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ade in SB – Megan Waldrep gets to know author and musician Monte M Schulz, owner of the SB Writers Conference, through the power of music and perusing the pages of his novel Crossing Eden; and three writers who won full scholarships

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iweekly Capitalist – Reality bites, Jeff Harding explains, for college B graduates – which is why they ought to quiet down and listen up if they’re going to live and learn

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S tate Street Scribe – Jeff Wing gets Richard Dawkins and Deepak Chopra to hold hands and gaze into each other’s eyes. Miracles can happen eer Guy – This ain’t your grandparents’ circus that’s coming to town; B it’s the Craft Brew Circus, brainchild of Eventwerks. Zach Rosen serves up the foamy details

– SBIFF shifts to Riviera; Old Music Festival; Ojai Wine P.10 Fortnight Festival; Ensemble Theatre Company presents Fallen Angels; and MAW annual summer fest

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American Girl – Tommie Vaughn isn’t actually “Helen” in the 1800s, but she takes a meditative past-life journey, along with facilitator and life coach Lisa Veit

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Holistic Deliberation – Allison Antoinette returns to the fold to walk readers through “realistic, quickly achievable, smaller portion of a larger goal” – also known as a baby step

Beat – Jacquelyn De Longe enters the hallowed halls of Hauser P.19 ArtWirth & Schimmel, where UCSB’s Jenni Sorkin curates the latest exhibit, in downtown Los Angeles

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Berry Man – Supply and demand: Cory Clark expounds on the process of how food goes from a farmer’s agricultural produce to a meal on one’s plate Cause & Effect- Arroyo Hondo campout for Father’s day

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I Heart SB – Elizabeth Rose, by any other name, is still “me” – but sometimes “we” because she truly loves being with “he”. Shakespeare, where art thou?

B – Kids write and say the darndest things, so Briana Westmacott P.26 Plan compiles a list of thoughtful letters from local grade-school students to their teachers

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by Megan Waldrep

Meanwhile, in the Study…

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Monte Schulz is a torch bearer, author of Crossing Eden and owner of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference

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climb the stairs and meet the heavy wooden front door, deciding to ring the bell to spare my knuckles the pain from announcing my arrival. Moments later, the door opens and author Monte Schulz, owner of the Santa Barbara

Writers Conference (SBWC), appears.

He is barefoot, dressed in dark, slim jeans and a casual button-up shirt. His long, blonde tousled hair accentuates his youthful spirit. “I totally forgot about the interview, and I knew I

would, which is why I wanted to meet here. Come in!”

I follow Monte through the foyer and down the hall toward the office, a cozy room anchored with two desks and shelves full of books of assorted genres. He asks if I’d like to hear his newest creation, a song titled “Age of Sorrow”, which will debut on his next album, a follow-up to Seraphonium, his first. In true Renaissance-man form, Monte is also a singer/songwriter.

It can be said that Seraphonium is Monte’s alter-ego, an outlet for his euphonic inner self.

He leans over, clicks play on the computer. The ballad is powerful, and the words longing with harmonies that build and build, creating waves of emotional resonance. Once the song is over, I’m eager to learn more about his creative process and life as a writer. I start with questions about his latest written work, a Jazz-Age Great

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American Novel titled Crossing Eden, which was scripted as an homage to his father, Charles M. Schulz.

Monte grabs the book from a shelf, settles on a page, and reads aloud. His passages are rich in description. I close my eyes and let the scene play out in my mind, drifting through sights, sounds, smells, and colors. He gives just enough detail to shape your own personal version of his world and leaves out enough to keep your imagination at play.

Crossing Eden, published by Fantagraphics, is a first-person narrative set in the late 1920s, an age of opulence teetering on the edge of the Great Depression. The 1,088-page tome contains four individual stories of the Pendergast family, who are set apart due to hard times. The vignettes take place in the Midwest, East Texas, a vibrant city of the author’s own making, with the narrative set in California.

Monte chose those locations to give the reader a diverse grasp of American life of the era and analyzed period texts to bring authentic tone and speech to his work. For example, he used a love letter, verbatim, written in 1916 by his grandfather to his maternal ...continued p.14

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Bi-Weekly Capitalist

by Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding is a real estate investor and a writer on economics and finance. He is the former publisher of the Daily Capitalist, a popular economics blog. He is also an adjunct professor at SBCC.

My Commencement Address: Listen up, College Grads

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y advice to college grads is probably the reason I’ll never be asked to give a commencement address. But here is the speech I think new graduates ought to hear: You aren’t going to save the world.

Welcome, graduates, family, and friends to this esteemed institution’s 2016 commencement ceremony. It is here and now that we present these young women and men with a certificate of the successful completion of their studies and bid them farewell with our best wishes for success in whatever future path they take.

Now that I’ve said that I want you graduates to listen very carefully: You don’t know much.

Now is when you are really going to learn.

You are going to screw up.

You aren’t going to save the world.

You don’t know much What you learned in college about how the world works is mostly wrong.

Many of you are going to parrot what your professors taught you, and you are probably going to keep doing that for the rest of your lives without challenging your assumptions about how things work.

So here is what you need to know about your college education: you were supposed to learn critical thinking skills. It doesn’t matter if you were in the sciences or liberal arts; you should know how to think things through logically.

Did you avoid that course in critical thinking where they teach you how to analyze a problem and avoid logical fallacies? Trust me, this is something you will need because the conventional wisdom that you will hear every day is usually wrong.

If you learned to think critically and solve problems, then you will be set for life because life is all about solving problems, every day.

Now is when you are really going to learn.

Unless you were in the sciences, most of what you learned is not going to make you successful. Don’t get me wrong – I’m a big believer in a classic liberal arts education. Truly educated people are those who know history, literature, philosophy, political theory, the arts, and economics. Again, the whole purpose of college was to make you an educated person who can think critically.

But I’m guessing most of you liberal-arts majors didn’t do that. Take heart because life is mostly on-the-job-training, anyway. Life will force you to learn how to think critically for you to succeed in your chosen field. The good thing is that life is a pretty good teacher if you pay attention to the lessons it throws at you.

Also, just because you have your baccalaureate degree doesn’t mean you should stop learning. I’m not talking about life’s lessons here: you also need to read and study and improve yourself continuously. If you take yourself and your future seriously, challenge yourself and never stop learning.

You are going to screw up.

You’ve all had drilled into you the old saying “life’s not fair” which is true, but it is not as important as the one that says “You’re not entitled to anything.”

Or the one that says “Nobody really cares.” That sounds a bit harsh, but you will find that you are all alone when you march into the world looking for a future. You will have to prove yourself. Yes, you’ve got your friends and family and support group, but they aren’t going to do for you what you have to do for yourself – and you have to do it all alone.

And, you are going to make mistakes.

There are two ways to deal with this fact of existence. One is to not learn from mistakes, to be afraid and shrink from challenges. That would be bad, unless you have no goals and success is not important to you. The other way is to try to learn what was the mistake you made (not as easy as it sounds), understand why it was a mistake, and figure out how to not make it again.

That is where real knowledge comes from. Embrace failure and learn.

You aren’t going to save the world Most people giving this speech would urge you to take your youthful enthusiasm into the world and change it. Let me refer you back to point number one: most of you don’t even know what the real causes of our problems are, so having you go out and try to change things will just make things worse and leave you disillusioned.

This gets me to my point that the conventional wisdom about how the world works is mostly wrong. The folks you think are “experts” are mostly wrong. Since few people know how to think things through on their own, they grab on to simplistic slogans they can understand and swallow them whole and uncritically – sometimes passionately so. Because problems are more complicated than a slogan, nothing will change.

I have definite proof of this phenomenon. Some of the most fervent supporters of socialist Bernie Sanders are college students.

Anyone who has taken an econ course or has studied the history of economics

What you learned in college about how the world works is mostly wrong would know that socialism is a failed dead-end. As an avowed socialist, that would mean that Bernie has no understanding of economics and thus is an ignorant person. If allowed to pursue his agenda America would decay, not thrive. Decay is the sad legacy of socialism throughout history. Yet his supporters don’t know this and think that positive change will result from a President Bernie. That won’t happen.

To me, economics is the linchpin for understanding the workings of society.

Yet the vast majority of college grads are ignorant of economics. According to a study by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, only 3.1% of more than 1,100 colleges and universities surveyed require liberal arts majors to study economics. They conclude that colleges are failing to provide our students with a well-rounded education. And they are right.

So, new graduates, what will you do? Will you blindly follow the Bernie herd or the Hillary herd or the Trump herd, and march off with these false saviors and witness failure? Or will you expose yourself to ideas that challenge the contemporary wisdom and learn to think on your own? If you don’t, you’ll never change things.

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by Jeff Wing

Jeff is a journalist, raconteur, autodidact, and polysyllable enthusiast. A long-time resident of SB, he takes great delight in chronicling the lesser known facets of this gaudy jewel by the sea. Jeff can be reached at jeffwingg@gmail.com.

Teleology, Cosmology, Tautology.

Rinse and Repeat.

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hy does the country seem to become more interestingly spiritual as you move from east to west? Out east, you have Plymouth Rock and Calvinism and the legacy of pilgrims in billowing black garb with buckles on their shoes, buckles on their hats; just a mess. Why all the buckles?

Here in California, by comparison, our governor dated Linda Ronstadt when she was a hottie on roller skates, and we have drum circles and barefoot executives and a form of Buddhism you can put on and take off like a shirt. I think it’s called Now and Then Buddhism, though I may have misheard.

See? Pilgrims over there, Linda Ronstadt in silk shorts roller skating around the governor’s mansion over here. “Oohh, maybe we should go back east and get buckles on our hats!” Yeah, send me a postcard. And we have all the good

Thought Leaders out here. Ram Dass, Krishnamurti, Gurdjieff! (gezundheit) – more soothsayers than you can shake a Borneo Rattle Stick at. The effect of which is, among other things, my having just ended that last sentence with a preposition.

So, like, seriously. Is there that much difference between the search for truth out east and the search for truth here in CA? Isn’t it all a puzzle in the end? Not if the rationalists have their way.

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by Zach Rosen

You drink the beer, while they eat the fire at Craft Brew Circus

The Craft Brew Circus is Coming to Town

These are professionals. Don’t try this at home, folks.

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dmittedly, alcohol has often been the motivator and culprit of many dares and dumb acts. YouTube is riddled with videos of people slamming a beer before slamming their head into a wall. And while no one should advocate these antics, there is always that slight

fascination with watching people do things that no sane (or sober) person would want to try.

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modern resurgence of freak performers.

