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S tate Street Scribe – Jeff Wing has ‘em covered: Herman’s Hermits, Dennis Miller, Baron Arthur von Wiesenberger. Unity Shoppe Turns 100.

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iweekly Capitalist – Jeff Harding bends the knee in deference B to African-American athletes who refuse to stand for the national anthem

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eer Guy – From pumpkin flavors to carving to what’s brewing at B Lama Dog, Zach Rosen has it all on tap

Fortnight – Taking Sides and Resistible Rise; Rocky Horror Show; Backyard Shorts FilmFest; Rhiannon Giddens; Lotusland; and Moonshine at SOhO

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Man About Town – Mark Leisuré explains why he loves Santa Barbara; and reviews of Dirty Dancing the Musical and Husbands & Wives Creative Characters – Zach Rosen has a brush with greatness in the form of abstract artist Madeline Garrett Business Beat – Clothes encounters: Jon Vreeland talks with Ellen Sztuk (“The Stitch Witch”) at her private studio, where the seamstress weaves magic.

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What’s Hanging – Ted Mills ponders a mayoral debate; Squire Foundation; Community Arts Workshop; Honoria/Honor; Curated Cocktails; “Besos”; SB Tennis Club, by the numbers; and more news about artists

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take no pride in confessing that when I first heard of England’s King Henry VIII, I thought he was named after the Herman’s Hermits song. This is not a joke. I vividly recall a buddy and I tunelessly singing the charttopping tune on the second floor of Clark Elementary School in Cheyenne, Wyoming, tossing our heads like British Invaders, inviting the angry stare of Mrs. Lufkin as she motioned us into the classroom with her jabbing mantis arms. “But Mrs. Lufkin, it’s Herman’s Hermits!”

So it was with a familiar sense of dislocation I found myself shaking hands with Herman himself a couple Friday nights ago at the Lobero. Peter Noone had just come offstage with his band and was mingling with adoring fans and Montecito neighbors in the packed Lobero house. “You’re in terrific voice, sir!” I yelled over the hubbub

when my friend and I were finally able to make our way over to him through the crowd. Noone, who was all of 15 when he joined the original Hermits in the ‘60s and looks about 14 today, aimed his alarmingly unchanged puppy face at me, his cheeks coloring from an hour of pop calisthenics that by all rights should have put this septuagenarian moptop face down in the Mersey.

“Not bad for a guy of 70, hey?” he yelled through his genuinely brilliant smile. I thought: Mrs. Jones, He Will Exhaust Your Daughter.

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Bending the Knee

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his is not about Game of Thrones, but rather our national anthem.

In 2016, when 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick bent his knee during the national anthem, it was a protest of a black man against racial injustice in America. It spread from there. Within a month, similar protests were seen not only in the NFL but in college sports as well.

That was last season. This football season it became a national issue since Donald Trump waded in with “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out. He’s fired.

He’s fired!’” That played well in Alabama.

Because Mr. Trump has little support from African-Americans, especially those who comprise about 70 percent of NFL players, even those players who didn’t take the knee before united in protest against Mr. Trump.

What a complex mess this issue has become.

This article is not about racial injustice. Racism is real and is a serious problem in America, but if I wade into race, it will obscure everything else. So I won’t. This is about politics, money, sports, and patriotism.

But I do have a beef about protests by athletes: when I turn on a football game, the last thing I want to see is someone lecturing me about politics. And that is what these protests are about. A protest is a political statement with political objectives. Give it a rest.

Leave me alone and let me enjoy the game. I am inundated with politics morning, noon, and night.

If players wish to protest on their own time, I applaud their right to do so.

I understand that these athletes feel they can make a bigger impact on a national stage. But so what.

We aren’t paying them to lecture us on injustice. And they don’t have a “right” of free speech: the First Amendment (right of

Here is a solution: stop playing the national anthem at sporting events free speech) does not apply to the private workplace. If Mr. Kaepernick and his fellow players who are demanding their right to free speech on the field had taken a class in government, they would have learned that the Bill of Rights was enacted to protect us against government, not our bosses.

When NFL players put on their uniforms as employees of, say, the 49ers, they leave their right of free speech behind and their bosses, the league’s owners, can tell them what to do and can curtail their speech in their workplace. Every working stiff faces the same thing; they aren’t an exception.

League owners have been mostly absent in this discussion. This is where the money thing comes in to play. These owners have huge stakes in these teams making them billionaires if they weren’t already.

What do you do when most of your employees protest? Do you stand with them to show solidarity? If you do, what about your audience who pays their bills? A plurality of Americans don’t like these protests.

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Some 24 percent say they will boycott the games. The Steelers player who stood alone in the tunnel during the anthem, Alejandro Villaneuva, has the best-selling jersey in the NFL. My guess is that the owners will keep their heads down and hope it will blow over.

Here is a solution to the problem: stop playing the national anthem at sporting events. Ditto with saluting the flag. Why do we have to prove our patriotism at a game? Why do we have to inject nationalism into a sporting event?

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military just because I don’t wish to sing or pledge.

I love America and I have the greatest respect for our soldiers, but I’m not real fond of our government. Does that make me unpatriotic? Pledging allegiance or singing the anthem is just another way our government gets you to support them. This practice started at baseball games during WWII to remind us what we were fighting for and to cheer our troops. But

only 39 percent of you know the lyrics anyway, fewer if you count the celebs who flub the lines at the games. The “country” I love is not our government, it is us, the nation – not the state.

I have a libertarian view of the world. I believe that all of us would be better off with more freedom and less government. And history is on my side. The very fact of America and its founding principles have demonstrated that these are the most successful methods of creating prosperity, health, and happiness in all of human history.

I look at Washington, D.C., and the key players in the beltway don’t strike me as being anything but self-serving politicians who strive for power, fame, and political longevity. There are many fine exceptions, of course, but they seem to be in the minority. There is also a huge federal bureaucracy of nice people who are engaged in spending your money in mostly inefficient and ineffective ways.

Washington is the state, not the country we love.

I agree that the flag is an important symbol of the success that America has become, but I fear that we are losing our exceptionalism as a nation, and the flag represents less the humility of our founders and more a symbol of a growing powerful and oppressive state.

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A Pumpkin Patch of Brews

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maple syrup, and even molasses help give these beers a more decadent flavor and a good alcohol boost to boot.

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.

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umpkin is polarizing. This time of year sees a slew of pumpkinthemed products and people either respond with love or disgust.

This is certainly true in the beer world, where the fall season brings a range of pumpkin-based brews. Pumpkins are native to North America and were used by settlers in early American brewing. As the continent became more developed, pumpkins fell out of use as grain and other sources of fermentable sugars became more widespread and available. More recently, it was Bill Owens of Buffalo Bill’s Brewery who helped craft the pumpkin beer style.

In 1985, Bill came across a recipe by George Washington for using pumpkin in brewing. He recreated this recipe adding pumpkin pie spice as a modern flare and a legend was born.

Bill no longer owns the brewery however the Buffalo Bill’s Pumpkin Ale can still be found nationwide. These days, it is unfortunately a rather soulless example of the style. Fortunately, craft brewers have embraced pumpkin beers

and are producing many variations on the style.

MORE THAN ONE WAY TO CARVE A PUMPKIN There is a variety of forms, each with their own set of benefits, that pumpkin is added into the brew. There doesn’t seem to be one preferred method, and the combination of ingredients and methods make for a wide range of variation between examples in this style.

Obviously, the simplest method is to just cut up a raw pumpkin. The seeds are usually seen as undesirable and will be discarded, though some brewers have used toasted seeds in their brew and there are even stories of homebrewers malting the seeds. While some brewers do use raw pumpkin, many will roast the pumpkin beforehand.

