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WHO KNOWS WHOM: Were it not for the longtime friendship of Barry Cappello (above, center) and Leo Martinez (below), the major shift in S.B. politics may never have happened.

City Election Sea Change Santa Barbara to Initiate New District System This November

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lthough a few i’s remain to be dotted and few t’s to be crossed, the Santa Barbara City Council voted 6-0 to settle a lawsuit charging that the at-large elections City Hall has conducted since 1968 have yielded “racially polarized” results as defined by the California Voting Rights Act. The five plaintiffs who brought the lawsuit pointed out that only one Latino — Cathy Murillo — had been elected to the council since 2000, even though Latinos make up 38 percent of the population and 24 percent of eligible voters. As part of the settlement, the council agreed to begin holding district elections this November when three seats come up for grabs.

Boundaries for the six new districts will be drawn up after the public weighs in during four public meetings, the first one taking place this Saturday. According to the terms of the settlement, two of those six districts have to be made up of a “minority-majority,” meaning that Latinos make up a majority of their residents. In addition, City Hall will pay the plaintiffs $599,500 to cover legal fees and the cost of hiring expert witnesses thus far. Mayor Helene Schneider and City Attorney Ariel Calonne both noted that City Hall’s liability could have been as high as $3.5 million had the case gone to trial.

No California city has successfully defended itself against accusations of “racially polarized voting,” and under the terms of the settlement, City Hall makes no admission. “The city has not admitted the existence of racially polarized voting and will not do so,” Calonne said. When asked what the demographic experts hired by the city determined, Calonne replied, “In looking at Santa Barbara and school district elec10

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tions, you see that some Latino candidates can win elections and some cannot.”

Calonne and Schneider both stressed that the key victory City Hall achieved was in preserving the public’s ability to take part in the districtdrawing process. “Rather than having a court draw the map, it was of huge value to the council that the public retain its ability to participate,” Calonne said.

“Now the big work begins,” exclaimed Leo Martinez upon hearing news of the settlement.

A former city councilmember and longtime advocate of district elections, Martinez — who lives in New Mexico now — qualifies as godfather to the legal action, even though he could not be a plaintiff by dint of his home address.

Were it not for Martinez — a longtime personal friend of famed Santa Barbara litigator Barry Cappello — it’s doubtful Cappello would have taken the case. “Had we not had Cappello, we wouldn’t be here today,” Martinez stated.

Cappello and Martinez first met when Martinez ran for City Council in 1973, and Cappello, then the city attorney, fought to ban him from running based on residency requirements. Martinez took the matter to court and ultimately

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prevailed. He also won the election. Despite this bumpy start, Martinez voted not to fire Cappello as city attorney when he had a chance to do so.

(It’s hardly coincidental that two of the other plaintiffs — Frank Bañales and Ben Cheverez — are longtime friends of Martinez; the three helped start La Casa de la Raza more than 40 years ago.) Out of that beginning, an abiding relationship developed between Cappello and Martinez that will fundamentally change how politics is conducted in Santa Barbara for some time to come.

“I hope it results in more diversity on the City Council,” said Murillo, herself ambivalent about district elections. Murillo has long argued that candidate development, not district elections, is more important in getting Latinos and other minorities to run. Now that she’s preparing to campaign for a second term in office, Murillo said she’ll be running as the Westside’s candidate.

Commenting on the changing political landscape, Schneider said, “It will be like electing a mayor of each district. People are going to have to pay more attention to what’s happening where they live.” Under the current at-large system, Schneider noted, voters throughout the city could vote for three candidates — from anywhere in the city — each election cycle. Now voters will get to choose one council candidate every four years, in addition to the mayoral candidate of their choice.

Four of the suit’s five plaintiffs — Bañales, Cheverez, Jaqueline Inda, and Sebastian Aldana — have signed the settlement agreement. The only holdout is Cruzito Cruz, a perennial council candidate and activist, who declined repeated requests for interviews. After Cruz stopped talking to his own attorney, Cappello initiated legal actions to discharge Cruz as his client. That matter should be resolved this Friday.

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Ryan Zietlow-Brown (pictured) was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years and four months in prison after pleading no contest to felony charges of attempted murder and of mayhem, with the special allegation of a hate crime. ZietlowBrown, associated with the neo-Nazi skinheads, stabbed an African-American man several times in the forehead with scissors after a lunchtime altercation on State Street in 2011. He had been awake for five days high on methamphetamine at the time of the attack.

A Santa Maria jury found Daniel Castillo guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of Adolfo Pozos, 16, and Casila Pozos, 49, both killed when Castillo drove a 12,000-pound forklift backward at full speed into the car the young man was driving in 2013. Castillo had used methamphetamine prior to the collision. Sentencing is scheduled for 3/19; Castillo faces 13-15 years in prison.

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Manuel Munoz (pictured), 65, was sentenced earlier this month to 75 years in prison for molesting his two grandsons between 2007 and 2009. They were 5 and 10 years old at the time; their mother is Munoz’s daughter. The case divided the family, with many relatives believing Munoz over the boys. “You didn’t win,” said one of the victims in court. “I’m still standing, I’m still strong, and I always will be.”

Santa Barbara County experienced five traffic accidents in a three-day period that killed three and injured 20. Alcohol, unworn seatbelts, and slick roads from this weekend’s rain contributed to the volume and severity of the incidents. Read the full reports at independent.com.

Mystery Spill Under Investigation

An unknown amount of a “rusty chemical liquid” spilled onto the beach earlier this month near the Sandpiper Golf Course and Venoco’s facilities, but what the substance is and where it came from is still being investigated. Kristen Hislop, a Coastal Commission enforcement officer, said the liquid came from a pipe, but who the pipe belongs to remains unclear as is the amount that spilled because much of it was absorbed by the sand. Test results are expected later this week.

Valerie Kushnerov, spokesperson for the City of Goleta, said city officials have spoken with golf-course and Venoco representatives. Kushnerov said the city’s initial queries don’t suggest the spill presents any “imminent” health concerns but that “out of an abundance of caution,” the incident has also been referred to the state’s Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources and the county’s Environmental Health Services division. Officials from County Fire, the Coast Guard, the State Lands Commission, and California Fish & Wildlife are also reportedly involved.

Keith Wenal, a safety manager for Venoco, said the liquid — which the company believes to be water — didn’t “originate from Venoco.” A manager for Sandpiper declined to com— Lyz Hoffman ment.

Lompoc police officer John Reya was arrested 2/20 on domestic violence charges, marking the fourth arrest of a Lompoc officer in less than a year. The other three officers arrested this year are Det. Matthew Hill, for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend and brandishing a gun; Sgt. Joseph Stetz, for felony vandalism and making criminal threats after a domestic dispute; and Officer David Garcia, for DUI.

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Sound walls started going up in Alameda Park this week to buffer nearby residents from the audio assault associated with drilling a new city well. The old Alameda Park well drilled about 20 years ago failed when its steel casing corroded. The new one will go 700 feet down and is expected to produce 400 gallons of water per minute. Engineers estimate it will take three weeks of 24-hour work to make the hole.

Engineering work on two new bicycle and pedestrian bridges slated for the Eastside — one over Cacique Street and one over Soledad Street — got the green light on 2/24, as the City Council voted to authorize $442,000 to cover design, engineering, and permit costs. Some have questioned why the bridges will not allow cars. Traffic officials said they determined based on public outreach that nearby neighborhood residents did not want vehicles crossing.

Plans to build a new warehouse and headquarters for Direct Relief was designated a “community benefit” by the City Council this week. Direct Relief hopes to occupy 8.5 acres of real estate now owned by City Hall near the Santa Barbara Airport. The designation is significant because city build-out policies over the next 20 years call for 1.35 million square feet of nonresidential growth, of which 600,000 should be earmarked

“community benefit.” The project will consume 110,000 square feet of that total.

COUNTY UCSB announced Tuesday it will donate $70,000 to construct a permanent 4.5-foot fence along a 1,400-foot section of the Isla Vista bluffs. The county will handle the building and subsequent maintenance. Following the death last year of 20-year-old UCSB student Sierra Markee-Winkler, a temporary barrier was installed. MarkeeWinkler’s parents, as well as a group called Fence Isla Vista, advocated for a more permanent project.

Kardashian-style wedding-throwers beware: A bill introduced by Assemblymember Das Williams would allow counties to impose beefier fines on those who hold large events without a permit. As it stands in Santa Barbara, the maximum fine is $100 for a first offense. Under AB 514 — which the county is supporting — the maximum fine would be 10 times the cost of the permit. The Montecito homeowner who hosted Kim Kardashian’s 2011 wedding was fined $100 after the event, which drew 300-plus guests, tons of neighbor complaints, and hours of traffic.

The Interior Board of Indian Appeals dismissed an appeal filed by the county prior to the federal approval of the Chumash Camp 4 application, with the caveat that the county can raise the same issues in the subsequent appeal it filed over the approval itself. The now-dismissed appeal came after the Bureau of Indian Affairs stated that annexing the 1,400 acres would have “no significant impact” on the surrounding area.

As he stood in front of a new articulated bus, SBCC student trustee Nicholas Steil recalled “horror stories” of whole groups of students left behind in Isla Vista after buses packed to capacity sped past their stops. After a trial lease in 2012 of one bus — which holds 40 percent more passengers than a traditional bus — the Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) secured $2.2 million for three more. Running along the 15x express route between SBCC and UCSB, the new buses have received nothing but “fantastic” and “overwhelmingly supportive” reviews from students, said MTD General Manager Jerry Estrada.

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BY K E L S E Y B R U G G E R ight months after Elliot Rodger’s mass murder in Isla Vista, the Santa Barbara Sheriff ’s Office released a highly anticipated report that recaps hundreds of investigative documents on the May 23 rampage. Rodger acted alone, the report found, when he stabbed three UCSB students to death in his apartment several hours before he drove through Isla Vista’s streets, fatally shooting three more UCSB students and injuring 14 other victims before taking his own life. Rodger had planned the attack for more than a year.

Questions about the murders in Rodger’s apartment lingered in the months following the incident. Initially, it was thought that Rodger must have drugged the three victims, but toxicology tests found no drugs. Two knives in Rodger’s black BMW— a six-inch SRK (survival rescue knife) and an eight-inch “boar hunter” — were confirmed to be those used to brutally stab his two roommates and their friend. From the positions of the bodies, investigators determined Rodger had attacked them one at a time, hiding the bodies and cleaning the murder scene between killings.

Roommate Weihan Wang, 20, was found deepest in the bedroom he shared with Cheng Hong, most likely ambushed there first, investigators surmised. Rodger next murdered Hong, also 20 years old, and dragged his body into the bedroom. In the cell phone records of the final victim, 19-year-old George Chen, he had called Wang around 1:30 a.m. on May 23, and they spoke for about a minute and 10 seconds.

Chen called Wang six times between 2:43-3:04 p.m., getting no answer. Detectives did not know when Chen got to the apartment, but his body was found in the bathroom, directly opposite Wang and Hong’s bedroom. All three victims had dozens of stab and incision wounds to their upper bodies, as well as defensive injuries. Chen was stabbed 94 times.

Detectives found Rodger’s room in disarray, his bed sheets and pillows slashed and stabbed, a shirt and jeans caked in dry blood tangled in them. Energy drinks, video games, and lottery tickets were scattered around. A handwritten journal open to May 23, 2014, read: “I had to tear some pages out because I feared my intentions would be discovered. I taped them back together as fast as I could. This is it. In one hour I will have my revenge on this cruel world. I HATE YOU ALLLL! DIE.” His laptop was open to his “Retribution” video that described his intentions. A printed copy of his 137-page manifesto independent.com

— which he emailed to several people just minutes before embarking on the shootings — was also found. Internet records revealed multiple Nazi-related searches.

The report outlines what happened after approximately 9:15 p.m. through eyewitness statements, dispatch records, radio chatter, and law enforcement reports. Rodger first drove to Alpha Phi sorority and, unable to enter the house, shot three women on the sidewalk, killing two: Veronica Weiss and Katherine Cooper.

For the next eight minutes, Rodger crisscrossed Isla Vista, shooting at five deputies, wounding seven students — killing Christopher MichaelsMartinez — and ramming seven bicyclists and skateboarders with his car.

Near Little Acorn Park, deputies ran into the road as Rodger drove past, several shooting at him, one hitting him in the hip. Rodger slammed into one last bicyclist, who was flung onto the hood of the car, before fatally shooting himself. Deputies found the bicyclist near the car after it crashed and, thinking him a second subject, handcuffed him for 3-5 minutes before realizing he was another victim and starting oxygen and wound compression.

Though Rodger was never hospitalized for psychological reasons, the report indicates he suffered from mental-health problems and received treatment throughout his life. He had no prior history of aggression. At age 15, he was prescribed Xanax and Prozac, but he stopped taking them, writing in his journal that he would instead “have to rely entirely on my mind and positive thinking” to overcome his shyness. A therapist had recommended a residential treatment facility with daily therapy for him. He struggled with anger, jealousy, and basic social skills, and he sought help from three counselors in Santa Barbara, attending 29 sessions in the year before the murders. He also met with a Los Angeles–based life coach, who warned Rodger’s mother about the manifesto and email sent out the night of the murders.

In his introduction to the report, Sheriff Bill Brown wrote that studies show the annual rate of mass shootings in public places is trending upward, with 160 in the United States between 2000 and 2013.“In the aftermath of such senseless tragedies, the question always asked is, What can be done to save lives by preventing similar crimes in the future?” he wrote.“Unfortunately, there is no single or simple solution to the complex problems that lie beneath that ■ question.”

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For the first time in more than eight years, the county supervisors got a raise this month, boosting their yearly pay 12 percent from $84,200 to $94,164. Next month, a six-member committee assembled by the county CEO’s office will suggest to the board how they could go about handling the process in the future.

Formed late last year at the supervisors’ behest, the committee brought together Santa Maria City Councilmember Jack Boysen, Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce President Ken Oplinger, Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association President Joe Armendariz, Montecito Bank & Trust leader Janet Garufis, former Lompoc Chamber of Commerce head Chris Ames, and CMC Rescue Human-Resources Director Deb Horne. In their four meetings, the last of which was held this week, the group concluded that supervisors’ salaries should be reexamined every three years and looked at through the lens of what their counterparts in other counties earn.

Comparable counties pay their electeds considerably more than what the Santa Barbara supervisors earn, and several of them tie wages to a percentage of superior court judges’ salaries. (In Sonoma County, for example, each supervisor makes $162,151, or 75 percent of what judges there earn.) The committee also found that had the supervisors received raises between 2007-2014, the cumulative increase would have been greater than their recent boost. Santa Barbara County’s supes, even with the raises, take home less than the average department head ($167,200) and assistant department head — Lyz Hoffman ($128,360).

news briefs cont’d ment for “rubber stamping” permits authorizing offshore fracking without adequately reviewing the effects on marine life and coastal environments. The Center’s complaint states that the Department of the Interior, among other defendants, is in violation of three separate laws. The lawsuit could affect all federally permitted offshore fracking, including the 15 platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel.

The rest areas at Gaviota — used by more than one million people every year — reopened on 1/23 following 10 months of repairs and renovations, Caltrans announced. Plumbing work in two restroom buildings was upgraded, and low-flow, automatic shut-off water fixtures were installed, as well. Additional work on the electrical system, tile, paint, landscaping, and irrigation was also completed during the closure, which started in April 2014. The project cost $927,000.

HEALTH Cottage Hospital administrators report no superbug infections linked to contamination from a recently approved endoscope used to examine bile ducts in the lower intestinal tract. Industry sterilization procedures have proved insufficient to disinfect the scopes, and two patients at the UCLA Medical Center have died as a result of antibiotic-resistant infection.

As many as 179 were infected. Cottage said it has added an additional step to the sterilization process that exceeds the manufacturer’s suggestion.

STATE Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson and Assemblymember Das Williams recently introduced legislation to address sexual assaults on college campuses. Jackson’s bill specifically targets community colleges and would permit them to expel or suspend students for “egregious” behavior they commit off campus. Williams’s package of bills proposes a measure to require campus judicial affairs departments to consider suspending a student for two years or expulsion for sexual assault. Another Williams bill requires academic transcripts to note if a student is found guilty of committing sexual assault. The current UC system only notes a dismissal.

On the heels of Patricia Arquette’s plea for equal pay for women in her acceptance speech at the Oscars, Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson announced a bill that would strengthen laws already on the books to ensure women are paid the same for work that is comparable to their male colleagues’. Though the gender wage gap is smaller in California, women only earn 84 cents to the man’s dollar, Jackson said, and Latinas earn just 44 cents.

PEOPLE More than 1,000 people donated $55,000 at a barbecue fundraiser for Senior Sheriff’s Deputy Dan McSkimming at the Goleta Elks Lodge on 2/21. McSkimming, a 16-year veteran of the department, suffered a stroke last August when a blood clot in his neck was released during a chiropractic adjustment. He has made major strides since then but has mounting medical bills and isn’t receiving worker’s comp. Around 300 people have donated more than $60,000 through an online GoFundMe account.

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Traveling to Return to Freedom’s Jalama Road ranch from Portland, Maine, Corah Hanlon’s (pictured) wish to meet Spirit, the horse featured in her favorite movie, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, came true. With a big smile, the 6-year-old, who suffers from a life-threatening medical condition, petted the Kiger Mustang and fed him apples, carrots, and grass with her parents in a trip arranged by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Carpinteria High School senior Arianna Lopez was one of 31 young women nationwide to win a Girls Inc. National Scholar award to cover college costs. Lopez scored $20,000; she will go to SBCC in the fall and hopes to transfer to UCSB and study graphic design, photography, and journalism. In her 14 years with Girls Inc., Lopez has volunteered 2,600 hours.

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CHARTING THE COURSE: Isla Vista residents talked tax options last Saturday at Anisq’Oyo’ Park.

Divide and Conquer Opinions Split over Isla Vista Self-Governance

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wo different yet complementary efforts are taking place in Isla Vista to clamp down on the rowdy college bubble and give a voice to those inside. The challenge is to develop creative ways to stabilize I.V. while giving residents the power to control their own destiny.

Last week, members of the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) — made up of city, county, and special district representatives — voted to send a letter of concern to Sacramento regarding Assemblymember Das Williams’s recent effort to establish a watered-down version of cityhood in Isla Vista, commonly referred to as a community service district (CSD). All but two commissioners — Supervisors Doreen Farr and Janet Wolf — agreed that Williams’s bill, AB , would wrongly bypass the standard LACFO process.

The letter also asked a series of questions: Which services would be included in the proposed CSD? What would happen to the Isla Vista Recreation & Park District? What would be the roles of UCSB and Santa Barbara City College? Would new taxes be levied?

What’s currently on the table is the shell of a bill outlining a CSD that would be capable of implementing taxes and naming Isla Vista representatives. The tax revenues could enhance existing services, pay for landlord-tenant mediation, create a planning commission, or install additional lighting, among other options. “In my mind, a modest community service district could provide some measure of good services for as little as $4 million to $5 million [annually],” Williams said. The letter is “not the end of the world,” he added.

Since the bill was first introduced in December, the public-input process has been notably energetic, with about 20 students and homeowners attending weekly meetings to discuss improvements in an area spotlighted by recent crimes and civil unrest.

None of the LAFCO commissioners have said they are against creating a CSD, but they contend Williams’s bill seeks to delete the intergovernmental group from the equation.

“AB  should have never existed. It’s wasted

time,” said commissioner and Carpinteria Sanitary District representative Jeff Moorhouse, clarifying that the public meetings are useful because a community group could file an application with LAFCO to start taking the proper steps.

But some activists also argue that LAFCO has done little in the past several decades to help establish a special district in Isla Vista; attempts at cityhood have also failed several times. Plus, they say, Williams’s legislation gives the special district freedom to be more flexible in its choice of representation and taxation than that allowed by the standard LAFCO process.

At a town-hall meeting this Saturday, community members gravitated toward the idea of implementing a utilities users tax (UUT) — like the City of Santa Barbara’s — because renters and owners would both have skin in the game.

Dissenting from the other LAFCO commissioners was Farr, who represents Isla Vista in the county’s rd District and who has joined forces with Williams’s office. On Saturday, Farr expressed disappointment over the letter, calling the decision to send it “premature.” She added the latest efforts to wrangle Isla Vista are still in their early stages and said she hopes LAFCO will take another look at its options.

The majority of LAFCO commissioners have also raised their eyebrows at the bill because it is ambiguous and does not spell out how the CSD would operate. “They fear the unknown. That’s understandable,” said Ali Guthy, UCSB student body president.“It’s all up in the air at this point.” But, she added, public conversations are ongoing. “We weren’t telling them not to [send the letter]. We were telling them to wait,” Guthy said. Last week, UCSB Associated Students unanimously voted to support Williams’s measure.

Among the mix of I.V. activists is 33-yearold Jay Freeman — head of the multimilliondollar computer software company Cydia — who has lived on the outskirts of Isla Vista for 15 years and is among the hardcore advocates who champion full-blown cityhood. A city cont’d page 14 could, for instance, take

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TWO-WHEELED WISDOM: John Burke, president of Trek Bicycle Corporation, speaks during a recent fundraiser at his house.

Bike Sharing Is Caring

If John Burke has his way, Santa Barbara will soon join 700 other cities around the world with a bike-share program. Last Friday, Burke, the president of Trek Bicycle Corporation, met with community leaders at Chamber of Commerce offices to pitch the concept. Then, during a fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Bicycle Coalition at his Montecito home on Sunday, he made the first public pronouncement that he would put his resources into making the program a reality.

Bike shares allow users to temporarily rent bicycles from kiosks strategically located around a city and return them to a different kiosk. It costs $2.50 to rent a Citi Bike in New York City for 45-75 minutes. A $6 pass in Columbus, Ohio, will get you unlimited access for 24 hours. Monthly and annual passes are also available for most bike-share programs.

Some businesses in Santa Barbara, like Sonos, have internal bike fleets.

Ed France, executive director of the Coalition, which will do the heavy lifting of advocating for bike share, said, “This city is more set up for bicycles than any other city in the world.” With 30,000 people traveling to Santa Barbara to work or visit every day, he thinks there would be ample demand. Maggie Campbell, executive director of Santa Barbara Downtown, was generally enthusiastic about the possibility. “Santa Barbara is full of destinations in close proximity but not close enough to walk,” she said. Having quick and cheap access to bicycles would “expand peoples’ world” to new destinations where they may spend their money, she added. City College could easily support five stations on its campus alone, said VP of Finance Joe Sullivan, who is heading up a new Transportation Alternatives pilot program at the college. It would give students living on the Mesa access to downtown, and it would allow students who live elsewhere in the city to get to campus without choking up traffic or overloading buses.

Preliminary discussions will eventually give way to considerations of political will, financing, and concrete details like size and scale. Campbell noted that aesthetics must also be part of the conversation. “The function will have to be of equal importance to the form in a city like Santa Barbara where we have a lot of design review.”

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over police and fire services rather than just augment them as a special district would.

Many remain skeptical that cityhood is viable. Thirteen years ago, a feasibility study completed when Goleta incorporated found that I.V. does not generate enough revenue to become its own city. The Bacara Resort and Camino Real Marketplace — bringing in transient occupancy and sales taxes — are crucial to Goleta’s financial viability.

In the past decade, Isla Vista’s population has increased by several thousand, but without a hotel or large commercial outlets, its revenue remains small. With the potential for extra taxes, Freeman believes cityhood could be viable; he at least wants to verify that it’s not. To that end, he has pledged to spend $70,000 on a financial feasibility study, and this week he filed paperwork for the creation of a nonprofit called I.V. Is a City to collect the funds. “Everyone’s working in the same general direction,” Freeman said, adding he would ultimately support a community service district if cityhood is not achievable.

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“There’s this emotional problem of being able to blame other people — partly because it might be correct to blame Goleta, to blame the county, or to blame UCSB for everything,” Freeman went on. “I think it’s really difficult to make progress until it’s not possible to blame anyone.”

Also problematic is that the state dissolved Redevelopment Agencies in 2012, ending the roughly $6 million Isla Vista received annually for enhanced infrastructure — i.e., landscaping down Pardall Road, newer housing, sidewalks, and bus stops.

Currently, Isla Vista property owners pay a special tax based on their property value and number of bedrooms. Bob Geis, county Auditor-Controller, estimated that to be about $150 annually per property.

