VOICE Magazine: December 6, 2024

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Take a Musical Sip with Pink Martini as They Celebrate 30 Years this Holiday

By Destin Cavazos / VOICE

BRINGING THEIR SLEEK

SALON

STYLE

TO SEASONAL FAVORITES, Pink Martini’s unique cocktail of music from around the globe will jazz up local holidays this December as chanteuse China Forbes and a dozen band members bring their 30th Anniversary Tour to the Arlington. The group’s Holiday Concert, with its appeal to all ages, has become a local Holiday tradition presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures. The special performance is set for Tuesday, December 17th, at 7:30pm.

“There are very few intergenerational activities in our country. People don’t gather around the piano and sing anymore,” noted bandleader and pianist Thomas Lauderdale in an interview for Heinz Records. “I think, in some ways, the band is an extension of that idea, of creating safe spaces for people to blossom, and to feel safe and feel cozy.”

Known as “Portland’s Little Orchestra” Pink Martini’s program will feature seasonal classics from over 20 different languages alongside fan favorites from their own original catalog, covering everything from White Christmas to a samba-inspired version of Auld Lang Syne.

Lauderdale had initially planned a political career in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, with dreams of one day becoming mayor. Instead of running for office, however, Lauderdale founded Pink Martini in 1994 to play political fundraisers for progressive causes. Forbes, a college friend of Lauderdale’s, joined as the group’s vocalist shortly after.

Featuring a dozen musicians, Pink Martini has performed its multilingual mix on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and North America.

“I mostly write with China Forbes. Both of us grew up studying different languages, and she’s so good at language,” explained Lauderdale. “The concept of learning another language has dissipated, I think, and for me growing up in a multicultural household, it led to me just realizing the world is big and wonderful. And, there’s all this great music in different languages!”

“We have a timeless quality, we’re very inclusive,” shared Forbes in a later interview with NBC. “We kind of have no limits because we’ve tried all genres and merged them into this cocktail of our own.”

Pink Martini has sold over three million records worldwide, and released nine studio albums, including Hang On Little Tomato in 2004, Hey Eugene! in 2007, and Je dis oui!, their most recent release, in 2016. In November 2010 the band released Joy To The World – a festive, multidenominational holiday album featuring songs from around the globe. The record received glowing reviews and was a staple of Starbucks shelves during the 2010 and 2011 holiday seasons. Additionally, singer Forbes released a new solo album, The Road, in May of 2024

and conductor Norman Leyden, the original cast of Sesame Street, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, and many others.

The idea is to play and perform beautiful songs. And to inspire people... – Thomas Lauderdale

Throughout their career, the band has collaborated with numerous artists, including Phyllis Diller, Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, Rufus Wainwright, Japanese legends Saori Yuki and Hiroshi Wada, New York performer Joey Arias,

Other major appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return soldout engagements for New Year’s Eve 2003, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2016, and 2018; sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th anniversary party in 2018; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; three sold-out shows with the Sydney Symphony at the renowned Sydney Opera House; and multiple soldout appearances and a festival opening at the Montreal Jazz Festival. In 2014, Pink Martini was inducted into both the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame and the Oregon Music Hall of Fame.

“We’re very much an American band, but we spend a lot of time abroad and therefore have the incredible diplomatic

opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive America,” elaborated Lauderdale. “The America which remains the most heterogeneously populated country in the world, composed of people of every country, every language, every religion.”

Pink Martini’s television appearances include The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and a feature on CBS Sunday Morning. The group also created a nationally broadcast 2015 NPR holiday concert special, Joy to the World: A Holiday Spectacular, and have been featured on multiple New Year’s Eve broadcasts on NPR’s Toast of the Nation.

“The idea is to play and perform beautiful songs. And to inspire people” shares Lauderdale warmly on the band’s mission. “And to comfort them, and to help them fall in love or help them through a divorce or have a baby…or vacuum.”

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Experience Santa Barbara’s biggest and best New Year’s celebration! Conductor and host Andrew Lipke returns to lead the orchestra in an energetic mix of pop, rock, and surprise hits–complete with his electric guitar!

Adding to the excitement, local American Idol star Micaela McCall brings her soulful voice and dynamic stage presence to this festive evening. The Symphony’s traditional salute to the military and an Auld Lang Syne singalong round out the evening.

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Community Letters

A Letter to City Council re: Rent Control

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A lot of pressure on the rental market was caused by the recent pandemic. People were both forced and able to work from home and so Santa Barbara was inundated with stay-at-home workers from LA, New York, San Francisco, and other less desirable locations than here. That put a major strain on our rental and housing market.

That demand has been lessening this year and rents have come down substantially.

As a landlord, I do not set the rents. I can only charge what someone is able or willing to pay.

I challenge any of the people making this decision [regarding rent control] to buy a rental property at the current price in Santa Barbara and see if you can make a profit from it. You will find that it is extremely difficult to do that and almost impossible to do all the upkeep and improvements it will need.

I personally know two landlords who will be selling their properties because of the controls that are being talked about.

Please don’t make it any harder to be a landlord in Santa Barbara!

Sincerely,

John Whitehurst

Santa Barbara, CA 93130

Regarding last week’s Parade Editorial Editor,

I totally agree with your editorial (Nov. 29, 2024) in regards to “Festivals & Parades” on State Street in downtown Santa Barbara.

Enough is enough! How many variations of State Street are we going to have? Just open up downtown as before. After Covid-19 and the ugly “Parklets” that have been given different options as to the openness of downtown - it’s time for them to go!

Consider what has happened on State Street in recent months. Not one but two restaurant fires: Chase Restaurant in October and more recently, Indochine Nightclub at the 400 block. Not but a few days ago at Cota & State Street a vehicle and electric bicycle collision. Don’t kid yourselves, these events require an added response from our first responders as they navigate downtown barriers and closed streets that may be blocks away.

When was the last time you have seen the Santa Barbara Police monitoring these electric bicycles on State Street?

You have to consider how much more time it takes to find parking in downtown to shop. The MTD had a great option both for tourists and local citizens to ride the convenient shuttle on State Street to the Waterfront. Having to walk blocks on Chapala and Anacapa to get these shuttle buses is not efficient, particularly for senior citizens heading to State Street.

These parades and festivals play a vital part of Santa Barbara’s cultural and traditions, our historical birth that makes what we are is dying. What is next? Destroy our red tile roofs with modern architectural buildings? What would Pearl Chase be saying?

Enough is enough!

Rob P.

Santa Barbara, CA

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Ellis

Island:

The Dream of America

A Fourth of July Concert • FREE!

