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ade in SB – Chantal Peterson laces up her running shoes for the She Is M Beautiful race, which goes in motion September 17 with its starting line at East Beach Biweekly Capitalist – In the final report of a two-part series, Establishment loyalist Jeffrey Harding dissects Hillary Clinton’s economic policies and explains why they won’t succeed State Street Scribe – There are some things in this life we are not given to understand. Flirtatious men in lobster bibs, for one.

Beer Guy – Zach Rosen pours a pint in honor of Oktoberfest and all its thirst-quenching activities on tap, including those at The Brewhouse and Firestone Walker Fortnight – Food fests; Hale Milgrim and Go To Hale; Pat Metheny at the Lobero; Planned Parenthood Book Sale; Amy Schumer at SB Bowl; and Lobero hosts FUTURE/PERFECT Business Beat – Chantal Peterson serves up the background and modernday details of the SB Fermentation Festival and Cultivate Events, with help from company owner Katie Hershfelt Creative Characters – Zach Rosen gets a crystal-clear look at glass sculptor Seth Brayer, who expects to be creating bottles for the rest of his career Berry Man – Cory Clark sinks her teeth into autumn and some seasonal treats, serving up advice about apples, pineapple quince, celery root, and kolhrabi Man About Town – Mark Léisuré shines the light on FUTURE/PERFECT at the Lobero; The Moving Wall comes to Chase Palm Park; Claudia McGarry’s debut play; and Tales from the Tavern On The Walls – A new feature that spotlights a regular local artist – in this case, Matt Rodriguez – and where his or her work is showing Plan B – Briana Westmacott takes measure of the highest mountain in the continental U.S. and confronts it just in time for her 42nd birthday Art Beat – Surf’s up: Jacquelyn De Longe chronicles the downtown pop-up gallery’s A.R.T. space and interviews photographer Seth de Roulet about his new exhibit E’s Note – For Elliana Westmacott, life’s a beach even at the end of summer, when she ponders her family’s journey to Thailand I Heart SB – Before embarking on a lengthy journey via sailboat, Elizabeth Rose wraps her mind around financial “un-dependence” and the lack of a steady paycheck SYV Snapshot – Eva Van Prooyen reports on Los Alamos Old Days, events from a chili kick-off party to barbecues, International Grenache Day, Danish Days, and the Vintage Trailer Bash

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here is a good chance that if you saw 2,000 women running along a Californian coastline clad in bright pink (a few in tutus), you might do a double take. If so, it’d be worthy of your inquiry. This is the buoyant visual of the She Is Beautiful race, an annual all-women 5K and 10K that has put

itself on the map, as the wildly popular “Pinkest 5 and 10K” in California, offering its participants much more than just a great sweat fest and swag bag perks.

Now in its fifth year, the She Is Beautiful race is expected to attract nearly 3,000 people (women runners and their

friends and family) to East Beach on Saturday, September 17, to pound the pavement for a special purpose.

This race has gained a reputation as much more than your standard feel-good-for-a-cause “women’s empowerment” event. Although the race does raise money for local nonprofit partners (including Girls Inc., the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation, Every Mother Counts, and Girls Rock SB), the purpose of the event, at its core, is not just about helping everyone else, but instead, about women turning the spotlight around and helping themselves. It’s about putting women and girls in touch with their strength and their ability to be change-makers in their own lives.

Okay, sure, it’s easy to wave a statement like that around, but judging by the

annual growth rate of this race (it’s the second-largest race in Santa Barbara), there is a lasting power to what the event brings about in its participants.

Open to women of all ages and fitness levels, with the added inclusion of the “Baby Mama” stroller division (one of the only baby stroller promoted races in the country), the race also redefines who has access to fitness events (which is basically anyone who wants to try). She Is Beautiful (SIB) isn’t about running super fast or winning, and it’s not about getting in the best shape of your life, either.

“The act of starting and finishing a run like this proves to people that they can start and finish other things in their lives,” says Melissa McConville, founder ...continued p.22

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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 anIndependent Mind.com

Why Hillary’s Economic Policies Will Fail, Part II

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n Part I of “Why Hillary’s Economic Policies Will Fail,” I pointed out the regressiveness of Hillary Clinton’s progressive policies of more taxes on the rich, more taxes on businesses, and forcing businesses to stay in America.

In “Hillary and the Progressives,” I discussed the authoritarian nature of progressivism. Regular readers know that I have been equally critical of Donald Trump and his policies.

My approach is to be critical of what politicians say, and I base my criticism on basic economic truths and data. While it would be easy to enter the popular fray of name-calling and character-bashing, I think we should base our political choices primarily on candidates’ policies, not just character failings.

So, Hillary…

Like Donald, there is no problem that Hillary can’t solve. Beside imposing new taxes on the folks who create businesses and jobs, she will: Fight for racial justice, revitalize rural America, support small businesses, fix Medicare and Social Security, end drug abuse, support middle-class families, cure Alzheimer’s, reform the criminal justice system, expand opportunities for the disabled, reform primary education, free college students from debt, beef up unions, affirm LGBT rights, bring manufacturing back to America, control guns, fix our infrastructure, invest in technology, give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship, guarantee paid family leave, support affordable childcare, reform and modernize the military and keep us safe and strong, combat terrorism, protect animals and wildlife, prevent climate change, end campus sexual assault, support families with autistic children, provide universal affordable health care, overturn Citizens United and other campaign reforms, reform Wall Street, support women’s rights, close the wage gap, increase the minimum wage.

This is an exhaustive and exhausting list. Almost all of it won’t happen.

Let me start with the obvious: Hillary says nothing about the costs or how to pay for them. All of these programs have a cost. For some it is just the fiscal cost, but for others there are additional costs from their unintended consequences.

We have about $19.5 trillion of national debt (see usdebtclock.org). Based on existing programs, deficits are growing, fast. Depending on who you believe (the Congressional Budget Office or critics), the national debt will increase by an additional $10-$15 trillion in the next 10 years because of uncontrolled government spending.

In other words, her progressive wish list ignores the consequences of more deficit spending and tax increases.

If you think that the national debt is of no consequence, you would be wrong. The government has only about $500 billion in discretionary funds it can spend. Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, defense, welfare programs, federal pensions, and interest on the debt take the rest (about $3.3 trillion).

Assume that current very low interest rates won’t stay this low forever. The 10year Treasury note is now paying only 1.6%, near its historic low. A two-time increase is not inconceivable. Go back to 2008 and they were 3.7%. If interest payments on national debt doubled, then, all things being equal, the feds would have only $250 billion to spend on other programs.

Given the current debt dilemma, where will the money come from for new programs? Will she tax the rich and corporations even more to pay for it?

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Taxes and federal debt suck money out of the economy and leave less private capital to invest and make the economy grow. Japan’s 20-year stagnation is an example of what happens with high debt and high taxes. Right now, the economic gurus in Washington, D.C., are scratching their heads about why economic recovery and growth have been so slow. For reasons they admit they don’t understand, things aren’t working out as they planned. Perhaps they should look at themselves for the answer.

In addition to the fiscal issues, there are unintended consequences to Hillary’s programs that impose different kinds of costs. For example: Free trade is something she wants to “fix” to keep jobs in America. To do that, she will have to prevent the importation of goods that are produced cheaper elsewhere. That means we will all have to pay more for things “Made in America,” making us poorer. Those countries would retaliate by barring American products, which means employees of U.S. exporters would lose jobs.

A raise of the minimum wage will result in fewer job opportunities for lowskilled workers. Also, some businesses will not be able to afford the increase and will go out of business or automate. It’s a war on the underprivileged seeking jobs.

By “fixing” Obamacare, she means adopting a single-payer medical system like many other countries in the world. Right now, Obamacare is falling apart as costs skyrocket and insurers drop out. In every country in the world with a single-payer system, medical costs rise, taxes are raised to pay for it, medical services are rationed, and often quality declines.

More paid leave and paid childcare has to be paid by someone. If you think it is the employer, you would be wrong again. Costs will either be passed along to consumers, or businesses will become less profitable and reduce costs and employees, or go out of business.

Free college has a nice ring, but who is going to pay for it? Student debt, a bad idea created by Congress, is now about $1.3 trillion and it can’t be wished away. Hillary offers no information about how to do this.

Spending money on infrastructure to create jobs is another illusion. The Obama Administration spent $787 billion on “shovel ready” infrastructure programs, and once the money was spent the jobs evaporated and nothing changed. If you want to see where the money went, you can look it up online as I did. Most of it was a waste. Again, who is going to pay for it? Us. Going back to my premise in Part I, that all politicians lie and over-promise on programs they know they can’t deliver, one can say that Hillary is a politician.

Her Santa Claus wish list of programs are progressive fantasies that, if enacted, will harm the economy and taxpayers. Why is it that politicians never seem to be the ones who suffer the consequences of their actions?

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ave and I meet one evening at the Famous Fish Warehouse or whatever it’s called, a few blocks up from the beach. It’s one of those enormous restaurant/bars the size of a NASA hangar, and tonight it is thronged and seething, the dank air tumescent with excited human congress. The World Series or some such is hollering out of a dozen enormous screens hung about the place, the panicky-sounding, midrange hubbub of the gathered mob in here not unlike that viral Russian recording of the inadvertently penetrated caverns of hell.

