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The Santa Barbara City Council voted 4-to-3 to privatize the greens maintenance at the Santa Barbara Municipal Golf Course in hopes of saving $200,000 a year. Like golf courses everywhere, Santa Barbara’s has experienced a decline in rounds played, requiring course managers to dip into reserves during the past several years. Currently, 11 City Hall employees care for the Muni greens. Councilmembers Gregg Hart and Cathy Murillo, both strong supporters of public-employee unions, sought to protect those jobs and argued in favor of alternative solutions. Murillo expressed concern that “solid middle-class jobs” would be replaced with minimum-wage positions. In response, the council stipulated the new contractor would have to pay a living wage, meaning at least $16 an hour. — Nick Welsh

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Police reported a spate of 23 residential burglaries between 2/3 and 3/6 and urged residents to be vigilant for the sound of breaking glass and unfamiliar individuals in their neighborhood who appear to be acting as lookouts. At a Downtown Organization meeting, a police representative stated five burglaries took place in one day. Sgt. Riley Harwood said most of the activity has focused on the Westside, the Eastside, and the north end of town. No arrests have been made. The Sheriff’s Office applied for $75,000 in state money to purchase an off-road vehicle and afford additional patrols of Lompoc’s riverbed. Since last fall, numerous complaints have been filed about illegal quad use in the area with damage to property and environment. The Sheriff’s Office has two quads from the military surplus program, but “budget restraints and mechanical issues” left enforcement “on a varying and infrequent basis,” according to the application. COU RTESY

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the same check that we are, and we’re taking the heat for it.” Carbajal agreed, pointing to a decision he “didn’t brag about” to impose a furlough on himself in 2008 after the board levied furloughs on county workers. During that period, Carbajal had a cumulative $2,600 taken out of his paycheck. “It’s one thing to kick up a lot of dust,” Carbajal said to Adam. “But to have the audacity to not return that money? It’s abhorrent to have such contradiction and to be such a hypocrite. We have to have integrity in the decisions that we make. It’s not just about grandstanding.” Adam, visibly flustered, said it wasn’t “inconsistent” to take the raise. “I’m not going to give it back — that’s ridiculous,” he said. “You guys don’t define morality. If we were at the ranch, I’d have a short phrase for you.” Adam insisted that he has made significantly less than his colleagues.Auditor-Controller Bob Geis said Adam claimed lower pay because he opted out of the county’s employer-sponsored medical plan, but that all supervisors earn the same base pay. If Adam wanted to return his raise to the county, Geis said, he would have to take the same steps that Carbajal did in 2008. The $9,964 raise is being covered by General Fund dollars, Geis said. Any future inflationbased raises of 0-3 percent would also come out of that pot. ■ FR AN K COWA N; CONTR I BUTOR

BY LY Z H O F F M A N n a rare episode of heavy-duty dais including revisiting salaries every three years drama, County Supervisors Salud Car- and comparing them to what electeds in simibajal and Steve Lavagnino criticized lar counties make — but the board voted 3-1 Supervisor Peter Adam on Tuesday for (Supervisor Doreen Farr was absent) to limit accepting a pay raise that he had spent future pay hikes to 0-3 percent, based on inflation. months bashing. In December, the supervisors voted 4-1, with Adam, again the lone vote against the move, Adam against, to award themselves a $9,964 took the findings in the opposite direction, raise. The 12 percent hike was added to their $84,200 salary, which had been frozen since 2006. The decision to bump their own pay — which many supervisors said was “awkward” — came after county staff found Santa Barbara’s supes were making 30 percent less than their counterparts in comFROM LEFT: Supervisors Salud Carbajal, Peter Adam, and Steve Lavagnino parable counties. Tuesday’s meeting featured the findings of a six-person com- insisting that the board not only doesn’t need mittee assembled to analyze how the board a raise but could also use a pay cut. “I think could go about giving themselves raises in the that we should evaluate ourselves much more years to come. In its research, the commit- on the fiscal health of the county and whether tee found that had the supervisors received or not we’re taking care of our infrastructure cost-of-living raises between 2007 and 2014, needs when we evaluate what our job perforthe combined increase over those years would mance is,” he said.“I would give us a D.” But Adam’s remarks didn’t fly with have been greater than their recent pay boost. It also found that the supes make less than the Lavagnino, who called him out for taking the average department head ($167,200) and assis- raise he has been so outspoken against. “You tant department head ($128,360); the average have to give the money back,” he said. “I don’t county employee, not counting those who work see how you can ethically say, ‘I’m fighting for in public safety, earns $65,400. this, and we should take a pay cut, and we don’t After meeting four times, the committee on deserve a raise,’ and get all the accolades that go Tuesday suggested various ways for how the along with that,” Lavagnino complained.“At the supervisors could deal with future increases — same time, in the dark of night, you get to cash

Firefighter Daniel Corrigan (pictured with son Jack) was found dead in his car on 3/4 at the Santa Barbara Airport’s fire station, stricken with “an unknown medical emergency,” officials said. No foul play is suspected, and autopsy results are pending. A Cal Poly Pomona alumnus who worked for City Fire since April 2013, Corrigan is survived by his pregnant fiancée, their oneyear-old son, and his parents and two sisters. Fire engines and personnel lined highway overpasses as his body was moved by motorcade to Ventura, where his family lives.

CITY The County Courthouse clock tower observation deck will close on 3/16 through June for a construction project to make it more accessible to people with disabilities. The elevator currently stops 12 steps shy of the landing; it will be made to reach the top. About 200,000 people visit the deck every year.

COUNTY Supervisor Doreen Farr paid a $2,500 ﬁne for failing to report $149,318 in expenditures during her 2012 reelection campaign; the matter will be ofﬁcially resolved at a California Fair Political Practices Commission meeting later this month. “The omission was inadvertent,” Farr said. “This was a booking error made by my treasurer, who

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Homes on Wheels, an organization representing RV dwellers who would otherwise be homeless, has sued the City of Santa Barbara, charging that enforcement of the RV parking ban in certain parts of the city has expanded well past legal limits. Homes on Wheels objects that City Hall does not respect the blue handicapped placards issued to RV owners who park in “No RV Parking Zones.” One of the plaintiffs in the case is an artist who regularly sells his wares at the Sunday beach art show on Cabrillo Boulevard. Because he drives an RV, he’s ticketed if he parks near the show. Two miles of Cabrillo Boulevard have been declared off-limits to RV campers. Peter Marin, another plaintiff, objected that the basis by which police and traffic engineers designate an area a “No RV zone” is arbitrary and capricious. The city’s ordinance allows for such a designation if a determination is made that there’s “an excessive” number of RVs congregating. City police, Marin charged, have frequently deemed even the presence of one RV “excessive.” Marin said the city has declared so many areas off-limits to RVs — enough to fill eight and a half single-spaced, type-written pages — that handicapped RV drivers have been effectively barred from access to parks, churches, and hospitals. And he charged the law has been so broadly interpreted that even construction sites, dance studios, and acupuncture clinics have been declared RV-free zones. Marin, a longtime homelessrights advocate, contends that many RV owners become homeless when they can’t afford the tickets issued, their registrations lapse and their RVs are seized. City Attorney Ariel Calonne said state law gives bearers of handicapped placards the right to park longer than the local ordinances allow. But it does not give them the right, he added, to park where no parking is allowed. He explained that the city council’s Ordinance Committee has redefined “excessive” to mean two or more RVs. He said Homes for Wheels filed an identical suit three years ago and that it was thrown out of — Nick Welsh court.

Former fire chief Michael Dyer and undersheriff Don Patterson, both recently retired, will work part-time over the next year for the county’s Office of Emergency Management to analyze the area’s environmental and technological hazards. The two will be paid $60 per hour and will earn a combined $75,000, all of which will be covered by a Homeland Security grant; county officials said hiring third-party consultants would cost upward of $125,000. Area drivers have already noticed what GasBuddy.com recently confirmed: Gasoline prices just took their most aggressive price hike ever. Attributing the spike in part to the Exxon refinery explosion in Torrance on 2/18 as well as the United Steelworker strike at the Tesoro refinery in Carson — the site charted California’s price rising by about a dollar over the past month. In Santa Barbara, the price per gallon reaches $4.79, earning it the number 5 spot on GasBuddy’s “top cities to overpay for gas” list. With a $30,000 grant from the Fund for Santa Barbara, Radio Bilingüe, the country’s biggest Latino public radio network, is expanding its noncommercial programming to Santa Barbara. It says it will build the necessary equipment to begin airing in Santa Maria, Guadalupe, and Orcutt by summer 2015. Broadcasting from Fresno, Salinas, El Centro, and Oakland, Radio Bilingüe airs in Spanish, English, Mixtec and other languages via its own 12 stations and 65 affiliates across the U.S.

STATE Verifying rumors that she would seek higher office, Santa Barbara school boardmember Monique Limón (pictured at right) filed a candidate intention statement for State Assembly in 2016. Though her decision to run is not final, Limón said that through her work on the school board, she knows firsthand the “pivotal role”

LOW DOWN: Water agencies spent $5 million to build an emergency pump to move water out of Lake Cachuma. However, the pump may never get used if Lake Cachuma runs out of water — as is anticipated by this October.

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the state plays in shaping the future inside and outside of the classroom. No challengers have officially emerged, though Ventura City Councilmember Erik Nasarenko said he is considering running. State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson announced a bill last week that would require high school health classes to enhance sexual-assault prevention in their curricula and teach the recently passed “Yes Means Yes” law, an affirmative consent standard that targets college campuses. In the Santa Barbara Unified School District, a six-week workshop called “What is LOVE” began in January.

HEALTH The disproportionate number of Latinos with diabetes nationwide was the focal point of a summit on 3/5. Seventeen percent of U.S. Latinos have diabetes, compared to 7 percent of nonHispanic whites, with three times the fatality rate. Contributing factors were identiﬁed as sedentary U.S. culture, high-sugar foods, a lack cont’d page 12 of health literacy and edu-

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BY N I C K W E L S H or the first time ever, county managers are discussing plans to take absolutely no water out of Lake Cachuma beginning October 2015. In addition, they’re in talks to cut allocations for the rest of this year beyond the 55 percent reduction already in effect. That’s because there’s only 9,000 acre-feet of water left in the dam for the six water agencies that will draw off of it between now and October. In a typical year, Cachuma delivers 25,000 acre-feet split among 225,00 South Coast customers. After October — barring torrential miracles — there will be nothing left. “All the drops at Lake Cachuma are spoken for,” explained Tom Fayram of the County Water Agency. “There are no more drops to give out.” Joshua Haggmark, water czar for the City of Santa Barbara, commented, “I don’t think we’ve ever been here before. I’m not sure how you divide six into zero.” That’s not to say Lake Cachuma is dry, or even close. In fact, it currently holds about 56,000 acre-feet of water. But more than 80 percent is already spoken for. Of that, 12,000 acre-feet make up something called “the dead pool,” the mucky dregs of the reservoir so muddy it can’t be purified. Another 12,000 acre-feet need to be released by contractual obligation to replenish the groundwater basins on which downstream property owners rely; 3,000 acre-feet will go to keeping steelhead trout alive; and 7,000 acre-feet will evaporate. Fayram said at least two water agencies are talking about declaring a Stage III drought, meaning mandatory — not just voluntary — restrictions. He said the South Coast came close to this precipice during the drought of the late 1980s. But the “Miracle March” rains intervened. In the meantime, water agencies are buying as much water from Kern County as they can; the City of Santa Barbara is getting 4,500 acrefeet. State water deliveries have increased, from 5 percent of contractual allocations last year to 20 percent this year. And Santa Barbara is taking steps to reactivate the desalination plant it built 24 years ago. independent.com

To reactivate the plant will cost City Hall $42 million. To cover that nut, the council approved plans to increase water and sewer rates that could cost the average residential customer as much as $32 more a month. Avocado ranchers will experience a 56 percent rate hike, from $1.56 per hundred cubic feet to $2.43. They showed up to Tuesday’s council meeting in force, demanding relief. The new rates, they said, will kill their business. Avocado orchards, they stated, provided a crucial safety buffer during the three major fires that raged throughout the South Coast in recent years. The growers’ arguments elicited strong sympathy from every councilmember but got no traction. Under the state’s intricate rules governing municipal water pricing, City Hall cannot charge the growers anything less than the actual cost of providing it. When the city had cheap water from the Gibraltar Reservoir and Lake Cachuma, it would sell it to the growers for rock-bottom rates. But with those sources drying up, there’s no cheap water left. City Attorney Ariel Calonne said the city would be vulnerable to legal challenge if it did as the growers asked. Environmental activists opposed to desalination also attacked the new water rates. Some object because the desal technology poses a hazard to aquatic life near the intake pipes; others stated the energy-intensive technology will expand the city’s carbon footprint. Many argued City Hall never gave conservation the chance it deserved. Santa Barbara has set a conservation target of 20 percent, rather than the 40 percent some environmentalists had urged. Compared to February 2013, consumption levels are down 19 percent. In the meantime, the city launched its latest conservation campaign, dubbed “Mulch Madness.” Mulch reduces the rate of water evaporation from the soil and increases permeability into the soil. City Hall offers two free truckloads of ■ mulch to any water customers a year.

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To mark the Fukushima nuclear disaster’s fourth anniversary, PG&E announced extensive new documentation, ordered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, demonstrating that Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant can withstand any earthquake the surrounding fault lines can throw its way and can absorb tsunamis, as well. PG&E’s study comes on the heels of a new revelation from Sen. Barbara Boxer that steam generators were installed in 2008 without determining they could withstand an earthquake along the Hosgri Fault (three miles off the coast) and a loss of cooling water simultaneously. PG&E, instead, studied each scenario separately. The Coastal Commission will likely decide the future of the Goleta Beach rock wall at its May meeting in Santa Barbara, county ofﬁcials told reporters this week. Last March, the Board of Supervisors voted to ask the commission to keep the 1,200 feet of rocks in place. Many credited the rock revetment with protecting the park during a mega-storm last March.

EDUCATION Two UCSB graduate programs rank among the top 10 in their ﬁelds nationwide, according to U.S. News & World Report. UCSB’s materials program came in second, and its chemical engineering program tied for ﬁfth among public universities. Also, UCSB’s College of 12

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UCSB’s Gevirtz School received a $2 million gift from an anonymous donor to establish the Michael M. Gerber Chair in Instructional Innovation and Technology for Exceptional Children. The graduate school said it hopes the new position will help attract top-notch faculty and students to move the dial forward in special education research.

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Faced with a disgruntled crowd of Center for Lifelong Learning (CLL) students, SBCC President Lori Gaskin laid out a possible program shift between the school’s main campus and Wake and Schott centers during three well-attended workshops last week. Gaskin said the purpose of the workshops was to help draft a plan to better utilize the space at the three campuses, possibly alleviating congestion at the main campus. “This is not about enrollAn Adult Ed yoga class in 2010 ment growth,” Gaskin pledged. But driving many critical comments from audience members was a deep-rooted fear that CLL classes would eventually be terminated to make room for for-credit college students. The concern dates back a few years when the school ended the state-funded arm of Adult Ed courses for fee-based CLL classes. Currently, about 11,400 students have taken classes since CLL’s inception in 2013, and 300-400 courses are offered each term for $5.54 per hour. Several audience members demanded assurance from administrators that CLL courses would not be phased out. “We want it in big, bold letters,” one speaker said. Three of the four scenarios move all CLL classes to either Wake or Schott. The SBCC nursing program could move to Schott, which is located across the street from Cottage Hospital, and cosmetology courses may shift to Wake. Equipment-heavy programs in the marine or culinary departments, as well as transfer and degree courses, would stay on the main campus. But several public commenters were not sold that CLL is here to stay. “When did the community throw out its elders?” charged one CLL student. Other questions were raised about where construction funds would come from as the $288 million facilities bond called Measure S failed in November. Gaskin said Measure S is irrelevant to the workshops, though she added Governor Jerry Brown has made it clear that the burden of modernizing community college facilities falls on the area electorate. — Kelsey Brugger

Girls Inc. Executive Director Monica Spear (pictured) spent the last two decades inspiring girls to be “strong, smart, and bold,” and she saw Girls Inc. through tough economic times, built a second center in Goleta, and increased the number of girls served. She’ll continue living by that same motto as she ventures into the unknown. Spear announced she will depart in May from the group she ﬁrst volunteered for as a UCSB grad. ■

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HELP FROM ABOVE: A Sheriff’s Search & Rescue chopper looked for the surviving victim of last week’s paragliding accident.

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ccording to tax documents, the anonymous nonprofit that has donated heavily to Project: Rescue Flight, another nonprofit that supports the Sheriff ’s Office helicopter squad, is the Wood-Claeyssens Foundation, which often gives to public-safety and social-service organizations. At a February Board of Supervisors meeting, Sheriff Bill Brown requested an afterthe-fact approval of $826,065 in donations made to Project: Rescue Flight in the last two years. The funds paid for mechanical work and paint jobs. But Brown’s late request to accept the money, and the fact that he did so after it had already been spent, attracted the ire of those on the dais and of Auditor-Controller Bob Geis. Their concerns were threefold. First, the sheriff broke county policy — a policy that county officials outlined in detail at their meeting this week to prevent such errors from reoccurring — by not earning the board’s approval for a gift greater than $10,000. Second, it’s not okay to record prior-period transactions in the county’s books, Geis said. Finally, the fact that the majority of Project: Rescue Flight’s board of directors were Sheriff ’s Office employees raised eyebrows. County officials pointed to previous instances when the board’s approval policy was adhered to, including a September 2014 request from County Fire to accept $300,000 from the Craig and Susan McCaw foundation and a December 2014 request from the Sheriff ’s Office to approve $36,226 for a rural crime truck. While taking heat from the supervisors, Brown explained that much of Project: Rescue Flight’s money came from another nonprofit that refuses to donate directly to governmental bodies. The supervisors ultimately accepted the $826,065 in gifts, but they and many others called for more transparency. In the weeks that followed, speculation whirred over who the mystery donor could be.

Project: Rescue Flight and its leadership have also been adamant about keeping their big donor a secret. But tax forms filed in 2012 show that Wood-Claeyssens gave $200,000 to the organization on top of two separate checks written in 2011 for $350,000 and $230,000. In tax forms from 2012, Wood-Claeyssens reported assets of $122.4 million and more than $20.8 million in donations made. A request for comment from Wood-Claeyssens wasn’t returned. “We have made an agreement that we don’t publicize who our donors are, at their request,” said Project: Rescue Flight cofounder Sgt. Gregg Weitzman.“We want to provide the best aircraft to the citizens of Santa Barbara County. We’re just trying to better our agency and our unit.” Without Project: Rescue Flight, Weitzman went on, the county wouldn’t have Copter , which the group raised $2.5 million to refurbish after the Sheriff ’s Office acquired it from a law-enforcement agency in Colorado in 2004. Their work provides “above and beyond” what the Aviation Support Unit — which currently has a $464,047 annual budget — could otherwise afford, he said. The Sheriff ’s Aviation Support Unit, said spokesperson Kelly Hoover, maintains five helicopters, all of which are stationed at the Santa Ynez Airport. Two smaller choppers — built in 1969 and 1971 and obtained from the military in the mid-1990s — are primarily used for law-enforcement and search-and-rescue missions, while the larger ones are available for search-and-rescue and firefighting. All of them have several thousand hours of flying time logged. “The Sheriff ’s Office greatly appreciates Project: Rescue Flight and all those who have donated to this (c)() nonprofit,” said Brown in a prepared statement. “Their extraordinary generosity has been instrumental in helping us obtain and fly a state-of-theart rescue helicopter that has already helped save many lives.” Julia Clark-Riddell contributed to this story.

