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S aturday S epte mb e r 21 st Music Academ y o f the W e st 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Live Music • Live and Silent Auctions Hors d’oeuvres • Wine & Beer You are invited to the Gaviota Coast Conservancy special event on Saturday afternoon, September 21st at Santa Barbara’s gorgeous Music Academy of the West Gaviota Coast Conservancy (GCC) is a Santa Barbara based conservation organization that has been actively protecting 76 miles of coast stretching from Coal Oil Point Reserve to Point Conception for more than 20 years. The Gaviota Coast is a globally significant bioregion with features qualifying it as a National Seashore.

In 2017 the biggest privately-owned ranch on the Gaviota Coast was preserved in perpetuity by philanthropists Jack and Laura Dangermond. The Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, now under the direction of Michael Bell and The Nature Conservancy, protects 24,500 acres of the Cojo-Jalama Ranches (aka Bixby Ranch), with spectacular, undeveloped and largely undisturbed lands. We are thrilled to be honoring these two outstanding conservation heroes at our upcoming September event with the Coastal Legacy 2019 Award.

Michael Bell, Director, The Dangermond Preserve, will be accepting the award on their behalf.

GCC has been holding the line on Gaviota Coast development since our inception in 1996, working with farm and ranch owners to keep land in productive agriculture, and keeping the coast open for the public to explore and enjoy for generations to come.

Join us at this fabulous event to protect the last rural stretch of undeveloped SoCal coastline.

Live and Silent Auction items so far: Chris Potter original painting, “El Capitan Panorama,”; Jack Johnson personally signed Ukulele and songbook; three nights in San Francisco Pied-a-terre; a plethora of Patagonia gear; GCC Guided Hike for eight; Dogtown-The Legend of the Z-Boys by CR Stecyk III, Glen Friedman, signed by alumni Zephyr Skate Team, donated by Team Member Peggy Oki; and more. Follow us on Facebook to discover more auction items and other announcements as they come in. http://www.GaviotaCoastConservancy.org/2019legacy Like us on

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State Street Scribe – Jeff Wing recalls a poignant memory with his dad and wonders why he can’t just go back Beer Guy – The beer world loses Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company co-founder Jim Dietenhofer after a battle with cancer; new tasting rooms in town

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The Fortnight – Music Academy of the West Summer Festival wraps up in the coming month; UCSB Department of Music’s fourth annual Summer Music Festival; upcoming shows at SB Bowl; The Addams Family in Solvang

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The Capitalist – Jeff Harding lists many ways conventional wisdom has been wrong over the decades, and offers a strong reminder to always be skeptical

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Creative Characters – Nathaniel Gray’s The Santa Barbara Project comprises over 200 autobiographical entries from individuals living in the area from all walks of life

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E’s Note – Elli gets a head start on high school volunteer hours by spending a week as a Counselor in Training at Safety Town What’s Hanging – Art gallery openings aren’t slowing down for summer, and Ted Mills rounds up some promising ones to check out

On Art – Underwater photographer Priya Talwar talks about the challenges and surprising things about shooting underwater Man About Town – Two outdoor concert series, Fiesta, and the Ventura County Fair

I Heart SB – Elizabeth Rose and Jason take a big step and decide to get engaged. Now, what about the ring?

SYV Snapshot – Events happening in Santa Ynez Valley including Annual Buellton Barbecue Bonanza, Movies in the Park, Solvang Summer Concert Series, Bear and Star cooking classes, and more

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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.

Zero to Sixty (Elizabeth and Bob)

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ur friends were out of town and had graciously loaned us their home while ours was being bombed for termites – a species we’ve completely conquered in the Darwinian Race To the Top®, except for the poison-filled circus tents we’re occasionally obliged to flee with our belongings. On the third day the tent was removed and that night we returned home with our stuff, victorious. We win this round, you dumb bugs! hawhaw-haw! We were couch-sprawled and glad to be home. The vanquished termites lay here and there about the place in chitinous repose – little Xs for eyes and tiny legs aimed skyward, like in a Warner Bros. cartoon. I pondered the penetrating mystery of living things and got the broom.

It was then I realized with horror we’d left our fish, a mirror-hating Betta, on our friend’s porch up there in the darkling foothills. I pictured the poor creature adrift in his bowl, terrified and

helpless in a strange neighborhood, pressed in-upon by the dome of denselypacked stars, besieged by an advancing circle of jackals, lemurs, fish-desiring impala, and other such ravenous creatures of the Santa Barbara bestiary.

I drove like Vin Diesel or someone up into the hilly suburbs and nabbed the little guy, placing the partially drained

being hurled along a sidewalk.

“Hhhaaaauugghhh!!” I cried.

Soon enough I was gingerly pawing through fishbowl gravel on the soaked floorboard of my car with one hand, holding aloft my glaring cell phone light with the other. My daughter had heard me screech to a stop and ran out to see what was happening. “Where the hell is the fish?!” I screamed at her over my shoulder. She took a half-step back. “Dad… it’s okay.” I imagined our Betta suffocating and confused and frightened. I madly searched for him as a tipsy, broken divorcée might search for a desiccated boutineer.

I found him in a remote corner of

was graying and remote and belonged to a couple unknowable species – “the sixty-year-old” and “dad” – I didn’t really try to understand him. He’d had the sort of difficult childhood which in my moron youth I blandly assumed was common to all these inscrutable oldsters. The gulf of quietude between my dad and me grew wider, and so what? He was a quiet guy, quietly funny, and much liked by everyone, but nobody could get close to him.

BOB IN THE EVENING

My dad – named Bob – would sit on the back patio in the evenings, next to our underlit, kidney-shaped, standard

Strangely, I don’t feel “sixty” and neither did my dad and neither will you, kids.

Not to worry. It feels the same to be older, people just look at you differently.

This is a revelation that befalls everyone and ultimately twists the undies. bowl on the dark passenger-side floor.

Coming home, I made a centrifugally ill-advised u-turn in front of my condo and in my darkened car the fishbowl slid and overturned, the contents loudly fanning out under the passenger seat with a sound like a course slushy

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the underseat – out of his element and surreal as a Duchamp in the blare of my cell phone light. Outside the watery, magnifying environment of his bowl he looked like a matte-finished purple apostrophe. Standing on his tail like Flipper, he was covered with carfilth and leaning against a greasy black spring of some kind. He was alive and his fish-frown had deepened. I felt a flood of relief I can’t explain and broke into a moronic teary smile. His little silver eye moved minutely in its socket and fixed me with a stare as if to say “Oh, hello jackass.”

Yes, I recently turned sixty.

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A man in baggy boxers turned the lights on for me one night. Not literally, thank Odin. The year was 1977. We lived in Phoenix and I was a senior at Arcadia High School. My bell-bottoms had more zippers than a NASA-issue moon suit and I wore puka shells around my neck and haywire hair down to my shoulders, like The Partridge Family’s swinging David Cassidy. My unfortunate summer uniform was a gauzy pair of teeny-tiny seventies shorts and a rotating series of rugby shirts. In ’77 Mike Douglas still had a show, and was often confused with Merv Griffin.

Johnny Carson, a regular guy from Nebraska with an easy laugh, fumbled his way with interesting difficulty through that enormous Tonight Show curtain every evening, and ended his monologue by gracefully swinging an imaginary 7-iron.

My dad was 61 that year and I understood him like a pigeon understands long division. Because he

Phoenix-issue swimming pool. He would stare out into the desert night, shimmering stars overhanging our dusty hedge of oleander, backyard made waveringly aquamarine by the light of the little pool. He was in his own world out there, and everywhere else. He would occasionally try to reach out in the manner of a mildly hopeful misfit dad who doesn’t exactly know how to connect, and is embarrassed by even the idea of an attempt. I roundly ignored his weak entreaties from the smoke-smelling TV room. I’d accepted the invitation once or twice and my dad had demonstrated on those occasions that he didn’t know what else to say, or how to fashion from the moment the most elementary salving ritual. So I was done with that. “Jeffry? You out there?”