This results in a sweeter, fuller flavor with the added benefit of converting some of the starches in the pumpkin into fermentable sugars. Pumpkin purée is another popular option and gives the beer a rich pumpkin flavor and

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a noticeable haziness. The pumpkin can also be juiced in a press similar to how you would make cider, but that historical technique is less common these days.

The point at which pumpkin is added during the brewing process will affect the final beer as well.

When pumpkin is put into the mash, the enzymes active in the grain will convert the pumpkin’s starches into sugar, producing a drier beer. When added into the boiling kettle, the pumpkin ends up in the actual liquid, resulting in a hazier beer with a richer pumpkin flavor. Adding pumpkin to the secondary fermenter or during packaging has a similar, but even more powerful, effect since the pumpkin’s sugars won’t be consumed during fermentation.

While pumpkins are the most popular, brewers have also been known to use yams, sweet potatoes and additional squashes in their brew.

Most of that definitive pumpkin pie flavor with which people are familiar is due from the spices and not the actual pumpkin. The traditional pumpkin spice blend is nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, and ginger – and brewers will sometimes use all or parts of this blend. Some brewers will actually opt out of adding any pumpkin and use only the spices.

Vanilla, either as an extract or whole beans, is another common addition.

A variety of sugars find their way into pumpkin beers as well. Brown sugar,

PUMPKIN LOVE AT LAMA DOG Lama Dog Tap Room + Bottle Shop recently held a class on pumpkin beers as part of their recurring Beer Class series. The classes are held about twice a month and serve knowledge and around 15 beers to a dozen or so people. The classes are organized and hosted by Justin Crider, a certified cicerone and known pumpkin beer advocate, so it promised to be a festive evening.

Kern River Pumpkin Ale made for a good start to the night. Pumpkin beers can easily get overwhelmed by their spices, though this version’s soft spicing allowed the natural starch-like character of pumpkin to shine through. Dogfish Head Punkin Ale followed, and its richer spicing and addition of brown sugar made this a heartier example of the style.

The Pumpkin Ale from Smoke Mountain had the unique twist of actually being fermented in giant, hollowed-out pumpkins from McGrath Family Farms.

The beer had a touch of tartness with a note of orange peel and a distinct yeast character followed by an alcohol warmth in the finish. A 2016 bottle of Midnight Sun TREAT Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter blended chocolate and pumpkin, always a winning combination. Brewed with cocoa nibs, the beer had a robust mocha aroma with an accent of licorice and a mousse-like body.

The Bruery Autumn Maple was brewed with vanilla and maple syrup; however, the real distinguishing characteristic is the use of yams instead of pumpkins. It is also fermented with a Belgian yeast to give it some spicy phenolics that contrast with the starchy, sweetness of the brew.

While the class largely focused on pumpkin beers, Justin broke up the flow of pumpkin by showcasing some of the other styles of the season.

Two Oktoberfest beers exhibited the main variations on the style. Ninkasi

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Oktoberfest is a brew representative of all things new. Bright malt flavors were followed by a bitter bite from European noble hops done with a craft brewer’s heavy hand. Ayinger Oktober Fest-Märzen served as a perfect example of a Märzen; the historical style which was traditionally served at Oktoberfest until about 20 years ago.

With its nectar-like malts and firm bitterness, this beer shows the rich but delicate nature of this style. Fremont Brewing Field to Ferment Fresh Hop Pale Ale had a singed-citrus flavor and turned the conversations toward the recent hop harvest. Fresh (often called “wet”) hopped brews use hop cones that have come directly from the field, which means they are only available once a year, during harvest. Normally, hops are dried and matured after harvesting, though wet hops skip this step, resulting in a greener character.

As the night moved on, the beers became richer and more exotic with the last set exploring the farther reaches of pumpkin beers. Uinta Brewing Co. Funk’n Patch is a pumpkin beer with the twist of being fermented with Brettanomyces. It had a bright peachy note on the nose, with a slight acidity that sharpened the other flavors and left a mild Brettanomyces aroma in

the finish. Almanac Beer Co. Dark Pumpkin Sour is aged in wine barrels to give it a sharp acidity balanced by some wine tannin and accented by a red-grape aroma. The Bruery Midnight Autumn Maple is a variation on their normal Autumn Maple.

This version uses a dark imperial ale as the base beer and is considerably drier with a more earthen, tobaccolike flavor that has a cocoa powder roastiness. The evening ended with a selection of wildly flavored and barrelaged versions of pumpkin beer such as Avery’s Rumkin or Bottle Logic’s The Spice Must Flow, a pumpkin spice latte-inspired version that is aged in rum and bourbon barrels.

The class as a whole offered quick dashes of beer flavor that weaved together this wide-ranging and complex style. Throughout the night, Justin did a great job of keeping everyone’s palates interested. Lama Dog’s next course will be Barrel Aged Beer 2.0 and will take place Tuesday, October 24, at 6 pm. There are only 10 spots, so sign up quickly, either at the bar or online (www.lamadog.com).

This class will explore the different types of barrels and woods used to age beer and promises to be another night of revelry and fun brews.

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Time to Rise and Sides

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erhaps it’s just a coincidence that Nazi Germany figures prominently in two theatrical productions that are playing in our area over the fortnight, just a few months after white nationalist rallies ignited violent protests in Virginia.

But whatever the reason for mounting the works, presentations of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at Westmont College and Taking Sides by Academy Award-winner Sir Ronald Harwood at Rubicon Theatre Company (RTC) in Ventura seem especially timely in our conflicted times.

Brecht’s Ui is actually set in Depression-era Chicago and uses an Al Capone-like crime boss riding roughshod over the gangster-filled city to serve as a thinly veiled stand-in for Adolph Hitler and the rise of fascism.

The satire based its characters on an easily identifiable one-to-one basis with the henchmen of the Third Reich. The play wasn’t even produced in English until 1961, 20 years after Brecht wrote it, and three years after his death. But the satire about power and the tools of fear has lived on over the decades.

Westmont Theater professor Mitchell Thomas now directs the work in a student production in Porter Theater on the school’s Montecito campus on October 21-22 and 26-28. He’s taking note of Brecht’s desire to jolt the audience by employing a few tricks of own, including casting a female in the lead role and slide projections, a palette full of abstract colors and images, and a character who is also a videographer creating a live feed that will be projected while action takes place on stage, which, by the way, will also house a live seven-piece band. Tickets cost $12 general, $7 students, children and seniors. Visit www.westmont.edu/ boxoffice.

RTC’s Taking Sides, which plays at the Ventura theater October 28 to November 12, is based on the story of German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler, who remained in Germany after Hitler’s rise to power and was later accused of being a Nazi sympathizer. Playwright Harwood, who won his Oscar for penning another Nazi wartime drama, The Pianist, seven years after Sides premiered,

similarly explores the territory created by the collision between art, power, politics, and personal responsibility.

Harwood’s dramatization of the investigation into Furtwängler is set in 1946 in the American Zone of occupied Berlin, where major Steve Arnold interviews the conductor who had become increasingly controversial when he chose to remain in Germany while many of his colleagues had fled out of protest or persecution. Did he naively believe that art was above politics? Did he allow himself to be manipulated by the Nazi propaganda machine? Or was he, in fact, a collaborator?

Directed by Ovation Award-winner Stephanie Coltrin, the play boasts a cast fronted by stage and screen veteran Peter Van Norden (who played Ebenezer Scrooge in the company’s production of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol) and Patrick Vest.

Coltrin is quoted in the press release as saying that examining the motives and the far-reaching consequences of the conductor’s choices for himself and others leads us to ask ourselves what we might do in similar circumstances.

For tickets, which cost $30 to $55, visit www.rubicontheatre.org or call 6672900.

