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Scales Down, Reaches Out

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volume 29, number 481, Apr. 2-9, 2015 PAUL WELLMAN

CONTENTS

Since she started writing for The Santa Barbara Independent’s music section late last year, UCSB lit major — and published novelist! — Cassandra Miasnikov has amassed quite a clip book: more than 20 stories, including interviews with Foster the People and local boys Gardens & Villa. In case you doubt her commitment to the rock, she also has some pretty impressive street cred: “In high school, I couldn’t afford to buy tickets for Warped Tour, but I attended every year by scaling the fence over a ravine behind the venue,” she confesses.

Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Close Escapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

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Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Classical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Pop, Rock & Jazz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Mussel Man

California’s Only Open-Ocean Shellfish Farmer Struggles to Grow His Operation ON THE COVER: Bernard Friedman aboard Perseverance (also pictured above). Photo by Paul Wellman.

NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Capitol Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

OPINIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Angry Poodle Barbecue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Positively State Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Arts Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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A&E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Arts & Entertainment Listings . . . . . . . . . . 60

FILM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Movie Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

ODDS & ENDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . . . 67

Dining Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 The Restaurant Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

CLASSIFIEDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

KCRW REPORTS

Listen to Bernard Friedman’s shellfish farm this week on KCRW’s Santa Barbara feed at 88.7 FM, on their site kcrw.com/ sbnews, or in our online version of the story at . . . . . . . . . . . . independent.com/mussels

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Roger Durling submits yoga guru Eddie Ellner to the Proust survey. ................................

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Teresa Jamison on renting challenges, Barry Cappello on racism in voting, and more! ..........................

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Spring Native Plant Sale Saturday, April 4 –Sunday, May 3 Spring for Native Color in Your Garden • Plant a butterfly garden with plenty of milkweed for the monarchs • Frame your veggie garden with plants that pollinate and protect from pests GET TICKETS

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Rebates on 50% of the cost of pre-approved water wise and native plants, irrigation equipment, smart irrigation controllers, laundry to landscape graywater systems, mulch, and more! Up to $1,000 for homes and up to $4,000 for businesses and HOAs. A pre-inspection is required before any work is done. For City of Santa Barbara water customers only. Call now to schedule your pre-inspection at (805) 564-5460.

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RAZE THE ROOF: Cottage Hospital is demolishing its Central Wing to make way for a new patient pavilion and an expanded emergency room.

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bout 30,000 people in Santa Barbara County are newly insured through MediCal since the Affordable Care Act took effect, bringing the total number of recipients to about 106,000, or roughly one fourth of the county. In California, families of four living on $33,465 or less now qualify for the state healthcare program, and the amount of people uninsured nationwide has dropped considerably.

But how will the government pay for such expanded access? That was one big unanswered question posed last week by a handful of area health officials during a Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care–sponsored forum at the DoubleTree Resort.

One purpose of the Affordable Care Act was to increase preventative treatment, freeing up emergency rooms that have long been bursting at the seams. Since 2012, however, Santa Barbara ER visits have increased by about 1,400 patients every year. Just last year, the ER in Goleta saw a 12-14 percent uptick, and Santa Ynez’s hospital ER saw an 11 percent hike.

“We are actually busier now than we have been in a long time,” said Cottage Executive Vice President Steven Fellows. To accommodate the influx, the hospital took steps toward doubling the number of ER beds with the demolition of its central wing last week; along with other upgrades, the renovations will allow for more than 60,000 visits each year. Goleta and Santa Ynez will also double the size of their ERs. Despite the increased volume, wait times for the ER haven’t changed. On average, a Cottage patient waits 37 minutes to see a doctor (higher than the state and national average) and four hours and 18 minutes before being admitted to

the hospital (lower than the state and national average), according to ProPublica. Hospitals are required to evaluate everyone who arrives at an emergency room. At that point, “we might as well just treat you,” Fellows said.

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care doctors,” said Sansum Clinic CEO Kurt Ransohoff. “Younger people aren’t going into medicine,” he added, pointing to medical school debt. Dr. Michael Bordofsky, speaking on behalf of independent physicians, said the future is bright for nurse practitioners, and Dr. Fred Kass with the Sansum Clinic Cancer Center offered the team health-care model as a possible solution.

The panelists also talked about end-of-life health care. They agreed it’s a difficult but necessary conversation for people to have with their families. “If you don’t have an advance directive, get an advance directive,” Fellows declared.

Providing care to seniors in their own homes is the Santa Barbara–based program known as DASH (Doctors Assisting Seniors at Home); 1,200 people over age 60 have signed up, alleviating some of Sansum Clinic CEO Kurt Ransohoff Sansum the ER congestion.

Clinic CEO Kurt Ransohoff As they did at last year’s forum, shows up on the weekends, perhaps when they the panelists emphasized serious problems in have access to transportation, explained Cen- the pharmaceutical industry — particularly with Cal CEO Bob Freeman. “Old habits die hard,” prices.“It’s not all bad,” Ransohoff said, noting illhe said, adding that health-care providers need nesses that are now completely curable because to educate people about seeing a primary care of drugs, “but there’s enough bad to talk about.” doctor rather than waiting to go to the hospital, The biggest issue, Ransohoff said, is direct conwhich is much pricier.“Treat bronchitis [now] as sumer advertising with no price regulation, callopposed to pneumonia later,” he added. ing drug commercials with puppies playing on While reimbursed care is going up, char- the beach while a voiceover lists negative side ity care services are going down. In 2012, the effects one of his biggest pet peeves.“I think they Cottage Health System provided $17 million in should act out the side effects,” he said.

Though there was no mention of it at last charity; in 2013, it decreased to $13 million. Last year, the amount was $8.5 million.“That’s a good week’s forum, the potential merger of Sansum thing,” Fellows said. and Cottage is still on the table. The Attorney The shortage of primary-care doctors was General’s Office is still reviewing the proposal, also discussed at the forum. “We have 50,000 which has remained unchanged since the news new patients. We did not add 25 new primary- went public in 2013.

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Santa Barbara authorities are responding to threats made by the Islamic militant group ISIS against U.S. military personnel living in Solvang. “We are taking appropriate action and are communicating with the FBI,” Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Kelly Hoover told the Lompoc Record this week. The heightened state of awareness follows publication by the Islamic State Hacking Division, an ISIS affiliate, of a list of 100 military personnel in 55 cities. “We remind the public to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to law enforcement right away,” Hoover said.

Duanying “Chance” Chen, the 20-year-old man who allegedly strangled his girlfriend and fatally abused her 6-month-old puppy last May, was held to answer for a separate charge of witness dissuasion on Thursday. Prosecutors said that information in phone calls Chen made to his now ex-girlfriend from County Jail indicated that he asked her to drop the charges, tell a different story, and destroy evidence. Chen is scheduled to return to court on 4/14. If convicted, he could face up to six years and 10 months in prison.

A Santa Barbara jury took just 18 minutes to come to a guilty verdict for the 34-year-old Carpinteria man who impregnated his 13-yearold stepdaughter in 2012. Charged with forcible rape and aggravated sexual assault with a special allegation of inflicting great bodily injury, Santos Guevara could become the first child molester in the county to go to prison for life without the possibility of parole. In February 2013, Guevara, who is from El Salvador, was arrested by U.S. marshals and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maryland, where he had fled to stay with his sister. He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 11.

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A 2012 ruling by Judge Thomas Anderle was recently upheld by the California Court of Appeal, requiring that the City of Santa Barbara issue rebuilding permits to three Sycamore Canyon homeowners who lost their houses in the 2008 Tea Fire. Luke Brost, Ruben and Pamela Barajas, and Lavell and Louise Canley were barred from receiving rebuilding permits and financial compensation due to a 20-year-old city ordinance prohibiting reconstruction in the area due to “geological instability.” The appeal court also ordered $600,000 be paid to the homeowners for attorneys’ fees. Appeals attorney Herb Fox referred to the case as “a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money.”

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This Easter weekend, Isla Vistans will celebrate the sixth annual Deltopia, and authorities have announced several measures to discourage the unsanctioned street party from erupting as it did last year when 25,000 people swarmed the college town. For starters, hundreds of law enforcement officials will descend on the streets, overnight parking on campus lots will be restricted, and a number of events — strictly for UCSB students — will be held, including daytime activities on campus and a nighttime concert at the Thunderdome.

UCSB took to Twitter and Facebook to discourage out-of-towners from showing up, spreading the hashtag “KeepIVSafe.” The university sent letters to junior high and high school principals from Santa Maria to Oxnard asking them to discourage teenagers from making the trip to I.V. Also, Goleta has restricted street parking in adjacent neighborhoods to residents displaying parking passes from Saturday morning through Sunday morning.

In February, the county supervisors gave the green light to the Sheriff’s Office to implement during the first two weekends in April a holiday music ordinance, banning amplified music after 7 p.m., which is typically in effect during Halloween weekend. This Saturday and Sunday, the county will close Isla Vista beaches as it has every year since — Kelsey Brugger 2010 after Deltopia’s predecessor, Floatopia, trashed the beaches.

CITY “It is what it is, as sad as it is,” said Sharon Hoshida, co-owner of Granada Books, which will close next month after less than two years of business. The State Street store — hit hard early on by bad floor management — launched a crowdfunding campaign two weeks ago to raise $50,000 and keep it afloat for the rest of the year, but it fell $30,000 short by the 3/30 deadline. Starting 4/3, all inventory will be 40 percent off, and the shop will still honor its scheduled April events. “We had a wonderful experience,” said Hoshida. “I think people will look back on Granada Books and say, ‘Remember when …’”

In some good news–bad news highway-access information, Caltrans announced that the southbound 101 Los Carneros Road off-ramp reopened March 31, but as a Goleta drainage improvement project proceeds, ramps at Fairview Avenue will completely close through January 2016. The on-ramp for the northbound 101 at Fairview was blocked March 29, and the southbound 101 Fairview exit off-ramp closes April 2.

Caltrans said the $17 million project to improve culverts along Las Vegas and San Pedro creeks is 50 percent complete and should be done by the end of next year.

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Ten years after purchasing the rundown Carpinteria Camper Park, Peoples’ Self-Help Housing is just about ready to hold an April 16 lottery to determine who will live in the new, affordable townhouses the nonprofit has been building there for the past year. The pre-application process for Casas de las Flores has already drawn 200 interested households, and the lottery will determine which applicants will begin to be screened for the 43 units, which are due to be completed in September.

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Nine fire-detection units called FlameSniffers (pictured) were recently installed atop Southern California Edison towers in the Mission Canyon foothills. The devices — worth $40,500 and donated by the company — can read slight changes in temperature, wind, humidity, and smoke and will live-stream the information to County Fire’s dispatch center during a yearlong pilot program pitched by now-retired chief Michael Dyer.

Three firms will help design the 228-bed recidivisim-reducing wing — known as the STAR (Sheriff’s Transition and Reentry) Complex — of the North County Jail; that same team is designing the main portion of the new jail, slated to open in 2018. Sheriff Bill Brown secured $39 million in state funds for STAR’s construction, and the county has ponied up a 10 percent match; out of that pot, the firms will receive no more than a combined $5.5 million. Further details on the complex will come in October.

The 10th in a series of settlements has been reached regarding the cleanup of the Casmalia Resources Superfund Site, a former toxic-waste dump that accrued 5.6 billion pounds of hazardous materials from 10,000 sources between 1973 and 1989. Under the deal, announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 337 parties will pay a combined $1.4 million for their share of the effort.

That includes Santa Cruz County, FedEx, Hershey Foods, Target, and the Orcutt Unified School District. The EPA estimates the cleanup will cost $284 million, about $116 million of which has been collected.

Gina McCarthy, the Environmental Protection Agency’s top boss, visited the Chumash reservation on 3/26 to check out the tribe’s eco-friendly programs. She heard from Chumash leaders about the tribe’s solar energy projects, electricvehicle charging stations, and drought-friendly landscaping. That evening, McCarthy headlined an economics-meets-environment conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal at the Bacara Resort.

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SLOW YOUR ROLL: Deputy Kim Fryslie, the Foot Patrol’s Greek liaison, says I.V. chapter houses are starting to rein it in after a number of suspensions and closures.

UCSB to Greeks: The Party’s Over

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spate of UCSB sanctions on fraternities and sororities is throwing cold water on Greek party life in Isla Vista.

Since early December, three fraternities in the teeming coastal community have lost their campus recognition and cannot apply for reinstatement for at least five years. A fourth is under investigation, and a sorority has been ordered to cease all chapter activities, pending an inquiry.

“This was a particularly tough year,” said Gregory Rousso, president of the Inter Fraternity Council. “In some cases, it can be just a few members that sort of ruin it for everyone.”

UCSB officials declined to comment, except to say through the Office of Public Affairs, “UC Santa Barbara takes all allegations of behavior and policy violations very seriously, especially those that threaten student health and safety.”

Working with the university, the Isla Vista Foot Patrol sees indications that I.V.’s Greek culture may be changing. In November, the Foot Patrol revived the post of “Greek liaison.”

Since then, it has sent 28 reports of fraternity and sorority misbehavior to the UCSB Office of Student Life. There are 13 fraternities and 11 sororities with chapter houses in Isla Vista; some have satellite houses for juniors and seniors.

“Law enforcement ends up being the eyes and ears of Greek affairs,” said Sheriff ’s Deputy Kim Fryslie, the new liaison. “I think people were probably getting away with too many violations of UCSB policy, and that became the norm. Now that everything is being more systematically relayed to Greek affairs, word has gotten out.” University investigations are conducted by members of the Registered Campus Organizations Conduct Board, based on reports from students, parents, faculty, staff, and community agencies.

Last fall, an alleged rape was reported at the Nu Alpha Kappa chapter house at  Fortuna Lane, and the fraternity was ordered to suspend operations. On March 9, Nu Alpha Kappa lost

its campus recognition because of “violations of UCSB policies, violations of its fall 2014 suspension, and for perpetuation of an unsafe environment for members and the Greek community,” Public Affairs said. Executive board members of Nu Alpha Kappa, one of the largest Latino-based fraternities on the West Coast, did not respond to a reporter’s emails last week.

Nu Alpha Kappa joins Beta Theta Pi and Phi Sigma Kappa, which lost their campus recognition in December and February, respectively, after being shut down by their national organizations. Beta Theta Pi was shut down amid reports of hazing that sent two pledges to the hospital because of excessive drinking. The reason for Phi Sigma Kappa’s shutdown has not been made public. Fryslie said the fraternity had generated numerous complaints in recent years for loud music.

On March 16, the UCSB chapter of Lambda Theta Alpha, a sorority, was suspended, pending an investigation, and must cease all chapter activities in the interim. Lamba Theta Alpha, billed as the first Latina sorority in the United States, does not have a chapter house in Isla Vista and has declined to comment on the suspension.

Meanwhile, the status of Sigma Chi Omega, the first multicultural fraternity at UCSB, remains uncertain. The 32-member fraternity, with a chapter house at  Sueno Road, is under investigation at UCSB. Fryslie said he had been asked by the UCSB Conduct Board to attend an upcoming hearing. In the early morning of January 24, he said, someone got into an argument at the chapter house, threw a bottle through the window, and stabbed a fraternity member with a piece of glass.

“They’re still having their parties and having alcohol,” Fryslie said. “Whoever is at the house partying will deny that they live there.

They scurry away like they’re all frightened, and nobody steps up and takes responsibility.”

Jason Ouyang, the fraternity president, called the January 24 incident a “wild card,” saying, “Those people were never allowed on the cont’d page 12 property in the first place.”

To increase awareness of the Mission Park to Mission Canyon Community Plan, City Council has directed City staff to hold a third public workshop.

The workshop will be held at the Museum of Natural History on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to present the conceptual plan and allow the public to ask questions about the project and to understand the public process that lead to the plan. For more information, contact Rob Dayton, Principal Transportation Planner, at 805-564-5390 or RDayton@SantaBarbaraca.gov.

chapter houses and satellite houses when more than 30 people are present, no matter what age they are. Such events must be “dry.”

When Fryslie first began as Greek liaison, he said, fraternity party hosts seemed to think they could violate this rule “with a wink and a nod.” They would tell him it was their right to drink.

“I’m not hearing that anymore,” Fryslie said.

“There are some that cont’d from page 11 were repeat offenders earlier in the year, and As for fraternity members scattering at parties they have straightened out after getting into when law enforcement arrives, Ouyang said, trouble.”

In an atmosphere of heightened scrutiny “Right now, students are afraid to come up to the police and talk. They might be charged as by the Foot Patrol and UCSB, even the word minors in possession of alcohol, and that’s a “party” can make fraternity leaders nervous. very scary thing. Both sides need to be more They prefer the term “social gathering.” If they plan to serve alcohol at a big event, they can’t open about how we should interact.

“If our fraternity is suspended and we can’t use a chapter house. They have to hold the recruit new members, we can’t promote good party at a nightclub or restaurant. behavior, which is what we’re trying to do,” To show their support for the Foot Patrol, Oyang continued.

25 members of UCSB fraternities have signed The legal age for drinking in Califor- up to assist the agency on April 4 during Delnia is 21, but UCSB goes one step further. It topia, serving as intermediaries between law bans alcohol during social events at Greek enforcement officers and the public.

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Frickin’ Frackin’ In the two weeks since the Department of the Interior put forth first-of-their-kind fracking regulations, Congress has introduced a bill that would block the rules from going into effect, and the industry quickly filed lawsuits. Environmental groups have said the new oversight is better than nothing but isn’t as far-reaching as they would like.

The rules — which only apply to the approximately 100,000 wells nationwide that sit on public land — include measures like inspecting the wells’ cement linings for fissures and disclosing the chemicals used within a month. The regulations are scheduled to go into effect toward the end of June, just ahead of the full implementation of California’s Senate Bill 4, a law passed in 2013 to keep a tighter watch on fracking and acidizing operations throughout California.

No fracking currently occurs in Santa Barbara County, but it has been popular in the Sespe Oil Field, located in the Los Padres National Forest in Ventura County. Jeff Kuyper, the executive director of Los Padres ForestWatch, said 350 instances of fracking have occurred there since the 1960s, but zero since 2013.

Recently, Seneca Resources, headquartered in New York State, applied to the U.S. Forest Service for eight fracking wells in the Sespe Oil Field, about 98 percent of which the company owns. Seneca spokesperson Rob Boulware suggested that SB 4 may end up trumping the new federal rules — state laws, if more stringent, are allowed to supersede federal ones — but until or unless that happens, the company will abide by both sets of laws.

Kuyper called the federal regulations “a step in the right direction” but not strong enough for a “very ecologically sensitive” area like the Sespe, home to the California condor. There haven’t been any reported incidents of fracking spills in that field, Kuyper said, but “the major concern is just the risk and whether that risk is worth it.”

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BY LY Z H O F F M A N alk of limiting greenhouse-gas emissions from industrial sources in Santa Barbara—primarily oildrilling operations — erupted in November 2013 with the controversial approval of Santa Maria Energy’s 136 cyclic steam-injection wells, the largest project to hit the county in years. Since that green light and amid last year’s Measure P debate, county officials have been working on developing a formal emissions ceiling that, if surpassed, would necessitate that companies buy offsets until they fall under the limit.

That process took a significant step forward last week, with the county Planning Commission holding its first discussion on what ceiling to impose; this spring, the Board of Supervisors will consider whichever threshold the commissioners choose. Also last week, an advisory group to the county’s Air Pollution Control District (APCD) deliberated over the district’s own proposed limits, which would apply to projects in which the APCD takes the lead; the district’s Board of Directors will continue that talk in April.

County staff has encouraged the Planning Commission to consider a flat 10,000-metric-ton limit, the same that was imposed on Santa Maria Energy’s project. The limit — only applicable to new operations — would see that bigger projects reduced their pollution without requiring smaller projects with minimal emissions to purchase reduction credits.

Of the 418 operators under the county’s purview, 347 release fewer than 1,000 metric tons per year; 12 emit more than 10,000 metric tons. (To put those figures in perspective, 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide is equivalent to the pollution generated by 2,105 cars in a year.)

The commission could also recommend creating the limit on a percentage-based reduction. Under the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act passed in 2006, California must reduce its emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and it requires that energy projects cut their emissions by at least 15.3 percent. Over at the APCD, that limit seems to be the strongest contender, where sources that emit between 10,000 and 25,000 metric tons annually would be required to cut back by 15.3 percent.

Projects above and beyond 25,000 metric tons a year would be subject to California’s capand-trade law.

In 2013, in approving Santa Maria Energy’s proposal, the Planning Commission levied a

stricter 29 percent threshold on the 88,000 metric-ton project, which would have cut the pollution levels down to about 62,000 metric tons per year. But the Environmental Defense Center charged that wasn’t enough and noted that the project could buy the offsets — about $500,000 worth a year — to bring the emissions down to 10,000, or spend $900,000 to make the number zero. The supervisors, after a contentious six-hour hearing, ultimately voted 3-2 in favor of the 10,000 mark, also used by many other jurisdictions across California, including San Luis Obispo County’s APCD and the air-quality agency for nine Bay Area counties.

But the environmental community has urged the county to set its official standard at zero. Sounding the alarm on climate change, all but one of several public speakers made that case at the recent Planning Commission meeting. “Climate change is here now. It’s real, and it’s affecting us for real,” said Sierra Club member Robert Bernstein. “I get a zero threshold when it comes to dumping trash on the street.”

Further chiming in was Katie Davis, also of the Sierra Club and a member of the APCD’s advisory group. Davis pointed to the State Lands Commission, which has used the zero metric, and Santa Barbara County’s pending uptick in cyclic-steaming operations, a method that releases more emissions than traditional drilling does. Pacific Coast Energy Company has applied for 96 more wells, and ERG Operating Company has proposed 233 more.

“Santa Barbara County faces a dramatic increase in greenhouse-gas emissions,” Davis said. “This threshold is incredibly important.”

Noting that operators have weathered the recently volatile oil market, Davis said they “can afford the pennies to mitigate” their emissions. Linda Krop of the Environmental Defense Center also lobbied for a limit of zero, likewise deferring to the State Lands Commission. “This is a scientific decision, not a political decision,” she said.