“Yeah.” “Come in here and watch this with me.” “Oh… naw.” “Come on in, Jeffry. Let’s watch this game.” “Naw, I gotta go, dad.” “Wanna sit with me and watch this?” “No thanks, I gotta go.”

“You sure? Come sit with me.” “Dad, I gotta go.” A pause. “Okay, Jeffry.”

Always “Jeffry” with him, an ironic distancing formalism disguised thinly as amusement.

ELIZABETH AND BOB

One night my girlfriend Elizabeth (not her real name by a longshot) and I had come creeping into my parents’ house late and were being teens. The lights were off all over the house and we’d drawn certain doors closed and were being masterful sneaks. We were lying on a minimally stuffed bean bag chair in the family room. Moonlight flooded the back yard and poured ...continued p.13

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Local Craft Beer Legend, Jim Dietenhofer, Passes Away at 72 Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co co-founder, Jim Dietenhofer (farthest right), passed away at 72 this past week (photo by @HopLight Social)

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he Santa Barbara beer community is mourning the loss of Figueroa Mountain’s co-founder, Jim Dietenhofer, who passed away last week at 72 after a battle with cancer.

Jim’s spirit lives on in the legacy of the brewery and countless people he influenced. The community felt the Dietenhofer’s loss with flags flown at half-staff in Buellton and Los Olivos in Jim’s honor. From chatting with brewers and staff over the years I know he carries an incredible respect and love from the Fig Family. He always welcomed me at events with a firm handshake, warm smile, and twinkle in the eye.

Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company was instrumental in changing the Santa Barbara beer scene. The brewery was founded in 2010 by Jim and his son Jaime and at the time the local beer scene was a little more mellow than it is today. Figueroa Mountain quickly raised the bar in the area with a sharp eye for branding and world class beers that soon began to win awards, turning

heads not just in our area but around the entire beer industry. Today they have a beer empire spanning the central coast, with 255 employees and six tasting room locations, including their main Buellton facility that produces their packaged beers. Over the years their beers have won dozens of awards on both the national and international level. While many of their brews fall under the American style, the brewers have never shied away from taking on more esoteric styles, including a love for lagers.

Just a few weeks ago the brewery hosted Lagerville at their Buellton location. Now in its second year, this event celebrates all things lager, bringing together forty breweries to showcase the range and diversity of the lager family of beer styles. For the event they released Lagerville, a “super collaboration” between Figueroa Mountain and Beachwood Brewing, Eppig Brewing, Alvarado Street Brewery, and Topa Topa Brewing. This “Italian-Style Pilsner” was brewed with barley grown in Italy and

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a decent dash of noble-esque European hops to produce a beer that has a dried flower and grassy aroma with just a bite of white cracker-like maltiness. I admittedly was not able to make it this year (currently in full throttle Burning Man prep mode) but fortunately many of their lagers are still available at the tasting rooms.

Of course, there is their flagship Paradise Road Pilsner and Danish Red Lager. In addition is the low calorie Fig Mtn Light Lager as well as Mexican lager-themed, Agua Santa, that uses heritage maize and is accompanied by a delicate floral nose. The Lupine Lager is a pilsner with ripe pear and light tropical punch aroma from the use of El Dorado hops. Not to be missed is the award winning (and maturely named) dark lager, I Dunkeled in my Pants.

It is a personal favorite and a shining example of the intricate layers of malt flavor that make up the dunkel style.

Head over to the tasting room to try one of these lagers and while you’re there, raise a glass in Jim’s honor.

The family has expressed they do not need any flowers, but if you feel inspired to honor Jim’s memory you can donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in his name.

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Figueroa Mountain was really at the forefront of the tasting room model.

Retail shelves and bars have limited space and can only carry so many beers.

This has led to an increasingly more competitive marketplace for beer being sold off the brewery premises. As more and more craft breweries are opening,

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breweries are having to rely more on their tap room sales and less on retail and bar sales. One way around this is to open up another tasting room that only serves that brewery’s beer.

The U.S. has laws against “tied-houses” so these establishments are owned by the brewery. A tied-house is a bar or drinking establishment that is loyal (usually under contract) to only one brewery and will only sell their beer. When traveling through England you’ll notice that certain bars will only feature one brewery’s beer (and marketing materials). This makes the establishment “tied” to that brewery.

In the U.S. we have laws against this (many originating from the repeal of prohibition and establishment of the three-tier system of alcohol distribution).

Today, the quantity of additional tasting rooms a brewery is allowed to have is regulated by the ABC. It is currently up to six additional spots with only two allowed to have associated restaurants (this is a general rule and there are some intricacies to this that are best left for another time).

Many of our local breweries are taking this route and bringing some much needed energy into State Street.

Draughtsmen Aleworks opened up their second tasting room on State and Anapamu just about a year ago.

Institution Ale established their State Street spot in the old Pierre Lafond restaurant location. Most of these spots are shared-use spaces that allow the different companies to share rent and pool resources. The out-of-towner, but very welcome, Modern Times, is now serving up beers alongside Barbareno’s new sandwich shop, Cubaneo, and the Cuban-themed bar, Shaker Mill, comes from the creative minds behind Good Lion and Test Pilot. And now, after much anticipation, Captain Fatty’s is finally open in the old Union Ale (and several other enterprises) location, accompanied by the popular taco shop, Corazon Cocina. With many of these new tasting rooms sharing space with restaurants from some of the area’s hottest spots, these new establishments seem poised for success and ready to help bring new life to State Street.

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he Music Academy of the West 2019 Summer Festival comes to a close in mid-August, but not before a number of major events in the ultra-prestigious classical music institute hit area stages, including a couple of downtown venues.

MAW’s Mosher Guest Artist series wraps up with famed double bassist Edgar Meyer teaching the instrumental master class on Wednesday, July 31 before the bluegrass/classical genre-blurrer performs solo bass pieces – including a Bach Cello Suite and several of his own compositions – in a recital the following night, both in Hahn Hall. (The five-time Grammy Award and 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Award decorated Meyer returns to town in November for a UCSB Arts & Lecture concert with Zakir Hussain and Béla Fleck at the Granada, meaning we’ll see multiple sides of his artistry locally within four months.)

That weekend brings the most highly anticipated event of the festival, the West Coast premiere of Cold Mountain, the International Opera Awardwinning work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon in a new production of her adaptation of Charles Frazier’s best-selling Civil War era epic historical novel – which had previously been turned into an Academy Awardwinning film – created exclusively for the Music Academy of the West. With the highly innovative James Darrah stage directing and Daniela Candillari conducting a fellows-filled cast and orchestra, the opera – which plays the Granada on Friday, August 2, and Saturday, August 4 – represents a bold step for the upgraded program at MAW. The action-packed final week at MAW starts the next day, highlighted by a new event, a Duo Competition that has, at least temporarily, taken the place of MAW’s Concerto Competition, although it employs the same format.

The winning instrumentalists and collaborative pianists perform Monday night, August 5, at Hahn Hall. August 6 brings the final Lobero Festival Artists Series concert, this one featuring solely faculty performing a chamber program highlighted by Schumann Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 44, plus a number of other fun pieces, while August 7 features the final Faculty Artists Recital, boasting two works by

composer-in-residence Higdon plus four other intimate works, back at Hahn Hall. The final Picnic Concert on Thursday, August 4, finds the fellows getting another shot at a Higdon work, “Color Through,” sandwiched by Elgar and Dvorak quintets.