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BY T Y L E R H AY D E N he Carpinteria Community Church routinely ignored and covered up reports of sexual abuse committed by one of its youth ministers, two lawsuits filed this week claim. The lawsuits also allege the church’s corporate parents, including the Presbytery of Santa Barbara and Presbyterian Church U.S.A., harbored another sexual predator who molested multiple victims over the course of 30 years as he was transferred to different parishes in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and around the country. “The Presbyterian Church has always held itself as different from the Catholic Church,” said attorney Tim Hale about how the two institutions treat offenders within their ranks. “They say the right things, but this is a classic case of actions speaking louder than words.” Hale is representing three plaintiffs in the civil complaints, former members of the Carpinteria Community Church who say youth minister Louis Bristol preyed on them during religious retreats and counseling sessions. Bristol joined the church in 2000 as a teenager and started working for its “worship team” in 2004 after graduating high school. That year, the lawsuits state, a church employee received a report that Bristol was having an inappropriate relationship with the first victim, who was 16 years old at the time. But no calls were made to law enforcement, and no warning was provided to church members, the filings claim. Instead, Bristol continued to sexually assault and harass the victim, often inside the rooms of Carpinteria’s Holiday Inn Express, where he also worked. The hotel is named as a defendant in the suit. Hale contends Bristol was brazen about ushering the underage girl into rooms where she wasn’t a registered guest and that other staff members did nothing to stop him. Bristol also engaged in sexual activity on church grounds. Hale said that the full scope of the abuse is still being determined. Bristol was never criminally charged in that case, and the victim only recently came forward following media reports

about two other girls Bristol molested in 2012, eight years after her contact with him. In the intervening years, Hale believes Bristol likely preyed on additional church members. “The three victims were bookends,” declared Hale, who’s successfully sued the Franciscan friars and the Boy Scouts of America in past sex-abuse cases. “I’m sure there are more out there.”

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In August 2013, Bristol pleaded guilty to crimes he committed against the two other girls, specifically a lewd act upon a 14-year-old, unlawful intercourse with a 16-year-old, giving marijuana to minors, and sending video of himself masturbating to a third victim. He was sentenced to one year in Santa Barbara County Jail plus five years of probation, during which he is required to register as a sex offender. If he violates the terms of his probation, he will be sentenced to just under five years in prison. Bristol, now 31 years old, was released from jail on April 4, 2014. He currently resides in the City of Santa Barbara. During Bristol’s sentencing in 2013, the mother of one of the victims addressed him directly. “I would guess, Louis, that you still don’t understand what you’ve done,” she said. “You hid behind God to do your evil, and someday you will have to answer to him.” She said her family has since moved to Ventura, “where no one knows us,” and that the lack of trust her daughter now feels will “last a lifetime.” At one point during the hearing, the mother and Bristol’s wife openly argued until a bailiff admonished them. One of the girls read from a statement. “My life was centered in that church,” she explained. “That church was my safe haven.” But after she was molested, she “wanted to hide and forget what was happening.” The girl said she turned to drugs and alcohol to cope with what she’d endured, and she watched her GPA plummet from 4.33 to 0.33. “I really want to hear from church leaders how they justify not reporting that man to

law enforcement,” said Hale of Bristol’s alleged abuses in 2004, explaining he could have been stopped much sooner if the congregation cared more about its members and community than its reputation and ﬁnancial interests.“It’s outrageous,” he said. Hale also pointed to the church’s reported mishandling of the 2012 incidents. Though a Carpinteria pastor was made aware of Bristol’s misconduct, he didn’t call police. A short time later, the same pastor allegedly acknowledged “there was something inappropriate going on” in Bristol’s youth group and that Bristol had been accused of “lewd acts with a child.” Still, Hale said, the pastor failed to act. For its part, the Carpinteria Community Church and its Presbyterian overseers say they have “completely cooperated with law enforcement.” A statement prepared by Dr. Jan Armstrong, head of the Presbytery of Santa Barbara, and Reverend Jarrett Johnson, pastor for the Carpinteria Community Church, reads: “We can unequivocally state, contrary to the allegations in the lawsuit, that neither the Church nor the Presbytery had any knowledge of any inappropriate activity during Mr. Bristol’s employment. In keeping with the church’s commitment of providing safety for the congregation and the community, the allegations against Mr. Bristol were immediately reported to authorities. “Our hearts go out to all of those aﬀected by this situation,” they said. “We will be keeping them in prayer and invite the community to do so as well throughout this process.” Due to the pending litigation and “respect for the privacy of everyone involved,” the church said it would not comment further.

two more victims eventually came forward. He stepped down from his post at Western Reserve Presbytery in October 2012 after the Presbytery filed charges against him but before he could stand trial in a church court. Instead, the matter was resolved internally, and the Presbyterian Church never reported Peterson-Davis to law enforcement. As such, Peterson-Davis has no criminal record, is not a registered sex offender, and is “unidentifiable as a sexual predator to anyone other than his victims, and those select few in the Presbyterian Church hierarchy who are aware of his history of sexual abuse,” Hale says in the complaint. Attempts to reach Peterson-Davis were not successful. Social media accounts put him in Solon, Ohio, at the moment, and up until 2011, he ran a wine blog called Wine Ministry.

ON THE LAM? Jeff Peterson-Davis is

accused of molesting at least ﬁve young boys, but he’s never been criminally charged.

THE NEARER THE CHURCH, CROSSES TO BEAR THE FURTHER FROM GOD Peterson-Davis’s alleged crimes were elaborated The lawsuit also describes abuses within Santa Barbara’s Presbyterian community prior to Bristol’s crimes. The sordid narrative starts at First Presbyterian of Santa Barbara and involves a man named Jeﬀ Peterson-Davis, who, Hale claims, molested at least ﬁve male victims and has nevertheless been protected by church leaders on the South Coast and around the U.S. Hale’s point is to prove the institution as a whole and its local clergy engage in bad practices that enable sex crimes against children. When Peterson-Davis was a First Presbyterian youth ministry intern in 1984, he allegedly molested a young boy, whose mother reported the incident. The pastor expelled Peterson-Davis without explanation but recommended him to the youth ministry of First Presbyterian of Oxnard.Within a year, the lawsuit alleges, Peterson-Davis began abusing one of two brothers from the church and started molesting the other brother the next year. At the time, PetersonDavis was also a student at Montecito’s Westmont College, where young members of the Oxnard church would sometimes stay with him. The brothers eventually reported their abuse to an Oxnard pastor. In 1995, Peterson-Davis moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to work as an associate pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church. When a pastor there learned of the California allegations, Peterson-Davis was placed on administrative leave. Peterson-Davis quit Trinity, but only when the church agreed to “continue the secrecy” surrounding the abuse, the lawsuit states. By April 1997, Peterson-Davis was at another church in Georgia. He was asked to resign when pornographic pictures of young boys were found on his computer, states the lawsuit. Over the next 15 years, Peterson-Davis served at other churches around Georgia and Ohio, and

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on by the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta, which published an internal report in August 2013 that found the accusations credible because all five victims “spoke of their abuse with clarity and detail” and established a “clear pattern of behaviors and experiences.” The victims, who were between 8 and 14 years old when they were molested, described Peterson-Davis giving them back or stomach rubs that became sexual. He also bought them gifts and offered one-onone attention to make them “feel special.” Whenever confronted, the report says Peterson-Davis would deny wrongdoing, complain of being targeted by a “witch hunt,” and claim that the boys’ stories were “misunderstandings” because he was a massage therapist. He said one of the victims was trying to extort money from him. The report explains how the abuse had profound effects on the boys, who talked about “self-hatred,” “rage,” and “loss of trust in God.” One struggled through high school and became distanced from all his friends. Another said the molestation “destroyed” his mother, who felt extreme guilt for leaving him alone with Peterson-Davis. A third victim said he contemplated suicide but was inspired to speak out when he saw news reports about how Pennsylvania State University failed to stop football coach Jerry Sandusky from abusing children. The report concludes with recommendations to the Atlanta presbytery for stricter safeguards around responding to abuse allegations, including better reporting systems, tougher background checks, more training and counseling, and enhanced guidelines for public apologies. Lyz Hoffman contributed to this story. independent.com

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GOING FOR THE GREEN: St. Patrick’s Day in

Santa Barbara is a pleasant interlude of green beer, emerald touches to one’s outfit, and listening to Paddy bands. But back in my Chicago, the Irish ran the town for decades with an iron fist, one that grasped for money and political power. The Daleys were mayors for the better (or worse) part of about 56 years. Chi-Town hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1927. My parents were Republicans, which tended to dampen any thought of political ambition. In my youth, Chicago was a tough town of ethnic neighborhoods. As kids, we were very careful about crossing borders. One day a few buddies and I ventured across town to visit a girl. We found ourselves in an Irish neighborhood. We were maybe 16. It was an innocent afternoon call of less than an hour. When we came out, a bunch of Irishmen were waiting for us. Why? We didn’t ask, just got in the car and left. We never went back or saw the girl again. When I was a little older, a buddy, Robert Louis Stevenson by name, and I went into a smoky Irish bar far from home. “Don’t make eye contact with anyone,” he warned. I didn’t. We had a quick beer and scooted. In Santa Barbara, we have the rival Eastside and Westside gangbangers, seemingly ready to fight at a moment’s notice to prove their cred or stake out their turf on opposite sides of town. I may be a cockeyed optimist, as the song goes,

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Kearns Goodwin came to town the other day for one of her fast-moving, amusing excursions into the ups and downs of presidential history. Her books include Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; The Bully Pulpit, about Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft; and No Ordinary Time, about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II. As a young, pretty college graduate working at PRESIDENTS’ EMINENCE: The presidents Roosevelt, Lincoln, and the White House, she told Johnson formed part of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s entertaining the Fess Parker audience, talk at Westmont’s President’s Breakfast on Friday. she feared president Lyndon Johnson was setting but I have this hope that district elections will the stage to try to seduce her. Instead, he told her: “You remind me of my mother.” Her talk lead to a new brand of east-west leadership. Instead of the present City Council where was sponsored by Westmont College. members represent everyone but no neighborhood in particular, we’ll have one man or NOT FUN AND GAMES: I’ve always been irked woman in each neighborhood to whom folks by the so-called city “utility” fee that shows can turn to help settle problems. Like cooling up on my Edison electric bill every month. I off the kids. The first Eastside and Westside figured Southern California Edison was just elections are coming up in November. May the unfairly passing the city’s utility tax onto us. Turns out it was actually just another way for coolest candidates win.

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the City of Santa Barbara to pick our pockets in a sneaky way. And a court has just slapped it down. According to an appeals court, the city has been collecting an illegal slush fund of $600,000-$700,000 a year to use on pet projects. And it must refund the money it’s been wrongfully collecting since 2005. Many thanks to downtown hotel owner Rolland Jacks, who filed a class-action suit against the city in 2011. Now the case is being sent back to a trial court to figure out how much the refund should be and who gets it. I’m waiting for my share. Maybe it’ll help pay for the new jacked-up water rates to pay for the desal plant, assuming that Cachuma doesn’t spill in the next few months and the council okays desal. Oddly, I don’t hear the city making much noise pushing conservation. Saved water is free water. Luckily, we’ve had some sprinkles lately to encourage residents to turn down — or off — their lawn sprinklers. It’s time to get real. FUN AND GAMES: You appreciate wit, crazi-

ness onstage, and boﬀo performances? Take in Light Up the Sky, Moss Hart’s 1948 comedy satirizing the wicked ways of Broadway folk. The play hasn’t lost its sense of fun, as two of my kids learned when we went the other night. The Theatre Group at Santa Barbara City College is staging it through March 21. — Barney Brantingham

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OUT OF MIND, OUT OF SIGHT: Contrary to

popular misconception, insanity is not doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Insanity is writing about other people doing the same thing over and over and expecting them to stop. Another case in point: Before this Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting evolved into a free-flying food fight, there was a measured, clench-jawed, hold-your-nose-and-vote decision to bail out the county’s cataclysmically overwhelmed Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF), otherwise known as “The PUFF Unit.” The PUFF is where people are sent — mostly against their will — when they pose an immediate danger to themselves or others. The PUFF has 16 beds. A county Santa Barbara’s size should have at least 40. The Grand Jury has been writing about this shortage for more than 40 years. In that time, nothing has changed. That makes the Grand Jury crazy. It turns out I’ve been writing about the Grand Jury writing about this for almost as long. What does that make me? Santa Barbara has solved the problem with a respectable variant of what’s known as “Greyhound Therapy.” In other words, we ship our dangerously crazy people elsewhere. For years now, we’ve been exporting our acutely mentally ill 50 miles down the road to the Aurora Vista del Mar acute care facility in Ventura. By the boatload. At the start of this fiscal year — July 1 — the supervisors set aside $2.3 million to send

Santa Barbarians experiencing psychological meltdown to Vista del Mar. At $700 a night, it’s more expensive than the Bacara or El Encanto. Based on Yelp reviews, I’m guessing it’s not nearly as nice. No matter how overpriced and underwhelming Vista del Mar may be, there’s no dearth of desperate Santa Barbarans scrambling to get in. And the county pays for it all out of its general fund. Only halfway through the fiscal year, the county has already spent all the money slated for Vista del Mar. This Tuesday, the supervisors were asked to spend an additional $1.7 million to do the same thing it’s doing, but only more so. The supervisors approved $500,000 instead. County coffers are being depleted at a rate of $15,000 a day to warehouse our wretched refuse down the road. If we continue at this pace, the supervisors will be asked to do the same a month from now. I’ll be writing about it. And nothing will change. On my planet, $4 million is big enough money to raise several bigger questions. Like, why is the PUFF experiencing such a dramatic increase in demand? Or why can’t it be expanded to accommodate more people? And if that’s impossible, why can’t a newer and bigger PUFF be built? To answer the first, judges are sending more and more criminal defendants — charged with misdemeanors, not felonies — they deem incompetent to stand trial (IST) to the PUFF. The hope is the ISTs will get sufficiently “restored” to understand what’s happening in

the courtroom well enough to go to trial or plead guilty. This is happening throughout California. However mentally ill, most ISTs do not pose an immediate threat to themselves or others. That means they don’t belong in a PUFF. And they’re taking up the bed space that could be used by people who do. Worse still, ISTs typically take much longer to get “restored” than it takes to “stabilize” someone seriously on the ledge. Therapeutically, it makes no sense to export people. It makes it that much harder for family, friends, and loved ones to help. Financially, it’s ﬂat-out nuts. The county recoups half what it costs to pop someone into PUFF from MediCal. But it doesn’t get one red cent when it sends people to Vista del Mar. Because PUFF is a stand-alone facility disconnected from any adjoining hospital, federal licensing standards limit it to no more than 16 beds. If the county ever hopes to increase PUFF beds, it needs to ﬁnd a willing partner that happens to be a hospital. Up in Santa Maria, that seems to be happening. For the past two years, Marian Medical has been giving serious consideration to opening such a facility in an old hospital building it abandoned when the new hospital campus was built. After much circling the pool, Marian — I am told — is ready to take the plunge. Cottage Hospital, by contrast, seems deathly afraid of the water. It’s just not interested. Back in 2007, Cottage and county mental health underwent the institutional equivalent of a bitter divorce over acute-care patients. Relations have since improved but not to the

extent anyone is willing to broach so indelicate a subject. When I called county supervisors and county mental-health officials to find out the extent to which they’d pressed Cottage to explore a PUFF partnership, I got the Big Vague. In lieu of answers, I heard a lot of wind getting sucked through lots of teeth. Likewise, when I called Cottage, I encountered a level of deflection worthy of a tai chi master. Truly impressive. Cottage, it turns out, had other plans. Given Cottage’s massive construction program — picture the pyramids, the Great Wall of China, and Stonehenge going up simultaneously — one would have thought some space could have been shoehorned in to accommodate so screaming a public need. I understand acute mental health care is expensive and scary and expensive. But the government gives Cottage its nonprofit tax status to reward such bravery. And in recent years, this nonprofit swallowed whole the Saint Francis Hospital, the Goleta Valley Hospital, the Rehabilitation Institute of Santa Barbara, and the Santa Ynez Hospital. It also tried to fuse with Sansum Medical Clinic and to take over the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. To the extent there are more helicopters flying around Cottage than the Santa Barbara Airport, it’s because Cottage has emerged as a regional stroke center. Every day, I see the construction site where Goleta Valley used to be. Every day, I wonder why no PUFF beds are going in. Every day, nothing changes, and I keep saying the same damn — Nick Welsh thing. Crazy.

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Dan P. Parks

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...It was another Viva La Fiesta back in  for Realtor Dan P. Parks born // in Burnt Hills, NY, and passed away in Santa Barbara on //. He was a longtime regular at the Old Farmer Boy restaurant at am every morning after trundling down State St. in his wheelchair to get there in his later years. Love, Renée & Gary A. Parks

Ben Woolf  – 

“Meep.” Two weeks before he died, he was honored in Moscow for his contributions to the horror genre at the Russian Horror Film Awards. Ben was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, and grew up in Fairfield, Iowa. He moved with his family to Santa Barbara in  where he was an active league pool player, improv theater performer, and karaoke enthusiast. Ben was a gentle, indomitable spirit, a well-known figure for walking everywhere around town and relaxing with the latest Harlan Coben thriller in local coffee shops. He earned a degree in Early Childhood Education at City College, teaching in the Head Start program in Goleta until  when he moved to Hollywood to pursue his lifelong dream of making it as an actor. Ben faced many challenges due to his short stature of ’ ’’ and the continuing health challenges of a serious childhood illness, but not once in his life did he complain. He remained unassumedly confident in himself regardless of whether his talents were recognized or appreciated. Ben showed the world what a person of integrity, kindness and gentleness can accomplish no matter what obstacles appear to be in the way. The world has responded since his untimely death with an outpouring of love, affection, and admiration that has brought comfort and pride to his family. All are welcome to a celebration of Ben’s life on March  at pm at Tucker’s Grove park (Area #, Kiwanis Meadows). If Ben touched your heart as it did for so many, we will welcome your story of knowing Ben. Contributions to The Ben Woolf Fund will be used for memorial BENches in his honor and four charities that reflect his values and ideals. More information is at www. gofundme.com/benwoolf.

Robert H. Tello

// – //

Ben Woolf, much loved actor and pre-school teacher, passed away on February , , at the age of  after being hit by a car near his home in Hollywood. Ben is survived by his father Nicholas Woolf, his mother Marcy Luikart, his sister Kathryn Woolf, his stepmother Sarajane Woolf, his stepfather Ralph Luikart, and stepsister Heather Luikart. Ben’s courage, kindness, humor, talent, and determination in the face of challenges inspired everyone he met. He never doubted that he would make his dreams come true. Ben is best known for his two parts in the hit TV show American Horror Story, in which he played “Infantada” and 18

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Robert H. Tello of Fresno, CA, formerly of Santa Barbara, passed away on //. He was born to Stanley and Catherine Tello (deceased) on //. He was raised in S.B. and attended local schools. He graduated from SB High School in  & shortly after graduating joined the U.S. Navy, serving four years. He is survived by his wife of  / years the former Isabelle (Barbere) Tello,

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four children,  grandchildren, and  great-grandchildren. Also surviving are  sisters and  brother. Services were held in Fresno on Feb. , .

