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IT’S ALL COOL AGAIN, ESPECIALLY IN DENIM, AND ESPECIALLY “LOVE WORN,” THE NEW FUNK ZONE COLLABORATION BETWEEN OLD FRIENDS JILL JOHNSON AND WALLACE PIATT (STORY BEGINS ON P. 5)

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I n The Zone – Jill Johnson and Wallace Piatt, co-owners of erstwhile True Grit, have reunited to oversee clothes-minded Loveworn

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State Street Scribe – Hair today, gone tomorrow? Bald is beautiful? Jeff Wing is not losing his hair.

iweekly Capitalist – Jeff Harding expounds on senator Hannah-Beth B Jackson’s introduction of a new bill involving the lingering stench of “fake news”

eer Guy – What’s the big deal? Zach Rosen asks the Brewers Association B about a new seal that designates independent craft breweries.

Fortnight – Music with MAW; Takács Quartet and Jeremy Denk; MAFAS concert; MAW’s Sonata Recital; Summertime Health and Beauty Expo; Music at the Ranch; Tommy Emmanuel; and Atelier at SB Museum of Art

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Plan B – Play ball! Briana Westmacott – in full throat – and daughter Lila enjoy July on the All-Stars softball diamond.

What’s Hanging – Ted Mills begins with a tribute to the late Philip Koplin, whose work is showcased in a pair of shows July 21; plus studios on Mason; Skye Gwilliam; “Bridging Fine Art”; Pop-Up Cafe; and Nell Campbell

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Man About Town – Mark Leisuré previews Dishwalla’s return to Santa Barbara on July 26; and ETC’s production of Stupid F---Bird Creative Characters – Zach Rosen gets personal with artist Chris Potter, whose landscape paintings are ubiquitous around Santa Barbara

Mom Around Town – Julie Boe, married with a child in tow, returns to the fold to partake of a session at My Gym

On Art – How Sweatt it is: Silk artist Linda Sweatt, as part of her 10-year anniversary, has a clothes encounter with Margaret Landreau Real Estate View – Michael Phillips spotlights more available properties downtown, from Castillo to Chapala to Canon Perdido I Heart SB – Elizabeth Rose probably could’ve used a stiff drink (though she doesn’t drink anymore) before rehashing a forgettable drunken date

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IN THE ZONE

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with Ted Mills Ted Mills is a local writer, filmmaker, artist, and podcaster on the arts. You can listen to him at www.funkzonepodcast.com. He currently has a seismically dubious stack of books by his bed. Have an upcoming show you’d like us to know about? Please email: tedmills@gmail.com

LOVEWORN

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ack in the mid-1990s, Wallace Piatt and Jill Johnson were a power couple of Santa Barbara’s retail scene, the joint owners of the store True Grit.

Between 1991 and 2007, they sold only the best of thrift store finds, especially vintage denim. Just the orders from Japan alone often paid the monthly rent.

At the time, they were also a couple romantically, and partied as hard as some rock stars. It’s not something to dwell on, but Wallace himself will tell you about whole days lost to drink and drug benders. The couple split, the store closed, and Johnson left Santa Barbara for the good part of a decade.

Now the two are back as co-owners of Loveworn, a clothing store and a future clothing line that recently opened down in the heart of the Funk Zone, diagonally across from Municipal Winemakers on Anacapa. They may only be friends now, but in terms of a professional relationship, it’s just like

old times.

The space is short but tall, with racks of repurposed jeans, light summer dresses, accessories with a biker-gang aesthetic, jean jacket patches of ’80s heavy-metal band logos, ’80s-style long sleeved T-shirts, and a general funky vibe that feels like the Zone of old.

“I could never do this with a different partner,” says Johnson, who with her long, center-parted blonde hair and doe eyes still looks like the quintessential SoCal girl from the ’70s. As soon as the two hung out again to check over the inchoate retail space, “it was like magic.”

Loveworn describes both Johnson’s favorite kind of clothing – like that favorite dress you had in high school, she says – and how the owner is feeling at the end of a relationship that went south. That sent her from Utah back on the road to Santa Barbara.

“I was on my way home all the time,” she smiles in retrospect.

When she first got back, she worked retail at a large department store. But Johnson, who just loves to design and sew, started feeling anxious. Piatt picks up the story, while sitting outside and enjoying a grand-opening stogie.

“Jill told me, ‘I have to do something.

The ceiling on my creativity is killing me.’”

What she wanted, she said, was an idea for a clothing company just like True Grit, a little artisan.

Piatt said it sounded cool. Johnson

said she needed help. Piatt signed up on the spot, putting in some of the money on the space at the back of Jim O’Mahoney’s Surf Museum.

In the years since Jill left town, Piatt cleaned himself up, getting sober. He wears his party years literally on his sleeve, with numerous tattoos down his arms. With all those extra hours, he dove like a man obsessed into his art, large pop-art canvases indebted to ...continued p.26

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Senator Jackson and Fake News

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enator Hannah-Beth Jackson has proposed yet another bill in the California Senate, SB 203, to protect our children from fake news.

Senator Jackson introduced the bill because she was “concerned about the recent proliferation of fake news during the presidential election …”

She said, “This legislation is about ensuring we have an informed citizenry.

The role of the media and technology is only growing. The skills we teach kids today about critical thinking, the role of media in their lives and how best to interact with social media, fake news, and technology will help keep them safe and serve them into adulthood.”

Fortunately, her bill, along with a more draconian bill (AB 1104) making it a crime to publish “false or deceptive statements on the Internet about a political candidate or ballot measure,” have been sidelined because of objections from pesky advocates of free speech (such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation). Political speech is speech, and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees us the right to speak freely no matter how wrong we may be. Politicians are fair game and the courts have given us much leeway to criticize them.

Also, dirty tricks in political campaigns are nothing new. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation: American political speech dating back as far as the John Adams-Thomas Jefferson rivalry has involved unfair smears, half- and stretched truths, and even outright lies. During the 2016 campaign alone, PolitiFact ranked 202 statements made by president Donald Trump as mostly false or false statements and 63 “Pants on Fire” statements. Hillary Clinton made 69

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statements ranked mostly false or false and seven as “Pants on Fire.”

Jackson’s press release about the bill gives away her true intent, since she admits it is a reaction to the 2016 presidential political campaign.

Jackson’s candidate lost. Hillary herself blames fake news for it. Yes, there was abundant fake news on both sides, but there was more from the Right than

another way for our state school system to churn out proto-Democrats.

When it comes down to the essence of what Jackson’s bill is getting at, it is to teach kids to think. The sad thing about the Jackson bill is its admission that our schools are not doing a good job of that. If SAT scores are a measure of education success, then we have failed our children. Recent SAT scores have been declining: reading scores are the worst since 1972; math scores are the worst since 1999.

If Senator Jackson and her claque want to help kids, the best thing they could do is teach them critical thinking. You know, the science of logic which is a pretty good tool for uncovering falsity. I’m not talking

of the printed word. By the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects…

And today, a great number – perhaps the majority – of the men and women who handle our affairs, write our books and our newspapers, carry out our research, present our plays and our films, speak from our platforms and pulpits – yes, and who educate our young people – have never, even in a lingering traditional memory,

Dirty tricks in political campaigns are nothing new the Left, maligning Hillary more than Trump, something that obviously bothered Senator Jackson.

Did it really matter? Did it swing the elections? A study of election fake news published by two Stanford and NYU econ professors concluded it is unlikely that fake news swung the election in favor of Trump. Senator Jackson and her Progressive cohorts should rest more easily: voters may not be as dumb as they think they are.

We don’t need this bill to protect our kids. They will grow up to be intelligent or ignorant adults depending on the quality of their education. “Media literacy” isn’t going to change that. If you want to help them, just tell them about Snopes, Politifact, and Urban Myth and similar sites that are pretty good at separating fake from fact.

Forgive me for being skeptical about Senator Jackson’s fake news bill. It carries with it the stink of indoctrination. In all likelihood, her “media literacy” bill will be used to guide kids to political truths as our educators see it. One could almost say that SB 203 is “fake” as being, in my opinion, a stalking horse for Jackson’s Progressive political agenda. It’s just

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about “media literacy.” I am talking about a classical education of using reason armed with the tools of logic to discern the truth or falsity of a statement.

