wayland, was born in Santa Barbara at St. Francis Hospital on November , . He died at Cottage Hospital on September . That could read as just a move across town, but there was nothing staid about his living. Even as a boy he was drawn to hugeness, his first passion being steam trains, real ones (the city had a roundhouse in those years).

Then came music. By the time he was in his teens, already an accomplished pianist, he had formed both a jazz combo and a chamber group. After graduating from Santa Barbara High School, he made a stab at Harvard, but found himself more engaged with the jazz band he started there, and he soon transferred to the New England Conservatory of Music.

He earned a presence as pianist, arranger, and composer before graduating with high honors and bachelor and master of music degrees. He became first-call

keyboardist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was musical director at the Charles Playhouse, and arranger and keyboardist for Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. His audition for successorship to Fiedler was lauded, and though John Williams was chosen, Wayland’s career as a conductor then soared.

For most of his professional life he was a regular guest conductor for over  orchestras in the US and Canada, principal pops conductor of the Houston, Denver, South Bend, Oakland, and Vancouver B.C. symphonies.

He made his European debut leading the Orchestre National de Lyon in his Gershwin program, and his New York debut with Peter Schickele in the P.D.Q. Bach Christmas concerts at Carnegie Hall. He became Rockefeller Artist-in-Residence at WGBH-TV in Boston, music director of the PBS Emmy Award-winning children’s show “ZOOM!”, conductor and more for the engaging Adventures in Music program. He also wrote music for Nova, conducted opera for the Associate Artists Opera Company in Boston and the Castle Hill Summer Festival in Ipswich, MA, and was music director, arranger, and pianist for the off-Broadway show “Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill”.

Throughout he was in great demand as an arranger. It could be said that he was one of the first masters of crossover, partly by necessity, as quality pops repertoire was at that time relatively

Death Notices EDWARDS, Carol; ; of Abingdon, VA, formerly of Santa Barbara; died August , . Celebration of life pm October , Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation,  N. Fairview, Goleta. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions to: Heal the Ocean, PO Box  Santa Barbara, CA , or the Head Start Program c/o the Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara,  Hollister Ave. Suite  Goleta, CA .

GIAMBO, Mariana; of Santa Barbara; died August , ; she was . Funeral mass will be Wednesday, October  at : at St. Barbara Parish at the Old Mission. Arrangements by Welch-RyceHaider -.

JOHNSON-McFADDEN, Carlyn Joyce; of Woodburn, OR, formerly of Santa Barbara; died August , ; she was . Viewing was September  at WelchRyce-Haider Funeral Chapels Goleta location. Funeral service was September  and interment at the Goleta Cemetery.

Memorial Donations may be made to your local humane society in Carlyn’s name. Arrangements by Welch-RyceHaider -.

JONES, Elizabeth F.; of Santa Barbara; died September , ; she was . No

services. Arrangements by Welch-RyceHaider -.

JONES, Lettie Ann; of Santa Barbara; died September ,  (Born: //); she was . Visitation, / & / from am to :pm at Welch-RyceHaider,  East Sola St. Funeral Service on Oct , :am at Greater Hope Baptist Church, interment to follow at Santa Barbara Cemetery. Arrangements by WelchRyce-Haider -.

KOSKI, Arleen Zapata; of Goleta; died September , ; she was . Memorial Service: September , am at WelchRyce-Haider Goleta Chapel. Arrangements by Welch-Ryce-Haider -.

NORRIS, Lida Ann; of Santa Barbara; died September ,  (Born: //); she was . Private services.

Arrangements by Welch-Ryce-Haider -.

SAFFOLD, Robert (Bob); ; passed away on August ,  at his home in Santa Barbara. Please support VNSCSB. org.

TARZIU, Eli; of Santa Barbara; died April , ; he was ; burial St. Paul, MN; memorial service May , Trinity Lutheran Church, Santa Barbara.

limited. It was in his eclectic nature to want to connect classical, jazz, broadway, and popinfluenced scores. One of his many recordings was an album of his arrangements, played by what he called the Wayland Quartet, titled Jazz Loves Bach. His offbeat programming has been called free-associative, though the seeming spontaneity belied the work he put into making the arrangements interesting for the orchestra and entertaining for everyone else, including himself. Audiences were delighted with his lively and insightful commentaries delivered from the podium, glimpses of his almost encyclopedic musical knowledge.

Eventually Santa Barbara drew him back. When not traveling to conduct the sometimes  concerts a year, he also tracked, in person, the last routes of the steam trains in the Americas. One of his later projects was an enactment, with a soprano (a former fellow student at NEC), of the Brahms and Clara Schumann letters and music, “ The Brahms Experience”, playing venues as far-flung as the Canterbury Music Festival in England and our Music Academy of the West. Even in retirement he continued to be the ebullient Renaissance man he had always been. His passion for the theater included an intense study of Shakespeare’s plays.

History, philosophy, and geology were only a few of the other subjects he studied in depth. His analyses of Bach’s work were both enlightening and moving to the circle of friends he shared them with. After four years of immersion in the Bach Cantatas he felt he was beginning to understand them. On being hospitalized in what became his last months, he decided to turn to Bach’s organ works, gathering more scores, CDs, and books about him.

He leaves two sisters and their families: Lisa Cabryl and her children William Runnette, Sean Runnette and his wife Anna Cunningham, and Deirdre Runnette and her partner Ingrid Anderson; and Constance Brown, her husband Julius, and their children Janelle and Julius Anthony and his fiancée Cara Henry.

At Newton’s request there will be no memorial service. Contributions in his name may be made to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the League of Women Voters. More locally, two libraries and their staffs were essential to him. Gifts to the UC Santa Barbara Music Library may be made with a personal check designated to the UC Santa Barbara Foun-

dation (please indicate on the check memo that the gift is for the Music Library in the memory of Newton Wayland, and send to UCSB Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA -). He may also be honored by gifts to Friends of the Montecito Library.

Gratitude and admiration go to the Cottage Hospital medical ICU doctors and medical staff.

Arnita Matthews // – //

Arnita Matthews, aged , passed away August ,  at Sarah House after her struggle with cancer. She was born Arnita Walton, October ,  to Joe Cravens Walton and Fern Lee Armstrong in Poteau, Oklahoma. In  she married Lonnie Adams and had her only child, Tracy Adams.

It was  when Arnita, now a single mother, moved to Lompoc CA, to be closer to family. After graduating beauty school she visited Santa Barbara, and fell in love with the city making it her home.

She worked as a cosmetologist and later owned and operated her own beauty salon “Miss Arnita’s”.

Arnita re-married in  to Frank Leslie “Skip” Matthews.

Both Arnita and Skip served the Santa Barbara community working in drug and alcohol recovery.

Skip, on the board of directors of New House and as one of the founders of NewHouse II and Arnita with The National Council on Alcoholism and as President of Friends of Casa Serena.

Together they helped hundreds of men and women rebuild their lives.

Arnita is loved and remembered by her sister Nila Stone, her mother and step father Fern and Russ Erikson, her step son John Matthews and her son Tracy Hall Adams. She was kind and loving and when it came to matters of the spirit, she was very wise.

There will be a memorial service on Saturday Oct, th , pm. The family asks any remembrances be given in Arnita’s name to Sarah House in Santa Barbara.

Ruth St. Oegger // – //

Long time Santa Barbara resident Ruth St. Oegger, age , passed away on September ,  at the Maravilla Retirement Community.

Ruth was born in Oklahoma to Roy and Ethel Summers. Following her graduation from high school she moved to Los Angeles.

There, she joined the Woman’s Marine core as a secretary, serving during World War II. After the war Ruth moved to Glendale and worked at the telephone company as a switch-board operator.

She was preceded in death by her husband Kenneth St. Oegger who died July , . She met her husband Ken at a bar in Glendale California and they were married for  years. She travelled with him during his racing career throughout the western states and Hawaii, after which they retired to Santa Barbara to raise their family in the early sixties. During their marriage they continued travelling through Europe and New Zealand and then later with their sons in western North America. Ruth volunteered with several local organizations, including pet therapy and the Santa Barbara Yacht Club Women’s Group. She loved dogs, especially poodles, having owned several over her lifetime. She is survived by her three sons and six grandchildren.

Her ashes will be sprinkled at sea so that she may join her husband and sister.

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In Memoriam

Mary Carol Edwards 1924-2013

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Spiritual Seeker, Wise Woman

BY R E V. B E T S W I E N E C K E

he Rev. Dr. Mary Carol Edwards, a

tor to many men and women preparing for spiritual seeker and wise woman, the Unitarian Universalist (UU) ministry. She died peacefully on August 22, 2013, served as president of the Unitarian Univerin a hospice in Abingdon, Virginia. A salist Liberal Religious Educators Association curious and grateful student of life, her lifelong from 1985-87.

Carol retired from professional ministry desire to learn and grow served as an example to others. Carol was a courageous, compassion- in 1994. That didn’t diminish her concern for ate soul who once wrote that her deepest anger the well-being of children, especially those in concerned the lack of care expressed for chil- low-income families. She served as a member dren in our culture, followed closely by the lack of the Santa Barbara County Human Services of care for our home planet. And yet she was a Commission and volunteered with the Santa deeply joyous lover of life and people. Her life’s Barbara Family Care Center. She continued work was dedicated to teaching religious eduand guided by a deep cation classes as a volunreverence for the natuteer with the lucky chilral world and love of dren of Live Oak UU children, all grounded Congregation in Goleta in a delightful, irreverand encouraged the forent sense of humor. mation of the Song Tree Carol was born, concerts there.

She loved to garthree days before Christmas, and raised den and sail while she in Pacific Palisades. She had the mobility and credited growing up in energy; sing; read; the natural beauty of attend movies, choral, the Palisades with her and symphony orchesdeep passion and contra concerts; and travel with friends. She was cern for protecting and preserving the natural one of those people environment. who watched C-SPAN Carol began fullreligiously and then told you about it. time work when she was 16 and established EVERGREEN LIFE: Rev. Dr. Carol Edwards’s In 2003, Carol moved a career when most love of life, sailing, and children extended to Abingdon, Virginia, women were stay-at- to her work with the Unitarian Universalist where she helped churches in Goleta and Santa Barbara. home housewives. Her develop the guiding love of children drew principles for an intenher to teach and then direct an early-educa- tional cohousing community, ElderSpirit tion children’s program in Santa Monica. She Community at Trailview, and became one of received her formal training in human devel- its first residents. She continued her involveopment and education at the Pacific Oaks Col- ment in environmental and community affairs lege in Pasadena and the Starr King School for in Abingdon. Over the years, Carol’s declining energy created a growing desire for simplicthe Ministry in Berkeley.

She was an active member of the Unitar- ity in her life, and “keep it simple” became her ian Universalist Community Church of Santa motto. This extended to her spiritual life, and Monica before being hired as their Director during her last few years, she became a Quaker. of Religious Education. Carol’s intuitive and Carol was so pleased and proud of her late honest pastoral presence and her belief in the son, Kenny Edwards, a songwriter and singer, interrelatedness of people, place, and events — who worked with many musicians including in the power of community — accompanied by Linda Ronstadt and was a mentor to young her gracious ministerial leadership, convinced musicians in the area. Her two husbands, the congregation to take the unusual step of Kenneth Clyde Edwards and Robert V. Stern; ordaining Carol as their Minister of Religious her parents, Henry John Keller and Dorothy Education. In 1988, she was called as the Min- Loughton Penniman Keller; and a brother, Wilister of Religious Education for the Unitar- liam Keller, also predeceased her. ian Society of Santa Barbara. Her enthusiasm A celebration of Carol’s life will be held at and love of life and children were contagious. 3 p.m., Sunday, October 6, at the Live Oak UniShe ministered to all ages and was a masterful tarian Universalist Congregation,  North facilitator and creative leader and innovator Fairview Avenue in Goleta. who worked to end the segregation of children In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in and adults so prevalent in our culture. She was Carol’s name may be made to Heal the Ocean, a member of the Interfaith Clergy group and PO Box , Santa Barbara, CA , or coordinated the first AIDS Memorial Service the Head Start Program c/o the Community of Hope and Healing held at the Unitarian Action Commission of Santa Barbara,  Society.

Hollister Avenue, Suite , Goleta, CA .

In 1991, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Starr King School for the Ministry Rev. Bets Wienecke is a minister emerita for her outstanding work as a pioneering Min- with the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist ister of Religious Education and was a men- Congregation.

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n his August 8 news article on campaign fundraising [“The Mayor’s Massive Flex,” independent .com/cityracesfundraising], Nick Welsh, who usually gets things right, characterized those supporting Lesley Wiscomb, such as Dale Francisco and myself, as “vehemently opposed to schemes to promote the development of smaller, cheaper housing by allowing higher densities.”

This time Nick was wrong.

The initial proposals would have been a broad-brush raising of densities with the assumption that this increase would make it possible for developers to build market-rate housing affordable to workforce households.

Dale Francisco and I were highly skeptical that this would be the result. We saw land prices increasing, thereby increasing the price of the units. We saw more luxury condos being built, the kind of housing almost everyone agrees is not what Santa Barbara needs.

From the beginning of the General Plan process, we did support higher densities for rental projects. We thought these could provide affordable housing for moderate-income households.

In July 2011, architects held a design charrette in which they worked to prove that they could design attractive, Santa Barbara–style and –scale buildings with high density that would be affordable to buy and to rent.

They proved that they could not build affordable for-sale units with the increased densities.

The charrette did prove that higher density could result in rental units affordable to workforce households.

Subsequently, the experimental Average Unit-Size Density (AUD) program was developed with incentives for building rental housing. It allows increased density for smaller units. Both Dale and I supported the AUD ordinance. So does Lesley Wiscomb.

Dale and I are supporting Lesley Wiscomb because we all agree that new development should be carefully managed to assure that it provides the kind of housing Santa Barbara needs in projects — Sheila Lodge, S.B. that are compatible with the community.

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he turbulent trajectory the Republican Party has sent our nation’s well-being through with passage of bills that are guaranteed to be rejected in the Senate and cause a government shutdown has most shaking their heads in disbelief. But this is not the first time a

political group filled with intransigent and supposed patriots have tried to not only pollute the waters of moral decency but blame the group on the side of compassion to be the perpetrators of a heinous act.

Called the “Fire-Eaters,” Southern Democrats who staunchly supported slavery claimed that it was not their perverse belief in the institu-

tion of enslavement of African Americans or their religious-based racism that would cause war and possible disunion of the United States but those who advocated for freedom of black people in America. They further proclaimed that the election of a man like Abraham Lincoln would be the cause of a civil war.

The adept and politically savvy Mr. Lincoln responded to this charge while campaigning in 1860 with the story of a man traveling down a road who is met by an armed robber: “A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear and mutters through his teeth, ‘Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be the murderer.’”

A destination unknown is fraught with peril, and while polls might vacillate in coming weeks over which party will receive the most blame, the picking of winners and losers will pale in comparison to the perfidious aftermath of a strategy that uses hostage-taking as a replacement for governing as the Founding Fathers intended for our country.

— Jeffrey Moualim, Santa Ynez

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ust before midnight last week, a young man in his twenties ran up behind me as I was walking home to West Beach from work on Cabrillo near Castillo. He was wearing tan shorts, a gray hoodie, and a rubber, red devil Halloween mask; he was also right handed as that was the hand the small-caliber revolver was held in.

With weapon drawn, he backed me up to the entrance gate of my home and demanded my wallet and phone. I was stunned. I had believed him to be a late-night jogger trying to pass me

on the sidewalk as I turned toward my front door.

I dropped my phone on the ground behind my entrance gate, and that confused him. He started toward me at the entrance to my home.

My wife, 5-month-old daughter, and almost 3-year-old son were sleeping; any stray bullets could have harmed them. After explaining I would give him my wallet, which had no cash, just IDs and credit cards, I felt he was going to pull the trigger. I put my hand up to deflect him and started advancing. He looked puzzled, shook his head, and must have realized how much noise and time this was taking; he fled down the street on foot.

After I called 9-1-1, the police responded in less than five minutes with a police dog that started tracking a scent. The officers searched on foot throughout the area, looking between houses and into backyards for at least a block in each direction, their focus trained on trailing the police dog, and they also drove around the entire neighborhood.

Two things I learned from this incident. First, be aware of your surroundings. I had a great night at work, was introduced to a new app on my phone by a coworker, and had my nose glued to my phone as I walked, whistling, to my home.

I was unaware of anyone around me until it was too late.

Second, do not resist a perpetrator when he has a gun pointed at you. I know this and would practice this under any other condition, but I was not thinking clearly and was thinking of my family’s safety. Be aware and cooperate; things can be replaced, but your family cannot replace — G. Lytle, S.B. you. cont’d p. 25

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his letter is in recognition of some unsung heroes.

Our society has cruelly abandoned many of our lessfortunate fellow citizens, including the elderly, physically disabled, mentally ill, and others who have lost their jobs and pensions or savings due to costly medical bills and medicines.

The sta at the Santa Barbara Public Library, particularly the security people, deal respectfully, compassionately, yet ďŹ rmly when necessary with our less-fortunate neighbors. They oer a daytime refuge with dignity for the homeless. On many occasions I have witnessed the patience exercised by the security people and other sta members with troubled homeless people. So, with no additional salary, they take on the role of social worker as well as their library position.

Thank you, all you ďŹ ne people who work at the library, for helping our less-fortunate neighbors feel welcome and comfortable, at least in the library. — Ken Cohen, S.B.

Rehab Wanted

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was the person in the high-speed chase from Ventura to Buellton on April 14. I was sentenced to four years

by Ventura County courts, and the California Highway Patrol has charged me $7,750 for a vehicle that wasn’t totaled by my 1999 Honda; I just bought them a new car — during the pit move [during which the CHP attempted to box him in on the ď›œď˜šď›œ], my car “grazedâ€? a CHP car. I was oered nine years at 80 percent if I didn’t accept the plea of four years and $7,750 restitution.

Here’s why California’s prisons are full. I was two times the legal amount (BAC) as a drunk driver — I could have been sentenced to lesser jail time and a program. No one was hurt; no one was seriously endangered; the highway was closed o. I think I’m doing too much time for my crime, without any real program or rehab to help me change my life. Instead I’m sentenced to a crowded place called Wasco State Prison R/C. Ventura County, thanks ‌

for not helping and no rehab for my drinking. All I smell is booty, feet, sweat, and urine in a “way-overâ€?-crowded prison. That’s the state’s way in rehab!! Stick you in for a long time with overcrowded inmates and heat at 100 degrees. Oh! What a great rehabilitation service Califor— John Ramirez nia has to oer.

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ccording to S.B. County Animal Control ďŹ gures, pit-bull bites rose 50 percent between 2011 and 2012.

Unfortunately, the projected bites for 2013 is 180, a 100 percent increase since last year. There are 175 breeds in the U.S., plus many mixed breeds; yet, in the last 30 years, pit bulls are responsible for about two-thirds of the fatal and disďŹ guring attacks in the U.S. Many dog-rescue people deliberately lie to those adopting vicious breeds. Their goal is to save these dogs at all costs, even if that cost could take the life of your child or pet. The S.B. Humane Society does numerous tests on dogs prior to adopting them out. I would not hesitate to — Hazel Mortensen, Solvang adopt from them.

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Âś State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson’s mobile-home bill has passed the Assembly and the Senate and Gov. Brown has signed it; last week we only reported that it had passed the Assembly. Âś Regarding the news story “Sex Abuse Cover-Up?â€?

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Wanna Run an Arts Foundation?

FOSTERING THE ARTS: You say you want to be in charge of a 27-room, nearly 22,000-squarefoot mansion with 23.5 acres of breathtaking views of Santa Barbara, ocean, and mountains?

But not have to pay the taxes out of your own pocket or do the dusting?

Just you and a few others sitting around, figuring out what to do with the place and how to “foster the arts.”

You probably won’t be able to live there, and you won’t get paid, but what the heck? All eyes will be on you and about $85 million worth of real estate.

If this appeals to you, the line is forming. I’m talking, of course, of Bellosguardo (“beautiful lookout”), the late copper heiress Huguette (oo·get) Clark’s French-style estate on an East Cabrillo Boulevard mesa adjoining (yes) the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Always generous, Huguette donated the money in 1928 to create the Andrée Clark Bird Refuge across the street, named for her late sister. Her mother, Anna, fearing invasion after a Japanese sub shelled Ellwood in 1942, bought the 215-acre Rancho Alegre in the Santa Ynez Valley. Later, it was donated to the Boy Scouts.

Clark willed the formation of an arts foundation at Bellosguardo, but it took some gnarly recent negotiations in New York to make it happen. (As of now, according to Bill Dedman, NBC News investigative reporter, much depends on the IRS waiving $16 million to $18 million in

Clark’s neglected gift taxes. But there seems to be optimism that the IRS’s cold heart will warm enough to help create the charity.)

Here’s the deal: The 10-member Bellosguardo Foundation’s board will start off this way: Seven people will be nominated by Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider; one by Clark’s longtime Santa Barbara attorney, James Hurley; one

by Clark’s distant (and I mean distant) relatives; and one by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., a Clark family favorite also involved in the negotiations over her will.

The New York attorney general, who quarterbacked negotiations, will decide who makes the team. Terms are three years.

At this writing, I’m not aware of any nominations. Mayor Schneider says, “In the coming weeks, I will establish a working group to assist me in determining these seven nominees.”

The goal, she told Dedman, “is to open the Bellosguardo house and gardens to the public as a center that will foster and promote the arts.”

That sounds pretty vague, but go ahead; foster away.

So far, no one is calling it a museum. It does contain some paintings, including family portraits. Clark’s own artwork will come west from her New York property, but all her fine-art collection will be sold to make the settlement work.

The 19 relatives, most of whom never met her, sued to overturn the 2005 will and came out of the negotiations with $34.5 million. Clark’s

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beloved doll collection, valued at $1.7 million, will also be shipped west to Bellosguardo. One decision the new board may consider is whether it properly fits in with a fine-arts foundation or should be sold to finance more arty activities.

The settlement included $4.5 million for Bellosguardo, but one wonders how long that will last in view of the need to upgrade an aging asset (some of the toilets sport signs reading “Do Not Flush.”)

According to the recently published book Empty Mansions (Ballantine Books)

by Dedman and Huguette’s cousin Paul Clark Newell Jr., the building’s architectural style is late-18th-century French with Georgian influences, with 13 chimneys. It was designed by famed Reginald Johnson, who had just finished the Biltmore.

The home features a grand circular stairway with elaborate railings made of copper (of course). Huguette never visited Bellosguardo after the early 1950s and died in New York in 2011.

If you, as a boardmember, hold receptions or tea parties, the largest space would be the music room, 46 feet by 23.

Huguette turned down the shah of Iran when he wanted to buy Bellosguardo before fleeing the Islamic Revolution in 1979, accord-

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by Santa Barbara’s mayor.

ing to Empty Mansions. She rejected Hollywood billionaire Marvin Davis when he offered $30 million to $40 million in 1989. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art approached her in 1991 and 2004 to donate the place, to no avail. She considered leaving it to the Music Academy of the West but decided against it, according to the authors.

