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On Monday, under seasonably gray and chilly skies, the much-heralded 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP21) got underway in Paris with hopes of forging a binding international treaty targeting the wholesale reduction of global CO2 emissions. World leaders were there for the pomp-and-circumstance-rich opening ceremonies, including President Barack Obama (pictured), all grins when posing for a “family photo” with the leaders of 150 or so nations, an unprecedented attendance record for the annual two-week gathering. The day-to-day action is being reported at independent.com by our team in Paris: Ethan Stewart, Catherine Gautier-Downes, and Kodiak Greenwood. — Ethan Stewart

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In their place, St. George hopes to create a legacy project he calls “Playa Mariposa” — Spanish for “Butterfly Beach”— which he described as “full service, high amenity, livelearn student housing.” In addition to the pods and clusters of dorm rooms, St. George is proposing to build a dining hall, café, mini mart, fitness center, playroom, and movie theater. Tenants will not be allowed to own cars, but their transportation needs will be served by Zipcars, ride shares, and bike shares. The complex will feature its own quasijudicial system to handle noncompliant behavior issues. The plans — still very much on the drawing boards — boast inclusion of two new roundabouts designed to slow traffic on Cliff Drive while creating far more hospitable entrances into the City College campuses. All this, St. George estimates, will cost about $100 million to build. And, yes, he acknowledged, he stands to make gobs of dough. But really, he insisted, it’s all about “creating a sense of community” among new generations of students who’ve come of age knowing nothing but their cyber cocoons. The need, he said, is urgent. pau l we llm a n

wo nearly life-size crucifixes community capable of housing up to 1,500 sprout off the walls of the Holy students. By contrast, less than one-third that Cross parish auditorium, located number now occupy the 97 units that comat the heart of Santa Barbara’s pose St. George’s recently refurbished Beach Mesa neighborhood, and devel- City, a much spruced-up incarnation of what oper Ed St. George might well have thought had long been the accessibly dumpy Harbor he’d been nailed to one himself after a room- Heights Apartments. ful of unruly, rambunctious, and decidedly dubious Mesa residents got through expressing their many doubts about his intentions late Monday evening. But St. George, 59, was hardly fazed.“I get the emotion,” he declared. “I love it.” In person, St. George has almost as much self-confidence as he does money, which is to say a lot. During his 30 years as a big-time Isla Vista landlord, St. George managed to make enough to pay $34 million in cash to buy a cluster of seven apartment buildings last year at the intersection of Cliff Drive and Loma Alta Street on the Mesa. Now he wants to convert this holding — located on seven acres wedged between the east and west camMan on Mission: Ed St. George takes development puses of Santa Barbara City Colplans to hostile neighbors. lege — into a self-contained dorm

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Michigan resident Ratan Lamichhane, 66, died after he was hit by a downtown MTD trolley on 11/23. Police said Lamichhane was walking northbound on the sidewalk of Anacapa Street with two family members while the trolley traveled southbound. Shortly before he reached the Sola Street intersection, Lamichhane ran across the road close to the approaching trolley. Although the driver tried to brake in time, Lamichhane was hit and died from a head injury at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. In the early afternoon of 12/1, city police responded to the 1000 block of Olive Street near Santa Barbara High School, where a man in his twenties suffered a stab wound to the abdomen. The male suspect remains at large, and it is unclear if the two men knew each other or if the incident is gang related, police said. The victim remains in stable condition.

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Sheriff’s deputies on 11/21 arrested a former SBCC student wanted on charges of theft and burglary. Mackenzie Long, 21, was taken into custody at a party in Isla Vista. The Sheriff’s Office had issued a public notice four days earlier that Long had recently passed a bad $20,000 check to buy a car and that she was involved in a home burglary in Isla Vista. Long’s Facebook photos were distributed to the media, and detectives asked those with information on her alleged crimes to contact their tip line. Diane Pizzi, a former clerk at Sansum Clinic, filed a lawsuit alleging one of her supervisors at the clinic’s Pesetas Lane campus manually falsified her time cards, effectively denying her compensation for overtime work. Pizzi’s attorney, Bruce Anticouni, estimated this “systematic scheme of wage abuse” cost his client about $2,700. He also estimated as many as 500 other Sansum employees could have been similarly denied full compensation and is seeking to pursue a class-action lawsuit against the largest medical provider on the South Coast. Jill Fonte, spokesperson for Sansum, declined to comment on the allegations before reviewing the legal papers, stating only, “I can assure you that we do take paying overtime and appropriate wages very seriously.” Cathy Neushul, a former head coach of women’s water polo at UCSB, is suing the UC Regents for discrimination and retaliation, alleging she was demoted after she complained to school officials that her team was shortchanged funding in favor of the men’s squad. Neushul’s whistleblower lawsuit was filed on 9/19 under the color of federal Title IX protections, which mandate equal treatment of men’s and women’s sports teams at public schools. She’s asking for her job back and damages for lost wages. Neushul is represented by Sonya Mehta with East Bay law firm Siegel & Yee, which specializes in Title IX cases.

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Gov. Jerry Brown recently appointed Raimundo J. Montes de Oca as a Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge. Montes de Oca, 67, who lives in Carpinteria, will fill the seat of former judge Frank Ochoa, who retired earlier this year. Since 1979, Montes de Oca has worked in the county’s Public Defender’s Office, serving as public defender for the last four years. Montes de Oca, whose annual salary will be $189,041, is registered without party preference.

CIty SBCC dignitaries broke ground 12/2 on a new West Campus building project that will house offices and 23 classrooms. Located next to the bus loop and Garvin Theatre, the approximately 30,000-square-foot structure will consist of a three-story east wing and a two-story west wing connected by a pedestrian bridge. The $22.2 million project, the last to be partially funded with Measure V bond money, as well as SBCC funds, will be completed in 2018 and will replace aging portable classrooms at the site, SBCC spokesperson Joan Galvan said.

A network of indigenous-language interpreters, a group seeking to strengthen restorative justice, a coalition of Lompoc residents, environmental attorneys pushing to stop the Phillip 66 oil trains, progressive government watchdogs, and an LGBTQ group at Westmont College were among those who received grants this week from the Fund for Santa Barbara. At the Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Center, a large crowd cheered the Fund — now in its 35th year — as it awarded more than $300,000 in grants to community organizations. “We couldn’t accomplish any of this alone,” said Marcos Vargas, who became the Fund’s executive director earlier this year.

COuNty The proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary seeks to eliminate off off-shore drilling and acoustic testing while bolstering tourism and scientific research, including the preservation of now-submerged 10,000-year-old tribal sites off Point Conception. As proposed, the sanctuary would cover 140 shoreline miles between Gaviota and Cambria, and stretch seaward cont’d page 11 

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The Airbnb nightmare to end all nightmares unfolded on the Central Coast this summer when the owner of an Ojai mansion was duped into renting to a New York adult film star who used the 1920s home to film hardcore gay porn and left it strewn with sexual devices and bodily fluids, according to a lawsuit filed this week. “I thought I was unshockable,” said Santa Barbara attorney Lacy Taylor, representing homeowner Kristina Knapic. “This is beyond a little semen in the bed.” In August, a woman named “Anna” contacted Knapic and said she wanted to rent the $1,095-a-night property for five days for a “quick summer vacation,” the lawsuit states. Anna, however, turned out to be gay porn actor/director/ producer Andrei Treivas, who goes by the screen name Michael Lucas and who allegedly spent the week filming scenes with men “urinating on each other and giving each other enemas,” the complaint reads. “These activities were not being conducted in a bathroom, but rather on beds, Ojai’s Acacia Mansion and Andrei Treivas floors, and furniture.” When Knapic returned to the property — which is routinely rented for weddings, family vacations, and other events — she found urine, semen, and fecal matter on linens, carpets, upholstery, walls, ceilings, and in the hot tub, Taylor claimed, explaining her client used a black light to identify soiled items and areas. “The whole place glowed,” she said. Knapic also discovered Treivas’s business card in the home, and when she Googled his name, she was shocked to find clips and images of her home on his website and Facebook page. The lawsuit is asking for more than $100,000 in damages. For his part, Treivas said, there is no basis whatsoever to Knapic’s claims. Treivas said Knapic stayed in the property’s guesthouse during his visit, and if there was “any activity which would have resulted in the damage she is now alleging, it would have been evident.” If the house was trashed, he went on, someone else is to blame. “Without a DNA test, there is no way to show from whom the fluids came, what the fluids are, or when the stains were made,” he stated. Treivas also alleged the house came equipped with a fully furnished “sex dungeon,” and that the property had clearly been used for kinky sex parties in the past. Taylor laughed off Treivas’s counter-claims. “Absolutely false,” she said. “He’s just trying to hurt [Knapic’s] reputation.” Taylor said she’s heard similar instances of porn production companies staging in Ventura and Santa Barbara rentals after Los Angeles passed a law mandating condoms on set. Airbnb released a statement on Knapic’s complaint, which says, “We have zero tolerance for this type of behavior in our community, and we have permanently banned these guests from Airbnb.” — Tyler Hayden

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Clear-Cut: Catherine Epperson of Parks Land & Cattle Co. walks by water-starved avocado trees that have been stumped and painted white to protect them from sunburn.

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atherine Epperson, co-owner of Parks Land & Cattle Co., the most productive avocado operation in the county, cannot remember a shorter harvest or a time when the future was more uncertain. The fruit was small because of the drought, the picking season ended three months early in record summer heat, and the ranch in Las Varas Canyon lost several hundred thousand dollars, Epperson said. On top of that, they’ve been hit with $135,000 in drought surcharges from the Goleta Water District since July 1. Epperson’s not counting on a bailout from El Niño storms. If Lake Cachuma goes dry next year, she said, the ranch could run out of water—if it doesn’t run out of money first. As it is, she’s cut back the trees to stumps on 100 acres, taking a third of the ranch out of production — twice as much as planned. “Two thousand fifteen has been a very ugly year,” Epperson said. “This is like the worst ever. The surcharge is making water pretty much unaffordable.” Parks Land & Cattle and 21 other ranches between Glen Annie and Las Varas canyons on the Gaviota Coast form the backbone of the county’s $60 million avocado industry. Much of their fruit goes to S.B. markets. In dry weather, they rely heavily on cheap water from Cachuma, which comes to them through a pipeline called the West Conduit. Now, the surcharge has tripled the cost of their lake water, and Cachuma is at nearrecord lows. This Tuesday, the Goleta water board will consider a new ordinance regulating suspensions of Cachuma water to the Gaviota Coast. “It’s a sad situation we’re in now,” said Frank Alegria, who coordinates the South Coast avocado harvest for Calavo Growers, Inc. “Our water’s more expensive in Goleta than anywhere else in the state for avocados.” District officials note that the ranchers could have started cutting back on their water independent.com

use sooner. The district’s 87,000 urban customers are among the thriftiest in the state, but as a group, the West Conduit ranchers have increased their water use during every year of the drought except this one. “We’ve always said, ‘You can pay less if you use less,’” said Ryan Drake, district water supply and conservation manager. “Once we adopted the surcharge, then they achieved the reduction.” In August, Goleta-area farmers and ranchers filed a lawsuit, demanding that the district reimburse them for the surcharge. But Drake said the surcharge was necessary because district revenues have plummeted as residents conserved. Between July 1-October 31, the district collected $4.4 million in drought surcharges, including $628,000 from the 22 ranchers on the West Conduit. “I would not say they’re treated unfairly,” Drake said. “The surcharge is uniform across all customers.” The faster the ranchers use up their water, the sooner their supply could be “interrupted,” Drake said. Unlike 135 farmers operating within the urban Goleta area, the ranchers on the West Conduit do not receive groundwater or state aqueduct water from the district. Surcharges aside, they pay rock-bottom water rates—less than a third of the lowest rate for urban residents — in part because their Cachuma water is not fully treated. “They always said they want the lowest rate possible, and what comes with that is interruptibility,” Drake said. “Our remaining supply is a finite supply … There isn’t water for them to continue business as usual. It isn’t realistic.” The district is helping ranchers by pumping groundwater around the clock for its urban customers, extending the Cachuma supply, Drake said. “We do value agriculture,” he said.“We’re not just saying,‘Tough luck.’ ” Some ranchers on the West Conduit have their own wells — Epperson, for example, recently refurbished six that have been dor-

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Not buying any of it is longtime Loma Alta Street resident Sue Mellor. She described St. George as “a good-looking dude” and “utterly charming.” She also said he was “utterly unconvincing.” Mellor is leading the backlash against St. George and took her case to the Mesa Neighborhood Association Monday night, drawing a packed house. City College has already grown too big for the neighborhood, Mellor charged, drawing students from out of state and around the world. Too often, she complained, she is woken up at 2 a.m. by the howling hilarity of drunken students winding their way up Loma Alta Drive. Her mailbox has been smashed. Since St. George bought Harbor Heights, she said, the problem has not gotten better. By adding 1,000 more students away from home for the very first time, it would get only worse. St. George, she charged, would create an Isla Vista annex on the Mesa. Based on many of the comments from the crowd—many delivered by way of interruption and catcall—Mellor is far from alone in her fears. Also in the audience was City College President, Lori Gaskin, who, when asked to respond to several questions, proved almost as fervent about her sense of mission as St. George was in his. Contrary to popular misconception, she stated, City College enrollments have dropped 7.5 percent in the past five years and plunged another 5.5 percent this year. City colleges, she stated, are legally required to accept any applica-

tions from state residents; 63 percent of the school’s current enrollment — nearly 13,000 —hailed from the tri counties; 43 percent of high school graduates from Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria attended City College. But under hostile questioning, it would turn out that figure translated to about 800 students. By contrast, roughly 1,400 are international students, and another 1,200 come from out of state. With such figures in mind, more than one member of the crowd would demand,“Who are we serving?” For St. George, the answer is simple. The students, he said, are already here. They need housing. Many will find their way into what he described as “Animal Houses,” home to six to 10 unsupervised students crowding into single-family homes and disturbing the peace throughout the Mesa. Or, he said, they could find supervised housing in his Playa Mariposa.“Let me finish, let me finish, let me finish,” he said in response to multiple critical interruptions. He praised the crowd’s intensity, adding, “I’m here. I’m listening.” When it’s over, he promised, “I want something to be under the tree for everybody.” To date, no plans have been submitted to City Hall for review. That’s expected to take place early next year. To accommodate St. George’s proposal, the City Council must first approve a zoning change, a new conditional-use permit, and a coastal development permit. The California Coastal Commission has to sign off on it, as well. n

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number of trees in their orchards. Water use that exceeded the allocations was billed at four to 10 times the highest rate. There were no districtwide surcharges. “Rather than do something that was going to put farmers completely out of business, we said,‘This is how much water you have to keep your orchard alive sCorChed: Catherine Epperson shows leaves affected by until it rains again,’” said “tip burn” caused by high soil salinity. Kevin Walsh, a former Goleta Water District mant since 1991—but the water tends to be engineer who now serves on the Santa salty and less than optimal for trees. For their Ynez water district Board of Trustees.“They homes, the ranchers get free bottled drink- understood and lived within it and came out ing water, at a cost to the district of about of the drought just fine.” $35,000 yearly. Alegria believes allocations would have Epperson said Parks Land & Cattle had been preferable this time to blanketing all achieved a water savings of 45 percent, users with a surcharge. “Now, even if they going well beyond district targets. The dis- conserve, they’re spending more,” he said. trict failed to plan for an extensive drought, But Drake said the allocation system was she said. “too inequitable: In the last drought, it was a “I believe the district’s mentality was,‘The universal thumbs-down.” drought’s going to go away: It won’t last more “We don’t want to tell them how to run than three years,’ ” Epperson said. their business,” he said.“They’ve been through During the last drought, from 1987-1991, this before, and we saw a lot of the same the district gave each customer a water allo- issues and struggles. Then the rains came cation: For ranchers, it was based on the back, and they were operating again.” n

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Johnny DeWitt, a 49-year-old Santa Maria resident, collapsed Thanksgiving morning in County Jail and died an hour later at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Officials said he experienced an undisclosed “medical emergency.” DeWitt had been booked 23 times since 1986 on various charges, according to Sheriff’s spokesperson Kelly Hoover, and he reportedly suffered from a number of medical problems. DeWitt had been housed in the medical dorm since September 28, the date he was last incarcerated. Citing HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), Hoover declined to provide details on his medical condition. The coroner’s report is expected to be available late next week. In September, DeWitt was arrested by the Santa Maria Police Department on charges of violent threats, unlawful possession of ammunition, and drugs. He is survived by a daughter who lives in Santa Maria. DeWitt is the sixth county inmate to die in custody since 2011. In June, 52-year-old Raymond Herrera died of internal bleeding from a ruptured spleen due to cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis C, according to a coroner’s report. Last month, his daughter, Sharayah Herrera, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Sheriff’s department and Corizon Health, Inc., the correctional health care company that came under fire this year during its contract renewal process. The suit alleges jail personnel failed to provide Herrera with requested medications, including anti-seizure pills. The day he died, Herrera appeared to suffer a seizure after his legs started flailing and he said he could not breath. Herrera resisted responding deputies, who handcuffed him and transported him to the hospital, where he died, the coroner’s report states. Sharayah Herrera’s lawsuit contends the Sheriff’s Office has “knowingly maintained and tolerated longstanding and systemic deficiencies in the Santa Barbara County Jail’s provision of medical treatment to inmates.” The jail has “inadequate medical staffing” and “procedures that did not provide a minimum standard of medical treatment,” it alleges. Hoover declined to — Kelsey Brugger comment on the pending litigation.

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to include the nutrient-rich upwelling along the Santa Lucia Bank, covering about 10,000 square miles in all. The proposal does not designate further regulation of harbors or fishing. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is hosting a town hall on the proposal on 1/6/16 in Morro Bay. Girls Inc. has opened a Teen Center at its Hollister Avenue location and is now serving 7th- through 9th-grade girls. The new space will offer organized athletic, artistic, and academic programming specifically catered to the interests and skills of young women in middle school and high school. Until recently, Girls Inc. served kindergarten through 8thgrade students at two different locations in Santa Barbara County. The organization also hopes to expand its services to girls all the way through 12th grade. All Erik Talkin wants for Christmas is a twoacre site zoned for industrial or commercial use with parking space for 30 vehicles near Highway 101. The county Foodbank CEO said this week the prolific nonprofit must turn away 2.2 million pounds of food — enough to feed 20,000 families — each year because its Hollister Avenue facility is too small and does not have a loading dock. In March, the Foodbank re-upped its five-year lease with the county, which owns the land. In July, the Foodbank proposed to expand the facility, but the county rejected the application, citing the fact the site has been zoned “recreation” since the 1980s.

BuSINESS Venoco Inc. reported earlier this month a net loss of $203.3 million for the third quarter of 2015 compared to a $39.5 million net loss during the third quarter last year. The Denver-based oil company, which has regional offices in Carpinteria, made less revenue last quarter this year — $11.2 million — than it did in the same time period in 2014 — $57.9

million. This drop, Venoco stated, is primarily because it sold its Oxnard facility — the West Montalvo Oil Field — for $200 million and is also due to a drop in oil prices. The Refugio Oil Spill shut down Platform Holly, which also contributed to the revenue loss. At an 11/24 hearing, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved the bankrupt Haggen grocery chain’s sale of three stores in Santa Barbara County to Albertsons and Sprouts Farmers Markets. That means Albertsons will open shop at Haggen’s 163 South Turnpike Road location in Goleta and 1500 North “H” Street location in Lompoc. Sprouts will move into Goleta’s Fairview Shopping Center. On 12/4, the court will review Roxy’s Market and Café’s bid on the Mesa location. Michael Lawler, coowner of the mom-and-pop grocery store, said there are “still quite a few hurdles to get through” before he can count on opening shop in Santa Barbara.

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¿Qué Pasa, El Niño? Dissecting the Excitement of the Winter Weather Event by E t h a N S t E Wa r t

‘And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.’

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

f we had an inch of rain for every sensationalistic headline written about this year’s El Niño, the drought would already be over. But hype is cheap, and rain, unfortunately, is still rare. So what of this much ballyhooed weather phenomenon? Will soaking storms return to the South Coast, or are we once again fated for a winter of drizzle? With our reservoirs nearing their lowest levels ever, this question is critical to life itself in Santa Barbara. Take a look around you—none of it happens without water.

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In and of itself, El Niño does not equal rain. In fact, for places like southern Africa and Central America, it often spells drought. That being said, a persistent presence of warm eastern Pacific water changes the weather flow for North America in such a way that rainstorms, though not necessarily bigger, are more frequent in Southern California. “Basically, El Niño makes it easier for storms to travel in a certain area over and over again,” explained Di Liberto.

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By now you’ve likely heard the showy figures being tossed around by the traditionally reserved National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In its mid-November El Niño update, the federal agency declared with 95 percent probability that the currently unfolding El Niño will be “very strong” through this upcoming winter. More to the point, NOAA has ventured with 60 percent likelihood that this will translate into “greater than average” rainfall for Southern California. It may not seem like much, but that 60 percent claim is a big, big number when it comes to such things. As Tom Di Liberto, a meteorologist with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, told me last week,“This is a strong event, and it is still strengthening. We don’t see this often. So far, month in and month out, it just keeps growing.”

Sounds good, right? But what does it actually mean? Well, first understand that the term El Niño describes a variety of weather factors occurring in concert with one another. In normal years, prevailing Pacific Ocean winds blow west from the coast of South America, moving warm, near-shore surface water out to sea and allowing colder, deeper waters to rise up and replace it. The Pacific plays a paramount role in the world’s weather patterns, and this conveyor-belt-like dance of wind and water is a big part of that. However, during El Niño years, these equatorial winds significantly slow and, in extreme cases (such as this year), even begin to blow in the opposite direction on occasion. This results in the warm water staying put, continuing to heat, and sometimes being reinforced by even warmer waters to the west. Waters need to average at least a 0.5 degree Celsius increase over a three-month period to earn the El Niño label. Right now, they are running as much as 3.4°C above average in some places. Similar readings have been approached only once in the last 65 years, during the infamously wet El Niño winter of 1997-98. “When it is all said and done, we expect this to be a top three [El Niño event],” summed up Di Liberto.“It could very well be the strongest one ever recorded.”

HEATING UP: This image shows how much warmer sea surface temperatures are now compared to the average from 1981-2010. Red patches along the equator signal this year’s El Niño will pack quite a punch.

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Take a look at the wettest years for any town in our county —the El Niño winters of 1997-98 and 1982-83 weigh in as either number one or number two on their respective lists. In fact, according to NOAA, there have been six “very strong” El Niños since they started tracking them in 1950, and all of those have equaled Top 10 annual rain totals for Santa Barbara and the surrounding areas. The pinnacle came in 1997-98 when just shy of 47 inches of rain fell in Santa Barbara, the most measured in 116 years, and nearly three times our annual average. In February alone of that season, Santa Barbara enjoyed six distinct rainstorms and 14 days of rain. “What we have seen play out this summer and fall in terms of temperature rise and winds is very similar to what we saw in ’97,” said Nathan Cool, a weather and surf forecaster for Surfing Magazine and Wavecast.com. “But it is important to remember, no two El Niños are alike.” A software engineer for three decades, Cool has been bringing those skills to bear in the weather world for the past 20, often making his own models and running numbers based off NOAA’s raw data. “I would be quite surprised at this point if we have another dry winter here in Southern California. There is really nothing working against us on the charts at this time,” offered Cool before adding knowingly, “Of course, this is an imperfect science. We still can’t predict the weather a week out let alone a few months out, so there is no such thing as a guarantee. But I would say this is the next best thing.”

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The summer-esque days of October assured us that even if November and December prove historically cold, 2015 will go down as Earth’s hottest year on record. This, of course, comes after 2014 earned the same distinction. Here in Southern California, we are wrapping up our fourth year of drought and our four driest consecutive years on record, a fact that has Santa Barbara County’s lynchpin reservoir —Lake Cachuma—at 15.4 percent of capacity, just barely above its all-time low in the early 1990s. While levels are not historically low based on numbers (e.g., water heights along the sides of the reservoirs), when you consider sediment infill and vastly reduced consumption habits, current readings are markedly lower in actuality than any time before. “Unfortunately, no one El Niño will end our drought.” explained Jon Frye, Santa Barbara County’s Flood Control and Water Management engineering manager.“There really isn’t one magic number for rainfall this winter that would get us out of it. Even the wettest winter ever wouldn’t do that.” That being said, the expectations are high and, by all accounts, rightfully so. Even Frye and his team, informed by intel from the National Weather Service and NOAA, have been lobbying property owners since July to consider flood insurance and prepping couty infrastructure for the worst. So what exactly can we expect? “Sadly, historical patterns are no guarantee for what we can expect in the future,” said John Lindsey, a former U.S. Navy marine meteorologist and longtime weather forecaster based out of Los Osos. According to Lindsey and others, there are a variety of variables at play that may work to enhance or derail our clear and present El Niño. After all, it was just last year at this time when we heard bullish forecasts for an El Niño winter only to have it fall apart after a wetter than normal December. One such factor is known as “The Blob,” a weird region of warm water in and around the Gulf of Alaska. This meander-

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ing mass has been more or less a constant in recent years, throwing off seasonal weather swings and helping support a “ridiculously resilient ridge” of high pressure to the south and east. It is this ridge that has worked as a blocker of sorts for would-be rainmakers trying to find their way down the coast, and there has been much speculation about what would happen should a robust El Niño square off with a firmly entrenched Blob. Perhaps, as some of the fearmongering has gone, the ridge would prevent a proper El Niño from delivering snow and rain. However, to hear Lindsey tell it, that fear is no longer necessary. “That blob is officially gone,” said Lindsey.“The [water] cooling has been quite remarkable in that region as of late.” Its absence, or at least steady retreat, is evidenced by the recent run of more traditional fall weather along the Central Coast, complete with Santa Ana winds, near-weekly weather fronts skirting our region, and early season snow in the Sierras.

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With sea surface readings expected to peak near the equator sometime in December, Lindsey, echoing similar sentiments from NOAA forecasters, thinks we will start to see the effects of El Niño shortly after its namesake holiday. (El Niño is actually in reference to the “Christ Child” because its associated warm waters in South America typically come around Christmas). “I think we will see the southern branch of the polar jet [stream] drop down by the early days of January,” speculated Lindsey,“and the storms shouldn’t be too far behind that.”

