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P lan B – Let’s hear it for the girls: Briana Westmacott chronicles the adventure of seven mothers backpacking on a mountain for three days

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Creative Characters – Zach Rosen gets in step with choreographer Robin Bisio, in time for her project Entangled Waters at SB County Courthouse

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Business Beat – It’s a shore thing for Jon Vreeland, who visits the Shoreline Café and its owners, Lesa and Steve Marsh

Fitness Front – Karen Robiscoe shapes up with the Uptown YMCA, takin’ it to the streets at Hope and Hitchcock avenues

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State Street Scribe – Like most everything else that exists, Spring is gloriously impossible, according to Jeff Wing What’s Hanging – Ted Mills previews Cuban art; Phoebe Brunner; Samurai code; on the street; Sheldon Kaganoff; CAW exhibit; SBCAST; SB Tennis Club; and more

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On Art – Margaret Landreau puts Mark Petersen’s paintings in a frame on Cabrillo Beach as part of the Santa Barbara Art Walk

Behind the Vine – Hana-Lee Sedgwick has the region’s winerelated events covered: from Bear and Star to El Encanto and the SB Vintners Festival

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Man About Town – Mark Leisuré spotlights Dancing with the Stars and BASSH; Dr. Greg Rasmussen; healing and hearing; community talk at Granada and SBCC; plus Tractors, Trucks and Trolleys and Earth Day

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I Heart SB – Elizabeth Rose dissects a study of psychopathology and provides recommendations about how to care for the artist in one’s life

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SYV Snapshot – Eva Van Prooyen previews the SB Vintners Festival; Solvang restaurants; Spring Fling; art plus poetry; painting; and Corks for Kids

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

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

LADY, YOU WILL MOVE MOUNTAINS OR THEY WILL MOVE YOU

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he followed the textbook. She married her college sweetheart, went to graduate school, immediately started a career and a family. They had two kids, a golden retriever, a matching washer and dryer, a fruit tree in the yard, and two cars in the driveway. It was all there, so why did she climb up the side of a mountain and find herself pooping in a hole at 10,000 feet?

It happens – sh*t, that is; she had cleaned up plenty from her kids and dog. Why was this moment so startling? Possibly the juxtaposition of her position, perched on the side of a breathtaking cliff with nothing but a dirt hole beneath her, she realized it was time to focus on her own sh*t.

It takes backcountry and bear cans to bring this type of revelation. No doubt, she questioned what the hell she was thinking when saying yes to the

adventure and the challenge that led her to this pooping post: seven moms, three days, 10,856 feet of mountain, 30+ pounds of backpack, and nighttime temps that dipped into the 20s. This was unlike any girls’ trip from her past.

When she was in her 20s, those gal getaways were focused on fun: far-away islands off of New Zealand, jungles in Costa Rica and Thailand, remote countrysides and pubs in Europe. After she had her first baby at 30 (textbook again), those excursions transformed into spa sanctuaries – basically any spot that served up massage tables and was a far cry from breast-sucking creatures.

But now, as she squatted in Yosemite’s woods on the edge of 43, something clicked. Her girls’ trips in the 40s have all been rugged, mountainous expeditions ...continued p.20

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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. He blogs at anIndependentMind.com

Your Rights and My Nose Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.

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veryone is demanding their “rights.” If the “rights” they demand take away my rights, are they “rights?”

Being on the libertarian end of the political spectrum (most freedom) I’m all for human rights – do your thing; just don’t make me do your thing or get in the way of me doing my thing.

This begs the question: What are “rights?” This is a pretty deep philosophical issue that goes back millennia.

I’m not going to bore you with a philosophy lesson, but we first need to stake out some concepts here. There are basic human rights. These rights are called “natural rights” or “natural law” and have been deduced by reason and logic. The idea is that when you are born, you have the right to your own life as an individual. If you are alive, you have the right to preserve your life (otherwise, what would be the point of life?). These rights aren’t given to you by someone, they are inherent in our nature – they just are.

As you can guess, natural law implies a lot of things, and philosophers have pondered and argued about this for the last 2,500 years. Start with the Greeks and Romans and work your way up through the centuries to Aquinas, the Salamancans, Hobbes, Locke, and others.

English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) defined it this way: Life: everyone is entitled to live.

Liberty: everyone is entitled to do anything they want to so long as it doesn’t conflict with the first right.

Estate: everyone is entitled to own all they create or gain through gift or trade, so long as it doesn’t conflict with the first two rights.

America was founded upon these philosophical concepts. The ideas and ideals of natural rights and natural law were embodied in the Declaration of Independence and our U.S. Constitution by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, and other founders.

As the Declaration of Independence said: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain

unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

They took this directly from Locke (“happiness” was a broader word which included “property” as a source of one’s well-being).

They embedded these ideas into the Constitution. They learned from

government to bend the rules of the marketplace to favor themselves. They want to force apartment owners to reduce rents to artificially low prices.

They want to limit owners’ rights to get rid of tenants who can’t pay or abuse the property. They want to enable tenants to sue owners as a form of harassment to incrementally deprive owners of control over their property.

The irony of “tenants’ rights” is that it will reduce the availability of rental units to the poor and raise rents, thus compounding the problem.

Another Santa Barbara social justice cause is a “right” to a “living wage” – another false right. When you peel back the layer of propaganda, it is just another form of government-enforced

up with reality.

These Progressive aims are a good example of the axiom that intentions are not to be confused with results.

These “rights” violate the basic tenets of natural law because they violate my rights and your rights as individuals to make basic choices about our own life, liberty, and property.

When I discuss these kinds of issues with Progressives, I challenge them with the question of why they favor violence and coercion as a means of implementing social policies. When you get down to it, one must recognize that government laws are enforced at the point of a gun. Why would one favor top-down coercive policies controlled by a fallible few at the top, rather than

There are basic human rights called “natural rights” or “natural law” history and experience that government was the greatest threat to our rights, so they spelled out the limitations of what government can and can’t do to us. They adopted the Bill of Rights, which added further restrictions on government to protect our (natural) rights.

There have been a lot of protests lately demanding rights for a number of causes. There are demands for civil rights, women’s rights, labor rights, tenant rights, voting rights, disability rights, abortion rights, LGBT rights, immigrant rights, gun rights, welfare rights, minimum income rights, free college education rights, and … well, you get the idea.

Many of these “rights” aren’t “rights” as much as they are political movements to abridge someone else’s rights or to get some advantage from government and taxpayers.

Before you jump out of your chair and mention the Civil Rights movement, let me explain that black Americans were seeking their natural rights (equality under the law) by fighting segregation laws. “Jim Crow” and “separate but equal” were government laws restricting the rights of black Americans. Other civil rights sought were also natural rights and demands were just, such as voting rights, women’s suffrage, miscegenation laws, and sodomy laws, to name a few.

I’m not talking about those.

I’m talking about economic and political “rights” demanded by Progressives, such as tenant rights and living wage rights.

A favorite social justice cause in Santa Barbara is “Tenants’ rights.” People who choose to live in one of the most expensive places on the planet want

redistribution of wealth. The problem for minimum wage enthusiasts is that it doesn’t work.

Business owners don’t set wages, we consumers do by what we are willing to pay for the goods or services we buy.

If the law forces business owners to pay workers more than the marginal benefit of their labor to the employer, then their businesses will be less competitive, less profitable, and will be forced to reduce costs (such as shedding employees) to stay in business. It is another example of the unintended negative consequences of economic policies that don’t match

the voluntary bottom-up choices made by millions of individuals? A relevant point when one considers the history of top-down regimes.

Natural rights and natural law were and still are one of the prime drivers of the dramatic rise of wealth and well-being of people lucky enough to live in (mostly) Western societies.

Yet Progressives dismiss natural rights because they have no faith in your ability to make rational choices about your own life. They would sacrifice your time-honored rights to attain their ultimate goal of political power.

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Jump On The Brew Bus will be transporting guests around the Central Coast to sample the special IPA

Brewing in Pink Boots Sandy Harrison of The BackRoom is the chapter leader of the Pink Boots Society and friends

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o celebrate this past International Women’s Day (March 8), the Pink Boots Society (PBS), a nonprofit organization focused on females in the beer industry, held a nationwide brew day for local chapters of the PBS to come together and collaborate on a special one-off beer, showcasing the skills of female beer industry members and counteracting the stereotype of the craft brewer as a bearded white guy with varying degrees of hipsterdom.

