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A trip to Jamaica usually involves swim adventures, but for the members of the U.S.A. Youth National Team, it was serious business in deep water during the hot contest for Pan Am Youth Water Polo Championship gold. Indy copy kid Miles Cole — who couldn’t resist texting his friends at San Marcos High a photo of his Monday at a Jamaican beach — and Team U.S.A. swim undefeated as of press time, as does the women’s team, with Santa Barbara’s Abbi Hill and Jewel Roemer representing.

Powerhouse competition lies ahead, and the final showdowns take place as we hit the stands.

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Arts Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Why Pro Athletes (like NBA Star Festus Ezeli) Train in the Funk Zone.

(John Zant )

ON THE COVER: NBA star Festus Ezeli (also above) trains with P3’s Marcus Elliott. Photos by Paul Wellman.

Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Pop, Rock & Jazz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Arts & Entertainment Listings . . . . . . . . . . 48

film.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Movie Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Capitol Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

odds & ends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

opinions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . . . 55

Angry Poodle Barbecue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Barney Brantingham’s On the Beat . . . . . 17

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Dining Out Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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citrus pest that threatens California’s lemon and orange industry was found in Carpinteria and Goleta at three locations last month, state officials said, bringing the total number of “find sites” to 12 on the South Coast this year and 28 in Santa Barbara County since 2012.

The Asian citrus psyllid, as it is known, has not yet tested positive in Santa Barbara County for the bacteria that causes huanglongbing, or HLB, the fatal disease that is devastating Florida crops, said Victoria Hornbaker, citrus program manager for the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

But county residents should be on the lookout for uneven yellowing in their lemon trees, she said. The insects, which are undeterred by drought, were detected recently in state traps near Casitas Pass and Foothill roads in Carpinteria, and La Patera Lane and the end of North Patterson Avenue in Goleta.

“What’s really alarming is that a couple of counties over, HLB trees are being infected and removed,” Hornbaker said. “This is a disease that will essentially annihilate an entire industry and everybody’s backyard citrus trees.”

The latest detections of Asian citrus psyllid in Santa Barbara County have heightened consternation in some quarters over the pending downsizing of two specialist jobs in the Agricultural Commissioner’s office — that of Brian Cabrera, the county entomologist, or pest expert, and Heather Scheck, the plant pathologist, or disease expert. The two PhD scientists provide free identification and advice to hundreds of farmers, ranchers, arborists, landscapers, park officials, and backyard gardeners every year.

In January, state officials said, Cabrera intercepted a shipment of Florida tangelos in gift boxes at the Santa Barbara Airport that tested positive for HLB. “If you don’t have any technical people in the field, how are you supposed to know what’s going on?” said Jim Downer, a University of California Cooperative Extension plant 8

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pathologist and horticulturist in Ventura, speaking as an individual. “There are only so many eyes out there. We have many kinds of pests coming at us.”

During county budget hearings in June, on the heels of a Board of Supervisors resolution proclaiming June 6-14 as Invasive Pests Action Week, Commissioner Cathy Fisher proposed combining the two specialist jobs.

The county’s Agricultural Advisory Committee opposed the idea, but the board majority approved it. Fisher explained that “to address a workload need and improve efficiency,” one of the specialists would serve as both an entomologist and plant pathologist, and the other would be offered a newly created position as biologist, with a cut in pay.

Asian citrus psyllid

“No one’s walking out the door,” she said.

Between them, Cabrera and Scheck test hundreds of samples of pests, weeds, and plant diseases yearly. Fisher said the 14 biologists in her office would be able to do the initial screening at a lower cost with no reduction in services. Using high-tech microscopes, she said, they can forward photographs of specimens to the state as needed by email.

Often, even an iPhone photo is sufficient for identification purposes, Fisher said.

But Sharyne Merritt, an avocado rancher who is vice chair of the county Agricultural Advisory Committee, wrote to the board, “The County needs specialists in the Agricultural Commission Department, not recent college graduates with smart phones.”

Overall, the board approved a $5 million budget for Fisher’s office for 2015-16, up $330,000 from last year. Last year, the office reported, agriculture in this county brought in

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nearly $1.5 billion in gross revenues. Lemons were number 13 on the list of top crops; they brought in nearly $13 million.

In an interview last week, Fisher said the Asian citrus psyllid trapping and testing program was run by the state and would not be affected by the restructuring. She said there was a shift underway from conventional to organic farming, and that growers were asking for more training in pest control. Growers of strawberries, the top local crop, now send their samples to California Polytechnic State University, Fisher said.

“What I’m hearing from the growers is that their needs have changed,” she said. “They have their own pest identification resources and farm advisors.”

But many others, such as James and Lauris Rose, the owners of Cal-Orchid, Inc. in Goleta, are dependent on the county specialists. The Roses’ export shipments are inspected for free

by Scheck before they leave the country, to meet foreign certification standards. James Rose said he was “totally against” combining the specialist jobs because “they’re two separate doctrines.”

“It would be slow and expensive to send leaf samples up to Sacramento,” Rose said. “It would be a real hardship for me.”

Last month, Fisher kicked off a series of forums open only to farmers and growers.

Based on their feedback, she said she is fashioning a new job to serve them.

Paul Van Leer, an Agricultural Advisory Committee member who manages the Las Varas and Edwards ranches, a cattle, avocado, and lemon operation on the Gaviota Coast, said now that Fisher “is willing to create a brand-new position tailored to our needs, I don’t think it’s a setback, as long as she feels she can cover our bases. That’s yet to be determined.”

As for the Asian citrus psyllid, Van Leer believes it’s under control for now, but he’s worried.

“If it spreads, we’ll end up losing all of our orchards,” he said.“The symptoms don’t show up for years.” n

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Julio “Candyman” Diaz was convicted in federal court this week on 79 drug-traf drug-trafficking charges. The former Santa Barbara doctor who ran a medical office on Milpas Street was found guilty of overprescribing powerful painkillers to his patients. Authorities believe as many as 20 of Diaz’s patients died from overdoses. In 2011, Department of Justice prosecutors said, he wrote prescriptions for more than 1.7 million doses of drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, and Xanax.

Diaz faces 1,360 years in prison when he’s sentenced next month.

Haggen filed a complaint against Albertsons on 9/1, claiming $1 billion in damages and alleging that Albertsons had planned to “sabotage” Haggen’s rebrand of 146 stores in California, Nevada, Arizona, Washington, and Oregon. Among the allegations of Albertsons’ anticompetitive business practices are that the grocery giant strategically cut off advertising to the stores they were planning to sell in the rebrand; intentionally overstocked perishable products, which were transferred to Haggen shelves; and planned discounting and advertising for remaining Albertsons stores on a calculated timetable that would lure customers away from Haggen. Albertsons said the lawsuit’s allegations “are completely without merit.”

Judge Donna Geck ordered former congressional challenger Chris Mitchum to pay $37,757 in attorney’s fees for the defamation lawsuit he filed against Rep. Lois Capps that was thrown out of court earlier this year. In the lawsuit, Mitchum contended Capps distorted the truth of a statement he’d made in her TV ad, costing him the election and causing him emotional distress. Capps won the election by nearly four points.

COUNTY A coalition of Goleta Valley farmers have sued the Goleta Water District, charging the district violated state law by adopting new drought-inspired water rates without providing the required documentation showing the new rates correspond to the actual costs of delivering water. Under a recent court interpretation of a 20-year-old state law, water districts can no longer charge higher rates simply to encourage customers to conserve more. Once the new rates go into effect, the lawsuit contends, ag users in the Goleta Valley will see their rates go up fourfold over what they were just a few months ago.

Celebrating the Chumash ancestral presence upon the Gaviota Coast, tribal affiliates, hotel staffers, and members of the community at large gathered to commemorate the opening of a permanent Chumash cultural exhibit and nature walk at the Bacara Resort and Spa. Featuring a mix of modern jewelry, traditional relics, and native plant displays, the new exhibitions

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Goleta Councilmember Jim Farr, absent from city affairs since early August, explained this week he suffered a stroke on 8/8 that left his left side partially paralyzed. His cognitive abilities were unaffected, he explained, and he’s recovering at the Cottage Rehabilitation Institute. “I want to thank the people of Goleta and City government for their patience regarding my absence,” he said. “I am looking forward to returning to my City Council duties very soon to continue to serve the people of Goleta.”

ISLA VISTA The Board of Supervisors took steps to amend the county code to prohibit oversized vehicles from parking in Isla Vista 10 p.m.-6 a.m.

A string of long-term residents who live on the west end of I.V. took to the podium Tuesday to tell the board RVs are a nuisance to the community, limit already saturated parking, and dump waste into the sewers. One person cautioned that an ordinance could harm the homeless population. Supervisor Doreen Farr, who represents I.V., noted the recently opened Pescadero Lofts provide housing to the homeless and that her office is working with churches on safe parking possibilities. cont’d page 10 

Blasting the Blast Zone

Joining more than 40 government entities north and south, the Santa Barbara County Supervisors voted to oppose the Phillips 66 application to allow trains to transport crude oil up and down the state to a refinery in San Luis Obispo County. The project’s future is still up in the air, but the matter could go before the S.L.O. Planning Commission as early as late fall. To date, the department has received more than 20,000 public comments on the matter.

Where proponents argue oil and other unknown chemicals already travel by rail, opponents contend the crude in question is more flammable and explosive and would be unnecessarily risky. Plus, opponents point out the trains would carry out-of-area oil, which could potentially displace locally produced oil now being treated in Nipomo.

Specifically, the project would enable Phillips to unload up to five trains — each 1.4 miles long, carrying about 50,000 barrels of crude oil — per week, or an estimated 250 trains per year, at a Nipomo refinery. Each train would take an estimated 10-12 hours to unload. Trains could enter the state from Oregon, Nevada, or Arizona and would travel up from Los Angeles.

Supervisor Salud Carbajal ran through the list of places in the area that fall into the so-called “blast zone” — communities within one mile of the train — such as Goleta, Santa Barbara, and Montecito, among others. There was a record high of 141 oil train “spill release incidents” in 2014, he added. Carbajal and Farr brought the item to the board after each previously drafted their own letter.

Supervisors Peter Adam and Steve Lavagnino dissented. “I don’t understand that people aren’t concerned [about] gasoline trucks,” Lavagnino said. “I’m not really sure how else to get the oil where it needs to be … as long as we continue to use it.”

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by T y l e r H ay d e N arlier this summer, Len Homeniuk’s family vacation in southeast Europe ended abruptly with his arrest and a nightmarish fight to keep him out of the courts of Kyrgyzstan.

Homeniuk, a Mesa resident and wellknown Santa Barbara figure, was on a Danube River cruise with his wife and their 15-year-old son when he was detained at the Bulgarian border. Kyrgyz authorities had issued an Interpol Red Notice for Homeniuk for his alleged “involvement in corruption” during a 2004 deal between Kyrgyzstan and a Canadian mining company Homeniuk headed at the time.

Since his arrest on July 27, Homeniuk, 68, has been shuffled between a Bulgarian jail, prison, and house arrest, where he remains.

Now, his family and a team of attorneys are on a crusade to clear him of what they say are trumped-up charges and to stop his extradition to Kyrgyzstan, where they fear he won’t receive anything resembling due process.

“We are working around-the-clock, doing everything and anything we can,” said Homeniuk’s stepdaughter Madeleine Stephens from her Orange County home. “If you do take a break,” she said, “it hits you — how bad it could be, how scary it could be. We’re fighting for our family.” Homeniuk’s wife, Marina Stephens, has remained in Bulgaria and is taking it “one day at a time.” She’s scared her husband, already suffering from poor health, will be whisked away to Central Asia as leverage in a high-stakes game of gold and politics.

The saga dates back to a 2004 restructure deal concerning the Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan. In that deal, the Kyrgyz government gained about a third of the Canadian company, then called Cameco, that owned the mine. The mine represents a huge portion of Kyrgyzstan’s economy — in 2014 it accounted for 7.4 percent of the country’s GDP. Homeniuk was an executive at Cameco Corp. at the time, and the restructure agreement created an independent company, Centerra Gold, with Homeniuk as its president and CEO. He remained at the helm until he retired in 2008. The deal was scrutinized by lawyers for both sides, involved a number of international banks, and was approved by the Ontario Securities Commission.

Since then, there has been much social and political upheaval in Kyrgyzstan, including two revolutions. The current powers-thatbe claim the government in 2004 was corrupt and that the country was shortchanged in the restructure. Kyrgyz leaders are now locked in talks with Centerra over operating terms (Kyrgyzstan owns a third of Centerra’s shares), and Homeniuk’s supporters think he is being used as a pawn in the negotiations, which have dragged on for two years. Centerra has released a statement condemning Homeniuk’s arrest.

Representative Lois Capps and Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider have written letters in support of Homeniuk, and Senaindependent.com

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Santa Barbara High School earned a gold star last month as Newsweek magazine ranked it among the top 500 public high schools in the country. College prep, graduation rate, and the number of Dons bound for higher education factored into the accolade. But a few weeks before the announcement, parents received a letter from Principal John Becchio explaining that they could request to transfer their children to a better-performing school because of S.B. High’s “two consecutive years of not making adequate yearly progress … in language arts, math, and graduation rate.”

While such a favorable national ranking wouldn’t seem to share the same educational universe as inadequate classroom performance, the apparent dichotomy can be traced to a hotly contested federal law called No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Since its 2002 inception, No Child — with its ostensible aim of improving student performance through high standards and measurable goals — has shifted the national focus “away from student learning and opportunity toward testing, labeling, and punishing the educators and schools serving our most vulnerable students,” according to the National Education Association (NEA).

“NCLB was a bad law,” said John Houchin, president of the Santa Barbara Teachers Association. “Its aspirational goals of having all students proficient in reading and math by 2014 was unattainable, and [its] sanctions … did not improve teacher or student performance. [NCLB] will hopefully be repealed and replaced in the fall when Congress reconvenes.”

On that front, earlier this year the U.S. Senate passed the Every Child Achieves Act, while the House of Representatives passed its counterpart, the Student Success Act. Both must be forged into a final bill that, according to NEA President Lily Eskelsen García, replaces No Child and ends “a woeful chapter in American education policy.”

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tor Dianne Feinstein’s office is looking into the matter. Senator John McCain has also been approached. In the meantime, the U.S. State Department and Consular Affairs are involved.

Last Thursday, a Bulgarian judge told Kyrgyz prosecutors they have not produced enough evidence to justify extradition, which gave Homeniuk’s attorneys some hope that his transfer to Kyrgyzstan is not a fait accompli. A number of countries have openly criticized Kyrgyzstan’s record of human-rights violations in recent years; a 2012 UN report concluded that the use of torture and “illtreatment to extract confessions” is widespread, and prisons are often “inhuman and degrading.” Denial of fair trial in the former Soviet Union republic is common. Homeniuk’s next court date in Bulgaria is scheduled for September 16.

Why Bulgaria decided to act on the Red Notice when other countries haven’t remains an unanswered question. The notice was issued in September 2014, and since then, Homeniuk had traveled throughout Europe and Asia unmolested. His lawyers prepared an appeal last March, and the Interpol Commission said it expected to review the case in September 2015.

According to Marina Stephens, a lawyer by training, the Red Notice Board is a “self policing” tool, which any member country may take advantage of without Interpol itself getting involved in the merits of the case.

(Interpol did not return requests for comment for this story.) Upon reentering the U.S. after recent trips abroad, U.S. officials told Homeniuk they had no interest in investigating the Kyrgyz allegations as they found them baseless.

Bulgaria is currently facing a refugee problem, Stephens noted, and is particularly sensitive to border issues. It is also trying to prove its preparedness to enter Europe’s Schengen Area, a zone of 26 EU countries that has abolished many border controls and effectively functions as a single country for international travel purposes.

As Homeniuk’s court date nears, Stephens expressed gratitude for the support people back in Santa Barbara have shown her husband. “It’s amazing,” she said. “It makes me incredibly happy and proud to be a part of that community. … I have tears in my eyes saying this,” she went on. “We can’t wait to come home.” n

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Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 20 foreign nationals with criminal histories in Santa Barbara County as part of a four-day raid throughout Southern California that netted 244 arrests. The sweep concluded last Thursday night. Fifteen of the arrests, said ICE spokesperson Virginia Kice, were made in Santa Maria; the others took place in Mission Hills, Lompoc, and Guadalupe.

A 30-year-old Mexican male was arrested in Mission Hills with prior convictions for prostitution and possession and sale of controlled substances. Likewise, a 38-year-old Mexican male was arrested in Santa Maria with prior convictions for participating in a criminal street gang, felony spouse abuse, writing false checks, and resisting a police officer. Seven of those arrested in Santa Barbara County had domestic-violence convictions, five for serious drug offenses.

What Tice described as last week’s “tactical enforcement action” comes as public debate over illegal immigrants not deported in a timely fashion continues to boil over. GOP presidential contender Donald Trump is still gaining traction by inveighing the essential criminality of illegal immigrants even though the weight of scholarly opinion remains stacked against him. Santa Maria became caught in the rhetorical crossfire a few weeks ago after Mexican immigrant Victor Martinez raped, strangled, and beat 64-year-old resident Marilyn Pharis, who died nine days later.

Immigrant-rights activist Hazel Davalos, representing the organization CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy), declined to comment on the specifics of the 20 caught in North County but said, “Most deportations from Santa Barbara have involved people not charged with criminal offenses or were very low-level offenders. This is from ICE’s own statistics.” Davalos expressed concern that as such raids intensify, immigrants would become less trustful of local police, and the less they share information, the less safe their communities will be. “We need to strike the right balance,” she said. Santa Maria Police Chief Ralph Martin said that the criminal element picked up by ICE preyed primarily upon the immigrant community, and he disputed the contention such law-enforcement actions discourage immigrants from cooperating with law enforcement. “All I can say is we’re still getting the calls for service,” said Martin. “I make it clear to my officers our focus is not on the — Nick Welsh hard-working people in the fields but those who break the law.”

news briefs cont’d UCSB pledged this week to contribute $200,000 each year from 2017 to 2024 to a community services district should one be established in Isla Vista. Assemblymember Das Williams’s AB 3, which would establish a mechanism to create self-governance in the unincorporated college town, is expected to appear on the Senate floor next week. If successful and signed by Governor Jerry Brown, the district would still have to be approved by voters.

POLITICS Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson’s California Fair Pay Act passed unanimously out of the Senate on 8/31 and heads to Gov. Jerry Brown.

Going further than the federal Equal Pay Act, SB 358 would ensure women receive equal pay for doing work substantially similar to that of their male colleagues, protect women who ask how much their male colleagues are paid, and require employers to show that wage differences are due to reasonable, jobrelated factors.

For the second year in a row, a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson to ban new oil development in state waters in the Santa Barbara Channel — specifically at Tranquillon Ridge — quietly bit the dust in Sacramento, dying a slow death in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. No action was technically taken on the bill, which failed to be “reported out of committee.”

A Republican bill authored by Sen. Bob Huff that would require law-enforcement agencies to develop policies requiring its personnel to wear body cameras sailed through the State Senate but failed this week on the Assembly floor, where many Democrats — including Assemblymember Das Williams

— abstained from the vote. SB 175 is not officially dead, but it will turn into a two-year attempt if it is not amended and passed off the Assembly floor before the legislative session ends on 9/11.

EDUCATION A seat on Santa Barbara Unified School District’s Board of Education is up for grabs next year as current director Ed Heron recently announced he will not seek a third term.

“Eight years is enough for me,” said Heron, 75.

“I love it, but I want to truly retire.” A graduate of Peabody Elementary, La Cumbre Junior High, and Santa Barbara High School, Heron’s decision-making is not removed from district history, and he’s forged a reputation as accessible, fiscally conservative, and big on teaching technologies and long-range planning.

Currently, S.B. Unified says no to the sale of alcohol on campuses during special events when students aren’t present, but state law signed last year now permits it in certain situations. In that respect, Superintendent David Cash asked the board if they’d like to revisit district policy. The board took no action this week but did direct Cash to get feedback from various nonprofits that host events on district property.

This semester, two Zipcars will be parked at the Beach City Apartments across from SBCC’s main campus for students, staff, and faculty over the age of 18 to rent for $7.50 per hour and $69 per day, gas and insurance included. Those affiliated with the college can become Zipcar members for the reduced price of $25 this first year. The deal comes after SBCC launched a partnership on 8/27 with Zipcar as part of the college’s new sustainable transportation program initiated earlier this month. n

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alifornia’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, aka Cal/OSHA, fined the City of Santa Barbara $7,875 for seven building and safety violations found by its inspectors at the Santa Barbara Police Department. Among the problems inspectors found were high lead levels at the shooting range, mold, asbestos, and water stains. In addition, Cal/OSHA faulted the headquarters for not having a segregated decontamination room where officers could wash off blood and other bodily fluids before entering the station.

Santa Barbara Police Sergeant Mike McGrew, head of the Police Officers’ Association, filed the complaint triggering the OSHA inspection earlier this year. “The chief says he’s going to fix all this quickly, and WHISTLEBLOWER: Sgt. Mike McGrew filed that’s what we’re going to do,” said the complaint triggering the OSHA inspection.

McGrew. Sparking concern about the station’s safety profile has been the nine months of disruptive construc- to do with a police station that doesn’t meet tion replacing the building’s heating and air state seismic codes. A sales-tax measure that conditioning. That work has triggered an would have covered the costs for a new staeruption of dust and debris throughout the tion house never made it on the public balbuilding. In addition, a number of officers lot. Within City Hall, considerable acrimony have reported health struggles with various remains in the wake of that failure with cancers, giving rise to concern the police sta- administrators and some councilmembers tion—60 years old, rundown, and in need of wondering where McGrew and his union replacement—might suffer from the “sick were during the debate. McGrew said he building syndrome.” Nothing in the OSHA asked the council to bring the union on report shed definitive light on that. City Hall board early on and heard nothing back. In Risk Manager Mark Howard noted that the meantime, new tests for radon, electrorecent air-quality studies were conducted magnetic radiation, and petroleum waste while construction was taking place. Like- products are in the works. As for the station wise, he said, the department is already in the house, City Administrator Paul Casey said, process of rectifying the problems identified. “We’ll continue placing expensive BandThe $60 million question remains what Aids on a very old building.” n

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by k e l s e y B r u g g e r he owners of a 3,500-acre estate known as Las Varas Ranch lost this week the glimmer of hope they once had of readjusting lot lines to potentially allow for a few new oceanfront homes on the Gaviota Coast. The county supervisors voted 3-2 to deny the bulk of the project, following recommendations from the Planning Commission that found mitigation of its impacts was inadequate.

The project—the brainchild of the late Tim Doheny—would redraw the land from nine lots into seven, moving one of its existing lots to the coastal side, and create the possibility of a few more houses on the bluffs just east of El Capitan Ranch. It would also dedicate three coastal trails plus a parking lot for public use.

But a number of conservationists were unsatisfied and filed into the county Board of Supervisors hearing room Tuesday, sporting colorful signs that read “Save Gaviota.”

“The real implication of the project is that it’s shifting development from inland to coastal,” said Gaviota Coast Conservancy attorney Ana Citrin, adding that maintaining agri-

culture operations on the land is a major concern.

Supervisor Doreen Farr, who represents the area, pointedly asked Doheny family attorney Susan Petrovich why the applicant proposed the project — lauded by supporters as a boon for public benefit — in the first place. Petrovich said Tim Doheny intended to preserve the land for the long term, as a number of biological benefits are included.

Currently, Petrovich said, each of the parcels could be sold as is. But Citrin argued in an interview that approval of the project would make it easier to sell lot by lot.

On Tuesday, a few other speakers — as well as supervisors Steve Lavagnino and Peter Adam — said the applicants bent over backward to accommodate the environmentalists, and they reasoned nothing would ever be good enough for the Gaviota Coast. Addressing that school of thought, one enviro said, “In a way, you are right.”

Lavagnino and Adam also stressed property rights and warned about future litigation from the Doheny family as a result of the decision. n independent.com

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MEGA-KUDOS: Nice work by NBC4 news in L.A., which diverted a station chopper from blanket coverage of the 405 to flyovers of the stately homes of celebrities. Thus they scored images of lush green lawn at the $2.6 million manse of Kylie Jenner, notorious half-sister of Kim Kardashian; Kim’s grassy estate also remains verdant, despite an earlier vow to get with the brown-is-beautiful program adopted by millions of ordinary folks.

Kardashian’s publicist pooh-poohed when NBC4 inquired about water greedhead behavior: “They’re traffic tickets. Who cares?” she said. “I’m not going to comment every time a helicopter flies over the house.”

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“Their water use means nothing in the grand scheme of things,” a Kardashian family publicist said, shrugging off an L.A. TV story broadcasting images of emerald green lawns and reporting excessive water use by members of the infamous reality-show clan.

So glad we’re all in this together, Kylie and Kim. As for the rest of us, new State Water Resources Control Board data shows that residential users cut water consumption in July by more than 31 percent over the same month two years ago. This exceeds Governor Jerry Brown’s conservation target of 25 percent, affirming anew the Golden State’s matchless sensitivity to environmental values.

“This is the drought of the century,” said board chair Felicia Marcus.“Millions of conscientious Californians are the real heroes here—each stepping up to help local water resources last longer in the face of an historic drought with no certain end date.”

To the surprise of no one, citizens of the City of Santa Barbara surpassed even the excellent statewide performance, reducing monthly usage by 36 percent. That translates to consumption by each of us of about 62 gallons R-GPCD. As every schoolchild knows, that daunting acronym designates “residential gallons per capita daily.”

Fair warning: Multivariable calculus experts are invited to derive similar numbers for their town using the immense ocean of raw data posted on the water board’s website.

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In a related finding, 64 percent of those surveyed said that climate change is contributing to the drought.

The numbers are politically significant because the governor and his allies in Sacramento, at press time, were locked in a fierce legislative brawl with oil industry lobbyists, who’ve managed to stall the gov’s climatechange agenda in the Assembly.

Brown and state Senate President Kevin de León, D-L.A., are pushing bills to require, among other things, a 50 percent reduction in petroleum use by motor vehicles by 2030, along with tough energy-efficiency and building standards. However, oil interests have been airing TV ads opposing the measures in districts of some moderate Assembly Democrats, who’ve refused to back the governor’s agenda without more specifics about its long-term economic impacts.

