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The Capitalist – Jeff Harding tees off on his favorite target, President Trump, about America’s trade war – and tariffs – involving China State Street Scribe – Jeff Wing asserts the Divine Milieu may just be a swirling cloud of light back near the frozen breakfast foods. Maybe.

Beer Guy – Bear it is! Zach Rosen looks beyond the bottle of Brass Bear Brewing and raises a pint to owners Lindsay and Seth Anderson.

Fortnight – Creed Bratton; SB Fiesta; Open Streets; Santa Barbara Bowl concerts; music at the Grandad; Mamma Mia in Solvang; and Fork Fest

Creative Characters – Knock knock. Who’s there? It’s Zach Rosen and local comedian Andrey Belikov, who runs the production company Comedy Hideaway.

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Made in SB – Chantal Peterson loves the nightlife, she’s got to boogie – but where’s the disco round? It’s time for the Party Proper people, Kayla and Andrew.

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Business Beat – Jon Vreeland gets to the root of Edward’s Landscapes, operated by Edward Chavez, who maintains and cultivates yards and gardens

On Art – Margaret Landreau brushes up with local painter Francis Scorzelli prior to SB Studio Artists’s Open Studio Tour on Labor Day weekend I Heart SB – Elizabeth Rose is on the move, this time heading south of the border via Ensenada harbor, then running around small-town Mexico SYV Snapshot – Eva Van Prooyen reports on Fiddlestix Barn; winemaker lunch; La Purisima Mission tasting; concert series; and Martian Ranch Star Party

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The Capitalist

by Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding is a real estate investor and a writer on economics and finance. He is the former publisher of the Daily Capitalist, a popular economics blog. He is also an adjunct professor at SBCC. He blogs at anIndependentMind.com

U.S. Declares War On China!

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n July 5, the United States declared war on China. China mobilized and quickly counterattacked the

U.S. This war is a trade war, which means governments enact tariffs taxes on goods we would like to buy which makes them more expensive for us. People aren’t killed in these wars; rather, they are made poorer.

The U.S. imposed a 25% tariff tax on $34 billion of goods imported from China. They include some 818 Chinese products including aerospace products, ball bearings (an important industrial product), information technology, auto parts, and medical instruments. Also included are restrictions on Chinese investment in America and limits on visas for Chinese nationals. Another $16 billion of goods are being targeted.

President Trump has threatened to impose tariffs taxes on virtually all imported Chinese goods, some $450 billion worth, in an all-out trade war.

China has retaliated by imposing tariffs taxes on $34 billion of American goods such as soybeans, automobiles, seafood, bourbon, pork, and crude oil.

The tariffs taxes on Chinese goods are part of a larger, expanding trade war against our other trading partners (Canada, Mexico, and the EU) which has targeted imported lumber, washing machines, solar panels, steel, and aluminum. The Trump Administration is talking about tariffs taxes on imported automobiles.

The Trump government is justifying these taxes to counter China’s “unfair competition” and “theft of intellectual property.” The idea is that Donald Trump, that consummate negotiator, will force China to loosen up its markets to American goods and companies.

Wars like this one – as the song goes – are good for absolutely nothing.

The first thing we need to realize is that this is not about being patriotic or “Making America Great Again”. And it’s not really about protecting American businesses. It is about politics. And it is about Trump’s ignorance about foreign trade.

Trump has built his political reputation on being the smart, savvy billionaire who talks straight and can fix things. His “Make America Great Again” was a smart play for him, which gained him traction with voters who believed America was somehow losing the battle for “greatness”.

But it was all an illusion. Trump played up popular myths about foreign trade (we are “losers”). The facts show that free trade has been good for America. Foreign trade has opened up markets for American goods and has created American jobs.

Employment opportunities in America are booming despite being trade “losers.”

Exports are a significant 12% of our GDP and account for almost 11 million U.S. jobs. Cheaper imported goods make Americans richer, not poorer.

Whatever. These inconvenient truths don’t seem to faze President Trump, which is why this is about politics, not economics. Trump’s megalomania is such that he can’t back down on his populist campaign themes.

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal spelled out the politics of Trump’s trade policies. “’The fact that the economy is doing well]… gives President Donald Trump’s administration what it sees as leeway to hit China without worrying as much about blowback from U.S. households or businesses caught in the crosshairs. “‘This is the perfect time’ to use tariffs to press China to change its trade practices, said Derek Scissors, a China expert at the American Enterprise Institute, who consults with administration officials.

‘You start a process, which will cause pain to the U.S., and to China, when you have everything rolling in the economy.’”

The Chinese, being no dummies themselves, have targeted Trump’s political base. Their tariffs taxes on U.S. soybeans and autos will hit his heartland supporters the hardest, according to a Moody’s Analytics report cited in The Wall Street Journal. We’ll see how long their support for Trump will last. “All’s fair…”

Who wins a war like this? No one, but I can tell you who the losers will be: 1. Consumers of imported goods in both countries.

Eventually, the tariffs taxes on imported Chinese goods will make consumer products more expensive for American consumers. The reason we buy Chinese goods is that they are cheaper than products made by American manufacturers. This issue is more complex than outlined here, and it will take time for these tariffs taxes to work their way through the economy, but ultimately consumers will pay more for imports, which means they will have less money to spend on other products. We

will be poorer as a result.

2. American workers and companies whose jobs and businesses count on the China trade.

American companies relying on parts manufactured in China will have a difficult time finding replacements, so they will have to absorb the 25% cost increase or pass it along to their customers. For example: “Ball bearings are used in a broad range of goods including cars, tractors, trains, and conveyor belts. This tariff is going to hurt the U.S. manufacturers who import from China more than the companies who export from China to the U.S.” Auto makers such as Ford and Tesla export cars to China, which had already reduced their tariff on imported autos to 15%. Now they have slapped an additional 25% tariff tax on imported U.S. autos making them subject to a 40% hit. Tesla’s Chinese showroom prices have already been increased by 20% in anticipation of a trade war. BMW and Daimler (Mercedes-Benz) make autos in the U.S. and export them to China and their Chinese showroom prices are going up. What this does is give an advantage to Toyota, Nissan, and Honda, which can export their Japan-made vehicles to China without paying the new higher tariff tax.

A further consequence of Trump’s war is that U.S. auto manufacturers will now be incentivized to open more plants in China to service Chinese domestic consumption, thus depriving American auto workers of jobs (see Tesla and Harley-Davidson).

Midwestern soybean farmers are already being hurt by Chinese retaliatory tariffs taxes. Chinese importers have stopped buying U.S. soybeans and have moved their business to Brazil.

3. Trump is disrupting America’s global

supply chain that many businesses rely on.

The reality is that the world now works on a global supply chain. In order to satisfy consumer demands for less costly goods, the entire world competes to supply us. For example, approximately 25% to 50% of the parts in U.S. manufactured automobiles come from all over the world. This has been a boon to American consumers since new automobile costs have barely budged over the past 25 years.

Trump’s advisers believe that China has more to lose than we do in a trade war. That is not a likely outcome. It is probable that we will suffer more than China. Being that 50% of their economy is based on exports, only 19% is with the U.S., and the $34 billion of targeted goods will only account for 2% of total Chinese exports.

One thing that the Trump Administration may not have considered is the fact that China is still largely a command economy, and the ruling Communist Party of China has shown little reluctance to impose hardship on its citizens. As President Xi consolidates his power, one of his main themes is to assert China’s role in the world, and it is unlikely he will want to display weakness in the face of U.S. trade bullying.

I hear Conservative Trump supporters say that he has some secret agenda on trade, and that he and we will end up on top of this fight. This is unlikely. No one can predict where this war will end up.

It echoes the 1930s and the disastrous trade wars that helped cause the Great Depression. This war could last a lot longer than the administration thinks, and it could end badly for American consumers and businesses.

This war is not against China, it’s a war against us.

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by Jeff Wing

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

Costco and the Omega Point

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ou walk into the enormous, bleakly lit mega-dome that is Costco, and you’re reminded of one thing: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Right? Me too! He was the controversial Jesuit priest whose ideas about the Omega Point earned him a robust slapping around by the religious authorities of his day.

A paleontologist and geologist by training, De Chardin fully embraced and exalted the theory of evolution.

He saw it as a teleological progression toward ultimate complexity – a progression whose zenith would be a sort of cosmic consciousness, a oneness with God. He called this zenith – this coalescing of all history’s moments into a singularity of divine cognition – the Omega Point. To Vatican thinking of the day, he sounded like a show runner for The Twilight Zone.

