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A NEW TIDE OF ARTISTS

THE SB STUDENT ARTS GRANT SEEKS TO BRING IN YOUNGER GENERATIONS OF ARTISTS WITH MENTORSHIP AND OPPORTUNITIES (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 7)

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C reative Characters – Zach Rosen has the details about the new SB Students Art Grants Program; and Mike Garson performs November 2 at Lobero Theatre

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The Capitalist – Jeff Harding takes issue with California Senator HannahBeth Jackson’s “fake news” indoctrination bill and other legislation State Street Scribe – Time’s Arrow: Physics puzzle or heart-piercing fact of life? Yes, according to Jeff Wing.

Beer Guy – Zach Rosen explains the foundation of Modern Times Academy of Recreational Science, new businesses, and his own “Biergnette” presentation

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On Art – Margaret Landreau gets to know Jess Conti, a leather artist and designer whose work appears at Solvang’s Queen of Arts and Yes in Paseo Nuevo

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What’s Hanging – Ted Mills makes note of Chris Peters, “Crime of Art”, Veterans Day, Dia de Los Muertos, brew crew, “Nature Abstracted”, Alison O’Daniel, and more

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Far Flung Travel – Bird nerd? Chuck Graham surveys the scene of Channel Islands National Park, where he prefers to photograph his flying feathered friends.

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E’s Note – Bell tolls: Elliana Westmacott, gets up-close and personal with elephants and the documentary Love & Bananas

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CREATIVE CHARACTERS SB STUDENT ARTS GRANT; GARSON AT LOBERO

by Zach Rosen

The SB Student Arts Grant gives up-and-coming artists a chance to work with seasoned professionals (photo by Brieana Breeze

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eing a career artist has its difficulties.

From learning how to navigate art proposals to designing exhibit displays, there are many skills that need to be learned that go beyond just being artistically competent. Often, these lessons come from years of experience and wise mentors along the way.

The new Santa Barbara Student Art Grants Program, spearheaded by the Lucidity team and a collaboration between 15 different art organizations, hopes to assist. This art grants program is open to young students (18-25 is the intended, but not required, age group) and seeks to bring them together with mentors who are active in the local arts community, helping bridge the gap between the younger and older generations of artists.

The theme for the first year is Emotions, Tides, and the Moon, which looks at the interplay between the gravitational pull of the moon

and its effect on water. From the movement of tides, to the pulling on the water in our bodies, the moon has a powerful effect on both our planet and our bodies. While the theme will be part of the judging criteria, proposed projects are not limited to this theme, and other thematic elements will be considered. The proposed art projects are also encouraged to weave the values of Collaboration, Environmental & Social Responsibility, Personal Growth & Global Healing, and Family Fun & Community, into the concept.

Many of the participating organizations have a drive toward making art that brings together creative minds through collaboration and results in pieces that bring more awareness to the challenges facing our world and society in a format that is approachable to all members of our community. By ...continued p.18

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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

Senator Jackson’s Fake Legislation

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he California Legislature’s 20172018 session just ended with an ocean of new laws inflicted upon its citizens. It’s actually difficult to discover how many new laws were passed. There were about 2,100 bills passed and signed by the governor, but many of them were bills supporting things such as National Arbor Day or the Ritchie Valens Memorial Highway or Cinco de Mayo Week or Persian New Year.

If you look up the legislative agenda, there are about 50 pages of passed bills with 50 items on each page, of which about seven pages of bills were vetoed

by Governor Brown. I can’t tell you how many of them are “real” laws, but in the last session there were about 900 new laws. My guess is that there were more than 900 this session.

Our own new-law machine, state Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, proudly announced that 18 of those new laws were her accomplishment.

Fortunately, her “fake news” indoctrination bill was vetoed by Governor Brown.

Does anyone seriously believe that these laws will materially improve our lives? What about the 900 passed last year? Or the 800 the year before that? What they will do is make our lives more complicated and help drive businesses out of California.

The crown jewel of Jackson’s Progressive-feminist policy this year was Senate Bill 826, which mandates that publicly held corporations put women on their boards. It was passed and signed by the governor. California now proudly leads the nation in identity politics. The law requires a minimum of one woman board member by 2019, and by 2020, two for boards with five members and three with boards of six or more.

The law’s goal is gender parity, but it is couched in financial terms suggesting that companies with women on their boards do better than those that don’t. Several studies are cited to back this claim (UC Cal, Credit Suisse, and McKinsey).

Catalyst, a nonprofit that promotes women in the workplace, did a widely quoted study that claimed: • Return on Equity: On average, companies with the highest percentages of women board directors

outperformed those with the least by 53%.

• Return on Sales: On average, companies with the highest percentages of women board directors outperformed those with the least by 42%.

• Return on Invested Capital: On average, companies with the highest percentages of women board directors outperformed those with the least by 66%.

better when they have women on the board. Nor do they perform worse.

Depending on which meta-analysis you read, board-gender diversity either has a very weak relationship with board performance or no relationship at all.”

Klein cites two mega-studies: one reviewed results from 100 studies of firms in 35 countries and five continents, and the other synthesized 140 studies of more than 90,000 firms from more than 30 countries. She said: “The results of these two metaanalyses, summarizing numerous rigorous, original peer-reviewed studies, suggest that the relationship between board gender diversity and company performance is either nonexist (effectively zero) or very weakly positive.

and perspectives to the board. They increase the board’s ‘cognitive variety.’

