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Leonidas Kavakos, violin Enrico Pace, piano Fri, Jan 25 / 7 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 $10 UCSB students

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Sun, Jan 27 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $35 $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“Kavakos’ tone has the character of striking high-grade silver sinew, ever beautiful, graceful and unbreakable.” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times

“The funniest night you will ever have at the ballet.” The Sunday Times (U.K.)

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Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4, op. 23 Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1, op. 80 Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1, Sz. 87 Enescu: Vioin Sonata No. 3, op. 25 Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Music and Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church

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Classical Program Wed, Feb 13 / 7 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 $10 UCSB students

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J.S. Bach: Brandenbur Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, op. 20, no. 2 Abrahamsen: String Quartet No. 1 (“10 Preludes”) Nielsen: String Quartet No. 3, op. 14

Tue, Jan 29 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 / $15 UCSB students Embodying her gospel-singing father’s voice and her Cherokee/Choctaw mother’s culture, Redbone’s magnificent vocals blend with her band of some of NYC’s finest blues and jazz musicians for “a brilliant collision of cultures” (The New Yorker). The folk and country sounds of her childhood and the eclectic grit of her teen years come together in a masterful mix of folk, country, Piedmont blues, gospel, bluegrass, soul and traditional American Indian music. Presented in association with UCSB American Indian Student Services and the UCSB American Indian Student Association

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Special Youth Pricing for Two Granada Events Montreal Circus comes to The Granada

Two Exquisite Santa Barbara Debuts in the Intimacy of Hahn Hall 2019 Grammy Award Nominees

A Far Cry Thu, Feb 7 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $25 $19 UCSB students and youth (18 & under)

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J.S. Bach: Brandenburg

Fri, Feb 15 / 7 PM / Hahn Hall Music Academy of the West $35 / $9 all students (with valid ID)

A Hahn Hall facility fee will be added to each ticket price

Concerto No. 3 Philip Glass: Symphony No. 3 Bartók: Divertimento Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae

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“The right blend of dance and circus, theatre and spectacle.” The Guardian (U.K.) “Motion and emotion lifted to hypnotic heights.” The Boston Globe

“A thoroughly modern, century-spanning, globe-trotting sonic adventure. Catch the group live.” Boston Magazine Through astonishing acrobatics, aerial stunts and dynamic dance movement, the artists build an intergenerational bridge between past and present, then and now. “The collective virtuosity of this troupe is something to see – and, crucially, to feel” (The (The Boston Globe). Globe).

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New York Polyphony Faith and Reason

One Earth Tour 2019: Evolution Sat, Feb 9 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $35 $19 all students and youth (18 & under)

Wed, Feb 20 / 7 PM / Hahn Hall $35 / $9 all students (with valid ID)

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This sublime evening includes Thomas Tallis’ Mass for Four Voices and Gregory Brown’s Missa Charles Darwin which honors the conventions of its musical antecedents but replaces sacred texts with excerpts from Darwin’s writings.

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Commemorated 46 years

of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision, Roe v. Wade, which affirmed that the constitutional right to privacy includes the right to safely end a pregnancy. Under the current administration and US Supreme Court, reproductive health care faces its greatest threat yet. But our movement is strong – and getting stronger. Seven in ten Americans support the Roe v. Wade decision and do not want to see it overturned. Over the last two years, we defeated multiple efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, protected essential ACA birth control benefits, and delayed the Title X Gag rule that threatens access to life-saving reproductive health care services for millions. When it comes to protecting the freedoms we have won, we will never back down.

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Claims Local Government Should Have Done More to Prevent Devastation

fter Santa Barbara County and others sued Southern California Edison in July over the Thomas Fire and debris flow, last Friday Edison counter-sued, claiming the public agencies should have done more to prevent the muddy devastation since they’d known of the dangers for weeks, if not decades. Not only that, but if Edison is found liable to individuals affected by the debris flow, it claims the public entities must also pay. According to the cross-complaint, Edison faces more than 75 lawsuits from the rainstorm that brought devastation down on Montecito on January 9, 2018, after 281,000 mountainous acres burned in December 2017. To serve the allegation of foreknowledge, the cross-complaint reviews Montecito’s history of debris flows, reaching back through millennia and the creation of Montecito’s alluvial fans. It summarizes the cycle of fire and flood of the 1964 Coyote and 1971 Romero fires — and emergency director Robert Lewin’s inclusion of them in a presentation to county supervisors six days before the debris flow— and Edison’s attorneys, Hueston Henflow nigan of Los Angeles, illustrate their point with descriptions of “20-foot walls of water, mud, boulders and trees moving down the channels at approximately 15 miles per hour” from news articles by Melinda Burns (Independent and other publications). Edison’s attorneys charge that the county, City of Santa Barbara, County Flood Control District, Caltrans, and Montecito Water District were themselves negligent in their actions before the debris flow. The county allowed development in flood zones, Edison asserted, using aerial photos from 1927, 1965, and 1975 to demonstrate how buildings and roads replaced agricultural lands, placing people and homes in harm’s way. The Santa Monica Creek Debris Basin above Carpinteria is cited by Edison as a cor-

rectly sized basin that prevented catastrophe in Carpinteria. The debris basins at Cold Springs, Montecito Creek, San Ysidro Creek, and Romero Creek not only were too small but also had not been entirely emptied, the attorneys claimed, citing Joe Mozingo’s report in the Los Angeles Times a month earlier, the result of eight months of research. It was a situation county flood control officials had known for at least 50 years, the cross-complaint states. It compares Ventura County’s standard for the size of debris basins to Santa Barbara’s, alleging that Santa Barbara has “no clear specifications or criteria for building or maintaining debris basins.” If the county had used Ventura’s criteria, Edison alleges, some debris basins in Montecito would have been 44 times larger. Edison also claims the county produced “inadequate and flawed hazard warnings” that left residents unaware of their risks. It pointed to a topographic map that “highlighted with almost surgical precision” areas along creeks that would flood in a heavy storm. “It ultimately proved remarkably accurate” but was “only briefly available to the public” before being replaced by the county evacuation map, citing stories by Tyler Hayden in the Independent. Independent “For no apparent, scientifically sound reason,” the cross-complaint alleges, the county chose State Highway 192 as the dividing line for mandatory and voluntary evacuations. The crosscomplaint claimed people on the mandatory side “often heeded” the evacuation notice, but “of the 23 people who perished, 19 resided in the voluntary” zone. “The County has publicly admitted these grossly negligent errors,” Edison charges; further, “the warnings that did come were inadequate and ill-designed to explain what residents needed to do to stay safe.”

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On Saturday morning, Santa Barbara residents marched along State Street downtown in solidarity with the national Women’s March. As a movement, the Women’s March began the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017, when as many as one million people took to the streets in Washington, D.C. This week’s Santa Barbara event was lively and joyful with an aim to highlight and address social issues, including ending violence against women and advocating for reproductive, immigrant, and civil rights.

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HEADS UP: A firefighting helicopter made water drops near Southern California Edison’s transmission lines as the Thomas Fire burned near Highway 150.

The cross-complaint claims that Caltrans built bridges and culverts that were too small for debris flows past and present, leading to overflows on January 9. It cites the City of Santa Barbara for inadequate flood mapping of the North Jameson Lane and Olive Mill Road nexus; Montecito Water District is accused of releasing nine million gallons of water, a claim Montecito Water disputed when it was first in the news, giving a précis of its broken pipes and stating 5.8 million gallons leaked slowly over a wide area over 11 hours.

Edison claims the county produced “inadequate and flawed hazard warnings” that left residents unaware of their risks. Neither the county nor the city had yet been served with the cross-complaint, said County Counsel Mike Ghizzoni and Deputy City Attorney Tom Shapiro on Tuesday. Scott Summy and John Fiske of Baron & Budd in Solana Beach, California, are attorneys for the city and county and filed a “master complaint” in July 2018. In it they enumerate the lives and structures lost, alleging that Edison was at fault for causing the Thomas Fire, which sparked during high-fire conditions of dry heat and extreme winds, and the subsequent flood in Montecito. In addition to failing to maintain fire breaks around its poles and failing to keep up with the maintenance of the poles, the complaint charges that Edison had a program to turn the power off during highfire conditions, but did not in this instance. The list of losses to the public entities runs from fire-suppression and law-enforcement costs to road, sewer-system, and tax losses and more. The sum would be determined at trial, n and a jury has been requested.

Eric Nickel was sworn in as the City of Santa Barbara’s new fire chief this Tuesday. The week before, he appeared before the city’s Planning Commission, throwing his weight behind efforts to accelerate the creation of a wildland fire management plan. That plan is one of many ingredients in City Hall’s sprawling multimillion-dollar Capital Improvement Plan. Nickel, who served as chief of the Palo Alto Fire Department, was accompanied by his wife, his father, and his brother at the ceremony. He bought his wife a necklace for the occasion.

LAW & DISORDER While evading arrest on 1/17 around noon, Santa Barbara police state, Ricardo Sanchez, 36, struck two vehicles and injured two civilians before being taken into custody. Officers were trying to serve Sanchez with a felony arrest warrant midday on the 200 block of West Micheltorena Street, when they say he jumped into a vehicle and struck a police car before attempting to run over a police officer. Among the charges Sanchez could face are attempted murder of a police officer, assault with a deadly weapon, felony hit and run with injury, and felony vandalism. A Santa Barbara jury convicted 24-year-old Kahlil Byers this week of kidnapping and rape. Byers and the victim—identified in the trial as Jane Doe—were both living on the Kahlil Byers streets on April 18 when the crime was reported. Byers is looking at a maximum sentence of 51 years to life. Of the verdict, his defense attorney Addison Steele said, “I am perplexed,” adding, “I hope it has nothing to do

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Beach Driving Halted at Hollister Ranch

longtime Hollister Ranch activity has come under scrutiny as the spotlight continues to shine on the private 14,500-acre community and its ongoing legal wrangle with environmentalists and state agencies set on expanding the general public’s access to beaches along its eight miles of coastline. In a violation notice last month to the Hollister Ranch Owners Association (HROA), the California Coastal Commission described the HROA’s “formal beach driving program” as “degrading [to] beach habitats and the natural coastline” and against the law. “Hollister Ranch property owners … have repeatedly expressed concern about the environmental impacts of increased public access to the beach, and property owners at Hollister Ranch have described themselves as coastal stewards responsible for the preservation of the coast

at Hollister Ranch,” the December 17 letter states. “However, driving of motor vehicles on the beach has … the potential for very significant detrimental impacts, and would greatly exceed the usual disruption to the coast caused from low-impact pedestrian use. This unpermitted [activity] harms marine life and coastal resources, and is contrary to the Coastal Act and county [law].” In a December 28 response to the Coastal Commission, HROA President Monte Ward wrote, “It appears that the [Coastal Commission] staff was unaware that the HROA had decided about a month earlier (on Nov. 17) to suspend beach driving privileges. On Dec. 21, the HROA Board … voted to amend the Ranch rules to prohibit beach driving, effective immediately. Finalizing this rule to make it permanent requires 30 days’ notice to the owners which was issued on Dec. 21.” —Keith Hamm

Surf Community Mourns Chris Brown

escribed as gifted, inspirational, magnetic, and the frequent carrier of arguably the biggest smile on the West Coast, Santa Barbara surfer and commercial fisherman Chris Brown, 48, has died. Brown’s body was recovered from the base of the bluffs east of Hendry’s Beach, on January 19, according to authorities. Investigators with climbing equipment had returned Chris Brown was remembered for his aloha spirit and contagious stoke. to the scene Tuesday to search the Douglas Family Preserve bluff early 1990s, Brown was ranked among the and cliff for clues in an attempt to rule out top 25 professional surfers worldwide. Over foul play and exhaust investigative leads, said the decades, Brown’s aloha spirit and conAnthony Wagner, a spokesperson with the tagious stoke had a lasting impact on those Santa Barbara Police Department. Wagner with whom he crossed paths, including added that the location where the body was Santa Barbara–based photographer Branfound may not have been where the death den Aroyan. “Chris Brown showed up duroccurred. An autopsy is scheduled for next ing a very formative time in my life,” Aroyan wrote on Instagram. “It was right before week. In Puerto Rico at the age of 17, Brown won graduating from Brooks Institute when he the juniors division of the 1988 World Ama- single-handedly launched my path as a surf teur Surfing Championships. Brown turned photographer. Chris had passion and a perpro shortly thereafter and was one of the spective so true and honest it brought out a few elite-level standouts who could chal- smile in everyone. … It’s so easy to hear his lenge Kelly Slater, now widely considered voice clear as day, excited and encouraging the best competitive surfer in history. In the and happy.” —Keith Hamm

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tary personnel are still being deployed without pay to support anti-smuggling in Central and South America, Carbajal said. Carbajal described the shutdown as “unconscionable” and a threat to national security. He called the recent proposal offering three years of protection for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protection Status in exchange for funding for the wall a “sham.” “We don’t give in to these types of tactics,” said Carbajal. “If we give in to childlike tantrums, what will it be next week? Next month? It’s no way to govern.” The shutdown is hurting a lot of people and putting national security and Americans at risk, said Carbajal. “Join me in telling the president to open up the government. Speak out, organize, march!” Federal employees affected by the shutdown can receive free food from Foodbank of Santa Barbara County from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and Friday at its warehouse locations in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and Lompoc. The City of Lompoc has offered extensions on utility payments, and federal workers can call 2-1-1 to receive information about other local assistance. —Blanca Garcia ©2002- 2019 K EN N ETH & GAB R I E LL E AD E LM AN, CALI FOR N IA COSTAL R E COR D S PROJ E CT, WWW.CALI FOR N IACOASTLI N E.ORG

overnment workers will miss their second paycheck this Friday as the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history continues. Congressmember Salud Carbajal met with Coast Guard personnel this weekend to discuss how they’re being impacted. Coast Guard service members are among the 30,000 federal workers in California who are furloughed or working without pay. However, they are the only members of the U.S. military going without pay. “On top of that, the Coast Guard station crew are not getting paid meal and housing allowances,” said Carbajal. The congressmember sent a letter to President Trump last week, urging him to end the shutdown. “The Coast Guard is continuing its critical life-saving and national defense missions, but they are now expected to conduct these missions without pay, food [allowances], and housing allowances,” he wrote. Servicemembers spoke candidly about fears regarding missing mortgage payments, being evicted, and the impact missing payments will have on their credit, said Carbajal. “They conduct dangerous day-today missions, and they’re not 100 percent, with this on their mind,” said Carbajal. Mili-

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port the College’s existing and any newly announced programs related to anti-racism, equity and inclusion. These initiatives are of vital importance.” Akil Hill, a black staff member at SBCC, described Maas’s return to campus as “utterly disrespectful.” It sets a precedent, said Hill. “It opens up Pandora’s box to argue the context the word was used in.” Hill expressed frustration with the college for allowing Maas to return. “There have been instances where people have said things, and [SBCC] terminated them and paid them out,” said Hill. “It’s contrary to past practices,” said Hill. “People who are marginalized just have to swallow it.” —Blanca Garcia

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with the fact that a black man is accused of raping a white woman.” He noted he would be filing a notice of appeal after the sentencing on April 17. Prosecuting attorney Jennifer Karapetian said she hopes Doe can heal from the trauma and move forward with her life. A September 2015 heroin bust led Santa Barbara detectives to the arrest of an Oxnard man, Salvador Cortes Duran, who has ended up with a 12-year prison sentence, the District Attorney’s Office announced. Duran was released on $500,000 bail in October 2015, but before the case went to trial, he was taken into custody again by officers in May 2017. Five locations associated with him were searched, and more than a pound of heroin was found, as well as $40,000 in cash. This brought another heroin possession and sales charge, as well as misdemeanor child endangerment. n

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COUNTY The City of Lompoc announced Tuesday that it removed 462.31 tons of trash, 499 pounds of human waste, 57 quarts of collected sharps waste in containers, and five truckloads of tarps from the Santa Ynez Riverbed. So far, the cost to the city is estimated at $422,787. The cleanup effort was preceded by evicting more than 100 homeless residents from the riverbed. Of the individuals evicted, 69 were served by the various health and wellness services at the 30-day triage center. Twenty-two of the clients stayed at the center throughout the 30 days, with 19 of them having

A Delta IV Heavy rocket growled off its Vandenberg Air Force Base launch pad Saturday morning and delivered a highly classified payload into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the county’s spy satellite agency. The launch took place after weeks of delays due to technical issues and bad weather. “We are very happy to have achieved another successful launch in support of our country’s national security mission,” said Air Force Col. Matthew Skeen, director of the NRO Office of Space Launch.

