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PUT A RING ON IT? MILLENNIALS ARE REDEFINING MARRIAGE AND BABY BOOMERS ARE QUESTIONING WHY. BUT COLUMNIST ELIZABETH ROSE MAY HAVE THE ANSWER (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 5)

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I Heart SB – Elizabeth Rose answers a reader’s letter addressing the differences in opinion on the modern day view of marriage compared to decades past

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State Street Scribe – Jeff Wing gets invited to a good ol’ fashioned Labor Day pig roast at the Smiteepupps’ Santa Barbara home The Capitalist – Jeff Harding asks, what happened to the Golden Years of California, and why do half of its residents want to leave?

The Fortnight – ART Santa Barbara; Ojai Studio Artists Tour; Ojai Storytelling Festival; lectures at UCSB; shows at Lobero; MultiCultural Center at UCSB first music concert of fall quarter; Ashley Broder’s Channel Islands Suite premieres; classical performances around town

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Man About Town – Mark Léisuré’s latest escapades include improv at Elings Park, a holographic “Rock and Roll Dream Tour,” Sideways Fest, and more

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Creative Characters – Former artist in residence at SBCAST, musician Ben Ramos makes the move to Santa Barbara; SPLIFF at SBCAST

On Art – Kristin Fraser’s Seaside Collective in Carpinteria hosts artist pop-up What’s Hanging? – A look at this month’s exhibit offerings

SYV Snapshot – Kick off fall in the Valley with the Solvang Farmer Pumpkin Patch, Scarecrow Fest, Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley, a walk on Ted Chamberlain Ranch, Day in the Country, 2nd Annual Solvang Stomp, CNOA golf tournament, and The Haunt’s Fright Farm

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IHeart SB

By Elizabeth Rose Since 2015, I Heart SB has followed Elizabeth Rose through dating in Santa Barbara and falling in love, a long-distance relationship, living on a 34’ sailboat then sailing from Washington to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The couple is now engaged, back on dry land, living in an Airstream in Carpinteria. Comments welcome at ihearterose@ gmail.com. For more stories, visit www.ihearterose.com.

THE LETTER

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e: Millennials & Marriage A Baby Boomer and Millennial Sentinel columnist Elizabeth Rose express views on marriage that may be more alike than you think.

I received a letter from a reader named Chris King from Ojai, and his thoughts on marriage and Millennials touched on many great points that I had to share with you. I speak as a thirty-seven-year-old woman, born on the cusp of the Millennial generation in 1982. If you’d like to read the I Heart column to which Chris refers, please visit www.ihearterose.com or request at ihearterose@gmail.com. The following has been edited for length.

Dear Ms. Rose, I finally got around to reading your column in the Santa Barbara Sentinel (Vol. 8, Iss. 3, What’s With The Ring?). I must say it confirms my conviction that there is a critical difference between the attitude of people like me, who got married fifty years ago, and young people today. Put over-simply, people of my generation believed it was their destiny and duty to get married and raise a family, so we went out to find a compatible person to share that journey. In the process we often found someone we loved deeply and remained attracted to for decades.

Young people today seem to turn it the other way around. My joke is that today’s role models hook up and go at it hot and heavy for a while, have a kid or two, move in together, decide that they love each other, and (sometimes reluctantly) commit to

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marriage (while writing vows that neither should step on the other’s toes). They may yet divorce, and repeat the previous pattern.

Decades ago, I took a course with Margaret Mead, the anthropologist. She defined marriage as: the joining of families, an agreement to raise children, and an agreement to share money. Good love and good sex were less important, but more than bonuses.

Perhaps the reason many arranged marriages succeed is that other people have made it their business to make sure Mead’s three elements are in place, and that the couple shares background and education and thinking as much as possible.

So, my advice to you, and to any one of marriageable age these days is, Don’t get married until you are willing to be ‘married to marriage.’ A man may be very happy with the ‘us’ that just includes him and a mate. For a woman, even in this age of double incomes, the prospect of marriage probably means the gift of a home to play with, kids to fulfill her need to brood, and the prestige of becoming ‘Sadie, Sadie, married lady,’ the relief of being cared for.

My last bits of advice: Try to make the romance fade. Share a bathroom. Dare to share some uglies, because that’s the baggage you’re sharing for the next fifty years. Imagine your spouse and yourself old and grumpy because that’s when you need a companion. When it’s important to you stake out a room of your own, as Virginia Woolf did, and get your mate to commit to that early. If you are going to have kids, look forward to adding little people to your life who will have all the joys and all the deviltries that you and your spouse have. Talk.

Thanks for the spark, Chris King Ojai THE RESPONSE Dear Chris, Your letter touches my heart deeply. Congratulations on your wonderful marriage and thank you for returning the spark! I want to start by thanking you and generations before us. Because as you’ve created the best life for yourselves, you’ve created new opportunities for Millennials to evolve and grow. ...continued p.21

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by Jeff Wing

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Hot Pig in the City

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hen the invitation arrived we were excited by one of its particulars. The hosts, our dear old friends the Smiteepupps (names have been changed to guard privacy and amuse the author) would be offering roast pig as the culinary hood ornament on their Labor Day yard party. “Whoa,” I thought on reading this part of the invitation. “A roast pig!” I’d seen this on television – either Magnum P.I. or Hawaii 5-O – and knew it to be a particularly festive ceremony with Polynesian overtones – grass skirts, stately palms swaying in fragrant island breezes, one or two daiquiri-clutching guests in floral shirts knocked brutally senseless by plummeting coconut – it’s all part of the island idyll. Here on the mainland, roast pig – and the somewhat technical ceremony surrounding the pig’s humiliation – is likewise a big deal; summoning a sense of unharnessed celebration and compelling all the physical trappings of communal levity –

dancing with the arms raised, whooping, making the “hang loose” hand gesture, and bending at the waist and laughing with a hand on a fellow celebrant’s shoulder. This “bent at the waist and laughing with hand on friend’s shoulder” signifies both fellowship and the need for physical support on account of the incapacitating joy and hilarity. Roast pig inspires this happy madness.

Roast pig liberates the buttoneddown spirit, and for thousands of years has been the centerpiece of many a gilded celebration around this nutty planet of ours – another unlikely unifying tradition of our charmed, anthropologically bewildered human family. We’re an amazingly varied species inhabiting this big blue marvelous marble. Yes, we are very occasionally prone to fighting, venality, and petty theft, but some things – like a hot buried pig – join our hearts in a transcendent unity. Or as a pig might express it –“... there isn’t any remote corner of this hog-

forsaken planet where these ravenous jackasses don’t want to flay and bury me in hot rocks.” The “Human Family” song sounds less musical in pig-talk.

