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Mazza’s Missive – EIC Matt sits down with big bad Kelly Brown and learns about the restaurants Kelly has all over the whole damn town. They surf and tide pool together at a secluded beach on the Gaviota Coast, too. (Really? Can anybody say bromance?)

It’s Crimetime – Amateur pornographer gets busted; man kicked in the jimmy; malt liquor and hard drugs. Ah, the Unholy Criminal Trinity.

L etters to the Editor – EIC Matt accepts a sauna offer from yet another man (bromance again, Matt?); Cubans like St. Barbara but don’t have her ancient appendage (ha ha, ha-ha ha); Jamie is still steaming mad at Jeff Harding; an open letter on systemic elder abuse in SB; more on superbugs in the water supply; a dowry of goats in exchange for marriage to conjoined twins. Pretty standard stuff.

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T he Beer Guy – Zach Rosen is pairing beer with different areas of the Botanic Garden. Here we go again. (Truth be told, this beer festival sounds great and we’ll be going. Keep pushing, Zach, love the stuff you do.)

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Fifteen Days a Week – Jeremy Harbin has the most interesting fifteen-day weekly calendar on the planet. Just go read it and judge for yourself.

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P.12 Santa Barbara View

– The Milpas community attacks the homeless problem in a collaborative and measurable and (gasp) compassionate way; will it work? Also, Loretta Redd wrestles with privacy concerns in the disturbing digital (Big Brother) age.

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P residio Sports – Dolphins win at the Rincon Classic (just kidding, they didn’t actually compete, they just free surfed); Christie Cooney and Lou Panizzon are Sports Volunteers of the Month; SBIFF has a number of interesting sports flicks, some of which feature Santa Barbara and environs (so go see ‘em already!).

P.17 Pump It

– Jenny Schatzle is concerned that you haven’t been following your New Year’s Resolutions. And she’s taking action. Pump it!

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The Weekly Capitalist – Jeff Harding says that “wealth inequality” is a bogus issue. (“Hey guys, get out the torches and pitchforks, we’re going after that damned Harding again.”)

P.19 Mad Science

– Rachelle Oldmixon talks “real-time, aptamer-based chips called microfluidic electrochemical detectors.” You know, the technology that might, for example, measure the dosage of medication in your bloodstream to enable more efficient use of drugs and fewer related side-effects. Still don’t get it? Read Rachelle’s explanation, she’s way better at this science stuff than we are.

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P.20 In the Zone P.26 Cut. Chew. Eat. Repeat

– A rather prolific Jeremy Harbin sits down for tacos with assemblage artist Dan Levin in the Funk Zone. They eat. They talk. They walk. Et cetera. . – Food columnist Jacquelyn De Longe returns with a story about art in the Funk Zone. Wait, something’s wrong here. This is a food column, right Jacquelyn? Jacquelyn?

Oh whatever, she mentions eating with friends at Blue Tavern, and it seemed to go rather well…

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Shop Girl – Katweri Wozny goes shopping again. (You need to watch the consumer good expenditures, Kateri, seriously.) This time she hit DIANI Boutique and DIANI Shoes on State, and she likes what she sees. (And buys. Watch the spending, woman!)

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– Newbie Grant Lepper hits the ground running – no, sprinting – with a terrific column about the local startup environment. And happiness. Very important. (This is great, Grant, we really want to see more from you. Thanks.)

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(Something like that.) He also gives some timely tips on what to do next with that dirt patch in the yard you call a “garden.” (Something like that, again. Just go read it.)

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M ission & State – Mission & State contributor Christina Knueven brings a fantastic piece on a UCSB Prof’s project mapping (and otherwise working toward a cure for) Alzheimer’s. (We love the collaboration here, Mission & State folks, and look forward to more of it. Right on.)

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– Mark Léisuré likes the Film Festival. But there’s other stuff to do too, so go check out what old Mr. Casual has to say.

– James Luksic talks Oscars and “sensationalized true” war flicks. (Be on the lookout for more from the contributor-formerly-known-as Jim, he’s been hanging around the office and he’s rapidly moving up from handyman to some sort of undefined editing function.

His grammar is way better than ours. And he spells really well, too. Finally!)

lan B Briana Westmacott brushes lots of tangled hair, and sometimes she even so without crying. She also hates Walt Disney, who is responsible for some very P.36 Pdoes unrealistic hair-spectations.

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The Santa Barbara Skinny – Watercoloring at a winery (sounds like the only way

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to do it), Ojai-ing in Ojai (literally the only place you can do it), surfing with sisters (empowering) and juicing. Like totally.

Calcag-Knows Real Estate – Our real estate guy uses his calcag-nose to sniff out

the trends of 2013. As it turns out, it was pretty good for the area market. You better believe it.

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blue lumps marching toward me from the horizon.

I was positioned well. But that voice was coming from too far inside, too deep, probably right in the impact zone.

“Left!” I yelled – I’m a goofyfooter – and scratched my way out to sea, toward what seemed to me to be the A-frame’s apex.

It was going to be close.

When I grabbed the nose of my board and spun hard to take off late, I spied my friend, who’d graciously invited me up and introduced me to the quality wave we were surfing by ourselves, in my periphery, paddling hard to get all the way around me to the fast developing right.

I’d screwed it up for the guy. I could have easily made the right in light of my positioning and given him an easy path to the left I so coveted, but instead I forced him into a tough position, one he was working hard to make the most of.

At the last possible moment, he slipped by underneath me, smiling broadly, as I paddled into the left, which I took fifty yards up the beach before getting pounded

up onto the sand. When I composed myself and turned to look back the other direction, I saw him artfully kicking out of a monster right that he’d somehow made and taken way, way down the beach.

“Good one!” He yelled as he paddled back up.

“Yeah, man, sorry for the box out, I never thought you’d make that.”

“All good, let’s get some more!”

That, my friends, is Kelly Brown.

He’s just about the friendliest and most hospitable guy I’ve met… ever. (Sort of the opposite of Jim Croce’s Leroy Brown, thus the title above.) He’d suggested getting a surf in together before we sat down to discuss his bustling restaurant business – think The Natural Café, Kahuna Grill and New Baja Grill – and then took me to a perfect little spot that I promised not to disclose in these pages.

My wife and kids lounged on the beach in the warm winter sun under perfectly clear winter blue skies, boogie boarding and tide pooling and generally having a beach blast, while Kelly and I got acquainted

Kelly Brown, just after that little hidden surf session, considering whether to paddle back out or head into the office. Tough call.

in the water and traded waves (we even shared a few).

My kind of guy.

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to travel around the world with our kids over yet another Albacore Melt (me) and a Ranch Salad (her) on State back in 2011. We take the kids to the Old Town location every time I have to pick papers up from the printer out in Goleta. Lily, my eight-year-old daughter, ran solo into the State Street store just last week, after my influenza-infected wife called ahead for dinner and asked whether Lily could pick up the food and sign the check.

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A variety of crimes are committed every day in Santa Barbara; most of these crimes are petty but they do offer a window into if not the soul of the perpetrator, at least his or her thought process. Our following (and totally unsolicited) thoughts, observations and comments are put forth for your consideration.

Horny Youth Unsuccessfully Attempts Career in Amateur Pornography

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BPD responded to a call from a person in an apartment around 6pm one evening last week. The key take-aways from that call were: (1) people could be heard having (loud, exhibitionist, animalistic) sex in a nearby apartment and (2) some kid in a third apartment was clandestinely trying to videotape them through an open window with an iPhone duct-taped to a long stick.

Non-fiction, man, it’s stranger than the alternative.

Upon arrival, officers quickly found and detained the suspect, a 20-year-old horn dog City College student, who immediately confessed to his sin. Then, in what can only be described as a moment of immeasurable embarrassment for one side or the other, officers questioned the sex-crazed screamers and confirmed that they’d given nobody the authorization to tape them between the sheets in the sweaty, guttural throes of lust-filled heavy-breathing passion.

That’s enough writing. We need to get home and make some love.

Close Examination Reveals No Visible Injury from Crotch Kick On second thought, maybe not.

A 30-year-old local man called police after his live-in girlfriend socked him in the back at an area liquor store and then “kicked him in the crotch” after they started drinking back at the house. Officers reported that the man suffered no visible injury.

Hmmm. We’d have loved to be a fly on the wall for that visual examination.

And we no longer have any desire to head home and make love.

Our balls hurt.

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CRIMETIME QUOTES OF THE BI-WEEK “I have a real job.”

A 23-year-old Goleta woman to SBPD in response to the dreaded “Employer” question after officers stopped her from stumbling around State Street at midnight last week.

During routine questioning, officers noticed a “small bud of marijuana on her collar” and detained her. That’s all fine and good, but how in the hell do you get a small bud on your collar? Was she eating a weed salad? And strike her answer to the question as non-responsive.

“I do what I want to.”

A 22-year-old child from Santa Ynez to SBPD (again) in response to the dreaded “Employer” question after he was caught running from police – who’d repeatedly asked him to simply stop skating in a restricted area – with his skateboard. You may sometimes do what you want to, kid, but, ah, not this time. Show some respect.

Old-Timer Drinks Too Much Malt Liquor A 59-year-old local man was harassing passersby with his cane on De La Vina around 8:30pm one night last week. Officers found him stumbling, bumbling and generally incoherent, with an open container of malt liquor.

The history of malt liquor is pretty interesting, anecdotally, and there are all sorts of wild ads that were developed as the powerful concoction’s popularity grew in the ’60s and ’70s. (Many of them initially aimed at upper-middle class white America, which changed over time.) It’s worth checking out online… when the kids aren’t around.

Anyway, the poor old guy’s clothes were soiled and he couldn’t stand up. (Too much malt liquor will, in fact, do that to anybody. Young, old, short, tall, fat, skinny. Stuff is straight toxic.) And it turns out that the guy had six bookable warrants for failure to appear for previous violations.

Add another to the list.

And stop drinking that stuff, y’all, it just ain’t right.

(Come to think of it – again – hey Zach Rosen, can we get a malt liquor column out of you at some point? The stuff really does have an interesting background. Come on, pleeeeease?)

This Is Your Brain On Drugs A 22-year-old Ojai man was the subject of a suicide call on lower State Street. He had a history with drugs and advised that he’d used heroin one day and meth two days earlier; his father provided text messages that he was threatening to end his life.

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Although you might not believe it, we actually want to hear from you. So if you have something you think we should know about or you see something we've said that you think is cretinous (or perspicacious, to be fair), then let us know. There's no limit on words or subject matter, so go ahead and let it rip to: Santa Barbara Sentinel, Letters to the Editor, 133 East De La Guerra Street, No. 182, Santa Barbara, California 93101. You can also leap into the 21st century and email us at letters@santabarbarasentinel.com.

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att, I just wanted to reach out and thank you for including Santa Barbara Athletic Club in your recent column and “Stuff [You] Like.” (In the Hot Seat, Vol. 2, Issue 50). It was great seeing our Club mentioned in one of the more popular parts of the newsazine by a guy who carries a big bat in the “What’s Cool” game for SB. I had thought about inviting you over to the sauna for a read/ idea session but then reconsidered as it may come across differently than intended.

Seriously, I read the Sentinel cover to cover over the week and am actually happy that you are going biweekly because I usually miss a few articles before the next one comes up. Now I won’t miss a beat.

Tom Horne, General Manager Santa Barbara Athletic Club Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Ah Tom, that’s sweet. I genuinely enjoy my sauna time at the Club – it really helps clear the cobwebs – so the pleasure was definitely mine. I’m thrilled that you’re thrilled that we’ve gone biweekly; the fact is that we felt like we were leaving some stories high and dry, so your comment

about being able to read everything really fits in with what we’re trying to accomplish.

Just let me know when you’re available for that read/idea session in the sauna, man, I’m game. (And don’t worry, the offer wasn’t taken any differently than you seem to have intended it. Even if it had come across in an unintended way, though, there’d have been absolutely nothing wrong with it, as Jerry Seinfeld might say.) Keep reading. – MSM)

I Don’t Practice Santeria

Hi Matt, thanks for the piece on St. Barbara’s finger (Finding Saint Barbara’s Finger, Vol. 3, Issue 1). We discovered on a recent trip to Cuba that St. Barbara is revered there and is also very important in the Santeria religion.

Jay Smith, Boalt Hall (not Berkeley Law) ’64 Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Yeah, Jay, but do the Cubans have “a sanctified piece of her forefinger?” A “consecrated digit?” I didn’t think so. (I’m a Boaltie too (’03), my friend, none of this newbie “Berkeley Law” stuff here, either.) Thanks for writing. – MSM)

Jamie Is Still Mad

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Jeff, continue with your “big government is bad, blah blah, I don’t like big government anything,” but what do you call the bailout of Wall Street when the you-know-what hit the fan a few years ago?! Oh yes, our government is like your golf buddy. So go ahead and continue to “I don’t like fascism, socialism, etc.,” but how do you define that bailout?! The American government supports your war, your Wall Street, your gain. We all know it. God forbid the insurance companies were told “Um, ya they had cancer but you still can’t deny them coverage.” Try getting cancer or a heart attack in a place like Sweden; YOU’RE TAKEN CARE OF! And god forbid the highest earners are taxed a hefty load; I’m sure they are doing just fine.

Jamie Guerra Santa Barbara (Jeff Harding’s Note: Jamie, such anger. It is difficult to have a conversation if you’re just going to flame me. You seem to enjoy putting people into boxes that suit you while ignoring, um, subtleties. Why do you assume I endorse all the things that you accuse me of? The bailout was bad, OK? Our wars are bad too, OK? I give you facts and you throw verbal bombs unsupported by facts.

Please come back when you can collect your thoughts. – Jeff Harding) (Editor’s Note: I don’t really have

anything to add here. With that said, I don’t recall Jeff ever having come out in support of the bailout or any war; I have certainly supported neither. And what’s with all the exclamatory questions?! – MSM)

Open letter to Harry Hagen, Santa Barbara County Public Administrator, Tax Collector, Public Guardian Dear Mr. Hagen, your office has conservatorship of my father, and I expected better of you.

You seemed like a nice person when I first met you. Then, because I took my father to a doctor to get a second opinion, your office reprimanded me, and told me I wasn’t allowed to take him out anymore.

Your office told me that I had been forbidden to take my dad to the doctor, and because I did, I wasn’t to be trusted.

This simply isn’t true. Maybe you’re forgetting but you told me yourself it was okay for me to do this. One of your case workers even agreed to take him to the doctor when I was out of town, but my dad wasn’t taken to that appointment.

So I took him to the doctor when I got back. Is this some kind of entrapment?

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But for one day, that will all change.

I’ve been working with our picturesque botanical garden to create a unique festival that will capture the local ambiance. While I do love to write (and talk) about beer, my specialty is in abstract beer pairings.

Over the years, I have designed events that match beer with music, movies and even different atmospheres.

I first visited SBBG several years back and immediately fell in love with the place and began dreaming of a festival where specific beers could be paired with each section of the garden. Last year I was given a chance by the Hutton Parker Foundation to test this idea at a smaller private event.

The boutique beer festival was a huge success and the SBBG and I are now turning this into a bi-annual event, called the Santa Barbara ^Beer Garden. Twice a year, guests will get to experience the gardens with a beer glass in hand. Each time I will pair beers with the different sights and moods of the Botanic Garden’s many sections. The booth locations and specific pairings will change each time, reflecting the current season. This will create an evolving festival where the drinker will never have the same experience twice.

Sounds fun, right?

I agree.

