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The author of this week’s cover story knows his way around crime. As deputy chief of the Violent and Organized Crimes division of the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles, Bruce Riordan was responsible for bringing many of the most dangerous gang members in L.A. to justice. As the current Special Litigation Counsel in the Public Corruption and Civil Rights division, he continues to go to court nearly 25 years after he started as a federal prosecutor in 1991. Ross Macdonald would have appreciated the attention of someone so well situated to understand the places and issues he wrote about, and who has witnessed firsthand what became of the landscape portrayed in the Lew Archer novels.

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After two juries returned guilty verdicts against Juan Carlos Herrera-Romero (right), 31, and Gabino Andres Romero, 28, the cousins were sentenced to life in prison for raping a 62-year-old homeless woman at knifepoint last year and threatening her 70-year-old male companion with a knife at East Beach. Judge Rick S. Brown, who delivered the sentence, cited that wielding a knife during the woman’s rape made both defendants eligible for life in prison under California’s One Strike Law.

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fter months of rocky hearings, the Board of Supervisors formally approved this week Sheriff Bill Brown’s long-sought-after new North County jail project but said “no thanks” to the treatment and reentry complex he was particularly enthusiastic about.

While receiving the stamp of approval for a 376-bed facility qualifies as a “win” for Brown, the subtext is that his relationship with the supervisors has become confrontational in recent months. On Tuesday, the board — excluding Supervisor Steve Lavagnino— could not muster enough trust in the Sheriff’s grand proposal for the 228-bed Sheriff’s Transition and Reentry (STAR) wing.

After the vote, Brown called the decision “deeply disappointing.” “As a county we have taken a giant step backward in terms of public safety and community corrections,” he said.

Two years ago, Brown secured about $100 million in state grants for the entire project, including about $38.9 million for the STAR complex. The award was a victory for Brown as a number of Grand Jury reports for two decades had concluded the main jail is woefully deteriorated. Jail personnel often refer to the main jail as the Winchester Mystery House, after the convoluted Northern California mansion and tourist attraction.

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the future jail’s operating costs as a moving target. Likewise, all of them at one point felt as if they were in the dark about the future of the existing Calle Real jail.

As it turned out, Brown’s operating-cost estimates were not much different than the figures presented Tuesday by the consultant firm, Carter Goble Associates, LLC, that the board hired in May to vet Brown’s numbers. For instance, the consultant estimated the main jail and new North County complex would cost about $68.5 million compared to the Sheriff’s estimate of $67.9 million in operating costs each year. But that difference could mainly be attributed to money Carter Goble said the Sheriff’s Office should add to existing jail staff.

Infrastructure-wise, no one is under the impression that the main jail is in good shape.

When Lavagnino asked a Carter Goble representative how he would rate the main jail on a scale of one to 10, he replied: “Can I go lower than that?” In addition, a second assessment of the main jail— jail completed by county General Services—found repairs and maintenance would cost $15.6 million in the next decade to repair the roof and jail interiors.

To that end, supervisors Lavagnino and Peter Adam, and COLAB’s Andy Caldwell, would have preferred for the main jail to be bulldozed rather than slowly renovated with Band-Aids.

According to the county’s General Services, more than two-thirds of its maintenance cost currently goes to the main jail.

Brown contended advocacy groups such as Disability Rights California could sue the county if a new facility is not built. Further, Brown stoutly argued the project is utterly

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needed and makes smart fiscal sense — the state is paying 90 percent of the construction costs — but four supervisors had different reasons for abandoning the STAR complex.

Supervisor Janet Wolf —Brown’s most outspoken critic—argued the jail’s population, which was predicted to swell after the prison realignment known as AB 109, currently holds just 71 inmates who would otherwise be in state prison. Supervisor Doreen Farr voted against both the new jail and the STAR complex.

Though the STAR facility would drive down the per-bed cost due to the economy of scale, Wolf argued the $2 million it would take to operate it is not “chump change” as a multitude of needs come before them. “Frankly,” she added.“I think the costs will be more than that.” In addition, Wolf argued 75 percent of inmates are awaiting trail, which is higher than the state average of 62 percent, according to the Board of State and Community Corrections.

Supervisor Salud Carbajal, who is running for Congress, questioned STAR supporters’ assertion that it would help inmates function better as they reenter the community. “If you are going to address the needs of the mentally ill, do you really want to do it in jail?” he asked.

(Brown estimated that such a complex would translate to 37 percent reduced recidivism.)

In his closing plea, Brown noted opening the STAR complex could allow him to close down the so-called honor farm, which has 161 beds for medium-level offenders. After the vote, Sheriff’s spokesperson Kelly Hoover said staff is evaluating whether the entire honor farm can be shut down; its repair needs are estimated at $1.5 million. n

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NO LOVE LOST: Supervisor Janet Wolf and Sheriff Bill Brown sparred yet again on Tuesday. Brown lost this round.

Davey’s Voice, the nonprofit formed on behalf of Davey — a six-month-old miniature pinscher puppy who was euthanized last year after being tortured by 19-year-old Duanying Chen — has started a petition protesting Chen’s potential early release from County Jail. Created on 11/12, the online petition gathered 6,020 signatures in just a few days. The petition also urges authorities to ensure Chen participates in a court-ordered Batterers’ Intervention Program and that he loses his student visa “immediately” so he is deported back to China.

The Postcards of Santa Barbara mural project on lower State Street come down a full 10 months ahead of schedule per an abrupt order by property owner 35 State Street Hotel Partners, an L.A.-based development firm. In the process of constructing La Entrada hotel at the site, the firm chose to remove the Youth Interactive–created murals to cut costs on the walkway adjoining a neighboring construction project. The artists were given three days to relocate the artworks, which had been installed in September for a yearlong stay per a reported agreement between nonprofit Youth Interactive, the city, and 35 State Street Hotel Partners.

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With just 45 shopping days before Christmas, merchants in the city’s fabled Funk Zone were notified that State Street will be soon be squeezed down to only one lane — between Cabrillo Boulevard and the railroad tracks — to accommodate construction work for the new sidewalks, curbs, and gutters along the mountain side CAN’T CATCH A BREAK: Jason Feist of J7 Surf of State, which are part of the Designs is one of many Funk Zone merchants new La Entrada hotel project. upset about widespread construction.

Tim Gash, project manager for the Santa Barbara Public Works Department, said prospective shoppers at Surf N’ Wear’s Beach House and Mountain Air Sports would be allowed to turn from Cabrillo Boulevard onto State Street, but otherwise motorists will have to navigate alternate paths.

Gash met last week with merchants upset by the financial disruption inflicted on their businesses by an unprecedented cluster of major construction projects. “I met with everyone personally to hear their concerns,” he said. In recent months, that area has been the staging area for four massive construction efforts: La Entrada hotel and shops, the Cabrillo Bridge widening and replacement, Sonos’s reconfiguration of the Bekins building, and the new Moxi children’s museum. At least two long-established businesses — El Torito restaurant and the Mermaid’s Chest — have folded tent. Others are hanging on by their cuticles. “Oh man, it’s been brutal,” said Jason Feist of J7 Surf Designs and Blueline Stand Up Paddle on Mason Street. He estimated sales have dropped 70 percent. Feist said he understood the urgency of getting the work done expeditiously but explained he and other merchants would have preferred it be put off until after Christmas.

The construction work has kicked up serious dust, and contractors serving the four sites have gobbled up many of the parking spaces relied upon by Funk Zone businesses. With the Santa Barbara Police Department understaffed, merchants contend, there’s been a painful lack of parking enforcement. Gash said City Hall wanted construction on the public space improvements complete by the busy July Fourth weekend. That objective, he explained, drove the decision to begin construction before Christmas. Public parking, he said, can still be had at the downtown train depot, and he called on the area media to highlight that Funk Zone merchants are — Nick Welsh still open for business. “The problem,” he said, “is perception.”

After months of public complaints about the two-story apartments going up within 30 feet of Highway 101 by Punta Gorda Street, Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider requested State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson and Assemblymember Das Williams do something to prevent the California Department of Housing and Community Development from approving such projects in the future without getting the blessing of City Hall first. Because the units technically qualify as new or renovated mobile homes, they are regulated by the state and not the city, and the owner of the Sycamore Creek Mobile Home Park managed to completely bypass all city review boards. Schneider noted in her letter that many area residents find the new units “offensive” and that future occupants will be subject to unhealthy noise and fumes.

An application for a new medical-marijuana dispensary at 2609 De la Vina Street next to Jedlicka’s was shot down by a City Hall hearing examiner, who contended the application was incomplete and that the long walk from the parking lot behind the building to the entrance in front posed security concerns.

Abraham Labbad, the attorney representing applicant Ihab Ghannam, vowed to appeal the ruling. Labbad said city officials first mentioned security concerns last week but never brought them up in all the meetings they’ve had since January. Likewise, Labbad denied withholding any documents in the application. He said it appeared city officials were

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For the first time, weather forecasters are saying there’s a 75 percent chance Santa Barbara and points south will experience heavier than normal rains courtesy of this year’s El Niño. Until recently, they’d put the odds at only 50-50. To the extent there is serious precipitation, the prediction is it will begin in January. That factoid was delivered to the Santa Barbara City Council by city water czar Joshua Haggmark. He also notified councilmembers that construction teams working on the new desalination plant unearthed dirt with high levels of lead and hydrocarbons. As a result, crews will have to haul the contaminated dirt offsite to a treatment facility. How much extra that will cost remains unknown.

Haggmark estimated this will set construction efforts back 30 days.

COuNTY Nearly 800 acres of rich farmland in the Lompoc Valley have been protected from development through a $1.5 million deal between the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, the Trust for Public Land, and the Jordan family, which has owned the property since 1974 and currently farms flowers, broccoli, cauliflower, artichokes, and brussels sprouts. The agreement erases all 11 legal parcels while maintaining the Jordans’ right to build two agricultural structures on the

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hat’s a loaded question,” Bob Geis told Salud Carbajal at a county budget hearing last week.“Oil is a very complicated

subject.”

Carbajal, who is supervisor for the county’s 1st District and is running for Congress, asked Geis, the county’s auditor-controller, if the loss in tax revenues would impact school districts after oil production at seven offshore platforms shut down following the Refugio Oil Spill in May. Specifically, Carbajal asked, will Plains All American Pipeline, the company responsible for the spill, repay schools and other government entities for lost tax dollars?

The question is at the heart of the lasting economic impact of the May spill. Earlier this month at the Economic Action Summit, Mark Schniepp, director of California Economic Forecast, which is funded in part by oil companies, grabbed headlines when he said the ruptured pipeline could be shut down for up to five years. Further, he claimed, school districts—namely Goleta Union School District— could suffer property-tax losses to the trict tune of $26 million dollars over three years.

“These numbers are preliminary,” Schneipp said in an interview this week.“They may end up going higher.” He added the annual loss in federal and state royalties translates to about $5 million absent from county coffers.

But naysayers contend those lost revenues are legally required to be repaid by Plains.

According to County Counsel Mike Ghizzoni, federal and state laws allow various entities to claim net loss of taxes caused by an oil spill. But it remains to be seen if Plains will readily fork over the money or if the matter will turn into an ugly court battle.

On Monday, the county received a second check from Plains for the amount of $1.2 million, bringing its total recovered to date to $1.6 million for short-term overtime staff costs and cleanup costs. Both were 100 percent of what the county asked for. The preliminary estimate for the next claim, Geis said, is $117,000, but his office is still collecting daily time cards.

Those who lean on the sanguine side of the oil industry doubt Plains will be responsible for losses in taxes because the county denied Exxon’s emergency permit to haul oil by truck —and therefore resume operations—in June.

Interestingly, Venoco’s Platform Holly —located off Ellwood beach in state waters — is in a tax rate area that includes the Goleta Union School District, which is a “basic aid” district and gets to keep most of the excess money raised through property taxes.

When the price of oil peaked the year before last, Geis said, Venoco began to pump more oil at its onshore facility. But the price of oil tanked last year from about $100 to $58 per barrel, and the school district’s tax revenues took a $1.2 million hit. Other facilities had similar impacts on the tax revenues, Geis said, but not as significantly.

The impact in tax revenues from the spill will not be known until next summer. The seven platforms — excluding Holly — are located in federal waters and do not impact county tax revenues. County departments, such as the Air Pollution Control District, which is funded in part by oil companies, might delay filling some open positions.

In coming weeks, Plains workers will dig up 11 sites along Line 903—the 130-mile pipeline that runs from the Gaviota Station to a Kern County facility— facility which has been idled with viscous crude in it since it was ordered to shut down nine days after Line 901 ruptured on May 19.

The workers must expose corroded areas and make repairs before the pipeline is purged, which is expected to take two weeks.

This action is a result of an updated corrective action order issued by agents with Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) last week. It remains unclear why the federal regulators chose now — just before a possible rainy winter— winter after the South Coast experienced a very warm autumn. Since May, viscous crude oil has sat unprocessed in the unheated metal pipes. The protective anti-rust chemicals introduced— also known as pickling the line — only last about six months.

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Over a thousand UCSB students gathered around Storke Tower on 11/12 to participate in a march to protest rising student debt and to fight for a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers and tuition-free public colleges. At the march, students chanted, “Heyhey, ho-ho, student debt has got to go,” and “UC Regents, I see racists.” Approximately 116 colleges across the U.S. participated in the #MillionStudentMarch, according to UCSB Associated Students Campus Organizer Kyle Butts.

The proposed California Highway Patrol (CHP) office at the western end of Hollister Avenue has its nearby neighbors at The Hideaway and around Ellwood Elementary worried about its 150-foot antenna, noise from daily testing of sirens, fumes from an onsite fuel island, increased truck traffic at an inspection station, and, most importantly, its lack of a water meter. But the ability of the current CHP location to function during an emergency concerns officials, as the building was built in 1982, prior to current earthquake standards. A public-comment meeting on the draft Environmental Impact Report takes place on 12/8, at 6 p.m. at the Goleta Valley Community Center Auditorium.

Judge Thomas Anderle acknowledged the environmental analysis prepared for Caltrans’s freeway widening plan contained some unexplained omissions, but even so, he rejected a legal challenge filed by a trio of Padaro Lane residents upset the plans do not include provision for a sound wall to protect their neighborhood. “Perfection is not required,” Anderle wrote of Caltrans’s environmental document, “only that it be adequate.” The trio of appellants contended Caltrans understated how much additional noise the wider freeway would generate and used outdated cost-benefit data to justify its refusal to provide a $1 million sound wall.

Anderle concluded the widened freeway would generate an additional decibel of noise at most, dismissing the difference as all but “imperceptible.”

There’s good news and bad news in the ongoing fight to protect Santa Barbara citrus from the fatal huanglongbing (HLB) bacterial infection carried by the Asian citrus psyllid. Adult and nymph psyllids have been found in several spots in the county, but they

have so far tested free of HLB disease. County Ag requests that citrus owners who discover psyllids, which perch on stems and leaves at a 45-degree angle, bring samples to its offices at 263 Camino del Remedio in Santa Barbara or 624 West Foster Road in Santa Maria so that scientists can confirm the insect species and have them tested for HLB. Famous gossip queen and senior care advocate Rona Barrett drew eyeballs at the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday when she showed up to advocate for elders during a hearing about the lack of transportation and nutrition for Santa Barbara’s aging population. Forty percent of the 61,700 estimated seniors in the county earn less than $28,000 each year, and 6 percent are below the federal poverty line.

One in four seniors use meal supports. Last year, seniors accounted for nearly half of ambulance transfers. The county has just one public nurse, who serves 56 seniors per month, according to county staff. Supervisor Salud Carbajal called for all players to come together to create a strategic plan to better help seniors in need.

BuSINESS Pending court approval, the bankrupt Haggen grocery chain announced on 11/13 the winners of the auction for 37 stores in its southwest market, including Santa Barbara. Albertsons successfully bid $300,000 and $1.6 million, respectively, on Haggen’s Lompoc location and Turnpike Road location in Goleta. For the Fairview Shopping Center store, Sprout’s Farmers Markets won the bid at $1 million. For its $75,000 bid, Roxy’s Market and Café — a mom-and-pop-style natural foods grocer with two stores in Colorado and Montana — won Haggen’s Mesa location. The bankruptcy court also approved Smart & Final’s initial bids on both the Carpinteria and Five Points locations.

Mexican food chain El Torito closed its downtown Santa Barbara location on 11/17 because it could not secure a long-term lease, according to a spokesperson from its parent company, Real Mex Restaurants.

The ocean-facing restaurant bordered the Cabrillo Boulevard Bridge project and neighbored La Entrada hotel’s construction site. Customers who call the restaurant now receive an automated message referring them to El Torito’s nearest location in Oxnard. According to Real Mex Restaurants, the company helped employees find jobs at another area location. n

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A three-year plan to transition more than 100 special-education students from county care to the Santa Barbara Unified School District passed narrowly last week with a rare split vote by the district’s five-member Board of Education. At issue was whether the district will have enough resources to properly handle more students that require specialized teaching skills, according to the vote’s two dissenters, Pedro Paz and Monique Limón.

While Limón noted that special-ed teachers and administrators already operate with full plates, Paz said he couldn’t bring himself to vote for a program laden with apprehension on the part of some parents. “I just feel like there’s something we’re not catching, and it’s coming back [to us] through the parents’ struggles and feelings of frustration,” he said. Paz and Limón’s votes reflected testimony describing outnumbered and inadequately trained classroom assistants and high turnover among special-ed teachers.

But the space and staffing potential does exist, according to Helen Rodriguez, the district’s assistant superintendent of special education. Ultimately, she added, the effort will see to it that preschoolers and groups from Goleta Valley Junior High School and Dos Pueblos High School that have long been handled by the Santa Barbara County Education Office will soon return to their home district. “For me, the capacity is going to be there,” Rodriguez said. By July 2018, when the phased-in program is scheduled to be firing on all cylinders, it will service an estimated 123 students at a cost of $1.4 million annually. The cost will be offset through savings, noted boardmember Ed Heron, explaining that the district will no longer have to pay the County Education Office to instruct these students. Superintendent Dave Cash added, “I can tell you that we won’t be spending any more money.”

The first round of hiring is slated for early next year, when the district plans to assemble an Early Childhood Assessment Team composed of a preschool specialeducation teacher, a speech and language pathologist, an occupational therapist, a — Keith Hamm school psychologist, and a nurse.

refugio cont’d from p. 9 PHMSA’s independent review of inspection results from the past decade found that Line 903—particularly the Gaviota to Sisquoc segment—had corrosion similar to that of Line 901. In fact, Line 903 has larger areas of external corrosion, the report stated.

“The fact that both lines had such pervasive corrosion for tens of miles is really alarming,” said Environmental Defense Center attorney Linda Krop. “It reinforces our concern about the lack of appropriate oversight.”

Krop submitted a Public Records Act request to PHMSA for copies of prior inspection reports of the pipeline. “They thought it would take 54 days, but it has been six months, and we’re still waiting,” she said.

According to the corrective action order, Plains failed to provide the third-party inspector (also known as “pig vendors”) with field data from direct investigation and measurements.

Plains executives claimed they did not agree with several of the findings but stated they were already engaged with PHMSA to purge Line 903.“As called for in the [corrective action order], Plains will complete the activities in coordination with and under oversight from PHMSA as quickly and safely as possible,” the statement read.

Once the crude and water is pushed up to the Santa Luis Obispo refinery, the pipeline will remain shut down. In addition, Plains must submit a plan to federal regulators that identifies and remedies any anomalies on Line 903 that are similar to the broken pipeline’s. It also must turn over field data to the third-party inspector and request a reevaluation of the smart pig results.

Federal regulators are planning to meet with county Planning & Development staff

on November 19 to discuss the order. Representative Lois Capps, who helped arrange the meeting, said in a statement she was pleased PHMSA was taking precautions to prevent another spill. “The Corrective Action Order amendment’s inclusion of Line 903 is an important step to ensure that all necessary repairs are in place before this pipeline service is restored,” she said.“Transporting oil is inherently risky, and we must do all that we can to ensure that, if we are going to continue transporting oil, it is done with the utmost care and caution.”

According to the county, Exxon’s crudeoil pipeline from the platform to shore is also filled with crude oil. The company is reportedly in the process of applying for a temporary trucking permit to purge the pipeline, but it has not been submitted. Earlier this year, the City of Goleta approved a temporary trucking permit to allow Venoco to drain its Ellwood Onshore Facility.

It remains unclear exactly how many oilindustry workers—many earning six-figures—were relocated after the spill. Speculation abounds that 200 Exxon platform workers on rotating shifts were relocated.

(Earlier this year, Exxon shut down its Torrance refinery after a large explosion.) The oil industry hires a lot of contract workers, and none of the company employees are represented by a labor union.

Santa Barbara attorney Barry Cappello, who was the City Attorney during the 1969 oil spill, is the lead trial counsel for Refugio class-action spill cases filed in federal court, representing industry workers, fishermen, tourist industries, and property owners, among others. Though he has not yet seen the actual paperwork, Cappello stated that people who file claims against Plains could be giving up claims for future damages. n

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by N i c K W e l s H ith only three meetings left before his eight years in office are up, Santa Barbara City Councilmember Dale Francisco is going out the same way he came in: confronting popular notions of high-density affordable housing coupled with a car-optional future.

When first elected in 2007, Francisco rode a wave of voter exasperation with bulb-outs, roundabouts, and other “traffic calming devices” favored by alternative transit advocates who hoped by slowing traffic down, commuters could be inspired to abandon their cars and ride bicycles or buses, or walk to work. If people owned fewer cars, the logic went, housing developers could reduce the space devoted to parking, thus making their final product more affordable to working Santa Barbarans. Francisco — smart, unabashedly conservative, and tactically formidable — was never shy about his skepticism, dismissing such so-called “smart growth” agendas as “social engineering” and “utopian.”

This week, Francisco would lead an ill-fated charge against another smart-growth initiative, this one an experimental high-density housing program designed to stimulate the development of smaller, more affordable rental housing rather than luxury condos, which were the rage when Francisco was first elected.

After 90 minutes of emotionally fraught wonk-talk at the City Council Tuesday — pitting neighborhood preservationists against affordable-housing advocates in an all-too-familiar rhetorical rumble — Francisco ended up right where he started, with only Councilmember Frank Hotchkiss at his side. When it was over, Mayor Helene Schneider thanked the two for inciting what she called a “nice conversation.”

By any reckoning, the program giving Francisco gray hairs — a high-octane variant of what’s bureaucratically known as “Average Unit Density” or AUD for short — appears to be a stunning and surprising success. When it was hatched, elected officials thought it could take as long as eight years before its mixed bag of incentives could generate even a meager 250 units of rental housing. Back then, private real estate developers were avoiding rental housing projects like the plague and had been for decades. Now, barely two years old, the program already has 319 units of small rental units in the development pipeline; 118 of those are either approved or permitted, and 89 are currently under construction. Compared to the historically glacial pace of housing development in Santa Barbara — rental or otherwise — that’s staggering.

Under the rules of the game, this “high priority rental” strain of the AUD program would be evaluated only after all 250 units are built and occupied. But by then, Francisco fears, City Hall could easily be flooded with applications for 1,200 more such units. “Is this the point at which we close the gate?” he asked. Some might quibble with Francisco’s numbers, but no one disputed the basic gist. To date, no method of evaluation nor a template of what questions to ask exists. The Planning Commission is working on it.

“My big concern is parking,” Francisco said in a recent interview. In his worst-case scenario, Santa Barbara would experience a proliferation of large, dorm-like housing developments that cater to college students rather than Santa Barbara’s downtown workers. That’s whom the program was designed to help stay in town. These new structures — typically three to four stories high — would loom large over their surrounding neighborhoods. And their inhabitants, he suggested, would wreak holy hell on city streets as they search for parking spaces that developers were allowed not to provide. City streets, he argued, would effectively subsidize private developers while denying affected residents

TOO MUCH OF GOOD THING? Councilmember Dale Francisco wanted to tweak the system to prevent

properties like this one at 1818 Castillo Street from being overdeveloped in the name of affordable housing but got nowhere fast with his council colleagues.

the “peaceful enjoyment of their property.” To illustrate the potential problem, Francisco cited one developer who proposed building 19 bedrooms in three stories with 19 bathrooms and only seven parking spaces on Castillo Street.

Another one, he said, proposed building 25 bedrooms, 19 bathrooms, and only seven parking spaces. Planning Commissioner Sheila Lodge, a Francisco ally, suggested limiting the number of bathrooms to two per unit.

Under-parking, Francisco said, is endemic to the program. It’s the secret sauce that’s key to its apparent success.

To induce developers to build rental housing, City Hall is offering a huge break on parking requirements. Instead of building two parking spaces per rental unit — as required under conventional zoning — they can build just one. In addition, developers are absolved from providing any guest parking at all; typically they’re required to provide one for every four resident parking spaces. Combined, that’s a lot of real estate that can be used for bedrooms rather than cars.

