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BUYING IN SANTA BARBARA A coterie of writers, observers, opinion makers, and real estate agents take a close look at the current state of the housing market in this, the best of all possible small cities (see pages 12, 14, 19, 22, 34, 36)

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ade in SB – Chantal Peterson supplies the backstory about Parker M Clay, a purveyor of leather goods from Ethiopia, and business owners Ian and Brittany Bentley The Capitalist – Pick your poison? Jeff Harding dislikes both

presidential candidates but thinks Hillary Clinton won their first debate.

State Street Scribe – Jeff Wing sits in a chair and stares into the middle distance. Whence Henry Mancini?

Beer Guy – It’s a tall order on the table, but Zach Rosen dishes on some of Santa Barbara’s best haunts for combining beers and dining out Real Estate Snapshot – Realtor Kelly Mahan explains the Santa Barbara market, why buyers hesitate every four years (think election), snowbirds descending, big deals, beachside picks, and ocean-view opportunities Business Beat – Chantal Peterson has the scoop on Compass, a technology-driven real estate platform that has staked its claim as Montecito’s new “it” agency On Real Estate – By the numbers, Steve Decker surveys the marketing scene, citing numbers about the middle class to dissect California properties Berry Man – Cory Clark takes a seasonal approach, serving up Cinderella pumpkins, Baby Sugar Pie, red kuri squash, and persimmon Cause & Effect – Chantal Peterson tips her cap to real estate agent Neil Zimmerman, who is pledging to donate all of his commission to Cottage Children’s Medical Center Fortnight – Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention & Festival; John Sebastian; The Mersey Beatles and Julia Baird; The Moving Wall at Chase Palm Park; Van Morrison at SB Bowl; Ian Anderson at the Arlington; and “When the Lights Go out” with Kerrilee Gore at Lobero Art Beat – Jacquelyn De Longe is going, going to Gone Gallery, which is on Gray Avenue’s canvas in the Funk Zone, where Sky Gwilliam’s work is showcased SB Digs – Seeking a well-preserved downtown condo? Chantal Peterson recommends that you darken the door of Villa Anacapa at 1701 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara Living – From east to west it’s a seller’s market, writes Michael Phillips, but soon “caveat emptor” might be uttered less often as inventory will prove challenging Creative Characters – Zach Rosen shines his light on calligraphy queen Leslee Sipress, whose career is also a way of life I Heart SB – Come sail away with me: Elizabeth Rose navigates the ominous weather around Seattle before pondering a practice run known as a “shakedown cruise.”

Holistic Deliberation – Allison Antoinette returns to the fold and shapes up with 5 W AYFIT, which offers a six-week membership courtesy of fitness guru Kayla Johnson Backstage Pass with Alonzo King – The choreographer of his eponymous LINES ballet prepares for the Granada on Saturday, October 8 Encore with Cyndi Lauper SYV Snapshot – Eva Van Prooyen previews Rollermania in Solvang; Rails N Wine; Evening in the Country; Chumash Culture Day; Faeriefest; Real Men Cook; and Wine & Chips

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by Chantal Peterson

Parker Clay – New for-purpose

brand opens a storefront in downtown SB, offering artisanal leather goods hand-made in Ethiopia.

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ew businesses in today’s world have to be purpose-driven if they want to compete effectively. It’s just not enough anymore just to want to make it in America, there’s gotta be some heart and soul in it, too. With so many brands to choose from, consumers are more inclined to support businesses that have a positive impact, and a cause-based mission behind what they are doing and why. For many businesses starting from the ground-up, this is a tall order in a post-recession economic climate that doesn’t make it easy for start-ups and small businesses to thrive. But for some, like the dynamic couple behind the brand Parker Clay, a purveyor of handcrafted leather goods made in Ethiopia, the mission the business supports is the catalyst for business itself.

Parker Clay recently celebrated its grand opening and is open for business at its new store front on Anacapa Street, just across from the courthouse in downtown Santa Barbara.

GROWING A FAMILY, GROWING A BUSINESS Back in 2008, after the birth of their first two children, Ian and Brittany Bentley, owners of Parker Clay decided to look into adoption, something that the couple had always been passionate about.

After a lot of research, they learned that some of the greatest need in the world for adoption was in Ethiopia, and thus decided to adopt from there. In 2010, they met their little girl, Selah, for the first time while in Ethiopia, and it was on that trip that they saw first-hand the

The Bentley family in Ethiopia

vast needs, but also saw great potential. It was then in 2011 that they hopped on a plane with one-way tickets to Africa with their two boys, Parker and Clayton, in tow (after whom the brand is named), and then traveled to the town in Ethiopia where the little girl they were going to adopt was from.

In addition to falling in love with the newest addition to their family, Ian and Brittany fell for Ethiopia itself: the people, the culture, and its communities.

On their second trip back, when they returned to pick Selah up and bring her back to the U.S., they started to ask around and learn more about what the

community needs were; ultimately they felt compelled to help.

“Ian began reaching out and talking to people, and what they told him is that the greatest need was for jobs,” says Brittany. She said that people told them to come (to Ethiopia) with a direct purpose that could benefit the locals economically. The young family ended taking the huge leap and moving to Ethiopia, driven by the desire to make a difference in the larger community their child was from. They started by helping out with a friend’s nonprofit, ...continued p.38

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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.

Who Won the Debate?

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f I were Hillary Clinton, I would wake up every morning and be thankful that my opponent is Donald Trump. If Trump were more likable than she, her poll numbers would drop like a rock. Fortunately for her, Trump, according to voter sentiment, stinks more than she. The Real Clear Politics average favorability rating for Hillary is -10.9 while Trump is -19.8.

I watched the first debate last week and was quite surprised. Before I make the next statement, I want to make it clear that I am not voting for either candidate; I dislike both of them equally based on their stated policies. More on that in a later column.

But, it was clear that Hillary won the debate.

Let’s face it – debates aren’t going to shake the core constituency of either candidate. Each side sees the results through their own rose-colored glasses.

Interviews I saw with Trump supporters thought he “destroyed” Hillary.

Clinton supporters were perhaps less vituperative, but they thought she won, hands down.

I watched it with my brother, who was visiting us. He hates Hillary. Not wild about Trump but will vote for him. Even he thought Hillary had won.

What surprised me about the debate is that Donald couldn’t keep the lid on who he really is. Everyone on the Republican side has been begging the guy to start appearing “presidential” – which is to say, being calmer, reasoned, and able to articulate policies. He just couldn’t do it. Instead, we got The Donald, the superficial hit man who wanders all over the board on issues, who can’t seem to focus his thoughts and has no depth in policy. And says words like “bigly.”

Trump had plenty of one-liners and snappy retorts, but he said nothing of real substance. He mentioned cutting corporate taxes and reducing federal regulation which is all good, but that’s about it. But he banged the anti-free trade NAFTA drum over and over all night, as if that’s all that matters to voters.

Hillary has been trapped into appearing anti-free trade because of the other ignoramus, Bernie Sanders, but it’s clear from her record she supports trade deals.

Free trade, especially NAFTA, has been a boon for America. There are few economists who are anti-free trade except for the incompetent one Trump hired and some labor union hacks. Increased trade means prosperity. And jobs.

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Even liberal economist Paul Krugman agrees on this point. As a result of NAFTA, trade has increased tremendously and Canada and Mexico are now our biggest trade partners. U.S. employment has gone up, not down.

Exports to Canada and Mexico have increased by almost 400 percent, creating American jobs (5 million, according to some estimates). Imports create jobs, too.

Hillary, on the other hand, appeared calm, cool, and collected, and presidential. She was upbeat, able to articulate policy, and was able to respond to Trump’s one-line bombs. I don’t need to go into this too much, but she was prepared. I’ve criticized her policies enough in recent columns, so I don’t need to get into it here other than to say her Progressive solutions to problems that don’t exist will achieve the opposite of what she intends.

Is she worse than Trump policy-wise? That’s a tough one. My take: Hillary will run the economy into the ground slowly, like Obama. Trump, if he abrogates our free trade deals and deports millions of Latino workers, will trigger a depression.

Hillary will run the economy into the ground slowly Trump’s lack of preparation for the debate tells me that he is not a serious candidate. He has been living off of his one-liners and falsification of free trade issues which, unfortunately, have a constituency in America. He is, when it comes to policy, an ignorant man, unable to grasp the details of what he promotes, which is why he does not/cannot articulate his policies beyond his punchlines. Trump is a dangerous candidate because we have no clue what he will really do.

Hillary has two more chances to win the race: the presidential debates on Sunday, October 9, and Thursday, October 19. After that, at least in normal election cycles, the polls will be pretty well baked in.