The lone representative of the area’s oil industry to speak before the commission, Ben Oakley — the environmental coordinator for ERG Operating Company and another member of the APCD’s advisory panel — pushed instead for the 15.3 percent line. “This is not an arbitrary number,” he said. “It is the target set forward by the state to achieve real greenhouse-gas reductions and inhibit climate change.”

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BY N I C K W E L S H guarantee the election of Latino candidates, but it greatly ith a notable dearth of acrimony and a strik- increases the odds. And based on the experience of ing abundance of congratulatory goodwill, the other communities making the same switch, these Santa Barbara City Council put the finishing districts should also see a significant increase in the touches on the new voting districts number of qualified Latino candidates by which city voters will now elect their counseeking elected office. cilmembers. The vote was six-to-one with Politically progressive activists DISTRICT 3 Dale Francisco — resisting entreaties by successfully lobbied the council Westside, Lower West fellow conservative Frank Hotchkiss to into approving a voter map that Population: 14,324 make it unanimous — casting the lone would create a new downtown 69 percent Hispanic vote against. district dominated by renters, Registered Voters: 4,350 bus riders, and younger workThis action all but brings to a close Voted in 2012: 3,209 the lawsuit initiated last November ers. Longtime political activ72 percent renters alleging that Santa Barbara’s voting ist Dick Flacks proclaimed 54 percent speak Spanish at home results — obtained via at-large elections the moment “historic”

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unintended consequence of the map-making Population: 14,921 process, the Entrada 56 percent white redevelopment project Registered Voters: 7,486 now rising up on the Voted in 2012: 5,929 bottom of State Street 81 percent renters by the Funk Zone will 64 percent speak English at home have two.

50 percent make $50,000 or less Some councilmem3 percent make $200,000 or more bers expressed disappointment and resentment that so momentous a change was foisted upon residents by lawsuit rather than popular vote. Francisco castigated the new dis45 percent make $50,000 or less trict election scheme for being 3 percent make $200,000 “divisive” and expressed or more DISTRICT 4 concern that voters would be asked to elect Upper East, Riviera, Foothill, candidates based “on Cielito, Eucalyptus Hill, East San Roque race, ethnic backPopulation: 14,720 ground, income, 81 percent white and even whether Registered Voters: 10,328 they ride the bus Voted in 2012: 8,840 to work.” Francisco 57 percent homeowners — recently elected 80 percent speak English at home chair of the county’s 32 percent make $50,000 or less Republican Central 15 percent make $200,000 or more Committee — opposed the split of San Roque, but neither he nor any conservative-minded organizations put much time into competitive map-making, with the exception of the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber submitted two maps, but its main interest was in having multiple districts touch State Street, which the final map did.

All councilmembers expressed hope that future council-elects would act with the good DISTRICT 1 of the city as a whole in mind, not just the districts they represented. Mayor Eastside, Lower East, Helene Schneider termed it, “ThinkLower State, Waterfront, East Beach ing ‘districty,’ but acting city-wide.”

Population: 14,865 Activists with groups like CAUSE 69 percent Hispanic (Central Coast Alliance United Registered Voters: 5,735 for a Sustainable Economy) and Voted 2012: 4,395 SBCAN (S.B. County Action NetDISTRICT 2 62 percent renters work) urged the council to change Mesa, West Beach, Bel Air 55 percent speak Spanish at home elections from odd to even years 44 percent make $50,000 or less as well, noting such a switch could Population: 14,924 7 percent make $200,000 or more increase voter turnout by as much as 73 percent white DISTRICT 5 — qualified as “racially 20 percent in presidential years.

Registered Voters: 9,758 polarized” under the Notably silent were three of the five Voted in 2012: 8,027 Hidden Valley, Samarkand, California Votplaintiffs who brought the case against City 56 percent homeowners Hitchcock, Upper State, Hope, Hall in the first place. Earlier that day, lead plaintiff ing Rights Act. 72 percent speak English at home West San Roque, Campanil Frank Bañales — who over the years has run for mayor and In the past 45 30 percent make $50,000 or less Population: 14,656 years, only four council, both unsuccessfully — expressed grim satisfaction 11 percent make $200,000 or more 69 percent white Latinos have with the outcome. District elections, Bañales said, would force Registered Voters: 9,125 been elected to City Hall to become more responsive to neighborhood-specific Voted in 2012: 7,667 the City Counissues.“Now we won’t have to wait until another kid is killed on 54 percent homeowners cil. City Hall was Milpas Street before they start setting up new street lights,” he 78 percent speak English at home eager to settle; no and then — with tongue only somewhat in cheek — let said.

36 percent make $50,000 or less government entity loose with a celebratory “kumbaya!” To accommodate Judge Donna Geck is scheduled to review the final district 12 percent make $200,000 or more has yet to successfully the creation of this high-renter district, San Roque — long maps on April 6. Three of the six districts will be fair game in this defend itself against considered Santa Barbara’s single most politically dominant November’s election, but in two — the Westside and the Mesa neighborhood — had to be carved into two separate precincts. — incumbents Cathy Murillo and Randy Rowse, respectively, such allegations; the cost of protracted legal battle elseBut even divided, San Roque’s die-hard voters will remain a will be seeking a second term, and no challengers have surfaced where has exceeded $3.2 million. potent force to be reckoned with. yet. Up for grabs will be the new Eastside district.

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BY J E R R Y R O B E R T S n 1911, when Governor Hiram Johnson unveiled California’s modern ballot initiative system, he said the direct democracy plan would “arm the people to protect themselves hereafter.”

Memo to the future: He didn’t mean it literally.

More than 100 years later, an obscure Orange County lawyer has triggered a far-flung debate, pitting civil rights supporters versus First Amendment purists, with his own proposed initiative, calling for gay people to be executed.

You know, for being gay.

Titling the monstrous measure the Sodomite Suppression Act, Huntington Beach attorney Matt McLaughlin wants the following language added to Title III of the California Penal Code (“Of Offenses Against the Sovereignty of the State”):

It was not so long ago that evangelical Christians used initiatives to try to fire gay teachers — Proposition  in 1978 — and to identify publicly and quarantine anyone who tested positive for the AIDS virus — Props. , , and  in the 1980s.

So activists quickly collected 100,000 signatures demanding the California Bar Association lift McLaughlin’s license to practice law; state lawmakers introduced bills to make it more difficult to qualify and pass initiatives; and pressure mounted on Attorney General — and U.S. Senate candidate — Kamala Harris to stop the gay-execution measure from being circulated.

The initiative process, however, is subject to few restrictions by elected officials. Seeking a Solomonic solution — if not a Pontius Pilate cop-out — to a legal and political conundrum, Harris has asked a Superior Court judge to release her from her duty of assigning a formal “title and summary” to the measure.

“This proposal not only threatens public safety, it is patently unconstitutional, utterly reprehensible, and has no place in a civil society,” said Harris. “If the Court does not grant this relief, my office will be forced to issue a title and summary for a proposal that seeks to legalize discrimination and vigilantism.”

It was not so long ago that evangelical Christians used initiatives to try to fire gay teachers …

a) The abominable crime against nature known as buggery, called also sodomy, is a monstrous evil that Almighty God, giver of freedom and liberty, commands us to suppress on pain of our utter destruction even as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha. b) Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that all of us should be killed by God’s just wrath against us for the folly of toleratingwickedness in our midst, the People of California wisely command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.

That’s “Gomorrha”[sic]. Also, sick.

CALIFORNIA SHARIA: At first glance,

McLaughlin’s 422-word measure, which would require 365,880 signatures to make the ballot, was simply the ranting of a whack-job stubbornly stuck between Leviticus 18-20.

McLaughlin, who has ducked all media inquiries, a few years ago made a similar try at imposing his special brand of Orange County sharia: A plan to mandate Bible study in public schools died soon after he paid the $200 that is the only requirement for submitting an initiative.

However, with national attention focused on the raging controversy over anti-gay discrimination in Indiana, where the legislature and governor just enacted a law allowing businesses to refuse to serve gays, advocates for gay and other civil rights chose to highlight the kill-thegays plan, no matter how marginal.

THOUGHT POLICE: At the same time, free-speech proponents warn of slippery-slope dangers of the state exercising expanded control over thoughts and language, no matter how reprehensible.

“It’s not the job of a state official to block an unpopular ballot measure,” opined the Los Angeles Times, “that’s the job of voters,” a view echoed by esteemed Sacramento columnist Dan Walters: “It’s easy to defend free speech when it’s politically correct, or at least seems reasonable. It’s when words anger many people, perhaps just about everyone, that the right is seriously tested.”

Perhaps the most proportionate response came from Charlotte Laws, a PhD stand-up comic from Ventura, who forked out her own $200 to file a counter-initiative called the Intolerant Jackass Act. “Any person, herein known as an ‘Intolerant Jackass,’ who brings forth a ballot measure that suggests the killing of gays and/or lesbians,” it reads, “shall be required to attend sensitivity training for at least three (3) hours per month for twelve (12) consecutive months … [and] donate $5000 to a pro-gay or pro-lesbian organization.”

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BIG CHANGE: For more than 20 years, I’ve lived on the Westside. But when I woke Tuesday

morning, I discovered I’d magically moved to the Mesa. That’s because this Monday, the Santa Barbara City Council voted to approve the new boundary lines for the city’s six new voting districts. The map is part of the settlement to the district elections lawsuit filed last November against City Hall. Because I happen to live on West Valerio Street a few blocks above Mountain Avenue, I have been reincarnated — at least according to this map — as an honorary Mesa Rat. For all these years, I find out, I’ve been living a lie. My self-image needs serious recalibration.

I like the Mesa just fine. I shop at Albertsons.

I go to Hendry’s Beach. But the Westside’s sense of place and space resonates infinitely more. It’s where I get my hair cut. It’s where I marvel at the beckoning beacon of the Foodland Market’s come-hither neon sign. It’s where I crest the swope and swale of the Micheltorena Street bridge, dodging possums and skunks, though not always successfully. It’s where I get an earful — solicited or not — on the intricate treacheries of U.S.-Iranian politics while looking for screws at the San Andres Hardware store.

Things change. I will adjust. Maybe I’ll learn to love living on “Baja Mesa” or the “Mesa Annex”— as some insist on calling my neighborhood. I might even come to terms with “Valerio Canyon,” a tag developed by real estate agents nervous about the downscale cloud cast

on their properties by “the Westside” appellation.

But I doubt it.

Every 50 years or so, Santa Barbara undergoes the political equivalent of molting, switching from at-large elections to district elections and back again. This is one of those times. Propelling the most recent are accusations that atlarge elections have yielded “racially polarized” results. The numbers speak for themselves. In the past 50 years, only four Latinos have been elected to the City Council. Not many more have run. Fewer still could be construed as serious contenders. District elections, the experts say, will change all that. We’ll see. If I have to live in “Mesa Annex,” it damn well better.

Numbers paint only part of the picture.

How do you reconcile the city’s voting record where Latinos are concerned with the fact that Santa Barbara’s otherwise white-bread voters helped elect two Latinos to the school board (Monique Limón and Pedro Paz), that County Supervisor Salud Carbajal has emerged as the de facto 800-pound gorilla of local politics, and that we’ve sent both Pedro Nava and Das Williams — ethnic über-mutt — to the California Assembly? District elections are an old reality made new again. I don’t know whether they’ll result in good government or even better government. But they will definitely make for more interesting government. There will be more flavors in the stew, more voices in the choir. Good, bad, or ugly, they’ll offer a vehicle by which our homegrown politics can become more broadly reflective.

But they should not be confused for penicillin or magic bullets. If you build it, there’s

no guarantee that anyone will come. For a host of reasons, people everywhere are not voting by the droves. That’s especially true with city council races. In Santa Barbara’s recently created two Latino districts, turnout has typically been roughly half the citywide average. If present trends continue, candidates in these districts can get elected with just a few hundred votes while candidates in other districts will need several thousand to prevail. Statewide, there’s been much gnashing of teeth over voter turnout.

In last November’s elections, only 30 percent of eligible voters cast ballots. Among the 18to 24-year-olds, it was only 8.2 percent. In Los Angeles’ most recent election, it was closer to 10 percent. Even for insomniacs, that qualifies as a wake-up call.

One proposed solution now making the rounds is to automatically register people to vote every time they get or renew their driver’s license. It’s a well-intentioned but misguided gesture. People don’t not vote because it’s too hard. They don’t vote — according to study after study — because they don’t have money. In 2008, 41 percent of voters making $15,000 or less voted nationwide. By contrast, 78 percent of those earning more than $150,000 did. Last week, 25 people — less when the “interesting” people were factored out — showed up to debate new district maps designed to enfranchise Santa Barbara’s politically disenfranchised. By contrast, 200 showed up to a Montecito Water

Board meeting to discuss proposed water rate

increases that none of them would even feel.

Moral of the story? If you want people to vote, make ’em rich. Failing that, try doing something that bridges the gap between the gots and the got-nots. I remain both baffled and amazed by the utter lack of agitation on behalf of Santa Barbara’s tenants at or by City Hall. I am likewise stunned no one is now pushing City Hall to increase the minimum wage within city limits, as is happening in many cities throughout California. Fifty-seven percent of city residents rent; 18 percent make less than $25,000 a year.

If either of these issues were under discussion, I guarantee you’d see more engagement in city politics.

In the meantime, there is an obvious cheapn-easy quick-fix at City Hall’s disposal. If Santa Barbara stopped holding its elections on odd years and started conducting them on even years like everyone else, we’d see a 20 percent bump in turnout during presidential years and save $100,000 in election costs. The question is timing. If we started in 2016, three councilmembers would lose a year off their current terms.

Hard to see what’s in it for them. But if you wait ’til 2018, they’ll get an extra year. That might put the voters’ noses out of joint. This, I predict, will become the subject of bitter, rancorous debate among electeds and activists who — at least on paper — should be friends. Hey, when you live in paradise — no matter in what neighborhood — you’re doomed to fight over the apple.

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Ronald (Ron) Tan // – //

Rick Hardin  – 

Ronald (Ron) Tan was born April , , in China and passed away unexpectedly Monday, March , , at Cottage Hospital. Ron’s life wasn’t defined by his academic or professional achievements (which were impressive and many), but by his unfailing kindness, generosity of spirit and deep wisdom. A self-effacing person, Ron would always prefer others before himself and never sought the limelight (except for a few jokes now and then). His wit, love of nature and understanding of politics and the arts reflected a refined sensibility and gentlemanly approach to life.

Ron was a devoted father and grandparent.

He parented step-son Tevis Reeves Johnson, who survives him, with wholehearted love and joy. Other survivors include daughterin-law Meggan Elizabeth Johnson, stepgrandchildren Evan Corff and Kyah Corff, as well as grandchildren Luke Carter Johnson and Chase Reeves Johnson. Ron was thrilled to be a grandparent and was vitally interested in the children’s development and education.

Ron was a thoughtful and steadfast husband, leaving behind wife Shelley Tan, with whom he shared many happy years. His loyal cat, Geekay, misses him greatly. Although Ron’s loss is felt deeply, we find consolation in this: “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”  Corinthians :.

Carmen Webster  – 

Carmen Webster was known for her tremendous smile and great love of nature. Carmen grew up in Tepesquie Canyon and lived in Santa Barbara County for most of her life.

She was active in dance, singing and playing guitar. Her last  years were spent living at Garden Court, where she was stayed very active in community events. Carmen was a homemaker and raised five children in Santa Barbara. Carmen is survived by her five children, Anita Aros, Alan Klaudi, Ivan Webster, John Aros, and Yolanda McGlinchey, including nine grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren. Carmen’s smile and love of life will be greatly missed by all her knew her.

A Celebration of Life for Carmen Webster will be held on Saturday April , , at : p.m. at Jubilee Christian Church,  Hollister Avenue. For more information, please call --. In Lieu of flowers, the family is asking that donations be made to Serenity House in Carmen’s name.

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Rick Hardin (-) passed away peacefully with family at his side. He was raised in California, and met his bride, Karen Avery, in  while attending UCSB. Karen and Rick were married soon thereafter, and raised three children (Whitney, Avery and Reed).

He proudly served in the USAF with duty in Vietnam (th Special Operations Squadron). He attended law school at Western State University, and practiced law in Santa Barbara for more than  years. He made many friends, professionally and personally, and really enjoyed helping people. A gravesite final farewell ceremony will be held at Goleta Cemetery on Thursday, April  at  PM. Memorial donations may be made to the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara in Rick’s name.

Alan Myles Limburg // – //

Alan Myles Limburg (“Myles”), , was born in New York City on December , , and passed away on February , , in Santa Barbara. Shortly after Myles was born, his family moved to White Plains, New York. He completed his elementary and secondary schooling in Greenwich, Connecticut. In the mid-s, Myles’s family bought a large farm in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. Myles loved doing farmwork and was proud of the family’s prized Hereford herd of cattle. Myles completed two years at the independent and coeducational Pomfret School in Northeastern Connecticut, before serving in the U.S. Marine Corps from  to .

During World War II, Myles was in the sixteenth wave of infantry soldiers who landed on Iwo Jima, and he fought there until the island was secured. Myles was ranked as a Corporal when he was honorably discharged in Chicago. From  to , Myles studied agriculture at the University of Massachusetts. In , he studied business administration at the University of Miami. Myles began his career as a salesman in Massachusetts in , and he sold industrial cleaning supplies until . In , he married the “girl up the road,” Marjorie, and they lived together in Dalton, Mass., for many years. In , Myles moved to Santa Barbara, where his mother was retired.

Myles was very active and enjoyed golf, tennis, bowling, and skiing. He worked out at the YMCA every week, and he was a dedicated member of the Lions Club and the Elks Lodge. Later in life, Myles became a passionate lawn bowler at MacKenzie Park. Myles will be remembered for his charismatic personality and his humor. Myles is survived by his ex-wife, Marjorie Limburg; two children, Fred Limburg, of Dalton, Mass., and Karen Limburg, of British Columbia, Canada; and his four grandchildren, Jodi, Jali, Jaia and Kiyahna. Myles was preceded in death by his son, William Estes Limburg, on May , .

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Alexander William Gruenberg  - 

John Reardon Hoyne, Jr. // – //

Alexander William Gruenberg passed away at the age of  years old, due to unforeseen complications during an elected surgery.

Although Alex’s death came unexpectedly and far too early, he was surrounded with the abundant love of his wife and family.

Alex was born in Santa Barbara, California, in  to Robert and Molly Gruenberg.

Alex was the oldest brother to Andrew (), Adam (), Danielle (), and Jesse ().

Growing up, Alex honed his leadership skills with his younger siblings, and his interests spanned from playing the tuba to running planetarium shows at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Most of all, he loved spending time with his family laughing, joking and taking the annual cabin trip to Big Sur. Alex went on to study political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, also serving as a resident assistant and student leader for several student groups. During a freshman science class, Alex met his future wife, Kristina Doan Gruenberg. The two became friends through student life, but it was not until their junior year when running for student government president and vice president that they won each other’s hearts.

After graduating from UCLA, Alex took a position in student affairs at Syra cuse University in upstate New York. Surviving one of the city’s snowiest winters, Alex was more than enthusiastic to relocate to Washington, D.C. to work and earn a Master’s Degree in Public Administration at George Washington University, and to be near Kristina, who was studying law at American University. While in Washington, D.C., Alex was the president of the local alumni chapter of UCLA, in which he helped foster a community for Bruins across the country.

In , Alex and Kristina returned to their home state of California to be near family and sunshine, and married in San Clemente, CA. Alex had the privilege of working for several years for his alma mater UCLA, with the Alumni Association and the UCLA Foundation. Alex and Kristina relocated to Orange County in , where Alex took the post of a development officer at UC Irvine, and he and Kristina purchased their first home.

Alex will always be remembered for his selfless devotion to family and friends, his sense of humor, and his joyful spirit. He had a passion for higher education, loved throwing quirky themed parties, playing with his cats, and traveling around the world.

Alex was preceded in death by his grandparents Eugene and Irene, Arnold and Mary, as well as his uncle Clifford.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Kristina; parents, Robert and Molly; siblings Andrew, Adam, Danielle, and Jesse; and felines Pumpkin and Angelo.

The Alex Gruenberg Memorial Scholarship at UCLA has been established in his honor. To give, please visit www.AlexanderGruenberg.com.

John Reardon Hoyne, Jr. – brother, son, friend and uncle extraordinaire – died at age  just one day before St. Patrick’s Day. Hoyne was the eldest son and third child of a smart and boisterous Irish Catholic family of eight.

Smart, funny and exceedingly easy to be around, Hoyne was an insatiable reader endowed with an eager, omnivorous curiosity and down-to-earth wit. If conversation were an Olympic sport, Hoyne – a great listener – would have won several gold medals.

Hoyne was born in New York to Eugenia, née Gladstone, and John Hoyne. The Hoynes were a loud and lively family. Dinners were defined by conversation, fast banter and quick jokes. John could discuss national and international events with depth and insight.

The sheer joy of his intellectual depth and love of justice was compelling. He was also flat-out funny. He often made everyone laugh until they could not stop.

The Hoyne family moved to California in the summer of , when they arrived in Santa Barbara. There, Hoyne attended Montecito Union School and Mt. Carmel, where he distinguished himself as a playful troublemaker with a lively sense of mischief.

As a child, Hoyne delivered newspapers, and worked in the family’s small manufacturing business, which was located in the presentday Funk Zone, and later as an adolescent in any one of the several Holiday Hardware and Lumber stores his father expanded and later sold. He was an avid surfer and team player at his schools and the local Montecito YMCA. For high school, Hoyne attended Bellarmine College Prep in San Jose. He loved music, reading and conversation. He played guitar, though never in a band, and was known for his rendition of Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl,” a favorite of his grandmother’s. He – along with his entire class at Montecito Union School – sang back-up with the Carpenters when they performed at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

Hoyne attended the University of San Diego and transferred to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and later pursued graduate studies in marketing at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, earning an MBA. While at Georgetown – from which he received a degree in English – he learned the restaurant and bar business from the ground up. Upon graduation, he moved first to Connecticut, then Paris and finally to Los Angeles, where he worked for several companies in the work-hard-playharder world of marketing and advertising.