Walk into any Costco and you can see in the enormous hushed cathedral a touchingly mortal and workmanlike

expression of de Chardin’s intuition.

Look around. Look at the size of the place. Look at the size of the mayonnaise tubs. Who needs that much mayo? The Donner Expedition, maybe. What are we reaching for? Is this stupendous bubble of architecture and product somehow allied to our aspirations as a race? Its mad expansiveness signals how utterly immersed we are in the metastatic growth of our perceived needs. “You need this!” All right, already! Give me parking and I’m all in!

PARAGON OF ANIMALS

Costco is a grocery store approximately as large as the African savanna we once sprinted across in pursuit of din-din.

Where once we urged ourselves to Darwinian torments just to survive, today we gather like bobbing – little sandpipers around Costco’s snack stations, jostling and straining for a look, impatiently awaiting our dollop of coleslaw in its tiny crenellated paper

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cup. The blanched light of the sun timidly enters the Realm of Kirkland through rectangular 4 x 8 feet fiberglass apertures set here and there in the distant ceiling, the Old Dear’s blinding fire dimmed to a homely 72 percent and evenly distributed over the forkliftequipped shoppers below.

Because the Goleta Costco is in the flight path of Santa Barbara Airport, every so often a huge bird-shaped shadow will pass the skylights and track hugely across the several acres of merchandise, predatory and fleeting, the shoppers hunching shoulders and looking briefly upward in a cellularmemory survival reflex. Okay, all clear.

Is there any more slaw?

RAGE CLICKING

Look here. We live in an Age where the term “rage clicking” exists, and completely outside the purview of irony. When beset by insufferable grief, we console one another with little cartoon faces spraying water from the eyes. The Internet and our in-built distraction conspire to diminish us apace. Some days, you can almost feel the vertiginous free fall. As the oncelonged-for Information Age continues to outclass the Atomic Age in irreversible destructive force, and the worldwide lasso continues to tighten around the culture’s

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enthusiastically proffered neck, “brick and mortar” stores (for one thing) must morph outlandishly to convince us to leave the house and walk their puny aisles of merely comprehensible merchandise.

Thus Costco – a shopping experience so insane it amounts to a kind of rebuke.

Of what? On these Costco outings, we stare bewildered at phenomena our forebears took for granted – shelves, other shoppers. We marvel at the comparatively limited selection of lawn furniture and free-range platypus patties, and wonder what the world is coming to when a place this size offers only one brand of hypersonic gum-massager.

Surely, Costco is the last gasp and final expression of a consumer experience you enter through an actual door. Seeing this pending demise of “grocery shopping,” the Costco Board has decided, it seems, to make a Costco visit analogous to the expansive chaos of a human life, the better to finally conflate in our collective wastrel memory Shopping and Being.

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Brass Bear Brewing on Anacapa Street offers an intimate setting and balanced beers

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ucked away from the hustle and bustle of the Funk Zone, lies Brass Bear Brewing. The small tasting room and restaurant is located in the back of 28 Anacapa St. and is owned and operated by husband-wife team Seth and Lindsay Anderson. Located next to Corks ‘n Crowns, Brass Bear Brewing has been opened for about two years and since most of their beer does not leave site, this hidden gem must be sought out if you want to taste their offerings.

The brewery name comes from a moment in Glacier National Park when the couple came face-to-face with a family of black bears. The sun gleaming on the fur gave it a brass-colored glare, and the name “Brass Bear Brewing” donned on them that evening over dinner. The intimate space couldn’t possibly house a brewery. The beers are brewed offsite at SLO Brewing, and their menu features a few of SLO Brewing’s offerings as well. I recently sat

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Aged, an easy-drinking lager with more emphasis on the malts than the hops. The beer has a clean aroma of biscuits and hay that finishes with a gentle bitterness. Goldilocks is their blonde ale and was the standout of the lineup. With a brisk malt backbone, the German Magnum and Saphir hops used in the brew are allowed to shine.

The blonde is light and bright with a delicate nose of honeydew melons and lemon balm, making it perfect for the summer sun. The beer has a cleansing quality when tasted next to the Tri Tip Beef Skewers, and its gentle hop aroma complements the teriyaki, ginger, and basil marinade. The beef is sourced from Watkins Ranch in Ojai; they put an emphasis on locally sourcing many of their ingredients. Hopping Grizzly is their imperial IPA with a copper color and a caramel malt character that has hops dosed throughout. This stronger beer stands up nicely to the Brass Bear Burger, which is made with dry-aged beef and topped with aged cheddar, caramelized onion, chipotle ketchup, and mayo. The heartiness of the burger can match the strength of this strong IIPA. The Golden Bear IPA is brewed with lupulin powder. Lupulin is a small gland in a hop cone that contains the essential oils that provide the hop aroma and the hop acids that contain bitterness.

In short, all of the brewing good stuff in hops is found in the lupulin glands.

Normally, hops are used either as whole cones or in a pelletized form where the whole cones are pulverized and extruded into small pellets. This process ruptures the lupulin glands in the cone, making the bittering acids more accessible.

The pelletized form is more popular, since hop pellets are more compact and produce far greater yields in brewing.

One of the downsides is that hop pellets are more prone to oxidation because the pelletizing process produces heat, and the ruptured lupulin glands become exposed to oxygen. Lupulin powder, also known as Cryo Hops, was developed by Yakima Chief–Hopunion (YCH) and uses a proprietary coldprocess that preserves lupulin glands and promises twice the resin content of hop pellets. This allows the brewers to use high doses of hops without worrying about space in their kettle or extracting excessive vegetative matter into their beer. In the Golden Bear IPA, the lupulin powder starts as the traditional floralspice hop note and becomes more fruity with accents of papaya and orange. The Potato Cake is done Grandma-style, using chunky mashed potatoes as the base, and incorporates a variety of herbs such as rosemary, thyme, and mint, to give it an herbal flair that pairs well with the IPA. Berry Patch Gose is their kettlesoured ale that is finished by pumping the beer through a chamber filled with blood oranges and raspberries. The fruit is added after fermentation has occurred, so the sugars in the fruit won’t ferment out and instead help balance the acidity of the brew. The beer is fruitforward without being cloying, and the mellow acidity has a freshness that makes the beer approachable to those who are hesitant to try a sour ale.

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In His Midnight Confessions

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t may be accurate to say that Creed Bratton walked (or even drove or flew) a million miles or cried a million tears along his path as an entertainer. But his career has certainly been an interesting and rather unusual journey. The road began in Los Angeles as a member of The Grass Roots, the 1960s pop rock band of “Midnight Confessions” fame.

Bratton co-wrote the songs “Beatin’ Round the Bush”, “No Exit”, and “Hot Bright Lights”, and on his own composed “Dinner for Eight” and “House of Stone”. He also played lead guitar with the group on their first four albums and sang lead vocals on “This Precious Time” and “Dinner for Eight”.

He then went off to a solo rock ‘n’ roll career for a good while before turning his attention to acting.

Although he has pages of credits to his name, Bratton is best-known for his longtime role starring as a fictional version of himself for nine seasons of the hit NBC sitcom The Office. He also appears opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Joaquin Phoenix in the upcoming film adaptation of The Sisters Brothers. But Bratton has never left music behind and has released a total of seven full-length albums as a sole act, the latest titled While the Young Punks Dance. Brattton turned 75 in February, so we’re thinking that the old Grass Roots hit “Let’s Live for Today” might have some special resonance. Find out when he performs at SOhO on Tuesday, July 31. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com.

Fiesta Frolics

We’re not going to waste a lot of space going into details about the myriad of events that comprise the official Old Spanish Days celebration marking some of Santa Barbara’s formative years.

Especially because perhaps just as many folks find Fiesta week a good time to leave town – or nestle up to Netflix – as those who crave the constant cacophony of Mariachi bands, marching equines, and marauding revelers who invade downtown and beyond the first week of August every year. You can go online to check out the specs of the parade, the evenings at the Courthouse Sunken Gardens and other official events taking place August 1-5. But we do want to call your attention to some of the unofficial

offerings that surround the spectacle.

For instance, Sip & Swirl – Fiesta, which takes over the rooftop lounge of the Canary Hotel, 31 W. Carrillo St., less than a block from the epic’s epicenter.

