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JOHN SIMPSON, ALONG WITH HIS WIFE, PATTI, AND A HANDFUL OF ARTISANS, RETAILERS, AND STYLE MAKERS COLLABORATE TO CREATE CURATED SHOPPING AND GATHERING HUB IN FUNK ZONE (STORY ON P. 9)

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iweekly Capitalist – Jeff Harding looks back at his predictions B about Donald Trump and explains why Americans ought to be worried

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State Street Scribe – “No pain, no gain.” Agreed! Jeff Wing contemplates exercising, gets winded.

Beer Guy – Purple Haze? Not exactly Hendrix, but Zach Rosen sees the light while sampling IPAs. I n Business – Kelly Mahan Herrick catches up with Patti and John Simpson, founders of Waxing Poetic and owners of The Shopkeepers

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Fortnight – Venice among SOhO shows; benefit concerts in Carp; events around Ojai; and Steve Winwood at Chumash Casino

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Mom About Town – Oh, baby: Julie Boe and her son, Daniel, get in shape at Santa Barbara Yoga Center

On Art – Margaret Landreau focuses on Patricia Post and Santa Barbara Studio Artists’ Open Studio Tour on Labor Day weekend

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Downtown Living – Michael Phillips returns to downtown and shines a light on available and enticing properties

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Only in SB – Chantal Peterson conducts an interview with AHA! Leadership about their expanded Peace Builders initiative

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Man About Town – Mark Leisuré chronicles A Walk in the Woods on Center Stage; tango with DanceWorks; and the solar eclipse

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Plan B – Kings for a day: Briana Westmacott is rolling down the river as part of a journey to Zephyr Base Camp

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What’s Hanging – Ted Mills previews a busy Labor Day weekend, First Thursday, and an array of events from the Artists Studio Tour to SBCAST

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Creative Characters – Zach Rosen gets to know the fabric of master weaver Porfirio Gutierrez

I Heart SB – Walk of shame: Elizabeth Rose looks back with regret at a dubious night of boys and booze at the Shakesbeer Festival

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SYV Snapshot – Eva Van Prooyen previews musician (and furniture maker) Jim Messina’s shows at Standing Sun LIVE in Buellton on September 7

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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. He blogs at anIndependentMind.com

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hose who had lauded the expansion of executive powers when Barack Obama was president perhaps now see the dangers of an imperial presidency with Donald Trump as president. It doesn’t matter if you are Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, because we all know what Lord Acton said about the corrupting influence of power.

In previous columns written during the presidential campaign, I observed that Trump is devoid of ideology. His appalling inauguration speech was loaded with vague objectives which he apparently thought he could achieve by edict. In his nomination acceptance speech, he recited a list of issues which he said, “I alone can fix it.” That is some chutzpah, and it is more revealing than Mr. Trump realizes.

I noted, “Trump follows a long line of populist leaders who use tired terms like ‘America first’ or the ‘Forgotten Man’ to incite their followers. They promise big and deliver little.”

Populists sacrifice principles for power.

The chaos that is engulfing the Trump administration should be worrisome to all of us. Trump as president has revealed his true self and he is unlikely to change. Attempts to inject gravitas into President Trump have proven futile. Trump supporters enthusiastically welcomed General Kelly as chief of staff, whom they thought would tame Trump and bring order to the chaos that has been the hallmark of his administration. That has not been the case, as we have seen in Trump’s Charlottesville tweets.

His supporters now similarly cheer the ouster of Steve Bannon, another agent of chaos, as a turning point in

Trump’s administration. That would be wishful thinking. If we’ve learned nothing else from Trump, we know he is uncontrollable and will dig in and double down on his blunders.

One wonders why President Trump continues to sabotage himself. Any rational politician would wish to build a consensus of support in Congress to achieve his policy goals. Yet Trump

There is something to be said for legislative paralysis. The fewer the legislative “reforms,” the better the economy. Once businesses, the drivers of prosperity, believe there will be stability and predictability in government action, they can better plan and invest for the future. If they believe that the playing field will be changed (regime uncertainty), they are less willing to invest in future expansion.

That is not to say there are not significant problems that government needs to address, but there is no political will to solve them. No president nor any Congress, left or right, seems willing to sacrifice power for solutions.

One wonders why President Trump continues to sabotage himself seems pathologically incapable of doing that. The Charlottesville missteps have seen the Republican Congress backing away from him, afraid his noxiousness will rub off on them. Ditto with the business leaders on his advisory councils. Even worse, the press hate him and the long knives are out, digging for anything that would take him down. Why would a rational man keep doing this?

The answer is that he can’t help himself. You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to see the inherent flaws in his psyche. He either has seriously defective judgment or some mental issues that cause his compulsivity.

Whatever it is, it is something beyond his arrogance, narcissism, and thinskinned ego.

Which leads me to wonder if he is becoming irrelevant.

He alone is sabotaging his presidency. He has alienated a Republican Congress, his key advisers are at odds with him, and he lacks an ideological vision of what really does makes America great. It is obvious that he will not be the agent of change that voters hoped for. This makes him irrelevant, and it is likely that the result will be a do-nothing presidency.

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Being irrelevant does not make him harmless. He has a penchant for lashing out without consulting his key advisers. One could argue that “lashing out” is just harmless rhetoric, but in the foreign policy realm it is not. His attempts to top Kim Jong Un’s empty commie rants, his threat to bomb the s**t out of ISIS, his threats against China and Iran, and his cosseting of Putin present him as a potentially dangerous, unpredictable, and destabilizing force. We need friends, not enemies, in this world.

Other than blundering onto another war, the greatest danger he presents is his threat to disrupt free trade, which demonstrates a shocking

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ignorance of economics. Withdrawal from TPP, trade sanctions against China, and his goal of destroying NAFTA will only serve to destabilize our economy and bring on recession and unemployment.

What can we expect of Trump’s legislative accomplishments?

Apparently, nothing. He failed to articulate true health-care reform and a divisive Republican Congress failed spectacularly to fill the breach.

Perhaps they will do nothing and let Obamacare fail. Tax cuts are a possibility, but it appears that it will be driven by Congress, not the executive branch.

As much as his detractors would wish it so, unless the press or Robert Mueller come up with a smoking gun, a dead body, and a cache of rubles, it is unlikely he will be impeached. We must assume the man will last for a full four-year term.

Trump risks becoming irrelevant because no one will take him seriously.

He reminds me of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where, after warning King Arthur that “None shall pass,” he keeps defiantly taunting Arthur even after the king chops off his arms and legs.

Trump just had a leg chopped off; he might be limbless by 2020.

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Plato’s Gymnasium

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he management would like to introduce this week’s essay with a note of clarification. The theme of the piece is “Jeff’s return to the gym following a long absence”. It behooves me to point out that I am not going to here discuss the Gymnasium popularized by the ancient Greeks, an institution whose nutty mixedbag curriculum of physical training and Socratic instruction in ethics and morals helped lay the foundations of western culture. The essay will rather concern that other gym; a place for making the abdominal ridges more pronounced. We hope you enjoy the show.

I’ve been out of the workout game for years, though you wouldn’t know it to look at me. To look at me, you would be stunned to learn I’d ever been inside a gym at all. Taking me in at a glance, you might accurately summon the image of a guy in Ye Olde Donut Shoppe, hunched like a slavering morlock over

an apple fritter the size of a steering wheel. But there actually was a time my ex-girlfriend (“wife,” in the common parlance) and I would arise at 4:45 every weekday morning to pump iron, endlessly climb the SisyphusMaster and make gasping, incoherent small talk with the other wee-hours damned.

This was many years ago at the storied Santa Barbara Gym and Fitness Center, then located at Garden and Cota where now a stand of whitewashed faux Mediterranean condos mock the very idea of isometric exaltation.