In , Hoyne returned to the United States from time spent traveling and working in Central America. In  he was back in Santa Barbara, and could often be found making himself at home in the household of his sister Margaret and her three children.

Apart from his cooking skills, Hoyne was blessed with the domestic capacity of being an entertaining, supportive and loyal uncle to his many nieces and nephews. For them he was almost always an ebullient, joyful noise, making each one feel they were his

favorite. And they were. Hoyne’s generosity of avuncular spirit extended far beyond mere blood relations. For the troubled teenage children of friends, Hoyne offered a muchneeded port in the storm. For the families in question, Hoyne managed to be acutely clear-eyed without passing judgement. To an unusual degree, he could connect. Because of this, he could – and did – help others who could not, often offering extremely practical advice.

During this time, Hoyne worked in the printing industry for Alternative Copy and later BB Printing, where his sales and marketing acumen were put to use. Hoyne became well-known and admired for his jovial presence and salesmanship throughout the Santa Barbara region.

Hoyne is survived by his mother, Eugenia Hoyne; his sisters, Margaret Hoyne, Moira Conlon, Ruth Dalzell Muse and Peachy Dominé; his brothers, James, Matthew and Luke; and his nephews and nieces, John Dalzell, Meghan, Justin and Collette Brown, Claire and James Conlon and Pierre, Callahan and Remy Dominé.

In memory of John Hoyne, please make donations to the Catholic Church of the Beatitudes for their Social Justice projects: Catholic Church of the Beatitudes,  State Street, Santa Barbara, CA .

Garrett M. Hofmann // – //

Born to Mindy LePley and Gary Hofmann in Fort Bragg, CA. At , SBCC fishing, surfing, football, and mountain bike champion. Costa Rica, Russia, Hawaii, Florida, Colorado, Mendocino, but Santa Barbara was always his home. Forever loyal to lifelong friends, ready to the rescue. His dreams of being a writer and a musician created a life of action and peaceful introspection. Sad Kristy, Manda, Tyler, Tanaya, Nick, Trevor, Brit, Jake, Kim, Wanda, Tim, Agota, Stan, Cindy, Lee, Paul, Jasper, Gordo, Dawn, Jody, Cody’s, Sue, Aunt Louise, Melody, Melissa, Melba, and Wes.left with just his jubilant spirit. Our unforgettable, ultra cool, witty, generous, strong, tall, and handsome guy with the sunrise to sunset smile and a heart to match. Still in our hearts, stars, sky, Mts, and seas.

Peace out, Bro. April : Wheelin and a rockin happy trails bike ride and big wave potluck paddleout beach bash bye. : - : at the pit.

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He was a Buddhist with a skeptical twist who was exceptionally good at “keeping it real”; no nonsense went unnoticed. He took into his home those who needed a temporary place to stay, no questions asked. He had a sly smile and a generous heart.

He met his beloved Susanna Joslyn Johansen a few years ago, and I was honored to officiate at their wedding last Valentine’s Day. The above photo was taken that day, with their best friend Jack London. He also served as best man.

Tony had a very tough past few months, but right up to the end, he remained calm and ready for the next stop. A few days before he died, another good friend was holding his hand and telling him how much he meant to him, how he was going to miss him, and so on.

Tony’s eye opened, and he said: “Don’t be so dramatic.” That’s Tony. Irreplaceable.

Forgive the dramatics, Tony, but we miss you so much. Okay, okay, somebody call a tune.

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What would it feel like To climb on your bike Or walk to the bus Instead of the car To dig up an asphalt parking lot Plant a vegetable garden A duck pond, a small forest?

What would it feel like To read to the blind, tutor a child, Push a wheelchair Knowing your few needs were met And worth was measured in love Not money To sit quietly and listen To those in conflict With themselves and others?

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Nukes Under that Smoke Ring

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our coverage of the Air Force’s March 23 launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, “Missile Blasts Off and Blows Smoke Ring” [independent.com/missile], made light of a very dark situation. The article failed to inform readers that the Minuteman III is the United States’ land-based missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead to most places on the planet within minutes. The U.S. keeps 450 of these missiles on hair-trigger alert in silos dotted across North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Despite decades-old legal obligations to end the nuclear arms race and negotiate nuclear disarmament, the U.S. not only continues to test-fire its missiles but also plans to spend at least $1 trillion over the next 30 years to upgrade its nuclear weapons, production facilities, and delivery vehicles.

The U.S. is joined in this continued nuclear arms race by all of the other eight countries that possess nuclear weapons, each of which is engaged in some level of nuclear “modernization” of its own.

The missile tested on Monday by the Air Force — with little or no public notice and under the cover of darkness — landed in the Marshall Islands. Last year, the Marshall Islands filed landmark lawsuits against the nine nuclear-armed nations in the International Court of Justice and U.S. Federal Court that sought the fulfillment of legal obligations to end the nuclear arms race and negotiate nuclear disarmament. This courageous stand by a small island nation is what should be celebrated, not a smoke-ring party trick by a missile that is capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people —Rick Wayman, S.B., Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in an instant.

The Widening Gyre

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rance is dead. England wants to leave.

Germany is holding the EU together at this point. Weird.

—Nikolaus Schiffmann, S.B.

Challenge of Renting

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enting in Santa Barbara is indeed a challenge for many reasons. Large propertymanagement companies dictate rental policy.

There’s the NIMBY attitude of those desperate to hold on to their slice of paradise, causing

legal issue with who can rent to whom, and then there’s the city’s own archaic zoning.

Large management companies dominate the market and create rental policy that influences other landlords — no pets, no smoking, no Section 8. Period. There is no case-by-case basis.

Those who panic over vacation rentals should have recourse if there is a problem next door, but why control all vacation rentals? This is a creative source of revenue and, if done well, can be an asset to city tourism.

Granny flats and studio space, when done efficiently and to code, could house singles, students, extended family, and provide homeowners

with needed revenue.With current zoning, most studio spaces are “illegal.” The system actually promotes hazardous, illegal living conditions.

Student population is increasing, and wages don’t keep pace with the cost of renting in Santa Barbara. True, this is a desirable place to live, but in order for the working infrastructure to exist, renters and landlords need flexibility, freedom, and incentive to be creative. Improving density will ease our housing issues. The concerns and needs surrounding increased density is what the city — the people of Santa Barbara — need to consider and plan for. Please, people, please, let’s plan well for the future of our beloved paradise and keep ownership local and affordable. [Full op-ed at independent.com/voices.]

—Teresa Jamison, S.B.

True, But …

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ince the late ’70s, my spouse and I have had rental property in Santa Barbara and Pismo Beach. Section 8 tenants were the worst. Dogs were horrid. We never allowed smoking.

After paying thousands to clean up after Section 8 tenants and pet owners, we only rent to: no pets, no Section 8, and no smoking. It is just fine. We have long-term tenants, and the rents are below market. Our properties are well maintained, and our renters are good, working folks.

—L.H. Thom, Coupeville, WA

Resist ‘Easy’ Desal

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or those who live in Santa Barbara, Brad Smith’s Voices piece,“Desal, the Climate Crisis, and Our Children’s Future” [independent .com/desal], asks the question “Is the Desal Plant

a $ Million Mistake?” and the answer is: yes.

(Resist the “easy” answer = Desal.) Let’s actually begin to do some long-term, serious, rational planning for sustainable, fair, tested results.

Smith points out the need for education and training, and collaborative research into best practices. He also suggests the obsolete plant may be best used to purify recycled H2O for cleaner drinking water and would emit less air pollution than desal.

This op-ed should be required reading for anyone who has a hand in decision making in —Carol Bemis, S.B. Santa Barbara.

All Aboard

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Wouldn’t it be nice if, instead of a children’s museum being under construction near the train station, there instead was a transit hub for train riders to get the local surface travel needed for jobs, shopping, cultural events, whatever?

—Greg Mohr, S.B.

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Some teens believe that drinking alcohol is mixed in with the fun. That is wrong, especially if driving is included. Why copy a drunken driver? Many of my hopes and dreams for my life vanished after a drunken driver hit me.

I cannot drive or hear perfectly now, but I can walk.

That is a huge achievement for me considering my injuries.

My letters throughout California and speeches at schools in the Central Valley brought sober drivers to the roads. As a proud partner with the CHP, I am determined to make that continue.

A few of my friends attend UCSB and have learned to not drink and drive. Show us you have learned, too: Do not drink and drive. This saves lives, including yours.

—Lori Martin, Tracy, CA

Bring Back Navigators

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n the 1950s, when I was a flight attendant, commercial passenger planes had three people in the cockpit able to fly the plane: the captain, copilot, and navigator. Even when the plane was on automatic pilot, the navigator monitored its position and altitude. Had a navigator been onboard the tragic Germanwings flight, he could have let the captain in, and the two could have taken over the controls and subdued the copilot in time to prevent the —Lois Lyle, S.B. horrible crash.

Boom Gloom

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hat will be President Obama’s legacy if he agrees to a deal with Iran? A nuclear Iran, a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, and regional domination by Iran with Shiite control over the Arab world, desiring to take over Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia. And this does not include the possible destruction of Israel.

—Diana Thorn, Carpinteria God help us all.

Deltopia to Lompoc-ia?

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hey should get really creative and hold it in Lompoc.

—Ken Volok, I.V.

Disgusting Developments

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he gross project going up on Hollister at Storke Road is another example that money talks and massive short-term profits trump the well-being of the area. As if that area has not already become intolerable to navigate through, now we have a massive village being erected in spite of this most dire circumstance.

It should matter not one bit that this developer’s wet dream was approved years before or not. The fact is that we are facing unprecedented water shortages, and this city has allowed this project to continue and thumb its nose in the face of the people of this area. It is disgusting beyond words and makes The Knoll [independent.com/ —Rick Worth, Goleta knoll] pale by comparison.

Passion Runners

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hank you, John Zant, for your support of all sports but specifically the article about runners Curly Guillen and Jessica Douglas [independent.com/running]. I hope you inspire younger runners to join in and run all the beautiful trails and roads in Santa Barbara. I also hope you do more articles about our passion: running.

—Leo Schumaker, S.B.

For the Record

¶ In our cover story“Ty’s Toys and Troubles” [independent .com/spillbeans] last week, we placed baseball icon Ty Cobb on the wrong team; he played for the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics.

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Should California ‘Devolve’?

GOT A PET PEEVE? (And $200?) Who knows,

maybe you can get it on the California ballot and see if the electorate will salute.

Everyone else seems to be trying. Hate gays?

An Orange County (of course) lawyer (of course) named Matthew McLaughlin wants to allow people to shoot them in the head. I kid you not.

I’m sure by now that you, as a public-spirited citizen, have heard of the freaky Sodomite Suppression Act. Even in the sometimes-wacky state of California, it’s not likely to make it to the ballot, or be approved by voters if it does.

But how about Louis J. Marinelli’s proposal to remake California into a Scotland-ish quasiindependent appendage to the U.S., something that sounds just short of secession?

His group, Sovereign California, says it’s preparing to collect 366,000 signatures to put an initiative called A New Hope for California on the November 2016 ballot. It would create a panel of experts aimed at putting the state on a path to becoming “an autonomous region of the United States.”

It calls for the state to “devolve,” shedding the (ugh!) grip of the Forest Service, Environmental Protection Agency, and just about every other federal agency.

Everything, as I understand it, would just be shifted to the state government, under the assumption that Washington, D.C., would just happily hand it all over.

What’s not clear is what would happen to such federal facilities as Vandenberg Air Force Base. Would the governor — who would be renamed “President of California” — shut it down and lay off the missile-eers? Or would it become a state missile base? If the National Park Service gets the boot, who would take care of Yosemite?

And what of Lake Cachuma, which holds what little is left of our water? After all, it belongs to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, along with Bradbury Dam. Then there’s the Channel Islands National Park, the Veterans Administration, Coast Guard, FAA control tower at the Santa Barbara Airport, the Bankruptcy Court, and all kinds of other federal fingers in our pie.

And let us not forget Social Security, which pumps many, many dollars into our economy.

Is it to be cut loose, too? How would it fit into devolved California?

Devolution backers thunder about federal courts, the Electoral College, and how taxes paid by Californians go to other states that don’t pull their weight. The latter point is true.

We subsidize red states that sneer at our proObama, pro-choice, pro-environment, proinclusion, pro-civil-rights attitudes.

I don’t see where the hated IRS is specifically mentioned by the promoters, but you can be sure it’s in their sights. Nor do I see much about how the U.S. Constitution fits in. How can you devolve the Constitution?

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The group cites as examples the PATRIOT Act, “mass government surveillance,” the Citizens United power-to-the-rich Supreme Court decision, “militarization of the police,” and “far-reaching executive orders.”

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open-ocean aquaculturist in the entire starts around dawn, when the first rays state of California. He founded Santa of sunlight paint the Santa Ynez Moun- Barbara Mariculture in 2002 by taking over tains pink. As smells of hot coffee and an existing but essentially forgotten offshore diesel gas waft through the Santa Barbara oyster farm. He eventually moved to mussels, Harbor, he hops onto his 35-foot boat Perseverance and business blossomed, fertilized by modern — so named for the 13 years he courted his wife, culture’s insatiable desire for locally grown, but a trait he’s forced to exhibit endlessly — and sustainably sourced cuisine. Friedman believes heads out to sea. he could easily double his business and move Unlike most Santa Barbara fishermen, from 7,000 pounds a week, which wind up on plates urchin divers to black cod long-liners, who must from the Central Coast south to San Diego navigate for miles to reach unpredictable fishing and out to Arizona.“Just this town alone could grounds, it takes less than 15 minutes for Friedman exceed 2,000 pounds a week,” he predicted. to pull up to his sure-thing site, a 25-acre underAnd it’s not just hungry foodies banging water grid of mesh ropes connected the drum. As the world watches by red, blue, and green buoys wild-caught fish stocks disaplocated less than a mile off of pear, today’s aquaculture advocates — including Hendry’s Beach. A few minutes later, as the sunrise prominent UCSB scistarts reflecting off the entists, who can see glass windows of The the Perseverance Boathouse restaurant, working from their Friedman is already oceanfront offices hauling in his morning — believe that fish catch, a few hundred farms, when done pounds of mussels that right, are critical to he grew from tiny seeds feeding the Earth’s n ttman e K exploding populato plump shells over the t t

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Shellfi sh, in parpast year. They’re sheared n p llma e w off the clumpy ropes onto the ticular, give the most prol u pa spinning bristles of a specially tein bang for the buck with the designed scrubbing machine and will least environmental impacts. And later be hand-washed on deck and dumped into most everyone agrees that it’s high time the the purple mesh bags that find their way to restau- United States — which chalks up more rants and seafood dealers hundreds of miles away. than $11 billion in annual trade defHe’s repeated this routine most days of the past icit by importing 91 percent of 12 years, yet the 2014 haul was the biggest yet: more our seafood, half of that from than 160,000 pounds of mussels, and the first time often under-regulated fish he’d ever maxed out the farm’s current capacity. “I farms — started putting can’t grow enough mussels to satisfy the demand,” more oars in the water. explains Friedman, who fields orders on his cell Yet even with the stars phone from the Santa Barbara Fish Market, Har- so magically aligned, bor Seafood, and Kanaloa Seafood while on the and a banner year boat. “We harvest exactly what people need, and under his belt, Friedyou can be eating it tonight. What we do is unpar- man fears his business alleled in most farming industries. We harvest to may not be able to grow order.” or even survive. Though Friedman’s job is even more unique than that. he’d held a 72-acre lease While a handful of shellfish farms exist in coastal from the California estuaries and some freshwater fish species are Department of Fish and cultivated on land, the 42-year-old is the only Wildlife for a decade and

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always farmed about 25 acres, Friedman learned in 2012 largest caviar industry thanks to the white sturgeon farms that he was really only permitted by the state to farm one of the Sacramento Delta.

Open-ocean aquaculture, meanwhile, is quite popular acre. Let’s fix that, he thought, only to quickly learn that his graduate degree in fisheries management did not prepare across the globe, and a limited amount exists in other him for the costly, time-consuming regulatory rigmarole parts of the United States, particularly the Northeast. But he’d have to endure, especially if he wanted to expand it remains elusive in California, where it’s daunting on the farm to harvest more mussels and many levels: Anchored farms may maybe even oysters or scallops. But not withstand our wave-wracked three years, multiple studies, and lots coastline; the on-deck work is of correspondence later, the alphabet much harder, costlier, and riskier soup of agencies involved still can’t than toiling in tranquil tidal flats; predict when or if he’ll ever be legal. and, most prohibitively, very few In the meantime, two ambitious have the wits, wherewithal, or wallet size to carve through the state’s open-ocean fish farms are swimming strong coastal-protection policies. into Southern California waters.

Friedman wouldn’t have a farm Both are state-of-the-art attempts to tackle America’s seafood deficit on a if it weren’t for Jeff Young. The ISSUES HALF THE TIME.’ Los Angeles native and UCLA grand scale, and that could be good —BERNARD FRIEDMAN alum created the original lease for the gander. But both are backed by millions of investment dollars and in the early 1980s while finishing robust research initiatives, putting his graduate degree in fisheries at Friedman’s mom-and-pop-sized golden egg in jeopardy. Humboldt State, where he saw oysters grown in HumHe fears that the onerous, expensive rules established for boldt Bay. When his then-girlfriend (now wife) promised these large operations will keep artisanal fish farms like to move back from Hawai‘i if they could live in Santa his out of the game for good.

Barbara, he realized that, unlike the rest of California, the “Sometimes I get the feeling that I was never sup- coastline lies west-to-east and is further protected from posed to actually make it, that open-ocean farming is for the rough Pacific by the Channel Islands. Young thought the millionaires, not for the small guy at all,” Friedman a shellfish farm might work here. told me one sunny morning last month, as bivalves flew And it did, but there was another problem: Young’s across the bristles and into trash cans full of sea water. oysters made people sick, thanks to the poopy water “But somehow I’ve succeeded — at least for the moment.” that wastewater treatment plants were pumping into the ocean. So Young got a crash course in water-quality law and fought a multiyear battle against the Goleta Sanitary District and City of Santa Barbara, eventually reaching a Aquaculture goes back to the earliest days of California confidential settlement. “That’s ultimately how I became statehood. After the San Francisco Bay’s native oysters a lawyer,” said Young, who now handles civil litigation and were decimated by ’ers during the Gold Rush, the state copyright cases from his office next to the Arlington Thebegan importing oyster seed from Washington State and atre and also sits on the Regional Water Quality Control Mexico. Commercial oysters really took off in 1875, when Board. He worked the farm without much success until East Coast species were one of the first products delivered the mid-1990s and then didn’t think about it for years.

While Young was laying the original anchors, Friedto town on the transcontinental railroad.

Today, the state’s shellfish farms are mostly in Hum- man was still a high school student in Palm Beach Garboldt, Tomales, and Morro bays; Drakes Estero was also dens, Florida. The son of a dentist and homemaker, Frieda hub for oysters until the National Park Service ended man always loved growing things and even served as that operation last year amid much controversy. There president of his school’s Future Farmers of America chapare also a few abalone farms (including The Cultured ter. He came to surf Los Angeles at age 19, wound up takAbalone on the Gaviota Coast); many more freshwater ing biology classes at Santa Barbara City College, and then trout, bass, tilapia, and catfish farms; and the country’s got a degree in biology from UC Santa Cruz. On research diving projects in Alaska and later for UCSB, he was mentored by some of the more esteemed marine ecologists in history, like otter expert Jim Estes and rockfish guru Milton Love.

In 1998, Friedman started working for Ecomar, the innovative company that scraped mussels off of Santa Barbara Channel oil rigs and sold them commercially. He returned to academia a year later, heading to the University College Cork in Ireland for a master’s in fisheries management, development, and conservation. “I ditched everything, put all I had in two suitcases, and left ALL HANDS ON DECK: Onboard the Perseverance, which he had specially designed for a oneman shellfish farming operation, Friedman first processes the mussels on an 18,000 scrubber the country,” he recalled.

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As part of his graduate thesis, Friedman tested how oyster seeds performed on an oil platform off of Carpinteria. When they worked, he contacted Young about taking over his old, unused lease in 2002. “I don’t know if I ever charged him anything,” said Young.“I was just thrilled that someone would make use out of it. I think it’s a great resource that’s benign to the environment.”

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Such growth came despite lingering public perceptions that fish farms are not so groovy. Indeed, shrimp farms do decimate mangrove forests, nonnative fish have infiltrated wild populations, and antibiotics, vaccines, and food coloring used in crowded fish pens freak people out. Plus, the early promise of fish farms was undercut by how many wild-caught fish were required to grow popular species like salmon, which once required five pounds of feed to get one pound of protein out.

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That’s a good thing, says Hunter Lenihan, director of the Sustainable Aquaculture Research Center at UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, who said half of the planet’s seafood demand is already being met by aquaculture. “We have maxed out wild fisheries, but we still have a growing human population with a growing seafood demand,” said the Berkeley-raised marine ecologist who’s been at UCSB since 2002. “The only way we’re going to feed people with a healthy protein from the ocean is aquaculture.”

With many of the legitimate impacts being handled, Lenihan believes people will start to look more kindly on fish farms, especially thanks to good examples like Santa Barbara Mariculture.“We’re on the cusp,” he said.“Society is increasingly understanding the impacts of wild-caught fisheries on ocean ecosystems.

Aquaculture is an exploding field for the rest of the world, but in the United States, there’s been relatively slow growth. I think we’re going to see a big change.”

RADAR BLIPS AND SPIDER’S WEB Phil Cruver drank that same Kool-Aid about five years ago. That’s when the venture capitalist/entrepreneur, who’s led six tech start-ups so far, asked Friedman how mussel farming was done. After hearing the secrets, Cruver began assembling investors to fund what was originally going to be a 1,076-acre farm about eight miles off of Long Beach. In October 2011, he submitted an application to the Army Corps of Engineers, which granted permits four months later, and then applied in July 2012 to the Coastal Commission, which evaluates marine impacts even for projects in federal waters. (State waters extend to three miles.)

