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Lanny’s Take – Lanny Ebenstein digs into the decrease of oil production in Santa Barbara County and discusses what can be done about it

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i-weekly Capitalist – Jeff Harding chooses the democratic socialist, Bernie B Sanders, to pick on this week with one resounding message: don’t vote for him S tate Street Scribe – Emmy Lou Crawford has shared the spotlight with the likes of Liza Minnelli, Sinatra, Elvis, Dean Martin, and Bette Davis. And now she’s paying it all forward at Inspire Dance Santa Barbara

The Fortnight – Santa Barbara International Film Festival is coming right up; U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera visits UCSB; former American Idol contestant Bo Bice fronts Blood, Sweat & Tears; Christopher Cross sails on stage at Chumash; David Bowie tribute concert at Plaza Theater

Man About Town – Carol Burnett and Brian Dennehy read Love Letters at the New Vic Theater; Santa Barbara Dance Alliance indefinitely shutting down operations; Trinity Backstage Acoustic Concert Series; Kate Bennett releases new album

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Berry Man – Cory Clark explains what the term “heirloom” actually means and if the higher price is worth it

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by Lanny Ebenstein

Lanny Ebenstein is president of the California Center for Public Policy

Oil Decline Affects County

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hat a difference a year makes. As recently as November 2014, there was a major initiative on the county ballot sponsored by the Water Guardians to ban certain productive processes that would have disallowed new oil production in Santa Barbara county.

Now, the question of new oil production in the county is almost moot. The decline in oil prices to $30 per barrel or lower has completely changed the equation in the county and elsewhere.

Oil production is particularly important in northern Santa Barbara County. The decline in the price of oil is wreaking havoc in the oil industry. Some estimates are that as many as half of the independent producers will go bankrupt or be absorbed into larger companies in the coming years. These trends will extend to Santa Barbara County. A number of oil players currently on the scene will not be around in a few years.

Growth in the local oil and gas industry – promoted by many in recent years – appears off the table at this time. Few if any, and perhaps no, new oil projects will come on-line in Santa Barbara County as long as the price of oil remains below $75 per barrel. That appears possible and perhaps even likely for some time. Oil production in the United States has increased by about four million barrels a day in recent years.

Other oil supplies are becoming available from around the world. Demand is lower than expected in China and elsewhere.

Moreover, at some point in the coming decades, alternative energy sources will be developed that replace fossil fuels, particularly coal and then oil. That day has not arrived yet, but it will. From a long run perspective, traditional energy producers are likely to be a diminishing portion of northern Santa Barbara County’s economy for decades.

This will affect many auxiliary industries, not just oil and gas directly. In September 2013, the UCSB Economic Forecast Project prepared an economic impact study on the Santa Barbara onshore oil and natural gas industry. At that time – considering

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direct, indirect, and induced economic impacts – energy operations were responsible for about $300 million per year of economic activity in the county and 2,000 jobs, predominantly in north county.

In recent years, onshore oil production in the county increased from about 2,000 barrels a day in 2005 to 3,500 barrels per day in 2013. These figures are likely to decrease, and the reappraisal of energy properties, the value of which will diminish, will cost the county of Santa Barbara and local school districts millions of dollars per year.

It should be noted as well that other traditional pillars in the north county economy, including agriculture and Vandenberg Air Force Base, do not appear poised for growth and expansion at this time. The fact is that north county will experience real challenges with the decline in oil production in the coming years. It should be noted that energy companies have been significant supporters of charitable organizations throughout the county. Most of these funds will now dry up.

Energy had been targeted as a high-wages and expanding industry in northern Santa Barbara County in recent years. This is very unlikely now to be the case.

For this reason, it is vital that there is emphasis on comprehensive economic development in north county, as promoted by 5th District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino and Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association Executive Director Joe Armendariz.

Lavagnino and Armendariz believe that diversified economic development is vital to north county’s economic future. This is one of the reasons Armendariz has led the Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association in supporting educational initiatives in south county. There can be little question that Allan Hancock is one of north county’s most significant and effective institutions.

The development of Chapman University in Santa Maria is also a positive development. There should be more interaction among public and private higher educational institutions serving students from throughout the county. Many opportunities exist for higher educational expansion in Santa Barbara County and in north county especially.

It appears unlikely that expansion in the traditional energy sector will provide many new jobs in the future – in fact, the opposite is likely to occur. This requires rethinking of northern Santa Barbara County’s economic future, in particular. Clearly, increased emphasis on higher education is vital to the future of northern Santa Barbara County.

Lanny Ebenstein is president of the California Center for Public Policy.

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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.

The Politics of Ignorance

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aybe it’s just me, but this political season really offends me. There are two populists who are rising to the top of each party who in my humble opinion are ignorant. I’m talking about Bernie Sanders, our “democratic socialist,” and Donald Trump, the narcissistic demagogue.

Now, when I say “ignorant,” don’t confuse that word with “intelligent.”

Bernie and Donald are, probably, pretty smart guys. But the policies they propose won’t work because they violate basic principles of economics.

In fact, their “solutions” will mostly achieve the opposite of what they intend. They don’t have a clue about these outcomes, which makes them ignorant of economics.

I’ve picked on Trump enough, so this time I’m picking on Bernie.

Bernie cloaks his socialism in populist rants against “billionaires.” As if billionaires (you know, those really successful people who create jobs) are responsible for everything that’s wrong in America. His real complaint is that he blames billionaires for buying political influence to stymie Bernie’s socialist policies. His main targets are the Koch brothers, whose libertarian ideals want to strip Bernie and his ilk of the power to ruin the economy.

They want to put power back into our hands rather than Bernie’s political elites who think they know better than you how to run your life. By the way, compared to the money the unions pour into politics (the top 50 put in $112 million, all to liberal candidates), the Koch brothers donated $7 million.

FYI, the top two individual donors, Tom Steyer ($74 million) and Michael Bloomberg ($28 million), all donated to liberal candidates.

What is wrong with Bernie’s view of politics? He forgets the main villains

in his morality play: the politicians who sell out. Instead of castigating the corrupt political class of which he is a prominent member, he takes up the populist rant against billionaires.

And the polls say half of Democrats swallow this simplistic quackery.

So let’s delve into Bernie’s socialist fundamentalism: Bernie claims that raising the minimum wage creates jobs and implies that this has been proven by economists. Bernie is flat out lying on this since the majority of economists say it destroys jobs and opportunities and the vast majority of studies back them up. That is fact.

Bernie claims that billionaires don’t pay enough taxes and the middle class pays too much. That is another lie.

First of all, the top 20% pay 84% of all income taxes; the top 1% pay 45% of all income taxes. The middle class only pays 19% of taxes. [The math is off because the bottom income tiers receive more than they pay in.] That is fact.

You might even ask if the middle class is paying its fair share. Consider this: we are relying more and more on the very few to fund government – that isn’t exactly a strong foundation for revenue security.

Bernie wants to do away with free trade treaties (citing China as the chief villain), which he says will create jobs for Americans. Another lie, a big one at that. Erecting trade barriers does only one thing: it impoverishes us. Bernie’s simplistic logic ignores the fact that this would make everything much more expensive for us, thus making us poorer. Who wants to pay $30 for a $15 Costco t-shirt? It also ignores the other side of this: China and others would erect retaliatory trade barriers, which would seriously harm our substantial export economy.

What about those jobs? Trade barriers

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That is fact.

Bernie also wants to junk Obamacare and replace it with a single-payer system like “every other industrialized country on earth.”

Of course what he doesn’t tell you is that those countries with singlepayer systems lose huge amounts of money every year and health care gets worse as services are rationed. Many of them are moving away from these costly socialized top down systems to more efficient market incentivized systems. That is fact.

billionaires it wouldn’t be enough.

Anyway, if you did that, you would destroy any incentive for those who make the economy go. You know, killing the goose that lays golden eggs.

That is fact.

No, this what will really happen: 1. You will pay more for those “free” programs as they get costlier to run.

2. They’ll cut back on services leading to crappy, rationed medical care, and reduced Social Security benefits.

3. Because Bernie will have to borrow the money to pay for it all, our national debt will skyrocket and someone (you and your grandkids) will have to pay for it.

What is wrong with Bernie’s view of politics? He forgets the main villains in his morality play: the politicians who sell out.

So add to all this the bill for his work programs for the unemployed, his costly infrastructure spending programs, and his proposal for free child care and free tuition at public colleges. Ask yourself: who is going to pay for it?

Oh, you think it’s going to be the billionaires? No. This is where Bernie’s Progressive followers refuse to listen. If you taxed away all the income from the

4. Thus future generations will be saddled with higher taxes, which will further stagnate the economy.

5. They will also print money to make up the shortfall, which will threaten economic collapse of the economy from high inflation.

All this is fact. If you don’t believe me, see Greece for proof of the above outcomes of democratic socialism.

Vote no on ignorance. Vote no on Bernie.

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Emmy Lou, Elvis, Frankie, and Dino. Viva Terpsichore.

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here was a time when your teacher of classical dance and your teacher of classical piano were of a like taxonomy, so to speak. If you are a person of a certain age today, you may remember with a shiver the dour, cloaked figure with the untraceable Eastern-European accent who hovered like a metronomic reaper over the piano bench, her gnarled and insistent hand gesturing you through endless repetitions of Für Elise until your most exquisite pre-teen fantasy was that of waterboarding Beethoven. Ah, Miss Olga. Once upon a time your childhood teacher of classical dance was likewise an Iron Curtain forget-me-not with a severe expression, a dense gray bun held together with knitting needles, and a manner that suggested she would eat Bob Fosse for lunch, derby and all, and spit the sequins out like bones.

The times they are a’changin’, as the poet Dylan Thomas (or some scruffy namesake) once famously wrote. These days your dance teacher is more likely to have, oh, danced the Shimmy with Elvis, for instance; or done the Watusi

with beach blanket Mousketeer Annette Funicello. Or performed a sashay in gold lame with a faux-tipsy Dean Martin. Or twirled parasols with Streisand.

Yeah, right. As if.

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Kidd, and a trio she credits with much of the good dancing fortune that befell her: mom, dad, and a brilliant dance proselytizer named Eugene Loring.

Born outside Detroit, Emmy Lou came to California at four years old when her family packed up and made the move to warmer climes, landing in Riverside. Her milieu at the time was not that of a nascent hothouse flower of

mom was a stay-at-home.” But as shall be seen, nurturing and reinforcing a child’s self-discovery is itself an art form; just possibly the one at the summit. Emmy Lou can’t point to a specific Eureka moment when her own sea changed.