The PPIC poll found that 73 percent of Californians favor the gasoline-reduction legislation, with even greater support for other pieces of the plan. Beyond citing such public opinion on the matter, Brown and de León also point to recent climate-change commentary by Pope Francis; they’ve also brought several California bishops to Sacramento to lobby lawmakers—not to mention actress Halle Berry.

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IN OTHER NEWS: A coalition of marijuana advocates, known as ReformCA, have announced the start of a bid to gather 365,000 signatures to qualify for the November 2016 ballot an initiative to legalize pot for recreational use.

Mindful of drought concerns, theganjier .com, a pro-weed website, recently posted a story asserting that, according to the Mendocino Cannabis Policy Council, a plant yielding one pound of processed flower requires one gallon of water per day.

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To submit obituaries for publication, please call (805) 965-5205 or email obits@independent.com

Deanna Alisa Vazquez 06/02/78 – 09/06/98

Forever Young You will forever be our princess.

We love you and miss you terribly.

Mom and Dad

Pitt & Bachmann.

At the age of 87, Faye had a massive stroke and died 9 days later on July 26, 2015, at Serenity House, surrounded by her family.

Faye was a caring, generous, supportive wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. One could count on her sharp intellect and quick wit to help you through the bumps in life. Faye is survived by her husband Fritz, son Steven McCleister (wife Elna Saito), granddaughters Sarah and Emily, her daughter Deborah McCleister (spouse Lydia Emard), and by her two sisters Mary Suther and Dorothy McCarty in Texas. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to Serenity House on 930 Miramonte Street in Santa Barbara.

and all stimuli of conversation and “free-thinking.” Elaine always lived in the moment- her close friends and family will verify that. She truly had an unwavering zest for life.

Thank you to all who cared for her. She is survived by her two beautiful sons, Landon Harris and Cade Harris, her parents, and many relatives. Patricia Elaine had a spark of life that we will remember always.

Robertson C. Scott

three granddaughters, a grandson-in-law, and a great grandson. Bob Scott had a wonderful life. To tell the full story would fill this entire page and then some.

A memorial will be held on Dec. 8, 5-6pm, at First Presbyterian Church, just prior to the 35th annual Messiah Sing Along.

Contributions in Bob’s memory can be made to your favorite local charity, or more specifically, to any of those that Bob’s events benefited in past years: Unity Shoppe, the Food Bank, Transition House, Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, Hospice, CALM, and Direct Relief International.

Gregory Allen Knudson

Tobi; a loyal friend; and a loving son, brother, and uncle. We shall all miss his entrances, passion, stories, guitar and song playing, love, and beauty. -Claudia In the United States, Greg’s immediate family members, mother, Leslie Lerner; his siblings (and their families) Dana Sadan, Claudia Knudson, Rafael Osuna, Eric Knudson, and Carrie Lemcool; and uncle, Joel Weinstein appreciate the love and support that have been given during this time.

Memorial gathering: Sunday, September 6, Skofield Park, 3:007:00. RSVP (805)455-1781.

Jaya Thomas Jacob 01/02/45 – 08/25/15

08/17/60 – 07/14/15

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Nina Faye Podlesny

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05/04/28 – 07/26/15

Nina Faye Podlesny was born to Leonard Albert Watson and Ada Watson, (née Ada Estelle Crumbly) on May 4, 1928, in Round Mountain, Alabama. The family, including her two sisters and her brother, moved to Wilson, Texas, when Faye was a young girl.

She attended Texas Tech University and earned a B.A. in business. Faye met Paul McCleister when he was stationed in Texas during his army days. They married and moved to Anaheim, California, in 1947. She worked in a business office while she earned a teaching credential and began teaching 2nd -grade. During this period she gave birth to Steven in 1948, and Deborah in 1949. Faye and family moved to Santa Barbara in 1957, where she continued to teach at Washington Elementary School for 23 years.

After her divorce from Paul, Faye began playing golf and met Robert F. Podlesny (Fritz) on the golf course. They married in 1966. They were members of the La Cumbre Country Club and enjoyed many years of golfing and bridge playing. They also traveled extensively. In 1980, Faye left teaching to begin a career in real estate, working for a number of years for the firm

Patricia Elaine Harris, 49, passed into eternal peace, Friday, August 7, 2015, at the Serenity House in Santa Barbara after a long battle with cancer. She was born on January 29, 1966, in Los Angeles, the daughter of William Geoffrey Harris and Jeannette Harris-Johnson.

Elaine graduated from Templeton High School with her fellow Eagles class of 1984. She later graduated with her bachelor’s from UCSB in political science.

Elaine started her own company, Kindred Publishing, featuring educational videos and workbooks for recovering addicts and the incarcerated.

Kindred Publishing was honored with many awards and an invitation to the White House.

She also worked in marketing for Villa Alamar, an assistedliving residence for people with Alzheimer’s in Santa Barbara.

She enjoyed being outdoors and time with her friends, hanging out at the beach, dancing, and live music of virtually any kind. She would brighten every room and liven every conversation with her presence. She was never one to shy away from a good argument or heated debate but would rather engage in any

Bob Scott passed away Aug. 10, 2015, at age 93. Although his body just wore out, his mind stayed as sharp as ever until the very end, and his spirit will live forever. He squeezed every last drop out of this life that he could. An avid tennis player until only a few years ago, he simply lost a long tie breaker in the fifth set.

Bob came to Santa Barbara with his family in 1971 to operate KDB Radio. Prior to that, he was in broadcasting for 20+ years in Los Angeles and the Southeast.

He is best known as the architect of the musical programming on KDB, formerly Santa Barbara’s local classical music station. Through KDB Bob Scott provided listening enjoyment to Santa Barbara and Ventura County residents, plus exposure for local businesses, non-profits, and the arts and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a variety of charities by means of events such as the Messiah Sing Along, Sweethearts Grand Ball, and Big Band Blockbuster Ball.

A bomber pilot in WWII, Bob’s service was acknowledged generously by the community.

Bob’s family enjoyed his love and support every day of his life, and he enjoyed theirs. However, he greatly missed Agnes, his wife of 49 years, who passed away in 1996. She was the epitome of kindness. Bob and Agnes had many friends, and all of them say they are better for having known them.

Cordial and gentlemanly to all, Bob truly was the man he appeared to be. He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law,

On July 14, 2015, Gregory Allen Knudson was taken in a paragliding accident in the Vosges, France. An avid paraglider, world traveler, and Captain of Cargolux, Greg respected and appreciated the geography of this amazing world. A selftaught man who studied history and cultures, Greg held a deep respect for the people and places where he flew. Born in California and raised in Venezuela, Mexico, and England, he returned to California where he began his love for flying. Moving to Europe in his twenties, he settled in Luxembourg to raise his family, relocating to Germany in 2014. Greg cultivated and cherished friendships throughout the world; whether it was a one-time meeting or a lifetime connection, he had a way of touching the deepest meaning of shared space. He was my eagle lion brother, allowing me to tag along as long as I could keep up and not complain. He was my first geography teacher as we played hiding-and-go-seek in London, continuing in our early twenties explaining various climate processes such as the cloud inversion while sitting behind him as we climbed Camino Cielo on his motorcycle. He was an adventurer and explorer; a devoted husband and father to his wife Lela and sons Kai and

Jaya Thomas Jacob, born January 2, 1945, passed away peacefully on August 25, 2015, at his home in Santa Barbara.

Thomas (aka Bunty) was born and raised in New Delhi, India, where he attended St. Stephen’s College for his bachelor and master’s degrees in English. He came to the United States to attend graduate school at the Newhouse School for Journalism at Syracuse University where he met and married his wife, Mary.

He worked as a freelance photographer for the India Tourism Development Corporation that enabled him to photograph the landscapes, monuments and people of his beloved India.

Thomas and Mary settled in South Hadley, MA, where he initially worked as the manager of Pier One Imports in Springfield, MA, prior to joining the Holyoke Transcript Telegram (Holyoke, MA) as a photojournalist.

When that newspaper closed its doors, Thomas was invited to make a career change and joined the salesforce of Valley Wines, a wine wholesaler in western Massachusetts.

After that Thomas was the wine buyer for Shamrock Liquors, which at the time was the largest chain of liquor stores in Massachusetts. While working for Shamrock, he started his own photography business,

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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNIE: At age 80, Ernie Salomon is not going quietly

into anybody’s good night. And if Ernie has his way, he’ll make sure nobody else gets any sleep, either, especially Santa Barbara City College’s congenially charismatic Jefe del Mundo, Lori Gaskin. As usual, Ernie —“The Eyebrows That Roar”— Salomon is on a sustained tear, this one about the not-so-quiet violence inflicted on Santa Barbara’s tenants and working families by ever-escalating rents. A public access TV talk-show host for 18 years, Ernie understands there’s no drama without a bad guy. And the bad guy in Ernie’s book is SBCC (with all its out-of-state and international students), UCSB (preparing to expand enrollment by another 5,000), and the fabulously successful English language schools that draw leggy and linguistically adventurous globe-trotting youth to our teeming shores by the thousands. A retired commercial real estate broker, Ernie understands what’s mana for landlords is hell on Earth for tenants seeking a toehold in Paradise. While real wages have remained flat or drooped since 1995, rents have increased by more than 300 percent; Ernie — never given to calm understatement when expectoration and hyperventilation might do — blames SBCC; in that same period, he points out, the college has tripled the number of out-ofstate and international student enrollees. That doesn’t include the 600 EF students who use

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campus facilities even though they are technically separate and apart from SBCC. With classes now resuming at City College, Ernie’s revving his engines for another assault on the Citadel by the Sea. It won’t be pretty. Ernie is quick to verbally maul those with whom he disagrees, calling them cancers, Nazis, thugs, and racists. He denounced Goleta gal pal pop diva Katy Perry — now embroiled in a weird real estate dispute with elderly Catholic nuns — as “a bitch.” (Ernie, a Jewish refugee from World War II, has become the self-appointed savior for older nuns anywhere squeezed out by real estate speculators and bunco artists.) He dressed down a local journalist whose coverage he deemed subpar as “a child reporter.” It’s tempting to dismiss Ernie as yet another angry kook, but he’s had serious impact. When Lori Gaskin, City College, and pretty much the entire Democratic Party Establishment asked voters last year to approve a $288 million bond measure to pay for a laundry list of much-needed improvements at SBCC, Ernie pretty much killed it singlehandedly.

(His crew raised about $3,000; Gaskin and the Machine raised around $350,000.) For a while, Ernie was part of a nine-person committee, most of whom insisted on anonymity.

But Ernie’s email rants proved so incessant, nasty, and over-the-top, he and his own committee parted company.

Joining Ernie in the crusade to get City College to address its housing impacts is

philosopher king, political busybody, and community crusader. Lanny — in sharp contrast to Ernie — is perhaps the most unfailingly polite person in all of Santa Barbara.

When Lanny disagrees with someone, he always finds a way to do so agreeably. Making Lanny even more unique, he genuinely listens to the other side and then engages in actual dialogue. To the extent Lanny has ever gotten outright mad at anyone, it was at me last year for writing critically —“inaccurate” was what he called it — about the aforementioned City College bond measure, which Lanny emphatically championed. Ernie and Lanny may not qualify as the ultimate yin and yang of Santa Barbara politics, but as odd couples go, they’re odd enough to keep Lori Gaskin awake nights. Lanny has been peppering Gaskin and members of the SBCC board with detailed missives pointing out how the number of out-of-state and international students enrolled at SBCC jumped from 872 in 1998 to 2,972 last year. The City College board could vote, he argued, to reduce that number by 1,000. To make up for the lost revenues — these students pay four times more to attend than in-state students — he suggested the board jack up tuition for such students even more than it is.

City College, to be fair, is only part of the bigger problem wreaking such havoc on Santa Barbara’s nonexistent rental market.

Airbnb is claiming 1,072 vacation rental units in Santa Barbara. That’s a massive chunk of housing to be taken off the rental market.

With the simultaneous proliferation of vaca-

tion rentals and out-of-town students, little wonder Santa Barbara renters find themselves squeezed past the popping point. Little wonder Independent reporter Léna Garcia was recently told she had to pony up $115 for her rental application to even be considered

by Bartlein management company — $115!

If Garcia’s financial records passed muster — and she subsequently signed on Bartlein’s dotted line — Garcia was told the $100 would be credited to her security deposit. But if she declined to sign, Bartlein would keep her $100. Technically speaking, landlords are allowed by state law to charge no more than $44.51 to screen prospective renters for their tenant-worthiness. Landlords are allowed to charge additional “holding fees” or “application fees” — the $100 — but typically that’s extracted only from tenants who pass the first screening. For those tenants who opt not to rent, Bartlein is legally entitled to keep only as much of the $100 as the company “lost” by having to find another tenant. Given the insane demand for rental housing, I’d suggest Bartlein could fill the void in no more than three nanoseconds. As a skim and a gouge, $100 may seem like small potatoes, unless, of course, it’s your pocket from whence said funds come. For tenants, it’s just another quasi-legal shakedown they must endure.

In the meantime, it would be nice if Ernie learned not to call people names. Maybe Lori Gaskin and the City College board would hear better what he has to say. Maybe along the way Santa Barbara’s tenants could find a modicum of relief. And maybe we could all — Nick Welsh get some sleep.

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In retirement Thomas pursued his passions for journalism and photography. He read at least a dozen or more newspapers on-line every day and shared articles that he thought would be of interest via email with his friends in this country and around the world. Many friends charted the ups and downs of his health by the flow of email from him that appeared in their inbox.

He thoroughly enjoyed keeping up with his journalistic interests as a commentator on news and events in the South Asia region for the Third World News program on local television, Channel 17. While his health prevented him from working in the darkroom that he loved so much, his computer became his new darkroom. Santa Barbara with its beautiful buildings, landscapes and festivals became the primary focus of his photographic endeavors. I Madonnari was always a favorite event, and in recent years he became friends with many of the chalk artists who participate in it. He loved to share his photos of their work through Facebook and Flickr which he also used to share his photos of Santa Barbara’s Fiesta dancers.

Thomas will be remembered for his passion for photography and zest for life. He always had a camera in his hand and loved to give his photographs to others. Over the years many family and friends commented that his photographs are among their treasured favorites. He felt he was a lucky person who was able to turn his avocations (love of photography and wine) into his professions. He enjoyed cooking and sharing wine from his collection with family and friends around the table with good conversations about politics, art and, music that would last long into the night. He loved all types of music, although jazz and the blues were his favorite genres.

He was a lifetime member of the Santa Barbara Blues Society. His smile, sense of humor and generosity touched the lives of many.

He is survived by his wife Mary; son Rustum and his wife Stephanie; grandsons Elliot and Ethan; sister Piya, brother Nitya, nephew Aryaman, many cousins, and in-laws. A memorial service will be held on November 1. Donations may be made to Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care.

Thomas was predeceased in death by his parents, Velothil and Ayesha Jacob.

Dana Schorr

After a life worthy of an adventure novel, fighting for social justice and exploring the world in search of rare gems, Dana Schorr died on August 5, 2015, in Santa Barbara, from complications following a massive heart attack. He was 63.

Born Dana Leslie Schorr in Santa Monica, California, in 1952, he spent his early years in California and New York before his family moved to Santa Barbara when he was eight. He grew up here, attended San Marcos High School, and called Santa Barbara home for the rest of his life.

A community activist throughout the 1970s, Dana rechanneled his energy into a successful career in precious stones beginning in the early 1980s. After founding Santa Barbara–based Schorr Marketing, he established global partnerships that included village gem miners in Tanzania, stone cutters in Sri Lanka, and a sunstone mine in Oregon.

Never compromising his commitment to fair play and democratic values, Dana became an effective advocate for smallscale miners in the developing world, while remaining an outspoken neighborhood leader in Santa Barbara. He embraced life to the fullest, as a supporter of the Santa Barbara Jazz Society, an irrepressible dancer, and loyal and caring friend.

Dana is survived by his mother Emmy Schorr, sister Wendy Schorr, brother-in-law Roger Lebow, and a circle of friends around the world. Family and friends hope to create a lasting tribute in his honor. For more information, contact Nansie Chapman at nansiechapman@gmail.com.

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Dodger Sun Setting?

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players … ” —Shakespeare, As You Like It PLAY BALL! On Sunday, 46,679 of us marched

into Dodger Stadium for a day in the sun, but perhaps more important, to play our role in a national TV spectacle.

We just didn’t realize what kind of spectacle it was going to be. The Dodgers got hamstrung. Score? Well, I’ll get to that.

See, we were there to cheer, boo, or howl basically as sound effects for the millions watching from coast to coast. We were the sound track for their Sunday beer-and-baseball relaxation.

We had to pay for the privilege, of course, spear carriers in the production. After all, who would tune in to watch a game played before empty stands, the only sounds being faint shouts among players and “Red hots, getchure red hots”?

And how uninspiring would it be for the multimillionaires running around out there if no one was reacting to their hits, runs, and (unfortunately) errors? Speaking of Shakespeare and stages, think of an actor reciting “To be, or not to be …” before an empty house.

The score? Well, I’ll get to that. Not having been to a Dodger game in about 20 years (wasn’t that why TV was invented?), I decided

to give the kids as close to an A-ticket experience as possible.

So I hit the computer and learned some secrets about Chavez Ravine. For one thing, you don’t have to park a mile away. For a mere $35, I could park a short walk from the field.

And by shelling out a shocking amount of money, I could sit within a crack of the bat’s sound of home plate. And the seats actually had backs.

A side benefit to blowing months of coffee money on the seats was entrance into the Stadium Club. I’d never heard of it. There awaited air-conditioned comfort and a view down on the greensward below, acres of emerald sod. (What drought? Did you want to watch the millionaires running around on parched earth?)

There I could, and did, reserve a table where we could eat, drink, and be merry (more about that later). Or you could belly up to the bar and watch on a huge flat-screen.

In fact, it turned out that you could belly up to televisions in Santa Barbara and watch the game, too. ESPN chose this one as its Sunday headliner, which broadcasts on Cox Cable on occasion by special arrangement.

Barclay, Wendy, and I opted for a table in the AC-cooled main room, with a great view.

(Or we could have sat out on the rail in the heat.) But for that, we were expected to order the all-you-can-eat buffet, a lavish feed cost-

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BRUISED: Spectators at Dodger Stadium on Sunday enjoyed a spectacular sunset and game, if they were Cubs fans.

ing a mere $40 each, plus the price of any alcoholic drinks one preferred while watching the “national pastime.”

Stuffed, we scooted down to our seats. Of the 46,679 paid customers, I would say about 46,000 of them were loud Cub fans, most wearing the once-beloved Cub logos. As the game progressed, they got louder and louder.

Where had they come from?

It was Andre Ethier’s $18 million against Cub pitcher Jake Arrieta’s $3.6 million. Guess who won the battle of the day?

As fate would have it, the colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig was not to be seen (on the disabled list). Nor were the Dodgers’ famed pitchers Clayton Kershaw ($30 million this year) and Zack Greinke ($23 million).

On the mound was one of the Dodgers’ new acquisitions, Alex Wood, being paid a pitiful $190,000, chump change in this era.

The final score? Did I mention that the punchless Dodgers got (ugh!) no-hit by the poverty-level Cubs Sunday? Final score: 2-0.

And just (horrors!) nine days after being nohit by the Houston Astros.

This is not looking good, folks. This is not looking like a World Series team. And if the Boys in Blue don’t fight off the hated Frisco (there, I said it, and I’m glad) Giants, they won’t even make the play-offs.

The kids and I trudged out of Dodger Stadium with the Cub fans’ jeers and cheers bouncing off the walls. It was humiliating.

But on the drive back, Wendy played Beatles songs, and we reflected on the (otherwise) great day. In California, it’s the experience that counts.

And as in Ernest Thayer’s famed 1888 poem, “Casey at the Bat,” the “mighty Casey” has struck out. But for the Dodgers, there’s always another day. — Barney Brantingham

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It’s unreasonable to assume that all renters are going to be a roudy nuisance. Even if they were, police citations would eventually bring them under control. As for competition for hotels and such, there are more than enough multimillionaires to patronize those places. It’s time to end the bureaucracy that caters to bazillionaires while oppressing ordinary folks.

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n July, Medicare and Medicaid turned 50 years old.

While we should celebrate this golden anniversary and be glad these programs have expanded, we should also realize that affordable access to health care in the U.S. still lags other developed nations in Europe and Asia. Even with the Affordable Care Act, 10 percent of us remain without insurance, and 10 percent more have inadequate insurance or are underinsured.

Worrisome trends may put us yet further behind other countries as for-profit insurance companies consolidate into huge monopolies and patented drug prices explode. For many, increased premiums and cost sharing leave people “covered” by insurance but without money to actually afford care when serious illness strikes. The solution is to have Medicare cover everyone. This was its original intent, as was controlling costs.

The savings from negotiated drug, equipment, and medical service prices, when added to $400 billion in administrative cost savings, would be enough to expand coverage to all and include dental, vision, and hearing care. Emphasis on delivery of, and fair payment for, primary care will increase the numbers of primary care physicians.

It will be a struggle to keep the inadequate system we have, but the real solution is for us all to fight for — Peter Conn, S.B. Medicare for all.

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Explorers (and Fords for that matter) are rife with problems recently, the biggest being exhaust in the cabins and braking issues. Also, Ford’s production spans the globe now that it’s closed most of its home factories, and Chrysler is far more interested in keeping production within the U.S. — Steven Reynalds, S.B.

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yle Korver and Al Jefferson are professional basketball players with a combined 23 years of experience in the NBA. During their careers, each of them has made a home in four different cities. Korver, a 67 shooting guard, has moved from Philadelphia to Salt Lake City to Chicago to Atlanta; Jefferson, a 610 center, from Boston to Minnesota to Salt Lake City to Charlotte.

During the past six to eight summers, there’s just one place they’ve called home: Santa Barbara. Growing numbers of their NBA brethren have followed them here. The main attraction is not the weather, the beaches, or the smallish-town ambience. It is a nondescript building a few blocks from the beach, with a floor space the size of a basketball court, which houses the Peak Performance Project (P3), a high-tech laboratory for the testing and training of elite athletes.

P3 is the brainchild of Marcus Elliott, a graduate of Harvard Medical School who took his two interests, sports and science, and fused them in a new way. He looked at the specific skills and movements that certain sports require (primarily baseball, basketball, and football) and began analyzing how the bodies of players functioned, each in its own way. Instead of giving them cookie-cutter training programs, he was able to tailor exercises that address an individual’s specific strengths and weaknesses.

A lengthy article in Sports Illustrated last December explained how Elliott’s methods might help prolong careers by identifying areas of potential injury and taking steps to rectify them. By then, P3 was already on the map in the pro basketball world.

Korver and Jefferson both started visiting P3 when they were players with the Utah Jazz. Then-coach Jerry Sloan, now an adviser to the club, was enthusiastic about the off-season program. The Jazz continue to send their players here every year before training camp.

“I had a lot of issues going on physically, a really bad knee and some other things,” said Korver, who arrived at P3 in 2008. “I could feel myself getting better. I learned a lot about my body and how to take care of it, how to move more efficiently, how to move more healthily — if that’s a word. It was kind of a turning point for me. I started coming out here every summer. My wife and I bought a house here a couple years ago.”

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an NBA All-Star for the first time last season. He is a deadly long-range shooter who passed Kobe Bryant for 12th on the all-time three-pointers-made list in March.

“I had a good year, and the team did well,” the Hawks guard said. “Our coach [Mike Budenholzer] is a great guy to play for. Every year you keep your group together, develop more chemistry, play in more play-off series — all those things add up to a better team.”

But going deep into the play-offs after an 82-game season makes for a long grind. “It’s brutal,” Korver said.

“It takes a toll on your body. P3 prepares me for that.

They won’t cut the number of games. They’d be cutting the money.”

InnovAtIve IdeA Elliott was thinking about the dollars pouring into pro sports leagues when he opened P3 in 2006. “It was like the emperor’s new clothes,” he said. “Doesn’t everybody else see what I see? Doesn’t it make sense to know more about this player that you’re paying $100 million to?

Don’t you realize this guy is a complete unknown in terms of how his body works? It made no sense to me.

We have tools we can use to get a better understanding of these systems.”

Despite that confidence, he wasn’t sure if it would work. “I thought this would be a damn fun thing to do, and I knew there would be a value for the people and the athletes we touched,” he explained.

“From a business perspective, I had no idea what it could be or how much demand there would be. I still pinch myself a little bit. I’m still amazed. Part of it was the right timing, and part of it was having the conviction to do this stuff before other people did, to take a hard stand and invest in the technology and the smart personnel.”

The technology includes force plates embedded in the floor and 10 German-made cameras that capture in great detail a body in motion. “It’s the same technology [used to produce] video games,” said Stanford graduate Eric Leidersdorf, the lead bio-mechanist at P3, as he compiled masses of data on a computer screen.

Elliott added, “Moving here feels like one of the smarter things I’ve done. I originally felt like Santa Barbara could be a hindrance for focusing on pro athletes.

There are no pro teams here. In the end, it’s actually been a positive. It’s a great retreat for the athletes.”

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GRIP AND RIP: Memphis Grizzlies defensive basketball star Tony Allen is enjoying a relatively lengthy NBA career, thanks in part to the strength he’s built at P3 gym in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone.

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Jefferson has come to P3 every year since 2010 in a love/hate frame of mind. “When you work so hard, you hate it, but you know it’s probably good for you,” said the Hornets center, who has steadily recovered from a 2009 ACL injury. “I can tell my knee is getting back to the way it was before. I gotta do what’s best for me.”

Jefferson was one of the last NBA players drafted out of high school, in 2004. He came from the small town of Prentiss, Mississippi. “I’m a country boy,” he said. “I’m not a big-city type of guy. Going from my hometown to Boston was, whoa, like going to Germany. I love Santa Barbara, man. It’s small and peaceful. I love to go by the beach.

I love the seafood spots. The No. 1 reason is this place [P3], knowing I’m getting better to further my career. I’m only 30 years old. I got a lot more years to play.”