ARRIVAL AND MINGLING We arrived at the Smiteepupps’ Santa Barbara home on a sun-drenched midafternoon and proceeded immediately to mingle with dear pals, my adorable ex-girlfriend (wife) avidly making the rounds with the genuinely radiant affection for which she is known and loved, while I moved machine-like into the happy hubbub like an only half-enchanted mannequin. I dimly recall a time when I was possessed of the social graces, but that was back when actor David Soul of Starsky and Hutch had a soft-rock hit on the radio.

Back in those days I would offer hugs to people, tell them I loved them, freely share my innermost feelings and laugh with unrestrained frivolity.

I’m still a terrifically fun person to be with, but you wouldn’t mistake me for that hugging thing, with his tootight corduroy shorts, tucked-in polo shirt and full head of hair. I guess I’ve traded loquacity for opacity. I love my friends more than I can capably express, and that neatly sums it up. So I found a seat on the Smiteepupps’ sundeck,

began ineptly jawboning, occasionally hoisting a glass full of Dr. Pepper® to my murmuring yap. To any casual observer glancing over from across the room I surely appeared conversational and normal, gesturing and gabbing – while to the immediate trapped recipient of my empty chatter I was a muttering jailer, fixing you to the spot, imprisoning you with barely sufferable, howlingly empty gibberish.

WONDROUS MEAT WAGON When I saw that our friend Tammy was showing around a “pre-burial” photo of today’s pig for the curious, I jumped out of my seat to have a look at this post-future curiosity; a digital iPhone pic of a flayed pig. What I saw shouldn’t have surprised me, but it did, this garish image of an animal with legs and a head, body cavity handily emptied of its ghoulish clockworks.

What surprised me was how much of this thing was made of simple meat once you took out the machinery; the breathing bags, the digestion bag, the bile-producing organs, the vascular plumbing. All that complicated junk had been removed and there was still a lot of pig there. It was recognizably a pig, with a medium-sized divot scooped ...continued p.12

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The Late Great State of California

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y family moved to California in 1950, part of the postWWII westward migration.

My widowed mother, tired of Boston’s dreary winters, felt the westward pull.

My eldest brother, a WWII Navy veteran, had heard good things about San Diego from sailors who had been stationed there during the war. So, California, here we come.

I would like to think those were the golden years, at least for us. California was new, bright, warm, and full of promise. The East was old and cold.

And San Diego was thriving. Defense and aerospace jobs were plentiful.

Land was cheap, homes were cheap. A building boom met the housing needs for optimistic migrants. You could get things done in California.

It’s not that California anymore. We are overregulated and overtaxed and people aren’t so optimistic. People want to leave.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOLDEN YEARS? A recent poll of the state’s registered voters by Cal’s Institute of Governmental Studies revealed that half have considered leaving the state. The top reason was the high cost of housing (especially by young people); high taxation was second.

The poll also asked if California was one of the best places to live or a just an OK-to-lousy place to live. About half said yes and half went the other way. Interestingly 67% of Democrats said it was one of the best while 77% of Republicans disagreed. Apparently, Democrats like expensive housing, high taxes, and being overregulated.

Are people leaving California?

It depends on who you are talking about. More people are out-migrating to other states than those coming in (-156,000), but much of that was offset by international migrants (+118,000) resulting in a net population loss of only 38,000.

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that California is the most regulated state in the nation – by far.

The Cato Institute analyzed of the laws of each state by measuring the amount of individual legal restrictions in their legal codes. California was at the top, way at the top with 395,503 individual restrictions (laws, prohibitions). We

surpassed No. 2, ultraliberal New York, by almost 90,000 restrictions. Our politicians in Sacramento keep passing hundreds of new laws every year yet half of Californians are thinking of leaving.

And then there are taxes. California has the highest income tax rate of all states (13.3%). The highest combined federal and California income tax rate is now about 50% of taxable income.

Here is what will happen with rent control in our high-demand coastal communities: • Owners will raise rents to the maximum every year to protect asset values.

• Owners will be far more selective in choosing tenants, thus limiting housing for poor, less creditworthy applicants.

• Tenants will be reluctant to move from rent controlled properties which tends to freeze the rentcontrolled rental market leaving fewer apartments available for rent.

• Rent controlled units will be gentrified as historical evidence shows that higher income tenants will be the most benefited class of

Canute Effect. If you recall, Canute was the Danish king, who, legend has it, ordered the tide to stop coming in.

Canute was obviously either detached from reality or just an arrogant megalomaniac who thought he could command nature.

In our case, our legislators believe they can just pass a law and make things better. It doesn’t work that way. There are controlling economic realities that they ignore or, most likely, aren’t even aware of.

Everybody knows that Uber changed the world for the better. Consumers loved the new service. Drivers signed up to make extra money, setting their own hours. So why do our politicians want to kill Uber and Lyft? We should

We are overregulated and overtaxed and people aren’t so optimistic. People want to leave.

If you and your spouse have $200,000 of taxable income, your combined federal and California tax rate is 41.3%.

That’s not something you should be applauding since California ranks 42 out of 50 states in fiscal solvency.

Two new pieces of legislation will make things worse, much worse. One is statewide rent control. The other is the reclassification of independent contractors as employees.

THE WAR AGAINST LOW-INCOME RENTERS A rent-control law, Assembly Bill 1482, is awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature. It limits apartment rent increases to 5% plus inflation per year (not to exceed 10%). It affects units built at least 15 years ago (on a rolling timeline). Rents can be adjusted to market rates only when a tenant leaves, but tenants can only be evicted for “cause.” Newsom said, “These antigouging and eviction protections will help families afford to keep a roof over their heads …” But what if it doesn’t?

What if it will harm tenants, especially poor ones?

The advocates of rent control seem to have no grasp on the economics of price controls. Perhaps they should consult an economist. In a survey of prominent economists, 81% agreed that rent controls have not had a positive impact where they have been tried.

Why would these cold-hearted economists oppose rent control? Because rent controls don’t work and they do the opposite of what was intended: they hurt poor renters.

renters.

• Affordable apartment inventory will be further reduced as owners evict tenants, tear down older buildings, and build new, more expensive units which will be exempt from rent control.

• More apartments will be converted to condos, further reducing affordable inventory.

• Owners will cut back on expenses to preserve cash flow, thus reducing the quality of rentable units.

• Overall, rent control will disincentivize investors from investing in affordable apartments.

These conclusions aren’t guesses or just fuzzy theories – they are based on actual experience from rent controlled areas.

ADIOS GIG ECONOMY The new law on classifying independent contractors as employees (AB 5) is a stab in the heart of the gig economy – the economy that provides convenient low-cost services when you want them. Think Uber and Lyft for ride sharing. You will now pay more and get less. That assumes they will stay in California. Uber, as everyone knows, loses money (EBITDA earnings for 2018: -$2.41 billion). If they can’t make money on their present business model, how can they possibly make money if their driver costs go way up? So, I repeat myself: will they be around in a couple years? Will those drivers who feel they are being treated unfairly be out of work?