5:00 pm, Thurs., July 4, 2019 • Santa Barbara Courthouse Sunken Gardens

Join Cielo Foundation and Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation for a patriotic concert with the performance of Peter Boyer’s Ellis Island: The Dream of America and other patriotic classics. Come early to claim your spot on the grass; bring your picnic, beach chairs and blankets for this free, time-honored Santa Barbara tradition. www.pcvf.org

The 56th Annual 4th of July Parade

1:00 p.m. • State Street • Micheltorena Street to Cota Street

Festivals and Parades Are Community Building Blocks

THE PANDEMIC WAS BLAMED FIRST AND THEN PARKLETS AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT for halting Santa Barbara’s State Street Parades. When protests emerged, soon other routes were suggested and tried - Santa Barbara Street for Solstice and Cabrillo Blvd for Fiesta. But the in the changed locations parades have lacked the enthusiasm and financial viability of State Street. And, some of our favorite parades never came back. Remember the joy of the Children’s Holiday Parade? And the pride of the Fourth of July Parade?

In the meantime Goleta, Milpas Street, and Montecito all recovered their street festivals and parades. What happened to Downtown’s big events?

Was it perhaps the cost of reapplying with changed location plans? Why not allow them to return to their original locations? COVID is no longer the issue, and besides, being outside was one of the main corrections to address COVID transmission concerns.

It is time to bring city festivals and parades back to Santa Barbara's Grand PaseoState Street. If the City of Santa Barbara waits any longer, residents may lose these special times when residents come together on our main thoroughfare.

Citywide celebrations enrich community life by bringing together children, abuelas, moms, dads, uncles, and tias to sing, dance, and shout "Santa Barbara is a wonderful place to live together!"

Festivals hold up culture at its best — in a social way — honoring viable traditions that make us smile about our similarities and differences.

Santa Barbara has several festivals that hold unique places in the hearts of residents and also have earned national recognition. Fiesta, which formerly was the largest equestrian parade in the nation; Music Academy of the West Summer Festival, with its internationally recognized performances, students, and faculty; Solstice, which has captured the imagination of many parades and celebrations; and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, with amazing international star power and programming.

Intergenerational, diverse by nature, and all-inclusive — they are a powerful mix with the central focus of participating in a community event. All of our parades and events, at their heart, hold high human worth and mutual respect.

Parades are a chance to be face to face with neighbors and family members, to watch and perform for other like-minded people that live in our beautiful home with its very rich cultural mix.

If you think that it is important for parades to return to State Street, or have an opinion about that return, please let your local representatives know.

To assist with that, below is some contact information for some of our representatives:

Mayor Randy Rowse: RRowse@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

City Councilmembers:

Mike Jordan: Mjordan@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

Oscar Gutierrez: Ogutierrez@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

Meagan Harmon: MHarmon@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

Kristen Sneddon: ksneddon@santabarbaraca.gov

Eric Friedman: EFriedman@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

City Administrator Kelly McAdoo: kmcadoo@santabarbaraca.gov

Community Development Director Elias Isaacson: eisaacson@SantaBarbaraCA.gov

Send us your letters, too - at News@VoiceSB.com

Trove of John Steinbeck first editions and audio recordings elevate UCSB Library archive

By Keith Hamm / The UCSB Current

IN THE SUMMER OF 1974 AT A GARAGE SALE IN THE SALINAS VALLEY, the seed was sown for what would grow to become a vast and rare collection of John Steinbeck books and recordings recently donated to UC Santa Barbara.

It was there, in Steinbeck’s hometown and the setting of much of his most important fiction, where Mark Maxson, a UCSB undergraduate at the time, spotted a first edition of The Winter of Our Discontent in its original dust jacket. He paid $2 for it — and so began his decades-long fascination with collecting the Nobel Prize winner’s books and, more recently, audio recordings of speeches, early drafts and story ideas.

Dozens of hours of recordings and more than two dozen first editions representing Steinbeck’s major works are now archived at UC Santa Barbara Library. In late October, Maxson and his wife Mary Burchill — they met on the rowing team in 1972 and graduated in 1975 and 1976, respectively — dropped off the sizable trove on the third floor of the library’s Department of Special Research Collections, where the process has begun to digitize the recordings and make the books accessible to the public.

“Their donation really complements our existing Steinbeck holdings,” said David Gartrell, the special collections curator of rare books and manuscripts. “We have some later fine press editions of some of Steinbeck’s work . . . and even uncorrected galley proofs of The Grapes of Wrath, but we had very few true first editions in such fine condition. The volumes donated by Mark and Mary have been well cared for.”

The voice of a master

In early 2024, Maxson made his first donation of Steinbeck material to UCSB, a collection of recordings the author made in the 1940s and 1950s with a SoundScriber dictation machine. In the fall of 2023, the seven-inch green discs were part of a Bonhams auction featuring items from the estate of the late Mary Steinbeck Dekker, the youngest of the author’s three sisters.

“I bought the lot, not knowing exactly what I was getting,” Maxson said. “I didn’t have a way to play the discs — I really didn’t want to be playing them, anyway, or even storing them at my house.” Through an old college roommate, Alec Webster, whose wife Claudia serves as a UCSB Foundation trustee, Maxson was introduced to David Seubert, curator of the library’s performing arts collection.

Seubert heads up one of the country’s premier audio labs for playing and digitizing artifacts of analog recording. During the process, technicians slowed down the revolutions per minute from 33 to 30 rpm to prevent the turntable stylus from skipping; once digitized, they restored the recordings to their original speed.

The collection includes 75 discs, each with 15 minutes of recording time per side. The recordings, all of them dictated by Steinbeck for typists to transcribe, include The Wayward Bus” (1947), A Russian Journal (1948), a travelog of the Soviet Union and Zapata, the basis for the script for the 1952 film “Viva Zapata!,” starring Marlon Brando.

In his dictation of The Wayward Bus, Steinbeck narrates slowly and with careful articulation, his tone wistful. The collection also includes a five-minute recording from October of 1947 for “an idea for a motion picture based on and using the witch trials of Salem as historical matter,” Steinbeck says. “It is intended to be . . . a film treatise on public hysteria and prejudice.” He also includes a notation for the transcriptionist to type it up in triplicate, adding, “I would like to turn it over to the author’s guild tomorrow.”

‘All of his major works’ Maxson also consulted Sipper on his recent donation of 26 Steinbeck books and two reel-toreel recordings. Among the books, all are first editions except a 1991 reprint of Tortilla Flat, and include “all of his major works,” Maxson said, from fictional favorites Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath to Cannery Row and East of Eden, plus important works of nonfiction, such as The Log from the Sea of Cortez, Travels with Charley and America and Americans.

On a personal note, Maxson said his favorite Steinbeck book is The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication, a 1957 novella of political satire set in France. “It’s very telling of our politics today.”

With the book delivery in October, Mark and Mary also dropped off reel-to-reel recordings of a 1954 reading for the United Nations Radio Division and Steinbeck’s dictation of The Affair at 7, Rue de M, a short horror story from 1955 about a boy chewed by his own bubblegum.

Mark and Mary included a $10,000 gift to help cover the cost of preservation and digitization. For decades, the couple has donated annually to UC Santa Barbara, mostly in support of the women’s rowing team. In October, Mark started a three-year term on the UCSB Foundation’s board of trustees.