I am talking about the Scholastic discipline of the Trivium articulated so beautifully in Dorothy Sayers’s 1947 Oxford lecture, “The Lost Tool of Learning”. She frames the problem quite accurately: For we let our young men and women go out unarmed, in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy

undergone the Scholastic discipline.

There is a science of thinking critically. It is not examining the media for lies or falsehoods, rather it arms its student with the classical tools of logic and reasoning. Our Santa Barbara high schools do not teach critical thinking, though students can take a course at SBCC (Philosophy 111). This should be the very first course a student takes and thus be armed for life.

Senator Jackson would benefit greatly from the course, and perhaps she would then learn to stop pushing useless laws.

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Hair Today

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eah, baby. You’ve probably seen me promenading about this American Riviera in my illadvisedly tight black T-shirt and ancient Chuck Taylors, strutting down State Street like a baaaaaaadass Merv Griffin.

Naturally, you incline your head and murmur to your similarly awestruck pedestrian companion as I pass; “That Jeff is an inspiring storm front of attitude, a contained cyclonic dervish of cool, a double-wide mobile hombre of righteous moxie.” And so on. Admit it, though – once or twice you’ve fleetingly suspected that I may be losing my hair, even going so far as to remark to your traveling companion through the side of your word hole: “If I’m not mistaken, Jeff is losing his hair.”

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, BUSTER You are mistaken. You’re way off. I’ve made the same misjudgment myself once or twice. Possibly you were one of the unfortunates who saw me collapse to my

knees in front of Yogurtland the other day and howl in broad daylight with the upraised hands and jutting lower teeth of a late-period Charlton Heston: “Oh, my sweet Trebek on high, I am losing my hair!”

Possibly a tad too much drama, that. It was a moment of weakness.

And anyway, losing my hair? Au contraire, as they say in old Italy. The fact is, I am emphatically not losing my hair. Rather, I am surrounded by my hair. As the hairs on my head pack their bags and boldly leave my scalp, they are making themselves at home all around me. Far from being “lost”, my hair is now omnipresent. It’s everywhere I look. I CAN’T ESCAPE MY HAIR! My hair is like one of those staring, possessed Twilight Zone dolls that keep showing up in backlit doorways to drive one to madness between commercial breaks. My hair is like that! “Say. Shouldn’t you be on my head?” I’ll

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Identifying Beer Independence

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he week before our country’s Independence Day, the Brewers Association (BA) announced a new seal to designate independent craft breweries and beer. For those who don’t regularly follow the beer industry, there has been wave after wave of craft brewery acquisitions by AB-Inbev-SABMiller (ABI) and other conglomerates that make up Big Beer. In the wake of these purchases, it has become increasingly more difficult to understand who owns a particular brewery. Lots of people think they are purchasing a craft beer when they actually are not.

The Brewers Association is selfdescribed as “the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers, their beers and the community of brewing enthusiasts,” and this organization has been a critical voice for craft brewers and helping these small, independent brewers organize. In a press release, the BA describes the new seal as “an

Look for this seal to see if a craft brewery is independently owned. (this is newly introduced and will take awhile to make its way onto labels.)

iconic beer bottle shape flipped upsidedown; the seal captures the spirit with which craft brewers have upended beer, while informing beer lovers they are choosing a beer from a brewery that is independently owned.” This new seal will offer a visual way of checking the

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independence (less than 25% owned by an alcohol industry member that is not itself a craft brewer) of a brewery without standing in the aisle and checking on your phone.

BIG DEAL, RIGHT? Just a reminder, the AB InBev SABMiller conglomerate is a big deal, and it collectively owns 500 beer brands in more than 50 countries. Many of these brands are macro lagers and of not much consequence. For years, Big Beer scoffed at the concept of craft beer and didn’t take it seriously, but overall beer sales have been shrinking while craft beer has been growing exponentially.

Big Beer no longer scoffs at craft beer.

It is acquiring it. Over the past six years, it has is becoming increasingly more difficult to identify which breweries are owned by Big Beer.

It can sometimes be tough to keep up with who owns who. It was a shock to many craft beer drinkers when the iconic Goose Island Brewery was bought by ABI in 2011. 10 Barrel Brewing Co. and Blue Point Brewing Co. were the next to go when they were purchased in 2014, but it was 2015 when the writing was on the wall. During 2015, ABI acquired Golden Road Brewing Co., Elysian Brewing Co., Four Peaks Brewing Co., and Breckenridge Brewery only a few days after that. In 2016, only Devil’s Backbone Brewing Co. and Karbach Brewing Co. fell into ABI’s empire.

Hearts were broken in May of this year when the much-revered Wicked Weed Brewing became the newest claim by ABI. These breweries were legends in the industry, and the industry watched on in pain and horror with each acquisition.

ABI is not the only company that has been buying out breweries. Widmer and Redhook have long been part of the Craft Brewers Alliance (CBA), though CBA also purchased Kona (32.2% stake) in 2010 and Omission in 2012. It is worth mentioning that CBA is 32.2% owned

by ABI. Mahou San Miguel purchased a 30% stake in Founders Brewing in 2014. MillerCoors purchased Saint Archer Brewery in 2015. The legendary Ballast Point Brewing Co. was bought

by Constellation Brands (think Corona)

for a whopping $1 billion in 2015. That same year, Heineken purchased a 50% stake in Lagunitas Brewing Co., and this year Heineken purchased the other half of the company.

Now, each of these acquisitions has its individual details, and there is something to be said about the different business practices of each of these companies; some are better than others.

This is by no means a black-and-white subject. There have been many debated subjects such as: “If the beer remains the same, does it matter?”

Well, yes. It does. Because it is not simply about flavor. Big Beer has mindboggling distribution channels and supply chains with astronomical funds backing them to support marketing in any city they wish to go. They can easily flood an area with beer and advertisements. ABI’s venture capitalist arm, ZX Ventures, just bought a minority stake in RateBeer. com. It is about controlling visibility and accessibility, and this can easily lead to them saturating a market and pushing out smaller brewers who can’t compete.

The small brewers’ beer likely tastes just fine.

MARKETING SCHEMES I don’t think it is a shock to anybody when you say, “You can’t always trust the ad,” but the brilliant marketing firms that Big Beer employs are capable of creating trust in ways that you may not suspect. A 2015 Super Bowl Budweiser ad mocking mustachioed craft beer drinkers stated, “Let them sip their Pumpkin Peach Ale. We’ll be brewing us some golden suds.”

This incited rage with a lot of craft brewers and drinkers.

But the clever part? The producer of the ridiculed pumpkin peach beer (technically, it also contains pecans and cinnamon) is Elysian Brewing Co., which was sold to ABI about one month before this ad took place. This tricky piece of advertising fooled some craft beer drinkers and had them proclaiming their support of Elysian.

The ad was full of Americana complete with old-timey footage, people clashing Bud bottles together in Midwestern bars, all set to uplifting rock music that would excite the average Budweiser drinker. It was a brilliant way of playing both sides, and this strategy was no accident.

Recently, in response to the Brewers Association announcing the new seal, The High End, ABI’s newly re-branded craft beer segment, released a video titled “Six Viewpoints from The High End.” The four-minute video was overripe with statements full of meaningless marketing swill such as the only thing that matters is how the beer is “perceived by the consumer” and “we’re all making beer.

We’re all brewers.”

But there is one revealing statement

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by Walt Dickinson of Wicked Weed that confirms these companies are no longer part of craft beer. “We’re beer. And we are fighting this bigger battle which is wine and spirits. And we are losing margin every year to them.” He rambles on about an armada coming for us as we fight one another with slingshots or some such other nonsense, but it is this statement that reveals a distinctly noncraft dialogue.

Yes, beer sales as a whole have seen some shrinkage in the U.S. (technically, 2016 was 0.0% growth but it has minutely shrunk in past years); however, this has never been of concern for craft brewers.

Beer is roughly a $107.6 billion market in the U.S. (BA), compared to $25.2 billion for spirits (Distilled Spirits Council) and an estimated $60 billion for wine (Wines & Vines). Beer sales are larger than spirits and wine combined, and while those two industries have seen taken market share from beer in total alcohol sales, this has had virtually no effect on craft beer. The craft beer segment has seen steady growth each year with 2016 showing a 10% dollar growth (BA) and 6.2% growth by volume (BA).