Dr. Erno S. Daniel

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Dr. Erno Scipiades Daniel died suddenly and unexpectedly at his Santa Barbara, California home on Saturday, February , . He was  years old. Dr. Daniel was a loving husband, father, and grandfather and will be missed dearly by his loving wife, four children, and their families. Dr. Daniel was born on December , , in Budapest, Hungary. He was the son of professional musicians Dr. Erno and Katinka Daniel. Dr. Daniel was a young child during the Hungarian Revolution of  and its aftermath, the events of which transpired mere blocks from his childhood home in Budapest. To celebrate his th birthday, his entire family joined him for an unforgettable trip to Hungary and Romania. As a teenager, Dr. Daniel immigrated to the United States in  with his mother and sister, where they were reunited with his father who had fled Hungary a decade earlier. Dr. Daniel became a United States citizen in . He was a proud American who believed deeply in American ideals and held strong convictions about the great freedoms and responsibilities we enjoy as American citizens. Dr. Daniel was a graduate of the Santa Barbara High School class of , and in  he received an undergraduate degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Daniel received a master’s degree and PhD from the University of California at San Diego, writing his thesis on Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. In , he completed his MD at the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, and he completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at UCLA in . Dr. Daniel met the love of his life, Martha Peaslee, at the UCLA Medical Center, where she was a registered nurse. In a true love story, they married in Martha’s childhood hometown of Stillwater, Minnesota, on August , , less than six months after their first date. At the time of his death, they had been happily married for over  years. Being a husband and father were

the greatest joys of Dr. Daniel’s life. Erno and Martha have four children: Kristina, Michael, Mary, and Monica. Dr. Daniel had an unwavering commitment to his family, and his greatest happiness was being with them. Professionally, Dr. Daniel was a renowned physician who practiced since  at the Sansum Clinic (formerly the Santa Barbara Medical Foundation Clinic) in Santa Barbara, California. Early in his career, Dr. Daniel pursued an interest in the developing medical specialty of geriatric medicine and was among the first physicians in the United States to be board certified in the specialty. He had special interests in dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease, and he lectured across the country and was the author of textbook chapters, papers, and a variety of educational materials on the topics. For his work, Dr. Daniel was recognized by the Alzheimer’s Association’s Santa Barbara chapter with their  Leadership Award. At the time of his death, Dr. Daniel also served as the Medical Director of the Vista del Monte Rehabilitation and Care Center and was on the medical and scientific advisory board of the Center for Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies of Santa Barbara. In , Dr. Daniel published a book, Stealth Germs in Your Body, which received national attention. Dr. Daniel was a special kind of doctor whose story is best told by the numerous patients and families whose lives he touched. He was a master diagnostician who remembered every medical and personal detail about his patients. He will be greatly missed by his many colleagues at the Sansum Clinic and Cottage Hospital, his loyal patients whom he treated as family, and their families. Dr. Daniel is survived by the love of his life, Martha Peaslee Daniel, and their four children and their families: Kristina Daniel Lawson and her husband Matt Lawson of Walnut Creek, California; Michael Peaslee Daniel and his wife Erica Lash Daniel of Truckee, California; Mary Daniel Gullett and her husband Randy Gullett of Foster City, California; and Monica Ann Daniel and her boyfriend Andre Shevchuck of Pleasant Hill, California. Dr. Daniel was the proud grandfather of Katherine Lawson (), Graham Lawson (), Tyler Daniel (), Molly Daniel (), Jonathan Gullett (), and Evan Gullett (). Dr. Daniel was thrilled to be expecting his seventh grandchild - a boy - who is due to be born in the summer of . Dr. Daniel is also survived by his sister, Alexa Maland; her husband, Lynn; their two children, Daniel and Sarah of Salt Lake City, Utah; and by his first cousin and lifelong best friend, Dr. Peter Patkos, and his family, of Budapest, Hungary. In recent years, he enjoyed a special friendship with his sister-in-law, Ann Bunce,

and her husband, Dr. Brian Bunce, of Stillwater, Minnesota. He was incredibly fond of his West Highland Terrier, Ollie. Dr. Daniel was predeceased by his parents, Erno and Katinka Daniel, and by his in-laws, Ernest and Mary Peaslee. A funeral mass was planned for Saturday, February , , at : a.m. at our Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church at  East Valley Road in Montecito, California. A celebration of his life will follow the mass at The Fess Parker Resort at  East Cabrillo Boulevard in Santa Barbara. As he wished, Dr. Daniel will be buried at a later date in Stillwater, Minnesota, alongside Martha’s family. Dr. Daniel spent his entire professional career at the Sansum Clinic and loved practicing medicine in Santa Barbara. The family extends special thanks to Dr. Thomas Beamer, Dr. Thomas Jones, Dr. Joseph Aragon, and Dr. Kurt Ransohoff. Memorial donations may be made to the Sansum Clinic in the name of Dr. Erno Daniel.

Patricia Wolfe  – 

Patricia [Patty] Wolfe left us peacefully on Sunday, February the twenty second, at home with her family. She is survived by her husband Jack, her brother Jim, her son Alex and her son Sam, who is fifty-nine years old, autistic, and living in a Devereaux home in Goleta. Born in San Francisco in , she grew up in Los Angeles where she attended Otis College of art and later resided in Berkeley, California, where she met and married Jack, her husband of fifty years. They soon moved to the mountains of Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they lived for twenty-five years before moving to Santa Barbara in . She was a regular at the Santa Barbara gym, where she took Pilates, and was known for her sunny smile. She also took figure drawing classes at the adult extension of Santa Barbara City College. As per her wishes, no formal service will be held. We miss her and hold her in our hearts. Our thanks to the Cancer Center, Visiting Nurse and Hospice Center and the many who have expressed their love and sympathy.

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ver a period of several years, brochures accompanied city water bills stating that current sources — Lake Cachuma, groundwater, state water, and Gibraltar Reservoir — would provide a reliable water supply during drought cycles. In light of these assurances, I was dismayed to receive notice of yet another rate hike for water usage in the coming months. This move increases the economic burden on many of us who struggle financially to remain in Santa Barbara. Equally disconcerting is the amount of construction in Santa Barbara, which will place additional water demands on what little we have left. Those of us settled here should not share the entire financial burden of higher water rates. A larger portion of the rate hikes should be placed on newly constructed office buildings and dwellings. Do not punish current residents with more rate increases! — Douglas Furse, S.B.

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magine a world in which what happens to you is based not on what you do but what a computer program estimates you are likely to do. I was unexpectedly thrown into the Minority Report universe when I returned from an overseas trip and found my gas bill had tripled while I was away. Thinking it would be a simple matter to clear up, I called SoCal Gas only to hear The Company had long ago dispensed with simple meter reading and was now fully embarked on a journey to the dark side of “estimated billing.” My yearly usage indicated I should have tripled it in December. Not only was I not at home to burn the gas, but, as I protested,“I only moved in last July!” “Not to worry,” I was reassured. “We’ll send this to the Investigation Department.” Now the fear is upon me. If I buy a used car, is my insurance going to be based on the driving record of the past owner? If I marry a divorcée and apply for a loan, will the decision rest on the credit record of my spouse’s ex? Thank heaven the Investigation Division will sort everything out. — Philip Grant, S.B.

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he lawsuit to force the city to have district elections was recently settled in favor of district elections and expedited to have it apply this November. The two

parties settled the suit that determines how Santa Barbara will vote. I deeply resent not having a vote in how I vote. Expediency is no substitute for democracy. What they call a settlement I call a coup d’état. The City Council should place the issue of at-large or district elections on the November ballot for the People to decide.

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very time I shop at the Saturday Farmers Market, I am saddened and angered that the adjacent parking facility, which accommodates dozens of cars, is now closed. This makes it very inconvenient to park and carry food an extra distance. The lot is part of the Unemployment Department, a government agency supported by taxpayers and supposed to serve the people. Where are the petitions? Where are the protesters? Why aren’t the merchants complaining? Santa Barbara, rise up and demand that your government work for you. There is absolutely no reason why this lot shouldn’t be used on Saturdays.

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t is hard to believe that some members of the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, as reported in “Desal Time Travel” last month [independent .com/desaltimetravel], question the value of the city’s contribution to the restoration of the Devereux Slough. What does a restored wetland, they ask, have to do with mitigation for possible biological damage the desal plant might cause in our coastal waters? Coastal wetlands play a large role in the biological health of our ocean. They act as nurseries for ﬁsh and invertebrates, which enter the ocean ecosystem as critical components of the food web to sustain our coastal — David Carlberg, S.B. ﬁsheries.

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inable fortune during the Gold Rush, chased notorious bandit Jack Powers out of town, and acquired pretty much all the land from Goleta to Gaviota, so conspicuous an omission seems all but intentional. In recent years, McGinity — who heads the West Coast branch of the American Irish Historical Society — has set out to let the world know just who Nicholas Den was. As part of this mission, McGinity has been giving talks detailing Den’s exploits. “That’s what we do,” McGinity explained. “We’re Irish. We tell stories.”

rank Edward Joseph McGinity is perplexed. How is it, he wonders, there are no streets named after Nicholas Den anywhere on the South Coast? No boulevards, bridges, public buildings, parks, or even a dusty beach trail. Given that Nicholas Den — the Irish immigrant who landed in Santa Barbara in 1836 — saved the Santa Barbara Mission from being secularized, helped navigate Santa Barbara’s painful transition from Mexican control to American authority, amassed an unimag-

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The American Irish Historical Society was established more than 100 years ago, “to set the record straight” McGinity explained, at a time when the Irish — Irish Catholics, especially — were widely considered third-class citizens. One of McGinity’s talks — held at Goleta’s Dos Pueblos Ranch, where Den once lived — spawned the production of a short documentary, Don Nicolas Den: Irish Pioneer to Santa Barbara, made by filmmakers Tina and Michael Love. (No relation to the Beach Boy of the same name.) The film, underwritten by the American Irish Historical Society, was a challenge to make, said Michael Love, because only one photo of Den exists. “There’s only so much you can do with one photo,” he laughed. The Loves’ film premiered last weekend at the San Luis Obispo Film Festival and will screen for the first time in Santa Barbara this Friday at Santa Barbara’s Carriage Museum. (Seating is limited, so reserve a space.) Also inspired by McGinity’s talk at Dos Pueblo Ranch was actor/writer/producer Shamus Murphy, who is now embarked upon a sprawling cinematic epic about Den’s life. In Murphy’s telling, Den not only embraces Chumash spirituality but also acts as protector to the surviving few still alive when Den arrives. Some area historians take exception to this interpretation, and Murphy acknowledges there’s been “pushback.” Currently Murphy has two scripts written and is trying to raise the $75 million he says the project will cost. Today, McGinity — a quietly successful CPA — has offices along the tiled halls of Santa Barbara’s storied La Arcada Plaza. When McGinity moved there in 1998, he had no idea La Arcada was built on the site where Nicholas Den’s townhouse once stood. At that time, McGinity admits, he had no inkling who Nicholas Den was.

THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND: Nicholas Den may have left massive footprints, but there’s only one photo in existence of the Irish immigrant-turnedMexican-national who saved the Santa Barbara Mission from secularization and amassed a ranching empire of 115,000 acres.

One of the ﬁrst places he read about him was in Royal Rancho, the popular history of the brothers Nicholas and Richard Den written in 1960 by Santa Barbara’s premier pop historian, Walker Tompkins. While scholarly historians have quibbled with some of Tompkins’s facts, Royal Rancho is acknowledged to be the most complete and accessible account of Den’s life. The motto of the American Irish Historical Society, said McGinity, is “That the world may know.” Its mission — and McGinity’s — is to demonstrate that the reality of early Irish immigrants proved far more complex than the prevailing stereotypes of drunken, illiterate brawlers. As the fourth generation son of Irish immigrants who settled in “an Irish ghetto” in Brooklyn, McGinity acknowledges there was no shortage of discrimination. Even today, he bristles at the unconscious slights embedded in expressions such as “the luck of the Irish.” Such a phrase, McGinity noted, could only have been coined by the English. “It’s their way of saying that the Irish couldn’t do it on their own,” he said, “that they needed luck.” But then there’s Nicholas Den.

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As the American flag was hoisted over California, Santa Barbara experienced an influx of new — and often disruptive — visitors and settlers. Before 1850, filmmaker Michael Love said, Santa Barbara had one saloon. After 1850, there were 50. With the vast new wealth came bandit gangs — often made up of former U.S. soldiers. In Santa Barbara, another Irishman, Jack Powers, led the most famous of these gangs. It was inevitable that there would be trouble between Powers and Den. According to legend, it came to a head when Powers, who is described as a skilled rider and charismatic killer, leased 1,000 acres — near present-day San Roque — from Den. He was supposed to have either rustled 1,000 cows from Den or refused to pay rent or both. In any case, Den was determined to take action but insisted it be done legally. According to Tompkins, Den had been horrified when he witnessed a vigilante lynching in the gold camps. (Den later allowed a fugitive suspected of killing a crusading San Francisco publisher to hide out on his property for CONTINUED...

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Moes would describe the two land deals struck just two days apart as being “redolent with the aroma of opportunism and BEFORE PASEO NUEVO: When Nicholas Den arrived in 1836, Santa Barbara intrigue.” The Dens, he sugwas a dusty, muddy town of 900, neither Spanish nor American. Den, an Irish gested,“wanted land, chiefly for immigrant, reinvented himself as “Don Nicolas,” a Californio. running cattle and they wanted title to this land.” Whatever their motivation, the Dens allowed the Mission to remain open and operative as long as they held the Mission lands. Later — under American rule — the church would challenge the legality of the Den deals and prevail. The court ruled that Pio Pico had no legal authority to transfer either the Mission Santa Barbara or Rancho San Marcos. Subsequent courts would find that Pio Pico lacked the authority to lease or sell the land when he did so. In addition, Richard Den failed to take the legal steps necessary to claim title to the Of the 21 missions in California, Santa Barbara’s is the land when the lease with Nicholas Den and Brian Hill only one to remain in continuous “divine service” since expired. As a result, the Mission reverted to Franciscan its inception in 1786. This is due in great part to the Den ownership. This led to two bitter, if unsuccessful, lawsuits brothers allowing the church to remain open during filed against Don Nicolas by his brother Richard. the period that they owned the surrounding lands. This Nicholas Den died in 1862 at age 50 of pneumonia. seemingly obscure factoid has had profound conse- In his will, Den decreed several hundred head of cattle quences for the role Mission Santa Barbara now plays as each should go to various church functionaries. But the ground zero for historical research on the early European drought of 1863 — with temperatures so hot that birds fell settlement of California and its impacts on native popula- dead from the sky — wiped out the Den herds. It probtions. As secularization closed other missions, its libraries, ably didn’t help matters any that the executor of Den’s artifacts, archives, art, diaries, and baptismal, marriage, estate, Charles Huse, was acerbically and outspokenly and death records were all sent to Santa Barbara, where scornful of all things Catholic. When the church sued they’ve been stored and shared with scholars ever since. to get the cattle or an equivalent, Huse sarcastically sugMission Santa Barbara boasts the complete works of gested God might have been responsible for the Dens’ Father Junípero Serra — now a gnat’s breath away from inability to deliver the cattle owed. To make good on these sainthood. It contains all the instructional books — how obligations, Huse sold off vast chunks of Den’s empire to to plant, how to build dams, how to practice medicine — W.W. Hollister, then recently arrived to the county. That brought by the original priests who started the missions. deal would be fraught with problems, as well. Huse, it The renowned anthropologist John Johnson of the Santa turned out, had been an incompetent executor. He did Barbara Museum of Natural History practically stam- not have the authority to make such sales. In fact, at the mers when describing the raw historical record amassed time of sale, a judge had warned Hollister of this. Holat Santa Barbara’s Mission Archives. It’s so impressive lister ignored the advice. It would take a bitter 14-year that celebrities from Queen Elizabeth to Katy Perry seek legal battle with the Den heirs to make him pay attention. private tours. Ultimately, the Dens won. Hollister died, and the estate This would not be the case were it not for Nicholas he built on Den’s land mysteriously burned to the ground. and Richard Den. The fire was at Glen Annie, named after Hollister’s wife, By 1845, Governor Pico knew it was only a matter of who, legend has it, torched the mansion to prevent anytime before the United States took over. Accordingly, he one else from using it after she was forced to leave. She was in a hurry to sell or lease off all available lands. One always denied this. In any case, however, the Dens were theory holds Pico was intent in lining his own pockets; eventually forced to sell off their vast landholdings. another was that he was raising the funds needed to repel In the meantime, Frank McGinity is determined to the foreign invaders. Under either scenario, Father Nar- keep Nicholas Den’s name alive. “There’s a street up off ciso Duran, then in charge of the Santa Barbara Mission, of Barker Pass named Nicholas Lane,” he said, half in was loath to see the Mission become fodder for Pio Pico’s jest. “Maybe we could add Den’s name to that.” Mostly, going-out-of-business sale. McGinity is heartened that his efforts on behalf of NichoDuran knew the Dens and Daniel Hill. He provided las Den have generated any ripples. “It’s strange in Santa the silver that allowed Den to purchase his first cattle Barbara,” he reflected. “You start a thing, and it seems to herd. In July 1845, Duran wrote Pico that Den and Hill go. I don’t know why. But it does.” ■ COURTESY SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM

seven months because he was convinced vigilante justice prevailed up north.) Because of this, it appears Den always requested a legal writ served by the Santa Barbara sheriff before deploying any posse he organized, remarkable especially in this battle, considering the sheriff was often on Powers’s payroll. The Den-Powers showdown between the bandit gang and Den’s posse and supporters played out over several years with public shoot-outs on State Street. Den’s ranch foreman was killed in an ambush. It got so dangerous that Den sold his Santa Barbara home to the Santa Barbara Mission and moved his family back to the secluded safety of Rancho Dos Pueblos. Eventually, Powers’s offenses grew so flagrant that not even public officials allegedly on his payroll could save him. He fled town, reportedly to Mexico.

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water, another source of water during the times of drought. Learn about sustainable rosebushes and how to care for them. pm. Louise Lowry Davis Ctr.,  De la Vina St. Free. Visit sbrose.org. /: Focus On: The Anthropocene – Racing Extinction Did you know that you are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark? This documentary will show a team of activists and innovators whose mission is to save endangered species like sharks and manta rays. After the screening, there will be a Q&A with director Louis Psihoyos and coproducer Gina Papabeis. -pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. $-$. Call - or visit carseywolf.ucsb .edu.

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13 /: Crafts Around the World: 3D Shamrocks Learn all about shamrocks, the symbol of Ireland in preparation of St. Patrick’s Day! Participants will create their own D shamrock to be used as a card or decoration. Remember: Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck. Registration is required. ::pm. Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Ages -. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org. /-/: 70th S.B. International Orchid Show Calling all avid photographers, gardeners,

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13-16 orchid growers, and anyone else who is fascinated with the Orchidaceae family. Delight yourself in exuberant displays of blooming orchids, exhibits, ﬂoral arrangements, and more. am-pm. Earl Warren Showgrounds,  Calle Real. Free-$. Visit sborchidshow .com. /: Yale Russian Male Chorus Recognized as one of the world’s most important performance ensembles of Slavic music, this male chorus helped preserve Russian choral music during the Cold War era. They will perform a variety of sacred and secular music, ancient chants, cultural songs, and legendary choral works by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Rachmaninoﬀ. :pm. St. Athanasius Orthodox Church,  Sumida Gardens Ln.

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/-/: The Music Man Travel with  th and th graders to River City, Iowa, to see con man Harold Hill pose as a boys’ band organizer and fall for the prim librarian and piano teacher Marian. Come hear those great songs by Meredith Willson, such as “(Ya Got) Trouble,” “Pickalittle (Talk-a-Little),” “Till There Was You,” and so many more, and all to a live orchestra! Fri.-Sat.: pm; Sun.: pm. Goleta Valley Jr. High Theatre,  Stow Canyon Rd., Goleta. $-$. Call - x.

$-$. Call - or visit stathanasius.org. /: Hugh Masekela & Vusi Mahlasela:  Years of Freedom Considered one of the all-time greatest horn players, Hugh Masekela joins Vusi Mahlasela, “The Voice” of his home country, to perform South Africa’s poignant and powerful freedom songs. Don’t miss their ﬁrst debut tour together or the chance to meet these artists and discuss the journey they have been on. Meet-the-Artist Conversation: noon-pm; MultiCultural Ctr., UCSB; Free. Concert: pm; Campbell Hall, UCSB; $-$. Call - or visit artsand lectures.sa.ucsb.edu. /: David Courtenay Come listen to the rock, soul, funk, and

even reggae of singer, pianist, and guitarist David Courtenay who will play a solo set, and then play with his band afterward for a full night of music. -pm. Piano Riviera Lounge,  E. Anapamu St. Free. Call -.

SATURDAY 3/14 /: A Spring Celebration of Dance The State Street Ballet Young Dancers will perform new works by dancer, choreographer, and artist Kassandra Taylor Newberry and Dana Young. This evening will feature excerpts from Sleeping Beauty and other works. Come celebrate the coming of spring with these dancers. pm. Lobero Theatre,  E. Canon Perdido St. $-$. Call - or visit lobero.com.