The book collector

During that summer of 1974, Maxson was offered a job by a family friend to run the beer concession at the Salinas Rodeo. For extra hands, he recruited crewmates from the rowing team.

“When we weren’t working the rodeo, we’d venture out into town,” Maxson remembered. “One morning, I happened upon a garage sale where I found that copy of The Winter of Our Discontent. It was in really good shape, so I bought it.”

While Maxson had grown up a fan of Steinbeck’s most famous novels and novellas, he said he was mostly drawn to the book by the dust jacket art by Elmer Hader, the American artist who had also illustrated The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden and The Long Valley.

Before donating the disc collection to the library, Maxson had it appraised by Ralph Sipper, a Santa Barbara-based rare book dealer for more than 50 years. “Mark’s entire collection is certainly significant,” Sipper said. “He’s a major player, a serious collector. This is top-of-the-market material.”

Such first edition cover art often represents “the author’s original vision most fully, in terms of design elements and layout,” said curator Gartell. “With rare exceptions, the first edition of a work is how it originally met its audience. The physical book and the choices made in its presentation, such as illustrations, were products of a cultural context that might have changed dramatically by the time a new edition was produced.”

Early on, Maxson got hooked on perusing garage sales, estate sales, used bookstores and thrift stores. As his interest and collection grew, he started bidding at auctions, as well, and searching online. Over the decades of buying, selling and trading, and swapping out books with ones of higher quality, his collection evolved from first editions to first editions with dust jackets. Slowly he would add the ultimate pieces — well-preserved first editions in their original dust jackets, inscribed and signed by John Steinbeck.

These days, even after his donation to UCSB, his collection tops 100 books, his most prized a copy of The Pearl signed by the author and inscribed to his friend Ed Ricketts, the immortalized marine biologist and philosopher of Cannery Row. Maxson purchased it at auction in 2006 from PBA Galleries Auctioneers & Appraisers; he was told it had belonged to Ricketts’s son.

That book, Maxson says, will remain in his possession. Same with that first edition of The Winter of Our Discontent he picked up 50 years ago at a garage sale in Salinas.

John Steinbeck, 1947

Photo Credit: Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, SJSU

Mark Maxson and Mary Burchill at UCSB Library, October 2024

Photos by Matt Perko

Disc from a SoundScriber dictaphone recording of John Steinbeck reading The Wayward Bus (1947)

A first edition of “The Grapes of Wrath” was among a recent donation of John Steinbeck’s major works to the UCSB Library archive

Digitization technician Aaron Goodman (center) with performing arts curator David Seubert at the Henri Temianka Audio Preservation Lab

FREE COMMUNITY EVENT!

Montecito

Thursday, Dec. 5

5:00 pm - Stars sales & music

Program starts 30 min later

Special performance by Lois Mahalia Corner Green

(Corner of San Ysidro & E. Valley Rd.)

Goleta

Sunday, Dec. 8

Carpinteria

Saturday, Dec. 14

5:00 pm - Stars sales & music Program starts 30 min later Seal Fountain Linden Ave.

5:00 pm - Stars sales & music Program starts 30 min later Camino Real Marketplace

Santa Barbara

Sunday, Dec. 15

5:30 pm - Stars sales & music Program starts 30 min later

Special performance by Lois Mahalia Lobero Theatre

Join us for this beloved community tradition of remembering and honoring those you miss this holiday season. Each ceremony will feature speakers and special guests, entertainment, refreshments, and the lighting of a memorial tree.

See other locations, dates and times at Hospiceofsb.org or scan the QR code.

40th Annual SBIFF to Honor Colman Domingo with Montecito Award

IN CELEBRATION OF THE CHARISMA AND COMPASSION

THAT HE BRINGS TO THE SCREEN, cinema icon Colman Domingo will receive the Montecito Award at the 40th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, highlighting his powerhouse performance as Divine G in Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing. Domingo will receive the award on Friday, February 14th, at the Arlington Theatre.

“Colman is such a committed performer and of the most extraordinary talents in the small screen, in theatre and in film, and he makes it all seem effortless,” remarked SBIFF’s Executive Director, Roger Durling, in a press release. “His work in Sing Sing is unforgettable.”

This recognition comes on the heels of Domingo’s recent win at the Gotham Awards, where he took home the trophy for Outstanding Lead Performance. Domingo is well known for his Emmy Award-winning role as “Ali” in HBO’s Euphoria as well as his roles in Zola, If Beale Street Could Talk, Selma, Candyman, and many more. In 2023, he starred as Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin in Netflix and Higher Ground’s film Rustin for which he received an Academy Award Nomination, Golden Globes, BAFTA, and SAG nomination. He also executive produced It’s What’s Inside, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and was released on Netflix in October. He also recently wrapped production on Michael playing Joe Jackson, directed by Antoine Fuqua, which will be released October 3rd, 2025. Additionally, Domingo will voice Norman Osborn in the upcoming Disney+ animated Marvel series Your Friendly Neighborhood SpiderMan.

Domingo has been nominated for an Oscar, BAFTA, Tony® Award, Critics Choice Awards, Independent Spirit, Gotham Awards, Lawrence Olivier, Drama Desk, Drama League, and NAACP Image. He has won an Emmy, Astra, AAFCA, NAACP Image, and Black Reel Awards.

Past recipients of the Montecito Award, named for the stylish region of Santa Barbara, include Jeffrey Wright, Angela Bassett, Penélope Cruz, Amanda Seyfried, Lupita Nyong’o, Melissa McCarthy, Saoirse Ronan, Geoffrey Rush, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts, and Javier Bardem.

Last year, the film festival had a program of over 200 films from more than 48 countries, with honorary awards bestowed on Robert Downey Jr., Bradley Cooper, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Giamatti, America Ferrera, Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Charles Melton, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Andrew Scott, Martin Scorsese, Justine Triet, Billie Eilish, and Ludwig Göransson. The film lineup and schedule for the 2025 festival will be announced in January. For tickets ($35), visit www.sbiff.org

Commemorative Tree Plaques... Great Gifts & Great Memories

Designate a tree as a tribute to a family member or friend.

Santa Barbara Beautiful has funded more than 13,000 street trees in Santa Barbara!

Find out more at www.SBBeautiful.org

Reception & Sale Sunday

December 8th ~ 2-4pm

The reception will showcase crafts created by 16 GVAA members, in addition to Picassos 4 Peanuts wall art. Find ornaments, glassware, totes, cards, & more

Goleta Valley Public Library • 500 N Fairview, Goleta 10am -7pm Tues-Thurs • 10am-5:30pm Fri& Sat • 1-5pm Sun

Exhibit December 7 - January 2

GVAA members will sell their original art for $300 or less! For more information visit: www.sbbeautiful.org/commemorativetrees.html

Barbara Beautiful is a 501 (c) 3. Donations may be tax deductible. TAX ID: 23-7055360

Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Film Festival

Picasso’s Elf by Adria Abraham

On the Street with John Palminteri

and Stories by John Palminteri Special to VOICE

Santa is Here!