First Annual ^Beer Garden

The first Santa Barbara ^Beer Garden will be held on Saturday, February 22, from 1 – 5pm. Attendees will be given a map with the booth locations and brief tasting notes for each pairing. Certainly guests are free to create their own routes through the gardens, but there is a specific order that I have designed into the layout of the pairings. For those interested in learning more about the gardens, there will be a tour led by Botanic Garden Executive Director Steve Windhager and myself along the suggested path. Steve will give guests background information on each section of the garden; I will be there to talk about the beers and the inspiration behind each pairing.

Pure Order and Blaksley Boulder The tour will leave from Blaksley Boulder, located near the festival entrance.

Participants will be welcomed by Santa Barbara’s newest brewery, Pure Order Brewing Co., which will be stationed at the bottom of the meadow section, next to the monumental Blaksley Boulder.

The meadows have been going through an extensive renovation, and right now the area is full of sprouting wildflowers and grasses. The juxtaposition of this ancient boulder with the baby shoots spotting the meadow provides the right setting to taste beer from this fledgling brewery. Pure Order is just beginning its ascent into the beer world and, much like the Blaksley Boulder, over time it will

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become a permanent fixture in the scenery of Santa Barbara.

Pure Order founders, cousins James and David Burge, will be pouring their Crooked Neck Hefeweizen, named after the Santa Barbara Zoo’s beloved giraffe, Gemina. This will be the first time that any of Pure Order’s beer will be available to the public, and I have only tasted a test batch of the hefeweizen. It had a medium malt sweetness with a bready background.

The nose had a full, banana theme with just a smack of bubblegum. This light but nourishing beer will surely prepare guests for the adventure ahead.

Surf Brewery and the Meadow View With hefeweizens in hand, the tour will walk through the Meadow Section.

Near the top lies a small flight of stairs.

Guests who climb them will discover Surf Brewery pouring its newly released Imperial Red Ale. Once glasses are filled, festival-goers will turn around and gaze upon the enchanting Meadow View.

Looking past the gardens, one sees gray patches of city interspersed between green splashes of trees and the rich blue of the ocean. Off in the violet horizon, the outline of the Channel Islands looms in the background. Despite the beer’s robust 7.8% ABV, the flavor has a briskness to it that fits this breathtaking view. The Imperial Red Ale has a malty emphasis and is brewed with American mosaic hops to give it a diverse tropical, floral and fruity aroma that complement this palm tree-accented view of the American Riviera.

Santa Barbara Brewing Co. and the Redwood Section The Meadow View exits back onto the main pathway, where the tour will continue down into the canyon area. At the bottom of the road lies the entrance to the Redwood Section. Wild ginger and sorrel decorate the trail through this miniforest of coastal redwoods that dates back to the 1930s.

In the middle of the redwood grove, Santa Barbara Brewing Co. will be pouring its King Saaz. The beer will be served in a special, kellerbier form. This means that the beer is taken directly from the lagering tank, leaving an unfiltered,

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hazy brew. Kellerbiers have more yeast and protein in the liquid, giving the beer a heartier body and flavor. This additional sturdiness will help the beer stand up against the iconic wooden monoliths that surround it. Bird song and the babble of water coming from the Mission Dam complement the bursting floral tones that rise from this aromatic, imperial pilsner. The beer’s crisp flavors and golden color emphasize the splotches of sunlight and cool ambiance of this section.

The Beer Garden Soundtrack As the tour makes its way to the Redwood Section, a gentle tune bubbling out of the canyon will reach people’s ears.

This music will get louder and louder as nature enthusiasts-cum-beer aficionados continue down the path into the cool, shadowy depths of the Redwood Section. At the area’s entrance, visitors will be greeted by Waters Risin’, a Ventura-based, three-piece acoustic band consisting of an upright bass, accordion and a guitar.

Waters Risin’ will be playing two sets during the festival, each one paired with the location in which they will be played. The first set will be performed in the Redwood Section and is designed to capture the contrasting setting of these monstrous trees, sunken into the depths of the canyon.

The second set will be played near the end of the festival in the Meadow Section.

The Surf Imperial Red and Meadow View pairing will reach a high as the beer’s burgundy colors blend with the fiery hues of the setting sun. During this time, the band will relocate to the Meadow Section and provide a melodic grand finale to the evening.

And if these pairings have not whet your appetite enough, then don’t worry, there will be five more beer pairings from such local favorites as Telegraph Brewery, The Brewhouse, Island Brewing Co. and The Dudes Brewery from Los Angeles. Tickets to the festival are extremely limited, so make sure to reserve your place now.

The Santa Barbara ^Beer Garden will display beers that exhibit the flavors of our community in a climate that is uniquely Santa Barbara. Do not miss it.

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by Jeremy Harbin

Want to be a part of Fifteen Days A Week?

Space is limited, but if you have an event, exhibit, performance, book signing, sale, opening, trunk show or anything else interesting or creative that readers can attend, let us know at 805-845-1673 or email us at tim@santabarbarasentinel.com. We’ll consider all suggestions, but we will give extra consideration to unusual events and/or items, especially those accompanied by a good visual, particularly those that have yet to be published.

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period at the end let you know we mean that it’s really, really good.) Check out p. 20 to see what artist Dan Levin and our In the Zone columnist thought (spoiler: they liked it).

January 25

Tuesday

A Shitake-load of Mushrooms

Head to Los Alamos today for the Mushroom Festival – if you’re up for the trip (pun very much intended). Now in its eighth year, the festival serves as a meeting place for those interested in all things mushroom and, of course, wine. Fungus fare will s’pour out of the kitchen all afternoon, and experts in the field will be on hand to share their knowledge. It all happens at the Bedford Winery Tasting Room (448 Bell Street) starting at 2pm. It costs $45 a person.

Call 805.344.2107 or email tastingroom@ bedfordwinery.com to make reservations.

January 28

Ax & Ye Shall Receive

We’ve got the perfect event this evening for all you axmen and axwomen out there. It’s down in Santa Barbara’s funkiest zone, the Funk Zone, at Guitar Bar (137 Anacapa Street). The designer and owner of Teye Guitars, the mononymous Teye, will lead a clinic with co-owner Evert Wilbrink. The topic: Tonality. There will be time for a Q&A and a jam sesh. It all starts at 7:30pm. Guitar Bar is the only retail store in the state selling Teye’s handcrafted guitars.

Wednesday January 29

Sunday

Arts Fun

You missed the opening reception, but that’s okay; The Carbon Paintings, an exhibit featuring the work of Richard Aber, is on display until February 15. It’s at the Arts Fund Gallery (205C Santa Barbara Street), the exterior of which recently got a new paint job that’s a work of art by itself. So make a Funk Zone night of it: Go check out the Gallery, then get some dinner and a cocktail from Seven Bar and Kitchen (224 Helena Avenue), just a couple blocks away. The Arts Fund Gallery is open from 1 to 5pm today.

January 26

Verdi, Verdi Good

Any symphony or opera fan worth their salt knows that the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Giuseppe Verdi is coming up. So celebrate the most important birthday of the year (Christmas and MLK Day not included) by attending The Life of Verdi today at the Granada Theatre (1214 State Street). Maestro Nir Kabaretti will lead some guest soloists, the Santa Barbara Symphony and the Santa Barbara Choral Society in a tour through some of Verdi’s greatest works. Today’s matinee is at 3pm. An evening performance was staged yesterday at 8pm. For tickets, go to www. thesymphony.org.

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Fourth Monday

For Fourth Monday today – as we do every fourth Monday of the month – find a restaurant that’s open on Mondays and go eat. This month, we’re eating at Mony’s Mexican Food and Taqueria (217 East Anacapa Street). We’ve taken a couple of lunch breaks there already, and can’t get enough of that fish taco. Also: Peanut Salsa. (Just the words by themselves like that, the bolding and the

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Many of us Santa Barbarans came here by way of Los Angeles. We would miss the City of Angels sometimes, but we get our fill of all things L.A. right here in town: For great food, we go downtown. For celebrities, we hang around Butterfly Beach. For traffic, we drive to Carpinteria and back around 5pm. But once a year, SB fills with movie magic during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which transports us right to the heart of Hollywood. Tonight is opening night, and the fest kicks off with a screening of Mission Blue, a documentary about oceanographer Sylvia Earle, at the Arlington Theatre (1317 State Street). After, there will be a gala at Paseo Nuevo downtown, where there will be food, drinks, dancing and the kind of schmoozing usually seen only in L.A. Head over to sbiff.org for all kinds of information and tickets.

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All of us here in the Sentinel’s Department of Calendaring recently called the Pickle Room cocktail lounge to see what time they open, but accidentally called Three Pickles, the sandwich shop next door. The person on the other end of the line laughed, and then we hung up as quickly as possible.

Very embarrassing. We now wince in remembrance of this serious social gaff every time we see a pickle. We’re going to try to overcome our newest fear by going to the Pickle Room (126 East Canon Perdido Street) tonight for Chinese New Year. There will be an opening reception from 4:30 to 7:30pm for artists who have submitted works inspired by Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens, the Chinese restaurant that used to take up the space where the Pickle Room now serves vintage beverages. Call the Pickle Room at 805.965.1015.

Saturday February 1

Get Yer Griffin

Are you ready to laugh, Santa Barbara? Are you prepared to bust a gut? Do you enjoy finding things funny? Do you like humor? No? Okay, well then that really throws a wrench in the works here. Boy, we really weren’t expecting you to respond negatively to those questions. Still, you should probably check out Kathy Griffin at the Granada Theatre (1214 State Street) tonight at 8pm.

Ms. Griffin is a polarizing talent, but she’s been great in plenty of entertainments: the underrated Dilbert cartoon, Seinfeld, Whitney, American Dad, Suddenly Susan and even, as our detailed internet research turned up, Pulp Fiction. We suspect a stand-up set from this credentialed professional will be somewhere between very funny and hilarious. (But, then again, it could be totally phoned in. Only one way to find out.) Get your tickets starting at $33 by going to granadasb. org or by calling the box office at 805.899.2222.

Sunday February 2

True Relaxation

It’s Sunday, a day for relaxing. We’re about halfway through an action-packed 15-day week, so you have our permission to take it easy. After you catch up on True Detective, a.k.a. the best show we’ve ever seen (lots of theories already being circulated around the Sentinel water cooler à la Lost – makes us feel young again), in preparation for tonight’s Episode Three, get out and stretch your legs a little bit. Walk around your neighborhood. Grab a bite at the restaurant you don’t frequent quite enough. Get a gift for someone at the store that sells gifts.

Depending on where you live, you might not be able to do that. Heck, maybe you can’t even watch True Detective tonight. If that’s the case, get HBO now and, also, move. Yes, call your cable provider while packing your things. You’ll thank us later.

Monday February 3

Big Top Adventure

We took a poll around the office: Nobody recalls the circus as being very much fun. The big top event from our collective childhood is one where scary clowns roam around and weird carney types do underwhelming tricks on decrepit equipment – the overall effect being more depressing than exciting. But this circus will be different. It’s put on by a troupe from Montreal called Cirque Éloize (pronounced Seer-kwee Eel-oheyez) and the show is Cirkopolis.

So at 8pm tonight, make up for your attendance to the low-rent carnivals that used to come through town by checking out the theatrical acrobatics on display at the Granada Theatre (1214 State Street). If you’re on the fence, Perez Hilton said that this show is a “must-see.” For tickets and more information, call 805.893.3535 or go to www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

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February 4

Today is a good day to take advantage of this ten-day event called Shop Where Your Heart Is… Carpinteria. (You might be thinking, “Eh… my heart’s more in Santa Barbara/Goleta/the Valley, etc.,” but it’s just the name so don’t focus too much on that part.) So what is this event, exactly? Oh boy, we wish we knew. We see confusing press releases here every day, but this one is over the top. From what we can tell, over 20 businesses in Carpinteria are participating in a promotion wherein participants collect stamps through purchases and scavenger hunting to enter into a raffle. Pick up a map at one of the participating businesses (like Crazy Good Bread, Nutbelly Pizzeria or Whimsy Antiques) that will give you clues where to shop and find hearts, which entitle you to extra stamps or raffle tickets or something. The best thing to do is to just go to Carp today, shop around for your valentine and hope you somehow win a gift basket.

Wednesday February 5

Alotta Granada

Here’s yet another reason to go to the Granada Theatre (1214 State Street) this fifteen-day week: UCSB’s Arts & Lectures’ presentation of Giselle, the ballet classic featuring prima ballerina Gillian Murphy. This will be the Santa Barbara debut of the Royal New Zealand Ballet. It starts at 8pm; tickets start at $40 ($25 to UCSB students). Go to www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu or call 805.893.3535 for more information and tickets.

Thursday February 6

First Thursday

It’s here again: Everyone’s favorite first, First Thursday, or Fursday, as it has famously been dubbed in this column. If you’re still mapping out your route around downtown SB and figuring out which galleries you want to hit, consider Sullivan Goss (7 East Anapamu Street). Their current exhibition is called Santa Barbara Old School, and it features work by the founders of the Santa Barbara Fine Art Center. Tonight’s reception goes from 5 to 8pm.

Make You Blush

We all like to enjoy an evening at Blush (630 State Street) from time to time. That cozy inside, the fireplaces out, the delicious menu… it’s all enough to make you, well, want to go back. So go back tonight from 5 to 8pm to celebrate Wear Red Day. For $15, you’ll get a red wine tasting and some chocolate and raspberry mousse. The best part is that a portion of the event proceeds will benefit the American Heart Association. There will also be live music. Be sure to dress in red for the occasion. See the restaurant’s website at www.blushsb.com.

Friday February 7 First Friday

“First Friday” is what Carpinteria calls the first Friday of each month. It’s not a bad title – nice alliteration – but we can’t help think that they just took SB’s First Thursday and changed it by one day. Questions of originality aside, this month’s event includes a Sock Hop and Art Reception at the Curious Cup Bookstore (5285 Carpinteria Avenue). So don your 1950s garb and get ready to eat some Georgia’s Smokehouse BBQ (traditional sock hop fare). There will also be an art reception for Ruby Gloger, an eight-year-old with a unique perspective on the world. It’s all free (except for the food) and open to the public.

Saturday February 8 Good Theater

If you haven’t yet seen the New Vic theater (33 West Victoria Street), then here’s your chance to do that while also seeing a play by the Ensemble Theatre Company. Tonight is officially opening night, despite the production of Good People having gone up the past two nights.

We don’t really know how theater works – we got our performance degrees online – but assume that’s normal. This is the second show in Ensemble’s season, and it’s about characters from two economically disparate neighborhoods. It was a big hit on Broadway – which, according to the professor that taught theater classes at our alma mater, is a street in New York. It all happens at 8pm tonight. Call 805.965.5400 to get your tickets, but be forewarned they only take Visa or Mastercard (major bummer for those of us trying to collect Starwood points). Tickets start at $40. As always, you might be able to get them cheaper if you’re a student or a senior.

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Hope Floats: Pilot Program For Chronically Homeless Gets Underway On Milpas

by Sharon Byrne

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ver the past year and a half, a significant transformation has taken place on Milpas. From a neighborhood struggling with crime, suffering from urban decay and feeling unheard at City Hall, it’s become a community where businesses, residents, non-profits, schools and police are all working together and discovering that there is something special here. It’s now a place we can be proud of.

However, we have a few individuals in the area who continue to cause problems and generate significant police calls. They typically aren’t associated with any shelter or facility. They’ve often been banned for repeat poor behavior. They refuse services and offers of assistance. These are longterm, chronically homeless.

The dramatic reduction of homeless individuals in the Milpas corridor over the past year had an interesting effect: The chronically homeless moved from background to prominent foreground.

They are increasingly visible and we know them by name, after having to repeatedly deal with the problems they cause.