Even so, Trump still may win. No matter what Hillary does, she can’t seem to distance herself from Trump. He shoots off his mouth and still polls in high numbers. She articulates policy, spends like crazy, and can’t seem to gain on him. This tells us something about how our fellow citizens see politics, politicians, and Washington. They see, mistakenly, that Trump is a breath of fresh air who will change things. He won’t. They see Hillary, accurately, as old news, stale, and compromised.

At last reading, Hillary came out of the debate with a 2.5 percent poll advantage over Donald. If Trump repeats his performance in the next debates, Hillary has a chance. But polls are tricky things and have not been as reliable in recent elections, so we have no idea who will be our next president. But you can count one on thing: both will be bad for America.

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by Jeff Wing

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

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n the ’80s, they revived The Twilight Zone for a little while. The new series wasn’t as stridently dreadinducing as Rod Serling’s original, and the voice-over guy sounded more like a murmuring dentist than the Dark Master of Blood-Freezing Irony.

But the show had its moments. The episode that always stuck with me was one called Wordplay. It starred the comic Robert Klein in a straight role, as a medical device salesman whose world slowly goes buggy as people begin talking gibberish. The radio, the newspapers, nothing makes any sense.

They’re using ordinary English words, but jumbling them.

By the end of the episode, he can’t understand what anyone is saying, and everyone looks at him in confusion and horror as he speaks what to the viewer sounds like ordinary English.

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world gone inexplicably mad, and he panics.

I was trying to explain to my daughter and her friend the other day that back in the ’70s, telephones were colored plastic boxes screwed mercilessly to the wall, the large plastic receiver connected to it by a long spiral cord. If you took the cord away, no sound would come out of the phone. You couldn’t carry the cordless receiver around the house and expect anything to happen. It was just dead plastic without the cord.

(There are only so many ways to say this, but it bears repeating.) It wasn’t as if teenage girls of yore didn’t talk on the phone. Patty Duke could be in her room for hours, the spiral cord snaking out through the space under her bedroom door. Just look at the Cyndi Lauper video. All those girls in ...continued p.50

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hile there are many settings that beer goes well with, it is on the dining table that beer feels most at home. Whether it is a quick lunch on the weekend or grabbing dinner with friends, there are increasingly more opportunities in Santa Barbara for diners to have a great meal alongside great beer.

Here are a few locations to look into the next time you are planning on dining out:

Beer and Basil at Barbareño Located on the corner of De La Vina and Canon Perdido, Barbareño is a little off of the beaten path but still centrally located, making it a nice location for a date night or when you are looking for a more intimate setting. It has a warm, contemporary interior with soft, low lighting and modern Central Coast cuisine. While the beer selection is not enormous, it is well-rounded and consists of several bottles and rotating taps. Many of the beers there are food-friendly and work well with their intricate dishes such as Channel Sea Urchin. The delicate pieces of urchin come on top of a squid ink cappellini with black garlic,

Zach Rosen is a Certified Cicerone® and beer educator living in Santa Barbara. He uses his background in chemical engineering and the arts to seek out abstract expressions of beer and discover how beer pairs with life.

enoki mushroom, and chili adorning the dish. Modern Times Black House Coffee Stout makes a perfect pairing for the plate. It is light enough to not overwhelm the sea urchin and has a roasted character that melds with the briny, earthiness of the dish.

For an enthralling end to the meal try the Basil Ice Cream with Pêche Affaire from Third Window Brewing Co. Small mounds of house-made ice cream are placed atop lemon curd and garnished with candied pine nuts and Thai basil seeds. The perfume of basil rises from the dessert and laces its ...continued p.42

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REAL ESTATE SNAPSHOT

by Kelly Mahan

Kelly is a licensed realtor with the Calcagno & Hamilton team and Berkshire Hathaway. She can be reached at Kelly@homesinsantabarbara.com or at (805) 565-4000.

Understanding Our Local Market

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ith fewer buyers buying and more sellers putting their homes on the market, a subtle lull in the Santa Barbara area real estate market can be felt among most price points. Ask market experts to explain this, and they’ll likely tell you this feels vaguely familiar to what happened four years ago, and four years before that… and four years before that.

Typically, an upcoming presidential election decreases buyers’ confidence, and in this year’s case, with the extremely polarizing candidates we see vying for the Oval Office, it’s understandable that people want to hold onto their money until after the election, when it may be more clear which economic direction we’re being taken in.

A market comparison of last year versus this year shows fewer transactions in the last several months, with a year-to-date number of transactions at 1170 (through August), in comparison to 1364 (through August) in 2015.

With 303 new listings coming on the Santa Barbara MLS in September – which accounts for homes listed from Goleta to Carpinteria, and a handful of out-ofarea listings – we’re seeing an increase from September of last year. This too can be attributed to the election, with some sellers hoping to liquidate their assets or make top dollar for their homes, fearing the market may dip depending on who is elected in November.

What does this mean for buyers who are actually eager to buy and hoping to spend the holidays in their new digs? It means they may have more bargaining power than earlier this year. We’re seeing many more price drops from sellers in an effort to sell, but those price drops are smaller than they’ve been historically, which tells us some sellers may be unrealistic about the current market value of their homes. There has been a steady decrease in “sold price to original list price” ratio since March. In September, that ratio was 93.6%, meaning that the average home

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sale in Santa Barbara was 93.6% of its original list price. We haven’t seen that low of a number in years; that tells us sellers are pricing their homes higher than the market dictates and are ultimately selling for less.

Regarding home prices, we saw a slight decrease in the average price in Santa Barbara’s south county in August (market stats for September are still a few days away), a -4% change from $1,282,022 in August 2015 to $1,234,202 in August of this year. More drastic is the decrease in average sales price from the beginning of this year: in January, the average sales price was $1,728,102. This may be explained by the tumultuous U.S. election as noted above, or financial factors that occurred outside the country (think “BREXIT” this summer).

Getting Ready for Snowbirds Post-election, expect an influx of out-of-town buyers trying to escape the cold from other parts of the country. Also known as snowbirds, they flock here every winter; maybe they are one storm away from realizing they don’t want to shovel snow anymore, or maybe they are visiting family for the holidays and have come to the easy realization that they don’t ever want to leave Santa Barbara.

Regardless of how they get here, they leave their mark on our real estate markets.

If sellers can remain patient through the election and holidays, they have a better chance at selling at their preferred price, and snowbirds and other buyers will likely see many more homes come on the market, come January.

Deals to be Had Buyers looking to get the most for their money may be best-suited buying in the fall and winter, according to data listed by Realtor.com. Nationally, home prices tend to peak in the summer months, when families are willing to pay a premium for the convenience of moving between school years. Prices dip in the fall and are lowest in the winter, when sellers know buyers tend to stay away from major purchases and moves during the holiday season.

Inventory is also historically lowest in the winter, and locally we see January and February showing the lowest inventory (668 and 686 active listings in the Santa Barbara MLS, respectively) compared to the September inventory of 1,011. We tell buyers that if they can get past the lack of selection, they can potentially find a deal, and some sellers may be willing to take less for their home.

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ince Compass, a technologydriven real estate platform, opened its doors in Montecito in early 2016, their popularity has spread like wildfire and put them on the map as the areas newest “it agency” – and they are taking the local market by storm. Word on the street is that Compass is the fastestgrowing real estate brand in the country.

Compass landed in their Montecito office at 1283 Coast Village Circle (the former site of the now-closed Orfalea Foundation) and grew so fast, they had to quickly add more space across the street at 1280 Coast Village Circle.

Compass also has a lease on 1101 Coast Village Road near Butterfly Lane.

According to John Nisbet, a 30-year veteran of the real estate industry who manages Montecito and Santa Barbara locations, Compass is also taking a plot in downtown Santa Barbara and eyeing an office space on Upper State Street.

All this is to say: looks as if Compass is playing for keeps.

At the Montecito offices, they currently have 25 agents and six fulltime staff (and growing), with more than $170 million in current listings and reported $77M in sales already (that includes a combo of buyer and seller representation).

The company’s success is of little surprise, with a core team hailing from numerous industries and all experts in their fields. The founders bring diverse yet complimentary skills to the table: Ori Allon, a talented technologist who started and sold companies to Google and Twitter, and Robert Reffkin, a

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The agents at Compass come to the agency for a variety of reasons, one of the most prominent being that the brokerage utilizes top-notch new technology that offers customized marketing support said to “make the process of buying, selling, or renting a home intelligent and seamless.” Nisbet says Compass’s software integrates all available listings in one simple place for agents, allowing them to complete tasks that used to take hours, in minutes.