Whole families are laughing with mouths full, throwing their heads back so that oral cavities become upturned, toothy vessels of sludge. And we’re supposed to eat around all this eating. Dave strolls ahead to our table, unperturbed.

The scene is alive with the 20-something species to whom this loudmouth Breugel is a first home. The carefully unshaven young professionals and players lean in their dozens with hunched and easy panache over long glass-littered bars, they jostle and confer and grasp one another, neckties half-undone in front of the bathroom mirror, their short, upswept power hair shifted back on their scalps to show grooveless, Shatneresque foreheads.

They have vivacious but normal-seeming girlfriends and wives for the most part, though once in a while a guy will turn up with a date whose chest looks as startlingly swollen as a new contusion.

A lot of the celebrants are wearing backward baseball caps, which on a good day are a thorn. Those that don’t wear backward baseball caps wear those stylish form-fitting club suits that seem carefully arranged to look like unbuttoned after-hours business dress.

Squashed Beanies and Backward Caps A few of the guys are sporting the Squashed Insouciant Beanie, the ubiquitous outlier symbol that crushes and droops a little at the apex, suggesting bohemian disarray. The look doesn’t really speak in this environment because everyone knows real Bohemia doesn’t watch televised sports, and so the beanie crowd look like fakes, and they are. The backward-cap guys and

after-hours faux-business-dress guys are in their element, though. They make easy eye contact and chit-chat with bartenders and waitresses, and they all look like some version or hue of Ryan Gosling or Ryan Reynolds.

The baseball game has everyone excited.

I mean scarily, phenomenally excited. The buzzed young guys and their significant others are wearing the collective “HellyeahtheWorldSeries!’”mask and high-fiving one another, the men jerking their heads around and yelling incoherently every time one of the doughy millionaires onscreen swings a bat or jogs a little across the televised grass. All these wired guys are sporting Establishment tattoos and heroic eyebrows and are laughing loudly. The “I’m here straight from my important job in my unbuttoned suit” guys laugh angrily, like Tom Cruise overplaying drunk because some acting coach somewhere told him that a drunk Young Turk looks at his gathered posse and angrily whips his hilarity-contorted face from friend to friend while laughing. “Haw!haw!haw!haw!haw!haw! haw!haw!haw! Oooh shit, man!

Haw!haw!haw!haw!haw!haw!”

Their girlfriends or wives could be the nameless and merely competent actresses on endless and interchangeable Law and Shooting shows and limply ironic Internet ads; lookalike, neutrally beautiful young ladies with radiant curtain-hair like polished rayon and cackling, nose-wrinkling support laughter accessorized with a possessing paw fastened determinedly on the tattooed forearm of the backward cap.

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During this last game of the World Series (all the games of the World Series, really. All baseball games, that is), doughy muscular men, some tallish and paunchy with a mullet-mustache set, throw the little white baseball around and occasionally sprint in expensive panic with their big fannies jumping.

When they aren’t called upon to move, they can be seen dramatically standing stock still in the outfield, waiting for the little white ball to drop like a speck of cotton from out of the arc lighting.

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by Zach Rosen

The Brewhouse’s Pete Johnson oversees their massive Oktoberfest each year

Oktoberfest is Here Fig Mtn’s owner Jaime Dietenhofer celebrates his German heritage each year at FigtoberFest

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t’s that time of the year again when people have beer and bratwurst on their minds. Oktoberfest is the world’s largest and most popular beer event by far. Although the official festival takes place in Munich, the popularity of this German extravaganza has spread throughout the world and festivals worldwide replicate this beerfilled soirée.

The most famous of all beer festivals was originally a wedding in 1810 between Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Sachsen-Hildburghausen (also winners of the competition for the most German-sounding names ever).

The wedding was so popular that they decided to re-celebrate it every year, and Oktoberfest was born. The original twoday event featured games and a horse race on fairgrounds that eventually became known as Theresienwiese, or Meadow of Therese.

Today, local residents often just call the event Wiesn (meadow) for short.

Each year, Oktoberfest brings in about six million attendees during the 16-to18-day festival. While the original affair took place for only two days in mid-October, over time the festival has been shifted forward into September to accommodate for the rainy weather in October. Oktoberfest takes place the last two weeks of September and carries into the first weekend of October. The exact role that beer played at the first event is still debated, though it is clear that it quickly became a prominent feature.

The Beers of Oktoberfest A point always worth mentioning when discussing Oktoberfest beer is

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Both styles have their place, and it is often more a matter of taste to which one a brewery produces.

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that it isn’t technically one set style.

The beer being served is Oktoberfest beer. It is highly regulated and only the six large breweries from Munich are allowed to attend the occasion. Of which, Hofbräu München has become the most recognizable with their iconic HB emblem featured on glassware and banners worldwide. Over the years, the beer being served has changed largely based on what is popular at the time.

It is thought that the original beers at Oktoberfest were likely the dark lager style, dunkel. In 1841, Spaten officially introduced their more-amber Märzenbier to Oktoberfest, and that quickly became the dominant style at the event. Over the past 30 years or so, there has been a trend towards paler brews and today there remains two main styles of Oktoberfest, the more historic amber lagers and the newer golden-style brews. Märzenbier is maltier with a fuller mouthfeel, while the golden versions are lighter and crisper, allowing the hop bitterness to come through more.

The one feature that ties the two styles together is their higher alcohol content, which is usually around 6-percent ABV.

In our own town, the granddaddy of all Oktoberfest celebrations is at The Brewhouse. This year, the event will be on Friday, September 30, and Saturday, October 1, from opening to close.

This will be its 13th anniversary, and this massive affair captures the raucous and festive nature of the Munich counterpart.

The Brewhouse closes down its parking lot, filling the space with large tents adorned with full German regalia.

Long tables line the tent and groups sit, clanking mugs together and eating German fare from the kitchen. One of the highlights of this event is Oktubafest.

Nothing feels more festive than throwing back steins while listening to a stage full of tubas blaring out German tunes. An emcee, Hans the Red Baron, lead the crowds in songs, games, and competitions like stein holding contests and more. And don’t worry, there is plenty of chicken dancing.

Each year, brewmaster Pete Johnson brews his own Oktoberfest and makes sure to fill the board with other Germanstyle brews, including guest taps from Germany. There will be The Brewhouse Vixen Weizen, a hefeweizen-style wheat beer featuring the classic flavors of banana and clove. Of course, they will be pouring HB Oktoberfest, and this year they will also have Veltins Pils among others. Veltins is a light, crisp example of the Pilsner style and features hay-like malt flavors with some grassy

hops on the nose.

FigtoberFest will be held Saturday, September 24, from noon to close at all six of Figueroa Mountain’s tasting rooms. This event has grown in size each year and is a chance for owners Jim and Jaime Dietenhofer to celebrate their family’s German heritage. Enjoy a day full of food, music, and games while drinking the brewery’s own golden FigtoberFest beer.

While the FigtoberFest beer is the highlight, the brewers have made sure to brew a full range of German beer styles.

There will be versions of altbier, an amber ale style, Dortmunder export, the strong pale lager, dunkel, a brown malty yet refreshing dark lager, and even the roastier black lager style, Schwarzbier.

Figueroa Mountain has brewed many of these beers before, and they are always balanced and accurate examples of the style. There are a few styles missing, but if you were to sample each one you would have a fairly good idea of the range of German beer styles.

Every year, Hoffmann Brat Haus does an extended celebration with specials and German décor. Lama Dog Tap Room + Bottle Shop will have a well-rounded selection of German beers chosen by their knowledgeable staff. If you are looking to celebrate further afield, Firestone Walker Brewing Co. will have their Third Annual Madonna Inn Oktoberfest on Saturday, October 1. Guests can celebrate the festivities at this iconic hotel while tasting a special oak-barrel version of their Oaktoberfest. Down south is the La Mesa Oktoberfest that will take place Friday to Sunday (September 30 – October 2). Now in its 43rd year, this three-day festival is the largest on the West Coast, bringing in more than 100,000 attendees. It is spread along several blocks and crowds drift between the beer tents, vendors, and stages, giving it more of a streetfair vibe.

Whichever festivity you choose, this time of year, with the slowly cooling weather, makes it a perfect fit for some bratwurst and beer.

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anta Barbara has been rife with wine-and-dine events seemingly since the days horse-drawn carriages plied State Street to the old Arlington Hotel. I mean, nary a warmweather weekend passes by without at least one of those afternoons where you get to sample creations from area eateries and sip wines (or guzzle craft beers) while bidding on auction items and mingling with the cocktail dresses and blue-jeanclad crowd. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course.

This Sunday, September 11, however, there are two food-related festivals taking place nearly simultaneously – including one of the oldest and perhaps the newest – and they really couldn’t be any different.

The veteran event is the 35th annual Taste of the Town, which hunkers down at a high-rise location up on Riviera Park, where “the ultimate epicurean adventure” groups together some of those trendy chefs and caterers (e.g.