The greater a board’s cognitive variety, the theory goes, the more options it is likely to consider and the more deeply it is likely to debate those options.”

Klein says, based on rigorous research, that, contrary to feminists’ assertions, “… women named to corporate boards may not in fact differ very much in their values, experiences, and knowledge from the men who already serve on these boards.”

Getting back to the smell test, Catalyst’s claim that corporate return on investment (ROI) are 66 percent higher for firms with the most women on corporate boards is a ludicrous assertion. If that were the case, then I assure you, every corporation would quickly jettison at least half of their male board members to keep up with

California now proudly leads the nation in identity politics This doesn’t meet the smell test, and the overwhelming conclusion of scientific research in the field says that women directors have little or no effect on corporate performance.

Much of the data supporting the feminist theory lacks empirical rigor and is coincidental (A happened and then B happened; thus A caused B.).

Professor Alice H. Eagly, a fellow at Northwestern’s Institute of Policy Research, and an expert in issues related to women in leadership roles, commented on this issue in the Journal of Social Issues: “Despite advocates’ insistence that women on boards enhance corporate performance and that diversity of task groups enhances their performance, research findings are mixed, and repeated meta‐analyses have yielded average correlational findings that are null or extremely small.

“Rather than ignoring or furthering distortions of scientific knowledge to fit advocacy goals, scientists should serve as honest brokers who communicate consensus scientific findings to advocates and policy makers in an effort to encourage exploration of evidence‐ based policy options.” [Emphasis added] In other words, much of the research is advocacy rather than science.

A recent Wharton study (“Does Gender Diversity on Boards Really Boost Company Performance?”) summarized by Wharton management professor Katherine Klein, vicedean of the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, concluded: “Rigorous, peer-reviewed studies suggest that companies do not perform

“Further, there is no evidence available to suggest that the addition, or presence, of women on the board actually causes a change in company performance.”

Regarding the value of gender diversity in the board room, she says: “Commentators often suggest that corporate boards that include women will make better decisions than boards that include only men. The argument is that women differ from men in their knowledge, experiences, and values and thus bring novel information

the competition – their shareholders would demand it.

The problem with these identity politics issues is that they are divisive, they value identity over competency, and they are heavy-handed attempts to legislate Progressive agendas. With this bill, one based on false assumptions, we can expect other “underrepresented” groups to demand more laws to mandate the makeup of corporate boards. This growing attack on corporate sovereignty will drive companies and jobs out of California.

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The Mystery of Forward Motion

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h the memories. Look at this grand old photo. Once upon a time! Me clutching a baseball glove! Under that sweet baseball cap there was hair all over my head, I can promise you that. I remember it well. Me and Maurice Chevalier. One other thing.

“Time is fleeting.” “Time is infinitely precious.” Yeah, I get it. The value of a commodity increases inversely with its supply where demand is constant, making our earthbound collection of infinitely precious moments a treasure chest—one whose value we don’t begin to apprehend until our knees are hidden by a coverlet and all is a piercing memory. Whew! I get that, okay?

But how can a day or a minute be “infinitely precious” according to these intuitive laws of scarcity, when the only mechanism we’re given to take All This in doesn’t bother to mark the singular seconds? The seconds fly by like

bothersome gnats around a campfire! IF you live to 90, you’ll be working through your allotted 2,846,016,000 seconds in a preoccupied haze through which you’ll see yourself tying shoes, filling out forms, eating saltines, flinging coffee at mouthy strangers, and otherwise partaking – fairly unconsciously – of Life’s Rich Pageant™.

We can actually be seen to swat at the seconds in annoyance when we notice them at all! “Why is this taking so long!”

RIVER? ARROW? LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF Shouldn’t something as irretrievable as a Living Second have something like a cosmic cowbell attached to it? Shouldn’t we have been given the mechanism to know the passing of the seconds, to truly feel their gravity? So that life saunters ...continued p.12

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Come join Captain Fatty’s in their new tasting room (photo by Blake Bronstad)

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t is no secret that State Street is suffering from a plethora of empty buildings. Fortunately, some of these spaces are being filled by beer.

There are many spots that have been in development for a while, with beerdoes and foodies waiting eagerly for them to open.

One of the biggest talks of the cuisine scene is what will be happening in 418 State Street, where India House used to be. This complex will be the location of the Modern Times Academy of Recreational Science and will feature two other establishments under the same roof. The Shaker Mill is a Cuban-inspired cocktail bar and the establishment by Brandon and Misty Ristaino, the minds behind The Good Lion and Test Pilot. Cubaneo comes from the Barbareño team and will be a quick-service-oriented Cuban-themed restaurant with their signature California-fusion style. Both establishments have ties to Cuban

cuisine and culture (plus a love of pork), and it made sense to them to create a building that brought that flare to Santa Barbara.

When standing in the space, Brandon got the image of a whole counter full of whirling blenders. Having worked in bars over the years, he has always felt that the blended drinks were lacking at those establishments. They will have a “big blender program” that will focus on light, bright drinks with the colorful flavors Cuban cuisine is known for. When designing the cocktails, Brandon and Misty approached it from Barbareño’s owner and chef Julian Martinez’s food first. Looking at his food recipes, they designed cocktails that use similar ingredients and complementary flavors.