Rocky Road

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ll things considered, maybe it’s just better to laugh at horror. The Rocky Horror Show, that is. Out of the Box Theatre Company, the nonprofit known for producing alternative contemporary musical theater, dives deeper – or at least back a ways – to kick its eighth season with a production of the humorous musical tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies circa 1940-60. The musical, which dates to 1973 (the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show came two years later), tells the story of a newly engaged and very naïve couple seeking shelter from a thunderstorm in an old castle, which is the home of a mad crossdressing scientist, Dr. Frank N. Furter, who unveils his new creation, a manmade monster who looks more like a physically perfect muscle man model than a nuts-and-bolts Frankenstein.

Stripped of inhibitions as well as their clothes, Brad and Janet embark on a

wild, unforgettable journey of pleasure and self-discovery in a mad romp that mashes up comic-book style camp and rock ‘n’ roll. Samantha Eve directs the interactive production – yes, throwing popcorn at the appropriate moments is expected – which should be even more immersive in the intimate black box space of Center Stage Theater.

Premium seating even includes a prop bag to accommodate all of your Rocky Horror needs, and, of course, costumes are encouraged. The limited engagement begins, naturally, on Halloween (October 31) and plays for five consecutive nights only through Saturday, November 4. Call 963-0408 or visit www.outoftheboxtheatre.org.

YIYBY (Yes, in Your Backyard)

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reating a brand-new film festival is a tough sell in this town. Sure, SBIFF – the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which turned 30 not long ago – just keeps growing in size and cachet with each passing year. But elsewhere and otherwise, it’s not so easy. Heck, even UCSB Arts & Lectures finally pulled the plug on their own curated film screenings.

But Dee Elias, the plucky former flight attendant turned filmmaker and author (Confessions of a Beatlemaniac), isn’t so easily dismayed. She shot a nine-minute-long short film reenactment of the climactic scene from her book, a memoir of the time she actually met the British Invasion lads back in the mid-1960s, and then found she had nowhere to show it on a large screen in town. So, she created her own event, The Backyard Shorts FilmFest, a one-day extravaganza that will unspool 36 brief (no more than 20-minute) movies made by local short filmmakers on Sunday afternoon, October 22, at the Hitchcock Theater (formerly Plaza de Oro). The entries range from outthere experimental offerings to hardhitting documentaries, a few fiction pieces, a handful of music videos, and even animation, plus student films. A professional comedian serves as emcee, while local musicians will perform during breaks in the screenings, which are broken into four segments from 12:30 to 9 pm. Admission is $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Visit www. backyardshorts.com.

Giddens is a Genius

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s in Genius Grant, the nickname for the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship that neither the non-profit organization nor most of the recipients are terribly fond of. Still, Rhiannon Giddens, the North Carolina native who co-founded the Grammy Awardwinning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops before going solo a couple of years back, definitely owns bragging rights as the world’s first officially crowned “genius” banjo player. Her debut solo album, with the prescient title Tomorrow Is My Turn, was produced by the great T Bone Burnett and itself was nominated for a Grammy for her dexterous vocals (she originally studied opera at Oberlin) over a masterful Americana-mix of gospel, jazz, blues, and country. The follow-up, Freedom Highway, features nine original songs Giddens wrote or co-wrote along with a traditional song and two Civil Rights-era numbers, “Birmingham Sunday” and the title track from the Staple Singers.

It’s likely the MacArthur folks were also impressed by the Choco Drops’s dedication in calling attention to the forgotten role of African-American musicians in the development of string band and country music. But they don’t explain themselves, and neither do the grant recipients – Giddens was one of about two-dozen winners announced earlier in October – have any strings attached to the $625,000 grant that’s paid out over five years. While she’s figuring out what to do with the dough, Giddens will bring her Freedom Highway Tour to UCSB Campbell Hall at 8 pm on Thursday, October 26.

Tickets are $25 to $38. Call 893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB. edu.

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hat a spectacular name for this afternoon event that brings master mixologists to the famed Montecito gardens for a second annual cocktail competition, a beautiful bartender showdown in one of the most besottedwith-beauty locations in our realm.

The drink designers are each assigned a section of Lotusland – six different areas in all, spread around the expansive land – to inspire their alcoholic creations concocted in part from ingredients (fruits, herbs, et cetera) that might be found in the Lotusland grounds.

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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.

So Much Stuff in Santa Barbara? I’m Stayin’!

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ore than once over the last few days, I’ve been asked about my reasons for living in Santa Barbara. One friend wanted to know what makes the place so special, while a colleague asked what keeps me here despite knowing that my (meager) wages would go a lot further in terms of housing in a locale a little farther inland or out of state. There are a lot of things: the nearby proximity of the beach and the mountains; the opportunities for education, spiritual immersion, and other exploration endeavors; reduced traffic, easy parking, and the like; and the weather, of course. But it’s also the cultural opportunities, an expansive slate of arts and entertainment that is unparalleled on a per-capital basis.

I need point only to last Tuesday night for a clear example.

Lindsey Buckingham and Christie McVie were doing a concert at the

Arlington Theatre. ODC/Dance was performing at the Granada, and Glen Phillips had a gig at SOhO – all at the same time. Just ponder that for a moment. The two most creative members of the still thriving Fleetwood Mac out promoting their new duo record plus some of the band’s hits at a theater that has a faux night sky for a ceiling and Spanish village architecture.

The San Francisco modern dance group ODC mounted a multimedia performance inspired by the natural materials of an Andy Goldsworthy installation being created at a friend of the co-choreographer’s house (the video projected was shot in 10 second intervals over the course of the construction) while cellist Zoë Keating played her own electro-acoustic score on stage. And the heart, soul, and brains – not to mention the voice – behind Santa Barbara’s own Toad the Wet Sprocket, who has gone on

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to fashion an ambitious and impressive solo singer-songwriter career, played for his base of beguiled locals at an intimate club.

What made this amazing array of arts programs even more incredible was that they took place within less than a city block of one another here in our little berg by the sea. As it were, I didn’t make it out to see any of the shows. My Tuesday nights are currently reserved for something called “circling”, a kind of authentic relating experience that combines connection with what best might be called a group presencing practice. (If you want to know more about that, drop me an email, or drop

by Yoga Soup for the monthly Authentic Relating Games for a taste.) But no matter. Just knowing all that was taking place about a mile from my home – I could have walked to the shows! – warms my culture-loving heart to no end.

Then there’s the volleyball. Any further questions?

THE COUPLE THAT DANCES TOGETHER, ROMANCES TOGETHER Adaptations can be tricky. You’ve got to keep fans of the original version happy while not simply offering a carbon copy, and add enough new stuff to keep things interesting without losing the thread of what made the thing good in the first place. Fortunately, both Dirty Dancing the Musical at the Granada and Ensemble Theatre’s world premiere of its own stage version of Woody Allen’s movie Husbands and Wives were vital versions on their own.

Dancing was truly mind-bogglingly good, and a real surprise as it was hard to imagine that the sexy throwback fun of the movie could be translated to the stage. But actually I liked it even more than the film, as the adaptation wisely kept expository, narrative scenes extremely short and put extra oomph

into the dance numbers. The dance chorus had both energy and precision to spare in one breathtaking number after another, while the leads sizzled in their roles. The level of excitement and electricity was rare for a touring show.

Now, I’m once again eagerly anticipating the next season of Broadway in Santa Barbara, which begins anew later in November with Jersey Boys, slated for November 21-28. Motown the Musical, which I have on good source is not to be missed, runs January 9-10, followed by Kinky Boots’s Santa Barbara debut on February 20-21. The classic A Chorus Line officially closes out the new season on March 20-21, though Let It Be, which celebrates The Beatles’s music, is an add-on slated for March 31. Check the Granada at 899-2222 or www. granadasb.org for tickets.