Then singers get their last shot to shine on stage with the annual Marilyn Horne Song Competition – this time with Higdon not only on hand but serving on the jury – at Hahn on August 9. Honorary Voice Program Director Horne leads the jury to choose a Vocal and Vocal Piano fellow to receive the honor of The Regina Roney Prize – a cash award – plus an international recital tour that will center around a Higdon song cycle commissioned for the winners to premiere next year. The season comes to a close on Saturday night, August 10, at the Granada as Marin Alsop conducts the Academy Festival Orchestra one final time with, yes, Higdon’s most famous piece, “blue cathedral,” opening a program that also features works by Hindemith and Dvorak. Visit www.musicacademy.org or call (805) 969-8787 for tickets, info and programs.

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AW’s final event coincides with the launch of UCSB Department of Music’s fourth annual Summer Music Festival, power-packed weekend on Saturday and Sunday, August 10-11, on the UCSB campus. The festival will feature performances by the Los

Angeles-based Isaura String Quartet, violist and UCSB Music alumnus Jonathan Morgan, the local a cappella choir Adelfos Ensemble, Sahlala Band, UCSB University Carillonist Wesley Arai, dancers from the Santa Barbara community, and a wealth of UCSB Music graduate students and alumni.

Additional festival highlights include an Interactive Multimedia Exhibition presented by graduate students from the Media Arts and Technology program and the Department of Music, a Children’s Concert featuring the folk music ensemble Kalinka, a concert highlighting plucked string instruments from around the world, a concert and discussion focusing on the challenges facing women artists, and world premiere performances of works by UCSB composers. All events will be presented free of charge at several venues across the UCSB campus including the MultiCultural Center Theater, Storke Tower, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts’ Digital Arts and Humanities Commons, the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, and the Music Department’s Karl Geiringer Hall, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, and Music Bowl.

The student-curated and managed festival has grown considerably since its founding in 2016 by UCSB graduate composer Federico Llach, with this year’s event coordinated by CoArtistic Directors and UCSB graduate composition students Mason Hock and Rodney DuPlessis. The dozen events evince an impressive diversity of cultures,

styles, media and formats, letting visitors experience music of various genres and time periods in one action-packed weekend. Saturday’s programming ranges from “The World on a String,” spotlighting music that incorporates plucked string instruments from around the world, to an original piece by UCSB Composition graduate student Heena Yoon that features dancers from the Santa Barbara community, and a concert of electroacoustic works

by UCSB composers, performed by a Pierrot ensemble led by UCSB Music alumnus Brandon Rolle. Sunday’s highlights include a carillon concert, urban Arab art music performed by the Sahlala Band, and the closing concert from the Isaura String Quartet – the new music ensemble that has performed and recorded with pop artists the AllAmerican Rejects and Demi Lovato, among others – that features three original pieces by UCSB graduate composition students plus favorites from the quartet’s repertoire.

No tickets are required, and seating is first-come, first-served. For more information, visit music.ucsb.edu/ summerfestival.

Boffo at the Bowl

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he season at the Santa Barbara Bowl hits its mid-summer stride with no fewer than nine concerts sending sounds up the amphitheater’s openair seating (and down into parts of the city, for that matter) over a three-week span. From this vantage point, the two obvious choices are bills filled with classic rock veterans, although there are many worthy other acts heading up the mini-hill at the top of Milpas Street.

Lionel Richie is one of the most successful soft rockers/balladeers of all time with nearly 100 million records sold worldwide and four Grammy Awards plus an Oscar and Golden Globe to his credit. His career began in the late 1960s as a member of the funk and soul band The Commodores (“Brick House” remains a constant cover band staple) that he eventually steers toward more romantic, easylistening ballads such as “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” and “Still.” By the early ‘80s, Richie had launched a solo career with a debut album that scored the No. 1 song “Truly” and the Top 5 hits “You Are” and “My Love.” His 1983 record Can’t Slow Down sold more than eight million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. While the hits and the albums have slowed considerably in the ensuing three decades, Richie, now 70, has returned as a road warrior, and is out on a tour that heads into the home stretch with his August 6 date at the Bowl.

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the way, was once an MAW student) and collaborating with his wife, jazz pianist Diana Krall. Co-headlining is Blondie, pioneers in the early new wave and punk scene in America just a couple of years before Costello arrived. The band is still fronted by Debbie Harry, the former blonde bombshell who turned 74 earlier this year. Their early string of hits – “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “Rapture,” and “The Tide Is High” – accomplished the neat trick of blending disco, pop, reggae and early rap music to great effect.

Also booked at the Bowl are the annual Mariachi Festival (August 3), Slightly Stoopid (August 4), Young the Giant with Fitz and the Tantrums (August 8), Nickelodeon’s JoJo Siwa DREAM Tour (August 11), comedian Sebastian Maniscalco (August 17), and Isla Vistaborn Iration with Pepper (August 25).

Details and tickets at (805) 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com.

March back up Milpas the following night, August 7, for a concert pairing two more hitmakers of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, one of whom remains a vital artist still regularly creating and releasing compelling music. Elvis Costello (who turns 65 later this month) was originally misclassified with the early British punk and new wave movement,

when he released perhaps the greatest first three records of a career since the Beatles (‘77’s My Aim Is True, ‘78s This Year’s Model, and ‘79’s Armed Forces).

But the bespectacled one has certainly not rested on his laurels over the last 40 years, as his output has included working with a brilliant pop scribe of an earlier era in Burt Bacharach (who, by

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heater pickin’s can be a bit slim over the summer around these parts, save for up in Solvang, where PCPA ships its Santa Maria productions to the Festival Theater for re-mounts in the utterly charming outdoor venue. Next up this season is the not-yet-decade-old Broadway hit The Addams Family, the

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musical comedy based on the classic Addams’ cartoon characters and the vintage TV series. The story for this show centers around daughter Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness who has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. The fun ensues when the Addams hosts a dinner for her supposedly vanilla boyfriend and his parents, but as Morticia says, “Normal is an illusion…”

PCPA’s director Erik Stein takes the long and topical view, noting that the show examines how we “live in our own bubble and surround ourselves with like minds. Often we avoid the other and demonize or fear those that are not on our team… The Addams Family gives us insight into two very different families, who, at first, think they have nothing in common and want nothing to do with each other, and, in the end, find commonality and become a larger and better family.”

Well, then.

Politics aside, though, the show is great fun, with terrific music, a very funny script and choreography that even Lurch can enjoy. The Addams Family runs August 3-25 at the Solvang Festival Theater. More info and tickets at (805) 922-8313 or www.pcpa.org.

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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

An Ode to Skepticism (You’ll Be Better For It)

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read a study by two Italian academics (Biondi and Pluchino) that said investing blind is a better strategy than hiring a financial adviser.

They examined 15 years of data from four of the largest stock exchanges and compared the four top trading algorithms against a randomized investment program. Guess what? The random algorithm did just as well as the pros, with less volatility. In other words, throwing darts was just as effective as the experts. Recently, Wall Street Journal reporters matched their dart throws against some well-known elite investment advisers and the darts won, again.

That’s not what we hear from Wall Street where the conventional wisdom is that the experts make superior investment choices.

It got me thinking about Conventional Wisdom. It’s usually wrong.

It’s not just the investment world.

Science and medicine have been notoriously wrong. Pope John finally apologized to Galileo 350 years later for persecuting him for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun. Yet, before Galileo, everyone knew the sun revolved around the earth. Darwin’s theory of natural selection proved wrong the conventional wisdom that God made Man. Before then everyone knew God made Adam and Eve. Up until a few score years ago, doctors believed they cured mental illness by a radical brain surgery called a lobotomy. It left most patients dull, listless, and often incapacitated. Yet the originator of the procedure, Egas Moniz, was awarded a Nobel prize.