AB  could still involve LAFCO in a variety of ways, and it remains to be seen what the exact bill language will look like. Williams has until March 16 to amend the bill so it can be assigned to a policy committee.

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he long-dormant fight to carve 1,000 acres of breathtaking Gaviota real estate along both sides of Highway  into 72 parcels — a k a the Naples Project — just woke up. Matt Osgood, whose bankruptcy in 2010 put the development of Santa Barbara Ranch into a state of suspended agitation, is back, hoping to revive his old project with a new ownership structure. Osgood and his brother Mark, a real estate investor, enticed Chinese-American investor David Liu of Arcadia to buy the Naples property for $44.5 million.

Liu presides over Standard Portfolios Asset Management, which formed in 2009 and was reported STILL IN THE SCENE: What part is Matt Osgood playing to have soon invested about $480 in the latest Naples drama? million in 8,000 rental units and condos in Texas, Florida, Maryland, and AriAs for Matt Osgood and his role in the zona. Mark Osgood reportedly was an agent development, the picture is hazy. Is he an in the Arizona deals. Liu, who owns a com- owner, partner, or consultant hired by Liu? pany that manufactures and sells patio furni- “I’m not privy to disclose that,” he said, adding, ture, made his fortune in Chinese real estate, “I’m involved with developing the vision and Osgood told the Wall Street Journal; Liu’s entry executing the plan.” While those in the landinto Santa Barbara’s real estate market marks use universe contend there’s no such thing as the first major infusion of Chinese investment “bankruptcy virgin” among real estate developcapital on the South Coast. On paper, such dra- ers, Osgood’s financial crash — in which he left matic transactions should dazzle county land- his bank holding a $63 million note and other use planners, but county planning chieftains investors sizable amounts — could come back are anything but sold. And based on the agree- to haunt him. Some opponents in the enviment Osgood negotiated with the county, the ronmental camp have suggested his financial county’s director of Planning and Development demise should give Russell pause when it (P&D) must consent to the property transfer. comes to assessing the “reputation” of the new Since Osgood went belly-up in 2010, two developers. But if so, Russell isn’t saying. “The other entities have sought the county’s approval word that comes to mind about Osgood,” he to transfer ownership from First Bank, which said,“is tenacious. Tenacious.” held the paper on Osgood. Both appeared suffiTo move the project forward, he’ll need to ciently endowed with financing and reputation be. When Naples started, it was about 450 acres. to carry the controversial development to frui- Now it’s about 1,000. For environmentalists tion. But on closer examination, both flamed concerned about the Gaviota Coast, Naples out in spectacular fashion; one of the would-be qualifies as the proverbial line in the sand. buyers had a string of 30-40 bankruptcies to Multiple county approvals — each one involvhis name. ing a balancing act of land-use policy making With this history in mind, Glenn Russell, the — are required. Each one entails a battle royale county’s director of P&D, has been more than a before the Planning Commission and then the little skeptical when it comes to green-lighting County Board of Supervisors. The California any new owner’s resources and reputation, the Coastal Commission has to sign off on anytwo criteria by which a denial of consent can thing that happens on the ocean side of the be legally justified. Russell expressed chagrin proposed project. It also has to give its blessings at how little information Standard Portfolios to major infrastructure improvements with provided. “There was nothing,” he said of the coastal endpoints, essential to the 50 approved application. “There was nothing about how lots on the inland side. To date, the Coastal much money they had, and there was noth- Commission has looked seriously askance at ing about their reputation, so there was noth- these. ing for me to go on.” Last December, Russell Some have speculated the arrival of Chinese rejected Standard Portfolios out of hand. Since investment capital could give Osgood serious then, there have been lots of questions but not staying power against environmental oppomany answers. Although Matt Osgood and his sition. Whether such conjecture qualifies as attorney have met with Dianne Black, assistant smoke or fire has yet to be determined. In the director of P&D, to discuss plans for bringing meantime, Liu and Osgood have appealed Rusthe Naples project out of mothballs, no one sell’s denial to the Board of Supervisors. When at the county has laid eyes on Liu, let alone that is depends on when they provide answers met him. “He’s just a mythical being,” Russell to Russell’s questions. In the meantime, Osgood commented. said, he’ll be assembling that information. ■

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Of Mega Dogs and Mega Droughts WATT, ME WORRY? I don’t know how many dogs Joshua Haggmark kicks when he gets

home, but out in public, he manages to exude a good-natured, if harried, sense of the absurd.

His survival no doubt depends on it. Ours does, too. Haggmark was recently put in charge of the City of Santa Barbara’s water department just as the teeth of the current drought first crunched bone. When he took over, Santa Barbara found itself confronting three of the hottest, driest consecutive years of recorded history. By then, Santa Barbara’s network of wells had grown dangerously arthritic. The city’s long-neglected network of purple pipes making up the reclaimed water system was officially declared dead. The Gibraltar Reservoir had been rendered useless by massive quantities of silt generated by the Zaca Fire, and Lake Cachuma was on its way to becoming a mud milkshake.

And now, we’re in year four.

In recent weeks, Haggmark has been charged with securing the necessary permits to reactivate the city’s desalination plant, built 24 years ago for $34 million in response to the last great drought and then quickly shut down after torrential rains. Today, desal qualifies as City Hall’s nuclear option, the red button you push when all else fails. To keep that option alive, Haggmark found himself forced to convince two powerful state agencies — the Regional Water Quality Control Board and the California Coastal Commission — that Santa Barbara didn’t need their stinking badges, because we already had all the

permits we needed. It was a tough sell. And for a lot of good reasons. For starters, the city’s desalination plant is so antiquated the computers in its control room still have floppy disks. With the number of desalination plants proposed for the California coast jumping from 18 in 2006 to 26 in 2013 — two of which are $1 billion behemoths capable of producing 50 million gallons of water a day — the two aforementioned state boards decided California needed a coherent statewide policy. According to the policy developed thus far, Santa Barbara’s desal plant could never be approved and permitted today.

To protect nearby aquatic critters from getting sucked in, squashed, ground up, and otherwise dismembered, new plants need to pump their water from intake wells sunk far beneath the ocean floor. By contrast, Santa Barbara’s intake pipes lie right on top of the ocean floor. For the record, neither state agency was comfortable with this. Making matters worse, it turns out the regional water board seriously screwed up when originally permitting the city’s desal 24 years ago. It failed to make one of two key findings absolutely required at that time — namely that every effort had been made to spare the surrounding sea life. To rectify this omission, current water boardmembers were being asked to travel back in time and make that finding after the fact. Otherwise, there would be no red button to push. Understandably, some boardmembers balked. This was, as they say, highly irregular and unprecedented. The factual evidence used to support this finding — based on

biological studies conducted 30 years ago and 40 miles away — was flimsy back then. It hadn’t gotten any better with the passage of time. In the end, the boardmembers held their noses and endorsed Santa Barbara’s plant. But Haggmark would lose eight pounds in sweat before they did so.

More recently, the Coastal Commission had a bite at our desal apple. Many of the commissioners found the ossified technology troubling in the extreme. Just two months prior, they’d deepsixed a billion-dollar desal plant proposed in Huntington Beach that would deploy the same ocean-floor intake as Santa Barbara’s. Commissioners asked sharp, probing questions. The chair exhorted Santa Barbara to enter the 21st century. But in the end, they voted unanimously in Santa Barbara’s favor. Santa Barbara wasn’t asking permission to build a new plant; it was seeking approval to repair an existing one. The commissioners had no choice.

I’m struck by the lack of debate within the environmental community. It’s true, some activists have shown up regularly, arguing the desal plant will inflict unacceptable levels of “entrainment and impingement” on nearby sea creatures. But anyone using words like entrainment (sucking larvae in) and impingement (pinning smaller fish up against intake screens) — has transcended the realm of popular comprehension. Given mounting concern about Climate Weirdness — and now Mega Drought — I’m also surprised more hasn’t been made of the greenhouse gases generated in the

production of vast quantities of power needed to run desal plants. According to some water conservation advocates, the plant will consume the energy equivalent of 1,322 new households.

To produce that, all 90,000 city residents would have to pedal their bikes four hours a day. Every gallon of desal water, they say, produces a gallon of CO2. Chilling stuff. Given 50 percent of our water consumption goes for landscaping, one would think we could conserve our way out of this mess without having to pull the trigger on a $42 million “reactivation” project. One would also think if City Hall covered the cost of building the plant by charging customers according to how much water they actually used, consumption would be curtailed so fast and furious desal would be rendered unnecessary. (But then, what if it doesn’t rain?)

Naturally, it ain’t that simple. Montecitans have cut back water consumption by nearly 50 percent in the past year. That’s a good thing, right? But because of reduced water sales, annual costs for the Montecito Water District now exceed revenues by about $6 million. In other words, Montecito went deep into the red by keeping its lawns brown. The district is now considering a conservation surcharge on its customers’ water bills; the more customers conserve, the higher the rate of the surcharge.

Last year, we were told Montecito was going bone dry. Now, district managers are exhorting customers to use more. In an absurd way, it makes perfect sense.

In the meantime, I hope Joshua Haggmark can keep on smiling. But if I were a dog, I’d keep — Nick Welsh a safe distance.

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All I really know for sure so I made a big, big mistake by moving is that Time Warner Cable to Santa Barbara instead of Bakersfield. I paid the Dodgers $8.35 bilknow, I know, I’ve poked fun at B-Town, lion (that’s with a B) for “the Paris of the San Joaquin Valley,” its rights to carry the games. high crime rate, its killer air quality. But if But TWC hasn’t been able to get other major cable I lived there, I could look forward to doing outfits to also carry the something Santa Barbarans aren’t likely to games. Or something. be doing this year: watching the Dodgers There’s more, much on TV. more, that you don’t want I pay a huge tariff to Cox every month for the opportunity to tune in on hundreds to hear about, which, as of unwatchable junk programs, unless you you might suspect, involves consider Swamp People quality fare. But mergers among the cable does Cox put the Boys in Blue on the tube? kings and, of course, federal okays of the mergers.

No. Or something.

Why? Money. Billions of it. All regular, normal people in Southern California Unless you live in an want to do is sit back after a day of earning area served by TWC and a few tiny cable outfits, like enough to pay the IRS and relax watching PLAY BALL! The Dodgers may be playing, including millionaire pitcher the Dodgers — except for the unfortunates one in Bakersfield, you’re Zack Greinke, but Santa Barbarans won’t be watching. who cater to the Angels and Frisco (there, I out of luck. said it, and I’m not sorry) Gintz.

I think much of the fans’ We fans don’t ask much, only to stare at our doing something useful to society, like cleaning frustration stems from a boyhood (or girlhood) giant flat-screen TVs and see if the former Trol- out the garage. love of playing the game and probably imagley Dodgers, transplanted from Brooklyn, can So why can’t we tune in and turn on, like ining oneself out there running, batting, and finally get to the World Series. At this point, those in the L.A. Basin, who get the games on throwing, a skill I didn’t quite have enough of they don’t even have to win. Just get there, for Time Warner Cable? I hesitate to try to explain to make it to the “Bigs.” I put in my time on a Pete’s sake. All we want to do is watch multi- why we’re shut out. The byzantine negotiations rocky field on Chicago’s South Side, batting with millionaires running around playing a kids’ are exceeded in grim determination, greed, a battered Louisville Slugger and trying to hit a game. It would take a bleacher full of shrinks and selfishness only by what’s going on in poor ragged ball held together with electricians’ tape. to explain why we do this when we could be Ukraine.

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At a reception earlier, 16-year-old Isabelle Walton Masters, a Santa Barbara High student, waited to chat with her idol. When asked if she would like to be a chef, Isabelle, already a dedicated cook, replied,“I think that would be fun.”

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But the truth is, I’m not moving to Bakersfield, even to watch Greinke earn his pathetically crappy $23 million this year. I’d rather clean out the garage — unless Swamp People is on.

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They were deceptive and a lie. She always has seemed to be an honest and sincere politician who wouldn’t stoop to something like this. The ads were created by sleazebags on the level of Karl Rove. And just as Rove’s stuff, which George Bush approved, showed what kind of person Bush was, by Capps not only approving of the ads but also not apologizing, it shows what kind of person she is, as well.

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enjoyed your humor issue of February 19; I practically rolled on the floor as I read about a bona fide right-wing Republican suing Lois Capps for defamation of character. That is somewhat akin to Torquemada characterizing critics as guilty of religious bias. I also don’t approve of what the Capps team did, glad though I am to see her in D.C. again.

Then there was that parody in Capitol Letters [independent.com/mega-drought] that hilariously claimed that James Inhofe, a rabid climate-change denier, ended up as chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Even the terminally cynical Republican Senate leadership wouldn’t go that far. It was a joke, right?

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he office of Santa Barbara’s Sheriff Bill Brown released its investigation of the tragic Isla Vista shooting on the first day of the Chinese New Year in a spectacular display of racial insensitivity. Three of the UCSB students slain were of Asian-American descent.

This is a time of celebration and joy for that community.

The Sheriff ’s Office was apprised of the cultural sensitivities involved by UCSB authorities but did not change its

timing for the report’s release. The department is in dire need of multicultural training. Waiting a few days would not have changed the facts, and it would have spared a few suffering families additional pain.

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The next time you see someone stranded in the middle of the road, please don’t get angry. Just ask if you can help.

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I devour The Santa Barbara Independent every Thursday, but I miss the long, well-researched, and well-written feature articles usually found in the Los Angeles and New York Times. No more. Tyler Hayden’s “Game of Drones” [independent.com/drones] was everything a news junkie like me wants and needs: awesome, thorough color pictures; no typos; great syntax; lead-in sentences to each subtopic; no jumping over pages for the end; interviews and quotes of a wide range of experts and involved people.

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Glen Edward Daley

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Glen Edward Daley, , of Montecito, passed away peacefully on // after a lengthy illness, surrounded by his loving friends and family. He is survived by his wife, Sally Daley, of  years,  children and  grandchildren.

Glen was born on April , , in Turlock, California, and graduated from Hilmar High School in . Glen was an honorary member of the Oxnard High School Class of “,” as he and his wife Sally loved to socialize with their many friends and classmates at class reunions and annual Christmas parties.

Glen moved to Santa Barbara in  where he practiced as a barber. He was president and founder of Daley’s Barber and Beauty Supply, originally in Carpinteria, before moving the business to Oxnard. In , Glen sold the business to Maley’s Beauty Supply and semiretired. But because of his love for people and his passion for work, Glen continued to do sales from his home and car for many years thereafter.

Glen was a long-time member of the Elks Club, initiating the Elks Lodge  in Goleta, and served as Exalted Ruler from . Glen was an avid hunter and outdoorsmen. He had a passion for auctioneering and auctioned for numerous charitable events in the Santa Barbara area, including auctions for Ducks Unlimited. He was a committed member of the Ventura/Santa Barbara chapter of the Turtle Club and at one time had more than  turtles in his care.

Most importantly, Glen Daley was a loving husband, a generous and caring father and an amazing friend to so many. He will be greatly missed, but we honor his wonderful life and incredible spirit. May he rest in peace.

A graveside service will be held at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, Friday, February , at  am with a reception to honor Glen’s life to follow at the Elks Lodge  –  N Kellogg Ave, Santa Barbara CA,  – () -. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Silverado Hospice at Silverado Senior Living Facility and The Alzheimer’s Association of Santa Barbara.

Judy Stafford Macneil

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Judith Stafford Macneil left us on February , .

She was born to Lillian Hague and Rodney Stafford Sr. on April , , in Fall River, MA. Judy was still young when her family moved to Long Island, New York, where she grew up on a small farm with her seven siblings. Judy loved to travel and explore far away places. She 20

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lived in St Croix, USVI, for many years. After a short visit to Santa Barbara, she fell in love with it and moved here in . She quickly adapted, embraced and loved everything about the Santa Barbara life style. She especially loved the farmers market, gardening, walking through Santa Barbara to admire the landscape, unique houses and beautiful plants and flowers. Judy worked  years as a Registered Nurse, many of those years at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Once retired from nursing, she became a realtor of Pitts and Bachman and then Sotheby’s. She is preceded in death by her son Jerry Schultz Jr., mother, father and one brother; and survived by her daughter Kristi, her granddaughter Samantha, her five sisters, one brother and many, many nieces and nephews. One of Judy’s final wishes was to have her ashes joined with her sons on Santa Cruz Island. For everyone who knew Judy, please remember her as the vibrant, fun, caring, giving, energetic person she was. Memorial Celebration of Life to be held Thursday, March th, , at  Santa Barbara St. at : am. In lieu of flowers please make donations to CFIDS.

with fervor, determination and hope. Even with all the words of the English language at your disposal, the complete beauty of Lola Nava Guerra could not hope to be adequately described.

She is survived by her husband Jess, their  children,  grandchildren,  great- grandchildren, her brother (Julian) and her sister (Rose Marie).

Her family thanks all for their wishes and their prayers. Lola held a place in our hearts that will never be filled again.

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Lola Nava Guerra

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Lola Nava Guerra was a woman of indomitable courage, tremendous talent and infectious vivacity.

Born to Mexican immigrants (Julian and Refugio Nava), she began her life in East Los Angeles the th of  children. Here, she spent much of her time at the Divine Savior Presbyterian Church, an institution that would come to have a very deep place in her heart and a large impact on her life.

It was at the Divine Savior that Lola began to develop her beautiful voice. She began singing in the church choir, but at the age of  she was asked to sing for Gospel Recordings (a record company that specialized in religious music). These recordings were sent all over the world, from South Korea to South America.

Lola continued to sing for the rest of her life, performing in yearly concerts with choral groups and as a soloist. She sang solos in many weddings; one prominent coral group was the Mizelfelt Corale, known for doing the Messiah in Spanish at Christmas. She enjoyed performing long through her retirement years.

In , needing her television fixed, she coincidentally reconnected with an old high school classmate and television repair man, Jesus (Jess) Guerra. The two fell in love and enjoyed a -year marriage.

In  the two moved to Goleta, California, where Lola immediately took an interest in the local community. She helped start the preservation of the Ellwood Butterfly Preserve. But she was also a social activist: demonstrating peacefully in favor of The Farmworkers Union, The Organic Farm Movement and The League of Women Voters. She touched the next generation through her years of working with the Migrant Education program in local schools.

Being one of the first Hispanic families in the neighborhood did not stop Lola from doing anything she set her mind to. And it is this indomitable spirit that has both touched and shaped the community that she called her home until her death this last December.

To describe Lola Guerra accurately, one would need to read the pages of the dictionary

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aunts, uncles and cousins who cared deeply for him. A celebration of Jeff ’s life will be held at a later time for family and friends. Throughout his adult life, Jeff received support from the Adult Congenital Heart Association. He wanted to increase awareness of the need for continued research and innovation required to meet the complex challenges of managing adult congenital heart disease. Memorials may be sent in memory of Jeff Parker to the Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA),  Henry Ave. Suite , Philadelphia, PA  or made online at www.achaheart.org/get-involved/donate/ tribute-donation-form.aspx. Thank you, Jeff, for your strength and resilience; for not letting obstacles stand in the way of leading a full, meaningful life; for never hesitating to express gratitude to those you loved and cared about; and for taking time to show others love and compassion. You will always be our inspiration.

And although we are painfully sad, we will hold close your sacred memory in our hearts. You made a difference in so many lives. Time for us to part now, We won’t say goodbye, Look for me in rainbows, Shining in the sky.

// – // Parker, Jeffrey Michael (Age ). Jeff Parker, our cherished son and brother left us on January  as a result of congenital heart complications. Jeff was born on August , , in Grand Island, Nebraska. On the day he was born, a brilliant rainbow filled the sky, a symbol of hope and promise. And that is how Jeff lived every day of his life. Thanks to the exceptional cardiology care Jeff received in the early months of his life in Nebraska and from Dr. Hrair Garabedian when our family moved to Spokane in , Jeff lived an active and full life. Jeff had an intense love for life, and he lived his with determination and persistence. He was warmhearted and had genuine concern for others. Above all, Jeff had a wonderful sense of fun, and his life was filled with humor and plenty of laughter. His unforgettable blue eyes, beautiful smile and charming personality endeared everyone. Jeff treasured his family and many good friends.

He enjoyed snowboarding, riding his dirt bike in the Texas foothills, boating, being physically fit, playing the drums, and hanging out with his beloved dog, Hank. He loved music and watching movies, especially his favorite childhood movies. Jeff liked being active and on the go, but he equally valued having long, quiet conversations with the people who were most important to him. Jeff ’s unrelenting, life-loving spirit gave him a strong desire for freedom and independence. He wanted to be all he could be for himself and others. Jeff was blessed to have great friends. However, he considered his two brothers, Jason and Joe, who shared the joys of growing up and who supported him through challenging health issues, his most devoted and trusted friends. Jason, Joe and Joe’s wife Molly’s dedication, skilled care and unquestionable love were a priceless gift that made the difference in Jeff ’s quality of life during the last two months.

Our family would like to express gratitude and appreciation to everyone at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas, who came to know and care about Jeff. Special thanks to Dr. Hari Mallidi, Dr. Leo Simpson and the Heart Transplant Team and to the amazing, dedicated nursing staff that comforted Jeff every day.

We are also grateful for the prayers, love and support received from family and friends. Jeff attended Hutton, Sacajawea, and Lewis and Clark. After high school, he spent several years in Santa Barbara, California. He returned to Spokane for a short time and then moved to Austin, Texas, where he built a successful pool service business and lived for the past seven years. He is survived by his loving parents Dennis Parker and Sue Rasmussen (Richard); his brother Jason (Stacy); his nieces Marley Ann and Ila Jane; his brother Joe (Molly); his nephew Sullivan; his loyal dog Hank; and his loved

on Fairview, Santa Barbara Medical Clinic, and Channel City Lumber.

Eli enlisted in the US Navy in  and proudly served six years before being Honorably Discharged with a permanent disability retirement in . He achieved the rank of Engineman, EN, serving on the USS Ingraham FFG-, and USS Shoup DDG-, where he was responsible for the maintenance of the RAST (Recovery Assist Secure and Traverse) system of the helicopter flight deck. Eli was deployed to the Persian Gulf in  before his medical condition forced his transfer to shore duty at the Naval Emergency Operations Center in Everett, WA. While stationed there, Eli met and lived with the love of his life, Skye Bryand. Together they enjoyed life with a close circle of friends.

Skye remained Eli’s best friend and partner during his Naval career and when he moved nearer to family in Grass Valley, CA. The Bryand family is hosting a private memorial service at their residence in Stanwood, WA, on February , .

It is a common and understandable phrase to hear at this time,“Sorry for your loss,” because Eli is no longer here in person. Yet a stronger phrase keeps rising to the forefront: “Grateful for the gift,” the gift of his presence, his infectious smile, the mischievous twinkle in his eyes, his encyclopedic trivia knowledge, and loving heart. When people inquire how to help or contribute, we ask only that you reach out to love a family member or friend to keep that spirit alive and light the way. Life is good; everyone can be a candle.

Thomas Oliver Moulds // – //

A memorial service was held at Goleta Beach Park on February , , where family and friends gathered despite the rain to celebrate and share memories of Eli Mooney’s life. A military funeral honors ceremony was performed by members of the US Naval Honor Guard, with the playing of taps and folding and presenting of the US burial flag. Many participated in a paddle-out beyond the surf break of the Pacific Ocean, then surfed while others tossed flowers into the wave wash from the beach to bid Eli’s spirit a fond farewell. Eli’s cremated remains will be buried at sea from a deployed US Naval ship.

Eli died peacefully in his sleep on January , , at his home in Grass Valley, CA. He was  years old and had been battling multiple medical conditions for several years. Eli’s love for family and friends motivated him to reconnect with many of them in the months before his death, and for that we are very grateful.

Eli’s gift was always to find fun in life, and he spread laughter with his wonderful stories every chance he got.