By the way, my companion said she thought the casting in Dirty Dancing really mirrored the movie’s, but I didn’t see it except, perhaps, in the actress portraying Baby. On the other hand, Allen’s voice, Mia Farrow’s whine, and Juliette Lewis’s coquettish-ness kept eerily creeping into my mind during the first part of Husbands, despite writer/ director Jonathan Fox’s clear intention to have the actors not draw on the movie about the uncoupling and coupling in a couple of challenged relationships. But I think that was only in my mind, not the casting, and it faded as the evening progressed. The production was crisp and inventive – what with the smart staging that had all the locations on stage at once, and the almost ever-present cameraman capturing alternative views and a few direct speeches by the characters both on and off stage. Even more enjoyable was the conversation it sparked afterward – reason enough to see this show, which continues at the New Vic through Sunday, October 22, even if your marriage is as sound as they come.

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complement their cocktails, we’re told. This year’s contestants and their garden assignments include Loquita (Cycad Garden), Les Merchands (Bromeliad Garden), The Imperial (Topiary Garden), The Bobcat Room/ Little Kitchen (Citrus/Insectary), The Lark (Fern Garden), and Alcazar/ Milk&Honey (Tropical Garden), the latter returning to defend last year’s crown. After the jaunty stroll to sample all the offerings – as well as visit the noncompeting areas of the garden – visitors then gather on the garden’s Main Lawn for live music and a nosh, and to hear about the winner chosen by the celebrity judges, which includes distillers Ian Cutler (Cutler’s Artisan Spirits) and Anthony Caspary (Ventura Spirits), Lotusland CEO Gwen L. Stauffer, and Diana Starr Langley, the new owner and publisher of Montecito Journal Magazine. Tickets for the 3 to 5 pm event on Saturday, October 28, cost $110 ($95 for Lotusland members), but the experience is priceless. Call 969-9990 or visit www.lotusland.org/ event/spiritof.

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Whiskey formed at UCSB (read Isla Vista parties) back in the early 1990s and has gone on to become one of the West Coast’s fave party-bar bands, with a bunch of records to their credit. And they’re not partial to just one theme.

In addition to the musical mash-up, it’s also a Halloween party of all parties, and everyone is encouraged to come dressed as your favorite Wizard of Oz character. (You don’t come to a Poor Man’s Whiskey looking for logic.) The madness goes down at 9 pm Friday, October 27, at SOhO Restaurant and Music Club. Tickets will set you back $17 in advance, or $20 on the day of show. (You do recall the ringing cash register and coins jingling on “Money”, right?) Info at 962-7776 or www. sohosb.com.

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Industrial Strength exhibits abstract art inspired by city imagery and street art

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bstract art often expresses structures and forms with the precision and imagination of an architect. The colors, lines, and shapes need to be balanced and have functionality in the same way that a building or structure must. Abstract artist Madeline Garrett expresses these similarities in her current exhibit, Industrial Strength, at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara.

Madeline has been a Santa Barbarabased abstract artist for more than 20 years. Her body of work has largely focused on abstract paintings that use layering, written words, and stencil work to form a base that is then finished with reductionist and cut-away techniques.

Madeline had always been interested in art, but it didn’t really click for her until she took a painting class wherein she fell in love with the abstract style.

In 1993, Madeline drove from

Pennsylvania to Santa Barbara to pursue her career as an artist. She got a bartending job at The Wildcat and began to focus on her painting as much as she could. In 1995, she had her first solo show and over the years she continued to exhibit around the area.

While some of her earlier paintings were in an Impressionist style, the majority of her work has focused on abstract pieces. In 2011, she left her job as a property inspector and made the switch to painting full time, exhibiting mostly in Santa Barbara and Vail, Colorado.

Last year, Madeline began teaching workshops as well. She has two levels of workshops focusing on different abstract layering techniques. The classes are held in Peggy Ferris’s Chaparral Studios (ferrisabstracts.com) and instructs students on various abstract

and reductionist techniques. During the course, Madeline enjoys encouraging students to be expressive and to put their personality into their work. She will also soon be introducing a third-level course for returning students, wherein they can learn about more advanced techniques and how to work on larger scales. The classes are limited to 10 to 12 people and sell out quickly, so it is best to enroll early. The workshops have been completed for 2017, though there is a tentative workshop planned for January. You can find more information about upcoming workshops and see examples of Madeline’s work at www. madelinegarrett.net.

Her current exhibit, Industrial Strength, incorporates some of her reductionist techniques but these works veer away from her previous abstract pieces and explore the world of collage.

Madeline got to travel around the country during her time as a property inspector. While on assignment, she would photograph the graffiti, street art, and buildings in the area. From Greenwich Village to Haight-Ashbury, Madeline traveled around urban environments, photographing objects and buildings, seeking out ones that were not shiny or perfect. This imagery seemed to be in contrast to the overconsumerism that she found throughout our culture.

For Industrial Strength, Madeline used these images and others from her more than 30 years of photography to create the collages. These images were torn and layered with hand-painted papers, stencils, and reduction techniques to produce the final piece.

In Industrial Strength, each painting begins with Madeline writing protests, prayers, and statements on the blank paper. She then layers paint and images on top, obscuring the original message. As Madeline visited different cities, she became interested in the range of communication found in graffiti and street art. From grandiose displays to quick tags, she observed that graffiti served as a voice for people whose voice might often not get heard.

This inspired her to place hidden and unheard messages within each piece.

Although she is not glorifying graffiti, she found the street art that beautified a neglected wall made the area a brighter place.

This is best translated to her showpiece of the exhibit, Let it Rip. The painting is themed with the gray and black tones of a metropolis, small dashes of yellow and red are scattered throughout, giving the impression of street signs seen down a long avenue. The background features bits and pieces of her street photography, and one will notice images from a series of Greenwich Village prints also featured in the exhibit. Let it Rip has been layered with words, Madeline tagging different messages and placing heavy stencil work across the surface. This gives an overall impression of sturdy but well-worn building wall concealed behind its build up of graffiti and grime.

Industrial Strength will be on display until Thursday, November 16, at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB). This organization is a nonprofit dedicated to “enhancing our community’s awareness and appreciation of architecture and the built environment.” AFSB was founded in 1983 and moved to their current location in the historic Acheson House in 1990. The house, located on the corner of Garden and Victoria, was built in 1904 in the Victorian Italianate residential design and went through an extensive restoration five years back. The Acheson House hosts the AFSB staff as well as their gallery, which features about five main exhibits each year.

In addition to weekly walking tours and scholarships, the AFSB offers educational programs to students and children in the area. The Kids Draw Architecture (KDA) program allows children to join volunteer architects and artists for free sketch sessions at architecturally significant locations around the area. Selected sketches are featured in a KDA official calendar that is released at an annual year-end KDA Show and reception at the Acheson House.

The Built Environment Education Program (BEEP) introduces elementary school children to architectural programming and design processes as volunteer architects teach them about scale, space planning, and environmental considerations during a five-week program. Students learn how to draw, measure, and build while they create an imagined environment for their final project.

More information about AFSB programs can be found at afsb.org. The gallery is open every Saturday from 1 to 4 pm or by appointment (please contact Rocio Iribe at Rocio@afsb.org).

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— Santa Barbara’s evergreen Mission of Mercy whose defining gifts are a posture-straightening backbone and the practical magic of ordinary love. The night’s festivities were in celebration of Unity Shoppe’s 100year anniversary, and the soirée was a cardiac house party; all pumping heart and an audience richly oxygenated with the life-giving stuff of community.

SB is one of those odd burgs whose hometown charity turns 100 and is feted by landed aristocracy (Arthur von Wiesenberger), freaking Dennis Miller (the only “Weekend Update” guy who will ever matter), and the child of Sea Hunt star Lloyd Bridges, to name but a few. Tonight’s riot of performance and commentary has been a hometown blast — from the San Marcos High School Madrigals absolutely stilling the room with their gorgeous gossamer, to Art and Dennis’s endearingly pal-like (and lightly rehearsed) repartee, to Jeff Bridges’s video message – a full screen, swirling iSelfie wherein a Lebowski-like figure careens about a room somewhere and yells his congrats. “Unity Shoppe! Woo Hoooo!” “He wasn’t really spinning,” Miller had deadpanned about his chum. “That’s just how Jeff Bridges sees the world.”