That application landed in the San Francisco office of the Coastal Commission’s aquaculture specialist Cassidy Teufel, who did a double-take on references to Santa Barbara Mariculture. “I thought I had a pretty good sense of what was out there,” said Teufel, who’s worked on aquaculture for a decade, “but that was the first time I had ever heard of it. I was pretty surprised. I wasn’t aware that there was any open-ocean farming.”

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Luckily, no one wanted to kick him out.

“Our preferred approach is to work with the operator to get them under compliance,” said Teufel.“If they are making a good-faith effort to do that and making progress, we just continue along that route.”

With Pandora’s permitting box open, and his Department of Fish and Wildlife lease needing renewal anyway, Friedman decided he might as well get approval to reorient the farm and expand beyond the 25 acres he works into the 72 acres he rents. That took him back to square one of the permitting process, so he’s in the midst of an exhaustive California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, study. Once that’s complete, he’ll need signatures from the following: the California Fish and Game Commission (for the lease); the Army Corps of Engineers (which consults with the National Marine Fisheries Service on underwater structures); the Regional Water Quality Control Board (for impacts to water quality); and the Coastal Commission (for impacts to marine life). His existing seafoodsafety permits from the state Department of Public Health and the federal Food and Drug Administration remain valid.

Most concern-ing is the Coastal Commission, and not just because Teufel translates to “the devil” in German, the native tongue of Friedman’s mother. As anyone who’s pursued anything on the California shoreline will attest, the Coastal Commission’s purview is notoriously broad and rigorous. In Friedman’s case, Teufel will evaluate the “likelihood and magnitude” of such impacts as marine mammal entanglement, hazardous spills of oil or gas from the boat, changes to the underwater habitat and water quality due to shell or other debris, reduction in phytoplankton due to the feeding mussels, and the introduction of parasites, disease, and nonnative species, as the mussel of choice is from the Mediterranean Sea. With a background in marine ecology, Friedman appreciates the questions but is frustrated that his 12 years of work with no known impacts isn’t enough common-sense evidence. He’s already had to prove that he works on a sandy bottom, which is barren compared to a reef-based seafloor, so debris impacts should be negligible. He routinely sees dolphins and sea lions use his farm as a nursery and bedroom, rather than it being some danger zone, explaining, “There’s no farm on the planet that lets large mammals go through it. There’s nothing like this!” And he’d prefer that his Mediterranean mussels

— which he says clean up the ocean as filter feeders and act as sentinels of water quality — should be considered a “naturalized” species since they’ve been in California waters for 150 years. “Who farms native food? Nobody!” he declared. “No one ever says,‘Would you like a glass of nonnative chardonnay? Would you like some nonnative chicken?’”

Friedman’s beliefs are backed up in part by 15-plus years of East Coast aquaculture.

University of New Hampshire research professor Richard Langan started fine-tuning open-ocean mussel farming in 1998, and there’s never been a whale entanglement or other major marine impact. “Nothing’s happened in all the years we’ve had mussel lines out in the water,” he said.“Everything is going well. The environmental concerns are really nonissues here.”

ACCEPT, ADAPT, COLLABORATE Hunter Lenihan of the Bren School, who once worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service, wants aquaculture’s potential impacts to be examined with potential benefits in mind.“There is no free lunch,” he told me over the phone after returning from a morning tour on the Perseverance. “If humans are going anc to eat, there are going to be some impacts.”

He also hopes the oversight will be adaptive, as the real concerns aren’t yet known. “We should all be moving forward together in a collaboration to identify the risks, to test for tthem, and to assess the real rea scientific costs and benefits,” said Lenihan, who pledged to throw the Bren School’s considerable weight behind Friedman’s case.

“Perhaps aquaculture is a way we can think about streamlining the whole process for the benefit of the environment and everyone else.”

In fact, the government’s many aquaculture-focused agencies are already moving in that direction. More than a year ago, the California Shellfish Initiative was launched to get all the regulators at the same table and determine a way to make the permitting process less scary.“The problem is that the regulations were all laid down piecemeal and for different reasons,” said the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Randy Lovell, who is leading the initiative. “Nobody was thinking about the impacts to aquaculture.” The group will soon meet in Sacramento for the fifth time, and Lovell hopes to one day offer a “virtual application desk” online that will guide hopeful fish farmers through the process.

Innovation is also happening in the Humboldt Bay, where the regional harbor district is taking the lead in acquiring permits for small oyster farms, which they plan to sub-

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These efforts aren’t doing Friedman much service yet, but pioneers should never expect the easy road. “The first guy through the permitting gate is always going to have the highest bar to meet,” said Diane Windham of the National Marine Fisheries Service. “Are we asking the right questions? Is it being measured correctly? With something that’s never been done before, that analysis is harder to do.”

But the regulators are pulling for him, and the Coastal Commission’s Teufel has been open to creative, costeffective research that won’t put him out of business.

“There are a lot of people who don’t want to see the process chew up and spit out someone like Bernard,” said Lovell of Fish and Wildlife, who thinks others, especially existing fishermen seeking a second income stream, will copy Friedman if he succeeds. “He’s a good citizen, and he’s admired and respected by people in the community.”

GRAND SCALE, GOOD AND BAD Though Friedman is still the only working open-ocean fish farmer in California, he’s no longer the only one allowed to do so. After nearly three years, hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct and indirect costs, a change in location, and a drastic reduction in size, Phil Cruver successfully won permits for his Southern California project. Now called the Catalina Sea Ranch, his 100-acre farm is located six miles off of Huntington Beach in 150 feet of water, where he hopes to harvest 2.7 million pounds of mussels annually, starting toward the end of the year. He’s attracted $1 million in investments so far while actively raising another $3 million, and is now hoping to spin off a subsidiary marine research firm called Marine Big Data, since developing one was the smartest way to satisfy the government’s environmentalmonitoring demands.

Though supportive at first, Friedman now realizes that his wisdom may have been used by Cruver to carve a permitting path so expensive and monitoring program so onerous that everyday fishermen will be cut out. “It’s going to cost $1 million to make $1 million,” said Friedman. “It doesn’t make any sense.”

A true businessman, Cruver hopes the big barriers to entry will deter competitors. “We’ve got a good lead on this,” said Cruver, who’s also seeking eight patents and plans to give investors good returns for the next 20-plus

years or, if things really go well, sell the company for bigger money. “It won’t work as an artisanal thing,” he admitted. “Bernard is a one-man show, but to do it on a massive scale, you can’t do it for less than $3 million.”

On a similarly grand scale yet focused on yellowtail and sea bass, Rose Canyon Fisheries applied last October to build a seven-acre farm capable of producing 10 million fish per year in pens about five miles off of San Diego.

The project is a joint venture between Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute and the venture capital, aquaculturefocused firm Cuna del Mar, whose Canadian managing partner, Robert Orr, made his fortune on fish oil. Permitting is expected to take up to 18 months, and then it will be another two years for the first fish to be harvested, long after millions have been spent.

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But even this most critical of regulators is optimistic that Friedman will still be farming mussels in the future.

“I feel confident that he will,” said Teufel.“There are some things that need to be looked at closely to ensure there are no adverse impacts, but from what I know now, it’s looking pretty good for him.”

Friedman, meanwhile, just wants clarity so he can move on with his life, which otherwise surrounds his wife and two kids at his Noleta home.“I want to be legitimate,” he said.“Let’s do this for real. If you don’t want me to grow, I’ll do something else. But I think people really like my mussels.”

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THURSDAY 4/2 /: Fused Bead Keychain Craft Drop-In Are you looking for a fun activity over spring break? Create your own keychain with fused beads. Patterns will be provided, but feel free to use your imagination for more creative ideas.

Limited supplies are available. :pm. Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Ages +.

Call - or visit sbplibrary.org. /: Strung Out, Masked Intruder, La Armada Strung Out has perfected its metalinfused skate punk to ridiculous guitar-shredding proportions, razor-sharp licks pairing with rapid-fire drumming and passionate vocals. The members of Masked Intruder claim to have formed their band while in jail and now sing pop punk and punk rock: They don’t show their faces, and maybe that’s a good thing. Also on the bill is La Armada, Dominican Republic natives who will play their hardcore punk. pm. Velvet Jones,  State St. $-$. Ages +. Call - or visit velvetjones.com. /: The Grandparent Portrait Show This biannual exhibition, sponsored by the Student Art Fund of the S.B. Art Association, is back. Featuring more than  portraits of grandparents and significant elders in a variety of media, this exhibit was done by students in art classes at public junior and senior high schools in S.B. The exhibit shows through April .

Thu.: -pm; Fri.-Sat.: am:pm; Sun.: -pm; Mon.-Wed.: am-pm. S.B. Central Library,  E. Anapamu St. Free. Call - or visit studentartfund.org/-/. /: Kathy Griffin Two-time Emmy- and Grammy-winning comedian Kathy Griffin will be here for your laughing pleasure.

With her universally recognized brand of pull-no-punches comedy, she will bring one of the funni-

/: SBVA st Thursday Reception S.B. Visual Artists will host a reception honoring their new exhibit, showing through April . Join a dynamic group of new artists with a wide range of talents, and enjoy music, appetizers, wine, and art on your Thursday. :-:pm. Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Ctr.,  E. Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call - or visit sbvisualartists.com. /: Owen Liu This st Thursday, UCSB PhD student Owen Liu will sign copies of his new book, The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis. Part of the Galactic Science Academy (GAS) series, this book tells the story of Anita and Benson’s field trip to a greenhouse when their science teacher mysteriously disappears. A portion of all profits will go to support area climate-change projects. -pm.

Casa Magazine Gallery,  E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call -. Read more on p. . est sets onstage. Having been in the game for more than  years, Griffin is one you can’t miss if you want to be in the know of pop-culture ridiculousness.  and :pm. Chumash Casino Resort,  E. Hwy. , Santa Ynez. $$. Ages +. Call () - or visit chumashcasino.com. /: Eric Greitens Author, Rhodes Scholar, founder and CEO of The Mission Continues (a nonprofit challenging veterans to serve and lead in communities across America), and former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens will discuss his new book, Resilience.

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/: S.B. Reads: Orange Is the New Black In her best-selling memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, author Piper Kerman chronicles her prison experience following her conviction for laundering drug money, which also included friendships with inmates and relationships marked by generosity, acceptance, and wisdom. This event will feature a panel of UCSB faculty and graduate students from multiple disciplines to discuss this memoir. -pm. Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org.

FRIDAY 4/3 /: GAMES # Standing for Goleta All-ages Music Entertainment Series, this event will feature music and a drug-, alcohol-, tobacco-, and hate-free night.

Rock band Naked Walrus, innovative instrumental artist Ocho the Owl, and a special guest deejay will be there to perform. -pm.

United Boys & Girls Club,  Hollister Ave., Goleta. $-$. Call - or visit tinyurl.com/games goleta. /: Matt Armor and His Band, Big Jugs Best known as the singer/songwriter in alt-country/ rockabilly band Blazing Haley from -, Matt Armor, along with his bandmates, will perform

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/: The rd Annual Easter Bunny Express Choose between two trains on two different routes: The EBX Thunderbunny or the Lop-Ear Local. Meet the Easter Bunny, collect souvenirs, and enter a drawing for a special prize. Buy tickets through the online store to avoid the admission line and receive a discount. Hot sandwiches and refreshments will be available for purchase. ” minimum-height requirement to ride. am-pm. South Coast Railroad Museum,  N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta. $.-$.

Visit goletadepot.org or call -. /: Egg Hunt and Natural Egg Dyeing Have the children start this event hunting for eggs stuffed with large seeds for spring planting and other eggs filled with candy treats. After that, all ages are invited to use specially prepared, plant-material natural dyes to create beautiful, edible Easter eggs. The garden will be open for enjoyment and a plant sale, which will be a fundraiser for the garden. Egg hunt: -:pm; ages -. Natural egg dyeing: :-pm; all ages. Trinity Gardens,  N. La Cumbre Rd. Free. Call - or visit tinyurl.com/TrinityGardensEggHunt. /: Community Easter Egg Hunt This hunt will feature approximately , filled hidden eggs, including  prize eggs, so bring your baskets, bags, or anything that will hold your treatfilled eggs. The Easter Bunny will be there, hopping with Easter joy. The event is free, but you are asked to bring a new pair of adult socks to be distributed to those without homes in the greater S.B. area. am. Cambridge Drive Community Church,  Cambridge Dr., Goleta. Donation: new pair of adult socks. Grades preschool-th. Call - or visit cambridgedrivechurch .org/#!whats-happening/ckz. /: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Easter Egg Hunt Join in the egg-hunting fun, and don’t forget to bring your Easter basket. Refreshments will be served. pm. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church,  Auhay Dr. Free. Grades th and younger. Call - or visit standrewspcusa.org. /: Casa del Herrero Easter Egg Hunt and Brunch For the first time, Montecito’s National Historic Landmark will host a truly old-fashioned Easter event with a scrumptious al fresco brunch geared to the tastes of both children and adults, and little ones will be entertained with special games, prizes, and handmade craft projects on this family day at the Casa. This event kicks off a number of events in Casa’s Party All Year celebration commemorating the historic home’s th birthday. am-pm. Casa del Her-

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Opening for them will be country band Big Jugs, whose influences range from David Allan Coe to Spinal Tap. pm. Velvet Jones,  State St. $. Ages +.

Call - or visit velvet-jones .com. /-/: Meeting the Moment Join in the Dance Tribe for a powerful and dynamic ecstatic dance journey and workshop with Rhythms teacher Jo Cobbett. It will begin at First Friday ecstatic dance and continue in a workshop the following day. Jo Cobbett will teach dance skills that bring about interpersonal change. All levels are welcome.

Fri.: :-:pm; Gustafson Dance Studio,  Las Positas Rd. Sat.: -pm; Yoga Soup,  Parker Wy. $-$. Call - or visit movinground.com or yogasoup.com. /-/: Ventura County Fairgrounds Foundation Spring Carnival There’s a new carnival near us this Easter weekend!

There will be an Easter egg hunt,  carnival rides, a petting zoo, games, foods, live entertainment, and more. Presale carnival ride tickets available at the fairgrounds. There’s carnival fun to be had, and it’s only a short drive away! Fri.: -pm; Sat.: noonpm; Sun.: noon-pm. Ventura County Fairgrounds,  W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura. Free ($ parking).

Call - or visit ventura countyfair.org.

SATURDAY 4/4 /: Community Passover Seder Join for a spiritual reenactment of leaving Egypt; a delicious catered Passover dinner including matzo ball soup, chicken, brisket, and vegetarian dishes; and music and songs by cantorial soloist Elisha Schaefer and Musical Director Peter Melnick. Discuss what’s been your “Egypt” this year, physical feelings, the “Promised Land,” and more with Rabbi Alyson Solomon. -pm. The Jewish Federation,  Chapala St. $-$. Call - or visit communityshul .org. /: Shades & Champagne Celebrate the launch of Project Visionwear, bringing you shades

of style. Ticket includes a free pair of Project Visionwear glasses and brunch at Finch & Fork. Then head up to the rooftop to enjoy a bird’s-eye view of S.B. with a cocktail bar, tunes, and plenty of sunshine. Dress to impress in daytime cocktail attire or your beachwear best. pm. Canary Hotel,  W. Carrillo St. $-$.

Ages +. Visit tinyurl.com/shadeschampagne. /: You Knew Me When Looking for some afternoon music? This husband-and-wife duo will blend their vocals, piano, ukulele, glockenspiel, and percussive elements with guitar and other rhythmic nuances. -pm.

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/: S.B. Public Market One-Year Anniversary Spring Fling The  merchants that make up this dynamic collective will welcome the community to their one-year anniversary with seasonally inspired food samplings, cooking demos, classes, and live music.

The Kitchen will be hoppin’ with a visit from the Easter bunny and egg-coloring crafts for the children. am-pm. S.B. Public Market,  W. Victoria St. Free. Call - or visit sbpublicmarket.com/events/ spring-fling--year-anniversary.

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/: Sanford Winery Easter Egg and Wine Hunt Be prepared to scour the Sanford Estate to find carefully placed eggs containing tasty treats to pair with delicious wines. There will be a special egg hunt just for the kids! :am-:pm. Sanford Winery & Vineyard,  Santa Rosa Rd., Lompoc. $-$. Call - or visit easter-egg-and-wine-hunt.nightout.com.

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/: Easter Eggstravaganza at the Estate Winery The entire family is invited to this day of Easter egg games and activities culminating with an Easter egg hunt, and anyone who finds a golden egg will be the winner of the day! After all the eggs are found, enjoy a glass of wine on the terrace while the children play on the grassy lawns. RSVP for your spot, and don t forget a basket! am-:pm. Andrew Murray Vineyards Estate Winery,  Foxen Canyon Rd., Los Olivos. Free-$.

Call - or visit andrewmurrayvineyards.com/event/eastereggstravaganza. /: Eggstravaganza Egg Hunt This event is always anticipated with great enthusiasm by families as you hunt for eggs across the street from the S.B. ocean. Hunters will be organized by age group into different hunt areas. Families interested in a more intimate hunt are invited to Harding Elementary School.

Bring a basket and keen eyes to gather plenty of chocolate and plastic eggs, some with a few surprises. No RSVP is needed.

High school and community volunteers who wish to receive service hours should meet at Casa Las Palmas at : a.m. for orientation. am. Chase Palm Park,  E. Cabrillo Blvd.; Harding Elementary School,  Robbins St. Free. Ages  and under.

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/-/: Spring Native Plant Sale With more than , plants and  different varieties to choose from, you will be guaranteed to find your next plant. Whether you are interested in beautiful flowers attracting butterflies or converting to a drought-tolerant landscape, this sale will have it all. Come for easy shopping and beautiful views.

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/: Meditation for Families & Kids Children (and adults) will learn simple Buddhist principles such as kindness, respect, and happiness through stories, songs, meditation, and crafts.

Practicing meditation together can support a family life filled with loving, kindness, peace, and harmony. This class is held every Sunday. -am. Mahakankala Buddhist Ctr.,  Brinkerhoff Ave. $/family. Ages - and adults. Call - or visit meditationinsantabarbara.org.

Marketplace is an opportunity for member artists to display, demonstrate, and sell their original art and attract people and activities to the Arts Center. This event will raise funds for the Arts Center, which promotes and supports the area arts. ampm. Carpinteria Arts Ctr.,  Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free.

Call - or visit carpinteriaartscenter.org. /: Bubbles Bash! Did you know that Flying Goat is the only S.B. County winery to make sparkling wine in-house each vintage for over a decade? Come celebrate Goat Bubbles’ th anniversary and the release of Brut Cuvée, their fifth expression of sparkling wine.

There will be dancing to live jazz by So What Kombo and food pairings by Kate with a flight of Goat Bubbles or pinot noir. -pm.

Flying Goat Cellars,  E. Chestnut Ct., Unit A, Lompoc. $$. Ages +. Call - or visit flying goatcellars.com/blog.

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/: Ben-Hur This is your chance to see MGM’s  American historical epic drama in its original aspect ratio on a larger wide screen with digital projection

and enhanced sound. Charlton Heston plays Judah Ben-Hur, a wealthy prince in Jerusalem who is battling the Roman Empire at the time of Christ. After his actions send him and his family into slavery, an inspirational encounter with Jesus changes everything. Ben-Hur finally meets his rival in a nine-minute chariot race which is one of cinema’s most famous sequences. -pm. Plaza Playhouse Theater,  Linden Ave., Carpinteria. $.

Call - or visit plaza theatercarpinteria.com.

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/: Individualized Sewing Class This class is offered on Monday nights through SBCC’s Center for Lifelong Learning

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Students will be guided through the techniques necessary to construct a project of their choice. The class runs through May . -pm. Selmer O. Wake Campus, Rm. ,  N. Turnpike Rd. $ (plus $ materials fee).

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by Fred Ebb, and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse) of “murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery, and treachery — all those things we all hold near and dear to our hearts.” Set in the razzle-dazzle of the Roaring Twenties with showstopping songs and dance.

Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly are headline hunters seeking to capitalize on pretrial publicity for the sake of acquittal and a stage career. The show contains adult content and off-color language. pm. Granada Theatre,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit granadasb.org.

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/: Matthew B. Crawford Best-selling author Matthew B. Crawford (pictured) will talk about his new book, The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, which investigates the challenges of mastering one’s own mind in an era of endless distractions and shows how the current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology.

Books will be available for purchase and signing. pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. Free. Call - or visit artssandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

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GAME OF THE WEEK T /-/: Track k and d Field: i ld Sam Adams Combined Events Invitational Ashton Eaton (pictured), the world’s greatest allaround track-and-field athlete (no argument), will do his spring training in S.B. The Olympic decathlon champion and world record holder will compete in several events, including the long jump (his best:  feet) and the last event Friday, the  meters (he circles the track in a blazing  seconds). Thomas FitzSimons of the S.B. Track Club will vie for the decathlon title.

The women’s heptathlon features Sharon Day-Monroe and the SBTC’s Barbara Nwaba, the - finishers in last year’s U.S. championships, and Canadian champion Brianne Theisen-Eaton, the wife of you-know-who. am; decathlon: noon; heptathlon: pm. Westmont Track and Thorrington Field,  La Paz Rd. Suggested donation: $. Visit santabarbaratc.com.

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/: Quail Springs Learning Oasis & Permaculture Farm Benefit Featuring Cuyama Mama & The Hot Flashes Come celebrate Quail Springs’ th birthday and a decade of inspiring service to the S.B. community and beyond at this benefit show with rollicking down-home dance tunes straight from the farm. Delicious organic food is being donated by local farms as a gift of appreciation to SOhO for its ongoing support. There will also be a silent auction. :pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $. Call - or visit ticketfly.com/event/cuyama-mama-hot-flashes-santa-barbara.

/: Antioch in Conversation: Nir Kabaretti Music and Artistic Director of the S.B. Symphony Nir Kabaretti will spend the evening answering questions such as why conductors sometimes work without a score, if American musicians are trained differently from those in other countries, which orchestras will survive, and more. There will be light refreshments. :-pm. Antioch University,  Anacapa St. Free. Call - or visit antiochsb.edu. /: Proposition  and the Future of Incarceration in S.B. County Come hear Jessica Farris, an American Civil Liberties

/: The Wild Party Out of the Box Theatre Company presents its unique, cabaret-style interpretation of this steamy Prohibition tale based on a once-banned, book-length poem written in and about the Roaring Twenties and one wild evening in Manhattan that ends in tragedy. Come dressed to the nines to this makeshift speakeasy. This production contains adult material and language. The show runs through April . pm. Center Stage Theater,  Paseo Nuevo. $-$.