The concern that wine and spirits are taking over market share is one that is only held by Big Beer. Many craft brewers work with wineries and

distilleries, collaborating on projects and sharing barrels. The dialogue that wine and spirits is coming for beer is straight out of the ABI playbook, and it is likely that this was a dictated speaking point. Later in the video, Four Peaks’s Andy Ingram goes onto call the wine and spirits industry a “clear and present danger.” The only people presenting a danger are the ones who are saying this.

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GOING LOCAL So far, the craft brewery acquisitions have all been focused on progressive breweries with high growth rates and well-established distribution chains.

However, it is not unreasonable to think that in the next few years we will start to see small-scale craft brewery acquisitions spread throughout the entire country.

Ask any craft brewer and they will tell you that the beer industry is getting increasingly more difficult to “make it” in. Brewers who used to state that “if the beer is good, it will sell,” are now finding themselves in a more competitive market where they either have to focus on branding or risk losing market share.

As things progress in the industry, it is only going to become more and more difficulty to determine who is independently owned. But now, when in doubt, look for the seal.

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It’s Academic

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eek 5 of the eight-week summer festival at the Music Academy of the West (MAW) ends the day this issue hits the stands, and we have yet to tell you about the incredible season taking place to mark the 70th anniversary of the classical music institution tucked away above Butterfly Beach in Montecito. In celebration, MAW is bringing back a bunch of alumni, some dating back 30 years or more, as well as hosting a number of composers – a rarity at MAW – many of whom are offering world premieres, several of which were commissioned by the academy.

But we’ll try to make up for it here, starting with the symphony concert at the Granada Theatre on Saturday, July 15. This is the one where the winners of an earlier Concerto Competition get to perform their pieces backed by the full Academy Festival Orchestra, comprising 90 or so of their colleagues.

This year’s concert is led by Matthew Aucoin, the young composer-conductor who will also debut his brand-new suite from Crossing, a reconfigure of his recent opera about Walt Whitman. What’s also special about the show is that there’s another sort-of world premiere in the first half, as clarinetist Fàtima Boix Cantó will offer the first performance of a new orchestration of the Concerto for Piccolo Clarinet concerto by American William Neil, who fleshed out his 30-year-old piece for the bigger ensemble at her request. Nice!

Takács As It Comes and Denk You Very Much

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fter that, among the highlights are the return of the impressive Takács Quartet, a four-decade veteran Hungarian string foursome who will play the weekly Music Academy Faculty Artist Series concert Tuesday, July 18, at the Lobero. They’ll be augmented by a few regular MAW faculty members for a tasty program of Mendelssohn’s Octed and Beethoven’s Septet. Two nights later, it’s the Fellows foursomes’ turn, a recital at Hahn Hall on the MAW campus that culminates the string quartet seminar.

Two more days later, on Saturday, July 22, it’s more chamber music, as faculty pianist Jeremy Denk, of the MacArthur “Genius Award” Fellowship grant, collaborates with a bunch of the Fellows

(which is MAW’s term for the students, who are way more advanced than might otherwise be inferred) in concert at the Lobero Theatre.

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eek 7 at MAW might just be the busiest one of the summer, with blockbuster events every day or night of the week, save for Monday. The MAFAS concert on Tuesday, July 25, features a varied bill boasting Strauss’s Serenade, Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) and Brahms’s String Sextet No. 2. If you want your classical music with a little more discernible beats, the annual Percussionfest has bubbled over into two separate shows, both on Wednesday, July 26, one each in the afternoon and evening at Hahn. The always fun and lively concert features a world premiere by Joseph Thompkins, who will also perform. Thursday brings the opening performance of Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, a with a new staging directed by James Darrah and music direction by pianist-turned-conductor Speranza Scappucci. Hey, when do I catch my breath?

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eading into the weekend, Friday afternoon is the MAW’s firstever Sonata Recital, in which the Collaborative Piano Fellows – normally the unsung heroes of the summer as they accompany soloists working on sonatas and concertos all festival long, only receiving significant attention during their own masterclass – pair up with instrumentalists to present an all-sonata evening, led by Jonathan Feldman, who runs that portion of the piano program. As if a repeat of the opera performance wasn’t enough for Saturday night, the solo pianist Fellows – who have nothing to do with the production – will inaugurate a new competition of their own. The game is on, as the winner not only gets a cash award and the opportunity to perform on a national tour in Steinway & Sons venues (to celebrate MAW’s new designation AllSteinway piano facility), but also jurist Tim Andres – who has his own West Coast premiere taking place next week – will write a commissioned piece for the

winner to perform. That ain’t nothing.

Program information, more details, and tickets for all of the above events – plus a number that wasn’t listed here, including daily masterclasses for which all tickets are a mere $10 – can be found online at www.MusicAcademy.org. It’s a spiffy new website that just debuted last month, by the way – one that’s bold, splashy, and colorful if occasionally a bit challenging to navigate. But you’ll get the hang of it. Or you can call ‘em at 969-8787.

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Not only is admission free, but the first 150 get a free goodie bag filled with product samples, coupons, and raffle tickets, for additional giveaways held every 15 minutes – and there’s even Expo Bingo for the grand prize (donations going to CASA). Get more details at 453-2120 or visit www.osteostrongexpo. com/event/santa-barbara-summertimehealth-beauty-expo.

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n extraordinarily accomplished finger-style guitar player, Tommy Emmanuel frequently threads three different parts simultaneously into his material, operating as a quasi oneman band by handling the melody, the supporting chords, and the bass all at once. That level of expert layering is challenging to achieve, but Emmanuel

had a head-start on his way to becoming a world-class musician as he received his first guitar at age 4, and started working professionally just two years later in a family band, the Emmanuel Quartet, joining his brother in creating games that helped them pick out the nuances of complex chords. Those skills that are also evident on Emmanuel’s most recent genre-hopping recording, 2015’s It’s Never Too Late, his first truly solo album in 15 years, will also be on display Saturday, July 22, at The Luke when Emmanuel plays a special benefit for the Santa Barbara Acoustic Instrument Celebration, which has its second festival next month. Richard Smith and Pat Bergeson, who were the headliners at the Nashville Hot Club show at last year’s SBAIC, will be sitting in for much of the two sets. Larrivee Guitars has also donated a sole re-creation of Emmanuel’s custom C10 guitar, which he will play, sign, and then give away to one a ticket holder in a raffle. Showtime is 8 pm, tickets cost $45 and $35, and are available only online, not at the door.

Get more details and tickets by visiting www.sbaic.com/Tommy.

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’ve got a thing for alliteration, so when the press release for the next Atelier event at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art started of by saying it offers guests “an evening of intimate, intriguing, occasionally irreverent interactions with art and artists” – well, they had me at hello. It also happens to be accurate, as these studio-style gatherings take a theme resonant with a current exhibition and springboard from there to a bunch of fun activities and often hands-on experiences that make you feel as if high culture can be a good time.

Inspired by the current gallery show “You Are Going On A Trip”, the Friday, July 28, “Day Tripping & Night Croquet” event takes the notion of travel and escape (mental or physical) and invites attendees to “get out of town” for a surreal summer vacation. Like all good experiences on the road, this stay-athome vaca has motion, music, snacks, a little daydreaming, and – oh, yeah – there’s also art. Admission, which is only $30 for non-members ($5 less if you are one), includes whatever you want to indulge in: passed hors d’oeuvres, wines, and signature cocktails created just for the occasion. The press release didn’t specify, but from the title I’m guessing there also might be a little croquet action somewhere in the environs. And if you aren’t already a member, you get the best deal of all: a free ticket when you sign up.

That’s even better bang-for-your-buck mileage than a Prius. Call 884-6490 or visit www.sbma.net.

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youngest, Lila, took to it immediately.

In fact, it became an obsession.

Parents pray for this. They drag their kids around to gyms or rinks or fields in hopes that their kid doesn’t ever want to come home. They force them out of the car; push them to practice extra hours, in an attempt to infuse sports into their blood. For us, Lila made it happen.

each weekend. If I have to miss a game day, I’m texting other team parents for score updates. Like Lila, I’m all in.