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Cottage, County Launch Homeless Program

n 2017, approximately 1,200 homeless individuals visited Santa Barbara Cottage Health hospital. A number of those patients were returning and cycling through the hospital three to four times in one month. Now, Cottage Health, People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), CenCal Health, and the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department have teamed up to launch the Recuperative Care Program (RCP) to help patients who are homeless recover in a safe and supportive environment after they’re discharged from the hospital. Cottage Health has partnered with PATH and its previous entity, Casa Esperanza, for more than 10 years, but the Recuperative Care Program takes a patient’s recovery to the next level. The program includes 10 medical beds at PATH, a Cottage Health nurse, a community health navigator, and a medical director. Qualified patients can stay up to 90 days and are provided with case managers to help them with housing goals; they are also connected with a primary care physician to address their ongoing medical needs. “There’s incredible collaboration on all fronts on how best to serve [patients],” said PATH Regional Director Tessa Madden Storm.

The idea for the program was born of the 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment conducted by Cottage Health. “[P]articipants expressed that inadequate housing is a primary barrier to the health, economic security, and social integration of individuals experiencing homelessness,” said Katy Bazylewicz, Cottage Health’s vice president for Marketing and Population Health. Most patients experiencing homelessness visit Cottage for “acute, unmanaged chronic conditions, such as congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, hypertension, mental-health issues, and substance abuse,” said Bazylewicz. A four-bed pilot program was launched in October, and in 2019, the program expanded to 10 beds. As of January 18, the program had six patients. Five had completed housing applications, and four had identified and visited their primary care physician. “What we hope to do is give them access to the care that they will benefit from and the opportunity to really succeed, not just from a medical perspective but also from a social perspective,” said Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons, the program’s medical director. —Blanca Garcia

Major Plans for Bohnett Park, Mission Creek Bridge

he Architectural Board of Review just approved plans to give Bohnett Park, located on the city’s densely populated Westside, a million-dollar face-lift; the key question now remains where that money will come from. Bohnett Park has been an ever-evolving work in progress almost since its inception in 1940, but in recent years, the relentless beating taken by its makeshift soccer field has far surpassed City Hall’s ability to maintain the fields in a usable condition. Even so, a private consultant concluded that artificial turf is not the solution after hosting a public meeting on the park’s future earlier this year. There, residents were emphatic they wanted more picnic tables and spaces for barbecues instead. According to preliminary new plans, two areas will be set aside for picnic tables, the largest increasing in size from nine tables to 16. The basketball court will double in size and a new concrete “field” will be added for five-on-a-side soccer games known as “futsal.” In addition, residents said they wanted more lighting for security purposes and better access. City Parks has applied for $350,000 from Community Development Block Grant funds; where the rest of the funding might come from remains a subject of speculation. Bohnett Park is the only park serving the city’s lower west and Westside neighborhoods, where population densities are high and family incomes are low.

Meanwhile, an expensive and controversial plan to expand the historic Mission Creek Bridge in Mission Canyon survived at the City of Santa Barbara’s Planning Commission last week despite efforts to deep-six the project. The bridge-widening proposal —which will cost $10.5 million and has vocal partisans both for and against it—was before the planning commission as one ingredient of many in the city’s multimilliondollar capital-improvement project. Opponents — who include Lanny Ebenstein, Pauline Conn, and former county supervisor Frank Frost—showed up to lambaste the project as an assault on the existing stone bridge, not to mention a solution in search of a problem. Supporters of the project — who include architect Fred Sweeney and former city planner Don Olsen—showed up in force as well, arguing that the bridge widening was necessary in case of emergencies and that the existing bridge needs to be seismically reinforced. Planning commissioners declined to get sucked into the specifics of what has emerged as a complicated and divisive debate, but they ruled that the expansion project is consistent with the city’s general plan. At this stage, $1.7 million in federal highway money has been set aside to fund a feasibility study of the proposal; City Hall has contributed an additional $100,000.

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NELL CAMPBELL, “FOOTPRINTS OF FIRST RESPONDERS,” 2018: “I didn’t photograph right after the debris flow because [authorities] asked us to stay out. I didn’t want to get in the way or fall in a pool. In May, a friend asked me to photograph his damaged house. He wanted a record of it and as they demolished it. In that process, I went across the creek to get a different viewpoint. That’s where I saw the footprints. I didn’t know what they were at first, but I was fascinated by them. They were interesting and poignant because they were beautiful, but the reason they were there was so sad. I don’t want to say where they are because people were killed there, and it feels too raw.”

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Westmont Photography Show Digs into the People-Planet Relationship

by Tyler Hayden nsel Adams landscapes they are not. Full of tension and uncertainty, the nature photographs that hang in the Westmont RidleyTree Museum of Art instead reflect an increasingly fraught relationship between humankind and the environment. “We didn’t go for pretty images,” said museum director Judy Larson. “We went for emotional reaction.” Sometimes, the conflict is obvious, as in the documentary-style photograph by Elaine Mayes of a lightning bolt piercing the New York skyline. Or in the darkly whimsical composite created by Anthony Goicolea of a once-calm ocean cove soiled by industry. Other times, the impact of people on nature is less obvious. Jerry Siegel’s panoramic print, for instance, depicts a starkly beautiful piece of rural Alabama that hides a history of plantation slave labor. The bulk of the exhibit—titled Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography—is on loan from the Telfair Museum in Georgia and explores countrywide themes of sustainability, development, and climate change. “It’s really a showcase of shared issues,” said Larson. “From the East Coast to the West Coast, from the Midwest to the South, it asks us to pay attention and get involved.” Larson also decided to feature the work of Santa Barbara photographers, who’ve recorded the region’s inescapable connection to droughts, fires, and floods. The show opened January 10, a year and a day since Montecito was ravaged by a deadly debris flow and just two weeks before the 50th anniversary of the 1969 oil spill. It coincides as well with the launch of Westmont’s new environmental studies minor this fall and a number of upcoming art- and environmental-related events. For details, visit westmont.edu. The Independent spoke with two Santa Barbara photographers and emailed a Southern-based artist about their “Watershed” works. The captions with each image are condensed versions of our conversations.

BILL DEWEY, “LAKE CACHUMA SHORELINE,” 2016: “I’ve been doing aerial photography for 40 years, years and in that time I’ve developed favorite spots. Cachuma is one of them. It’s so ephemeral. Especially the east end. As the lake shrinks, there’s an incredible transformation of the shoreline as the grasses lose their source of water, and this banding effect emerges. I’m a Southern California native, native so I understand we pretty much live in a desert. Our relationship with our water sources is always in the back of my mind. People may see a beautiful image, but the subliminal effort is to bring their attention to the bigger picture.”

WILLIAM GREINER, “TV IN BAYOU,” 1993: “‘TV in Bayou’’ touches on many things: First, it was a commentary about what the television provided. I was a bit down on the medium/machine. Second, I am a native of New Orleans, a city which is below sea level. I always had a hard time understanding how we existed ‘below sea level.’ Third, Southern Louisiana is a culture of fishing and hunting. Our license plates read, ‘Sportsman’s Paradise.’ Somehow Somehow, this [photograph] did not really play into that notion. Lastly, the image now resonates with an apocalyptic undertone of lost society and something which did not survive. Katrina was a life-changing experience for me. It was a reminder of the fragility of our environment and place.”

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for trying. Still, you have to wonder what the hell they were thinking. The “they” to whom I refer are the attorneys for Plains Pipeline Company, who last week argued before Judge James Herman. They wanted him to set aside the one felony conviction rendered by Santa Barbara jurors for Plains’ criminal lack of awareness, preparation, and response to the pipeline rupture and oil spill that happened along the Refugio coastline in 2015. They argued that Plains had met or exceeded all industry standards for its emergency response plans. The jury had concluded that Plains knew or should have known it was about to dump

142,800 gallons of crude oil into the ocean

at the time of the spill. That constituted, in the jurors’ minds, felonious ignorance. By the time of the spill, the wall of the pipeline had become tissue-paper-thin: 89 percent corroded. And when the oil hit the fan, what evidence was there of any emergency response plan? By law, Plains was required to notify federal authorities within the hour of oil hitting the water. Company officials insisted the real limit was two hours, not one. And that, they argued, was merely a guideline, not a requirement. In either case, it took Plains an hour and a half to even figure out that there was oil on the ocean, and then another 89 minutes after that before Plains notified the feds. So much for the best-laid plans.

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Kathy Randall, senior Plains administrator at the scene of the spill, never got around to notifying state or federal emergency officials at all; another Plains employee did that.

If not for the urging of county emergency planner Elsa Arndt, Randall would have never notified Clean Seas, the cleanup crew kept on alert by the oil industry for just such contingencies. When Arndt later checked with Randall to make sure she had made the call, Randall told Arndt she tried, but that she had the wrong number. Arndt quickly gave Randall the correct number, and Randall finally notified Clean Seas to start work. The flawless execution of the best-laid plans. When Plains conducted emergency oilspill response drills in 2009 and in 2012, the company conspicuously never invited county emergency response personnel or representatives from the county fire department. Instead, Plains invited representatives from the Santa Maria Fire Department, the agency furthest away from the disaster site. County agencies found out about the drills only after they’d taken place. I am told Judge Herman issued a 20-page tentative ruling telling Plains’ attorneys to pound sand. In person, I am told, the judge said he’d take some of their points under consideration. In the meantime, Plains is scheduled to be sentenced April 25, a date that will no doubt live in infamy. I mention all this not to rattle the bones

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the 50th anniversary of its late, great oil spill speaks volumes about Plains’ sense of timing.

Plains won’t be the first local oil company forced to eat criminal charges. It will, however, be the first to eat a felony. And there’s not enough mustard and mayonnaise on the planet to make a felony sandwich go down easy for a company like Plains. Unocal — a k a Union Oil — was forced to plead no contest to three criminal charges in 1994 for an underground oil spill by the Guadalupe Dunes in which at least 18 million gallons of diluent — an oil thinner used to dilute oil otherwise so viscous it can’t be pumped or transported — were allowed to spill underneath a 2,700-acre spread of oil patch by Avila Beach. Those charges, however, were only misdemeanors, and far fewer, by the way, than the 33 first proposed. Unocal also agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine. The leak, it turned out, had been taking place for about 40 years. Surfers discovered it

when they noticed the water tasted weird. It proved so big that Unocal was forced to spend $43 million on remediation efforts. Then it was sold to Chevron, which has spent even more. The work is still not finished. When Unocal pleaded no contest, company spokespersons denied engaging in a cover-up. They just never got around to reporting it.

now pushing major onshore oil development projects outside Santa Maria — ERG

— is seeking to sweeten what otherwise might seem like a sour deal by offering to fluff the Guadalupe Dunes as a visitor attraction site. No doubt the spirit of this offer is totally sincere. But as a famous smart-ass once noted, a little sincerity is a dangerous thing and any more can be fatal. ERG is one of three oil proposals that would increase the county’s

greenhouse gas emissions by 700,000 metric tons a year. (See cover story on p. 23)

That’s a big number. For Santa Barbara, it’s huge. When considering these proposals, the county supervisors will have to weigh new evidence indicating that the rate of sea-level rise is happening faster than even the worst doom-’n’-gloomers suspected. Two weeks ago, the journal Science reported the rate of ocean warming has been accelerating and is now 40 percent faster than scientists previously believed. Each of the last three years can now boast being the hottest year of all time for the oceans. This week, the National Academy of Sciences published a report indicating that Greenland’s ice sheets are melting faster than the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz

when water was poured on her. In 2012, the amount of ice melting in Greenland was four times higher than it was in 2003. You can’t blame an oil company for asking. But you can certainly blame county elected officials if they should say yes. —NickWelsh

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of skeletons recently buried, but because all this just happened. That Plains would pursue such an action as Santa Barbara approaches

I mention Unocal and the Guadalupe Dunes because Unocal was the company responsible for the ’69 spill. I mention the dunes because one of the three companies

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Arleen C. Twedt

We would like to thank Samarkand and the caregivers from the Smith Health Center, as well as to the Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care. Your compassionate care and empathy helped our mother navigate the last few years of her life.

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Our loving and caring mother died peacefully on January 9, 2019, she was 81 years old. Arleen was born and raised in Baltic, South Dakota and lived in Santa Barbara, California for the past 54 years. We offer this poem inspired by the beautiful arc of her life: White Flowers Last night In the fields I lay down in the darkness to think about death, but instead I fell asleep, as if in a vast and sloping room filled with those white flowers that open all summer, sticky and untidy, in the warm fields. When I woke the morning light was just slipping in front of the stars, and I was covered with blossoms. I don’t know how it happened--I don’t know if my body went diving down under the sugary vines in some sleep-sharpened affinity with the depths, or whether that green energy rose like a wave and curled over me, claiming me in its husky arms. I pushed them away, but I didn’t rise. Never in my life had I felt so plush, or so slippery, or so resplendently empty. Never in my life had I felt myself so near that porous line where my own body was done with and the roots and the stems and the flower began. May Arleen be loved for the little girl she was, the special mother, wife and friend that she was and the precious soul she will always be. Arleen was preceded in death by her husband Russ. She is survived by her brother, Verne Endahl, daughter Sarah (Paul), her son Paul (Grace), her great grandson, Joshua, her great granddaughter Alanna, and her beloved cat and second love of her life, Barney. Celebration of Life service and reception for Russ and Arleen Twedt will be held on Saturday, February 9, 2019, 2:00pm at Christ Lutheran Church, 6595 Covington Way, Goleta. 18

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Ken was born in West Virginia to Harry & Jane Slider on 8/21/51, the 2nd of 4 children. Harry was a career Air Force man. The family lived in many different places throughout the United States before finally settling in Santa Barbara in 1966. Ken was very ambitious and adventurous. He was a world traveler, visiting many countries in his lifetime. He loved Thailand and spent many years there. It is in Thailand where he met and married his beloved wife, May. Ken was a building contractor/ developer and also lived in Austin, TX for many years where he completed several projects and made lifelong friends. In the latter years of his life he called both Austin and Santa Barbara home, while also returning to Thailand often. Ken was diagnosed with cancer and passed away only a couple of months later on 1/16/19 with his dear May at his side in Santa Barbara. Ken was preceded in death by his mother Jane Slider, father Harry Slider and brother Robert Slider. He is survived by his wife May of Santa Barbara, daughter Courtney Slider of Santa Ynez, sister Lynda (Dean) Vent of La Quinta and brother Michael Slider of Santa Barbara, along with numerous nieces and nephews and many dear friends. He will be remembered and missed by all that knew and loved him. A service will be held on February 2nd at 10 A.M. at Welch, Ryce, Haider, 15 E. Sola St., Santa Barbara, CA. All are welcome to attend.