SANTA HAS ARRIVED AT THE NEW CHRISTMAS N CARPINTERIA store on Santa Claus Lane in Carpinteria. Kids were talking about gifts and Santa was sharing advice about love, giving, and caring for the holidays and beyond. He’s back again Sunday. Santa is also raising donations for the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation.

First Responders

Tree Lighting at Paseo Nuevo

THE PASEO NUEVO CHRISTMAS TREE WAS LIT UP with the countdown led by Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse Sunday night. Santa, Mrs. Claus, and the Grinch joined the hundreds who showed up. Music provided by DJ Darla Bea.

The UCSB Women’s and Men’s basketball teams came out for the event.

Palms May Reopen

City Bursts Guy’s Bubble

SANTA BARBARA BUBBLE GUY told to pay for permits for his very popular and free events at city parks. The city says anyone using a park for special events has to follow guidelines and pay fees. For now, all appearances by the Bubble Guy in city parks are on hold.

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS stopped a vegetation fire in the brush and trees off of Highway 101 at Winchester Canyon on the Western end of Goleta on Sunday. Traffic backed up but lanes are back open. CHP was on the scene along with Santa Barbara County Sheriff.

THERE WAS A 4 VEHICLE CRASH NORTHBOUND HIGHWAY 101 in Montecito at San Ysidro on Sunday. This was in the construction zone where the lanes are split by k- rail. Traffic was brought down to one lane and backed up beyond Summerland. One vehicle was smoking. Holzer’s Tow was dispatched.

John Palminteri is a veteran news reporter and anchor for Newschannel 3-12 TV and both KJEE and KCLU radio in Santa Barbara/Santa Maria/Ventura. Off the air, he’s often bringing his smile and positive energy to the microphone at fundraisers and civic events. John’s social media presence has one of the largest followings in Santa Barbara, and this page has the weekly highlights.

Twitter: @JohnPalminteri • Instagram: @JohnPalminteriNews • www.facebook.com/john.palminteri.5

THE PALMS, A LANDMARK IN CARPINTERIA where you used to “make your own steaks” on the inside grill for a fraction of the cost of other restaurants, may be opening again. City planners tonight are reviewing the plan to allow an interior and exterior renovation of the existing restaurant resulting in a restaurant and market/café/retail area on the ground floor, a banquet/event space on the second floor, and a covered bar and uncovered dining area on the roof at 701 Linden Ave.

Robitaille’s Fine Candies Closes

AFTER 36 YEARS, ROBITAILLE’S FINE CANDIES has closed in Carpinteria. The family owned business has made famous mint patties and other homemade candies served from Linden Avenue in Carpinteria to the White House. John and Tami Robitaille graciously thanked worldwide shoppers and loyal local community members for the memories that began with his mom and dad, Guy and Carmen.

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Jethro Acosta

BY Colin Escott AND Floyd Mutrux DIRECTED BY Brian

Holiday Reception Sunday, December 8 1:00 - 3:00

Parade of Lights to Bring Tide of Holiday Cheer to the Harbor

BRIGHT LIGHTS WILL SHINE ON THE WATERFRONT, AS THE HARBOR GETS INTO HOLIDAY SPIRIT during the 38th Annual Parade of Lights. Taking place Sunday, December 8th, this year’s event will see decked-out dinghies of the “Yuletide Pirates” bringing a bounty of cheer.

The seaside seasonal fun starts at 3pm, as the harbor’s City Pier transforms into a Winter Wonderland, complete with snow, holiday goodies, and a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus.

The human-powered “paddle” parade will take place at 3:30pm, with dozens of standup paddlers and kayakers making their way around the harbor and Stearns Wharf, dressed in their most festive attire.

A tree lighting ceremony will be held on Stearns Wharf at 5pm, featuring holiday tunes from the Dos Pueblos Jazz Choir

At 5:30pm, the parade will begin its voyage, as over 30 illuminated watercraft head down the coast from Leadbetter Beach to the Cabrillo Pavilion, before heading back along the shore to Stearn’s Wharf. A fireworks show will cap off the festivities at 7pm. Viewing locations for the boat parade and fireworks include Stearns Wharf, the breakwater, West Beach, and East Beach.

Following the fireworks, an awards ceremony will be held at The Anchor Rose.

www.santabarbaraca.gov/things-do/waterfront/waterfront-news-and-events/parade-lights

New Floating Tent from Life Cube Inc. to Debut at Parade of Lights

THE WORLD’S FIRST AQUATIC TENT INTENDED FOR CAMPING BY LAND AND BY SEA will take to the water during the Holiday Parade of Lights on Sunday December 8th. Developed by Life Cube Inc, a leading innovator in shelter systems, this unique tent dubbed The Transformer provides a popup guest room for yachts, serves as a water taxi, and provides a new way to picnic on Sandspit Beach. Currently available at the Life Cube retail store located at 6200 Hollister Avenue, near the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, The Transformer will now appear in the marina in time for the holidays. The products arrive in duffle bags and transform into full-size Tent + Boat, all decked out.Its dual purpose as an emergency shelter supports the mission of Life Cube Inc.,with a portion of each recreational tent purchase going to shelters for those in need.

Intended to be towed by SUP (paddleboarders) or small vessels, The Transformer will make its way through the harbor with the help of an equally unique parade vessel, a solarelectric inflatable boat. www.lifecubeinc.com

Over 30 boats like this one will light up the night for the 38th Annual Parade of Lights

The Transformer, a new innovative shelter from Life Cube Inc. will make its maiden SB voyage during the 38th Annual Parade of Lights

Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Waterfront Department

Photo courtesy of Life Cube

Experience the wonder of The Nutcracker

By Jesse Caverly / VOICE

ONE OF THE MOST HEARTWARMING AND BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTIONS

THE YEAR, the Santa Barbara Festival

OF

Ballet’s 49th anniversary of The Nutcracker will shine once again at the historic Arlington Theatre, this December 14th and 15th. A time honored tradition and perhaps the biggest family friendly show of the holidays, the Festival Ballet hosts the Mouse King, soloists from the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and dancers of all ages as they once again tell the classic Christmas tale set to Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece.

A revered dance institution in Santa Barbara, the SBFB has focused on providing high level ballet training and fostering an appreciation for the arts. The annual Nutcracker performance is an opportunity to energize a Christmas staple with innovative choreography, alongside the magical growing Christmas tree and a blizzard of dancing snowflakes that children look forward to. Accompanied by a live symphony orchestra led by Conductor Elise Unruh, the SBFB transports audiences into a whimsical realm of enchantment. The battle with the Mouse King, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, and the Waltz of the Flowers, all enjoy new life in this production and offer new dancers an entry point into the world of dance.

SBFB’s partnership with Dance Theatre of Harlem has been a fruitful one over the years, as seen in their production of The Nutcracker. Principal dancer Alexandra Hutchinson spoke excitedly about this year’s performance, relating “Santa Barbara Festival Ballet’s

Nutcracker is such a special tradition for me, and sharing the stage with my talented dance partner, Kouadio Davis [also of DTH], makes it even more meaningful.... It’s an incredibly positive experience every year, and I always look forward to it. The opportunity to perform with a live orchestra is truly special — it brings the beauty of the ballet to life in a way that makes every performance magical.”

