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A spectacular sale of donated treasures – a Santa Barbara tradition!

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Howard Booth shares tips on not getting your bike stolen.

Movie Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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If you’ve enjoyed them in print, you can see them on TV Santa Barbara Channel 17 online and on cable all weekend. The Santa Barbara Independent’s (from left) Lyz Hoffman, Jerry Roberts, Kelsey Brugger, and Nick Welsh met on Robert’s City Desk show (tvsb.tv) tvsb.tv) where news, rumor, tvsb.tv and conjecture about the Board of Supervisors’ approval of the Miramar, the race for Lois Capps’s congressional seat, and the fate of baby sea lions were tossed around as only a team of journalists can.

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A woman, identified as 88-year-old Lorraine Mathilda Schmerzler, was killed in a house fire that broke out at 127 Loureyro Road in Montecito on 4/27. Firefighters responded to the home fully engulfed in flames at 7:30 a.m., and Schmerzler’s body was reportedly found inside near the front door.

The fire and death are under investigation.

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Soon after Peter D’Orazio went missing in September 2012, his body was found in Las Vegas, but the “sensitive nature” of the case precluded disclosure of the information until now, said Sheriff’s officials this week.

The Goleta man had clocked out from his emissions specialist job at ExxonMobil on September 6; a week later, after a missing persons report was filed, Nevada authorities notified the S.B. Sheriff’s Office that his body had been found in a storage bin. Authorities believe the murder occurred in Santa Barbara County. Anyone with information on the case can call the Sheriff’s Anonymous Tip Line at 681-4171.

WHAT RECOVERY? Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein (at microphone) detailed how wages have gone down — not up — despite the recovery and how Santa Barbara workers have been victimized by various forms of “wage theft.”

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In fact, many Santa Barbara County workers making less than $30,000 a year have seen their hourly earnings actually decline since the Great Recession. In response, a group of high-profile community activists and S.B.area labor unions congregated in front of City Hall Wednesday morning to highlight such findings in gory statistical detail. They’re hoping, they said, to kick-start “a community conversation” on ways to reduce the economic pain experienced by those squeezed between the South Coast’s notorious high cost of living and low-wage reality.

While the speakers — representing liberalprogressive organizations like CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy), SBCAN (S.B. County Action Network), and CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice)—were strategically nonspecific on details, it’s all but certain they will be pushing a ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour within Santa Barbara city limits in the next two years. The California minimum wage is now $9 an hour and slated to increase to $10 in 2016. Cities like Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland 8

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have already passed minimum wage hikes — phased in over time—and Los Angeles is now contemplating one.

The Santa Barbara coalition also hopes to craft its own response to a host of practices it describes as “wage theft,” an expression that denotes employers who don’t pay overtime, fail to allow lunch and meal breaks, and don’t let employees take sick leave. Typically, the enforcement of such labor standards is a matter of state action, but in some cities, enforcement provisions against “wage theft” have been included in ballot initiatives to lift the minimum wage.

According to research prepared by Cameron Yee of CAUSE, a Ventura-based group that’s advocated for bottom-up economic initiatives in Santa Barbara like the living-wage proposal, six occupations that earn $30,000 a year or less experienced a decline in their median wages between 2007 and 2013. Yee noted that seven of the 11 occupations projected to have the most number of job openings throughout Santa Barbara County over the next seven years pay less than $15 an hour.

Four of them pay less than $11 an hour.

For a family of four to make ends meet in Santa Barbara, Yee claimed, the adult members have to bring home $81,743 a year.

Nearly 70,000 employees countywide make $30,000 or less; 43,000 make $22,000 or less. independent.com

As a result, Yee noted, 60 percent of all renters are now paying more than one-third of their income for housing; one-third of renters pay more than 50 percent.

Nelson Lichtenstein, a nationally acclaimed labor historian and head of UCSB’s Center for the Study of Work, Labor & Democracy, recently surveyed 124 low-wage workers and concluded that Santa Barbara employers typically pay a little more than a dollaran-hour less than employers statewide for maids, housekeepers, retail salespeople, and food prep workers. For construction laborers, Lichtenstein found Santa Barbara workers —on average—were paid $5 an hour less than their counterparts statewide.

The Wednesday-morning announcement was tactically timed to provide an alternative reading to Thursday’s much more businessfriendly Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project hosted by UCSB. Included in the Economic Forecast are wage statistics every bit as chilling as anything provided by Yee. According to the report’s key author, Peter Rupert, hourly wages have been flat and stagnant throughout Santa Barbara County for 13 years. Only two of the top 10 occupations, by number of employees, pay more than the hourly median of $16.23, said Rupert’s report; only three of the fastest growing occupations cont’d page 10  do. (Rupert’s calculation

Carlos Medina (pictured), one of three men who recently pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with a 2013 incident in which a homeless man was beaten unconscious and later died, was sentenced this week to six years in prison for the crime. Medina, 45, assaulted 51-yearold Richard Boden in Granny’s Field along with Jonathan Andrade, 21, and Roman Romero, 19, who were sentenced to six-year and three-year prison terms, respectively.

Cell phone footage posted to YouTube on 4/22 appears to show a Santa Barbara police officer knocking a cell phone out of the hands of a bystander filming a 3/7 arrest. Officers responded to a large fight at Velvet Jones that night. In the video, Sgt. Eric Beecher appears to use his own cell phone to film the bystander, approaches, asks his name, and the man’s phone falls to the ground. The bystander accuses him of swatting the phone from his grasp. Beecher responds that it was an “accident.” The Police Department has launched an internal investigation.

County Probation foresees the next fiscal year will involve less supervision of some criminals and more of others under AB 109.

Probation Chief Guadalupe Rabago told supervisors that he counted 271 nonviolent, nonserious, non-high-risk sex offenders on

casa esperanza Merger The Santa Barbara City Council conceptually approved plans for Casa Esperanza (pictured), the largest homeless shelter on the South Coast, to merge with a Los Angeles nonprofit, People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), which boasts 30 years’ experience operating shelters in 22 communities from San Diego to San Luis Obispo. PATH executive Joel John Roberts underscored his organization’s commitment to transitioning people from the streets into housing — he claimed PATH helped house 4,200 people — rather than just providing shelter and food. In addition, Roberts stressed the need to “wow” the neighbors in communities where PATH operates. Given Casa Esperanza’s tumultuous relations with some Milpas Street businesses, this was music to the councilmembers’ ears.

PATH’s involvement promises to inject both financial stability and expertise to an enterprise born of a public-private partnership backed strongly — and generously — by City Hall. For the merger to go through, PATH needed assurances that the permits held by Casa Esperanza could be transferred and that City Hall would continue funding the shelter out of several separate funds, this year to the tune of $400,000.

City Attorney Ariel Calonne stated much work remained to be done to hammer out details, but in concept not one discouraging word was heard. If all goes according to schedule, the merger should be complete by July. Casa Esperanza operates a yearround shelter of 100 beds and a winter shelter with 100 more. PATH currently has 400 — Nick Welsh beds in its many shelters, but 1,500 units of transitional housing.

county probation — instead of the state’s — which could drop to 248 by June 2016. For similar offenders serving time in County Jail instead of state prison, Rabago said the figure hovers at 202 and is expected to hit 226 by next June. Proposition 47 — which demoted many felonies to misdemeanors — is expected to reduce the AB 109’ers under supervision such that the Probation Department will ax one position.

ciTy T Ty Basking in sunshine, if not rain, Santa Barbara continued to attract increasing numbers of tourists and sales tax dollars in March. The city’s transient occupancy tax increased by 10 percent over March 2014, bringing the total for the fiscal year to $13.6 million. About 1.7 percent came from vacation rentals. The city also received its second-fiscal-quarter sales tax payment from the state in March, close to $5.6 million. That, too, expanded over the previous period, with the to-date fiscal year showing growth of 4.7 percent and $11.1 million in sales tax.

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A couple of Santa Barbarans traveled to Nepal this week in an effort to help the Nepali digging out from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on 4/25. Direct Relief’s Gordon Willcock

arrived in Kathmandu over the weekend to coordinate arriving medical supplies and distribution, and Santa Barbara County firefighter and paramedic Eric Gray and his search dog Riley (pictured) were part of a task force deployed to help recover survivors.

EDucATiOn The school board was briefed on 4/28 about the $12.7 million Santa Barbara High School stadium remodel. So far, the SBHS Foundation has raised $2.7 million of its $5 million goal. Bond measure funds and state money will pay for the remaining $7.7 million. If fundraising goes as planned, foundation development director Katie Jacobs added, construction will commence after football season this November and should be completed by June 2017. The new stadium will feature a new grandstand, artificial turf, and synthetic track.

The class of 2016 will have to find a new location for its graduation ceremony.

SBHS assistant principal Gabe Sandoval was unanimously approved by the school board on 4/28 to serve as the new principal of Cleveland Elementary School. Last month, Cleveland principal Cynthia White was placed on immediate medical leave for undisclosed reasons. Sandoval, who is fluent in Spanish and who taught elementary school from 20082012, said he is excited to embrace the diversity of the campus and develop relationships with students, staff, and parents.

To cap off a week that highlighted the problem of sexual violence on college campuses, UCSB fraternity men on 4/24 wore highheeled shoes during a parade from Storke Tower to Isla Vista. Hosted by Sigma Phi and Kappa Sigma, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes brought together more than 100 frat brothers and sorority sisters. Sigma Phi president cont’d page 12 

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by T y l e r h ay D e N veryone wants to see the Santa Bar- chef who trained in Tuscany and worked at bara Public Market succeed, even the Four Seasons Biltmore—make and sell those lining up to escape it. fresh pasta. Harding had personally audiAfter one full year of business, all tioned her food for Cafarelli, who prided 11 of the market’s independent merchants still herself on selecting the “best in class” to fill admire the ambitious commercial concept the market’s stalls.

—one of the biggest and most expensive in The Pasta Shoppe expected its triple-net city history— history and hope desperately to make and common-area-maintenance charges to it work. The high-ceilinged Victoria Street range between $1.80 and $2.50 per square space just off downtown’s main drag is packed foot a month. However, they average approxiwith vendors selling all manner of gourmet mately $5.00 per square foot and have since food. There’s a butcher and a fishmonger, a the Public Market opened, the lawsuit alleges. bread baker and a juicer, as well as purveyors The reason for the discrepancy is unclear. (Per their triple-net leases, Harding and the marof cheese, olive oil, and produce.

But five of those tenants are so dejected ket’s other tenants cover the 15,200-squareby how things are going and feel so mis- foot property’s taxes, insurance, and upkeep.)

Michelle O’Connor, Harding’s publicist, treated by property owner and developer Marge Cafarelli that they’ve banded together in protest and retained an attorney to weigh their legal options.

They say the market’s foot traffic is consistently low, sometimes alarmingly so, and that their lease rates are much higher than what was promised in their contracts. They claim attempts to speak with Cafarelli about those concerns and others have gone nowhere or been completely rebuffed.

On April 1, the Pasta Shoppe sued Cafarelli and the Public Market for breach of IN A PICKLE: Marge Cafarelli says everything is fine at contract. Pasta Shoppe owner the Public Market, but many merchants say otherwise.

Diane Harding is trying to rescind her lease and force Cafarelli to repay the expenses she incurred said the Public Market was built and billed to be like San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marbut never agreed to.

Harding claims that when she signed ketplace, with artisanal vendors peddling topher five-year lease in January 2013, Cafarelli shelf food and high-end wares from stalls assured her 1,500-2,500 potential custom- alongside anchoring restaurants. It hasn’t ers would walk through the white building played out that way. every day. That number doesn’t crest 1,000, Instead of buying ingredients to cook at the lawsuit states. Other merchants say it usu- home, customers more often use the Santa ally hovers around 500.

Barbara market for sit-down meals, she said.

Represented by James Smith of Santa Bar- And the merchants who set up their spaces to bara law firm Grokenberger & Smith, Hard- sell groceries, not host diners, have had a hard ing, who cofounded Madison’s Sports Grill & time adapting to the food court model. “A lot Tavern and managed it for 15 years, also claims of the places can’t pivot to accommodate that that Cafarelli pledged to host a grand open- [change],” O’Connor said.

Many of the vendors signed their leases ing last April with Governor Jerry Brown in attendance. When Brown didn’t RSVP, the knowing they wouldn’t get rich, but they unveiling was relegated to a lackluster event thought they’d at least turn a profit based on the promised foot traffic and triple-net figthat failed to generate much attention.

Plus, other tenants have said, Cafarelli ures, O’Conner said. Some of the merchants sprung the opening on the merchants with are reportedly losing up to $7,000 a month. only a few days’ notice, and so their first They’re watching how Harding’s lawsuit proimpression on local, and what should have ceeds before potentially starting the expenbeen repeat, customers was disorganized and sive process of breaking their own leases. not up to their usual standards. Cafarelli and They’re also keeping a close eye on the two her publicity team have since failed to effec- big retail spaces next to the market that are tively promote the Public Market to Santa still sitting idle. One of the storefronts was Barbarans and tourists alike, the lawsuit supposed to house a Full of Life Flatbread rescharges. taurant. That plan never materialized, and no Harding currently pays $2,782.50 a month other eatery has been selected to take its place.

The Public Market is on its third manager, in base rent for 584 square feet of floor space where she and her staff —including a head O’Conner continued, cont’d page 10 

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Minimum Wage cont’d from page 8 of the annual median is higher than Yee’s because Yee excluded all government jobs.) Rupert found that wages tended to be lowest in those sectors with the most employees — farm workers, food service, and tourism in particular.

Rupert’s graphs show employment in Santa Barbara rising steadily, with 22,000 new jobs created since the depths of the recession. His graphs showing wages, however, show a plunge during the recession, a brief ascent between 2008 and 2011, flat lines to 2014, and then another drop since. Rupert was struck by the lack of any “wage pressure,” particularly given the very low unemployment numbers on the South Coast. Although Rupert speculated the high number of people jobless before could explain this, he acknowledged, “Nobody has a serious idea why we’re seeing a drop in wage pressures.”

Rupert took a dim view of any legislative intervention where wages were concerned. If the minimum wage were

increased, he predicted, fewer employees would be hired. “When you make something more expensive, people use less of it,” he said. That’s certainly one strand of economic thought, but other economists have opined that minimum wage increases put more money in more peoples’ pockets, thus sparking more economic activity.

Chamber of Commerce executive Kent Oplinger said business owners in the tourism and retail industries expressed “great concern” over a hike in minimum wage, adding such worry was not so intensely felt by members in other sectors. Oplinger suggested that proponents of a regional increase should wait until the State Legislature decides the fate of a couple wage bump bills now under consideration.

How such an increase might be implemented, he said, is almost as important as how much of an increase it is.“Businesses value predictability,” he said.“That’s part of the conversation we’d like to have.” n

Public Market cont’d from page 9 and Cafarelli’s publicist is careful to make sure no criticism of the operation finds its way into media reports. For an interview with The Santa Barbara Independent last December about the Pasta Shoppe’s supposed successes, Harding was pressured to “basically fake it,” O’Conner claimed.

Said another merchant who wished to remain anonymous: “I appreciate the message out there that everything is great and fine, because everyone wants it to be great and fine, but that’s far from reality.”

O’Conner conceded that any new venture as large and aspiring as the Public Market is bound to endure some growing pains and that it’s unrealistic to expect every vendor to remain a permanent fixture enjoying wild success. However, she said, it’s surprising and sad that a year since the market’s opening, so many merchants remain deep in the red with little sympathy or support from Cafarelli, who has reportedly told them to lower their prices and “dumb down” their products. “There’s something wrong with the equation,” O’Conner said.

On the other side of the aisle, a few of the vendors at the Public Market are doing exceptionally well. Empty Bowls is always packed, Rori’s Artisanal Creamery is selling like crazy, and Enjoy Cupcakes is happy to report business is booming and getting better every month. “Things are going amazing,” said Enjoy Cupcakes owner Kevin Vander Vliet. “We love it.” Sure, the triple-net charges are high, he said, but the Public Market — which is LEED Platinum certified — is a unique setting with unique expenses. “It’s a wonderful place,” he said.

Other vendors similarly happy with the status quo gave much credit to Cafarelli for getting the market and the Alma del Pueblo mixed-use project—six years of planning and two years of construction in the making — finally off the ground. Comparing it to a start-up and describing the varying 10

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levels of successes so far as simply a “mixed bag,” they say it’s premature to make any sweeping judgments.

“Take Paseo Nuevo,” said one merchant. “Stores go in and out of there all the time. Does that mean the whole place is doomed?” The contented vendors also said that their business models are simply superior to those of their struggling neighbors.

And it’s up to each merchant, not Cafarelli, to build up his or her individual space and figure out how to make sales, they said.

In response, Cafarelli said she could not comment on the pending litigation or the terms of the Public Market’s leases. She said the three shops she owns and runs— Wine + Beer, Foragers Pantry, and Culture Counter — are “trending positively” with a “meaningful customer base.” In an email, she stated, “This is a big deal for three businesses that are brand new to Santa Barbara.”

Cafarelli also operates the market’s rentable commercial kitchen.

Overall, Cafarelli said she is “very pleased” with how the first year at the Public Market has gone and envisions only better times ahead. “We have a great group of small businesses as tenants that continue to amaze me each and every day,” Cafarelli said. “The dedication and work ethic that it takes to succeed in a small business today is enormous and they have my respect.” As can be expected for “a unique venue of this type,” she explained, some merchants are faring better than others.

On the residential side of Alma del Pueblo — which holds 37 condominiums ranging in price from around $800,000 to $2.6 million—Cafarelli said she’s sold 20 to date. Fifteen of the units sold at market prices, and five closed escrow as middleincome homes. The condos have been on the market for more than three years, and “Alma del Pueblo is gathering momentum n each month,” Cafarelli said.

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by N i c k W e l s h ess than two years after equipping all Santa Barbara police cars with dash cams, Police Chief Cam Sanchez is now exploring the feasibility of equipping his officers with body cams.

Sanchez told the City Council Tuesday that his department was about to secure five such cameras for a test run. Body cams, he said, cost from $600-$900 each, and that doesn’t include the $70,000 he estimates the digital storage and access software would cost. The model currently under review is not compatible with the software used to store the digital load carried by the dash cams.

Tuesday’s discussion came less than a week after a YouTube video was posted showing a Santa Barbara Police officer appearing to knock a smartphone from the hands of a passerby videotaping several officers making an arrest on lower State Street by the Velvet Jones nightclub. The department announced it was investigating the matter, and when Councilmember Cathy Murillo asked Sanchez if he knew when the investigation would be complete, he replied with a terse “No.” To the extent Sanchez found himself on the hot seat during his monthly council presentation, it was from downtown business interests frustrated that it’s taken the department so long to hire and field a full complement of Community Service Officers (CSOs), a new hybrid quasi–peace officer with the authority to issue citations but not to wear a gun or arrest people. The Downtown Organization (DO) lobbied hard for an additional police presence along State Street to deter street people from harassing and annoying residents, tourists, and shoppers.

DO chief Maggie Campbell expressed keen frustration that the CSOs hadn’t been hired yet when they were initially scheduled to provide a “supplemental ambassadorial” presence in April. Likewise, Campbell expressed suspicion that the department

would poach the CSOs, treating the program as a recruiting vehicle for new cops. Four of the new CSOs have been hired, the council was told, and the program should begin sometime late in May. The department has been short-staffed recently, with 10 officers out on injury, 10 still in training, three transferring into other departments, and a few about to retire. As a result, the department now has 117 sworn officers at its beck and call when it’s authorized for 144. Currently, the department has a field strength of 47 officers; but for the shortage, there would be 57.

Hiring new cops has been difficult, the council was told, because the economic recovery made the job less financially attractive and because of anti-cop publicity stemming from the Ferguson fallout. Even so, assistant chief Frank Mannix explained, violent crime is up only a smidgen above the city’s five-year average.

Property crime, however, has increased significantly. Part of that stems from what Mannix described as “a bloom” of residential burglaries that took place in February and March. In addition, he said the department has seen a spike in lowerlevel larceny charges — for shoplifting with premeditated intent—that before the passage of Proposition 47 would have been filed as felonies. With the jail full, Mannix said such offenders are released, only—in some cases—to offend again.

Because of this staffing shortage, Chief Sanchez explained he would not be able to allocate an officer to Santa Barbara High School as he had the past two years. This has generated some grumbling from the school district. The department’s retinue of five beat commanders, Sanchez said, had atrophied to only two. He vowed to get it back to full staffing. Given present realities, he said, he couldn’t do that and also provide Santa Barbara High School an officer. Instead, he said, he’d assign an officer to serve both as Eastside beat coordinator and school liaison officer. n

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Two days after Earth Day, Rep. Lois Capps spoke to reporters about her latest legislation to temporarily halt offshore fracking pending further environmental review. The first of its kind, the measure would require regulators to study the impacts of fracking in federal waters off the West Coast and subsequently draft an environmental impact

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The county’s Public Health Department announced this week that four patients who tested positive for hepatitis C received injections from Dr. Allen Thomashefsky on the same day. Thomashefsky, who also practices in Oregon, had his Bath Street office shut down last month after Public Health officials found “a large number of things that were very concerning” about his sterilization procedures.