Finally, the Unity Shoppe staff themselves shyly took the stage in their company shirts to thunderous applause, the well-off audience in their finery slamming hands together like stevedores giving it up for their own.

The night was pure neighborhood magic. And what a neighborhood.

UNITY AND INDIVIDUALISM The Unity Shoppe’s name and starburst symbol are overly familiar to SB residents, and their mission probably stirs only mild interest in most of our busy citizenry. But the model of “giving” the Unity Shoppe has pioneered is a Wow, and has changed the game at the level of the individual, where it counts. Despite its quaint spelling, The Unity Shoppe is not Ye Olde Donations Warehouse of Yore, gathering in and then projecting a thin layer of well-meaning, anonymized “charity” on embarrassed recipients and then moving along.

The Unity Shoppe is a... shop. People shop there. And as the Paseo Nuevo mobs who swirl in like pilgrims every weekend can attest, shopping is raw power; an exercise in initiative-seizing, among other things. Everyone should get a crack at it.

“Giving is complicated. Much more than I ever realized. What we’re doing here hasn’t really been done anywhere in the world. That is astounding to

me.” I’m talking to Unity Shoppe president and director of operations Barbara Tellefson in the lobby of the Unity Shoppe’s nerve center on Chapala – a nondescript beige edifice whose innards hide more blinking magic than the Batcave. On my arrival, she’d directed me to sit on a bench in the lobby and is now standing while we speak. When I ask her if she wouldn’t like to sit too, she offers a wry smile. “I like the eye contact,” she says levelly, and the diminutive dynamo’s point is well taken.

THE FINE ART OF STANDING UP Like much of Santa Barbara’s unsung human back story, The Unity Shoppe narrative is a many-chambered nautilus with a pearl at its center. And as is often the case here in stories of an evolving St. Babs, the Pearl in question has the last name of Chase. “Pearl Chase was one of the first people to really take notice of disadvantaged people here,” Barbara says. Records show that SB community volunteers began taking it on themselves to help underprivileged kids and seniors during the Christmas holidays around 1916. Pearl Chase, in her inimitable fashion, saw a wonderful thing and wholly threw herself at helping to make it really fly.

By the 1930s, the effort had grown enough that its committees and entities needed to be organized in a way to reduce double-work and redundancies, and a marvy thing called The Council of Christmas Cheer (CCC) was born. Budgets and office space were always issues, but the robust volunteerism of activist Santa Barbarans across all tax brackets kept things viable, and the number of families being swept into the CCC embrace grew year by year.

In 1973, local business owner and Dinwiddie, Virginia, transplant Barbara Tellefson was doing her own research into how she could be a part of her adoptive community’s efforts to help the disenfranchised in the area, most of whom were working parents having to regularly struggle with the “rent vs. food” puzzle.

She’d received an early eye-opener on the subject of what true Mercy is and is not, taking groceries to a family whose name she’d plucked from a church’s list of “needy” people in the region. To Barbara’s surprise, she found herself being justifiably berated by the college-educated single mom who appreciated neither the “one bag fits all” grocery condescension, nor unsolicited gifts from an empowered stranger who would, in the eyes of the kids, inadvertently strip the head of household of parent/provider

mojo. Barbara’s early schooling in this reinforced her determination to make the Unity Shoppe model one of ordinary dignity and respect.

At this writing, 73 percent of Unity Shoppe’s patrons are actually in the workforce, contrary to grumpy public shorthand about the underprivileged.

“Welfare” is a third-rail term politically and divides the United States’s increasingly meager two-party system along a philosophical fault-line. I don’t know who would argue, though, that a person who is momentarily on his back is bettered by being served lunch on his chest, and not given the means to walk into the dining room and pull up a chair. The Unity Shoppe’s whole M.O. is simply about providing the necessary headroom to allow one to stand up.

“Oh, this place is magic!” Barbara exults. No argument here.

THIS IS IT By the mid-1980s, Tellefson was reduced to accosting the composer of House on Pooh Corner in a parking lot.

President of the CCC since 1977, she’d been tested by the perennial struggle for permanent office space and funding enough to provide for all the area’s underserved Santa Barbarans. Now she wanted toys. She knew who could help her if she could just have his ear, and she had been trying to reach his phone forever. “I wasn’t familiar with his music,” she says. “I am not a groupie type. I just needed his help collecting toys, and I knew he was doing great work.”

When the Grammy© winning composer and Toys for Tots spokesman made the tactical mistake of wandering around in broad daylight one afternoon, Barbara pounced. She explained the problem she was having procuring enough toys for the holidays and asked Kenny Loggins to come around to the Unity Shoppe and look at the inherently empowering model of “giving” there. In short order, he saw her vision.

The rest is you-know-what. By 1987, Loggins was gathering showbiz super-heroes to appear in a fundraising “Christmas Unity” telethon on KEYT, the miracle that became a tradition.

Michael McDonald, Joe Cocker, Michael Bolton, Anne Francis, John Cleese, Steve Martin… over the years, the telethon has attracted local and visiting celebs of all stripes. Their star power and fundraising chops have helped make the Unity Shoppe come even closer to what Barbara had dreamed.

In the extensive Unity Shoppe literature, Barbara Tellefson is seen

through all the stages of her, and our city’s, journey. Once a dimpled fresh-faced gal with a Santa Hat, photographed wrapping a gift or posing between city luminaries, she is today a slower-moving powerhouse, walking with a cane and as radiant as ever. She has been at this for 45 years, working her ass off for all of us, and for our city. To see her then and now is stirring. She’s given everything.

CHRISTMAS IN SANTA BARBARA (TWO THOUSANDTHOUSAND) The Lobero celebration is wrapping.

Barbara has stood center stage and glowingly thanked everybody for what has been achieved through the years, and she means it. The love coming to her from the audience is enough to make one blush. There is, though, just the one final millstone whose removal would free the Unity Shoppe genie from the bottle once and for all and truly maximize the mission. Barbara mentions it in her comments tonight, and had mentioned it this way in my tour of the Chapala Client Services building.

“I’m 82. I had hoped by the time I was 75 I would have all this paid off. If I can somehow get the $2M to buy this building, I’ll take care of the rest.” The SB Rescue Mission, another critically worthy institution, is reportedly well on the way to raising its needed $17M for a structural renovation that is underway. Their desperately necessary 100 beds compare interestingly to Unity Shoppe’s 18,000 assisted families. In a town with our notably liquid demographic, can we not find $2M worth of change in the community sofa? $2M is only two thousand-thousand, after all. Anyone?

Anyone? Any taker, or group, who considers pulling that off will have placed a capstone on a Santa Barbara monument for the ages, one that will get the willing on their feet in perpetuity. There’s a legacy for you, and for our community. Sleep on it?

Yeah, Community. It’s a noun that can bore the pants off you until you feel its actual weight in a room full of neighborly lovebirds. Tonight, my friend and I swim through the congregants and pull up next to Mr. Noone, who is receiving the audience’s happy praise with smiling humility and genuine thanks.

My British friend has done a little research and mentions to Noone the town she’s from, names the street where her parents live. Must be a Manchester thing? Noone lights up like a kid.

“Really! My family is from right around the corner!”

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Ellen Sztuk, a.k.a. “The Stitch Witch,” removes the pins from a pair of men’s jeans and readies them to sew

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alfway up the hill on Carrillo Street, on the west side of Santa Barbara, is a small studio adorned with a world of vintage treasures: plastic statues of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, the Infant of Prague holding strings of sham white pearls amid black-andwhite photos of Charles Bukowski and William Burroughs, with dozens of scissors that hang on the pallid walls.

And on a brown, maple-wood table sits a pink-and-white sewing machine, with a young, yet experienced seamstress known as “The Stitch Witch” sitting by its side, humming along to David Bowie and The Smiths, and working at what she calls her “dream job.”