Call - or visit centerstagetheater.org.

“The Holy Grail of crazy comedy.” The Baltimore Sun An absurdist, “gut-bustingly hilarious” (Rotten Tomatoes) send-up of the legend of King Arthur and his knight’s quest for the Holy Grail. Don’t miss this big screen showing of the movie regularly cited as one of the greatest comedies ever made.

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Union expert on Proposition  (Criminal Sentences. Misdemeanor Penalties. Initiative Statute), explain what we can expect. Will it reduce costly incarceration by substituting effective community-based programs to reduce recidivism?

Is it over-hyped? Will it lead to an increase in crime? Following the main presentation, area panel members will discuss their experiences with our criminal-justice system and with community-based alternatives. :-:pm. Trinity Episcopal Church,  State St. Free. Call - or email SBeventsand workshops@gmail.com.

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/: Dave Damiani & The No Vacancy Orchestra Join American singer Dave Damiani and the - to -piece big band The No Vacancy Orchestra for a night of big-band jazz. Having been mentored by music legends such as Earl Palmer, Marty Harris, and more, Dave Damiani and his orchestra will have you snapping your fingers, tapping your toes, and saying in a cool, cool voice, “Oh, yeah!” pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit sohosb.com.

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“I don’t have a yard at home, so this is the perfect way for me to get out and enjoy the plants. It’s also a great way to be a part of the community,” said Sharon Foster while attending to roses at the mission’s rose garden. Foster has been volunteering with the Santa Barbara Rose Society for a year and a half and is visiting this fully blooming plot for the first time since cutting the plants back in January. The volunteers rake, pull weeds, deadhead flowers, and generally keep an eye on the roses to keep the garden in tip-top shape.

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is all just for fun and pushing around the paint and to get outside instead of being inside,” said Mike Champe while painting a rendition of the mission. He began this painting in December. It will take him another two hours to finish, and then it will be another in his collection of more than 600 pieces. Champe is a cartoonist who sells his work at the Sunday Arts and Crafts Show and paints landscapes and architecture for fun.

Poetry

Springtime Verse, Part II

National Poetry month continues with more books reviewed by David Starkey.

TJ Jarrett, Zion: TJ Jarrett confronts racism with the inventiveness and historical sweep of Toni Morrison. In “My Grandmother Describes the Radiance,” Jarrett writes, “Dark Girl, // this body / has always been // more waiting room / than cage.” Surely one of the best collections of poetry published in the past year.

Ted Kooser, Splitting an Order: Reading a new book of poems by Ted Kooser is like going to see your favorite band touring with its new album. Yes, you’ll mostly be getting variations on familiar material, and chances are your favorite new songs probably sound a lot like your favorite old songs — but what songs!

Ellen Bryant Voigt, Headwaters: The lack of punctuation in Ellen Bryant Voigt’s latest collection initially seems to work against her carefully crafted poems. Ultimately, though, the poet’s voice begins to sound unencumbered, capable of remarkable insights, as in “Bear”: “the plural pronoun is a dangerous fiction the source / of so much unexpected loneliness.”

Mark Strand, Collected Poems: Most poets are best encountered in small doses, but this big book shows

Strand to be that rare bird, a poet whose work reads better in its totality. Individual poems occasionally feel precious and forced, but Collected Poems is almost worthy of the praise showered upon Strand throughout his lifetime.

Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty: To call Jane Hirshfield “Billy Collins for West Coast Buddhists” is simply to acknowledge that her writing is clear and clever and that the speaker of her poems frequently seeks enlightenment.

Unlikely images, similes, and metaphors abound, and Hirshfield has that rare gift among contemporary poets: knowing when to stop.

Arthur Sze, Compass Rose: At times the poems in Compass Rose run the risk of tipping into sensory overload; they are so finely detailed. Fortunately, Arthur Sze handles his rich material with quiet elegance: “In the courtyard, we spot the rising shell of a moon, / and, at the equinox, bathe in its gleam.”

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wo baby swell sharks, a handful of strawberry anemones, and one Garibaldi fish that’s as vividly orange as a prison jumpsuit have found a new home in the recently remodeled exhibits at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center.

Using $380,000 in grant money, the Sea Center recently put the final touches on a new shark cove exhibit as part of a center-wide facelift in honor of its 10-year anniversary in April. The remodeled exhibit now houses a touch tank retrofitted to more accurately replicate the coastal habitat, a larger display for the egg cases holding shark embryos, and a better viewing area.

“We wanted to keep and improve upon the exhibits that we know people love,” said Sea Center Director Amanda Allen. “We are hopeful that people will be better able to witness and explore our resources and learn a little bit about the challenges the marine life in the area faces.”

The renovation also includes a four-times-larger tide-pool display (open since November), refurbished life-support systems such as new pumps and filters, and a photography exhibit on marine life from Alaska to the equator.

Allen said the Sea Center exhibits were built to try and balance the reality of dire environmental issues with optimism about natural wonders so that visitors leave the center with newfound “natural creativity.”

For example, the new tid-pool exhibit now has enough room for an entire elementary class to wrap around it.

For Kimberley Ray, who has volunteered at the center for a year and a half, the remodel has brought “more life” to the shark exhibit where she helps children pet the backs of the docile swell sharks. “Before, the exhibit looked kind of unfinished,” she said, “but now it looks more natural, and there’s more room to move around.” Ray said children seem especially excited to see the two new baby sharks.

Every year, about 7,000 school children visit the center, Allen said, and are able to attend for free thanks to fundraising galas by the — Julia Clark-Riddell Museum of Natural History.

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What is a group of cats called? ❏ A clowder ❏ A congress ❏ A rafter The furniture store Ikea was started in Sweden in what year? ❏ 1943 ❏ 1974 ❏ 1992 What was the name of Data’s cat in Star Trek: The Next Generation? ❏ Kitty ❏ Spot ❏ Lyle

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espite the seemingly cataclysmic trajectory, it’s hard to get even environmentally minded adults to read more about the topic of climate change these days. But maybe, with a little bit of mystery and a lot of globetrotting exploration, middle schoolers can be convinced otherwise.

That’s the hope for The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis, an adventuremeets-science novel geared toward young adults. Written by Owen R. Liu, a graduate of Stanford University’s Earth Systems Program who is now pursuing a doctorate at the UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, the novel follows middle school students Anita and Benson as they travel through time and across the globe to learn about the science of climate change, meet the researchers who’ve been tracking it for decades, and visit communities around the world that are actively preparing for its impending arrival. The 160-page paperback book, which features colorful drawings of the adventurers every few pages, is the latest entry in Tumblehome Learning’s Galactic Academy of Science series, which aims to draw young people into science and engineering fields through fiction.

Liu was asked to write the book by his mother, who helps run the publishing company, and his background in climate-change studies is properly solid. Raised outside of Boston, his interest in environmental science started while spending his childhood summers on the Maine coastline. After getting both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Stanford, he worked as a research fellow for the Environmental Defense Fund on marine conservation issues. Deciding he wanted to return to school, he came to Bren, which is renowned for its interdisciplinary approach to environmental issues. Liu just finished his second quarter of the estimated five-plus years that it will take to get his doctorate, which will be focused on the marine ecology of sustainable fisheries in the developing world.

He spoke with us about The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis right before Christmas from a relative’s home in San Mateo.

Why target this age group with a book about climate change? First of all, I love middle

school kids. They are the perfect age — they’re old enough to have intellectual thoughts and really creative ideas, but they’re not jaded about the world yet like a lot of high school students get.

Just like my parents’ generation dealt with acid rain and the ozone layer, climate change is the big global environmental crisis of our generation. It’s absolutely essential to talk to our students about it. It’s becoming part of

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April 11, 2015 Start: Leadbetter Beach CRACKING CLIMATE CHANGE: Owen Liu recently penned The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis, a young-adult book with a mystery-science twist.

the school curriculum, but there is not a lot of literature for kids that’s fun but also about science and creative ways to think about this environmental problem.

How do you manage to keep the book from being too gloomy? The first section of the

book is about the real science of climate change, with bits about atmospheric chemistry and global warming. But in the second half of the book, the characters visit all these people around the world who are working on adaptation and climate-resilience strategies. That’s really my favorite part of the book.

They are all fictional stories, but it’s stuff that’s really going on.

The book also delves into the history of climate-change research. Why was that important to include? It’s important to realize that

people have been thinking about this problem for hundreds of years. If you read the newspaper, some people think climate change is this issue that was manufactured over the past 30 years, but that’s just not true. The political angle has been over the last 15 years or so, but people have known that humans can have an effect on the global environment for a long, long time. In writing the book, I wanted to start in the right place, for these kids to meet and talk to the people who laid down the fundamental science of how climate change works so they can go on their trail of discovery throughout history.

The book also shows kids that there are many ways into a career dealing with environmental issues, not just as a laboratory scientist.

That hopefully does come through in the book. I’ve been doing environmental science for a long time, but it is interdisciplinary environmental science. At both the Bren School and the Earth Systems Program at Stanford, some people have political aspirations; some want to be economists; some want to be community workers. There are all sorts of things that people want to work on, but they are in a science program. For a lot of environmental and global problems right now, I really believe you need a scientific perspective as well as an economic and political and social perspective on all these issues in order to really understand them and to really tackle them.

Owen Liu will sign copies of The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis this Thursday, April 2, at Casa Magazine Gallery (23. E. Canon Perdido St.), 5-8 p.m. For more about the book, visit tumblehomelearning.com.

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ALONE IN THE BADLANDS Gnarled Landscape Beyond New Cuyama

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esting midway between the sea and the summit of skyscraping Mt. Pinos is a sprawling maze of twisted earth not quite like anywhere else in the Los Padres — the Cuyama Badlands. I first spotted this mysterious land from atop Ojai’s Pine Mountain and have wondered ever since what was concealed amid the alluvial folds, so upon my return from a weekend snowcamping trip spent with friends atop Mt. Pinos, I decided to finally visit the beguiling badlands — alone.

The Chumash of old regarded the looming Mt. Pinos as the center of the universe, and it’s easy to understand why: The gently sloping, rounded mound watches over the surrounding area like a mother, cradling a peaceful landscape of quiet magnificence. The Badlands form the base of this cosmic centerpiece, becoming gradually more forested as they climb in elevation.

The Cuyama Badlands are an enclosed world of their own, bordered by piney mountains on all sides and seldom visited. Eroded over years by waters descending from the surrounding peaks and fractured by fault activity, the gnarled landscape defies easy navigation or settlement.

Some have built ranches or vineyards upon the mineral-rich soils, but most who visit seem to pass through on off-road vehicles.

Three rugged dirt roads provide the main outdoor access to this region: Quatal Canyon, Apache Canyon, and Dry Canyon. I traveled down Dry Canyon.

From Dome Springs Campground, a spacious free camp hidden between piñon and juniper, I walked into the main Dry Canyon wash. Revelers have unfortunately littered the region with broken bottles and bullet casings — be careful where you tread. The first segment of the wash is a four-wheeldrive route, and you may share the road with jeeps or motorcycles, as I did. After some slow travel through the sand, the tire tracks thin and the trash fades, and the riverbed leads to the Chumash Wilderness.

At the end of Dry Canyon, the hills rise in a jagged choir of red, pink, and white. The formations are incredible, reminiscent of the spectacular geology of the Mojave. I came across hoodoos, arches, and mud caves, rocks of unbelievable color and shape. Dwarfed in the canyon corridors, enveloped in CHUCK GRAHAM

tanding on a snow-covered Sierra Madre ridgeline in the Los Padres National Forest, I was looking through my binoculars down on the distant town of New Cuyama. I was rationing the last of my peppered strips of buffalo jerky, dried mangoes, and the bottom half of 16 ounces of lukewarm water. I was still about 15 long miles from the northern fringe of Santa Barbara County. It was going to be a slow trudge down the heavily rutted Rocky Ridge Trail of Lion Canyon and eventually that high-desert outpost.

I told myself after three days backpacking from Santa Barbara to New Cuyama, I would treat myself to a room at the Cuyama Buckhorn, a motel, saloon, and restaurant, a sort of oasis hugging Highway .

When I arrived that early January afternoon, caked in backcountry dust, I was disappointed to find the Buckhorn was closed and had been for some time.

However, I soon learned that was all about to change. I ran into the new owner of the Cuyama Buckhorn, Johnny Thomsen, an enthusiastic, young entrepreneur who gave me a newly remodeled room despite the ongoing construction among the breathtaking badlands and thorny tumbleweeds clinging to rusted barbwire.

Thomsen is originally from Bakersfield but was living and working in Newport Beach before the Cuyama Buckhorn caught his attention.

He sold his businesses down south and put all his efforts into his new establishment along the busy highway.

“I recently bought the motel and restaurant as well as the surrounding five acres,” said Thomsen, standing behind the bar in his rustic saloon.

“Eventually, I’m going to open this up to an RV park and music festivals.”

The newly remodeled Cuyama Buckhorn reopened in February, but there will be a grand opening party on April 18, following the Cuyama Valley Car Show. Then there is a slew of events slated for the Buckhorn. Expect everything from country music and reggae festivals to motorbike rallies, hot rod shows, and horseshoe tournaments.

The Buckhorn plans on serving American cuisine with plenty of barbecuing, with ostrich, elk, bison, and deer on the menu. Thomsen’s parents are of German and Pacific Islander descent, and he plans to incorporate his family’s fare into the menu, as well.“There’s going to be weekend specials added to the menu,” said general manager Jason Berg.

“There’s going to be a lot of fun out here.”

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silence, I felt an ancientness and timelessness, myself a small blip in the Badlands’ millions of years of quiet witness.

Archaeologists have discovered abundant fossils in these hills, and traveling among them, I was reminded of my own tiny role in the giant course of shifting geologic time.

Whether visiting for mystical or merely recreational reasons, the Badlands’ Dry Canyon area invites all kinds of adventure. There aren’t really trails, only washes and sparsely treed hills, making for excellent cross-country travel. Hikers would do well to stick to the washes, as hiking along the many rising hills often leads to a steep drop or impassable sharp ridge. The deeper you travel, the closer you get to the mystifying rock formations. Each spur in the wash leads to its own canyon, concealing its own surprises and secrets. Be aware of where you have gone and for how long — the labyrinth of washes and ridges can be disorienting, especially after a long, hot hike. Do not attempt it if your navigation skills are poor. Water does run through these dry lands after storms, so plan your own trip accordingly.

I rambled through the lands for several hours, exploring several tributaries. After a while, it became clear I would need another day — or many — to explore every aspect, and even then, the essence of the Badlands would still elude me. Silent and strange, it cannot be aptly summed up by any assemblage of words. Nor can I quite recommend a specific route, other than to just go along the major wash and explore for yourself. You will likely come out, as I did, — Richie DeMaria awed, humbled, and centered.

UNCHARTED TERRITORY: Pictured clockwise from top are Cuyama Valley from afar; a jagged choir of red, pink, and white hills; and the recently remodeled Cuyama Buckhorn.

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AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH ART GARFUNKEL Saturday, June 20 Folk-pop icon Art Garfunkel is best known as the lead vocalist in Simon and Garfunkel, as well as a string of solo hits. Don’t miss this legendary performer as he shares an intimate evening of his music, poetry and stories.

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HIDDEN TREASURES: Rick Bury’s “Burger Barn” is just one of a collection of works depicting the beautiful, desolate, trapped-in-time feel of the Cuyama Valley. The sparsely populated Central Coast location is the subject of the current group show on display at Montecito’s Easton Gallery.

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The Cuyama region’s greatest blessing is its geographical isolation; almost everyone read-

ern perimeter, was the last Southern California home of the grizzly bear and the wild California condor. Today, the Cuyama Valley is an iconic California ranch landscape, encircled by wild mountains where two cowboys on horseback care for cattle over a rugged area stretching the same distance as that which separates Rincon’s waves from Santa Barbara’s courthouse. A few pocket-sized communities house several dozen people; the rest are spread out over far-flung farms and ranches.

Some of the best pieces in the gallery’s new show depict the town of New Cuyama: in particular the community’s roadhouse Burger Barn, which Rick Bury’s photo and Tom Henderson’s watercolor bring to life. Henderson’s watercolor of a truck careening around a blind highway curve in both lanes reminds us of a time before California’s highways were crowded.

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EXPLORES THE SPACE BETWEEN ing this newspaper has never been there. In an area the aggregate size of both the Santa Ynez and Lompoc valleys combined, the sparse human population — easily outnumbered by cattle — is measured in hundreds. The Sierra Madre range, which forms the valley’s south-

Whitney Brooks Abbott, invite us into hidden canyons to see old, wind-whipped tin barns at the Walking R and Salisbury ranches.

Elsewhere, Chris Chapman looks down into arroyos. We can almost see the owls’ nests in the eroded channel walls.

The show overall presents a beautiful view of the Cuyama Valley, its spaces, mountains, wildflowers, watercourses, ranches, and desultory communities. It’s a space in between — between mountain ranges, between counties, between people and wildlife, between ranches and farms, between yesterday and the day before yesterday.

Ellen Easton is celebrating her gallery’s quarter century in unblemished style by sharing more than two dozen contemporary landscape artists’ images of a remote land and distant time.

The Easton Gallery is located at 557 Hot Springs Road, Montecito. For info, call 969-5781 or visit eastongallery.com.

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SOMETIMES I SIT AND THINK, AND SOMETIMES I JUST SIT There are songwriters that like to weave fantastic stories, tales that resonate in spite of their grandiosity and sweeping gestures. And then there are artists like Courtney Barnett.

The Melbourne-bred musician excels at writing songs that resonate, but her brushstrokes tend to be smaller in scope. On the aptly titled Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, Barnett’s little moments of magic spill forth out of the mundane. “I lay awake at four, staring at the wall,” she opines on “An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York).” One track later, “Small Poppies” opens with the line, “I stare at the lawn. It’s Wednesday morning. It needs a cut.

But I leave it growing.” In many ways, Sometimes I Just Sit is an album about growing older and finding yourself at that strange crossroads between adulthood and youth. “Depreston” is a quiet, bittersweet ballad about house hunting in a rundown neighborhood. The rollicking “Dead Fox” finds Barnett meditating on buying organic produce; “I must admit I was a little skeptical at first.

A little pesticide can’t hurt,” she sings. Relentless drums and cymbals propel “Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party,” a sweet and sloppy jam that very well may be the new anthem for partied-out 30-year-olds everywhere. Taken all together, and delivered in Barnett’s perfectly dis-

affected, Sheryl Crow–evoking croon, it makes for a record that’s not only refreshing but also honest in the purest sense of the word.

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This week, k Santa Barbara’s b Out off the h Box Theatre h Company is throwing a theme party like no other at Center Stage Theater. April 8-11, the famously adventure-seeking collective is staging a production of the Andrew Lippa musical The Wild Party. Based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 poem of the same name, the story follows one wild night in the apartment of the beautiful Queenie and her vaudeville star beau Burrs. Over the course of the evening, the couple invites a motley crew of friends and acquaintances into their home to celebrate. But when the booze starts flowing and the dancing kicks into high gear, jealousy and spitefulness bubble to the surface.

“I like messy, complicated, complex characters and relationships — stories that shine a light on the human condition and explore relevant and relatable issues. The Wild Party has all of this and more,” says Out of the Box’s artistic director, Samantha Eve. As the night progresses, Queenie starts up a flirtation with Mr. Black, while Mr. Black’s date, Kate, reacts by hitting on Burrs. As the party stretches late into the night, then into the next morning, sex and violence collide in some disastrous ways. As Eve explains it, these over-the-top characters have given Out of the Box’s actors plenty to work with.

“Justin Rapp, who is playing Burrs, veers from dark and dangerous to loud and playful to a sad, lost little boy in seconds,” she explained. “And Rachel Short, our Queenie, slinks across the stage like she knows with the utmost certainty that everyone in the room is watching her.”

Eve and co. are encouraging attendees to get in the spirit of the 1920s by dressing “to the nines” when they head to the theater. But even removed of the period in which they live, The Wild Party’s characters feel universal. “The relationship troubles, the personal problems that the characters face over the course of the show, are all timeless,” says Eve. “A theme of the show that I find particularly relevant is authenticity: the fact that these partygoers are all performers, and the question soon becomes, where does the acting begin and where does it end?”

The Wild Party is at Center Stage Theater ( Paseo Nuevo), April 8-11. For tickets and info, call 963-0408 or visit centerstagetheater.org.

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13 SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM 136 East De La Guerra Street · 805-966-1601 Pop-Up Family History & Lutah Maria Riggs: Explore the life and work of architect Lutah Maria Riggs and her contribution to what has become “Santa Barbara Style” in our final 1st Thursday of the exhibition.

Connect with your roots! The Museum is partnering with the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society to offer instant help with YOUR family history. As always, wine, music and a fun evening of history.

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1ST THURSDAY PROGRAM is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara that takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Participating art venues offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm. 1st Thursday venues also provide additional attractions, such as live music, artist receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. Additionally, State Street comes alive on 1st Thursday with performances and interactive activities.

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1 ST THURSDAY PARTNERS A ENGEL & VOLKERS SANTA BARBARA 1323 State Street · 805-364-5141 Viva la Espana! In light of the Wave Film festival Engel & Volkers Santa Barbara welcomes you to experience the Spanish culture come to life on 1st Thursday. View some of the finest estates and vacation homes Spain has to offer while you enjoy music, hors d’oeruves and wine.

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2 ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION GALLERY 229 East Victoria Street · 805-965-6307 Celebrating a solo exhibition by R. Anthony Askew entitled Prints PLUS. Inspired by jazz improvisation techniques and Native American culture, Askew creates one-of-a-kind prints using rich colors, energetic lines and shapes to form lyrical nonobjective compositions. A renowned printmaker and watercolorist, Askew is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art at Westmont College.