This is a classic example of the

ask ourselves: who would be better off without Uber and Lyft? Here’s a clue: in the governor’s statement supporting AB 5 he went out of his way to say, “A next step is creating pathways for more workers to form a union, collectively bargain to earn more, and have a stronger voice at work.” It’s an obvious power grab by unions who wish to unionize (i.e., kill) the gig economy.

Unions are famous for protecting the status quo and fighting for more power.

Taxi companies no doubt had their hand in it too.

Understand that Uber and Lyft are just the tip of the gig economy? We all lose.

THE TIPPING POINT I just reread Malcolm Gladwell’s wonderful book, The Tipping Point, in which he details the things that push societal change over the edge. My fear is that California is getting to a point where the dynamism that has driven our mighty state’s prosperity will be snuffed out. Are we at the tipping point yet? I don’t really know, but with 395,503 restrictions on the books, I don’t see how it can get better.

Our politicians are quick to say this will never happen. They say we have the most vibrant tech economy in the world. Our farms feed the country.

People love California. They believe they are making things better. Yet they continue to pass laws that tamp us down. At some point it will tip over and the impact of their regulations and taxes will overcome the forces that made California great.

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pparently not satisfied with the monthly 1st Thursday art-andculture tour on lower State Street, a collective of galleries have come up with ART Santa Barbara, a newly created festival of fine art designed as a self-guided walking tour of the Santa Barbara Art District. Fifteen galleries – including Channing Peake, Sullivan Goss, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art – are participating with exhibitions, live painting demos, and both artist and curator talks, encompassing in all more than 100 artists whose works ranging from plein air landscapes and figurative to abstract and expressionism will be on display for the October 10-11 event. Friday night’s kick-off reception slated for 5-8 pm includes wine, hors d’oeuvres, and artwork by Santa Barbara’s Abstract Art Collective at State Gallery, 1219 State Street, with tickets set at $10 at the door. On Saturday, each of the spaces will have a special program with a staggered schedule for the 10 am to 6 pm duration, which has free admission, as does the 6-8 pm after hours “print fair” at Glenn Dallas Gallery, 927 State Street. Visit www.santabarbaraartdistrict.com for a preview of the festival program.

The 36th annual self-guided Ojai Studio Artists Tour is set for that same weekend, although it extends from October 12-14. The tour showcases a bevy of local painters, sculptors, jewelers, ceramists, woodworker, digital, glass, and fiber artists in the mountain village and Ojai Valley, more than 60 studios in all. Several will sport artist demonstrations and the “Pre-Tour Artist Profiles” event introduces the work of each tour artist to assist people in planning their schedules. Free, although advance tickets in the form of a button are available for $10. Visit www.ojaistudioartists.org.

Over the Hills and Through the Words…

There’s another great reason to head up to Ojai two weeks later, when the Ojai Storytelling Festival takes over Libbey Bowl and the Ojai Art Center from October 24-27 to celebrate the spoken word with stories that are performed in a variety of lively styles. Storytelling might conjure images of parents reading a book to a child, but the Ojai Fest is more

Bowl on October 12, and Frankie Valli, who chases his never-ending pop music dreams at the Chumash Casino on October 11. Also of note: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke return to the Bowl on October 25.

than a step beyond as the tellers take delivering stories in the oral tradition as a performance art, not a sleep-inducing practice. Some of the stories will be based on folktales while others will be captivating personal narratives, and each tale will be dramatically told utilizing movement and gesture, more akin to theater than reading.

Among the tellers at the venerable fest, considered one of the finest in the West, are Peter Cook, a deaf storyteller from Chicago; Blind Boy Paxton of New York; Debra Ehrhardt of Jamaica; Jennifer Munro from England; Kim Weitkamp from Ohio; and Oregon’s Anne Rutherford, plus two winners of The Moth in Brian Finklestein and Ruby Cooper. Most of the afternoon and evening sessions are themed, with such titles as Humor and Heart, Amazing Adventures, Song Stories, and Naughty Tales, the latter a special late night offering where the tales careen past the G rating of the rest of the fest.

Budding storytellers can also partake of myriad morning workshops. For tickets, bios, schedules and more information visit www.ojaistoryfest.org.

The ‘L’ Word

We’re imagining one of the reasons UCSB Arts & Lectures has recently been demanding that journalists spell out the full title of the program in all articles has something to do with most folks forgetting that the university’s big producing organization does a lot of stuff that doesn’t involve music, dance, or theater. Just like in Ojai later, there will be lots of storytelling, except with the upcoming lecture series, hopefully most of the stories will not only be true, but address important current issues.

Case in point Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who broke the Harvey Weinstein story, helping to spur the #MeToo movement, who will speak at Campbell Hall on October 12. They will be followed three days later by Women’s World Cup superstars Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe (October 15), who will share the story of the glory of the soccer competition. Also heading to the dais is former Congressman, two-term governor of Ohio and 2016 Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, who will talk on October 23. Info at

(805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.

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Muñoz Moving on, Blues Duo’s Bash

After 45 years in Santa Barbara that began when percussionist Luis Muñoz attended UCSB, the Costa Ricanborn composer-multi-instrumentalist is heading back home to the Central American country. But not before a final show in the town where Muñoz has released nine albums of original compositions as a leader, all of them receiving multiple accolades and awards from the world media and cementing his reputation as one of the go-to guys on the Latin music and jazz scenes. The Friday, October 18, show at the Lobero also celebrates the release of his latest CD, The Infinite Dream, featuring the soulful singer Lois Mahalia, plus the longtime Santa Barbara-based Brazilian bossa nova guitarist-songstress Teka as special guest. Hearing Muñoz et al at the legitimate former opera house instead of noisy clubs and wineries will likely make his impending departure even more bittersweet.

The Lobero also hosts a milestone concert from local blues stalwarts Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan, who are celebrating their 40th anniversary since first coming together to play live on local college radio station KCSB, which sparked an instant offer of $15 and a pizza to come to play at the Sojourner Café. They accepted but only after holding out for free beer. That latter part is important, as the sudsy stuff has played more than a bit part in the often outrageously original and largely starkly compelling acoustic guitar and harmonica blues, rags and R&B songs they’ve made together over the ensuing four decades, during which they’ve outlasted not only hundreds of other local acts, but also the natural foods café itself. Although the boys are now just a bit long in the tooth, their good time vibes, which have remained as vital as ever in their insanely long Sunday afternoon gig at Cold Spring Tavern, should sound just fine in the October 26 Lobero show. Call (805) 963-0761 or visit www.lobero.com.