By 8:30 am on the weekdays, after a strong pot of the witches’ favorite brew from Lazy Acres, Ellen Sztuk walks through the front door of her townhouse, where she lives with her happy little coven of four – husband, Christ, son Rain, (6), and daughter Eve (3) – and into her private studio attached to her home, where she hems, tacks, lets out, takes in, darts, tucks, mends, and alters pants, shirts, dresses, jackets, or any piece of clothing her variegated clients bring.

“It’s my safe space from the world,” said Sztuk, whose passion is also in textile designing. “It’s me 100 percent.

It’s where I can be comfortable and create, and just be me and feed my obsession with fabrics. I just look at the world and wish it could all be a jacket,”

Sztuk adds with a smile.

Sztuk, who was raised in Salt Lake City and moved to Santa Barbara 10 years ago, became “The Stitch Witch” in 2011 after her son was born. Since then, she’s accrued more than 1,000 clients by word-of-mouth only and has developed a clientele consisting of the young, the elderly, the poor, the affluent, the artistic, even the conventionally dressed who need only the smallest alteration.

“I absolutely love that part!” said Sztuk. I’ll have a Coco Chanel jacket that’s worth $2,500, next to a jacket with punk rock patches sewn all over it.

“How my clients vary, for the most part, makes it a honey pot for alterations.

Once, I had a bride bring me a beautiful dress and she wanted all the layers cut, just chopped all crazy uneven. I hated doing it because it was so unstructured, but it turned out so raw and real and punk rock,” she added.

Sztuk works until 10:30 am. Some days she only pins, sometimes only sews, sometimes both. She takes fittings from 10 am, and at the same time spends every morning and day with daughter Eve. The two in the studio, where the child plays client, explore the many types of attire Mommy gets to work with. Working from home allows Sztuk to be a full-time career woman, while spending her days with her kids and not paying for daycare.

For appointments, you can reach Sztuk at (805) 363-2067.

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

STATE OF THE ART

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s far as I know (and that might not be far), we haven’t had a mayoral debate over the arts in Santa Barbara. I would like to see one, but by the time you’re reading this it may be way too late. Ours is a tight-knit community that made the FunkZone funky and made Thursdays firsty. But often it feels as if art comes last in this town. Yes, affordable housing is the more pressing issue, but guess who needs affordable housing? Artists.

Look at our listings below and see how much art we have going on in our relatively small town. November 2 is First Thursday, so I expect to see you out and about. And if I run into you, let me know who’s your art mayor. On to the listings!

SQUIRE’D AWAY

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he Squire Foundation has been busy as of late. You might have seen that tintype photographer par excellence

Center. Although she uses glass plates in her photography, Ross’s portraits have been turned into wheat glue and paper for the mural and will stay up until they fade away.

Meanwhile back in town, The Squire Foundation will be hosting an artist salon and film screening 2 to 5 pm on Sunday, October 29, at its residence (4515 Via Maria) featuring documentaries on Ross and Matt Sesow and a presentation

by Sommer Roman. Please RSVP to jana@thesquirefoundation.org Finally, on First Thursday they have sponsored a pop-up along with Silo118 where several artists will be painting large-scale works at 927 State (a.k.a. across the street from the Apple Store).

Better catch it quick, as the works are only up for two whole days.

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alking about artists-in-residence, the Community Arts Workshop (631 Garden St.) will be kicking off their upcoming submission process for artists with a conversation among fellow creators: Kim Yasuda will talk about art and Isla Vista; Michael Morgan will discuss “The Odyssey Project” and the work it has done with youth detention centers; Audrey Lopez will talk about “Take Part/Make Art”; Joe Velasco will speak about his work with youth; and Ming Holden will address her theater work with Kenyan refugees.

Thursday, October 26, from 5 to 6:30 pm. Free, but please RSVP at https:// cawresidencykickoff.eventbrite.com/

paintings depicts fairies, witches, mystical, and mythical creatures, and the like – and in the best sense, they’re the kind of works that an apothecary would have on their annual calendars, if such a thing existed in town. Opens First Thursday, 7 to 10 pm. Additional encouragement: Free apple pie squares for early birds.

RUN THE NUMBERS

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ow’s your numerology? The Santa Barbara Tennis Club (2375 Foothill Road) has up “Femina 7: Obscura”, works by seven women artists (Cyndi DiMicco, Gina Papadakis, Kayla Pence, Joyce Wilson, Serena Lee, Christy Gutzeit, and Traci Jaslove) through December 1. The number seven is “the seeker, the thinker, the searcher of truth, but truth is often difficult to identify in the strange rhythms of life.” Or so says Susan Tibbles, the curator.

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SKULL SNAPS

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he beginning of November wouldn’t be complete without some Dia de los Muertos action, and Andi Garcia has curated a show at La Casa de la Raza (601 E. Montecito St.).

“Honoria/Honor” features several artists working in the colorful motifs of skeletons and flowers and the theme of honoring ancestors. J.D. Correa will be live sketching at the opening, 5 to 9 pm. The show runs through November 27.

DRINK UP

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eanwhile at MCA SB (upstairs at Paseo Nuevo, y’all) they’ll be hosting Curated Cocktails this First Thursday with KCSB DJ Tio Chuy spinning the Latin vibes. While that’s happening, you can help make a giant kite in the style of the Guatemalan Barriletes Gigates. 7 to 9 pm.

KISSES ALL OVER

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ovember at Elsie’s Tavern features the opening of “Besos”, new paintings by Violet Bast, just over a year from her previous show. Bast’s

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lso opening: The Santa Barbara Printmakers Exhibition at the Public Library’s Faulkner Gallery (40 E. Anapamu) with a reception on First Thursday, 5 to 7 pm; and the man they call Permanent Mark (“all the way from Mallorca!” says the press release) will bring his portraits of indigenous folk to the Press Room, (15 E. Ortega) also on First Thursday, 8:30 to 11:30 pm and up all month. And at Roy (7 E. Carrillo), Tara Patrick will be this month’s artist on display, also with a reception on November 2. And 10 West Gallery (10 W. Anapamu) opens “ReMARKable” with new abstracts from Rick Doehring, Beth Schmorh, Iben Vestergaard, Pat Calone, and Taj Vacarella; photography by Paulo Lima and Stephen Robeck, and sculpture by Duane Dammeyer, with the as-usual opening on First Thursday.

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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.

SYMBIOTIC LUSCIOUS LIVING

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lants need people,” Terra Basche told me as we were standing under one of her Living Walls in the Sonos warehouse in Santa Barbara.

Spread across a 16’ x 10’ installation above our heads was a vertical, thriving jungle of plant art.

“And people need plants,” Terra went on. “Everyone feels better when they are with plants.”

Terra’s new business, Lush Elements, is founded upon this idea; people benefit with overall well-being when plants play a role in their daily lives. Whether it’s visual as art, creative by defining space, or with edible goodness, Terra is an expert on it all.

Lush Elements recently launched as a sister company to Terra’s floral design business Terra Malia Designs.

A Hawaiian native, Terra grew up with one foot constantly outdoors and she said, “My hands were always in the dirt.

It grounds me.” Lucky for Terra, her passion is now her job, as she uses flora in the form of living art.

BE A PLANT-BASED PERSON Lush Elements has six different ways to personalize a plant experience: Living Lush, Lush Air, Lush Wall, Lush Plants,

The lovely Terra Basche lounging below a Lush Air wall piece (Photo credit Elliot Lowndes)

square feet of play space. Terra and her team are maintaining everything that is rooted in and around the Sonos offices.