Locals and guests alike are invited to taste some of the best tequilas, mezcals, and spritzes produced – such as Casamigos and Jaredsca – as part of the popular tasting series. Finch & Fork’s executive chef Peter Cham will also be serving a selection of Fiesta-inspired bites at the event, which runs 5:30 to 7:30 pm, early enough to scamper over to De La Guerra Plaza or up to the Mission. Tickets are $35, which includes tastings of all the spirits and bites, and available online at www.NightOut.com, or at the door.

If the ever-increasing price of Dignatarios at the Zoo is a barrier to your plans for Thursday, August 2, La Nueva Fiesta! Wildcat Dance Party, which starts at 8 pm at the Wildcat Lounge, 15 W. Ortega St., is hosted by DJ Darla Bea and features the new Fiesta routines from La Boheme Professional Dance Group for a full 45 minutes before the dance floor opens to all. Visit www.facebook.com/ events/311777549365453/ for more details. Then again, you can just crawl into any neighborhood bar for the better part of a week to find cracked egg shells on the floor, and tequila flowing freely. Viva!

Asphalt Attractions

After three years, Santa Barbara abandoned its attempt to maintain participation in the worldwide phenomenon known as Open Streets, in which cities close off thoroughfares to vehicles in favor of pedestrian, skateboarders, bicyclists, et cetera, pursuing physical fitness and other community-based healthy activities.

But our neighbors to the north are entering Year Two of their effort. Open Streets Lompoc – which is open to all ages and abilities to play, exercise, and otherwise participate in offerings over a mile of car-free space downtown – takes place 4 to 8 pm on Friday, August 3. Call (805) 430-3501 or visit www. healthylompoc.org/open-streets-3/ open-streets-lompoc-2018.

Bowled Over

‘Twasn’t all that long ago that the Santa Barbara Bowl was limited to barely more than a score of concerts all season long, a

concession to the neighborhood’s needs and agreements with the city. Now the season starts earlier than ever and extends long into the fall, but August is still a super-packed month at the insanely gorgeous venue nestled into the lower Riviera just a few blocks from downtown.

First up for our double fortnight: Jackson Browne, the ‘70s-spawned superstar singer-songwriter who still sounds both terrific and somehow vital nearly five decades into his career. Browne, who has longtime ties to the area, having once lived by the beach in Montecito and now the proud owner of a part-time home in Hollister Ranch, checks into the Bowl on Friday, August 3. Bon Iver, the Grammywinning stripped-down indie folk band fronted by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon, marks a decade since its debut with a show on Wednesday, August 8, before the Bowl dips back into its catalog of frequent favorites of bygone eras with a double-bill of the Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton on Wednesday, August 15. The 12-time Grammy Awardwinning, three-time Billboard charttopping singer-songwriter Jack White shows off his star quality and earns his stripes at the outdoor amphitheater on Sunday, August 19, and Talking Heads’s founder-frontman David Byrne hopes you’ll be all goo-goo-gah-gah-gah over his concert at the Bowl on Friday, August 24. (I’m not apologizing for any of those plays on words, folks). And I’m also not looking up start times and ticket prices for you either. Get those details and ducats themselves online at www.sbbowl. com or call (805) 962-7411.

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It might still be stupid-hot in Santa Barbara as I write this, but the Bowl is barely ever too warm to get in the way of watching the music (save for that August night three years ago when the New York Philharmonic played for the Music Academy of the West, and it still boggles the mind how more people didn’t collapse with heat stroke). Still, there are some worthy shows slated for the big downtown concert halls, where, you know, they have this amazing invention called air conditioning. The absurdly melodic pop singer Brandi Carlile pops up at the Arlington on Saturday, August 18.

She’s the purveyor of “Heart’s Content”,

with its maddeningly compelling descending hook in the verses that had me ask Alexa what was playing at least half a dozen times before the info found enough room in my brain to register. I then played it on my computer about 10 more times in a row, or, you know, to my heart’s content.

Erasure electrifies the same venue on Tuesday, August 21, which also happens to be the same night that Rodriguez returns to the Granada across the street and down a block on State Street. Can’t imagine there’s much competition between the late-’80s born synth-pop duo and the humble mystical troubadour from Detroit whose story (as chronicled in the 2012 Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man – without which the world would largely still be unaware of his gifts) still seems stranger than fiction. Tickets and details at www.axs. com and www.granadasb.org.

Take a Chance on Them

Did you somehow miss SBCC’s production of Grease at the seaside campus during July? Fear not. You have another opportunity to while away some summertime hours almost all the way through August as PCPA Theatrefest presents the Broadway smash-hit musical Mamma Mia. The bubbly extravaganza based on nearly two-dozen songs by the 1970s pop quartet ABBA, which could have been subtitled “Who’s Your Daddy?”, dances its way through the Solvang Festival Theater, another amphitheater – albeit a heck of a lot smaller than the Santa Barbara Bowl – located in the heart of downtown.

Dancing queens in the open air, under the stars, in a quaint Danish village? I’m in! Mamma Mia! plays through August 26. For tickets, call (805) 922-8313 or visit www.pcpa.org.

Stabbing Your Sustenance

There’s truly a plethora of foodie events in Santa Barbara, so many that finding a notable niche can be quite a challenge.

But Fork Fest has an intriguing premise in which local eateries come together to actually compete in a friendly “forkoff”, so to speak, to win the vote of those who attend. Admission includes one forkful or beverage from each vendor, and you get a snazzy fork to take home with (rather than another wine glass tackily etched with self-promotional logos). Music and games round out the attractions for Fork Fest, which moves this year from Chase Palm Park to the Canon Perdido parking lot near the Presidio for the Saturday, August 18, festival. Tickets are also fairly reasonable as you will need to, ahem, fork over just $65. Visit https://nightout.com/events/ fork-fest-santa-barbara/tickets.

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wo men walk into a bar. This actually isn’t the setup for a joke, but rather how I recently sat down with Santa Barbarabased comedian Andrey Belikov. We met last week over a beer at Telegraph Brewing Co. to discuss his success as a comedian and the focus of his production company, Comedy Hideaway.

Andrey’s comedy stylings range from observational humor to jokes about his experience as a Ukranian immigrant and a father. We chatted about what makes for successful comedy and the evolution of the local comedy scene. Andrey notes that “comedy in its core is rooted in truth,” and he thinks the audience can tell when a comedian is being honest with a joke. If a premise isn’t believable, the audience is not going to connect with the joke. It was this comedic truth that Andrey discovered in his first performance.

Andrey left the Ukraine with his family at the age of seven during the downfall of the USSR. Growing up in New York, he eventually moved out to the Bay Area.

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Santa Barbara-based comedian Andrey Belikov

minute. He had Comedy Central on at the time and that gave him the idea of doing a comedy set.

As he listened to the comedian, Andrey knew he couldn’t give their performance and thus began writing his own. For his inaugural performance, Andrey came on stage as a Russian guy, explaining in a thick accent how Andrey messed up by waiting

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until the last minute and now he had to do the presentation for him. The combination of truth and self-satire hit a high note, and the performance was met with waves of laughter and applause. The success from the performance encouraged him, and he started giving himself goals to get a certain amount of paid gigs in a given time. Some of the performances only paid $20, but he kept achieving his goals and he has been a full-time comedian ever since.

In 2007, Andrey founded his own comedy production company, Comedy Hideaway. Over the years, Andrey would work regular comedy gigs at various restaurants and bars, but the high turnover rate of establishments in the area meant he was jumping between locations a lot.

Oftentimes, the comedy night was only branded as the company location, and when a restaurant would go out of business Andrey would lose the momentum of followers built up at the establishment.

Andrey wanted to create his own comedy production company so that he could keep his own following going while also crafting the perfect setting to support other comedians. Andrey wants the Comedy Hideaway performances to have the feeling of being in a classic New York comedy club.

In his years as a comedian, Andrey has found that here is a science to making successful setting for comedy. The top comedy clubs are usually in basement-like rooms with low ceilings and tight brick walls. There is a reason for this. Unlike music acoustics where sound-dampening materials are used to minimize echoing, comedy acoustics are trying to encourage sound to echo. Laughter is contagious and the sound of it reverberating in a room helps laughter spread.

People usually don’t want to be the only one laughing in the room, so if it feels full with laughter, everyone tends to feel like laughing harder. Andrey has witnessed great performances flop because the room doesn’t have proper acoustics, which can discourage the audience from laughing. This is why when a fan goes see a comedian in multiple locations they might wonder why one

performance seems better than the other.

Andrey notes that often it can be traced back to poor acoustics. The brick walls and tight room of a comedy club help laughter echo throughout the space and will help make a performance succeed.

