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State Street Scribe – In 1986, the fantastic Rocky Galenti’s (RIP) down on lower State was the Gateway to Europe. At least that’s how it worked out for Jeff Wing.

Beer Guy – In light of the 6th Annual SB Fermentation Festival, beerdoe Zach Rosen delves in and raises a pint to Katie Hershfelt, who is yeast-deep in the fermentation process Fortnight – No shortage of high-voltage concerts at the SB Bowl; movies at Courthouse Sunken Gardens; Boy George at the Arlington; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; songstress Karla Bonoff; and Sense & Sensibility and In the Heights Backstage Pass Q&A – A succinct interview with Geoff Downes of the band YES, who performs August 28 at the Arlington Berry Man – Cory Clark explains what to do with Eight Ball Zucchini, padrón peppers, and piel de sapo/Santa Claus melon Cause & Effect Patricia Bragg and the Bragg Health Foundation Man About Town – Mark Leisuré looks back at the Fiesta parade, various events, and canciones; Glen Phillips at SOhO; UCSB Arts & Lectures; and Speaking of Stories Art Beat – Jacquelyn De Longe paints a picture – with help from Museum of Contemporary Art’s Miki Garcia – of avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods Sansum Clinic – A look at the grand reopening of the clinic’s Café 154, under the watch of its new manager, chef Brenda Simon Food File – With silverware in hand, Christine Enoch returns to the fold and revisits appetizing Finch & Fork, which spotlights a revised menu I Heart SB – What rhymes with Elizabeth Rose? How about the Bros? A laundry list detailing the various types of bros – including Yogi and Big City; and a missed connection.

Behind The Vine – Los Olivos is roughly a 40-minute drive from Santa Barbara, but Han a-Lee Sedgwick points out the SY Valley hamlet boasts ample worthwhile events SYV Snapshot – Eva Van Prooyen previews the Cowboy Ball set for Saturday, August 20; Relay for Life’s Cornhole Tournament; Stolpman Vineyards educational hike; Lompoc Old Town Market; Comedy Night at Fig Mountain; and Wheels ‘N’ Windmills Car Show

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found out about the Breakfast Culture Club – formerly an auto body shop and no, there’s no connection to the 1985 cult-classic film of a similar name – on Instagram. Which is where I also found out about Morgan Maassen, a talented, self-taught surf photographer and filmmaker born and raised in SB who owns the new joint.

I must have been perusing his enviable Instagram account, wishing I was there (in perhaps, any one of the epic coastal locations he frequents on the regular with clients such as Apple, Virgin Records, Nike, Patagonia, Mercedes Benz, et cetera) when I came across a picture of a ton of people gathered outside of what looked like a large openface gallery, with a location tag of “Santa Barbara.” Part of Maassen’s caption on that photo read, “I’ve had countless dreams and aspirations in my life, and they’ve seemingly culminated into this

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The 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.

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rump supporters weary of my hammering him will be glad to know that I am now turning my wrath to Hillary Clinton and the Progressive movement she represents.

Progressives believe in force as the proper method of social organization.

Capitalists believe voluntary cooperation is the proper method of social organization.

You Progressives will see this as a false premise or a vast oversimplification of the Progressivism or capitalism, but it is a fact that force underpins Progressivism. By using the coercive powers of government, we are required to do what Progressives wish us to do. In capitalism, no one forced you to buy an iPhone or a latte at Starbucks. Yet, if I wish to work for less than, say, $15 per hour, Progressives would use force to prevent me from making that choice.

Spare me the attacks on “capitalism” for the moment and focus on your own beliefs, and tell me that you don’t believe in a strong central government that empowers a few individuals with the means to force me to bend to their will. Doesn’t it ultimately come down to the use of violence (guns) to compel recalcitrant citizens to obey your end-justifies-the-means policies?

Progressivism is a form of welfare/regulatory statism. Instead of taking over the means of production as in socialism (see Venezuela and Cuba), they use the apparatus of a strong central government to control our economic behavior by taxing it and regulating it with a myriad of laws enforced by a vast bureaucracy.

Progressives think they know what’s best for us, and they are willing to deprive us of our rights to make choices about our own lives. Or, to put it another way, a few politicians and bureaucrats believe they are better able to make decisions about the lives of the other 320 million Americans.

Doesn’t that assume a certain arrogance?

This is the flaw in Progressivism: how can they know what you or I should do, much less know what our 320 million fellow Americans should do? That they claim to speak for the “people” is a myth; they speak for themselves.

I argue that free-market capitalism, that marketplace where you make a hundred economic decisions every day, is based on voluntary cooperation, good will, and trust. The market is one giant cooperative and voluntary machine to satisfy your needs without resorting to violence. When left alone, as history has proven over the millennia, it creates wealth in those societies who employ it and raises everyone’s standard of living.

So why do Progressives wish to interfere with this machinery of progress?

There are two reasons for this.

The first reason is that there are certain types of human beings who like to lord it over the rest of us. There is an attraction to power that these types can’t seem to resist. I’m not sure of the psychology of this particular mental disorder, but you can probably find it in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).

There are some fine people in politics, but the fact is that most of them relish power and the attention that comes with it. Most presidential candidates suffer from this flaw to a great degree, Hillary and Trump being

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The unfortunate corollary to the above is that there are folks who like to be told what to do and will eagerly exchange their liberty for the state’s promise to take care of them.

The second reason, pointed out by economist Don Boudreaux, is that these imperious types oversimplify a complex phenomenon that is our economy. The multitude of products and services available to you are the result of a vast interconnected network of voluntary cooperation of millions of people on a worldwide scale.

Boudreaux points out: “No one ever sees the immense expanse of human cooperation across space and time – or the vision and gumption of entrepreneurs, or the highly specialized skills of workers – all of which are necessary if we are to enjoy even the most mundane of modern goods and services.”

We are required to do what Progressives wish us to do Boudreaux says that politicians see only the tip of this economic iceberg and that “This appearance of relative simplicity creates the delusion that third-party interventions into the affairs of others are easily done and carry little risk of ill unintended consequences.”

In other words, they are tinkering with something they don’t understand, and the unintended consequences of this meddling are bad for us.

Hillary is the self-professed torch bearer of Progressivism. She has proposed an ocean of new regulations to reward her friends and buy votes from special interests. I have discussed many of these issues in past columns and I won’t address them now, but in future columns, I will challenge her most important policies and point out why they won’t work. I will show that they will often do the opposite of what is intended.

If there ever were a deceptively named movement, it would be Progressivism. Far from bringing about progress, it does the opposite by deterring investment, innovation, business formation, competition, and jobs. As Syme tells Winston Smith in George Orwell’s 1984: “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

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1986. I’ve left the band and decided to join my new girlfriend in Holland.

As chronicled in an earlier column, we’d met in Rocky Galenti’s, whose ghostly skeleton is at this writing the Spanish Revival jewel in the crown of lower State Street’s plywood-and-cash kingdom La Entrada. May Rocky’s rest in peace. The club had launched my band here in SB, and shortly thereafter ushered me into the rest of my unlikely life.

Now as I travel to parts unknown, I giddily imagine Holland (or The

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Netherlands as the misguided locals call it) as one version or another of the ineptly dubbed after-school specials of my youth. I foresee apple-cheeked Dutch kids on tractors wearing alienlooking overalls, their words and mouth movements marvelously unrelated as they say things like, “Hans, your heaviness and girth amuse us so!”, and the cars will have funny-looking license plates, and there will be windmills and canals everywhere, and those van Gogh stacks of threshed wheat – a halfaccurate and delirious premonition.

Now the dotted line on the screen slopes downward in a cozy parabola of life and warmth. The familiar and deeply beloved Earth is rising slowly to greet our airborne idiot machine.