Eli was born July , , in Nashua, New Hampshire, to his parents Kelly (Burke) Spaulding and Stuart Mooney Jr. Eli’s family also includes many aunts, uncles, and cousins, along with his brothers; Josh (predeceased), Luke, and Christian (Critter) Mooney, sisters; Megan (Mooney) Peterson and Sierra Spaulding, stepsiblings; Aimee (Spaulding) Borneman and Bart Spaulding, nieces and nephew; Alison Mooney, Kyla Peterson, Tatum, and Rylen Borneman, brother-in-law Catlin Peterson, stepfather Blair Spaulding, stepmother Betsy Mooney, and grandparents; Gail (Kit) Rhodes, predeceased

by Harold Burke Jr., Bernice Mooney, and Stuart Mooney Sr. Eli grew up in Santa Barbara and Goleta, CA, skateboarding, surfing, playing seasonal sports, and living life as a true “Goleta Local,” frequenting Ellwood Mesa, R Beach, Sands, and Campus Point. He graduated from Dos Pueblos High School, attended Santa Barbara City College, and worked various jobs at Freebirds Burrito in Isla Vista, Chevron gas station

Thomas “Tom” Oliver Moulds died peacefully and surrounded by family on December , , at the age of .

Tom was born on March , , to Oliver Lloyd and Ruby Wahl Moulds in Santa Barbara, CA. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in  and served in the U.S. Navy in WWII aboard the Escort Carrier U.S.S. Sergeant Bay. He later graduated from the University of Washington and served in the Civil Service for over  years in missile telemetry engineering and range safety at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

In his younger years, Tom was an avid outdoorsman, mountain climbing guide, fisherman, and hunter. He was a passionate and pioneering amateur “ham” radio operator (WVRZ) throughout his life, earning his license as a teen in . He achieved many radio ratings and certifications and was an active and long-time member of A.R.R.L. and A.R.E.S. Additionally, Tom was a proud member of the EAA, as he was a skilled pilot and skydiver most of his life. He especially enjoyed experimental and aerobatic aircraft. Tom was also an active and long-time member of the Sierra Club, the Lompoc Elks, as well as the Minutemen.

Family and friends will always remember Tom for his incredible charm, rapier wit, constant humor, brilliant intellect, bright blue eyes, dashing smile, and his smooth radio voice.

Tom is survived by his children, Michelle (Steve) Yows and Michael (Carol) Moulds, his former spouse, Mary Mayes Bacho, four grand-

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children, and his many nieces and nephews.

In addition to his parents, Tom was preceded in death by his siblings, Richard Wahl Moulds, Alyce Moulds Pierce, and Sue Moulds Cramer, and his st cousin, Janet Wahl Pauly.

A celebration of his life is planned for February , , at : p.m. at the Lompoc Municipal Airport. His cremated remains will reside at the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Nathaniel Michael Dovign // – //

BY D I A N A O P L I N G E R oe Scher’s pragmatism and penchant for sound

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Over more than 30 years — 10 spent as company president — Joe grew Enterprise from a small company advice was obvious early on. At 24 and just start- on Chicago’s South Side to a major industry competitor. ing out, he was asked by a friend whether it was He went on to the advertising specialty industry and a acceptable to get a haircut during the workweek and discount eyeglass chain. He also partnered with his son count it as a business expense or if he should wait until Mark in the commercial real estate business, developing the weekend. Joe answered,“If it grows on company time, and acquiring over three million square feet across the it can be cut on company time.” His wit and wise counsel western United States. earned Joe admirers; his kindness and loyalty brought Eleanor and Joe moved to Santa Barbara in 1981. When him friends and the love of family; and his generosity Eleanor passed away unexpectedly, Joe married his dear and vision strengthened the communities he called home. friend of over 40 years, Lila. They spent the next 22 years Born in Chicago in 1924, Joe was never one to mince enjoying life, family, and friends together, traveling, and words. Covering his frustration in the face of verbose helping strengthen their community. answers to simple quesJoe was as committed to tions, his wife of 22 years, giving back as he was to busiLila, said, “He would often ness. A philanthropic force, snip, with a smile,‘I thought he served on the board of I understood until you the Santa Barbara City Colexplained it.’ ” lege Foundation for nearly 20 Joe’s impatience was years, including two years as often gilded with his sense president and later emeritus. of humor, with sayings such Foundation Development as “I need that like a moose Director Gretchen Hewlett needs a hat rack!” That remembered Joe as “clearimpatience may have been eyed and unsentimental tied to the ambition born about the mission of comof a Depression-era childmunity colleges and espehood. His family, Jewish cially attracted to the colimmigrants from Hungary lege’s promise of providing tools for people from every and Lithuania, struggled as Joe was growing up, moving background to become criti11 times in 10 years, somecal thinkers and contributtimes in the middle of the ing members of the local and night. broader communities.” He Years later, he recounted supported a broad spectrum to his daughter Julie, “The of programs and initiatives fact that my parents strug— including an entire digigled, always, had a definite tal arts computer laboratory effect on me … I didn’t — for single-parent students, want to have the struggles the Luria Library, and theater my parents had, and I and studio arts scholarships. made up my mind that that Joe also served on the MENTOR TO MANY: Whether marketing paint or wasn’t going to happen to board of the Jewish Federafundraising for a nonprofit, Joseph Scher dedicated me. Their whole life, my himself to success. tion of Greater Santa Barbara for 18 years, setting fundparents lived paycheck to paycheck … If there was a raising records and helping missed paycheck, it was a disaster in the house. When you to transform the organization. He and Lila funded the listen to that through your whole childhood, it really has Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center library and supported programs ranging from weekly free lunches for an effect on you.”

While money might have been scarce, a sense of eth- seniors to Holocaust education and aid for local survivors ics and morality at home was not. Joe said he grew up to early child care.“To say that the [federation] would not with a very strong sense of right and wrong and believed be where it is today without Joe Scher would be a huge steadfastly in always telling the truth. Returning from understatement,” said Michael S. Rassler, executive direchis World War II service as a cryptographer in the South tor. “Joe was there at the beginning, on the ground floor Pacific, Joe finished college at the University of Illinois on of the organization, helping to raise funds and rally supthe GI Bill while also taking some classes at Northwestern porters.” Joe also took on the presidency of the board of University, where he met his first wife, Eleanor (1926- Camerata Pacifica and served as a director of Speaking of 1991), the mother of his four children, Marilyn, Mark, Stories while generously supporting the Music Academy Julie, and James. of the West, Hillel Foundation, and many other organizaAfter a few tries on his own but in need of a job, Joe tions. He was a founding member of the Scleroderma became a salesman with Enterprise Paint Company. He Research Foundation along with his late daughter-insinglehandedly created paint departments in large chain law, Sharon Monsky, who suffered from this progressive, department stores, including Macy’s and J.C. Penney, debilitating disease. which had never conceived of selling paint. A friend from The impact of Joe’s life and personality will reverberate college, Bob Grayson recounted Joe’s business success for years to come because he was a mentor to so many. strategy: “[He] showed me a sales plan that he developed, Joe touched and helped to shape countless lives, and it is including illustrations and ads of products, consumer with a smile that his friends and loved ones recount the benefits, and more. I was in awe … Joe taught me how a endearing line that summed up his wry approach to life: ■ plan was a guide to the future.”

“Everyone is entitled to my opinion.”

“If you love someone enough, you can still hear the laughter after they’re gone.”

You had an infectious laugh: one that nobody could ever forget. You radiated life and love, and charmed all those that crossed your path.

You are missed and loved EVERY SINGLE DAY. Continue to play ball with the angel’s Nate... we will always love you.

- Adriana, Mateo & Natalia

Robert Eugene Fischer // – //

Beloved husband, amazing dad, loving grandpa, devoted uncle, excellent golfer, soaring private pilot, Robert Eugene Fischer (“Bob”) passed away peacefully in his sleep on Valentine’s Day, February , . He was .

Born at home in Morrisonville, IL, on December , , to Mary Rose Fleming and Herbert Fischer, Bob was the younger brother to big sister Joyce. At a young age and during WWII, he went to live with his maternal grandparents and his five uncles on the family farm.

His grandma would fry up many of the farm’s chickens for everyone’s main meal at noon. By the time the platter came around to little Bobby Gene, all that was left were the “wangs.” Consequently, before they became Super Bowl favorites, he had an enduring love of chicken wings!

His grandpa was his role model and mentor who told him to get an education but also learn a trade. Accordingly, he graduated from Ohio Christian College with a B.S. in Economics and got his Contractor’s License for his carpet and flooring business. His grandpa introduced him to the game of golf, which Bob played with gusto all his life.

Bob was an All State Illinois football back and defensive tackle, playing for St. Theresa High School. He went to college on a football scholarship.

Bob spent almost nine years in the military, first as a Marine, and then in the Army, where he served in the Korean War as a Forward Observer.

In the early s, Bob was sitting on his couch in Illinois watching a televised golf tournament at Torrey Pines, while a miserable independent.com

snowstorm raged outside. Disgusted, he packed one suitcase and, with only $ in his pocket, pointed his  Chevrolet West and came to Santa Barbara, thereby changing the direction of his life.

For  years, he served as a Firefighter and Engineer for the City of Santa Barbara Fire Department, retiring in  as a Fire Captain.

He was admired for his entrepreneurial spirit, owning two local steakhouses, The Bounty and The Spur, and Santa Barbara Farms, a dairy distribution business. For the last  years, he was a respected and successful real estate broker/CEO of CBF and Associates.

In , he married Colette Fanning Walker, and they spent the next  years traveling the world, owning businesses together, enjoying each other’s company, playing poker with friends, proudly raising their daughter, Nicole Marie, and creating a wonderful life together.

Bob was a pilot who owned his own plane, a Piper Cub Tri-Pacer. At the Santa Barbara Airport, to the consternation of the control tower, he would duck down in his seat, so it would look like his dog, Clemmy, was flying the plane!

Bob, always the gentleman, had a huge heart, loved dogs, traveled well, and could fix anything. He was smart and kind, sure and steady, easygoing and solid, humorous and fair, and honest and humble.

He was a member of the Montecito Country Club, Glen Annie Golf Club, and Municipal Golf Club: He was a lifelong member of the Noventa Toastmaster’s Club. He loved the water and had a slip in the Santa Barbara Harbor since , with a variety of boats, culminating in the last one, named after his granddaughter, Kailyn Rose, a ” Carver.

Robert is survived by his loving wife, Colette, his devoted daughter Nicole Fischer Crisostomo, her husband Bill, and his grandchildren Kailyn Rose and Colin Robert Crisostomo, uncle William Dowdy, nephew Mark Tozer, cousin Doug Dowdy and many relatives in Illinois and Kentucky. He is greatly missed by his dogs, Sully, Beagle and Lucy. His mother, father and sister, Joyce, preceded him in death.

A Memorial service will be held Monday, February , , at : a.m. at McDermottCrockett & Associates Mortuary,  Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, CA . Interment will follow at the Santa Barbara Cemetery,  Channel Drive, Montecito, CA . Afterward, a Celebration of His Life will be held at Mulligan’s Café and Bar,  McCaw Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA .

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to C.A.R.L. (Canine Adoption and Rescue League), PO Box , Ventura, CA , in honor of Bob Fischer.

Arlene Yudelson  - 

Arlene Betty Becker Yudelson passed away early Sunday morning, February th. She died peacefully in her sleep. She was brave and surrounded by love until the end. She was preceded in death by her loving husband of  years, Floyd Yudelson. She is survived by her sons Steve and Howard, daughter Robin, daugher-in-law Gussie, son-in-law Mike, sister Louise and niece Jo and everyone who knew the magic of her smile. We will grieve her, miss her and love her always.

A private memorial will be held in Arlene’s honor. In lieu of flowers please send a donation in Arlene’s name to the Beyond Tolerance Program:  Constance Lane, Santa Barbara, Ca., .

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Channel Cat Charters 898-1015. Capacity 149. channelcatcharters.com

Chase Palm Park Center

Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Café

2879 Grand Ave., Los Olivos. 688-7265 x214. info@buysantabarbarawine.com. Capacity 46. losolivoscafe.com

236 E. Cabrillo Blvd. 897-1983.

Seated: Capacity 100 Cocktail style: Capacity 125 services.santabarbaraca.gov/eRecreation/Facilities

Montecito Country Club

Cielito Restaurant

Located on UCSB campus. Contact Mary MacRae at 893-2957. Capacity 120. ucsbalum.com/programs/mosher

1114 State St. 965-4770. Capacity 200. cielitorestaurant.com

Circle Bar B Ranch

1800 Refugio Rd., Goleta. 968-1113. Capacity 150. circlebarb.com

Earl Warren Showgrounds

920 Summit Rd. 969-3216. Capacity 310. montecitocc.com

Mosher Alumni House

Elings Park

304 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta. 681-7216. Capacity 500. stowhouse.com

Gaviota Coast. 895-4043. Capacity 200. ranchodelfenix.com

Rancho La Patera & Stow House

Rincon Beach Club and Catering

7925 Hollister Ave. 968-1541. Capacity 500. sandpipergolf.com/events-at-sandpiper

3805 Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria. 566-9933.

Capacity 250. eventsbyrincon.com

Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara

Riviera Mansion

1260 Channel Dr. 565-8246. Capacity 400. fourseasons.com/santabarbara/weddings

Gainey Vineyards

3950 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez. 688-0558. Capacity 500. gaineyvineyard.com

Granada Theatre

1332 Santa Barbara St. 884-8703. Capacity 100-600. rivieramansionwedding.com

Roblar Winery

3010 Roblar Ave., Santa Ynez. 686-2603. Capacity 80. roblarwines.ewinerysolutions.com

Sanford Winery & Vineyards

1214 State St. 899-3000. Capacity 225. granadasb.org

5010 Santa Rosa Rd., Lompoc. (800) 426-9463.

Capacity 250. sanfordwinery.com

Hans Christian Andersen Park

S.B. Woman’s Club (a k a Rockwood)

633 Chalk Hill Rd., Solvang. 688-7529. Capacity 25-125. cityofsolvang.com

Hidden Oaks Clubhouse

4760 Calle Camarada. 967-5574. Capacity 100. hiddenoaksclubhouse.com

ROCKSTAR

123 E. Canon Perdido St. 965-0093. rain@sbthp.org.

Capacity 200. www.sbthp.org/#!presidio-rental/c1585

Rancho del Fenix

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3400 Calle Real. 687-0766.

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Warren Hall: Capacity 700. www.earlwarren.com

1298 Las Positas Rd. 569-5611. Capacity 300. elingspark.org

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670 Mission Canyon Rd. 682-4546. Capacity 200. sbwomansclub.com

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1111 E. Cabrillo Blvd. 879-1316. Capacity 270. santabarbara.hyatt.com

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964-8824. cateringbywoodys.com

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S.B. Historical Museum

Creative Services Catering

136 E. De la Guerra St. 966-1601.

Capacity 450. santabarbaramuseum.com

965-9121. events@ creativeservicescatering.com. creativeservicescatering.com

S.B. Maritime Museum

Danny Douglas Catering

S.B. Museum of Natural History

The Hitching Post Restaurant and Catering

722-7040. dannydouglascatering.com

113 Harbor Wy., Ste. 190.

962-8404 x106. Capacity 2-400. santabarbaraoceanviewweddings.com 2559 Puesta del Sol. 682-4711 x112. mmoore@sbnature2.org. Capacity 200. www.sbnature.org/about/230.html

3325 Point Sal Rd., Casmalia. 937-6151. hitchingpost1.com

S.B. Polo & Racquet Club

569-5747. avrey@ivcatering.com. ivcatering.com

Island View Catering

3300 Via Real, Carpinteria. 684-6683.

Clubhouse: Capacity 100-200.

Field: Capacity 6,000.

Terrace: Capacity 120-250. sbpolo.com

Jack’s Bistro Catering

566-1558 x4. catering@bagelnet.com. bagelnet.com

Jolly Brothers Catering

S.B. Zoological Gardens

791-5593. jollybros.com

500 Niños Dr. 962-5339 x180.

Capacity 1,250+. sbzoo.org/weddings

Lazy Acres Market

Sea Center

302 Meigs Rd. 564-4410. lazyacres.com

211 Stearns Wharf. 962-2526 x111. rsmalldon@sbnature2.org.

Capacity: 75-150. www.sbnature.org/about/230.html

Lorraine Lim Catering

121 E. Yanonali St. 646-2200. info@lorrainelimcatering.com. lorrainelimcatering.com

SOhO Restaurant & Music Club 1221 State St., Ste. 205. 962-7776.

Capacity 400. sohosb.com

Summerland Winery

Los Arroyos

965-6173. catering@losarroyos.net. losarroyos.net

2330 Lillie Ave., Summerland. 565-9463.

Capacity 40. summerlandwine.com

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688-7265 x214. losolivoscafe.com

813 Anacapa St. 966-9463. manager@winecask.com.

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Omni Catering

CATERING

Pickles & Swiss

1031 State St. 963-6687. sbaldos.com

Pure Joy Catering

Aldo’s Italian Restaurant

Ann Johnson 805.570.6396

Los Olivos Wine Merchant & Café

Blue Agave

1221 State St., Ste. 3. 564-4200. info@omnicateringsb.com. omnicateringsb.com 811 State St., Ste. E. 730-9299. picklesandswiss.com 111 E. Haley St. 963-5766. purejoycatering.com

20 E. Cota St. 899-4694. blueagavesb.com

Cappuccino Connection 969-7295. capbar.com

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ong before it was a marketable acronym or a trendy hashtag, “do it yourself”— or DIY as it is known — was an accidental sort of credo for folks looking to save a little cash and handle the dirty work themselves in a wide variety of endeavors. And so, for the budget-conscious couple angling to get hitched, the DIY approach has long sung one heck of a siren song. And when done right, it guarantees that your special day will, without a doubt, be YOUR special day.

Such was the case this past New Year’s Eve when a couple of high school sweethearts from the shores of Alabama tied the knot in the hills behind Rincon. Some 200 people came together on the last day of 2014 to celebrate Johnny McCann and Caitlin Blum in one of the most memorable and lovesoaked DIY weddings I have ever been a part of. (There was even a streaker on the dance floor at one point, but that is another story for another day.) It was a party of epic proportions, and, more to the point, it was a pitch-perfect reflection of the couple themselves, the love they share, and the community they both come from, as well as the one in which they have chosen to grow roots. As Johnny said,“Pretty much everybody helped in some way, but nobody told us what to do.”

After kicking the tires on a few possible wedding sites in the area, the duo realized they could get more bang for their buck by hosting it at the house they rent with friends just off Highway . Not only did this move save them

money, but it also allowed guests to pitch tents in the sprawling and scenic “backyard.”

Then, with a little help from Carpinteria’s brewLAB, Johnny made a big batch of mead to keep the party well lubricated. The cups we were all drinking from — and then took home as our gifts at the end of the night — were unique pottery pieces made by Caitlin’s sister. A wedding guest who also happens to dabble in the dark arts of professional photography (Donnie Hedden) was on photo

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Platinum Ring with 4.51 Carat Center Diamond Moon, as well as wedding guests Pacific Haze.

And really, that is just the start of the DIY elements of the McCanns’ cosmic wedding. Other details provided via the intersection of elbow grease and ingenuity included a custom bar from the Brothers of Industry, a 16-foot geodesic “Love Dome,” a galaxy of hanging dream catchers, an eye-popping henna job on the bride’s hands, and an officiant who also happened to be one of Johnny and Caitlin’s dearest friends from childhood.“Really, all we paid for [in a traditional way] was a couple porta-potties that we probably didn’t need, the flower arrangements, the food, and the ‘just in case’ tent that never really got used,” said Caitlin. “All in all, I think we spent right around $5,000 for the entire thing.”

So for the same amount that most wedding venues charge just to hang out for a few hours, the McCanns, with a little help from their friends, were able to put on the wedding of their dreams.

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38 W. Victoria St. 845-0745. aaronl@smseafood.com. smseafoodmarket.com/santa-barbara-fish-market

Shalhoob Meat Company

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Santa Monica Seafood

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Your Beautiful Wedding minister. 455-5205. gaelkm@yahoo.com. facebook.com/gail.kelleymurray

Zoo Catering Services by Rincon

Dr. Loretta Redd

Burger Bus

theburgerbus.com

California Wood Fired Catering 722-9792. californiawoodfiredcatering.com

Georgia’s Smokehouse

845-4854. alissa@georgias-smokehouse.com. georgias-smokehouse.com

The Jolly Oyster 798-4944. thejollyoyster.com

OFFICIANTS Barbara Rose Sherman

569-5659. barbararosesherman@me.com. barbararosesherman.com

Barbra Mousouris

564-4414. miriam@weddingsantabarbara.com. weddingsantabarbara.com

Nancy Little Moon

698-6856. blessingsinparadise@yahoo.com. blessingsinparadise.com

Nanette McIntyre

452-0056. nanette@ceremoniesbynanette.com. ceremoniesbynanette.com

Patrice Handley

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The Reverend Sarah Farmer

722-7899. weddings@montecitoweddings.com. montecitoweddings.com

JEWELERS Bryant & Sons, Ltd.

814 State St. 957-9100.

33jewels.com

812 State St. 966-9187.

1482. E. Valley Rd., Ste. 37. 565-4411. bryantandsons.com

Sacred and unique weddings. (609) 306-8038.

DAntman170@aol.com. daniantman.com/weddings

Calla Gold Jewelry

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Churchill Jewelers

Father Jerry Bellamy

Gaspar Jewelers

687-4248. jerry@santabarbaraweddingminister.com. santabarbaraweddingminister.com

SBCC

On the cliffs

637-8756. paulbrownministries@gmail.com. paulbrownministries.com

Captain Michael Finucan

878-2316. fabulousweddings1@gmail.com. sanluisweddings.com

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Dani Antman

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I Do Santa Barbara. 895-7428.

Barbra@idosantabarbara.com. idosantabarbara.com 637-9220. captain@weddingsantabarbara.net. weddingsantabarbara.net

waxcenter.com

252-6993. lorredd@cox.net. wedbyredd.com

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730-9216.

220 Gray Ave. 963-7733. shalhoob.com

566-9933. zoocateringbyrincon.com

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963-4157. calla@callagoldjewelry.com. callagold.com 1015 State St. 962-5815. churchilljewelers.com 1213 Coast Village Rd. 969-6362. www.gasparjewelers.com

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Red Studio

Eric Roland Photography

Le Rêve

21 W. Gutierrez St. 564-2977. le-reve.com

Hand Eye Pictures

2273 Las Positas Rd. 682-5294. afsalon@ verizon.net. tinyurl.com/AboutFacesSalon

Absolutely Fabulous Glamour Studio

284-9244. sbmobilemassage.com

About Faces Salon and Spa

1129 State St., Ste. 26. 729-5854. abfab.vpweb.com

Alex’s Salon & Blow Dry Bar

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Paseo Nuevo, 11 W. De la Guerra St. 741-4247. alexssalonsb.com

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3405 State St. 687-9497. skindeepsalon.com

Spa Escape

3022 De la Vina St., Ste. A. 456-9208. spaescapesb.com

Shine Blow Dry Bar

1250 Coast Village Rd., Ste. G, Montecito.

969-6700. shineblowdrybar.com

TropiCali Beach Beauty Boutique 22 Anacapa St. 729-7393. tarynbazzell@icloud.com.