Pop notes: Bigger names who have lasted even longer are coming to town this month, too, in the person of Bob Dylan, who plays the Santa Barbara

The classical music calendar in October is occupied by season premieres from the Santa Barbara Symphony, CAMA, UCSB A&L, and the Santa Barbara Music Club, but here in the Sentinel’s calendar-land we’re partial to the world premiere of a new piece by Venturaraised composer and mandolinist Ashley Broder. The now Santa Barbara resident has penned the Channel Islands Suite, an eight-movement orchestral work inspired by the islands off our shores. Broder – a brilliantly-inventive mandolinist and violinist who also plays in a trio as well as the contradance band The Syncopaths, wrote the work after visiting the islands for the first time once she began dating her now-fiancé who works out on the islands. Each movement represents a different locale. The piece will be performed, appropriately, by Ventura’s Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra at 3 pm Sunday, October 13, at First United Methodist Church, 1338 East Santa Clara Street in Ventura, a day after its world premiere in Camarillo. Island Packers, Ventura Botanical Garden, Channel Islands Restoration, and other relevant organizations will have representatives on site with information and more, while a pre-concert presentation by biologist William Hoyer begins at 2 pm. The concert also features Bevan Manson’s “Santa Monica Mountains” with jazz guitarist Hans Ottsen, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite, Bruce Thomas’s “Rising and Shining” from East River Mountain Suite, and Michael Daugherty’s “Thunder on the Blue Ridge” from Night Owl. Admission by $20 donation, free for age 18 and under. Call (805) 246-7316 or visit www.CHICOVC.org.

Classical Corner

The Santa Barbara Symphony opens its 66th season on October 19-20 with “Festa Italiana!” with a program dedicated to the beauty of Italian music… UCSB A&L brings Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Egar Meyer trio to Campbell Hall on October 19, and brings the ZEN Trio to Hahn Hall on October 22… October 19 also marks the launch of the Santa Barbara Music Club’s 50th season of presenting free chamber music concerts in downtown Santa Barbara… CAMA kicks off its Masterseries on October 29 with the return of pianist Stephen Hough in recital at the Lobero.

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out of its underside. I realized, and not for the first time, what physical proportion of an animal is plain, edible flesh, and what proportion is an overly designed, ultimately dispensable motor for moving the flesh from place to place as it awaits fulfillment of its primary role in the toothy Circle of Life®. It’s as if all this life is principally designed around consumption by all the other life. This is an epiphany of the sort that causes the Hallmark Card Corporation to blanch and stammer – and in the late sixties/early seventies – would have seen Charlton Heston hollering through his considerable underbite in the final reel of a sci-fi epic. “We’re all made out of meeeaattt!” His knotted neckerchief bobbing.

more, the heat unimaginably intense.

Roasting! The pig began to haunt me.

I’ve always been claustrophobic and partial to pleasantly cool environs, so this roasting pig packed into a hellbox aroused in me empathies that had me shakily gulping Dr. Pepper® like a sonofagun. Soon I found I couldn’t escape the pig. It followed me around an already jittery Labor Day gathering the way the audible word “knife” might tenaciously follow a guilt-addled

ESCAPE, NO Tammy had showed us the iPhone pig photo because the pig itself had long since been sealed away in a sort of driveway oven that mimics the whole Polynesian pig burial, but without the banana leaves, hot rocks, and burly bare-chested men in floral ankle-length skirts. From the sundeck where we’d all gathered I could see the sealed box down there on its little stilts. Of course I imagined Tammy’s pig inside, cooking and cooking and freaking cooking some

Hitchcock character. Hot Pig in a Box! Hot Pig in a Box! HOT PIG IN A BOX! Begone, pig!!! [Jeff, did you say something? Nuh uh!]

in on a tarp-covered picnic table, where it lay there unadorned. I daintily viewed all this from my perch on the sun deck, compulsively sipping my Dr. Pepper® to cover my panic. My friends skittered down the steps, surrounding the pig and cooing and examining this splayed animal taking up the whole of the picnic table, its miraculous symmetry and crazily detailed carapace but fleeting impressions quickly overwritten by the profusion of crackling pork that was

betrayed none of my feverish internal pig-dialogue. When I got to the table and timidly pushed through my friends I saw a prop from a horror-movie, a set-decorator’s visual cue. Eyeless and grinning, this William Golding nightmare had come to our happy gathering with its cockeyed hoofs and bristly ears and frank reminder of the momentary animal hierarchies.

“Have a piece of skin!” someone said enthusiastically, and handed me a

What I saw shouldn’t have surprised me, but it did, this garish image of an animal with legs and a head, body cavity handily emptied of its ghoulish clockworks.

PORCINE REVELATION Finally the time had arrived to free the roasted pig. The guys who had prepped and sealed and roasted the pig now went down the deck stairs like tribal overseers, removed the top of the hotbox and, using some sort of pig-extracting contraption, lifted the pig out and set

now the pig’s powerful central feature.

The structural engineering of this oncesentient animal played tuneless second fiddle to the suddenly overwhelming fact of its being an oblong slab of roasted meat in the midst of its hungry conquerors.

Even from my hesitant vantage on the sun deck, part of me longed to spring over the wooden rail like a squealing spider monkey and tear into the thing. I took the deck steps instead, managing to effect an insouciance that

charred flap of tissue, which I ate. It tasted nothing like the bagged pork rinds we enjoy with our cocktails.

When I looked down at the huge subservient thing, where the roasted skin had peeled away there was no magic; just grey, striated, juicy pork, such as you see on a dinner plate, but here swaddling a former animal. I am no Peter Singer, no militant animal rights soldier charging into a factory farm to free the doomed, blank-faced chickens there. But for goodness sake.

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with Mark Léisuré

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

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

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lings Park is on the up-and-up in terms of creating new events – literally. The first annual Hot Air Balloon and Wine Festival found hundreds of takers for the tethered rides that spanned late afternoon through sunset into darkness. It was gorgeous from both the ground and up in the air, but now I’m probably a bit addicted to that adventure and will have to head off to the famous fest in Albuquerque to keep getting a bigger fix of flying.

Elings also hosted a one-off with L.A. Impro creating a Shakespearean play on the spot after Lit Moon needed to cancel its weekend of performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Given only a suggestion about climate change, the troupe managed to turn the anachronistic offering into a fast-paced and funny romp through romance, adventure, and galloping horses. L.A. Impro returns

for the next IMPROVology show from the Santa Barbara Zoo – which pairs animal experts with six or so actors interpreting the science via improv skits and games – on Friday, October 25, at the Lobero. And lovers of legitimate Shakespeare can get their fill when Ensemble Theatre opens its new season with artistic director Jonathan Fox’s take on Measure for Measure at the New Vic October 5-20.