Early last year, I began meeting with Jeff Shaffer, one of the new leaders of the Central Coast Collaborative on Homelessness, or C3H. I saw C3H’s early formation. The idea was to start coordinating services for the homeless countywide, and the job of coordinator would be tough. You have no direct authority, other than local government support to go this way. My hopes were not high, and it felt like it might be the usual gathering of various service providers and homeless activists, trotted

out in new-and-improved form. Would they suddenly now have solutions? I had also grown weary of the continual unveiling of the latest magic bullet to solve homelessness over the years. First it was to build more shelters. Then came the U.S. homeless czar and the 10-year plan to end homelessness for every jurisdiction. Ours read like a plan to have more meetings, with no real goals or real deliverables. Next it was 100k homes and the Common Ground count. Now, C3H was stepping up to solve homelessness for Santa Barbara County.

I was leery but hoping for the best.

Talk Isn’t Cheap

Meeting with Jeff started as friendly conversations on the kind of initiative we could put together, involving the business community on Milpas, to deal with chronically homeless who were high generators of police and fire calls for medical emergencies. These are the toughest cases, requiring repeated effort, and setbacks are frequent. After checking each other for philosophical alignment, we realized we were results-driven individuals, admittedly from different backgrounds but with similar aims. Jeff was able to see past the popular perception of me as a homeless-hater. I thought we needed to be effective with services provided and work to end homelessness. The current direction felt like we were securing evermore rights for the homeless to remain homeless.

Jeff recognized there was a potential

opening here to bring a partner to the table on working to end homelessness that had not previously been included: the business community. So he took the shot.

I quickly recognized here was someone who knew where the holes were in the present system, and who was dedicated to ending homelessness, rather than perpetuating an industry around it. And Jeff had witnessed something we had not made public: A few of us working on Milpas had actively engaged in outreach, trying to understand the reason some of these people were on our streets, and then worked to help them out of homelessness. We achieved some results, largely by taking on the role of extended family members in encouraging them into services and then trying to help them navigate through that system.

We fell into some holes but found the Restorative Police to be a tremendous resource, as they knew where all the holes were and were quite adept at maneuvering past them.

Jeff realized there was something to the businessperson’s typical results-oriented stance. Business people solve problems, on a deadline, within a budget. They want to see results. That kind of drive might prove very useful in a targeted outreach effort.

So over time, and a few more meetings, Jeff pulled the philosophy of working with the most chronically homeless out of the stratosphere and down to earth, into a narrowly scoped pilot program for Milpas: Work with police and the Milpas businesses to identify the top five repeat offenders who cause the most issues, and move them into a more stable, sustainable living situation. Pull in the service providers, get them to move in one coordinated direction, secure housing units and work as a team with the business community to make this happen.

The businesses wanted something even more specific: Move these five individuals out of homelessness in six months or less.

That’s measurable.

The group was realistic. These are adults, with free will. Today they might agree to a program. Tomorrow they change their mind. They might commit, during a heartfelt outreach session, to getting sober overnight so as to get into a program. Five minutes later, they go into the nearest liquor store. They might get sober and fall off the wagon a month later. They may tell us to go to hell when we approach.

Often. Loudly.

This won’t be easy.

Sharon Byrne

Sharon Byrne is executive director for the Milpas Community Association, and currently serves on the Advisory Boards for the Salvation Army Hospitality House and Santa Barbara County Alcohol and Drug Problems.

sbview.com Reaching Out And Beyond It felt somewhat surreal to be at a table with homeless activists and outreach specialists, listening to typical approaches used in reaching out to the homeless. We understood the need for confidentiality but found it odd, given we knew the offenders first-hand from repeat interaction with them. Our tactics probably upset the services team. We’d take pictures of offenses, make citizens’ arrests and stated in no uncertain terms that we don’t tolerate drinking in public, using drugs on our corners, defecating and urinating on our community, passing out in our doorways or camping in our area. We’d taken on the role of the annoying, pestering relative: You need to live a better life than this; this is unhealthy for you and for us.

The service providers’ initial reaction was one of shocked surprise, but they then surprised us, too, in moving quickly to cooperation. They have the services and outreach workers, but we provided that business “shove” – don’t just be friendly, caring and compassionate in your outreach. Make a connection you can leverage. Don’t take no for an answer, and hit the deadline. Achieve results.

Jeff would smile mirthfully in these sessions. He knew both groups well and recognized there would be some inherent friction in mixing them. They’re not used to working together and sometimes don’t even understand each other because they’re living in different worlds. But Jeff had long recognized that businesspeople and residents are affected by homelessness and should be at the table. Jeff had the wisdom to see there was opportunity for cross-learning here between the businesses and the groups providing services and help for the homeless. He thinks, and I agree, that ultimately this is how homelessness is solved – a crosssector comes together to solve it, even at the pace of one at a time, or in our case, five at a time.

If we are able to get these five worst offenders off Milpas, we’ll be significantly reducing police, fire and ambulance services to the area. Read Million Dollar Murray by Malcolm Gladwell to understand the impacts these individuals can cause to a community.

Because it’s a pilot, we’re keeping expectations low. The Milpas team wants to see reductions in homelessness in our community that are measurable. This is

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what C3H wants too, across our county, but by starting small, we’ll learn things.

We’ll be able to see if we were successful and perhaps repeat any successes we may obtain. Ninety percent of the partners in outreach services are willing to be coordinated in this effort, which is already progress.

However it turns out during the next six months, it won’t be a magic bullet but rather a small step forward.

That’s the hope.

Porta-Potty Privacy

by Loretta Redd

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’m wrestling with whether the elimination of our privacy regarding “personal” information is an accepted fact of life in this age of access we have created, or whether its impact remains worthy of protest.

On January 17, President Obama began his major policy speech on data collection and the NSA, not with an apology to the citizens of this nation but rather effusive praise to the spy community. With cyber-theft becoming a worldwide phenomena and our own government collecting metadata on its citizens, there’s really little expectation of privacy anywhere.

We have far surpassed the intrusiveness and historical intrigue perpetuated by the likes of J. Edgar Hoover or the Nixon Watergate scandals; our methods of spying today make the novels of John le Carré or Ian Fleming seem ridiculously antiquated.

But what about our everyday lives... those little things we can still do to counter the giant sucking sound of privacy from our society? It isn’t easy, because we have inextricably linked the digital age with supposed convenience, even though it has cost us dearly in privacy, money, jobs and patience.

For all of the online ease of having my great niece choose Target for her

Loretta Redd’s diverse background includes being a psychologist, business owner, non-profit director, Air Force officer, writer, speaker, and executive coach. Loretta has served on several Santa Barbara city committees and has been a candidate for public office.

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wedding registry, I am now one of those Target “guests” whose Social Security, passwords, user ID and financial account information have been “compromised.”

Quoting from his letter, here are the three “tips” offered to those of us who were digitally screwed because Target’s Chairman, President and CEO, Gregg Steinhafel, didn’t invest sufficient capital in his company’s online security and firewall protection: • “Never share information with anyone over the phone, email or text, even if they claim to be someone you know or do business with. Instead, ask for a callback number.

• Delete texts immediately from numbers or names you don’t recognize.

• Be wary of emails that ask for money or send you to suspicious websites.

Don’t click links within emails you don’t recognize.”

But Mr. Steinhafel, at this point, shouldn’t I consider Target among the very most suspicious websites? And, by the way, thanks for the offer of the “free” credit monitoring, but my greater concern is day-to-day corruption of financial information, not the credit score dropping like a rock after the fact.

Besides, there are already plenty of free online credit score services available.

Fortunately, I do not bank online and don’t use a debit card, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a myriad of other ways to acquire financial information stored, transferred or received about me (or you)

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every day. One person’s privacy is another person’s suppression to access.

Who needs to steal information, when we give it away so willingly?

My COX Communication’s Annual Customer Notice-2014 just arrived with my monthly statement. Tucked away in the seven pages of 2-pt. font sized legal jargon is a statement designed to assuage your privacy fears, unless you read it carefully... “...COX does not sell your CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) information, and your CPNI will not be disclosed to third parties outside of Cox and our affiliates, agents, joint venture partners and independent contractors, except as required by law or detailed here.”

Did they leave anyone out?

Under “Personal Information,’ they state, “We consider Your Information confidential, and use it only in providing the services we or our partners offer for such things as sales, installation, training, operations, administration, advertising, marketing, support, development of new services, network management, maintenance, customer care, communications with you, and billing and collection. We may combine Your Information with demographic and other information for purposes consistent with this Policy.”

Pretty much covers everything but

porta-potties, don’t you think?

Truth is, there are no effective privacy laws because neither industry nor government wants to live by them.

Congress has passed some legislation to protect certain groups or situations, but it is narrow in scope. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act prevents the online targeting of children under the age of 13; the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) requires notice of medical information sharing practices; the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Modernization Act of 1999 is woefully inadequate in limiting access to financial institutions.

Back in 2006, MSNBC correspondent Bob Sullivan noted, “Privacy is like health. When you have it, you don’t notice. When it’s gone, you wish you’d done more to protect it.”

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was a Farmers Market going and it was bustling and fun. It hit me right away: This is our place. These are our customers. It was exactly what we were looking for.” Kelly paused and looked around the room, still filled with happy customers, nostalgic.

“And we took it.”

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Kelly knew of these terrific tide pools that he seemed to enjoy as much as my kids did.

(Just another treacherous winter day, by the way.)

(Thanks guys, big favor.)

We practically live in the damned place.

“I’ve been in the restaurant business for forty years,” Kelly laughed in-between bites of his Good Karma Burger in a comfortable booth at the Natty on State. (I still call the place the Natty.

Doesn’t everybody?) The restaurant is full, bustling and lively with a conversational din marked by occasional fits of laughter and excitement. The clientele spans all ages and backgrounds; there’re suits and hippies and uptights and chillers, men and women, students and professionals.

All reasonably healthy. All eating well. All enjoying quality food and a fresh Carrot Juice, maybe, or a SB Special smoothie, perhaps. There’s casual music, nothing I can put my finger on. Landscaped canvases adorn the walls, undoubtedly the work of a local artist. Fans turn lazily above us.

I’m in Santa Barbara, there’s no doubt about it.

“I started washing dishes at the Rusty Pelican in Newport Beach,” Kelly continued. “Worked my way through school at UC Irvine – I never finished, though, even after five years; I was having way too much fun for that – and ultimately worked quality front-of-thehouse jobs on Maui and Kauai, in Park City, Sun Valley, Steamboat.”

He stopped.

“How’s your sandwich?” There’s that hospitable nature I saw out in the water

again. Kelly’s a consummate restaurateur, a real pro.

“Oh, ah, it was delicious.” I hadn’t realized how hard I’d been fricking hammering my Albacore Melt – I just can’t get enough of those damned sandwiches – while he was talking. “So, then, how did you get to Santa Barbara?” I mumbled before diving into my blue corn chips and salsa.

“I’d done some time at City College earlier, lived on the Mesa. I always knew I wanted to make it back, so I did. In fact, I bought a boat and lived on it in the Harbor, rode my bike to work, had a blast living a very Santa Barbara lifestyle back in the late eighties and early nineties.”

Kelly had been working at the Moby Dick and Andria’s Harborside – he was in management at this point, having taken a related training program through an earlier gig – and also at the old Main Squeeze. But he was always looking for a spot to own his own place, one with simple, healthy food that really fit with an active, outdoorsy lifestyle. Soon enough, he hooked up with a potential investor who shared his vision.

“I won’t ever forget it,” Kelly started. “It was a Tuesday and we came to look at this space – 508 State Street. The parking lot out back was totally full; I told my investor that I thought that might be a bad sign, we needed parking. He disagreed, for perhaps obvious reasons. Then we walked through the space and out onto State Street. There Back by popular demand! 4X4 in the Funk Zone at Corks n’ Crowns.

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Kelly and his partner invested just over $100,000 in start-up capital to get the doors open. “We worked day and night, building tables ourselves from old repurposed oak from a friend’s warehouse, figuring it out as we went. It was easier back then, there wasn’t so much bureaucracy and regulation, a totally different world.”

He’d been grinding seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, and planned to open on Friday, May 7, 1993. On Monday of that week, Kelly was still writing and naming menu items, testing recipes, figuring it all out. He had to make a key food order from a specialty distributor by Tuesday to ensure he’d have everything needed to open on Friday.

And he forgot to make the order.

“There was just so much happening that I guess it slipped my mind,” Kelly was still laughing and smiling. “When Friday rolled around, we had enough supplies to do about half the menu. I knew we weren’t ready, but I opened the doors that Friday evening anyway and we served free food to anybody who came in.

We did around seventy-five dinners and blew a few things, but it was free so it all worked out. And it was great practice for everybody, myself included.”

It was such great practice, in fact, that Kelly did the same thing on Saturday, serving around 125 free meals after prepping all day. “Things went smoother that second day.” More laughter.

By Monday, word had gotten out that a new place in the 500 block of State was serving terrific healthy food.

And it was free.

“We had a line down the block before we opened for lunch on Monday. And the truth is that we never looked back.”

The restaurant’s popularity grew quickly, and Kelly vividly recalled some of the busiest few months of his life. “I was on the floor, in the kitchen, wherever I could help the team. It was one crazy summer.”

That “team” concept came up again and again as Kelly and I talked. “I’m lucky to have such great people all around me

in our restaurants,” he gushed about his staff. “I mean, I have kids working here whose parents worked here all those years ago. It sounds cliché, man, but it’s a family. I guess that’s what I’m most proud of. Some of the guys in the kitchen have been putting out great food since the very beginning. The business has succeeded because of the wonderful, caring people that have helped it along.”

“We’re good because they’re good.”

It’s a powerful thing, hearing a guy reflect back on his company’s success and giving credit all over the place – all without really mentioning himself. But the truth is clear if you spend any time with Kelly: He’s a big part of the business, a huge personality, and it is surely just as much his own dedication and drive that built the business as it is the quality folks around him.

Even if he won’t tell you that.

Happy Customers, All Over the Place

That first Natty Café spawned a second, of course, and the Goleta location opened in August 1999; then came Hitchcock in July 2000. Westlake Village, San Luis Obispo, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Newbury Park and Santa Maria followed too. New Baja Grill, a different concept, opened in the Camino Real Marketplace in June 1999; the first Kahuna Grill opened nearby in 2002. Another Kahuna opened, this one in Paseo Nuevo, in 2006.

(Anecdotally, there was also Café Blu next door to the State Street Natural Café, but that didn’t work out. “We had a chance to do something with the space,” Kelly explained, “and I thought, ‘Well, there’s no coffee on the 500 block, so let’s give that a try.’ But there’s no coffee on the 500 block for a reason: The only people down this far on State in the morning are pushing shopping carts. It didn’t work from the word go, so we closed it and leased the space to Pressed Juicery, which has been a great relationship with lots of synergy.”)

I’m tired just writing about all of that.

“So, how do you keep it all straight,” I queried, “that’s a hell of a lot of responsibility.” Our meals were gone but I was still way into the story; it’s fascinating and there’s much more to it than I have ...continued p.24

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Wave-riding Dolphins Highlight Rincon Classic Weekend

by John Dvorak

great joy of the crowd and could be seen silhouetted inside a wave.

Surfer Abby Brown caught the wave and dropped in alongside her fellow wave riders, taking off as the dolphins swam by just beneath her.

Video footage of the wave was picked up by national and international news outlets and can be found on YouTube. com.

Sports Volunteer Of The Month: Christie Cooney, Lou Panizzon

by John Dvorak

Local surfer Abby Brown shares a wave with a pair of dolphins on Sunday during the Rincon Classic surfing contest. (Photo credit: John Dvorak/Presidio Sports Photos)

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he 2014 Rincon Classic may very well go down in history as The Year of the Dolphin.