It’s an addiction, of sorts, the rush of adrenaline when your kid comes up to bat, the loss of breath when a pop fly is hit to your kid’s zone… Catch it, please catch it! And now that our girl is pitching, I may be developing an ulcer Congratulations to all seven of the 2017 GVGSA All-Star players and coaches

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here she was, standing on the pitcher’s mound, her face smeared with eye-black and seriousness. I knew what she was thinking. We all did.

Throw a strike. She took a long, deep breath and she wound up her arm and threw a fast pitch straight over home plate.

I never thought I would be one of those parents who would yell at an umpire. When I began my career as a softball mom, I was docile. Collected.

Unaware of the intensity (intertwined with insanity) that festers as you proceed down the road to All-Stars.

This is my kid’s second year on an AllStar softball team. Last year, she played in the outfield; this year, she is the pitcher. Last season, my husband was

next to me in the bleachers, explaining all the rules of the game. This time around, he is an assistant coach and I’m shouting at the umpire when he calls my kid’s perfect pitches (in my eyes) as balls. Some might call it insane.

PLAY BALL When we began our journey out to the diamond, it started with a simple suggestion from my friend Linn: “You should sign Lila up for Fall Ball.” So two years ago, we did just that.

Fall Ball is a sweet way for girls to get their feet wet, or rather their gloves oiled and their bats ready. It was an easy schedule; every Sunday, the girls got out on the field for two hours and they were introduced to the sport of softball. My

I knew the moment I found Lila sleeping with a softball tucked under her pillow. Not far from the ball were her facemask and glove. Her teddy bears had been shoved aside for the gear. These things were now her love, her comfort, and no doubt her favorites. A passion had been ignited.

Flash-forward to now, and I’m beginning to realize just how lucky we are. Mind you, it took me a while to settle into being a full-time softball mom. In the beginning, those hours in the bleachers and traveling to far-off tournaments caused me contention. But now, I don’t even care that we are paying tons of money to stay at Motel 6 with the team for tournaments. I happily set the alarm at 5 a.m. to travel to Saturday morning games, because… It’s Game Day! We have a cart of gear: umbrellas, beach chairs, coolers, a pitching stool, blankets, and too many softballs to count. I started off wearing “regular” clothes on game days, and now I’ve got my team shirt and visor all ready to go

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The pit in my stomach became overly clear a couple weekends ago when our All-Star team was competing in the state-qualifying tournament. This one tourney decides if you get to play with the best-of-the-best in the state of California. Our Goleta Valley Girls Softball Association (GVGSA) U8 Gold girls were close to qualifying when Lila hurt her knee.

It was a simple tweak. It wasn’t swollen or bruised, but every time she put weight on it, it hurt. It happened on Saturday and we desperately needed to win more games on Sunday to qualify for state.

So, what did we do? We wrapped that knee up and sent her to the mound.

(Insanity, I’m well aware considering this is U8 softball!)

She did it. With the help of some Tylenol and an Ace bandage, our girl threw strikes. Lila battled through and we will be headed to San Diego to compete in the state tournament in mid-July.

I wasn’t quite sure we should’ve sent her out on the field injured, but we did.

We had a lot of people check out her knee, and more importantly, we listened to Lila. She wanted to play. She wanted to win. She wanted to qualify. And they did.

Her knee has since healed just fine and the GVGSA U8 All-Stars are headed to San Diego. No matter if we win or lose, these girls have developed new friendships, great sportsmanship, a strong dedication to being team players, a lot of chants and cheers, and a love for the game.

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chuckle good-naturedly to the former scalp-inhabitant now twined cozily around the bristles of my toothbrush when I go to polish my mouth bones.

“Say-ay-ay-ay-hey!” I’ll chortle to the single hair floating like a Cheshire grin in the mud-colored milk of my half-eaten bowl of Cocoa Puffs. “What’re you doing in my half-eaten bowl of Cocoa Puffs, little guy?” There are mornings I awaken at dawn with a lilting song in my heart, until I glimpse with horror a badgerlike pillow so covered with hair it coaxes from me a sudden guttural man-scream that makes the neighbor’s Chihuahua spontaneously crap. “Good morning, good mooorning! It’s great to stay up AAIIYEEEEAAAAHHGGHHHH!!!!!!

ARM-WAVING AND LAUGHING AND A NEW “ALONE” CHAPTER Okay, yes. My previously demure bald spot has over time gathered momentum and is now a Category IV hurricane of beige. Place the crown of my head next to a low orbit photo of a tropical depression, and best of luck to you.

From the front I do look somewhat normally hairy-headed, it must be said, and so I take great and awkward pains not to show people the back of my head.

This can be difficult. In social settings and around crowds, this clever deception

obliges lots of spinning and arm-waving and crazy-sounding laughter, because if people are unnerved enough by your demeanor they will just want to get away and will not take the time to notice that you are balding. In practical terms, this means I’m the guy at the cocktail party in the middle of the room spinning and laughing and waving my arms like the crazy flailing tube man at a usedcar lot. My invitations have declined precipitously, but better they should do so because I am a scary, laughing, drinkflinging nitwit, and not because I am a bald man.

themselves whether or not I’m balding.

“Oh, I’m not balding, you know,” I’ll say nonchalantly. “What you’re seeing is my face creeping around to the back of my head.” This defense has been known to make children cry and shrink away from me. But at least they don’t think they’re talking to a balding guy.

JASON STRATHAM VERSUS MR. DRUCKER I don’t fear the fashionably five-o’clock shadowed dome of a Jason Stratham or a Bruce Willis. What keeps me up nights is the withered head of Mr. Drucker

My previously demure bald spot has over time gathered momentum and is now a Category IV hurricane of beige What am I so afraid of? Bald is beautiful, right? Yeah, sure. And bacon sucks. Let’s get real. I’m afraid of my bald spot, that’s what. I’m afraid it has designs on all sides of my head, afraid that it will reach all the way around to join my face. Irrational, you say?

Maybe. But ironically, that scenario does provide a sensible rejoinder when I sense that people are wondering to

– Petticoat Junction’s jittery, bug-eyed corner grocer – his emasculating little fringe of mousey hair as fragile as Kevin Kline’s mustache. You see those men whose male pattern baldness has reduced a formerly majestic mane of thick, wavy hair to a dainty strip of translucent moss clinging in panic to the skull’s occipital ridge. No thanks, Mr. Drucker! Years before he was the weedy corner grocer in that godforsaken little TV town, that actor was a cowardly factotum in the sci-fi classic When Worlds Collide, abandoning his wealthy, wheelchairbound employer at the crucial moment to skitter selfishly aboard the Earth Ark and save himself just as the end of the world was nigh, at which point he was shot down. The moral of the story?

Bald Mr. Drucker types will abandon us all, should another planet threaten to destroy our world. At least that’s my takeaway.

There is an irresolvable conflict at the center of all this soul-stirring upheaval, and it is this; as much as I fear the Fringe... the shaved head is not the answer! Is

there anything more disturbing than a man with a clean-shaven head in a dress shirt and necktie? Good God! What on Earth is that about? I call this look the “bright-pink bubble of plastic extruded through the collar.” What thinking goes into this scorched-earth option? “Well, better to have a bright-pink bubble with a lil’ face on the front than male pattern baldness.” Says you! Why not take off your eyebrows too, and get a job as spokesperson for Sylvania? A world that forces a good man to choose between the Fringe and the Bright Pink Extruded Bubble is a nightmare landscape of hopelessness and rage. More or less.

As my own smirking body chemistry continues to foreclose on the hair follicles and send the tenants packing, I’m left to wonder: what will be the emergent shape of my head? I have curly hair, which for all I know may well have provided a lifelong obfuscation of a cranium shaped like a gourd from Neptune. Or what if finally my bald head is cruelly pointed, or lopsided, or has the smeary and hellish aspect of a Francis Bacon painting? What then?!

I guess it’s silly to obsess.

Right? Yeah. I’m not THAT insecure whatthehellyoulookinat! [ahem] I’ll just keep swaggering along with my bitchin’, raggedy-ass hair, and you can keep “sneaking” glances when we’re speaking to each other. Yeah, I know you want to confirm up close what you had only suspected from afar.

We baldies see your eyes shifting when you think we won’t notice. Very smooth.

It’s like trying to sneak a glance at the appendectomy scar on a pole dancer.