The Lush approach increases the functionality of a space by moving plants up to the wall. This leaves more floor space open and also provides sound barriers. You’d be surprised at

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loved meeting with Terra and learning about Lush Elements. As we finished chatting, I asked if she would share one of her favorite recipes from the Lush Edible towers. These spring rolls are sure to impress anyone who sits at your table. Happy cooking: Terra’s Tower Garden Fresh Spring Rolls Ingredients: • Fresh mixed greens • Fresh basil • Fresh mint • Freshly picked viola flowers • Green onion • Avocado • Red, yellow, orange bell pepper • Carrot • Red cabbage • Cucumber • Vermicelli noodles • Spring rolls skin (Round Rice Paper) • Mae Ploy Chili Sauce • Fresh lime • Nut butter (We like Sunflower butter) Pick a generous amount of Tower Garden Greens and cut into small strips. Julienne other vegetables and put them aside. Cook the vermicelli noodles for the specified time. Soak one Spring Roll Skin at a time in warm water for no longer than 30 seconds and drip excess water off. Arrange ingredients in the middle of the rice paper with the loveliest, most colorful additions at the bottom. Add a large pinch of vermicelli noodles and close as tightly as possible, like how you would roll a burrito. Dip spring roll into a generous amount of combined chili sauce, lime and nut butter. Enjoy!

the magic Terra can work with her plants – not to mention the benefits of phytoremediation (detoxification) within your indoor air spaces.

You don’t need to have a warehouse to enlist Lush’s services. Terra does consultations for residential space as well. Her Lush Air pieces and Lush Edible tower gardens are perfect for your living room or kitchen patio. And if you are thinking you can’t commit to a growing piece, Lush can set you up with preserved Lush Wall art pieces too.

Terra designs these gems with mosses, ferns, and botanicals that do not require regular maintenance.

Maintenance is a key element to what Terra and her team provide for their unique Living Lush pieces. Terra came up with a special wicking process that allows for the larger living walls to be nourished and flourish over time. But, she insists, that maintenance is the key to these beauties. When you decide on your piece, you sign up for a weekly or bi-weekly care package. Terra and her team have big ladders, and they happily tend to the greenery all along the way.

Sonos employees get another added perk from Terra’s Lush presence. She gives a monthly demonstration in their kitchen with recipes she crafts from the living towers of edibles on the property. Terra demonstrates how to cook gourmet snacks such as Kale chips, fresh Caprese, spring rolls, and juices for the Sonos team to savor. One of Terra’s favorite parts of her job is connecting people with plants, especially when the plants end up in peoples’ bellies.

Lush Elements is bringing walls to life, literally, with statement pieces that give a new definition to art. No two pieces are ever the same. Terra possesses the power to bring the outside into your home, business, and body. If you are ready for some luscious living, pick your first stage and let Lush Elements help you get started. www. lushelements.com

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by Margaret Landreau

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

MARILYN LOPERFIDO FIBER AND JEWELRY ARTIST

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arilyn Loperfido’s story illustrates that life is what happens while you are planning other things. Back in 1978, she left New York with a degree in Life Sciences/Wildlife Biology to study wolves in Alaska.

But on her way, she stopped in Santa Barbara to visit her sister. Amazed at people showing and selling items they made at the Sunday Cabrillo Arts & Crafts show, she thought “I want to do that!” but didn’t have a craft.

Inspired by people’s reaction to her colored and patterned backpack, Loperfido bought denim and floral print materials and sewed up some backpacks.

She applied to the show and was accepted, and her first display was two mic stands with a tent pole across them holding up five packs. Eventually, she taught herself to build her own displays.

Her mother gifted her with a beautiful Italian tapestry she had been saving for Loperfido’s marriage. Further inspired by this “thread” that connected her to

her Italian ancestry, she branched out into designing and sewing jackets and coats from tapestry fabrics she would find in downtown L.A. She developed resources for fabrics there. For designer hardware to accent her pieces, she went to the community of Italian immigrant designers still working in Massachusetts in the early ‘80s. As her success grew, eventually she would commission her

own fabric colors and patterns for her line.

She talks about her early business years: “I would put them out on card tables; people would love to touch them and enjoy the tactile connection with handmade garments. I’ve made backpacks, fanny packs, water bottle carriers, and a sling to carry a baby and conceal breastfeeding. Then styles like jean jackets and fingertip lengths. I was meticulous about details – tapestry clothing has amazing appeal, it’s so gorgeous!”

Around 2006, waning sales sent Loperfido to BSC to retrain herself.

Studying graphic design, web design, glass-blowing, and ceramics, she worked for Santa Barbara City as a web designer

until 2016 when she began her current endeavor, sculpting jewelry designs from polymer clays.

For Loperfido, “The biggest bummer was when I started to do art for a living and it became manufacturing.

Once you start selling your art, it can make it difficult to find the muse. The regular public don’t realize how hard it is physically to do shows – they don’t know how hard we struggle. But I get so much joy from the final creation. My love of color and design inspires me, to see my art on someone is just great!”

She invites you to come see her on Sundays at the Art Walk along Cabrillo Boulevard in space #60. Contact her at mfl.sbcc@gmail.com and fimonueva. com

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IHeart SB

By Elizabeth Rose

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

NIGHT WATCH

…Before you know it, the sun creeps down below the horizon and night falls. And it’s just you, in the middle of the ocean, alone in the dark.

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he next harbor was about 14 hours away. Jason and I decided to work through the night in three-hour shifts so while one person slept, the other would steer the boat to keep course and basically avoid hitting any oncoming vessels. I took the 7-to-10 shift, which meant I’d be on deck from sunset to the first part of night, then back again from 1 in the morning until 4. Jason stood watching nearby as I put on my foul-weather gear (waterproof overalls and coat, rubber boots, and life vest).

I could tell he was a bit reluctant to let me have the first watch. “Make sure to steer clear of crab pots,” he said. “Stay vigilant and make sure to keep the correct heading.” He lingered nervously in front of me, the way a parent would before handing the car keys over to a freshly licensed teenager. “I got it, babe,” I said.

“I’ll wake you up if I need to. Promise.” He hung around for a bit checking the swell, the wind, the compass, before heading into the cabin. I glanced periodically

The vastness of ocean felt like a monster breathing down my neck through the companion way hatch to check on him. He sat upright in the quarter berth (a single bunk tucked under the cockpit), staring at the floor and picking his cuticles for about 20 minutes before laying down.

Finally, it was just me and the boat. The vastness of ocean felt like a monster breathing down my neck, and it took a few minutes to wrap my head around the fact I was floating on a tiny ship on the infinite sea. Then the sun dipped below the horizon and a new world laid out before me. It seemed that every star in the universe came out to play that night, seeming to drip from the sky like stalactites hanging from the roof of some ubiquitous cave. The waves gently rocked the boat from side to side and the ocean swell nudged us from behind. Back and forth, to and fro.

I was in a trance, hypnotized by the salty air, the movement of the boat, and the darkness that surrounded me. Then something in the water caught my eye. I leaned over the deck and saw bioluminescence flickering in the boat wake, lighting our path like a match head striking flint. I sat back and tried to cement the moment in my brain. Mentally filing it away so I could come back and relive again. I counted shooting stars, almost 20 of them, and watched cargo ships pass by in the distance, their bright lights twinkling on the horizon like a miniature floating cities.

Before I knew it, my shift was over and Jason climbed on deck to take the helm.

I went into the cabin and peeled off my foul-weather gear then crawled into the quarter berth to try to sleep. The loud hum of the motor became a calming white noise, and the swaying ship felt like a cradle rocking me to sleep. I slept soundly for about an hour, then rested in some sort of awakened dream state. At 1 in the morning, Jason kissed me on the head to wake me up. I wiped the sleep from my eyes then slipped back into my gear and took my place at the helm. Life in threehour shifts, our new normal.

The weather had changed since my last watch. Thick lines of clouds rolled over and masked the starry sky. I put in my earphones, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, and got lost in the story, feeling a type of kinship to the sailors on the Pequod. After about an hour, the moon crept up beyond the horizon. Its bright orange crescent shape made a full appearance before disappearing into the clouds.