So, this is an important and longanticipated return to exercise for me. I believe I can rightly describe this grand re-entry into fitness as The Return of the Wing (abject apologies to Messrs.

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by Zach Rosen

Getting Haze in an IPA

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here is nothing more picturesque than a tall glass of crystal-clear, glistening beer, though a recent trend is changing that imagery. The New England IPA-style has taken the beer world by storm. These hazy, unfiltered IPAs are known for having fragrant aromas of citrus fruit with a chewy body that gives it a juice-like quality.

This style of brew is sometimes also referred to as North Eastern (NE) or Vermont-style IPAs. These hazy IPAs have been brewed in those regions for years, yet they have only recently caught on around the entire country. In the beer world, the style has been met with mixed feelings. The muddy look in the glass goes against the brewing ethos, and many brewers are hesitant to produce a beer with that appearance. The hazy look is largely what defines this style, and there are a few techniques used in the brewing process that deviate from standard IPA protocols.

Heady Topper is considered one of the first New England-style IPAs

MAKING HAZE New England IPAs are defined by their distinctive haziness and there are several ways to get there. Each brewer has his or her own preferences and reasons. A brewer might use a combination of these different techniques, and there is no clear path

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to the haze. One of the most common techniques is to use a low-flocculating yeast. Flocculation is the ability of yeast cells to clump together and drop to the bottom of the fermenter.

While fermentation conditions might influence flocculation, this is largely a property of the yeast genetics – and so some yeasts flocculate better than others. A low-flocculating yeast means that the yeast stays suspended in the liquid longer, which creates a haze.

The other typical method is simply just to add grains such as oats and wheat that are high in haze-forming proteins.

These are used in far larger quantities of the grain bill than normal. Brewers have long been using small amounts of oats and wheat in their IPAs as a way of slightly bulking up the body of the beer. Typically, this would be 1-5% of the total mass of grain.

In NE, IPAs can be between 10-15% and I’ve even heard of brewers using up to 20% in their brews (definitely not recommended, though). In standard wheat beers, the recipe will usually consist of about 30-50% malted wheat, so if you get much higher than 20% in a NE IPA, you start traipsing on wheat IPA territory. The other difference is that NE IPAs will use unmalted wheat, which contributes more of the haze-forming compounds. Oats add a feathery silkiness to the beer’s body in small amounts (less than 5%). In greater quantities, it will begin to add a characteristic haziness; however, if you add to much you start to pull out astringent, harsh flavors so there is a rough upper limit on how much can be used in a brew.

One of the most controversial techniques is when the brewer adds wheat flour into the boil during the brewing process. Some brewers see this ingredient as atypical or unnatural, though this technique has actually been in use for a while. I first heard about it being applied to the Belgianstyle wheat beer, witbier. The flour adds a lasting haziness that helps the beer appear “white.” As far as I know, it is a rarer technique and not a common practice among professional brewers, even among witbier brewers, but I have

spoken with a few home brewers who use flour as a secret ingredient in their opaque brews.

Many NE IPAs are dry-hopped (when hops are added to the fermenter), which creates a haze in the liquid so NE IPAs always get an extra dose of dry-hopping.

During the brewing process of NE IPAs, the hops are almost entirely added right at the end of the boil. This reduces the bitterness and creates a robust aroma.

This is how the brewers get that “juicelike” quality in the flavor. Filtering the beer would kind of go against the whole concept, so these brews are always unfiltered and usually do not contain any fining agents (proteins that help clarify the beer) as a way of keeping the haze in the glass.

HEAD TO HEAD Many attribute the origin of the NE IPA style to Heady Topper, the infamous, hazy double IPA brewed by The Alchemist in Vermont. Trillium Brewing Co. is also listed as a major influence on the style. Heady Topper is produced in fairly small batches and hard to get your hands on (especially on the West Coast). It is often sought-after with a ferocity similar to Russian River’s Pliny the Elder.

The first NE IPA I tried was Heady Topper a few years back at the Beer Bloggers & Writers Conference in Boston. A writer friend brought a case with him, and we just happened to have a Pliny the Elder at the table as well. Our small group did a side-by-side tasting to compare these two legendary beers.

Pliny is crisper and brighter, with pine aromas accenting the typical Americanstyle citrus fruit character. Heady Topper is far more fruit-forward with the full body, giving it the impression of a glass of orange juice.

One of the hang-ups many beerdoes have about the NE IPA style is there are quite a few bad examples of the style on the market. A bad sample will typically have too much yeast or hop matter in the liquid, giving it a “homebrew-like” quality. For a good example, try Brouwerij West’s Dig My Earth. The particulate is well-balanced in the body.

We also have some good examples of the style right here. M.Special has their Lyle Did It, a hazy IPA that uses a low-flocculating yeast and mosaic and citra hops to give it that juice-like kick.

Pure Order Brewing Co. produces their Golden Legend IPA that uses citra hops to impart the distinctive citrus flavors to this chewy brew. Both of these beers have been going quickly and there is not much left in the tanks, so swing by soon to get a taste of one of these hazy brews.

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BY Kelly Mahan Herrick THE SHOPKEEPERS

A variety of apothecary items including candles, body care, and natural sponges

The Shopkeepers is a carefully curated collection of cool stuff in the Funk Zone

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axing Poetic founders Patti and John Simpson – along with a handful of other artisans and retailers – have opened The Shopkeepers in the Funk Zone, in the former home of the Guitar Bar. Perched on the corner of Anacapa and Yanonali streets, the 1,600-sq-ft shop is chock full of interesting finds, carefully curated via interesting vignettes within the walls of the industrial-style space.

“The idea is to tell a story, and I believe we’ve captured that,” John Simpson told us this week, after opening the store on August 11. Simpson and his wife, Patti, are the owners of the jewelry company Waxing Poetic, which once had brick and mortars in Summerland and in Los Olivos, as well as a pop-up shop in La Arcada Plaza downtown.

Waxing Poetic does a booming online and wholesale business, with more than 500 retailers across the nation carrying the line of jewelry, which features sentiment-driven charms and pendants attached to bracelets, necklaces, rings, and more.

Opening The Shopkeepers was a way to bring Waxing Poetic to the Funk Zone, while expanding the retail shop with other unique goods. Susan Pitcher, owner of the popular dressed and ready stores (now closed) on Coast Village Road, has been brought in to help merchandise and design the shop.

“She has such an amazing eye for style,” Simpson said. Pitcher has brought in vintage, one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces, men’s and women’s clothing, and apothecary items including body

and shopping events are already in the works, thanks to Kendall Waxing Klein.

Poetic, the “We hope to honor this great Simpsons’ line of jewelry, corner location in the heart of sold at The the Funk Zone, and bring a cool Shopkeepers shopping experience with items you can’t find anywhere else,” Simpson added.

The Shopkeepers is located at 137 Anacapa Street A. Open Monday through Saturday 10 am to 8 pm, 10 am to 6 pm on Sunday.

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She has also enlisted photographer David Wexler, whose personal photo collection adorns the walls. Other items include a home section with textile blankets and home accessories, healing crystals and gemstones, a small children’s section, and plenty of books throughout, supplied by Chaucer’s Books. “It’s like a mini Chaucer’s in the Funk Zone, and we love the collaboration,” Simpson said.

The shop’s fixtures are custom built by Erich Riedl and are designed to be fluid and versatile, so the shop is constantly changing. The corner location, which has access on both Yanonali Street and in the parking lot shared by The Lark, is designed to be “a hub” of sorts; music

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Sojourns to SOhO for Singers and Songwriters

Glen Phillips plays SOhO on August 30

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he SoCal vocal group Venice are a family affair made up of two sets of brothers who are also cousins to one another, as well as the younger siblings and cousins to 1950s and ‘60s girl-group singing sensation The Lennon Sisters.