They fear he may have infected some of his patients with hepatitis or HIV. Thomashefsky specialized in a regenerative injection therapy known as prolotherapy. While some consider it quack medicine and others swear by its effectiveness, the treatment is often sought by people with chronic pain who want to avoid surgery. “It’s absolutely amazing,” said one patient, who requested to remain anonymous and who sought treatment after he tore his shoulder. He estimated that he paid several hundred dollars out of pocket for four visits; he was uninsured at the time. “I was super surprised,” he said of the news of the investigation.

Though Public Health officer Dr. Charity Dean could not elaborate about the breaches of infection control she found, examples of such violations include reusing a syringe, inconsistent hand washing, or not wearing latex gloves. The Oregon Medical Board has also prohibited Thomashefsky from administering injections at his Ashland office.

As of April 26, 240 former patients have been tested, and six patients tested positive for hepatitis C; one case was believed to be a prior infection. Zero patients have tested positive for HIV. According to records obtained by Public Health, Thomashefsky saw 1,700 patients in the past seven years. The agency was only able to track down and send about 1,300 letters to patients, urging them to get tested. “It wouldn’t surprise me if we saw more positives,” Dean said, “but the real question is, do those positives have an epidemiology link?”

The Centers for Disease Control is currently performing genetic testing of the positive cases to determine if they are connected. The process could take two months. The District Attorney’s Office is also looking into the matter.

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UCSB went for experience this week in choosing Bonnie Henrickson (pictured) to lead the Gaucho women’s basketball team.

Henrickson has spent 18 years as a head coach, the last 11 at the University of Kansas.

Prior to KU, where she had seven winning seasons, Henrickson turned around a losing Virginia Tech program. Her overall head coaching record is 344-233. When she was introduced as UCSB’s new head coach last week, Henrickson cited the team’s past success — an average of 25 wins a season in the decade 1996-2005 — as a blueprint for the future. Carlene Mitchell, a longtime Rutgers assistant when she took the UCSB head coaching job in 2011, was fired last month after the Gaucho women went 2-27, their worst season record in history. n

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Laura Capps Withdraws from 24th CD, Setting up a Three-Way Race for Two Spots politician who skedaddles from the arena, in order to “spend more time with my family,” typically is appeasing a seething spouse or running one step ahead of the posse.

Sometimes, though, they actually mean it.

Such is the case with Laura Capps, who said this week that she won’t seek the 24th Congressional District seat to be left open by the 2016 retirement of her mother, Representative Lois Capps.

Bottom line: She and her husband aim to give their 4-year old, Oscar, an idyllic Santa Barbara upbringing, without Mom grinding out a weekly 4,738-mile trek to and from Our Nation’s Capitol.

“I woke up in the middle of the night and felt,‘No, it’s not the right time,’ as I could hear my son snoozing away in his bed,” said Capps, a 42-year-old nonprofit and political consultant, not long after she’d e-blasted her decision to the world.

“I think I had those thoughts at night because the job would involve being away from him four nights a week, most weeks,” she added. “For me there is something so instinctually important about being there at night, knowing he’s okay.”

More anon: Look for Capps the Younger to be back on the local political field before long, likely as a contestant for school board.

THE FUTURE LIES AHEAD: As a political matter, the Capps withdrawal reshuffles the deck in the competition for the Central Coast House seat.

A mere 403 shopping days before the primary on June 7, 2016, the campaign now looks like a three-way contest for two spots on that November’s general election ballot.

Republican Assemblymember Katcho Achadjian of San Luis Obispo and Mayor Helene Schneider and Supervisor Salud Carbajal, both Santa Barbara Democrats, are early favorites in the top-two primary, with GOP businessperson Justin Fareed and Bill Ostrander, a Democratic advocate for campaign finance reform, also in the mix.

(This just in: In honor of RSI Prevention Week, whenever it is, if ever, this space hereafter will identify the trio of front-runners as “Katcho,”“Helene,” and “Salud.” RSI = Repetitive Strain Injury, for some of you out there.)

A few hours after Capps’s announcement, both Helene and Salud predicted that her demurral would boost her and his own campaign.

“Being the only female in this race is a big deal,” Schneider told The Santa Barbara Independent.

She added that she has “a really good chance” of winning the coveted endorsement of the Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee, as well financial backing from Emily’s List, the Washington-based fundraising outfit focused on electing more women to office.

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Laura (left) and Lois Capps WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? It is significant that Laura Capps was encouraged to run by several influential Democratic women, including philanthropist Sara Miller McCune, former supervisor Susan Rose, environmental activist Susan Jordan, big donor Betty Stephens, and nonprofit advocates Judith Hopkinson and Vicki Riskin, among others.

Their enthusiasm for Capps was based, in part, on her national political experience, which differentiated her from erstwhile rivals; another key factor is their unhappiness with Schneider, stemming from conflicts over a series of issues, from her handling of the Highway 101 controversy to her choice of local political consultants.

At the same time, it must be noted, there is a dearth of political passion in these circles for Salud, often described as overly calculating and compromising.

“Laura was far and above the best candidate—when I really looked at her résumé, I thought, ‘Wow, she’s a powerhouse,’” said Jordan. “Now these [pro-choice feminist] organizations really have a decision to make.”

Another leading female Democrat, granted anonymity to speak candidly, put it more harshly: “There are a lot of reasons for people not to be enthusiastic about either of them.”

MR./MS. NICE GUY: Voter registration in the 24th District is closely matched between Democrats and Republicans, so it does not surprise that the three front-runners already sound bipartisan, centrist themes that may appeal to the nearly one-fourth of voters registered as “decline to state” independents, who hold the balance of power.

“As a mayor I’ve learned to get through complex issues … by finding common ground,” said Helene.

“I’m a collaborator, and want to carry those kind of values to Washington,” said Salud.

“My record is [one of] getting along with all parties concerned,” said Katcho.

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One hundred years ago last Friday, the Ottoman government launched a blood-soaked campaign that left 1.5 million of that empire’s ethnic Armenian population dead. It turns out the word “genocide” was originally coined to describe the sustained systematic slaughter that ensued. Ever since, the world has been arguing the extent to which the “G” word actually applied. Aggressively espousing the negative position has been the Turkish government. The Armenian death toll has been greatly exaggerated, we are told; it was “an inter-communal conflict,” not genocide. The Armenians aligned themselves during World War I with enemies of the Ottoman Empire and were forcibly expelled. Stuff happens.

On the other side, however, is pretty much the whole world, though the United States —for geopolitical reasons that no doubt have nothing to do with all the blood on our genocidal hands—has embraced less stringently judgmental language. In one of the worst PR moves of all time, the Turkish government—eager to deflect unwanted publicity attending the Armenian genocide centennial — opted to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its landmark victory in the Battle of Gallipoli last Friday instead. The only problem is that for the past 99 years, Turkey celebrated this

birth-of-a-nation event on March 18. In the United States, 1.7 million of us demonstrated we’d never succumb to such moral amnesia by tuning into Bruce Jenner, the putative paterfamilias of the most famous Armenian family in America, the Kardashians, as he described the agonies of being a woman trapped in a man’s body. I missed this two-hour slice of history as I watched endless reruns of myself blathering on Jerry Roberts’s talking-head news show, City Desk, now on public-access TV. As usual, Santa Barbara’s separation from groundbreaking world events is much less than the traditional six degrees. Back in the early 1970s, the Armenian-Turkish conflict reared its bloody head in a cottage suite of Montecito’s acclaimed Biltmore hotel. When it was over, two Turkish diplomats lay dead on the floor and a longtime Santa Barbara resident named Gourgen Yanikian would emerge as the international poster child of Armenian vengeance. Yanikian was built like an oversized potato with a big boulder of a head and a white mane of hair. He wrote books, he put on plays, he’d been a not-sosuccessful developer but an accomplished civil engineer who built railroads in Iran. And he was also a regular in Santa Barbara’s burgeoning folk-dance scene. By any standard, Yanikian the Armenian seemed to qualify as a bona fide renaissance man. But in 1972, he was living on welfare, having lost his shirt on medical care for his chronically ill wife and a series of bad investments. What would

emerge later is how Yanikian saw his older brother’s throat slit by Turkish hands during WWI and how similar atrocities befell other family members.

In trial, Yanikian testified he planned to make a movie about the genocide with the $1.5 million owed him by the Iranian government for building key stretches of railroad of strategic military importance to the Allies during WWII. It appears Yanikian actually had a legit claim, but in 1972, the Shah of Iran told him to pound sand. The U.S. State Department —then putting all its eggs in the Shah’s basket — told him likewise. It was then that Yanikian concocted the scheme to lure Turkish diplomats to Santa Barbara—while posing as an Iranian—to return some objet d’art of cultural importance to the Turks. On January 27, 1973, two representatives from the Turkish Consul in Los Angeles met with Yanikian at the Biltmore. After dispensing with the usual pleasantries, Yanikian revealed he was Armenian; angry words were exchanged. Yanikian pulled a Luger from a hollowed-out book he brought and sprayed his guests with nine rounds. He pulled another gun he brought to finish the job, popping two bullets into each man’s head. Yanikian then told authorities to come get him. In the meantime, he’d sent out press advisories exalting over the vengeance exacted. Yanikian’s effort to put Turkey on the defense stand during his subsequent trial was effectively stymied by District Attorney David Minier. Instead, Minier sought to

smear Yanikian as a dirty old man—not the high-minded avenging angel he presented —who was “researching” a book about the sexual mores of young people so he could hit on them. Well before the murder, in fact, a plainclothes policewoman had been dispatched to Yanikian’s house as a decoy interview subject. Apparently, he fell for the bait.

Even so, the appellate judges who reviewed the case would sniff such prosecution efforts were “hardly commendable.” Minier would later express regret for not allowing Yanikian to make his case against Turkish genocide. But by then, Minier—always an intensely political animal — was a judge in Madera County, home to many Armenian Americans.

Yanikian’s defense was diminished capacity, not temporary insanity, as some judges not-so-subtly suggested it should have been.

He lost at trial and again on appeal. Yanikian was already an old man when he went into prison. He was even older when he was released in 1984. He died a month later. In the aftermath, numerous Armenian resistance groups would emerge sporting names like the Yanikian Commandos. Many were full of hot air. Some were decidedly not. In 10 years’ time, there would be about 50 attacks on Turkish diplomats throughout the world, many lethal.

Almost always, Yanikian’s name was invoked.

Is there a moral here? Maybe if you kill 1.5 million people, you shouldn’t quibble over semantics. Just apologize. The United States might do the same. In the meantime, I hope Bruce Jenner finds his way. But when he gets there, I really don’t need to know about it.

— Nick Welsh

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The reasons that three elected county supervisors— Adams, Lavagnino, and Wolf — supported Gleghorn, regardless of the recommendation of District Attorney Joyce Dudley, are the lazy politician’s credo: Relegate, Delegate, until you Vacate. If they can’t lay eyes on the problem while perched on the fourth floor of the County Admin Building, they should relocate to the first floor so they can see firsthand the misery of the mentally ill. They can witness them straddle the curb to defecate. Then watch and listen to them argue with their demons, affront the public, and aimlessly drift for days, then for years on end. Empathy at the least should be a job description for a county supervisor.

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went to Costco on Saturday with a friend and my small service dog. The lady at the front tried to interrogate me about the nature of my disability. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) allows clerks to ask if my dog is a service dog and required because of a disability, and what she is trained to do to mitigate it. My dog had a service dog vest on, and I have a badge indicating she is a service dog.

When I attempted to shop, I was accosted by a manager who followed me around and embarrassed me by

asking about my disability. This is clearly a violation of the ADA, and I am calling for a boycott of Costco. No discounts are worth this sort of treatment.

— B. Howard, S.B.

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ongratulations to Rob Kuznia on his Pulitzer.

How sad that the reporter who wrote the article sees him as “Fired News-Presser.” It seems, after eight years, Kuznia has moved on to great things. Yet, the reporter, bitter Barney Brantingham, is stuck in the past, writing about spilled milk. Let Kuznia enjoy his well-deserved honor, and keep your resentment to yourself. Santa Barbara had moved on!

— Angelika Jones, S.B.

For the Record

¶ In the news story “‘Black Robe’ Therapy” last week, we should have said the acronym NAMI stands for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Also, after “Let the Games Begin” appeared last week, Sebastian Aldana contacted us to state he had not yet decided to run for the Eastside City Council seat. ¶ The 50 percent plummet in bookings at County Jail given in last week’s Angry Poodle Barbecue actually reflects the drop in drug-related bookings. ¶ To correct “Stella! Hey Stella!” in last week’s Arts section, José Maria Condemi remains artistic director of Opera Santa Barbara until his contract expires on June 30. To direct Streetcar Named Desire this season, he chose Omer Ben Seadia, who was his apprentice assistant when he created the production for the San Francisco Opera Center in 2014.

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When the Bees Moved In came over to inspect. No problem, they said.

They returned wearing full beekeeper outfits, including big hats.

Van Bogelen held a large cardboard box with holes in it. She fearlessly reached down into the hole and scooped up handfuls of honeycomb and bees and filled up the box.

The main thing, of course, was to capture that precious queen. They’d all follow her everywhere, apparently.

I did some reading about honeybees and their queens. The worker bees do all the work, flying around hunting pollen. The male drones are only good for one thing, it seems: sex. Then they commit sexual suicide. They have sex with the queen pretty much the same way humans do. Not to be too graphic, they insert their penis and deposit semen. Then they drop dead. Literally. Job done. Nature has rules.

In cold weather areas, worker bees kick the remaining drones out of the colony.

Can’t have those lazy bums hanging around all winter eating all the precious honey the colony needs to survive. In any case, the life expectancy of drones is about 90 days.

When my neighbors left with the bees, the colony ended up with Swanson, wife of Pastor Dale, whose ministry is just around the corner at the New Life Church.

Busy bees still hover around our bushes, seeming not to resent our eviction of their

so-useful fellow creatures. Word of caution in case of bee problems: Leave it to the experts. Info at the Santa Barbara Beekeepers Association (sbba.org). sbba.org sbba.org).

WAVE OF MOVIES: Films from Spain and Latin America will be screened at the Riviera Theatre today through Sunday, May 3, thanks to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Ten movies will be shown starting at 11 a.m. daily. Info at sbiff.org sbiff.org.

CRAZY FOR GERSHWIN! I’ll never get enough of Ira and George Gershwin’s tunes. The musical Crazy for You takes the stage at San Marcos High School tonight (April 30), May 1-2, and May 7-9 at 7 p.m. Riley Berris directs.

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NEW NEIGHBORS: I keep hearing about so-called “die-offs” among some honeybee colonies, but just the reverse happened in my backyard. The busy little insects and I have happily coexisted for years as they hovered around my lavender bushes. Pesticides are partly blamed for the troubling decline, but I don’t use the stuff. After all, we badly need the little folks because they pollinate our food crops.

I just brush past the bee-busy bushes with nary a sting. But recently we noticed a small cloud of bees buzzing around a tree in a corner of the backyard. A colony had settled in. How long they’d been there we didn’t know. But they seemed to like it.

When we moved in, we’d noticed a gaping hole in the base of the tree. At some point, the gardener nailed a board over the hole to keep the rain out. That left a gap, and that’s where the bees were happily buzzing in and out.

They also enjoyed the nearby water feature, sharing it with all the birds that come to feed.

Yep, the birds and the bees, all happy in that quiet, shady corner where the cats sleep.

But what to do about this quantity of new neighbors? As luck would have it, two families on the block keep bees, along with chickens.

And they generously bring over a fresh egg or two and a jar of honey now and then.

Karina Van Bogelen, from across the street, and Amy Swanson, from down the block,

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CRAZY FOR THE BEATLES! The tribute band In My Life put on a boisterous show at the Lobero Sunday night, thrilling a full house. At times I had to catch myself: Wait, this wasn’t really the mop-top bunch. Remember the chamber music touch to “Eleanor Rigby”?

Four area high school students filled in beautifully on that piece Sunday: violinists Miguel Robles and Madisen Webb, Kate Bromund

on viola, and cellist Sara McGuire. They got a big hand.

The audience included Madelyn Palley, who said Santa Barbara News-Press owner T.M. Storke assigned her to cover the Beatles when they played Dodger Stadium in 1966.

She and Scott McCann will be hosting a City College class on the Fab Four at the Schott Center May 6, 13, and 20, including speakers she says worked with the Beatles. ($56 fee.

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Audrey Violet Holden 04/17/27 – 04/10/15

Our beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, Audrey Holden passed away on April 10, 2015, in Brevard, North Carolina. Audrey was one of three children born to Robert and Muriel Dawson on April 17, 1927, in Worthing, Sussex, England.

She grew up in Worthing for the most part until the war where children were being sent away from the coast for safety. She returned to Worthing and went to work as an usherette in the Dome Movie Theater. At the age of 16, she met Derrick Holden at the theater, and they later married on November 10, 1945. Their first child, James, was born in 1947, and in 1950 they immigrated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where her, sons Richard and Dale were born. Eventually the Holden family made the decision to move to Santa Barbara after falling in love with the climate while on vacation. Audrey’s love of babies led her to become a foster mother to children of all ages. She and her husband Derrick blessed the family and adopted two of the children they had fostered: Martin Charles, who precedes her in death, and Sandra Lee. Around 1972 the family moved to Northern California, where Audrey worked as a seamstress. After many years, she decided to move to the Ventura/Oxnard area, where she continued working as a drapery seamstress. She would later move to Ojai and volunteered at the Ventura County General Hospital and volunteered regularly at the Ojai Food Share and helped box food for the needy. Audrey enjoyed the companionship of her friends and neighbors in the complex where she lived, and her precious pets, Angel, Beeper and Sam. As it became increasingly dif difficult for Audrey to live on her own, she moved in with her son James and his wife, Julie, and spent time at the Friendship Center in Montecito

where she enjoyed participating in the activities they offered. In 2009 Audrey moved to Greenville, South Carolina, where her son Dale and his wife, Paula, resided, then in 2010 Audrey moved to Brevard, North Carolina, where she was a resident for 5 years at the Kingsbridge House Assisted Living Facility.

Audrey was a sweet, soft-spoken women who always had a smile on her face and a very dry sense of humor.

Throughout her life she loved animals, walking, nature and helping her fellow man.

Audrey is survived by her children and their spouses, James (Julie); Richard (Dottie); Dale (Paula); and Sandra Holden plus eight grandchildren, Marc Holden; Kelly Harvey (Nick); James Casad; Mallory Underwood; Allison Gerrald (Martin); Tymika Lopez; Shania Lopez and James Lopez as well as 5 great-grandchildren. She also leaves behind her brother Ted Dawson (Amy) and numerous nieces and nephews in Canada and England.

Audrey, who graced this earth with her presence, will be missed greatly by her family and friends and all who knew her.

The family plans a celebration of Audrey’s life at a later date and asks that in lieu of flowers please favor a donation to the Alzheimer Association or your favorite charity.

Dr. Raymond Albert Buelow

Dr. Raymond Buelow died April 19, 2015, at the age of 81. An air force veteran and graduate of North Dakota State University, he earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University, and a Master of Science in Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Colorado State University. He served as an elder at Good Shepherd Lutheran church, was president of the Santa Barbara-Ventura Veterinary Medical Association and on the board of the Marguerite Doe Foundation, as well as maintaining a practice at Foothill

Pet Hospital for over 35 years. A lover of the great outdoors, Ray especially enjoyed fishing – fish feared him in the mountains, ocean, and even off the coast of Baja. He is survived by wife Margret Buelow, son Doug Buelow (Karen), daughter Jonelle Patrick (Steve), brother Fred Buelow, sisters Lucille Buelow and Carol Owens, and six grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Goleta on Wednesday, April 29, at 11:00 a.m. If you’d like to honor Ray’s memory, donations can be made to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, in lieu of flowers.

Robert L. Hembree 01/13/55 - 05/02/14

IN MEMORY OF One year ago on May 2nd 2014, my husband passed away from cancer.

This man was a man of all men, a mighty warrior and one of the good guys. A friend to everyone and everything. I miss holding his hand. His touch would calm my racing heart, ease my worried thoughts, and heal my every pain. He always took good care of me. A kind soul, a warm heart, and a wonderful husband for 25 years.

I truly miss you, Robert, and all your friends miss you, too. The boy visits you nearly every day.

Your loving wife, Cyndie Hembree

Norma Lou Soll, 91, passed away in Carpinteria on April 7, 2015.A memorial service will take place on Thursday, April 30th, at the Reality Church at 5251 6th St., Carpinteria, CA at 4:30pm.

Fred H. Meise, 92, passed away in Santa Barbara on April 21, 2015. Graveside Service - Friday, May 1, 1:00 pm at Santa Barbara Cemetery. Memorial Service - Saturday, May 2, 1:00 pm at Santa Barbara Community Church.

Eunice Ho, 91, passed away in Santa Barbara on April 17, 2015.

Anita J. Mekeel, 94, passed away in Santa Barbara on April 3, 2015.

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Mary B. Prekker 09/17/26 – 04/02/15

munity continued as the St. Vincent’s Gift Shop Coordinator throughout the 1990s. Mary was also the Den Mother for her sons’ Boy Scout dens and Girl Scout Leader for her daughters’ troops.

She was District Precinct Polling Manager in Goleta throughout many local and national elections.

Mary was very active and enjoyed every aspect of her life, including the sport of bowling. She bowled well into her eighties, once or twice bowling a 300 game at the Orchid Bowl and later Zodo’s. She helped start the St. Raphael’s bowling league in 1971, the longest-standing league in the Santa Barbara area. Mary was on the “3 Strikes” bowling team, who held the number one spot in this league for many years.