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F CASA MAGAZINE 23 East Canon Perdido Street · 805-965-6448 Between Earth & Sky: Explorations of sustainability and our relationship to the environment. Poetry, live music, and art. Meet the author of The Confounding Case of the Climate Crisis – Owen Liu, UC Santa Barbara PhD candidate and author John Weller, The Last Ocean: Antarctica’s Ross Sea Project: Saving the Most Pristine Ecosystem on Earth. Light Refreshments.

G SOJOURNER: 134 East Canon Perdido · 805-965-7922 March 21st is our 37th Anniversary! Help us celebrate into April with musicians: Brad and Anita Bayley, always fun - like hanging out in your living room with your best pals. There will be wine tasting and see who the mystery artist will be.

H SALT: 740 State Street · 805-963-7258 Join us in the Salt Cave as we celebrate the written word with a selection of favorite poems, profound thoughts and yoga meditations shared by Salt staff and special guests. Come underground to relax and refresh with healing halotherapy and special salty snacks!

I SERVICE OBJECTS 27 E. Cota Street, Suite 500, 5th Floor · 805-963-1700 Service Objects is dedicated to improving the environment with real time data validation technology.

Come for our Open House and enjoy wine as we continue to support local artists. This month’s exhibition will feature moon photography by Laurie Counihan-Childs. Laurie has taken thousands of images of the moon rising over the years and she navigates much of her life around lunar cycles. As a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, she is very familiar with the elements. Needless to say, she is in love with the moon!

Please join us in celebrating the moon with her.

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COASTAL LIGHT Capturing the splendor of our California Coast, realist painter Tom de Walt and artistic photographer Mehosh Dziadzo will be showcasing some of their iconic images of Hollister Ranch.

Originals & limited editions are offered for sale. Wine tasting to benefit the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara has raised over $3000 through our events.

12 ZFOLIO GALLERY: 1013 State Street · 805-845-7375 Founded in 1857 in the Czech Republic Moser boasts a long tradition of superior artistic and technical standards in lead-free crystal. The quality of the crystal and perfection of Moser’s hand cutting, engraving and brilliant colors are unsurpassed by any contemporary glass or crystal company in the world. View select examples at ZFolio.

900 State Street, Marshalls Patio · 5:00-8:00pm Lawrence Duff is a Santa Barbara based singer, keyboardist, guitarist who performs an eclectic mix of styles from jazz standards (Great American songbook, and more contemporary styles), Latin, Brazilian, pop, light rock, blues, traditional and contemporary folk, and inspired originals. Longtime Santa Barbara drummer/percussionist Lorenzo Martinez joins in to make it a duo tonight.

LARK BATTEAU AND GREGORY BEEMAN Paseo Nuevo Court · 5:00-8:00pm With accordion, guitar and voice, this dramatic gypsy duo will be performing French classics from Jacques Brel to Edith Piaf, whisking you off to another place and time.

WELCOME TO 1ST THURSDAY: AFTER HOURS! 1ST THURSDAY SPONSORS: These sponsors continue to make 1st Thursday possible. The downtown community would like to thank these Santa Barbara businesses for their support!

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Drawn from the Glasgow Museums’ outstanding Italian holdings, the show features works by some of the greatest masters of these periods, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Domenichino, Francesco Guardi, Salvator Rosa, Luca Signorelli, and Titian; many of the pictures have never before been exhibited outside of Scotland. The Santa Barbara Museum of Art represents this travelling exhibition’s exclusive West Coast venue. (Open every Thursday 5–8pm for free as part of Chase Free Thursday Evenings.)

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1114 State Street # 9 · 805-962-8885 The Gallery is in going on its 30th year and 23 years in La Arcada. It features artwork from some of today’s finest nat ional ly-known painters. Southwest Art Magazine recognized Diane & Ralph Waterhouse among “10 Prominent People’ in the Fine Art Business. Ralph Waterhouse will give a painting demonstration at 5:45pm.

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1028 State Street · 805-869-1107 Join Santa Barbara Travel’s Open House presenting Paul Gauguin Cruises. Learn about small ship luxury cruising to Tahiti, the South Pacific and other warm weather destinations around the globe. Built to sail the shallow waters of Tahiti and French Polynesia, the intimate 5+star cruise ship, m/s Paul Gauguin provides an unparalleled, all-inclusive cruise experience tailored to the wonders of the islands. Like the Gaugin, a second small luxury ship, the m/v Tere Moana, specializes in warm-weather destinations, with an emphasis on delivering unique itineraries that larger ships cannot offer and explores hidden ports in Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. (Paul Gauguin Cruises Presentations: 6pm & 7pm )

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1114 State Street #24 · 805-884-1938 Freelance illustrator and graphic artist Steve Thomas has a passion for vintage poster, propaganda and product art from the early 20th century as well as the retrofuturist art of the 1950’s, inspiring the nostalgic look of an earlier time in much of his contemporary work. For the first 14 years of his career, he worked as a commercial illustrator for newspapers, creating graphics for every section, from human interest to entertainment to sports. Over the years, Steve’s portfolio grew to include work under license for Disney, Fox, Star Trek, The Muppets and Marvel. We will be showing travel posters from the area. Wine will be poured be Grassini Family Vineyards.

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C ENCANTO: 1114 State Street #22 · 805-722-4338 TRUNK SHOW + LIVE MUSIC! ENCANTO “all things beautiful” will be having a pop up trunk show btw 2 - 6 PM, featuring MODERN ROMANTIC, our fabulous in-house line of clothing, jewelry, scarves + shoes imported from Spain, Morocco + India! We will be serving up wine + live jazz music with the BLUE MOON QUARTET from 6 - 8 PM. Hands down, this is one of the best venues of the art walk. See you there!

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105 E Anapamu St, 1st floor UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Responses to Place. Join us at 6pm to meet and greet the Co-Curators Kam Jacoby and Karen Gearhart-Jensen and all 7 artists: Kit Boise-Cossart, Kate Connell, Bill Dewey, Brett Leigh Dicks, Eric B. Johnson, David Passage, and Roe Anne White. The artists will be on hand to answer your questions and review their work. Each photographer explores how a sense of place (specifically the Central Coast of California) influences and directs artistic exploration and production. The Under the Influence exhibition demonstrates how our environment, including geology, geography, weather, the economy and culture, inspires art that, even while addressing larger issues, has particular regional relevance.

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Featuring a sneak peek of the music from Ensemble Theatre Company’s WOYZECK. Also, get a behind the scenes look at the creative process of producing a play. Tastes provided by Ca’ Dario and Gelson’s, along with a no-host bar.

The Ensemble Theatre Company at the New Vic, The Arlington Theatre, The Granada Theatre and the Lobero Theatre bring you 1st Thursday: After Hours!

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ATOMIC REACTION Bootsy Holler: Nuclear Family.

At wall space gallery. Shows through April 26.

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t’s always exciting to encounter an artist living in passionate and intuitive connection with both their chosen medium and their subject. For Bootsy Holler, who makes all her photographs as though her life depended on it, her family comes across as an ideal subject. Add in the fact that Holler grew up in Hanford, Washington, the site of the world’s first major facility for the production of fissionable plutonium, and things quickly get wonderfully weird.

Both Holler’s grandfathers and her father were employed as physicists by the Manhattan Project at a facility with thousands of other employees. Until the explosion of the nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the vast majority of the people living in Hanford had no real idea of what they were working on, and even decades after, they still weren’t talking about it.

For Holler, the open secret of her family’s nuclear past has set off the artistic equivalent of an atomic reaction. Although the content and style of the images in Nuclear Family vary widely across the three sections of a trilogy, all the images resonate with Holler’s intense personal yearning for resolution. The cumulative impact is an absorbing and bittersweet sense of inexpressible dread.

In chapter one, “Ruby and Willie,” Holler prowls through her grandparents’ home in Richland, Washington, her camera loaded with color film and her viewfinder trained on the objects that reveal her grandfather’s obsessive relation with the past. When Willie’s wife, Ruby, passed away in 1978, he retreated to a single room in the basement, carefully preserving the rest of the house as if it were a museum for the next 30 years. Each image reveals the heartbreaking sincerity of this gesture of resignation through an emphasis on the fragmentary and the everyday. The tone and palette is like vintage Eggleston, but the feeling — and the meaning that drives it — is totally new.

“Hanford Declassified No. 1” Chapter two, “Visitor,” will likely get the most attention of the three parts, and that’s fine, because it is among the most virtuosic sets of photographic self-portraits to appear since Cindy Sherman’s movie stills of the early 1980s. With a painstaking approach, Holler has recalibrated and recast a dozen or more black-and-white snapshots taken by and of her parents. The recasting involves first costuming, then photographing, and then finally inserting her own image as an adult woman in among the figures of not only her mother and her father, but of her younger self and her siblings, as well. Handwritten annotations assist the viewer in picking up on this very subtle and deeply felt intrusion that Holler has staged a Photoshopped home invasion of her own childhood. I have a feeling we will be looking at these heavy, dramatic, atmospheric images of an alternate past frequently, and for a long time.

The final chapter,“Hanford Declassified,” is as straightforward as this hyperpersonal project gets. The images are landscape photos of what was referred to as “the area,” the now-barren territory in which Holler’s father served as manager of Nuclear Operations for the United States Department of Energy.

The big open skies are beautiful, as are the presumably toxic prairies and rivers below. As the federal government pours money into Hanford’s giant Superfund site, Holler records with her camera the desolation that this secret project has become and thus comes to terms with the massive denial that created and maintained the entire community in which she grew up. It’s no wonder that she can insert herself so readily within those old snapshots; in a way, this is the ■ first time she’s been completely present there.

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Dr. Rupert has an extensive background in economics and finance, and is currently Chairman of the Department of Economics at University of California, Santa Barbara.

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JAZZ HANDS: The London Symphony Orchestra with maestro Michael Tilson Thomas (standing) and soloist Yuja Wang (center) delivered a stunning rendition of George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto last Wednesday night at the Granada.

THE MASTERY OF MTT London Symphony Orchestra.

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he London Symphony Orchestra played Santa Barbara for the first time in four decades Wednesday night. And judging by the quality of the music making, man, have we been missing out.

Led by veteran maestro Michael Tilson Thomas, who celebrated his 70th birthday in December, the virtuosic ensemble sounded absolutely spectacular.

The CAMA-sponsored concert at the Granada Theatre featured three 20thcentury masterpieces, and each performance proved deeply affecting.

While some conductors get more idiosyncratic or mannered as they grow older, Thomas, the longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony, seems to be moving in the opposite direction. Taking advantage of the London orchestra’s pure, rich sound, his performances were self-effacing and acutely in touch with each composer’s style.

In the “Four Sea Interludes” from Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes, which opened the program, he brought out the music’s inherent drama without resorting to exaggerated tempos or dynamics. It seemed particularly right to hear this sublime evocation of the beauty and ferocity of the ocean sitting a mile or so from the shore.

George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, which followed, was arguably the highlight of the evening. Soloist Yuja Wang — a welcome regular visitor to Santa Barbara — is known for her dazzling virtuosity, and that quality was certainly on display, particularly in the Carmen fantasy she played as an encore. But in a sign of the 28-year-old’s growing maturity, she didn’t just blast through the Gershwin. While she clearly had the requisite power (and then some) to bring home the fast, stride-influenced passages, her performance of the slower sections was nuanced and subtle. Under Thomas’s expert guidance, the orchestra gave the piece the jazzy, distinctively American sound Gershwin demands. The delicate, bluesy interlude that opens the slow movement was a particular delight.

The program closed with Dmitri Shostakovich’s landmark Fifth Symphony.

Famously written as a “response to just criticism”— the composer displeased Stalin with his cheeky, satirical early music, and he was faced with the possibility of being sent to Siberia, or worse — it’s a conventionally structured work but an emotionally ambiguous one. Once again admirably avoiding distortion or exaggeration, Thomas brought out the ominous sense of foreboding of the opening movement, which no doubt reflected the composer’s state of mind.

The fierce scherzo that followed felt like a mad dance — an evocation of a formal ball as seen through a fun-house mirror.

The slow movement is one of Shostakovich’s greatest mournful adagios. Full of hushed, haunting passages featuring unexpected combinations of instruments, it felt positively otherworldly — as if time were standing still. Conductors tend to disagree about how to approach the final movement. Should it be joyful and celebratory, which, after all, was the composer’s state-issued mandate, or should they bring out the darkness and despair underneath? Either choice is valid, but too often those who choose the latter path use lethargic tempos, robbing the music of its dramatic force. Thomas threaded the needle beautifully.

Like his mentor, Leonard Bernstein, he kicked it off with explosive energy, but the final bars were slower and more deliberate sounding, more cautionary than cathartic. In his hands, the music expressed not happiness per se, but rather the struggle to find happiness. Like pretty much every moment of this memorable ■ concert, it seemed precisely right.

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ext week, the Live Oak Campground in the hills above Santa Barbara will open its gates to the fourth annual Lucidity Festival. Started in 2012 as an open-source transformational music and arts celebration, Lucidity has always embraced its attendees SCALES DOWN, REACHES OUT as part of its creative process, but this year, that communal collaboration is extending even further. Thanks to the

by Aly Comingore stronghold of S.B. movers and shakers at its core, 2015’s Lucidity is aiming not only to invite the city in but also to reach out into the community at large, and the impact it could have is inspiring, to say the least.

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Story arcs aside, getting the Kindred Quest off the ground has not been an easy feat. The ongoing and still-growing California drought has impacted the Live Oak Campground as much as any semirural space in Santa Barbara County. “The soil and the

FESTING 101 If you’ve never attended a music festival, there are some things to keep in mind. For one, festivalgoers come in all shapes, sizes, ages, and intentions. Secondly, no two festivals are created equal.

Some focus on the music, others on art making, and still others on the party. Some are enormous undertakings that span miles and welcome tens of thousands. Others pride themselves on small-scale, intimate experiences. Yet at the core of all (or most) of these events is a singular thought — namely, the magic that happens when you get a group of like-minded people together for an intense, inspired, and ephemeral moment in time.

As for Lucidity, it falls firmly within the transformational circle of the arts-festival Venn diagram. It’s a small- to medium-sized event (last year’s installment brought upward of 3,500 visitors) that features live music and art installation villages, as well as workshops, classes, and spiritual healing. It’s family-friendly, and there is an environmental bent to the whole thing; global healing and social responsibility are just some of the festival’s “core values.”

“It’s an experiment in temporary community,” says Lucidity’s head of marketing, James Barnard. “It explores many different realms of consciousness and artistic expression, and it allows many groups of people to come into a common place. It’s a big melting pot of celebration.”

This year, Lucidity hits a special milestone. The festival was founded with a six-year story arc in mind; years one, two, and three — titled Awake in Your Dreams, The Totems’ Return, and Universe, respectively — were designed to inspire personal reflection, growth, and transformation. According to festival cofounder Jonah Haas, this year’s installment, Kindred Quest, begins the process of looking outward.

“The fourth year in the story is all about collective transformation,” says Haas,“so it’s really timely that we’re starting to integrate community action initiatives, where we’re coming together and getting our hands dirty and leaving a legacy for those who come after us.”

COME TOGETHER: The fourth annual Lucidity Festival returns to Live Oak Campground for three days of eco- and family-friendly music, art, yoga, healing, and creative community building next weekend.

systems. “Last year, we had 1,100 cars on-site, and this year, we’ll have less than 400,” says Lucidity Food and Sustainability Director Alison Hensley.

Rather than looking at this as a setback, though, festival organizers are using the situation as a springboard for action. This year, permaculture, sustainability, and ecology are all playing increasingly larger roles in Lucidity’s game plan, which includes working toward eliminating all single-use service ware and instituting composting toilets, both of which Hensley projects will be possible by 2016.

“It’s not just about the oak trees or the population counts,” she says. “Festivals of this size are inherently unsustainable, and this is a great practice for how we can live together as a community.”

In addition, organizers will be hosting a three-day pre-festival permaculture design intensive, which will focus on implementing technologies and systems and understanding soils, waters, and gardening strategies that are sustainable and environmentally responsible. Permaculture experts Art Ludwig, Loren Luyendyk, and Ray Cirino are just some of the instructors who have signed on to take part.

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trees and everything there have been affected by the drought,” says Barnard,“so when you have large amounts of people on the land, you have to assess how healthy that is on the space.”

As such, this year’s festival will be admitting fewer people, employing fewer volunteers, and scaling back the number of cars allowed on-site in an attempt to protect the oak’s fragile root

Most importantly, though, 2015 marks the first year that the festival is moving outside of its Live Oak home and attempting to inspire change in the greater Santa Barbara community. Following the three-day permaculture course at Live Oak, Lucidity and its headliner, Oakland-based electronic artist The Polish Ambassador, will head downtown for a Community Action Day on April 9 at the Alpha Resource Center. From 10 a.m.-4 p.m., non-festivalgoers can get a taste of Lucidity’s grand plan, as well as enjoy food and live music.

“People can get their hands in the dirt and on the ground and work on projects based on what is needed for that site,” Hensley explains. “Larry Saltzman manages the grounds of the center, so he has us set up with a number of fruit-tree plantings and heirloom rose bushes. We’re going to be working the soil and making seed balls and feeding it, and we’ll be teaching about droughttolerant regenerative landscaping.”

They’re small steps that Lucidity’s creators are using to work toward making a major shift in the way we think. And that’s something we all should be down to celebrate.

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f you’re seeking the best of what’s next in the electronic music world, you need look no further than Future Classic. Since its founding in 2004, the Sydneybased record label has been curating a roster of artists (Flight Facilities, Chet Faker, Cashmere Cat) that is adventurously pushing the limits of what we know as “dance music.” Case in point: recent Future Classic signee Hayden James.

Though his music falls under the larger umbrella of electronic, James’s approach and vibe feel wholly organic. He composes on pianos, plays drums, and sings — and his records are a groovy soup of sparkly production, thumping bass, and soulful lyricism. This Saturday, April 4, James makes his S.B. debut at the Blind Tiger. In advance, I traded emails with the Aussie to talk about laptop thieves, birthday cakes, and beach music.

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How does your knowledge of live instrumentation translate into your writing? What is your process like? When I write, I almost always start with playing

a piano or synth to get an idea down, and I’m always learning new production techniques and buying new/weird plugins. My process is always different, though. I can start with a vocal idea or a chord progression or just a melody line, and it builds from there.

Prior to signing with Future Classic, what were you doing for work? I was studying at university and deejaying some weekends.

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Was there a watershed moment when you realized things were taking off? My

latest single,“Something About You,” just hit two million plays on SoundCloud in three months, which is so crazy to me. It’s a really great feeling when you find out people are connecting with your music. I never take it for granted.

Who is on your collaborator wish list, and what are you listening to currently?

There are always a few artists I have on my mind to collaborate with. I tend to look for people that have different skills than me, or that do things a little differently so we complement each other in the writing process. I’m currently listening to Jamie xx, Odesza, and Caribou, to name a few.

What’s the first website you check when you wake up in the morning? When I

wake up, New York has already had an eight-hour day, so I look to see if there’s been any major trends in birthday-cake decorations. You don’t want to be left behind in the fast-paced world of cake decorating.

Any tour horror stories? I had my laptop stolen off the stage right before a gig once. We found the guy about 15 minutes later trying to leave the venue. I got it back and played the show!

Best meal you’ve eaten on the road? Well, Harrison [Mills] from Odesza is

cooking for me the night before the tour starts, so I’m going to assume that will be the best meal I’ve had on the road. The pressure is mounting!

If someone asked you for the perfect place to listen to your music, where would you send them? Somewhere warm and on the coast. I’m going to say

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Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Abstract Art Collective: AbstraX; Limited Palette Abstracts, through Apr. ; Professional Baseball, ongoing; multiple permanent installations.  W. Anapamu St., -.

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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: 20th-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., -.

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Architectural Foundation Gallery – R. Anthony Askew: Prints PLUS, through Apr. .  E. Victoria St., -.

Bella Rosa Galleries – Tom de Walt and Mehosh Dziadzio, through Apr. .  State 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., -.

Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Sherry Spear: Whimsy, through Apr. .  State St., -.

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Gallery  – Stephen Robeck: Water: Reflections, Refractions, and Motion, through May .

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Goleta Library – April Art Show, Apr. -.  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta, -.

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

Ojai Café Emporium – Tom Hardcastle and Gretchen Greenberg, ongoing.  S. Montgomery St., Ojai., -.

Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Arts – Tielle Monette and Sergey Fedotov, ongoing.  State St., -.

Pacific Western Bank – Celebrating 28 Years of I Madonnari Posters, ongoing.  E. Figueroa St., -.

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El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park – Nihonmachi Revisited: Santa Barbara’s Japanese American Community in Transition, 1900-1940; 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, through Apr. .  Foothill Rd., -.

Standing Sun Winery – Mateu Velasco, through Apr. .  Second St., Unit D, Buellton, -.

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Ben Messick: Artist and Ringers: Vintage and Contemporary American Masterworks, through May ; Meredith Brooks Abbott: Days That Count, through June ; 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 Museum of Art – Maker’s Dozen: Westmont Senior Art Exhibition, Apr. -May .  La Paz Rd., -.

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

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

FRI, SAT: Live Brazilian Music Cold Spring Tavern –  Stagecoach Rd., -.

FRI: The Paradise Road (-pm) SAT: Steve Fort (-pm); The Excellent Tradesmen (-pm) SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (:-pm); The Mighty Cash Cats (:-:pm) The Creekside –  Hollister Ave., -.

FRI: Recess (:pm) SAT: Hunter & The Dirty Jacks (pm) WED: Country Night (pm) Dargan’s –  E. Ortega St., -.

TUE: Karaoke (pm) WED: Karaoke - The Band (:pm) THU: Traditional Irish Music (:pm) Deep Sea Winery –  Stearns Wharf, -.

THU /: Conner Cherland (pm) Endless Summer Bar/Café –  Harbor Wy., -.

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

THU: Vanity Thursdays FRI: Yacht Club Fridays SAT: #ExpectGreatness Saturdays WED: Bailamos Salsa Night Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. –  Anacapa St., -.