Over the years, they’ve served as the benefit backing band for such legendary singer-songwriters as Jackson Browne and David Crosby, both of whom, ahem, sing their praises. But they also make plenty of music on their own, offering up high-energy shows spanning cover songs both hits and obscurities, plus more than a spate of originals, layering exquisite four-part harmonies all over the place. And they also play an annual Christmastime show at SOhO every December.

But this Sunday, August 27, for the first time in years, Venice is headed our way with a new album in tow, Into the Morning Blue, released this past May. The disc largely sprung from new musical ideas the foursome developed on a recent collaborative writing trip to Palm Springs – cuz, you know, the beach in Venice can be distracting, making focusing on music quite a challenge. But life is good for the fearsome foursome, as indicated by the title of first single: “Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This”.

Show time at SOhO is 8 pm, and tickets will set you back $25.

Just three days later, Glen Phillips, perhaps Santa Barbara’s most singularly

creative singer-songwriter, returns to the club. Phillips was just a freshman in high school when he and three classmates co-founded Toad the Wet Sprocket, the 1990s pop-rock band whose jinglejangly sound belied a remarkably mature and sophisticated sense of lyricism. He could easily have secured a place in pop history had he retired when the band did.

But instead, Phillips went on to forge a fearlessly ambitious solo career, taking both musical and thematic risks – his most recent album chronicles a painful divorce – and often collaborating with other like-minded artists, including the members of Nickel Creek.

On Wednesday, August 30, Phillips’s set will be preceded by Julian Velard, a New York City-born and raised singersongwriter, who performs mostly on piano and has a penchant for hookfilled melodies, as well as a voice that recalls Harry Connick and has been employed in a jingle-singing sideline resulting in spots for Coca-Cola, Wix. com, Google and the New York Knicks, among others. Tickets are $15 for the 8 pm concert.

SOhO is located at 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court. More info at 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com.

Benefits at the Plaza

Major medical maladies confronting a couple of members of the Carpinteria community have inspired musicians

to mount a benefit concert at the Plaza Playhouse Theater. On Sunday, August 27, “Rock Carpinteria: A Concert for a Cause”, presented by Carpinteria Wellness Center, features the Grammynominated Australian artist Peter Furler. The co-founder and former lead singer for the Christian rock band Newsboys, Furler has had 27 No. 1 genre radio hits while selling more than 7 million albums worldwide.

After going solo, he’s released three albums, including a Christmas disc, a collaboration with pianist/guitarist David Ian. Opening is Santa Barbara singer-songwriter Joseph Pfeifer, who regularly performs and leads worship at Calvary Chapel. Show time is 7 pm and tickets start at $20, while $40 VIP tickets include premium seating and a meet-and-greet before the concert.

Four days later, Carpstrong, in collaboration with The Castro House, presents the Martinez Family Benefit Concert and Auction, at 6:30 pm on Thursday, August 31. Carpinteria’s own blues and rock giant, Rick Reeves, a longtime veteran of the Santa Barbara scene, will be joined by the Carp-centric South On Linden for the event that also features more than $15,000 in donated items that are up for auction, including art, jewelry, services, electronics, and other cool stuff. KEYT’s legendary newsman and man about town John Palminteri will be the auctioneer for the live auction portion. The dollars raised go to support Ray Ray Martinez, who continues to fight cancer, as his family struggles to find a new home as their current house of 20 years is going to be sold. Tickets are $35 or $60 for two in advance, or $40 and $75 at the door.

The restored Art Deco-themed Plaza Playhouse Theater is located at 4916 Carpinteria Ave. in Carpinteria.

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Outings to Ojai

Over the hill and through the woods to the mountain village we go. To Libbey Bowl, to be precise, at the beginning and end of our three-event trek over two weekends. The amphitheater amid the oaks hosts Ottmar Liebert, the German-born New Age and

instrumental artist who is one of the most successful such musicians of the past decade. His recordings have been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and all of his albums have attained gold and/or platinum status, even as he expands his reach to encompass more rhythms and influences from around the world. Tickets for Liebert’s 6 pm concert on Sunday, September 3, run $28 to $48. Call (888) 645-5006 or visit www.libbeybowl.org/event/ ottmar-liebert.

Libbey is also the main site for the annual Ojai Storytelling Festival that will take place September 7-10 at the amphitheater and adjacent Ojai Art Center. Renowned raconteurs from around the world regale the audience in a multi-faceted celebration of the spoken word, spinning stories of adventure and personal conquests amid folk tales, humorous tales, contemporary stories, and uplifting chronicles of the human spirit. The lineup includes two-time Grammy winner Bill Harley, famed for such yarns as “Monsters in the Bathroom”, “50 Ways to Fool Your Mother”, “You’re in Trouble”, and “Dad Threw The TV out the Window”. Also on tap are Niall de Burca of Ireland, Antonio Rocha of Brazil, the world musician Samite of Africa, Motoko of Japan, Dovie Thomason, a First Nation teller from Maryland, and Kim Weitkamp of West Virginia.

But wait! There’s more. The seven professional storytellers will be augmented by three winners from The Moth in Los Angeles (Bill Ratner, Christine Blackburn, and Matteson Perry), plus special guests Cynthia Waring, the longtime Ojai Valleydwelling writer-masseuse who will perform her theater piece Bodies Unbound, local comedian Cary Odes and musician Alan Thornhill. Other highlights include an evening devoted to comedy called Laughing Night, a special late evening of ribald stories for adults called “Naughty Tales”, a variety of workshops on the art of storytelling, and educational performances for students.

Tellers of years past have compared The Ojai Storytelling Festival to filmdom’s Sundance, with one saying, “If it’s rare and magical and quirky… you’ll find it at this wondrous gem of a festival.” There’s a variety of ticket programs, from full festival pass to single events. Get details and a complete schedule online at www. ojaistoryfest.org.

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...continued from p.7 GYM DANDY

As my tone may suggest, I am not running back to the gym in a gauzy, wildflower-strewn spirit of reunion.

This is purely a business decision – the business of remaining technically alive and more or less ambulatory. When one’s limbs begin to resemble those of a toy Gumby – which is to say “thin, rubbery, and greenish” – it’s time to bite the bullet and re-enter the church of Jack LaLanne: the curly-haired, eternally buff fitness pioneer who lived to the age of 96 and was likely interred flexing his undiminished biceps. Jack LaLanne (pronounced “La-Lane”) changed everything. He taught us that “working out” was not just for Charles Atlas types; that jumping jacks and leg lifts and barbells and herniated coils of intestine springing out like colored streamers at a surprise party – these pleasures could be had by you and me too.

Jack publicly celebrated his 70th birthday by lashing himself to a like number of rowboats and dragging the flotilla across Long Beach Harbor via breast stroke. To honor Jack, I aspire to a related feat of strength. I would very much like to be able to lift an oar (or anything, really) without becoming light-headed and nauseous. In the run-

up to this new fitness epoch, I have developed an iron-willed mantra to see me through. I shall say it to the mirror every morning on rising. “By gosh, I can probably do this for a little while.”

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NATURAL SELECTION RECONNECTION

Why do we do it? What poignant Darwinian programming has us strutting ceremonially about the legextension machine like pigeons walking an anthropologically foreordained

the workout room, we are once again base creatures, proud and protean. We are the Dung Beetle proudly rolling his outsized ball of crap through a steaming rain, we are the ghastly Hagfish, an undersea denizen so repulsive its natural predators have to cover their eyes when they eat. The daily obeisance to vibrant “health” is, in fact, the elaborate care and feeding of our animal natures.