“I don’t know what specifically decided me to become a dancer. All I know is that I always wanted to be one.” Her mother had noticed it early on – as

Emmy Lou Crawford (Carey Foster) (photo by Christina Jaramillo)

soon as Emmy Lou found her infant feet, she was dancing – and so mom went in search of someone to throw a

Dance. “My home life wasn’t necessarily artistic,” she says matter-of-factly. “My dad worked in floor coverings and my

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Gotta Dance

Emmy Lou Crawford, an instructor with Inspire Dance Santa Barbara (and co-founder, if you must know), enters the room with her dancer’s hair bobbing genially (a fulsome pixie cut that conveys modernist leaping and twirling), her carriage suggestive of someone exactingly trained to understand and exalt the human body’s moving architecture. “Miss Emmy Lou,” as her littlest charges call her, also boasts a genuinely incandescent 1000 kilowatt smile. And who wouldn’t with that dance card? Emmy Lou’s Curriculum Choro, her life of dance, is a frenetic Panavision waltz through some of the 20th century’s most delirious un-square dances, from Sinatra’s storied, celebritystudded CalNeva Lodge to the Andy Williams show, her partners including the likes of Jerome Robbins, Michael

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What’s in the Box?

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he science geek in me is fascinated with packaging technology. In the beer industry, it is often easy to just focus on the brewing process and beer flavor while overlooking the role that the package plays in the quality and enjoyment of beer. From the widgets used in nitrogen cans like Guinness to the different printing technologies for label art, there is an entire industry devoted to how beer is stored during its trip from the brewery to the glass.

Judge a Beer by its Container

Brewers are obsessed with quality and it’s a good thing, because if they are not (and I have met those kind of brewers), then the brewery is probably not going to last. While there are many QA/QC checkpoints throughout the entire brewing process, in beer packaging, there are two main concerns: light and oxygen. There is a reason why all beer is in brown glass. Dark-colored glass blocks out the wavelengths of

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.

Mike Hess Brewing is using a new type of can that allows it to transform into its own glass

light that react with hop compounds and make that characteristic ‘skunky’ smell. Interestingly, dark colored beers like stouts and porters actually have a natural protection since the light cannot penetrate the dark liquid surface.

Oxygen plays a primary role in the staling reactions for all food and drink products. The crown cap on beer bottles is fitted with an oxygen-barrier lining that absorbs oxygen as it passes through the space between the glass wall and

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the metal cap. For beer meant to be drunk fresh, this is the preferred closure for bottled beer as it is effective and cheap. Aging beer is really just putting it through oxidation in a controlled manner; AKA a dark environment with a cool, steady temperature (55 deg F at most). Cork-finished bottles are usually the favored package since they allow the beer to breathe at a natural, and beneficial, pace. Companies have started exploring different synthetic corks and designs that control and direct the rate of oxygen entering the bottle. I’ve most often observed these technologies being used by Italian craft brewers.

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles are an emerging format for beer, as well as re-sealable aluminum bottles.

Aluminum cans and stainless steel kegs are completely closed packages, protecting against light and oxygen.

They are also lightweight and smaller to package, meaning that they use less fuel than bottles during shipping. Crowlers are a newish item being seen around craft breweries. These growler-sized aluminum cans allow someone to take a large quantity of perfectly sealed beer directly from the brewery since growlers expose the beer to light and oxygen.

User Friendly

While obviously you want your beer to taste good, where you intend to drink it can dictate the preferable package.

From a consumer standpoint, a glass bottle is often seen as more luxurious, however there are many places like golf courses and public pools where glass bottles are not allowed. In these cases, cans are quite useful. The issue though is that beer tastes better when poured into glassware and you might look a

Telegraph integrated an album from local band Buellton into their beer and new technologies will allow the beer to electronically send the album upon opening

little silly drinking canned beer out of a plastic snifter on the beach.

To fix this, Crown Holdings, Inc. developed its 360 End technology for beer cans. A pull-tab on the top end of the can removes the entire top.

This opens up the beer can and makes it comparable to drinking out of a glass. The wall of the aluminum can is sculpted and makes the beer pour smoothly into the mouth. Mike Hess Brewing is the first brewery in California to incorporate this technology and they have dubbed their cans, Open Mike.

You can find their beers at Whole Foods Market. I recently picked up their spicy, floral double rye IPA, Habitus. The can definitely opens up the aroma more, however I did find myself dribbling a little bit from its sculpted shape.

Experiential Drinking

Label and bottle design has a large influence on consumer preferences, however we are about to see whole new ways that the drinker can interact with their beer bottle. I’m not just talking about gazing at a silver bullet and wondering when those mountains will turn blue. Although the company Chromatic Technologies has developed their Sunlight Inks line of photochromic inks. These paints change color depending on the light source and this allows brewers to produce label art that morphs and changes right in front of drinkers’ eyes, depending on the light source in their surroundings. In 2014, Ball Corporation developed Dynamark

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Variable Printing Technology for beer cans. This allows a brewery to print a different image for each can in a package inline and at standard production speeds. Imagine a 6-pack that when the beers are lined side-by-side will make a complete picture. This allows brewers to transform their label art from a single image to a panoramic display.

The Belgian-based Browerij Martens introduced two new technologies with their Dagschotel Bier. The brewery partnered with KHS, a German packaging company specializing in PET bottles. Recently they used variable printing technology with a new low-migration ink from Agfa Graphics on PET bottles for the first time ever. Low-migration ink means it does not leach into the porous plastic and inevitably the beer, which has been the difficulty of printing directly onto plastic bottles. They then integrated augmented reality (AR) technology in the design of the label art. Each label depicts a different character from the popular Flemish comic sitcom, F.C. De Kampioenen.

Using a special app, when you hold up your smart phone to the label, the character begins speaking on the screen. Hold up multiple bottles to the phone and they will begin interacting with one another.

New packaging technologies are going beyond just the aesthetics of the label and are starting to incorporate electronics into the beer package. While QR codes are easy to place on a label or box, companies like Coors and New Belgium have been exploring the use of Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) tags in their beer packages. Mostly they want to use this technology to track their shipments through the supply chain however there are potential applications for the RFID tags to give the consumer detailed information about the beer they are drinking or even activating electronics in properly equipped environments.

While RFID tags are more passive electronics, Grolsch and Heineken have been pushing the limits of how a bottle can interact with drinkers.

Breweries have often partnered up with musicians, film companies, and other organizations to create different promotional offers. This is often done with a promo code located on the bottle. For example, Telegraph Brewing Co. partnered up with the band, Buellton, to produce the spicy, lemon and mint-flavored

saison, Buellton Silent Partner.

Underneath each cap is a promo code that allows one free download of Buellton’s album, Silent Partner.

Grolsch wanted to take this format one step farther with their Movie Unlocker bottle. This bottle utilizes a Bluetooth beacon embedded under the cap that allows the drinker in a single swipe to unlock a movie of choice on a Bluetooth-capable device.

Heineken has been the leader in these technologies. Their Ignite Bottle was first introduced at the Lounge of the Future event in Milan. In the bottom of the bottle rests an array of eight LEDs. This in itself has been done before by Belvedere and other alcohol brands.

What is unique is that Heineken integrated a microprocessor, wireless transceiver, accelerometer and other microsensors into the LED housing.

This allowed the bottle to respond to different audio and physical cues including drinking, toasting, and even just sitting idle on the bar. The lights would dance and respond to different DJ musical cues and could be activated remotely, meaning that every bottle in the room could be integrated into a light show. The housing was a two-part 3D-printed mold and could be reused on other bottles so it is likely this wasn’t a one-off occurrence and we will start to see interactive bottles at special events around the world.

To promote the Heineken Experience, there was another popular project that incorporated complex electronics into their beer bottles. Heineken bottles were fitted with a GPS system, an accelerometer, a vibrational haptic device, and a rotating cap fitted with a compass.

As a person walked through the city center of Amsterdam holding one of these bottles, it would respond to mechanisms they placed around the area. The bottle would shake to alert the drinker and the cap would rotate in the direction that the person should walk. This guided tour took drinkers around the different cultural and historical landmarks of Amsterdam and eventually landed them, naturally, at the Heineken Brewery Museum.

From a personal standpoint, I am obsessed with these emerging technologies. As electronics get smaller and cheaper, one can only imagine that we will soon witness magical experiences that take drinkers beyond the flavor in their glasses and into an immersive world that melds music, art, and beer.

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ook, there’s way too much going on at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which lights up the town (and movie screens) for the 31st year February 3-13, for me to make a ton of recommendations. What we can tell you is that the tributes lineup is complete now that Sylvester Stallone has been announced as the recipient of the Montecito Award for his performance in Creed, joining fellow Oscar nominees Brie Larson, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Ruffalo, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams, and Alicia Vikander in strolling down the red carpet in front of screaming fans – you just don’t see that in this town other than in the mosh pit at the Santa Barbara Bowl on rare summer evenings – before heading inside the Arlington to have their career retrospectives dissected, inspected and projected (in film clips, that is, as well as the live interview for those further back than the first 15 rows) for close to two hours.

It’s akin to the West Coast version of TV’s Inside the Actors Studio – you’ll learn a whole lot about your movie heroes and their motivations, process and memories, than you could have imagined. You’ll leave exhausted but happy. And it’s kind of nice, because we feel like we sort of know them on a personal level by the time the Academy Awards roll around at the end of February. (Plus, for you fans of filmmakers whose faces aren’t splashed on the covers of tabloids, there will be many nominees represented in the director, screenwriter and producer panels, and Cate Blanchett will be a presenter.)

As far as the films, though, everybody’s got different taste – your riveting art house documentary might be teetering on boredominducing for someone else, while my favorite French farce might just seem like so much silliness to the next guy. There are a few new sidebars, plus the usual focus on foodie films, nature docs, European and other world cinema, social justice, and many more. So head over to the website (www.sbiff.org) and check out the film slate and decide for yourself.

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oetry held a lot more romantic appeal back in the days before, say, email and texting. You know, when letters were exchanged between lovers, and the duration of the written word was a little longer than it takes to click away, or even faster, swipe.

Then again, the stuff Juan Felipe Herrera composes isn’t meant to sweep a woman off her feet. The current U.S. poet laureate, who will read and sign books at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Monday, February 1, is the son of Harvard- and Stanford-educated migrant farm workers, His numerous poetry collections include “187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross the Border: Undocuments 1971-2007,” “BorderCrosser with a Lamborghini Dream,” just two among his many collections of poetry, and many more short stories, young adult novels and children’s literature, much of which draws on the landscapes of the small agricultural towns of the San Joaquin Valley as well as San Diego’s Logan Heights, and San Francisco’s Mission District. Indeed, as others have noted, his poems are shaped more like murals than narrative frames.