The last eight days of Mary’s life were spent at Serenity House, surrounded by family and friends. The family would like to thank the nurses and staff at Serenity House for blessing us with their support and kindness.

Mary is survived by her husband of 71 years, Milton Prekker; five children, Barry Prekker of West Hollywood, Debra McRoberts (John) of Goleta, Patty Peters of Encinitas, Daniel Prekker of Goleta, and Jeffrey Prekker (Chelsea) of San Diego; and three grandchildren, David, Nathaniel and Elise. She also leaves her surviving sister, Rosanne Sechler (Henry) of Fairfax, VA, as well as many other extended family and friends, especially Jerry Rutledge and Deborah Alliano, dear to her.

A mass in celebration of Mary’s life will be held at St. Raphael’s Catholic Church at 10 a.m. on May 14, 2015. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to St. Raphael’s Church in Goleta, St. Vincent’s (The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul) or Serenity House.

Norma Ziegler 08/23/25 – 04/07/15

Death Notices Florence Mae Olcese, 96, passed away April 23, 2015. No Service Interment All Souls Cemetery, Long Beach, CA.

and decided that this was where they wanted to raise their family.

Norma’s greatest love was her family, friends, neighborhood and community. She was a “rock” and a surrogate mom to many — always caring, never wavering, she had a smile and a greeting for everyone. Both Norma and Bill always believed in the goodness of people.

Living with her daughter and sonin-law, Norma was able to stay in her beloved home and neighborhood until her last brief illness. And importantly, she retained her wry sense of humor throughout her life.

Our family thanks the extraordinary people at Sarah House, Visiting Nurses and her longtime family physician, Dr. Kirk Gilbert.

Norma was predeceased by her husband, Bill Ziegler, cartoonist and treasured friend to many, who died in 1993.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Jan Ziegler and Mark Walker (Santa Barbara); son and daughter-in-law Tom and Jill Ziegler (Flagstaff, AZ); grandsons, Stuart Ziegler (Mesa, AZ) and John Ziegler (Lincoln, CA); great-granddaughter Sofia Ziegler; Tulum Dothee (Chris Booth) of Rough and Ready, CA. See more about Norma’s life at: http://www.mcdermottcrockett.com/obit http://www.mcdermottcrockett.com/obituaries/Norma-Ziegler/#!/Obituary. Please post your own memories and photos on the Tribute Wall and remember her with a smile.

Norma was born in Red Bluff, CA, to Leslie Hans and Dora Trippe Hans.

Our mother had a full, wonderful life and died peacefully after a brief hospital stay.

She met our dad, Bill Ziegler, in Portland while he was recovering from a wound received in Italy during WWII. At 22 years of age, they fell in love and were were married. They moved to the L.A. area, where Dad attended Chouinard Art Institute.

They soon discovered Santa Barbara

Mary Bernadette Suter was born on Sept. 17, 1926, to Sophie and Joseph Suter in Clara City, Minnesota. Mary was one of six children raised in a devout Catholic family. Her father died in 1933, and Mary stepped up, helping to raise the other children.

In 1943, she married Milton Prekker, her high school sweetheart, and their lifetime together began. They lived in Larimore, North Dakota, owning their own jewelry and watch repair as their family grew. — Following that they moved to Owatonna, Minnesota while Milton worked for Jostens. In 1962, Jostens moved the family to Santa Barbara, and they settled in Goleta in 1968.

Mary was a lifelong volunteer and gave her time and enthusiasm to the Catholic Church. She was a member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, the Ladies of Charity, and a devoted volunteer at both Guadalupe School as a girls’ athletic coach and St. Raphael’s School as “the Popcorn Lady.” Her gift to the Catholic com-

Robert Edwyn Callahan 12/15/48 – 03/09/15 Robert Edwyn Callahan Callahan died March 9, 2015, at the age of 66. Robert was born in Oceanside, California on December 15, 1948, as Robert Edwyn Long. He is survived by his ex-wife, Iris, and brothers Gary Fulton, Harold Coy, and Warren Kent Callahan. “Bob” was loved and respected by many in the Santa Barbara area and worldwide.

He loved to fly, and he loved to race.

Services will be held at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 1300 E. Valley Rd., Santa Barbara, California 93108 at 1:00 PM on Saturday, May 2, 2015.

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r. John D. Ehrenborg, who was principal of Monte Vista School in the Hope Elementary School District from 1966-1988, passed away February 27 in Nipomo. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 4, 1927, to Harry and Ruth Ehrenborg, John started his education at Santa Barbara’s Hope School, and he went on to complete high school in Illinois and his AA at Principia College. He returned to California for his BA at UCSB, MA at San Diego State University, and finally his doctorate at UCLA. He not only taught elementary and secondary school but college classes, as well.

He served proudly in the United States Army, Infantry and Signal Corp, from 19451947, achieving the rank of staff sergeant. In 1951, he married the love of his life, Barbara.

Together they adopted four children, Mark, Karen, Bryant, and Kristin.

While teaching at Vieja Valley School, Dr. Ehrenborg was hired to be the principal at the new Monte Vista School in the Hope School District. The opportunity to open a new school was the perfect setting for John to put into action his philosophy of what an elementary school should be. He hired teachers, met with the community, and never looked back. John was a true, visionary administrator.

The school reflected his dedication to innovative education. Within a few years, Monte Vista was a model school of pilot programs of combination classrooms and teams of teachers to provide individualized instruction. His challenge to teachers was that every child could learn successfully. The teacher just needed to discover the appropriate learning strategy for each child.

One morning, a misbehaving student was sent to the office for punishment. When the teacher checked in on him at recess, the student was happily taking apart a radio so that Dr. Ehrenborg could teach him how to put it back together. John never gave up on a student!

As the leader of the school, he set the standards high. His energy and expectations of staff shaped the curriculum. He made science a focus, even visiting every classroom with snakes. He knew every child’s name and spent hours interacting on the playground. It was not uncommon for John to accompany a class on a field trip, a hike, whale watching, or even a week at Catalina Island. It was impossible to ignore his presence, as his lively whistle and hearty laugh announced his entrance into the classroom.

He also believed in hands-on education.

You might find him hauling his jigsaw from classroom to classroom for a wood project.

He would set up in the hallway and rotate the kids out to learn to build something. In fact, the Kid’s World playground in Santa Barbara reflects hours of his time and love of woodworking.

His respect for his staff encouraged each teacher to do his or her best. He valued different styles of teaching and supported the special talents teachers brought to their class-

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rooms … music, sports, gardening, travel, puppetry, camping, theater, and visual arts.

He was always open to new ideas. Of course, computers fascinated him. It did not take long for Monte Vista to open a computer lab, with Dr. Ehrenborg as a frequent teacher in the lab. I am sure many Monte Vista graduates started their love of technology under Dr. Ehrenborg’s mentorship.

John considered collaboration essential to a school. The staff was included in budget discussions, and the resulting budget reflected the priorities of all the staff. His open-door policy made him accessible to all —students, staff, and families. He was Monte Vista’s “ambassador at large.”

Dr. Ehrenborg led Monte Vista School to become an exemplary elementary school, eventually achieving designation as a Distinguished School. Upon his retirement, the library/media center was dedicated to him as the Dr. John Ehrenborg Center.

During his retirement years, John volunteered at La Colina Junior High School and Dos Pueblos High School. He eventually moved to Big Bear, where he built a cabin in 2002, and finally to Nipomo. There he volunteered to rebuild computers for underprivileged families. He applied his energy, optimism, and sense of commitment to everything he undertook, and was a true inspiration to all the family, friends, and colleagues who knew him.

John is survived by his wife, Barbara Ehrenborg; daughters Karen Ehrenborg Stewart and Kristin Ehrenborg Vickers, and son Bryant Ehrenborg; grandchildren Breece Ehrenborg, Rachel Ehrenborg, and Kailia Ehrenborg; and his brother, Harry Bryant, and sister, Jeanne Remington. His son Mark Ehrenborg preceded him in death.

On March 28, a community memorial celebration of Dr. Ehrenborg saw more than 100 family, friends, and colleagues gather at Monte Vista to remember him. His legacy to both Monte Vista School and the Hope School District was that of a dedicated educator who made a lasting contribution in our community. n

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being performed in Santa Barbara, let alone anything about the histories and diversity of the music. Banda, I discovered, is a style of Mexican music that developed in the Sinaloa Province in the 1800s, overlapping the influences of marching bands and German polka music and fused together in an exuberant Mexican style. Fellini’s favorite composer, Nino Rota, was influenced by the Italian version of these same sources.

Led by Necxtor Ramirez, Banda La Invasora, the band I saw that night, is the only banda Sinaloense group in Santa Barbara. Most of the band members have day jobs working in banking, construction, and factories. Almost all of them have older family members who grew up playing music in Mexi Mexican towns such as Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Oaxaca. Every few months, the group performs at Earl Warren Showground to huge, enthusiastic crowds, and almost every week, they play at all kinds of private events; parties, quinceañeras (the traditional Mexican equivalent of a sweet-16 party but for 15-year-olds), and bodas,, or weddings. The only large gath gatherings where they don’t play are funerals because most of the band members can’t take off work during the weekday.

Last February, they famously escorted a bride and groom down State Street, sousaphone, trombones, and all, to their wedding reception party.

I left Tony Ray’s, realizing that Mexican music was vastly more diverse and complex than the mariachi bands that are so plentiful at Fiesta. Unfortunately, Tony Led by Necxtor Ramirez, Banda La Invasora plays at Earl Warren Showgrounds every few months courtesy

icycling home from a Lobero concert one night last fall, I heard the most astonishing music ricocheting around De la Guerra Plaza. A wild, haunting kind of music permeating the night air, it sounded as if it were coming from the now-defunct Tony Ray’s BBQ. Close to midnight, in the restaurant’s courtyard, I found a birthday celebration in full tilt. At the center of the party was a man blowing on an enormous sousaphone, surrounded by other musicians playing three trumpets, two clarinets, two trombones, two alto horns, a bass drum, and a snare, pumping out a frenzied music that was somehow celebratory and melancholy at the same time, like a marching band gone crazy. In one instant, the fleeting dreaminess of Fellini’s Roma and the jubilation of Mexico all came together in the heart of the city.

This, it turned out, was banda music.

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Ray’s has closed, and now, with few exceptions, Santa Barbara is sadly lacking in accessible public venues to witness the treasure of this music.

The irony is that we’re at a tipping point. There is, in fact, so much innovation and musicianship in Santa Barbara that we are on the verge of a true renaissance in Mexicana/Latino roots music. Throughout the wider SoCal area all the way down to the thriving music scene in Eastside L.A., there is a renewed respect for tradition and thirst for innovation. Just as the mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile’s Punch Brothers carried bluegrass into spontaneous new directions, musicians like Ozomatli, Las Cafeteras, Quetzal, La Santa Cecilia, Chicano Batman, and many others are transforming jarocho, cumbia, norteño, and even mariachi music into new and innovative forms.

Although there is no single narrative that applies to those who identify themselves as Hispanic or Mexican or Latino, one thing is clear: Music is a key component in their lives. In the generalized category of Hispanics, Nielsen’s recent Music 360 survey shows that the Latino population spends almost

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twice as much per year to see live music as other general audiences. They are fully wired online, sharing music through social media platforms far more than the average listener; and 59 percent self-identifying Hispanics are younger than 35. The sheer numbers in this audience group have begun to influence the Grammys and musical programming.

Most importantly, their musical taste is all-inclusive and integral to family life. “I come from a large family of 12 kids with 25 nieces and nephews,” a well-heeled Latina executive told me recently. “We have potlucks in my mom’s backyard with the age range from 3 to 85. In every part of the yard, there is a different music playing. Young kids and teenagers are listening to Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars; college kids are listening to Rihanna, Pitbull, and Maroon 5; couples are listening to Marc Anthony, Juanes, and Maná; and the oldest group is listening to mariachi, banda, or Antonio Aguilar — but everyone mingles in each group and sings along.”

Despite the lack of public venues, homegrown Santa Barbara musicians are abundant. Tons of brilliant musicians are playing on every professional level. Now more than ever, it seems like a good time for the larger community to have the opportunity to see how much is going on.

No one is a better example of the breadth and reach of a Mexican musical upbringing than Miguel “Miguelito” León — the hometown prodigy. He was born and raised in Santa Barbara and started playing percussion at the age of one. By the time he was 3 years old, he was performing with Vientos del Sur at Carlitos almost every week. He met the famous Cuban drummer Luis Conte at an S.B.-area dancing-drum ensemble and became his student at 11. By 12, he was playing alongside Jack Johnson in front of an audience of more than 2,000 at the Heal the Ocean Festival in Santa Barbara. Today, he travels with his band Taraf de Locos (translated from the Romanian and Spanish as “band of crazies”), playing a world-music concoction of gypsy, cumbia, tajik music, Brazilian, and jazz. He also plays frequently with bassist Randy Tico, who, aside from organizing and playing at so many Santa Barbara festivals, has been a sideman with everyone from Jake Shimabukuro to Kenny Loggins, area Brazilian vocalist and guitarist Téka, and Jeff Bridges & The Abiders.

“There need to be more places besides SOhO and the Brasil Arts Café for artists playing different kinds of music to show their stuff,” León said.

“For me, it’s a small scene with a lot of amazing diamonds hanging out in Santa Barbara.”

He cites the importance of the legendary Santa Barbara music store Folk Mote and its owners Cherie Chako and Nadine Bunn.

“That place is amazing. It’s like stepping back in time to a magical, little, wondrous music store with the coolest instruments you can imagine. They have Folk Mote Music mavens: helped so many people with (from left) Laurie Rasmussen, instruments and repairs. It’s where Nadine Bunn, and Cherie Chako everybody goes.” lw

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His prescription is a world ensemble festival that would be all inclusive of every kind of music. He’s eager for people to see past the obvious categories.

“You know there’s Mary-achi and Mariachi,” said and wanted to make their own,” Mijangos said. The León. “Unfortunately, most people in Santa Barbara Indian and mestizo musicians not only learned to know about the first and very little about the second. play European instruments but also figured out how to build them, sometimes giving them shapes and The difference is story, emotion, and soul.”

Jorge Mijangos, the ubiquitous son jarocho master, creative tunings of their own invention.

For a number of years, Mijangos pulled together knows a lot about trying to spread the word. Jarocho is a sexy, rebellious improvisational music that origi- a very successful jarocho festival titled Encuentro de nated in Veracruz among indigenous people and freed Son Jarocho, in the Casa de la Guerra courtyard, bringslaves. Mijangos is a smiling, quiet man with a strong, ing jarocho artists from all over the world. Across the sinewy presence that explodes like a coiled spring Santa Barbara area, ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! and when he plays. Bands that incorporate jarocho into its funders are teaching and training new musicians their music, such as Las Cafeteras, invite Mijangos to in jarocho, and it seems the time may be near to bring play with them, as they did last October at the Bowl’s the festival back. vibrant, second annual Día de los Muertos celebration.

Los Amos de Sinaloa, another Santa Barbara group, Mijangos, a tireless evangelist for his music, teaches plays norteño music. The four young musicians are in Ventura and Santa Barbara — currently running cousins who grew up in households with a tradition of widely popular workshops at UCSB’s music depart- playing music at home. They range in age from 14 to 21; the oldest is Cristian Soto, the accordion player, who ment with Dr. Ruth Hellier-Tinoco.

Jarocho combines a hothouse fusion of ferocious is currently studying psychology at Cal State Channel Afro-Caribbean beats and Native American poet- Islands. He said he didn’t like Mexican music growing ics with sexual double meanings. Most know the up.“Metallica got me really pumped up.” song “La Bamba” as a popular example of son jaroEventually, though, he chose norteño music cho that Ritchie Valens made into a hit in the ’50s, because it goes back a lot of generations to his greatwhich Los Lobos revived in the ’80s and Las Caf- grandfather.“My great-grandfather had a piano accoreteras has recently recorded, enriching the jarocho dion, the one with keys rather than buttons, and my classic with new politically topical lyrics in a hip-hop father played, too. My father’s father wasn’t around style with cumbia beats. Originating in the for him, so his grandpa was his father figure, and northern coast regions of Colombia, the accordion has a lot of meaning in our cumbia, with its heavily Africanfamily.” pa u Soto remembers his early influenced beat, is the ultimate pan-Latin party music. It encounters with the music were not entirely pleasant. “On weekhas spread like wildfire through all the Americas. ends my dad would wake me up in the mornings at 7 a.m., Jarocho is another one of playing accordion. It was really those infectious styles.

The music is also loud and obnoxious. There highly improvisational was no escape. You’d hear it throughout the whole house.” and welcoming to newMusic was also a stress reliever, bies and masters in jam though. He remembers when he sessions called fandangos.

Forget going to the gym; jarowas 5 years old that his father and cho is a workout for the mind, uncle who both worked two full-time y Tico The great Rand body, and soul. Son jarocho is the jobs would come home around midnight, music after cumbia that has the greatest grab the accordion and a guitar, and play into the night. Despite his mother’s wishes, he would sneak out potential to transform popular music.

Mijangos also builds jaranas — Mexican guitars of his bedroom to hang out with the men. that, in supreme acts of craftsmanship, are carved from Los Amos de Sinaloa plays dance music and cora single, solid block of hollowed-out wood. “The tra- ridos (or ballads), but Soto and his band members ditional, labor-intensive technique of jarana construc- don’t hesitate to incorporate contemporary inflution,” Mijangos explained, “is like a sculpture.” There ences. “Norteño branches from the blues. When you were no stringed instruments in America when the think about it, the harmonica is practically a small Spanish arrived. “When the indigenous people heard accordion, and there are certain songs where we can these instruments with strings, they were enchanted incorporate that feeling.” w

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Participated in Día de los Muertos at the Santa Barbara Bowl, honoring the memory of Mexican musicians past: Jenni Rivera, Selena, Pedro Infante, and Antonio Aguilar.

Chumash Casino

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Mariachi band every Friday night at 6:30pm.

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Occasional shows. There will be an upcoming show of the very popular Mariachi Manchester playing UCSb Music bowl Morrissey songs May 15.

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A small outdoor amphitheater that hosts world music every week. Mariachi bands perform there several Earl Warren Showgrounds times a year.

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Up until recently, the Mariachi Festival during Fiesta (founded by Salud Carbajal, the 1st District county supervisor, and the late Al Pizano) was the most high-profile event for Mexican music in Santa Barbara.

Mariachi began as a regional folk-style in the Mexican state of Jalisco but has undergone a number of changes since its origin. Initially, there were no trumpets, the musicians wore everyday clothes, and they played only string Miguelito León is the master of Latino music, whose band Taraf de instruments, mostly violins, Locos plays a world-music concoction of gypsy, cumbia, tajik, Brazilharps, and a few guitars. ian, and jazz traditions.

Sometime around the 1930s and 1940s, during the Golden Age of and celebration at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

Mexican cinema, the mariachi tradition was As just about any Latino music enthusimarried to the image of the charro, or Mexi- ast will tell you, Fiesta’s Old Spanish Days can cowboy. These movies created many of and Cinco de Mayo festivals are primarthe traditions and clichés of today’s mariachi ily North American holidays. They are all dress and style, which were parodied to great greatly entertaining, and everyone comes success in Robert Rodriguez’s film El Maria- out to have a good time, but there is very chi, featuring a guitarist for hire with a guitar little historical veracity to them. case full of guns.

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), “For Mexicans, mariachi is a foundational however, is historically a profound and music,” Carbajal said. “It’s an intergenera- authentic celebration, so it’s been good to tional music that everybody has heard at see that Moss Jacobs, longtime music proa baptism or another important event.” The festival was started to introduce the music to the larger community and promote Mexican culture, especially during Fiesta with its emphasis on “Spanish Days.” It also raised money for college scholarships. More than $750,000 has been given out in the 20 years of the festival.

Los Amos de Sinaloa are four cousins ranging in age from 14 to 21 Meanwhile, inno- who have embraced the norteño music played by their fathers. vation and change has reached mariachi, as well. One of the moter and VP of Nederlander Concerts, stranger juxtapositions can be found at Del has stepped forward to actively develop the Pueblo Café in the Magnolia Shopping Cen- holiday as a time for music, art, and dance. In ter, on May 15, where you can hear the tour- each of its two years, the event has grown in ing band Mariachi Manchester play a tribute size and drama, bringing great musicians to to Morrissey, the singer for The Smiths. It’s a the stage and turning the Bowl grove into a surprising link mined by a number of other festival of art and music for the whole Santa Barbara community. Jacobs, with the full mariachi groups.

The issue of musical venues seems to be support of the Bowl management, is planthe only factor keeping the Mexicana-roots ning on enlarging it even more this October.

“I’m a big believer that the music being revolution from realizing its creative potential. Clearly, the audience is there. Of course performed in our town needs to be representhe lack of venues is the greatest problem for tative of our society,” Jacobs said. Teaming up all musicians in Santa Barbara, regardless of with his longtime friend and former Santa ethnicity or musical style, but it is particu- Barbara resident Nicole Pierpont, herself raised in Central America by an El Salvalarly acute for Latino musicians.

One sign that the creative appeal of this dorian mom and a Mexican American Dad, renaissance is having an economic impact the Bowl plans to bring in more artists and is that concert promoters are beginning to musicians from the community. “We just pay attention. This year’s Santa Barbara Bowl get off on the diversity of it all, especially in schedule includes several big-name Latino a town with such distinct borders,” Jacobs stars including Juanes, Colombia’s cumbia added. superstar.