It can also be a lot of cars looking for parking spaces. The program also allows developers — in certain geographically designated areas of the city — to build at densities as high as 63 units per acre. By Santa Barbara zoning standards, that’s unheard of.

Francisco’s other chief concern is that City Hall’s design review boards — the Architectural Board of Review (ABR) and Historic Landmarks Commission — lack the punch, focus, and legal authority to whack overly aggressive AUD projects into line. They’re too focused on aesthetic agendas, he said, to do justice to broader planning issues like parking and neighborhood compatibility. If the city’s Planning Commission is not more involved, he warned, the City Council could find itself overwhelmed by appeals from angry neighbors.

Ironically, it was Francisco himself who played a key role in fashioning the political compromise out of which this program would emerge. Four years ago, the City Council finally adopted a general plan update but only after years of endless acrimonious meetings and grinding gridlock.

The fundamental bone of contention was how many parking spaces should be required for residential development.

Francisco insisted the line should be held at two spaces per unit. To break the impasse, he and Hotchkiss agreed to meet with Councilmember Bendy White, a strong supporter of increased densities and relaxed parking requirements. After

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a year of negotiations, they arrived at a compromise. It was the high-priority-rental AUD program. But that, Francisco insisted, had to be an experimental endeavor with a maximum shelf life of eight years.

Neither Mayor Schneider nor the four other councilmembers had any interest in tinkering with a program born of such prolonged political strife. Besides, they argued, the facts didn’t justify the changes Francisco and Hotchkiss sought. Of the nine high-priority-rental AUD projects proposed, Schneider argued, not one has been appealed to the City Council yet. One of the two “dorms” cited by Francisco — a four-story box proposed for Bond Avenue — was effectively shut down by the ABR because it was too big for the neighborhood. The other, a less dense variant of the AUD, was sent back to the drawing boards by the City Council after neighbors appealed. To date, it’s the only appeal the council has heard.

In addition, the Historic Landmarks Commission was willing to flex hard when a developer proposed a threestory, 26-unit housing development for the historically sensitive intersection of De la Guerra and Santa Barbara streets. “The system works,” declared Schneider. Councilmember White said “compatibility” was the magic wand to force developers to scale back the proposals too big for their neighborhoods. “Compatibility, compatibility, compatibility,” he intoned.

Where White and Schneider kept their remarks cool and collegial, councilmembers Gregg Hart and Cathy Murillo were decidedly heated in their defense of the AUD program.

Some speakers, like developer Neil Dipaola, were downright scorching. Describing himself as a representative of young millennials, Dipaola dismissed concerns over adequate parking as “Old White People problems,” the sort, he said, that afflict people who fret about putting the wrong octane of gas in their BMWs. “It’s not important to the rest of the people in the world,” he declared. Dipaola is currently pushing a development in the Funk Zone that would provide 125 rental units and 179 parking spaces, though city planners say the lot can handle no more than 47 housing units and would require 291 parking spaces. His, however, is not an AUD project.

Francisco emphasized he supported the idea behind the program, adding,“There are some issues to be resolved.” To n resolve them, he needed five votes. He only had two.

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by J e r r y r o b e r t s ust hours after the terrorist butchery in Paris, actor Rob Lowe tweeted out a snarky comment, attacking the French government over its liberal immigration policy accepting refugees fleeing the horrors of civil war in Syria.

“Oh, NOW France closes its borders,” he wrote on Twitter.

Putting aside Lowe’s exploitative rush to score oh-so-clever partisan points as rescuers still pulled bodies from buildings, his loathsome provocation signaled how swiftly the carnage in Paris came to roil campaign politics in the U.S. Carried out by the jihadist group known as ISIS, the bloodshed further unsettled the unstable Republican presidential campaign, while buttressing the candidacy of Hillary Clinton against more liberal Democrats; in virtually every 2016 race, the focus of the highprofile and volatile immigration issue suddenly shifted from Mexico to new concerns, both real and paranoid, about four million refugees from Syria.

European nations have floundered for months over handling the flood of humanity fleeing the Mideast. Now, the disclosure that at least one Paris terrorist entered France posing as a refugee ignited turbulent new debate there and at home.

President Obama agreed previously to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S., in a program a spokesperson described as a “very expensive (and) very careful vetting process that includes our intelligence community, our national Counterterrorism Center [and] the Department of Homeland Security.”

However, Paris upended that effort, with GOP presidential candidates condemning the president in the harshest possible language — Mike Huckabee called him a “wimpish and amateurish … Cub Scout,” for example — while two dozen Republican governors said their states would not accept Syrian immigrants.

As the House of Representatives prepared to vote on the refugee policy, The Santa Barbara Independent queried the top candidates in the race to replace retiring Rep. Lois Capps on issues relating to the attack:

IMMIGRATION: Republican Assemblymember Katcho Achadjian said that accepting Syrian immigrants “is far too great a risk to take, since it is well known … that among the refugees there will be an ISIS presence.

“We would essentially be offering direct and easy access to entry for terrorists who are manipulating the refugee crisis into an opportunity to expedite their infiltration efforts,” he added.

GOP rival and businessperson Justin Fareed agreed: “No additional Syrian refu-

gees should be admitted into the U.S.,” he said, “until the Obama Administration can provide 100 percent assurance they are not members of ISIS or sympathizers of their terrorist acts.”

Democrats Helene Schneider and Salud Carbajal, however, both still back Obama’s plan: “I do support the admission of Syrian refugees into the country, with the understanding that a thorough vetting process must be in place,” Schneider said.

Carbajal stated,“America should do its part to help resettle the innocent refugees fleeing terrorism and war in Syria,” adding that “Middle East nations and the Europeans must step up and take on more refugees themselves.”

GROUND TROOPS: The candidates agree that ISIS must be “eradicated,” but express differences about deploying U.S. ground troops to Syria.

Fareed refuses to rule it out, saying, “We should not tip our hand by taking anything off the table.” Achadjian disagrees, stating the U.S. should rely on intelligence, air strikes, and international cooperation but currently should not “even be considering sending our troops to ISIS territories.”

Democrat Schneider tiptoed around the issue, saying only that the U.S. should participate in “coalition military action that is guided by the advice of our top military strategists and advisers.”

Carbajal more clearly opposes the use of ground troops: “As a former Marine who’s seen the toll that perpetual wars have taken on our men and women in uniform, I would not support a large deployment of combat troops in an indefinite war in Iraq and Syria.”

RUSSIA: Another key question: Should the U.S. work with Russia in taking on ISIS? Russia militarily supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against the challenge of dozens of rebel factions; the U.S., by contrast, has long demanded Assad must resign, opposing ISIS while backing other anti-Assad rebels.

Achadjian favors working more closely with Russia as “an opportunity to … attack the situation from a combined stance of power.”

Fareed sharply disagrees, saying that Russia in Syria is acting “in direct opposition to U.S. interests.”

Schneider also supports closer cooperation: “The only way we can defeat [ISIS] is by strengthening our current coalition and partnering with those in the region as well as Russia. …”

Carbajal did not address the question, although in an earlier interview on SBTV, he said that “we are between a rock and a hard place, now that Russia is there.”

“They’re sort of wagging the circumstances,” he added. n

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Synthetic Hallucinogens Wreak Havoc in Isla Vista Four days after Ferris’s warning, Sheriff’s officials released the toxicology report in the October 11 death of 19-year-old UCSB student Andres Sanchez. He had taken N-Bomb and ketamine (an anesthetic with strong hallucinogenic properties) before he punched through a window in his apartment and bled to death from a deep cut in his arm, the report states. Witnesses that night said a psychotic Sanchez ran through Isla Vista’s streets, yelling gibberish, and that he was completely uncontrollable as they attempted to help him. One witness claimed he tried to have sex with her as she and her roommates waited by his side for an ambulance.

Santa Barbara authorities say the recent increase in synthetic-drug use in I.V. and around the county—especially among college-aged students this fall—follows a troubling nationwide trend. The local uptick hasn’t been dramatic, Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Kelly Hoover said, but certainly notable. Generally found as powders, liquids, soaked into blotter paper, or laced onto something edible, the illegal and addictive designer drugs act on serotonin receptors in the brain. They’re often more amphetamine-like compared to other hallucinogens, and the highs can last just a few hours or linger for several days.

“These new drugs have produced much more serious and irreversible effects that SCARY STUFF: A mourner blows on incense at a vigil for Andres are shocking in their Sanchez, who died after ingesting N-Bomb (below). potential lethality,” Ferris explained in a later interview. Seizures, heart stoppage, kidney failure, and temperatures of 105-106 degrees have been reported in some cases. N-Bomb, which gets its name from its chemical tag of 25I-NBOMe, and which is sometimes also called “25I” on the streets, is especially unsafe, she said. It’s super potent in even “tiny microgram amounts,” so ingestion can easily lead to an overdose. It was discovered by a German PhD candidate in 2003 and made illegal in the U.S. in 2013.

Flakka is produced from a compound known as alpha-PVP, synthetically derived the drugs within city limits too often. Heroin from the drug cathinone. The source of cathi- and meth remain much more common, he none is the khat plant, which grows in parts of said. But the encounters they have had are the Middle East and Somalia. It was labeled a certainly memorable, he explained. Just the Schedule 1 drug by the U.S. DEA in early 2014. other day, McGrew assisted a patrol officer Bath salts refer to the overall family of emerg- who had been called by a man who said his ing drugs that contain one or more chemicals college-aged son had taken some kind of halrelated to cathinone. lucinogen and was trying to walk into traffic.

Sergeant Dan McGrew with the Santa McGrew said it took four people to pin the Barbara Police Department said he and guy down. “He was literally out of his mind,” n other narcotics officers don’t come across he said.

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by T y l e r H Ay d e N ate in the afternoon on November 11, with school out for Veterans Day, a UCSB student in Isla Vista took what his friends said was LSD for the first time. As he wandered along Del Playa Drive, one of those friends worried for his safety and followed him. When he headed toward the cliffs, she tried to pull him back. But he broke from her grasp, walked to the edge, and jumped with his arms straight out in front of him. He landed on his chest and head 40 feet below. Paramedics found the 20-year-old bleeding from the mouth and trying to stand up. Sheriff’s deputies had to hold him down so he wouldn’t hurt himself any further.

The next day, UCSB medical director Dr. Mary Ferris issued a rare Health Alert to all students about an increase in specific “dangerous LSD-like drugs” in I.V. and on campus.

These synthetic hallucinogens—referred to as “N-Bomb,” “Flakka,” and “bath salts”—are often sold as substitutes for LSD or mescaline, Ferris said, but are much more powerful and unpredictable. They can cause a condition called “excited delirium,” where the user experiences hyperstimulation and paranoia, which sometimes leads to violent aggression and self-injury, she said.

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Peter Weller Ehlen

J. ,  – O. ,  A Celebration of Life for Peter W. Ehlen will be held at : on December , , at the Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Center,  E. Cabrillo Boulevard in Santa Barbara. All are welcome to share how Peter influenced our lives.

Dorothy Francis-Mieth White //-//

Dorothy Francis-Mieth White was born on February , , in Cupertino, CA, and passed away on October , , in Santa Barbara, CA, from natural causes.

Dorothy was the daughter of Teodore Mieth, her father, (born in Kansas City) and her mother, Dora Irene Colver (born in Carson City, Nevada in  and who died in  in Santa Cruz, CA). Dorothy is survived by her two sons, Dean White born April , , and Alan White, born June , , both born in Merced, California. Dorothy was the last remaining member of her original immediate family which included Stanley Mieth (born in San Francisco in  and passed in , age ), he having lived through the  earthquake and fire with his parents; Beatrice Mieth (Balue), born circa  in the Bay Area, CA and Edith May Mieth, born in  in Cupertino, CA. Dorothy is also survived by grandchildren Tedd and Kelly White (son and daughter of Dean and Kris Mainland-White), who reside in Santa Barbara, and step-grandson Carlos and Ian White, son of Alan and Evangeline White, who reside in Oregon and Kailua, Hawaii, respectively.

She is also survived by her nieces and nephews Barbara (Balue) McIntyre and her husband Tom MacIntyre; Ronald Balue and his wife Kay Balue; Carol (Theis) Achabal and her husband Dale Achabal; and Michelle Theis and her husband Marco Moros.

Dorothy had happy memories of her youth in the Santa Clara Valley growing up on an apricot ranch in Cupertino. Her father, Teodore, owned a clothing business in Palo Alto for  years and maintained the ranch that was sold in, early s. Dorothy

attended University of Pacific for  years before she was married to Lloyd Tyler White (born in  in Oakland, CA, to Lloyd and Janette White) in  in the family ranch house in Cupertino. Dorothy remembered Pearl Harbor (December , ) well, which occurred shortly after their marriage and caused Lloyd to be deployed on ships that supplied the U.S. armed forces during WWII, being a chief engineer in the merchant marine and having graduated from the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, CA. Dorothy always loved gardening, a hobby that stemmed from the influence of her father and was an activity that she engaged in throughout her life. After the difficult time of WWII, she and Lloyd settled in Merced, CA, where they embarked on the development of a -acre farm plot outside of the city and raised their  sons. During the period of -, their primary occupation together with her brother-inlaw and sister (Alvin and Edith Theis) was the establishment and operation of a water-system engineering business that catered to farmers and ranchers in the San Joaquin Valley.

Dorothy, Lloyd, and family moved to Saratoga, CA, in , where she remained until Lloyd passed away in , and subsequently moved to Santa Cruz where she resided until .

Upon the loss of her husband, Dorothy managed the Cook’s Automotive Parts Store in San Jose, CA, of which she became the primary owner together with one business partner. Dorothy managed this unexpected challenge well and ultimately sold the business in the mid-s.

While Dorothy never remarried, she maintained a very active life as a business manager, volunteer, avid golfer, and traveler to visit her son Alan and his wife Evangeline, among other travel adventures with her friends to Europe and Asia. Dorothy also visited her husbands’ brother, John A. White and his daughter Victoria, to whom she was close in Massachusetts. Dorothy loved the arts, enjoyed painting, appreciated good music, and played the piano well. To quote her early musical interests, she said: “I remember the first conductor I heard was Pierre Monteux from France, and I thought he was great. I now realize how special it was for this little country school in Cupertino to drive all the way to San Francisco to hear the symphony. Of course there was no traffic on those days, so it was really not too hard. My friend Ruth played the flute, and one

day we had to give a recital with me on the piano. I remember how nervous I was, but it did go okay!”

Dorothy was a devoute Christian and followed the advice of Christian Science scriptures in her life and was able to maintain a sharp mind and keen interest in world affairs and those of her family until the time of her death.

Dorothy also had a strong sense of family and was very supportive of her sons and their families and their various endeavors, both through thick and thin as well as being close with the sons and daughters of her  sisters.

In , Dorothy moved to the retirement community of Maravilla in Santa Barbara, where she started a new and last phase of her life making many new friends while continuing to be engaged in group activities along with her family. Dorothy enjoyed her time at Maravilla and will be missed very much by all her family and friends after a long and well-lived life.

don and Alfred “Sonny” Zapata.

He leaves behind a great legacy of service and love for his Savior and Lord, Jesus.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Saturday, November  at :am at South Coast Church in Goleta, with a reception following.

Donations in Henry’s memory can be made to Serenity House in thanks for the lovely nurses, aides, and volunteers in their special care of Henry and the family.

sleep on November . Mike will be sorely missed by his family, many local friends, and a diverse internet community. He is survived by his parents, Mike and Marcy Jochim, his sister Katie, and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins. A celebration of his life will be held at Goleta Presbyterian Church on Saturday, November , at  PM. Donations may be sent in his name to the Spina Bifida Association of America or to any animal rescue group.

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Henry Eugene Santillanes

A native of Santa Barbara, Mike had a true zest for life. Born with a physical disability, he faced many challenges, but everyone who knew him noted his positive outlook, as well as his quick wit, infectious laugh, and sarcastic sense of humor. One of his favorite quotations was “Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.”

In his early years he enjoyed swimming, archery, horseback riding, and sit-skiing. He was active as a camper and junior counselor at wheelchair sports camps and participated in cub scouts, boy scouts, and church activities. He spent a number of summers digging in Germany with his archaeologist father; he also enjoyed canoeing, camping, and fishing at the family cabin in Minnesota.

Mike attended local schools and graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in . He had a deep interest in history and political science, which he studied at UCSB and City College, and he took great joy in his travels to many states and countries. He felt he could do anything, including going down stairs in his wheelchair (with mixed results) and was always trying to devise a bigger, better, more powerful wheelchair. He loved following his favorite sports teams, driving his van to Goleta Beach to read and relax, playing with his dog, Pepper, and astounding friends and family with facts and trivia about nearly anything.

He died peacefully in his

Carlos, , a resident of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully at his home in Goleta, California.

Carlos was born and raised in La Piedad, Michoacan, Mexico, and from  Carlos resided in Santa Barbara, California.

He was one of  children born to the late Arcadio and Maria Luisa Casarez and was the beloved husband of Josefina Lopez for  years. Carlos will forever be remembered by his devoted brothers Luis, Santiago, and Rosario; children Carlos (Maria Elena), Ana Maria Rojas (Rogelio), Susana Barba (Jose), Maria Barajas (Alfredo “Freddie”), Sylvia Zaragoza (Felix), Margarita Guerrero (Jesus), Bertha Aguilera (Jesus), Maria Luisa Munoz (Raul), Teresa Martinez (Miguel), Maria Eugenia Hernandez (Alberto), Martin Ayala, and Sandra “Letty” Garcia (Hilario “Lalo”), and his  Grandchildren, as well as  Great Grandchildren,  great-great grandchildren Sahari Barba and Kalia Rose Quintero, along with countless extended family and friends who were blessed to know him.

Carlos touched the lives of many people with his love and generosity and maintained his trademark sense of humor all the way to the end. Friends and family are invited to attend a catholic rosary on Thursday, November , , at pm, followed by a Mass on Friday, November , , at am, both to take place at St. Raphael Catholic Parish,  Hollister Ave, Santa Barbara, CA .

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Henry Eugene Santillanes, , peacefully passed away on Wednesday, October , , at Serenity House in Santa Barbara with Irene, his wife of  years, and good friend, Margo Zapata, at his side.

Henry leaves his three children, each of whom he loved unconditionally and was so proud of: Dr. Mario E. Santillanes of Huntington Beach, Maria Alvarado (Robert) of La Verne, and Stephen E. Santillanes (Ashley) of Lompoc. He has nine beautiful grandchildren, each one being very special to him: Holly, Courtney, Reyna, Leah, Isabella, Ephren, Damon, Anthony and Bella. He also leaves his brother, Richard Santillanes (Mary) of Carpinteria, and Lydia Lopez of Washington as well as several close family members whom he loved much. Henry also has many wonderful friends who he would pray with and share of God’s redemptive love. He especially enjoyed his time with his closest “brothers” Michael Solo-

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Will the Next Generations Forgive Us?

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ho can control the weather? We all know the intricacies of the global interplay of wind, sea, and storm are beyond exact calculus. What has become apparent to most of us, however, is that human actions since Prometheus brought us fire are increasingly affecting the basic necessities of life worldwide, such as food and water.

The 21st UN Conference of Parties, or COP 21, takes place in Paris on November 30-December 11 in a gargantuan, compressed talkfest that the world hopes will result in greenhouse-gas-reduction action from the major industrial powers. In anticipation of Paris, member newspapers of AAN (the Association of Alternative Newsmedia) are publishing Letters to the Future from thoughtful citizens in numerous disciplines. The following are a select few.

by Tom Hayden

Dear Future Generations, At the time I write this, the greatest fissure in global politics is between the affluent white North and the suffering and devastated victims of floods, fires, blazing temperatures, deforestation, and war from the Global South.

Writ large, the global crisis between rich and poor is the background to environmental and economic injustice.

At the December United Nations climate summit in Paris, the countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, who will bear the greatest burdens of the crisis, will be demanding a Global Green Fund to pay for environmental mitigation and economic development. The price tag is a paltry few billion dollars at this point, compared to the $90 billion cost estimates for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the budgets of our surveillance agencies.

What is needed is a Green Global New Deal funded from public and private sources to begin saving the Earth.

The mass movement will gain momentum, unfortunately, from repetitive climate disasters that require billions for infrastructure alone. Sí, se puede; it can be done because there is no alternative. That’s why producing affordable zeroemission cars is important in Hunters Point (the AfricanAmerican center of San Francisco) and Boyle Heights (the heart of Los Angeles’ Mexican-American community) and the barefoot Third World bloc representing a majority of the world’s nation states.

California Senate Pro Tem Kevin de León, a leader in the cause of environmental justice, has legislated a remarkable shift in environmental and budgetary priorities in the state where I reside. Call it the California Model. Current law now requires that environmental funding go both to reduction of carbon emissions and co-equal benefits for disadvantaged communities. During the four years beginning in 2014, the state will invest $120 billion on such a climate justice program from sources including the much-debated cap-and-trade program, which brings in at least two or three billion annually along with revenue from tax reforms funded by Tom Steyer, the billionaire San Francisco investor who has made climate justice his passion.

This model is being carried by California Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration by a series of state and regional pacts with the goal of achieving a more stable climate. Al-

most alone, the governor is pursuing energy diplomacy with formal agreements with 11 U.S. states and a growing list of major countries from China to Brazil to Germany. Call it the emerging Green Bloc. By Brown’s conservative numbers, the Green Bloc represents 100 million people and a GDP of $4.5 trillion. But these numbers are low: By my estimate, we are talking about 166 million people in states pursuing lowto no-carbon policies in American states with 262 electoral college votes! Tea Party, beware.

We are entering the pre-post-Brown era in California along with the pre-post-Obama era in the nation, intensifying the urgency of electing a governor, president, and officials with the best ability to navigate the critical transitions ahead.

A lifelong political activist and author, Hayden is a former member of the California Legislature.

Seize the Moment

An author, educator, and environmentalist, McKibben is cofounder of 350.org, a planet-wide grassroots climate-change movement. He has written more than a dozen books.

Sorry About That Dear Rats of the Future:

by Bill McKibben

Dear Descendants,

from oil and coal stocks, and when they literally sat down in the way of the coal trains and the oil pipelines. People did the work governments wouldn’t — and as they weakened the fossil-fuel industry, political leaders grew ever so slowly bolder.

We learned a lot that year about where power lay: less in the words of weak treaties than in the zeitgeist we could create with our passion, our spirit, and our creativity. Would that we had done it sooner!

by T.C. Boyle

Steve Liptay

Green Global New Deal

The first thing to say is, sorry. We were the last generation to know the world before fullon climate change made it a treacherous place. That we didn’t get sooner to work slowing it down is our great shame, and you live with the unavoidable consequences.

That said, I hope that we made at least some difference. There were many milestones in the fight — Rio, Kyoto, the debacle at Copenhagen. By the time the great Paris climate conference of 2015 rolled around, many of us were inclined to cynicism.

And our cynicism was well-taken. The delegates to that convention, representing governments that were still unwilling to take more than baby steps, didn’t really grasp the nettle. They looked for easy, around-the-edges fixes, ones that wouldn’t unduly alarm their patrons in the fossil-fuel industry.

But so many others seized the moment that Paris offered to do the truly important thing: organize. There were meetings and marches, disruptions and disobedience. And we came out of it more committed than ever to taking on the real power that be.

The real changes flowed in the months and years past Paris, when people made sure that their institutions pulled money

Congratulations on your bipedalism: It’s always nice to be able to stand tall when you need it, no? And great on losing that tail, too (just as we lost ours).

No need for that awkward (and let’s face it: ugly) kind of balancing tool when you walk upright, plus it makes fitting into your blue jeans a whole lot easier. Do you wear blue jeans — or their equivalent? No need, really, I suppose, since you’ve no doubt retained your body hair. Well, good for you.

Sorry about the plastics. And the radiation. And the pesticides. I really regret that you won’t be hearing any birdsong anytime soon, either, but at least you’ve got that wonderful musical cawing of the crows to keep your mornings bright.

And, of course, I do expect that as you’ve grown in stature and brainpower, you’ve learned to deal with the feral cats, your one-time nemesis, but at best occupying a kind of ratty niche in your era of ascendancy. As for the big cats — the really scary ones: tiger, lion, leopard, jaguar — they must be as remote to you as the mammoths were to us. It goes without saying that with the extinction of the bears (polar bears: they were a pretty silly development anyway, and of no use to anybody beyond maybe trophy hunters) and any other large carnivores, there’s nothing much left to threaten you as you feed and breed and find your place as the dominant mammals on earth. (I do expect that the hyenas would have been something of a nasty holdout, but as you developed weapons, I’m sure you would have dispatched them eventually.)