Johnny Irion, the pop-rock singersongwriter who gigged around town frequently in various formats including a folk duo with wife Sarah Lee Guthrie back when the family lived part-time in Montecito a couple of years ago, was back in Santa Barbara for a oneday visit to appear at Onifest, a pop-up party at Oniracom’s Gutierrez Street headquarters. Irion’s US Elevator was joined by a bunch of Santa Barbarabased buddies, including Adam

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IS IT LIVE OR IS IT MEMOREX? No glasses were shattered on stage at the Granada during the “Rock and Roll Dream Tour” featuring holographic images of Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison “performing” back by a live band – just my sense of reality. The music was great, the interspersed video clips fun and informative. I’m just not sure if it was cool or creepy to see the images created by using CGI to replace the movements by a human performing the movements recorded earlier with the dead rock stars. I can say for sure that every time the images switched between them, especially via smoke twirl, it was just a little bit nausea inducing.

Sad as we were to see DANCEworks Santa Barbara come to a close after the program completed 11 years of month-long residencies for New York choreographers last month, it was a joy to witness the final show with Doug Varone’s brilliantly conceived and performed Somewhere, his take on the orchestral music from West Side Story.

Even more fun was the post party where company members and community supporters got down to everything from salsa to dirty dancing on stage at the old opera house.

STILL GOING ‘SIDEWAYS’ Fifteen years ago, nobody, least of all the movie’s director and stars, thought Sideways would not only capture the attention of audiences, critics, and the Academy Awards, but also radically alter the culture of the Santa Ynez Valley wine region. The charming film featuring friends from L.A. sharing wine and wit over an escapist weekend-plus in the Valley proved to be a massive gamechanger, particularly for the locations that appeared in the movie. (You gotta think the producers would have figured out a way to make something on the back end there, too, had they known.)

To mark the milestone, the Sta. Rita Hills Wine Alliance is hosting Sideways Fest, a three-day celebration of the movie’s 15th anniversary within the Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley weekend October 18-20. The party begins within a screening of the film at 6 pm on Friday, October 18, at the Solvang Theatre Fest, outdoors under the stars – the twinkly kind up in the sky, not the actual movie makers, although the screening will be preceded by wine tasting and a Q&A panel discussion with “Sideways

personalities.”

On Saturday, you can hop aboard the six-hour Sideways Shuttle Tour, which will take visitors to all the hotspots from pivotal scenes from the film. See the room that Jack and Miles stayed in at the Sideways Inn; visit the old Sanford Tasting Room at Peake Ranch, where Miles expounded to Jack on how to taste wine; Hitching Post II; cruise by AJ Spurs where Jack charmed the waitress on the way to the Hitching Post II Restaurant to meet up with owner and Highliner winemaker Frank Ostini, where you can also enjoy Maya’s favorite Highliner Pinot Noir, get some great photo opts of the Ostrich Farm, the Sideways table, the Hitching Post bar and with The Sideways Saab; and snack on an aebleskiver tasting at The Solvang Restaurant where Jack and Miles had breakfast. On the other hand, you could do something that has nothing to do with a 15-year-old movie and/or wine – but who am I to suggest anyone should get a life?

In any event, Sideways Fest comes to a close on Sunday with – what else? – the inaugural Sideways Wine Fest at River View Park in Buellton, with more than 40 Sta. Rita Hills and Santa Barbara County wineries on site, maybe even some Merlot, as Miles won’t be there.

Details and tickets online at www. sidewaysfest.com.

FILM FEST FOLLIES On the other side of the spectrum from the swooning over Sideways is the San Pesci Legends International Film Festival, a “loving satire” of both film festival and celebrity culture from the Fishbon producers of Blisstopia and The Conspiratorium, staged 6:30-10 pm Saturday, October 12, at SBCAST, 513 Garden Street. The interactive theatrical experience spoofs the dizzying world of celebrities and film stars with the opportunity to get swept up in their drama and machinations for fame and glory as the event is both a riotous party and an immersive adventure where participants play an integral role in the unfolding of the plot. Status-obsessed actors and agents will seek your help in sabotaging the careers of their fellow award nominees.

Join the paparazzi, collect autographs for profit, dive into the Q&A panels, or simply sit back and enjoy the show, including a red carpet ceremony.

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CREATIVE CHARACTERS BEN RAMOS

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urning Man is a lifestyle and at the Burn you will meet people leading different lives and of many styles. Part of the charm of Burning Man is the vast range of people you get to interact with. They come from a variety of backgrounds and many live the Burner lifestyle year-round. This lifestyle goes beyond the 10 Principles of Burning Man like “Radical Self-Reliance” and “Leave No Trace.” It is a sense of being that permeates all aspects of life, creating a thirst for adventure and a craving to challenge the limits of one’s self. There is an art to living as a Burner. And one of those artists is Ben Ramos. His art is part performance and part lifestyle.

I met Ben at Burning Man 2018.

My first memorable moment of Ben during last year’s Burn was on the night of Strike (breakdown). We were driving across the Playa to meet him. Ben had been working the food commissary for an art installation, the Sonic Runway, and had all of their camp’s uncooked leftovers. After some searching we found him and he led us on a chase for the food, guiding us by bike as we followed him in our artcar, the Pyrobar.

Our wild pursuit was a success and we ended up back at our camp, feasting on trays of bacon wrapped asparagus, fish, and other goodies. Since then we’ve had many more adventures, including Ben being my neighbor for six weeks during his artist residency at the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science & Technology (SBCAST). Whether it is the promise of asparagus and bacon or a full art show, I have witnessed Ben make big promises and miraculously deliver them out of nowhere. His ability to achieve these lofty goals come from a blend of talent, charm, and capricious determination.

First and foremost Ben is a musician.

Having just spent two weeks camping with Ben at this year’s Burning Man, I was able to witness his musical skills first hand as he jammed through whiteout

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dust storms, radio sets, and late nights deep on the Playa. His music jumps between his DJ gear and a variety of eccentric instruments like whistles and a melodica. As a DJ, Ben has a distinct sense of humor. He definitely knows how to get the crowd moving, but will seamlessly blend in oldies, Disney tunes, and other unpredictable yet recognizable tracks. He will often toy with audience expectations, playing a familiar song and then jumping to the next one right as you start to sing along. This is not done in an abrasive way though, and Ben has a good understanding of how to keep the momentum of a DJ set going. One of his Burning Man radio sets from this year can be found on SoundCloud under his DJ persona, Grease Withaspoon. His dad an artist and mom a writer, these family influences come out more in his hip-hop persona, ASTR0N0T. With his hip hop, the beats are there simply to support the lyrics. The wordplay and meaning take front stage. During his SBCAST residency, Ben placed first at the Poetry Slam! Santa Barbara, which takes place each month at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Santa Barbara (October 16th from 6:30 - 9:30 pm this month). Much of his poetry and lyrics deal with some of the struggles he has faced in his life.

Growing up in the Pasadena area, Ben was born with only one eye, in addition to pectus excavatum, or a sunken breastbone, that required dozens of surgeries to correct. With no depth perception and limited visibility, he jokes that he can literally see the world from a different perspective. Music was introduced to Ben at an early age.