Finch and Fork, Michael’s Catering, and Nectar) and well-established wineries (Au Bon Climat, Grassini, for example) for al fresco dining around the garden park that truly does offer a fine view of the city below leading to the harbor, pier, and blue Pacific. There are auction items galore, including vacations and more dining packages.

Tickets for the noon to 3 pm event will run you $125 per, a bit pricey in my book, but they do this event right – no one ever runs out of food early – and it all goes to a good cause, of course, the Arthritis Foundation (and believe me, I’m starting to get to that point where I could use their services). Call 563-4685 for more information.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum in so many ways, is the sixth annual Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival (SBFF), which takes over Stow

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House at Rancho La Patera out in Goleta from 11 am to 5 pm. You won’t find any rich Béarnaise sauces dripping from bountiful beef cubes, nor a chocolate fountain here. Instead, SBFF is all about traditionally fermented foods – from why they’re important, to how to make them, to sampling a wide variety of the eats that are actually good for your digestive system. You can read a lot more about SBFF elsewhere in this issue, so we won’t go into any greater detail. But I’ve been to several, the food is great, the experts patient and super informative, and it might be worth it just for the music alone (though you’d be remiss to miss out on the Pickled Pavilion and Culture Corner. Crunchy good fun. Admission is $35, free for children 16 and under, $20 more for the Farm-to-Table area. Call 722-5324 or visit www.sbfermentation festival.com.

Go To Hale

It’s the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks – a day full of events that changed America and the world in ways that are still being impacted today. You can choose a somber way to commemorate the day alone, or instead gather with hundreds of others to re-live footage from the incredible Concert for New York City that took place in Madison Square Garden just a few weeks after the attacks. The list of 60-plus singer-songwriters and rock ‘n’ roll artists who came together to play songs to raise funds for victims’ families and pay tribute to the first responders is just astounding, featuring some of the biggest stars of all time.

Hale Milgrim, who began a life in music working at a record store in Isla Vista and rose to the presidency of Capitol Records before retiring back to Santa Barbara, has edited and curated the nearly 330-minute film down to a more manageable 90 minutes or so, putting together a stirring sample of the show,

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with clips from Billy Joel, Elton John, Eric Clapton, James Taylor, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Paul McCartney, The Who, and several others. Milgrim has also promised a few surprises beyond what’s already been announced for the September 11 show at the Lobero. The show starts at 7:03 pm, but pre-show refreshments will be available beginning an hour earlier on the Lobero’s Esplanade, along with a silent auction and other fun activities provided by Lobero LIVE and KTYD, where Milgrim used to air his Go To Hale program.

The event kicks off a special Go To Hale film series, an adjunct to his popular Quips & Clips series of multimedia presentations he previously staged at the Lobero. The series continues on Tuesday, November 29, with excerpts from Concert for George, honoring the 15th anniversary of George Harrison’s passing, and concludes on Friday, January 13, with Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration, recorded in 1992, also at Madison Square Garden. Tickets are $15 each, or $39 for the full series. Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.

Metheny’s Magic

You all know how much I like to be a bit smarmy or at least employ a healthy chunk of tongue-in-cheek in the notices in this column. But there’s just no way to make fun of the great guitarist Pat Metheny, nor anything he’s ever put his hands on – not even his Orchestrion project of a few years back that combined his childhood fascination with his grandfather’s player piano with modern-day technology. I mean the dang thing was actually incredible to both see and listen to.

No such gizmos or anything else besides good music this time around for the guitar god, who I first remember hearing as one of those artists that fit right in with WNEW-FM’s playlist, as “Phase Dance” segued to Tom Petty or ELO back when the radio station was still somewhat free-form. (I ran right out and bought the Pat Metheny Group debut album the next day.)

Nope. Metheny will be simply revisiting various points in his long career – a span that has included 20 Grammys and recent induction into the Downbeat Hall of Fame – and whatever else strikes his fancy, accompanied by his longtime drummer Antonio Sanchez,

Malaysian/Australian bassist Linda Oh, and British pianist Gwilym Simcock.

The 8 pm Monday, September 12, concert kicks off Jazz at the Lobero’s fall season. Tickets are $59 & $69 ($105 patron tickets include priority seating and pre-concert private reception). Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.

Read All About It

We’ve got Kindle, iPads, and bookson-tape. Who the heck reads books anymore? Well, I don’t know, but I’ve still got a large collection in bookcases and stacked up elsewhere in my home – not that I read them, but people are duly impressed when they peruse the titles.

Anyway, the point is, folks around here do still care about the printed word.

We’ve even got two thriving bookshops of our own: Tecolote in Montecito and Chaucer’s in Santa Barbara. But if you want to add to your own personal library at big savings, there’s no better place with wider selection that the Planned Parenthood Book Sale. The 42nd annual event – jeez, that dates almost before color TV – takes place September 16-25 over at Earl Warren Showgrounds and serves as a fundraiser for the recently besieged nonprofit that serves from Ventura to San Luis Obispo counties.

The largest used-book sale in the tri-counties offers thousands of carefully curated and cleaned titles in categories that range from American History to War and Military, with a lot of stops including biography, the arts, cookbooks, crafts, and so much more, plus a huge selection of children and young adult books. When I was searching for a specific title last year after taking up comedy improv – boom, there it was right where I looked. Best of all, most of the paperbacks are priced at just $1 and the stock is refreshed daily, so repeat visits are recommended.

Want first crack at the good stuff?

Come to the opening-night reception on Thursday, September 15, where you can battle the professional collectors for the most valuable titles from 5 to 9 pm while enjoying refreshments, for a $25 donation.

By the way, if you’re looking to go the other way with your own library, they’re still accepting book donations for the sale at the sorting site located at 721 E. Gutierrez St., where there is a marked white trailer outside the gate suitable for depositing books at any time. DVDs and books on tape are okay, but no encyclopedias, magazines, or VHS/ video tapes. Details at 722-1522 or visit www.booksale.ppsbvslo.org.

Amy’s World

Amy Schumer is having a pretty good year or two. The stand-up comic

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Camping is the background, extrasensory experience is the aim, and a set ground in both realism and fantasy the milieu for the ambitious work.

“On the East Coast, they go camping to get away from it all, but out here it’s about searching, for a spiritual sign, or the universe making itself known through nature,” Gillen explained. “It’s an interesting rub to work with those contrasting images.”

“This performance may contain explicit content, including nudity and violence,” reads the warning on the Lobero’s website. “Parental discretion is advised.” Which is all the more reason to go. Tickets are just $15 and $25, $10 for students, and $50 for VIPs with priority seating and a post-show cast party on Saturday night. Call 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.

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and TV star saw her feature film Trainwreck soar to box-office heights last year, and just recently she became the first female comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden. (Do we still live in a sexist society or what?!)

She’s got a new book, The Girl With The Lower Back Tattoo, for which she received an $8 million advance, and just last week was touring Europe with her latest stand-up show.

Now the gig that reviewers have called “outrageously funny and unprintably rude” and “a mix of New York chutzpah and redemptive bonding” is heading our way, and we’re told that the fabulously filthy standup who rants about sex also has plenty to say about gun control and the Kardashians. Schumer slinks into the Santa Barbara Bowl for a 7 pm show on Saturday, September 17. Tickets range from $64.50-$114.50, plus whatever it costs to mend your split clothing after you bust a gut laughing. Call 962-7411 or visit www.sbbowl.com.

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atie Hershfelt came by her fascination with fermentation honestly. She was seeking out an alternative solution for her and her family, many of whom dealt with chronic health issues that doctors just didn’t seem able to cure.

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Katie came upon the larger fermentation world one fateful weekend back in 2011, when she was heading up to Sonoma and happened to hear about a fermentation festival occurring there the same weekend. She decided to check it out, having grown an interest in fermented foods because of her success in using them to treat digestive health issues. Little did she know that those couple of days would change the course

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out there under the lights, unaware of the Moment, and sometimes the wealthy outfielder will drop an incoming ball after having waved away his colleagues, “I got this!”, and when he drops the thing, which it is his massively overpaid job simply to catch and hold onto, he’ll chase after it with electric anger, like it’s the ball’s fault, and he’ll pluck it up and throw it toward home plate with all his strength, and it’ll usually get about as far as the pitcher who will snag it out of the air and then strut around with angry eyes, clutching the little ball and looking all around.

The whole affair is wrought with oddness and ceremony. All the while, the “after-hours business dress” phonies (there, I said it), and now even the backward-cap fellas in the restaurant are yelling and slapping hands and drinking and laughing and cavorting “haw!haw!haw!haw!haw!haw!haw!h aw!haw!haw!”, jerking their angrily laughing faces around to aim and fire their humorless barking at one another.

Their potent little drinks have tiny colored straws in them.

Jagger Versus Dwight Despite my misgivings, I find myself wishing I were one of them.

As I get older, the desire becomes

incrementally stronger and, I would suggest, more perverse. Why didn’t God make me a guy who understands the appeal of sport-spectating and occasional boozing and loudness, a regular guy who can lose himself in this tumult and tribe-think and freeing conviviality, back-slapping with a group of like-minded men and dissolving like a drop in the placid Testosterone Sea? Down another quantum pathway I would’ve played sports in high school and pumped iron, had The Stones on my bedroom wall and not a stylized cartoon poster of big-hipped Elton John peering like an elf from underneath a top hat.