Goofy-footer Kellen Ellison topped a star-studded final heat with Kilian Garland, Dane Reynolds and Cory Arrambide to win the Pro Division title and Demi Boelsterli won her 10th women’s championship on Sunday.

But it was a group of wave-riding dolphins that entered the lineup during the women’s final that will be the iconic memory for most.

With hundreds of spectators on the beach, the pod of at least a dozen dolphins came right into the contest area to the

Demi Boelsterli during Sunday’s Rincon Classic.

Lou Panizzon coached five teams to CIF championships at Carpinteria High School. His daughter, Christie, is now looking to provide the Warriors with an even bigger prize: an endowment for the athletics department.

With a goal to raise $100,000, the endowment is meant to be the gift that keeps on giving for the school’s 100th birthday, a gift that will serve Warrior athletes for another 100 years.

“My mom and dad went to Carpinteria High School, I went there, my kids will go there,” Christie Cooney said, professing a deep-rooted connection to the school.

Many of the bonds that form that connection were established because of athletics. Her father coached some of the most fabled Warriors teams ever, including the undefeated 1987 CIF football champions.

“That was by far my favorite team,” Cooney said. “It was an amazing season and I can remember all of the games.”

Christie, who worked in the sports information department while a student at Cal, got her start taking stats for her dad’s teams. She was in charge of stats for the 1987 team and many others, including 10 years at the Russell Cup. As an adult, she sees how athletics played a positive role for her growing up.

“So I hope my kids get to have an experience like that,” she said.

Family legacies are important at Carpinteria High, and a reason why the community has supported many fundraising projects in the past.

“Everybody’s asking for money all the time and our little town seems to come through. I mean, they definitely raise money for a worthy cause,” Panizzon said.

Lou Panizzon raises money for Carpinteria High School the same way he won CIF Championships. With commitment, hard work, and community.

He led the effort that raised $1.25 million to build Carpinteria Valley Memorial Stadium and credits much of the support to the 182 alumni who donated to that project.

This project is for the future alums.

Establishing an endowment for athletics is important because – as is the case at all public high schools in California – costs for athletics have increased while funding has decreased.

Cooney, a booster club board member

Christie Cooney with Lou Panizzon. The father-daughter team is helping raise $100,000 to create an endowment for Carpinteria High School’s athletic department. (John Dvorak/Presidio Sports Photos)

who is married to athletic director Pat Cooney, came up with the idea to do something special for the high school’s centennial. The four-year fundraising campaign began in November at the Warriors’ 2013 Athletics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, and the initial response was positive.

“It was a great turnout. We filled the room. Every table was full and people were still showing up that night,” Cooney said.

Panizzon, in the Warrior Hall of Fame already, gave a speech themed “Who We Are,” which made the case for how important Carpinteria High School athletics is to the fabric of Carpinteria. It must have been a strong pitch because the “Centennial Fund” was able to bring in $20,000.

Now the campaign team is looking to get back to its mission after taking a break over the holidays.

“We don’t give up, so it’s not like we just did this initial thing and then stopped.

We’re going to see this through,” Cooney explained. “We have four years to do it and hopefully we accomplish it before then.”

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To the Maxxx: Morrison’s Channel Swim Featured in SBIFF Film

by Barry Punzal

T

here were many times Evan Morrison could have drowned while attempting to swim across the Santa Barbara Channel from Santa Cruz Island to the mainland.

On a black night in September 2012, Morrison, an experienced marathon swimmer, battled Neptune’s washing machine – stronger-than-forecasted winds and heavy chop – to complete a harrowing

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Morrison, a Dos Pueblos High alum, is one of the featured swimmers in the documentary, Driven: A Glimpse Inside the World of Marathon Swimming, which will be shown at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF).

The film, part of the festival’s To the Maxxx series of sports-oriented projects, delves into the mindset and the swims of Morrison, 13-year-old Fiona Goh and single mom Cherie Edborg.

The film will make its world premiere on Tuesday, February 4, at 10am at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. A second showing is Friday, February 7, at 7pm, at the museum.

The SBIFF runs January 30 through February 9. The other films in the To the Maxxx series include: • A Life Outside, a story about six surfing pioneers on the Jersey Shore. (Saturday, February 1, 11am at the Metro; Monday, February 3, 2pm, at the Metro) • Bella Vita, SoCal surfer Chris Del Moro’s pilgrimage to his ancestral homeland off the Italian west coast.

(Monday, February 1, 8pm, Arlington Theatre) • The Old, the Young and the Sea, a road trip through surf spots and communities along the coast of Portugal, northern Spain and France. (Saturday, February 8, 4:20pm, Metro; Sunday, February 9, 10am, Metro) Russ Spencer, the coordinator of the To the Maxxx segment of the SBIFF, said the four films show “how sports connect people with the world both inside and outside themselves. It’s about how sports spur people to engage in activities that bring out their strengths and weaknesses, and about their relationships with themselves and the people around them.”

Three of the four films have a local flavor. In addition to Morrison, Driven features a part of the Pacific Ocean area residents view and play in every day: the Santa Barbara Channel.

“The film is really interesting to locals because it’s about swimming the Santa Barbara Channel and what place the channel holds in the international marathon swimming world – which is an essential place. It’s a place to conquer,” said Spencer.

Santa Barbara’s surfing Coffin brothers, Conner and Parker, are friends with Del Moro and ride the waves with him in Bella Vita. The Coffins are also nephews of the film’s director, Jason Baffa, and share Baffa’s Italian heritage. Bella Vita was the Audience Award Winner at the London Film Festival in October.

Local resident Shaun Tomson is one of several surfing legends that checked out the spot off the Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, and hung out with Jersey boys Greg Mesanko, Chris

Mesanko, Kevin Casey, Jim Purpuri, Richard Luthringer and Bucky Walters in A Life Outside.

“It’s just an added bonus,” Spencer said of the local people in the films.

There are no Santa Barbarans in The Old, the Young and the Sea, but some of the locales shot by Austrian filmmaker Mario Hainzl have a similar vibe to California surf spots.

“He came up with an amazing array of personalities along that coast, some of which are very much like California forty years ago,” Spencer said. “It’s interesting to see the relationship between the way people view surfing there and the way it’s viewed here, and how much the California lifestyle and surf culture has rubbed off and affected that part of the world. The film is beautifully shot. You just go along for the ride.”

One segment of the film features the ultimate ride: Garrett McNamara flying down the face of a mutant 100-foot wave at Nazaré, off the coast of Portugal.

When he thinks back to that September night trudging along in a choppy channel, Morrison said it’s the darkness that mainly comes to mind.

“Both literal and figurative,” he said in an interview from his home in San Francisco.

“It was a new moon that night, so very dark in a literal sense, which was disorienting. And, because the conditions were so bad, I got discouraged early in the swim and had to push through many thoughts of wanting to quit. So it was a dark place mentally, too.”

Morrison covered the 19 miles from San Pedro Point at Santa Cruz Island to Oxnard’s Hollywood Beach in a record 9 hours, 47 minutes, 49 seconds.

The previous mark was 10:27.

Considering the conditions he had to deal with, it’s remarkable he even finished the swim, let alone set a record.

“Honestly, the record was the furthest thing from my mind,” Morrison told Presidio Sports two days after his strengthzapping journey. “At times, it took all the effort I could muster to just put one arm in front of the other. I’m still not sure how I made it across. Just standing on dry sand at the end seemed more important than any records.”

Morrison, a graduate of Dos Pueblos High and Princeton University, jumped into the water at 12:45am and finished around 10:30am.

He said he thought about quitting constantly. “From about one hour into the swim until the sun rose,” he said. “Once there was sunlight, I felt less discouraged, and more determined to finish.

Morrison’s paddler, 2008 Olympic open-water swimmer and two-time 25k national champion Mark Warkentin, admitted he wasn’t prepared for the extreme conditions that night.

“It was a humbling admission when I eventually told Evan that I needed to go rest on the boat, and it’s a true testament

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STEP 1. Do this workout, write down your results and put them in a drawer.

STEP 2. Commit to following my workouts every week. I will post the weekly workout on my Facebook page on the Sentinel’s off weeks.

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to his determination and conditioning that he didn’t quit along with me,” said Warkentin a couple days after the swim.

“Evan had a great race under terrible conditions,” he continued.

“Everyone from the boat captain to Evan and definitely everyone in between hoped that the conditions would get just a little worse, so we’d have a good excuse to stop. Unfortunately, the conditions were just barely good enough for us to keep trudging along.”

Filmmakers Ben Pitterle and Brian Hall of Element 8 Production were on the escort boat for Morrison’s record swim.

Morrison said originally they were supposed to use a Santa Barbara Channelkeeper powerboat, but it broke

down the day of the swim.

“They had to scramble, and found a sailboat out of Santa Barbara Harbor,” he said. “The conditions were bad that night, of course, and I think it took them a good four to five hours to get over from Santa Barbara in the sailboat. But they made it in time for my swim start.”

Morrison said he doesn’t have any other big swims planned, but he’s very much involved in the sport.

“I’ve been busy starting a new global marathon swimming organization –the Marathon Swimmers Federation (www. marathonswimmers.org),” he explained.

“We just published a new globally standardized set of rules for the sport, which, surprisingly, had never been done before.”

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The Weekly Capitalist

by Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding publishes The Daily Capitalist, a blog on economics and finance. He is the president of Montecito Analytics, LLC, and is a real estate investor who lives in Montecito.

Wealth Inequality? So What.

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f there’s ever been a bogus issue, it’s wealth inequality. We’ve been hearing a lot about it in the news and on social media. Talking heads ask, “What are we going to do about it?” In terms of solutions, pretty much all Progressives have to offer is tax the rich and redistribute the wealth “more equally” or “more equitably.” Paul Krugman recently said, “… rising inequality becomes by far the most important single factor behind lagging middle-class incomes.”

He is, as usual, spectacularly wrong.

In order to understand the issue, we have to first understand what the problem is and then ask if it needs a solution. For the record, I believe that most of the outrage is based on envy, and it is an issue trumped up by politicians and their allies to increase their political power.

So what does “wealth inequality” actually mean? Obviously, there is inequality in just about everything on the planet, not just wealth. The guy across the street has a bigger house, nicer cars and more wealth. So what? He or

she is also more driven, works harder and is smarter than I am. Is that what we’re talking about?

No, say the advocates for “reform.” It’s those top ten percenters or the greedy one percenters who are the problem. They’ve got most of the wealth in this country and it is unfair. There is a YouTube video going around that points out that the top 1% own 50% of all financial assets.

Excuse me, but what does this mean?

Are these folks saying that the rich cause poverty? Are they assuming there is a fixed amount of wealth in society and that only wise technocrats can allocate it for the good of us all? Been there, done that.

And it failed.

The Rich Are Getting Richer. So What?

Wealth is created. It is created by entrepreneurs who start enterprises that succeed in the marketplace. About 80% of millionaires in America are first

generation wealthy who earned it the oldfashioned way. A good example of this is North Dakota. In a new study of states with millionaires, North Dakota jumped from 43rd to 29th of states with the most millionaires per capita.

Why? The Bakken shale energy boom.

And guess what? Its rising tide actually is “trickling down” and lifting all boats there. (Anecdotally, California has the most millionaires, but we are only no. 10 on a per capita basis. No. 1? Maryland.

(Maryland? Yeah, Maryland.) Lots of millionaires around D.C. Go figure.)

“You can’t create a growing, sustainable economy by printing money; it ultimately achieves the opposite result.”

The Progressives’ response to this is, “Hey, we’re not talking about those people, we mean the guys on top who hoard all the wealth.” They say it’s just not fair for someone to have so much, and it’s hurting the economy.

Why? That’s where they fall short. Aside from a lot of rhetoric, they can’t seem to point to how that makes people poor or how it harms the middle class. For all of Krugman’s curve-fitting Keynesian fundamentalism, he doesn’t have an intelligible answer to this. You can’t just say that because the rich are getting richer, therefore the poor are getting poorer. It just ain’t the case.

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Can we all just accept the fact that there always will be wealth inequality and, as throughout history, those at the very top will have far, far more than the average Joe or the poor? And can we all agree that until some Star Trekian future utopia, there will always be poor folks? If we can agree on this – and I think we can – then we can get to the real issues: Why are the middle classes stagnating? Why are the poor still poor?

And the corollary, Why are the rich getting richer?

These are fair questions.

Let’s start with the middle-classes.

Part of the problem is divorce and single parents, mainly single mothers. Since the 1970s, the marriage rate for women has been halved and half of singlemom parents have never married. This

social trend has created a large influx of women into the workforce, and that has skewed the data on income and wealth to the negative.

Perhaps more importantly, however, our boom-and-bust economy, which is entirely caused by the Fed, plays a major role. Its attempts to stimulate the economy result in precarious booms that collapse when the money adrenalin is withdrawn. In my working life, I have seen four major boom-bust cycles and the Fed was behind every one of them.

In recent cycles, the economy has responded with weaker growth. Right now, these destructive monetary policies are creating a drag on the economy by destroying capital and favoring the financial class, which accounts for the fact that many of our billionaires come from the financial world (i.e., the rich getting richer). You can’t create a growing, sustainable economy by printing money; it ultimately achieves the opposite result. Money printing helps Wall Street but not Main Street.

Government regulations and the uncertainties caused by threatened future regulations also serve to drag down the economy. This “regime uncertainty” makes businesses cautious about the future and they limit investments in tomorrow’s production.

Check out Obamacare and the promise of new taxes.

But even setting all of that aside and assuming you’ve ignored all I’ve said, you then need to ask: Can you actually reduce poverty by redistributing wealth?

The answer is no.

We recently noted the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. After 50 years and trillions spent on government programs to alleviate poverty, the poverty rate is only slightly lower today than it was in 1964.

One could rightly say the program failed.

That being the case, efforts at wealth redistribution funded by confiscatory taxes will similarly fail to reduce poverty.

What higher taxes will do is deter those who drive the economy by deincentivizing them. If you don’t believe that high taxes will harm an economy, ask the French.

So when I say this “wealth inequality” is a bogus issue, it’s only because it is entirely trumped up politically and can’t be “solved” by taxes or wealth redistribution. It can only be solved by policies that increase wealth for everyone.

That’s right, everyone.

That means less intervention by government and stable monetary policies by the Fed. Politicians who preach policies of wealth redistribution understand that envy is a powerful political tool, and they use it to rile their base and maintain their power. One wonders if their real goal is to equalize wealth by making us all poor.

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A Few of My Favorite (Scientific) Things

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n early January, I learned about an emerging medical field: Personalized Medicine. Initially, I was skeptical.

After all, medical help is supposed to be personalized, right? Different people respond to different treatments, different doses, different diets. So what gives?

Turns out, Personalized Medicine is more about eliminating the trial-and-error portion of medicine. Rather than trying to guess the best treatment for a patient based on her family history, a doctor can instead refer to a simple test to determine what will most effectively help the patient with the fewest side effects. Of course, to have such Personalized Medicine, we first need the technological advancements to perform the tests such in-depth health care will require.

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MEDIC Measures Medication Concentration, Silly Three of my favorite labs at UCSB have been collaborating for about four years on one such technology. Members of Dr.

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Soh’s lab in the Materials Department, Dr. Plaxco’s lab in the Department of Chemistry, and Dr. Kippin’s lab in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences recognized the need for real-time measurements of molecules circulating in the blood.

Why do we need a way to measure what is present in the blood?

The answer is that blood is our transport system. It delivers nutrients, medications and poisons to all areas of the body.

Imagine you have a disease that can only be treated by a strong medication. If you are given too much, you will experience nausea, fatigue and an increased risk of infections. If you have too little medication, the disease will not be treated.