Now if we could just add Encuentro de Perhaps more significant has been the Son Jarocho and the world ensemble festival, success of the Día de Los Muertos concert it would all be happening here. n

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William Christie, Musical Director “Exquisite meditation on the nature of desire… a classy, sexy entertainment” The Guardian, U.K. One of the most refined genres of the Baroque period, these French airs were relished by rapt listeners in Grand Siècle drawing rooms.

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HigH ScHool Musical 4/30-5/2:  Crazy for You The San Marcos High School Performing Arts Department will present 1992 Tony Award for Best Musical winner Crazy for You. Watch this story of a banker, Bobby, who decides to put on a show to save the theater after falling in love with town girl Polly. Songs from George and Ira Gershwin make this show a favorite.

The musical shows through May 9. 7pm. San Marcos High School Theater, 4750 Hollister Ave. $5-$14. Call 967-4581 or visit smroyals.org.

Thursday 4/30 4/30: Charming Sharks I Have Known  Photographer Richard Salas has swum with, taken portraits of, and met sharks of all shapes and sizes. He will share pictures and stories as the voice of understanding and reason for these vulnerable creatures. His book trilogy of his 4,000-mile sea adventure will be available for purchase and signing. 7-8:30pm.

S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. $5-$10. Call 682-4711 or visit sbnature.org.

4/30: 15th Annual Pascucci Celebrity Dine Out for Solstice  Enjoy outstanding Italian food while raising funds for this year’s Solstice Parade. Owner Laura Knight will generously host this event with area celebrity waiters serving up food and fun Dress up for the evening’s theme of Out of this World, which goes with the parade theme of Sci-Fi. 5-10pm. Pascucci, 729 State St. Free . Call 965-3396 or visit solsticeparade.com.

4/30: Crary, Evans, and Spurgin  Get deep into the cutting

edges of 21st-century Americana, folk, and bluegrass. Dan Crary, Bill Evans, and Steven Spurgin will entertain audiences with new songs and old stories, instrumental artistry, and powerful music. 7:30pm. Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 820 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. $20-$25.

Call 688-9894 or visit bluegrass west.com.

4/30-5/6: Animals … Inside Out  When the zoo purchased a portable X-ray system, the staff had no idea that the images would be so intriguing and artistically beautiful as to demand an exhibit that features 28 radiographs taken of the various animals. View the forefoot of African lion Gingerbread, the head and neck of a Chilean flamingo, and other cool images.

The exhibit shows through June 26. 10am-5pm. Volentine Gallery, S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. Free-$15.

Call 962-5339 or visit sbzoo.org.

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4/30: Matoma  This music producer from Norway will make his S.B. debut with fresh mixes of tropical, house-infused hip-

hop. Check out his first remix, “Old Thing Back” by The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Ja Rule, in a

night of electronic music. 9pm.

Eos Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. $12.

Ages 21+. Call 564-2410 or visit matoma.nightout.com.

4/30: An Evening of Period Music  This night will cover three performances by Andrew McIntosh, Arthur Omura, and Quire of Voyces. From 5:306:30pm and 7-7:45pm, McIntosh and Omura will perform The Rosary Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and early-17thcentury Italian selections with baroque violins, harpsichord, and organ. From 6:30-7pm, Quire of Voyces, a dynamic a cappella group, will rediscover choral music. 5:30-7:45pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 963-4364 or visit sbma.net.

4/30: Michael Pollan  Author of books The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Cooked, In Defense of Food, and others, Michael Pollan, also described as an

ethical-eating guru, will talk about subjects ranging from the environment to agribusiness to health. Dr. Kurt Ransohoff (CEO and chief medical officer of Sansum Clinic) and Dr. Fred Kass (wellness medical director of the Cancer Center of S.B. with Sansum Clinic) will also speak.

8pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $19-$38. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

4/30: People Under the Stairs  The P is coming and will be bringing its pioneering DIY ethnic and unique hip-hop. The L.A.-based duo featuring Double K (Michael Turner) and Thes One (Christopher Portugal) has recorded nine studio albums and performed more than a thousand sold-out shows all around the world. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $20-$23. Ages 18+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

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4/30: Panel: Poets on the Anthropocene  Poets Michelle Detorie, Amanda Ackerman, and Harold Abramowitz will read their work and discuss how the profound instability of the natural world informs their poetry. 4pm. McCune Conference Rm., HSSB 6020, UCSB. Free. Call 893-3907 or visit www.ihc.ucsb.edu.

Friday 5/1 5/1: California’s Channel Islands: A History  Author Frederic Caire Chiles, whose great-grandfather owned Santa Cruz Island, will discuss his new book about the Channel Islands. Learn how this chain of eight islands reveals the complex geological, natural, and human history of this part of the world, from the first humans in North America to modern-day ranchers, vintners, yachters, and backpackers. 11am. S.B. Historical

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5/1: The Sherpas, The Honeysuckle Possums  The Sherpas will perform a soulful presentation of spiritual, political, romantic, groovy, and collaborative compositions. Also performing will be The Honeysuckle Possums, a high-energy, all-woman, bluegrass band. 7:30pm. Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Dr., Goleta. $10$12. Call 964-0436 or visit cambridgedrivechurch.org.

5/1: Alice in Wonderland  S.B. Festival Ballet presents a ballet for all ages. Follow Alice as she dances into her fantasy world of Wonderland and meets up with characters such as the White Rabbit, the Madhatter, and the Queen of Hearts. Dancers will range in age from 5½-18 years old. 6:30pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $12-$20.

Call 963-0408 or visit centerstage theater.org.

5/1: Filibusta  In 2007, Troy Probst began to produce and mix electronic music under the name Filibusta with the goal of restoring the progressive and melodic elements of glitch and dubstep. Don’t miss a night of genre bouncing from glitch and trap to dubstep and future funk. 9pm. Blind Tiger, 409 State St. $10. Ages 21+.

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5/1: Bloom  Stroll through a garden of art at the Funk Zone Art Walk as Youth Interactive Creative Studio Gallery presents its spring art exhibition. YI Creative Studio is a hip commercial hub that serves and supports S.B.’s young artistic community.

5-7pm. YI Creative Studio, 209 Anacapa St. Free. Call 453-4123.

saTurday 5/2 5/2: Ask Me Another  NPR’s and WNYC’s Brooklyn-based public radio program is coming to S.B. to be taped in front of a live audience. Don’t miss this evening with Mad Men mastermind Matthew Weiner as he faces a round of mind-stirring trivia and is interviewed. House musician

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7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $25-$35. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

5/2: California Bookstore Day Join Chaucer’s and independent bookstores across the state for parties, author readings, in-store events, and exclusive day-of merchandise.

Many authors have demonstrated their support for this day by donating signed books, artwork, and more. 9am-9pm.

Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call 682-6787 or visit chaucersbooks.com.

5/2: Rancheros Visitadores: Ride for a Cure  This 85th ride for the Rancheros will begin with a festive parade through the streets of Solvang to Mission Santa Inés with 700 cowboys on horseback and in carriages. The Rancheros are raising awareness and funds for breast cancer patients throughout S.B. County. 2pm.

Alisal Rd., Solvang. Free. Visit sansumclinic.org/rancheros visitadores.

5/2: Rediscovering the Culture of Tibet  In Matteo Pistono’s In the Shadow of the Buddha: Secret Journeys, Sacred Histories, and Spiritual Discovery in Tibet, he reveals the tenacity and faith of Tibetan Buddhists during the destructive policies

of the Chinese government.

Review this book with presenter Kirk Gradin; a discussion will follow. 4-6pm.

Concord House, Institute of World Culture, 1407 Chapala St. Free. Call 966-3941 or visit worldculture.org.

5/2: Moments in Time: A Masked Affair  The Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation has a new signature event, Moments in Time, and will feature hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, dancing, and an auction featuring VIP tickets to Dancing with the Stars, a private party with Kenny Loggins, and more. Proceeds will go to families living in the tri counties that have a child with cancer.

Masquerade/cocktail attire is required. 7-11pm. S.B. Club, 1105 Chapala St. $125. Ages 21+. Call 563-4723 or visit teddybearcancer foundation.org.

5/2: SambaDá Day  SambaDá, a hot West Coast Brazilian band, will visit the Brasil Arts Café for capoeira, drums, and dance workshops. 11am2pm. Brasil Arts Café, 1230 State St. $15-$35. Call 8457656 or visit brasilartscafe .com for the class schedule.

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5/2: Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely in The Blues Project  Get ready for an evening of intricate rhythms, energy, and spectacular movement featuring nine tap artists, including Dorrance Dance founder and STOMP veteran Michelle Dorrance, along with a live blues band and original compositions by award-winning composer Toshi Reagon. 8pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $20-$48. Call 8933535 or visit artsandlectures .sa.ucsb.edu.

5/2: Chocolate de Vine Fundraiser  Come enjoy chocolate creations from S.B.area chocolatiers and pastry chefs. There will be a friendly competition in Best Tabletop Presentation, Outstanding Flavor Appeal, and People’s Choice Award. Reservations are necessary for free shuttle transportation from Goleta and S.B. Proceeds will benefit the S.B. Rape Crisis Center. VIP reception: 4-5pm; general: 5-7:30pm.

Rincon Beach Club, 3805 Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria. $65-$75/ general; $100/VIP. Call 963-6832 or visit chocolatedevine.org.

5/2: Go for Baroque  Immerse yourself in the baroque masterpieces of J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel. Musical highlights will include Part III of Handel’s Messiah with libretto by Charles Jennings. Lyric soprano Christine Hollinger will also be featured in “Mein gläubiges Herze” from Bach’s Cantata 68. Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. Solvang Veterans Hall, 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang. $14-$18. Call 350-4241 or visit syvchorale.org.

5/2: Live Roller Derby: Mission City Brawlin’ Betties  Support S.B.’s Mission City Brawlin’ Betties as they take on the Angel City Derby Girls Rocket

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Queens. Enjoy Ninkasi beer, Georgia’s Smokehouse eats, and new merch as you watch a hard-hitting, well-fought bout. Join the after-party at The Creekside Inn. 5pm. Page Youth Ctr., 4540 Hollister Ave. Free-$5.

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5/2: The Record Store Book Book-Signing and Party  Subtitled Fifty Legendary and Iconic Places to Discover New and Used Vinyl, photographer Mike Spitz and journalist Rebecca Villaneda’s new book highlights this unique culture and the role of record stores now. 5:30pm.

Telegraph Brewing Company, 418 N. Salsipuedes St. Free. Ages 21+.

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5/2: S.B. Music Club Concert  This concert will feature Bach’s fascinating Italian Concerto for piano, Goethe’s charming Heidenroslein for soprano and piano, and Saint- Saëns’s Sonata No. 1 in D Minor for violin and piano. Get a dose of classical music before the weekend ends. 3pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 617-3401 or visit sbplibrary.org.

5/2: The Molly Ringwald Project  This group of musicians came together for their love of the ’80s era and its music, the fun songs that everyone can sing and dance to by bands like Duran Duran, The Eurythmics, Simple Minds, and way more.

7pm. Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co., 137 Anacapa St. Free. Ages 21+. Visit projectmolly.com.

sunday 5/3 5/3: Cinco de Mayo Family Carnival  There will be inflatable jumpers, carnival games, music, BBQ, refreshments, and more at this fun event that will help send eight teams ranging from 2nd grade to high school to the AAU West Coast Nationals Tournament in Las Vegas as it benefits the Ballers Club basketball team. 1-5pm. Boys & Girls Club of S.B., 632 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call 962-2382.

5/3: S.B. Fork & Cork Classic  Enjoy a world-class collection of food and wine from the top restaurants and winemakers in

S.B. while enjoying magnificent panoramic views of the coastline. There will be live entertainment, fun games, one-of-a-kind silent and live auctions, and a chance to meet the winemakers and chefs. Proceeds from this 2nd Annual Foodbank event will support more than 330 area nonprofits. VIP: 2:15-6pm; general: 3-6pm. Montecito Country Club, 920 Summit Rd., Montecito. $95/general; $125/ VIP. Ages 21+. Call 967-5741 or visit forkandcorkclassic.org. Read more on p. 43.

5/3: Max & Luther  Join Max & Luther and their alter egos Kari Sherman and Carey Laubenberg for a signing of their book True Tails from the Dog Park, a fun and charming collection of stories, tips, and rules for dogs and dog owners written from the perspective of two dogs.

2pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call 682-6787 or visit chaucersbooks.com.

5/3: Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen & The Agape Trio  An original member of The Byrds and a founder of the Desert Rose Band, countryrock pioneer Chris Hillman will be joined by highly respected musician and songwriter Herb Pederson and The Agape Trio to bring Americana music to you. 7:30pm. Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. $35. Call 684-6380 or visit plazatheatercarpinteria .com.

5/3: Lucinda Lane  Come listen to Nicole Lvoff and guitarist/songwriter Joe Woodard’s band Lucinda Lane as they play their “IndieBossaSwingTwang.”

Opening the show will be Randall Lamb and Jamie Green, with James Lombardo following

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Mary Craig Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free-$10. Call 963-4364 or visit tinyurl.com/MiriamWattles.

5/3: Artist Reception: Brian Shapiro  This, the third show for Brian Shapiro at the Karpeles, is titled Midrash & Miscellany: Contemporary Paintings from Biblical Texts and will feature a collection of paintings depicting scenes from the Bible. Gallery hours are noon4pm, Wednesday-Saturday. The exhibit shows through August 31. Reception: 2-4pm; artist talk: 4-5pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum. 21 W. Anapamu St. Free. Call 962-5322.

5/3: Telegraph Brewing Presents Día de las Obscuras  Ten beers on tap will showcase rare and neverbefore-seen releases from Telegraph’s experimental barrel-aged and wild-fermented Obscura line. Each session includes a tasting glass and 10 tasting tickets, and food and merchandise will be available.

Tasting Session 1: noon-3pm; Tasting Session 2: 4-7pm. Tasting Rm., Telegraph Brewing Company, 418 N Salsipuedes St. $30. Ages 21+. Call 963-5018 or visit tinyurl.com/Telegraph Brewing.

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Monday 5/4 5/4: Klezmer Juice  Klezmer Juice is vibrant Yiddish soul imbued with musical influences both old and new from around the world.

Bandleader and clarinet player Gustavo Bulgach was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and unites generations in spirit, offering fresh interpretations of traditional tunes. 7:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10-$12. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

5/4: In Praise of Earth: The Poetry of Nature, Jubilation, and the Soul  Calling all poetry fans: Come hear a special reading by poets Carolyn Brigit Flynn,

Sharon Rodgers Simone, Jean Mahoney, and Deena Metzger from their works in honor of Earth Day and National Poetry Month, celebrated in April.

7-8pm. Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call 964-7878 or visit sbplibrary.org.

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Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $40-$50. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

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Wednesday 5/6 5/6: George Ayoub  Join area educator George Ayoub, who holds a PhD in neuroscience, for a signing of his book Blueberries & Broccoli, which looks at available means to blunt cancer and lifestyle choices that reduce disease. 7pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call 682-6787 or visit chaucersbooks.com. loberotheater.com

5/3: Mother’s Day Brunch with the Accidental Chef Leslie Thomas  Get a head start for this special day, and learn about using olive oil or a nut oil instead of butter in perfect and easy recipes like Spinach & Egg Torte, Lemon Rosemary Muffins, and Lemon Pistachio Cake to make for the family next Sunday on Mother’s Day. Advance registration is required, and seating is limited. 2-4pm. S.B. Public Market, 38 W. Victoria St. Free. Call 845-3521 or visit ilfustino.com.

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Thursday Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 3-6:30pm Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 3-6:30pm

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Sunday 5/6: A Very Special Solo Evening with Joan Armatrading  In her first-ever full-scale solo concert, Joan Armatrading (pictured) will play the guitar and piano and sing pop, blues, folk, reggae, and jazz music from her

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“Every really good disc golfer can ace almost every hole here, so we’ve made changes to make the course more technical and fun,” explained Chandler Guilbeault while standing on the tee of the eighth hole, his favorite basket at Evergreen Disc Golf Course. Originally from Cape Cod, Guilbeault started playing Frisbee in the early ’90s, when he used light poles in parking lots for baskets. Today, Guilbeault, who’s got 48 aces under his own belt, helps maintain Goleta’s disc golf course, where he’s been involved since its earliest days. He’s built benches, tee boxes, and bridges with recycled materials that come from his day job at a hot tub store as well as moved and maintained baskets for a safer course with better flow. As one of the course’s “pros,” he also runs the annual Evergreen Open, which is on July 11-12 this year. See evergreendiscgolf.com.

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P a the veterans who visit. ul W Vets often “come full circle” on she recalled. “But I did.” e the tour, which can be quite The next day, Leiphardt was emotional. One elderly vet high above Santa Barbara even mistook Leiphardt for in a World War II aircraft, one of his long-lost flames completely amazed even from the war days. “He said, though she herself is a rec‘I really missed you, and I reational pilot. To repay her love you,’ and he started to new friends, she baked her cry,” she said. “Of course I’m way into their hearts with not going to question him; strawberry pies and instantly I’m going to live in his mind for became part of the team. a moment. ” When he asked for Today, the 55-year-old Happy George and Ruby Glass her autograph, she instead penned Camper Child Care manager— manager who a short love letter, saying, “Dear Edwin, is also chapter chair of The 99s, an international women’s pilot organization — volunteers as thank you for your service.” “He was just so happy,” the regional PR coordinator for the tour, which flies Leiphardt said.

Experiences like those keep Leiphardt and the into the Santa Barbara Airport this weekend, May 1-3. Funded by the Collings Foundation, Wings of tour’s pilots committed. They are also volunteers, Freedom is a “living history” experience that hits 110 spending vacation hours away from their commercities in more than 35 states each year, offering visi- cial airliner jobs. Wings of Freedom, said Leiphardt, tors the chance to step inside and even fly in vintage “wouldn’t happen without each and every person who works the tour.”

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Distancing her upper State Street studio from the controversy surrounding Bikram Yoga founder Bikram Choudhury, owner Mari Larangeira is changing its name to Yoga 105° (3891 State St., 687-6900, bikramyogasb.com), with a May 1 relaunch of the hot-yoga melting pot that has served Santa Barbara since 1998.

The 69-year-old Choudhury faces several civil lawsuits accusing sexual assault or rape, according to Los Angeles Superior Court documents. In a statement, lawyers for Choudhury — who does not face criminal charges and has denied any wrongdoing — called the accusations “lurid.”

But even before allegations surfaced, Larangeira says she was put off by Choudhury’s ostentatious displays of the vast monetary wealth he has accrued since founding his hot yoga practice in the 1970s. “For many years, I have not resonated with his flamboyant lifestyle,” she said.

“He doesn’t live simply and sustainably, which are important values to me.”

Larangeira received her teacher certificate from Bikram’s Yoga College of India in 2005 and runs classes with six additional Bikramcertified instructors, none of whom have experienced Choudhury’s alleged transgressions firsthand. “We have a deep appreciation for the yoga — it’s amazing,” she said. “We are simply separating ourselves from the man, not the practice.”

Bikram Yoga guides practitioners through 26 full-body poses that combine and accentuate balance, flexibility, and strength with meditative breathing. Classes run 90 minutes in rooms heated to 105 degrees with 40 percent humidity. Along with traditional Bikram classes, Larangeira’s studio offers 60-minute versions and 75-minute vinyasa yoga “flow” classes.

— Keith Hamm

Animals Chihuahuas de Mayo

“We can win the battle of overcrowded shelters by adopting these animals and by spaying and neutering [them],” said S.B. City Councilmember Cathy Murillo in 2012, the year Chihuahuas de Mayo was conceived.

The sentiment remains true today, so once again, during the month of May, Santa Barbara county residents can have their Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes spayed or neutered for free at the following County Humane Societies: Santa Maria (349-3435), Santa Ynez (688-8224), and Santa Barbara (964-4777 x20), as well as through CARE4Paws (968-2273) and S.B. County Animal Services, Santa Maria (934-6968). Only 300 surgeries can be provided, so call for an appointment ASAP.

Volunteer Diving for Debris

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A curious fishing expedition takes place May 2 under the Santa Barbara Harbor, when volunteers scour the bottom below Marina One for any debris that might be lurking down there. The cleanup effort comes literally full circle, as Operation Clean Sweep began in 2006 at Marina Four, removing 15.7 tons of barbecues, bow pulpits, deck chairs, satellite dishes, and assorted crud from the harbor bottom along the way. The morning starts with coffee and doughnuts and ends with lunch at 11:30 a.m. — with some deep down spring cleaning in between. Sign up by calling 897-2587.