The Central Coast PBS Chapter has 15 members, 10 of which were able to participate in the Pink Boots Society Brew Day. Chapter leader Sandy Harrison of Valley Brewers and Annie Fredrickson of Figueroa Mountain, worked together to coordinate the brew day where they were joined by Figueroa Mountain’s creative director, Kevin Ashford, at their Buellton facility to brew a single 15 BBL batch of this collaborative beer. The resulting Doesn’t Have To Be Pink IPA will be released on Tuesday, April 17, around the Central Coast.

BY WOMEN FOR WOMEN The Pink Boots Society is a 501(c) (3) organization that is dedicated to connecting women in the beer industry.

Founded in 2007, the PBS now has more than 1,500 members. These include not just active and retired female brewers but also women in brewing academia and staff working in beer-centric bars and taprooms. PBS goes beyond hosting events and networking, acting as a source of job opportunities, as well

as providing educational resources and classes designed to make beer more approachable to women. In addition, they have scholarships available to PBS members that range from financial support for female students attending a brewing institute to sponsoring members to attend workshops and educational events.

The PBS organization was founded by Teri Fahrendorf, who is considered not just a leader for women in the brewing industry but a leader for all members of the industry. Teri turned pro brewer in 1988, making her the third female brewmaster in the craft beer industry, coming in just behind Mellie Pullman in 1986 and Carol Stoudt in 1987. She became the first women class president at the Siebel Institute of Brewing Technology, and over the years she has jumped from brewmaster to working in beer stores and serving as a malt and hops sales rep. This range of experience gives her a vast knowledge of all aspects of the industry.

Beyond awards and recognition, she was unofficially labeled as one tough brewer after she received 3rd-degree burns on her lower body from a boilover in the brewery in 1989. The accident resulted in her having to receive skin grafts to 11 percent of her body. In 2007, she was traveling as a gypsy brewer and live blogging the experience at www. roadbrewer.com. A gypsy brewer is someone who does not own a brickand-mortar brewery and rather uses other breweries’ equipment and space to produce their beers. This experience

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.

put her in touch with brewers around the nation, and it was at that time she decided to found the PBS as a way of connecting all of the females in the industry.

ALL IN THE BLEND Pink Boots Society chapters from around the nation all produced their own variation of collaboration beer on Pink Boots Society Brew Day. The unifying feature of these collaboration brews is a special hop blend from Yakima Chief-Hopunion (YCH Hops). At the last Great American Beer Festival in Denver, PBS members met with YCH Hops and sampled their way through the available varietals to come up with a special blend.

When the hop dust settled, they selected five different hops. The first two in the blend, Simcoe and Citra, most people know. These varietals have that quintessential American hop aroma featuring grapefruit, orange peel, and other citrus aromas with a spicy pinelike accent. Mosaic hops were added and have become incredibly popular over the years. Most beerdoes are familiar with Mosaic’s tropical fruit aromas and earthy tones.

Loral hops, a newer varietal introduced in 2016, was also added to the blend and features a more lemonpepper and dark fruit character with some floral perfume notes. Also added was Palisade hops, which are a little more common and bring a sweeter fruit character reminiscent of apricot and

other pit fruits. When the Central Coast PBS chapter heard about the blend, it became clear that a bright, West Coaststyle IPA was the perfect style to frame the hop aromas.

The Central Coast chapter decided to keep the malt character particularly light so that the hop aromas would shine. The resulting beer is 6.0% ABV with only 35 IBUs (the degree of bitterness), making it on the lighter side of the IPA style.

Hops were added to the kettle as the mash was running off – a process called “first wort hopping” that is known to add a richer and more complex hop character. The beer was also double dry-hopped so the combination of low bitterness with strong hop flavor should produce a final beer that’s flavorful while still being quite drinkable.

The beer will be released on Tuesday, April 17, and for those who’d like to make a day of it, there will be a Jump on the School Bus tour that will be bringing thirsty beerdoes to each location at which the IPA is being served along the coast. Starting at 10 am, the bus will bring guests from the main Figueroa Mountain facility in Buellton to The BackRoom in Solvang. Attached to the Valley Brewers, this cozy bar delivers 16 taps and a quality bottle list to accompany their extensive homebrew shop. From there, the bus will jump over to the San Luis Obispo location of Libertine Brewing Co., where guests can get a taste of the Central Coast terroir with their selection of brews made from locally foraged ingredients and wild yeasts. The tour will go next to Figueroa Mountain’s Santa Barbara tasting room with a round at Lama Dog Tap Room before returning back to Buellton.

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at Valley Brewers (805-691-9159) or from the Brew Day coordinator, Annie Frederickson, at annie@figmtnbrew. com. For those who miss the release party, don’t fret! It will also be available at the Buellton and Santa Barbara Figueroa Mountain locations for a limited time.

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Tell us all about your art opening, performance, dance party, book signing, sale of something we can’t live without, or event of any other kind by emailing fortnight@santabarbarasentinel.com. If our readers can go to it, look at it, eat it, or buy it, we want to know about it and will consider it for inclusion here.

Special consideration will be given to interesting, exploratory, unfamiliar, and unusual items. We give calendar preference to those who take the time to submit a picture along with their listing.

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ramming two weeks of entertainment, arts, and other events into a bi-weekly calendar is already a challenge. With this issue now covering a double fortnight, the task becomes doubly difficult, and this column now must be even denser.

Pardon us in advance if an event doesn’t get the space it deserves – or none at all – as we come to terms with having to do things in categories.

Singer-Songwriters, Stoners, and Stories

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f all you know about Marc Cohn is “Walking in Memphis,” the melodically-hypnotic soulful ballad that was a big hit and drove his debut album to platinum status a quartercentury ago, you’re missing out on a terrific storyteller who draws his songs largely from his own life, identifying what are usually universal themes to which we all can relate. The thing is, all of us were missing out on much of those goodies, that is until Cohn released Careful What you Dream: Lost Songs and Rarities and the bonus album Evolution of a Record featuring neverbefore-heard songs and demos that date back more than 25 years ago. When Cohn returns to the Lobero Theatre on Tuesday, April 10, likely we’ll get to hear some of those numbers, as well as others that have drawn the respect of such peers as Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, and Patty Griffin, all of whom made guest appearances on Cohn’s early records.

That same venerable hall is also the venue four days later for Steve Poltz, the San Diego-based journeyman singersongwriter whose accomplishments include a lot more than discovering, encouraging (and dating) Jewel back before she exploded on the scene in the 1990s. His impressive collection of ballads, rockers, and acoustic numbers that reflect an incomparable style of alternate tunings and savage finger-picking techniques, as well as a savage sense of humor, come across as deceptively simple, but guitar geeks are suitably impressed by his work while the rest of us just have a good time.

Honky-tonk supergroup Western Centuries, which comprises three different songwriters – open the Sings

Like Hell show on Saturday, April 14.... The Lobero hosts the return of “Go To Hale: Quips & Clips”, another one of Hale Milgrim’s unique periodic presentation in which the lifelong music devotee and former record company exec shares stuff from his personal archives, including rare concert footage and insider stories.

Stoners & Songwriters (420) is the subtitle for the high-ly anticipated event that celebrate marijuana’s mojo with music – all perfectly legal, at least in California now – taking place on, yes, you guessed it, Friday, April 20.

(Info and tickets for all three shows at 963-0761 or www.lobero.com).

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ric Andersen, whose career dates back to the 1960s and such classic songs as “Thirsty Boots” and whose local appearances have included both Sings Like Hell and SOhO, shares the stage at the Maverick Saloon with Teresa Tudury for a Tales from the Tavern date on Wednesday, April 25. (688-0383 or www.talesfromthetavern.com).... SOhO hosts Peter Harper, the brother of Ben Harper – who has made Santa Barbara a home-away-from-home, including a recent guest appearance for the Jack Johnson fire/mudslide recovery concert at the SB Bowl last month), for a solo show on Thursday, April 26 (962-7776 or www.sohosb.com).