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Apologies, too, about the oceans, and I know this must have been particularly hard on you since you’ve always been a seafaring race, but since you’re primarily vegetarian, I don’t imagine that the extinction of fish would have much affected you. And if out of some nostalgia for the sea that can’t be fully satisfied by whatever hardtack may have survived us, try jellyfish. They’ll be about the only thing out there now, but I’m told they can be quite palatable, if not exactly mouth-watering, when prepared with sage and onions. Do you have sage and onions? But forgive me: Of course you do.You’re an agrarian tribe at heart, though in our day we certainly did introduce you to city life, didn’t we? Bright lights, big city, right?

At least you don’t have to worry about abattoirs, piggeries, feed lots, bovine intestinal gases, and the like — or, for that matter, the ozone layer, which would have been long gone by the time you started walking on two legs. Does that bother you? The UV rays, I mean? But, no, you’re a nocturnal tribe anyway, right?

Anyway, I just want to wish you all the best in your endeavors on this big, blind rock hurtling through space. My advice? Stay out of the laboratory. Live simply. And, whatever you do, please — I beg you — don’t start up a stock exchange.

With Best Wishes, T.C. Boyle P.S. In writing you this missive, I am, I suppose, being guardedly optimistic that you will have figured out how to decode this ape language I’m employing here — especially given the vast libraries we left you when the last of us breathed his last.

A novelist and short-story writer, Boyle has published 14 novels and more than 100 short stories.

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by Jim Hightower

Hello? People of the future … anyone there? It’s your forebears checking in with you from generations ago. We were the stewards of the Earth in 2015 — a dicey time for the planet, humankind, and life itself. And … well, how’d we do? Anyone still there? Hello.

A gutsy, innovative, and tenacious environmental movement arose around the globe back then to try lifting common sense to the highest levels of industry and government. We had made great progress in developing a grassroots consciousness about the suicidal consequences for us (as well as those of you future earthlings) if we didn’t act pronto to stop the reckless industrial pollution that was causing climate change. Our message was straightforward: When you realize you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is stop digging.

Unfortunately, our grassroots majority was confronted by an elite alliance of narcissistic corporate greedheads and political boneheads. They were determined to deny environmental reality in order to grab more short-term wealth and power for themselves. Centuries before this, some Native-American cultures adopted a wise ethos of deciding to take a particular action only after contemplating its impact on the seventh generation of their descendants. In 2015, however, the ethos of the dominant powers was to look no further into the future than the three-month forecast of corporate profits.

As I write this letter to the future, delegations from the nations of our world are gathering to consider a global agreement on steps we can finally take to rein in the looming disaster of global warming. But at this convocation and beyond, will we have the courage for boldness, for choosing people and the planet over short-term profits for the few? The people’s movement is urging the delegates in advance to remember that the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it’s conformity — just going along with the flow. After all, even a dead fish can go with the flow, and if the delegates don’t dare to swim against the corporate current, we’re all dead.

So did we have the courage to start doing what has to be done? Hello … anyone there?

A national radio commentator, writer, and public speaker, Hightower is also a New York Times best-selling author.

The Santa Barbara Independent thanks and recognizes Melinda Welsh, founding editor of Sacramento News & Review, and her staff, who originated the idea and assembled these letters.

More are at letterstothefuture.org. As COP 21 events unfold in Paris, Santa Barbara Independent editor-at-large Ethan Stewart, photographer Kodiak Greenwood, and UCSB professor emeritus Catherine Gautier-Downes will be posting reports.

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Vive la France

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rance embodies everything religious zealots everywhere hate: enjoyment of life here on earth in myriad little ways: a fragrant cup of coffee and buttery croissant in the morning, beautiful women in short dresses smiling freely on the street, the smell of warm bread, a bottle of wine shared with friends, a dab of perfume, children playing in the Luxembourg Gardens, the right not to believe in any god, not to worry about calories, to flirt and smoke and enjoy sex outside of marriage, to take vacations, to read any book you want, to go to school for free, to play, to laugh, to argue, to make fun of prelates and politicians alike, to leave worrying about the afterlife to the dead.

No country does life on earth better than the French.

Paris, we love you. We cry for you. You are mourning tonight, and we with you. We know you will laugh again, and sing again, and make love, and heal, because loving life is your essence. The forces of darkness will ebb. They will lose. They always do.

— Laurence Hauben, S.B.

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ere in Paris, it is all so sad. Our world has gone mad. The worst thing is that most of the victims will be young because the 11th arrondissement is an area that is very hip, and it was Friday night.

Barbarians!

Our prayer is that we can all unite and find a way to rediscover a way to live together. By all means, plan a trip to Paris. Do not let these monsters turn Paris into another Egypt, a place everyone is afraid to go.

— Laurie and Owen Guitteau, S.B.

‘Tech’nicalities

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s a loyal Independent reader, I was repulsed by your “Tech-Topia” section [independent.com/ techtopia]. That’s not journalism; that’s just corporate PR. It’s an ad section masquerading as news. The smarmy prose in the listings section comes straight from the desk of a constipated corporate marketing hack.

Worse yet is your continued celebration of Lynda Weinman without a word for the many lynda.com employees laid off as she sold out. She walked away with a cool billion for her company, which was built on the sweat and creativity of her employees. For their dedication, they got the pink slip—10 percent were laid off within weeks of the sale, and now whole departments, like marketing, are being slashed and folded into the new owner, LinkedIn. They say the duty of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. But The Independent’s philosophy seems much the reverse.

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just read your great report on tech and the start-up sector in Santa Barbara. One resource you missed is the Santa Barbara City College Makerspace. Created a year and a half ago, it has been helping students bring ideas to reality and start their own path to success.

The SBCC Makerspace works closely with students enrolled in the Enterprise Launch class and also in the Product Design I and II classes, so that they can develop their prototypes. It has been a space of synergy and innovation since it started.

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n the eve of what would have been his 100th birthday, the great detective novelist Ross Macdonald is poised to enter into his greatest period of renown since the 1970s, when his books were international best-sellers and he was on the cover of Newsweek magazine. This longtime Santa Barbara resident, known to his friends and family by his birth name, Kenneth Millar, is the subject of an unprecedented posthumous revival that looks set to position him as the most significant figure in the highly influential genre of hard-boiled detective fiction. The deciddecidedly highbrow and prestigious Library of America

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is leading the way, having recently published the first of a projected three hardcover volumes anthologizanthologiz ing Macdonald’s Lew Archer books, thus setting his work alongside not only the usual suspects, RayRay mond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but also on the shelf with such literary heavyweights as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Philip Roth, and John Cheever. Also this fall, Arcade Publishing has released the previously unpublished decade-long romantic correspondence between Macdonald and the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Eudora Welty under the title Meanwhile There Are Letters. The Archer Files, a collection of Macdonald’s Lew Archer short stories, is also back in print, with new material collected by Macdonald’s biographer, Tom Nolan.

Although the Ross Macdonald centennial bonanza will stretch into 2016 with the publication of the next two Library of America volumes and It’s All One Case by Kevin Avery, a collection of previously unpublished transcripts of interviews between MacMac donald and Rolling Stone rock music writer Paul Nel-

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son, the most exciting development for many fans may be cinematic. Variety reports that Joel and Ethan Coen have signed on with Hollywood mega-producer Joel Silver to adapt Macdonald’s 1966 novel Black Money for the big screen. Black Money, which is set in a town remarkably similar to Montecito, is Macdonald’s take on The Great Gatsby, and the combination of the Coens’ wry sensibility and Macdonald’s hard-boiled yet literate prose could well prove irresistible.

With all this activity, it’s increasingly clear that 2015 is not only the centennial of Macdonald’s birth but also the year of the rebirth of Macdonald as a serious figure in American literature and a major figure in Santa Barbara history. Santa Barbara is the city that Macdonald immortalized as Santa Teresa in his novels and the location from which he took much of his inspiration.

It is where he raised his family, where he experienced triumph and tragedy, and where he passed away in 1983 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. The time is ripe to reassess the work of the man who many claim to be Santa Barbara’s all-time greatest writer — a man who uncovered the crimes and misdemeanors that hide behind the shining façades of the California dream.

Surprisingly, apart from Nolan’s excellent 1999 biography of Macdonald, the literature on Santa Barbara’s greatest writer is thin, especially when compared to the mountain of words written about the two hard-boiled mystery writers with whom Macdonald is typically grouped, Hammett and Chandler. It is time to start a new conversation about Macdonald’s achievements as an artist, and about Santa Barbara noir, the genre Macdonald invented out of the unique constellation of glamour and decadence, sunshine and shadow, that defines Santa Barbara and that provided Macdonald with his backdrop for the Archer books.

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pen name. Kenneth Millar was born in Los Gatos in 1915, raised in rural Canada, and educated in Michigan. He first came to Santa Barbara in 1946, living on Bath Street.

Macdonald moved to the city permanently in the 1950s, eventually settling into a home on Via Esperanza in Hope Ranch, together with his wife, Margaret Millar, an accomplished and popular writer of suspense fiction, and their daughter, Linda, a troubled soul whose life was a series of tragic episodes culminating in her untimely death at age 31 in 1970.

Macdonald and the Archer books were slow to catch on in the 1950s, and he lived from book to book, struggling between publication dates and suffering from an emotional breakdown that led him to psychiatric care. His personal experience with classic Freudian psychiatry galvanized his fiction, allowing him to provide his hero Archer with a probing, psychological dimension missing from his predecessors in hard-boiled fiction, Hammett and Chandler.

After more than a dozen Archer novels, Macdonald broke through to international fame with the publication of The Goodbye Look and The Underground Man. Macdonald was lionized in the late 1960s and early 1970s by a coterie of influential New York critics. In 1969, John Leonard, writing in the highly influential New York Times Book Review, over which he had dominion, declared Macdonald was more than a mystery writer; he was a “major American novelist.” In a cover review of The Goodbye Look in the New York Review of Books, acclaimed screenwriter William Goldman called the Archer books “the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American.” When the venerated Eudora Welty chimed in with a review of The Underground Man, proclaiming Macdonald as “a more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were,” it was official— official Ross Macdonald had arrived as a mainstream artist.

Riding the crest of this wave, Macdonald made the cover of Newsweek magazine in 1971, and the Archer books became best-sellers during the 1970s. But after his death in 1983, his popularity waned— waned so much so that by the turn of the century, fewer than half of his books were in print and volumes were hard to find on booksellers’ shelves.

That woeful condition began to change when specialty houses such as Black Lizard published some of the Archer books, but the combined arrival of the Library of America collection, the collected correspondence of Macdonald and Welty, and the Archer Files places Macdonald back at the forefront of the literary scene.

Out of the Shadows The first Library of America volume is a perfect entry point for readers seeking to start with the Archer series and for readers familiar with Macdonald’s work seeking to refresh their recollections. The four novels demonstrate what the detective novel at its very best can do.

The Way Some People Die is a full-throttle start to the

collection. It was not the first Archer book, but Macdonald and his critics consider it a breakthrough book for the writer, where he shook loose of the hard-boiled influence of Chandler and Hammett and wrote with a new sense of freedom, particularly with regard to his emphasis on the psychological dimension to crime. The Way Some People Die shows how the hard-boiled hero exemplified by Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade became, in Macdonald’s hands, a more complex and empathetic figure, and the story presented a new model for a psychologically informed treatment of crime victims and witnesses, as well as perpetrators.

This new model was informed by Macdonald’s own experiences.

According to Macdonald, everyone suffers, even Lew Archer. In The Doomsters, one of the books in the Library of America collection, Macdonald lets Archer explain: “Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room, in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank, and the ashblonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there’s no way to hang up.”

Throughout the 1950s novels, Archer assumes the dual identity, as detective and counselor, shamus and shrink, which became his permanent persona through the end of the series in 1976. Archer reflects on his role as detective and his personal code of conduct in these memorable words from The Barbarous Coast: “The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without

wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one.”

The Barbarous Coast Coast, set among the thriving movie-studio industry of the 1950s, is one of the most entertaining of the Library of America collection. The scene of the crime is a cabana at a private beach club for the privileged class that bears a strong resemblance to Montecito’s famous Coral Casino, a club to which Macdonald and his wife belonged throughout their Santa Barbara residency. The Bar Barbarous Coast demonstrates how the detective novel can, in the hands of a writer as sensitive as Macdonald, both accurately describe and savagely comment on the deterioration and malaise that exists behind the façade of a high-flying consumer society.

In Macdonald’s novels, the sculpted, palm-tree-lined suburban streets of Montecito and Hope Ranch can be every bit as mean as the urban settings favored by Chandler and Hammett. A certain kind of hero is needed to discover and dig up the nightmares buried behind the dream-factory façade.

Archer is that hero. Using little more than his wits and a special talent for asking the right questions, he navigates these mean streets with prototypical self-possession; Archer often gets his hands dirty while working a case, but he never lets the darkness he encounters harden his heart.

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s t o r y remains open to second chances: for victims, for perpetrators, and for himself.

According to Macdonald, as the novels progressed, Archer “became a man who was not so much trying to find the criminal as understand him.” That worthy search is a compelling reason why the Archer books remain so relevant today.

The Library of America collection culminates with The Galton Case, the masterpiece of Macdonald’s 1950s output. With The Galton Case, Macdonald finally perfected his unique formula by merging detective suspense textured with sharp cultural criticism with a deep appreciation of psychology that was the product of his intense personal journey through psychotherapy.

In The Galton Case, Archer, the private eye/shrink, plumbs the depths of an intricate Oedipal family mystery that rests on an unstable bedrock of tragedy, a formula that has prefigured and influenced hard-boiled detective fiction for decades to follow, including Robert Towne’s screenplay for Roman Polanski’s classic 1974 film, Chinatown. That film’s unforgettable “She’s my sister and my daughter” scene between Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson and the claustrophobic sense that no one can escape their family or their past are direct echoes of Macdonald’s method in The Galton Case. The Galton Case succeeds on every level. It is a great American novel.

Lew’s Legacy Complementing the sheer pleasure these books offer is their historical significance. Macdonald’s contributions to the detective novel and American popular culture have been profound. Santa Barbara’s Sue Grafton, a hugely successful

detective novelist and Macdonald’s greatest acolyte, picked up the torch for Santa Barbara noir. Grafton paid homage to Macdonald by adopting Santa Teresa as her stand-in for Santa Barbara for her long-running Kinsey Millhone Alphabet series, which has now reached the letter X. Leading American crime novelists James Ellroy, Michael Connelly, Richard North Patterson, and Jonathan Kellerman have all cited Macdonald as a primary influence. So have Canada’s Linwood Barclay and Ireland’s John Connolly.

Macdonald’s influence is not confined to literature; it has been felt in film, television, and rock and roll. One artist who acknowledged Macdonald’s influence was the 1970s Southern California rock star Warren Zevon. Both Ross Macdonald the writer and Kenneth Millar the man had a profound influence on helping Zevon recover after a serious emotional and physical breakdown during his Santa Barbara residence. Zevon acknowledged the influence by dedicating his 1980 album Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School to “Ken Millar, il migliore fabbro” (“the finer craftsman”). Zevon, always perceptive, recognized how close the character of Lew Archer was to Millar/Macdonald’s true persona.“It was like a dream come true,” Zevon told Paul Nelson. “At the lowest point in my life, the doorbell rang. And there, quite literally, was Lew Archer, on a compassionate mission, come to save my life.”

A Man of Letters No writer was more fulsome in praise for Macdonald than Eudora Welty—she helped boost Macdonald’s reputation in the late 1960s — and her words were routinely used for blurbs on Macdonald’s paperbacks. When Welty first championed Macdonald, the two had never met nor even shared a word. That changed forever when Macdonald sent Welty a note in 1970, thanking Welty for her support, a note that started an intimate exchange of hundreds of letters during the next 12 years — until Macdonald’s advancing Alzheimer’s ended the exchange

with silence. Some 345 letters have survived and are published in Meanwhile There Are Letters, the majority of Macdonald’s letters written from his home in Hope Ranch.

The title is drawn from a lovely 1972 letter Macdonald wrote to Welty after the pair met for the first time in New York City, some two years after the correspondence began. “I’d never thought I’d hate to leave New York, but I do,” Macdonald wrote.“I feel an unaccustomed sorrow at not being able to continue our friendship viva voce, and in the flesh, but these are the chances of life. But there is a deeper and happier chance which will keep us friends till death, don’t you believe? And we’ll walk and talk again.” The breathtaking postscript followed: “Meanwhile there are letters.”

These previously unpublished letters cast a light on Macdonald’s inner life that his Archer books can only hint at. The letters range from friendly discussions of their joint literary output to lively discussions of politics and literature and include a persistent but largely unfulfilled desire for the pair to meet again. Through it all, the knowledge that Macdonald was married and that Welty was alone — a “Southern spinster,” in her wry use of obsolete vernacular — only serves to deepen the impact of the couple’s intimate exchange.

In interviews, Kenneth Millar has suggested he originally assumed the identity of Ross Macdonald because he wanted to provide space for his wife to pursue her literary career as Margaret Millar. But anyone familiar with the Archer novels will suspect that the reasons for an assumed identity are more complicated.

As Tom Nolan’s biography confirms, Macdonald, whose favorite novel was The Great Gatsby, believed in the power of second chances. Indeed, it is fair to say that Millar created the identity of Ross Macdonald as a second chance for notoriety for an otherwise private man. In turn, as Warren Zevon sensed, Ross Macdonald created Lew Archer, a bachelor hero, childless, free from obligations, but honest to the bone, as a second-chance alter-ego projection for himself.

The Goodbye Look Finally, late in life, both Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald found a second chance for love in their correspondence. Their beautiful letters are a testament to the power of words.

In the end, even words run out, and Macdonald’s voice was silenced by creeping senility. In 1982, Welty visited Santa Barbara and said her good-byes to Kenneth Millar as the world was saying good-bye to Ross Macdonald. Two years later, Welty wrote but never finished a short story called “Henry” that is included in the collection, its first time in publication. Henry, like Macdonald, suffers from debilitating Alzheimer’s; is cared for by his wife, Donna; and is loved

by the unnamed narrator.

“Henry” may be a minor contribution to Welty’s body of work, but coming at the end of the letters and in the wake of the Archer novels, its impact is profound, especially when the narrator says of Henry/Ross/Kenneth,“I am seeing everywhere around me his mind that I love emptied of all it held, all that packed it, pressed it, lighted it up — memory.”

The collected letters offer a window into the mind of Ross Macdonald before it was emptied of all the wisdom that it packed.

Fortunately, Macdonald’s singular voice as a writer has not been silenced. His effortlessly flowing prose, his intuitive feel for the human condition, and his enduring integrity ensure that his work will continue to be read by people who care about what the detective novel can accomplish. The combined publication of the 1950s crime novels, the Archer short stories, and the Welty-Macdonald letters constitute a treasure trove for readers, those new to Macdonald and those returning to his works, those interested in detective fiction and those simply interested in great prose.

Santa Barbara should be proud of Kenneth Millar’s creation of Ross Macdonald and of Ross Macdonald’s creation of Lew Archer.

With Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Hammett and Chandler created the model for a hard-boiled, tough-fisted hero that readers can fantasize about being. With Lew Archer, Ross Macdonald created an unflinching, compassionate, world-weary, but always n willing hero that we can recognize in ourselves.

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11/19: Alexander F. Harmer: Gatherings and Celebrations Alexander F. Harmer, known for his series of California mission paintings and as the first artist to open a studio in S.B., will be discussed and celebrated. Exhibit guest curator Marlene R. Miller and historian Hattie Beresford will discuss his life and his love of the Hispanic culture of Alta California. The exhibit shows through February 8, 2016. 5:30-8:30pm. S.B. Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St. $25. Call 966-1601 or visit tinyurl.com/ AlexanderHarmer.

Thursday 11/19 11/19: S.B. Museum of Natural History Docent Registration Open House If you are ready to make a difference in our community, come enjoy refreshments, and learn how you can inspire and teach students how to think like a scientist and connect with nature. 9:15-10am. S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free. Call 682-4711 x168 or visit sbnature.org. Read more on p. 33.

11/19: Free Flu Vaccine Clinic The flu is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that infect the nose, throat, and lungs. These free flu vaccinations are available for all community members. 3-7pm.

Goleta Valley Community Ctr., 5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free.

Ages 2+. Call 346-8420 or visit tinyurl.com/vaccineclinicsb.

11/19: Azeem x Underbelly Former UCSB student and overnight flute sensation Azeem Ward recently toured through the U.K., where his primary

fan base resides. He and UCSB student Timmy Linetsky, a k a Underbelly, will put on a night of flute and bass, showing off Liquid Phase, a five-song, electronic-infused EP they released together. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $5.

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

11/19: Beyond the Blue Horizon: How Early Mariners Decoded the Oceans Sailing and working on power boats since he was 8 years old, Brian Fagan will share the history of Pacific catamarans and Aleutian canoes, Northwest Indian mariners and Chumash tomols, medieval ships, and what it was like to voyage in the European age of discovery. Members-only reception: 6:15-6:45pm; lecture: 7pm.

S.B. Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Wy. Free-$10. Call 962-8404 or visit sbmm.org.

11/19: Jane Munro Poetry Reading Published Canadian poet Jane Munro recently won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize with Blue Sonoma, a book inspired by a beloved partner’s crossing into

Alzheimer’s. She incorporates Eastern and Western poetic traditions, meditative apprehension, and wisdom rich in pathos and insight. 7:30pm. Atkinson Gallery, SBCC, 721 Cliff Dr. Free.

Call 965-0581 or visit tinyurl.com/ poetryreadingsb.

11/19: Ex-Breathers, Gnarwhal, Pale Hands, The Avocado Commissioners Tallahassee-based three-piece punk band Ex-Breathers, experimental rock duo from Nashville Gharwhal, local hardcore punk band Pale Hands, and young S.B.-based four-piece punk band The Avocado Commissioners will perform a night of eclectic music. Join this fairly new alternative venue for all ages. 8pm.

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

11/19: Film Screening: Tab Hunter Confidential This film shares, firsthand, what it was like to be a studio-manufactured movie star in the golden age of Hollywood when being openly gay was unthinkable. There are rare film clips and interviews with friends and costars such as

Debbie Reynolds, John Waters, Clint Eastwood, and Robert Osborne. Come see this dramatic, turbulent, and inspiring life story. There will be a postscreening Q&A with Tab Hunter.

7pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org.

11/19: Variedades: A Variety Show on the Border Taken from the Latin American varietyshow format and curated by writer and performer Rubén Martínez, Variedades includes spoken word, performance art, music, and a dash of critical karaoke and is in honor of the Looking In, Looking Out: Latin American Photography exhibition. 5:30pm. McCormick Gallery, S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free-$10. Call 963-4364 or visit sbma.net.

11/19: Luce Puppets Co.: The Wizard of Oz Don’t miss the last two shows of this puppet rendition of the classic The Wizard of Oz. Come along with Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion as they travel to Oz. 10:30-11:15am; Carpinteria Library, 5141 Carpinteria

Ave., Carpinteria; 684-4314. 4pm; Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta; 964-7878. Free. Visit sbplibrary.org.

Friday 11/20 11/20: International Transgender Day of Remembrance & Vigil This day is dedicated to all the individuals lost to antitransgender violence. Gather with community members and take part in reading the names of those lost. After the vigil, the remembrance will continue at Pacific Pride Foundation with refreshments and the sharing of photos and comfort. 6:30pm. S.B. County Courthouse Sunken Gardens, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call 963-3636 or visit pacificpride foundation.org.

11/20: Cherub, Hippie Sabotage Electro-pop duo Cherub, famous for its song “Doses & Mimosa,” will be hitting S.B. for its So … You DTF? Tour. But this time, the group will appear as a four-piece band including producer Nick Curtis and longtime friend Jordan Bartlett on the drums, guitar, and keys. Hippie Dan O’COnnOr

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11/20-11/21: Impro Theatre: The Twilight Zone UnScripted All in the style of classic TV series The Twilight Zone, this show will create brand-new, completely improvised episodes at each performance. Beginning with a single audience suggestion, the night will go from there. Enter a dimension of pure imagination while paying homage to Rod Serling’s award-winning sci-fi series. 8pm.

Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $22-$25. Call 963-0408 or visit centerstagetheater.org.

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11/20: Andre Nickatina, Austin Sexton, LFTD Since his debut album, The New Jim Jones, rapper Andre Nickatina has been honing his original flow, distinct voice, lyrical explorations, and sharp stage presence. Hip-hop and R&B singer Austin Sexton and rapper LFTD will open the show.

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11/20: Fairy Tale Time: Alice in Wonderland Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland by listening to a chapter of Alice’s adventure read aloud, and then create a paper teacup that is perfect because “It’s always tea-time.”

Space is limited to the first 15 participants. 3:30-4:15pm. Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call 964-7878 or visit sbplibrary.org.

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11/21: Sings Like Hell Presents Phil Alvin & Dave Alvin with the Guilty Ones, Dead Rock West After forming the punk roots band The Blasters in 1979 and then separating in 1986, the Alvin brothers are returning to the stage to pay tribute to the blues legend Big Bill Broonzy.

Opening the show will be folkrock and bluegrass band Dead Rock West and alternative pop/ rock group The Guilty Ones.