Earlier in 2016, they also launched the first national real-time market report

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via a mobile app. It’s called Compass Markets, and the app is designed to replace the stale quarterly market reports with up-to-the-minute housing data so consumers and agents can make better real estate decisions. This is a gamechanger in many ways.

Also cool and innovative: they recently rolled out a global sports and entertainment division catering to the

specific real estate needs of celebrities and professional athletes. A smart niche to target, and it will be interesting to see how they do with it.

Originally a New York-based platform that launched in 2013, Compass has basically been killing it, landing offices and tons of clients in some of the top locations in the country, scooping up a healthy chunk of the luxury market. The company is currently valued at more than $1B, after completing its fourth funding round of $75 million. Leah Sternberg, who leads the Pasadena office, says, “Compass is elevating the way the entire real estate industry operates not only here in California, but across all of the markets we are in.”

Driven by its significant accomplishments, Compass began its national expansion last year, opening offices in Washington, D.C., Miami, Boston, the Hamptons, Aspen, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

The Coast Village Road office will open after renovations are complete, Nisbet said, and Compass is expanding so much that it might just keep the current Montecito office on Coast Village Circle, as workspace for additional agents.

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pple CEO Tim Cook, recently told CNBC’s investment talk-show host, Jim Cramer, that five years ago, China’s middle class stood at about 50 million people. He went on to say that, five years from now, it will be 500 million.

He should know, given that China is a huge market for Apple’s products. And, of course, it is where most of Apple’s products are made.

A country’s middle class consists of those who earn between two-thirds to two times the nation’s median income. In 1971, America’s middle class stood at 61% of adults.

In 2015, it stood at just 50%. By comparison, China’s middle class is going from a barely perceptible percentage out of a population of nearly 1.4 billion in 2011, to a projected 33% by 2021. China’s population rise is projected to level off going forward.

So, what does all this have to do with real estate here in the United States, in particular California real estate? It is reported by Proxio, an international real estate multiple listing service, that $831,000 was the average price paid by Chinese purchasers of the U.S. residential real estate. Proxio also estimates that $104 billion was spent in 2015 by all international purchasers of U.S. residential properties.

It is, therefore, a logical conclusion that the Chinese residential real estate buyer has become an important component of the real estate market here. Along with investors from Canada, Mexico, India, and the United Kingdom, China is helping to support the rise in home values. Including China, these are the top countries whose citizens want to own homes here.

Of course, it’s not the Chinese middle class that is buying U.S. properties. It is their upper-income folks. The huge growth in the Chinese middle class is but a reflection of the huge fortunes being created by Chinese entrepreneurs.

It has long been reported that the California middle-income class is shrinking and that many of them are leaving the state due to the high cost of housing. The U.S.

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Census reports a net migration out of California of 247,515 people between 2007 and 2013.

Those leaving the state tended to have lower incomes, and those moving to the state had higher incomes. So, it would appear that California is leading the nation’s trend toward an ever-shrinking middle class.

In January 2015, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported the California median home price stood at $393,000. Up $120,000 in just three years. Once again, further putting houses out of the reach of most families here. Zillow, the online real estate marketing portal, has forecast the median California home value to be at $462,100

by March 2017.

California has the highest home values of any continental state in the country. Hawaii is the only other state higher. California home prices are more than 50% higher that the U.S. average. Its renters face costs nearly 50% higher than the national average.

The California Department of Housing and Community Development projects a population growth of 1.3 percent per year between 2010 and 2020. Reaching 45 million by 2020. It was 37 million in 2010. The same department reports that all but 5% of the growth will occur in metropolitan areas.

The age groups projected to grow the most are those under 18 and those over 65.

These are not the folks generally considered to make up the work force or are income earners.

So, what can help bring down the cost of housing? A significant slowdown in the economy would certainly do it. The median California house price in May 2006 was $534,000. In December 2011, it was $306,000. But, no one wants that again.

The only solution is the production of far more housing than currently produced.

Supply versus demand always affects prices. However, there are several components to the current lack of supply.

Cost is one. A typical home in a metro area costs between $50,000 and $75,000 more to build than in the rest of the country. Another is the lack of suitable land in the coastal areas where most people want to live. In our area, land is virtually nonexistent. Then, there is the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) that gives opponents a decided advantage in challenging residential development projects.

The only answer, as I see it, is denser housing projects. That is why more apartment and condo projects are being built and proposed to meet the needs of low- to medianincome earners; international buyers and higher earners are the ones buying the single-family homes.

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The fruit falls into two categories: astringent and non-astringent, referring to the amount of tannins in the skin and flesh. Bite into an astringent persimmon like the Hachiya before it’s fully ripe, you will feel as if your tongue is suddenly tied. When it’s fully ripened, however, you can simply dip a spoon into the Hachiya’s creamy flesh. It’s a dessert that needs nothing else. Nonastringent varieties such as Fuyus are more neutral and can be eaten as a crispy fruit. Try them with a handful of winter greens, candied pine nuts, and a bright citrus vinaigrette.

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For many, including one local agent, Neil Zimmerman, this is their bread and butter and how many support their families. So, when news spread that Zimmerman had decided to make a bold donation of his commissions to a special cause, we wanted to learn more.

After a recent tour of Cottage Children’s Medical Center and having been deeply moved by an experience seeing a premature baby in need, Zimmerman got no further than the hospital parking lot before he sent an email to the medical center pledging to offer 100 percent of his commission profits from now until the end of 2016.

Cottage Children’s Medical Center is one of the benefiting hospitals of Children’s Miracle Network and donations from the community are essential. Steven Barkley, chief pediatric medical officer, said in response to the act of generosity: “One of the things that has always been so remarkable to me, is that people who Realtor Neil Zimmerman offers all of his commission to don’t really have a connection with Cottage Children’s Medical Center health care recognize the importance and are willing to give.” Donations such as Zimmerman’s allow children coming into the hospital with severe needs and medical issues to receive the care they need, regardless of whether their families can pay.

In a recent interview on KEYT channel 3, Neil explained a bit more about his decision to donate: “My feelings and my experience (at Cottage Children’s Medical Center) just made me think about my son, my wife, and how grateful I am. And there are times when people need help – and these kids, they haven’t really had a chance.

If there is something that I can do to help, I’m going to help.”

Neill recently sold his first house from which his commissions where donated. Born and raised in Santa Barbara, and now an agent with RE/MAX in Santa Barbara, Neil is a guy we are lucky to have around paying it forward.

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ow could you not love a festival that features acts with such appealing names as Sausage Grinder and The Salt Martians? Not to mention Very Lonesome Boys, who are perhaps so lonely that they head on up to Echo Mountain – another group at the festival – just to hear their own voices bounce back at them. Well, I’ll tell you who: Peter Feldmann, who founded the Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention & Festival back in 1972, sold it off about 15 years ago or something like that, and then spent the last five years watching as its latest owners turned what was originally just a friendly competition with fiddle, banjo, and singing where amateurs felt comfortable up on stage into a threeperforming-stages music festival that was heading toward generic.

The good news is that the Goleta Valley Historical Society – the stewards of Rancho La Patera & Stow House, the site of the festival for more than two decades – has taken over administration of the annual event, and Feldmann himself is returning for the 45th edition on Sunday, October 9. (The aforementioned lonely fellas is his trio of pickers and grinners that play both old-time music and dastardly bluegrass.)

The competitions have renewed energy, as do the super-fun impromptu jam sessions that pop up all around the expansive grounds. Even better – the price has dropped: just $15 for general admission, $5 for students, and free for children under 12. Call 681-7216 or visit www.goletahistory.org.

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kay, fall arrived last last month, though you wouldn’t have known it from the first week or so, when the temperatures soared into the upper 90s and beyond. Now that we’re back to our usual more mild weather, it’s time for a heapin’ Lovin’ Spoonful of folk music circa the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, as John Sebastian heads up to SOhO on Wednesday, October 12. Sebastian was the Spoonful’s lead singer and cosongwriter during their string of hits and followed that up with a few more as a solo artist, including classic rock radio staples “Daydream”, “Summer in the City”, “Do You Believe in Magic”, “Darling Be Home Soon”, “You Didn’t

Have To Be So Nice”, “Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?” and “Welcome Back”, from the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter. I can’t recall the last time the now-72 year-old ex-hippie who famously did an impromptu set at the original Woodstock Music Festival and then moved there permanently a decade later – but, yeah, for sure, dude – welcome back. Tickets cost $33-$70.

Call 962-7776 or visit www.sohosb. com.