Yeah, it’s exactly like that. I think. The point is, we see you looking! When your hairs are departing your head like men in petticoats leaving the Titanic, you notice these things.

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WHAT’SHANGING? with Ted Mills Ted Mills is a local writer, filmmaker, artist, and podcaster on the arts. You can listen to him at www.funkzonepodcast.com. He currently has a seismically dubious stack of books by his bed. Have an upcoming show you’d like us to know about? Please email: tedmills@gmail.com

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One room in this brick building But those characters rarely interacted There will be a public memorial at that we call Mason St. Studios (121 E. and narratives rarely formed. Instead, some point, and much later no doubt Mason) was Phil’s, where presumably his work was like a half-remembered 4299½ a retrospective of his work.

Right now, his last show will still be hanging. (Don’t State St. · Santa Barbara dream to me, its meaning just out of however, there’s just an ache. Rest in quote me on that.) In the other rooms, reach.

Peace, Phil. new works from Lisa Pedersen, Will As a person, however, he was sharp Galzerano, Emily Morrill, and guest and political, weary of the changes SAMPLER PACK artist Steve Richardson. Also open on being wrought on the Funk Zone, Koplin’s work is in two shows coming Friday, July 21.

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Santa Barbara photographer Nell Campbell has shot news, protests, people, and places for some four decades.

She’s such a familiar face in certain circles, it’s odd that she really hasn’t had too many solo shows. But look! We have two at the same time. “Bearing Witness” at Channing Peake Gallery (in the County Admin building, 105 E. Anapamu) runs through December 1, and features people and parades, along with a cross-section of class, from New Orleans to Santa Barbara.

And over at UCSB’s AD&A Museum, they are showing “About Face” through August 20, which focuses on the various fascinating people she’s met on her journeys throughout the country.

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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.

Dishing the Dirt on Dishwalla’s Early Days

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ull disclosure: less than a year after I moved to Santa Barbara back in 1993, I wound up renting a room in a house owned by the mother of Rodney Browning’s then-girlfriend.

He came over quite a bit, as you might imagine, and I thought he was a nice enough guy. It was right around the time I moved out that Browning’s band, Dishwalla, for which he was the lead guitarist, got signed to A&M Records, and quickly found a foothold in the music scene with their cover of “It’s Going to Take Some Time” that was chosen as an early single from The Carpenters tribute album If I Were a Carpenter.

Then came Pet Your Friends, the band’s debut album, spawning the smash-hit single “Counting Blue Cars”, which dominated the airwaves in 1996 like nobody’s business. You literally couldn’t put your car radio on scan – yes, this was before iPhone, Pandora, Bluetooth, et cetera – without hearing Dishwalla lead singer J.R. Richards imploring “Tell me all your thoughts on God, ‘cause I’d really like to meet Her” in the song’s catchy chorus. The track wound up earning a Billboard Award for Best Rock Song of the year, as well as two ASCAP Awards for Rock Track of the Year (for both 1996 and 1997), and the album sold more than a million copies worldwide.

The thing is, Rodney stayed a nice guy. I’d run into him around town on and off, and none of it ever seemed to go to his head. That was a long time ago, so long that even Dishwalla’s “weird name” – they borrowed it from a Hindi term for guys who’d provide satellite TV to local neighborhoods, which they read about in a Wired magazine article.

Remember satellites? That was before streaming, and Netflix.

Far as I know, Rodney is still a fine fella, though it’s been quite awhile since we’ve connected. He’s also still Dishwalla’s lead guitarist and cosongwriter. But Richards is no longer singing with them, having departed during the band’s mid-2000s lull, after four albums, only one of which made much of a dent on the charts. He released a solo disc early on, and finally followed that up with a sophomore solo effort, Honore et Amore, just year.

Dishwalla, meanwhile, reformed in

The band opens for Tears For Fears on Wednesday, July 26, in the SB Bowl

2008 with original members Browning (now knows as Rodney Browning Cravens, Scot Alexander (bass), George Pendergast (drums) and Jim Wood (keyboard). The new lead vocalist was Justin Fox, a longtime Dishwalla associate who sang with another Santa Barbara band, Tripdavon. The group remained dormant, though, for the most part, playing a couple of benefits for Tea Fire victims and for Pendergast’s Rockshop Academy nonprofit youth music program, before touring quite a bit starting in 2013.

All this matters, because the altrock heroes are finally about to release another album, their first new effort in a decade. Juniper Road, which was produced by Sylvia Massy (Prince, Tool, Red Hot Chili Peppers) and recorded at Eric Burdon’s (of The Animals and War) retreat in Joshua Tree, arrived earlier this month, and somehow finagled an association with another major label (Pavement/Epic), though the record biz is in the toilet. The album has already received some attention for the tracks “Give Me A Sign” and the perhaps aptly titled “Don’t Fade Away”.

Dishwalla embarked a few days ago on a nationwide tour but are coming back home on Wednesday, July 26, to open for Tears For Fears at the Santa Barbara Bowl. That’s the biggest place in town, a fine full-circle from the days of “Counting Blue Cars”, which can still be heard on lots of radio stations, especially Triple A and Hot A.C. Just not so much that you’re sick of it anymore. I don’t know how Rodney, who is now 50 years old and has counted a lot of blue cars along the way, feels about it, but I’m sure if you ask, he’ll be pretty polite.

CHECK OFF YOUR LIST SEEING A PLAY FLY I really can’t urge you strongly enough to go see Stupid F---ing Bird. Elements Theatre Collective closes out its current season with the area premiere of Aaron Posner’s cleverly crafted “adaptation” of Anton Chekhov’s classic The Seagull, and it’s a doozy of a show.

If you like theater in general, Chekhovian drama, loose adaptations, irony, the idea of UCSB actors sharing the stage with their professors (department head Risa Brainin directs and professor Anne Torsiglieri stars), a series of selfreferential moments (or as modern folks might put it – meta) – then this is the show for you. It succeeds on so many levels, not the least of which is that it’s the perfect play for Elements, which offers all of its performances for free at various venues around town, none of which are actual theaters. So that means they have adapt to where they’re presenting the show, and Bird is made for that sort of thing as it’s largely about theater and being aware of its surroundings.

The story more or less echoes Chekhov’s, about a fading actress and her ever-more famous writer lover, her

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ambitious play-writer of a son and the wanna-be actress girl he loves, and they all still meet at a lake house where things sort of sort out. But Bird is another animal entirely, due to Posner’s wit and the quips that come through fast and furious, with plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. But there’s also a lot of substance amid the snappy dialogue. Some of the material and situations ring so true and hit so close to home that it’s actually uncomfortable; thankfully those moments quickly pass amid another onslaught of cleverness and snark, often when the characters remind us that they are aware they’re in a play by pausing the action to address us directly.

It’s not for the faint of heart (feint of heart?), as Bird is rife with foul (fowl?) language adult situations, and partial nudity. But it sure makes you think.

And even in today’s climate, that ain’t bad.

Bird is being performed over the two weekends in our current fortnight at venues including Boone Graphics and Maravilla in Goleta, Carpinteria Women’s Club, and the Orfalea Center in Santa Barbara. While admission is free, reservations are recommended.

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CREATIVE CHARACTERS CHRIS POTTER

by Zach Rosen

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anta Barbara is known for its beauty and outdoor splendor. Santa Barbara has many admirable qualities in its local culture and establishments, though it is the landscape that makes this area a world destination. From the exotic Riviera to the picturesque beaches, every angle of the surrounding scenery brings something pleasing to the eyes and forms a lasting impression in the mind.

Chris Potter’s landscape paintings are as recognizable as the vistas of Santa Barbara. His paintings can be found all over Santa Barbara. I’ve spotted them

in restaurants, at friends’ houses, in conference rooms. My personal favorite is a small painting he did of Telegraph’s old brewery. It used to sit in their tiny kitchenette/bar area and now rests behind the bar at their new location next door. Spend some time in Santa Barbara and you are bound to run into one of his paintings.

No artist has spent more time painting the many spectacular views of the Central Coast area and his body of work is like a patchwork of memories that one gains from living in a place.

Look at one of his paintings and you’ll

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have memories flashback of walking along that specific stretch of beach, looking up at those mountains, sitting in that exact spot of the wharf. There is something that speaks personally to Santa Barbarians in his work because we’ve all been there. We’ve all seen those areas.