There is a long list of bad conventional wisdom: fats are bad, carbs are good; smoking was good for you and doesn’t cause cancer; margarine is better than butter; aging can be “cured” (see “entropy”); etcetera.

Conventional wisdom in the sphere of economics has been spectacularly wrong, and since public policy is often based on economics, it has a direct, often disastrous, impact on our lives.

For example, before, during, and after the 2008 Crash and depression, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke displayed a complete lack of

understanding of what was happening to the economy. Just Google the YouTube clip “Bernanke was wrong” and you’ll see what I mean. Bernanke was the world’s most important economist at that time and the remedies he and the other mainstream economists proposed resulted in the worst depression in modern history, the Great Depressions of the 1930s excepted. The conventional wisdom is that Bernanke saved the economy from another Great Depression. Not. Speaking of the depressions of the 1930s, the conventional wisdom was that Franklin D. Roosevelt saved the economy. Actually, the interventionist policies of FDR and his predecessor Herbert Hoover caused the worst economic depressions of the past 100 years. The results of those policies were that the economy stagnated and unemployment remained stubbornly high (between 10% and 25%) from 1929 until the military draft and WWII war production took over economy. The conventional wisdom says that WWII pulled us out of the Depression, but it didn’t – there were five depressions after WWII (1945, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1960). Not until FDR’s heavy economic shackles were lifted did the economy start to grow again. The stock market didn’t reach the pre-1929 Crash high until 1959 – 30 years later.

How do you cure a depression?

The conventional wisdom says you cut interest rates, print money, bail out failing institutions, and increase government spending. Those policies not only did not cure the depression resulting from the Crash of 2008; they caused six years of a sluggish growth and high unemployment.

It doesn’t have to be that way. They should have done what cured the depression of 1920-1921. You haven’t heard of it? It was a severe depression, one that could be compared to the Great Depression of 1929-1933: GNP declined by 24%, unemployment was as high as 19%, producer prices declined by more than 40% (deflation), and stocks declined 44%. Yet the economy recovered in 18 months. The Great Depression, with similar fallouts, lasted 43 months.

What did the government and the Fed do to achieve this amazing 18-month recovery? Compared to today: almost nothing. They did the opposite of the Bernanke-Bush-Obama Administrations: they kept interest rates high; they didn’t bail out failing banks, the Harding Administration balanced the budget (no massive spending); they understood that price deflation was an indication of recovery, and the dollar was solidly backed by gold. Today this would be heresy, yet today’s conventional wisdom dismisses the policies that caused 1921’s speedy recovery. This is wonderfully documented in James Grant’s The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself.

It doesn’t stop there. Another conventional wisdom that is wrong is the chattering class’s belief that the middleclass is going backwards. It is not. The middle-class is shrinking because more middle-class folks are wealthier than before – the upper middle-class has grown by roughly the same percentage that the middle-class has shrunk. Also, wages have not stagnated – if you add in fringe benefits which today make up 31% of compensation, they have increased. And lastly, middle-class purchasing power has dramatically increased: the basics that used to cost 53% of disposable income now cost 32% today. The middle-class is better off today than it ever was.

And here is my current favorite conventional wisdom – the far left’s belief that Scandinavian “democratic socialist” countries are not only

doing better than we are, they can afford generous welfare systems and everyone is happy. Let me correct this error. These countries are not socialist economies (democratic or otherwise): they are solidly capitalist countries.

They have swerved from their socialist experiments and have adopted free market policies. Their economic freedom rankings are: Netherlands no.

13, Denmark no. 14, Sweden no. 19, Finland no. 20, Norway no. 26. The USA is no. 12.

Their socialist policies drove them into economic stagnation and they were going broke. Now, by embracing capitalism and economic freedoms, they are doing much better. Their reforms, depending on the country, include reduced welfare benefits, privatized social security, increased retirement ages, and the elimination of minimum wages. Their taxes are higher to support health care programs and retirement benefits. But, take note Bernie, Liz W, AOC, and others: unlike your “Medicare for all” programs, Scandinavian health care programs are highly decentralized, are administered at a local level, and have competition from private insurers and private health care providers. They are not democratic socialists.

Be wary of all conventional thinking: it clouds our minds and short-circuits rational thought. It leads to policies that do more harm than good. There are laws of economics that cannot be ignored and whenever they are ignored, the result is usually the opposite of what is wished for. Be skeptical.

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in through the wall of south-facing windows, robbing the colors from our sight (as the Moody Blues might’ve said). Had the lights been on, what we were doing would have been SFW, but it was nevertheless worrisomely exciting.

My wallflower heart was flopping so crazily I remember wondering through the hormonal storm: Is this a heart attack? Is the human heart supposed to actually jump around like this? Can it be moving any blood in this state?

Might this mad cardio-flopping tear

and as imperious. When he enters the room, Elizabeth and I freeze in the static paparazzi glare of moonlight, insectoid in our primal terror – abject black bugs on a white kitchen floor. I can see my dad now in the silver light, four or five feet away from us, a distinct and unmistakable figure, shirtless and out of shape in very baggy boxers that sum up a lifelong tale, the tale of my laissez-faire dad, my loving but feckless dad, my dad in the next room like a kindly uncle, my orphaned, wounded

here, Jeff?” I remain frozen and silent.

Silent again. In five more seconds my dad says “oh!” in a tone I’ve never heard from him – stirred by a small revelation, right in front of me. We remain frozen, Elizabeth and I. My dad turns and walks silently and self-consciously into the kitchen, turns right and heads back to bed.

I’m sixty and a dad; another blandsounding completed circle that bends the mind – a Gregor Samsa deal you have to experience to believe. In my

At the zenith of our hormonal clinch and in a blood-freezing present tense, my dad walks into the room in his boxers, as distinct in the moonlight as a blanched Boris Karloff, and as innocent, and as imperious my heart muscle? Is it possible to feel one’s heart abrading the sternum? and so on. My chambered slosh-muscle was making of the moment an oven that I thought would consume me.

At the zenith of our hormonal clinch and in a blood-freezing present tense, my dad walks into the room in his boxers, as distinct in the moonlight as a blanched Boris Karloff, and as innocent,

dad, my dad with the easy half-smile – but what’s he doing in the picture with this adored, moonlit girl in my arms?

This juxtaposition is beyond the limits of my reason.

But now here he is in his enormous boxers, and I see the boy in my dad so suddenly the feeling suffuses me like a mild electric shock, and at that instant he says to me. “What’re you doing out

own graying head, dad’s hollered pleas that I join him in the TV room ring like a deafening church bell. Strangely, I don’t feel “sixty” and neither did my dad and neither will you, kids. Not to worry. It feels the same to be older, people just look at you differently. This is a revelation that befalls everyone and ultimately twists the undies. No one feels their actuarial demographic;

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not twenty-somethings, not seventysomethings. We feel “now” which is hauling ass like a jumbo jet and cocoons us in a similar illusion of stillness.

My dad passed in 1993, and sometimes lying awake I see all the receding moments back there, and I walk into the TV room and my old bedroom, and my doomed little brother’s corner bedroom where I’d painted a really cool Starship Enterprise on his wall, shuttlecraft in the foreground. I walk through all the immutable rooms, hours and days in the sunlit house on Mulberry Street in Phoenix, staring at all the moments and quantum forks and so on. May all the unimaginable energies of the vast universe be marshalled on my behalf.

I lie awake and I don’t bother to pray, but I do have this ask: Zeus or Apollo, or whatever robed Titan runs this place – if I can maybe go back to the family room for two or three minutes? I’d really appreciate it. I won’t ask again.