Beatles Bonanza

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ook, I know we just emerged from zillions of Beatles-related stuff in the last couple of years as the Englishspeaking world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the band’s ascension to the top of pops. Tribute bands, movies, books – we saw it all. And yes, Paul McCartney still has another weekend down in Indio for that insane classic rock festival. But here’s something Beatles related very few of us have seen, unless you’ve frequented the Cavern Club over in Liverpool, the famous hole-in-the-wall nightspot where The Beatles got their start, in the last decade or so. The thing is, that’s also where The Mersey Beatles made their own bones, and they come by it honestly, too, since the four lads also all hail from Liverpool. What’s more, for their stateside debut tour show at the Lobero on Friday, October 14, they’re also bringing along Julia Baird, who is the director of the Cavern Club, author of Imagine This, which carries the subtitle Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon because, yes, she’s John Lennon’s baby sister. She’ll be in attendance and signing copies of the book at the general merchandise table – did they have those in The Beatles’s day? – before, during, and after the show.

But wait, there’s more! The show also features a special appearance by The Empty Hearts, another quartet who love ’60s garage rock and British Invasion sounds, and in fact employed some of that stuff in the groups they used to play with. That would be Wally Palmar of The Romantics on lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and harmonica; Elliot Easton of The Cars on lead guitar and vocals; Andy Babiuk of the Chesterfield Kings on bass and vocals; and Clem Burke of

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visits to town, visitors are encouraged to bring notes, artifacts, wreaths, and photos to commemorate their loved ones. The staff will gather up all of these mementos to be carefully stored with The Moving Wall in Minneapolis.

Classic Rock Corner Blondie on drums and vocals.

Now, how much would you pay?

Don’t answer yet, because we’re not through. Opening the show is Santa Barbara’s own Beatles-loving power pop heroes The Tearaways, who have been making music in town for more than three decades – since the 101 had stoplights, they like to boast – and they’re still plugging away with new stuff all the time. They’ve also made the trek to Liverpool for Beatlesfest every year since the 1990s and have backed plenty of Beatles-related artists, so this’ll be more Mop Top mayhem. The whole extravaganza of soaring melodies, heavenly harmonies, and British accents (real and fake) tilt the cows come home will only set you back $20 for seats in the back, $29 near the front, or $49 for VIP tickets include premier seating, a CD download, plus a meet-and-greet with The Mersey Beatles and Baird). It’s the next best thing to a Beatles reunion, and here’s a tip: that’s not happening.

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he Iraq War shows that we still haven’t fully learned our lesson about messing militarily with another country’s internal affairs when they aren’t threatening U.S. interests.

Maybe the return of The Moving Wall, the original replica of the national memorial designed to honor the sacrifice of the more than 58,000 men and women who died in that senseless conflict, will do the trick. The memorial, which arrives in town on Wednesday afternoon, October 12, will be available for viewing 24 hours a day starting Thursday at Chase Palm Park, with the stated mission of honoring the 99 veterans from Santa Barbara County who were killed during the war. UCSB ROTC members will stand guard at The Moving Wall, as it will be illuminated throughout the night, and volunteer docents will be on hand to help guide visitors, locate a name, and provide information on the memorial itself. Dedication ceremonies begin at noon Saturday followed by a flyover of Vietnam-era fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. Chapter 218 will also honor and remember the 99 veterans from Santa Barbara County who were killed during the war by reading their names aloud. As in the wall’s three previous

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aving The Who come to Santa Barbara for the first time earlier in the month apparently wasn’t enough to satisfy fans of music first heard on the radio in the 1960s and ‘70s. So this week, we’ve got two more iconic rockers headed our way. Classic rock week starts on back at the Santa Barbara Bowl, where Van (The Man) Morrison does his Irish-rock/mystic poet thing on Friday, October 19, and we’ve been hearing good things about his new album and tour. Then Jethro Tull founding flutist-singersongwriter Ian Anderson flits his way into the Arlington Theatre downtown on Wednesday, October 15, in a show that’s being billed, for legal reasons we imagine, as Ian Anderson in “Jethro Tull”. You know those litigators – a little thick as a brick when it comes to money matters. It’s been a bunch of years since either was in town – and they’re no spring chickens (71 and 69, respectively) – so now would be a good time to catch ‘em.

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ure, Kerrilee Gore is married to Martin Gore, the Depeche Mode rock star who lives in Montecito.

But Kerrilee isn’t one of those wives who trades off her husband’s name.

She was a dancer, choreographer, and producer/promoter before they even met, and she’s still doing her thing on her own. To wit, that would be the next installment of When The Lights Go Out: An Immersive Theatrical Experience, slated for four performances October 20-22 at the Lobero. The show, created by Gore, is a rather extraordinary evening that features elements of cabaret, multimedia and acrobatics from some of Los Angeles’s top choreographers and creative minds in entertainment and circus arts. Lights Out is billed as “It’s what happens inside our dreams, between the sheets, and the secrets that we keep… “ which I didn’t understand when the show premiered in town and still don’t. But it’s crazygood stuff.

You’ll want to spring for the $104 VIP seats, either on the couch or at a special VIP Table so you’re inside the action, but any of the on-stage seating ($44-$64) works for feeling like you’re a part of the show – because you are.

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GONE IS GWILLIAM

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djacent to the Santa Barbara Arts Fund and intermixed with the wineries and eateries and even a fitness bootcamp, Gone Gallery is located on Gray Avenue in the prime of the Funk Zone. While it has been around for about five years, the space is still new, and every visit marks an exhibition of young art finding a voice with the public.

The graffiti street and contemporary art style represented in the gallery spills from the inside to the exterior walls of the building yet remains respectful of the neighboring GraySpace Gallery’s pristine façade. Younger crowds gravitate to their exhibition openings, which tend to feature elements of urban art such as tattoo, pop, and graffiti.

Large-scale murals and installations are site specific and continuously evolve in an ephemeral cycle.

This current exhibition continues with a blend of styles reminiscent of Keith Haring and Basquiat figuration, territorial graffiti text, and minimalist monochromatic mark-making, as well as abstracted figuration and faceless nudes. Having previous collaborations with artists such as Matt Rodriguez, Chaddilac Green, Martin Diaz, David J Diamant, and Wallace Piatt, the current show is a solo exhibition by local artist Skye Gwilliam. [“Never Home is Skye Gwilliam’s latest series of high-end, low-brow artwork that explores the depravity of the human condition and the connection to the subconscious through non-

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preliminary, brushless painting techniques.”]

These latest images are cleaner and more accessible to the audience, reflecting a maturity in mark-making in Gwilliam’s paintings. Seemingly simple, the paintings show restrain and confidence that come with experience.

While the surrounding elements, such as the remaining murals, still buzz with action, the quiet focus of single-line figures are a resting place for the eye from that busy work and distraction.

In a lot of the monochromatic pieces in the exhibition, Gwilliam carries over a style of painting termed “Ribbionism: a direct application of process through non-preliminary means based on improvisational movement,” where

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the brushstrokes are minimal and the thick lines of paint are distinct.

His anonymous nudes are flat yet carry texture through paint application with layered transparency and ribboned blocks of color. The abstract portraits

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toy with paint application as well, and are topped with amorphic heads.

There is no shortage of work on display here. The frantic scribblings on the wall, layers of text and imagery from previous exhibitions, remain exposed as the fresh white paint never quite gets to erase the past for a clean slate. In this current show, newer paintings from 2016 hang atop the old marks as the past stays to inform the present.

Never Home is on display through November 26 and is a must-see when hanging in the Funk. The gallery is open Friday and Saturday, or by appointment only during the week.

Gone Gallery is a think tank where creative ideas evolve. With its open environment encouraging participation from all artists, the gallery often doubles as a studio creating a constant collaboration. So be sure to stop by and be a part of this latest show!

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f you’re in the market for a freshly maintained downtown condo in Santa Barbara, this 2-bdrm, 2-bth condominium has what I’d consider enough space for a small family (FYI: it is zoned for Roosevelt Elementary School). If you only need one bedroom, the extra room works quite nicely as an office.

Location-wise, it is close to Alameda Park – a hub for numerous local festivals – and a short walk to shops and some of the best and most popular restaurants in Santa Barbara, this is a walk-or-ride-a-bike centralized location. Also nice, it’s just a few-minutes drive to 101.

The aesthetic: clean stucco exterior, spacious bedrooms, and, by the looks of it, new everything. The unit has been freshly painted and features a granite-countertop look. Oh, and the air-conditioning is a big plus, as, let’s face it, we’d had our share of heat waves over the past year.

The best features of this condo, and the things that give it that extra bit of homey sanctuary, are the patios, one of which is tucked off the second bedroom and offers one of the only truly private patios on the ground floor of this complex. It also has a shared outdoor courtyard that is wellkept and quiet.