The word has gotten out. Korver and Jefferson found themselves in a lot of company this summer. “Every week, new guys show up,” Jefferson said. “I look around; there’s me, Joakim Noah, and Andre Drummond — three of the top centers in the league working out together. You can’t get that anywhere else. When the season starts, we step on the court and try to tear each other’s head off. This is the time everybody wants to go and get better as a player. We can do that together.”

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coaches,” Elliott said. “Literally that’s what they did. They got guys to move weights around. … But you don’t necessarily want guys who are stronger; you want athletes to move better. It’s really easy to take an athlete and make him a lot stronger — he benches more, he squats more — and then he jumps slower, and maybe he doesn’t jump as high, and maybe he’s a lot slower laterally, and his hips are so immobile he can’t put himself in these athletic positions any more. You can

make them a lot worse as they get stronger.”

Baseball is another sport where the P3 approach is borne out. Former major leaguer Lou Piniella, who was on the disabled list twice in 18 seasons, recently told the New York Daily News: “When I played, we didn’t have a weight room or a strength coach …. We never heard of an ‘oblique.’ …

[W]e were in shape to play baseball. Baseball is a game of fluidity, timing and coordination. It’s not a game of muscle mass.” Injury prevention is a cloudier prospect in football, where the nature of the sport produces forceful collisions.

Adam Hewitt, P3’s assistant general manager, noted that the facility’s NBA clients maintain a work ethic that makes them pros for the long term. “They have to be committed to make the trip out here,” he said.

“Carmelo Anthony took three flights to get here.” Hewitt added,“Santa Barbara is a little quiet for the younger guys,” who might be looking for action outside the training room.

One of the younger guys who made himself at home for several weeks was Thomas Robinson, a 610 power forward who was recently acquired by the Brooklyn Nets. He bought

DROPPING WEIGHTS: A key to P3’s success is escaping the old training regimen of just lifting weights to build strength.

At top, NBA stars James Ennis (red sock, also being measured in middle photo by Sam Brown), Al Jefferson (gray tank top), Festus Ezeli (light blue shirt), and Beno Udrih work on their moves. Below, Udrih gets hooked up to sensors to track his flow.

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HANDS-ON HELP: P3’s Mike Swan works on an athlete at top, as Nigerian-born Golden State Warriors center Festus Ezeli stretches on an exercise ball below.

a bicycle to transport himself around town.

“I’m here strictly for work,” said Robinson, 24.“I’m not looking for fun. It’s good to learn these things early in your career.”

The players do say that the city’s a good place for relaxing in between workout sessions. “Almost all of them are comfortable taking a low-key approach,” Elliott said.

“Aside from the fact many are almost seven feet tall and black, they look like Santa Barbara locals. People see them walking around town wearing flip-flops and board shorts.”

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At the behest of the NBA, Elliott and his team of specialists have tested prospects at the predraft combines in Chicago each of the last two years. They tested 55 of the 60 selected players before the 2015 draft, and three of the top 10 — Jahlil Okafor (No. 3

pick, 76ers), Stanley Johnson (No. 8, Pistons), and Frank Kaminsky (No. 9, Hornets) — spent some time in Santa Barbara.

“The NBA needs to be supersmart,” Elliott said. “As opposed to football or baseball, when one player goes down, it completely changes the dynamic of your team. A team can’t lose a rotation player and not lose a beat; in other sports they can. Six to eight players are critical to an NBA team. They’re investing a whole lot in being the smartest professional sport.”

There have been extensive conversations over who should assume custody of the assessments made by P3. Elliott decided that the players should receive the results of this year’s tests.

“Is it performance data, or is it medical data?” Elliott said. “Is this measuring a vertical jump, or is this more like measuring somebody’s cholesterol level? I would make the case it’s more like measuring cholesterol.

Doctor-patient seems like the right model.

That’s where it’s going to go.”

Elliott believes that players’ bodies “are their most prized possessions.” He explained, “It doesn’t matter if you’re under contract to the Lakers. It’s not their body; it’s your body.

If the players are smart, they’ll share the data with the teams to direct their training pro-

RAISING MORE THAN ROOFS: Al Jefferson started coming to P3 when he was on the Utah Jazz, but he keeps coming back, now as a player for the Charlotte Hornets.

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grams, but they shouldn’t have to. We’re going to give the combined results to the players by September 15. Every player going into the NBA is going to get a biometric sheet from us, showing all their strengths and weaknesses, showing where they’re most at risk in terms of injury and solutions for those. It goes only to the players. They can share it with their organization, they can share it with their agent, or they can just keep it or throw it out. I like the idea of putting that power back in their hands.”

Elliott cannot promise that a player will be injury-free. Korver and Jefferson both suffered strains and sprains last season.“If we look at our NBA injury database, there’s a lot of ankle injuries in there,” the P3 director said. “But guys are missing less than a couple weeks, and they don’t recur. We can deal with that amount of randomness. Almost all the serious injuries are as a result of having a system that’s out of balance or some type of movement issue. Those are injuries that are telegraphing themDOCTOR’S IN: Dr. Marcus Elliott combined selves before they manifest.” love of sports and science to develop Creating a sound body in the his the training regime that’s now used by training room breeds a sound, keen professional stars from basketball to mind. “Take Andre Drummond,” baseball, football, and beyond.

Elliott said of the Detroit Pistons center. “He can’t wait for the season to start. He just wants to go crush people. He spent six weeks sweating and bleeding every day. He wants to show people the systems he has. If guys have that confidence, that it’s bulletproof, it goes so far in terms of their competitive spirit and what they’re willing to put on the line.”

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The Cardinals, 43-8 over the past four seasons, look to continue their winning ways as they enter their second season in CIF Division 3 with most of their playmakers returning from last year’s 10-2 season. Several players stood out in last Friday’s 14-9 victory over Righetti. CIF sprint champion AV Bennett showed off his speed on a 24-yard touchdown run late in the game, and quarterback Spencer Stovesand completed a 36-yard scoring play to receiver Dylan Streett. The Cardinals expected a stiff challenge from Righetti, a larger school that was a Division 3 play-off team last year. “We came out really bad in the first half,” senior linebacker Matt Shotwell said. “We didn’t execute that well, especially on the first drive. [We] came out and did our thing in the second half, and that’s execute plays even though we’re not the biggest team around.” Shotwell had 15 tackles in the game. It was Bishop’s fifth straight season-opening win. The Cardinals travel to San Diego–area small-schools power Santa Fe Christian on Saturday.

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“We are in the truest sense a blue-collar team,” coach Anthony Linebaugh said of his 2015 Royals. Linebaugh spent the off-season determining where players could be best utilized for the team to be successful. “I have a lot of players in new positions. We’re doing a lot of learning right now to accelerate that growth, that learning curve, if you will, leading up to the season.” One of the biggest changes was converting D’Shaun Vines into a quarterback. He played tight end last season. Vines will have senior running back Ivan Reyes behind him. He gained 884 yards and scored 11 touchdowns last season. Reyes and Vines will have the luxury of working behind an experienced line that includes seniors Anthony Pico, Anthony Ramirez, Rogelio Lopez, Abe KesFIRST GAME IN BAG: Bishop Diego senior Matt Shotwell With improved size and strength celebrates the Cardinals’ season-opening 14-9 victory ablyan, and junior Josh Harrah. on the line and an experienced, tal- over Righetti on Friday.

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Tue Sep 8 7:00p “Run FRee: The TRue SToRy oF Caballo blanCo”

The Santa Barbara Athletic Association & Patagonia present this award-winning, feature-length documentary about ultra-running legend Micah True. Better known as Caballo Blanco – the White Horse – was the focal character of Christopher McDougall’s 2009 best-selling book about the Tarahumara Superathlete Indians of northern Mexico. For more info & tickets please visit www.imathlete.com/events/runfree.

A percentage of the film’s profits, including from DVD sales, will go to benefit Norawas de Rarámuri (Friends of the Running People). See you there!

SaT Sep 12 7:00p “CoRazoneS JoveneS en el baile (young heaRTS in DanCe)” Xochipilli de Santa Barbara presents this celebration of talented youth through music

and dances from Mexico. With colorful costumes and inspiring performances by their young dancers, this show is a must-see! For more info please call 805-637-7118. For tickets please visit La Calenda (2915 De La Vina) or Tere Jurado (429 N. Milpas). See you there!

Sun Sep 13 7:00p “viva el aRTe: balleT FolklóRiCo De loS angeleS”

We celebrate the beginning of Viva’s Tenth Anniversary Season with this FREE family show presented by the Luke Theatre and UCSB A&L! Ballet Folkórico de Los Angeles was founded in 2011 by Kareli Montoya who began dancing professionally at the age of twelve. The company has performed in high-profile venues such as the Nokia Theater, the Greek Theater, the John Anson Ford Amphitheater, the Santa Barbara Mariachi Festival, and during halftime for the LA Clippers. For more info please visit facebook.com/VivaElArteSB or call 805-884-4087 x7.

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HUSTLE AND MUSCLE: Bishop Diego’s John Harris, a hulking 6’2”, 195-pound sophomore sensation, led the Cardinals in rushing in their season opener.

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Coach Nate Mendoza has more than 70 players on his squad, and several saw action last season.“When you get kids back with game experience, it’s huge,” said Mendoza. Quarterback Kellen Roberts is one of those players with game experience. Because of an injury, he was thrust into duty early last season as a sophomore. The mobile, 62 signal caller will be running a high-tempo attack, which, he says, suits his style of play. Roberts has experienced players around him, starting with big-play senior receiver Josh Flora. His big targets include 61, 220-pound senior Austen Pearce and 63, 195-pound junior Marcellous Gossett. Senior Manny Nwosu (60, 195), who helped the soccer team win the Channel League title and lost 25 pounds in the off-season, will show off his increased speed and strength as a running back; he was a defensive end last season. The Chargers saw good things in the first three quarters of their opener, building a 24-7 lead over Pacifica. But the Chargers let the victory get away by giving up 31 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to lose 38-24.

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The Warriors were the only area 11-man team with a bye during Week Zero.

Carpinteria, coming off a 4-6 season, will host Santa Ynez on Friday. The Warriors have size and experience in the offensive line, which should make quarterback Mikey Garibay feel more comfortable in his first varsity season.

Garibay was the JV quarterback last year. The O-line has one underclassman in sophomore David Torres at center, and the rest are seniors with game experience, led by tackles Jose Pancho Sanchez (61, 265) and Nico GarciaJimenez (63, 267). “We have a great nucleus and a really fine corps of guys who are doing everything we ask them to do, and they’re enthusiastic about it,” said longtime coach Ben Hallock.“I feel great about this group.”

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Carpinteria at Bishop Diego: The Little Big Game is an annual rite of passage for this longtime rivalry. The Tri-Valley League’s three-game schedule makes each contest incredibly important.

Friday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.

Cate at Laguna Blanca: The eight-man game is showcased locally when these two engage in their small-school clash. It’s the regular-season finale for the teams as the eight-man CIF postseason begins a week before 11-man.

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Santa Barbara at San Marcos: The team records won’t matter in this regularseason finale at Warkentin Stadium.“The Big Game” for city bragging rights is always intense. Last year’s game ended in an on-field scuffle. San Marcos scored in the final seconds to win the game and claim the city championship.

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“Reflection on the More Mesa” by John Haugse

9/3-9/7: Free Admission for Military at S.B. Botanic Garden Hey, all nation’s service members: Cool off in the redwoods, take free guided tours, and enjoy trails through native plant communities with your entire family and pet dogs.

Free admission will be available for active-duty military and up to five family members. This opportunity will end Labor Day. All other days, the garden offers a reduced admission rate. 9am6pm. S.B. Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. Free. Call 682-4726 or visit sbbg.org.

9/3: Family 1st Thursdays: Urban Landscape Collage Gather up the family, and head to the museum to create your own art souvenirs. Sketch hands on mid-tone paper in graphite and white pastel, and collage them onto an urban landscape.

This evening is inspired by Herbert Bayer’s “Lonely Metropolitan,” part of the ongoing exhibition of his photomontages, which can be enjoyed after you finish your art project.

5:30-7:30pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 963-4364 or visit sbma.net.

9/3: Mystic Braves, L.A. Witch, Pearl Charles, The Creation Factory Mystic Braves will bring psychedelic tunes influenced by rock, funk, and musical drones of non-Western sources. Special guests include “reverb-soaked, punked-out rock” band L.A. Witch, California rock ’n’ roll solo artist Pearl Charles, and acid-garage, janglepop soul band The Creation Factory. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10-$12.

Ages 18+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

easy, fun dances. 7pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo.

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9/3: CRIT 001 Weslie Ching Dance will host a night of new works and dances-in-progress by many performing artists. What makes this show different? There will be a community critique afterward. Bring out your inner art critic at this night of short,

9/4: Art Reception: Then and Now This exhibit will feature prints by Don and Siu Zimmerman, whose styles are unique, abstract, and figurative and draw on many printmaking techniques. Siu has practice in combining Chinese calligraphy with abstract markings, while Don photographs everyday scenes modified through digital editing and polymer etching. Join these artists in celebration of their visual art. The exhibit shows until October 9. 5-7pm. Architectural Foundation Gallery, 229 E. Victoria St. Free. Call 965-6307 or visit afsb.org.

9/4-9/5: Nithya Shanti A spiritual teacher, happiness coach, healer, and modern-day sage, Nithya Shanti will lead a workshop to aid you in your journey to health, wellness, and finding the road to happiness.

Saturday will include mindfulness and meditation teaching and practices. Registration is recommended. Fri.: 7-8:30pm;

9/4: Aireene & The Rarities, Natalie D-Napoleon First influenced by Filipino folk, Aireene Espiritu now mixes Latin/African rhythms, bluegrass, gospel, and timeless Americana with her band, The Rarities. Opening the show will be Australian singer/ songwriter Natalie D-Napoleon.

7:30pm. Cambridge Drive Community Church, 550 Cambridge Dr., Goleta. Free. Call 964-0436 or visit cambridgedrivechurch.org.

9/4: Artificial Sweetener Controversy Do you prefer sugar or artificial sweetener? Clinical Dietitian Stacey Bailey will host classes that encourage and support healthy eating habits for all ages. Bring your own lunch, and discuss the facts behind artificial sweeteners. No RSVP is required.

Noon-1pm. Santa Ynez Valley

Cottage Hospital, 2050 Viborg Rd., Solvang. Free. Call 694-2351 or visit tinyurl.com/NutritionClass.

9/4-9/6: 14th Annual Open Studios Labor Day Tour Thirty professional artists will be opening their studios for you from Montecito to Goleta to the Santa Ynez Valley! Talk with the artists, learn about creative processes, and just enjoy the art. This tour will benefit the Breast Cancer Resource Center and is meant to increase public awareness of all things wonderful about art and culture. Tickets will be sold until the day of the tour at Corridan Gallery or online. Fri.: 5-8pm; Sat.-Sun.: 11am-5pm. Reception: Corridan Gallery, 125 N. Milpas St.; tour: various locations. $18-$20.

Visit santabarbarastudioartists .com.

9/4: Art Reception: Ed Moses: Works from 1987-2007 Considered one of the most central figures of postwar West Coast and contemporary art, Ed Moses will be featured in Santa Barcourtesy

9/3-9/7: John Haugse S.B. resident and awardwinning filmmaker and artist John Haugse will share his works for just a few days! From graphic novels to animations to works on paper, he has done it all. Stop by and talk to him about his life as an artist and where he draws inspiration from. Noon-5pm.

Alhecama Theater, 914 Santa Barbara St. Free.

Call 252-7339 or visit johnhaugse.com.

Sat.: 9am-1pm. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. Free. Call 965-7419, email office@trinitysb .org, or visit trinitysb.org. Read more on pg. 35.

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9/4-9/5: Pvt. Wars Don’t miss the last weekend of this comedy/drama about three Vietnam veterans dealing with life in a psychiatric ward after the war as they become friends and work through all their wounds through laughter, sadness, and meaningful moments. All proceeds will benefit the S.B. Theatre Awards. 8pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $20-$30.

Call 963-0408 or visit centerstagetheater.org.

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bara. Shown in many other prominent galleries around the country, his work includes art of different media and meanings.

Celebrate the opening day with light refreshments and others who enjoy art. The exhibit shows through September 30.

5-9pm. The Mitchell Estate Gallery, 110 Powers Ave. Free. Call 568-1700 or visit themitchell estate.com.

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saTurday 9/5 9/5-9/6: Arts & Crafts Labor Day Show The S.B. Arts & Crafts show will feature a special holiday show on Saturday as an addition to the regular Sunday show. Stroll along the beachside and look at or buy handmade, one-of-a-kind treasures. There will be more than 200 artists and artisans with arts and crafts for you and your home on display ready, and they are excited to chat about their work. 10am-6pm.

236 E. Cabrillo Blvd. and Stearns Wharf to Garden St. Free. Call 560-7557 or visit tinyurl.com/ SBlabordayartshow.

9/5: S.B. Fashion Week The De Marcos Fashion Academy will have its sixth annual student fashion show during its first-ever fashion week right here in S.B. The academy is dedicated to teaching creative skills in the fashion industry, such as design, illustration, styling, advertising, modeling, and theatrical design. The guest designer will be past student and designer to the stars Katharine Kidd. Reception: 7pm; show: 8pm. Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. $25-$100. Call 845-2100 or visit demarcos fashion.com.

9/5: Canned Heat In 1966, blues historians and record collectors founded this band,

9/5: Great Peacock This band is made of Deep South musicians who aren’t afraid of the big city, so don’t expect this folk band to make music for campfires or square dances.

Mainly pop music with some fiddle, pedal steel, and a whole lot of acoustic guitar, Great Peacock will provide a night of new and irresistible music. 7:30pm. Standing Sun Winery, 92 Second St., Buellton. $10-$15. Ages 21+. Call 691-9413 or visit standingsunwines.com. which has attained three worldwide hits such as “On the Road Again and “Going up the Country” and headlined the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. Through band member changes and assorted musical trends, Canned Heat has survived and is ready to play in S.B. Some proceeds will be given to Star Jasmine, a program that brings music to schools. 9pm.

Mercury Lounge, 5871 Hollister Ave., Goleta. $40. Ages 21+. Call 967-0907.

9/5: Youth Interactive Postcards of S.B. Public Art Mural Project Mayor Helene Schneider will unveil this public mural, a collaborative exhibit of 8x6 vignettes depicting the best days of S.B. The walkway will give pedestrians an artistic insight into the beauty of our city. The ribbon-cutting ceremony will include live mariachi music, canapés, and a street celebration. Youth Interactive provides an opportunity for youths to find their passion and develop. 4pm.

Indigo Hotel, 121 State St. Free.

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9/5: Coal Oil Point Reserve Tour Take a tour and learn about the cultural history of the Coal Oil Point with a small group. Guides will take you on a nice walk to the beach, point out the array of bird species, and discuss the western snowy plover. The trail will bisect the reserve, so get ready for some beautiful views and animal habitats. 10am-noon. Coal Oil Point Reserve, Slough Rd., Isla Vista.

Free. Call 893-3703 or email copr .conservation@lifesci.ucsb.edu to RSVP. 9/5: Cubensis, Moonalice Are you a Deadicated fan?

If so, you don’t want to miss Cubensis, which will celebrate a live Grateful Dead concert experience. From blues and rock ’n’ roll to country and jazz, this band will make it a unique and exciting night. Opening the show will be Moonalice, a psychedelic, roots-rock band mixing a variety of genres and

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9/6: Running: Pier to Peak Half Marathon On August 2, Santa Barbara trail runner Matt Dubberley blitzed the Mountaineer’s Route up Mount Whitney, ascending to the 14,496-foot summit (the highest in the continental U.S.) in a record 1 hour, 47 minutes, 40 seconds, and also shattering the round-trip record back to Whitney Portal in 2:38:15. On Sunday, Dubberley and several hundred other hardy runners will engage in the annual 13.1-mile race to La Cumbre Peak (elevation 3,995). The starting line is at sea level by the Dolphin Fountain. The record is 1:33:04, set in 2008 by Aaron Gillen. 6:30am. Visit runsantabarbara.com.

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Ages 21+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com. Read more on p. 43.

9/5: Evening of Poetry: Richard Jarrette, Pamela Davis Both of these award-winning poets will share readings from their newest books and sign books afterward. Jarrette’s A Hundred Million Years of Nectar Dances is a poetry cycle of nature that reveals an inherent religious quality, and Davis’s Lunette is an award-winning collection of compelling and innovative poems. 7pm. St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Call 688-4454 or visit smitv.org.

9/5: Amtrak Sampler Train Trip Go on a short rail adventure to Carpinteria or Ventura, and get an inexpensive taste of train travel aboard the modern Amtrak. Museum Director Gary Coombs will escort the morning trip, answering questions and sharing anecdotes, regional history, and interesting facts

about the area rails. Goleta: 9:13am; S.B.: 9:27am. Goleta Amtrak, 25 S. La Patera Ln., Goleta; S.B. Amtrak, 209 State St. $10.50-$17.95. Call 964-3540 or visit goletadepot.org/ride.

sunday 9/6 9/6: Summer Nights on the Water Celebrate Labor Day Sunday on the high seas, cruising with cocktails, friends, music, and fun. This is the last sunset sail of the summer, so don’t miss out. 6:00pm. Condor Express, 301 W. Cabrillo Blvd. $30. Ages 21+. Visit tinyurl.com/ summernightsonthewater.

9/6: USPA Maserati Silver Cup Final Before concluding the Polo Tour at the Tianjin Goldin Metropolitan Polo Club in China, the USPA Maserati Silver Cup, one of the oldest U.S.A. polo tournaments, will make a stop in beautiful S.B. Watch a fun polo game sponsored by Modenese under the cabana or under the sun this Labor Day weekend. 1pm.

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9/6: Yappy Hour Enjoy a leisurely couple of hours as you wine taste and hang out with friends while not worrying about having to leave your pooch at home. Bring your fourlegged companion for complimentary sweets and doggie treats as you sip the vino! 4-6pm. Jamie Slone Wines, 23 E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call 560-6555 or visit jamieslonewines.com.

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9/7: S.B. Democratic Party Labor Day BBQ Join the S.B. County Democratic Party, and enjoy camaraderie, tasty BBQ, beautiful scenery, and the holiday while supporting and fighting for your political beliefs. John Grant of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, longtime leader in the fight for greater worker protections, will be the keynote speaker and will talk about the important battles ahead. 2-5pm. Oak Park, 500 W. Alamar Ave. Free-$25. Visit tinyurl.com/democraticbbq.

9/8: Investing in Your Creative Future This workshop hosted by Art Without Limits will teach artists about saving, budgeting, establishing and maintaining credit, and

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9/8: Glen Phillips This former frontman and primary songwriter for the renowned alternative rock band Toad the Wet Sprocket is always busy creating. From writing “Departure” (featured in James Cameron’s Ghosts of the Abyss) to collaborating with Grammy winner Nickel Creek to releasing albums, Glen Phillips will share his lone guitar talents and honey-dipped voce again with S.B. 8pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $15. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

9/8-9/9: Zoo to You! Learn about and listen to amazing stories of rescued creatures!

Combining storytelling, fun, and live animals, this program is a blast. You won’t know which animal you’ll get to see until you show up! Surprise! Tue.: 4-5pm.

Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Call 964-7878.

Wed.: 10:30-11:15am. Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito St. Call 963-3727. Wed.: 4-4:45pm. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Call 564-5638. Free. Best for ages 5+. Visit sbplibrary.org.

9/8: Hot Breath, Honey Maid, Welfare Talent We all know at least one DIY band. Come on out and support another one or two! Chicago pop-rock band Hot Breath, S.B.-based pop-rock duo Honey Maid, and Ventura rockers Welfare Talent will bring a night of music with so much singalong potential. 8pm. Funzone, 226 S. Milpas St. $5. Visit tinyurl .com/funzoneconcert.

Wednesday 9/9 9/9: S.B. Treble Clef Women’s Chorus Want to spend time with fellow singers? This chorus group is starting its new fall session. No audition or music reading is necessary to be a part of the group. Rehearsals will occur every Wednesday. 6:30-8:30pm.

Patio Rm., Vista del Monte Retirement Community, 3775 Modoc Rd. Free. Call 966-3228.

9/9: Vietnam: The War & Its Veterans 50 Years On Watch 10 men of S.B.’s Vietnam Veterans and one spouse tell personal stories, watch films, and listen to music that encapsulates the history of the war. Be a part of this special and rare event hosted

by Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation and the Channel City Club. RSVP deadline is September 4. 11:30am. Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. $40. Call 564-6223, email info@channelcityclub.org, or visit channelcityclub.org.

9/9: Julia Loggins Learn how to take charge of your gut health to access the joy, energy, and positivity that you’ve been missing. Julia Loggins’s new book, It Takes Guts to Be Happy, is the perfect guide for anyone facing

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9/9: Wayback Wednesdays Get into the groove of the ’80s.

S.B.’s favorite DJ Darla Bea (pictured) will be playing new wave, pop, and dance hits from the decade of decadence while Desperately Seeking Susan is playing on the big screen. Get amped for a night of flashbacks; there’s no need to chill! 9pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. Free. Ages 21+. Call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones.com. a catastrophic disease, illnesses, or any other issues. Listen to her talk about her work in relation to chemotherapy, post-surgery, depression, and more. 7pm.

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

9/9: Women & Leadership Certificate Program Info.

Session Turn in your application for the 2016 Women & Leadership Certificate Program, a unique, low-residency program that empowers students with knowledge, skills, and mentorship to achieve success.

During this information session, meet the program director, talk to the admissions team, review the program, and tour the campus. 5:30-6:30pm. Antioch University, 602 Anacapa St. Free.

Call 962-8179 or visit tinyurl .com/antiochinfo to RSVP. 9/9: Café KITP: Supernova Hunters This “physics café” will feature Dr. Iair Arcavi, who will give a presentation on supernova hunters. Supernova hunters look for stars that reach the end of their lives by bursting dramatic rays of light. Questions and provocations will follow the lecture. 5pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. Free.

Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb .com.

9/9: Wine Down Wednesday Stop by this hotel lobby and courtyard for samples of award-winning S.B. Winery’s chardonnay and pinot noir. This series of wine tastings will end September 23, so don’t miss

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Hotel Milo, 202 W. Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Ages 21+. Call 965-4577 or visit hotelmilo santabarbara.com.