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Modern Times has been opening a plethora of new tasting rooms and has become known for not just bringing their great regular lineup of brews but also some of their specialty and funky stuff as well to these establishments.

They will have 32 taps and also be serving up their unique style of comfort vegan food in the tasting room. The Shaker Mill will still be using some of Modern Time’s brews in cocktails but, similar to The Waterline in the Funk Zone (which house’s such popular spots as Lama Dog and Topa Topa, and actually the same developer as this project), food can be transported over the different property’s boundaries – though alcohol will not be.

They hope to open before the new year. They are still waiting on permits (the common theme of any business trying to open up in town), but once the permits are completed they expect to be open 45 to 60 days thereafter.

Captain Fatty’s has made incredible headway since first opening, and this is evident in their recent expansion and secondary tasting room opening up in 214 State Street, the previous site of such establishments as Rebar Coffee, American Ale 02, and Union Ale. They will be joining forces with Corazon Cocina, the popular taco bar in the Santa Barbara Public Market. The new shared space will blend Corazon’s

signature tacos with craft beer, wine, and cocktails. They are waiting on permits for the Santa Barbara facility (notice a trend here?) but will be open 12 to 15 weeks after that. In Goleta, Captain Fatty’s new tasting room is located in the same complex, directly across from their brewery. They have moved their tasting room space completely out of the brewery, allowing more flexibility for operating hours and room for production and storage in the brewery.

The new tasting room is set in their barrel-aging facility and offers a range of seating with more space for their visitors.

Santa Barbara Brewing Co. is the oldest continually running brewery in Santa Barbara. More commonly known as Brew Co., it has often been the subject of murmurs in the local beer scene with many having mixed feelings on the place. Many have hoped for something more exciting to fill its prime location at State and Haley, and it looks like we may have the answer. The brewery was sold to Aron Ashland, owner of the popular Santa Barbara Wine Therapy, and he will be launching a whole new brewpub out of the space called The Cruisery. The brewery will celebrate the bicycle lifestyle along the beach and will keep the unique two-story brewhouse the same but give the interior, menu, and environment a whole new feel.

After taking over as head brewer a few years back, Zambo has been pumping out some incredible beers at Brew Co. and will continue on as brewer there, along with his assistant, Brett. Zambo recently brewed his 75th batch on the brewhouse and they just finished the first batch for The Cruisery, an IPA, and will soon be brewing a Meyer lemon wit. Zambo mentioned that the witbier may even make itself into some of the menu items, like one of the seafood ...continued p.23

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loudly by in a clanging, migraineproducing cacophony of awareness?

[Maybe not.] The fact remains: although each individual second is as pinpricktranslucent and transitory as a gnat, in the aggregate these crowded seconds are grouped marauders quietly gathering their forces, each unchecked Secondedging its way past the distracted sentry tower to join its secret idiot army behind the lines.

Sure – time is a river, but without the pastoral setting, murmur of water, leaping rainbow-tinted fish; without the birdsong or polished pebbles, without the grazing moose and striding, indistinct Sasquatch. Time is a river without a larger osmotic body into which gravity or some other incomprehensible force obliges it to empty. So where is it going? Ask Arthur Eddington. He’ll tell you that time is also an arrow, and one that yet befuddles general physics.

Eddington is the smirking bespectacled guy (okay, and astronomer) who came up with the term “Time’s Arrow” to describe, in filigreed thermodynamic terms, the strangeness of time passing in only the one direction – forward.

Eddington is at pains to point out that the helpless, headlong, forward-racing direction of time makes no actual sense, however intuitive time’s forward motion

necessarily is to we emergent prisoners of its effects. To hear Eddington tell it (and remember, he can be seen to be lightly smirking in many published photos), physical phenomena at the quantum level are thought to be timesymmetric. This means that at that scale, the direction of time could go either way – forward or backward, without having any effect on the theoretical nuts and bolts that describe reality.

wall clock with a cardboard face (talking about the clock’s face here) ticking away on battery power, the seconds move by unremarked. The precious seconds! I have a dreamlike memory, I always consider it my earliest, of riding a Hobby Horse down a steep staircase and landing like wounded laundry at the bottom, a crash attended by much abstract and imperfectly reconstructed commotion. I also recall being held by

slammed by me on my own fool toddler thumb, so hurried was I to join a little school friend I’d suddenly spied on the playground. On her tricycle. I remember that. My mom shouting at me, a psycho puddle of vivid blood. The scar records it. I’m looking at it now.

Call it The Dumb Mystery of the Changing Vessel. Get as old and crazy as you want. Throw up on the caregiver, lavishly crap your diaper, horrify the

Shouldn’t something as irretrievable as a Living Second have something like a cosmic cowbell attached to it?

But up here at the stick-in-the-mud macroscopic scale, that simply isn’t the case. Time only goes forward (to put it as gently as possible). That the forward lunge of time is a curiosity may strike some as unusual. “We really have to wonder at the direction of time?” Yes. Eddington himself noted that his Arrow of Time “...has no analog in space.”

What’s it all about, Alfie?

THE DUMB MYSTERY OF THE CHANGING VESSEL If you’re not within earshot of a cheap

my father and throwing up demurely on the shoulder of his gray and white and red sweater. That doesn’t seem terribly long ago.