PRICE POINT: At $619,500, this place is at the low end of current market conditions. One real estate agent whose opinions I value greatly, opines that getting into Santa Barbara for under a million dollars may be difficult to do in the not too distant future.

We’ll see, but at just over $600-grand, it is certainly worth a look.

If you get a chance, do your own inspection; I believe you’ll find this worthy of consideration. The complex, Villa Anacapa, is tucked into a nook of family housing and quaint B&Bs on Anacapa Street between Islay and Valerio.

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any if not most of us grew up in a suburban home with a backyard that served as our private outdoor experience. Today, homebuyers are increasingly looking beyond the traditional American dream and reuniting with the walkable urban lifestyle. Just a decade ago, city living outside major cities was rare; today, demand for a walkable, cultural, and amenity-connected lifestyle is strong and growing stronger.

And it’s not just the generally single working Millennial with a dog demographic driving this shift. The Baby Boomer generation is rethinking the big family home and property while beginning to look for downsized, urban, lower-maintenance, culturally rich walkable options. And where better than Santa Barbara to find a combination of retail, dining, culture, and walkability with the wonderful yearround climate for which we are famous?

In Santa Barbara real estate parlance, the “City” is generally expressed as Eastside and Westside. Generally, the Eastside runs up State Street from the wharf and ends around La Cumbre in the upper State Street area, and then east (or north) to the mountains. The Westside district is the area West of State until you reach Hope Ranch and the ocean. While much of these districts are beyond “downtown” indeed, this is not quite suburbia and more or less provides the urban experience that is today in high demand.

While year over year, City condos’ days on market have decreased a significant 20% indicating strong buyer demand, the number sold on the Eastside fell by 23% and on the Westside by an even greater 28%. So, does that mean that sellers are desperate to negotiate with the first buyer to stop by?

Not really.

THIS CHANGING DEMAND TO AN URBAN LIFESTYLE IS UNLIKELY TO ABATE Due to a limited inventory of properties for sale, sellers have little competition, driving prices higher all year. Compared to last year, the average sale price for a condo on the Eastside increased 4%, and on the Westside a sizable 15%. The median sale price, a stronger comparable metric, rose 16% on the Eastside from $642,500 to $750,000 and on the Westside, 7%, from $627,000 to $672,000.

On the Westside, there are 51 condos for sale. The Barranca condos offer panoramic ocean, island views at Leadbetter Beach and Shoreline Park and a nice walk to town. Here there are four two- and three-bedroom units to choose from, priced at $799,500 to $1,099,000. On lower Chapala, the Sevilla private luxury enclave offers three one-bedrooms from where you can walk to everything Santa Barbara offers for about $1.3M. The Paseo Chapala complex, completed in 2008 and across from Paseo Nuevo, has units from $975,000 to $1.7M. There are currently eight available units at the newly completed Alma Del Pueblo complex at 18 W. Victoria adjacent to the Public Market in the heart of the Arts and Theatre district. You can expect to pay between $850K to north of $1M for a brand-new one-bedroom. Farther from the heart of town, prices drop and townhouse style condos range from the low $600’s to $1M. The Eastside, a much bigger area, offers only 34 units for sale. There is a goodlooking 1,500 sq.-ft, 2bd/2ba craftsman on the 1500 block of Olive for $1.16M, and a 2bd/2ba at Por La Mar Circle at East beach for $815K, and seven units at various State Street addresses with bus-at-your-door access ranging from mid$500K to just above $1M. This changing demand to an urban lifestyle is unlikely to abate. Sellers are, of course, pleased with this year’s higher prices while buyers not so much, as they’re beginning to circle longer before stepping forward. Between now and year’s end, I believe we will be looking at a slower, more deliberate market with buyers speaking more strongly and sellers more willing to listen. Ample inventory to provide competitive opportunities for buyers will be the challenge going forward.

I spend a good amount of time with City Buyers. Should you have any questions about this market, please email me: info@michaelphillipsrealestate.com

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...continued from p.5 Artisan at Parker Clay factory in Ethiopia

Brittany Bentley with Parker Clay merchandise displayed in the new storefront on Anacapa Street

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which was focused on an orphanage for kids who had been trafficked or lost in Addis Ababa (the capital of Ethiopia, FYI). “That organization quickly became an Ethiopian-run organization – which is always the goal” Brittany explains.

The second organization they became part of was one that has now become integral to their brand Parker Clay. This NGO (non-governmental

organization), called Ellilta Women at Risk, is a non-profit ministry that helps rehabilitate and educate at-risk women who have been exploited, most often through prostitution. The women with Ellilta get support and also receive job training to increase their options.

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because of their position working with local artisans, they saw that leather was a huge marketing opportunity there.

Ethiopia exports tons of raw leather to various countries around the world, such as Italy, for making fine leather goods.

They learned that the Ethiopian leather workers, such as the weavers and jewelry makers, were primarily women, and as they were working with women through Ellilta, they became immersed in the culture around the production of those goods.

Brittany says that they started initially just by making items for themselves that they liked and needed for everyday use.

Slowly the idea grew, piece by piece, and eventually they began to branch out and found factories for sewing leather and made connections with tanneries.

They began by employing a few local Ethiopian friends to help them learn to source and produce a small product line. They called the burgeoning brand Parker Clay. Starting out with just five products and a basic website, they began small-scale production and found an eager and supportive market back in the States: large communities to draw from, including their adoptive communities and networks and people who supported their journey.

Parker Clay’s first finished products were made in June 2013. Everything is made and assembled in Ethiopia (other than their zippers and rivets, which are imported from Europe). Products include a number of styles of gorgeous handmade leather items including travel bags, totes, purses and wallets, as well as woven goods such as blankets and throws.

The Bentleys (who ended up adopting another Ethiopian child, nine years old at the time) had planned to remain in Ethiopia much longer, but they were forced to suddenly move back to the U.S. because their first adopted daughter, Selah, had to have emergency brain surgery. Within a week, the family had moved back to the states and landed again in Santa Barbara. The family of seven (five kids in total – can we say, Super parents?!) have now fully

settled in and set up shop – a really cute shop – in the heart of Santa Barbara.

The storefront, located right across the street from the Courthouse at 133 E. Anapamu Street, recently had its grand opening on September 24.

THE GOOD IN PARKER CLAY’S LEATHER GOODS As they prepare to scale up, Parker Clay recently started a secondary leather factory in Addis to meet demands. An Ethiopian manager runs this factory; his name is Hanuk, who in fact started out as Brittany and Ian’s driver, and has now been empowered to run the entire new factory in Ethiopia. Parker Clay currently employs about 30 women who work for them in the leather products, and another 15 who work on the woven items, which come through Ellilta Products, an off-shoot of the larger Ellilta organization.

In addition, there are a number of artisans who live in the countryside making jewelry from melted-down bullet casings that are found in the conflict zones in Ethiopia (talk about alchemy at its finest.)

Parker Clay products have a rustic, simple aesthetic, with clean and classic design. They are, it must be said, so perfectly Santa Barbara. Brittany designed all women’s products and Ian designed all the men’s products (pretty impressive for their first go at product design!). Brittany says that Parker Clay is excited to bring new artisanal products with social good behind them to Santa Barbara. “Our number-one thing is our relationships, so if we have to stay small to do that, we will.”

If Santa Barbarans take to Parker Clay products as many residents think they will, Hanuk will certainly have his hands full.

Parker Clay storefront is open Monday/ Wednesday/Friday, and the occasional Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, or by appointment.

Check them out at 133 E. Anapamu St. in downtown Santa Barbara.

The products line is also available on their website at: www.ParkerClay.com

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...continued from p.12 A gourmet kitchen opens into living space framed by views of the Pacific

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Sheep and Beer Since opening more than two years ago, The Black Sheep on Ortega Street has been satisfying the tastes of foodies and beerdoes alike. When co-owner Ruben Perez first started the restaurant, he was setting out to create a modern gastro pub that offered high-end food but at approachable prices. The interior is warm with bold colors and has open, airy dining spaces with additional

rooms that serve as a private dining areas for larger parties, making it a fun spot for hosting your own private fête.

Although they do not have any draft beers, their diverse bottle list of more than 40 selections can quench any beer drinker’s palate. The range of small and large plates lends itself to family-style dining, and The Black Sheep is a great place to start the night off with friends, either to grab a few tapas or a full meal.

The food is Californian fusion and features dishes such as a Sauteed Sweetbread with bacon and a curry tomato sherry sauce or Scallop Crudo with a spicy candied carrot purée and white soy vinaigrette. One of their star dishes is the White Anchovies Crostini with Orange Zest. Citrus flavors fill the palate as you bite down on these delicate canapés. Pair this dish with a witbier ...continued p.44

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such as Telegraph White Ale or Avery’s White Rascal. These effervescent brews accent the dash of salt from the anchovies and contribute a toasty malted wheat character that soothes the crunchiness of the crostini.