You can hear the influence of beat poet Allen Ginsberg even in a quote from his biography on poetryfoundation.org: “All these landscapes became stories, and all those languages became voices in my writing, all those visuals became colors and shapes, which made me more human and gave me a wide panorama to work from.” Herrera whose creative work has also invented some new genres (e.g. poetry-opera) was California’s poet

laureate from 2012-14 before ascended to the national post.

Bo Bice is Back Can you imagine what it must have been like to grow up with the name Bo Bice? Try doing “The Name Game” song, that silly little ditty that was a big hit for Shirley Ellis back in the ‘60s. Bo, Bo, bo, Bo. Bonana fanna fo Fo, Fee fy mo Mo, Bo! People must have thought he was stuttering on that first line, or something.

OK, maybe finishing second on the fourth season of American Idol in 2005 wasn’t so bad. That was the Carrie Underwood year, so you could definitely say that Bice acquitted himself ending up as the runner up coming in at No. 2 was a theme for Bice that year, as he went on to reach that spot just below topping the chart on the Billboard Hot 100 with a rendition of “Inside Your Heaven” that he’d sung on Idol.

But unlike Underwood, Bice’s career sputtered a bit after that, although he did sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the NASCAR Feed the Children 300 in Sparta, Kentucky in 2013.

So it was a nice soft landing spot for him to land the lead singer duties with Blood, Sweat & Tears, one of the first bands to blend rock, R&B and jazz, even though the group formed eight years before he was born. That first edition of BS&T featured a truly impressive lineup including trumpeter Randy Brecker, guitarist Steve Katz, bassist Jim Fielder, keyboardist/singer Al Kooper and percussionist-producer

Bobby Colomby, who first assembled the group back in ‘67 (that would be three years after “The Name Game” topped out at No. 3, one spot lower than Bice’s hit, for those of you keeping score). Others who passed through BS&T over the years include bassist Jaco Pastorius and trumpeter Lew Soloff among many others.

The current roster doesn’t boast any household names – only keyboardist Glenn McClelland, who served in BS&T before and after an 11-year stint with Ween, even has his own Wikipedia page, for cryin’ out loud. So enlisting Bice to fill in for the lead vocals spot held for the better part of four decades by the great David Clayton-Thomas came with some much needed cachet, although Colomby maintains that fans come for the hits not the players in the same vein as baseball fans root for the uniform, not the individuals inside them. (“When you’re at a Yankee game,” Colomby is quoted in response to whether BS&T still has any original members, “you’re not going to see Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. They’re not going to be there. But what you will see is a brand, the pinstripes, and they’ll be able to hit, score runs and play great defense.)

Find out whether the current Bo-led Blood, Sweat & Tears has what it takes to turn the double play and execute the squeeze bunt when they perform the hits “You Made me so Very Happy,” “Spinning Wheel,” and “And When I Die” – all drawn from the band’s eponymous second album, which topped the Billboard charts and beat out

the Beatles’ Abbey Road for the Album of the Year at the Grammys – Thursday, February 4, at the Chumash Casino.

That would be three slots higher and one Grammy more than were earned in 2005 by Bo Bice, whose given name, by the way, is Harold Elwin Bice. Just sayin’.

Chumash Hosts Chris Cross Christopher Cross, who comes to the Chumash Casino on the following Thursday, February 11, also enjoyed a slew of hits in the early days of his career, which dates back to the 1980s.

“Sailing” sold millions and won a Grammy, “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” [“If you get caught between the moon and New York City”] – co-written with Burt Bacharach and the legendary songsmith’s then-wife Carole Bayer Sager – took home an Oscar, and “Ride Like the Wind” was as ubiquitous as pop songs get before the massive sales (and non-classic radio station airplay) sailed away like sloop in a hurricane.

Cross used to live in town (his kids were born and raised in Montecito), although he moved away several years ago. But there’s still a sizable following among friends and local music fans, who will likely show up to hear Cross sing all the hits plus songs from his most recent CD from 2013, plus some likely new compositions. But we do suggest trying to avoid riding like the wind on the way back down the San Marcos Pass.

Local Lineup to Pay Tribute Let’s face the facts: it sucks when somebody you love dies. It’s already been a tough year in pop music, as we’ve lost both David Bowie and the Eagles’ Glenn Frey. At least it helps when the community comes together to celebrate the life and music of our heroes. Case in point: the Bowie tribute concert on Saturday, February 6, at the Plaza Theater in Carpinteria, that’s shaping up to be quite an event.

The lineup of local luminaries slated to play already represents a wide swath of genres, and more artists are expected to added to the list that now features Tariqh Akoni & Band, Perla Batalla, Shane Alexander, Rain Perry, Jamie Drake, Eli Wulfmeier, Jaime Wyatt, Shelby Figueroa, Max Kasch, The Brambles, Glen Phillips, Randy Tico and Jesse Siedenberg.

The theater is a great little venue with an old-fashioned intimate feel (gotta think Bowie would have loved it) and fine acoustics, and with that roster of rockers and more it’s sure to be a popular show. So be advised to secure your tickets soon.

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with Mark Léisuré

Mark spends much of his time wandering Santa Barbara and environs, enjoying the simple things that come his way.

A show here, a benefit there, he is generally out and about and typically has a good time. He says that he writes “when he feels the urge” and doesn’t want his identity known for fear of an experience that is “less than authentic.” So he remains at large, roaming the town, having fun. Be warned.

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etween them, Carol Burnett and Brian Dennehy are, I don’t know, about a zillion years old.

But, man, can those old pros still bring it! Their performances in A. R.Gurney’s Love Letters in mid-January brought down the house at the New Vic Theater.

The show is basically a staged reading, a valentine to long-lasting relationships in which the actors read written exchanges

Carol Burnett and Brian Dennehy starred in A. R.Gurney’s at the New Vic Theater

between a Connecticut-raised boy and girl who first meet in grade school and continue to cross paths for the rest of their lives, even as their fortunes and fates diverge.

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even a change in lighting. That’s called acting, folks, and we saw it up close and personal at the New Vic. The show was a fundraiser for a new scholarship fund at Antioch in memory of trustee Susan Smith who was Dennehy’s longtime agent and good friend. The actors were very good sports, posing for photos at the postperformance party on stage both alone and together with any and all comers, even tolerating a few selfies, although nothing like the famous Oscar shot from a couple of years back. All in all, the event raised both a pretty penny for Antioch’s ability to support students with financial need, and the level of theater in Santa Barbara. As Burnett might offer via her Tarzan yell: Aaaaahah-ah-ah-aaaaah-ah-ah-ah-aaaah!

Bowing Down to Bowie

There’s a big David Bowie tribute concert coming up February 6 at the Plaza Theater in Carpinteria, with a big slate of area artists from Glen Phillips to Perla Batalla. But Santa Barbara locals got right into the groove just a few days after the rock superstar passed away earlier in January. Honestly, I wasn’t there at Roy on January 29, ...continued p.26

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et’s face it, regardless of whether you drink it or not, wine is a big part of our culture these days… especially here in Santa Barbara. We live in one of the most celebrated wine regions in California, and the sheer number of tasting rooms and wine bars in our city is proof that wine is certainly mainstream.

Although the movie Sideways had an effect on the wine industry (sorry, Merlot), some would argue that Jason Wise’s 2012 documentary, Somm, has been even more influential by introducing people to a different side of the wine world. The film, which premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival, followed four wine professionals in their quest to pass the infamous Master Sommelier exam, detailing the tremendous level of dedication and prep work necessary to pass. To some, it almost seemed insane that people would be expected to or want to know that much about wine.

To others, there was a newfound respect for the role of the sommelier, in many cases elevating them to almost rockstar status. Suddenly, wine is ‘cool’ and something that more and more people are interested in learning about.

Sensing that there was much left unsaid in the first film, Director Jason Wise’s follow-up documentary, Somm: Into The Bottle, attempts to demystify the idea of wine by focusing on all the factors that go into producing it.

Through ten chapters and ten bottles, the film takes viewers on a journey around the world, showcasing things like how wine is produced, what goes on in the cellar during the aging process, and how weather, the barrel, tradition

and even war can have a profound effect on the final product.

Recently, I attended an advanced screening of Somm: Into The Bottle at The Bacara Resort, put on by the Santa Barbara Vintners Association. I was pleasantly surprised by how educational and humorous the movie is. Especially captivating is the beautiful footage of vineyards and exclusive access to some of the world’s most legendary wine cellars.

From France’s Alsace to Germany’s Mosel, and even Santa Barbara, over 20 wine regions were filmed for the movie.

The story unfolds through the commentaries from a variety of personalities in the wine world, like Santa Barbara’s own Brian McClintic and Rajat Parr, as well as Madeline Puckette of Wine Folly, winemaker Steve Matthiasson and Master Sommelier pioneer Fred Dame.

Although there are many familiar faces from the first Somm, the two films are only slightly connected and there’s really no prerequisite for this movie.

Regardless of your stance on the cast’s views of oak aging vs. neutral oak, the price of wine, or Carole Meredith’s hilarious statement, “Can there be any other business where there’s so much bullshit?” this entertaining film certainly demonstrates that for some, wine is so much more than a beverage, it’s a way of life. It truly brings to life the phrase, “Inside every empty bottle lies a story…” Cheers!

Somm: Into The Bottle will be officially released on February 2, 2016 through iTunes.

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Emmy Lou got into a dance school at the age of eight and by ten had topped out. “Your child needs to go where she can really study,” that first instructor said when it became clear that Crawford was born to it. The teacher referred them to a certain Eugene Loring, a quietly blazing star in the American Dance firmament who had a school in Hollywood. Maybe best known as choreographer of Aaron Copland’s 1938 game-changing ballet Billy The Kid, Loring later worked as MGM’s dance-trainer-in residence, helping the “two left feet” film star crowd with their on camera movement, and meanwhile choreographing Astaire, Charisse, Hepburn, and the like (Audrey) in films like Silk Stockings and Funny Face. Meanwhile, his storied American School of Dance preached Loring’s prototypically American vision of what dance art, in all its variety and breadth, is actually for. Loring felt that, America being so famously a melting pot, the pursuit of dance should be likewise a nourishing, varied stew. Loring became a respected proponent of a freeing but enfolding dance philosophy that drew dancers of every age and stripe to his school. This would be Crawford’s first audition.

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When Emmy Lou, all of 11 years old, entered the redolent, marble-encased former ballroom in the basement of the old hotel on Hollywood Boulevard where the school was located, we can fairly imagine a stunned little string bean with her jaw open. But there was no time. She and her parents had been in the car for two hours, and she dashed to the dressing room to change for her interview and audition. And this may be considered the first bit of evidence that the dance-possessed little girl from Riverside was being overseen

by Terpsichore, the Greek muse with the silken shoes. “When I walked into the dressing room, Leslie Caron was in there. She’d just gotten out of class. She was my idol!” Little Emmy Lou had found her place. Loring’s immersive vision and insistence on an all-embracing dance vocabulary would inform the little girl’s launch, and colorful trajectory into a Technicolor sock-hop to die for.