Growing up his mom felt that he would have a tough time fitting in and being in front of the public. She encouraged him to join the church choir and he ended up being a member for thirteen years.

It was from his experiences in choir that he learned music theory and about

public performance. The choir was for a mega church with crowds and cameras everywhere so being on the choir was a fulltime involvement, consisting of rehearsals and several performances per day. As he got older, his music interests branched out, with him starting joke hip hop groups in high school. After graduating he joined several music outfits, each with their own moniker and persona. He briefly attended community college for music business but ended up dropping out as he kept playing, even working the Hollywood circuit for a while.

As many his age do, Ben found that the food industry can be a good form of fiscal support while allowing one to pursue their dreams. His foray into food started when he saw a “Help Wanted” sign as a short order cook for a Hawaiian joint.

With no experience, his boss hired him and promised to teach him everything he needed to know. Over the years he was able to move up the “greasy ladder” in a variety of kitchens, working everywhere from a cafeteria to a Hilton. Wanting to get out of his bubble, he joined a taco company in 2014 and began running their kitchen at festivals like Coachella.

He laughingly calls it the “taco tour of a lifetime” but in many ways it was. He toured about ten states that summer and went on to go through multiple countries on the festival circuit. He found that at festivals, food is currency. He was able to trade food for a foot in the door. Slinging tacos over ten-hour shifts and then trading taco coupons for DJ sets with different stages and camps.

It was at last year’s Burn that he met and began dating one of my campmates, which brought him to Santa Barbara. His six-week artist residency at SBCAST was a chance to explore the entire range of his work.

The residency culminated in a twonight exhibit that spanned the building with installations, environments, and live performances. The majority of the show was installed by himself and it was dizzying to see how much hustle he put into making it happen. During his time

at SBCAST you could see the Burner style come through. Not just radical self-reliance but also the gifting aspect.

While at SBCAST he taught me and several others music design in Ableton Live, even gifting me my first MIDI controller. Ben considers Burning Man the mark of his new year (as many do, including myself ) and moved to Santa Barbara after the Burn this year. With Santa Barbara as his new home, it is only a matter of time before he brings more of his art (and some of that Burning Man style) to the area.

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Held at SBCAST (513 Garden Street) on Saturday, October 12 from 6:30 pm to 10 pm, this event is both a riotous party and a dramatic adventure, where participants play an integral role in the unfolding of the plot. Status-obsessed actors and agents will seek your help in sabotaging the careers of their fellow award nominees. Join the paparazzi, collect autographs for profit, or simply sit back and enjoy the show. Just don’t be late for the red carpet ceremony!

SPLIFF will be like walking into a Christopher Guest movie, a loving satire that celebrates both film festival and celebrity culture. With Hollywoodthemed libations, Indian delicacies by Nimita’s Cuisine, music by DJ Gryphn and aerial performances by Elevated Dreams, plus Q&A panels and oddball films, SPLIFF is a Santa Barbara experience like no other. Ages 21+ only.

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ON ART

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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.

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Fraser probably didn’t realize what challenges she was tackling when she started “The Grapeseed Company” twelve years ago. Creating a line of body care products and using photography and sketches to create the images on all the labels and advertising to market the products seemed like a good place to start letting her creativity take off.

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she created a life-style brand of skin and hair care products. Fraser uses clays, tinctures, essential oils, herbs, fruits and vegetable oils, and extracts in her products. Sourcing 70 to 90 percent of her ingredients from local, organic ingredients, they are 100 percent natural.

Eight years ago she developed the concept of featuring local artists and opened two collectives bringing together a group of talented artists, a photographer, handmade leatherworker, jeweler, watercolorist, and a group of painters. She has crafted the atmosphere of the Collective so when you enter it you are transported to another world where you want to explore all the images, test all the products, sniff all the fragrances, immerse yourself in a different experience, and possibly take a little bit of it home with you.

Fraser shared her thoughts about making art, running a business, and having a family life with her threeyear-old son Jacob, and husband Jason. “I’m most thankful. A business is what makes you money – it’s not a hobby. Seeing local businesses struggle in different ways influenced bringing together artists for The Collective. We cross reference local art with something for both tourists wanting a memento to take home and a place for locals to come for their needs, too.”

Contact Fraser at (805) 318-1486, @grapeseedco on all social media, @seasidemakers on Facebook and Instagram, at Seaside Makers Collective locations, 961 Linden Avenue in Carpinteria and 209 Anacapa Street in Santa Barbara and 120 State Street in the Hotel California’s “Santa Barbara Visitor’s Center.”

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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

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J Javier (as far as I know, not a deejay!) is one of Breakfast Culture Club’s favorite artists and probably the one with the greatest chance of having a career blow up soon. He returns this month for “Out of Step,” a selection of his latest prints and multiple media work. His style is instantly recognizable, and you should think about placing a red dot near his work before you can’t afford to do so. You heard it here first.

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f you missed 1st Thursdays don’t worry, there’s another chance to explore the multitude of galleries and museums downtown. Art Santa Barbara is a selfguided tour of over 15 galleries and is organized by Jan Ziegler from 10 West Gallery/Abstract Arts Collective. Along the way there’ll be live painting demos and artist/curator talks, and there’s a handy map available at all participating galleries. Reception is Friday night on October 11, at State Gallery, 1219 State Street. $10 at the door. Saturday’s walk is free and ends with a reception at Glenn Dallas Gallery, 6-8 pm. santabarbaraartdistrict.com ALL THE PRINTS FIT TO BE NEWS

That is a good point to jump in and say that at said Glenn Dallas Gallery (927 State Street) they will be having a print fair that opens Friday, October 11 and continues through the weekend.

Lots of prints from notable artists priced to sell! Be sure to check it out.

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ighly influential to the Mexican art scene in the early 20th century, and then a celebrant of Mexican tradition when he moved to Los Angeles in 1929,

nd now we’ve also mentioned Jan Ziegler, October’s show at 10 West Gallery (10 West Anapamu) is their 4th annual Artist Showcase, featuring their consistent roster of artists, all checking in on each other on the state of the art. Also, their collection of pottery from Mata Ortiz,

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Alfredo Ramos Martinez is recognizable from his paintings, second only to Diego Rivera. However, “On Paper,” the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, celebrates his works in charcoal, gouache, conte crayon, and watercolor in its Works on Paper room.

Opens October 27 and runs through Feb 9, 2020. 1130 State Street.

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The map is $35 in advance/$40 day of, while the tour runs October 12 to 14. There’s also a free nighttime reception show, “Origins,” at the Ojai Valley Museum (130 West Ojai Avenue) on Saturday. More info at www.ojaistudioartists.org.

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t’s October and there’s a lot going on in town and beyond! We’ve got the remains of Thursday’s First Thursdays (just two days ago) still available to see, two artist walks with maps to follow, public art, openings, and so much more.