Although The Black Sheep is best enjoyed with a group of people, the menu is well-suited for lone diners as well. A rotating risotto highlights seasonal flavors and makes for a hearty meal. Their Shoyu Ramen features slow-braised pork belly, roasted shiitake mushrooms, an ajitama egg, and traditional adornments of green onions and bean sprouts, which make for heartwarming comfort food. This substantial dish goes best with a dark,

malty ale such as Oskar Blue’s Old Chub Scotch Ale or Ommegang Three Philosophers Quad Ale. Old Chub uses a touch of smoked malt, adding a woodiness that highlights the mushrooms and pork belly. Three Philosophers is brewed with cherries, giving it a deep fruitiness that enriches the salty broth.

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Calligraphy immobilizes words in a form that is meant to be framed and kept forever.

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Originally coming to Santa Barbara to join a band and pursue a full-time career in music, Leslee’s first experience with calligraphy was in 1975 when she took an adult-ed class on the subject. Leslee fell immediately in love with calligraphy and stayed up all night after her first class practicing that day’s lesson. She had a natural aptitude for the subject, growing up with a step-father who was a full time display artist.

From workshops to studying under a monk, Leslee has spent decades researching calligraphy and believes it takes about 25 years of continual training to develop the correct eyeto-hand coordination and master the range of tools and techniques used in calligraphy.

For those interested in pursuing calligraphy, Leslee recommends starting off with an adult-ed class and then finding a teacher. As with first learning a musical instrument, self-taught beginners risk picking up bad habits and not learning the techniques correctly.

Similar to the relationship between musician and instrument, the calligrapher is concerned with their form. The position in the chair, distance from the table, and especially, the proper holding of a pen – each movement of the calligrapher is a choreographed performance, taking constant rehearsal to keep the motions fresh in his or her mind.

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The paper needs to be able to handle the kind of ink and nib being used, and any extra touches such as illuminated gold leaf that will be used in the piece.

Leslee had to study traditional materials including real parchment made from animal skin, cutting feather quills, and historic inks and pigments. For practical reasons, she prefers (as a practicing

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Leslee has about 30 hands of scripts that she knows intuitively, though she has written in more than a thousand fonts and can copy any text style she studies.

From degrees and awards to wedding invitations, Leslee has had a wide range of clients. Leslee is still a professional musician, playing flute and guitar at weddings and special events. She thinks that her music and calligraphy feed each other; each requires a sense of flow and rhythm with an enduring focus. Both are about communication.

Leslee sees calligraphy as language expressing itself through graphic means and music expressing its language through auditory means. Today, she feels that she couldn’t be luckier, living in Santa Barbara with a happy marriage and a vocation that allows her to pursue two passions. Calligraphy has not only served her as a profession but a way of life.

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

ALTER COURSE

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s I edge toward Seattle, my windshield wipers struggle to keep pace as the grey sky spews a cold, unrelenting rain on every driver on Highway 5. I fix the radio to Nirvana. The crunchy guitar, heavy drums, and melodic wails of Cobain and crew act as a head-banging distraction from the tumultuous road – and day – ahead.

This morning, the imminent sailing adventure shook us awake. The 25-knot (about 28 mph) winds screaming outside our floating home set the stage for the perfect, sloppy mess of a “shakedown cruise,” a practice run to try our skills in the rough, teeth-baring Bellingham Bay. Four hours until shakedown, and three days until launch for Mexico, we are desperate to gobble up experiences to prepare us for the ominous open-ocean voyage.

For the past several weeks, we’ve kept our eyes on the weather with fingers permanently crossed we’ll be able to leave – before the stormy fall weather of the Pacific Northwest – in time to make it down to Santa Barbara. But we still have a handful of projects to complete and, to be honest, more time is what we need. But I surrendered our fate to the Universe, so all will be fine. “All is wonderful,” I say out loud to convince the tiny bubbles of doubt arising inside. But I can’t consume thoughts of the threatening Pacific voyage or the never-ending To-Do list right now. The drive back and the shakedown cruise is intimidating enough.

I find the exit and wind down the wet Seattle streets until I reach the mecca of sailing navigation literature, texts, and charts in the eye of the industrial part of the city.

“Thank Bejesus I made it,” I say. “Still plenty of time to get back for the cruise.”

And then, the phone rings.

“Hey, babe,” he says in a dismal tone. I unconsciously hold my breath.

“Me and some of the guys have been watching the weather...”

Oh, no… “…and three gale storms have popped up middle of the North Pacific, and there’s a typhoon off the coast of Japan heading our way.”

I feel my tense shoulders drop. I know what’s next.

“Babe, we missed the window. Fall is here. We’ll have to leave next year.”

Knots of anxiety are replaced by an echoic abyss of despair in my chest. But I’m not letting our hopes for a Mexican-bound journey sink without a fight. Sailing around the world has been his life’s dream and now, it had become a dream of mine, too. We can handle the weather. At least, I’m pretty sure we can.

“Are you sure we can’t just motor down to San Fran? I know we want to sail, but we can motor, then work on the boat in California. Let’s just to get the f*ck outta here!” I rally my best cheerleader-esque optimism to delay the inevitable truth.

“No, babe,” he says. “We’re not ready. You and I need a lot of practice, and taking on this adventure at this time wouldn’t be safe or smart.”

I know he’s right, and I’m thankful he has enough sense to put safety before ego.

But with any event in life that doesn’t happen the way you expect, it’s hard to let go.

Even when you know letting go is the best thing to do.

“I understand and I trust you,” I say. “Thank you for being rational. It’s just, it’s such a huge deal for you and, now, me that I just want to…”

“We’re still going, love! Just not now. We’ll be way more prepared next year. Plus, this gives us time to take a trip to visit your family and finish projects.”

I half-listen to his consoling words as thoughts of our travels over the next several months shift into land-bound question marks. Now the adventure I crave so much, and trust into the unknown, takes a whole new meaning.

Later that evening, I make dinner as we stroke ourselves content with new plans for smaller trips here and there and tasks we now have time to complete. With lifted spirits, we nestle in the cockpit to enjoy our meal under the twilight sky. But there’s a moment we look at each other and realize, with full acceptance, our Mexican adventure would have to wait. Tears secretly run down my cheeks and onto his shoulder as we watch the sun dip below the horizon.

I cried for two days.

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ometimes you just don’t feel like going to the gym. You’re just not in the mood for the same old climate-controlled scene, bad music, boring equipment. Besides, on a beautiful Santa Barbara day, why stay stuck between the same four walls with a bunch of bicycles to nowhere?

The truth is that staying committed to a fitness routine can be challenging for all. As with any dynamic relationship, we go through the ups and downs of being committed to and inspired by our fitness programs and health goals. Sometimes the relationship is unbeatable. We walk away with a feeling of euphoria that a great workout and clean diet give us, and we are absolutely in love with our new routine. Other days, we have no desire to motivate, participate, or stay on point. So, what gives?

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As one of SB’s premier fitness experts, Kayla embodies strength in everything she accomplishes. “Nothing is more exciting than helping others reach their fitness goals. It inspires me, it excites me, and it motivates me to help others.

Our clients have the opportunity to explore fitness in a whole new way.”

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workouts over the course of seven days. From Pilates to boxing to yoga and barre, 5 WAYFIT offers something for everyone. “So many people carry this ‘Just suck it up and do it’ attitude when it comes to exercise. You don’t have to feel that way, though. Working out doesn’t have to suck! Our program allows you to keep trying new sports or classes until you find something you do enjoy. It is possible to enjoy what you’re doing and get fit.”

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I think they like hitting something,” she laughs. Creating community that supports a fit and healthy lifestyle is what they’re all about.

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curlers chatting on their phones? What they wouldn’t do is call each other just to say, “I’m eating a sandwich!” That is a modern convention.

The kids are very connected now, of course; all the time. Connectedness may have begun as a means, but it is now an end. Being connected is the object. The subject has been made to suffer as a result. The future we envisioned as kids, rocket ships throwing sparks on the way to Jupiter, is not the future we got. Endless pictures of squirrels on water skis, and tens of millions of lunch plates lovingly photographed from directly above, as in a Busby Berkeley musical.

That’s what we got.

Chef Boyardee and the Thousand-Yard Stare As for the interior life; exterior evidence suggests it has gone the way of the locked diary. The last time I saw someone just sitting and staring, deep in thought, Chef Boyardee was still being dumped onto plates and served at table. In the twilight of a movie theater, a woman might be sitting in her seat waiting for the film to begin, and she might be looking ahead of her, as if at an object hovering in the air. She would be “deep in thought.” Someone waiting for a bus might just be soft-focused on a copse of trees half a mile away while he is thinking of something. Look for that today, and good luck.