When my dad comes into the room I’ll run to him this time, throw my arms around him in the stupid moonlight, all the way around him. The man in his oversized boxers will see a startled kid jump up, his skinny arms thrown wide.

It’ll really surprise my dad. Just take me back.

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CREATIVE CHARACTERS NATHANIEL GRAY

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community is comprised of its patchwork of characters. From the residents of Montecito to the homeless of State Street, there is a drastic range of different backgrounds and life influences in our community. And each one of us has a story to tell. Yet despite the varying range of life conditions, there are many topics we can all identify with that tie us together as a community. In The Santa Barbara Project, Nathaniel Gray has brought together these personal stories in an eBook that offers an authentic slice of the many faces that make up our community.

Released earlier this year as an eBook, the pages of The Santa Barbara Project are comprised of over 200 autobiographical entries that are moving and inspiring, and sometimes in unexpected ways.

These entries are accompanied by a graceful black and white portrait of each individual. The faces glow on the page with a thoughtful pose. A pitchblack background removes any noise from the image, purely focusing on the individual. There is a noticeable curation in the arrangement and ordering of the individual entries. Reading through it

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you will see stories that revolve around similar subjects but build on one another, adding depth and insight into their topics.

The stories range from motherhood and gender identity to just growing up in the area. The subjects and topics range vividly but what is just as noticeable is the change in voice between each person.

The vocabulary, tone, and cadence is unique to each piece of writing and really

makes each individual voice its own.

These stories exhibit the many threads of influences that make up all of us and the collective tale weaves together the diverse voices that form any community.

A sense of community was something that took Nathaniel a while to learn about. He was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, a city that is intimately involved with the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. His family was not part of the Mormon faith, leading them to be somewhat ostracized by their community and never really feeling part of the local culture. Nathaniel came to Santa Barbara after his brother moved here and quickly recommended the area to him. He easily fell in love with the stunning scenery and close-knit community that we all appreciate about Santa Barbara.

His day-to-day work revolves around non-profits and he has sat on several boards over the years. One day, while he was on a board for a non-profit that addressed human sex trafficking and those affected by it, a horrible tragedy occurred to several women under the organization’s care. That night he was sitting at Yellow Belly in a state of shock and contemplation. A group of ladies at a nearby table raised their glasses to toast “paradise.” This extreme juxtaposition of emotion grasped his attention and he began reflecting on the concepts of paradise, community, and the people that comprise it. This was the moment that the idea for The Santa Barbara Project began to take shape.

This type of project was a new endeavor for him, and he spent the first six months fine tuning the process. The project website collected entries and then he went through them and selected which people he would like to interview further. Arranging the hundreds of applicants was not an easy task and Santa Barbara local Denise Speer volunteered countless hours helping with scheduling and managing responses.

The interviews formed a podcast series where the audience can delve deeper into individual’s stories. While he did interview each subject, every entry in the book is written by the person’s own hand in a written piece that is more personal statement than autobiography. It took him over two years to interview and

photograph all of the subjects. During this period, this passion project became a full-time affair with him interviewing people on weeknights and doing weekend shoots from “9 to 9.”

Over the two-year period he interviewed about 500 people before settling on the final 250 (or so) entries in the book. As the entries poured in, he was inspired and moved by the range of stories he was reading. Many people found their entry as a safe place to talk and vent about the hardships that make a person who they are. Through the interviewing process, he noticed that oftentimes silence is the best question. Allowing the subject to express themselves without interruption got the most honest response. After trying a variety of camera arrangements, he found that the simple elegance of black and white photographs worked best for capturing the range of personalities gracing the pages of the book. He complemented this style with minimal editing and background scenery. Halo lighting was used to give each face a glow that brings out a glimmer in their eyes.

Nathaniel feels that this book couldn’t have happened anywhere. Over the years Santa Barbara has been able to preserve its small town feel and continues to be a close-knit community. He has been ecstatic at just how supportive the community has been of the project and feels lucky to have these individuals trust him with their story and the community support his vision. The experiences from this project have led to a new one that he plans to take on the road after its Santa Barbara launch.

The Hope Project will focus more on video profiles than written statements.

In addition to a podcast, he will layer individual video interviews that revolve around a specific theme into an episode that forms a range of views on the same subject. Both through these projects and his nonprofit work, Nathaniel’s bottom line is to just help people. He hopes that by having people understand the life stories of others, they will become more accepting of the diverse range of individuals that make up a community.

Visit Santabarbaraproject.com for more information, podcasts, and to purchase the ebook.

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PLAYING IT SAFE

Here is a picture of me at Safety Town Camp with my friends Savannah, Lily, and Mia. I am on the far left.

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ummer is our break. When I say our, I’m referring to all of the kids and teenagers who go to school for 10 out of 12 months every year. We need summer to recover from taking tests, doing projects, and writing papers every week. We deserve a break. In summer, we get to choose what we do instead of following a schedule. So, we embrace these two months with pure happiness.

Or, at least, I do. Next year and the three years that come after it are going to be relatively new for me since I will be starting high school. This summer, I chose to get somewhat ahead by getting some of my volunteer hours out of the way. For one week I played, sang, ran around, and held hands with preschool kids, and I got community service hours for it all.

Many of us know of or have even attended the small, safety camp for kids ages four or five called Safety Town. Teen volunteers for the camp get community service hours for high school while teaching and bonding with the young kids for five hours each day.

We helped the kids learn to be safe in emergencies such as earthquakes, fires, and more. They are taught the skills needed in these rare occurrences along with regular everyday precautions.

Safety Town gets the children prepared for almost everything.

In just one week, I watched each and every kid grow to proudly know all that was taught to them. They’re small but smart and though it was quite the challenge to keep them from running around all day, the volunteers did their job and had one heck of a week. I’m not saying we were always as excited and happy as the kids were to be at camp every morning at 8 am, but bonding with those little ones was quite an experience.

They looked up to us teenagers and their excitement and cute little smiles tended to make our days just a little bit better.

We really did become friends with those kids, and they considered us to be more than just their counselors.

I went into Safety Town Camp counseling thinking it would be completely different than what it was.

Yes, I did go to Safety Town as a kid, but it was a whole different experience being a counselor. When I showed up on the first day, I was told that it was going to

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be an exhausting week but it would be completely worth it in the end. And that was the truth. I think almost all of us know how tiring it can be to look after small children. Especially a group of five-year-olds who, at the end of the day, really wanted to go home. And I did too, believe me. But now looking back on it, I miss those kids. They were crazy, but the cutest. I miss holding their hands and listening to their stories that make absolutely no sense at all. I miss tapping them on the nose and finding leaves that they put in my hair while they giggle to each other. It was a great experience and I look forward to it next summer.

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Safety Town has been running camps in Santa Barbara for over 40 years. They use different school sites in Goleta to transform the playgrounds into a miniature city with crosswalks, streets, and buildings. There are a lot of local businesses that sponsor the camp and that makes it very affordable for people. All of the counselors are high school students from our community and the leaders are certified teachers. It truly feels like a community camp. If you have a child who will be entering kindergarten in the fall, you should sign them up. If you are in high school, you can also use the website to sign up to be a CIT (Counselor in Training).

Be sure to do this in the spring because all of the sessions fill up quickly. http:// www.sbsafetytown.org/

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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

from artists both local and beyond.

Also: look for the secret “analog” room, filled with cassettes and 35mm slides.

Opening features a curated playlist

seismically dubious stack of books by his bed. Have an upcoming show you’d like us to know about? Please email: tedmills@gmail.com

SUMMER ART

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he sun is blazing, the Fiesta is awaitin’, and the art is amazing.