And now this? Am I the same person?

The Same Thing? I measure my Self against the scar on my knee, which I sliced open in 1968, 20 yards off the coast of Treasure Island, Florida. A gentle, tourist-friendly swell in the crystalline Gulf of Mexico nudged me playfully into a breakwater whose barnacles constituted a many-faceted razor, and my knee came open like an unzipped costume. The emergency room doctor – the one I desperately tried to convince my mom was unnecessary – gave me a warning before the deadening syringe was jabbed brutally into the open rip in my knee. I have always remembered his triptych of pain, as he described what I could expect.

“This is gonna hurt, an’ this is gonna burn, an’ this is gonna sting,” he said to me levelly, eye to eye, in the pleasant burr of the deep South’s professional class, and through frightening Buddy Holly glasses.

Hurt, burn, sting. I have never forgotten that. You’ll notice it handily covers, like the quickly and perfectly rendered da Vinci circle, an essential truth. I also have a ragged scar on my left thumb, which I only rediscovered five or so years ago, confirming, as do the startled pilgrims in Hitchcock movies, that what I had thought was an antediluvian shadow-scrap of dream was in fact a happenstance; a car door

busboy with a napkin-ruffling gust of methane you don’t even know you’ve loosed, walk slowly out of The Home in a cowboy hat, naked from the waist down, fists on hips and hollering a showtune. That scar on your left thumb still tells of the time you were a kid and wanted to run on your well-oiled kid knees to your little kid friend on her trike. The event seems in remembering to be at the other end of a darkling tunnel, but it’s right next to you in plain sunlight. That is You. You hurt your thumb approximately yesterday.

THE RIGHT FORK, THE BIG L, AND BEING GROOVY The moments are what we make of them; and Love is a shopworn term that nevertheless begs our brief attention in this context. Your 90-year eyeblink should, on balance, be threaded through with the Big L, which may be as fundamental as consciousness, neutrinos, and the Noble Gases; as basic to our existence as the Singularity. It’s just too bad it’s called “Love.”

Still, how easily people fall into disrepair for want of it, or are too hurried to grasp it. We get one of these trips across the living surface of the Earth, and for reasons unknown the seconds all go in one direction. So, keep an eye on those seconds. Watch them approach and inhabit them on arrival.

Take. Your. Time. As a short guy with a tall best friend once said: slow down, you move too fast; you got to make the morning last.

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2D Art is one of the three categories of the SB Student Arts Grant (photo by Gabe Ruiz)

The Performance Arts grant category focuses on unique dance, spoken word, and theatrical performances (photo by Brieana Breeze)

emphasizing these values in the arts grant, these organizations hope to instill a similar mindfulness in the next generation of artists.

The grant program is also intended to help incubate different art forms.

There are three categories of entries.

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Burning Man and Lucidity, these entries showcase that art is not always just to be observed, but can engage the full body, as well as the mind, immersing the viewer completely in the piece. The second category, Performance Art, covers theater, spoken word, dance, live music, or any other kind of unique performing art. Whether it is the movement of a dancer, or the poise of a theatrical performer, the human body is one of the most elemental art mediums used for artists to express themselves.

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For those students interested, they will have until Thursday, November 1, to submit a 500-word Statement of Intent.

Then each applicant will be paired with a mentor from the creative community who will help them prepare a full proposal (due on December 15). This helps give the student insight and tips on how to prepare an art proposal from a seasoned professional in his or her field of interest. After proposal reviews and judging, the winners will be announced on 1st Thursday, February 7, 2019, at SBCAST. There are cash awards for first and second place of each category, though the top three contenders in each category will all be given an opportunity to bring their art to the community.

One of the key components to this grant program is the mentorship opportunity. Every applicant will be paired with a mentor. This means that regardless of who wins the grants, each budding artist will be given invaluable experience from an established artist that will continue to serve them for years to come. Many of these organizations have helped incubate up-and-coming artists over the years. By hosting this arts grant, they are hoping to bring this tradition into the new generations and provide more opportunities in our community for young artists.

The Students Art Grant is being made possible by 15 local art organizations.

Funding partners include Fishbon, Lucidity Festivals, SBCAST, Isla Vista Food Co-op, Community Environmental Council, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara Solstice

Celebration, and New Grit, with mentor and exhibition opportunities being offered by many of these organizations, in addition to The Environment Makers, MOXI: The Wolf Museum of Exploration & Innovation, Santa Barbara Hoop Collective, Wild Arts Collaborative, County Office of Arts and Culture, Downtown Santa Barbara, and the Youth Interactive Colab.

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BOWIE’S PIANO MAN On Friday, November 2, at 8 pm at the Lobero Theatre, don’t miss Cancer: The Urgency of Now. This evening features Mike Garson, most commonly known as David Bowie’s piano man. Over decades, he has played with Bowie on dozens of albums and for thousands of concerts, and has collaborated with such artists as Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, and No Doubt. Joining Mike on stage will be Gaby Moreno, an Emmy nominee and winner of a Latin Grammy (Best New Artist, 2013) performer, Joe Sumner, the son of Sting and singer-songwriter and bassist for the rock band Fiction Plane, plus other artists.