WHEN INVESTING, WE REMOVE THE VAGARIES OF EMOTION. Interestingly enough, Lindsey, who worked closely with the late weather wizard Rea Strange, recalls a similar “dry” period in the lead-up to the 1997-98 El Niño when everybody, himself included, thought they had overshot their mark in forecasting a big winter. “It was January, and we were still below normal,” he said. “And then it happened — the jet dropped, and we had almost a year’s worth of rain in the month of February alone, followed by a very wet March, as well.” But it isn’t so much what he sees on the charts right now that has Lindsey thinking we are in for a doozy this winter. It is more a simple matter of history. Pointing to a database at Cal Poly that goes back to 1870, Lindsey explained, “We have never before had four consecutive years of drought in this part of the world, at least in modern times. Based on that, my gut is telling me it is going to be a wet one. “I mean, if we do have a fifth year, it will signal a fundamental paradigm change,” he said.“All the rules about what is possible and what is impossible would have to be rewritn ten.”

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gone the last word as well as the spoils. Even so, the way history chooses to remember Manuel Micheltorena, the onetime California governor after whom a key crosstown Santa Barbara arterial was named, borders on gratuitous indignity. To the extent Micheltorena — a governor during the last flicker of Mexican rule in the 1840s—is famous for anything, it’s a raging case of hemorrhoids so painful he couldn’t ride his horse off into battle. Instead, he was forced to lay perched on his side atop a covered carriage. The battle in question took place at the Cahuenga Pass, where Micheltorena was defeated by a crew of insurrectionists backed by influential Yankee meddlers who had not yet set about taking over the entire state. At the time, Micheltorena was on his way to chase the Yankee intruders out of Monterey. His failure to make it that far —let alone purge the Yankees—is portrayed as the last gasp of Mexican rule and, somewhat self-servingly, the inevitable necessity of the subsequent American takeover. Given the inexperienced ragtag crew under Micheltorena’s command — from whom the term cholo derives — it’s doubtful the governor’s infamous ’rrhoid rage had any bearing on the battle’s outcome. Still, the tale persists. What should be remembered about that battle instead was how Micheltorena figured out the probable outcome before wasting any human life and ceded the field. At most, only a few

donkeys perished. Given the contemporary insistence on heroic futility and maximum body parts, there’s much to be learned from Micheltorena’s approach. All this useless ephemera came rushing intrusively to mind Monday evening as I attended a community workshop on plans to create five much-needed blocks of new green-striped bike lanes along both sides of Micheltorena Street. It should be acknowledged I have both a dog in this hunt and an axe to grind. As an unreconstructed bipedal supremacist, I tend to be rabidly knee-jerk when it comes to bike lanes, “Anywhere and everywhere” being my motto on the matter. And as a daily bicycle commuter, I ride up and down the wonderfully round rump of the Micheltorena Street Bridge twice a day, to and from work. To one side lies the infinity of the ocean; to the other, the infinity of the freeway. All these years it has yet to get old. City transportation planners and bicycle advocates contend the proposed Micheltorena Street bike lane will provide a critically needed missing link to City Hall’s antiquated bicycle master plan by creating a safer, more hospitable crosstown route that will entice many of the would-be cyclists out of their cars and onto their bikes. And it turns out that Westside residents bike to work at nearly twice the rate of city residents as a whole, 12 percent as opposed to 6.1 percent. And there’s no alternate route; Mission Street is a death

trap, and Carrillo Street’s a suicide run. So

what’s the catch? To build the new bike lanes, about 100 spaces of on-street parking need to be sacrificed. For businesses and residents who’ve come to rely on that parking, that’s a very emotional issue. Consequently, city transportation planners Rob Dayton and Peter Brown were feeling a lot more heat than love from the 65 people who showed up Monday evening. What about all my elderly patients in wheelchairs? demanded one doctor. Are you trying to put us out of businesses? demanded several others. You’re killing me, declared the owner of La Bamba Market. “What are you going to do with all the cars you’re going to displace?” boomed the owner of Alberto’s Beauty Salon. “Is your answer that you have no answer?”When Dayton suggested limited city streets might best be used to move vehicles along rather than merely storing them, he got little purchase. When he suggested trade-offs might be involved, they demanded, “Trade-offs for what?” Tough crowd. I happen to subscribe to the if-you-buildit-they-will-come theory when it comes to bike lanes. This holds new bike lanes actually reduce parking demand citywide by getting more motorists out of their cars and onto their bikes, magically resulting in a net increase of available on-street parking. These benefits, however, tend to be generalized, citywide, and accrue gradually over time. By contrast, the pain inflicted by eliminating 100 spaces is intensely localized and very immediate. In the area in question, all on-street parking spaces

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are claimed by neighborhood residents come nightfall; there are zero vacancies. Should the plan go through, people living nearby will discover competition for on-street parking just jumped to survival-of-the-fittest mode. There is, however, an alternative. Earlymorning cyclists pouring down the Micheltorena Street Bridge on their way to work can —and do—turn right on Castillo Street, a one-way street with a wonderful bike lane. From there, they can dogleg onto Sola Street to cut across town. And Sola, the traffic planners tell us, can be converted into an inviting bicycle boulevard without removing any onstreet parking. But that would be way more expensive. That’s because, they say, they’d have to install traffic lights at De la Vina and Chapala streets so cyclists could safely cross. But do they really? I’ve been crossing those streets on my bike every day for the past 15 years with no ill effect. As a rider, I tend to be both reckless and very slow, typically not a healthy combination. That I’ve managed to survive multiple street crossings so many years suggests they may not be so dangerous as to require stoplights. I agree the Micheltorena Street proposal is more elegant, direct, and visible. But the street’s namesake, the former governor with hemorrhoids, highlights the higher wisdom in sidestepping fights that can otherwise be avoided. Those who don’t learn from such history are doomed not only to repeat it but to be inflicted with a bad case of the ’rrhoids, as well. And it’s almost impossible to get far on a bike with those. — Nick Welsh

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One of the “GREATEST GENERATIONS,” Ugo D. Arnoldi passed away from pneumonia and dementia Tuesday November 24, 2015, at Mission Terrace, where he was known as Pajarito (Song Bird) or Papa. He was born March 15, 1925 in Santa Barbara. He was the son of Giuseppe “Joe” and Ilda Arnoldi, who are both deceased. Ugo grew up on the Eastside of Santa Barbara. He went to Franklin Elementary School, Santa Barbara Junior High School and Santa Barbara High School, Class of 1944. Ugo played on the Dons football team and also on the Dons track team. During the meet in 1943, the lanky ace hurdler garnered the 120-yard high hurdles and the 120yard low hurdles in respectable times and went on to take the hopskip-jump event with a leap of 39 feet, 6 inches. He then ran the 440yard relay. That day he took two first places and a point and a half for winning the relay. Ugo was the Track Athlete of the Year for Santa Barbara High School in 1943. Ugo was drafted into the United States Army on June 9, 1943, during World War II just two weeks before he was to graduate from high school. His first assignment upon landing in France was a machine gunner in the back of reconnaissance jeep. He recalled the breaking out of Normandy also on the front lines of the Battle of the Bulge. He was under the direction of General George S. Patton, Third Army 2nd Calvary; they were known as “The Ghost of Patton’s Army.” Ugo was discharged January 10, 1946, from Fort MacArthur as a corporal. Ugo was a life member of Santa Barbara Elks #613, Bricklayers & Allied Craft Workers Local No. 4 and Amvets of California. Ugo loved to hunt, fish and bowl. Ugo started bowling in 1952 he bowled at Figueroa Bowl, Barbara Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, San Marcos Bowl/ Lanes and Orchid Bowl. He bowled his first 300 game on July 7, 1961, at the open bowling at Fiesta Bowl. He bowled his first sanction league 300 February 15, 1963, at Fiesta Bowl. For over 10 years Ugo held the highest game of 299 bowled at Orchid Bowl in

1971. In 1963, he and four mem members that were on the Arnoldi’s Masonry team held the highest score bowled by five men; it was tied by another team in 1986 and some years later broken by another team. During the 1973 City Bowling Tournament, he won first place in four events. Ugo worked side by side with his father and partner, Joe Arnoldi. He was a masonry contractor for over 50 years. They owned Arnoldi’s Masonry. He did stone work all over Santa Barbara, Hope Ranch, Montecito, Santa Paula, Goleta, Santa Maria, Cachuma Lake and Santa Ynez Valley. No matter where we go, we will always see the beautiful hard labor of work that a true stonemason who uses a chisel and a single jack hammer built. Ugo would say,“Stonemason work can’t be duplicated; it’s like putting a puzzle together, making sure that all the pieces fit just perfect.” In his mind he was still doing stonework, his hands always working up until his death. He also did bartending at the family restaurant, Arnoldi’s Café, and was also the bookkeeper for both businesses. When his daughter and son attended Santa Barbara Junior High and Santa Barbara High School, he and his wife chaperoned many dances and band events. Ugo married the love of his life, Anne Marie Acerboni (Barbisan),at the Santa Barbara Old Mission on December 26, 1948. Anne pre-deceased him April 15, 2005. They are together once more. He leaves behind his daughter Jeanette Marie ArnoldiSchall (Wally), son Ugo “Butch” Arnoldi (Marla), three grandsons Tim Arnoldi Brown, Bobby Arnoldi Brown, Giuseppe Arnoldi, one granddaughter Francesca Arnoldi, his little sweetie greatgranddaughter Annie Lynn Brown and numerous cousins in California, Nevada, Colorado and Italy, and his extended family at Mission Terrace where he has lived for almost four years. A special thank you to Adrienne DePonce-Bates and Dale Ramirez. In lieu of flowers please donate to Alzheimer’s Association 1528 Chapala Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care, 512 East Gutierrez Street, Suite A, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 in memory of Ugo D. Arnoldi, or your favorite charity. Visitation will be held Friday December 4, 2015, 11:00AM to 3:00 PM at Welch-Ryce-Haider, 15 East Sola Street. Mass will be Saturday December 5, 2015, at 10:30 AM at Our Lady Of Sorrows Church, 21 East Sola Street, immediately followed by a military graveside service at Calvary Cemetery, 199 North Hope Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA.

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Martha Tavis Boise died from natural causes on November 18, 2015, at age 86 at the family home on Hollister Ranch surrounded by her five children. Marty was born April 7, 1929, in Bismarck, North Dakota. She was a fourth-generation North Dakotan. She was married for 58 years to the love of her life, Spencer Boise, with whom she had five children: Barbara Walsh, Beverly Boise-Cossart, Brenda Boise, Steven Boise and Philip Boise. All her life, Marty was known for her gracious smile and friendly personality. Marty received her B.A from the University of North Dakota in business education. After graduation she worked for an advertising agency in Chicago. There she met Spencer Boise, who was a recent MBA graduate from the University of Chicago and a family friend from Bismarck. They became engaged and were married in Bismarck, October 11, 1952. Two years later the family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1968 the family moved to Southern California, where all the children completed their high school and college educations. In 1973, Marty and Spence bought property for a second home on the Hollister Ranch. Over the years, this location grew to become the central gathering place for four generations of the family. After Spencer’s retirement from corporate life in 1988, he and Marty moved to Montecito, where they lived ever since. Marty became a widow in September 2010. She is survived by her five children and their families, including eighteen grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren, as well as her younger brother, Lee Tavis of South Bend, Indiana. An older sister, Nancy Tavis Larson, died in 1995. A mass was held for Marty on Saturday, November 21, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. The burial will be at the Santa Barbara Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Marty’s memory to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 1300 E. Valley Road, Montecito, California 93108.

Catherine Carol Owen Ransdell, 65, passed away Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in Goleta, Calif. Cathy was born Feb. 3, 1950, in Idaho Falls to Charles Carol Owen and Norma Mitchell. She graduated from Idaho Falls High School in 1968. Cathy worked for many years in the electronics industry. In her spare time and later in life, she was a talented and meticulous embroiderer and delighted her friends and relatives with gifts of her work. She loved to talk about her cat and was a deeply humane person. Cathy made her home in Goleta, where she met and married the love of her life, Richard Ransdell, in 1986. Cathy is survived by husband, Richard Ransdell of Goleta; daughter, Shannon (Rick) Wellman of Cornelius, Ore.; granddaughter, Justine Wellman of Cornelius; father, Charles Carol Owen of Idaho Falls; brothers, Michael (Sarah) Owen of Ukiah, Calif., and Craig Owen of Idaho Falls; and her sister, Rebecca (Gary) Coffman of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. She was preceded in death by her mother, Norma Mitchell Owen; her son, Eric McInelley; and her brothers, Denis Owen and Steve Owen.

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Bryan Nellis passed away on October 13, 2015, while under the wonderful care of the staff at Mission Terrace. He was 69. Bryan was born on March 18, 1946, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Cliff D. and Olga (Swystun) Nellis. The

family moved to Vancouver, Brit British Columbia, when Bryan was an infant. In Vancouver, his parents ran a hotel and coffee shop. The three moved to California, where Bryan attended local schools in Ontario. He graduated in 1964 from Chaffey High School, where he met the love of his life, Michel Cooper, in junior year English. He attended UCLA, marrying Michel during their junior year. Their two children were born in Los Angeles. He earned his MBA at CSU, Los Angeles, while also working as a crime analyst for the Los Angeles Police Department in the Hollywood Division. In 1972, the young family moved to Santa Barbara. A year later, he was hired as controller for the Montecito-based architectural products firm, Forms and Surfaces, later becoming the CFO and briefly the CEO of the company. After 14 years, he left Forms and Surfaces, became an Enrolled Agent, and operated the successful tax practice, NELLIS Associates. He was a loving husband and a compassionate father who took his role as a parent to heart. He was the inaugural president of the newly formed El Camino PTA, served on an advisory committee for the Goleta School District, and participated with his children in both Indian Maidens and Indian Guides through the YMCA. When they reached driving age, he relished teaching them to drive a stick shift and change a spark plug and a tire. He volunteered at the Goleta Valley Library, listening to children describe the books they read as part of the summer literary program. He was an active member of his neighborhood’s architectural review board. He was also very supportive of his wife’s community and global volunteer commitments. Bryan was an amateur carpenter, creating incredible projects around the family home. He and Michel loved to entertain, with Bryan supplying the jokes and occasionally the music on his accordion. The couple traveled much of the world together, discovering canal and river boating in Europe and upstate New York — he the captain, she the crew. Bryan is survived by his wife and his children, Ann Opara of Oakland and Doug (Susan) of Seattle, along with his mother, Olga, formerly of Carpinteria. He was predeceased by his father, Cliff, in 1989. A tribute to Bryan will be held Saturday, December 5, at 1:30 p.m. at Glen Annie Golf Club. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Friends of the Goleta Library, the Animal Shelter Assistance Program (ASAP), or your favorite charity.

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neth Korten was a soft-spoken and passionate person who lived an almost monkish life, mindfully minimizing his impact on his environment. He shopped at thrift stores and made his own stylistic alterations to the secondhand clothes he purchased so he was always looking good. He was a disciplined craftsman who slept on a mat in his workspace. He worked with metal, stone, paper, and wood and was largely self-taught. The beautiful objects Ken created will always be with us. He possessed an amazing and intuitive ability to perceive and understand structures in nature. He created his elaborate designs without mathematical calculation — just careful observation, patience, and craftsmanship. He made lamps with folded paper, intricately folded metal sculptures, and beautiful carved pieces from hardwood. He would sometimes carve two intertwining spirals from a single piece of hardwood. His mobiles are perhaps his best-known sculptures. Art reviewer Joan Crowder wrote,“Some of Korten’s works appear deceptively simple, but they look that way to us because their principles underlie many ordinary objects. Here, those principles become the art itself.” Crowder also wrote:“[T]he physical harmony of his forms triggers a similar feeling of harmony in the viewer.” Similarly, Ken often explained that his inspirations were “gifts” that came to him and that his objects were “tools” for meditation. Over the years his artwork has appeared in exhibitions at many local galleries including Contemporary Arts Forum, Channing Peake Gallery, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Faulkner East Gallery, and Santa Barbara City College’s Atkinson Gallery. Since 2006, his mobiles and folded metal wall pieces have been featured at Entenza Modern Classics on State Street in Santa Barbara. Ken’s works are held in the Barry Berkus Family Collection, Berkeley Bank, Siemens Pacemaker, and the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission. Artists often feel their artworks alone are not enough to address the immediate issues of their time. Ken felt this way, so he also sought to have an impact on this world through his actions. For many years he was a regular participant in the Solstice Parade, appearing as a dancing green gecko, rolling an enormous Buckminster Fuller–inspired geodesic globe, or sometimes carrying one of his mobiles, which he referred to as “clouds” or “sacred smoke,” aloft on a bamboo pole. Years ago, Ken hosted “fire circles” for his friends. These were gatherings that were intended to bring people together to sing, talk, and watch an elaborate

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Barbara’s last male mayor. Quick now, who was it, and what happened to him? Answer: Hal Conklin, a very nice guy but unlucky. Shortly after being elected mayor in 1993, he was challenged over the term-limits ordinance. After losing a court battle, he resigned a year later but has remained active in civic affairs here and around California. Aside from that, we’ve had a steady run of women mayors. Before him there was Sheila Lodge, whom I also saw at the Celebration of Life for my late wife, Sue. Sheila must be setting a record for City Hall longevity. After serving on the Planning Commission, then City Council, then as mayor starting in 1981, Sheila kept active and is now a strong voice on the Planning Commission. After Conklin, there were Harriet Miller (1995-2001), Marty Blum (2002-2010), now on the City College Board of Trustees, and the current incumbent, Helene Schneider. She’s running for Congress, hoping to replace still another woman, Lois Capps, who’s been our rep in the House of Representatives since the earth cooled. Santa Barbara elections are traditionally polite as tea parties, and candidates on the fringe normally don’t do well. But back in 1935 a hullabaloo burst over City Hall. Seventeen months of hell began five minutes after midnight on June 1. That’s

when newly elected Mayor Edmund O. Hanson arrived with what local historian Walker A. Tompkins said was “a squad of armed henchmen to seize City Hall.” Vowing to “clean out City Hall,” Hanson had waged what Tompkins called “a vituperative and at times slanderous campaign of mud-slinging.” He even had the guts to take on the powerful T.M. Storke, owner of the daily paper that became the Santa Barbara News-Press. First off, Hanson fired police chief Jess Butts and most department heads. And this was even before dawn broke over De la Guerra Plaza. By the time the City Council met at 10 a.m., the shocking news had spread, and a crowd of 1,600 had gathered in the Plaza, listening via loudspeakers set up on the balcony. Hanson, running on a reform ticket, told the crowd, “I do not intend to see tax money spent on a yacht harbor for the wealthy few, to the ruination of our public beaches and the detriment of our mothers and children. “I will also build a municipal comfort station in the Plaza, in front of the Daily News building, for the convenience of the public.” That would mean that Storke would look down from his office to a public toilet, an odious insult to the proud Storke. To my knowledge, that never happened. The City Council rebelled, challenging Han-

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Santa Barbara’s Complete Guide to All the Holiday Happenings b Terry by Terry Ortega and Ginny Chung You know the reason, and it’s perfectly clear ’Tis the Season is finally here! It’s time for the choir to take you higher while you sip warm cider by the light of the fire. Take a stroll down La Arcada, State Street, and the pier; see them lit with twinkle lights that bring holiday cheer. There’ll be concerts, parades, gift markets, and more; rats and nutcrackers leaping; and crafting galore. Adults can dig the scene where they sip champagne, and kids can ride for hours on the Candy Cane Train. We may not have snow in S.B. proper, but we have enough cheer to reach the tallest tree topper. So wear your ugly sweaters and sing off-key; it doesn’t really matter, cuz we got community. Don’t hate! Decorate! Please email a video of yourself rapping/singing the above ’Tis the Season jingle to contest@independent.com for a chance at a giveaway. Our favorites will be featured on our Instagram @sbindependent.

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63rd Annual Downtown Holiday Parade This year’s theme of World A’ Glow will bring more than 50,000 spectators to the streets of S.B. to watch the fabulous holiday floats, spectacular performance groups, high-stepping marching bands, Grand Marshal R2-D2 (star of all seven Star Wars films) and, of course, the annual arrival of the big man in red himself, Santa Claus. Fri., Dec. 4. Meet and greet with Santa: 4-5:30pm; Paseo Nuevo Ctr. Ct. Parade: 6:30pm; travels down State St. from Sola St. (1300 block) to Cota St. (600 block). Free. Call 962-2098 x800 or visit downtownsb.org downtownsb.org. Solvang Julefest Parade With more than 250 participants, including dancers, musical groups, vintage vehicles, horses, carriages, and animals, this parade will get you in the holiday spirit, especially because this year’s grand marshals are the members and volunteers of Solvang Danish Days. Sat., Dec. 5, 11am. Parade starts at Solvang Veterans Hall (1745 Mission Dr.), across from Old Mission Santa Inés, travels west on Mission Dr. (Hwy. 246), turns left on Fourth Pl., left on Copenhagen Dr., and left on Alisal Rd. back to the Mission Dr. starting point. Free. Call 688-6144 or visit solvangusa.com. 30th Annual Parade of Lights Bundle up and bring your blankets to watch the festively decorated boats from along the breakwater or on Stearns Wharf. This year’s theme is A Red, White & Blue

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Holiday, honoring veterans serving our country past and present. Santa’s Village will be full of activities preceding the parade on Stearns Wharf in the Harbor with a short fireworks display immediately following the parade. Sun., Dec. 6, 3pm. Parade: 5:30pm; occurs in the water visible from Santa Barbara Harbor, Stearns Wharf, and West Beach (off of Cabrillo Blvd.). Free. Call 564-5531 or visit santabarbaraca.gov/ paradeoflights.

Quire of Voyces Short Program Concert Thu., Dec. 3, 6:30-7pm. Ludington Court, S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St.

Carpinteria Holiday Spirit Parade This year’s

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Holiday Street Singing Channel City Chorus Strolling Sat., Dec. 5 and 12, noon-2pm; Sat., Dec. 19, 1-3pm. State St.

Guitarist Vic Moraga Sat., Dec. 5, and Sun., Dec. 20, 1-3pm. S.B Museum

parade kicks off Carpinteria’s 50th year as an incorporated city and will feature parade participants who will acknowledge movies, fashion, icons, music, and historical events from 1965 in a throwback jollification to old Carpinterian traditions. Sat., Dec. 12, 3pm. Parade kicks off on 9th St. and finishes on 6th St. Free. Call 395-1262 or visit holidayspiritparade.com.

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Young Singers Club Performance Fri., Dec. 11, 4-6pm; Calle Real Shopping Ctr., 5600 Calle Real, Goleta. Sat., Dec. 12, 1-3pm; Paseo Nuevo. Sun., Dec. 13, 10:30am; Camino Real Marketplace, 7004 Marketplace Dr., Goleta. TubaChristmas Sat., Dec. 12, noon-1:30pm. Storke Placita,

61st Annual Milpas Holiday Parade This parade will

roll down Milpas Street with live performances, children’s groups, classic cars, drill and dance teams, floats all decked in holiday cheer, and more. Merchants will put out hot chocolate and cookies for attendees. Sat., Dec. 12, 5:30pm. The parade travels down Milpas St. from Canon Perdido St. to Mason St. Free. Call 636-0475 or visit mcasb.org. mcasb.org

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and guests of S.B. Event Professionals for a festive holiday Irish dinner party! Spencer and the Worried Lads will provide music to dance to while there is an ugly Christmas sweater contest, photo opportunities at the S.B. Selfie Station, and more. Thu., Dec. 3, 6-8pm. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. $30-$35. Visit sbep.com.

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and Imagine X Functional Neurology Team are hosting a party to support the Jodi House Brain Injury Support Ctr. of S.B. It will be redcarpet-styled with photo booths, holiday cocktails, live music, prizes, and ugly sweaters. Fri., Dec. 4, 7pm. Imagine X Functional Neurology, 1221 State St., Ste. 11. Free. Visit tinyurl.com/jodiholidays.

Olde-Fashioned Christmas in Downtown Los Olivos Now in its 35th year, this event was created to provide a festive start to the holiday season and will feature a variety of activities ranging from Santa visits and seasonal crafts to train rides and live Christmas music. Streets will smell of popcorn and roasted walnuts, the traditional Christmas tree lighting will once again take place at the flagpole, and an array of food and beverages will be offered throughout town. Sat., Dec. 5, noon-8pm. Downtown Los Olivos. Free. Visit losolivosca.com. Santa Claus Pet Pics Share the tradition with your pets. Stop by during or after the big Julefest parade and snap a picture of your pet with Santa Claus. Donations for pictures will go to the Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society. Sat., Dec. 5, 1-2pm. Wandering Dog Wine Bar, 1539-C Mission Dr., Solvang. Suggestion donation: $5. Call 686-9126 or visit wanderingdogwinebar.com. Wreath & Garlands Workshop During this workshop, you will make your own holiday decorations using California native plants. Then show it off when the visitors arrive for the holidays! Sat., Dec. 5, 2-5pm. S.B. Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. $25-$35. Call 682-4726 or visit sbbg.org. sbbg.org Gingerbread Wonderland This event, hosted with Arts Outreach and

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to visit him every day. Every child will receive a free gift from Santa and his elves, creating the perfect photo opportunity. Mon.-Fri., noon-6pm; Sat., 10am-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm, Dec. 3-18; Sat., Dec. 19, 10am-8pm; Sun., Dec. 20, 11am-6pm; Mon.-Wed., Dec. 21-23, 10am-8pm; Thu., Dec. 24, 10am-5pm. Paseo Nuevo Ctr. Ct. $22. Visit paseonuevoshopping.com.

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the church and preschool, features fanciful, handmade gingerbread houses on display, crafted by area children and families. A message was also received from the North Pole that Santa will be stopping by 4-8pm, offering a cozy place for kids to share their Christmas wishes. Season music will enhance the merriment while children can create and decorate Christmas ornaments and prepare the angel halo. Sat., Dec. 5, 4-8pm. St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church & Preschool, smitv.org 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Call 688-4454 or visit smitv.org.

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chance to meet and greet other dog-friendly people and have your pooch’s photo taken with Santa Paws! There will be complimentary hot cocoa and llight ight snacks. The suggested donation for photos is as ffollows: ollows: digital: $10; print: $15; both: $20. Proceeds will w ill benefit DAWG (Dog Adoption & Welfare Group), G roup), S.B.’s only no-kill dog shelter. Sat., Dec. 5, 110am-1pm. 0am-1pm. Camp Canine, 803 E. Montecito St. Free. Call C all 962-4790.

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invites the community to celebrate the most magical time of year with a weekend of fun events for the entire family, plus a chance to give back to the Foodbank of S.B. County. Visit Santa Claus in The Kitchen, and enjoy holiday cookie decorating, arts and crafts, and live music. Sat., Dec. 5, 10am-2pm. S.B. Public Market, 33 W. Victoria St. Free. Call 770-7702 or sbpublicmarket.com/events.

by UGG Australia that will be modeled by BCRC clients while you enjoy a light lunch, divine desserts, and tea. There will be a jewelry boutique, pick-and-choose raffle, and silent auction. Funds benefit BCRC educational programs and services addressing the needs of those with breast cancer. Sun., Dec. 6, noon. Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara, 1260 Channel Dr. $100. Call 569-9693 or visit bcrcsb.org. bcrcsb.org

The American Scandinavian Foundation of Santa Barbara’s Dinner & Santa Lucia Pageant This

ASF event will include a dinner, silent auction, Santa Lucia Pageant with Christmas caroling, entertainment, dancing with Papa Heinz, and a visit from Santa. Celebrate the season and help raise funds for scholarships offered to S.B. County high school seniors and college students. Sun., Dec. 6, 5pm. Montecito Country Club, 920 Summit Rd. Free-$75. Call 565-3995 or visit asfsb.net.