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Stephen Charles Heller

Steve was born in Port Jefferson, New York. Steve attended the University of California, Santa Barbara He then went on to the University of Southern California where he earned a Masters in Special Education and continued his lifelong dedication to teaching children with special needs. He was a devoted son, caring for both his mother and then his father as their health declined. After their passing Steve went, with his daughter Katherine, to live in Trinidad Colorado. Steve is survived by his daughter Katherine Michelle Heller of Lompoc California. In lieu of any cards or flowers, please consider a donation to your local Animal Rescue Shelter or to a Pit Bull Rescue in his name.

Padrichelli, Kieren Thomas, Lia Thomas, Olivia Thomas, and many other extended family and friends. Andra, principal cellist of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra since 2003, began her musical studies in Santa Barbara, CA. She holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Indiana University. Along with her position in Dayton, Andra also performed with the Fort Worth Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Over the course of her career, she performed as a chamber musician and soloist across the country as well as internationally. In addition, she was a devoted teacher, both in her private studio and at Cedarville University. She was a gifted musician, loving mother and wife, and good friend to all. She is dearly missed. A Memorial Service was held for Andra on Monday, January 21, 2019, 4:00 pm, at Christ Lutheran Church, 6595 Covington Way in Goleta. Friends of Andra will be performing a musical prelude at 3:30 pm.

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Andra Lunde Padrichelli, age 42 of Dayton, OH, passed away on Monday, December 10, 2018. She was born in Goleta, California, to David John Lunde and Laverne (Siebert) Lunde. She was preceded in death by her father, David. Andra is survived by her loving husband Lorenzo Padrichelli; young sons David Lunde Padrichelli and Sirio John Padrichelli; mother Laverne Lunde; sister Mari Lunde; mother and father-in-law Gina Dominici and Gian Carlo Padrichelli; brotherin-law David Thomas; nieces and nephews Lorenzo and Nicola

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Stephanie Lyn Douglas (Nicholson) passed away at her home on January 4, 2019 in Goleta, California at the age of 59. She is survived by her husband, Mark; her son, Eric; and her stepdaughter, Angie. Stephanie was born on February 3rd, 1959. She grew up in Claremont, California and Tampa, Florida, before moving to Santa Barbara and marrying Mark in 1989. Stephanie had a loving and generous heart and got great joy out of helping others. She was heavily involved in the AA community and was an advocate for mental health disorders. Stephanie loved to laugh and encourage others, and she most enjoyed spending time with her family and friends, as well as her dogs. A memorial service is scheduled for Stephanie at Bethany Congregational Church at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 2. A celebration of life will be held at the Douglas residence following the service.

Alice Yong

Alice Tien-Yin Yong was born in Tien Jin, a city in North East China. She came to the United States to go to college after graduating from high school in China. Alice graduated summa cum laude from Wheaton College for women in Norton Massachusetts. There she was elected the prestigious honor of May Queen. She then Received a Masters of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Michigan. Alice then married and found work in the chemistry field studying the enzyme Bromelain for Dole Pineapple Co. on the island of Oahu. Her son, Bruce, was born during her time on the island. She went back to school at the University of Hawaii to receive a teaching credential in Science and Math to teach High School and Elementary School students. She then moved and taught Chemistry and Math at Lompoc Unified School District. She earned many Research Awards to further her studies and education in such prestigious Academic Institutions such as Stanford and Yale. In addition to her academic interests, she was very involved in church activities based on her Christian faith. As a classically trained violinist she participated in local symphonies. Alice lived a long and eventful life. She treated everyone she met with the utmost kindness and genuine respect. She always found comfort and peace from her faith. Her impact on those close to her will be everlasting. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and role model. We love and miss you Ah Boo, bye for now. Ms. Alice Yong is survived by her son Bruce Akoni Yong D.C, daughter-in-law Briar Yong and grand-daughter MakenaAkoni (Ai-Jung) Yong. Services was held Sat. Jan 19th @ 2pm, Welch-Ryce, Haider.

In Memoriam

Ozzie Da Ros 1921-2018

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BY E R I N G R A F F Y is parents named him Oswald Joseph Da Ros.

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But as far as the community was concerned, his middle name was “integrity.” Ozzie Da Ros’s legacy in Santa Barbara was not only the buildings and structures that you see, but the standard to which they were built. Ozzie was born in Santa Barbara in 1921 to Italian immigrants Marianna Mautino and Antonio Da Ros; his father was a stone mason who had built brownstone houses as well as tunnels under the Hudson River. Around 1915, Antonio Da Ros had moved to Santa Barbara, where masons were greatly in demand, as there was a keen interest in the work of European craftspeople. Antonio Da Ros apprenticed under two of the most famous — Peter Poole and R. Wood — working on the iconic walls in Mission Canyon, balustrades on Alameda Padre Serra, Plaza Rubio, the stone house on Padre Street, and the McCormick estate. Antonio then trained his young son Ozzie in the tradition of the Italian masons. Ozzie started early, helping out on the job sites, such as the allstone addition on Samiramis (Eaton House) and Wallace Frost’s estate. Ozzie was even allowed to get a special driver’s license at the age of only 14 so that he could become the timekeeper and apprentice at the building sites after school hours and on Saturdays. It was important that Ozzie learned the craft with the original hand tools of the trade — wooden mallets and carving tools, which underlie the industry — and he began working while still in high school. Ozzie worked under other craftspeople, such as the Scottish stonecutter Andrew Phillips. Ozzie also trained with Albert Arata (one of the finest stonecutters who also did entablatures — lettering on masonry) and helped to hand-carve the beautiful letters we see on the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Ozzie was selected to work on the Ganna Walska Lotusland estate. Recognizing her perfectionistic spirit, Ozzie took her to San Marcos Pass to hand-select the boulders for her first new garden. A renowned opera diva, Walska was a woman of artistic temperament and high expectations. In Ozzie she recognized a kindred spirit in terms of his demand for quality, but she also learned that Ozzie was straightforward and uncompromising in his standards. “I like you, Ozzie,” said the indomitable Walska, “because you’re never my ‘yes man.’” When Walska wanted to create her Japanese garden, she dismissed three Japanese landscape architects and insisted Ozzie take over the design. He refused and told her Frank Fujii — already on her staff — was the man she should use. This was the kind of integrity Ozzie maintained — no ego, just honest appraisement as to who would be the best man for the job she needed. So Ozzie worked with Frank to create the Japanese Garden, utilizing boulder blocks weighing 10-12 tons. Famed architect Lutah Maria Riggs hand-selected Ozzie in 1958 to work on the Donohue estate in Los Angeles. During the 1960s, Da Ros created the stonework in the Montecito Village on San Ysidro Road. Ozzie worked on so many of the iconic structures of Santa Barbara — from Museum of Natural History to La Arcada, from restoring the pool at Casa del Herrero and creating the 9/11 memorial at Our Lady Of Sorrows to converting the hand-hewn stone walls of the old packing house to become Birnam Wood. He even built the Santa Barbara Historical Museum — producing the adobe bricks in his own backyard.

STANDARD SETTER: Ozzie Da Ros worked with stone from the age of 14 and became a legend of levelheaded integrity. He was part of the restoration team for Mission Santa Barbara in the 1950s, pictured at far right, with Louis Accuistapace, Joe Buzzella, and Leon Grassi.

In 1952, Ozzie was part of the legendary team of experts restoring the facade of the Old Mission. After the earthquake in 1925, the mission had been repaired using a stone veneer over a strong concrete base. However, the mortar contained aggregate stone that reacted with the acidic soil and began decomposing. The entire front of the mission was removed in the 1952 restoration with Ozzie supervising the masonry team — which included Joe Buzzella, one of the original masons from the 1925 repair. (Interestingly, Ozzie discovered during this demolition that the entire tower structure was a facade.) The mission was repaired and restored and strengthened, all without altering its historic integrity. Forty years later, Ozzie was asked to come back, working to prevent the cemetery walls of the Old Mission — which were leaning more than six inches out of alignment — from collapsing. But it was Ozzie’s integrity and work ethic that was to leave its lasting mark. Mason Richard Cutner summed it up, “What Ozzie did for this community was to establish a standard by which everyone built. It did not matter if you were not in Ozzie’s trade. Whether you were a plumber, finish carpenter, mason, electrician, brick layer, or whatever. He demanded the plumb-square-level from everyone. Every trade had to attain to it. The idea was you never did a half-ass job. Even if no one would see it: Before you buried it, you had to make sure your work was ‘plumb-square-level.’” Another young contractor noted, “If you were on a building project, word would spread when Ozzie was visiting onsite. Without being told, everyone knew that they had to up their standard. The whole atmosphere changed. Everyone wanted their work to be perfect.” Gail Young (of Young Construction) remembered, “Even up to his last, Ozzie always had his edge and his playfulness;

he never lost it. But Ozzie was a legend who has enhanced and beautified so much of Santa Barbara.” Ozzie was also a man of unabashed faith. I remember he once publicly expressed his strong opinion on some issue of moral concern. Speaking with him later about being perceived as politically incorrect, he turned to me and said, “Erin, one day I am going to meet my Maker — and I will have to answer to Him.” He kindly supported the Monastery of Poor Clares, Catholic Charities, Our Lady of Sorrows, the Old Mission, Villa Majella, Notre Dame School, Knights of Columbus, Sisters of Notre Dame, and in 2005 received a papal honor — the Pro Ecclesia Et Pontifice award in recognition of his commitment to the ecclesial community. Ozzie was a below-the-radar philanthropist, not only giving brickloads of his time to organizations, both as a contractor or as a boardmember, but also contributing plenty of his coin to help. Just some of the organizations Ozzie supported: Visiting Nurses Association, Cottage Hospital, Arts Fund, CAMA (Community Arts Music Association), the Museum of Art, Met Opera, Lobero Theatre, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), Girl Scouts, Transition House, Girls Inc., Boys & Girls Club, Marymount School, and the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara. The 2011 John Pitman Award for Lifetime Achievement in Historic Preservation was presented to Ozzie for his exemplary professional dedication in the preservation of historic architecture and environment, noting his work with the Architectural Foundation, Santa Barbara Historical Society, Trust for Historic Preservation, Museum of Natural History, Lotusland, UC Botanical Garden, Santa Cruz Island Foundation, Land Trust for Santa Barbara, Mono Lake, and Elings Park. Ozzie Da Ros’s professional achievements, dedication to quality craft, and, yes, integrity will continue to be seen and felt throughout this community for generations. The name Da Ros continues to be synonymous with stonework in Santa Barbara, as two of Ozzie’s three children continue as the third generation to run the family business at Santa n Barbara Stone.

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Carbon Dividends

hanks to the Independent for devoting the last issue to climate change and reminding us of the dire consequences to our region “if nothing is done to reduce the world’s carbon emissions.” Economists agree that a tax on fossil fuels is the most effective way to change our behavior and to rapidly reverse carbon emissions. To make sure that such a national policy does not hurt the poor and middle class, and to gain conservative support, that tax should be returned to all Americans in a monthly check, making it “revenue neutral.” The bipartisan Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act does exactly that, and it was introduced in the House in November. It is our best hope for minimizing the coming disaster.

—Dennis Thompson, S.B.

Carbon Consequences

ome folks are fond of citing an incident that occurred half a century ago as a reason to block any new oil production. The East Cat Canyon oil deposit is a heavy oil that will not flow to the surface without heating the reservoir—it is the consistency of warm toothpaste, flows slowly, and is easily controlled. The risk of “blowout” from a heavy oil reservoir is extremely low, based on my 40 years of experience as a petroleum geologist, and the terminology is inappropriate. Today, Santa Barbara has the advantage of producing the oil it needs using current technology under local, state, and federal regulations that protect air and water quality as well as the environment. The re-development plan proposed by Aera Energy calls for new wells that will follow modern technologies and regulations. Any existing wells to be utilized will be inspected and certified by DOGGR [the state Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources]. Nearly everyone in California relies on oil as a primary source of energy for transportation, lighting, heating, and cooling of our homes, and producing the products that support our quality of life. California imports approximately 65 percent of the oil we collectively demand. The East Cat Canyon project will help California securely bridge to an electrical future, which is why projects like Aera’s are worthy of consideration. —David Miner, geologist, Grover Beach

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he claims that oil development will bring major economic benefits, including millions to support schools and other vital services, come from UCSB’s Economic Forecast Project, whose research team was hired by Aera (owned by ExxonMobil and Shell). The report admits it relied primarily on information provided by Aera. Even if we assume the forecast to be correct, it states the total impact of Aera’s project would be under $36 million a year. When put in perspective, agriculture generates $2.8 billion annually and employs more than 25,000 residents; tourism has a $1.9 billion impact. Revenue from oil property taxes makes up less than one percent of our county budget. An added 296 wells will no doubt result in spills, as acknowledged in Aera’s draft environmental impact report, along with

increased air pollution from truck traffic and drilling. How many jobs will be lost in our much larger leisure and service industry when news of spills, contamination, and worsening air pollution make headlines? How much will it cost to repair and maintain our roads due to increased truck traffic back and forth to Kern County? What happens to agriculture when toxic chemicals seep into the groundwater? Who will pay to clean up the mess? Unfortunately, the Aera-sponsored report neglected to include those costs, making the cost analysis incomplete and unreliable as a predictor of the true profit and loss of oil expansion in Santa Barbara County.

—Rachel Altman, S.B.

Women in Sports

n your annual photo issue, I was dismayed that the three pages of photos devoted to sports showed only five photos of women or women’s teams out of 19 sports photos. Do we need Title IX legislation for newspapers? Please, parity would be appreciated.

—Enrose Anton, S.B.

Answers for Free

’m sure after much digging, the consultants to review Santa Barbara’s downtown will find two things to be true. First, the rents are too high, plain and simple. Vendors have to be incredibly profitable to make the rent here, which only leaves chain stores, and even they are hurting. Second, people aren’t walking and shopping like they did before online shopping. Every mall expert says this. Those two mixed together equals disaster. Sadly, most property owners have no qualms about storefront standing empty for long periods if they aren’t getting the money they ask for. Some stand empty and dusty for years, like the old Panera spot on the corner of State and Ortega. Closing State Street to car traffic might help, as well as making it less about tourist spots, but all of this will fall flat if landowners aren’t willing to budge or realize the days of $6,000-$10,000 (or more) in rent are gone.

—Jay Loza, S.B.

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n Search of S.B.’s Dive Bars” on January 3 was great journalism. My curiosity has been sated without visiting the bars, thanks to Alex Ward’s descriptive writing.

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Burger Story

fter reading about In-N-Out burgers at your website, a few memories came up: My first contact happened when I was 5, early in the 1960s, when our family would pile in the car and head to Francisquito Boulevard in Baldwin Park to order through a speaker to get our food. Shortly after high school, I joined the U.S. Army and became a mess sergeant (cook), always aspiring to own a burger joint. But, upon discharge, I deviated from that course and embarked in a hunt for a career in the fire service. A few different fire departments later, I was in Santa Barbara County in the 1980s, assigned to a station on Hollister Avenue. We often did our hose drills at a decommis-

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n updated neighborhood swimming pool at Ortega Park would serve the community well, as water does everybody good. But whoever is talking about a waterslide doesn’t understand aquatic safety nor responsibility in public pools.