Hutchinson began her dance training at The Washington School of Ballet and the Wilmington Academy of Dance, and after summer intensives at Alvin Ailey and Carolina Ballet, earned a B.S. from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is currently in her fourth season with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Her partner, Kouadio Davis, trained at the Holbrook-Wade School of Dance and Fokine Ballet, attended the New York State Summer School of the Arts, and has trained at Alvin Ailey as well. Davis achieved notable recognition at the Youth America Grand Prix, where he and his partner earned second place in 2017 and first place in the contemporary Pas de Deux category in 2018. This is now in his third season with the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

“Working alongside the students is also deeply rewarding; it reminds me of my own journey as a young, aspiring dancer,” continued Hutchinson. “We dedicate so much time and effort to our craft, and seeing that hard work come to fruition on stage is so fulfilling. I truly enjoy connecting with the students, offering advice, and sharing in their passion. They inspire me just as much as I hope to inspire them.”

For tickets ($50), visit www.thearlingtontheatre.com

Photo by Fritz Olenberger

Principal dancers from Dance Theatre of Harlem Alexandra Hutchinson and Kouadio Davis

Sing Hallelujah: Choral Society’s Annual Holiday Concert Returns to the Lobero for its Tenth Year

By Destin Cavazos / VOICE

CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAY SEASON WITH STORIES AND SONGS from Santa Barbara Choral Society, as their annual family holiday concert, The Hallelujah Project, returns for its tenth year. Bringing a diverse blend of holiday traditions to audiences of all ages, The Hallelujah Project will fill the Lobero on Saturday, December 14th at 7pm and Sunday, December 15th at 3pm.

“It’s just a joyful event,” shared artistic director and conductor JoAnne Wasserman. “Everyone is welcome, we want to invite them to be a part of the

Choral Society family for the holidays.”

Each year, The Hallelujah Project brings the Choral Society’s brand of holiday cheer, featuring traditional holiday numbers, classic choral compositions, audience singalongs, and even a few celebrity guests. One highlight will be a performance of Clement C. Moore’s T’was the Night Before Christmas, narrated by actor, author, and women’s issues advocate Meredith Baxter. Baxter, most recognizable for her roles in sitcoms like Bridget Loves Bernie and Family Ties, will be accompanied by the 35-piece Choral Society Orchestra.

“We wanted to establish some sort of tradition, a community concert for the whole family could enjoy,” said Wasserman on developing The Choral Society’s annual concert for the Lobero back in 2013. “It’s become something we always look forward to, year after year it kicks off the season for the so many in the community.”

The show will also include the Sing! Children’s Choir of the Music Academy of the West, who will perform a traditional Hanukkah piece among other Christmas classics. Of course, audiences can also expect a rousing rendition of Handel’s

Hallelujah Chorus from the Choral Society’s 60-plus singers. “Sing! will actually join The Choral Society onstage,” shared Wasserman, showcasing some of the special surprises planned for the ten year anniversary.

“They’ve got a few songs together but one that I’m really looking forward to is John Williams’ ‘Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas’ from the Home Alone films. That one is a lot of fun. And there’s always a possibility that Santa will appear.”

For tickets ($30 reserved seating/$50 VIP Admission, $20 students and seniors), visit www.lobero.org/ events/hallelujah-project-10-2024/

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Santa says hello as part of the annual Hallelujah Project holiday concert

JoAnne Wasserman will conduct

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Community News

Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary is Finally Official

AFTER OVER A DECADE OF ADVOCACY ON THE CENTRAL COAST, the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary has been officially declared and designated as of November 30th, on the final day of Native American Heritage Month. In October, Indigenous leaders and Congressman Salud Carbajal hosted a celebration of the new sanctuary on Indigenous People’s Day in Morro Bay, California. Carbajal has been a consistent advocate for the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary since coming to Congress in 2017, two years after the sanctuary was first proposed to the federal government.

“Nearly a decade after the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary was first proposed to the federal government, the Biden-Harris Administration has now officially taken what began as a twinkle in the eye of the Central Coast and made it a reality,” said Rep. Carbajal. “I’m proud to have stood with a generation of advocates and Indigenous leaders to see this critical protection implemented for the Central Coast.”

The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary covers 4,543 square miles off the Central Coast, from Gaviota and Point Conception, to Pismo Beach and southern San Luis Obispo County, making it the thirdlargest marine sanctuary in U.S. history. The sanctuary covers 116 miles of coastline, entirely within California’s 24th Congressional District, and is the first ever to be nominated by an Indigenous group.

The management plan for the sanctuary crafted by the Biden-Harris Administration in cooperation with Rep. Carbajal and other local stakeholders lays the groundwork for a later expansion of the marine sanctuary boundaries to cover Avila Beach and Morro Bay, connecting the new sanctuary with the southernmost border of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. www.noaa.gov

CAMA Elects Peggy Anderson to Board of Directors

ALONGSIDE

CELEBRATING ITS106TH

CONCERT SEASON IN 2024/2025, Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara, Inc. (CAMA) has elected Peggy Anderson to its board of directors, effective as of November 14th.

PEGGY ANDERSON has been a steadfast supporter of CAMA since moving to Santa Barbara in 2012. Born and raised in Texas, Peggy graduated from the Daycroft School in Greenwich, Connecticut, and earned her degree from Rice University. After enjoying a distinguished career as an executive compensation consultant in New York, she relocated to Santa Barbara along with her late husband, Kurt M. Anderson, in 2012. Peggy has actively participated in community service, serving as Board Director and Treasurer for the Princeton YWCA for six years, during which time she helped oversee after-school programs for approximately 15,000 families and children. Her involvement with CAMA builds on this legacy of dedication to meaningful community engagement.

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Join the Chorus for the Messiah Sing Along

SING HALLELUJAH! AT THE MESSIAH SING ALONG, an annual event now in its 42nd interation. A local holiday tradition benefitting The Unity Shoppe, the Sing Along will be held at the First Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, December 17th, starting at 7:30pm.

Phillip McLendon will conduct this performance of George Frederick Handel's choral masterpiece, Messiah. James Mooy has organized the orchestra which includes members of the Santa Barbara City College Symphony. Erin Bonski-Evans is the organist. Four soloists will perform as volunteers.

The community is invited to be the chorus. Tickets cost $10, with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Unity Shoppe, the Santa Barbara non-profit which serves about 18,000 low-income neighbors, children, and the elderly annually.

Four outstanding soloists were recently announced by McLendon.

Returning as the soprano soloist is Nichole Dechaine. With both Master and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in vocal performance from UCSB, Dr. Dechaine teaches private voice and music courses and conducts choirs at Westmont and Santa Barbara City College.

Max Potter will sing the alto solos. Recent season highlights include Ms. Potter’s role debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier with Pacific Northwest Opera and as Mercedes in with Opera Santa Barbara.

