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One of America’s Most Treasured Artists Takes Her New Company of 12 Dancers on Tour

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“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”

– Twyla Tharp

50th Anniversary Tour FRI, OCT 9 / 8 PM / GRANADA THEATRE Tickets start at $40 / $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“Nonstop, fierce bravura, delivered with mind-boggling stamina.” The New York Times An American original, Tharp takes a new company of 12 dancers on a national tour with a new set of works that showcases her signature style – bold, brash and painstakingly precise – set to an equally diverse soundtrack with music by John Zorn, J.S. Bach, Henry Butler and Steven Bernstein.

Don’t miss this special community event!

Twyla Tharp’s The One Hundreds SAT, OCT 10 / PUBLIC PERFORMANCE AT 3 PM ALAMEDA PARK / FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC “The One Hundreds, an experimental work from 1970, a moment when ordinary people, doing ordinary moves, had transfixed the dance avant-garde.” The New Yorker Twyla Tharp brings her groundbreaking work The One Hundreds to Santa Barbara. arbara. 100 dancers and non-dancers perform 100 movement phrases at 11 seconds each. This must-see spectacle is a dynamic display of order in breathtaking chaos. Community members are invited to perform in this interactive piece. (Participation is first-come, first-served. See A&L website for details.)

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On a recent Saturday at Gladstones in Malibu, Long Island transplants from Seaford High School (whose mascot is a Viking) met to celebrate old times and check out our Fall Happenings issue, brought along by Santa Barbaran Joni Kelly (second from right). Her buddies Jim Ristuccia (left, from San Diego), Brenda Schreiber Quesada (West Covina), and Jim “JC” Calciano (Los Angeles) picked right up where they left off, as comforting and familiar as mac ’n’ cheese.

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Feds, Sheriff Field Questions from Santa Barbara Supervisors RALLIER: Miriam Montoya holds a sign during the County Supervisors meeting on the detention process for undocumented immigrants.

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hough great pains were taken to discourage people from mentioning the Marilyn Pharis case, the horrific murder of the 64-year-old air force veteran was clearly the reason dozens showed up Tuesday to the Board of Supervisors’ hearing in Santa Maria. Pharis, who lived in Santa Maria, died in the hospital eight days after she was strangled, raped, and beaten with a hammer on July 24. The suspects are two men, one of whom is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who has pleaded not guilty.

Victor Martinez, 29, had been arrested six times, mostly for misdemeanors, in the past 15 months and booked in Santa Barbara County Jail three times before he, along with U.S. citizen Jose Villagomez, who is 20, allegedly acted together to kill Pharis. The case attracted national media attention and generated confusion about the policies in place for undocumented people convicted of crimes. The latter was the purpose of the hearing—called for

by Supervisor Steve Lavagnino, who represents Santa Maria—and proved to underscore widely different perceptions of immigration enforcement in Santa Barbara County.

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officials have stressed their deportation policies under the one-year-old Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) focus on threats to national security and offenders of violent crimes, particularly felonies. PEP replaced a policy implemented in 2010 known as Secure Communities that cast a net over every undocumented arrestee whether he or she was convicted of a crime or not, ICE official David Marin said Tuesday. Now, ICE officials request county jail staff to hold an inmate longer than their local sentence permits—or notify them of such an inmates’ release date and time—only if the inmate is considered a serious offender.

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But a number of reasons make that process complicated. For starters, Sheriff Bill Brown said, the TRUST (Transparency and Responsibility Using State Tools) Act implemented last year indicates law enforcement agencies could be sued if they comply with such ICE detainer requests, and two recent federal court cases reinforced that law. The U.S. Department of Justice and ICE, among others, all agree that “detainers are a request,” Brown said. The exception would be if a judge signed the detainer, he added. But ICE contends no such document exists and that removal cases are not criminal proceedings but are “administrative,” a separate realm of the legal system.

Of the 9,663 people deported in seven Southern California counties in fiscal year 2014, 87 percent were convicted criminals, according to ICE records; figures specific to Santa Barbara County were not immediately available.

In the Martinez case at issue, ICE did not issue a detainer or request to be notified when he would be released because his case history did not show prior significant criminal convictions and he had never been deported, federal officials stated. A week before the Pharis murder, Martinez was arrested for felony possession of a knife and misdemeanor possession of meth and violation of probation.

The District Attorney’s Office reduced the knife charge to a misdemeanor, citing the facts presented in the case, and Martinez was released by a judge’s order three days later.

He was scheduled to return to County Jail to serve a 30-day sentence on Halloween.

In general, if the Sheriff ’s Office notifies ICE exactly when a targeted inmate is expected to be freed, there might not be suf sufficient time for a federal officer to pick up the inmate. A further wrinkle is that a judge can release an inmate almost immediately, Brown noted. In the past, ICE officials, working out of Santa Maria or Camarillo, have shown up

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to the County Jail a few hours after a targeted inmate was released, perhaps prompting them to locate the individual in their home or workplace. The jail is not staffed with ICE officials full-time, but ICE agents do go into the jail a few times a week and interview all foreign-born inmates —13 percent of the current inmate population. Neither ICE nor Sheriff’s officials could say the percentage of foreign-born inmates who are undocumented.

A number of anti-immigration speakers took exception to so-called “sanctuary cities,” which, a few critics noted, Santa Maria is not. “Catch and release might work well for Fish & Game, but it does nothing … for the area,” one speaker said.

On the flipside, many immigrants’ rights advocates — some with CAUSE (Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy)—argued a misconception exists that immigrants commit crimes at a higher rate. Nine speakers spoke to the supervisors through a translator, describing fear that exists among the undocumented community about authorities, sometimes deterring undocumented people from ever going to the police for help.

“Trust is important,” Brown said.“We are not interested in seeing … hard-working people face deportation.” Brown also called for comprehensive immigration reform, expressing frustration at the discrepancy between federal and state laws. Many speakers and Supervisor Janet Wolf, who has been publically critical of Brown, lauded the sheriff for acting fairly toward undocumented residents.

No action was taken Tuesday, but Lavagnino vowed to work with ICE officials to clarify data, including the number of undocumented people in the County Jail and the number of ICE priority individuals n who are on the streets.

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On 9/21, the second day of UCSB’s fall quarter, an envelope covered in white powder was discovered on the fifth floor of Cheadle Hall. Although eight people came in contact with the envelope and were believed to have been contaminated, it was later determined that the substance on the envelope wasn’t dangerous. Both the Fire Department and Police Department Hazard Units responded in assistance to UC Police Department. The building was evacuated, and the FBI was notified.

The Isla Vista Foot Patrol is investigating vandalism that occurred on the night of 9/10 at St. Michael’s Church, the UCSBaffiliated Episcopal church on Picasso Road where authorities discovered what appeared to be two bullet holes, which had shattered the chapel’s glass entry door. The act of violence comes only weeks after the church began to display signs in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Because the signs have been repeatedly stolen, congregation leaders consider this act connected to the previous acts of vandalism.

An alleged heroin supplier to Santa Barbara and Ventura county dealers — Salvador Cortes Duran, 52, of Oxnard — was arrested on 9/16 on charges related to selling and transporting heroin in a school zone. When serving a search warrant at Duran’s two Oxnard residences, one neighboring an elementary school, authorities found 8.9 pounds of heroin, $96,000 in cash, and various weapons. He was booked into County Jail with bail set at $500,000.

Rudy Collaso, a man accused in June of trying to ax his next-door neighbor to death over long-running disputes between their families, was found incompetent to stand trial and has been sent to Patton State Hospital for psychiatric care. Collaso is charged with attempted murder and burglary after his nightmarish rampage through neighbor Dan Najera’s home, which caused over $100,000 in damage. His next court review is scheduled for 10/27. In 1996, Collaso was sentenced to 12 years in state prison for committing voluntary manslaughter in San Diego County.

Santa Barbara police are investigating the death of a middle-aged homeless man, whose body was found Sunday morning in Stevens Park. Police spokesperson Sgt. Riley Harwood said the official cause of death has not been determined, but based on their investigation and interviews, detectives are “now leaning toward the idea of it being a natural death.” The man’s identify has not been released.

Earlier this month, Venoco employees working on Platform Holly rescued two kayakers whose boat capsized 200 yards north of the Santa Barbara Channel drilling rig.

Venoco spokesperson Aaron McLear said workers observed a man swimming toward

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the rig and helped him aboard. He explained his two-person kayak had tipped and filled with water and that his partner was still with the kayak. A Venoco crew boat was dispatched to find the stranded man, who was discovered with a cut toe but otherwise uninjured.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office responded on the morning of 9/16 to a report that the signature Dos Pueblos High School Volkswagen bug and helmet “Amy,” the star of Dos Pueblos High pep rallies, was found in the quad at San Marcos High School. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the lock was busted at the car’s storage shed, and the car had apparently been hotwired. The mascot car suffered damage to its front, and its tires had been deflated.

CIty An antiabortion protester unsuccessfully sought to enter the Planned Parenthood Sex, Politics & Cocktails fundraiser and social event held at the Biltmore Friday evening by impersonating a nonexistent daughter of Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider. A group of about 10 protesters stood vigil outside, waving large fetus photos from the street. A woman who sought entry to the event was asked to identify herself at the welcoming table. She pointed to the name tag for Mayor Schneider and identified herself as the mayor’s daughter Margaret. Schneider, a former administrator with Planned Parenthood, has no children.

When this was pointed out, the mayor said, the woman became flustered and quickly left.

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A federal jury has acquitted two Santa Barbara jail guards charged with civil rights violations after surveillance video appeared to show them beating a handcuffed inmate in June 2013.

The three-day trial concluded 9/16 and followed an earlier trial that ended in a jury hung 9-3 in favor of guards Robert Kirsch and Christopher Johnson, who Christopher Johnson Robert Kirsch were fired shortly after the incident. “I feel relieved,” said Kirsch, who’s maintained he did nothing wrong in subduing inmate Charles Owens as he was being transferred to another cell. Owens was awaiting trial on rape and murder charges at the time and has since been convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The jury found Johnson guilty of felony obstruction of justice for not including Kirsch’s use of force in his official report on the confrontation. He faces a maximum of 20 years at his sentencing next January, though he will likely not receive the full term. Owens was being moved for disciplinary reasons, and the video shows Johnson suddenly taking him to the ground. Prosecutors argued the takedown was unnecessary and that Kirsch delivered unwarranted kicks and knee strikes.

But close, repeated viewings of the video — shot from 40 feet down a hallway — show the 15-second struggle involved no excessive force to subdue Owens, who was kicking and resisting, said Kirsch’s attorney, Bill Hadden. “The [Santa Barbara] DA’s Office should have consulted a use-of-force expert,” Hadden said. “What happens … is the government wants to jump to conclusions and get the monkey off its back so no one can say they didn’t act.” Hadden has successfully represented many law enforcement officers, including in the Rodney King case.

Kirsch and Johnson were indicted soon after county prosecutors saw the video and, for reasons still unclear, enlisted the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in their investigation. Kirsch and Johnson’s supporters claim the move was politically motivated. The two still face local assault charges, and the DA’s Office plans to consult federal authorities before proceeding. Owens has filed a civil lawsuit against Kirsch, Johnson, and the Sheriff’s Office over his alleged assault. Kirsch intimated he may appeal his termination and petition the county for reinstatement. — Tyler Hayden

COuNty County officials touched on the longtime problem of Isla Vista cliff erosion at this week’s board hearing, held to update the emergency permit that was issued in May for ocean-side 6600 Del Playa Drive after a sizable boulder slid into the ocean earlier this year.

With the recent Southern California rainfall a possible preview for an upcoming El Niño winter, property owners and the county’s Planning and Development department are bracing for storms.

The Goleta City Council approved the purchase of new LED traffic-signal modules on 9/15 to replace existing ones that have been in operation as long as or longer than the lights’ typical lifespan of around 10 years. City Manager Michelle Greene was authorized to purchase nearly $60,000 worth of eight- and 12-inch traffic signals and pedestrian countdown heads from JTB Supply Company, a traf traffic product provider.

The Goleta Skateboarding Movement (GSM) is preparing to notch an appreciable but modest victory as the Goleta City Council prepares to move forward with a design of a multi-use park on Hollister and Kellogg avenues that includes a small skateboarding plaza. But at around 5,000 square feet, say GSM members, only five or so skaters could safely use the plaza at a time. “That’s basically about half of what they need as a minimum-size neighborhood skate park,” said GSM co-president cont’d page 10 

STANDING ROOM ONLY: Carp City Hall was packed to the gills Monday with project opponents.

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he pushback was evenly relentless and polite Monday evening as Carpinteria residents turned out in full force to roast the latest plan to develop the city’s treasured bluffs. A crowd of people wearing matching green shirts, many of them veterans of past fights to preserve the open space, packed City Hall and spoke against the proposal for a 154-room hotel, 85 homes, a restaurant, and a golf course on 27 acres of oceanfront property between City Hall and the Venoco processing plant.

Equally as unenthused about the project were Carpinteria’s City Council and Planning Commission, which hosted the special joint hearing as a preliminary show-and-tell from Beverly Hills–based developer Brad Hall and architect Brian Cearnal. They shared worries about environmental impacts, increased traf traffic, and obstructed views, and said the project runs contrary to the community’s small-town character.

“This doesn’t seem like Carpinteria to me,” said Vice-Mayor Fred Shaw, explaining the development felt isolated from the rest of the city and sits uncomfortably close to Venoco’s oil operations. Commissioner Jane Benefield admonished the plan as a Stockholm-syndrome development that throws everything at the wall just to see what sticks. “Then with the stroke of a pen, you cut out half of the proposed buildings. That’s not going to work here.”

“I don’t want Carpinteria to become a tourist town,” continued Mayor Gregg Carty, echoing concerns over the project’s density and commercial elements. Water was also on his mind. “One more water meter seems too much right now,” Carty said, much less dozens and dozens more. The site, currently occupied by farm fields and the Tee Time driving range, uses 26 acre-feet of water a year.

The development would necessitate 21 more.

The commission and councilmembers, however, were careful to leave the door open for further discussion. They said Tuesday was just the start of what will likely be years of negotiations, as the plan could and should be significantly downsized. Much appreciation was expressed that Hall and Cearnal were open to the early dialogue. But regardless of the pair’s good-faith efforts, Councilmember Brad Stein cautioned the developers that Carpinteria’s citizens will not take the matter lying down. “You’re forewarned on this,” he said.“Good luck.” independent.com

In his presentation, Cearnal said the project would include a small farm to supply the on-site restaurant. An extensive graywater system would serve the property, he explained, and between a 400-foot-wide swath of bluff that would stay untouched, the agricultural operation, and the nine-hole golf course, a full 30 percent of the area would remain open space. A much-needed railroad undercrossing would be built, Cearnal went on, and the hotel would not cater to just the super wealthy. With the razing of the Miramar, the South Coast lost a family-friendly destination with a large public meeting center; the new hotel would fill that void, he said.

Hall promised the gathered officials that he’s sensitive to community needs. He said he grew up in a small Midwestern town and understands Carpinteria’s values. The development would bring a “great, quality product to the city,” Hall said. And it would become the most environmentally sustainable project around, a model for future build-outs. When asked by Stein if he’d created anything similar, Hall said he just finished a comparable project in Orange County’s Dana Point. That elicited groans from the crowd.

Since the 1960s, several development proposals have surfaced for the same stretch of Carpinteria coastline, known as Bluffs 1. None of them materialized. In 1998, the Citizens for the Carpinteria Bluffs, the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, and thousands of area donors rallied to purchase a large chunk of land immediately west of the property and turn it into a nature reserve. The same nonprofit and the city tried to buy Bluffs 1 in 2014, but it was snagged by O.Rhyan Capital Management LLC, which is now in the process of selling it to Brad Hall’s Capital Hall Partners.

The public comments against Hall’s proposal came fast and furious on Tuesday. “I think this is a beautiful, well-thought-out plan,” said Donnie Nair, pausing for effect, “for someplace else.” Nair said she almost feels bad for all the developers that have come and gone away empty-handed over the years but that the Carp community won’t fight any less hard this time around. “You guys don’t stand a chance,” she said to applause.

By the end of the meeting, a number of the councilmembers and commissioners suggested that if the public truly wanted to preserve Bluffs 1, it needed to quickly pony up the cash to buy the property. But, said Carty, n “That’s a wild dream at this point.”

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The 16-year development battle over Veronica Meadows, a 14-acre parcel of open space along the lower stretches of Arroyo Burro Creek, was finally put to rest Tuesday when the City Council voted unanimously to contribute the $2.7 million necessary for the Trust for Public Land to purchase the property from the developers for $4 million. When the ink BACK IN THE DAY: Developer Mark Lee leads is dry, the Trust will turn a site tour in 2005. the property over to City Hall.

The fight over Veronica Meadows — pitting developer Mark Lee against the Urban Creeks Council, Citizens Planning Association, and various constellations of neighborhood groups — involved multiple redesigns, many agonizingly long public hearings, two separate legal battles, and one citywide election. At issue in the Measure Y campaign of 2012 was whether a public easement over nondeveloped city park property, to allow for the construction of an entrance bridge over the Arroyo Burro Creek, should be allowed for the private development — 25 homes — of the land. Sixty-six percent of the voters said no.

“It’s a really big deal,” exclaimed Mayor Helene Schneider. “It’s a very long and winding road to get to where we should have been in the first place.” Echoing her sentiment was Councilmember Bendy White, an ardent supporter of open-space acquisition. “Miracles come along and happen every 10 years,” he said. The $2.3 million in city funds came from Measure B reserves set aside by voter approval for creek preservation and restoration projects. Measure B funds come from a surcharge to the bed tax exacted by City Hall and are not available for general fund purposes.

The property includes 1,600 linear feet of creek frontage, largely choked by arundo canes. Restoration of that stretch will likely become a major focus of the city’s Creeks Division, but such plans have yet to be proposed let alone adopted. In addition, the land could pave the way for the development of a Class I bike path along Las Positas Road, though tensions between bike-path advocates and creek — Nick Welsh supporters have already surfaced.

news briefs cont’d George Nagai. Goleta was one of 10 U.S. cities to be offered a summer 2015 skate park grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation.

In order to receive the $5,000 grant, GSM must raise an equal amount. Its next fundraiser is S.B. Open Streets on 10/24.

STATE Among the stack of bills on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk is one pitting labor unions

against the University of California. Introduced by Sen. Ricardo Lara, SB 376 would require UC — the third largest employer in the state — to pay contracted workers the same wages and benefits as existing university employees doing similar work. But the UC Office of the President argues the bill would unfairly target the UC system by not placing the same requirements on the California Community Colleges or the California State University systems, would end contract work, and would cost UCs $36 million. n

How Dry Is It?

Santa Barbara City residents have cut back water consumption by 35 percent since 2013, exceeding the state-imposed goal of 25 percent in response to the hottest, driest, fastest drought in recorded California history. As impressive as those numbers appear, city water czar Joshua Haggmark warned the City Council Tuesday that the reservoir at Lake Cachuma has dropped eight feet in the last month, and its spill elevation has plunged 80 feet since 2011. Cachuma is currently at just 17.5 percent of its total carrying capacity, and the water agencies drawing from it have grown increasingly mistrustful that the others are taking more water than they’re entitled to. Tracking the amount of water delivered to each agency, Haggmark said, has become “a very hot issue.” The city’s Lake Gibraltar Reservoir — nearly silted up — is only 18 inches deep.

All this was shown in gory detail to the councilmembers courtesy of aerial video taken with a drone. Councilmember Frank Hotchkiss asked Mayor Helene Schneider if she could get Governor Jerry Brown to visit Santa Barbara to give the city an award for reducing water consumption more than any other city in California.

Schneider replied, “I’m sure he’ll love an invitation to Santa Barbara.” (It’s not clear Santa Barbara really is number one when it comes to conservation, said Haggmark, but it’s clearly high on the list.) In the meantime, demolition crews began smashing and removing remnants of the old desalination plant — built 20 years ago — that can’t be fit into the new plant scheduled to begin producing water next September.

— Nick Welsh

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plan to build 125 rental units on a large parcel of land in Santa Barbara’s so-called Funk Zone was warmly received by Santa Barbara’s stylistically persnickety Architectural Board of Review (ABR) last week, but no final determination was made whether the plans—still conceptual and far from complete — were compatible with the neighborhood by Gray Avenue and Mason Street.

Developer Neil Dipaola has dropped prior plans to include a hotel as part of his sprawling mixed-use development, maxing out instead on rental housing. Dipaola said existing zoning allows him to build 47 large condos but that he’s more interested in building rental housing. To pencil out financially, he claims, he needs to build more units—on average 600 square feet—than Santa Barbara zoning, even with maximum bonus densities for affordability, allows. In addition, Dipaola is seeking permission to build 13,000 square feet of shops and restaurants and 9,100 square feet of light industrial space, some of which would be earmarked for area artists.

Gone from his latest plans were the development’s signature industrial storage containers and Airstream trailers, but retained are four sailboats to be perched on top of the four-story development’s roof. Three of those boats have been described as cabana space for the rooftop pool. While Dipaola wows city taste commissars with highoctane style points, city planners take a more

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cautious view. According to city planning documents, nothing more than three-story buildings are allowed in that neighborhood, and Dipaola is asking for four.

Under existing zoning, Dipaola can build no more than 47 rental units on the property, and even when density bonuses are factored in, the max is 67, not the 125 he’s asking for.

Likewise, city planners say Dipaola needs to provide at least 291 parking spaces, and he’s proposing 179. Dipaola is availing himself of a state law that rewards developers seeking to build affordable housing with certain incentives and concessions they deem necessary to make the project economically feasible.

The extent to which that law trumps City Hall’s rules and regulations has yet to be determined, but city planners contend the densities Dipaola is seeking overcompensates him for the financial sacrifice he’s making by building 10 below-market rentals. Resolution of those issues remains many months away. Next week, the ABR will take another look to determine whether the proposed development is compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. n

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Maintaining that Fish & Wildlife had no authority to ditch the congressionally mandated program, fishermen groups — including Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara (CFSB)—sued to keep safeguards in place. On September 18, Judge John Walter denied that challenge. In a statement, CFSB expressed “disappointment” with Walter’s decision, adding, “it’s unfortunate that local fishermen run the risk of federal prosecution when they go fishing.” CFSB’s Michael Harrington explained that urchin divers, for example, could be viewed as harming sea otters by taking away their food.“All you need is one group to say that fishermen are harassing sea otters,” he said. Working on behalf of Fish & Wildlife, Santa Barbara’s Environmental Defense Center lauded the

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he man who entrusted average Californians with political power through the ballot initiative system in 1911 said that direct democracy places “in the hands of the people the means by which they may protect themselves.”

Wild guess: Back then, the late governor Hiram Johnson probably wasn’t referring to porn stars putting on Trojan prophylactics.

Nevertheless, a century after Progressive reformer Johnson brought the initiative, referendum, and recall system to California voters, his notion has proved versatile enough to give The People a say on accoutrements employed by dirty-movie entertainers.

“Porn producers tell the media that performers have a choice when it comes to condoms,” one veteran actress said, on behalf of a proposed measure regulating hardcore films. “What they don’t tell you is that if a performer wants a condom, they’re paid less. Sometimes producers will fire you for asking.”

The condom issue arises as the L.A.-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is close to qualifying for the ballot legislation to oversee what the porn trade association refers to as “the pleasure products and adult entertainment industry.”

A case study of how even the most idiosyncratic special interests now routinely use Johnson’s grand design, the condom initiative is merely one of an astonishing 70 potential initiatives and constitutional amendments targeting the 2016 election.