These entertainers aren’t drunken fools being dared by friends to do things that should not be tried at home. These are professionals, and a few of them have banded together with brewers.

Get ready. The Craft Brew Circus is coming to town.

The Craft Brew Circus is the brainchild of Eventwerks, based out of Lake Arrowhead. The organizers of the festival have been in the events industry since 1997 and host several Oktoberfestthemed events, though their first real adventure into the beer festival world was last fall with the I-15 Brew Fest in Temecula.

The standard format for beer festivals is to hold them on a Saturday from noon to 4 pm. The Eventwerks team wanted to switch this up and decided to hold their beer fest at night. While searching for nighttime entertainment, they came across Darin “Dangerous D” Malfi and his range of sideshow performances.

Dangerous D stole the show, and the crowd responded so well to his acts that they wanted to build the entire festival around his sideshow entertainment – and the Craft Brew Circus was born. The first Craft Brew Circus was just held in San Diego, and the Santa Barbara event will be the second official installation of the festival.

This occasion goes beyond just surrounding people with lots of great

breweries, and places beer drinkers in the middle of fire breathers and contortionists. One of the organizers, Peter Melton, brought up a good point. Many of us have seen the image of a sword swallower but few of us have seen it in person. It is a much different experience to be standing next to a mouth full of metal, let alone to be watching these antics with a beer in hand.

Since starting the festival, Melton has seen crowds revel and bond over the shared experience of watching these roaming entertainers. Dangerous D will be alongside about 10 other sideshow performers who will amaze and impress the audience with their freaky performances. The scene will accented

by DJs and classic beer garden games such as cornhole and giant Jenga, plus other interactive games spurred on by the entertainers.

There is Fire but is There Beer?

The festival will feature local favorites such as the classic Island Brewing Co. or Captain Fatty’s Craft Brewery. There will also be the newly opened Draughtsmen Aleworks and the distinct and balanced beers of Poseidon Brewing Co. In addition to local breweries, there will be a nice range of breweries that don’t always participate in the Santa Barbara festival circuit.

Moorpark-based Enegren Brewing Co. offers a nice range of beers that are good examples of the style, including Valkyrie Altbier. This German ale style is auburn with a touch of mocha in the finish and has a fuller malt character from the use of chocolate wheat malts.

Knee Deep Brewing Co. is one of the most notable breweries on the list.

Since entering the North Californian beer scene in 2010, Knee Deep has been turning hop heads everywhere with their astounding lineup of beers that put the drinker, for lack of a better descriptor, knee deep in hops. One of

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their most popular brews, Hoptologist, is a double IPA that blends pine aromas with a full fruit bowl of flavors including pineapple, mango, and mandarins.

They also feature a Belgian version of Hoptologist that is a touch spicier from the Belgian yeast being used.

101 Cider House will be at the event and is a must for anyone who has yet to taste their unique selection of ciders.

This cidery fuses beer concepts into many of their offerings. Piña Menta takes inspiration from the sour-salty Gose beer style and contains fresh pineapples and local mint. In addition to a hoppy India Pale Cider, they brew Black Dog, a black cider infused with local lemons and darkened by activated charcoal.

Their Cactus Red is particularly good, with a whirlwind of flavor coming from the use of California cactus pears and local Thai basil.

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This event promises to be one of the most unique beer happenings to take place in our area and will immerse beerdoes in an exciting setting full of twisted talents and rousing entertainment. You get to drink the beer and leave the daring acts to Dangerous D and his merry band of freaks. Just remember. They are professionals, so don’t try this on YouTube.

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Tell us all about your art opening, performance, dance party, book signing, sale of something we can’t live without, or event of any other kind by emailing fortnight@santabarbarasentinel.com. If our readers can go to it, look at it, eat it, or buy it, we want to know about it and will consider it for inclusion here.

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Showcase at SBIFF’s New Showplace

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lthough renovations at the historic Riviera Theatre are still months away, Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s (SBIFF) move of its filmic headquarters to the venue begins this first Sunday of our fortnight (June 5), with the transfer and expansion of The Showcase screenings from the Plaza de Oro. That means not only more seats at each screening, but also four times as many chances to catch the critically acclaimed independent and international movies that would otherwise likely not play theatrically in town, as each picture will now be shown Sunday through Wednesday.

Opening honors go to Weiner, the far-beyond-the-headlines examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s ill-fated recent mayoral campaign in New York City, which the candidate agreed to before further scandal erupted in his photo texting to young aides and followers.

Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s exposé, which won Best Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and sports an 82 rating on Metacritic, shows June 5-8. On June 12-15, SBIFF at the Riv screens Stéphane Brizé’s The Measure of a Man, which earned Vincent Lindon the Best Actor prize at Cannes and France’s Oscar-equivalent César Award for his portrayal of an unemployed factory worker trying to make ends meet in working-class France. (Brizé and the movie were also nominated for Césars, and the picture won the audience award at Brussels European Film Festival.)

Also announced: Sunset Song, Terence Davies’s period drama about the daughter of a Scottish farmer coming of age in the early 1900s, won the Online Film Critics Society Awards for Best Non-U.S. Release and the International Cinephile Society Award for Best Picture Not Released in 2015. It plays at the Riviera on June 19-22.

Outsized Festival in Ojai

Our neighbor to the east draws tourists all year-round as a mountain retreat, but early June is a particularly busy period in Ojai as the annual Ojai Music Festival takes over Libbey Bowl and environs for a long weekend of highly adventurous classical music. Ojai largely becomes the center of modern classical music for the four-day fest, enjoying

its 70th anniversary June 9-12. This year might be even more exceptional, as Peter Sellars makes his Ojai debut as music director, with a clever slate of programming highlighted by a unique musical portrait of Josephine Baker, the African-American singer who emigrated to Paris in the 1920s and became one of the most famous entertainers in the world. Sellars and soprano Julia Bullock – who dazzled more than 4,000 folks at the Santa Barbara Bowl when the New York Philharmonic performed as part of the Music Academy of the West’s summer festival last year – have devised the tribute with exciting new arrangements by composer-drummertrombonist-pianist Tyshawn Sorey.

The work is scored personally for Bullock and a small ensemble of players from the ICE ensemble featuring violin, flute, bassoon, oboe and guitar, plus Sorey on piano and drums.

A nine-member contingent of ICE accompanies singer-composer-violinist Carla Kihlstedt for “At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed

by Fire” on voice, in the Kihlstedt return to Ojai after impressing festival audiences in 2009 with a hard-tofathom performance of Lisa Bielawa’s Kafka Songs for soprano and violin in which she performed both parts simultaneously. Seven members of ICE and an equal number of singers from chamber vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth take on Claude Vivier’s “Kopernikus”, conducted by Eric Dudley, the eighth member of Teeth.

The composer has urged that listeners of the work – which has been described as “staggering difficult and complex” but also full of “sheer exhilarating beauty” – “not try to read any meaning into what happens but try to feel what’s happening. Not try to understand, but to enjoy what’s happening. It’s for this reason that it’s written in large part in an invented language of phonetic sounds.” ICE and Teeth also combine

for a set of Kaija Saariaho’s chamber music and add Bullock for the U.S. premiere of the chamber version of Kaija Saariaho’s “La Passion de Simone” – with the composer in attendance, of course. That sort of thing is what Ojai is all about, folks.

Get festival passes, single tickets, a full schedule, detailed programming information, and more online at www. ojaifestival.org, or call 646-2094.

Sip and Savor by the Shore

If you’re up in Ojai for the festival and need a break from the challenging classical music, there’s always the annual Ojai Wine Festival, which, as always, takes place on the Sunday of the music festival (June 12). Now in its 30th year, the wine-and-dine event dwarfs most of Santa Barbara’s similar soirées, drawing about 5,000 people throughout the Central Coast and southern California to the Lake Casitas Recreation Area, just a couple miles south of city center.

Aside from the fact that it offers a huge assortment of pours from 60-something wineries, just shy of 20 different beers and ales (we still don’t know why all these fests don’t just add “beer” to their names), food for purchase from eight Ventura County restaurants and caterers, crafts and gifts from about 30 vendors, and a silent auction with dozens of items up for bid – there’s also the free boat rides, which doesn’t happen at any of our own food-and-wine parties. Yes, that’s right, you can board the Rotary Boat, which normally serves as a floating classroom but today picks up patrons at the dock, just steps from the fest for a tour around the beautiful and placid waters of Lake Casitas (a portion of the net proceeds from the festival benefit the Rotary Club of Ojai West Foundation’s Floating Classroom).

What’s more, the Ojai Wine Festival now has its own mobile app, which not only lists which wineries, breweries, craft vendors, restaurants, auction

items, and sponsors will be at the event but also details what they will be serving or selling, so you can search for who is pouring only cabernet sauvignon or an IPA or a cider. And there’s a map, so you’ll be able to find them – and each other. I don’t think Area 51 – the 22year, veteran Santa Barbara-based, funk party band – is posting their set lists in advance, though.

General admission ($50 by June 10, $60 at the gate) includes unlimited tastes of wine and beer and crystal keepsake wine glass to take home, VIP ticket holders ($120/$150) enjoy early event entry plus exclusive use of the VIP Lounge, which has shaded seating along the lakefront (things get hot up in Ojai, since it’s 15 miles from the ocean) and a selection of fine wines and specialty beers along with free hors d’oeuvres.

And you can even bring your kids, with $25 tickets for 13-20 year olds, and kids under 13 free. Call 648-4881 or visit www.ojaiwinefestival.com.

Curtains Closing and Opening

Playwrights don’t come much more iconic – albeit via vastly different approaches – than England’s master of British wit Noël Coward and American southern dramatist Tennessee Williams.

So, it’s rather fitting that as one Santa Barbara institution closes out its current season with a Coward classic, another opens its summer fun with Williams’s first famous play. Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) presents its first production of a Coward work in 17 years with Fallen Angels, the still somewhat risqué play that challenged the social mores of its day due to its comedic approach to the themes of pre-marital sex and adultery, running June 9-26 at its new digs at the New Vic Theater, downtown at 33 West Victoria St. Director Andrew Barnicle – who served as artistic director of the prestigious Laguna Playhouse from 1991-2010 – returns to ETC after helming last season’s stunningly sly and seductive production of David Ives’s Venus in Fur (now that was risqué).

Angels finds high-society women Julia and Jane, with their passionless husbands away playing golf, sparring over their mutual long-ago lover who has returned for an afternoon of champagne and sparkling conversation that sizzles even more when the men return home. Paige Lindsey White and Julie Granata play the ladies. For tickets ($20-$65), performance times and more information, call 965-5400 or visit www.etcsb.org.