Holiday Desserts: Beyond Chocolate Impress friends

and family at the next holiday gathering with creative desserts. This treat takes a healthy spin, avoiding gluten, dairy, and processed sugar. Explore a stovetop apple tart, sesame tahini cookies, and pumpkin-cranberry upside-down cake. Advanced registration is required. Sun., Dec. 6, 2-3:15pm. S.B. Public Market, 38 W. Victoria St. $20. Call 770-7702 or visit sbpublicmarket.com.

DIY Airplant Holiday Ornaments From Stabiles,

a home décor company, Samuel Guzmán will teach you how to create a terrarium and basic plant care. All materials are provided, and participants will take home their very own holiday ornament. Reservations are required. Sun., Dec. 6, 10:30am-noon. S.B. Public Market, 38 W. Victoria St. $35. Call 770-7702 or visit sbpublicmarket.com.

36th Annual Chanukah in the Mall The theme of this

year’s festival is 3D Chanukah. Come watch a 3D art printer finish printing a custom-designed menorah by area students and engineers. There will be 3D art projects for children, live music, a 30-minute show by juggler Brent Fiasco, and the traditional hot potato latkes and donuts. Sun., Dec. 6, 5pm. Macy’s Court, La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call 275-4083.

Gingerbread House Workshop Interested in building

a fancy gingerbread house? Owner of Solvang Bakery Susan Halme will take an hour to help you create your own masterpiece. Create a gingerbread house that will wow your visitors. Mon., Dec. 7,

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11am-7pm. Solvang Bakery, 438 Alisal Rd., Solvang. $65. Call 688-4939 or visit asfsb.net.

Channel City Club Annual Holiday Luncheon The Channel City Club will have featured speaker Sam Tyler share the inside story of his new film West of the West: Tales from California’s Channel Islands. There will be traditional Christmas music performed by pianist Gil Rosas, and the Montecito Union School Chorus will sing Christmas carols. Reservations are required by December 4. Tue., Dec. 8, 11am. San Rafael Rm., Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. $35-$40. Call 564-6223 or visit channelcityclub.org. channelcityclub.org Garden Court’s 15th Annual Holiday Party Come join Garden Court residents at their holiday boutique and open house with music by the Inner Light Gospel Choir and Ron Paris, as well as an appearance by Santa and Mrs. Claus. There will be a chocolate fountain, Christmas cookies, light appetizers, and holiday-themed crafts. Live Christmas trees will be auctioned off to benefit Garden Court’s Resident Activities Fund, which chooses area organizations to give to. Tue., Dec. 8, 6-8:30pm. Garden Court, 1116 De la Vina St. Free. Call 884-0095. Winter White Wonderland Holiday Mixer The Carpinteria Valley Chamber of Commerce is bringing professionals together and inviting you to enjoy holiday-inspired appetizers and spirits and networking. All-white attire is optional. RSVP requested. Wed., Dec. 9, 5-7pm. S.B. Polo & Racquet Club, 3300 Via Real, Carpinteria. $5-$10. Call 684-5479 or email joyce@carpinteriachamber.org. joyce@carpinteriachamber.org Rockstar Trolley of Lights Get on the trolley that will

take you around S.B. to see all the Christmas lights and decorations. It’s a great way to start the season with your entire family. Check-in is 15 minutes prior to the tour. Wed., Dec. 9-Thu., Dec. 24, 5:30 and 7:30pm. Sambos, 216 W. Cabrillo Blvd. $15-$25. Call 882-9191 or visit rockstartrolley.com.

S.B. Rose Society Holiday Party Get all your rosy questions answered and discuss rose gardening at this festive party. SBRS will provide the complimentary buffet entrée along with beverages and wine; just bring a potluck dish to share. RSVP. Thu., Dec. 10, 6-8:30pm. Louise Lowry Davis Ctr., sbrose.org. 1232 De la Vina St. Free. Visit sbrose.org

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the Festival of Lights, at this special event for the entire family that will feature a latke dinner, prize drawing, crafts, stories, and more! Thu., Dec. 10, 5-7pm. Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr., 524 Chapala St. Free. Call 957-1115 or visit jewishsantabarbara.org jewishsantabarbara.org.

Festival of Lights Join this family-friendly, interfaith event where you can learn about all the different traditions of different groups in our community. The Anti-Defamation League and Just Communities invite all of any faith group to join. Thu., Dec. 10, 6:30-9pm. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 280-2527 or visit jewishsantabarbara.org or sbplibrary.org. sbplibrary.org

Kids Night In/Parents’ Night Out Parents take the evening off as kids have fun with crafting night. Make Christmas cards, and watch A Charlie Brown Christmas. There will also be snacks and games. Fri., Dec. 11, 5:30-8pm. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. Free. Call 965-7419 or visit trinitysb.org. trinitysb.org Arts & Crafts Make a gingerbread man puppet, corn husk poinsettia,

Danish heart basket, and more with your family! There will also be a special holiday book display and refreshments. Sat., Dec. 12, 11:30am-1pm. Carpinteria Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call 684-4314 or visit sbplibrary.org. sbplibrary.org

Holiday at the Ranch Come to this holiday open house featuring live music, crafts, tours of the decorated house, holiday hayrides, story time, and, of course, Santa and his “rein-goats.” Sat.-Sun., Dec. 12-13, 11am-4pm. Rancho La Patera & Stow House, 304 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta. Suggested donation: $2-$5. Call 681-7216 or visit stowhouse.com.

Christmas Lights & Sights Trolley Tour Check out all the holiday décor throughout Solvang and the Santa Ynez Valley. There will be seasonal music and hot chocolate on board. Tue., Dec. 15, 6-7:15pm and 7:30-8:45pm. Solvang Veterans Memorial Hall, 1745 Mission Dr. $13. Call 688-7529 or visit solvangusa.com. Colleen & Joshua’s Holiday Spectacular This husband-and-wife duo wants to share their love for the holidays. Enjoy an evening filled with singing, dancing, magic, comedy, and cheer. Miranda Sings, the Ballinger family, and other YouTubers will make a special appearance. Tue., Dec. 15, 7:30pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $39.50-$80. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. granadasb.org

7th Annual Stuff the Bus Gift Drive and Bus Parade Starting now,

Peoples’ Self-Help Housing (PSHH) invites you to donate new, unwrapped gifts for children ages one-11 and gift cards for clothing, shoes, and books for preteens and teens ages 12-17 at one of the drop-off locations. Mr. and Mrs. Claus will be available for photos before boarding the bus to collect the gift. The Stuff the Bus Parade: Wed., Dec. 16, 10am. Community West Bank, 1501 State St. Free. Call 699-7220 or visit pshhc.org for drop-off locations.

Solvang Third Wednesday: Holiday Edition Enjoy deals from

merchants, restaurants, and gourmet food purveyors, as well as the Third Wednesday Wine & Beer Walk. Wed., Dec. 16, all day. Downtown Solvang. Free. Visit solvangthirdwednesday.com.

League of Women Voters Holiday Party This year, the S.B. City Council members, the city attorney, and the city manager will attend as special guests. Enjoy a festive lunch and lively discussion in a relaxed atmosphere. Wed., Dec. 16, noon-2pm. Louise Lowry Davis Ctr., 1232 De la Vina St. Free. Call 965-2422 or visit lwvsantabarbara .org .org.

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their tree to the burn pile January 3-9, 2016, and then see this spectacle ignite the New Year and celebrate the end of Solvang’s Julefest Celebration. Live entertainment and refreshments will be available for purchase. Fri., Jan. 8, 5-7pm. Fields of Old Mission Santa Inés, 1760 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call 688-7529 or visit solvangusa.com.

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Tree Lightings and Nativities Downtown Santa Barbara Christmas Tree Lighting As the kickoff to

the downtown parade, this tree will be presented by Consumer Fire Products. Watch the prince and fairy light the town’s tree, and then move out of the way for the start of the parade! Fri., Dec. 4, 6:30pm. downtownsb.org State and Sola sts. Free. Call 962-2098 or visit downtownsb.org.

Solvang Julefest Community Tree Lighting Ceremony Enjoy live entertainment with area bands, choirs, and caroling, culminating in ballerinas from area dance studios performing around the city’s 40-foot tree. Fri., Dec. 4, 5-6:30pm. Solvang Park, Mission Dr. and 1st St., Solvang. Free. Call 688-6144 or visit solvangusa.com.

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Light Up a Life Celebration Bring your family and friends to gather

and celebrate the lives and memories of your loved ones as Hospice of Santa Barbara will host three special nights of remembrance with memorial stars that will illuminate the memorial trees through the month of December. Stars may be purchased in advance at Hospice of S.B., 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, Ste. 100. Memorial Trees: Sat., Dec. 5, 5:30pm, Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St.; Sun., Dec. 6, 5:30pm, Camino Real Marketplace, 7004 Marketplace Dr., Goleta; Sat., Dec. 12, 5:30pm, Seal Fountain at Linden Plaza, Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Suggested donation for a star: $15. Call 563-8820 or visit hospiceofsantabarbara.org hospiceofsantabarbara.org.

Goleta Tree Lighting Event Besides the lighting of the tree by Goleta Teen of the Year, this evening will also feature Santa, turkey raffles, cookie decorating, letters to Santa, performances by Cruz Dance, South Coast Karate, Hechos 411 puppets, and more. Fri., Dec. 11, 5:30pm. Goleta Valley Community Ctr., 5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free. Call 967-1237 or visit thegvcc.org. thegvcc.org The Spirit of Christmas This musical evening of inspiration features an orchestra, a choral ensemble, handbells, chimes, children, and a Nativity pageant. Fri., Dec 11, 7pm; Sat., Dec 12, 5pm; Sun., Dec. 13, 6pm. Oaks Bible Church, 560 N. La Cumbre Rd. Free. Call 570-8061 or visit tinyurl.com/oaksbiblechristmas. Solvang Nativity Pageant The Christmas story comes to life with a

choir, actors, and live animals onstage outdoors. Seating is first come, first entertained. Sat., Dec. 12, 5 and 7pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. Free. Call 688-6144 or visit solvangusa.com.

Bacara Tree Lighting Ceremonies Agave Americana, native plants

that only bloom once in their lifetime, will be incorporated into the holiday décor. Join for hot cider and cookies as this special one-of-a-kind art installation is lighted. Mon.-Thu., Dec. 21-24, 4:305:30pm. Bacara Resort & Spa, 8301 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free. Call (866) 987-1292 or visit bacararesort.com.

First United Methodist Church Outdoor Living Nativity Outside, under

a star hanging overhead in a redwood tree, are camels, donkeys, sheep, and goats with volunteers dressed up as Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus, wise men, and shepherds. Wander or sit among the decorated splendor, have some warm cider, or stroll into the church and look at the crèches (models representing the scene of Jesus Christ’s birth) on display, including a few kid-friendly ones that can be touched. The historic 1927 Sanctuary will be open for viewing. Mon.-Wed., Dec. 21-23, 5:30-7:30pm. First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu fumcsb.org St. Free. Call 963-3579 or visit fumcsb.org.

Christmas Eve Service: Children’s Nativity Trinity’s annual Christmas Eve service for children and families is a wonderful event where Trinity’s children will tell again the wondrous story. Thu., Dec. 24, 4pm. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. Free. Call 965-7419 or visit trinitysb.org. trinitysb.org

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Will my dental insurance benefits roll over to next year? In most cases, dental insurance companies have a “use it or lose it policy” when it comes to your benefits. So you can not save any unused benefits for next year. This is often the case with HSA plans as well. Many plans require you to show a service date by December 31st to be eligible for reimbursement. If you have a significant amount of dental work to do, we have a variety of options to help you afford the treatment you need. We can also split your visits between this year and the beginning of next year to help maximize your benefits. January is right around the corner and it is not too early to begin scheduling in the New Year! Don’t leave benefits that are due to you on the table. Call to schedule an appointment before the end of year today!

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Especially Fun for Children Santa at La Cumbre Plaza It’s time to put on your holiday sweater, get your picture taken with Santa, and

visit his winter home located near Macy’s. Pet photos will also be available on Thursday, December 3, at 5 p.m. Thu.-Sat., Dec. 3-5, and Mon.-Wed., Dec. 7-9, noon-7pm; Sun., Dec. 6, 11am-5pm; Thu.-Thu., Dec. 10-17, 10am-8pm; Fri.-Wed., Dec. 18-23, 9am-8pm; and Thu., Dec. 24, 10am-5pm. $29.99. La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Call 687-6458 or visit shoplacumbre.com/events.

23rd Annual Candy Cane Train All aboard this festively decorated miniature train. One ticket buys you a ride

and a coupon for a future ride and entrance into the holiday display of Toy Trains and Teddy Bears. Riders must be at least 34 inches tall. Receive a discount and avoid the line by buying your tickets in advance online. Closed December 7-9, 14-16, and 25. Thu., Dec. 3-Wed., Dec. 27, 1-4pm (weekends) and 2-4pm (weekdays). South Coast Railroad Museum, 300 N. Los Carneros, Goleta. $2-$4. Call 964-3540 or visit goletadepot.org goletadepot.org.

Printed Holiday Cards Send out homemade holiday cards made out of discarded materials. Guest artist

Laura Denny will help you create a thoughtful card while recycling and reducing. Children 5 and younger must be accompanied by a parent. Sat., Dec. 5, 10am-noon. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Call 884-0459 x11 or visit exploreecology.org. exploreecology.org

Snow Leopard Festival/Sledding Learn about the beautiful and endangered snow leopards and how to save them at this one-of-a-kind family festival. Kids ages 12 and younger can sled down the zoo’s miniHimalayan mountains while parents chill out at an extra minimal cost. There will be snow-related arts and crafts; plus Santa returns for photos. Sun., Dec. 6, 10am-3pm. S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. Free-$15. Call 962-5339 or visit sbzoo.org. sbzoo.org

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All Wrapped Up: The Art of Giving This one-day workshop provides the opportunity for children to gain inspiration from works in the museum’s collection and create handmade cards, prints, ornaments, and more. Students draw, paint, print, collage, and sculpt artful gifts to share with friends and family. Sat., Dec. 12, 9am-3pm. Ridley-Tree Education Ctr., McCormick House, 1600 Santa Barbara St. $60-$70. Ages 5-12. Call 884-6441 or visit sbma.net. Art Gifts for the Holidays Didn’t buy your presents yet? Make your own holiday gifts from discarded

materials. Unleash your inner eco-artist and let guest artist Jason Summers help you get your creativity on. Parents and friends will enjoy this art present. Children 5 and younger must be accompanied by a parent. Sat., Dec. 12, 10am-noon. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Call 884-0459 x11 or visit exploreecology.org. exploreecology.org

Bright Shiny Baubles Guest artist Judy Nilsen will teach you how to make homemade baubles and ornaments for your tree. These will all be made out of discarded materials. Children 5 and younger must be accompanied by a parent. Sat., Dec. 19, 10am-noon. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Call 884-0459 x11 or visit exploreecology.org. exploreecology.org Zoo Day Families can create a new tradition at the zoo on Christmas Eve or Christmas. Keepers will keep things jolly with special talks and holiday enrichment for the animals. Thu.-Fri., Dec. 24-25, 10am-3:30pm. S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. Free-$15. Call 962-5339 or visit sbzoo.org. sbzoo.org

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features 39 area artisans, designers, and craftspeople who create fiber arts, ceramics, porcelain, woodwork, jewelry, and items for your house, garden, and more. The store is open through January 31, 2016. Mon.-Fri., 10am-8pm; Sat., 10am-6pm; Sun., 11am-6pm. La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call 570-3919 or visit acrimsonholiday .com.

The Yes Store: 48th Anniversary A celebration of S.B.’s longestrunning artisan co-op, this year’s handcrafted holiday offerings include (but are far from limited to) pottery, jewelry, sculptures, and woodworking. Thu., Dec. 3-Wed., Dec. 23, 10am-7pm; Wed., Dec. 24, 10am-6pm. The Yes Store, 807 State St. Free. Call 966-9777 or visit facebook.com/TheYesStore.

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Muni Mega Mall Enjoy a festive evening of wine and holiday shopping while supporting area designers and artists. Fitzgerald Forbes, Makesmith, Wellema Hat Co., Bestow Pottery, and more vendors will be showcasing their unique products while Municipal Winemakers will be offering tastings and bottles of their delicious wines, along with special-event wine bundles. Each mall day will feature different artists. Thu., Dec. 3, 10, and 17, 7-10pm. Municipal Winemakers, 22 Anacapa St. Free. Call 931-6864 or visit municipalwinemakers.com.

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from a diverse group of S.B. companies including Brown Sugar Beach (modern kids clothing), Still - Elevate Your Ethanol (barware, cocktail supplies), Killscrow (art, prints, goods), and more along with food from Grandma’s Tamales and live music from Clean Spill. Thu., Dec. 3. Marketplace: 4-7pm; live music: 7pm. SeaVees, 118 E. Ortega St. Donation: Coat drive benefiting Organic Soup Kitchen. Call 770-2633 or visit tinyurl.com/WintertideMarketplace.

Montecito Country Mart Winter Market This

festive shopping day will offer mulled wine or Champagne and 13 pop-up shops for the adults, and for the kids hot chocolate and Christmas cookies, face painting, pony rides, live music, and pictures with Santa (check website for activity times). Sat., Dec. 5, 11am-5pm. 1016 Coast Village Rd. at Hot Springs, Montecito. Free. Call 969-9664 or visit montecitocountrymart.com.

30th Annual Folk & Tribal Arts Marketplace Representing more than

50 countries and featuring an amazing selection of baskets, décor, ethnographic art, furniture, jewelry, pottery, rugs, sculpture, and more, nearly 30 vendors have returned just in time, whether you are shopping for a holiday gift or adding to your collection. Some of the proceeds will support the museum’s exhibits and science education programs. Fri., Dec. 4, 10am-6pm; Sat.-Sun., Dec. 5-6, 10am-5pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free. Call 682-4711 or visit sbnature.org sbnature.org.

Shop, Mingle & Jingle Solvang’s holidayseason shopping and entertainment opportunities encompass discounts and deals at various merchants such as shops and galleries, bookstores, wine and beer bars, clothing and accessories boutiques, and more. The town’s merchants will open their doors to celebratory shoppers, with extended hours. Fri.-Sun., Dec. 4-6, 11-13, various times. Downtown Solvang. Free. Call 688-6144 or visit solvangthirdwednesday.com/shop-mingle -jingle. Garden Street Academy Holiday Boutique Garden Street Academy will

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hold this family-friendly event featuring unique vendors with a wide variety of holiday gifts, professional photos with Santa, a photo booth, carolers, Christmas tree raffles, and sweet treats. Proceeds will benefit the school’s scholarship fund. Sat., Dec. 5, 9am-1pm. Garden Street Academy, 2300 Garden St. Free. Call 680-1536 or visit gardenstreetacademy.org gardenstreetacademy.org.

Carpinteria Artists Marketplace Come and shop handmade holiday gifts directly from the artists as they demonstrate their crafts, and listen to live music— music all to raise funds for the Carpinteria Arts Center. Sat., Dec. 5, 10am-4pm. Carpinteria Arts Ctr., 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call 684-7789 or visit carpinteriaartscenter.org. Christmas Arts & Crafts Fair Support area artists, and find the perfect gifts

for your loved ones right on time. Sat., Dec. 5, 11am-4pm. Living Faith Church, 4597 Hollister Ave. Call 967-5651 or visit livingfaithsb.org/connect.

Garibaldi Goods Holiday Shop Garibaldi

Goods, full of handcrafted pantry items from California food artisans, will have its inaugural pop-up shop. Buy custom gifts, one-of-a-kind baskets, and exclusive specials. Sat., Dec. 5, 12, and 19, 11am-5pm. Pop-up venue, 208 W. Canon Perdido St. Free. Visit garibaldigoods.com.

Wildling Museum Holiday Marketplace Join

17 vendors as they showcase their handcrafted gifts and demonstrate how they create unique items using natural materials just in time to purchase special holiday gifts. There will also be caroling, hot cider, cookies, and crafts. Sat., Dec. 5, noon5pm. Wildling Museum, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call 688-1082 or visit wildlingmuseum.org wildlingmuseum.org.

Alternative Christmas Market Make your gift lists now for Trinity’s Alternative Christmas Market. This is the opportunity to purchase gifts and make donations in honor of those special people in your life. Participating programs are Episcopal Relief & Development, Heifer International (works to end hunger and poverty by providing livestock), GAIA (Global Aids Interfaith Alliance), Angels Bearing Gifts (benefits adults with disabilities in S.B. County), Diocese of Jerusalem (provides a beacon of hope, peace, and reconciliation in the Middle East), Unite-to-Light (provides solar light to the developing world), and Kids’ Crafts (created by Trinity children). Sun., Dec. 6, 9am-12:30pm. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. Free. Call 965-7419 or visit trinitysb.org. trinitysb.org Under $50 Holiday Gift Fair This familyfriend gift fair includes an arts and crafts show, refreshments, and one-of-a-kind jewelry, art, ornaments, and more all under $50 and all made by regional artists. Wed., Dec. 9, 5-8pm. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. Free. Call 884-0459 x13 or visit exploreecology.org. org org. Angels Bearing Gifts Wrapping Party This organization brings happiness to people with developmental disabilities who lack family support by providing gifts on birthdays and holidays. Be a part of the wrapping parties, and foster compassion within our community. Wed., Dec. 9, 5-7pm; Sat., Dec. 12, 9am-noon. Tri-Counties Regional Ctr. Bldg., 505 E. Montecito St. Free. Call 884-7222 or visit angelsbearinggifts.org. Charitable Holiday Artwalk Start the holiday season by walking while you buy a piece of art for a good cause, your neighborhood park. A percentage of the sales from these area artists will go to Girsh Park. Fri., Dec. 11-Wed., Dec. 23. Santa will be there Sun., Dec. 13 and 20, 10am-dusk. Camino Real Marketplace, 7004 Marketplace Dr., Goleta. Free. Call 685-3458 or visit caminorealmarketplace.com.

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way into Casa Dolores, where nativity scenes will be set up along with a Christmas tree. Shop from a beautiful array of handmade tin ornaments to give as gifts or keep for yourself. Visitors are encouraged to bring gift donations for the Westside Boys & Girls Club and La Casa de la Raza. Fri., Dec. 18, 4-6pm. Casa Dolores, 1023 Bath St. Free. Call 963-1032.

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crafts at the library. Create yarn-wrapped ornaments, snowflakes, beaded jewelry, holiday cards, and more. Sat., Dec. 19, 1-3pm. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 564-5603 or visit sbplibrary.org sbplibrary.org.

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A Christmas Carol The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the

ghosts of the past, present, and future. This festive adaption will be performed with music and a cast of more than 20 actors. It shows through December 20. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 and 8pm (no 8pm show on Dec. 6); Sun., 2pm; Wed., 2 and 7pm. Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura. $30-$64. Call 667-2900 or visit rubicontheatre .org .org.

Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol Move over, Ebenezer Scrooge. It’s time

for Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s business partner, to tell his story. Go on the journey of Marley’s afterlife to redeem Scrooge and himself. This is a hilarious and moving work, bringing the ghost of Marley out of the shadows. It shows through December 20. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. Ojai Art Ctr. Theater, 113 S. Montgomery St., Ojai. $15-$18. Call 640-8797 or visit ojaiact.org. ojaiact.org

’Twas the Night Before Christmas Inspire Dance S.B. will share little

snippets of this storybook ballet for all ages. Be charmed by a heartwarming performance by dancers 6 years and older as they share the adventure of Frances and Mary on Christmas Day with their Auntie Bess. This holiday show will include Dancing Dolls, Swirling Snowflakes, Snow Princesses, and more. Thu., Dec. 3, 4-5pm. Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Call 964-7878. Tue., Dec. 15, 4-4:30pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. sbplibrary.org Anapamu St. Call 564-5638. Free. Visit sbplibrary.org.

A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is back in all his penny-pinching glory in this 1951 classic movie starring Alastair Sim. If you haven’t seen this story of the meanest miser in Victorian London, who overworks and underpays his humble clerk, Bob Cratchit, and is visited by three ghosts, then this is a holiday must-see. Fri.-Sat., Dec. 4-5 and 11-12, 7pm; Sun., Dec. 6 and 13, 3pm. Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. $7-$15. Call 684-6380 or visit plazatheatercarpinteria.com. Everybody Dance Now! Holiday Performance The community is invited to this show of amazing dances performed by more than 16 groups including UCSBreakin, Urban Dance Company, Goleta

Sat Dec 5 3:00p & Sun Dec 6 3:00p “the nutcracker” This traditional full-length production features all of our

favorite characters: Clara, The Nutcracker, The Rat Queen, The Sugar Plum Fairy and many others. For more info and tickets please visit www.goletaschoolofballet.com or call 805328-3823. Directors Lisa and Emily Abshere have pulled together many talented people, ages 7 to adult from the Goleta/Santa Barbara community to make this production a traditional holiday treat!

Sat Dec 12 7:00p & Sun Dec 13 3:00p “the night Before chriStmaS” Montecito School of Ballet presents this

glistening celebration of the holiday season. With stunning scenery, beautiful costumes, and outstanding choreography, this annual event is always a blast! For additional information & tickets please visit www.montecitoschoolofballet.com or call 805-560-0597. Photo by Stephen Sherrill. A perfect holiday treat for the whole family!

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“Winter concert” The Santa Barbara Junior High School Music Department presents their annual winter concert. For more info visit www.sbjhs.org or call 805-963-7751 x4029. Don’t miss this chance to see the talented musicians of the SBJHS Jazz Band, Concert Band, Orchestra, and Choir performing a mixture of musical arrangements including some holiday favorites! Sat Dec 19 1:30p “the nutcracker tutu Suite” Goleta School of Ballet presents a very

special Nutcracker for their youngest dancers supplemented by an encore performance of your favorite dances from their highest level performers. For additional information & tickets please visit www.goletaschoolofballet.com or call 805-328-3823. Don’t miss this always charming holiday show!