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She was beautiful. Peter Lawford...”, she pauses. “It could be very intense sometimes with all the famous people there. I was, you know, ‘this is really happening. Pinch pinch!’”

At Cal-Neva, Nick Castle saw Crawford perform, hired her on Maggie Banks’ ‘she landed her fifth!’ recommendation, and helped get Crawford into the all-important Union.

At Maggie Banks’ suggestion, Crawford took on a stage name, Carey Foster, and for a time was being groomed as a possible successor to Ann-Margret.

Next came some months in The Dean Martin Show girl gang (“He would joke around with us but otherwise wouldn’t say much…”), from there Peppermint Twisting into the movies, with roles in such effervescent fare as Winter a Go-Go (Carey Foster’s billing in imdb: “Winter A Go-Go Girl”), Annette Funicello’s Pajama Party,

Elvis’ Kissing Cousins to name a few; the happy-go-lucky swinging sixties diversions that featured synchronized, thoroughly rehearsed and highly trained dance youth doing the Mashed Potato behind the day’s lip-synching, glowing teen icon. On set, Annette was not terribly chatty and would maybe say “hi” in passing if prompted.

The kid stars, the manufactured pop idols, shall we say, kept to themselves.

The avatars of older Hollywood were approachable and supportive. Elvis was a third thing. This Tennessee Nijinsky would shamble over between takes and shoot the breeze like a guy a little starved for conversation. “Elvis was a very personable guy. He would always come over and talk to us, always very relaxed. Not terribly happy, I don’t think.” At 16, Crawford auditioned for the film West Side Story with hundreds of other girls. Co-creator/dance giant Jerome Robbins asked each of the girls to do the sweeping little flourish that signals, in dance, the Jets’ ownership of their turf in an early scene in the film.

Director Robert Wise asked that they all put their hair up, like Maria, the star-crossed Juliet figure in the story.

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• WHALE WATCHING YEAR ROUND • PRIVATE PARTY CHARTERS • ISLAND EXCURSIONS • BURIALS @ SEA

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Located in the Santa Barbara Harbor, the ultra smooth jet powered Condor Express continues to offer the best whale watching trips and ocean adventures in California. The annual gray whale migrations bring hundreds of whales through the Santa Barbara Channel now through April within just minutes of Santa Barbara Harbor Enjoy dolphins, seals and a variety of sea life year round. The Condor offers a upper sun deck, comfortable cabin, great galley menu and full bar.

For current schedule and reservations call 805-882-0088 or 888-77WHALE or go to www.condorexpress.com

SEA LANDING

301 W. Cabrillo Boulevard in the Santa Barbara Harbor 805-882-0088 or toll-free 1-888-77WHALE www.condorexpress.com

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MILPAS MOTORS 2000 DODGE VIPER GTS COUPE (20K IN UPGRADES) 36K MILES $42,995

1959 MERCEDES-BENZ 190-CLASS SL 73K MILES $129,000

2001 ASTON MARTIN DB-7 COUPE RARE 5 SPEED MANUAL 43K MILES, $29,995

2003 PORSCHE BOXSTER VERY NICE CAR 98K MILES $12,995

1987 BUICK GRAND NATIONAL 98K MILES $21,995

1963 FORD FALCON 64K MILES $21,995

1963 MERCURY MONTEREY 42K MILES $37,995

1965 FORD MUSTANG FASTBACK 100K MILES $32,995

1978 ROLLS ROYCE CORNICHE 9K MILES $64,995

2006 RANGE ROVER, FULL SIZE SUV 89K $21,995

1982 MERCEDES-BENZ 300-CLASS 300D 4DR TURBODIESEL SEDAN 84K MILES, $7,995

1986 CHEVROLET EL CAMINO BASE 2DR STD STANDARD CAB 75K MILES, $13,995

1993 PORSCHE 928 GTS 2DR HATCHBACK 98K MILES $69,995

1999 BMW Z3 Z-3 M 17K MILES $17,995

1999 BMW Z3 M ROADSTER 38K MILES $17,995

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2008 PORSCHE CAYENNE GTS 53K MILES $32,995

2003 BMW 7 SERIES 745I 4DR SEDAN 83K MILES $10,995

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2013 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV PLATINUM 12K MILES $62,995

2010 ASTON MARTIN RAPIDE BASE 4DR SEDAN 13K MILES $98,995

2013 MERCEDES E-550 CABRIOLET 4K MILES $47,995

2016 MINI COOPER COUNTRYMAN NEW CAR 80 MILES $22,995

2012 BMW 6 SERIES 640I 2DR COUPE 16K MILES $43,995

2012 LAND ROVER RANGE ROVER SPORT HSE LUX 4X4 4DR SUV 45K MILES, $39,995

2014 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GTC SPEED 5K MILES $189,000

2014 AUDI RS-7 FACTORY 4 DOOR SUPER CAR 560 H/P 10K MILES $103,995

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Obsessed With:

WEARING YOUR HEART ON YOUR SLEEVE

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r on your shirt. Love Threads creates these heart-full T’s celebrating the first true love of every person’s life – Mom! Many other cute-T’s (i.e. a “Momma Bird” top and “Baby Bird” onesie) and boho women’s wear can be found in owner Nicole Jessen’s SB based online boutique including jewelry and accessories, bath and body, baby and kids, home goods, and vintage items.

Love Threads Instagram: @shoplovethreads www.shoplovethreads.com

ONTHESPOT:

Who’s Your Muse?

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e asked ourselves the same question and came up with a handful of locals who inspire us to do, look, taste, and feel great.

The Sacred Space is a slice of heaven on Earth and now they are a slice of heaven on our phones, too. SB-based Love Threads and the luxurious works of E.R. Leather Goods bring us fashion inspiration while Handlebar Coffee Roasters and Michele’s Tesora’s tasty delights keep us wired and satisfied. And of course there’s always I Heart SB to keep plucking at our heartstrings.

But muses don’t stop here! Bring on more inspiration by contacting us at megan@santabarbarasentinel. com or @santabarbarasentinel on Instagram.

WOMAN OF THE WEST

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mily Rosendahl stitches each bag with her own bare hands, putting her handbag company, E.R. Leather Goods, on a whole other level. This Jackson Hole, Wyoming native draws inspiration from her childhood living in the mountains, bringing that sense of adventure into her perfectly imperfect art and into your hands.

E.R. Leather Goods Instagram: @e.r.leathergoods www.erleathergoods.com

PANINO soups + salads + sandwiches p a n i n o re s t a u r a n t s. c o m

Open for Lunch Daily Los Olivos (805) 688 9304

Santa Barbara (805) 963 3700

Goleta (805) 683 3670

Solvang (805) 688 0608

Montecito (805) 565 0137

Santa Ynez (805) 688 0213

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BerryMan

by Cory Clark

The Berry Man, Inc. is a wholesale produce distributor supplying produce and artisanal products to restaurants, resorts, institutions, caterers, and markets from Big Sur to Santa Barbara to Santa Monica. While sourcing worldwide, special emphasis is on the locally grown. Cory Clark is sales and marketing director of The Berry Man, Inc. and the voice of this sponsored column, The Berry Man.

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CAUSE & EFFECT...

HELPING THOSE WHO HELP US RIGHT TO SIGHT

HYBRID VS. HEIRLOOM: “S.O.S. – SAVE OUR SEEDS”

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he term “Heirloom” has become a trendy thing. In produce, it commands premium prices at farmers’ markets and grocery stores alike. What was saved for generations is now fashionable and popular. So what is an heirloom seed? It is a seed that is open pollinated by insects or wind without human intervention. It’s the original seed—what we were given by nature. This is how we used to farm.

Generally, heirloom plants are grown on a small scale using traditional techniques, and are raised from seeds that are at least 50 years old. Over time, growers save the seeds of their best plants, whether those are the most vigorous, disease resistant, flavorful or beautiful. With unique shapes, sizes, and colors, heirloom plants often look different from commercial hybrids, which make up the bulk of supermarket fruits and vegetables. Unlike heirlooms, these hybrids are bred to produce uniform looking and tasting, high-yield crops at low cost. People often ask me if heirlooms are worth the price. I hold the same position that I do on organics – absolutely! The flavor is unparalleled!

To illustrate, every year in July, for a brief period of three weeks, we bring in Vincent Farms’ Blenheim apricots. Located in Goleta, this farm produces some of the best apricots that you will ever taste in this world. One bite and you will never forget that moment when you first tried them. To me, that is priceless. I have customers asking in April if we are going to carry them that year. Blenheim apricots are no longer grown on a commercial level because they are a small variety and don’t always ripen evenly. They require loving tending and are far too delicate to withstand long-distance shipping. For these reasons, mostly bland and tasteless hybrid varieties will be found on grocery store aisles, but at the Berry Man, nothing gives us more pride than to be able to offer our customers a product they will never forget – they are over the moon when they try them! It’s one of the most rewarding parts of my job: to provide a customer with an incomparable taste experience. I am passionate about taking the extra step to provide our customers with premium product. That might mean we have to pay the farmer substantially more for his produce, but it’s worth every penny. On the other hand, hybrid fruits and vegetables serve a purpose: produce can be grown on a large scale to support the population and be shipped to urban areas. Unlike heirlooms, these hybrids are bred to produce uniform looking and tasting, high-yield crops at low cost. Here is the kicker: most seeds from hybrids are sterile and cannot be passed down. Seed that cannot reproduce seems like an oxymoron. Plants are meant to give life, over and over – there is something ironic about a finite lifespan for a seed. There will be no legacy or new generations. One will just have to get more seeds and start over and that is exactly what goes on with eighty percent of the seeds sold today; they are sterile, hybridized and patented. So, what is the future of our produce?

Will it continue to become tasteless offerings, glistening from water spray in the supermarket produce bins? Will large-scale agriculture wipe out the heirlooms? Will the shift in food production from family farms to corporate farms allow the modern hybrid produce to prevail?

Thankfully, some committed farmers and families saved their heirloom seeds to pass on to others; to keep these crops growing in their original form, untouched by hybridization or genetic modification. Public awareness of heirloom’s superiority, plus farmers dedicated to preserving these crops, as well as chefs who are willing to pay the premium for flavor, have kept heirlooms alive. I am proud to be part of this movement. It provides us with the option to have the best and leave the rest.