8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $34. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

11/21-11/22: Orchid Obsession Show & Sale Feast your eyes on everything Orchidaceae and purchase from several private orchid collections on display while visiting the museum. It is free to browse the sale, but the museum entrance fee is required. Sat.: 10am-5pm; Sun.: 10am-3pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free-$12. Visit orchidsb.org.

11/21: Art From Scrap Workshop: Colorful Fall Trees Celebrate all that is autumn by creating your own colorful fall tree. Keep it, or give it away as an autumn gift for someone special. Recycling is fun when it’s

creative! 10am-noon. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Children under 5 must be accompanied by a parent. Call 884-0459 or visit exploreecology.org.

11/21: Jay Nash, Stephanie Croff If you like the Grateful Dead or Cat Stevens, then you’re in for a treat, for these are some of Jay Nash’s inspirations. Also performing will be acoustic musician and folk singer/songwriter Stephanie Croff . 7pm.

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11/21-11/22: Las Floralias 44th Annual Floral Arrangement Show Peruse unique floral designs, long-lasting succulent wreaths, table settings, and more. There will be various floral demonstrations at 1 p.m. Proceeds help fund public school art programs. Sat.: 10am-5pm; Sun.: 11am-3pm. Schott Ctr., 310 W. Padre St. Suggested dona-

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11/21: Finding Joy in the Dry Garden Puck Erickson, landscape architect of Arcadia Studios, will discuss how to renovate your garden or create a new one that will respond to this drought and increasing water costs. Learn how to grow more with fewer resources.

1:30-3:30pm. Santa Ynez Valley Grange Hall, 2374 Alamado Pintado Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Visit we-watch.org.

11/21: Western Hoedown S.B. Matchmaking is asking you to round up your boots and mosey on down to the museum for a night of lots of mingling and Western dancing to tunes spun by that highfalutin DJ Darla Bea. Tickets include one drink, tasty vittles,

a line-dance lesson, entertainment, and prizes. There will be best dish, best costume, and best scootin’ boogie contests.

6:30-10pm. Carriage and Western Art Museum, 129 Castillo St. $25-$30. Visit tinyurl.com/ westernhoedown.

11/21-11/22: S.B. Master Chorale: Elijah Completed in 1826, German composer, organist, and pianist Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah depicts events in the life of the biblical prophet Elijah from 1st and 2nd Kings of the Old Testament. Cantor Mark Childs will be featured in the title role of Elijah. Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St. Free-$22. Visit sbmaster chorale.org.

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11/20: Healthful Holiday Cooking Plans Eat healthy this holiday season! Clinical dietitian Stacey Bailey will share cooking plans and healthy eating habits for all ages. Join if you find eating healthy around the holiday season a challenge.

Noon-1pm. Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital, 2050 Viborg Rd., Solvang. Free. Call 694-2351. s. blOODWOrth

11/20-11/22: S.B. Botanic Garden Holiday Marketplace Browse early and buy holiday gifts from talented area artisans.

Including one-of-a-kind, handcrafted items, this marketplace will feature children’s story time, photos with Santa, festive musicians, and a gift-wrapping station. 10am-4pm. S.B. Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. Free. Call 682-4726 or visit sbbg.org.

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11/20: Holiday Boutique Shop for various arts and crafts, including ceramics, jewelry, knitted items, greeting cards, and more. All works are done by Winchester Commons community residents. 10am-6pm. Winchester Commons Clubhouse, 7965 Winchester Cir., Goleta. Free.

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11/21: Arts and Crafts Faire & Silent Auction Come shop for unique handmade gift items for the holidays (or for yourself ) at St. Andrew’s. There will be a wine and cheese reception at 3 p.m. The church will receive 10 percent of all proceeds. 9am-4pm. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 409 Topa Topa Dr., Ojai. Free. Visit standrewsojai.ladiocese.org.

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11/21: Phantom Pomps, The Vooduo Have fun with some seriously demented rock ’n’ roll, psychobilly, punk, and blues from Goleta-born Phantom Pomps. Joining them will be garage-rock band The Vooduo.

10pm. Whiskey Richards, 435 State St. Free. Ages 21+. Visit whiskeyrichards.com.

sunday 11/22 11/22: Winter Wonderland S.B. Festival Ballet will present a holiday-themed repertoire ballet. Expect dancers of all ages to transport you to a Winter Wonderland that will get you in the mood for this magical time of year. 2:30pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $15-$20. Call 963-0408 or visit centerstagetheater.org.

11/22: An Evening with Alex Honnold: Alone on the Wall Professional rock climber Alex Honnold has tackled Mexico’s Sendero Luminoso and Patagonia’s Fitz Traverse without a rope, partner, or gear. During this illustrated presentation, you will hear stories from his book Alone on the Wall that recount his most astonishing career achievements.

7pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $10$15. Call 893-3535 or visit artsand lectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

11/22: S.B. Youth Symphony Music Director Andy Radford will lead the S.B. Youth Symphony in a concert of classics by Debussy, Reinecke, Schumann, and Mendelssohn. 4pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

11/22: Rappin’ 4-Tay, Lil Bams San Francisco–based rapper and hip-hop artist Rappin’ 4-Tay and rapper Lil Bams will host a night of free flows and tracks. Join the “Playaz Club.” 8pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $15-$35. Ages 18+.

Call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones .com.

11/22: Prime Time Band Winter Concert This band, which comprises more than 80 musicians older than 50, is celebrating 20 years of performing more than 100 free concerts in our community. Come hear selections from Chicago, Flight of Valor, Latin Celebration, and Secret Love. 2pm. San Marcos High School Auditorium, 4750 Hollister Ave. Free. Call 962-6983 or visit ptband.org.

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11/23: Carousel Taking place in a coastal village in Maine in 1873, this hopeful story of love and redemption between a naïve millworker (Shirley Jones) and swaggering carnival barker (Gordon MacRae) is a dramatic testimony to the power of love. From the glorious instrumental “The Carousel Waltz” to the love song “If I Loved You” to “Soliloquy” (a father’s song to his unborn child), this movie will have you appreciating this 1956 Rodgers & Hammerstein classic all over again. 2 and 7pm.

Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org.

23 11/22: Mark Moffett The author of The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy, Mark Moffett (pictured) earned his PhD under respected ecologist E.O. Wilson. He’s accidentally sat on the world’s deadliest snake, battled drug lords with dart guns, escaped bull elephants, and more. He will tell stories that will amaze you.

Following the lecture will be a book-signing. 3pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $15-$25. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb .edu.

11/22: Chamber Music Concert Violinist Yue Deng, cellist Virginia Kron, and pianist Kacey Link will host an afternoon of classical music. This program will include trios by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Piazzolla, and Ravel.

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2pm. Ojai Art Ctr., 113 S. Montgomery St. $8-$10. Call 640-8327 or visit ojaiartcenter.org.

11/22: Mike Devine and Friends Montana meets S.B. as all-Americana and back-porchblues musician Mike Devine rolls into town to make his debut performance of CD Lost Highway. Find yourself hooked onto catchy tunes, irresistible harmony, and sweet sounds.

8pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10. Call 9627776 or visit sohosb.com.

Monday 11/23 11/23: An Evening with Zach Gill A member of the Animal Liberation Orchestra, musician Zach Gill will deliver easygoing pop with a large dose of buoyant soul in an intimate setting. Opening will be the Dos Pueblos High School Jazz Orchestra. Proceeds will go to the DPHS Instrumental Music Club. 6:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $20.

Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb .com.

Catholic, and other traditions.

Join in this educational, inspiring, and meaningful celebration! The free-will offering will go to Direct Relief, providing international relief resources and supplies. 7pm. First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 963-3579 or visit fumcsb.org.

The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB

Ambassador Dennis Ross Doomed to Succeed: The US-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama Friday, November 20 / 3:00 p.m. / Free UCSB Campbell Hall “Dennis Ross and ‘Middle East Peace Process’ are nearly synonymous.”

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11/24: Santa Ynez Valley Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Offer thanks from various religious traditions, affirming unity as grateful neighbors. An interfaith choir of volunteers will perform. A complimentary reception will follow the service. 7pm. St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Call 688-4454.

In Doomed to Succeed, Ambassador Dennis Ross takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president’s attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach. He argues that distancing the United States from Israel in the Eisenhower, Nixon, Bush, and Obama administrations never yielded benefits and explains why that lesson has never been learned. Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Tuesday 11/24 11/24: Lida Sideris The author of Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters, Lida Sideris will discuss and sign her debut novel about entertainment attorney Corrie Locke, who is new to the law game, starts nosing around a questionable suicide, and ends up at the center of a murder case. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call 682-6787 or visit chaucersbooks.com.

11/24: Fall Craft Nobody thought fall would arrive in S.B., but it’s here. So let’s celebrate by crafting! Oranges, rusts, browns, leaves, trees … yay, fall!

3:30-4:30pm. Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito St. Free. Call 963-3727 or visit sbplibrary.org.

11/24: Interfaith Thanksgiving Service The Greater Santa Barbara Area Clergy Association, dedicated to fostering mutual understanding and appreciation of all faiths, will host this service with representatives of the Jewish, Islamic, Roman

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

Friday Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am

Saturday Downtown S.B.: Corner of Santa Barbara and Cota sts., 8:30am-1pm

Sunday Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm

Tuesday Old Town S.B.: 500-600 blocks of State St., 4-7:30pm

Wednesday Solvang: Copenhagen Dr. and 1st St., 2:30-6:30pm

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“These butterflies migrate thousands of miles, but the more amazing part is that even with four or five generations between them, they still return to these same branches,” explained Charis Van der Heide (above), who has been a docent at the City of Goleta’s Coronado Butterfly Preserve for five years. As coordinator of the Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count for The Xerces Society, Van der Heide also keeps track of the number of butterflies who overwinter on the California coast and beyond. “If it weren’t for the citizen science, we wouldn’t know nearly as much as we do about the butterflies,” said Van der Heide, who spoke about the history and science of the Ellwood Main Butterfly Grove on Saturday during the preserve’s Conservation Day festivities.

The event was put on by The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County to kick off the monarch’s overwintering season and featured arts and crafts for kids, as well as educational booths, music, and face painting.

Janine Garfinkel and her granddaughter Hannah Berry (right) came to the event to enjoy the butterflies and festivities. Although the butterflies are beginning to arrive now, the season will peak in January.

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TOuR POWER: Be like docent Liz Rosedale (right), who recently led this school group through the County Courthouse grounds.

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utdoor sport enthusiasts know the struggle of trying to find space to play when fields or courts are full. Spikeball is a new sport rising in popularity around town that is easily set up and requires little space, meaning that any four friends can play on a random patch of grass at a nearby park.

The game is considered a cross between volleyball and foursquare, as teams of two pass a softball-sized ball between partners before “spiking” it into a round net that measures about three feet across. Defending teams are allowed three touches to “return” the ball, and points can only be scored on plays when your team served.

Beginning as a casual backyard or beach game in the late ’80s, spikeball is now emerging as a popular sport recognized on a national level. There have been two annual national championships to date, and as it happens, Santa Barbara is home to some of the top Spikeball players in the nation.

Two of these players include former Westmont student athletes Jarratt Rouse and Devin Matson, who recently placed second at the U.S.A. Spikeball National Championship in mid-October. Rouse first discovered the sport a few years ago in college and has been actively involved ever since.

Earlier this year, Rouse hosted the 2nd Annual West Coast Spikeball Classic at East Beach in Santa Barbara, and he was responsible for organizing teams, recruiting sponsors, and procuring the necessary equipment, most of which is provided by Spikeball for organized tournaments.

Sun and Fun: The new beach and lawn sport is catching on with college kids and others.

On campus over at UCSB, Chris “Kit” Ryan and Chadwick Wickersham took it upon themselves to start the first-ever Spikeball Club this year, hosting games on Tuesday and Thursday nights at the Rec Cen field. The duo also competes nationally, having already won a major tournament in Texas.

Ryan, the club president, says that the abundance of competitive teams in Santa Barbara has helped create interest for the sport. Having previously started a similar club in high school, he has seen firsthand how Spikeball has risen in prominence in the past few years.

Santa Barbara Spikeball players have set the bar high for themselves, which bodes well for the continued growth of the sport. Rouse, Matson, Ryan, and Wickersham all want to see support for the sport increase, and with a strong community base and network-building tools such as the new Spikeball app, this vision is likely to be realized — Austin Murphy and Chantal Peterson

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hough not ot q quite as ancient as architectural monuments from the Old World, the Santa Barbara County Courthouse is just as visually striking to passersby as the world’s most famous chapels and castles. But the nearly 90-year-old building’s real treasures require a slightly deeper look, for inside are the eclectically diverse yet classically traditional touches that make this functioning hall of justice a museum unto itself.

From the 30 copper plates on the Hall of Records door and plants from more than two dozen countries decorating the grounds to the floor mosaic of St. Barbara and the gallery-esque offerings of the Daniel Sayre Groesbeck’s Mural Room and Theodore Van Cina hallway paintings, there’s a little something to interest all types of people—art buffs to historians, palm-tree lovers to design freaks.

There’s no better way to learn all of this than by taking one of the daily tours offered by docents, which more than 6,500 people enjoyed last year out of the 125,000 people from 60 different countries that visited the courthouse. The tours happen every day at 2 p.m., as well as Monday-Friday at 10:30 a.m., and that doesn’t count the special tours of school groups and busloads of tourists.

Better yet, for those who have at least one day a month to spare, now is the chance to become a docent, which can also involve non-touring duties at the front booth. “The courthouse gets visitors from all over the world, and the docents are really just the ambassadors,” explained docent Dana Machalleck, who said the 60-or-so volunteer docents bring their own unique twist to the courthouse. “Everyone can personalize their tour, but they have to keep it to an hour. Some really like the history and give lots of dates, while others like the art and focus on that. I like the architecture myself,” she explained, while pointing to one of the many asymmetrical elements common to the Spanish Colonial Revival motif.

On top of all this, the docents have raised and spent more than $180,000 to conduct a variety of restoration projects around the courthouse, with all funds coming from the donation box as well as postcard and magnet sales. Without them, the courthouse would be a much less interesting tale.

To get involved, fill out an application at the courthouse information booth or call 967-5046. Then attend a coffee meeting for prospective docents on Thursday, November 19, at 10:30 a.m., in the Mural Room.

See www.santabarbaracourthouse.org — Matt Kettmann

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n 2001, I traveled to the Belize-Guatemala border to report on UCSB archaeologist Anabel Ford’s many discoveries at El Pilar, the Maya monument complex she uncovered in 1983. That’s where she developed revolutionary theories that threatened to rock the academic world, namely that the Maya did not “disappear” due to an overpopulation cataclysm but merely dwindled with time. Instead, Ford found that the Maya proudly persist in Mesoamerica; that they use the surrounding forest as a sustainable, civilization-supporting garden like they have for millennia; and that the use of fire is a critical part of that farming, not indicative of a widespread “slash-and-burn” culture that so many believe contributed to their demise.

Fifteen years later, though, Ford is banging those same drums while the tone-deaf academic establishment clings to ideas invented decades ago. Her latest strike is the book The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands, which she coauthored with Ronald Nigh, a professor in Chiapas, Mexico. In relatively nontechnical language, the book uses research from multiple fields to detail the scientific evidence behind Ford’s belief that the Maya forest can indeed sustain a large population, suggesting that the collapse was probably more of a slow sociopolitical process than a carrying-capacity catastrophe.

We recently talked about the eye-opening insights of El Pilar, and what follows is a condensed version of our chat, a longer version of which can be found at independent.com/elpilar.

Why is the prevailing overpopulation-as-demise theory so rampantly believed? It’s entrenched in Western studies of how people

look at the earth. Even Malthus felt that we were going to run out of land to produce food, and the idea is to have a farm, you have to clear land, and there is not enough. Of course, that is the case when you have a plow and land with cows on it.

If you look at the way “slash-and-burn” sounds, rather than “selecting and growing,” it’s more about destroying, like rape and pillage. But people are starting to realize that there is a different way of doing things — we know what the cycles are; we know things come back.

Your book suggests that part of the problem may be how archaeology as a field is isolated from agroecology, so archaeologists may now know what to examine to understand the past. It’s bigger than that, too. Every field is so insular. It’s not just the eco-

nomic botany not talking to Maya archaeology and agroforestry. You’re involved in your own work, but if you are actually believing it, you really should look out. I don’t see how one could look at the ancient Maya and not consider geology, geography, water flow, plants, animals.

What will it take to change people’s minds? Well, I’m trying. How do I write a best-seller? I actually think this book is pretty readable. We need to get Oprah to pick this up.

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Comedian Sarah Silverman takes a dramatic-as-a-heartattack turn as a wealthy suburban mom devastated by anxiety and addiction in the new feel-bad movie of the season, I Smile Back.

The role’s got Oscar nod written all over it: See the actress grind on a teddy bear, sleep with strangers, snort cocaine off a bathroom floor, lie right to the face of her saintly husband — and ache with excruciating, visceral love for her still-perfect children. Silverman is 100 percent committed and compelling as Laney, the Shakespearean-tragedy-of-amommy so terrified of being abandoned by the people she loves that she systematically, almost willfully, destroys any reason for them to stay.

The movie was adapted from Amy Koppelman’s 2008 novel I Smile Back.

“It came from a place of asking, ‘What if I had worked so hard to build this tiny little family and then I had it in me to bust it up?’” says Koppelman, who also wrote the screenplay with Paige Dylan.“I think every mother has terrible fears of how they’re going to damage their children. When my kids were born, I thought, ‘Oh, my god, I can only fuck them up from this moment. I just have to try to mitigate the amount that I fuck them up.’ You’re really not prepared for the fear of having kids and protecting these lives. The love that you have is just crippling; it’s the most wonderful thing, but it’s also crippling.”

In the movie, we cringe and shout “no!” as we watch Laney’s reckless choices unfold. But the book lets us see the not-so-crazy thought processes that

by Starshine drive her to those terrible actions. The book makes Laney relatable. Which is frightening.

Plodding through the inevitable ritemail: starshine@roshell.com uals of the modern housewife — packing daily lunches, navigating school drop-offs, sitting politely through her husband’s business dinners —Laney can’t escape “the constant reminder of the futility in life.”

And modern moms will recognize her feelings, whether they admit it or not.

The mythology of motherhood tells us that caring for budding humans is the highest calling, that it brings unparalleled joy, and that your children’s laughter and the smell of their freshly bathed necks are nourishment enough to sustain you through all your days on this planet. But it isn’t necessarily true. And for those struggling with depression, such myths are lighter fluid on the fires of guilt and anxiety.

“I really wanted to make sure people knew that Laney loved her children and her husband,” says Koppelman, who has battled depression herself. “Everything I write is obviously very personal: the feelings of self-loathing, doubt, fear.”

Though she swears none of the actual narratives are true, she says her own father was a lot like Laney: “No matter how much we loved him and thought we could heal him through loving him, he was just somebody who was bound to destroy.”

The theme of insurmountable loss weaves its way through all of her books. Her first novel, A Mouthful of Air, is about a new mother with postpartum depression who kills herself and her infant. (“It’s a joyride,” Koppelman confesses, chuckling.) And her brand-new book, Hesitation Wounds, is about a psychiatrist specializing in treatment-resistant depression and grappling with the death of her brother, but the author promises this book is “more hopeful” than the others.

So, yes, her stories are challenging, and I Smile Back isn’t going to buoy your holiday spirits the way your 12th annual viewing of Elf will — but it may, in fact, do something more important.

“If you can see yourself or someone you love in the character, maybe you can get them the help they need,” Koppelman says. “Or if you love someone like Laney, you can see that their behavior, their illness, is not your fault.”

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that dented the crossbar in the first half. Another opportunity was a breakaway by Nick DePuy, one of the nation’s leading scorers with 15 goals.

Ricardo Covarrubias tackled DePuy from behind, costing the Titan defender a red-card ejection but preventing a likely Gaucho goal. Fullerton’s Mitchell Bell scored early in the second half on a ball that rebounded off the goalpost. That was enough to deny UCSB the conference trophy.

But when all was said and done, the Gauchos (13-6-2) got a good deal from the NCAA. It recognized the entirety of their season, including victories over Stanford and UCLA, as well as the strength of the Big West (Cal State Fullerton and Cal Poly received first-round berths in the tournament). It may also have mattered that UCSB is leading the nation’s colleges in soccer attendance for the ninth consecutive year.

Freshman goalkeeper Justin Vom Steeg, the CARDINAL WIN: Ralph Molina has been part coach’s son, is not expected to play the rest of the year. Vom Steeg, who started 19 of 21 games, of Bishop Diego football for 31 years as a player or coach. “This tops them all,” he said after the Car- BEAST MODE: Bishop Diego running back John Harris (#25) breaks loose took himself out at halftime on Saturday because dinals’ victory over Newbury Park. The Panthers for big yardage in the fourth quarter Friday night. Harris gained 159 yards in a chronic shoulder injury was hindering him.

Bishop’s 53-47 victory over Newbury Park.

(6-4) had to be considered the favorite despite their Brandon Berke is an experienced backup, and record. They came out of the Conejo Valley, a cradle what the Gauchos will really need Sunday, if they of powerful prep football teams. It is one of the injustices of left side, where defenders were waiting for him; he quickly hope to advance to the Sweet 16 and beyond, are some finthe current Southern Section play-off alignment that a small reversed his field, turned the corner on the right sideline, ishing touches. school like Bishop was placed in the Northern Division, and scampered 33 yards to the Newbury Park 15. On the next considered No. 3 in level of competition out of 13 divisions. play, quarterback Spencer Stovesand deftly shoveled the The Cardinals welcomed the challenge. “We have some ball to Matthew Shotwell, who rumbled up the middle great athletes and kids with big hearts,” head coach Tom for a touchdown.

Crawford said. They showed they were all business when Bishop extended its lead to 53-34 midway through the they crisply drove 95 yards to the first touchdown of the final quarter, but the Panthers remained dangerous. Vaunted night. Running backs Mike Soracco (269 yards in the sophomore quarterback Cameron Rising led them to two game) and John Harris (159 yards) shredded the Newbury quick scores, and it was a six-point game with 1:51 remaining.

Park defense behind an offensive line that hit the bigger A successful onside kick would give Newbury Park ample Panthers fast and hard. time to pull off a comeback victory. That’s when Shotwell, “They’re used to teams that chuck the ball downfield,” a senior linebacker who leads Bishop’s defense in tackles, said Molina, Bishop’s defensive coordinator. “Our offense is made another big play. He pounced on the skidding ball hard to defend with its multiple sets and misdirection plays.” like a soccer goalie, and the Cardinals were able to run out A dazzling sequence late in the second quarter put the clock.

VOLLEYBALL LEGENDS: Karch Kiraly Court will be Bishop ahead for good at halftime, 25-21. On a third-and-23 “The team we have, the brothers we have, we put Bishop dedicated at East Beach at 11 a.m. Saturday in honor of the play, speedy slotback AV Bennett took a handoff to the Diego on the map,” Shotwell said. “It took lots of heart. We Santa Barbara native who won three Olympic gold medbend but don’t break.” Shotwell paid his team- als and racked up 148 beach-tournament victories. He is mates a compliment by calling them brothers. currently coach of the U.S. women’s national team. Hawai‘i He has three older brothers — Kyle, Ryan, women’s volleyball coach Dave Shoji (pictured above), a and Troy — who were football standouts at 1969 UCSB grad and member of the Gaucho Hall of Fame, Dos Pueblos High and Cal Poly. Matthew is will send his Rainbow Wahines to the Thunderdome floor wearing red instead of blue, but it’s more of against UCSB on Saturday night. In 41 seasons, Shoji’s teams the same old Shotwell. He and the Cardinals have piled up 1,170 victories and won four national titles. n will be busy Friday night coping with Palmdale’s Falcons, another talented, high-scoring team.

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last weekend from watching 15 touchdowns and one goal. They saw Bishop Diego High’s football team cross the goal line eight times in an exhilarating CIF play-off victory over Newbury Park by a score of 53-47. And they saw UCSB’s soccer team attempt 22 vain shots in the Big West Men’s Tournament championship game, an exasperating 1-0 loss to Cal State Fullerton.

The stakes will go higher this weekend for both hometown squads. Bishop Diego will host Palmdale in a showdown between undefeated (11-0) teams at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 20, at SBCC’s La Playa Stadium. UCSB, seeded 15th in the 48-team NCAA tournament, will take on the winner of a first-round game between South Carolina and Furman at 6 p.m. on Sunday at Harder Stadium.

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after his soccer team dominated the run of play against Fullerton but came up empty.

Give the Gauchos an “E” for effort and an “F” for frustration. But while their attack produced a quantity of shots, only six of the 22 were on frame. The Titans got off a meager five shots; the only one on-goal was the winning score.