Lorenzo Johnson, Jr. will again be the tenor soloist. Johnson is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance at UCSB.

Bass soloist Matthew Peterson was a regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera's 2023 Laffont competition. He is a graduate of Yale School of Music.

This will be the 39th year for McLendon to conduct the Messiah Sing Along. An outstanding tenor himself, Maestro McLendon has conducted numerous choirs and orchestras over a long career. He was the founding director of the Santa Barbara Master Chorale which he led for over two decades.

Tickets and music scores (bring your own) are available at Chaucer's in Loreto Plaza and at the door. Tickets are also available at the Unity Gift Shoppe, 1209 State Street. “Everyone is invited to make a joyful noise and raise your voice on high or come to listen. It’s always a great performance!”

The Messiah Sing Along will take place at the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of State and Constance on Tuesday December 17th at 7:30pm.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Hallelujah Project 10

The magic of the holidays will unfold when Santa Barbara Choral Society’s Hallelujah Project returns to the Lobero with a program of songs from multiple holiday traditions including Four-time Emmy Award-nominated actress and producer, Meredith Baxter reading T'was the Night Before Christmas with the Choral Society Orchestra and The Music Academy of the West SING! Children's Chorus, on Saturday at 7pm, December 14th, and at 3pm, Sunday, December 15th.

For tickets ($23-$53) visit www.lobero.org

Friday 12/6

COMEDY

Fri Night Laughs • Featuring professional comedians from the best comedy clubs in Los Angeles • Java Station

• www.santabarbaracomedyclub.com

• $20 • 7pm, Fri.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Black Holes and White Dwarfs • Astronomy Talk presented by the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit with Farshad Barman, Ph.D., and Sean Kelly, Ph.D. • Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History • Free • www.sbnature.org • 7:30pm–9pm, Fri, 12/6.

MUSIC

UCSB Gospel Choir • Victor Bell directs the choir in a holiday season celebration of contemporary and traditional gospel music • Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall • $7-$10 • www. music.ucsb.edu • 7:30pm, Fri, 12/6.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway • UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Grammy winners of modern folk, bluegrass and  Americana • Campbell Hall • price varies

• www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

• 8pm, Fri, 12/6.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Downtown Holiday Tree

Lighting • light up the night sky at the dazzling downtown holiday tree

Holiday Kids Crafts • Create wall-hangings and pinecone ornaments for the holidays • Backcountry, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden • Free with admission • www. sbbotanicgarden.org • 10:30am–12:30pm, Sat, 12/7.

DANCE

Rudolph • State Street Ballet presents the classic holiday tale of a misfit reindeer with a blinking red nose • The Lobero • $19-$31 • www.lobero.org • 6:30pm Sat, 12/7, 2pm, Sun, 12/8.

MUSIC

A Winter Music Showcase

• 7th annual showcase Presented by Grace Fisher Foundation dedicated to promoting the arts & disability inclusion with the Santa Barbara Chamber Players, Jackson Gillies, Will Breman, Elite Dance Company, and more • The Granada • $37-$79 • www.granadasb.org • 6pm, Sat, 12/7.

Children's Book Reading Rings in the Holidays at Chaucer’s

Local Children’s authors Mike Bender (The Bravest Booger) and Josh Shelton (The 12 Days of Construction) will read from their books and autograph copies at Chaucer’s from 3 to 4pm on Sunday, December 8th. Story lovers of all ages welcome!

www.chaucersbooks.com

lighting event • in front of Arlington Theatre • free • www.downtownsb.org

• 5pm, Fri, 12/6.

Goleta’s Finest Community Awards Gala • Honoring individuals who have made a significant impact on the Goleta community • Ritz-Carlton Bacara • $175 • www.sbscchamber.com • 5:30pm, Fri, 12/6.

Let It Snow! • Experience magical snowfall at Paseo Nuevo's Center Court • Paseo Nuevo • Free • www.paseonuevosb.com • 6pm and 7pm, every Fri, Sat, and Sun from 12/1 to 12/22.

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Garden Holiday Lights Festival • Held over three consecutive weekends in December, wander through an enchanting light display, write letters to Santa, and enjoy falling snow, festive carolers, and a range of local food and merchant vendors • Santa Ynez Botanic Garden • $15-$25 • www.santaynezvalleybotanicgarden.org • 5pm, Dec 6-8, 13-15, and 20-22.

Saturday 12/7

CHILDREN

Winter Gift-Making Workshop – Ceramics • Create artful gifts in clay to share with friends and family • children ages 7 – 11 • Ridley-Tree Education Center at McCormick House • $170-$200 • www.sbma.net • 9am, Sat, 12/7.

Jack Quartet • Presenting “Modern Medieval,” a program of music by Juri Seo, Austin Wulliman, & Solage, among others • post concert talk-back • Hahn Hall • $10-$65 • www.musicacademy.org • 7:30pm, Sat, 12/7.

Sounds and Stories of a Greek Christmas • It’s a traditional Greek Christmas with mezzo soprano Xeni Tziouvaras, Zubin Mehta, Vaughn Williams, and the San Marcos High School Madrigals • Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church • $26 • www.saintbarbara.net • 3pm, Sat, 12/7.

OUTDOORS

Holiday Kids Crafts • Create wall-hangings and pinecone ornaments inspired by nature • Santa Barbara Botanic Garden • Free with admission

• www.sbbotanicgarden.org

• 10:30am–12:30pm, Sat, 12/7.

Hike With Hart • Join Assemblymember Gregg Hart for a nature walk and discuss important priorities for the Central Coast • 2295 Purísima Road at La Purísima Mission State Historic Park • 10am, Sat, 12/7.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Holiday at the Ranch • Goleta Valley Historical Society’s annual event: enjoy festive holiday music and tour Stow House • Stow House • $5-$10 • www.goletahistory.org • 10am, Sat, 12/7.

Homespun • Beth Kuttner Presents a curated market with makers of handmade goods • Community Arts Workshop •

free • www.sbcaw.org • 10am–5pm, Sat, 12/7.

Howliday Donation DriveThru • C.A.R.E.4Paws accepting dry and canned pet food donations as well as monetary gifts toward pet food and wellness services • Warren Showgrounds • www.care4paws.org

• 11am–2pm, Sat, 12/7.

Old Town Goleta Holiday Parade • Bring your blankets and chairs & enjoy the new holiday lights along the parade route • Hollister Avenue from Orange ave. to Kinman ave., Goleta • www. goletaholidayparade.org • 6pm, Sat, 12/7.

The 2024 Arts & Crafts Fair • SBCC School of Extended Learning will offer students one-of-a-kind paintings, ceramics, jewelry, and more • SBCC's Wake Campus • free • www.sbcc.edu • 10am, Sat, 12/7.