This should be the downtime/summer holiday for the artists and galleries in town, but noooooo friends, there’s actually a surprising amount of young, cool openings for the discerning aesthete. Seriously, this is a good slate for August, or any month. See you out in the streets, August 1!

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the surface. Sometimes you’ll find trucks, racecars, and cars. “Summer Fix” shows through September 4 at Summerland’s newest art spot, the Person Ryan Gallery (92346B Lillie Avenue, Summerland). A portion of sales benefit Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society.

objects – boats, sails, trees, rocks – but combined in a dream-like way where all defy gravity and encourage you to do so, too. In his solo show “The Stories We Tell Ourselves,” Huff brings a selection of works since he arrived in town to teach at Westmont in 2013. Sullivan Goss (11 East Anapamu) will be showing both paintings and sculptures and showing off its centerpiece, a 14foot long painted scroll. Opening reception August 1, through September 24.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

The Arts Fund of Santa Barbara shows only Santa Barbara County artists as per its mission, but they never want to forget those in the north. “View from 500 Feet” (showing through September 6) curates five Santa Ynez Valley artists, featuring Wesley Anderegg, Christopher L.T. Brown, Patricia Hedrick, Edward Lister, and Seyburn Zorthian. This show was the hit of last month’s Funk Zone Art Walk, and is still up for your perusing enjoyment.

It was a delight to see these five artists making friends with each other at the reception, and you’ll want to be friends too afterwards. 205-C Santa Barbara Street.

STARDUST AND SATISFACTION

Glenn Dallas Gallery (927 State Street) has that mixtape kinda vibe

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Benjamin Anderson is a perfect artist for summer, as he brings the California swimming pool vibes that instantly cool down the room. His photorealist paintings of women swimming underwater are delightful, but that’s not all that’s there under

since it opened, so its destiny has been fulfilled with “Stardust and Satisfaction,” opening August 1. This amazing group show features portraits of Prince, Lana del Rey, Amy Winehouse, Stevie Nicks, Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan, and Kayne West, along with rock-themed works

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We haven’t always been in touch with what Fuzion (1115 State Street) has been up to art wise, but the new Cole Hazard show has interested us all over again. “Connecting Consciousness” features a selection of Hazard’s fractal/ psychedelic visions all created in a rainbow of colors. Trippy stuff indeed – catch this 20-something local artist before he blows up. Reception August 1, with a RSVP only private party 8 to 11 pm that can only be had by stopping by the gallery early.

DAWGS N DIAMONDS

Slingshot Gallery (220 West Canon Perdido Street) is always worth a visit too, with a dog-themed show for this month. Who doesn’t like dogs? The various artists at Slingshot have put their own spin on the pooch for “Dog Days of Summer.” Gallery visitors for August 1 reception gets a coupon for Kyle’s Kitchen. And yes, dogs are welcome.

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August 1, my friends, as per usual.

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by Margaret Landreau

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

PRIYA TALWAR, FINE ART UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHER

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riya Talwar was drawn to Mexico for a freer, more adventurous lifestyle. Without formal training in photography beyond a high school film class, she learned underwater photography on the job while working there as a diving instructor.

“I enjoy the great quietness of being underwater. Diving underwater makes me pay attention to the sound of my breathing and the hiss of water bubbles coming from the regulator,” she shares.

“People usually have no idea how much goes into taking pictures underwater; they have the concept that you can take a GoPro out and get photos like the ones I show at Santa Barbara’s Sunday Artwalk on Cabrillo Beach.

“It’s very technical. The amount of experience and practice required to make it all work surprised me. It takes a lot of awareness to monitor your buddy, your air, where the boat is, and not bumping into the reef. I had to make 200 dives before I could focus on my

camera. Another 200 dives to focus on composition. One of the challenges of taking underwater photography is one must be pretty strong. There is so much gear to take along underwater, not only scuba gear, but the deeper you dive, the darker it gets. At shallow depths there are pinks and oranges, but the deeper you go, the fewer colors there are, by 40’ it’s mostly grey and blue. Big strobes become necessary, thirty pounds of large and bulky gear.”

Local water visibility varies from 10’ or 15’ to 60’ and determines whether she uses a macro or wide-angle lens. She prefers a wide-angle lens to shoot sea lions and pelagic turtles. When asked about her most popular shot of a giant turtle she shared, “Usually turtles won’t let you get close to them. He slowly aimed at me and came so close and pecked on my camera lens. That was a lucky day; I thought it was super cool.”

Not travelling now, she wants to take more pictures of California.

Talwar teaches Spanish and is also interested in languages. Her interest in teaching motivated her travels to Europe, primarily Italy and Spain, to India, through Costa Rica, Mexico, and Central America, to learn the languages.

“I don’t want to miss out, I want to go see for myself and experience, to not be limited. I have to expand my horizons,

not feel stuck in one place. Being a foreigner in a place is an experience most people don’t get to have,” Talwar says.

Visit Talwar at the SB Harbor and Seafood Festival on October 12 and at the Cabrillo Beach Artwalk on Sundays.

Contact her at talwar.priya@gmail.com and www.priyatalwar.com.

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Well cherished for nearly two decades, this home is an entertainer’s paradise, sitting on 1/4 of an acre and boasting a pool/spa, large entertaining patio for true indoor/outdoor living, and beautiful gardens with fruit trees, roses, and picturesque views of the foothills. Located in the Monte Vista attendance area.

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

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

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ne of the ways in which it’s super clear that Goleta acts as suburbia while Santa Barbara is more of a city comes in comparing the outdoor warm weather series Concerts in the Park at Chase Palm Park and Music at the Ranch at Rancho La Patera & Stow House. Both feature dance/ party bands on weekday evenings, with seating on the lawn (that can be reserved at 12 noon each week) and a designated dancing area in front of the stage. Both take place in gorgeous settings – the former at the waterfrontadjacent Chase Palm Park, the latter on the expansive grounds at the ranch adjacent to Lake Los Carneros. Palm trees or a canopy of trees – your choice.

But you can tell that they’re also a bit different. Sure, there’s crossover in the crowds that attend both events.

But it seems Chase Palm draws more singles and groups of friends, while Stow House serves as a central station for families, often toting huge coolers and even picnic tables. The vibe can be as different as you want it to be.

While the Ranch books solely local/ Central Coast acts, Concerts in the

Park usually reaches down to L.A. and beyond, although both booked Santa Barbara stalwarts Area 51 for early shows this summer. But both are terrific offerings for us Eden-by-theSea residents, free concerts each week (Thursdays at Chase Palm, Tuesdays at the Ranch) where we can gather, socialize, dance, or just sit back, soak up the setting sun, breathe the fresh air, and be grateful.

LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER? But enough of my nice side. I’m also here to point out a disparity in a late July pairing that found both venues booking bands that focus on music from the 1980s, a decade where, by the way, the dancing largely eschewed partners in favor of basically bouncing up and down to the beat, or swaying to the power ballads. (Even the inveterate swing dancers who show up at both series found nary a song for a Lindy throwout and such.) But what the heck happened with Pop Gun Rerun at Chase Palm? To a person I checked with, we’d all rarely heard a band as unenergetic, uninteresting, and off-

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key as this Southland group that is supposedly one of the most popular such cover bands in the land. They paused for a minute between each song that was annoyingly clichéd, only to start another ‘80s classic that was akin to a high school band’s first attempt. I mean, it’s hard to complain about something that’s free, but it was hard on the ears and the soul. We’re told it was sound mixing issues, but that was hard to fathom. For once, I wasn’t upset that I had to leave early for another commitment.

Fortunately, five days later, we were able to reclaim the delight of the decade via the Molly Ringwald Project, which played much the same material with gusto, grit, and good timing, one song segueing into the next, out at the Stow House. The only pause came for pondering, as my companion posed, how the band “gets away with” using the famed ‘80s actress’ name as its group’s moniker.