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Text and photos by Caitlin Fitch After learning how many dogs were dying in shelters across the country, Angela Adan created the Santa Ynez Valley– based nonprofit Deserving Dogs. “Now I’ve adopted out over 300 dogs in Santa Barbara County,” said Adan, who hosts a “pack walk” at least once a month at the Ellwood preserve.

The outing caters to dogs with behavioral issues, but anyone can come out, support the cause, and enjoy a walk with plenty of furry friends. “I do a lot of dog-rescue activities,” said Faryn Kapala, who brought her dog, Riley (right), to this past weekend’s event, which included 49 dogs. “I just like to come out and support anything that helps animals.”

During the walk, which lasts about two hours, Adan and other volunteers walk throughout the crowd providing advice and expertise, for free, to anyone in need of it. The end result is remarkable: Dogs who were growling, bark barking, and snarling at the beginning of the day are able to walk comfortably next to other dogs and people by the end.

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WISDOM AND WELL-BEING: Internationally respected spiritual teacher Nithya Shanti comes to Trinity Church for a two-day mindfulness and meditation retreat this Friday-Saturday.

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Kaili Graf N Rides Rescued Horse to Championships date back to the 1700s with the ranches of the American West and Spanish vaqueros. Western Horsemanship meets the English Classical Dressage in a style that emphasizes “lightness” and “subtle cues.”

For Kaili and Soby, the goal in competition is to execute techniques as a single unit and to make their movement as instinctive and intuitive as possible. The importance of this upcoming World Championship goes beyond personal aspirations, however, as Kaili wants to advocate for the sport and rescue horses. “I want to inspire the riders who think they could never make it,” says Graf.

“There’s an existing structure that no one wants to challenge.”

If Kaili and Soby can prevail at the World Championships, it will show that rescue horses and anyone from modest means can find success with hard work. The cost of Kaili Graf competing is not cheap, though, so the duo can use all the support they can rally. To help contribute to their cause, see speak equine.com or attend A Country Night Out fundraiser at Sharkeez on September 19 at 7 p.m. See GoCountry .nightout.com for info and tickets. — Austin Murphy courtesy

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ost horses that contend at the highest level of equestrian competitions come from large ranches and carefully selective breeding. That’s not the case for Soby, the rescue horse equestrian that trainer Kaili Graf will be riding at the Western Dressage World Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this coming November.

Kaili rescued Soby back in 2010 as a baby when she was neglected and left out alone in a field. The two had an instant connection, as rider and horse developed a strong partnership in a short time that would typically take weeks for other trainers.

“As soon as I saw her, I said, ‘This is not a normal horse,’ ” said Graf, a trainer who has been riding horses for as long as she can remember.

“Soby has a goofy personality, but she loves to work.”

Soby was one of the earliest rescue horses that Kaili ever worked with, and as such is a bit of a “poster child” for rescue horses competing in Western Dressage, having won four state titles in 2014. A new discipline, Western Dressage’s influences

ot rooted in any one belief system, Nithya Shanti teaches the importance of witnessing and questioning our own thinking, and how this can help us cultivate higher-quality thoughts—of wishing well for others, of wanting to share, of bringing out the best in any situation. He quotes Aristotle to illustrate the philosophy he developed after spending seven years as a Buddhist monk: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

The internationally respected spiritual teacher comes to Trinity Church for a two-day mindfulness and meditation retreat on FridaySaturday, September 4-5. Called Resting in Our Innate Wisdom and Wellbeing, the weekend will focus on ways people can find the wisdom Wellbeing that is already within them.

“We have within us a wellspring of wisdom, a wellspring of wellbeing that’s always accessible if we just turn around and look, if we just learn the art of pausing and reconnecting,” explained Shanti. “This is what I discovered when I was 16 years old, that there was a happiness there which I never even noticed.”

That was the age he attended his first meditation course, where he started to feel more naturally peaceful by finding happiness from within. Shanti advocates living in the present, a particular challenge in our fast-paced, goal-oriented society. But instead of trying to make more time, Shanti urges us to question the way we think of the present moment, believing that “the moment” is separate from time.

“The moment is so big, the entire universe fits in it,” he recalled an old teacher telling him. “So we have to think of the present not as a miniscule amount of time [that] we’re trying to force ourselves into. … When we understand that, then we see it not as something that is interfering with our life purpose or our life goal.”

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MENUS TO U: SBMenus.com founders Bryan Brand (right) and Dusty Stutsman now offer an app to make food delivery easier.

Vincent Vineyards Aims for Upscale PROMISE MADE GOOD: It was back in 2006 when Tony Vincent promised to hire Lee Lauthowers (pictured) to manage his Vincent Vineyards winery if it ever got built — and Lathouwers was indeed in charge when it opened doors on August 22, quite pleased that Vincent’s word was his bond.

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sBMenus.coM GETS FOOd TO Your Y door Ordering food online has never been simpler, as SB Menus.com continues to improve the way people in Santa Barbara find and enjoy restaurants. Founders Bryan Brand and Dusty Stutsman took their site a step further by launching a mobile app that lets you order your favorite food with a single click.

The new app, available for free on your iPhone, iPad, or Android, offers menus from more than 80 different restaurants for both delivery and takeout. The delivery feature has expanded in the past year to now reach all parts of Goleta and as far south as Montecito.

“We set out to create a convenient way for people to order food delivery and takeout from their favorite restaurants, said Brand. “Now with the new app, we’re making it easier than ever to do so from their personal devices.”

A key feature of the app allows you to constantly track your order to see where your food is at all times, a major advancement for the site that has been feeding Santa Barbara residents since 2008.

The two founders met at SBCC in 2004, and their shared penchant for entrepreneurship has been instrumental in their site’s success, as has their familiarity with the area. “We knew how awesome Santa Barbara is as a community, and it turned out to be a great market for our model,” said Stutsman, who reports using the app several times a week due to the wide selection of cuisines available.

New restaurants are encouraged to join SBMenus. com to spread the word about their menus and special deals. “The barrier to entry is nonexistent,” said Brand.

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bout eight years ago, when Lee Lathouwers high ceilings, sparklingly sleek but classic design notes, was managing Mattei’s Tavern in Los Olivos, he and sprawling patios whose walls are covered with got to know a customer named Tony Vincent. wine-country frescoes, quite a contrast to the rural barn Vincent took a liking to the smooth, efficient motif that rules the region. “It’s not really like a tasting style of the Chicago-born, Santa Barbara–raised Lathouwers room—it’s like a high-end lounge,” said Lathouwers. and divulged that he was planting grapevines and building a “No expense was spared.” winery down the road.“I give you my word,” said Vincent to A considerable expense was battling for years with Lathouwers.“If this project gets done, and you’re still around, the County of Santa Barbara, which is clamping down you’re the guy.” on winery development—particularly of tasting rooms and parties—due to the concern of some In 2014, with Vincent Vineyards about to leap the last of countless permitting hurdles, neighbors. To get approved, Vincent Vineyards, whose first proposal was Lathouwers — then semiretired after submitted in December 2009, four decades in the hospitality busigave up grander special-event ness—answered the phone to find Vincent offering him that job. “For dreams but became one of the how many guys in the world today first approved to do basic food is their word still their bond?” service.“We do little bites and , , Lathouwers asked me in May, when appetizers,” said LathouwI visited the almost-done winery. ers, whose large but legally “There’s nothing he can’t do, but he limited kitchen can also host licensed caterers. “With only held my hand, made me a promise, wine, that’s just 50 percent of and made good on it. People like that

by Matt KettMann the experience.” still do exist in the world.”

That guy’s full name is Anthony The benefit of the long road Vincent Zehenni, a Lebanese octogenartraveled is wine that’s enjoyed ample ian who’s built a fortune developing everything aging time. The 15-acre estate vineyard was from Hawaiian hotels and Lake Arrowhead resorts planted in 2007 on a former walnut orchard by to Los Angeles freeways and Nigerian bridges through his renowned grape expert Bill Kesselring, who opted for Aladdin Developers, Inc. Though turning 83 on September Bordeaux varietals of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cab19,Vincent is still reportedly as vital as ever, whether showing ernet franc, petit verdot, sauvignon blanc, and a little bit of “That is great for us.” Production of more than a half-dozen off the collection of vintage cars he keeps under his Sunset the RhÔne grape syrah. The first harvest was in 2010, and bottlings—including the Vincent Black Shadow project, Strip high-rise office or reminiscing about the days he hung those wines—which were showing quite fantastic the day which Lathouwers said will be “our Screaming Eagle”—is in Las Vegas with the Rat Pack. “Those were his regular I tasted them, despite such young vine age—were made by expected to hover in the 5,000- to 7,000-case range once all running-around buddies,” said Lathouwers, pointing to a Etienne Terlinden of Summerland Winery and Cordon. He pistons are firing. hanging picture of Sinatra, Sammy, and Dean on the wall of also made the 2011 and 2012 vintages before Mike Roth, of Lathouwers said that Vincent is very hands-on, as is his wife, Tanya, who was sweeping the floors the day I visited. He the winery’s VIP room.

Lo-Fi Wines, stepped in for 2013 and 2014.

Though Vincent remains a humble, private fellow—“he’s Then just recently, right in time for this year’s harvest and credits this to their respect for old-school family values and Old World,” said Lathouwers—he wanted to make his mark the August 22 opening of the tasting room, Roxie Ward was hard work, explaining, “They treat people like people.” And on the Santa Ynez Valley wine-tasting scene by creating an appointed as winemaker. She comes from the Terravant cus- he still can’t get over what’s transpired since that handshake. upscale experience on an impressive spread, starting with tom crush facility in Buellton, which is where Vincent wines “It’s the most fascinating thing that’s happened in my life,” the ornate gates that drivers approaching Los Olivos along were made until this year.“She has been with Terravant as the said Lathouwers.“We are standing in what was just a promise Highway 154 have noticed for years.“When you drive up to winemaker since our first harvest in 2010,” said Lathouwers. eight years ago.” those gates, your aesthetic meter peaks,” said Lathouwers. “You have to keep it up inside.” That translates to Now open to the public, Vincent Vineyards is located at 2370 North Refugio Road, Santa Ynez, off Highway 154.

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Though quite popular since it opened in 2011 with Santa Barbara’s picky happy hour crowd — that Cajun pork sausage brioche slider with harissa and tomato-cornichon relish is pretty legit — Le Café Stella, across the municipal golf course, is a superb lunch hideaway, too. The sultry French soundtrack and brasserie vibe pair nicely with this savory sandwich, whose thinly sliced, herb-crusted lamb packs a gamy bite through the soft ciabatta roll, enhanced ever so delicately by the piquantly sweet whole-grain mustard and caramelized onion topping. (But maybe a little more lamb, please?) The salad with red onion vinaigrette works well as the included side dish, but folks love the fries, and the tortilla soup, if offered, makes a nice dipper for the ciabatta ends. Not into sheep meat? Then try the chicken-brie sando instead. $13.75. 3302 McCaw Ave., 569-7698, lecafe stella.com — Matt Kettmann

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Like our seasonal tomato overabundance, squash of all shapes and colors tend to jam Santa Barbara shelves during the summer. If you’re always on a taco kick like my family, but not requiring meat nightly, this is a relatively healthy and quick dinner option. Cut the squash into roughly halfinch-thick wedges, heat olive oil in a fairly hot pan, toss in crudely chopped chunks of garlic, and then add the squash (seasoned to your liking, though simple sea salt and fresh cracked pepper do fine) after the garlic starts to glisten.

As you warm tortillas, the key is to get the squash slightly brown on the fleshy sides while keeping it moist inside, thereby retaining the rind’s natural snap without the guts going mushy. It’s a delicate balancing act, aided by high heat for the browning and the occasional splash of white wine for the moisture, but you always want the pan close to looking dry. Frequent tasting of the squash as you cook for five to 10 minutes is the best way to ensure a desirable result. When almost done, top with the shredded cheese of your choice and then kill the flame, allowing the cheese to melt across the squash. Finish with dried oregano from your garden, plop it onto a hot tortilla, and top with avocado, bell pepper slices, and salsa, ideally the ghost pepper or serrano chile ones that your neighbors made. It’s savory, fresh, and surprisingly meaty, from concept to mouth in less than 20 minutes.

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eader Bruce let me know that Caffé Primo at 516 State Street (formerly Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro) is having a soft, dinner-only opening on September 14. I stopped by and spoke with general manager Andrew Morgan and regional director Anthony Riviera. Riviera tells me that Caffé Primo began life in Los Angeles, where it currently has two locations. In addition to Santa Barbara, the company has a presence in San Diego, Anaheim, and Woodland Hills.

Riviera says Caffé Primo in Santa Barbara is an Italian restaurant offering casual dining with full service. A large counter in the middle of the restaurant creates a fast casual feel. Only dinner will be available at opening, but after a week, the menu will be expanded to include breakfast (available all day) and lunch.“We will be involved in the community here in Santa Barbara,” says Riviera. “It’s a city unto its own, and we look forward to earning their business.”

Their website, iloveprimo.com, describes the business this way:“Primo brings to life the atmosphere; [sic] taste and charm of what locals thrive on, a local place to refresh, refuel, and relax in their daily lives. Caffé Primo perfectly blends the warmth of an eatery with the modern touches of a sleek restaurant, bringing European style and ambience to America in a casual atmosphere.

Most Europeans have more of a ‘gathering’ mentality whether it would be with family, friends or people in their community. Caffé Primo affords that common spot where guests are free to spend time from mid-morning until late night. Caffé Primo, like its Italian meaning, represents all that

is ‘First In class’; guests enjoy simple, impeccably prepared food in an elegant setting, at very affordable price without the confines of a formal dining room.”

The menu includes a variety of coffee offerings, smoothies, fresh-squeezed juices, breakfast, brown rice bowls, pressed panini, wraps, French crêpes, pizza, pasta, soups, salads, beer, and wine.

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TRADITIONS RETOOLED: Karina Rodriguez serves up Mexican fare in the same location where her parents did the same for 15 years.

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ucked away on Pine Avenue in Old used to be solid concrete, looks much sleeker with Town Goleta, there’s a familiar wood- hardwood paneling, and the patio’s blinds give shingled building that reopened privacy for special occasions and parties.

To help introearlier this year under new ownerduce La Hacienda ship. Jorge and Karina to the public, they Rodriguez remodeled El are now hosting a weekly slew of speRincon Bohemio, which belonged to Karina’s cial events, from an parents for 15 years, and impressive culinary rechristened the restauvariety on Taco rant La Hacienda.

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Though the interior space remains largely simiWith a friendly atmosphere, an elegant laylar, the Rodriguezes added a brand-new bar and out, and authentic Mexican cuisine, La Hacienda enclosed an outdoor patio that was previously should be next on your list of new restaurants to only partially covered. The outside flooring, which check out in Goleta.

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lar dish in Mexico is traditionally served in a gigantic bowl big enough for four people.

With a mild flavor, the molcajete bowl is about average in terms of the spiciest dishes on the menu.

Mezcal Mule: This cocktail, created with the help of drink specialist Randy Brown, combines mezcal, passion fruit, cucumber, and ginger beer. Mezcal is similar to tequila in that it comes from the heart of the maguey plant, a form of agave native to Mexico. This tangy drink is one of the most popular cocktails on the menu alongside the Chingon (made from homemade horchata), Mamacita (a favorite among the ladies), and La Hacienda (a spicy tequila-based drink).

Cochinita Pibil: Created by head chef Alberto Carachure, this pulled pork dish is typically served on a large banana leaf that covers an entire plate. The savory pork is marinated in a variety of spices and comes with beans, rice, habanero pico de gallo, and tortillas. This is one of Karina’s personal favorites.

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Mole Poblano: Normally served as a quarter chicken topped with the house mole sauce—made from dark chocolate, California chiles, crackers, onion, and cinnamon—the enchilada variation was just as sweet as expected. This recipe was originally available only as a special but was added to the menu due to popular demand.

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In La Arcada Plaza, Chef Robert Dixon presents classic French comfort food at affordable cost in this cozy gem of a restaurant. Petit Valentien offers a wide array of meat and seafood entrees along with extensive small plates and a wine list specializing in amazing quality at arguably the best price in town. A warm romantic atmosphere makes the perfect date spot. Comfortable locale for dinner parties, or even just a relaxing glass of wine. Reservations are recommended. indian Flavor of INDIA 3026 State 682‑6561 $$ www.flavorofindiasb.com VOTED BEST 17yrs. Finest, most authentic Indian cuisine is affordable too! All You Can Eat Lunch Buffet $9.95 M‑S dinner combos $9.95+ Specials: Tandoori‑ Mixed or Fish, Chicken Tikka Masala, Shrimp Bhuna. Also: meat, curries & vegetarian.

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Live music Thursday nights. Children welcome. Avail. for private parties. Pool & Darts.

Japanese KYOTO, 3232 State St, 687‑1252.$$.

Open 7days M‑F 11:30a‑2p; Sat Noon‑2:30p Lunch; Sun‑Thur 5‑10p Din‑ ner, Fri‑Sat 5p‑10:30p.Complete Sushi Bar. Steak & Seafood Specials! Sashimi, Teriyaki, original Japanese appetizers & Combination Boat Dinner. SB’s only TATAMI Rooms reservations suggested.

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For years they let the grape dry to make a high-powered dessert wine, and that intensity carries into this relatively refined “secco” (that is dry) pour, thanks to 22 months in French oak barrique and a minimum of six months in bottle. Think the darkest of cherries, plus blueberry and raspberry, all accented with herbs and earth. It’s a fascinating, unusual wine.

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India House, 418 State St. Next to 99 Cent Store 805.962.5070. 7 days 11:30a‑ 3:30p ALL YOU CAN EAT Lunch Buffet $8.95. Dinner 5p‑9p. Tandori & North Indian Muglai specialties. World Class Indian Chefs at your service!

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arT CraWL: 735 Anacapa Street The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, in partnership with Downtown Santa Barbara, will lead a curated Art Crawl through 1st Thursday festivities. The Art Crawl starts at 5:30pm in de la Guerra Plaza on the back steps of City Hall (735 Anacapa Street, then head around to the back).

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

– Lole will provide mats as needed. The night continues with an hour of connecting with new and old friends in our courtyard following class. Class will be one hour and start promptly at 5:30pm followed by a community hangout in the courtyard!

D ENCa ENC NTO: 1114 State Street #22 • 805-722-4338 ENCANTO, a women’s boutique which specializes in unique clothing, jewelry, scarves, + shoes is one of the most beautiful shops in town AND has one of the most exciting venues each month! This month, come join us for an evening of some really fine bluegrass music with the SALT MARTIANS, local musicians who will definitely keep your toes a tappin’.

E CEBada CEBada WINE: 5 East Figueroa Street, 2nd Floor • 805-451-2570 Cebada Wine welcomes the artwork of local artist Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales! Her energetic works of art were influenced by the vibrant and warm culture she was surrounded by as a young adult. We will be sipping on our award winning 2012 Pinot Noir by the glass as well as showcasing our special vertical tasting.

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11 East Anapamu Street • 805-730-1460 Sullivan Goss opens a new Fall Salon painting in our Haines Gallery, featuring a selection of important paintings from the last 100 years of American Art. Also on view, CA Cool, and Robin Gowen: Landmark.

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by Michael Allen, Clerk of the Board and local historian, Hattie Beresford. This exhibition takes a historic look back at the origins of government. The Board of Supervisors is offering its citizens a rare opportunity to view original ledger books, historic photographs, maps and artifacts from that period. Follow the transition of California from a Mexican state to a State of the Union, witness remarkable stories of early citizens and learn who the people were that led the government during that time.

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1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #8 • 805-965-6611 Gallery 113 presents original art by members of the Santa Barbara Art Association. The Artist of the Month is Linda Nelson who shares her insights into the plein air artist’s process. The featured artists are Elaine Wilson, Ann Russell, Lori Lenz, Rebecca Stebbins, Norah Bierer, Patty van Dyke, and Kristy Vantrease. (Open 11-5 Monday-Saturday and 1-5 on Sunday.)

10 OLIVEr r&E Es sPIG: 1108 State Street • 805-962-8111 A lizard emerges from a piece of Serpentine, a playful pod of dolphins leap in a wave of Quartzite, an octopus camouflages itself against a piece of Butte Opal - stone is transformed into life. The exhibition includes a selection of natural stones and minerals that are hand carved, representing an interaction of life and nature. Visit our gallery, experience art from the world around us.

11 BELLa BELL rOsa Osa GaLLErIEs Osa IE : 1103-A State Street • 805-966-1707 IEs Aubrey Falk creates paintings which inspire the awe and wonder of nature within all of us. A third generation Santa Barbara native, her majestic landscapes and beach scenes have delighted locals and visitors for many years. New originals as well as limited edition giclees will be available for purchase. Enjoy wine tasting to benefit the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara.

12 ChurChILL JEWELErs: 1015 State Street • 805-962-5815 After a 30 year music career, Ruth Ellen Hoag started painting and found her new passion. While her styles vary from series to series they are all connected with an evocative sense of movement. Join us in welcoming award-winning painter and teacher, Ruth Ellen Hoag. Ongoing: Thomas Van Stein.

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16 saNTa NTa Bar NTa BarBara B hIsTO s rICa sTO IC L MusEuM ICa 136 East De La Guerra Street • 805-966-1601 Extravagant Costumes! Continue the Fiesta with our exhibition dedicated to beautiful Old Spanish Days fashion, art, and history. Celebrate with Spanish guitar, pop-up performances and a tribute to the legacy of the Museum, built fifty years ago. Always family friendly.

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H sOJOurNEr: 134 East Canon Perdido • 805-965-7922 Art, wine and music…join us for wine tasting, a dual art show with Chris Potter and Kevin Gleason, all while you’re entertained by singer/songwriter Lainey Taylor, an aspiring young artist who has been playing for us for several years.

I INdusT dus ry hOME: 740 State St. Suite 1 dusT NEW is the word of the month! We have new makers, fun new events, AND a whole new look! Come celebrate all of the new things we have going on with freshly brewed coffee from one of our local makers, beer, wine, and sushi! j saLT: 740 State Street, 805-963-7258 Move your hips to the beat of the drum in our Himalayan Salt Cave! Discover how hula-hooping can strengthen your core and improve your mood. All you have to do is show up, pick up a hula-hoop and start moving! Salty treats and libations will be served. sErVICE rVICE r VICE OBJECT OBJECTs s

27 E. Cota Street, Suite 500, 5th Floor • 805-963-1700 Service Objects is dedicated to improving the environment with real time data validation technology. Come for our Open House and enjoy wine and beer while we exhibit performance photography by Amber Paresa. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and exhibits, including a showcase in the Who Shot Rock and Roll exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography. Amber is a 1993 graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography and currently resides in Santa Barbara.

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524 Chapala Street • 805-957-1115 Some of the 580 members of the Santa Barbara Art Association (SBAA) were juried into this show with diverse themes, media, and styles. Please come visit the show during our reception from 5-7:30pm, when we will have live music featuring Jazz Plus, wine, and appetizers.

PErFOrMaNCEs MIssION CaNyON: Corner of State & Anapamu Street Mission Canyon, Robert Brown and Pat Hackney, brings to life songs and good memories with acoustic instruments and vocally rich arrangements. From Americana to Motown, songs widely known and loved, Pat specializes in instrumental solos and harmony and lead vocals while Robert covers lead and harmony vocals and rhythm and lead guitar. huLa aNyONE 900 State Street, Marshalls Patio, 5:00-8:00pm Escape to the islands and join Angelita Eller and Hula Anyone for an evening of Hawaiian hula and Tahitian dance traditions. A Santa Barbara favorite for more than 35 years, Hula Anyone provides a platform for dancers of all ages to learn Hawaiian and Polynesian Culture through traditional dancing, song, music and instruments. Hula Anyone will showcase dances ranging from ancient “kahiko” style hula to modern “hula ‘auana” as well as lively Tahitian dancing and will feature old favorites alongside brand new dances.

Paseo Nuevo Center Court The Santa Barbara Trombone Society (SBTS) is an ensemble comprised of both professional and amateur musicians that reside throughout Santa Barbara County, with members ranging from age 16 to 80+. The group rehearses weekly, thanks to a partnership with Santa Barbara City College’s Music Department, and performs not only at SBCC Music events, but also for off-campus functions, including weddings, birthday parties, memorial servicesand much more.

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653 Paseo Nuevo Terrace • 805-966-5373 Curated Cocktails: Fall into Techno: Dranks & Bytes 1.0 Join us for happy hour at the Museum! MCASB is offering $5 signature cocktails created by Outpost at the Goodland’s resident mixologist, Chris Burmeister. FREE themed art activities, a special set from DJs Myster Mause and Watson, treats from Whole Foods Santa Barbara, and tours of the current exhibitions: Then they form us and Bloom Projects: Yara El-Sherbini, Border Control. Sound provided by Watson Sound.

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1323 State Street • 805-364-5141 13 ZFOLIO GaLLEry: ry 1013 State Street • 805-845-7375 ry: Engel & Völkers Santa Barbara welcomes you to experience culture come to life for 1st Thursday Downtown Santa Influenced by childhood memories of the snow-covered landscape and clear icy light of winter in North Dakota, Barbara. View some of the finest estates and vacation homes the surprise country of the month has to offer while you Paul’s glass art is perfect, or it doesn’t see the light of day. Each piece is hand blown, cut and polished involving clas- enjoy music, wine, and hors d’oeuvres. sical form, contemporary design and bright clean colors. Using Italian techniques of canework, Paul pulls thin rods of colored glass encased in clear glass to a length of ninety feet. After cutting, he carefully sizes and weaves patterns B saNTa NTa Bar NTa BarBara Bara PuBLIC MarKET together resulting in distinctive spiral designs.