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Gustafson Dance: Rudolph Gustafson

Dance presents Rudolph, a ballet of the holiday classic featuring Rudolph, Clarice, the Abominable Snow Monster, and Santa and telling about the little reindeer who embarks on a journey where he, along with many other “misfits,” learns that everyone, even though they may be different, has something of value to contribute. Sat., Dec. 5, 2 and 6pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $14-$25. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

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Goleta School of Ballet presents its annual performance of this holiday classic with stunning choreography and beautiful costumes. This is the perfect event to kick off the holiday season for the entire family. Sat.-Sun., Dec. 5-6, 3pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. $18. Call 328-3823 or visit goletaschoolofballet.com.

Una Noche de Las Posadas (The Inns) Come

see this time-honored reenactment of Joseph and Mary’s search for shelter in Bethlehem as it was once celebrated in early California and is still observed throughout Mexico and South America. Join in this rich cultural tradition, experiencing firsthand the way in which Santa Barbara’s earliest Spanish and Mexican residents gathered together and celebrated the Christmas season with music and food. Fri., Dec. 11, 7pm. Begins at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. and concludes at Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call 965-0093 or visit sbthp.org sbthp.org.

41st Annual Nutcracker at the Arlington

Delighting family members of all ages, S.B. Festival Ballet will take you on a magical journey with Clara and her Nutcracker Prince, dancing rats, toy soldiers and dolls that come to life, and a Christmas tree that grows before your eyes. A cast of 100 and a full symphony orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky’s music under the stars of the Arlington sky. Sat., Dec. 12, 2:30 and 7pm; Sun., Dec. 13, 2:30pm. Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. $25-$50. Call 963-4408 or visit thearlingtontheatre.com.

The Montecito School of Ballet: The Night Before Christmas This glistening

celebration of the holiday season features stunning scenery, beautiful costumes, and outstanding choreography. They’ll wish you a “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!” Sat., Dec. 12, 7:30pm; Sun., Dec. 13, 3pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. $12-$18. Call 560-0597 or visit luketheatre.org luketheatre.org.

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top-honored hip-hop, tap, jazz, and other pieces. Watch dancers ages 6-21 light up the stage. Wed.-Thu., Dec. 16-17, 7pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $20-$30. Call 963-0408 or visit centerstagetheater .org .org.

Goleta School of Ballet: The Nutcracker Tutu Suite Young dancers ages 3-6 years old will

take part in this suite-style performance to the music of The Nutcracker Nutcracker, supplemented by an encore of your favorite dances from the company’s highest-level performers. Sat., Dec. 19, 1:30pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. $8. Call 328-3823 or visit goletaschoolofballet.com.

State Street Ballet: The Nutcracker Follow young Clara as her toy nutcracker comes alive, saving her from evil rats and taking her on a magical journey through the Land of the Snowflakes, Kingdom of Sweets, and more. This dance performance, featuring students of Gustafson Dance, will be accompanied by the Opera San Luis Obispo Orchestra. Sat., Dec 19, 2 and 7:30pm; Sun., Dec. 20, 2pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $36-$104. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. granadasb.org La Pastorela (A Shepherd’s Play) La Pastorela, a historic Santa Barbara Christmas tradition, returns to the Presidio Chapel. Dramatizing the epic battle between good and evil, the play invokes elements of spectacle, comedy, and fantasy. This version of La Pastorela was transcribed in the mid-19th century by Pablo de la Guerra and will be conducted in Spanish. Sat., Dec. 19, 7pm; Sun., Dec. 21, 2 and 7pm. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. $6-$12. Call 965-0093 or visit sbthp.org. sbthp.org

The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice This year’s entertaining

production, subtitled “The Treasures of Spain,” will transport audiences to the crossroads of Andalusia in Southern Spain, where indigenous Iberian, Moorish, and Sephardic traditions converge.This S.B. seasonal tradition involves a colorfully costumed company of more than 60 actors, singers and dancers who will perform lively dances and glorious music from more than four centuries of Spanish culture, with accompaniment provided by a brass ensemble and a troupe of traditional string and wind instruments. Sat.-Sun., Dec. 19-20, 2 and 7pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. Free-$79. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

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A Winter Gift Celtic Harpists Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne, and Aryeh Frankfurter will

perform Celtic legends and beloved and rare pieces of holiday music interwoven with Irish and English literature. Journey through the generations of the harp, and step into a magical world of literature. Thu., Dec. 3, 7pm. Ojai Valley Woman’s Club, 441 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai. $10-$25. Call 665-8852 or visit ojaiconcertseries.com.

Pink Martini Holiday Show Pink Martini returns with singer Storm Large to ring in the holidays. Enjoy treasured classics and jovial tunes from the album Joy to the World and recent releases including “Dream a Little Dream.” It’ll be a night of intoxicating Latin music, swinging jazz, cabaret, cinema scores, and more. Thu., Dec. 3, 8pm. Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. $23-$153. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

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Live Holiday Entertainment It wouldn’t be the holidays without costumed carolers, holiday horns, choirs, and more. For the entire month, there will be more than 20 ensembles stopping by town to spread holiday cheer. Various days and times, Dec. 3-24. Paseo Nuevo Ctr. Ct. Free. Visit paseonuevoshopping.com. I Will Give You as a Light to the Nations This 11th annual evening of music will intertwine traditional carols of the season with early and contemporary holiday music performed by the 60-piece Westmont Orchestra and 100 voices. Fri., Dec. 4, 7pm; Sat., Dec. 5, 2pm; Sun., Dec. 6, 3pm. First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. $15. Call 565-7140 or visit westmont.edu/christmasfestival. Songs on a Mid-Winter’s Night Area performers including Larry Ayres, Jackie Morris, Tim Farrell, and Buddy Mondlock will sing songs that celebrate the holidays. Organizers ask that you bring a new toy for the Unity Shoppe’s annual toy drive or new clothing or nonperishable food as your admission fee. Fri., Dec. 4, 7:30pm. Cambridge Dr. Community Church, 550 Cambridge Dr., Goleta. Call 964-0436 or visit cambridgedrivechurch.org. cambridgedrivechurch.org

Merry-Achi Christmas Twice-Grammy-nominated Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández joins America’s all-female, Grammy-nominated Reyna de Los Angeles in a traditional Mexican holiday celebration. Enjoy seasonal songs and festive merriment. Sun., Dec. 6, 3pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $27-$73. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org granadasb.org. Weihnachtskonzert: A Traditional Christmas Concert The S.B. Edelweiss Choir,

accompanied by a professional string quartet and soprano soloist, will perform works and excerpts from Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Christmas Evening,” Jacub Jan Ryba’s “Bohemian Shepard’s Mass,” and more. Be ready to sing along! Sun., Dec. 6, 3pm. Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N. La Cumbre Rd. Suggested donation: $12. Call 682-1537 or visit edelweisschoir.com.

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Music continued Advent Lessons & Carols Join for a night of Advent readings, choir

anthems, and well-loved famous Christmas carols. It’ll be a welldeserved hour of caroling and community, followed by conversation and sweet treats. Sun., Dec. 6, 7:30pm. St. Michael’s University Church, 6586 Picasso Rd., Isla Vista. Free. Visit tinyurl.com/adventcarols.

Trinity Episcopal Church Advent Organ Series This is a three-part

exploration of the breadth and depth of musical expression, celebrated through the classic organ repertoire to newly composed works. Emma Lou Diemer, Nelson Huber, and Thomas Joyce will play Bach, Mendelssohn, Daniel Gee, and more. Sun., Dec. 6, 13, and 20, 3:30pm. Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State St. Free. Call 965-7419 or visit trinitysb.org. trinitysb.org

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chanteuse Nicole Lvoff and her band as they perform holiday classics and jazz standards from the ’30s, ’40s, and ’50s. Mon., Dec. 7, 7:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

S.B. Chamber Orchestra SBCO is

celebrating this holiday season with guest host Gail Eichenthal. It will be one inspiring night of Mendelssohn and Dvořák. Tue., Dec. 8, 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $54-$64. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

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a joyful noise and raise your voice on high as the Foodbank of S.B. County and the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara present this annual community event that will feature an orchestra including members of the SBCC Symphony and area soloists with you as the chorus. Tickets will be available at Chaucer’s Books or at the door. Tue., Dec. 8, 8pm. First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. $10. Call 687-0754 or visit fpcsb.org/events/ full-calendar.

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memory lane and enjoy singin’ Rat Pack tunes from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. along with other Christmas favorites. Be reminded of this famous group and how they touched the holidays. Tue.-Wed., Dec. 8-9, 7:30pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $33-$68. Ages 10+. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. granadasb.org

S.B. Choral Society’s The Hallelujah Project 3 Concert Fast becoming one

of the city’s most anticipated holiday musical events, the Hallelujah Project offers a family-friendly blend of approachable classical choral music and traditional seasonal favorites, a guest appearance by the Children’s Chorus, and a celebrity in a format designed to put young and old alike in a festive holiday mood! Sat., Dec. 12, 8pm; Sun., Dec. 13, 3pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $7-$46.50. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.

Tiny Tots Holiday Concert & Santa Party Join merry elves and special guests Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. Area teens will sing holiday tunes and sing-alongs that the entire family can enjoy. Bring your camera for photo ops! Sat., Dec. 12 and 19, 11am. Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura. $11. Call 667-2900 or visit rubicontheatre.org. rubicontheatre.org

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Santa Barbara Strings Winter Concert Santa Barbara Strings will perform this concert that will feature three progressive levels of string ensembles playing a variety of works from the Renaissance/baroque era to the modern period. Sun., Dec. 13, 6pm. First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. Free-$10. Call 688-7423 or visit santabarbarastrings.org santabarbarastrings.org. The Venice Holiday Show Back for more

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from last year, Venice is a well-seasoned rock ’n’ roll outfit with each member’s résumé flush with high-profile appearances and performances, including gigs and recording sessions with Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, and Ozzy Venice Osbourne, to name a few. If you desire Christmas tunes with a slightly harder edge, look no further. Sat., Dec. 19, 8:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $32-$68. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

Quire of Voyces: Mysteries of Christmas This a cappella performance from Quire of Voyces will continue its holiday tradition with a beautiful yuletide garland of Vaughn Williams’s “Mass in G Minor,”“Pastoral Symphony,” and more. Soothe the soul and gladden the heart with this performance. Sat., Dec. 19, 7pm; Sun., Dec. 20, 3pm. St, Anthony’s Chapel at Garden Street Academy, 2300 Garden St. $15-$20. Call 965-5935 or visit quireofvoyces.org. quireofvoyces.org

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& Orchestra’s 38th year bringing a powerful and harmonious blend of voices and orchestra to the valley with a concert that will fill your heart with the true meaning of the holiday season. Songs include “Silent Night,”“Ave Maria,”“A Christmas Rose,” and more. Sat., Dec. 19, 7:30pm; Sun., Dec. 20, 3pm. Church at the Crossroads, 236 La Lata Dr., Buellton. $15-$18. Call 350-4241 or visit syvchorale.org. syvchorale.org

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of the story by Dr. Seuss. The reclusive green Grinch (Jim Carrey) decides to ruin Christmas for the cheery citizens of Whoville as he and his hapless dog, Max, sneak into town to swipe everything holiday-related only to hit a snag when he encounters the endearing Cindy Lou Who. There will be a live performance by the S.B. Dance Institute before the show, a bonus holiday short film Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Christmas, free popcorn, and a visit from Santa! Sat., Dec. 5, 11am. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $7.50-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. granadasb.org

White Christmas Before the movie, enjoy a performance by the Music by Montecito Union Chorus, and then settle in and watch the holiday classic about two song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) who, after WWII, take in a nightclub act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) to save a small Vermont inn owned by their former general. Sat., Dec. 5, 3pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. granadasb.org Scrooged Before the screening, listen to the Incredible Children’s Art Network (iCan) group Pacific Choir, and then watch a modern take on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Follow Frank Cross, played by Bill Murray, as his cold nature drives away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). His life changes when he is visited by a series of ghosts who allow him to make his actions go from wrong to right. Sat., Dec. 5, 7pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. granadasb.org

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15 of the finest champagnes, as well as caviar, oysters, and more, all in the holiday spirit! Sat., Dec. 12, 6pm. S.B. Public Market, 38 W. Victoria St. $85. Ages 21+. Call 770-7702 or visit sbpublicmarket .com.

Solvang Julefest Wine & Beer Walk Throughout the village, 15 different wine and beer tasting rooms will offer samplings. Tickets include a two-day pass and a souvenir wine glass. Sat.-Sun., Dec. 12-13, 11am-4pm. Downtown Solvang. $40. Ages 21+. Call 688-6144 or visit solvangusa.com. 9th Annual Holiday Sweater Party Celebrate T minus 7 days before Christmas with music from indie-pop band Spencer the Gardener, rootsy One Two Tree, groovy surf duo Conner Coffin and Travers Adler, and original rock duo Matt Kustura and Andrew Fedders. All proceeds will go to the Unity Shoppe and Boys & Girls Club. Fri., Dec. 18, 7pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $25. Ages 21+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb n .com.

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12/3: Gloriana & Day + Shay Nashville-born vocal trio and recipient of the Academy of Country Music Award, Gloriana — along with Dan + Shay, one of country music’s most promising duos — will provide a night of country. Expect songs such as “Nothin’ Like You,” “19 You + Me,” and more. This show will benefit Toys for Tots, distributing new, unwrapped toys to the less fortunate. 8pm. Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez. $40. Ages 21+. Call (800) 248-6274 or visit chumashcasino .com.

12/3: Art Reception: Generations of Celebration Through Art This exhibit, looking at all types of celebration, will include works by the late Morris B. Squire, children at the Jewish Federation’s Family Time and its Young Adult Division, senior artists from the community, and artists at SlingShot Gallery. Enjoy the unveiling of the show with live music, wine, and appetizers. The exhibit shows through January 19, 2016. 5-7:30pm. Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr., 524 Chapala St. Free. Call 957-1115 or visit jewishsantabarbara.org/art-at-the-jcc.

Thursday 12/3 12/3: Curated Cocktails: Lucid Dreams Celebrate the holiday season and 1st Thursday with $5 themed cocktails created by Outpost at the Goodland’s resident mixologist, Chris Burmeister. DJ SkyPounce will provide tunes, and there will be free tours of Aikido Dream and Appearance Preserving Simplification. 7-9pm. Museum of Contemporary Art S.B., 653 Paseo Nuevo. Free. Call 966-5373 or visit mca santabarbara.org. 12/3-12/5: Metamorphosis Conference In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, this conference will bring scholars, artists, and audience to discuss the text. Explore and answer pressing questions of human and animal rights, old and new forms of warfare, art and technology, and more. Thu.: 4pm; Fri.-Sat.: 9:30am. Various locations, UCSB. Free. Visit www.gss .ucsb.edu/metamorphosis for a full schedule.

12/3-12/6, 12/8-12/9: Women in Jeopardy! What’s wrong with Liz’s new dentist boyfriend? Divorcées Mary and Jo are suspicious of her new man and will trade in their wine glasses for spy glasses to find out why his hygienist has gone missing. Follow them on their hilarious offroad adventure to discover the truth and save their friend. The play shows through December 20. Thu.-Sat., Wed.: 8pm; Sun.: 2 and 7pm; Tue.: 7pm. The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St. $20-$65. Call 965-5400 or visit ensembletheatre .com. Read more on p. 55. 12/3: Art Reception: 100 Grand This exhibit features 100 quality works for $1,000 or less. There will be paintings, drawings, photographs, assemblage and sculpture, and more. See what new ideas, aesthetics, and media are inspiring today’s artists. The exhibit shows through January 31, 2016. 5-8pm. Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 730-1460 or visit sullivangoss.com.

it off in your room, or gift it to a special someone! 5:30-7:30pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 963-4364 or visit sbma .net.

12/3: Book-Signing: Melissa Broughton and Petrine Day Mitchum Join Melissa Broughton, author of Cowboy Dad (a memoir of an alcoholic father), and Petrine Day Mitchum, author of Hollywood Hoofbeats (full of behind-the-scenes stories of famous movie horses and horses unknown), in a 1st Thursday book-signing event. 5-8pm. The Book Den, 15 E. Anapamu St. Free. Visit bookden.com.

12/3: Prepare for El Niño Forecasters are saying there’s a 75 percent chance we will experience heavier-than-normal rain this winter thanks to El Niño. S.B County Flood and Fire, Goleta Sanitary District, and other professionals will come together

with plans to help you prepare for this upcoming season. Discuss safety, pets, landscape, insurance, and more. There will be a Q&A after the forum. 6:308pm. Goleta Valley Community Ctr., 5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free. Visit tinyurl.com/elnino preparation.

Friday 12/4 12/4: UCSB Gospel Choir This highly successful gospel ensemble under the direction of Victor Bell will present a concert of praise and traditional gospel music. Don’t miss this choir that is regularly featured in numerous community and university celebrations and recently produced the CD Praize Party on the Yard. 7:30pm. Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB. Free-$15. Call 893-2064 or visit tinyurl.com/ UCSBGospel. 12/4: Spay/Neuter & Vaccine Clinic Low-income pet owners in the county can be among the first 30 to schedule a free spay/

12/3: SNBRN, Evol Morg L.A.based house deejay SNBRN is finally returning to S.B. for a lively set. His style can be described as “funky deep indie disco,” but genres don’t limit what he’ll be bringing to town. Electro techhouse duo Evol Morg will open the show. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $16. Ages 18+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com. 12/3: Family 1st Thursday: “Double Stack” Painting Create your own “double stack” work by drawing block lines and shapes on a canvas with masking tape and then painting over it with Day-Glo acrylics. Show

12/3: Lady McClintock’s Art Gallery Opening Get a sneak peek of the new gallery in town! Exhibit Portrait Artists, Rosemary McClintock brings life to reproductions of the Masters will feature replications of legends from Da Vinci to Raphael, all from large photos to small, piano-key miniatures. The exhibit shows through January 31, 2016. 5-8pm. Lady McClintock Studios, 1221 State St., Ste. 6. Free. Call 845-0030 or visit tinyurl.com/LadyMcClintock.

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12/4: Stone Cupid, Natalie D-Napolean After her punk powerhouse band Divine Horsemen, Julie Christensen created new folk-rock band Stone Cupid. Special guests will include Natalie D-Napoleon, who was raised on Croatian folk songs and American standards.

12/4: Jason Burns Bringing the sound of the future, Jason Burns (pictured) makes his way back to S.B. with some new fire. Including Portland native sounds, modern house, and Europe’s club cuts, he will deliver infectious vocal hooks and drop beats like no other. 10pm. Eos Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. Before 10pm: Free; after 10pm: $5-$10. Ages 21+. Visit musicislove.org.

saTurday 12/5 12/5: Mediums’ Day Do you want to connect with the spirit world? On this day, make a connection with the help of mediums. Since its inception in

1891, this church has been the go-to for all spirit needs. A donation will provide you a 15-minute reading. 10am-3pm. Spiritualist Church of the Comforter, 1028 Garden St. Suggested donation: $20. Call 965-4474. 12/5: Pop Up Market Are you looking for something fun, creative, and different to do? Artists, bakers, crafters, food trucks, and other vendors will get together to create the best marketplace around. Go by the ocean for a slight breeze, brews, and shopping. 1-5pm. Island Brewing Co., 5049 6th St., Carpinteria. Free. Call 745-8272 or visit tinyurl.com/ islandbrewingpopup. 12/5: An Afternoon of African Art Art dealer and teacher Ron Atwood has an exclusive and unique collection of traditional African pieces from tribes across Africa. He will share some of his favorite pieces, as well as stories and insights on the influence of traditional African art on modern Western art. 2-5pm. Institute of World Culture, 1407 Chapala St. Free. Call 966-3941 or visit worldtculture.org. 12/5: BRKLYN Combining elements of progressive house and trance, this duo creates a unique sound that includes cinematic drums, top-line vocals, synthesizers, and live guitar. BRKLYN has worked with Rick Nowels, producer of Lana Del Rey and

12/4-12/5: UCSB Fall Dance: Meraki Five senior BFA dance students and the UCSB Student Dance Company present Meraki, a show of soul, creativity, and love. They will perform “Oh What a World” choreographed by Cherice Barton, the woman behind Katy Perry’s appearance at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. Sat.: 7:30pm, Sun.: 2 and 7:30pm. Hatlen Theater, UCSB. $13-$17. Call 893-2064 or visit www.theaterdance.ucsb .edu.

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music. 3pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 617-3401 or visit sbmusicclub.org. 12/5-12/6: Seasonal Food Tasting Passport Enjoy the festival market, live carolers, holiday art and crafts, and samples from all of the market’s purveyors. All proceeds from the tasting passport will benefit the Foodbank of S.B. County. 1-5pm. S.B. Public Market, 38 W. Victoria St. $5. Call 770-7702 or visit sbpublic market.com.

sunday 12/6 12/6: Chamber Choir and Women’s Chorus The UCSB Department of Music will present a concert under the direction of Pascal Salomon that will open with Messe Brève, a literal “short mass” by Léo Delibes, followed by a more modern piece by John Tavener: Theotoke, meaning “mother of God,” in Greek. The concert will conclude with a piece by James MacMillan titled New Made for a King, a setting of a nativity poem from Her Maker’s Maker by Michael Symmons Roberts. 7:30pm. Geiringer Hall, UCSB. Free. Call 893-3230 or visit music.ucsb.edu.

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12/6: BASSH! The Encore Less than a month ago, BASSH! was at the New Vic showcasing a wide variety of social dance genres and live music. Don’t miss this encore performance that will benefit La Cumbre Jr. High School and the Westside Community. 7pm. La Cumbre Jr. High School Auditorium, 2255 Modoc Rd. $15. Visit sbassh .com.

12/7: SBBG New Volunteer Orientation Do you love gardening and spending time outdoors? Learn all the ways you can get involved in Botanic Garden activities. Maybe you can get your hands in the dirt or give tours and share knowledge about the plant and animal life of the county. 5pm. S.B. Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. Free. Call 682-4726 or visit sbbg.org.

12/8: Devin the Dude, Potluck Underground hip-hop artist Devin the Dude is wellknown for his unique rapping style, and he continues to blow up Houston’s hip-hop scene. Fans of artists E-40 and Living Legends will no doubt be surprised by opener Potluck as the duo infuses synth-mod beats and Hieroglyphics sounds with a twist of “gangsta-boogie.” 8pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $25. Ages 21+. Call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones.com.

12/6: Eugene Chadbourne, Azeem Ward, Rob Magill Legendary musician, writer, and radio host Eugene Chadbourne experimented with blues, country, bluegrass, and free jazz before fleeing the Vietnam War and ending up in Canada. He has since released more than 40 albums. Special guests will include flutist and Internet sensation Azeem Ward and Rob Magill, an

12/7: Three Mile Pilot Originally formed in 1991, San Diego–based indie-rock band Three Mile Pilot is composed of Pinback’s Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Tom Zinser and The Black Heart Procession’s Pall Jenkins. They return with a renewed enthusiasm, energy, and classics including “The Chief Assassin to the Sinister,” “Longest Day,” and “Glitter Wave.” 8pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St.

12/6: Arianna String Quartet, Heidi Lehwalder As the centerpiece of the annual Arianna Chamber Music Festival, the Arianna String Quartet (pictured) will join renowned harpist Heidi Lehwalder in an afternoon of classical music including Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130, Jacques Ibert’s Trio pour violon, violoncelle, et harpe, and Edvard Grieg’s Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27. A Meet the Artists reception will immediately follow the performance. 3pm. Logan House, 8585 OjaiSanta Paula Rd., Ojai. $15-$25. Call 646-9951 or visit chamber onthemountain.com.