With Comedy Hideaway, Andrey is trying to not just bring top comedians into the area but also recreate the comedy club experience in Santa Barbara. The comedian circuit is a small, tight-knit community and with this attention to the needs of the comedian, Andrey is able to attract better comedians. On occasion, a comedian wants to use a smaller venue almost as a workshop space to experiment with new material before performing in a bigger venue. The well-curated setting that Andrey strives for is enticing to comedians, and he has been able to attract headliners that have been featured on HBO, Comedy Central, Netflix, and more. Stop by this Saturday, July 28, to see headliner Eric Schwartz, who has been featured on The Tonight Show, Hulu, and BET. These days, Comedy Hideaway takes place at the Flightline Restaurant (505 Firestone Road) that straddles Santa Barbara and Goleta near the Santa Barbara airport.

Many locals will recognize the space as the old Elephant Bar location or the more recent High Sierra Grill and Bar. Each Saturday, the side room of the restaurant is transformed with wall hangings and candlelight into a room that has the feel of a classic comedy club that’s ready for laughter. The room is no tiny basement, though, and the space can hold 100 people.

Comedy Hideaway now offers two performances (7 and 9 pm) every Saturday with shows repeatedly selling out. When Andrey first got started, it was tough to find two gigs each week in the area, but now between Ventura and Santa Barbara he can easily give a set, sometime multiples, each night of the week. Andrey is excited to see how the scene has grown and thinks that this is the “golden age” of comedy in the area.

Visit sbcomedy.com for tickets and more information.

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emember nightlife? It’s a thing in most cities. Every year around Fiesta season, Santa Barbara is reminded that parties, dancing and celebration are a part of life that we love – and miss.

Fiesta is a major cultural event in Santa Barbara that not only speaks to part of the city’s heritage, but also marks, as the name suggests, the apex of the summer party scene.

But for many local residents, Fiesta has also become a week we dread – for a number of reasons. Hoards of tourists clog the freeways, the local businesses become inundated, and we bear witness to the downtown bar scene at peak levels of drunken debauchery. And while most people can get on board with tequila, mariachi music, and being covered in confetti, many locals are at a loss with where to go to actually enjoy Fiesta, to be in community, and celebrate our city’s history together. And if the liquorsoaked, tourist-laden bar scene isn’t your

jam, what options are you left with?

This conundrum points to a larger cultural problem that Santa Barbara has tried to ignore for a long time but which, as more young-ish people make their lives here, has become more pronounced.

Nightlife in Santa Barbara has essentially been treated as an afterthought; a big fat abyss in the cultural landscape of SB. A city of Santa Barbara’s stature and international reputation really can do much better to serve this need (to say nothing of the profits to be gained from effectively filling this gaping hole.) The reality is that the few nightclubs that do exist are geared toward college kids and tourists and have the reputation of being sinkholes for predatory behavior and substance abuse... not to mention mind-bendingly simple and overplayed pop music.

Opportunities to really dance (something that humans have been doing together as a form of celebration

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and expression for the majority of our existence) are extremely limited. There is certainly no shortage of great bars, breweries, and wineries – which we love – but what happens after Happy Hour ends?

In our health-conscious active community, an unfortunate stigma has settled upon Santa Barbara nightlife in general: on the one hand, it has become synonymous with abuse of drugs and alcohol, and on the other, that the market only serves the 20-something

single crowd who don’t mind dancing to deafening Top 10 hits in the musty caverns of nightclubs drenched in spilled liquor and full of prowling college students.

And while the latter may be true, the point is that there is a serious lack of options for the average young professional in Santa Barbara who lives a healthy lifestyle but still loves to go dancing with friends and have a ...continued p.18

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great time.

The other piece of this puzzle is that Santa Barbarans are fairly spoiled, simply because competition among vendors is so high; we have come to expect a certain standard of quality, style, and creativity. This means that if the only option is the overplayed, bass thumping, must-be-wasted-to-enjoy bar scene, we’d much, much rather be at home getting a good night’s sleep.

But what if there was a viable, awesome alternative? This is where Party Proper comes in.

Enter Kayla Picciuto and Andrew Elia, founders of Party Proper, the new luxury soundscaping service (a.k.a. music-focused party production company) that is throwing the kind of dance parties that so many of us have been waiting for. What they bring is thought-out, finely tuned party scenes geared toward the demographic whose college years are behind them but whose dancing years are definitely not (and perhaps never will be.) Their events are defined by exceptional music, a refined but approachable aesthetic and generally attract the crowd that is severely underserved in terms of things to do past 8 pm.

The first Party Proper event I went to was this past June in the open-air back

patio space of Sama Sama restaurant.

Under strings of warm rope lights, well over 100 people were mingling shoulder to shoulder in the foreground, sipping cool summer-inspired drinks and chatting excitedly. But it wasn’t until I moved beyond that first layer of palomas and people that I dropped into the immersive experience that Kayla and Andrew bring to the dance floors that they curate.

The first thing that one notices, even if she is relatively undereducated about the technical aspects of high-end sound systems, is that the music sounds really good. The second thing is that the music being played is an artful matrix of sounds and songs known and unknown.

This is a party that is music-centric and has been created by people who want to move your spirit as much as your body.

It is clear that Kayla and Andrew have the highest standards for sound and ambience in mind.

For Andrew (DJ Persian House Cat) who has been deejaying for 10+ years and hails from a musical family, intuiting the needs of the people at his parties is more than a vocation, it’s a creative calling. And then there is Kayla, who will be found at the helm of the DJ booth, dancing, flashing her animated smiles, and generally setting a high vibe

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With an uncanny amount of energy, a natural gift for connecting people, and a lovable marketing prowess, it can be said that Kayla is the face and the personality of Party Proper.

The combination of Kayla’s vision and energy with Andrew’s talent and expertise is indeed a recipe for proper success.

Business partners and romantic partners, Kayla and Andrew met at The French Press five years ago. She was in grad school at UCSB and he had just finished grad school in San Francisco, after completing his undergrad at Westmont. At the time, Andrew was baking bread for Helena Bakery and working in caregiving, as well as finding time to put in hours at his music studio.

They became fast friends, sharing a deep intellectual connection, and eventually a co-created vision for producing events that were as much about dancing to great music as they were about connection and community.

Both Kayla and Andrew come from academic backgrounds in the liberal arts, particularly sociology and philosophy.

Kayla, who left grad school to start Party Proper with Andrew, says that people in her life have expressed confusion over her choice. “People think its super-farfetched“ she explains, “but my answer is that, first of all, my personality is really suited to this business, and second, my academic background informs this choice as well – because (throwing music and dance parties) is really about the study of what is meaningful to people... what lights people up and makes life good and juicy and real. This is the way we positively influence our community.”

They have a regular spin set on Wednesday evenings at Satellite winery, as well as a regular dance party gig at Sama Sama that is shaping up to summer 2018’s best chance to get down and dance Party Proper style.

Beyond throwing a great event, Party Proper is on a mission to elevate the art of deejaying. On Andrew’s side, he knows the technical and production side through and through. He has been working in audio engineering in various capacities since his high school years. As I speak to him about his art, he takes on a deeply philosophical tone: “I am interested in thinking about the music more selflessly, more in service to the people and the space.” And Kayla, ever ready to expand upon Andrew’s, soft and at times ethereal speech, adds, “The difference between Andrew and many other DJs is that he asks, ‘What does this space require?’ rather than asserting his will about one particular type of music.”

WHERE TO PARTY PROPER DURING FIESTA: On Saturday, August 4, the week of Fiesta, Party Proper is partnering with Take Me Away, an event production company started by Nini Munoz and Elly Iverson to bring a special late-night dance party (10 pm to 2 am) to Santa Barbara. The event, called “Midnight in Ibiza” is being described as “old Spanish days with a modern twist” and will feature Flamenco-infused techno style music including live DJ sets by Andrew (DJ Persian House Cat) and a performance by Flamenco guitarist Jerad Wachtmann. A special Ibizainspired art installation and a few unexpected surprises will be tossed into the mix as well.

Tickets can be bought on NightOut. com (see link at the end of this article), but the location of the party will remain secret until a few days before the event itself (don’t worry, it’s near the downtown/Funk Zone area and there’s space for your whole posse). Those who purchase tickets will be notified of the location via email. Tickets are $50 and include an open bar with signature drinks by Simply Cocktails. One for the books, to be sure.