The evening is a partnership with healthcare management organization Hammeras Group, with all ticket sales going to CJ Wilson’s Children’s Charities, a 501(c)(3) organization that provides healthcare navigation for pediatric families facing urgent cancer diagnoses. The evening will combine live performances with stories and education in an evening that is meant to inspire emotion and inform the audience.

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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

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“The Tuba Thieves,” an ongoing feature film project that will be presented on three channels and is based on a series of tuba thefts from the L.A. Unified School District. O’Daniel collaborated with hard-of-hearing students to create an aural story of lost information and communication. A selection of her sculptures is also on show. Artist’s talk Friday, November 2, Administration Building Room 211, 4 pm, followed by a reception at the Gallery, 5:30 pm SMOOTH CRIMINAL

In 1990, 13 artworks including a Vermeer and a Rembrandt were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Artist Kota Ezawa has digitally reinterpreted these and other stolen works in “The Crime of Art,” MCA’s latest exhibition, bringing a sort of Instagram-filter look to these oil paintings. Opening reception is Saturday, November 10, from 6 to 8 pm and runs thru February 3. MCA SB is located in Paseo Nuevo, above Eureka!

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Chris Peters is a perfect match for Sullivan Goss (11 East Anapamu), as this living artist brings an updated aesthetic to the kind of nocturnal landscapes that Lockwood de Forrest (another Sullivan Goss fave) made famous at the turn of the century. “The Eye Begins to See” is Chris Peters’ first solo show at the gallery, and features 19 moody, mysterious works, perfect for the insomniac in your life. Opening reception November 1, 5 to 8 pm. Thru December 1.

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t’s that time of year again when many birds of feather make their journeys to warmer climes. They know where they want to go and maybe there’s some bumps along the way, but eventually, they make it where they want to be safe and sound.

One of my favorite places to watch and photograph a good handful of avian species is right where I work at the Channel Islands National Park, specifically right outside my tent up Scorpion Canyon, on Santa Cruz Island.

I typically pitch my tent behind two boulders, and 20 paces to the north are two old fig trees that have been there since the ranching era occurred in the early 1830s to the late 1980s. Each summer the first figs begin to pop, hidden by the larger, fuller green leaves.

As fall approaches, the leaves drop and it’s a lot easier to see what’s fluttering from branch to branch as a bevy of birds frequent the fig trees.

For at least a couple of months, there’s a lot of bird activity in and around the fig trees. Besides the birds going after the figs, the endemic island foxes display amazing climbing capabilities as they maneuver between branches, contorting their bodies in ridiculous positions to get to the biggest, sweetest fruit. Island foxes are truly catlike, using their tails to counter balance on the spindly branches out to the end to chomp on the fullest figs. There have been some seasons where the figs are so good even us guides grab and go, maybe spreading a little goat cheese on them along the way.

However, it’s all about the birds.

There are some birds that are there

year-round like the ravens (very noisy) that are at the top of the pecking order in terms of fig fanatics. The island scrub jays enjoy them too, though.

Santa Cruz Island is the only place in the world you can see these beautiful, deep blue jays. They’re the cousins of mainland jays, and through so many thousands of years of isolation the island scrub jay has evolved into its own species, as of 1994. Birders come from all over just to see this one bird.

Some other usual suspects hording figs are spectacular spotted towhees, house finches and rufous-crowned sparrows.

I always love seeing these birds feed on the figs. These are year-round residents as well, so I see them every day I’m out there working, but when fall rolls around anticipation mounts as to what might show up in the fig trees.

Even before September rolled around this year, we had a rare island visitor grace the eucalyptus grove at the back end of the campground where myself and the other guides camp. Just next to the fig trees, a summer tanager stuck around for a few consecutive days before moving on. There’s roughly been no more than four other sightings of this species of bird on Santa Cruz Island since records have been kept.

During the fall of 2017, the fig trees came alive with migratory birds. Superaggressive black-headed grosbeaks shredded the figs. Also in decent numbers were yellow tanagers; they are all about the figs. They tolerate one another but also bombard one another, while trading off on the same recently

gutted figs still hanging in the trees.

However, there are other birds that are there not for the figs, but for the fruit flies that like the figs. There were good looks at yellow and yellowrumped warblers and several days with an American redstart. None of these little birds can sit still as they hop from branch to branch nabbing insects. As fall continues, those birds leave and hermit

thrushes and plump fox sparrows arrive for the last of the figs.

Once all the figs are devoured and the rest drop on the ground, it’s just us guides and the island foxes again in the campground. It gets cool and quiet as winter sets in. The fig trees are bare, and other things will spike everyone’s interests until those figs fill the trees again next year.

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War One and the beginning of Veterans Day, and projection artists Jonathan Smith and Kym Cochran – a.k.a.

The Environment Makers – will be projecting original footage from the War on the walls of El Presidio, along with stereographs and other period artwork. An immersive experience will be had from sunset to 11 pm on both November 10 and 11, At El Presidio State Historic Park, 123 East Canon Perdido Street.

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There are several Dia de Los Muertos events happening across the city; most are designed for the whole family. And if this isn’t your tradition, please bone up on the facts (no pun intended!) by reading something other than this column! Onward: the Museum of Art (1130 State Street) will feature music, dance performances, art-making activities, and altars created by school and community groups, Sunday, October 28, 1 to 4 pm; Casa de la Guerra (15 East de la Guerra Street) offers a free craft-making day on the same day, October 28, from noon to 3 pm, with chances to decorate sugar skulls, get your face painted, and create skeleton masks, tin artwork, block prints, and more.