What would be the best way to ensure you have the right dose in your system? A device that can measure the concentration of the medication.

That is exactly what UCSB’s threelab team created: A real-time, aptamerbased chip called a microfluidic electrochemical detector for in vivo continuous monitoring (or MEDIC for

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short). The aptamer is a small chunk of DNA that is designed to interact with the molecule you are interested in. Many of these aptamers are then bound to the chip, which contains gold wire. Gold wire is a great conductor of electricity. On the other end of the DNA, a molecule called methylene blue is attached. This molecule is great at transferring electrons.

When a molecule of interest passes over an aptamer, it will bind to the DNA for a brief period. The molecule will cause the DNA to change its shape. Changing the conformation brings the methylene blue closer to the gold wire. Electron exchange occurs between the two, causing an electrical current. A computer then reads the intensity of the electrical current and converts it to a measure of how much of the molecule is present in the blood stream. The higher the concentration of target molecule, the more aptamers it will be able to bind with, resulting in greater currents.

That’s a lot.

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So…What Does It All Mean?

Right now, this technology is new and has only been tested in the lab using animals. And the chip is external – meaning, a tiny amount of blood is drawn from the animal and placed over the chip every time levels of the target molecule are measured. Over the course of about four hours of continuous testing, the amount of blood taken from the animals was about 5mL, less than what a rat would donate to the rat blood bank.

The research teams hope that MEDIC will soon be available to hospitals to monitor medications, drugs or any small molecule.

Of course, measuring medication levels has huge implications for e.g., chemotherapy.

Cancer treatments are administered at high doses, so that the drug will remain in the body as long as is required to be effective. This results in severe side effects.

But if MEDIC could detect the levels of the cancer drugs in real time, then smaller doses of the medications could be given more frequently, avoiding most of the side effects while attacking the cancer cells.

These three labs are kind of a big deal.

When they published their collaborative work in November, it was on the cover of Science Translational Medicine. And despite the science-heavy explanation above, the whole thing is truly impressive and could have significant benevolent implications in the real world.

Now, that’s my kind of science.

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ast week on a Funk Zone sidewalk, Dan Levin pointed to a building once decorated with a mural that’s now painted over with a wash of pale beige. He recounted the facade’s recent history: Artist got permission from owner to paint. Artist painted. Third party took it upon itself to remove artist’s work.

“That’s the way it goes around here,” Dan said, before turning with me up a short flight of lime green steps into Mony’s Mexican Restaurant and Taqueria.

Once inside, we stood in the back of a lunch-hour line but soon ordered a dozen tacos to split between us: two veggie, two fish, two al pastor, two barbacoa,

two cabeza and two lengua. Dan eats a vegetarian diet, but not a strict one. “We have enzymes in our stomach that are made for meat,” he rationalized. “I think what I do is really the way to go: mostly clean burnin’.”

Dan, who assembles sculptural artworks from found materials, used to be a painter.

That changed in his 20s when he began to affix objects to his canvases and eventually dropped the paintbrush. “I like finding stuff on the street,” he explained. That stuff can be toy soldiers, tools, keys, barbed wire – anything he sees fit to pick up off the pavement or pull out of a dumpster.

He’ll occasionally find an item on eBay.

Dan Levin in his Funk Zone studio, a block away from Mony’s Mexican Restaurant and Taqueria.

“But for me,” he noted, “that’s almost like cheating.”

The tortilla chips at Mony’s are ideal for sharing a meal with a guy who salvages art supplies from trash

“Daily Grind” by Dan Levin

receptacles: cut small, fitting perfectly into the ramekin from the self-serve salsa bar and eliminating the need to double dip. I chose not to voice that observation as we sat together inside the modest dining room. Instead, we talked about what Dan referred to as “the grand toilet paper tour,” which has everything to do with how he came to meet his wife and nothing to do with the food we were waiting for. Mony’s cooks to order, so we had slightly more

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time to chat before lunch arrived than we might at a different taqueria.

“I was selling G.W. Bush toilet paper,” Dan told me. “It was my job for about five years.”

In 2004, he put together an anti-Bush art show, where he declared his intention to move to Australia should the President win re-election. It turned out that Dubya was not only the reason for the extended trip but the financier as well.

Dan was able to support himself driving around Australia and later Europe

with proceeds from the rolls of bathroom tissue emblazoned with the former Commander-in-Chief ’s likeness on each sheet. During the European leg of the TP tour, Dan met his wife, in Britain. They’ve been married for four years. “G.W. paper’s still selling,” Dan said. “This Christmas I sold some.”

Lunch arrived and our taco tour through several regions of Mexico began. “These are going to rock,” Dan said, pointing to the al pastor, ...continued p.33

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...continued from p.7 wanted to take my dad to the doctor out of pure concern for him. Your office has been supporting him being given dangerous antipsychotic drugs, including Seroquel, which the FDA says double the risk of death for older people with dementia, and are not approved for people of my father’s age. I have given you the Toxic Medicine pamphlet from California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (canhr.org), which shows the FDA warnings, but apparently you have decided to ignore it.

I took my father to a holistic medical doctor who was very much against these drugs being given to him, and had less toxic, natural and effective alternatives to offer. The antipsychotic drugs are doing great harm to my father, and I want them stopped. For your information, many doctors are against the use of these drugs. Are you afraid of what a second opinion might reveal, that it might be an embarrassment to your office that seems to only work with very drug-orientated doctors?

Quite frankly, I’m worried about my father’s welfare under your “protection.” You seem more obsessed with punishing me than his well-being.

My dad really perked up and had a great time when I took him on outings, but now you prohibit my taking him on any outings; I’m not even allowed to take him down the block to get ice cream, which we did so often. So now he spends most of his

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day sleeping in a little room.

Also, he can’t hear well, and despite my asking some time ago your office to provide him with a hearing aid, this hasn’t happened.

I have made it clear to you that I want to be conservator of my father, and you said you wouldn’t oppose me. In the meantime, I’m asking you to give him the best care possible, and keep him off the Seroquel. You have already spent half a million dollars of his money, and then sold our family home after the money ran out within about a five-year period. What is my father getting for all his money spent?

Please do not allow the facility or your representatives to continue to bully me or intimidate me. It is not a good reflection on your office.

Adam Walters Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks, Adam, for the letter. Let’s just say that it’s not the first of this type that we have received. So, Mr. Hagan, what say you? – MSM)

The Mayor, the Drought and Those Pesky Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs In Recycled Water

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The need for further public health analyses on the use of recycled water. This water is converted from sewage effluent and used for irrigation of local areas such as school playing fields, parks and golf courses. The City is well aware that its own study as well as those of the scientific community and US/EPA have conclusively documented that sewer plants generate and spread serious pathogens, many of which are antibiotic resistant. Recycled water has also been shown to carry serious pathogens. The genes of pathogens can pass to ordinary bacteria found in the environment. Additionally, the City’s wastewater plant collects a substantial volume of un-pretreated sewage from the local hospital, hence adding to the mix of serious pathogens as well as medications and other materials that can confer antibiotic resistance.

For those who are just coming into this discussion, the numbers and types of antibiotic resistant pathogens are accelerating and becoming more difficult to control. These pathogens are no longer confined to hospitals and are now showing up in otherwise healthy people out in the community. Thus the old arguments about such unstoppable infections being confined to really ill patients in hospitals, those with weak immune systems, are no longer valid. They are showing up across the nation and in the community, and many are unstoppable.

The City’s response was basically, yes, we know that recycled water carries pathogens but do they adversely impact humans?

In other words, the City asks: While the water may carry pathogens, what proof is there that these are transferred to the grass, then from the grass to the people to cause health issues?

In other words, the City is asking for us to show them the dead bodies.

This is the tactic used by the tobacco industry, coal industry, asbestos industry and many others, shifting the responsibility for public health to the consumer. The fact that the City is asking these questions is worrisome. Why does the City not know? Absent such knowledge the City is guessing with your health.

The recent drought announcement will only increase the drive to shift food commodities onto recycled water. If the water was properly tested and treated, that would be a different story, but it is not. Interestingly, the CDC seems to

be out to lunch here. Food will become contaminated and then the industry will be pushing for providing irradiated food, which would allow them to sell rather dirty food.

Industry has convinced the government that certified organic crops can be irrigated with recycled water and that is worrisome. Recycled water is used in the Salinas Valley’s leafy greens.

The basic reason is overuse of ground water dropping the water table below the sea level, hence saltwater intrusion into the aquifer. Recycled water is used so the well fields do not go salty.

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to discuss the topic of pathogen carriage.

None of the state tests used on this water would accurately reflect what is coming out of the sprinkler heads. But, as we have seen locally, some pretty interesting genes are in the water.

Thus, where can you go to get trusted food for your family? You can’t really trust the regulators, and as seen below, you certainly can’t trust industry. How do you know what you are getting?

Dr. Edo McGowan Montecito (Editor’s Note: Thanks, Dr. McGowan, sounds to me like yet another reason to shop locally and know and trust your food sources as much as possible. It ain’t easy but it’s worth it. Please keep us informed of your recycled water talks with local government, this is an interesting issue that I’d like to stay on top of as it moves forward. – MSM)

Another Indecent Proposal

To be tarred and feathered, etc. You will be! And sent out of town on a rail! Yuk Yuk! Seriously, Matt, thank you for the fun breath of fresh air. Keep up the good work. You guys are world class. You can marry my daughters anytime. If you don’t mind, they are Siamese Twins! Two for one special. Reasonable dowry of goats.

Thank you.

Tom Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: I’m not totally sure what to make of all this, Tom, but I think I like it; well, either that or I am horribly offended.

Hard to tell. Regardless, the dowry of goats in exchange for the marriage of your conjoined daughters is interesting. Unfortunately, I am already married and so is Publisher Tim. But Designer Trent isn’t… yet, anyway. – MSM)

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“It’s simple, Matt. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I started in this business because I like interaction and didn’t want a desk job like everybody else I knew; now I spend most of my days reviewing reports behind a desk.”

He laughed. So did I. “But really, it’s simple. It’s all about taking care of every customer every single day. That’s the whole deal. We are always striving for that terrific guest experience, and I think we do a pretty good job in that regard. When we don’t – it’s inevitable in this business – we do everything we can to make it right, every single time. That’s it.”

Easier said than done, my friend, but I dig where you’re coming from and what you’re doing. And hey, if the thousands of meals you serve to us Santa Barbarans

every day are a reliable measure, then I think it’s safe to say that lots of other people agree, too.

Scanning the Horizon

So what’s next for Kelly Brown and The Natural Café?

“It’s funny, we never set out to be trendy,” he was thoughtful, considerate. “We were really an outlier in the beginning. But the world has caught up with us, there are lots of people doing wonderful stuff with organic, locally sourced food and I totally support them.”

“So do you see your business needing to change, to adapt, given the new reality of the food market?” I couldn’t help but ask.

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thought of changing a few menu items – I actually tried to change our Natural Caesar by using a different and frankly more expensive cheese but was forced to change back after our customers accused me of trying to cut corners. That was the opposite of what we were doing!”

We both laughed, again.

“The point is that changing something that locals are really familiar with and enjoy is tough. We still play with some things anyway, and we’re looking at redesigning the interior of a store or two, but that’s the conundrum, in a nutshell. The real question is whether to change at all.”

Hey Kelly, you know what they say, man: If it ain’t broke… well, I’ll leave that to you and your crew. You’re doing just fine on your own.

One thing, though: Don’t go “playing with” the Albacore Melt, it’s perfect just the way it is. In fact, changing it even the slightest bit might very well lead to my first negative editorial ever. And nobody wants that.

Thanks for spending the time, Kelly, I truly had a blast getting to know you and the restaurants. See you in the lineup.

Next time I’ll leave you that left.

Stuff I Like

It’s tough to express how much I enjoyed my time with Kelly Brown and The Natural Café (and Kahuna Grill and New Baja Grill). He’s a genuinely terrific guy with a bunch of terrific restaurants.

Stop in and check one out if you haven’t lately, it’ll be worth it. (You have my word.) I won’t bore everybody with a zillion addresses and telephone numbers here, just go to www.thenaturalcafe.com or www.kahunagrill.com and follow the prompts for menus, hours, locations and even New Baja Grill (it’s a subpage on the Natty Café site). Have fun and eat well.

And tell Kelly I said hi.

(Oh, I’d be remiss not to mention Kelly’s kids, whom he talked about relentlessly.

Jamie is 25, Madeleine is 16 and Ben is 14. I’m thinking at least two of them are potential babysitting material for the Mazza brood. $3 per hour!)

I love the Santa Barbara Guitar Bar. Not only is proprietor Jamie Faletti a fantastic guy whose knowledge of guitars and guitar-related stuff will blow your mind, but he’s doing some very cool stuff down in the Funk Zone. For example, on Tuesday, January 28, at 7:30pm, the Guitar Bar will host an exclusive Teye Guitars clinic and demo that is sure to blow some minds. (Jamie’s shop is literally the only retail spot in California where you can buy Teye’s amazing axes.)

This is just one of many events at Guitar Bar, where a cool little music scene community thingy is growing. Definitely worth checking out – my daughter takes lessons in the shop on Tuesdays so we’ll do our best to be there! www.sbguitarbar. com; (805) 770-SBGB; 137 Anacapa Street, Suite A. I know it’s bad, but I fricking love this weather. (And I was really ready for winter this year, I swear.) With that said, my family is doing what it can to use less water. You should too. Absent a serious change in weather, it’s going to get a little dicey out there, so best is to start the conservation now. Hey honey, get out of the damned shower already!

Finally, I heard there’s another publication in town and, after reading an advance copy, I’m a little concerned.

The Santa Barbara Stallion – which was written and compiled by a couple elementary school kids at Montecito Union School – had a terrific piece on the Sea Shepherd and a cute doggie-in-swimgoggles Pet of the Week photo that had me laughing out loud (LMAO?). Thanks for the read, Publisher John and Editorin-Chief Hudson, let me know if either of you want a job. Crimetime editors, maybe?

That’s a good spot to end it, see y’all in two weeks.

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Privileged enough to be accompanied by my new friend, Miki Garcia, the Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB for short), I got a personal tour of the Funk Zone trifecta, The Arts Fund, Wall Space Gallery and MichaelKate Interiors & Art Gallery. Like the urbanites we once were, Miki, a former New Yorker, and myself, a longtime L.A. resident, we struck out and hit to the streets walking from gallery to gallery.

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Then we headed back up the street to MichaelKate. While there was no shortage of seating (this is a furniture store), I found myself swimming through a crowded sea of patrons slightly overwhelmed by the bright lights and faces. I have to confess, the art scene in Santa Barbara is incredibly social and welcoming. With no big attitudes or cold shoulders, it’s hard not to have a good time.

Food. Good.

Our rumbling bellies began to overpower our eyes, and after a quick phone call we were able to secure a coveted booth at Blue Tavern, located on the ground floor of the recently renovated boutique Hotel Indigo. (And this is a food column, isn’t it? I digress.) Our four-top strutted down Yanonali, two by two, each of us greeting someone we knew. (Yes, this is surprising to me, as I’m still getting used to smalltown living.)

When we crossed the train tracks, I learned an interesting tidbit. That empty plot of land on the southwest corner of State and Yanonali, the one right next to the Hotel Indigo, is quite possibly the future home of the Children’s Museum.

(Toddlers rejoice!) As if the beaches, Ty Warner Sea Center, Natural History Museum, Santa Barbara Zoo and numerous hiking trails weren’t enough, Santa Barbara may soon have another place to take the kids.

Seriously, this is great news; I’m always looking for new ways to spend the afternoon with my little monkeys.

But they weren’t with me tonight. Only adult talk and culinary delights for me.