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

THU: Live Music Thursdays (pm) Granada Books –  State St, -.

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

THU: Live Music Thursdays (pm) Indochine –  State St., -.

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

THU: Alastair Greene Band (pm) FRI: Kinsella Brothers Band (pm) SAT: Ulysses Jazz Band (:-:pm) SUN, MON: Karaoke (pm) TUE: Teresa Russell (pm) Marshalls –  State St. THU /: Lawrence Duff (pm) Maverick Saloon –  Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, -.

FRI: Dusty Jugz (pm)

Little Guy & Big Steve & Kevin (pm); Dusty Jugz (pm) O’Malleys and the Study Hall –  State St., -.

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

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

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

WED, FRI, SAT: Karaoke Night (:pm) Oreana Winery –  Anacapa St., -.

SAT: You Knew Me When (pm) Palapa Restaurant –  State St., -.

FRI: Live Mariachi Music (:-pm) Piano Riviera Lounge –  E. Anapamu St., -.

THU /: Stu Carey & X-Tet (:-:pm) Reds Tapas & Wine Bar –  Helena Ave., -.

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

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

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

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

THU: Gardens & Villa, Dante Elephante (pm) FRI: Rent Party Blues Band (:pm) SAT: Chris Hayzel, Shilo Gold, Mendeleyev (pm); Rainbow Girls, The Wild Reeds (pm) MON: Jazz Jam with Jeff Elliott (:pm) TUE: Dave Damiani & The No Vacancy Orchestra (pm) WED: Cuyama Mama & The Hot Flashes (:pm) THU: The Littlest Birds (pm); The Cadillac Angels (:pm) Standing Sun Winery –  Second St., Unit D, Buellton, -.

SAT: Matt Ellis (:pm) Statemynt –  State St., -.

THU: DJ Akorn WED: Blues Night (pm) Tiburon Tavern –  State St., - FRI: Karaoke Night (:pm) United Boys & Girls Club –  Hollister Ave., Goleta, -.

FRI: GAMES #: Naked Walrus, Ocho the Owl, special guest deejay (pm) Velvet Jones –  State St., -.

THU: Strung Out, Masked Intruder, La Armada (pm) FRI: Matt Armor and His Band, Big Jugs (pm) THU: College Night (pm) Whiskey Richards –  State St., -.

WED: Punk on Vinyl (pm) SUN: Americana Sunday w/ Matt Armor and Friends (-pm) MON: Open Mike Night (pm) Wildcat –  W. Ortega St., -.

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

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

theater Center Stage Theater – The Wild Party.  Paseo Nuevo, -.

WED-THU: pm Chumash Casino Resort – Kathy Griffin.  E. Hwy. , Santa Ynez, () -.

THU /:  and :pm Granada Theatre – Chicago.  State St., -.

TUE-WED: pm Ojai Art Ctr – As You Like It.  S. Montgomery St., -.

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Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life THU, APR 2 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL / FREE

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Best-selling Author of Shop Class as Soulcraft

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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction TUE, APR 7 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL / FREE

“One of the most influential thinkers of our time.” The Sunday Times (U.K.) Books will be available for purchase and signing

Supported in part by the Beth Chamberlin Endowment for Cultural Understanding 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics

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David Robert Mitchell’s film is great. It may not be this year’s scariest film, but it sure alters consciousness. It’s a feat that’s especially notable because Mitchell’s movie is a very personal vision (he’s said it was based on his own nightmares) set in a strange environment — namely, the edge of the ruined city of Detroit in an all-white suburb nearly free of any kind of parental guidance. The most visible grown-ups present are more like walking corpses than wise counselors, and the young protagonists (of course) don’t take much stock in adult advice.

We enter their world as puzzled voyeurs who first have to make sense of the kids: a group of teens lolling away high school in backyard pools, watching 1950s monster movies on TV, and reading Dostoyevsky. Jay (Santa Barbara’s own Maika Monroe) breaks away from the teenage torpor and goes out on a date that begins with consensual sex but ends in a violent rape that leaves her with a curse. Wherever Jay goes, she is eventually found by a terrifying force bent only on her violent destruction. If she has sex with someone

SEX HEX: It Follows stars Santa Barbara’s Maika Monroe as a young woman who becomes cursed after a violent sexual encounter.

else, Jay learns, the force will move on. Turns out there are boys who don’t mind consequences.

Detroit is rapidly edging out New Orleans as America’s most frightening town. Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive gave us the abandoned city by night, but Mitchell’s film presents it as a beautiful forbidden zone; a downtown indoor-swimming-pool scene is the movie’s most gorgeous and harrowing. But it isn’t just the decadent locale that distinguishes this film. There is a constant sense we are in the middle of a charged text — it has literary depths, and it ends with a moving invocation.

With It Follows, Mitchell has made an untidy allegory of ■ innocence’s opposite, and it won’t leave you alone.

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The true subject of this unforgettable book is female bonding and the ties that even bars can’t unbind.” People WED, APR 15 / 8 PM UCSB CAMPBELL HALL / FREE Books will be available for purchase and signing Sponsored by the UCSB Library and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor with additional support from a variety of campus and community partner partners

KEYS TO LIFE Seymour: An Introduction. Seymour Bernstein stars in a documentary directed by Ethan Hawke.

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midlife crisis is often a road leading to some predictable destination: a car lot, a plastic surgeon’s office, a seedy motel. Classical musician Seymour Bernstein’s took him in a less-traveled direction. At age 50 and without telling anyone, the New York concert pianist arranged his own farewell performance and then quietly stepped out of the spotlight, leaving behind a rising and critically celebrated career in favor of a humble, private life dedicated to music education and composition.

Directed by actor Ethan Hawke — who reveals that his own midcareer misgivings, coupled with an influential encounter with Bernstein at a dinner party, inspired the film — Seymour: An Introduction is a nearly pitch-perfect documentary that’s equal parts music-appreciation master class and loving ode to the sensitive and charming guru.

We first meet the now 87-year-old piano teacher in the one-bedroom Manhattan apartment he’s called home for the past 57 years. He walks us through both his kitchen and a piece of music on his piano, explaining a passage involving a hard-to-reach octave as he replays it with increasing dexterity.

From there, the film effortlessly slurs glimpses into Bernstein’s monastic personal life and colorful past — which includes an obsessively doting patron and a tour on the frontlines of the Korean War — with enlightening musical moments and philosophical

Got A Register Now for PIANO MAN: Seymour: An Introduction is Ethan Hawke’s nearly pitch perfect ode to pianist Seymour Bernstein.

musings. Some of the film’s most revealing scenes, though, come from a conversation between Bernstein and Michael Kimmelman, a pupil turned New York Times writer. The deferential but astute critic gently prods his mentor on his abandoned ambitions, offering the film’s most discerning examination of the man’s motivations and eloquently articulated beliefs.

Equally adept at tickling the ivories and waxing poetic, Bernstein rhapsodically imparts his own nearreligious reverence for classical music to both his varied assortment of students and the viewer. And aside from a couple of mystical digressions that sometimes muddy the waters, this tenderly crafted profile is an elucidating and occasionally transporting moviegoing experience. By the time the film reaches its stirring climax, you’ll be wishing for an encore to this insightful, inspiring Introduction. ■

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Home (94 mins.; PG: mild action and some rude humor) Home, in this case, is where the artificial heart is. This film, saccharine and phony, might make your children stare fixedly at the screen, but their little faces (not to mention yours) will not be cracking up.

Kids are too smart, and Home is a little too cool for its own good, and a little too ersatz about the issues it raises.

And what are these problematic cartoon themes? A clueless alien named Oh takes possession of an Earth apartment after his people, the Boov, take over our planet and transplant its inhabitants to a colony in Australia. Oh is a screwup, but he meets an African-American girl named Gratuity who was separated from her mother during the roundup, and together they learn to trust each other and themselves. But the issue is colonization, basically, and it sure seems a little too sore a real-life subject to be treated like an animated adventure. Maybe Pixar writers could have preserved the dignity of suffering people while making bittersweet jokes about wrenching people from their families and homes, but writer Tom Astle and director Tim Johnson really couldn’t.

The characters are cute — Jim Parsons’s perky, quirky voice works well for a nerdy alien. Visually, though, it’s as bland as its whitewashing of serious themes.

Everything glows with sunshiney brilliance, which is ultimately, like the movie, an interesting idea that grows tiresomeness. Home wants to make the inexcusable seem goofy and fun, but it isn’t any of the above. (DJP) Fairview/Fiesta 

frenetic sequences of violence, action, and mayhem, suggestive content, and brief strong language)

Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) seeks retribution for the death of his brother. Vin Diesel and the late Paul Walker star.

Arlington/Camino Real/Metro 

The Longest Ride (139 mins.; PG-13: some sexuality, partial nudity, and some war and sports action)

A man reflects on a lost love after being trapped in an automobile accident.

Fiesta  (Opens Thu., Apr. )

Red Army (76 mins.; PG: thematic material and language)

Gabe Polsky’s documentary tells the story of the Soviet Union’s Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.

(100 mins.; R: disturbing violent and sexual content including graphic nudity and language) Reviewed on page 63.

Fairview/Metro 

✯ Seymour: An Introduction

(84 mins.;

PG: some mild thematic elements)

Reviewed on page 63.

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PREMIERES Danny Collins (106 mins.; R: language, drug use, and some nudity) An aging rock star (Al Pacino) vows to turn his life around after he finds a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.

Paseo Nuevo

and action throughout, some sensuality, thematic elements, and brief language)

Tris (Shailene Woodley) continues her fight against the powerful alliance that threatens to destroy her society. The action is silly bordering on preposterous, the characters take themselves all too seriously, and this seemingly incongruous combination actually translates into two extremely watchable and entirely winning films. (KS) Camino Real (D)/Metro  (D)

When a millionaire (Will Ferrell) is arrested for fraud, he turns to Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart) to prep him for jail.

Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo

(129 mins.; R: sequences of strong violence, language, and some sexual content)

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

Matilija Auditorium,  El Paseo, Ojai

Fiesta 

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NOW SHOWING (112 mins.; PG: mild thematic

This live-action film retells the classic fairy tale about a servant stepdaughter who becomes the object of affection for the kingdom’s prince. The remake comes nowhere near the domesticated grandeur of the 1950 cartoon, though it has its own moments, both new and wonderfully familiar. (DJP) Camino Real/Fiesta 

✯ Deli Man

(91 mins.; PG-13: some language)

Erik Anjou’s cinematic ode to the Great American Deli is part straightforward documentary, part personal case study.

But the real surprise here is the subtle, poignant way the film tackles those bigpicture questions, like how traditions are created, changed, and, sometimes, disappeared. (AC) Plaza de Oro

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AL PACINO ANNETTE BENING JENNIFER GARNER BOBBY CANNAVALE AND

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sexual content and language, some graphic nudity, and drug material)

The Third Man (104 mins.; NR) Orson Welles stars in this 1949 thriller about a novelist who travels to postwar Vienna and ends up investigating the death of an old friend.

Sat., Apr. , pm, Jauja (109 mins.; NR) A father and his daughter travel from Denmark to an isolated desert far from civilization. Viggo Mortensen stars.

Critics’ Pick

Get Hard (100 mins.; R: pervasive crude and

✯ Kingsman: The Secret Service

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Timbuktu (97 mins.; PG-13: some violence and thematic elements) A quiet cattle herder and his family living on the dunes of Timbuktu have their lives disrupted by jihadists. This film is dazzling but ultimately feels too timid for a theme that has set the world on fire in recent months. (DJP) Plaza de Oro

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a&e | ROB BREZSNY’S FREE WILL ASTROLOGY WEEK OF APRIL  ARIES

CANCER

LIBRA

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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): “Choconiverous” is an English slang word that’s defined as having the tendency, when eating a chocolate Easter Bunny, to bite the head off first. I recommend that you adopt this direct approach in everything you do in the coming weeks. Don’t get bogged down with preliminaries. Don’t get sidetracked by minor details, trivial distractions, or peripheral concerns. It’s your duty to swoop straight into the center of the action. Be clear about what you want and unapologetic about getting it.

(June 21 - July 22): People are paying attention to you in new ways. That’s what you wanted, right? You’ve been emanating subliminal signals that convey messages like “Gaze into my eternal eyes” and “Bask in the cozy glow of my crafty empathy.” So now what? Here’s one possibility: Go to the next level. Show the even-more-interesting beauty that you’re hiding below the surface. You may not think you’re ready to offer the gifts you have been “saving for later.” But you always think that. I dare you to reveal more of your deep secret power.

(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): Marketing experts say consumers need persistent prodding before they will open their minds to possibilities that are outside their entrenched habits. The average person has to be exposed to a new product at least eight times before it fully registers on his or her awareness. Remember this rule of thumb as you seek attention and support for your brainstorms.

Make use of the art of repetition. Not just any old boring, tedious kind of repetition, though. You’ve got to be as sincere and fresh about presenting your goodies the eighth time as you were the first.

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): Your subconscious desires and your conscious desires seem to be at odds. What you say you want is not in precise alignment with what your deep self wants. That’s why I’m worried that “Don’t! Stop!” might be close to morphing into “Don’t stop!”— or vice versa.

It’s all pretty confusing. Who’s in charge here? Your false self or your true self? Your wounded, conditioned, habitbound personality or your wise, eternal, ever-growing soul? I’d say it’s a good time to retreat into your sanctuary and get back in touch with your primal purpose.

SCORPIO

(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): Sometimes you’re cool, but other times you’re hot. You veer from acting aloof and distracted to being friendly and attentive. You careen from bouts of laziness to bursts of disciplined efficiency. It seems that you’re always either building bridges or burning them, and on occasion you are building and burning them at the same time. In short, Aquarius, you are a master of vacillation and a slippery lover of the in-between. When you’re not completely off-target and out of touch, you’ve got a knack for wild-guessing the future and seeing through the false appearances that everyone else regards as the gospel truth. I, for one, am thoroughly entertained!

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): The American snack cake known as a Twinkie contains 68 percent air. Among its 37 other mostly worthless ingredients are sugar, water, cornstarch, the emulsifier polysorbate 60, the filler sodium stearoyl lactylate, and food coloring. You can’t get a lot of nutritious value by eating it. Now let’s consider the fruit known as the watermelon. It’s 91 percent water and 6 percent sugar. And yet it also contains a good amount of Vitamin C, lycopene, and antioxidants, all of which are healthy for you. So if you are going to eat a whole lot of nothing, watermelon is a far better nothing than a Twinkie. Let that serve as an apt metaphor for you in the coming week.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): You may be as close as you have ever gotten to finding the long-lost Holy Grail — or Captain Kidd’s pirate treasure, for that matter, or Marie Antoinette’s jewels, or Tinkerbell’s magical fairy dust, or the smoking-gun evidence that Shakespeare’s plays were written by Francis Bacon. At the very least, I suspect you are ever-so-near to your personal equivalent of those precious goods. Is there anything you can do to increase your chances of actually getting it? Here’s one tip: Visualize in detail how acquiring the prize would inspire you to become even more generous and magnanimous than you already are.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): Some people believe unquestioningly in the truth and power of astrology. They imagine it’s an exact science that can unfailingly discern character and predict the future. Other people believe all astrology is nonsense. They think that everyone who uses it is deluded or stupid. I say that both of these groups are wrong. Both have a simplistic, uninformed perspective.

The more correct view is that some astrology is nonsense and some is a potent psychological tool. Some of it’s based on superstition and some is rooted in a robust mythopoetic understanding of archetypes. I encourage you to employ a similar appreciation for paradox as you evaluate a certain influence that is currently making a big splash in your life. In one sense, this influence is like snake oil, and you should be skeptical about it. But in another sense, it’s good medicine that can truly heal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): According to the Biblical stories, Peter was Christ’s closest disciple but acted like a traitor when trouble came. After Christ was arrested, in the hours before the trial, Peter denied knowing his cherished teacher three different times. His fear trumped his love, leading him to violate his sacred commitment.

Is there anything remotely comparable to that scenario developing in your own sphere, Virgo? If you recognize any tendencies in yourself to shrink from your devotion or violate your highest principles, I urge you to root them out. Be brave. Stay strong and true in your duty to a person or place or cause that you love.

(Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): In Cole Porter’s song “I Get a Kick Out of You,” he testifies that he gets no kick from champagne. In fact, “Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all,” he sings. The same is true about cocaine. “I’m sure that if I took even one sniff that would bore me terrifically, too,” Porter declares. With this as your nudge, Scorpio, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to identify the titillations that no longer provide you with the pleasurable jolt they once did. Acknowledge the joys that have grown stale and the adventures whose rewards have waned. It’s time for you to go in search of a new array of provocative fun and games.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): The English writer William Wordsworth (1770-1830) wrote hundreds of poems. Among his most famous was “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” which is also known as “Daffodils.” The poem sprung from him after a walk he took with his sister around Lake Ullswater in the English Lake District. There they were delighted to find a long, thick belt of daffodils growing close to the water. In his poem, Wordsworth praises the “ten thousand” flowers that were “Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way.” If you are ever going to have your own version of a daffodil explosion that inspires a burst of creativity, Sagittarius, it will come in the coming weeks.

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PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): How can you ripen the initiatives you have set in motion in recent weeks? Of the good new trends you have launched, which can you now install as permanent enhancements in your daily rhythm? Is there anything you might do to cash in on the quantum leaps that have occurred, maybe even figure out a way to make money from them? It’s time for you to shift from being lyrically dreamy to fiercely practical. You’re ready to convert lucky breaks into enduring opportunities.

Homework: Before bed over the next five nights, remember everything that happened during the day. Do it with compassion and objectivity. Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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Open 7 days 11:30a‑Close (Food ‘til 10p, 11p on Sat/Sun). AE MC PETIT VALENTIEN, 1114 V Disc. Authentic Irish food & STATE ST. #14, 805‑966‑0222. atmosphere in downtown SB. Open M‑F 11:30‑3pm (lunch). Specialties from Ireland include M‑Sat 5pm‑Close (dinner). Sun Seafood & Meat dishes. Informal, $24 four course prefix dinner. relaxed pub‑style atmosphere.

In La Arcada Plaza, Chef Robert Live music Thursday nights.

Children welcome. Avail. for pri‑ Dixon presents classic French vate parties. Pool & Darts. comfort food at affordable cost in this cozy gem of a restau‑ rant. Petit Valentien offers a Japanese wide array of meat and seafood KYOTO, 3232 State St, entrees along with extensive small plates and a wine list spe‑ 687‑1252.$$. Open 7days M‑F Sat Noon‑2: 30p cializing in amazing quality at 11:30a‑2p; arguably the best price in town. Lunch; Sun‑Thur 5‑10p Dinner, Fri‑Sat 5p‑10:30p.Complete A warm romantic atmosphere makes the perfect date spot. Sushi Bar. Steak & Seafood Comfortable locale for dinner Specials! Sashimi, Teriyaki, parties, or even just a relaxing original Japanese appetizers & Combination Boat Dinner. SB’s glass of wine. Reservations are only TATAMI Rooms reserva‑ recommended. tions suggested. Beer, Wine & Sake.Take Out. Birthday cus‑ Indian tomers get FREE tempura ice cream & photo on our website!

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The very next day, reader Meghan passed me this message: “Stacky’s Seaside in Summerland is in the process of changing ownership to Rusty’s Pizza Parlor. An official sign is posted on the porch and Santa Barbara New-Press had printed the official public notice, for both the transfer of business and transfer of liquor license. The current owner was working the register today and many regular customers were asking questions and giving him their blessings. My understanding is that he is happily retiring.

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Barbara Public Market is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a Spring Fling on Saturday, April 4, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., and invites the community to a free event to commemorate this exciting milestone with special springtime food samplings, cooking demonstrations, family festivities, and live music.

Fourteen merchants make up the dynamic collective at  West Victoria Street.

“The Santa Barbara Public Market is truly a unique experience for everyone,” says Marge Cafarelli, owner of the Santa Barbara Public Market. “It has been fun to watch visitors discover the great synergies that exist across the Market, and shop it each in their own way. We like to think of it as ‘choose your own adventure’ at the Public Market — whatever the experience you’re looking for may be, you’ll find it here!”

Starting at 10 a.m. on April 4, the celebration begins in The Kitchen with a visit from the Easter Bunny, along with egg-decorating crafts. The afternoon will offer a springtime culinary festival of food tastings, cooking demos, and classes. From 2-5 p.m., a Tasting Passport will be your ticket guide through the market to experience seasonal food tastings at participating market merchants. Get stamped at each merchant, and turn in your completed Passport for a chance to win prizes throughout the day. Festivities continue with

Santa Monica Seafood fishmongers in The Kitchen at 2 p.m. for a lesson in how to filet a fish, and more. Live music will be available noon-8 p.m.

SUSHI CAFÉ TO OPEN DOWNTOWN: Reader Brendan shared some words of wisdom: “Doesn’t look like it’s actually open yet, but a sign for Sushi Café has appeared in the window of the former Henning’s Cake Boutique on the ‘’ block of West Figueroa Street.”

DENNY’S DEPARTS: This just in from reader Tim:

“Hi John, I drove by Denny’s in Goleta on Calle Real tonight and it was closed. The Denny’s sign is gone and a for-lease sign is up.” Reader Rex of S.B. sent me similar information. Goleta Denny’s opened in July 2005.

Fortunately, you will still be able to get a Grand Slam breakfast on the South Coast by visiting Denny’s at  State Street. This leads me to ask about one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries: Which came first, freeways or Denny’s? If you know the answer, please let me know.

VIVA OLIVA: Reader Primetime let me know that

Viva Oliva is currently moving from Paseo Nuevo downtown to  Coast Village Road in Montecito.

Viva Oliva was created by Santa Barbara resident Andi Newville and her two daughters, Amanda and Ellie, to provide more than 40 flavors of premium oils, balsamic vinegars, and gourmet foods at affordable prices. Visit vivaoliva.com.

OTACO UPDATE: This just in from reader Jen:“Looks

like there is construction activity over at Angry Wings in Isla Vista and the chicken mural had been painted over.”

Angry Wings at  Pardall Road closed last December and will be replaced by OTaco. During the last decade, this address has been the home of Angry Wings (opened 2012), Chino’s Rock & Tacos (opened 2010), Eclectic I.V. (opened 2006), China Garden (opened 2006), and Kung Pao Kitchen (opened 2005).