We’re headed in for a happy landing, in Holland of all places! A new life awaits me! The boiling English Channel is behind us, and we’re coming in fast over a green, steeple-punctuated landscape as flat as a tabletop and peopled with flight-path cows that don’t even glance up as the screaming spaceship overhead applies air brakes and lurches jarringly into landing speed. It would seem we’re going to actually land in a cow paddy, but the tarmac suddenly appears and we’re on the ground with a happy-ifunnerving jolt and the mantra “I’ll never fly again” briefly reasserts its primacy in the promises-to-be-broken category.

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love to fly and it shows. The big screen and its cheery hieroglyph at the front of my section of seats shows the little airplane icon on a happy, secure, and predictable downslope, just over the western seaboard of continental Europe. The fact of the airplane’s hellacious roaring contrail is represented in this illustration with a fat and cheery dotted line, the kind you see on a cereal box.

Explosive decompression, stripped jackscrews, failed bulkheads, and non-responsive hydraulics – all such in-flight mortality events are safely hidden behind the airplane cartoon on that little screen up there, next to the galley where the flight attendants chat amiably in the half-light, smiling, and tossing their heads back in laughter with their arms crossed while bloodfreezing turbulence covertly loosens the rivets that hold the fuselage together.

Throughout the longish flight over iceberg-littered glacial bays and rolling open ocean, I feverishly remind myself that all is well, that the suspension of 90 tons of metal and wires and bolts and stiffening chicken piccata six miles up in the empty air is a physical inevitability and not a fragile miracle. As long as the plane keeps charging forward, it is lifted on velocity itself – it doesn’t have time to fall. Unfortunately, this inviolable rule of airfoil technology depends on crazily enormous steel wings that bounce and wobble like sonsabitches in the azure vacuum over Greenland. The screen up front, though, assuages and soothes, the funny dotted line and inert little airplane glyph a warm blankie of familiarity in the long, dimly lit tube of concussive, horror-dealing plausibility.

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Fermented Festivities at SB Fermentation Festival

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rom cheese to chocolate, and of course, beer, many of our favorite foods are fermented.

During fermentation, microorganisms metabolize food through a series of biological reactions that change the composition of the ingredients. The new compounds are not just tasty, they often have powerful health benefits. The digestive action of the microorganisms produce a series of beneficial nutrients and compounds that are so complex that their health effects outshine modern medicine.

It was those health benefits that changed the lives of Katie Hershfelt and her family. Throughout Katie’s childhood, her family suffered from a range of digestive problems. After years of trying traditional medical remedies, she began to study the health benefits of fermented foods.

This led to changes in her diet and

food choices that had a lasting impact.

Her family’s health was completely transformed, and since then she has been educating others on the power of fermented foods.

It was after attending a fermentation festival in Santa Cruz that Katie wanted to create her own event that highlighted fermented foods. In 2011, Katie and her mom, Lynn Hartman, hosted 75 attendees at the first Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival (SBFF). Initially held at Tom Shepherd farm in Carpinteria, Lynn taught the workshops as Katie managed the event. The next year, the festival had 500 attendees, 15 vendors, and it has been growing ever since. It has changed locations since the first year, being held at Fairview Gardens for 2013 and 2014. Last year, it was held at the historic Rancho La Patera & Stow House in Goleta, where it will

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It remains a family event with Lynn heading up the education, Katie’s brother as a production assistant, and both her husband and dad working the tickets booths. In fact, they allow children 15 and under into the event for free to encourage young children to learn about fermentation. The SBFF is unique in its passionate focus on education and hands-on experiences. With more than 50 exhibitors and four stages featuring top experts in their field, this festival has become a destination for people around the country. Guests get to learn about the health benefits of such fermented goodies as pickled foods, kefir, kombucha, and more while they are shown how to make their own at home.

From Farm-to-Bar Three years ago, Katie and I worked together to add the Farm-to-Bar area to the festival. We wanted to create a section of the festival that highlighted the breadth of fermented beverages.

This year, there will be 20-plus vendors offering a whole range of fermented libations. These beverages go beyond just beer and will cover ciders, jun, mead, shrubs, and more. From cocktails using local ingredients and ferments to pretzels made from Pure Order’s hefeweizen yeast, this section

of the festival shows the range of fermented libations.

Many of the owners and brewers will be there to discuss their items, allowing attendees to taste their brews while chatting with the people who actually produce them. The Farm-to-Bar section is a separate 21+ ticketed area and sells out each year, so be sure to get your tickets early.

Learn While You Drink The biggest focus at the SBFF is education. This time, we were able to schedule a series of informative talks in the Farm-to-Bar section.

We wanted to have three panels that split the concept of alcoholic fermentation into its components: sugar, microorganisms, and hops and other natural ingredients used to preserve fermented beverages.

Ian Cutler of Cutler Artisan Spirits will be moderating the first panel, Fruit, Malt & Sugar: The Fuel of Fermentation. At this panel, Justin Siemens of Bees Bros. Brewing, Anthony Caspary of Ventura Spirits, and Peter Goldammer of brewLAB, will discuss the intricacies of working with different sugars and how to harvest your own fruits and other sugar sources. At Hops, Herbs & Spice: Flavoring your Brew, audience members will learn about growing hops and how hops and other spices are used in a variety of different fermented beverages. Dan Reyes from CARP Homebrewers will moderate the panel that includes Brian DeBolt from Pacific Valley Hops, Nole Cossart from The Apiary, and Justin Crider from Lama Dog. The third panel, Cultivating Yeast: The Birth of Booze, will feature three master microorganism wranglers: Charles Williams of Broken Clock Vinegarworks, Patrick Ceriale of Telegraph Brewing, James Burge of Pure Order Brewing Co., with ...continued p.14

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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.

Special consideration will be given to interesting, exploratory, unfamiliar, and unusual items. We give calendar preference to those who take the time to submit a picture along with their listing.

Bowlathon in Tune

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he dog days of summer bring some of the hottest concerts of the year to our jewel of an amphitheater, the Santa Barbara Bowl.

The fortnight of fun kicks off with another one of those Isla Vista-born bands made good, Rebelution, who first realized they had something going when their Del Playa gigs were about more than drinking games. A dozen years later, the roots reggae rockers have dates at Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits under their belts, as well as five full-length albums, including the just-out Falling into Place.

Join the raucous homecoming hootenanny with special guests The Green + J Boog, Stick Figure, Through The Roots, and DJ Mackle spinning between sets on Saturday, August 13, beginning at 5:20 pm (wouldn’t 4:20 have been more appropriate?) Tickets are $42.50 to $44.50.

Steve Martin and Martin Short’s “An Evening You Will Forget For the Rest of Your Life”, which pits the two comedians whose careers first intersect on the long-running late night Saturday Night Live show, where each perfected any number of characters that may, or may not, be resurrected on Sunday, August 14. We’re told the evening includes classic film and TV clips, several musical numbers together and alone, and interactive conversations about their lives in show business. Show time is 7:30 pm, and tickets range from $55 to $130.

Next Friday, August 20, it’s the return of Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, starring one of the area’s most popular and perennial performers.

Harper played with the ICs for 15 years beginning in 1993 and including most of Harper’s important discs (Fight For Your Mind, The Will to Live, Burn to Shine, Diamonds on the Inside) before the partnership went on hiatus. They reunited last year, recorded a new album, Call It What It Is, out last April on Stax Records (a rightful home for the soulful Harper) and are back on tour again this summer. If you don’t already have a copy of the album, you can get one for free if you order tickets online, which range from $52.50 to $72.50. Show time is 6 pm; The Jack Moves open.

Jackson Browne, the singer-

songwriter whose career now spans 45 years, closes out our fortnight of music at the Bowl with his umpteenth appearance at one of his favorite venues.

(Who can forget the night in the early 1990s he looked up into the hills above the gated edge of the property to see a couple making love in the moonlight as he intoned one of his ballads, a memory he himself has referred to time again on subsequent gigs.) What’s even more remarkable is that he has retained both his singing voice and his prowess as an important voice of a nation of citizens concerned with bettering our world, as well as our relationships with one another. J.B. takes the stage at 7 pm – no opening act necessary. Catch the show on August 27. Tickets: $45-$81.