Sunday 12/8

DANCE

Community Dance Class with Dorrance Dance • Michelle Dorrance shares her deep dedication to tap dance, its traditions and its possibilities; all levels welcome • Carrillo Ballroom • Free • www.artsandlectures.ucsb. edu • 1pm, Sun, 12/8.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Decoded Vessel & Claytronics • Digital Fabrication Workshops from Maker House • Maker House • $200 • www. makerhouse.org • 10am-1pm, Sun, 12/8 & Sun, 12/15.

Kids Book Reading and Signing • With Mike Bender (The Bravest Booger) and Josh Shelton (The 12 Days of Construction) • Chaucer's Books • Free • www. chaucersbooks.com • 3pm–4pm, Sun, 12/8.

MUSIC

Santa Barbara Jazz Society presents: Jazz Jams with Woody Demarco, Hank Allen, & Craig Thatcher • SOhO Restaurant and Music Club • $10-$25 • www.sohosb.com • 1pm–3:30pm, Sun, 12/8.

Raw Silk With Leslie Limbo • Jazz and dinner • SOhO Restaurant and Music Club • $15 • www. sohosb.com • 6:30pm, Sun, 12/8.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Beach Cleanup • Meet in front of the Watershed Resource Center (blue building) to sign in • Arroyo Burro Beach • Free • www.exploreecology. org • 10am, Sun, 12/8.

Light Up a Life • Hospice of Santa Barbara’s 41st annual Goleta event with John Vale and former Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Perie Longo •

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THEATRE

Million Dollar Quartet

ETC’s presentation of that fateful night when Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis to together fro an impromptu jam sessions will have audiences rocking ’n’ rolling to this jukebox musical with a whole lotta heart. Runs from December 5th to the 22nd at the New Vic.

For tickets ($29-$98), visit www.etcsb.org

Million Dollar Quartet • Jukebox musical of the fateful day Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins recorded together • The New Vic • price varies • www.etcsb.org • December 5th through 22nd.

Little Shop of Horrors • Lights Up Theatre Company Presents the sci-fi smash musical that is still devouring the hearts & minds of fans for 30 years • Center Stage Theater • $25-$65 • www.centerstagetheater.org • 7pm, Thu-Fri, 12/5–12/13; 1pm & 7pm Sat-Sun 12/7–12/8

It’s a Wonderful Life • A Live Radio Play, adapted by Joe Landry & Directed by Gai Laing Jones • Ojai Art Center Theatre • $18-$20 • www.ojaiact.org • Dec 6th–22nd

A Cowboy Lullaby • From haunting ballads to footstomping anthems, celebrate the indomitable spirit of the Wild West cowboy • Rubicon Theatre • $25-$85 • Dec 4th–22nd.

Miracle on 34th Street

• Follow the journey of Kris Kringle, who claims to be the

Camino Real Marketplace • suggested $15 donation • www.hospiceofsb.org/ lual • 5pm, Sun, 12/8.

38th Annual Parade of Lights

• Visit a Winter Wonderland on the city pier in the Santa Barbara

Parallel Stories – Why Empathy Matters • A Conversation with Dario Robleto and Emily Rapp Black • Santa Barbara Museum of Art • $15 • www.sbma.net • 2:30pm–4:30pm, Sun, 12/8.

Raíces y sueños: Bilingual Storytelling • A morning of art and storytime focused on developing your child’s literacy skills through action rhymes and short stories in both English and Spanish • free • SBMA • free • www.sbma.net • 11am, Sun, 12/8.

Buellton Winter Fest • 20 Tons of Snow, vendors, music, beer & wine, and the lighting of the Christmas Tree • Buellton Rec Center and River View Park • free • www.discoverbuellton.com • 9am, Sun, 12/8.

Holiday Sing-Along •

Downtown Holiday Tree Lighting

The night sky will be bright with the Holiday Spirit when Santa Barbara celebrates the downtown holiday tree lighting! Join in on wreath making, get a few photos with Santa, & dance to the jingles spun by DJ Darla Bea in front of Arlington Theatre at 5pm on Friday, the 6th. For more visit www.downtownsb.org

real Santa Claus, and the little girl who believes in him • The Alcazar Theatre • $15-$20 • www.thealcazar.org • 3pm & 7pm, Dec 6-15.

An Eclectic Collection of One-Acts • Celebrating our local playwrights plus one vintage play • free • www. theatreeclectic.com • Wake Auditorium, 7:45pm, Tue, 12/10; Friendship Manor, 2pm, Sat, 12/7; Schott Auditorium, 7pm, Thu, 12/12.

Moonlight Reflections with Garbo • A this tell-all in both fact & fiction, get the inside scoop on one of the most private actresses ever through Greta Garbo's eyes • Center Stage Theater • $25-$30 • www. centerstagetheater.org • 7:00pm, Saturday, 12/14.

Pastorela: El Ermitaño • Presented in partnership with Tierra Blanca Arts Center, a captivating 60-minute play embodying the time-honored elements of a Pastorela • Severson Theatre, Santa Maria • $10 • www.pcpa.org • 1:30pm, Saturday, 12/14.

Harbor and meet Santa, Mrs. Claus, and the holiday elves, play in 10 tons of snow, and stick around after the parade for holiday fireworks! • the Harbor and Stearns Wharf • free • 5pm, Sun, 12/8.

Presented by the Santa Barbara Strummers, singing along with ukuleles and guitars • sponsored by he Parc Foundation Santa Barbara • Plaza Del Mar bandshell • www.sbfoodfromtheheart.com • 2pm, Sun, 12/8.

Local Author Book Fair • Celebrate Santa Barbara’s literary talent and listen to authors read excerpts from their work in a “book karaoke” format • Michael Towbes Library Plaza • free • www.library.santabarbaraca.gov • 2pm, Sun, 12/8.

Monday 12/9

LECTURES/MEETINGS

PARLIAMO! Italian Conversation

• All levels • The Natural Cafe, 361 Hitchcock Way • http://parliamo.yolasite.com • Free • 5-6:30pm Mo.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Matchstick for Survival: Indigenous Writing in the Russian Arctic • Research Focus Group Talk featuring Indigenous author Kseniia Bolshakova on her novel The Frost Also Melts • 6320 Phelps Hall, UCSB • Free • www.ihc. ucsb.edu • 5pm–6:15pm, Mon, 12/9.

MUSIC

The Island of Misfit Gays

• The Santa Barbara Gay Men’s Chorus presents their winter concert, a mix of pop songs, musical theatre, Disney songs, and a few holiday favorites as well • Lobero Theatre • $30-$85 • www.lobero.org • 7pm, Mon, 12/9.

Tuesday 12/10

COMEDY

Carpinteria Improv Drop-In Class • Learn improv with friends • Alcazar Theater • $10 at door • 7-9pm Tue.

MUSIC

The JOHNNYSWIM

Christmas Show • Music

duo Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano Ramirez return with their heartfelt melodies and imaginative tales • Lobero Theatre • $54-$324 • www.lobero.org • 8pm, Tue, 12/10.

Jonathan Richman • With Tommy Larkins, to deliver an energizing evening of alternative rock • Alcazar Theatre • $45 • www. thealcazar.org • 8pm, Tue, 12/10.