Earnest advocates for a multitude of diverse political notions—a six-year prison term for shellfish consumers, a five-cent-perounce tax on bottled water, a ban on transgender bathrooms, expansion of the Legislature to 10,000 members, and a quadrennial vote on California’s secession from the Union, among others—are now out hustling signatures for pet causes; there’s also one to legalize the keeping of ferrets as, well, pets.

FUN WItH NUMbers: To be sure, only a small number of the 70 wannabe laws will achieve the required number of signatures to make the ballot — 365,880 for statutes and 585,407 for constitutional amendments.

Since the system began, with the 1912 ballot, 1,855 have been legally approved for circulation, according to the secretary of state; of these, 363—20 percent—qualified for the ballot, and just 123 won voter approval, giving ferret/secession proponents an overall 6.6 percent chance of success.

Despite the silly nature of many suggested measures, a steady two-thirds of Californians like the system, according to polling by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).

They also have criticisms, however: 55 percent in a 2013 PPIC poll said the process is mostly controlled by special interests, while 70 percent said there are too many ballot measures and nearly 80 percent said many initiatives are too complicated and confusing.

But efforts to reform the process — by requiring more transparency about the financial backers of initiatives, for example —in recent years have gone exactly nowhere.

“History suggests that initiative reform will not be an easy task,” PPIC chief Mark Baldassare wrote in an analysis of possible reforms, the understatement of the century.

So here is a glance at some substantive circulating initiative proposals for citizens who may be confronted at Costco by pushy signature gatherers.  taxes: The “temporary” tax increases

sponsored by Governor Brown and approved by voters in 2012 will soon expire; public employee unions are promoting two different measures to extend higher tax rates on the wealthy; one calls for a 2020 expiration, while the other would make increases permanent.

There’s a reason our remotes don’t have a delete button.

 MarIJUaNa: Six separate initiatives

are circulating to legalize personal use of pot or ease restrictions on medical marijuana. A group organized as ReformCA is expected to attract the most financial support, with backers predicting a $14 million campaign.

 eNvIroNMeNt: Industry interests have

qualified a referendum to roll back the state’s ban on plastic bags. The measure would not affect local bans like Santa Barbara’s, but the fight over the statewide repeal will likely be the most expensive of 2016.

 vaccINatIoNs: Religious, alternative

medicine, and “personal choice” opponents of a new law requiring common vaccinations in public schools are gathering signatures to repeal it.

As for the condom controversy, the proindustry Free Speech Coalition argues that current self-regulation protocols work well and plans to fight the public health measure.

“Performer health is important. But performers, the most tested population on the planet, should have the ultimate right to control their bodies and their health,” said Diane Duke, executive director of the group.

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SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN OR JIVE-ASS SLIPPERS? If consistency is truly the hobgoblin of little minds, then Pope Francis and his visit to the United States have my brain

exploding well beyond the carrying capacity of my confined cranium. A week ago, I was in high dander over how Catholic bishops were flinging their spiritual throw weight about on the subject of abortion. Likewise, a few weeks before that, how they were maumauing Catholic legislators in Sacramento on a right-to-die bill now waiting for the governor’s signature. Yet when the Pope heaves the Chair of Saint Peter across the room on the subject of climate change, I’m a big fan.

If they had football jerseys bearing his name, I’d be the first to wear one.

Let’s be clear: When it comes to theological dance moves, the Pope implies all kinds of dramatic motion without moving his feet an inch. Neat trick. It’s all in the hips, I guess. Gay people are still “intrinsically disordered.” Under Francis, women are doomed to remain second-rate citizens and excluded forever from the priesthood on the pseudotheological justification that they don’t have the same junk Jesus did.

While in Washington, D.C., Pope Francis declared Father Junípero Serra — California’s infamous founding father—a saint as a much-needed nod to all the colonized and conquered Third Worlders. The same Serra pioneered the very colonial system that laid

such waste to California’s native populations.

Serra, as we have all been told, killed them with love. And to the extent Pope Francis espouses doctrines of hate and exclusion, he remains a most loving hater. As such, Francis — radiant life force that he undeniably is — qualifies as one of the loudest mixed messages on the planet. The moral of the story? Take what you can get. When love’s on the menu, mixed messages are better than no messages at all.

On the subject of climate change, however, the Pope is speaking with extraordinary clarity: If you want to get to heaven, don’t befoul the skies. Pretty simple. Conservative Catholics are, as expected, sputtering up a storm. The brilliantly sniffy columnist George F. Will dissed the Pope’s recent encyclical on climate change as “fact-free flamboyance” in trendy service to “the secular religion of ‘sustainability.’ ” Others have suggested the Pope is, in reality, a nature-worshipping neo-pagan, analogous, I suppose, to President Obama being in reality a Kenyan and a Muslim. I’m hoping the Pope will slip on his famous “Shoes of the Fisherman” to kick some serious ass. Should that not occur, we will be forced to comfort ourselves with the exertions of A. Barry Cappello, Santa Barbara’s premier boutique litigator, who — along with Leila Noël —set new land-speed records this weekend in filing a class-action lawsuit against Volkswagen for its diaboli-

cally engineered deception against federal clean-air standards. By now, everyone’s read how VW engineers magically inserted a computer program into about five years’ worth of offending diesels — maybe 500 in Santa Barbara County — to disable the cars’ cleanair functions except, of course, when the car was being tested for emissions. It doesn’t get much more premeditated than that. With the clean-air functions deactivated, it turns out the offending diesels spew out 40 times more air pollutants than if they were on. The EPA announced VW’s duplicity last Friday.

By Monday morning, Cappello and Noël had rustled up no fewer than six diesel-driving clients, written up their sworn affidavits, and filed their class-action lawsuit. As speed-oflight as that certainly was, they were still not the first to file. They were, however, the first to file in state court — rather than federal — naming the two California companies that helped test the cars’ emissions control system as well as VW itself. VW, we are told, could be liable for $18 billion in fines. And that’s totally separate from the $51 million in clean-air subsidies paid by the State of California to encourage the sale of green cars. A petty point perhaps, but by contrast, GM just settled with the Department of Justice for $900 million over a faulty ignition system that led to the deaths of at least 124 Volt and Ion drivers and 275 serious injuries. Company documents—eight internal reviews —suggest GM knew or should have known about the defects for 10 years before initiating one of the biggest recalls in automotive history.

It’s an exhausted lament, but no actual crimi-

nals were criminally prosecuted for what was clearly criminal conduct. This settlement puts GM on the equivalent of probation for three years. If the company doesn’t kill again in that time — at least in the same way — GM’s in the clear. It’s worth noting some of the drivers who survived the crashes — one had trace amounts of Xanax in her system — were, in fact, criminally prosecuted for having caused their passengers’ deaths.

Air quality may be amorphous, but it matters. A lot. A study just published in Environmental Science & Technology journal indicates that all the unreasonably stringent air-quality rules enacted by various California pollution-control districts over the past 23 years have reduced the quantity of cancercausing particulate matter in the air by 68 percent. The cancer risk from seven toxic air contaminates dropped by 76 percent in the same time period. Concerns over the leadership of Santa Barbara’s very own Air Pollution Control District have flared up yet again, and APCD director Dave Van Mullem will soon find himself without a chair when the current game of musical chairs concludes.

The APCD board sought to get rid of Van Mullem at least once before, but according to prevailing political folklore, representatives from Santa Maria Energy rallied ferociously — and successfully — to his defense. I don’t know whether Van Mullem is, in fact, a stooge for the oil industry. But I do know with friends like Santa Maria Energy, he doesn’t need enemies.

In the meantime, let’s hear it for love and — Nick Welsh inconsistencies.

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H. “Tom” Keyani

Tom’s wishes, a private family cel celebration of his life will be held at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to the Point Lobos Foundation Trail Fund (pointlobos.org), Box 221789, Carmel, CA 93922.

Grace Valent (Volpe), 87 05/10/28 – 09/02/15

H. “Tom” Keyani died on September 19, 2015. His greatest joy was his family. He was a lifelong learner, a devoted husband, businessman, photographer, cook, and woodworker. The role he loved beyond measure was “Dad.” Born in Yazd, Iran, Tom came to the U.S. to study electrical engineering at UC Berkeley. He was a photographer for Cal’s Blue and Gold yearbook and, in 1969, he served as the head photographer.

He documented many dramatic moments of the Berkeley protests of the 1960s.

Tom went on to pursue a doctorate in electrical engineering at UC Santa Barbara. It was at UCSB that he met Barbara. For the next four years, they built the foundation that lead to a 41-year marriage. Without a doubt, the births of Jenny, then Maria, were among the happiest days of his life. From a very young age, on Saturday mornings the girls watched cooking shows with Tom (and he would watch Sesame Street with them) and they were his kitchen helpers, learning how to prepare American and Persian dishes. As a family, memories were made during road trips, and the most frequent travel destination was Carmel’s breathtaking Point Lobos State Natural Reserve.

Both girls shared Tom’s love of math and science. He was exceptionally proud of seeing Maria receive a master’s degree in civil engineering and Jenny receive a doctorate in chemistry, both from his beloved UC Berkeley.

Tom was delighted to welcome into the family son-in-law Dom Galic, also a Cal graduate. In 2014, when grandson Miles was born to Dom and Maria, Tom was thrilled to meet his “little man,” the next generation of our family.

He is survived by wife Barbara Keyani, daughter Dr. Jennifer Keyani, daughter Maria Keyani, son-in-law Dr. Dom Galic; grandson Miles Keyani-Galic; sisters Laal and Farangiss; “sisters” Fran, Dolly, and Parvin and many other nieces and nephews. As Tom’s health began to fail, he was especially grateful for the support provided by in-laws Richard and Dawn Ibarra. In accordance with

will be remembered and cherished always. Catherine is survived by her son, John; his wife, Lisa; her daughter-in-law, Juditta; her stepdaughter, Noreen; and four grandchildren, Gianna, Cicely, Sydney, and Mateo. Her friends are many, especially the parishioners of St. Anthony’s Church who showered her with love and kindness all of the years she spent in Santa Barbara. Their love and care will never be forgotten.

Judy A. Freeman Cousineau 09/05/42 – 09/07/15

Thompson and nephew Matthew Thompson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard P. Cousineau.

Memorial contributions are welcome at Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County, P.O. Box 1536, Santa Barbara, CA 93102 or The Assistance League of Santa Barbara, 1249 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

A celebration of life will be held at the Goleta Valley Community Center, 5679 Hollister Ave. on Sunday, October 11, 2015, from 1-3pm.

Louie E. Villegas 06/21/21 – 09/04/15

Beloved mother, grandmother, sister. A celebration of life will be held for Grace on Saturday 9/26/15 at 2 pm - 6 pm at the Santa Barbara Moose Lodge 110 W. Victoria St. All who knew her are welcome.

Catherine Saporoso Micari Luca Alfano Architetto 1920 – 2015

Catherine Saporoso Micari Luca Alfano Architetto died September 3, 2015, at Serenity House in Santa Barbara, California, at the age of 95. She lived a rich and full life, having been happily married and sadly widowed four times. She survived the horrors of WWII, though her first husband did not.

Trained as a dressmaker in Italy, she started three successful businesses in New York and employed a dozen people when she retired.

She died, as she lived, on her own terms. Only weeks before her passing she was living independently and going to the beauty parlor weekly, as she had done for over fifty years. Still a natty dresser at 95, a friend referred to her as “la contessa.” Catherine loved to cook savory dishes from her native Sicily for family and friends and did so until the last weeks of her life. At her passing, she was surrounded by family and friends who held her and loved her. She

Judy A. Freeman Cousineau, 72 passed away in Encinitas, California, on September 7, 2015.

She fought myelofibrosis with all her might.

Judy was born November 5, 1942, in Fargo, North Dakota. She attended Morehead State Teachers College in Minnesota. Judy was a long-time resident of Goleta/Santa Barbara and worked as a Special Education Instructional Aide with the Goleta Union School District for almost 30 years. She had a special talent for teaching reading to young children.

Judy loved life and didn’t want to miss anything. She had a great sense of humor and loved making people laugh. She always took it as a challenge to make people smile.

She didn’t shy away from color and loved to add color to her quilts, garden and clothing.

Judy enjoyed many things, including being with her family and friends, quilting, walking, traveling, gardening, shopping, entertaining, volunteering and playing music whether it was the clarinet, ukelele or spoons.

She treasured her time in the Prime Time Band and Ukelele Lulus. Judy loved volunteering at the Assistance League of Santa Barbara. She also enjoyed her book club, quilting guild, and the Alegria Social Club, and a special shout-out to the Pinon Pussies.

She is survived by her children Amy Freeman (Ed Callaway), Lance Freeman and Wendy Roth (Matthew Roth) and grandchildren Jackson, Perri, Marin, Christian, Riley, Alison, Thompson and Carson and brother Larry Thompson, sister-in-law Diana

Louie Villegas passed away peacefully at his home on September 4 at the age of 94. He was born June 21, 1921, in Santa Barbara on E. Ortega St. to Romualdo and Patrocinio Villegas. Louie, the oldest of five children, grew up in Santa Barbara and Lompoc, where he graduated from Lompoc High School. In 1938, the family briefly returned to Santa Barbara but later moved to Chihuahua, Mexico, the hometown of Romualdo and Patrocinio.

After World War II broke out, both Louie and his brother Mike returned to the U.S. in 1942 to fight in the war. Louie enlisted in the navy, first serving as a gunner on the USS Gillespie. One of his first assignments was protecting a convoy of 100 ships that was heading to Africa to support General George Patton’s forces.

On a later mission to Alaska, after delivering 900,000 gallons of gasoline, his ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and Louie was wounded and thrown overboard. He was rescued from the freezing water by a Russian fishing boat that happened to be in the area. Had he not been immediately rescued, he would have died within minutes. After he recovered from his wounds, Louie continued to serve in the war in the South Pacific campaign. He was discharged in 1945.

Louie returned to Chihuahua to propose marriage to Elvira Vega whom he had met before leaving to serve in the war. They

married in 1946 and moved to Santa Barbara where they have lived ever since. Louie began working at Smardan & Hatcher Plumbing Supply as a truck driver and warehouse worker. His outgoing personality, organizational skills and bilingualism allowed him to eventually become the warehouse foreman. He retired from Smardan & Hatcher after a 30 year career.

Louie was a very friendly, social person. He was proud of his children and greatly enjoyed family get-togethers for special holidays, birthdays or barbecues along with annual family vacations to Mexico and other destinations. He especially loved his grandchildren and great-grandchildren who were a constant source of joy. He had many friends, and he highly valued those friendships. During his retirement years, Louie could be found at McDonald’s every morning discussing sports and the world’s problems with an ever-changing group of fellow retirees.

Louie is preceded in death by his brothers, Mike and Frank Villegas. He is survived by his wife of 69 years, Elvira Villegas, his sisters Juventina Aranda and Rachel De Alba, his daughter Luz “Lucy” Villegas Buckelew (Pablo), son Luis A. Villegas (Tina), six grandchildren (Rebecca Borgioli (Andrea), Paloma Arnold (Matthew) Bianca Vega (Joey), Ariana Alvarez (Alfredo), Maritza Best (Sean), and Alessandra Villegas (Carlos), 10 great-grandchildren, numerous cousins, nephews and nieces.

Louie, the patriarch of the family, will be greatly missed.

The family wants to thank Dr. Michael Bernstein, for his 15 years of thoughtful caring for Louie, and Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice Care’s terrific services, especially those of Elizabeth Swede.

The Rosary was held on Thursday, September 17, at 7:30 p.m. and the funeral Mass on Friday, September 18, at 10:00 a.m., both at St. Raphael’s Church, 5444 Hollister Ave., Goleta, CA. Arrangements are entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary.

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n the battle to save Hammonds Meadow, Bob powerhouse of legal action and advocacy for environWhitney was a warrior. He’d grown up in Costa mental protection in Santa Barbara County. And Little Mesa, honing his bodysurfing skills at Newport Cojo Bay, above the Hollister Ranch, just below Point Beach’s Wedge with his brothers, Peter and Chris. Conception, still remains in its natural state today, a A UCSB grad who received a master’s in economics rarity in Southern California. from USC in 1964, Bob lived with his family in the Linda Krop, chief counsel at the EDC and a forearly ’70s in an old cottage on the Hammond estate, mer intern, reflected, “Bob’s legacy in Santa Barbara Bonnymede, which was gradually turning into a field endures—in the open spaces he helped preserve and of condominiums. When yet another development in the coast that he helped protect from a massive was proposed, Bob felt keenly the future loss of the LNG proposal near Point Conception. We owe a lot open meadow and the public-access threat to the for- to Bob and will always treasure his contribution to this community.” mative Montecito surf spot off Hammond’s.

Whether in Willits, California, or Havre, Montana, He became a key member of the Friends of Hammonds, which formed in 1971. After returning from a or Sitka, Alaska, where Bob’s teaching career took him, four-year teaching job in New Zealand, he worked to he continued his environmental activism. He finally forge ties between surfers, lawyers, and Native Ameri- became an environmental planner in Northern Calicans that had not before existed in his persistent efforts fornia, where he helped implement state sustainable to find a way to preserve a small piece of paradise. forest practices in Sonoma and Mendocino counties, Although the conand was the drivdos were built, after ing force behind more than a decade, the Golden State the coalition won the Land Conservancy ability to retain three based in Willits. He acres of the meadow was also a founding intact. Today, publicmember of the Guaaccess trails and the lala River Watershed Council and served natural beach still on a wide variety of exist for future generations to enjoy. citizen groups proBob’s work for the moting sound envienvironment became ronmental practices. a lifelong passion. He Bob approached cared deeply for the these endeavors earth and its forests IN HIS ELEMENT: Bob Whitney loved oceans and forests, with soft-spoken and oceans and felt it and he worked to protect them, memorably Hammonds humor, intelligence, was our responsibility Meadow, the Gualala River watershed, and areas around patience, and perto take care of them Willits. sistence. Unfailingly and seek justice for all generous with his living beings. When Western LNG Associates sought time and spirit, he brought great patience and insight to build a shipping terminal near Point Conception in to the community-based land trust movement — and 1977 from which to pipe liquefied natural gas to Long a healthy dose of pragmatism. His deep passion for the Beach, Bob went up against the state, SoCalGas, and ocean is expressed in an excerpt from a poem he wrote in 1993: “Our abrupt hour is not forever/ An almost PG&E to make sure it didn’t get built.

“Bob jumped right in the middle of it,” recalled unnoticed mark of time / Yet maintaining balance Marc McGinnes, the Environmental Defense Center’s with her / Absorbs me and mine. / It might not be too (EDC) chief counsel in the Western LNG case. “He late to learn / Of a renewal for the sea / It might not blew the horn on the plant, which was going in right be too late to yearn / For Planet Ocean’s Sanctuary.”

Bob had three children with Sally Bromfield, whom next to Hollister Ranch.”

The issue grew beyond a development on pristine he met at UCSB’s Campus Point when he asked to borcoastal land.“Bob stepped forward unselfishly to help row her surfboard. After their divorce, he remarried, mobilize and defend Native rights … and educate to Joan Person Whitney, and they raised two sons and non-Indians on what is now called ‘environmental remained lovingly married to the end of his life. Bob injustice,’” explained Marcus Lopez, whose father, always made visiting his children and grandchildren Victor Lopez, was one of the Chumash elders who a top priority in his life. Together they had many great called for what became a nine-month occupation at family adventures: surfing in Mexico, snowboarding at Point Conception. The windswept point holds the Tahoe, YMCA Family Camp TQ in the Sierras, travels Western Gate, the place from which the soul departs, to San Diego and Santa Barbara to visit his children and protecting the site was a spiritual issue for the and grandchildren, and hosting family at his “Camp Chumash. “He made the connection with the ocean Brooktrails.” and native rights of self-determination,” Lopez said.

Robert “Bob” Bruce Whitney — son, husband, “At a time when ‘Red Power’ was at its height, he saw father, grandfather, uncle, brother, good friend, and the need to defend the land, taking the Chumash lead friend of the Earth—passed away at the age of 73 on for a spiritual path.” Bob rallied those who lived nearby July 15 after a brave, brief battle with liver cancer. He is —from Vandenberg Air Force Base to Santa Ynez to survived by his wife, Joan; his sons, Blair, Adam, Jason, the Santa Barbara Indian Center — to support the and Jeremy; daughter, Alison; and five grandchildren. fight to keep Point Conception untarnished and pure. A celebration of Bob’s life will be held on Saturday, September 26, at 3 p.m. at Hammonds Beach with a And they won.

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’m greatly disturbed by County Agricultural Commissioner Cathy Fisher’s decisions to downgrade, if not eliminate, her science department. This is particularly shortsighted, if not calamitous, coming as it does with the appearance of the Asian citrus psyllid in Santa Barbara—a bug that can carry a bacteria that causes huanglongbing (HLB), a fatal disease that could wipe out our citrus industry.

The agricultural department employs only three scientists: the Weed Specialist position (vacant since March 2014, following the resignation of David Chang); the Plant Pathologist (Heather Scheck, a 17-year veteran); and the Entomologist (Brian Cabrera, eight years of service). Cabrera recently saved the day by detecting HLB infection in a FedEx shipment of tangelos. In the last few weeks, additional psyllids have been trapped in orchards in our county—we can expect more! This is not the time for a bureaucrat to strip down the county’s agricultural science skills.

Fisher’s devastatingly wrongheaded decision to substitute inexperienced junior scientists rather than reduce her bloated staff comes at the expense of three specialists with PhD degrees and years of local experience. San Luis Obispo has five such professionals.

Certainly, Cabrera, our recent savior in the HLB affair, cannot work for half of his current salary, leaving us at the mercy of our grossly backlogged (six-week delays) state science department. That will leave one scientist to take on the tasks for her entire department solo. Quite simply, we need more scientists, not fewer.

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Serra Ain’t No Saint Mission System Genocide Recalled

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unípero Serra, an infamous historical figure looked upon with either disgust or admiration, lived his life for god and glory. And that is what he will get when Pope Francis, the leader of one of the largest Christian organizations in the world, canonizes Serra as a saint. The Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere ask: at whose cost, belief, and expense?

The history of California is one of calamity and destruction of the first people of the land — the Indians of California. The European crusade destroyed the inhabitants it conquered, and missionization haunts us today.

Colonialism, and the exploitation of the land and oppression of the people, continues to mark indigenous peoples. The violence, torture, and terror; the cold, lonely nights and starving bodies; and the hearts and souls bleeding from sadness, sorrow, and shame cannot be forgotten. We lost family and a way of life we thought was safe, and pure with meaning.

No quantitative measurement or scientific, anthropological, or political study can capture the pain of losing what is long gone. But like a returning sunrise, the truth of this calamity has begun to show itself in the light as memories are renewed and discussed here in California.

On April 5, a coalition of people worked hand in hand with Chair Louise Miranda Ramirez, of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Monterey Territory, and held an “Honoring of the Ancestors” ceremony at Mission Carmel on Easter Sunday. More than 400 people came.

During the weekend of June 30-31, in resistance to Serra’s sainthood, a wide array of California Native nations, including the Barbareno Chumash Council, “Iyalmuwic,” the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, and the American Indian Movement, Southern California, held a weekend of cultural reverence and recognition of the harm the missions caused. Prayers were said for the more than 4,000 ancestors who lost their lives to the Santa Barbara Mission and are buried in a mass gravesite.

A prayer ceremony opposing Serra’s canonization was attended by 150 supporters on July 11 at Mission San Juan Bautista, organized by Valentin Lopez, chair of Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of Costanoan/Ohlone Indians.