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/: Spring Booksale � Come and find many new and gently used books, films, audiobooks, and more for all ages. There will be special collectors’ books at half price. Proceeds will benefit the volunteer program at the Solvang Library. am-pm. Solvang Library,  Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org.

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/: Aliso Trail Field Trip � Join Dr. Jan Timbrook, curator of ethnography, and Dr. Steve Timbrook, environmental science instructor, to explore riparian and chaparral habitats, study how various aspects of the California landscape inﬂuence geographic distributions of plants, and learn how these plants are used by native people. am-noon. Meet in the parking lot of Aliso Canyon Trail, Paradise Rd. Ranger Station,  Paradise Rd. $-$. Call - x or visit sbnature.org/tickets. /: Breakin’ Up the Bluegrass � Iconoclastic performer Peter Feldmann and master ﬁddler Blaine Sprouse will bring unique interpretations of traditional American music, including ancient ballads, blazing instrumentals, railroad epics, country blues, and cowboy songs from the Old West. pm. Santa Ynez Valley Grange Hall,  Alamado Pintado Ave., Los Olivos. $-$. Call - or visit bluegrasswest .com.

/: ¡La Vasa! CD-Release Show � Born in S.B., ¡La Vasa! is here to bring back old-school, brutal punk. Be a part of the release of their second album, Quest. The ﬁrst  people through the door and those with advanced tickets will receive a free CD. Punk and rock bands Petmedz and Stop Breathing will also perform. pm. Velvet Jones,  State St. $. Ages +. Call - or visit velvet-jones .com. /: 15th Annual Barbara Ireland Walk/Run for Breast Cancer � Start the morning with a K, K, or K walk or run along the scenic beach. Proceeds will go to the Cancer Center of S.B.’s Clinical Research Program. After the race, stay for lunch, raﬄes, a spa zone, music, and more. There will be chair massages, manicures, and yoga available to rejuvenate. :am. Chase Palm Park,  E. Cabrillo Blvd. $-$. Visit tinyurl .com/barbarairelandwalkrun. /-/: Impressions of Spain � Journey through the symphonic sounds of Spain with violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen and the S.B. Symphony. The program includes Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol, Massenet’s ballet music from El Cid, and Falla’s Interlude and Dance from La vida breve. Sat.: pm; Sun.: pm. Granada Theatre,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit granadasb.org.

/: Get Lucky Crawl! � Some people just can’t wait to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, so join in the Pre-Paddy’s Day fun as you will spend this Irish tradition crawling through ﬁve downtown S.B. bars and restaurants, enjoying one drink at each stop. You will meet at the ﬁrst location and follow the guide, who will navigate you through the evening to an after-party. pm. Meets at Union Ale,  State St. (location subject to change). $-$. Ages +. Call - or visit nightout.com.

SUNDAY 3/15 /: Met: Live in HD Screening of Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle � This intriguing double bill consists of an enchanting fairy tale (Iolanta) followed by an erotic psychological thriller (Bluebeard’s Castle). Anna Netrebko stars as the beautiful, blind girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta, while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard, played by Mikhail Petrenko. Both operas are inspired by classic noir films of the s. -:pm. Hahn Hall,  Fairway Rd. $. Call - or visit music academy.org. /: S.B. Scottish Rite Language Center 30th Anniversary Open House � This nonprofit language center provides screenings, evaluations, and speech therapy services to children in preschool and kindergarten, made possible through donations, grants, and special events. Come help celebrate  years of free speech and language services with tours of

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/: Blue Sunday ’80s Dance Party A play oﬀ of New Order’s “Blue Monday,” DJ Darla Bea (pictured) and Harvey Leche’s Blue Sunday will be rocking beats from the decade of decadence, including post-punk, Goth, and New Wave music. Dressing up is always more fun. -pm. Sama Sama Kitchen,  State St. Free. Ages +. Call - or visit facebook.com/sama samakitchen. School,  Santa Barbara St. $$. Call - or visit anacapaschool.org. /: Family Nature Day When was the last time you went to the Museum of Natural History? Enjoy free admission and rediscover the fun and wonder of nature, from the Chumash Indian Hall and Mammal Hall to The Museum Backyard, where you can climb boulders or search for bugs and small critters. ampm. S.B. Museum of Natural History,  Puesta del Sol. Free. Call - or visit sbnature.org.

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/: High School Baseball: San Marcos at Santa Barbara San Marcos has a reason to be optimistic about this season after a decade of domination by Santa Barbara (the Dons are - against the Royals since ). The Royals (- through last week) opened the season with three pitchers combining on a no-hitter against Hueneme, and sophomore shortstop Kyle Gonzalez is hitting .. The Dons (-) posted shutouts in their ﬁrst three games, with junior Kevin Gowdy and senior Trevor Moropoulos picking up the victories. This Friday-afternoon game starts the race toward the Channel League pennant. :pm. Eddie Mathews Field,  E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call -.

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/-/: Grange Revival Week Grange Future Traveling Exhibit celebrates the long history of the grange movement and studies the relevance of this fraternal farmers’ organization as a logical, local venue for political organization, cultural life, and leadership. This weeklong revival program includes workshops, lectures and community gatherings. Area homesteaders, farmers, and artists will teach canning, butchering, soapmaking, natural ﬁber dying, and more. Grange Revival Week runs through March . Sun.: am and pm; Mon.: :am, :pm and pm; Tue.: :am and :pm; Wed.: :am, pm, :pm, and :pm. Grange Hall,  Cruzero St. Free-$. Call () - or visit grangefuture.org/ojai for the full schedule. Read more on pg. .

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15&16 /-/: Speaking of Food: A Collection of Tasty Tales From Elizabeth Berg’s How to Make an Apple Pie to Angela Carter’s The Kitchen Child to more, this series presents a feast of foodie tales, deliciously delivered. After the show, join them on the patio for complimentary wine and samplings both savory and sweet. Sun.: pm; Mon.: :pm. Center Stage Theater,  Paseo Nuevo. $-$. Call - or visit centerstagetheater.org. /: 3rd Annual St. Barbara Parish St. Patrick’s & St. Joseph’s Day Benefit Dinner Enjoy a delicious Italian dinner provided Via Maestra  and some lively entertainment,

all the while knowing that all proceeds go to support Notre Dame Elementary School and Bishop Diego High School. Tickets will be sold at the S.B. Parish Oﬃce ( Laguna St.) on Thursday and Friday, am-pm, and after all weekend Masses. :pm; dinner served: :pm. Serra Hall,  Garden St. $-$. Call - x or visit www.santabarbaraparish.org.

MONDAY 3/16 /: The Way As part of the Movies That Matter Film Series with Hal Conklin, this ﬁlm tells the story of a father (played by Martin Sheen) who travels the El Camino de Santiago to recover the body of his estranged son (Emilio Estevez), who died while traveling this European pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle St. James the Great in northwestern Spain. There will be an audience Q&A following the screening. pm. Granada Theatre,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit granadasb.org.

TUESDAY 3/17 /: 8th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Stroll Q: What’s Irish and stays out all night? A: Paddy O’Furniture! It’s that

time of year when we are putting the call out to all feens, beours, jammys, and ﬂutes (and dogs on leashes) to this family-friendly celebration that begins at The Indy parking lot, then after a bobble up State St., we will end at Blush Restaurant + Lounge to toast to having enough coins in your pocket to buy a pint! pm. The Santa Barbara Independent,  W. Figueroa St. Free. Call -. /: A St. Patrick’s Day Concert: Celebrating the Music of the British Isles The S.B. Chamber Orchestra will present accomplished pianist Alessio Bax performing George Frederick Handel’s Water Music & Music for the Royal Fireworks conducted by Heiichiro Ohyama. After the performance, subscribers can enjoy a postconcert craft beer tasting. :pm. Lobero Theatre,  E. Canon Perdido St. $-$. Call - or visit lobero.com. Read more on p. . /: Spencer & the Worried Lads: St. Patty’s Day Bash! They’ve been together  years, and the lads want to spend St. Patrick’s Day with you. Come enjoy their California sun-kissed, Latintinged, genre-bending, big-band, surf-mariachi, indie-pop sound with bongos, congas, trumpets, an accordion, and more. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $. Call - or visit sohosb .com. /: Water Savvy Gardening The Santa Barbara Little Gardens Club will hold a meeting with Cathie Pare, water resources specialist of the City of S.B., who will present this special lecture. Learn how to garden properly for the upcoming spring and summer. There will be refreshments and socializing to follow. pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History,  Puesta del Sol. Free. Call -.

WEDNESDAY 3/18 /: Mesa Trails Run through one of S.B.’s most spectacular views of the Channel at sunset. This event will feature a challenging K and a less-demanding K. There will also be food, good music, games for the kids, and your favorite beer. This run reoccurs weekly until April . Registration: pm; race: :pm. Elings Park,  Las Positas Rd. $/ individual; $/family of four. Call

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those swinging hits we still love today, performed by celebrated composer, pianist, and jazz legend Ramsey Lewis and John Pizzarelli, a brilliant guitar player, singer, and prime interpreter of the American Songbook. “Ain’t no use in divin’. What’s the use of jivin’…” Papa sure didn’t know what he was talking about. pm. Lobero Theatre,  E. Canon Perdido St. $-$. Call - or visit lobero.com.

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St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated with great fanfare all over the world. In Chicago, the river is dyed green; in Sydney, Australia, the Opera House is illuminated in emerald lights; in San Francisco, revelers parade down Market Street; and in Santa Barbara — folks stroll. It may not be the largest, or oldest, but for nearly a decade, The Independent’s St. Paddy’s Day Stroll has drawn hundreds of enthusiastic merrymakers. Once again, the Pipe and Drum Corps will lead the procession from The Indy ofﬁce (122 W. Figueroa St.) down State Street (on the sidewalk), concluding at Blush (630 State St.). Bring your friends and neighbors, and help The Indy staff make a spectacle for the eighth year. Irish for a day, Independent for life.

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Colm Tóibín

Reimagines the Virgin One unexpected benefit of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Botticelli, Titian, and Beyond show featuring rooms full of major Italian paintings is the associated lecture on Thursday, March 12, by Colm Tóibín, Ireland’s foremost living writer of fiction. What’s the connection? Tóibín has written that his novella The Testament of Mary, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, was inspired by a Titian painting, the great “Assumption of the Virgin” that hangs over the altar at the Basilica Frari in Venice. Unlike Titian’s “Virgin,” Tóibín’s Mary remains on the ground and views the miracles and subsequent legends that have grown up around her son as frightening and distasteful. Rooted in the painstaking and sympathetic research that informed his earlier nonfiction book The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, Tóibín’s Testament journeys into the narrative gaps in canonical accounts of Mary to conjure a voice that could have been hers. I spoke with Tóibín by telephone from his snowbound apartment on Morningside Heights in New York City, where he lives part time and serves as Irene and Sidney B. Silverman professor of humanities at Columbia University.

In your literary criticism, you’ve dismissed “likeability” as a valid criteria for discussing fictional characters. Since this is an issue that has come up in relation to your version of Mary, could you restate your position on that? Yes, I think particularly if you’re teaching [literature], you really have to set parameters or limits where we don’t care whether you like a character or not …. Often a character has certain qualities because they fulfill the requirements of a pattern [in the larger fiction] rather than in order to provide you with the luxury of being able to judge them as though you know them. You portray Mary as quite hostile to the disciples who insist on her son’s status as the Son of God. Why does Mary feel that way? What is it about this new religion that bothers her? Well, they [the

disciples] needed a story, but they also so particularly didn’t ’t want her in thee hands of anybodyy else, and so shee became a sort off co m m o d i t y fo r them. I mean she even had to cook and clean for them, and she found them less than kind. That moved quickly with her brittle tone into a complete dislike for them and ﬁnally got to the point where they irritated her both day and night so that she developed this particular way of describing them. All I was doing really was imagining it and trying to stay as close as I could to what I thought would be her voice.

Was your portrayal of Mary’s hostility to the disciples’ project intended as a reﬂection on the development of Christianity or on the relationship between Protestantism and Catholicism, for example? I had to keep those kinds of large questions at bay. I think that when you are writing a novel, you have to be quite careful about that. Novelists tend not to be philosophers, because you can always see the other side of everything. You’re actually quite stupid sometimes, as when someone is explaining something that they really believe in, but you’re watching them rather than listening to the belief. Therefore, with her I was watching her eyes and watching her mouth, and I had a sense of her way of moving, this sort of darting about, and that was what I followed to create her. — Charles Donelan

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What year did Baileys Irish Cream hit the market? ❏ 1875 ❏ 1921 ❏ 1974 What is the name of the proIrish Republic political party? ❏ Dáil Éireann ❏ Sinn Féin ❏ Orange Order What year did Ireland’s Celtic Tiger boom begin? ❏ 1992 ❏ 1995 ❏ 1999

Answers: . ; . Sinn Féin; . .

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ompared to European counterparts like France and Italy, Ireland is much better known for great stout and whiskey than any particular cuisine. But growing up in county Tipperary as one of six children of grocery-store-owning parents, Ursula O’Neill (pictured) learned a lot about cooking, as each of her siblings had to start making Sunday dinners for the family as teenagers. In the summers, O’Neill would also bake apple pies, sponge cakes, and other pastries. “That was my little side business,” she recalled. “And it was my mother’s idea of keeping me out of trouble.” She turned those duties into a career, attending culinary schools in both the Emerald Isle and London. Then, 22 years ago, she followed the sunshine and a chance for a green card to Santa Barbara, where she cooked for the Dako Company in Carpinteria and simultaneously built a catering company. This year, O’Neill’s Catering Connection — which is today housed in the former Laguna Store and Deli, a building she purchased a couple of years back — celebrates 20 years in business. “We’re very diversified,” said O’Neill of the cuisine she serves. “My chef is from Boston, and my event manager, who is also a chef, is from France. So we have a little bit of everything.” Though Santa Maria–style tri-tip is quite a popular option for her wedding clients, O’Neill occasionally fields requests for Irish dishes, especially around St. Patrick’s Day, when she likes to prepare Irish whiskey mushroom sauce on filet mignon, Baileys Irish Cream cheesecakes, and seafood pies topped with mashed potatoes. But she has no clue where America’s fascination with corned beef comes from, as she grew up eating bacon with cabbage, and considers lamb or beef stew as more traditional dishes. Ireland’s cuisine is experiencing a bit of a rebirth, she explained, but more so because diners are adventurous these days, willing to try smoked haddock and blood sausage.“Most people don’t fancy blood sausage,” she admitted,“but that’s become a little more acceptable and encouraged now.” She’s planning a private bash to celebrate her 20th year and is happily getting a lot of support from her colleagues and friends in the food world. “I’ve been lucky, and a lot of people in the industry are going to come and make this spectacular,” she said, explaining that there will be plenty of Irish beer and whiskey but that the menu will be more Californian in style. “It should be a fun party.” — Matt Kettmann See cateringconnect.com.

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dome. A saucy crowd of 5,414 turned out to see Alan Williams — a k a Big Al or, in his own nomenclature, Big Sauce — lead the UCSB Gauchos to a 64-56 victory over the Cal Poly Mustangs in their regular-season basketball finale. The electricity generated by the players and by the festive fans brought back memories of 1990 when the Gauchos took down the mighty UNLV Rebels and made a bid for the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. Maybe the presence of the 1989-90 team, which gathered on the court at halftime as part of their 25th-anniversary reunion, had an inspirational FULL-COURT DOMINATION: “Big Al” Williams led the UCSB Gauchos to a 64-56 victory over effect. Those Gauchos hold the distinction of being the only UCSB team to win a game in the the Cal Poly Mustangs during their last regular-season game. The electricity generated by the players and by the festive fans brought back memories of 1990 when the Gauchos took NCAA’s Big Dance. As the No.  seed in the South- down the mighty UNLV Rebels and made a bid for the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. east Region, they beat No.  Houston, 70-66, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Top-seeded Michigan State held off the Gauchos in the next round, 62-58. “Every coach is on pins and needles,” UCSB coach Bob Williams “McArthur stole the ball!” I blurted in a bad impression of Boston said. “Your momentum starts building Thursday, or it disappears comannouncer Johnny Most (1965 NBA play-offs) when I greeted Eric pletely.” The Gauchos seem to have gathered some momentum in the “Freeze” McArthur, whose steal in the final minute sealed the vic- past two weeks with victories over regular-season champion UC Davis tory over Houston. McArthur, the last Gaucho to average double-digit (14-2, 24-5), UC Irvine, and Hawai‘i. Their talent has been recognized rebounds until Big Al came along, refused the opportunity to embellish by the conference, which bestowed an honor on every UCSB starter the story. “It was a bad pass,” he said.“The guy threw it right at me.” — Alan Williams and Michael Bryson, both named to the first team; Postseason college basketball in 1990 was memorably thrilling, in a John Green, honorable mention; freshman Gabe Vincent, newcomer tragic way, because of the Hank Gathers story. It is well documented of the year; and Zalmico Harmon, the best hustle award. Williams played his best game since returning to action from a shoulin the 2010 book Heart of a Lion by Kyle Keiderling. Gathers was the highest flyer of the soaring Loyola Marymount Lions, who defeated der injury against Cal Poly — 26 points and 19 rebounds — and he leads UCSB, 104-101, on December 9, 1989, at LMU’s Gersten Pavilion. Early all the nation’s active players in career double-doubles (48). in the second half, Gathers went to the free-throw line after being fouled Coach Williams said this week he is looking for a more aggressive by McArthur. He shot the first free throw and then fainted. That was the approach by the rest of the Gauchos, imploring them “not to stand first sign of a problem with his heart. around and watch Big Al.” It was very nice last Saturday, however, that Gathers was able to play again, under medical supervision, and so many fans stood and watched Big Al in his last game at the Thunappeared to be in fine fettle for the West Coast Conference Tourna- derdome. It was a shame that there were too many empty seats during ment. During a second-round game against Portland on March 4, 1990, most home games of his career. Players like him come this way every Gathers collapsed again after a spectacular dunk, and this time he did 25 years or so. not survive. No basketball fan can forget the horror of seeing Gathers STATE PLAY-OFFS: With the one-two punch of Jordyn Lilly, the convulsed on the floor of the pavilion. The rest of the WCC Tournament was canceled, and LMU was school’s all-time leading scorer, and double-double machine Hannah declared champion. The NCAA downgraded the Lions to a No.  seed Rogers, the Bishop Diego High Cardinals won the CIF Southern in the West Region. With Bo Kimble shooting free throws left-handed Section Division A girls basketball championship last weekend with in honor of Gathers, they made it all the way to the Elite Eight, where a 46-31 victory over top-seeded Bloomington Christian. The Cardinals celebrated a CIF title for the first time since 1978, when Lilly’s mother, they ran out of gas against top-seeded UNLV, 131-101. UCSB was the third Big West Conference team to advance to the Paula Charest, played for the team. 1990 NCAA tournament, along with UNLV and New Mexico State. 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The Gauchos (11-5 in the conference, 18-12 overall) are second-seeded in the tournament and will open up junior Amber Melgoza. She and the Dons lost a 59-54 thriller to with a rematch against seventh-seeded Cal Poly (8-10, 13-15) Thursday, Redondo Union in the CIF-SS Division AA semifinals, but they may get another shot at the Seahawks. Both teams are in the State Division  March 12, at 8:30 p.m. The game will be televised by Fox Prime Ticket. There is no chance UCSB will be looking ahead. The two teams were play-offs, Santa Barbara as a No. 6 seed and Redondo a No. . Santa Barbara’s boys also lost in the section semifinals and received in the same position last year, the Gauchos having won at Cal Poly five days earlier, when the Mustangs administered a 31-point smackdown, a No. 8 seed in the state tournament. 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Steve Jarmie, Peter Goldammer, and Rob Peed take the LAB part of their brewery’s name very seriously, brewing more than 45 different beers since opening in September. “If I had to brew the same thing all the time like places with flagship beers, I’d get bored,” said Jarvie, who’s only sold a couple brewLAB’s founders (from left) of beers, like the Green Steve Jarmie, Rob Peed, and Peter Tea IPA and Rye Ses- Goldammer sion, more than once. They’re even planning “a gluten-free that’s good,” said Goldammer. “That would be awesome.” The nano-brewery cooks up both 50-gallon and 10-gallon batches at a time in a Carpinteria warehouse that’s outfitted with rolling casters, a setup which fits a handful of extra people in the room when they are open. The cozy space showcases the trio’s handiwork on salvaged items, like light fixtures made of old keg tops. “Pretty much everything but the plumbing and electrical lines we did ourselves,” said Jarmie. They’re hyper-local in sourcing ingredients: The fruit in the Bath Street Orange Ale came from Goldammer’s girlfriend’s backyard; the beans for the Llama Saison (a surprisingly lovely mix of coffee and farmhouse ale), from Lucky Llama down the street. The environmental reach extends to their spent grain, which they send to UCSB’s Bren School, where it is fed to crickets that they eventually plan to pulverize and use as flour for bar snacks. BrewLAB is now open on weekends with 11 beers available and a pizza truck outside on Fridays. They’ve been aging sour beers and a Russian imperial stout since September, but you do have to enjoy the brews there, for now. “We’d love to fill growlers,” said Goldammer, who hopes to do so soon. “We want to get our beers to lots of people.”