Call 962-7411 or visit www.sbbowl. com for all the show.

Get Balmy with Bogie & Bacall

If truth be told, I don’t think it really matters which movies are playing at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens on Friday nights during the summer.

Sure, everyone is pretty quiet during the screenings, and folks almost always stay to the end, even if it’s a film they’ve already seen countless times on television. The big appeal is getting to watch a film outdoors, under the moon and stars, on a blanket with your baby covering the soft grass following a picnic dinner (and some illicit wine?) while soft evening breezes brush by the gorgeous setting.

After a break last Friday for Fiesta’s Noches de Ronde, the series – which this year features classic films starring the great Hollywood lovers Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, including all four movies in which they starred together – returns August 12 with Dark Passage, in which Bogie as Vincent Parry, who has been falsely accused of killing his wife, escapes from prison to seek the true culprit and finds a surprising ally in Bacall’s Irene Jansen, a stranger who bravely takes in the mystery man. Pay close attention for the pioneering use of subjective camera techniques by which the viewer sees the action through the protagonist’s eyes, and to follow the suspense – or just take in the scenery.

Doesn’t really matter.

On August 19, it’s Key Largo, pairing the two stars as an embittered war

not only satisfy the Lindy Hoppers and East Coast lovers on the still-thriving local swing scene, but also bring back memories of the good ol’ days with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Toe’s Tavern.

Tickets are $29 to $66. Call 899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org.

Bonoff’s Beauty veteran and the wife of his deceased war buddy, a study of the simmering tensions between characters as part of a group that becomes stuck in a tumbledown hotel as a hurricane draws near. The series comes to a close at the end of our fortnight’s circulation period with How to Marry a Millionaire, with Bacall starring with Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe as a trio of friends who rent a luxurious penthouse in New York City to – as the title suggests – attract rich husbands. The 1953 comedy was the first film to be photographed in CinemaScope wide-screen.

You can set up your blankets and chairs at the Courthouse as early as noon, and the films start at 8:30, after the sky is dark. And oh, yeah, they also show weekly on Wednesdays at 7:30 pm at UCSB Campbell Hall two days before the Courthouse screenings – but who cares? You really going to drive 10 extra miles, pay $4 for parking, and sit indoors on a beautiful summer night? Info at 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.

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Get Down with Your Bad Self

Look, I’m just as mystified as anyone else just how it is that Big Bad Voodoo Daddy survived the rise and fall of the big Swing Revival of the 1990s. The Venturaborn and still based band is set to mark their 25th anniversary sometime late next year, and somehow is still out there playing – albeit with gigs not as large and visible as the Super Bowl halftime show, which they did back in 1999 – when their swing revival contemporaries Royal Crown Revue and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies have fallen by the wayside.

Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact that the band members are still the same after two decades. Or that leader Scotty Morris writes original songs that balance his own punk and classic rock leanings with reverence for the Swing Era. Maybe it’s because they can really play their instruments – including a five-piece horn section on tour. Or maybe they’re just lucky.

The good news is that this time around through town – at 8 pm on Wednesday, August 17, at the Granada Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara – you’ll be able to both listen and dance, as they’re putting in a special dance floor right in front of the stage, which should

Voices don’t come a whole lot purer, sweeter, and warm than Karla Bonoff’s.

The 60-something singer-songwriter got her start at the famous Troubadour in L.A. before Linda Ronstadt boosted her career by covering three of her songs on her 1976 Hasten Down the Wind album.

The songs have been rather sporadic over the intervening four decades, but there’s a marvelous catalog well worth hearing whenever Bonoff decides to descend from her home in the hills of Montecito for one of her periodic shows at the Lobero Theatre. As has been the case for the past decade, guitarist extraordinaire Nina Gerber accompanies Bonoff for the 8 pm Thursday, August 18, date.

Ticket are $39 to $49. Info at 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

Sense Soars into the Heights

You know what’s really cool about repertory theater? Aside from getting to see some of the same players perform in different roles in the space of a single summer, there’s also no downtime. One play just rolls into another with PCPA Theaterfest, because as one closes in Santa Maria to slide down to the Festival Theater in Solvang, another opens to takes its place.

The final two entries in the 2016 season take place during our fortnight.

Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility, which has been newly adapted for the stage

by Joseph Hanreddy and J.R. Sullivan, follows the Dashwoods after they move to the family cottage of the Middletons in England in the 1700s, with the daughters pursuing romance through different lenses of passion versus reason.

The mix of humor, romance, and happy endings plays nightly through Sunday, August 21, just five days before In the Heights takes over the stage at the 600-seat amphitheater. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical (2008) about chasing your dreams and finding your true home comes from Lin-Manuel Miranda (music & lyrics) and Quiara Alegría Hudes (book), the creators of the huge current Broadway hit Hamilton.

It tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood on the brink of change, featuring a gripping plot and extraordinary music and dance. The musical runs through September 11.

Tickets for both are $21.25 to $49.50.

Call 922-8313 or visit www.pcpa.org.

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Kevin Ashford of Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. as a moderator who will discuss the range and distinctions of microorganisms used in fermented beverages.

The talks will round out with a special presentation by Brandon Ristaino from Test Pilot and The Good Lion who will lead an informative course on Cocktails 101. This A-Z primer on cocktails will cover flavor theory and give guests insight on how to create a balanced, blended beverage. Audience members will get to help create three cocktails that use local ingredients and fermented goodies.

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If your enthusiasm for fermentation cannot be contained until the festival, do not worry, there is a kick-off event at SOhO on Wednesday, August 17, at 5 pm. The main event is a screening of Patagonia’s new film, Unbroken Ground, which focuses on the sustainable farming industry and soil regeneration. The screening will be followed by a panel of local farmers who are revitalizing the soil in our own backyard. It is SohO, so there will be live music and, naturally, the tunes will

be accompanied by fermented foods and beverages.

Compete for the Mule Fancy yourself a mixologist? Like to dabble with blending drinks?

Come compete at the SBFF Cocktail Competition: Year of the Mule. This contest has both professional and amateur categories and honors the 75th Anniversary of the Moscow Mule.

Registration ends on Tuesday, August 23, and once registered participants will receive a ginger bug to make their own ginger brew to experiment with at home.

The winning mule makers will receive a variety of prizes, including items from Cutler Artisan Spirits and even their own set of copper mugs from The Original Moscow Copper Co. Even if not competing, come to the new cocktail bar, Test Pilot (211 Helena Avenue), on Tuesday, August 30, at 5 pm, to watch these bartenders show off their skills. Visit the festival site to sign up as a contestant.

Visit sbfermentationfestival.com for tickets and a full list of events, speakers, and classes.

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Customs, an Ellis Island mockup where hundreds of confused passengers are herded through rope mazes and a few young Dutch officials with badges and comically stern faces and completely disarming apple cheeks glare down unconvincingly from atop raised pedestals, a pouting gang of Benetton models. This one looks at my face, then the passport, face-passport, facepassport, face-passport, the old trick, until I’m sure some little European guy in a Gendarme cap is going to appear and whisk me away. Finally, my passport is scrutinized and stamped and relief floods in.

Samsonite and Delilah Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. I and the other passengers herd-shuffle into the big brightly lit room with the baggage carousels, and then before I can exit my retrieved suitcase is vivisected by more Dutch models, blush-cheeked and charmingly businesslike. I realize with a start that all these Dutch airport officials look like the grown children of ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog. After some official-looking fuss my mockSamonsite is peremptorily slammed shut with my underwear sticking out, like a tongue. And there a wall of glass gives onto the crowd of waiting people, and my new family are there, two of them, Karin and Marcel, and my adorable new girlfriend is there waving madly. My knees weaken and through the surreal fog of jet lag, I realize that’s Judie, who I met in Rocky’s between sets that night, and I’m in her world now – I’m in Holland, this is her home and her world, and I’m seeing her as if for the first time and her mad waving and jumping looks like nothing I’ve ever seen or imagined, like nothing I’ve ever felt.