The Catholic church looks at the California system of missions as a golden era. Our public schools and many other institutions promote and even defend that notion. What the mission system did was to initiate the genocide of all the Coastal Indigenous peoples and bring a system of exploitation and oppression to what is now called California.

The population figures make it clear what that cost. Elias Castillo’s A Cross of Thorns states,“From an estimated 300,000 coastal Indians in 1769, their numbers dwindled to 16,624 in 1890.” This is a 94 percent reduction.

In terms of Santa Barbara, a city with 90,412 people in the 2013 Census, a decline of 94 percent translates to 5,008 remaining lives. Imagine the effects this loss of life would have in the city and the community.

The bare statistic does not express the social relations destroyed or the effect on the mindset of the Chumash. In other words, the trauma of genocide. David Stannard, a professor of American studies at the University of Hawai‘i, asserts Native Americans held against their will by the missions experienced a suffering not unlike the misery of Nazi concentration camps.

The Vatican’s move to make Junípero Serra a saint solidifies the church’s lies about the atrocities it inflicted on California’s indigenous peoples, internal and external. Putting Serra up to be a saint is to forget about what the mission system produced: poverty and ignorance. It’s what Jack Forbes describes as the “wetiko psychosis”: It pits worker against worker, Indian against Indian. When one capitalist is against another, the richer you are, the more you can plunder and exploit. It’s a sickness of the soul.

The resulting turmoil has engulfed generations. The slaughter and violence haunts us. It hurts us. It was wrong. The accomplices gave birth to a system based on deceit and death, a system not of this Mother Earth, the life essence of Native life.

It would be a sin to cover up a lie of this magnitude. We must heal by learning the truth! A truth commission led by California Indians is needed.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs cannot recognize us due to its own very colonial being.

Serra ain’t no saint. The Vatican can tell lies, make excuses, and ask for forgiveness, but restorative justice needs to be discussed, as well. Pope Francis must publicly repudiate and rescind the papal bulls that sanctioned the mission oppression. He must meet with the California Indians who are speaking out and dialogue through the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Let us go beyond our colonial status and become free from this structure and belief that chains us to the past. This will take courage.

Marcus V. Lopez is cochair of the Barbareno Chumash Council of Santa Barbara and the senior producer of the American Indian Airwaves/Coyote Radio.

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Celebrating 50 Years of the University of California’s Natural Reserve System

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Director Peggy Fiedler Explains the Statewide System

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ased in Oakland at the UC Office of the President, the Harvard- and UC Berkeley–educated conservation biologist Peggy Fiedler was named director of the UC-wide Natural Reserve System in 2010. She’ll be speaking in Santa Barbara on October 1 and gives us this quick primer on the system.

What is the University of California Natural Reserve System?

The NRS is a suite of 39 protected areas that include field stations, research centers, gateway reserves, and individual properties across California. The system was established by the Regents of the UC in 1965, and it was really the efforts of three founding faculty with the support of a huge cadre of faculty around the UC system. It started with seven properties, and it’s grown to 39. continued on p. 24

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EXTENDED IDENTITY: UCSB’s Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab is located near Convict Lake (above), close to Mammoth. “These are like satellite identities for the UC system,” said UCSB NRS director Trish Holden. “They have really great value not only in their mission of research and education, but by simply reminding people that the UC system is out there and working on behalf of the state in all these locations.”

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half century ago, a University of California reserves, the most out of any campus — is hosting a series of professor named Ken Norris realized that, as events throughout October to celebrate. Among other highlights urbanization intensified across the Golden and open houses, there is a talk with NRS Director Peggy Fiedler State, natural scientists like himself would at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on October 1, a steadily lose places to conduct research. The SCAPE art show at the Montecito Country Club October 24-25, and young UCLA professor quickly won the sup- a harvest dinner at the Sedgwick Reserve on November 7. See nrs port of UC president Clark Kerr, and in 1965, .ucsb.edu/events for a full calendar. the UC Regents forever preserved seven To coincide with the anniversary, The properties in the name of research and Santa Barbara Independent brings you this education. The Natural Reserve System collection of articles, including interviews (NRS), as it became known, now features with leaders, reflective nature essays, and 39 reserves, representing almost every profiles of both special places and people. one of California’s incredibly unique and And stay tuned for more NRS pieces from sensitive ecosystems. around the state throughout our October This year marks the 50th anniversary issues, as well as at independent.com/NRS. — Matt Kettmann of the NRS, and UCSB — which runs seven Coastal grassland at Rancho Marino

Connecting Through Climate Change

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n January, the UC Office of the President gave the Natural Reserve System $1.9 million to support the first four years of building a network to link all of the reserves in order to track the effects of climate change across the Californian landscape. About two months ago, the bulk of that job landed in the lap of Becca Fenwith, who left her NRS post in Yosemite to become IT director of UC Santa Cruz’s Institute for the Study of Ecological Effects of Climate Impacts.

“We’re still in the start-up phase, but we’re coordinating 125 faculty across the UC system to work together and figure out what climate change is going to do,” said Fenwith.“How is it actually going to affect land management? How is it going to affect people living in California, especially those living on the wild-urban interface, which is an interesting place to be? We’re looking at everything from how lilies are adapting to what’s happening with the chaparral and with the conifers in the oak forest.”

To do so, Fenwith, who also manages general IT for the whole NRS, is installing every imaginable climate-tracking independent.com

device in as many places as possible, monitoring everything from deep soil to high air. “This is the first coordinated effort,” she explained.“A lot of work has been happening on these reserves, but there hasn’t been any effort in the past to pull it all together and put the information in one place and make it accessible to everyone else.” The result will be a bunch of interconnected data that can be consulted when crafting strategies to deal with climate change. “We will have practical answers that can influence policy,” Fenwith explained.

She knows there is no better place for such a grand project than the NRS.“They’re an invaluable resource,” said Fenwith, who sees the reserves as strategically existing between public parks, which endure human impacts, and conservation trusts, where no access is allowed. “These lands are preserved in perpetuity for research and education,” she said.

“There isn’t a system in the world that’s of this size and run by a university that’s supposed to do specifically that.” —MK

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Who was cofounder Ken Norris? He was on the faculty at UCLA and

ended his career at UC Santa Cruz. Ken did field work in the Coachella Valley, and when he went back to his site, there was a motel there.

It occurred to him that if there aren’t areas protected and managed by natural scientists like him, they were in jeopardy of losing their field sites.

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have most but not all. Ken Norris originally thought we should have about 44. If you look at our map, we don’t have many up in the northern part of the state. One of our initiatives is expanding our partnership in National Parks. We have two field stations embedded in National Parks now, one in Yosemite and one at the Channel Islands. So we are looking to expand partnerships up in the north and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Does conservation for conservation’s sake play into the system? There are a few peo-

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ple who feel that the UC should not be in the business of managing protected areas — just full stop. But because we are a university that offers all sorts of educational experiences, we absolutely need to have living laboratories that support and keep natural space. We can’t ever say we are protecting for conservation’s sake, but that’s clearly part of the equation. We don’t sell our reserves. We maintain them in perpetuity. We are a de facto conservation organization.

What are you actively working on right now? Partnerships. We have

limited resources. We’re not going to get more staff positions or a whole new chunk of money, so we are launching a capital campaign this year that will run for two to three years. It’s not to buy new properties. It’s to expand our programmatic goals and to address the backlog of infrastructure needs. And we’re serving as the climate observatory network for the state. In order to expand this network, we need partnerships across the state.

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first thing I did was get a contract with UC Press to write a book about the reserve system. That was one big effort to get the word out.

We’re doing the best we can. There’s only seven of us at the Office of the President, but we’ve gone from nobody knows about us to a few people know about us. So we’re trying. But it’s amazing that more people don’t know.

And though not open to the pubic directly, there are plenty of opportunities for citizens to get involved, right? Absolutely. We have a really

burgeoning citizen science program. Susan Mazer at UCSB established what’s called a California Phenology Network, where we have volunteers come out and monitor plants. It’s a huge volunteer network, and that’s just one example. We have some reserves like Sedgwick, which is doing great public outreach to get people on the reserve. We love to have people interested. We’re happy to embrace any group that wants to come out.

—MK Peggy Fiedler will be interviewed by journalist Jeff Greenfield at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (2559 Puesta Del Sol) on Thursday, October 1, 7:30 p.m. The event is free.

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n the late 1960s, as UCSB was setting up a geology field station out on privately owned Santa Cruz Island, Lyndal Laughrin decided to study the Channel Island fox. A couple of years later, he was named director of what would later become the Santa Cruz Island Reserve, and he’s been out there ever since, helping generations upon generations of geologists, archaeologists, biologists, and other researchers explore this unique slice of California.

“This is a fairly big property and has a lot of diversity,” said Laughrin, who lives in the island’s central valley with his wife, Ann Bromfield. “It’s probably the reserve that’s used by the most disciplines. Geology is what started the place, but there’s lots of archaeology thanks to the amazing middens and just about any biology you can think of.”

And the island reserve’s model, in which UCSB simply runs the field station and partners with the landowner (in this case, The Nature Conservancy) without owning the property, is becoming a more popular way to set up these living laboratories. “It’s very ISLAND LIFE: Lyndal Laughrin overlooks Yellow Banks in this portrait by Holli Harmon. expensive to own property and be responsible for it,” said Laughrin. “This is probably a pretty rustic existence. He’s not quite sure how to retire.

“This is not Catalina, where I could go get an apartmodel that we’re moving more into.”

Travel to and from the mainland is easier now ment in Avalon and spend my twilight years sitting than it was in the 1970s, when he’d have to hitch a on the porch,” he said.“So it’s a work in progress at the ride with the navy to Port Hueneme, but it remains a moment.”

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ocated just above California’s bight, Kenneth S. Norris Rancho Marino Reserve sits on North America’s western hinge. With Point Conception just about 90 miles south as the crow flies, this stunningly beautiful reserve is a largely untouched seaside paradise in the woods west and south of Cambria.

Totaling some 500 acres, it is home to two miles of rocky shoreline, tidal pools, ocean mesa prairie, coastal live oak groves, and one of California’s last remaining natural Monterey pine forests.

Though bare bones in facilities compared to other reserves—think outhouses, outdoor showers, and tent camping — Rancho Marino makes up for its lack of creature comforts with sheer coastal magnificence and world-class biodiversity both onshore and off.

More than 100 different birds have been spotted at the reserve plus nearly 200 plant species and two dozen mammal types. The convergence of northern and southern currents offshore make for an even more varied underwater biodiversity, from bull and giant kelp forests and black abalone to otters, gray whales, and sea lions. It’s also home to seven archeological sites, some dating back at least 5,000 years.

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Though not technically owned by the UC, the reserve is on a regularly renewed lease that allows for UCSB to manage and conduct “university-level” research only. From harvesting algae off tidal zone rocks and exploring kelp forests to studying limpets and plots of abalone, Rancho Marino is becoming an all but mandatory port of call for UC students who study the nearshore ecosystem. But research doesn’t stop there: Efforts to understand everything from cattle grazing, beetle infestations, and Monterey pine health to the endangered red-legged frog and weather patterns are happening on the land. — Ethan Stewart

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Sedgwick, Then and Now THE PAST: The Chumash lived upon the land now known as the Sedg-

wick Reserve as early as the 1200s, where they ran hunting encampments, traveled through on trade routes, and dodged the California grizzlies that once reigned among the acorn-shelled chaparral. To this day, the earth continues to yield archaeological reminders of the Chumash presence, as well as their modern-day residence near the city of Santa Ynez. Following the Mexican acquisition of California, the Sedgwick was subsumed within a 48,000-acre Mexican land grant to a retired Mexican army sergeant, Octaviano Gutierrez. This gave way to an American ranching era, with rancher and sculptor Francis “Duke” Sedgwick purchasing the land for himself and his family in 1952. Sedgwick, a dynamic “gentleman cowboy,” was known for the hugely entertaining parties he held for his fellow UC art school staff before he set the land aside upon his death in 1967.

THE PRESENT: The reserve is open on the second Saturday of every

month from fall to late spring but attracts only researchers in the prohibitively hot midyear weather. On a recent visit, reserve manager Kate McCurdy was one of only a few souls in the sweltering summer solitude.

As we walked among the huge valley oaks, the dry land rolled behind us over the foothills of Figueroa and Zaca mountains, with the unique geology of the Little Pine Fault offering up serpentine for research. The geology is of particular scientific interest for its soil research possibilities, but the Sedgwick is more and more becoming a wild observatory for researchers to witness the effects of climate change. The unprecedented drought has allowed scientists to research native species’ protections against climate change and measure shifting population dynamics and migration patterns. The acorns this year, now a month from harvest, are among the lowest recorded yield of valley oaks ever, and UC scientists are using genetics to genotype valley oak trees to determine why so few young specimens are to be found — the majority are 300-400 years old.

Mountain lion sightings, usually an annual guarantee, have also been effectively nonexistent this year, as the large predators have followed the deer toward urban creeks and lawns.

THE FUTURE: Researchers are petitioning to have the Sedgwick classified as a dark-sky preserve. Some of the most exciting research going on is about the night sky, much of it done in the Laurie Nelle Byrne Observatory, the first observatory at a UC reserve. The 32-inch telescope is part of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, which will allow people around the globe, from astrophysicists, university students, K-12 classes, and Sedgwick visitors alike, to see the telescope’s views of the night sky via Internet connections. The future of this designation, however, is in a tenuous balance, as the increasing light pollution of an ever-populous Santa Ynez Valley could compromise the clear night skies. For now, though, barely a car makes it out onto the gravel, and the only urban sound and sight at night, says McCurdy, is the sound of the telescope turning.

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ith the tide creeping in, the serpentine channels of the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve came to life. Several four-foot-long leopard sharks darted back and forth in the crystal clear shallows, barely skimming over the cobble. Stingrays flapped their wings across the channel bottom before scooching beneath the mud, and schools of glistening corbina swam along the steep embankments.

This is where I learned to watch and wait for those natural wonders to unfold before me. The Carpinteria Salt Marsh was my home from 1975-1999. As an unencumbered kid fortunate enough to live on the beach, I grew up among the various shades of pickleweed, lurking leopard sharks, and opportunistic ospreys. For years, my earlymorning avian alarm clock was the perpetual rattle of the belted kingfisher hovering over a nearby channel beneath my window.

The 230-acre salt marsh reserve attracts multi-campus, multi-agency research groups funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Health. They’ve looked at historical tsunami activity, the frequency of floods, the spread of infectious diseases in mud snails, and what good parasites thrive in the

marsh. Its mouth a nursery for halibut and other fish species, the marsh also filters out excessive nutrients from neighborhoods and agricultural runoff before reaching the ocean.

“From Point Conception to San Diego, it’s one of the healthier marshes in Southern California,” explained reserve manager Andrew Brooks.“It’s now serving as a reference and study site for all aspects affecting watersheds, offshore kelp beds, and anything else surrounding the marsh.”

For the casual observer, the results of these studies aren’t visible, but the diversity of birdlife is evident, a strong indicator of how well the marsh is functioning. Once slated to be a harbor, the reserve harbors 200 documented bird species.

One of my favorites is the overly skittish white-tailed kite. They furiously hover above the marsh like no other raptor can as they search for food in the pickleweed. Its almond-shaped red eyes stand out against its creamy white, gray, and black feathers.

“Traditionally we’d go in and count plant and bird species to determine the health of the marsh,” explained Brooks. “Now we use these types of measures instead to tell how well the marsh is functioning.”

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Natural Reserve System continued from p. 27 sagebrush by Rick Karban at UC Davis — as well as how the changing climate is affecting the mountain biomes.“Climate change is real,” said Dawson,“and the question is, how do different ecosystems and different plant and animal communities respond — with resistance or resilience to change?”

Research is also helping scientists better understand the decline of the mountain yellowlegged frog, once the most-populous vertebrate in the Sierra Nevada but now endangered due to the chytrid fungus. Dawson says researchers are considering lending the frogs some antifungal agents to preserve pockets of populations in the hopes they may bounce back.

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elevation range data sets, the courts and state water board would have largely been flying blind,” said Dan Dawson, director of both reserves.

At present, the facility is performing a joint study with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory funded by NASA’s airborne Snow Observatory on developing remote water sensors for aircraft that can very precisely measure the amount of water stored in a watershed. At the Valentine Camp facility, situated on 156 acres of subalpine meadowlands, experiments have allowed researchers to study the ways in which plants communicate with one another — including recent groundbreaking work on

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arrived at Coal Oil Point Reserve an hour before the sun went down on a warm, gusty day. The bluff-top cypress and sage scrub were painted pink as I made my way to the shore, pausing briefly to watch surfers skip over the white-capped ocean and a great egret tiptoe around the Devereux Slough. Tourists and joggers meandered near a gateway and gravestone left by a British colonel and his Chicago wife 100 years ago. A quick descent to the beach started my trip along a four-mile loop that runs through each of the 158-acre reserve’s habitats, all of them crowded with a treasure trove of plants and animals.

First were snowy plovers. The tiny endangered birds kicked up puffs of sand as they sprinted from nearby dunes to feed on insects among the kelp. When they weren’t eating, they were hunkered down in shallow divots behind protective fencing, their brown, white, and black bodies well camouflaged between rocks and driftwood. A management program has boosted their numbers in recent years, and 45 chicks fledged this season, 15 more than average. Flutters of feet and wings seemed to always catch the corner of my eye.

A little farther down the beach, I headed back toward the slough and the trail that skirts its edge. Kneeling down in the dunes, I spied labyrinths of narrow tracks in the sand left by global dune beetles. A little farther on, the mingling sounds of wind and surf gave way to a gentle swaying of grass and leaves as

I approached the heart of the estuary. Dusk settled in.

During normal years, the Devereux Slough rises and falls with the tide; in times of drought, it doesn’t fill enough to break through a muddy berm to the ocean. This summer it’s been reduced to a ribbon of water flanked by chalky salt flats. But it’s still one of the best birding sites west of the Mississippi.

I picked out coots, grebes, cormorants, and terns, their bodies perfectly mirrored in the still water. I hoped to see a California quail, another population of species nursed back to health at Coal Oil Point, but no luck.

I took my time continuing on, enjoying the simple prettiness of the place and savoring my time alone there. I wondered why, after 10 years of living in Santa Barbara, I hadn’t explored it like this sooner. Signs along the path talked about Chumash history, restoration projects, and intertidal ecology. The sun was now so low only the tips of distant mountains were lit.

I passed the reserve’s small research station on my way back to my car. In the next couple of years, UCSB will create a new nature center. In the meantime, volunteers are always needed to lead tours, plant trees, and watch over the plovers. A flyer was posted nearby, and there was just enough light to read a phone number: 897-3703 for more information.

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9/24: Art Reception: Divergent Focal Planes on the Channel: From Darkroom to Lightroom Photographers Robert Watt and Dennis Schuett have captured two different perspectives of the S.B. Channel. Watt captures marine life and effects of humanity, while Schuett focuses on artistic effects and textures. Come see two beautiful sides of our Channel. The exhibit shows through January 3, 2016. 5:30-7pm. S.B. Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Wy. Free. Call 962-8404 or visit sbmm.org.

thurSday 9/24 9/24: Night at the Aquarium Do you ever wonder what goes on after the Sea Center closes?

This is your chance to go behind the scenes with intertidal and marine animals, dissect a squid, feed sea anemones and sea stars, and experience tide pool animals. 5:30-7pm. Ty Warner Sea Ctr., 211 Stearns Wharf. $12-$22.

Ages 10+. Call 962-2526 or visit sbnature.org.

9/24: Vitamin Angels Open House At this open house, learn more about this nonprofit organization, which is dedicated to distributing vitamins and minerals to children and mothers in need and now has a global reach to more than 40 million children worldwide. Come meet and network with key members, and enjoy food and drinks. 5:307:30pm. Vitamin Angels, 111 W. Micheltorena St., Ste. 300. Free.

Visit tinyurl.com/vitaminangels openhouse.

9/24: Jazz at the Plaza Celebrate the beautiful evening with music from Costa Rican composer/percussionist Luis Muñoz.

Wine and food tastings will be available for purchase. Proceeds will go to Angels Bearing Gifts, an organization dedicated to being the angels of people with developmental disabilities. 5pm.

La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call 687-6458 or visit shop lacumbre.com/Events.

Friday 9/25 9/25: Catch a Fire Tour Enjoy a full night of reggae and fun featuring Bob Marley’s sons Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley and eight-time 9/25: What Rhymes with America: A Comedy of Lost Souls Recently separated Hank and teenage daughter Marlene, needy friend Sheryl, and the complicated Lydia are four lost souls fighting for identity and happiness in an unforgiving world. This play about deep issues will have big laughs and heartbreaking moments. Fri.-Sat.: 8pm; Sun.: 2pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $11.50$29. Call 963-0408 or visit centerstagetheater.org.

9/25: Zimmer, aRod This is not a typical night out. Parisian producer Zimmer will be spinning the best French disco sounds. Setting the night right will be special guest aRod. 9pm.

Eos Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. $5.

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

Saturday 9/26 9/26-9/27: Back to School at S.B. Public Market Saturday’s event, Lunch Box Inspiration, is perfect for parents and kids looking to add a little something extra to their lunch boxes. On Sunday, on-the-go parents will learn how to prepare delicious dinners every family will love in a cooking class hosted by Williams Sonoma. There will be kidfriendly snacks all weekend long.

12:30pm. S.B. Public Market, 33 W. Victoria St. $15-$40. Call 770-7702 or visit sbpublicmarket.com.

9/26: Me & Dinosaur In 2011, fellow Gauchos came together and formed acoustic ensemble Me & Dinosaur. Focusing on bluesy riffs and elaborate harmo-

nies, this indie-rock four-piece band is ready to celebrate the release of its new EP, Smile. 8pm.

Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $10.

Ages 21+. Call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones.com.

9/26: S.B. O2 Breathe Fundraising Walk Join the O2 Breathe Fundraising Walk, benefiting the Pulmonary Hypertension Association. Pulmonary hypertension is increased pressure in the blood vessels that can lead to heart failure. The Walk is five kilometers (3.1 miles), with a 3K option. Pack a picnic basket, and grab lunch with your family and friends after the walk! 8am.

Chase Palm Park, 323 E. Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call (415) 361-8700 or visit o2breathe.org/SB. 9/26: Plant Sale Specialty vendors will sell hundreds of plant varieties, from exotic natives and bromeliads to succulents and cactus, as well as many other plant-related items. All proceeds will go to the S.B. County Horticultural Society Scholarship Program. 10am-4pm. Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N. La Cumber Rd. Free. Call 687-1577.

9/26-9/27: S.B. Artwalk This Indoor Show features Artists of Distinction, nationally recognized artists presenting paintings, sculptures, and photography.

The Juried Outdoor Show will offer artworks for sale. Lunch Bill Egan (left) and Ivy Vahanian

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and a no-host wine bar will be available. Proceeds will go to museum programs. 10am-5pm.

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

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Grammy Award–winning singer Stephen “Ragga” Marley, Morgan Heritage, Tarrus Riley, Barrington Levy, and more. 5pm. S.B. Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. $36-$56. Call 962-4711 or visit sbbowl.com. Read more on p. 59.

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9/26: Robotic Self-Portraits Guest artist Geoffrey Barber will help artists of all ages and abilities make robotic self-portraits.

Get the imagination running, and use discarded materials to make this creative and unusual machinelike image of yourself.

10am-noon. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Children ages 5 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Call 884-0459 or visit tinyurl.com/roboticself portrait.

9/26: Pet Blessing The bond between person and pet is like no other relationship. The pet ministry team and chaplains will help you celebrate this bond.