People today reflexively bend their heads to glance at their phones when there is a second to fill, or when they feel uncomfortable. If anything is there on the screen, it is likely some species of “I’m eating a sandwich!” or a beautifully composed photo of the sandwich before it’s been bitten.

If you’re walking across the street or down a hallway, and someone you don’t know is approaching you, the stranger will raise the phone like a little shield and feign checking it for something as they near, the better to mitigate the terrible moment of the

nearly interpersonal glance. We have nothing to say, anyway. What we do have to say, we type. If a thought, any thought whatsoever, should burble to the surface of the cerebral cortex (or whatever Dr. Kildare-sounding lump of nerves works this former magic), we reach for our devices and we broadcast.

There used to be diaries with little locks on them. We would write notes to ourselves, some of us; divulge secrets for our eyes only, hug the little booklets to our breasts like Laura Ingalls Wilder characters in a hastily written teleplay.

Diaries became weblogs, and later

I think old age is a purgatory. So, there has been some handy goal-post shoving. I’ve had to come to grips with some things, too. Though it seems like I left high school maybe 15 years ago, tops, a couple friends have passed away, and I sense the looming presence of the actuarial table. It is in the possession of an overexcited Greek man, and he is dancing with it in his teeth. Sir, please be careful with my actuarial table.

Growing up, and growing older, feels like a pleasant dream most of the time, but then a chum just… dies. Again, a dream. Lots to think about. When

Mould, Neil Aspinall, Stu Sutcliffe, and Henry Mancini.

The world is huge and doesn’t pause.

Imagine what you will. Expansive fields of waving grasses and strangers walking there, absolutely unaware of you, people sitting down to eat all over the world, children pushing toys under beds, then naked children sprinting down sun-dappled forest paths; Hawk faced George Gershwin massaging a Steinway and glancing coyly over his shoulder – the grand, straight unbowed nose, the slight underbite. Enola Gay, Gary Cooper,

The last time I saw someone just sitting and staring, deep in thought, Chef Boyardee was still being dumped onto plates and served at the table morphed into blogs; the diary turned inside out. Nowadays, if someone is having a thought you will know it, because the thinker will be thumbtyping the thought and sending it out through social for the general beneficence. It’s a weird world, but it’s always been.

Put Down My Actuarial Table When I was a kid (or “child” as they’re known in polite society), I looked at adults with pity. We all did.

Not because the adults had put such distance between themselves and the sun-drenched lawns of childhood, nor because being a kid struck me as particularly wonderful. I remember thinking adulthood was a sort of protracted purgatory between youth and death; a long stretch of empty ceremony bracketed at either end by words pronounced with your tongue between your teeth. Kids went out to play, but adults had done that and were finished with it.

Today, I am an adult. I’ve arrived.

And then some. Of course, I no longer believe adulthood is a purgatory. Now

I look up again, I’m reminded how strange this epoch is to me.

An Inarticulate Roll Call When I see people now, groups of them out together on a Friday night, walking down State Street, laughing heartily while each looking at their individual phones, I wonder how I can be so far away from things familiar.

Eydie Gormé seems as distant as the Napoleonic Wars. All the names and faces and things that were common currency just, like, yesterday – I don’t think they are in the present universe at this time. Where is the world that was littered with all that glory? It’s an ancient hue and cry, I know. The familiar complaint of the generationally displaced crab. Every generation hollers their confusion at some point. Where are the people leaning against buildings and staring into their own thoughts? Are there thoughts anymore, or just posts now?

We’re still surrounded by everything.

Look around the sound stage. Never mind your friend’s photo of lunch.

Look at all the flaming archangelic stuff, ringing with the music of the spheres; the Battle of Thermopylae, Debbie Reynolds singing “Tammy”, Groucho, Neil Armstrong flubbing his line and hopping like a bunny, da Vinci, Peter Gabriel, Judy Garland hunched in form-fitting black, spotlit, cropped hair throwing sweat as she reaches for the note, inoperable cancers, the Middle East, the Far East, Clint Eastwood in Two Mules for Sister Sara, Sam Peckinpah, the last afternoon of the last Neanderthal, Thomas McGuane, the Fall of Rome, the Cambrian Explosion, Johnny Mercer, the Impact Event, Harold Lloyd, Sartre, Ava Gardner, Saul Bellow, Anthony Newley, Bob

Fred Astaire, Nouakchott, and Wilmington kiss in the night, Henry Fonda, the Marianas Trench, Steve McQueen, Dana Andrews. Jimmy Stewart collapsing atop a paperstrewn table and sliding to the floor.

Noel Coward, Glen Matlock, Isaac Newton, Andy Partridge, the Magna Carta, the first bird, the first fish, Gene Kelly, the hasty burial of Pompeii, Dodge City, Verdun, Auschwitz, Cary Grant walking off into a snow-filled evening, Caligula, Captain Kangaroo, Franco Nero as Lance, Dresden on fire, Vonnegut in his olive drabs there, Gene Kelly again, Nelson Mandela, and a distinguished pack of tuxedoed figures standing around a brilliantly underlit, emerald swimming pool in the dead of a desert night, pinching martini glasses and tossing heads back congenially, in laughter, free hands in pockets, backs arched, knees bent slightly; the orgasmic synchronous bomburst of everything happening, and having happened everywhere, every second, even as our dear tormented rock pirouettes lazily through an empty living room. The cupcake and kitty photos don’t seem to add to the mix, but of course, they must.

I can see my parents’ sunken living room in Boulder, see myself stepping down into it. red shag carpet, vaulted ceilings, lots of macramé. And Felicia Sanders singing the theme from Moulin Rouge with the Percy Faith Orchestra.

The sense-memory is sometimes like a blow to the chest.

May the screen-time generations save a little introspection to warm their hands over in the coming years.

The mobile devices are conduits. The repository is in your head. May it fill to the brim.

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ge Pass Backsta NZO KING Q&A WITH ALO

BY CHANTAL PETERSON

Alonzo King LINES Ballet toes the line at the Granada (photo by RJ Muno)

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s a journalist, when you get the chance to interview a true creative genius, there is really no way to fully prepare, because, by nature and by trade, these are artists who surprise and inspire people just by being who they are.

With no exaggeration, this pretty much sums up my experience interviewing Alonzo King, choreographer of one of the most exceptional and pioneering contemporary ballets in the world today, the Alonzo King LINES Ballet, which will perform at The Granada Theatre on Saturday, October 8.

So, how does one concoct the perfect, most compelling questions to ask an artist who has been asked it all before? King is an artist whose work has redefined what “ballet” is and can be, and he has learned to bring the fruits of his imagination onto the stage, through a group of wildly talented dancers.

Despite my initial hesitations, I felt confident that I’d asked the right question, when, three minutes into the conversation, my eyes were welling up with tears, my heart beating a bit faster, and I was asking myself, “Am I, maybe, having a mini existential crisis?”

Was I ready to question the purpose that art serves in the expansion of human consciousness? Was I prepared to discuss the perceptual limitations of a life view informed solely by the mind and the five senses? Whoa. Big questions.

I didn’t really have a choice, because let’s just say that Alonzo King isn’t really interested in small talk.

Many don’t know that King grew up in Santa Barbara – he went to SB Junior High and did theater at Santa Barbara High – and spoke of the magic and beauty of this place. When I started by asking what he wanted to talk about, he began by saying that art, dance, and choreography was for him a door into another way of perceiving. “That door was a freedom because it was feeding my internal world.

We live in two worlds: we live in the external world, which is subject to all kinds of pollution; and the internal world, which is one where we can have a sacred castle of peace and wisdom and fortitude. For me, that was a savior and a tool to develop and to maintain a strong internal world.

“Even though dance is addressing the intellect, and form, and all of those things, the principle vibration is directed to penetrate your heart. In the same way that music can go directly to the heart. And we, in this country that is cloaked in misogyny, we are afraid of the heart. We believe only in what we can measure – touch, feel, taste, and smell – and that is a very narrow way of perceiving. Because there is so much more.”

King explains that his focus now in ballet is his work’s ability to reach people on those heart and soul levels. “Because the heart is a place of the highest kind of knowing. The mind is limited: It’s all inferential reasoning.

Me: “Right, yes it is…”

King continues: “The material world is concerned with appearance, the spiritual world in concerned with essence. So when you’re looking at art, you are looking at thought made visible. With music, you are looking at thought made audible. So

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CYNDI SHOW AT THE ARLINGTON

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yndi Lauper still has it – in fact, ask anyone who attended her recent show on September 28 at the Arlington Theatre, and they’ll probably tell you that she has more of it than ever before.