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ontecito’s empty lots and “road closed” signs tug at our heartstrings. Rain in the forecast causes anxiety to flicker in our minds. Our community has displayed incredible strength in finding ways to help our neighbors and return a semblance of wholeness to our town. But there will forever be a part lost. As a landscape designer, I was approached to participate in a Montecito Memorial Garden. Several groups, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara Garden Club, and Santa Barbara Bloom Project, are committed to making the idea reality. Envision low, broad mounds representing each watershed’s mudflow; boulders arranged in family groupings; trees standing for the families forever impacted and a community forever changed; a slab boulder with a hole at its core — though we stand strong as a community, we’ll forever have a part missing. The proposed location is the triangle at Hot Springs and Olive Mill, but the municipal red tape will take time. I hope all readers might help us align the stars or find another suitable home for this garden. —Margie Grace, Montecito

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impact (EIR) report as “totally inadequate.” In a time of dire climate change, they charged, the whole idea of the project was beyond reckless. As an added irony, some people noted that the last date for public comments will fall on January 28, the actual anniversary of the 1969 oil spill. The ghost of that disaster — which left 30 miles of Santa Barbara coastline choked, silenced, and blackened with more than three million gallons of oil — haunted last week’s proceedings. And not just rhetorically. For some Santa Barbarans, it might be difficult to understand the enormity of that historic event, which, even 50 years later, still ranks as the third worst oil spill in U.S. history. But it changed the fundamental rules of engagement for all environmental battles since fought across the United States. And in Santa Barbara, the drama of that nightmare brought together an astonishing cross section of the community in sustained outrage. The results of that outrage — implacable, inventive, and creative — yielded lasting results.

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direct result of Santa Barbara’s oil spill. In 1969, there was by Nick Welsh no National Environmental Policy Act — and no California Environmental Quality Act — which allowed the public to review and comment on almost all major developments. It’s worth remembering that Santa Barbara’s civically engaged citizens — Republicans and Democrats — had vigorously opposed offshore oil development back in the 1960s when the federal government decided to lease offshore tracts to raise revenues needed to wage the Vietnam War. Despite continual attempts, local citizens were repeatedly denied the opportunity to comment on such proposals in public hearings. Just as repeatedly, federal officials insisted there was no basis for Santa Barbara’s collective apprehension about industrial catastrophes at sea. These same federal officials, it turned out, had issued waivers allowing Union Oil to cut critical corners on safety requirements that had been specifically designed to prevent blowouts. Just 14 days after drilling commenced five and half miles off the Santa Barbara coast, Platform A blew out. The sea boiled with oil.

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Union Oil initially denied there was a problem. self visited Santa Barbara. He was an astute politician Then they minimized it. They insisted they had it who quickly understood that the environment had under control. They didn’t. It took 11 days before Union become an exceptionally potent issue. He would not be Oil managed to plug the leak. But then that triggered a outmaneuvered or outdone by such “true believers” as violent backlash of high-pressure oil and gas—more Senators Edmund Muskie of Maine or Henry “Scoop” than 1,000 pounds per square inch. It ripped five major Jackson of Washington, both of whom responded visgashes into the geologically fragile ocean floor. Oil cerally and politically to the spill. While Santa Barbabegan pouring out— out seeping and oozing for nearly a rans never fully felt Nixon was on their side, he did whole year. The upwelling of pressurized oil and gas sign historic bills creating the Environmental Proteccombined with silt at the ocean bottom created what’s tion Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric been described as “an emulsified chocolate mousse.” Administration, the Clean Air Act, and the EndanIn some places, the oil sat eight inches deep on the gered Species Act. water. When the oil made landfall a few days later, it came silently. Black waves falling on the shore made no sound. All was quiet. At the time, Union Oil president Fred Hartley acer- In Santa Barbara, Republicans and Democrats alike bically noted that no one had been killed in the blow- were calling for a halt to all oil development in the out, while in the nation’s capital, people were murdered channel. When their political overtures failed, they all the time. At least 3,600 shore birds, however, were sued. When that failed, they staged sit-ins at Stearns killed. The true number of sea animals that died is likely Wharf Wharf— then an active oil operations pier— pier blockto be many times more. Of the 1,575 birds “rescued” by ing oil supply trucks from getting in or out. They well-meaning citizens, only 162 survived. None of the held “fish-ins” at sea, attempting to block the instalchemical dispersants, or mechanical devices such as skimmers and booms, could stop the seepage or soak up the oil. At the height of the cleanup effort, 1,000 workers, 125 vehicles, and 55 boats were actively engaged. It turned out that the only thing that could sop up the oil was three thousand tons of straw dropped along the shore. Newspaper photographs and televised footage brought the disaster into homes across America. Citizens rallied into action, cleaning beaches, scrubbing birds, and clamoring for action from their elected officials. President Richard Nixon had been in office just two weeks. He dispatched his Secretary of the Interior, Walter Hickel—then widely regarded as a stooge for the oil industry — to BOTTOMS UP: A onetime advertising man with a Santa Barbara. Hickel was genuinely genius for bumper-sticker sloganeering, Bud Botshocked by what he saw. By the time toms was the one who coined the slogan “Get Oil Nixon wound up firing Hickel — “a Out,” a k a GOO. Here, Bottoms poses with a small loose cannon” — Santa Barbarans had handful of the 3,600 birds killed by the spill. come to see him as an ally. Nixon him-

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lation of a new platform then being delivered. And, most famously, they conducted countless “teach-ins,” which led to the formation of the Community Environmental Council (CEC) and the Environmental Defense Center (EDC). It also gave rise to UCSB’s Environmental Studies Department. But at the time, the most active of the groups was Get Oil Out, better known simply as “GOO.” These semi-biblical listings of Santa Barbara’s environmental “begats” are not merely of historical interest—the organizations remain vitally relevant today. At Thursday’s EIR hearing, attorneys with the EDC were leading the charge against Aera’s proposal along with fossil-free advocates from the CEC. And many of the younger speakers who voiced criticism of the draft EIR—but only after having expressed appreciation for the hard work that went into it— it were environmental studies students. Their arguments — their noise—are not merely echoes of the past. They are right here, right now. Where Santa Barbara’s oil spill helped galvanize a new wave of environmentalism 50 years ago — at that time, rivers were so polluted they were catching fire — climate change, global warming, extreme weather, and Donald Trump’s unraveling of environmental protections have instilled in today’s activists a dire sense of urgency. Aera now finds itself going up against the alphabet soup of Santa Barbara’s environmental movement, focused in ways rarely seen in the last 50 years. Rick Rust, it appears, will need far more than his innate likability before the Board of Supervisors to win this fight.

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For Aera to proceed, one of the three South Coast supervisors—Joan Hartmann, Gregg Hart, and Das Williams — would have to break with their environmental base and side with North County supervisors Steve Lavagnino and Peter Adam, who have supported such projects in the past. While not inconceivable, such a vote would be painful and highly risky. Aera has enlisted strong support from all the major labor unions, but that may not be enough. It doesn’t help Rust any that two other oil companies — PetroRock and ERG — are also pushing similar big projects at the same Cat Canyon field. If all three projects were built, that would total 760 new wells and 700,000 additional metric tons of GHG produced a year. It would also mean seven to eight additional oil spills a year, with an annual spill volume projected at 300 barrels. All three projects must first be cleared for takeoff by the planning commission — none of which have even appeared before that body yet. But no matter whether that commission rules for or against any of the proposals, it’s assumed the decision will be appealed to the Board of Supervisors. The supervisors have discretion to vote however they like. To date, however, the supervisors have been notably underwhelmed by what Aera and ERG have proposed. “They have to come up with something that makes it impossible for us to say no,” said one source on the fourth floor of the county administration building. So far, that has not happened. “Three vans?” one exclaimed. “It looks like the same old train wreck.” Supervisors have lamented the lack of local offsets in the past. Under the county’s current rules and regulations, nothing precludes Aera from obtaining offsets anywhere in the United States, but “I’m not interested in landfills in Texas,” complained one. The inventory of offsets available in Santa Barbara County is, by any reckoning, limited. County energy officials, pragmatists struggling to make do with limited tools, have shrugged this off. Because climate change and GHG emissions are global problems, they’ve argued, Santa Barbara need not restrict itself to local solutions. But with climate-change awareness in Santa Barbara achieving a new critical mass in the wake of the Thomas Fire and last year’s deadly debris flow, that shrug may no lonSILENT WAVES: Waves, straitjacketed with oil, ger suffice. Adding to the supervibroke silently as they washed in. Not even the sors’ discontent is a recent report ED MARTIN COLLECTION / S.B. HISTORICAL MUSEUM

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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Audience members will be delighted by this group of all-male ballet dancers that toe the line between high art and high camp with brilliant pointe work and vibrant drag costumes performing a loving tribute with witty parodies of dance classics, from Swan Lake to Martha Graham. 7pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $20-$49. Call 899-2222. granadasb.org

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Santa Barbara Choral Society and Orchestra Jo Anne Wasserman Artistic Director and Conductor featuring Jill Burdick, Soprano l Ralph Cato, Baritone

Dona Nobis Pacem Ralph Vaughan Williams

The Journey of Harriet Tubman Ron Kean and more!

words of famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Los Padres ForestWatch, dedicated to the protection of wilderness, wildlife, and clean water. The exhibit shows through March 22. 4-6pm. Atkinson Gallery, SBCC, 721 Cliff Dr. Free. Call 965–0581.

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1/25: Twilight Time Calling all adults! You are invited to come play and enjoy three floors of kid-free, interactive exploration and discovery. Beer and wine will be available for purchase to be enjoyed throughout the museum by those ages 21 and older. 6-9pm. MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, 125 State St. $15. Ages 18+. Call 770-5000. moxi.org

will include an opening-night reception, a mixology class, live music, and a brunch. Visit the website for a full schedule and VIP prices. Hotel Californian, 36 State St. $35-$50. Ages 21+. Call 882-0100. Read more on p. 39. tinyurl.com/

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1/26: Martin Sexton, Chris Trapper

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American singer/songwriter Martin Sexton will play his blend of soul, gospel, country, rock, blues, and R&B, with modern-day acoustic troubadour Chris Trapper to open the show. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $27-$32. Call 962-7776.

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1/26: Adventures in Storytelling Bring the kids to listen to four authors read their books, followed by a brief Q&A session. Participants will also enjoy a nature scavenger hunt and other activities and crafts, including mosaic paper butterflies, a coloring station, and more. 10am-1pm. Elverhøj Museum of History & Art, 1624 Elverhoy Wy., Solvang. Free. Call 686-1211.

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1/26: S.B. Music Club: Breaking the Mold Get lost in an afternoon of beautiful classical music with performances of pieces by Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, Carl Vine, and Ludwig van Beethoven. 3pm. First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (619) 405-3218 or email concerts@sbmusicclub.org.

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Participants will explore how creating art and writing poetry can serve as a form of healing for hurt, pain, and grief. No experience is necessary. RSVP is required. 10am2pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 564-5605.

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SUNDAY 1/27 1/27: Reflections on a Watery World: Tony de los Reyes and Sameer Pandya The Parallel Stories Lecture Series presents artist Tony de los Reyes and writer Sameer Pandya in conversation about L.A.-based artist April Street’s site-specific installation “The Mariners’ Grand Staircase

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(Armoured Stars, Flying Clouds)”—currently installed in the museum’s Park Lobby—and the symbolic potential of the sea. 2:30pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. $5-$10. Call 884-6457.

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1/27: Navigating the Digital Age with Our Youth Learn to identify signs of cell phone and gaming addiction and how to start the conversations with your child and set healthy limits around devices. 3-5:15pm. Deckers Outdoor Corporation, 6601 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free. tinyurl.com/DigitalAgeYouth

1/27: Don Alder Enjoy deeply textured melody, soulful singing, and fabulous storytelling with this champion guitarist performing songs from his latest CD, Armed & Dangerous. 7:30pm. Alhecama Theater, 914 Santa Barbara St. $20-$25. sbama.org 1/27: S.B. Zoo Job and Volunteer Expo Teens and adults, are you looking for an unforgettable job or volunteer experience? Check out this expo, where you’ll learn all about the zoo’s employment and volunteer opportunities! Visit the website for current openings and opportunities. 3-5pm. S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. Free. Call 962-5339 x108.

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1/27: 11th Annual S.B. Community Seed Swap Bring seeds, plants, cuttings, and garden knowledge to swap and be a part of this seed-saving movement that makes sure locally adapted seeds and plants are passed on

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1/28: George Saunders in Conversation with Pico Iyer Join one of the most important writers as well as a master of the short story, George Saunders. Pico Iyer will talk to this author who has earned a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and whose first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, won the Man Booker Prize in 2017. 7:30pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $10-$35. Call 893-3535. Read more on p. 43. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

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the story of the first solar-powered flight around the world, where two courageous pilots take turns battling nature and their own crew to make history. Codirectors Quinn Kanaly and Noel Dockstader will join moderator Chris Jenkins for a post-screening discussion. 7pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free. Call 893-4637.

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1/29: Martha Redbone and The Roots Band Project Hear this charismatic songstress and her band of some of N.Y.C.’s finest blues and jazz musicians for a masterful mix of folk, country, Piedmont blues, gospel, bluegrass, soul and traditional American Indian music. 8pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $15-$38. Call 893-3535. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

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The Sound of Music The Broadway in Santa Barbara series presents a new production of this beloved musical that tells the story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family and includes classic songs such as “My Favorite Things,” “Edelweiss,” and the title song. The show runs through January 30. 7:30-10pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $54-$104. Call 899-2222. granadasb.org

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SHROOM SESSIONS: Stephan Bedford’s annual fungus bash is now elevated to a full-on, Los Alamos–wide Mushroom Festival.

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But other magic will be happening all over Los Alamos all the apple of every gastronome’s gut, Stephan Bedweekend. Name a spot, and ford celebrated all things they’ll probably have at mycological with an annual least one fungus-forward special: Bob’s Well Bread Mushroom Festival at his will be baking porcini eponymous winery on Bell Street. Now, for its 13th year, bread, Plenty will have BY GEORGE YATCHISIN the Mushroom Festival has a mushroom soup, and Charlie’s will grill up a thrown many spores, you mushroom burger. Added might say, and will take over Los Alamos for the January 25-27 Bedford, “We’re going to have vendors at all the tasting weekend. The central event is still Mushrooms rooms, too,” from a truffle lady Gone Wild! at the Bedford Tasting Room on with treats from Oregon to Branden’s Saturday, January 26. Bedford and his team dish up Gourmet Mushroom based in Orcutt, about whom all sorts of shroomy treats, from some simply grilled Bedford says, “It’s really amazing to see the quality to a “rye-sotto” made with whole rye berries and he’s able to produce.” mushrooms. “We try not to repeat our menus from Then on Sunday, January 27, there will be a foragyear to year,” Bedford explained. “But fortunately ing walk that will kick off with mushroom coffee and there are hundreds of mushroom recipes.” mushroom scones. While Bedford half jokes, “With A devoted bibliophile, Bedford admits he likes to chanterelles and boletes, there’s not that much that geek out researching cookbooks and guidebooks, looks like them that will kill you,” it’s still wise to learn and this year was happy to discover Oaxaca al Gusto how to forage with someone who knows what will by Diana Kennedy. From it, his team will make wild kill you, or maybe just paralyze you. So heading out mushrooms in a yellow mole, about which he says, with experts can’t hurt. That’s one reason Bedford will have Dr. Bob Cum“Okay, now we’re talking!” The featured event on Friday, January 25, is a mings from SBCC at his Saturday event. “Dr. CumMushroom Feast at Pico. Chef Drew Terp was still mings says you don’t eat every mushroom you see,” working with his foragers at press time, so he couldn’t Bedford explained. “You look at them and appreciate quite spell out the three-course menu that will be them.” Because, even in a prolific season like the available all evening. “The best thing about living in current one, people can over-hunt mushrooms. Or this area is it keeps you on your toes,” he said about even better, let the experts dish them up for you in wanting to serve the freshest food available, mush- Los Alamos. room or otherwise. He’s assuming, based on what’s mostly been growing lately, that “the main course will probably feature morels or black trumpets,” adding, Have fun with fungi at the Los Alamos “Once you get a bite of a good morel, there’s nothing Mushroom Festival, January 25-27, with else like it.” Bedford couldn’t be happier that Pico is events around town but especially at Pico and Bedpart of the weekend, calling Terp “a wizard.” ford Winery. See lovelosalamos.com.