We are, after all, cocooned in our offices, besieged as by an attacking army of beige office machines, slotted into our cubicles like factory-farmed

about to fail in a submarine disaster movie.

Stepping gingerly around the vibrating muscle-folk, you silently take your place on the cardio machine and naively open your little magazine. Before work begins on your own muscle groups in their various states of atrophy, one must get the lifeblood pumping throughout the cathedral of the body, and this means finding and maintaining that doctorrecommended cardio sweet spot you’ve noted time and again on the brightly colored poster in her office. With your

Stepping gingerly around the vibrating muscle-folk, you silently take your place on the cardio machine and naively open your little magazine figure eight? We are but animals, and nowhere is this clearer than in the community gym. There, the men and the ladies circle warily in their ritual garb (some of it regrettably translucent), dancing an ancient minuet around the Abs Cruncher, Calf Rotator, and Torso Tormentor, affecting sidelong inspections of one another in the inescapable mirrored walls; a choreography as striking as the mating prance of the Blue-Footed Booby. In

functionaries. We no longer chase our food across the veldt, no longer hurl heavy stones in self-defense, no longer sit recklessly astride talking dinosaurs to which we have perilously attached English riding saddles. What wild glory is left to capture in this denuded world finds its contemporary incarnation in the gym. We rejoin the spirits of our primordial elders in the gym – find our spirits in the strain and pull of the purely physical; a tendon-ripping, capillarybursting Hero’s Journey of reconnection with the Ur Self. And some days, they give you a little terrycloth towel when you walk in, which is pretty cool.

MORNING IS BROKEN

How to describe the early-morning gym routine? You leave the house under watchful starlight, giddy at your own fortitude. You arrive at the gym as birdsong begins haltingly to greet the gently rising sun. From the salve of dawn twilight, you blearily enter a jarring fluorescent chamber alive with the scent of hormonal exertion and the clanging of metalloid collisions. The regulars there are already in the throes of selfimprovement, staring into the mirrored walls with tanned, terrified expressions and dead-lifting momentously heavy metal, every exposed inch of flesh a crazed craquelure of distended pulsing veins, jugulars bulging on either side of the neck in hydraulic distress – pipes

physician’s help, you have identified the optimum workout heart rate for your age, weight, and body mass.

Now it is just a matter of pushing a few buttons and climbing a hellish electronic stairway to delirium. In short order, your heart muscle is ululating like electrified jelly, agony radiating out from the chest and into the deepest corners of every extremity you own. The medical establishment recommends maintaining this state of pain-maddened panic for 20 minutes, or until you begin staring wildly about, waving your helpless stickarm for help and hoarsely screaming through a gaping, seemingly toothless pie hole.

There. You’ve done your cardio. You will devote your remaining dregs of energy to the muscle groups, once you’ve shakily crawled to the weight machines on all fours and frightened your workout compatriots with your high-pitched, ghostly moaning.

This is the path to vibrant good health.

There’s a lot to look forward to, and I am raring to go, baby. Here comes the determined, metabolically unstoppable new Jeff. It’s time to take my health seriously, time to act as though I know I am mortal and fragile and temporal, that my loved ones are counting on me to get healthy and stay healthy. I’m ready to roll. I can hardly wait till a week from Wednesday. Or thereabouts. Uh... you done with that?

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The mommy and baby yoga class meets on Fridays at 1:30 pm. Holly informs me that the session is best suited for pre-walkers, though older children are still welcome as long as mommies don’t mind chasing the little ones around. “When I began teaching the class at the Santa Barbara Yoga Center, I wanted to be sure the class remained accessible to all parents regardless of their finances, so the owners and I were pleased to create the class as a pay-whatyou-can, donation-based offering.”

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ON ART

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.

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Don’t miss the studio of Patricia Post and her husband, Tom. Many artists from a different career find retirement a door to exploration of a world they visited but couldn’t completely occupy.

After 42 years teaching visual and performing arts, Post embraced life as a full-time artist in 2008. Upon retiring, she was all over the canvas with different paintings, trying to express everything in her head, but other subjects and styles fell to the side as she began focusing on printmaking and figurative works, expressing deep interest in what it means to be human.

From representational to abstract impressionism, she’s “exploring what it means to be challenged, using the body and gesture as tools to express myself. I just love making art! Figurative painting can be provocative and emotionally charged, so it’s not easy. I’m fascinated by relationships and passions, those paradoxes of being so vulnerable and strong. How gesture can create a kind of energy. My ability to hit on an authentic nerve with honesty is quite rewarding for me – I don’t take it lightly. I have an endless fascination for the human figure; the beauty and grace of its form and the power of its gesture to evoke response. I am interested in creating images where beauty and bravery meet, of human beings, our interactions, how we choose to exist, believe, or interact.

The human story is enormous to play and explore.“ Post feels lucky in her 46-year marriage to a fine artist who understands the same language of art. She taught visual

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arts and dance, keeping in touch with some of her students. “I was gatekeeper for these 14- to 18-year-olds with their life stories. We got through things together. One of the best things for me as a painter, to stay ignited and excited, was teaching, to do the dancing and the music, and writing and studying poetry,

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REAL ESTATE VIEW

by Michael Phillips Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker and can be reached at 969-4569 and MichaelPhillips@ColdwellBanker.com.

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Both young professionals and active boomers are increasingly foregoing the suburbs for a more connected and varied urban lifestyle. With museums, art galleries, performing arts, theatres historical attractions, restaurants, food markets, breweries, coffee and tea shops, wineries, holiday parades, festivals, farmers markets, and parks all close by, it is easy to understand why Downtown Santa Barbara has become the choice place to live.

City living is about experiences and proximity and walkability is key; once we engage a car, it is all different. And while the parameters of Downtown are not exact, I look to Valerio Street to the North, Cabrillo Street to the South, Castillo Street to the West and Olive Street to the East. Within an easy walk or bike ride within these boundaries, there is a vibrant urban experience that can be comfortably enjoyed both day and night.

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An extraordinary luxury condo is available in the desirable Anacapa Villas – and if this is your focus, it must be seen. With a direct, private access elevator, you arrive at a sophisticated single-level penthouse with an open floor plan perfect for entertaining. With two master suites, each with spa-inspired baths and balconies framing Riviera views, this unit is available fully furnished for $1,695,000. With a walk score of 98, everything is close by. Decide whether to stop by Paradise Cafe

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In addition to these properties, there are many others to consider in this fastmoving market. I’d be pleased to introduce them to you.

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Chase headlines at the final Dancing Oak Ranch concert of the Ojai Concert Series season on Saturday, September 9.

Chase, who was voted best singersongwriter in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Best Of The Bay Readers Poll in 2013, fronts the playful and energetically funky folk-rock band Untraditional, which features a combination of guitar, cello, bass, banjo, drums, and keyboard and who themselves were winners of the San Francisco Weekly Best Of The Bay Readers Poll two years in a row. Chase charms with his scratchy soulful voice, while his music captures the essence of what is going on in our society with an emotional rawness that is both insightful and powerful.

Opening the show is Natalie Gelman, a singer-songwriter formerly based in New York City, who found a unique method of self-promotion a decade ago when she embarked on a 1,500-mile tour from Miami back to New York on Rollerblades to promote her selftitled album. Gelman now lives locally, so she can blade to her heart’s delight.

Tickets are $25, $10 for kids 7-15.