INTRODUCING “WHAT THE FORK” FOR TIPS, TRICKS AND WHERE TO FIND THE LATEST PRODUCTS AND CULINARY TRENDS. What the Fork do I do with… CHERIMOYA Light green in color, egg-shaped, globeshaped or heart-shaped, this fruit has a thin green skin. The white pulp offers a mild

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he Santa Barbara Eyeglass Factory has helped local kids receive free eyewear and free eye exams since 1995. Their “Right to Sight” program hosts an annual Kid’s Day where they’ve supplied over 1,000 pairs of glasses in one year alone. “One of our main goals is to help kids achieve their potential in school. We make sure the kids get to select stylish, quality glasses that they will want to wear.” Now that’s a company we can get behind.

Santa Barbara Eyeglass Factory 1 South Milpas Street, Santa Barbara (805) 965-9000 www.eyeglassfactory.com flavor likened to a blend of banana, vanilla, mango, papaya, pineapple, or coconut.

The refreshing texture is soft and smooth and the flesh is studded with large, black, inedible seeds.

Ripe cherimoya have a delicate, sweet flavor and texture that is most apparent when eaten fresh. Cut chunks of cherimoya and add to salads with kiwi, strawberry, papaya, or other tropical fruit. Scoop flesh from the skin and blend into smoothies and shakes, or simply eat out of hand.

Local cherimoya, along with other exotic produce, are available at the Farmer’s B Market from Goodland Organics.

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Animal House

FRENCH TWIST

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Salty is a 2.5-year-old male and Harbor is a 2.25-yearold female of the French Bulldog breed. When these “Frenchies” aren’t promenading in a stroller down the harbor and Cabrillo Boulevard during the workweek, they are hanging out with owner Ronelee at plumbing company, Douglas E. Wilson Plumbing Inc. To see your pet in ANIMAL HOUSE/Pet of the Week, email a photo, name of pet and owners, and some fun facts to megan@santabarbarasentinel.com

PlantingRoots

by Frederique Lavoipierre Director of Education at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

MANZANITAS ON OUR MINDS

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The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Entomology for Gardeners & Botanists F. Lavoipierre

Thurs, 2/11 - 3/17 4:30 - 6:30pm

looming manzanitas are one of the highlights of our winter months, with delicate blush pink and white urn-shaped flowers on a background of evergreen leaves. One of our most elegant landscape plants, manzanitas range from large shrubs that can serve as a focal point to ground-hugging lawn substitutes. Variations in foliage size and color, everything from Photo by Sangeet Khalsa minuscule shiny apple green to large slightly furred grey leaves, add to our options. The bark – in colors from mahogany to nearly black – peels to reveal soft green, adding more choices to the manzanita palette. Manzanitas that are available have adapted to diverse soil types and sun exposure. As if that is not enough, manzanitas, meaning “little apple” in Spanish, are covered with colorful berries relished by birds in late summer and fall. Plant now, and enjoy your blooming manzanitas this winter.

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 1212 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara (805) 682-4726, ext. 111 • flavoipierre@sbbg.org

Let us introduce you to the great diversity of insects associated with plants. Learn basic field identification, and the connection between plants, insects, and the rest of the food web. CEU available.

Volunteer with our Garden Allies group: www.sbbg.org/cit-sci

Register online www.sbbg.org/classes-events

Or call

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CURATED COCKTAILS: DARK DESIRES

What does your heART desire? Join us for a lively happy hour on the Paseo Nuevo arts terrace, part of Downtown Santa Barbara’s 1st Thursdays. We’ve got Outpost at the Goodland’s resident mixologist Chris Burmeister serving $5 specialty cocktails, themed art activities in our Art Lab (hands-on learning for people of all ages), and a set of love songs by local favorite DJ Darla Bea. It’s a party over here.

This special event will be held Thursday, February 4, 2016 from 7 - 9 pm BONUS: FREE admission to the current exhibitions: Tam Van Tran, “Aikido Dream” and Bloom Projects: Michael DeLucia, “Appearance Preserving Simplification”.

MCASB CELEBRATES SANTA BARBARA TASTEMAKERS! Become a member today and receive a special gift from one of the leading creatives in our community. Through February 29th, or while supplies last.

TASTEMAKER (n): a daring and innovative community member who cultivates a robust social following and continuously pushes boundaries in their field by actively re-defining the creative trends, practices, and aesthetics of their craft.

FOLLOW SOME OF OUR REGION’S TASTEMAKERS ON INSTAGRAM!

Floral art brought to you by ELLA & LOUIE – @Ella_And_Louie

BECOME A MEMBER!

MCASB MEMBER BENEFITS EXTENDED TO ALL MEMBERSHIP LEVELS: Personalized membership card Being the first to know about upcoming exhibitions and events Member discount on ticketed events Invitation to the annual member party North American Reciprocal Museum Program (Free access to about 800 institutions) Access to Artist Development Workshops One complimentary MCASB Publication

Chocolate perfection done by TWENTY-FOUR BLACKBIRDS – @TwentyFourBlackBirds

MEMBERSHIP LEVELS: Deluxe ($150) – Includes all the above as well as early bird notification of BYOA and two complimentary drink tickets at Curated Cocktails, MCASB’s popular First Thursday event Premium ($250) – Includes all the above as well as a 20% discount to the museum store and four free tickets to Curated Cocktails.

Platinum ($500) – Includes all the above as well as an invitation to VIP preview receptions for each exhibition and and one complimentary limited edition art print.

A unique mix of culture and music with KCRW – @KCRWSantaBarbara Stay tuned to MCASB’s membership drive where one tastemaker will be featured per week showcasing a gift that new members are eligible to win just by signing up!

Join today by visiting us online or by calling or emailing Christopher Martinez, Development Manager at development@mcasantabarbara.org • 805.966.5373 x107.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SANTA BARBARA 653 Paseo Nuevo, Upper Arts Terrace, Santa Barbara | (805) 966-5373 Instagram: @MCASantaBarbara | www.mcasantabarbara.org

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5 ThingsYouDidn’tKnowAbout: LESLIE A. WESTBROOK

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ongtime Summerland-recently-turned-Carpinteria resident Leslie Westbrook knows a thing or two about writing – her byline has appeared in almost every publication in town as well as other regional and national publications for the past three decades. She’s also dabbled in art and antiques throughout her writing career, both in retail and wholesale.

A few years ago, she decided to turn her love and knowledge of fine art and antiques into a new business. She quietly (and discreetly) became a fine art, antiques, and collectibles broker for clients locally and around the globe that want to sell paintings, fine furniture, and other collectibles ranging from autos to wines to Hollywood memorabilia, with major auction houses in California, New York, Hong Kong, and London. Initially, her efforts have been for friends or family or by word of mouth. She recently decided to get the word out to the general public.

1. I collect and am interested in a wide range of things from Spanish Colonial and Contemporary art to mid-century furniture and autographs, which I collected as a kid. (I saved the John Hancock’s of Count Basie, June Christy, Steve McQueen, and James Coburn, among others.)

2. I was breast-fed on jazz. My father, Forrest Westbrook, was a fine West Coast jazz pianist. After he passed away in 2014, my sister and I found a treasure trove of reel-to-reel tapes that are being released by Fresh Sound Records, a jazz label in Barcelona, Spain.

The first one released in 2015 garnered rave reviews!

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Q&A WITH

JORDAN ROSENTHAL OF FORTUNATE YOUTH

B last album, Don’t Think Twice, hit #1 on the

ased out of L.A., this six-piece band had their

Billboard charts and they just released their first music video, “Midnight Lover,” at the beginning of this year. Hot and heavy guitar solos, unique bass lines, and harmonies round out their vibe that keeps people dancing and wanting more.

Drummer Jordan Rosenthal (super nice guy) takes five with us before sound check at SOhO.

3. My mom was a child actress who appeared in Shirley Temple movies and sat on James Cagney’s knee in He Was Her Man. Later, she attended Pasadena Playhouse and pounded the boards with Harpo Marx in the play Yellow Jacket with me in utero!

4. My beloved godmother, Virginia Cherrill Martini, played the Blind Flower Girl in Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights and was Cary Grant’s first wife.

5. I was an art major who turned into a freelance writer with an emphasis on travel, people, and design. My pen has been a magic carpet that has taken me all over the globe – from the Peruvian Amazon to our own backyard to update the current edition of the Insiders Guide to Santa Barbara (Globe Pequot Press).

Leslie A. Westbrook (805) 220-6773 • LeslieAWestbrook@gmail.com www.facebook.com/fineartsbroker Photo Credit: Brent Winebrenner

Sublime Spaces INSTA-SANCTUARY

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e were beyond thrilled when The Sacred Space started an Instagram account so we could get a daily dose of Zen. Now, owners Jack and Rose Herschorn’s treasures – which fill seven rooms and are collected from Bali, Thailand, Middle East, Tibet, Nepal, and China – and beautiful Balilike gardens are on our feed helping us pause for quiet contentment during a busy work day.

The Sacred Space 2594 Lillie Ave, Summerland (805) 565-5535 Mon-Sun 11am-5pm Instagram: @TheSacredSpaceUS www.facebook.com/TheSacredSpace.US www.thesacredspace.com

When were you first introduced to reggae music?

My older brother was kinda the head of the punk rock scene and punk rock, ska, and reggae always go hand in hand, as much as they are different. I remember in 5th grade, stealing his CDs and really getting into reggae music. Since he chose punk rock, I chose more ska and reggae, but if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have known any of the bands.

What was the first band you joined?

I moved to Las Vegas when I was 13, and I was lucky enough... the first band I ever started became one of the biggest bands in Vegas for 10 years. It was great.

You guys all came from various reggae backgrounds before joining the band. How did Fortunate Youth come together?

The band really started from two bands in California. When the bands broke up, [the remaining members] got together at a birthday party for Jared Segawa (their current manager) and the band kind of formed at that birthday party. Then I joined about a year or so later and we’ve been going strong ever since for five plus years.

So just like that?

Yeah. I had known them before from playing in Las Vegas, so I pretty much hit them up and said, “Jared, if you ever need a drummer, let me know.” And he said, “Well our drummer just quit and we’re going on a fifty-day tour in five days.” So it all worked itself out.

What’s your fave song to play live?

Everyone has their favorites. I love songs that incorporate other bands to play with us, at a festival or show, where everyone comes on stage and sings. We’ll get guest horn players and guest vocalists and it will turn into this fifteen-minute song with everyone up on stage singing and dancing. It’s great to watch and great to be a part of. It’s just fun!

Fortunate Youth Available on iTunes • www.fortunatemusic.com

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A rare set of four mid-century modern chairs with reupholstered black leather, created

by Danish architect, Henning Kjaernulf

is drawn to micro-fiction and is curby Julie Bifano MsrentlyBifano writing her first novel – The Grace Below.