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ere’s the thing: In all likelihood, you’ve fallen off the New Year–New You Intermittent Green Keto Diet/Sober January wagon already. And if you’re still, uh, celebrating, you’re due for a reward. Why not make like it’s some other time of year and go big this weekend BY SHANNON KELLEY at Hotel Californian’s first-ever Constellation Pop-Up? The weekend-long to-do will bring a slew of events of the eating, drinking, and listening variety, shot through with rock-and-roll soul and infused with Hotel Californian’s signature sophisticated sense of glam, brought to life via a meeting of the minds. Hotel Californian GM Warren Nocon and Chris Mangless—a Midwestern private chef to the stars known for creating the sort of food-andmusic pop-up events that people talk about for years—met through the hotel’s ownership group, and, pretty much from that moment, it was on. “We invited [Mangless] to Hotel Californian and immediately knew that we needed to align with him to bring events to Santa Barbara that would fuse music, gastronomy, and wine into an amazing and memorable experience,” Nocon said. “We are always looking to work with iconoclasts like Chef Mangless who challenge traditional ideas.” It’s a mutual-admiration society. “For our team,” Mangless said, “the inspiration came from the incredible spaces that make up Hotel Californian. After being in Santa Barbara and exploring this hotel, we knew we had to collaborate on an event, and that’s when the planning began.” What they’ve pulled together is sure to satisfy the most discerning of palates. The beer and wine roster includes familiar area favorites Third Window, Herman Story, Potek, Municipal, and Desperada; meanwhile, the chefs and mixologists plan to take hold of local ingredients and let it rip. Highlights include the opening-night Meet the Makers reception scored by Boom Forest; a mixology class hosted by cocktail savants Ira Koplowitz and Louie LaFleur of Bittercube; a chef and winemaker reception and six-course dinner that will bring together Mangless, Hotel Californian chef Blake Silberman, and acclaimed Milwaukee chef/frequent James Beard finalist Justin Carlisle (#dietstartstomorrow); performances by Langhorne Slim, Stelth Ulvang of The Lumineers, and Field Report’s Chris Porterfield; plus a winemaker brunch on Sunday morning that’ll have you downing a slate of David Potter’s Municipal wines. Before noon. January will never know what hit it.

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This February the Santa Barbara Symphony returns to a work it co-commissioned more than a decade earlier, acclaimed composer Joseph Schwantner’s enchantingly delicate Chasing Light. The evening continues with Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, featuring three stellar musicians with a rich history of performing locally: violinist Paul Huang and cellist Ani Aznavoorian, both of Camerata Pacifica, and pianist Gilles Vonsattel, who regularly performs with the celebrated ensemble. Closing the evening will be Robert Schumann’s popular five-movement Symphony No.3, which is said to have been inspired by the history and spirit of Europe’s mighty Rhine river. Principal Sponsor

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LOCAL HARVEST DELIVERY’S À LA CARTE ORDERING:

Since 2009, Local Harvest Delivery has brought Santa Barbara’s farmers’ markets to local doorsteps with weekly boxes of organic, hand-raised vegetables, fruits, meats, and more. Now the locally owned company is using technology to take their service one step further. This week, Local Harvest Delivery is announcing complete “à la carte” ordering via its website, localharvestdelivery.com. “If you want to shop from your home or your office desk for local and organic produce, plus get it delivered to your doorsteps with a click, then we are the service for you,” said Sarah Coffman, who cofounded the company with Julie Beaumont. “After nine years of offering a customizable multifarm produce box, we’ve invested more into our ordering system to offer à la carte shopping for people who know exactly what they want. You no longer have to figure out what to do with those beets if you don’t want them.” Local Harvest Delivery will continue to work with the wide array of farms and food purveyors that have made their boxes popular over the past decade. “We are proud to continue in working

with our panoply of local farms while offering, for a small sum of $50, a weekly delivery of produce, meats, dairy, nuts, honeys, coffees, and more, all grown or crafted locally,” said Beaumont, who noted that orders less than $50 will be subject to a $10 delivery fee. CHINESE NEW YEAR AT PICKLE EMPIRE: Continuing the

tradition of celebrating the Chinese New Year in Santa Barbara’s original Chinatown, the beloved property that was once Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens at 126 East Canon Perdido Street—and is now home to Three Pickles Deli and The Pickle Room —is offering a number of specials starting on February 5. For the ensuing two weeks of the kick-off to the Year of the Pig, chef/owner Clay Lovejoy will be serving such dishes as pork banh mi, chili verde soup, and sliced BBQ pork with the secret recipe of late Jimmy’s owner Tommy Chung. “I’ll have different specials throughout the two weeks,” said Lovejoy. “Starting with fortune cookies for every order until they run out!” And on February 5, for those who can show they were born in previous “Pig” years—1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, or 1995 —you’ll get your second drink free. GOODBYE, RODNEY’S: Claudia Schou, the marketing

and public relations manager for Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort at 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard, tells me that Rodney’s Grill has closed. No word yet on what will replace it, but the property was most recently in the news last November for hiring Chef Mossin Sugich away from the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. EATING IN THE 1980S: Reader Rex of S.B. accidentally

came across a copy of UCSB’s Daily Nexus from September 17, 1982, which included an interesting review of more than 100 South Coast restaurants by Jonathan Alburger and Jane Musser. See the full list on my blog, but highlights of once-beloved eateries include Baudelaire’s (435 State St.), Bonanza Sirloin Pit (3614 State St.; 6030 Hollister Ave., Goleta), Budd’s Eggception (970 Linden Ave., Carpinteria), Casey Jones (State and La Cumbre), Cattlemen’s Inn (3744 State St.), Elegant Farmer (5555 Hollister Ave., Goleta), Flapper Alley (217 State St.), The Golden Cock (upper State), Harry Gorillas (6581 Pardall Rd., Isla Vista), Head of the Wolf (633 State St.), J.K. Frimple’s (1701 State St.), Mom’s Italian Village (421 E. Cota St.), Peter’s Flying Machine (airport), Suishin Sukiyaki (511 State St.), and Wimbledon Tavern (2611 De la Vina St.).

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Where were you born and raised and how would you describe your upbringing? I was born in Amarillo, Texas, but my family moved to the South Side of Chicago when I was a year old, and we lived there until I went off to college. I had a pretty joyous childhood, with plenty of freedom to come and go. My parents operated a couple of restaurants that the whole family worked in, so there were lots of interesting people around, lots of stories. It was good training for a writer.

know how that happens, to be honest, but it comes down to what a writer can make live on the page, and that sometimes requires an emphasis on the darker side of life, the worst day or scariest possibility or a world where the wheels have come off the car a bit. As a kid, I was interested in supernatural tales. My imagi imagination gets revved when I contem contemplate the darker possibilities. I think of a story as a scale model of the world, so you can turn up the good or the evil and let them wrestle a little. Mainly, I try not to be boring. First, be interesting.

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n January 28, at 7:30 p.m., Pico Iyer will welcome the award-winning novelist and short story writer George Saunders to Arts & Lectures for what should be a fascinating evening. Saunders, one of the most versatile and original contemporary American writers, is the author of the New York Times best seller and Man Booker Prize–winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo, as well as the books Tenth of December, Pastoralia, and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, among others. Saunders spoke recently with the Santa Barbara Independent. What follows is an edited version of the conversation.

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the problems a novelist always runs into. The novel has a small front door, so to speak, and then the passageway widens to deliver its emotional punch. I brought Lincoln in when he was needed, but never let him stay too long, because the novel isn’t really about Lincoln—it’s about grief and one particular night.

Lincoln in the Bardo has an unusual structure and is a challenging read. What was behind the decision to structure the novel as you did? It came after a number of attempts that either didn’t feel natural or interesting enough. Lots of trial and error. I had to poke around for a long time before land landing on a structure that not only felt natural, but also felt challenging and fun and let me solve

You spent some time writing about Donald Trump’s political rallies. What was that experience like? Confusing. Also sad to see the level of anger. I’m a product of the working class, but I never saw Trump coming. I want to keep an open mind about how Trump happened and try to understand it from the inside. — Brian Tanguay

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When he made his North American debut at the Arlington Theatre as a soloist with the Santa Barbara Symphony back in 1986, Leonidas Kavakos was a rising 19-year-old prodigy. Today he stands in the foremost rank of concert violinists, and fortunately for us, he returns to our city with some frequency. On Friday, January 25, he’ll be at UCSB’s Campbell Hall as part of the Arts & Lectures classical music season. In collaboration with pianist Enrico Pace, Kavakos

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will tackle an ambitious program that stretches from Beethoven through Prokofiev and Bartók to the Romanian composer George Enescu. In fact, he will close his program with Enescu’s Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 25, the same piece that recent A&L visitor Patricia Kopatchinskaja deployed to devastating effect at the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall in December. Kavakos keeps some pretty amazing musical company. He was last here in 2017 for a recital with fellow superstar Yuja Wang, and later that same year he released an album of Brahms trios on which he shared billing with Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax. It’s an extraordinary privilege that our community has the opportunity to experience the best musicians in the world without leaving town, and Kavakos is as good as it gets. —Charles Donelan

comics, so it’s no surprise that Why Comics? From Under Underground to Everywhere, her carefully researched analysis of this often-neglected art form, reads like a social and cultural history of the United States over the past 80 years. However, while the tome might well be used as a textbook, Chute is an accomplished prose stylist, and the many comics — a number in full color — that illustrate her argument make for an invigorating reading experience. Chute’s history begins in earnest with the 1938 introduction of Superman in the first issue of Action Comics. The history of comics is full of ironies, so it should come as no surprise that Jerry Sie-gel and Joe Shuster, the creators of one of the most famous characters on the planet, sold the rights to their work, in perpetuity, for $150. In 2014, a mint copy of their first comic was auctioned for more than $3 million, and of course they and their heirs have missed out on the hundreds of millions of dollars the various incarnations of Superman have generated over the intervening decades. Fortunately, not all cartoonists have fared so badly. R. Crumb of “Keep on Truckin’” fame and his wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, live in a huge home in southern France; Harvey Pekar was the subject of a film, American Splendor Splendor, starring Paul Giamatti; and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was made into a Tony Award–winning musical. Yet it’s artists on the edge of popularity, those who push boundaries and get themselves into trouble, that seem to interest Chute the most. The book’s chapter titles are phrased as questions, which the chapters themselves attempt to answer, usually by zeroing in on one cartoonist who has had a significant impact in that particular area. The chapter titled “Why Disaster?,” for example, discusses comics’ ability to cut to the heart of horrifying issues with a few well-drawn panels, and focuses on Art Spiegelman’s Maus. “Why the Suburbs?” looks at the brilliantly depressing comics of Chris Ware, while “Why War?” examines the “comics journalism” of Joe Sacco, highlighting his masterpiece about the Bosnian War, Safe Area Goražde. While some squeamish readers may be put off by the violence and sex on display, overall, it’s hard to imagine a more entertaining and insightful introduction to this constantly evolving world than Why Comics? — David Starkey

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aula Poundstone was the youngest child in her family growing up, and she still occasionally catches herself falling back into that role. “I still feel I can talk to people who are younger than me, and still feel they have more wisdom or experience than I do,” she confessed. “In fact, I’ve been around for quite a while.” Indeed. Later this spring, Paula Poundstone will celebrate her 40th anniversary as a stand-up comic. Best-known today for her frequent appearances on NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, she will perform January 25 at the Lobero Theatre. “I hope it will be a night of healing laughter,” she said in a telephone interview from her Los Angeles–area home. “Lord knows we need it.”

a lot of MSNBC. I don’t have cable at home, but I watch Rachel Maddow online. She was off during the holidays, and I missed her so much! I think I’ve gotten attached to the stimulation of the god-awful story we’re living through. It’s a little bit like Breaking Bad, where you start watching it and you just can’t stop. The difference is, what Walter White did didn’t affect the world.

How much of your material is political these days? Not that much. I have wrestled with how to handle Trump onstage. I made all these Trump jokes before he was elected because I thought that’s what he was there for. I thought he was a fun sideshow thing. Then, all of the sudden [he had to by Tom Jacobs be taken seriously]. I didn’t want Republican audience I was trying to define your comedy, and what I came up with was: It is based in members to feel they were targeted. For a an annoyed befuddlement about the state of while, I would say to myself, “Don’t talk the world. Does that sound about right? I don’t about him!” But the more I did that, the know. I have yet to come up with a descrip- more he was on my mind, and the more I tion of my comedy. It’s like if you do your talked about him. laundry, but you don’t fold your clothes. It’s like when my father was teaching me You just dump them out, and the stuff on to drive. At one point, there was glass in the top is what I wear. That’s sort of what the middle of the road, and he said, “Don’t my act is. I do what I’m reminded of in the drive over that glass!” I put my eyes on the glass, and I drove right over it. I steered moment. I talk about raising a houseful of kids and where I was looking. He thought I was animals. I pay attention to the news. But my being rebellious, but in fact it was front favorite part of the night is when I talk to and center in my brain, so I steered in that the audience. “Where are you? What do you direction. do?” Little biographies of audience members emerge, and I use them to set my sails. A vivid analogy. But, widening the conversation a bit: Is comedy a sexist business? Yep. Like Sarcasm is a big part of your comedic arsenal. almost every other business in the world. I Have you always had a sarcastic streak? I think think the percentage of women is the same I must have. I used to try to avoid it with now as it ever was. It’s just that there are so my children, but I just couldn’t. A sense of many comics now. There are tons of women humor, whether it comes from a place of comics because there are tons of comics! sarcasm or not, is one of the few tools we There’s an argument that some women have for coping. I don’t know if any other don’t consider comedy a feminine job. I species has it. I suspect raccoons, but I’m find that hard to believe. It never occurred not sure. to me not to do stand-up. I never thought, “Oh, but I’m a woman!” It’s such a great On the subject of coping, politics takes up a lot job, and so much fun. Who wouldn’t want more of our brains these days. It’s true. I watch to do it?