I wasn’t able to adequately answer, a Google search yielded little (other than that there’s another ‘80s-loving band simply called the Molly Ringwalds who also don’t explain the legalities of their name). Unfortunately, I was a bit too unmotivated to actually inquire of a Project member, so now I have one more reason for sleepless nights. (Feel free to email me at the Sentinel if you have any ideas, but be aware that as a Man of Leisure, I may not get around to opening the message.)

In any event, Concerts in the Park has two more shows to wrap up the summer at Chase Palm, both acts that are new to the series: Lightnin’ Willie and the Poorboys blues band on August 8, and the Motown/R&B act The Blue Breeze Band on August 15. Stow House has four weeks left of Music at the Ranch, including Latin flamenco guitarist Tony Ybarra (July 30), dance-funk-party band King Bee (August 6), rockabilly/Americana purveyors Cadillac Angels (August 13), and the folk-rock duo of Amber and Smoke (August 20).

FIESTA AND THE FAIR For some reason, it’s considered high class to avoid Santa Barbara’s annual Old Spanish Days Fiesta, and, to a lesser extent, the Ventura County Fair. Too much confetti, dust, dirt and people, I imagine. To me, though, both get a bit of a bad rap, largely undeservedly so. Fiesta can be messy, noisy and a bit too much, to be sure, but there are so many great events that not only bridge cultures but also connect the community. La Fiesta Pequeña, at the Santa Barbara Mission on Wednesday, July 31, and its cousin

Las Noches de Ronda, at the Sunken Gardens of the beautiful Santa Barbara County Courthouse, August 1-3, offer colorful, historical dances and songs from flamenco to Mexican folklórico to Californios traditional, more than 200 performers in total each night. I still fondly remember my first Fiesta when I didn’t even live here yet, marveling at the splendor in the warm summer air offered at no cost at all.

The Celebración de los Dignatarios (now known colloquially as DIGS!) on Thursday, August 1, is one of the summer’s great soirées, with food, music, and dancing under the stars at the Santa Barbara Zoo, while Friday’s El Desfile Histórico (Historical Parade) – which takes place on a weekday at 12 noon! – features floats depicting episodes from the history of the state and city populated by descendants of local Native Americans, Spanish Pioneers, and the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, plus local service clubs and organizations all reenact historical scenes, plus antique carriages, coaches, and wagons, not to mention 600 horses prancing and often dancing up State Street. No matter your viewpoint on animal cruelty, it’s still exciting to get the actual Professional Bull Riders pitting cowboys vs. bucking broncos at Earl Warren Showgrounds Arena (Thursday, August 1).

In short, it’s your choice to attend or skip Fiesta, but this Man of Leisure is sticking around town.

ALL’S FAIR The Ventura County Fair, which opens the same day as Fiesta but runs for just shy of two weeks, has tons of attractions beyond the name-brand entertainment, as it’s the largest such event within 100 miles of here. But where else can you take in concerts by bands from years gone by that would command five or 10 times the ticket price – which is merely the $12 regular adult fair entrance cost – at any other venue? This year’s lineup is an impressive one with highlights including Styx on July 31, country star Martina McBride (August 1), rock icon Melissa Etheridge (August 2), a disco-era triple-bill with The Ohio Players and special guests The Emotions and Evelyn “Champagne” King (August 3), ‘60s pop hitmakers Tommy James and the Shondells (August 6), George Thorogood and the Destroyers’ “Good to be Bad Tour – 45 Years of Rock” (August 8), and 1990s rock band Collective Soul (August 9).

Details and much more online at www. venturacountyfair.org or call (805) 648-3376.

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I Heart SB is the diary of Elizabeth Rose, a thirtysomething navigating life, love, and relationships. She lives on a 34-foot sailboat and navigates that too. Follow her adventures on Instagram or at www.ihearterose.com. Thoughts or comments: ihearterose@gmail.com

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hile Jason and I were in Wilmington, North Carolina, visiting my family, we decided to get engaged. This wasn’t a huge surprise, since we had been talking seriously about it for a year now. But that didn’t take away from the little surprises that awaited us that afternoon.

When Jason mentioned going to an antique store to find a ring, I knew a charming place downtown that would make the perfect setting for him to drop down on one knee. But, when we approached the brick, pre-war building, a huge “Closed” sign dangled on the front door. Disappointed yet undeterred, Jason and I walked to two more antique shops, none of which offered what we were looking for. “Is this a sign?” I asked, half kidding, half not. Jason smiled, shook his head, then pulled his phone from his pocket to search for a solution.

But, things continued to look dim. We strolled down an antique district and hit three more shops, but struck out again. Before we left the final shop, I casually asked the owner if she knew of a good place that would have the estate jewelry we were looking for. She mentioned The Ivy Cottage and the corners of my mouth stretched into a grin.

Here’s the background on The Ivy Cottage: three days prior to this moment, I admitted to Jason that, years ago when I was single, I made out with my brother-inlaw’s brother, Cory, who happens to manage the place. This guy is literally family to me now; we share a two-year-old nephew. And, when I told Jason about my past rendezvous, he responded with a, “Nice!” followed by a high-five. But now, standing in the vintage shop, I wondered if a night from my past would snag our future plans. “What’s the verdict?” Jason said, walking from behind. “Well,” I said, scanning a rack of vintage Gunne Sax dresses. “She mentioned The Ivy Cottage, and that’s where Cory works.” Jason looked at me like the decision had already been made. “Sweet!” he said. “Let’s go there!”

Once inside The Ivy Cottage, I located the jewelry counters past rows of china cabinets, bookcases, and armoires. We scooted passed ladies bent over the glass displays and peeked over shoulders until a jeweler motioned us forward. “What are you in the market for?” she asked. “Just a ring,” I said, as heat immediately flooded my face and armpits. “Is it the ring?” she asked. I looked at Jason, smiled, then nodded. “Great! Well, let me know if there’s anything…” I didn’t hear the rest.

A small vintage ring tucked in the last row called to me. And when I slipped the delicate band on my finger, it fit.

I sighed. The ornamental yellow and white gold setting held a vibrant light blue aquamarine stone, reminding me of the ocean and our boat life together. My spine tingled at the thought, but not wanting to make an impulsive decision, I placed the ring into the jewelers outstretched hand to try on others. “Ok,” she said. “We’ll keep looking.” But as we walked to the next display, she slipped the ring on her pinky finger and my first thought was to scream, “B*tch, take off my ring!”

I tried on others, but I kept an eye on my ring which looked a little too comfortable on her hand. Of course, the other jewelry wasn’t doing it for me so, frustrated, I pulled Jason aside to figure out what to do. “What about the first one?” Jason asked. I looked at him, trying to hide how much I wanted it. “Get it, Love!” Jason said, answering for me. “That ring is you!”

After the jeweler cleaned and boxed the ring, Cory appeared from the back room to wish us congratulations. Here we were, the man I would marry standing next to the only man in this town I made out with because we were buying an engagement ring. Cory ended up being the last person we saw before the proposal – he even rang up the sale for the ring. But, in true Elizabeth Rose form, a romantic entanglement right to the bitter end of my single life just made sense. (Also, can you believe it I Heart readers? Jason and I are engaged!)

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

WINE, MOVIES, MUSIC, BBQ, FESTIVALS, AND CLASSES THROUGHOUT THE VALLEY – BASICALLY SUMMER CAMP FOR ADULTS BUELLTON BBQ BONANZA et ready to enjoy a free barbecue lunch, courtesy of the City of Buellton, at the Annual Buellton Barbecue Bonanza. Hungry summer grilling enthusiasts are invited to enjoy with friends and neighbors. Bring a dessert to share while you listen to music, and shake hands, and say hello to familiar and new Santa Ynez Valley friendly faces. There will be a chocolate chip cookie contest, and children can anticipate playful games and water fun at the park.