Bring all pets on a leash or in a carrier, or bring a photograph.

This year’s event will benefit ASAP and Hope for the Animals, providing services to stray animals in Guatamala. Parking will be available in the Valerio St. parking lot. 10:30am-12:30pm.

Unity Church, 227 E. Arrellaga St. Free. Call 966-2239 or email info@mayanfamilies.org.

9/26: Brazilian Day Celebrate this day in an authentic way with fun cooking classes, music, pandeiro and capoeira classes, and more throughout the day.

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9/26-9/27: 24th Annual Goleta Lemon Festival Lemons here, lemons there, lemons everywhere! Join the biggest celebration in the Goleta area, where you can participate in pie-eating contests, the Lemon Run, obstacle courses, toddler jumps, petting zoos, laser tag, and so much more lemony fun.

Sat.: 10am-6pm; Sun.: 10am-5pm. Girsh Park, 7050 Phelps Rd., Goleta. Free. Call 967-2500 or visit lemonfestival.com.

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Marcelo Guima on his acoustic guitar (4-6pm). 10am. Brasil Arts Café, 1230 State St. Free. Call 845-7656 or visit tinyurl.com/ braziliandaysb.

9/26: Paradise on Broadway Now in its sixth season, Paradise Singers, a vocal group created for people who love the arts, will present a program of medleys from Broadway musicals. Popular vocalists and musicians will be featured. All net proceeds will go to children’s scholarships in area programs.

3pm. First Christian Church, 1915 Chapala St. $10-$15. Call 729-1159 or email sbchoirsatb@gmail .com.

9/26: So You Want to Be an … Illustrator As part of a monthly program focused on fun careers and hobbies, an illustrator will talk all about his love for drawing and this profession. Come learn new drawing techniques and watch the creative processes that go into illustrating. Preregistration is required. 2-3pm. Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta.

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9/26: Carpinteria Salt Marsh Docent Tour See the wildlife in a beautifully restored habitat, and learn about the important role of salt marshes. Get out in nature during Creek Week!

10am. Carpinteria Salt Marsh Preserve, Carpinteria. Free. Call 684-8077 or visit tinyurl.com/ carpinteriasaltmarsh for directions.

Free. Ages 7+. Call 964-7878 or visit sbplibrary.org.

9/26: Elements Combining a funky mix of disco, soul, and Latin, Elements will create a musical experience you won’t believe. You can also bowl if you want or just groove out to the music — it’s all good. 9pmmidnight. Zodo’s Bowling & Beyond, 5925 Calle Real. Free.

Call 967-0128 or visit zodos.com.

9/26: Genealogy Society Open House In preparation for Family History Month (October), come and tour the library, meet expert genealogists, connect with special-interest groups, and find out more about how to jump-start your family research.

1-4pm. Sahyun Genealogical Library, 316 Castillo St. Free. Call 884-9909 or visit sbgen.org.

9/26: Death Cab for Cutie Alternative-rock band Death Cab for Cutie released album Kintsugi in March this year and is ready to play music to capture and break your heart. California-state-ofmind band Best Coast will open

with some brighter, more psychedelic sounds. 7pm. S.B. Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. $44.50-$54. Call 962-4711 or visit sbbowl.com.

9/26: Late-Night Comedy Writing Workshop Master comedy writing, monologues, and storytelling to write like late-night hosts such as Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert.

Stand-up comic Gabe Abelson spent five years as head monologue writer for the Late Show with David Letterman and is ready to share his insights and business tips on pursuing your dream of becoming the next big late-night star. 10am-6pm.

Telegraph Brewing Co., 418 N. Salsipuedes St. $225. Call (323) 394-0442 or visit tinyurl.com/ comedyworkshopsb.

Sunday 9/27 9/27: Zella Day Drawing inspiration from the serene Arizona mountains, old Western films, and cowboy rebel culture, Zella Day juxtaposes crunching drum machines and menacing electronics in her upcoming self-titled EP. Watch as each song comes straight from the heart and the strength of women. 8pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $12$15. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb .com.

9/27: Marni McGee Follow Patch the Hare, the only one not afraid of the Bear. Children will spot funny little details and learn about helping others in this ideal picture bedtime book.

Join Marni McGee as she signs her newest children’s book, Bear Can’t Sleep! 4pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call 682-6787 or visit chaucersbooks .com.

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9/26: Mao’s Last Dancer This 2009 Australian film features professional ballet dancer Li Cunxin as he goes from rural to urban Beijing during Mao’s Cultural Revolution and then to Texas’s Houston Ballet. See how his life unfolds in a way reminiscent of Taoist stories. 7-9pm. Concord Hall, Institute of World Culture, 1407 Chapala St. Free. Call 966-3941 or visit worldculture.org.

9/27: Truth Be Told What makes Carpinteria Carpinteria?

Made in home-movie style, this film offers a glimpse into the lives of six state park campers and 14 locals to provide a community history that is charming, shocking, and endearing and gives a historic context while affirming the beauty of the Carpinteria valley. 3pm. Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call 684-6380 or visit plaza theatercarpinteria.com.

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9/27: La Época de Oro: Ahi esta el detalle (Here Is the Point) As part of La Época de Oro (The Golden Age) film series this 1940 Spanish comedy follows Cantinflas (the Charlie Chaplin of Mexico) as he pretends to be the brother of a rich woman. Watch as his lie fumbles out of control. 3pm.

Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $7.50-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org.

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9/28: Granada Theatre Film Series: The King and I Come see the 1956 Rodgers and Hammerstein classic about a widowed schoolteacher (Deborah Kerr) who comes to Siam in the 1860s to teach schoolchildren and winds up learning about the ways of the East, but not without imparting her own brand of knowledge upon the king (Yul Brynner). 2 and 7pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org.

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9/28: Flick of da Week: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 “The Bride” is back and picking up where she left off in volume one with her quest to finish a hit list of those who wronged her, especially her ex-lover Bill. 7pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. Free. Ages 21+. Call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones.com.

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9/30: Cup of Culture: Golden Gate Girls In this documentary, author and professor S. Louisa Wei tells the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first female Chinese-American director and out lesbian to direct feature-length films. Wei will be on hand to discuss this rich chapter of film history that challenges both gender hierarchies and national narratives.

6-7pm. MultiCultural Ctr. Theater, UCSB. Free. Call 893-8411 or visit mcc.sa.ucsb.edu.

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9/27: Bendy Brews: Yoga + Beer Power of Your Om Instructor Adrienne Smith will host an hour of asana yoga followed by a cold glass of beer. 3-4pm. Pure Order Brewing Co., 410 N. Quarantina St. $10. Ages 21+.

Call 966-2881 or visit pureorderbrewing.com.

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9/27: Swervedriver, Gateway Drugs Combining the vibes of rock bands Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr., Swervedriver has been performing the liveliest shows for more than 25 years. Special guest includes psychedelic and experimental pop band Gateway Drugs. 8pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $16-$18. Ages 21+.

Call 965-8676 or visit velvetjones.com.

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Funzone, 226 S. Milpas St. $5. Visit sbdiy.org.

9/27: Equinox: A Concert in Celebration of the Changing Seasons The Santa Barbara Revels will present a concert with Spanish-, Moorish-, and Sephardic-themed material, featuring the Mission Creek Trio with special guests Eric Ederer on the oud (form of lute or mandolin) and Vincent Zorn on flamenco guitar. The evening begins with refreshments in the Presidio courtyard. 5pm. Presidio Chapel, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. $25. Call 565-9357 or visit santabarbara revels.org.

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9/27: Total Lunar Eclipse Viewing Eclipses of the moon happen when the sun, Earth, and moon are aligned to form an almost or exact straight line, and this one will take place 7:13-8:22 p.m. Bring binoculars (they work better than telescopes) to get a good look at the eastern horizon view with the S.B. Astronomical Unit.

Setup will take place early.

6pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History Sea Ctr., 211 Stearns Wharf. Free. Visit sbau.org.

9/28: Antioch in Conversation: Jonathan Fox Join our vibrant theater community, and participate in an interactive conversation with Ensemble Theatre Executive Artistic Director Jonathan Fox, who is directing the upcoming production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. 4-5:30pm. Antioch University, 602 Anacapa St. Free.

Call 962-8179 or visit antiochsb .edu/jonathan-fox.

9/28, 9/30-8/1: District City Council Forums In one month, S.B. will hold its first district City Council election since the late ’60s. This fall, you can elect councilmembers in District 1

(Eastside), District 2 (Mesa), and District 3 (lower Westside). Join the following forums to learn more about the current candidates. 7-9pm. Mon.: District 3; Harding Elementary School, 1625 Robbins St. Wed.: District 1; Franklin Elementary School, 1111 E. Mason St. Thu.: District 2; Washington School, 290 Lighthouse Rd. Free. Visit lwvsanta barbara.org. karen sorenson

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9/28: Chic Street Man & Friends Rooted in the blues but branching out to many different directions, Chic’s music is filled with acoustic ballads and funky, upbeat originals. He, George Friedenthal, Randy Tico, and Tom Lackner will provide a night of spirited entertainment. 7:30pm.

SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

tueSday 9/29 9/29: Ry Cooder, Sharon White, Ricky Skaggs Go back in time to the most primal bluegrass, vintage jazz, gospel, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, and so many other styles. Ry Cooder and Ricky Skaggs will come together with Skaggs’s wife, country singer Sharon White, along with drummer Joachim Cooder and bassist Mark Fain, to bring to S.B. a legendary performance. 8pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $28-$78. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures .sa.ucsb.edu.

9/29: Adult Coloring Book Club Relax and color your woes away. The library will provide adult coloring books such as Color Me Calm, Mandala Magic, and more. Colored pencils, crayons, and mellow music will be provided. Bring a snack, and get

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Get Up Close & Musical with today’s rising virtuosos!

The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan (left) and Kenneth Pattengale

Ray Chen, violin Julio Elizalde, piano WED, OCT 21 / 7 PM / HAHN HALL $30 / $9 UCSB students A Hahn Hall facility fee will be added to each ticket price

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Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Major, op. 12 Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, op. 75 Ysa e: Sonata for Solo Violin in E Minor, op. 27, no. 4 De Falla: Suite populaire espagnole Monti: Czardas

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9/30: The Milk Carton Kids, Joe Pug This Grammy-nominated, Americana Music Awards–winning indie-folk harmony duo is back. They transcend all genres with clear inflections of jazz, classical, and even alternative music. Special guests include Josh Ritter–like guitarist Joe Pug. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $35-$105. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

SUN, NOV 8 / 4 PM / HAHN HALL $30 / $9 UCSB students A Hahn Hall facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“She might just be the most exciting young artist in classical music right now.”

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ready to color and relax because no kids are allowed! 6:30-7:30pm.

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

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C Major, op. 2, no. 3 Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit Debussy: Selections from the Preludes Brahms: Variations and Fugue in B-flat Major on a Theme by Handel Handel, op. 24

WedneSday 9/30 9/30: Counting Crows California-born American rock band Counting Crows will bring more than two decades of music playing and practicing. Special guests will include blues, soul, and folk singer/songwriter Citizen Cope and Queens-based rock band Hollis Brown. 6pm.

S.B. Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. $45$75. Call 962-7411 or visit sbbowl .com.

9/30: Book Discussion: Being Mortal For those who went to the film screening and for those who are fans of this Atul Gawande book, come discuss with others your thoughts on this eye-opening and riveting read about how the goals of medicine frequently run counter to the interest of the human spirit and how medicine can provide a good life and a good end . 5:30-7pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 564-5641 or visit sbplibrary.org.

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Saturday, October 3rd •11am – 4pm De La Guerra Plaza Join us for this free community event and enjoy paintings, drawings, sculptures, jewelry, music and poetry! mentalwellnesscenter.org

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Creek Week

Thursday, September 24th • 8am - Sycamore Creek Clean-Up with the Santa Barbara Zoo 500 Ninos Dr. For details or to RSVP contact Devon Pryor at dpryor@sbzoo.org.

• 9:30am - Goleta Creek Clean-Up with SB Channelkeeper Help clean up San Jose Creek and San Pedro Creek.

For details or to RSVP, please contact Penny Owens at penny@sbck.org.

Friday, September 25th • 12-2pm - UCSB Campus Lagoon Tour Meet at picnic tables by Parking Lot 5 at UCSB (south of De La Guerra Dining Commons). For details contact Scott Tomkinson at tomkinson@ccber.ucsb.edu.

• 4-6pm - Bird Walk with the City of Goleta Meet at the foot of the pier at Goleta Beach County Park, 5986 Sandspit Rd. For details contact Everett King at 961-7565 or eking@cityofgoleta.org.

• 5-6pm - Leadbetter Beach Clean-Up with Babywearing SB Bring your little ones and meet between the restrooms and Shoreline Beach Cafe. For details contact Jen Hollywood at JHollywood@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

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Saturday, September 26th • 9:30-11:30am - Land Shark Tour with the Creeks Division $5 RSVP - sign up at sbcreekweek.com. For details contact Liz Smith at 897-2606 or LSmith@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

• 10am - Devereux Creek Clean-Up with the Environmental Defense Center Meet at the end of Coronado Dr. in Goleta. For details or to RSVP contact Brian Trautwein at 963-1622 x108.

• 10am-2pm - Carpinteria Salt Marsh Docent Tour Meet at Salt Marsh entrance on Ash Ave. near Sandyland Rd. For details contact Andrea at 684-8077.

• 2pm - El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant Tour Ages 8 and up.

For details or to RSVP, contact Jessica Mkitarian at 560-7586 or JMkitarian@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

Sunday, September 27th • 10am-1pm - Kids’ Creek Week Celebration “Wonders of Water” Join Explore Ecology for fun activities and snacks at the Watershed Resource Center at Arroyo Burro County Beach Park, 2981 Cliff Dr. For details contact Mariana at mariana@exploreecology.org or 884-0459 x18.

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For about eight years, the Braille Institute — with the help of instructors such as Tracy Alfino (pictured above) — has been offering classes on Apple devices to its partly or fully visually impaired students. The iPad class, which can pose a big learning curve, successfully teaches students how to use and navigate the devices through specific gestures, VoiceOver mode, and Siri. Along with an iPad loaner program, the school also offers the flexibility of one-on-one tutoring if the timing of classes doesn’t work for some students. Prior to Apple devices becoming adaptive for the blind, third-party products were necessary to use them efficiently. Now with a little practice, folks can use the built-in accessibility features to help make life a little easier and remain connected in our visual world. See brailleinstitute.com.

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n a recent Friday afternoon, as we drag kayaks down to the shore at Haskell’s Beach, Greg Helms is extolling the virtue of the paddle we are about to do, a leisurely two miles up the coast, past the Bacara, under the oil company pier, and onto the sands of the property known for a century or so as Naples. “Who needs the Channel Islands?” asks the longtime Santa Barbara conservationist with a chuckle, but he’s only half-joking: Despite its proximity to town, this stretch of the Gaviota Coast is beautifully pristine and almost quite unexplored, save for a random surfer or hiker who knows that it’s now legal to access the bluffs from the Dos Pueblos Ranch freeway exit.

The coastline’s untrammeled reality is thanks to the never-ending efforts of people like Helms, who works today for the Ocean Conservancy, and Janet Koed of the Naples Coalition, which watchdogs any whiffs of development from Goleta to Hollister Ranch. After getting tossed by a tiny wave upon entry— entry a nice slice of humble pie after I’d extolled my kayaking virtues — I join them both on our journey toward Naples, led

by Eric Little of Aquasports, who donates his equipment and guidance each year for the coalition’s annual benefit paddle, this year on Sunday, October 4.

The water is crystal clear and iridescently blue, the dark dance of kelp visible from surface to sea floor. We cruise past the Bacara, shoot up through the oil pier’s pilings, and then continue west along steep sandstone

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People get excited and uneasy when they hear a magician speak these words, and feelings of amazement and disbelief ensue once the trick is completed. But for some of us, a deeper sense of wonder occurs when we discover on our own how the illusion is done, how this modern wizard uses physics, psychology, chemistry, and even mathematics to create a feat of so-called magic.

To me, the universe is like a magic trick. Its size, complexity, and hidden secrets can make us uneasy, so much so that we try to explain them as acts of some deity. But centuries of tireless efforts by scientists have provided us with a better understanding of how our universe works, and I find this quest for knowledge as impressive as the universe itself. To this day, I enjoy a great sense of fascination every time a new discovery is made.

Born and raised in Mexico City, I studied physics and math because I wanted to Javier Rivera learn more about the world around us. My interest for astronomy started upon seeing a total solar eclipse in Mexico in 1970, but it became my passion after seeing the Hubble Deep Field image of 1995. It’s very difficult not to be deeply impressed by that discovery, which revealed that our universe is billions of years old and filled with billions and billions of galaxies!

After 15 years of teaching, my wife and I decided to leave our good life in Mexico and move to Santa Barbara, where I went back to school to become an x-ray technologist. Serendipitously, I found a part-time job in astronomy at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, where I was promoted to manager a few years later. Currently, I juggle my museum job with taking x-rays, teaching astronomy for SBCC, and tutoring math.

A big part of my job is studying these new discoveries in order to go onstage to amaze others. At the Gladwin Planetarium, I lead virtual tours of planets, nebulae, galaxies, and even black holes, and through our telescope, I show off, among other things, unbelievable views of Saturn and the Owl cluster. And with the renovated Palmer Observatory’s new big telescope, those views are going to be even more spectacular.

It’s a lot of work, but I am paid for my passion, and, at the end of the day, I get to be that illusionist: Javiero El Magnífico!

I’m still waiting for that greatest of all discoveries: life on another planet. It will happen sooner rather than later. And when it does, I hope I am still around to be amazed … again.

— Javier Rivera, Astronomy Programs Manager, S.B. Museum of Natural History

for our conversation and the warm breeze, it’s silent, with views extending toward El Capitan and the Santa Ynez Mountains above. Ready to return, we hop back into our kayaks as a pyramid of pelicans coasts overhead, and we enjoy the breeze that pushes us home.

We did it all in a couple of hours, but you’ll have much more time to explore if you join the Naples Coalition’s Paddle for Paradise on October 4, from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Tickets are $100 (all goes to the coalition) and include Aquasports guides and equipment.

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Started this past April, Diaz’s two-hour tours — which focus on either the Santa Barbara Mission, the County Courthouse, the harbor, or Stearns Wharf — average six to eight people and run Friday-Sunday.

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ollege students are back on campus, and many are already

testing out slick new lines designed to get cute classmates into bed: Is this alright? … Should I continue? … How about now?

I know. Super hot, right?

Colleges across America are introducing students to new rules about what constitutes sexual consent. This past year, California and New York passed laws requiring state universities to put “affirmative consent” policies into place. Several other states are considering the laws, and many campuses have adopted the guidelines on their own.

A reaction to reports of rampant sexual misconduct on U.S. campuses — where one in five women has been a victim of assault — affirmative-consent policies require both parties (or even all three parties if I remember college correctly) to give “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity” through every step of an intimate encounter.

How’s this? … Feel good? … Keep going?

The idea of these “yes means yes” policies is to remove ambiguity from sexual situations while also removing some of the burden from assault victims— who previously had to prove they said “no.” This oughta clear things up, too, for those neanderthugs who thought toodrunk-to-say-no was a sure thing.

There are, however, some reasonable criticisms being lobbed at the policies: that they’re unenforceable, that they invite the government between our sheets, and that they put an unfair burden on the accused in assault cases —who now have to swear they saw a head nod or heard a distinct-if-breathy “oh, yeahhh.”

And then there’s one giant, stupid argument being made against it—and being made a lot: that affirmative-consent policies will suddenly make sex “unsexy.”

by Starshine That’s right. We’re talking squelched mojo, people. And with libido already being such an endangered species in email: starshine@roshell.com the college habitat, well, this is serious.

I guess sexy is in the gonads of the beholder, because most women I know will tell you there’s no greater turnoff than a naked person putting something where you don’t want it, exactly when you don’t want it there.

If you need ambiguous consent to sustain your schwing, you’re doing something terribly, terribly wrong. Perhaps porn is to blame: No one ever asks permission in a professionally lit, meticulously waxed back-alley gang bang, do they? (Is there affirmative-consent porn yet?

Somebody get on that, please.)

Raise your hand if you’ve ever made a daft decision while disrobed. …Okay, good, that makes all of us. I fail to see how injecting just a skosh of sensible communication into the mix could have made matters worse — can you?

Sure, affirmative consent is awkward; it’s bound to make your hookups smack of Simon Says. But does anyone remember what a carnal buzzkill condoms were back when they began, you know, preventing the deadly spread of AIDS? Against all odds, safe sex made responsibility hot. And I can see verbal check-ins—which don’t even involve navigating factory-sealed packaging in the dark—doing that one better.

Do you like this? … How about here? … Do you want more?

“It’s really not a mood killer when a guy asks if I’m comfortable with something,” says a UCLA junior I asked.“I actually find it really attractive, and a lot of my friends feel the same way. It’s not that awkward. A guy showing concern for my feelings isn’t a turnoff — it’s a turn-on.”

Meet the new “sexy,” my friends. It’s the guy in the front row of your feminist studies class sporting the #consentconscious bro tank. And getting all the “yes” he can handle.

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by John Zant ast Friday night, after UCSB peppered the Col-

lege of Charleston with 21 shots in a 3-1 soccer victory, Gaucho coach Tim Vom Steeg said, “I’m really excited about Monday”—when UCSB would face UCLA in Westwood, where the Gauchos had never beaten the Bruins.

Vom Steeg’s excitement was officially justified under the lights at Drake Stadium. In a brilliant effort, the Gauchos dismantled UCLA, the team ranked No. 1 in the preseason and the national runner-up last year, by a 4-2 score. It was UCSB’s fifth win in 42 matches against the Bruins, and on a sweetness scale, it was topped only by the Gauchos’ 2-1 triumph in the 2006 NCAA Final at St. Louis.

It was a come-from-behind effort. For the first time this season, the Gauchos (4-2-1) did not score the first goal of a match. But that did not do them any good in their two defeats, and it’s been said that the most important goal is the second one, which either expands a lead or shifts the momentum. UCSB got that goal when 64 junior striker Nick DePuy slammed in a header off a crackling cross by freshman Geoffrey Acheampong.

The 1-1 halftime deadlock became a 4-1 UCSB lead midway through the second half after a string of gems by the Gauchos: a left-footed rocket by sophomore Ahinga Selemani as he dribbled across the top of the box; another header by DePuy, his sixth goal of the season, off a corner kick; and a solid finish by junior Josue España in a twoon-one break with DePuy, who drew the goalkeeper out and slid the ball to España’s feet.

Neither UCLA score — an early penalty kick and a close-range shot off a ball the defense failed to clear in the 79th minute — rivaled UCSB’s four on an artistic scale. The Bruins had not allowed that many goals in a regular-season game since 2010.

The resounding victory should earn the Gauchos a nice reception from newly arrived students when they play their next two matches at Harder Stadium: Friday night against the Akron Zips, the 2010 national champions, and Sunday evening against the University of San Diego.

CROSS-COUNTRY: There is not a more down-to-earth

sport than cross-country. The athletes do their thing on real grass and dirt, and all they need to wear are the lightest of uniforms and running shoes. The fundamentals of performance boil down to two things: physical stamina and mental toughness.

The popularity and the quality of cross-country running in the area was evident last week when Dos Pueblos High hosted four other schools in the season’s first Channel League meet. Colorful legions of young athletes spilled into the wilds adjacent to the stadium during each three-mile race. The varsity competitions produced some outstanding efforts.