UCSB’s best shot may have been a 28-yard rocket by German standout Kevin Feucht

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CAN WE KAISEKI? Chef Yoichi Kawabata (left) and his wife, Mogi Kawabata, believe Santa Barbara diners are ready for their traditional style of simply prepared food, which includes an appetizer box (below) filled with everything from wagyu beef bites to roe-filled fish bellies.

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hough Santa Barbara supports a lot of restaurants for a relatively small town (thanks, tourists!) and pioneered farm-to-table menus (thanks, farmers markets!), it’s historically been tough to succeed when focusing on a tight niche of ethnic cuisine. Italian and Mexican?

Slam dunk. Friulian and Oaxacan? Good luck.

Yet recent strides indicate a shift: raw fish in a Mediterranean style at Olio Crudo Bar or in a Peruvian way at Cielito, for instance, or Southeast Asian street fare at Empty Bowl Gourmet Noodle Bar, and even the daytime weekend Ethiopian at otherwise French-focused Petit Valentien. And since our collective palate appears well attuned to sushi and the culinary culture that comes with it, perhaps we are indeed ready for kaiseki, the upper echelon of Japanese eating.

That’s the gamble of Yoichi’s on East Victoria Street, where an extremely fresh, multicourse menu is prepared in the pure and meticulous kaiseki way, intended to show off the true essence of each ingredient, from wagyu beef and miso black cod to mountain vegetables, flying fish sashimi, and eel-wrapped tofu. “People imagine a very fancy thing, especially in America, and it is fancy, but it is simple cooking, using traditional techniques to bring out the real flavors,” said Mogi Kawabata, who runs front of the house while her husband, Chef Yoichi Kawabata, cooks in the back. “If it’s mushrooms, it has to taste like mushrooms.”

Raised in Mongolia but fluent in Japanese, Mogi met Yoichi in San Francisco, where he was cooking after stints at, among other places, Nobu in Tokyo. They got married, had kids, and were visiting a friend who worked at Sakana on Coast Village Road when they realized Santa Barbara could be their new home. After remodeling the former Spiritland Bistro in a stylish yet sparse style with starkly dark and light tones, the couple opened Yoichi’s this summer and have been serving their seven-course, $85 set menu ever since, changing it up at the beginning of each month.

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of eating was a steadily eye-opening experience. Though technically seven courses, we wound up eating about 15 different things because the appetizer box included five items — delicately sweet, roe-filled komochi ayu; rich wagyu bites; fresh oyster with ponzu; mountain vegetables from Japan; and salty boiled baby sardines with rock seaweed — and the sashimi and sushi courses included multiple slices, from flying fish and grunt to yellowtail and Japanese uni. Other highlights included the pike eel and egg cake soup, topped with a grilled matsutake mushroom from Oregon, and the grilled miso-marinated black cod, topped with ginger and chestnuts. Even the “pumpkin pudding,” which was based on kabocha squash, was light and enlivening.

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But it’s not just the food; it’s the purposeful presentation. Dishes emerge in a perfectly paced sequence that’s reflective of the Japanese tea ceremony and are served on ceramic plates made especially for the restaurant. In between servings, Mogi explained that the kaiseki tradition goes back to the monks, who would put hot stones, a k a kaiseki, on their stomachs when hungry. These dishes, then, symbolize that level of purity. At one point, I remarked that the food was so delicate and intricately presented that it almost forced you to eat slowly. “Sounds like you’re starting to get it,” said Zack, the waiter.

The only thing holding Yoichi’s back from the full dining experience was the lack of alcohol, a permitting hurdle whose height was not fully appreciated. But that’s changing this week, as they have a temporary permit and will start pairing dishes with sake and wine. The November menu will be the first to benefit from that option, so items like soy-marinated salmon caviar, steamed monkfish liver, deep-fried ice fish, turnip-shrimp-mushroom soup, and yellowtail with daikon will get some liquid support.

They’re also now serving an omakase sushi platter with soup and dessert from Tuesday to Thursday for those seeking a less-involved, more-affordable experience.

Walking back toward State Street after dinner, I began thinking that Yoichi’s is a test for Santa Barbara diners.

Are we mature enough in our palates and confident with our cash to indulge regularly in this exquisite form of elegance? Can our small town support the niche cuisine that’s usually found in much bigger cities? I hope so, and the early signs are positive.

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It has come to my attention that you can also dine at Santa Barbara Brewing Company (730-1040), Ca’ Dario Ristorante & Pizzeria (884-9419), and Trattoria Mollie (565-9381). El Torito was on last week’s list, but, needless to say, reservations will now be a challenge.

RUMOR MACHINE: Last week’s rain may

have only lasted an hour, but unfortunately it was enough to cause a leak up here in the foodie news control tower in Goleta. Just after the rain ended, the 14-month-old Restaurant Kid walked in the room and handed me a soggy printout from the Rumor Machine, which means either the leak occurred directly above sensitive electronics or he dunked the printout in the toilet.

Either scenario is highly likely. After letting it dry for a while, I was able to make out a few words: “Carl’s Jr. at 3925 State Street will depart in a few months, and that address will become a second location for Woodstock’s Pizza of Isla Vista.” As always, this rumor might be completely false or a brilliant forecast of future events. Your call.

CHINA KING OPENS IN GOLETA: Last month

I wrote that China King is coming to 5915-B Calle Real in Goleta, the former home of Las Brasas Mexican Grill (closed last September), Los Tarascos (closed last March), and Fortune Garden (closed August 2009). Reader Cindy tells me that China King, near Zodo’s, is now open.

end holidays for a bagful of fresh tamales on the spot. Santa Barbara Tamales-To-Go is opening a tamale window downtown at 20 East Cota Street on the east side of Nectar Eatery & Lounge (previously the Blue Agave). The grand opening, hosted by the Chamber of the Santa Barbara Region, will be Friday, November 20, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Call 965-2321 or visit sbtamalestogo.com.

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eader Primetime tells me that El Torito restaurant at 29 East Cabrillo Boulevard has closed down, abruptly. “We have closed this location and apologize for any inconvenience,” read a sign in front of the building. “We appreciate your patronage and look forward to our next opportunity to serve you at one of our 54 other restaurant locations. Visit www.eltorito.com. Sincerely, the management team.” Primetime reports that employees have been assisted with work at other restaurants and that the parent company of El Torito might convert the Santa Barbara location into a Las Brisas restaurant.

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its website, boochiesinsb.com, says: “Apologies, Boochies is taking a rest for reenergizing. More updates to come on when we can start serving the community again.” Boochies opened in August 2014.

PETROS SOLD: The “bulk sale” of Petros res-

taurant at 1316 State Street has been published in this newspaper, the Inglewood News, and the Hawthorne Press Tribune. The buyers are listed as Roger E. Vian and Lora Beth Vian of Hesperia, California. The assets being sold are generally described as furniture, fixtures, and equipment.

The announcement says that the anticipated sale date was November 17. Thanks to reader Barry for the tip.

BRUNCH COMING TO GLOBE: This just in

from Laura Knight at Globe restaurant, 18 East Cota Street: “We are off to a great start, and after being open three-and-a-half months, we will be adding a weekend brunch starting this weekend.

We will serve the brunch menu Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and will serve our regular menu during brunch too. And from now through the holidays we are extending our hours to be open Saturday and Sunday afternoons. We will be serving brunch with the same small plates style, so if you can’t decide between eggs benedict and huevos rancheros, you can have one of each.

We will feature home-made quiches, pumpkin pancakes with spiced maple syrup and candied pecans, mascarpone stuffed croissant French toast with fresh strawberries, my famous spicy oven-roasted bacon and other yummy brunch dishes. Keeping with the regular menu, all items will be $10 and under.”

HAGGEN FIASCO UPDATE: After Haggen dis-

integrated in September, several competing food stores have started picking up the pieces. Albertsons is bidding for 163 South Turnpike Road (formerly Vons). Sprouts Farmers Market is bidding to take over 175 North Fairview Avenue (formerly Vons). Roxy’s Market/S.B. Grocery is bidding for 2010 Cliff Drive (formerly Albertsons). Some Haggen properties have already been sold. Smart & Final has purchased 3943 State Street (formerly Albertsons) and 850 Linden Avenue (formerly Vons). Completion of the transaction with Smart & Final remains subject to certain conditions.

John Dickson’s reporting can be found every day online at SantaBarbara.com. Send tips to info@SantaBarbara.com.

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by Matt KettMann hen Dave Potter launched Municipal Winemakers in 2007, Santa Barbara’s wine scene grew exponentially cooler and infinitely more approachable. The brand’s colorful, stylish labels with names such as Bright White and Fizz settled with ease into his pioneering Funk Zone tasting room(s), where hipster-ish wine geeks sipped indoors and out on fresh, affordable wines that didn’t require special vocabularies to enjoy.

Yet Potter didn’t want to just go down in history as the proprietor of the “cool guy” brand and was confident that he could make wines to compete with the upper-tier, single-vineyard expressions of the region. The Rancho Cucamonga–raised UCSB global studies grad boasts legit winemaking chops, having entered the industry at Sunstone’s tasting room in 2000, worked for Santa Cruz’s Byington Vineyard and Fess Parker Winery here, and toiled for six years in the cellars of Australia, where he also got a grad degree in enology and viticulture. So as Muni Wine rose in popularity and profitability, Potter simultaneously plotted a new project to more eloquently express Santa Barbara County vineyards such as Kick-On Ranch, Tierra Alta, and Sanford & Benedict that he’s come to know and love.

The result is Potek Winery, which opened in August as the first tenant of The Mill, the foodand-drink hub on East Haley Street at Laguna.

“This is the best stuff we can make,” said Potter a few weeks ago as harvest wound down, with forklifts rearranging barrels in the courtyard and cellar rats spraying fermenters nearby. “It’s all single vineyard; it’s the best barrels; it’s the best sites.” Each bottling is only about 50-100 cases (so about two to four barrels), and the inventory is sold straight to consumers, without any distribution to retailers or restaurants. “They come and go,” said Potter, “and that’s it.”

After years of making his own wine in the Santa Ynez Valley at Fess Parker, where he worked as an assistant winemaker for years, and then at the “Bodegas” in Buellton, Potter was driven just as much by the opportunity to make wine in Santa Barbara proper, where tasting rooms have proliferated but working winer-

ies remain relatively scarce. “I’ve been wanting to make wine in town for a long time now,” said Potter.“I live three blocks from here.”

The challenge is finding the right space.

“Industrial space is tight and getting tighter all the time,” he explained. “The only way it works is if you can incorporate a strong retail component, as well.” And that’s not easy, either, due to the City of Santa Barbara’s strident policies on parking and visitation. In one of the more bizarre planning workarounds, Potek Winery features a stand-alone doorway to the bathroom, thereby officially getting around the maze of zoning rules. The Mill development, which will soon welcome Justin West’s barbecue joint Wildwood Kitchen and Kristopher Parker’s Third Window Brewing, is fraught with such creative solutions.

But it is very much a working winery, as tasting-room visitors are separated from the barrels only by a see-through, polished wood cabinet.

There, over sips of Potek’s riesling, pinot noir, grenache, and syrah, you will learn that the winery’s name is a nod to his great-grandfather, a Romanian Jew who emigrated from the homeland to America in 1917, changing his name from Berl Potek to Benjamin Potter. The man formerly known as Berl worked in New York City’s fabric industry— a trade followed by Dave’s grandfaindustry ther and father, as well—and the labels reflect Romanian textile designs of yesteryear.

By design, Potek is a bit more serious compared to Muni’s fun vibe, with fancy glasses and the ability to schedule a sit-down appointment with Potter himself. But Dave is such a genuinely jovial guy—even with his wife expecting their second kid during harvest, he was smiling steadily — it never gets too formal. Cheers to that.

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GIVE ME A LIFT: With U.S. Elevator, S.B. folkman Johnny Irion and friends put aside the acoustic guitars for electric ones to make music inspired by ’60s and ’70s rock-and-pop greats.

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hen you listen to U.S. Elevator’s eponymous debut album, you may wonder if there was a gap in the space-time continuum. There’s something uncannily familiar about the spirit of the music, which channels artists such as Neil Young, The Beatles, and Harry Nilsson. But it’s undeniably of the moment, as well. A new project from Santa Barbara folk musician Johnny Irion, music partner and husband to Sarah Lee Guthrie, it was a chance for Irion to explore his more classic rocking side in new ways.

Irion felt a rock ’n’ roll itch creeping through his usually folksier skin several years ago. The final result of this seedling thought is U.S. Elevator, a bright, funny, deeply melodic work with plenty of local nods in songs like “Pierre Lafond” and “Momma-Cito Blues.” “It is the geographical that takes over me,” Irion said, and in its Wurlizter flourishes and tamboura accents, the music certainly evokes the sun-drenched sounds of California’s psychedelic pop-rock heritage.

What’s more, the new album is very much made from a variety of regional mov-

ing parts; the band and subsequent album came together through a variety of serendipitous connections and support networks.

Two years ago after a Lobero show with Guthrie, Irion met renowned filmmaker, special-effects master, and music lover Alan Kozlowski, who happened to own a vintage, 1,000-pound, 24-track Studer A80 tape machine. The mammoth machine provided the perfect medium to make Irion’s retro-rock dreams a shining reality, and area soundscapers Sonos provided the speakers for playback.

Before long, Irion and a band of S.B. friends—featuring BoMo Design founder Nate Modisette on bass, colleague Erich Riedl on drums, and Deckers innovator Anders Bergstrom on guitar, plus Brett Long and producer Tim Bluhm both adding piano and vocals—had the right elements in place to live-track each instrument the oldfashioned way. The group holed up in a Mission Hills recording studio and got to work.

Recording in this analogue, live-tracking manner allowed the band to grow and explore new territory, Kozlowski said. “We

wanted to come up with vintage gear that would lend the vibe and the spirit, but also so everybody could throw down in a differ-ent way than they’re used to,” i.e., track-bytrack digital recording, he said. This allowed the musicians “to stretch out of their com-fort zone and take risks, and I think it’s evi-dent in what showed up in this recording.”

Kozlowski, in music and in film, likes to employ analogue technologies whenever possible and helped boost a spirit of analogue-digital combination within the recording sessions. Different technologies, he said, “all have their advantages; you just have to know how to use them in collaboration and expression for what they’re good at, instead of having a fixed concept of what they do.” He credits the teachings of his friend and musical guru Ravi Shankar, who “would surrender to the moment but never fail to find it,” as a guiding spirit in the process.

The album, however, almost never found its way into the public eye. “You can’t have hope for a record, but the sad thing is, you do,” Irion said. He planned on self-releasing a few hundred copies to give among friends and select industry reps, until friend and celebrated singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten urged him to dream a little bigger. With the assistance of Van Etten and buddy Zeke Hutchins, the record found a much wider exposure. U.S. Elevator even opened for Stone Temple Pilots earlier this fall, giving Irion the chance to road-test the flexibility of his rock voice, which friends have deemed “Neilson Schneilson” for its Young-Nilssonlike tone. He’s feeling ready to believe in his new creation. “I’m getting back to the hope factor,” he said.

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A lot of Americana music has passed through my ears of late, but little has made a lasting impression in the way Sam Gleaves’s debut album, Ain’t We Brothers, has. First and foremost is Gleaves’s bravery — his willingness to sing of same-sex relationships and love through musical styles that have traditionally excluded such subjects and to speak the truths of those for whom bluegrass and mountain music, in so many ways, has historically outcast. But just as strong are his songwriting abilities and his sweet voice. Gleaves proves Americana, as America, can be concurrent and progressive without betraying its core values and that all loves, even of the heretofore-silenced variety, can and should be heard and honored.

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The art-damaged greatness that is The Dead Weather smolders splendidly on Dodge and Burn. Alison Mosshart is one of the most rocking frontwomen of the now, and über-musician Jack White bashes the skins as if he’s the second coming of John Bonham. Opening track “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)” thunders into being like the badass descendant of Zep’s “Immigrant Song.”“Buzzkill(er)” continues the ride, with buzzing guitar riffs and Mosshart’s sassy intonations. “Three Dollar Hat” reconstitutes “Stagger Lee” and “Frankie and Johnny,” with White taking lead vocals like a tongue-incheek, murder-ballad-reciting Nick Cave. “Rough Detective” finds White and Mosshart sleuthing ’n’ dueting, while “Open Up” gets a clue — and a hook — from Rush. Finally, “Impossible Winner” casts Mosshart as a torch singer ready to burn the house down.

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e very in touch with yourself; be very honest. Honesty is vital in fiction,” said Santa Barbara author Mitchell Bogatz. It’s a principle he clearly follows; in his recently published sci-fi novel, Tiny Instruments, Bogatz realistically explores philosophical concepts within the playground of a warped world of limitation through the protagonist’s naïve perspective.

The book reads like an intricate thought experiment; it plays with the possibility of genetically modified human copies called “artificials,” questioning their existence and contemplating the meaning of humanity.

The thought-provoking plot follows the inquisitive clone-scientist Timothy Cottard as he rebels against Cavanagh, the restrictive research facility that manufactures and imprisons clones.

As a hybrid dystopian science-fiction novel with a coming-of-age tone, Tiny Instruments harks back to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World while also incorporating the raw innocence of Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. “I’ve heard it called a young-adult book before, and I’ve always thought that was kind of funny because I never intended to write a specific genre,”Bogatz explained. “For me, it’s written very simply, in a childish way, because that’s the way I imagined Timothy views the world. Despite being very knowledge-savvy, he has no idea about emotions or social hierarchies.”

Timothy’s narration insightfully observes society through its cracks, offering a fresh psychological take.

It took Bogatz seven months to craft his story, much of which he spent refining Timothy’s character as a pseudohuman replica of an Einstein-level scientist. Bogatz created Timothy as “the personification of this problem we have as a modern society where our lives are measured by how much technology we have,” he said. “Timothy is tak taking this to the extreme, showing how we value scientists too much. Scientists, the people who make these technologies that we love so much, and we don’t even value them as people anymore—they become instruments for us to use.”

In addition to novels, UCSB graduate Bogatz writes screenplays, maintains a writing blog, and works as an editor. He is currently writing his next novel, Cavalcade, about a daring love affair in the 1920s and the moral issues raised by the relationship.

Mitchell Bogatz’s writing may be found on his website, mitchellbogatz.com.

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he Kronos Quartet is a superstar of contemporary classical music. During their more than 40 years together, the San Francisco–based group has continually pushed the art of classical music forward, creating the definitive blueprint of what a contemporary string quartet is and should be. As such, any composer who is commissioned to write a piece for the group is guaranteed instant celebrity status. Some of the A-listers who have created works for Kronos include Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Ástor Piazzolla, and Osvaldo Golijov. I recently spoke with group founder and violinist David Harrington.

Before we get to the music stuff, I’m dying to know what you guys do when not playing music. Each one of us is interested in all sorts

of things. For me, I try to stay on top of current events. At home I’m always checking out C-SPAN and MSNBC and exploring the field of music. I’m the most delighted amateur in the world. For me that’s a great deal of fun.

Also trying to learn more about the world of expression, whether it might be scientific, religious, poetic, or theatrical expression. Those kinds of things are very important to me.

For your UCSB program, you’re playing a wide stylistic range, from works by Gregorian chant composer Hildegard von Bingen to Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Silent Cranes. How do you guys prepare such a repertoire? Well, there’s no way

to prepare for a piece like Silent Cranes [a multimedia piece commissioned by Kronos in commemoration of the Armenian genocide centennial]. But actually all the music we play — you use everything you have in terms of the knowledge and experience, and emotional questioning.

The quartet has been committed to performing contemporary works; can you explain your Fifty for the Future project? Over the next

five years, we will be commissioning five women and five men to write pieces. What we’re hoping to do is create a body of work that will allow other musicians right into the center of the world of music that we inhabit — especially young quartet players. They

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That’s cool! I have to say, I’m a sucker for those Piazzolla recordings. Yeah, that was one of

the most astonishing experiences we’ve had, to work with Ástor Piazzolla [the famous Argentine tango composer who wrote Five Tango Sensations for Kronos]. We recorded it in two hours, and we don’t do anything in two hours in a recording studio. The musimusi cal force and intent that he had was so inin credibly strong. It was like a magnet; it was a beast. It shocked all of us; we just sat there and did it. It was amazing.

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Any advice for young quartet artists start starting out? Fifty for the Future will be a good

place to start. In terms of getting a group to together, it takes a lot of single-mindedness. It’s very important to not allow the difficulties of being a musician in our society get you depressed or down, or to somehow subvert your desire to live with the world of music every moment of your life that you can. I commuthink it’s very important to create a commu nity. Something [historian] Howard Zinn told me once: “You can’t do anything by yourself. You need to have a community of people.” It can start with your friends, family, and move on from there.

Another thing is play everywhere you can. When Kronos started in Seattle 1973, I started out as a booking agent — believe it or not. We played in every art gallery, every school, and every ferryboat. Everywhere you can imagine music possibly [being played], Kronos was doing it.

The Kronos Quartet will perform Thursday, November 19, at 7 p.m. at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Call 893-3535 or see artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

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n the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, mambo, swing dancing, and American chainternational ballroom and Latin-dance cha. At our social parties, we set up food and instructor Anastasia Banderovskaya drink so people can come dance and socialize provides opportunities for people of all with each other. Social dance is mostly for ages to learn social and competitive ballroom people who want to have fun and enjoy; they dance through her company, Dance Fever. don’t care about competitions. They just want Banderovskaya began competing in ball- to dance for themselves and for each other. room dance in Russia when she was only 4 years old. In 2014, she moved to Santa Barbara How about the competitive lessons? Our students to share the authentic styles of ballroom dance go to international standard and Americanwithin the community. style competitions for Dance Fever offers lesballroom dance. The sons and training in a competitions are mostly variety of styles, includin L.A.; it’s very popuing ballroom, Latin, and lar there. In our group dance fitness in addition classes, we simply work to social events for stuon ballroom technique. dents.

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by Olivia Davi dancers will take priI recently met up with Banderovskaya at her vate lessons, and we give studio, Santa Barbara Dance Center. On them different choreography based on the display in the lobby were many awards and individual. certificates honoring the company’s performances and instructors. The atmosphere was Where do you draw inspiration for the choreograwarm and friendly, and Banderovskaya was phies? From our hearts. We definitely look at each dancer’s age and skill level and try to thrilled to be there. build choreography for their unique style.

What inspired you to get involved with ballroom Some dancers are very skilled at turns or dance? I was dancing all the time as a child. My have beautiful strong arms, so we will try to mom finally couldn’t handle it anymore and highlight that for them. insisted that I go to a dance studio to dance there. The ballroom studio was the closest to What can people take away from lessons with where I lived. I started going to competitions Dance Fever? For kids, we teach them how to within a year and got first place in interna- be responsible, to represent, to work with a tional standards with my partner, who was a team, and listen. We teach them how to listen year younger than me — I was 4, and he was 3! to music and how to be able to move to it. For adults, it’s very good for health. I’ve learned What is the overall mission of Dance Fever? There recently that ballroom can be beneficial to are two main goals we have. In Santa Barbara, people fighting terminal illness. It can boost not many people know about ballroom danc- their mood and enhance their overall quality ing. Our first goal is to grow the ballroom- of life. dance community in Santa Barbara. Second, …we want to inspire a young generation of What do you want the community to know about dancers and also give adults a space where Dance Fever? A lot of people in Santa Barbara they can enjoy time together learning how don’t really know what ballroom dance is. I to dance. want to tell the community that it’s very elegant, like a waltz for example. The costumes What are your social dance classes like? We offer are beautiful, and ballroom dance is very ballroom dancing for beginners as a way good for your health.You can be any level, any to attract more people. We teach styles like age, and you will still be able to learn.

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The group will perform at the Annual Downtown Holiday Parade on Friday, December 4. For more information, call 929-7174 or see sb.dancefeverstudio.com.

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Good Kids. At SBCC’s Jurkowitz Theatre, Saturday, November 14.

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aomi Iizuka’s play Good Kids, performed by the Theatre Group at SBCC at the Jurkowitz Theatre, is based on the troubling incidents that occurred in 2012 in Steubenville, Ohio, when members of a high school football team sexually assaulted an intoxicated student at a party and shared photos and videos of their acts via social media. The play unfolds like a town-hall debate or an Internet comments section, with a chorus of TRICKY TOPIC: Along with a strong ensemble cast, Toby disparate voices proclaiming and provoking the Roennqvist (far left) and Selina Murdy (second from left) tackle issues at hand, with the few challenging the many the topic of high school rape in SBCC’s production of Good Kids. and vice versa.

The SBCC troupe handles the tricky script very well, with all players delivering great performances. It’s ing under the shield of blameless subjectivity. Much of truly an ensemble show, and pointing out highlights the dialogue is of the most clichéd, common-denomwould be unfair to the group effort. There’s a sense of inator, PSA-after-school-special variety, and it doesn’t shared duty and passion among the cast as they tackle so much provoke a discussion as merely represent one. this tough subject, and their collective performance is By seeming to provocatively trend-hop between every one of courage and thoughtful demonstration, shining hot-topic social issue that these crazy kids of Anywherebeyond the limitations of the often-superficial dialogue. town, U.S.A., engage in on their Twitter devices, Iizuka The ever-excellent Randy Tico, as sound designer, crafts says effectively very little beyond what is already known some powerful soundscapes, such as a crescendo of and moralizes in a cautious, don’t-drink-too-much way. camera clicks, amid the youthful, clubby soundtrack.