Music of the Night

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roadway musicals, both massive hits and otherwise, get the regional treatment via Santa Barbara’s most off-beat theater company and a slew of schools. Out of the Box Theater

Company puts a modern spin on American Idiot, the stage adaptation of Green Day’s iconic platinum-selling album of the same name, a hyperaggressive punk provocation/reaction to what the band saw as hypocrisy of the Bush Administration’s response to the September 11 attacks coupled with the increasingly placid American public. Video projects replace the 20-some screens of the Broadway production, the method for updating the backdrop to current day issues of gun control, women’s marches, and political divide. Catch it as Center Stage Theatre April 6-15, and may we suggest a pair of earplugs? (963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org) In the educational environment, Dos Pueblos High School debuts Disney’s Newsies April 6-21, Laguna gravitates toward Grease the weekend of April 1921, and from April 27 to May 6, Santa Barbara High undergoes Urinetown, the musical that without a doubt carries a most unappetizing title, but is actually both funny and depressingly more germane as the income gap continues to widen.

Dramas in the Darkness

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here’s nary a comedy coming our way as the three more established professional theater companies in town mount new productions this month. In Crimes of the Heart, the 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that was adapted into a Oscar-nominated film, the three Magrath sisters have gathered in the family home in Mississippi as their patriarch grandfather is dying in the hospital. The oldest is unmarried and facing diminishing marital prospects, the middle sister has come home following a failed singing career on the West Coast, and the youngest is out on bail after having shot her husband.

Admittedly, there are some hilarious moments in the telling of the characters’ attempts to escape the past, so grab onto those when it runs at SBCC’s Jurkowitz Theater April 13-28.

Ayad Akhtar’s Invisible Hand, which plays at Ensemble Theatre Company’s (ETC) New Vic April 12-29, is about as topical as theater can get. Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, his 2013 play about the intersection of faith, politics, infidelity, and

Islamaphobia, which had a searing Santa Barbara engagement at Center Stage last year, is more of a thriller, more directly pitting Capitalism intersects with Islamic fanaticism, via a story set in Pakistan, where an American investment banker has been kidnapped by an extremist organization and winds up convincing his captors that he can manipulate the stock market to meet his own ransom.

John Tufts, who impressed mightily in ETC’s 2016 production of I Am My Own Wife (which he just finished reprising at Laguna Playhouse), stars as the banker in the latest ambitious piece directed by ETC’s 12-year veteran artistic director Jonathan Fox. (965-5400 or www.etcsb.org.)

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soprano Joyce DiDonato – whose role as Norma with the Metropolitan Opera aired last month on PBS’s Great Performances – and pianist Craig Terry to the Granada (899-2222 or www.granadasb.org).

Also, Daedalus Quartet, whose career skyrocketed after claiming the top prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2001, plays works by Beethoven, Haydn and Janácek at Mary Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Tuesday, April 17 (963-4364 or www. sbma.net). Opera Santa Barbara tries out a new venue, bringing a pairing of the one-acts Trouble in Tahiti and Gallantry to the Center Stage’s black box space on April 20-21 (963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org), while the Santa Barbara Symphony sticks with the Granada for its April pair of performances featuring Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 on April 21-22 (8992222 or www.granadasb.org).... Finally, if you just don’t trust the SBCO anymore – or simply prefer exciting recitals – violinist Jennifer Koh brings her latest program, “Shared Madness”, to St. Anthony’s Chapel at the Garden Street Academy via UCSB on Friday, April 27 (893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.

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35 years) maestro Heiichiro Ohyama will lead an orchestra composed of many of SBCO’s musicians – which I guess means some of them had already scattered elsewhere, or else didn’t fit in the budget – in a celebratory and consumer-friendly concert featuring Jacques Ibert’s Divertissement, Copland’s Appalachian Spring – Suite for 13 instruments, and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings Op. 48. Show time is 7:30 pm on April 27, a full four weeks after Easter. (963-0761 or www. lobero.com)

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CREATIVE CHARACTERS ROBIN BISIO

by Zach Rosen

Dancers perform underwater alongside a sea of plastic

Entangled Waters is an aquatic dance performance that will be projected onto the SB County Courthouse

Art and design often try to capture nature’s beauty and this is most true in dance, where the body seeks to mimic the motions found in the world around us. For choreographer Robin Bisio, this inspiration has led to lifetime of work.

Growing up on a farm in Menlo Park, she would find herself wishing by the streams – and to this day, she finds inspiration for her work in the beaches and mountains that surround us. Robin thinks the world wants to just be danced out and this is visible in many of her projects (http://robinbisiodance.com).

This upcoming Friday and Saturday, April 13-14, from 8:30 to 10 pm, there is an opportunity to see her newest project, Entangled Waters, at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.

While many of her concepts are first inspired by nature, the inspiration for Entangled Waters came from another one of her passions, art history. Originally going for the heroic, she began researching the Sistine Chapel where she came across Michelangelo’s The Flood.

The panel shows a group of distressed people seeking refuge on a mountaintop from the biblical rains. Groups rise out of the water, carrying one another and trying to find shelter in the windswept trees. A boat on the brink of capsizing can be seen in the water with Noah’s ark setting off in the background. From this inspiration, a new message began to form about the health of our oceans and humankind’s impact on it. The

Santa Barbara Courthouse, being the city center and with its Poseidon and Aphrodite stone medallions, seemed like the perfect backdrop to display this message.

With this focus grew a group of environmentally activated artists and collaborators who worked together to create Entangled Waters. Videographer and artist Ethan Turpin has designed a range of environmentally themed installations, including several that revolve around wildfire. Lamara Heartwell is a local performer, speaker, instructor, and founder of the Santa Barbara Dance Tribe. As the great granddaughter of one of the founders of Exxon, Lamara has dedicated her life to being an environmental steward. Robin came into the project as the director and choreographer, and Lamara took on the role of executive producer. Ethan acted as the cinematographer and editor with lighting and camera support provided

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Anaya Cullen was the costume designer; she crafted several dresses including two long, flowing ballroomstyle dresses that fade from white into pink. The men are wearing shorts and shirts, which have a rather unnatural presence when viewed next to the exotic dresses. The two clothing styles contrast with each other and help exhibit the separation between humankind and nature in the piece. Lamara and Ethan performed alongside dancers Kaita

Dancers perform in long flowing dresses

Mrazek, Erick Alvarez, and Kweisi Petillo.

The performances were challenging on the dancers. Even though some were able to practice aquatic moves in costume, coordinating the camera work with the sea of plastic and flowing dresses added a layer of complexity to the performance. Overall, it took two days of shooting, going late into the night.

From some short clips, I viewed the effort was worth it. The large swaths of plastic floating softly in the water create a dazzling display. The gentle rippling of their frayed edges resemble the motion of jellyfish or the dancing tentacles of a sea anemone. The plastic sheets range in color and give considerable depth to the frame with these graceful objects floating

in the foreground and background. The dancers twirl throughout the shot, their bodies occasionally bursting forth from the plastic bloom in a swirl of pink.

The moves are majestic and mesmerizing at moments, but there is a sense of urgency as you watch the bodies begin to tangle in the sea of plastic. The limbs struggle to break free from the encompassing swarms of plastic that begin to set upon them. The result is gripping yet dreamy, reminding one how quickly dreams can become nightmares.

Ethan has been editing the content and working together with The Environment Makers, a local multimedia art duo comprising artists Jon Smith and Kym Cochran, to project the imagery onto the exterior of the courthouse, transforming it into a “water palace.” The images will culminate into a time-running-out scenario, with Ethan’s solo journey against time being projected onto the courthouse’s clocktower. Local musical genius Jim Connolly of The Piano Kitchen has put together a surreal composition comprised of bass, saw, and vocals that will be performed live during the installation.

They have been working on this project since last year, before the catastrophes that took place in December. After the wildfires and mudslides, the footage now carries a greater weight and makes a larger statement about climate change, bringing light to a world out of balance.

This free performance will be on view April 13-14 from 8:30 to 10:00 pm at the courthouse and will be one that you do not want to miss.

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n the shores of the American Riviera and Leadbetter Beach, just west of the Santa Barbara Harbor on Shoreline Drive, the award-winning California seaside restaurant Shoreline Cafe is where the local residents and tourists, or any customer at all, can not only bury their feet in the sand and their faces in a ¼- or ½-pound beef or veggie burger, Baja-style fish tacos – or maybe fish (or shrimp) and chips, et cetera – but has permission to polish off a bucket of seven-ounce, ice-cold Coronas or Dos Equis, or a few Shoreline Margaritas made with Patron Silver, while still in the shade of a table’s blue umbrella on the sandy beach floor.