When: Saturday, July 27 from 11 am to 2 pm Where: River View Park, 151 Sycamore Drive in Buellton Cost: Free Info: Business and community organizations are welcome to participate at no cost. Call Kyle at 688-1086 to reserve a space.

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FRIDAY MOVIES IN THE PARK ovies in the Park returns for its 15th season every Friday evening for family fun and entertainment under the stars. Bring your own lawn chair and blanket. Fresh popcorn and hot chocolate for sale – $1 each. Films are rated G and PG13. Parents are responsible for deciding whether a film is appropriate for their children.

When: Fridays from 7:30 to 10 pm – movie begins when it is dark enough August 2 – Incredibles 2 August 16 – Back to the Future Where: Solvang Park located at the corner of First and Mission Cost: Free Info: www.cityofsolvang.com

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SUMMER MUSIC IN SOLVANG PARK he season’s musical line-up for this year’s Solvang Summer Concert Series has been announced, and boasts a proud spectrum running from “American Rockabilly Blues” to classic rock and jazz. The series features musicians and bands of varied genres playing to crowds of both locals and tourists, who are invited to picnic in the park during the family-friendly, evening concert events.

Each Wednesday night concert runs from 5 to 8 pm, and in concert with the weekly Farmers Market. Music lovers are encouraged to bring blankets, chairs, and fully outfitted picnics – including favorite beverages.

A handful of summer concerts fall on Solvang’s monthly “3rd Wednesday,” which also brings the Solvang 3rd Wednesday Wine & Beer Walk; 3rd Wednesday deals at local merchants including boutiques of all sorts, restaurants and gourmet food purveyors; and discounts at local hotels.

Here is the Concert Series line-up: From 5 to 8 pm in Solvang Park.

July 24th – T-Bone Ramblers (Classic Rock) July 31st – Rincons (Rock ‘n Roll, Surf, Hot Rods) Aug 7th – Low Down Dudes (Classic Rock) Aug 14th – Gipsy (Jazz) Aug 21st – Bear Market Riot (Americana Folk) Aug 28th – SYV Jazz Band (Jazz) Where: Solvang Park is located at the corner of First and Mission Cost: Free

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EAT, PLAY, LOVE LOS ALAMOS at, Play, Love Los Alamos is a friendly and fun afternoon stroll through the historic Old West town of Los Alamos, sampling wines, beers, appetizers, and desserts, and checking out crafts, art, and antiques from 21 different local businesses.

Hosted by Friends of The Los Alamos Public Library, participants must purchase tickets in advance online (through their Facebook page) and check in at The Station,

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an old historic landmark, to pick up a wine glass and punch card.

Each business visited will validate the punch card and each ticket holder will then be eligible to enter the grand prize drawing to win a one-week stay in South Lake Tahoe. Punch cards validated by all participating businesses double your chances of winning.

When: Saturday, August 3 from 1 to 5 pm Where: Registration and check-in at The Station, 346 Bell Street, Los Alamos Cost: $40 per person – purchase online through Facebook – Friends of the Library Los Alamos Info: For questions, please contact debravheart@hotmail.com or call Debra at (805) 344-1014 SUMMER COOKING CLASSES AT THE BEAR AND STAR he Bear and Star restaurant, located in the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn, presents two more summer cooking classes with Chef Trent. Each threehour class features behind the grill instructions, tips, and secrets to make classic dishes from their menu including: deviled farm eggs, signature corn bread, Santa Maria style tri-tip, and freshly baked pie. Classes include a beer and wine pairing.

The Bear and Star’s menu is described as refined ranch cuisine and the restaurant is intrinsically intertwined to the 714-acre Fess Parker home ranch located seven miles away on Foxen Canyon. 75 head of Wagyu cattle are raised and finished with the spent grains and pomace from the family brewery and winery. Also raised on the ranch for use in the restaurant are chickens, quail, rabbits, pigs, bees, and a number of heirloom fruits and organic vegetables – all of which ultimately link the Parker family’s forays with hospitality, winemaking, and ranching – to the dining experience.

When: Thursday, August 1 and Thursday August 29 from 11am to 2 pm Where: The Bear and Star – 2860 Grand Avenue in Los Olivos Cost: $120 per class including beer & wine pairings Info: www.thebearandstar.com

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15TH ANNUAL WHEELS ‘N WINDMILLS CAR SHOW ar lovers can steer themselves through the streets of Solvang to view 300 vintage and collectable vehicles in the categories of: classic, modified/custom, hot rods, sports, trucks, motorcycles, race, pro-street, and special interest.

Last year’s Best of Best winner was Jon Stephen of Solvang for his 1967 red Chevy Malibu.

Proceeds benefit Happy Endings Animal Sanctuary, Hacienda O’Holland Animal Rescue, Venture BSA Crew 154, Nature Track, and The Progeria Research Foundation. Wheels ‘N Windmills Car Show has donated $336,000 to local and national charities since 2005.

Saturday, August 24 from 9 am to 4 pm Where: Solvang, CA Cost: Free to public viewers Info: www.wheelsnwindmills.com

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WINE COUNTRY WEEKEND – PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE anta Ynez Valley Wine Country Association has a new event! The Wine Country Weekend: Past, Present, and Future is a four-day passport wine experience featuring 15 tastings at these tasting rooms: Buttonwood Farm Winery, Casa Cassara, Carivintâs, Lincourt Vineyards, Alexander & Wayne, Arthur Earl, Ca’ Del Grevino, and Dreamcôte Wine Company, Alma Rosa, Buscador, Imagine Wine, tierra y vino, and Kalyra Winery (now in Buellton during renovations). On Saturday wineries will be serving a variety of small bites at each winery.

Meet the winemakers, taste reserve and estate wines, enjoy appetizers and make wonderful memories. Wineries will be selling various library wines and maybe a few barrel tastings.

Every participant will receive a souvenir wine glass and a wine tote bag.

When: Friday, August 23 through Monday, August 26 Where: At select wine tasting rooms throughout the Valley Cost: $75 per taster Info: www.SantaYnezWineCountry.com

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SAVE THE SOLVANG DANISH DATE! on’t miss your chance to kick off your clogs and gobble abelskivers, sip Akvavit, enjoy folk dancing, shop for handmade crafts, and simply celebrate the Danish culture at Solvang’s 83rd Annual Danish Days September 20 through 22.

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OLESYA THYNE

1200 ESTRELLA DR

FEATURED PROPERTY 2414 ANACAPA ST

REALTOR®

SANTA BARBARA Enjoy almost 2 acres of private woodlands in Hope Ranch in this 4BD/3BA two story home with mountain views.

Olesya Thyne (805) 708-1917 GTprop.com/1200EstrellaDrive $2,350,000

DRE# 01936018

Olesya Thyne is an international real estate agent with a Master’s Degree who is also an expert marketer. With Hollywood contacts and impressive negotiation skills, Olesya has represented many buyers and sellers of residential and commercial real estate. Olesya is a Nationally certified Green Specialist. For honest representation ensuring your best interests call Olesya today!

Olesya Thyne: (805) 708-1917 • OlesyaThyne@GTprop.com

SANTA BARBARA Single story 3BD/3BA home is setup for dual living with separate entrance. Spacious bedrooms have their own en-suite bathrooms.

Kevin Goodwin (805) 448-2200 GTprop.com/2414Anacapa $1,750,000

www.GTprop.com • 2000 State Street, Santa Barbara • (805) 899-1100 DRE# 01477382