Gates open at 5 pm for the optional potluck, and the music begins at 6 at the family-owned Dancing Oaks, out under the stars on the lawn located at

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Get ready to roll with it, baby, on Friday, September 1, when iconic English rocker Steve Winwood checks into the Chumash Casino’s Samala Showroom in Santa Ynez. Winwood first burst onto the scene back during the British Invasion days of the 1960s as the vocalist of the Spencer Davis Group (“Gimme Some Lovin’”), then formed the seminal British folk-rock band Traffic with Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason (the latter of whom now lives in Ojai), responsible for the classic rock staples “Dear Mr. Fantasy” and the still formidable albums John Barleycorn Must Die and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. On a brief hiatus during Traffic’s personnel issues, Winwood also joined Eric Clapton for the one-album-only band Blind Faith.

Winwood’s ensuing solo career also spawned a bevy of hits, including “Roll With It” and “Higher Love”. What such spiritual music is doing in a house of gambling, well, that’s for Winwood to ponder. Tickets run $75 to $115 for the 8 pm show on Friday, September 1. Call (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or visit www.chumashcasino.com.

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PEACE BUILDING WITH TODAY’S YOUTH

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he AHA! Peace Builders initiative, already successful in three area high school campuses (Santa Barbara, San Marcos, and Dos Pueblos high schools), recruits and then teaches students across all demographics how to create a positive school environment where they are better able to learn because of a sense of safety and connection to one another. This year, AHA! was awarded a grant from the Women’s Fund to expand their AHA! Peace Builders initiative into all four district junior high schools including: La Colina, La Cumbre, Goleta Valley, and Santa Barbara Junior High.

Peace building is an important initiative in today’s climate, where we can all agree that the more skills our young people have to communicate effectively and understand one another, the better.

We spoke with leadership at AHA! to learn more about what this exciting program offers and what it means for youth in our community.

Q. Explain more about what the Peace Builders program is and what its main objectives are.

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Initiative is a galvanizing pro-social program that develops socially and emotionally intelligent leaders on area high school and junior high school campuses. Since its first year, we have served over 350 youth in three Santa Barbara high schools and one junior high school via AHA! Peace Builder programming.

The AHA! approach employs roleplaying, discussion circles, and other research-proven methodologies to teach students how to manage their own emotional responses, solve problems, work together toward a common goal, confront prejudice, and stand as allies against cruelty and bullying.

They learn to identify and skillfully intervene in situations that may lead to violence (physical or emotional), be it with themselves or between others.

Additionally, school officials recently recognized that AHA! PB youth could be trained to help identify suicidal ideation in their peers—always relevant, but particularly so in the wake of a small suicide cluster in the district this past spring. Many students have revealed that their time in AHA! “saved [their] life.”

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Educate us more about the status of “hate speech” and bullying today in Santa Barbara at large.

Since the 2016 presidential election primaries, surveys of more than 60,000 U.S. citizens from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project and the Human Rights Campaign have shown a marked surge in hate speech, bullying, racism, and sexism on school campuses, particularly around race, sexual preference/identity, and immigration status. The National School Climate Center calls this a “widespread public health problem” that has persisted in causing alarming levels of fear and anxiety among American school children.

Here in Santa Barbara, we have experienced the aforementioned series of teen suicides and attempts, as well

Tell us more about “the restorative approach to discipline.”

By definition, a “restorative school” is one which takes a restorative approach to resolving conflict and preventing harm. Restorative approaches enable those who have been harmed to convey the impact of the harm to those responsible, and for those responsible to acknowledge this impact and take steps to put it right. Here in Santa Barbara, assistant superintendent Frann Wageneck, Ph.D., is currently implementing something called “Restorative Approaches 2.0,” where each high school’s dean of Student Engagement (a new hire at each school) will collaborate with AHA! Peace Builder youth to promote peer mediation and restorative approaches to conflict, and to provide a group of trained teens who can sit in restorative circles with staff and youth offenders.

This will help eliminate power imbalances for youth in the restorative process. She stated that she would like AHA! PB youth to remind teachers to hold more preventative circles and reactive circles (circles convened in response to a problem) and to be active participants. The SBUSD is planning to conduct internal evaluations of AHA!’s in-school programs in 2017-18 to gauge impact.

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Talk about the connection between the Women’s Fund and AHA! and how this fruitful partnership came to be recently.

The skills that we are teaching through our Peace Builders initiative are critical skills for life at any point in time, but particularly so in our current social and political environment – and particularly at early adolescence. More and more research identifies adolescence as a critical juncture in developing the kind of social-emotional learning (SEL) and conflict resolution skills that lead to healthy “teenagedom” and adulthood.

When students have these skills in place before [their] freshman year even begins, they are not only more likely to have a more peaceful, productive experience of high school, but also become students who create the kind of healthy school climate that is inhospitable to bullying and violence.

as an increase in homelessness and hate crimes, which has created an atmosphere of grief and fear in schools. We are seeing the racial and economic divisions widening. We believe it is now crucial to invest in supporting young people in developing the empathy required to heal these rifts.

Our work gets to the roots of these issues through a socio-emotional development program led by highly skilled professional facilitators, many of whom hold master’s degrees in psychology or education, or are licensed mental health professionals. We are enormously grateful that the Women’s Fund has recognized the value of this work for junior high students.

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Looking down the road to high school, students’ time in AHA! Junior Peace Builders also gives students an immediate point of connection with other students at the high school they go on to attend. This reaches across lines of color, socioeconomic status, gender, and status as lower or upper classman.

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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.

Up in Arms

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here are plenty of good reasons for locals to see A Walk in the Woods, the two-character play that winds up its run at Center Stage Theatre on Saturday, September 2. Chief among them is the subject – nuclear disarmament and the threat of use of the atomic-age weapons. Back when the 1988 play was set in 1982, the Cold War had nearly come to its conclusion, and the tensions over the possibility of a weapon actually being launched were beginning to ebb. Thirty years later, the unthinkable once again the subject of headlines, which have postulated on the probabilities that a North Korean missile could strike the West Coast.

But the play isn’t about the bombs – it’s about the relationship between the two negotiators, the boisterous veteran Russian Andrei Botvinnik (played by Ed Giron), and his much more laconic American counterpart (Bill Waxman),

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who take extended breaks from the official talks to chat more casually in the woods outside Geneva. It’s fascinating to watch the interplay between the characters – who more or less end up switching expressions if not personalities by the end of the evening – as well as the actors, two veterans long familiar with each other doing a dance that as intricately choreographed as a clever pas de deux.

But it’s only verbally. Which is part of the problem with the work.

There’s a lot of words, and not much action, a challenge for today’s easily distracted audiences. The other is that the cleverness belies the seriousness of the topic. As The New York Times noted in its review back in 1988, the conflict in the relationship between the two amiable envoys recalls the happy joking in other mismatched pairings (The Odd Couple) rather than, say, Fail-Safe, the

Ed Giron sees the forest for the trees with A Walk in the Woods (photo by David Bazemore)

1964 Henry Fonda film.

Then again, it does lead to some funny lines, such as when Andrei suggests that the responsibility for the failure to achieve any progress in nuclear reduction is because of the setting in Switzerland. Andrei offers ‘’We should put the table at the bottom of a missile silo. Then we would negotiate.”

Perhaps true, and perhaps too close to home – add “miles of coastline” to the mountains and peace, and it sounds a lot like Santa Barbara, our little haven away from the strife in Washington and Virginia.

Maybe that’s why only two dozen people were at the performance I saw on opening night. So get out of Switzerland, take a trip to the silo, and go see the play.

DANCEWORKS: IT TAKES TWO Speaking of selling out events, I certainly hope there are no empty seats for next weekend’s Santa Barbara DanceWorks performances.

The nine-year-old annual residency dance program at the Lobero that is the successor to SummerDance, offers a fascinating collaboration between Kate Weare, the New York contemporary choreographer with a background and interest in tango, and Esteban Moreno, the artistic director of Union Tanguera, who is a true Argentine Tango master.