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Scenic road ride & family friendly options • Carpinteria State Beach Picnic Tables • 9AM-12PM (r)($) 5/3 • Solvang Bike & Wine Ride • Social ride, wineries & BBQ. Hosted by SB Ski Club • Hans Christian Andersen Park, 633 Chalk Hill Rd., Solvang • 9AM-3PM (r)($) 5/3 • TLC for Your Bici • Women only, maintenance & tune-up workshops • Bici Centro, 506 E. Haley St., SB • 9:30AM & 3PM (r) 5/3 • Bike Maintenance Basics • Free class by REI • 321 Anacapa St., SB • 6:30-8PM (r)(s) 5/6 • Bike to School Day • Celebrate biking & walking to school! Led by COAST Safe Routes to School • Participating South Coast Schools 5/6 • SBCC Bike-to-School Breakfast • Bike pancakes & bike-blended smoothies, prizes & KJEE • Campus Bike Shop at Bridge • 7:30-10:30AM 5/7 • Bike Moves & After Party • “Bike Prom” themed ride followed by SBBIKE fundraiser • Ride: Plaza de Vera Cruz Park • 7:30PM • Party: Bici Centro, 506 E. Haley St., SB • 9PM-12AM ($) 5/9 • Guadalupe Ciclovia • Caravan to volunteer at the Guadalupe Bike Block Party • Santa Barbara to Guadalupe • 9AM-5PM (r)(s) 5/9 • Dirt Curious? • MTB Skills by SBMTV. All-level, women’s, intro-to-trials & wheelie clinics • Tuckers Grove County Park, SB • 9AM-12PM (r)(s) 5/11 - 5/15 • Bike to Work Week • The following public celebrations & gatherings will be hosted throughout the week for bike commuters: 5/11 • Breakfast by the City of Goleta • Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Dr. • 7-9AM 5/12 • Old Town Breakfast by Yardi • 430 S. Fairview Ave., Goleta • 7:30-9AM 5/13 • Breakfast by UCSB TAP • Campus bluffs above Goleta Beach • 7-9AM

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Bumble App Lets Women Make First Move

Dating is changing. We don’t have meet-cutes in coffee shops or the gym, and we certainly don’t maintain prolonged romantic eye contact with strangers. Ours is the era of digital dating, where apps and websites like Tinder, Grindr, OkCupid, and Match.com prevail.

Now there’s Bumble. The app functions much the same as Tinder — swipe right across people’s Facebookderived profiles to indicate interest, left to pass, and then send messages when you match up — but there’s one major difference: After you match, only the woman can make the first move. It’s the Sadie Hawkins of dating apps.

This is majorly progressive, as it challenges the tradition that men should always be the first to reach out. Whitney Wolfe, the company’s founder, hopes that the app’s unorthodox dynamic will help women work up the courage to pursue men. Wolfe also believes that the app will take some of the burden off of guys, as it lessens the pressure of making the perfect first move or losing a girl forever. Because the woman reaches out first, she is in control and expected to guide the conversation.

I’m not a shy gal by any means, but I am guilty of letting the guy make the first move more than I’d like to admit, so I downloaded the app and quickly noticed how different Bumble guys seem from Tinder guys. Not only did every guy I matched with have a job (!), but also most pictures showed them holding puppies or smiling at the beach — no flexing for the mirror or playing Gaucho Ball on here!

M o re i m p o rtantly, I don’t feel u n c o m fo r t a b l e scoping out p ro f i l e s . I fe e l safe. I know that because I have to make the first move, I can afford to be selective. On Bumble, I won’t be getting any angry messages from guys I matched with but didn’t respond to because I’m sending the first message.

I made my first match and spent a good 15 minutes Googling funny opening lines and flirtatious banter.

Striking up conversation with a guy I’ve never met was a lot harder than I expected it to be — and it’s even harder to wait patiently after sending out an opening line for a response. The app is making me sympathize more with guys, and it’s also seriously making me rethink my profile pictures, particularly the one of me at age 4 wearing a cowboy hat with a sassy hand placed on my hip.

I haven’t scored a date yet, but this app still seems worth a try. It forces girls to become more confrontational with the opposite sex, which is always a plus, and more importantly, it carves out a new dating trail.

Gender roles are falling apart around us, which means that today’s men and women are given the opportunity to date however they, not society, see fit.

See for yourself if Bumble is worth the buzz by downloading it on iTunes or checking out bumble .com.

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“Getting 500 companies once a year to support a cause is a small impact,” he said. “Getting everyone organized on one cause makes a larger, more successful impact.”

Currently, 3thirty3 is partnered with the International Anti-Poaching Foundation and VETPAW, which work to protect African wildlife, and Drop in the Bucket, an organization that builds wells and sanitation systems in Africa. The brand offers two separate watches that go along with these initiatives: the

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Since launching in December 2014, 3thirty3 has sold about half of its opening inventory. The Santa Barbara company hopes to completely sell out by June in order to make a donation to support a new well in Africa as well as several wildlife rangers’ salaries. “We want to demonstrate that, along with what we donated, there will be results, and these results will be continuous,” said Henderson. “I want to make something that is of some value to people, that in buying they can contribute to something bigger. “If we think about it one watch at a time, we can help solve the problem.”

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the Big West Conference standings, national rankings, and NCAA statistics: UCSB is armed and dangerous on the baseball diamond.

Gaucho pitchers boast the nation’s lowest collective earned run average (ERA) entering a three-game series against UC Davis this weekend (May 1-3) at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium. Their ERA dropped to 2.12 after they allowed only one run in three games at Hawai‘i last weekend.

Their right-left-right combina- WHEN ACES COME IN THREES: The UCSB Gauchos’ star pitchers are (from left) Dillon Tate, who may be one of the top picks in June’s draft and turns 21 tion of starting pitchers Dil- on Friday when they play UC Davis; Justin “Hawk” Jacome, a southpaw from Redlands who struck out 12 batters in a game earlier this year; and Shane lon Tate, Justin Jacome, and Bieber, a walk-on sophomore from Laguna Hills who’s pitched 30 straight innings without a walk.

Shane Bieber was dominant, although Jacome was a hardluck loser in a 1-0 defeat on Saturday. In a pair of 5-0 wins, wants Dillon’s slider,” Bieber said. “It’s a disappearing pitch.” he’s had poise,” Checketts said of the southpaw from RedTate’s move to a starting role this season has multiplied lands. “He works the ball back and forth to keep it off the Tate hurled seven innings without allowing a hit on Friday, the opponents’ frustrations and increased the admiration barrel of the bat.” and Bieber went all the way in his Sunday shut-out.

More than 3,000 fans watched each game at Les of major-league scouts. He’s expected to go high in the Jacome helped UCSB get off to a good start in the Big Murakami Stadium in O‘ahu. “They draw well, and their June amateur draft. “He has a chance to be the top pick if he West this season, striking out 12 Long Beach batters in a 3-1 crowds are traditionally rough and rowdy; they can really finishes strong,” Checketts said. victory. “I work on the location of my pitches more than get after you,” UCSB Coach Andrew Checketts said. “Our Because of his potential future, the coaching staff takes a velocity,” he said.“Tate has velocity. Bieber has movement. I pitchers kept them sitting on their hands.” restrained approach with Tate. “He’s such a worker; he can throw a four-seam fastball, which goes straighter, along with The same three starters will take the mound against Davis beat himself into the ground,” Checketts said.“We’re factor- a slider and change-up.” as the Gauchos, 8-4 in the Big West, strive to win their fifth ing active rest and recovery into his routine.” Even though The one time he was hit hard — Cal Poly erupting for six consecutive conference series. With a 31-10 overall record Tate had a no-hitter going against Hawai‘i, freshman Kyle runs in the second inning — Jacome showed his poise, shut(before facing Loyola Marymount in a nonconference game Nelson replaced him on the mound the last two innings. ting out the Mustangs in 6⅓ other innings and enabling the Tuesday), UCSB is ranked in the top 10 — as high as No. 6 Checketts said UCSB’s prized prospect was an “under- Gauchos to come back and win, 8-7. “I told myself, they’re — on three national collegiate polls. the-radar guy” at Claremont High School. “He needed to not going to score any more,” he said.

Jacome (nicknamed Hawk because his name is proHere is a look at UCSB’s triple whammy: develop his secondary pitches and get stronger. He’s put on 35 or 40 pounds and is still 4 percent body fat.” The coach nounced “Hawk-oh-may”) said the Gaucho pitchers benefit gave Tate credit for learning the slider on his own. “We try from the experience of senior catcher Campbell Wear.

Dillon Tate to create an environment where they tinker,” he said. “That “He’s a huge part of our success,” he said. “He calls the game.

Junior RHP, 62, 200 lbs.

He knows what we do.” [slider] changed his life.”

Tate, who also throws a fastball, change-up, and an W-L: 6-3. ERA: 1.57. Innings: 74⅔. Strikeouts: 77. Walks: 20.

Jacome could follow Tate into the pros after this season, Tate emerged as an elite hurler last year, when he compiled improved curve, still has work to do. He issued two walks depending on the draft.“That’s my goal,” he said. a 1.45 ERA with 12 saves as UCSB’s closer. Along with a high and hit two batters last Friday.“My issue is control,” he said.

90-mph fastball, he befuddled hitters with a slider that he “I don’t have as good command as [Jacome and Bieber].”

His record is deceiving. He goes up against the best Shane Bieber had developed in the off-season.“Everybody in the country pitchers on opposing teams. Sophomore RHP, 63, 195 lbs.

He gave up no earned runs in W-L: 6-3. ERA: 1.88. Innings: 81⅓. Strikeouts: 68. Walks: 6. his last loss, 2-0 to Long Beach “Bieber had dominating command,” Checketts said after the sophomore’s complete game against Hawai‘i. He has now State.

Tate hopes for a victory Fri- gone 30 innings without issuing a base on balls.

“I’m a late bloomer,” said Bieber, who came to UCSB from day to double his celebrations.

It is his 21st birthday. “I still feel Laguna Hills as an invited walk-on without a scholarship. like a kid,” he said. He wants He was thrown into the fire, starting 11 games as a freshman. to keep that feeling until the “They [UCSB’s coaching staff] trusted me,” he said. pros come calling. “The game “He’s competitive,” Checketts said. “He’s a sinker-slider is really pure without money guy, and his change-up has been getting better. He keeps being involved.” the ball on the ground. It’s hard for guys to find the gaps against him.”

Another pleasant surprise among Gaucho pitchers is Justin Jacome junior left-hander Domenic Mazza. He is the starter in Junior LHP, 66, 230 lbs. midweek games and has a 5-0 record. He allowed only two W-L: 6-2. ERA: 2.46. Innings: runs in in 14⅓ innings during UCSB’s two victories over Natasha Feshbach, Alex Valente, USC. When Tate missed his start against Cal Poly because 80⅓. Strikeouts: 68. Walks: 17.

Santa Barbara Track and Field Dos Pueblos Swimming In his third season as a starter, of a kink in his neck, Mazza battled the Mustangs for eight Won three events at Santa Barbara Won four events at Mt. SAC Meet of Jacome leads the Gauchos innings in a 7-3 victory.“He’s been fantastic,” Checketts said.

County Championships, including setChampions, setting records in 100 with 19 career wins. “Ever “His change-up is special. It floats in there like in the Bugs ting a county record in the 100 hurdles butterfly and backstroke. since he stepped on campus, Bunny cartoons where hitters swing two or three times. n independent.com

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MIDEAST TREATS: Shoham Yaniv brings his Jewish food to Oak Park this weekend.

AUTHOR ON THE VINE: A harvest season spent with Saucelito Canyon’s old vines gave direction to the life of wine country marketing consultant and author Sean Christopher Weir (seen here with those grapes), the latest in a line of people who have found inspiration in the vineyard near Arroyo Grande.

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n 1880, an Englishman named Henry Ditmas planted three acres of zinfandel grapes in the remote Saucelito Canyon east of Arroyo Grande. Nearly a century later, Bill Greenough, who’d been raised amid the hippie hedonism of the Santa Barbara Mountain Drive community, purchased the property in 1974 and unearthed the forgotten vines. Then in 1995, Greenough hired a young, somewhat aimless, aspiring writer named Sean Christopher Weir to work the harvest, and Weir wound up reaping much-needed direction in his life.

Those elements are blended together in Weir’s new memoir, The Mad Crush. The 160-page romp through Central Coast history and the winemaking process is a quick and lively read, perfect for anyone with any shred of interest in wine.

The Sonoma-raised, Cal Poly–educated Weir, who’s run the San Luis Obispo County media-relations firm Mooncatcher for 12 years now, spoke to me on the phone last month. What follows is a streamlined version of our conversation, a longer version of which is at independent.com/wine.

spiritual aspect to the story for me, in that I was on the verge of becoming a slacker—I was just spinning my wheels and kinda aimless. Without knowing it, I was looking for some direction. The harvest was a form of boot camp for me. It was a big kick in the ass at the right time.

The book also explains winemaking in an easy-tounderstand way. That was very intentional. I feel like

wine can be cool and inclusive, which I don’t think everyone realizes. That’s been a passion for me for a long time. I’ve heard from family and friends who’ve read the book that it’s opened their eyes to how wine is made in a manner that’s very unvarnished but informative. That was one of the most gratifying things to hear. Someone told me it’s a wine book for those who don’t know they’re into wine. I really hadn’t thought of it that way, but I think that’s what I was after.

Had you ever heard of Mountain Drive? I had no idea. Bill was a man

of few words, so he wasn’t telling these grand stories. He’d just let these things drop. When I got the initial inspiration [to write the book], I circled back to Bill, and he started filling in the blanks and enlarging the stories.

He also had the books by Lee Chiacos and Wild Bill Neely. I found out that not only are these stories true, but they’re more magnificent than I could have ever imagined.

What made you write about this experience? Even at the time, I had

the sense that there were weird and wonderful things happening during that harvest season, so I did take some notes. Bill is a man of few words, but he would tell these stories that were OLD VinEs and MOuntain DriVE almost hard to believe, like stompCOnVErGE in sEan ChristOphEr ing grapes in the nude on Mountain Would you do a harvest now?

Drive, how some Englishman went to WEir’s MeMoir the middle of nowhere to plant a vineOhh. It’s one of those things I like to yard in 1880, and how Bill, 100 years think I’d do, but shoveling grapes at 10

by Matt kettMann o’clock at night under the full moon? I later, fished these old vines out of the scrub brush with a pick and shovel. don’t know if I have the balls to do it.

The stories seemed larger than life to me.

I hope someday for my son to read this book. All he knows of me is that I’m the person behind the computer a lot, so How much did that harvest affect the rest of your now he can know that his dad was out there at some point life? I don’t want to overstate it, but it was very pivotal, and busting ass and working hard with his hands. The lessons of in many ways steered me to where I am today, including hard work and endurance that are in the book will resonate getting me back on the Central Coast. There’s an almost with him one day.

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Sean Christopher Weir will sign copies of The Mad Crush on Friday, May 1, 4:30-6 p.m., at Oreana Winery (205 Anacapa St.), where there will also be live music and a food truck. The book is also for sale at Chaucer’s Books, Tecolote Book Shop in Montecito, and the Book Loft in Solvang. See themadcrush.com.

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haring everyday meals was an essential aspect of spiritual life on the Israeli kibbutz where Shoham Yaniv grew up. “Everything was done collectively and shared,” said Yaniv, who assisted his mother in managing the kitchen, which often had to fill the plates of 500 communal workers with traditional Jewish meals.

Now he’s filling Santa Barbara’s gap in really good Jewish food with his business, Sababa Catering, whose motto is, “It’s all good.”

“I don’t look to compete with the big catering companies in town,” said Yaniv last week. “I try to keep to my niche because that’s generally who likes my food, but my arms are open to everybody.”

However involved Yaniv may be in the kitchen, he does not call himself a chef, or even a cook. He prefers to label himself more as a maker of good food. “I take a lot of pride in it,” he said. “I want people to be happy with my food and have a good time.”

He carries this attitude into the kitchen, as well. “I always cook barefoot. I got that from being a little kid running around with no shoes,” he said.“I guess my heart is still in Israel.”

Here are some favorites from Yaniv’s menu, which he will present in Oak Park on May 3 at the Santa Barbara Jewish Festival.

Hot Pastrami or Corned Beef on Rye: It’s served with organic dill coleslaw, a kosher pickle, and Russian dressing; but Yaniv warned, “There’s no Katz Deli in Israel, and you would never find something called a Jewish deli. Israel is a rich melting pot, and the food is cherry-picked from many different places.”

Middle Eastern Vegetarian Plate: This is offered as Israeli salad, baba ghanoush, tabbouleh, and Moroccan carrot salad. “The really neat thing about Israeli cooking is that it’s really just fresh ingredients,” said Yaniv, who’s known at the Farmers Markets for shopping in nothing more than a pair of board shorts.

Fresh Hummus Platter: It’s topped with zatar and olive oil and served with pita chips. He explained, “It’s the simple things, when done well, that can be the most delicious.”

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HE GOT WINE, HE GOT PORK: This weekend’s Fork & Cork Classic honors winemaker Blair Fox (seen above left with wife Sarah Fox) and Julienne chef and owner Justin West (above right).

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n a calendar crammed with food and wine events that raise money for worthy causes, Santa Barbarans struggle in selecting which to attend; however, if you rely on a formula that adds a breathtaking setting with the impact of the charity involved, multiplies that with the quality of purveyors, and then divides that by number of attendees, you’ll find the Fork & Cork Classic at the top of the list.

Just in its second year, the Foodbank fundraiser is May 3 at the Montecito Country Club, where the region’s top kitchens and booze makers will serve only about 600 people. This year, the event will honor winemaker Blair Fox (who makes Fess Parker’s many wines as well as his own personal labels) and Julienne restaurant’s Justin West (whose late father founded a similar event in Oregon 25 years ago).

To get a better sense of the event, I sat down with both of them over a bottle of Clementine Carter saison-cider last week. Here’s what they had to say.(Find a longer version at independent .com/food.)

Justin West: I come from a family that

likes to give back. The restaurant’s business is about feeding people, but it’s a shame and an irony that we only care about feeding the people that have the money to pay the check at the end of the meal. We should be concerned with feeding everybody. That’s where my heart is in being involved with an organization like the Foodbank. I’ve got kids, and the thought of not being able to feed my kids breaks my heart.

Blair Fox: It’s an honor to be honored. I

think the award is about what I do with winemaking in this entire county. I make a lot of wine, 100,000-plus cases. My own stuff [Blair Fox Cellars and Fox Wine Co.] is where I try to keep my hands dirty, where I’m not just telling someone else what to do. I like to do the punch-downs, to be the one loading the press. At 100,000 cases, I can’t do it all. I came from that small winemaking background, and I try to keep it all like a small winemaker would, but I just have people to help out.

JW: This year, I am getting two suckling pigs.

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The Age of Acquiescence and 1893, state governors called upon the National Guard more than 100 times to quell labor unrest and protect private property. New York bankers and Wall Street speculators were targets of vitriol and often violence.

Convinced that too much money and influence accumu-lating in too few hands was dangerous, citizens argued, debated, marched, and fought in the streets.

So what happened to the American spirit of resis resistance? Fraser points to two major events: mass consumption and the financialization of the economy. The ground shifted beneath the feet of working people when the U.S. abandoned manufacturing for finance; capital became more fluid and less tethered to locales like Youngstown, Ohio, and Detroit,

Michigan. Union membership and influence waned, as did working-class identity and solidarity. By the late 20th century, manufacturing jobs had been exported abroad, while work in the U.S. became more precarious.

The financialization of the economy, coupled with weakened fealty to the ideology of the New Deal, has produced a sec second Gilded Age where the chasm between the wealthy and everyone else is wider than ever. A real threat now is that the remorseless logic of the free market will destroy the free market and, quite possibly, the planet. With scholarly skill and a common touch, Fraser illustrates an inescapable irony: In creating our second Gilded Age, the wizards of American finance have liquidated the assets that built the first Gilded Age. You might say that when it comes to American-style capitalism, some things never change.

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The most satisfying moments, though, arrive in “King Kunta,” where the narrator balances between bragging on his rap mastery, some artfully displaced castration anxiety, and a simmering resentment that goes beyond all the topics of the song. In “Alright,” a similar voice catalogs daily horrors, describing himself “at the preacher’s door” with weakening knees, and adding in a plain, lucid tone: “… and we hate po po / Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure.” The whole album, lush and cutting, leans heavily on jazz but also draws influence from a mighty well of electronic pop like Radiohead. Pimp is filled with a ruthless yet structured voice, assurance torn by facts. It’s a sophisticated, hard picture of now.

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Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine: Seeing the world clearly and translating those perceptions into equally clear language ought to be something anyone can do, but of course that’s not the case.

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Laura Kasischke, The Infinitesimals: If The Infinitesimals isn’t as spectacular as 2011’s Space, in Chains, it’s still very good, and very dark. Ativan is a “Little, hopeful, insistent / song / about the future / sung / to a hanged man’s boots.” Her 50th birthday is “the carcass / of some rotting, welcome beast.”

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hy didn’t the Occupy Wall Street movement happen sooner? And why is the only real political resistance in contemporary American politics coming from the right, in the form of the Tea Party, rather than from the left? These are the central questions animating Steve Fraser’s exquisite new book, The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth & Power. In order to answer them, Fraser leads the reader on a fascinating and relevant journey back to what he calls “the long 19th century,” when the infrastructure of the American economy was being created.

Fraser is adept at identifying the threads that tie the present to the past, and this is useful because our collective attention is relentlessly focused on the present. Fraser reminds us that popular resistance is part of the American DNA. As the U.S. developed and expanded, artisans and craftspeople resisted organized capital, abolitionists resisted slaveholders, and those who valued equality resisted those who prized individualism.

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STRINGED SIREN: Last week, violinist Jennifer Koh (pictured) premiered her “Bridge to Beethoven” series, which focuses on the composer’s 10 violin sonatas to be played through four concert seasons.