It’s too bad the strong troupe’s talents are spent on Patricia L. Frank’s minimal stage design is effective, too, a script that needs improvement, but their efforts are doubling as bleachers and cold, prison-like structures still definitely worth the watch. And, in a way, the script under light designer Francois-Pierre Couture’s colum- works by provoking from its viewers the nuanced points it so lacks. For that, Good Kids is worth your time nar, confessional beams.

The main issues are in the script. Granted, Iizuka and is a good fire starter for refining our discourses and took on a complex subject, but she avoids critical think- actions as a society. n

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Venus laywright Suzan Lori-Parks consistently operates close to the most sensitive nerves of our contemporary American culture. With In the Blood, her riveting revision of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter Letter, Parks took on the complex relations among single mothers, their children, and the social-services workers who both help and exploit them.

In Topdog/Underdog, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2002, she examined the shifting expectations faced

by African-American men to great effect.

Venus, which predates both of those plays, CARNIVAL CRUELTY: Tonea Lolin turns in an excellent, affecting elaborates on the experiences of a histori- performance in the title role of Sarah Baartman in UCSB’s production of Venus. cal figure, Sarah Baartman, a member of the Khoikhoi people of South Africa, a tribe previously Ann Bruice, Lolin was poked, prodded, handled, and known as the Hottentots, and renowned especially in ogled by a chorus of the curious, and dominated and the early 19th century for their propensity to steatopy- degraded by her two main antagonists, Joré Aaron gia, which is the scientific term for having an unusually as the Mother-Showman and Zachary Macias as the large bottom. In 1810, Baartman was brought to Lon- Baron Docteur. While the script is Parks at her most don, where she was exhibited in a freak show. From postmodern and features loads of meta-theatrical there she moved to Paris, where she became first the elements, such as footnotes and even a performance lover and then the experimental subject, postmortem, during the intermission, the UCSB production sucof a French scientist. It’s as grotesque an instance as I ceeded in elevating the humanity of the subject above know of the racist tendencies of 19th-century science any particular message in the method. The trombone, bass, and drums trio that played music composed by to objectify the other.

In Tom Whitaker’s splendidly creative production Jon Nathan lent a powerful sense of urgency to what at UCSB, Tonea Lolin turned in an excellent and affect- was already a brutal story of entrapment on multiple ing performance in the title role. Turned out in a bril- levels. Bravo to the UCSB Department of Theater and n liantly conceived prosthetic suit by costume designer Dance for bringing us this revelatory work.

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by Arianna Irwin thought, Kelley answers, “Like running through a corn maze backwards, naked.” Huber quickly adds that they have “splash areas.” If the two members of the electro indie group are to be believed, the Cherub experience is something truly unique and out of the ordinary.

The Tennessee natives made their debut with the album MoM & DaD, released in 2012. Since then, with the release of their hot single “Doses and Mimosas” and their breakout album Year of the Caprese in 2014, the duo have skyrocketed to fame and popularity. With past and current influences circling an odd mixture of boy bands and heavy metal, the two friends have grown to produce more than out-of-the box synths and mixes. They seem to have simply crushed the box completely.

Now the duo has embarked on its transcontinental So…You DTF? Tour, featuring Hippie Sabotage and Shooka. They aim to come to town this Friday, November 20, when they headline the Earl Warren Showgrounds.

This Santa Barbara show marks a couple of firsts for the pair of producers.

The upcoming show at the showgrounds is the first show they’ve done in Santa Barbara as a headlining standalone act since leading the New Noise 2014 Block Party. Kelley and Huber couldn’t be more excited to be back in Southern California. They are “pumped to get into the [Californian] vibes” and are coming out with “dicks swinging.”

This tour is also Kelley’s and Huber’s first time touring with a live band.

The pair, who has spent the past five years touring as a strong duo, is now part of a four-piece band. The two new members are good friends Jordan Bartlett on keys and guitar and Nick Jordan Kelley (left) and Jason Huber Curtis on drums. Together they are integrating more songs and introducing newer tracks that they’ve never played on tour before.

This addition of two new band members, as well as the rest of the touring crew that comprises 13 hardworking individuals, has sparked its own new set of touring adventures, excitement, and comical stories. While the duo commented that most of the stories shouldn’t be told, they admitted that a few complications arose with the new bandmates.“I wake up and Nick, the drummer, is just in my bed,” Kelley recalls. It seems that Huber has a more serious issue with the add-ons. “JB [Jordan Bartlett] eats all my Pop-Tarts, and it’s not cool,” he said. Not cool, indeed.

Cherub’s music inspires all manner of wild behavior, and a couple of stories Kelley and Huber shared involved passionate fans launching objects up onstage. Laughing, the duo reminisced that once “someone threw a cast on the stage, and we were just like, Are you sure you want to do that?”

The Cherub sound is as individualistic and charming as the people that create it and the kind of live show it produces. Kelley describes it as very particular cuts of steak — yes, the red meat that many a man’s man greatly enjoys — with the music of Cherub having only the most desirable bits of the cow. “We’ve got the fillet and the sirloin … tender and soft,” he said.

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Elverhøj Museum – C. Wood: East to West: The Kimono Series, through Jan. 24, 2016.

1624 Elverhoy Wy., Solvang. 686-1211.

Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – First Long Distance Telephone, Jack N. Mohr: Acrylic paintings, collages, other early works, Lynn Deutch: Antarctica, Kenya, Burma, Galapagos, through Dec. 31.

21 W. Anapamu St., 962-5322.

Museum of Contemporary Art S.B.– Tam Van Tran: Aikido Dream; Michael DeLucia: Appearance Preserving Simplification, through Feb. 21, 2016. 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 – Alexander F. Harmer, through Feb. 8, 2016; 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 – Peter Halley: Geometry of the Absurd Absurd, through Feb. 21, 2016; Cayetano Ferrer: Interventions, through Mar. 13, 2016; Looking In, Looking Out: Latin American Photography Photography, through Mar. 20, 2016; 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 – Edward S. Curtis: Luminous Portraits of American Indian Life, through Jan. 4, 2016.

2559 Puesta del Sol, 682-4711.

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

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

Architectural Foundation Gallery – Nina Warner: Urban Space: The Parks of Santa Barbara, through Nov. 20. 229 E. Victoria St., 965-6307.

Artamo Gallery–Sense of Calm, through Nov. 29. 11 W. Anapamu St., 568-1400.

Arts Fund Gallery–Unintended Consequences, through Dec. 5. 205-C Santa Barbara St., 965-7321.

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

Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts – Chloe Rahimzadeh: Primary Transitions, Nov. 21-Jan. 3, 2016. 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, 646-3381.

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

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S.B. County Administration Bldg., 105 E. Anapamu St. Churchill Jewelers & Gallery –Thomas Van Stein, ongoing. 1015 State St., 962-5815.

Cypress Gallery– Angie Hamlin: The Sky's the Limit, through Nov. 29. 119 E. Cypress Ave., Lompoc, 737-1129.

Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Felice Willat: Lifescapes, through Nov. 28. 1528 State St., 570-2446.

Easton Gallery – Bill Dewey: Waterways, through Dec. 31. 557 Hot Springs Rd., 969-5781.

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Gallery Los Olivos – Sheryl Knight, Linda Mutti, and Gerry Winant, through Nov. 30.

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Goleta Library – GVAA November Art Show, through Nov. 25. 500 N. Fairview Rd., Goleta, 898-9424.

Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery of Art – Sicilian Translucency: Watercolor Paintings of Traveling Artists, through Jan. 1, 2016. 2415 De la Vina St., 687-7444.

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

Leigh Block Gallery – Susan Savage: Given to the Light Light, through Jan. 16, 2016. 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, Ste. 100, 563-8820.

Los Olivos Café – Suzanne Huska: Valley Visions, through Jan. 7, 2016. 2870 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7265.

Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing.

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Marcia Burtt Gallery – Susan Petty, through Nov. 29. 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.

Montecito Aesthetic Institute – Patricia Houghton Clarke & Stuart Carey: MetamorMetamor phographs, through Jan. 5, 2016. 1150 Coast Village Rd., Montecito, 565-5700.

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33 E. Canon Perdido St., 963-0761. sun: 4pm Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall – Music Bldg. 1315, UCSB, 893-3230. thu: UCSB Wind Ensemble (7:30pm) mon: UCSB Chamber Orchestra (7:30pm) Ojai Art Ctr. – Chamber Music Concert. 113 S. Montgomery St., 640-8327. sun: 2pm S.B. Central Library – S.B. Music Club. 40 E. Anapamu St., 617-3401. sat: 3pm

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

Patricia Clarke Studio – ELEGY: Ancestry + Ritual Ritual, through Nov. 28. 410 Palm Ave., A-18, Carpinteria, 381-1758.

Porch –Virginia McCracken, through Dec. 30. 3823 Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria, 684-0300.

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

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

S.B. Tennis Club – Stories, through Dec. 4.

2375 Foothill Rd., 682-4722.

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

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Lockwood de Forest Brass Cutouts, through Dec. 31; Angela Perko: Earthly Delight Delight; American Details, through Jan. 3, 2016. 7 E. Anapamu St., 730-1460. wall space gallery – Aline Smithson: Portrait as Autobiography Autobiography, through Dec. 31.

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he 33 begins and ends with stark facts, broadcast in text. The film opens with one bleak statistic — 12,000 miners die every year in mining accidents — and ends with another: the 33 miners who were trapped in Chile were never compensated. In between is a glowing motivational movie that only lightly touches on these injustices. It’s as if the filmmakers are saying, “There’s way more to this story, but because we’re Hollywood, we can’t tell it that way.”

It’s a movie about hope and endurance against seemingly impossible odds, and as motivational movies go, it’s well done and enjoyable enough, from the admirable acting to cinematographer Checco Varese’s sweeping views of the Atacama Desert, to the lively score from James Horner (rest in peace). The miners are a likable if largely indistinguishable bunch, led by a very charismatic and charged Mario Sepúlveda, played by Antonio Banderas with aplomb aplenty.

There are moments representing real heartwarming humanity, as when we watch Camp Hope swell with visiting holy folk, villagers, and musicians, rallying around the miners’ survival. As the 33 miners’ story is a story now shared by the world, the movie is at its

BURIED ALIVE: Antonio Banderas (left) stars as one of the Chilean miners whose plight is portrayed in The 33.

best when it unites all its diverse players, of all walks, under the rallying cry of hope. There are other notable moments, such as the interesting character wrinkles that subterranean entrapment unearths. One miner suffers addiction withdrawal, while others challenge Sepúlveda’s spotlight-stealing public persona, and there’s a whimsical hallucination scene.

But in trying to touch on every aspect of their plight above and below ground, the depths of their suffering and incredible endurance are not fully explored. The movie feels overlong and bland, akin to a commemorative plaque. The vague concepts of “hope” and “perseverance” are once again the winners, not the miners, who deserve a better movie. Maybe it’s a fool’s errand to mine for more depth from a movie whose chief aims are widespread viewer inspiration and the subsequent box-office profits, but if we continue to rely on heroism clichés alone, then the full truth of these stories will never be told. n

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FIRST LOOKS The 33 (127 mins.; PG-13: a disaster sequence and some language) Reviewed on page 57. Fairview/Fiesta 5 The Peanuts Movie (93 mins.; G) Steve Martino’s The Peanuts Movie hews close to the original strip, but is fashioned out of the bedrock experience of growing-up baby boomers in the heyday between the late 1950s and the early 1970s. But the new movie also proves faithful to the television specials that warmed the holiday hearts of all the generations that followed, and it ties together two time-honored story lines: Charlie Brown’s doomed obsession with the red-haired girl and Snoopy’s elaborate Red Baron fantasies. The Peanuts Movie is more like a lullaby than an adventure. (DJP)

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human friend Spot that go on a dangerous and thrilling adventure in which Arlo confronts his fears and finds out what he’s capable of.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (137 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of violence and action and some thematic material)

Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen in the final installment of the Hunger Games series. Katniss is now the leader of the rebellion pitting the districts against the Capitol.

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The Night Before (101 mins.; R: drug use and language throughout, some strong sexual content, and graphic nudity) Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie star in this comedy about three lifelong friends who meet up in New York City in search of the Holy Grail of Christmas parties — the Nutcracka Ball. Mayhem ensues.

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American Ultra (96 mins.; R: strong

Secret in Their Eyes (111 mins.; PG-13:

bloody violence, language throughout, drug use, and some sexual content)

thematic material involving disturbing violent content, language, and some sexual references)

Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart star in this action/comedy about a stoner who is in fact a secret government agent targeted for extermination.

Mr. Holmes (104 mins.; PG: thematic

A trio of investigators are torn apart when they discover the body of one of their teenage daughters who has been brutally murdered. Thirteen years later, they come upon a clue that leads to the murderer. Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in this mystery thriller.

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Spotlight (128 mins.; R: some language

Fri., Nov. 20, and Mon., Nov. 23, 7pm and 10pm, Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista

The year is 1947, and legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) comes out of retirement to try and solve a 50-year-old cold case.

Sun., Nov. 22, 4:30pm, Matilija Auditorium, 703 El Paseo Rd., Ojai

The Pearl Button (82 mins.; NR) Filmmaker Patricio Guzmán contemplates the sea and its mysteries in this documentary about two buttons found on the ocean floor along Chile’s 2,670 miles of coastline.

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PREMIERES Brooklyn (111 mins.; PG-13: a scene of

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Starring Mark Ruffalo and Michael Keaton, this film tells the true story of the Boston Globe newspaper’s investigation into allegations of abuse by the Catholic Church. The reporting team discovers decades of cover-ups.

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Trumbo (124 mins.; R: language including some sexual references) As the title suggests, this biopic is about Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston), who was blacklisted for his political beliefs during the McCarthy era. Helen Mirren and Diane Lane costar.

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A young Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) immigrates to Brooklyn in the 1950s and quickly gets involved in a romance and happy new life, until her past catches up with her. Based on Colm Tóibín’s novel of the same name.

Paseo Nuevo Creed (132 mins.; PG-13: violence, language, and some sensuality) Sylvester Stallone reprises his role as Rocky Balboa in this new addition to the Rocky series. Now Balboa is retired and training Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan), the son of the late Apollo Creed.

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Victor Frankenstein (109 mins.; PG-13: macabre images, violence, and a sequence of destruction) When scientist Victor Frankenstein goes off the rails experimenting with his groundbreaking research into mortality, it’s up to his protégé Igor Stausman to save him from himself and his creation.

James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in this retelling of the Frankenstein story.

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The Good Dinosaur (100 mins.; PG: peril, action, and thematic elements)

Pixar’s latest tells the story of a young Apatosaurus named Arlo and his trusty

Mozart

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Tom Hanks stars as a U.S. lawyer recruited by the CIA to rescue a pilot being held by the Soviet Union during

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The Intern (121 mins.; PG-13: some suggestive content and brief strong language)

Robert De Niro stars as a widowed retiree who decides to get back into the workforce by becoming an intern at an online fashion site. Anne Hathaway costars.

Plaza de Oro Love the Coopers (106 mins.; PG-13: thematic elements, language, and some sexuality)

The Cooper family gathers for Christmas Eve, and surprising events and unexpected visitors help them rediscover the bonds of family. The all-star cast includes Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Marisa Tomei, and John Goodman.

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Matt Damon stars as an astronaut who becomes stranded on Mars after a storm separates him from his crew. Presumed dead by NASA, he must find a way to signal to them that he is alive.

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My All American (118 mins.; PG: thematic elements, language, and brief partial nudity)

This film by the writer of Hoosiers and Rudy centers on a high school boy, Freddie, whose dream is to play football. He makes the University of Texas team, which revels in recent wins until Freddie suffers an injury.

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As Daniel Craig Bond movies go, this will do. It’s not great like Casino Royale or Skyfall, but it’s still better than anything the post-Connery years threw down. The chase scenes rock: Bond in a Day of the Dead parade or a fallingapart airplane chasing cars across snowy terrain. The plot ties together loose ends of the last three films, sending 007 into super-bad spy lairs up against an archvillain played by Christoph Waltz.

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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Urbandictionary.com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.” It’s related to the Danish term baltre, which means “to romp, tumble, roll, cavort.” I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): You’ve arrived at a crossroads.

From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back toward where you came from. You shouldn’t stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you’ll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms.

Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here?

Here’s your motto: Trust, but verify.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are, and who you will become.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A flyer on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a 9-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message

from Bubby’s owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at gofundme.com to raise the cash. Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby’s well-being.

But I thought, “Shouldn’t I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?” Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “Think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How well do you treat yourself?

What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to self-care. If you’re alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies. Here are two ideas to get you started: (1) Imagine at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself. (2) Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths.

Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

plot in it will be shot.” The preface I’d write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme but might have a similar tone. That’s because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy-dog story with no punch line in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience — to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Normally I charge $270 an hour for the kind of advice I’m about to offer, but I’m giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities.

The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations, and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants. Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

SCORPIO

AQUARIUS

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory. There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women.

Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view.

She says she has “as much sex as possible” before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all but one of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her “the world’s most dominant athlete.”

As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey’s strategy.

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban.

Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don’t scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don’t stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

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(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you were embarking on a 100mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn’t be broken in. They’d be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have.

Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms.

Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves.

Start here: bit.ly/liberateslaves.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s how Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a

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Legals Administer of Estate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: SUSAN DE LAPA NO: 15PR00443 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of SUSAN DE LAPA a/k/a SUSAN DELAPA a/k/a SUSAN V. DE LAPA a/k/a SUSAN V. DELAPA A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: BARCLAY BRANTINGHAM in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): BARCLAY BRANTINGHAM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 12/24/2015 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Probate Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: LAW OFFICE OF JEFF DAUGHERTY 21 E. Canon Perdido Street Suite 305 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 ; (805) 805‑963‑4567.

Published Nov 12, 19, 25 2015.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: NICHOLAS ELIASSOF NO: 15PR00415 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of NICHOLAS ELIASSOF A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: RYAN BRUCE MANN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that (name): RYAN BRUCE MANN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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in the file kept by the court.

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

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 12/17/2015 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, ANACAPA DIVISION located at 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Probate Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Marlea F. Jarrette, JARRETTE & WALMSLEY, LLP 120 El Paseo Santa Barbara, CA 93101 ; (805) 805‑845‑7700.

Published Nov 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Canzelle Family Farm at 4036 Foothill Rd Carpinteria, CA 93013; Lonson Family Farm, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limite Liability Company Signed: Carol‑Anne Lonson, Manager filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2015‑0003080. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Here & There at 121 West De La Guerra St #10 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sandra Jackson McCartney (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sandra McCartney filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003106. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AC Electric at 1320 Carissa Dr. #105 Ventura, CA 93004; Frank W. Gonzalez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Frank W. Gonzales filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003200. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tap To Tee at 115 W Canon Perdido St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Atlas Golf Company LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Gil Varon, Secretary filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 03, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0003157.

Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Goleta School of Ballet at 303 Magnolia Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Lisa Abshere 558 Via Rueda Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lisa Abshere filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0003168. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Star Nails at 5801 Calle Real Suite F Goleta, CA 93117; Sean Nguyen 100 Sumida Gardens Ln #103 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sean Nguyen filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 30, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003127. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Los Amigos Discount Store at 631 West Carrillo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Manuel Ramirez 6871 Buttonwood Lane Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Manuel Ramirez filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0003132.

Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SBFIT, SBFITT at 595 Freehaven Rd Santa Barbara, 93108; Kasey Camacho (same address) Rachel Camacho (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Kasey Camacho filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 27, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2015‑0003084. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mission City DID YOU KNOW Information is Fumigation Santa Barbara at 650 power and content is King? Your Ward Drive Suite I Santa Barbara, doorway to statewide Public Notices, CA 93111; JL Guron Enterprises, California Newspaper Publishers Inc. 77 Manchester Place Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted Association Smart Search Feature. Sign‑up, Enter by a Corporation Signed: Latoya keywords and sit back and let public Guron filed with the County Clerk notices come to you on your mobile, of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, desktop, and tablet. For more 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the information call Cecelia @ (916) 288‑6011 or www.­ Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela capublicnotice.com (Cal‑SCAN) Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0003076.

Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Just Jess Designs at 1265 Mountain View Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Jessica Pelton (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003171. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Yvonne’s Nails Salon at 3528 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Nguyen, Yvonne 7368 Hollister Avenue #1, Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Yvonne Nguyen filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 23, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0003054. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ke‑No Dental Studio at 5370 Hollister Ave #J, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; David Vu, 117 Blackburn PL, Ventura, CA 93004 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003000.

Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Boss at 5404 Hanna Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Shaqur National Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Hossin Shaqur filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002893. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Sierra Property Management at 1035 Santa Barbara St Suite 7 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sierra Property Group, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kevin S Robinson, COO filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003150.

Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Centro Musical De Santa Barbara at 514 N Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Maria Perez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Francisco Anguiano filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002995.

Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Balanced Bookkeeper at 241 Savona Ave Goleta, CA 93117; David Chidester (same address) Rosemary Chidester (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Rosemary Chidester filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0003071. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Aeroz America at 1173 Harbor Hills Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Nigel Fletcher (same address) Craig Stickney (same address) This business is conducted by a Copartners Signed: Craig W. Stickney filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 05, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003176.

Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gizmogeeks, Illume, Illume Web Design & Development at 6650 Picasso Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Andrew Farkash 6591 Seville Apt 5 Goleta, CA 93117; Joe Lee 6650 Rd Apt 6 Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Andrew Farkash filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2015‑0003198. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fantify, Total Sports Media at 345 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Streamtrack, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Michael Hill, CEO filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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: 2015‑0003098.

Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Daze Wine Partners, Whitehair Wine Group, DGD Wine Partners, TWG at 162 Victory Drive Buellton, CA 93427; David Anton Whitehair (same address) Diane Whitehair (same address) Gary Alan Whitehair (same address) This business is conducted by a GeneralPartnership Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 15, 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: 2015‑0002984.

Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Covenant Construction And Cabinetry at 7190 Davenport Rd #108 Goleta, CA 93117; Peter Hoffman (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Peter Hoffman filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 13, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003238. Published: Nov 19, 25.

Dec 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Stollmeyer Technologies at 1040 Cliff Dr. Apt 26 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Marcus Stollmeyer (same address) Richard Stollmeyer 8398 Alta Vista Rd Atascadero, CA 93422 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Marcus Stollmeyer filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0003066. Published: Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Organic Skin Alchemy at 985 Cheltenham Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Rose Chan (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Rose Chan filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003187. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Ethicare at 4583 Camino Del Mirasol Santa Barbara, CA 93110; James M Young (same address) Marcella R Young (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Marcella R. Young filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 13, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003235.

Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Brabra Spa at 3975 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Shelby Brysa McKaig‑Rowe 5693 Encina Road Apt 202 Goleta, CA 93117; Robert James Rowe (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert Rowe filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003202. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CWD Repair at 201 N. Salinas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Richard Venegas (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Richard Venegas filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Andrea Luparella. FBN Number: 2015‑0003249.

Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Newton Inc at 1203 Portesuello Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Christopher Newton (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Christopher Newton filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003218.

Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Maes Center For Natural Health Care at 9 East Mission St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Maes Naturopathic Clinic & Apothecary, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Barbara A. Berger filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003205.

Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rendezvous @ Santa Barbara at 228 W Anapamu St Apt‑K Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Rohit Chakraborty (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Rohit Chakraborty filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 10, 2015.

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003218. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Rock & Dirt at 1451 Orange Grove Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Ian M. Jones (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ian Jones filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003144. Published: Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2015.

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER HERNANDEZ ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV03614 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: JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER HERNANDEZ TO: JUSTIN CHRISTOPHER FLORES 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 Jan 6, 2016 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 Oct 27, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF PATRICK JAMES MURPHY ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV03416 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: PATRICK JAMES MURPHY TO: PATRICK JAMES GORDON 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 Dec 9, 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 Oct 27, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF SUSAN RAE SEIFERT ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV03656 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: SUSAN RAE SEIFERT TO: SUSAN RAE 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 Jan 6, 2016 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 Oct 27, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 12, 19, 25. Dec 3 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JOSEPH MARCUS LOCICERO, aka GIUSEPPE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV03779 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: JOSEPH MARCUS LOCICERO, aka GIUSEPPE LO

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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY Receives, collects and enters claim information into relevant databases and prepares simple reports. Serves as employee liaison to the University’s self‑insurance programs and provides administrative assistance. Supports various components of the programs including general and auto liability, auto physical damage, property, employment liability, business travel and workers’ compensation. Reqs: Demonstrated organizational, interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to handle a high volume of transactions and work with accuracy and efficiency. Ability to prioritize competing demands and handle frequent interruptions.