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Others are waiting to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos (and All Saints Day) on November 1 (First Thursday), such as Zach Rosen, who has been let loose at SBCAST (513 Garden Street) to create something called Biergnette: Light, Life & Death. With the whole space of gallery and outside space to play with, Rosen has created a journey of written word, interpretive dance, interactive sculptures, and... beer pairings? This sensory overload that deals with death, sacrifice, and life, is $15 and includes li’l smackerels of food curated by Rosen and Nimita’s Cuisine. 6 to 10 pm on Thursday, November 1. Email zenki40@gmail. com for more info.

NATURE’S OWN

Think of nature paintings and you probably *don’t* think about abstract art. But the Santa Barbara Abstract Art Collective has teamed up with Solvang’s Wildling Museum (1511-B Mission Drive, Solvang) for “Nature Abstracted,” which features 29 works by 18 artists, including Lee Anne Dollison, Michele Zuzalek, Lawrence Wallin, Joyce Wilson, Sara Yerkes, Karen Zazon, and so many more. Up thru February 4, 2019.

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them and has curated the latest show at the Arts Fund, “Cut and Paste – Collage in Santa Barbara.” Artists featured are Tony Askew, William Dole, Mary Heebner, Angela Holland, Sue van Horsen, William Davies King, Kate Dooran Klavan, Susan Owens, and Susan Tibbles, all who bring their own senses of humor and style to the form.

Opening reception Friday, November 16, 5 to 8 pm. Thru January 11.

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Our favorite political agitator/ digital camera manipulator Sol Hill is one of the guest artists this month at 10 West Gallery (10 West Anapamu), bringing a selection of his impressionistic work, along with Nicki Sucec’s metal sculptures made from helicopter blades, and Joan Rosenberg-Dent’s delicate ceramic work. Reception November 1, 5 to 8 pm. Thru November 28.

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Collage artists share the same space of strange juxtapositions as assemblage artists and, not surprisingly, many of them make both. Dug Uyesaka is one of

“Captured 6” is the Santa Barbara Tennis Club’s 6th Annual photography exhibition, a juried show of artists asked to submit their best shot. Photographer and arts education Joyce Wilson juries the show with three winning categories.

The reception and awards happen Friday, November 9, 5:30 to 7:30 pm, with the show up through December 7 at 2375 Foothill Road.

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OPEN FOR BUSINESS But there’s no need to wait for these buildings to open; there have been plenty of happenings recently. Night Lizard Brewing Company (607 State Street) is the newest addition to the local beer scene. Each beer is themed after a different endangered species, and 10 percent of all proceeds are donated to aid in conservation efforts.

One of their most impressive beers is their Lupine Porter, an English porter with nurturing caramel and mocha flavors. In porters, it is difficult to keep the roastiness present but restrained and this beer definitely gets it right.

The brewery has warm wood, brick walls, and soft lighting in the interior, offering a comfortable environment to hang out with friends. With video game tournaments on Tuesdays and board games lining the back bench, the brewery has a neighborhood feel and brings a solid beer lineup with it.

Telegraph just released their second 12-oz can offering, Santa Barbara

Mosaic IPA, that brings together the classic citrus-driven Citra hops with the more earthy tropical-themed Mosaic hops, a longtime favorite of Telegraph.

Keep an eye out for the six-packs on store shelves. And speaking of mosaics, Draughtsmen Aleworks just opened a secondary tasting room in downtown Santa Barbara.

Mosaic Locale, at 1131 State Street, is located in the facility, which used to house Peet’s Coffee. Mosaic Locale is a compilation of Draughtsmen Aleworks, Hook & Press Donuts, and Buena Onda. Hook & Press has been turning heads with its artisan donuts, and Buena Onda has long been known in the beer scene as delivering some tasty empanadas to the local breweries. This now gives Buena Onda a permanent location that will give them better traction in town and a standing place to find their tasty empanadas. The building has an outside patio and the interior space has the same bright atmosphere and clean, bold color palette of the Draughtmen’s Goleta brewery and tasting room. Together, the building brings together a mosaic of local artisans.

Hook & Press takes over the space in the earlier part of the day (come early, they do sell out) and then Buena Onda uses it later in the day. Draughtsmen’s

beers overall have a refreshing style with well-designed malt bills and balanced but intricate hop flavors that lend themselves to food, especially the fresh-baked crusts and diverse set of fillings that Buena Onda’s empanadas offer. Try The Sleeper Belgian Blond Ale, for a more cleansing quality, delivering a gentle flavor of hay, touch of bitterness, and a bright nose of limoncello and pit fruits with an herbal minty hint. The Nebulous Hazy IPA has a lot more of a tropical flare thanks to flavors of papaya and mandarin and a smooth body that will complement the rich flavors of the empanadas.

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HAVE YOU HERD? Lek loves elephants more than anyone I have ever seen (photo credit: Eric Roland)

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ove & Bananas: An Elephant Story debuted on the big screen in Santa Barbara. This documentary film is about herds of elephants in Thailand and a woman named Sangdeaun “Lek” Chailert, who has devoted her life to rescuing these amazing animals. Lek joined filmmaker and actress Ashley Bell on a panel discussion after the film with our own local elephant advocate Kristina McKean.