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iolinist Jennifer Koh is all about the now — not only full immersion in the performance at hand but a career that has employed a number of today’s prominent composers. Besides her gifts as a dazzling violinist and convincing interpreter of the canon, Koh is a meticulous programmer who devises multiyear projects, honoring great composition cycles by cementing them with new works spawned by the originals.

UCSB Arts & Lectures hosted the annual phases of Koh’s multiyear “Bach and Beyond” project, which paired the unaccompanied solo violin sonatas and partitas of J.S. Bach with new solo works especially commissioned for the violinist. Appropriately, Koh has selected the image of a bridge for her present project, which focuses on Beethoven’s 10 violin sonatas through four concert seasons. It was Santa Barbara’s good fortune Wednesday night to host the inaugural performance for the “Bridge to Beethoven” series.

Israeli-American pianist Shai Wosner has collaborated with Koh for five years, notably on the 2013 CD signs, games + messages, but Wednesday’s was the duo’s first Santa Barbara appearance together, and the collaboration was nothing short of brilliant. The two sonatas played, No. 1 in D Major and No. 9 in A Major “Kreutzer,” happen to be the very pieces that first captured my interest for classical music 30 years ago, when I practically wore out a recording by Isaac Stern and Eugene Istomin. Of course, that kind of tilt toward one rendition can lead to narrowness. But my experience Wednesday was like meeting a pen pal in person for the first time after corresponding for decades: familiarity, yes, but immediacy, dimensionality, and living charm.

Wosner is a gifted pianist and a wonderful interpreter of Beethoven.

Together the two gave carefully coordinated, sensitive articulations of these masterpieces of dialogue. Sonatas numbers 1 and 9, which virtually “bridge” the entire series of 10, are compatible confrères for evident reasons: They each have three movements, with lengthy exercises in variations in the middle. Beethoven was a master of the variation (what I like to think of as the Romantic equivalent to jazz), and Koh and Wosner gave insightful and distinguished character to each. For example, in the second movement of the “Kreutzer,” the violin fiddles a flashy hoedown round, only to be followed by a dripping melodramatic minor turn. It is a very funny moment, and the composer’s wit rang crystal clear. These elaborate variation movements are themselves a sort of bridge within each sonata.

“Bridgetower Fantasy” by the genre-defying pianist and composer Vijay Iyer, came second on the program, serving as both a bridge and a border between the two Beethovens. Named for the African-European violinist who inspired and first performed Sonata No. 9 with Beethoven, the Iyer opens with high strikes in the keyboard and extreme-pitch harmonic whistling in the violin. Transitions from sparseness to frenzy follow in a convincing, organic flow, the natural flourishes of a revolving ostinato that turned like the seasons. At other times the chatter of impossibly involved passages seemed to come out of nowhere, as if the silence had been peeled back to reveal what was already there and there had been no real change at all. Whatever it was, Iyer’s work proved both adventurous and accessible, and it deserves repeated hearings. We can only hope this program finds its n way to CD, but we’ll have to cross that bridge when we get there. independent.com

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efore the music in this excellent production even began, two casually dressed cast members lounged downstage, smoking cigarettes. While their efforts to render the easygoing atmosphere of working-class New Orleans were effective, one couldn’t help noticing the shadows cast around them by three enormous telephone poles, one of which was set at a disturbing angle. With their cross shapes, these vertical elements in the set suggested that the audience would be observing a kind of modern Golgotha, a Calvary on which some bloody sacrifice must inevitably take place.

Less than 20 minutes later, the brilliant soprano Beverly O’Regan Thiele, as Blanche DuBois, proclaimed to Micaëla Oeste’s Stella, “Death is expensive.”And although in context she was defending her inability to save the pair’s ancestral home from foreclosure, the phrase, like so many others in Tennessee Williams’s great masterpiece, hung in the air as a symbol of the heroine’s great dilemma. In a society in which it seems that everything has a price, could it be that even death might someday become too expensive? What happens to someone who can’t afford to live, or even to die? A Streetcar Named Desire points the way to that particular modern version of tragedy.

This production (sets, costume, and staging) was developed in collaboration with San Francisco Opera’s Merola program and the Kentucky Opera to introduce a new “reduced” score that would make André Previn’s masterful adaptation available to smaller opera companies. It succeeds admirably in that goal and kept the Granada audience spellbound through three hours.

Gregory Gerbrandt brought something new and exciting to the role of Stanley Kowalski

without altering the story’s essential DNA. Casey Candebat gave a memorable performance as Harold “Mitch” Mitchell, Blanche’s sometime suitor and Stanley’s somewhat less than friend.

Previn’s great achievement, beyond even the composition of so much gorgeous, accessible music, is to have captured the ensemble spirit of the original script. Rather than letting a pair of showboating leads run away with the spotlight, this opera version delves deeper into the complexities and nuances of their context, rendering both Stanley and Blanche more understandable, and thus more tragic.

For Stanley and Stella, Blanche presents an obstacle that, one way or another, has to be removed. Previn’s score for their discussion of this problem at the end of Act II deploys jazzy flutes and brass in the service of a version of Stanley’s well-known “colored lights” speech that’s more subtle and indirect than the original, yet conveys the same yearning.

Additional lines underscore the implication — if Blanche’s intrusive presence represents reality, then “who wants real?”

Difficult cruxes get imaginative solutions, as Stanley yells, “Stella!” (because singing it would not work), and Blanche’s great exit line, “Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” becomes an echo phrase, though not through the obvious repetition of the final words, but rather in the delicate refrain of “whoever you are,” which Blanche repeats until she has left the stage. This was certainly one of the highlights of the year in Santa Barbara and represents a promising new stage in the development of an American opera tradition for the 21st century. (See the full review at independent. com/streetcar.) n

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San Marcos High School Performing Arts Department presents

Sunday May 17, 9am-4pm Santa Barbara’s Premier Car Show THE GERSHWIN MUSICAL ®

Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin Book by Ken Ludwig Co-Conception by Ken Ludwig & Mike Ockrent Inspired by Material by Guy Bolton & John McGowan Originally Produced on Broadway by Roger Horchow & Elizabeth Williams Vocal Music by Carolyn Teraoka-Brady Orchestra conducted by Michael Kiyoi

Held in the heart of beautiful downtown Santa Barbara, discover over 300 outstanding vehicles that include hot rods, antiques, classics, low riders, and race cars. We take over 11 locks of State Street with over 300 outstanding vintage and collectible vehicles for all to see. Come view these vehicles and enjoy a sunny day listening to live music and visiting numerous vendors and merchants throughout the downtown area.

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All proceeds from the show benefit the Page Youth Center, the Goleta Lions Club charities, and the Downtown Santa Barbara Children’s Holiday Parade.

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FINAL WEEK! Joost Vandenbroek

Toys on Tables

“STEP RIGHT UP!”

HISTORY IN THE REMAKING: Using dollhouse-sized props, an overhead screen, and an original score, the Dutch theater ensemble Hotel Modern and composer Arthur Sauer brought their inventive production The Great War to UCSB’s Campbell Hall.

Hotel Modern: The Great War War, presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures.

At Campbell Hall, Sunday, April 26.

Reviewed by Charles Donelan

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his marvelously complex and absorbing performance began simply, with a map unfolded flat and projected onto a screen.

A voiceover delivered the broader historical points necessary to understand the beginning of the First World War, all the way up to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, which was portrayed by rolling a toy car across the relevant portions of central Europe. Once the action left the map and moved to the larger tables that had been set up around the Campbell Hall stage, mounds of dirt, push brooms, toy soldiers, and sprigs of parsley coalesced into remarkably convincing compositions, images that, projected above the people making them, served as the central focus of this hour-long journey through the trenches, landscapes, and contradictions of World War I. Composer and Foley artist Arthur Sauer drove the performance forward from his station at a battery of equipment that included high-tech digital samplers and drum pads

along with low-tech noisemakers like a sheet of metal and a box of matches. Entering into the stories told by prerecorded voices on the soundtrack, one tended to forget about Sauer until noticing that, during a gun battle for instance, the uncannily accurate sound of machine gunfire was coming not from a recording but rather from Sauer pounding a digital drum pad with wooden sticks.

The real letters from people who lived through the war that formed the script were superb and poignant, and still capable of producing shock and surprise. There’s no single narrative thread to The Great War War, but there are whole episodes, like the torpedoing of a British ship as seen from underwater by the crew of a German sub, or the booby-trapping of a bottle of wine as experienced by a crew of British soldiers searching an abandoned bunker. The sheer visual inventiveness of this amazing production made the hour fly. The objects on these tables may be small, but Hotel Modern is onto something big. n

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“the highlight of everything I’ve seen at Ensemble...simply excellent in every way” Gwendolyn, Audience Member

The Mystery of Edwin Drood. At Santa Barbara High School Theatre, Saturday, April 25. Shows through May 3.

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“a dramatic juggernaut” Maggie Yates, BroadwayWorld

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Reviewed by Charles Donelan his exciting and playful production succeeded in tearing down the theater’s wellknown “fourth wall,” that invisible barrier separating the audience from the action, and it did so in multiple ways. First, there were the direct physical assaults, as when, in the opening number, Aaron Linker (who played the Music Hall Royale actor Mr. Clive Paget) and his character (the sinister choirmaster John Jasper) jumped off the stage and landed just before the front row, his leap perfectly timed to emphasize his self-assessment as “quite mad.”

Then there was the orchestra pit, or should that be lagoon? In any case, this orchestra occupied a tight space below yet inside the stage, so that the actors had room to pass in front of them. Additionally, as if that is not enough, there’s the gimmick, which in Drood goes back to the sad fact that the story’s author died before he finished the plot. As a result, in this production, based on the Rupert Holmes

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Broadway hit of 1986, the audience gets to vote on who the murderer is, and thus on what ending is performed each night.

Theater people, and especially musichall types, had a bad reputation in the 19th century, and thankfully, Drood does nothing to dispel this. The gang onstage enjoy lewd double entendres, and they are eager to go “off to the races” at a moment’s notice. Some of them, it was implied, are even for sale, or at least rent, by unaccompanied members of the audience. It’s all in (quite wicked) fun, and the Santa Barbara High School cast does a stunning job keeping it afloat. Besides Linker’s dynamically dastardly villain, there are star turns by Meredith Lemert, Rio Salazar, Irving Soto, Natalie Cvitanic, Nick Blondell, and Camille Umoff, who plays Alice Nutting and the title role of Edwin Drood, each with dazzling appeal. Congratulations to the entire team at SBHS for creating such a memorable n night of theater.

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MAKING MUSIC: Legendry singer Joan Armatrading (pictured) stops at the Lobero Theatre as part of her first solo tour since her first United States tour in the mid-1970s.

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t’s hard to believe, but Joan Armatrading doesn’t like to talk about her voice. “I know nothing about it,” she said abruptly, when asked why most interviews tended to overlook that aspect of her performances.

“I don’t know what I would say.” You can’t egg her on with earned praise either, noting the amazing versatility of her vocal modes, from rock, folk, and jazz to the deepest American strain of the blues. (“Muddy Waters should have been my father,” she has often said.) Her sense of drama is high, too, especially

by D. J. Palladino in classics like “Love and Affection,” “Down to Zero,” and obviously “Show Some Emotion.”

But this isn’t what interests her about herself. “I suppose I sang a lot when I was in school like we all do,” said Armatrading, who was born on the Caribbean island Saint Kitts but raised in Birmingham, England.

“But I don’t think I stood out and didn’t kind of go into the choir.” And she never sang hymns to the birds as she skipped home from lessons.“No,” she laughed.“And I wouldn’t do that now either.”

Armatrading, on the phone from Chicago last week, had just finished her 133rd show in what she’s promised is her last big tour: “I’ll go out and perform again but just for one-month excursions.” She’s playing solo on this tour, which is something she hasn’t done since her first United States tour in the mid-1970s, but she’s nonplussed being out there alone.“I get nervous no matter, whether I’m with a band or by myself,” she confessed. It’s just the walking out and getting started that’s bad. “Once I hit the third or fourth bar, I’m okay,” she said.

She started writing music as a child when her mother bought a piano as a piece of furniture, and Armatrading sat down and plunked out her heart’s urgings—later she turned to a guitar that her mother got by trading in two “prams” at the charity store.“I still have it. But I never learned to play other people’s music,” she said. “I was just making my own. And I liked the way the songs were, and I naturally wanted to share them with other people.

I never thought about being famous or anything; I just wanted to get the songs out.” It was the process of making it that mattered. “You know, that’s the way it is with all of them: Lennon and McCartney, Elvis Costello … It doesn’t matter who. We’re just making it up as we go along. I never thought about myself as a singer. It was just a way to get my songs out.”Yet she ought to know she has a great voice, even if no one has mentioned it. She laughed at that notion but obviously wanted to change the subject.

Was the final tour happy? “It’s going very well. Like all the tours, it’s a mix of the old favorites and some new, although I don’t really have a new album this time. I’m just concentrating on the show. Just playing seems like enough.” Her songs and her guitar and the fans. “Yes,” she said. “I love that.

And I’m a very good guitar player.”

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Art, Design & Architecture Museum – Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures, through May 1. UCSB, 893-2951.

Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Brian Shapiro: Midrash & Miscellany: Contemporary Paintings from Biblical Texts, May 1-Aug. 31; Professional Baseball, ongoing; multiple permanent installations.

21 W. Anapamu St., 962-5322.

Museum of Contemporary Art S.B. – Teen Paranormal Romance, through July 12.

653 Paseo Nuevo, 966-5373.

Rancho La Patera & Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Valley Historical Society. 304 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, 681-7216.

S.B. Historical Museum – Earthquake, May 7-July 5; Under the Umbrella: Lutah Maria Riggs, through spring; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission. 136 E. De la Guerra St., 966-1601.

S.B. Maritime Museum – Doug Klug: Underwater Forests of Anacapa Island, through May. 113 Harbor Wy., 962-8404.

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. 1130 State St., 963-4364.

S.B. Museum of Natural History Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations. 211 Stearns Wharf, 962-2526.

Wildling Museum – Wild Spirit: Horses in Art, through June 1. 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 688-1082.

gaLLEriEs Allan Hancock College Library – Children’s book illustrations, ongoing.

800 S. College Dr., Santa Maria, 922-6966.

Architectural Foundation Gallery – Judy and Warner Nienow: Wet World: How Rain Affects Architectural Impressions, through May 29. 229 E. Victoria St., 965-6307.

Art from Scrap Gallery – FLORA, through May 14. 302 E. Cota St., 884-0459.

Arts Fund Gallery – Impart: An Exhibition for the 2015 Teen Arts Mentorship Master Artists, May 1-June 20. 205-C Santa Barbara St, 965-7321.

Artamo Gallery – Spring Art, through May 31.

11 W. Anapamu St., 568-1400.

Atkinson Gallery – Annual Student Exhibition, through May 8. 721 Cliff Dr., Rm. 202, SBCC, 965-0581 x3484.

Bella Rosa Galleries – Tom de Walt and Mehosh Dziadzio, through Apr. 30. 1103 State St., 966-1707.

Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit. 540 Pueblo St., 898-2204.

Carivintâs Winery – Michelle Ellis: Nature’s Kaleidoscope, May 2-June 30. 476 First St., Solvang, 693-4331.

Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – Artists Studio Tour, through May 11. 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria, 684-7789.

Casa Dolores – Bandera Ware, through May 30. 1023 Bath St., 963-1032.

Channing Peake Gallery – Under the Influence: Responses to Place, through June 18. S.B. County Administration Bldg., 105 E. Anapamu St., 568-3994.

Churchill Jewelers – Irena Kovalik and Thomas Van Stein, through June. 1015 State St., 962-5815.

Faulkner Gallery – Margaret Nadeau, through Apr. 30. 40 E. Anapamu St., 962-7653. galerie102 – Ellwood Risk, Sabine Pearlman: No Risk, No Reward, through May 24.

102 W. Matilija St., Ojai, 640-0151.

Gallery 113 – Stephen Robeck: Water: Reflections, Refractions, and Motion, through May 2; Beth Schmohr, May 4-30. La Arcada, 1114 State St., 965-6611.

Gallery Los Olivos – Two Off the Road, through Apr. 30; Guild Room April Exhibit, through May 6; Erin Williams: Flights of Fancy, May 1-30. 2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7517.

The Good Life – Wine Country, through Apr. 30; Carol Wood: Scenic Wonders, May 2-June 30. 1672 Mission Dr., Solvang, 688-7111.

Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery – F7 Photographics: Embrace the Wonder, May 1-Aug. 28. 2415 De la Vina St, 687-7444.

Hospice of S.B. – Diana Valdez: Ocean of Souls, through Apr. 30. 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, 563-8820.

Jewish Community Ctr. – S.B. Printmakers, through June 2. 524 Chapala St., 957-1115.

The Lark – Kevin Eddy, ongoing. 131 Anacapa St., 284-0370.

Los Olivos Café – Laurel Sherrie: Capturing Light, through May 6; John Card: Art Potpourri, May 7-July 2. 2870 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7265.

Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing. 127 Anacapa St., 284-0358.

MCASB Satellite – Magic Mountain, through Jan. 1, 2016. Hotel Indigo, 121 State St., 966-5373.

MichaelKate Interiors & Art Gallery – Deep Disguise, May 1-June 21. 132 Santa Barbara St., 963-1411.

Montecito Aesthetic Institute – eclecticism, through May 15. 1150 Coast Village Rd., Ste. H, Montecito, 565-5700.

MultiCultural Ctr. – John CrespoEstrella: Art of the Rhythm, through June 5. UCSB, 893-8411.

Ojai Café Emporium – Tom Hardcastle and Gretchen Greenberg, ongoing.

108 S. Montgomery St., Ojai., 646-2723.

Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Arts – Tielle Monette and Sergey Fedotov, ongoing. 1108 State St., 962-8111.

Pacific Western Bank – Celebrating 28 Years of I Madonnari Posters, ongoing. 30 E. Figueroa St., 883-5100.

Pacifica Graduate Institute – Mythic Threads: Art, Healing and Magic in Bali, ongoing. 801 Ladera Ln., 879-7103.

Porch – Billy Woolway, through Apr. 30. 3823 Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria, 684-0300.

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park – Nihonmachi Revisited: Santa Barbara’s Japanese American Community in Transition, 1900-1940 and Memorias y Facturas, ongoing. 123 E. Canon Perdido St., 965-0093.

S.B. Artwalk – Arts & Craft Show, ongoing Sundays. Cabrillo Blvd. at State St. S.B. City Hall Gallery – Ray Strong: Shared Vision/Common Ground, through Feb. 18, 2016. De la Guerra Plaza, 568-3994.

S.B. Tennis Club – Roz Lord: Oxygen, through May 1. 2375 Foothill Rd., 682-4722.

S.B. Zoo – Animals ... Inside Out, through June 26. 500 Ninos Dr, 962-5339.

Standing Sun Winery – Mateu Velasco, through Apr. 30. 92 Second St., Unit D, Buellton, 904-8072.

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Ben Messick: Artist and Ringers: Vintage and Contemporary American Masterworks, through May 3; The Declarations of Independents, May 7-June 28; Meredith Brooks Abbott: Days That Count, through June 28; Lockwood de Forest Brass Cutouts, through Dec. 31. 7 E. Anapamu St., 730-1460.

Tamsen Gallery – R.W. Firestone, ongoing. 3888 State St., 687-2200.

UCSB Library – Girls-in-Justice, through May 29. UCSB, 893-2478.

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art – Maker’s Dozen: Westmont Senior Art Exhibition, through May 9. 955 La Paz Rd., 565-6162.

Youth Interactive Creative Studio Gallery– Bloom, May 1-June 1. 209 Anacapa St., 453-4123.

Zookers Restaurant – Karen Scott Browdy, Brooke Baxter, Carol North Dixon, through June 13. 5404 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, 684-8893.

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Blind Tiger – 409 State St, 957-4111. fri: Filibusta (9pm) Blush Restaurant & Lounge – 630 State St., 957-1300. sun: Chris Fossek (6pm) Brasil Arts Café – 1230 State St., 245-5615. fri: Live Brazilian Music sat: SambaDá Day (11am) Cambridge Drive Baptist Church – 550 Cambridge Dr., Goleta, 964-0436. fri: The Sherpas, The Honeysuckle Possums (7:30pm) Chumash Casino Resort – 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez, (800) 248-6274. thu 5/7: Mariachi Vargas (8pm) Cold Spring Tavern – 5995 Stagecoach Rd., 967-0066. fri: Grass Mountain (7-10pm) sat: John Lyle (2-5pm); We Three (5:308:30pm) sun: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (1:15-4pm); Spencer the Gardener (4:30-7:30pm) The Creekside – 4444 Hollister Ave., 964-5118. fri: Spencer the Gardener, The Matt Armor Band (8:30pm) sat: Bella & The Heart & Soul Band (9pm) sun: Hot Combo (3pm) mon: All Eyes on Us Karaoke wed: Country Night Dargan’s – 18 E. Ortega St., 568-0702. thu: Traditional Irish Music (6:30pm) tue: Karaoke (9pm) wed: Karaoke -The Band (8:30pm) Endless Summer Bar/Café – 113 Harbor Wy., 564-1200. fri: Acoustic guitar and vocals (6:30pm) Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. – 137 Anacapa St., 694-2255. fri: Live Music (5pm) sat: The Caverns (5-8pm) The Goodland – 5650 Calle Real, 964-6241. thu: Live Music Thursdays (7pm) Hoffmann Brat Haus – 801 State St., 962-3131. thu: Live Music Thursdays (7pm) Indochine – 434 State St., 965-3800. tue: Indie Night (9pm) wed: Karaoke (8:30pm) Live Oak Unitarian – 820 N. Fairview Ave., 403-2639. thu 4/30: Crary, Evans, and Spurgin (7:30pm) Maverick Saloon – 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 686-4785. fri: Just Dave – Dave Bernal Band (8pm) sat: Just Dave (3pm); Dave Bernal Band (8pm) sun: Big Steve & Little Guy + Friends (2-5pm) O’Malleys and the Study Hall – 523 State St., 564-8904. thu: College Night with DJ Gavin Moby Dick Restaurant – 220 Stearns Wharf, 965-0549. wed-sat: Derroy (6pm) sun: Derroy (10am) Monty’s – 5114 Hollister Ave., Goleta, 683-1003. thu: Karaoke Night (7pm) Old Town Tavern – 261 Orange Ave., Goleta, 967-2403.