When we last checked in on Captain Fatty’s in October 2013, they were just about to open a tasting room near Storke and Hollister. Instead, they moved to a second Goleta location, right next to the CHP on Calle Real, but brewer Captain Fatty’s Preston Angell Preston Angell and his partners Jon Wadell and Bryan Anderson still use the intimate one-barrel system. “All we brew goes really quickly, which is stressful,” admitted Angell, “but it allows me to be as creative as I like.” Favorites include the Vortex IPA (“more East Coast style, more malty”) and the Double IPA Hop Pun. “We couldn’t come up with a decent hop pun for the name,” he explained. “They’d all been taken, so ….” With the store open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the beer can run out by weekend’s end, especially if a food truck pulls up or Rodrigo Gimenez Cocinero is selling his delicious Argentinean barbecue. So they hope to boost production and offer both cans and 22-oz. bottles by year’s end. “Everybody loves having a new brewery around,” said Angell, giving special thanks to home brewers for their support. “The outcome has exceeded our expectations. … and we’re definitely firing on all cylinders.” As for their Highway Patrol neighbors? “It hasn’t been an issue,” said Angell. “We haven’t heard from them, for good or bad.”

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erhaps Tom Robbins was thinking of Santa Barbara when he wrote, “Never underestimate how much BY GEO RGE YAT assistance, how much satisfaction, how CHISIN much comfort, how much soul and transcendence • P H OTO S BY DON there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.” ALD BRU BAKER We should all know where to get tacos in town (La Col- ments based on fammena!), but the exciting thing is that the places where one ily and friendships, brewers can get the h beer b (if ( f not a bbottle, l yet), ) kkeep growing, seemingly l branching b h out to other h businesses b — and, d by a new brewery per month. perhaps most surprisingly, artisans who are turning away In true Santa Barbara fashion, we’re talking companies from the typical SoCal (especially San Diegan) style hopconcerned about sustainability and regionality, establish- bombs, even when brewing IPAs.

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(410 N. Quarantina St.; pureorderbrewing.com) The two words required to understand Pure Order are family and Reinheitsgebot, the first because the Burge family makes the place run (namely brewmaster James and cousin David in marketing/sales), and the second is the Ger- Pure Order’s James Burge man beer-purity law (thou shalt use only water, hops, malt, and yeast) that Pure Order upholds. Though James admits the law is a tough one to say and spell, he was drawn to Reinheitsgebot because “I always like to start from scratch. I’ve been a builder — tables, bread — anything I can make from scratch I’ve done at least once.”

The Eastside brewery, which celebrates its first anniversary this April, is still happy with its slightly hard-to-find Quarantina Street digs. “We want to be the Santa Barbara brewery, not the Funk Zone brewery,” said David. “By being outside the Funk Zone, we were able to connect with locals and sort of went from there.” Favorites include the Crooked Neck Hefeweizen (named after the late S.B. Zoo giraffe) and a Santa Barbara Common Ale. “You don’t need a bunch of fruits and vegetables to make a brilliant beer,” asserted James, who’s been brewing for 14 years yet is only 30. “Starting with the raw essentials and making something unique for each beer has been my challenge to myself and a showcase to the world of ancient tradition meets new flavor.” He even prefers the oft-maligned Santa Barbara water, claiming its profile is similar to famed brewing hubs like Burton-onTrent. “It’s surprisingly great beer water,” he said. “It has a lot of minerals in it, but the flavonoids attach to these minerals and produce some great beers.” In addition to the tasting room and being on tap all over town, Pure Order is starting to make six-packs. “At first, Lucille Ball would have been proud,” David said about their tests with a new bottling line. “But after three days, I think we have it working smoothly.”

RINCON BREWERY

(5065 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria; rinconbrewery.com) Though “just” a brewpub, Rincon Brewery looks a lot larger than the other breweries in this article, partly because it also serves food. Rincon’s Shaun Crowley “What we’re trying to do is use as much organic produce as we can, whenever we can,” said brewer Shaun Crowley, who formerly worked nearby at Island Brewing and is trying to get Rincon certified by the City of Carpinteria as a green business. Among other practices, Rincon sends its spent grain to a farm off Highway 150, where it is fed to pigs that the brewery then turns into bratwurst. Those brats get beer-braised when cooking, getting beer-ed both inside and out. Despite their 15-barrel system (that’s 465 gallons), Rincon struggled to keep their flagship Indicator IPA in stock when they opened in October. “We didn’t want to run out, but at least people are loving it,” said Crowley, who wants to see how a busy Carp summer works before considering expansion into bottles or cans. “I’m drawn to cans as a brewer, as it’s better for the beer and better for the environment,” he said. “But the problem with cans is people still have a stigma it means bad beer. Luckily, there are now some awesome can beers coming down.” In the meantime, Crowley and his three partners — Alma Billgren (also formerly at Island), Mark Hyatt (from Santa Barbara Outfitters), and Kevin Clarks (Corktree Cellars) — are building on early success, including the chance to cosponsor the Rincon Classic in January, which united all sorts of suds. Said Crowley, “This was always our dream location, and the city was really receptive, too.” SEE p. 57

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ou’d be hard-pressed to find any blarney when Italianborn pianist Alessio Bax joins the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra (SBCO) this St. Patrick’s Day — unless you count the craft beer tasting event afterward, open to subscribers. The first half of the concert, however, belongs to conductor Heiichiro Ohyama and the orchestra, who will celebrate music from or about the British Isles, including works by Frank Bridge and Frederick Delius, as well as Felix Mendelssohn’s deeply affecting The Hebrides. But the second half has nothing to do with St. Patty and everything to do with Bax and the fulfillment of his dream to perform Brahms with the SBCO. The international piano star and 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient

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THE MUSIC OF THE BRITISH ISLES has garnered mega kudos in Santa Barbara in recent years, principally due to repeated appearances with the SBCO. Bax spoke with us from his home in New York last week. So, I’m anxious to learn the connection between Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.  in D minor and the Irish spirit. You’ll have to ask Maestro Ohyama about that! I think the program came together from diﬀerent angles. I’ve played so

GROOVESHINE, MIXIMUS MAXIMUS

This month, Santa Barbara’s GrooveShine releases Miximus Maximus, a 16-track compilation blending reggae, funk, and hip-hop elements into one of the most innovative and danceable hometown releases of the year thus far. The album starts oﬀ strong with “Ayee,” an upbeat reggae track that captures the essence of the band in a four-minute snapshot; it’s playful, groovy, and reminiscent of summers spent by the beach. While 16 songs prove to be a bit too many (the album starts to lose momentum around “Intro to DJ?”), Maximus makes up for it in other areas. The tone is consistently optimistic without sounding

generic, and the hooks are catchy without becoming too repetitive. With Miximus Maximus, GrooveShine brings unexpected instrumentation and rhythmic beats together to develop a genre that’s as melodic as it is unique. Recommended if you like bands Slightly Stoopid and Phish, GrooveShine and its eclectic jammy vibe will keep you dancing with your toes in the sand long after the summer comes and goes. Catch them live ASAP (they play James Joyce on March 18), as the band will be handing out free CDs and download cards at all of their upcoming shows this month. — Cassandra Miasnikov

much repertoire over the years with the Santaa Barbara Chamber Orchestra and Ohyama. It’ss been so rewarding and so interesting for me.. The Brahms normally is considered much h more symphonic; you usually need a much h bigger orchestra. But it’s such an incrediblyy intimate and beautiful chamber work, as well.. I’m really excited because often it’s perceived d as piano versus orchestra. And concerti, you know, they’re big orchestra, big forces, and big writing on the piano, and there’s this constant almost-fight between the piano and the orchestra. But, as I said, [the Brahms] is such a beautifully collaborative work. The piano is really part of the symphony, and you need the kind of musicianship that this orchestra has — collaboration, really. Everyone’s listening to each other and reacting on the spot. I’m really excited to bring it to a much more intimate level than usual. Have you ever played the Brahms before with a chamber group? I might have, many years ago, but it was one of the first times I played it, with the chamber orchestra in Italy. Now that I have played it with many larger orchestras, I’m coming back from a different side, so it’s kind of coming full circle. I feel like I’ve lived with this piece long enough to know it much better than I did 10 or 15 years ago. So the collaboration with the musicians will be much more enjoyable for everyone. How did you first meet Heiichiro Ohyama? We met each other as chamber musicians — he is a violist — and felt so comfortable playing together that he invited me [to play with SBCO], and I don’t think I’ve missed a year yet! And at the beginning of this year, he started a new chamber music festival in Japan, and we got to play together again for the first time since we first met. It was really a lot of fun to come full circle that way, because now I know him as a musician in such a deeper way, because of his conducting. It was great, I mean, I feel like we’ve played all our lives together. The Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra presents the concert Celebrating the Music of the British Isles on St. Patrick’s Day at the Lobero Theatre on Tuesday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. For tickets and info, call 963-0761 or — Joseph Miller visit lobero.com.

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ABROAD AT HOME Experiencing other cultures is just one of the rewards of traveling the world, but as we all know, it’s not always feasible to wing your way around the globe. Well, it turns out you don’t even have to leave North America to immerse yourself in other nationalities, according to a new book by National Geographic called Abroad at Home. The 200-plus-page tome GOES AROUND THE WORLD IN is full of fun facts, short write-ups, and gorgeous photos of diverse cultural pockets scattered throughout the United States and Canada. Far-flung places such as Cedar Rapids, Iowa’s Czech village; Glasgow, Kentucky’s Scottish Highland games; and Butte, Montana’s Serbian holidays are featured, but the book also highlights Santa Barbara County’s own Danish tourist hotspot. “Welcome to Scandinavia utopia,” reads the opening line of the section on Solvang. Its scrumptious pastries, trademark windmill, and Danish Days are all mentioned in the text, as is the history of Solvang’s 1947 transition to a “spotless Danish village that blooms like a rose.” Illustrating the passage is a sun-soaked image of the street where the aforementioned windmill rests, taken by Santa Ynez Valley resident and professional photographer Tenley Fohl, whose work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Forbes.com, and Zagat.com, among others. Abroad at Home is a feast for your eyes — what else would we expect from National Geographic? — but it also offers a delightful peek into the true melting pot that is North America. As such, it’s not only an interesting read for armchair travelers but also a useful tool for planning an international-flavored romp around our continent. Better yet, Fohl will be on hand to sign copies of Abroad at the Wildling Museum ( Mission Dr., Solvang) on Wednesday, March 18, 5-7 p.m. For more information, call 688-1082. —Michelle Drown

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NOW YOU SEE IT ...: Danny Meza’s “Heike Crab” is one of many large-scale murals on view at the GONE Gallery’s current streetart-centric group show, Made You Look.

Made You Look. At GONE Gallery. Shows through April 25. Reviewed by Nathan Vonk

he importance of the Funk Zone as a distinct neighborhood within Santa Barbara has always been related to the diversity of the creative output that was centered there. And while recent property developments have accelerated the gentrification that is inevitable there, the old Funk Zone is not dead. In fact, a good bit of it has been distilled into a wonderful new exhibition at GONE Gallery on Gray Avenue. GONE Gallery is one of Santa Barbara’s most beautiful exhibition spaces and is proof that there are still little-known treasures to be discovered in the Funk Zone. The current exhibition, titled Made You Look, features works by 12 artists who take part in the culture of, or are inspired by, graffiti, so it is fitting that the exhibition spills out onto the street. Trenton Rossi’s large metal sculpture greets you as you approach the space. The work is a striking juxtaposition between the fluidity and lightness of forms that suggest plumes of smoke and the rusted heavy-metal essence of the materials. Next to this, on a large rollaway door facing the street, is an expertly crafted mural by Danny Meza, with the artist’s mastery of spray paints on full display. From here, the exhibition is a cacophony of visual stimulation — a reminder of just how varied and diverse this kind of art can be. As you enter the space, there is a small outdoor section with Wallace Piatt’s super-sized sculptural homage to Warhol’s iconic pop-art soup can. Beyond that, a wall installation by Jerico Woggon brings to mind the Dynaton paintings of Lee Mullican. This is surrounded by the uniquely stylized urban landscapes of David J. Diamant, which help to ensure that every inch of exterior wall space is covered with something to see. Next to this is a large graphic painting by the artist Columnz, whose three smaller paintings installed inside the gallery were a clear favorite on opening night. The indoor section of the gallery houses floor-to-ceiling wall murals in every direction but one. A single wall offers a more traditional gallery installation with a beautiful painting by Meza, Diamant’s very successful multilayered Plexiglass paintings, D pop art by Piatt, and some of the strongest work yet by Skye Gwilliam. But a traditional gallery experience is not what this show is about. Covering the entirety of the back wall of the gallery is a wonderfully decadent collaboration between Gwilliam and Matt Rodriguez. To the right of that are murals by Uriel Leon and Kyle Navarro, followed by a wall by John Federico, on which hang framed graffiti drawings by Trenton Rossi, which are shocking if only because they are so distinct from the sculpture outside. Among all this, in the center of the room, is a seemingly out-of-place sculptural installation by Matt Allison. The piece is made from graffiti paraphernalia like ladders and buckets that are used when this kind of art is created in a “less sanctioned” environment. Perched atop this equipment are arrangements of blue-tinted flowers, their colors and arrangements inspired by actual graffiti found along Mission Creek. It is a clever and beautiful interpretation of this generally brash and unsubtle aesthetic. Clearly this exhibition is not for everyone. Nor is it meant to be. However, if you are curious, willing to learn, or already interested in a kind of urbaninspired art that is hard to find in our town, then this is the single-best place to see it in recent memory, possibly ever. For anyone who is interested in having a comprehensive understanding of the full artistic output of our community at this moment in time, it is required viewing. ■

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HE’S THE BOSS: Stefano de Peppo lays down the law as Mustafà in Opera Santa Barbara›s L’italiana in Algeri.

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he fact that opera is a total art form doesn’t mean that it can’t be totally silly. L’italiana in Algeri, the twisted Rossini farce that Opera Santa Barbara presented at the Granada on the weekend of March 6, may contain some sentimental love arias, but don’t let them fool you: Entering this operatic world is like stepping inside a giant cuckoo clock. The required level of suspension of disbelief defies calculation; discount what’s unlikely, improbable, and implausible about the story, and there’s nothing left. On the other hand, students of Orientalism, that make-believe science in which the world divides neatly between us and them, will have much to ponder. And yet L’italiana in Algeri remains a great opera and a great work of art — just be sure to keep it where it belongs, in the section marked “purest fantasy.” If your critical faculties consent to slumber, it’s quite possible that your senses will be charmed. At its best, L’italiana in Algeri provides a bridge between the dialectical intricacies of Mozart and the comic chaos of the Marx Brothers. All the action takes place in the seaside palace of the Bey Mustafà, ably sung and performed by Stefano de Peppo. After a delightful overture, Mustafà enters and establishes himself as a tough customer, especially when it comes to the dames. He’s the alpha male of this palace, and that’s that. He’s sick of his wife, Elvira (Molly Wilson), and he’s ready to marry her off to his Italian captive Lindoro (the excellent tenor Javier Abreu). Lindoro already has a true love, Isabella (Eve Gigliotti), and by a titanic coincidence, she is captured and brought to the same palace along with Taddeo (Luis Orozco), an older and much more ineffectual suitor of the oh-so seductive Isabella. Isabella will answer everyone’s problems, only we don’t quite know that yet. Why? Because she’s an Italian woman. She eats polygamous Muslim barbarians for breakfast, presumably al fresco. Both Gigliotti and Abreu played their roles beautifully, wringing every last smile and laugh out of a multiplicity of duets and larger ensembles. The goofy shock that ensues when Lindoro first walks in on Isabella and Mustafà generated a kind of delirium that then saturated the rest of the act. “Lindoro,” her eyes seemed to say, “What are you doing here?” The finale of act one must be one of the most eccentric pieces of music in all of opera, with Rossini borrowing liberally from Mozart’s bag of tricks and adding in a few boombooms and oompahs of his own. In addition to the fine principals, this production featured an energetic and well-rehearsed chorus. Whether they were portraying a disconcertingly deep-voiced gang of eunuchs or a loyal band of Italian seamen, they kept their turbans on and their suspenders straight while singing some hilarious refrains. In Act Two, Isabella and Lindoro seize control by inventing the phony Italian honor of the “pappataci,” a nonsense word that in this context stands for cuckold. Mustafà, silly bey that he is, can’t help getting caught in this childish trap for his vanity. It’s all a funny, ridiculous excuse to neutralize the bey’s power while their ship literally comes in. Like the outwitted and overmatched Mustafà, the audience found this italiana too much for their meager reason, and, as the last silly notes were sung, the sound of serious applause filled the theater. ■

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rollicking adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play. For more info & tickets please visit www.sbjhs.org or call 805-963-7751 x4028. Teenagers, fairies, workers, royalty & a grand prankster collide in the forest on a summer night as they pull the audience toward a moon-drenched conclusion!

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SBJHS at the Luke Theatre present this film screening of the adventure-comedy The Goonies, a favorite of local Grace Fisher who has been recently diagnosed with Acute Flaccid Myelitis. This event is FREE, however donations will be accepted for the Fisher family. For more info about the event, Gracie’s progress, and to donate directly to the Fishers please visit posthope.org/gracefisher. Come join us for this fun film for a great cause!

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SAT APR 11 2:00PM

“Puttin’ on the Ritz” The Center for Successful Aging presents this rollicking

variety show directed by local talent Rod Lathim and hosted by KLITE’s Catherine Remak. Featuring singers, dancers, and musicians aged 55 and over, along with multi-generational acts, and special celebrity guests. For more info & tickets please visit www.puttinontheritzcsa.org or call 1-800-494-8497. Join us for an amazing array of talent performing songs and sketches from the Roaring 20s and early 30s with past favorites including the Ulysses Jasz Band, the Silver Follies, and Gil Rosas!

BACKSTAGE GLAMOUR: Marisol Miller-Wave, Stephanie Erb, and Susie Couch star in the Theatre Group at SBCC’s production of Light Up the Sky.

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HALF PRICE RENT! One of the most affordable venues for its size on the South Coast just got more affordable! Enjoy half price rent this July, August and September. Our full-service theatre and professional staff are ready to assist with your music, dance, theatre, film or special event productions. For more info please contact our General Manager at rickvilla@luketheatre.org or call 805-884-4087 x1. We’re ready to bring your event to life!

Light Up the Sky. At SBCC’s Garvin Theatre, Saturday, March 7. Shows through March 21. Reviewed by Charles Donelan

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at Lobero Theatre 7:30 pm

Celebrating Music of the British Isles on St. Patrick’s Day Frank Bridge “An Irish Melody (‘Londonderry Air’), H. 86” Frederick Delius “Intermezzo” from Fennimore & Gerda attacca and “Prelude” from Irmelin Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy “The Hebrides, Op. 26 (Fingal’s Cave)” Johannes Brahms “Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15”

Heiichiro Ohyama, conductor | Alessio Bax, piano

Look for our 2015-2016 Season info at www.sbco.org!