PCPA Theaterfest kicks off its 2015 season at the Solvang Festival Theater with The Glass Menagerie, Williams’s autobiographical four-character

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memory play that took the playwright from obscurity to fame. Considered one of the most important American dramas of the 20th century, Menagerie, which plays in the gorgeous and intimate outdoor amphitheater June 16-26, stars longtime PCPA actress-director Kitty Balay as the overbearing mother Amanda, Sierra Wells as Laura, Matt Koenig as her brother Tom, and Jordan Stidham as the Jim, the gentleman caller.

It received strong reviews when the play performed indoors in Santa Maria in March. Also coming to Solvang this summer: Shrek The Musical (June 30July 31), Sense and Sensibility (August 5-21), and In the Heights (August 26-September 11). Show times, tickets, and details online at www.pcpa.org or call 922-8313.

Look MAW, It’s More Music!

Local residents need suffer no gap at all in enjoying world-class classical music, as the Music Academy of the West launches its annual summer festival on Monday, June 13, just one day after the Ojai Festival concludes.

Expect astonishing concerts, master classes, and recitals from the 140-ish fellows (advanced young instrumentalists and vocalists from or just out of music schools around

the world) and a truly impressive array of professionals who come to the Miraflores campus in Montecito for short visits or the full eight-week season.

Smetana’s rarely performed comedic opera The Bartered Bride is one of the highlights, as are Academy Festival Orchestra concerts, including two dates with Larry Rachleff conducting superstar pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Gershwin’s jazz-inspired Rhapsody in Blue and Dvořák’s New World Symphony over Independence Day weekend, and New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert returning to lead the youngsters in a program of Berg and Beethoven on July 16.

There are more than 200 events in all – way too many to list here – and every single one of them features at least some $10 tickets as part of MAW’s community initiative (some instrumental master classes are even free). Log on to www. musicacademy.org or call 969-8787.

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sink out of sight and the unknowable stars would appear as a luminous shawl drawn across the black dome of the night. For uncounted eons, humans without college degrees would stare straight out through the ether and contemplate the impenetrable riddle of life. Why am I here? What am I? What is all this for?

Then came the Age of Enlightenment, known also as The Reductionist Downer. The answer men burst in, clapping their hands like schoolmarms and began hollering explanations.

Newton, Kant, Rousseau, Voltaire, Locke, the depressingly prescient Adam Smith, Hume; these overwrought smarty-pants knew it all, and they waved their remonstrative forefingers in our faces and scolded us for having been lame enough to be drawn to the ineffable. Suddenly, the intellectual world was all about the Effable, excuse me.

Preincarnate Dorks Terrorize The Known World Emboldened by the idea that a whole Age of Man would soon be named after their blabbermouth exploits, these rationalist thugs began lustily dismantling supernature itself, turning a flower into a numbingly explicable machine with a pistil, a stamen, a peduncle, and a bunch of other utterly practical, obscene-sounding parts.

Okay, guys, we get it! Reason, reason, reason! Shaddup already! For about 150 years, a steady and pressurized diet of Science, Logic, and Rational SelfCongratulation were pumped into the upturned yap of western civilization like boiled corn through a foie gras

duck funnel. Scientific rigor became hip, (centuries later, scientific rigor would earn a beating by the swingset at recess, but for now the dorks were in the ascendant), religion became the fat, slow-moving target of the New Science Class, and lots of serious-looking guys in wigs began the excited but slightly joyless business of slapping away mankind’s distracted thousand-yard stare.

From this distance, we can now say this has not been completely helpful. The Age of Enlightenment has never been more ruinous than when it infected the Star Wars franchise in the bet-hedging Phantom Menace episode, wherein the previously mystical Force, once reverently described by Obi-Wan as a kind of unifying energy field of love, is awkwardly re-imagined as a side-effect of swarming amoeboid midichlorians in the Jedi plumbing. Yippee!

But what’s to complain about? These rationalists are on our side, right? We all want to get to the bottom of All This, right? Something happened back there during the Age of Reason, though.

Empiricism adopted a know-it-all smirk.

The very idea of an unknowable CreatorThing brought on intellectual reflux, so much so that even when the CreatorThing could be shown to be inanimate but mechanically willful (see below), the rationalists got their Newtonian panties in a humanist bunch. Daydreaming and intuitive speculating were thrown out with the bathwater.

Big bummer, especially if you were a kid who spent most of his school day staring out the 3rd-grade window at that one tree moving in the breeze.

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a perfectly lovely Search for Meaning and turn it into a quantifiable search for meaning.

You think waterboarding is torture, try a little mortarboarding. It’s all about the machine. The search for its dynamo will chase the ghost right out of you.

This is most evident in the Creationism versus Evolution “debate,” wherein both sides embrace the unknowable. And don’t know it! A spectacle that is usually so annoying to watch, the irony sort of wanders away while you’re throwing your shoes at the dais.

Molecule to Manwich Full disclosure; I believe in evolution (or something very like it) because, for reasons I can’t coherently explain, it makes some sense. But I’m both galled

to which many in the scientific community subscribe, even cautiously posits that the universe’s maddeningly perfect state of human-friendly quantum perfection exists only to create the conditions which give rise to intelligent life.

Why would this be? Because the universe can’t be said to exist until it registers in the senses. Or as physicist David Bailey has said regarding the Anthropic principle: “(The universe) cannot really be said to exist in a scientific sense, unless at some point in its history it spawns conscious observers.” Which is to say, the universe organically promulgates the conditions necessary to produce observers, that it may, by the very fact of their witness, exist. And this

The scientific case for All This having been flung out of a primordial explosion is as sublimely fabulist as a giant bearded ghost in a terrycloth robe and amused by the condescension that typifies the Evolution Team’s demeanor in a discussion comparing the two world views. Why am I galled?

Because the scientific case for All This having been flung out of a literally unimaginable primordial explosion is as sublimely fabulist as a giant bearded ghost in a terrycloth robe. You don’t have to be a religious person to believe in miracles; you have to be a mathematician. Given that this is all an accident (remember that), the math stacks up spectacularly against our most secular intuitions.

It seems at the very least extraordinary that (for one small but telling example) the precise gravitational force at work in the universe could not be altered by a whisker without screwing the precise conditions required to create life. There is a whole set of these so-called ”Cosmic Coincidences” that are individually boggling to the scientific mind, and which as a group of confluent and complementary improbabilities lead doctoral atheists to uncomfortable places.

Fine-Tuning That Demands a Verdict The monstrously implausible sequence of cosmic events to which we owe our existence is not entirely credible. The Anthropic Principle,

is a purely mechanistic model that excludes G*d! To my mind, the Anthropic Principle is tantamount to a tire rolling down a hill. The universe is just doing what it has to.

Still, our race’s post-Age of Enlightenment aversion to supernature and the Unknown has us clinging to a militant common sense that leaves little room for the idea of a Supreme Being, nor a non-sentient mechanical process whose cosmological wankel rotary engine only means to let the gears guide our omniverse to a necessary and possibly anti-climactic Cosmic SelfRegard.

Let the Evolution gang chortle their way through as many televised debates as they want. It looks to me as if the Creationists and Rationalists aren’t all that far apart, really. It’s mostly nomenclature and ego. C’mon, Dawkins and Chopra. Can’t we just get along? C’mon, hold hands for the camera, boys – it won’t kill you. Okay!

That’s more like it! After all, this is California! There is plenty of enabling teleology to go around.

Take a step back and look again, fellas; something is happening Out There, and In Here. You guys agree and don’t know it! Or as Linda once sang: “You and I travel to the beat of a different drum... you cant see the forest for the trees...”

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t just feels good to dig in the dirt. Some of my earliest memories are of making mud pies and building sand castles. Now I spend most of my days playing in my garden with my sensational succulents. Here, I have created an elaborate display of my favorite plants in honor of my Mom – a great way to honor someone is to plant a tribute garden, which can be anything you want. A simple plant or a whole garden, whatever makes you smile and think of that person. Just get your hands in the dirt and let your imagination guide you.

Deana Rae McMillion is a designer and artist living in Carpinteria. She is a self-taught gardener and self-proclaimed succulent fanatic. Learn more about Deana Rae at www. deanarae.com and see her gardening magic on Instagram: @deanaraedesigns

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PLANTING FOR LOVED ONES

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grandmother and researched 58 books of that time to build one chapter.

This novel is an example of Monte’s perseverance and comprehension of one’s strength as a writer. At 23, inspired by works of Thomas Wolfe and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, authors of his father suggestion, Monte had it in mind that one day he, too, would write a Great American Novel. He put pen to paper, but came to the realization he hadn’t yet the skill to produce a work of this grandeur. “I wrote Down by the River (my first novel) to see if I could publish a book, or to find out that my writing was not good at all and I was totally delusional.” Turns out, he wasn’t delusional, or he was just delusional enough – in 1990, Viking Press (now Penguin Random House) bought his first book, but Monte wasn’t altogether satisfied. “I felt like I wished I had written a better book, a more ambitious book, a big literary novel not a crime novel set in a small town.”

Time passed and Monte kept writing, published several books, and became a stronger writer. Ultimately, the foundation of what would become his most significant written work took shape. “I finished the basic structure of the book in 1999. When my dad was still alive,” he says. “And then I wrote the prologue, these four vignettes, four page interludes, and the epilogue. I felt my dad had to die before I could write the epilogue. It was something I needed to do. It was very personal.” He dedicated his entire 40s to complete Crossing Eden. Once his father had passed, Monte was able to pay the

ultimate tribute – the final words of his greatest work of art.

Once Upon a Time…

Monte’s interest in writing began through music when the college hockey player/German major and French minor found he had a skill for revising songs. “I remember rewriting the lyrics to the Rolling Stones’s “Ruby Tuesday” and I discovered I had a talent for writing lyrical lines.”

Then came a song that altered Monte’s outlook on life, a verse in “Helpless”

by Neil Young: Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes.

“And somehow at twenty or twentyone years old, I saw the world differently.

I saw it in an artistic way,” Monte says.

“Also, I was reading about California and I started writing poetry.” His father, the influential cartoonist and Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, also took note of his son’s interest, steering him to the pages of Carl Sandburg. Monte then found the works of Joan Didion and inspiration snowballed into a 26page poem about California that he brought to a poetry workshop, led

by Chuck Edwards, at the first Santa Barbara Writers Conference he attended with his father in 1975. “The three days I was at there, all they did was talk about my poem,” he said. “That was very encouraging.” ...continued p.20

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is Tommie Vaughn

Tommie adapted her love of the stage to the love of the page. As lead singer for the band Wall of Tom, she created This Rock in My Heart and This Roll in My Soul, a fictional book series based loosely on her experiences in the L.A. music scene. Now she’s spending her time checking out and writing about all things Santa Barbara. Reach Tommie at www.TommieV.com or follow her on Twitter at TommieVaughn1.