For Chris, a Goleta native, it is a chance to go where he wants to paint.

But he wasn’t always focused on capturing the stunning landscapes of the Central Coast.

He entered UCSB as a computer science major but quickly realized that calculus was not his forte and transferred to psychology. Chris often found himself drawing in class and doodling on his notes. He had always had an interest in art. As a kid, he “wanted to ‘play’ drawing” with his friends, and he took ceramics in Dos Pueblos High School. Some of his first experiences with the brush were painting Dungeons & Dragons figurines as an avid D&D practitioner. In his third year of UCSB, he switched over to the art department and committed himself 100 percent.

He felt like he needed to catch up with the rest of the art majors, and he would stay in the art studio each day from 8 to 5. Chris made a pact with himself to practice art daily, a pact that he fulfills to this day.

Chris didn’t start off as a landscape artist. For the first 10 years, he painted big abstract works that were based off of his doodles. Chris spent a year and a half in Montreal working on his abstracts before moving back to Santa Barbara. After spending so much time in his “frozen studio” in Montreal, he felt the need to be outdoors. Although he had spent years as an abstract painter, there was always a desire to be an impressionist, citing Van Gogh and Monet as aspirations. There was a distinct finality to landscape painting versus abstracts that Chris enjoyed and he believed that it matched better with his personal work style. His experience with abstracts helped his understanding

of landscapes, since both styles largely work with shapes.

After college, as is so common in the art world, he felt the need to make a living. He started working as a stockbroker and worked in that industry for 13 years. While back in the Santa Barbara area, he began bringing his easel to work and painting during his breaks – first working in Carpinteria, where he would paint the bluffs, before getting a job downtown where he would stand outside painting in his tie and full work regalia.

Being downtown gave him more visibility. People would see him paint and he started selling more of his work.

In 2009, he decided to make the leap and quit his job to become an artist full time. He began his “Postcards from Santa Barbara” project, wherein he produced a new painting each day.

Since leaving his stockbroker job, Chris estimates he has produced more than 2,200 paintings.

These days, he focuses on more largescale paintings that aren’t always finished in a day. While he has painted other regions such as New York and Europe, it is the views around Santa Barbara and the Central Coast that remain the core of his focus. “You have to know where you’re painting to be a good landscape painter,” he states, mentioning that it helps to know what is around a corner, even if it is not visible in the painting.

Many of his locations are based off where he’d like to hang out for the day.

Weather is a major factor, but with the consistency of the area’s weather, there is some inherent predictability. But Santa Barbara does have its microclimates, and these factor into his daily decisions of where to paint. If an area has high winds, he runs the risk of having the canvas blow away, or if there is a lousy tide he might have to pack up and find another location to paint. While Chris admits this is the hardest part of his job, he considers the chance to be outside painting the enchanting Santa Barbara landscape as the ultimate job.

Although his paintings are owned by people and establishments all around town, Distinctive Framing is a permanent space to spot his available work, and about four times a year he will host a First Thursday exhibit there.

This August, he will be spending time in Yosemite capturing the views there; however, with the natural beauty of Santa Barbara’s landscape you can see why Chris is at home here. It is easy to see, actually. His paintings capture the views that draw all of us to this area.

Visit www.chrispotterart.com for more examples of his work and to sign up for his newsletter on upcoming shows.

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by Julie Boe The former Girl About Town is wearing a new hat for The

Sentinel as Mom About Town. When Ms Boe isn’t writing for numerous magazines, she’s zipping around town from one activity to another with her active 15-month-old son, Daniel. Julie and Daniel explore local activities, events, and spaces that are family-friendly and mom-approved.

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t 14 months, my son, Daniel, learned to walk. Just a couple of weeks later, he was running-full speed ahead. Fellow moms know this is a game-changer. In a flash, we are dashing around, chasing them, wiping beads of sweat from our brow, and endlessly drained.

With Daniel’s latest love of exercise and activity, I decided it was time to give My Gym a try – and as a bonus the first class is free.

My Gym has classes for babies and kids starting as young as 6 weeks old to 11 years old. They also have summer camps, dance classes, and parents’ night out. Owner Jennifer Caesar explains, “My Gym is a unique program that incorporates non-competitive gymnastics, music, dance, sports, games, and more so children have fun as they gain strength, balance, coordination, and agility while developing social skills and confidence.”

Daniel attended the Waddlers class for babies aged 14 to 22 months.

The session began with an instructor gathering us all together in a circle.

Everyone went around the circle and introduced their baby. Daniel was

Instructor Shane Carmody shows Phifer the skills of hanging and grasping on the rings

Jen pushes her daughter, June, on the featured swing of the week

a bit boisterous, but the instructor encouraged his movement and said it was fine if he wanted to wander around.

The session allowed for babies to explore their surroundings.

My early-morning coffee buzz was fading, but there was upbeat pop music playing in the background to keep me engaged, and the music changes every week to avoid monotony. Exercises in circle time were stimulating – we

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moved our kids’ arms up and down, kicked their feet, reached for their toes and ours, rolled them over with us, and even marched around the room in a circle singing “Yankee Doodle Dandy”.

A few of the babies were giggling and there were many smiles.

After circle time, it was explore time, which meant the babies could discover the room and equipment provided. My son loved the dolphin-shaped swings,

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especially a joint swing built for two that he shared with his best friend, Elise.

Around the room, babies could jump on mini trampolines, climb ladders, go down slides, play in a ball pit, and walk across a mini beam.

Later on, the babies had a chance to participate in the “big deal” of the week. They were able to ride around a mini track on a toy train. Jennifer described, “Taking turns and offering their friends to take a turn encourages socialization.” The rest of the afternoon, “choo-choo” was Daniel’s favorite phrase.

A highlight was when we were lined up and a plethora of neon scarves was laid out in front of us. We couldn’t touch them, and soon I discovered why.

The instructors smacked a large padded mat behind the scarves, and they jolted forward with a gust of wind. My son loved it, though one baby cried and a couple of others looked bewildered.

The session ended with a goodbye song and a short puppet show in circle time. The enthusiastic instructors, social and independent development skills, and overall positive vibes make My Gym an affordable outlet for my little wiggle worm.

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Warhol and Rauschenberg, layers of screenprint, using animated characters to critique shallow capitalism, in which Mickey Mouse asks, pimp-like, where his money’s at.

He helps Johnson whenever he’s not working in his studio.

“I gotta get back to painting because that’s my heart and soul,” he says, looking at the racks of clothes, many of which he’s helped modify with prints.

“But you know, this is another creative outlet that I absolutely adore.”

And, he says, “I’m not hung over or in a bar. Now, when I finish painting I’ll take three or four days to work on T-shirt designs.”

He’s also a surfer who hasn’t had time to get in the water in nearly two years.

Instead, he sacks out early, curling up in bed with a good book. (Currently reading: Noam Chomsky’s Who Rules the World.) The man has mellowed, but not in his scathing critique of the landowners who are buying out the Funk Zone from under its artists, or the hordes of “wine twirlers” who have flooded into the area.

For Johnson, she’s created her own job. Listed as sole proprietor, she’s turned the space not just into a retail area, but a place where she can sew and create. She’s looking for a sofa for the upstairs area so

she can catch a nap on the fly.

“I set it up as a place to be here every day,” she says.

Before its grand opening a few weeks ago, Loveworn was already garnering Internet attention, with a social-media focus that Piatt learned in marketing his art. For him, Instagram, and knowing how to use hashtags, brings in worldwide interest and has helped him sell many a canvas. Already, they have interest from as far away as Australia. And no matter our government’s standing in the world, people still fetishize our country.

“People love Americana,” Piatt says.

“1991 is coming back… There’s so much shitty fashion out there with Forever 21 and Tilly’s stacking up ‘Made in China’ shit that’s in landfills the next week.”

Piatt adds that every piece of clothing in Loveworn that has been repurposed is not just “Made in the U.S.A”– not that some of their jeans aren’t from overseas – but the Jill and Wallace touch make every item “Made in the Funk Zone.”

“This is what I wanted to do all along with True Grit,” Johnson says. Once she’s over the hump of getting the store off the ground, she wants to “brand the

hell” out of Loveworn and get it into other stores both brick ’n’ mortar and Internet.