For tickets, call 805-966-2441 or online www.sbco.org P R O G R A M S A N D A R T I S T S S U B J E CT TO C H A N G E .

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ight Up the Sky, however brightly it may burn, is no Roman candle. Instead, it’s more of a sparkler. It throws off a certain amount of light and heat, but it doesn’t go anywhere, and instead of popping off, it fizzles out. To some extent, that’s the fault of the critics. (Now there’s a sentence you don’t see in a review every day.) Moss Hart’s 1948 script contains more quotations from reviews, or “notices” as they were styled in those days, than all the other plays that quote reviews put together — so many, in fact, that it takes several actors reading simultaneously to get them all in. Taken together, and not counting a confusing dispute between the writer and the producer, they constitute the main plot turn of this production. As much as putting reviewers at the center of the drama appeals to the critic in me, it doesn’t work. The notices, which appear as folded-up newspapers that get passed around and read aloud, operate too much as a deus ex machina to resolve all the problems with the sketchy-sounding play-within-a-play that are implied throughout Acts I and II. Perhaps that’s the point — reviews (and reviewers) are as unreliable as they are influential. But as crucial figures in the climax of a drama — or even a screwball allegory — they don’t cut it. What Light Up the Sky does have going for it are some talented performers giving it everything they’ve got. As the diva Irene Livingston, Stephanie Erb is consistently interesting and often quite funny, but whether she’s offstage getting a massage or being upstaged by random slapstick, she doesn’t get the space or time to give the show a strong center. As the iron-willed, fast-talking producer Sidney Black, Ray Wallenthin exerts gravity, but it turns out that Light Up the Sky is not really about him, either. The ostensible protagonist — and not coincidentally the closest thing to a Moss Hart character — is the playwright, Peter Sloan (Joshua Daniel Hershfield). Yet he too vanishes for long periods of time, and, as with the unseen critics who praise his work, some of his best lines are delivered by other characters reading his written messages. It’s fun to see Circle Bar B alums David and Susie Couch on the big stage at the Garvin, and they both succeed in bringing the right kind of dry tone to these shenanigans. Marisol Miller-Wave goes all out as Frances Black, the avaricious and ready-to-pounce wife to Sidney. While all three characters seem to be functioning within the same play, David Holmes as the director Carleton Fitzgerald, feels stranded somewhere else. The device of indicating that he’s what was in those times referred to as “swish” by having him cry or talk about being in tears all the time is just too dated to function at this point, which is fine, because if it worked, it would be homophobic. Manic and zany as it may be, Light Up the Sky is not one of Broadway’s underrated gems. If, however, you have a soft spot for fast talk and can remember Mortimer Snerd, there may be ■ something here for you.

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WITCHY YOUNG WOMEN: (FROM LEFT) Natalie Kellogg, Emma Inglehart, and Sommer Fox play the three witches in Upstage Left’s production of Lights Out Macbeth.

TURN OUT THE LIGHT

hakespeare wrote his plays for everybody: kings and queens, peasants and prostitutes, and every person in between. Whether he was penning a comedy, a tragedy, or a history, you can see this man, whom most consider to be the greatest writer that ever lived, doing his damnedest to tell the most deeply human stories he could tell, stories that transcended class and station and spoke by Kit Steinkellner to all, telling truth after truth about what a gorgeous and terrifying and maddening and hilarious and heartbreaking and truly wondrous thing it is to be alive. Shakespeare made it his life’s work to weave stories for the masses, and that is why it breaks my heart that, over the centuries, he’s found himself trapped inside the ivory tower of academia. He’s been relegated to English classes. When most people talk about going to see Shakespeare, they talk about it like a chore, something that is good for them, something they (eye roll, deep sigh, big shrug) have to do. When I started telling people that I was going to direct a production of Macbeth with a cast composed entirely of teenagers, I found myself on the receiving end of every weird look a person can be given. No one came right out and said it, but I picked up on the subtext loud and clear: “Have you NO respect for the Bard’s work? What makes you think TEENAGERS can tackle one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies? You need to leave the HARD plays to the PROFESSIONALS.” I call shenanigans on this line of thinking. Shakespeare didn’t want his work to sit inside a glass case behind a red velvet rope. I thrill when I hear of elementary school classes performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream, of prison inmates tackling Hamlet. I think, “This is what Shakespeare wanted.” I know Shakespeare didn’t want his work to be feared, and I’m not even sure he wanted it to be revered. I think he just wanted it to be loved. And you know as well as I: You can’t love something from far away. Respect it, sure, but in order to love, you have to get up close. Of course, when it comes to putting on Shakespeare, you have to first select a play that speaks deeply to both the cast that will be performing and the audience that will be attending. Think of it as a Venn diagram; it’s in that space where the two circles overlap that the magic happens. Macbeth is a story about throwing caution to the wind in the darkest hours of the night, and so we created a concept for our production in which we show a group of teenagers sneaking into an abandoned building in the middle of the night, equipped with flashlights and beer to stage their own hour-long version of Macbeth. If you’re wondering why teenagers would want to stage “The Scottish Play,” consider the driving themes: seduction, obsession, betrayal, greed, violence, isolation, despair, uncertainty, vengeance, terror, insanity. If that doesn’t sound like adolescence to you, then we remember adolescence very differently. As a cast, we have taken this centuries-old play and found all that is electric and essential in this story. We hope you will join us for an evening in the dark as we tell you a story of heroes and villains, ghosts and kings, witches and prophecies, murder and … more murder. We’re aiming to kick ass and take names with our version of the Bard’s play, which we’re calling Lights Out Macbeth. After all, we think that’s what Shakespeare would have wanted.

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IMPRESSIONS OF SPAIN

UPSTAGE LEFT’S DIRECTOR GETS TO THE HEART OF

Upstage Left presents Lights Out Macbeth at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara (1535 Santa Barbara St.) on Saturday and Sunday, March 14 and 15, at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. For tickets and info, visit lightsoutmacbeth .brownpapertickets.com.

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Arete Productions presents

At the New Vic 33 West Victoria St 93101

March 13-15 @8:00pm Matinee Performance March 15 @2:00

FEATURING Chuck “Dr. Jazz” Wood Musical Director

Box Office Information

Call: (805) 965-5400

Email: boxoffice@etcsb.org

Director Miriam Dance-Leavy www.ensembletheatre.com Vocal Director Dauri Kennedy Choreography Jessica Kurtzman, Robert Moore & Derrick Curtis

General Admission $25 | Students/Seniors $15 | VIP $50

RISE tktk:ABOVE: caption Aerialists Sophia Phillips (left) and Magalie Lanriot performed at last year’s inaugural Floor to Air Festival. The second installment of the fest will conclude with a public performance at the Lobero Theatre on March 20.

FLOOR TO AIR TAKES FLIGHT

ate last year, I was invited to sit courtside for an intimate performance by the students of the Santa Barbara Centre for Aerial Arts (SBCAA). The evening-length piece took place at their Gutierrez Street studio and brought in a room-brimming crowd of friends and family, all of whom sat barefoot and shoulder to shoulder along the studio’s perimeter. There, suspended some 30 feet above my head, aerialists ages 8 through 38 wrapped themselves in silks, hung suspended from metal rings, and contorted into pretzel-like embraces with trapeze bars — all without mats or pads or nets to catch them. Meanwhile I sat transfixed, held my breath, and tried my best to not bite off my entire manicure. If you’ve ever seen an aerialist in action, chances are you can relate. The complex, quiet, graceful practice of aerial arts is unlike any other — a unique display of strength, skill, precision, and fearlessness that falls somewhere between modern dance and traditional circus fare. “It’s as close as we’re going to get to understanding flight,” SBCAA founder and instructor Ninette Paloma told me over lunch last week. Starting this Sunday, March 15, Paloma and SBCAA will play host to more than 100 fellow aerialists from around the globe as part of the second annual Floor to Air Festival. Started last year as a way for Paloma to “reconcile [her] own wanderlust,” Floor to Air is one of only two events of its kind in the United States. (There are fewer than 10 such festivals in the world.) Over the course of the fest’s sevenday run, attendees will hopscotch back and forth between workshops, classes, and rehearsals led by renowned aerial artists such as Ana Prada of Bogotá, Colombia; Gabrielle Martin of Montreal, Canada; New York City’s Airin Dalton; Danielle Garrison of Boulder, Colorado; and Chicago’s Karen Fisher Doyle and Jill Heyser, all of whom will spend their stay cohabitating and collaborating in a house in Montecito and at SBCAA’s Eastside HQ. “Aerial work is traditionally a very lonely place to be. It’s just you in the air, and that’s it,” said Paloma,“but I find that the camaraderie down below is what really sets that platform and that confidence to be able to do this kind of work. That familial aspect of aerial is what drives me, I think, just

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as much as the actual creative work. It’s that sense of really growing with one another. When you walk into the studio, you’re dealing with everyone’s stories — their lives, their fears, their challenges — and they’re right in front of you, and there’s no hiding from them.” And come this weekend, there will be no hiding from Paloma’s aerial troops, either. “We’re going to be everywhere, and people around Santa Barbara will surely be wondering what all these people in bright-colored clothes are doing,” she laughed.

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AERIAL ARTS FEST TURNS TWO by Aly Comingore In addition to the classes, Floor to Air will also double as a testing ground for The Paloma Project, Paloma’s newly launched bicoastal residency endeavor, which recently gained support and funding from New York Live Arts program and will eventually result in a full-scale touring production. Both the project and the festival’s workshop-based side will collide and culminate in a twopart, evening-length performance — which is open to the public — at the Lobero Theatre on Friday, March 20. While talking with Paloma, it’s impossible to ignore the scope of the undertaking. In addition to hosting her guests, she’s instructing, choreographing, and setting two works on a group of mostly new dancers in less than two weeks’ time. It’s a task that, perhaps ﬁttingly, feels about as ballsy as free-falling from three stories up with only a bolt of fabric to catch you. “Believe me: After a 10-hour day, with bruises in unmentionable places and everybody in my hair, I do lay back and wonder, what is it all for?” she laughs. As for her answer, though, it’s all quite simple: “I think there is nothing more inspirational than a human being discovering their wings.”

The second annual Floor to Air Festival comes to Santa Barbara this Sunday-Saturday, March 15-21. For information, visit sbaerial.com. Floor to Air presents Belline at the Lobero Theatre on Friday, March 20, at 7 p.m. For tickets and info, visit lobero.com. independent.com

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LAUREN DUKOFF

DENGUE FEVER TAKES THE PLUNGE

Hugh Masekela and Vusi Mahlasela

MUSICAL MELTING POT: L.A. band Dengue Fever has been successfully mixing the sounds of ’60s Cambodian pop with Afrobeat drums, Latin rhythms, and classic American rock ’n’ roll for nearly 15 years. The band plays SOhO on March 13.

fter 14 years together, Los Angeles–based Khmer pop band Dengue Fever has just released its fifth full-length album of all new material, titled The Deepest Lake. It’s a grower that expands the band’s already awesome mulligan stew mélange of psychedelic, surf, and ’60s Cambodian pop music by adding choice bits of Afro percussion, Latin grooves, Khmer rap, layered Stax-style horns, and even boy/girl vocals in the John Doe/Exene Cervenka tradition. The band’s origin dates back to 2001, when keyboardist Ethan Holtzman returned from a six-month Cambodian sojourn. During his time overseas, Holtzman discovered the wonders of ’60s Cambodian pop music, specifically vocalists like Pan Ron, Ros Sereysothea, and Sinn Sisamouth. Two decades later, these hidden treasures made their way to BELOVED CAMBODIAN PSYCH-POP Holtzman, who returned from his BAND LAUNCHES ITS OWN LABEL trip with beaucoup Cambodian cassettes. Back in Southern California, by Sean Mageean Holtzman recruited his brother, guitarist/vocalist Zac Holtzman, to form a neo-Khmer pop band. Together the brothers brought in lead singer Chhom Nimol, whom they spotted singing in a nightclub in the Little Phnom Penh district near Long Beach. Bassist Senon Williams, drummer Paul Smith, and saxophonist David Ralicke were recruited soon after. Although they initially covered the lost classics in Khmer only, the band now composes its own original tunes, some of which are translated from English to Khmer for Nimol to sing traditionally and some of which are sung by Nimol and Zac Holtzman in English. The group gained traction in Cambodia and throughout the world after the 2007 release of the documentary film Sleepwalking Through the Mekong, which featured the band touring in Nimol’s homeland. The band has also supported Cambodian Living Arts, Wildlife Alliance, the Sweet Relief Fund, and other charitable organizations. I recently spoke by telephone with bassist Senon Williams in advance of Dengue Fever’s March 13 gig at SOhO. We talked about the band’s new record and the fact that they now have their own DIY label, Tuk Tuk Records, which puts them in the enviable position of having creative control while effectively freeing them from the labyrinth of corporate politics that so many bands fall victim to. “It can be both a blessing and a curse,” said Williams, “because if we succeed, we’re the CEOs, and we’ve done it on our own terms — but if not, there’s nobody else to blame or tell us we’re doing it wrong.” The band is also now in a position to pay it forward and produce and distribute albums by other artists they feel an affinity for. On the new album’s origin, Williams cited some reallife influences and expanded on the backstory behind the song “Golden Flute.” “It was based on a real incident where Zac found a flute and returned it to its rightful owner — a famous jazz musician — who was so grateful that he gave a different flute to Zac.” On a deep-groove level, Williams cites influences such as “Larry Graham from Sly and the Family Stone, and James Jamerson, who was the session bassist on many of the classic Motown hits of the ’60s and early ’70s. I also really liked early PiL, Hüsker Dü, and even Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, just as great songwriters,” he said. Williams went on to say that Lake has been well received but was challenging to make, as the band went with a “rawer approach and a more expressive style.” Still, the consensus is that Nimol and her passionately powerful vocals rose to the occasion, especially on intimate tracks such as “Tokay,”“Cardboard Castles,” and “Deepest Lake on the Planet.” He also said that the band is excited to return and play for Santa Barbarans again. If you’ve yet to catch them live, I recommend grabbing some Mekong whisky and some friends and taking the plunge into Dengue Fever’s Lake this Friday the 13th. Their show is not to be missed.

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Dengue Fever plays SOhO Restaurant & Music Club (1221 State St.) on Friday, March 13, at 9 p.m. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com for tickets and info.

20 YEARS OF FREEDOM FRI, MAR 13 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL Tickets start at $25 / $15 all students

Two of South Africa’s true freedom fighters and beloved musical icons come together to honor 20 years of democracy in South Africa and the official end of apartheid.

Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock SUN, MAR 22 / 7 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $45 / $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LISTINGS art exhibits MUSEUMS

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Art, Design & Architecture Museum – Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures, through May . UCSB, -. ElverhØj Museum – Ro Snell: Outside In, through Apr. .  Elverhoy Wy., Solvang, -. Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Abstract Art Collective: AbstraX; Limited Palette Abstracts, through Apr. ; Professional Baseball, ongoing; multiple permanent installations.  W. Anapamu St., -. Museum of Contemporary Art S.B. – Out of the Great Wide Open, through Mar. .  Paseo Nuevo, -. Rancho La Patera & Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Valley Historical Society.  N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, -. S.B. Historical Museum – Under the Umbrella: Lutah Maria Riggs, through spring; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission.  E. De la Guerra St., -. S.B. Maritime Museum – Doug Klug: Underwater Forests of Anacapa Island, through May.  Harbor Wy., -. S.B. Museum of Art – Visions of Modernity: th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints, through April; Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Collection of Michael Armand Hammer and Martin Kersels’s Charm series, ongoing exhibitions.  State St., -. Ty Warner Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations.  Stearns Wharf, -. Wildling Museum – Wild Spirit: Horses in Art, through June . -B Mission Dr., Solvang, -.

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Allan Hancock College Library – Children’s book illustrations, ongoing.  S. College Dr., Santa Maria, -. Architectural Foundation Gallery – R. Anthony Askew: Prints PLUS, through Apr. .  E. Victoria St., -. Artamo Gallery – Julia Pinkham: Flight Plan, through Mar. .  W. Anapamu St., -. Atkinson Gallery – Maria Rendón: Missing Rib, through Mar. .  Cliff Dr., Rm. , SBCC, - x. Bella Rosa Galleries – Tom de Walt and Mehosh Dziadzio, through Mar. .  State St., -. Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr. – Voices, ongoing.  Chapala St., -. Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit.  Pueblo St., -. Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – Figure It Out, through Apr. .  Linden Ave., Carpinteria, -. Casa Dolores – Bandera Ware, through May .  Bath St., -. Channing Peake Gallery – Under the Influence: Responses to Place, through June . S.B. County Administration Bldg.,  E. Anapamu St., -. Corridan Gallery – Into the City, through Mar. .  N. Milpas St., -. Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Sherry Spear: Whimsy, through Apr. .  State St., -. Faulkner Gallery – The Oak Group and Friends: Reserves of Strength, through Mar. .  E. Anapamu St, -. Flying Goat Cellars – Nancy Yaki, through Mar. .  E. Chestnut Ct., Unit A, Lompoc, -. galerie – Ellwood T. Risk, Sabine Pearlman: No Risk, No Reward, Apr.  - May .  W. Matilija St., Ojai, -. Gallery  – Iven Vestergaard, through Mar. . La Arcada,  State St., -. Gallery Los Olivos – Two Off the Road, through Apr. .  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -. Goleta Library – March Art Show, through through Mar. .  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta, -. The Good Life – Wine Country, through 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, through Apr. .  Chapala St., -. The Lark – Kevin Eddy, ongoing.  Anacapa St., -. Los Olivos Café – Laurel Sherrie: Capturing Light, through May .  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -. Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing.  Anacapa St., -. MCASB Satellite – Magic Mountain, through Jan. , . Hotel Indigo,  State St., -. MichaelKate Gallery – Psyched, through Apr. .  Santa Barbara 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 – Oleg Ardimasov and Sue DiCicco, ongoing.  State St., -. Pacific Western Bank – Celebrating  Years of I Madonnari Posters, ongoing.  E. Figueroa St., -. Pacifica Graduate Institute – Mythic Threads: Art, Healing and Magic in Bali, ongoing.  Ladera Ln., -. Porch – Billy Woolway, through Apr. .  Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria, -. Porch Gallery Ojai – Bobbie Bennett and Joan Scheibel: Home on The Range, through Mar. .  E. Matilija St., Ojai, -. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park – Nihonmachi Revisited: Santa Barbara’s Japanese American Community in Transition, -; Memorias y Facturas, ongoing.  E. Canon Perdido St., -. S.B. Artwalk – Arts & Craft Show, ongoing Sundays. Cabrillo Blvd. at State St. S.B. Tennis Club – Inkspots, Mar. -Apr. .  Foothill Rd., -. Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Frederick Remahl, , through Mar. ; Ben Messick: Artist and 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 – Bootsy Holler: Nuclear Family, through Apr. .  E. Yanonali St. C-, -. Westmont Ridley-Tree Art Museum – Rembrandt and the Jews: The Berger Print Collection, through Mar. .  La Paz Rd., -.