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y name is Helen. I lived sometime in the mid 1800s, born into a somewhat wealthy family, given my surroundings of Victorian grandiose furniture, along with adorned and embroidered clothing.

I have a young brother, Peter, who I completely adore and spoil – and we seem to have a spirited father, who likes to make jokes around our large, long, wooden dining table. As I turn my gaze to mother, my heart freezes in fear as she catches my eyes, and they narrow to cast a look of disgust, making me feel small.

My journey skips forward, to my five-year-old self, spinning in a field of lavender, laughing to the sky– the pure joy of youth. Again, I move forward to my teenage self, painting a picture in a drawing room. I feel the endorphins speed through my body as mother enters: “You are no good,” she says while staring at my artwork. My heart spills out as I paint harder through

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IS THIS THE REAL LIFE? IS THIS JUST FANTASY? Now, I am truly awake and laying within the ancient Himalayan Salt Cave on a sunny Sunday morning in Santa Barbara. My name is not Helen, but my heart is racing at the meditative journey my mind and body have been on. I have just awoken from my first group pastlife regression – and for someone who walked into this magical cave a doubtful skeptic, I will walk out a believer.

There has been much written about regression into a past life, and the way Salt advertised this special class was: Under a light hypnosis, you will be guided to another time and place. A past life realm that will shed light and awareness on your existence and allow the freedom to design your life from desire, rather than from unconscious habits or fears. But there is so much more about opening up your

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e’re all in a hurry, it seems. The pace of life has increased and rushing through our days— through our lives—has now become the norm. We want everything now; happiness now, success now, health now, love now.

Not surprisingly, this is how we also approach goals and life change. Around every corner is a new book selling its 30day program to eternal happiness, love, or health. Around every newsstand is another sensationalized story of overnight success. In a destination-driven culture such as this, it’s no wonder that so many of us struggle to meet our life goals and then blame it on a lack of willpower or discipline. This perspective could not be more misguided.

Start asking around and you will learn that the happiest and most successful people have achieved their life success by taking small steps and making one positive choice after another. “Crawl, walk, run,” my boss loved to say. The truth is, while hard work and discipline are valuable traits when trying to make change, they are often not enough to get the results.

Conventional wisdom may teach us that one month is all we need, but actual science shows there is a wide time range for simple habit formation. A “simpler” habit, such as drinking water each morning with breakfast, may take an average of 20 days. Compare that to a “bigger” or more “challenging” habit, such as exercising each day before work, and it can take the better part of six months before our inner autopilot kicks in. Whatever the goal, it’s critical that we set ourselves up to win. And the way we win is through baby steps.

What is a baby step? A baby step is a realistic, quickly achievable, smaller portion of a larger goal that varies based on your specific intention, time frame, and motivation. The reason this strategy works is because we are able to see tangible progress, rather quickly, so we feel a sense of accomplishment and are encouraged to move on to our next mini goal, using the small successes as stepping-stones to larger change. In essence, we are training our brain to succeed.

Let’s use exercise as an example. Say that running a marathon is on your bucket list for 2016, but you currently

do not exercise let alone run often. You might feel inspired to to start strong with 30 minutes of running, five days per week. Chances are, after two weeks of hard work, that courageous commitment will feel like a gigantic, daunting task.

Because it feels gigantic and daunting, you will be exhausted by it, not having any fun – and therefore likely to give up.

Compare that to a baby-steps approach.

Day one requires that you put on your running shoes, walk around the block, and head home. That’s it. On day two, you walk around the block, followed by 1-2 minutes of running in place on your driveway. No more allowed. On day three, you decide to run in place a few extra minutes.

Whatever the goal, it's critical that we set ourselves up to win. And the way we win is through baby steps.

In fact, its not until the second week that you actually jog around the block instead of walk. Each day you add a small, incremental increase in effort, intensity, and distance, providing your body and mind ample time and space to adapt to the new routine. Within two months of baby steps, you are running three miles each day (and eventually more!) without it feeling like every last bit of motivation, willpower, and discipline were required.

Again, the key is to start small, and start where you are. Don’t fall into trap of quick fixes and expect a quantum leap, at least not at first. Rather than trying to meditate for 10 minutes per day, start by meditating for one minute per day.

Rather than starting with 30 pushups, start with five.

Learning to be patient is perhaps the most critical skill of all. You can make incredible progress if you are consistent and patient. Do things you can sustain.

After all, lasting change is not found at the destination, it’s found inside the journey. And the journey is one (baby) step at a time.

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by jacquelyn De Longe

Jacquelyn’s creative interests earned her a degree in fine art from Art Center College of Design, followed by years in the Los Angeles art world working for major galleries and prominent artists. She is regularly published in West Coast newspapers and magazines, in addition to working as a producer and director in the performing arts. She is an advocate for children’s art programs and, she is not afraid to dance down the aisle at the grocery store with her kids when Talking Heads plays overhead. Contact Jacquelyn at www.delongewrites.com.

TALKIN’ ABOUT A REVOLUTION IS WIRTH-WHILE Jenni Sorkin, co-curator of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s inaugural exhibition Revolution in the Making:Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016 and UCSB professor (Photo: Leo Cabal)

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anta Barbara is a scenic beauty all her own, rich with culture and art, yet a 101 road trip south along the coast into the megalopolis of Los Angeles, takes you to one of the world’s most vibrant developing art scenes.

Located in a converted grain and mill factory in Los Angeles’ revitalized Downtown Arts District is the gallery Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, which opened its doors only a few months ago.

Their inaugural exhibition, Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016, was co-curated by our own Jenni Sorkin, UCSB’s assistant professor of Contemporary Art History and is currently up for viewing through the summer.

Paul Schimmel, partner and vice president of the gallery, sought out Sorkin for her knowledge on the period, having previously worked with her at MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) Los Angeles and her subject expertise, knowing she had also worked on WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, with notable curator Connie Butler.

Sorkin explains, “This is a museum quality show in a contemporary space.

Most of the show is museum and private collection loaned. The idea was to do a historical survey… the show is about trying to rework the history of postwar sculpture and tilt it toward women artists who have historically been left out of the narrative of late-20th-century

art history. So this was an opportunity to rework the history from within a medium that has never been particularly women-friendly.”

Through the understated entrance of Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the grand-scale work of Shinique Smith’s “Forgiving Strands” drapes overhead, a celebratory welcoming to the sprawling gallery. The large open-air courtyard in the center of the complex prominently displays Jackie Winsor’s “30 to 1 Bound Trees”, a towering sculpture soaring toward the sky made with wood and hemp.

The multiple galleries within Hauser Wirth & Schimmel each have a distinct point of view and a cohesiveness with the exhibiting artists. In the East Gallery, Sonia Gomes, Abigail Deville, and Phyllida Barlow playfully up-cycle mixed materials using bold colors and messy shapes. Down the hall in the South Gallery, Ruth Asawa’s elegantly woven forms droop their feminine shape above a curved white platform, while the angels of Lee Bontecou’s welded wall pieces and Louise Bourgeois’s wooden sculpture “Untitled (The Wedges)”, cut sharper through the heavenly white light of space.

Across the courtyard is North Gallery A, where the weighty works of cement and iron from artists Anna Maria Maiolino and Cristina Iglesias assert themselves, and the airy weaving of Marisa Merz, Lygia Pape, and Liz Larner creates a presence with a lighter

Lynda Benglis, “Wing”, 1970, cast aluminum

Claire Falkenstein, “Wire Sun”, circa 1960, copper

ephemeral touch.

The adjacent North Gallery B houses the heavy hitters of the exhibit.

Magdalena Abakanowicz’s “Wheel with Rope” is on view, after twenty-five years out of the public’s eye and graciously loaned from the National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland. There are legendary pieces, such as the aluminum casts by Lynda Benglis that splash out from the wall, frozen in mid-air and large scale latex wall hangings by Eva Hesse, who appropriated unconventional materials, pushing boundaries between painting and sculpture.

“The chance to work with historic mid-century work was really exciting, and to see these large-scale works that

were coming out of storage. This is a show with female sensibility. It’s a survey, and we really wanted to take the show all the way up to the present.

It was important to find younger artists to include, but also pay homage to, their mid-century predecessors,” said Sorkin.

Catch Jenni Sorkin talking indepth about this historic show at her curatorial walkthrough happening on Sunday, June 25, at 2pm at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. Take a drive, get out of town, see some amazing art, and support a local Santa Barbara curator/ professor. This is an amazing exhibition of International female artists and one you don’t want to miss!

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Obsessed With

...continued from p.14

A POKE PARTY

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trolling the grounds at the Santa Barbara Public Market, the Ahi Tuna poke at I’A Fish Market & Café made us do a double take. I’A (pronounce ee-uh) is the place in SB to get the traditional Hawaiian dish poke (pronounce po-kee) in up to four varieties. The soy sauce, sesame oil, vinegar, green onions, and sesame seed flavors meld together and allow the tender and meaty Ahi to be the star of the show. Grab the family and call your friends. Time to go fishin’.

I’A Fish Market & Café at the Santa Barbara Public Market 38 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara (Ample underground parking available) (805) 845-0745 Mon-Sat: 7:30 am to 9 pm Sun: 8 am to 9 pm Instagram: @santabarbarapublicmarket www.sbpublicmarket.com

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

DIVERSE MEDIUMS

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e have one more stop,” my friend says. It’s the last 15 minutes of 1st Thursday and we aren’t ready to leave just yet. She leads me to The Press Room, where art by Michael Matheson hangs on the wall. His artwork is polarizing in a sense – precise, spit-shading/tattoostyle watercolor prints (as seen here) sandwich a large scale woodblock piece (which was printed by driving an industrial steamroller over the wood to create pressure for the print). The piece, titled “Death Grip”, is inspired

by Greek mythology that Matheson created for a gallery in L.A. Become awed by this diverse artist and take in his work over the next three months at The Press Room. You can also find his art hanging at Municipal Wine Makers.

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(photo by Hector Javkin)

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Face-to-face meeting with agents is one of the many opportunities available to patrons of the conference

To Be or Not to Be Monte checks the clock and hops out of his quilted leather chair. “I’ve got to take the boys to tennis. It’s just right up the road. Would you like to come? We can continue in the car.” We head out of the office and make our way back to the foyer. “Boys!” he yells up the stairs, “Time to go!” Moments later, I meet the two well-mannered young men.Their bright-blue eyes are marked by the same sparkle as their father’s.