She has a B.A. in English with an emphasis in writing from the University of San Francisco and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing, also from the University of San Francisco. More of Julie’s stories and poetry can be viewed on her website juliebifano.com.

BEHIND THE BLUE DOOR Friendly owners of The Blue Door, Brian Garwood and Carolyn Petersen, take pride in their authentically vintage quality merchandise

On the second floor, you will find this handmade ship crafted in 1953 that won the first place blue ribbon in the California Hobby Show

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reeted by owners Brian Garwood and Carolyn Petersen, I entered the open and airy space of The Blue Door, the site of vintage and modern pieces. In the background, I heard upbeat music that was relaxing without being sleepy. All around me, I noticed unusual pieces of furniture and other eclectic treasures.

After speaking with Brian, he explained that with his business background and Carolyn’s design background, it was the perfect balance for running The Blue Door. Brian described, “It’s difficult to find quality pieces of unique furniture. There just wasn’t anything like that in S.B.” Carolyn added, “This is our passion. We love working with customers and design.” I learned that

Musical instruments are repurposed into whimsical lamps!

These locally made California-shaped soaps were created with lemons from here in town

Some of the vintage purse brands offered are Coach and Louis Vuitton

everything in the entire three-story building is authentically vintage or locally made. Additionally, many pieces are repurposed.

As I perused each floor, I observed all of the quirky and cool repurposed items. On the first floor there was a fire hydrant lamp, an old industrial kitchen whisk pendant light, and a wine barrel hoop chandelier handmade in Santa Ynez. There were various pieces of teak furniture and many mid-century

modern styles. On every floor, there was enough merchandise to keep the buyer interested without clutter or excess. All of the new and pre-loved wooden pieces appeared truly sturdy, withstanding the test of time. My favorite piece was a massive handmade wooden ship that won first place in the 1953 California Hobby Show. The details aboard the whimsical “Sea Witch” were impeccable.

I left the store completely enchanted, and pondered what piece I would come back to buy.

The Blue Door is located at 4 E. Yanonali Street, Santa Barbara. For more information, call (805) 364-5144 or visit www.thebluedoorsb.com.

This coffee table or bench was locally made from harvested sycamore wood. The ironwork is an original Craviotto Brothers Ironworkers frame acquired from the Craviotto Building before its slated demolition.

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RED CARPET RED PINOT NOIR shine a little brighter T hethisstars time of year, thanks to the

Santa Barbara International Film Festival running Feb. 3rd - 13th.

Visit Santa Barbara is releasing this limited-edition organic pinot noir entitled “Red Carpet Red” to honor the 2016 award season. “With bold notes of cherry cola, wood fire, spice, subtle whispers of berry and a creamy, elegant finish, the inviting wine is like Santa Barbara – as down-to-earth as it is luxurious.”

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Available to the public at select restaurants and hotels participating in the companion Film Feast dining and lodging promotion.

Red Carpet Red Pinot Noir Visit Santa Barbara Instagram: @VisitSantaBarbara www.santabarbaraca.com/filmfeast/red-carpet-red/

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SPECIAL RECIPES FROM TALENTED CHEFS IN SB

QUICK BITES S

oup is quick and easy. I consider it my comfort food year-round. When the soup craving hits, I like to cook up this blistered version. It can be served in small quantities in shot glasses or paired perfectly with grilled cheese on a small plate.

BLISTERED TOMATO SOUP Ingredients: 2 pints tomatoes (grape or cherry tomatoes work nicely) 2 tbsp Extra-virgin olive oil 1 tsp A Taste of Ojai Fennel Sea Salt ½ tsp freshly ground pepper 1 clove garlic, peeled and minced 1 medium onion, peeled and diced 2 carrots, peeled and diced

2 stalks celery, diced 1 tsp fresh ginger, peeled and minced 1½ cups canned chopped tomatoes 2 cups vegetable stock ½ cup white wine 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar 2 tsp fresh lemon juice 1 tbsp sriracha sauce, optional

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Toss fresh tomatoes, 2 tablespoons olive oil, salt, and pepper. Place on a parchment-lined baking sheet in a single layer. Roast about 30 minutes until tomatoes are blistered, not dried. In a heavy-bottomed 2-quart pot over medium heat, add a few douses of olive oil and sauté the garlic, onion, carrot, celery, and ginger until the vegetables are soft and fragrant, about 8 to 10 minutes. Add the ovenblistered tomatoes, the canned tomatoes, vegetable stock, and white wine. Simmer for about 15 minutes. To finish, add the balsamic vinegar, 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, fresh lemon juice, and sriracha sauce. Using an immersion blender directly in the pot, or working in small batches in a blender, puree the soup until it is smooth. Top with mini grilled cheese bites.

RS aising the Bar

HANDLEBAR COFFEE

Wait in line. (It goes by quick.) Order from the super nice barista. Throw in a vegan muffin to your order. Give ‘em a tip. Grab your cup. Sit back and enjoy the scenery.

o basically Handlebar Coffee Roasters moved onto Canon Perdido Street and has been crushing it ever since. Waiting in a line out the door is no problem for many (us included) because it goes by quickly, the coffee is that good, and the environment is just cool. With their semi-recent expansion, there’s more elbow room to move around which means more pretty people to watch get their caffeine fix. (Seriously, Handlebar attracts a particularly handsome crowd. Bonus!)

WHAT’S HAPPENING

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ur friends at Municipal Winemakers celebrate the joys of Vday buying procrastination with a pop-up shop, called ♥H SH!T IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY on February 13th from 7-10 pm. Art by Metal Teepee, pins and patches by Feral Social, craft chocolate by Twenty-Four Blackbirds, flowers by Bloom Floral & Foliage, leather fortune cookie workshop with Make Smith, tunes by DJ Magneto, and food by Blue Owl help us breathe a easier. Their tag line for the event says it all: “Put off your Valentine’s gift shopping till the last minute this year! We will save you.” Roger that.

Municipal Winemakers 22 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara • (805) 931-6864 @muniwine • www.municipalwinemakers.com

Private Chef Robin Robin Goldstein, known as “Private Chef Robin” to her clientele, cooks for special events and private parties.

To book: (805) 284-4264 www.privatechefrobin.com Find her salt infusions at The Santa Barbara Company, C’est Cheese, Isabella Gourmet Foods, the Santa Barbara Winery Tasting Room, Porch on Santa Claus Lane, and Viva Oliva in Montecito.

Handlebar Coffee Roasters 128 E Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara (719) 201-3931 Instagram: @HandlebarCoffee www.handlebarcoffee.com

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ichele’s Tesora handmade treasures are decadent and substantial – just one will do you right!

Michele made these treats for her thenyoung children and later requests from others made her think bigger. Now, her four daughters and husband all work for the business. Santa Barbara Gift Baskets turned us on to them and we couldn’t be more grateful. #sodanggood

Michele’s Tesora (805) 415-0365 Instagram: @MichelesTesora • www.michelestesora.com

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BY Elizabeth Rose

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

LIKE A VIRGIN, PART 2

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he gentleman I once loved was walking towards me.

My heart shot to my throat. This is it, I thought. This is it.

As he neared, my pulse quickened. I nervously got up and bumped the corner of the table with my knee, spilling water from the glasses. My leg stung a bit, but the embarrassment subsided the pain.

“Hi,” I stammered as I held my arms out for a hug. He looked older than I thought he would, about a decade past his age. Different than his pictures online. His full head of hair had turned a perfect shade of white. He stood tall and unsure. The stiff hug he gave in return conveyed he was nervous. His scattered eye contact through his wire-framed

glad you did. I’ve thought about you, too.” I shifted in my seat, leaned forward, and began sharing stories from the last several decades of my life. I spoke of my heartbreaking divorce over twelve years ago. The successful business I had started for assisted elderly care. Of my two kids and three grandchildren. The energy between us lightened as we disclosed more about each other. He leaned back in his chair and let out big laughs as I shared anecdotes only a man who really knew me could appreciate and comprehend.

At one moment, our hands touched. I wasn’t sure if it was by accident but I left mine there and so did he.

Before we knew it, three hours had passed. Though we felt we could stay

“He leaned back in his chair and let out big laughs as I shared anecdotes only a man who really knew me could appreciate and comprehend.” eyeglasses confirmed it. His nervousness made me feel a little more self-assured. I wasn’t the only one.

We sat down and the waiter took our drink order. A white wine for me and beer for him. Once we both had a chance to settle in, there was nowhere to look but at each other. I finally got to see him. He was still the man I remembered way back when, but years of life experiences and a touch of sadness had cast a shadow over the familiar glimmer in his eyes. I quickly learned why. “I’m sorry if I come off a little standoffish. This is the first date I’ve been on since my wife passed,” he said.

His hands were on the table on either side of the place setting and his shoulders fallen. His defenses were down and I admired his vulnerability. He shared the tragedy of what an eight-year battle with cancer had brought upon his wife, himself, and his family. She had been gone over two years now and he felt it was time to start living again. “So, that’s when I messaged you. You were the first person that came to my mind. I always wondered how you were doing.” Hearing his words made my heart flutter, just as they had thirty-eight years ago. “I’m so

longer, it was getting late and he still had an hour and a half drive ahead of him.

We settled the check, gave the waiter a nice tip, and headed down the stairs. We lingered at the bottom of the staircase for thirty minutes more, not wanting to admit it was time to leave. “Well,” I said, “It’s amazing to see you again.” His faced softened and through an easy smile he said, “I’m so glad to see you, too”. We gave each other a long and tender hug and went our separate ways.

I made my way to the edge of the dock and watched the boats bob up and down in the harbor, reflecting on the night and the new memories we had created.

We didn’t talk of plans to see each other again, but that was fine. I was grateful we had spent this time together and would cherish it just the same. If I never saw him again, I was content. I had finally reconnected with my first love. I breathed in deep and released in gratitude. A moment later, my cell phone rang in my pocket. It was him. “Hi!” I answered not able to hide my excitement. “It’s me again,” he said. Hearing his words made my heart flutter. Just as they had thirtyeight years ago.

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...continued from p.11 Glen Phillips plays a David Bowie tribute concert at the Plaza Theater on Saturday, February 6, along with a host of other local musicians

when a lot of fans packed the tiny little restaurant/bar to hear a slew of Santa Barbara musicians play Bowie tunes.

But we have a report from Brad Nack – the painter best-known for his annual 100% Reindeer show that opens at Roy every December, who is also a musician who once managed Toad the Wet Sprocket. This would be the same Brad Nack who worked at Roy for countless years as a server, so he’s kinda got some ins. “It took me one and a half hours to get in and it was worth the wait. One of the best music nights in a long time.

Great songs played by people from Santa Barbara who are lifelong fans. Really good vibe. Congratulations to everyone who played.”