Karaoke Night (7:30pm) Palapa Restaurant – 4123 State St., 683-3074. fri: Live Mariachi Music (6:30-9pm) Plaza Playhouse Theater – 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, 684-6380. sun: Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen (7:30pm) Reds Tapas & Wine Bar – 211 Helena Ave., 966-5906. thu: Live Music (8pm) S.B. Maritime Museum – 113 Harbor Wy., #190, 962-8404. sat: Ukulele music and singing (1-3:30pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – 1221 State St., 962-7776. thu: People Under the Stairs (9pm) fri: SambaDá (9pm) sat: SBYMA Showcase (6-8:30pm); Salsa & Bachata Night w/ Son Y Clave (9pm) sun: Randall Lamb, Jamie Green, Lucinda Lane, James Lombardo (6pm) mon: Klezmer Juice (7:30pm) tue: SBCC Jazz Combos (7pm) wed: Givers & Takers, Me & Dinosaur, decorations (8pm) thu: The California Honeydrops (8:30pm) Standing Sun Winery – 92 Second St., Unit D, Buellton, 904-8072. sat: Matt Sucich (7:30pm) Statemynt – 519 State St., 689-6968. thu: DJ Akorn wed: Blues Night (10pm) Tiburon Tavern – 3116 State St., 682-8100 fri: Karaoke Night (7:30pm) United Boys & Girls Club – 5701 Hollister Ave., Goleta, 967-1612. fri: GAMES #3 Velvet Jones – 423 State St., 965-8676. sun: Shlohmo (8pm) thu: College Night (9pm) Whiskey Richards – 435 State St., 963-1786. wed: Punk on Vinyl (10pm) sun: Americana Sunday w/ Matt Armor and Friends (4-6pm) mon: Open Mike Night (8pm) Wildcat – 15 W. Ortega St., 962-7970. thu: DJs Hollywood and Patrick B sun: Red Room with DJ Gavin Roy (10pm) tue: Local Band Night (10pm) Zodo’s – 5925 Calle Real, 967-0128. thu: KJEE Thursday Night Strikes (9:3 0-11:30pm) mon: Service Industry Night (9pm) wed, fri, sat:

theater Jurkowitz Theatre – Dead Man’s Cell Phone. SBCC West Campus, 965-5935. thu-fri: 7:30pm sat: 2pm Private venue– Savory & Sweet: It All Begins at Center Stage. 963-0408. sun: 3pm Rubicon Theatre – Last Train to Nibroc.

1006 E. Main St., Ventura, 667-2900. thu-fri: 8pm sat: 2 and 8pm sun: 2pm wed: 2 and 7pm thu: 8pm San Marcos High School Theater – Crazy for You. 4750 Hollister Ave., 967-4581. thu-sat: 7pm Santa Barbara High School Theatre– The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 700 E. Anacapa St., 966-9101. thu-sat: 7pm sun: 2pm The New Vic –Woyzeck. 721 E. Cota St., 884-4087. thu-sat: 8pm sun: 2 and 7pm

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7pm Faulkner Gallery – S.B. Music Club. 40 E. Anapamu St, 962-7653. sat: 3pm First United Methodist Church – SBCC Concert Choir. 305 E. Anapamu St., 963-3579. sat: 7pm Garvin Theatre – Symphony in the Garvin. 801 Cliff Dr., SBCC West Campus, 965-5935. sun: 7pm Granada Theatre – Los Angeles Philharmonic. 1214 State St, 899-2222. sun: 4pm S.B. Museum of Art – An Evening of Period Music. 1130 State St, 963-4364. thu 4/30: 5:30pm Veterans Memorial Hall – Go for Baroque. 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang, 350-4241. sat: 7:30pm sun: 3pm tue:

dance Center Stage Theater – Alice in Wonder Wonderland. 751 Paseo Nuevo, 963-0408. fri: 6:30pm Granada Theatre – Dorrance Dance. 1214 State St, 899-2222. sat: 8pm

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The Age of Adaline. Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, and Harrison Ford star in a film written by J. Mills Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz and directed by Lee Toland Krieger.

Reviewed by Kit Steinkellner

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n the ramp-up to a spring and summer bursting with tent-pole franchise blockbusters (Avengers, Jurassic Park, Terminator, and that’s just scratching the surface), The Age of Adaline is an introspective romantic drama with the slightest sprinkling of science fiction. In other words, it’s perfect counterprogramming for all those dinosaurs, robots, and superheroes.

The eponymous Adaline Bowman (Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively) is born in 1908 in San Francisco and, in 1937, is involved in a near-fatal car accident and subsequently struck by lightning. And as a pseudoscience-y voiceover informs us, this series of events causes Adaline to cease aging. She’s able to get away with this for a while, but by 1953, Adaline is 45 and doesn’t look a day over 29, and people are starting to talk. When some shadowy government figures attempt to kidnap and experiment on Adaline, she flees, adopts a new name, and proceeds to spend the next 60 years changing her identity every decade.

Adaline is close to few people: her daughter, Flemming (Ellen Burstyn), who, in 2015, passes for her grandmother, her dog, and a blind friend who believes that Adaline has aged along with her. All this changes when Adaline meets Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman), a dashing tech entrepreneur who falls hard for Adaline

WRINKLELESS IN TIME: The Age of Adaline stars Blake Lively as a young woman who, after a freak accident, ceases to age.

and charms her into returning his affections. When Adaline accompanies Ellis to his parents’ 40th wedding anniversary, she meets William Jones (Harrison Ford), a man from her past who instantly recognizes Adaline and puts her secret in jeopardy. After more than half a century of running, Adaline is finally going to have to come clean.

The success of this lovely and thoughtful drama relies heavily on Lively’s Adaline, and she is perfection in the role. Lively is wholly believable as an old woman who has seen a century trapped in a girl’s body. Her supporting cast execute themselves beautifully, but make no mistake: This is a star’s vehicle. In a season of movies aimed at adolescent boys, Lively proves she’s a movie star in a film made for adults. n

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They may also have problems sharing a planet with their creators.

GHOST IN THE MACHINE: Alicia Vikander plays a female AI in writer/director Alex (28 Days Later) Garland’s slow, weird, and These are just a few of the assumptions beautiful Ex Machina. behind Ex Machina’s plot, and whether or not you agree, it’s safe to say that the claims are laid out convincingly in this story of young programmer Sunshine), though this is the first time he’s directed Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), who wins a contest to his own visions. Cinematically, he hews close to the spend a week with Nathan (Oscar Isaac), the reclusive psychedelic mode of classic cinema that Stanley genius who owns the Google-like company where Kubrick championed, with big indifferent but beautiful Caleb works. Arriving at the modernist stronghold, scenery shot with dramatic still takes and an antiseptic Caleb finds the retreat is more like a mad scientist’s interior world where humanity gets lost in ideas. The laboratory, and circumstances become increasingly most significant difference is Garland’s messy sense strange as the film unreels. of blurred but uncanny sexuality—the film imposes Around the world, reviewers are falling all human on machine and vice versa in ways that would over themselves to praise Ex Machina (Psst! The tickle Sigmund Freud’s fancy.

Slow, weird, and beautiful, this is a movie about god, correct pronunciation is Ex-maw-KEY-na.), though moviegoers who like science fiction for explosive humanity, and machinery that makes you fearfully spectacle value might get antsy during the first two- aware that erasing the line that separates all three might thirds of the movie. Alex Garland is renowned for be less than a logarithm away—and then we can talk writing thought-provoking sci-fi (28 Days Later and about sexy robots without snickering. n

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O The Age of Adaline

(112 mins.; PG-13: a suggestive comment)

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(108 mins.; R: graphic nudity, language, sexual references, and some violence)

Reviewed on page 57.

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The Water Diviner (111mins.; R: war violence including some disturbing images)

Russell Crowe’s often-clumsy melodrama set during World War I in Turkey and Australia has a few great moments though it ultimately fails in the old suspension-of-disbelief department. The good stuff mostly happens in Turkey, where Crowe as Connor ventures from his Down Under home in the awful wake of the Battle of Gallipoli. The Turks have beaten off invaders only to be embroiled in war with Greece. Connor has lost three sons in one battle and a wife to grief, but his tour of the country in the early 1900s is done with meticulous, touristy details — you want more than anything else to be involved in a nobler story about the era and its people.

Instead, Crowe, who directs and stars, keeps insisting that we believe (the story was “inspired by true events”) that a man who can find water in the outback can also re-create complicated battles psychically and find the remnants of his family by some powerful visions.

Mix into that some very horrible details of the war’s aftermath, and you arrive at a weird stew of a film that holds your interest but makes you mad that so much time was spent with an inauthentic-feeling version of tragic events. (DJP) Paseo Nuevo

PREMIERES Avengers: Age of Ultron (141 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of sci-fi action, violence and destruction, and some suggestive comments)

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and his superhero friends — Captain America, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye — are once again charged with saving the planet.

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The D Train (97 mins.; R: strong sexual material, nudity, language, and drug use) Dan Landsman (Jack Black) is a sad sack who hopes to achieve “cool” status with his former classmates by convincing the most popular guy from his graduating class, Oliver Lawless (James Marsden), to attend their high school reunion.

Fiesta 5 (Opens Thu., May 7) Hot Pursuit (93 mins.; PG-13: sexual content, violence, language, and some drug material)

A tightly wound police officer (Reese Witherspoon) and a drug boss widow (Sofía Vergara) traipse through Texas on the run from bad guys and bad cops in this action comedy.

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SBIFF Wave Festival: Spain & Latin America “We always wanted to offer year-round programming,” S.B. International Film Festival Director Roger Durling said in a 2014 interview with The Santa Barbara Independent. “After we got the Showcase program off the ground [the Wednesday-night indie film screening series at Plaza de Oro Theatre], my dream was to offer a mini-festival every quarter, representing films from a single country.”

Last year’s offerings were from France; this year, Spain and Latin America are represented in 11 films, all screening at the Riviera Theatre, April 30-May 3. For a complete schedule, see sbiff.org.

White God (121 mins.; R: violent content including bloody images, and language)

When her father puts her dog Hagen out on the streets, 13-year-old Lili leaves home in search of her dog.

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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) Fiesta 5

O Clouds of Sils Maria

(124 mins.; R: language and brief graphic nudity)

This is an enigmatic puzzle box of a movie that will have audience members sorting through its pieces long after the credits have rolled. The central character is Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche), a middle-aged actress who skyrocketed to fame at 18 playing the character of Sigrid in the play-within-the-movie Maloja Snake. Now, almost 20 years later, Maria is asked to join a revival of the play, this time as Helena, with young Hollywood starlet Jo-Ann Ellis (Chloë Grace Moretz), fresh off a superhero movie and a series of tabloid scandals, playing Sigrid. This is a movie where reality not only bleeds into fiction, but fiction bleeds back out into reality, an unnerving and transfixing story that is currently the best film I’ve seen in theaters this year. (KS) Plaza de Oro 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.

Riviera (Mon.-Thu.) Dior and I (90 mins.; NR) Written and directed by cinematographer Frederic Tcheng, this documentary goes behind the scenes of the legendary fashion house Christian Dior.

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O Furious 7

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The Fast and the Furious gang reunite to stop Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham),

who is hunting them down to avenge the death of his brother. Every aspect of the franchise’s past is effectively recycled, but somehow Furious 7, with all of its preposterous stunts, mock epic chase scenes, clunky dialogue, and sadistic bloodless fight scenes, is redeemed in a finale that manages to make the whole series seem goopy and romantic. (DJP)

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Home (94 mins.; PG: mild action and some rude humor) A clueless alien named Oh takes possession of an Earth apartment after his people take over our planet. 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. Home, in this case, is where the artificial heart is.

(DJP) Fiesta 5 Little Boy (106 mins.; PG-13: some mature thematic material and violence)

Set in the 1940s, this film tells the story of an 8-year-old boy who will do anything to see his father return home safely from World War II. Fiesta 5 Monkey Kingdom (81 mins.; G) This nature documentary from Disney is about a newborn monkey and its mother who are members of the Temple Troop, a family of monkeys living in ancient ruins in the jungles of Sri Lanka.

Camino Real/Fiesta 5

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (94 mins.; PG: some violence)

This sequel sees Paul Blart (Kevin James) vacationing in Las Vegas with his daughter when duty calls.

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O Unfriended (83 mins.; R: violent content, pervasive language, some sexuality, and drug and alcohol use, all involving teens) Continuing in the rich tradition of horror movies leading cinematic innovation, Unfriended is one of the most ingeniously constructed feature films since Gravity. Created completely on a computer screen, the whole movie is seen as an interaction of six friends and a possibly supernatural interloper through instant messages, Skype conversations, and overlapping ventures into YouTube and other weirder websites. It may sound boring or selfconsciously clever, but the film is suspenseful, and the techniques are both fresh and strikingly obvious. It’s the best idea since Blair Witch made video cams thrilling. (DJP) Fiesta 5

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A middle-aged couple’s career and marriage are disrupted when they meet a bewitching young couple. Plaza de Oro Woman in Gold (109 mins.; PG-13: some thematic elements and brief strong language) Helen Mirren stars in this true story as Maria Altmann, a Jewish WWII refugee who takes on the Austrian government 50 years after the war to recover five Klimt paintings belonging to her family that were plundered by the Nazis and hang in a Vienna gallery.

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As his award, he received no money, but rather an invitation to participate in the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Can you guess the storybook ending? The rookie triumphed over 838 pros, taking home $2.5 million. I don’t foresee anything quite as spectacular for you, Aries, but there may be similar elements in your saga. For example, a modest investment on your part could make you eligible for a chance to earn much more. Here’s another possible plot twist: You could generate luck for yourself by ramping up a skill that has until now been a hobby.

(June 21-July 22): I was in the checkout line at Whole Foods. The shopper ahead of me had piled her groceries on the conveyor belt, and it was her turn to be rung up. “How are you doing?” she said cheerfully to the cashier, a crabby-looking hipster whom I happened to know is a Cancerian poet and lead singer in a local rock band. “Oh, I am living my dream,” he replied. I guessed he was being sarcastic, although I didn’t know for sure. In any case, I had a flash of intuition that his answer should be your mantra in the coming weeks. It’s time to redouble your commitment to living your dream! Say it 20 times in a row right now: “I am living my dream.”

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): American author Stephen Crane wrote his celebrated Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage in 10 days. Composer George Frideric Handel polished off his famous oratorio Messiah in a mere 24 days, and Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky produced his novel The Gambler in 16 days. On the other hand, Junot Díaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, needed 10 years to finish it. As for you, Libra, I think this is — and should be! — a phase more like Díaz’s than the other three creators’. Go slowly. Be super extra thorough. What you’re working on can’t be rushed.

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’ve got a tough assignment for you. It won’t be easy, but I think you’re ready to do a good job. Here it is: Learn to be totally at home with your body. Figure out what you need to do to feel unconditional love for your physical form. To get started on this noble and sacred task, practice feeling compassion for your so-called imperfections.

I also suggest you cast a love spell on yourself every night, using a red candle, a mirror, and your favorite creamy beverage. It may also help to go down to the playground and swing on the swings, make loud animal sounds, or engage in unusually uninhibited sex. Do you have any other ideas?

LEO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her book A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman describes a medieval knight who asked his lady for a strand of her pubic hair: a symbol of her life force. The lady agreed. He placed the talisman in a locket that he wore around his neck, confident that it would protect him and consecrate him in the course of the rough adventures ahead. I recommend that you consider a similar tack in the coming weeks, Scorpio. As you head toward your turning point, arm yourself with a personal blessing from someone you love. Success is most likely if you tincture your fierce determination with magical tenderness.

(Apr. 20-May 20): EBay is a multibillion-dollar e-commerce business that has been around for almost 20 years. But it had an inauspicious beginning. The first item ever sold on the service was a broken laser pointer. Even though the laser pointer didn’t work, and the seller informed the buyer it didn’t work, it brought in $14.83. This story might be a useful metaphor for your imminent future, Taurus. While I have faith in the vigor of the long-term trends you are or will soon be setting in motion, your initial steps may be a bit iffy.

(July 23-Aug. 22): As I awoke this morning, I remembered the dream I’d just had. In the dream, I had written a horoscope for you. Here’s what it said: “The Kentucky Derby is a famous horse race that takes place on the first Saturday of every May. It’s called ‘The Run for the Roses’ because one of the prizes that goes to the winning horse and jockey is a garland of 554 roses. I suspect that your life may soon bring you an odd treasure like that, Leo. Will it be a good thing, or too much of a good thing? Will it be useful or just kind of weird? Beautiful or a bit ridiculous?

The answers to those questions may depend in part on your willingness to adjust your expectations.”

GEMINI

VIRGO

(May 21-June 20): Poetically speaking, it’s time to purify your world of all insanities, profanities, and inanities. It’s a perfect moment for that once-in-ablue-moon Scour-a-Thon, when you have a mandate to purge all clunkiness, junkiness, and gunkiness from your midst. And as you flush away the unease of your hypocrisies and discrepancies, as you dispense with any tendency you might have to make way too much sense, remember that evil is allergic to laughter.

Humor is one of the most effective psychospiritual cleansers ever.

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t calm down. Don’t retreat into your sanctuary and relax into protective comfort. If you have faith and remain committed to the messy experiment you have stirred up, the stress and agitation you’re dealing with will ripen into vitality and excitement. I’m not exaggerating, my dear explorer. You’re on the verge of tapping into the catalytic beauty and rejuvenating truth that lurk beneath the frustration. You’re close to unlocking the deeper ambitions that are trapped inside the surfacelevel wishes.

TAURUS

Homework: What’s the decision you agonize about? The commitment you can never make?

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SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “An escalator can never break,” mused comedian Mitch Hedberg.“It can only become stairs. You should never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order’ sign, just ‘Escalator Is Temporarily Stairs.’” I think a similar principle applies to you, Sagittarius. If we were to try to evaluate your current situation with conventional wisdom, we might say that part of your usual array of capacities is not functioning at its usual level. But if we adopted a perspective like Hedberg’s, we could rightly say that this part of you is simply serving its purpose in a different way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When Aquarian media mogul Oprah Winfrey was born, “Oprah” was not what she was called. Her birth certificate says she is “Orpah,” a name her aunt borrowed from a character who appears in the biblical Book of Ruth. As Oprah grew up, her friends and relatives had trouble pronouncing “Orpah,” and often turned it into “Oprah.” The distorted form eventually stuck. But if I were her, I would consider revisiting that old twist sometime soon, maybe even restoring “Orpah.” For you Aquarians, it’s a favorable time to investigate original intentions or explore primal meanings or play around with the earliest archetypes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): What I propose is that you scan your memories and identify everyone who has ever tried to limit your options or dampen your enthusiasm or crush your freedom. Take a piece of paper and write down a list of the times someone insinuated that you will forever be stuck in a shrunken possibility, or made a prediction about what you will supposedly never be capable of, or said you had a problem that was permanently beyond your ability to solve. Once you’ve compiled all the constricting ideas about yourself that other people have tried to saddle you with, burn that piece of paper and declare yourself exempt from their curses. In the days after you do this ritual, all of life will conspire with you to expand your freedom.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

SATURDAY! Live Music and Tap Dance

Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely in

The Blues Project “One of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today” The New Yorker SAT, MAY 2 / 8 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $35 / $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

Community Tap Class with Dorrance Dance

Fri, May 1, 5:30 - 7:30 PM at the The Dance Network, El Mercado Plaza,4141 State St., Ste. A4 Co-presented with the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance Reservations: www.sbdancealliance.org

Dance series sponsored in part by Margo Cohen-Feinberg & Robert Feinberg and the Cohen Family Fund

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

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Nolet’s Silver Dry Gin: Since juniper is the only thing a spirit has to be flavored by to be billed gin, the way to go different is to add to that perfectly piney taste. Enter this gin, for people wanting to wander gin’s edgy perimeters. Holland‑ based Nolet’s (owned by the same people who make Ketel One) has developed a racy mix of floral and fruit flavors, in particular Turkish rose, peach, and raspberry. While far from traditional it is delicious, both in strict martinis and drinks that push the fruit accents (they suggest one with cassis, lemon juice, and simple syrup). All those sweeter without being sugary in the slightest botanicals make it a very smooth sipping gin, even at 95.2 proof. So be wary — it’s a gin that will drink you under the table, even if you’ll end up there with a smile on your face. Until tomorrow.