We exit the house one-by-one, tennis gear in tow, and crunch our way across the gravel drive and pour into the car.

As we pull out of the driveway, Monte flashes back to a similar experience. It was the the early 1960s, and his father was being filmed for a documentary.

“They interviewed (my dad) on camera as he’s driving us to school. All of a sudden, I got a glimpse of this.

It was for a documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown.” Monte’s face lights up when he speaks of his father. “’There’s no such thing as writer’s block.’ My dad told me that years ago.

He put it like this, ‘Only amateurs get writer’s block. Professionals can’t afford it.’” I laugh as the intimidation of writing this article dissipates with thoughts of an impending deadline.

We enter the grounds of the tennis club and park out front. “Okay, boys!

Bounce out. I’ll come get you guys.

Enjoy your time.” They climb out of the car and grab their tennis gear from the trunk. We wave goodbye and head back to the house. I’m curious to Monte’s

early experiences at the conference. He relays a story of his second, maybe third, visit to the SBWC, a visit with a much different outcome than his first. “I read a scene, just to introduce a couple characters. I thought if it was wellwritten, it would be good,” he said. “But instead, the field didn’t like it and one of the workshop leaders said, ‘This scene is just a black hole. And this writer doesn’t show any gift for creativity whatsoever.’

My dad’s head almost blew off. It’s funny because the scene is in Down by the River verbatim. I just moved it.”

He’s had several opportunities at literary fame, all of which ended just shy of celebrity. “The muse has visited me and said, ‘Monte, here’s a story.

You can create great works of art in writing your music, or you can have commercial success. But you can’t have both. So what’s it’s going to be?’

Commercially, as an artist, I am a black hole. Everything hits and dies here with me. And I’ve accepted it. It doesn’t dissuade my art at all.”

As we turn on his street and head toward the gravel drive, I ask what encouraged him to buy the conference six years ago. He references a line spoken by actor Alastair Sim who played Scrooge in the 1951 film version of A Christmas Carol. When Scrooge is asked to sell the vested interest in his business, he replies, “It’s not just for money alone that one spends a lifetime building up a business… it’s to preserve a way of life that one knew and loved.” ...continued p.27

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BerryMan

by Cory Clark

The Berry Man, Inc. is a wholesale produce distributor supplying produce and artisanal products to restaurants, resorts, institutions, caterers, and markets from Big Sur to Santa Barbara to Santa Monica. While sourcing worldwide, special emphasis is on the locally grown. Cory Clark is sales and marketing director of The Berry Man, Inc. and the voice of this sponsored column, The Berry Man.

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CAUSE & EFFECT...

HELPING THOSE WHO HELP US

FATHER’S DAY CAMPOUT

CRACKING THE CODE

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ave you ever pondered the journey that your food has taken to get to your plate? Hopefully, the next time that you walk down your grocery aisle, you will have a great appreciation.

Agriculture is vulnerable to market fluctuations. From a sales perspective, it is one of the most difficult businesses there is. We often joke that it’s like cracking the Da Vinci Code to understand the business because as a collective, farmers, wholesalers, and producers are subject to a number of uncontrollable variables: environmental change, changes in supply and/or demand, even small changes in any of these can greatly affect the prices that are paid for commodities.

A great illustration of this is avocados. We sell millions of pounds of avocados annually. Years ago, there were three options that were dependent on the season.

Hass avocado is the prevailing variety sold on the market. We once had three major areas of production: California, Mexico, and Chile. Chilean fruit has fallen off because it was never a successful off-season product. “Off-season” means we

What you might not realize: prices literally change every day import the product from other countries when the season we are in will not produce avocadoes in California. Mexico is the runner-up for quality and features that are most desirable in avocados. The California Avocado however, is still king, commanding the highest price. When Mexican production starts closing (May, June) and California begins, we see a leveling off of pricing, as steady production produces a steady price.

Once Mexico ends completely (June), we see an increased demand. When supply from Mexico suddenly drops, you see rising prices. Couple that with drought conditions, and now California production can’t keep up with the demand. Voilà!

You have a market spike or skyrocket!

Pricing for raw product is extremely inconsistent. Subtle market fluctuations have to be absorbed by wholesalers, such as us. What you might not realize is: prices literally change every day. Since we don’t have a crystal ball to foresee the future, we get to hang on the edge of our seats daily and hope the prices don’t skyrocket.

One of the hardest things for restaurants and food-service establishments is that they are committed to the prices that they print. I don’t know any restaurants that can quote market price on their menus. They can’t simply change and reprint their menus daily.

Another compelling point is how we procure the products we sell. With our volume of business, we can’t simply buy direct, from farmers only. Our philosophy is to buy local and direct first, then fill in with products that we cannot get directly from a central market (which are in all major cities). These markets are aggregates where produce is consolidated from various regions, including overseas. Global trade makes the economic world go ‘round, which is not such a bad thing. We are happy that our business supports both local and international markets.

Relationships are key. Good relationships are what drive our business to succeed.

Our buyers have more than 30 years of experience. Respect and loyalty are critical for us. We must have a mutual commitment to buy their products and turn around and sell them. The partnership is actually a trinity among the farmer, buyer, and those we sell to. We want our customers to be satisfied so they want to keep buying our products, so we can keep buying from the farmers. The farmer needs to be able to count on us, season after season, to buy from him. Having good relationships with our vast network of local growers, as well as our loyal customers, is how we measure our true success.

When I eat out, knowing all of this makes me happy to pay the prices. I know first-hand how many livelihoods my money is supporting. I think we should all feel good about putting money back into the pockets of those who sustain our supply.

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e’ve got a unique Father’s Day idea for you. Join in on the Arroyo Hondo campout where everyone is welcome – it’s not just for fathers and kids!

Check out this lineup: pitch your tent in the Hollister Family Meadow and enjoy activities for both children and adults such as hiking trails, live music, and a catered, ranch-style barbecue dinner. After dinner, the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit will set up a station for stargazing, and there will be s’mores around the campfire. It gets better – wake up Sunday morning to breakfast at the campsite followed by Gentle Yoga and a nature walk. Bonus: this year, they’ve invited Santa Barbara Audubon Society’s Eyes in the Sky Program to come for education hour with Max, the great-horned owl. They’ve pretty much got all the fun events covered and then some.

Space is limited and this event always sells out, so contact The Land Trust for Santa Barbara Country at (805) 966-4520 to make your reservations today. C&E...

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3 THINGS

YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT

ENRIQUE ARREOLA OF DEL PUEBLO CAFÉ

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he excitement begins as you walk through the door. The bright walls and artwork by up-and-coming and established artists accentuate the colorful platters of made-from-scratch food, which Enrique Arreola and family have put hearts into creating since 1997. On special after-hours occasions, the restaurant turns into a music venue for Latin-alternative bands. Enrique took a minute to let us in on a few personal fun facts.

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1. (One of my hobbies includes) cruising my steel frame ‘77 Dawes singlespeed bike on Goleta and Santa Barbara bike lanes.

2. I enjoy sharing as much time as possible with my two favorite birds, the Quetzal and the Paloma. (I consider them) my son and daughter.

3. I have grown to like the process of putting together the 18 ingredients that make up our very traditional mole poblano sauce. It requires plenty of time, even with modern kitchen tools, and leaves you with an appreciation of the ingenuity and work that those nuns from Puebla, Mexico, put in when they invented the stuff.

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he beat starts thumping and I stop mid-sentence, bobbing my head as I get out of my seat to turn up the volume on the radio. “Ooh! Listen to this!” I said to my friend.

She gets up and joins me in an impromptu dance party in my living room. “This is awesome! Who is this?”

Turns out, the tune – “Hey Lion” – belongs to SOFI TUKKER, comprising Sophie HawleyWeld and Tucker Halpern, who connected at a warehouse show where Sophie was belting out bossa nova (Brazilian-style music) songs. Since then, they’ve produced hard-tocategorize dance music with influences in poetry, spirituality, and tribal-disco beats. They’re played on radio stations all over the world, and most recently their song “Drinkee” became part of the Apple Watch campaign. Catch them live on stage at Velvet Jones on Thursday, June 9. We’ll be there. Dancing shoes on.

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Q. We’ve been dancing to your tunes on KCRW and love that SOFI TUKKER gets us moving! Can you explain what it was like during your first collaboration?

A. The first collaboration was so seamless, despite the fact (or because of the fact!) that we come from such different musical backgrounds and expertise.

ENCORE

THE LUMINEERS AT THE BOWL

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looked up from the pit and watched as people held hands, danced wildly, and sang “Stubborn Love” to the tops of their lungs: “When we were young. Oh, oh, we did enough. When it got cold. Ooh ooh, we bundled up. I can’t be told, Ah ah it can’t be done…”

There are some bands that you want to see live just to sing along to the album, and the Lumineers did not disappoint.

They even surprised us with an intimate performance by the sound board, mid set.

Hits from their second album, Cleopatra, such as “Ophelia” held strong next to their self-titled first album. They’ve solidified themselves as a band with staying power and we can’t wait to catch them back at the Bowl.

Santa Barbara Bowl 1122 North Milpas Street, Santa Barbara (805) 962-7411 Instagram: @sbbowl

What are your go-to jams?

Recently we’ve loved flipping slower, more acoustic songs that you wouldn’t necessarily dance to into dance tracks. (That’s how SOFI TUKKER started, after all.) We have a mix tape full of them that we’ll share at some point very soon.

What’s been the most satisfying part of performing together?

Probably connecting with the audience! It’s an amazing feeling to be in a room where we feel like everyone is on the same page and in the same world on the same vibration with us.

People have a hard time figuring out which category to put your music in. In a few words, how do you describe your art?

It’s us. It’s what happens when you mix our tastes and knowledge and personalities. It’s what we want to hear. We love that people can’t categorize it, so we aren’t going to do it for them.

Who would you most like to collaborate with?

Hmm. Stromae!

What venue/festival/event would you most like to perform at? Or have you been there, done that?

Anywhere where people just want to have a good time and be loose, big or small venue.

We haven’t been to Berlin as a band yet. That’s definitely a place we want to go and dance.

What would you like most for the future of SOFI TUKKER? For it to be long, for us to continue making things, to continue feeling inspired and inspiring each other!