All the planning and daydreaming, the angst and sorrow of leaving my friends and quitting the band after finally making it to California, and then bidding my family farewell in the carport back in Phoenix, my saddened, quiet little brother suddenly turning and running back into the house for reasons unknown. Goodbye, Patrick; goodbye! Now I see my Dutch love through the glass and the blood hurriedly rushes upward into my teetering, overburdened imagination, I lumber forward with my dumb suitcase and two-ton electronic typewriter, the ceremonially weighted glass door is pushed open with some effort, and in the crowded concourse I set down my suitcase but keep a grip on the typewriter, dazedly grab my new girlfriend and touching her after all these hours of reality-tempering travel is a crazy workaday miracle. Can this

be happening?

Then the three Dutch kisses; not the two cheek-pecks of the exotic French that we’ve come to know from the movies, but three. They want to better the French. You get two pecks and think giddily “Holy crap, this is real” and then the third little peck, just to throw you off your pins, and you know you’re in for it.

I Heart the Wright Brothers On the drive home, my future brother-in-law Marcel is driving, my soon-to-be sis-in-law Karin cranking the radio. In the back seat, 19-yearold Juud is leaning heavily against me, her arm intertwined in mine, head on my shoulder, the radio blaring strange pop music. Every time I look down at her in dazed wonder, her eyes are looking right back up at me with the same stunned expression as my own. I can’t stop alternately looking at her and staring out the windows at a landscape that is a living daydream, vivid green and furry and flat to the horizon, the windmills near and far with their heroic vanes slanting in the light, amazing to see, steepled Olde World townscapes like movie paintings poking up in the near and middle and remote distance beneath an enormous blue verticality decorated with puff-ball clouds.

Can an airplane do all this? Yes. And the terror of the flight is commensurate with this thrilling sensory bombast, with all this wonder, the Wright Brothers my new best friends. All the insane rocketry we strap ourselves to and pretend to trust – this is what all the noise is about, these changeling moments of stunned dislocation.

Spires and towers and high-peaked roofs in mid-day silhouette decorate these receding fields and meadows, the little towns are cheek-by-jowl and are nearly joined; the flatiron landscape means you can take them all in at a glance, but what you see are steeples.

You can bike from one town to the next with little effort and I will do so often, sometimes in freezing squalls of rain. Today the sun shines down with a forceful message, the boundless green dotted with cows, heads down.

Then, off the A4 freeway and onto the surface roads of the Dutch channel coast as we near Judie’s hometown, soon to be my own: the village of Monster (no, not “Muenster”).

The scene is fluffy fields, occasional homes with penned goats and sheep, then the outsized Kweker mansions, surmounted by acres of entrepreneurial peaked glass behind which are grown everything from petunias to palm trees. These are the region’s kingpins and employers. This is het Westland,

agricultural nexus of Holland.

Close your eyes and throw a rock, and you will likely put a hole in a greenhouse. My bro-in-law Marcel is driving now in what I would later come to know as Dutch Grand Prix, negotiating the narrow little inter-town roads like the car’s ass is on fire, and only as we enter the neighborhoods do I come down somewhat from my reverie and realize I’m being threatened anew with explosive death and maiming.

Then a quick right followed by a quick sharp left onto Wassenaarstraat, a screeching halt in front of Judie’s house, two and half floors tall, red brick, and narrow. Through the large square huiskamer window an indistinct figure spins quickly away into the shadows, and then out runs Riekie through the front door in an excited half-jog, my beautiful heartfelt future Dutch momin-law whom I am meeting for the first time, and she is wildly grinning and her arms are outstretched in a guileless loving welcome and she enfolds me like a long lost son, then holds me out from her to look at my face and her sunny expression, to my surprise, is ecstatic and teary, and I tear up and then a few others are gathering around me, and I’m dazed and happy and already feeling the love of my new home,

my new household, and I look down the row of houses and a few smiling neighbors have come to their doorsteps and are smiling grandly, one with her hands clasped. I look over and there is Judie again, like that night in the club, the serene, green-eyed beatific smile, a settled smile of contentment to match my own.

Then a peaked attic bedroom at the tippity top of a flight of narrow spiral stairs, a bedroom through whose canted ceiling window one could stare straight up at the enormous black birds endlessly battling the Dutch gale, their desperate caws sounding like cries for help. Then nuptials in Amsterdam, much horizontal rain, long nights drinking in Naaldwijk with Juud and Marcel, then biking back to Monster through the Dutch countryside in the whisperingly silent wee hours under scudding moonlit clouds. Freaking magic. And a whole new, deeply beloved family in a cozy little seaside town, nestled against the dunes on the Dutch channel coast; my second home and the Monster in my id.

Sevenentwintig jaar geleden was dat allemaal gebeurd. Nou ja; Juud is net jarig. En ja, het gaat heel goed.

Gefeliciteered, meid. Ik hou zoveel van je!

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t didn’t hit till post interview – Geoff Downes may be one of the most legitimate working musicians of the past three decades. Currently playing for three bands (YES, Asia, and The Buggles) and co-writing for all, Geoff and the rest of YES are offering the 1980 album Drama performed in its entirety – for the first time ever – and sides one and four of 1973’s double album Tales From Topographic Oceans, and a handful of their greatest hits when they stop by the Arlington Theatre on Sunday, August 28.

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Awesome! Well currently, I’m wearing a “YES: Tour of the Americas ‘79” shirt. While they were on this tour, what were you up to?

Well, I was making a record with my co-writer and band mate at the time in a band called The Buggles. We made a record called “Video Killed The Radio Star” in 1979. Of which, I should probably note, was the first video on MTV. So that’s what I was doing. We had the same management as YES, and that is how we got to bump into the guys.

Hell yeah! First video on MTV. We all know it. So cool. You’re currently in YES and the band Asia. Is that correct?

Yes, we’re writing another Asia album at the moment, so that will be coming out hopefully next year.

Creatively, is it a challenge to play in two different bands?

I still do stuff with The Buggles, so that’s three bands I’m in. It can be a bit tricky sometimes but as far as The Buggles and Asia goes, I’m the only keyboard player that’s been in either band, so it’s kind of in my DNA. I wrote the majority of that music. As far as YES, we are playing the Drama album at this time, which I did with the band. We’ve also been doing a lot of their previous albums, and it’s quite a challenge because I’m not playing myself, I’m playing other keyboard players’ parts.

Are you able to be creative within that, or do you like to maintain a certain sound?

I think it’s important to try to maintain the signature sounds of the records. There are areas where you can stretch out, and the other guys are good about that. They say, “don’t stick to the original too closely. Just play yourself!”

How wonderful and supportive! Well, we can’t wait to see you and have you guys in SB. Yes, we’re looking forward to it. Thanks for calling, love. Bye! YES at the Arlington Theatre on Sunday, August 28 1317 State Street, Santa Barbara For tickets: (877) 789-6684 www.thearlingtontheatre.com

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Their popularity, however, has since spread to France, Italy, Morocco, and other parts of the world, including the United States. The pepper that was once obscure is now becoming commonplace at summer farmers markets and in the produce section of local grocery markets. Here are a few ways to enjoy them: prepare them the Spanish way; pan-fry them in a cast-iron skillet, then season with salt before devouring. Pickle padrón peppers as you would jalapeños or any other peppers.

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The outer skin is wrinkled, a distinguishing feature of the Santa Claus melon. Its fragrance is subtle as a result of its thick skin. Unlike many other melons, it will not release a signifying aroma when ripe. The ripest Santa Claus melon will have an end that yields to gentle pressure, and its skin will be a vibrant yellow. Pick up some of these beauties from John Given’s Farm at the Santa Barbara farmers market.