I would’ve had one of those thick paperbacks of sports statistics on my bedside table next to my State Championship trophy, and would have followed my dad in his daily browfurrowed examination of column after column of tiny numbers in the Sports Section, two guys following the stock index. Instead, I sat by my Tensor lamp and pored over the beautifully bound and illustrated shiny hardcover of the complete lyrics of Bernie Taupin (thanks, Diana), surrounded by my Revell SpaceShip models and sketch pads and other such you’llnever-get-to-first-base folderol. So

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The Handsomes Three guys at the table next to me and Dave are ordering drinks and being handsome and successful with their shaded jawbones and parted hair and general enviability. Enviability is a state, if not a word. I spy on them in my peripheral vision and occasionally with one of those bold, direct glances which, if intercepted, can be quickly reframed as admiration of the exposed duct work and celestially arrayed, desiccated starfish overhead. They’re watching the TVs with interest but no particular fever while they wait for dinner, chatting and laughing normally, holding their hands in Rodin shapes before their mouths as they cant their heads and exchange confidences, as men do in parlors and mahoganypaneled private libraries.

I turn back to Dave and we continue our conversation, and about half an hour later I glance over at the guys at the next table and I gasp and I feel my face getting hot. Their dinner has long since arrived, it is lobster, and these three recent exemplars of mellow male reason and coolness are wearing enormous bibs that fasten snugly around the neck and cascade down and over the knees like the drop cloth on a picnic table. In the center of each bib, right over the solar plexus, is a grinning stylized cartoon lobster.

I can’t tear my eyes away from these nitwits, and if they’re stupid enough to don gigantic freaking bibs in a mixedgender restaurant, they’re too far gone to notice my staring anyway. Did I not get the memo about the bib thing? I glance around, and no one is staring at these vibrant clods.

The Audacity of Dopes To my utter amazement, the Three Baby Hueys, now tipsy and blinking

slowly, their little freak arms reaching with difficulty out from behind their expansive plasticized bibs, begin making time with the black-haired, classilypierced babe waitress when she comes to check on their inebriated lobsterdestroying process. From what should be the genital-shriveling humility of their bib status, they blearily regard her with naked lust and start coming on to her! The guy nearest me actually leans out toward her and struggles to free his bib-ensnared, ass-pinching arms. It’s just awful.

This is not Robert Pattinson standing around at The Cape in an Alpaca sweater with a hip little bib like a necktie, hoisting a Heineken and laughing at the lobster held aloft in his left hand. This is three grown men made idiotic by their decision to put on enormous castrating bibs.

And before my stupefied eyes, the hot waitress receives the bib-guy’s advances and warms to him. She is flirting back.

SHE IS FLIRTING WITH THE BIB GUY. This is the world I can never join, the world I can’t even comprehend. It moved on without me when they were handing out membership cards. While I was timidly romancing the trombone player in marching band, the high school hotties who couldn’t even see me were just biding their time, waiting for these louche drunks to put on their huge bibs and sexually excite them.

“Dave, check this out,” I whisper urgently out of the corner of my mouth. “These guys are wearing bibs!”

It’s less funny to me than screwed up, especially now that I see the waitress warming up.

Dave is everything I am not and knows his way around, writes articles for Oracle, is built like a championship swimmer, and takes business trips.

He haunts the cocktail lounges of Manhattan when he is called there by his urbane, yacht catalog-perusing corporate masters. He glances over at the drunken flirts in their man-bibs and turns back to me.

“Yeah,” he says. “They ordered lobster.”

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Originally an underwater videographer for National Geographic and Discovery Channel, Seth’s interest in glass began nearly 20 years ago as a hobby. His girlfriend at the time had a small furnace set-up for making glass beads. He began toying around with glass and instantly became enamored with the medium.

After a year, Seth purchased his own equipment and began making jewelry and small art pieces, selling them on Sundays at the SB Arts & Crafts Show.

About 18 months ago, Seth returned from a Las Vegas show with recordlow sales. After years of working at art festivals, he made a choice. “I had always wanted to work on a larger scale, doing something new and more creative.” Seth took his earnings from the festival and built a new set-up for an idea he had been brainstorming on for the past few years. The idea: to reuse and transform old bottles into large-scale pieces of art – “Pyro-Cycling,” as Seth calls it.

Today, I watch him work his custombuilt system like some kind of steam punk guitarist. Flames flicker out of a copper-clad furnace. A glimpse of cobalt blue encased in a mandarin red glow can be seen through a small hole in the center of the furnace door. Wires jut out from the furnace and feed into a foot petal on the floor. Pressing down on the petal, he opens the furnace doors as he pulls out the radiating bottle attached to a blow

tube. Raising the long pipe, the pole scrapes the roof, as the bottle below twists and bends with Seth’s careful motions.

Any wrong movements and the glass bottle will shatter. “When I first started, I would only get about one or two good bottles out of ten; now I get eight or nine.”

When Seth was first thinking about stretching bottles, he was warned by other glass blowers that working with bottles would be impossible. They mentioned that the glass quality was too low and the thermal properties wouldn’t allow glass bottles to be stretched and formed. After some trial and error, Seth found a process that worked. He then custom-built his glass-blowing system around the process.

The hard work has paid off. Seth exhibited his pieces at SB CAST earlier this year and is just wrapping up a show at Carr Winery. Recently, his art was preselected for a national art competition held by legendary gin company Bombay Sapphire, a seemingly perfect mate for his art.

“The process is working,” Seth says with confidence accented by passion. “It feeds my soul,” he adds, the warm glow of the furnace catching his smile.

You can view Seth’s works at www. sethbrayer.com

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APPLES his year, we are loving local apples from Fair Hills Farms.

Nancy and David Rydell started Fair Hills Farms land, which is located at the three-way intersection of Hog Canyon, Estrella, and Jardine roads. They have amazing soil that is perfect for growing apples and stone fruit.

Our current favorite is the Cameo. They have excellent crispness, moderate to high acidity (though always much less than a Granny Smith) and balance of sweetness.

There is a slight floral note in their aroma.

All-time most popular is the Fuji Apple. This immensely flavorful variety was introduced to the U.S. from Japan in the 1980s, but now the U.S. produces more Fujis than Japan. Each year, this big, super-sweet, crisp apple gains new fans.

The Fuji holds its texture when baked. It’s known for its hard texture and syrupy sweetness. It’s also excellent for baking and salads.

QUINCE ffering a slight pineapple taste, pineapple quince is an attractive fruit that ripens to a lovely golden yellow when ready to enjoy. Because this fruit’s flesh is hard and quite tart, it requires cooking to be palatable. Too hard, too astringent, and too sour to eat raw, pineapple quince requires cooking to be edible. Packed with pectin, it’s perfect for making marmalade, jam, and jelly. Poach, braise, bake, or stew. Peel and roast.

This fruit’s sturdy melting texture endures long cooking.

Apple and pear dishes love its compatible and tasty company. Fill tarts. Aromatic pineapple quince deliciously enhances the flavor of apple pie. Its cooked lovely pinkish color creates an eye-catching aesthetic presentation in sweet and savory dishes. To make quince sauce, peel as many quinces as desired; slice; remove the seeds. Cook in a small amount of water with sweetener of choice until it becomes a pulpy consistency similar to applesauce. Mash or purée in a blender or food processor. Pineapple quince also makes a tasty wine. A perfect substitute for apples in most recipes.

As we make our way into the cooler months, we begin to think about what vegetables are coming into prime right now. Root vegetables are our answer. This dynamic family has had a chance to fully develop its flavor while in the ground during the previous months.

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KOLHRABI hese little sputnik-shaped vegetables come in green or purple, can be eaten raw or cooked, and taste a lot like broccoli stems. The word kohlrabi is German for cabbage. We usually eat them raw, just peeled, sliced, and added to a salad, but they are also delicious cooked.

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CELERY ROOT t may appear to be just an ugly, uninteresting, knobby root, but celery root has inner beauty.

The flesh – crispy when raw, silky smooth when cooked – has a delicate taste that suggests the flavors of celery and parsley with a slight nuttiness. Try it mashed with potatoes and garlic or in the excellent Celery Root Remoulade.

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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.

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ook, I’ve got no idea if FUTURE/ PERFECT, the piece that’s being performed at the end of this fortnight by VIM VIGOR Dance Company at the Lobero to conclude its DANCEworks 2016 residency, is going to be any good. But if the final work looks anything like the snippets and works-in-progress we saw when members of the company did some freeform movement during 1st Thursday After Hours, we’re in for a doozy of an evening.

The five-minute exercises looked a lot like contact improv raised to its highest level, as the pairs and triplets careened around the set comprised of choppedup used tires as a landing surface.

Freshly made, too, as the odor of burned rubber was quite apparent if you stood at all nearby. But we’re told there were a few bags of the stuff that had yet to be opened in the storage area in back, so

you need not worry about finding your car up on blocks if you park near the Lobero this month.