SOFI TUKKER at Velvet Jones 423 State Street, Santa Barbara Doors: 7:30 pm • Show: 8:30 pm • 18 and over • $12 to $15 Instagram: @sofitukker • www.sofitukker.com

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David and Anna deLaski stand in their Los Olivos deLanda Vineyard

by Hana-Lee Sedgwick

Hana-Lee Sedgwick is a writer, wine consultant and lover of all things wine and food. As a Certified Specialist of Wine and Sommelier, she loves to explore the world of wine in and around her hometown of Santa Barbara. When not trying new wines or traveling, she can be found practicing yoga, cooking, entertaining and enjoying the outdoors. Visit her popular blog, Wander & Wine, for wine tips, tasting notes and adventures in wine and travel: wanderandwine.com

SOLMINER SHINES IN SANTA YNEZ

Solminer Wines specializes in Austrian-inspired varietals and Syrah

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ver heard of a Blaufränkisch from Santa Barbara County? Yeah, me neither. That is, until I met up with David and Anna deLaski to taste through the unique selection of wine from their Solminer label. For the record, the Blaufränkisch did not disappoint.

So, how did these two end up living in Los Olivos growing Gruner Veltliner in their backyard and making Austrianinfluenced wines here in Santa Barbara?

They didn’t begin Solminer Wines with grandiose ambitions of being the next big thing in the wine industry. Rather, it grew naturally out of the deLaskis’ love of the Santa Ynez Valley, a desire to join the sustainable farming movement, and a decision to take a chance in the wine world.

David, an electronic music producer, and Anna, who left her home in Austria to work as a sustainability-minded wood engineer in Canada, met through friends while she was spending the summer in Los Angeles. Their first date was spent riding bikes and tasting wine in Santa Ynez, and the two soon found themselves falling in love with Santa Barbara County as they started falling in love with each other.

Although they both desired to live a

simpler, more sustainably minded life outside of L.A., the deLaskis hadn’t really considered making wine until tasting a Gruner Veltliner from California on their honeymoon. The two shared a love of crisp Austrian whites from Anna’s home near the famed Wachau wine region, but neither had tasted a standout domestic version until then. It didn’t take long for the light bulb to go off.

Shortly after, Anna and David found a home for sale in Los Olivos, complete with a couple of acres of run-down Syrah vines in the front yard. After a chance meeting with winemaker Steve Clifton (of Brewer-Clifton and Palmina fame), they decided to go all in and give this wine thing a chance. They bought the 3-acre vineyard and adjacent house, revitalized the vineyard, and in 2012, Solminer Wines was born.

With the help of mentor Clifton, Anna and David’s goal for Solminer has always been to create well-balanced California wine inspired by their love for Austrian varietals. The name Solminer means “mining the sun” (a reference to the mining power of the sun), and the name inspires them in all aspects of their winemaking process.

They utilize sustainable and biodynamic vineyard practices for their organic vineyard, source grapes from sustainably minded vineyards, and make wines with minimal intervention to really let the grapes shine.

Their vineyard, named deLanda (a combination of their first and last names), still has the old Syrah vines, but they’ve since grafted a portion of it to Gruner, Blaufränkisch, and five rows of Muscat. As those vines mature, they’ve been sourcing grapes from neighboring vineyards for wines such as their 2015 Honea Vineyard Muscat, a dry wine with aromas of honeysuckle and tropical fruits and clean notes of grapefruit on the finish. It’s a light, lovely wine that would start any summer meal off right.

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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.

Dirty Dancing with Dustbowl, but Those Darn Kids!

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ustbowl Revival put on quite a show at the Ojai Concert Series last month, delivering two sets full of swarthy songs and highly danceable tunes – and actually had some space to move thanks to the newly expanded stage at Dancing Oaks Ranch, the gently sloping hillside venue that serves as the summer home of the series. But it wasn’t all peace, love, and harmony after all.

Thanks to an overload of rowdy kids – “too many unsupervised children” as the notice put it – things got a bit out of hand at the show. We’re told some threw rocks from the upper road, others walked through the ecologically sensitive creek, and a few crawled along the back of fences that are supposed to be out of bounds (perhaps presaging the Cincinnati Zoo incident with the gorilla). So now there’s been a change of policy going forward. Where all those under 16 have always been admitted free, now you gotta pay. Admission for kids 7 to 15 – the especially frisky age, I guess – will now be charged $10 per, though tykes six and under will still get in free.

Personally, I didn’t see the aberrant behavior, but maybe that’s because I

was dancing up a little swing in front of the band for most of the night – that is, when I wasn’t making repeated visits to the food area where the potluck offerings kept going and growing almost seemingly throughout the show. What I remember was the sunshine fading to sunset, the giant peace sign hung from the trees (left over from a wedding a few years back), the smell of the burning wood... I still haven’t washed out of my fleece jacket. The events really are like a mini festival in a single evening, complete with food, friends, opening acts, a campfire, and dancing under the oaks, just 30 minutes out of town.

As for Dustbowl, I must admit lamenting the loss of banjo from the octet, but there’s definitely sharper songs and tighter rhythms with the solidified lineup. See for yourself when the Revival appears Friday night, June 17, at the Live Oak Music Festival (more on that below).

Meanwhile, next up at Dancing Oaks is the return of Vancouver-based Delhi 2 Dublin, an adventurous ensemble that mashes up electronica and Irishflavored world music, heavy on the Bhangra, Celtic, and Dub flavors. The

At Dancing Oaks Ranch, all the world’s an expanded stage

formula: take your basic electronic beats and add tabla, fiddle, dhol, and Punjabi vocals – what, you’ve never heard that before?! Potluck begins at 5 pm on Saturday, June 11, and opening the concert is Alas Latinas, the south of the Border-flavored duo of vocalist Claudia Simone and guitarist Don Cardinali at 5:30, followed by an as yet unnamed “musical surprise” at 6:30, before Delhi 2 Dublin hits the stage at 7.

Tix are $20 for adults and, brandnew, $10 for the children 7-15. Oh, and it’s still free if you’re over 99.

Other Outings to Ojai The Delhi 2 Dublin is part of a crazy weekend of events over in Ojai, though technically the concert at Dancing Oaks Ranch is in Ventura – it’s called the Ojai Concert Series because the non-warm weather shows take place downtown at the Women’s Center. Anyway, the cognoscenti of the classical world will be gathering in Libbey Bowl and around town for the 70th annual Ojai Music Festival June 9-12, and the Ojai Wine Festival occupies the banks of Lake Casitas Recreation Area, a couple of miles back down Highway 150. So much for peace, quiet, and tranquility in the mountain village. Guess there’s always the other 51 weeks of the year.

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Atelier at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art doesn’t happen often anymore – and the big 1,500-strong full-on Nights events are a thing of the past. But “The Scent of Secret Gardens”, which happened in mid-May, was a blast.

While 16 different floral arrangement provided a delightful aroma in the galleries, most of the activities took place al fresco in the La Arcada Plaza, where several ensembles offered Indian music and dance of various styles, and guests got to get their hands involved sculpting their own “state of Buddha mind” out of clay, and/or bagging their own blend of spices to take home for aroma therapy. The Good Lion – whose

cocktails are never less than scintillating – created Rose Petal Punch and Ginger Blossom drinks, and the serrrano-ginger chicken skewers and goan pork vindaloo were seriously sumptuous.

My only complaint? Wish it lasted more than two hours and happened more often.

Revels Recruiting Wanna be a part of Santa Barbara Revels Scottish Celebration this December? The annual Christmastime show is gearing up, getting ready, and is on the lookout to add to its usual roster of performers. The Winter Solstice shows feature the music, dance, story-telling and seasonal rituals of the Scottish Highlands, complete with bagpipes, fiddle, cello, harp, timpani, and a brass quintet.

Adult auditions for the Solstice Singers – which includes all voice ranges – take place 6-9 pm Monday, June 6, in the Sanctuary at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, 1535 State Street.

Hopefuls should prepare a simple art song, folk song, or carol to sing a cappella. Kids aiming for the Yuletide Children’s Chorus get their chance in the afternoon (3:30 to 5 pm) in the same location, and need only be prepared to sing, move, and make noise. Call 5659357 for info and appointment times.

Live and Let Live The 2016 Live Oak Music Festival, which runs June 17-19 up at Live Oak Camp halfway up the San Marcos Pass, seems to have returned to its roots with a lineup decidedly favoring folk and acoustic acts this time around. Among those appearing are Drive In Romeos, Dustbowl Revival, Mike & Ruthy, and Jay Farrar (Friday); Rainbow Girls, T Sisters, James McMurtry, Kenny Taylor, California Honeydrops (Saturday); and Sean Rowe, Sarah Jarosz, and Wynonna Judd (Sunday).

Get festival passes, including camping, day passes, and details online at www. liveoakfest.org or call 781-3030.

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BY Elizabeth Rose

I Heart SB is a social experiment in dating and relationships through stories shared with and experienced by a thirty-something living in the Greater Santa Barbara area. All stories herein are based on actual events. Some names, places, and timelines have been altered to preserve anonymity and, most of all, for your reading enjoyment. Submit stories (maximum 700 words) to letters@santabarbarasentinel.com.

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hey don’t tell you about the major life shift that happens when acquiring a relationship when you are in your 30s. The early days, for me, were an adjustment and I still find myself settling in, seven months later.

The first time he stayed over, he asked which side of the bed I preferred. My response? “The middle.” It was true. Both sides were my side. I never had to choose. At that moment, I understood how set in my ways I had become and what a change in my normal life a relationship would be. Am I actually going to commit to this? Like, for real, real? I was so used to being just me.

Since then, our relationship has evolved to the point where “you” and “me” has turned into “we” – and I have loved becoming one half of a couple with him. But I’ve noticed when I speak off-the-cuff, my initial reaction is to keep us separate. I create definitive boundaries in my speech. His “our” is my “yours” and “mine.” For example, here’s an exchange we had while walking through the farmers market:

The real issue is, I don’t want to scare myself “…and before we sail to Alaska, I’m going to install a hard top on my boat.

Excuse me, our boat.”

“Awesome! That’ll look great on your boat!”

What the hell? If he throws around “we” and “our” without even thinking, then I should feel comfortable doing that, too, right? The answer to that is a unanimous, “Duh.” Part of me thinks I keep “you” and “me” as a way to respect our individual lives. I also feel it’s me not wanting to rush things and that keeping us separate in speech will keep the pressure off him.

But it’s never about the other person. The real issue is, I don’t want to scare myself. It seems I conquer some areas of self-doubt, but they manifest in other ways. Same anxiety, different form. Turns out that maybe I’m afraid of losing myself in this relationship in some way, still afraid to really put myself out there. I can’t hide from the truth. The subconscious has spoken.