PHOTOGRAPHERS Alma de Lumiere Photography 689-5436. almadelumiere.com

Ashleigh Taylor Photography

Dreamcatcher Artistry

The Barbarazzi

453-5029. info@dreamcatcherartistry.com. dreamcatcherartistry.com

637-0752. thebarbarazzi@gmail.com. thebarbarazzi.com

Float Luxury Spa

ByCherry Photography

18 E. Canon Perdido St. 845-7777. floatluxuryspa.com

Luce Salon

1822 Cliff Dr. 680-0553. lucesalonsb.com

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Skin Deep Salon

cuttingedgehairandbodysalon.com

1150 Coast Village Rd., Montecito. 565-5700. montecitoaesthetics.com

805-879-1552

S.B. Mobile Massage & Spa

1129 State St., Ste. 26. (310) 404-1613. info@ashleightaylorphotography.com. ashleightaylorphotography.com

Montecito Aesthetic Institute

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1272 Coast Village Rd., Montecito. 969-6963. info@redstudionet.com. redstudionet.com

Bridal makeup and hair, organic skincare, and mineral makeup. Located in The White Peacock Bridal Consignment Boutique for Brides, 1636 State St. 563-8432. thewhitepeacockbridal.com

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(914) 330-1937. carlyotnessweddings@gmail.com. capturedandcreated.com

Cara Robbins Studio

259-6765. cara@cararobbinsstudio.com. cararobbinsstudio.com

Emily Hart-Roberts Photography

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Jacqueline Pilar Photography (323) 236-2054. jacqueline.pilar@ pilarreflections.com. pilarreflections.com

Jay Farbman Photography

886-2328. jayfarbman@gmail.com. jayfarbmanphoto.com

Kelsey Crews Photo

699-6232. kelsey@kcrewsphoto.com. kcrewsphoto.com

Kiel Rucker Photography

770-7733. kiel@kielrucker.com. kielrucker.com

Kristen Hammonds Photography 684-9201. info@ kristenhammondsphotography.com. kristenhammondsphotography.com

Lady McClintock Photography Studio 1221 State St., Ste. 6. 845-0030. ladymcclintockstudios.com

La Femme Photography

886-8097. info@lafemmephotography.com. lafemmephotography.com

Leah Valentine Photography

364-0204. leah@leahvalentine.com. leahvalentine.com

Linda Blue Photography

962-6760. linda@labluephotography.com. labluephotography.com

Linda Chaja Photography

588-6784. lindachaja@gmail.com. lindachaja.com

Melissa Musgrove Photography

563-5050. melissa@melissamusgrove.com. melissamusgrove.com

Mollie Crutcher Photography

619-0986. mc@molliecrutcher.com. molliecrutcher.com

Nick and Cindy Photography nickandcindyphotography.com

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MARRIAGE

LICENSE

Getting a marriage license is one of the most important parts of getting hitched — without it, your union is not recognized by the state. Here’s what you need to know:

• You and your spouse-to-be must both be present at the County Recorder’s Office,  Anacapa Street. The process takes about half an hour.

• Both of you must bring your current, government-issued photo IDs and 100 to cover the fee.

• Both of you must be 18 years of age or older. If one or both parties is divorced, • • • • •

the divorce must be final for at least three months. If the divorce is final for less than three months, you must also bring the final divorce decree.

A marriage license issued anywhere in California can be used anywhere in California, but the records will be kept in the office it was issued.

A confidential marriage license costs 110 and must be used in the county in which it is issued.

Important: Don’t get it too far in advance! The license is valid from an hour beforehand to 90 days after it is issued.

After your ceremony, the officiant and a witness must sign the license. The license must then be turned in to the County Recorder in person or by mail.

It will be entered into the public record in one to two weeks.

Once the certificate has been recorded, you can order a copy for 15 in person or 17 by mail. (If the bride plans on changing her name, she will need a copy to take with her to the Social Security Office and DMV.)

For more information, call the Hall of Records at 568-2250 or see sbcvote.com.

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The White Peacock Bridal Consignment Boutique for Brides

769-6979. nicolewilliamsphotography@gmail.com. nicolewilliamsphoto.smugmug.com

1221 State St., Ste. 1-B. 500-6372. thedressbride.com

452-7181. weddings@patmoyerweddings.com. patmoyerweddings.com

719 State St. 962-2694. menswearhouse.com

259-6185. smiles@paulisafields.com. paulisafields.com

135 W. Mission St. 569-3334. missiontuxedos.com

962-1401. kathleen@photos-by-kathleen.com. photos-by-kathleen.com

1315 State St. 892-4000. panachebridals.com

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1636 State St. 563-8432. elaine@thewhitepeacockbridal.com. thewhitepeacockbridal.com

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Letter Perfect

768-4888. matt@rewindphotography.com. rewindphotography.com

1150 Coast Village Rd., Ste. A. 969-7998. letterperfectsb@gmail.com. letterperfectstationery.com

S.B. Super  Films

Super 8mm film. (253) 820-6256. sbfilms2013@gmail.com. sbsuper8films.com

Paper, Ink.

Thomas Carlton Weddings

Paper Source

3325 State St. 687-3580. paperinksb@gmail.com. letterperfectstationery.com

963-8817. info@thomascarltonweddings.com. thomascarltonweddings.com

1125 State St. 845-0114. paper-source.com

Todd Danen Photography

For more information & photos, please visit our website or call to arrange a tour

A welcoming, non-denominational, wedding and reception venue in the heart of Santa Barbara, California

Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara 1535 Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, California 93101

www.uSSb.org/love (805) 965-4583 ext 223

Seating C apaCity: • Sanctuary for Ceremonies: Up to 285

• Reception Hall: Up to 110 sit-down • Reception Courtyard: Up to 200 sit-down

Paper Star

450-5223. todd@todddanen.com. todddanen.com

Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara

453-2340. diane@paperstarsb.com. paperstarsb.com

The Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara prides itself on welcoming the diversity of our community and is dedicated to providing space to all couples regardless of sexual identity or religious background.

Vinson Photography

403-6793. shelly@shellyvinson.com. shellyvinson.com

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Willa Kveta Photography

633-4633. willa@willakveta.com. willakveta.com

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Contact Scott Topper. 965-7978. scott@actionphotobooth.com. actionphotobooth.com

Alterations

905-B De la Vina St. 687-6677. barbjeanqueen@yahoo.com. barbjeanqueen.wix.com/alterations

Bella Vista Designs

Lighting, décor, audio, and visual. 966-9616. mail@bellavistadesigns.com. bellavistadesigns.com

O`ahu

Beth McDonald Consulting Intuitive/astrologer. 963-0842. bethmcdonaldconsulting.com

All vacation packages below include FIVE NIGHTS’ ACCOMMODATIONS, FIVE DAY

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Candy Cart Heaven

Candy cart, candy Ferris wheel, candy buffet tables, and wishing tree. 689-8287. knash93@aol.com. candycartheaven.com

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FROM 1,170 INCLUDES: daily breakfast for two at Surfrider Café; $

Chalk the Talk

Custom hand lettering, calligraphy, and signage.

452-6943. chalkthetalksb@gmail.com. instagram.com/chalkthetalksb

two mai tais per day at Beach Bar4; 15% spa discount5; plus complimentary lei and tropical punch upon arrival

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Classic Party Rentals

WEDDING WEAR Antoinette Boutique

1046 Coast Village Rd., Montecito. 969-1515. antoinetteboutique.com

Catherine Masi

453-6122. info@shopcatherinemasi.com. shopcatherinemasi.com

Event specialists, from tent top to tabletop.

1120 Mark Ave., Carpinteria. 566-3566.

1828 State St. 563-3800.

55 Industrial Wy., Buellton. 686-1115. santabarbara.classicpartyrentals.com

County of Santa Barbara Clerk-Recorder

Issues marriage license and certified copies and performs and appoints friends/family to ceremonies.

1100 Anacapa St. 568-2250. clk-rechelpdesk@co.santa-barbara.ca.us. sbcrecorder.com

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805 886-5817

Female Focused Fitness Programs

Brandi E. Jensen NASM – CPT, WLS Weight Loss Specialist

Fitness For Brides www.sbbridalfitness.com

Barbra Mousouris Wedding Officiant/ Premarital Counseling Personally Scripted Ceremonies

IDoSantaBarbara.blogspot.com Phone: 805.895.7428

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my fiancée, they say I got the easy way out. Many of them tell me the tales of dating they have had to go through to win over their current life partners. Unlike the norm, I met my fiancé through a process more akin to one from a Jane Austin novel. I had met her while studying at UC Berkeley and was attracted by her character and her hijab. A few years later when my parents eventually asked me who I would like to marry, I told them of the angel I had met in college. My parents spoke to her parents, my parents visited her family, her family visited me; we all thought about and prayed on it, and before you knew it, we were engaged.

This Islamic courtship may seem to lack Osaama Saifi the type of intimacy that is commonplace in the dating scene. This is because Islam shuns premarital relations and extols intimacy in marital relations. The Qur’an describes the relationship between a husband and wife through the metaphor of a “garment”; they are a covering for you, and you a covering for them. The Prophet Muhammad is known to have said that the best among you is the one who is best among his wives, and he is also known to place his lips on the same outline where his wife may have drank from when sharing a glass. There are countless examples of intimacy in Islam, which blossoms during the spring of marriage.

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Discount Party Rental

The Little Guest

Elan Event Rentals

The Marriage Forum

Everything from chairs to china. 423 N. Salsipuedes St. 963-1336. discountpartyrentals.com 760-0544. info@elaneventrentals.com. elaneventrentals.com

Fanciful Designs

Professional on-site child-care service. 688-1812. thelittleguest@gmail.com. thelittleguest.com Marriage Lock Coaching. 695-8405. susanallan@themarriageforum.com. susanallan.org

Handmade French paper florals. (949) 294-9685. fanciful.noel@ymail.com. fancifulshop.com

Milk and Honey Farm Vintage Rentals

Gavin Roy Presents

The Montecito Nut Company

Emcees/deejays, musicians and live bands, lighting design, photo booths, and karaoke. 617-4650. info@gavinroypresents.com. gavinroypresents.com

Islay Events

Lighting, sound, décor, power, video, and fabric treatments. 708-9641. info@santabarbaralightigandsound.com. santabarbaralightingandsound.com

Dr. Jessica Higgins

Empowered relationship couples course.

(303) 956-7996. jessica@drjessicahiggins.com. drjessicahiggins.com

LBPS Events

5390 Overpass Rd. 201-6262. lbpsevents.com

Leslee Sipress

Calligraphy and graphics. 966-6314. lsipress@aol.com.

687-4456. jenniferhoush@msm.com. eventsbymilkandhoneyfarm.com Gourmet party favors. 452-7400. carolebennett@cox.net. themontecitonutcompany.com

My Social Booth Photo Booth

708-3012. michelehiggins@msn.com. mysocialbooth.com

The Olive Oil Source Party Favors

Customized party favors for weddings, engagement parties, showers, and special events. 688-1014. partyfavors.oliveoilsource.com

Parasols in Paradise

Sales and rentals of parasols. 636-0439. parasolsinparadise.com

S.B. Entertainment

Bands, deejays, and more. 1470 E. Valley Rd., Ste. S. 969-7665. sbentertain.com

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S.B. Silver Safari

Airstream to rent for outdoor weddings.

451-3195. santabarbarasilversafari@gmail.com. sbsilversafari.com

The Tent Merchant

Haley Showroom, 202 E. Haley St. 963-6064.

Prop & Décor House, 436 E. Gutierrez St. 963-6065. info@thetentmerchant.com. thetentmerchant.com

Town & Country Event Rentals

1 N. Calle César Chávez, Ste. 7. 770-3300. townandcountryeventrentals.com

FLOWERS

Honoring the love of all couples WedByRedd.com 805.252.6993 • lorredd@cox.net

Blue Magnolia Floral & Event Design

969-4999. inquire@bluemagnoliaevents.com. bluemagnoliaevents.com

Cody Floral Design

565-1695. laura.sangas@verizon.net. codyfloral.com

Dalla Vita

WINTER HAIRCUT SPECIAL

Succulent designs. 770-3420. info@dallavita.com. dallavita.com

Effloresce Floral

450-7088. shannon@efflorescefloral.com. efflorescefloral.com

ella & louie

S.B. Succulent Art

722-5553. tracey@ellaandlouie.com. ellaandlouie.com

EmmaRose Floral

455-9507. emmarosesb@gmail.com. emmarosefloral.com

FREE CUT WITH 805.741.4247 COLOR PURCHASE Paseo Nuevo Mall across from the cinemas

Solvang Taxi and Wine Tours

686-8294. winetours@solvangtaxi.com. solvangtaxi.com

Terra Bella Event Florals

729-2790. amanda@terrabellaflorals.com. terrabellaflorals.com

CONSULTANTS/ PLANNERS Ann Johnson Events

570-6396. ann@annjohnsonevents.com. annjohnsonevents.com

Avanté Events

448-3807. tracerobinson@cox.net. tracerobinson.com

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3324 State St. 687-2681. bonnie@ whitehouseflorists.com. whitehouseflorists.com

(559) 630-4512. becky@hauteblossoms.com. hauteblossoms.com

Hogue & Co.

525 San Ysidro Rd., Montecito. 969-1343. hoguefloral.com

Lazy Acres Market

302 Meigs Rd. 564-4410. lazyacres.com

Margaret Joan Florals

3 W. Carrillo St., Ste. 205. 705-8884. mjflorals@gmail.com. margaretjoanflorals.com

Padaro Floral

3680 Via Real, Carpinteria. 684-6366. padarofloraldesigns.com

Passion Flowers Design

PO Box 1717, Buellton. 453-3346. laura@passionflowersdesign.com. passionflowersdesign.com

Beverly Clark’s Wedding Location

104 W. Anapamu St., Ste. K. 560-3604 x100. contact@weddinglocation.com. weddinglocation.com BYCHERRY PHOTOGRAPHY

Perfect for Weddings Rustic and Private Outdoor Setting Patios, Pergola, Gardens and Stage Accommodates up to 300 Guests Commercial Kitchen Parking and Restrooms

Cori Lassahn. 259-8559. cori@avanteevents. com. avanteevents.com

White House Florists Haute Blossoms Floral

‘Imagine Park’

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Florals and events. 403-6065. tenley@tenleyerinyoung.com. www.tenleyerinyoung.com

Trace Robinson Landscape Design

in Santa Barbara!

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23 E. Cabrillo Blvd. 965-0353. sbtrolley.com

966-5521. terra@terramaliadesigns.com. terramaliadesigns.com

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HAIRCUTS

S.B. PediCab

3570 Madera St., Santa Ynez. 688-4231. syvflorist.com

Solvang. 291-6757. forageflorals@gmail.com. www.forageflorals.com

25 MEN’S & $ 40 WOMEN’S

689-6763. info@sbhotrodlimo.com. sbhotrodlimo.com

Santa Ynez Valley Florist

Forage Florals

$

S.B. Hot Rod Limo

515 W. Valerio St. 689-5512. sbsucculentart@gmail.com. @sbsucculentart on Instagram and Facebook

Bijoux Events

Jessica Kuipers. 403-1618. jessica@ bijouxevents.com. bijouxevents.com

Blue Magnolia Floral & Event Design 969-4999. inquire@bluemagnoliaevents. com. bluemagnoliaevents.com

TRANSPORTATION

Davia Lee Events

683-7772. justin@aandjlimousine.com. aandjlimousine.com

Donna Romani Events

A and J Limousine

Rockstar Transportation

882-9191. info@rockstarsb.com. rockstarsb.com

Rockstar Trolley

882-9191. info@rockstarsb.com. rockstartrolley.com

588-4793. info@davialee.com. davialee.com 286-6505.donna@donnaromanievents.com. donnaromanievents.com

Elope with Style

563-5050. info@elopewithstyle.com. elopewithstyle.com

ADDISONHARVEY WEDDINGS

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WEDDINGS, REHEARSALS BIRTHDAYS, HOE-DOWNS & HOOTENANNIES !

Book your upcoming event today!

Nancy Ortega. 878-2316. fabulousweddings1@gmail.com. sanluisweddings.com

Felici Events

259-9476. info@felicievents.com. felicievents.com

Gatherings for Good

399-2585. brenda@gatheringsforgood.com. gatheringsforgood.com

Immaginare Events

455-6608. giseli@immaginareevents.com. immaginareevents.com

La Fête

3463 State St., Ste. 218. 563-5045. info@lafeteweddings.com. lafeteweddings.com

Love + Story Events

MUSICIANS/ DEEJAYS Area 

Live music dance band: funk, soul, R&B, Motown, disco, rock and roll, and modern hits. 637-3632. area51livemusic.com

The Aurora Ensemble

Ceremony and reception music. 683-8993. auroramusic1@hotmail.com. theauroraensemble.com

BEER:

Live music dance band: new alternative, modern rock, ’80s, disco, and classic rock.

637-1379. brexfors@osimaging.com. beer30rocks.com

Bruce Goldish

729-2410. hello@loveandstoryevents.com. loveandstoryevents.com

Acoustic fingerstyle guitar. 965-5559. brucegoldish@cox.net. brucegoldish.com

Magnolia Event Design

DJ Darla Bea

886-4979. magnoliaeventdesign@gmail.com. magnoliaed.com

NLC Productions 201-6685. nicosb.com

Once in a Lifetime

453-6172. dalina@gmail.com. weddingwire.com/onceinalifetimesb

S.B. Wedding Coordinator Toby Theule. 330-1729. toby@ sbweddingcoordinator.com. sbweddingcoordinator.com

Shindig

Stephanie Sanders. 450-5808. info@ shindigsb.com. shindigsb.com

Soigné Productions

Tonya Szele. 448-8028. tonya@ soigneproductions.com. soigneproductions.com

Deejay and emcee. 895-3400. djdarlabea@gmail.com. facebook.com/DJDarlaBea

Elite Disc Jockeys

331-4416. info@elitediscjockeys.com. elitediscjockeys.com

Gavin Roy Presents

Emcees/deejays, musicians and live bands, lighting design, photo booths, and karaoke.

617-4650. info@gavinroypresents.com. gavinroypresents.com

Laurie Rasmussen

Harpist. 320-9337. info@laurierasmussen.com. laurierasmussen.com

(805) 845-2230

Lawrence Duff

Singer, pianist, keyboardist, guitar.

450-1777. info@lawrenceduff.com. lawrenceduff.com

Eat@NeighborTimsBBQ.com / ntbbq

Leslee Sipress

Harp and flute. 966-6314. lsipress@aol.com. lesleesipress.com

Lorin Grean

Celtic harp. 962-0152. lgrean@verizon.net. loringrean.com

Mariachi Las Olas de Santa Bárbara Mariachi, rancheras, sones, and Boleros.

455-3661. mariachilasolasdesb@gmail.com. mariachilasolasdesb.com

Skin Deep is here for your Special Day!

Mon-e-Luv Band

California folk rock. 965-7978. scott@scotttopperproductions.com. scotttopperproductions.com/mon-e-luv

Music by Bonnie

Deejays for special events. 965-8249. bonnie@musicbybonnie.com. musicbybonnie.com

Ojai Music Service

Live music, all genres, vocal and instrumental. ojaimusicservice@gmail.com. www.ojaimusicservice.com

Patrick’s Mobile Disc Jockey

Deejays for special events. 570-0366. djpatrickb@live.com. djpatrickb.com

European Facials • Massage • Hair Design

Bridal Hair Design & Makeup Makeup • Spa Manicures & Pedicures Bridal Hair Design & Makeup

Scott Topper Productions

Deejay, lighting, and emcee services.

965-7978. scotttopperproductions.com Area 51

Tenley Erin Young

Florals and events. 403-6065. tenley@ tenleyerinyoung.com. www.tenleyerinyoung.com

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252-7566. jaime@wildheartevents.com. wildheartevents.com

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So What?

Cool jazz kombo. 684-2930. sowhatkombo.com

Society Jazz

Jazz trio with crooner. 964-8867. societyjazz.com

Vincent Zorn

Solo Spanish and flamenco guitar.

679-3154. music@vincentzorn.com. vincentzorn.com

Vincent & Vedant

MARCH 6th & 7th, 2015 The allure of Pinot Noir on the American Riviera.

Meet and mingle with the winemakers who craft the world’s most intriguing wine.

Two full days of tastings, seminars, culinary excellence and wine country camaraderie.

Gypsy flamenco guitar and violin duo.

679-3154. music@vincentzorn.com. vincentandvedant.com

CAKES/ BAKERIES

Anna’s Marketplace Bakery

7018 Marketplace Dr., Goleta. 968-5590. annas-bakery.net

Christine Dahl Pastries

22 W. Mission St., Ste. G. 569-5889. santabarbaracakes.com

Coveted Cakery

509-9029. covetedcakery.com

Crushcakes Cupcakery & Café

World of Pinot Noir 2015 event at

3607 State St. 687-8701.

1253 Coast Village Rd., Montecito.

969-7878. jeannines.com

Jessica Foster Confections

637-6985. jessicafosterconfections.com/index.htm

Lilac Pâtisserie

1017 State St. 845-7400. lilacpatisserie.com

1315 Anacapa St. 963-9353.

6533 Trigo Rd. at The Loop, Isla Vista.

845-2780.

4945 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria.

684-4300.

Alyssa Murray. 886-4042. events@crushcakes.com. crushcakes.com

Recipes Organic Bakery

Decadence Fine Cakes & Confections

Wayne Kjar.

2018 Cliff Dr. 845-5519.

1150 Coast Village Rd., Montecito.

965-8150. wayne@yourcakebaker.com. yourcakebaker.com

201 Industrial Wy., Ste. C, Buellton.

705-5467. decadenceweddingcakes.com

Henning’s Cake Boutique 28 W. Figueroa St. 965-6107.

Jeannine’s Restaurant & Bakery

Simply Pies

5392 Hollister Rd. 845-2200. pies@simplypiessb.com. simplypiessb.com

Your Cake Baker

Violette Bakeshop

448-3553. violettebakeshop@gmail.com. violettebakeshop.com ■ MELISSA MUSGROVE

15 E. Figueroa St. 966-1717.

604 Santa Barbara St. 965-3335. myhomerecipes.com

Tickets available at worldofpinotnoir.com 805.489.1758

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For all Occasions

HITCHED AT HOME

FIVE REASONS TO GET MARRIED IN SANTA BARBARA estination nuptials might be the way to wed these

days, but you don’t have to leave Santa Barbara for more exotic pastures in order to have an unforgettable wedding. As cofounders of the event planning company Swoon California (swooncalifornia.com), we know this to be true — when it comes to getting hitched, there really is no place like home.

1.

Your wedding can be as glamorous or as relaxed as you want.

Whether you’ve always dreamed of a beach wedding, a rustic barn BBQ, or fabulous fete at a luxury hotel, Santa Barbara has you covered. From the Coral Casino to private estates, HeartStone Ranch to our stunning coastline, your ideal venue is likely in S.B. (or in nearby Santa Ynez, Summerland, Carp, or Goleta). And if you have no clue what vibe you want, you have a plethora of possibilities to consider, each just a short drive away.

2.

Your guests will gladly make the trip.

Not to boost our little town’s ego too much, but, let’s be honest, everyone wants an excuse to visit Santa Barbara. Talk about a destination: We have a variety of fun activities in close proximity, fabulous lodgings, incredible weather, spectacular sunsets — the list goes on. Your guests will be excited to travel here and feel as if they’re on vacation when they arrive. (They may even start planning their next trip out here before your wedding weekend ends.)

3.

You will have amazing wedding food.

4.

You’ll get to work with poised and talented vendors.

Not only is there an abundance of amazing restaurants and catering companies here — specializing in various cuisines and styles — but a number of chefs in town are committed to using locally sourced ingredients in their kitchens. (It’s easy to do when we have seven farmers’ markets every week!) Your reception food will have the fresh, farm-to-table taste that many of us enjoy regularly.

One of the best qualities of Santa Barbara is the people who live here. And this carries over to our weddingprofessional community. Our vendors have small-town attitudes (read: friendly, laid-back, fun) combined with big-city savvy and experience. You can be assured that your wedding is in more-than-capable hands — and you’ll undoubtedly want to become besties with all of your vendors once the day is over.

5.

Your wedding license experience will be Instagram-worthy.

As many of us love to brag, our beloved courthouse had been named one of the most beautiful public buildings in America. And the little corner that the county clerkrecorder’s office inhabits is downright charming, what with its painted sign, terra cotta floors, skylights, Spanish tile, indoor palms, and wrought-iron details. Just getting your marriage license will be picturesque.

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and Contemporary American Masterworks � The term “ringers”

is an expression from the world of sports for a player who exceeds the expected level of excellence.

This exhibition of vintage and contemporary artworks side by side will be a wall of amazing.

Don’t miss this mix of historical and now. Shows through May . am-:pm. Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery,  E. Anapamu St. Free. Call - or visit sullivan goss.com.

Canon Perdido St. $-$. Call - or visit lobero.com. /: Leon Scott Baxter � Father, area elementary teacher, and author Leon Scott Baxter will speak about his latest book, Secrets of Safety-Net Parenting, which explains this style of parenting that lets children experience life, especially failure, and how the parents are there to catch them before they crash. There will be a Q&A and book-signing. -pm.