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12/8: La Purísima Founders Day Concert More than 500 luminaries will lead the way to an evening of candlelight and music observing the anniversary of the founding of La Purísima Mission in 1787. Enjoy a musical performance in the setting of this historic church by candlelight. Guests are invited to La Sala to enjoy fellowship and refreshments. 7pm. La Purísima Mission State Historic Park, 2295 Purísima Rd., Lompoc. $6. Ages 6+. Call 733-3713 or visit lapurisimamission.org. 12/8: How to Create a Successful Art Career Artist, photographer, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo professor Sky Bergman will address the many components to establishing an art career, including creating your identity, learning to

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Arts & Crafts Beach-Show Pioneer: Margo von Phul Thousands of people buy gifts straight from their creators every Sunday of the year at the S.B. Arts & Crafts Show on Cabrillo Boulevard. But the boutique bacchanalia wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for Margo von Phul and friends, who officially established the saleabout five decades ago.“In six weeks, 15 of us got 30,000 signatures to put it on the ballot, and it was approved,” said von Phul, an “experimental artist” who’s done everything from butterfly silk screens to whimsical collages of high-heeled shoes. “It’s been nonstop ever since.” Not only can you peruse leather belts, jewelry, pottery, photography, plein-air paintings, lawn ornaments, and more original handicrafts on display— display “You’re not gonna find any of this in the stores!” promised von Phul— Phul but the stroll is also an ideal activity for those who crave people-watching, casual exercise, or just fresh saline air. Von Phul encourages those with kids in tow to check out the underused carousel across the street from her stall, but not before she’s done giving them a “30-second PhD in how to color.” That’s right— right she sells creative coloring books, too. Every Sunday and sometimes Saturdays along Cabrillo Boulevard sbaacs.com

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Not many clothing companies are rooted in the wind-energy industry, but that’s the story behind Purnell, whose founders have ties to Clipper Windpower. A fashion-minded mash-up of Patagonia and prAna, Purnell crafts clothes for men and women who aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty, providing uniforms for the makers and creatives of this world. Wolf’s Head (432 State St.); Mountain Air Sports (14 State St.); Rincon Designs Surf Shop (659 Linden Ave., Carpinteria), purnellgear.com

edgy Surf Stylings: Friday night aMateurS If FNA had a spirit animal, it would be an art-loving, hedonistic, Budweiserswilling mermaid with an attitude problem. FNA is the art-first fashion spawn of recovering pro-surfer Demi Boelsterli, herself a wild-haired, paint-splattered surf goddess. Lusting after a snapback with the cosmos on the brim or a denim jacket with a large Virgin Mary on the back? FNA’s got ya covered. Movement Boardshop (6556 Pardall Rd., Unit D; Isla Vista); Church of Skatan (26 East Gutierrez St.), fridaynightamateurs.com

Stylish printed wraps and ponchos are displayed alongside knitted wools for children and contemporary men and women’s wear. Owners Channon and Bianca Roe carefully designed the space to include home selections such as Berber rugs, coffee-table books, and one-of-a-kind jewelry. 730 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai, inthefieldojai.com

Comeback Catalog: CarBon2CoBalt Founded in 2010 by Matt Cooper—a Santa Barbara High grad and former president of The Territory Ahead who decided to launch his own brand while hiking Rattlesnake Trail—Carbon2Cobalt is a proudly catalog-based casual men’s clothing company that combines quality fabrics, basic yet contemporary style, and hidden details such as two-way pockets. Though started in Cooper’s home, the “effortlessly cool” brand now boasts State Street offices and a 5,000-square-foot warehouse in Carpinteria, and that localism explains why Carbon2Cobalt’s jackets, pants, sweaters, and shirts are so well attuned to the active yet laid-back Central Coast way of life. carbon2cobalt.com

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Food & Dr ink Get Your Grub on

Maybe you missed the memo, but specially made foods and drinks are one of the most memorable gifts for everyone on your nice list, and are especially well suited for those who seem to have everything. Most of the below can be found at Isabella Gourmet Foods (5 E. Figueroa St., isabellagourmetfoods.com), which stocks a wide and ever-evolving range of hometown-crafted treats. The Isla Vista Food Co-op (6575 Seville Rd., islavistafoodcoop.blogspot.com) is also a one-stop shop for many of these items, and Whole Foods (3761 State St., wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/santabarbara) sells quite a few, as well. And if you’re in Old Town Goleta, create an entire package of regional cuisine at S.B. Gift Baskets (230 Magnolia Ave., santabarbaragiftbaskets.com).

raising Brown Bars: tWenty-Four BlaCkBirdS ChoColate Mike Orlando doesn’t make truffles—he makes the chocolate itself, importing cacao from sustainable farms, roasting the beans, and then working the magic to make us drool. He’s also now making the equipment he invented, so others can do the same. twentyfourblackbirds.com

Flavors go Pop: Santa BarBara PoPCorn Co. Who knew popcorn could be such a gourmet treat? That’s the question for every first-time taster of Santa Barbara Popcorn Co., whose team of Christopher Pollastrini and Leiha Dulawan met while working together at Dos Pueblos High. Sourcing from California’s only organic popcorn grower, they make five standard flavors — Balsamic & Italian Herb, Sea Salt & Olive Oil, Honey Dijon, Jalapeño Jack, and Maple & Brown Sugar— Sugar but get even more creative during the holidays. “We came back with pumpkin spice again this year,” said Pollastrini. “It’s been an even bigger hit in 2015.” And don’t miss the Cocoa & Coffee, either— either it’s like breakfast dessert. sbpopcorn.com

Sips with Spice: grandMa toMMie’S aPPle Pie liqueur It’s hard to find a booze that pleases everyone, but this 40-proof, apple-flavored digestif by Cutler’s Artisan Spirits hits all the right savory, spicy, and sweet notes. Proprietor Ian Cutler, who uses organic cinnamon and real vanilla bean in the recipe, suggests drinking it on the rocks, in your tea or coffee, or just pouring it straight on ice cream. But be careful — it goes down a little too easy! 137 Anacapa St., Ste. D cutlersartisan.com

ale with ancho: telegraPh BreWing’S Winter ale Smoky and rich, this dark, heartily spiced ale was inspired by Mexican hot chocolate and features cinnamon, allspice, vanilla, and, best of all, ancho chili peppers in the recipe. “It is rich and complex and only available from Halloween through the end of the year,” said Telegraph’s owner, Brian Thompson, who’s selling bottles of the Winter Ale along with many other beers out of his smartly redesigned tasting room next to Carr Winery. 418 N. Salsipuedes St. telegraphbrewing.com

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We hadn’t heard of Union Street, either, until the opening bash a few weeks back, but we certainly know Pacific Pickle Works, Bradley Bennett’s company that pickles all sorts of produce and now sells in more than 100 stores across California. The Works now does its pickling in this collaborative kitchen that Bennett founded on Union Street—which is a one-block road on the lower Eastside by the MarBorg facility—which will also be home to a number of other food makers in the weeks to come.“It’s intended to be a place to house and encourage the growth and development of other local, compatible wholesale food-manufacturing businesses,” said Bennett. Union Street Makerspace: 718 Union St. pacificpickleworks.com

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Yeah, we know — presents aren’t all about clothes and food. They’re about jewelry, soap, and kitchen towels, too! Here’s a few of our go-to gifts when T-shirts and pickled veggies just won’t do. Most of these can be found at Plum Goods (909 State St., plumgoodsstore .com), whose owner Amy Cooper is a craft curator of sorts, often one of the first retailers to feature our region’s emerging products.

Wipe up in Style: dark green Seal’S kitChen toWelS A marine biologist by day, Jessie Altstatt is breaking our habit for wiping up spills with paper by silk-screening more than 20 different scenes from the barnyard, garden, and ocean onto kitchen towels. Popular versions include the “Freedom Chicken” and “Garden Goat.” The unbleached cottonflour-sack towels, quite rugged by design, are perfect for drying hands, dishes, and glassware and will last a long time. UCSB’s 5th Annual Winter Arts & Crafts Bazaar, Fri., Dec. 11, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., in front of Campbell Hall, and all the time at Island Seed and Feed (29 S. Fairview Ave., Goleta, islandseed.com). ). etsy.com/shop/DarkGreenSeal

Cleaned by Sea and Salt: Santa BarBara SoaPS Started in 2008 as a hobby that combined her passions of cooking, chemistry, and art, Tracy Wells makes her Santa Barbara soaps the old-fashioned way from scratch, combining Pacific sea salt, coconut oil, avocado oil, and coconut milk into bubble-bursting bars. Named after Butterfly Beach, Lotusland, and other Santa Barbara–ish things like sunshine, the soaps come on ethically harvested abalone shells, too.“For the holidays, we even have a pure sweet peppermint essential oil soap called Santa Claus Lane, wrapped in biodegradable cellophane to look like candy,” said Wells.“There’s also an iridescent glass holiday ornament that looks just like a bubble, full of bubbling bath salts, so it’s a two-in-one gift!” Plum Goods (909 State St.); Four Seasons The Biltmore (1260 Channel Dr.) santabarbarasoaps.com

gems for the Soul: Maile StoneS In 1993, Maile Ellington experienced a spiritual transformation while holding an ancient gem and redirected her life to become a carver of such stones. Two decades later, her colorful, tastefully proportioned line of gem-laced necklaces, bracelets, and more soothes both the eyes and the soul, and her meticulous sourcing protocols put your mind at ease, too. 615 De la Vina St., Studio #2 (every Thursday, 10am-6pm, plus Dec. 5, 12, and 19, noon-4pm) mailestones.com

upcycled for the kids: Cuddle BugS Inspired by a grandmother who designed Jantzen sportswear in the 1950s and ’60s, Toni Clark started making cuddle bugs when her grandson was born five years ago. She upcycles used cashmere sweaters into cute, fuzzy plush animals, tooth-fairy pillows, and puppets all while using her great-grandmother’s 1940 Singer featherweight sewing machine. Plum Goods (909 State St.) & Oreana Winery (205 Anacapa St.) on Dec. 5 sbretro.etsy.com

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Accessories Coffee grinds Become ink: doMeStiC StenCilW il orkS ilW Santa Barbara–raised San Diego resident Alex White and his S.B.-residing father-in-law, John Mohr, collaborate on a screenprinting company that makes cards, T-shirts, and more. That’s cool, but bonus points for the medium: The pair makes its dyes from used spent coffee grinds. domesticstencilworks.com

leather’s Clever: Make SMith leather CoMPany MP MPany Steven Soria’s De la Guerra street studio is humming like Santa’s workshop right now, smashing out a growing inventory of tote bags, wallets, belts, and much more. But the thirdgeneration leather dude is also sharing his wisdom with a series of classes, from blade axes to less dangerous affairs. 117 W. De la Guerra St., Unit C (Mon.-Sat., noon-6pm); Municipal Winemakers’ Muni Mega Mall Pop Up Shop on Dec. 17 (22 Anacapa St.) makesmith.com

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There are so many one-off shopping/eating/drinking/musical experiences in our world today that we might as well start calling ourselves Generation Pop-Up. And no spot on the calendar features more pop-up boutiques than this December run-up to Christmas, where many of the gifts featured in this guide — and much, much more — can be found at special sales. Stay on top of the regional pop-up universe by downloading the new app Depop, which tracks these sales for you. Here are just a few of our favorites.

artisans unite: yeS Store The nation’s longest-running holiday artisan co-op calls Santa Barbara home, and this year the Yes Store (founded in 1968) features 43 artists and crafters in the usually eclectic array of disciplines. Get your booties, bibs, gold, glass, ornaments, kaleidoscopes, gems, woodwork, nightlights, and more all in the same place! Daily, 10am-7pm 807 State St. facebook.com/theYesStore

room-to-room ramblings: deCk the hallS @ ojai ranCho inn This arty party started at the Presidio Motel on State Street before the Shelter Social Club crew got the boot and moved their creative juice factory to the Ojai Rancho Inn. Artisans occupy hotel rooms as guests wander from mini-sale to mini-sale, usually with ample musical and beverage entertainment. Dec. 19, noon-8pm 615 W. Ojai Ave., Ojai ojairanchoinn.com

good ood eats: gariBaldi goodS Generally just a brilliant online curated market of much of the best artisanal California food products, including Grrrnola in S.L.O., Omnivore Salt in S.F., and Twenty-Four Blackbirds right here in S.B., Garibaldi Goods will go brick-and-mortar for your totally tasteful holiday shopping. Dec. 5, 12, and 19, 11am-5pm 208 W. Canon Perdido St. garibaldigoods.com

art y you Can afford: art FroM SCraP’S under $50 WedneSday Wonderland giFt Fair Check out mind-bending art, jewelry, magnets, ornaments, and more by such artisans as Brad Nack, Dan Levin, Colleen Darling, Jason Summers, Syd McCutcheon, Tara Patrick, Maddie Joyce, and Carol Rosen. Everything is less than $50! Dec. 9, 5-8pm 302 E. Cota St. exploreecology.org

and More… Handmade Makers Market @ Poco Farms: Dec. 5, 10 am-5pm, 118 S. Lomita Ave., Ojai Holiday Craftique @ The Orchid: Dec. 13, 11am-6pm, 301 La Casa Grande Cir. Holiday Pop-Up Shop @ The Guilded Table: Dec. 11, 12, and 13, noon-6pm, 120 Santa Barbara St., guildedtable.com Christmas Shoppe in the Greenhouse @ The Orchid: Dec. 12, noon-6pm, 301 La Casa Grande Cir.

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week 12/9: Rock Painting Class Come try rock art! Paint your own rocks with anything you like: flowers, smiley faces, Disney princesses and princes, and more. There’s no better way to get the creative juices flowing than trying something new. Rocks and supplies are provided; preregistration is requested. 3:30-4:30pm. Montecito Library, 1469 E. Valley Rd., Montecito. Free. Call 969-5063 or visit sbp library.org. promote yourself, networking, and more. You can also discuss her current documentary film project, Lives Well Lived, which explores everyday people over the age of 75 and the secrets for happy living. 5-7pm. Union Bank, Community Partners Ctr., 11 E. Carrillo St. Free. Call 565-1332 or visit awolsb.org.

duction, Women in Jeopardy! by Wendy MacLeod, which features divorcées Mary and Jo, who are suspicious of their friend Liz’s new boyfriend. Go deep into the script, and then go see the show. Copies of the play are available for a one-week loan from the S.B. Central Library. 5:30-6:45pm. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 564-5641 or visit sbplibrary.org.

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Wednesday 12/9 12/9: The Tierney Sutton Band: A Century of Sinatra Spend this night with this Grammy nominee who has received numerous nominations for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Comprising Tierney Sutton and four instrumental virtuosos, this band will take on Frank Sinatra classics including “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Moon River,” and more. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $39-$105. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com. 12/9: Theatre Book Club Join Ensemble Theatre Company’s dramaturg Anna Jensen as she discusses their current pro-

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This past Thanksgiving, while everyone was enjoying turkey feasts, the Santa Barbara Zoo’s two Asian elephants, Sujatha and Little Mac, were munching on their own holiday treats: pumpkins. “This type of enrichment provides physiological and psychological stimulation,” said Sheri Horiszny, director of animal care, about the zoo’s 7th Annual Pumpkin Smash. “Having new things to experience is really good for them.” Traditionally closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas, the zoo began opening its doors on the holidays eight years ago because the animal keepers were already there. For the Thanksgiving Day smash, pumpkins are placed around the elephant’s habitat, where they can lumber around smashing, playing, and eating the orange squash. Since the elephants, who are both in their forties, are usually on a strict diet, the pumpkins provide a great treat, as well as entertainment for the zoo’s holiday visitors. Other animals also get Thanksgiving-themed treats, including this year’s frozen cranberry and fish treat for Katniss and Peeta, two Asian small-clawed otters.

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ack to the Future Day” on October 21, 2015, came and went without any signs of a truly functional hoverboard. But that didn’t stop Santa Barbara County’s Trikke Tech from unleashing its newest model, Freedom, a threewheeled electric bike that its inventors hope will become the urban “car” of the future. “Freedom is our dream to change the game for the e-bike market,” said Trikke cofounder John Simpson, who believes electronic bikes could be the solution for gridlock in population-dense cities. “The streamlined style and modular design provides a new lease on urban transportation and redefines the sheer joy of riding an electric vehicle.” Powered by a detachable lithium-ion battery capable of more than 400 recharges, the Freedom runs up to 15 miles per hour and, thanks to a lightweight, collapsible design, can easily be stored and carried after commuting to work. The three-wheeled, self-balancing setup is also more stable than two-wheeled e-bikes and positions the rider higher than other vehicles, allowing for better visibility. Already the Freedom is attracting many demographics. “We’ve put older people on it; we’ve put younger people on it,” said Simpson, who explained it’s the first lithium-powered e-bike to be sold for less than $1,000. “It’s perfect for people who want something fresh, different, fun, and green.” The team at Trikke, which is based in Buellton, started developing three-wheel “cambering vehicles” in 2000. They’ve already sold 500,000 such bikes but want to put an electric bike in every home. The Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for Trikke’s Freedom, which runs until December 12, quickly eclipsed its $22,000 goal, but there is still time to support the project, and the first 60 to pledge $599 will get their own. “The world needs the Freedom e-bike,” said Simpson. “It improves people’s lives and can help make the world a better place now and for the long run.” See trikke.com. — Austin Murphy

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bouncing balls as toddlers. They lived on different sides of town, but they were linked by the fellowship of their parents and an affinity for sports. “We’ve been best friends since we were babies,” said Melgoza, who was born eight months after Brace but caught up in a hurry. They rode bicycles and skateboards together. They shot backyard hoops. When they were in elementary school — Bolden at Laguna Blanca and Melgoza at Vieja Valley — they both played flag football. “We played each other one time,” Melgoza said. “I was a safety. [Brace] went out for a pass. I came up and picked it off. I heard him go, ‘Oh, shoot.’” As Brace recalled ruefully, “Our whole team got mad — she was so good in football.” Santa Barbara High football was the sport that bonded their fathers, Billy Brace and Jaime Melgoza, but it’s basketball that has fired the passions of their children. Bolden Brace did play wide receiver for a couple of seasons, while Melgoza went right into the gym and became a relentless offensive force, leading the Dons girls to the state finals as a sophomore and putting up mind-boggling numbers as a junior last year. The 510 forward was the fourth player in CIF-Southern Section history to surpass 1,000 points in a season (with 1,015). She averaged 32.7 per game, topped by 50 points in a play-off game. Brace, meanwhile, sprouted to 65 and became a fulltime starter for the boys last season, when he assembled a sterling set of statistics: 20.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, 4.2 assists, and 2.4 steals. With those two players and their supporting casts, it’s showtime at J.R. Richards Gym whether the boys or girls are playing. The two teams have a combined record of 109-23 over the past two seasons. That’s what makes the 2015-16 season so special. It is the consummation of Melgoza’s and Brace’s hometown playing careers. They will be heading in different directions with Division 1 college scholarships: Melgoza to the University of Washington and Brace to Northeastern University in Boston. They did go for the same Husky mascot. Melgoza said it was a relief when Washington head coach Mike Neighbors visited her home in September and, over a pizza, she committed to his Huskies.“The last four months of club basketball were so stressful,” she said.“Two hundred college coaches are looking at your every move.”Vanderbilt was also very interested in her, but she decided to stay on the West Coast and play for an up-and-coming Pac-12 team that went into the NCAA tournament last season.

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Brace did not dither when it came to choosing a college. Northeastern was the first school he visited after summer ball. He learned that the Huskies won the Colonial Athletic Association championship and made their first NCAA appearance since 1991, losing by four points to Notre Dame. “Boston’s a cool town,” he said. “I’ll be going to Patriots and Celtics games.” Now comes the fun part for Melgoza and Brace: prep seniors playing one more season for their school, in front of family, friends, and community fans. “These are the memories you’re going to treasure the rest of your life,” said boys coach Dave Bregante. “Embrace it. You can’t duplicate Santa Barbara-versusSan Marcos in a club game.” Bregante’s Dons have good size with three returning starters — Brace, 64 Nick Busch, and 63 Ben Clay — and another 64 forward, JM Cage. “We look good in warmups,” the coach said. Every guard but Ben Brown graduated from last year’s 29-6 team. That’s where Brace’s skills come in handy. He can play every position from point guard to center. DRIBBLING TOGETHER: Bolden Brace (left) and Amber Melgoza have “Bolden’s a great team player,” Bregante said.“He’s really motivated to do well. He sees played various sports against each other since childhood. Today, they’re both college-bound leaders of their Santa Barbara High basketball teams. the floor really well. If you’re open, he’s going to pass you the ball.” Santa Barbara’s first home game will be Saturday evening, last year, and they have been bumped up to Division 1 for December 12, against San Luis Obispo. The Dons will play in the current season. They’ll be facing a lot of big, strong girls, the Carpinteria tournament December 18-22 and host their and Melgoza is their tallest starter.“It’s exciting for me to see own Holiday Classic December 28-31. Those San Marcos if we excel,” Butcher said. games, when Brace will be matched up against UC San The girls return three other starters — Jada Howard, Diego–bound Scott Everman, will happen January 15 (at Kimberly Gebhardt, and Cassandra Gordon — and also welcome dynamic sophomore point guard Alondra SBHS) and February 3 (at San Marcos). Melgoza also gets props from her coach, Andrew Jimenez, who sat out last season with a knee injury. They Butcher, for being a team player. “Amber’s very unselfish,” will play in the Gold Coast Tournament December 9-12 he said. “She’s a good passer. She surprised people with her at San Marcos and host the Santa Barbara Tournament of scoring last year. It will be hard for her to repeat that. We Champions December 19-23. want to play good defense. That’s hard work, and Amber works as hard as anyone. She doesn’t have an ego that gets in the way.” The Santa Barbara girls will have to be scrappy. Because of their success in the 2014 postseason, they were elevated from Division 3 to Division 2

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In October, the Wine Cask hosted a trade tasting of true Champagnes from France that featured 11 different houses and 25 different wines. The big boys such as Taittinger, Charles Heidsieck, and Bollinger were there, but so were smaller producers brought by an import company called Esprit de Champagne. Estimated retail prices ranged from around $35 all the way past $200. Based on that afternoon, here are some trends to watch for when buying your own bottle this season. Vintage vs. NV: Most of the Champagnes

available in America and relatively affordable are nonvintage, or NV, in which producers use components from varying years to keep a consistent flavor. But aficionados seek out vintage bubblies, for they indicate a higher quality and, relatedly, cost. “We don’t name vintage unless we’re confident,” said the Charles Heidsieck rep, after pouring his solid Brut Reserve NV but before his even better 2005 Brut and 1995 Blanc des Millenaires. Grower Champagnes: The export Champagne market is dominated by a few major producers, such as Moët & Chandon and Mumm, both owned by alcohol conglomerates. Those seeking

a more personal backstory should aim for grower Champagnes, produced usually by families or cooperatives. Their American debut was relatively recent, so we’re still learning but already appreciate the unique styles and often lower prices. “Whenever people find out what it’s all about, they’re really enthusiastic,” said the Esprit de Champagne rep, whose highlights were the bargain BochetLemoine Brut NV, the grippy 2004 Louis Casters, and the zippy 2005 H. Blin.“I liken it to Campbell’s Soup versus something your grandma made.” Pinot Meunier: Most Champagne is made

with either chardonnay (as in “blanc de blancs”) or pinot noir (“blanc de noirs”), or both. But pinot meunier is also part of the allowed palette, and tends to impart more body and texture. If bottled alone, it can also be labeled a “blanc de noirs,” though the excellent De L’Argentaine NV —a cooperative farm bottling from the village of Vandières — simply goes with “brut.”

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Considering that Santa Barbara boasts a cool climate and a repu reputation for outstanding pinot noir and chardonnay— chardonnay the classic champagne building blocks — it shouldn’t be surprising that our homegrown sparkling wines are quite fantastic. More than 30 vintners currently bottle a bubbly, so it’s no longer hard to find one that suits your menu, palate, and budget. But expect to pay upward of $30 per bottle for decent stuff. The majority are using the “Méthode Champenoise,” the timeand energy-consuming process used in France to yield complex wines. But there’s some unconventional grapes in play, as well: Blair Fox’s Foxy Bubbles is all grenache, and Solminer sells a sparkling syrah, too. Don’t fret, though, if traditional champagne is more your speed— speed you’ll happily discover that most winemakers here are making their bubbles with you in mind.

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acid, bright fruit, rustic tannins, and earthy layers of spice, pairs well with rich holiday foods. Though this is not Lambrusco in name or substance, the sparkling barbera borrows its spirit without question, proving bright, frothy, fun, and great for heavier fare. $32 2011 Riverbench Cork Jumper Blancs de Noir: This barely rosé sparkler made

from 100 percent pinot noir is a knockout, showing a gorgeous coppery hue. On the nose, notes of blood orange and rose petals are laced with a minerally funk. It’s bright, juicy, and stony on the palate with notes of strawberries and pear on the finish. $45 Alma Rosa Blancs de Blanc de Blancs: Racy acidity, tangy

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Norm Yost’s sparkling résumé goes back 15 years, but this is his first blended cuvée of chardonnay from the Santa Maria Valley and pinot noir from Sta. Rita Hills. This stunner boasts notes of fresh white peaches and strawberries, a creamy mouthfeel, and a clean finish. $42

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minerality, a lingering floral perfume, and notes of citrus and stone fruits on the palate make for an elegant and feminine-style sparkler that calls to mind the best of Champagne. $60 2011 Sea Smoke Sea Spray Blanc de Noirs: At this price point

you could get a very good bottle of champagne, but this is worth the splurge. Fresh and lively with notes of red currant and strawberries on the nose, Sea Spray is luscious and racy at the same time with a clean and lingering finish. $90 2013 Fess Parker Fesstivity Brut Rosé: This 100 percent pinot

is dangerously gulpable. Notes of cherries mingle with a touch of vanilla on the nose for a wine that’s refreshingly lithe with acidity — CH yet infused with classic Sta. Rita Hills fruit. $40 and certainly looks prettier. The Rosé NV by Bollinger, which is still run by the family that founded the brand in 1829, was particularly memorable, with bright and tight pink fruit notes. Packaging: Like all wine sectors,

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—The City Council finds that it is in the interest of the public health, safety, and the general welfare of the community that time, place, and manner restrictions be established with respect to the operation MOBILE SHAKE-UP? The Burger Bus is one of several mobile and location of mobile vending vendors that could be affected by an updated ordinance. vehicles or any non-motorized wheeled container, such as a wagon or pushcart upon any city street. December 3 at 2 p.m. at the Cabrillo Pavilion —No person shall stand, park, or operate any Arts Center, 1118 East Cabrillo Boulevard. [vending] vehicle within or from the public right of way at the following locations: those IRON TO APARTMENTS: The former streets bounded by and including: Castillo home of the Craviotto Bros. Iron Shop, on the Street, Micheltorena Street, Garden Street, and corner of Anacapa and Ortega streets, across Cabrillo Boulevard and on Milpas Street from from the Paradise Café and Seagrass, will be the intersection of Milpas and Quinientos to torn down and replaced with 30 apartments, two the intersection of Milpas and Canon Perdido. retail spaces, and a restaurant. —It shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale any food or beverage from any pushcart on any MOOVING ON: I can’t hide it anymore: Subpublic street, including parkways or sidewalks, lime restaurant at 901 North Milpas Street (the building with the cow on the roof) has migrated within the city. —No vendor shall stand, stop, or park any vehi- to greener pastures. I stopped by today, and cle, from which merchandise, food, or other nobody was around, but a sign steered me to items are sold or displayed or offered for sale, the McConnell’s dairy plant next door where barter or exchange, on any portion of any street, I grilled an employee who revealed that Suballey, sidewalk or public property within the city lime is gone. The eatery looked gone. I first herd for a period of time that exceeds sixty minutes rumors that Sublime bought the farm a few at any one location. Any vending conducted at months ago, though I could be misteaken. Back a location within a five hundred foot radius of in their prime, when Sublime opened the barn any other location used in that same day by the doors earlier this year, I was in udder amazesame vending vehicle shall constitute one single ment to learn that the owners of Sublime spent nearly five years renovating the building. Sounds location. —Mobile food vendors on private property shall like somebody was milking it. be located and operated in compliance with the following standards: Mobile food vendors WINEHOUND BEING SOLD: This just in may only operate in non-residential zones, on from The Winehound, 3849 State Street:“Today, lots developed with non-residential uses. Shall we must announce that the Winehound will be not exceed one truck per day per parking lot. transferring ownership early next year, and we’d Maximum three hours per day per parking lot. like to thank you, our loyal clients, for your supNo lot may have a mobile food vendor onsite port since April of 2008 when the doors opened. for more than ninety days total in any twelve- We’ve been delighted to introduce our patrons to the finest vino we’ve encountered, and perhaps month period. turn a palate or two onto something unexpected Food truck owners are concerned. “Mostly it and flavorsome. And we’ve made a few friends seems they want to restrict hours, where we can along the path, folks with a sense of humor park because of traffic concerns, and what is per- who also appreciate liquid satisfaction, and ceived as a threat to public safety,” says Michael we’ll surely encounter you again. Please underGardner, owner of The Burger Bus. “They will stand that we’ll be minimizing inventory over require us to move after a specific amount of the month of December in anticipation of the time, which would be less than existing posted changeover, so if we don’t necessarily have your time limits, and essentially keep us out of the favorite bottle, we’ll be glad to suggest a worthy Funk Zone even if on private property.” option. There will be more spotlight sales, and The public is invited to comment on the we’ll also continue to accept special orders by the proposed changes at a community meeting on case. Cheers, Bob, Betty and Dennis.” John Dickson’s reporting can be found every day online at SantaBarbara.com. Send tips to info@SantaBarbara.com.