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ill Frisell is the most versatile and blew the minds of even the most adventurous influential guitarist of his generation. listeners with her 2005 solo a cappella comWith a list of recordings longer than 10 plete album cover of The Who Sell Out. If you Telecasters and a worldwide following that haven’t heard it yet, seek it out. You will never includes jazz aficionados, folk fans, Ameri- listen to classic rock or a cappella music the cana mavens, and avant-gardists, he could same way again. —and does—play anywhere, any time. But of When I spoke to Frisell by phone recently, all the many prestigious venues that Frisell vis- he was in Seattle preparing for a concert its, the one that seems to draw him back with of mostly improvised electronic music the greatest frequency happens to be located with some faculty members of the union the corner of Anacapa and Canon Perdido versity there. In response to a question streets. A partial record of about his longtime musical Frisell’s recent appearances relationship with Charles at the Lobero includes a Lloyd, he recalled his first who’s-who of contempomeeting with the man in rary music. There was an preparation for performunforgettable night of fiery ing together. “I’ll never duets with drummer Joey forget how he started the Baron back in 2008, and the conversation,” said Frisell, dueling trios of Frisell and “which was by saying, ‘I’m John Scofield in February looking forward to singing by Charles Donelan 2011. In 2014, he came to with you.’” As anyone who town with a night of music was in the audience for the written by John Lennon, and in May 2015, he magical night of John Lennon covers can joined the Montecito Marvel, Charles Lloyd, tell you, one of Frisell’s most extraordinary for a moving concert that included some of musical tricks is his uncanny ability to conLloyd’s most interesting and impassioned jure the words to the songs he plays without recent work. It’s official: The Lobero has the breaking from his standard all-instrumental Bill Frisell seal of approval. approach. I can’t think of another musician Frisell’s remarkable affinity for the room whose technique achieves a more complete is just one of the reasons his upcoming connection with the presence of the human engagement there is generating such a buzz. voice. To hear him perform with an actual On Thursday, January 24, he’ll sweep in with singer, and one as great as Petra Haden, bassist Thomas Morgan, longtime drummer ought to be something else again. As Frisell Rudy Royston, and a recent addition to his observed in relation to Haden’s The Who musical retinue with a deep family connec- album, “her voice becomes an instrument tion, innovative singer Petra Haden. Haden, too,” a fact that will likely enhance the experiwhose late father, Charlie Haden, redefined ence even further. For those interested in the range of movie the role of the bass in jazz and world music, has now collaborated with Frisell twice, once music the group will explore, here are a few on a record of duets in 2003, and then again of the things to expect. Frisell has composed on this project, a reimagination of songs and brilliant versions of the themes from To Kill a soundtracks associated with great films, titled Mockingbird, The Godfather Godfather, and Once Upon When You Wish Upon a Star. a Time in the West. Petra Haden will sing the Haden’s contribution to the program album’s title track along with “Moon River” demands some individual attention. She’s one and “Happy Trails,” and the wildest jamof the most daring and unpredictable artists ming of the night will likely come when the in contemporary music, and her 2013 album group tackles a Frisell original, the original Petra Goes to the Movies predates the Frisell soundtrack for Tales from the Far Side. See recording by two years. Before that, Haden you at this musical tribute to the movies.

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huge hole was torn through the heart of the Santa I knew that out of that process, something would emerge. Barbara community and the world’s ocean filmmaking The only way I could figure that out was to sit quietly with it family when Mike DeGruy died at age 60 in a helicopter and see what intuitively and organically grew out of the grievaccident in February 2012. The Santa Barbara International ing process. I wanted to celebrate his career but also focus on Film Festival—for which DeGruy played curator, educator, that message that he couldn’t deliver, so that people might be and inspiration—went from full swing to state of shock at able to pick up what he wasn’t able to finish. the news of his crash in Australia, where he was working for For one of the projects we were working on, he had pulled director James Cameron on yet another deep-sea dive. all of his favorite sequences, and they were all on a timeline. I A few months later, his widow and longtime filmmaking thought, “Oh my gosh.” It was almost prescient. I also came to partner, Mimi DeGruy, went back into their editing studio realize that the trajectory of his career follows the trajectory of and started watching her late husband’s footage, believing that the environmental movement. So that’s how it evolved. something cathartic and perhaps even There are a million and one ways to cinematic would emerge. Almost seven tell a story. I feel like I tried 999,999. It has years later, the result is Diving Deep: The taken forever. Life and Times of Mike DeGruy, which fittingly will kick off the 2019 edition of Are you excited to be SBIFF’s opening night film? SBIFF on Wednesday, January 30, at The It’s thrilling. We’re so honored. I have these moments where I think Mike would be a Arlington Theatre. little embarrassed. But who am I kidding? The film features plenty of Mike’s smilHe would be thrilled. He loved that stuff. ing, ever-excited face; a steady stream of mind-blowing, rarely witnessed undersea phenomena that he filmed; a retelling of the shark attack that changed his life; by Matt Kettmann and insight from those who respected his impact— from his wife, kids, mom, and impact siblings to legendary nature filmmaker David Attenborough, ocean champion Sylvia Earle, and Cameron, who had Mike’s help in filming Titanic. But Diving Deep also reveals a side of DeGruy that had not yet surfaced: His rage over the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster on the Gulf Coast, near where he grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and a concern that things were only going to get worse unless we all connected more with the ocean and nature at large. Altogether, it’s a complex portrait of a vivid, influential life cut short, and one that will engage all ages into caring more about both the ocean and those who are close to us, as life remains fleeting and, frequently, all too short. I spoke with Mimi DeGruy recently about the film, and what follows is an edited version of our conversation.

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How did this film come to be? He died in February, so by May or June I finally came back into the edit room and just started going through the footage. It was my way of being with him. The footage felt like such a gift. I just gradually let it percolate.

Was the process cathartic? I certainly hope so. I’m not sure it was cathartic for my kids. It was, in some ways, painful for them, and I’m so grateful for their participation. For me, I would say it was cathartic.

One of the most difficult things for me about Mike dying so suddenly [was] the unexplored emotional issues that we had. All people in long-term relationships have those, and I was heartbroken that we hadn’t delved deeper to explore those. There was no “later.” What wealth we may have found if we had the courage to dive in there earlier. And there are parallels to that with the ocean: We all have to have difficult conversations about how we relate to the natural world in general, and in particular with the ocean, before it’s too late. The film shows a somewhat darker side of Mike too following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Who would he have become if he were alive today? He had joyfully skipped through most of his life. Suddenly that was no longer an option for him. He was depressed and devastated. He was in a really dark place. But he would have emerged from that darkness and that was beginning to happen when Jim called him about the Deep Sea Challenge. We sort of got Mike back. What would have emerged would have been a fusion of sorts. He was still going to be the excitable, joyful Mike, but he had a depth to him and an undercurrent of rage. That guy was determined. I don’t want to say he’d have been on a warpath, but he would have been making some noise. Mike was furious at the oil industry, but he was also furious at our own culpability. It wasn’t just the oil companies—we’re all responsible for this. That was the way he worked. He didn’t want to demonize any person in particular as much our entire culture. We’ve got to change the way we relate to the natural world, but, in particular, the ocean. He would have been working toward legislative change and trying to engage kids in the political process. Democracy can work, but you’ve got to get involved and then you’ve got to vote ocean. He’d try to approach it in a way that was joyful because he was so full of love for everybody and everything. It was hard for him to be negative for too long.

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he show opens on the blue glow of a vibrating phone in a darkened bedroom in the middle of the night. The next evening, Elena, 60 years old, sits down at her laptop to write the story of a friendship. Never again during the series will anonymous screens interface between individuals. We leave Elena’s solitude for the dense social network of a 1950s neighborhood in Naples, Italy, where gossip jumps from balcony to balcony as women hang the laundry and each family is defined by the necessary trade they provide to the community. The Cerullos are the shoemakers, the Solaras tend the café, the Carraccis run the grocery, the Scannos sell fruits and vegetables, and so on, personal identities

SERIES CAPTURES NOVEL’S GRITTY MILIEU AND PENETRATING PSYCHOLOGY by T.M. Weedon affixed through the symbiosis of small-town commerce, generations worth of friendship and rivalry. To the eyes of a child, these tightly woven relationships are sprawling and wondrous, with darkened secrets underlying the apparent yet unknown alliances that surround. To a young adult, the stagnant, ancient makeup of the neighborhood is banal and suffocating, colored by violence and poverty. My Brilliant Friend chronicles such an evolution in perspective, as Elena, or Lenù, as she’s affectionately called, and her best friend, Lila, grapple with either accepting their own assumed roles within the community or devising an improbable means of escape. The series is a coproduction between HBO and Italian networks RAI and TIMvision, directed by Saverio Costanzo and based on the international best-selling novel by Elena Ferrante. My Brilliant Friend is the first installment in Ferrante’s quartet of novels covering the lifespan of these two women. Like the classical bildungsroman, the series begins in childhood and ends with a marriage. Unlike the classical bildungsroman, this marriage does not confer upon the bride her desired social position. Marriage only begins a new era of resistance,

and HBO has ordered a follow-up season, based on Ferrante’s second novel in the quartet, to see where the resistance will lead. Ferrante’s novels have won readers the world over with their gritty milieu and their penetrating psychology, but most salient is the hushed intimacy of the reading experience, as if taken into the confidence of the small enclosure of friendship Lenù and Lila have constructed within the crowded streets of their neighborhood. The early episodes of the season capture the mood well. We see the people of the town in snatches and glimpses, from unprivileged angles, as if we were too low to the ground to have a clear vantage, just as young Lenù (Elisa Del Genio) and young Lila (Ludovica Nasti) experience them. We rely on the meaning-making the girls share in whispers and fantasies to formulate our own sense of their world. As Lenù and Lila mature, played as young women by Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace, respectively, their fears and understandings of the world change in accordance with their bodies. Other than Netflix’s Big Mouth, there has not been a show more insistent on the disheartening drama of skin blemishes or more sympathetic to a woman’s first menstruation. The threat of violence transfers from abusive parents to the unwanted attentions of men, who try to claim the girls as if they were promising new real estate. But the girls fight back. Lenù uses education to broaden her horizons, while Lila must contrive a strategy more cunning and secretive. Ferrante’s readers will be pleased with the adaptation. Of course, novels and cinema speak a different language, and, predictably, fans of the book will find the series trading moments of Ferrante’s quiet poetry for sequences of heightened spectacle, but ultimately, the essentials of the story are fully intact, and they carry an urgency that is well purposed to the new medium while still being faithful to the novel. The HBO series is a remarkable opportunity for new audiences to discover the intimate, caustic world of My Brilliant Friend, and for old audiences to revel in it a little while longer. My Brilliant Friend can be found on HBO.

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Cold War (89 mins., R) Based loosely on director Pawel Pawlikowski’s life, this film is a historical period drama set in Poland and France during the height of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States and its allies. The film follows the love story of a musical director and a young singer from the 1940s to the 1960s. The Hitchcock The Kid Who Would Be King (120 mins., PG)

This sci-fi fantasy film puts a modern twist on the Arthurian legend when schoolboy Alex Elliot inadvertently pulls King Arthur’s sword Excalibur from the stone and then must put together his own round table of knights to defeat Morgana. Patrick Stewart and Rebecca Ferguson star. Fairview/Fiesta 5 (Opens Fri., Jan. 25)

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (106 mins., PG)

It’s been five years since Duplo invaded Bricksburg, not yet a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Despite the dire circumstances, Emmet (Chris Pratt) remains irritatingly upbeat, unlike his friends. Disliking his plucky demeanor, Mayhem from Systar System kidnaps Emmet’s friends. A rescue mission ensues. Elizabeth Banks, Tiffany Haddish, and Will Arnett also star. The Hitchcock (Sneak peek Sat., Jan. 26)

Serenity (106 mins., R) Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway star in this neo-noir thriller about a fishing boat captain whose exwife asks him to murder her new husband. Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo (Opens Thu., Jan. 24)

focuses on their 1953 music hall tour, their personal relationships, and their struggle to get another film made.

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NOW SHOWING Aquaman (143 mins., PG-13) Jason Momoa stars as the titular character in this much-anticipated big-screen offering from DC Comics. The son of lighthouse keeper Tom Curry and underwater queen Atlanna (Nicole Kidman), Arthur Curry/Aquaman is stuck between two worlds. When Aquaman thwarts and kills pirate David Kane, his son vows vengeance. An epic battle for Atlantis ensues. Camino Real/Fiesta 5

O Bohemian Rhapsody (134 mins., PG-13)

Telling the tale of a beloved rock-androll enigma, especially one so notoriously private, is a daunting task, but Bohemian Rhapsody tackles Freddie Mercury’s legendary story with flourish and fervor. Admittedly, the film adopts a convenient plot line ripe with meetcutes and oversimplifications of Mercury’s complex relationship with his family and background. It struggles the most in addressing the often-discussed queerness of Mercury’s life, at times teetering toward bi-erasure and a less-thandelicate portrayal of AIDS. Rami Malek shines as the shy yet vivacious Queen frontman and is spellbindingly convincing during both Mercury’s loneliest hours and explosive moments on some of the world’s biggest stages. The rest of the casting deserves a grand tip of the hat as well. Bohemian Rhapsody, for all its narrative flaws, is an earnest tribute to the iconic rock band, and remains a spectacle of sight and sound for music, Mercury, and movie fans alike. (JK) Metro 4

Stan & Ollie (97 mins., PG) Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly star as comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, respectively, in this biopic that

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Escape Room (100 mins., PG-13) This psychological thriller sees six strangers invited to an escape-room competition that, unbeknownst to them, has deadly booby traps hidden in each room. Fiesta 5 The Favourite (120 mins., R) Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz star in this historical dark comedy/drama set during the reign of England’s Queen Anne in the early 18th century. A tangled love triangle emerges between Anne (Colman), Abigail Hill (Stone), and Sarah Churchill (Weisz) that leads to treachery and betrayal.