What you might be concerned about is having nightmares after seeing the finished work, which takes the concept of camping in the darkened woods to new heights with fantasy and magical realism elements depicted via nearviolent movements. For sure, come see the shows, slated for September 23-24, but breathe deeply before going to sleep afterward.

For Whom the Bell Tolls The Moving Wall – the half-size replica of the Vietnam War monument in Washington, D.C., known as The Wall – is headed to town for the sixth time, courtesy once again of the local Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 218. The Moving Wall will be situated at Chase Palm Park near where the

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summertime Concerts in the Park take place from October 12-17, and the monument will be staffed 24 hours a day, meaning you can come by any time day or night and locate the name of a loved one who perished in the conflict or simply pay your respects to the veterans who lost their lives during the war.

But you also might want to head out to Cabrillo Boulevard on Saturday morning, October 15, when motorcyclists and bikers are invited to join in a respectful ride to announce and bring attention to the official dedication ceremony. The Santa Barbara Riders were the instigators of the procession, and they’re organizing a phalanx of their members, as well as inviting all other motorcyclists to join in. The ride begins at 10 am, and takes a short route from the Andree Clark Bird Refuge past The Moving Wall and into the Chase Palm Park city lot on the ocean side. All are invited to watch the procession and join in the dedication ceremony slated for 11 am. That’s when the names of the 98 servicemen from SB County who were killed during the war will be read, with a firehouse bell rung for each name.

The Vietnam War. Motorcycles. Bells ringing. It’s like we’re going through

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the ‘60s all over again. (Details at www. facebook.com/pages/VVA-Chapter218-Santa-Barbara.)

Life Imitates Art Santa Barbara writer Claudia McGarry’s debut play, Kiddo and Patty Hearst, a semi-autobiographical and nostalgic story about a girl on the cusp of adulthood living with her alcoholic father in the summer of 1974 – when Hearst’s abduction and subsequent association with the Symbionese Liberation Army was all over the news – had its world premiere in a stage reading produced and directed by McGarry herself at the Center Stage Theater in late July. Kiddo, the McGarry character, feels a kinship with the heiress, as both are trapped in challenging situations and trying to make sense of their circumstances and the world.

Unfortunately, I was out of town and unable to attend. But McGarry sent an email detailing how thrilled she was with the response and how much the piece seemed to move members of the audience.

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...continued from p.5 Mother and daughter runners with one of the motivational signs along the race course

of SIB. She says that the choice to take a positive leap, be that in one’s fitness level, career, or relationship, is what this race becomes, metaphorically speaking, for many of the women who run it.

This is the sentiment that makes the event that much more impactful, and it’s also at the heart of what gets Jenny Schatzle, official trainer for the race, all riled up about it. (If you don’t know about Jenny, Google her, or better yet, go take a class and see what its like to “get Schatzled.”) For the past three years, Jenny gets the party started with a warm up and some words of wisdom and inspiration. “I love SIB because this event is about bringing women together to celebrate one another without any judgment,” Jenny says. “This run is a celebration of you and just how

awesome you are. It’s my favorite race in Santa Barbra and is not to be missed!”

The race was started by Melissa and her sister, Sara Tanza, both runners, and both UCSB alums and Santa Cruz natives. When Melissa, founder and director of SIB, was 24 and working in marketing at Whole Foods in Santa Cruz, she decided to start a race of her own, hoping to help share her passion for running and its big-picture benefits with her community. The first year, they had 500 women turn out. By the sixth year (this past March), the Santa Cruz race sold out to 6,000. Seeing how fast it was growing, after the second year of the race, she and her sister decided to bring it to the hometown of their alma mater – Santa Barbara.

Growing up as runners, Melissa and

her sister talk about the sport almost as one would a spiritual practice. “Running keeps me grounded and centered throughout all the ups and downs of life,” Melissa explains.

The name She Is Beautiful speaks to one of the conceptual foundations of the race: “We believe that every single woman deserves to feel beautiful,” Melissa states. Beauty, of course, means different things to everyone, but Melissa shares that running for her has never been about trying to change her body in a specific way. “It has never been about losing weight or looking a certain way,” a wise and uncommon perspective that she inherited from her own mother, an exercise enthusiast who used athletics as a tool for self-empowerment and camaraderie, rather than to fit a certain dress size.

A few things that stand out about SIB from an outside, non-runner perspective: First, the obvious one: Everyone wears pink (the unofficial dress code makes for great photo ops).

The second thing that pops about SIB is the spirited inspirational signage that, in addition to keeping the high vibe of the event intact, reportedly helps push runners through the finish line.

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director of the event recounts, “The SIB race was the first time I’d ever done a 5K, and some of the motivational signs actually brought me to tears because I identified with them so much and they kept me going.” A little encouragement can go a long way when pushing the body beyond one’s comfort zone.

The race has grown from a community run into a major coastal race, and now, a lifestyle brand. The business has been built upon sponsorships from partners who are excited about the mission of SIB, and revenue from race ticket sales and the SIB online merchandise (apparently the custom women’s-cut race T-shirts are actually not hideous, as one would expect in a free T-shirt).

Of course, no race is a competition without official winners, and prize money is up for grabs for the top three finishers of both the individual 5K and 10K, and chic Bumbleride strollers for the winners of the “Baby Mama” divisions.

Local sponsors including Santa Barbara Running Company, Lole Women, The Dailey Method of Santa Barbara, Water with Life, Santa Barbara Running, and Crimson Organic Day Spa hopped on board, happy to support an event that promotes self-esteem, camaraderie, and health among women. Most interaction with

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Jenny Schaztle doing her thing as the race’s official trainer

sponsors takes place at the finish line festival, for which this race is famous.

See, there is the race itself, and then there is the SIB after-party. The finish line festival is really just a pre-game for the official post-race after party, a wine night hosted by The Wayfarer hotel in the Funk Zone, which is included with race registration with an RSVP. The event includes a happy hour with a complimentary first glass of wine and cupcake pairings provided by Sugar Cat Studio, music and giveaways. For more “outer-beauty” fun, Aveda will be doing hair braids and there will be a handful of merchants to peruse as well. Also, there’s the effortlessly hip Wayfarer pool, and it’s open for use (smiley face emoticon).

Melissa says she never saw SIB as a business opportunity initially, but as the race became so rapidly popular, four years into the event she decided to quit her job and now manages the races, year-round events, and online store fulltime. Her sister Sara still works parttime as a physical therapist. As of now, the race has two locations (Santa Cruz and SB), and they hope to eventually have locations all along the coast.

Melissa also does speaking events throughout the year for a variety of events, carrying a message for women that dreams are not just possible, but

tangible and worthy of our attention and effort. When addressing a group of women at an event earlier this year, she spoke about making the race the purpose-driven success it is today: “The definition of purpose that I’ve held onto is: playing to your strengths for the greater good of the world.”

She encourages women to step up and pursue their desires, “With time and patience and lot of hard work, things sort themselves out.”

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Fermentation Festival participants doing a cultured vegetable class

being recognized as the naturally healthsupporting foods that they are. Today, most folks know about kombucha, sauerkraut, and cultured vegetables, to name the most popular products.

If fermentation was just a fad for novelty-seeking foodies, however, the craze would likely have already died.

The rise in popularity of these foods is due in large part to their powerful, lasting health benefits. The addition of fermented foods to the diet can help build and repopulate the gut with beneficial bacteria and microflora, strengthening the body’s ability to properly assimilate nutrients from food, as well as ward off illness in some cases. Fermented foods have in many instances aided people in overcoming an array of digestive health and even autoimmune issues. This was the case for Katie’s family as well.

I digress. At the 2011 Sonoma-based fermentation festival, Katie was blown away by the amount of inspiration and information offered and came home determined to get involved more deeply.

So that same year, Katie and her mother hosted their first fermentation workshop on Tom Shepherd’s farm in Carpinteria.

Their goal was to teach people about the health benefits of fermented foods and do demos, so that attendees could learn how to make fermented foods and beverages at home.

By any measure of a first-time, grass-roots event, their turnout of 75 people strong was a success. They made sourdough bread, sauerkraut, cultured veggies and pickles, and kombucha. “We chose Tom Shepherd’s farm because we wanted to use his organic produce in all the demonstrations,” Katie explains.

“Organic produce has beneficial bacteria on it that greatly enhances the fermentation process.” That is why the fermentation festival is and has been as much about the land and organic farming as it is about fermented food products.

After that first workshop, they realized they had created something that was of real value and interest to the community.

Within another year, they had outgrown Shepherd’s farm and realized they had a small festival on their hands, at which time they found partnership with Fairview Gardens Organic Farm, where

they had a happy home for the growing festival for another couple of years.

Finally, they have landed their dream venue, the Stow House at Rancho La Patera, a large avocado and citrus orchard established in the late 1800s that is now protected by the Goleta Valley Historical Society. Still family-run, this year’s festival is expected to attract 1,200 people on Sunday, September 11.

THE BIRTH OF CULTIVATE EVENTS Katie came to event planning already having plenty of experience from doing it at UCSB for years. From her work organizing the Fermentation Festival, she then got connected with others who wanted to do similar events within the realm of agriculture/food/organic farming. These business owners and organizers became her early client base.

She says that Cultivate Events is her dream business. “I wanted to do events that promoted local food and farming.”