It didn’t seem long afterward that my shift was over. Jason took the helm, and I stepped down into the cabin to peel off my gear. I brushed my teeth, then slipped into the quarter berth and fell asleep. Rocked by the waves and soothed by the white noise of the motor, I dreamt hard. Three hours later, we made our first stop and pulled into Westport, Washington, in the dense morning fog.

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SYVSNAPSHOT

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

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he Boy Scouts of America’s Los Padres Council plans to rebuild the Rancho Alegre camp and Outdoor School, which burned in the Whittier Fire in the Santa Ynez Mountains in July of this year. The fire destroyed most of the camp used by Scouts and local fifth and sixth graders, and it’s said it will cost millions of dollars to rebuild.

This year marked the 52nd for the Boy Scouts at the 213-acre camp off Highway 154 across from Lake Cachuma. Activities and education there included swimming, rowing, campfires, archery, star gazing, hiking, crafts, camping skills, and lessons about animals and plants, among others.

The Outdoor School that also uses the camp serves more than 4,000 fifth-grade and sixth-grade students each year, hosting day trips and overnight programs. Some schools spend multiple days using the outdoor education program, which is geared toward nurturing community and environmental stewardship.

The only buildings spared from the Whittier Fire were the dining hall, the pool area, the barbecue building, and a small cabin; 27 structures were destroyed.

Carlos Cortez, executive and CEO for the Los Padres Council Boy Scouts of America, says, “We are now at the beginning stages of our cleanup process, as we have finally been able to assess the damage of the fire in its entirety. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we are inspired to not only bring back Rancho Alegre but also improve it, so we can provide greater experiences for youth of the Outdoor School, Scouting, and our community families. Nature is already trying to do its part as we spotted a group of wildflowers already sprouted where fire at Larson’s Meadow had been not so long ago.”

The camp is insured, but more money will be needed to cover some of the costs, and fundraising efforts and campaigns are underway. The Rotary of Buellton held a benefit concert and silent auction in September at Solvang Festival Theater and a Halloween-themed golf tournament presented on Friday, October 27, at the Zaca Creek Golf Course.

The Outdoor School, Los Padres Council/BSA, and Rebuild the Ranch are asking for help and donations can be made online, by check, or in person at any of the Scout Store offices in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and Atascadero. For more information, visit www.rebuildtheranch.com, www.theoutdoorschool.org, or www. lpcbsa.org. Los Padres Council is a recognized 501(c)(3) charity.

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HALLOWEEN COSTUME GOLF AND BENEFIT here do ghosts play golf? On the golf corpse, of course, and you’ll find vampires, monsters, and golfers in spooky regalia at the 2nd annual Rotary of Buellton Halloween Costume Golf Tournament. This year, the event will benefit Rancho Alegre, with half of the proceeds going toward rebuilding the 213-acre youth camp that burned in the Whittier fire in July. Rio Vista Chevrolet will have a Car Giveaway for a Hole-in-One, and there will be a Best Costume Contest.

When: Friday, October 27 – Check-in is at 11 am with tee time at noon.

Where: Zaca Creek Golf Course, 223 Shadow Mountain Drive in Buellton Cost: $200 per team of four players, and the fee includes dinner.

Info: For more information or to register your team, call Dan Vreeland at 688-7760 or email dan1jvf@hotmail.com

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THE CURSE OF SKULL MOUNTAIN, A HAUNTED HOUSE he haunt returns for the 24th year with “The Curse of Skull Mountain”, hosted by the City of Solvang Parks and Recreation and City of Buellton Recreation.

Two terror-ific nights through abandoned gold and silver mines, a miner’s camp, the Old West Town, and more. There will be a special Halloween Streetfest that will thrill visitors with food, fun, and spirits both nights outside the Solvang Festival

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Theater where the Haunt will take place. A kid-friendlier haunt will be from 6 to 6:30 pm each day. All others, prepare to be scared!

When: Monday, October 30, and Tuesday, October 31, from 6 to 9:30pm Where: Solvang Festival Theater 420 Second Street in Solvang Cost: Children 3 and under $9, adults $11 Info: If you would like to be a volunteer, guide, monster, or donor at this event, call 688-7529.

PUMPKINS! eady the red Radio Flyer wagons – the season of pumpkin patching has begun in the Valley! The Solvang Farmer Pumpkin Patch is one farm overflowing with the feel of fall. Farm owner Steve Jacobson, says pumpkin-patch goers will find white, red, green, blue, and orange pumpkins alongside piles of gourds, hay bales, corn stalks, broom corn, and pumpkins of classic and exotic varieties including: Cinderellas, Jack-o-Lanterns, Ozzies, Turbans, and Munchkins, of all sizes from 1/2 a pound to 300 pounds. There is an 8-acre corn maze and a mini maze for the kids.

A “Night Maze” will be held on Saturday, October 28, starting at 6:30 pm with a last entry at 9 pm. “We are just lighting up the parking lot, so bring your own flashlight,” says Steve, hinting at an inevitably spooky fun time. This year, Steve says he has put a 1860s corn-sheller out on display: “You put in the whole dried corn on the cob, we let the kids spin the wheel, and it will spit out the kernels, and they can take a bag of unpopped corn and pop it at home.”

When: Open daily through Thursday, November 2 from 10 am to 6:30 pm Where: Alamo Pintado Road in Solvang next to Sunny Field Park Info: (805) 331-1918

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9TH ANNUAL BUELLTON HOLIDAY BAZAAR uellton holds an annual holiday arts and crafts fair, showcasing the talent of Santa Ynez Valley artisans, to start the holiday shopping. “It’s been nice to watch this grow each year. We’re getting a really nice mix this year,” says Kerry Morgantini with Buellton Rec Center, adding, “It is very hometown all the way.

People are coming and doing really different things.” All treasures are handmade and fall into the categories of textiles, clothing, jewelry, decorations, ornaments, and ornamental décor. “High-end artisans are coming our way this year,” says Kerry, explaining woodcraftsman Gabriel Bustamante will be there featuring, “the most amazing wooden mushrooms in all sizes – three inches to ten inches, they are super-cute.” Shoppers will find items including hand-painted silk scarves, sea glass jewelry, succulents, paper crafts, tole painting by Susan Johnson, welded horseshoe art, candles, ceramics, and more. There will also be fresh tamales and posole for the hungry treasure hunters.

When: Saturday, November 4, from 10 am to 3 pm Where: Buellton Rec Center, 302 2nd Street in Buellton Cost: Free admission Info: For more information or to reserve booth space, call Barbara at (805) 688-1086 or barbarak@cityof buellton.com

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A FAMILY RECIPE FOR OOEY GOOEY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES ight next to their selection of eye-widening truffles, creams, and caramels, Stafford’s Famous Chocolates in Los Olivos sells bags of their handmade chocolate chips for cooking. Even if you do not bake, they are a delicious sweet treat on their own.

Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 3/4 cup unsalted butter (melted and slightly cooled), 1 cup packed brown sugar, 1/2 cup white sugar, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, 1 egg, 1 egg yolk, and 2 cups Stafford’s gourmet chocolate chips.

Method: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Mix dry ingredients and set aside. Cream sugars, butter, and vanilla. Beat in egg and then egg yolk, and when smooth, add dry ingredients. Add the chocolate chips. Drop small scoops onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 10 minutes or until edges are nicely browned. Cool slightly and deliver to the SB Sentinel office.

Where: Stafford’s Famous Chocolates is located in Los Olivos at 2902 San Marcos Road, Unit D. Cost: $7 per bag Info: www.staffordsfamouschocolates.com or call (805) 688-2893

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Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative

Fourth Annual ‘Your Brain Matters’ Luncheon Honoring Patti Davis

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 11 a.m.

Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort, Santa Barbara

Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Katina Etsell Co-Chair

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