Nack also has a request: “Does anyone have video of the music I missed while I

was trying to get in?” If you get a copy, Brad, please send one my way.

So Long, For Now Santa Barbara Dance Alliance (SBDA) is no more. The 37-yearold dance organization is indefinitely shutting operations on February 1 to “reassess its role and efficacy within the community,” according to a press release from Sheila Caldwell, who is also retiring her position as executive director.

SBDA provided scholarships, services for emerging artists, and financial support for productions, and for quite a while sponsored several of its own events, including BASSH, the New Works/Kinesis, and On the Verge Teen Choreographer’s Showcase. The latter

two have been absorbed more or less by other organizations, while BASSH was resurrected by its founder Derrick Curtis and seems to be thriving on its own.

“Because of our tireless efforts to promote all things dance, most recently, dance arts are truly devoured from the community’s black box theaters to the grandest of stages without the aid of SBDA,” Caldwell said. So there’s nothing to mourn – it’s actually a success story.

The Best Artists You’ve Never Heard Of

Trinity Backstage Acoustic Concert Series – which trimmed back from monthly to quarterly concerts a few years ago – has announced the 2016 lineup for the series that boasts, “The best artists you’ve never heard of!” The 14th season will kick off with Harmony All Stars (series co-founders Kate Wallace and Doug Clegg with Jimmy McVay and Caren Armstrong) on April 2, followed by Michael McNevin in his Trinity debut on June 10. Series favorite Tom Kimmel returns September 10, and the series closes with its annual Holiday in the Round, with Wallace, Clegg, and special guests. The shows take place at Trinity Episcopal Church downtown, which turns in a bona fide coffeehouse complete with homemade desserts you take back to your own table. So homey!

Journey Through Time

Speaking of local folkies, Kate Bennett – who lived for years in Summerland and Montecito before

moving up into the foothills 15 years ago – is readying a new CD, her first since her indie debut a couple of decades ago. The album, years in the making, is called Divine Secrets and Bennett calls it a “rootsy and mystical” journey through time and place “from the bayous and back roads of Louisiana to the magical islands of Hawaii, back to the bohemian heyday of Greenwich Village, and my California, where the moon rises on the ocean and the mountain night sky fills with stars.”

Sounds good to us. As does Bennett’s voice, which still has hints of Neil Young in its timbre, not a bad thing at all. David West produced the new album, which is due any day now.

Meanwhile, you can check out a Vimeo and pre-order the disc at Bennett’s website, www.katebennett.com.

Donations are accepted, of course, but this isn’t a crowd-funded project, as far as we know.

What is being crowd-funded is a new video for PCPA Theaterfest. The Santa Maria-based school/company, which has produced a summertime series of outdoor plays and musicals at the Solvang Festival Theater for half a century, is seeking donations to defray the cost of editing a new Technical Theatre Training – Conservatory Recruitment Video. Yeah, I don’t know what that is either, but they need $3,000 to create the “powerful tool to share the opportunities here at PCPA’s Conservatory that await the next generation of theater professionals who want to learn by doing while working on full scale productions.” Get out your checkbooks.

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of her hireling colleagues made the proposition too pricey for the studio, what with on-set tutors and union work hour complications, and she was let go.

Crawford is paying it forward.

She looks back at her time in The Business and marvels – the good fortune and hard work, the constant happy surprises, the Montessori-like sense of common cause that would occasionally rear its lovely head even in the midst of all the glitz and stage lights. The first time she appeared on The Dean Martin Show, her first time on television, she was waiting in the wings to go on, shaking

Hello Dolly, Goodbye Hollywood

Following appearances in numerous TV specials, the early Gene Roddenberry experiment The Lieutenant, and the classic Finian’s Rainbow (Francis Ford Coppola directing Fred Astaire and Petula Clark, no less), choreographer Michael Kidd hired Crawford for a role in Hello Dolly. By that time she was a wife and mother, and the rigors and indelicacies of TV and movie performing were wearing a little thin.

When the studio flew the Hello Dolly cast from L.A. to Poughkeepsie, NY for exteriors, she brought along her infant daughter and husband; two parents accompanying their little girl to a dance gig, just as Emmy Lou’s folks had once done years before in Hollywood. Crawford now says of that time on the set of Dolly, “I was probably coming to some sense of culmination of this work and, you know, moving myself forward.”

As the realization dawned and her loving family fully upstaged her show business drive, Crawford became absorbed in more fully understanding her daughter and began reading books

like a leaf, when she realized someone was standing next to her. She sneaked a peak and found guest star and Hollywood monolith Bette Davis standing next to her there in the shadows, ratcheting up the young dancer’s terror until it became uncontainable. She finally had no choice but to turn to the legend and blurt out “I’m so nervous!” Ms. Davis replied immediately, grasping Emmy Lou’s arm for support. “I am too!”

A sedate Emmy Lou Crawford emotes for the camera

on Montessori, eventually becoming an impassioned Montessori teacher in the 1970s, and later (of course!) a dance teacher specializing in working with the littlest, least ruly tutus, handily bringing the Montessori message of loving collaboration to the dance work as well, first with local legends Santa Barbara Festival Ballet for 30 years, and more recently with a vibrant dance school founded with her daughter Sean, herself a highly trained dancer, instructor, and performer. Inspire Dance (inspiredancesb.com) teaches a range of dance disciplines, harkening back to Eugene Loring’s expansive embrace of all dance as One Dance.

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E’S NOTE by Elliana Westmacott

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.

I’LL PASS ON THE APRON, THANKS

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

BON APPETIT – COOKING A SWEET TREAT

There’s the bird I pinned shut. My husband and I both do not look happy about hosting this dinner.

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ome people have it. I recently came to the unwelcome conclusion that I do not. I can’t cook. I’m a faux foodie. I think it’s time for me to officially shelve my culinarian callings.

I’m not sure how I was fooled all these years, because I really did think I was slightly good at it. Sure, I can cook the basic stuff, and I may have one or two dishes that are noteworthy. But once I step beyond the realm of the known pasta varieties and taco tricks, I flail.

This revelation became blatant last week when a big box was dropped at my gate. It was much heavier than I had expected, its contents and its lesson. I had anticipated the package, stuffed with a complete kit of fixings for dinner. The Blue Apron’s website reads quite nicely; they ship everything you need to make fabulous meals, right to your door. No more than a half hour of preparation. Half an hour sounded perfect to me. Half an hour was not my reality.

IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE I ripped open the box and tied on my apron. I laid out all the neatly packed pieces for the meal: farro, salmon, honey-mustard sauce, broccoli, poblano peppers, kale, cannellini beans, and more. There were recipe cards with step-by-step instructions and pictures to follow. Doesn’t it sound like a piece of cake? Ha. I’m pretty sure step one took me half an hour in itself. I pondered: maybe The Blue Apron did not factor in all

the slicing and dicing I was doing? As I continued with the detailed instructions, I got flustered. At times, I panicked.

Kitchen smoke billowed in the air. Pans were strewn across the counters. When I went to serve the whole production, I forgot about the two vegetable dishes I had set aside warming in the oven two hours earlier. After more than three hours and a huge mess, I was exhausted.

It wasn’t The Blue Apron’s fault; they provided all the right stuff to make a gourmet meal (which I might add, my kids didn’t even enjoy). I just realized that I don’t belong in the gourmet cook category.

I should have seen the signs. Lord, I “sewed” my Thanksgiving turkey shut with safety pins this year. The only reason that bird turned out halfway edible is due to my mom’s assistance.

Every time I bake cookies, one pan will be burnt. Every time. And I am just as happy with a ten-dollar Trader Joe’s bottle of red as I am with the fancy stuff.

Both make me smile.

BRIANA’S BEST BET

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hen I said some people have it, Brian Congdon would be one of those people. He’s so good, in fact, that he has his own catering business, Duo Catering & Events. So whether you can cook or not, Brian can hook you up with an amazing spread that will impress all the guests at your next dinner party or event. Why not let the pros go at it?

Contact Brian at: www.duoevents.com

Learning about (and tasting) crepes at a free cooking class offered on Saturdays at Williams-Sonoma

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onjour! This note is going to be sweet because it is about cooking. You probably know the store called Williams-Sonoma. But did you know most of them have a free cooking class for kids every Saturday? I experienced one class just to check it out and see what it was like.

I went with a couple of friends. The shop opens at ten o’clock. We walked into the store and instantly I could tell something yummy was cooking. Our instructor, Alli, was showing us how to make crepes. For all who don’t know what crepes are, they are like pancakes but even better in my opinion. Alli handed out the crepes and we all ran over to the toppings table. For toppings I would suggest chocolate, powdered sugar, strawberries, or jam. Basically anything you think would be good on a pancake would be good in a crepe.

We all got seconds after we finished our first crepe, which was good for me because I was dying for another one. They were so tasty! We also got to learn some really cool facts about crepes, like where they come from in France.

The thing about the Williams-Sonoma lessons is that you get to learn new ways to cook food, and you get to know where it comes from. Have you ever eaten a meal and wondered what country it came from? Well, if you have, then WilliamsSonoma can teach you about new foods and different countries.

Good at cooking or not, I think this is a way to have fun and learn at the same time.

Love from, E

So, I’m throwing in the dishtowel.

My malnourished kids and skinny husband will be forced to continue to eat burritos and penne with a vegetable side most nights. In a way,

it’s liberating. Why not stop trying to do something that I’m not good at and focus on improving the things that I am good at? I’ve got other talents; they just aren’t in the kitchen.

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by jacquelyn De Longe

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

Leading the Way for Children’s Visual and Performing Arts Roosevelt students keep in tune with weekly music classes

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alfway into my son’s first year of Kindergarten, I’ve developed an interest in his arts education.

As the Sentinel’s Visual and Performing Arts writer, I hold arts to be a major part of a child’s learning process, not as a skill to make something pretty, but as an essential element in developing the creative thinking necessary for problem solving and innovation that can apply to any field. I try to support my local school by volunteering when I can and getting involved with the PTO/ PTA fundraisers when they need me.

Recently, I spoke in front of the SBUSD school board in an effort to promote more funding for arts programs as they are finalizing the district’s LCAP (Local Control and Accountability Plan), a plan that determines spending in public schools for the next three years.

There seems to be three factors in public school education: What type of learning parents want for their kids, what type of instruction schools can offer, and what the School District Board approves funding for. And longtime Roosevelt Elementary Principal turned VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) Director is the woman who is bridging the gaps. With a PHD from University of Pennsylvania in Education Leadership, an MA from Drexel University and a BA from St. Joseph University, Dr. Donna Ronzone is more than qualified to lead our district’s pursuits of an enriched arts education for all our public schools. She has spent 18+ years in the classroom, and 23 years in administration, in addition to overseeing the district’s elementary music program from 2009-12.