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THURSDAY 2/26 /: New Yorker Magazine Discussion Group � Whether you read it from cover to cover or just for the cartoons, come join in the conversation, in which two suggested articles will provide a start for a discussion on current topics. This group meets every second and fourth Thursday of the month. :-:pm. Montecito Library,  E. Valley Rd., Montecito. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org. /: Family Purim Party � The festival of Purim commemorates the survival of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from

Haman’s plot to destroy them. This event will feature a reading of the Megillah (the Scroll of Esther), costumes, a festive party, and gifts of food and money. Bring a donation to the Women’s Division Passover food drive. -pm. Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr.,  Chapala St. Free. Call - or visit jewishsantabarbara.org. /: Elling Swings Sinatra � In celebration of Frank Sinatra’s th birthday, legendary male vocalist Kurt Elling will lend his voice to Sinatra’s vast repertoire with reinterpretations of classic hits like “Come Fly with Me,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” and “April in Paris.” pm. Lobero Theatre,  E.

Meeting on Drought, Desalination, and Proposed Water Rates � This meeting will start

with a presentation on the city’s water supplies, current drought conditions, Water Shortage Plan, desalination timeline, water rates, and conservation opportunities followed by a Q&A period. pm.

S.B. Council Chambers,  Anacapa St. Free. Call - or visit santabarbaraca.gov/water. /: Infant and Child CPR and Relief of Choking Awareness Training � Participants will learn the techniques for both infant and child cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This training is recommended for new parents, grandparents, and caregivers of newborns through school-aged children. You will receive a course

participation card, but there is no exam and no certification.

Preregistration is required. -pm.

Safety Matters Certified Training,  State St., Ste. A-. $-$. Call - or visit safekidsinsb.com. /: Hands-On Bike Maintenance: Wheel Truing � The fatigue of a bicycle wheel requires replacement, which requires money. Come learn the proper maintenance adjustments for your ride from certified bike technicians. BYOB: Bring your own bike.

Registration is recommended. :-:pm. REI,  Anacapa St. $-$. Call - or visit tinyurl.com/wheeltruing. /: Messages & Meditation Authors of Breath of the Whales Keith Grey Hale and Carolyn Gorman, as whale guides, describe the whales as having communicated a deep passion and desire to connect with the human race for the purpose of helping humankind evolve, open, and reconnect with the divine nature. :pm.

S.B. Arts,  State St., Ste. . Visit breathofthewhales.com. �

as seen on Oxygen Network’s Fix My Choir, and will feature Grammy nominee, pianist, and conductor Steven Roberts and singer Dauri Kennedy. Workshop: Thu.-Sat.: :pm. Concert: Sat.: :pm.

First United Methodist Church,  E. Anapamu St. Workshop: $.

Concert: $ suggested donation.

Call - or visit innerlightchoir .com. /: An Evening of Spoken Word � Poet, spoken-word artist, youth and arts advocate, and founder of STUDIO:alchemy (an arts program serving teen girls) Azure Antoinette uses poetry to explore the ways social media is reshaping humanity. Don’t miss the chance to do and feel something new. :-:pm. Reds Bar & Tapas,  Helena Ave. Free. Call - or visit mcc.sa.ucsb.edu.

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Come join this interactive forum where you will discuss the results of Finland’s highly publicized Education Reforms, such as average class sizes of , free education at all levels, warm meals served at primary and secondary schools, short school days and little homework with great results, well-paid teachers, and a student-centered approach to learning. Yes, is this for real? Learn about successful learning from the Consul General of Finland, Ambassador Juhu Markkanen himself. pm. Faulkner Gallery,  E. Anapamu St. Free. Call - or visit centerforglobal dialogue.org. �

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the most significant battles of the Pacific will be at this fourth annual luncheon and symposium. The program will include presentations on the history of the battles as well as film clips and music. Experience a piece of living history. Advanced registration is required. am. Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort,  E. Cabrillo Blvd. $. Call - or visit channelcityclub.org.

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AMAZING FOOD, EXTENSIVE WINE LIST AND FULL BAR IN ONE OF SANTA BARBARA’S MOST INTIMATE SETTINGS • Steps from the Courthouse in the Heart of Santa Barbara • Can accommodate up to 75 people • Will close for private party

/-/: In the Red and Brown Water This play, often described

27 /: United We Read United Way’s United We Read Program inspires area elementary school children to read and succeed.

Volunteers will be paired up with an area K- classroom to read aloud to the students. The book will be donated to the classroom to enhance its library. Sign up online. :-:am. Franklin School,  E. Mason St.; El Camino School,  San Simeon Dr., Goleta; Aliso School,  Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call - or visit unitedwaysb.org/form/united-we-read.

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/-/: The Insect Comedy (or The World We Live In) In this early-th-century European classic, Czech playwright, novelist, and shortstory writer Karel Capek creates an allegoric moral fantasy that presents the human condition through the perspective of insects. Fri.: :pm; Sat.: pm. Porter Theatre, Westmont College,  La Paz Rd. $-$.

Call - or visit westmont .edu/boxoffice. Read more on p. . /: Fellinifest : Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles The Paradise Theater will present a tour de force solo performance that brings

the giant and magnetic personality of Orson Welles to life. This actor, director, writer, and producer is best known for his work in media: Caesar, The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, and film Citizen Kane. This performance will capture the legend behind it all. pm. Center Stage Theater,  Paseo Nuevo. $-$. Call  or visit centerstagetheater.org.

/: Atelier: Primavera in Winter Inspired by the exhibition Botticelli, Titian, and Beyond: Masterpieces of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums, this event celebrates the drama of the divine, sensuality of the secular, and splendors of spring during a onenight postmodern pilgrimage.

There will be a performance by the Helios Dance Theater, musical

as a theatrical poem encompassing story, dance, and song, is about Oya, a promising young track star who has to choose between her dreams of escaping and the reality of caring for her mother in this coming-of-age story set in a Louisiana bayou housing project. Shows through March . Fri.-Sat.: pm; Sun.: pm.

Hatlen Theater, UCSB. $-$. Call - or visit www.theater dance.ucsb.edu. Read more on p. .

SATURDAY 2/28 /: The Vada Draw: “Rain Dance” Original works of art will be yours at the second annual VADA Draw fundraiser for S.B. High School’s Visual Arts & Design Academy. Each ticket buyer will choose a work of art created by a professional artist, a gifted VADA artist, or a community supporter to take home without knowing who created it. There will be food, drinks, and dancing to music by DJ Darla Bea with David Moorman of KJEE as master of ceremonies. -pm.

S.B. Art Foundry,  Santa Barbara St. $ for two. Call - x or visit vadasbhs.org. Read more on p. . /: Automata: Machines that Move! Reduce, reuse, recycle, and create art. Unleash your inner eco-artist at this workshop that will feature guest artist Laura Denny and make machines that move. am-noon. Art From Scrap,  E. Cota St. $. Ages  and younger must be accompanied

JOHN ZANT’S GAME OF THE WEEK /: College Basketball: Biola at Westmont The last double-header of the season matches Westmont’s Warriors against their longtime rivals. It takes on added significance as a momentum builder for the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC) Tournament. Both Westmont teams held down third place in the GSAC standings and were a combined - in the month of February after sweeping San Diego Christian last weekend. Among the players honored on Senior Night will be Esther Lee, the women’s sharpshooting guard who has surpassed , points in her career. Sophomore guard Cory Blau scored a career-high  points for the men in San Diego. Women: :pm.

Men: :pm. Murchison Gym, Westmont College,  La Paz Rd. Free-$. Call - or visit westmont.edu/athletics.

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/: Los Olivos Wine Fest This wine event of the year will feature wine, food, fun, and entertainment, plus an interactive Master Glass seminar from the Riedel wine glass company. Enjoy many of the town’s wine tasting rooms with complimentary wine and food tastings, restaurants, area chefs, and specialty retailers. am-pm. Grand Ave., Los Olivos. $.-$.. Visit lowinefest.night out.com. /: Slaid Cleaves Having just released his newest album, Still Fighting the War, folk singer and songwriter Slaid Cleaves will make his way to S.B. to perform his acoustic and heartfelt storytelling. :pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $. Call  or visit sohosb.com. /: Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! You will come here to play, you will come here for fun, you will come here to celebrate, the birthday of one! Dr. Seuss, that is. Come celebrate one of the most beloved children’s authors with crafts, face painting, and raffles. Arrive early, as supplies are limited to the first  participants, and don’t forget to eat your green eggs and ham for breakfast! -pm.

Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Ages  and younger.

Call - or visit sbplibrary.org. /: Year-Round Fruits and

Veggies from the Garden

UCCE (University of California Cooperative Extension) Master Gardeners of S.B. will present this workshop where you will learn about the planting calendar, harvesting, storing, and preserving fruits and vegetables and what grows best on the Central Coast.

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by Master Gardeners. -pm. Holy Cross Church,  Cliff Dr. Free.

Call - or visit cesanta barbara.ucanr.edu.

/: Mardi Gras Party Calling all pirates, court jesters, masked and caped courtiers, and French royalty, all wearing masks, of course! Come celebrate and honor Helen Townsend’s  years as accompanist for the Santa Ynez Valley Master Chorale (SYVMC).

There will be dancing to the music of the T-Bone Ramblers, gumbo, catfish, Southern desserts, revelry,

28 /: Slow Bike Race On your mark, get set, slow! Island Brewing Company will host this different kind of “race.” Contestants will ride a two-wheeled bicycle over a fixed course with the aim of having the longest interval time, and the slowest bike wins (no fixed gears or fancy shoes, please). There will be three divisions:  and younger, -, and  and older. Winners will receive victory, bragging rights, and prizes.

Proceeds will go to Carpinteria Children’s Project to purchase bicycles from Trek Bikes of Ventura, which will also be donating to the event. Noon. Island Brewing Co.,  th St., Carpinteria. $-$. Call -. beads, and a raffle to support the SYVMC. :-pm. Solvang Veterans Hall,  Mission Dr., Solvang. $. Call - or visit syvchorale.org. /: Musititlan Presents: Live Salsa! Everybody is doing it, or wants to. Come show off your moves on two dance floors with a dance lesson (if you need one) with hot and saucy music provided by featured deejays. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit sohosb.com. /: Los Padres Trail Riders TackNTog Los Padres Trail Riders is a historical part of the S.B. horse community.

Members host events and plan activities that tend to further the use, preservation, development, and maintenance of riding and hiking trails. This sale will feature vendor tables, an auction, raffles, food, and more. :am-:pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds,  Calle Real.

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/: Maria Bamford Starting her performing-arts career at age , Maria Bamford, out with her latest CD, Ask Me About My New God, is now the first female comic to have two half-hour specials on Comedy Central Presents and has starred alongside Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, and Brian Posehn.

Her writing has been featured in The Onion, GQ, and LA Weekly, and she can be seen on many series, such as her web series Ask My Mom and USA’s series Benched. pm. Lobero Theatre,  E. Canon Perdido St. $-$ (plus facility fee). Call - or visit lobero.com.

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/: Los Olivos Bridal Boutique Malibu Family Wines will host a Bridal Boutique featuring area wedding vendors, a wedding raffle, and Semler & Saddlerock Wines. Come get ideas from the beautiful mock wedding site, talk to weddingindustry experts, and taste some treats and wines. Reservations are recommended. am-pm.

Semler Wines Tasting Room,  Alamo Pintado, Los Olivos.

Free. Call -, email bookings@malibufamilywines .com or visit malibufamilywines .com.

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/: Is Italy in Your Future?

Italy experts Victoria De Maio, author of Victoria’s Travel Tipz: Italian Style, and Susan Van Allen,

/: Carsten Peter: Extreme Planet Take an electrifying journey into some of our planet’s most extreme environments with fearless explorer, photographer, and filmmaker Carsten Peter.

Come see these never-before-seen images of places few humans have dared to go. Books will be available for purchase and signing. pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $-$. Call - or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

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Light antipasti, refreshments, and special storewide discounts will be available. pm. CircaTerra Travel Outfitters, -A State St. Free. Call -.

/: Heart Health Fair This event is designed for those who do not have access to medical services and are interested in prevention of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. They will provide blood pressure screenings, cardiac risk profiles, blood chemistry panels (for purchase), nursing consultations, heart-healthy snacks and recipes, kids’ activities, and more.

Do not eat for  hours prior to the blood chemistry panel. :am. Goleta Valley Community Ctr.,  Hollister Ave., Goleta.

Free-$. Call () - or visit cottagehealthsystem.org.

/: Civic Engagement Workshop The public is encouraged to lend its voice to this important discussion affecting political representation in S.B. The city wants your input about changing from the current system of at-large City Council elections (where all voters vote for all seven seats) to a system of by-district elections, where the mayor would continue to be elected at-large but the city would be divided into six geographic districts for city councilmember elections, with each district electing one councilmember. am. Faulkner Gallery,  E. Anapamu St. Free. Call - or visit tinyurl.com/SBCivic.

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/: Ballroom Basics with Derrick Your New Year’s resolution is calling! Come learn ballroom basics that will cover the foxtrot, waltz, tango, swing, salsa, and more. A partner is required, and you will learn a new style every two to three weeks. Mondays through March . :-:pm. Studio B, S.B. Dance Center, -A W. Canon Perdido St. $. Call - or visit santabarbaradancecenter .com.

TUESDAY 3/3 /: Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care Volunteer Training Program Do you want to offer compassionate support to the hospice patients and families? Learn how to provide emotional, social, and practical support to patients. Individuals interested must attend the training workshop that will happen weekly until Mar. . -pm. Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care,  E. Gutierrez St., Ste. A. Free. Call - or visit vnhcsb.org/volunteering.

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Richard Ross Captures Life in Lockdown Part artist, part teacher, part crusader, Richard Ross has a knack for getting kids to open up at perhaps the lowest points in their lives. “I’m so old and white,” he explained.

“I’m such a curiosity.” For the last decade, Ross has traveled the country to photograph and speak with hundreds of young people behind bars, most of them minorities. He’s trying to understand, expose, and help change one of the most disturbing elements of America’s already fractured criminal justice system.

The latest collection of those efforts is Girls in Justice, a self-published book that splices arresting images of forlorn youth with snippets of their fascinating and heartbreaking stories. The work builds off Ross’s 2012 Juvenile in Justice, which has received widespread acclaim. Both books are a hit-to-the-heart call to action that humanizes a whole segment of America’s population that’s kept out of sight and out of mind.

Girls in Justice looks specifically at the growing female population in our detention facilities and, through dozens of powerful images accompanied by related statistics, conveys the futility of cold lockdowns without any actual rehabilitation. “Institutions are hoarders of bad practices,” said Ross, a longtime UCSB professor. “We need to come up with places that help these girls, not damage them further.”

Though juvenile incarnation rates have decreased overall in recent years, girls are a growing share of the youth detained and committed. They’re often thrown inside for status offenses (e.g., drinking, truancy, running away from home) but are then caught in a whirlpool of bad practices committed by fellow inmates and the single-track, punitive approach of juvy hall administrators. Too often, young women in need — due to bad family lives or disruptive behavior — are detained simply because there’s nowhere else to put them, Ross said. “But once they’re in there, what services can be provided so the problem isn’t just a can kicked down the road?” he asked.

Ross doesn’t pretend to have all the answers, but he’s tirelessly toiling to bring attention to the issue and start hard conversations. “We can’t solve the problem 100 percent right away, but we can start moving in the right direction,” he said. In the spectrum of the hundreds of places he’s visited, Ross said Santa Barbara “isn’t the worst, but it’s not the best either.” He complimented the work of Girls Inc., the Boys & Girls Club, and Noah’s Anchorage but wondered why there aren’t more of those programs around and why there isn’t a female equivalent of the Los Prietos Boys Camp. “We can do better,” he said.

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March starts on the same day of the week as which other month? ❏ June ❏ August ❏ November

Purple Day is celebrated March 26 to raise awareness for what? ❏ Epilepsy ❏ Down syndrome ❏ Multiple sclerosis Daffodils are not only March’s birth flower but also the name of a rock band from where? ❏ Canada ❏ Sweden ❏ Belgium

Answers: . November; . Epilepsy; . Sweden.

“I enjoy the camaraderie and friendship you make when smoking cigars,” said Matthew Lanford, who has owned and operated Santa Barbara Cigar and Tobacco (10 W. Figueroa St.) for the last 20 years. Lanford got his start in the world of tobacco at a shop in San Luis Obispo and has since been providing Santa Barbarans with hundreds of varieties, including his best-selling brand, Arturo Fuente. As for the long-awaited legal Cuban cigar, he said, “I’d love for it to happen, but it will be a long time, and I expect [when it does], the quality will suffer.”

he Art of Noise was a 2013 London n Guardian and New Musical Expresss Best Music Book of the Year, but itt wasn’t published in America until Octoberr 2014. That’s not surprising when you realizee every single songwriter is British. Author// interviewer Daniel Rachel is clearly drawn to 1990s Britpop and thoughtful pop-rock that preceded and followed it. Among those he talks with are Damon Albarn of Blur, Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, Noel Gallagher of Oasis, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze, Andy Partridge of XTC, Bryan Ferry, and Billy Bragg.

Essentially, The Art of Noise is a British version of Paul Zollo’s classic Songwriters on Songwriting, which included interviews with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Brian Wilson, Leonard Cohen, David Byrne, and others. As the names listed indicate, discussions of male songwriters tend to predominate in books written by men, an issue Rachel confronts directly by asking his mostly male interviewees why they think there are so few female songwriters. “Sexism,” they tend to answer. The names of interesting female songwriters he might have interviewed come quickly to mind: PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, or KT Tunstall.

Rachel is obviously a fan of the people he speaks with, which means his questions can be detailed. For example, he asks Johnny Marr of The Smiths if “the tremolo and slide figure [were] part of the original demo” of “How Soon Is Now.” Indeed, if the book suffers from a persistent weakness, it’s the lack of editing. Rachel documents every single thought uttered by his heroes, no matter how pedestrian.

Some of Rachel’s questions seem to spring from the fact that he is a musician himself; thus he asks about tricky time signatures and flatted fifths. Fortunately, the songwriters are wary of sounding pompous, and even fairly sophisticated composers like Sting and Damon Albarn reply in straightforward terms. Songwriters with little or no formal training, like Noel Gallagher and Mick Jones of The Clash, are far less articulate.

“It comes from nowhere,” Jones says of songwriting. “It’s out there. It’s in there, but when you do one bit of music the next bit is in the bit that you did. It’s already there.”

If this sounds confusing, Jones is hardly alone in making the art of songwriting sound like a haphazard affair. Some songwriters go to work every day at the piano or guitar or computer; others don’t. In general, though, ideas seem to arrive at random, with the songwriters scribbling down lyrics or recording riffs before they forget them. Only gradually do they stitch their raw materials into a finished product.

Overall, there’s not a great deal of useful advice for aspiring songwriters in The Art of Noise. What readers will find is a chatty history of post— David Starkey ’60s rock and roll in Britain.

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e still lets me tuck him in at bedtime. Nine years old, in a

big hurry to grow up — but he hasn’t yet booted me from plopping beside him, pulling the covers up to his chin, and humming some hit ’80s song while I drag my fingers through his silky, shaggy mop.

Oh, it’s coming.“I don’t think my friends’ parents tuck them in at night,” he offers casually. “I might be getting too old for this.”

You listen to me, I would say if my teeth weren’t clenched for the express purpose of preventing my saying it. I will be tucking you in when you stumble home from the senior prom shnockered on bad, illegally obtained liquor, and you will like it. … The tucking-in, I mean. Not the liquor. You will very much dislike the liquor.

He’s my second — my youngest — and I relish the peaceful proximity of the nighty-night ritual because I know the teenaged withdrawnness that is coming, painful albeit developmentally appropriate as it is: the shrugging off of loving pats on the back. The “How soon do I have to be home?”

That’s happening in some other corner of our house. But in this quiet bubble, miraculously, I touch my little boy and warble Tears for Fears’ “Shout” or OMD’s “Enola Gay,” neither of which are lyrically soothing — and he relaxes. Lowering creaseless lids over stormy eyes, he takes a deep breath and with one final shuddered protest, goes slack.

I am in love. This is love in all its indescribably chemical, poetically irrational bigness. Stupid, what-it’sall-about love.

When this child is awake, he challenges me. He isn’t much like me — at least not in ways that I like to admit. He asks questions I can’t answer, questions that have no answer, for god’s sake, questions that one day he’ll no doubt figure out how to answer; his intellect is fierce. He is electric with energy, forever seeking outlets

by Starshine for the current whooshing through his wiry frame. He is all ideas, drawing abstract connections, posing primenumber quizzes, inventing and rising email: starshine@roshell.com to physical and mental challenges. He exhausts me; there I said it.

But as the day falls away, his wattage finally fizzling to a manageable hum, the boy lets go. Before my eyes. Beneath my fingers. And as he slides willingly (nothing happens if he’s unwilling) off to sleep, he is serenity incarnate. I take a moment to gloat over the handiwork of my genetic material or my exceedingly artistic uterus or something, and as I swim in my visceral fondness for this boy — for this brain and this body and the beautiful force of nature caged within them — I take my first true deep breath of the long, long day.

Then I go and ruin it with this bonehead parenting move: I begin contemplating the horrendous headlines of the day. ISIS beheadings.

Oil spills. Ebola plagues.“Man Arrested for Breaking into Funeral Home and Having Sex with Corpse.” (So, yeah, that happened.) And a wave of sickness rolls over me.

The boy who only an hour ago seemed so boisterous and irrepressible suddenly looks as vulnerable as a dandelion in a tornado.

Is it duplicitous to lull him into tranquility while these scourges menace the world just outside his bedroom window? I fight the urge to tug the covers up higher, over his head, and hide him — my affection and anxiety rolling violently over one another like oil and water in an ocean-in-abottle experiment, my heart so swollen with love and clenched with fear that I have to look away from him for relief.

In the morning, he’ll tell me of his own demons that he grappled with during the night: Being naked in public. Being chased by bad guys.

Discovering that family members aren’t who he thought they were.

For now, though, all I can do is reassure him with a predictable pat and a whispered song that he’s safe, that I’m here, and that all is well.

And for tonight, at least, it’s enough.

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High School Soccer’s Big Loss, Big Win

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The Chargers’ Heartbreaking Defeat and the Dons’ Sudden-Death Victory

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occer can be a cruel game. In the CIF Division  play-offs against Los Alamitos last Friday, Dos Pueblos High’s Chargers went through prolonged torture in a 1-0 defeat, and the Santa Barbara

Dons inflicted sudden death in a 1-0 double-overtime victory over Redondo Union.

Dos Pueblos had won the Channel League championship, its first since 1983, beating the Dons twice while going 7-0-3 in the last 10 games of the season. The Chargers hosted Los Alamitos, a third-place team from the Sunset League, in the play-off opener. A sizeable crowd of students and families filled seats on the home side of Scott O’Leary Stadium.

Los Alamitos put constant pressure on the Chargers defense early in the game. DP goalkeeper Alex Mathews made a splendid save on a close-range shot, and then he did something truly amazing. He made diving stops of not one, but two penalty kicks. The first came after a foul in GOING STRONG: Santa Barbara High School’s boys’ soccer team won Friday’s home the box, and moments later, a second PK was awarded to play-off against Redondo Union 1-0. The Dons’ Ignacio Rendon (#25) exulted after Los Alamitos when the ball was cleared off the hands of a he flung himself horizontally and slammed the ball inside the back post for the Charger. “I wouldn’t have blamed him if he sagged a little winning score. The Dons advance to the second round of the CIF play-offs. bit,” DP coach Matt York said of his goalie. “He’s a fourthmy fame to claim,” Joe Mueller said. It was a perfectly imperfect expresyear senior with a lot of emotion.”

Mathews’s second save, identical to the first but off a different player, sion. Baseball’s tradition of malapropisms is as beloved as Yogi Berra, stoked the emotions of the crowd, who gave him a standing ovation. But and Gary Woods loved baseball. It was by dint of his passion that Woods shortly later, the soccer gods turned against the Chargers. A long throw- made it to the big leagues, the only San Marcos High graduate to do so.

“He wasn’t a bonus baby,” said Mueller, who coached the Royals for in found the head of Griffins striker Charlie Ross, and he deflected the 21 years.“In his senior year [1971], he didn’t even make the first team allball out of Mathews’s reach under the crossbar.

With their 1-0 lead, the Griffins went into a defensive posture the rest league. It was his mental attitude more than physical skills that got him of the game. DP’s leading scorer, 6�2�, 200-pound senior Tim Heiduk, to the highest level. He wanted to play, he learned the game, and he stuck barreled into the congestion on numerous occasions but could not get with it. He matured at City College under Rusty Fairly, and he went up one step at a time.” off a clear shot.