Love and Bananas was made to help spread awareness about the mistreatment of elephants in Thailand and all over Asia. In this documentary, Bell, an American actress, travels to Thailand to meet Lek and she takes part in the risky rescue of a blind, 70-year old elephant, Noi Nah. The film opens with Bell meeting and playing with the elephants at Lek’s sanctuary. When Bell realizes how major this situation is, she decides to come back and help rescue (and film) the journey to save Noi Nah. The moviemakers take a trek to Chiang Mai to get Noi Nah from an elephant camp that mistreats their animals. We learn all about the terrible ways elephants are kept and trained, and we see first-hand just how sensitive and smart elephants are; in many ways, they are much like people.

The camp in Chiang Mai keeps their elephants chained up at all times.

Elephant keepers use bull hooks, cages, and other cruel ways to try to control and domesticate these massive animals.

Because Noi Nah is sick, Lek convinces the owner of the camp to allow her to take Noi Nah for rescue. In the end, Lek even convinces the owner to convert his entire camp into a sanctuary where the

Here I am during my visit to Thailand

The Elephant Project founder Kristina McKean with actress and Love & Bananas director Ashley Bell (photo credit: Eric Roland)

elephants can roam free.

Many of the elephants we see in the movie have never in their entire lifetime been off a chain. They have so many scars from the bull hooks and punishment (my mom was crying through these parts of the film). Bell and Lek drive 70 miles through Thailand with Noi Nah in the back of a truck to free her. The film helps us to better understand the pain and suffering these animals endure when they are kept for entertainment purposes. Noi Nah now happily lives on Lek’s sanctuary.

I have been to Thailand and I visited an elephant sanctuary called the Elephant Nature Park. There, elephants are treated with care, and they roam and play throughout the day. My family and I spent a whole day with the elephants in the Nature Park. We brushed them, fed them, and even swam in the river with them. I got to see and feel just how much elephants love being treated with

This is my dad and sister brushing their elephant. The animals loved this!

kindness.

Spending time with elephants was a lot like when I spend time with my dog, George. When we were brushing them, we were taught Thai words to talk to them and they loved it. We had a mother and a baby that we cared for during our day at the sanctuary. The baby loved to try to sit on our laps.

My dad got smashed by a baby who was rolling around on his lap. It was so funny. I got to really understand just how intelligent elephants are.

Now, having watched the documentary Love & Bananas, I know how free and happy the elephant herds are in the sanctuary because they are treated with kindness and respect. Love & Bananas shows us the reality for many of the elephants that are held in captivity. We need to expose the cruel behavior and strive to protect and love all elephants. As Lek Chailert said,

”You don’t need a bull hook to control an elephant. All you need to guide an elephant is love… and bananas.”

Love, E E’S P.S. Do you want to help the elephants?

I hope you do! Please be sure to watch Love & Bananas on iTunes or Google Play. Go to the website for access: www. loveandbananas.com. At the end of the film, you can find out how to donate to Lek and her foundation. Also, be sure to check out www.theelephantproject. com. Kristina McKean has the cutest handmade stuffed elephants for adoption, and all of the proceeds go to supporting foundations that help to keep the elephants wild and free. Use the code savetheelephants when you order Kiki or Tembo from the Elephant Project and receive 10 percent off.

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“It drove me to take a gamble, to step off the edge, to decide that I’m going to try to make a living doing my own stuff,” she says. So, Conti began making little clutch purses by hand-stitching recycled belts into little egg-shaped bags, and she became comfortable with the idea of being creative. She began selling these at the Yes store four years ago, and they

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In addition to purses and backpacks, Conti makes cuff bracelets, belts, and dog collars. She explains, “My designs definitely have a Bauhaus feel to them.

I am self-taught, and they are rustic and raw. I like the smell of leather and the different textures.” Conti buys full or half hides, and cuts her own patterns. “I never get two pieces exactly alike. I don’t like things too uniform.” Doing the riveting and buckling herself, she has begun silversmithing and stone setting her own decorations.

Conti has become a jack of all trades. She balances bookkeeping and marketing at fairs, at local stores Love Bird Boutique in Santa Barbara and Plenty in Santa Ynez, and social media, with time spent creating her designs in her workshop. “People get this glazed look in their eyes about how romantic it is to create goods by hand for a living.

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rom San Evaristo, a small fishing village with a population of 61, Jason and I sailed farther into the Sea of Cortez. This part of the Baja Peninsula felt otherworldly, as if we were traveling along the walls of the Grand Canyon. The Sierra de la Giganta mountain range exposed a colorful landscape of deep red, orange, and yellow striped rocks showing its age.

About eight hours later, we anchored in a protected bay near a slightly larger fishing village called Agua Verde. We dinghy’d to shore in our rowboat and wandered through the dusty town. I snapped pictures of a little orange church, baby goats climbing on trees, and roosters and turkeys roaming the streets.

After accidentally entering someone’s house thinking it was a small store, a local resident pointed to a restaurant on the beach. A small hut made of particle board with a palm-leafed roof stood on the shore. A big, rectangular hole was cut from one of the walls for a walk-up window, and a few Mexican women stood inside with smiling faces, welcoming us in. They gave Jason and I handwritten paper menus and gestured for us to take a seat at one of the many plastic chairs surrounding two white tables out front.