Ronzone is passionate about her work, explaining, “Personally, as a teacher and

as an educational leader, the value of arts education is incalculable. Resources and their allocation, e.g. funding, time, etc. in public education are always a challenge sometimes more than others. I think there is ample evidence that the overall health of the national and states’ economies plays a role in the support available for the Arts in our nations’ public schools.

During the course of my career, I have seen individual teachers, school sites, and school districts use a variety of approaches to keep the arts and arts instruction alive and vibrant in our schools. Teachers readily integrate the arts into their core subjects; dedicated arts instruction with highly qualified credentialed arts teachers is currently in place in all SBUSD schools and was always a goal in all the districts and schools in which I worked, East and West Coast! After-school opportunities in partnerships with school site PTAs and PTOs/Foundations as well as community partnerships such as ICAN and the Santa Barbara Symphony also expand the reach into the arts for our kids.”

I discovered on the Santa Barbara Unified District website a VAPA plan that focuses on enriching our public school’s arts disciplines –­ Instrumental Music, Vocal Music, Dance, Visual Arts, and Theatre. SBUSD took big strides to strengthen children’s art education in Santa Barbara when they folded the music program into the district budget and created the position of VAPA Director last year. Ronzone’s position may be new, but she is fast showing her experience and knowhow, navigating the numerous schools around the city from Pre-K through 12th Grade.

“My first six months on the job have been focused on where we are in light

Dr. Ronzone take time out of her busy schedule to meet with the Santa Barbara County Alliance for Arts Education members, (L to R) Margie Yahyavi of Santa Barbara Education Foundation, Dr. Ronzone, Kelli Forman of Everybody Dance Now, Paul Freeman of Santa Barbara Children’s Chorus, Jeffry Walker of iCAN, John Ogilvie, and Jen Brown of iCAN.

SBUSD VAPA Director Dr. Donna Ronzone

of the strategic plan and what do we need to revise and/or initiate to meet the VAPA plan’s goals. Researching what’s going on around the state and nation, academic and action research on arts instruction, and keeping up with updates in legislation such as ESSA (the recently passed Federal legislation which replaces No Child left behind)… These tasks, too, have kept me busy along

with working with our community partnerships in the arts,” says Ronzone.

As we walked the Roosevelt Elementary campus, Ronzone was greeted warmly by her former students, listening to their recent achievements and quizzing them on lesson plans she knew all too well. She paid focused attention to the children and I too felt the same attentiveness as we discussed the districts arts programs. It is this type of engagement and one-on-one attention that had me and the students sharing the same feeling, that our voice is heard and what we have to say is important too. Communication is essential to building strength in our community and our education system.

If you want your voice heard, there is an opportunity for parents, educators, and community members to be a part of the decision making process of the school district’s goals, budgets, etc.…

Get up and speak at the upcoming SBUSD Public Forum Meetings at the District Offices February 9th and 23rd at 6:30 pm sharp (720 Santa Barbara Street)!

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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.

International Wine Film Festival

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n a perfect pairing of wine and film, the first annual International Wine Film Festival – featuring the best wine-themed movies, short films, and web videos, along with tastings of fine wines from all over the world – will be held throughout Santa Barbara County February 14 through March 5.

The film festival is timed to coincide with the 16th annual World of Pinot Noir, a two day in-depth Pinot Noir event boasting tasting seminars, excursions, grand tastings, a Burgundy seminar and tasting, and wine and food extravaganzas featuring a panel of sommeliers from across the nation, all held at the Bacara Resort Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5.

Wil Fernandez, founder and director of the festival, says, “There are other traditional film festivals in wine country locations, but this is the first that solely focuses on films using wine as a theme and brings audiences into the vineyard to watch them.”

Shelby Sim, Executive Director of Visit the Santa Ynez Valley adds, “The festival is a great way to remind people that the authentic wine country experience is just a short trip from the coast. We’re thrilled to share all that our valley has to offer during this inaugural event.”

The event kicks off with dinner and a movie in an ultimate Wine Country Date Night, which happens to fall on Valentine’s Day – Sunday, February 14. The evening begins with a Champagne reception as the sun sets over the rolling hills and vineyards of Larner Vineyard in Ballard Canyon, followed by a “footsies encouraged” candlelit barn dinner at tables set for two. After dinner, keep your seats in the “cozy heated” barn for multiple dessert courses with wine pairings presented quietly to your table throughout a screening of Somm: Into the Bottle. This is the follow-up movie by director, Jason Wise, who created an instant cult classic three years ago with his film Somm. Master Sommelier and star of both Somm movies, Brian Mcclintic, will be in attendance to offer a toast and introduce the film. This event benefits the Allan Hancock Viticulture Program Scholarship.

If you prefer to stay in your jammies tucked into the comfort of your own couch and wine selection, open a bottle of your favorite wine and join a Live Screening and Simultasting on Wednesday, February 17 from 5:30 to 6:30pm on Twitter with the hashtag #WINEFILM. Join filmmakers and winemakers around the globe as several wine-themed videos, chosen by the Wine Film Festival Selection Committee, will be screened in conjunction with an hour-long conversation where any messages hashtagged will become a part of the fun.

On Saturday, February 20 from 2 to 4:30pm, Grassini Vineyards hosts an Afternoon Screening and Tasting, inviting film and wine goers to join winemakers for a tasting of Cabernet Sauvignon from Santa Barbara County and South Australia wineries. Local breads, meats, and cheeses will be served alongside vineyard tasting stations including wines from Star Lane, Foxen, Kitá, Grassini, Tyrells, and Yalumba. Guests are invited to sip and socialize around the stunning rustic grounds complete with a pond and canopy of majestic oaks, or head over to the barn where several wine-themed short films from Australia will be screened throughout the afternoon with a selection of gourmet popcorn.

On Wednesday, March 2 from 5:30 to 7:30pm, join filmmakers and featured wine personalities for an intimate evening of short screenings at Presqu’ile Winery. An opening reception featuring Presqu’ile Rosé paired with a selection of house-made breads from Bob’s Well Bread of Los Alamos will be offered, and each selected winethemed video will be paired with a wine featured on the big screen. Winemakers will

Valentine’s Day Pop Up Shop Friday, February 12th from 6-9pm A Sip and Shop Event featuring Special Valentine’s Day Sparkling Flight served ALL Weekend!

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also be in attendance to offer a toast and answer questions between flights.

As a former advertising agency executive, Fernandez says the International Wine Film Festival stems from a passion for both. Fernandez came up with the idea for the wine film festival after the success of his project “Vintage 2014: The Stories Behind The Vines,” the series of short films he produced and directed that are screened along with tasting intermissions. The crowd-funded project, which enabled him to bring the vineyards of Santa Barbara County to a national audience, won multiple awards including Best New Media at the New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles and Best Single Subject Wine Blog at the Wine Blog Awards.

The International Wine Film Festival will culminate with an awards ceremony and screening of winning films at the Bacara Resort & Spa. For more information visit www.winefilmfestival.com and www.worldofpinotnoir.com.

Eva’s Top Faves:

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

Paint in the Vineyard at Cambria Winery

Grab a glass, a brush, your Valentine, some paint, and submerge your creative and romantic senses in a stress-free vineyard environment that will inspire your creative spirit. Take in the stunning vistas and pinot noir clones and make your way to an easel, where a trained artist will walk you through the entire painting process stepby-step. No previous painting experience necessary.

When: Sunday, February 13 from 11am to 1:30pm Where: Cambria Winery 5475 Chardonnay Lane in Santa Maria Cost: $65 per painter – includes a tasting of Cambria Wine and all supplies necessary to create your masterpiece Info: GypsyStudiosArt.com/events for more information

Garagiste Festival

Flaunting wine by rule-breakers, pioneers, renegades, and mavericks, the 2016 Southern Exposure Garagiste Wine Festival will take place on Valentine’s Day weekend. In honor of Cupid’s fine work, the festival will feature micro-production local sparkling wines, in addition to handcrafted red and white vintages poured by hard-to-find, cutting-edge commercial artisan ‘garagiste’ wineries from Santa Barbara County, Santa Ynez Valley, Paso Robles, Napa, and more. Proceeds benefit The Garagiste Festival Scholarship Fund at Cal Poly Wine and Viticulture Department.

When: February 13 and 14 Where: Solvang Veterans’ Memorial Hall, 1745 Mission Drive in Solvang Info: www.garagistefestival.com

Botanic Garden Valentine’s Workshop

Cut and craft a willow Valentine for your sweetheart, loved ones, or simply to decorate your garden with love. Fill your trees, fence, and walls with willow hearts, large and small. Or simply stroll through the yellow Lupins and Poppies in bloom.

The SYV Botanic Garden was built by the community for the community and is a public garden dedicated to native plants.

When: Saturday, February 6 from 10am to 12pm Where: Santa Ynez Botanic Garden located at the Riverview Parkway in Buellton Cost: Adults - $25 and children - $5 Info: (805) 688-1086

Wine Fantasy in February

The 11th annual four-day wine passport is your opportunity to visit and taste at all 16 of the Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country Association wine tasting rooms. Meet, greet, sip, swirl, talk wine, and enjoy small bites and an assortment of chocolates served with wine tastings. Participants will receive a souvenir wine glass, and a continuous shuttle service between the wineries is available on both Saturday and Sunday – so park once and play all day.

When: February 12-15, 2016 Where: Wineries and tasting rooms throughout Santa Ynez Valley Cost: $55 Wine Fantasy Passport, $10 Shuttle Pass Info: (805) 563-3183 www.santaynezwinecountry.com

Save the Taste of Solvang Date!

Mark your calendars for this multi-day event which includes: chef-guided farmers market walks and farm-to-table dining; “Sip + Savor” food and drink reception showcasing the Santa Ynez Valley’s Premier Edibles and Imbibables; Town-Wide Shopping & Bites “Tasting Trail”; Two-Day Solvang Wine & Beer Walk; and Sunday Remedy, “Bubbles, Brews & Brunch.”

When: March 16 through 20 Where: All throughout Solvang Info: www.visitsyv.com

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SANTA YNEZ VALLEY...Come For The Wine…Stay For The Shopping

Atmosphere Atelier

Comfortable Luxury for the home

wendy foster LOS OLIVOS FINE WOMEN’S APPAREL wendyfoster.com

www.insidesyv.com

2928 SAN MARCOS AVENUE InsIde

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santa Ynez ValleY MagazIne

LOS OLIVOS

WWW.ATMOSPHEREATELIER.COM

805.686.0110

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Treats womens boutique

1603 COPENHAGEN DRIVE SOLVANG CA 805.686.4358 TREATSCLOTHING.COM

4 deeply discounted items per week!

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