As in previous years, the choreographer has had a month to put together the new piece on the same stage where it will be receiving its premiere on September 1-2.

Argentine Tango is about connection, communication, and improv – words that resonate deeply within my psyche – Moreno told the overflow participants during his master class at Yes Dance at a recent community event. There are no patterns, only what the two dancers create together. Pairing his abilities and company dancers with Weare’s should

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produce something both thrilling and groundbreaking.

There are two kinds of people in the world, Moreno told us at the class – Tangueros and those who are not yet obsessed. Having the opportunity to experience a bit of that exquisite sense of nonverbal communication with a few temporary partners and even a brief dance with Weare herself, count me among the former, at least in my mind.

See you in September.

ECLIPSING THE ECLIPSE Hundreds of folks in Santa Barbara who weren’t able to travel into the path of totality and faced being fogged in during the big solar event last Monday found some solace at rest stops and roadsides up the San Marcos Pass. The eclipse itself was not much more than interesting at only 61 percent locally, but the sense of community that developed was even warmer than old sol before the moon blocked the rays.

Seeing I had no glasses, a kind couple offered me a spare pair moments after they pulled off the road, while another gentleman shared his industrial-grade piece of glass normally used in welding goggles (that’s what I’m getting for the 2024 event). The homemade devices were fun – apparently Shredded Wheat works better than Fruit Loops in the cereal box department, and traffic cones failed completely. But the best view of all was the reflection in the back of a Toyota, which drew a small crowd as adults hoisted kids to take a peek.

Our community dispersed even before the sun fully re-emerged, as it was back to work or recreation. And no traffic jams. Just a short slowdown on the pass back down to our little slice of paradise.

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When Briana isn’t lecturing for her writing courses at UCSB and SBCC, she contributes to The Santa Barbara Skinny, Wake & Wander and Flutter Magazine. Along with her passion for writing and all things Santa Barbara, much of her time is spent multitasking through her days as a mother, wife, sister, want-to-be chef and travel junky.

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TAKE ME TO THE RIVER

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o say the road was deserted would be an understatement. While there was still pavement under our wheels, we hadn’t seen any signs of civilization in at least an hour. Our cell phones were rendered useless, far beyond a service zone. We did hit some local traffic when five cows that weren’t willing to share the road held us up. Our other detainment came when we had to wait for two large, hairy tarantulas to cross the road. We were off the grid.

After close to two hours of following directions that used elements of nature as mile markers, we finally arrived at Zephyr Base Camp. This would be where our river raft would end after a whitewater adventure that was going to take us down 10 miles of class 3-3+ rapids on the Kings River.

DROP ME IN THE WATER I grew up going on river trips. My parents introduced me to the thrill, taking us to both the American and Tuolumne rivers. In college, one of my roommates became a river guide, and this inspired multiple trips to the canyon. I even took it one step further and did river guide school one year, but when I came back to Santa Barbara I got a high-paying waitress job for the summer and skipped living on the river (a decision that I still regret).

This summer, since my girls are ages 9 and 12 and California’s rivers are flowing strong, I knew it was time to introduce them to the river.

I had called Bob Ferguson, the owner of Zephyr Whitewater, back in June and inquired about taking a trip the end of that month but he said he didn’t want any children under the age of 12 on the river at that time. The water levels were some of the highest they have seen in

years, and the river was too unpredictable for kids. (Sounded fun to me!)

So we waited until mid-August for our trek, and it turns out this was not only safe but smart. We pulled up to base camp to discover we were the only campers. Yep, besides the river guides who live on the shore all summer, we had a whole section of the camp all to ourselves.

We threw up our tent and off our shoes, and we settled in. One of my favorite memories from all of my trips to the river is the stars. The night sky over the Kings River did not disappoint us.

That evening, we sat for hours listening to the massive, moving body of water while watching the show created by the galaxy above.

The following morning, we bathed in the river and sat above Rooster Tail, the final rapid that would culminate our 10-mile stretch of rafting. My youngest Lila timidly asked, “We don’t go over those rocks, do we?”

I smiled, knowing just how adventurous Lila is in all that she does; it is quite rare for her to be fearful of an undertaking. But this was new.

This was something she has never seen before. And I knew she was going to love the adrenaline that comes as your boat bounces through and over those stretches of water.

GO WITH THE FLOW After much anticipation, we were finally ready to head up the dirt road to “put in” where we would get our rafts.

We were directed to a skinny bus that looked as if it has been rolling around for at least five decades. There was a big sign mounted above the driver’s seat that read: “Let the Adventure Begin”. And that it did. With our life vests clutched

to our chests, we headed up a winding one-lane potholed road toward our first family whitewater rafting expedition.

Our guide was a strong gal named Kali who has possibly logged more hours on the river than anyone I’ve ever met. Kali gave us many river tales and lots of nature trivia all through the canyon. Each rapid has a name: Tiger Tail, Raccoon Gulch, Sidewinder, Big Mama, Fang Tooth, Coyote Joe, the list goes on. The kids always wanted to know where the names came from and Kali had a story for them all. (I’m sure some were true, but others could be a testimony of Kali’s story-telling talent.)

Tales from the day that unfolded could fill the pages of this paper. I have never heard my kids’ squeal with that much delight. Their eyes were wide as we dug in and paddled our way straight into, over, and out of those rapids. The girls couldn’t get enough of it. Fresh air filled our lungs. There was not a single human being to be seen on land.

We would jump out and swim in the mellow sections, our bodies submerged

in the river’s powerful pull. It was pure beauty, amplified to a level you can only obtain when you leave every inch of society behind.

When our day ended, the kids and I got into the car, while my husband loaded up the final gear. Lila tapped my shoulder and said, “Mom, thank you.” I didn’t need to ask what she was grateful for. We will be taking them back again next year.

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re you ready to go? Zephyr has been running river trips on California’s rivers since 1973. You can now choose from four different rivers that Zephyr has set up for guided adventures. While this season is coming to a close (you can still book a trip on the American River through September), it isn’t too early to begin planning for next year’s river fun. Check out Zephyr’s website for lots of great information and tips about putting your trip together: www. zrafting.com

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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

THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL: ART’S ON DISPLAY

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hese are going to be a busy two weeks in the Santa Barbara art world, with the Labor Day extended weekend rubbing shoulders with September’s First Thursday events. So this goaround, we have one of the biggest studio tour events in town, a memorial exhibition, and some interesting shows on September 7. How can one keep up with it all? (Ask me if you run into me Thursday night.)

reception for friends and family. The show runs through October 1.

FALL BACK

Also! At Sullivan Goss, opening at the same time, “Light Fall” is one of the first collections of Leon Dabo’s tonalist oil paintings, much influenced by Whistler and others of his time. These are paintings of calm seas at dusk, evocative

ASPECTS OF AN EXHIBITION

10 West Gallery (10 W. Anapamu) will, of course, be opening for First Thursdays, this time with “Aspect” – a collection of nine artists doing their thang. Guest artists this month are Fred Wolf, whose Hopper-esque narrative paintings are the opposite of abstract; and Mary Dee Thompson, who shows her recent abstract bronze sculptures.

The reception is 5 to 8 pm on September 7 and runs through the month.

NOSE ABOUT

Kick off your Labor Day week with the Santa Barbara Artists Studio Tour, a chance to check out 45 artists’ home studios, see how they create their art, ask numerous questions about materials and techniques, and buy buy buy something for the home. Many of the artists I’ve written about in this column are part of the tour, including Kerrie Smith, Tom and Patricia Post, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Virginia McCracken, Masha Keating, and Cynthia James.