So far, she has been able to make a fullblown career out of these niche events.

Through it, she is getting to follow her passion for educating people about local food and farms, and impacting lives in a positive way.

Katie tells the story of the night that she made the decision to start Cultivate Events: She and her family were having Sunday night dinner at Full of Life Flatbread. “I remember the food we were eating – oh, it was sooo good..”

(You know you’re talking to a die-hard foodie when they remember the meal they ate on a given day and time three years ago.) Katie’s parents told her that night to take the leap and start her own event business. “Now is the time,” they told me, “You need to follow your dreams.” (#parentenvy, anyone?)

Despite living her passion through her new business every day, she admits that event planning is stressful. “Event planning has been rated the fifth-most stressful job in the U.S.,“ she says, in her spirited yet matter-of-fact way.

To maintain work-life balance, she is adamant that her health comes first, and having overcome her own digestive health issues, a commitment to self-care is part of what fuels her to continue.

Integrity and commitment to her vision of a brighter, healthier future could also be said to be pillars of her brand. “I only take on projects I really believe in. My clients have to be on board with local food and farming. It needs to be an engaging, educational, and community-driven event.”

When asked what she has learned from this six-year process, Katie says, “Go after what your passionate about.

Do something that you truly love.”

Words of the wise.

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ON THE WALLS

MATT RODRIGUEZ

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his past First Thursday, we dipped in to check out the latest from Matt Rodriguez at his show at Underground Hair Studio, where a number of his latest works currently hang.

A born and bred Central Coast local, Rodriguez has cemented himself a staple in the Santa Barbara contemporary art community.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a young local painter who hasn’t heard of him, and if the name doesn’t ring a bell, his unmistakable aesthetic will. His signature style is one that moves easily from street art to the canvas and back again, and you’ve seen his work on both.

Always playful, Rodriguez has a methodical and deliberate work ethic, but his paintings and murals are constantly marked with child-like lyricism: think Keith Haring meets Jackson Pollock.

Working from his home studio and collaborating with some of our favorites in the Funk Zone like Gone Gallery and SBCAST, Rodriguez pumps out new work at an uncommon pace, so if you’ve missed a show or two, it’s time to play catch-up.

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situation,” she wrote. “One person also wrote to me that he actually moved into Patty Hearst’s apartment after she left/ was taken by the SLA! Another woman wrote to me that my story is ‘her story,’ except her father had an affair with a different ‘70s movie star. Yet another wrote that her father died in 1974 from a combination of cocaine and alcohol on Thanksgiving Day while listening to Bob Dylan... It pulled on a lot of people’s hearts.”

Who knew there were so many similarities to one person’s story? Sure, theater is supposed to be relatable, but Kiddo sure seems to have – if you’ll pardon a pun about a piece that features music as an integral part – struck a deeper chord.

Meanwhile, the band that provided that soundtrack – Mommy Tonk, the Los Angeles-based musical comedy duo of Shannon Noel and Stacie Burrows, who pride themselves for an ability to both blend harmonies and curse perfectly in a honky-tonk style – are coming back to town later this month for a show of their own. Mommy Tonk and The Assless Chaps, with special guest Wall of Tom, perform on Sunday, September 25, back at Center Stage.

And McGarry reports that the Plaza Playhouse Theater in Carpinteria has

slated a full production of the play for 2017, perhaps with McGarry back in the director’s chair, though another theater director has contacted her to talk it over. Write on!

On the Tale Trail Tales from the Tavern’s (TFTT) fall season gets underway this fortnight, a full slate of six shows in the umpteenth season of the singer-songwriter series staged at the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez. The lineup features both series veterans and newcomers, including a few who make their home outside of the United States.

Shows get underway Wednesday, September 21, with a co-bill featuring Peter Case – who, coincidentally not only played the first show for Sings Like Hell (SLH) at the Lobero back in 1996 but also gave the series its name – and Corky Siegel. The show is the first stop on Case’s fall tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of his first solo album, which was produced

by T-Bone Burnett (another Sings Like Hell veteran) and Mitchell Froom.

Chicago-based Siegel is one of the greats of blues and blues-rock music that came to prominence in the 1960s and ‘70s, when he was co-leader of the SiegelSchwall Band.

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PLANB by Briana Westmacott

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

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

KID, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS… OR AT LEAST CLIMB THEM!

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ed streaks shattered across my eyeballs. They matched the sunburned, wind-chapped color of my nose, lips, and entire face. My feet were ruined, much like every other muscle in my legs. It all ached, including my brain.

Each shot of pain prompted a smirk of pride. This is what Mt. Whitney gave me.

I thought of backing out more than once. I was warned, and often times belittled, about the idea of tackling such an endeavor. “Do you even know what you are doing?” “Have you trained enough?” “Are you ready?” “Are you crazy?” My typical response, “Of course!” and then I would retreat onto the Internet to continue to research the mountain and make sure that I did, in fact, know what I was doing.

Mt. Whitney is the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states. It rises 14,495 feet into the sky. The route to the top from the Whitney Portal side of the mountain is 22 miles round-trip. It begins at 8,000 feet, and for the first 11 miles you climb more than 6,000 feet.

To do the climb in one day (which I would not necessarily recommend) you must leave the trailhead by around 3:30 am.

With headlamps and high hopes, our group of four women set off to conquer the one-day Whitney trek on September second.

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41 years old. I figured, why not ascend in elevation and years? The Whitney hike is not something you can decide to do at the last minute. There is careful planning that goes into the journey.

First, you must have a permit, and this is not an easy undertaking (much like the trek itself ). My friend Ginny took care of this and all of the travel bookings seven months ahead of our departure.

We all had assigned duties and we all did our fair share of training… though I still had my personal doubts.

SOMETIMES IT TAKES A VILLAGE We were originally supposed to be six gals permitted to hike, but a week before departure, two dropped out. I get it; I was close to doing the same thing.

When my firefighter friend told me that I had better pack a space blanket in my gear, I panicked. Why would I need a space blanket? I wasn’t going to sleep out there on Whitney, but I heeded to his warning, and I made yet another trip to REI to purchase this precautionary item. I packed that emergency blanket in with my water filter, snacks, map, walking stick, boots, medical kit, and layers of clothing items. I felt tough just surveying my gear… or maybe not

tough enough! For goodness sake, why do I need a water filter for a hike?

Lone Pine is a little town at the foot of Mt. Whitney, approximately four hours from Santa Barbara. After we arrived to our Lone Pine hotel, we headed up to the mountain to scout the trailhead and hopefully acclimate to the higher elevation. One of the first people we encountered was a Search and Rescue volunteer heading out to help someone.

(This was definitely not something you want to see, first thing!) A woman had broken her ankle and needed to be carried down off the trail. Along with this, we saw a couple of other people coming off the mountain describing their altitude sickness and where they were forced to turn around. These were not promising outcomes, but they weren’t ours and the group kept optimistic.

Our plan was to go to bed as early as possible since the 3 am alarm was set.

Sleep did not prove successful for me.

I was continuing to panic, as I doubted my physical capabilities. It took me hours to finally drift off, and the ringing of the alarm came what felt like minutes later.

My gear was ready (even if I thought my body was not). We loaded up the car and drove through the inky night to the base of the mountain. The stars above shone bright with no moon in sight. Those first hours were dark, but we felt great: deer were all over the trail having their breakfast; the sun came up and kept us entertained by reflecting off of Mirror Lake; Trailside Meadow’s greenery dazzled us with color and life.

And then things began to shift.

The plant life turned to dusted rock as we approached the dreaded 99 switchbacks. Yes, there are in fact 99 of them as you climb from 12,000 feet to 13,777 feet. It’s brutal, really, for two miles you go back and forth straight up the side of Trail Crest. Our group decided to use music for this section, so we plugged our ears with inspiration and we trudged on. People turned around in front of us (big, burly, mountain men, to be exact) and headed back down.

This is when I finally started to believe in my physical capability; we were going to make it up to the summit!

It took us nine hours to get to the top of Whitney. The final two hours at 13,500 feet through the Needles were a head game. For 1.9 miles we watched even more people turn around, all while being so close to the summit. The altitude really comes into play in this section. As we stumbled over shale rock and through skinny trails with drop-offs on either side, our legs felt weighted to the ground.

The adrenaline rush at the summit was like no other. This truly was on top

of the world, at least the contiguous United States. There was a sense of camaraderie from fellow hikers who had achieved the feat. Even as the wind burned our faces and our feet throbbed, we felt strong and powerful as we highfived others who had made it, too. I signed the book at the summit in honor of my late father-in-law, who hiked many, many mountains. We also made a dedication for our friend who is battling cancer. It was a beautiful moment; little did we know that we still had six hours left to get back to the bottom.

The route down was painful. There were moments of pride, but they were fleeting and quickly overtaken by the urgency to get the hell off the mountain.

It was during this time I began to parallel the experience to child labor and at one point could be quoted saying, “I would never recommend this to anyone!” It was also during this time that I realized the power of our group. When one person would begin to slip into delusion, someone was always there to encourage them to go on. I was lucky to have these women by my side.