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That’s why I want everyone to be their own health captain, you see.” Her voice reminds me of a classic Disney princess, Sleeping Beauty or Snow White. Soothing like your grandmothers, then animated as an actor playing the roll of a super hero for health. “Sore throat? Gargle with Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar! One teaspoon to one cup of water. Gargle and spit about three times.

Patricia Bragg welcoming all with open arms at The It cleanses the toxins out of your throat.

Bragg Exercise Class on Waikiki Beach, Hawaii. The It’s very good.” program has been in session for 40-plus years.

The art of storytelling is alive with Patricia Bragg, and we roll from one account to the next. All are entertaining and a few, unexpected. For example, around 1960, she was known in Santa Barbara as the “Peacock Lady”. Patricia had more than 40 birds, but the birds would mate at night and make a shrieking sound that sounded like a human cry for help. Concerned neighbors called the police, and eventually and she had to give away her beloved royal-blue peacocks to good homes.

Another interesting fact, the Bragg logo was intentionally created to use the same colors as Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus. When Patricia’s father, Dr. Paul C. Bragg, started the company in 1912, he decided to use the bold red and yellow on circus advertisements to gain attention and get people excited about Bragg health products.

Patricia is an eternally busy woman with energy that rivals those many times her junior (when asked about her age, Patricia replies, “Ageless.”). When she’s not overseeing a multi-million-dollar company, Patricia dedicates her life to the Bragg Health Foundation (www.bragghealth.org), a nonprofit which inspires to “educate people of all ages throughout the world to adopt a healthy lifestyle through optimal nutrition, exercise, positive attitudes, and spiritual wellness.”

The foundation promises to: • Provide scholarships to students pursuing naturopathic medicine • Give financial support toward health outreach to school-aged youth, diverse community members, and elder adults.

• Support health science research • Sponsor and fund community health education lectures, and seminars.

• Fund, produce, and distribute health books and materials on healthy living.

• Generate educational and support programs to promote health and healthful living.

Apart from the endless accolades Bragg have collected in the 104 years they’ve been in business, the foundation is proud to donate large funds to promote scholarship and financial support programs. In addition, they donate produce grown on the Bragg Organic Farm to local schools, nonprofits, the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County, while thousands of Bragg Live Food Products are donated to charities, both local and nationwide.

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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.

Eggs-actly the Same

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was a fine Fiesta parade last Friday, as always. The crowd seemed extra mellow this year, or maybe that’s just because my usual drinking buddies who camp out on Figueroa Street were out of town this year, so no blue margaritas for me.

Turns out, the gorgeous dancing horses and creaky old carriages, colorful costumes, and marching mariachis are just as much fun sober. Who knew?

But amid all that grandeur, you know what suddenly struck me as I meandered my way down the sidewalk

to the annual party at the Ayni Gallery?

One thing occurred to me: the price of canciones – the decorated, confetti-stuffed egg shells – has not gone up. Not one cent, at least since I came to town for my first Fiesta way back in 1992. Ah, that was a good time, munching on ribs and downing margs behind the KTYD booth in De La Guerra Plaza as a radio-station sponsored band played its hits. But back to our story...

I just did the math on my iPhone.

A dollar in 1992 bought as much as $1.75 does today. So that means those colorful canciones should be going for at least 44 cents each just to keep pace. But nope, the things still sell for four for $1, or just 25 cents each (they don’t even charge you more to buy just one). Think about it: after carefully cracking the eggs so as to keep the shells intact, painstakingly painting them in any number of ways, from solid spray paints to characters created by hand, and then stuffing them full of confetti and covering them with tissue paper, the sellers get only a quarter a pop.

So they should cost at least 44 cents.

“If we try to raise the prices, people just go somewhere else,” one mother of three, who had literally hundreds if not thousands of eggs for sale on the sidewalk after the parade, told me as I forked over my George Washington for four of the most cleverly concocting beauties. “So, it’s still 25 cents.”

I’m not sure if this is an example of supply and demand working out like it’s supposed to, despicable suppression of the immigrant worker, or who knows what. But it’s still an incredible

bargain. And I’m not cracking those babies over anyone’s head!

Fiesta Frolics Overall, it was a wide but shallow Fiesta for me, as I did something related every day of the five-day celebration, but only briefly. Started with the annual Spencer the Gardener gig at Casa Cantina, which was its usual super-fun reunion of old friends and new pals. Thursday I dropped by Dignatarios at the Zoo – now just referred to in ads and elsewhere by the cool moniker of “Digs” – a bit too late to eat anything much, given my gluten- and dairy-free diet.

In fact, the only place still serving something suitable also had a long line – Rincon Catering’s soft-taco station.

Sure was worth the wait, though – such a yummy concoction. So good, I went back for more even after they ran out of meat, piling on the condiments and adding a little of the dry chicken from next door.

No band this year, in concession to the fact that the dance floor was much more crowded for the DJ set than it was when King Bee was performing.

Gonna guess it cost less, too. People seemed to have fun, but I left soon after sunset.

Friday was the parade, already mentioned above, and then I caught about 30 minutes of Noches de Ronde at the Courthouse late on Saturday night (after an amazing annual Beatles sing-along at Arden House earlier in the evening), It was my first time there in several years, and now I’m wondering why I’ve stayed away, as ...continued p.24

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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.

AVAF @ MCA

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anta Barbara’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) unveils avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods, a mixed-media show that takes over space and showcases the career of assume vivid astro focus (avaf ). I asked the MCA’s Miki Garcia, executive director and curator, about this latest exhibition.

Q. Who is assume vivid astro focus (avaf)?

A. Founded by Eli Sudbrack (born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1968) in New York City in 2001 and joined by Christophe Hamaide-Pierson (born in Paris, France, in 1973) in 2005, assume vivid astro focus collaborates with musicians, designers, dancers, and other artists to produce paintings, sculptures, performances, installations, videos, and other emerging art forms. avaf offers a sense of exuberance and optimism while critically exploring the politics of free speech, equal rights, and freedom of expression.

How did you first learn of avaf?

I have a history with avaf that goes back a little while. I worked with avaf in 2008 when I worked at the Public Art Fund in New York City, and we collaborated with the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial exhibition in Central Park. [avaf collaborated with the Central Park Dance Skaters Association to create a vibrant floorscape and canopy for the Skate Circle].

The SBMCA has consistently challenged (in a good way) the comfort level of art, whether it be unconventional forms, such as installations or performances, or subject matter, as in the previous exhibition of environmental concerns, Beyond 2°. What can we expect from avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods?

Avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods uses the avaf acronym, a play on words often utilized by the artists to refer to our collective anxiety regarding natural disasters (particularly sensitive in California and Brazil at the moment) and the general uncertainty of the times, politically, economically, and socially. The images selected for the rugs tend to break down into two categories of abstraction and color and various manifestations of subjects related to LGBTQ politics. At times raunchy and even scatological, the rugs are not simply a look back at past work, but a

NY Studio (I love the Guerilla Girls), 2014. (Photo by Mathu Place)

Medusa, 2014. Krink paint on canvas. (Image courtesy of the artist)

assume astro vivid focus, Pink Helmet, Glam Body Armor, 2016. Digital image. (Courtesy of the artist)

reaction to the devastating homophobic killings in Orlando – a painful reminder of the ongoing struggle of the LGBT community to achieve equal rights, personal autonomy, and freedom of expression. While LGBT topics have been recurrent themes from the beginning of avaf ’s collaboration, often referencing the Gay Rights Movement of the 1970s, both Sudbrack and Hamaide-Pierson felt compelled to take a stronger stand at this critical moment.

I read in the press release this exhibition will be a “quasi-retrospective” of avaf ’s 10-plus-year career; which pieces specifically are you most excited to have on display at the museum?