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Lagers aren’t typically known for their richness, but that’s the hand played by this whopper of a brew, which was aged for eight months in rum and vanilla extract barrels. The planning for this celebratory ale started more than a year ago, in part because rum barrels are much harder to come by than whiskey or wine casks, and are often in comparably poor shape. “Doppelbock by nature has more of a cola taste to it, and the idea was to put it into rum barrels and get that Cuba Libre, that rum-and-coke taste,” said the brewery’s co-owner Jaime Dietenhofer of the chocolate-y results.“It’s the best anniversary beer we’ve brewed by far. People who aren’t even into beer think it’s approachable.” The hearty base of traditional Munich malts boosted alcohol levels into the danger zone, but, as Dietenhofer explained,“It’s a really smooth 12 percent.” The beer is available in 22-ounce bottles and on tap at all of Fig Mountain’s taprooms, including its sixth in Westlake Village, which opens this week. Dietenhofer is happily pleased with his young company’s steady success, which he attributes to the fast-paced growth of the entire craft brew industry. “Consumers are so much more educated and discerning now,” he said. “It’s making the good guys better.” — Matt Kettmann See figmtnbrew.com.

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

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

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112 E. De La Guerra Street, Studio 7, 805-245-0794 Santa Barbara Dance Institute (SBDI) celebrates its ten-year anniversary providing both in and after-school educational dance programing to our public school children. Our celebration brings together the dancing children, gorgeous photographs of Santa Barbara by the celebrated local photographer Andreina Diaz. Wine served.

L GrassINI INI F FaMILy MILy VINEyard VINEyard: 6 El Paseo, 805-897-3366 Join us in our beautiful Downtown Santa Barbara tasting room. We will be showcasing Photography by Ventura County Native Ryan Caliendo of Caliendo Photography and chocolates for a great cause by Evolla. Come sip, savor, stay for a glass of Grassini wine, and learn about how you can support Direct Relief with every chocolate bar purchase. M saLT: 740 State Street, 805-963-7258 ’Tis the season of celebration! Join us for an evening of drumming in the rosy glow of our Himalayan Salt Cave to kickoff a month of holiday festivities and the 63rd Annual Downtown Santa Barbara Holiday Parade – World A’ Glow. N

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625 Chapala Street, 805-563-2882 Jodi House empowers brain injury survivors not merely to survive but thrive! Come enjoy an evening of art exhibitions and musical entertainment hosted by Jodi House members and staff. Appetizers and drinks will be provided.

P saMy’ y s Ca y’ C MEra: 530 State Street, 805-963-7296 Check out a display of images shot with Leica cameras, the company that started 35mm photography. Plus meet the Leica representatives and have the chance to check out our new Leica boutique and all metal print wall showing images shot by the Samy’s Camera employees.

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35 West Haley Street, 805-899-8811 Cayetana Conrad capturing enchanting landscapes in a Magic Realizm. We also are featuring Live Electronic Kirtan Music by Jacob Durran, Jewelry by Amber Doylak, and of course Alchemy’s 1st Thursday Specials in the Spa & Café!

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Six Books - Six Authors: Meet the authors and get your holiday books signed tonight! “Bud” Bottoms, signing Kids Ethics and The Story of Santa Barbara’s Dolphin Fountain; Erin Graffy, signing Animalia, book of poetry paired with animal portraits by artist Tom Mielko, inspired by the SB Zoo animals. Betsy Green, signing Way Back When in Santa Barbara 1915, tales of everyday life 100 years ago. Keith Gray Hale, signing Charlie and the Whale, part fiction, autobiography, marine science and pure fun, geared towards children but enjoyed by all! Sylva Kelegian, signing God Spelled Backwards: The Journey of an Actress into The World of Dog Rescue and The Dolphin Princess, a cross between The Wizard of Oz and The Little Mermaid. Jane Centofante, signing Santa Barbara: A California Coastal Town, an illustrated stroll through our charming and historical town. Wine poured by Sanford Winery.

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1130 State Street, 805-963-4364 The Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces returns to SBMA to perform a short program of choral music. The Quire of Voyces was founded in 1993 to rediscover the sacred a capella choral music of the Renaissance and the modern age (6:30-7 pm).Family 1st Thursday: “Double Stack” Painting. Block lines and shapes on canvas with masking tape, then paint over in Day-Glo acrylics to complete your own “Double Stack” painting, inspired by the work of Peter Halley. (Time: 5:30 – 7:30 pm, Free)

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MASTERPOL & GYÖRFI: IN CONTRAST In its last exhibition for 2015, ARTAMO GALLERY presents works by Rose Masterpol and András Györfi. Rose Masterpol’s vivid expressionistic paintings usually come in strong colors, but white is the dominant element here. They stand in stark contrast to her other work, as well as to the surrealistic fantasy driven colorful paintings by András Györfi. Masterpol, now based in Santa Fe, studied art, graphic-design and music. András Györfi learned painting in Budapest, Hungary, where he still lives. He also has an architectural degree and is known for his book and magazine illustrations. Both are widely collected in the U.S., in Europe and in Hong Kong.

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The Leadership in Arts Award will be presented at 6:00 pm in the Channing Peake Gallery. Also on view in the Gallery: Santa Barbara Printmakers’ Juried Exhibition.

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12 East Figueroa Street, 805-730-7860 Local photographer Kailie Dan is inspired by the hunt for adventure and exploration of the outdoors - photography is her passion and a way of expression. She also enjoys the unique perspective of how we as humans create and transform our world.

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11 East Anapamu Street, 805-730-1460 Sullivan Goss celebrates the opening of our most highly anticipated show of the year, our annual 100 Grand exhibit. With 100 works of art in a single room, each priced under $1,000, you’ll need to get here early if you want to make sure you get first shot at pieces by your favorite artist. Also on view: American Details and The Winter Salon.

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1221 State St Suite 6, 805-845-0030 Grand Opening: From Da Vinci to Raphael, from a large scale to small piano key miniatures, from being displayed in the Queens Gallery in London, England by the Royal Miniatures Arts Society – this vast collection of oil paintings from “large to small” will now be featured at Lady McClintock Studios new Art Gallery in the Victoria Courtyard.

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3 Ca Ca’ a’darIO GaLLEry: ry 31 E. Victoria Street, 310-895-0134 ry: Local Santa Barbara artists Tami Snow and John Baran will explore a playful, colorful fusion of abstract and contemporary art. Art for Animals is a colorful sophisticated show with a touch of whimsy. 10% of sales will go back to the not-for-profit partners, Channel Island Marine & Wildlife Institute (CIMWI) and C.A.R.E. 4Paws.

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1333 State Street, 805-882-2108 Fall Colors: The latest landscape paintings of Santa Barbara done en plien air by artist Chris Potter. Now that the ridiculously hot 6 month long summer has come to an end, we can finally enjoy our foothills. Come enjoy new paintings from our front country and get someone you love a piece of Santa Barbara for the holidays.

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5 East Figueroa Street, Second Floor, 805-451-2570 Celebrate the holidays with us! Sip our highlighted 2012 Pinot Noir by the glass at a special price! Local artist Rick Doehring will be showing his colorful artwork while local vendors from Goodland Chai Tea and Vegan Cinnies sample their delicious treats. Special discounts for gift baskets ordered through Cebada Wine.

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524 Chapala Street, 805-957-1115 Art at the JCC and the Morris B. Squire Foundation presents: Generations of Celebration through Art. This non-juried exhibition offers a mix of media and genres, created by a wide range of ages in a celebratory approach. Also, enjoy wine and appetizers! Curated by Lynn M. Holley.

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1528 State Street, 805-962-6444 LIFE IS ART, LIFE IS DIVINE, LIFE IS LOVE: Presenting the paintings of Pedro De la Cruz. Bursting with great potential, this young artist follows in the tradition of Picasso. His use of bold color with cubist tendencies explores the figure, freely pushing the limits. Please join us to celebrate his opening artist reception.

E ENCa ENC NTO: 1114 State Street #22, 805-722-4338 Come party with us! DJANGO REINHART style gypsy jazz musique with the IDIOMATIQUES from 6 - 8 PM. Wine will be available for $5. Please note that this will be our last gig at ENCANTO — the shop will be closed as of 12/31/2015 as we are changing our business model. Many thanks for your patronage, it has been a great pleasure to be a part of the Downtown SB community for the past 5 years.

R hOTEL MILO: 202 West Cabrillo Boulevard, 805-966-2880 LOOK THROUGH THE LENS: Presenting iconic photographs by esteemed Santa Barbara artist and owner of Dos Pueblos Ranch, Henry Schulte. Come meet the artist and enjoy wine tastings hosted by Sanger Family Wines. PErFOrMaNCEs

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900 State Street, Marshalls Patio, 5:00-7:30pm Santa Barbara Revels presents The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice. This year’s show, The Treasures of Spain, will have four performances on Dec. 19th & 20th at the Lobero Theatre. Music Director Adam Phillips leads the Solstice Singers in Spanish, Moorish and Sephardic music from the cultural crossroads of Andalusia. The Pacific Sword Company showcases its signature sword dance.

807 State Street (at De La Guerra), 805-966-9777 Please join us for a special party on 1st Thursday as we present the 48th annual Yes Store. The Yes Store has been a local 11 Wa WaTE aTErhOusE EG GaLLEry: ry 1114 State Street # 9, 805-962-8885 tradition each Holiday Season since 1968 delighting locals and visitors to downtown Santa Barbara with an impressive ry: The Gallery is going on its 31st year and 24 years in La Arcada Courtyard. It features artwork from some of today’s display of high quality local hand-crafted art work in many mediums including: jewelry, ceramics, art glass, graphics, sTuFF ThE Bus: MEET & GrEET Mrs. CLausE finest nationally-known painters. Southwest Art Magazine recognized Diane & Ralph Waterhouse among “10 mixed media, photography, textiles, weaving, woodworking and more. The Yes Store is open 7 days a week – remember 900 State Street, Marshalls Patio, 5:00-8:00pm Prominent People” in the Fine Art Business. Ralph Waterhouse will give a painting demonstration at 5:45pm. we close December 24th only to reopen at a new location next year. Bring a toy to donate to Peoples’ Self-Help Housing toy drive! You’ll find Mrs. (Ms.) Claus at Marshalls Patio, accepting new, unwrapped toys, gift cards or cash for 350 low-income kids in our community – and Starbucks will be serving 12 GaLLEry ry 113 18 suNdIaL sT s udIOs IO : 715 Kimball Avenue, 805-963-8332 IOs hot cider for you to stay warm! 1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #8, 805-965-6611 This month featuring the work of artist Mary Hattrup. Her works in acrylics depict whimsical landscapes and striking Gallery 113 presents original art by members of the Santa Barbara Art Association. Suemae Willhite is the Artist of portraits. Meet Mary, as well as other resident artists of Sundial Studios while sipping some holiday cheer. Unique artwork PasEO NuEVO shOPs & rEsTauraNTs the Month with a collection of her Asian Art - Chinese Calligraphy and Brush Painting, beautiful images in dynamic will be displayed by more than 20 local artists with disabilities. A special show of Sundial’s instructors’ work will also be Jump into the spirit of the season with traditional costumed carolers, The Other Reindeer, performing in Center Court dancing movements with the rhythm in music. The featured artists are Susanne Meyer, Debbie Watts, Carrie from 6pm to 8pm and take part in Let It Snow – live snowfall at 7pm and 8pm. Don’t miss this beautiful display of unveiled this evening. Givens, Carolyn Paterson, Seraphine, and Suemae Willhite. (Open 11am-5pm, Mon-Sat and 1pm-5pm on Sun.) snow flurrying down from the buildings, over the big tree and on to singing carolers while kids watch in amazement 1sT Thursday ParTNErs and adults become kids. 13 BELLa BELL rO rOsa Osa Ga GaLLErIEs IE : 1103-A State Street, 805-966-1707 IEs A aLIGNEd PILa PILaTE aTEs TEs sT s udIO: 1516 Chapala Street, 805-506-8651 Bella Rosa Galleries is pleased to announce that we’re invited to exhibit at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antiques Celebrating Santa Barbara with everything local: artists (Chris Potter and Nelson Parrish), craftspeople (jeweler Kimiko Show December 3-7, 2015. Please visit the gallery through the month to see our ongoing show of Edward Borein, 1st thursDay: aFTEr hOurs! Cohn and organic lip balms and lotions from Makes 3) appetizers and wine! Join us to learn more about our studio. Henry Chapman Ford, Marc Chagall & Ronald Stevens’ works as well as our extensive Estate Jewelry collection.

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220 West Canon Perdido Street, 805- 770-3878 SlingShot Gallery is proud to feature artist Jeff Working. Jeff is passionate about drawing the most important moments from his favorite Bible stories. He uses colored pencils to relentlessly burnish color upon color to the idealized angles and prophets in his striking hand colored prints. Please swing by to take in Jeff’s prints, paintings and ceramic art. Stroll through the gallery with a glass of Willson Family wine and find the perfect unique affordable gift!

1323 State Street, 805-364-5141 Home for the holidays, #1stThursdayDSB! We’re celebrating the holiday season in Santa Barbara and invite you to join us for our last 1st Thursday of 2015. Come in out of the cold and enjoy our latest art exhibit, spiked cider, eggnog, music, and of course good company!

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38 West Victoria, 805-770-7702 Time to ring in the holidays at the Santa Barbara Public Market with a great line up of food, drinks, music, and merriment this 1st Thursday. The VADA from Santa Barbara High School will deck the halls of the Kitchen with their visual creations. Be sure to taste the artisanal pasta from Le Sorelle while listening to One2Tree spread holiday cheer. Kalyra and Area 5.1 wineries will be giving the gift of delicious varietals and Anchor and Ninkasi brewing companies will be sharing their seasonal brews to nice boys and girls.

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D ThE BOOK dEN: 15 E Anapamu Street, (805) 962-3321 Meet the authors! Melissa Broughton, the author of Cowboy Dad: Love, Alcoholism, and a Dying Way of Life, presents a raw and candid look at the author’s life with her alcoholic father, as well as the beautiful country lifestyle she led while living on a small-town ranch.Petrine Day Mitchum is the author of Hollywood Hoofbeats: the Fascinating Story of Horses in Movies and Television. Having grown up around movie stars and horses, Petrine Day Mitchum is the ideal author to pay tribute to the thousands of equine actors that have entertained the world since the beginning of the movies.

136 East De La Guerra Street, 805-966-1601 ALEXANDER F. HARMER – Gatherings and Celebration Join us for wine and music as we celebrate our exhibition dedicated to Alexander Harmer, considered “Southern California’s first great painter of the 19th century” (Edan Hughes). Remembered as the first artist to open a studio in Santa Barbara and for his series of exquisite paintings of the California missions under Mexican rule. Guest curator, Marlene R. Miller. 653 Paseo Nuevo Terrace, 805-966-5373 Join us for Happy Hour at the Museum! $5 themed cocktails created by Outpost at the Goodland’s resident mixologist Chris Burmeister, fun art activities, & a special set of hand-selected house grooves by DJ SkyPounce. FREE tours of the current exhibitions: Tam Van Tran, Aikido Dream and Bloom Projects: Michael DeLucia, Appearance Preserving Simplification. Special thanks to: Outpost at the Goodland and Telegraph Brewing Company.

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Join The Museum tonight to keep the party going, Museum-style! Be entertained by DJ Darla Bea, mixing the best holiday music with reinvented favorites, along with pop-up performances and fun. Celebrate Santa Barbara history and explore the Museum’s exhibitions with a chance to win prizes, a no-host bar, light fare—all while socializing with friends Keep the fun going in Santa Barbara’s Historic Cultural & Theatre District as the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Granada Theatre, the Ensemble Theatre Company at the New Vic, the Arlington Theatre and the Lobero Theatre host 1st Thursday: After Hours every month, proving that there’s always something happening in the Downtown Cultural District—you just have to know where to look.

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don’t understand women wanting to be in the military. The sad thing is they think that’s a step forward, yet they leave their own children to kill others’ children. That’s totally beyond me. But women do simply amaze me, too, at what they can do. They are the nurturers of the world. They care for men and children. On Mother’s Day 2000, you joined about three quarters of a million others in the Million Mom March to promote tighter gun controls. How is the U.S. doing on that? We’re so far behind. We keep building more prisons, we keep the death penalty, and yet we don’t change the laws about guns. It’s true that other countries think we’re crazy, with all our guns. Do you think that all your efforts, and those of others, have made a difference? I do. We have to have faith and know that this — gun violence—is going to change at some time because the young are counting on this.

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In Hollywood, you were considered beautiful and exotic, with your dark skin and blue eyes. Was it the same growing up in New Zealand? When I was growing up, I remember distinctly being called a “dirty Māori.” I would try to scrub my skin to make it lighter. In the 1950s, there were few social or legal structures in place for women who had been mistreated. That changed radically in the 1960s, with the various women’s move-

t 1950s Hollywood talks and tHe peace MoVeMent ments. How do you think women are doing these days? A lot has changed for women, although the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment] still has not been passed. Making 77 cents on the dollar for the same work men are doing, the efforts to recriminalize abortion — those are backwards steps. I think women have thought we were moving forward, but in some ways we’ve taken steps back. For example? Some of the gains that women seek today don’t seem like gains to me. I

You’ve spoken to students at Santa Barbara High School about your experiences. What kind of reception did you get? There were 31 students listening to this old woman, nothing on their desks except pencils and paper. Their backpacks were under the seat; there were no little machines. I was blown away. I got a thank-you card from them, and I’m going back in the fall.

You’ve done so much trying to make a peaceful world for our children. Do you think there’s hope? Here are the words I’d like to leave with you. I believe that the Dalai Lama has it correctly — we must love one another. The faith of knowing that all I’ve got is this one vehicle, this tired old body, my mind still very sharp. It’ll go soon. But I have very strong faith, and I believe, like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, that love is what will save us. — Carol Douglass

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American electro-pop rebel Halsey’s debut, Badlands, is about as dark and seductive as mainstream pop gets. Thick with booming bass lines, spooky synths, and skull-rattling beats, the pastel goth sound captures the torments and triumphs of youth in a catchy and creepy way. “Colors” is a beautiful synesthetic love song, while the angry “Control” sounds cut from a horror movie. Some might find it a little melodramatic, but you might be too old — this is anthemic music for all young souls who raise a middle finger to boundaries, binaries, and bigoted bullies. Teenage angst hasn’t sounded so good in a while. — Richie DeMaria

On The Strypes’ sophomore album, Little Victories, Cavan, Ireland’s young rock ‘n’ blues revivalists’ exuberant joie de vivre continues apace. Building on the old-school Bo Diddley, The Yardbirds, and Dr. Feelgood blues-wailin’ influences of Snapshot, the lads also crib from The Jam, The Libertines, and Arctic Monkeys. The riff-tastic “I Need to Be Your Only” is an earworm that will stick with you for days, while the hooky “A Good Night’s Sleep and a Cab Fare Home” finds passionate vocalist Ross Farrelly bringing the northern soul as he sings, “I’ve got nothing but a keen eye for ya and a need to sin.”“Scumbag City” is the raucous foot-stomper that showcases guitarist Josh McClorey as the heir apparent to the late great Rory Gallagher. Rock out, and carry on, boys! — Sean Mageean

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aven’t you ever thought, “My life story would make a great book”? Well, Jolene DeLisa did; not only has she experienced enough adventure to fill a book, but she has also written that book, titled Under the Ginkgo Tree: A Memoir. The autobiography is a fast-paced, engrossing tale of her life: from her upbringing as an orphaned child of a teenage mother and the racism she encountered growing up in New Zealand (DeLisa is half Māori) to being a young woman in the Hollywood scene in the 1950s and her later devotion to the peace movement. Under the Ginkgo Tree chronicles tragedy — her son, Kirk, died in a helicopter accident in 1991 — and triumphs — she marched all the way across the United States in 1986 and went to Russia with a peace group in 1987. Living in Santa Barbara for more than a decade, DeLisa has soldiered on in the quest for peace, working in numerous political campaigns and working to stop gun violence. On the 10th anniversary of Kirk’s death, she planted a Peace Pole at La Casa de Maria in Santa Barbara. DeLisa, at 87 years old, still spends time promoting peace; last spring she spoke to a class at Santa Barbara High School about her experiences around the world. I recently spoke over the phone with DeLisa about some of the highlights of her peripatetic life.

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There aren’t many Santa Barbara bands as institutional as Dannsair. You may have jigged or downed a dram or two to their Celtic fusion music; you may have been warmed by their hearty sounds on your seasonal snowbird escape; or you may have loved them on St. Patrick’s Day even if you don’t remember. For 18 years, Dannsair has been enlivening Dargan’s Thursday nights with its twists on tradition. On December 3, Dannsair releases its sixth album, Caledonia, which was recorded over two years at Santa Barbara Sound Design, with all members cowriting the stories and instrumentals within. The songs range from contemporary originals such as “Can’t Get You Out of My Mind” to age-old classics, such as the several-hundred-year-old ditty “Crabs in the Skillet,” all done in the spirit of reinvention and reimagination. “Everybody’s trying to box the tradition in, but doing that ossifies it and calcifies it, and it dies,” said leading lad Russ Doherty, adding that Dannsair keeps tradition alive by pushing it into the future. The music of Dannsair has more interwoven styles than a Wicklow weaving, with its many members bringing in musical backgrounds such as Motown, Broadway, classic viola, and Latin percussion. “We still play it in a relevant way, but with our accent,” said guitarist Jay Galvin. “From beginning to end, there’s so many different influences and ideas.” Ask any one member about a song, and stories will unfold of the song’s history or the knowing inflections and influences that define their modern interpretations. So encyclopedic is the band’s collective knowledge that it’s difficult to believe it all started when Doherty researched Irish music to aid his daughter Siobhan’s Irish-dancing pursuits. The pet endeavor became a shared family passion — Siobhan eventually joined the band. With a songbook roughly nine hours long and a storied cast of alumni, Dannsair continues to keep the tradition alive while continuing to grow. Join them for their CD-release party Thursday, December 3, at 5:30 p.m., at Dargan’s (18 E Ortega St.). — RD

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6:30pm Thursday-Saturday 1pm Sundays Noises Off meets Monty Python in this hilarious rendition of A Christmas Carol as only the Farndale ladies can perform. Decidedly British, decidedly hilarious. Written by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr. Directed by Joseph Beck Starring Britni Alleman-DeLorenzi, Miller James, Kathy Marden, Wendy Maroney, Shannon Saleh and Tiffany Story

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Architectural Foundation Gallery – 2015 Kids Draw Architecture, Dec. 4-Jan. 7, 2016. 229 E. Victoria St., 965-6307. Artamo Gallery–Masterpol & Györfi: In Contrast, through Dec. 31. Contrast 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, through Jan. 3, 2016. 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, 646-3381. Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr. – Generations of Celebration through 1,000 WORDS: Sara Lytle’s “Between Shadow” is Art, through Jan. 19, 2016. Art part of the S.B. Tennis Club’s Stories exhibit, which 524 Chapala St., 957-1115. concludes this Friday. Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit. 540 Pueblo St., Ste. A, 898-2204. Carivintas Winery – Connie Rohde: The art exhibits Uninterrupted Brushstroke, through Dec. 31. 476 First St., Solvang, 693-4331. MuseuMs Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – Season's On, Dec. Art, Design & Architecture Museum – 5-Jan. 11, 2016. 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria, Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful; 684-7789. Talking Back: New Acquisitions; Stephen Channing Peake Gallery–S.B. S.B. Printmak PrintmakWestfall: Stars and Candy Wrappers; Walter ers Juried Exhibition Exhibition, through Jan. 21, 2016. S. White: Inventions in Midcentury Architec Architec- S.B. County Administration Bldg., 105 E. ture, through Dec. 6. UCSB, 893-2951. Anapamu St. Elverhøj Museum – C. Wood: East to West: Churchill Jewelers & Gallery –WatercolThe Kimono Series, through Jan. 24, 2016. ors by Ruth Ellen Hoag; Oils by Tom De Walt, 1624 Elverhoy Wy., Solvang. 686-1211. through Dec. 31. 1015 State St., 962-5815. 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Armour: EQUUS, EQUUS S.B. Historical Museum – Alexander F. through Dec. 6. 118-B Gray Ave., 640-5570. Harmer, through Feb. 8, 2016; The Story of Gallery 113 – Suemae Willhite, through Jan. Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free 2, 2016. La Arcada, 1114 State St., 965-6611. admission. 136 E. De la Guerra St., 966-1601. Gallery Los Olivos – Felice Willat, Mary S.B. Maritime Museum – Divergent Focal Vasquez, Randee Ward: Nature Interpreted Interpreted, Planes on the Channel: From Darkroom to through Jan. 3, 2016. 2920 Grand Ave., Los Lightroom, through Jan. 3, 2016. 113 Harbor Olivos, 688-7517. Wy., 962-8404. Goleta Library – Picassos for Peanuts S.B. Museum of Art – Peter Halley: December Art Show, Dec. 4-Jan. 8, 2016. 500 Geometry of the Absurd Absurd, through Feb. N. Fairview Rd., Goleta, 898-9424. 21, 2016; Cayetano Ferrer: Interventions, Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery through Mar. 13, 2016; Looking In, Looking of Art – Sicilian Translucency: Watercolor Out: Latin American Photography Photography, through Paintings of Traveling Artists, through Jan. 1, Mar. 20, 2016; Degas to Chagall: Important 2016. 2415 De la Vina St., 687-7444. Loans from the Armand Hammer FoundaJadeNow Gallery – Ryan and Jeff Spantion, Visions of Modernity: 20th-Century gler, Donn Salt, Deborah Wilson, through Japanese Woodblock Prints, ongoing Feb. 16, 2016. 14 Parker Wy., 845-4558. exhibitions. 1130 State St., 963-4364. Lady McClintock Art Gallery – Portrait S.B. Museum of Natural History – Artist, Rosemary McClintock brings life to Edward S. Curtis: Luminous Portraits of reproductions of the Masters, through Jan. 31, American Indian Life, through Jan. 4, 2016. 2016. 1221 State St., Ste. 6, 845-0030. 2559 Puesta del Sol, 682-4711. Leigh Block Gallery – Susan Savage: Given S.B. Museum of Natural History Sea to the Light Light, through Jan. 16, 2016. 2050 Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations. 211 Alameda Padre Serra, Ste. 100, 563-8820. Stearns Wharf, 962-2526. Los Olivos Café – Suzanne Huska: Valley Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Visions, through Jan. 7, 2016. 2870 Grand Art – Saar, Serra, Surls, and More: Thirty Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7265. New Acquisitons in Contemporary Art Art, Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing. through Dec. 19. 955 La Paz Rd., 565-6162. 127 Anacapa St., 284-0358. Wildling Museum – Legacy and Loss: Marcia Burtt Gallery – Holiday Exhibition, Landscapes of the S.B. Region, through Dec. 4-Jan. 17, 2016. 517 Laguna St., Feb. 1, 2016. 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 962-5588. 686-8315. MCASB Satellite – Magic Mountain, through Jan. 31, 2016. Hotel Indigo, 121 State Galleries St., 966-5373. 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dec. 3-10 Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Arts–Tielle Monette and Sergey Fedotov, ongoing. 1108 State St., 962-8111. Pacifica Graduate Institute – Mythic Threads: Art, Healing and Magic in Bali Bali, ongoing. 801 Ladera Ln., 879-7103. Porch –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. Roy – Brad Nack: 100% Reindeer Art Show Show, through Dec. 31. 7 W. Carrillo St., 966-5636. 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; 100 Grand, through Jan. 31. 7 E. Anapamu St., Grand 730-1460. wall space gallery – Aline Smithson: Portrait as Autobiography Autobiography, through Dec. 31. 116 C-1 E. Yanonali St., 637-3898.