Tickets for “Midnight in Ibiza” can be purchased at: nightout.com/events/ midnight-in-ibiza/tickets WHERE TO PARTY PROPER THE REST OF THE MONTH: Another opportunity to taste the tunes that Party Proper dishes up is at Fork Fest Santa Barbara, the foodie event of the season, which takes place Saturday, August 18, from 1 to 6 pm at 115 E. Canon Perdido in the Canon Perdido parking lot. Party Proper will be providing their soundscaping experience and music to set the stage for friendly culinary competition between some of our city’s finest restaurants, breweries, wineries, and craft spirits. Show up and enjoy the culinary culture of SB through bites and sips from SB’s best of the best.

Kayla and Andrew seem to be on everyone’s radar, and the myriad of festive summer events is a perfect launch pad for them. “The Fork Fest exemplifies what Party Proper cares about: bringing people together around craft and art and spirit of togetherness,” Kayla says.

“We love being involved in events that encourage community driven spaces and bold creativity – Fork Fest does just that.”

Info: https://nightout.com/events/ fork-fest-santa-barbara/tickets

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There was a night, July 6 to be exact, when my voice rang clear and they took immediate action when I said, “You need to do this quickly…”

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I heard a cell phone ring from inside the house. It went ignored and we continued to remain submerged. Not too long after the cell rang, our landline chimed in. Now, normally I would leave the cool water to check on these callers, but it happened to be my husband’s 47th birthday, so I figured they were simply calls in regards to his aging. We stayed in the pool.

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DO THE HUSTLE From this moment on, things were a blur. “Everybody out of the pool,” I grabbed the family towels and attempted to keep my voice calm (though I think my husband would disagree with this statement).

“Change into clothes and pack your backpacks for an overnight as fast as you can,” I instructed and without hesitation the kids took action. They could tell this wasn’t a drill.

My husband and I began to scramble.

I collected the memorabilia and he went for the documents. Only minutes into our semi-organized gathering efforts, the house went dark. Pitch black. I should’ve foreseen this, but like I said, we were in a fluster. There was a ripple of panic as the darkness froze us in our tracks. Headlamps! I fumbled for them and armed the family with light to complete our tasks.

I had piled the baby books, jewelry, art, and other irreplaceable items at the door when I looked down and realized I was still in my bathing suit. A headlamp was my only accessory. I ran to my closet to grab clothes and glanced out the long windows facing the canyon.

An evocative red glow was stretching up to touch the velvet sky just beyond the canyon. My hustle took on a new pace.

I hopped into one car with the two kids. George (our dog) was in the front seat, Sol (our fish) was in his bowl on my daughter Lila’s lap, and the back was stacked with what we had amassed in a 15-minute period. I put the car in reverse and looked at my husband loading our second car in the driveway.

“Do not take too long,” I pleaded as he finished stuffing the computers and other important stuff into the backseat.

We drove down the hill and I remember repeating to the girls, “It’s going to be okay. Everything is going to be okay.”

There was a line of cars at the bottom of the incline. Police vehicles and emergency lights dotted every corner.

We inched forward and my panicked mind landed on the reality that I did not know where I was going. As I tried to remain calm and figure out this next step, my phone rang again. On the other end was my friend Toni Mochi, who directed me to immediately come to their house. I followed the orders.

As I got on the freeway, my older

daughter, Elli, said she was going to be sick. I tried to pull over before the explosion but failed. I exited to the side of the road as soon as I safely could, beating the vomit spiral that was about to come from her sister seated right next to her. I mopped up the mess and again repeated the mantra, “It’s going to be okay.”

I called my husband to let him know where we were headed. He answered the phone and told me he was hosing off the side fence. This made me worry, so I firmly asked him to hurry it up. I wanted him off the hillside and safe.

This was the last time he used his cell phone.

We trudged into the Mochi house filthy, frightened, and missing our father.

They helped to get the girls settled and showered while I paced around waiting for my husband to come through the door. The minutes passed like molasses and he no longer answered his cell phone. It simply rang.

After what seemed like a century, he walked in the house in his swim trunks looking quite defeated. We huddled up, cherished our safety, and prayed for the firefighters to take control of the melee.

What would you grab if you might never be able to return to your home again? We had some random items that made it into our bags during the mayhem: I threw a bunch of crystal rocks in my purse (my “hippy rocks” as my family likes to call them), my husband grabbed his dad’s model airplane from childhood, I discovered that Lila had made sure she packed her softball cleats, and Elli tucked her middle-school yearbooks into a backpack. On the contrary, our neighbor ran out the door with nothing, not even shoes on his feet.

I suppose there’s no right or wrong way to run for your life.

We never found my husband’s mysterious missing cell phone and all of the food in our fridge spoiled. We were the lucky ones. Eleven families completely lost their homes; my heart goes out to them. Considering the conditions that Mother Nature had concocted that evening, 11 seems to be a low number. With 350 firefighters and two night-flying helicopters, the damage was quickly contained. The fire burned the mountain – no souls were lost.

BRIANA’S BEST BET he Holiday Fire took a great deal away from the families who lost their homes.

A local group, the SB Support Network, has now extended a hand to assist these members of our community. You can donate gift cards, cash, and suggested items to help the Holiday Fire families start over. Please visit www.sbsupportnetwork.org to give your donation.

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his month’s First Thursdays falls a day into our annual celebration of Old Spanish Days, where the streets run multicolored with the guts of fallen cascarones. Among the carnage, there will still be art openings, and among the touristas true art heads will roam. (See you there!) Apart from that, we have plenty to occupy your time, including more reasons to escape the beastly weather and head north into beastlier yet dryer weather! Some way and some day, we shall meet up and say howdy.

GRADATED GRAY

There are still a few exhibits that didn’t make it into my previous column.

One of them is at GraySpace Gallery (219 Gray Ave.). Or rather, three artists show their works: Karin Aggeler (Funk Zone resident! Abstract artist!) and Karen Zazon (also abstract) share the walls with “Expressions of Spirit”, and in the Annex (the gallery’s back room) Charlene Broudy shows her photography and digital art. The show opened July 20, but it’s up through the month.

DIG DUG

Dug Uyesaka is a self-effacing chap, as evidenced by the title of his current show at Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (229 E. Victoria St.).

Calling your collection of collage “Pulp n’ Glue - Remix Vol. 1” is the equivalent of saying, “Oh, this old thing?” about your exquisite evening dress. A long-time Santa Barbara art scene fixture, Uyesaka’s work is often humorous in its clever and deceptively simple juxtapositions.

Through September 13.

TALES OF THE NORTH COUNTY

A few years ago, I was part of a field

trip up to the beginnings of the Blue Sky Center in the Cuyama Valley, an underpopulated but beautiful stretch of Santa Barbara County. The Center itself existed to ask the question of what kind of art could be made out here, and how it might interact with the small but involved community in Cuyama. The answers to that question form the basis of “Seeing Rural: Through the Eyes of Visiting Artists in the Cuyama Valley”, which shows at the Art From Scrap Gallery (302 E. Cota) through September 30. This show is a celebration of the first artist residency program in the Cuyama Valley, and supported by the Squire Foundation and the County Department of Arts & Culture. The five artists/artist teams chosen were Ben Guzman and Angela Wood of Small Medium Large Productions out of Los Angeles; Noé Montes of Los Angeles; Tom Gottelier and Bobby Petersen from Designers on Holiday from Los Angeles and Oslo, Norway; Butchy Fuego from Talkeetna, Alaska; and Nicole Lavelle from Lagunitas, California.

READY FOR THIS JELLY?

I’m glad to see that Cynthia James is having a show after what seems like a long local break. I missed her last show entitled “Crypto Flora,” but that’s an apt description for her paintings of oddlooking flowers and plants that look like they’ve been trimmed from a Boschian Garden of Earthly Delights. “The Secret Life of Flowers” features James’s jellyfish-like blooms, ringed by swirls of pollen. The exhibit runs Monday, August 6 to November 26 at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s Pritzlaff Conservation Center Gallery. There is a reception Thursday, August 9, but you

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TEAR DOWN THE WALL

Get off the Fiesta-beaten path on Thursday, August 2, at SBCAST (513 Garden St.) to check out The Nature of Walls: A Multi-Media Arts Installation, curated by Lynn M. Holley. The theme came from her returning to the States after a residency to be “hit with a wall of pure outrage concerning the United States incarceration of children, the majority ripped from their parents’ arms at our border.” The show features photography, paintings, reproductions, poetry readings (Steve Braff), and the music of Pink Floyd.