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iel Rucker’s photography show is called “Pareidolia,” and I’ll save you a trip to the dictionary: it means the tendency to see things like faces in abstract patterns. Humans, eh, always looking for something in our image!

Rucker’s images are from Capitol Reef National Park in the deserts of Utah, and while we’re not saying you’re going to see faces, his work invites contemplation and feedback. At Jamie Slone Wines, 23 East De La Guerra Street.

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eeing more faces? Up at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club (2375 Foothill Road), their Second Fridays opening is FAÇADE (ooh la la, une çédille!), a group show of six artists, six different processes, all dealing with the masks we wear every day, be it a person or a building.

Features Thore Edgren, Daniel Linz, Joyce Wilson, Gina Papadakis, Linda Nemon, and Veronica Walmsley Lambert. Reception October 11, 5:307:30 pm. Through December 6.

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uliya Lennon’s Art Studio & Gallery is a hidden gem inside Victoria Court (1213 State Street, Space H), and this month they have “WabiSabi,” honoring the Japanese aesthetic “centered of transience, imperfection, modesty and the appreciation of nature.”

Features pottery by Angela Beguhl, sculpture by Daniel Elmer Landman, and paintings by Marlene Struss and Lennon herself. Added bonus: Come see a Japanese tea ceremony, 6-7 pm, at the gallery, on October 12.

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hen Dan Levin isn’t making assemblage art, he usually has X-Acto blade in hand cutting intricate patterns through playing card decks and mounting the results. His “Lonely Hearts” decks are so popular that recently he posted a Japanese fan just losing his mind after receiving a deck in the mail. A show of nothing but his delicate, beautiful decks are up at Bella Rosa Gallery, 1103 State Street. Get to it before they disappear!

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ullivan Goss (11 East Anapamu) opens two new shows this month, one being their Fall Salon of contemporary and collectible artists, the other being “California Bauhaus,” tracing the influence on the German movement on artists another continent away. (The main reason? Many of the artists fled the Nazi regime and landed here.) Artists include: Peter Krasnow, Elise Seeds, Rudolph Schindler, Emerson Woelffer, Sidney Gordin, Werner Drewes, and Herbert Bayer (best known for the “Chromatic Gate” rainbow sculpture on Cabrillo Boulevard. Both through November 25.

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Photographer Patricia Houghton Clarke has been photographing refugees and migrants into Western Europe over recent years, interested as she is in how they assimilate. A selection of her touching portraits “Facing Ourselves” is yet another reminder – because apparently we need to hear this lest we lose our humanity – that we are a nation of immigrants. Her solo show opens October 18 at The Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center (865 Linden Avenue, Carpinteria) from 7-9 pm and October 19, 2-5 pm. This will be accompanied around Carpinteria with public art portraits at the Seal Fountain, the Art Center, and the corner of Linden and Carpinteria Avenue. Through November 4.

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Millennials have been getting a bad rap lately, but I understand the urge to point the finger. (Must be how parents feel when children reverse the blame.) Here’s what it comes down to: we’re not perfect, but we’re doing the best we can. In our youth, we’re taught to “fight the good fight,” as it applies to the values on which we were raised. And as the world changed, we did too. We grew up believing we could do anything, even become president! So, with that confidence, and little thing called the internet, we took those opportunities and freakin’ ran.

We work and travel. Sometimes, at the same time. The nine-to-five isn’t our only option anymore. We thrive in a “gig economy” to have freedom from being professionally tied down. Inclusivity of all people is expected, as well as recycling.

We pay taxes. We fight for our country. We get married and have kids, more often than not. We repeat learned patterns while making new. We’re redefining what partnership and family means – no longer is the belief to find someone of the same sex, race, religion or educational background to start a family. And thank goodness for that, or I wouldn’t be here today: My dad, a West Point grad, fell in love with my mom who didn’t finish college, and between my fiancé Jason and I, I am the one with the Bachelor’s degree. Millennials realize education is not only found in expensive schools – that can leave you in major debt – but through life experiences to be enjoyed in our youth, not only saved for retirement.

With all due respect, I think you may have missed the point in my previous column: regardless of what our partnerships may look like, we ultimately want commitment. Millennials are so “married to marriage” that we do not “believe it is our destiny and duty” to find a partner by the time we graduate college in order to fulfill a societal expectation to have children right away. So, with almost half of American marriages ending in divorce, and realizing that good sex fades, we’ve decided to take our time, and explore our sexuality in the process. Using protection, of course.

To step into your shoes, I can’t imagine how exciting the world was the year you were married. 1969, was it? I am one of many Millennials who wish to have been alive back then. I heard there was a particularly exciting concert in Woodstock, New York that year. And didn’t some guy land on the moon? On that note, can you imagine what couples married in 1919 must have thought about couples who were married in ’69? Women wearing pants in public? Oh my! After daydreaming of how life must have been, I’ve realized that the quality of life past generations fought so hard for is what Millennials are navigating today: We are the product of social movements such as “Free love,” Civil Rights, and Women’s Rights. Though we still have a ways to go, I think we’re doing a pretty good job with what we have.

I see how our lives can seem confusing to other people. It can be confusing to us, too. Personally, one of the greatest joys in my life has been the opportunity to be a single woman in her thirties, busting her ass to become a writer in California while discovering what a strong, independent woman can mean. As much as older couples with children shake their heads when I mention I do not want kids, I respectfully sigh at those who never gave themselves a chance to experience this kind of independence (though, some eventually do in the form of a “midlife crisis”). As my mom once said, one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is learning to be by yourself. Find peace with being alone. Alone does not mean “lonely.” In that, a Millennial woman is every woman: we have parts of “Sadie, Sadie, married lady” (hilarious, by the way) as well as Rosie the Riveter, and Wonder Woman, too.

Of course, there are some quirks to partnering up in your thirties. By then, it can become challenging to combine a “room of one’s own” with another’s. So, when we marry, we honor that room by agreeing to love and support by not “stepping on each other’s toes,” through sickness and health or lack of wealth. We’ve learned through our elders that finding a passion separate from our partner is essential to a healthy relationship and personal sanity. What you may see as creating distance is actually our way of sustaining a life partnership.

On a personal note, I fully agree with your advice to “share some uglies” – Jason and I shared a compostable toilet on a 34’ sailboat for three years. That means, we faced our “uglies,” quite literally, every time we when had to clean the loo. It’s easy to make romance fade in a 11’x 8’ living space for that matter, but thankfully our relationship became stronger and, God willing, we’ll have more time to explore.

I’d love to go on, but with limited space, I must end with this: Millennials will continue to succeed, fall down, and pick ourselves up again just as generations have before. Regardless of how it may look, we’re all striving for same thing: a life with good memories to keep us company when our partners have passed on, a life fully lived, and a life filled with love.

Yours always, Elizabeth Rose

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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.