In the immediate aftermath of the Chargers’ frustration, their fans The outfielder made his major-league debut with the Oakland Athclapped heartily, but Mathews scowled.“We lost,” he said, tears in his eyes. letics in 1976. The following year, Woods took the field as an original “I didn’t feel like getting applauded.” Heiduk, who will play at Westmont member of the Toronto Blue Jays and recorded the second hit in franCollege next season, gave his goalie a hug. Mathews began to accept the chise history. During his nine-year career, he also played for the Houston team’s fate. “We did all we could,” he said. “You can be the best team in Astros and Chicago Cubs, making postseason appearances with both teams. He was known for his sure-handed defense — he did not make soccer and still get upset.”

Santa Barbara hoped to avoid the same disappointment against an error in 117 games with the Cubs in 1982 — and although his lifetime Redondo Union that evening under gloomy skies at Peabody Stadium. batting average was .243, Woods was one of the toughest batters Hall of After 80 minutes, the score was 0-0, even though the Dons had pep- Fame pitcher Steve Carlton ever faced. He hit .348 (16-for-46) against pered the Redondo goal. In the first overtime period, the Sea Hawks the lefty. became dangerous, and S.B. goalie Angel Cervantes had to make two Woods stayed involved in baseball as a regional scout for the Chicago leaping saves. The battle for survival went into a second overtime. The White Sox and as a member of the Santa Barbara Foresters coaching Dons earned a corner kick late in the period. Sophomore forward Celso staff during all five of their National Baseball Congress championship Lagunas delivered the ball low and hard across the goal mouth. Ignacio seasons. He was the amateur club’s only coach who played in the “Big Rendon, one of few seniors on the team, flung himself horizontally and Show,” but he did not have a big ego.“Gary was a big man, a strong man, a gentle man, and a sensitive man,” Foresters head coach Bill Pintard said. slammed the ball inside the back post for the winning score.

“I hit my head on the post,” Rendon said, but he was feeling no pain “He was never too big to talk to anyone. He’d help out the worst player, during a joyous celebration with his teammates. “Welcome to the play- and he’d help out the best player.”

Woods, 60, died last Thursday of a heart attack at his home in Solvang, offs,” said Dons coach Todd Heil, a veteran of 16 years of these tense affairs. “Sometimes it isn’t pretty. [Rendon] had to be willing to throw two days after the Foresters lost another member of their family, longtime boardmember Doug Reeves. his body in there.”

Cate School and Carpinteria High, a pair of teams in the Division There will be a public memorial service for Gary Woods on Saturday,  play-offs, enjoyed some breathing room in their openers. Cate, led by February 28, at 1:30 p.m. at Pershing Park, where he played baseball with UCSB-bound Geoffrey Acheampong, overcame a slow start to defeat the SBCC Vaqueros.

Saugus, 3-1, and Carpinteria blanked Compton Centennial, 4-0.

AT LAST: A 48-39 victory over Cal State Fullerton last Saturday ended LOVE OF THE GAME: Amid the sadness over the untimely death of the UCSB women’s basketball losing streak at 29 games dating back to Gary Woods, I had to smile at the words of his high school coach.“He’s last season. independent.com

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Cameron Cox and Jessica Escalante

Cameron Cox became Dos Pueblos’ first CIF Southern Section wrestling champion in five years when he won the 132-pound weight class title last Saturday at the Central Division championship meet at Grand Terrace High. Cox defeated Ventura’s Luke Tada, 1-0, in the semifinals, avenging a loss against him in the Channel League finals the previous week. He then posted a first-period pin over Ethyn Ewing of Anaheim-Canyon in the final.

Jessica Escalante was a four-time winner for SBCC at the Western State Conference Relays. The sophomore from Dos Pueblos anchored the 4 x 100 relay team to a school record of 48.89, ran on the victorious 4 x 400 and 1,600 sprint medley relay units, and captured the jav— Barry Punzal elin.

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nce there was just a tomato, then heirlooms boomed, and now there are more than 250 varieties. Once cocktail makers only knew one bitters — Angostura — but now the world is brilliantly, broadly bitter, especially if you go and check out Still ( E. Ortega St.; 883-1080; elevateyourethanol.com), Santa Barbara’s new shop for barware and cocktail accessories. Among his other products, owner Jeremy Bohrer offers tastes of his many bitters, like a savory gumbo one from El Guapo in New Orleans, and then he’ll talk you through possible uses. It’s just one way this new spot at the corner of Anacapa and Ortega streets is a mixologist’s dream.

“The cocktail thing is happening, man,” said Bohrer, a veteran of the wineand-spirits biz for 15 years, including the last eight at K&L Wine Merchants in Los Angeles. “I love JEREMY BOHRER’S this stuff. I have tons of vintage glassware at home.

I’d have every shaker if I could. When we’d get new things in, I’d say, ‘I have to have one of these,’ and my girlfriend [his “VP of Vintage” Sayward Rebhal] would say,‘No, it’s for the store.’”

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TWIN PEAKS T SEEING DOUBLE: Brothers Fletcher (left) and Wyatt Shears bring their ever-evolving take on two-piece punk to Santa Barbara on Friday, February 27.

hose well-versed in the SoCal punkrock scene will recognize Wyatt and Fletcher Shears as the beguiling twin forces behind Orange County duo The Garden, a band known for its loud, fast, irreverently gothic songs and strangely dynamic, force-to-be-reckoned-with stage presence.

Outside of the scene, though, the Shears boys have gathered a secondary, slightly more groomed fanbase: that of haute couture fashion house Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) and its religiously devout fashionista followers.

Back in 2013, the Shears twins were spotted by a YSL scout at a show in Los Angeles. Not long after, the tall, fair-skinned, androgynous-looking brothers were en route to Paris to meet the label’s creative director, Hedi Slimane. And the rest, as they say, is history. Since then, The Garden has lent its faces and music to YSL, as well as a growing number of modeling gigs. They’ve also put out two additional full-length albums and one EP and are in the process of releasing another on L.A.’s current label of choice, Burger Records. This

Friday, February 27, The Garden heads to Velvet Jones for a headlining gig that promises to be one of the more high-energy rock shows of the season. Below, we chat with Wyatt about fashion, fans, and the band’s looming new release. For tickets and info, call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones.com.

ever want to do the same thing. We’re trying to break the mold of how bands are supposed to act. We’re trying to go our own way.

Are you constantly writing music? Yeah, essentially. It’s kind of nonstop. We actually just finished our next record, which is going to be out in either May or June. It just got finished yesterday, which is cool. But we’re still working on things on the side. We’re constantly inspired and constantly driven to keep making things, so there’s not really a month in the year that we’re not making songs.

THE GARDEN HEADLINES VELVET JONES I know you guys had other bands growing up.

How do you compare The Garden to the music you were making before? You know, we don’t consider it a band as much as an art project. We kind of just keep adding to it. It’s still raw like it was in the beginning, but our whole point is to progress and expand and get to the next step.

We don’t want to stay dormant; we want to just keep moving. Even from album to album, you’re going to be able to tell it’s us, but we don’t

In regard to the YSL thing, did you guys notice a pretty big shift after that all went down? Yeah, definitely. But I also think it was a mix of [getting] Burger [involved] and YSL and us. Everything kind of triggered at the exact same time.

I believe that good things happen for a reason, and for whatever reason it all came together.

But we came back from Paris, and things were — Aly Comingore different for sure.

FATHER JOHN MISTY I LOVE YOU, HONEYBEAR

There’s a lyric placed smack in the middle of Father John Misty’s I Love You, Honeybear that could very well be the album’s thesis statement. “I may act like a lunatic,” the man otherwise known as Josh Tillman sings, “you think I’m fucking crazy, you’re mistaken.” Much can and has been written about Honeybear’s unabashedly lovestruck subject matter. The album is, in many ways, the sober, serious, marital-bliss-filled follow-up to FJM’s druggy and sardonic debut, Fear Fun. But in between — and in the midst of — those moments of saccharine sweetness (“Chateau Lobby  (In C for Two Virgins),” “I Went to the Store One Day”), there’s still Tillman,

brandishing the smart tongue, dry wit, and coy croon that has endeared us to him from the start.

Musically, Honeybear, like its predecessor, wears its ’70s psych-folk-blues touchstones on its sleeve. Producer Jonathan Wilson is at the helm yet again, and his penchant for capturing big drum sounds, warm guitar tones, and enveloping orchestral swells perfectly serves Tillman’s attention-demanding tenor.

In other words, even if you don’t choose to engage with Honeybear’s humbling, acerbic observations on love, lust, and American apathy, it’s still a really pretty record. But for those who do bother to listen a bit harder — or, better yet, catch Tillman live in all his

over-the-top lothario glory — Honeybear will reveal itself to be one beautifully complicated meditation on self-perception and how love can so thoroughly shake our foundations. Crazy, right?

— AC

CHEERS: (from left) Raymond Wallenthin, Marisol MillerWave, Stephanie Erb, David Holmes, and Susie Couch star in the Theatre Group at SBCC’s production of Light Up the Sky.

BROADWAY RULES Thi backstage This b k t comedy d ffrom th the llate t 1940s bby th the greatt Moss Hart follows the ups and downs among a group of theater professionals as they go through the process of bringing an ambitious new show to Broadway. It’s part of what has become, as in such shows as The Producers, a Broadway institution: backstage shows about people putting on incredibly ridiculous-sounding plays. In this case, that ridiculous show within the show is something called The Time Is Now, a post-apocalyptic drama that opens on the ruins of Radio City Music Hall and in which the main character does not speak a line in the first act. Despite the team’s certainty that opening night has been a flop, somehow the show becomes a hit with the critics.

Hart based most of the characters in Light Up the Sky off of people he knew, including the famous impresario Billy Rose and his wife, Eleanor Holm. Although the GOES UP AT SBCC Broadway characters upon whom the characters were created are mostly forgotten now, the show’s acid-tinged satire retains its bite.

Director R. Michael Gros, who will lead the upcoming Santa Barbara production of the play, describes it as a “love nip” from Hart to Broadway, and the stylized dialogue and incessant wisecracks should have audiences laughing even if they have never heard of Billy Rose or Gertrude Lawrence, the diva who provided Hart with the idea of the play’s leading actress. Susie and David Couch of Circle Bar B are in the cast, as is guest equity actress Stephanie Erb. Joshua Daniel Hershfield, who was impressive as Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest at Circle Bar B, will play the protagonist, neophyte playwright Peter Sloan. It’s Sloan’s eye-opening perspective on the hypocrisy of show business that drives the satire, and he has, as one of the more experienced characters claims, “the cruelty of innocence” in the face of so much backstabbing experience. Light Up the Sky will be at SBCC’s Garvin Theatre from March 6-21, with performances Thursdays through Sundays.

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nside the Canon Perdido Street entrance to the Santa Barbara High School (SBHS) campus, there’s a small sign on the right directing visitors to a lowslung building that’s just past the chickens. This is VADA, SBHS’s Visual Arts & Design Academy. The school-within-a-school that started in 1999 is now well established, with a current enrollment of 165 students in grades 10-12. Next year, there are plans to expand course offerings into the 9th grade curriculum. Fifteen years in, VADA is one of the district’s top high school programs and one of its only full-fledged academies.

When I visited the facility last week, school was over for the day and only a handful of students remained to continue working or clean up after their projects. The academy’s director Daniel Barnett

by Charles Donelan and veteran art instructor and founding VADA faculty member Brooke Van Der Kar met me at the door, and even before we were seated at one of the big worktables, I could sense that this was a space of great warmth, safety, and creativity. Once I had listened to Barnett and Van Der Kar for a while, I realized something else — this art school includes a serious academic program.

Thirty percent of the curriculum requires the hands-on digital design skills that are valued in today’s contemporary workforce. VADA’s sequential approach to art and design supports students as they discover and master the processes they will encounter over and over again as working adults. To make these lessons more memorable, VADA teachers take their students on frequent field trips, and not only to museums and galleries. One recent day found the group gathering inside the design department at Patagonia for a question-and-answer session with the team responsible for creating new products.

In the summer between 11th and 12th grades,VADA students are encouraged to intern for work experience with a variety of mentors and organizations ranging all the way from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s education department to the office of architect Jeff Shelton. As an in-year follow-up, VADA invites area artists to perform residencies in which they assist the students in creating a project. The current residency has students in a frenzy of ’zine-making, cranking out small runs of quickly designed improvised magazines for each other and the school. The ’zine project models the same iterative design process that professional engineers use to crack difficult problems in materials science work.

All students in VADA study the standard required core curriculum of Santa Barbara High School, but even that they do with a difference. In VADA classes, English and history assignments are as likely to be triptychs as they are essays, and students work together to explore issues of identity that are relevant to their lives. Barnett and Van Der Kar are understandably proud of how far VADA has come in recent years in terms of representing the full range of SBHS’s students.

VADA demographics in 2014-15 mirror those of the school at large. In other words, this is not an elitist operation, and everyone involved benefits from that.

On Saturday, February 28, parents, alumni, and distinguished artist friends of VADA will gather at the Santa Barbara Art Foundry in the Funk Zone for a night of celebration and art-driven fundraising at the annual VADA Draw event. The price of a ticket to this year’s event, which has a “Rain Dance” theme, includes admission for two, food, drinks, music, and an original work of art to take home. The last detail is what makes this event special. For no extra cost, and without having to outbid anyone, attendees will choose from more than 100 works. Some are the creations of VADA students, while the majority of the offerings are donations from top area artists and celebrities. The party takes place from 7-10 p.m. For more information about the event or the academy, ■ visit vadasbhs.org.

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awn Upshaw displayed effortless musicianship and narrative magic Sunday with a substantial program of songs by Charles Ives, William Bolcom, Franz Schubert, Olivier Messiaen, and Béla Bartók. What’s more, the famed soprano appeared with the brilliant collaborative pianist Gilbert Kalish, well known for his sensitive support of generations of prominent songsters, including mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani and baritone Leslie Guinn.

The theme for the program was no secret conceit — nothing more than “songs close to our hearts,” said Upshaw at the beginning of the recital. In short, the capacity audience enjoyed an afternoon of high-level song crafting by two masters who know the territory well.

Boldly launching into the peculiar harmonic language of Charles Ives, the concert began tenderly with the strains and sentiments of a composer who is particularly dear to both Upshaw and Kalish. The set of five songs all dealt with particular impressions of childhood, ranging from the mournful “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” which intimates in just a few lines the poignancies of parenthood, to the giddy “Very Pleasant,” which burbles with the restless expectancy of a child at a theater waiting for a show to begin. Capping the Ives, Kalish played the only solo piano work of the afternoon, the movement “The Alcotts” from Piano Sonata No. , Concord, Mass.

Next came a series of love songs by that supreme melodist, Franz Schubert.

The emotional range of sweetness, longing, and agony gave Upshaw the latitude to soar and summon considerable power and intensity. Several selections featured Schubert’s settings of texts by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, including the particularly powerful Gretchen am Spinnrade (“Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel”), which illustrates the mad revolving musings of a love-struck woman with a rapidly repeating figure in the piano and a heartrending climax in the singer’s narrative. Three songs by Olivier Messiaen set the composer’s own texts, including pieces from “Poèmes pour Mi,” a collection of songs dedicated to his wife, and a work which exhibited Messiaen’s devotion to ornithology. Mirroring the Ives, and bookending the concert in Americana, Upshaw and Kalish finished with compelling caricature narratives of William Bolcom, including “Song of Black Max.” ■

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en are gods; men are beasts. Both metaphors bear What’s more, even that ambition proves beyond her reach. the ring of truth, depending upon which aspects of “Like Yerma, Oya becomes obsessed with her infertility,” wrote human life you focus on, and both have been used Washington Post critic Peter Marks, who raved about the play.“It’s by great writers to help us understand our own baf- a metaphor for diminishment, her failure to thrive.” Desolate and fling behavior. Joseph Campbell argued we should torn between two men, her trajectory is a tragic one. study the gods of ancient mythology since we so often act in ways If Oya’s story sounds familiar, the way it is told here is most that mimic the patterns they set millennia ago. More pessimistic definitely not. According to Finney, McCraney is reaching back thinkers suggest that, at our core, we have never truly risen above to an ancient tradition in which “the tribe gathers into a circle the instinct-driven impulses of our to be told a story about who they ancestors further down the evolutionare.” To re-create that sense of ary ladder. These themes — which intimacy and inclusion, the actors aren’t necessarily in conflict with one “introduce themselves and tell another — will be brought to vivid life you what they are about to do,” Finney explained, noting that they in two theatrical productions opening regularly recite the stage directions Friday night on area campuses.

Tarell McCraney’s In the Red and out loud. “All this is new to them.

by Tom Jacobs Brown Water, a new play that finds Besides all the beautiful language, mythic resonance in contemporary characters, will be staged they’re doing ritual dancing, a cappella music, and direct address at UCSB. The Insect Comedy, a nearly century-old Czech play to the audience.” in which human behavior is compared to that of ants, bees, and Together, these techniques “force them to move beyond ‘acting,’ flies, will be produced at Westmont College. For all their differ- in terms of portraying a character, and assume a state of being,” ences, both works eschew realism for a heightened theatricality, she added.“It forces them into a state of emotional truth, because and both invite us into exotic worlds that gradually reveal their they become so invested in the storytelling.”

John Blondell’s students at Westmont College are similarly similarities to our own.

“It is our nature that we wear these archetypes,” declared used to being stretched, and The Insect Comedy asks a lot from Shirley Jo Finney, who is directing the UCSB production. The them. “It would be easy to do a kind of children’s show version Los Angeles–based director knows the work well: She staged it of this play, where the actors wear funny bug costumes,” he said. at the Fountain Theatre in Hollywood to critical acclaim in 2012. “We’re not doing that.

McCraney, a young African-American playwright who was “I’m trying to create evocative patterns and ways of organizing awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (a k a Genius Grant) in 2013, the stage that feels like [the behavior of] insects, in their way of set the play in what he calls the “distant present.” Based loosely moving, forming, dispersing, and coalescing. But we’re playing on Federico García Lorca’s 1934 classic play Yerma, it focuses on the characters as human. It’s not realistic acting, but they’re not a young woman coming of age in an impoverished town in the making cricket faces.”

Louisiana delta. Blessed with superb athletic skills, Oya — her The Insect Comedy brings to mind both George Orwell’s name and personality are taken from the mythology of the Yoruba Animal Farm and the masterpieces of the Theatre of the Absurd people, who live in present-day Nigeria — seems to have a way out movement, but it predates both. Written by brothers Karel and of her dismal surroundings. But when she postpones college to Josef Čapek, it premiered in 1922 and was staged in London and take care of her aging mother, her opportunities dry up, and she on Broadway soon thereafter. A 1960 revival in New York City soon finds herself with few options beyond having a child. featured a promising young actress named Barbra Streisand.

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THIS IS GROWING UP: UCSB’s Joré Aaron-Broughton (left) and Charles Grant star as as Oya and Elegba in In the Red and Brown Water, a tragic coming-of-age tale about a young woman living in the impoverished Louisiana delta.

Performances in recent decades have been few and far between, largely due to the play’s enormous size: There are close to 40 characters, who will be played by 19 actors at Westmont. But some theater scholars consider it a neglected classic, and a 1999 production inspired a Chicago Sun-Times critic to remark that its “keen observations of the life cycle, and poignant visions of war’s futility, remain relevant to this day.”

“It’s a very philosophical play,” said Blondell, whose productions with his professional Lit Moon Company have dazzled audiences in Europe and China, as well as Santa Barbara.“Conformity and freedom are two of its big themes. … It asks, among other things, ‘What does it mean to belong?’ and ‘What do we have to conform to?’We belong to certain groups, but at what costs? What are the mechanisms that turn us into worker bees who have lost the spirit of life?”

The Insect Comedy begins with a character called the Vagabond, a person “on the fringe of human society,” in Blondell’s words. She falls asleep in the woods and finds herself in the company of various groups of insects, who behave in ways that will be uncomfortably familiar to human audiences.

“There’s a Mr. and Mrs. [Dung] Beetle, who are protecting their little pile of poop,” the director noted. “They decide they need to get another, and then a third. So the satire [of human greed] is quite overt. But there’s also darker material. The crickets are just trying to find a place to live, but the place they find turns out to be the lair of a fly, who kills the crickets to feed to its larvae. He’s a killer, but he’s just surviving and providing for his family.”

As that subplot suggests, the play “is not ha-ha funny,” despite its title, according to Blondell.“It’s more like Dante’s Divine Comedy — more of a grand moral allegory. In many ways, it feels like a medieval morality play, with a representative human figure, around which are orbiting all sorts of personifications of different questions of what it means to be human.”

Across town at UCSB, McCraney is asking some of those same fundamental questions. “In the Yoruba religion, there is no judgment in terms of the choices you make,” director Finney said, “but once you make your choice, you alone are responsible for the consequences.”

Even if the result is that you get squashed like a bug.

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by Christina McCarthy to portray Fellini, the show’s cast members re-create scenes from the film interspersed with memorable episodes from its making. Dillon Yuhasz and Jeff Mills take turns speaking most of Fellini’s lines, EYE TO EYE: Erica Flor receives puppet Fellini’s full and the contrast between attention in La La La Strada. their voices winds up reinforcing the sense that this charming and difficult man contained multitudes. As Zampanò, the brutish strongman portrayed by Anthony Quinn in the original film, Mills delivers a bold and winning portrayal of a sexist pig, no small feat, especially given the counterpoint provided by the presence of not one but five excellent women in the cast.

The largest share of Zampanò’s abuse falls to Gelsomina, his traveling companion and highly indulgent lover in the La Strada story. According to multiple sources, including the actress herself, the role of Gelsomina was the most difficult part that Fellini ever asked his wife, Giulietta Masina, to play. In La La La Strada, Blythe Foster raises Gelsomina above any shadow of clichéd masochism, finding the poignancy in her character’s desperate need for attachment. And, despite the hurtful content of these scenes, she and Mills are a joy to watch working together. Genevieve Anderson plays the part of the older Giulietta Masina, who takes her husband to task both for his wayward affairs and for the harshness of his treatment of her on the set. As Rosa, Gelsomina’s older sister in La Strada, Erica Flor provides yet another bewitching female presence in Fellini/ Zampanò’s web of seduction and betrayal. Dana Fox Ortner shifts easily between her female ensemble roles and the part of Tullio Pinelli, the aggrieved screenwriter of La Strada who appears from time to time to register his disapproval of the director’s aspiration to auteur status.

Beginning with the highly effective use of the puppet, the play employs multiple strategies for representing the story, ranging all the way from naturalistic acting to circus-like prop work and highly physical stage combat, dance, and tumbling. It’s a delight to see dancer Christina McCarthy inhabit her roles so vigorously; her turn as Il Matto, Zampanò’s sweet-mannered and unlucky rival for Gelsomina, will break your heart.

It may be worth seeing La La La Strada more than once to fully appreciate the extent of its artistry. The cumulative impact of the ensemble is quite seamless; together the actors weave a total — and totally bizarre — world. For example, as the voice of Fellini, Yuhasz mixes wheedling manipulation, overbearing egotism, and genuine charm until its impossible to tell them apart. His insinuating performance in turn draws the others, including Zampanò, into the maestro’s eccentric orbit. Jim Connolly’s music goes well beyond the traditional role of the score in a play, integrating fully with the performances and becoming part of the action. Fans of Fellini will already have marked this show on their calendars; fans of innovative theater should follow them to Center Stage for one of the remaining performances.

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RIDIN’ HIGH: Giraffage mastermind Charlie Yin calls the music he makes “cute, pretty, and sparkly.” We just call it great dance jams. Listen (and groove) for yourself when he plays EOS Lounge on Friday, February 27.

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by Emily Poncetta would have to say last year was a pretty big year for you. You played every single showcase imaginable at SXSW, signed to Fool’s Gold Records, released an EP, went on tour with Porter Robinson. Was there anything else that I missed? Those were

Tokyo. It was like 7 a.m. and they had just caught the fish at 5 that morning. I died and went to sushi heaven that day.

the big ones for sure. I did a few international dates, as well — in Europe and in Australia. Also, one of the highlights for me last year was working with The-Dream at his studio in Miami. That was nuts.