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First United Methodist Church – Lompoc Valley Master Chorale Concert. 925 N. F St., Lompoc. fri-sat: 7:30pm Lobero Theatre – S.B. Chamber Orchestra: Inspiring... 33 E. Canon Perdido St., 963-0761. tue: 7:30pm Logan House – Arianna String Quartet, Heidi Lehwalder. 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, 646-9951. sun: 3pm Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall – UCSB Gospel Choir. Music Bldg. 1315, UCSB, 893-3230. fri: 7:30pm Ojai Valley Woman's Club – A Winter Gift. 441 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai, 665-8852. thu 12/3: 7pm S.B. Central Library – S.B. Music Club. 40 E. Anapamu St., 617-3401. sat: 3pm Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church – Jamie Chamberlin Concert. 1205 San Antonio Creek Rd., 683-4492. sun: 4pm

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Arlington Theatre – 1317 State St., 963-4408. thu 12/3: Pink Martini Holiday Show (8pm) Cambridge Drive Baptist Church – 550 Cambridge Dr., Goleta, 964-0436. fri: Songs on a Midwinter's Night (7:30pm) Chumash Casino Resort – 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez, (800) 248-6274. thu 12/3: Gloriana & Dan + Shay (8pm) thu 12/10: Easton Corbin (8pm) Cold Spring Tavern – 5995 Stagecoach Rd., 967-0066. fri: Danny Briere's Free for All (7-10pm) sat: John Lyle (2-5pm); Cuyama Mama and the Hot Flashes (6-9pm) sun: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (1:154pm); Sean Wiggins and Lone Goat (4:30-7:30pm) Dargan’s – 18 E. Ortega St., 568-0702. thu: Dannsair CD Release Party (5:30pm) sat: Live Music (10pm) The Fig Grill – 5940 Calle Real, Goleta, 692-8999. sat: Dos Pueblos Jazz Quartet (6-8pm)

Granada Theatre – 1214 State St., 899-2222. sun: Merry-Achi Christmas (3pm) tue-wed: Rat Pack Christmas (7:30pm) Karl Geiringer Hall – UCSB, 893-7001. sun: UCSB Women's Chorus (7:30pm) Lobero Theatre – 33 E. Canon Perdido St., 963-0761. fri: Stone Cupid, Natalie D-Napoleon (8pm) wed: The Tierney Sutton Band: A Century of Sinatra (8pm) thu: Chris Robinson Brotherhood (8pm) Maverick Saloon – 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 686-4785. fri: Teddy Spanke and the Tex Pistors (8pm) sat: The Belmores (3pm); Crown City Bombers (8pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – 1221 State St., 962-7776. thu: SNBRN, Evol Morg (9pm) fri: "I Want My '80s!" (9pm) sat: !!!, Stereolad, Givers & Takers (9pm) sun: SNAP! Drag Revue Brunch (12:30pm); Patrick Mureithi (7:30pm) mon: Nicole Lvoff (7:30pm) tue: Margo Rey (7:30pm) wed: Glen Phillips (8pm) thu: The California Honeydrops, Steep Ravine (9pm) Standing Sun Winery – 92 Second St., Unit D, Buellton, 904-8072. sat: Sean Watkins (7pm) Trinity Evangelical Church – 909 N. La Cumbre Rd., 687-1577. sat: Treble Threat: A Celebration of AllFemale A Cappella (4pm) sun: Edelweiss Choir: Christmas Concert (3pm) Velvet Jones – 423 State St., 965-8676. fri: Grouch and Eligh (8pm) mon: Three Mile Pilot, Systems Officer, Pall Jenkins (8pm) tue: Devin the Dude, Potluck, EnYuKay, Austin Sexton, Hallow D (8pm)

theater Center Stage Theater – 751 Paseo Nuevo, 963-0408. sun: Adderley December Workshops (1, 2:30, 4, 6, and 7:30pm) Goodland Supper Club – A Christmas Carol. 10 Winchester Canyon Rd., Goleta, 705-9598. thu-sat: 6:30pm sun: 1pm Marian Theatre – Cinderella. Allan Hancock College, 800 S. College Dr., Santa Maria, 922-8313. fri: 7pm sat-sun: 1:30 and 7pm wed: 1:30pm Plaza Playhouse Theater – A Christmas Carol. 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, 684-6380. fri-sat: 7pm sun: 3pm

dance Goleta Library – Inspire Dance S.B.: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. SBCC West Campus, 965-5935. thu 12/3: 4pm Hatlen Theater – UCSB Fall Dance Concert: Meraki. 552 University Rd., UCSB, 893-3241. fri: 7:30pm sat: 2 and 7:30pm Lobero Theatre – Gustafson Dance: Rudolph. 33 E. Canon Perdido St., 963-0761. sat: 2 and 6pm Marjorie Luke Theatre – The Nutcracker. 721 E. Cota St., 884-4087. sat-sun: 3pm

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n Pixar’s newest film, The Good Dinosaur, a budding young sauropod named Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) goes on a quest to find his homeland and befriends a feisty cave boy along the way. Like The Land Before Time did for kids decades ago, The Good Dinosaur tackles the heavy themes of parental loss, fear, and loneliness through the timeless medium of dinosaurs traveling on a brave odyssey. And like previous Pixar films, The Good Dinosaur works on many levels. Depending on your age group, it is a sweet and cute movie, or a poignant visual poem, or some combination of both. Most children would likely love this movie. So much of it happens through action and nonverbal cues alone that even the yet-to-speak demographic would find it plenty comprehensible. Joys and thrills abound as Arlo and his friend play whack-a-mole with some underground critters, dive and dip in mountain swimming holes, or feast on some fermented fruit with hilariously trippy results. Nor does the movie insult its young viewers’ emotional intelligence. Themes of growing up and overcoming fears are dealt with head-on through the realest of subjects as young Arlo struggles and matures in a

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scary, unpredictable world. Perhaps some of the more jaded elders in attendance might find it manipulative or overly sentimental, especially with such cartoony characters journeying against otherwise photorealistic backdrops. It’s also a very spiritual movie. The Good Dinosaur is about rebuilding yourself in the wake of a calamity, and the film provides various models of dealing with chaos and sadness — from the fearful styracosaur bedecked with danger-warding buddies to the suspicious extreme-sports mysticism of pterodactyls to the profound solitude of raindrops on pines. So spectacular are the movie’s Wyoming-like landscapes that it may be the next best thing to taking your child into the wilderness, and the movie offers many moments of awe within. And like the unforgettably beautiful waters that course across screen, this spirit quest of a film has a lot of depth going on beneath its sparkling surface. It’s the rare kids’ film that has both a heart and a soul. n

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

FIRST LOOKS O The Good Dinosaur (93 mins.; PG: peril, action, and thematic elements) Reviewed on page 61. Fairview (2D and 3D)/Fiesta 5 (2D and 3D)

O Spotlight (128 mins.; R: some language including sexual references) Reviewed on page 61. Paseo Nuevo

SCREENINGS Kilo Two Bravo (108 mins.; R: disturbing and graphic depiction of war injuries and pervasive language)

This drama takes place in 2006 as three British soldiers on patrol encounter anti-personnel mines while crossing a dried riverbed in southern Afghanistan. Buried during the Russian occupation 25 years earlier, the devices lay in wait under the soil and leave the trio trapped in a literal minefield. Wed., Dec. 9, 5 and 7:30pm, Plaza de Oro

O The Second Mother

(112 mins.; R: some language and brief drug use)

In The Second Mother, a maid named Val (Regina Casé) welcomes her longlost daughter Jéssica (Camila Márdila) into the home of the family she tends to. Tensions tighten and relations complicate as the boundaries between upper and lower class, mother and daughter, family and live-in servant begin to blur. (RD) Sun., Dec. 6, 4:30pm, Matilija Auditorium, 703 El Paseo Rd., Ojai

PREMIERES In the Heart of the Sea (121 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of action and peril, brief startling violence, and thematic material) This is the true story of the whaling ship Essex, which, in the winter of 1820, was attacked by a giant whale. The encounter left the ship ruined and its sailors stranded at sea, facing starvation, storms, and despair. The disaster was the inspiration for Herman Melville’s book Moby-Dick. Fiesta 5 (Opens Thu., Dec. 10) Krampus (98 mins.; PG-13: sequences of horror violence/terror, language, and some drug material) In this comedy/horror story, a young boy becomes disillusioned with Christmas and unintentionally summons a demonic force with his lackluster seasonal spirit. Camino Real/Metro 4

In the Heart of the Sea Brooklyn (111 mins.; PG-13: a scene of sexuality and brief strong language)

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. Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo

O The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (137 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of violence and action and some thematic material) The film is shot much too grimly but ultimately satisfies in ways most critics don’t seem to appreciate. Katniss is a female Luke Skywalker, plucked randomly from the outback and sent into the center of the corrupt Panem with its pseudo-Roman fable names. She’s the reluctant linchpin holding her family and civilization together. (DJP) Arlington/Camino Real/Metro 4

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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. Fiesta 5

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. The plot ties together loose ends of the last three films, involving a final message from recently deceased M (Judi Dench) sending 007 into super-bad spy lairs up against an archvillain played by Christoph Waltz. (DJP) Camino Real/Metro 4

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

Tom Hanks stars as a U.S. lawyer recruited by the CIA to rescue a pilot being held by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Alan Alda, Amy Ryan, and Eve Hewson also star. Paseo Nuevo

Secret in Their Eyes (111 mins.; PG-13: thematic material involving disturbing violent content, language, and some sexual references)

What the movie does best is illustrate how hard it was for women to get the vote and how heroic these people were. Suffragette centers on Maud (Carey Mulligan), a young British woman toiling in a rape-friendly laundry, accidentally drawn into the feminist movement. Maud is radicalized after she’s arrested for a protest turned to violence by police intervention. (DJP) Plaza de Oro

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

Bridge of Spies (141 mins.; PG-13: some

The Peanuts Movie (93 mins.; G) Steve Martino’s The Peanuts Movie hews close to the original strip, 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 a lullaby more than an adventure. (DJP) Fairview (2D)/Fiesta 5 (2D)

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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. Camino Real/Fiesta 5

Suffragette (106 mins.; PG-13: some intense violence, thematic elements, brief strong language, and partial nudity)

The Letters (114 mins.; PG: thematic This bio-picture tells of the life of Mother Teresa through her 50-year correspondence with Father Celeste van Exem. Plaza de Oro

The Night Before (101 mins.; R: drug use and language throughout, some strong sexual content, and graphic nudity)

O The Martian (141 mins.; PG-13: some strong language, injury images, and brief nudity) 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. (DJP) Fairview/Fiesta 5

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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. Riviera 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. Camino Real/Metro 4

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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): “Charm is a way of getting the answer ‘yes’ without having asked any clear question,” wrote French author Albert Camus. I have rarely seen you better poised than you are now to embody and capitalize on this definition of “charm,” Aries. That’s good news, right? Well, mostly. But there are two caveats. First, wield your mojo as responsibly as you can. Infuse your bewitching allure with integrity. Second, be precise about what it is you want to achieve — even if you don’t come right out and tell everyone what it is. Resist the temptation to throw your charm around haphazardly.

(June 21-July 22): In September of 1715, a band of Jacobite rebels gathered for a guerrilla attack on Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Their plan was to scale the walls with rope ladders, aided by a double agent who was disguised as a castle sentry. But the scheme failed before it began. The rope ladders turned out to be too short to serve their intended purpose. The rebels retreated in disarray. Please make sure you’re not like them in the coming weeks, Cancerian. If you want to engage in a strenuous action, an innovative experiment, or a bold stroke, be meticulous in your preparations. Don’t scrimp on your props, accoutrements, and resources.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Police in Los Angeles conducted an experiment on a 10-mile span of freeway. Drivers in three unmarked cars raced along as fast as they could while remaining in the same lane. The driver of the fourth car not only moved at top speed, but also changed lanes and jockeyed for position. Can you guess the results? The car that weaved in and out of the traffic flow arrived just slightly ahead of the other three. Apply this lesson to your activities in the coming week, please. There will be virtually no advantage to indulging in frenetic, erratic, breakneck exertion. Be steady and smooth and straightforward.

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe that two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot,” Mary Ruefle wrote in her book Madness, Rack, and Honey. “The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground.” I think that’s a paradox you’d be wise to keep in mind, Capricorn. In the coming weeks, what’s most delicate and vulnerable about you will have more staying power than what’s massive and fixed. Trust your grace and tenderness more than your fierceness and forcefulness. They will make you as smart as you need to be.

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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You will generate lucky anomalies and helpful flukes if you use shortcuts, flee from boredom, and work smarter rather than harder. On the other hand, you’ll drum up wearisome weirdness and fruitless flukes if you meander all over the place, lose yourself in far-off fantasies, and act as if you have all the time in the world. Be brisk and concise, Scorpio. Avoid loafing and vacillating. Associate with bubbly activators who make you laugh and loosen your iron grip. It’s a favorable time to polish off a lot of practical details with a light touch.

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aztec king Montezuma II quenched his daily thirst with one specific beverage. He rarely drank anything else. It was ground cocoa beans mixed with chili peppers, water, vanilla, and annatto. Spiced chocolate? You could call it that. The frothy brew was often served to him in golden goblets, each of which he used once and then hurled from his royal balcony into the lake below. He regarded this elixir as an aphrodisiac, and liked to quaff a few flagons before heading off to his harem. I bring this up, Aquarius, because the coming weeks will be one of those exceptional times when you have a poetic license to be almost Montezuma-like. What’s your personal equivalent of his primal chocolate, golden goblets, and harem?

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): I suspect that in the coming days you will have an uncanny power to make at least one of your resurrection fantasies come true. Here are some of the possibilities. (1) If you’re brave enough to change your mind and shed some pride, you could retrieve an expired dream from limbo. (2) By stirring up a bit more chutzpah than you usually have at your disposal, you might be able to revive and even restore a forsaken promise. (3) Through an act of grace, it’s possible you will reanimate an ideal that was damaged or abandoned.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To the other eleven signs of the zodiac, the Way of the Gemini sometimes seems rife with paradox and contradiction. Many non-Geminis would feel paralyzed if they had to live in the midst of so much hubbub. But when you are at your best, you thrive in the web of riddles. In fact, your willingness to abide there is often what generates your special magic. Your breakthroughs are made possible by your high tolerance for uncertainty. How many times have I seen a Gemini who has been lost in indecision but then suddenly erupts with a burst of crackling insights? This is the kind of subtle miracle I expect to happen soon. Homework: What’s the most selfish, narcissistic thing about you? Do you think that maybe you should transform it? Testify at FreeWillAstrology .com.

(July 23-Aug. 22): If you give children the option of choosing between food that’s mushy and food that’s crunchy, a majority will choose the crunchy stuff. It’s more exciting to their mouths, a more lively texture for their teeth and tongues to play with. This has nothing to do with nutritional value, of course. Soggy oatmeal may foster a kid’s well-being better than crispy potato chips. Let’s apply this lesson to the way you feed your inner child in the coming weeks. Metaphorically speaking, I suggest you serve that precious part of you the kind of sustenance that’s both crunchy and healthy. In other words, make sure that what’s wholesome is also fun, and vice versa.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your mascot is a famous white oak in Athens, Georgia. It’s called the Tree That Owns Itself. According to legend, it belongs to no person or institution, but only to itself. The earth in which it’s planted and the land around it are also its sole possession. With this icon as your inspiration, I invite you to enhance and celebrate your sovereignty during the next seven months. What actions will enable you to own yourself more thoroughly? How can you boost your autonomy and become, more than ever before, the boss of you? It’s prime time to expedite this effort.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.” Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön said that, and now I’m telling you. According to my divinations, a new frontier is calling to you. An unprecedented question has awakened. The urge to leave your familiar circle is increasingly tempting. I don’t know if you should surrender to this brewing fascination. I don’t know if you will be able to gather the resources you would require to carry out your quest. What do you think? Will you be able to summon the necessary audacity? Maybe the better inquiry is this: Do you vow to use all your soulful ingenuity to summon the necessary audacity?

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): “Unfortunately, I’m pretty lucky,” my friend Rico said to me recently. He meant that his relentless good fortune constantly threatens to undermine his ambition. How can he be motivated to try harder and grow smarter and get stronger if life is always showering him with blessings? He almost wishes he could suffer more so that he would have more angst to push against. I hope you won’t fall under the spell of that twisted logic in the coming weeks, Pisces. This is a phase of your cycle when you’re likely to be the beneficiary of an extra-strong flow of help and serendipity. Please say this affirmation as often as necessary: “Fortunately, I’m pretty lucky.”

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Fictitious Business Name Statement 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.

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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.

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. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. 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: 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. 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.

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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.

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.

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: 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. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) 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: 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: 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: Santa Barbara 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara UC Hastings Alumni Association at 1900 State St. Ste M Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Samantha Baldwin 2230 De La Vina Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Robert Forouzandeh 1421 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jeffrey B Soderborg 1900 State St. Ste M Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Unincorporated Association Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0003260. Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fish Window Cleaning at 100 North Hope Ave Suite 12 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Banyan Capital Partners South, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: George Clute, President 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 Deborah Sanchez. FBN Number: 2015‑0003173. Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Observables at 119 N Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Securepro (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Dorothy P. Efstratis 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 Jessica Sheaff. FBN Number: 2015‑0003206. Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: St. Paul Cleaners at 407 Bath St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Seung Rae Cho 1233 Saratoga Ave Ventura, CA 93003 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003254. Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Optometry Care Santa Barbara at 1629 State Street Suite 1 Santa Barbara, CA 93101‑2548; Wendy L Santizo A Professional Corp. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 18, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003282. Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Donahue Inspections at 130 Garden St #1B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Chris Donahue 242 Reef Ct Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Chrsi Donahue 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0003186. Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Suspect Studios at 122 W. Arrellaga Street Apt 12 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Matthew Straka (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Matthew Straka filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003263. Published: Nov 25. Dec 3, 10, 17 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Elite Plumbing at 532 Brinkerhoff Ave Unit E Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kevin Morelos (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kevin Morelos 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003188. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Medical Writing And Consulting at 4799 Baxter Street Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Mary Emily Garcia (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: M. Emily Garcia filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0003289. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Eco Cast at 3905 State Street #314 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Daniel Sarena (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Daniel Sarena filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 30, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0003346. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Law Office Of Marc Chytilo at 1505 Mission Canyon Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; law Office of Marc Chytilo, AProfessional Corp (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Marc Chytilo, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 25, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003337. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: After School Languages at 72 South Patterson Ave Apt 101 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Aurelie Rose McKaig (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Aurelie Rose McKaig 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003203. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Channel City Tech at 1000 Las Canoas Place Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jeremy Thomas Work (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jeremy T. Work 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0003214. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Portal Funding, Portal Funding & Investment at 524 San Pascual St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Alan Casebier (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 23, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0003321. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 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

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functions of the Accounting Department. In the absence of the manager, responsible for total expenditures of $11,000,000 annually to the stock ledger, processing the Bookstore credit card and BARC accounts, preparing bi‑monthly check runs, and for the leadership of the department. Assists with month‑end closing procedures and year‑end physical inventory and fiscal closing. Processes and approves invoices for multiple departments through the MBS (Missouri Book Service) merchandise module, ensuring accurate update of

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DEBRA JEAN SHERK ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV03854 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: DEBRA JEAN SHERK TO: DEBRA JEAN DROGGITIS‑SHERK 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 13, 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

of your wages, taking of your money or property or other relief. If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be Public Notices taken to satisfy that award in a DID YOU KNOW Information is non‑judicial state, with no exemptions power and content is King? Do you from execution. need timely access to public notices A lien may also be imposed upon your and remain relevant in today’s hostile property without further hearing and business climate? Gain the edge before the issuance of an award. with California Newspaper Publishers 4) You must notify the Appeals Association new innovative website Board of the proper address for the capublicnotice.com and check out the service of official notices and FREE One‑Month Trial Smart Search paper and notify the Appeals Board of Feature. For more information call any changes in that address. Cecelia @ (916) 288‑6011 or www. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT capublicnotice.com (Cal‑SCAN) YOUR INTERESTS Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Summons Name and address of Appeals Board: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION WCAB Santa Barbara 411 E. Canon APPEALS BOARD; SPECIAL NOTICE Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; OF LAWSUIT Name and address of applicant’s (Pursuant to Labor Code section attorney: Ghitterman, Ghitterman 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., section 412.20 and 412.30) Santa Barbara, CA 93101; FORM WCAB No. 8121319 & WCAB No. COMPLETED BY: Benjamin P. Feld, Esq. 8121333 Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 To: DEFENDANT, ILLEGALLY E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, UNINSURED EMPLOYER: CA 93101 (805) 965‑4540. APPLICANT, Presiliano Alarcon NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: DEEFENDANTS, Michael Biondo, You are served: as the person sued Biondo Construction under the fictitious name of: Michael NOTICES Biondo, Biondo Construction. 1) A lawsuit, the Application for Published Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015. Adjudication of Claim, as been filed with the Workers’ Compensation Trustee Notice Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the above Trustee Sale No. : named applicant. 00000005209283 Title Order No.: You may seek the advice of an 8545189 FHA/VA/PMI No.: NOTICE attorney in any matter connected with OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE this lawsuit and such attorney should IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF be consulted promptly so that you TRUST, DATED 05/01/2007. UNLESS response may be filed and entered in YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT a timely fashion. YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD If you do not know an attorney, you AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED may call an attorney reference service AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE or a legal aid office (see telephone OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, directory). YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. 2) An Answer to the Application BARRETT DAFFIN FRAPPIER TREDER & must be filed and served within six WEISS, LLP, as duly appointed Trustee days of the serve of the under and pursuant to Deed of application pursuant to Appeals Board Trust Recorded on 05/08/2007 as rules; therefore, your written response Instrument No. 2007‑0034034 of must be filed with the Appeals Board official records in the office of the promptly; a letter or phone call will County Recorder of SANTA BARBARA not protect your interests. County, State of CALIFORNIA. 3) You will be served with a Notice EXECUTED BY: FLORENCIO ORTIZ (s) of Hearing and must appear at all AND CONCEPCION DIAZ, WILL SELL hearings or conferences. After AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST such hearing, even absent your BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S appearance, a decision may be made CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or and an award of compensation other form of payment authorized benefits may issue against you. The by California Civil Code 2924h(b), award could result in the garnishment (payable at time of sale in lawful

stock ledger and inventory. Resolves discrepancies with vendors and the Receiving Department and maintains the purchase order files for each fiscal year. Hires, trains, supervises and evaluates student staff to assist with purchase orders, invoices and other functions. Reqs: Must have Accounts Payable experience, analytical, problem‑solving and organizational skills, and strong written and oral communication skills. 10‑key by touch and filing. Must be detail‑oriented and able to meet deadlines. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Must be

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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 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Green Submarine Medical Care at 6 Harbor Way Suite 237 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Eric Bjorklund (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Eric Bjorklund filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 24, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0003335. Published: Dec 3, 10, 17, 24 2015.

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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

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ver since the 1980s, when many people started experiencing health issues linked to time spent in new buildings, the term “sick building syndrome” was coined. The most prevalent symptoms are irritation of the eyes, nose, throat, and skin; hypersensitivity; headaches, fatigue, and general malaise; and respiratory reactions. The causes are many but often relate to flaws in the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems or from building products that outgas or contain toxins. Why is there a struggle to find safe products that are conducive to good health? In part, it’s because we do not, unlike the European Union, follow the precautionary principle when new products are developed. In Europe, if an action, product, or policy has a risk of causing harm to health or the environment, the burden of proof of no harm falls on those wanting to take the action or develop the product.