Also at SBCAST the same night: “Return From Berlin” – photos and music curated and created by artist Ulrike Kerber. It’s a wall-two-fer! Up through August, the opening night starts at 5 pm.

BUGLE BOY OF COMPANY B(REAKFAST)

Jake Himovitz was born in Santa Barbara but currently makes art at his home in Chicago. “Bugle Boy”, his upcoming show at Breakfast Culture Club (711 Chapala) is his homecoming.

Boots, sombreros, and dudes are the current subject of his lumpy and funny acrylics, and like many a Breakfast show, it’s gonna be packed on opening reception, August 2, 6:30 to 10 pm.

Through October 3. Michael Long, our favorite miniaturist, also has a small selections of work up at Breakfast, opening the same date, and up for two months.

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Here’s a reason to get out of town: Brander Vineyard is holding a twoday Mexican Folk Art Marketplace, August 11-12 at its location, 2401 N Refugio Road, Los Olivos. Not only will there be a grand variety of work to choose from, the 15 artists will be there to discuss their work and make new friends. And yes, there’s wine.

The event is also a fundraiser for victims of the Oaxaca earthquake on July 19. Tickets will be available along with more info on their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ BranderVineyard/).

Another way to avoid Fiesta is to have your First Thursday on the Second Thursday. The Press Room is doing just that on August 9, featuring the work of Bethany Sara.

BEAR WITH US

With a grizzly on our own state’s freakin’ flag, you’d think we’d think more about our ursine chums. I actually seem to think we don’t. Sullivan Goss (11 E. Anapamu) is rectifying this with a show of five artists (Adonna Khare, Susan McDonnell, Pamela Kendall Schiffer, Nicole Strasburg, Beth Van Hoesen) who feature bears in their work. “Contemporary Bear Area Artists” is the show title, with not a Pooh in sight. Runs through September 16.

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SEX AND DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP

“Intima/Muerte” is an installation that “ushers participants into a safe, evocative, experimental, and selfguided journey through the creative use of space, photographs, film, and music.” Curated by Gabriella Hernandez and Aiyana Sage, two artists and friends collaborating for the first time, it’s an exploration of sex, death, and intimacy. One night only, Saturday, August 11, 6 to 10 pm. It’s a ticketed event ($20 presale, $25/door) through bit.ly/

Briefly: Light and Starkness featuring guest artists Rachelle Mendez, Scott Trimble, and Brooke Borcherding at 10 W. Gallery (10 W. Anapamu), opening Thursday, August 2; Bethany Sara is this month’s artist at The Press Room (18 E. Ortega) and the opening is a full week after Fiesta, August 9.

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Olive Mill Road and San Ysidro Road Roundabout Projects

Improvement projects for the intersections of Olive Mill Road and San Ysidro Road are in the initial design phase. You are invited to an informational meeting and opportunity to provide comments.

City of Santa Barbara Public Works Department Engineering Division

MEETING:

Community Information Meeting and Open House Wednesday, August 29, 2018, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM Chase Palm Park Center 236 East Cabrillo Boulevard, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

PROJECTS:

Design of a roundabout, bicycle and pedestrian crosswalks along the Olive Mill Road and the San Ysidro Road intersections and rehabilitation of the existing roadways in the area of the Projects. For more information and Project area maps visit the City of Santa Barbara at http://bit.ly/SB_OliveMillRd and the County of Santa Barbara at http://pwsb.net

LOCATION:

Olive Mill Road Project: Olive Mill Road at the intersection of Coast Village Road and North Jameson Lane.

San Ysidro Road Project: San Ysidro Road at the intersection of North Jameson Lane.

Both projects are adjacent to US Highway 101.

BENEFITS:

Enhances traffic operations and safety for motor vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians. Reduces traffic congestion and improves mobility at the Olive Mill Road intersection and the San Ysidro Road intersection.

FUNDING:

Highway Safety Improvement Program and State Transportation Improvement Program funds through the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments.

CONTACTS:

Olive Mill Road Roundabout Project: Sara Iza, AICP, City Project Manager, (805) 897-2685, siza@SantaBarbaraCA.gov Información en Español: Laura Yanez, Ingeniera, (805) 897-2615, LYanez@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

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BUSINESSBEAT by Jon Vreeland Jon Vreeland is a writer of prose, poetry, plays, and journalism. His memoir, The Taste of Cigarettes, will publish May 22, 2018, with Vine

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hen a 24-year-old Edward Chavez stopped his bicycle on the turnpike overpass during morning rush hour five years ago, the newly single dad broke down and cried the tears of a nearly defeated man.

That morning, Edward watched the sun bleed through the dampness and mist while he sat on a bicycle he’d built himself—with a yellow trailer attached to the back for his son Jason Chavez, who was 1-year-old at the time. Edward’s breakup with the child’s mother left the father and son without transportation for the next few months of their lives.

So when Edward first rolled to an exhausted halt that morning, he thought his chance at success was nil. “This is crazy! I should’ve gone to school!” Edward cursed himself. “I should have got an education!”

However, through his tribulations, Edward continued to wake up at 5:30

am every day. He put his infant son in the tow-trailer and rode to his sister’s house – from Alamar to Turnpike.

Edward worked for a gardening company and earned minimum wage for working exhausting hours, but wanted to give his son the life Edward’s parents gave him here in Santa Barbara.

“I had all the opportunity to go to school; I wasn’t forced into work,” Edward says. “But I wanted to take work more seriously after my son was born.”

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Edward Chavez, 29, and son Jason Chavez, 6, stand in front one of Edward’s two work trucks. He says if it weren’t for his parents, he’d still be riding a bike to a “frustrating dead end.” Edward’s Landscapes phone number is (805) 252-8889.

the interest of Edward in the slightest, the young father continued to get up and work, and he continued to tow his son to his sister’s house. Then, through the ballet of inexplicable heartache, Edward lost the apartment, so he and his son moved home with Edward’s mother, a successful business owner with all the faith a mother could have.

Edward saved his money, and his father gave him a 1967 Chevy Pickup, one that needed a new transmission.

Edward eventually saved enough for the transmission but didn’t have enough for the labor. “It’s always something,” he said and laughed.

But Edward kept pushing. Edward’s mission to turn things around for him and Jason held no bounds. “This is why I truly believe in God and people’s destiny,” Edward explained. “The guy I was working with at the time for the gardening company said, ‘Edward, I’m a mechanic too, I’ll help you.’” And so he did.

And with the ‘67 Chevy up and running, Edward was able to formulate his own jobs and individual customers on the side. By 2015, Edward’s Landscapes was a business that officially existed in the Santa Barbara and Goleta area.

Edward’s Landscapes cultivates and maintains the front and backyards and gardens for homeowners and business owners all year, performing landscape

and garden duties that require weekly or bi-weekly maintenance on the client’s property: cutting of the grass, trimming of the edges, planting flowers, anything that involves keeping the client’s property pristine and proudly presentable.

Nowadays, a 29-year-old Edward and Jason (now 6) get up every morning at 6 and eat breakfast before they get into Edward’s 2010 Chevy Silverado, or the Ford F-350 that Edward uses to haul large loads of gravel, dirt, wood, or anything to keep the job site active and as clean as possible.

The three-year-old business also takes on what Edward calls “project jobs” as well: mapping out and creating a brand new front and backyard; digging trenches; the installation of PVC pipes; brand new sprinkler and irrigation system; patios and patio covers; laying sheaths of fresh green grass; soil for the bed of scarlet roses, the flowers, and the mulch.

“I plant lots of lantanas, roses, hydrangeas, and geraniums are popular to add next to bigger potted plants or potted trees,” says Edward. “My regular customers always have extra projects because they love the work that I do and completely trust me with their gardens.”

But when it’s carpentry and masonry and anything to do with the building, Edward’s cousin Jake Chavez, 33, another carpenter and experienced builder in the family. The two often team up and take on big projects together, which transposes into more and steadier work for a stable and prosperous company. Edward’s initial goal.

“I’m stable, but I have so much motivation that I know I’m only at 25 percent of my success, not even 50 percent,” he proclaims, saying his parents are a large reason why. “I can’t even begin to tell you how cool and motivating my parents are,” he says.

Many might have given up and gone to school, put themselves through years of society’s expectations of a successful person, even though it’s not for them.

It’s how a person handles the “fight or flight” moments in life that ultimately matters the most.

And school or no school, Edward Chavez – the Santa Barbara native and single dad who rode a bike with a trailer and worked for wages that weren’t enough but made them enough, who now drives two work trucks to more than a dozen accounts he lands under his private landscape company known as Edward’s Landscapes – chose to fight.