If you’re really serious about being named to the board, you should take a history lesson with the well-researched Empty Mansions. Or hear its authors speak when they visit the S.B. Historical Museum on October 6 and 7.

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BELLOSGUARDO THEN: (above) This family photo, taken in the 1940s, shows the interior of the library, including a portrait of Huguette’s sister Andrée over the fireplace. The furniture has been covered, but otherwise the rooms in the mansion remain as they were 60 years ago.

DEBUTANTE DAYS: (inset) This photo of Huguette Clark was taken shortly after she graduated from Spence School.

Huguette Clark and the Strange Legacy of Bellosguardo

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anta Barbara has a new public treasure — Huguette Clark’s former estate Bellosguardo.

Now the magnificent 23.5-acre property that’s been sitting empty at  East Cabrillo Boulevard for almost 60 years belongs to a specially created entity known as the Bellosguardo Foundation. With 1,000 feet of ocean frontage and only the quiet folks in the Santa Barbara Cemetery for neighbors, the spectacular mansion on the bluff above East Beach has to be the most conspicuously unoccupied private home in Southern California. Vacant except for a team of caretakers and groundskeepers since the 1950s, Bellosguardo has for many years been kept in Huguette Clark’s preferred state, which is as close as possible to the way it was when her mother, Anna Clark, lived there in the 1930s. The result is already a kind of museum, as rich in period plumbing as it is in period furniture.

What’s more, through the auspices of the Bellosguardo Foundation, this one-of-a-kind property will also belong to the city of Santa Barbara. According to the settlement, which was administered by the Attorney General of New York, seven of the 10 initial members of the Bellosguardo board will be nominated by Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider.

In a statement expressing her satisfaction with the agreement, Mayor Schneider identified the foundation’s primary mission as “to open the Bellosguardo house and gardens to the

by Charles Donelan public as a center that will foster and promote the arts.” In her remarks at the annual Santa Barbara Beautiful awards ceremony, held on Sunday, September 29, at the nearby campus of the Music Academy of the West, Schneider called on the community to “dream big, and dream bold” about what to do with what has up until now been a conspicuously underused asset. Many questions remain, however, not only about the condition of Bellosguardo, but also about the city’s benefactor, Huguette Clark. Why was the property empty for so long?

Who exactly was the reclusive Ms. Clark?

As with so many features of Clark’s long and mysterious life, the gift of Bellosguardo to Santa Barbara presents an enigma. While she was alive, the buildings and grounds were almost entirely dormant, as were several other extremely valuable properties that she owned, including an estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, called Le Beau Château and two enormous apartments in a luxury building on th Avenue and nd Street in Manhattan. Huguette Clark inherited a fortune of approximately $300 million from her father, the copper king W.A. Clark, and she could have lived anywhere in the world, but instead she chose to spend the last decades of her life in a darkened hospital room, administering her affairs by phone, letter, and most often, personal check.

While the establishment of a center for the arts at Bellosguardo appears likely to entail some additional fundraising, it’s absolutely certain to require considerable creative think-

ing, as well. The task of taking the measure of Huguette Clark will render the formulation of an appropriate identity for the Bellosguardo Foundation an interesting challenge. What kind of public institution will best reflect the spirit of a woman who for most of her long life declined to go out in public?

From Recluse to Best Seller The question of what Clark intended that her Santa Barbara property would become is only one of the many riddles addressed by a fascinating new book. Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr. has gotten not just Santa Barbara but all of America reading and talking about Huguette Clark. Through the popularity of this highly readable account of her life, an elderly woman has gone from her status of three years ago as an ultrarecluse, when she was nearly un-findable and living under an assumed name in a nondescript New York hospital room, to the top of the New York Times nonfiction best-seller list.

And if the story of Clark’s very private life can stir so much interest, who knows what will happen in Santa Barbara when those East Cabrillo gates finally open?

Since its publication on September 10, Dedman and Newell’s brilliantly researched, tough-minded, and fair volume has spent two consecutive weeks in the top 10 of the

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Credit for negotiating this extraordinary (and hotly contested) bequest and for the leading role given to the mayor of Santa Barbara in charting the foundation’s initial direction, should go to the legal team of Price, Postel & Parma partner Jim Hurley, former mayor Sheila Lodge, and philanthropist Bob Emmons. The trio formed a Bellosguardo Foundation here in California in advance of the proceedings, and even when that initial attempt to negotiate on the city’s behalf was determined by the New York court to be without standing COLLECTION OF SHEILA LODGE, FROM THE BOOK EMPTY MANSIONS

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BIRTH OF A BEQUEST: In 1988, former mayor Sheila Lodge received this handwritten note from Huguette Clark expressing her desire to preserve the house in memory of her mother.

dation, the estate looks poised to become, in the case, they nevertheless managed to like Lotusland and the nearby Music find a way back to the negotiating table in Academy, one of the city’s truly distinctive time to win not one but two favorable deciattractions. sions — the bequest itself and control of the board.

The heavily lawyered proceedings, which took place in the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, did not leave all who were expecting something from the estate equally happy. The members of her extended family — all relations from her father’s first marriage — will split approximately $34.5 million, but Clark’s former nurse Hadassah Peri, who received millions in personal gifts while Clark was still alive, gets nothing and will have to pay back approximately one-fifth of what she was given.

(New York state law treats personal gifts — THE CLARK SISTERS IN BUTTE: Andrée (left) and Huguette especially cash — that go pose with their father on the site of Columbia Gardens, the to so-called confidential public park he donated to the citizens of Butte, Montana. employees such as private nurses to be tainted by default.) Clark’s Fortunately, although the generous woman extensive doll collection, which is valued at in question was exceedingly hard to get to nearly $2 million and was set to go to Peri, know while she was alive, Bill Dedman and has been reassigned to the care of the founPaul Clark Newell Jr.’s new book makes her dation. Welcome to your new dollhouse. more available now than she has ever been.

Some of the details of the complex finan- The story in Empty Mansions spans nearly cial state of affairs left behind by Clark are two centuries and begins with the man still not resolved. Until the Internal Revenue that the Clarks still call “the Senator,” even Service weighs in on some substantial fees though he was persuaded to resign from due on delinquent gift taxes, it will be hard that office the first time he earned it after to gauge just how the foundation will afford accusations were made of voter fraud. Wilthe empty mansion. If all goes well, and at liam Andrews Clark, or W.A., as he was also least some of the tax penalties are forgiven, known, was the copper king of Montana the 21,666-square-foot Bellosguardo soon and built a railroad from the mines there will be filled not only with art, furniture, and through to Los Angeles at a time when none Clark’s fabulous collection of dolls but also of the other railroad barons were willing to with visitors. take that particular risk. Along the way, he While the city’s idiosyncratic benefacfounded a little junction town in Nevada tor was still alive, people were the single called Las Vegas and married twice, the element Bellosguardo most conspicuously second time to Anna LaChapelle, who was lacked; now, with the stroke of a pen, all of young enough to be W.A. Clark’s grandthe nothing that went on in Bellosguardo daughter when their children, Andrée and for so many years is history. Clark’s legacy Huguette, were born. will deliver one of the last undivided great Born in the small Michigan town of estates in Santa Barbara to the public for its Red Jacket in 1878, Anna LaChapelle was enjoyment and edification. Under the foun- discovered in Butte by the copper king and received an education in French and lessons on the harp thanks to her wealthy mentor. Living in W.A. Clark’s apartment on Avenue Victor-Hugo in Paris as a teenager, Anna developed the tastes and opinions that would mold the estate at Bellosguardo, which was always, even after her death, considered her house. Anna, Huguette, and Andrée (for whom the Bird Refuge is named) came to Santa COLLECTIBLE FRENCH DOLLS: Huguette paid nearly $30,000 Barbara fairly often for these collectible 19th-century French dolls at an auction in 1993. Her doll collection is valued today at $1.7 million. through the

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1920s and 1930s, and, to the extent that she led any kind of public life as an adult, Huguette did so in Santa Barbara. For instance, she got married here in 1928 in a private ceremony that was nevertheless covered extensively in both the local and the national press.

Huguette’s husband, William Gower, was a Princeton grad and the son of W.A. Clark’s top accountant.

But Huguette could not be a wife to Bill Gower and was separated from him before the year was out and divorced by 1930. She then resumed her maiden name of Clark while retaining the married title of Mrs. or Madame. Although the failure of her marriage may have had an impact on her desire to spend time in Santa Barbara, it was the deaths of both her sister and her mother that seemed to have pushed Huguette definitively into self-isolation. The sense that Bellosguardo was not a safe place first took hold during the early years of World War II, when the mansion’s exposed position on the bluff was considered vulnerable to a potential Japanese attack. After installing blackout shades and crossing the barbed wire that had been laid on Cabrillo Boulevard in anticipation of an invasion, Huguette and Anna moved to Rancho Alegre, a property that Anna acquired in Santa Ynez and that has since been given to the Boy Scouts. Even after the war, mother and daughter often stayed at the nearby Biltmore rather than an opening the house for their Santa Barbara ara visits.

Although Huguette’s shyness yness had a role in her increasingly insular lifestyle, clearly a sense of fear was in n play, as well. Having enjoyed manyy trips to the continent as a young woman, she later admitted that she was afraid to return to France in case of a second French Revolution. In later life, Huguette uguette focused her energy on building and d maintaining a variety of projects, including ding collections of paintings, jewelry, musical cal instruments, dolls, and even videotapes eotapes of animated cartoons. She may have owned a few Stradivarius rius violins, but that didn’t stop her from enjoying the Smurfs. urfs.

Involved almost exclusivelyy through intermediaries with th complex negotiations over the construction of thousands of elaborate dollhouses, Clarkk developed her already formidable ble memory into something more tenacious and exacting. ng.

Even after turning 100, shee knew by heart where all her er things were stored.

Jim Hurley, her lawyer in Santa Barbara, recognized Clark’s dedication and nd tenacity long ago.“I first reccommended that she set up someHuguette thing like what Madame Walska owned this did with Lotusland as far back as Stradivarius violin.

20 years ago” he said,“and though I don’t know the details of how her final decision to create the foundation came about, I can say that she has always been generous to the city, not only with the Bird Refuge, but also with helping pay for the abatement of the odor there some years ago. Even though she didn’t come out here, I know that she was in constant contact with John Douglas, the caretaker, and that she intended to preserve and protect the property. She’s been extraordinarily generous to Santa Barbara, and while she was alive, we did what we could to protect her privacy.”

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The Investigation and the Empty Mansions Book Journalist Bill Dedman first became interested in Huguette Clark through another one of her empty mansions, Le Beau Château, which he noticed when scanning the real-estate listings. At the time, it was listed for sale at the highest price then being asked for any property in the state of Connecticut. He found that virtually everything about the Château’s owner was mysterious, from the pronunciation of her name to why she had paid to maintain an entirely unfurnished estate in tony New Canaan. When Dedman first wrote about the case for MSNBC, thousands of emails poured in from readers wanting to know more. It was at this time that Dedman became aware of the fact that questions were being raised about the men who managed Huguette Clark’s money. Her accountant was a felon and a registered sex offender, and her New York lawyer had a record of benefiting substantially from the will of someone he had represented, a serious breach of fiduciary duty.“It was at that point, when it came out that both the attorney and the accountant had already once inherited from another client, that it tipped over into a criminal investigation,” Dedman told me.“The nurse, Hadassah Peri, had already received millions in gifts, also raising a lot of questions.

The way I saw, it was,“It’s smoke; let’s see if there’s fire.”

That’s when Dedman met Paul Clark Newell Jr., a cousin of Huguette’s who had managed to get closer to her than nearly anyone, albeit almost entirely by telephone. Newell’s father died while working on a book about Huguette’s father, and there was already a substantial archive established by that effort. In Dedman’s effort to understand what Huguette’s life had been like, the approximately 50 conversations that Paul Clark Newell Jr. had recorded with her were a great windfall.“Their conversations, which we have included with the audiobook, filled in some of the gaps,” said Dedman. With the help of Newell’s evidence and firsthand knowledge, Dedman was able to begin forming a stronger impression of who this woman actually was, rather than having to accept what other people said about her.

This last is a crucial point with Dedman, and one he emphasized in our recent conversation about the book and about Huguette Clark. When I observed that he is scrupulously reticent when it comes to speculating about Huguette’s motives, he agreed and added the following self-description: “By practice and temperament, I maintain distance. For example, I don’t write about what people ‘believe.’ People lie, people posture, and people often give one reason for something they’ve done when they actually have another. It can be tempting to create dialogue, but I won’t, and it’s for the same reason that you won’t find me writing that someone is a devout Christian. The outward signs may be there, but if you aren’t that person, there’s no way you can be certain.”

Dedman’s objective attitude becomes particularly important later on in the book, when predatory figures surround Huguette, each peddling some version of her that forwards their cause. I found it hard to continue with the narrative at times, not because I wasn’t interested, but because I found Huguette annoying, especially as she became more reclusive. Dedman, who was aware of this possibility, nevertheless chose to leave it up to the reader to decide what to make of his subject.“I assume readers are smart,” he said,“and if you give them facts, they will think good thoughts.

I don’t know why she liked dolls so much or what she found so interesting about the Smurfs. But I can say with certainty that this woman, who was trained as an artist, knew a great deal about animation and that

she liked fairytales of all kinds very much.”

But what about the difficulties that many readers may have with accepting the extravagant wastefulness that is so apparent in the book’s main title, Empty Mansions? Won’t people need a way to think about all the resources Huguette Clark marshaled that were never used? “Well, we pushed and pulled at the examples to pair instances of her extravagance with instances of her generosity. On one page she will be spending INSTANT BEST SELLER: The new book $400,000 to have copies Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of made of her mother’s old Huguette Clark and the Spending of a furniture, and on the next Great American Fortune by NBC News she’ll be sending $30,000 investigative reporter Bill Dedman and Huguette Clark’s cousin Paul Clark to a stranger or paying Newell Jr., who is not one of the relatives for the health care of the involved in the legal battle for her daughter of a former fortune, has made the New York Times governess.” nonfiction best-seller list. For more According to Dedman, information, visit emptymansionsbook reversals of sympathy are .com. built into the structure of the book even before Huguette comes on the scene.“The reader may decide that he or she likes W.A. Clark while he is still in his early years as a businessman, and then hit the scandals that arose in relation to his political career and decide that the Senator was not such a great man after all,” he said.“I didn’t write the book to correct people’s perceptions of these figures; I wrote it to present as best I could the known facts about their lives.”

Ultimately, the book’s greatest achievement — even more impressive than the massive amount of research and organization it required — may be precisely this reluctance to judge. Dedman offered a personal analogy by way of explaining his adherence to a code of strict objectivity.“While I was working on this book, my grandmother died in Tennessee, and I went down there to clean her house. In her attic, I went through all sorts of things, some dating from as far back as World War I. There were love letters, hats, and even a ledger book that she used to track the money she saved. She tried to save enough so that she could buy one nice new piece of furniture per year. I don’t know that there were any family secrets, but even the old LIFE magazines with her mailing labels said something to me. And then, after meeting Paul, it became much more real to me that this woman was part of someone’s family. And you know, you can learn quite a bit about someone from looking at their checkbook!”

As the Bellosguardo Foundation begins its work of building a public institution around this extraordinary legacy, the board will do well to heed the wise path already marked out by Dedman and Newell’s sophisticated, yet reticent approach. As Dedman writes in the epilogue to Empty Mansions, even though Huguette Clark may have preferred to live the final decades of her life “in a hospital room, with her hollandaise and brioche and cashmere sweaters,” she had the “courage … to be an artist at a time when that wasn’t an approved path for a woman, to break away from a marriage that she didn’t want, to resist the manipulations of her hospital and her museum to get more of her money, [and] to leave most of her estate to her friends and a charity that honored her mother’s memory.” Whether or not Huguette Clark truly did lead “a life of integrity,” as this final chapter claims, her story and her legacy Bellosguardo are with us yet, the former already open for discussion and contemplation, and the latter, one day soon, open for visitors and a new public life.

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/: Tony Kushner � The celebrated screenwriter (Lincoln) and playwright (Angels in America) has addressed pressing social and societal issues throughout his career, including civil rights, AIDS, and Afghanistan. He’s also won an Emmy, Obie, and a Tony award, and was nominated for an Oscar. pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $-$.

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/: Living with Wolves � Emmy Award winners Jim and Jamie Dutcher share their experiences living on the edge of Idaho’s Sawtooth Wilderness, observing and interacting with a native wolf pack. pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History,  Puesta del Sol. $-$. Call -.

THURSDAY 10/3 /: Julia Dawson � Internationally published author and Santa Barbaran Julia Michelle Dawson will sign copies of her latest book, Geneva, a thriller that takes readers around the globe into a world of deceit and terrorism. pm. S.B. Museum of Art,  State St. Free Call -. /: Masters of Bluegrass � This lineup of four Bluegrass Hall of Famers and two members of the Grand Ole Opry is the closest thing to a bluegrass dream team that’s ever been assembled. Don’t miss a chance to take in these musical veterans’ wit, warmth, virtuosity, and exceptional musicianship. pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $-$.

Call -. /: The Big Read Kickoff at Central Library � Be on the lookout for the Huey helicopter downtown, as the Santa Barbara Public Library System launches its annual five-week Big Read

community program, which will include film screenings, panel discussions, theatrical performances, and writing contests. The center of this year’s program is Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a novel about American soldiers in Vietnam. -pm. S.B. Central Library,  E. Anapamu St. Free. Call -.

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/: Machine Gun Blues Burlesque: A Night of Pinstripes, Panties, and Prohibition � Mutiny Studios /-/ California Avocado Festival � Carpinteria is the place to be this weekend for guacamole and more green goodness during the state’s celebration of our iconic fruit. Fri.: am-pm; Sat.: am-pm; Sun.: am-pm.  Linden Ave, Carpinteria. Free. Call -. /: Blood a Cold Blue � Carpinteria-by-way-of-Dublin author James Claffey will release his debut collection of short fiction, which traces the paths of his life through Ireland, New Mexico, and more in vivid detail. -pm. Curious Cup Bookstore,  Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free.

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“That’s the cat’s meow!” “That dame’s dapper better dry up!”), and join the fun. pm. Seven Bar & Kitchen,  Helena Ave. $. Ages +. Call -.

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Michael McDonald and Friends � Come celebrate the Alano Club of S.B.’s th anniversary at this special evening of entertainment from the former Doobie Brother (pictured), along with a reception, dinner, and live and silent auctions. John Palminteri, senior reporter of KEYT NewsChannel , will serve as the master of ceremonies. pm.

Montecito Country Club,  Summit Rd. $. Call -.

/: S.B. Construction EXPO 2013 � The S.B. Contractors Association offers a highly informative day at the Construction EXPO. Hear industry experts with high-powered seminars that address situations construction professionals face on a daily basis, and then cut loose in the Grand Ballroom that evening for the Anniversary Celebration

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/: The Lucent Dossier Experience: Rising Vibes for the Universe � An entirely unique and multisensory experience, this event will be highlighted by an immersive multimedia performance. :pm-am. Arlington Theatre,  State St. $.-$.. Call -. Read more on p. .

/: Walk to End Alzheimer’s � Community members unite in this K (.-mile) walk to raise funds and awareness. am. Earl Warren Showgrounds,  Calle Real.

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/: Fall Brawl Welcome this new season by attending a fullcontact roller derby, and cheer on Santa Barbara’s own Brawlin’ Betties B-Team as they take on Beach City’s Riptide Rollers. Tickets go fast, so be sure to purchase in advance. pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds,  Calle Real. $. Call -. /: Andraab Trunk Show The Museum Store plays host to this special one-day-only sale and showcase of Andraab’s one-of-akind, hand-woven bed spreads, wall hangings, throws, shawls, scarves, and jackets. Noon-pm.

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/: MitiS & Mutrix Studies show that dubstep, lovestep, glitch, and hip-hop are all of the genres that lend themselves most effectively to creating a party-like atmosphere. Be sure to wear a neon tank top to ensure that your party vibes reach their maximum potential. pm. Velvet Jones,  State St. $-$. Ages +. Call -.

5 /: FigtoberFest Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company presents this second annual beer fest, with live music, food trucks, and a home brew competition. Proceeds benefit the SBC Firefighters Benevolent Foundation. am-pm. River View Park, Santa Rita Foothills, Buellton. $-$. Ages +. Call -.

/-/: Naked Shakes Presents Macbeth Naked Shakes’ signature style of no scenery, no props, and minimal costumes will portray one of Shakespeare’s most infamous works, directed by Irwin Appel, UCSB professor of theater, and starring professors Jeff Mills and Michael Morgan. Sat.:  and pm; Sun.: pm. Hatlen Theater, UCSB. $-$. Call -.

SUNDAY 10/6 /: 23rd Annual Heart & Sole AIDS Walk/Run For the rd year in a row, men, women, and children will run and walk to raise funds vital to support those living with, affected by, or at risk for HIV/AIDS in Santa Barbara County. And this year, if you raise $ (or buy a ticket for that amount), you can attend the brand-new Lunch in the Rotunda at the DoubleTree. Walk/Run: am; lunch: noon. Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort,  E. Cabrillo Blvd. Free-$. Call -. /: Tom Leveen Zombieinfection horror and the equally terrifying realities of high school collide in Tom Leveen’s newest novel, Sick. He’ll sign copies of the novel and meet fans this weekend. pm. Chaucer’s Books,  State St. Free. Call -. /: Tim Laman and Ed Scholes National Geographic photographer Tim Laman dove deep into the jungles of New Guinea to observe the flamboyant

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Paradise Store & Grill,  Paradise Rd. Free. Call -. /: Family Photography Class with Joseph Braun Hang out in the park and learn about the fine points of family photography with area professional Joseph Braun. pm. Kid’s World, Alameda Park, Garden and Micheltorena sts.

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“Don’t ever let it be said darling, that what I do don’t bring me joy… I’m a guitar-picking, bluegrass-singing, never-grow-up boy.”

– lyrics by Del McCoury with Harley Allen /: Ray Chen on Violin The title says it all — violin virtuoso Ray Chen (pictured) will shred the strings in what the O.C. Register described as “an astonishing evening of violinistic pyrotechnics.” Don’t take their word for it, though — see for yourself! pm. Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West,  Fairway Rd. $-$. Call -. Read more on p. .

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/: Melaza Pollock Theater’s latest film and discussion series takes in and takes on the talent of emerging Cuban filmmakers — this week featuring a screening of director Carlos Lechuga and producer Claudia Calviño’s Melaza (Molasses), the story of a singleindustry town whose sugar rush runs out. Lechuga and Calviño will answer questions afterward. -pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. $-$. Call -. /: Sing-Along Under the Stars: The Sound of Music If you’re feeling more classic than Cuban, however, head down to the Canary for the von Trapp Family Singers on the big screen — with drinks by Finch & Fork and an Austrian costume contest for the most devoted musical fans. :pm. Canary Hotel,  W. Carrillo St. Free.

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Saturday Downtown S.B.: Corner of Santa Barbara and Cota sts., :am-pm Meet Your Makers Artisan Market: Plaza Vera Cruz,  E. Cota St., am-pm

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It’s more essential than ever for folks to take charge of their medical care.