(Parents rejoice!)

Inside the trendy restaurant, I felt as though I was transported to Abbott Kinney in Venice with an exposed brick wall and wooden bar running the length

of the place. Savory smells wafted from the kitchen and sizzling, clanking pans filled in the background noise. In our cushy booth, we ordered our specialty cocktails – Negroni & Bourbon, you’re after my heart – and people watched, taking in the hip glamorous crowd (definitely no flipflops or Hawaiian shirts here).

So what do a museum director, playwright, retired investor and writer talk about over dinner? Dogs, Netflix episodics, batting cages, Jesus and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, of course. I consider art to be the language of ideas, a way to multifaceted expression, an entrance into conversation. The work we saw that evening did just that; it inspired a comfortably open dialogue on important and irrelevant subjects alike. There was nodding, laughter and even an agreement to disagree.

And there was no mention of Kratts or ketchup, just cursing and cocktails like proper adults.

It was a dream night for me to indulge in a few of my pleasure senses: visual, olfactory and gustatory. But as my watch (yes, I still use one of those old-fashioned, single-function objects) neared the pumpkin-bewitching hour of 9pm, I felt that nagging maternal urge to return home and tuck my kids into bed.

Ending my Funk Zone tour with hugs and well wishes, I said my goodbyes to my new friends. While walking to my car, I saw the people milling about, still socializing on the street even though the wineries and galleries had long since locked their doors, and I realized the Funk‘n Art scene is really a social scene here in Santa Barbara.

It’s an event. It’s about getting out, getting seen and getting together.

All the wine, food and art are a bonus.

My evening wrap up: We ate. We drank.

We saw.

And we will do it again.

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Customers were already lined up to shop at DIANI Boutique before it opened!

by Kateri Wozny Kateri is an award-winning journalist with a

background in print, online, radio and TV news. A native of Minneapolis, MN, she has written for the Chicago Sun-Times Media Group, Pepperdine University and Acorn Newspapers. She works full time as a public relations manager locally and loves exploring the Santa Barbara fashion scene. Follow her on Twitter @kitkatwozny.

Style, Comfort and Couture:

have in a woman’s closet this year is stripes and a shade of pink.

“I love The Lady and The Sailor as they always have great ones (stripe items).

Whetherly is also a staple tee line,” she said. “Pink is trending for spring, too.

Even if it’s not your color, there are so many shades to pick from.”

So many shades, so little time. What’s a (shop) girl to do?

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consider myself to be soft and chic, which, coincidentally, is just how I like the clothes in my closet. I’d heard rave reviews about DIANI Boutique and DIANI Shoes across from the Arlington Theatre, so I headed up State Street to see what all the trendy commotion was about.

I arrived ten minutes before noon on a Sunday and already customers were lining up outside the door of DIANI Boutique, even more excited and anxious than I was to buy some of the latest styles owner Caroline Diani has to offer.

“I love our customers,” Caroline excitedly explained. “They are so loyal and supportive. A lot of them have been on this journey with me since the beginning.”

Diani is a caring, visionary woman with a clothing-design background and experience working in retail. She was first inspired at age seven by her parents’ friend who worked in the fashion industry and encouraged her to enter a contest to design a children’s clothing line. She was later crowned the winner.

“It blew my mind, and I was locked in from then on,” she said, grinning.

The Journey Begins…

Originally from England (and born in Kenya!), Caroline has been in Santa Barbara for 16 years and loves the vibe. She first visited our fair city while interning at Patagonia in Ventura and instantly knew she would return one day.

“You’d be surprised at how many Brits there are in Santa Barbara,” she laughed. “Knowing that we have such a cosmopolitan clientele gives me the confidence to keep searching for unusual brands that have a European point-ofview.”

The Dutch doors opened to DIANI Boutique in summer 2002 and DIANI Shoes later followed in spring 2007. “I wanted to start something that I can give my all to, and I knew it would have to be something I was passionate about. I’ve always loved fashion, branding, business and the cool challenges that arise when you have your own thing.”

As I walked into the boutique, my eyes darted everywhere, examining the lavish items from Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. “I’m always looking for something fresh that has quality fabric and timeless style. I go on intuition and I trust my gut. Traveling always inspires me. Seeing what people are wearing on

Keeping Up with Caroline

DIANI Shoes offers a wide variety of high-end designer shoes and accessories. I bought some!

Owner Caroline Diani believes the customer comes first and cares about how they look and feel about clothing. Sign me up.

the streets of Paris, London and New York City is a great barometer for what’s happening or about to happen.”

Looking around, I found myself picking up a couple of stylish Velvet T-shirts by Graham & Spencer. Other well-known designers DIANI Boutique is known to carry include Isabel Marant, Vanessa Bruno, Rag & Bone, Mother Denim, Anya Hindmarch, Sergio Rossi and Bernardo. Gorgeous jewelry from designers such as also Dannijo, Macia Moran, Fallon, Lulu Frost and Lionette also grace the counters.

Prices start at $30 for a T-shirt and go up to $1,500 for a handbag or leather jacket.

“We like to consider ourselves hosts to our customers,” Diani said. “We create an environment where they feel at home and safe to express themselves freely and be offered the highest level of customer service. Style is a deeply personal thing and we like to honor that and make it shine.”

That ideological fashion perspective holds up a few doors down at DIANI Shoes, as well. I felt it personally when I sat down in a driftwood chair and tried on a cute pair of Sergio Rossi color block thong sandals – CHA-CHING, said my wallet. They’re mine!

Spring is just around the corner, and Caroline expertly advised that a must-

DIANI Boutique and DIANI Shoes are both located at 1324 State Street, just doors down from one another. Store hours are Monday from 10am – 6pm; Tuesday to Saturday from 10am – 7pm; and Sunday from noon – 6pm. Visit the website at www.dianiboutique.com; check out blog.dianiboutique.com for up-to-the-minute happenings and VIP events; like them on Facebook or follow on Twitter @DianiBoutique.

Caroline encourages her customers to keep up with her fashion and lifestyle blog that she launched in 2011, www. dianiliving.com.

“My customers have the chance to experience what I’m experiencing when I’m buying, traveling and figuring out my everyday style as that evolves,” she explained. “It’s a fun conversation and it makes me feel very connected with the people that have given me so much. I’m hugely grateful.”

Diani donates proceeds to several charities, including the Dream Foundation.

“Part of the gift of running a successful business is the opportunity it affords to give back. It’s very important to me to do what I can do to help. It means something to know that you’re brightening someone’s day.”

Thanks, Caroline, you sure brightened mine.

(So did those gorgeous sandals!)

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Great question, Logan, it’s something most of us keep considering throughout our lives. And Logan’s answer itself is something we all ought to consider: “Kids want to be something they’re stoked on, like skateboarder or pro-surfer. But sometimes, if you ask a little kid, you’ll get the best answer; something so simple, so obvious and profound – when I grow

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other’s in July.” The other monthly events are topic-based get-togethers, “usually at a local startup’s headquarters.”

Demo nights are fun. If you’ve ever watched Shark Tank on ABC, add 150+ people with some pizza and beer and you’ve got it. At the end of the night, the crowd votes a winner. The prize is usually the opportunity to do a more comprehensive presentation in front of potential investors. For all participants, it’s an ideal opportunity to network, perhaps meet a mentor, and gain some insight and valuable feedback.

In addition to StartupSB, Kyle is the lead organizer for Startup Weekend Santa Barbara. Startup Weekends are a global phenomena that sprung from the transitioning economy of 2007 in Boulder.

These 54-hour weekend marathons are a melting pot of dreamers, developers, designers, managers and marketers to pitch new ideas. The top ideas attract teams composed of weekend participants, and they ultimately create a related business and presentation, typically including a demo and even a working prototype by Sunday evening.

Wow. I’m generally happy getting in a hike and a car wash over a weekend.

Last November’s event was a great success with more than 300 attendees on opening night, 62 pitches, 137 participating, 35+ mentors, seven judges, three speakers and 18 teams pitching at the finale. The winning team, NextMover (www.nextmover.co, not .com), is an online platform that connects you with locals who can help you move. (In other words, NextMover is sort of like your old friend with a truck.) The service verifies movers through a screening process, provides an easy-to-understand rate, insurance coverage and has a user rating system. Stay tuned for more here!

The next Startup Weekend Santa Barbara is scheduled for November 2014.

Keep it on your radar.

No Wait. Doug’s the Man. New to the scene in Goleta is GEM. The Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet is a non-profit startup incubator made possible through a joint effort of the City of Goleta, the Chamber, UCSB and its sponsors (including the Santa Barbara Foundation).

So, then, what’s GEM and how does it foster the entrepreneurial community here in SB? Well, if you visualized a little warm box with eggs, you’re close.

Business incubators help new startups – delicate creatures that need nurturing – survive by providing them with support and services. In fact, according to TechStars, a Venture Capital firm in Boulder, businesses that incubate historically have close to a 90-percent survival rate.

Chirp, chirp.

Heading up this new venture is GEM’s Executive Director Doug Lynch. If Doug seems familiar, it might be because

he’s graced these pages previously. (A Gentleman’s Game, Vol. 2, Issue 43.) He’s the persuasive guy who duped – maybe that’s not the right word – EIC Matt into strapping on the old boots and running around the rugby pitch with a crowd of very large, strong grown men. Fun times.

Anyway, while Doug might like running on grass, I get the distinct impression that not much is growing under his feet. Meeting up at Kelly Brown’s Natural Café on State Street for lunch (yep, the same Kelly Brown that Matt coincidentally wrote about in this very issue), Doug updated me on what was going on with GEM. “We’re hoping to open our new facility mid-February if all goes to plan,” he told me in his spandex cycling top. (Did I mention Doug is an Ironman competitor?

Like I said, not much grass growing.)

“It’s a 5,000 square-foot facility on the 600 block of Pine Avenue in Goleta.

We’re ready to start welcoming science and technology startups to the facility at below market rental rates.”

So how does a suitable startup get in?

“There will be an interview process, and we’ll take a look at their business model canvas. We’re very big on the Lean Startup approach.”

Everybody get that?

If you’re thinking low-calorie startups, you’re a bit off. Doug’s referring to a book written by Eric Ries called The Lean Startup, which has become gospel for many entrepreneurs.

Read it if you haven’t.

The book focuses on a methodology where “done is better than perfect.” Get a “minimum viable product” up and out, so you can learn from your customers and clients what they really want, then refine.

And finally, if your startup idea is going to fail, fail fast and pivot – like the Twitter story. (Another interesting read.)

These are just two of myriad resources for startups in town. (Two important resources, for sure.) Eric and Doug are hugely informative in that regard, and both are always happy to talk so don’t hesitate to reach out. (See learn more, below.) I’m happy to talk, too, so feel free to send me a note anytime at grant@ pullinc.com.

In the meantime, go take that hike up Rattlesnake Canyon and start thinking about your path forward. And most importantly, take a page from young Logan’s book.

Be happy.

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In the Garden with

No, the deer didn’t get this rose bush. I pruned it. Lots of potential.

Mr. Greenjeans

by Randy Arnowitz “Mr. Greenjeans,” as he is known around

Santa Barbara, is a gardener, horticulturist and writer. He particularly enjoys working with roses, orchids and sharing the day with his golden retriever Peaches, who faithfully accompanies him in the field. Contact him at greenjeansmr@gmail.com

Warning: Objects In Nursery Are Larger Than They Appear

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kay. Did you ever have this? You’re at the nursery shopping for, say, bedding plants such as pansies or snapdragons and you notice a six-pack of healthy little plants that the label calls Salvia Indigo Spires. So, you take that six-pack home with the other bedding plants that you’ve chosen and pot them all up nice in your window boxes or small patio containers. Before long, however, you can’t find the pansies or the snaps because those once-compact baby salvias have overtaken them all as they are trying to max out to their normal size of seven by ten feet.

Where am I going with this? Well, my point is that whether you are buying annual color for a flower bed or choosing an appropriate shrub for a hedge, or even trying to decide on the correct lawn tree for your front yard, it’s important to know how big the darn things are going to get before you plant them.

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Maybe they got a good deal on them.

One last thing. Personally, I wouldn’t rely on a nursery label alone for my information. It seems that labels often tell you what they think you want to hear by describing plants as being slightly less robust than they may be. I like to double or triple check by looking plants up in my gardening bible, The New Sunset Western Garden Book and by Googling a few other sources before I choose. So there’s that.

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I was at a few nurseries last weekend and noticed there were still bare-root roses and deciduous fruit trees for sale.

After thoughtful pruning, this plum still has many fruiting spurs that will ensure lots of fruit.

Deciduous fruit trees are the ones that lose their leaves in the winter such as peaches, nectarines, plums and apricots.

Get them while they still have them, as it is getting late in the bare-root season and

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Continue filling in your lettuce with starts or seeds to prolong your harvest.

they will not be available again until next January. Citrus trees like oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruits are not deciduous but evergreen and are available all year in containers.

- If you haven’t done so yet, there is still time to prune your roses. I hate to beat that same dead horse, but pruning roses properly can make the difference between your bushes giving you a spectacular first bloom cycle (and a second one for that matter), and giving you a notso-spectacular one. Go to a pruning workshop, look up “rose pruning” on YouTube and watch the videos or hire a person who knows what he or she is doing to show you how. It’s like falling off a horse or learning to ride a bike – once you’ve done it, you won’t forget it. (Or something like that.) Oh, and don’t feed your roses right after pruning. Wait until March when the soil begins to warm up.

- Similarly, knowing the correct way to prune deciduous fruit trees can ensure a large crop. The various types of fruit trees are pruned differently from each other.

Very simply put, apples, apricots and plums bear repeatedly on spurs that may remain on the tree for years, while peaches and nectarines bear on new wood and need to be pruned harder to encourage that new wood growth. Indiscriminately lopping off the wrong types of stems and branches can mean no fruit for that year and possibly none for the next few years.

There are lots of resources out there, so you can learn to do it correctly.

- Even though it’s practically warmer now than in the summer, you can continue to fill in cool-season veggies with starts to lengthen your growing season. Lettuce can be grown from seed now, too.

- If you planted your winter and spring annuals like calendulas, cyclamen, foxglove, pansies, primroses, snapdragons,

stock and violas way back in the fall, you probably have a colorful show going on right about now. If you didn’t, you can still get them in and enjoy another few months of color. Buy them from six-packs or four-inch containers and keep evenly moist and well-fed.

- Begin feeding citrus trees this month.

There are as many ways to feed your oranges, lemons and limes as there are foods to feed them. I prefer organic types of food. Whatever you choose, it’s best to follow the directions on the package.

Keep in mind too, that since it doesn’t rain here anymore, the trees will have to be irrigated in order for the food to break down and become available to the trees.

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Mapping Alzheimer’s Disease: Kenneth Kosik’s UCSB Lab Searches for a Seminal Gene Mutation

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n 1991, Harriman Professor in Neuroscience and co-director of UC Santa Barbara’s Neuroscience Research Institute Dr. Kenneth Kosik (then a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School) made a trip to Colombia to recruit local scientists to conduct neuroscience research in Latin America.

A year after that first visit, Kosik returned to Colombia to give a talk on Alzheimer’s disease at the University of Antioquia’s School of Medicine in Medellín. There, he met neurologist Francisco Lopera.

For 10 years, Lopera had been studying a population of almost 5,000 individuals from a large extended family who showed signs of dementia. The symptoms these people experienced were similar to those seen in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, except for one thing: the young age at which they began showing signs of dementia.

Kosik joined Lopera’s quest to uncover the secrets of the disease in this extended family. Over the years, they came to understand that the dementia was earlyonset Alzheimer’s disease and that it was being caused by a single penetrant gene mutation – penetrant meaning that the mutant gene will have some clinical effect: if the individual has the mutation, he or she will get the disease.