The works read as a Gesamtkunstwerk, and so it is difficult for me to parse out any specific piece. What I am most excited about is the experience the viewer will have that will engage one on a multi-sensory level, which pushes the idea of what “visual” art can be.

However, the edgy themes and images in the exhibition are very important to show as these are uncertain times, and it is in these times that we look to visual artists to challenge our expectations and produce critical thinking and communication in our world.

What has been the most challenging part of installing the show?

The entire installation, especially the rugs and wall murals, has been conceived especially for this museum and its galleries.

The artists work in Paris, Rio, and New York, and we are in California, so it is challenging to produce site-specific, new work under these conditions but certainly not impossible. Everyone from our head preparator, the artists, designers, and staff have pitched in their expertise to make this exhibition a success.

Music and participation seem to be a big part of avaf ’s work. How should someone, who is more comfortable quietly looking at paintings on the wall, take part of the experience and come out of their shell?

This work can absolutely be observed quietly and intimately. It just isn’t on a wall. We have a brochure with essays and activities to help guide one through the show. In addition, we always have our interactive learning space called the Art Lab, where one can learn by doing and participating in activities or sit quietly and read more about the work on view.

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Will the artists be at the opening?

Yes. Because this work is site-specific and produced by the museum for this exhibition, the artists are on hand to help construct the project.

Avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods opens to the public Sunday, August 14, and runs through the rest of the year until January 1, 2017. The opening reception is the night before on Saturday, August 13, from 6 to 8 pm. Do you have anything special planned for this?

Yes, our members’ reception will be a blast. I encourage everyone to consider joining so that they can come to the opening (we even have a free membership called Engage)! We are partnering with KCRW and the artist Christophe Hamaide spinning a set.

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I definitely enjoyed the wide range of Spanish dancing on display as the crowd was dispersing.

Glen’s Still Got It Divorce is never pretty, but Toad the Wet Sprocket singer-songwriter

Glen Phillips’s separation from his wife, Laurel, who he started dating at age 18, has spawned a creative surge for the now 45-year-old Santa Barbara native. Phillips, who has fashioned a strong niche for himself as a solo singer-songwriter during

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advantage of the various discounted series, or even putting together your own for a 10-percent reduction. Okay, press people, happy now?

Seeking Speakers Speaking of Stories holds its general auditions August 15-16 at its home base of Center Stage Theater.

Hopefuls should bring an acting resumé and headshot to present prior to their two-slot reading either one of the suggested stories (“The Flower” by Alice Walker or “The Word” by Robley Wilson) or one of your own choosing. Email cstheater@ sbcoxmail.com or call 963-8198 to book an audition during the 5 to 9 pm window.

Tate it Ain’t So (Damn Yankees!)

What’s a Santa Barbara-based Red Sox fan supposed to do? Dillon Tate, the high-powered pitcher who turned a strong season in his junior year at UCSB in 2015 into the No. 4 position in the draft that summer, just got traded to the Yankees in the New Yorker’s first dab into the seller’s market in more than 30 years. Love Tate. Hate the Yankees. Can you say “cognitive dissonance”?

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ansum Clinic’s Café 154 announces its grand reopening with new manager, chef Brenda Simon. The café offers fresh, casual fare with a focus on healthy, locally sourced, and seasonal ingredients. Menu items include made-from-scratch favorites such as sandwiches, healthy wraps, pressed juices, and freshly baked breads and pastries. Our gourmet grab-and-go counter offers diners delicious, healthy options with swift, friendly service.

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Locally, she owned and operated the Museum Café in the Santa Barbara

Chef Brenda Simon has 28 years of culinary experience. She is a trained chef with culinary stints around the world. Locally, she owned and operated the Museum Café in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and she has been the owner/operator of a private chef and catering business, The Secret Ingredient.

Museum of Art. Chef Simon believes in a well-balanced and healthy approach to food. Her cooking packs a nutritional punch by regularly including superfood ingredients that benefit our bodies and nourishes them in healthful ways.

Menu items available at the Café 154 include: • Organic, local coffee and espresso with house-made organic coffee syrups such as vanilla bean, dark chocolate, and organic vanilla bean agave.

• Sandwiches, paninis, and wraps made with garden-fresh seasonal ingredients on bakery fresh bread • Two soups daily such as Fire Roasted Tomato, Basil Cannellini Bean, and Farmers Market Vegetable • Easy to indulge baked goods and

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FINCH & FORK: SUMMER EDITION

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wrote about Finch and Fork last August, but I’m going to do it again.

Why, you ask?

Why not? Some fantastic summer menu items are being added to the already fantastic menu, and it deserves a shout-out.

Everything is made in Santa Barbara with a touch of love. No attitude here.

I developed little patience with some places in town that try too hard to go over the top without much thought and serve up, literally, dollops of pure mess.

Finch & Fork always welcomes you.

It makes me feel warm and cozy every time. Chef James Siao has been cooking up simple and fresh, modern American cuisine with a nostalgic twist to make Finch & Fork a “must checkout” place in town. Whatever you are doing, chef, keep doing it! This place captured my heart last year and has been among my top five since then.

Chef James Siao makes Finch & Fork a “must stop” in Santa Barbara

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Let’s recap my favorites in the menu: Cheese Plate – It sounds weird, but I can probably judge a restaurant by its cheese plate. And this one is made with tons of love. Berries on the plate were perfectly picked; cheese accompanied by local honeycomb was pure heaven.

Tuesdays fried chicken – It’s the best in the country. Chicken wings (chili caramel and pickled celery), scallions (avocado, ruby grapefruit, corn salsa, chorizo vinaigrette), field greens (pistachio vinaigrette, ricotta salsa, dates, and lemon garlic breadcrumbs) and ribeye steak (trumpet mushrooms, cipollini onions, chimichurri, fingerling potatoes) are the ones I order without hesitation.

If you haven’t tried those, please make a reservation.

Off to a few summer menu: Warm baby carrot salad (saffron crème fraiche, citrus segments, pepitas, sumac) – Exotic and familiar at the same time and it works!

Pork chop – Apple bacon chutney, butternut squash purée mustard ginger crumble was absolutely sensational.

Highly recommend pairing it with ‘12 Stolpman Roussane. You will be enlightened. This dish turned my friend Cathy, who didn’t eat meat, into a carnivore.

Skuna Bay salmon (pork belly/ potato hash, pea greens, tarragon aioli peperonata) – For this, ’14 Grassini Sauvignon Blanc. Yes! Off to the exciting dessert add-ons: Tres leches (made with sweet corn!

Whipped cream, chili lime popcorn praline) – I love tres leches and Chef James’s version was almost poetic.

Cream-sicle (vanilla bean cream cheese mousse, ginger orange crumble, orange granita) is a pure delight and screams “summer pool” time.

How can I say a summer menu without mentioning Raw Bar? Make sure you check out the new bar items: Salmon Tostada (Pickled shallots, curry lime crème fraiche, cashews, cucumber) Steak Tartare (Oyster aioli, cured egg

Pork chop (apple bacon chutney, butternut squash purée mustard, ginger crumble)

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Tres leches (sweet corn, whipped chili lime popcorn praline)

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yolk, radish, rice cracker or chips) Hamachi Crudo (Avocado, yuzu, pickled stone fruit, roasted poblano, crispy wild rice, chili)

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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.

THE BROS OF SANTA BARBARA

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fter many hours of research on the beaches of Santa Barbara, my friend and I realized we love the “bros”! You may ask, “What is a ‘bro’?” or “Isn’t it ‘brah’?”

Good questions.

According to local sources, a “bro” is used to describe a person (i.e., “Yeah, Chris has been my bro since I’m three years old.”) while “brah” is more of a greeting, introduced by our Hawaiian brethren (i.e. “What’s up, Brah?!”). Now we’ve found the meaning of a “bro”, here are a few observations we’ve jotted down, written with mad love. Let’s hear it for the bros.