For those visiting San Francisco, where should they hit up for pho? If you’re coming to S.F., definitely go to either

I can’t believe it was only a year ago that you played SOhO. From what you can remember, what was your impression of Santa Barbara? How will this show be different from your last? I honestly had no idea what Santa Barbara was like,

What are the must-haves on your rider? What’s your fast food guilty pleasure when you’re on the road? I have a dog/cat/

since I’d never been there before that. People came out and it was a sold-out show, full of energy. It was really tight!

This time around will be different since I’ll have my light set up. It should look really cool.

In addition to it being your first show in Santa Barbara, you also paid a visit to Isla Vista afterward that was quite memorable for those involved. How was it? And how would you rate your Freebirds experience? It reminded me a lot

of my college days for sure. Also, Freebirds was out of this world, and I want to go back there every single time I’m in Santa Barbara from now on.

I know you’re into food. What’s the best meal you’ve ever had? Possibly the time I went to the Tsukiji fish market in

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The last show I went to, the band requested attendees to bring beads, and I’ve known in the past that Grimes would ask for flowers. Is there anything you’d be joyous to receive at your upcoming show at EOS? I love receiving gifts! I’ve

received necklaces, bracelets, and other really cool things.

I also love candy gifts. I’d be stoked to receive some candy — the edible kind. More specifically, I love sour belts, Sour Patch Kids — anything that’s flat-out sour (hint, hint).

What’s next on your agenda? Lots of touring and lots of studio time and lots of hanging out with my cat!!!

Music Is Love and We the Beat present Giraffage and Spazzkid at EOS Lounge (500 Anacapa St.) on Friday, February 27, at 9 p.m. The event is 21+. For tickets and info, visit eoslounge.com.

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Flying Goat Cellars – Nancy Yaki, through Mar. .  E. Chestnut Ct., Unit A, Lompoc, -.

Gallery  – Gallery  Volunteers, through Feb. ; Iven Vestergaard, Mar. -. La Arcada,  State St., -.

Gallery Los Olivos – New Perspectives ... Many Viewpoints, through Feb. ; Member artists of Santa Ynez Valley Arts, through Mar. .  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -.

The Good Life – Wine Country, Mar.  - Apr. .  Mission Dr., Solvang, -.

Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery of Art – Reflection, through Apr. .  De la Vina, -.

Hospice of S.B. – Diana Valdez: Ocean of Souls, through Apr. .  Alameda Padre Serra, -.

Jewish Federation of S.B. – Fiber, Fabulous and Faux, Mar. -Apr. .  Chapala St., -.

The Lark – Kevin Eddy, ongoing.  Anacapa St., -.

Los Olivos Café – Susan Belloni: Love Livin’ in the Valley, through Mar. ; Laurel Sherrie: Capturing Light, Mar. -May .  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -.

Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing.  Anacapa St., -.

Marcia Burtt Studio – Mark Kerckhoff: a celebration of plein air landscapes, through Mar. .  Laguna St., -.

Montecito Aesthetic Institute – eclecticism, through May .  Coast Village Rd., Ste. H, Montecito, -.

MultiCultural Ctr. – Zéna Allen: Of Water and the Spirit, through Mar. . UCSB, -.

Ojai Café Emporium – Gil and Sue DiCicco, ongoing.  State St., -.

Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Arts – Gil and Sue DiCicco, ongoing.  State St., -.

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Red Barn – Rescue, through Mar. . Building , Rm. , UCSB. S.B. Artwalk – Arts & Craft Show, ongoing Sundays. Cabrillo Blvd. at State St. S.B. Tennis Club – Rolling Sculpture, through Mar. .  Foothill Rd., -.

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Anders Aldrin: Color Seeking Form, Jean Swiggett: One Man Renaissance, and Agoraphobia: Portraits of American Interiors, through Mar. . ; Frederick Remahl, , through Mar. ; Ringers: Vintage and Contemporary American Masterworks, through May ; Lockwood de Forest Brass Cutouts, through Dec. .  E. Anapamu St., -.

Tamsen Gallery – R.W. Firestone, ongoing.  State St., -.

UCSB Library – Girls-in-Justice, through May . UCSB, -. wall space gallery – wsg: ten, through Mar. .  E. Yanonali St. C-, -.

Westmont Ridley-Tree Art Museum – Rembrandt and the Jews: The Berger Print Collection, through Mar. .  La Paz Rd., -.

LIVE MUSIC CLASSICAL

S.B. Museum of Art – Pop-Up Opera: Botticelli to Bel Canto.  State St., -.

THU /: :pm

POP, ROCK & JAZZ

Blush Restaurant & Lounge –  State St., -.

SUN: Chris Fossek (pm) Brasil Arts Café –  State St., -.

FRI, SAT: Live Brazilian Music (pm) Carr Winery –  N. Salsipuedes St., -.

FRI: The Stiff Pickle Orchestra (-pm) Chumash Casino Resort –  E. Hwy. , Santa Ynez, () -.

THU /: America (pm) Cold Spring Tavern –  Stagecoach Rd., -.

FRI: Grass Mountain (-pm) SAT: We Three (-pm); The Stone Phoneys (-pm) SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (:-pm); Nate Latta and the Trainhoppers (:-:pm) The Creekside –  Hollister Ave., -.

FRI: Cloud Ship (pm) SAT: Grooveshine (pm) WED: Country Night (pm) Dargan’s –  E. Ortega St., -.

TUE: Karaoke (pm) WED: Karaoke - The Band (:pm) THU: Traditional Irish Music (:pm)

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$25 / $15 UCSB students and youths (18 & under) OAK AGE: Bill Dewey’s photograph “Sedgwick Preserve” is part of the Oak Group exhibit Reserves of Strength at Faulkner Gallery.

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 Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. –  Anacapa St., -.

FRI: Live Music (pm) SAT: The Caverns (-pm) The Goodland –  Calle Real, -.

THU: Live Music Thursdays (pm) Hoffmann Brat Haus –  State St., -.

THU: Live Music Thursdays (pm) 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 Jazz Band (:-:pm) SUN, MON: Karaoke (pm) TUE: Teresa Russell (pm) WED: Victor Vega and the Bomb (pm) Lobero Theatre –  E. Canon Perdido St., -.

THU /: Elling Swings Sinatra Maverick Saloon –  Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, -.

FRI: The Lifters (pm) SAT: Rebel Heart Unplugged (pm); Rebel Heart (pm) O’Malleys and the Study Hall –  State St., -.

THU: College Night with DJ Gavin Moby Dick Restaurant –  Stearns Wharf, -.

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

THU: Karaoke Night (pm) Old Town Tavern –  Orange Ave., Goleta, -.

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

FRI: Live Mariachi Music (:-pm) Plaza Playhouse Theater –  Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, -.

FRI: Jonny Two Bags & Whiskey Chimp (pm) Reds Tapas & Wine Bar –  Helena Ave., -.

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

THU, TUE: Locals Night (pm) S.B. Maritime Museum –  Harbor Wy., #, -.

SAT: Ukulele music and singing (-:pm)

Sandbar –  State St., -.

WED: Big Wednesday (pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club –  State St., -.

THU: Craft Spells (pm) FRI: The Molly Ringwald Project (:pm) SAT: Slaid Cleaves (:pm); Live Salsa (pm) SUN: Peter Bradley Adams (pm) MON: Jazz Jam with Jeff Elliott (:pm) TUE: Fruition, The Riverside (pm) WED: Clean Spill, The Chores, The Weekend Monsters (:pm) THU: SWIMM, Afishnsea The Moon, Pleasure (pm) Statemynt –  State St., -.

THU: DJ Akorn WED: Blues Night (pm) Tiburon Tavern –  State St., - FRI: Karaoke Night (:pm) Velvet Jones –  State St., -.

THU: Mick Jenkins, Kirk Knight (pm) FRI: The Garden (pm) SAT: Eleanor Friedberger (pm); Joe Budden (pm) WED: Ben Caplan (pm) Whiskey Richards –  State St., -.

WED: Punk on Vinyl (pm) SUN: Americana Sunday w/ Matt Armor and Friends (-pm) MON: Open Mike Night (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)

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THU: La La La Strada (pm) FRI: Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles (pm) FRI: La La La Strada (pm) Hatlen Theater – In the Red and Brown Water.  University Rd., UCSB, -.

FRI-SAT: pm SUN: pm THU: pm Lobero Theatre – Maria Bamford.  E. Canon Perdido St., -.

SUN: pm Porter Theatre – The Insect Comedy or The World We Live In. Westmont Campus,  La Paz Rd., -.

FRI-SAT, THU: pm The New Victoria Theatre – Swing!  W. Victoria St., -.

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The DUFF. Mae Whitman, Bella Thorne, and Robbie Amell star in a film written by Josh A. Cagan, based on the novel by Kody Keplinger, and directed by Ari Sandel.

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ollywood doesn’t make enough teen comedies. It’s a beloved genre that is relatively cheap to produce (these movies usually cost somewhere between 10 and 20 million) and tend to earn back several times their gross, and if the teen comedy in question is even halfway decent, it earns its forever spot on the slumber-party circuit alongside greats like Clueless, Mean Girls,  Things I Hate About You, and, well, basically every movie John DUFF GIRL: Arrested Development’s Mae Whitman (left) stars opposite Hughes ever made.

Bella Thorne in the slumber-party-approved teen comedy The DUFF. Mean Girls turned 10 this year, and the last well-received teen comedy, Easy A, came out in 2010. We and crackles. Meanwhile, Bianca has attracted the ire of were long overdue for a worthy contribution to this genre, Madison (Bella Thorne), a mean girl with reality television aspirations. Madison, Wesley’s ex, is intent on getting back and that’s exactly what we get with The DUFF. Based on the YA novel of the same name by Kody together with her old beau and, seeing Bianca as a direct Keplinger (who wrote the novel at 17, giving the story obstacle, is determined to destroy Bianca by cyberbullying serious teen street cred), The DUFF tells the tale of Bianca our heroine into oblivion. As Bianca’s social life falls apart, Piper (Mae Whitman), editor of her high school newspa- she starts to see how little labels matter and realizes that the per and lover of schlocky B-movies, whose world is turned only labels worth anything are the ones you give yourself. upside down when her childhood friend-turned-hot-jock What elevates this movie from entertaining to straightWesley Rush (Robbie Amell) informs her that she is the up enchanting is the impossibly winning Mae Whitman DUFF (designated ugly fat friend) of her friend group. and her off-the-charts chemistry with Amell. This movie Bianca refuses to live out the rest of her days as a DUFF, so transcends the sleepover genre: If you like your movies she proposes a trade with Wesley: If he helps her shed her smart, charming, and big-hearted, with a finger directly DUFF-dom, she’ll help him pass science. As Wesley My- on the pulse of the current zeitgeist, The DUFF is your best ■ Fair-Ladys Bianca, the chemistry between the two snaps current release bet.

Robert Gates served as a trusted adviser to eight U.S. presidents, helping drive U.S. intelligence and defense policies over the past four and a half decades. In his recent best-selling memoir, Duty, he candidly recounted his experiences as secretary of defense under two presidents and through the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In this incisive and timely talk, Dr. Gates shares his insights about the most pressing threats to America’s security and global stability today. Pre-signed books will be available for purchase.

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t’s hard to imagine people complaining out loud that this film did not live up to the promise of the first installment. It’s akin to the philosophical proposition that Scary Movie  is nowhere near as good as Scary Movie  was. Clearly, the first Hot Tub Time Machine was full of classic cinematic tropes, like Craig Robinson fishing BMW keys out of a dog’s butt. But this one features more fictive explorations of trauma theory alongside phenomenological interrogations of hetero-normative hegemonies: A hot female doctor puts a long needle into Adam Scott’s testicles, releasing fluid onto onlooker’s faces, thereby enhancing the risible nature of pieface and baggypants simultaneously.

So think through the qualitative differences before you leap. In this soak, Lou (Rob Corddry), Nick (Craig Robinson), and Jacob (Clark Duke) live opulently in a present altered by the actions of the last film and are just about to realize how shallow they have become when Lou

SOAK IT UP: (FROM LEFT) Clark Duke, Rob Corddry, and Craig Robinson go for another dip in Hot Tub Time Machine 2.

gets shot in the groin. They decide to head back in time to prevent the humiliating assassination, if that’s the right word, when they find themselves in the future. Convoluted logic supplied by a super-puffy Chevy Chase allows them to understand that the only way to affect the past is to alter the future. And if you understand that, you are probably too stoned to go to the movies anyways.

However dumb the movie is, life in the future provides plenty of pretext for satire: a game show hosted by Christian Slater, ladybug stickers that cause 24-hour hallucinations, and Smart cars with murderous computer brains.

The movie begins slowly, but when you abandon the idea of a plot, the whole shtick becomes surprisingly okay. This is way better than any Scary Movie, and it has good Lisa ■ Loeb jokes, too.

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CHINATOWN CHEERS: Screening this Sunday at the Marjorie Luke Theatre, short doc Grasshopper for Grandpa recounts the history of Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens, the last remnant of Santa Barbara’s Chinatown district.

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The following films are playing in Santa Barbara FRIDAY, FEBRUARY , THROUGH THURSDAY, MARCH . Descriptions followed by initials — AC (Aly Comingore), JF (Jackson Friedman), DJP (D.J. Palladino), and KS (Kit Steinkellner) — have been taken from our critics’ reviews, which can be read in full at independent.com. The symbol ✯ indicates the film is recommended.

FIRST LOOKS ✯ The DUFF

(101 mins.; PG-13: crude and sexual material throughout, some language, teen partying) Reviewed on page 75. Camino Real/Metro 

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (93 mins.; R: crude sexual content and language throughout, graphic nudity, drug use, and some violence) Reviewed on page 75.

Fairview/Fiesta 

Mr. Turner (150 mins.; R: some sexual content)

Mike Leigh wants it both ways, and often gets it. While the director is based firmly in the hard edges of reality, Leigh keeps offering us glimpses of ridiculous beauty, particularly in recent films like Happy Go Lucky and Vera Drake, in which the protagonists are absurdly kind but the world keeps bringing them down. In Mr. Turner, Leigh tries the same formula on backward.

Here, the world shakes us into solemn reflections and joyful surprise. You could cut out any frame of this movie and blow it up and proudly hang it on your wall: Turner under a snowy cliff, fishing under the trees, sitting across from a prostitute he has posed on a bed.

Yet for all that gorgeous 19th-century scenery, the film’s characters border on the squalid. The man in the title, for instance, played with a grimacing slow boil by Timothy Spall (he was Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter), is a grunting, barely articulate man who grabs at the misshapen servant girl and ignores his own children as they prosper and perish. Yet this is the man Leigh thinks is perfect to show the dawning of the Victorian era and the movement of art itself from meticulous representation to ecstasies of impressionistic paint.

Leigh never lectures, and some famous characters — like a cameo by Oscar Wilde — pass almost unnoted, but his glimpse of another era revels in the differences between ideas and action, or transcendent beauty and the world’s ultimate power to make each of us, as Turner says, “a nonentity.” (DJP) Riviera

✯ What We Do in the Shadows

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If you’re still holding your breath for a Flight of the Conchords (FOC) reboot, well, you should probably stop doing that.

Once you catch a lungful, though, you should also jog over to see What We Do in the Shadows. FOC alum Jemaine Clement cowrites, codirects, and costars in this mockumentary about three hapless vampires named Viago (cowriter/director Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Clement) trying to cohabitate in a rundown old mansion. Like Conchords, the tone is offbeat, landing more on the British side of the comedy spectrum than the overtly American one. The trio spends the majority of the film’s barely there plot squabbling over the mundane, like who has slacked on the chores, or why the curtains need to be closed during the day. Outside of the house, they hop back and forth from vampire nightclub to vampire nightclub, trying to score with (read: exsanguinate) virgins and pick fights with the neighborhood werewolf gang. There’s also a lot of fake bloodletting, so if you’re squeamish, consider yourself warned.

At its climax, What We Do in the Shadows briefly flirts with sentimentality before its characters morph back into the typical idiots they’re supposed to be, leaving us with a sense of satisfaction akin to that which came with the best Flight of the Conchords episodes. After that, though, our three bloodsuckers stage a knockdown, drag-out full-moon brawl in the local park that kind of kills their human best friend. If only all juvenile humor was this smart. (AC) Metro 

PREMIERES Chappie (120 mins.; R: violence, language, brief nudity)

In the future, police officers are replaced by an oppressive robotic taskforce. When one police droid is stolen and reprogrammed, he becomes the first robot to think for himself.

Camino Real/Metro  (Opens Thu., Mar. )

A veteran conman (Will Smith) is thrown for a loop when a woman from his past — who is now a skillful femme fatale — resurfaces.

Arlington/Camino Real A La Mala (99 mins.; NR) An aspiring actress finds a lucrative new side job: flirting with women’s boyfriends to test their fidelity.

Fiesta  The Lazarus Effect (83 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of horror violence, terror, and some sexual references)

A group of medical students find a way to bring the dead back to life. Olivia Wilde and Donald Glover star.

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (122 mins.; PG: some language and

tion to say that Lawrence makes the whole movie. In fact, there are few other pleasures in this lead-up to the franchise’s finale. (DJP) Fri., Feb. , and Mon., Mar. ,  and pm, Isla Vista Theater,  Embarcadero del Norte

Ballet 422 (75 mins.; PG: brief language) Jody Lee Lipes’s documentary goes behind the scenes of the New York City Ballet as young choreographer Justin Peck crafts and premieres a new work.

the growing pains of a genius. (DJP) Metro 

✯ Kingsman: The Secret Service (129 mins.; R: sequences of strong violence, language, and some sexual content)

A veteran secret service agent becomes the mentor for a young street kid with a lot of potential. Kingsman is a dish best suited to fans of weirdo cinema; it’s preposterous and funny but meant to be painful. (DJP) Camino Real/Metro 

Wed., Mar. ,  and :pm, Plaza de Oro

Banff Mountain Film Festival: Night Two (137 mins.; NR) The second of a two-night selection of the best films of the 2014 Banff Mountain Film Festival features 10 shorts with subjects ranging from rock climbing in Yosemite Valley to an 88-year-old skiing aficionado.

Thu., Feb. , :pm, Arlington Theatre

NOW SHOWING ✯ American Sniper

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

A decorated Navy SEAL sniper (Bradley Cooper) returns home and struggles to reconnect with civilian life after four tours of duty. Cooper is terrific, beefed up and stoic, determined instead of crazy-eyed.

And Clint Eastwood’s no-nonsense direction style pushes us through the melodramatic script moments. (DJP)

McFarland, USA (128 mins.; PG: thematic material, some violence and language) A cross-country coach (Kevin Costner) in a small California town leads his team to championship glory. Camino Real/Fiesta 

✯ The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (93 mins.; PG: mild action and rude humor)

SpongeBob sets out on a quest to figure out a stolen recipe that allows him to transport to our dimension. This whole movie would make James Joyce happy; it’s brimming with puns, narrative loops, and complicated satirical references to philosophical issues. (DJP) Fairview (D)/Fiesta  (D)

Still Alice (101 mins.; PG-13: mature thematic material, and brief language including a sexual reference)

A linguistics professor with three children struggles with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Julianne Moore stars.

Fairview/Paseo Nuevo

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With the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel booked to capacity, Sonny (Dev Patel) pursues his dream of opening a second hotel.

Fairview/Paseo Nuevo (Opens Thu., Mar. )

Unfinished Business (91 mins.; R: some strong risqué sexual content/graphic nudity, language, and drug use)

A small business owner and his associates travel to Europe to close an important deal, but while they’re there, things go unimaginably wrong. Vince Vaughn stars.

Camino Real/Fiesta  (Opens Thu., Mar. )

SCREENINGS Grasshopper for Grandpa (28 mins.; NR) Casey McGarry’s short film chronicles the history and legacy of Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens, the Santa Barbara institution that also stands as the city’s last remnant of the city’s Chinatown district.

Sun., Mar. , pm, Marjorie Luke Theatre,  E. Cota St.

✯ Birdman (119 mins.; R: language throughout, some sexual content, brief violence)

✯ The Theory of Everything

A washed-up actor (Michael Keaton) must put his ego aside when he signs on to a Broadway play that could relaunch his career. Birdman is a lot bigger than its injokes and a lot smaller than its faux philosophies suggest. But the reason to love this film lies almost completely in its performances. (DJP) Paseo Nuevo

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

✯ Fifty Shades of Grey

✯ Two Days, One Night (95 mins.; PG-13: some mature thematic elements)

(124 mins.; R: strong sexual content including dialogue, some unusual behavior and graphic nudity, and for language)

A beautiful young student falls for a handsome yet tormented billionaire. Fifty Shades is often dismissed as fodder for sexually frustrated housewives, but the film is for any adult who likes their movies a little bit silly and more than a little bit sexy. (KS) Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo

✯ The Imitation Game The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (123 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of violence and action, some disturbing images and thematic material)

Now that she’s shattered the games, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) must fight to save her nation. It’s no exaggera-

Paseo Nuevo

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

Benedict Cumberbatch plays English mathematician Alan Turing, who helped crack the Enigma code during World War II. In the end, The Imitation Game is a good (not great) Hollywood film about independent.com

(123 mins.; PG-13: some thematic elements and suggestive material)

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Marion Cotillard stars in this story of a young wife and mother who fights back after her boss launches an unfair ploy to lay her off. The plotline is an almost comically simple one, but Cotillard’s subtle ticks and slow unraveling make it feel wholly compelling. (AC) Plaza de Oro

✯ Whiplash (107 mins.; R: strong language including some sexual references) A promising young drummer (Miles Teller) enrolls in a respected music conservatory and is mentored by a militant instructor (J.K. Simmons). Even in a year of great films, Whiplash is an extended thrill, enabled by great acting, brisk scripting, and knife’s-edge editing. (DJP)

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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): Lately your life reminds me of the action film Speed, starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. In that story, a criminal has rigged a passenger bus to explode if its speed drops below 50 miles per hour.

In your story, you seem to be acting as if you, too, will selfdestruct if you stop moving at a frantic pace. I’m here to tell you that nothing bad will happen if you slow down.

Just the opposite, in fact. As you clear your schedule of its excessive things-to-do, as you leisurely explore the wonders of doing nothing in particular, I bet you will experience a soothing flood of healing pleasure.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): One of the most dazzling moves a ballet dancer can do is the fouetté en tournant. The term is French for “whipped turning.” As she executes a 360-degree turn, the dancer spins around on the tip of one foot. Meanwhile, her other foot thrusts outward and then bends in, bringing her toes to touch the knee of her supporting leg. Can you imagine a dancer doing this 32 consecutive times? That’s what the best do. It takes extensive practice and requires a high degree of concentration and discipline. Paradoxically, it expresses breathtaking freedom and exuberance. You may not be a prima ballerina, Taurus, but in your own field there must be an equivalent to the fouetté en tournant. Now is an excellent time for you to take a vow and make plans to master that skill. What will you need to do?

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): If you’re a martial artist and you want to inject extra energy into an aggressive move, you might utter a percussive shout that sounds like “eee-yah!” or “hyaah!” or “aiyah!” The Japanese term for this sound is kiai. The sonic boost is most effective if it originates deep in your diaphragm rather than from your throat. Even if you’re not a martial artist, Gemini, I suggest that in the coming weeks you have fun trying out this boisterous Homework: True or false: You can’t get what you want from another person until you’re able to give it to yourself. Explain why or why not.

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style of yelling. It may help you summon the extra power and confidence you’ll need to successfully wrestle with all the interesting challenges ahead of you.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22): The prolific and popular French novelist Aurore Dupin was better known by her pseudonym George Sand. Few 19th-century women matched her rowdy behavior. She wore men’s clothes, smoked cigars, was a staunch feminist, and frequented social venues where only men were normally allowed.

Yet she was also a doting mother to her two children, and loved to garden, make jam, and do needlework.

Among her numerous lovers were the writers Alfred de Musset, Jules Sandeau, and Prosper Mérimée, as well as composer Frédéric Chopin and actress Marie Dorval.