Dos Pueblos junior Christina Rice won the girls’ race on her home course in 18 minutes, 12 seconds. Two seconds behind her was Ventura sophomore Sofia Ramos, and San Marcos junior Erica Schroeder was another two seconds back.

Quite a rivalry is simmering between Rice and Schroeder, who formerly were active schoolmates at Kellogg Elementary. Schroeder was dominant last year, winning the championship at the league finals, while Rice finished third. A mile into last week’s race, they could hear each other breathing, but Rice pulled away in the second mile and held her position to the finish.

“I was expecting a little more out of this race,” said Schroeder, who made a name for herself by winning the state track championship in the 800-meter run last June.

“The second mile was pretty hard. A lot of other girls are looking strong. It’s the first race. There are more to come. I have to look at the big picture.”

The petite Rice is looking at a pretty big picture herself.

A member of the DP Engineering Academy, she’d like to compete for a Division 3 college with strong academics.

“MIT is my dream,” she said.

Ramos was the first of three Ventura girls to finish in the top five. The Cougars ran away with top team honors, as did the Ventura boys, the defending State Division 2 champions.

They return their leading runner, senior Garrett Reynolds, and he blazed to victory by 15 seconds at Dos Pueblos in 15:12. “We have a great team atmosphere,” Reynolds said.

“It’s a tight group.” Besides the Ventura tradition, he has a family thing going for him. His father, Eric Reynolds, was a national cross-country champion at Camarillo High in 1982 and also ran a spectacular 8:44 two-mile on the track.

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RUNNING THE WILDS: Christina Rice of Dos Pueblos High is a cross-country star to watch.

Moninda Marube, the defending champion of the half and two-time winner of the marathon, abandoned his plans to run across the country from Auburn, Maine, to Santa Barbara in a demonstration against human trafficking. His support crew was not up to the task. Moninda says he is running 30 miles a day, six days a week, and plans to go for another victory in Santa Barbara in November.

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named Doris show that she is steadily making her way south between Hawai‘i and Western Samoa, her next destination.

Four British women, rowing around the clock, a pair at a time, shoved off from Santa Barbara four months ago in their ambitious attempt to row across the Pacific to Cairns, Australia. They reached a profound point in their journey at 3:30 a.m. Monday when they crossed the equator. Adverse currents and winds slowed their progress, and team leader Laura Penhaul lamented that they’ll miss supporting England in the Rugby World Cup now underway in the U.K.

Day Santa Barbara Marathon and Half on November 7, is excited about the new course for the half-marathon. It n will start at UCSB’s University Plaza and proceed under Henley Gate at the entrance to the campus. Inhaling the ocean air from Goleta Beach, the runners will take over the northbound lanes of State Route 217 (Ward 9/29: High School Girls Volleyball: Santa Barbara at San Marcos It’s always an evening of high Memorial Boulevard) and exit energy when the Royals and Dons pound the ball against each other. An at Hollister Avenue. The 13.1early boost in the Channel League standings is at stake in Tuesday night’s mile course will lead them to match. San Marcos (No. 7 in CIF Division 2) has had the upper hand the finish line at Leadbetter in rankings the past several years. Powerful senior hitter Chloe Allen Beach. The full marathon, in its and setter Gabi Peoples lead the San Marcos attack. The Dons look for seventh year, will also finish at seniors Lourda Weger and Jessyca Beksa to put the ball away. 6:30pm.

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nant with their now 3-year-old son, Linus; and they made their first wines with Clifton: syrah from their new vineyard as well as grüner and riesling from purchased grapes. They christened the project Solminer, as in mining the soul, sun, and soils of the Central Coast, but David thought calling it “Soulminer” was a bit too “hippie-dippie.”

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rüner veltliner, blaufränkisch, and seethrough syrah aren’t wines that come to mind when you think of the Santa Ynez Valley, which is exactly why Solminer just might be the most boundary-busting brand in Santa Barbara wine country today.

The two-and-a-half-acre vineyard and adjacent home near downtown Los Olivos are owned by recovering electronic music producer David deLaski and his Austrian wife, Anna deLaski, who left her homeland 15 years ago to work as a sustainability-minded timber engineer in Canada. Living in cold Calgary, she came to Southern California every summer to thaw out and groove under the stars to trance music, like the kind cultivated by David’s Ball of Waxx label. They met in 2009 at a full-moon gathering in the Mojave Desert and decided to ride bicycles in Solvang on one of their first dates. When Anna crashed, the bike trip turned into a winetasting one, and, as she put it,“We were scarred for life.”

Doors of opportunity opened, and people, like winemaker-musician Steve Clifton — himself a master of the more obscure varietals— walked in, happy to spread the gospel of grapes. David and Anna got married in 2011 and, on their honeymoon, tasted a domestically grown grüner veltliner made by Zocker in the Edna Valley. “The light switch went on,” said David. Same for Anna, who’d grown up on grüner living near Austria’s Wachau region but didn’t think California was cold enough for the racy, crisp, and texturally grippy white wine grape.“I was so surprised that it worked,” she said.

With Clifton as guide, they searched for enough grüner to make a barrel, and when a near deal for some John Sebastiano Vineyard fruit fell apart, David explained, “We were crushed.” Soon after, while wallowing in unrequited wine dreams, they stumbled upon the Los Olivos property. The owner had planted it with syrah in 2000—alongside a handful of older cabernet sauvignon vines and riesling rootstock that date back to the 1980s—and was ready to get out because, as David said, “It was an expensive front yard.” The deLaskis, however, were smitten by the chance to become part of the locally grown, sustainable farming movement.“I love music, and it will always be a part of me, but there was something else calling me, saying, ‘Let’s be creative with an organic vineyard,’” said David.“It was a split-second decision.

We did it and never looked back.”

That was 2012, a big year all around. David’s father— father who had cultivated his son’s palate during his Washington, D.C., upbringing with a cellar full of Château Haut-Brion, Stags’ Leap, and Caymus — passed away at age 80; Anna got preg-

SOL MATES: An electronic music producer turned winemaker, David deLaski and his wife, Anna, create Austrianinfluenced wines for their Solminer label.

Production of those first three varietals is now about 900 annual cases altogether, and today the syrah finds its way into one of three bottlings: Vollmond (with a touch of blaufränkisch, previously called “Full Moon”), the Rubellite

blend (which gets a splash of grenache), and the popular red sparkler Nebullite. All of the reds are surprisingly, refreshingly light, lithe yet layered with savory flavors. “It’s just very laid-back,” explained David proudly of the Vollmond. “It goes against the grain for what you think of as Central Coast syrah.” The 2014 grüner, meanwhile, is one of the best white wines I’ve tried in the past year, and there’s also a rosé, a dry muscat from Honea Vineyards, and plans to explore the pinot noir universe soon.

In the vineyard, the deLaskis grafted over a half-acre to grüner and another third of an acre to blaufränkisch, which Anna called Austria’s “most noble” red grape. You’ll have to remain patient for the first blaufränkisch release, but a recent barrel taste showed tart strawberry and intriguing asphalt flavors. In line with their vision, they also certified the property as organic, with a touch of biodynamics in play.

David admitted he didn’t know much about eco-friendly agriculture when he started, to which Anna added,“And now you’re stirring biodynamic preparations in the moonlight.”

He sees the creative process of winemaking and electronic music production as quite similar, save for, of course, the electronics. “It’s definitely as analog as it gets around here,” said David, who now lives permanently with Anna and Linus in their sleekly remodeled Los Olivos home after a few years of splitting time between there and Los Angeles. They’ve been steadily taking the winemaking reins from Clifton —though he’s still on hand to help when needed, being that the wine is made at his Palmina facility—and increasing the amount of estate fruit in all of their wines, which are already popular in Los Angeles hot spots like Republique and Silverlake Wine as well as Santa Barbara’s Armada, Les Marchands, and Whole Foods.

“This is just wine,” said David of this second act in a creative career,“but what goes into it is all about life. It’s all about everything. Not to add too much importance to the wine itself, but there is a journey here that continues to deepen and unfold.”

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CIELITO OPEN FOR DINNER ON SUNDAYS: Cielito restaurant at 1114 State Street has

added Sunday dinner to its schedule. Taquería: Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Brunch: Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; Happy Hour: Tuesday-Friday, 4-6 p.m., Saturday-Sunday, 3-5 p.m. Dinner: Tuesday-Thursday, Sunday, 5-9 p.m.; Friday-Saturday, 5-10 p.m.

CULINARY ARTS COOKBOOK LAUNCH PARTY: The Bacara Resort & Spa will host the

Santa Barbara Culinary Arts (SBCA) cookbook launch party on October 24. The 2014 SBCA cookbook was so successful that the nonprofit is publishing a second edition with an expanded list of contributors. The hardcover cookbook will feature more than 70 recipes from chefs, caterers, food purveyors, and wineries of the Santa Barbara area. The gala cookbook launch party will offer food samples, chef appearances, and a cookbook signing, plus premium wine tasting from Westerly, Refugio Ranch, Hitching Post II, Santa Barbara Winery, and the Foley Food & Wine Society. Copies of the cookbook Santa Barbara Culinary Arts: A Taste of Santa Barbara’s Culinary Bounty, Edition II will be available for sale at the event. Last year’s cookbook was the principal fundraiser for SBCA last year. SBCA donated $15,000 to its endowment of the SBCA Scholarship in Honor of Julia Child at the School of Culinary Arts & Hotel Management at Santa Barbara City College, which was increased by a partial matching grant of $7,500 from the Santa Barbara College Foundation, bringing the total impact of the SBCA donation to $22,500. Purchase tickets in advance at tinyurl.com/sbca2015.

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Kenneth Volk Vineyards Cabernet Pfeffer 2009: Some mystery surrounds the ori-

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Are early relational experiences really that important to the development of a person? Do the bonds we form in childhood make a difference in later intimate relationships such as our marriages?

Beginning with animal studies conducted in the 1950s, Gurney will present classic and revolutionary research in the field of attachment and child development and discuss the development of children’s Internal Working Model (IWM). As a practicing clinical psychologist, Gurney will discuss the four different attachment styles and the ways they affect relationships in childhood and adulthood. She will also consider the impact of parenting practices on the emotional world of children.

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RICHARD THOMPSON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Renowned guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson and his electric trio return to the Lobero Theatre in support of Thompson’s new release, Still, produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy and backed by several longtime players from both Thompson’s and Tweedy’s bands. Tickets on sale Saturday Sept 26 at noon!

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Despite the fact that they solved one of the most phenomenal engineering puzzles of humankind and changed the world forever, most know little about the brothers from Dayton, Ohio. However, thanks to Pulitzer Prize–winning author David McCullough’s latest book, The Wright Brothers, their lives in the shadows of history have been brought to full light. The tome is a brilliant page-turner that exposes the breadth of what Wilbur and Orville truly accomplished and reveals the exceptional human beings they were. In anticipation of his visit, I spoke with McCullough about the brothers and their impact on the modern world.

What got you started on this book, an interest in flying?

I loved to make model airplanes when I was a young boy, and I took flying lessons later on; I would have continued if they weren’t so expensive. But I have to say in all candor that I knew very little about them. I knew they were from Ohio, I knew they were bicycle mechanics, and I knew they invented the airplane. But I really didn’t know anything beyond that of any substance, and it was while I was working on my previous book [The The Greater Journey Journey], about the Americans who went to Paris in the 19th century to perfect their skills in their chosen fields of architecture and painting and sculpture and medicine, that I ran into the Wright brothers, quite by surprise.

When I began to read about them, and— and even more importantly— importantly what they themselves wrote in their letters to their father and sister and others, I came to appreciate what extraordinary human beings they were. Once I got into their lives and into all that they went through and the truly admirable human qualities that they personified,

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I would have wanted to write the book even if they hadn’t succeeded in inventing the flyfly ing machine. One of the basic things that I did not understand at the beginning [of my research] was that they didn’t just invent the plane; they invented how to fly the plane.

They were the first test pilots, and that is where so much of their courage, their perseverance, their determination to succeed is put to the test … Any time either of these two went up in a plane, he knew perfectly well he had a very good chance of being killed.

But yet they kept going, and they weren’t daredevils; they weren’t show-offs.

It’s interesting that Charles Lindbergh, for example, has gotten so much attention, yet there doesn’t seem much about the Wright brothers, even though they invented the plane! Well, there have been some very worthy books, but they are mostly aeronautical books, and that wasn’t what I wanted to write. I wanted to know these people. And I was so struck again and again by how many life lessons that they can teach all of us. Modesty— remember modesty? How that used esty to be thought of as a virtue?

What are you going to talk about when you come to Santa Barbara? I’m going to talk about what the process was in [writing the book], what I learned, and what I think are lessons we can all take from their example.

And one of the points that I’d like very much to make is that we should never think that history is almost entirely about politics and war.Yes, politics and war are very important, but they’re not the whole story by any means.

And the idea that we know so little about these two Americans who did so much to change not only our way of life but the way of life of everybody the world over. Yet we’ll spend hours in some class, school or college, learning about people who really weren’t all that important, in the long run.

The Red PlAsTic BuddhA SongS for Mara

Taking its title from the story of Prince Siddhartha’s battle against the demon of illusion to reach enlightenment, The RPB’s third album leads listeners through an aural phantasmagoria. Drawing inspiration from The Doors, The 13th Floor Elevators, and Love (the RPB even convincingly cover “A House Is Not a Motel”), the band delivers a fine album of lo-fi, grooved-out tunes filled with tanpura, sitar, flute, tambourine, and keys, in addition to the standard instruments. The album’s second track, “Little White Pills” scores big

with a Ray Manzarek–worthy “Riders on the Storm”–esque keyboard intro; however, the high-water mark is “Being Human,” on which frontman/bassist Timothy Ferguson becomes uncomfortably numb. Songs for Mara is recommended listening for battling — or indulging — one’s demons.

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In natural history’s golden age, art and science were inextricably intertwined through the disciplines of illustration and classification. Scientists like Charles Darwin were dependent on artists for the reference materials that made their theorizing possible. Without the painstaking efforts of thousands of artists, many crucial advances in science would simply not have been possible. Although today progress in imaging technology has altered the balance of this long-standing interdependence, the life sciences and the fine arts retain this spirit of mutual admiration, and there is nowhere that this is more evident than at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s annual Artwalk.

Beginning on the evening of Friday, September 25, with an artist’s reception in Fleischmann Auditorium, and continuing Saturday-Sunday, September 26-27, 10 a.m.5 p.m., the auditorium and the museum’s grounds bordering Mission Creek will be the scene of a large juried exhibit known as Artists of Distinction. Respected dealer Ralph Waterhouse has chosen the most interesting recent work by 30 of the best landscape artists in the area for inclusion. Tony Askew, Rick Garcia, Thomas Van Stein, Cynthia Hamilton, and Nancy Davidson are just a few of the big names to make the cut, and the array of scenes depicted is sure to please lovers of our region’s many sources of natural beauty.

Stroll through the gallery constructed inside the museum’s auditorium, or take it outside and walk among the pictures that will be displayed along Mission Creek.

Either way, Artwalk is certain to generate many powerful moments of recognition and inspiration, and, if you like, consider leaving with something more than a memory, as all the work will be for sale. Food and wine will be available, as well, so not having eaten yet is no excuse.

— Charles Donelan

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CRYSTALLINE SHIP: Artists Dane Goodman (left) and Keith Puccinelli worked together over a period of months in a Carpinteria warehouse to handcraft “The Boat.” More than 20 feet long and 10 feet high and covered in colored cellophane panels lit from within, it’s one of the most memorable works of sculpture seen in S.B. in recent years.

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he selection of works included in tug, the new Keith Puccinelli and Dane Goodman show at Westmont’s Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, is as delightfully thought provoking as it is wildly unexpected. Even for those familiar with their 2013 collaboration — the series of 110 trace monotypes known as eating fresh peaches and tomatoes talking about death drawing together— it would seem impossible to predict what they’ve gotten up to now.

This year’s show manages to magnify the scale, vary the media and process, and raise the stakes on that brilliant beginning while remaining true to the sour/sweet, happy/ sad tone of the original encounter. Their repertoire of curves, sliders, and knuckleballs keeps coming, but with this exhibition, the duo has added a fastball. And like their other pitches, it’s a strike.

The exhibition’s artful staging adds significantly to its impact. One enters through a wide hallway that’s lined with the images from eating fresh peaches. Thanks to museum director Judy Larson’s perspicacity, all of these prints now belong to Westmont, and it was in response to an invitation to show them this fall that Goodman and Puccinelli began work on what lies beyond, behind the blackened doors to the main space.

Honored by the opportunity to present their earlier work once again, and provoked by the dimensions of the big room, the artists conspired to collaborate in a new way. In addition to several large multipanel drawings and a relief sculpture consisting of 33 pairs of very eccentric pajamas, the room is dominated by a single

object: “The Boat.” Working together over a period of months in a warehouse space in Carpinteria, Goodman and Puccinelli handcrafted what has to be the most memorable work of sculpture seen in Santa Barbara in recent years. It’s more than 20 feet long and 10 feet high, and it glows in the dark. Constructed on a wood frame that’s been wrapped in sheets of plastic, the boat is lit from within in order to better set off the hundreds of colored cellophane panels the pair has duct-taped to its surface. Apart from the eerily blank white windows that look out from its bridge, the entire structure glows with a rainbow of pseudo-stained glass panels, each precisely hand-cut and bordered with equally carefully wrought strips of black tape.

For once, the tired phrase “It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen” seems accurate. There’s never been a boat like this one, and it transforms the space that surrounds it.

Echoing the boat’s reference to stained glass, the artists have taped cellophane panels to a large picture window, leaving cutouts that replicate the effect of colored lightbulbs in daylight. Combined with the highly articulated satirical vision expressed by the many cartoons and figures that surround it, “The Boat” signals a transition in mode for Puccinelli and Goodman. While they have not left their considerable gifts as mirrors held up to the perversities of 21st-century nature, they now hold a lamp that serves as both a signal and a beacon, an optimistic gesture of great warmth and humanistic resolve. Get on board before too long—this ship only n sails through October 17.

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Your Flesh Shall Be a Poem: The Art of Plein Air Dance

by Robin Bisio

Bisio’s book is a photographic journey through several of her outdoor dance works. Her sitespecific pieces are direct collaborations with locations of stunning beauty: beach cliffs, low-tide waves, sand dunes, dusty high-desert roads, mountain caves, Lotusland pools, and creeks fed by snowmelt. The photographs capture Bisio’s exquisite dancers submerged, windblown, splashing in the surf, and otherwise shaping and being shaped by the natural world.

Clearly, nature is Bisio’s most important muse, followed closely by the dancers she chooses for her work and followed just as closely by the power of the written word — Your Flesh Shall Be a Poem incorporates poetry complementary to the colorful images. Currently, Bisio is working on multiple dance film projects. Visit robinbisiodance.com to learn more about her work and to view some of her films.

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Creating Dance: A Traveler’s Guide by Carol M. Press

Press is a continuing lecturer at UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance, an adjunct at Santa Barbara City College, and a passionate researcher into the intersections between dance, creativity, and contemporary psychoanalysis. Her book

features personal narratives from 10 dancers, choreographers, teachers, administrators, and researchers who have devoted their lives to dance. Told as travelogues, these stories reveal the depth and breadth of what’s possible in that realm. Dance is “unpacked” far more than a performance-art form or a professional path. It’s a way to practice vulnerability and inhabit uncertainty (Teoma Naccarato’s “Recipe for a Dance Artist”); a way to hold cultural and personal experience within the body (John-Mario Sevilla’s “To Be a Lifer: Falling to Flight”); a way to “journal” through the body and to embody through writing and research (Press’s own “For the Love of a Question”); and a through line in a life dedicated to creative artistry (“Stages”

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And all three of these artist-scholars will gather on Wednesday, September 30, at 7 p.m. at Chaucer’s Books for a book-signing and moderated discussion of their work.

Bloom was once a dancer and theatrical performer and is now a therapist, teacher, writer, and researcher.

Her most powerful interests lie in study and teaching about the therapeutic potential of movement. Embodied Lives is built from a series of essays written by students of Javanese movement pioneer Suprapto Suryodarmo.

“Prapto” is the creator of Amerta Movement, a practice that employs direct-guided experiences of physical movement to sensitize, integrate, and awaken the mover. It doesn’t involve any specific structures, sequences, or postures; it is a kind of “moving meditation” that uses the mover as the primary source of impulse and direction. Bloom recognized, over her years of studying Amerta Movement, how many people from varying disciplines were powerfully influenced by this work and gathered a group of 30 of Prapto’s students to write the essays that compose her new book. Even readers unfamiliar with Prapto’s work, but who are interested in these parallel streams of mindfulness, embodiment, and creativity in movement, will find plenty to engage with in Bloom’s lighthearted, expansive new work.

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After his third studio album, Welcome low reggae artist Damian Marley has embarked on his Catch a Fire tour, named to Jamrock, won him another Grammy in in honor of his late father’s most successful 2006, Marley commenced a decade of workalbum with The Wailers. ing with other notable artists; 2010 saw the The tour kicked off last month in Philadel- release of Distant Relatives, a collaboration phia and features a stop at the Santa Barbara with famed hip-hop legend Nas. In 2011, Bowl on September 25. Joining him on the Marley made public his work with Supertour will be Barrington Levy, Morgan Heri- Heavy, a supergroup composed of Marley, tage, Tarrus Riley, Black Am I, and Jo Mersa, The Rolling Stone’s Mick Jagger, and Indian as well as Damian’s older brother Stephen composer and songwriter A.R. Rahman. He Marley. dipped into electronic Thanks to a career dance music in 2012 that has spanned three by joining Skrillex on decades, Damian “Jr. the single “Make It Bun Gong” Marley has Dem,” which Rolling Stone called “a monster achieved eminence in his own right while mash up of dubstep and staying true to his famdancehall.” ily roots. Although his Marley has hinted at older brothers Ziggy, a possible reunion with Stephen, and Julian Nas on future produchave preferred to protions. “We speak about

by Austin Murphy duce traditional reggae it,” he said. “It’s somemusic, Damian has expanded the genre by thing that we both have been thinking about collaborating with hip-hop, Indian, EDM, and something we want to do. We intend to and rock artists.“It’s really about being myself [collaborate] again.” and making the music that I like,” said Marley As he inches closer to his 40th birthday, Jr. about carving out his own niche in the music Gong is well aware that his music and personality have grown since his teenage beginnings. world.

As his father’s youngest son and the last “I was all alone when it started. Longer beard of his brothers to enter the music industry, … longer locks … It’s just how it goes,” he Damian Marley has never been fazed at the laughed.“There are sides of life itself; growing prospect of growing up in such an iconic fam- as a person in turn affects the music.” ily. “Being in a family where you’re exposed Like many other touring artists, Marley to music at a young age and exposed to being has found a second family on the road with in studios, they encourage it more than [any- his band, a group he has been working with thing else],” he said. for more than 10 years. “It becomes a part of His earliest experiences involve working life, really. Being on tour is almost like being at with drum machines, and Marley has said home now … at home on the road.” that as an artist he feels more of an attachNo matter where he takes his live act, ment to working on rhythms and beats than Marley’s fans can rest assured that his innoto playing instruments like guitar or singing. vation and creativity aren’t going away. As Jr. Gong started his career as a teenager per- mentioned in an interview earlier this month forming with The Shepherds, a group that with NorthJersey.com, Marley confirmed that opened the 1992 Reggae Sunsplash festival in he plans to release another album soon — his northern Jamaica. In 1996, Marley released his first solo project since 2005. “I’m very excited debut album, Mr. Marley, with the backing of about recording a new album,” Marley said. his father’s label Tuff Gong. Marley received “After 10 years, I thought it was time to get his first critical acclaim when he won the 2002 back to just me.”