I expressed my early concerns to several friends and the general consensus was they had felt this way, too. They also made me realize that being able to pull back and look on as an outsider to notice “what you’re missing out on” in your single life is healthy. Life will continue to put obstacles or tests in our path to make sure we want to continue in the direction we are heading. The truth lies on which intentions you want to fulfill. After some research, I’ve found all my roads lead back to “we.”

But it happened again this past weekend. His best friends from high school invited me to a surprise birthday party, a nice gesture knowing that my partner wouldn’t be able to make it. I called him to see what I should bring, if anything.

“I’m going to your friend’s birthday party. Do you want me to get him a little something from you?”

Once again, I’m creating boundaries with you.

“I don’t know. Just get him a funny card from the both of us. That’ll be great.”

My heart melts. And maybe that’s just what needs to happen. I need to allow my heart to melt the walls I’ve built and let the warm embrace of his “we” and “ours” bring me further into our love.

Because every time he says it, I settle in and surrender a little more to the “we” of it all. I can’t deny that it feels so good.

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PLANB by Briana Westmacott

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chool’s out, yes, and as a parent this means the summer scramble is about to begin. We have participated in a number of good summer camp programs around town, so I put together a list in case you need some activities besides the beach: Camp Kono ~ music, dance, and art • Rancho Palomino ~ horses, art, archery and more • UCSB Sports Camps ~ any and all different sport programs • Junior Lifeguards ~ lifeguarding and ocean swimming • Detar Music ~ band camp • Hearts Horse Experience Camp ~ horses

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 multitasking through her days as a mother, wife, sister, want-to-be chef and travel junky.

Writing is an outlet that ensures mental stability... usually.

SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER

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s we approach the final days of the 2015-16 school year, my daughter Elli and I thought it would be fun to publish letters from local children who wanted to thank their teachers.

Our educators work tirelessly to create positive learning environments that help the youth to flourish and grow.

We owe them a debt of gratitude for all that they do. Here’s to finishing another fabulous year! And to all the teachers out there, we wish you a happy summer.

Ms. White made 5th grade extra special for Elli

NO MORE PENCILS, NO MORE BOOKS, THESE TEACHERS NEVER GAVE US DIRTY LOOKS! Dear Ms. White, I am so happy that I got a chance to be your student. You are one of my favorite teachers that I’ve ever had! I learned so much since the beginning of the school year. I want to thank you for your support through the year; it’s going to be hard to say goodbye. I will always remember how you made everything fun, even math. Thank you for being such a great teacher.

Love from, Elliana Westmacott 5th grade Washington Elementary School Dear Mr. Acton, Thank you for teaching me math and times tables. I really enjoyed being in your class. You are very nice to me.

I also like when you read stories to us.

My favorite story was The Indian in the Cupboard. My favorite character was Little Bear. You were a great teacher.

Love,

Mr. Acton will always be an A+ in my daughter Lila’s eyes!

Lila Westmacott 2nd grade Washington Elementary Dear Mrs. Branquinho, You have been the best teacher this whole year! You have helped me learn so much and you have pushed me to do my best. I really appreciate that you give out peanuts during class. My reading levels have gone up because you have taught me so much. I really liked that the field trips were so fun. I loved learning about the Valley while doing our open house projects. I will miss having you as a teacher.

Love, Kate Mazza 3rd grade Los Olivos Elementary School

Dear Mrs. Roberts, I just wanted to thank you for the great year that I have had with you.

Even though I came in late in the year, you still helped me thrive and grow. You made me feel welcome in the classroom from the first day. It is going to be hard to leave the classroom, and most of all leaving you. I have grown in all my classes because you helped me get there.

I am very grateful to have had you as my teacher. I especially liked our time at Outdoor School. You are such a great fifth grade teacher! Thank you so much for the work and effort you put into teaching me!

Best Regards, Lily Mazza 5th grade Los Olivos Elementary School

Dear Mrs. Margerum, I loved being in your class this year.

It was such a fun year! I will miss our reading group and Dance Party Fridays!

You are an excellent teacher and I am going to miss you.

Love, Samantha Fallon 2nd grade Peabody Charter School Dear Mr. Silva, I have had an awesome time with you as my teacher. I am going to miss doing math and reading with you, especially Explode the Code. I loved getting to

break dance during our dance parties too! I can’t wait to visit your classroom again next year.

Love, Thatcher Fallon Kindergarten Peabody Charter School Dear Mrs. Craviotto, I remember wanting to have you as my 3rd grade teacher because everyone said how nice you were, and they were right! Thank you for being so nice!

Thank you for knowing what books I would like. Thank you for making math fun! Thank you for being the best teacher ever! Thank you for making 3rd grade awesome!

From, Jeremy Westmacott 3rd grade Peabody Charter School Dear Miss McBurnie, You are magical! You are very creative, smart, caring, kind, a leader, inspiring, generous, and so much more. What I liked about you is that you always helped me when I needed help. You make it easy and fun to learn. You make the things we don’t understand easier by helping us, except on a test. I really loved having you as my 3rd grade teacher.

From, Clara Stump 3rd grade Washington Elementary

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Monte shares the same vision. “When I think of SBWC, I think of one thing.

I think of a spot at the old Miramar where the tennis courts were, and where they used to have the train and a little sundeck for people to have lunch. And I picture my dad, Ray Bradbury, or Barnaby Conrad in their tennis shorts, wandering the grounds, playing doubles, and people walking by with books and that sort of thing,” he says. “My memory, my thought, my present of the SBWC actually exists in the past. I bought the conference to preserve that part of my life knowing it was going to be good for other people. In that context, whether the attendance is up or down, it doesn’t mean anything to me. What matters is that it goes on. I’m impervious to criticism that way. I’ve kept it the way it always was. The way it was back at the Miramar, and that’s enough.”

He parks the car and I open the door to step out. The late afternoon sun begins to fade, and I pause to take in the quiet of the golden hour. I have one question before we part ways. What would he like for people to take away from the conference? His answer is the reason why I and other writers rely on and cherish the SBWC. “The idea of being in a society of writers. It’s mostly to celebrate the writers’ life with people who share the same passion as you do.

I don’t see any greater reason to have the conference other than that. People feel buoyed by going there and being surrounded by writers. I think that’s important.”

Santa Barbara Writers Conference June 5-10, 2016 at Hyatt Centric Santa Barbara 1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard, Santa Barbara To learn more about the conference and events open to the public, visit www. sbwriters.com

SBWC Contest Winners

After reviewing more than 250 entries from all over the United States, the SBWC would like to congratulate three winners who won full tuition scholarships to this year’s Santa Barbara Writers Conference: Prose Winner

Melanie Howard From Alexandria, Virginia Excerpt from an autobiographical novel: It would be nice if the night that changed my life had happened in Paris, on rain splattered ancient streets, or on one of those bleached Greek island outcroppings overlooking an azure sea. But life – my life anyway – is not a romance novel. That night, I was the unlikely final third of a trio of bluejeaned Lolitas, sipping cherry cola Slurpees on the curb in front of 7-11, barefoot among the pop-tops and cigarette butts. I remember I’d used heroic amounts of Cover Girl Erase to try and disguise a zit on my chin, and it itched miserably, but I was determined not to touch it. I’d spent hours perfecting my appearance, and worried that the August humidity would not only melt off my Erase, but also frizz my hair. I’d spent After a tortured night sleeping in orange juice cans, it hung straight below my shoulders, just like Julie’s on The Mod Squad.

This was the era of sunny girls who lightened their hair with Sun-In and tanned their skin with oil that smelled of coconut, who wore Love’s Baby Soft and pulled the wings on their Sun In streaked hair back with baby girl barrettes shaped like bows. I was trying hard to be one of them. I’d just moved here, to Hampton, a military town on the edge of the Chesapeake.

Thick glasses and a love of reading had put me on the very bottom of the social food chain in my early teen years, spent in a split-level outside Washington, D.C. Over the summer, I’d gotten both contact lenses and boobs. And I realized, when I arrived at our new half-built housing development, that no one there knew that in my previous incarnation, I’d been the nerd who even the boys in Advanced French wouldn’t dance with at school sock hops. This was 1972, and

there was no Instagram or Face Book to follow me. I decided to invent a past as a popular girl. This was a risk, of course, because I had no inside information about how popular girls behaved. But I knew how to recognize opportunity. So when Cathy and Sally showed up on my doorstep to ask if I would go to them to a party on Saturday night, I took one look at them and said yes.

“You know, there will be drinking and maybe some pot,” Sally had said in a low voice, after peering behind me to make sure my mother wasn’t nearby.

“I’ve never had a marijuana cigarette,” I blurted out.

Cathy and Sally exchanged looks, their eyes sliding sideways and down.

I had said precisely two sentences, but had already blown it, condemning myself to another night in my room with my two closest friends, Simon and Garfunkel. “You know what the Sounds of Silence really sound like, right?” my father had said last night. “I’ll give you a hint. There’s no hippie crap playing on a record player.”

Prose Winner

Wanda Maureen Miller Manhattan Beach, California Excerpt from an autobiographical novel, Last Trip Home: I buried Daddy on Christmas Eve, 1995, in Arkansas. Even in death, he was inconsiderate. Nick and I were getting ready to go to a private party at our tennis club when Aunt Desser called with the news. It was always my aunts, Desser or Guster, Daddy’s younger sisters, who called with bad news. None of my older relatives had owned telephones long enough to feel free to waste hard-earned money on a long distance call just to chat. I had longed for this call all my adult life.

In my reoccurring pre-menstrual murder fantasy, Daddy’s death is always dramatic. The setting is the middle of the

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night in the sharecropper shack. He is driven over the edge, by despair or perhaps by some act of disobedience, maybe mine.

He and Mama are in the front bedroom.

He shoots her first with the .22 rifle he uses for squirrel hunting.

Asleep in the side room, I am awakened by the shot and filled with dread, but I am frozen, unable to move. I conveniently remain frozen while he continues his bloody path through the front room, where my younger handicapped sister, Violet, is asleep on a pallet. I hear Violet’s piteous cries as she begs him not to kill her. One more shot and I am up. I stumble over the trunk on the floor and am unable to save my sister.

I hear him thump heavily into the middle room, where so many bad things happened. I turn on the light and fearlessly fling myself at him before he shoots my older brother, Joe Buck. Sometimes I allow Daddy merely to wound Joe Buck, so I will have to drag us both to the hospital later. Daddy is always wearing the dingy white jockey shorts he wore when he walked around the house at night, when he sat in the pink plastic platform rocker and read or watched television. With superhuman strength, I wrestle the gun away from him. Sometimes he shoots me in the struggle, a serious wound but not mortal.