DAD BRO Background: Used to shred the gnar, now shreds cheese for kids’ pizzas Hair: Clean-shaven or soul-patch near bottom lip Car: Subaru Outback with 6 surf boards, 2 boogie boards, 4 wetsuits, and a bike strapped to top Style: Surf clothing from 15 years ago, the last time he went shopping for himself sans kids Food: Half-eaten hotdogs, tacos, burgers... whatever the kids don’t eat Fun Fact: Calls his 3-year-old and 6-year-old “Dude”. Brings family dog everywhere.

YOGI BRO Background: Might be from California or Ohio. Backstory fuzzy.

Hair: Dreadlocks or man bun depending on “hip” factor.

Car: A van he lives in (no judgment).

Style: Barefoot always, necklaces with crystals, pinecones, and other organic found items.

Food: Superfood smoothie in a mason jar and raw produce from farmers market.

Fun Fact: Says bi-sexual but really into women BIG CITY BRO Background: From Santa Barbara but moved to L.A. and made it big with investments and/or the entertainment industry. Came back to SB before age 40.

Hair: Manicured Car: Range Rover Style: Designer suits but flip flops ready in car. On weekends, wears cashmere white T-shirts and designer, vintage-looking jeans.

Food: A place to see and be seen, farm-to-table trendy upscale restaurants only Fun Fact: Loud talker LOC DOG BRO A.K.A. LOCAL BRO Background: Born and raised in SB. Tolerates outsider bros on local surf breaks.

Hair: Short enough for a business meeting. Long enough to keep bro status.

Car: His beach car is a 1980s pick-up truck or hatchback adorned with rust spots, surf wax, shells, and old plane ticket stubs from Bali, Peru, and Mexico.

Style: Patagonia or the newest and eco-friendliest gear on the market Food: Tacos from Cantwell’s on way to beach with favorite local brew or freshpressed juice Fun Fact: Can adjust to fit in with all bros. Busts out Jeff Spicoli accent when needed MISSED CONNECTIONS Welcome to our first Craigslist collaboration. We couldn’t help but see if we could get these two together. (Bros, if you’re reading this, is it you? Email letters@ santabarbarasentinel.com and we’ll pass along!)

Subject: On Thurs. 8/4/16 – Saw you at Seven Bar, then again on State St – w4m You: Mid/late twenties, white guy with a white T-shirt. Beard/mustache & a ponytail/bun. You were with a few friends. We saw each other at Seven Bar, both listening to the band. I was at a table with a couple. Later we drove by you on State Street, windows down, fiesta chaos. We smiled & waved at each other and you came to my car, asking where I planned to go next… then my driver kept driving! You’re cute and I wish I gave you my number.

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Some of the apparel and art books for sale in the retail space

is not a breakfast restaurant… at least not yet. They do serve light eats such as local baked goods and simple openface toasts, and really good coffee.

But it’s not by any means a traditional American-style breakfast place. In fact, breakfast is really only one part of what’s going on at the club.

Snapshot of the café counter

SO HERE’S THE BACKSTORY

The Breakfast Culture Club was started by two local guys: Maassen, described above, and his best bud, Tosh Clements, also a Santa-Barbara-born photographer. Maassen’s photography career took off at the ripe age of 19, and he’s been living in Los Angeles and travelling the world since. Now 25, Maassen has returned to SB with the intention of growing his home

community into a place where he and his friends can again set roots; a place that more young people can settle, survive, and thrive. Breakfast Culture

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Club is part of that vision.

As Morgan told me: “A lot of my peers from Santa Barbara High left town for college and moved to big cities and have not moved back, because there’s nothing really going on here.” But, he goes on to say, he’s been recently re-inspired and change is underway in Santa Barbara.

“I noticed some of my friends trying to make inroads and make it happen here.”

He mentions two longtime friends of his who have recently opened up new fresh businesses in town, Ryan Lovelace, a surfboard shaper with a new surf shop called Trim, and another, Nole Cossart, who recently opened the Apiary, a cider and mead tasting room in Carpinteria.

Seeing his friends making a go at it inspired him to think more deeply about what else the community needs. He thought that the idea of a clubhouse of sorts would be cool and was something that he’d always dreamed about creating.

“CULTURE CLUB”

In 2014/15 while traveling a lot, Maassen started a website called “Breakfast”. On that site he profiled artists that he liked, other filmmakers and photographers, fine artists, and musicians whom he was meeting on his travels.

Shortly after he started the Breakfast website, he began collaborating with his best friend and partner, Clements, to make basic apparel items such as T-shirts, sweaters, and hats, just for fun and to hand out to friends. Over this past year, as the two put more time into the project, they decided to get an office space in which to work.

After a series of serendipitous events, they ended up with much more than an office, as the entire building they were looking to rent out became available. The vision quickly expanded from office to… culture club. The coffee shop idea came into play to bring in more foot traffic and float the gallery and retail space as it got off the ground. Clements and a team of baristas came in who had a background in coffee, having worked at Handlebar Coffee for a while when they first opened. As to the retail side of things, they currently sell their self-designed clothing, as well as clothing from Apolis and Pam Wear, as well as numerous art books, and Trim Shop surfboards.

So why the name “Breakfast,” I asked him. “It’s a funny, obscure, quirky name,” he says, and a name he’d always had in mind for a skate company, which was a childhood dream.

The Breakfast Culture Club opened in mid-May 2016. He and his team want to see the expansion of more cool venues for young people around SB, and with the redevelopment of the Funk Zone going on, it is no longer seen by many local artists as a viable place to set up shop due to astronomical rent prices.

Maassen says he’s hoping that Chapala Street will become the new local funky area that is by locals for locals, helping support artists and entrepreneurs.

The intention is to have a different art show every three months with artists hailing from all over the place. With its breezy open atmosphere, and an understated surfer-chic vibe, the spot has a lot to offer as a gallery space. Their first art show was in mid-June, and the next will be a collaborative surf photography show on Friday, September 2, from 7 to 10 pm featuring work from himself, Will Adler, and Clements. They’ll be showing the work, a few short films, and debuting their new beach-inspired clothing line.

The coffee bar will be open, as well as catered food and drinks.

If they can pull it off the way they have envisioned, there is a good chance The Breakfast Culture Club could become a great community hub and space for new art, culture, and the occasional pingpong tournament (yes!) in our beloved Santa Barbara.

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Behind the Vine

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

SUMMER FUN IN LOS OLIVOS

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et’s be honest – living in Santa Barbara is like a staycation every day. Sure, it’s fun to be a tourist in your own city, but we also have the luxury of being able to hop in the car and explore some pretty cool places, all within easy driving distance.

Los Olivos, which is about a 40-minute drive from Santa Barbara, was once a dusty little western town consisting of not much more than a gas station, hardware store, post office and a bar known as the The Bucket O’ Blood Saloon. Sounds like a real rough-around-the-edges establishment, doesn’t it?

Today, Los Olivos is quaint and welcoming, and has transformed into what is more like a wine enthusiasts’ Disneyland, complete with more than 30 tasting rooms all within walking distance, many of them in the same historic buildings from the 1800s.

Summer in Los Olivos is the perfect time to venture over the hill, as there are lots of fun events and live music to keep you entertained while you sip on local wines.

Here’s what is going on in Los Olivos:

Refugio Ranch Tasting Room

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visit to the beautiful Refugio Ranch is a special experience, but the more accessible and festive events typically happen at their tasting room in downtown Los Olivos. Every Saturday during the summer, come celebrate the warm weather with live music, food trucks, and wine specials from 3 to 5 pm.

J. Wilkes

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he recently opened J. Wilkes is part tasting room and part education center. Stop in to taste the wine and learn all about Santa Barbara Pinot Noir from winemaker Wes Hagan, who will no doubt take time to help you understand the different nuances each AVA imparts on the wines.