The opening party will take place September 1, 5 to 8 pm at 10 West Gallery (10 W. Anapamu), where you can see a sample work from each artist and get the map with driving directions to each studio. The actual (self-guided) tour takes place September 2 and 3, 11 am to 5 pm, and September 4, 11 am to 2 pm. This is a ticketed event ($20), so check out santabarbarastudioartists. com to purchase.

CRYPT KICKERS

Gabe Ruiz goes by the photographer nom de plume of Crowded Coffin, so you mustn’t be surprised that his gonzo, colorful photo work is a bit bloody, a bit nudie, and a bit silly. His first solo show (“and probably my last!” he jokes) will be hanging on the walls at Elsie’s Tavern

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– there’s plenty happening here – but Perea’s work doesn’t get shown enough.

“Los Amorosos” (The Lovers) features painting, mixed media on paper, prints, and ceramic objects, all dealing with the human touch, how we need it and often don’t get it. The show runs through September at the Tool Room Gallery at Bell Arts Factory, 432 N. Ventura Ave. in Ventura. Opening reception is Friday, September, 1 from 6 to 9 pm.

(117 W. De la Guerra) this September 7, starting at 7 pm. Ruiz has chosen work from his last four years of photography, including never-before-seen pics, because what doesn’t light a fire under an artist than a show deadline? He will also be bringing along his homemade photo booth so guests can take something home with them… along with his work, which is priced to sell! Also: there will be a band, and I heard somebody will be selling homemade hot sauce. Look folks, just describing this show confuses me, so turn up.

IN MEMORIAM

Santa Barbara’s art community and especially the Funk Zone lost one of its most optimistically cynical creators in July with the passing of Philip Koplin.

Sullivan Goss (11 E. Anapamu) immediately set about curating a show celebrating his life and career and good on ‘em for doing so. “Thank God for Philip Koplin (& Family)” opens on First Thursday and shows the breadth of Koplin’s career, from his mysterious lithographs and monotypes to his abstract assemblages. For those who knew Phil, there will be a secondary

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SBCAST (513 Garden St.) also has plenty to show this coming First Thursday. First of all, master weaver Porfirio Gutierrez will be showing traditional Zapotec weavings—and giving demonstrations – in suite E. (The SBCAST beer garden will be offering Oaxacan-inspired brews as well.)

Elsewhere in suite D, a selection of local artists will be putting their own spin on tradition with rugs, textiles, silks, and masks by Mike Blaha, Robin Brazy, Charlene Broudy, Skye Gwilliam, and Megan Illgner. And in Studio F, Myles Sciotto explores sound and vision with aural and visual art. There, that’s plenty to enjoy!

VISION ON

Bruce Birkland has a penchant for: a) psychedelic landscapes, b) cowboys, c) desert landscapes, d) Buddhas and other spiritual beings. In his paintings, he combines them all, and I’m not sure how much he’s serious and how much he’s putting us on. But that’s maybe the point. A collection of his paintings are currently hanging at The Good Cup (916 State St.) – and yes, you should really stop by and take a gander.

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he beauty of our community comes from its weaving of different cultures, influences, and styles. Master weaver Porfirio Gutierrez has spent his career entwining his family’s culture and customs into textiles that explore the styles of his heritage and his own life’s influences.

Porfirio was born to a family of master weavers that goes back for generations in the ancient city of Teotitlan del Valle, an area of the Oaxaca region in Mexico where the indigenous Zapotec people lived for thousands of years.

This traditional weaving style uses tools and techniques that go back more than 1,000 years. Growing up in a weaving family, he was exposed to every stage of this craft, helping out with all aspects of weaving and eventually practicing on the loom at the age of 12.

When Porfirio was 18, he headed out of his hometown to Ventura in search of a better opportunity for his family.

He spent the years in Ventura working in fast-food restaurants, supermarkets, and construction jobs as a means of supporting the family back in Oaxaca.

After 10 years without seeing his family, he returned to his hometown. Porfirio was now in his late 20s, and upon returning to Oaxaca he had an epiphany as he rediscovered the rich culture of his family and region. Although he had been exposed to this as a child, he felt as if he never fully appreciated what was around him since it was all he had ever known. Now as an adult, there was a newfound appreciation for his heritage and the legacy of his family.

This was just a quick trip, but he returned a changed man with an interest in his heritage and the craftsmanship that was indigenous to the region. He kept his regular jobs but had a loom sent to him in the states and continued to return back to the village to relearn what

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he had seen as a child.

Each visit developed a deeper understanding of the entire process.

From the preparation of traditional dyes to the making of yarn, he researched how each raw material was prepared. As he visited the ancient Zapotec temples and learned more about the spiritual background of the culture, Porfirio studied the Zapotec patterns, motifs, and traditional color palettes. While he practiced on the loom, these traditional patterns began to merge with his own inspirations from modern architecture and technology, creating forms that pay homage to his family and heritage but also embrace his vision and interests.

During this time, he also began to speak with his family about reviving the use of natural dyes. There had been a recent trend in the area to use artificial dyes, since they were far more cost-effective and easier to produce.

Each piece not only supports Porfirio’s vision but also helps those who are dedicated to the process. From dyes to yarn, Porfirio’s family is involved with every stage of the process. Each piece is a bridge between Oaxaca and Ventura, a melding of the old worlds and new as they create a personal language that is definitive of his style.

Porfirio sees his textiles as going beyond just his personal expression. Each piece seeks to shed light on the value of craftsmanship and the importance of supporting indigenous products. As globalization has progressed, we have become more and more removed from the origin of our products and the understanding of how they are made.

With his work and presentations, he hopes to draw attention to not just the objects themselves, but the process in which they are made. There are only a few traditional weaving families left in the region, and if there is not a demand

for the goods and raw materials, then these ancient techniques will be lost in time.

Around 2005, he began selling his works at local street fairs. As he continued, he realized there was a place for his work in the art world. Porfirio began to get invited to give talks on Zapotec weaving, special exhibitions, and workshops. Over time, he became recognized for both his knowledge and skill as a master weaver. Porfirio was selected as one of only four artists in the Western hemisphere to participate in the Smithsonian Institute’s Artistsin-Leadership program, in addition to contributing to the Forbes Pigment Collection at Harvard University.

Today, he continues to promote traditional Zapotec weaving and culture as an educator and ethnic ambassador.

Porfirio’s work will be on display at SBCAST this upcoming First Thursday on September 7. He will be displaying a

series of his pieces, as well as giving liveweaving demonstrations throughout the night. If you would like to learn more about these traditional processes, you can participate in his workshop, “The Chemistry of Indigo,” on Monday, September 11. The workshop will focus on the color indigo, and attendees will get to get to learn about the history of plant dyes while being instructed on how to create their own fermentation vats from natural ingredients that will produce dyes. During the course, students will also get to dye yarn and natural cotton cloth.

The workshop is at 6 pm and is $50 per person, and guests can RSVP by emailing maizahixson@gmail.com.

There are only 20 available, so sign up early. This workshop is not just a chance to learn a new skill but also to keep alive an ancient practice.

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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

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TOO TANKED This includes my top three most shameful memories. And the other two I can’t even think of.

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he night began at the Shakesbeer Festival a few years ago at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Dark beer combined with not eating much was an obvious terrible decision, and the only thing saving me from getting hammered too fast was sitting through sporadic Shakespeare performances, which helped prolong each drink.

After the last show, I bummed a cigarette and a light from a stranger. I took a drag and blew smoke just as the tobacco started to burn my lungs. “Where to next?” I ask my friend Marigold. “Maybe we should go home,” she said. I turn to her and scrunch my face. “No way, let’s go dancing!” She rolled her eyes and reluctantly walked with me to Eos just two blocks away.