Her preferred work schedule was midnight to 6 a.m., and she often slept until 3 p.m. “What a brave man she was,” said Russian author Ivan Turgenev, “and what a good woman.” Her astrological sign? The same as you and me. She’s feisty proof that not all of us Crabs are conventional fuddy-duddies. In the coming weeks, she’s our inspirational role model.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): It seems you’ve slipped into a time warp. Is that bad? I don’t think so. Your adventures there may twist and tweak a warped part of your psyche in such a way that it gets healed. At the very least, I bet your visit to the time warp will reverse the effects of an old folly and correct a problem caused by your past sins.

(By the way, when I use the word “sin,” I mean “being lax about following your dreams.”) There’s only one potential problem that could come out of all this: Some people in your life could misinterpret what’s happening. To prevent that, communicate crisply every step of the way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): In the English and French versions of the word game Scrabble, the letter Z is worth 10 points.

In Italian, it’s eight points. But in the Polish variant of Scrabble, you score just one point by using Z. That letter

is rarely used in the other three languages but is common in Polish. Keep this general principle in mind as you assess the value of the things you have to offer. You will be able to make more headway and have greater impact in situations where your particular beauty and power and skills are in short supply.

be a purifying heaviness that purges any glib or shallow influences that are in your vicinity. It’ll be a healing heaviness that gives you just the kind of graceful gravitas you will need.

CAPRICORN

(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): “Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have to make them all yourself.” So said Alfred Sheinwold in his book about the card game known as bridge. I think this is excellent advice for the game of life, as well. And it should be extra pertinent for you in the coming weeks, because people in your vicinity will be making gaffes and wrong turns that are useful for you to study. In the future, you’ll be wise to avoid perpetrating similar messes yourself.

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): “What I look for in a friend is someone who’s different from me,” says science fiction novelist Samuel Delany. “The more different the person is, the more I’ll learn from him. The more he’ll come up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations.”

What about you, Capricorn? What are the qualities in a friend that help you thrive? Now is a perfect time to take an inventory. I sense that although there are potential new allies wandering in your vicinity, they will actually become part of your life only if you adjust and update your attitudes about the influences you value most.

SCORPIO

AQUARIUS

(Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): “Love her but leave her wild,” advised a graffiti artist who published his thoughts on a wall next to the mirror in a public restroom I visited. Another guerrilla philosopher had added a comment below: “That’s a nice sentiment, but how can anyone retain wildness in a society that puts so many demands on us in exchange for money to live?” Since I happened to have a felt-tip pen with me, I scrawled a response to the question posed in the second comment: “Be in nature every day. Move your body a lot. Remember and work with your dreams. Be playful. Have good sex. Infuse any little thing you do with a creative twist. Hang out with animals. Eat with your fingers. Sing regularly.” And that’s also my message for you, Scorpio, during this phase when it’s so crucial for you to nurture your wildness.

(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): At the turn of the 19th century, Russian laborers constructed thousands of miles of railroad tracks from the western part of the country eastward to Siberia. The hardest part of the job was blasting tunnels through the mountains that were in the way. I reckon you’re at a comparable point in your work, Aquarius.

It’s time to smash gaping holes through obstacles. Don’t scrimp or apologize. Clear the way for the future.

LIBRA

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): “Don’t worry, even if things get heavy, we’ll all float on.” So sings Modest Mouse’s vocalist Isaac Brock on the band’s song “Float On.” I recommend you try that approach yourself, Sagittarius. Things will no doubt get heavy in the coming days. But if you float on, the heaviness will be a good, rich, soulful heaviness. It’ll

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): The British rock band the Animals released their gritty, growly song “The House of the Rising Sun” in 1964. It reached the top of the pop music charts in the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia and was a hit with critics. Rolling Stone magazine ultimately ranked it as the 122nd greatest song of all time. And yet it took the Animals just 15 minutes to record. They did it in one take.

That’s the kind of beginner’s luck and spontaneous flow I foresee you having in the coming weeks, Pisces. What’s the best way for you to channel all that soulful mojo?

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

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).

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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 delicious 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.

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SANTA BARBARA Winery, 202 Anacapa St. 963â&#x20AC;&#x2018;3633. Open Sunâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;Thurs 10aâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;6p & Friâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;Sat 10a â&#x20AC;&#x2018; 7p, small charge for extensive tasting list. 2 blocks from both State St & the beach. This venerable winery is the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldestâ&#x20AC;&#x2018; est.1962, and offers many internationally acclaimed wines from their Lafond Vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills. Try some of Winemaker Bruce McGuireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small production bottling. www.sbwinery.com

Drink of the Week Viniq: Ever have the urge to drink a lava lamp? Well, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your chance. Viniq, billed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first shimmery liqueurâ&#x20AC;? (note, not Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only shimmery liqueur), comes in a 15â&#x20AC;? tall bottle and is very purple. Then when you shake the bottle, it takes you on a magical, mystical trip as it comes alive with silver swirlies (essentially suspended sugars). It does look cool, indeed.

E&J Gallo assumes this glamorous drink, which is made of vodka, moscato, and natural fruit flavors, will draw millennials, and it might. As for the rest of us, does a drink called a Shimmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2018;tini (the Viniq plus cranberry juice, peach vodka, mint, lime, bitters) tickle your taste buds. Straight up itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sweet with an overbidding air of something chemical, making it seem more like the medicine it smells like. But it sure is fine to shake and stare at. See viniq.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;George Yatchisin

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Caffe Primo,  State St. and  W. Carrillo St. Del Taco, Santa Barbara (two locations) � Dunkin’ Donuts, Santa Barbara (two locations) � East Beach Tacos,  S. Milpas St. (formerly Norton’s) � Farmer Boy Restaurant,  State St. (remodeling �

STEVE’S PATIO UPDATE: Readers Bob and Jim tell

me that Steveಬs Patio Café at  De la Vina Street has started renovating its kitchen and is working on ADA compliance for the patio. I am told the work will be done

by March 3.

CASA DON ROGE UPDATE: Reader Primetime tells

me that Casa Don Roge at  Carpinteria Avenue in Carpinteria has a large sign out front indicating that the restaurant now serves rotisserie chicken.

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ACTION: Actor Kurt Russell (pictured) will be attending an event at the Bacara as part of the launch of his new wine label.

HOFFMANN BRAT HAUS UPDATE: Hoffmann Brat

Haus at  State Street has announced the completion of its outside patio remodel, complete with newly installed gas lamps, inviting customers to celebrate traditional German beer, gourmet brats, a new wine list, and additional perks around the large new fire pit. ಯOur patio with the new fire pit is the only one offering a State Street view in downtown Santa Barbara,ರ explains general manager Nicole Mullen. ಯNow, beer enthusiasts can enjoy their German beverage and gourmet brat in a comfortable setting around a fire, with our new gas lamps adding to the rustic, warm atmosphere.ರ KURT RUSSELL COMING TO BACARA: For the past

few years, actor Kurt Russell has been making GoGi Wines with Peter and Rebecca Work at Ampelos Cellars in the Sta. Rita Hills, where his daughter, actress Kate Hudson, also makes her Hudson-Bellamy Wines with musician Matt Bellamy.“After tasting pinots from around the world, my personal belief is that the Santa Rita Hills area is, other than Burgundy, the best place to make pinot noir,” said Russell.

All three labels can be found inside The Wine Saloon at the historic  Union Hotel in Los Alamos, but Russell will be making a rare trip to Santa Barbara to promote the brand at the nd Annual Santa Barbara Food & Wine Weekendಬs Grand Wine Dinner on April 18 at Bacara Resort & Spa. The weekend is produced by Bacara Resort & Spa together with The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts, which benefits from the weekendಬs proceeds. See bacaraculinaryweekend.com.

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Legals Bulk Sale Notice to CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Notice pursuant to UCC Sec. 6105) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made. The name(s) and business address of the seller are: Andrew Jackson, PhD 6483 Calle Real, Suite F Goleta, California 93117. Doing business as: MBE Control Solutions. All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the seller(s), are: (if none, so state): None. The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is:6483 Calle Real, Suite F, Goleta, California 93117. The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) are: Riber Inc., Attn: Frederick Goutard, 15 Liberty Street, Metuchen, NJ 08840. The assests being sold are generally described as: Contracts, accounts receivable, inventory, work on premises, all machinery, equipment and furniture, all intellectual property including Tradename, security deposit and related assets, permits and supplies. and are located at 6483 Calle Real, Suite F, Goleta, CA 93117. The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: Schiff Hardin LLP 666 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor New York, New York 10103 and the anticipated sale date is February 28, 2015. The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2. The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: Riber Inc., Attn: Frederick Goutard, 15 Liberty Street, Metuchen, NJ 08840. and the last day for filing claims by any creditor shall be February 28, 2015 which is the business day before the anticipated sale date specified above. Dated: February 3, 2015. Signed: Frederick Goutard, President Riber Inc. Buyer. Published: Feb. 19, 26, Mar. 5, 2015

Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ambrecht & Associates at 1224 Coast Village Circle Suite 32 Santa Barbara, CA 93108; John Ward Ambrecht (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John W. Ambrecht This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 30, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000361.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Cuft Packaging & Retail Supplies at 3523 Modoc Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Raymond Rangel (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 12, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000130.

Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Martens Jewelry of Santa Barbara at 302 W Anapamu #10 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Laine Martens (same address) Dedalo Purificacao (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership) Signed: Laine Martens This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 30, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000355. Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

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Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Mex Authentic at 413 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Franco Hospitality Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gabriel Franco This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 28, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000301. Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Open Coast Consulting, Zstack Consulting at 130 Clara Vista Ct. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Michael F. Billebach (same address) Patricia A. Craychee This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Michael Billesbach This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000328. Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: IGEEKS at 100 North La Cumbre Road #6 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Daniele Guerrera (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Daniel Guerrera This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000323.

Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Hens And Chicks at 657 Orchard Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Annie Gray (same address) Sarah McKittrick 545 El Bosque Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Sarah McKittrick This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000379. Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Innovative Services at 4708 Calle Reina Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Donna Conran (same address) Shane Conran (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Shane Conran This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 28, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000314.

Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Easy Does It Wellness at 223 W Ortega St Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Elyse Warnecke (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Elyse Warneke This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0000342. Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

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Khaos Catering at 115 S Soledad St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Lorne H O’Rourke (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lorne H. O’Rourke This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 3, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000394. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lepiane Wine Company, Lepiane Wines at 1168 More Ranch Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Alison Thomson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Alison Thomson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter.

FBN Number: 2015‑0000378. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Plumbing Supplies at 621 N. Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; S.B. Plumbing Supplies, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kim Bantilan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 4, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasimghe.

FBN Number: 2015‑0000407. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MC Plus Bookkeeping at 776 Terni Lane B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Marcella Gomes Clark (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lorne H. O’Rourke This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 26, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinge. FBN Number: 2015‑0000264. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Grace Kathryn Photography, Studio GK at 3335 Richland Dr Apt 8 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Grace Kathryn Lindelien (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Grace Lindelien This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 4, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000415. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: All Creatures Great & Small Pet Sitting at 215 South Bonita Santa Maria, CA 93454; Elaine Sgrol (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 4, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Eva Chavez. FBN Number: 2015‑0000410. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Peterson Apartments at 525 E. Arrellaga Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Nettie A. Peterson 1405 Alamada Padre Serra Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Trust Signed: Nettie A. Peterson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinge. FBN Number: 2015‑0000375. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Atlas Tours at 2910 Hwy 154, Unit #7 Los Olivos, CA 93441; Christopher M. Rogers (same

address) Gretchen A. Rogers (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Chris Rogers This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter.

FBN Number: 2015‑0000380. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Egerer & Associates, Sunshine Painting And Maintenance at 1187 Coast Village Road #1‑279 Montecito, CA 93108; Justin Egerer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Justin Egerer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 9, 2015.

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

FBN Number: 2015‑0000466. Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Preservation Planning Associates at 519 Fig Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Alexandra C. Cole (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Alexander C. Cole This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 30, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000363. Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KATE at 1145 “C” Coast Village Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Catherine A. McMahon 124 A Pomar Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Catherine McMahon This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 9, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2015‑0000476. Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FNA, Friday Nights Amateurs at 116 W Islay #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Demi Boelsterli (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Demi Boelsterli This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 11, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000498. Published: Feb 19, 26.

Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Intergrated Sensor Technologies at 7787 Wagon Wheel Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Peter Honor (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Peter Honor This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 21, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adele Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000221.

Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brisamar Engineering 434 Loma Alta Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Henry Steven Owens (Same Address). This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: Henry Steven Owens This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 13, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000526 Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Petite Pediatrics 1525 State Street #206 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Charish L Barry 731 E. Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This business is conducted by an

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Individual Signed: Charish L Barry This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 27, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000285.

Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tree Club Monthly at 611 Eucalyptus Ave #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; David Rodney Innes (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: David Innes This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 10, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000490.

Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Wildflower 205 Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Wildflower Foods LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Natalia Martin, Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000213.

Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nascent Energy Solutions at 1482 East Valley Road, Suite 245 Santa Barbara, CA 93108; West End Partners, Inc (Same Address). This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: Peter S. Dealy, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000189 Published: Feb 19, 26.

Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Seven Hills at 1019 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Saratoga Turkish Bazaar, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 13, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2015‑0000527. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Housekepping at 112 South Canada Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jose Martinez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jose J Martinez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 24, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000633. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Angkor Sales at 27 W Anapamu St #147 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Amelie Fonquernie 1448 Hetrick Ave Arroyo Grande, CA 93420 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 23, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000622. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simple Fish Wines LLC at 5431 Berkeley Road Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Simple Fish Wines LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jeff Fisher, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara

County on Feb 23, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000624. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Eva’s Home Daycare at 1332 Punta Gorda St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Maria E. Arechiga de Felix (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Maria E. Arechiga de Felix This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 11, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2015‑0000497. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dentistry In Paradise at 122 S Patterson Ave #107 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Kevin T Miller DDS Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kevin Miller, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 11, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000503. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: I‑V Restoration at 105 Kelloggs Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Israel Guerrero 932 East Cota Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Victor Lima 7465 Hollister Avenue Spc 446 Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Joint Venture Signed: Victor Lima This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 12, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000507.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Tassadar Express at 609 De La Vina Apt 15 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Adrian Cojocaru (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Adrian Cojocaru This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 18, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adele Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000575.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Go‑Content at 368 Hillsboro Way Goleta, CA 93117; Emily Soloman (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Emily Soloman This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 28, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000318. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SYV Moms at 1218 Hans Park Trail Solvang, CA 93463; Mientje Darell (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Mientje Darelli This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 6, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0000439. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Roberts Photography of Santa Barbara at 22 Anacapa St. Ste E Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Roberts Photography of Santa Barbara, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jonaotan Little, Managing Officer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 18, 2015. This statement expires five years from the

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date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000567. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jacque Christine Designs at 4986 La Gama Way Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Kings Tavern Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Samuel Book This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 18, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000565. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mathilda Apartments at 285 Mathilda Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Christine Bagley 355 Bryant St #302 San Francisco, CA 94107; Jinnene Favor Beck 5550 1/2 Hollister Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Karen M Kahn 933 Cheltenham Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Judith C Ricker 460 Mountain Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Copartners Signed: Judith C. Ricker This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 10, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000493.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dawn Patrol at 324 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Chris Henry 1309 Plaza Pacifica Montecito, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Chris Henry This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 17, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000545. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Miramar Books at 1114 State Street #306 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Alice E Burke 4162 Cresta Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Brian H Burke (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Alice E. Burke This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000599.

Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Native Son Design Studio at 243 Santa Catalina St. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Chris Cottrell, Architect Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 19, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000596. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Solvang Antique Center, Solvang Antiques at 1693 Copenhagen Drive Solvang, CA 93463; Leads Investment LLC 5015 Nottingham Drive Cambria, CA 93428 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 9, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000458. Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

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The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 3/20/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­ edu Job #20150090

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LETTERS & SCIENCE ACADEMIC ADVISING The Advising Services Unit is the initial source of academic advising for undergraduate students in the College of Letters and Science and is responsible for providing specific types of academic Employment Services advice (including reviewing and ATTN: Drivers ‑ $2K Sign‑On Bonus! approving petitions, degree completion Make $55k a Year. Great Benefits + analysis, major/minor requirements, 401K. Paid Training/Orientation CDL‑A educational resources, etc.). The Req ‑ (877) 258‑8782 www.ad‑drivers.­ Unit is responsible for ensuring that com (Cal‑SCAN) academic advising within the Division TRAIN AT HOME TO PROCESS is coordinated with other advising MEDICAL BILLING & INSURANCE resources and staff, both internally CLAIMS! NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! and with other campus agencies Become a Medical Office Assistant and colleges. Reqs: Work history now with our online training program! demonstrating a strong administrative background. Strong interpersonal HS Diploma/GED & Computer/Internet required to participate. 1‑877‑649‑3155. and communication skills, including the ability to deal with individuals (Cal‑SCAN) from varies cultural and linguistic background. Must be detail oriented Engineering and able to evaluate and analyze data LAMP Engineer (Santa Barbara, and make recommendations. Position requires professional telephone CA): Perform prgmg in PHP, including object‑oriented prgmg, debugging etiquette, ability to organize and prioritize workload, edit and proofread & profiling. Perform prgmg for web technologies & dvlp cross‑browser materials, work independently under applications in JavaScript & HTML. pressure of deadlines, and handle multiple interruptions efficiently. Notes: Manage Linux servers, particularly Ubuntu, as well as the Apache server. Fingerprinting required. $21.43 ‑ Manage d/bases, particularly MySQL, $25.71­/hr. The University of California is MongoDB, Redis, & Sphinx. Dvlp SEO an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action data stds for millions of indexed pages. Employer. All qualified applicants will Master’s in Comp Engg or related reqd. receive consideration for employment Resumes: FindTheBest.com, Inc., Attn: without regard to race, color, religion, Kyler Farr, 101A Innovation Pl., Santa sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including Barbara, CA 93108. protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration General Full-Time apply by 3/3/15, thereafter open until Obtain Class A CDL in 2 ½ weeks. filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­ Company Sponsored Training. Also edu Job #20150084 Hiring Recent Truck School Graduates, Experienced Drivers. Must be 21 or Older.

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ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES Provides leadership, vision, planning, and direction for large, complex operations that serve the campus community. Responsible for directing diverse operations while optimizing fiscal, physical, and staff resources to deliver a broad array of services and programs to the campus community in support of the University’s mission.

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ASSOCIATE VICE CHANCELLOR, AUXIL­IARY SERVICES

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES Provides leadership, vision, planning, and direction for large, complex operations that serve the campus community. Responsible for directing diverse operations while optimizing fiscal, physical, and staff resources to deliver a broad array of services and programs to the campus community in support of the University’s mission.

Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience is required. 10 or more years of progressive management experience in an institution of higher education is preferred. A J.D. or graduate degree in business, economics, or management is preferred. Note: Fingerprinting required. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 3/20/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­ edu Job #20150091

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OFFICE OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & SEXUAL HARASSMENT / TITLE IX COMPLIANCE Develops, implements and maintains the University’s nondiscrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual offense policies and procedures, including: sexual assault, sexual misconduct, dating and domestic violence, and stalking, by independently evaluating and simultaneously responding appropriately to multifaceted claims, which entail considerable risk in the event of audit and/or litigation, and the immediate needs of complainant(s), witness(es), reporting party or parties and respondent(s) for supplemental assistance with regard to interim protections, if appropriate, and personal and/or emotional support resources. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience. Minimum 3 years of demonstrated expertise and skill in

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Demonstrated ability to handle personal, confidential, sensitive and complex information and matters with composure, mature judgment and utmost discretion. Requires excellent word processing skills and experience in database management. Notes: Fingerprinting required. $4,510 ‑ $6,314­/mo. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 3/4/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­edu Job #20150096

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personnel data. These systems are all internally developed using open‑source software and are expected to remain so. Duties will involve database and application development, deployment and maintenance of KITP current applications; design and implantation of any new requirements as staff/ application requirements change; maintenance and optimization of current deployed systems; assisting staff with data and application issues.

Reqs: Proficiency in Ruby/Ruby on Rails, MySQL, UNIX, shell scripting. Ability to work collaboratively and creatively with staff and faculty to ensure that KITP’s database applications meet the institute’s programmatic and operational needs. KITP computing is mac‑based, so familiarity with OS X and its programming environment is preferred. Notes: Fingerprinting required. $4,958 ‑ $6,666/mo. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 3/5/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­ edu Job #20150095

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Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ALISSA ALEXANDER ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1486491 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: ALISSA ALEXANDER TO: ALEESA PITCHAMARN ALEXANDER 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 March 18, 2015 9:30am, Dept 1, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Jan 23, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ROBERT KENNETH LANDAU ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1470091 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: ROBERT KENNETH LANDAU TO: ROBERT WILLIAM BURROWS 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.

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CHILD CARE CENTER Shares responsibility for planning and implementing a quality child care program. Works cooperatively with other staff to coordinate program for entire center. Assumes Lead Teacher responsibilities in her/his absence. Reqs: Hold (or in process) a CA Child Dev Associate Teacher Permit. Must have 12 units in ECE/ Child Development and Associate Teacher permit in process.

Infant / Toddler positions require 3 units Infant / Toddler development or willingness to enroll in class upon hire. Previous experience working with children in a preschool or infant/ toddler setting. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Must be eligible for a CA Child Development Permit. Mandated reporting requirements of child abuse.

Multiple positions available. $18.34/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 3/9/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­ edu Job #20150100

2015 9:30am, Dept 1, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Jan 23 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Feb 5, 12 19, 26 2015.

Notice to Creditors NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF JOAN D. HAGGARD PROBATE CODE 19040 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ANACAPA DIVISION CASE NUMBER: 1486928 In the Matter of the HAGGARD LIVING TRUST dated May 12, 1995 JOAN D. HAGGARD, Settlor Judy A. Cushing and Kristina K. Haggard, Co‑Trustees NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all creditors and contingent creditors of JOAN D. HAGGARD, deceased or the HAGGARD LIVING TRUST dated May 12, 1995, that all persons having claims against the decendent are required to file them with the Superior Court at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93121, and mail or deliver a copy to the Law Office of Lana Clark, Attorney for Co‑Trustees, at 1607 Mission Drive Suite 107, Solvang California, within the later of four months after the date of first publication of notice to creditors, or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally deliverd to you, or you must petiton to file a late claim as provided in Section 19103 of the Probate Code. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Dated: February 2, 2015. Signed: LANA J. CLARK State Bar Number (237251) 1607 Mission Drive, Suite 107 Solvang, CA 93463, (805) 688‑3939 jill@lanaclarklaw.com Published: Feb 12, 19, 26 2015.

Public Notices NOTICE TO PRESENT BENEFICIARY To the present beneficiary of that certain Deed of Trust dated August 18, 2005 and recorded with the Santa Barbara County Recorder’s Office under Instrument #2005‑0083880

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GRADUATE DIVISION Uses exceptional judgment and analytical skills to conduct analysis and reporting of fellowship and employment based fee remission funds. Also conducts ongoing analysis of funding and key academic quality indicators, maintains departmental multi‑year fellowship commitment systems, and helps maintain department compliance with audit requirements. Reqs: Proven excellent financial and analytical skills and experience working on an inclusive, effective, service‑oriented team. A record of accomplishment that demonstrates initiative, creativity, and effectiveness managing multi‑faceted business functions.

Excellent communication, analytical, and technical skills. Ability to work with minimal direction to coordinate and execute numerous tasks simultaneously in a fast paced deadline critical environment. Notes: Fingerprinting required. $4,099 ‑ $4,510/mo. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 3/3/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.­ edu Job #20150085

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NOTICE OF LIEN SALE‑‑ Contents are drum set,small dining room table, and other household goods. Items are being stored for Roberto Avila under Diana Canales in storage at Bucks Moving & Storage 309 Palm Ave Unit D, Santa Barbara CA 93101. 805‑966‑1261 Published Feb. 19 and 26, 2015

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Summons SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): SARAH KENNELLY aka SARAH FULMER; DOES 1 to 10, Inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): EDWARD ST. GEORGE NOTICE! You have been sued.The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff a letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.There may be a court form that you can use your for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.­courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una

llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.

Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas information en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.­courtinfo.ca gov/selfhelp/espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados.

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CASE NO:1486686 The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es) Santa Barbara Superior Court 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: James B. Cole, Esq., SBN: 156131 Slaughter & Regan, LLP 625 E. Santa Clara Street, Suite 101 Ventura, CA 93001; (805) 658‑7800 (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): DATE: Jan 21 2015. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer, By Penny Wooff Deputy (Delegado) Published Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

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