A few years later, while sitting in his Harvard office writing a piece on his work in Colombia that would be published

as “The Fortune Teller” in The Sciences journal in 1999, Kosik let his mind drift over the possible candidates for the original gene mutation carrier.

Perhaps it was a Spanish sailor, he wrote, “whose forgettable fling left an indelible genetic memory.” Or maybe it wasn’t a Spaniard at all. Maybe it was a preColombian, “whose own people are now extinct, and whose only legacy is the defective Alzheimer’s gene propagating in retribution among the Spanish usurpers of her land.”

At the time, it seemed like it would be impossible to trace the origin of the gene mutation causing early-onset Alzheimer’s in this particular population. But Kosik was also certain that the mutation began with one individual.

Fifteen years later, with the bright, winter sun filtering into his spacious UCSB office and reflecting off the bicycle parked in the middle of the room, Kosik has me imagining the mystery man responsible for the gene mutation. Maybe he was a misfit on the ship that carried him from Spain to the Americas; maybe he didn’t want to be there at all. Maybe he couldn’t sleep for the seasickness, every night climbing onto the upper deck to look up at the moon or the stars. Maybe he was crass and mean. Or maybe he was the captain of the ship.

“It could be absolutely anyone,” says Kosik.

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It could have been, but not anymore.

See, Kosik’s lab recently discovered that “the age and geographic origin of [the mutation] are consistent with a single founder dating from the time of the Spanish Conquistadors who began colonizing Colombia during the early sixteenth century.” To find this specific time and location, the lab went through a process called DNA sequencing, mapping

“With the baby boomer generation reaching seniority, the number of Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s disease is expected to rise rapidly in coming years.” out all three billion nucleotides – the subunits of DNA – in more than 100 people from the village in Colombia where the mutation is rampant.

By looking at patterns in the chunk of DNA surrounding the mutation in each of the 102 individuals, Kosik’s lab determined a number of things about its origin: The similarity between the chunk of DNA in the affected individuals confirmed they all came from a common ancestor; the changes in the chunk of DNA appeared the same as those in DNA of southern Europeans; and the amount of mixture through recombination of DNA allowed for counting back generations to determine the date of origin – the early 1500s.

Combine the DNA analysis with a brief look at history and we have our conquistador, carrying his gene mutation through 300 years of colonization to current day Colombia.

This origins project is something of a sideline to the work Kosik’s lab generally focuses on, which is Alzheimer’s disease.

He’s working on a variety of research methods seeking ways to modify the disease. The origins project, though not immediately medically significant, contributes to what Kosik says we can call “neuroarchaeology,” or historical genetics. This, he says, is a field that strives “to reconstruct not just human origins but actual population distributions around the world – about how different

groups migrated and came to create the distribution of cultures, people and countries that we see in the world today.

“I think it’s intrinsically interesting,” he continues. “Knowing these distributions of genes helps us to target people that may be of greater risk.”

Kosik’s office looks out on the ocean.

Between the blue tint of sea and sky and Kosik’s calm demeanor, the mood in the room feels at ease. There is, however, an urgency in his voice when he talks about Alzheimer’s disease and the research that still needs to be done.

In 2012, an estimated 5.4 million Americans suffered from Alzheimer’s.

With the baby boomer generation reaching seniority, this number is expected to rise rapidly in coming years. Currently, there is no treatment to prevent or stop this disease from debilitating its victims and their families.

While Alzheimer’s research labs all over the world are publishing papers almost every single day, Kosik explains that “most of those findings are related to basic mechanisms that are not necessarily going to result in a drug. They are just deepening our understanding of the disease – which we need.”

He rattles off some of the bigger questions Alzheimer’s research seeks to answer: “What are the underlying causes?

What’s the contribution of genes in most people [with the disease]? What are these modifier genes? What are different parts of the pathway that are treatable?”

The list goes on, he says, and the problem is that we don’t have many answers.

Kosik’s lab is working on multiple projects related to these questions. One of the biggest has to do with modifier genes – those that modify the expression of another gene. Kosik’s team is looking for any such genes that may be working in conjunction with the mutation that causes early-onset Alzheimer’s in the 5,000 individuals in Medellín.

In studying this extended Colombian family, Kosik and other researchers were intrigued by the fact that symptoms of this particular form of Alzheimer’s started sufacing in people as early as 30 years of age, while others would not feel its effect until their late 50s.

An explanation for this, says Kosik, could be a modifier gene that controls when the mutation takes hold. If Kosik’s team could find such a gene, they have a chance at developing a drug that could delay the onset not only of the form of Alzheimer’s affecting the Colombian family, but also of the more common form of Alzheimer’s disease that today affects millions around the world.

The DNA sequencing that led to the origins discovery is a first step in the search for the potential modifier gene. It is a slow process, Kosik says, but there are small victories along the way, and finding the original carrier of the gene mutation is one of them.

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ony’s Mexican Restaurant and Taqueria, a.k.a. The Hidden Dolphin, is located in the Funk Zone at 217 East Anacapa Street. In addition to the taqueria, they have a full restaurant menu with burritos, nachos, enchiladas, fajitas and more.

It’s open six days a week (closed Sunday) from 10:30am to about 4:30pm. It’s owned and operated by the Diaz family: the mom, Monica, utilizes her recipes, the dad, José, takes orders and runs food, their son Carlos does all of the above and even Uncle Viko cooks in the kitchen.

In the Zone highly recommends you not sleep on the self-serve salsa bar, especially the spicy avocado and an unusual peanut salsa made with dry roasted peanuts, peppers and onion.

An Artist at Work:

After eating a sampler platter of six different cooked-to-order varieties from Mony’s, Funk Zone assemblage sculptor Dan Levin chose the fish taco as his favorite.

Lettuce: Tomato: Tartar Sauce: Mony’s on Anacapa, with sign painted by Youth Interactive next door and steps by a previous tenant.

which, along with the barbacoa, came recommended by proprietor José Diaz, who took our order. “I like that. It’s a little on the sweet side,” Dan said, tasting the pineapple. After a veggie, he was satisfied: “I’ve never seen lima beans on a taco before, but it worked.” We ended the meal with the cabeza (head, cheek specifically) – like the lengua (tongue), fairly adventurous for both of us. “Hey, that’s not bad,” Dan said, impressed and a little surprised. “Wow,” after bite two. “That is trippy.”

The taco, in general, can be a beautiful thing, but it can also be a nightmare. Take for example Taco Bell’s “cantina” menu, a mass marketer’s fading memory of what Mexican food actually tastes like: truly horrible. But those served up at Mony’s – with fresh fillings topped with cilantro and onions on a warm corn tortilla bed – are a pleasure.

“There’s a good and a bad side to everything,” Dan said before we left the restaurant. He’s talking about life and love, how humans are responsible for great things but also capable of atrocity. The notion comes out in his art. He often uses airplanes, which can represent our species’ ingenuity but are also instruments of war.

His work titled “And the Band Played On” puts a trumpet next to a gasmask.

At least two others use weaponry to form peace signs.

Not all of Dan’s output has a political message. After lunch, he showed me his studio that he shares with artist Philip Koplin, just a block away from Mony’s.

“There’s no concept there. I’m not trying to say anything,” he said, referring to a couple of manipulable magnetic pieces.

“It’s just an aesthetic that’s hopefully pleasing.” Then in the same breath: “But I’m sure there are a few pieces here that are downright ugly to someone.” He gestured toward “Murmur,” a would-be piece of driftwood mounted and then adorned with a string of dried beans. “I’m sure people look at that and say that’s visually offensive,” he laughed.

Like nearly everything at Mony’s, the recipe for this flavorful homemade sauce comes from the restaurant’s matriarch and namesake, Monica.

“It’s different for a Mexican restaurant,” her son and restaurateur Carlos said.

Onion: Cilantro: Fish:

Grilled Alaskan sea bass seasoned with spices

Tortilla:

Two of them. “At other taco shops where the tacos are pretty greasy, the meat might break through, and that’s why they add two tortillas,” Carlos explained. “But we do it out of custom.”

Lunch isn’t complicated. It’s a time to pause for sustenance – perhaps fresh, hot, proportionally sound sustenance on a tortilla – but a simple means to an end nonetheless. Art, on the other hand, is mysterious and subjective and can have all sorts of intentions or none at all. But for some, it’s as important as the air we breathe. Or tacos we eat.

“It’s painful if I don’t make art,” Dan said, sliding his studio door closed and locking up. “If I’m not fabricating, I start to lose the plot.”

Find Dan Levin online at www.danlevin. com, which links to his Facebook and Tumblr pages, where he posts updates and pictures of his work.

Find his objectsofcuriosity shop on Etsy to see his new Lonely Hearts series, “deconstructed” complete decks of playing cards. He has stated he wants to make one a week until he dies.

Dan has a piece in Art+Love, on display February 14 through March 7 at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club, 2375 Foothill Road.

The opening reception is on February 14 from 5:30 to 8pm.

Check him out in Art from Scrap’s Mischief! exhibit, on display March 11 through April 5. There will be a silent benefit auction on closing night. Find more information at www.exploreecology.org/ blog.

Koplin/Levin Studio also sometimes participates in the Funk Zone Art Walks: www.funkzone.net.

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with Mark Léisuré

Mark spends much of his time wandering Santa Barbara and environs, enjoying the simple things that come his way.

A show here, a benefit there, he is generally out and about and typically has a good time. He says that he writes “when he feels the urge” and doesn’t want his identity known for fear of an experience that is “less than authentic.” So he remains at large, roaming the town, having fun. Be warned.

Film Fest, Leisure Style

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he 29th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival opens right in the middle of this issue’s stretch on the stands, so Mr. Léisuré assumes you already know about most of the big stuff by now, right?

Of course, there’s the obligatory – and always mightily impressive – lineup of Hollywood heroes receiving tributes during the ten-day extravaganza, including the usual assortment of Academy Award nominees. There’s Cate Blanchett and Jared Leto, who are locks for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, respectively; Nebraska’s June Squibb, who at 84 would be the oldest winner ever if she wins the supporting Oscar; and the late addition of Leo DiCaprio, nominated for The Wolf of Wall Street, who will share an evening with his director Martin Scorsese. Among the non-nominees are two longtime actors who participate in award season hoopla: Robert Redford and Montecito’s own Oprah Winfrey.

The panels are also great for Oscar devotees, as the roster is invariably filled with the current nominees among directors, screenwriters and producers.

But your intrepid correspondent doesn’t always attend all the tributes, because for him, some of the best parts of the fest are the little gems you can’t see anywhere else. There are many worthy movies – including documentaries, foreign films and shorts – that will never

see the light of day anywhere else.

Mr. Léisuré has found it’s easier to avoid the crowds by attending movies during off hours, meaning 8am to 4pm on weekdays. If you’re unlucky enough to have to actually work during the daytime, well, there’re always late-night movies starting at 9:30 or 10pm. And when there’s a weeknight tribute at the Arlington, the Metro and other venues are usually less full then, too.

Best of all, from Mr. Léisuré’s perspective, is the opportunity to see a film followed by a Q&A session with some of the folks who made it. We’re told there is an extra large helping of talent coming to town this year, so be sure to check the boards in front of every venue, which will have a listing of Q&As for that day.

More Movies?

Shocking though it might seem, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival isn’t the only film festival in town over the next 14 days. No one’s dumb enough to go up against SBIFF during its actual ten-day run, but there are a couple of one-day mini-movie marathons leading up to Thursday’s opening night.

UCSB Arts & Lectures, which recently presented the silent film classic Safety Last! at the Granada, is going the no-dialogue route again on Saturday, January 25, when the three classic films

in the Qatsi trilogy screen sequentially at the Arlington. The collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and minimalist classical composer Philip Glass began with Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance in 1983, followed by Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation and Naqoyqatsi: Life as War. The films were released over a 20-year period, which would seem like a long time, but each film takes years to assemble from millions of feet of film shot all over the globe. The mini-fest is topped off by the duo’s latest entry, Visitors, released just last year.

Also on Saturday: Dalai Lama Awakening, narrated by Harrison Ford, which chronicles the journey of a group of westerners to meet with the Dalai Lama to take on longstanding societal issues. Producer-director Khashyar Darvich will answer questions after the screening of the film that took 15 years to complete. At Yoga Soup.

The annual Kid Flix Mix hits UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Sunday, January 26, thrilling the youngsters with an hourlong showcase of some of the world’s best new short films covering both live and animated movies as seen at the New York International Children’s Film Festival. It’s part of the Family Fun Series, which means a free preparty with balloons, face painting and more, an hour before the 11am screening.

Finally, and fittingly for just 11 days after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, UCSB’s Multicultural Center’s Cup of Culture series screens Bringing King to China on Wednesday, January 29. The movie delves into the unusual subject of Dr. King’s international influence, with a focus on changing beliefs of China’s future leaders. A discussion with the documentary’s Santa Barbara-based director Kevin McKiernan – an SBIFF veteran – follows.

What Else You Got? Allergic to glitz? Unmoved by movies?

There are lots of choices in other arenas for the SBIFF-dominated fortnight.

Devoted to dance? UCSB A&L brings both Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance with the Santa Barbara premiere of the ambitious “Far” (Tuesday, January 28) and Royal New Zealand Ballet performing the much more traditional “Giselle” (Wednesday, February 5), both at the Granada.

In theater, the second annual free PlayFest stage reading festival takes place January 24 and 25 at SBCC. The second of four productions of the brilliant British farce Noises Off to come our way in less than a year arrives at the Rubicon in Ventura February 1 through 23. And Montreal’s marvelous European-style circus troupe Cirque Eloize returns to the area for the first time in almost six years for a single show at UCSB on February 3.

Connoisseurs of classical can choose from the Santa Barbara Symphony’s aria-filled tribute to Verdi’s greatest opera hits on his bicentennial at the Granada on January 25 and 26, Westmont College’s take on Haydn’s comic opera La Canterina at Center Stage January 30 and 31 and the Venice Baroque Orchestra concert out at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on February 6.

Crazy for comedy? Raucous redhead Kathy Griffin yucks it up at the Granada on February 1.

And in pop music, the Sings Like Hell series makes its triumphant return to the Lobero on Saturday, January 25 with a double-bill of Jude Johnstone and Jimmer Podrasky. Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett of Little Feat play a benefit for TRAP at the Union Bank on Carrillo (Friday, January 31). Also, Brother Yusef gets down for the Santa Barbara Blues Society at Carrillo Rec Center (Saturday, February 1).

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Lone Officers

by James Luksic A longtime writer, editor and film critic, James has worked nationwide for several websites and publications – including the Dayton Daily News, Key West Citizen, Topeka Capital-Journal, Las Cruces Sun-News and Santa Ynez Valley Journal. California is his seventh state. When he isn’t watching movies or sports around the Central Coast, you can find James writing and reading while he enjoys coffee and bacon, or Coke and pizza.

Oscar Grouch

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must’ve been having a bad dream. When I awoke on January 16, a friend had sent a text about the nominees for this year’s Oscars (increasingly known as the Meryl Streep Awards).

His message, far as my halfopen eyes and groggy mind could register, read: “Emma Thompson gets shut out while Streep is nominated again.” I stared at the text for a minute before looking away, rubbing my eyes, then double-checking it. Surely, it was spam. Or perhaps my pal was pulling my leg?

No such luck.