38 West Victoria Street • 805-770-7702 Enjoy all the Public Market has to offer before school kicks off again. Stephanie Guilin will be showing off her brilliant 14 sLINGshOT GaLLEry knack for photography while new delectable treats from Rori’s Artisanal Creamery cool the summer night. Beckmen 220 West Canon Perdido Street • 805- 770-3878 Vineyards and New Belgium Brewery will be handing out tasters in the Kitchen and Stone Brewery will be sampling fun Discover our unique gallery and join the party! This exhibition features the work of Michelle Oliner who recently new beers in Wine+Beer. made the jump from fabric artist to print maker. Her series of hand colored prints have an organic yet elegant C COrEPOWEr yOG quality and showcase her interest in objects from nature and the simplicity of the human form. Look for our gallery y a: 1129 State Street • 805-884-9642 a few blocks west of State Street. Our Fringe neighborhood is home to several art studios to round out your 1st Join our community for a night of courtyard yoga, live music and mingling! Let your mind settle and body relax as you Thursday experience. flow through a restorative vinyasa with Adam Peot playing classical Spanish guitar. Bring your mat or leave it at home

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23 East Canon Perdido Street • 805-965-6448 “Focus on the figurative” is an exhibition featuring Colleen Kelly’s “Naked Under Her Clothes,” monotypes with chine colle, along with a juried exhibition of figurative work by local artists. There will be a “dance happening,” coordinated with the exhibition. Live music with Harold Kono on the piano and light refreshments.

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735 Anacapa St, Entrance on De La Guerra Plaza, Second floor Mayor Helene Schneider, with support from the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, presents the latest in a series of rotating exhibitions of artwork by regional artists. (The Mayor’s office will only be open from 5–6pm on 1st Thursday for public viewing.)

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1114 State Street # 9 • 805-962-8885 The Gallery is going on its 31st year and 24 years in La Arcada Courtyard. It features artwork from some of today’s finest nationally-known painters. Southwest Art Magazine recognized Diane & Ralph Waterhouse among “10 Prominent People” in the Fine Art Business. Ralph Waterhouse will give a painting demonstration at 5:45pm.

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1130 State Street • 805-963-4364 Family 1st Thursday: Lonely Metropolitan: Design your own version of Herbert Bayer’s Lonely Metropolitan (1932) in shades of black, white and grey by sketching hands on mid-tone paper in graphite and white pastel, then collaging them onto to an urban landscape. (5:30 – 7:30pm, Free) Exhibitions on View: The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come This exhibition is the first to explore how the practice of painting served as the means for the artist to imagine generative relationships between art and technology. László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) is now recognized as one of the most influential members of the Bauhaus.

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It’s curtains up for the seventh season of DANCEworks, and a brand new season of events in the Historic Theatre District! Get to know this year’s DANCEworks resident company, New York-based Adam Barruch Dance, as they perform in a cabaret setting. While in town, they will be creating a new work of Dance Theater based on highlights from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

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Music for Masses band has used its lucky position to further the folkloric freedom and tribal togetherness McNamee and his friends grew up with.

“We all grew up as children of the 1960s, when music and poster art were not a business; they were forms of self-expression that were either free or really, really inexpensive,” he said.

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GO ASK MOONALICE: Roger McNamee (second from left) and his bandmates have used their lucky position to further the folkloric freedom and tribal togetherness McNamee and his friends grew up with.

The band is, at this point, a summertime mainstay in San Francisco’s Union Square — fittingly for McNamee, a man forged of a rare union between capital achievement and populist sentiment. A wildly successful tech investor by “dumb luck,” McNamee is a ’60s child at heart, his belief in creativity’s unifying powers unbroken, his enjoyment of altered states left unaltered. He and his band’s truest investment has been into the arts. Whether it’s in the commissioning of unique poster art for each show, the faithful archiving of every concert, or the fabling of the colorful characters and cannabinoids that compose Moonalice legend and lore, the

the hands of “criminal” music businesspeo-ple. “I find it immensely frustrating that the people who run the music industry actually like things just the way they are,” McNamee said. “They have absolutely no interest in fixing what’s wrong with music.”

Moonalice’s answer to this and other social imbalances has been to make their culture as free and familial as possible. They have the played for free to families in parks and to residents at the Delancey Street Foundation (their loudest crowd ever) and are known to inspire fans to create their own art or engage in random acts of jubilation, like a mass Hula-Hooping in Union Square.

Moonalice’s good-karma agenda has come back to serve them this particularly “magical” summer. With a cosmically aligned Grateful Dead farewell opening slot and shows in states with newly legalized weed, their ’60s revival has perhaps never felt more realized, and with the concurrent resurfacing of undead sociopolitical tensions, it has perhaps never felt more apropos. “This is an excellent time to be in a creative field and willing to speak your mind because there are a lot of topics desperately needing attention,” McNamee said.

McNamee promises a good time at their upcoming SOhO show and encourages Santa Barbarans to listen to any of their 500some archived gigs online before spending their hard-earned cash. But he assures even the doubters a rocking and communal experience awaits. “Look, we’re all on this little blue marble here, going around the sun, and we could either do it together, or we could do it alone,” McNamee said of the Moonalice spirit. “We prefer to do it together.”

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massive Summer Jam at Watkins Glen for $10.50, and feels most would prefer music had remained so accessible.

McNamee finds optimism in the possibilities of music democratization offered through the Internet, particularly in the way it has inspired a “huge shift in behavior” toward a much more creative and selfexpressive populace through cheaper tools of music making. He does feel, though, that the balance of power is still unevenly held in

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Shooting to the #1 spot on the iTunes dance chart within the first hour of its release, Dillon Francis’s long-awaited EP proves to be the right amount of new and old sound. Five of the seven tracks — which feature distinguished artists including Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Bro Safari, and others — roar classic moombahton rhythms with unique spins. Among these, two tracks lie outside the Dillon Francis realm yet under the EDM umbrella term. “Lies,” featuring Chromeo, slows the heavily funk-influenced tempo down while “Coming Over,” featuring Kygo and James Hersey, resonates with keys and that relaxed tropical-house feel, both adding good variety to this fire of an EP. — Ginny Chung

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Barrence Whitfield & the savaGes Under the savage sky

Under the Savage Sky will be remembered as one of the better punk records of the year for its decidedly un-punk elements of New Orleans brass breakdowns and full-throated R&B passion. But rock and roll is such a robust recipe that the aforementioned ingredients enrich, not distort, the flavor — blues, punk, R&B genres be damned; it’s been the same hearty meal all along.

Under the Savage Sky is at once fresh and familiar, bristling with energetic revivals of time-tested rock truths. Best of all, Whitfield, at 60 years old, is a fiercer and stronger singer than most. It’s telling of his abilities when he, as an elder rocker, can make a lot of kids look muted by comparison.

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PLAY IT AGAIN: David (left) and Susie Couch have moved their popular dinner theater to the newly renovated Timbers Restaurant.

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at theTimbers Thanks to our industrious theater community and the vision and persistence of David and Susie Couch, Santa Barbara has long enjoyed the reliable presence of a satisfying and popular dinner theater. After many successful years at the Circle Bar B Guest Ranch in Refugio Canyon, where the theater program ended after the 2014 season, the Couches are back, and in a place that’s three whole exits closer to Santa Barbara on route 101. Their new production company is called Prism, and after some months of negotiation with HJL Group Restaurant Advisors, Prism plans three shows, all including complete dinners, at the historic Timbers Restaurant on Winchester Canyon Road in Goleta.

The first offering, Murder at Café Noir Noir, is a comic tribute to the Humphrey Bogart films of the 1940s and will take advantage of a feature of this new location that was not available at Circle Bar B by integrating the dining experience with the show. The audience will decide who perpetrated the murder while at the same time enjoying a three-course meal. It sounds fun. Murder at Café Noir opens on Thursday, September 17, and runs through Sunday, September 27.

The season’s other two shows will employ the traditional approach of a buffet meal followed by the performance. From October 22-25, it’s Rich Hoag in his charming and extraordinarily re-watchable one-man show Will Rogers’ America. From there, the Prism team moves to the kind of thing they do exceptionally well — British farce. This one has a holiday theme and goes by the already amusing title of The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswoman’s Guild Dramatic Society presents A Christmas Carol. Expect cocked eyebrows, slamming doors, plummy accents, and some festive holiday shrieking from the cast December 3-13. To purchase tickets for any of these events, call 705-9598, or visit prismproductions.org for more information.

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he six artists in Then they form us represent a widespread perception that’s also become an art world phenomenon. The show, organized by MCASB Associate Curator Brooke Kellaway, takes its title from one half of a statement that defines the widespread perception, “We shape our tools, and then they shape us.”

Although the attribution of this quote to the popular philosopher of media Marshall McLuhan has proved to be a mistake, the concept is certainly his, and the observation has never been more trenchant. The tools we use to communicate and to act condition the things we think, say, and do. The recipient of a handwritten letter, delivered by a postal worker and paid for with a stamp, lives in a different universe than the person looking at a digital inbox full of emails or glancing at a smartphone to respond to a text. And pretty much everyone these days is aware of this—that’s the widespread-perception half of this equation.

On the other side loom the artists, many of them recent grads from the world’s top art schools and independent study programs. They’ve been trained to embrace this change, and to reflect on it, using every tool available to them, from traditional painting and sculpture to video, digital photography, performance, and even rap music.

Take Devin Kenny, whose 2014 series Alone We Play occupies the entire side gallery of the exhibition’s main room. Kenny grew up in Chicago, attended The Cooper Union, where he received his BFA, and went to UCLA, where he became an MFA in the university arts program’s New Genres department. Most recently, Kenny participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s elite Independent Study program in 2013-14. Alone We Play involves original music, digital filmmaking, and cultural critique. Viewers wear headphones in order to view enigmatic video loops while listening to the eccentric yet sophisticated music of Devin KKenny, Kenny’s rap persona. In the most provocative of these short and oblique vignettes, the screen shows a cartoon image of a girl slumped over the keyboard in front of an old-school video monitor. The image is still but for her computer mouse, which dangles off the edge of the desk, swinging back and forth. On the soundtrack, Devin KKenny raps “as Netlife BDSL” about “breath-

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play,” and “safewords.” It’s eerie in a wholly unfamiliar way, a fragment of retro imagery that nevertheless feels torn from someplace that’s about to exist.

There’s more video art in the main room, where Cécile B. Evans has installed her 2014 piece Hyperlinks or it didn’t happen, which also includes various objects and a backdrop that references the early computer ENIAC. Evans, who is based in Berlin but has been showing most recently in London, emerged from the undergraduate program in theater and performance study at NYU as an actress, and then switched to making art after moving to Paris. She cites her first encounter with the Fischli and Weiss film The Way Things Go as a critical moment in her development, and she has been an advocate of technology from the start of her career as a fine artist.

Using a digital camera and Final Cut Pro, she reimagines icons from pop culture and their work as operating on the same emotional plane as figures more identified with the intellect. To use her words, “in this world, Paula Abdul goes with Pina Bausch.” This work, which includes narration by a deliberately degraded CGI image of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, juxtaposes original digital media with the popular anime character Hatsune Miku. While it can be hard to know exactly what is going on at any particular moment, the video is weirdly beautiful, and Evans clearly has mastered her digital craft.

One of the ways that technology has affected our lives most deeply is through personal communication — and its surveillance. Constant Dullaart fills the back room of MCA with images of men who stand accused of aiding in the electronic crackdown on personal communication during the Arab Spring by providing governments with software and devices. A plastic surface layer blurs their features, as though these static portraits were somehow waiting for a browser to buffer them fully before resolving into clarity.

The three other artists in the show hail from widely divergent locations: Hayal Pozanti is from Istanbul, Julien Prévieux from Grenoble, and Xavier Cha from Los Angeles. Each of them has something to contribute to this fascinating collection of objects and images n intended to reveal how “they form us.”

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LIGHT IT UP: With quick, flowing movements rooted in hours of practice, Pyrophylactics perform using fire tools including hoops, fans, palm torches, and rope dart.

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In this crucible of creativity they call the Burning Man festival, all are invited to participate, including a small group of fire performers from Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Camarillo, known as Pyrophylactics. This will be Pyrophylactics’ second year inside the Great Circle alongside fire artists from all over this world, a prestigious honor that you must audition for annually. With quick, flowing movements rooted in hours of practice and technical tuning, Pyrophylactics performs using fire tools, including hoops, fans, poi, staff, palm torches, Levi Wand, and rope dart. I recently had the opportunity to talk with Pyrophylactics’ Shin, or “Fire Mother,” Dana Morton on fire spinning at Burning Man. Tell me about Pyrophylactics. Pyrophylactics was formed in 2013, with Kenny Katz as Shin (leader), and is made up of a mix of fire spinners from Camarillo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura. About half of our performers were a part of Pyrophylactics last year, and a few of our members were previously part of the Santa Barbara Conclave, which existed from 2010-12. The rest of our members are first-timers, so we have a wide range of experience in our group. We have 14 performers total, plus fire safeties and drummers — a total of 25 members. This year we have eight different tools, and most performers use at least two tools in our Burning Man act.

Can anyone join? In the early planning stages between February and March, we are open to anyone joining as long as they are willing to commit and work hard. If people don’t already spin fire, that’s okay; they just have to really want to learn! Last year, some of the people who had just started fire dancing are now some of our most skilled members.

Do you know where the tradition of spinning fire originated?

My understanding is that fire spinning originated in Polynesian culture (poi especially). I know that Crimson Rose, a founding boardmember of Burning Man Project, is responsible for the origins of fire dancing at Burning Man and the creation of the Fire Conclave.

What does it take to perform at Burning Man Festival? The Burning Man Fire Conclave is special because you get to perform at the base of the Man on Saturday night, right before he burns. The conclave forms a giant circle around the Man, and all of the groups perform at once, so there is this ring of fire spinners around the Man with everyone in Black Rock City watching. Fire-spinning groups have to audition every year. We had our first planning meeting in January, then submitted our “intent to audition” in March. We really started practicing and building our choreography after that. We had to submit our audition video by June 24 and found out we were accepted early in July. Our entire group of 25 will be attending.

What is the most challenging part of being Shin? The Shin is basically the point of contact between the Fire Conclave Council and the rest of the group. The most challenging part for me was working with everyone’s schedules to find practice times that work, making sure everyone has transportation and that people show up. There is also the anxiety associated with not knowing whether you did enough to get accepted to perform. Of course it is everyone’s responsibility, but as Shin I would have felt terrible if we did not get accepted. Our group this year has worked really well together, and I think it shows in our performance.

How do you become Shin? At the very first planning meeting in January, which was only members from the previous year, we talked about who would be Shin for the upcoming year. I guess I made a good impression last year because I was suggested, and everyone was on board with it. Our Shin last year, Warren Ramos Geisler, agreed to be Assistant Shin, so that was reassuring. The Shin really just needs to be someone who is organized and good at working with people … and good at checking their email.

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Pyrophylactics will perform Saturday, September 5, at Burning Man, Black Rock City. For more information, additional performance dates, and booking inquiries, email Dana Morton at dana.n.morton@gmail.com.

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he former lead vocalist and bassist for ’90s alternative-rock band Concrete Blonde, Johnette Napolitano has been touring in support of her upcoming album, Naked, a follow-up to her recent EP featuring new tracks “Here,” “Memory Go,” and “Jazz on Vinyl.” Her trek across the West Coast will take her through Santa Barbara with a performance September 14 at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club. As Napolitano continues to evolve musically, her live show is focused on sparse arrangement with just acoustic guitar and voice. In addition to creating new music, Napolitano has released a book titled Rough Mix and delights in sharing passages during her live shows; she is in the process of finishing a second, Rough Mix #2. I had a chance to talk with Napolitano about her current projects and musical direction.

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How did you decide on the title Naked for your album? Does it have anything to do with the minimalistic arrangement?

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It has everything to do with that, and that’s exactly the point. I’ve been touring the idea for this show by myself

by Austin Murphy for the last two years with the concept that I want to record a live DVD. I’ve had to consciously come up against the way things are done now — everyone wants to YouTube your ass [laughs] against your will … I wanted to take it to another level. I didn’t want to just sit up there and play and stick a camera in front. I wanted to utilize the graphics, the illustrations; I read from my books. I wanted to add another dimension to the show, and it’s taken me quite a while to work it out. So it’s basically just me and a guitar, but it sounds a whole lot like more than me and guitar.

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You mentioned that “Here” is your most mature love song. In what ways have you seen yourself mature as an artist in recent years? Well, I’m an adult — it’s

as simple as that. It’s gonna happen hopefully. I see a lot of people clinging to things and not letting go of things and not really “grasping the branch above them” as the Chinese say, and it just starts to happen because otherwise you’re stuck as a person. I don’t take myself too seriously, and yet I do take it more seriously. I have a good balance in my life that I never had before. I was a raging workaholic — I just didn’t have any balance. I was a really manic person, and I’m not interested in being that way anymore, because it’s not healthy.

Having had such a storied career, where do you find the motivation to keep creating and to keep performing? Because I love it. It’s what I do, and I’m

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better at it than I ever was. And if you’re gonna do something as long as I’ve been doing it, hopefully you get better. I know I’m singing better than I ever have, and I think I’m writing better than I ever have, and I have a body of work that I’m proud of.

Is there any chance that we’ll hear some of Rough Mix #2 when you play at SOhO? There is a chance, yeah. I’ve been going through the stock of material that I have for the second book, and there’s definitely a chance.

You’ve had such a long career. Is there anything left in the world of music that you still want to accomplish? I studied flamenco for 20 years — I studied in

Spain — and I wish I had more time to devote to that because one of the things about flamenco I really love is the older you get, the more you respect you get. … You can go see an artist that’s in their eighties, and they can still kick your ass. [Laughs.] It’s something you can do and age gracefully, and that’s really important to me.

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Theatre Under the Stars

“A wildly funny Adventure!”

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Aug 21 - Sep 13 Solvang FeStival Fe theater

Ends sEptEmbEr 13th A play by Rick Elice. Based on the novel by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson.

Music by Wayne Barker. Originally produced on Broadway by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes, and Disney Theatrical Productions.

SOAK IN THE OAK: “Grandmother Oak” and other paintings by Aubrey Falk are on view at Bella Rosa Galleries through September.

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art exhibits MuseuMs Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Parker Wittenberg, through Oct. 30; First Long Distance Telephone, Jack N. Mohr: Acrylic paintings, collages, other early works, through Dec. 31. 21 W. Anapamu St., 962-5322.

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

Museum of Contemporary Art S.B. – Then they form us; Conrad Ruiz: Bloom Projects, through Oct. 25.

653 Paseo Nuevo, 966-5373.

S.B. Historical Museum – The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission. 136 E. De la Guerra St., 966-1601.

S.B. Museum of Art – Carousel of Physics, through Sept. 17; The Visionary Photomontages of Herbert Bayer, 1929-1936, through Sept. 27; The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come, through Sept. 27; Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation, Visions of Modernity: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints, ongoing exhibitions. 1130 State St., 963-4364.

S.B. Museum of Natural History – Ray Strong: Artist in Residence, through Oct. 4. 2559 Puesta del Sol, 682-4711.

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

Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum – Samurai: The Warrior Horsemen of Japan, through Oct. 31. 3596 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 688-7889.

Wildling Museum – Nature's Patterns, through Sept.

28; Legacy and Loss: Landscapes of the S.B. Region, through Feb. 1, 2016. 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 686-8315.

Galleries Allan Hancock College Library – Children’s book illustrations, ongoing. 800 S. College Dr., Santa Maria, 922-6966.

Architectural Foundation Gallery – Don and Siu Zimmerman: Then and Now Now, through Oct. 9. 229 E. Victoria St., 965-6307.

Artamo Gallery–Jack N. Mohr: Then There & Here Now Now, through Sept. 27. 11 W. Anapamu St., 568-1400.

Arts Fund Gallery – How I See It It, through Sept. 5.

205-C Santa Barbara St., 965-7321.

Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts –Ventura County Potters' Guild: The Natural World and Nina de Creeft Ward: A Retrospective, through Oct. 3. 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, 646-3381.

Bella Rosa Galleries – Aubrey Falk, through Sept.

30. 1103 State St., Ste. A, 966-1707.

Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit.

540 Pueblo St., Ste. A, 898-2204.

Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – From an Abstract Point of View, through Oct. 12. 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria, View 684-7789.

Channing Peake Gallery–For the People, By the People: Government at Work in S.B. County 1850-1950 1850-1950, through Sept. 18. S.B. County Administration Bldg., 105 E. Anapamu St. Gallerie Silo – Michael Armour, through Sept. 13.

118-B Gray Ave., 640-5570.

Gallery 113 – Linda Nelson; Ann Russell: Mother-Love, through Sept. 25. La Arcada, 1114 State St., 965-6611.

Gallery Los Olivos – Sheila Underwood: The Bold & The Beautiful Beautiful, through Sept. 31; Lauren McFarland: Our Beautiful Central Coast Coast, through Oct. 7. 2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7517.

Goleta Library – GVAA September Art Show, Sept.

4-30, 500 N. Fairview Rd., Goleta, 898-9424.

The Good Life – John Card: Potpourri IIII, through Oct. 30. 1672 Mission Dr., Solvang, 688-7111.

GraySpace Gallery – Charlene Broudy, Carolyn Fox, and Steven Gilbar, through Oct. 18. 219 Gray Ave., 886-0552.

Hospice of S.B. – Margaret Singer: Celebrations, through Oct. 31. 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, 563-8820.

Inez Gallery – Rebecca Gomez: Cast Shadows, Sept.

10-Nov. 10. 2446 Alamo Pintado, Ste. B, Los Olivos, 688-8884.

JadeNow Gallery – Ryan and Jeff Spangler, ongoing. 14 Parker Wy., 845-4558.

Los Olivos Café – Sheila Krause: From Heart to Art Art, through Nov. 5. 2870 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7265.

Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing.

127 Anacapa St., 284-0358.

Marcia Burtt Studio – Patricia Doyle and Marcia Burtt: Water's Edge, through Oct. 18. 517 Laguna St., 962-5588.

MCASB Satellite – Magic Mountain, through Jan. 31, 2016. Hotel Indigo, 121 State St., 966-5373.

The Mitchell Estate Gallery – Ed Moses, Sept. 30.

110 Powers Ave., 568-1700.

Montecito Aesthetic Institute – Eye, through Sept.

10. 1150 Coast Village Rd., Ste. H, Montecito, 565-5700.

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sept. 3-10 Ojai Café Emporium – Sharon Butler's students, through Sept. 13.

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

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

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

Porch Gallery Ojai –You Can Get There from Here, through Sept. 27. 310 E. Matilija St., Ojai, 620-7589.

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 Ground, through Feb. 18, 2016. De la Guerra Plaza, 568-3994.

SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – Morrison Hotel Gallery, ongoing. 1221 State St., 962-7776.

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – CA Cool, through Sept. 27; Robin Gowen: Landmark, through Oct. 4; Lockwood de Landmark Forest Brass Cutouts, through Dec. 31. 7 E. Anapamu St., 730-1460.

Tamsen Gallery – R.W. Firestone, ongoing. 3888 State St., 687-2200. wall space gallery – Contemporary Korean Photography: Surveying the Landscape, through Oct. 31. 116 C-1 E. Yanonali St., 637-3898.

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art – Dane Goodman and Keith Puccinelli: tug, through Oct. 17. 955 La Paz Rd., 565-6162.

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Blush Restaurant & Lounge – 630 State St., 957-1300. sun: Chris Fossek (6pm) Brasil Arts Café – 1230 State St., 245-5615. fri: Live Music Cambridge Drive Community Church – 550 Cambridge Dr., Goleta, 964-0436. fri: Aireene & The Rarities (7:30pm) Chumash Casino Resort – 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez, (800) 248-6274. thu 9 /3 : Face to Face (8pm) thu 9 /10 : Kansas (8pm) Cold Spring Tavern – 5995 Stagecoach Rd., 967-0066. fri: Grass Mountain (7-10pm) sat: Stolen Thunder (2-5pm); Paradise Road (5:30-8:30pm) sun: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (1:154pm); Chicken Bone (4:30-7:30pm) mon: Tina Schieleske and the Exiles w/ Sister Laura (1:30-4:30pm) The Creekside – 4444 Hollister Ave., 964-5118. thu: Centaur Midwife (9pm) fri: Bella and the Heart & Soul (9pm) sat: DJ Frank Ramirez (9pm) wed: Country Night Dargan’s – 18 E. Ortega St., 568-0702. thu: Traditional Irish Music (6:30pm) tue: Karaoke (9pm) Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. 137 Anacapa St., 694-2255. fri: Live Music (5pm) Funzone – 226 S. MIlpas St. tue: Hot Breath, Honey Maid, Welfare Talent (8pm) The Goodland – 5650 Calle Real, 964-6241. thu: Live Music Thursdays (7pm) Indochine – 434 State St., 965-3800. tue: Indie Night (9pm) wed: Karaoke (8:30pm) The James Joyce – 513 State St., 962-2688. thu: Alastair Greene Band (10pm)

fri: Kinsella Brothers Band (10pm) sat: Ulysses Jazz Band (7:30-10:30pm) sun, mon: Karaoke (9pm) tue: Teresa Russell (10pm) wed: Victor Vega and the Bomb (10pm)

Maverick Saloon – 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 686-4785. fri: Molly Ringwald Project (8:30pm) sat: Owen Johnston (3pm) sun: The Belmores (2-5pm); Soul Cats (7pm); DJ Petey (9pm) Mercury Lounge – 5871 Hollister Ave., Goleta, 967-0907. sat: Canned Heat (9pm) Moby Dick Restaurant – 220 Stearns Wharf, 965-0549. wed-thu: Derroy (5-8pm) fri-sat: Derroy (6-9pm) sun: Derroy (10am-2pm) Monty’s – 5114 Hollister Ave., 683-1003. thu: Karaoke Night (7pm) Pure Order Brewing Co. – 410 N. Quarantina St., 966-2881. sat: Darius Lux (4-6pm) Reds Tapas & Wine Bar – 211 Helena St., 966-5906. thu: Music Thursdays (8pm) Roundin’ Third – 7398 Calle Real, 845-8383. thu, tue: Locals Night (7pm) Sandbar – 514 State St., 966-1388. wed: Big Wednesday (10pm)funz Seven Bar & Kitchen – 224 Helena Ave., 636-0913. fri: US Elevator with The Mutineers (9:30pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – 1221 State St., 962-7776. thu: Mystic Braves, L.A. Witch, Pearl Charles, The Creation Factory (9pm) fri: Live Salsa (9pm) sat: Cubensis & Moonalice (9pm) sun: Soul Majestic (9pm) tue: Glen Phillips (8pm) wed: Surprise Me, You Should Know, The Chores (9pm) thu: Cory Sipper, Zach Madden (8pm) Standing Sun Winery – 92 Second St., Unit D, Buellton, 904-8072. sat: Great Peacock (7:30pm) Tiburon Tavern – 3116 State St., 682-8100. fri: Karaoke Night (7:30pm) Velvet Jones – 423 State St, 965-8676. tue: Easy Skanking (8pm) wed: Wayback Wednesday (9pm) thu: Drag the River, Wil Ridge, Donald Spence (8pm) Whiskey Richard’s – 435 State St., 963-1786. mon: Open Mike Night (8pm) wed: Punk on Vinyl (10pm) 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)

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theater Center Stage Theater – Pvt. Wars. 751 Paseo Nuevo, 963-0408. fri-sat: 8pm Hatlen Theater – Naked Shakes: The Death of Kings. 552 University Rd., UCSB, 893-3241. thu 9 /3 : 8pm Solvang Festival Theater – Peter and the Starcatcher. 420 2nd St., Solvang, 686-1789. thu-sun, wed-thu: 8pm Westmont College – 955 La Paz Rd., 565-7140. thu: The Lover (7pm); Poor, Poor, Lear (8:15pm) sat: Poor, Poor Lear (2pm); The Lover (4pm); The Cherry Orchard (7pm) sun: Poor, Poor Lear (2pm); The Lover (4pm); The Cherry Orchard (7pm)

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ARCHNEMESES: Best of Enemies features William F. Buckley (left) and Gore Vidal squaring off in a series of heated political debates in 1968.

lives. Flexing and tongue-ing, Buckley then dismantles Vidal’s glib Reagan put-down, implying that Vidal is an undemocratic snob. He never gets around to the meat of the question — neoconservative libertarianism. Then comes the famous exchange — Vidal called Buckley a crypto-Nazi, and Buckley called Vidal a queer — which makes great television but is not exactly political philosophy.