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Live Brazilian Music (pm) Brewhouse –  W. Montecito St., -. FRI: Stiff Pickle Orchestra (:pm) THU: Ventucky String Band (pm) Campbell Hall –  Mesa Rd., UCSB, -. FRI: Hugh Masekela & Vusi Mahlasela (pm) Chumash Casino Resort –  E. Hwy. , Santa Ynez, () -. THU: Ringo Starr and His IN CIRCLES: Deborah Lee Baker’s “Intact, more or less” is All Starr Band (pm) part of Psyched at MichaelKate Gallery. Cold Spring Tavern –  Stagecoach Rd., SAT: Ukulele music and singing (-:pm) -. Sandbar –  State St., -. FRI: Do No Harm (-pm) WED: Big Wednesday (pm) SAT: Cinder Jean/ Robt. Thomas and friends (-pm); The Harlequins (-pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (:-pm);  State St., -. Dusty Jugz (:-:pm) THU: Adam Hawk, Grizzly Business, The John SUNN Arkestra (:pm) The Creekside –  Hollister Ave., FRI: Dengue Fever (pm) -. FRI: Hard Six and Doublewide (pm) SAT: Young Singers (pm); Roots & Thunder, King Zero (pm) SAT: King Bee (pm) WED: Country Night (pm) SUN: David Ford, Tommy Alexander (:pm) Dargan’s –  E. Ortega St., -. TUE: Karaoke (pm) MON: SBCC Lunchbreak Jazz Band, Goodtimes Jazz Bands (pm) WED: Karaoke - The Band (:pm) THU: Traditional Irish Music (:pm) TUE: Spencer & the Worried Lads (pm) Endless Summer Bar/Café –  Harbor WED: Jacqui Naylor (pm) THU: Blessing Offor (:pm) Wy., -. FRI: Acoustic guitar and vocals (:pm) Statemynt –  State St., -. EOS Lounge –  Anacapa St., -. THU: DJ Akorn THU: Vanity Thursdays WED: Blues Night (pm) FRI: Yacht Club Fridays SYV Grange Hall –  Alamado Pintado SAT: #ExpectGreatness Saturdays Ave., Los Olivos, -. WED: Bailamos Salsa Night SAT: Peter Feldmann & Blaine Sprouse (pm) Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. – Tiburon Tavern –  State St., -  Anacapa St., -. FRI: Live Music (pm) FRI: Karaoke Night (:pm) SAT: The Caverns (-pm) Velvet Jones –  State St., -. The Goodland –  Calle Real, -. THU: Lil Dicky (:pm) THU: Live Music Thursdays (pm) FRI: Andre Nickatina, Anonymous That Dude (pm) Hoffmann Brat Haus –  State St., SAT: ¡La Vasa!, Petmedz, Stop Breathing -. (pm) THU: Live Music Thursdays (pm) Indochine –  State St., -. Whiskey Richards –  State St., -. TUE: Indie Night (pm) WED: Punk on Vinyl (pm) WED: Karaoke (:pm) SUN: Americana Sunday w/ Matt Armor and Friends (-pm) The James Joyce –  State St., -. THU: Alastair Greene Band (pm) MON: Open Mike Night (pm) FRI: Kinsella Brothers Band (pm) Wildcat –  W. Ortega St., -. SAT: Ulysses Jazz Band (:-:pm) THU: DJs Hollywood and Patrick B SUN, MON: Karaoke (pm) SUN: Red Room with DJ Gavin Roy (pm) TUE: Teresa Russell (pm) TUE: Local Band Night (pm) WED: Grooveshine (pm) Zodo’s –  Calle Real, Goleta, -. Lobero Theatre –  E. Canon Perdido St., THU: KjEE Thursday Night Strikes (:-:pm) -. WED: Nat King Cole Tribute (pm) MON: Service Industry Night (pm) Maverick Saloon –  Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, -. theater FRI: Fast Mojo Band (pm) SAT: Blues Bob Duca (pm); Cuyama Mama & The Hot Flashes (pm) Garvin Theatre – Light Up The Sky.  Cliff O’Malleys and the Study Hall –  State Dr., SBCC West Campus, -. THU-SAT: :pm St., -. THU: College Night with DJ Gavin SUN: pm Moby Dick Restaurant –  Stearns Goleta Valley Jr. High – The Music Man. Wharf, -.  Stow Canyon Rd., Goleta, -. WED-SAT: Derroy (pm) FRI, SAT: pm SUN: Derroy (am) SUN: pm Monty’s –  Hollister Ave., Goleta, The New Victoria Theatre – Swing! -.  W. Victoria St., -. THU: Karaoke Night (pm) FRI, SAT: pm Old Town Tavern –  Orange Ave., Goleta, SUN: pm -. WED, FRI, SAT: Karaoke Night (:pm) Palapa Restaurant –  State St., dance -. FRI: Live Mariachi Music (:-pm) Piano Riviera Lounge –  E. Anapamu Center Stage Theater – Configuration. St, -.  Paseo Nuevo, -. FRI: David Courtenay & The Castawaves FRI: pm (pm) SAT:  and pm Reds Tapas & Wine Bar –  Helena Ave., Granada Theatre – The Joffrey Ballet.  -. State St., -. THU: Live Music (pm) TUE: pm Roundin’ Third –  Calle Real, -. Lobero Theatre – Spring Celebration of THU, TUE: Locals Night (pm) Dance.  E. Canon Perdido St., -. S.B. Maritime Museum –  Harbor Wy., SAT: pm #, -. SAT:

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CRAPPY Chappie. Hugh Jackman, Sharlto Copley, and Dev Patel star in a ﬁlm written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell and directed by Blomkamp. Reviewed by D.J. Palladino

happie is a mitigated disaster, a bummer with a little asterisk. Most of the problem sticks to Neill Blomkamp, whose directorial plummet from the great District  through the bumpy road of Elysium has officially bottomed out. At least that’s what fan-folk hope; his next movie will be an Aliens sequel. Meanwhile, this film seems like it was written by a child and executed with something less than logic. It’s a cute robot story with graphic death dealing, a fable without ideas. Even more shocking is how abysmally Blomkamp regards the look of his film. The sight of Hugh Jackman in shorts with a mullet feels like audience abuse. The story coughs up bits of RoboCop: A future South African metropolis successfully experimenting with robot police hits a snag when its number one tech Deon (Dev Patel) announces his creation of artificial intelligence. His boss Michelle (Sigourney Weaver) forbids it. Meanwhile creepy coworker Vincent (Jackman) wants to deploy a human-operated giant robot. Self-aware robot Chappie (voiced by Sharlto Copley) nonetheless gets loose, or rather, he gets hijacked by weirdo gangsters Ninja and Yolandi, who take over his daffy education. Sounds romantic? Blomkamp, whose earlier movies have been about the underclass rising up against the rich, has taken a cynical shift. The slum-dwellers here are freakazoids who would rather loot than liberate. Chappie’s combination of

I, CHAPPIE: Sharlto Copley voices the titular police droid reprogrammed to think and feel for itself in Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi fiasco.

innocence and evildoing seems matched by the director’s new disillusionment with the unwashed. He makes the poor smelly. Yet the one redeeming aspect of Blomkamp’s bizarre film is the use of consciously messy Ninja and Yolandi, better known as Cape Town rave-rappers Die Antwoord. The duo, soaking in the semi-satirical “dirty face” of South African zef stylings, is a subculture and sound worth pursuing. Their YouTube videos are far more interesting than this film. Blomkamp, for his efforts, seems to be exploiting zef, but it’s all lost in a maze of nonsense. ■

PUTTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem. Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, and Gabi Amrani star in a ﬁlm written and directed by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz. Reviewed by Aly Comingore

ay what you will about the cultural-significanceturned-cultural-meme that was International Women’s Day, but I have to think there was something kismet about spending my March 8 with Gett. Actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz is the force behind Viviane Amsalem, a woman trapped in a particular kind of marital purgatory. This film opens and lives in court, where Viviane fights (for more than three years) for a divorce from her husband, Elisha (Simon Abkarian). Because they live in Israel, where civil divorce does not exist, Viviane must make her plea to a panel of rabbis who act as judges. Though she’s lived away from home for years, never cheated, supports herself, and cares for her children, Viviane’s fate ultimately rests in her husband’s hands. In order to successfully divorce, he must concede to the court that he’s willing to set her free. Over the course of Gett’s two-hour runtime, we’re slowly raked over the coals right alongside Viviane. Character witnesses are dragged in and out of the courtroom, and both parties’ lawyers (Elisha’s brother, Viviane’s friend-turned-attorney) squabble over the other’s culpability. Elisha, for his part, is the stand-up Jewish citizen to Viviane’s self-possessed, defiant wife. He keeps kosher, and

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS: Gett stars Ronit Elkabetz as an Israeli woman trying to divorce her husband.

she does not; he abides by the Sabbath, and she does not; he allows her to do as she pleases, and she refuses to live under the same roof. But the reality of the situation bubbles just below Elisha’s stoic, silent exterior: As a husband, he is controlling, manipulative, and exacting, and he’s made Viviane’s life hell since they married when she was 15. In that regard, both Elkabetz and Abkarian stun: He oozes evil with barely a look; she slowly comes undone the longer he makes her wait. On one level, Gett does a beautiful job of casting a harsh light on the state of marital rights on the global scale. On another, it’s a riveting tale about the strange tug-of-war that happens in many relationships. More than anything, though, the ﬁlm is a powerful look at how, in a society and infrastructure built by men, a woman’s voice can go unheard, ignored, and outright dismissed because of her perceived inferiority. There is still much work to be ■ done.

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

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People love going to a foreign film, even one from England, and then discovering it has the properties of an American sitcom — developing arcs, character complications, and insurmountable problems that just blow away in the end. It would be pointless to warn anybody away from this movie, which is just strong enough and just more of the same enough to prove my sitcom point. After The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, we wanted to know what would happen next to these characters we like. There was Maggie Smith, so ardent and secretly wounded; Bill Nighy and Judi Dench, too English for their own good; and of course Dev Patel and Tina Desai as the proprietors who seem both childishly kind and on the con. There’s no sense in using their character names. We went to watch these actors work. In this case, the sequel relies too heavily on a sitcom joke stolen from the brilliant John Cleese vehicle Fawlty Towers. An inspector is coming, and Sonny (Patel) makes an obvious, obnoxious identity mistake that draws Richard Gere into the wackiness. Despite the plot theft, the film has a nice wistful quality I don’t remember from the first film. The music and the scenery seem employed almost to evoke a wonderful world of the past. This episode is not great; it’s truly second best, but the fans of the first one ought to tune in for this season’s offerings. Why haven’t they made this a television show? (DJP)

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The Gunman (115 mins.; R: violence, language, some sexuality) A military contractor with PTSD (Sean Penn) goes on the run across Europe to clear his name. Paseo Nuevo (Opens Thu., Mar. )

Run All Night (114 mins.; R: strong violence, An aging hit man (Liam Neeson) goes up against his ruthless former boss in order to protect his estranged family.

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

SCREENINGS Amour fou (96 mins.; NR) Jessica Hausner’s ﬁlm tells the story of German writer Heinrich von Kleist and his terminally ill lover, Henriette Vogel, who made a suicide pact in 1810 Berlin. Wed., Mar. ,  and :pm, Plaza de Oro

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Tris (Shailene Woodley) continues her ﬁght against the powerful alliance that threatens to destroy her society. Arlington (D)/Camino Real (D and D)/ Metro  (D) (Opens Thu., Mar. )

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Bilbo and his crew are forced into a war to keep a darkness from obliterating all of Middle Earth. The padding out of what was once a nice little adventure book isn’t boring, but it frequently seems pointless. (DJP) Fri., Mar. ,  and pm, Isla Vista Theater,  Embarcadero del Norte

Road to Bali (91 mins.; NR) Bing Crosby and Bob Hope star as two song-and-dance men who go to work as divers as a way to avoid a series of marriage proposals. Tue., Mar. , pm, Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr.,  Chapala St.

The Way (123 mins.; PG-13) After his son dies while traveling Spain’s famed El Camino de Santiago, a father (Martin Sheen) decides to make the trek himself. Mon., Mar. , pm, Granada Theatre,  State St.

This live-action ﬁlm retells the classic fairy tale about a servant stepdaughter who becomes the object of aﬀection for the kingdom’s prince. Camino Real/Fiesta 

Ugly Fat Friend.” What elevates this movie from entertaining to straight-up enchanting is the impossibly winning Mae Whitman and her off-the-charts chemistry with onscreen beau Robbie Amell. (KS) Metro  Focus (104 mins.; R: language, some sexual

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A group of medical students ﬁnd a way to bring the dead back to life. Olivia Wilde and Donald Glover star. Besides harboring stupid plot points and multiple promising ideas that ﬁzzle into inanity, Lazarus is also a total waste of talent. (DJP) Fiesta 

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

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. Fairview/Fiesta  independent.com

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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): In the old Superman comics, Mister Mxyztplk was a ﬁendish imp whose home was in the ﬁfth dimension. He sometimes sneaked over into our world to bedevil the Man of Steel with pranks. There was one sure way he could be instantly banished back to his own realm for a long time: if Superman fooled him into saying his own name backwards. You might think it would be hard to trick a magic rascal into saying “Klptzyxm” when he knew very well what the consequences would be, but Superman usually succeeded. I’d like to suggest that you have a similar power to get rid of a bugaboo that has been bothering you, Aries. Don’t underestimate your ability to outsmart the pest.

(June 21 - July 22): As soon as a baby loggerhead turtle leaves its nest on a Florida beach, it heads for the ocean. It’s only two inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000-mile journey that takes 10 years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. Succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian.

TAURUS

(July 23 - Aug. 22): In 1961, 19-year-old Bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at New York clubs. To accompany his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica. By 1963, his career had skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. But he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock and roll. For the ﬁrst time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass, and keyboards. Some of his fans were oﬀended. How dare he renounce his folk roots! I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you to stay as you are?

(Apr. 20 - May 20): In 1637, mathematician Pierre de Fermat declared that he had solved the “Last Theorem,” a particularly knotty mathematical problem. Unfortunately, he never actually provided the proof that he had done so. The mystery remained. Other math experts toiled for centuries looking for the answer. It wasn’t until 1994, more than 350 years later, that anyone succeeded. I think you are on the verge of discovering a possible solution to one of your own long-running riddles, Taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you’re almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Your upcoming efforts might not be flawless in all respects, but I suspect you will triumph anyway. You may not even be completely sure of what you want, but I bet you’ll get a reward you didn’t know you were looking for. Cagey innocence and high expectations will be your secret weapons. Dumb luck and crazy coincidences will be your X factors. Here’s one of your main tasks: As the unreasonable blessings flow in your direction, don’t disrupt or obstruct the flow. Homework: If you could be any other sign besides the one you actually are, what would it be, and why? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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believe the Suﬁ saying holds true for you. Where you’re headed, you would beneﬁt from an advisor, teacher, or role model.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): There’s a meme rolling around Tumblr and Facebook that goes like this: “Everyone wants a magical solution for their problems, but they refuse to believe in magic.” Judging from the astrological omens, I think this Internet folk wisdom applies to your current situation. As I see it, you have two choices. If you intend to keep fantasizing about ﬁnding a magical solution, you will have to work harder to believe in magic. But if you can’t ﬁnagle your brain into actually believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about a magical solution. Which will it be?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): I have taken a passage from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anaïs Nin, and I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added to it so as to create an oracle that’s perfect for you right now. Ready? “This is the wild dream: you with your chameleon’s soul being anchored always in no matter what storm, sensing you are at home wherever you are. You asserting yourself, getting the rich varied life you desire; and the more you assert yourself, the more you love going deeper, thicker, fuller. Resurrection after resurrection: that’s your gift, your promise. The insatiable delight of constant change.”

SAGITTARIUS

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): “Whoever travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey.” That’s an old Suﬁ saying sometimes attributed to the poet Rumi. I don’t think it’s accurate in all cases. Sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered. There are no guides! On other occasions, we can’t get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves. A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. But right now, Virgo, I

(Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): One of your important assignments in the coming week is to get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. Experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits. At the same time, you can’t afford to risk hurting yourself, and it’s essential to avoid stupidly excessive behavior that has negative repercussions. So what do you think? Do you have any methods to get sozzled and squiffed or jiggled and jingled that will also keep you sane and healthy?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): Singer Gloria Gaynor recorded the song “I Will Survive” in 1978. It sold over two million copies and ultimately became an iconic disco anthem. And yet it was originally the B-side of “Substitute,” the song that Gaynor’s record company released as her main oﬀering. Luckily, radio deejays ignored “Substitute” and played the hell out of “I Will Survive,” making it a global hit. I foresee the possibility of a similar development for you, Capricorn. What you currently consider to be secondary should perhaps be primary. A gift or creation or skill you think is less important could turn out to be preeminent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): I’m tempted to furrow my brow and raise my voice as I tell you to please please please go out and do the dicey task you’ve been postponing. But that would just be a way to vent my frustration, and probably is not helpful or constructive for you. So here’s my wiser advice: To prepare for that dicey task, lock yourself in your sanctuary until you ﬁgure out what you ﬁrst need to change about yourself before you can accomplish the dicey task. I think that once you make the inner shift, doing the deed will be pretty easy.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): In the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling,” the young hero suffers from a peculiar case of mistaken identity. He believes that he is a duck. All of his problems stem from this erroneous idea. By duck standards, he is a homely mess. He gets taunted and abused by other animals, goes into exile, and endures terrible loneliness. In the end, though, his anguish dissolves when he finally realizes that he is in fact a swan. United with his true nature, he no longer compares himself to an inappropriate ideal. Fellow swans welcome him into their community, and he flies away with them. Is there anything in this story that resonates with you, Pisces? I’m guessing there is. It’s high time to free yourself from false notions about who you really are.

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Spirit of the Week Pisco Portón: From Peru comes this national heritage white spirit distilled from grapes. So think grappa, but mellower, especially this one by Portón, clearly targeted for the international market. It’s a mosto verde, which means not all the sugars get fermented, lowering the alcohol level, and fiery mouthfeel, compared to lesser piscos. And then it’s aged in cement vessels (the wonderfully named cubas de guardia) and not oak — all the flavor comes from the original grapes and natural yeast. Straight it’s a bit astringent, but the Pisco sour is a cocktail for those desiring the love‑child of a daiquiri and a margarita. Pisco, fresh lime juice, simple syrup, egg white. You can blend it, if you want it icy/frothy, or drink it up. Don’t forget the drip of bitters for color and depth. It’s an exotic delight made all the better with such a fine spirit at its heart. See piscoporton.com. —George Yatchisin

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North Milpas Street is shutting down, along with all of the company’s California stores. The business is oﬀering a 30 percent discount on everything in the store to liquidate inventory. Fresh Market opened in Santa Barbara in November 2013 and plans to close at the end of March. A neighboring Milpas market with a similar name, Fresh & Easy, is open for business as usual. GOLETA DENNY’S DEPARTING? Readers Michael,

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based Haggen Food & Pharmacy recently purchased several Albertsons and Vons grocery stores in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria, as part of a 146-store acquisition in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. Each purchased grocery store plans to change their name to Haggen. The aﬀected stores include two Albertsons in Santa Barbara ( Cliﬀ Dr. and  State St.), two Vons in Goleta ( S. Turnpike Rd. and  N. Fairview Ave.), and one Vons in Carpinteria ( Linden Ave.). The sales

were made to secure Federal Trade Commission clearance for the merger of Albertsons and Safeway. Safeway is also the owner of Vons stores. “We’re pleased to have found strong buyers for these stores and to have completed this important step toward combining Albertsons and Safeway,” said Safeway president and CEO Robert Edwards, who will serve in the same roles for the combined company. “We look forward now to the transaction’s close, so we can begin working together to enhance the loyalty of grocery shoppers by delivering high quality products, great service, and lower prices to become the favorite local supermarket in every neighborhood we serve.”

TASTE OF SOLVANG: The 23rd annual Taste of Solvang oﬀers savory ﬂavors and sensations from Wednesday-Sunday, March 18-22. This popular event lures foodies throughout the South Coast with its variety of happenings, including the following:

March 18: Solvang Village Farmers Market Chef Walks & Dining Experiences, with Budi Kazali of The Ballard Inn and David Cecchini of Cecco Ristorante. March 20: Sips & Sweets features tempting treats accompanied by wines and live music from the Sean Wiggins Band. The Best Desserts (both amateur and professional) will be chosen by three judges, including The Santa Barbara Independent’s own George Yatchisin. March 21: The Grand Tasting, which is also known as the Walking Smorgaasbord, features more than 40 taste stops at restaurants and retailers around the village. Day one of the Wine & Beer Walk oﬀers 18 stops at downtown tasting rooms pouring their vintages into the Taste of Solvang souvenir glass. Enjoy a Larner Winemaker Dinner with Bacon & Brine’s Chef Pink. March 22: Wine & Beer Walk, day two.