Since 1997, the seaside locale that sits at the base of Santa Barbara City College and La Playa Stadium belongs to Steve and Lesa Marsh. As for the seating, the few stools under the bar-type table against the cafe’s front window is the spot to sit and wait for a to-go order.

The restaurant’s large wood patio deck, covered by a turquoise and white canvas, has floor heaters around the edge of the floor’s perimeter, and like any seat in the restaurant whether the customer wants one or not, has a full ocean view.

Then, of course, there is the area in back of the restaurant, where the legs of the patio tables and chairs sink into the actual sand on the actual beach.

This particular location at 801 Shoreline Drive – as far as Steve knows – is the onesingle restaurant in Southern California allowed to serve their customers alcohol as well, on the California Coastline – a stretch of nearly 1,000 miles, from the Mexican border to Oregon (according to Google Maps).

For one or two people who just want an appetizer and a drink, Steve says the nachos are the most gluttonous item and popular with old and new customers.

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Beach city havens such as Huntington Beach, Seal Beach, Venice Beach, even Malibu, are places where local residents and tourists can also eat tacos and drink margaritas amid the vivacious Pacific, sure. But only on the planks of the city pier, or maybe your conventional beer-less snack shack on the north side of the beach’s tumultuous boardwalk (the kind with rubber hot dogs and a watery soda), not directly on the sand with an all-natural, ¼ pound Niman Ranch Beef Hot Dog, that according to Steve contains “zero pesticides and hormones.”

Steve is a Southern California native of the land, and of the sea. He moved to Santa Barbara around 40 years ago and has been with Lesa for 23 of them. He was born and raised in Long Beach, attended Wilson High School, and swam on the swim team. He also worked as a city lifeguard – something of a family tradition. As a teenager, Steve worked at a seafood restaurant owned by Walt and Mona Babcock called Walt’s Wharf in the neighboring city of Seal Beach. Walt used his own boat to catch fish, and minutes later the fish would be filleted and on somebody’s plate in the restaurant as fresh as can be, says the former manager of Santa Barbara’s Paradise Cafe.

Steve began working for Mr. Babcock, an experienced boat man and fisherman, at the age of 14. So, just like Mr. Babcock – as well as Steve’s father, who caught the biggest Salmon ever captured on a lake in New Zealand – Steve is no stranger to the ocean. Over his life he’s surfed, he’s sailed (once with Lesa from Long Beach to Tahiti), and he currently paddleboards on the shores of Leadbetter. Basically, anything that involves the beach and/or ocean, Steve has done at some point in his aqueous life.

Furthermore, Steve’s dad being a deep-sea fisherman had a “big influence” on his life. “My dad was Hemingway,” Steve said earnestly and with a smile.

“I’m not kidding: the straw hat, cane pole, daiquiris, the way he lived, he really was ‘the old man’ and the sea.”

Some years ago, Steve’s dad was hired to be Ernest Hemingway at the opening of the Hemingway Museum (which was Hemingway’s home) in the Florida Keys. Steve’s dad fished his entire life until he passed away about a decade ago at 80.

The Shoreline Cafe is a product of Santa Barbara’s waterfront division.

The building is, of course, built with a Spanish Colonial-style, red-shingled roof. And even though Shoreline Cafe is not a solar-powered facility, their business, Steve says, relies heavily upon the sun and the weather. So, when the weather is good, business is good.

The Shoreline Cafe hours are: Monday through Thursday, 9 am to 8 pm, and Friday through Sunday, 8 am to 9 pm.

Happy Hour is Monday through Friday, 4 to 6 pm. The phone number is (805) 568-0064.

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Mackenzie Hopkins fitness and wellness director teaching a Body Pump class

by Karen Robiscoe A certified fitness trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, Ms. Robiscoe trains clients privately. Email her at iscribe@ cox.net, and follow her online at https://kardiowithkaren.com to keep up with the latest in health and exercise.

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ptown Y. I’ve been going to the Uptown Y, and if you’re thinking about checking out the one located at 36 Hitchcock Way, all I can ask you is, Y delay? The YMCA that dominates the span of an entire city block between Hitchcock and Hope avenues is a fantastic facility.

Boasting a spacious reception area with a plasma TV, comfortable couches, and a section allotted for kids to play, its patio is perfect for outdoor Tai Chi classes, or a session on the ellipticals stationed out there too – nestled comfortably under weather-protective awnings, of course. The indoor selection of cardio equipment is huge, and the state-of-the-art nautilus machines in the Techno Gym track your workout for you. Linked to an app that shows you videos of the proper use of the machines, recording repetitions, and preferred weights, the app also allows you to update your routine on the go.

That isn’t the half of it, though. There’s way more ground to cover, and some of it’s wet! The Y’s indoor pool is 25 yards, wall-to-wall, its sidelines graced with whirlpool, sauna, and steam room, inviting you to splish-splash no matter what the weather. Is it a run you’re after?

The Y’s outdoor track is foot-friendly and covers just under a quarter of a mile. How about playing ball? Featuring a slew of racquetball courts, you can also catch a pick-up game in the only full basketball courts you’ll find in a Santa Barbara club. Complete with weight room, and roster of classes on top of the latest fitness trends, the communityoriented nonprofit offers child care, as well as youth development programs, and senior-focused classes as well.

“The perception of the Y can be that it’s outdated, but that just isn’t true.”

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But if you miss a workout, give yourself a break! Working out even one day a week is better than no days. It adds up!”

The glow she sported after leading a class of 30 or more participants in Body Pump was convincing testimony, as was member Miriam Santiago’s post-class statement: “The class is a very intense, full-body workout. It keeps me focused by working my mind and body at the same time. My strength is a lot better since I’ve been going, and my energy is high.” The personal assistant and mother of three also puts the child care the Y offers to good use. While her 11-yearold goes to the “Kids Gym,” her slightly older daughter usually comes to class with her – a course consisting of 1,000 repetitions of rapid-fire weight-lifting, they’re assured their hearts stay pumped, and the results of their exertions are big.

Class members Holly Walling and Fuchsia Miller were just as enthusiastic: “I really like the choreography. It releases stress, and I’m lifting more every time.

My core is much stronger and helps support the demands of everyday life,” Holly said, while newcomer Fuchsia added this: “I got a great workout in just the first fifteen minutes! I was able to keep up, and when I wasn’t sure of the next move, the people nearby me were happy to help. I’m definitely going to become a regular in this class.”

If you’re more inclined to bench a few pounds, the weight room at the Y is well-equipped. Native Santa Barbaran Mark Russer was happy to tell me his go-to choices while spending time at the gym. “I work out an hour a day 4 or 5 days a week, for mental as much

as physical well-being. I use the weight room and sauna predominantly.” He smiled while adding: “I’m really into the sauna these days. It’s awesome. I’m on my way there right now.” An employee of the city planning department, Max confessed his guilty pleasure was Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and that “The weights I lift help me stay fit!”

Former local baseball coach Robert Sailors had his own favorite regimen: “One of my favorite machines is the Kinesis Cable Machine. I really enjoy the hamstring and quadriceps stretch machines in the Techno Gym too.” A dedicated gym-goer who suits up five to six days per week, he winked while revealing the reason for such diligence: “It helps me to pull the cork out of the wine bottle. Some of those corks are in their pretty tight!”

By the time I was through talking to the Y’s diverse and various members, one thing was clear. The great attitude each had might not have been listed on the YMCA’s schedule, but that bi-product was as evident as the health these fit and friendly folks possessed. Staff included.

As personal trainer Chada Chiles said: “It isn’t just about external transformation for me. Seeing a person’s outlook change because of their physical activities is what truly makes me happy.” The second-year kinesiology major was sincere as she noted: “A YMCA trainer is your friend, here to help you realize your fitness goals and reach your maximum potential.”

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STATE STREET SCRIBE

by Jeff Wing

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

Spring: What are the Chances?

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pring has arrived. Our unfortunate fealty to the numbing Age of Reason precludes our playful use of the word “Miracle,” even as we dance helplessly through the sudden profusion of lupine, poppy, and lavender. So instead, we’ll sing this Hymn to Her. Take your neighbor’s hand in a legally actionable show of shared humanity, and let’s go.