I wouldn’t tell many people (or basically anyone for that matter) to do all of Whitney in one day. That was crazy and maybe a little dangerous, especially if you are not prepared. But there are two-day permits with camping halfway up available, and this would be the way to do it. You just have to carry all of your gear in and out.

I was humbled by Whitney’s ruggedness. There has been no other time in my life when I submerged myself that deep into nature, far from the reach of modern society (or help for that matter). While our group didn’t encounter bad weather, or sickness, or injury, Whitney has made those who did experience these setbacks turn around and go home. It’s a good reminder that none of us can control Mother Nature.

For me, Whitney was testimony of the strength that I have within my freshly 42-year-old legs, body, and mind. And most of all, it made me realize just what you can accomplish when you have a good friend at your side.

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must have made at least five trips to REI while packing and planning for this Whitney expedition. Each time, I was approached by overly helpful REI staff members who educated me about elements of backcountry hiking that I was clueless to. They were kind and patient, and we are lucky to have such a resource in Santa Barbara. Hit up REI for any and everything outdoorsy: www.rei.com/

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by jacquelyn De Longe

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

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ature photography captures, in one moment, the beauty of the world around us. Here, in Santa Barbara, the vast Pacific that hugs our coast line and reaches for the horizon is a wonder all its own. The ocean is an everchanging subject, and no one has captured it as distinctly as surf photographer Seth de Roulet. His close-up, fast-action, and abstract images showcase the power, beauty, and solidarity of the sea. Traveling the world chasing waves, de Roulet’s highly sought after photography has graced the covers of familiar publications, such as Surfer Magazine, DEEP, and Newsweek. He has also worked with big names Fuel TV, Surfline, Quicksilver, Hurley, and Patagonia.

I stumbled upon de Roulet’s popup exhibition, Twenty @ seventeen, downtown on Carrillo off of State in a temporary space titled A.R.T. (nextdoor to Roy’s). The minimal gallery has a desk at the door and large prints face mounted to acrylic. The images of the ocean were stunning (though, as a surfer, I’m a sucker for a wave) with perspective, depth, and energy that draw you in. It takes a special eye to capture that aweinspiring moment, especially in the everchanging and unpredictable sea.

De Roulet was enthusiastic to share about this recent project.

Q. Your work is so widely seen in magazines, and it seems like you are constantly traveling. What was the draw to put on a one-man photography exhibition?

A. I spent last winter shooting exclusively for Surfing Magazine, and they had me running up and down the coast for four months straight. There were so many swells last winter with

the El Niño storm pattern that the amount of great images that never ran was overwhelming. I wanted to share them and I decided to do a book, 100 pages of Central Coast surfing, waves, and culture, and the gallery show was to highlight the extra-special moments.

Also, my wife and I were expecting our second child in late August, and there was no way I was going to miss that, so I told my clients I couldn’t travel for a few months. I am not the kind of person who can sit around doing nothing, so the gallery gave me a great outlet to keep working but stay close to home.

How did you get into photography? Surf photography specifically?

I have been into photography since I was a little kid. I was introduced to the darkroom, where I fell in love with the process and knew I wanted to pursue photography as a career. I went on to study at Brooks Institute of Photography.

While there, I discovered shooting water photography and after seeing the way light refracts and reflects off waves, I was hooked. In my opinion, it is the most technical and hardest form of photography to produce. You have to stay composed and think photographically while two to four stories of water are crashing down on your head. You literally put your life on the line to get the shot, and I love every second of it.

Who are some of the photographers/ artists you admire?

There are so many amazing photographers that inspire me. J. Grant Brittain was my original inspiration. His work was the first time I understood emotion in images, and to this day my

favorite shot of all time is his image of Todd Swank pushing down the sidewalk.

In the surf world, I am in awe of where Zak Noyle, Brent Bielmann, Daniel Russo, and Russell Ord are pushing the limits of what’s possible.

You are out there floating in water – any wild stories?

I am out there with my camera and a pair of swim fins. Early last February, I had one of the scarier moments of my career. I was swimming on a big day, shooting fisheye where the goal is to get about three feet away from your subject in the barrel. I was swimming into position to line up with my subject when the wave shifted and looked like it was going to clamp down on the surfer before he reached me. So I made the decision to bail on the shot and swim under the wave, to avoid getting pounded by it. The surfer ended up making it a lot farther than I had anticipated before he wiped out. The wave then picked him up and slammed him right down on the back of my head, knocking me out underwater. I woke up under water and was extremely disoriented. After a split-second of panic, I rolled into a ball and forced myself to relax. I knew I had already been under water for a while and needed a breath soon. So I did my best to figure out which way was up, and luckily I guessed right. I was rattled for

a few days after, but things could have ended a lot worse.

What is the most exciting shoot you have been on?

Any day the waves are over 30 feet is beyond exciting and too hard to compare them, because they all have their special moments.

Where around the world have you traveled?

The last time I counted, I was right around 30 countries that I have traveled to. Most recently I was in Australia and Nicaragua.

What type of other photography/art are you interested in?

If it’s my own work, I love everything travel-oriented, from people to landscapes, but my real passion is everything action-based. I love motion and the pressure of knowing you only get one chance to nail the image.

Be sure to catch Seth de Roulet’s show, Twenty @ seventeen, downtown on Carrillo off of State in a temporary space titled A.R.T. (next-door to Roy’s), before it’s gone at the end of the month. The closing party is September 23. Surf ’s up!

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of Railay West Beach. We kayaked out to other beaches by the rocks; there are even some little beach areas to kayak to that have nobody else around. There are no cars on Railay, which is such a nice thing because there is not as much pollution in the water and on land. The air is much cleaner, too. The water is also a greenish-blue color that is very clear.

Elliana Westmacott was born and raised in Santa Barbara. She is 10. She loves to play the piano and soccer. Skiing, swimming in the ocean, reading, and visiting her Nana’s house are some of her favorite things to do. Her family and her dog George make her happy. So does writing.

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wenty-five days, almost a month in Thailand. Before we left, 25 days sounded like we were going to be in Thailand forever. It’s amazing, how fast it all went by.

All the sunny days and stormy nights; all the fun activities like fishing and playing card games; all the once-ina-lifetime opportunities like riding motorcycles and elephants through rivers. Even just going to Thailand was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

One of my favorite spots was in Pai (pronounced “Bye”), where we stayed at a place called Bueng Pai Farm. Our friends had come to Thailand before and suggested that we go to the farm. They said it was one of their favorite places that they visited, and they traveled the whole world on that trip.

When I first got to Bueng Pai Farm, I didn’t see what was so great about it.

I mean, if you’re not a nature person, then it might not be the best place for

My sister and I on Railay Beach

My freckle-faced friend! Don’t worry, she may look like she is crying, but elephants don’t have tear ducts, so they always have teary-looking eyes.

you. But after I settled in, I wouldn’t have wanted to stay anywhere else.

When I first saw our cabin, I was still not impressed, but after sleeping in it for a night, I loved Bueng Pai Farm.

They only have about eight little cabin

rooms that sit on a private lake. In the rooms, they have big, silk nets that hang from the ceiling and spread out over the bed. To me, it was like a big fort made of silk.

I first learned how to play Cribbage at Bueng Pai Farm and it is now my favorite card game. My second time playing, I would have beat my dad who has been playing for years, but his turn was before mine. If only the rules were that youngest always goes first!

I’ve talked a lot about Pai; it is my favorite place that we went to in the north of Thailand, but now I’m going to talk about my favorite place in the southern part of Thailand: Railay Beach.

We stayed at a hotel on Railay West Beach called Railay Village Resort. In my opinion, it was an amazing place.

You can literally walk out onto the beach from the restaurant.

There are huge rocks on either side

MONKEYING AROUND I could really go on and on about all the places we went like Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Phuket, and so much more.

I also got to spend my 11th birthday on Phi Phi Island in Thailand. It was very different from having a birthday at home… a lot better. I had a big breakfast, went snorkeling, and did lots of swimming in pools.

I’ve got to say that the funniest and weirdest thing that happened to me in Thailand was when I was doing my math summer workbook on our hotel balcony eating an apple, and out of nowhere a monkey jumped on the table and took the apple from my hand! It was scary at first. Just imagine, looking up from your work and there in front of you, standing on your math, is a monkey! He was staring at me, and then he took my apple and leaped away. This has to be the coolest thing that has ever happened to me.

Thailand is so different from Europe, Mexico, and the United States. I guess I expected it to be a little more like Europe. Travel days were hard, but they were worth it. You have to travel far for great places.

Love, E

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By Elizabeth Rose

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

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iving on a sailboat brings all kinds of internal challenges to the surface. For one, this is the first time in my life I am living with a man. My independent nature, mixed with traditional values from my conservative American family, have contributed to my complete novice-ness in the realm of “living in sin.” But the journey of making our boat a home has been a curious pleasure, and the transition is met with inherent comfort.

Maneuvering around the cabin (the enclosed compartment or room), squeezing past each other in the galley (kitchen), snuggling in the V-birth (a bed which is shaped like “V” due to its placement at the bow – or front – of the boat), and working in tandem and separate on various projects has a natural flow, as if we’ve been in rhythm for years. One giant detail which has my insecurities twitching like a coked-out rabbit is finances. The lyrics of Pink Floyd’s “Money” have inadvertently become my morning mantra.