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Director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) brings James Baldwin’s eponymous novel to the big screen. KiKi Layne stars as Clementine “Tish” Rivers, whose husband, Alonzo “Fonny” Hunt (Stephan James), is jailed for a crime he didn’t commit. Tish is intent on clearing her husband’s name before their baby is born. Metro 4 Mary Poppins Returns (130 mins., PG) Rob Marshall (Chicago) directs this sequel to the 1964 classic film. Set in the 1930s, two decades after the original, Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) is needed by the Banks kids, now grown but who recently suffered a great loss. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, and Emily Mortimer also star. Camino Real/Metro 4

The Mule (116 mins., R) Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this crime drama about an aged horticulturist and Korean War vet who is arrested for transporting $3 million in cocaine for a Mexican cartel. Based on Sam Dolnick’s New York Times piece “The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule,” the film also stars Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest, and Andy Garcia. Paseo Nuevo

counterparts from other dimensions in order to stop a threat to reality. Camino Real/Fiesta 5

A Star Is Born (135 mins., R) Bradley Cooper marks his directing debut with an ode to the 1937 romantic melodrama A Star Is Born, famously remade in 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason and again in 1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Cooper plays famous countryrock musician Jackson Maine, whose drunken search for more alcohol leads him to a drag bar where he stumbles into Ally (Lady Gaga), an unknown singer who Jackson then mentors. Soon, Ally and Jackson enter into a romantic relationship that is often overshadowed by Jackson’s alcoholism and prescription drug abuse. As Ally takes on her self-doubt and fear of performing in front of Jackson’s sold-out crowds, she makes sacrifices in her own burgeoning career for love and authenticity. Cooper and Lady Gaga depict the rawness and erosion of their relationship so well that both actors are receiving Oscar buzz. (JR) Fiesta 5 The Upside (125 mins., PG-13) Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, and Nicole Kidman star in this remake of the 2011 French film The Intouchables, which is based on the life of wealthy businessman Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, who

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Adam McKay’s Vice may be the most pornographic film of the year that has nothing to do with sex. One part biopic of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), one part satire of the past half century of American politics, Vice contains plenty of moments where one might be inclined to look away (and perhaps can’t). The film sutures an array of disturbing content, including footage from the 9/11 attacks, torture scenes from the “War on Terror,” and a lingering vision of an anesthetized Dick Cheney mid-heart transplant. The VP’s cold, dead heart lies on a metal slab; his chest cavity is empty, awaiting a fresh occupant. Even for those who might find this negative portrait of Cheney and his politics cathartic, watching Vice feels like vice indeed. Part of this emerges from Christian Bale’s convincing performance as Cheney. Other cast members provide equally stunning renderings. Vice is intense, but it ultimately passes the litmus test of compelling biographical film: One walks out of the theater wanting to confirm whether multiple scenes were actual news footage. (KM) Paseo Nuevo

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Alfonso Cuarón has painted a masterpiece. The rightfully acclaimed Mexican director behind Y Tu Mamá También, Children of Men, and Gravity has gone deeper and more personal with Roma, a profoundly artistic achievement and a poignant tale drawn from his own childhood in 1970s Mexico City. Shot in luminous black-and-white, and with echoes of lyrical Fellini films and neorealism, Cuarón has given the world a rare glimpse into Mexican life, with special compassion for the beloved indigenous protagonist, Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), and women’s issues. (JW)

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SPORTS bara coach David Bregante of Allen. “He’s just a great player and a great competitor.” On January 16, Allen’s San Marcos Royals and Warrecker’s Santa Barbara Dons met on the hardwood with first place in Channel League on the line. Santa Barbara captured a 63-58 victory behind 19 points from Warrecker. The rematch is scheduled for Tuesday, January 29, at San Marcos High. PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: The Channel League girls’

basketball race is exceeding expectations for competitiveness. The results on a given night have swung unpredictably. At the end of the first round of league play, Santa Ynez was in first place with a 4-1 record while Santa Barbara and Cabrillo of Lompoc were a game back with 3-2 records. The key result was Santa Ynez notching a 62-60 road win over Santa Barbara on January 10. The rematch is scheduled for Thursday, January 24, and will likely determine the league champion. In girls’ water polo, Dos Pueblos will be the top seed in the Channel League tournament next week. The Chargers defeated rival San Marcos, the defending CIF Division 1 and Channel League champions, on January 17 to clinch the top seed. Santa Barbara will be seeded second, and San Marcos will be the third seed. For the fifth consecutive season, the Dos Pueblos wrestling team has clinched the Channel League title with a perfect 5-0 record. The Chargers will compete in the CIF Division 4 Duals on January 26 at Simi Valley’s Royal High. San Marcos claimed sole possession of first place in the Channel League boys’ soccer standings with a 3-0 victory over Santa Barbara on Saturday, January 19, at La Playa Stadium. It was the first time San Marcos has defeated Santa Barbara in boys’ soccer since 2012. San Marcos junior midfielder Matt Hislop scored two first-half goals to swing momentum in the Royals’ favor. With the victory, San Marcos improved to 6-0 in Channel League. Santa Barbara dropped to 5-1. The rematch is scheduled for Wednesday, January 30, beginning at 5 p.m. at San Marcos High.

DOUBLE DOSE OF DONS: Santa Barbara High’s Bryce Warrecker (left), with help from teammate Aiden Douglas (13), puts the clamps on San Marcos star Beau Allen.

DUAL-SPORT DUO Meet Santa Barbara High’s Bryce Warrecker and San Marcos High’s Beau Allen

n the age of specialization and year-round club sports, elite dual-sport athletes have become a rare breed. In an effort to maximize their children’s ability in one sport, many families are pouring their time and financial resources into offseason training at the expense of secondary sports, which can be a detriment to high school programs that are in need of numbers to stay healthy. This basketball season, high school rivals Santa Barbara and San Marcos are led by two of the top dual-sport athletes in the area: Bryce Warrecker and Beau Allen. Both athletes have bucked the specialization trend and helped lift multiple programs in the process. The Warrecker name has been a staple of Santa Barbara baseball for some time. Warrecker’s grandfather Fred Warrecker coached Santa Barbara High for 42 years, and his six sons have greatly impacted the community as players and coaches. For Warrecker, who is committed to Cal Poly for baseball and basketball, the desire to play multiple sports has always been there. He intends to continue as long as he can. “It’s still what I love to do. There’s no decision between one or the other yet,” Warrecker said. “When it becomes time to hopefully play professionally, maybe then I can make a choice. But in college, I’m still trying to play both.” Ironically, Warrecker’s love of sports began with soccer, but as he grew, his focus shifted to basketball. “My dad told me there’s not very many guys who play professional soccer that are 6'8", so maybe we’ve got to start

playing more club basketball instead of soccer,” Warrecker said. “That’s kind of how I got started. I ran into some really good coaches and ended up having fun with it. A lot of guys I played with then I’m still playing with now.” Allen, who is dripping with natural athleticism, is currently committed to Duke for track and field. He was spotted by San Marcos high-jump coach Ben Kirkwood playing basketball his freshman year and never looked back. Last season, Allen broke a 32-yearold school record by clearing 6'10" in the high jump. He also finished in fourth place at the CIF State Championships with a jump of 6'8". Allen took official visits to Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, and Duke before making his college decision. “It feels really good to be relatively new to a sport and have been able to achieve this level,” Allen said. “For [colleges], the upside is good, and I know I can keep improving with highlevel training and take it to a whole new level.” He believes the crossover between the explosive movements, timing, and jumping in the two sports have aided in his training. Allen broke out on the basketball court last season and helped San Marcos win the Channel League and the CIF-SS Division 2A championship. His versatility and athleticism on the court was exactly what the Royals needed to complement a battle-tested senior class. This season, Allen has taken a leadership role and is at the top of every opponent’s scouting report. “He may be the best player in the league,” said Santa Bar-

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Breszny

WEEK OF JANUARY 24

ARIES

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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): We might initially be inclined to ridicule

(June 21-July 22): In 2006, a 176-year-old tortoise named

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The old Latin verb crescere meant “to come

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Among the top “how to” search inquiries on Google are “how to buy Bitcoin,” “how to lose belly fat fast,” “how to cook spaghetti in a microwave,” and “how to make slime.” While I do think that the coming weeks will be prime time for you to formulate and launch many “how to” investigations, I will encourage you to put more important questions at the top of your priority list. “How to get richer quicker” would be a good one, as would “how to follow through on good beginnings” and “how to enhance your value” and “how to identify what resources and allies will be most important in 2019.”

Stuart Kettell, a British man who spent four days pushing a Brussels sprout up 3,560-foot-high Mount Snowdon with his nose. But perhaps our opinion would become more expansive once we knew that he engaged in this stunt to raise money for a charity that supports people with cancer. In any case, the coming weeks would be a favorable time for you too to engage in extravagant, extreme, or even outlandish behavior in behalf of a good or holy cause.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): The Taurus guitar wizard known as Buck-

ethead is surely among the most imaginative and prolific musicians who has ever lived. Since producing his first album in late 2005, he has released 306 other albums that span a wide variety of musical genres — an average of 23 per year. I propose that we make him your patron saint for the next six weeks. While it’s unlikely you can achieve such a gaudy level of creative self-expression, you could very well exceed your previous personal best in your own sphere.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created

Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character who personifies the power of logic and rational thinking. And yet Doyle was also a devout spiritualist who pursued interests in telepathy, the occult, and psychic phenomena. It’s no surprise that he was a Gemini, an astrological tribe renowned for its ability to embody apparent opposites. Sometimes that quality is a liability for you folks, and sometimes an asset. In the coming weeks, I believe it’ll be a highly useful skill. Your knack for holding paradoxical views and expressing seemingly contradictory powers will attract and generate good fortune.

HOMEWORK: Write yourself a nice long love letter full of praise and appreciation. Send a copy to me if you like: FreeWillAstrology.com.

Harriet died in an Australian zoo owned by “Crocodile Hunter” and TV personality Steve Irwin. Harriet was far from her original home in the Galapagos Islands. By some accounts, evolutionary superstar Charles Darwin picked her up and carried her away during his visit there in 1835. I propose that you choose the long-lived tortoise as your power creature for the coming weeks. With her as inspiration, meditate on questions like these: (1) “What would I do differently if I knew I’d live to a very old age?” (2) “What influence that was important to me when I was young do I want to be important to me when I’m old?” (3) “In what specific ways can my future benefit from my past?” (4) “Is there a blessing or gift from an ancestor I have not yet claimed?” (5) “Is there anything I can do that I am not yet doing to remain in good health into my old age?”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): John Lennon claimed that he generated

the Beatles song “Because” by rendering Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” backwards. Even if that’s true, I don’t think it detracts from the beauty of “Because.” May I suggest you adopt a comparable strategy for your own use in the coming weeks, Leo? What could you do in reverse so as to create an interesting novelty? What approach might you invert in order to instigate fresh ways of doing things? Is there an idea you could turn upside down or inside out, thereby awakening yourself to a new perspective?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Tsonga language is spoken by more

than 15 million people in southern Africa. The literal meaning of the Tsonga phrase I malebvu ya nghala is “It’s a lion’s beard,” and its meaning is “something that’s not as scary as it looks.” According to my astrological analysis, this will be a useful concept for you to be alert for in the coming weeks. Don’t necessarily trust first impressions or initial apprehensions. Be open to probing deeper than your instincts might influence you to do.

forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, increase in numbers or strength.” We see its presence in the modern English, French, and Italian word “crescendo.” In accordance with astrological omens, I have selected crescere and its present participle crescentum to be your words of power for the next four weeks. May they help mobilize you to seize all emerging opportunities to come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, and increase in numbers or strength.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When animals hibernate, their metabolism

slows down. They may grow more underfur or feathers, and some add extra fat. To conserve heat, they may huddle together with each other. In the coming weeks, I don’t think you’ll have to do what they do. But I do suspect it will be a good time to engage in behaviors that have a resemblance to hibernation: slowing down your mind and body; thinking deep thoughts and feeling deep feelings; seeking extra hugs and cuddles; getting lots of rich, warm, satisfying food and sleep. What else might appeal to your need to drop out of your fast-paced rhythm and supercharge your psychic batteries?

SAGITTARIUS

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A motivational speaker and author named

Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs, although he has two small, unusually shaped feet. These facts didn’t stop him from getting married, raising a family of four children, and writing eight books. One book is titled Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life. He’s a positive guy who has faith in the possibility of miracles. In fact, he says he keeps a pair of shoes in his closet just in case God decides to bless him with a marvelous surprise. In accordance with current astrological omens, Aquarius, I suggest you make a similar gesture. Create or acquire a symbol of an amazing transformation you would love to attract into your life.

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When people tell me they don’t have time to

read the books I’ve written, I advise them to place the books under their pillows and soak up my words in their dreams. I don’t suggest that they actually eat the pages, although there is historical precedent for that. The Bible describes the prophet Ezekiel as literally chewing and swallowing a book. And there are accounts of 16th-century Austrian soldiers devouring books they acquired during their conquests, hoping to absorb the contents of the texts. But in accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest that in the next four weeks, you acquire the wisdom stored in books by actually reading them or listening to them on audio recordings. In my astrological opinion, you really do need, for the sake of your psychospiritual health, to absorb writing that requires extended concentration.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): About 11 percent of the Philippines’ popu-

lation is composed of Muslims who call themselves the Bangsamoro. Many resist being part of the Philippines and want their own sovereign nation. They have a lot of experience struggling for independence, as they’ve spent 400 years rebelling against occupation by foreign powers, including Spain, the United States, and Japan. I admire their tenacity in seeking total freedom to be themselves and rule themselves. May they inspire your efforts to do the same on a personal level in the coming year.

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

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STUDENT HEALTH Working under UCSB Standardized Procedures and Protocols and in collaboration with Student Health physicians, the Nurse Practitioner is responsible for gathering data, making hypotheses, identifying problems, implementing management plans and evaluating outcomes of interventions. The NP integrates health maintenance, disease prevention, physical diagnosis and treatment of common episodic and chronic problems in primary care with emphasis on health education and disease management. Reqs: Must have current a CA Nursing and Nurse Practitioner license, CA Furnishing license (DEA registration schedules 2‑5 desired) at all times during employment in order to practice and function in their clinical role. Notes: Fingerprint background check required. Must have a current California BRN license as RN and NP, California Furnishing Number, DEA license and must be CPR certified at all times during employment. HIPAA regulations are strictly enforced; any violation is subject to disciplinary action. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. This is a 100% 10 or 11 month position; 8 or 4 weeks of furlough must be taken during quarter breaks or summer months. Hours vary during quarter breaks depending upon staffing needs. Scheduling is reviewed annually and set for the upcoming academic year. Weekly schedule may include Thursday evening hours. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Salary up to $62.55/hr, commensurate with experience. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20180545 Patient Engagement and Clinical Program Manager - Join

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STUDENT HEALTH Working under the required Delegation of Services Agreement with the physician supervisor, the Physician Assistant works in a collaborative and collegial relationship with physicians, Nurse Practitioners and other clinical staff at UCSB Student Health. Responsibilities include evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries, providing brief mental health interventions, prescribing medications under the legal scope of practice and arranging follow up care. Procedures such as laceration repair, extremity splinting, incision and drainage of abscesses, wound care and management of IV fluids will be performed depending on training, experience and privileging by UCSB Student Health administration. Reqs: Must have at least 2 years of experience as a Physician Assistant in urgent or primary care. Must have current California Physician Assistant license. Notes: Fingerprint background check required. Student Health requires that clinical staff must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before the employment start date. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. All Physician Assistants must have a current CA Physician Assistant license at all times during employment in order to practice and function in their clinical role. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. This is a 10 or 11 month per year position at 100% time with 4 or 8 weeks furlough taken during quarter breaks and summer months. Hours vary during quarter breaks. Works hours as assigned, which may include evening hours. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Works hours as assigned, which may include evening hours. $42.80‑$56.46/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20180557

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FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Responsible for payroll/personnel transactions for the DFSS division (which has 350+FTE). Thorough knowledge of MSP, PSS, and labor (SX, CX, TX, K8 and 99) policies and procedures for limited, career and contract employees is required. Researches and analyzes various payroll/personnel issues as requested by the Associate Vice Chancellor of DFSS and the Directors of Design & Construction Services, Facilities Management, and Environmental Health & Safety. Special Assistant to DFSS’ HR Manager, providing analysis and research on various issues relating to payroll/personnel actions, safety training and career development. May act in absence of Manager. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/ training. Ability to use sound judgment in responding to issues and concerns. Strong skills in analysis, problem‑solving, and customer service. Solid communication and interpersonal skills, including active listening, critical thinking and advising skills, to communicate effectively with all levels of staff verbally and in

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BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES (BFS) Provides day to day support and coordination of all campus merchant accounts and cash handling activities. This position provides analysis, project management and implementation support to highly complex projects related to compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS); and federal, state, University, and card association requirements and internal financial/ audit policies and controls for credit card and cash handling activities. Reqs: Working knowledge of financial processes, policies and procedures. Strong knowledge of financial data management and reporting systems. Intermediate knowledge and understanding of internal control practices and their impact on protecting University resources. Work history demonstrating strong administrative, organizational, and interpersonal skills. Strong analytic and problem solving skills. Highly professional telephone manner and excellent writing skills with careful attention to detail, grammar, punctuation and proofreading. Strong customer service skills, dealing with a wide variety of clientele. Ability to interact will with faculty, staff, students and other campus departments. Ability to present in front of large groups. Strength in problem recognition and problem solving skills. Possess team building skills and works well within a team. Note: Fingerprint background check required. $23.47‑$27.45/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 2/3/19, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20190036