Maybe things haven’t changed much. And this documentary focuses on all these issues, with smart extra footage like Santa Barbaran Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool street scenes from Chicago with everybody chanting, “The whole world is watching.” This is ultimately a movie about media. We don’t have The HuntleyBrinkley Report watched by 80 percent of us anymore.

But we have colorful characters, divisive moments, and ratings. What the whole world watches might be different, but it had deep roots in the childish arguments of two smart men. n

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LiMitLess Horizons Meru. Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk star in a documentary directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.

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ilmed at death-defying altitudes of more than 20,000 feet, with long glacial valleys hanging below, Meru puts viewers right in the climber’s harness on the face of one of Earth’s most challenging climbs. Directed and shot by climber Jimmy Chin, Meru captures the story of three alpinists — Chin, Conrad Anker, and Renan Ozturk — and their attempts to ascend the notoriously dangerous Shark’s Fin on the Himalayan Mt. Meru.

Meru is impressive on many levels — Chin happens to not only be a world-class climber but an excellent cinematographer, as well (as if it’s not enough to be just either — figures). As a fourth member of the climbers’ party, dangling in the dizzying danger of frostbiting blizzards over stunning snowscapes, we are given unparalleled access to an extreme and by all accounts inaccessible peak. The many reverential shots of Himalayan vistas are beautiful, transporting scenes of a rare caliber.

Just as astounding as the climbers’ ascent is their utmost calm in dire conditions and their clinical precision in emotion as with climbing strategy. As storytellers, they can be somewhat modicum in their words,

INTO THIN AIR: Meru is an inspirational documentary that puts viewers right in the climber’s harness.

letting the views and their unspoken trust and camaraderie do the talking. Into Thin Air author Jon Krakauer adds some welcome narrative color to the mountain men’s understatement, portraying just how gnarly the climbs are for us laypeople when the climbers make things like midair, at-altitude brain strokes seem like just another difficult bu t not insurmountable obstacle.

Seeing the steady-temperedness with which the climbers deftly tackle hazards will certainly make you feel a bit petty in your daily squabbles and perhaps a bit daunted by the mountain of your relative laziness, but it conversely may make you feel limitless in the potential of your human abilities.

While a mostly straightforward telling, Meru is also interesting for its spiritual element. It’s a movie about the way in which lives reorganize and settle upon a path after a destabilizing cataclysm, the way fates surprisingly intertwine in the avalanche of unpredictable force.

In all, it makes for a great outdoor film — inspirational, motivating, and slightly mystic, with view after view of peaks and limitless horizons. n

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Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (120 mins.; R: some language)

O The Diary of a Teenage Girl (102 mins.; R: strong sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity, drug use, language, and drinking, all involving teens)

Watching this movie is thoroughly engrossing, like reading a friend’s journal behind their back.

Granted, the topic has automatic and universal appeal, a girl’s sexual awakening in 1970s San Francisco, but the narrative never lets up. We never know exactly where it’s going even though it exploits tons of clichés. The movie begins abruptly when young Minnie (the remarkable Bel Powley) exultantly proclaims she’s just gotten laid and wonders if people on the street can tell.

It’s not ’til she gets home and confides to her tape recorder that we learn her lover is her mother’s slimy boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgård). The movie maps familiar territory, from Rocky Horror night to an LSD trip (liberally employing animation, since Minnie wants to be a cartoonist). Yet it manages to keep surprising us. It shares themes with The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but here sex is the heartbeat, and even if it isn’t graphic, it’s insistent. Like this film.

The two big discoveries here are director Marielle Heller and Powley. Heller worked as a television writer, but this directing debut has exhilarating grace. She builds her movie up from interior spaces — from Minnie’s huge room full of secrets and knickknacks to her lover’s fishbowl apartment, and every setting feels recognizable and metaphoric. But Powley is her real find. Sullen with large dark eyes like a younger Isabella Rossellini, she plays cool, awkward, and, in later scenes, devastatingly contrite. She makes the role sexual but in an unconventional way, both needful and aggressive, that fits the setting. (The nudity never seems male gaze-y.)

There’s a lot more sex in the film than you’d expect, but it never feels exploitative. (Yet, I kept thinking of the constant seething in Blue Is the Warmest Color.) Powley embodies the rush and ruin of an American era when 1960s fancies started playing out in middle-class households. The results were liberating and sad — just like this excellent film. (DJP) Paseo Nuevo

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The following films are playing in Santa Barbara FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, through THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. Descriptions followed by initials — RD (Richie DeMaria) and DJP (D.J. Palladino) — have been taken from our critics’ reviews, which can be read in full at independent.com. The symbol O indicates the film is recommended.

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This documentary chronicles the personal and private life of the legendary Apple CEO.

Wed., Sept. 9, 5 and 7:30pm, Plaza de Oro

PREMIERES The Transporter Refueled (96 mins.; PG-13: sequences of violence and action, sexual material, some language, a drug reference, and thematic elements) Frank Martin is back (with Ed Skrein in the Jason Statham role), living a quiet life transporting classified documents. A visit from his father, however, pulls Martin back into the world of fast cars and fast women.

Camino Real/Metro 4 Un gallo con muchos huevos (99 mins.; NR) Celebrated animated characters from Mexico come to the U.S. in this film about Toto the young chicken, who has to save his home.

Fiesta 5 The Visit (94 mins.; PG-13: disturbing thematic material including terror, violence, and some nudity and brief language)

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest offering involves a single mother whose kids visit their grandparents.

After the visit, things go terribly wrong.

Camino Real/Metro 4 (Opens Thu., Sept. 10)

A Walk in the Woods (104 mins.; R: language and some sexual references)

Robert Redford and Nick Nolte star in this film based on Bill Bryson’s best-selling book about his hike of the Appalachian Trail with his oldest friend.

Fairview/ Paseo Nuevo

NOW SHOWING O American Ultra (96 mins.; R: strong bloody violence, language throughout, drug use, and some sexual content) Though pitched as a stoner-action film, it’s actually closer to broad satire, more like Scary Movie than Pineapple Express, and the humor lies in bloodsoaked excesses interrupted by tender feelings. The setup is an American Ultra-cliché (Matt Damon’s Bourne is the most obvious version), as are the hardware store battle and the fireworks assault.

The protagonists rebel against a parade of weirdo

cameos by the likes of John Leguizamo (pathetic doper) and Bill Pullman (government super-creep).

Funny and gory, this is a movie you don’t have to be a complete doper to enjoy. It probably helps, though. (DJP) Camino Real/Fiesta 5 Ant-Man (117 mins.; PG-13: sci-fi action violence) Had Ant-Man been a Marvel superhero version of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids with visual wit and a healthy sense of microcosmic wonder, it would have been a great movie. But what should have been fun ended up overinflated with too much awkward Disney moralizing. (DJP).

Metro 4 (2D) Dope (103 mins.; R: language, drug content, sexuality/ nudity, and some violence — all involving teens)

This coming-of-age dramedy starring Shameik Moore is about a geeky boy who tries to get by in his tough neighborhood of Inglewood while juggling his senior year of high school and applying for colleges.

Fiesta 5

O The Gift

(108 mins.; R: language)

No Escape (103 mins.; R: strong violence including a sexual assault and language)

Soon after the Dwyer family moves from the U.S. to a new unnamed overseas country, the country undergoes a coup. Suddenly the Dwyers are in a frantic race to escape, as all foreigners are being executed.

Camino Real/Fiesta 5 Phoenix (98 mins.; PG-13: some thematic elements and brief suggestive material)

A disfigured concentration camp survivor who becomes unrecognizable after facial reconstruction searches postwar Berlin for her husband, who may have betrayed her to the Nazis.

Plaza de Oro Pixels (105 mins.; PG-13: some language and suggestive comments) Intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and use them as models to attack Earth. The president calls upon 1980s champions — who are all grown up — of each game to defend the planet.

Camino Real (2D)

The Gift is a genuinely creepy tale spun with adult themes: domestic intruders, cuckolding fears, and awkward reunions with ghosts from the past.

Unnervingly tense and paced with surprising character twists, it’s a deeper and more relatable horror than others this summer. It’s refreshing to have a thriller about the monstrosity of everyday life. (RD)

Ricki and the Flash (101 mins.; PG-13: thematic

Hitman: Agent 47 (96 mins.; R: sequences of strong violence and some language)

O Shaun the Sheep

Metro 4

Rupert Friend stars as an elite, genetically engineered assassin who is tasked with taking out the leaders of a mega-corporation who plan to create an army of killers more powerful than even Agent 47.

Metro 4

O Inside Out

(94 mins.; PG: mild thematic elements

material, brief drug content, sexuality, and language)

Director Jonathan Demme helms this film about a hard-rocking singer/guitarist (Meryl Streep) who gave up her family for her dream of fame and is now returning home to set things right with her daughter and long-suffering ex-husband (Kevin Kline).

Fairview/Paseo (85 mins.; PG: rude humor)

Aardman Animations is ba-a-ack. Shaun the Sheep is living proof that great artists of wacky vision are best left to muck about in those visions. This claymation, sight-gag-rich, slapstick-with-a-humanheart studio has never been better. (DJP) Fairview/ Fiesta 5

Sinister 2 (97 mins.; R: strong violence, bloody and

and some action)

disturbing images, and language)

This film’s inner journey is a blast, especially the map of consciousness provided: A train of thought takes viewers from long-term memories, through the Unconscious, and down to a scary pit where memories go to die. We believe a silly premise and feel the war between regrets and happy days raging in a world of animated change. (DJP)

If you love watching families being tortured, this is the movie for you! For its thematic seed, Sinister 0 builds on the horrors of the child’s imagination.

The shadowy spirit Bughuul returns from the first Sinister to pop up as the in-house murder maestro and all-around spontaneous guy. Problem is, when you base a horror movie around a subset of horror films watched within the characters’ world by otherwise unharmed children, it’s not that scary. (RD)

Camino Real (2D)/Fiesta 5 (2D)

O Irrational Man

(95 mins.; R: some language and

sexual content)

Since the end of Woody Allen’s Golden Age, his best films have been the unfunny ones that have to do with murders or violence. This is one of those bloody movies, and in it Joaquin Phoenix plays Abe, a tempestuous popular philosophy professor who is in a funk. The “solution” to his problem provides fine sinister impetus. (DJP) Plaza de Oro The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (116 mins.; PG-13: action violence, some suggestive content, and partial nudity)

Guy Ritchie directs this action/adventure comedy about CIA agent Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), who team up to fight a mysterious criminal organization trying to proliferate nuclear weapons.

Fairview/Fiesta 5

O Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation (130 mins.; PG-13: sequences of action and violence and brief partial nudity)

This is the first of five Mission: Impossible movies not helmed by a big-name director (the illustrious past equals Brian De Palma, John Woo, JJ Abrams, and Brad Bird), and it feels the most like my dad’s favorite TV show. The best part of the movie is Sean Harris, who is rapidly becoming the greatest villain in screen history, and it’s his banal evil figure that makes this plot so much better than fancierdirected installments. (DJP) Arlington/Camino Real Mistress America (84 mins.; R: language including

some sexual references)

In this comedy, a New York college student becomes friends with her soon-to-be stepsister, who takes her on adventures throughout the city.

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O Straight Outta Compton

(147 mins.; R: language throughout, strong sexuality/nudity, violence, and drug use)

This is a well-made if unchallenging biopic about the pioneering hip-hop group N.W.A and its founding fathers, Eazy-E (Jason Mitchell), Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins), and Ice Cube (played by his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr.). This flick feels soft and tame in its ways, but it’s still a great watch. It reminds us of the rappers’ fiercest days and why their legacy remains so vital — the endurance of their great music, their undefeatable willingness to be uncompromising, and their poetic call for justice. (RD)

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O Trainwreck (125 mins.; R: strong sexual content, nudity, language, and some drug use)

In Trainwreck, Amy (Amy Schumer) crashes through a variety of dating wreckages en route to a happier partnership. But the film isn’t just about the disasters but also the grace to recover from them, and reminds us that if there’s a light at the end of this crazy tunnel, it’s through the redemption of laughter. The result will be remembered as one of the funnier risqué adventures of the summer. (RD)

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We Are Your Friends (96 mins.; R: language throughout, drug use, sexual content, and some nudity)

Zac Efron stars as an aspiring deejay looking to make it in the electronic dance music scene. When he falls for his mentor’s girlfriend, however, he has to make tough choices about his future.

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According to my astrological projections, you’re a bit less lively and dynamic than usual. And you may be tempted to compensate by engaging in extreme behavior or resorting to a contrived show of force.

Please don’t! A better strategy would be to recharge your power. Lay low and take extra good care of yourself. Get high-quality food, sleep, entertainment, art, love, and relaxation.

best strategy in the coming weeks. It will eventually deliver you to where you need to go, even if there are bouncy surprises along the way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Money doesn’t make you happy,” said movie star and ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. “I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” Despite his avowal, I’m guessing that extra money would indeed make you at least somewhat happier. And the good news is that the coming months will be prime time for you to boost your economic fortunes. Your ability to attract good financial luck will be greater than usual, and it will zoom even higher if you focus on getting better educated and organized about how to bring more wealth your way.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): For a pregnant woman, the fetus often begins to move for the first time during the fifth month of gestation. The sensation may resemble popcorn popping or a butterfly fluttering. It’s small but dramatic: the distinct evidence that a live creature is growing inside her. Even if you are not literally expecting a baby, and even if you are male, I suspect you will soon feel the metaphorical equivalent of a fetus’s first kicks. You’re not ready to give birth yet, of course, but you are well on your way to generating a new creation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand.” So sang Jimi Hendrix in his raucous psychedelic tune “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” We could view his statement as an example of delusional grandiosity and dismiss it as meaningless. Or we could say it’s a funny and brash boast that Hendrix made as he imagined himself to be a mythic hero capable of unlikely feats.

For the purposes of this horoscope, let’s go with the latter interpretation. I encourage you to dream up a slew of extravagant brags about the outlandish magic powers you have at your disposal. I bet it will rouse hidden reserves of energy that will enhance your more practical powers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Since U Been Gone” is a pop song recorded by vocalist Kelly Clarkson. She won a Grammy for it and made a lot of money from its sales. But two other singers turned down the chance to make it their own before Clarkson got her shot.

The people who wrote the tune offered it first to P!nk and then to Hilary Duff, but neither accepted. Don’t be like those two singers, Gemini. Be like Clarkson.

Recognize opportunities when they are presented to you, even if they are in disguise or partially cloaked.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to transform yourself. If you work hard to rectify and purify your inner life, you will be able to generate a transcendent release.

Moreover, you may tap into previously dormant or inaccessible aspects of your soul’s code. Here are some tips on how to fully activate this magic. (1) Without any ambivalence, banish ghosts that are more trouble than they are worth. (2) Identify the one bad habit

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Going with the flow” sounds easy and relaxing, but here’s another side of the truth: Sometimes it can kick your ass. The rippling current you’re floating on may swell up into a boisterous wave.

The surge of the stream might get so hard and fast that your ride becomes more spirited than you anticipated.

And yet I still think that going with the flow is your

you most want to dissolve, and replace it with a good habit. (3) Forgive everyone, including yourself. (4) Play a joke on your fear. (5) Discard or give away material objects that no longer have any meaning or use.

such an adventure will be the coming two weeks. Keep the following questions in mind as you brainstorm: (1) What are your life’s greatest mysteries, and what sort of journey might bring an awakening that clarifies them?

(2) Where could you go in order to clarify the curious yearnings that you have never fully understood? (3) What power spot on planet Earth might activate the changes you most want to make in your life?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope you’re not getting bored with all of the good news I have been delivering in recent weeks. I’m sorry if I sound like I’m sugarcoating or whitewashing, but I swear I’m simply reporting the truth about the cosmic omens. Your karma is extra sweet these days. You do have a few obstacles, but they are weaker than usual. So I’m afraid you will have to tolerate my rosy prophecies for a while longer.

Stop reading now if you can’t bear to receive a few more buoyant beams. This is your last warning! Your web of allies is getting more resilient and interesting.

You’re expressing just the right mix of wise selfishness and enlightened helpfulness. As your influence increases, you are becoming even more responsible about wielding it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When he died at the age of 77 in 1905, Aquarian author Jules Verne had published 54 books. You’ve probably heard of his science fiction novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He was a major influence on numerous writers, including Jean-Paul Sartre, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Arthur Rimbaud. But one of his manuscripts never made it into book form. When he finished it in 1863, his publisher refused to publish it, so Verne stashed it in a safe. It remained there until his great-grandson discovered it in 1989. Five years later, Verne’s “lost novel,” Paris in the Twentieth Century, went on sale for the first time. I suspect that in the coming months, you may have a comparable experience, Aquarius. An old dream that was lost or never fulfilled may be available for recovery and resuscitation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When 16th-century Spanish invaders arrived in the land of the Mayans, they found a civilization that was in many ways highly advanced.

The native people had a superior medical system and calendar. They built impressive cities with sophisticated architecture and paved roads. They were prolific artists and had a profound understanding of mathematics and astronomy. And yet they did not make or use wheeled vehicles, which had been common in much of the rest of the world for over 2,000 years. I see a certain similarity between this odd disjunction and your life. Although you’re mostly competent and authoritative, you are neglecting to employ a certain resource that would enhance your competence and authority even further. Fix this oversight!

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation,” says stand-up comic Arnold Brown,“but I’m not very good at it.” Your task in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to undermine your own skills at self-deprecation. You may think they are too strong and entrenched to undo and unlearn, but I don’t — especially now, when the cosmic forces are conspiring to prove to you how beautiful you are. Cooperate with those cosmic forces! Exploit the advantages they are providing. Inundate yourself with approval, praise, and naked flattery.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you have ever fantasized about taking a pilgrimage to a wild frontier or sacred sanctuary or your ancestral homeland, the next 10 months will be an excellent time to do it. And the best time to plan

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Legals Administer of Estate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: GORO TAKEUCHI NO: 15PR00313 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of GORO TAKEUCHI A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: MICHAEL G. TAKEUCHI in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): KAREN K. TAKEUCHI and MICHAEL G. TAKEUCHI 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 10/22/2015 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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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.

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2013‑0000019. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Gerardo Roca 2128 Modoc Rd #F, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 27 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 Noe Solis. for Published.

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Simply Pies at 5392 Hollister Ave. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 2/3/2015 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no.

2015‑0000391. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Hallie Katnic This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 04 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 Noe Solis. for Published. Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 3 2015.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Simply Pies at 5392 Hollister Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 2/19/2015 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2015‑0000582. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Claire Bonnie, LLC This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 04, 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 Noe Solis. for Published. Aug 13, 20, 27. Sept 3 2015.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Star Nails at 5155 Tabano Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 10/28/2013 in the County of Santa Barbara.

Original file no. 2013‑0003288. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Thao Nguyen, 5155 Tabano Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal for Published. Aug 20, 27, Sept 3, 10 2015.

Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sherk Counseling Services at 5266 Hollister Avenue Suite 215 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Debra Sherk 86 Willow Springs Ln. #201 Goleta, CA 93117; John Sherk (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Gracie Huerta filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002410. Published:

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Janizz.com at 4998 San Marcos Court Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Rohit Jain (same address) Kavita Pabby (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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: Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002197. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rumi Educational Center at 28 W. Arrellaga Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Fariba Enteshari (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Fariba Enteshari filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 . FBN Number: 2015‑0002184. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mail Road Wines at 835 East Canon Perdido Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Palmerpiazza, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Michael Palmer, Owner filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 . FBN Number: 2015‑0002325. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Chinese Medicine at 138 E Carrillo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Kristen Elizabeth Swegles 250 Sherwood Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kristen E Swegles filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 . FBN Number: 2015‑0002243. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dapper Photography at 1425 Chino Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Dapper Photography LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 05 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002379.

Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Savoy Cafe & Deli at 24 West Figueroa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Savoy Cafe & Deli, Inc. 6588 Camino Venturoso Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Paul Shelds, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbel. FBN Number: 2015‑0002399. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gracie Huerta Consultant, Hearfelt Training And Facilitation at 7079 Del Norte Goleta, CA 93117; Graciela Huerta (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gracie Huerta filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 04 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Shelton Huts at 519 Fig Avenue, Santa Barbara CA 93101; Mattie Braden Shelton, 801 Cold Spring Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Mattie Braden Shelton filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 11 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0002414.

Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bay Club Downtown Santa Barbara at 21 West Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Spectrum Clubs Santa Barbara, Inc. 1 Lombard Street San Francisco, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: . filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal . FBN Number: 2015‑0002469.

Published: Aug 20, 27, Sept 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bay Club Goleta at 6144 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117; Spectrum Clubs Santa Barbara, Inc. 1 Lombard Street San Francisco, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: . filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal . FBN Number: 2015‑0002467.

Published: Aug 20, 27, Sept 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bay Club Uptown Santa Barbara at 3908 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Spectrum Clubs Santa Barbara, Inc. 1 Lombard Street San Francisco, CA 94111. This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Spectrum Clubs Santa Barbara, Inc. filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal . FBN Number: 2015‑0002468.

Published: Aug 20, 27, Sept 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Home Watch at 324 1/2 North Alisos Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Paul D’ Antoni III, 324 1/2 North Alisos Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Paul D’Antoni III filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0002454.

Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cielo Spa Boutique at 1725 State St Suite C, CA 93101; Roxanne R. Zbinden, 287 Pebble Beach Dr. Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Roxanne R. Zbindena filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 3, 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: 2015‑0002353. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

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

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at 5801 Calle Real Suite F Goleta, CA 93117; Qui Thi Nguyen, 945 Ward Dr. 114, Goleta, CA 93111; Sean Thai Nguyen, 100 Sumida Gardens Ln Apt 103, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Sean Thai Nguyen filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002471. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Paradise Real Estate Group at 1526 Marquard Terrace, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Colette B Fischer same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Colette B Fisher filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002464.

Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Valor Business Services at 408 W. Pedregosa St. #B, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Robert Del Rosario (samea address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert Del Rosario filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 4 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002362. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tecis Insurance Services at 201N. Civic Drive Suite 100 Walnut Creek, CA 94596; Algentis, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002434. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Elvira’s Photography And Video at 5729 Hollister Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Elvira Rodriguez‑Lezama 5810 Mandarin Drive #A Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Elvira Rodriguez‑Lezama filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002331. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Concrete Cutting at 3969 Foothill Road Santa Barbara, 93110; Jennifer J Grgich Trustee (same address) Thomas C. Harden JR Trustee (same address) This business is conducted by a Trust Signed: Jennifer J. Grgich filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 12 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002432. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: University Auto Sales at 414 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Samah Yasin 66 Ocean View Avenue Apt 60 Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Samah Yasin filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 31 2015. This statement expires

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by Teresa Ann Iqbel. FBN Number: 2015‑0002341. Published: Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB Bone Broth Company at 789 Mission Canyon Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Brislia S Cardenas 4280 Calle Real #85 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Ava Churchill 789 Mission Canyon Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Brislia S Cardenas filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Andrea Liparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002406. Published: Aug 13, 20, 27. Sep 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: G & M Road Fund at 2743 Glendessary Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Harry Edward Heron (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Harry Edward Heron filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Jessica Sheaif. FBN Number: 2015‑0002483. Published: Aug 27.

Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pleasure 2 Treasure at 1721 De La Vina Apt C Santa Barbara, 93101; Brian Williams (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Brian Williams filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbel. FBN Number: 2015‑0002510. Published: Aug 27.

Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Barbara’s Consignment Concierge at 1103 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Barbara Jennifer Reed 45 Greenwell Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Barbara J. Reed filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Jan Morales.

FBN Number: 2015‑0002422.

Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Showers of Blessing at 6595 Covington Way Goleta, CA 93117; Interfaith Initiative of Santa Barbara County 86 Harbor Way #249 Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Martin G. Jenkins filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002455. Published: Aug 27.

Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Richard Abrams And Associates at 464 San Marino Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Richard Abrams (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Richard Abrams filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0002486.

Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

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is/are doing business as: Laser Rehab Institute at 1520 State Street Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kevin Khalili 3115 Calle Fresno Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kevin Khalili filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2015‑0002504.

Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ferm Pickles Fermpickles at 3115 Calle Fresno Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Indra Smith (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Indra Smith filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbel. FBN Number: 2015‑0002503. Published: Aug 27.

Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Next Level Culture at 636 Andy Ln. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Business Success Team (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Simon Darcy, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Jan Morales.

FBN Number: 2015‑0002385.

Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jensen Guitar & Music Co, Jensen Pro at 2830 De La Vina St Ste F Santa Barbara, CA 93105‑3457; Artichoke Music Services, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Chris Jensen filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 12, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN Number: 2015‑0002431.

Published: Aug 27. Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Point & Line, Point & Line Wines at 212 W. Pedregosa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Catalyst Three LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Russell Kostin filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Jessica Sheaif. FBN Number: 2015‑0002517. Published: Aug 27.

Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bentley‑Forbes Security at 222 West Carmen Lane Suite 202 Santa Maria, CA 93458; Bentley‑Forbes Security Training Academy, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0002486. Published: Aug 27.

Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Neils Conrad Larson, D.C. at 5350 Hollister Avenue #A3 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Neils Conrad Larson 914 Castillo Street #6 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Neils C. Larson filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 24, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County

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Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002520.

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by Teresa Ann Iqbel. FBN Number: 2015‑0002438. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Isla Vista Management Company at 4235 Cresta Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Robert Larson 4625 Spencer Drive Plano, TX 75024 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert Larson filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 17, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002472. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Em El Consulting at 5511 Somerset Dr. Goleta, CA 93111; Michael Lee; 785 Camino Del Sur #119 Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael Lee filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002479.

Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Five Star White Glove House Cleaning, White `Glove Estate Cleaning Services, Master Care Home Cleaning, White Glove Five Star Cleaning, Mastercare Home Cleaning Services, White Glove House Cleaning at 5786 Hollister Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Mastercare Ultraclean, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Spencer Dean, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbel. FBN Number: 2015‑0002480. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bottle Pros at 735 State Street #229 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Pura Stainless LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jennifer Moore filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 13, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales.

FBN Number: 2015‑0002437.

Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Reed Interiors at 3821 Santa Claus Lane Carpinteria, CA 93013; Reed Floors, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Myriam Doussineau filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 25, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002536. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Perfect Fits, The Perfect Fits, Weaves Police at 3463 Stae Street Suite 326 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Janice L. Hayes (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Janice L. Hayes filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wholesome Chow at 760 Chelham Way Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Jeffrey Bailey (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jeffrey Bailey filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 25, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002562. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Stanley Ray Guitars at 5171 San Vicente Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Chris Raymond Frink (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Chris R. Frink filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002386. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Appraisal Services at 524 E Micheltorena St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Seattle Appraisal LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Steve L filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 06, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Eco‑Village at 121 West Pueblo Street #14 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Bruno Treves 1105 North Ontare Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bruno Treves filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 25, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos.

Iqbel. FBN Number: 2015‑0002542.

Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CA Makes at 919 Medio Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Chelsea Aiello (same address) Wesley Prunckle (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Chelsea Aiello filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Teresa Ann Iqbel. Iqbel. FBN Number: 2015‑0002509. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Flowering Gifts, Senior Citizens Advocacy,

Hair For Cancer Patients, The Perfect Fits, Kids Monitoring Services at 3463 State Street Suite 326 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; The Good Samaritian (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Janice L. Hayes, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 19, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002493.

Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Quinn Fiduciary Services at 1811 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jacquelyn 333 Old Mill Road Space 168 Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jacquelyn Quinn filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002560.

Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Peka Construction at 650 Northview Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Michael Wayne Peka (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael W Peka filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002576.

Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805 Street Bites & Events at 4024 Modoc Rd Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Christian Cortes (same address) Abigail Placencia (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Christian Cortes filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 04, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparellio. FBN Number: 2015‑0002374. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Paddle Sports Center, Paddle Sports of Santa Barbara at 117 Harbor Way Ste B Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Channel Islands Outfitters, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Fraser Kersey, CFO filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 17, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002459. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fairview Mattress & Furniture at 5729 Hollister Ave. Goleta, CA 93117; Gabriel Solrzano 718 W. Sola St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gabriel Solorzano filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002575. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Royal Thai Massage at 3204‑A State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Natacha Chaiseree 4123 Via Andorra Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Natacha Chaiseree filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2015‑0002570. Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DIANA MARIE PASTERNAK ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV02192 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: DIANA MARIE PASTERNAK TO: DIANA MARIE DIMAURO 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 Oct 7, 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 Jul 06, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Aug 20, 27. Sep 3, 10 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF LINDSAY LOGAN LEACH ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV02309 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: LINDSAY LOGAN LEACH TO: LYNDSAY LOGAN LEACH 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 Oct 14, 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 Aug 21, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

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Summons No: 15‑7‑00218‑1 Notice and Summons by Publication (Termination) (SMPB) SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF CLALLAM JUVENILE COURT Dependency of: DELILAH LONG D.O.B.: 04/12/2008 To: RICHARD JONES, father of DELILAH LONG and/or JOHN DOE, NAME/IDENTITY UNKNOWN and/or ANYONE ELSE CLAIMING A PATERNAL INTEREST IN THE CHILD A Petition to Terminate Parental Rights was filed on JULY 7TH, 2015, A Termination First Set Fact Finding hearing will be held on this matter on: OCTOBER 21 ST, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. at CLALLAM COUNTY JUVENILE SERVICES, 1912 W. 18TH STREET, PORT ANGELES, WA 98363.

You should be present at this hearing.

The hearing will determine if your parental rights to your child are terminated. If you do not appear at the hearing, the court may enter an order in your absence terminating your parental rights.

To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Termination Petition, call DSHS at Port Angeles, at (360) 565‑2240 or Forks DSHS, at (360) 374‑3530. To view information about your rights, including right to a lawyer, go to www.atg.wa.gov/TRM.­aspx.

Dated: 08/26/2015 W. BRENT BASDEN Commissioner, BARBARA CHRISTENSEN, County Clerk, JENNIFER CLARK, Deputy Clerk Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 2015.

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Employment Accounting/ Bookkeeping

BOOKEEPER Non‑profit advocacy firm seeks p/t bookkeeper resp. for payroll rept., A/P, A/R, stmts & benefit admin.

Knowledge of Excel and QB acctg software req’d. Send resume and salary rqmts by 7/7/15 to obailey@ E n v i r o n m e n t a l D e f e n s e C e n t e r. org.

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FINANCIAL & PAY­ROLL ASSISTANT

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM (EOP) Independently responsible for the design, coordination, implementation and management of the administrative and financial operations facet of EOP for Summer Transitional Enrichment Program (STEP), Summer Orientation Program and Spring Insight.

Determines administrative objectives, interprets and implements policies and establishes procedures in pursuing program goals. In consultation with the STEP Coordinator, provides recommendations based on self‑directed analysis and complete knowledge of all administrative and

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logistical activities and objectives; helps resolves issues that have a significant impact on the overall goals and mission of the program and coordinates multiple activities independently. Reqs: Must be proficient in personnel payroll systems and familiar with accounting and clerical/office procedures including financial principles. Strong computer skills, including experience with spreadsheet and database applications. Ability to handle time‑sensitive and confidential materials. Must be able to work with people of diverse backgrounds.

Notes: Fingerprinting required. May work occasional weekends. $20.59 ‑ $21.57/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 9/14/15, thereafter open until filled.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150466

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Compensation $15/hr plus mileage.

Call (805) 994‑0045

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ATTN: Drivers – Great Miles + Top 1% Pay Loyalty Bonus Quality Equipment w APUs Pet/Rider Program Matching 401K CDL‑A Req ‑ (877) 258‑8782 www.drive4melton.com (Cal‑SCAN)

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Part and full‑time positions available NOW!!!!! Campaign DRIVERS ‑ No experience? Some or Fundraising Positions for Democratic and Progressive groups. Telefund is LOTS of experience? Let’s Talk! We support every driver, every day, every seeking activists to call like‑minded people and mobilize their support for mile! Call Central Refrigerated Home.

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Immediate P/T (20‑30hrs/wk)­ openings in the germination department at established commercial seed testing lab in Santa Barbara.

Flexible schedule, within normal business hours. This can be a great job to work around a school schedule.

No experience needed, and will train.

A background/interest in agriculture and/or botany is helpful. Must be able to work independently, exhibit attention‑to‑detail, and remain focused. Located in Riviera Research Park near El Encanto Hotel. Starting at $10/hr. Email cover letter and resume to ammemployment@gmail.com. No phone calls, please. EOE. WHO SAYS? You cannot earn a powerful income part‑time out of your home? We are doing it. We are looking for a couple of great Leaders.

If you think you are qualified call 602/397‑7752 for an interview. Bonuses included.

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Professional

Lead Case Manager – Emergency De­partment

ASSOC. DIR. OF DE­VELOPMENT, DONOR RELATIONS & STUDENT EN­GAGEMENT

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital seeks full‑time Lead Case Manager to support the Emergency Department. Will be responsible for completing psychosocial evaluations, psychotherapeutic and psychoeducational groups, and aftercare planning. Master’s degree in social work, clinical psychology or counseling required; 3+ years acute care experience.

Cottage Health offers an excellent compensation package that includes above market salaries; premium medical benefits, pension plans, and tax savings accounts. Please apply online at: www.cottagehealth.org.

EOE Personal Attendants Wanted Provide in‑home support to adults with Developmental Disabilities FT and PT available call 692‑5290

DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Works to develop increased philanthropy awareness among the UCSB student population. Centralizes a program for stewarding scholarships and award donors. Augments donor‑student engagement by way of events, intimate receptions and enhanced donor‑student recognition.

Works closely with the student body to plan and execute philanthropy‑related initiatives. Mentors and guides the UCSB First Committee (student philanthropy group), as well as collaborate with the Annual Fund, Alumni Affairs, and Student Affairs on various projects which include, but are not limited to: Gaucho Gratitude Project (annual student Thank‑you program), Senior Class Gift awareness and fundraising (annual), Campus‑wide Scholarships Reception development, Donor‑student intimate receptions, UCSB First events and donor society events (Chancellor’s Council and Lancaster Society receptions). Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Excellent

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Employment communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.

Demonstrated interpersonal skills to establish and maintain good working relationships with diverse groups, including colleagues, faculty, staff, donors, and students. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Annually renewable contract position. Ability and willingness to travel. Ability and willingness to work evenings and weekends. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. 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 9/10/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150458

DEVELOPMENT ANA­LYST, UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDA­TION

DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Strong understanding of the department’s programs and goals and participates in long range planning for the department. Provides support for operations, financial budget, budget recommendations and logistics related to board meeting weekends and other Trustee related events, University engagement opportunities, and Trustee fundraising initiatives. Logistics include analysis resulting in briefings for the Chancellor, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Development (“AVC”), the Sr. Director and other Directors in the Executive Development Team.

Strong focus on gift and prospect management and analysis, donor research, gift fund management, departmental services and training for operations. Prepares sophisticated reports that contain complex and sensitive information about donors or prospects, segmenting data for strategic invitations, coordinating efforts with events management to ensure actual events are efficient and productive for the university’s mission advancement in identifying prospect donors. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong organizational skills and unfailing attention to detail and accuracy. Exceptional verbal and interpersonal skills that foster positive relationships with diverse populations.

Notes: Fingerprinting required.

Must work occasional evenings and weekends at various Development Office, Institutional Advancement or campus‑wide events. $21.86 ‑ $23.94/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 9/14/15, thereafter open until filled.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150464

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HUMAN RESOURCES If you are highly committed to excellence in higher education; enjoy working in a fast‑paced, team‑oriented environment; have proven administrative, organizational, and customer service skills; and have a strong interest to serve as a HR generalist in the areas of recruitment, training, database management, and customer support, then we invite you to consider this rewarding job opportunity. Reqs: Ability to work independently and act with sound judgment. Strong organizational skills. Demonstrated interpersonal abilities working with a diverse group of people. Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills. Possess moderate to advanced knowledge and application skill in Word, Excel, and database programs. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Note: Fingerprinting required. $19.87 ‑ $22.00/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 9/10/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply on line at https://Jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150460

DEDICATION TO BEING OUR BEST.

It’s our highest priority.

POLICY COORDINA­TOR & DEPUTY ADA COMPLIANCE OFFI­CER

VICE CHANCELLOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES Investigates, researches, and analyzes a variety of issues, programs, reports, and policy and procedures to respond to questions, resolve concerns/complaints, writes reports, and make recommendations. Under the direction of the ADA Compliance Officer, administers campus‑wide compliance with federal and state laws as well as University policies and procedures pertaining to protections for persons with disabilities. Reqs:

The County is hiring!

The County employs over 4000 employees in jobs from entry level to executive!

Visit our website for a list of current openings:

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Setting high standards is one thing.

Embracing them is another. At Cottage Health System, we make it top priority to work constantly at being our best...for patients, their families, our communities and fellow team members. If you would enjoy living up to your potential at a health system that strives for – and achieves – excellence, come to Cottage.

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Birth Center Cath Lab Clinical Manager – ER GVCH Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Quality Consultant CRN – Perioperative Facilitator Electrophysiology Emergency Psychiatric Emergency Psych Supervisor Manager – Cardiology Manager – Villa Riviera Med/Surg – Float Pool MICU Mother Infant Neuro/Cardiovascular Coordinator Neurology/Urology NICU Peds PICU Pulmonary Renal SICU Stroke Coordinator Surgery Surgical Trauma Telemetry

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Clinical

Admissions Facilitator – SLO Clinic Case Manager – SLO Clinic Echocardiographer – Per Diem Intraoperative Neuro Monitoring Technician • Physical Therapist – Per Diem • Speech Language Pathologist II – Per Diem • Surg Tech IV

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Behavior Health Clinician – Per Diem Licensed Psych Technician LVN – Emergency Dept.

Patient Care Tech – Telemetry Personal Care Attendant I – Villa Riviera Telemetry Technician Unit Care Technicians – MICU

Non-Clinical • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Bed Control Coordinator Catering Set-up – Part-Time Client Systems Administrator (EPIC) Cook – Temporary Environmental Services Rep Environmental Services Supervisor EPIC Ambulatory Manager Floor Care Representative Food Service Rep Infection Preventionist Data Support (RN) Interface Analyst (EPIC) Lean/Process Improvement Facilitator Manager, ISD Customer Service Manager – Nutrition Patient Financial Counselor II – Admitting Patient Financial Counselor II – Credit/Collections PBX Operator – Per Diem Research Analyst & Project Development Specialist Security Officers Supervisor, Utilization Review Denials & Appeals Process Systems Support Analyst – Supply Chain

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Cottage Business Services • Patient Financial Counselors – Admitting & Credit Collections • Supervisor – Patient Business Services

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital • Endoscopy Technician – Days • EVS Lead • • • • •

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• Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com • RENTAL & RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR SELECT FULL-TIME POSITIONS • CERTIFICATION REIMBURSEMENT

We offer an excellent compensation package that includes above-market salaries, premium medical benefits, pension plans, tax savings accounts, rental and mortgage assistance, and relocation packages. What’s holding you back?

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

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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 9/15/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://Jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150456

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Brass pots, Tudor chargers, a dining table by Bassett ‑ two leaves. Seats up to twelve. Soft cover, 6 chairs. Call Patricia 805‑687‑6359.

Large round dining table, beautiful wood finish

Upholstered chair and ottoman, Victorian rocker, antique pine corner cabinet. All in great condition and reasonably priced. Call 805‑682‑3911.

LECTERN ‑ new table used for speeches. Dark brown, red tinge, rich color. $60 or best offer. 805‑845‑8866

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351 Sycamore Drive $729,000 Mary Layman 805.448.3890 Beautiful Sycamore Ranch 5BD/3BA 2-story home in Buellton. Featuring a gorgeous manicured backyard & spa. A wonderful community just 35 min from SB.

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OPEN BY APPT.

773 Park Ln Dan Encell

$6,500,000 805.565.4896

6544 Camino Venturoso Sharol Mulder

$1,029,000 805.259.7988

3034 Calle Rosales The Easters

$939,000 805.570.0403

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1046 Miramonte Ave #2 $565,000 Heather Martineau 805.231.3558 Updated 2BD condo with newer kitchen & baths, flooring. Conveniently located near the Mesa.

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$879,000

Freed/Roche

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927 W Valerio St Angela Moloney

$799,000 805.451.1553

SATURDAY OPEN HOUSES (Cont.) $5,995,000 805.280.9797

632 Dara Rd, Open Sat 2-4 Steve Heller

$1,029,000 805.252.2749

1931 Eucalyptus Hill Rd, Open Sat 1-3 Randy Glick

$2,495,000 805.563.4066

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$995,000 805.565.4896

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$1,199,000 805.570.0403

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$939,000 805.570.0403

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$1,175,000 805.565.4014

332 W Alamar Ave #B, Open Sat 2-4 Ken Switzer

$859,000 805.680.4622

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$1,175,000 805.895.6326

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$799,000 805.451.1553

222 Calle Granada, Open Sat 1-4 Joel Butera

$1,145,000 805.448.4831

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Address: 525 Miramonte Drive Status: On the market Price: $1,350,000

tain-drive-by-the-sea became an area where houses have been passed down through generations, and families tend to stay put. Kenneth died in 2003, and when Elaine passed away earlier this year at the age of 101, the sisters decided it was time to let a new owner take over the house. Having been in their family all these years, it is now on the market for the very first time.

The three-bedroom, three-bath home is still in its original condition, and a new owner will probably want to redo the baths and kitchen. The quirky kitchen boasts colorful patterned wallpaper that has a story of its own. The Urtons were said to enjoy preparing elaborate meals with their friends, including actor Vincent Price. They admired Price’s kitchen wallpaper so much that they copied its

design for their own kitchen walls. The house also sports custom skylights fashioned by Kenneth and built-in cabinetry in almost every room. Despite whatever details the home’s next owner might decide to change, the huge living-room windows of this house will continue to look out over the neighborhood and the harbor beyond and tell the stories of this home for generations to come.

525 Miramonte Drive is currently for sale in Santa Barbara, listed by Linda Mason of Home Realty & Investments. Reach Linda at 698-8335.

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the Arlington Theatre, the original Santa Barbara Airport, and many other classic buildings. It was built by Kenneth and his father, Charles Urton, the wellknown builder of the Granada Theatre.

Kenneth and Elaine had moved to Santa Barbara as newlyweds in 1935. Their two daughters were born shortly thereafter.

Charles brought Kenneth on as a partner in his business, and they built the home together in 1939. It has been in the family ever since. Elaine was an artist in many media. One of the most striking features of the house is her art studio, which is now a legally permitted guest house plus studio, full of natural light and custom cabinetry.

One of the neighbors reminisced that Elaine would dress her young daughters in red so that she could keep an eye on them as they played and scrambled on the hills above their house. The sisters grew up in the house and walked to nearby McKinley School together.

Apparently the neighborhood was a somewhat Bohemian enclave, filled with artists, writers, and professors. This moun-

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he home at 525 Miramonte Drive is full of stories. If you’ve lived in the Santa Barbara area for more than a few years, you’ve probably driven by and noticed its sharp angles and huge windows gazing down from its distinctive façade. The house sits on the hill above City College near Loma Alta, a neighborhood marked by vintage streetlights and, as I recently learned, the longevity of its residents.

When I visited last week, there was a steady stream of visitors to the open house. Eavesdropping on snippets of their conversations, I could tell that almost all of them were neighbors, and almost all of them had stories about the home and the family who had lived there all of its life and all of their lives.

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Dennis Allen is chair of Allen Construction, an employee-owned company committed to building and operating sustainably. He also serves as chair of the Dean’s Council at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UCSB and as a boardmember of the Community Environmental Council.

improvements. “At this point we are basically the parks and rec department for the City of Goleta,” said Harrington.

“We don’t facilitate our own programs, but we maintain and oversee the facility.

We focus on what we’re good at. We’re a recreation enterprise.”

And Girsh Park does seem like an enterprise: innovative, inventive, and responsive to community needs. As we walk around outdoors, Harrington shows me where the Goleta Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual Lemon Festival, where the Rotary Club offers fireworks on the Fourth of July, and the meadow where the Easter-egg hunt happens. He mentions the use of reclaimed water and explains the advantages of synthetic turf on Goleta’s clay soil as a superior playing surface and water-saving measure. He points out a fountain with a fitting that facilitates refilling water bottles, observes places where good shade trees will thrive, and espouses his thoughts on playground equipment. He contemplates how welcome food and refreshments will be at baseball games, as well as the potential revenue of leasing the kitchen space to a provider.

“In general, parks don’t make money,” Harrington said. “It’s really difficult to make them self-sustaining.” But by combining fee-for-service income, private donations, endowment interest, and city contributions, Girsh Park succeeds, and the collective good it yields cannot be measured. “I think it’s fair to say we’re mitigating problems of obesity, drug use, even depression …” mused Harrington.

The park generates upward of 350,000 visits per year and, in Harrington’s view, may well be the true heart of Goleta.“It’s one place to go for most of your recreational needs,” he said. “We’re a multigenerational facility with people from all different backgrounds. When they get here and use the park, they’re all on the same level. They’re all playing by the same rules. It’s kind of a beautiful thing.” n See girshpark.org.

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indows perform more func- being essential —it is important to get tions than any other compo- separation, still seeking a low U-value nent of our buildings. They but getting as high a SHGC number as provide daylight, natural ventilation, and possible to let in more heat radiation. glare control. They control fading, sound There are many types of coatings now intrusion, water tightness, and thermal added to glass. The most common, a buffering. They determine condensation, low-E coating (low emittance), improves durability, clarity of views, and mainte- the insulating value of a window, roughly nance schedules. And, of course, they equivalent to adding another pane of need to be attractive and affordable. glass. These coatings keep the summer Because of all these functions, it is heat out and the winter heat in. Most new advisable to purchase the highest-per- houses today have windows with two formance windows you can afford. Most low-E coatings (called low-E squared). windows now carry In designing for pasrating labels developed sive solar, placement by the National Fenesof these low-E units on the north and west tration Rating Council orientations is good (NFRC). They tell the U-value, which reflects practice. But a different insulating effectiveness; configuration is needed the solar heat gain coef coeffor south and east ficient (SHGC), which exposures — one that tracks how much heat still has good insulatradiation passes through ing value (low U-value) a window; and the visibut allows infrared ble transmittance, which radiation to enter (high covers daylight, views, SHGC). glare, and fading.

The frame materiby Dennis Allen California building als (wood, vinyl, metal, codes now require that fiberglass), quality of all windows be dual glazed (have two construction (strength and tightness of layers of glass) with a U-value no higher corners), type of hardware, and number than .32. (The lower the number, the bet- of layers and durability of weather stripter the insulating performance.) The ping are other factors to consider in winSHGC varies between 0 and 1. A lower dow purchase. And it all adds up; over the number reduces cooling costs. Usually, past 30 years, windows have transformed U-values and SHGC numbers move up from being one of the worst-performing or down together, but for passive solar elements of a home to now being one of design — winter heating from the sun the best and most versatile.

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ven in the midday heat, Girsh Park is humming with activity: There’s a lively pickup basketball game in progress, a group of kids practicing soccer, and a mother reading to two little boys in the welcoming shade of a tree.

The 25-acre park is a landscape people engage with, a setting that draws folks of all ages and income levels, and Executive Director Ryan Harrington is understandably proud. “This is one location that brings everyone together,” he said.

“Kids and adults with different norms, values, socioeconomic levels, all gathering for games, picnics, birthdays … even quinceañeras and weddings.”

The park was originally envisioned in 1998 as a buffer of open space on land owned by Dr. Lester Girsh between the Camino Real Marketplace and the neighborhood around it. Girsh entrusted the project to developer Mark Linehan, who saw the need for an active community park in Goleta and went beyond mere buffer, creating a 12-acre park that included a soccer field, softball field, basketball courts, picnic area, playground, and community room. When the County of Santa Barbara declined to take over the park, Linehan organized it as a nonprofit entity with a board of community-minded citizens, and the Foundation for Girsh Park was born.

A creative business model evolved.

“The foundation relies on user fees from entities such as Dos Pueblos Little League and AYSO, an endowment, fundraising campaigns, corporate sponsors such as MarBorg Industries, and funding from the City of Goleta,” Harrington explained.“It’s an unusual partnership of private and public entities.”