Indeed, the woman who arguably deserves the Best Actress prize – Thompson was impeccable as author P.L. Travers in the noble Saving Mr. Banks – wasn’t even acknowledged by the Academy. Instead, the unrivaled Streep has been recognized for the umpteenth time, poised for yet another statuette. (Frankly, I’m surprised she isn’t somehow a candidate in all four acting categories.) I don’t wish to slight the living legend’s pill-popping, tart-tongued performance in August: Osage County, but how about spreading the wealth? Perhaps there’s an unwritten rule stating the Academy is obligated to fete Streep every year.

Although it’s disappointing Forest Whitaker wasn’t nominated for The Butler, it’s more eyebrow-raising that Jonah Hill was chosen for The Wolf of Wall Street. No question, Martin Scorsese’s current triumph is backed by a marketing machine, but I would be hard-pressed to list Hill’s turn among the top supporting roles of 2013. I get it, to an extent: Hill and Jennifer Lawrence (also in the mix again) are talented fresh faces riding a wave of popularity the past two years. Yet it’s fair to say the candidates don’t reflect much imagination on the Academy’s part; not a lot of research and digging are evident. How about invaluable Alison Janney from last summer’s overlooked The Way Way Back? Why no consideration for eerily genuine Woody Harrelson or Willem Dafoe in their underpraised Out of the Furnace?

Amid all the hoopla surrounding 12 Years A Slave, one can’t help but wonder about the inexplicable lack of love for Fruitvale Station. Setting aside its overdramatic climax or claims of factual inaccuracies involving the shooting of a young man at the titular train depot, Ryan Coogler’s feature debut showed unexpected maturity and had integrity to burn. The movie’s fatal flaw was being released months ago, instead of during the Academyfriendly rush at year’s end.

For the eventual “winners,” I would prefer either Matthew McConaughey or Leonardo DiCaprio take home his first Oscar; on the other side, Cate Blanchett gets my vote (as a way to honor Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine), though it’s difficult to downplay the impressive work of Sandra Bullock and Judi Dench in Gravity and Philomena, respectively. I have little to add about the hopefuls for Best Picture, since nobody shares my fondness for The Place Beyond the Pines, which emerged in theaters last spring – also known as the kiss of death come award time.

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one Survivor kicks off with videocam footage of real-life Navy SEALs, but the strategy employed by writer-director Peter Berg backfires. What we see during the opening credits is engaging, insightful and disturbing; the quick clips of training regiments are mesmerizing.

Then the movie starts.

Despite being a sensationalized true tale, it’s slow on the uptake, and when our soldiers hunker down in the unforgiving mountains of Afghanistan, Berg has trouble adjusting. Based on the failed 2005 mission “Operation Red Wings” that was designed to capture a Taliban leader, the picture’s band of brothers includes Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster (the last pair previously teamed up in Alpha Dog).

While filming any war chronicle, it’s imperative for the action to feel authentic.

In this case, however, those handsome faces streaked with blood and caked-on mud can’t overcome moments that come off as rehearsed: When one airborne soldier bounces off a boulder, it appears he may have jumped off a mini-trampoline just to hit the rock’s sweet spot; Berg’s framing of the slow-motion shot looks too pristine and fussed over. Elsewhere, the cinematography leaves something to be desired – namely fewer sun spots. When viewers aren’t blinded by the light, we’re subjected to a barrage of close-ups; the double-whammy visual approach is a constant distraction.

About halfway through this would-be misfire, just after I peeked at my watch, a funny thing happened: The images became more realized, the style and writing more accomplished. It was as if Berg’s sixth sense kicked in, or another director took over. To my eyes, the contrast first proved noticeable when one participant – wheezing with blood bubbles on his lips – gets ambushed while propped against a tree. It is the film’s finest sequence, a revelation all too rare.

Miscast as the commander is Eric Bana: He paces slowly, pausing with a look of consternation to sip coffee, all with an air of indifference that suggests he would rather morph into the Hulk again. Even the man’s phone call feels forced and phony: There’s a brief conversation with a higher-up that is so full of hot air it could qualify for the Macy’s Day Parade.

It all winds down on a satisfying note involving our hero with Afghan villagers, and the epilogue featuring the real SEALs is a thoughtful salute. Too bad the movie took so long to find its footing.

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Plan B

by Briana Westmacott When Briana isn’t lecturing for her writing courses

at UCSB and SBCC, she contributes to The Santa Barbara Skinny, Wake & Wander and Flutter Magazine. Along with her passion for writing and all things Santa Barbara, much of her time is spent multi-tasking through her days as a mother, wife, sister, want-to-be chef and travel junky. Writing is an outlet that ensures mental stability... usually.

The Brush Battle

I tried for years to keep the whole “princess” thing out of my house so that my girls wouldn’t have flawed notions of body image (and hair!), but Snow White and Cinderella snuck right in one day and haven’t left. Those tiny waistlines and voluptuous busts (that’s right, I’m officially writing about princess boobs here) scream anorexia and years of psychotherapy.

And that hair. That damned hair.

“But, I WANT princess hair!” Lila screamed as I pleaded with her to cut the locks off. After all, princess hair – according to Old Walt, anyway – is long and flowy and always perfect (a far cry from what my children typically walk out the door with).

“Honey, I know for a fact that princesses brush their hair,” I offered as I crept closer to her, armed with bristles in hand. She saw the medieval torture device from afar and took off all tangled.

The hairbrush wins (loses?) again.

Get In Hair Lila and Elli and their 20 inches of hair they donated.

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or years, I have been trying to get out the door in the morning without feeling frenzied. Without the rushing and the nagging and the tears. (Yep, tears are commonplace in my household in the morning. Nice start to the day.) The fact is that I can manage the vast majority of the morning business – the food, the tooth brushing, the outfitting – but the hairbrush is totally beating me.

I have two girls and tons of tangles.

Two girls may not sound like a lot, but they have my mom’s massively thick hair. My littlest, Lila, has approximately four inches to get through before you hit her scalp. Add that to the ten inches of length, and I have a fire-breathing beast to conquer every morning.

I’ve tried many different options, trust

me. Leave-in conditioners. Brushing when wet. Brushing when dry. Hell, I even cut it all off one time, and yet the brush battle wages on.

Relentlessly.

I’ve Got A Bone To Pick With Old Walt If I had my way, both my girls would have cute little bob haircuts that only require a quick pass of the brush every few days. There were a few months of my life when I was living this dream, and it was glorious. But their hair grows so quickly and princesses are still quite popular in our ’hood.

Yeah, princesses. Damn that Walt Disney.

There have been a couple times when my powers of coercion (read: bribery by McConnell’s Fine Ice Cream) have won out and the girls chopped their locks. To date, the two of them have collectively donated a mind-boggling 30 inches of hair to Locks of Love, and they are only five and eight years old. Locks of Love, anecdotally, puts that princess hair to (very) good use by creating wigs for disadvantaged children suffering from medical conditions that cause hair loss.

Terrific cause.

I can understand my girls wanting lengthy, luxurious manes. A woman’s hair does truly make a statement. For most women, those tresses can be a blesses (or curses). It seems like we ladies are constantly obsessing over hair that we don’t have. If it’s curly, gals battle to make it straight. If it’s straight, then the fight is for curls. Et cetera.

I personally am totally guilty of having hair issues. I spent a whole year of my life in the 1980s perming the crap out of my stick-straight hair. It wasn’t pretty. And then there was the time that I decided to change my hair color entirely and switch from blonde to dark red. (Please do not try this at home…or in a salon, for that matter.)

Let me just say that when I walked in the house and revealed the “new” me to my children, they both burst into tears.

Really, they did.

It was a great confidence booster for me.

What I wouldn’t give to be a man when it comes to hair. My husband often watches the brush battle completely baffled. It’s like he’s paralyzed in horror with no combat training. Since he grew up one of two boys, I don’t know if he has ever even owned a hairbrush. The girls always scream that they want Daddy to brush their hair rather than me.

This is simply because Daddy brushes the very top layer of the four inches of dreaded mess and sends them off without tugging and pulling through the rat’s nest underneath.

I have to give him credit, I guess, because I know he would much rather be shagging baseballs with a boy than snagging snarls in the girls hair. But hey, you produced the X chromosomes, babe.

I’ve recently vowed to find a new method to taming the tangled beast each day. Maybe I can do it while they are still asleep. Or maybe I should add it to the chore list and pay them to do it. It is quite the chore. I could just give up all together.

Do dreadlocked kids look too mangy?

In spite of it all, I suppose I should be happy that Lila hasn’t demanded the dreaded princess boobs. With her genetics, princess hair is possible even if difficult, but I guarantee that a princess bust line is not in her future.

So there, Walt.

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Worry Free Watercoloring

By Sylvie Butera Rich our inner artist is calling you. And it’s telling you to take down that old paint-by-number piece you proudly display and replace it with your own watercolor masterpiece!

It’s also instructing you to – no, demanding that you – attend Watercolor Club at Municipal Winemakers. Guided by artist Rebekah Miles, you will learn basic watercolor techniques and how to let go with your eyes and hands so that the color flows onto paper. With wine flowing as well, we’re sure you will be able to channel your artistic skills.

The class is only $15 and includes watercolor paper, brushes, paint and all you need for an evening of color and creativity! Don’t worry, two more Thursday evening options are available, so you haven’t missed out. There’s one on February 6 and another on February 20, both from 7 – 9pm. For details, check out www.municipalwinemakers. com/Happenings.

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STYLE FILE Oh Ojai

By Briana Westmacott ou’ve always been the perfect little escape from Santa Barbara. We’ve loved you for so long with your pristine pastures and rolling hills and your quaint streets and picturesque town square. And now, we’ve found yet another reason to love you.

Summer Camp.

No, we are not talking about anything that involves cabins or camp counselors, not at all. Summer Camp is a new shop in Ojai that we are obsessing about. Michael and Rachel Graves transformed a deserted classic gas station and filled it with fun. They sell vintage items and new treasures that they hand collect between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. They also have a background in artistic custom art framing, which is available in their shop as well. You can check out their website at www.shopsummercamp.com.

But we think Summer Camp merits a daytrip to the lovely Ojai so you can see it for yourself!

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BE ACTIVE Dive In

By Sarah Dodge et’s face it. Whether we know how to surf or not, most of us California chicks have daydreamt a time or two of paddling out, catching a wave, hanging ten… you know what we mean.

So when we heard that there was something right here in Santa Barbara that combined the captivating culture of sisterhood with the captivating culture of surfing, well, let’s just say we were definitely on board.

The Salt Water Divas is a non-exclusive surf sisterhood designed to bring women of all ages and walks of life together through surfing and sharing waves. By empowering and encouraging women to get fit and healthy through an affordable surfing membership program, these divas surely are making waves for women who want to surf, but maybe

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didn’t know how to approach it. (Until now, anyway.)

For a yearly membership fee of $325, you will have unlimited access to professional instruction and equipment; group clinics are held six days a week, three times a day at two different locations(!). This alone would be well worth our dollars, but combine that with the chance of meeting other awesome and unique women, and we are on cloud nine.

It’s a shore bet, ladies, our surf day dreams are about to become surf reality.

Find out more by visiting www.saltwaterdivas.com or calling (805) 364-4826.

WINE & DINE

Mingling With Masters

By Eve Sommer-Belin

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uiceWell brings tasty “fresh pressed remedies” to Santa Barbara. Chock full of locally sourced organic fruits and veggies, this wonderful bounty is pressed in JuiceWell’s Carpinteria pressing room. Divided into categories like Digestion, Energy, Performance, Immunity and more, you are sure to find a remedy that fits your needs… or simply a juice blend that impresses your palate!

The Manna (cucumber, kale, Swiss chard, celery, parsley, apple, lemon, ginger, lime and cinnamon) and the Sweet Tart (grapefruit, apple, lemon, ginger, maca and cinnamon) stood out in the large array of choices. The added flavor and health benefits of spices really shine in more than 20 unique, tasty blends.

Co-founder and owner Sharon Egan, inspired by a yearning to help create a healthier choice and being a natural foodie her whole life, is passionate about crafting a quality juice product that helps people eat enough fruits and veggies and keeps them healthy and energetic. Coconut milks (the mint one was rather refreshing), smoothies, nut milk and fresh salads also adorn the menu.

Interested in cleansing? JuiceWell offers one, three and five day cleanses with a variety of special blend juices to get your digestive system back on track. Head in to JuiceWell in Montecito (1235 Coast Village Road) for refreshment or remedy, either way you’ll walk out with a pep in your step.

Go to www.wejuicewell.com for more information. And juice well!

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REAL ESTATE

by Michael Calcagno

Michael has consistently been ranked in the top 1% of Sotheby’s agents worldwide. Shortly after joining Sotheby’s, he partnered with Nancy Hamilton to form one of the most successful real estate teams in Santa Barbara. Michael can be reached at Michael@HomesinSantaBarbara.com

2013 Was a Pretty Good Year

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’m not sure if you’ve experienced the same emotion and response that I have when talking to people about the new year. It seems that everyone I talk to is extremely optimistic and thinks 2014 is going to be one heck of a year. While I am enthused about this year, I am equally excited about last year’s numbers for real estate. It proves that what I have been droning on about in my articles is actually true; that is not an “I told you so,” either.

So without further ado, here are the stats from what turned out to be a pretty good year: The number of new listings for homes-PUD (Planned Unit Development) in 2013 dropped in comparison to 2012. In 2012, there were 1,645 new listings and in 2013 there were 1599, down 2.8%. Not a huge number, but it still shows there was less inventory available. While the inventory was down, so were sales, slightly.

In 2012, there were a total of 1284 homes-PUD sales and 2013 showed 1,267, a decrease of 1.3%.

So what’s the non-“I told you so” all about? The astounding numbers for the median sales price and the average sale price increase from 2012 to 2013. The median sales price for 2012 was $795,000 while the following year it was $945,000, an increase of 18.9%.

The average sales price for 2012 was $1,364,790, and a year later it was $1,430,335, a 4.8% spike.

Now, since these numbers include the higher prices of Montecito and Hope Ranch, Mortgage statistics provided by Justin M. Kellenberger, Senior Loan Officer at SG Premier Lending Group, Inc. Justin can always be reached at justin@sgpremierlending.com.

people tend to think they are skewed a little, so let’s look at them without those two locations. In 2012, the median sale price was $708,000, while in 2013 it was $856,000, a jump of 20.9%. The average sale price was $932,087, while in 2013 it was $1,063,238, an increase of 14.1%. Very interesting that removing Montecito and Hope Ranch made the numbers go even higher!

So what does it all mean? It means our market is on the rise again and, as it’s done in the past, the market is taking the “trickling up” course, leading with the lower and middle end of the market and working up to the higher end.

If you have the time, get out there and take a look at a few of these great new properties.

1932 Mountain Avenue

Purchase price: $585,000 Down payment (20%): $117,000 Loan amount: $468,000 Loan payment: $2,336

(30-yr fixed at 4.375% (APR 4.398%))

Note: The foregoing economic breakdowns do not include potential tax benefit analyses since that will ultimately depend upon a number of additional factors. But home ownership can indeed have tremendous tax-savings potential and should be considered with your realtor and/or tax accountant as part of the ownership decision.

Property taxes estimate: $536 Home insurance estimate: $75 Total Monthly Payment: $2,947

1724 Sunset Avenue

534 West Junipero Street

Purchase price: $999,700 Down payment (20%): $199,940 Loan amount: $799,760 Loan payment: $4,052

Purchase price: $859,000 Down payment (20%): $171,800 Loan amount: $687,200 Loan payment: $3481

Property taxes estimate: $916 Home insurance estimate: $90

Property taxes estimate: $787 Home insurance estimate: $90

(30-yr fixed at 4.5% (APR 4.53%))

Total Monthly Payment: $5,058

(30-yr fixed at 4.5% (APR 4.53%))

Total Monthly Payment: $4,358

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