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character. The fruit aroma is prominent with an unobtrusive malt flavor and a floral-jasmine note highlighting the nose. Either of these brews makes a nice accompaniment for their Rosemary Chipotle Shrimp. The fruit used in both helps accent the rosemary while complementing the smoky chipotle flavors. The summer ale offers a gentle malt character that balances the shrimp while soothing the spiciness of the chipotle. The tartness of the Berry Patch Gose is more contrasting and sharpens the other flavors. Overall, Brass Bear feature a range of balanced beers and tasty bites in an personable setting.

ISLAY MALTS AND SEA AIR

There is a beer oddity being featured at The Brewhouse that should not be missed by fans of beer and scotch. Peat Has a Laph, an imperial porter aged in Laphroaig barrels, is a rare offering.

Their regular imperial porter, Fill the Void, has a roastiness that warms the alcohol notes but lacks the burntcharacter of stouts, making for a beer that is robust but still drinkable. Peat Has a Laph cranks this character up several notches.

For the uninitiated, Laphroaig (pronounced “la-FROYG”) claims to be “The World’s Most Richly Flavored Scotch Whisky” and if you have sampled

one of their malts, then you know that this statement is not unfounded. Their scotches are often referred to as “liquid campfire” and are well-suited for fans of smoky peat. Laphroaig is located on the isle of Islay, and being an island, all of the Islay distilleries are situated near the coast.

There are eight active distilleries on the island, and their proximity to the coast means that the barrels slowly breath in the sea air over time, imparting a distinct ocean flavor to the Islay scotches. The unique character is often described as salt, seaweed, and iodine – which all together reminds me of the flavor of green olive brine.

This ocean-like character backed by the heavy smokiness from the peat moss used during malting defines the Islay scotch character. Laphroaig is the epitom4e of this style, and you can actually pick up a hint of the sea air in the imperial porter, even if it is buried under a blanket of peat.

The beer does a perfect job of framing the intense flavors of the Scotch barrel. Underneath the smoky aroma is an accent of tobacco leaf and tar, showcasing the dense, rich character of Laphroaig.

It is rare for a brewer to get their hands on a Scotch barrel, let alone a distillery as distinct as Laphroaig, so this unique brew is not to be missed.

immediate field of hundreds of HD televisions, all of them tuned to the same closeup of an intensely hi-def, vibrantly colored little crab. It just sits there, this lipstick-colored crab; but it sits there in such thrillingly granular high-definition you are bedazzled. Is this what surrounds us? Is life itself available in these hues? In this much mesmerizing detail? You flash momentarily on the actual out-of-doors, with its disappointing deficit of pixels and habit of being presentationally oblique, when all you want is to sit before it and stare from a seated position. The truth is, you will not recover from the hyper-detailed crab, generally speaking.

Few of us will, anyway. The out-ofdoors impulse passes and you heave-to with your Gigantor cart and head into the Wilderness of Things.

ABOVE AND BEYOND

Three hours later, you are stocked up on items of every description, and a few beyond description. You enter the Ellis Island-like Costco Checkout Masses, a stream of humanity you’ve seen before in nobler settings, each shopper the heraldic, momentary termination of a single line of blood. A scarlet thread, it reaches forward from the depths of a past so geologically remote you can’t apprehend it. At the far end of the thread, your single unsung proto-human antecedent can’t begin to conceive of

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you here in aisle number 4. Above and beyond the cavernous Costco ceiling, the planets of our homely system – barren cratered rocks and gas balls bereft of even microbial automata – circle their sun like weary dance marathon contestants.

We reach, we reach. We’re made of reaching! That’s what we are. That’s something. We want to be sated, comforted, embraced, understood. Why not? We want love and a little paper cup full of cole slaw. Why not? That’s our Omega Point. It’s not funny. Many many astronomical units away, the first of our deep space probes timidly enters the interstellar gulf, a tourist with his toe in the shallows. This machine, built in a cleanroom by men and women in brilliant white baggies and surgical masks, will chug-chug-chug like an inertial tortoise to the very end of time, where seen and unseen stars throw their fire and their mystery rays and their primordial whatnot.

Well. You get to your car and while loading your purchases, you note with sorrow there is a hole in your 14-lb box of gluten-free flapjack mix. Your eyes follow the trail of beige powder all the way back to Costco’s hot dog and pizza plaza, where the trail disappears in the congress of busy Kirkland footwork.

Nice, you think; and here is the shadow of a grin.

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LABOR DAY WEEKEND

OPEN STUDIOS TOUR

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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.

FRANCIS SCORZELLI, FINE ART PAINTER

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n Labor Day weekend, the Santa Barbara Studio Artists’ Open Studio Tour is a great way to meet local painter Francis Scorzelli, who has supported himself creating art in Santa Barbara for 40 years.

Primarily using oil paint on canvas and paper, and sometimes adding sand or collage items to his works to add textures, he says, “I describe myself as a fine artist and abstract painter. In my works, I use forms and texture and color on a two-dimensional plane and try to create a three-dimensional look by positioning colors together, bringing some more forward and moving others to the back.”

Currently president of the Santa Barbara Studio Artists, Scorzelli shares, “I do a lot of overseeing. Working with a group helps me focus, think, and be organized. It helps me in my own life and marketing my work and being happy with my own development. I like all types of art, it doesn’t have to be abstract for me to appreciate. I make art

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working, it’s still a good day. It has sixteen-foot ceilings and high windows like a New York loft. Most artists have to scrounge for their work space.”

Scorzelli moved into his current studio at De La Vina and Gutierrez in 1994. “I love the lifestyle, being around artists, bouncing ideas off them. It really helps my work evolve, talking with other artists.”

Scorzelli observes, “Art sales are changing. Open studios are an alternative to get our work out there, also social media goes worldwide – that’s the trend I’m looking into these days.

Sotheby’s auctions still show fine art as the number-one purchase. Art tours and Instagram allow affordable paintings for the average budget. Just like anything,

you have to move along with the times, and buying online is convenient. Rules change with time, you have to go with the changes.”

Scorzelli invites everyone to come out on Labor Day weekend for the Santa Barbara Studio Artists’ Open Studio Tour and to the artists’ reception at Gallery 10 West on Friday, August 31, from 5 to 8 pm at 10 West Anapamu St. He can be reached at SantaBarbaraStudioArtists. com, at (805) 962-6112, or fscor1973@ gmail.com.

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IHeart SB

By Elizabeth Rose

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

VIVA LA VIDA

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rom Santa Cruz Island, we traveled to Catalina Island, then Dana Point, a plane ride back east to see my family, and finally San Diego for our last stop in the U.S. We ran around town for a few days, gathering last-minute provisions of things we needed and things we weren’t sure we needed but bought anyway.

At times, I’d glance toward Tijuana and watch the smog loom above the city, an indication that the start of our next adventure was just miles away.

We left at 4 in the morning on a Thursday, anxious and ready to cross the border into Mexico. But the border crossing came and went without pomp and circumstance or drug-sniffing dogs via naval ship as I imagined. Instead, it was like any other passage. We had coffee and breakfast and watched the city lights of Tijuana fade to morning in the wake of our boat. We filled the time with snacks, some reading, and a nap or two. Every now and then, a fishing boat passed by and we’d wave hello.

Exactly 12 hours after leaving San Diego, we entered the Ensenada harbor. The gargantuan Mexican flag at the waterfront was our first indication we weren’t in familiar territory anymore. Jason nervously radioed the port captain in broken Spanish, a string of words that took 10 minutes for us to put together and, I’m sure, was a struggle to understand.

With our first little victory under our belt, we tied into a slip at Baja Naval, checked in, then changed into land clothes. Hand in hand we zigzagged through town, wandering the streets with smiles on our faces, ears perked, excited to explore.

To be in a foreign country is to embrace anonymity, the ultimate fly-on-the-wall experience. The feeling reminds me of how pre-teens must feel the first time their parents drop them off at the mall by themselves with friends. The environment is

Hand in hand we zigzagged through town familiar, yet you’re vulnerable without the comfort of your family to rely on.

We perched ourselves at the bar of a small taco place tucked at the end of an alley, devouring tacos de calamar (squid), camaron (shrimp), fresh ceviche, and bottles of Topo Chico. The owner was welcoming and let us practice a little Spanish, making us feel more at home. As I chewed my last bite, I watched as the restaurant owner placed fresh rosemary atop smoldering coals in a cast-iron bowl. He fixed a metal fan above the bowl, pointing the swirling blades upward to guide the smoke to the ceiling.