“We were rock ‘n’ roll back then,” says Piatt about those True Grit glory days, “but now it’s really rock and roll.”

He pulls on the cigar again and looks back into the shop where customers are already looking through racks.

“It all led up to this,” he says.

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pick up a brush and paint, and their visiting friends would join in as well. From the time they were in kindergarten until graduating high school, she would visit their classes to teach art.

“I walk on the beach almost every morning, and I’m influenced by the weather around me when I paint. If it’s a foggy day, sometimes those are the colors I’ll paint that day – foggy morning colors.”

Some days are spent mixing solution with concentrated color, and these go into her cabinet for later use, to tweak her color palette.

“I’m a colorist and use the colors in between the colors – there are twenty shades of turquoise.”

Sweatt invites you to visit her in crafts section booth 120 at the Santa Barbara Art Show or at www.lindasweatt.com.

She can be contacted at flyinglinda@cox.net or (505) 310-1934.

by Margaret Landreau

In the last 18 years, Margaret Landreau has accumulated 13 years of serving on the Board of Directors of Santa Barbara County arts-related nonprofits and has worked as a freelance arts writer for 10 years. She creates her own art in her Carpinteria studio.

LINDA SWEATT, SILK PAINTER

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f you enjoy celebrating art, please come to the Art Walk along Cabrillo Boulevard on Saturday, July 29, and help Linda Sweatt celebrate her 10-year anniversary selling her gorgeously hand-painted, vividly colored silk clothing and accessories from her booth by the sea.

Her grandmother was a painter, and her mother a glamorous woman in Hollywood, so Sweatt says it was almost inevitable that she would bring the two together and begin painting on clothing. While in Sweden, Sweatt took a break from skiing one day to take a silk painting class. She immediately thought, “This is for me.”

She lived in France and Italy for years (she speaks French and Italian fluently, and loves cooking Italian food). She explored the world of art around her and created silk paintings, first showing them in Amsterdam, then Venice. Moving on to New York City, she ended up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she sold her art in gift shops in the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Santa Fe Opera.

She’s lived in Santa Barbara for the last 10 years.

“Because of my fashionista Mom, I was into modeling very young. I was turned off by the pressure for all women to look the same.” Sweatt shares. She has celebrated women as goddesses and the diversity of women’s bodies by intentionally painting large and small women, with different colored hair and skin and body types.

She likes the role her clothing, scarves, and shawls play in bringing joy to people. Most often, Sweatt’s customers come because they’re planning a special occasion. She enjoys dressing women up with soft, rich fabrics in many colors, because it makes them feel good about themselves. One 6’8” customer told Sweatt that she had “never felt so sexy before.”

Sweatt is proud of her success as

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REAL ESTATE VIEW

by Michael Phillips Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker, and was Montecito Planning Commissioner. He can be reached at 969-4569 and info@ MichaelPhillipsRealEstate.com

DOWNTOWN LIVING

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owntown Santa Barbara offers a first-class, sophisticated, small-city lifestyle with a world-class Mediterranean climate, and it has never been quite as popular. Millennials enjoying new careers, active Baby Boomers tired of big house upkeep, and people who generally want to feel more connected to where they live are increasingly choosing an urban lifestyle. And with museums, historical attractions, restaurants, food markets, theaters, art galleries, performing arts, coffee shops, wineries, holiday parades and festivals, farmers markets, and parks all within walking distance, it is easy to understand why Downtown Santa Barbara has become the choice place to live.

Opinions differ as to exact Downtown parameters. I think it is about walkability; once we get into a car, it changes everything. So let’s begin at Valerio Street to the North, then the Harbor to the South, Castillo Street to the West and Olive Street to the East. Within an easy walk herein, there is a vibrant downtown community that can be experienced and enjoyed both day and night.

There are many interesting properties currently on the market here. These are a select few:

bath, and a big walk/bike score of 96 and 99, respectively. Breakfast at D’Angelo’s Bakery, just a stone’s throw away, is a must. $1,249,000.

LAGUNA AND CANON PERDIDO

GUITERREZ AND CASTILLO

At Guiterrez and Castillo is a light and bright 2/1.5 condo offered at $559,900 featuring vaulted bedroom ceilings, skylights, private patio, and a walk score of 88. In fact, go out your private gate to Castillo and you are just a few blocks to the Harbor and great seafood at the Crab Shack at the end of the wharf. With 20% down, your monthly payment could be $2,700 per month or less.

CHAPALA AND GUTIERREZ

Santa Barbara architecture evokes tiled courtyards, arched porticoes, expansive, inviting terraces with coastal and Riviera vistas. The Sevilla complex at Chapala and Gutierrez has all this and more. Just listed here is a 1,492-sq.-ft. 1-bedroom with neither shared walls nor neighbors above or below. It offers cathedral ceilings, expansive windows, a super modern gourmet kitchen, fireplace, luxurious master

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At Laguna Street and Canon Perdido is a 1,400-plus-sq.-ft., 2/2.5 new to the market condo with an upstairs private bedroom, living room fireplace, two patios – one off the dining area – and an attached oversized garage offered at $975,000.

It has a walk score of 93, and thus you will never need to even consider driving the two blocks to the best margaritas in town at Viva in the La Arcada arcade, easily the most charming locale in all of downtown.

VICTORIA AND CHAPALA

Alma Del Pueblo, next door to the new and uber-hip Santa Barbara Public Market, between Chapala and State on Victoria, has so much to offer. Concierge services, two guest bedrooms available by reservation, a clubhouse with a full kitchen for private events, a roof-top deck, and barbecue area with magnificent views are just some of the amenities owners enjoy here. And you are surrounded by theaters, shopping, and top local restaurants – too many to mention. Consider the 1/1.5 available here for $1,125,000. With a near-perfect walk score of 97, there is little not within easy distance. However, if you try the Gold Miner’s Classic next door at the Nugget, you might find you will be staying close to home.

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IHeart SB

By Elizabeth Rose

I Heart SB is the diary of Elizabeth Rose, a thirty-something navigating life, love, and relationships in the Greater Santa Barbara area. Thoughts or comments? Email ihearterose@gmail.com

FLASHBACK: DRUNK DATE, PART 1 I’m not proud of this one. I no longer drink alcohol (a story I’ll get into another time) but here is a date that still makes me cringe:

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y friend was hosting a party on the rooftop of the Canary Hotel, and I arrived just as the sun began into set. It was one of those quintessential Santa Barbara evenings where the sky streaked of orange and pink while the mountains turned a royal shade of purple. I spotted her by the DJ booth and ran over to give her a hug.

“Elizabeth! I’m so glad you’re here,” she said. “You have to meet my fiancé. He’s over by the bar.” She grabbed my hand and we wove through the crowd. I met her fiancé and he introduced me to his friend, Anthony. I could tell Anthony was smitten with me by the grin that wouldn’t leave his face. He seemed nice; a tall Asian man with an adult job as a chemical engineer. Physically, he’s not my type but I was open. After a few minutes of small talk, he said, “Elizabeth, I’d love to learn more about you. Would it be okay if I took you out sometime?” Flattered, I dug in my purse for a pen and a scrap piece of paper. He called the next day to plan our date.

It was starting to feel like the movie Groundhog Day We met at The Good Lion, coincidentally the scene of a date I had the week before. After walking in and seeing the same bartenders and possibly the same hipsters circling the bar, I decided this would be the last time I’d meet a guy here – It was starting to feel a little like the movie Groundhog Day where I was doomed to relive the same date over and over again.

But let me back up. Hours before, I was at a barbecue, day-drinking with friends.

By four o’clock, spirits were high and so was my buzz. I don’t know why I didn’t cancel the date or, for that matter, why the hell I decided to drink all day, but I against my better judgement, I left straight from the party to meet him.

I found Anthony perched at a table near the front window and as soon as I sat down, we ordered cocktails. I recall a little of our conversation but not the second drink or the dinner we had right after. My only clue to dinner was waking up the next morning in my bed with a full stomach and the lingering scent of pho in my hair. When I rolled over to look at the clock on my bedside table, I realized that I was still fully dressed.