With sand under our feet, we took in the scene. The salty air mixed with the smell of fried bread made our stomachs rumble. A few minutes later, a fisherman walked to the counter delivering a still-wriggling fish in hand for the women to cook. We looked at each other and smiled, knowing what our order would be.

Bowls of diced tomatoes, avocado sauce, and chopped cabbage were sent over, and soon after were plates of fresh, lightly battered fish on handmade flour tortillas.

My stomach full and happy, I wiped my mouth with a napkin and began to rustle up the courage to ask the women a question. Learning to make handmade tortillas has been my dream since we entered Mexico, and I figured this was my chance to make it happen. I quickly looked up a few words on my Spanish App (no Wi-Fi required) and tried to forget that my heart was beating out of my chest.

Usually when I speak Spanish to local residents, I open my mouth in excitement then silently stare because my brain shuts down. After a few awkward seconds, I’ll throw out random words and the listener’s once smiling face will contort into confusion; their eyes will narrow and their mouth curls downward like something foul just entered their nostrils.

But I keep talking, adding hand gestures to flesh out my story. Nine times out of 10, their face unravels and they’ll nod excitedly, informing me to stop butchering their language. A connection has been made. So, with a you-got-this nod from Jason, I stood up from my chair and walked over to the counter. Poor grammar and all, this is how the conversation went: Me: I speak one little Spanish but I have one question.

They smile and nod. A teenage boy rushes over to the counter and leans in as if to say, I gotta hear this sh*t.

Me: I want to learn to make tortillas of the hands.

The women continue to smile encouragingly.

Me: Do you to know how to cook tortillas of the hands?

Them: Yes, yes, yes Me: Teach me, can you? Many please?

Them: Yes, of course! Tomorrow?

Me: Yes, tomorrow! (It felt like glitter exploded inside of me, I’m so relieved to have made sense.)

Them: What time do you like?

Me: I like time… it is two o’clock?

Them: Yes, two in the afternoon is good.

(Hands over my heart and eyes dramatically stretched to the sky, as if they just saved my cat from a burning building.)

Me: Many many thanks! Until tomorrow! It is two o’clock in the afternoon!

Feeling accomplished, I bounced back to the table with a huge smile plastered on my face. Jason and I gathered our belongings, waved to the ladies, then made our way back to the dinghy.

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THANKSGIVING DINNER IN THE VALLEY itch the cooking and enjoy these dishes. From intimate quintessential wine country dining to over-the-top decadent buffets for the entire family, here is a list of dining experiences throughout the Valley offering a place to join with friends and family to give thanks to the blessing of the harvest. Reservations required.

SYV Marriott in Buellton – A traditional Thanksgiving Day cornucopia buffet. 11 am to 4 pm. Adults $60, children ages 4 to 12 are $25, and children 3 years old and younger are complimentary. (805) 688-1000 Mad & Vin at the Landsby in Solvang – A preset four-course dinner including an entrée selection of all-natural turkey, beef short ribs, or herb-crusted king salmon with all the fixings. $60 per person, $25 children ages 3 to 12. (805) 688-3121 The Gathering Table Restaurant in Ballard – Four-course prix-fixe menu with a traditional turkey dinner as one of the main course offerings; restaurant open from 3 to 8 pm. $85 person and $125 with wine pairings. (805) 688-7770 First & Oak at the Mirabelle Inn in Solvang – Chef JJ Guerrero will offer a three-course dinner served family-style featuring First & Oak’s take on traditional Thanksgiving fare. 5 to 8 pm. $65 per person with a $35 winepairing option. (805) 688-1703 Brothers Restaurant at the Red Barn in Santa Ynez – Soup or salad starter follower by a classic Thanksgiving buffet with turkey, prime rib, two types of stuffing, sweet potato gratin, and all the sides followed by apple or pumpkin pie. 1 to 6 pm. $75 per person $35 ages 12 and under. (805) 688-4142 The Bear and Star in Los Olivos – Chef John Cox will serve up a classic buffet-style dinner with his “refine ranch cuisine” twist. Noon to 5 pm. $59 per person $20 for children 12 and under. $69 for adults, $35 for children, and a $55 wine-pairing addition is available. (805) 686-1359 Root 246 in Solvang – Chef Pink serves a classic farm-to-table Thanksgiving menu with gluten-free, vegan, and vegetarian options. Items include: Candied Walnut and apple salad with Point Reyes blue cheese and apple cider vinaigrette, Smoked Organic Turkey Breast – with sausage and pear cornbread stuffing, roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon, brown butter mashed potatoes and pan gravy, and pumpkin pie with an almond crust. 3 to 9 pm. (805) 686-8681 Aly’s by Alebru in Solvang – Owner team Aly and chef Richard Bruce present two Thanksgiving Day dinner seatings at 3:30 and 6:30 pm for a threecourse prix-fixe menu with main course offerings including: smoke-roasted turkey with savory bread pudding, seared swordfish, and local vegetable risotto and dessert choices of pumpkin or pecan pie. $80 per person. (805) 697-7082 High on the Hog Catering – Pick up dinner from chef Brett Stephen at his kitchen in Buellton. Featuring all the sides and fixings including whole turkey,

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