HAIR-RAISING HOMEFRONT
HER THREE SONS, WRITES MARA PETERS, ARE GROWING AS QUICKLY AS THEIR MOUSTACHES AND MUSCLES, P. 25
WHAT’S APPENING?
DEAN HOVEY STARTED HIS CAREER DESIGNING APPLE’S MOUSE, NOW HE’S WORKING WITH DIGIFIT FOUNDER MICHAEL WILLIAMS, P. 42
AYURVEDIC AT YOUR SERVICE
WHEN NOT SERVING UP INDIAN CUISINE OR MEDITATING, CHEF APARNA KHANOLKAR GOES TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS, P. 22
SANTA BARBARA
every other week from pier to peak
VO L U M E 3 | I S S U E 3 | F E B R UA RY 8 – 2 2 | 2 0 1 4
W W W. S A N TA B A R B A R A S E N T I N E L .CO M
COME ON IN... THE WATER’S FINE
DROUGHT SCHMOUT. EL ESTERO NEVER RUNS DRY.
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anta Barbara, celebrated the world over as a vacation paradise, planted by the Gods of Commerce ’twixt mountain and sea, is awash in crap. What can one say? Everyday, Life breathes, eats, procreates and eliminates waste product – and roughly in that order. In a tourist-dependent Shangri-La like Santa Barbara, all that denuded filet mignon and blue-ribbon wine has to get out
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by Jeff Wing done in collaboration with missionandstate.org
of sight and out of mind as quickly and efficiently as possible, and anymore it’s considered déclassé to simply dump it into the ocean. Thus, Santa Barbara’s El Estero Wastewater Treatment Plant, which, despite its name, is not an estuary. Graceful long-necked birds do not dip their heads in cooling, fragrant waters here. But this loose collection of oddly shaped buildings, ...continued p.32
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