WHAT IT IS What is spring? Life loudly reasserts herself, that’s what. Frosty the Snowman is reduced to a sad puddle, and we laughingly kick his dumb top hat over the fragrant hedge. Bears awaken from their slumber, stretch luxuriously and start singing. Forest bunnies stand on their hind legs, link their furry little arms, dance in a circle, and are set upon by singing bears. Fall and Winter exit with a curt bow, the biosphere slams the door behind them and goes shamelessly crazy with celebration, in colors that

happily stress the limits of the visible spectrum.

The plant kingdom opens its smiling yap to the bath of sunlight, stems and leaves, and less pronounceable plant bits go suddenly turgid with chlorophyll, unreasonably happy bugs gather in humming, musical clouds to swirl deliriously through fields of wildflower.

Megafauna rattle the hard-packed tundra with their bashful backrubs, and little boys and girls, yet unsullied, chase one another from the merry-go-round to the kickball field and back again, following a heart-powered program at least as old as the Boötes Void. That is, Wyeth politely yields the floor to Chagall. Very occasionally, a whale will be observed in the Santa Barbara Channel sporting a Trader Joe’s bouquet in its blowhole. It’s that time of year.

SPRING: THE HARD PROBLEM The magic of Spring has a somewhat reductionist explanation. The Earth

is inclined on its axis just so. Begat by a generally incomprehensible “Bang” 13.8 billion years ago (we’re assured through straight faces), today our stupidly lucky rock makes its lumpen way around the neighborhood fireball, here tilted toward the Old Dear, there away. This angular disposition yields changes of seasons, cyclical eruptions of joy in the plant and animal kingdoms, and hastily folded notes handed secretly around in third-period algebra. Cellular Life does its thrilling and largely mysterious Springtime jig and we find ourselves smiling through tears. Pardon the grammar, But Ain’t Life Grand (Mel Torme, et al)?

Here’s the problem: Life’s a miracle (oh for g*d’s sake – don’t start!); or if not a miracle, a monstrously boggling equation, a glissando of numerical chutzpah. As the sometimes stammering physicist Roger Penrose has noted (along with Martin Rees, Paul Davies, and many others of the slide rule set), the universe we live in is a crazily privileged subset of all possible universes. How so? Let’s just say the Cosmos is one of the most neatly built cuckoo clocks ever to self-assemble from an exploding scrapyard. Following the hallowed and probably soundless Big Bang, the fine, feathery micro-bits of the concussed

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universe fell together with an exactitude that can ulcerize a mathematician. You can look it up. Start with Anthropic Principle.

But the so-called “Fine-tuning” of the universe? At best, it’s a preamble.

The dissemination and later clumping of exploded quantum debris into stars, galaxies, and jauntily tilted, sundrenched home planets is not explicable, nor need it be. The one thing we can say is this: the subcutaneous thrill that attends the arrival of Spring suggests both greater and fainter forces than those at work on our warily flirtatious protons and neutrons. This is the Hard Problem of Spring.

Something is going on. Something momentous is going on. But if you exist, and love, and mow the lawn, and teach the kids to drive in the eternally blossoming spark of a lightning strike, that wild improbability is the fabric of your everyday. Get your arms around it. We’re all the insanely improbable payoff of the craziest bet modern math can describe. And when you know that the whole of your existence is balanced on a knife edge, powdered donuts taste better. They just do.

Take somebody’s hand – we came through the explosion. Spring is impossible. Long live Spring.

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that push the limits of what her mind and body held to be true; first, there was Mt. Whitney, climbed the day before her 41 birthday, and now backpacking through the high Sierras.

SUMMITING THE 40S “Be sure to pack a negative-10degrees sleeping bag,” she was told as she prepared all the gear she needed for the Yosemite trek. Really? She questioned

why she had said yes to this rather than a trip that required a bikini and a beach cover-up.

Once on the trail, the trepidation dissolved. The air in Yosemite breathes

differently. The higher she climbed, the more she was awakened, and she knew this wake-up call was impossible to experience poolside with a margarita.

No doubt, a lounge-chair destination wouldn’t have had her in a tent shaking uncontrollably through the entire first night, fearing what she thought to be hypothermia. It turned out to be a bout with altitude sickness, something her body adjusted to on day two, just in time for her to summit Mt. Hoffman.

As she grasped the hands of the women surrounding her, on the top of Yosemite’s middle-most point, she realized just how much she needed this.

All of life’s messiness had melted away.

Her heart and lungs were full and her head was clear. She understood what John Muir had described as his church in this moment of worship beyond the timberline. Her body was strong, though etched with ache. It was the good kind of pain that can only be felt after setting a goal that shoves you beyond your boundary lines.

GET YOUR “BIG GIRL” BOOTS READY That “she” on the mountain was me – well, to be clear, me before I lost my

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

AN ARTSY APRIL

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pril is a big month for art and the temperatures are perfect, semesters are winding down, and Santa Barbara just chills out a little more than previous.

This month is looking quite fruitful, with public art on State Street once more, outdoor fests and installations, a happening First Thursday last week, artist talks, and general good vibes. I tried to cram as much in as I could, but apologies up front for any omissions.

You could always drop me a line at tedmills@gmail.com, ya know, just so it doesn’t happen again.

CUBAN KEWPIES

Cuban-born Ojai resident Carmen Abelleira re-purposes old books, tea trays, and other ephemera into her cute and anachronistic paintings where kewpie-dolls meet Instagram culture.

Her show at The Press Room (15 E. Ortega) is called “On the Fence/Off the Wall” because her usual means of exhibition is a fence near her house.

If you wisely went to opening night a few days ago, you would have had first pick at a range of works, as interested buyers took them off the wall and took them home that night. But don’t worry, Abelleira will immediately replace the empty wall space with a new work, and the cycle with begin anew over the course of its two months.

BREATH OUT

film versions of the story as we had “O.K. Corral” stories. “The Loyal League: Images from Japan’s Enduring Tale of Samurai Honor and Revenge” opened April 1 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, showing images from their own collection, as well as others on loan. Check out woodblock prints and illustrated books along with paintings from the late-18th through 19th centuries, and featuring ukiyo-e artists Utamaro, Toyokuni, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, and Kunisada, and paintings by Kinkoku and Nichōsai.

Through June 10.

THE STREET AS GALLERY

At long last, public art returns to State Street! Why, it must be something like 10 years since sculptors and multimedia artists brought oddities to our main thoroughfare, and also 10 years since people complained about public art. So, let’s rev up that debate again.

“State of the Art Gallery” is a joint venture between the City of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture and features work by Michael Irwin, Pattie Porter Firestone, Patrick Melroy, Brooke Smiley, Daria Izad, Danielle Siano, Nathan Snyder, and Luis Velasquez.

The figures, which can be found from Victoria to Ortega, will be up through June 10. And Nathan Snyder having an opening and reception at his studio near the corner of Milpas and Canon Perdido on Saturday, April 28, 6 - 9 pm.

WELCOME BACK, KAGANOFF

Phoebe Brunner is back at Sullivan Goss (11 East Anapamu Street) for her second solo show with “Breathe” through May 27. Her first spectacle pretty much sold out, and this one stands to be similar. Just in time for our late spring, these realist landscapes are also psychedelic in their odd weather formations, blooming fields of poppies, and more.

THE SAMURAI CODE

The 47 Ronin is one of Japan’s most famous samurai “loyalty and revenge” stories. Its impact on Japanese culture is profound: There’s about as many

The 10 West Gallery (10 West Anapamu) honors and exhibits the world of ceramic artist Sheldon Kaganoff this month. Kaganoff was both teacher and mentor to many students from 1965 to 1994, when he retired from UCSB. He currently teaches at Clay Studio in Goleta. His works are joined by gallery regulars Rick Doehring, Madeline Garrett, Kurt Waldo, and several others.

SCREENED AND ANONYMOUS

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and in honor of that the Community Arts Workshop is offering Print Power, a chance to learn screen printing and its therapeutic powers in a supporting environment. The workshops through Sunday, April 15,

(tinyurl.com/printpowersb) are open to partners, family members, and close friends of sexual assault survivors, as well as survivors themselves. The artwork created in the workshops will be displayed anonymously at an end-ofmonth exhibit at CAW (631 Garden) April 27-29.

WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS

Checking in on our friends at SBCAST (513 Garden) for the month, it’s a delight to see the return of artist Skye Gwilliam – who has been in Paris creating street art for months – and William Pressley for a two-fer show at Studio D. Meanwhile, multi-media artist and Oakland resident Allison Leigh Holt brings “A Living Model of Hyperbolic Space” to Studio F, a biosculptural installation that projects lichen in close-up on glass globes (yes, I’d like to see it also to describe it better.)

Holt will also be speaking on Saturday, April 14, about her other works.

TRIOS AT TENNIS

Susan Tibbles curates “Inside and Out” at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club (2375 Foothill Road), a trio of abstract artists: Jeanne Dentzel, Rosemarie C. Gebhart, and Karen Zazon. Tibbles says the exhibit title relates to the

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outside world being translated by the inner workings of these artists’ minds.

Opening reception Friday, April 13, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm and the show is up through May 4.

DIVING DEEP

“Entangled Waters” is a multimedia immersive projected work by environmentalist Lamara Heartwell, director/choreographer Robin Bisio, and installation artist Ethan Turpin, which features dancers performing underwater and projected at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse (1100 Anacapa). Original score by Jim Connolly. The event takes place both Friday and Saturday, April 13 and 14, from 8 to 10:30 pm.

TALK SHOW

Quick note: There will be an artist talk at the Arts Fund Gallery (205 Santa Barbara St.) Wednesday, April 11, 6 to 7:30 pm for their current fiber arts show, definitely worth a look. And at the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation (248 S. Montgomery St., Space A, Ojai) abstract artist Ruth Pastine will speak Saturday, April 7, 4 pm, to be followed by her opening reception, from 5 to 7 pm, of her new works on view through May 14.

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ON ART

by Margaret Landreau

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

MARK PETERSEN, PAINTER

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hen I strolled past his booth at the Santa Barbara Art Walk along Cabrillo Beach on Sunday, The combination of colors and contrast that Mark Petersen brings to his canvases caught my eye.

Eager to talk art with visitors, this 10year veteran of the show explains “My customers and other artists tell me I have my own style. Ten years is not long to be a painter, but I’ve found what I do well and developed a style that people recognize. Painting is a lot of work – it takes time and dedication to be a painter.

“I’m lucky to live here because there are good artists and good scenery. I don’t know if I would paint as much

living elsewhere,” Petersen told me. “I do some plein-air painting, but work in my studio from sketches and photos.

Painting is so in-the-moment. I’ll paint a scene different ways – I’ve taken 10 photos of Shoreline Park and painted 10 very different pictures because the light, tides, shadows, and seasons change, and places change from one year to the next. No two paintings are ever the same.

“I’ve tried other shows, but they didn’t give as good a return. So much time and effort go into them, I have to price my work too high,” he explains. “I focus on the Santa Barbara Beach show. I get to be outside and experience nature and show my work to so many great people

interested in paintings. Other artists will share information about how to price things and what sells, and there’s a feeling of community. Exposure is the key thing, and being able to make sales, of course.”

Although he majored in art at San Francisco State in 1975, he didn’t devote time to painting until he and his wife moved to Carpinteria in 2008.

He thanks the late Jim Armstrong and Elaine Wilson from SBCC for being such good teachers.

“To get an original painting is a rare thing these days. People don’t want to

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take time to create them. Artists make so much more money with technology, taking photos, and selling prints. But when you’re a painter, once you sell a painting, it’s gone.” I continue because I give a good value for a nice little painting. Technology has taken over our lives and nothing stays the same forever.

But the Beach show gives us reason to continue and many elderly artists stay, and if they can keep their health and do

it, why not?”

Visit his booth Sundays at the beach show along Cabrillo Boulevard; he is also on Facebook at Mark V. Petersen, Artist. Contact him at Markvpetersen@ juno.com and (805) 403-3619.

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Behind the Vine

by Hana-Lee Sedgwick

Hana-Lee Sedgwick is a writer, wine consultant and lover of all things wine and food. As a Certified Specialist of Wine and Sommelier, she loves to explore the world of wine in and around her hometown of Santa Barbara. When not trying new wines or traveling, she can be found practicing yoga, cooking, entertaining and enjoying the outdoors. Visit her popular blog, Wander & Wine, for wine tips, tasting notes and adventures in wine and travel: wanderandwine.com

APRIL EVENTS WORTH NOTING

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’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… there’s no shortage of good food and wine in and around Santa Barbara. There always seems to be a new special event revolving around the wine and food of our region, regardless of the season, and I can’t say that I’m complaining! While it would be tough to attend each and every event — that’d be a bit hard on your wallet and on your liver — I do encourage getting out to enjoy the area’s food and wine culture.

Here are a few wine-related happenings that should definitely be on your radar this April: BEAR AND STAR CHEF’S TABLE DINNER: APRIL 10

On Tuesday, April 10, joining Chef Cox in the kitchen will be guest chef Suzanne Tracht of Jar, who’s made a name for herself cooking elevated versions of American favorites such as pot roast and braised lamb shanks.

Tickets are limited for this special dinner, but if you can’t make it to one of the two seatings that night, be on the lookout for future Chef ’s Table dinners, including May’s dinner with chef Cal Stamenov of Lucia at the Bernardus Lodge!

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SANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FESTIVAL: APRIL 21 The Vintners Festival returns to Santa Barbara County for the 36th year, promising for a fun Saturday afternoon of wine tasting under the California sun at Lompoc’s River Park. At Saturday’s Grand Tasting, sample wines from more than 100 wineries, meet winemakers and vintners, savor local eats, and listen to live music while you experience the diversity of Santa Barbara’s Wine Country. This year, 30+ regional restaurants and chefs will be in attendance, sharing gourmet food and performing live cooking demonstrations. The weekend will also include a variety of special dinners, tours, and tastings at area wineries, while the $50 “Vintners Visa” will get you tasting passes at a dozen Santa Barbara County tasting rooms.

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The Bear and Star, the restaurant at the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn in Los Olivos, is the epitome of farm-totable dining in the valley — most of the restaurant’s offerings are sourced from the Fess Parker ranch just a few miles from the restaurant. While the menu features “refined ranch” cuisine, you can expect a truly unique dining experience with the ongoing Chef ’s Table Dinner Series. Held in the exclusive Chef ’s Room next to the kitchen, this intimate multi-course dinner series blends the talents of The Bear and Star’s chef John Cox and team with those of other esteemed California chefs, paired with wine from around the world.

While I am all for drinking rosé any time of year, I admit it’s rather fitting to drink pink wine in the springtime. It’s even more fitting to sip rosé from our version of the Riviera at the beautiful Belmond El Encanto overlooking the city.

On Thursday, April 26, Belmond El Encanto will welcome France’s Chateau d’Esclans Winery for an evening of delectable food paired with rosé wine.

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dad to a heart attack. Me, before, when climbing mountains was a big challenge.

Now, there are days I find it hard to

climb out of bed.

Mountaineering teaches you to be prepared for the elements: wildlife,

sub-zero temps, dehydration, intense survival skills… but not heart attacks.

While I haven’t used my alpine skills

off the mountain, they did instill a level of toughness in me that I utilized when that heart attack came unexpectedly calling at the door.

Grief is an avalanche; it knocks you down, sends you tumbling, and when you finally find your feet, you are lost and confused. While mountains may appear to be permanent, I’ve come to realize that nothing, absolutely nothing is.

My plan is to keep my hiking boots close and continually brush up on those map-reading skills, because I want to be ready for the next time the earth gets swept from beneath me. That’s all one really can do.

Briana’s Best Bet

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This year, it will again bring our community together in the face of recent disasters, providing a chance to gather, heal, and—most critically—seek solutions.

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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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n perhaps the most creative community-coming-together kind of event since the mudslide, AHA!, the Foundation for Santa Barbara City College, and the Community Environmental Council (CEC) are jointly hosting Rising Together on SBCC’s West Campus lawn overlooking the Pacific. AHA! Peace Builders and After-School program teens are tasked with helping to gather a crowd at 9 am on Saturday, April 21, including regular folks from the community to join with people from agencies and organizations involved with recovery from the Thomas Fire and Montecito mudslide – in the context of building a giant work of art together.