IGRILL/SUSHI TERI UPDATE: Here is a message from reader Amie: “Hi John, iGrill Korean BBQ at  State Street has changed hands and is now owned by Sushi Teri (Laxman Perera a k a Nikka Marketing). Super excited! Also, Sushi Teri has a brand-new location at  West Ocean Avenue in Lompoc.”

John Dickson’s reporting can be found every day online at SantaBarbara.com.

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Legals Administer of Estate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JANET M. TAYLOR‑SCHOEPP aka Janet Taylor Schoepp and Janet Taylor‑Schoepp NO: 15PR00002 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JANET M. TAYLOR‑SCHOEPP aka JANET TAYLOR SCHOEPP and JANET TAYLOR‑SCHOEPP A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: CRISTINA‑MARIE DURAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): CRISTINA‑MARIE DURAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 4/16/2015 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: Five SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: BARNES & BARNES 1900 State Street, Suite M Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑687‑6660.

Published Mar 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ISABELL OSTROM aka MARY ISABELL OSTROM and M. ISABELL OSTROM NO: 15PR00006 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ISABELL OSTROM aka MARY ISABELL OSTROM and M. ISABELL OSTROM

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A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: Margaret V. Barnes in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): COURTNEY DESOTO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 4/23/2015 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: Five SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: BARNES & BARNES 1900 State Street, Suite M Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑687‑6660.

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Glen Albyn Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 1/14/2013 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑0000129.

The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Lesley Sammells (same address). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11 2015.

I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. for Published. Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Smart Translating Team at 7352 Elmhurst Place Goleta, CA 93117 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 3/15/2011 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2011‑0000855.

The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Susana Haake (same address) Robert Haake (same address). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11 2015. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. for Published. Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: SAS Comfort Shoes at 3421 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93105 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 4/9/2014 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2014‑0001040.

The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: SAS Comfort Shoes of Santa Barbara LLC (same address) . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26 2015. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. for Published. Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Sama Group at 1611 Olive St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Ben Werner (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ben Werner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2015‑0001017. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Association DID YOU KNOW Information is power United For A Better Community and content is King? Your doorway at 502 N. Milpas St Santa Barbara, to statewide Public Notices, California CA 93103; Dante Omar Morales 66 Newspaper Publishers Association Smart Oceanview Ave, Apt 36 Santa Barbara, Search Feature. Sign‑up, Enter keywords CA 93103; Rosemary Munoz 5077 and sit back and let public notices come Santa Susana Ave Santa Barbara, CA to you on your mobile, desktop, and 93111 (same address) This business tablet. For more information call is conducted by a Unincorporated Cecelia @ (916) 288‑6011 or www.­ Association Signed: Frank J. Artusio, capublicnotice.com (Cal‑SCAN) Treasurer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara FBN Abandonment County on Feb 13, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) NAME The following Fictitious Business by Frank J. Artusio, Treasurer. FBN Name is being abandoned: Interwoven Number: 2015‑0000522. Published: Mar Health at 5370 Hollister Avenue, Suite 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

7 The original statement for use of BUSINESS NAME this Fictitious Business Name was filed FICTITIOUS 12/13/2013 in the County of Santa STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑0003716. are doing business as: Back To Basics at The person (s) or entities abandoning 1107 San Andres Street Santa Barbara, (same use of this name are as follows: Karin CA 93103; Gregory M. Ortiz­ R.P. Gluck 301 Verano Drive #40 Santa address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gregory M. Ortiz Barbara, CA 93110; Aaron M. Gluck (same address). This statement was filed This statement was filed with the County with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar County on Feb 20 2015. I hereby certify 02, 2015. This statement expires five that this is a correct copy of the original years from the date it was filed in the statement on file in my office, Joseph Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Morales. for Published. Mar 12, 19, Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000732.

Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

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BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT FICTITIOUS OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS STATEMENT The following person(s) NAME The following Fictitious Business is/are doing business as: Terraza Cafe Name is being abandoned: Mission Blend of Mexican & American Food Canyon Typing Service at 2970 at 3007 De La Vina Street Santa

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Barbara, CA 93105; Rosalinda Monrroy 662 La Roda Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Rosalinda Monrroy This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 4, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Sheaff, 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: Jake’s Plumbing at 110 Saint Albans Place Goleta, CA 93117; Jacob Bonneau (same address) This business is conducted by a IndividualSigned: Jacob Bonneau This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 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 Jessica Sheaff, FBN Number: 2015‑0000748.

Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Alki Acupuncture, Alki Myotherapy & Massage, Alki Art & Wellness Institute, Grandle Chiropractic PC, Alki Chiropractic at 209A Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Grandle Chiropractic PC at 209A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Grandle Chiropratic PC (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Marc D. Grandle, President 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: 2015‑0000724.

Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Art Nails at 1047 Casitas Pass Road Carpinteria, CA 93013; Thuy Trang Dang 5155 Tabano Way Santa Barbara, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Thuy Trang Dang This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 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: 2015‑0000764.

Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Dreamcather at 524 E. Arrellaga Street #B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Dreamcatcher LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Alison Morrow Johnson 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: 2015‑0000734.

Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Goleta Vineyard, VCF of Goleta, Goleta Vineyard Christian Fellowship VCFG, Goleta Vineyard Church, Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Goleta at 5276 Hollister Avenue, Suite 352 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Goleta (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Martin L. Reitzin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 09, 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: 2015‑0000814. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Holdren’s Personal Touch Tours at 309 Moreton Bay Lane #3 Goleta, CA 93117; Charles Edward Holdren (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Charles Edward Holdren This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 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: 2015‑0000757.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Branches, Branches Gallery, Branches Mobile Gallery at 5684 Encina Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Luke Holden (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Luke Holden This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Christina Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000827. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Lucid University, Lucid University at 5684 Encina Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Lucidity Festival LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Luke Holden This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 10, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christina Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000828. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sunny Pools And Windows at 18 East Mission Street Apt‑B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sunny Robin (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sunny Robin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 5, 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: 2015‑0000791. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Fortune Services at 328 East Carrillo Street, Suite C Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Robert Anthony Fortune (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert A. Fortune This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 09, 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: 2015‑0000815. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haggen #2130, Haggen Pharmacy #2130 at 1500 North H Street Lompoc, CA 93436; Haggen Opco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: 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: 2015‑0000646.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Haggen #2151 at 3943 State St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Haggen Opco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: 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: 2015‑0000652.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haggen #2146 at 163 S. Turnpike Rd Goleta, CA 93111; Haggen Opco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: 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: 2015‑0000648.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haggen #2150 at 2010 Cliff Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Haggen Opco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: 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: 2015‑0000651.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haggen #2146, Haggen Pharmacy #2145 at 850 Linden Avenue Carpinteria, CA 93013; Haggen Opco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: 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: 2015‑0000647.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Haggen #2149 at 175 N. Fairview Ave. Goleta, CA 93117; Haggen Poco South, LLC 2211 Rimland Drive Bellingham, WA 98226 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: 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: 2015‑0000649.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

is/are doing business as: Downhill Co at 841 Weldon Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Pedro Goncalves Darin Franca (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Pedro Goncalves Darin Franca This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000886.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zepeda Trucking, Zepeda Trucking, Inc at 5565 Stillwell Road Santa Maria, CA 93455; Zepeda Trucking, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Andres Zepeda, Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Jessica Sheeif. FBN Number: 2015‑0000840. Published: Mar 19, 26.

Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Super Cuca’s No. 3 at 6527 Madrid Road Goleta, CA 93117; Jenaro Rios 2504 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jenaro Rios This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Miriam Leon.

FBN Number: 2015‑0000872. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: A Foolish Mortal at 3085 Calle Pinon Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Stephen Guillermo­ (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Stephen Guillermo 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000714.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Proform Fitness And Training at 127 Canon Perdido St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Proform Fitness And Training, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Joe Lyons, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000869. Published: Mar 19, 26.

Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simply Pies at 5392 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Bonnie Claire, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Hallie Katnic 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0000582.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coast Carpet Cleaning at 4945 Cervato Way Santa Barbara, CA 93111; David Stapp (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: David Stapp This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000861.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brew 42, Brew 42 Bottle Shop & Tap Room, Brew 42 Tap Room & Bottle Shop at 116 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Good Beer Company, LLC 1430 Laguna Street, Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000838.

Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Goleta Fit Body Boot Camp at 7127 Hollister Ave, Suite 110 Goleta, CA 93117; Fitness Impact, Inc 4175 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Marianna Sarkisova This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000853. Published: Mar 19, 26.

Apr 2, 9 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wilder Public Relations at 1324 East Haley St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jessica Elizabeth Clayton (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jessica Clayton This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000807. Published: Mar 19, 26. Apr 2, 9 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Netlok at 1171 Crestline Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93105; No Password, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 16, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000894. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Farm To Fork CSA at 2405 Medcliff Rd. Santa

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Barbara, CA 93109; Kristi Curtis (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kristi Curtis This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000967.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sustainable Solutions at 401 East Victoria St #5 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Angelina Sanchez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 4, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000762. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Public Data Check at 5662 Calle Real, Suite 107 Goleta, CA 93117; National Data Analytics, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000845. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zaytoon at 209 E Canon Perdido St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Fawaz Istwani 1235 Franciscan Ct #1 Carpinteria, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2015‑0000830.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Yardi Marketplace at 430 South Fairview Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Sitestuff, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gordon Morrell, Secretary This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000810. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coastal Communications at 72 Santa Felicia Drive Goleta, CA 93117; D & B Communications Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Dallas B. Angele, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000902.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ourtown Property Management at 1627 Chapala Street #5 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; John Ucciferri (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John Ucciferri This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000821.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Automobile

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Consulting Group at 931 N Alisos St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Frank Flores (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Frank Flores This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2015‑0000930.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Carrillo Upholstery at 713 W Micheltorena St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Norma Carrillo (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Norma Carrillo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2015‑0000940.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: M. V. Landscape And Irrigation System at 514 W. Anapamu Street Apt #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Marcos Vasquez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Marcos Vasquez Rios 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 Jessica Sheaff. FBN Number: 2015‑0000672. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Envision Health Coaching at 322 #2 W. Canon Perdido Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Mary Beth Merola (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Mary Beth Merola This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000939.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fly Away Hang Gliding at 237 Santa Catalina St Santa Barabra, CA 93109; William Dydo Christopher (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: William Christopher Dydo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2015‑0000942. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: ECO SB Design at 1418 Alta Vista Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; ECO SB Design (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Eduardo S. Bell This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 6, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000811. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Homes at 3038 Las Positas Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; John P. Gaffney (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John P. Gaffney This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 5, 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: 2015‑0000774. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

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is/are doing business as: Sounds of Santa Barbara at 259 Helena St. Los Alamos, CA 93440; Taylor Dubois (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Taylor Dubois This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 23, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000964. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Moon Unit Wines at 84 Industrial Way Unit C Buellton, CA 93427; Ryan Ellis Roark 9160 HWY 101 Los Alamos, CA 93440 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gretchen Voelcker This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 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: 2015‑0000754. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PDC Consulting at 650 Palm Ave Carpinteria, CA 93013; Patricia K Devaney Campbell (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Patricia K. Devaney Campbell This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 23, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000961. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Styling Bella Beauty Lounge at 2607 De La Vina Santa Barbara, CA 93105; CMF Creative Services, LLC 582 Vine St Oak View, CA 93022 This business is conducted by a Limited Liaqbility Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000906.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zizzo’s Coffee at 370 Storke Road Goleta, CA 93117; Java Paradise, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Michael McDonald This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0000837.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Zizzo’s At The Village‑Coffee & Craft Beer at Hollister Village Plaza‑Unit D‑1 Goleta, CA 93117; Java Brew Enterprises 6847 Silkberry Ln Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Michael McDonald This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000836. Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Sqrshot at 1333 De La Vina St, Ste E Santa Barbara, CA, 93101; Motion Unlimited, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0000920.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gerardo’s Cleaning Service at 5776 Alondra Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Gerardo Valdez­ (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gerardo Valdez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000904.

Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAS Comfort Shoes Santa Barbara at 3423 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Tarburventures Corporation 18965 Ventura Blvd Tarzana, CA 91356 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0001011 Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Noks Expert Thai Massage Center, Thai Massage

By Nok at 26 S La Cumbre Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Roy McLaughlin 109 Dearborn Place Apt 67 Goleta, CA 93117; Somnuk McLaughlin (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Roy McLaughlin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0001014.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fancy Brands Inc., Fancy Spirits Inc., Margerum Wine Company at 37 Industrial Way Unit 102 Buellton, CA 93427; Ascendant Spirts Inc. 118 Calle Bello Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Paul Gertman, CFO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2015‑0001027.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Golden Landscape Maintenance at 321 La Marina Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Claudia Golden (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Claudia Golden This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0001026.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Boat & Breakfast, Santa Barbara Charter Company, Santa Barbara Tour Company at 836 anacapa St #332 Santa Barbara, CA 93102; Jared C Bobb (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jared Bobb This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 9, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000820.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LKW Consulting, LKW Design Marketing at 1930 Elise Way #B Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Lisa Kimberlee Walker (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lisa Walker This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar

5, 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: 2015‑0000775.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Savoy Gals at 1221 State Street suite 12 #90948 Santa Barbara, CA 93190; Anamaria Herrera (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Anamaria Herrera This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0001031.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Summerset Farm at 3450 Baseline Ave Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Alexandra B Geremia 3500 HWY Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0001043. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 1284 Account at 104 San Federico Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111; James Dykstra (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jim Dykstra This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0001041.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Farm Box Collective at 336 E Islay Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kristi Curtis (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kristi Curtis This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 30, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0001040. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Precision Concrete Cutting at 4712 Admiralty Way #886 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292; Safe Sidewalk Incorporated 5737 Kanan Rd #718 Agoura Hills, CA 91301 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2015‑0000835.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Oxley Goods at 433 E. Pedregosa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Elizabeth Chapple (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Elizabeth Chapple This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0000981. Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gilly’s Chocolate Fountains at 6158 Craigmont Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Gillian Linberg (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: G. Linberg This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2015‑0000973.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Glimmer Design Studio at 375 Pine Avenue #10 Goleta, CA 93117; Emmy Lise MacKenzie 316 West Anapamu Street #8 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Emmy L. MacKenzie This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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: 2015‑0000978.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Goconfrence, Secureconf at 662 Chelham Way Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Chase Com (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Herb Levitin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 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 Jessica Sheaff. FBN Number: 2015‑0000990.

Published: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Carpinteria Landscape Nursery at 933 Elm Ave, Carpinteria, CA 93013; Lynda Anne Adams 950 Medio Road Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lynda Adams This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 03, 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: 2015‑0000744. Published: Mar 12, 19, 26. Apr 2 2015.

Public Notices PUBLIC NOTICE NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS. The Usui Reiki Center admits students, volunteers, staff and clients of any race to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to its students, volunteers, staff and clients and does not discriminate on the basis of race in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school administered programs.

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Summons WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD; SPECIAL NOTICE OF LAWSUIT (Pursuant to Labor Code section 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure section 412.20 and 412.30) WCAB No. ADJ9305712 To: DEFENDANT, ILLEGALLY UNINSURED EMPLOYER: APPLICANT, Mateo Garcia DEEFENDANTS, Vicente Valtazar NOTICES 1)A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, as been filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the above named applicant.

You may seek the advice of an attorney in any matter connected with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that you response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion.

If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office (see telephone directory).

2)An Answer to the Application must

be filed and served within six days of the serve of the application pursuant to Appeals Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests.

3) You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property or other relief.

If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a non‑judicial state, with no exemptions from execution.

A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance ofanaward.

4)You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and paper and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and address of Appeals Board: WCAB Santa Barbara 411 E. Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Name and address of applicant’s attorney: Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; FORM COMPLETED BY: Crystal C. Forsher Feld, Esq. Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 965‑4540.

NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served: as the person(s) sued under the fictitious name(s) of: Vicente Valtazar Published: Mar 26. Apr 2, 9, 16 2015.

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ARTS & LECTURES Responsible for the administrative and financial functions of the Arts & Lectures program, including invoicing, travel, and reimbursement processing, petty cash management, and department auditing procedures. Assists with department payroll. Compiles data for annual, financial, and statistical reporting. Acts as department buyer for all purchasing needs. Reqs: Education and/or work history reflecting strong bookkeeping and accounting background. Experience with financial and accounting operations. Strong critical thinking, administrative, and organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy.

Education and/or work history reflecting strong accounting and bookkeeping background. Experience with financial and accounting operations. Note: Fingerprinting required. $17.48/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.For primary consideration apply by 4/12/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150162

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Join our zoo team in our mission to save the world! Do you have a strong understanding of fundraising practices and specifically annual giving? Are you strategic, self‑motivated, creative, and detail‑oriented? We are seeking an Annual Giving Officer to manage all aspects of the Zoo’s annual giving programs in our Development Dept. BA degree, and a min. 2 yrs. of successful exp. in fundraising, communications, marketing, or related field. Must have excellent interpersonal, organizational, analytical, verbal and written communication skills, demonstrate initiative, and be a problem solver.

40K & up, DOE. Please go to http://www.sbzoo.­ org/ more/careers/ for more details, email Application to hr@sbzoo.org or fax to (805)962‑3056, Attn. HR.

Part and full‑time positions available NOW!!!!! Campaign Fundraising Positions for Democratic and Progressive groups. Telefund is seeking activists to call like‑minded people and mobilize their support for environmental, human rights issues, and the 2016 Presidential election. Earn $9‑$11.50/hr, plus bonuses!! Convenient S.B. location, near bus. CALL NOW: 564‑1093 Or VISIT: www.telefund.com

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UCEN OPERATIONS Operates vacuum cleaners, buffers, shampoo machines, wet/dry vacuums, waxers, floor scrubbing machines for stripping, washing, buffing and/ or other related cleaning operations.

Maintains security for one or more assigned areas; may load/unload large trash receptacles. May assist with training student personnel. Works individually or as part of a team in cleaning and/or maintaining work areas.

Reqs: Must be able to communicate effectively.

Must have custodial experience. Working knowledge and experience in utilizing the following equipment: vacuums, conventional and high‑speed buffers, extractors and related custodial equipment desirable.

Demonstrated experience working in a heavily populated retail environment.

Ability to adjust to changes and/ or situations as they arise. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Ability to lift up to 50 pounds. Must be able to work Friday‑Tuesday from 5:00am ‑ 2:00pm. $17.54­/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For primary consideration apply by 4/7/15, thereafter open until filled. Job #20150154

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Central Coast Home Health is a fast‑growing organization with an excellent reputation throughout the Central Coast. We are seeking a full‑time RN for the Santa

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Lynda.com, Inc. seeks Senior Business Systems Analyst, ERP to work with business stakeholders from our Finance dept. & serve as primary expert on bus. apps. Resume to worksite: 6410 Via Real, Carpinteria, CA 93013

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For more information on how you can advance your future with these opportunities, or to submit a resume, please contact: Cottage Health System, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689. Please apply online at www.cottagehealthsystem.org.

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SOMIS, CA 5BD/6BA, 7,180 sq. ft.

SANTA BARBARA 3600 sq. ft. 4BD/3.5BA

SANTA BARBARA 4BD/3.5BA San

on the Mesa. Panoramic ocean & island views completely remodeled in 2008.

Roque home updated. Near Monte Vista School, dual living potential, & more!

$2,295,000 GTProp.com/2446Garden

gated estate w/ avocado, orange groves, private trails 35 acres & a heli-pad approval. $2,195,000 GTprop.com/6906SolanVerde

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

$1,349,000 GTprop.com

130 VISTA DE LA CUMBRE

3051 MARILYN WAY

873 SANTA MARGUERITA DR.

6244 MARLBOROUGH DR.

NEWING T LIS

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SANTA BARBARA San Roque

SANTA BARBARA San Roque,

SANTA BARBARA 3BD/2BA well

2BD/2BA, 2 car garage, fireplace & pool is in the most convenient location!

maintained & updated San Roque Ranch Style. Lots of space for storage & more.

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

GOLETA 2 story 5BD/3BA home in quiet

3BD/2BA home w/ hardwood flrs, fireplace, 1-car garage w/office & pool.

$1,200,000 GTprop.com/CalleManzanita

$999,000 GTprop.com/130Vistadelacumbre

$999,000 GTprop.com/3051Marilyn

$974,500 GTprop.com/873SantaMarguerita

$889,000 GTprop.com/6244Marlborough

335 RANCHERIA STREET

492 COOL BROOK ROAD

2641 STATE ST. W3

2648 STATE STREET #32

6985 CAT CANYON ROAD

NEWING T LIS

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

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SANTA BARBARA Excellent investor

GOLETA 3BD/2.5BA home on cul-de-

SANTA BARBARA Lg 3BD/2BA upper

SANTA BARBARA Los Encinos

SANTA MARIA 76 acre parcel with

property. Two, 2BD/1BA units. R-4 Zoning.

Close to SBCC, Beach and Downtown.

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

unit. Excellent house alternative. Garage, pool, downtown location. Move in ready.

Condo w/ updated kitchen & baths.

Hardwood flrs, & much more!

potential for home sites, horses and farming. Easy access to and from Cat Canyon

$849,000 GTprop.com

$799,000 GTprop.com/492CoolBrook

$699,000 GTprop.com/2641State

$659,000 GTprop.com/2648State32

$495,000 GTprop.com/6985CatCanyon

37 DEARBORN PL. #69

483 LINFIELD PLACE D

532 STATE STREET

There has never been a better time to buy in Santa Barbara than NOW!

Call us to help you find the right property.

GOLETA Sought-after ground flr end

GOLETA Only unit w/ 1 car garage. Up-

SANTA BARBARA DT SB restaurant

unit 2BD/1BTH, laundry, large pool, tastefully remodeled and very move-in ready.

dated 1BD/1BA end unit. Great for investor or owner occupant. Low HOA dues.

with a Title 47 ABC license (2am) + long term lease in SB’s entertainment district!

$399,000 GTprop.com/37Dearborn

$369,000 GTprop.com/483LinfieldD

$199,000 GTprop.com/532State

BRE# 01477382

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