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umpkin picking and the turning of the leaves in the vineyards announce autumn’s arrival. The Solvang Farmer Pumpkin Patch is one farm overflowing with the feel of fall. Farm owner Steve Jacobsen says pumpkin patch goers will find white, red, green, blue, and orange colored pumpkins alongside piles of gourds, hay bales, corn stalks, broom corn, and of course pumpkins of classic and exotic varieties including; Cinderellas, Jack-o-Lanterns, Ozzies, Turbans and Munchkins, of all sizes from 1/2 a pound to 300 pounds. There is an 8-acre corn maze and a mini maze for the kids. A “Night Maze” will be held on Saturday, October 26 starting at 6:30 pm with a last entry at 9pm, “We are just lighting up the parking lot so bring your own flashlight,” says Steve, hinting at an inevitably spooky fun time.

This year Steve says he’s put a 1860s corn-sheller out on display. “You put in the whole dried corn on the cob, we let the kids spin the wheel, and it will spit out the kernels, and they can take a bag of unpopped corn and pop it at home.”

When: Open daily now through November 2 from 10 am to 6:30 pm Where: Alamo Pintado Road in Solvang next to Sunny Field Park Info: (805) 331-1918 SANTA YNEZ SCARECROW FESTIVAL pwards of 100 handcrafted Scarecrows return to the Valley for a hearty hay-filled competitive autumnal throw-down between business owners throughout Santa Ynez, Los Alamos, Los Olivos, Buellton, and Ballard – all reaching for the “2019 Harvest Cup: Best in the Valley” title and trophy. Solvang hotel and restaurant/bar The Landsby and Mad & Vin was awarded the 2018 Harvest Cup for their scarecrow entry, which depicted a ghoulish mad scientist concocting cocktails in his “Spookeasy.”

Restaurants, bakeries, fudge houses, wine tasting rooms, taprooms, candy counters, ice cream stores, museums, salons, merchants, companies, individuals, school organizations, and even law offices will flaunt their creations and compete in the 8th Annual Scarecrow Festival and Contest. The public is invited and encouraged to judge and vote for their favorites. Ballots available at each scarecrow site.

When: October 1 through October 31 – winner announced on Wednesday, November 20.

Where: Valley-wide Info: www.syvscarecrows.com

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FIRST ANNUAL “TASTE OF THE SANTA YNEZ VALLEY” n what is expected to be an ongoing annual signature event, Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley plans to take over the wine region with an inaugural “four days – six towns” experiential food and wine extravaganza with cooking classes, seminars, exclusive dinners, tastings, and beyond. More than 100 restaurants, wineries, wine tasting rooms, vineyards, ranches, breweries, and entertainment venues will welcome visitors for an adventure, with more than two dozen individual events and happenings, with associated tickets and pricing designed for all wining and dining budgets.

When: Thursday, October 17 through Sunday, October 20 Where: All throughout the Santa Ynez Valley Cost: Individual tickets as well as single and multi-day passes available.

Info: www.TasteSYV.com

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MORNING WALK ON CHAMBERLAIN RANCH tart the day with a moderate 45-minute morning walk on the historic Ted Chamberlin Ranch – a working cattle ranch since 1929, located three miles northwest of Los Olivos. The walk will be on ranch dirt roads, please wear appropriate shoes, and note that it is calving season, so guests might get lucky and see some cute little ones. No dogs and RSVP by the previous evening at (805) 886-3979.

When: Friday, October 19 from 7 to 8 am Where: Ted Chamberlain Ranch, Valley explorers will meet promptly at 7 am at the metal gate across from the Santa Ynez Valley Recycling and Transfer Station (4004 Foxen Canyon Road, Los Olivos) Info: www.ChamberlinRanch.com

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DAY IN THE COUNTRY he tiny town of Los Olivos will roll out the family fun for everyone to “enjoy country living the way it used to be in simpler times”. A 5K run/ walk, pancake breakfast, parade through town, silent auction, vintage tractor and antique car display, a new beer garden, and more than 100 arts, crafts, food, and wine booths will line Grand Avenue for some good old down home sweet happy fun for all.

When: Saturday, October 19 from 10 am to 4 pm Where: All along Grand Avenue in Los Olivos Cost: Free Info: www.losolivosca.com

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SOLVANG GRAPE STOMP he 2nd Annual Solvang Stomp will be a traditional grape stomp and harvest street festival with dozens of wines to sip, locally prepared food to sample, live music to dance to, an I Love Rosé Lounge, and an I Love Lucy look-a-like contest for all the Lucy and Ricky Ricardo doppelgangers out there. Participating wineries include: The Sanger Family of Wines, Lucas & Lewellen Vineyards, Pence Vineyard & Winery, Lafond Winery & Vineyards, Santa Barbara Winery, Royal Oaks Winery, Brick Barn Wine Estate, and more. Hats, sunglasses, and sunscreen are recommended.

When: Saturday, October 19 from 2 to 5 pm Where: First Street and Mission Drive in Solvang Cost: $40 – $125 per person Info: www.solvangusa.com or call (805) 688-6144

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CNOA CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT alifornia Narcotic Officers’ Association Region VI includes Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo counties. The organization works to provide ongoing training for law enforcement officers, and each year they host a golf tournament to raise money for their “Survivors Memorial Fund.” The fund was established to help surviving family members of fallen officers by providing immediate financial assistance of up to $10,000 within 48 hours of notification, and helps offset costs of travel, lodging and burial expenses as insurance and pensions may not be received for some time. This year’s tournament is in memory of Ventura County Sheriffs Deputy Sgt. Ron Helus, who died a hero in 2018. Sgt. Helus was among the first officers through the door during the attack at the Borderline bar in Thousand Oaks.

When: Saturday, October 19 Where: River Course at the Alisal, 150 Alisal Road in Solvang Cost: $100 per golfer with sponsorship opportunities from $250-$5000 Info: For more information call Corina at (805) 844-0343

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FRIGHT FARM, A HAUNTED HOUSE ith the customary caution of “Do Not Look Inside,” The Haunt returns for its 26th year with “Fright Farm,” hosted by the City of Solvang Parks and Recreation and City of Buellton Recreation. Two terror-ific days of voodoo vineyards and hayrides of no return; monsters and volunteers are still needed. There will be a special Halloween Streetfest that will thrill visitors with food, fun, and spirits both nights outside the Solvang Festival Theater where the Haunt will take place. A kid-friendlier Haunt will be from 6 to 6:30 pm each night. All others prepare to be scared!

When: Wednesday, October 30 and Thursday, October 31 from 6 to 9:30 pm Where: Solvang Festival Theater, 420 Second Street in Solvang Cost: Children 13 and under $9. Adults $11 Info: If you would like to be a volunteer, guide, monster, or donor at this event, call 688-7529. www.solvangusa.com/events/halloween-haunted-house

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