Since embarking on a sailor-ly life, many (if not all) conveniences and daily routines have been modified. The usual sunrise yoga into meditation practice into coffee and breakfast with a dash of The New York Times or Los Angeles Times has been replaced with modest stretches in bed into coffee and breakfast with my lover into organizing, fixing, and cleaning, and meditating when I remember I forgot.

These days, mornings are fast. There is so much work to be done before we launch to sea, there is no time for “past life” routines. And that’s more than okay. I didn’t expect, or want, life to be the same. This is the point. But my relationship to cash flow taunts me. Sharing money. Not having my own steady income. Becoming dependent. On a man.

My partner works his ass off commercial fishing salmon in Alaska each summer (think sleep deprivation and back-breaking grinds 24/7). Fishermen can make a full salary in three months’ time. Some years, thanks to economic BS, they don’t make a lick. But this summer, my sweetheart filled the kitty and invited me along for the ride.

“So… you would be supporting us both. I can bring in money for food or whatever through writing, but not on a consistent basis. Are you sure you’re okay with this?”

“Yes! I’ve planned for this my entire life. Bring in what you can and we’ll put it toward savings. There’s no time like the present. Let’s do it!”

After marinating on the prospective future of a new life – and a complete opposite way of looking at the world than I’ve had over my 34 and a half years of existence – I took the plunge.

One of the major desires for this alternative lifestyle is to release the ego. That bastard has been haunting me since birth and, as you may know, the ego’s good at misinterpreting what is of substantial importance. If I’m being honest, my previous life boosted that mo-fo to another level. I loved my former job and the incredible opportunities I had because of it. Tons of perks, new learning experiences on the reg, meeting new people, and a bad-ass job title to go with it.

But the social media rat race propelled a narcissistic view of other people’s perceptions. And it sucked a big fatty. “Likes” and comments, correct hashtags, and emoji combos... what would life be like if the weight of a perfect Instagram post ceased to exist? I imagine space for further soul-searching, free of this technological popularity contest. But for me, it comes at a cost. The cost of a bi-weekly paycheck.

I’ve always been funny about money, and it seems this is the time in my life where I am to face that green demon. Many women jump at the chance to be financially supported. I wrestle with the feelings of a helpless child asking for allowance. I have a bit of savings, but overall the bank account we are reliant on is not my own. As my friend put it, I need to value my contributions as I would for hourly pay. My sweetheart and I are a team now, and we rely on each other for more than fulfillments of the heart and sexual pleasure.

So now, as I type this from the galley bench, clutching a warm cup of English Breakfast and waiting for homemade soup to be ready, I embrace a new vision of financial un-dependence. My concept of money and work is shifting. And selfworth is following suit.

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

70TH ANNUAL LOS ALAMOS OLD DAYS

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panish for “the cottonwoods” that line the stream banks running through the valley, Los Alamos is located approximately 50 miles north of Santa Barbara at the intersection of US Highway 101 and State Route 135. On September 23 through 25, the 1,890 residents in the historic Old West town of Los Alamos will gather together to honor, preserve, and celebrate the town’s authentic Western heritage with a car show, peddler’s mart, chili cook-off, silent auction, and parade.

Admission is free all weekend; there will be food vendors, a fun play zone for kids, and an ongoing tri-tip barbecue.

The main thoroughfare is Bell Street, and though only seven small rural blocks long, it flaunts the town’s history and style with the 1880 Union Hotel – a Victorianstyle bed and breakfast, art galleries, antique shops, tasting rooms, Bedford Winery, Babi’s Beer Emporium, and a bundle of restaurants including Bob’s Well Bread Bakery, Full of Life Flatbread, Bell Street Farm Eatery and Market, and Pico.

Los Alamos became a stagecoach stop in 1876, and by 1882 it hosted a depot for the narrow-gauge Pacific Coast Railway that linked San Luis Obispo and Los Olivos. It is now the only surviving depot of the Pacific Coast Railway and currently houses the Depot Antique Mall.

By 1901, the Southern Pacific Railroad built a wider-gauge line that bypassed Los Alamos and the smaller railway couldn’t compete. It finally shut down in 1938, and Los Alamos became somewhat “frozen in time,” preserving much of the charm and atmosphere of a bygone era.

This three-day festival attracts more than 5,000 visitors to historical downtown on Bell Street, and this year’s parade theme is “Celebrating Our Community.” Here is the lineup: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 OLD DAYS CHILI KICK-OFF PARTY Featuring chili by several local businesses and Los Alamos Valley Men’s Club members, enjoy chili, corn bread, and all the fixings for a tasty festival kickoff. Nohost full bar. Chili cook-off winner will be announced.

When: 6 to 8 pm (or till the food runs out!)

Where: LAVMC, 429 Leslie Street in Los Alamos.

Cost: $7 per bowl at the door FESTIVAL DANCE T Richard Diaz Band at the Men’s Club (21 and over) When: 8 to 11 pm Where: LAVMC, 429 Leslie Street in Los Alamos Cost: $10 per person at the door SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 PANCAKE BREAKFAST Prepared by and proceeds going to the Los Alamos Jr. Grange When: 7 to 10:30 am Where: On the patio at the Men’s Club Cost: $10 for adults, $6 children under 12 PEDDLERS MART AND FOOD BOOTHS When: 9 am to 5 pm Where: All along Bell Street CAR SHOW When: 9 am to 3 pm Where: All along Bell Street TRI -TIP BEEF SANDWICH BARBECUE & BEER GARDEN AND MUSIC Cold drinks and shaded tables available When: 11:30 am to 3:30 pm Where: On the patio at the Men’s Club Cost: Sandwich $8 (chips and drinks sold separately)

OLD DAYS “HAPPY HOUR” AND SILENT AUCTION When: 5:30 to 8 pm Where: Held at the Men’s Club Cost: Sandwich $8 (chips and drinks sold separately) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 NON-DENOMINATIONAL WORSHIP SERVICE, LED BY REV. WARREN EINOLANDER When: 9:30 to 10:15 am Where: Ferrini Park across from Babi’s Beer Emporium Cost: Sandwich $8 (chips and drinks sold separately) PEDDLERS MART AND FOOD BOOTHS When: 9 am to 5 pm Where: All along Bell Street LOS ALAMOS OLD DAYS STAMPEDE 5K RUN/WALK Awards in five divisions (Male & Female – 10 & under, 11-19; 20-39; 40-59 and 60+). Proceeds benefit Cal Swoosh Sports, a non-profit organization providing sports opportunities for youth.

When: 9:30 to 10:30 am Where: Meet in Ferrini Park Cost: $20 per runner GREATEST LITTLE SMALL TOWN PARADE When: 11 am to 12:15 pm Where: Starts at Bell Street (HWY 135) & Augusta Street and continues west down Bell Street, ending at St. Joseph Street.

FAMOUS LAVMC TRI-TIP BARBECUE AND LIVE MUSIC Enjoy the fixins including beans, bread, salad, & salsa (drinks sold separately).

When: 12:15 to 3 pm Where: On the patio at the Men’s Club Cost: $10 adults, $8 seniors age 55+ and kids 10 & under

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

INTERNATIONAL GRENACHE DAY renache is the dominant variety in most Southern Rhône wines, especially in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, where it is typically more than 80 percent of the blend.

It is one of the most widely planted red wine grape varieties in the world. Santa Barbara County boasts a group of proud Grenache growers, including Kaena Wine Company who invites wine goers to celebrate this specific wine varietal under the stars at J. Woeste – a botanical treasure-packed oasis.

When: Friday, September 16, from 6 to 9 pm Where: At the corner of Alamo Pintado Ave. and Nojoqui in downtown Los Olivos Cost: $40 per Grenache lover Info: www.kaenawine.com

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BRING IN THE U.S. AIR FORCE BAND anish Days is a lively cultural heritage event, as well as a dynamic slice of Americana. This year, the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West, Galaxy, returns to entertain festivalgoers with rock, pop, and country hits. The band will be appropriately stationed next to the Viking Beer and Wine Garden, and scheduled to burst into a patriotic Top 40 performance immediately following the parade with master sergeant Denny Pack on lead guitar and vocals and staff sergeant Megan May on vocals. In addition, 88 citizen airmen comprising members of the 216th Space Control Squadron and the 101st Squadron Civil Air Patrol will be volunteering to assist in the parade.

When: Sunday, September 17, from 3:30 to 4:30 pm Where: Downtown Solvang at the Midgaard Pavillion Stage in Parking Lot 2 Cost: Free Info: www.solvangusa.com

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7TH ANNUAL VINTAGE TRAILER BASH ore than 150 vintage travel trailers from California and the West Coast gather for a fun weekend in Buellton; 175 spots fill up fast with classic campers flaunting pre-1980 trailers and motorhomes.

When: Friday, September 23, through Sunday, September 25. Trailers are open for public viewing 11 am to 3 pm on Saturday Where: Flying Flags RV Resort & Campground, 180 Avenue of the Flags in Buellton Info: www.vintagetrailercamp.com

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