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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY (EH&S) Identifies and assesses risk factors, ergonomic issues, hazards, hazardous conditions, and policies/procedures that may contribute to workplace injuries. Assist with and/or conducts investigations of employee injuries and safety incidents as assigned. Develops and implements safe working procedures and injury prevention strategies. Independently conducts and documents safety audits including in‑field visits to ensure

compliance with University policies, state laws and established safety standards. Conducts and documents safety inspections of campus facilities including theaters/performance venues, athletics and sports facilities, campus dining facilities, and other locations as assigned for compliance with Cal/OSHA regulations, campus policies, and established general safety guidelines. Additional areas of responsibility include providing training and technical information, providing injury prevention program assistance, implementing injury prevention strategies, and monitoring injury trends on campus. Reqs: BA/ BS, and/or equivalent combination of education and previous work experience (2‑5 years) in the area of CCR Title 8 compliance. Able to plan, schedule, and coordinate complex safety campaigns, track progress, and meet established deadlines. Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. Strong analytical abilities, organizational skills, and knowledge/experience in program development and delivery. Able to generate content for training and website materials. Able to work independently under general guidance. Thorough knowledge and skill in interpreting and applying Title 8 regulations, standards, and guidelines. Notes: Fingerprint background check required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license. Will be required to work a flexible work schedule. Days and hours may vary to meet the operational needs of the department. $25.48‑$30.44/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 2/3/19, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20190035

to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply inline by 1/31/19, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20190029

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DRAMATIC ART/DANCE DEPARTMENT Oversees scenic, painting, and properties areas related to the department’s season for theater and dance productions. In conjunction with the TD, is responsible for pricing and buying necessary supplies for both production and shop needs. Maintains scene shop equipment and oversees safe practices in the shop. Responsible for the hiring and supervision of limited staff and student employees. Teaches and supervises student lab classes. Should possess strong leadership, communication, organizational, and mentoring skills. Reqs: Two years practical experience with strong carpentry, rigging, welding, and technical skills; ability to interpret working drawings and work closely with faculty, staff, and students. Note: Fingerprint background check required. $23.47/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply online by 2/3/19, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20190026

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JAMS, JASMINE’S ALTERNATIVE MUSIC SCHOOL, THE STAR JASMINE FOUNDATION at 126 Cooper Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Nancy Earle (same address) Cody Wheatley (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 09, 2019. 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 Jasmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2019‑0000074. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RUIZ CLOTHING, RUIZ MAINTENANCE & LANDSCAPE at 150 Magnolia Ave Apt A Goleta, CA 93117; Rebeca Ruiz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 21, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2018‑0003253. Published: Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JESSICA at 2008 De La Vina Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Andreea Consigment LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 14, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2019‑0000111. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB TECH VISTA TRADER at 7859 Rio Vista Dr Goleta, CA 93117; David Leif Andre (same address) Megan Leigh Van Valkenburgh (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Megan Van Valkenburgh Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 08, 2019. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2019‑0000061. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE JEREMIAH SHOW at 532 Santa Barbara St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Evolve Hospitality, LLC 348 La Marina Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 11, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2019‑0000093. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ENRIQUE’S CARPET & FLOORS at 202 W Quinto St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Enrique Araujo Guzman (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 02, 2019. 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 Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN Number: 2019‑0000004. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MUIR CONSTRUCTION at 510 Laguna St. Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; David Williamson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 28, 2019. 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 Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN Number: 2018‑0003267. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: INHERENT RIGHTS, MANAGEMENT‑BY‑POLITICIANS.ORG, INHERENTRIGHTS.ORG, THE GLOBAL VOTE, MANAGEMENT BY POLITICIANS, THEGLOBALVOTE.NET at 990 Via Fruteria Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Merlin LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 11, 2019. 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 Brenda Aguilera. FBN Number: 2019‑0000087. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FANGS & FUR at 27 West Anapamu St. #222 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Anthony Santilli 221 West Micheltorena St. Unit 4 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 16, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2019‑0000125. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MALI VIZAZI at 617 W. Ocean Ave #D Lompoc, CA 93436; Alicia Nicole Johnson (same address) Erica Canley 1569 Calle Portos Lompoc, CA 93436 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 11, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2019‑0000090. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HJL HOSPITALITY at 532 Santa Barbara St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Evolve Hospitality, LLC 348 La Marina Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 11, 2019. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2019‑0000094. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805 HANDYMAN SERVICES, 805 HARDWOOD FLOORING at 635 West Micheltorena Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 505 Hardwood Flooring (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 08, 2019. 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 Brenda Agulera. FBN Number: 2019‑0000064. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 805 HARDWARE, SAN ANDRES HARDWARE at 635 West Micheltorena Santa Barbara, CA 93101; San Andres Hardware (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 08, 2019. 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: 2019‑0000064. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLANCY ENTERTAINMENT at 81 David Love Pl. Suite 205 Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Rodger Spero 308 N. La Patera Ln Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 14, 2019. 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 Brenda Aguilra. FBN Number: 2019‑0000110. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STICKY CREATIVE LLC at 220 Cordova Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Sticky Creative LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Adam Goetz‑Managing Member Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 08, 2019. 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: 2019‑0000057. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MATHNASIUM OF GOLETA at 41 Calle Loyola San Clemente, CA 92673; Math 101 Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: David J. Greco‑President Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 15, 2019. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2019‑0000115. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MADE FOR THIS, MADEFORTHIS, MADEFORTHIS.ORG at 1128 1/2 Castillo St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Geoffrey Ravenhill (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 16, 2019. 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 Brenda Aguilera. FBN Number: 2019‑0000122. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BOTANICAL ALCHEMY at 1482 East Valley Rd #502 Santa Barbara, 93108; Clifton Harrison (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 16, 2019. 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 Brenda Aguilera. FBN Number: 2019‑0000124. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA GREEN MHP at 1200 Punta Gorda St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Cypress Tree Apartments, Inc. 11 E. Haley St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 17, 2019. 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 Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN Number: 2019‑0000138. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FLORASCAPES at 921 Barcelona Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Emma Lauter (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 17, 2019. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2019‑0000141. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: J.E.M FITNESS at 100 E. Carrillo St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jordan Esquivel (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jordan Esquivel Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 02, 2019. 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 Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN Number: 2019‑0000006. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 20TH CENTURY VIEWS at 5088 San Bernardo Pl Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Eric Scott Payton (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Eric Payton Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 08, 2019. 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: 2019‑0000059. Published: Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ENERGY CONSTRUCTION SERVICES at 315 Megis Road Suite A519 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; SE Network (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 07, 2019. 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: 2019‑0000041. Published: Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb 7 2019.

LIEN SALE NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Contents are tools, furniture, and other misc. personal items. Items are being stored for Thomas Gaglio in storage unit “U1” located at Bucks Moving & Storage 417 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara CA 93101 (805) 966‑1261

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF MATHILDE WOLFF ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV06193 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: MATHILDE WOLFF TO: MATHILDE WOLFF CHABERT THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter 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. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING March, 06, 2019 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara 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 Dec 20, 2018 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Jan 3, 10, 17, 24 2019. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF YOUYA YAN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV05430 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: YOUYA YAN TO: CARRIE YAN 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 30, 2019 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara 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 16 2018 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ANNE STAR GERAWAN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV06127 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: ANNE STAR GERAWAN TO: ANNIE STAR GERAWAN 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 Mar 06, 2019 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara 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 Jan 07 2019 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Jan 24, 30. Feb 7, 14 2019.

PUBLIC NOTICES 01‑NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS 1.OWNER: Montecito Union School District 2.PROJECT IDENTIFICATION NAME: 1819‑1 North Parking Lot and Play Area Access Project 3.PROJECT LOCATION: 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 4.PROJECT DESCRIPTION: 1. Installation of a new accessible path of travel connecting to existing path of travel. 2. Construction of three wood and steel ball walls. 3. Replacement and expansion of the existing North Parking Lot. This project is anticipated to start on approximately June 7, 2019 and completion on around August 9, 2019 5.BID DEADLINE: Bids are due on February 22, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. 6.PLACE AND METHOD OF BID RECEIPT: All Bids must be sealed. Personal delivery, courier, or mailed via United States Postal Service and addressed to Montecito Union School District, 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. ATTN: Virginia Alvarez 7.PLACE PLANS ARE ON FILE: Montecito Union School District, Business Department, Second Floor, 385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 The active link for the drawings and other related bid support documents is available at www.montecitou.org and documents are also available for download at: h t t p s : / / w w w . d r o p b o x .c o m / sh/46g3tse0hvmiwkc/AAClT5fHv Tyqzy‑ljnocrlbDa?dl=0 8.ALTERNATES: If alternate bids are called for, the contract will be awarded to the lowest bid price on the base contract without consideration of the prices on the additive or deductive items.

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9.MANDATORY JOB WALK:Meet at Montecito Union School Office on January 30, 2019 at 9 a.m. Attendance at the entire job walk is mandatory and failure to attend the entire job walk may result in your bid being rejected as non‑responsive. Contact OWNER for details on required job walks and related documentation. 10.This is a prevailing wage project. OWNER has ascertained the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the locality in which this work is to be performed for each craft or type of worker needed to execute this contract. These rates are on file at OWNER’s office, and a copy may be obtained upon request, or at www.dir.ca.gov. Contractor shall post a copy of these rates at the job site. ALL PROJECTS OVER $1,000 ARE SUBJECT TO PREVAILING WAGE MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT BY THE LABOR COMMISSIONER. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded (CONTRACTOR), and upon any SUBCONTRACTOR, to pay not less than the specified rates to all workers employed by them in the execution of the contract. 11.A Payment Bond for contracts over $25,000 and a Performance Bond for all contracts will be required prior to commencement of work. These bonds shall be in the amounts and form called for in the Contract Documents. 12.Pursuant to the provisions of Public Contract Code Section 22300, CONTRACTOR may substitute certain securities for any funds withheld by OWNER to ensure CONTRACTOR’s performance under the contract. At the request and expense of CONTRACTOR, securities equivalent to any amount withheld shall be deposited, at the discretion of OWNER, with either OWNER or a state or federally chartered bank as the escrow agent, who shall then pay any funds otherwise subject to retention to CONTRACTOR. Upon satisfactory completion of the contract, the securities shall be returned to CONTRACTOR. Securities eligible for investment shall include those listed in Government Code Section 16430, bank and savings and loan certificates of deposit, interest bearing demand deposit accounts, standby letters of credit, or any other security mutually agreed to by CONTRACTOR and OWNER. CONTRACTOR shall be the beneficial owner of any securities substituted for funds withheld and shall receive any interest on them. The escrow agreement shall be in the form indicated in the Contract Documents. 13.To bid on or perform the work stated in this Notice, CONTRACTOR must possess a valid and active contractor’s license of the following classification(s) B No CONTRACTOR or subcontractor shall be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of § 4104 of the Public Contract Code, for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless currently registered with the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5. No CONTRACTOR or subcontractor may be awarded a contract for public work on a public works project (awarded after April 1, 2015)

want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal 14.CONTRACTOR and all subcontractors services from a nonprofit legal services program. must furnish electronic certified payroll records You can locate these nonprofit groups at the (eCPR) to the Labor Commissioner monthly in California Legal Services Web site (www. PDF format. Registration at www.dir.ca.gov/ lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Public‑Works/Certified‑Payroll‑Reporting.html is Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca. gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court required to use the eCPR system. or county bar association. NOTE: The court has The following notice is given as required by Labor a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any Code Section 1771.5(b)(1): CONTRACTOR and settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or any subcontractors are required to review and more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid comply with the provisions of the California before the court will dismiss the case. Labor Code, Part 7, Chapter 1, beginning with AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde Section 1720, as more fully discussed in the dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir Contract Documents. These sections contain en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la specific requirements concerning, for example, informacion a continuacion. determination and payment of prevailing Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de wages, retention, inspection, and auditing que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales payroll records, use of apprentices, payment papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en of overtime compensation, securing workers esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia compensation insurance, and various criminal al demandante. Una carta o una llamada penalties or fines which may be imposed for telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por violations of the requirements of the chapter. escrito tiene que estar en formato legal Submission of a bid constitutes CONTRACTOR’s correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la representation that CONTRACTOR has corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede thoroughly reviewed these requirements. encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas 15. OWNER will retain 5% of the amount of información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), any progress payments. en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o 16. This Project does not require prequalification en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no pursuant to AB 1565 of all general contractors puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al and all mechanical, electrical and plumbing secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta subcontractors. su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar Advertisement Dates: January 24, 2019‑ su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Virginia Alvarez Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable 805‑969‑3249 que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un SUMMONS servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede SUMMONS pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales ELLIE BULL, an individual Does 1 to 10 sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Legal Services, (wwwlawhelpcalifornia. org), WG HACIENDA SH, LP dba ATRIA en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de HACIENDA dba ATRIA SENIOR LIVING California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose NOTICE! en contacto con la corte o el colegio de You have been sued. The court may decide abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte against you without your being heard unless tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotasy los costos you respond within 30 days. Read the esentos por imponer un gravamen sobre information below. cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una Summons and legal papers are served on you concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho to file a written response at this court and have civil. Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte a copy served on the plaintiff. antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your CASE NO: (Numero del Caso) 18CV00936 written response must be in proper legal form The name and address of the court is: (El if you want the court to hear your case. There nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR may be a court form that you can use for COURT OF CALIFORNIA 1100 E. Anacapa your response. You can find these court forms St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The name, and more information at the California Courts address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca. attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the is: (El nombre, la dirección y el numero de courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay telefono del abogado del demandante, o del the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee demandante que no tiene abogado, es): waiver form. Ron Chow, Esq. GARDNER, RIECHMANN & If you do not file your response on time, you CHOW 438 E. Katella Ave., Suite 202 Orange, may lose the case by default, and your wages, CA 92867; Bar No. 241946; 714‑972‑8989 money and property may be taken without DATE: Feb 23, 2018; 2:06pm. Sarah Sisto further warning from the court. Deputy Clerk; Published. Jan 17, 24, 30. Feb There are other legal requirements. You may 7 2019. unless registered with the DIR. DIR’s web registration portal is: www.dir.ca.gov/Public‑Works/Contractors.html

ORDINANCE NO. 19-01 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GOLETA AMENDING CHAPTER 5.04 (TAXICABS) OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE TO REFLECT THE STATE-MANDATED LOCAL PROGRAM ENACTED BY ASSEMBLY BILL 1069 On January 15, 2019 at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta adopted an ordinance that would conform the City’s taxicab ordinance with AB 1069, that would require all taxicab operators to obtain a business license and driver permits only from the jurisdictions in which it is “substantially located,” meaning they are located within (1) the jurisdiction of its primary business address or (2) the jurisdiction within a single county that accounts for the largest share of an operator’s total number of trips (by trip origination) within the county over the previous calendar year. The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance 19-01 at a regular meeting held on the 15th day of January 2019, by the following vote: AYES:

MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE RICHARDS, COUNCILMEMBERS ACEVES, KASDIN AND KYRIACO

NOES:

NONE

ABSENT:

NONE

ABSTENTIONS:

NONE

This ordinance shall take effect on the 31st day following the date of its final adoption. Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505. Deborah Lopez City Clerk Publish:

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