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ast week, Montecito Journal columnist Richard Mineards reported that Bob Montgomery, owner of the Nugget restaurants in Summerland and Goleta, purchased Arlington Tavern at 21 West Victoria Street and plans to turn it into a third Nugget location, with hopes to open at the end of May. Montgomery recently tried to revive the closed Café del Sol, but talks broke down before he could come to terms with the property owner. The former Café del Sol location is now the home of the Montecito Event Center, run by Warren Butler.

TAVERN TAVEOVER: The Arlington Tavern will become the third location of the popular Nugget restaurant, which started in Summerland.

LOS AGAVES POP-UP: Los Agaves Restaurant,

which Carlos Luna first opened on Milpas Street in 2008, is bringing the heat to the heart of downtown with a pop-up restaurant in The Kitchen at the Santa Barbara Public Market, 38 West Victoria Street. Kicking off on Cinco de Mayo (Tue., May 5), Los Agaves will pop up at the Public Market every Tuesday throughout the month of May, offering a special lunch and dinner menu inspired by coastal Mexico street foods, with new and exclusive items not found at its other Santa Barbara and Goleta locations.

The pop-up location will offer tacos, tostadas, and ceviches, including tacos arrachera (grilled-steak soft tacos with pinto-bean paste on flour tortillas); mahimahi tacos on a fresh-made grilled plantain tortilla; shrimp tacos with a tempura-cerveza batter, topped with a cabbage slaw; vampiros pastor, crispy corn tortillas topped with pinto-bean paste, cheese, and al pastor meat; ceviche verde tostadas, wild halibut marinated in a citrus sauce mixed with mango, green apple, jicama, and cucumber topped with plantain chips; and mushroom tacos, savory shiitakes sautéed with guajillo chili, garlic, and cheese. Guests can sip on a fresh-squeezed agave margarita or peruse the ample wine and craft beer offerings at Wine + Beer to enjoy with their meals.

The pop-ups are every Tuesday in May, 11:30 a.m.2 p.m. and 5-8 p.m.

DINE OUT FOR SOLSTICE: Transport yourself to

Italy and India for two food events benefiting the Santa Barbara Solstice Celebration. Enjoy pasta, vino, and cappuccino at the Pascucci Dine Out on Thursday, April 30, 5-10 p.m. at 729 State Street. For the 15th consecutive year, Pascucci owner (and Solstice boardmember) Laura Knight will turn over her popular Italian establishment to Solstice volunteers for an entire evening, though the kitchen will be wisely staffed by pros. Costume-clad Solstice volunteers act as hosts, servers, bartenders, and drink runners. Staffers’ attire will reflect the theme for the night, Out of This World, a play off this year’s Solstice Parade theme, which is Sci-Fi. Pascucci’s regular menu will be served, so no tickets are required. Everything (food, beverage, and tips) benefits Solstice.

Another Solstice fundraiser in the form of a Bollywood Party is being held on Saturday, May 9, 6:309:30 p.m. Guests are encouraged to wear their Indian finery to India House. Maestro Montino Bourbon will provide live “Neo-Bollywood music with electronic influences,” and Lisa Beck will perform as well as lead a dance lesson teaching Bollywood moves. Get your tickets ($27 per person with a no-host bar) early, as this event tends to sell out. Tickets may be purchased at Indian House Restaurant, 418 State Street, or online at solsticeparade.com.

Both events raise funds for this year’s Solstice Parade, which is at high noon on June 20, and the Solstice Festival at Alameda Park, June 19-21.

FRESCO HAPPY HOURS: In time for its 28th

anniversary this May, Fresco Café in the Five Points shopping center has started a Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday happy hour, 5-7 p.m., featuring all beer and wine at $2 off regular price and special appetizers from their catering menu, as well. Also on Mondays, Al Vafa will be entertaining on the patio with vocals and guitar from 6-8:30 p.m. There will be an anniversary party on Saturday, May 30, with food and entertainment for all.

Join us for a lively conversation with the influential author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Cooked, In Defense of Food and The Botany of Desire.

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7-ELEVEN OPENS: A new 7-Eleven is open at Mis-

sion and State, and word on the street is that Tina Takaya from Opal Restaurant is one of the partners. I am hearing that a Grand Opening is set for May 1 with music, freebies, and more.

NUANCE LANDS ON LOWER STATE: Chef

Courtney Ladin recently opened Nuance inside the Hotel Indigo at 119 State Street, in the former home of both Blue Tavern and Anchor Woodfire Grill.

Ladin was raised in Santa Barbara and graduated from UCSB before attending Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco and working under various chefs in Maui for five years. She’s been working primarily as a private chef in Santa Barbara but now brings to the public her globally inspired cuisine with locally sourced ingredients from the Farmers Market, much of it cooked in the restaurant’s wood-burning oven.

The cocktail program is led by George Piperis (with help from Los Angeles stars Julian Cox and Nick Meyer), and the design was done by Sean Anderson.

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Legals Administer of Estate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JOANNE CELINE BRICKEY NO: 15PR00077 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JOANNA CELINE BRICKEY A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: Charles J. Brickey in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): CHARLES J. BRICKEY 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 6/3/2015 AT 8:30 a.m. Dept: SM ONE 312‑C East Cook Street Santa Maria, California 93456‑5165 SANTA MARIA BRANCH. 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.

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FBN Abandonment STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Cash America Payday Advance at 3528 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 6/13/2013 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑0001961. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Cash America Advance, Inc 1600 West 7th Street Forth Worth, TX 76102. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 24 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. Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Strobe Cosmetics at 1117 Camino Manadero Santa Barbara, CA 93111 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 12/7/2010 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2010‑0003650.

The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Catherine Taliaferro (same address) . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 17 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 Miriam Leon. for Published.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Paris Street Boutique, Mystique Sonique at 1103 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 6/5/2013 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2013‑0001856.

The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Bogdan Lomonosoff 1317 East Wilson Ave #B Glendale, CA 91206; Saul Olivas (same address) . This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1 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 Miriam Leon. for Published. Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Punch Vintage at 1223 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Lynn Morrison, 1215 Olive Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: 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: 2015‑0001028. Published: Apr 23, 30.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coastal ByProducts at 133 E De La Vina St #190 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Pacific ByProducts, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Mark Craig, CFO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0001086. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Eye See Santa Barbara at 1004 La Senda Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Andreina Diaz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Andreina Diaz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 01, 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: 2015‑0001085. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Academy of Business Success, Santa Barbara Academy of Business Success at 1410 Manitou Road Santa Barbara, 93105; Anthony McGloin (same address) Julie McGloin (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: A. McGloin 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 Jessica Sheeif. FBN Number: 2015‑0000924. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: High Sierra Grill And Bar at 521 Firestone Rd Goleta, CA 93117; High Sierra Grill Santa Barbara Inc 5645 Oxford Pl Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Mario Medina This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 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: 2015‑0001084. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Funny Wood Signs, Mom & Pop Sign Shop, Roger’s Workshop at 511 E. Gutierrez St Unit 3 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Roger Green 718 San Pascual St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Roger Green This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 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: 2015‑0001068. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Christmas Lights, Santa Barbara Lights at 1176 Crestline Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jonathan Katz‑Moses (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jonathan Katz‑Moses 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: 2015‑0000976. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Fundamental Body Therapy at 928 Carpinteria Street #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jordan Terry 7242 Gobernador Cyn Rd. Carpinteria, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jordan Terry 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: 2015‑0000937. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Cash America Payday Advance at 1412‑H N. H Street Lompoc, CA 93436. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 9/4/2014 in the County of Santa Barbara.

Original file no. 2014‑0002550. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Cash America Advance, Inc 160 West 7th Street Forth Worth, TX 76102. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 24 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Airborne Kiteboarding at 4285 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Bounthanh Sysavat Mike 5019 Calle Tania Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bounthanh Sysavat This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 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: 2015‑0001065.

Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Barber Rama, Barber‑Rama, Chavo’s Barber‑Rama at 115 W De La Guerra St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Erin Chavez 1036 E Ortega St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Alejandro Guerena 609 Las Perlas Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a General Partnershi[p Signed: Erin Chavez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 06, 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: 2015‑0001118. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Prestige Auto Collision, Superior Auto Collision, Prestigious Auto Body, Superior Collision Repair, Prestigious Collision Repair at 129 East Gutierrez Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Prestigious Auto Body, Inc 264 Orange Avenue Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Sean Daly This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 06, 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: 2015‑0001121. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sage And Willow at 2030 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Paige Minney 1706 Las Tunas Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Stephanmie G. Ranes 2030 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Stephanie Ranes 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0000965. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Good Cookie at 816 Cacique Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Casa Esperanza Homeless Center (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Joseph Tumble 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: 2015‑0000843. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Diaper Fairy at 1021 De La Vina Street Cottage C Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Diaper Fairy LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jessica H. Simon This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 31, 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: 2015‑0001056.

Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

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Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Soiree Center at 1834 Bath Center Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Soiree Center, INC (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Melissa Pina, CEO 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: 2015‑0001038.

Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cornerstone Tile And Marble at 6950 Whitter Drive Goleta, CA 93117; David James Cozort (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: David Cozort 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0001045. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rancho Palomino, Santa Barbara, Summer Equine Adventure Camp at 1051 Palomino Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105; George Bustillos (same address) Sadie Stern (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Sadie Stern This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 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: 2015‑0001083. Published: Apr 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Medical Concierge at 2114 De La Vina #1 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Shannon Diane Callahan (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Shannon Callahan 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 Jessica Sheaff. FBN Number: 2015‑0000918.

Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Beachcombers at 1522 1/2 Bath Stret Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Melissa Compton (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Melissa Compton 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0000925. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: American Begonia Society, Rudolf Ziesenhenne Branch of The American Begonia Society, Santa Barbara Begonia Society at 948 Cheltenham Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Gary Hunt (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gary Hunt This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 9, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2015‑0001158. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Towers Cleaners at 112 S. Canada St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Towers Cleaning, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jose J. Martinez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0001176. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Toyon Studio at 201 East Valerio Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Toyon Studio, LLC(same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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: 2015‑0001175.

Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JMS Distributing at 3623 Tierra Bella Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jeremy Hunt(same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jeremy R. Hunt This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Christie Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0001173. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AH Juice Organics, AH Juice Organics Pressed Juice & Cafe, AH Juice Organics Cafe, AH Juice Organics Pressed Juice, Cafe, & Market, AH Juice Organics Cafe & Market at 432 East Haley Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Deb Monroe 2909 Paseo Tranquillo Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Alfred Pomerleau (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0001123. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Quantum ILife App, Quantum Life, Quantum Life Community, Quantum Life Health, Quantum Life Wellness, Quantum Infinity, Quantum Life App, Quantum Life Corp, Quantum Life Health Technology, Quantum Life Wellness, Quantum Infinity App, Quantum Life Apps, Quantum Life Education, Quantum Life Training at 7344 Freeman Place Goleta, CA 93117; Quantum Life LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Karen Williams This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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: 2015‑0001167. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Quantum Life LLC at 7344 Freeman Place Goleta, CA 93117; Quantum Life LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Karen Williams This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 1, 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: 2015‑0001078.

Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cannix Enterprises at 2037 Mountain Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Christopher James Horvath (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Chris J. Horvath This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 7, 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: 2015‑0001135. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Guadarrama Cleaning Services at 1130 Carpinteria St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Eoner Guadarrama Rodriguez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 7, 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: 2015‑0001133. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Handy Randy Moreno Services, R & D Dirtwork Services at 428 Green River St Oxnard, CA 93036; Randal Moreno 48 Deerhurst Drive Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Randy Moreno 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0001007.

Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Barbarazzi at 115 Santa Ana Place Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Barbara Byrge (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Barbara Byrge This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 7, 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: 2015‑0001131. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Trading Card And Toy Store at 221 W Victoria St Apt 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Andy Iniguez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Andy Iniguez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 8, 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: 2015‑0001143. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Traveling Transformations at 26 Vista Del Mar Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Katrina Anne Dillard (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Katrina Anne Dillard 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: 2015‑0001021. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Shaman Organics at 1211 Harris Drive Lompoc, CA 93436; Ethel Entertainment, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: David Gleffe‑Secretary This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 8, 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 Eve Chavez. FBN Number: 2015‑0001142. Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: San Marcos Baptist Camp at 5750 Stagecoach Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Transformation Ministries 970 S Village Oaks Drive Suite 101 Covina, CA 91724‑0609 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 31, 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: 2015‑0001055.

Published: Apr 16, 23, 30. May 7 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Epic Events at 119 East Gutierrez Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Luis E Valerio‑Rivera (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Luis Valerio This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0001273. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Josue’s Car Wash at 158 Walnut Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Josue Arias, 118 Walnut Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Josue David Arias 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 Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0000963.

Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: San Marcos Farms, San Marcos Honey Company at 500‑C Love Place, Goleta, CA 93117; Anne Susan Cole, 1233 Camino San Carlos Buellton, CA 93427; Donald Wallace Cole (same address) This business is conducted by a Married couple Signed: Nelsey Bork This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 14, 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: 2015‑0001206. Published: Apr 23, 30.

May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Chaplain 24/7 at 4575 Hollister Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Believer’s Edge 2822 Puesta Del Sol Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Thomas J. Doty V. P. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Andrea Luparello.

FBN Number: 2015‑0001191. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Moon Minded Medicine at 2696 Dorking Place Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Siena Perez Del Campo (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Siena Perez Del Campo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0001198. Published: Apr 23, 30, May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Laser Clinic at 5350 Hollister Avenue Ste A3, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Michael Hergenroether, 5288 University Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael P. Hergenroether This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 01, 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: 2015‑0001067. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A Plus Tax Preparation & Immigration Services at 1975 S Broadway Ste B Santa Maria, CA 93454; Nelsey Maritza Bork 2132 Garden Dr Santa Maria, CA 93458 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Nelsey Bork This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Mayra Andrade. FBN Number: 2015‑0001170. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ward Building, Ward Energy, Ward Building & Remodeling, Ward Restoration, Ward Care & Repair at 132 Garden St. #18 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Ward Building & Remodeling Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Wayne Ward, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0001194. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Visible Law of Attraction, VisiblelawofAttraction.com at 475 N. Turnpike Rd. Santa Barbara, Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Melissa Cohen (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Melissa Cohen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0001204.

Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lucky Dragon at 6831 Hollister Avenue Suite B Goleta, CA 93117; Chenshuo Qian 712 Bolton Walk Apt 101 Goleta, CA 93117. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Chenshuo Qian This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0001257.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Elizabeth S. Alden, PHD at 22 West Micheltorena Street, #D Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Elizabeth Alden Clymer 1711 Ballard Canyon Road Solvang, CA 93463. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Elizabeth Alden Clymer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 21, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0001305. Published: Apr 30.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gandolfo Brewing Company, The Lot at 1601 W Central Ave, Unit D 1/2 Lompoc, CA 93436; Gandolfo Brewing LLC (same address). This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Greg Gandolfo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 14, 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: 2015‑0001213. Published: Apr 30.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Hearts Bloom, Santa Barbara Couture Flowers, Santa Barbara Style Events, Peony, Santa Barbara Events, Santa Barbara Couture Events, Santa Barabra Style at 137 W. Mission Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Joni L. Papay 363 Valley Vista Drive Camarillo, CA 93010 This business is conducted by an Individual Company Signed: Joni Papay This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 22, 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 Sheeff. FBN Number: 2015‑0001326. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Precision Dermatopathology at 504 W. Pueblo St Suite 202 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Luminous Dermatology (same address).

This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Bryan Gammon, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0001333. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: 805 roadside Towing at 418 N. Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Aaron Boucher 1811 Bath Street #B Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Aaron Boucher This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 22, 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 Sheeff. FBN Number: 2015‑0001330.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: La Colmena Restaurant at 217 N Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jesus Gonzalez 619 Kentia Ave Apt 4 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Jesus Gonzalez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0001097.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Very Important Rejects at 3963 Lobo Lane Orcutt, CA 93455; Kyle Christian Rlder (same address) Hector Garcia 595 Foxen Lane Los Alamos, CA 93440 This business is conducted by an General Partnership Signed: Kyle Elder This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0001348. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tere Jurado Jewelry Designer at 429 N. Milpas St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Teresa Jurado 532 N. Alisos St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Teresa Jurado This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0001364. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ariele Elizabeth Andrakin, LE at 328 East Carrillo Suite C Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Ariele Andrakin (same address).

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Ariele Andrakin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Christine Potter.

FBN Number: 2015‑0001282.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Olivia Grace at 130 W. Figueroa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kristy Merino (same address).

This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Kristy Merino This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0001278. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Kim Nails & Spa at 179 S Turnpike Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Kimhue Thi Nguyen 454 Greenleaf Ct. Goleta, CA 93117; Kevin Phan (same address). This business is conducted by an Married Couple Signed: Kevin Phan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 21, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0001296. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

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by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0001075. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Campion Beaurain‑Massage at 4449 Vieja Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Richard Bourain (same address). This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Richard Bourain This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 22, 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: 2015‑0001315. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Housekeeping at 112 South Canada Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Towers Cleaning LLC (same address). This business is conducted by an Limited Liability Company Signed: Jose J. Martinez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 22, 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: 2015‑0001321. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Colev Corp., Rag Race, Inc. at 215 East Constance Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Jeffrey Cowen (same address) Steven Levine 1256 Miramar Drive Fullerton, CA 92831 This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 06, 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: 2015‑0001125. Published: Apr 23, 30. May , 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pretty Please Beauty at 4974 Trocha Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Rebecca Dipierri, (same address). This business is conducted by an Individual.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0001159. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 14, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Gym & Fitness at 127 West Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Proform Fitness and Training Inc, 319 Oliver Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Joe Lyons. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 16, 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: 2015‑0001239.

Published: Apr 23, 30. May 14, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: M.P. Health at 5649 West Camino Cielo Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; M.P. Health Corp, (same address). This business is conducted by an Corporation.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0001262. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Excelsior, Next Step Sports Consulting at 1560 North Ontare Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Rachel M. Zemanek, (same address). This business is conducted by an Individual.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 16, 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: 2015‑0001240. Published: Apr 23, 30. May 7, 14 2015.

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ANASTASIA ISABELLA SHERBURNE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV00018 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: ANASTASIA ISABELLA SHERBURNE TO: ANASTASIA ISABELLA MACOMBER THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING March 27, 2015 9:30am, Dept 1, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Apr 7, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Apr 23, 30.

May 7, 14 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF CARLOS PONCE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV00396 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: MILAH FAITH PONCE TO: MILAH FAITH PONCE JR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

NOTICE OF HEARING June 2, 2015 8:30am, SM TWO, Superior Court of California County of Santa Barbara 312‑C East Cook Street Santa Maria, CA 93454 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Apr 9, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Apr 23, 30.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bloom Baby Care at 10 San Marcos Trout Club Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kiana Reeves (santa barbara) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Kiana Reeves This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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: 2015‑0001354.

Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Hireout at 800 E Micheltorena Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Skye Sander (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Apr 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 Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2015‑0001107. Published: Apr 30. May 7, 14, 21 2015.

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Notes: Must be able to work during non‑business hours during special events and to travel periodically. $21.43 ‑ $24.52/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 5/4/15, thereafter open until filled.

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Meet Moody Blues Moody Blues is 6 pounds of love.

She is a Maltese but was born without a tail. She is very sweet little girl. No small children.

Meet Pita

How could Pita ever end up at the shelter? He is one of the cutest dogs ever. He is neutered, chipped has all shots, and is ready to move in.

Cold Noses Warm Hearts (805) 964-2446 • (805) 895-1728 • www.coldnoses.org 5758 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117

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2446 GARDEN St, Sun 2‑4, 3BD/3.

5BA, $2,295,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, (805) 450‑1789

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FEATURED PROPERTY 1119 ALSTON ROAD

FEATURED PROPERTY 475 CANNON GREEN DR D

National Reach, Local Experts, Outstanding Results NEWING T LIS

P.J. WILLIAMS REALTOR®

P.J. Williams is a long-time, local, successful businessman. As a high-level Realtor®, he works diligently to maximize savings to all of his buyers and sellers. P.J. will serve all of your real estate needs, including commercial, residential and property management.

MONTECITO Walled, fenced, iron gated,1.01 acre. Privacy, ocean views & convenient location, close to Montecito Country Club. Existing terraced gardens created w/ stone retaining walls & descending stairways.

GOLETA 3 bed, 2.5 1320 sq. ft.

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MONTECITO Gated 7BD/5.5BA home w/ 3+ lush acres, 3 fireplaces & 2 separate guest quarters.

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211 BOESEKE PARKWAY

803 FAWN PLACE

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6909 SOLANO VERDE DR.

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ground floor, single level Bonnymede flat w/ ocean views – luxury at its very best!

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

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

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226 CALLE MANZANITA

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

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SANTA BARBARA 3BD/2BA San Roque home w/ hardwood flrs, fireplace, 1-car garage w/office & pool. $1,200,000 GTprop.com/226CalleManzanita

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

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SANTA BARBARA Excellent investor

SANTA BARBARA Lg 3BD/2BA upper

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

Close to SBCC, Beach and Downtown.

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

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

SANTA BARBARA DT SB restaurant with a Title 47 ABC license (2am) + long term lease in SB’s entertainment district!

LOMPOC This R-2 lot presents a fantastic opportunity for single family residence or investor.

$849,000 GTprop.com

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Goodwin & Thyne Properties is proud to be serving Santa Barbara County for more than 11 years!

Thank you to our wonderful clients, families and friends for the many years of support!

To date we’ve sold over ½ Billion dollars of real estate… $631,631,265 and counting!

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