I looked at him with questioning eyes. “For flies,” he said, shrugging his shoulders. I nodded, transfixed by the simple and aromatic solution to keep pests away from food, a technique I’d never learned in the States. At that moment, I thought back to the beginning of our trip and how we literally sailed our little boat from Washington to an entirely different country.

A lightbulb came on in my head and I turned to Jason, excited to share. “Just think how much we’re improving our lives just by being here!” He smiled, cocked his head, and nodded in agreement. We had been in Mexico for less than an hour and already I couldn’t get enough.

I yearned to speak Spanish and learn how the local people eat and celebrate with one another. I wanted to know how their formula for a satisfied life differed from my own. Then I listed other places I long to visit (India, Asia, the Middle East, to name a few) and felt anxious that I wouldn’t have enough time in my life to visit them all. Already, I felt behind.

Luckily, I became distracted by the music playing through speakers overhead. An electronic sound fused with Salsa, a playlist one of the chefs created on his phone.

It was the kind of music that makes sitting down impossible, so Jason grabbed my hand and helped me down from my stool and we danced a little, happy to be so far away from home in a foreign place we’ve yet to know.

And as comfortable as we became eating tacos and making friends with people at this little restaurant, just a few steps away existed different world. One I can’t fully understand with my ears quite yet, but a place I fully embrace with my heart.

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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.

BIG PARTY IN STA. RITA HILLS, CANYON CONCERTS, AND SHOOTING STARS AT MARTIAN RANCH WINE AND FIRE 2018 he Sta. Rita Hills is quickly becoming one of the hottest wine-growing regions.

Wines coming out of “the Hills” are being lauded as some of the best coolclimate wines in the world. Explore this world of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay the weekend of August 17, 18, and 19 to discover the wines and people of the Sta. Rita Hills. There are three Wine and Fire events, ticket sales are limited and range in cost from $55 to $290.

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FRIDAY NIGHT BARN PARTY AT FIDDLESTIX BARN he weekend kicks off with Sta. Rita Hills member wineries sharing exclusive wines to this event including library stashes, large format bottles, and small production wines to warm up winery-goers. Guests will enjoy cuisine presented by chef Brett Stephen from High on the Hog Catering, along with a cheese buffet from Central Coast Specialty Foods. The Bryan Titus Trio will set the pace for a weekend of wine and culinary noshing with their “Postmodern Barn Dance” style of toe-tapping tunes that “evoke themes and melodies of yesterday with a pinch of modern irony.” The Fiddlestix Barn sits among 96 acres of Pinot Noir vines that produce wines for Fiddlehead Cellars and a handful of fortunate winemakers who contract fruit from this celebrated vineyard.

When: Friday, August 17, from 5 to 8 pm Where: Fiddlestix Barn, across the iconic Sanford and Benedict vineyard on Santa Rosa Road at mile marker 7.28

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SPEED TASTING AND LUNCH WITH WINEMAKER imilar to speed dating, winemakers will take a turn to sit at your table, pour their wine and share the experiences of their winemaking journey while engaging in conversation with your tablemates.

Each table will have a winemaker seated at your table, pouring one to two wines. The winemaker will present their wines, discuss the vineyard the wine is made from, tell their story, and then open up the conversation for a roundtable discussion. At the end of 10 minutes, a different winemaker will rotate to your table and the process begins again. Each table’s personal sommelier will guarantee a lively discussion and engaging wine talk.

Wally Ronchietto, former owner of Café Buenos Aires, and Gigi of GIGI’s Chimi will fire up their grills for an Argentine-style barbecue with traditional Argentine Asado, salads, bread, meat, and sausages.

When: Saturday, August 18, from 10 am to 2 pm Where: Hilliard Bruce Winery, 2097 Vineyard View Lane in Lompoc

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WINE AND FIRE GRAND TASTING AT LA PURISIMA MISSION orty-plus wineries and local chefs and farmers come together for this evening of chillin’ and grillin’ at the La Purisima Mission – located on the edge of the Sta. Rita Hills AVA. Babe Farms, Campbell Farms, Central Coast Specialty Foods, Homegrown Cowboy, The Hitching Post II, Los Amigos BBQ, Scratch Kitchen, The Ballard Inn, and the Sta. Rita Hills Winegrowers

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will serve up a selection of local food favorites. Only 325 tickets will be sold.

When: Saturday, August 18, from 5 to 8 pm Where: La Purisima Mission, 2295 Purisima Road in Lompoc Wineries participating in Wine and Fire 2018 include: Alma Rosa Winery & Vineyards, Brewer-Clifton, Buscador Winery, Byron Winery, Clos Pepe Estate, Fiddlehead Cellars, Flying Goat Cellars, Hilliard Bruce, Hitching Post Wines, Ken Brown Wines, Kessler-Haak, Kita Wines, Lafond Winery & Vineyards, LaMontagne Winery, Liquid Farm, Loring Wine Company, Mail Road Wines, Montemar, Pali Wine Company, Peake Ranch, Seagrape, Siduri Wines, Spear Vineyards and Winery, The Hilt, and Transcendence.

Visit The Sta. Rita Hills Wine Alliance for information and ticket sales at www. staritahills.com.

EL CAPITAN CANYON CONCERT SERIES here is a special section of the Gaviota Coast where “luxury camping” (a.k.a. glamp-ing), live music under the stars, and nature merge for a few months of the year. El Capitan Canyon in El Capitan State Park presents a summer concert series from the end of May to the beginning of September, and the final five performances are sliding into the end summer. Music begins at 7 pm, and entrance opens at 5 pm for visitors not staying overnight.

Here is the final lineup: August 4 – Live Wire – Rock Party Favorites August 11 – The Bomb – Latin Funk August 18 – Cadillac Angels – American Roots August 25 – Rankin File – Rock ‘n Roll, Pop September 1 – Live Wire – Rock Party Favorites The 76-mile Gaviota Coast is located in Santa Barbara County beginning 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles and encompasses many of the coastal watersheds of the Santa Ynez Mountains. El Capitan Canyon invites you to enjoy this area during any season: “Step outside into the canyon, smell the wild sage in the early spring blossoming. Observe the monarch butterflies mud-puddling in the fall. Listen to the frogs all year round. There is something for each season. Feel the ocean breeze, see and hear the rhythmic waves.”

When: Saturdays during the summertime; music from 7 to 9 pm (sometimes later) Where: El Capitan Canyon, located off Highway 101, approximately 15 miles north of Santa Barbara Info: Bring a sweater and a lawn chair. For reservations or more information, call (866) 352-2729, x714 Cost: Music is complimentary for overnight guests. $10 per person upon entrance.

“Famous Canyon BBQ” available from 6 to 8 pm: $22 per adult and $15 per children ages 10 and younger.

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MARTIAN RANCH 1ST ANNUAL STAR PARTY his summer in particular is filled with skywatching opportunities, including a total eclipse of the moon, a meteor shower, and a chance to salute our nearest neighbor in the solar system, Mars.

Martian Ranch welcomes seasoned stargazers, astronomical newbies, and wineswirling enthusiast to join them under the summer night sky with Ricky Hart and Michelle Jordan from UCLA Space Physics during the Perseid Meteor Shower.

They will have telescopes to view Jupiter, Saturn, and of course, Mars. Michelle will also have meteorite samples as well as a piece of the moon. This year, the moon will be a crescent (a near new moon), which means it will set before the Perseid show gets underway.

Martian Ranch and Vineyard currently remains the only tasting room on Alisos Canyon Road. The location may seem out of this world, but is only 3.2 miles from Foxen Canyon and 3 miles from Los Alamos and Highway 101, and serves wines including Mothership Grenache Blanc, Dark Energy Syrah, and Parrallax Mourvedre. Martian is a “down-to-earth winery and dedicated to the journey. From sky to ground to grape to barrel to bottle and straight into your glass.” Although the play on words is of galactic proportion, owner Nan Helgeland notes, despite rumors to the contrary, Martian is the blending of the names of her sons Martin and Ian. Snacks and wine will be served. Dress warmly, bring blankets (lawn chairs optional).

When: Saturday, August 11, from 8 to 11:30 pm Where: Martian Ranch and Vineyard, 9110 Alisos Canyon Road in Los Alamos Cost: $50 per person/$40 club members Info: www.martianvineyard.com or call (805) 344-1804

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