An additional 12 acres for Little League baseball, now called Elings Fields, was acquired in 2003; a subsequent capital campaign helped finance the building of a state-of-the-art soccer field; and a current campaign will fund a field house, a concession stand with a commercial kitchen, and other

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PeteRson KIRK l tRustee

PoRtnoY elIZabetH s

$505,000

8/21/15

7624 HollIsteR ave 325

anDeRson saunDRa J

gaRCIa Jose a

$189,000

8/21/15

131 n D st

eagle vIst eQuItIes llC

MItCHell ClauDIa

$272,000

8/20/15

509 n PoPPY st

saWYeR RanDal l JR

Deleon Ruben eu

$275,000

8/21/15

721 n seventH st

West PoInte HoMes InC

vasWaMI MotI

$194,500

8/19/15

1422 PluM ave

West PoInte HoMes InC

MeDIna geoRge s

$324,000

8/20/15

1417 CRoWn CIR

FIelDs RaYMonD t

FloRes teResa R

$167,000

8/18/15

282 vIllage CIRCle DR

ZoHRabIan eDWaRD tRustee

FRanZ baRbaRa C tRust

$1,550,000

8/18/15

1157 HIgH RD

tHoMas RebeCCa tRustee

Dugan DanIel s tRustee

$1,628,500

8/21/15

105 Calle bello

santa baRbaRa

golDneR JuDItH ea

CaRRoZZo MICHael J tRustee

$1,010,000

8/21/15

2840 KenMoRe Pl

santa MaRIa

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CRooKs nan H tRustee taPPeIneR DavID J

sCHellIng JaMes g tRustee

tuCKeR ben P ea

$1,060,000

8/21/15

903 CHeltenHaM RD

MCFaRlanD eFale a

PelloW DavID n eu

$1,049,000

8/19/15

2324 CHaPala st

WooD JennIFeR4 l tRustee

DeMPseY bRIan tRustee

$2,050,000

8/20/15

1618 gRanD ave

baDone susan R tRust

seReboFF steven C tRustee

$964,000

8/18/15

530 De la vIsta ave

ReDDICK stReet PRoPeRtIes

ReDDICK llC

$1,400,000

8/20/15

723 ReDDICK st

bRoIDa aleXa

tRevIllIan teRRI l

$2,900,000

8/19/15

527 MeIgs RD

CaMPbell elIZabetH tRust

loZa IgnaCIo III eu

$270,000

8/21/15

21 CaMIno CalMa 1

sHaCKelFoRD KIMbeRlY C tRustee

DReW RegInalD e

$415,000

8/19/15

217 W gutIeRReZ st

RolanD tHoMas C tRustee

KusHneRov Paul J

$900,000

8/19/15

1111 ManItou RD

neWenDoRP PeteR W tRustee

CoX bRanDon

$1,407,000

8/20/15

136 olIveR RD

anDeRson RobeRt e

MaRgolIs Paul eu

$600,000

8/21/15

235 vIsta Del MaR DR

PelonIs CHRIs a

sHaW CaRol F eu

$1,020,000

8/17/15

23 WaDe Ct

neWton alICIa v

WRobleWsKI eDMunD eu

$920,000

8/18/15

3007 saMaRKanD DR

beCK MICHael

Reaves MIRIaM l

$522,500

8/20/15

2727 MIRaDeRo DR #310

gRoss CaRol s

sKaFte DIanne M

$876,000

8/18/15

3721 gReggoRY WaY 1

guglIelMo DaRIn ea

WIlson RanDall H tRustee

$1,500,000

8/18/15

233 aRgonne CIR

KusHneRov Paul J

HaHn JaClYn

$508,000

8/19/15

3663 san ReMo DR #5J

basHaM MaRK C tRustee

HollanD tHoMas W tRustee

$2,100,000

8/18/15

1230 noRtHRIDge RD

RoDRIgueZ albeRto tRustee

anDeRson CHRIstIne H tRust

$2,300,000

8/21/15

1020 la vIsta RD

FaRIsH CHaRles tRustee

sCHoCK JoHn R tRustee

$700,000

8/18/15

116 noRtHRIDge RD

gIRon FRanCIsCo J tRustee

MCDonalD JeFFReY l eu

$680,000

8/21/15

5860 IMPala tRaIl

MIlleR JustIn C

HeRnanDeZ FRanCIsCo a eu

$356,000

8/20/15

584 luPIn ln

KellY teRRI a

WatKIns RanDY D eu

$417,500

8/21/15

1144 vIllage DR

HesteR gIna

gaRDneR aRtHuR l eu

$225,000

8/20/15

4072 HIlltoP RD a

sCHultZ steven D

HeRnanDeZ stePHanIe l

$360,000

8/20/15

3858 ventana Ct

CHannel IslanDs HolDIng Co

gIDeon MaCHelle C

$147,500

8/21/15

3350 santa MaRIa 202a

solano JunentIno M eu

lagunas MaRtIn eu

$289,000

8/21/15

2067 tangleWooD DR

nelson Janet tRustee

DotY Jesse W eu

$485,000

8/18/15

4531 CoaCHMan WaY

gaRIbaY antonIo eu

HeRnanDeZ J guaDaluPe eu

$260,000

8/19/15

505 W Donovan RD

HeRnanDeZ, CHRIstoPHeR JaMes

esCaRsega antoInette

$330,000

8/21/15

2406 n bentleY ave

CPH HaRvest glen llC

DHalIWal JasPal s eu

$356,500

8/17/15

925 W ClaRenCe Ct

CPH HaRvest glen llC

MaDIson tHoMas eu

$434,500

8/18/15

1841 s olYMPIa DR

ContReRas FRanCIsCo eu

ContReRas JoRge

$295,000

8/21/15

1019 RoseWooD DR

MeYeRs MICHael a eu

beCeRRa albeRto o eu

$240,000

8/21/15

1138 W FRanK ln

bootH MICHellle v ea

gonZaleZ HenDRICK

$492,500

8/21/15

820 RaabeRg ave

CItY natIonal banK

lIXeY eDWaRD J eu

$300,000

8/21/15

725 e MCelHanY ave

u s banK na

Mann Ken eu

$243,000

8/17/15

735 e CYPRess st

evans tRenton J

guZMan Jose v eu

$290,000

8/21/15

833 e MaRIPosa WaY

CHannel IslanDs HolDIng Co

DoMIngueZ auRea

$158,500

8/21/15

828 e boone st 1

santa YneZ

loCKHaRt Dan eu

MoRaDIan tonY H

$2,050,000

8/18/15

5176 baselIne ave

Motta sIlvIo l tRustee

MaRtIn WIllIaM M eu

$1,645,000

8/20/15

4126 CaseY ave

unInCoRPoRateD

bRoWn lInDa

eDWaRDs baRbaRa

$245,000

8/21/15

1332 W WIlloW ave

PoHlMan bRanDon eu

CaRuana MaRCel J

$365,000

8/21/15

713 ColeMan DR

PolleY Ian ea

JosePH KevIn a eu

$399,000

8/19/15

1801 W loQuat ave

HuIICoCHea MaRCos C eu

HeRReRa MonICa

$255,000

8/19/15

3584 vIa seMI

WHeeleR JaMe s tRust

JenKIns tRavIs eu

$295,000

8/21/15

4021 altaIR Pl

ReIgle tHoMas J eu

PoHlMan bRanDon eu

$465,000

8/21/15

965 CRaIg DR

eDgaR luCIlle n tRustee

PoHlMan JoCelYn t eu

$380,000

8/21/15

40 galaXY WaY

DeWeIl FRanCes tRustee

galatI CaRMelo eu

$469,500

8/21/15

1250 CRaIg DR

Hale RobIn M

MIlleR MInDY

$455,000

8/21/15

760 HIll st

This data is provided to The Santa Barbara Independent by an outside third-party source and represents a partial list of recorded residential sales in Santa Barbara County on the dates listed.

While this information is public record, The Santa Barbara Independent cannot guarantee the accuracy nor the completeness of this list.

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4527 Carpinteria Avenue A, 2BD/BA, $595,000, Sun 1-4, $595,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg, 805-969-1258 5931 Birch #1, 2BD/1BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $349,500, Prestigious Properties & Inv., Stella Anderson 805-570-8529 realestate.independent.com

4780 Chandler Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $749,500, Assist-2-Sell, Roger Jacobson 805692-5060

2911 Foothill Road, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $939,500, Berkshire Hathaway, Debby Rexford 805-886-8773

5066 Birchwood Road, 2BD/1.5BA, Sun 2-4, $529,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Kalia Rork 805-689-0614

632 Dara Road, 4BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $1,029,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Steve Heller 805-252-2749

2960 Glen Albyn, 5BD/3.5BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $1,695,000, Coldwell Banker, Don Haws, 805-895-7653

5082 Calle Real A, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $599,000, A.J. Addeman Properties, Doug Conrad 805-455-2463

1064 Via Regina, 5BD/4BA, Sun 1:304:30, $1,159,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Joe Stubbins 805-729-0778

Montecito

5248 Plaza Aleman, 4BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $879,000, Foundation Real Estate Group, Norman Popp 805-729-3050

39 Dearborn Place #100, 2BD/1BA, Sun 12-3 SUN 12-3pm, $415,000, Keller Williams, Ruth Ann Bowe Real Estate Team 805-6980354

3553 Padaro Lane, 2BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $5,950,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Kathleen Winter 805-451-4663

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2866 Foothill Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $939,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Chris Jones 805-708-7041

203 Serpolla Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,075,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Chierici & Associates 805-680-0501

3375 Foothill Rd #113 & 114, 4BD/4BA, Sun 2-5, $1,898,000, Coldwell Banker, Scott McCosker, 805-687-2436

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1365 Via Veneto, 4BD/4.5BA, Sat 12-3, $3,195,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Karen Davidson 805-320-2489

Goleta

1531 Nantucket Court, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $850,000, Coldwell Banker, Nancy Hussey 805-452-3052

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2659 Todos Santos Lane, 4BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $3,695,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Paula Goodwin 805-451-5699

Carpinteria

1431 Tomol Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $765,000, Coldwell Banker, Gloria Carmichael 805 896-6567

216 Moreton Bay Lane Unit 5, 2BD/1.5BA, Sun By Appt., $439,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Mike Pearl 805637-6888, Gail Pearl 805-637-9595

4747 Camino Del Rey, 3BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $669,500, Coldwell Banker, Patty Colman 805-689-6517 6211 Avenida Ganso, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $825,000, Assist-2-Sell, Roger Jacobson 805692-5060

Downtown Santa Barbara

6836 Fortuna Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $879,000, Coldwell Banker, Jessie Sessions, 805-709-0904

401 Chapala Street 222, 1BD/1.5BA, Sun 11-4, $1,325,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-896-0876

7549 Sea Gull Drive, 4BD/2BA, Sat 12-3 Sun 12-3, $835,000, Keller Williams, Ruth Ann Bowe Real Estate Team 805-698-0351

401 Chapala Street 302, 1BD/2BA, Sun 11-4, $1,495,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-896-0876

Hope Ranch

401 Chapala Street 312, 1BD/2BA, Sun 11-4, $1,275,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-896-0876 401 Chapala Street 403, 2BD/2BA, Sun 11-4, $2,200,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-896-0876 618 Anacapa St #7, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun open, $1,669,000, Keller Williams, Janice Laney 805-705-6974 725 De La Vina Street, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $1,099,999, Keller Williams, Epstein Partners 805-689-9339 1109 Olive Street, 2BD/2BA, Sun 12-3, $959,000 Berkshire Hathaway, Brett Buschbom 805-451-9108 1815 Bath Street #2, 1BD/1.5BA, Sun 12-3, $525,000, Keller Williams, Ruth Ann Bowe Real Estate Team 805-698-0352 1831 Chapala Street, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $749,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Jennifer Berger 805-451-5484 1835 Chapala Street, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $995,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Hristo Hristov 805-284-8471 2415 Chapala Street, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $990,000, Coldwell Banker, Jeani Burke 805451-1429

Eastside Santa Barbara 218 Santa Barbara Street D, 2BD/2.5BA, Sat 2-4, $1,175,000, Berkshire Hathaway, David M. Cohn 805-214-8244 426 Por La Mar Circle, 1BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $545,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Gene Archambault , 805-455-1190 611 East Sola Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,139,000, Keller Williams Realty, Jon Gilkeson 805-335-4749 641 Por La Mar Cir #B, 2BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $939,000, Village Properties, Billy Mandarino 805-570-4827 645 Costa Del Mar C, 2BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $979,000, Village Properties, Billy Mandarino 805-570-4827 1010 North Nopal Street, 2BD/1BA, Sun 1-3, $769,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Mary Whitney 805-689-0915 1305 Blanchard Street, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,095,000, Santa Barbara Estates, Christopher A Page 805-284-8422 1116 North Nopal Street, 3BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $695,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Isaiah J. Polstra 805-722-5085

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4178 Creciente Drive, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $4,195,000, Coldwell Banker, Pat Costello 805-451-3977 4426 Via Alegre, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $2,695,000, Coldwell Banker, , Dave Goldstein 805-448-0468 4509 Auhay Drive A, 4BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $1,175,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bob Ratliffe, 805-448-6642

The Mesa 20 Barranca Ave 2, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,150,000, Mike Richardson Realtors, Mike Richardson 805-963-1704 222 Meigs Road Unit 19, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,275,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Diane Waterhouse, 805-886-2988 821 Weldon Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,125,000, Mike Richardson Realtors, Mike Richardson 805-963-1704 1114 Del Sol Avenue, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,350,000, Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, Hristo Hristov 805-284-8471 1266 San Miguel Avenue, 3BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,625,000, Coldwell Banker, Kirk Hodson 805-886-6527

Mission Canyon 224 Vista De La Cumbre, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,485,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Jim Alzina 805-455-1941 408 Los Robles Lane, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,649,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Deb Archambault 805-455-2966 715 Mission Canyon Road, Sun 1-4, 5BD/4.5BA, $2,995,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, Will Stonecipher 805-450-4821 790 Mission Oaks Lane, 4BD/4.5BA, Sun 1-3, $1,949,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Doug Van Pelt 805-637-3684 858 Cheltenham Road, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,150,000, Coldwell Banker, Jeani Burke 805-451-1429 907 Cheltenham Road, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,250,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258 967 Cheltenham Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-5, $1,200,000, Berkshire Hathaway, John Comin 805-689-3078 2286 Las Tunas Road, 4BD/5BA, Sun 2-4, $3,795,000, Coldwell Banker, Patrice Serrani 805 637-5112 2634 Puesta Del Sol, 1BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $895,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Paula Goodwin 805-451-5699

12 West Mountain Drive, 2BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-4, $1,495,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Toni Sutherland 805-6186880 62 Olive Mill Road, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,439,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Brooke Ebner 805-453-7071

Riviera 116 Orizaba Road, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $2,200,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Joe Boudre 805-319-5364

211 Rametto Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 2-4, $3,395,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Jenny Hall 805-705-7125

859 Jimeno Road, 3BD/3BA, Sat By Appt, Sun 1-4, $1,290,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Jeanne Palumbo 805-689-1968 Carol Mineau 805-886-9284

298 East Mountain Drive, 5BD/4.5BA, Sun 2-4, $2,995,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Daniela Johnson 805-453-4555

936 Garcia Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,295,000, Coldwell Banker, Chris Palme 805-448-3066

352 East Mountain Drive, 3BD/3BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 2-4, $3,495,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Linda Brown “Brownie” 805-666-9090

1010 East De La Guerra, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $895,000, Coldwell Banker, Dana Zertuche 805-403-5520

395 Woodley Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $2,575,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258

1545 Knoll Circle Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,800,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bryan Uhrig 805-331-3191

618 Tabor Lane, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,399,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258

1931 Eucalyptus Hill Road, 3BD/2BA, Sat & Sun 1-3, $2,495,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jessica Stovall, 805-698-9416

830 Riven Rock Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 12-3, $7,750,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Ron Brand 805-455-5045

1889 Eucalyptus Hill Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,465,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Justin Corrado 805-451-9969

923 Buena Vista Drive, 6BD/6.5BA, By Appt., $5,495,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Frank Abatemarco 805-450-7477

2220 Santiago Road, 4BD/4.5BA, Sun 2-4, $3,195,000, Coldwell Banker, Arielle Assur, 805-906-0194

1098 Golf Road, 5BD/4BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-3, $5,995,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Taylor & Tara Toner 805-451-4801

Samarkand

1211 East Valley Road, 4BD/4BA, Sun 12-3, $2,595,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Yolanda Van Wingerden 805-570-4965 1220 Coast Village Road Unit 110, 3BD/2BA, By Appt., $1,150,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Frank Abatemarco 805450-7477 1420 East Valley Road, 6BD/7BA, Sun 2-5, $6,150,000, Coldwell Banker, Brian Goldsworthy 805-570-1289 1445 South Jameson Lane, 5BD/6.5BA, Sun 1-4, $4,495,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Diane Randall 805-705-5252 1530 Mimosa Lane 6BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $7,750,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Michele White, 805-452-7515 1709 Overlook Lane, 5BD/4.5BA, Sun 1-4, $5,250,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Mark Lomas & Kristin Wolf, 805-845-2888 1775 Glen Oaks Drive, 6BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $3,995,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Barbara Neary 805-698-8980 3055 Hidden Valley Lane, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $2,095,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Paula Goodwin 805-451-5699

Noleta 239 Ribera Drive, 4BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $1,175,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, Olesya Thyne 805-708-1917 536 Pintura Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $879,000, Village Properties, Regina Magid 805-451-1994 585 El Sueno Road, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,175,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, David Mires 805-705-8986 1045 Ocean Vista Lane, 5BD/5.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,625,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer, 805-680-4622

3791-E State Street, 3BD/2.5BA, By Appt., $1,279,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jan Banister 805-455-1194

San Roque 219 Toyon Drive, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,630,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Amie Strickland 805-570-7677 222 Calle Granada, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $1,145,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Alexandra Viscosi, 805-755-9005 332 West Alamar Avenue B, 2BD/2.5BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 1-4, $859,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer 805-680-4622 730 Willowglen Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $1,099,000, Village Properties, David Kim 805-296-0662 1228 Manitou Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,525,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Kay Davis 805-440-7254 1333 Santa Teresita Drive, 3BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $3,250,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Dan Johnson 805-895-5150 2525 State Street 25, 1BD/1.5BA, Sun 1-4, $599,000, Coastal Properties, Sylvia E Miller 805-448-8882 3034 Calle Rosales, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 12-3, $939,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Robert Johnson 805-705-1606 3054 Calle Noguera, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 1-4, $1,199,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Debbie Kort 805-368-4479 3639 San Remo Drive 32, Sun 1-4, 2BD/2BA, $435,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, Stu Morse 805-705-0161 3844 Lincoln Road, 6BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,649,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Joe Parker 805-886-5735

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3987 La Colina, 3BD/3BA, Sun 12-3, $1,499,000, Berkshire Hathaway, The Easter Team 805-570-0403

2089 Rebild Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-3, $629,900, Village Properties, Lynn Golden 805-570-5888

Summerland

363 Terrace Court, 3BD/2BA, Sun 11-2, $599,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Chris McCool 805-680-3594

350 Greenwell Avenue, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $3,750,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Andrew Petlow 805680-9575 2210 Calle Culebra, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,850,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Jason Siemens 805-455-1165

Upper East Santa Barbara 15 West Padre, 5BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,499,000, Coldwell Banker, Mark Schneidman 805-452-2428 2025 Garden Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,795,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer 805-680-4622

630 Rancho Alisal Drive, 3BD/3BA, Sat 1-4, $349,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Susan Beckmann 805-245-8141 1138 Via Mavis, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $363,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Karin Aitken 805-252-1205 2785 Lewis Place, 5BD/3.5BA, Sun 12-3, $735,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Marlene Macbeth 805-689-2738

2731 Miradero Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $849,000, Sotheby’s International Realty, Frank Hotchkiss, 805-403-0668

Westside Santa Barbara 316 West Pedregosa Street, 2BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $785,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258 927 West Valerio Street, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 2-4, $799,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Madhu Khemani 805-252-0625

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(the bodies have since been removed to Washington, D.C.), and son Colin Jr. took over the ranch operations. In 1941, he decided to close down the estate. The subsequent auction drew a number of celebrities including Charlie Chaplin and Cary Grant. A dance floor ended up at Oak Park. The estate remained in family hands until 1946 when the Devereux School purchased the property.

The school’s roots go back to New Jersey, where Helena T. Devereux opened her first school for slow-learning children in 1912. A residential school opened in Pennsylvania in 1918, and in 1945 a West Coast campus was begun on property that now is part of Westmont College.

The school was able to purchase the entire Campbell Ranch for $100,000, an amazing price when one considers the manor house alone had cost some $500,000 to construct. The Devereux Foundation continues to operate a treatment center for developmentally disabled children and adults on 30-plus acres, other acreage being sold off over the years. The finely carved granite cross that once marked the resting place of Colin and Nancy Campbell still stands on the ocean-side bluffs.

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1919 with the arrival to American shores of the wealthy Colin Campbell family. Campbell was a retired British army officer who had served in India and Afghanistan, and as a British military attaché in Tsarist Russia. His wife, Nancy, was the daughter of Levi Leiter, a partner in the highly successful Marshall Field retail chain based in Chicago. One of her sisters married Lord Curzon, a viceroy of India. In England, the Campbells made their home in an imposing seaside castle in Kent and led the kind of sumptuous lifestyle that money and blue-blood connections could bring.

English taxation of their Americanderived income was extremely high, thus their decision to come to the U.S. Looking for property that would be similar to their coastal residence back home, they originally were interested in Hope Ranch but eventually settled upon a 250acre tract at Coal Oil Point in Goleta, just west of Isla Vista. They also bought a separate 250-acre parcel further inland.

The Campbells then sent for their three children and an estimated six train car loads of furnishings and set up temporary housekeeping at the Bonnymede estate in Montecito.

The colonel had a paved road, today’s Storke Road, built from Hollister Avenue to his new ranch. Month by month, the estate took shape with dozens of buildings, windbreaks of cypress and eucalyptus, and a polo field. Tragically, Campbell would not live to see his dream completed; he was struck down by a heart attack in the spring of 1923, just short of his 65th birthday.

Nancy Campbell pushed ahead with the development of the estate and the completion of the main house. The result was magnificent — a two-story, Spanish-Colonial Revival residence of some 20,000 square feet, which included more than 30 rooms and 18 baths. Architect Mary Craig utilized adobe made on the estate grounds to build the home. Craig and Nancy Campbell, both widows, went on to become close friends.

The family filled the home with the finest of furnishings, art, and an incomparable library of first editions.

The garage held five Rolls-Royces. The grounds included a blacksmith shop, tennis courts, a private lake, elaborate barbeque/picnic grounds, and a large red barn. A beach house was built at the bottom of the bluffs. Wheat and lima

beans were grown on outlying parts of the property.

Nancy often entertained in a grand manner; one party in 1926 was attended

by Prince George of England, who would later ascend to the English throne.

Nancy died in 1932 and was buried next to her husband, overlooking the Pacific

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loes are hard to miss in the area land-

scape because they are everywhere.

When they are blooming, as they are starting to do this month, they are particularly evident. Showy flowers in shades of orange, coral, and sometimes yellow rise out of their spiky surroundings, attracting the attention of hungry hummingbirds, as well as us humans.

Native to the dry habitats in Africa, aloes come in a staggering variety of shapes and sizes. The smallest rosettes hug the ground just a few inches tall and across, while their arborescent (that just means “treelike”) cousins can reach heights of 30 feet or so.

Whatever their size, almost all aloes are armed with some spines. For the most part, these teeth occur just along the edges of the leaves and pose no great threat of bodily harm. They are generally brittle and break off, leaving only minor scratches to the gardener in charge. One of the most likable species, Aloe plicatilis, has such small teeth on the edges of its flat, gray leaves that they are almost unnoticeable. This plant looks like a sculpture composed of tongue depressors.

Other common ones include A. arborescensand a hybrid of A. ferox and A. wickensii often called Aloe salm-dyckiana. These two branch prolifically, eventually forming dense clumps up to five feet or more in height and are planted all around Santa Barbara and its environs. If it looks like a blooming aloe this month, it is probably one of these latter species.

All aloes naturally grow in warm to hot climates and in soils that tend toward the dry side. Most are fairly forgiving of the area’s

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heavy soils, but for all aloes, it is wise to site them on sloping or raised beds and incorporate sand into the soil for best health. While they can withstand long periods without water, aloes will bloom and look their best with infrequent, but regular, irrigation.

Besides their inherent good looks, aloes are noted for a number of other beneficial attributes. Almost all of them contain some amount of the compound called aloin, which gives them medicinal value. Aloe extracts have been used as a purgative to treat stomach complaints, but the most common use for the juice is to treat burns and other skin irritations. Commercial sources of the most active aloe ingredients, aloin, are mainly produced from one species, Aloe barbadensis, commonly known as aloe vera.

Many cosmetic products, from skin creams to hair-care products, now contain aloe gel, the homogenized fleshy inner portion of the leaf. Without investing in these processed products, it is a simple matter to break off a leaf and apply the gel of aloe vera or one of its close relatives such as A. ferox and apply it directly to the skin for instant first-aid treatment of burns or minor wounds.

More and more different species of aloes are being propagated and are increasingly available. Check out Terra del Sol in Goleta for one of the largest area selections. For lots of excellent advice on not only names of aloes and their hybrids but also growing information, go to wholesale nursery San Marcos Growers’s website. If the aloe is listed there, it will be available at a local nursery — perhaps not every week, but certainly by special order.

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n 1876, Samuel Brinkerhoff, Santa Barbara’s first physician and prominent entrepreneur, owned this undeveloped section of property. Eleven years later, in 1887, when the residence was constructed, the economy was undergoing vast changes from farmland to residential development, as a thriving building boom was underway largely due to the Southern Pacific Railroad connecting Los Angeles to Santa Barbara.

This simple one-and-a-half-story house, which is built on a wooden foundation and features shiplap siding, was most likely designed by a carpenterbuilder of the era to incorporate Victorian and Italianate architectural styles.

The roof is high-gabled, the bay window is supported by decorative brackets, and the transom window, located directly above the front door, adds a sense of height to the home’s entrance. The Italianate porch’s support columns are enhanced with Gothic scroll ornamentation.

By 1889, this house belonged to a widow, Mrs. S. Levy, who may have been the wife of Samuel Levy, a merchant with the Santa Barbara Lumber Company.

Two years later, in 1891, ownership passed to a probable relative, Leon Levy, a saloonkeeper and owner of a liquor store located at 510 State Street. For the next five decades, the home was occupied by the Harry L. and Emilia Myers family.

In 1957, with the addition of a room and passageway, the Levy house was connected to the neighboring property, which served as a treatment center for alcoholics. Currently, the home is privately owned.

Original Owner: Sarah Levy Year of Construction: 1887 Based on information from, among other sources, Survivors; Santa Barbara’s Last Victorians, a publication of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

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Jaw-Dropping Rose Garden What’s the one thing I can do to make my neighbors jealous of my garden?

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Gustavo Uribe is a fifth-generation agricultural specialist who has worked as a professional gardener in Santa Barbara for more than 30 years. Send your gardening questions to gustavo@independent.com .

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by Gustavo Uribe Queen of England is still so very far away.

It’s time to step up your gardening game for that elusive dream we call “the immaculate rose garden.” Luckily for you, Gustavo has tips for growing rosas bonitas.

Manicuring: “Tienes que cortar todo la rosa como siete pulgadas al diagonal, donde empiece la hojita.”When the rose is finished blooming, cut diagonally about seven inches from the flower, right above the leaf’s stem. For a bunch of roses, follow the same rule where the bunch starts. Gustavo says,“Si no las cortas, vienen la plaga y hormigas.” If you don’t trim the roses, they will get plague and ants.

Fertilizer: Add fertilizer about every three months. Gustavo adds,“Uso organico para la ambiente y las plantas, a no contaminar la tierra.” Use organic fertilizer because it’s good for the environment and the plants.

Trimming: Trim the actual rose bunch at least once a year in December or January “cuando están dormidas” — when they’re sleeping. You can trim a second time in June.

He says this is vital “para tener las healthy and beautiful rosas.”

Watering: Gustavo says don’t water them from the top because they will again get plague and ants. Instead, use a Purple Rain Watering Wand— Wand a gardening tool that you can hook up to your hose so that the water comes out dispersed. He waters his roses en “el troncito alrededor”— alrededor” around the little rose trunk.

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