Epiphany Cellars

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ead to the inviting outdoor lounging space at Epiphany for “Thursdays Uncorked” to enjoy 20 percent off bottles and food specials from 5:30 to 7:30 pm through October.

Known for their Syrahs and red blends, it’s the perfect excuse to try something new while enjoying the summer evening.

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Saarloos & Sons

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visit to the cute tasting room of Saarloos & Sons wouldn’t be complete without a cupcake flight from Enjoy Cupcakes. Pair everything from Sauvignon Blanc to Syrah with the delectable cupcakes, with flavors such as Lemon Rosemary, Citrus Sauvignon Blanc, and Chocolate Blackberry Syrah.

of it for their Saturday “Tunes in the Tasting Room”? From 3 to 5 pm, enjoy your wine on the patio while listening to music from acoustic performers.

Carhartt Winery

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here may not be live music, but reggae tunes and lively patrons keep things festive at the family-run Carhartt tasting room all summer long. Everyone is happy on the back patio of this tiny spot, which is located right next door to Epiphany.

Zinke Wine Co.

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ith corn hole, bocce, and plenty of comfy outdoor seating to enjoy while you sample their Rhône wines, a visit to Zinke is always a fun experience, but live music every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm will keep you coming back for more.

Sanger Family Wines

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ll three of the Sanger Family brands (Consilience, Marianello, and Tre Anelli) can be tasted in their Los Olivos tasting room, so why not make an afternoon

Second Saturday Artisans

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hrough October, head to Los Olivos for their 2nd Saturday Artisans event in the center of town next to the park to peruse handmade and original artwork from more than 20 local artists.

Los Olivos Café & Wine Merchant

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n the last Friday of each month, a local guest winemaker is featured at the café to pour wine during dinner. On Friday, August 26, the featured winemaker will be Larry Schaffer, who will be pouring wine from his Tercero label.

Today, Los Olivos is a far cry from what this small country town used to be, with its streets lined with picture-perfect tasting rooms and galleries, but sleepy little town it is not! Live music, art shows, and wine specials certainly make Los Olivos a fun little getaway.

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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.

2016 COWBOY BALL

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anta Ynez Valley is a true horse community with more than 50 breeds of horses, horse events nearly every weekend, an Arabian horse association, an equestrian center with shows and competitions, a premier thoroughbred breeding farm, and a therapeutic riding school offering school programs, a physical therapy program, and a mental health program.

Accredited by the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH), the Santa Ynez Valley Therapeutic Riding Program was founded in 1990 by Mary Ann Evans, Ph.D., a clinical neuropsychologist specializing in assessing and treating individuals with a variety of learning and brain-related disorders, including traumatic brain injury, stroke, dementia, toxic exposure, and developmental disorders such as autism, learning disabilities, and attention deficit disorders.

The program is currently serving close to 150 northern Santa Barbara County students each week with special needs including various mental, physical, and emotional challenges such as Cerebral Palsy and Autism. Lessons are held five days a week at the Santa Ynez Valley Equestrian Center.

With a mission to “provide quality equine assisted activities to children and adults with physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and or other life challenges, regardless of their ability to pay,” the annual Cowboy Ball raises funds to support therapeutic riding programs, to provide scholarships, and purchase items for their “wish list” which include: fly spray, horse treats, helmets, horse brushes and grooming tools, computer paper, bottled water, cups for students and volunteers, and wheelbarrows.

“My husband, Alfonso, and I really believe in the value of these programs. Our son, Luciano, turns 11 years old next month. He was diagnosed with autism at age two and has been riding since he was three years old. Every kid with a special need has a different story as to why they need the program. For instance, a quadriplegic gets the experience of wind blowing through their hair and the weight of this huge animal as they ride tandem with a trainer. It’s a pretty magnificent site to witness a child get to experience that. With our little guy, Luciano, he was a 25-pound kid that wasn’t talking and he related to animals, and there is something magical and powerful that happened when we put him on a huge horse.

Once he gets on that horse, there is a beautiful intimate connection that is indescribable. That is why we continue every Saturday to let him have his lessons.

We believe in this program, and that is why we support this event. The $25 per

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lesson doesn’t cover all the costs,” says Amy Curti, explaining they can only rely on volunteers for so much of what they need to provide, and “it is expensive to feed the horses, and make sure we have expert horse trainers and patient horses who have the capabilities for these programs.”

This year’s event will be held at Reata Oaks Ranch with a gourmet dinner by chef Alfonso Curti, wine by D’Alfonso Curran Winery, live music performed

by Amy Curti and Gary Foshee, and a live and silent auction that include a Sun Valley vacation stay, catered dinners, wine, Suzan Todd painting, and Dancing with the Stars tickets. The cowboy chic evening will honor longtime supporters Tina and Paul McEnroe.

Tickets are $100 per person, and the event is on Saturday, August 20, from 5 to 8 pm.

For more information, call Robin at (805) 325-1544

EVA’S TOP FAVES:

My personal picks, best bets, hot tips, save the dates, and things not to miss!

CORNHOLE FOR THE CANCER CURE elay for Life of the Santa Ynez Valley hosts a Cornhole Tournament, with all proceeds going to the American Cancer Society to support its efforts in lifesaving cancer research and support local cancer patient services. The American lawn game also known as dummy boards, beanbag toss, dadhole, doghouse, Baggo, and bags, will be organized with each squad being guaranteed three games to compete for first-, second-, and third-place prizes. A raffle and food truck will be part of the event.

When: Sunday, August 21, with the first toss at 11:30 am Where: Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. 45 Industrial Way in Buellton Cost: $25 donation per player and two players per team Info: To sign up, contact Nichole Takeda at (949) 735-1809 or nichole.takeda@ cancer.org.

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STOLPMAN EDUCATIONAL VINEYARD HIKE tolpman Vineyards invites lovers of all things wine to abandon the tradition of the tasting room to “truly experience wine” on a guided hike on the hilltops of their estate vineyard. Traverse the land to discover first-hand why biodiversity and sustainable farming is key to world-class winemaking, and meet back up at the tasting room in Los Olivos Tasting Room for a complimentary wine tasting after the hike.

When: Sunday, August 28, at 11 am Where: Villa Angeli – Stolpman Vineyards 2001 Ballard Canyon Road in Solvang Cost: $20 per hiking wine taster Info: www.stolpmanvineyards.com

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HAVE A BEER AND A LAUGH igueroa Mountain Brewery features “Comedy Night” every third Thursday of the month in the upstairs bar at the Buellton Taproom – they appropriately refer to it as Laughter in the Rafters. It’s a legitimate evening of “good times and good people” – featuring professional comedians. The brewery brings in top-notch giggle masters to pair with its brew.

When: Thursday, August 18, from 7 to 9 pm Figueroa Mountain Brewery at 45 Industrial Way in Buellton Cost: No cover charge Info: www.figmtnbrew.com

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12TH ANNUAL WHEELS ‘N’ WINDMILLS CAR SHOW ponsored this year by the Oldsmobile Club of Southern California and many valley business, 300 vintage and collectable vehicles in the categories of: classic, modified/custom, hot rods, sports, trucks, motorcycles, race, pro-street, and special interest will line the streets of Solvang. Last year, the Wheels ‘N’ Windmills Car Show began the process of returning to the “classic” car spectacle that was started in 1998 by reducing the cutoff date to 1979 for most classes. This year, they will be completing the transition by eliminating the two “Modern Muscle” classes and placing the cutoff date at 1980 for all classes.

Car lovers can steer themselves in and out of Solvang’s wine and beer tasting rooms, restaurants, and shops and back through the impressive lineup. Last year’s winners included a 1928 Ford A Sedan, a 1960 Chevy Impala, and a 1950 Ford V8 Tractor received an honorable mention.

When: Saturday, August 27, from 9 am to 4 pm Where: Solvang Cost: Free to public viewers Info: www.wheelsnwindmills.com

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