But how? In his book, Surviving American Medicine, Dr. Cary Presant gives readers what they need to know to make informed choices. Here are a few tips: Bring a list of your concerns, symptoms, and questions; bring family or a friend to help listen and ask questions; write down the answers; record the doctor’s advice; if you need medicine, ask if there is a generic brand or free samples; ask what illnesses you are at risk of getting based on current health and family history. Dr. Presant will read from and sign copies of his book Saturday, October 26, 3-5 p.m., Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Rd., Montecito. Call 969-4977.

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n the 1980s, Jane Fonda famously made aerobics a national craze. To whip yourself into shape, all you needed were neon spandex, a headband, and a VCR. Today, exercise is more complicated; there are myriad fitness disciplines to choose from that target specific parts of the body and achieve distinct goals.

It can get pricey doing a Goldilocks to find the perfect regimen, so how do you decide which one is best for you?

Fortunately, a group of Santa Barbara folks have been working for the past three years to bring a unique exercise opportunity to town. It’s called Open Streets and consists of a whole day of sampler classes and workshops geared toward a healthy lifestyle. “It’s an initiative for public health and sustainable transportation,” explained Robin Elander, S.B. Open Streets coordinator. “The day is so people can get a feel for a sustainable future, a healthy active lifestyle, and to continue to build a better and stronger community.”

Getting fit is just one focus of the event. It is also a call to reduce our carbon footprint by using alternative transport as much as possible, such as walking and biking, rather than relying on air-polluting vehicles. For that reason, Cabrillo Boulevard, where the exposition takes place, will be closed to motorized traffic for the day. People can still park in the Cabrillo parking lots, but twoand-a-half miles of the street will be car-free.

There will be plenty to capture the attention of all ages. To get the blood flowing, there are beach boot camps, kickboxing, Brazilian capoeira, jiu-jitsu, zumba, salsa dancing, yoga, and stroller fitness. Fine-tune your motor skills at the mountain- and road-bike course, or learn bike maintenance;

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or participate in health screenings, classes on how to eat well, and educational workshops.

There will also be face painting, artwork on display, and other family-oriented events.

It takes a village to pull off an event like this — hundreds of sponsors and volunteers are helping to bring Open Streets to fruition, but more of both are still needed. There will be a volunteer boot camp with Jenny Schatzle Saturday, October 19, at 9 a.m., followed by a volunteer orientation at 10 a.m., at Chase Palm Park. As for sponsorships, a bit more money is needed to make it to Open Streets’ goal of $5,000 by October 7.

The purpose of S.B. Open Streets is summed up succinctly on the organization’s website: “By closing the street to traffic for a day and creating a space for families, individuals, and organizations to get out and move, try new fitness classes, walk, bike, or bus to the event and connect and eat in a community space, we are creating a better environment in which to build healthier individuals and a stronger community with less reliance on motorized vehicles.”

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Weekend Warrior Santa Barbara Offered a Bounty of Games, from Pro Beach Volleyball to High School Football

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produced another. The Royals trailed at halftime, 20-14.

HARDER STADIUM: I heard announcer Cubby Jacobs shout, “Goooal!” as I approached the gate to UCSB’s “Soccer

Heaven.” I saw the video replay on the scoreboard. Gaucho defender Peter Schmetz slid claim to fame in professional sports. All-time greats from the ball past the Stanford goalkeeper to tie Karch Kiraly to Kerri Walsh Jennings have left their footthe score, 1-1, in the second half. The crowd of prints in the sand at East Beach, and, in recent times, they’ve 7,750 included more than 5,000 students who PIGSKIN VICTORY: SBCC quarterback Jarred Evans (#8) got a hug from running stirred up clouds of dust on the powdery surface of West had just begun the fall quarter. It is hoped that back Mike Petersen after the Vaqueros beat L.A. Valley, 25-23.

Beach. The AVP chose Santa Barbara to launch the revival of higher education will improve their creativity. its American tour a year ago, and it gladly returned last weekThey continually chanted a tiresome vulgarity end. The tournament had an old-time feeling, as spectators at Stanford. It didn’t help the Gauchos, who created numerous ship floating offshore like a multilayered cake. But it was congregated on the sand around the courts. (No bleachers SBCC quarterback Jarred Evans and running back Mike chances but didn’t put any away, while the Cardinal struck a Petersen who drew my attention. Evans, nimble of both feet were set up.) Admission was free to see the kind of action that golden goal five minutes into overtime for a 2-1 victory. and arm, engineered an 88-yard drive that put the Vaqueros had been a hot ticket at the London Olympics. Hometown WARKENTIN STADIUM: The sudden end of the soccer ahead, 22-17. Petersen, a bullish runner from Denmark, was favorite Todd Rogers and his 7� partner, Ryan Doherty, fell behind in their second game against Kevin McColloch and match enabled me to return to the football game. Channel ripping off nine yards a carry. But L.A. Valley retook the lead, Mark Williams. They received some advice from Nate RogIslands was leading, 33-31, and had just recovered a fumble 23-22, and had SBCC backed up at its own 7 with 2:22 to play. ers during a time-out. “I told them to finish the game off,” the at the San Marcos 42 with two minutes remaining. Using Evans went to work behind a trusty offensive line, completing 12-year-old said. His father and Doherty scored six of the next their time-outs and getting a fourth-down stop by defender several passes, and advanced the ball to the Valley 16. With Josh Beasley, the Royals took over at the 40 with 1:35 on the seven points and won, 21-18. There was a stunning upset in 7.6 seconds on the clock, Marcus Hoerberg drilled a 31-yard clock. It was more than enough time for Ghan-Gibson, who field goal.“This is the best experience I’ve had in America,” another first-round match, with Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal falling to brothers Brian and Tim Bomgren completed two passes and went 15 yards on a quarterback exulted Petersen after the Vaqueros’ 25-23 victory.“I came from Minnesota. scramble to put the ball on the 2. Esteban Alfaro followed a here two years ago to play soccer,” said Hoerberg, a native of line surge into the end zone to put San Marcos ahead, 38-33.

Sweden.“I watched the NFL playoffs and fell in love with this WARKENTIN STADIUM: On homecoming night at San Sacks by Beasley and Jack Haley secured the Royals’ fifth game.”

Marcos High, the spectacle included 40 cheerleaders and consecutive win.

WEST BEACH: As the sun was setting, the grind of playa resurgent Royals football team, which came into the game ing four matches in one day took its toll on Dalhausser and against the Channel Island Raiders with a 4-0 record. QuarRosenthal. They hit a wall after building a 10-5 lead in the terback Wesley Ghan-Gibson directed a pair of scoring drives to put San Marcos ahead, 14-7. But late in the first half, a WEST BEACH: Rogers and Doherty had lost their second third set against Billy Allen and Braidy Halverson, who match Friday, sending them into a must-win confrontation rallied for a 19-17 victory that sent the Olympians home. fumble set up one touchdown by the visitors, and a long pass against Dalhausser and Rosenthal. A large crowd gathered to watch the drama in a theater-in-the-round setting. Dalhausser and RogWEST BEACH: Tri Bourne and John Hyden made quick ers had been partners for seven years and were work of Allen and Halverson in the AVP men’s semifinals.

2008 Olympic gold medalists, but now they Hyden, a veteran campaigner who turns 41 next week, was were on opposite sides. The first set went to Doherty and Rogers, 21-19. The second was tied aching for a win in Santa Barbara. He came so close in 2008, when he and Brad Keenan had five match points against at 15-15 after Doherty poked a backhand over Dalhausser and Rogers but lost. The 2013 prize also slipped the net. After a time-out, the 6�9� Dalhausser away, as two-time Olympian Jake Gibb and his flamboyant crushed his next spike. He and Rosenthal went partner, Casey Patterson, prevailed in an entertaining final, on to win the game, 21-17, and closed out the 21-19, 21-19. The new women’s team of April Ross and Kerri match in the third set, 15-10. Rogers had a word Walsh Jennings started their three-year run to Rio by winwith Rosie’s Raiders, a vocal fan club from ning 10 straight sets, including a 21-18, 21-10 exclamation point Rosenthal’s hometown of Redondo Beach. “I against Jennifer Fopma and Brooke Sweat.“I’ve been looktold them to get some new material,” Rogers ing forward to this tournament all year,” Walsh Jennings said. said. (Attention, UCSB students.) “I don’t mind Ross raised a scary prospect.“We’re hungry to grow as a team,” good hecklers, but they came up with the same she said.“We’ll get better from this time out.” old, lame stuff.” Rogers, who would turn 40 in two days, was surrounded by well-wishers HARDER STADIUM: Playing its third match in a week, the after the match. They sang “Happy Birthday” to Gaucho soccer team mounted persistent attacks and took a the accompaniment of instrumentalists from lead for the first time when Goffin Boyoko connected midUCSB, his alma mater. way through the second half against Loyola Marymount. He LA PLAYA STADIUM: Both SBCC and L.A. received a pass in full stride from Ismaila Jome, a 6�1� freshValley brought 3-0 records into their conferman who controls the ball with Gumby-like moves. Freshman ence football opener. The visiting Monarchs goalie Josh McNeely secured a shutout, and the Gauchos were leading, 17-9, at the start of the third quar- were happy to take a 1-0 victory.

BEACH GODS: Olympian Jake Gibb (right) and his flamboyant partner, Casey ter. The view from the stands was spectacular Patterson, knocked out some fierce competition to win the AVP men’s finals at — the green field, deep blue Pacific, sharply For more sports, including a weekly highlight schedule, West Beach last Sunday. etched islands, masts in the harbor, and a cruise see independent.com/sports.

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like to think I’m the matchmaker!” says Amy Chalker, owner of Isabella Gourmet Foods, with a big smile and a mischievous twinkle in her eye. She’s talking about a specific bit of matchmaking mischief in particular, one worthy of the twinkle: It involves cocktails.

As part of epicure.sb month, Chalker’s bodega, which specializes in artisan goodies of every stripe, will be transformed into a ’20s-style speakeasy and play host to two pop-up events, dubbed The Great Gatsby Goes Gourmet. And, as anyone who knows anything about Gatsby (man of mystery though he was) — or F. Scott Fitzgerald — would expect, the drinks are going to be serious. And they’ll feature the coming-together of several standouts of Santa Barbara’s epicurean scene.

The star of the show will be, not to put too fine a point on it, the booze. For this, Chalker tapped Ian Cutler of S.B.’s only distillery, Cutler’s Artisan Spirits, way back in July when he was still in the midst of the madness that opening his Funk Zone storefront entailed. She’d heard about him and tagged along with a friend who was visiting him one day — a mouthwatering selection of Jar Art syrups and Alchemy vinegars in tow. She was already plotting the Great Gatsby events to be timed with October’s epicure.sb celebration and “wanted to put the bug in his ear early because I knew everybody would want him!”

In other words, she called dibs.

Cutler loved the syrups and came in to try various other Jar Art products carried at Isabella — all of which had him equally enamored. Chalker passed this bit of “I think he likes you” intel along to David Libby, the artist behind Jar Art (see “Art in a Jar” at right), who in turn got excited about working with Cutler. And a match was made. In addition to putting their heads — and concoctions — together to create the drinks that will be featured at the Gatsby

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JAM ON: Arian Blanco has nothing against toast but, when it comes to her jams, wants you to think out of the jar.

events (I’ve heard rumors of something involving Cutler’s can’tkeep-it-on-the-shelves apple-cider bourbon mixed with a bit of Libby’s equally popular ginger syrup), the two are currently cooking up a plan to start making artisan bitters. (That sound you hear?

That is the sound of Santa Barbara cocktail hounds’ collective head exploding.)

But, for now, Cutler is deeply focused on what he’ll be mixing up for the speakeasy nights. For, despite the fact that he is of generations of distilling stock, he does not look down on mixers. Au contraire: “I’ve always had an interest [in mixing drinks],” he says. “My family’s been in the liquor business for quite a while, and I’ve been kind of a bartender since I was a little kid — at every party my grandparents had, I was always the one mixing the cocktails.”

He’ll craft three drinks for the events, using his own bourbons and vodkas; guests will get to try all three, each of which will be paired with an hors d’oeuvre. And all of it — the cocktails and the bites — will star the stuffs found on Isabella’s shelves. (In addition to Jar Art syrups, Cutler’s been playing with Noble maple syrups, Lori’s lemonades, Sweet Lady Cook jams — check out her favorite cocktail recipe below — and Alchemy vinegars.)

Once guests have reserved their spot, they’ll be given a password and a time to arrive — the event will be slow-paced but staggered to keep groups on the more intimate side so that everyone will get to watch Cutler work his magic — and to give him time to keep up with demand, which is sure to be as hot as Gatsby’s love Get creative! Try using different for the beautiful Daisy. ■ flavors of jam with fresh herbs like

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weet Lady Cook, a husband-and-wife-run cottage producer of seasonal jams and jellies (“Usually a farm calls us and tells us what they have available that week; that’s how we determine our flavors,” says Arian Blanco, the wife half of the pair), traffics in a rotating roster of goods that currently includes Iona Grape Jelly, Lane Late Navel Marmalade, and Albion Strawberry Jam and Strawberry Habanero Jam. And while, naturally, they’re perfectly delicious on toast, Blanco loves using a jam to replace the syrup element in a cocktail.“It’s fun to show their diversity,” she says.“We also really love them mixed into homemade vinaigrettes and paired with cheese and charcuterie.” For — SK info, visit sweetladycook.com.

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Gourmet will take place at Isabella Gourmet Foods (5 E. Figueroa St.) on Monday, October 7 and 21, 6 p.m.

Tickets are $65. For info, call 585-5257 or visit isabella gourmetfoods.com.

Cutler’s Artisan Spirits is located at 137 Anacapa Street, Suite D. Call 680-4009.

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 oz. vodka  oz. fresh lemon juice  tablespoon Blenheim apricot jam fresh Thai basil (regular basil works, too) club soda ice Fill a tall glass with ice. In a cocktail shaker add jam, lemon juice, vodka, a few torn basil leaves, and ice; shake well. Strain into glass and top with club soda. Add a sprig of basil for garnish.

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The L.A. native has worked the kitchens of restaurants, country clubs, and hotels; he’s cooked for politicians (including President Reagan), actors, and athletes, and, while executive chef at Anaheim White House Restaurant, was even commissioned by French wine society Chevaliers du Tastevin to prepare the cuisine for a winemaker dinner held inside a Tahitian volcano(!). Currently, he’s the executive chef at a private club in Santa Barbara, whose easy schedule (lunch only) leaves him plenty of time to tinker, and — frequently in collaboration with Chalker — to cater smaller events. This allows him to give his food the kind of time and attention he believes it deserves: In both his catering and his Jar Art creations, his intense focus on both flavors and appearance is evident.

As Jar artist in chief, Libby likes to experiment. He’s made wine jellies for various wineries for the past year and a half and, more recently, has expanded into organic, micro-batch syrups, extracts, and jams. His line includes everything from vanilla, young ginger, and yuzu syrups and extracts to preserved yuzu peel (gone for the season; sorry!), balsamic onion confit, tomatillo-ginger-chile jam, and the rosemary syrup he’s currently putting together for Cutler.

Keeping it small allows him to give his imagination free reign — to play and take risks. He has a small crew of “tasters” around town and will frequently deliver a jar or two of his latest products-in-development to Isabella Gourmet Foods, which serves as a testing ground. (“We tell him if it’s selling, then he brings more, in cuter jars!” Isabella owner Amy Chalker says.) Indeed, the beautiful vintage bottles and jars are undeniably part of the allure, but what’s inside is even more tempting.

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BACK HOME AGAIN: Longtime Jimmy’s regular Bob Lovejoy (right) and his son Clay (left) spared no expense in remaking the historic bar into the Pickle Room. “This building deserves it,” said Bob, but he also believes in the people making it happen, namely bartender Willy Gilbert (middle). “Willy is the key to this whole place,” said Bob.

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he world’s done a lot of spinning in the seven years since Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens shut its doors after six decades of serving Chinese food and cocktails to Santa Barbara.

I, for one, moved out of the yellow house around the corner and traded my spot at the glossy red bar for marriage and kids. Beloved bartender Willy Gilbert poured for a time at the Wildcat and Jill’s Place but found his steadiest gig amid the bocce ball and dead animal heads of Arnoldi’s. Happy-hour regular Bob Lovejoy went from installing tile and marble to opening Three Pickles deli with his son Clay on the same block of Canon Perdido Street. And Jimmy’s longtime owner Tommy Chung — the one who decided to close his family’s business in 2006 and sell the building to the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, which runs the Presidio across the street — is no longer with us, having passed away suddenly in July at 70 years old, seven years to the day that he closed the bar.

But a couple of Saturdays ago, the night the iconic bar was reopened by the Lovejoys as the Pickle Room, most of those changes were rinsed away — jazz was on the speakers, every stool and booth was packed by buzzing bodies young and old, and Willy was back behind the bar, serving Tommy’s mai tais and cold Tsingtao beers to familiar, smiling faces.“It’s interesting, to say the least,” explained Willy of being back. “I’m still looking at the same walls behind the bar, but the place is actually quite beautiful; it’s almost like working a new bar. It’s gonna take a while to get some of the kinks out, but it’s really nice to see a lot of the old faces and how excited people are to see it back open again.”

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Few are as excited as proprietor Bob Lovejoy, who first stumbled into Jimmy’s in 1976 while working on nearby Mexican restaurant La Playa Azul. Stepping

out of Jimmy’s 30 years later for some fresh air, Lovejoy noticed a “For Lease” sign on the building next door — today home to Handlebar Coffee — and decided that was where he and Clay, who’d just sold his wholesale meat company, would realize their long-standing dream of opening a deli. They christened it Three Pickles in spring of 2006, thrilled that their preferred watering hole was literally steps away.“I thought I’d died and gone to heaven,” said Bob. Not even Willy had the heart to tell him that Jimmy’s was closing three months later, but soon Bob learned the bad news like the rest of us, and we all spent that summer soaking up our last drinks, our last nibbles of tea-smoked chicken, our last slurps of pork noodle soup.“I’ve been staring at that building cross-eyed ever since,” explained Bob, and he wasn’t the only one, with just about every bar owner in town inquiring about the space. The Lovejoys got the upper hand in 2010, when they moved Three Pickles into the restaurant side of Jimmy’s.“But once that was opened,” said Bob,“my eye kept turning over here.”

So ensued a paperwork quest of grail-like proportions, a nearly two-year-long battle of real-estate chess and liquor-license bingo to get the required permits and permissions.“We maneuvered our way in here nicely,” said Bob, and they spared no expense to carefully renovate the place, spending more than $225,000. It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited for the challenge, as the Lovejoys treated the property with the care of devotees but with the meticulous attention of professional designers.“I grew up in red booths,” said Bob, whose grandpa owned bars and cafés down south, and whose stepmom ran an antique shop when he was a kid.“I’ve always had a reverence for what was old,” he explained.

“This is our interpretation and restoration of a 1940s bar.”

The updated design is based largely on a faded postcard from decades ago, which revealed mirrors on the back wall rather than the old wood panels, and a bar

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Tommy’s blessing aside, the Lovejoys also had to renovate the name, because the Chung family’s sale ensured that the building would never be called Jimmy’s or be a Chinese restaurant. Yet even that aligns with another Santa Barbara tradition of places with two names, one colloquial, one official — as Hendry’s is to Arroyo Burro Beach, so shall Jimmy’s be to the Pickle Room. But it’s still the people who matter most. Said Bob, 802 E Yanonali St The Art of “Willy’s the key to the whole thing.”

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HE 1ST THURSDAY PROGRAM is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara that takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Participating art venues offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm.

1st Thursday venues also provide additional attractions, such as live music, artist receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. Additionally, State Street comes alive on 1st Thursday with performances and interactive activities.

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1 DIVINE INSPIRATION GALLERY OF FINE ART: 1528 State Street, 805-962-6444 Featuring lovely floral oil paintings of Cheryl Ambrecht, the lively, colorful ones by Kay Henry and new works by famed watercolorist Cathy Quiel. Enjoy this elegant gallery with a glass of wine. www.divineinspiration.us ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA

A CA’DARIO GALLERY: 31 East Victoria Street, 805-403-2459 Come celebrate the gallery’s opening with a glass of wine and bites from Ca’Dario. The group show will feature paintings by Joann Dufau, Cynthia James and Jacky Winter. www.cadario.net

229 East Victoria Street, 805-965-6307 Celebrating a new exhibition of oil paintings by Thomas Van Stein and Wyllis Heaton featuring vibrant urban scenes and architectural subjects located primarily in California. Both artists employ traditional Plein Air painting techniques, expertly using light, color and form in their compositions. www.afsb.org

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6 SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: 1130 State Street, 805-963-4364 Featuring Julia Dawson Book Signing: Santa Barbara resident and internationally-published author Julia Michelle Dawson signs her latest book, Geneva–a fast-paced global thriller that takes the reader through four continents into the worlds of high finance, high-goal polo, terrorism and scandal and deceit.

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6 DAVID COURTENAY: Corner of State and Anapamu Streets David Courtenay began his music career here in Santa Barbara. His music has since taken him to L.A., where he recorded his debut album, to Chicago, where he formed a new band and toured the country. He returned to SB and has been playing his unique blend of rootsy rock, funk and reggae. www.DavidCourtenay.com 16

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11 BELLA ROSA GALLERIES: 1103-A State Street, 805-966-1707 Presenting Beauty and Light - Dorene White shows new works and treasured favorites. The beauty and harmony of the natural world allows this Plein Air artist to express herself in a variety of subjects for all that wish to experience the magic of Santa Barbara. Enjoy Bella Rosa Galleries private label wine, all tasting proceeds benefit Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara. Also: a special musical guest. which will be onsite to showcase the creativity of the culinary team at our local Four Seasons Resort the www.bellarosasb.com Biltmore Santa Barbara. A portion of the proceeds from the food truck tour will be donated to Chefs to End Hunger. www.santabarbaramuseum.com 12 CARL & THE COCONUTS: 900 State Street, Marshall’s Patio Born in Hilo, Hawaii, Carl Ray Villaverde is an acclaimed ukulele player, vocalist, and guitarist who enjoys a THE ART CRAWL: 735 Anacapa Street following from Hawaii to Japan to our own mainland. Carl has been performing professionally for more than 30 years. It was during SBCC Adult Ed classes he met Martin Osborn and Tod Matz - together they formed The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative will lead a curated Art Crawl through the 1st Thursday festivities. The curator for the Art Crawl this month is Catherine Gee, executive director of the Arts Fund. The Art Crawl the band Carl & The Coconuts. starts at 5:30pm in de la Guerra Plaza on the back steps of City Hall. www.sbartscollaborative.org

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128 East Canon Perdido Street, 805-966-3334 Presenting the opening reception of POP: Politics of Place! POP brings together a selection of works that demonstrate the politically charged nature of real and imagined sites. The collection is drawn from the AD&A Museum and includes artists Kim Abeles, LA Fine Arts Squad, Liam Jones, Isabella Kirkland, Barrie Mottishaw, Enoc Perez and Fran Siegel. www.museum.ucsb.edu

14 JAMES MAIN FINE ART: 27 East De la Guerra Street, 805-962-8347 Featuring a collection of works by early California artists including etchings by Edward Borein, paintings by Ray Strong, Fernand Lungren and others, as well as modern works by Channing Peake. www.jamesmainfineart.com 15 SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 136 East De la Guerra Street, 805-966-1601

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L SOJOURNER CAFE: 134 East Canon Perdido Street, 805-965-7922 Live music with Lainey Taylor, artist Kevin Gleason and wine tasting with Megan Cutler of Classic Wines. www.sojournercafe.com M INDUSTRY HOME: 740 State Street Suite #1, 805-845-5780 Announcing our partnership with Santa Barbara non-profit iCAN, the Incredible Children’s Art Network. This fundraising event is the opening reception of a month-long installation, featuring artwork from the iCAN students and faculty, inspired by their field trip to Brothers of Industry. Enjoy art for a cause, along with a selection of beer and wine. www.industry-home.com N SALT: 740 State Street, 805-963-7258 A toast to the beginning of epicure.sb, we’ll have plenty of bubbly and delicious brie presented on our beautiful Himalayan salt platters. Experience how a delicate saltiness is infused into the creamy cheese by the salt platters and learn how our unique Himalayan salt blocks can be enjoyed as natural artwork and as tools for cooking and presentation. www.saltcavesb.com O 19 BLUE SALON & SPA: 19 West Ortega Street, 805-965-8200 Presenting Boudoirs in Metal World. Lindsey Mickelson is a fine arts graduate from UCSB, studied painting at the Universite de Bordeaux and has a clothing line called CMND -Z Art Apparel. Daniel Linz is a Professor at UCSB and a member of the SBAA and SCAPE. Linz’s nude drawings are enhanced by Mickelson’s fashion designs. CMND ND -Z Art Apparel will also be launching their FW2013 Year of the Serpent Collection. www.19blue.net

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P FARM TO BAR: 15 West Ortega Street, 805-962-7970 Craftsman cocktails made from farmers market ingredients. Cannonball Aderley, Turner Classic Movies and a cocktail list geared towards the best sense memories of Santa Barbara. With drinks like The Goodland and Tangerine Falls, we invite everyone to enjoy this beautiful place we call Home. 4-9pm.

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653 Paseo Nuevo, Upper Arts Terrace, 805-966-5373 The Now Hear Ensemble, a Santa Barbara-based quintet, will be presenting new work by their artistic director and double bass player, Federico Llach, alongside music by Tom Johnson, the great 21st century minimalist composer and Clarence Barlow, the Chair of Composition in the Department of Music at UCSB. Through instrumental sound and video projections by artist Gabriela Goldberg, the quintet celebrates music that explores the beauty and precision of sequenced, algorithmic and generative mathematics. www.mcasb.org A Latin jazz band from Santa Barbara, playing together for more than five years: Colin Griffiths, James Siu, Michael Wallace, John Leonard, Bruce Hale, Jeff Davis and Armand Renga. The band takes a very non-traditional approach towards Jazz standards by infusing them with Latin rhythms. Their music is punctuated with infectious grooves and scintillating horn lines.

A final opportunity to experience our architectural heritage with De La Tierra–Art of the Adobe. This exhibition includes some of the finest artistic renderings with works from the Museum’s collection by renowned 17 PIANOS ON STATE: Paseo Nuevo Center Court artists such as Alexander Harmer, Ludmilla Welch, A.M. Podchernikoff, Charles Rollo Peters and Henry Artists create the first piano of the 2013 Pianos On State season. Look for us October 10-21 in various Chapman Ford alongside historic photographs by J. Walter Collinge, N.H. Reed and others. In celebration downtown locations. of epicure.sb, enjoy music, wine, cocktails by Ascendant Spirits, and the launch of the new FS TASTE Truck

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I PATHPOINT: 902 Laguna Street, 805-961-9200 Join us as we celebrate the Grand Opening of our program headquarters. Enjoy live music, drinks and tours of our new building. Peruse beautiful artwork created by the talented individuals who receive PathPoint support. 4–7:30pm. www.pathpoint.org

K CASA MAGAZINE: 23 East Canon Perdido Street, 805-965-6448 Feasting with Gabriela is an exhibition of work by local artists inspired by the poetry of Nobel Laureate Gabriela Mistral. Gabriela lived in Santa Barbara and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945 for her lyric poetry. This exhibit curated by Kerry Methner, Gallery Director; poetry wall curated by Carol DeCanio.

Also: enjoy live music. www.casasb.com

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What will sea levels look like in the future? One example is King Tides, an especially high tide event.

Photographers Bill Dewey and Roe Anne White beautifully capture local coastal areas during high tide. www.sustainabilityproject.org

J PLUM GOODS: 909 State Street, 805-845-3900 Featuring California artist Jenny Kompolt, whose passion to transform common objects into something unique and beautiful began as healing work and has since grown into a line of wall art, lighting and furniture all made from antique, vintage, found and recycled objects. See her original works and meet Kompolt in person. www.plumgoodsstore.com

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10 OLIVER & ESPIG: 1108 State Street, 805-962-8111 Featuring contemporary artist Sol Hill who creates energy paintings by combining the artifacts from false exposure on a sensor with hand-applied varnishes and acrylic mediums on canvas. The result is a lyrical mixed media contemporary artwork. www.oliverandespig.com | www.facebook.com/pages/Oliver-and-Espig

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9 GALLERY 113:1114 State Street #8, 805-965-6611 Harvest of Art, an open show to Tri-County Artists celebrates Gallery 113’s 40th Anniversary. The Gallery, founded in 1973 as an artists cooperative, promotes the works of Santa Barbara Art Association members and is proud to be the longest continually-operating fine art Gallery in Santa Barbara. www.sbartassoc.org

G RENAISSANCE FINE CONSIGNMENT: 1118 State Street, 805-963-7800 Unveiling of The Clutch Project, 36 local artists designed one-of-a-kind “clutch” purses for the Heroes of Hospice silent auction, held by Hospice of Santa Barbara. A preview will be on display at Renaissance Fine Consignment and bids will be accepted during this time. www.renaissancecorp.com

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SANTA BARBARA ARTS: 1114 State Street #24, 805-884-1938

New paintings in watercolor, oil and pastels of local scenes by Chris Chapman, Edward Spaw, John Iwerks and Wyllis Heaton. Plus some historic black and white photographs from the Joel Conway collection. Serving Wine from Grassini Family Vineyards. www.sbarts.net

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F ENCANTO: 1114 State Street #22, 805-722-4338 Join us for a fundraiser for Sarah House, an end-of-life hospice care facility that serves our community.

There will be local wine and standard jazz tunes from the Blue Moon Quartet. Proceeds from all sales of the day will go to Sarah House. www.studioencanto.com

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C METROPOLITAN: 1226 State Street, 805-845-7571 Rachael J. Mueller is an artist working in the medium of photography. Mueller’s work plays with mysterious light in natural scenes, alluring the viewer to a sense of inspiration in the darkest of atmospheres. www.metropolitansb.com

E ART & SOUL OF SANTA BARBARA: 1221 State Street #7, 805-722-5054 Sales on selected fine Art and jewelry with 20% of the proceeds going to The Naples Coalition and Gaviota Coast Conservancy. Reception includes music by Zeal Levin, lead singer of the band Fire Department and wine. Enter-to-win a photograph on aluminum by David Orias.

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Celebrating the donation of 10 modernist paintings of artist Channing Peake, collected by Anne and Walon Green and gifted to the County of Santa Barbara. This exhibition also features drawings and paintings from other area collectors that expand on the experimentation of this talented and gifted artist, a master draftsman and colorist and a modernist force within our midst for many years. www.sbartscommission.org

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“We were all friends and all talking about doing something different,” said Johnson via phone earlier this week.

Guided by Johnson’s and Bluitt’s former roles in and around Hollywood, the trio quickly got to work. What they came away with was a vision for a small collective interested in not only educating and informing

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Step one: a launch party at UCSB’s Pollock Theater, which takes place this week with a screening of Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, Shola Lynch’s 2012 documentary about a young college professor whose social activism lands her in the midst of a botched kidnapping attempt. The event also features a post-film Q&A with subject and star Angela Davis.

“It’s current, it’s a wonderful film, it’s made by a filmmaker we love and whose work we have taught before,” said Johnson.“We just thought it would be an incredible way for us

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or many Americans, the death of NASA’s pany helmed by E. Bonnie Lewis and Ken Gilfirst “teacher in space,” Christa McAuliffe, bert. For those who fear that the subject will be in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disastoo depressing, take heart. Like its title, Defying ter was one of that decade’s defining moments Gravity strives to uplift rather than depress. It of public grief. One of the many who were also features several fanciful elements, the most stunned by the tragic loss prominent of which is was Jane Anderson, a Claude Monet — yes, young writer on the telethe painter. Anderson vision show The Facts of celebrates the radical Life. “It shook me to my breaks in perspeccore,” Anderson recalled tive occasioned by last week. “This wasn’t Monet’s impressionsupposed to happen. I ism and the Space felt a need to write about Station’s view of Earth it.” Trained in stand-up from outer space as comedy, Anderson first moments of great envisaged a one-woman freedom. “I think it’s show from the point a holy perspective I of view of the dead was after,” she said. woman’s daughter, but “Humans have always soon realized that the wanted to get high, UP, UP, UP: Natascha Skerczak (left) and Michelle A. Osborne star in Defying Gravity. story was too big to work and before flight, as anyone’s personal cathedrals were the showcase. The result of that insight — and a lot only way we could do it.” Try it out yourself by of hard work — became Defying Gravity, which climbing the stairs to Center Stage Theater ( premiered to rave reviews at New York City’s Paseo Nuevo) this Friday and Saturday, OctoAmerican Place Theatre. ber 4 and 5, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, October 6, at This weekend, Defying Gravity comes to 2 p.m. Call 963-0408 or visit dramadogs.org for — Charles Donelan Center Stage Theater courtesy of DramaDogs, info. the innovative, movement-based theater com-

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Step two, Johnson and Banks explain, involves creating the first and only online archive for independent films featuring and made by women of color. It’s a huge project and one that’s only in its infant stages, but it’s destined to change the way the film industry operates for people in and outside Hollywood’s Big Six. “Of all of the six gigantic companies who are responsible for generating 90 percent of film content around the world, they’ve only made five films directed by black women — ever,” said Johnson.“It’s an incredible moment to understand why these women don’t have the resources to represent themselves, especially in terms of a digital divide. We see ourselves as the curators of that historical legacy.”

In the coming months, Banks, Johnson, and Bluitt will begin cataloging more than 1,000 films, as well as setting up a web-based platform for women-of-color filmmakers to connect with agents, publicity firms, and actors.

“We talk a lot about the term ‘minding the gap,’” said Banks,“but we don’t just want to mind it and recognize it — we want to close it.”

Sol Sisters Rising present Free Angela and All Political Prisoners at UCSB’s Pollock Theater on Thursday, October 10, at 7 p.m. Call 893-4637 or visit solsistersrising.com for info.

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It’s been a long time coming — 17 years — but Mazzy Star’s fourth studio album, Seasons of Your Day, has finally seen the light of day. Featuring the original lineup plus My Bloody Valentine/The Warm Inventions’ Colm Ó Cíosóig, it has definitely been worth the wait. Graceful opener “In the Kingdom” is organ drenched and Motown flavored and features Hope Sandoval smoothly singing over an arrangement reminiscent of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles’ “The Tracks of My Tears.” Elsewhere, the dazzling “California” finds Sandoval’s beguilingly sensual voice undulating warmly over David Roback’s exquisite strumming, while “I’ve Gotta Stop” sounds like pure, vintage Mazzy. Further on, several beautifully bluesy tracks predominate: the plaintive “Sparrow,” soporific “Spoon,” (featuring the late, legendary folk-guitarist Bert Jansch’s mesmerizing licks), and fervid album closer “Flying Low,” which chugs away hypnotically with killer slide guitar and harmonica. It’s artfully produced, completely ethereal, and sure to please longtime fans, as well as capture some new hearts and minds.

— Sean Mageean

If you ever wanted to know what it takes to make small-screen magic happen, now’s your chance to go behind the scenes. On Thursday, October 10, 6-8 p.m., TV Santa Barbara (TVSB) is opening the doors on its new studio and art gallery — and inviting you in for a look. The nonprofit community TV station offers media training and internships, as well as programming for and featuring Santa Barbarans. Thursday’s three-fold open house, artist reception, and membership drive kickoff will include a tour of the station’s all-new, state-of-the-art Salinas Street studio (pictured), as well as an installation by artist Michael Fish Fisher. In addition, folks will be invited to step in front of the camera and offer testimonials about the station, free speech, and the importance of public media. TVSB’s new digs are located at  S. Salinas Street. For more info, call 571-1721 or visit tvsb.tv.

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STAGE to SCREEN Tony Kushner on Theater, Movies, and Television

by Tom Jacobs

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ony Kushner genuinely believes in the American political process. That’s not a popular position to take, or an easy one to defend, in the current era of partisan gridlock. But the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright takes the long view.

Kushner wrote the screenplay for the Steven Spielberg film Lincoln, which was released last November to rave reviews. It charted how the man generally considered our greatest president charmed and maneuvered his way into getting a dysfunctional Congress to pass the th Amendment to the Constitution — the one that abolished slavery.

The process wasn’t pretty, but it worked, and tracking it leads Kushner to hesitate before endorsing the cliché that politics is the art of the possible. “I believe that politics is also the art of the miraculous,” he said.

The author of Angels in America will be in conversation with UCSB theater professor Irwin Appel at 8 p.m. Friday in UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Last week, as he was picking up his poodle from doggie daycare, Kushner spoke with The Santa Barbara Independent by phone.

What’s on your mind today? I’m working on a screenplay for Steven Spielberg, so that’s completely what’s on my mind at the moment — the specifics of a couple of scenes I’m working on. I can’t go into any details about it, because I’m not allowed to, but I’m trying to get it done before I come out to the West Coast. I’m hoping I can. It’s based on an actual historical event. It’s a complicated account of a very dense historical moment, and not one an audience is going to be very familiar with, so it presents a lot of challenges in terms of exposition. I’m sorting out how to be true to the complexities of history while telling a dramatically satisfying story.

Does crafting a screenplay take a long time for you? There were reports that Lincoln had a very long gestation. Lincoln was about seven and one-half years, between my getting hired and awards season this past year. It was really my whole life.

It was such a vast subject. It took me a long time to figure out how to tell the story — and how to condense it. After the filming, Steven and I worked closely during the time when he was editing.

It meant everything to me that he was willing to keep talking. I can be tireless; you might say relentless! In the long run, he makes his own decisions. I knew I couldn’t compel anything. But I felt enormously listened to.

For Steven, clarity of narrative is a democratic principle. He doesn’t dumb things down, but the idea that anybody would be left behind, in terms of being able to follow the story, is completely alien to him. If you’re confused, he doesn’t say, ‘You’re not smart enough to follow me.’ He’s insistent that our job is to make things clear, and he knows how to do it.

Playwrights are not, by nature, necessarily the world’s greatest storytellers. I don’t think that’s what playwriting’s about. I do think narrative is enormously important in film, and he’s one of the world’s great storytellers.

Talk a bit about that. Playwriting is not about storytelling? There are some wonderful dramatists who are not interested in narrative at all. I am. I’m really happy when I come up with a good story or have found a good story to tell. But in playwriting, the argument, the dialectic, is the key. The narrative follows from that, supports that. If you find the right narrative for the battles you’re trying to put onstage, you’ll write a really good play.

The story has to have a narrative logic and TALK IT OUT: Playwright, screenwriter, and Pulitzer Prize winner be plausible. The charTony Kushner appears in conversation with UCSB professor Irwin acters have to have the Appel this week at Campbell Hall. unpredictableness and independence of mind that human beings have, so they don’t Where does television fi t into all this? It’s a visual feel like puppets in your puppet play. But medium, like film, but especially in recent years, it’s an argument is at the deep heart of the thing. There’s not really a place where writers call the shots. It’s the age of David much else you can do in theater. It can’t create worlds in the way Chase. He showed with The Sopranos that you could make a seriyou can do in a film. The thing that you sharpen as a dramatist ous work of art [on television] with as much depth and power as is conflict. What did this character any [other medium]. You then had this succession of intensely come onstage to get? Did he or she talented people — David Simon with The Wire, Matt Weiner with Mad Men, Vince Gilligan with Breaking Bad, Lena Dunham with get it? If not, what stopped them?

Girls. It’s enormously exciting. It’s the first time in the history of Does that mean your plays the human race that people who make kinetic representations usually begin with a question of reality are not bound by an audience’s attention span. With you’re asking or an issue you these shows coming out on DVD, you can basically treat them want to explore? You can start like books. You can carry them around on your iPad, watch from any number of places. With them whenever you have a chance. The thing screenwriters and my most recent play, The Intelligent playwrights have always envied about novelists is they can write Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism books that are hundreds of pages long. You can now make shows and Socialism with a Key to the Scrip- that last many, many, many hours. Eventually the term “binge tures, I did start out thinking about watching” will go away because you don’t call it “binge reading” if specific political issues I wanted you read a long novel. That’s really exciting. It’s really a new form. to address. I wanted to talk about unions. I wanted to talk about the Does it interest you? I’m working on a series for HBO. It’s a political theory of revolution ver- contemporary story set in New York. I’m not able to say more. sus evolutionary change. These are I’m working on the pilot and what they call “the bible,” which is things I think about a lot these days. a projection of the plot. It’s a lot of fun to play around with it. I I slowly allowed my imagination to hope I can do it. pull together [a way to present these It’s a form I don’t know very well, but I tend to think in epic ideas in dramatic form]. structure. Angels in America is a very long play. The first draft of I started with a brother and sis- the Lincoln screenplay was 500 pages long. So length is not usually ter. I knew two actors I wanted to a terrible problem for me! work with, so I thought, okay, they’re brother and sister. Then you let your mind roam around, and it starts to pull together a plot. Mostly UCSB Arts & Lectures presents what you hope is if the argument is deep in your blood and bones.

An Evening with Tony Kushner When you start to come up with a story, your unconscious and on Friday, October 4, at UCSB’s conscious minds, in collaboration, will create a kind of mousetrap Campbell Hall at 8 p.m. Call 893-3535 or visit that will ultimately prove to be an effective instrument. artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu for tickets and info.

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A FULL LIFE f you happen to have heard the Los Angeles Philharmonic play Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto at the Hollywood Bowl this summer, then you already know all about Ray Chen. On that night, a giant image of this rising violin star flashed across the Jumbotron screens of an 18,000-seat natural amphitheater. But those who missed out are in luck because on Wednesday, October 9, the hero of the Hollywood Bowl comes to the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall in the first of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ 2013-14 classical-music offerSTRING FELLOW: Ray Chen takes ings. The 17,700-seat reduchis virtuoso violin skills to the Music tion in the size of the venue Academy this week. will surely only benefit Chen, whose recitals have been universally praised ever since he began touring after consecutive wins in the prestigious Queen Elizabeth and Yehudi Menuhin competitions. Pianist Julio Elizalde will join Chen in a program that features works by Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, and Sarasate.

The handsome young world traveler has parlayed his technical mastery, athletic stage presence, and fluency in Italian into a sponsorship from Giorgio Armani and a blogging position with Vogue Italia. How trendy is he? When I spoke with Chen by phone from his home in Philadelphia last week, he was still raving (and blogging) about some of the brilliant meals he’d had recently in Los Angeles. But rest assured; his playing is at least as good as his taste in restaurants and just as stylish as one of his beautifully cut tuxedos.

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You’re off the road for a moment. Do you think of Philadelphia as home now? I have a personal connection to Philly, and I love the U.S. generally. I’m still Australian, but I have permanent residency in this country.

What were you aiming for in bringing together these works? I wanted to showcase a varied program — baroque, classical, modern — but I didn’t choose anything just to fill a category. Even the Prokofiev is still pretty tonal. I’m trying to win people over with this. That’s why I love to do outreach.

I’m doing master classes at local schools the day after the concert.

And you are diversified, with your writing and other outlets. I believe a contemporary musician’s attitude has to be accessible. It’s important that musicians be perceived as leading full lives and as being well-rounded people. It’s the only way to not just maintain, but to grow the level of interest in our art. That’s why I’m such an advocate for bridging classical with other things.

I think we need to share our lives more.

Ray Chen performs at Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall on Wednesday, October 9, at 7 p.m. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures .sa.ucsb.edu for tickets and info.

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A Social Affair BASSH, presented by Derrick Curtis Productions. At Center Stage Theater, Friday, September 27.

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To Derrick Curtis, there’s Felipe Castañeda shared the spotlight at no better reason to dance. Center Stage Theater.

Yet the seasoned teacher and performer also feels strongly that the infectious joy of social dance warrants a performance. Fifteen years ago, Curtis helped launch BASSH, Santa Barbara’s social-dance showcase where dedicated amateur and professional dancers could show their stuff onstage. And if last weekend’s spirited show is any indication, social dance continues to thrive in our region.

From the opening group work that wheeled through jazz, rumba, and hip-hop to the exuberant West African drumming and dancing of Panzumo Rhythm, Song, and Dance’s closing number, BASSH  featured 16 acts and more than 60 performers.

Though the production has always centered around the social aspect of dance, what makes BASSH work now more than ever is the community that supports it, from sponsors and audience members to participants and a hardworking volunteer staff. After curtain call, Curtis called onto the stage two more women whose support made this year’s production possible: SBDA director Sheila Caldwell and Art Without Limits director Julie McLeod. Before they could set down their bouquets, Panzumo’s drummers struck up one last beat.

■ And this time, the whole house rose up to dance.

Rocking the Cradle Jesús Carmona y Compañía, presented by the Flamenco Arts Festival. At the Granada Theatre, Saturday, September 28.

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Apparently, Carmona’s had time enough.

Last Saturday night at the Granada, the rising Spanish star made his striking U.S. debut. A former principal dancer with Ballet Nacional de España, Carmona has both the subtle, fluid articulation of a world-class contemporary dancer and the dramatic, explosive authority that flamenco requires. In Cuna Negra & Blanca, he uses a loose narrative structure to frame his performance.Yet such is his charisma and his virtuosity that that frame all but falls away.

The show’s title translates to Black-and-White Crib, and over the course of the evening, Carmona danced a trajectory from darkness to light. He was joined by two very different and equally beautiful bailadoras: the petite, wonderfully nuanced mover Lucia Campillo, dressed in black lace, and the radiant, powerful Esther Esteban, clad entirely in white.

In the show’s opening sequence, Carmona stood motionless downstage left as brothers José and Maka Ibañez cried into their mikes. The stage was dark, save for two shafts of dusty light descending to the floor. All eyes were on Carmona as he lifted one arm, circled a wrist, and wrapped his fingers around the rung of a chair.

Then his feet began to move: an almost imperceptible shuffle that built to an urgent fusillade at its crescendo — and still his upper body was liquid calm.

Even in Seville, where savvy flamenco audiences are hard to impress, Carmona has made a strong impression. Maybe it’s because of his sheer range of emotion, from the head-whipping, foot-stomping passion to the moments of soaring subtlety, like a tight whipping turn out of which he slows, rises, softens, and for one or two glorious beats hangs suspended before touching ■ down silently.

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hris Tyng’s life story reads like a real-life Pay It For“I had a shower epiphany,” Tyng laughed. “I have this great “I kind of freaked out when I saw it,” says Julia Lucafo, one of ward. Long before he was scoring the music for The studio, and I had people do this for me when I was young. BMI the seven recipients of GMP’s first round of recording mentorO.C., Suits, and Futurama, Tyng was living on Cape was my guardian angel in a lot of ways; they made sure I didn’t get ships. A singer/songwriter hailing from Arizona, Lucafo found Cod and trying to “make it” as a drummer. In between taken advantage of, and they never asked for anything in return. GMP through a listing on the music-based social media site practices, he picked up and tried on instrument after They just did it because they believed in me. And I’m fortunate ReverbNation. “I clicked on it and saw what it was and just instrument, teaching himself how to play as he went along. To enough now, 20 years later, to return that favor. All of a sudden, it thought, ‘Oh my god, I have to be a part of this,’” she explained. sustain himself, he took a job managing a college recording studio, hit me that this was a way I could do that.”

After being selected, she and drummer Chase Brickenden where his girlfriend (and now wife) stumbled upon a sign headed up to Star Hill for three full days of for a film music contest. After some not-so-gentle coaxarranging and recording. The session will ing by his friends and family, Tyng reluctantly entered, all ultimately leave Lucafo with a fully mixed the while reminding himself of his real dream (“I wanted and mastered version of the song she subto be on the cover of Rolling Stone”) and the reality of mitted to GMP’s website, which she intends most competitions. “I kept telling myself, nobody wins to release on iTunes, as well as make a music these things anyway,” Tyng recalled last month from his video for.

In the coming weeks, while Tyng is on Santa Ynez home.

A few months later, though, Tyng took home the break from Suits, his Grow Music Project prize and was flown out to Los Angeles by his newfound will host and record the remainder of this round’s acts, including North Hollywood benefactors.“It turned out to be a much bigger deal than I realized,” he said. The contest, he learned, was put on rockers Dialtone; Hollywood songwriter by the educational arm of BMI, one of a few huge music Engelo Charles; songwriter Joey Hendrickcompanies that track royalties for artists. And the compeson of Columbus, Ohio; Northampton, tition? It amounted to a year’s worth of entrants, all vying Massachusetts, artist Joshua Meltzer; Nashto be the next great new voice in film and television.“They ville soul rocker Scott McLeod; and New pick one person and bring them out to Hollywood and York dream-pop songstress Star + The Sea. In addition, Tyng is already gearing up basically say, ‘Here he is,’” said Tyng. for round two, which he’s accepting submisNot long after, he was getting jobs that involved huge sions for currently. And, not surprisingly, the orchestras, working alongside big-name composers like Basil Poledouris (of Conan the Barbarian fame) and early feedback has been glowing. “It throws writing music for award-winning shows like L.A. Law.“I everybody for a bit of a loop,” said Tyng.“We tell people we’re doing this and it’s free and was sort of drop-kicked into the industry,” Tyng laughed.

WHAT GOES AROUND: (above) Composer Chris Tyng sits behind the keys in his no one has to sign anything and everyone “But I also really liked it. I realized that side of music was Star Hill Studio in Santa Ynez. (top) Tyng helps Grow Music Project winner Julia immediately asks,‘Well, what’s the catch?’” also really cool.”

Lucafo get miked up and ready to record.

Still, Tyng kept one foot firmly planted in his rock-star Catching up with Lucafo a week after her dreams. He continued playing live (including a stint in session, she excitedly admitted, there simply Santa Barbara’s own Sunshine Brothers), produced other artists, Walking into Tyng’s Star Hill Studio, you can’t help but have isn’t one. “I’m a huge fan of what Chris is doing,” she gushed. and facilitated recording through his many Los Angeles studios. a jaw-drop moment. Tucked into a tall, barn-like building down “There are not a lot of people taking artists in and working with So, when the time finally came to relocate to the Santa Ynez Valley, the hill from Tyng’s full-time home, and codesigned by Chris them for the cost of nothing. It’s really cool, but it’s also really rare Tyng started thinking seriously about giving back.

Pelonis, the space is literally brimming with music toys. Vintage and kind of shocking. It’s a blessing. I feel like I got really lucky.”

That’s where the Grow Music Project (GMP) comes in. An drumheads line the walls of the big studio; pristine acoustic guionline talent search of sorts, GMP is Tyng’s way of re-gifting the tars surround the vocal booth; Jim Messina’s old Wurlitzer sits career boost that BMI bestowed upon him 20 years ago. Musi- unassumingly in the corner alongside a small collection of synths. cians are invited to submit one song to the contest. Tyng picks And then there’s the mixing room, with its huge bay window, For more about the Grow Music Project, visit christophertyng.com. the winners and then invites them into his home studio to cut a serene valley views, and dizzying collection of computers, boards, amps, and effects pedals. professional recording. For free. No strings attached.

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a&e | POP, ROCK & JAZZ PREVIEW THREE-RING CIRCUS: Lucent Dossier gets weird at the 2010 Electric Picnic in Ireland. The art troupe appears at the Arlington this Friday, October 4.

THREE-RING CIRCUS: Lucent Dossier gets weird at the

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by Charles Donelan they do. Asking her about the special nature of Lucent, she answered without hesitation.

“After the first show, the response was amazing,” she said. She said she struck a common theme among the Dossier folk, which is a passionate connection to the people who dress up and come out for their performances. “We saw our first audience, and we knew something was about to happen,” she said. After several seasons at Coachella and Burning Man, the group took a residency at the Edison, a stunning alternative lounge space in the sub-basement of the Higgins Building in downtown L.A. The combination of Edison designer Andrew Meieran’s retrofuturistic fantasy space and Lucent Dossier’s particular brand of immersive performance turned out to be one of those rare, unforgettably perfect matches that make nightlife history.

Lines formed around the block, and the international press coverage went through the roof.

This was in 2010, and still today, what Dayna Riesgo keeps coming back to are her memories of the wonderful, interesting people who showed up.“I used to love checking out who was in the line,” she told me. “I was fascinated. They were showing up in these incredible outfits, fantastic handmade clothes and hats, makeup and wigs. They were like us, but we didn’t even know who they were.” She still likes the scene at the door. “We did a recent show at the Palace in downtown L.A.,” she recalled, “and I had to ask this woman about her gloves. They were unreal.

It turned out everyone in the party she was with was in his or her fifties, and they were wearing some of the best costumes I’ve ever seen.” This core Lucent Dossier fan base is likely to be well represented at Lucidity, as the group’s events in Santa Ynez reach out to the same broad age range of deliriously costume-happy adults.

That’s just one of the reasons why they are looking forward to making the scene in Santa Barbara. “We’ve been doing a lot more highprofile stuff lately,” said Rockwell, referring to the three years of big Grammy parties and two with the Emmys. “I guess we have been discovered by Hollywood.” But listening to Riesgo describe how they “tweak” their offerings for different situations, one hears the same pure heart going into the occasional bar mitzvah (yes, they’ve done them) as the most decadent of underground private parties. What brings it all together is a certain willingness to engage. As for Rockwell’s message to the people of Santa Barbara: “Come ready to play.”

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You see beautiful people performing a series of brilliant, mysterious, and slightly absurd circus acts. There are dancers, intriguing character actors, aerialists, and fire performers.

The fantastic soundtrack of exotic, futuristic original music sounds like it was beamed in from a parallel universe.

Now imagine being in that movie, rather than just watching it, and you’ll begin to have some idea of what the Lucidity crew have planned for Friday, October 4. That’s when Lucidity at the Arlington: Rising Vibes for the Universe is set to touch down in downtown Santa Barbara.

The event, which spawned out of the multiday Lucidity Festival held each spring at Live Oak Campground, is being led by Spencer Weiner and Jonah Haas, who have put together a night that will include the first downtown Santa Barbara appearance of the acclaimed psychedelic steampunk neo-circus known as the Lucent Dossier Experience.

Long a favorite at Burning Man and likeminded events around the world, Lucent Dossier have in recent years come to represent an unprecedented level of crossover acceptance for what began as an underground phenomenon. Emerging from the desert parties of Moontribe, the Lightning in a Bottle events, and a game-changing residency at the Edison in downtown Los Angeles, the group has become the entertainment of choice for everything from Illuminate: Unicorn Meat, a giant warehouse rave that took place on the border of Brooklyn and Queens last weekend, to the Emmy Awards’ Governors Ball. Lucent producers Dream Rockwell and Dayna Riesgo travel the world creating dreamlike scenarios. Riesgo has described their aesthetic as “vaudeville meets the future dressed as a Victorian Mad Max warrior.” One entertainment reporter put it more bluntly after his initial encounter with the group at an event in Los Angeles, calling Lucent “Marie Antoinette gone wrong. Cirque Du Soleil on acid.”

I spoke with both Dream Rockwell (from New York, where she was prepping for Unicorn Meat) and Dayna Riesgo (from Hollywood, where she was negotiating for a parking spot) last week, and I’m delighted to report that success has done nothing to tarnish the playful enthusiasm and go-with-the-flow attitude they bring to their art. Rockwell has been with the Experience from the very beginning, and her influence can be felt in every aspect of what

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No Age. At the Ojai Rancho Inn, Wednesday, September 25.

Reviewed by Aly Comingore

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or anyone who’s seen Los Angeles art punks No Age do their thing, you know well and good that “quiet” is not in their vocabulary. The duo, made up of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Spunt, are a strange form of spastic brilliance.

Their songs are loud, brash, and often piled high with effects, yet their arrangements and vocals lean heavily toward the romantic. On Wednesday night, the pair found themselves sharing the wooden stage behind the Ojai Rancho Inn with fellow L.A. DIY-ers Lucky Dragons, whose dusk-time GET LUCKY: L.A. experimental artists set was a hypnotic mix of Lucky Dragons kept things mellow ambient sounds (courtesy and dreamy when they opened for of a homemade sound-wave No Age at the Ojai Rancho Inn. distortion device) and howdid-they-do-that awesomeness that seemed to pulse in the early fall air.

Following the Dragons’ set, No Age plugged in for a performance that was tailor-made for its setting. With guitars turned down and drums played at a minimum, Spunt and Randall delivered gentle, almost soft renditions of crunchers like “Life Prowler” and “I Won’t Be Your Generator.” But while fitting for the space — and its neighborly noise limitations — one couldn’t help but wish the whole thing packed a bit more punch. Then, all of a sudden, as the clock struck 8:45, Spunt and Randall seemed to silently agree and (comparatively speaking) let ’er rip. What we finished on was a mini-set that snarled, gurgled, and fed back just enough to make an impact, and a night so intimate and bizarre that you couldn’t help but leave feeling like you’d stumbled upon something ■ extra special.

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uirky might be the first word that comes to mind after The Lumineers’ performance last Thursday at the Santa Barbara Bowl. The band brought in a crowd of all ages to their sold-out show, creating a scene that looked a lot like hipster heaven.

The evening started off with Denver’s Nathaniel Rateliff, who welcomed in the crowd with his soulful R&B sound. His set was followed by six-piece indie rock band Dr. Dog, which revved up the crowd with fan favorites like “That Old Black Hole” and “Lonesome.” At points, the crowd got so into it that one couldn’t help but wonder which of the night’s acts had drawn the larger crowd.

Not long after, The Lumineers took the stage to show their stuff. Frontman Wesley Schultz began the show strumming on his banjo — and wearing his signature brown fedora — for the tune “Classy Girls.” Behind him hung a stage set filled with oversized chandeliers, which added a nice ambiance to the crisp evening.

The trio played a variety of songs from their 2012 self-titled debut, as well as a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues.” They sprinkled in new tunes, too, including a cutesy duet with cellist Neyla Pekarek titled “Falling In Love.” Still, it wasn’t ’til the opening chords of hit single “Ho Hey” that fans stood from their seats. Disappointingly, the band didn’t rework the track from its recorded counterpart; even Schultz’s “last one!” line was mimed in perfect time. Later, the band made their way out to the middle landing of the Bowl to play a few numbers, which left non-pit audience members elated. But at more than a few points during Thursday’s performance things started to feel scripted.

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umphant; the production is minimal and straightforward; Friday, October 4, marks the fourth year of our annual and the characters are, more often than not, love struck Downtown Sound Battle of the Bands. And boy and affectionately idealistic. is it going to be a big one. For 2013, we’ve switched up the rules a bit and brought on board a distinguished team JAMEY GESTON (top right): Singer/songwriter Jamey of music-industry tastemakers to help us choose Santa Geston may only be 14 years old, but she’s already showing Barbara’s best new band. Alongside a roomful of ballot- a sense of poise and promise that belies her age. Whether casting audience members, our panel of judges will over- accompanied by an acoustic guitar or a piano (or both), Geston’s voice is sweet, powerful, see, critique, and cast weighted and surprisingly nuanced. She votes for their favorite of the six live acts. Manning the judge’s name-checks everyone from The The fourth annual booth are music-minded writKooks to Joni Mitchell as influDowntown Sound Battle of the Bands ers, bookers, proprietors, and ences (we hear traces of Vanessa takes place this Friday, October 4, programmers from The Santa Carlton and Regina Spektor) and at 8 p.m. at SOhO Restaurant & Barbara Independent, New pens her own songs to boot. Oh, Music Club (1221 State St.). Doors Noise Santa Barbara, KCSB, to be young. open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are KjEE, Muddy Waters Café, $8 presale, $10 at the door. Call Whiskey Richard’s, and more.

KELP (bottom left): This year’s 962-7776 or visit newnoisesb.org And as for the prizes, well, there lone instrumental offering comes for info. are many. The winner of this from S.B. surf rockers Kelp. Folyear’s Downtown Sound will lowing in the footsteps of Cali rock receive 12 hours of pro-studioinnovators like Dick Dale and Paul recording time at Playback Studio, $5,000 worth of guitars Johnson, the trio winds tight, catchy, and frenetic guitar and gear from Ernie Ball, $100 in gas from Fuel Depot, licks around steadily driving drums. But there’s something $50 to The Palace Grill, a $300 professional photography dark lurking beneath the surface of Kelp’s familiarly surfy package from Lady McClintock Studios, $120 worth of car tones. Sans vocals — and chock-full of reverb — the band’s washes from Fairview Carwash, a marketing prize pack psychedelic jams call to mind modern genre-hoppers like from CoMotion Media, apparel from Powell-Peralta, a Allah-Las and The Entrance Band: equal parts proggy slot at this year’s New Noise Music Conference & Festival, progressions and ’60s-imbued beach-blanket nostalgia. a song featured on KjEE .FM, and a feature article in next week’s Santa Barbara Bands issue of The Independent. THE REIGNSMEN (bottom middle): The ReignsBut before it all goes down, it’s time to get prepped. Allow men may have been this year’s audience pick, but don’t let me to introduce 2013’s Downtown Sound final six. that fool you — these four young gents were a hit with the judges, too. Their sound is a galloping and rambunctious BEARS AMONG MEN (top left): If you thought mix of Social Distortion–style rockabilly and that neo-folk hardcore was dead … think again. This Lompoc-born five- phenomenon that has catapulted the careers of Mumford piece is combining the sweet harmonies of early 2000s & Sons, The Lumineers, and The Head and the Heart. In emo with the thick, chugging guitars and pummeling short, expect rock ’n’ roll with a heavy helping of jingle drums we’ve come to associate with the metal movement. jangle, as well as choruses that dare you not to sing along.

Whatever you call it, though, the band’s enormous sound and incongruous mix of vocalists make for something SIDEWALK AFFAIR (bottom right): Things are special. Think Further Seems Forever meets A Day to guaranteed to get sexy when Santa Barbara newcomRemember. ers Sidewalk Affair hit the stage this Friday. Taking cues from modern-day soul makers like Aloe Blacc, Fitz & The EASY BEAR (top middle): Santa Barbara trio Easy Tantrums, and Mayer Hawthorne, these fellas know when Bear likes to keep things simple. Started off as a two-piece to ramp it up. (See the band’s funky fist pumper “Soultry by frontman Joey Enthoven and drummer Matt Lopez, Lady.”) But Sidewalk Affair may be at its best when things the band eventually added bassist/vocalist Noah Donnelly wind down a bit; the group’s “Sidewalk Affair” sounds like to fill out their lo-fi pop setup. Together, the guys navigate the slick, smooth, and kinda cheesy stuff you’d hear on Art the road between art rock à la The Killers and folk anthems Laboe’s late-night shout-out show. And we mean that in in the vein of Phosphorescent. The jams are big and tri- the best way possible.

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OCTOBER 2013

TOAST to 31 Days of

CUISINE, LIBATIONS and CULTURE in

SANTA BARBARA

Celebrating its 5th anniversary this October, epicure.sb is bound to be the best year yet with over 90 participants and 100+ offerings including special events, prix fixe menus and lodging packages. Here is a sampling of events going on throughout the month, but make sure to check out epicuresb.com for the full lineup. Cheers to an amazing epicurean adventure!

Oct. 4 - 6

CALIFORNIA AVOCADO FESTIVAL

Oct. 12

CELEBRATION OF HARVEST

Oct. 12

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR & SEAFOOD FESTIVAL

FUNK ZONE ARTS FESTIVAL

Oct. 19

SANTA BARBARA BEER FESTIVAL

Oct. 27

SANTA BARBARA CHOWDER FEST

S.B. Museum of Art – Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from The Armand Hammer Foundation and the Collection of Michael Armand Hammer and Martin Kersels’s Charm series, ongoing exhibitions.  State St., -.

Ty Warner Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations.  Stearns Wharf, -.

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art – Invisible Realms: Encountering the Sacred, through Oct. .

Adams Ctr., Westmont College,  La Paz Rd., -.

GALLERIES

Oct. 17 - 19 NEW NOISE FESTIVAL Oct. 19

(DON’T) REPRESENT! “ months,  days” by Mara Heilweil (above) and “Fugue” by Kim Kauffman (below) are on display at wall space gallery for the Nonrepresentational exhibit through October .

art exhibits MUSEUMS Casa de la Guerra – Secrets of Gaviota by Shaw Leonard, through Nov. .  E. De la Guerra St., -.

Casa Dolores – Multiple permanent installations.  Bath St., -.

Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Multiple permanent installations.  W. Anapamu St., -.

Lompoc Museum – Multiple permanent installations.  S. H St., Lompoc, -.

Rancho La Patera/Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Valley Historical Society.  N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, -.

S.B. Historical Museum – De la Tierra — Art of the Adobe, through Oct. ; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission.  E. De la Guerra St., -.

S.B. Maritime Museum – Photography

by Jack London, through Dec. ; Lost Surf Art Posters of Santa Barbara by Rick Sharp, through April .  Harbor Wy., #, -.

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Artamo Gallery – New Style Collage, through Nov. .  W. Anapamu St., -.

Architectural Foundation Gallery – Urban Scenes and Architecture by Thomas Van Stein and Wyllis Heaton, through Oct. .  E. Victoria St., -.

Atkinson Gallery – Small Images, through Nov. . SBCC West Campus,  Cliff Dr., Bldg. , Rm. , -.

Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit.  Pueblo St., -.

Channing Peake Gallery – Beyond Cubism: The Anne and Walon Green Collection, through Jan. . S.B. County Administration Bldg.,  E. Anapamu St., -.

Hospice of S.B. – Coast, Light, Dawn & Dusk: Six Months by the Sea by Kit BoiseCossart; permanent installations by painter Mary Heebner.  Alameda Padre Serra, Ste. , -.

Hotel Indigo – Limuw: An Ode to the Sea, through Jan. , .  State St., -.

Marcia Burtt Studio – Marcia Burtt solo exhibition, through Nov. .  Laguna St., -.

S.B. Tennis Club – Lunch with Bill, through Oct. .  Foothill Rd., -.

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Tonalism Now, Tonalism Then, through

To be considered for The Independent’s listings, please visit independent.com and click “Submit an event” or email listings@independent.com.

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OCT. 3–10

BOWL BROS: The Avett Brothers play the Santa Barbara Bowl on Thursday, October .

Dec. ; Nicole Strasburg: New Terrain, through Dec. ; Ray Strong: A Legacy in Landscape, through Oct. .  E. Anapamu St., -. wall space gallery – Nonrepresentational

by Kim Kauffman and Victoria Mara Heilweil, through Oct. .  E Yanonali St., -.

LIVE MUSIC CLASSICAL Hahn Hall – Music Academy of the West,  Fairway Rd., -.

WED: Ray Chen (pm)

POP, ROCK & JAZZ Adama –  Chapala St., -.

THU: Greg Harrison (pm) Arlington Theatre –  State St., -.

FRI: Lucent Dossier Experience: Rising Vibes for the Universe Brewhouse –  W. Montecito St., -.

THU-SAT, WED: Live Music (pm) Cold Spring Tavern –  Stagecoach Rd., -.

FRI: Natalie Moone, W.B. Givens, Andrew Leahey (pm) SAT: Ian Hutchinson Band (pm); The Fire Department (pm) SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (:); Chicken Bone (:pm) Chumash Casino Resort –  E. Hwy. , Santa Ynez, -.

THU /: Teen Idols (pm) The Creekside –  Hollister Ave., -.

MON: Karaoke with Dyno (pm) WED: Country Night (pm) Dargan’s –  E. Ortega St., -.

THU: Dannsair (:pm) SAT: Traditional Irish Music (:pm) TUE: Karaoke (pm) Endless Summer Bar/Café –  Harbor Wy., -.

FRI: Acoustic guitar and vocals (:pm) EOS Lounge –  Anacapa St., -.

THU: Huge Thursday with Mackie and Bix King FRI: Live Music (-pm); DNA Presents SAT: DJ Calvin and Kohjay WED: Salsa Night Indochine –  State St., -.

TUE: Indie Night (pm) WED: Karaoke (:pm) The James Joyce –  State St., -.

THU: Alastair Greene Band (pm) FRI: Kinsella Brothers Band (pm) SAT: Ulysses (:-:pm) SUN, MON: Karaoke (pm) TUE: Ben Markham and Brian Cole WED: Open Mike Night Jill’s Place –  Santa Barbara St., -.

FRI, SAT: Piano Bar with Al Reese (:pm) Marquee –  State St., -.

THU: Thursday Jazz Night (pm) WED: Open Mike Night (pm) Moby Dick Restaurant –  Stearns Wharf, -.

WED-SAT: Derroy (pm) SUN: Derroy (am) Monty’s –  Hollister Ave., Goleta, -.

THU: Karaoke Night (pm) O’Malleys and the Study Hall –  State St., -.

THU: College Night with DJ Gavin

Old Town Tavern –  Orange Ave., Goleta, -.

FRI, SAT, WED: Karaoke Night (:pm) Palapa Restaurant –  State St., -.

FRI: Live Mariachi Music (:pm) Ranch and Reata Roadhouse –  Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, -.

FRI: Just Dave Band (pm) THU: Andy Griggs (:pm) Reds Tapas & Wine Bar –  Helena Ave., -.

THU: Music Thursdays (pm) Roundin’ Third –  Calle Real, -.

THU, TUE: Locals Night (pm) S.B. Bowl –  N. Milpas St., -.

THU /: The Avett Brothers (pm) S.B. Maritime Museum –  Harbor Wy., #, -.

SAT: Ukulele music and singing (-:pm) Sandbar –  State St., -.

TUE: ’s Night (pm) WED: Big Wednesday (pm) THU: College Night (pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club –  State St., -.

THU: Sprit Family Reunion (pm) FRI: New Noise Battle of the Bands (:pm) SAT: Eating Crayons, Midnight Mynx, The David Courtenay Band (pm) SUN: Shela Jordan (pm); Lee DeWyze (pm) MON: Monday Madness Jazz Band (:pm) TUE: Maoli (pm) WED: Sally Ford & the Sound Outside (pm) Statemynt –  State St., -.

THU: DJ Akorn WED: Blues Night (pm) Tiburon Tavern –  State St., -.

FRI: Karaoke Night (:pm) TonyRay’s –  De la Guerra Plaza, -.

FRI: Karaoke (pm) SAT: Live Music (pm) SUN: Live Music (pm) Velvet Jones –  State St., -.

THU: Indubious, Rising Son (pm) FRI: Country Fridays (pm) SAT: MitiS, Mutrix and Taylor Lane (pm) MON: Monday Night Football (pm) WED: Bring Your Own Vinyl (pm) Whiskey Richard’s –  State St., -.

MON: Open Mike Night (pm) WED: Punk on Vinyl (pm) Wildcat –  W. Ortega St., -.

THU: DJs Hollywood and Patrick B SUN: Red Room with DJ Gavin Roy (pm) TUE: Local Band Night (pm) Zodo’s –  Calle Real, Goleta, -.

THU: KjEE Thursday Night Strikes (:-:pm) MON: Service Industry Night (pm)

theater Campbell Hall – An Evening with Tony Kushner.  Mesa Rd., UCSB, -.

FRI: pm Center Stage Theater –Defying Gravity.  Paseo Nuevo, -.

FRI-SAT: pm SUN: pm Hatlen Theater – Naked Shakes: Macbeth.  University Rd., UCSB, -.

SAT: pm, pm

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A MUST-SEE MOVIE!

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The most popular paper, with 120,000 readers and less than 2.5 percent of issues returned each week

From Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor, comes a humorous and enlightening exposé on America’s widening income gap.

The Santa Barbara Independent is:

Audited. Verified. Proven.

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He’s taking this fight to the street.

*Jan Wahl, KRON-TV

LeeDanielsTheButlerMovie.com

NOW PLAYING AT THEATERS EVERYWHERE!

CHECK DIRECTORIES FOR SHOWTIMES NO PASSES ACCEPTED

Information Listed for Friday thru Thursday - October 4 - 10

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Wednesday - October 9 - 7:30

PLAZA DE ORO

David Lowry’s  AIN’T THEM BODIES SAINTS

(R)

Future Wednesdays at Plaza De Oro - a one time screening of a current film that has not played in the area.

October 16 - THE ACT OF KILLING October 23 - BLUE CAPRICE

(NR)

(R)

October 30 - IN THE NAME OF

“

SENSATIONAL .

The strongest movie ever made about the JFK assassination.”

(NR)

– Roger Friedman, SHOWBIZ 411

“PROFOUNDLY MOVING.”

Show your SBIFF I.D. for discounted admission price

The 2013-14 Season is Here!

The MET Opera - LIVE

IN

HD

– Stephen Farber, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

October 5 - ARLINGTON - 9:55 am Tchaikovsky’s  EUGENE ONEGIN details on Home Page - metrotheatres.com

METRO 4

6 1 8 Sta t e St r e e t - S . B .

 GRAVITY (PG-13) 2D: Fri-Sun - 5:00 Mon-Thu - 5:45 3D: Fri-Sun - 12:10 2:30 7:30 10:00 Mon-Thu - 3:20 8:20 PRISONERS (R) Fri-Sun - 12:00 3:20 6:40 9:50 Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:50 8:10 RUSH (R) Fri-Sun - 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:00 Mon-Thu - 2:15 5:10 8:00 BAGGAGE CLAIM (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:00 6:30 10:05 Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:20 7:45

RIVIERA

2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B. PARKLAND (PG-13) Fri & Mon-Thu - 5:00 7:30 Sat/Sun - 2:30 5:00 7:30

CAMINO REAL

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 GRAVITY (PG-13) 3D: 12:40 1:50 4:20 6:50 9:20 Thu 10/10 - No 9:20 Show Fri-Sun 2D: 11:30 3:10 5:40 8:10 10:30 Mon-Thu 3:10 5:40 8:10 10:30

ARLINGTON

FIESTA 5

Courtyard Bar Open

9 1 6 Sta t e St r e e t - S . B .

1317 State Street - 963-4408

 PULLING STRINGS (PG) Fri-Sun - 1:00 3:40 6:30 9:10 Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:10 7:50

Saturday Only - 7:30 - 9:00

Saturday, Oct. 5 - 9:55 am  EUGENE ONEGIN MET OPERA - LIVE in HD PRISONERS (R) Fri - plays only at Metro 4 Sat - 8:45 at Arlington Sun-Thu - 1:20 4:40 8:00

PASEO NUEVO

8 W. De La Guerra Pl. - S.B.

Ben Affleck  RUNNER RUNNER (R) Fri-Sun - 1:50 4:30 7:00 9:30 Mon-Thu - 2:40 5:20 8:00  ENOUGH SAID (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:10 6:40 9:10 Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:10 7:40 GRACE UNPLUGGED (PG) Fri-Sun - 1:20 3:50 6:30 9:20 Mon-Wed - 2:20 5:00 7:30 Thu - 2:20 5:00 DON JON (R) Fri-Sun - 2:00 4:45 7:10 9:40 Mon-Thu - 2:50 5:30 7:50

Thursday, Oct. 10 - 8:15

 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG-13)

PLAZA DE ORO 3 7 1 H i t c h c o c k Wa y - S . B .

INEQUALITY FOR ALL (PG) Fri & Mon-Thu - 7:15 Sat/Sun - 2:15 4:45 7:15

 GRAVITY (PG-13) 2D: Fri-Sun - 1:20 Mon-Thu - 2:10 3D: Fri-Sun - 3:50 6:20 8:50 Mon-Thu - 4:30 7:00

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 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (PG) 3D: Fri-Sun - 1:30 Mon-Thu - 5:00 2D: Fri & Sun 12:20 2:50 4:00 5:20 6:40 7:50 9:00 Sat - 12:20 2:50 4:00 5:20 6:40 9:00 Mon-Wed 2:30 3:50 6:20 7:30 Thu - 2:30 3:50 7:30 INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 12:45 3:40 6:40 9:30 Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:50 7:40

Saturday, Oct. 5 - 8:00

 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG-13)

Thursday, Oct. 10 - 8:00

 MACHETE KILLS (R)



CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Saturday - October 5 Fiesta 5: 8:00 pm

(PG-13)

Thursday - October 10 Paseo Nuevo: 8:15 Camino Real: 9:20 Thursday - October 10

 MACHETE KILLS

(R)

Fiesta 5: 8:00 Camino Real: 9:30

FAIRVIEW

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or all of its periodic merits and compromised promises — its highs, lows, and ample supply of mediums — as a dramedy film, Enough Said may GOOD FELLOW: Performing alongside TV-titan peer Julia have its strongest impact as a hint of what Louis-Dreyfus, the late James Gandolfini shows his sensitive might have been. This is one of the films side as a divorced man looking for love in Enough Said . which reminds us of the barely tapped potential of late actor James Gandolfini, who died of a heart attack earlier this year. He could have a certain poet-client (Catherine Keener, tartly witty, as been a large — and notably subtle — presence in the realm usual). The she-and-him relationship is a refreshing twist of film acting, had he been given more time to transcend on movie age-based and shape-based standards, articulated by Louis-Dreyfus’ comment to a friend “this middlehis typecasting as TV’s legendary Tony Soprano.

Gandolfini bedazzled in a very different and more agedness is sort of comforting and sexy.” Without betraythuggish way as a neurotic, midlife-crisis-afflicted assas- ing the spoiler-alert rules of conduct, let’s say the film’s sin in last year’s satirical hit man saga, Killing Them Softly. plot thickens to the point of lame sitcom-y ludicrousness, This time around, he shows a believably sensitive side, but there are colliding comic energies and commentaries and masterfully, as a divorced man working his way into about the fragility of romantic and family relations that and around a strange relationship with a divorcée (Julia light up the screen, if only for minutes at a time.

Ultimately, the inherent issue of small- versus largeLouis-Dreyfus, another TV-gracing actor trying to nudge her way up to the big-screen world). They have a palpable screen equations turns on itself in a film whose gimmickry and short-sold narrative elements and production values rapport as actors and characters.

In a complicated and sometimes groaningly implau- often err on the side of glib television work. All in all, sible storyline, Dreyfus plays a masseuse in Los Angeles Gandolfini once again steals the show, and invites “What who meets her new romantic match at a party, along with if?” speculation about his life’s work, now completed. ■

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As if to illustrate the comforting continuum of our older, wiser, deeper tutelage of Julianne Moore. protagonist’s life, writer/director/actor Gordon-Levitt’s Strangely enough, what makes this one of the more weirdly fascinating film follows a hypnotically minimal- inventive quirks of the season is that Don Jon is by turns ist mise-en-scène. Echoing shots and scenes bring us unusually frank and explicit, while also being one of the repeatedly back to his sin-cleansing rituals in the Catholic more artistically individualistic rite-of-passage movies in church confessional, in the gym (reciting the “Lord’s recent memory. Gordon-Levitt lavishes us with lasciviousPrayer” while pumping iron), and in his habitual plunges ness but also asks our forgiveness and attention for the into sexual activity — in bed with live humans, or virtually, underlying theme at hand. The real story here is a man’s with porn scenes punctuating the film’s flow, like titillating meandering and self-deceptive path to redemption. At the tics in our hero’s brain. same time, the careful structure and language of the film’s All of this may seem to add up to a less-than-savory style lures us into a state of awe for the disciplined sightway to spend two hours in a movie theater. Surprisingly, and-sound matters at hand. though, what unfolds in the film, and what dignifies its Sex sells and is an endless source of obsession. But, as sleazy means to an end, is the narrative arc of a deeper seen here, it can also be a clever means to redress a multiawakening of sex and love, as he grapples through an tude of cinematic sins.

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FIRST LOOKS ✯ Don Jon (90 mins.; R: strong graphic sexual material, language, nudity, drug use)

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (95 mins.; PG: mild rude humor)

Fans of the first Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will find themselves a little forlorn in the middle of this sequel. If anything, the brilliant original, adapted from the irreverent children’s book, was an overdose of fun: a complicated story that mixed genuinely touching elements with genuinely absurd flourishes and was fleshed out on the screen like a crazy tapestry. There were jokes, sight gags, and beautiful squiggles in every scene.

This version begins and ends with a nice re-envisioning of all that inventiveness, though the middle of the film is, sadly, a boring slog.

This time out, Flint has been recruited by a Doctor Science–type character to come work on a giant campus that looks like a cross between Google and a Bullwinkle cartoon. It turns out that the machine Flint invented, which turned water into food in amok fashion, is now busy creating food monsters back home.

When the gang goes to check out the supposed horrors, they get a lesson in human treachery instead.

The story is sweet but not nearly as touching as the first outing, and with the exception of Steve the Monkey, it’s surprisingly uncomplicated by weirdo fun. Kids will like it, though it seems just a touch exploitative. Not making money off a runaway machine was the lesson Flint learned in the first film. Now the studio is doing it.

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Rush (123 mins.; R: sexual content, nudity, language, disturbing images, drug use)

During the many race scenes, which ought to be the most important cinematic moments in a film like this, the takes average two seconds long. I know because I counted them off. Such hyperkinetic editing is often a hallmark of bad directing (see: Michael Bay), but with someone as seasoned as Ron Howard at the helm, we want to give him the benefit of the doubt.

He means this psychological movie not to come at you like a rush, ironically.

Howard’s film, based in truth and told in flashback and flash-forward, is a compare-and-contrast exercise featuring two 1970s Formula One driver rivals, dishy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and the calculating Austrian Niki Lauda, whom the great Daniel Brühl turns into a love/ hate object. We’re meant to not like either of them too much but know they represent opposing philosophies. Both cheat death, they admit, by racing around tracks, but Hunt believes in courting mortality; live fast, have fun, and leave a beautiful corpse. Lauda is harder to place, though; he has similar death wishes but keeps protesting that he’s working percentages. It’s the only job he’s good at. The best part of the narrative, which swings like a metro-

nome between the men, is the rich and strange hypocrisies.

The worst part is how obvious it gets.

Howard zooms in on a huge spider on the day of a tragic race; after sex, he cuts to engine pistons pumping. It courts selfparody, but it’s still guaranteed to please audiences. Rush is ultimately an accomplishment, but it’s also too jumpy; it’s hard to love a film when you keep getting thrown out of situations. The one exception to the rule is a scene where Lauda lyrically meets his wife and then drives. We’re along for that ride, but the rest just feels rushed. (DJP) Camino Real/Metro 4

PREMIERES Captain Phillips (134 mins.; PG-13: sustained intense sequences of menace, some violence with bloody images, substance use)

Tom Hanks stars as real-life ship captain Richard Phillips, who was manning the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama when it was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009.

Camino Real/Fiesta 5/Paseo Nuevo (opens Thu., Oct. 10, with a sneak preview Sat., Oct. 5, at Fiesta 5)

Grace Unplugged (118 mins.; PG: thematic elements, brief teen drinking)

A young and virtuous Christian singer is put to the test when her music career starts to take off.

Paseo Nuevo Gravity (90 mins.; PG-13: intense perilous sequences, some disturbing images, brief strong language)

A medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) and an astronaut (George Clooney) struggle to survive after an accident leaves them floating in space. Camino Real (2-D and 3-D)/ Fiesta 5 (2-D and 3-D)/ Metro 4 (2-D and 3-D)

Inequality for All (89 mins.; PG: thematic elements, some violence, language, smoking images)

Jacob Kornbluth’s new documentary follows former U.S. secretary of labor Robert Reich as he attempts to inform Americans about the growing economic gap.

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Machete Kills (107 mins.; R: strong bloody violence throughout, language, some sexual content)

The U.S. government calls on Machete (Danny Trejo) to take down an arms dealer in Mexico. Robert Rodriguez directs.

Camino Real/Fiesta 5 (opens Thu., Oct. 10)

Parkland (93 mins.; PG-13: bloody sequences of ER trauma procedures, some violent images, language, smoking throughout)

Peter Landesman’s historical drama recounts the chaos at Dallas’s Parkland Hospital on the day President Kennedy was assassinated.

Riviera Pulling Strings (112 mins.; PG: language, brief smoking)

A woman working for the U.S. embassy in Mexico City meets and falls in love with a mariachi singer who desperately needs a visa.

Camino Real/Fiesta 5 Runner Runner (91 mins.; R: language, some sexual content)

When a poor college student (Justin Timberlake) dabbling in online gambling goes

bust, he arranges to meet the man (Ben Affleck) he thinks cheated him.

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Melaza (80 mins.; NR) Carlos Lechuga’s 2012 dramedy takes a look at the small town of Molasses after the devastating closure of their sugar mill.

Wed., Oct. 9, 7pm, UCSB’s Pollock Theater

SCREENINGS 56 Up (144 mins.; NR) Director Michael Apted revisits his British-born adult subjects seven years later to see what has happened in their life. Apted will appear in a post-screening Q&A. Mon., Oct. 7, 7pm, UCSB’s Campbell Hall

The Sound of Music (174 mins.; G) Julie Andrews stars in the 1965 classic about a nun who leaves the convent to look after the children of a widowed naval officer. Presented as part of the SingAlong Under the Stars movie series.

Wed., Oct. 9, 7:30pm, Canary Hotel, 31 W. Carrillo St.

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (96 mins.; R: some violence)

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An outlaw (Casey Affleck) escapes from prison and sets out across Texas to find his wife (Rooney Mara) and the daughter he’s never met. Screens as part of SBIFF’s Showcase Film Series.

Wed., Oct. 9, 7:30pm, Plaza de Oro

The Attack (102 mins.; R: some violent images, language, brief sexuality)

An Arab surgeon learns a dark secret about his wife following a tragic suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Sun., Oct. 6, 4:30pm,

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A group of retirees travels to India to stay in a hotel that’s run-down but full of charm. Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, and Judi Dench star in this uneven but often involving seriocomic tale built on the themes of culture clash and symbiosis and life’s foibles from late in the game. (JW) Presented as part of the Alliance for Living and Dying Well’s fall film series.

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This 2011 documentary chronicles four years in the lives of childhood friends who ship off to war. Screens as part of The Big Read.

Fri., Oct. 4, 7pm, Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St.

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Broken Rainbow (70 mins.; NR) This 1985 documentary chronicles the government relocation of 10,000 Arizonadwelling Navajo Indians.

Wed., Oct. 9, 6pm, UCSB’s MultiCultural Center

Despicable Me (95 mins.; PG: rude humor, mild action)

A criminal mastermind uses three orphan girls to help him carry out his latest scheme but quickly finds himself changed by his young pawns.

Fri. and Mon., Oct. 4 and 7, 7pm, Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte

✯ Despicable Me 2

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Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) is recruited to help deal with a powerful new super criminal. Despicable Me  isn’t super-memorable and the 3-d effects only dazzle in spurts, but it’s also clearly the most excellent of the cartoon epics that opened this benighted season. (DJP) Fri. and Mon., Oct. 4 and 7, 10pm, Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (74 mins.; NR) Shola Lynch’s 2012 documentary tells the tale of a young college professor whose social activism implicated her in a botched kidnapping attempt. See more on page 49.

Thu., Oct. 10, 7pm, UCSB’s Pollock Theater

Girl Rising (101 mins.; PG-13: thematic material including some disturbing images)

Nine girls from different parts of the world share stories of slavery, arranged marriages, and heartbreaking injustices, as well as how education has given them hope.

Thu., Oct. 10, 6pm, Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St.

Determined to get engaged before her little sister’s wedding, a flight attendant aims to find a husband in 30 days.

Metro 4 The Family (111 mins.; R: violence, language, brief sexuality)

A mafia boss (Robert De Niro) and his family are relocated to France by the witness protection program but blow their cover when they try to do things their way.

For a film that often feels dysfunctional and suffers from failure to click, The Family is a lot of good and clean, dirty, and injokey fun. (JW) Plaza de Oro

✯ Instructions Not Included (115 mins.; PG-13: sexual content, thematic elements, language)

A man and the daughter he found on his doorstep face new challenges when her birth mother resurfaces. Despite its pacing issues, this film has heart for days and comes equipped with a funny bone that’s also sincerely relatable. (KS) Fiesta 5 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (132 mins.; PG-13: some violence and disturbing images, language, sexual material, thematic elements, smoking)

Forest Whitaker stars as an AfricanAmerican butler working in the White House at numerous significant points throughout the 20th century. Ambitious in its scope and an important film in its subject matter, The Butler is a rousing success on many fronts, even if its truth cred is wanting. (JW) Plaza de Oro

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When his daughter and her friend go missing, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) sets out with Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) on a manhunt. Prisoners belongs in the category of superior films like Mystic River and The Place Beyond the Pines, in which tangled family values and the banality of evil collide and become fodder for filmic art. (JW) Arlington/ Fairview/Metro 4

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a&e | ROB BREZSNY’S FREE WILL ASTROLOGY WEEK OF OCTOBER  ARIES (Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): Are you good at haggling? Do you maybe even enjoy the challenge of negotiating for a better price, of angling for a fairer deal? The coming week will be a favorable time to make extensive use of this skill.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will thrive on having friendly arguments with just about everyone, from your buddies to your significant other to your mommy to God Herself. Everywhere you go, I encourage you to engage in lively discussions as you hammer out compromises that will serve you well. Be cheerful and adaptable and forceful.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): In David Markson’s experimental novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress, the protagonist fantasizes about the winter she lived at the Louvre Museum in Paris. She says that to keep warm, she made big fires and burned some of the museum’s precious artifacts. I’m hoping you won’t do anything remotely resembling that mythic event in the coming week, Taurus. I understand that you may be going through a cold spell — a time when you’re longing for more heat and light. But I beg you not to sacrifice enduring beauty in order to ameliorate your temporary discomfort. This, too, shall pass.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): “Don’t say you want love,” writes San Francisco author Stephen Sparks. “Say you want the morning light through a paint-flecked window; say you want a gust of wind scraping leaves along the pavement and hills rolling toward the sea; say you want to notice, in a tree you walk past every day, the ruins of a nest exposed as the leaves fall away; a slow afternoon of conversation in a shadowy bar; the smell of bread baking.” That’s exactly the oracle I want to give you, Gemini.

In my opinion, you can’t afford to be generic or blank in your requests for love. You must be highly specific. You’ve got to ask for the exact feelings and experiences that will Homework: Name 10 personal possessions that you’d put in a time capsule to be dug up by your descendants in 500 years. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

boost the intensity of your lust for life. (Here’s Sparks’s Tumblr page: invisiblestories.tumblr.com.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger in the broken places,” wrote Cancerian writer Ernest Hemingway. By my estimation, my fellow Crabs, we are now entering a phase of our astrological cycle when we can make dramatic progress in healing the broken places in ourselves. But even better than that: As we deal dynamically with the touchy issues that caused our wounds, we will become stronger than we were before we got broken.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): Let’s hope you have given deep thought to understanding who you are at this moment of your life. Let’s also hope that you have developed a clear vision of the person you would like to become in, say, three years. How do you feel about the gap between the current YOU and the future YOU? Does it oppress you? Does it motivate you? Maybe a little of both? I’ll offer you the perspective of actress Tracee Ellis Ross. “I am learning every day,” she told UPTOWN magazine,“to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): Do the words “purity” and “purify” have any useful purpose? Or have they been so twisted by religious fundamentalists and mocked by decadent cynics that they’re mostly just farcical? I propose that you take them seriously in the coming week. Give them your own spin. For instance, you could decide to purify yourself of petty attitudes and trivial desires that aren’t in alignment with your highest values. You might purify yourself of self-deceptions that have gotten you into trouble and purify yourself of resentments that have blocked your creative energy. At the very least, Virgo, cleanse your body with extra-healthy food, good sleep, massage, exercise, and sacred sex.

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(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): I periodically hike alone into the serene hills north of San Francisco and perform a set of my songs for the birds, insects, squirrels, and trees.

Recently I discovered that British comedian Milton Jones tried a similar experiment. He did his stand-up act for a herd of cows on a farm in Hertfordshire. I can’t speak for Jones’s motivations, but one of the reasons I do my nature shows is because they bring out my wild, innocent, generous spirit. Now is a good time for you to do something similar for yourself, Libra. What adventures can you undertake that will fully activate your wild, innocent, generous spirit?

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): In her book Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard apologizes to God and Santa Claus and a nice but eccentric older woman named Miss White, whom she knew as a child. “I am sorry I ran from you,” she writes to them. “I am still running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge.

For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain.” Judging from your current astrological omens, Capricorn, I’d say that now would be a good time for you to do something similar: Take an inventory of the beauty and love and power you have sought to escape and may still be trying to avoid. You’re finally ready to stop running and embrace at least some of that good stuff.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): Are you anxious and agitated, afraid that you’re careening out of control? Is there a flustered voice in your head moaning, “Stop the insanity!”? Well, relax, dear Scorpio. I promise you that you no longer have to worry about going cray-cray. Why? Because you have already gone cray-cray, my friend. That is correct.

You slipped over the threshold a few days ago, and have been living in Bonkersville ever since. And since you are obviously still alive and functioning, I think it’s obvious that the danger has passed. Here’s the new truth: If you surrender to the uproar, if you let it teach you all it has to teach you, you will find a lively and intriguing kind of peace.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): To give you the oracle that best matches your current astrological omens, I’ve borrowed from “Sweetness,” a poem by Stephen Dunn. I urge you to memorize it or write it on a piece of paper that you will carry around with you everywhere you go. Say Dunn’s words as if they were your own: “Often a sweetness comes / as if on loan, stays just long enough // to make sense of what it means to be alive, / then returns to its dark / source. As for me, I don’t care // where it’s been, or what bitter road / it’s traveled / to come so far, to taste so good.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): The Dragon Lives Again is a 1977 film that tells the story of martial arts legend Bruce Lee fighting bad guys in the underworld. Among the villains he defeats are Dracula, James Bond, the Godfather, Clint Eastwood, and the Exorcist. I urge you to use this as inspiration, Aquarius. Create an imaginary movie in your mind’s eye. You’re the hero, of course. Give yourself a few superpowers and assemble a cast of scoundrels from your past — anyone who has done you wrong. Then watch the epic tale unfold as you do with them what Bruce Lee did to Dracula and company. Yes, it’s only pretend. But you may be surprised at how much this helps you put your past behind you. Think of it as a purgative meditation that will free you to move in the direction of the best possible future.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): After studying the myths and stories of many cultures throughout history, Joseph Campbell arrived at a few conclusions about the nature of the human quest. Here’s one that’s apropos for you right now: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

He came up with several variations on this idea, including this one: “The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.” I urge you to consider making this your operative hypothesis for the coming weeks, Pisces.

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OPAL RESTAURANT & Bar 1325 State St. 966‑9676 $$.Open M‑S 11:‑ 30a & 7 nights 5p. V MC AE Local’s Favorite, Eclectic California Cuisine fuses creative influences from around the world with American Regional touches: Chile‑ Crusted Filet Mignon to Pan‑ Seared Fresh Fish & Seafood, Homemade Pastas, Gourmet Pizzas, Fresh baked Breads, Deliciously Imaginative Salads & Homemade Desserts. OPAL radiates a friendly, warm atmosphere graced by our fun efficient Service, Full bar, Martinis, Wine Spectator award‑winning wine list, private room. Lunches are afford‑ able and equally delicious.

PACIFIC CREPES 705 Anacapa St. 882‑ 1123.OPEN Tues‑Fri 10a‑3p & 5:30p‑ 9p, Sat 9a‑9p, Sun 9a‑3p From the flags of Bretagne & France to the “Au revoir, a bientot”; experi‑ ence an authentic French creperie.

Delicious crepes, salads & soups for breakfast, lunch & dinner. Tasty Crepe Suzette or crepe flambee desserts.

Specials incl. starter, entree & dessert.

Homemade with the best fresh prod‑ ucts. Relax, enjoy the ambience, the food & parler francais! Bon Appetit! pacificcrepe.com

PIERRE LAFOND Wine Bistro 516 State Street 962‑1455 $$ Open Every Day M‑F 11a‑9p Sat/ Sun 9a‑ 10p Brunch Sat/Sun 9a‑3p Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. A local favorite since 1993. California cui‑ sine showcasing the best local prod‑ ucts. Steamed Mussels, Flatbreads, Grilled Duck Breast, Vegetarian dishes, Sherry Wine cake, Wines from around the world. Happy Hour Mon‑Sat 4:30‑6:30. Sidewalk patio. www.pierrelafond.com

Chinese American BEACHBREAK CAFE, 324 State St, 962‑2889. $ Open 7a‑2:30p 7 days a week. Covered outdoor patio on State.

Great Breakfast & Lunch.

Bistro/Cafe JACK’S BISTRO & “FAMOUS BAGELS” 53 South Milpas (In Trader Joe’s Plaza) 564‑4331; 5050 Carpinteria Ave, Carpinteria 566‑1558. $ Extensive menu, beer & wine, on site catering ‑ Call Justen Alfama 805‑566‑1558 x4 Voted BEST BAGELS 16 years in a row! www.bagelnet.com

Cajun/Creole THE PALACE Grill, 8 E. Cota St., 963‑ 5000. $$$. Open 7 days, Lunch 11:30a‑ 3p, Dinner 5:30p, V MC AE. Contemporary American grill w/ a lively, high‑energy atmosphere & fun, spon‑ taneous events. Featuring fine grilled steaks, fresh seafood, delicious pastas, select American Regional specialties, like Blackened Crawfish‑ stuffed Filet Mignon, Louisiana Bread Pudding Souffle. Cajun Martinis, unique beers & well selected wine list. Lunch starts early enough for a late breakfast & ends late enough for an early supper.

Voted “Best Team Service” since 1988.

Rave reviews in Gourmet Magazine, Gault‑Millau Travel Guide, Zagat & Sunset Magazine.

YEN CHING 2840 De La Vina St. 682‑ 7191 7 days/wk M‑Sun 11a‑9p, ALL YOU CAN EAT Buffet: Lunch M‑F 11‑2 Sat & Sun Lunch 11‑2:30, Dinner Buffet 5:10‑8:30 incl all you can eat steak, shrimp & crab legs‑ Discounts for kids. Owner /Chef Joe Tzeng‑ Master Chef 25+yrs serving traditional Mandarin & Szechuan delicacies. All day take out‑ FREE delivery after 5pm

Coffee Houses SB COFFEE Roasting Company 321 Motor Way SB 962‑5213– NOW WITH FREE WI‑FI! Santa Barbara’s premiere coffee roasting company since 1989.

Come in for the freshest most deli‑ cious cup of coffee ever and watch us roast the best coffee in town at our historic Old Town location ‑ Corner of State & Gutierrez. Gift baskets, mail order & corporate gifts avail. sbcoffee.com.

Ethiopian AUTHENTIC ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Featured at Petit Valentien Restaurant 1114 State St. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Open Sat‑Sun Lunch ONLY 11am‑2:30pm.

Serkaddis Alemu offers in ever chang‑ ing menu with choices of vegitarian, vegan, and meat options. Catering Avaliable for parties of up to 40 people.

PETIT VALENTIEN, 1114 STATE ST. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Open M‑F 11:30‑ 3pm (lunch). M‑Sat 5pm‑Close (din‑ ner). Sun $24 four course prefix dinner.

In La Arcada Plaza, Chef Robert Dixon presents classic French comfort food at affordable cost in this cozy gem of a restaurant. Petit Valentien offers a wide array of meat and seafood entrees along with extensive small plates and a wine list specializing in amazing quality at arguably the best price in town. A warm romantic atmo‑ sphere makes the perfect date spot.

Comfortable locale for dinner parties, or even just a relaxing glass of wine.

Reservations are recommended.

RENAUD’S PATISSERIE & Bistro, 3315 State St. in Loreto Plaza, 569‑2400 & 1324 State St. Ste N 892‑2800 $$ M ‑ Sat 7‑ 5, Sun 7‑3 & M‑Sun 7‑ 3 Wide selection of wholesome French pastries. Breakfast & lunch menu is composed of egg dishes, sandwiches & salads representing Renaud’s favor‑ ites. Our Brewed coffees & teas are proudly 100% Organic.

Indian FLAVOR OF INDIA 3026 State 682‑ 6561 $$ www.flavorofindiasb.com VOTED BEST 17yrs. Finest, most authentic Indian cuisine is affordable too! All You Can Eat Lunch Buffet $8.95 M‑S dinner combos $9.95+ Specials: Tandoori‑ Mixed or Fish, Chicken Tikka Masala, Shrimp Bhuna.

Also: meat, curries & vegetarian.Wine & Beer. Take out. 20yrs of Excellence!

INDIA HOUSE, 418 State St. Next to 99 Cent Store 805.962.5070. 7 days 11:30a‑ 3:30p ALL YOU CAN EAT Lunch Buffet $8.95. Dinner 5p‑9p.

Tandori & North Indian Muglai spe‑ cialties. World Class Indian Chefs at your service! Traditional floor seating.

Indian & Draft Beers, Local Wines. www.indiahouseusa.com NAAN STOP ‑ Popular, Casual Dinining, Indian Restaurant w/ Boba drinks, chicken tikka masala, saag tofu, naan bread, and all other favorites!

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F R I D AY B R E A K FA S T B U R R I T O $ 4 . 9 9 BURRITO MOJADO $6.49*

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SPICE AVENUE/INDIA Club Moved from State Street, brand new location!

Authentic Indian Cuisine. Zagat Rated since 2006. A family owned restaurant from London, 5 Star Chef from India Dinesh, lunch buffet 7 days a week, w/ special Dosa menu on Sat. & Sun. Beer & Wine. Open 7 days a week. 5701 Calle Real. 805‑967‑ 7171

Irish

PALAPA 4123 State St. 683‑3074 $$ BREAKFAST 7am daily. Big Breakfast burritos, machaca, chorizo & eggs, chiliquiles, Organic mexican cof‑ fee & Fresh squeezed OJ, pancakes, omelets & lunch specials. Fresh sea‑ food dinners.

Natural

DARGAN’S IRISH Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. (next to lot 10) SB, 568‑0702. $$. Open 7 days 11:30a‑ Close (Food ‘til 10p, 11p on Sat/Sun). AE MC V Disc. Authentic Irish food & atmosphere in downtown SB. Specialties from Ireland include Seafood & Meat dishes.

Informal, relaxed pub‑style atmosphere.

Live music Thursday nights. Children welcome. Avail. for private parties. Pool & Darts.

Italian

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Mexican

ALDO’S ITALIAN Restaurant 1031 State St. 963‑6687. $$ Open 7 days.

Lunch & Dinner. V MC AE DC DV. Local SB favorite for over 25 years offers fast, friendly service in the heart of downtown. Dine outdoors in our heated courtyard. Enjoy new homestyle cui‑ sine like Chicken Parmigiana or Fresh Fish specials in a comfortable, roman‑ tic atmosphere. Vegan & Gluten‑ Free Pasta and Salad Options available. Wine & Beer. Full menu at: www.sbaldos.com

Japanese

NATURAL CAFE, 508 State St., 5 blocks from beach. 962‑9494 Goleta‑ 5892 Hollister 692‑2363. 361 Hitchcock Way 563‑1163 $. Open for lunch & din‑ ner 7 days. A local favorite for dinner.

Voted “Best Lunch in Santa Barbara” “Best Health Food Restaurant” “Best Veggie Burger” “Best Sidewalk Cafe Patio” “Best Fish Taco” all in the Independent Reader’s Poll. Daily Specials, Char‑Broiled Chicken, Fresh Fish, Homemade Soups, Hearty Salads, Healthy Sandwiches, Juice Bar, Microbrews, Local Wines, and the Best Patio on State St. 9 loca‑ tions serving the Central Coast. www.thenaturalcafe.com SOJOURNER CAFÉ, 134 E. Canon Perdido 965‑7922. Open 11‑11 Th‑Sat; 11a‑10:30p Sun‑Wed. SB’s natural foods landmark since 1978 Daily soups & chef’s specials, hearty stews, fresh local fish, organic chicken dishes,salads & sandwiches & award winning dessert . Espresso bar, beer, wine, smoothies, shakes & fresh juices sojournercafe.com

KYOTO, 3232 State St, 687‑1252.$$.

Open 7days M‑F 11:30a‑2p; Sat Noon‑ 2:30p Lunch; Sun‑Thur 5‑10p Dinner, Fri‑Sat 5p‑10:30p.Complete Sushi Bar. Steak & Seafood Specials! Sashimi, Teriyaki, original Japanese appetizers & Combination Boat Dinner. SB’s only TATAMI Rooms reservations suggested.

Beer, Wine & Sake.Take Out. Birthday customers get FREE tempura ice cream & photo on our website! KyotoSB.com

Steak HOLDREN’S 512 State St. 965‑3363 Lunch & Dinner Daily. Featuring $20 Prime Rib Wednesdays‑ USDA 12 oz Prime MidWestern corn‑fed beef char‑ broiled over mesquite; or try from our selections of the freshest seafood. We offer extensive wine & martini lists & look forward to making your dining experience superb! Reservations avail.

RODNEY’S Grill, 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard at The Fess Parker – A Doubletree by Hilton Resort 805‑564‑ 4333. Serving 5pm – 10pm Tuesday through Saturday.

Rodney’s Grill Menu is Fresh and New. Featuring all natural hormone‑free beef and fresh seafood, appetizers, and incredible desserts. The place to enjoy dinner with family and friends by the beach.

Private Dining Room for 30. Full cock‑ tail bar with specialty cocktails. Wine cellar with Santa Barbara County & California best vintages by‑the‑glass www.rodneyssteakhouse.com

Thai BANGKOK PALACE 2829 De la Vina St. 687‑1828 $$ Open M‑F 11a‑9p Sat 5‑9p Fine Thai Cuisine in an intimate authentic setting. $15min.+ $3 fee for deliveries. Beer/Wine/Sake.AX/Disc/ VC/ MC.WI‑FI www.BangkokPalace.co YOUR PLACE Restaurant, 22 N. Milpas St., 966‑5151, 965‑9397. $$.

Open Mon 4‑9:45pm Tues‑Thurs & Sun 11:30a‑9:45p, Fri/Sat 11:30a‑10:30p. V MC AE. Your Place ‑ The One & Only.

Voted “BEST THAI FOOD” for 26 years

by Independent and The Weekly read‑ ers, making us a Living Legend! Lunch & dinner specials daily. Fresh sea‑ food & tasty vegetarian dishes. Santa Barbara Restaurant Guide selected us as the Best Thai Restaurant for excep‑ tional dining reflected by food quality, service & ambiance.

WINE GUIDE Wineries/Tasting Rooms

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Falcone Family Vineyards Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon 2011 Anyone wondering what all the fuss is about Paso Robles cabernet sauvignon — or even cab in general, as we Santa Barbarans tend to be more focused on Rhône and Burgundian varietals — will get a quick lesson in excellence with this recent release from the husband‑and‑wife team of John and Helen Falcone, longtime Santa Ynez Valley vintners who own a small vineyard on Paso’s hot eastside. The wine is a mix of heady (with licorice on the nose, chalky minerality in the mouth) and hedonistic (delicious dark cherry flavors!), all presented on an phenomenally smooth canvas. Their 2010 Mia’s Vineyard reserve release is also fantastic, but a bit more complicated and herbally enhanced, so maybe best for those already addicted to the wonders of well‑done cab and ready to pay a tad more. See falconefamilyvineyards.com.

Wine Country Tours SPENCER’S LIMOUSINE & Tours, 884‑ 9700 Thank You SB, Voted BEST 18yrs!

Specializing in wine tours of all Central Cal Wineries. Gourmet picnic lunch or fine restaurants avail TCP16297 805‑884‑9700 www.spencerslimo.com

Wine Shop/Bar RENEGADE WINES: 417 Santa Barbara St. Ste A‑6, 805‑568‑1961.

Tues‑Fri 11a‑6p, Sat. 12‑6p. Sun‑Mon by appointment. SB’s oldest wine shop,

over 23 years same location. We are Santa Barbara’s premier wine retailer, offering a wide variety of local and imported wines. Our diverse assort‑ ment of wine comes from the world’s finest vineyards with prices starting around $9. View our full inventory @ www.renegadewines.com. We store your wine. 3000sq feet of temp. con‑ trolled wine lockers; 8 case lockers‑300 case rooms. Off‑street parking. 2 blocks from State St. (2nd driveway @ 126 E. Haley) Monthly tastings & private tast‑ ings available. We ship wine. Keep in touch: Facebook, Google+, Twitter

BABCOCK WINERY & VINEYARDS. 5175 HWY 246 Sta. Rita Hills. 805‑736‑ 1455 Open 10:30‑5 p.m. daily.

For 30 years Bryan Babcock has been honing his craft. Venture into beautiful wine country and savor his extraordi‑ nary collection of highly expressive sin‑ gle‑vineyard Pinot Noirs rarely offered outside of the winery. Sample highly acclaimed Chardonnays, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris. Cabernet and Syrah sourced from warmer SB Co. locales are voluptuous. Taste wine and shop for eclectic gifts in a newly ren‑ ovated, vintage inspired atmosphere. www.babcockwinery.com SANTA BARBARA Winery, 202 Anacapa St. 963‑3633. Open 7 days, 10a‑5p, small charge for extensive tast‑ ing list. 2 blocks from both State St & the beach. This venerable winery is the county’s oldest‑ est.1962, and offers many internationally acclaimed wines from their Lafond Vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills. Try some of Winemaker Bruce McGuire’s small production bot‑ tling.www.sbwinery.com WHITCRAFT WINERY, 36 S. Calle Cesar Chavez 730‑1680. Family owned & operated. Specialist in Pinot Noir .Est. 1985. In Sideways! 1 block from beach.

Tastings Fri/Sat/Sun 12‑4 & by appt. www.whitcraftwinery.com

The Restaurant Guy

+++++++++++++++ JOHN DICKSON

by JOHN DICKSON

It’s Tyme for

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eader Ruben let me know that Sushi Tyme restaurant has opened at -C State Street in the Paseo Nuevo mall, replacing Sakura Express, which apparently closed a few weeks ago. I stopped by and spoke with husbandand-wife owners Giho and Cindy Yoo, who tell me that they are in the process of having a large wall menu created for the business and will continue to offer Sakura’s menu of items for two or three weeks until the new artwork is complete. They will have a grand opening to coincide with the launch of their new menu, which will include salmon from Scotland, tuna from India, and albacore from South America.

Chef Giho Yoo says that he has been involved with sushi for more than 20 years, most recently working in Los Angeles and The Wynn Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. He was visiting the South Coast with his wife, and they both came to the conclusion that “Santa Barbara is paradise” and wanted to live here. He discovered that the owner of Sakura wanted to sell the business, so he bought it a month ago.

Sushi Tyme is open every day 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. For more information, call 963-9955.

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SUSHI TYME: Husband-and-wife owners Giho and Cindy Yoo will celebrate the grand opening of their new Sushi Tyme restaurant in Paseo Nuevo in a few weeks.

VILLA PIZZA TO OPEN DOWNTOWN: A sign

has appeared at  Anacapa Street that indicates the pending arrival of Villa Pizza, Wine & Beer. The official company name is Villa Winebar, LLC. The new business will be located in the retail space below Anacapa Villas, a few doors to the left of Arch Rock Fish restaurant.

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROPERTY: Reader PrimeTime tells me he is hearing that the Houston’s restaurant chain is looking at opening a restaurant — possibly under a different name — on Coast Village Road next to Jeannine’s. Houston’s has several locations under the Hillstone name. This is, of course, entirely rumor and speculation, which are two of The Restaurant Guy’s closest friends. When my wife lived in Santa Monica, we used to go to Hillstone for special occasions and usually ordered our favorite items on the menu: the Prime Rib or California Burger.

SPEAKING OF RUMOR AND SPECULATION:

Reader Barbara tells me she heard that Carpinteria Fosters Freeze might become a new location for The Habit burger chain, founded in Goleta in 1969. As always, this rumor might be completely false or a brilliant forecast of future events. Your call.

SEAGRASS MARKET MENU: Seagrass Restaurant

at  East Ortega Street will be offering a daily (Tue.Sun.) three-course market menu for $27.00 per person 5:30-6:30 and 8:00 p.m. to close. Their market menu is a fixed three-course, chef’s choice menu that rotates daily.

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DAILY GRIND UPDATE: I’m hearing that the second location of the Daily Grind, coming to the old Taco Bell at  De la Vina Street, is getting close to completion.

THE FRENCH TABLE UPDATE: Reader Jonathan says that The French Table at  East Anapamu Street is changing ownership. He also mentioned that the staff said that the new owner is planning to keep everything the same.

ISLA VISTA UPDATE: In early September, I wrote

that three restaurants were coming to Isla Vista. I knew the name of one of them, Blaze Pizza, but the others were somewhat of a mystery. I now know that the Plaza Lofts first floor (at  Embarcadero del Mar), currently home to Sorriso Italiano, will house two additional restaurants: Buddha Bowls and Best of China.

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BLUE AGAVE UPDATE: This just in from reader PrimeTime: “It’s true Brad at Aldo’s has bought Blue Agave, and the process to change the ownership and liquor license has begun. An ABC alcohol change-ofownership sign is up.”

LILLY’S UPDATE: In August I wrote that Santa Bar-

bara’s award-winning taco shop Lilly’s ( Chapala St.) is coming to  Storke Road in Goleta (formerly La Carreta), near Kmart. I stopped by to check it out and noticed that new location will be a big one. In addition to taking over the La Carreta spot, Lilly’s will be expanding into the space formerly occupied by two neighboring businesses.

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Legals Administer of Estate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ELIZABETH DOLAGHAN CASE NO: 1418903 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ELIZABETH DOLAGHAN A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: in the Superior Court of California, County of THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codcils, if any be admitted to probate. The will and any codils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an Interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 10/10/2013 AT 9:00 am Dept: Five Room: Judge Sterne SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court an mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Susan H. McCollum, State Bar No. 110950 Hollister & Brace 1126 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 963‑6711.

Published Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 2013.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: HARRY OLSON CASE NO: 1438065 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of HARRY OLSON A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: ELIZABETH WILLIAMS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The Petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an Interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

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A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 10/24/2013 AT 9:00 am Dept: Five Room: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93121. Anacapa Division. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court an mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: 4007 Via Lucero Apt. I Santa Barbara, CA 93110 Published Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 2013.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RODNEY ZIMMERMAN NO: 1438139 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of RODNEY ZIMMERMAN A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: LESLIE Z. BRECK in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LESLIE Z. BRECK be appointed as personal representatives to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 10/31/2013 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: Five Room: Judge Sterne SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Margaret V. Barnes #101560, Jeffrey B. Soderborg, #264666; Barnes & Barnes 1900 State Street, Suite M Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑687‑6660.

Published Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

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FBN Abandonment STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Ace Automotive at 5940 Onley Street #101 Goleta, CA 93117 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed May 13, 2013. in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑0001594.

The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Ricardo De Jesus 1335 San Julian Pl Santa Barbara, CA 93109;Shannon K Wong 227 W Haley Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 12, 2013 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. Published Sept. 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013 STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Varsity Bike Shop at 6547 Pardall Rd Goleta, CA 93117 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed Oct 06, 2010. in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2010‑0003039. The person(s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: George Misbeek 340 Old Mill Rd #184 Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 23, 2013 I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. Published Sept. 12, 19, 26.

Oct 3 2013

FBN Withdrawal STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following persons (s) has (have) withdrawn as partner (s) from the partnership operating under: YOGIBOGEYBOX 1830 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 06/25/2013 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑ 0002078.

The person or entities withdrawing use of this name are as follows: Matthew Adam Cook 1830 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sept 12, 2013. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk SEAL by Miriam Leon. Published.

Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following persons (s) has (have) withdrawn as partner (s) from the partnership operating under: JOYFUL HIGHER YOU 735 State Street Suite 534 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 10/22/2012 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2012‑ 0003084.

The person or entities withdrawing use of this name are as follows: Martha Hines 480 Whitman Street #95 Goleta, CA 93117 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sept 27, 2013.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk SEAL by Andrea Luperello. Published. Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: One World Still at 591 Rosa Linda Way Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Mark Drost (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Mark Drost This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 05, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong . FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002780. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: TT Imports at 216 W Mission Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Tony Foster (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Trevor Dunne This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 05, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002777.

Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Chuck’s Waterfront Grill, The Endless Summer Bar‑Cafe, Waterfront Grill at 113 Harbor Way Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Richones, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: George Stephen Hyslop, Secretary This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 19, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002607. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Stormtop Publishing at 1895 Augustenborg Place Solvang, CA 93463; Vahid Imani (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Vahid Imani This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002716. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26.

Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fairview Motors, Brake & Alignment at 664 S. Fairview Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Eric A. Hulsman 4990 Ponderosa Way Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Eric Hulsman This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002619. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26.

Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Vino Metate at 218 Helena Avenue Suites A & B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Metate Hill, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Michael Strange , Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 05, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑0002775.

Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nisthal Design at 1521 Laguna Street Apt 211 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Marisol Nisthal (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Marisol Nisthal This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 04, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez FBN Number: 2013‑0002769. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SCAPE, Southern California Artists Painting For The Environment at 631 N. Milpas St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Southern California Artists Painting For The Environment (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Lori Lenz, Treasurer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 06, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon FBN Number: 2013‑0002789. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Schott & Company at 215 West Figueroa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Stephen Schott (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Stephen Schott This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello FBN Number: 2013‑0002795. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lovebites at 2877 Exeter Place Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Zoe Vanessa Carter (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez.

FBN Number: 2013‑0002585. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Independent Nurse Consulting ROC, Meditemps, Rancho Oso Cazador at 1160 North San Marcos Road Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Carolyn J. Aijian (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Carolyn J. Aijian This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 27, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello . FBN Number: 2013‑0002703.

Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ex‑Parte Legal at 401 N. Milpas St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Richard L. Cain 314 W. Micheltorena Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Richard L. Cain This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 05, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales . FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002778.

Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Varsity Bike Shop Inc at 6547 Pardall Road Isla Vista, CA 93117; Varsity Bike Shop Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Dana Cornalino, VP This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales . FBN Number: 2013‑0002799.

Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: S & N Properties at 1000 Garcia Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Nitti Family Trusts 1951 W. Mountain Glendale, CA 91203; Spalluto Family Trust 1000 Garcia Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Carol Spalluto This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello . FBN Number: 2013‑0002695. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sundowner Sustainability Consulting at 820 State Street, 4th Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sundowner Sustainability Consulting LLC PO Box 21426 Santa Barbara, CA 93121 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Eleanor Kim, Managing Partner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 22, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez . FBN Number: 2013‑0002658. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bopteaboo Tartisan, Design Atelier, Sweet & Savory at 73 Alameda Padre Serra Santa Barbara, 93103; Jacqui Wou (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jacqui Wou This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 03, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002756.

Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Soj, Sojourner Cafe, Sojouner Cafe & Restaurant, Sojouner Coffeehouse at 134 E. Canon Perdido Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sojourner Coffeehouse Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Donna L. Mudge, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 03, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002751. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26.

Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Harbor Market at 125 Harbor Way #8 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Lisa Ann Clagg 925 Yanonali Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lisa Clagg This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 19, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello . FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002611. Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Ace Automotive at 5940 Olney Street #101 Goleta, CA 93117; Ricardo De Jesus 1335 San Julian Place Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ricardo De Jesus This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello . FBN Number: 2013‑0002522.

Published: Sept 12, 19, 26. Oct 3 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Alchemy On Demand at 1774 B Prospect Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Leslee Goodman 1351 S. La Luna Avenue Ojai, CA 93023; Hudson Hornick 1774 B Prospect Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Unincorporated Association Signed: Leslee Goodman This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002840. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rick’s Construction & Handyman Services at 2547 Pawnee Court Ventura, CA 93001; Ricardo Pedroza (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ricardo Pedroza This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002867.

Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Horvath Photography at 1054 Miramonte Dr. #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Anthony T. Horvath (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Anthony T. Horvath This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon.

FBN Number: 2013‑0002871. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Westside Dance Santa Barbara at 723 W Mission Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jennifer Phillips (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jennifer Phillips This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002842. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Summer Bizarre at 3732 Greggory Way #4 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Lee‑Ann Curren 525 San Onofre Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lee‑ Ann Curren This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0002856.

Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Tony The Tailor at 30 W. Mission #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101;Anthony John Marzio (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Anthony John Marzio This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 11, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002832. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Oberlin Pen Company, Oberlin Watch Company, Tempus Fugit Media at 2113 Castillo St. #B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; James Henderson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: James Henderson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 12, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales.

FBN Number: 2013‑0002847. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Circle H Studio at 776 W. Hwy 246 Buellton, CA 93427; David Heuer (same address) Kim Heuer (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Kim Heuer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 10, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Hector Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002816. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sage Construction Services at 1307 Salsipuedes St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Bruce M Burke (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bruce M. Burke This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002876.

Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tiki Pools at 633 Island View Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Michael Terry (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael Terry This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002813. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dos Carlitos Restaurant & Tequila Bar at 3544 Sagunto Street Santa Ynez, 93460; CLH Enterprises, Inc. 1212 Coast Village Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: CLH Enterprises, Inc. CEO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002859.

Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

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employment Admin/Clerical Sr. Administrative Assistant to Clinical Services & Quality Support Services At Cottage Health System, our facilities are state‑of‑the‑art and our physicians, nurses, technicians and staff are simply the best. Our shared governance environment gives you a voice in the organization and encourages the contributions, creativity and skills of every member of our patient care teams. If you are interested in taking your career to the next level, this is just what you’ve been looking for. Reporting to the VP of Clinical Services & VP of Quality Support Services, you will provide administrative and project support, as well as develop workflow processes and systems. Duties include answering phones, processing mail, coordinating meetings and retreats

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and arranging travel. You’ll also monitor all contracts and projects, manage meeting schedules for executives, and prepare routine correspondence and edit for grammatical accuracy, maintain appropriate online policies and procedures. Support direct reports for the Clinical Services & Quality Support Services Divisions, with scheduling meetings and travel, assemble agenda packets and work on special projects as requested, prepare and mail correspondence (most often “outlier” letters to physicians).

To qualify, you must have 5+ years experience supporting executive‑level professionals, advanced 2010 MS Office skills, excellent organizational and communication skills, including the ability to set‑up laptop, projector, conference calls. Experience with spreadsheets is required, including the ability to organize data into grids and

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Red Sand Market & Deli at 207 W Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Issam Danial 3374 San Remo Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sumaya Maida (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Signed: Sumaya Maida This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 10, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez.

FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002826. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Johnny’s Sheet Metal & Heating, Service Now at 879 S. Kellogg Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Bradley L. Reginato 158 Kinman Avenue Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bradley L. Reginato This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 11, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002829. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tiny Kitchen Stories at 1419 Salinas Place Santa Barbara, CA 93103; James St James (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Jennifer Lynne St James This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002711. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Terrabello Design Studio at 2750 San Marcos Ave. Los Olivos, CA 93441; Margaret Johnson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Margaret Johnson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Eva Chavez. FBN Number: 2013‑0002855.

Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A & A Import Service at 511 Richardson Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Emilio Valsecchi 233 W. Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Emilio Valsecchi This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 30, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002736.

Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santanas Tailoring at 117 W. Mission Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santana Bueno at 1716 Bath Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Santana Bueno. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002881.

Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: View at Your Own Risk Productions at 1733 Chino Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Oscar Gutierrez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Oscar Gutierrez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑0002687. Published: Sept 26.

Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Perez Tax Service at 4123 State Street, Suite 100 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Luis S. Perez 640 W De La Guerra Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Luis Perez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002807. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

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graphs, format cells and create reports with headers, titles, etc. You’ll also type 70 wpm, be proficient at Adobe Reader/Writer, and have the ability to work independently and exercise good judgment. An Associate’s degree and previous experience in a healthcare environment strongly preferred.

We offer competitive salaries and a very comprehensive benefits package, which includes pension plan and tax savings accounts. Please apply online at www.cottagehealthsystem.org.

EOE

This is the seventh year for this annual event that has “quickly become a part of Santa Barbara’s holiday traditions”.

This year’s show will be “The Spirits of Haddon Hall” featuring music from Britain and Europe drawn from the 12th to the 20th centuries, along with lively country dances, engaging story telling, and beloved rituals of the holiday season.

Performances will be at the newly renovated Lobero Theatre, December 21st and 22nd. Join us and by joyous!

For audition information, please email info@santabarbararevels.­org Check out www.­ santabarbararevels.org for more information on this outstanding performance group.

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Education

Male and female vocalists of all ages and skill levels are invited to audition for the 2013 production by the Santa Barbara Revels: The Christmas Revels: in celebration of the Winter Solstice.

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advocacy and education for the UCSB community. Responsible for providing immediate advocacy and crisis intervention for students, staff, and faculty who have been impacted by sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking. Responsible for working with the director and student staff members to coordinate and present educational programs, develop outreach strategies and materials, and support the general work of the Women’s Center and CARE program. Reqs: State certification as a sexual assault advocate and as a domestic violence advocate. Must possess specialized expertise and knowledge of the effects of sexual violence on survivors, as well as medical and legal options. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Must be able to work evenings and weekends. $3,980 ‑ $4,778/mo. Apply by 10/8/13 AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20130451

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Nomad Caravan at 4873 Kodiak Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Jessica Minter (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jessica Minter This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002806. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Poppins Parent Mentoring at 3803 Connie Way Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Michele Martin (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michele Martin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002944. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simjack Construction at 308 La Marina Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Brian Szymczak (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Brian Szymczak This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 06, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN Number: 2013‑0002792.

Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

Auditions/Casting

OPEN AUDITIONS for SINGERS:

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Grady Williams Associates at 829 Soledad Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Grady W. Williams (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 05, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002779. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lucky Penny at 131 Anacapa Street Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Acme Restaurant LLC 120 Presidential Way, Suite 300 Woburn, MA 01801 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Charlotte Villanueva This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002955. Published: Sept 26.

Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fire & Wine Catering, Fire And Wine, Fire And Wine Wood fired Catering, Fire And Wine, Wine Tours at 2910 Alamo Pintado #7 Los Olivos, CA 93441; Chris Rogers (same address) Gretchen Rogers (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Gretchen Rogers This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002875. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: South Coast Janitorial, South Coast Maintenance, Southern Coast Janitorial Services at 5940 Olney Goleta, CA 93117; Thomas D. Ramirez 205 San Napoli Drive Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Thomas D. Ramirez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑0002794. Published: Sept 26.

Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Clark Coastal Senior Care at 935 Cieneguitas Road Suite C Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Joseph F Clark (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Joseph F Clark This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002939. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Home Improvement Services at 132 Garden Street, Suite 13 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jon Bryan (same address).

This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jon Bryan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 20, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002934. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nomad Specialties at 831 W. Victoria Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Solitude Cyclery LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Damon Williams This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN Number: 2013‑0002815.

Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bolger Construction at 2431 Mesa School Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Timothy W Bolger II (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Timothy W. Bolger II This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002945.

Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Massage Kneads at 2315 White Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Keld Lohmann Hove (same address). This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Keld Hove. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 20, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0002937.

Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Econo Lube N Tune 4118 at 3956 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; L. Visco Enterprises, Inc. 915 Gold Circle Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Lisa Visco This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002946. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Res Calibration at 270 E. Highway 246 Suite 111 Buellton, CA 93427; Robert E Stokes Jr 483 Dairy Way Buellton, CA 93427 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert E. Stokes Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Eva Chavez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002890.

Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 3DIFY at 2019 Plaza Bonita Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Samuel Truby Robinson III (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Samuel Truby Robinson III This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002904. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hectic Tech at 655 Larchmont Place Goleta, CA 93117; Jeffrey P Heckey 6289 Westmoreland Place Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jeffrey Heckey This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002998. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

October 3, 2013

UPO Universal Peace Organization Civil Participation Service‑Learning Education Assistance

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Big Drum Marketing at 2815 Verde Vista Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jay Klanfer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jay Klanfer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 27, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑0003001.

Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Hermosa Painting LLC at 1224 Bath Street #A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Hermosa Painting LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Nancy Ulmer, Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0002999.

Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Benchmark Properties at 405 Calle Granada Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Susan U. McHale (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Susan U. McHale This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002942. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Gordon And Grant Hot Tubs And Spas at 628 East Haley Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Gordon And Grant Redwood Tanks, Inc. 423 North Quarantina Street Santa Barbara, 93103 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gary Gordon This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luperello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002927.

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Nursing • Utilization Management Case Manager – Per Diem Staff RNs • Med/Surg – (Per Diem) Float Pool • MICU • NICU • Pediatrics • Pulmonary, Renal • SICU • Surgery

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Non-Clinical • Administrative Assistant • Cook – Part-Time • Environmental Services Representative • Floor Care Representative • Librarian II • Security Officer – Per Diem • Senior Administrative Assistant • Senior Employee Relations Consultant • Systems Security Coordinator • Workforce Development Coordinator

• Physical Therapist – Per Diem • Recreational Therapist – Per Diem

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital • RN – Med/Surg – Per Diem

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital • Clinical Nurse Coord. – ICU • Clinical Resource Nurse – Emergency • CNA – Per Diem • RNs – Emergency, Med/Surg, ICU • Wound Care Center

Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories • Anatomic Pathology Tech • Client Services Rep – Temporary • Clinical Lab Scientist – Microbiology • Certified Phlebotomy Techs • Histotechnician • Laboratory Assistant • Laboratory Manager – Microbiology • Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com

• RENTAL & RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR SELECT FULL-TIME POSITIONS • CERTIFICATION REIMBURSEMENT

We offer an excellent compensation package that includes above-market salaries, premium medical benefits, pension plans, tax savings accounts, rental and mortgage assistance, and relocation packages. What’s holding you back?

For more information on how you can advance your future with these opportunities, or to submit a resume, please contact: Cottage Health System, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689. Please apply online at www.cottagehealthsystem.org.

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Montecito Bank & Trust A premier performing, privately‑ owned, community bank, serving the tricounty area for more than 38 years, in seeking motivated and qualified individuals to lead and manage the Goleta Branch and support the Banking Services Department. Come join our team in providing a World Class Experience for our community, our customers, and our associates while making Montecito Bank & Trust the BEST place to work and the BEST place to bank!

Branch Manager – Goleta Immediate opening for an experienced Branch Manager to build and expand relationships and increase profitability by generating, evaluating and successfully closing on a wide range of consumer and business deposit and loan activities.

The Branch Manager will also lead, manage, direct and motivate branch associates to maintain standards of high performance and deliver exceptional customer service.

Successful candidate will have Bachelor’s degree, or commensurate banking experience.­ Candidate must have a minimum of four years sales and supervisory experience; along with the ability to be registered as a Mortgage Loan Originator (MLO) through the NMLS agency.

established by the Institute of Internal Audits and the University of California Internal Audit Manual. Plans, prioritizes, manages, and performs multiple projects and tasks. Reqs: Possess a Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, business administration, computer science or a related field. Three to five or more years of relevant experience.

Notes: Fingerprinting required.

Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑ Notice Program. $4,778 ‑ $5,577/mo. Open until filled AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs. ucsb.edu. Job # 20130375

POT WASHER

ORTEGA DINING COMMONS This Monday thru Friday position includes meals! Washes pots and bowls that are too large for the dish machine and performs essential daily cleaning and sanitation of kitchen equipment, counters, walls, and floors. Assists the custodial crew with regular cleaning as necessary. Reqs: Ability to speak English and must have vocabulary sufficient to communicate effectively with all staff and train new workers on an on‑going basis. Notes: Fingerprinting required.

Able to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for extended periods of time.

Schedule M‑ F, 10am ‑ 6:30pm. Days and hours will vary in Summer. $14.46 ‑ 15.34/hr. Apply by 10/8/13 AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20130448

Service Center Specialist ‑ Goleta Immediate opening for a Service Center Specialist to provide a World Class Experience to our customers by answering, resolving and researching customer requests and inquiries regarding bank products and services.

SENIOR ARTIST

DAVISON LIBRARY Responsibilities include using a wide variety of media, graphic‑design software and artistic techniques to Successful candidate will have excellent conceptualize, design, and produce oral and written communication original print and digital graphical skills and ability to answer phones materials that promote Library services, professionally. High School diploma collections, events, exhibits, and new or G.E.D. along with one year of initiatives.

Promotional materials experience in retail banking is required. include, but are not limited to, print advertisements, building signage For more information, contact us at: and floor maps, publications such as careers@montecito.com or visit: www. newsletters and annual reports, indoor montecito.com and outdoor banners, invitations, digital signs, exhibition labels, website banners, EOE/AA, M/F/D/V logos, and posters. Reqs: Associate’s degree in graphic design or related field Professional and at least three years of experience in graphic design or any equivalent AIRLINE CAREERS – Become an combination of experience, training and Aviation Maintenance Tech. FAA education. Expertise with current design approved training. Financial aid if software, including Adobe Illustrator, qualified – Housing available. Job InDesign, and Photoshop. knowledge placement assistance. CALL Aviation of print production methods; proficiency Institute of Maintenance 877‑492‑3059 with digital photography; strong time and project management skills, including attention to detail and ability to multi‑ task. Notes: fingerprinting required. M‑ F, 8‑5, may include some nights and weekends for events. $21.99 ‑ $26.75­ /hr. For primary consideration ASSISTANT OMBUDS apply by 10/7/13, thereafter open until OFFICE OF THE OMBUDS Provides consultation to undergraduates, filled. AA/EOE Apply online at https:// intake for all cases, and administrative Jobs.­ucsb.edu Job# 20130452 support. Interacts by phone and in person with faculty, staff and Sales/Marketing students. Manages and analyzes Retail Marketing Analyst, Point of departmental statistical data. Processes financial transactions and maintains Sale Displays, sought by Sonos, Inc. in budget reports. Reqs: Bachelor’s Santa Barbara, CA: Forecast & track degree, or equivalent combination of mktg & sales trends, analyzing collected education and experience. Excellent data to measure the effectiveness of the communication, interpersonal, and co.’s mktg, advtg, & communications programs & strategies. BS in CS or rel. analytical skills. Ability to maintain confidentiality and neutrality. Ability & 5 OR MBA in Marketing & 3yrs. exp reqd.

Reqs frequent travel, incl overseas. to prioritize and meet deadlines with frequent interruptions. Sound judgment, Send resume to: Sonos, Inc./Human Resources, 223 E. De La Guerra, Santa organizational skills and attention to Barbara, CA, 93101. REF. JOB TITLE. detail. Ability to take initiative, and cope with stress. Proficiency in databases.

Positive attitude and sense of humor Social Services desired. Note: Fingerprinting required. $21.00 ‑ $23.00/hr. Open until filled. PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs. needed at Nuvelles Developmental Services Hollister Day Program. We ucsb.edu Job #20130436 seek creative, energetic applicants to work w/individuals with developmental disabilities. Duties include leading activities such as arts & crafts and games, leading community outings & providing personal care assistance. If AUDITOR II you want a position which will make AUDIT & ADVISORY SERVICES a difference in the lives of others, this Responsible for planning and conducting is the job for you. What we offer: a wide variety of audits, advisory services, M‑F day shift, paid training, CPR cert., and investigation projects. Performs and health ins. Apply in person at Novelles documents audits and advisory services Developmental Services, 7300 Hollister in accordance with the International Ave. Goleta, CA 93117. Please call 805‑ Standards for the Professional Practice of 968‑5360 for more info. Fax resumes to Internal Auditing and Practice Advisories 805‑968‑8008.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Bling Cartel at 558 El Sueno Road Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Ulises Gutierrez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ulises Gutierrez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 30, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0003014. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Revival Spray Tanning & Asthetics at 11 W. Figueroa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kristy Anne Merino 130 W. Figueroa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kristy Merino This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002809. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wonderful Wine Co at 35 Industrial Way Buellton, CA 93427; BWSC, LLC 795 Folsom Street, 1st Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Partnership Signed: Alexander Oxman This statement

was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002875.

Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brandel Hall The Smith Health Care Center, Heritage Court, The Samarkand at 2550 Treasure Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Covenant Retirement Communities West 2710 Gateway Oaks Drive Suite 150N Sacramento, CA 95833 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Grant Erickson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 04, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002758. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hoozdaboss Blessings at 2315 Red Rose Way Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Ronald E. Eger This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ronald E. Eger This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002975. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gundi Rentals at 319 W Ortega Street Apt A Santa Barbara, CA 93101‑5593; Marta G. Cruz‑Concepcion (same address) Mark A. Rincon‑Ibarra (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Marta G Cruz (Mark Rincon) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 19, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002927. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Wright Center For Orthodontics at 111 W. Micheltorena Street #100 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Wright & Hudson Dental Group, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Chad M. Wright This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 18, 2013.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002914. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

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IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF MURIEL ANNE TAYLOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1418879 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: MURIEL ANNE TAYLOR TO: M AMELIA TAYLOR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING Nov 20, 2013 9:30am, Dept 6, 1100 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara CA 93101.

A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Sep 29, 2013.

by Narzralll Baksh; Deputy Clerk for James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE File No. 7301.29171 Title Order No. 6869607 MIN No. APN 063‑010‑08 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 04/07/09. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in §5102 to the Financial code and authorized to do business in this state, will be held by duly appointed trustee. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to satisfy the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the property address or other common designation, if any, shown herein. Trustor(s): ANDREW CURTIS LUCCHESI, A SINGLE MAN Recorded: 04/14/09, as Instrument No. 2009‑0020310,of Official Records of SANTA BARBARA County, California.

Date of Sale: 10/09/13 at 1:00 PM Place of Sale: At the main entrance to the County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA The purported

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PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 877‑ 484‑9942 or 800‑280‑2832 or visit this Internet Web site www.USA‑ Foreclosure.com or www.Auction.com using the file number assigned to this case 7301.29171. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date: September 10, 2013 NORTHWEST TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC., as Trustee David Ochoa, Authorized Signatory 1241 E. Dyer Road, Suite 250, Santa Ana, CA 92705 866‑387‑6987 Sale Info website: www.USA‑Foreclosure. com or www.Auction.com Automated Sales Line: 877‑484‑9942 or 800‑280‑ 2832 Reinstatement and Pay‑Off Requests: 866‑387‑NWTS THIS OFFICE IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE FILE # 7301.29171 09/19/2013, 09/26/2013, 10/03/2013

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