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HER LITTLE TOWN: S.B. native Malynda Hale returns homeward as the changing of the seasons brings a splendor of fall shows.

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all began yesterday, and perhaps you noticed, as I have, what a splendor of shows have come with the seasonal changing of the guard. What we lack in fall color, we more than make up for in a preponderance of performances.

Tonight, Thursday, September 24, at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, Trails and Ways return to their honorary stomping grounds in S.B., where they recently blazed a trail as the showstopping openers for White Arrows in the winter. Since then, they have put out a new album, titled Pathology, which singer Keith Brown says is inspired by societal and climate anxieties and conceals a dark heart beneath its shiny exterior. “There’s a tension between that glossy, sugary space and the emotions for us that are very raw and real,” he said. Hear their grooving new song “Skeletons”—an irresistible bumper written to capture the scene of a post-apocalyptic nightclub—and catch them at SOhO to see why they are one of the biggest and best new bands to come out of Northern California’s East Bay. Saturday, September 26, brings some rock to Velvet Jones, where one of S.B.’s most promising new bands, Me & Dinosaur, will release its debut EP. Having been around for a few years now, it’s hard to believe it’s the first official release from these area favorites. May it be the beginning of a veritable Jurassic World of good tidings for the band — with fewer accidents.

The following night, Sunday, September 27, ’90s shoegazer act Swervedriver plays the same stage. The criminally unknown band is often likened to its somewhat more famous U.K. brethren of the shoegazer “scene”— as with most genres, their affiliation was more a lazy media invention than anything—and has found some continued longevity since reuniting a few years ago. Gateway Drugs open (as gateway drugs often do). Alternatively, at SOhO, young pop songstress Zella Day promises a great live show; Indy writer Ryan Mandell recently quoted her as saying, “I think that my live shows are what are driving my record and that people have a very real, visceral reaction at my shows.” (Read Ryan’s full story about the young songstress at independent.com/zelladay.)

Fall brings change, but it often also signifies a return. What better time for homegrown singer Malynda Hale to revisit her roots when she plays SOhO on Tuesday, September 29. The entrepreneurial and powerful singer, who moves crowds with her songs of deep emotion and devotion, has been a busy bee since graduating from Dos Pueblos about a decade ago.

Not merely a singer, she also appears on numerous television shows, is the spokesperson for vegan makeup company Valana Minerals, and founded The meTOO! Campaign, which promotes equality for marginalized couples. Having worked tirelessly for years, Hale is now able to pursue her passions full-time, but it took some humility to achieve such an impressive résumé.“One of the things I’ve learned is get rid of your pride and don’t be afraid to ask for help,” she said. “There will be a lot of trial and error, a lot of hit or miss, and you just have to keep trying and not give up, and if it’s something you really want, you will find a way to get it.”

And as fall closes the door on one season, we bid a fond farewell to Bill Bold, who played with the Anthony Pietro band, Gallows Pole, the Soul Biscuit Band, and others. “He was a kind, gentle, soft-spoken soul whose passion for soul and funk was unmatched, and he leaves behind a family and an entire community of musicians who loved and will sorely miss him,” says friend Eddie Diamond. We salute you, Mr. Bold. Here’s to an awesome n solo at the great gig in the sky.

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presents this entertaining original musical. Imagine West Side Story meets Geek culture for an epic battle between the Techies and the Trekkies! This FREE annual celebration includes a 1:00p silent auction of artisan crafts created by the talented members of the art program Slingshot. For more info please visit www.alphasb.org or call 805-964-3547.

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The Luke Theatre and UCSB Arts & Lectures present the second FREE family concert of the Viva el Arte SB season. Patricio Hidalgo inherited a sensibility of son jarocho from his grandfather, Arcadia Hidalgo, a founder of the revivalist movement in the 60s, when the music had all but disappeared. Today Patricio is a world-renown musician and poet, as well as proponent for the musical and social roots in mestiza, indigenous, and African traditions. For more info please visit www.facebook.com/VivaelArteSB or call 884-4087 x7.

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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.

Museum of Contemporary Art S.B. – Then they form us; Conrad Ruiz: Bloom Projects, through Oct. 25. 653 Paseo Nuevo, 966-5373.

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

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

S.B. Maritime Museum – Divergent Focal Planes on the Channel: From Darkroom to Lightroom, through Jan. 3, 2016. 113 Harbor Wy., 962-8404.

S.B. Museum of Art – The Visionary Photomontages of Herbert Bayer, 1929-1936, and The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come, through Sept. 27; Carousel of Physics, through Oct. 4; 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; Nature in Motion, through Nov. 2; Legacy and Loss: Landscapes of the S.B. Region, through Feb. 1, 2016. 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 686-8315.

Galleries

Grupo de Danza Folklorica Quetzalcoatl presents this spectacular annual show full of passion, history, dance and live music. Join us for a culturally enriched evening filled with traditional live music and beautiful entertaining dances representing each state of Mexico. For more info and tickets please call 805-698-7183. Don’t miss the excitement of this magical evening!

sAT OcT 17 7:00p “VARIETY UNITED”EBF Productions presents this fun benefit show to support World

Vision. Come help children, families, and their communities worldwide while enjoying a variety of family friendly entertainment. Lobby Marketplace opens at 6:00p featuring local artists and vendors. Tickets avail at the door, for more info please visit www.ebfproductions.org or call 805-963-6440. There’s something for everyone!

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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.

Art From Scrap Gallery – Lost in Scrap, through Oct. 10. 302 E. Cota St., 884-0459.

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

Arts Fund Gallery – Feast Your Eyes, through Sept. 25. 205-C Santa Barbara St., 965-7321.

Atkinson Gallery – Richard Ross: Isolated, Sept. 25-Dec. 4. Humanities Bldg., Isolated Rm. 202, SBCC, 721 Cliff Dr., 897-3484.

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.

Cabrillo Bathhouse – Channel City Camera Club, through Sept. 28. 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd., 897-2680.

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 View, through Oct. 12. 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria, 684-7789.

Churchill Jewelers & Gallery – Ruth Ellen Hoag: Rain, through Oct. 31; Thomas Van Stein, ongoing. 1015 State St., 962-5815.

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

Gallery 27 – Brooks Institute MFA Photography: Second Nature, Oct. 1-Nov. 1. 27 E. Cota St., 585-8000.

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

Goleta Library – GVAA September Art Show, through Sept. 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, through 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.

MichaelKate Interiors & Art Gallery – Mood Swing, through Nov. 29. 132 Santa Barbara St., 963-1411.

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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 – Rick Garcia: A Few of My Favorite Things, through Oct. 30. 3823 Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria, 684-0300.

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.

S.B. Tennis Club – Captured 3, through Oct. 2. 2375 Foothill Rd., 682-4722.

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; American Details, Oct. 1-Jan. 3, 2016. 7 E. Anapamu St., 730-1460.

Tamsen Gallery – R.W. Firestone, ongoing. 3888 State St., 687-2200. wall space gallery – Jeonglok Lee, Sungseock Ahn, Won-Chul Lee: Surveying the Landscape, through Nov. 1. 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 Brewhouse – 229 W. Montecito St., 884-4664. thu 9/24: Rock Candy (9pm) Chumash Casino Resort – 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez, (800) 248-6274. thu 9/24: Aegis (8pm) Cold Spring Tavern – 5995 Stagecoach Rd., 967-0066. fri: Sean Wiggins and Paul Houston (7-10pm) sat: Pocket Change (2-5pm); The Excellent Tradesmen (5:30-8:30pm) sun: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (1:154pm); Do No Harm (4:30-7:30pm) The Creekside – 4444 Hollister Ave., 964-5118. fri: The Shady Ladies, The Navanax, 2-Faced, The Deveros (7pm) sat: MissBehavin' ft. Lorena (9pm) sun: The Maensions, Fearless (3pm) wed: Country Night thu: Scott Lowstyle (8pm) Dargan’s – 18 E. Ortega St., 568-0702. thu: Traditional Irish Music (6:30pm) sat: Step Away (10pm) tue: Karaoke (9pm) First Christian Church –1915 Chapala St., 729-1159. sat: Paradise on Broadway (3pm) The Goodland – 5650 Calle Real, 964-6241. thu: Live Music Thursdays (7pm)

Granada Theatre – 1214 State St., 899-2222. tue: Ry Cooder, Sharon White, Ricky Skaggs (8pm) La Cumbre Plaza – 121 S. Hope Ave. thu: Luis Muñoz (5pm) Lobero Theatre – 33 E. Canon Perdido St., 963-0761. wed: The Milk Carton Kids (8pm) thu: Gillian Welch (8pm) Maverick Saloon – 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 686-4785. fri: Hats Off Band (8pm) sat: Big Steve, Little Guy and Friends (3pm); Avenue DeJaVu (8pm) sun: Tom Sawyer Band (2-5pm) Mercury Lounge – 5871 Hollister Ave., 967-0907. wed: Sweetwater String Band (9pm) Presidio Chapel – 123 E. Canon Perdido St., 965-0093. sun: S.B. Revels: Equinox (5pm) S.B. Bowl – 1122 N. Milpas St., 962-7411. fri: Catch a Fire Tour (5pm) sat: Death Cab for Cutie, Best Coast (7pm) wed: Counting Crows, Citizen Cope, Hollis Brown (6pm) S.B. Museum of Art – 1130 State St, 963-4364. thu 10/1: Patricio Hidalgo (5:30pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – 1221 State St., 962-7776. thu: Trails and Ways, LAYOVR (9pm) fri: Justin Kauflin Trio (6:30pm); Givers & Takers, Pookie (8:30pm) sat: Tribal Theory, Dirty Rice, The Late Ones (9pm) sun: Zella Day (8pm) mon: Chic Street Man & Friends (7:30pm) tue: Malynda Hale & Blessing Offor (7:30pm) wed: Cash Cash, Tritonal, Party Favor (8:30pm) Solvang Festival Theater – 420 2nd St., Solvang, 686-1789. thu 10/1: The Time Jumpers (7pm) S.Y.V. Grange Hall – 2374 Alamo PIntado Ave., Los Olivos, 688-9894. sat: Very Lonesome Boys Trio (8pm) Velvet Jones – 423 State St., 965-8676. fri: Big E (8pm) sat: Me & Dinosaur (8pm) sun: Swervedriver, Gateway Drugs (8pm) tue: Easy Skanking, Exit 86 (8pm) wed: Wayback Wednesday (9pm) Whiskey Richard’s – 435 State St., 963-1786. mon: Open Mike Night (8pm) wed: Punk on Vinyl (10pm) Zodo’s – 5925 Calle Real, 967-0128. sat: Elements (9pm)

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The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?

SAT, OCT 3 / 3 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL

“Essential reading… The Prize may well be one of the most important books on education to come along in years.” The New York Times The veteran Washington Post reporter examines the highly publicized strategy in Newark to create a model for national education – one that failed despite a $100 million pledge from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – revealing a cautionary tale for those who care about the state of America’s schools.

Books will be available for purchase and signing

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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

MON, OCT 12 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL

“Diane Ackerman’s vivid writing, inexhaustible stock of insights, and unquenchable optimism have established her as a national treasure, and as one of our great authors.”

–Jared Diamond Ackerman takes us on an exciting journey, introducing us to many of the people and ideas shaping our future.

Books will be available for purchase and signing

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Featuring: Meredith McMinn, Joe Beck, Ming Holden, Waldo Figueroa, Frank Artusio, Gene Garcia, Jerry Oshinsky, Edward Giron Natalie Ginsberg, Michele Minor, Theresa Cordero, Nilo Fanucchi and Ricky Babadilla

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lack Mass begins in the uncomfortable intimacy of a confession chair, with the camera fixed upon the freckles and folds of killer Kevin Weeks’s (Jesse Plemons) brutishly boyish face. This is a realistic film, proclaim the skin details, based on the very real life and times of James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp) and the way he manipulated a hometown friend in the FBI (John Connolly, played by Joel Edgerton) into giving him free reign as South Boston’s crime mastermind.

My main criticism with what is otherwise a very enjoyable, very scary, and very well done crime drama is the elements of realism that are forsaken. Depp’s Bulger, chilling though he is, seems at times supernaturally villainous, like some ageless cosmic vampire flitting from crime to crime with ghostly invulnerability and a ghastly white hue. He is a demon with a soul of ice who seems to singlehandedly bring Boston to its knees.

There may be a lot of truth to that, but the reality of what was an even wider net of corruption — multiple members of the FBI were complicit in allowing Bulger to rise in power — has been narrowed to a character drama about the greedy ambitions and blind loyalty of primarily one agent, Connolly, and

BOSTON ILLEGAL: Johnny Depp stars as notorious reallife gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in Black Mass.

Bulger’s masterful manipulations of him. Ignored are the deeper disturbances of how the government, on an institutional as well as personal level, helped to create and sustain a monster in its midst.

But who am I kidding — script complexity has always been Hollywood entertainment’s enemy, so why expect it? Black Mass is a powerhouse of a movie in its entertainment value, acting strengths, and decade detail.

And while I don’t know Bulger and can therefore not vouch for its accuracy, Depp’s performance skyrockets his Whitey instantly into the ranks of a Norman Bates or Hannibal Lecter, transcendent in its terror.

Also notable is the supporting cast, with strong performances from many, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Bacon, and more minorly but no less memorably, Corey Stoll and Peter Sarsgaard. And so while a braver version may have explored institutional evil at greater length, the fascinating Black Mass will still make you cower in its portrayal of individual evil and the coldest reaches of the soul. n

Only Teenage WasTeland Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, and Thomas BrodieSangster star in a film written by T.S. Nowlin, based on the novel by James Dashner, and directed by Wes Ball.

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his movie is seriously mistitled. There are, in fact, no trials in “The Scorch,” which is future-jargon for the blasted earth outside the laboratories where our protagonists usually dwell. For the uninitiated—people without adolescent readers at home— Maze Runner is yet another apocalyptic teen adventure; this one features a boy named Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) who came suddenly awake in a glade by a high-tech, robot-haunted maze in the previous film. Escaped now with his generic pals and a cute girl named Teresa, Thomas deals with new treacheries and the same memory issues that brought him to this sad juncture in the first place. If that sounds confusing, fine. The whole point of these teen apocalypse films is to keep us guessing. But technically no real trials.

Jumbling settings, changing the villain focus from its misremembered source material — James Dashner’s novels — the film blames coldhearted WCKD (pronounced wicked) for forcing the kids

Must Close Sept. 26!

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BEAUTIFUL CHAOS: This Maze Runner sequel forsakes author intentions but looks good doing it.

into the hostile outdoors where zombies attack and other bad stuff happens. Meanwhile, Thomas meets a new (presumably doomed) girl and has romantic triangle problems, too. Worse, nobody has time to make out (except while hallucinating) since the rattling machinery of the new plot keeps moving this story toward more Armageddons.

Highlights? The zombies are cool, and a psychedelic interlude proves more trippy than revelatory, which seems right. Full-blown wars and lightning bolts more than compensate for the forsaking of author intentions or fan expectations. The real reason this epic-length film works, though, is the beautiful chaos it portrays.

Skyscrapers lean lovingly over sand-drifted cities, and gorgeous storms roar across arid plains. It’s so beautiful you forget to ask why the plot is ridiculous. Who built the mazes? Why don’t they just make alternative dwellings? Director Wes Ball fashioned an apocalypse so attractive you will soon join forgetful Thomas. Who knows why we’re here? Meanwhile, let’s rock this wreck of a planet. n

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FIRST LOOKS O Black Mass (122 mins.; R: brutal violence, language throughout, some sexual references, and brief drug use)

dead by NASA, he must find a way to signal to them that he is alive.

Camino Real (2D)/Metro 4 (2D and 3D) (Opens Thu., Oct. 1)

Pawn Sacrifice (114 mins.; PG-13: brief

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

This film depicts the true story of chess genius Bobby Fischer’s (Tobey Maguire) legendary match with Russian champion Boris Spassky (Liev Shreiber).

(132 mins.; PG-13: extended sequences of violence and action, some thematic elements, substance use, and language)

Reviewed on page 65.

strong language, some sexual content, and historical smoking)

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Sicario (121 mins.; R: strong violence, grisly images, and language)

SCREENINGS See The Week for “Fall Flicks” on p. 33.

Human Capital (111 mins.; NR) This Italian film tells the stories of two families from opposite ends of the social spectrum whose lives become intertwined after a bicyclist is hit by a car on a fateful rainy night.

Sun., Sept. 27, 4:30pm, Matilija Auditorium, Ojai

Roger Waters The Wall (132 mins.; NR) This documentary follows Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters as he launches an elaborately staged production of The Wall, which Waters plays in its entirety.

Tue., Sept. 29, 8pm, Arlington

Steak (R)evolution (135 mins.; NR) In this road-trip-style documentary, the filmmakers go all over the world to talk with breeders, farmers, butchers, cooks, historians, and business people to learn about what’s taking place in the industry today and what’s in store for the future.

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

Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, and Josh Brolin star in this film about the escalating drug trade on the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

Camino Real (Opens Thu., Oct. 1)

Sleeping with Other People (101 mins.; R: strong sexual content, language including sexual references, and some drug use)

A serial cheater and a womanizer form a platonic friendship that helps them each change their ways.

Metro 4 The Walk (123 mins.; PG: thematic elements involving perilous situations and some nudity, language, brief drug references, and smoking)

In 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit attempted to walk on a wire between the World Trade Center towers. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Petit in this adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Cast Away, The Polar Express).

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The Green Inferno (100 mins.; R: aberrant violence and torture, grisly disturbing images, brief graphic nudity, sexual content, language, and some drug use)

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(June 21-July 22): The astrological omens suggest you could get caught up in dreaming about what might have been. I’m afraid you might cling to outworn traditions and resuscitate wistful wishes that have little relevance for the future. You may even be tempted to wander through the labyrinth of your memories, hoping to steep yourself in old feelings that weren’t even good medicine for you when you first experienced them. But I hope you will override these inclinations and instead act on the aphorism,“If you don’t study the past, you will probably repeat it.” Right now, the best reason to remember the old days is to rebel against them and prevent them from draining your energy.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth,” wrote author William Faulkner. Some astrologers would say that it’s unlikely a Libra would ever say such a thing — that it’s too primal a feeling for your refined, dignified tribe — too lush and unruly.

But I disagree with that view. Faulkner himself was a Libra! And I am quite sure that you are now or will soon be like a wet seed in the hot blind earth — fierce to sprout and grow with almost feral abandon.

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to break a spell you’ve been under or shatter an illusion you have been caught up in or burst free from a trance you have felt powerless to escape. If you are moved to seek help from a shaman, witch, or therapist, please do so. But I bet you could accomplish the feat all by yourself. Trust your hunches! Here’s one approach you could try: Tap into both your primal anger and your primal joy. In your mind’s eye, envision situations that tempt you to hate life and envision situations that inspire you to love life. With this volatile blend as your fuel, you can explode the hold of the spell, illusion, or trance.

(Apr. 20-May 20): Taurus-born physicist Wolfgang Pauli won a Nobel Prize for his research. His accomplishment? The Nobel Committee said he discovered “a new law of nature” and named it after him: the Pauli Exclusion Principle. And yet when he was a younger man, he testified, “Physics is much too difficult for me and I wish I were a film comedian or something like that and that I had never heard anything about physics!” I imagine you might now be feeling a comparable frustration about something for which you have substantial potential, Taurus. In the spirit of Pauli’s perseverance, I urge you to keep at it.

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(July 23-Aug. 22): You may laugh more in the next 14 days than you have during any comparable 14-day period since you were 5 years old. At least I hope you will. It will be the best possible tonic for your physical and mental health. Even more than usual, laughter has the power to heal your wounds, alert you to secrets hiding in plain sight, and awaken your dormant potentials. Luckily, I suspect that life will conspire to bring about this happy development. A steady stream of antics and whimsies and amusing paradoxes is headed your way. Be alert for the opportunities.

(May 21-June 20): In 1921, the French city of Biarritz hosted an international kissing contest. After evaluating the participants’ efforts, the panel of judges declared that Spanish kisses were “vampiric,” while those of Italians were “burning,” English were “tepid,” Russians were “eruptive,” French were “chaste,” and Americans were “flaccid.” Whatever nationality you are, Gemini, I hope you will eschew those paradigms — and all other paradigms, as well. Now is an excellent time to experiment with and hone your own unique style of kissing. I’m tempted to suggest that you raise your levels of tenderness and wildness, but I’d rather you ignore all advice and trust your intuition.

Homework: Formulate your game plan for hunting down happiness during the last three months of 2015. Visit FreeWillAstrology.com.

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s a favorable time to fantasize about how to suck more cash into your life. You have entered a phase when economic mojo is easier to conjure than usual. Are you ready to engage in some practical measures to take advantage of the cosmic trend? And by that I don’t mean playing the lottery or stealing strangers’ wallets or scanning the sidewalk for fallen money as you stroll. Get intensely real and serious about enhancing your financial fortunes. What are three specific ways you’re ignorant about getting and handling money? Educate yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You and I both know that you can heal the sick and raise the dead and turn water into wine — or at least perform the metaphorical equivalent of those magical acts. Especially when the pressure is on, you have the power to attract the help of mysterious forces and unexpected interventions. I love that about you! When people around you are rendered fuzzy and inert by life’s puzzling riddles, you are often the best hope for activating constructive responses.

According to my analysis of upcoming cosmic trends, these skills will be in high demand during the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some astrologers regard the planet Saturn as a sour tyrant that cramps our style and squelches our freedom. But here’s my hypothesis: Behind Saturn’s austere mask is a benevolent teacher and guide. She pressures us to focus and concentrate.

She pushes us to harness and discipline our unique gifts. It’s true that some people resist these cosmic nudges. They prefer to meander all over the place, trying out roles they’re not suited for and indulging in the perverse luxury of neglecting their deepest desires.

For them Saturn seems like a dour taskmaster, spoiling their lazy fun. I trust that you Sagittarians will develop a dynamic relationship with Saturn as she cruises through your sign for the next 26 months.

With her help, you can deepen your devotion to your life’s most crucial goals.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down,” so advised author Ray Bradbury. That strategy is too nerve-racking for a cautious person like me. I prefer to meticulously build and thoroughly test my wings before trying a quantum leap. But I have observed that Aquarius is one of the three signs of the zodiac most likely to succeed with this approach. And according to my astrological calculations, the coming weeks will be a time when your talent for building robust wings in mid-air will be even more effective than usual.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): You are being tempted to make deeper commitments and to give more of yourself.

Should you? Is it in your interests to mingle your destiny more thoroughly with the destinies of others?

Will you benefit from trying to cultivate more engaged forms of intimacy? As is true for most big questions, there are no neat, simple answers. Exploring stronger connections would ultimately be both messy and rewarding. Here’s an inquiry that might bring clarity as you ponder the possibility of merging your fortunes more closely with allies or potential allies: Will deeper commitments with them inspire you to love yourself dearly, treat yourself with impeccable kindness, and be a superb ally to yourself?

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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: 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.

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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 Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002520. 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Teresa Ann Iqbel. FBN Number: 2015‑0002438.

Published: Sep 3, 10, 17 24 2015.

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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: 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: 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 Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0002530.

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: 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: 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: 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.

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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.

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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: Blue Sky Writers at 1187 Coast Village Road 1‑490 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Road Dog Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kenny Loggins, CEO filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 03, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002633. Published: Sep 17 24.

Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Liquid Frontiers Art Studio at 110 Bodega Lane Suite I Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Marshall Jerome Moreno (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Marshall J. Moreno filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 02, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Teresa Ann Iqpal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002624. Published: Sep 10, 17 24. Oct 1 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: China King at 5915 Calle Real Ste B Goleta, CA 93117; Hsiu Y Hong 5968 Trudi Drive Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 04, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0002644. Published: Sep 17 24.

Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Video Shop at 128 W. Mission St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; William E. Sanford (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: William E. Sanford filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 03, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002628. Published: Sep 10, 17 24. Oct 1 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Caugnate at 4658 Vintage Ranch Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Steffen Gauglitz 22 Barry St Falmouth, MA 02540; Matthew A. Turk 4658 Vintage Ranch Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Matthew A. Turk 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: 2015‑0002546. Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wildwood Kitchen, Wood Shed at 410 East Haley Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Wildwood Restaurant Group, LLC 412 East Haley Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Kerry Artico filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 08, 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: 2015‑0002649. Published: Sep 17 24.

Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simply Halloween, World of Magic, World of Magic Halloween at 5964 Berkley Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Citco Enterprises, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gina Ngyyen, Secretary filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 11, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002685.

Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Bruce Gombrelli Dance at 3015 N. State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Bruce Gombrelli 5700 Via Real Unit 48 Carpinteria, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bruce Gombrelli filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2015‑0002687. Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

September 24, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Yardi Matrix at 430 S Fairview Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Yardi Systems (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gordon Morrell, Sec 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 Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002531.

Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Skeleton Kitten at 1419 Laguna St. #83 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Marlyn Daggett (same address) This business is conducted by a Indivudual Signed: Marlyn Daggett filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002642.

Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Frank’s Legal Services at 327 Rancheria Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101‑4513; Frank Lee Eggers (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Frank Lee Eggers filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2015‑0002690.

Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Isla Vista Yoga Center, The Yoga Garden Isla Vista, Yoga Isla Vista at 900 Embarcadero Del Mar #D Isla Vista, CA 93117; John Smart 28 San Marcos Trout Club Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Julia Smart (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: John P. Smart filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 03, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002634.

Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cathren T. Marksen at 1727 State St. #23 santa Barbara, CA 93101; Catherine Spaulding Marks 305 Vista De La Cumbre Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Catherine S. Marks filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 31, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002600. Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Solvang Brewing Company at 1547 Mission Drive Solvang, CA 93463; Solvang Brewing Company Brewing Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 01, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0002609. Published: Sep 17 24.

Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hoptions Taproom And Eatery, Lompoc Production Facility, Solvang Brewing Company at 234 North H Street Lompoc Street Lompoc, CA 93436; Solvang Brewing Company 1547 Mission Drive Solvang, CA 93463 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 01, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0002610. Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Amped Fantasy, Radioloyalty, Sportsalert, Fantasy Legend, Robot Fruit, Lenco Media, Scratch.FM at 345 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Streamtrack Media, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Aaron Gravitz 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 Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002533.

Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Urban Optics Optometric Center at 1114 State Street Suite 7 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Ocean Ridge Investment Corp (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: David Zucker, CEO 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002572. Published: Sep 17 24. Oct 1, 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Shop Cafe at 730 N. Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Monkeypig, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Christopher Vigilante, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 31, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002583.

Published: Sep 10, 17 24. Oct 1 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sing Santa Barbara at 21 E. Constance Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Erin Bonski 154 El Sueno Road Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Erin M Bonski filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 31, 2015.

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

FBN Number: 2015‑0002601.

Published: Sep 10, 17 24. Oct 1 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: American Swords, Swords of The U.S. at 2401 Calle Linares Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Simon Rycroft (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: S. A. Rycroft filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 18, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002755. Published: Sep 24.

Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lea Williams VO at 21 E Anapamu St #6 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Diane Lea Williams (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Diane Lea Williams filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2015‑0002752. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Perfect Puppy Products at 3 LA Cumbre Circle Santa Barbara, CA 93105‑4441; Sandra Jo Stinson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sandra Jo Stinson filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2015‑0002757.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Wireless at 119 N. Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Securepro, Inc 27 W. Anapamu St #316 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Securepro, Inc. CFO filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 18, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002750. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

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Responsible for the development, testing, scheduling, monitoring, and problem resolution of operations jobs and runbooks to support business processes for the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships and the Graduate Division. The BSOS provides data reporting and analysis support to aid in planning, operations, and reconciliation efforts. Reqs: Basic

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Innovative Surgicare, LLC at 340 South Kellogg Street Suite H Goleta, CA 93117; Innovative Neuromodulation Systems, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Eric Kirnsky 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: 2015‑0002580.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Classic Wellness at 801 Kenita Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Derek Moore (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Derek Moore filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002771.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Peach Leaf at 1015 Laguna St #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jennifer L. Hannon (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jennifer L. Hannon filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 08, 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: 2015‑0002651. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Ynez Burrito 2 at 956 Embarcadero Del Norte 2 Goleta, CA 93117; Aziz Khyalil 2949 N. Myers Street Burbank, CA 91504; Manhal Samaan 2296 Woodcreek Camarillo, CA 93012; Mitch Samaan 2621 W. Highway154 Santa Ynez, CA 93460 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Mitch Samaan filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002732. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Through The Lens Designs at 414 De La Vina St. Unit C Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Ashley Somics (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ashley Somics filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 02, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Tara Jaysinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0002619. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Expert Networking Solutions at 1326 Panchita Place Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Steven Harwell (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Steven Harwell filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 08, 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 Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002731.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fire & Ice Cafe, Ice Milk Company at 971 Embarcadero Del Mar Goleta, 93117; Off Loop, LLC 277 Mathilda Drive Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: John Kim filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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: 2015‑0002739.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

Name Change 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.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ultimate Longevity at 951 Miramonte Unit #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Katherine Bernhardt (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Katherine Bernhardt filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002666. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: El Sueno Furnishings & Delivery at 93 Castilian Dr Goleta, CA 93117; Sergio Dorado 4065 Foothill Rd Unit E Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Eduardo Christian Fuerte Becerril 609 E Ortega St Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Eduardo Becerril 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: 2015‑0002579. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lama Dog, Lama Dog Tap Room + Bottle Shop at 116 Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Good Beer Company, LLC 133 E. De La Guerra Street #173 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Peter Burnham filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002730.

Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ninaya’s Healing Journeys at 165 Kamala Way Goleta, CA 93117; Nancy Strandberg‑Laub (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Nancy Strandberg‑Laub filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 18, 2015.

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

by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002753. Published: Sep 24. Oct 1, 8, 15 2015.

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Basic knowledge of at least one scripting technology. Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills.

Demonstrated ability to communicate complex issues to people of varying levels of technical knowledge.

Note: Fingerprinting required. $24.03 ‑ $33.67/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.

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interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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SOFTWARE DEVEL­OPMENT ENGINEER I

Yardi Systems is currently hiring for a Software Development Engineer I to join their growing product development team! The Software Development Engineer I analyzes, modifies and debugs existing applications. Detailed responsibilities include the following: · Modifies, implements, and maintains an existing application to established standards, specifications and approved changes. Performs maintenance programming for existing versions. Uses corporate approved CRM systems to track cases, defects and resolutions. Explains defect resolutions to the Team Leader.

Uses corporate approved integrated development environment (e.g., Visual Studios, Eclipse) to implement defect resolutions. · Performs unit testing on his/her defect resolutions to ensure accuracy, integrity, interoperability and completeness to achieve desired results. Analyzes and documents reasons for test failures, and revises/ debugs assigned programs and/or procedures as necessary. · Learns and increases knowledge of a single domain and best practices.

Expands technical and industry expertise. · Uses corporate approved sourced control applications (e.g., Microsoft Team Foundations) to maintain code changes. · Adheres to Department policies, procedures and standards in the development and implementation of software.

Successful candidates will meet the following criteria: · Bachelor’s Degree in Computer/ Engineering Science or equivalent experience Independent problem solving and analysis skills Clear, effective verbal and written communication skills Good time management skills Ability to meet critical deadlines and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast‑paced environment Strong team orientation with the desire and ability to establish cooperative working relationships with employees at all levels within Yardi, outside of Yardi, and with clients · Familiarity with one of the following computer programming language (VB.NET, Java, Java Script, C#) · Experience with relationship databases (SQL Server, Oracle) · Experience with accounting systems ·

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SPECIAL EVENTS CATERING Looking for a reliable individual with excellent catering knowledge and solid culinary skills. Serves as a working supervisor overseeing a kitchen area serving up to 1,500 meals per shift. Special Events Catering caters events for the Chancellor, high profile donors and for various

Lead Cook

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital seeks full‑time lead cook, for the day/ evening shift. Job duties include planning and preparing products according to recipes that meet standards of quality and quantity, and meet portion control guidelines.

Temperature control, sanitation and timeliness are equally important.

Knowledge of commercial kitchen equipment operation. 1+ years of sous chef or lead cook experience required.

Culinary Arts degree preferred.

Cottage Health offers an excellent compensation package that includes above market salaries; premium medical benefits, pension plans, and

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Having a positive impact on others, and feeling fulfillment in return, is a cornerstone of the Cottage Health System culture. As a community-based, not-for-profit provider of leading-edge healthcare for the Greater Santa Barbara region, Cottage emphasizes the difference each team member can make. It’s a difference you’ll want to experience throughout your entire career. Join us in one of the openings below.

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Nursing • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Cath Lab/IR Nurse Clinical Manager – ER GVCH Clinical Manager – Telemetry Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Quality Consultant CNC – Surgery Electrophysiology Emergency Psych Supervisor Emergency Psychiatric Manager – Cardiology Manager – Villa Riviera Med/Surg – Float Pool MICU Mother Infant Neurology/Urology NICU Orthopedics Peds PICU Pulmonary Renal SICU Surgery Surgical Trauma Telemetry

Allied Health • • • •

Case Manager – SLO Clinic Echocardiographer – Per Diem Physical Therapist – Per Diem Speech Language Pathologist II – Per Diem

Clinical • Personal Care Attendant I – Villa Riviera • Telemetry Technician • Unit Care Technicians – MICU

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

Benefactor Liaison Catering Set-up – Part-Time Client Systems Administrator (EPIC) Concierge Cook Environmental Services Rep Environmental Services Supervisor EPIC Ambulatory Manager Infection Preventionist Data Support (RN) Integration Analyst – HIE Interface Analyst (EPIC) IT Project Manager IT Project Manager, Sr. Manager, ISD Customer Service Manager – Nutrition Marketing Event Coordinator Research Analyst & Project Development Specialist Room Service Server Security Officers Supervisor, Utilization Review Denials & Appeals Process Systems Support Analyst – Supply Chain

Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital • Manager – Villa-Riviera (Center Administrator, Assisted Living) • Patient Care Tech I – Part-Time • Physical Therapist – Outpatient • Prospective Payment Systems Coordinator

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital • • • • • • • •

CNC – Nursing Administration CRN – Nursing Administration Patient Financial Counselor – Per Diem RN – Emergency (Nights) RN – ICU (Nights) RN – Med/Surg (Nights) Security Officer – Per Diem Sous Chef

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital • • • • • •

Endoscopy Technician – Days Manager – Nutrition Manager – Radiology Patient Financial Counselor RN – ED – Per Diem and Part-Time RN – Med/Surg – Per Diem

Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories • • • • • •

Certified Phlebotomy Techs Clinical Lab Scientists Cytotechnologist – Per Diem Histotechnician Lab Assistant II Medical Lab Technician

• Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com

Cottage Business Services

• RENTAL & RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR SELECT FULL-TIME POSITIONS

• Supervisor – Patient Business Services

• 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.

Please reference “SBI” when applying. EOE

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POT WASHER

PORTOLA DINING COMMONS Washes pots and bowls that are too large for the dish machine and performs essential daily cleaning and sanitation of kitchen equipment, counters, walls, and floors. Reqs: Ability to communicate in English and train new workers on an on‑going basis. Knowledge of safety and sanitation regulations regarding proper cleaning of pots, and safe lifting. Notes: Fingerprinting required.

Able to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hrs. per day. Work schedule: Mon, Tue, Sat: 7 am ‑ 3:30 pm. Fri, Sun: 12:30 pm ‑ 9 pm. (Wed, Thu off). $15.56 ‑ $16.51/ 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. Apply by 10/5/15.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu.

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ASST. DIRECTOR, GRADUATE ADMISSIONS

GRADUATE DIVISION Manages processing of approximately 9,000 applications to 45 UCSB graduate departments and programs through all stages of graduate admissions process.

Serves as systems analyst on admissions related technology systems including the graduate admission application and application review system. Reqs: Proven excellent analytical, technical, and communication skills. Expertise and experience using Microsoft Word, Excel and Access. Ability to coordinate and execute numerous tasks in a fast paced deadline critical environment.

Notes: Fingerprinting required. Some travel may be required. Occasional overtime. $4,181 ‑ $4,600/mo. 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 10/4/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Apply online at https://Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150501

Sous Chef The new Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital just opened on 9/01/15, and we’re in need of an experienced Sous Chef to help supervise and coordinate the work of kitchen employees for day/evening shifts. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years’ experience in the culinary field, and great interpersonal skills. Healthcare food service experience a plus but not required.

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.

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medical/healthcare PERSONAL ATTENDANTS Wanted Provide in‑home support to adults with Developmental Disabilities FT and PT available call 692‑5290

CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND ALUMNI RELATIONS ASSISTANT

BREN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & MANAGEMENT Provides administrative support to the Director, Associate Director, and Coordinator of the Bren School Career Development unit in the areas of career development, alumni relations, and professional development. Assists with all aspects of planning, analysis, and implementation strategies to help develop students’ and alumni’s career strategies and assist them in locating and landing jobs and internships.

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Reqs: Excellent writing and editing skills along with strong administrative skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Web design and social media experience a plus.

Demonstrated ability to perform administrative tasks and data entry with high degree of accuracy while meeting deadlines. Highly organized and detail oriented.

Note: Fingerprinting required. $20.59‑$22.59/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 9/30/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150498

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Notes: Fingerprinting required.

Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program.

Annually renewable contract position. Flexibility and willingness to travel frequently.

Ability to work some weekends and evenings. 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 10/5/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150499

LEAD DIR. OF DEVELOPMENT, ENGINEERING DEAN’S OFFICE

MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER

OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Partners with the entire Engineering and Sciences Development team while representing the initiatives of the Dean of Engineering. Optimizes philanthropic support for key fund‑raising initiatives in response to academic priorities established by the Dean. Fund‑raising efforts are devoted primarily to engineering initiatives (100%). Focuses app. 80% time on fund‑raising activities to identify, cultivate and close gifts in the $100,000 ‑ $1M+ range with a major focus on identifying new high capacity prospects for identified funding priorities. Responsible for directly raising $3M+ annually for the College, with a stretch goal of $5M‑$7M annually. Focuses 20% on other activities related to fund‑raising and administrative duties such as coordinating and executing aspects of the Engineering development program. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Min. of 5‑7 years of major gift experience, including raising seven figure gifts. Proven track record of successfully managing current and prospective benefactors at the leadership level. Demonstrated skill at gift negotiation and gift solicitation. Desired: Prior experience in or significant understanding of engineering and/or technology based

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For primary consideration apply by 9/30/15, thereafter open until filled.

Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150493

PROGRAMS DIRECTOR

ALUMNI AFFAIRS Responsible for UCSB Alumni Association programming that includes numerous regional events, student activities intended to foster a culture of philanthropy, and All Gaucho Reunion. Including oversight, management and supervision of one FTE Program Coordinator and approximately six student or limited employees; and overall responsibility for strategic planning and design of programs that achieve Alumni Association, campus, division and department goals and objectives.

Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education/experience.

Key skills are required for successful performance. These include: Understanding of and proven skills in the profession of strategic events, and effort to continually maintain and enhance professional knowledge.

Proven skill in goal achievement.

Notes: Fingerprinting required.

Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. $4,600‑$6,441/mo. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

For primary consideration apply by 9/30/15, thereafter open until filled.

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Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program.

Resides and is present at the Reserve, near Mammoth Lakes, except for brief intervals on VESR business, or on authorized days off and vacation periods. This includes being on call outside of normal business hours.

Travel is required to UCSB and University offices in Oakland several times per year. Employee must be physically fit to perform snow removal and construction tasks.

Commensurate with experience up to $84,929/yr. 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 10/18/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150478

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including fountains, currently dry of course, and climate-appropriate succulents bursting with color. I found unit D in the very back of the block, which means that it’s private and secluded —and closest to the freeway. But once inside the front door, I couldn’t hear, see, or feel the presence of any traffic. I was completely taken in by the home itself.

Almost everything in this condominium is white and bright. The entryway leads up a staircase to the living room, with high ceilings, French doors, and a fireplace. The living room is open to the dining room and the kitchen, which is also super bright with cabinetry, countertops, and a large center island all in sparkling white.

Up more stairs are the two bedrooms, each with its own full bath. The master bedroom suite houses a huge master bathroom with both a large walk-in shower and—my favorite feature of the entire house—a big Jacuzzi tub with a sweeping mountain view.

In fact, the views from just about every room of this condo are breathtaking enough to overshadow the gorgeous home itself. It offers balconies, a patio, and plenty of windows perfectly situated to take advantage of the stellar vistas, each of which epitomizes the phrase “million-dollar view.”

On my way out, I decided to leave my car right where it was parked, ambling through the not-so-funky side streets on foot and debating the afternoon aperitif options of the neighborhood: a coldbrew coffee or a cold microbrew, neither of which existed in this neighborhood back in the old days.

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I’ve lived here for more than 30 years, so I’m told that I can therefore call myself a “local.” As such, I can tell stories about the way things were way back when I moved here in the ’80s. I remember when Paseo Nuevo was built, replacing its predecessor Piccadilly Square. I remember when there were traffic lights on the 101, forcing motorists to wait long minutes for the lights to change, bisecting Santa Barbara, and separating the beach from downtown. That beach side of the freeway, until very recently, has been an industrial, artsy, even funky home to craftspeople and artists. But now we all know it as the upscale, entertaining, visitor-friendly Funk Zone.

This area harbors art studios, restaurants, and wineries galore, and of course it is still only steps from the beach. So what was once the “wrong side of the tracks” is now one of the hottest neighborhoods in town. Mimicking other cities that have renovated their onceblighted downtown cores into chic, upscale urban centers, Santa Barbara now has another city center with vibrant nightlife and desirable addresses.

The block bordered by Garden, Yanonali, and Santa Barbara streets houses one of the first—and still only —residential enclaves in the Funk Zone.

While old-timers may scoff at a milliondollar price tag in that location, one walk through this development shows why it’s worth it.

I visited an open house at 218 Santa Barbara Street straight from an afternoon at the beach. Meandering through the complex, I admired the landscaping,

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has been rain, there has been drought, and there has been Man, trying to figure out how to feed himself. Where does he fit in the circle of life when the antelope that eat the grass can’t find any more grass to eat?

Or when the city he lives in fines him for watering his plants?

Does he starve?

Of course not. He installs a drip irrigation system.

“En este calor, si no les echas agua, se mueren,” explained Gustavo the Gardenator, meaning that, in this heat, if you don’t water plants, they die. “Más calor, más agua. Si son plantas más grandes, más agua.” So base your watering on temperature and plant size. For bigger gardens, drip irrigation is a wise investment to economize your water so your plants stay muy bonita.

He says there are two different kinds of systems:“de gotero y de espray” — the drip kind and the spray kind. Both work well depending on your needs, but he says the drip ones can work anywhere with trees, shrubs, and plants. Drippers are based on gallon-per-hour water usage, so if you have a really big tree, then you could use three to four twogallon-per-hour drippers six inches from the base. You can also hook up your system to an automatic timer unit,

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Carpinteria

Eastside Santa Barbara

178 Serafin Street, 4BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,025,000 Sotheby’s, Marie Larkin 805-680-2525

106 North Salinas Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $727,000, Village Properties, Joan Roberts 805-448-0526

1231 Franciscan Court 5, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $560,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer 805680-4622

218 Santa Barbara Street D, 2BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-4, $1,175,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bryan Uhrig 805331-3191

1272 Cravens Lane #1, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $825,000, Keller Williams, Ruth Eggli 805-252-9763

641 Por La Mar Circle B, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $939,000, Village Properties, Billy 805-570-4827

1431 Tomol Avenue, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $749,000, Coldwell Banker 805403-4313

645 Costa Del Mar unit A, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $979,000, Village Properties, Billy 805-570-4827

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

1017 E Yanonali, 2BD/1BA, Sun 2-5, $775,000, Coldwell Banker, Fred Dabby 805-895-6026

3553 Padaro Lane, 2BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $5,950,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Kathleen Winter 805-451-466

1116 North Nopal Street, 3BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $695,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Joe Parker & Garrett McCaw 805-2522335

4902 Sandyland Road #245, 1BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $439,000, Keller Williams, Frangina Spandau 805-2595783 5750 Via Real #278, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $184,000, Remax Gold Coast Realtors, Gloria Burns 805-689-6920

1020 Canon Perdido, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 2-4, $1,280,000, Village Properties, Janice Laney 805-705-6474 1323 Harmon Street, 3BD/1BA, Sat 12-3, $649,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, PJ Williams 805-403-0585

Downtown Santa Barbara

Goleta

18 West Victoria #204, 1BD/2BA, Sat 12-4 Sun 12-4, $1,495,000, Village Properties, Tim Walsh 805-259-8808

20 Baker Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-5, $1,095,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Brett Buschbom 805-451-9108

18 West Victoria #208, 1BD/2BA, Sat 12-4 Sun 12-4, $1,180,500, Village Properties, Tim Walsh 805-259-8808

39 Dearborn Place #100, 2BD/1BA, Sat 12-3, Sun 12-3, $415,000, Keller Williams, Ruth Ann Bowe Real Estate Team 805-698-0351

18 West Victoria #305, 1BD/2BA, Sat 12-4 Sun 12-4, $1,515,000, Village Properties, Tim Walsh 805-259-8808 18 West Victoria #308, 2BD/3BA, Sat 12-4 Sun 12-4, $2,600,000, Village Properties, Tim Walsh 805-259-8808 316 West Pedregosa Street, 2BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $785,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-9691258 401 Chapala St # 222, 1BD/1.5BA, Sun 11-4, $1,350,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805896-0876 401 Chapala St # 302, 1BD/2BA, Sun 11-4, $1,495,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805896-0876 401 Chapala St #312, 1BD/2BA, Sun 11-4, $1,275,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805896-0876 401 Chapala St #403, 2BD/2BA, Sun 11-4, $2,200,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805896-0876 618 Anacapa Street #7, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,669,000, Keller William, Bob Walsmith Jr. 805-720-5362 1109 Olive Street, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $959,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Michelle Madril 805-453-0927 1417 Olive Street Unit B, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,095,000, Sotheby’s, Sandy Lipowski 805-403-3844 1624 De La Vina Street, 2BD/1BA,

By Appt., $729,000, Sotheby’s, Jennifer Berger 805-451-5484 1831 Chapala Street, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $749,000, Sotheby’s, Jennifer Berger 805-451-5484 1835 Chapala Street, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $965,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Hristo Hristov 805-284-8471 SiBelle Israel 805-896-4218