As soon as we arrive, I order drinks. “I’m having so much fun!” I say to her as my feet pound the floor and my arms wave in the air like I just don’t care. “Maybe you should switch to water,” she says. I shake my head, then drunkenly dance solo to the dance floor. About an hour passes and I am wasted, thanks to a few shots handed to me by people I don’t know.

I spot Marigold at the bar talking to a cute boy and stumble over. The bartender was M.I.A., so I grab Marigold’s glass of water and gulped it down. “Let’s go!” she says. I

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I don’t remember giving him directions, but we made it home ignore her plea and instead find a handsome black man who was on his way out the door. I flirt a little and persuade him to stay. Turns out he’s an engineer, a Stanford grad, a good catch. I decided it was time for us to get to know each other better.

“He’s taking me home,” I shout to Marigold over the music. “I don’t think that’s a good idea,” she screams back. Knowing you can never convince a drunk once they’ve made up his or her mind, she did the best thing she could’ve done.

She interrogates my new friend for his name, number, email, and driver’s license number and scribbles down his information on a bar napkin. “Elizabeth, please be careful!” she said, grabbing my shoulders. “I’m fine,” I said.

I don’t remember giving him directions, but we made it home. I know because I woke up the next morning with him naked in bed next to me. Oh god, oh god, oh god. Did we… do it?

I crawl out of bed, careful not to wake him, and go to the bathroom to figure out what the hell I’ve done. I look in the mirror and a mess of a woman stares back at me. Black eyeliner and orangey-red lipstick smeared across my dry, sallow skin. I begin to cry and splash cold water on my face to mask my tears. I pull it together as I wash my face, deciding to save the breakdown for after he leaves.

I open the bathroom door just as the gentleman wakes up. “Hey, Beautiful,” he said. Yeah, right, I think but give him a half-smile instead. He pulls on his pants and walks over. His body is dark and smooth, his muscles sculpted like an Olympian.

“Now, I don’t just hook up and disappear,” he said. “I’ll call you and would love to take you out.” I appreciated the gesture but knew this was merely a nice thing to say after a one-night stand.

I walked him to his car, a silver Mercedes SUV, and send him off. For being a total wreck, I thought, I picked a smart man with a gorgeous body who seems to have his stuff together. Looking on the bright side was the only way to soothe my self-inflicted suffering. Especially since I couldn’t even remember his name.

I hurry back inside and turn on the shower. I began to cry and shake so hard I had to sit on the bathtub floor to stable myself. I couldn’t figure out if we actually had sex, but the way my body reacted gave me the answer that was hard to face.

It took a while to get back to “normal” but slowly I forgave myself for that night.

It’s been almost two years since I’ve drank alcohol. And a lifetime is too short for another drink.

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im Messina, songwriter, singer, guitarist, recording engineer, record producer, artist, furniture maker, and Valley resident will treat music lovers to two concerts at Standing Sun LIVE in Buellton on Thursday, September 7 and Friday, September 8. Longtime fans know him as a member of the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield, a founding member of the country rock pioneer Poco, and half of the Loggins and Messina duo with Kenny Loggins. The rest of the world will likely recognize him by his 1972 Loggins and Messina hit song, “Your Mama Don’t Dance”.

Born in California and raised in Texas, Jim spent much of his youth divided between his mother’s native state of Texas and his father’s home in California. Jim says, “Mom was into doo-wop, honkytonk, and early rock ‘n roll,” while his father, a semi-professional guitarist, “leaned more toward the jazzabilly of

Jim Messina will play two concerts at Standing Sun LIVE in Buellton

Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys and Spade Cooley.”

Jim reports he began learning guitar

at the age of 5, and as he got older was attracted to the guitar parts and sounds in early Elvis Presley and Ricky Nelson records. His California roots led him to early 1960s surf music, especially fascinated by the guitar sounds of early surf/rock groups such as Dick Dale and the Del-Tones and the Champs.

When Jim was a senior in high school, he says, “I was asked by a local deejay who had heard me play to assemble a band and produce albums on two new artists the man was working with. I accepted the offer.” Although both albums made “beelines for oblivion,” the studio’s engineer was impressed with Jimmy and asked him to stay on as his assistant and protégé. Over the next few years, Jim became a knowledgeable and skilled recording, mixing, and mastering engineer, as well as musician and producer.

Content with the satisfaction he received from the technical side of making music, and having graduated to the position of second engineer at Hollywood’s famed Sunset Sound – working with superstars-to-be including The Doors, Lee Michaels, and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, and later Buffalo Springfield – Jim says had given up on playing professionally by then.

After engineering Buffalo Springfield’s second album, Jim reports he joined the group playing bass and producing their final album, Last Time Around.

Springfield splintered in 1968, and Jim and Richie Furay, along with Rusty Young, rolled their rock-n-roll talents into Poco.

“I remained with Poco for less than two years, but in that short tenure Poco had not only carved out a previously unknown genre of music called country/ rock, but also nurtured the talents of Eagles-to-be Randy Meisner and Timothy B. Schmit,” says Jim adding, “There really was a sense of something new and exciting in the air at that time.”

Jim departed with hopes of returning to the producer’s chair and was soon rewarded with a six-album production deal with Columbia Records.

Loggins & Messina went on to release nine albums in the next seven years, amassing sales of more than 14 million units. “Poco had been some real goodtime music,” says Jim. “Loggins & Messina just took that a step further and made it more sophisticated and attainable, because it was so musically diverse – from folk to country/rock, to jazz or classical. Through the years, the Loggins & Messina period yielded the stuff I’m most proud of.”

Since then, Jim made three solo albums in the ‘80s, as well as recording and touring with the original, reunited Poco when they released the album

Legacy in 1989.

In 2009, Messina released the CD Under a Mojito Moon-Part 1, on which the only guitar he played was his flamenco guitar. The Latinbased arrangements featured trumpet, percussion, drums, piano, and nylon acoustic guitar in melodies reminiscent of the music of Cuba and Spain.

In 2012, Messina released the CD and DVD Jim Messina LIVE at the Clark Center for the Performing Arts containing songs by Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Loggins & Messina, as well as his solo material.

He is both the creator and facilitator of “The Songwriters’ Performance Workshop”, wherein he leads six-day intensive workshops for songwriters and singers at retreats, resorts, and hotels around the country.

Jim’s solo acoustic performances continue to be well-received and led to his forming a new band to tour with.

“After all my years as a producer shaping other people’s music to be the best it could possibly be, I’m just enjoying focusing my efforts and abilities on my own identity musically,” says Jim. Standing Sun LIVE is a singer/ songwriter music venue, set in a 4,000-square-foot industrial winery, where locals and tourists alike come to enjoy bands from Seattle to Los Angeles, from Austin to Nashville – and everything in-between while sipping Santa Barbara County wines.

Music aficionados, fans, and concertgoers can expect to be inspired, entertained, serenaded, and surprised

by Jim’s performances. “I need to break in a new bass player for the fall tour run through Tennessee and Illinois. I thought it would be a good place at home with friends to do that before we throw [Michael Brady] to the lions,” says Jim adding, “these are fun, comfortable, loose, under-the-radar warm-up concerts. Jim says Michael played bass and did some vocals for him back in the 1980s on the Messina album: “It’s nice working with him again. We’ve maintained a good relationship over the years.”

As for the playlists, Jim assures, “We’re gonna be doing material from Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Loggins and Messina, and my solo works.”

Doors open at 7 pm, concerts start at 7:30 pm. Reserved seating is $65 per person with a limited number of VIP front-row tickets available for $90 per person. VIP tickets include a complimentary glass of wine, early entry, and an after-show meet-and-greet with Jim Messina in the Standing Sun Art Gallery.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.standingsunwines. com or call (805) 961-9413.

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