Lauper, famous for many hits such as “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Time After Time,” made us laugh, made us cry, and wowed the crowd all night long with her enigmatic theatrics and witty humor that have kept her thriving as an artist for more than 30 years.

True to her quintessentially rebelat-heart nature, at the end of the show, after seeing a few people asked to sit back down when they attempted to dance, she stopped the music and admonished the security guards for preventing the crowd from dancing – belting out: “This is a rock ‘n’ roll show!” This was all in good fun, but it catalyzed a beautiful upwelling of the audience, most of which migrated down to the stage, where everyone, smiles wide and energy high, danced and sang together for the final four songs.

Highlight of the show: Closing song was, of course, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (it had to be) – but Cyndi has put a new twist on the song, (emphasized by numerous reminders to the audience to vote this November) to which she had the entire auditorium belting out in unison – and it went like this: “Girls just want equal funds!” these are ‘thinkings.’ And that, to me, is very fascinating!”

When I ask how these philosophical ideas translate into his choreography, to bodies moving across the stage, he explains, “One of the things that we learn in life and that we all struggle with is how to behave. Behavior is action; it’s movement that comes from thought. When you are looking at people dance on stage, what you’re really seeing are examples of how to live life: I want to be that brave; I want to be that vulnerable; I want to be that loving; I want to be that precise; I want to have that kind of generosity; I want to be that fearless – because that is what the dancers are occupying – those ideas.”

I ask where his ideas and inspiration are drawn from.

“We all think we are individuals living separate existences with our separate thoughts. It’s nonsense! Thoughts, just like structures, ballets, novels, and inventions – they exist already – and we plug into them. So you can plug into negativity and draw it to you, or you can plug into creativity or wisdom, etc. It’s like, this wasn’t born with me, I discovered it because it exists. I’m plugging into a realm that was already established. It’s fascinating! And so once you come to terms with that understanding, it’s in fact very liberating. “ He talks about expansion happening in little moments. Despite the fact King’s ballet is one of the best and most famous in the world, I ask if he thinks his work can help communicate that simple truth to people by watching the ballet?

King replies: “Our work is effort, and dedication, and love, and perseverance, and loyalty to a craft – in the same way that you would be loyal in any kind of union or marriage: you stick with it whether it’s bitter or sweet. Because the point is that it’s a way of you being trained – it’s a training ground for transformation. Life is a training ground for transformation. And training never stops.”

The Alonzo King LINES Ballet is a work of art informed by the spirit, and if you get the privilege of experiencing it, it just may inform yours as well.

The Alonzo King LINES Ballet performs at Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara on Saturday, October 8, at 8 pm. Ticket are available at ticketing.granadasb.org

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REC & ROLL ROLLERMANIA RETURNS e has wings on his feet/You won’t see him walking/He’s gliding the streets” – Dolly Dots, “Rollerskating” Parks and Recreation hosts an evening of “roller skating madness and fantastic family fun” for one night only. Bring your own skates or blades or rent onsite to roll and bounce to the disco ball, flashing lights, and music. Games, prizes, refreshments, limited rollerblade rentals, and child sizes available. Permission slips/ waivers required.

When: Friday, October 14 – ages 10 and under 5:30 to 6:30 pm, and open skate for all ages from 6:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Solvang Veterans Hall, 1745 Mission Drive in Solvang Cost: $4 general admission, $6 with skates, $10 if you need blade rentals Info: (805) 688-1086 or visit www.cityofsolvang.com

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RAILS ‘N WINE – A VINTAGE ADVENTURE! wirl and sip as steel wheels clickety-clack over polished rails with Kessler-Haak, Sanford Winery, and Zotovich Winery. Enjoy tasting these Santa Rita Hills premium wines – poured and presented by the winemakers as you roll down the rails drinking in exquisite vistas of our Central Coast countryside. A gourmet box lunch is included alongside the wines provided by your winery hosts. Step your sophisticated “wine self ” aboard the charming 1949 Pullman club car Overland and the Pacific Trail, a long-distance coach for the return trip when you switch cars at San Luis Obispo.

When: Saturday, October 15, from 10 am to 4:30 pm Where: The tour departs promptly at 10:22 am from the Santa Barbara Amtrak station (pick up your tickets at 10 am). There will be a short stop at the San Luis Obispo Amtrak station. The train will arrive back in Santa Barbara at 4:30 pm.

Cost: $148 per person with a portion of your ticket price going toward support of the Santa Rita Hills Wine Alliance.

Info: Call Terry Remick to order your tickets: (805) 680-0397 (seating is limited)

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LO+CAL FIELD FEAST illed as “An Evening in the Country”, this fresh farm-to-table event benefitting Los Olivos School Foundation (which raises money for school enrichment programs including arts, music, science, foreign language, technology, and specialrequest projects) will be launched with a signature cocktail, and promises to deliver a nine-course meal with cuisine from local chefs Budi Kazali of the Ballard Inn Restaurant, Jeff Olsson of Industrial Eats, and Matt Nichols of Brothers Restaurant of the Red Barn and Sides Hardware and Shoes. Music by Los Olivos School alumnus Dylan Ortega, who just returned from Nashville where he recorded his first record. Exclusive silent and live auction offerings, local wine and beer, and a sense of warm-hearted community complete the evening.

When: Saturday, October 15, from 5 to 10 pm Where: Montanaro Farm, 2531 Grand Avenue in Los Olivos Cost: $100 per person Info: email foundation.losolivos@gmail.com for more information

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CHUMASH CULTURE DAY The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians presents a community event celebrating Native American singing and dancing along with storytelling and crafts. Highlights include a Handgame Tournament and Native California Signing Contest with prizes for 1st ($1,000), 2nd ($750), and 3rd ($500) place. “Culture Days is an opportunity for members of the community to come to our reservation and experience different elements of Chumash culture,” says Nakia Zavalla, cultural director for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, adding, “The singing, dancing, food, and artistry make it a great event for all ages.” An Opening Blessing, Elders Honoring, food and craft booths, and storytelling complete this drug and alcohol-free event devoted to honoring and showcasing California-style Native American singing and dancing.

When: Saturday, October 15, from noon to 10 pm Where: Chumash Tribal Hall, 100 Via Juana Lane in Santa Ynez Info: (805) 688-7997 5TH ANNUAL FAERIEFEST ragon wranglers, faeries, woodland sprites, majestic mermaids, elven warriors, wandering alchemists, mythical creatures, friends, foes, and even sinister unseelies will descend upon Solvang to bring ancient faeries to life and celebrate all things mystical and magical. A market of artisans featuring costumes, jewelry, home decor, readings, professional photography, otherworldly music, and 50 artists come together to recreate a magical land bringing together dancers, musicians, artisans, theater artists, and fantasy enthusiasts from all over California to celebrate all things fae.

When: Saturday, October 15, from 10 am to 7 pm Where: Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd Street, in Solvang. Cost: $10 for adults $5 for children Info: For more information, call (805) 686-1789

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REAL MEN COOK n its 24th year, Arts Outreach’s much-anticipated annual fundraiser combines more than 50 amateur male chefs, 35 premier local vintners and brewers, live music, and boastful auction items to create a celebrated Valley foodie event. Not to be mistaken for a “food for dudes” situation – though there will definitely be some grilling, searing, and game-day foods – amateur male chefs rally to flaunt their favorite recipes that boast a sophisticated edge. Competition categories include hot and cold appetizers, entrees, salads, breads, salads, desserts, and more. Arts Outreach is dedicated to “bringing art to life and life to art.”

When: Saturday, October 22, from 6 to 10 pm Where: Monty and Pat Roberts’s Flag is Up Farms, 901 East HWY 246 in Buellton Cost: $65 per person and $70 at the door Info: Chefs interested in taking up the culinary challenge can call Arts Outreach at (805) 688-9533.

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WINE & CHIPS ctober is Adopt-a-Dog month! Canine caretakers and animal lovers of all kinds are invited to raise a glass to raise funds in a benefit for the Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society. Bring your dogs, microchip your pets, snuggle with adoptable dogs, throw a ticket in the raffle, and sip some vino. SYVHS will offer $15 microchipping and scans to see if your pooch already has a microchip. Donations of blankets, towels, and sheets for the SYVHS to use to keep pooches warm and dry this winter are welcome.

When: Sunday, October 23, from 11 am to 4 pm Where: The Lucas & Lewellen Tasting Room at 1645 Copenhagen Drive in Solvang Cost: $10 per person donation Info: No RSVP needed. Just show up for the fun.

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