Daniel Dancer of Art for the Sky – whose organization works with schools, communities, and companies to create giant living paintings made of people that makes the most sense when viewed from the sky – will guide the assembled masses in forming a living sculpture depicting a white dove rising from flames and mud to symbolize renewal. The hope is that 1,000 people will provide the medium for the message, linking together as a literal and figurative symbol of the capacity to come together to joyfully heal and rebuild. Ventura County recording artist Rob Write, whose “State of Emergency” is his recent single about the personal and community impacts of the South Coast’s fires and flood, will also perform.

Visit www.ahapeacebuilders.com for the details.

DANCING WITH THE STARS I don’t watch TV over the air or on cable, so I haven’t seen a lot of episodes of Dancing with the Stars. So, I was expecting a lot of schmaltz, schlock, and schmoozing when the ABC series brought its touring show to the Arlington recently.

Wow, what a pleasant surprise. Two of the finalists from the most recent season accompanied the professional dancers, and the performances were uniformly fabulous. I’m not sure I recognized a whole lot of regulation ballroom, which used to be the competition’s bread and butter, but who cares? The evening was filled with terrific partner dances, a few solo smashes, and lots of ensemble pieces. I might have to wire up a satellite dish now.

BASSH’s shows at the New Vic in late March were a bountiful and bouncy blast, with local dance creators and performers delivering carefully choreographed pieces in a wide variety of genres – a testament to the ever-evolving but still vital vision of founder Derrick Curtis. The show has migrated from SOhO to the Lobero to Center Stage to its current home at the theater owned

by Ensemble, which is a terrific venue for the current incarnation. From Vasily Golovin’s wiggly hips in the swing piece “Black Bottom” to Cris Basima’s elegant ensemble of purple-clad belly dancing beauties in the clever “The Shape of You” to Hector Sanchez and Laruen Breese’s gorgeously flowing aerial offering “Tomorrow” to La Bohème’s exuberant jazz-ballet-fusion piece “Raw Science”, it was a lot of fun, while the penultimate piece, Tamarr Paul’s hip-hop number “Time’s Up” – which employed Oprah’s Golden Globes speech and words from civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., brought meaning to the movements.

BASSH is back in its other, more bawdy, adults-only format, known as Burlesque After Hours – a risqué showcase of belly dancing, cabaret, hip-hop, burlesque, and drag at M8RX Nightclub on Saturday, April 28.

RASSLIN’ WITH RASMUSSEN The whole world was going to the dogs – or at least it seemed that way at the most recent Improvology at the Santa Barbara Zoo in early March, when wildlife conservation biologist Dr. Greg Rasmussen, who lives in Zimbabwe, was the sole scientist whose tales were interpreted by the improv pros up from L.A. In truth, for the first time ever for this improv fan, the science proved a lot more interesting than the scenes, which is not so much an indictment of the comedians

Kelly Holden-Bashar, Jo McGinley, Stephen Kearin, Brian Lohmann, and Dan O’Connor as appreciation Rasmussen’s raconteur skills and sheer scope of his adventures. I mean, how are you going to do the improv staple of raising the wattage when the guy’s tale of somehow surviving a solo plane crash and subsequent stalking by a hungry hyena in the African Savannah proved both harrowing and hilarious? Good thing there weren’t teams and official scorers this time around – Rasmussen would have beaten both of them.

HEALING WITH HEARING It’s just shy of three months since the devastating debris flow swamped Montecito in early January, and the extent of the damage from the flood and Thomas Fire still hasn’t fully hit home, even as headlines scream of loss totals climbing beyond half a billion dollars. The community has come up with all sorts of ways to cope with the tragedies and heal the hurt, including some straightforward fundraisers, informational sessions, and a wide variety of events in the ongoing recovery that seemingly spring out of a combination of imagination and compassion.

Here are new methods taking place this month as the community continues to come to terms: Dream Foundation founder Thomas Rollerson has an association with singer-songwriters Olivia NewtonJohn, Amy Sky, and Beth Chapman in supporting the creation last year of their Liv On project, a new album with the intention to bring comfort to those in grief. Now, with the support of several sponsors, he’s parlayed his connection into a free concert for the community in which all three artists will appear to perform music from that collection of songs of hope and love, as well as many of their own best-known hit songs.

Coming from the belief that music helps to heal, complimentary tickets have already been offered to organizations that are caring for those directly grieving loss as well as supporting our community in the current recovery and year-round. But some tickets for the trio’s concert at the Lobero Theatre on Wednesday, April 25, will also be made available to the community in general, offered on a first-come, first-served basis beginning Thursday, April 12.

PREPARING FOR POUNDINGS If you can’t get a ticket – or fill more in need of information than entertainment – that same night is also the date for “Drought, Fire and Flood: Climate Change and Our New Normal”, which takes place at the Granada Theatre. The Community Environmental Council,

the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the Santa Barbara Foundation, the Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts, and UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science. The free community conversation focused on climate resilience will include TEDstyle “flash talks” by Dr. Max Moritz (wildfires), Dr. Edward Keller (debris flows), Dr. Naomi Tague (climate modeling), and Dr. Sarah Anderson (environmental politics); a keynote speech from former FEMA director James Lee Witt; and community panel discussion and Q&A with a panel comprising recently retired Santa Barbara City Fire Department chief Pat McElroy, Santa Barbara County 1st District supervisor Das Williams, and Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) executive director Maricela Morales.

The public is invited to submit questions before the event via Twitter using #droughtfirefloodSB or in theater lobby when the doors open at 6 pm.

Visit www.granadasb.org.

KINDA INCONGRUOUS? Maybe it’s just me, but I found it a little funny that Carpinteria’s Second Annual Tractors, Trucks, and Trolleys event is taking place in mid-April, less than a week away from Santa Barbara’s Earth Day celebration. Sure, the family event at Carpinteria High School on Sunday, April 15, gives kids (of all ages) the opportunity to learn about and explore trucks, construction vehicles, and public safety equipment, including asking the driver accompanying each vehicle all sorts of questions and perhaps climbing inside and maybe honking the horn (though by request Year 2 features a “horn-free” hour at 11 am). And it’s great that all proceeds from the inexpensive ticket sales go to support the services of Cate ELC Parent Group, which provides a safe learning environment for children under 6. But I don’t believe those vehicles get good gas mileage, no? (Get more details at www. facebook.com/tttcarp.)

Electric cars and other zero-admission vehicles are just part of The Green Car exhibit, which is just one element of the activities and educational opportunities available at Alameda Park for Earth Day, the big two-day celebration in the heart of the town where it all began following the 1969 oil spill. I’m not even going to try to sum up the goings-on in the various environments – you can find a full list online at www.sbearthday.org, where, alas, the schedule wasn’t up by press deadline – but one highlight is an appearance by the fine folk duo Easy Leaves, on the main stage on Saturday, April 14.

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By Elizabeth Rose

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

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n order to love and emotionally support an artist, first you must know what you are dealing with. The late psychologist Frank X. Barron and psychology professor Donald MacKinnon found that the average writer was in the top 15 percent of the general population on the spectrum of psychopathology. Yep, a little psycho. On the other hand, the writers scored equally as high on psychological health. A little psycho, yet mentally stable. They discovered that artists are more open to self-analysis, which ultimately guides them to become more grounded and self-aware.

Dr. Barron once said the highly creative person is “both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder, and a lot saner than the average person.”

I was relieved to learn this, realizing I am not exceedingly neurotic but just the right amount neurotic.

Below are a few suggestions on ways to care for the artist in your life – partner tested, artist approved.

Compliment: Deep down inside, artists are frightened little kittens mewing and trembling in a corner. At the same time, artists have hearts of lions, brave to bear their souls to a page, a photograph, a song, textile, meal, et cetera, and put it on display for others to judge. This type of vulnerability begets insecurity, so compliment your artists on their work, ideas, or how they look – appearance is an extension of their creative expression after all – as much as possible. In other words, build them up. Think positive affirmations as foreplay: Make them feel good, they’ll make you feel good. Compliment them in front of other people and they’ll make you feel even better.

Listen: Since you are most likely the first person with whom they will discuss their art, just listen. Talking is a way for them to make sense of their thoughts. But when your artist asks “What do you think?”, share honestly yet constructively. Your artist loves you like a lover and a muse. They ask because they truly want your opinion and respect your point of view. Be gentle. Be kind.