What happened last night? I got up, drug myself to the window, and noticed my car missing in the driveway. My stomach dropped. I ran to my computer and logged in to check my bank account. Thank God that I had enough sense to call an Uber. Or maybe Anthony insisted? I shuttered at what might have happened and said a prayer, thankful I was safe at home. Forgoing coffee – my hangover wouldn’t allow it quite yet – I peeled off my clothes, got in the shower, and stood motionless, hoping the water would wash away my horrible feeling of regret. I couldn’t go on living like this, especially on dates with men I hardly know, let alone my entire life.

Anthony called later that evening. I was almost too embarrassed to answer the phone but was pretty sure I owed him an apology for God knows what. I swallowed what was left of my pride and answered. “Hey Elizabeth, are you… okay?” Instead of going on and on about what an idiot I was, I kept it simple – I’m sure my behavior the night before spoke for itself. “Yeah, I’m fine,” I said. “I’m really sorry for whatever I did. Thanks for making sure I got home okay.” After a few seconds of silence, he brushed it off. “Well, it happens to the best of us. I had a great time and would love to take you out again.”

Is he serious? I agreed to a second date, mainly out of guilt and hoping I could make up for the fact that I was a complete drunk. I had a chance to prove I wasn’t a total train-wreck. At the very least, I owed it to myself.

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SYVSNAPSHOT

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.

PLACES TO GO, PEOPLE TO SEE, POOLS TO SWIM IN

PENCE RANCH AND VINEYARDS ivestock, grains, olives, marcona almonds, an equestrian center, hiking trails, and Burgundian-styled wines. Six miles out of Buellton toward Lompoc is one of the newer wineries in the area called Pence Ranch. Pence is a small winery and 200-acre working ranch in the Santa Rita Hills wine appellation only available for private tours and tastings by appointment. Their aim is to be self-sustaining, and they report supporting “atypical of conventional agricultural practices” as their ranch crew is “comprised of salaries year-round employees.”

They tend to egg-laying chickens that feed their families and grow their own hay that feeds their cattle. A polite trio of Rhodesian Ridgebacks welcomes guests to their contemporary rustic tasting room. On a leisurely stroll to a remote wine-tasting nook, guests can say hello to two albino peacocks within a muster of peacocks on the way to view The Pond, a landscaped, tranquil showcase area – home to resident ducks Fred and Ethel – which is sculpted from a natural canyon with several picnic spaces surrounding it.

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Where: Pence Ranch, 1909 West Highway 246 in Buellton Info: www.penceranch.com (805) 735-7000 info@penceranch.com POOL DECK CABANAS AT CHUMASH ocated on the fifth floor of the Chumash Casino Resort hotel, pool cabana reservations are now open to the public. This 15,000-square-foot pool deck boasts a heated rooftop pool, beautiful views, multiple Jacuzzis, splash deck, eight private cabanas, pool bar and restaurant, and outdoor ambiance with nooks and crannies for lounging by fire pits. The menu offers items including veggies and hummus, Ahi poke salad, steak tacos, and burgers and fries. A classic bar menu is offered and showcases a novelty Refresher Cocktail – an adult beverage of your choice in a take-home cup with a built-in fresh water mister to beat the heat while you sip, sun, spritz, and swim.

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When: Open daily 8 am to 10 pm Where: Chumash Casino and Resort, 3400 East Highway 246 in Santa Ynez Cost: All-day Cabana Rental Prices for Non-Hotel Guests: 1-6 guests $300; 7 guests $350; 8 guests $400 Info: www.chumashcasino.com or call (800) 248-6274 PICO AT THE LOS ALAMOS GENERAL STORE ituated on the main thoroughfare of Los Alamos, this restaurant, wine bar, Lumen wine tasting room, general store, retail wine shop, and Sunday night burger spot named Pico had their grand opening early in 2016 and offers as approachable Californian cuisine menu sourced from locally farmed, seasonal ingredients. The name comes from Salomon Pico, who many believe inspired the legend of Zorro – the debonair gentleman-rancher on one hand and bandit-outlaw on the other.

This convergence of food, fun, style, and wine, hosts live music every Tuesday and Friday, has a happy hour every day from 4 to 5 pm with half-off beer and wine by the glass. They flaunt a savory “burgers only” menu night on Sundays, and a blind tasting on Fridays from 5 to 6 pm – if you guess all four wine varietals, you win a bottle of wine. The menu serves up items such as grilled cauliflower with dates and blood orange, mushroom salad with bacon and arugula, and seared cornbread with heart of ribeye, potato hash, and cherry sauce. There’s also a cheese and charcuterie menu, ice creams, and the retail wines are offered at generously discounted prices.

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Where: Pico, 458 Bell Street in Los Alamos Info: www.losalamosgeneralstore.com or call (805) 344-1122 EGGS & BENEDICT SUMMER BRUNCH ichael Benedict planted the Valley’s acclaimed Sanford & Benedict Estate Vineyard in 1971. Seriously folks, this is no joke. This vineyard is an epic

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mothership of an estate – it is one of California’s most historically significant and renowned vineyards that became the first vineyard to become a world-class, coolclimate growing region, and proved that Santa Barbara County is an exceptional spot for growing Pinot Noir. The two men responsible for the significant achievements of this vineyard are Richard Sanford and Benedict, the latter of whom will be the honored guest for this summer brunch, and guests will have the chance to chat one-on-one with him about his pioneering vision to plant the first vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills. Gourmet brunch buffet catered by K’Syrah, music by Jim Becker, and estate-grown wines. Price includes buffet-style brunch, live entertainment, and two glasses of wine per person.

When: Saturday, July 29, from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Where: Sanford Winery, 5010 Santa Rosa Road in Lompoc Cost: $75/$60 Wine Club (two tickets per membership) Info: (805) 735-5900 NATURE CENTER DETECTIVES hen the smoke and ash settle and Highway 154 reopens, kids, teens, and adults are invited to test their skills of observation in the Nature Center at Cachuma Lake. The little ones can participate in a scavenger hunt, and the teens and adults will compete in a Nature Detective game of Jeopardy!

The Neal Taylor Nature Center is a hands-on discovery center focused on the natural environment, ecosystems, and cultural heritage of Cachuma Lake, the upper Santa Ynez River, and San Rafael Mountain watershed. The center is open year-round with free admission and features museum-styled exhibits, as well as interactive displays. Watch local birds feed at the bird feeders through a one-way mirror, watch trout eggs grow and hatch, meet Bruno the Black Bear, and measure your “wingspan” against local birds of prey.

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When: Fridays from July 21 through August 25, from 2 to 3 pm Where: Neal Taylor Nature Center, 2265 Hwy 154 at Lake Cachuma Cost: free admission with $10 park fee per car Info: www.CLNatureCenter.org or call (805) 693-0691 CORNER HOUSE COFFEE CONCERT SERIES his dog-friendly, cozy neighborhood café that serves up Peet’s Coffee, McConnell’s ice creams, gourmet pizzas, quiche, pastries, salads, beer and wine is also hosting a series of concerts all summer long on Saturdays from 6 to 7 pm. The line-up includes:

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July 15 – Donna Lu & Matthew Kim, acoustical duo July 22 – Kaitlyn Chui, Teen Star 2015 finalist and power house vocalist August 5 – Kayleigh Hollum, solo vocalist August 12 – Terry Lawless, keyboardist, saxophonist, flautist August 19 – John Lyle, singer and guitarist August 26 – Stephen Styles, country rock When: Open daily, Monday through Friday 6:30 am to 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 7 am to 5 pm.

Where: 2902 San Marcos Avenue in Los Olivos Cost: Music is free Info: www.cornerhousecoffee.com LOMPOC OLD TOWN MARKET resented by the Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau, Lompoc’s Old Town Market is a street fair and farmers market all rolled into one, and features live entertainment, a farmers market, food booths, vendors, and free activities for the kids. Each Friday evening presents a different event:

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July 14 – Performing Arts Night with Wine Tasting In Centennial Park July 21 – Open Streets July 28 – PetFest with Family Fun Dog Show August 4 – Celebrating the City of Lompoc August 11 – Visual Arts Night with Wine Tasting In Centennial Park August 18 – Public Safety Night with Lompoc Police Department Car Cruise on Ocean Avenue When: Friday nights through August 18 from 5 to 8 pm Where: The 100 block of South H Street in Lompoc Cost: Free Info: www.lompoc.com

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