Accurate data entry and excellent proofreading skills.

Note: Fingerprinting required. $17.83 ‑ $19.01/hr. 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 11/30/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https:// Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150598

ADVANCEMENT SERVICES Responsible for review, input and processing of various gift transactions types made to the UC Regents and the UC Santa Barbara Foundation.

Performs a variety of gift processing related duties including gift batch preparation, gift batch entry, reconciliation of gift batches, preparation of daily deposits, matching gift and matching claims entry. Interfaces with academic departments, constituents of UC Santa Barbara, faculty, administration and matching gift companies to represent the department/University through verbal and written correspondence.

Performs detailed review and accurate data entry of gift related donor biographic information into The UC Santa Barbara Advance System.

Follows all policies, procedures and business rules associated with Advance to accurately input gifts and related biographic information. Attention to detail and accuracy is essential for proper gift receipting, key to donor relations, gift stewardship and critical to reporting of official gift totals to the UC Office of the President. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent.

Knowledge of University policies and procedures related to gift acceptance.

Strong organizational skills and must be highly detail oriented.

Independent judgment, initiative and ability to accurately evaluate and analyze gift documentation and interpret complex policies. Notes:

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Pharmacist Lead

We are looking for an experienced lead Pharmacist with 3+ years’ pharmacist experience and current California Pharmacist license. Must be flexible to work varied days/evening shifts.

We offer competitive salaries and a very comprehensive benefits package which includes relocation assistance and rental assistance. We enjoy outstanding relationships with our nursing and physician colleagues. Our upbeat atmosphere fosters learning, improvements in patient safety and outstanding pharmaceutical care.

DRIVERS – NO EXPERIENCE? Some Please apply on‑line at www.­ or LOTS of experience? Let’s Talk! No cottagehealth.org. matter what stage in your career, it’s time, call Central Refrigerated Home. EOE 888‑ 302‑4618 w w w .­ Nonprofit C e n t r a l Tr u c k D r i v i n g j o b s . c o m (CalSCAN) ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, PROGRAMS (FT) 60K

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Visit the PATH Career Site (http:­ // www.epath.org/site/AboutUs/careers.­ html) to apply online. Search for Job #384 to apply.

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SENIOR STORE­KEEPER

RECREATION Responsible for the successful daily operations of the men’s equipment room and other assigned area of the Robertson Gym complex. Provides equipment, uniforms, supplies and various services to the faculty, staff, Exercise & Sport Sciences and Gaucho Rec classes, intercollegiate teams, Intramurals, Recreation and

Custody Deputy

$27.10 - $33.09/hourly; plus benefits Looking for a rewarding career...

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Is currently accepting applications for Custody Deputy.

Deadline is 5 p.m., on 11/25/14.

To view a job description or to apply online, visit: www.sbsheriff.org/jobopenings The County of Santa Barbara strongly promotes diversity & equality in the workplace.

A career at Cottage Health is an experience in caring for and about the people who call our coastal area of California home. Our not-for-profit health system identifies closely with the communities we serve and has a long tradition of providing area residents with highly personalized, clinically excellent care. Patients aren’t just patients here – they’re neighbors. Be there for them through one of the openings below.

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

Anesthesia Bed Control Coordinator (RN) Cardio/Vascular OR Clinical Manager – Telemetry Clinical Nurse Specialist Clinical Quality Consultant CRN – Surgery Electrophysiology Emergency Psychiatric Infection Control Practitioner Manager – Cardiology Manager – Villa Riviera Med/Surg – Float Pool MICU Neurology/Urology NICU Orthopedics Peds PICU Pulmonary Renal SICU Surgery Surgical Trauma Telemetry

Allied Health • • • • • • • • •

Behavioral Health Clinician Case Manager – SLO Clinic CCRC Family Consultant Chemical Dependency Technician – Per Diem CT Technician Echocardiographer – Per Diem Sonographer – Per Diem Speech Language Pathologist II – Per Diem Surgical Technician I

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Clinical • Personal Care Attendants • Radiology Technician – Per Diem • Telemetry Technician

Non-Clinical

• Medical Receptionist – PISMO BEACH • Organizational Development Consultant/Trainee • Supervisor – Patient Business Services

• Administrative Director – Surgical Services • Assistant to the President • Benefactor Liaison • Catering Set-up – Part-Time • Chaplain – Part-Time • Concierge – Part-Time • Cook – Part-Time • Director – IT Security • Environmental Services Rep • Environmental Services Supervisor • EPIC Clinical Analyst (Optime) • EPIC Clinical Analyst, Sr. (Optime) • Floor Care Rep • Integration Analyst – HIE • Interface Analyst (EPIC) • IT Project Manager • IT Project Manager, Sr. • Manager – Nutrition • Patient Transport Supervisor • Research Analyst & Project Development Specialist • Room Service Server – Temp • Security Officers • Sr. Administrative Assistant • Sr. Graphic Designer • System Support Specialist, Onbase • Systems Support Analyst – Supply Chain

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Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital

• Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com

• Manager – Villa-Riviera (Center Administrator, Assisted Living) • Physical Therapist – Outpatient • Prospective Payment Systems Coordinator • Psychologist (Temporary) • RN – Full-Time

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

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CNC – Nursing Administration CRN – Nursing Administration Patient Financial Counselor – Nights Physical Therapist RN – ICU (Nights) RN – Med/Surg – Nights RN – Post Anesthesia – Per Diem Security Officer

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital • • • •

Endoscopy Technician – Days Manager – Nutrition RN – Emergency – Per Diem RN – Med/Surg – Per Diem

Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories • • • • •

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

• 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, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689. Please apply online at www.cottagehealth.org.

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shAred housing ROOMATE NEEDED to share a two bedroom house with single older quiet gentleman. Preferably older people/person apply. Male/female is ok. Looking for quiet, clean, non smoking, no pets. Parking available.

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Marvin has been waiting patiently for a home of his own for a long time!

He’d really love one for the holidays!

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Meet Winn-Dixie

Winn-Dixie is a sweet girl who only wants a loving family for the holidays! She loves everybody & would make a great addition to your home!

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CICERO TO: JOSEPH LO CICERO 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 Jan 6, 2016 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 Nov 09, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Nov 19, 25. Dec 3, 10 2015.

notice to creditors NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF DEATH OF TRUSTORS, ANTHONY CONTRERAS AND EILEEN T. CONTRERAS SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA In Re: ANTHONY CONTRERAS AND EILEEN T. CONTRERAS, CO‑TRUSTORS OF THE CONTRERAS FAMILY TRUST DATED 10/20/1994 Anne Cogan, successor Trustee of said Trust CASE NO: 15PR00441 NOTICE IS HERBY GIVEN to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above‑named decedents (i.e. Anthony Contreras and Eileen T. Contreas), that all persons having claims against either of said decedents and/or the Trust entitled, The Contreras Family Trust dated 10/20/1994 are requires to file them with the Superior Court, at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, and whose mailing address is P.O. Box 21107, Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, and mail or deliver a copy to Stanley J. Yates, Attorney for the Successor Trustee (i.e. Anne Cogan) of the Contreras Family Trust dated 10/20/19994 wherein said decedents were the trustors of said Trust, at 260 Maple Court, Suite 230, Ventura, CA 93003, within the later of four months after November 5, 2015 (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you. A claim form may be obtained form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail with return receipt requested. Date: October 27, 2015 Stanley J. Yates Attorney At Law 260 Maple Court, Ste. 230 Ventura, CA 93003 State Bar No. 94526 Publised Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

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trustee notice TRUSTEE SALE No. : 00000005209283 Title Order No.: 8545189 FHA/VA/PMI No.: NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 05/01/2007. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & WEISS, LLP, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust Recorded on 05/08/2007 as Instrument No. 2007‑0034034 of official records in the office of the County Recorder of SANTA BARBARA County, State of CALIFORNIA. EXECUTED BY: FLORENCIO ORTIZ AND CONCEPCION DIAZ, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized

by California Civil Code 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States). DATE OF SALE: 11/12/2015* TIME OF SALE: 1:00 PM *PLEASE NOTE: ORIGINAL SALE DATE HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE. PLACE OF SALE: AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1100 ANACAPA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA. STREET ADDRESS and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 5126 EVALITA LANE, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93111 APN#: 065‑100‑016 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property

to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is $621,484.03. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself.

Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property.

You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 916‑939‑0772 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site www.nationwideposting. com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case 00000005209283.

Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.

FOR TRUSTEE SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: NATIONWIDE POSTING & PUBLICATION A DIVISION OF FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY 1180 IRON POINT ROAD, SUITE 100 FOLSOM,

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Mortgage Broker Madness “I

have lots of good friends who have walked away from the business. Got to be too hard.”

Miners? Bomb defusers? NFL quarterbacks?

Nope. Mortgage brokers. The speaker was himself a Santa Barbara mortgage broker, who requested anonymity.

Like everyone who’s not stuck in a mine knows, the easy-money days leading up to 2008 are long gone. In their wake are higher hurdles and tighter restrictions aimed at preventing a return of the meltdown.

That was certainly the case for my friends who recently bought a house in San Roque.

They had great numbers and sought a loan from the same bank with whom they’d had a mortgage for 30 years, never missing a payment. How’d it go?“They put us through the wringer,” they said.

“How Difficult Is It To Get A Mortgage Nowadays?” says a big headline on the Financial Samurai blog of Sam Dogen of San Francisco. “Brutally Difficult And Extremely Painful,” he answers his own question. He then goes through the agonies he faced, despite being a retired Wall Streeter with a healthy income and assets, healthy deferred income, a spotless record of past mortgage payments, etc. In the midst of all that comes this wounded cry:“SHOOT ME NOW!!!!”

Ask the question a few hours south of Sam, here in Santa Barbara, and you might get a different response.

Tougher than ever to get a mortgage?

“Not necessarily,” said Lori Murray, vice president and mortgage lending officer at American Riviera Bank. “We’re doing a lot of loans—great volume.” It can be “more challenging” these days for those who write off significant amounts of income, but for those who show steady paychecks, “the requirements aren’t a lot tougher than pre-2008.”

Murray created the mortgage department at American Riviera three and a half years ago, well after the 2008 crunch, but she’s been in the industry for 25 years. “I’ve been through the ups and downs,” she said. “When I started, the interest rate was 19 percent. Today it’s a lot like making loans in the 1990s and early 2000s.”

What’s new and tricky are the TILARESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rules and forms, prompted by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law. TRID went into effect on October 3 with a goal of simplifying the mortgage process, but it is causing confusion. “It’s a whole new can of worms,” said Murray. “There will be some delays until the industry gets used to it.”

So we have a split so far: one side in mortgage hell, the other not so much. To break the tie, I called in Harlan Green, owner/broker of Bankers Pacific Mortgage in Santa Barbara and, yes, a money/ mortgage columnist.

“Not that bad,” was his verdict. Yes, 2008’s credit bubble burst did create “a lot more rules and regs, what you’d call an overreaction to a horrible event.” So now borrowers have to have more ducks in nice, neat rows. But overall, “A plain vanilla loan should be easy.”

Even so, lenders can be picky in the new era.“Some want to cherry-pick—720 or better on credit score,” Green said.“But it can go down to 620 for FHA, and they’re really cheap, with a 3.25 rebate — large enough to pay for mortgage insurance.”

So the decision leans toward the sunnier side of the mortgage street, at least here in Santa Barbara, except for my friends up in paragraph five. If in doubt, visit a mortgage broker. “It’s still the basic stuff: Verify income, credit, and assets,” Green said. “If it looks good, great—on to the next.” n

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tioned Victorian-style residence was built in approximately 1875 and owned by Wheeler W. Pierce, a gentleman farmer. Little is known about him or his family, other than in 1882, the city assessment records show Pierce owned $50 worth of furniture, a $50 wagon, and $135 in livestock, including a horse, colt, and cow. The cash value of his real estate was placed at $450, with improvements valued at $600.

Of all the grand homes in Santa Barbara to survive since the 1870s, this is one of the very few that was built in excess of 3,500 square feet, spread across a flat, usable corner lot. The majority of the home’s asymmetrical exterior is designed in period siding of the 1870s, known as shiplap vernacular.

This horizontal wood veneer covers the base frame of the home, while the eaves, porches, and rooflines are festooned with varying degrees of decorative tracery and spindlework at virtually every corner, turn, and projection along the façade.

The Pierce family owned the house for nearly 70 years, and the current residents have enjoyed the property for more than 40 years.

Original Owner: Wheeler W. Pierce Year of Construction: 1875 Architect: Unknown Based on information from, among other sources, Survivors; Santa Barbara’s Last Victorians, a publication of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

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by Dennis Allen Ideally the fan switch has a timer or thermostatic-control element for automatic shutoff. Most people who have whole-house fans keep their windows closed from early morning until evening so that cool air inside the house doesn’t escape.

Whole-house fans are most effective in dry climates with cool nights, exactly what we enjoy here on the South Coast. Because they can depressurize a home, an installer must make certain that, if there is an atmospherically vented furnace or water heater in the house, there is no risk of backdrafting—a serious safety issue.

These fans create a big hole in the ceiling, which will leak a lot of heat in winter unless properly sealed. The best solution is to buy a unit with motorized insulated doors. Tamarack Technologies makes the best fans with tight sealing doors. They range in price from $600-$800. This brand’s fans also tend to use less energy and are quieter than other brands.

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he warmer weather we’re experiencing in Santa Barbara this year, with new record highs almost every month, is making many think about how to stay cool in our homes.

Usually the first thought is to get air conditioning. Another option worth considering is the whole-house fan.

This attic-mounted fan exhausts air at night, specifically to cool the house when the heat of the day has passed and the outdoor temperature has dropped enough to feel comfortable — below 75 degrees or, better yet, below 70.

The main advantage of a wholehouse fan over an air conditioner is the energy savings; the fan draws just 10 to 15 percent of the power used by a central air conditioner. (Whole-house fans are intended to be used in homes that are not air-conditioned.) Whole-house fans also cost a fraction of typical air conditioners and are less disruptive to install in an existing home.

In most cases, a whole-house fan is mounted in the attic floor over a central hallway. Once the outdoor air temperature cools down in the evening, the homeowner opens a few downstairs windows (be sure to have the fireplace damper closed) and turns on the fan. The fan pulls air from the hallway and blows it into the attic, and then outside through attic vents.

Since whole-house fans are relatively powerful, they quickly exhaust the hot indoor air, often in as little as an hour, allowing cooler outdoor air to enter through the open windows. Once the house has cooled off, the fan can be turned off and the windows closed.

our water meter is an important conservation tool. It not only measures the amount of water you use, but it can also show you if there is a leak on your property. The City of Santa Barbara has posted a YouTube video (go to youtu.be/elU2QCjCPqg youtu.be/elU2QCjCPqg) that shows you how to read your water meter.

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4145 Creciente Dr. | $21,500,000 beds 6 baths 9 adrienne/steve 805.452.3960

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3111 Padaro Ln. | $13,900,000 beds 5 baths 4 riskin Partners 805.565.8600

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1398 Oak Creek Cyn. Rd. | $13,650,000 1398oakcreekcanyonroad.com riskin Partners 805.565.8600

1664 East Valley Rd. | $13,500,000 beds 7 baths 12 riskin Partners 805.565.8600

660 Hot Springs Rd. | $12,650,000 magnoliaHousemontecito.com tim Walsh 805.259.8808

2220 Bella Vista Dr. | $7,985,000 beds 4 baths 6 Pippa Davis 805.886.0174

630 Stonehouse Ln. | $6,950,000 beds 5 baths 7 riskin/applegate 805.565.8600

2796 Bella Vista Dr. | $5,650,000 beds 4 baths 4 tomi spaw 805.698.7007

36 Hammond Dr. | $5,250,000 beds 4 baths 4 grubb campbell 805.565.8879

975 Mariposa Ln. | $4,995,000 beds 4 baths 4 grubb campbell 805.565.8879

705 Park Ln. | $4,595,000 705Parklane.com riskin Partners 805.565.8600

5840-5844 Casitas Pass Rd. | $4,500,000 beds 5 baths 6 carey/gail 805.689.6262

1045 Cima Linda Ln. | $4,295,000 1045cimalinda.com michelle eskandari 805.637.8061

2885 Hidden Valley Ln. | $3,095,000 beds 4 baths 2 mitchell morehart 805.565.4546

250 Toro Cyn. Rd. | $2,925,000 beds 4 baths 4 mitchell morehart 805.565.4546

7797 Goldfield Ct. | $2,749,000 beds 4 baths 5 alyson spann 805.637.2884

1933 Mission Ridge Rd. | $2,650,000 beds 3 baths 4 John a. sener 805.331.7402

2101 Refugio Rd. | $2,600,000 beds 2 baths 3 elizabeth Wagner 805.895.1467

924 Garden St. “J� | $2,600,000 beds 2 baths 2 Pippa Davis 805.886.0174

401 Chapala St. | $2,550,000 beds 1 baths 2 calcagno & Hamilton 805.896.0876

43 Humphrey Rd. | $2,499,000 beds 2 baths 2 Jackie Walters 805.570.0558

853 Jimeno Rd. | $2,495,000 beds 3 baths 4 tim Walsh 805.259.8808

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1901 Gibraltar Rd. | $2,395,000 beds 3 baths 2 suding//murphy 805.455.5736

4261 Rancho Asoleado Dr. | $1,629,000 beds 4 baths 2.5 louis/susan 805.570.7274

3 Las Alturas Rd. | $1,599,000 beds 4 baths 2 John Bahura 805.680.5175

227 N. Sierra Vista Rd. | $1,525,000 beds 4 baths 2 John a. sener 805.331.7402

2109 Chapala St. | $1,495,000 beds 3 baths 2.5 toni mochi 805.636.9170

1526 East Valley Rd. | $1,485,000 beds 2 baths 2 mitchell morehart 805.565.4546

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754 El Rodeo Rd. | $1,349,000 beds 4 baths 3 louise/sam 805.285.2008

3971 Foothill Rd. | $1,325,000 beds 4 baths 3 cara gamberdella 805.680.3826

1859 Eucalyptus Hill Rd. | $1,315,000 beds 3 baths 2 Kevin & lesley Hall 805.451.9998

811 E. Pedregosa St. #2 | $1,195,000 beds 2 baths 2 chris Kamen 805.390.1571

2519 Emerson St. | $1,175,000 beds 3 baths 2 Jim Witmer 805.448.3921

636 W. Ortega St. | $1,025,000 gorgeous Duplex Kim Dorsey 805.895.2968

401 Chapala St. | $995,000 beds 1 baths 2 calcagno & Hamilton 805.896.0876

641 Por La Mar Cir. “B” | $939,000 beds 2 baths 3 Billy mandarino 805.570.4827

298 Calle Esperanza | $875,000 beds 2 baths 3 tiffany Haller 805.698.6694

3375 Foothill Rd. #933 | $850,000 beds 2 baths 2 susie maybery 805.565.8884

1511 Meadow Cir. | $849,900 beds 4 baths 2 sally/lyla 805.450.0852

4664 Malaga Circle | $795,000 ForteranchsB.com Dianne/Brianna 805.455.6570

1116 N. Milpas St. | $775,000 beds 4 baths 3 Jeff/Julie 805.895.9498

319 W. Valerio St. #3 | $749,000 beds 2 baths 2 cara gamberdella 805.683.7336

121 Juana Maria Ave. | $739,000 beds 3 baths 2 Kelly Knight 805.895.4406

4039 Primavera Rd. #3 | $619,000 beds 2 baths 2 loyd applegate 805.570.4935

1701 Anacapa Street #22 | $595,000 beds 2 baths 2 emily Kellenberger 805.252.2773

1012 Palmetto Way “B” | $549,000 beds 3 baths 2 toby/lynette 805.570.3573

1632 San Andres St. | $479,000 beds 1 baths 1 calcagno & Hamilton 805.896.0876

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$275,000

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$650,000

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$1,010,000

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5380 Paseo oRlanDo

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$840,000

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$259,000

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223 s b st

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$292,000

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1316 e PalMetto ave

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$222,500

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$250,000

11/03/15

707 n FIRst st

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$200,000

11/06/15

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$3,875,000

11/03/15

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$2,880,000

11/02/15

2118 Mount CalvaRY RD

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$620,000

11/03/15

211 W MIssIon st

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$20,500

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$60,000

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1536 loMa st a

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$950,000

11/05/15

719 e HaleY st

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$758,000

11/04/15

233 e gutIeRReZ st

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$530,000

11/06/15

1035 MIRaMonte DR 5

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$518,000

11/02/15

611 W sola st 4

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$927,500

11/06/15

1216 W valeRIo st

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$724,000

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834 KentIa ave

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$650,000

11/02/15

2033 MonteReY st

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$760,000

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224 ReeF Ct

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$850,000

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3643 toRIno DR

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$885,000

11/03/15

3703 CoRDeRo DR

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$1,125,000

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4002 PRIMaveRa RD

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$735,000

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558 el sueno RD

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$2,300,000

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4140 MaRIna DR

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$445,000

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895 CoManCHe ave

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$335,000

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1079 vIa esMeRalDa

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$370,000

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5301 ReDWIlloW DR

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$245,000

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151 vIeW PaRK DR

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$390,000

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226 sHIRleY ln

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$340,000

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4499 sunvIeW DR

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$357,000

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1337 WooDMeRe RD

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tHoMPson goRDon R JR eu

$365,000

11/03/15

3116 s FRostY WaY

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RoDRIgueZ Jesus eu

$500,000

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2406 sanDPIPeR DR

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$325,000

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2034 n laZo WaY

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$358,000

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1718 s CaPItola st

aguIlaR HenRY JR eu

RuIZ aDRIana e ea

$341,000

11/03/15

730 W PRovanCe ave

CPH HaRvest glen llC

long luPe M eu

$405,000

11/02/15

911 W elaIne ave

CPH HaRvest glen llC

RassCH KaRen

$454,000

11/02/15

917 W elaIne ave

gRaCIan oRlanDo

gonZaleZ valente s eu

$350,000

11/03/15

727 e sunset ave

RoDRIgueZ MaRgaRIta

RoDRIgueZ MaRgaRIta ea

$91,500

11/04/15

1419 sageWooD DR

WIKstRoM laRs D ea

loCKHaRt DanIel J eu

$785,000

11/03/15

1187 DeeR tRaIl ln

HugHes CYntHIa s tRustee

oglesbY eDgaR W eu

$1,616,500

10/27/15

1283 HIgHlanD RD

bRaun MaRY J tRustee

nla loMPoC llC

$425,000

11/06/15

1413 n H st

MaRtIn DoneY l eu

PHIllIPs RanDal e ea

$191,000

11/06/15

583 sunbeaM RD

gHan steFan eu

o'bRIen natHan M eu

$289,000

11/06/15

3492 vIa baRba

FIeRCe eaRl J tRustee

Malone JulIan C eu

$292,500

11/03/15

4004 ConstellatIon RD

bReauX Fl & CM 2011 tRust

FRenCH bRanDY eu

$328,000

11/02/15

4033 PolaRIs ave

bass JaMes M tRustee

lassell JoHn D tRustee

$378,000

11/05/15

4124 Club House RD

WagneR saRaH

WIttMan loRI D ea

$380,000

11/05/15

210 aRCHbRIaR Ct

RICHaRDs, t ColIn

MeRZ CHRIstoPHeR e eu

$600,000

11/05/15

590 sYCaMoRe DR

RoMeRo JaMIe

ealanD JoHn W eu

$320,000

11/05/15

330 WICKenDen st

vasQueZ Manuel a

gueRReRo MaRY l ea

$113,000

11/02/15

334 e gRant st

gIllIes DonalD R eu

oRtega Jesus s eu

$280,000

11/06/15

408 e CReston st

banK oF neW YoRK Mellon

FReeMan tIMotHY tRustee

$135,000

11/06/15

1700 n lYnne DR 46

WalKeR FRanCes a

MoRRIs sPenCeR eu

$320,000

11/06/15

1206 KeYstone ln

DebeRnaRDI RobeRt s

RaMos Juan C eu

$225,000

11/03/15

1529 eDIe Ct

lIbeRatoRe KennetH R eu

goRDIllo JosHua D eu

$345,000

11/05/15

519 e el nIDo Ct

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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Address: 1211 Harbor Hills Drive Status: On the market

many bedrooms, artfully disguised behind a mirrored doorway.

If one has to leave the house, this closet would make prep time enjoyable, too.

Continuing through the upper level, a gleaming kitchen leads to an equally enchanting dining room, and I believe there are two fireplaces.

I have to admit, however, that I didn’t pay as much attention to the details of the house as I should have. It’s beautiful; I simply kept getting sucked out to that view. The living room has vaulted ceilings and two balconies, which both overlook the pool, distracting me once again.

There are trellised patios that feel like sitting rooms off of both the upper and lower levels, focusing on the freshwater pool and spa, complete with a cabana and an outdoor fireplace. It looks and feels like a luxury resort. Coffee in the morning as you watch the dolphins or wine in the evening as the sun goes down would be daily delights from this private mountaintop perch.

I had to tear myself away from this home and its view because it was time to take Scout for a walk. Luckily for Scout, I’m not in the market right now, so we’ll keep enjoying the beach up close and personal, which already feels like a dream every day. But if I woke up to this view laid out before me in a picture-perfect expanse, I certainly wouldn’t complain.

1211 Harbor Hills Drive is currently for sale in Santa Barbara, listed by Kellie Roche and Randy Freed of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. Reach Kellie at 705-5334 or Randy at 895-1799.

Santa barbara county SaleS unInCoRPoRateD

Seller

buyer

price

date

addreSS

JennIngs RobeRt P

$1,430,000

11/02/15

2258 s bRoaDWaY

MeYeRs MICHael a eu

$336,500

11/06/15

2339 s Cottage ln

MonteCIto eXCHange C

Monte CRIsto bloCK III llC

$1,050,000

11/06/15

5594 HaMIlton ln

bRuHn JoHn C tRustee

Clenet alaIn tRustee

$850,000

11/03/15

1634 elM ave

JoHnson eMIlY P tRust

HolZHeu's el RanCHo MaRKet InC

$420,500

11/06/15

2143 RebIlD DR

snYDeR noRMan e tRustee

Magallanes MaRCus ea

$475,000

11/06/15

718 HIllsIDe DR

RaDDue nanCY l tRust

PebleY DavID D eu

$309,000

11/02/15

317 FIFtH st C

FlItsCH lIse J

gaRCIa guaDaluPe s eu

$260,000

10/29/15

511 e CHuRCH st

stuaRt D sCott tRustee

CIsneRos FutuRe llC

$2,600,000

10/30/15

1940 Douglas ave

FettIg Paul g eu

FReDRICH tIMotHY l eu

$325,000

10/30/15

1529 anDReWs ave

gRanaDos JulIan t

PoWeRs MattHeW R eu

$355,000

10/30/15

509 s X st

HeIDeRICH angelICa eu

veRRoCo tHoMas M eu

$378,000

10/28/15

2400 PoInt sal looP

PoWeRs MattHeW eu

tolIs alvaRo

$262,500

10/30/15

3622 vIa oRIlla

Hansen DaRYl eu

Jones tReveR J

$453,500

10/30/15

4624 tItan ave

MuRPHY bRIan C eu

JaMes baRbaRa l

$510,000

10/30/15

3339 sHePHeRD DR

WeRtMan, stuaRt R

ReDHeaD CaRol K

$480,000

10/30/15

2302 MaRavIlla

boHl, CHuCK

MontgoMeRY MontY a

$550,000

10/29/15

3082 MesQuIte ln

DeutsCHe banK nat tRust Co

eagle vIsta eQuItIes llC

$380,500

10/29/15

736 MeRCuRY ave

CoMbs euCHRIstoPHeR M

CoRDova Jose

$205,000

10/30/15

3800 CassInI CIR unIt 2

HaMes WIllIaM g tRustee

PlIeR geRalD tRustee

$685,000

10/29/15

2551 avena RD

lunDeRgReen JosePH a eu

Montelongo saMuel eu

$310,000

10/30/15

612 n tentH st

MCgoWan bRuCe eu

MCgoWan MattHeW b eu

$106,500

10/30/15

262 RIveRvIeW DR

abeYseKeRa, HeMantHa KaMal

sHueY DanIel e tRustee

$362,000

10/29/15

615 CentRal ave 3

loPeZ MICHael a eu

MaRtYn JulIanne Z eu

$323,500

10/29/15

502 e taFt st

CRuZ-MaRtIneZ IsMael R eu

saveDRa letICIa ea

$220,500

10/30/15

1622 PaCIFIC gRove Pl

CHeatWooD RobeRt ea

vaRgas vanessa ea

$212,000

10/30/15

319 n ConCoRD ave

aPoDaCa aaRon l eu

sanCHeZ luIs eu

$400,000

10/28/15

1940 HInes ln

tRan vInH H

MaXWell MICHael K eu

$530,000

10/30/15

2717 s santa baRbaRa DR

sHIn Jeong-gYun eu

ReYes RYan eu

$320,000

10/30/15

1921 n evelYn Ct

augeR sallY tRust

CaMP JoHn J tRust

$540,000

10/28/15

244 WIlloW DR

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Price: $3,500,000

the channel, and a huge expanse of coastline encompassing all of Santa Barbara and beyond in both directions. Not quite 360 degrees but well over 180, it’s simply breathtaking. I think my jaw literally dropped. The house is perfectly perched on its lot, with nothing obstructing the awesome vista, which promises sunrises, sunsets, and everything in between.

I walked out the French doors from the living room to the balcony and found myself standing on what I knew would be my favorite part of the house: a romantic curving stairway that leads from the upstairs patio down to the pool, with the view as the backdrop every step of the way.

I could have remained outside the entire day, but it was the house itself that I had come to see. Back inside, I toured through the lower level first. It holds three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a family room. I thought I was walking through the master bedroom suite when I saw the beautiful tub in one of the bathrooms downstairs, but the actual master-bedroom suite upstairs made me realize my error when I saw its bathroom with a huge sunken marble tub and dual-head shower.

The gorgeous master bedroom has plantation-shuttered windows along one entire wall to take full advantage of the spectacular view and a walk-in closet bigger than

by Sarah Sinclair

independent real estate

’m a beach walker. My dog, Scout, is the lucky recipient of, and my primary excuse for, a couple of long walks on the beach just about every day. Hendry’s and the harbor are my usual haunts, but I’ll drive to Haskell’s or Hammonds if I have the time. My friends joke that they don’t need to move from their couches — they can enjoy Santa Barbara sunsets and scenery just by following my Instagram feed.

My first thought when I pulled up to 1211 Harbor Hills Drive and saw the view was, “Wow. If I lived here, I wouldn’t ever need to leave home again.” This beautiful Mediterranean home is located at the end of a cul-de-sac on the side of a hill at the top of the Mesa. As I parked my car, I enjoyed a sneak preview of the view before I even went into the house.

Once through the front door, I realized that the street view paled in comparison to what awaited me from within. My attention was drawn straight through the living room to the panoramic view of the islands,

make myself at home

OPEN HOUSES Carpinteria 4527 Carpinteria Avenue #A, 2BD/3BA, Sun 12-3, $565,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258

1482 Eucalyptus Street, 4BD/2BA, Sun 12-2, $750,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Dale Sundell 805-895-2064 3375 Foothill Road #933, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-3, $850,000, Village Properties, Susie Maybery 805-684-3415 178 Serafin Street, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $925,000, Sotheby’s, Ted Quackenbush 805637-1782 3375 Foothill Road #1114, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,200,000, Coldwell Banker, Gloria Carmichael 805-896-6567

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3246 Beach Club Road, 4BD/4BA, $13,888,000, Sun 1-4, The Agency, Jackie Smith 213-494-7736 3111 Padaro Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $13,900,000, Village Properties, Pamela Regan 805-895-2760

Downtown Santa Barbara 2525 State Street #12, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $599,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bill Urbany 805-331-0248

1116 North Milpas, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $775,000, Village Properties, Tiare Barels 805680-6816 316 West Pedregosa Street, 2BD/1BA, Sun 1-4, $785,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258

349 Northgate Drive #D, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $579,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jarrod Shively 805-714-5114

62 Olive Mill Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,439,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Brooke Ebner 805-453-7071

4747 Camino Del Rey, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $655,000, Coldwell Banker, Patty Colman 805689-6517

227 Sierra Vista, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,525,000, Village Properties, John A. Sener 805-331-7402

331 Santa Rosalia, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-3:30, $799,000, Village Properties, Leann Wood 805-284-7177 Carol Frazzano 805-8958094

925 El Rancho Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $1,788,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Heather Martineau 805-231-3558

284 Coronado Drive, 4BD/2BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-4, $819,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Brett Buschbom 805-451-9108 6427 Camino Viviente, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $834,900, J. Rockcliff Realtors, Ross Harris 805886-2264 7755 Jenna Drive, 4BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $839,000, Village Properties, Kathy Henry 805637-4400 5068 San Julio Avenue, 3BD/2BA, Sat 12-4 Sun 12-3, $879,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Hristo Hristov 805-284-8471 Christopher Smith 805-351-2474 5004 Caire Circle, 5BD/3BA, Sun By Appt., $949,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jason Streatfeild Team 805-969-1122 4901 La Ramada Street, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $964,000, Coldwell Banker, Jeani HansenBurke 805-451-1429 20 Baker Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sun 12-3, $999,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Hristo Hristov 805-284-8471

Hope Ranch

2415 Chapala Street, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $960,000, Coldwell Banker, Jeani Hansen-Burke 805-451-1429

1037 Estrella Drive, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $2,600,000, Village Properties, Carla Reeves 805-689-7343 Andy Katsev 805-896-2010

1417 Olive Street Unit B, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $1,015,000, Sotheby’s, Sandy Lipowski 805-403-3844

835 Puente Drive, 5BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $2,975,000, Village Properties, Brian King 805452-0471

401 Chapala Unit 222, 1BD/1.5BA, Sun 11-4, $1,250,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-770-5300

4178 Creciente Drive, 4BR/3BA, Sun 1-4, $3,995,000, Stones Real Estate, Team Eric and Mary 805-682-6090

401 Chapala Unit 312, 1BD/2BA, Sun 11-4, $1,275,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-770-5300

The Mesa

401 Chapala Unit 305, 1BD/1.5BA, Sun 11-4, $1,325,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-770-5300 401 Chapala Unit 302, 1BD/2BD, Sun 11-4, $1,425,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-770-5300 18 West Victoria Street #204, 1BD/2BA, Sat BY APPT Sun 12-4, $1,465,000, Village Properties, Gail Cooley 805-689-7767 2109 Chapala Street, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 1-3, $1,495,000, Village Properties, Deb Archambault 805-455-2966 401 Chapala Unit 403, 2BD/2BA, Sun 11-4, $2,135,000, Village Properties, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-770-5300 18 West Victoria Street #308, 2BD/3BA, Sat BY APPT Sun 12-4, $2,600,000, Village Properties, Gail Cooley 805-689-7767 924 Garden Street #J, 2BD/2BA, BY APPT 1-4 PM, $2,600,000, Village Properties, Pippa Davis 805-886-0174

Eastside Santa Barbara 333 Old Mill Road #327, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-5 Sun 1-5, $479,000, Century 21 Hometown, Joyce Johnson 805-448-5621

1116 North Milpas, 4BD/3BA, Sat 2-4, $775,000, Village Properties, Farideh Farinpour 805-708-3617

Goleta 216 Moreton Bay Lane Unit 5, 2BD/1.5BA, Sat By Appt. Sun 2-4, $432,000, Sotheby’s, Mike Pearl 805-637-6888 Gail Pearl 805-6379595 218 Entrance Road #5, 2BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 2-4, $505,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jarrod Shively 805-714-5114 Jan Banister 805-4551194

Saturday 11/21 & Sunday 11/22

222 Mesa Lane, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $959,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Mimi Greenberg 805-570-9585

821 Weldon Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,079,000, Mike Richardson Realtors, Mike Richardson 805-963-1704 920 Calle Malaga, 3BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 1-4, $1,195,000, Coldwell Banker, Kirk G. Hodson 805-886-6527 1269 Mountain View, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,199,000, Village Properties, Easton Konn 818-919-6020 122 Skyline Circle, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,449,000, Mike Richardson Realtors, Mike Richardson 805-963-1704 239 Cordova Drive, 4BD/2.5, Sun 12-3, $1,549,000, Village Properties, Leslie McFadden 805-252-4541 1642 Shoreline Drive, 3BD/3BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $1,995,000, Sotheby’s, Gene Archambault 805-455-1190

Mission Canyon 876 Windsor Way, 3BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $1,075,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jason S. Ebin 805-364-3070

2985 Glen Albyn Drive, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,195,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ricardo Munoz 805-895-8725 2825 Foothill Road, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-3, $1,200,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Alan M. Chierici 805-680-0501

Montecito 1220 Coast Village Road Unit 110, 3BD/2BA, Sun By Appt., $1,069,000, Sotheby’s, Frank Abatemarco 805-450-7477

546 San Ysidro Road #B, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,350,000, Coldwell Banker, Holly McKenna 805-570-2314

462 Toro Canyon Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $2,395,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Joe Stubbins 805-729-0778 43 Humphrey Road, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $2,499,000, Village Properties, Marilyn Moore 805-689-0507 309 Avila Way, 5BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $2,695,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Phoebe Alexiades 805-455-6999 2775 East Valley Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-3, $2,795,000, Sotheby’s, Jenny Hall 805705-7125 2885 Hidden Valley Lane, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $3,095,000, Village Properties, Mitch Morehart 805-689 7233 352 East Mountain Drive, 3BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $3,199,000, Sotheby’s, Frank Hotchkiss 805-403-0668 1424 East Valley Road, 3BD/3BA, Sat 1-4, $3,200,000, Reeves & Associates, Jeff Reeves 805-689-2058 2700 Torito Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $3,200,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Tim Dahl 805-886-2211 1103 Camino Viejo, 4BD/5BA, Sun 2-4, $3,795,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Taylor Toner 805-451-4801 266 Santa Rosa Lane, 3BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $3,990,000, Sotheby’s, Debbie Lee 805637-7588 777 Lilac Drive, 4BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $4,250,000, Coldwell Banker, Steve Slavin 805-886-3428 1385 Oak Creek Canyon Road , Lot/Land,

By Appt., $4,950,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Joe Stubbins 805-729-0778 975 Mariposa, 4BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $4,995,000, Village Properties, Natalie Grubb 805-895-6226 1709 Overlook Lane, 5BD/4.5BA, Sun 2-4, $5,250,000, Sotheby’s, Frank Abatemarco 805450-7477 549 Hot Springs Road, 7BD/6BA, Sun 1-3, $5,295,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Barbara Neary 805-698-8980 923 Buena Vista Drive, 6BD/6.5BA, Sun

By Appt., $5,495,000, Sotheby’s, Frank Abatemarco 805-450-7477 1098 Golf Road, 5BD/4.5BA, Sun 1-3, $5,750,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Tara Toner 805-451-4999 1525 Las Tunas Road, 5BD/7.5BA, Sun 1-4, $6,950,000, Coldwell Banker, Andrew Templeton 805-895-6029 1850 Jelinda Drive, 5BD/8BA, Sun By Appt., $7,950,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jason Streatfeild Team 805-969-1122 2220 Bella Vista Drive, 4BD/5BA, Sun 1-4, $7,995,000, Village Properties, Pate and Davis 805-886-0174

Noleta 1045 Ocean View Lane, 5BD/5.5BA, Sun 1-3, $1,450,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer 805-680-4622

Riviera 814 Paseo Alicante, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-3, $959,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Thomas Schultheis 805-729-2802

49 Cedar Lane, 3BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 1-4, $1,250,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Josalyn Burcham 805-335-0385 Andy Madrid 805-4521456

85 Canon View Drive, 3+BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-4, $1,350,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Paul Hurst 805-680-8216 Jessica Stovall 805698-9416 112 Eucalyptus Hill Circle, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,375,000, Village Properties, Christopher W. Hunt 805-453-3407 139 Loma Media Road, 2BD/2.5BA, Sat 11-4 Sun 11-4, $1,385,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Isaiah J. Polstra 805-722-5085 150 Eucalyptus Hill Circle, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,550,000, Village Properties, Mary Lu Edick 805-452-3258 1836 Hillcrest Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $1,599,000, Village Properties, Christina Ruelas 805-452-9931 1545 Knoll Circle Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,750,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Michele White 805-452-7515 2320 Sycamore Canyon Road, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,795,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Joyce Enright 805-570-1360 151 La Vista Grande, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,895,000, Sotheby’s, Marilyn Rickard 805452-8284 1554 Knoll Circle Drive, 3BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,895,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bryan R. Uhrig 805-331-3191 1994 Sycamore Canyon Road, 5BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $1,975,000, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258 1746 Prospect Avenue, 3BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,995,000, Village Properties, Priscilla Bedolla 805 680 7146 1010 Roble Lane, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $2,249,000, Sotheby’s, Linda Brown “Brownie” 805-666-9090 1933 Mission Ridge, 3BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $2,650,000, Village Properties, R Wayne Barker 805-637-2948 2220 Santiago Road, 4BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $2,995,000, Coldwell Banker, Michael Phillips 805-969-4569 2211 Mount Calvary Road, 5BD/6.5BA, Sun By Appt., $9,995,000, Sotheby’s, Paula Goodwin 805-451-5699

Samarkand 2641 State Street #W3, Sun 1-4, 3BD/2BA, $655,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, Stu Morse 805-705-0161

2834 Serena Road, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $1,150,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Gordon Hardey & Marilyn Wankum 805-455-1607

San Roque 2740 Miradero Drive, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $729,000, Village Properties, Marcella Simmons 805-680-9981

616 Calle De Los Amigos, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $815,000, Sotheby’s, Daniela Johnson 805-453-4555 3960 Camellia Lane, 3BD/2BA, Sun By Appt. $849,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Steve Heller 805-252-2749 42 Calle Capistrano, 3BD/2BA , Sun 1-3 Sat 1-3, $895,000, Sotheby’s, Ed Kaleugher 805963-1391 Stephanie Wilson 805-895-3270 28 West Calle Crespis, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $935,000, Coldwell Banker, Arielle Assur 805-906-0194 310 Stevens Road, 4BD/2BA (Duplex), Sat 2-4 Sun 12-3, $950,000, Keller Williams Realty, Ruth Ann Bowe Real Estate Team 805-698-0351

30 West Calle Crepis, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $965,000, Coldwell Banker, Arielle Assur 805906-0194 3971 Foothill Road, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,325,000, Village Properties, Cara Gamberdella 805-680-3826 3933 Foothill Road, 4BD/2BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 2-4, $1,149,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Christopher Smith 805-351-2474 Josalyn Burcham 805-335-0385

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riviera Rising out of Santa Barbara’s Eastside is this neighborhood that gives the region its “American Riviera” tagline. An undulating series of ridges covered in houses with the best views in the world, the Riviera is almost entirely residential, save for the legendary, and recently remodeled, El Encanto hotel and restaurant and the office complex that surrounds the Riviera Theatre. Because of the city and ocean views, the properties tend to be costly and rise in price with their elevation, but a number of houses requiring TLC hit the market each year and can spell a great deal.

Area highlights

retired couples, and those willing to pay extra money for outstanding views.

Market: Single-family homes, often with

grannie units, usually with views from the deck that go forever.

Lifestyle: For those who love looking at

the twinkling lights of a cityscape but don’t necessarily want to live in the heart of it.

Fourth of July, enjoying the sunset from

Perfect For: Those who appreciate the

value of views over lot size.

Around the Area Rising out of Santa Barbara’s flatter Eastside neighborhood, the Riviera is a mostly residential ridge that stretches from the Santa Barbara Mission down to Sycamore Canyon. There is one commercial hub, home to an office park, the Riviera Theatre, and the legendary and recently remodeled El Encanto hotel and restaurant. Once Santa Barbara’s streetcar held tightly to cables that ran the length of Alameda Padre Serra, and there are still many tiny stairways that connect this neighborhood.

The view is the Riviera’s main attraction, and most homes feature a deck that overlooks the Channel Islands, Pacific Ocean, and cityscape of Santa Barbara, from the shoreline all the way to Hope Ranch. Property lots tend to be tight and steep, but the homes are designed—some by world-class architects—to emphasize the views. The prices tend to get higher as you climb in

520 Vista Vallejo, 3BD /1.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,295,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Marguerite Taylor 805-705-0957 1354 Rialto Lane, 5BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $1,474,900, Berkshire Hathaway, Madhu Khemani 805-252-0625 612 Calle Granada, 3BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,595,000, Village Properties, Vickie Craig 805-708-2468 3132 Calle Mariposa, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1:30-4, $1,649,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Robert Johnson 805-705-1606

Summerland 498 Toro Canyon Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 12-3, $1,497,500, Coastal Properties, Gary Goldberg 805-969-1258

2210 Calle Culebra, 3BD/3BA, Sun 12-3, $1,850,000, Sotheby’s, Jason Siemens 805455-1165 2631 Freesia Drive, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-3, $2,050,000, Sotheby’s, Dick Mires 805-6897771

Upper East Santa Barbara 1426 Laguna Street #4, 1BD/1.5BA, Sat 12-2, $699,000, Village Properties, Lynda Bohnett 805 637 6407

1125 Waldron Avenue, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-3, $995,000, Sotheby’s, Karen Strickland 805-455-3226 34 East Pedregosa Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,350,000, Berkshire Hathaway, John Comin 805-689-3078

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2109 Chapala Street, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 2-4, $1,495,000, Sotheby’s, Deb Archambault 805455-2966

363 Terrace Court, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $579,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Rhoda Johnson 805-705-8707

2807 Gaviota Street, 4BD/3BA, BY APPT, $1,175,000, Village Properties, Nancy Rizzo 805-403-2700

2025 Garden Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,750,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer 805-680-4622

285 Shaw Street, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-3, $599,000, Village Properties, Connie Meynet 805-680-6001

1695 Monarch Drive, 3BD/4BA, Sun 12-3, $3,175,000, Village Properties, Michelle Glaus 805-452-0446

1746 Prospect Avenue, 2BD/3.5BA, Sat 1-3, $1,995,000, Village Properties, Marcella Simmons 805-680-9981

428 Dove Canyon Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $615,000, Village Properties, Connie Meynet 805-680-6001

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2414 Santa Barbara Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $2,295,000, Berkshire Hathaway, SiBelle Israel 805-896-4218

3321 Camino Arroyo, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-3, $669,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Suzy Ealand 805-698-9902

333 Old Mill Rd #327, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-5, $479,000, J.L. Comstock & Assoc. Inc, Jeff Comstock 805-218-5567

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Eastside, from countless taco shops and numerous grocery stores to wine tasting rooms and art galleries. The beach, Montecito’s Coast Village Road, and Santa Barbara’s State Street are just a few minutes further away, making the Riviera one of the most convenient yet iconic places to live in the region. n

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elevation, yet there are a number of fixerupper properties that hit the market annually and could be amazing opportunities to remodel into dream homes.

There are a number of pocket parks to enjoy the sunset, and everything one needs can be found just down the hill along Milpas Street on Santa Barbara’s

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You’ll Love: Watching fireworks on the

Franceschi Park, sipping a martini at the El Encanto bar, and grubbing on excellent Mexican food just down the hill on Milpas Street.

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542 Cliffrose Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $695,000, Village Properties, Patty Armor 805350-4038

1225 Rebecca Lane #J, 2BD/1.5BA, Sun 1-4, $499,500, Coldwell Banker, Jessie Sessions 805-709-0904 319 Ladera Street #2, 2BD/2BA, Sun By Appt., $674,900, Berkshire Hathaway, Jason Streatfeild Team 805-969-1122

1609 Mountain Avenue, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $725,000, Keller Williams Realty, Robert Looney 805-450-0962 1123 Manitou Road, 4BD/3BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $1,595,000, Sotheby’s, Alex Rouffaer 805451-0023

Santa Ynez Valley 1021 West Lime Avenue, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-3:30, $335,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bunny DeLorie 805-570-9181

394 Freear Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $399,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Todd McChesney 805-291-7902 357 Calor Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sat 10-12, $499,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Suzy Ealand 805-698-9902

1139 Cota Street, 4BD /2BA, Sun 12-3, $739,000, Berkshire Hathaway, David Macbeth 805-689-4178 197 Manzanita Drive, 5BD/4BA, Sun 1-3, $775,000, Ranch & Country RE Services, Randy Stone 805-252-6087 2485 Park Street, 2BD/1.5BA, Sun 1-3, $777,777, Sotheby’s, Laura Drammer 805-4487500 1893 Ringsted Drive, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 12-3, $809,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Marlene Macbeth 805-689-2738

8151 Sunstone Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $639,000, Trusted Real Estate Enterprises (T.R.E.E.), Danny Belitski 805-804-7091 135 Wormwood Street, 3BD/3BA, Sat 1-3, $794,000, Revive Real Estate Group, Mark R Tasch 818-264-9148 145 Wormwood Street, 4BD/3.5BA, Sat 1-3, $819,000, Revive Real Estate Group, Mark R Tasch 818-264-9148 1251 Via Cielito, Lot/Land, Sun By Appt., $1,200,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jason Streatfeild Team 805-969-1122 3059 Seaview Avenue, 3BD/3BA, Sat 11-2, $2,840,000, Santa Barbara Estates, Christopher A Page 805-284-8422

620 Foxen Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $839,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Suzy Ealand 805-698-9902 1889 Ringsted Drive, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $895,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Glynnis Mullenary 805-705-5206 3173 Samantha Drive, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 12-3, $899,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Carole Colone 805-708-2580

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