Engage: Ask how projects are going. An artist’s work comes from the depths of innermost self (after all, you can’t spell “heart” without “art”), so showing interest in their work is another way to communicate “I care about you and I love you.”

Alone Time: It is necessary for artists to step back into the shadows and be alone.

Time to sit with thoughts, materials, and recently learned information to see how it all fits together for a future project. Or they simply need time to decompress.

An artist is constantly triggered and inspired by sights, sounds, people, food, you name it – and for this reason, art and life is one of the same and cannot be compartmentalized. They can’t clock out and clock in the next morning. Being an artist is a 24-hour thing. This is why time alone is essential and can be found (but not limited to) at home, among a crowd, in nature, or any cafe possessing highspeed Internet.

Community: Besides money (let’s be honest), what an artist really needs is the company of other artists. It is therapy as much as it is essential to learn new skills, forge collaborations and, most of all, evoke inspiration with people who speak a similar language. Artists create to be heard, to connect, and to realize they are not alone. Taking your artist to (or notifying them of ) an art walk, a gallery opening, or a live performance is a simple way to woo the one you love.

Believe: Artists are passionate people and since you are their chosen person, they are passionate about you too. They also believe in your dreams and need you to believe in theirs the same. You can show this by gifting a certificate to an art store, a new thumb drive to save files, writing a love note, picking flowers to place near their work station, or making a snack while they work. More than anything, simply believing your artist is able to actualize his or her dreams is more valuable than any tangible gift could ever be. A good hand massage – with oil, rubbing the meaty parts of the palm, and slowly graduating to the tip of each finger – is a close second.

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

ART, POETRY AND WINE IN APRIL

36TH ANNUAL SANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FESTIVAL repare to have your wine-savvy palates calibrated Saturday, April 21, from 1 to 4 pm at the 36th Annual Vintners Festival at Lompoc River Park.

Taste from more than 100 wineries while you meet winemakers and owners who share the juicy details of why Santa Barbara County wines are among the most elegant and sophisticated. Savor the area’s local fare, watch live cooking demonstrations, and sample organic foods from farmers to foragers from more than 30 regional restaurants and chefs – whose establishments are open all weekend.

New this year is a Bubble Lounge – sample a supply of exceptional sparkling wines produced by wineries all over the region in the comfort of lush couches and brightening of quick conversation while listening to live music. For all weekend wine warriors, a Vintners Visa carries guests out to the tasting rooms and the vineyards themselves, for special tastings and weekend happenings offered throughout the wine country.

Tickets and categories offered this year include: General Admission – $70 This ticket grants you access to all the day’s tastings and festivities at River Park in Lompoc starting at 1 pm.

Locals Discount – $55 This ticket is for guests living in Santa Barbara County and is available to the first 250 buyers, and grants you access to all the day’s tastings and festivities at River Park in Lompoc starting at 1 pm.

Early Entry – $100 This ticket grants you a 60-minute early entry at noon into the festival, providing the opportunity to interact more personally with winemakers, owners, and chefs in a more spacious, open, and uncrowded environment.

Non-Drinking – $25 The reduced price of this ticket is for those who are not drinking, whether that is designated drivers and/or children between the ages of 6-20. A special wristband indicating your non-drinking status will be worn so everyone knows. Children under 6 are complimentary.

When: Saturday, April 21 Where: River Park, CA-246 & Sweeney Road in Lompoc Info: www.sbvintnersweekend.com

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SOLVANG RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR he Solvang Chamber of Commerce hosted an Installation and Awards dinner at Root 246 restaurant on March 29 to announce this year’s “peer and community voted” winners in a variety of categories – from Small Business of the Year to Volunteer Non-Profit of the Year to honor and acknowledge each business and individuals’ dedication and service to the community of Solvang. Among a long list of 2018 Solvang award winners is David Cecchini, chef and owner of Restaurant of the Year, Cecco Ristorante. Cecco serves up rustic country-inspired Italian cuisine with a wood-burning pizza right in the heart of Solvang and Santa Barbara Wine Country. His menu is seasonally inspired and offers a selection of handmade pizzas, pastas, and features the bounty of the farmers market and the Valley’s artisanal products whenever possible. Congratulations, David and Cecco!

When: Lunch served Monday through Sunday 11:30 am to 3 pm; and dinner Sunday though Thursday 5 to 9 pm, plus Friday and Saturday 5 to 10 pm.

Where: Cecco Ristorante, 475 1st Street in the heart of Solvang Info: www.ceccoristorante.com

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SPRING ART FLING he second Annual Spring Fling Art Show & Sale showcases an assortment of handmade items including: paintings, jewelry, recycled, upcycled, leather work, ceramics, glass, and wood, and exclusively features Central Coast artists. There will be a lunch supplied by Sass’s Catering, and the

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event is hosted by Traveling Trunk Show and Windmill Nursery. Open since 1981, Windmill Nursery is a garden center and landscape company, supporting the valley with a large selection of flowering plants, perennials, edible plants, fruit trees, vegetables, berries, grape vines, acres of ornamental shrubs and trees, native and drought-tolerant plants, succulents, and offers “organic and earth-friendly solutions for your garden problems.” They are also known for their garden consulting, plant identification, and problem diagnosis.

When: Saturday, April 28, from 10 am to 4 pm Where: Windmill Nursery, 925 Highway 246 in Buellton Info: Diana Paul, (805) 451-2072 ART, NATURE, AND POETRY ational Poetry Month was introduced in 1996, takes place each April, and is a celebration of poetry and organized by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. Over the years, it has become the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture. In celebration, the Wildling Museum will host Ruben Lee Dalton, together with his son, Beau Lee Schmidt, reading poetry about work, addiction, religion, and the natural world. Ruben reports he has received awards for his poetry and produced two CDs of original music. He lives in the Santa Ynez Valley with his wife, Jamie McCoy, and three “marginally trained dogs.” Beau now writes poetry “as a way to meet women and aid those with insomnia.” He says he is excited to read at the Wildling for his debut.

In addition, for anyone with musings they can’t possibly contain in silence, a guest poetry reading (with a nature focus) and an open-mic opportunity will take place Sunday, April 29, from 4 to 5:30 pm.

When: Sunday, April 15, from 3 to 4:30 pm Where: The Wildling Museum, 1511-B Mission Drive in Solvang For more information, call (805) 686-8315 or www.wildlingmuseum.org

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PAINTING IN THE VINEYARD rab your glass and paintbrush for two opportunities to paint in fresh vineyard air in April while tasting world-class wines. First, Gypsy Studio Arts invite wine-sipping artists of all skill levels to join them at the awardwinning Andrew Murray Winery in Los Olivos, followed by Brander Vineyard and wine tasting chateaux in Santa Ynez. These valley and hillside vineyards provide beautiful, stress-free environments that inspire the creative spirit and indulge one’s inner wine-lover. If you don’t consider yourself an artist just yet, don’t worry. A trained artist will walk you through the entire painting process step-by-step. No previous painting experience necessary.

When: Andrew Murray Vineyards: Saturday, April 14, from 11 am to 2 pm and Brander Vineyard: Sunday, April 29, from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm Where: Andrew Murray Vineyards Cost: $75 per painter – includes all supplies necessary to create your masterpiece and a glass of wine at Andrew Murray wine and a full tasting at Brander Vineyards.

Info: Call (805) 990-2105 or visit GypsyStudiosArt.com

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CORKS FOR KIDS nited Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County’s first Corks for Kids event will be held at the Santa Ynez Valley Marriott Hotel. The event is sponsored by the Santa Ynez Valley Band of Chumash Indians; guests will sample local wine and beer, enjoy a casino-themed game night, and win prizes while supporting the two locations in the Valley in their mission – to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach. “We started at the beginning of this school year, and we were hoping to get 20 kids enrolled,” says Michael Baker, CEO of United Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County explaining they now have 160 kids enrolled and are averaging 70 kids a day taking advantage of their programming. “We like to have a 15:1 ratio (kids to staff ) and we have a waiting list. The demand is there. Kids need after-school programs and the best partnerships are at the schools. We need to hire more staff,” says Michael.

When: Friday, April 20, from 6 to 8 pm Where: Santa Ynez Valley Marriott Hotel, 555 McMurray Road in Buellton Cost: $75 per person $125 per couple Info: email ewanek@unitedbg.org or call (805) 681-1315

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