170 Via Lee, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $869,500, Berkshire Hathaway, The Brothers Gough 805-455-1420 216 Moreton Bay Lane Unit 5, 2BD/1.5BA, By Appt., $435,000, Sotheby’s, Mike Pearl 805-637-6888 Gail Pearl 805-637-9595 340 Old Mill Road 235, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $299,000, Coldwell Banker, Ruth Martinez-Infante 805-570-4646 615 Las Perlas Drive, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $749,000, Sotheby’s, The Olivers 805-680-6524 835 Puente Drive, 5BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $2,975,000, Village Properties, Brian King 805-452-0471 4326 Calle Real #9, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $299,999, Coldwell Banker, Ruth Martinez-Infante 805-570-4646 5068 San Julio Avenue, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $899,900, Berkshire Hathaway, Reyne Stapelmann 805-705-4353 5380 Paseo Orlando, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $985,000, Village Properties, Alyson Spann 805-637-2884 6156 Covington Way, 5BD/2BA, $895,000, Sun 1-4, South Coast Realty, David Darga 805-964-4276 6544 Camino Venturoso, 5BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,029,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bob Ratliffe 805-448-6642 7290 Bassano Drive, 4BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $829,000, Coast and Valley Properties, Robert P Ruccione 805-7292004 7549 Sea Gull Drive, 4BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $835,000, Keller Williams, Ruth Ann Bowe Real Estate Team, 805698-0351 7610 Hollister Ave #109, 1BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $359,000, Coldwell Banker, Rosa De La Mora 805-696-3309

Saturday 9/26 & Sunday 9/27 Hope Ranch 4509 Auhay Drive A, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,175,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jarrod Shively 805-714-5114

The Mesa 222 Meigs Road Unit 19, 4BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-4, $1,275,000, Sotheby’s, Gene Archambault 805-4551190

1035 Miramonte Drive #5, 2BD/1.5BA, Sat By Appt. Sun 2-4, $559,000, Sotheby’s, Mike Pearl 805637-6888 Gail Pearl 805-637-9595 1268 Mountain View, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, Village Properties, Christina Chackel 805-448-3081 4426 Via Alegre, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $2,695,000, Coldwell Banker, David Goldstein 805-448-0468

Mission Canyon 408 Los Robles Lane, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 1-4, $1,585,000, Sotheby’s, Deb Archambault 805-455-2966

476 Paseo Del Descanso, 2BD/1.5BA, Sat 1-3, $1,035,000, Kathleen Barnato Realtor, Kathleen P Barnato 805-570-3366 790 Mission Oaks Lane, 4BD/4.5BA, Sun 1-3, $1,949,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Doug Van Pelt 805637-3684 Thomas Schultheis 805-7292802 967 Cheltenham Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,200,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Eve Mitchell 805-708-9972 1502 Mission Canyon Road, 4BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $1,450,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Richard Davidson 805-452-3490 2960 Glen Albyn Drive, 5BD/4BA, $1,695,000, Sun 2-4, Coldwell Banker, Dave Haws 805-757-6492

Montecito 27 Butterfly Lane, 5BD/7BA, Sun 1-3:30, $1,390,000, Village Properties, John Henderson 805-689-1066

185 Middle Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 2-4, $4,899,000, Sotheby’s, Dan Johnson 805-895-5150 193 East Mountain Drive, 3BD/6BA, Sun 11-4, $2,750,000, Coldwell Banker, Dan Failla 805-708-1276 298 East Mountain Drive, 5BD/4.5BA, Sun 2-4, $2,995,000, Sotheby’s, Krista Simundson 805-4535117 405 Nicholas Lane, 3BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 3-2, $1,695,000, Village Properties, Marilyn Moore 805-6890507 Kim Crawford 805-886-8132 802 Camino Viejo, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,659,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Beth Goodman 805-455-1909 815 Ashley Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 12-3, $3,395,000, Village Properties, Hutch Axilrod 805-637-6378 830 Riven Rock Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $7,750,000, Sotheby’s, Arthur Kalayjian 805-455-1379 923 Buena Vista Drive, 6BD/6.5BA,

By Appt., $5,495,000, Sotheby’s, Frank Abatemarco 805-450-7477 1220 Coast Village Road Unit 110, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,069,000, Sotheby’s, Linda Brown “Brownie” 805666-9090 1211 East Valley Road, 4BD/5BA, Sun 2-4, $2,595,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Yolanda Van Wingerden 805570-4965

1373 School House Road, 5BD/4BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $4,195,000, Village Properties, Wayne Barker 805-637-2948 Sheela Hunt 805-698-3767 1422 East Valley Road, 5BD/6BA, Sun 1-4, $5,100,000, Village Properties, Kim Hultgen 805-895-2067 1424 East Valley Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $3,200,000, Village Properties, Marilyn Moore 805-689-0507 1497 Isabella Lane, 3BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $2,550,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Michele White 805-452-7515 1775 Glen Oaks Drive, 5BD/4.5BA, Sun 2-4, $3,650,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Barbara Neary 805-6988980 2960 Glen Albyn, 5BD/3.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,695,000, Coldwell Banker, Dave Haws 805-757-6492 2970 Hidden Valley Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sat 1-3, $2,495,000, Keller Williams, Daniel Zia & The Zia Group 805-637-7148

Noleta 175 Sherwood Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $925,000, Keller Williams, Pamela Love 805-729-7915

Riviera 49 Cedar Lane, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $1,295,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jarrod Shively 805-714-5114

395 Woodley Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $2,575,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258 498 Toro Canyon Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,595,000, 3BD/3BA, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805969-1258 814 Paseo Alicante, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $959,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Doug Van Pelt 805-637-3684 Thomas Schultheis 805-729-2802 825 Alameda Padre Serra, 4BD/2BA, Sun 2-5, $1,550,000, Village Properties, Amy J Baird 805-478-9318 1006 East Canon Perdido Street, 3BD/1BA, Sun 1-3, $949,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Chierici & Associates 805680-0501 1010 Roble Lane, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $2,350,000, Sotheby’s, Karen Strickland 805-455-3226 1202 Las Alturas, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,450,000, Sotheby’s, Larry Martin 805-895-6872 1530 Hillcrest Road, 2BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,499,000, Sotheby’s, The Olivers 805-680-6524 1545 Knoll Circle Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,800,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ricardo Munoz 805-8958725 1605 Paterna Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,695,000, Coastal Properties, Berni Bernstein 805-705-4867 1889 Eucalyptus Hill Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,465,000, Sotheby’s, Justin Corrado 805-451-9969 2286 Las Tunas Road, 4BD/5BA, Sun 1-3, $3,795,000, Coldwell Banker, Patrice Serrani 805-637-5112

Samarkand 517 West Quinto Street A, 2BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $ 800,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Brooke Ebner 805-453-7071

2641 State Street W1, Sun 1-4, 3BD/2BA, $649,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, Stu Morse 805-705-0161

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Green your crib

energy upgrades for existing homes I

nformation on how to build an energyefficient home is easy to come by these days — but what if you can’t start from the ground up? What about the 18 million homes that already exist in California?

Are those of us living in existing homes relegated to changing lightbulbs and adjusting thermostats?

Not at all. Enter the “home performance” contractor. Home performance is the discipline of applying building science and retrofit techniques to existing buildings, and the results can be dramatic;

2641 State Street W3, Sun 1-4, 3BD/2BA, $665,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, Stu Morse 805-705-0161 2525 State Street #25, 1BD/1.5BA, Sun 1-4, $599,000, Coastal Properties, Sylvia Miller, 805-448-8882

Saturday 9/26 & Sunday 9/27 CONTiNUED

3703 Cordero Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-5, $885,000, Keller Williams, Paige Kaye 805-964-1410

3703 Dixon Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,150,000, Village Properties, Chris Salvetti 805-705-4040 3844 Lincoln Road, 6BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,649,000, Berkshire Hathaway, The Santa Barbara Group, Joe Parker 805-886-5735 3960 Camellia Lane, 3BD/2BA, Sun By Appt., $849,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Steve Heller 805-252-2749

222 Calle Granada, 2BD/2BA, Sat 12-3 Sun 2-4, $1,095,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Kat Perello Hitchcock 805705-4485

5290 Overpass Rd 27, 1BD/1BA, Sun 1-3, $435,000, Kathleen Barnato Realtor, Kathleen P Barnato 805-5703366

585 El Sueno Road, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,149,000, Sotheby’s, David Mires 805-705-8986

Upper East Santa Barbara

880 Veronica Springs Road, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $1,199,750, Village Properties, Cimme Eordanidis 805-7228480 2654 State Street, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $650,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Kathy Strand-Spieler 805-895-6326 3034 Calle Rosales, 3BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 1-4, $892,050, Berkshire Hathaway, Debbie Kort 805-368-4479 3048 Calle Noguera, 5BD/3.5BA, Sat 2-5, $1,795,000, Mike Richardson Realtors, Kirk Renga 805-886-9302

3132 Calle Mariposa, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 1:30-4:30 Sun 1:30-4:30, $1,750,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Robert Johnson 805-705-1606

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.

2030 State Street #4, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $649,500, Coldwell Banker, Jessie Sessions 805-709-0904

2025 Garden Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 12-2, $1,795,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer 805-680-4622 2731 Miradero Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 3-5, $805,000, Sotheby’s, Roberta Perissinotto 805-233-0509

Westside Santa Barbara

1106 Crestline Drive, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,765,000, Coldwell Banker, Jennifer Plana 805-895-05911216 West Valerio Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $949,000, Village Properties, Leanne Wood 805-284-7177 1632 San Andres, 1BD/1BA, Sun 2-4, $499,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-886-6746

Santa Ynez Valley 56 Via Del Sol, 2BD/2BA, Sun 11-1, $194,900, Berkshire Hathaway, Chris McCool 805-680-3594

255 5th Street E, 2BD/2BA, Sat 10-12, $369,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Suzy Ealand 805-698-9902 351 Sycamore Drive, 5BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $719,900, Berkshire Hathaway, Mary Layman 805-448-3890 363 Terrace Court, 3BD/2BA, Sun 12-3, $599,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Mary Bahnken 805-722-8663

1628 Laurel Ave, 4BD/2BA, Sun 12-3, $650,000, Sotheby’s, Patty Murphy 805680-8571

1697 Eucalyptus Drive, 2BD/2BA, Sat 2-4, $349,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Doris Banchik 805-588-3616 1855 Cottonwood Street, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-3, $877,650, Berkshire Hathaway, Suzy Ealand 805698-9902

Ventura County 616 Calle De Los Amigos, 3BD/3BA, $840,000, Sun 1-4, Sotheby’s, Daniela Johnson 805-453-4555

993 East Santa Clara Street, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, Re/Max Gold Coast Realtors, Teryn Bonime 503-572-4030 3059 Seaview Avenue, 3BD/3BA, $2,840,000, Sun 1-4, Santa Barbara Estates, Christopher A Page 805-2848422

497 Heritage Lane, 3BD/3BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $525,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Sharon Currie 805-448-2727 Rhoda Johnson 805-705-8707 511 Meadow View Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $645,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Glynnis Mullenary 805-7055206

927 West Valerio Street, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 2-4, $789,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Michelle Madril 805-4530927 Paul Mueller 805-315-1515

1021 W Lime Avenue, 4BD/3BA, Sat 12-3, $370,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bunny DeLorie 805-570-9181

1564 Portesuello Avenue, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $970,000, Coldwell Banker, Scott McCosker 805-687-2436

1493 Aarhus Drive 10, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $375,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Peggy Johnson 805-245-5978

Submit your open house listings to gustavo@independent. com Tuesday by 3pm to be included in this directory.

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San Roque 219 Toyon Drive, 2BD/2BA, Sat 12-4 Sun 1-4, $1,575,000, Sotheby’s, Ray Benenate 805-448-7988 Ted Quackenbush 805-637-1782

One caveat: This work should be done by a professional trained in building science and home performance. Tightening a home can have unsafe side effects.

For example, if gas appliances are present, there is a danger of trapping noxious, life-threating fumes inside the home. A professional will understand these risks and will use test equipment to verify that they’ve been avoided.

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Samarkand (continued)

by Dennis Allen with Scott Nyborg

september 24, 2015

OPEN HOUSES

Because most homes are “leaky”— “leaky” that is, air can pass more or less freely between indoors and outdoors — the first priority is to stop the leaks. Typically, we spend energy (and money) to heat or cool our indoors, but, because of leaks, we end up heating or cooling the outdoors. Home heating and cooling is by far the biggest use of energy in homes, so stopping this energy wastage represents a key first step used by the home performance contractor.

Most of us think of windows when we think of building air leaks, but the science shows us that windows are usually not the main culprit. Because warm air rises (the stack effect), most air escapes at the top and bottom of buildings through the attic and the crawl space. Consequently, air sealing is one of the most important strategies. With this single measure, both energy use and indoor air quality can be improved.

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numerous case studies cite total measured energy used by the home reduced by as much as 70 percent!

Building science developed in the 1980s along with sophisticated equipment, making possible the measurement and study of buildings. By applying these tools and scientific principles, we now know how to transform the energy performance of buildings.

The good news doesn’t stop there. It turns out that many of the same retrofit measures that reduce energy use also improve the quality of indoor air, humidity, and moisture levels, not to mention the overall longevity of the structure itself.

The benefits are many and varied, from reduced indoor allergies to less frequent dusting to decreased home repair work.

But what goes into an energy upgrade?

Since every home is unique, a good home performance contractor starts by running tests to understand exactly what is needed for the specific building.With this data, the contractor then recommends the upgrade measures for maximum improvement.

Santa barbara county SaleS area

Seller

buyer

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date

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buellton/solvang

boulDen JennIFeR C

MaZZella MICHael tRustee

$937,000

9/11/15

1765 CottonWooD st 4327 avenue Del MaR

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$475,000

9/11/15

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$848,000

9/11/15

1303 taRanto CIR

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HIlton CoDY

$745,000

9/08/15

5078 santa susana ave

peRellI RICHaRD W tRustee

nelson JoHn R eu

$930,000

9/09/15

867 vIa abaJo

sMItH CaRol a

MusMeCCI RICHaRD C eu

$859,000

9/10/15

1090 n san MaRCos RD

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West JoHnson M III eu

$980,000

9/11/15

5564 beRKeleY RD

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$560,000

9/09/15

105 teColote ave

CRR InvestoRs llC

RobIn HIll llC

$14,000,000

9/11/15

115 RobIn HIll RD

MullenHouR RogeR s ea

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$854,000

9/11/15

510 MIlls WaY

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$939,000

9/10/15

548 HastIngs DR

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$770,000

9/10/15

6033 paseo palMIlla

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$255,000

9/11/15

524 s b st

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$340,000

9/11/15

1801 soMeRset Ct

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JoHnson CaRlene Y ea

$260,000

9/11/15

416 n DaIsY st 1021 n gaRDenIa st

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$189,500

9/09/15

KRaus CaRol s ea

CobaRRubIas guIlleRMo JR

$292,000

9/11/15

1013 W neCtaRIne ave

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RaZo saMuel s eu

$285,000

9/11/15

909 W alDen ave

laMont FReDeRICK C eu

HoWell bRuCe l

$355,000

9/11/15

1312 stonebRooK DR

ConCHa WaYne

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$121,000

9/09/15

1113 W CYpRess ave D

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$695,000

9/09/15

Canon vIeW RD

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$4,195,000

9/08/15

1050 CIMa lInDa ln

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$2,455,000

9/11/15

1336 alta vIsta RD

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$1,275,000

9/10/15

610 CastIllo st

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Maple InvestMents llC

$325,000

9/08/15

2415 boRton DR

Caetano Jose D

DIXon anDReW s eu

$1,010,000

9/11/15

1245 FloRa vIsta DR

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$1,138,000

9/10/15

2428 Calle soRIa

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$827,000

9/11/15

909 veRonICa spRIngs RD

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$1,265,000

9/08/15

1428 ManItou RD

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$499,000

9/09/15

3570 MoDoC RD 21

t.t. & M. CoRp

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$900,000

9/09/15

216 saMaRKanD DR

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$1,007,500

9/09/15

433 FoXen DR

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$1,100,000

9/09/15

322 e alaMaR ave

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$970,000

9/11/15

501 e Calle lauReles

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$640,000

9/11/15

4022 otono DR a

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$310,000

9/11/15

1196 vIa Del CaRMel

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$370,000

9/11/15

4807 KennetH ave

JoHannes KettY

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$285,500

9/08/15

5732 vIa MaRgaRIta

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$337,000

9/11/15

741 eDgeWooD ave

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$355,000

9/11/15

862 CaMbRIa ave

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MalDonaDo FRanCIsCo eu

$333,500

9/10/15

3916 sIlveR leaF DR

MooRe bRaDY M tRustee

RoDRIgueZ RogelIo eu

$335,000

9/11/15

290 MIles ave

1240 palMetto llC

oRtale RICHaRD D tRustee

$1,575,000

9/09/15

2339 s bRoaDWaY

pResCott DennIs l tRust

lopeZ steveen e eu

$515,000

9/11/15

988 FoXenWooD DR

HeRnanDeZ MaRK J ea

o'bRIen anDReW J eu

$460,000

9/11/15

984 FoXenWooD DR

Jeanson CaRol tRustee

MelvIlle vICKI l

$343,000

9/11/15

140 MeaDoWbRooK DR

KauDse RobeRt tRustee

FRanKlIn KaRen l eu

$296,000

9/11/15

1433 ClaReMont pl

solIs MaRIa l C

HueRta saMuel C eu

$300,000

9/11/15

2355 n leXIngton ave

oRtIZ JullIan eu

RaMIReZ eRIC eu

$311,000

9/11/15

1469 W MIRasol Ct

peRKIns, sCott

FeRnanDes MaRK M

$322,500

9/10/15

1623 s paRaIso DR

saRMIento RICHaRD eu

oRDonIo Joel l eu

$229,000

9/11/15

806 W las FloRes WaY

tIFFanY pHIlIp p ea

putneY HaZel C

$256,000

9/11/15

737 e CooK st

laKe apRIl R

velasCo FRanCIsCo g eu

$462,500

9/11/15

622 s HaRt DR

MIlls RonalD C

gaona CaRlos C eu

$204,000

9/09/15

829 e Jones st 3

RegIs baRbaRa J tRustee

baRloW JeReMIaH H eu

$865,000

9/11/15

130 MoRgan ln

tRInItY InvestMents gp

gueRIn FabIenne tRustee

$627,000

9/10/15

3375 FootHIll RD 821

CaRteR CHaRles l eu

RoDRIgueZ antonIo

$285,000

9/10/15

1317 W FIR ave

gRossInI DennIs J tRust

lanDtHaleR Ian M

$308,000

9/11/15

1632 auDubon ave

buRRoW Jo ann l tRustee

alvaRaDo leonaRDo D

$237,000

9/11/15

3357 vIa CoRteZ

bRoWnIng bRenDa l

Mallea RIK b eu

$265,000

9/11/15

3324 vIa Dona

stevens MaRK a tRustee

CuRtIs JennIFeR b

$500,000

9/11/15

390 st JosepH st

aMaRal gRegoRY J tRustee

FaouR InC

$175,000

9/09/15

614 e MonRoe st

MIlleR patIenCe t eu

CaRlIsle ReX s eu

$247,000

9/11/15

1738 n lYnne DR 9

DuaRte CatHeRIne a ea

salgueRo IsMael eu

$285,000

9/10/15

637 e lee DR

tHoMas Dale e JR eu

MeRaZ Jose g JR

$335,000

9/11/15

1039 CoRteZ DR

DuRon RalpH R eu

KIRK FaMIlY CalIF lp

$293,000

9/10/15

1618 n CanYon DR

evans leona tRust

CastaneDa MeRCeD ea

$282,000

9/11/15

1211 sanDstone ln

bRooKs FaMIlY tRust 12/6/01

RIZK MaRIM

$425,000

9/11/15

1843 n MelanIe Ct

CuRRan JaMes R

ponto JaY F K tRustee

$335,000

9/11/15

2244 s lIlY ln

HaYes CHaRlesM tRust

YanCeY JaMes

$525,000

9/11/15

2242 CleaRlaKe DR

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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a Hawaiian luau complete with a 60-foot waterfall attached to the diving platform, a night in Venice with gondolas bobbing in the pool, the “Blessing of the Shrimp” affair in which the pool area was transformed into a Louisiana bayou dock. In the 1950s the Music Academy of the West began holding its annual debutante ball in the casino ballroom. This necessitated replacing the room’s retractable canvas roof with a permanent one; apparently the debutantes objected to periodic soakings and dancing around milk cans placed to catch the water from the leaky roof.

Hollywood soon discovered the casino.

Tyrone Power and Charles Laughton relaxed poolside while performing at the Lobero Theatre. Johnny Weissmuller and Errol Flynn both performed stunts off the diving platform, and Lana Turner was featured when Look magazine shot a photo montage at the casino. The list goes on and on, and presiding over it all was Odell, often in his private cabana engaged in one of his intense poker games.

Since Odell’s day, the casino has had a number of owners. In 2002, what architect Dailey called his “Gem of the Pacific” was designated a County Landmark.

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ocated on the Mesa in Santa Barbara, Mira Bella Salon and Spa is a place where “everybody knows your name,” according to owner and stylist Laura Cordero. The salon, which will soon turn 15 years old, offers everything from haircuts and coloring treatments to massages and facials.

“Almost everyone is on a first-name basis,” said Cordero, who’s proud of her salon’s reputation for great customer service. “We try to make people feel really comfortable and welcome,” she explained.

The salon turns 15 in January but will celebrate the milestone in December with a holiday appreciation party for staff and loyal customers. One such customer is Kara Barton, who’s been going to Cordero for 25-30 years, long before Cordero owned Mira Bella. Barton described Cordero as a “nice, happy, sweet, and fun” individual and said the other stylists are extremely helpful to one another. “The stylists all seem to know everything that’s going on,” said Barton of the close-knit vibe. She even took her daughter to Cordero for her wedding-day prep, which Barton believes “says it all.”

After graduating from beauty school in 1992, Cordero started working in numerous salons. Though she “didn’t have a business background,” Cordero decided to start her own salon because she had a great team of stylists willing to support her. As her mission statement explains, “Our team has the reputation and the expertise necessary to help you feel relaxed and to maintain a beauty which encompasses both body and spirit.”

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ince its opening in 1937, one of the jewels of Santa Barbara’s social scene has been the Coral Casino. Set next to the Biltmore hotel, the casino has been the venue for magnificent parties and events attended by local luminaries, European dignitaries, and Hollywood stars.

The Biltmore opened in 1927 and, after a few years of success, was in deep financial difficulty by the early 1930s. In 1936, the Pacific States Savings and Loan Company purchased the hotel. The company’s majority owner was Robert S. Odell, who brought to the hotel new ideas and major changes.

The forerunner of the Coral Casino was the Biltmore Beach Club. For a yearly fee families could rent one in a row of 40 cabanas on the beach across from the hotel. Nearby was the swimming pool, surrounded by a verdant lawn, and the twostory Biltmore Beach House, in which dances were held several times a week. Construction of the Santa Barbara breakwater in the late 1920s caused serious erosion to the beaches east of the harbor, threatening to wash away the cabanas. Odell decided to scrap the club and start afresh.

The Beach House was replaced by the Moderne-style Coral Casino, designed by San Francisco architect Gardner A. Dailey. A new pool was emplaced, one foot longer than Olympic size, reportedly Odell’s way to ensure it did not become the scene of sports events.

The salt water pool and the strip of glittering white sand next to it were both heated with steam pipes. The pool was flanked by new cabanas.

Membership in the casino cost $300 in the mid-1940s, given Odell’s approval; he ruled his stretch of Channel Drive with an iron hand. Ladies had to wear dresses or skirts to events; men with haircuts that, in Odell’s eyes, were not sufficiently short were denied admittance. Employees unfortunate enough to wear inappropriate shoes or fail to chill the champagne properly could find themselves unemployed, although often hired back the very same day.

The casino became famous for the fabulous parties thrown under the watchful eye of Biltmore manager Gilbert “Icky” Outhwaite: