THE WEEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
LIVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Living Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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Bikes Belong
COVER STORY
Why Santa Barbara Is a City for Cycling (Brandon Fastman)
ON THE COVER: Illustration by Ben Ciccati.
ENDORSEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . 11
NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
OPINIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Food & Drink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
A&E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Arts Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Theater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Pop, Rock & Jazz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Positively State Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Arts & Entertainment Listings . . . . . . . . 50
FILM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
ODDS & ENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Ben Bycel analyzes the national piñata attack on racist Donald Sterling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . independent.com/ethics
Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . 58
CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Movie Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Dining Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Restaurant Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Angry Poodle Barbecue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
RAY FORD
Ed France
EASY RIDERS
Some things change, but these four Santa Barbara Independent staffers always arrive to work on bikes. From right, majordomo Nick Welsh sits astride his 28-year-old Michael Celmins custom, which has seen a few surgeries in its time. Artist in residence Ben Ciccati, an incurable tinkerer with a fleet of ever-changing bikes, is posing with his Greg “Lemon” cyclocross commuter. Dr. Brandon Fastman awarded himself this Gold Coast bike when he completed his PhD and writes about it in this week’s cover story. And if you haven’t seen our Big Shot Paul Wellman on his Trek mountain bike around town, outfitted to carry all his photo equipment and enough provisions to survive the first month of the zombie apocalypse, then you probably don’t live in Santa Barbara.
CAITLIN FITCH
volume 28, number 435, May 15-22, 2014 PAUL WELLMAN
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Arabian Nights, Camerata Pacifica, Ray Ford’s photos from the frontlines of Branford Marsalis, and more reviewed Lompoc’s scary blaze . . . . . independent.com/fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . independent.com/reviews
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