OPEN HOUSES Carpinteria 3950 Via Real 204, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $225,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Kalia Rork 805-689-0614

1261 Franciscan Court #3, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $432,500, Pacific Coast Realty, JoAnn Pomatto-Gomez 805-705-3798 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 8053375 Foothill Road #1114, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,200,000, Coldwell Banker, C Scott McCosker 805-687-2436

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3246 Beach Club Road, 4BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $13,888,000, The Agency, Jackie Smith 213-494-7736 3111 Padaro Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sun 12:30-3, $13,900,000, Village Properties, John Henderson 805-689-1066

Downtown Santa Barbara 2030 State Street #4, 2BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $639,500, Coldwell Banker, Dan Failla 805-708-1276

2641 State Street W3, 3BD/2BA, Sun 12-2, $655,000, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, Stuart Morse 805-705-0161 101 Por La Mar Circle, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $999,000, Coldwell Banker, Bob Oliver 805-895-6967

331 Santa Rosalia Way, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 2-5, $799,000, Village Properties, Robert Watt 805-252-2190 Cimme Eordanidis 805-722-8480 284 Coronado Drive, 4BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $819,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Brett Buschbom 805-451-9108 261 Ancona Avenue, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $825,000, Coldwell Banker, Patty Colman 805-689-6517 5068 San Julio Avenue, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $889,900, Berkshire Hathaway, Madhu Khemani 805-252-0625 7720 Kestrel Lane, 3BD/4BA, Sat 1-4, $2,150,000, Keller Williams Realty, Janay Marshall 720-984-0087 7797 Goldfield Court, 4BD/4.5BA, Sun 2-4, $2,749,000, Village Properties, Alyson Spann 805-637-2884

Hope Ranch 835 Puente Drive, 5BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $2,975,000, Village Properties, Brian King 805-452-0471 4178 Creciente Drive, 4BR/3BA, Sun 1-4, $3,995,000, Stones Real Estate, Team Eric and Mary 805-682-6090

3990 Cuervo Avenue, 3BD/3.5BA, Sun 2-4, $3,800,000, Coldwell Banker, Linda Lorenzen 805-886-1842 929 Canon Road, 4BD/4BA, By Appt., $4,895,000, Sotheby’s, Sandy Stahl 805689-1602

18 West Victoria Street #208, 1BD/1BA, Sat 1-2, Sun By Appt., $1,180,500, Village Properties, Pippa Davis 805-886-0174

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18 West Victoria Street #204, 1BD/2BA, Sat By Appt. Sun 12-4, $1,465,000, Village Properties, Pippa Davis 805-886-0174

920 Calle Malaga, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,195,000, Coldwell Banker, Kirk G. Hodson 805-886-6527

2109 Chapala Street, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 1-4, $1,495,000, Village Properties, Deb Archambault 805-4552966 105 West De La Guerra Street #R, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,495,000, Village Properties, Shandra Campbell 805-8861176 531 Chapala Street A, 1BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,995,000, Berkshire Hathaway, JoAnn Mermis 805-895-5650 18 West Victoria Street #310, 1BD/1.5BA, Sat 1-4, $1,999,000, Village Properties, Don Hunt 805-895-3833 220 West Yanonali Street, 2BD/2BA, Sat 12-3 Sun 12-3, $2,400,000, Sotheby’s, Ray Benenate 805-448-7988 18 West Victoria Street #308, 2BD/3BA, Sat By Appt. Sun 12-4, $2,600,000, Village Properties, Pippa Davis 805-886-0174

Goleta 216 Moreton Bay Lane Unit 5, 2BD/1.5BA, By Appt., $432,000, Sotheby’s, Mike Pearl 805-637-6888 Gail Pearl 805-637-9595

236 Entrance Road #10, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $500,000, Keller Williams Realty, Daniel Zia & The Zia Group 805-456-3635 218 Entrance Road #D, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $505,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jarrod Shively 805-714-5114 401 Cannon Green Drive #D, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1:30-4, $599,000, Sun Coast Real Estate, Lenny Gerthoffer 805403-3630

821 Weldon Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,045,000, Mike Richardson Realtors, Mike Richardson 805-963-1704

1269 Mountain View Road, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,199,000, Village Properties, Robert Watt 805-252-2190 122 Skyline Circle, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,449,000, Mike Richardson Realtors, Mike Richardson 805-963-1704 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 1-4, $1,075,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jason S. Ebin 805-364-3070 Andy Madrid 805-452-1456

1485 Tunnel Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,145,000, Sotheby’s, Marilyn Rickard 805-452-8284 2972 La Combadura Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,149,000, Foundation Real Estate Group, Bob Croisdale 805-4527543

901 Cheltenham Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,150,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Mary Layman 805-448-3890 2985 Glen Albyn Drive, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,195,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ricardo Munoz 805-895-8725

Montecito 1220 Coast Village Road Unit 110, 3BD/2BA, By Appt., $1,069,000, Sotheby’s, Frank Abatemarco 805-4507477

112 Eucalyptus Hill Circle, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,375,000, Village Properties, Christopher W. Hunt 805-453-3407 62 Olive Mill Road, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,439,000, Berkshire Hathaway, David M. Cohn 805-214-8244

Saturday 12/5 & Sunday 12/6 1526 East Valley Road, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,485,000, Village Properties, Thomas Johansen 805-886-1857 52 Olive Mill Road, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,495,000, Village Properties, Cecilia Hunt 805-895-3834 227 Sierra Vista Road, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,510,000, Village Properties, Lynda Bohnett 805-637-6407 595 Paso Robles Drive, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,565,000, Santa Barbara Brokers, Troy G Hoidal 805 689-6808 802 Camino Viejo, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $1,659,000, Coldwell Banker, William C. Turner III 805-708-3236

925 El Rancho Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,788,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Heather Martineau 805-231-3558 2320 Sycamore Canyon Road, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1:30-4, $1,795,000, Berkshire Hathaway, John Comin 805-6893078 462 Toro Canyon Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $2,395,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Wes St. Clair 805-886-6741 1907 San Leandro Lane, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $2,395,000, Coldwell Banker, Brad Merritt 805-450-6522 309 Avila Way, 5BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $2,695,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Barbara Neary 805-698-8980 1781 San Leandro Lane, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-3, $2,895,000, Coldwell Banker, Charlie Petersen 805-637-0312 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, Linda Brown “Brownie” 805-666-9090 1424 East Valley Road, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $3,200,000, Reeves & Associates, Jeff Reeves 805-689-2058 2700 Torito Road, 4BD/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 975 Mariposa Lane, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 2-4, $4,995,000, Village Properties, Grubb Campbell Group 818-919-6020 1709 Overlook Lane, 5BD/4.5BA, Sun 1-4, $5,250,000, Sotheby’s, Frank Abatemarco 805-450-7477 1159 Hill Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $5,480,000, Village Properties, Wayne Barker 805-565-8886 1098 Golf Road, 5BD/4.5BA, By Appt., $5,995,000, Berkshire Hathaway, The Jason Streatfeild Team 805-969-1122 1850 Jelinda Drive, 5BD/8BA, By Appt., $7,950,000, Berkshire Hathaway, The Jason Streatfeild Team, 805-969-1122

Noleta 333 Old Mill Road #327, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-5, $479,000, Century 21, Joyce Johnson 448-5621 (call owner for gate entrance John Ernest 899-3571)

Riviera 30 N Santa Ynez Street D, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $795,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Mary Whitney 805-689-0915

814 Paseo Alicante, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $959,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Doug Van Pelt 805-637-3684 Thomas Schultheis 805-729-2802 403 Alameda Padre Serra, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-3:30, Village Properties, $1,195,000, Village Properties, Gary Welterlen 805-895-4744 811 East Pedregosa, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-3, $1,195,000, Village Properties, Marcella Simmons 805-680-9981 49 Cedar Lane, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1:303:30 Sun 1-4, $1,250,000, Berkshire Hathaway, James St. James 805-949-5471860 Bill Urbany 805-331-0248 85 Canon View Drive, 3BD/3.5BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-3, $1,350,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jessica Stovall 805-6989416Paul Hurst 805-680-8216 139 Loma Media Road, 2BD/2.5BA, Sat 11-4 Sun 11-4, $1,385,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Isaiah J. Polstra 805-722-5085 1 Rubio Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,585,000, Coldwell Banker, Hayley N Hernandez 805-717-8868 3 Las Alturas Road, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-3, $1,599,000, Village Properties, John Bahura 805-680-5175 1836 Hillcrest Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,599,000, Village Properties, June Laula 805-689-7036

802 Camino Viejo, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $1,659,000, Coldwell Banker, William C Turner 805-708-3236 1746 Prospect Avenue, 2BD/3.5BA, Sat 1:30-4 Sun 1:30-4, $1,995,000, Village Properties, Priscilla Bedolla, 805680-7146 1829 Mira Vista, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $2,395,000, Sotheby’s, Sandy Stahl 805689-1602 1800 El Encanto Road Unit A, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $2,595,000, Sotheby’s, Sandy Stahl 805-689-1602 2220 Santiago Road, 4BD/4.5BA, Sun 2-4, $2,995,000, Coldwell Banker, Patrice Serrani 805-637-5110 1919 Las Tunas Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $5,950,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Linda Havlik 805-451-8020

Samarkand 2834 Serena Road, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,150,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Gordon Hardey & Marilyn Wankum 805-455-1607

440 Stanley Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,389,000, Santa Barbara Brokers, Troy G Hoidal 805 689-6808

San Roque 1225 Rebecca Lane J, 2BD/1.5BA, Sun 2-4, $499,500, Coldwell Banker, Jessie Sessions 805-709-0904

4039 Primavera Road #3, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $619,000, Village Properties, Loyd Applegate 805-570-4935

95 Santa Ana Avenue, 4BD/2BA, Sat 11-2 Sun 12-4, $879,000, Keller Williams, David Johnson II 805-689-7948

616 Calle De Los Amigos, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $815,000, Sotheby’s, Marie Larkin 805-680-2525

5014 Whitney Court, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,075,000, Village Properties, Matt Crego 805-448-6284

42 Calle Capistrano, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-3, $865,000, Sotheby’s, Ed Kaleugher 805-963-1391 Stephanie Wilson 805-895-3270

1045 Ocean Vista Lane, 5BD/5.5BA, Sun 2:30-4:30, $1,450,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer 805-680-4622

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San Roque (CONTiNUED) 3756 Greggory Way 1, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $875,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Rachel Brown 805-570-7160 3744 Greggory Way Unit 4, 3BD/3BA, Sat 1-3 Sun By Appt., $885,000, Sotheby’s, Joanna Slott 805335-0158 Melissa Birch 805-689-2674

415 North La Cumbre Road, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $939,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Sue Irwin 805-705-6973 310 Stevens Road, 4BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $950,000, Keller Williams, Ruth Ann Bowe Real Estate Team 805-698-0351 715 Russell Way, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $959,000, Village Properties, Marcella Simmons 805-680-9981 30 West Calle Crespis, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $965,000, Coldwell Banker, Arielle Assur 805-906-0194 520 Vista Vallejo, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,295,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Tara Toner 805-451-4999 3971 Foothill Road, 4BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-4, $1,325,000, Village Properties, Phyllis Lenker 805-886-2342 David Magid 805-451-0402 1354 Rialto Lane, 5BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,459,900, Berkshire Hathaway, Patti Yahyavi 805-452-6492

3132 Calle Mariposa, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1:30-4, $1,599,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Robert Johnson 805-705-1606

2414 Santa Barbara Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $2,150,000, Berkshire Hathaway, SiBelle Israel 805-896-4218

2485 Park Street, 2BD/1.5BA, Sat 1-3, $777,777, Sotheby’s, Lauren Stewart 805618-6007

3844 Lincoln Road, 5BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,649,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bob Ratliffe 805-448-6642

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631 Lilliebakke Court, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3:30, $789,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Karin Aitken 805-252-1205

841-861 East Alamar Avenue, 1BA, By Appt., $1,995,000, Sotheby’s, Robert Heckes 805-637-0047 1333 Santa Teresita Drive, 3BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $3,095,000, Sotheby’s, Maureen McDermut 805-570-5545

Upper East Santa Barbara 349 Northgate Drive D, 4BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $579,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer 805-680-4622

2621 State Street Unit 3, 2BD/2BA, Sat By Appt, Sun 2-4., $649,000, Sotheby’s, Robert Heckes 805-637-0047 811 East Pedregosa Street #2, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,195,000, Village Properties, Hutch Axilrod 805-637-6378 1814 Olive Avenue, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,295,000, Sotheby’s, Jim Alzina 805455-1941 1026 E Canon Perdido Street, 3BD/3BA, Sat 11-2 Sun 2-4, $1,599,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Kat Perello Hitchcock 805-705-4485 Jessica Stovall 805-6989416 2025 Garden Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 12-2, $1,750,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ken Switzer 805-680-4622

319 Ladera Street 2, 2BD/2BA, By Appt., $674,900, Berkshire Hathaway, The Jason Streatfeild Team 805-969-1122

2007 Gillespie Street, 2BD/1BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $785,000. Refugio Real Estate, Stewart Abercrombie 805 886 0497 934 West Micheltorena Street, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1:30-4:30, $888,000, Left Coast Realty, Jeanne L. O’Brien J.D. 805696-8613 5004 Caire Circle, 5BD/3BA, By Appt. $949,000, Berkshire Hathaway, The Jason Streatfeild Team 805-969-1122 1268 Veronica Springs Road, 6BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $1,289,000, Keller Williams Realty, Justin Etherton 805-6170774 1106 Crestline Drive, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,650,000, Coldwell Banker, Victor Plaba 805-895-0591

Santa Ynez Valley 290 Perkins Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 11-1, $529,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Suzy Ealand 805-698-9902

2893 Stadium Drive, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $649,000, Sotheby’s, Linda Williams 805-680-7541 341 Valley Dairy Road, 5BD/3BA, Sat 1-3:30, $697,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Karin Aitken, 805-252-1205

1371 Willow Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1:30-4:00, $869,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Bob Jennings 805-570-0792 1888 Ringsted Drive, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 12-3, $895,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Glynnis Mullenary 805-705-5206 1453 Remington Drive, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $1,178,500, Village Properties, Barbara Morr 805-245-0455

Ventura 10876 Galvin Street, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $539,000, Re/Max Gold Coast Realtors, Teryn Bonime 503-572-4030

1251 Via Cielito, Lot/Land, By Appt., $1,200,000, Berkshire Hathaway, The Jason Streatfeild Team 805-969-1122 1069 Corte Barroso, 6BD/6.5BA, Sun 1-4, $2,899,500, Trusted Real Estate Enterprises (T.R.E.E.), Danny Belitski 805804-7091

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28 West Calle Crespis, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $935,000, Coldwell Banker, Arielle Assur 805-906-0194

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away. When we parked at the beach, we noticed something else: It was no longer hot. In fact, it was downright cold. What the heck? We zoomed back home and, wait a minute, hot again. To repeat: What the heck? Microclimates, that’s what. There are about as many weather factors weaving through Santa Barbara neighbor-

parts can be much shadier and cooler than others, depending on where you’re standing. And as for the Mesa, the shoreline fog tends to burn off by midday, which can mean big variations hour by hour. Ireland grew up in a place that was more regimented: your basic hot in summer, cold in winter. When she moved to Santa Barbara 25 years ago,“I was very surprised how different it can be in any given day. It might start out foggy, and you’re wearing a sweater and a scarf, but by afternoon in another part of town, you’re peeling off layers.” The good part is that, though it can be changeable hour by hour and neighborhood by neighborhood, Santa Barbara doesn’t vary much throughout the year. “There’s a little something for everyone,” Ireland said.“Not too hot, not too cold, but if you have a preference, there’s a part of town that will suit you.” Which brings up the tricky subject of spousal concord. Ireland had just such a case a while back: a husband and wife, good friends of hers. “He loves the ocean and loves it cool, so the closer to the beach, the better for him,” she said. “His wife likes more sunshine and warmer.” How did she resolve that age-old dilemma? “They settled for a happy medium downtown.” n

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e were hanging around in the old backyard in San Roque a while back and noticed that it was hot—which sparked a bright idea: Let’s go to the beach as fast as humanly possible. Off we raced to Hendry’s, and on the way there, zipping along Las Positas, we noticed something: The sun had gone

hoods as there are neighborhoods, according to Alan Rose, chief meteorologist for KEYT TV. It’s all a brew of Pacific breezes, mountain elevations, canyon wind tunnels, etc. and etc. He suggested checking the website of Weather Underground — not the Vietnam-era protesters but actual weather mavens who, among many other things, gather data neighborhood by neighborhood. Right now, for instance, the site says it’s 58.8 degrees in Oak Park and 76.6 degrees three miles south on the Mesa. See? Microclimates. This matters for house hunters.“I always ask clients if they’d like more urban or rural, about views, and also about temperature,” said Samantha Ireland, an agent for Keller Williams Realty. “A lot of people like it cool,” she said. “They like the fog rolling in, love to able to walk over to Shoreline or Leadbetter regardless of weather.” So they veer toward the Mesa.“Some prefer it warmer and drier, like San Roque or Mission Hills.” Or you can move up the mountain a bit, above the marine layer.“It can get quite warm on the Riviera,” Ireland said.“But most people don’t have any complaint because they get breezes up the hill and spectacular views.” There can even be microclimates within microclimates, she noted—that 56.6 temp in Oak Park above, for instance. Some

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he first time I saw 928 Fellowship Road, I was bowled over by the character of this unique pueblo-style adobe atop the Mesa. It’s a tall twostory home with rustic beamed ceilings, an ancient brick staircase leading steeply up from the street to the front door, a wall of windows peering down over the rambling hill of a front yard, a tree-house feel upstairs, and a clubhouse feel downstairs. It has two front doors, both with unique stained-glass “speakeasy” windows, and two back doors, one through the kitchen and one downstairs on the side of the house that’s about four feet tall. It’s perfect for a hobbit or an Ewok or a pair of 6- and 8-year-old brothers with vivid imaginations. I know this because the first time I saw 928 Fellowship Road was in the summer of 1996. The walls were bare white, the landscaping was nonexistent, and the house was completely empty. The realtor sat and smiled as my husband walked through the house marveling at its details, while our two energetic sons ran through the place, exclaiming how cool it was. I couldn’t stop staring out the living room windows at the view. We were hooked, and she knew it. The boys were right. The house was cool, and it still is. There are secret doorways, kid-sized closets, and even a rustic basement. Many things have changed about the house since 1996. But the view from the living room was and will always be its most striking feature. True to Mesa weather patterns, there is a peek of an ocean view, but only when the fog clears. When it does, the wood-framed, vertical-paned living room windows let the sun shine in generously during the day and provide dramatic moonlit views at night. These windows line three of the living room walls and open wide with wrought-iron latches and hand-hewn hooks to hold them in place. No matter how that room might be configured or decorated, the windows, and the view beyond, can’t help but be the focal point of the upstairs of this home. The bones of this house are solid and show through in some cases even at a glance. The living room was once a patio or deck. The original roofline is evident below the windows and creates a little bench seat on the wall nearest the kitchen. The walls are actual adobe, rather than plaster fashioned to look authentic. They are the real deal. There truly is not a flat wall surface in the house. These thick walls keep the house cool in the summer and warm in the winter, especially downstairs. In addition to the aforementioned living room with a view, the upstairs includes a colorful compact kitchen with a big window facing onto the back patio and a master bedroom with a huge fireplace and an updated bathroom. A steep staircase in the center of the house leads downstairs. As you descend, it feels like you’re walking into the hold of a ship or into a secret lair. The bedroom to the left has a step-up closet that was a perfect hiding place for a 6-year-old from his older brother. The bedroom to the right has an attached bonus room behind it, which could be a laundry room, sitting room, or both. In between the bedrooms is a bathroom with a vertical glass-brick wall. I love the glass brick. It feels as if you’re taking a shower outdoors, yet you have complete privacy. Privacy is one of the recurring themes here. Removed from the street by the steep front staircase, you’re literally above what’s an already quiet neighborhood. This altitude plus the trees around and below combine to create an atmosphere of peaceful solitude that permeates the house.

Some of the prettiest details were our doing: the Mexican tile counters and backsplash in the kitchen, the handcrafted willow-twig kitchen cabinetry, the Saltillo tile floors throughout the living room and kitchen, and the paint colors on every interior and exterior surface. While some paint was added, even more was eliminated. We sandblasted the ceilings in several of the rooms, removing the paint to reveal entire eucalyptus log beams. The gorgeous redwood front doors had been painted dark brown, so they were taken down to their natural state, as well. The house has a separate studio room nestled under a big, beautiful oak tree that would be a great office, playroom, or art studio. Like many features of this home, it’s limited only by your imagination. The exact pedigree of the property is murky but interesting. It is purported to have been built in the early 1920s by the Fellowship Society, a group that attempted to be a self-sustaining farming commune in this Mesa neigh-

borhood in the 1920s and ’30s. This relatively short-lived community has the nearby streets of Fellowship Lane, Fellowship Circle, and Fellowship Road as its namesakes. For house hunters who find comfort in the predictable practicality of cookie-cutter tract homes, this may not be the home for you. But everyone who loves this home, LOVES this home. It has personality, character, and history galore. Some of it belongs to the house, and some belongs to the people who have inhabited it. I’ll cherish every memory that I have of this home and hope that its next residents share as much fun and love inside its walls as we did.

Address: 928 Fellowship Road Status: On the market Price: $849,000

928 Fellowship Road is currently for sale in Santa Barbara, listed by Malante Hayworth of Harbor View Real Estate & Investments. Reach Malante at 886-8484.

Santa barbara county SaleS buyer

price

date

addreSS

PassMoRe MICHael

PasMoRe KatHleen

$100,000

11/19/15

554 tHuMbelIna DR

Hess Paul W tRustee

IngRaHaM WalteR eu

$600,000

11/20/15

134 ManZanIta DR

beaCH RICHaRD D eu

MIRanDa Jose eu

$866,500

11/20/15

1219 Coast oaK DR

CaRPInteRIa

tHIbault RobeRt g JR

selFRIDge MaRtHa M tRustee

$467,000

11/17/15

1080 PalMetto WaY F

goleta

laMb RICHaRD g tRustee

JaCobs anna b

$892,000

11/20/15

137 santa ana ave

eMMens bRuCe e tRust

PaRKeR RYan a ea

$657,500

11/20/15

4788 Calle CaMaRaDa

KenneDY sHaRon tRustee

galbRaItH RobeRt a eu

$937,500

11/19/15

740 vIa RePoso

gaRDneR FaMIlY tRust

JaCKson CYntHIa a

$725,000

11/19/15

974 n san MaRCos RD

Ruston MaXWell P tRustee

guolIang llC

$1,075,000

11/20/15

5890 HollIsteR ave

sYlvesteR JennIFeR

bRegante DonalD M

$375,000

11/19/15

31 DeaRboRn Pl 28

HeWett toDD s eu

CabReRa FRanCIso eu

$740,000

11/17/15

106 la PateRa ln

Moua Kao

alaMaR II llC

$610,000

11/17/15

7283 bassano DR

KRoCK antHonY K

RaMIReZ aDaM eu

$492,000

11/20/15

7628 HollIsteR ave 118

guaDaluPe

DeseRt ICe HolDIng llC

HeRnanDeZ eManuel ea

$359,000

11/20/15

184 avoCet Ct

loMPoC

CaZenave nanCY l tRustee

DeCKeR DonalD C eu

$200,000

11/17/15

309 e HICKoRY ave

CHaveZ aleJanDRo

WIlKIn loRena ea

$240,000

11/17/15

431 s D st

bunCH luCY FaMIlY tRust

RuIZ saMuel eu

$257,500

11/20/15

601 n lIlaC st

MuRPHY RobeRt l tRustee

PInI DaRIo l

$1,250,000

11/18/15

536 n u st

MtI CaPItal InC

autenRIetH eRIK s eu

$307,500

11/20/15

1332 vIllage MeaDoWs DR

West PoInte HoMes InC

MCCRee FReD H eu

$305,000

11/20/15

408 CRoWn CIR

MtI CaPItal InC

taMaYo beatRIZ a

$162,500

11/16/15

202 n R st

DoW sue K tRustee

RHeInsteIn suZanne tRustee

$3,495,000

11/17/15

412 CRoCKeR sPeRRY DR

ClIFFoRD anne tRustee

PolIZZI CHRIstoPHeR a eu

$100,000

11/16/15

533 las Fuentes DR

HoKonson g neIl tRustee

DaRt guY M tRustee

$2,566,500

11/20/15

486 MonaRCH ln

abRIsHaMI MaRK eu

vIsHteH aRMIn

$1,030,000

11/20/15

824 alston RD

PeaK 10 lP

MosKoW JaMes eu

$2,200,000

11/20/15

2970 HIDDen valleY ln

los olIvos

leal Dave tRustee

HensleY JoHn D tRustee

$1,325,000

11/16/15

3280 CalZaDa RIDge ave

santa baRbaRa

steCKeR JeFFReY J eu

RaJbansHI RanJan

$715,000

11/20/15

106 n salInas st

negRete MaRIa

HaYs beveRlY J

$570,000

11/16/15

304 PoR la MaR CIR

MCelWaIn MalColM s eu

MaJestIC elIZabetH eu

$2,295,000

11/20/15

1031 MIssIon RIDge RD

beRRett RICHaRD M tRustee

o'ConnoR IRene g tRustee

$525,000

11/20/15

1035 CoYote RD

ataHualPa HolDIngs llC

gaRDneR DavID tRustee

$2,832,500

11/20/15

1703 santa baRbaRa st

bagleY anna M tRust

beRMuDes bRIan tRustee

$505,000

11/20/15

1701 anaCaPa st 6

901 HolDIngs llC

PoRteR alan R

$17,850,000

11/17/15

433 e Canon PeRDIDo st

MonteCIto

$1,345,000

11/20/15

825 alaMeDa PaDRe seRR

$357,500

11/18/15

310 W YanonalI st

FItCH JaCQuelIne l tRustee

KRonen DavID tRustee

$920,000

11/20/15

1902 gIllesPIe st

bates DavID l tRust

tHIbault RobeRt ea

$720,000

11/20/15

1502 MountaIn ave

CaRRagHeR saRaH tRustee

RabIs RICHaRD eu

$1,150,000

11/20/15

252 los alaMos

gobutY bob M eu

savellano JaMIson eu

$920,000

11/20/15

3710 aMalFI WaY

MCllWee MaRgo I tRust

gaRtneR JonaHan D eu

$1,042,000

11/19/15

421 saMaRKanD DR

DeutsCHe banK nat tRust Co

KnIll ellen

$590,000

11/18/15

2612 las PosItas RD

CoX nanCY R aDMInIstRatoR

HollanDeR lauRa J

$400,000

11/18/15

224 W alaMaR ave 3

seDeR JobetH tRust

leonaRDI DanIel J tRustee

$1,201,000

11/18/15

3661 RoCKCReeK RD

gulICK MICHael a tRust

aMbReCHt JaMes t

$871,000

11/20/15

175 sHeRWooD DR

august DIane C tRustee

KIM HeeJung ea

$1,625,000

11/17/15

1019 CaMIno Del RetIRo

vaZQQueZ DaIMen J eu

entHoven bRIttanY a eu

$365,000

11/19/15

393 MountaIn vIeW DR

gee elIZabetH J

KIng lauRa H

$438,000

11/20/15

5131 bRIttanY Ct

MuRPHY DanIel J tRustee

CaIn glen e eu

$1,135,000

11/20/15

4630 PaInt HoRse tRaIl

FaugeRouX luC M ea

ClaRKe JeFFeRson s

$495,000

11/20/15

1122 HastIngs Ct

teIXeIRa CoDY b

sHaFFeR tIM tRustee

$352,000

11/20/15

721 WooDHaven Ct

noRRIs MICHael R eu

gonZaleZ bRanDan ea

$365,000

11/19/15

4051 sHellIe Ct

vanCe WIllIaM J eu

bogenHolM laRRY M

$440,000

11/20/15

249 e FosteR RD

CanaDY KeRI l

neWton bRIttanY a

$508,000

11/17/15

1495 CoRsICa DR

FReItas WIllIaM F eu

oRoZCo Joel eu

$380,000

11/20/15

464 WIlsHIRe ln

MaHoneY MICHael J tRustee

PaRavato Paul M eu

$578,000

11/17/15

4445 beRKsHIRe ln

3MCMC llC

CaMPbell sHaWn eu

$550,000

11/17/15

1328 W betteRavIa RD

RaMIReZ alFReDo eu

Pena FeRnanDo

$285,000

11/20/15

713 W MonRoe st

MonteJo vInCe eu

MolIneRo HeCtoR M eu

$325,000

11/20/15

501 W tIMbeR ln

CPH HaRvest glen llC

bRavo steven J

$376,500

11/20/15

923 W elaIne ave

CPH HaRvest glen llC

gaRCIa CHaRles eu

$399,000

11/19/15

845 W elaIne ave

CPH HaRvest glen llC

snooK steven eu

$413,000

11/20/15

1902 s WIlMa ave

CPH HaRvest glen llC

Rosas RoMan

$402,000

11/18/15

842 W elaIne ave

lauRel RobeRto JR

guZMan euRIn F ea

$285,000

11/20/15

307 W sunset ave

suMMeRlanD

JanoFsKY JoHn s tRustee

boRDa MaRK tRustee

$9,300,000

11/17/15

3531 PaDaRo ln

santa YneZ

lansIng DonalD e tRust

boYD geoFFReY eu

$699,000

11/20/15

1132 HIgHlanD RD

santa MaRIa

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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