He throws me against the wall, but I keep coming back. Sometimes I beat him to death with his own gun. I never shoot him. That’s too quick and impersonal, to let a bullet kill him. I prefer hands on. Touching him in real life repels me, but in my revenge fantasy I am thrilled to grab him by his leathery neck and beat his head against the wall until his skull turns to mush and his brains drain through the hole in the floor where I used to sweep dirt. His last breath makes my breath quicken.

The reality was less dramatic. Aunt Desser got right to the point. “Grace Mayree, your daddy’s dead.”

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THEGOODLAND by Chantal Peterson Chantal Peterson is a writer, travel enthusiast and a fine artist. She runs a content marketing business for wellness brands, and is an occasional contributor to various local and national publications. Contact Chantal at mypenlives@gmail.com or @moivelle on Instagram.

ENJOYING A PINT AT DRAUGHTSMEN ALEWORKS The Draughtsmen crew (from left): Reno King, Tami Snow, Chris Van Meeuwen, and Scott Stefan (not pictured, Kris Turner) Head brewer Reno King working on one of the tanks

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f you’ve been hearing rumors about the up-and-coming development of “the Funk Zone of Goleta” they are likely well-intentioned, but possibly somewhat misinformed. While there is a burgeoning microbrewery and winery scene sprouting in Goleta, it is going to have a very different feel from the

downtown SB vibe, which is precisely how many locals and business owners want it to be.

Enter Goleta’s newest locally owned brewery, The Draughtsmen Aleworks, a microbrewery and taproom located just off Hollister, north of Storke Road.

Tucked at the end of a non-descript

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cul-de-sac, the place appears somewhat incognito. But spend one afternoon there, and you’ll quickly realize that their low-profile location is one of the things that have secured the confidence of their growing local following.

Their customers include Goleta locals, techies, and start-up employees, as well as UCSB staffers. The regulars (yes, they already have regulars) like the proprietary feeling of truly local spot.

The Draughtsmen is the long-time dream of its five founders, who spent the last couple of years bringing the brewery to life. One of the unique things about The Draughtsmen is that it is the product of a truly ground-up endeavor, created by a group of committed entrepreneurs who have been involved in every aspect of development. Founders Scott Stefan, Reno King, Tami Snow, Kris Turner, and Chris Van Meeuwen are in it for the love of the game. From building design and trench digging, to branding and PR and, of course, the highly complex task of artisanal beer-making, the team of jovial Goleta local residents has created a product that is truly hand-made and community-focused.

Some may recognize the name of head brewer King from his days with Santa Barbara’s fastest growing brewery, Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company, as well as Poseidon Brew Co in Ventura.

Fascinated with brewing since before he could legally drink, Reno takes the reins as The Draughtmen’s “hops wrangler,”

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(a.k.a. beer maker) expertly crafting a unique menu of eight small-batch brews. The spread includes light ales, Belgian-style brews, an easy-drinking malt, a variety of IPAs, and a solid porter to round it all off.

All beer production at The Draughtsmen is done on-site, where customers are frequently invited back to check out the facilities (which can be viewed openly from the tasting bar) and to see the team at work. Currently, the microbrewery produces about 1,000 barrels of beer per year; that’s 31,000 gallons annually.

The brewery has a unique style that is decidedly not Funk Zone-esque.

Marketing leader Snow describes the style of the their microbrewery as a unique classic-modern blend of the 1950s wholesomeness meeting the industrial chic. She wanted the place to have a feeling of familiarity and comfort, to be a meeting place for friends, while keeping a clean aesthetic that feels modern and spacious. The space is indeed roomy, with a small upstairs loft and space enough for bands and events to take place.

It seems that many residents are excited about the growing microbrewery and wine scene in Goleta, but are wary of what it can mean for inhabitants.

The folks at The Draughtsmen represent the kind of establishment that local folks are receiving well – a business that is by the people and for the people, a mission slightly different from the Funk Zone, which caters more to tourists and upscale developments. It’s clear that this lighthearted and highly experienced team of beer enthusiasts are truly passionate about The Draughtsmen Aleworks, a quality that gives their beer and their taproom that made-with- love quality that simply can’t be faked.

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by Eva Van Prooyen Keeping a finger on the pulse of the Santa Ynez Valley: what to eat, where to go, who to meet, and what to drink. Pretty much everything and anything situated between the Santa Ynez and San Rafael Mountains that could tickle one’s interest.

ELEVEN WINE LOUNGE

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ucked off the main thoroughfare in Santa Ynez, a new restaurant called Eleven Wine Lounge opened for business in late March a few doors down (and across the street) from the Maverick Saloon. Drastically rounding out the culinary experience in Santa Ynez, Eleven Wine Lounge essentially offers the opposite experience from its popular and lively, authentic honkytonk neighbor.

Eleven Wine Lounge is cozy and elegant, focuses on international and local wines and beers, and offers an organic crudo menu. “It is a sexy, fun place to have a cool evening out with friends,” says one diner, adding, “The vibe is intimate with great indoor and outdoor seating, fabulous views, great music, fresh seafood, and it’s open late.”

Head chef Alberto Mastrangelo says he’s been cheffing in Santa Barbara and Montecito since 2001. “I was born Montevideo, Uruguay. My father is from Sicily, and my mother and sister are from Naples. They moved to Montevideo in 1962, and that is where I was born.”

Alberto reports the menu changes weekly based on his inspirations. “We put our hearts and souls into every dish we cook to help you feel the vibes of the Valley and to transport you to the picturesque scenes of our beautiful wine country.”

The food concept is a raw food bar, “I like to describe it as Italian sushi,” says Alberto, noting, “It’s sashimi, tartar, ceviche, and Carpaccio with an Italian twist.”

Signature dishes include a “Venetian-style” beef Carpaccio and specialty oyster shooters “made from a recipe I will take to the grave.” They also offer specialty drinks using agave wines.

There are no stoves in Eleven Wine Lounge. “The only flame comes form torches,” says Alberto. “I also offer some hot dishes. I sear scallops, oysters, and steak bites with a torch. It is a Japanese-style of executing food.”

Once a month, Eleven throws a “locals party called, 11 Fiesta,” says Alberto, explaining the next one is on Saturday, June 11, starting at 1 pm and coinciding with Old Santa Ynez days. For $11, guests get a fixed packaged of a bite to eat, a glass of wine, live music, followed by a deejay into the late evening.

“The atmosphere is sensual and sexy. Guests say they feel like they are in San Francisco or New York,” says Alberto. “It is a hidden gem in an office building in Santa Ynez.

“We’ve been told by people that have lived here for years that we have the best outside seating and views in the Valley; we’re elevated and overlooking the mountains. Please come and see it,” says Alberto.

Eleven Wine Lounge is open Tuesday through Saturday from 5 pm on and is

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SKYDIVE INTO SUMMER n Lompoc, you can experience the highest tandem jump in the world, taking in unforgettable adrenaline charged views of the ocean, hillsides, and vineyards from your choice of 8,000-, 13,000-, or 18,000-foot tandem jumps. They range from a “simple” airplane leap to the “highest jump in Southern California” or the “highest drop zone in the entire United States,” where you would “have to join the military or NASA to jump from a higher elevation. You even have to take oxygen in order to take this dive.” Assisted Free-Fall Programs are also available and designed to prepare you for your first solo jump. Skydive Santa Barbara is fully recognized by the FAA and has operated daily for the last 15 years with an untarnished safety record.

When: Everyday, but reservations are required Where: 1801 N H Street, Suite G, Lompoc Cost: $169 to $319 per daredevil jumper Info: (877) 652-JUMP or email jump@skydivesantabarbara.com

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VALLE FRESH TACO BAR AT BECKMEN VINEYARDS ’m sure somewhere there is a requirement to ring in the month of June with wine, gourmet tacos, and relaxation tucked away at a scenic family-owned vineyard in Santa Barbara’s wine country. Beckman Vineyards is a 40-acre rustic and classic nook of wine comfort located near Los Olivos. Valle Fresh will be serving their freshly made and crafted beef, veggie, and specialty pork belly tacos with goat cheese, salsa verde, cabbage, and cilantro on a handmade tortilla of yellow maize.

When: Saturday, June 11, from 1 to 4 pm Where: Beckmen Vineyards, 2670 Ontiveros Road, in Los Olivos Cost: Enjoy 3 tacos for $10 and a wine-tasting flight of 6 wines for $20 to $28 Info: (805) 688-8664 or visit www.beckemenvineyards.com

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THE 12TH ANNUAL LOS OLIVOS JAZZ & OLIVE FESTIVAL pend the afternoon tasting wine from 30 local wineries alongside 30 different olive-themed dishes prepared by Valley chefs, and sampling olive products by vendors while listening to world-class live jazz performed by Otmaro Ruiz, Bob Sheppard, Chris Colangelo, and Mark Ferber with vocalist Denise Donatelli.

(Donatelli and Ruiz are Grammy nominees). The Jazz and Olive Festival is presented by the Los Olivos Rotary Club, and all funds generated from the event are used for charitable projects supported in part by the Rotary Club.

When: Saturday, June 4, from 1 to 4 pm Where: Lavinia Campbell Park in downtown Los Olivos Cost: $65 per person Info: www.jazzandolivefestival.org

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FESS PARKER CONCERTS orld-renowned bassist Freebo and His Fabulous Friends will grace the winery terrace, performing music that “touches the heart with songs of life, love, dogs and the human condition.” Freebo has played with Bonnie Raitt, Ringo Starr, and Neil Young, and appeared on Saturday Night Live. Only 100 tickets available. Food and wine will be available for purchase When: Tuesday June 14, from 6 to 8:30 pm Where: Fess Parker Winery Terrace, 6200 Foxen Canyon Road in Los Olivos Cost: Tickets are $35 / $20 for Wine Club members Info: www.fessparkerwineshop.com

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54TH OLD SANTA YNEZ DAY CELEBRATION f you love a satisfying slice of Americana the whole family can enjoy, then join the frontier town of Santa Ynez at its Old Wild West roots birthday party during an annual Old Santa Ynez Day celebration. It’s a day filled with live music, a talent show, food, games, animals, arts, antiques, crafts, and street vendors stretching down Sagunto Street. The town’s main thoroughfare will be playfully patrolled by a “volunteer festival sheriff” looking for anyone not wearing one of the sheriff’s “badges” that will be sold as part of the event fundraiser, with proceeds going to Santa Ynez Valley Elks charities and Valley school programs.

When: Saturday, June 11; booths open at 9am, parade at 11 am Where: All along Sagunto Street in Santa Ynez Info: www.syvelks.com or call 688-3299

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