The 2015 Taste of Solvang Weekend Passport, which covers most events, is $85 per person. À la carte ticket prices are $30 for Sips & Sweets, $35 for the Grand Tasting, $40 for the Wine & Beer Walk, and $95 for the Larner Winemaker Dinner. See solvangusa.com/tickets.

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artisan's estate at Sneden's Landing which lies on the West bank of the Hudson River just North of New York City, New York. Granny Tonetti gave Angy a lust for life. At the age of 17, Angy was given a brand new 1943 Ford truck. After she learned how to drive her own truck, she started her own trucking business. She called it Angy's Trucking. She found work in New York City. Another time, Angy mentioned to “Granny” Tonetti that she was interested in learning how to thatch a roof. In the spirit of fun, Mary Lawrence Tonetti sent a letter to a workman in England of Angy's interest in the old craft of thatching roofs. When young Angy, after a long, rough ocean voyage, arrived at the small hamlet of homes, she knocked on the little cottage door. The old man answered, “Me thought you was only kidding.” She wasn't. There was not extra room in the old man's cottage, so for the next two months, Angy stayed in the old stone lighthouse where she slept during the night and learned the trade of thatching from the old man during the day. To stave off the freezing, night cold, she donned her warm, wool pajamas and downed just a small sip of old English whisky. Returning to Sneden's Landing, from England, Angy began building her own stone house. The stones came from the crumbled-down ruins of an old Civil War fortress. When the walls got too tall, she could no longer lift the stones. Angy needed a real man to help her. With four friends loaded into her Ford, they traveled across the country and finally arrived at Anne Gale Hyde Bjorklund died on March 3, 2015. her father's Bohemian enclave on Mountain Drive Anne Gale Hyde was born August 16, 1926, in Santa Barbara. She found work in San Diego in the town of Englewood, New Jersey, to her riveting WWII airplanes. She frequented Venice parents, Robert McKee Hyde and her mother, Lydia Beach and the boardwalk. There was a handsome Tonetti Hyde. Angy is the younger half-sister of Swede standing strong on the beach. He spotted the Susie Borden Hyde Macy, whose mother (Dorothy nice 1943 Ford truck and noticed the new fishing Borden) died during child birth. Angy's father pole. She was moving into a little Venice Beach (Bobby Hyde) then married Lydia Tonetti. Lydia rental and the Swede, Lloyd Bjorklund, offered to Tonetti gave birth to Angy, Joe, and Francois. help with the move and to teach her how to fish. The Angy's mother (Lydia Tonnetti) died early in Angy's couple fell in love. childhood. Angy also has a half-brother, Gavin Hyde, who is a published author who taught at the University of California Santa Barbara and was born of Florence (Floppy) Hyde. Angy's Grandparents, Mary Lawrence and Francois Michele Louis Tonetti, are wellknown master artists and sculptors. The Tonetti Grandparents influenced cultural art in the United States of America during the turn-of-the-century. Mary Lawrence Tonetti was commissioned to sculpt a 50' foot high statue of Christopher Columbus, which was displayed at the front entrance of the Administration Building for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Angy grew up in the Mary Lawrence Tonetti home, Pirate's Lair, with her two brothers, Joe and Francois Hyde. Angy's father, Bobby Hyde, developed the famous Bohemian communities known as: Mountain Drive, Painted Cave, the West 80 off of Old San Marcos Road, and the Maria Ygnacio Properties where the Bjorklund Ranch is today. Angy's Grandfather, Robert Wilson Hyde, was an important figure in the cultural life of Santa Angy took Lloyd Bjorklund back to New York. Barbara. Robert Wilson Hyde founded the Together, in that quaint community of Sneden's Community Arts Association in the early 1920s and Landing, they lifted the final stones up onto the tall was instrumental in the discussions leading up to walls of her first finished stone house, the LloyAnne the opening of the new Lobero Theatre in 1924. House. With news from her father-in-law, “Pappy,” Angy moved into Granny Tonnetti's Pirate's Lair that the government will give you homestead land if early in her life; her mother (Lydia Tonnetti Hyde) you build a house on it, Angy and Lloyd Bjorklund died too soon and her father, Bobby Hyde, had moved back to California. They lived a few years in moved back out to the City of Santa Barbara and the second stone house that they built together, the started his Bohemian communities. So “Granny” Desert Castle, which still stands at the homestead in Tonetti (Mary Lawrence, the famous artist) took the Mojave Desert. As a wedding gift, Angy's father, charge of the three children. With the help of the Bobby Hyde, and his wife, Floppy, gave them 10 beloved butler, James, Angy grew up in an authentic acres up on the Old San Marcos Road. On it, Angy

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and Lloyd built a third house, the White Tipi. The Bjorklund family (Robert Ivan Bjorklund) still lives on that land today. Angy and her husband, Lloyd, settled in Santa Barbara. She liked the Bohemian lifestyle that her father, Bobby Hyde, was creating up on Mountain Drive. It is said about Angy's father that Bobby was a man with an extraordinary dream … to create a Utopia where like-minded individuals could come together to live simply, in harmony with the natural world, using only the materials they had around them — earth, wood, stone, and water. Angy enjoyed the annual Wine Stomp, which was the Bohemian Community's signature party during the 1950s. She participated in the reoccurring Pot War up on Mountain Drive during the 1960s, which established the beginning of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire. The Pot War event entailed the challenge of selling their handmade pottery roadside with an extra enticement for the buyer. Each of the sold ceramic creations came with a

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swirl or more of wine within. Musicians and Bards entertained the growing crowds each season. Angy loved the down-to-Earth lifestyle. Angy took on the ardent task of working with raw wool. She carded it, spun it, dyed it, and knitted it into her famous ANGIE wool hats. She taught these arts at the University of California Santa Barbara. Music was always a huge part of her life: drumming, concertinas, and singing old songs. Making music made her life an ever-blooming flower. Angy's father (Bobby Hyde), at the age of 55, adopted six additional children, aged 4 through 12. Angy suddenly became the older sister to six new siblings. Bobby Hyde wrote about his Rodriguez children in the published book, Six More at Sixty. Angy's four children grew up with aunts Martha, Ruthy, Becky, and Naomi; and uncles Paul, and Cecilio.

Angy is a third-generation Santa Barbarian who taught her children to be creative and entrepreneurial. The Tonetti talent pulsed within her every creative whim. And her Father's and Grandfather's (Bobby and Robert Wilson Hyde's) spirit guided her many salient endeavours. Throughout her life, Angy garnered so many dear friends. She was always genuinely peaceful and loving toward everyone she met. Her health was good. On March 3, 2015, Angy's family gathered along her side. The room filled with the old folk songs that we had learned from her. Stefana, a hospice volunteer, played the guitar for Angy. Norma, the 90-year-old roommate resident, joined in the singing with a beautiful rendition of Amazing Grace. It was a time of beautiful grieving. Shortly As a mother of four, she vacationed each year with thereafter, Angy raised her sail, caught the evening wind, and moved across the seas, like the ending to her family at Quadra Island and Cortez Island in a beautiful song. British Columbia. The family of six stayed in yet Angy lived a free-spirit life with her husband, the fourth, family-built, small, Quadra Island cabin Lloyd Bjorklund, and their four children. She is that was perched atop the granite bluffs just above survived by her sister, Susie Macy, now living at the high-tide line in Village Bay. Angy always fed Martha's Vineyard and her brother, Gavin Hyde, the family fresh salmon, cod, and oysters straight who lives at Painted Cave. Angy's four children, from the cold bay waters. Her hot baked bread filled the air with a wholesome, natural smell. Angy Eric, Robert, and the twins, Susy and Gail will miss purchased 50 acres of ocean front property in Whale her joyful song. Her seven grandchildren Torin and Axel Bjorklund, Harmony and Savanna Bjorklund, Town on Cortez Island, which provided the family with an abundant diversity of hunting, raft building, Micky and Lydia Kitahara, and Lloyd Jeffers will remember her fondly. gardening, and picking wild berries and cherries from the tree. During that vacation time, she often Angy's celebration of life party will be held on put her kids to work on the rock bluffs to scrape Sunday, the 29th of March, 2015, starting at 12 for lichen, which she used to dye the wool natural noon. We welcome all who wish to celebrate our golden brown tones. Her children, over time, finally mother's life. Wear festive and bring warm clothing got used to the smell of the of the moss-like lichen. as the celebration will be an ongoing, outdoor On the way home from British Columbia, it was event. Overnight tenting will be available. Send tight quarters in the car because the car was full of in a fun story about a special experience that you wool from the Canadian sheep. Angy was ready for had with Angy. Your story will be printed into a another year of working her wool projects. book of memories. Please RSVP by March 22, 2015 to efbjorklund@gmail.com, or call Susie at (707) At home, Angy's White Tipi living room was full of looms, spinning wheels, and burlap sacks stuffed 357-3714. with sheep's wool. Angy constantly cooked the wool On the day of the event, shuttles will be provided dyes in the kitchen: lichen made the golden brown, to drive visitors up to the Bjorklund Ranch on onion skins created the honey tones, the cochineal Old San Marcos Road. Please park your car on bugs colored the wool red, and indigo boiled purple Cathedral Oaks near Foothill Elementary School. A in the pot on the stove. The aromas coming from door-to-door mini-van will take you up to Angy's the woolen handiworks permeated throughout the Celebration. (For shuttle information on the 29th, Bjorklund home. Angy took her students down call Jonathan (805) 689-6107. Special needs, call to the creek for overnight Mountain Spinning Rob (805) 705-1154.). The vehicles will run the route Workshops. Angy promoted her classes with the up and down the beautiful drive. You are invited to slogan “Leave with a Wall Hanging.” bring music, photographs of, and artwork produced by Angy Hyde Bjorklund (1926-2015).

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Treasurer. FBN Number: 2015‑0000747. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Back To Basics at 1107 San Andres Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Gregory M. Ortiz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gregory M. Ortiz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 02, 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: 2015‑0000732. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Association United For A Better Community at 502 N. Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Dante Omar Morales 66 Oceanview Ave, Apt 36 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Rosemary Munoz 5077 Santa Susana Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (same address) This business is conducted by a Unincorporated Association Signed: Frank J. Artusio, Treasurer 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 Frank J. Artusio, Treasurer. FBN Number: 2015‑0000522. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.

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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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000633. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015.

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555 McMurray Road, Buellton, CA Setting Project Significance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under CEQA Two Options for Consideration District Community Advisory Council Meeting Follows Public Workshop The Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District will hold a public workshop to present two options for setting project significance to address greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Following the Public Workshop the District’s Community Advisory Council will consider the options presented and whether to recommend one for adoption by the District Board of Directors. Options below would apply to business and industry sources, referred to as stationary sources, of air pollution. •

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AB32 Consistency Threshold. New or modified projects with emissions over a screening threshold of 10,000 metric tons of GHGs per year would be required to achieve a 15.3% reduction from Business as Usual emissions. Projects participating in the California Cap and Trade program under AB32 would be considered compliant with a qualified GHG reduction program.

Under both of these options, new or modified projects with emissions under 10,000 tons of GHGs per year would be deemed less than significant and would not be required to reduce emissions. Information is available for review at www.ourair.org/greenhouse-gases-and-ceqa. The District’s Environmental Review Guidelines provide procedures for the District and other agencies to use when reviewing projects under CEQA. The District’s Guidelines are applied directly to projects for which the District is the lead agency under CEQA, including permits, rules, and plans. The District plans to update the Guidelines to include guidance for evaluating the significance of GHG emissions from stationary sources. Public workshops were held in May and December of 2014, and comments are posted at the above link. The following individuals or groups may be interested in attending the March 25th workshop: • Proponents of projects with new or modified stationary sources of air pollution in Santa Barbara County; • Agencies in Santa Barbara County that serve as lead agencies under CEQA; • Concerned members of the public; • Agencies, organizations and industries involved in climate change/greenhouse gas impact evaluation and mitigation. For additional information, please see the District’s website at www.ourair.org/news, or contact Molly Pearson at (805) 961-8838. To sign up to receive notices, please email ceqa@sbcapcd.org. 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: 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. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015. 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. Published: Feb 26. Mar 5, 12, 19 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s)

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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: 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: 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. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) 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: Mathilda Apartments at 285 Mathilda Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Christine Bagley 355 Bryant St #302 San Francisco, CA

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Are you compassionate & caring? Do you love helping people reach their full potential? Do you want to be part of a truly cooperative group of people working to serve a cause larger than themselves? Then consider joining the team at Alpha Resource Center of Santa Barbara. Alpha is committed to empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, supporting families and fostering a community that values the contribution of all people since 1953. Alpha is currently hiring Direct Support Professionals to work directly with the adults in our day program. Direct Support Professionals provide support in life skills, community activities, volunteer and job opportunities and much more! They are responsible for helping to develop and implement individualized and meaningful goals for the participants with whom they work. Experience in this field is a plus, but is not required. Training will be provided. This is a very rewarding and meaningful career with opportunities for advancement. REQUIREMENTS High School diploma or GED Valid CA Driver’s License and clean DMV printout. Must receive Criminal Clearance from DOJ. Must be age 21 or over. Full time and Half‑Time Available: Monday‑ Friday 8‑5. SALARY $10.50 to $11.00 starting. BENEFITS Generous benefit package, health, dental, paid vacation, sick and holiday, retirement savings plan. INTERESTED? Please come to 4501 Cathedral Oaks Road and fill out an application or email ataylor@alphasb.org.

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STUDENT HEALTH SERVICE Works in a University ambulatory student health care setting under UCSB Student Health Standardized Procedures and Protocols and in collaboration with UCSB Student Health physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Acts as an advice nurse, triages students in order to make appropriate appointments and referrals, provides advice for minor illnesses and injuries and patient education. Works in immunization and travel clinics. Reqs: Must be currently licensed by the State Board of Registered Nursing, have 3 years of experience and a Bachelor’s degree. Notes: Any HIPAA/FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Fingerprinting required. All clinicians must complete the credentialing process before their start date. Mandated reporter for requirements of child abuse. This is an 11 month per year position with 4 weeks of furlough. Furlough is taken during quarter breaks or summer months. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Multiple positions available. Salary is competitive, 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. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb. edu Job #20150013

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Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories, LLC (PDL) is a for‑profit clinical laboratory established in response to the local community’s need for a high quality clinical laboratory. PDL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (www.cottagehealthsystem. org). Located in Santa Barbara, California, PDL’s goal is to provide the Tri‑Counties area of Central California (which includes San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties) with the highest quality of laboratory services as well as an unmatched level of customer service. The Anatomic Pathology Technician will assist during autopsy and during gross examination of surgical specimens including specimen accessioning in computer, specimen preparation and gross description, and maintenance of grossing area and autopsy suite. Processes tissues destined for various special agencies and reference laboratories. Performs preparation of cytology specimens, including slide preparation and staining. PREFERRED POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Experience and/or education in the sciences, particularly human anatomy. Mortuary experience a plus. We offer excellent benefits and a very professional work environment. Please apply online at www.pdllabs.com.

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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: Coda Wines at 5249 Foxen Canyon Rd. Los Olivos, CA 93441; Spencer Landon Daley 7944 Winchester Circle Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lea Fainer, Agent This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 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: 2015‑0000661. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: XPRTS Wholesalers at 5949 Hollister Avenue Suite A Goleta, CA 93117; Stephan Brissaud 267 Aviano Place Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Stephane Brissaud 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000630. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hamilton & Associates, LLC at 3048 Paseo Del Refugio Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Hamilton & Associates, 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 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000566. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: XO Greeting at 136 E. Yanonoli St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Erika Marie Carter 218 C Santa Barbara St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Erika Carter 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: 2015‑0000504. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Car Wash Pros, Detail Pros at 3905 State Street, Suite 7210 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Bijan Omid 6689 El Colegio Road Goleta, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bijan Omid 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. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000638. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Los Prietos Hotshot Firefighter Support at 4681 Tajo Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Joseph A Duprey (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Joseph A. Duprey This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 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: 2015‑0000656. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FCC, First Congregational Church of Santa Barbara, Fccsb, Ucc, Fccsbucc at 2101 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; First Congressional Church of Santa Barbara (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jack R. Orr This statement

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United Methodist Church at 892 Camino Del Sur Isla Vista, CA 93117; Santa Barbara Korean United Methodist Church (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jonathan Garcia, CEO (Chair) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 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: 2015‑0000669. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Been Jammin Music at 525 Olive Street Snta Barbara, CA 93101; Meridian Entertainment, INC (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Ben Margulies 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000583. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Neighbor Tim’s BBQ at 670 Glen Annie Road Goleta, CA 93117; Neighbor Tim’s LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Timothy Goebel This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000708. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Aesthetic Center For Plastic Surgery, Aesthetic Surgery Center of Santa Barbara at 5333 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Julio Soares MD 4681 Sierra Madre Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Julio Soares This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb

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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000675. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Casa Dorinda at 300 Hot Springs Road Montecito, CA 93108; Montecito Retirement Association (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Robin Drew, CFO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000693 Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: L And F Investor Services at 27 West Anapamu Street, Suite 406 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; L And F Montecito Corp (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Alexandra Merz 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000558. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hesperian Sound Divison at 415 Rancheria Street #4 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Nicholas Michael Tillman (same address) Alejandro Elias Zerah 2142 W. 18th Place Chicago, Il 60608 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Nicholas Tillman 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000448. Published: Mar 5, 12, 19, 26 2015. FICTITIOUS

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615 Sunrise Vista Way, Sun 1‑4pm, 4BD/3.5BA, $1,999,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties (805) 450‑4821 Coldwell Banker Montecito, 826 Grove Lane, $1,245,000, 3BD / 2.5BA, Sun 1‑4, www.KIRKHODSON.com 805.886.6527 Coldwell banker Montecito, 29 Tinker Way, $819,000, 3BD / 1BA, Sun 2‑5, Holly McKenna 805.886.8848

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FEATURED PROPERTY 234 VALHALLA DRIVE

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SOMIS, CA Incredible 5BD/6BA, 7,180 sq. ft. gated estate built in 2004 w/ avocado and orange groves, private trails 35 acres & a heli-pad approval. It’s a 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms! Luxury and privacy galore!

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SANTA BARBARA 3BD/3.5+BA estate features a large front yard, gourmet kitchen, pool, 2 car garage & more!

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MONTECITO Located in prestigious “Ennisbrook,” this 1.55 acre buildable parcel overlooks a private 2-acre grass park

SANTA BARBARA San Roque

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$2,275,000 GTProp.com/1630MiraVista

$1,999,000 GTprop.com/615SunriseVista

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130 VISTA DE LA CUMBRE

873 SANTA MARGUERITA DR.

474 HARVARD LANE

6244 MARLBOROUGH DR.

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GOLETA 4BD/3BA,cul-de-sac home w/ over 2,000 sq. ft. feet, 3 car garage, large backyard w/ fruit trees & spa gazebo.

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nus room. Large yard w/ hot tub, gas BBQ. Cul-de-sac & in the Kellogg school district.

neighborhood close to parks & shopping w/ 3,015 sq. ft. & dual living possibility!

sac w/in Storke Ranch Subdivision. 1733 sq. ft., pool, tennis courts, & more.

$1,080,000 GTprop.com/130Vistadelacumbre

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$974,000 GTprop.com/474Harvard

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SANTA BARBARA Lg 3BD/2BA upper

SANTA BARBARA 3BD/2BA Commercial/Residential. Front yard, side patio, detached garage. Priced to sell.

GOLETA Sought-after ground flr end unit 2BD/1BTH, laundry, large pool, tastefully remodeled and very move-in ready.

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Goodwin & Thyne Properties Celebrating 11 Years in Business

With more than ½ BILLION DOLLARS in residential and commercial property sales, Goodwin & Thyne Properties is the area’s best value in professional real estate services! Thank you valued clients – we could not have done it without you!

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