Sing! a Song of Winter • Representing grades 1 through 8, hundreds of young voices will perform songs to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, winter, and more • Marjorie Luke Theatre • $10 (ages 7–17 free) • www.musicacademy.org • 6pm, Tue, 12/10.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Poetry Reading • With David Starkey and Catherine Abbey Hodges • Chaucer's Books • Free • www.chaucersbooks.com • 6pm–7pm, Tue, 12/10.

Wednesday 12/11

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Le Cercle Français • French conversation, all levels • The Natural Cafe, 361 Hitchcock Way • https://tinyurl.com/5ejbd9ye • Free • 5-6:30pm Wed.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Monthly Sewing & Mending Club • For the seasoned & the beginner: nine sewing machines, a wide selection of materials, & a knowledgeable staff on hand to offer guidance, tips, and tricks • EE Makerspace • $15 • www.exploreecology.org • 5:30pm–7:30pm, Wed, 12/11.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Local Author and Actor Josh Brolin • Reading & Signing of his new book, From Under the Truck: A Memoir • Chaucer's Books • Free • www.chaucersbooks.com • 6pm–7pm, Wed, 12/11.

TEENS

LGBTQ+ PROUD Youth Group • Support for ages 12-18 • Pacific Pride Fdn • Central Library, Teen Area • 4-6pm Wed.

Thursday 12/12

MUSIC

The Petersens • Christmas concert full of the Christmas classics you love • Lobero Theatre • $25-$60 • www.lobero.org • 7:30pm, Thu, 12/12.

Photo by Zach Mendez

Una Noche de Las Posadas

Mary and Joseph's search for lodging will be enacted with holiday songs and a procession from the Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park to Casa de la Guerra, when the Santa Barbara Trust for Historical Preservation hosts Una Noche de las Posadas at 7pm on Friday, December 13th. Join in the story!

To learn more visit www.sbthp.org/lasposadas

17th Annual Ugly Sweater Christmas Party • The Framers, False Puppet, DJ Darla Bea, costume contest, and more • Benefitting the Unity Shoppe • SOhO Restaurant & Music Venue • $25 • sohosb.com • 7pm, Thu, 12/12.

SPECIAL EVENTS

The Art of Science: Drawing Big Cats & Wild Dogs • Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara • Free with admission/$14-$19 • www.sbnature.org • 3pm–4pm, Thursday, 12/12.

Friday 12/13

COMEDY

Friday Night Laughs •

Featuring professional comedians from the best comedy clubs in Los Angeles • Java Station • www.santabarbaracomedyclub • $20 • 7pm, Fri.

MUSIC

Downtown Holiday SingAlong with the Prime Time Band • Featuring Guest Vocalist Amanda Elliott and the Dos Pueblos High School Choir • Steps of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art • free • www.ptband.org • 6 pm, Fri, 12/13.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Una Noche de Las Posadas

• Celebrate the cherished holiday tradition still observed throughout Latin America • Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park • free • 7pm, Fri, 12/13. Hollywood Fight Nights

• 10-round middleweight bout between the Sadriddin Akhmedov and Raphael 'Trouble' Igbokwe • Chumash Casino Resort • $55–$105 • www.chumashcasino.com • 6pm, Fri, 12/13.

www.sbbotanicgarden.org • 11am–12:15pm, Sat, 12/14.

MUSIC

Quire of Voyces Mysteries of Christmas • Enjoy the enchanting world of sacred a cappella music • St. Anthony’s Chapel • $20, only at Garvin theater Box Office & Chaucer’s Books • www.quireofvoyces.org • 3pm, Sat, 12/14, and Sun, 12/15.

Marilyn and Anthony Jazz Duo • Live Jazz at Miss Daisy’s • Miss Daisy's Consignment & Auction House • www.consignmentsbymmd.com

• 2pm, Sat.

Santa Barbara Music Club

• Adelfos Ensemble, Andrea Di Maggio, and Erin Bonski • First United Methodist Church • free • www.sbmusicclub.org • 3pm, Sat, 12/14.

OUTDOORS

Saturday 12/14

COMEDY

The Good Good Show • Featuring the hottest established and up & coming comedians working today • Night Lizard Brewing Co. • $10 • www. goodgooddec14th.eventbrite.com • 7:30pm, Sat, 12/14.

DANCE

The Nutcracker • 49th Anniversary of this timeless holiday classic with stunning performances from Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alexandra Hutchinson and Kouadio Davis • Arlington Theatre • $65-$75 • www.arlingtontheatresb.com • 2:30 & 7pm, Sat, 12/14, and 2:30pm, Sun, 12/15.

Nutcracker SWEET • Performance by Westside Dance Santa Barbara • Marjorie Luke Theatre • $18–$23 • www. westsidedancesb.com • 11am and 4pm, Sat, 12/14; 4pm, Sun, 12/15.

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Sketching in the Galleries • experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions • SBMA • Free with Museum Admission • www.sbma.net

• 11:15am, Sat, 12/14.

Holiday Candle Making Workshop • Using the best materials, blend your own scents and craft two candles to take home • EE Makerspace • $25$30 • www.exploreecology.org • 1pm–3pm, Sat, 12/14.

Pathfinders: Structures & Shelters • Discover how to use knots and natural materials to build simple shelters and structures and nurture basic survival skills • Santa Barbara Botanic Garden • Free, register at

Mary Tonetti Dorra, author of "I Am a Portrait" • Talk, book signing, and reception with the author • Mary Craig Auditorium, SBMA • Free • www. sbma.net • 2pm, Sat, 12/14.

Light Up a Life • Hospice of Santa Barbara’s 41st annual Carpinteria event with John Vale and Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Melinda Palacio and poet Rio Richards • Seal Fountain, Linden Market • suggested $15 donation • www.hospiceofsb.org/lual • 5pm, Sat, 12/14.

Holiday Makers Market • Buy local this Holiday season & support local makers and artists selling their beautiful handmade wares

• Art From Scrap • Free • www. exploreecology.org • 11am–3pm, Sat, 12/14.

Gem Faire • One of the largest gem, jewelry, and bead shows in the country returns to Santa Barbara

Birds of Elings Park • Nature walk led by Terrestrial Invertebrate Conservation Ecologist Zach Phillips, Ph.D., & Director of Education and Engagement Scot Pipkin • Elings Park, parking lot adjacent to the administration building • free • www.elingspark.org

• 9am, Sat, 12/14.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Nutcracker Afternoon Tea •

Enjoy afternoon tea inspired by the Nutcracker ballet, with live performances by the State Street Ballet • El Encanto • $125 • 11am, Sat, 12/14, & Sat, 12/21.

Westmont Christmas Festival: Dwelling Place

• 20th annual festival featuring the Westmont Orchestra, College Choir and Chamber Singers • The Granada • $22 • www.granadasb.org

• 7pm, Sat, 12/14, 7pm, Sun, 12/15. Hallelujah Project 10 •

Featuring Meredith Baxter, joined by The Choral Society and orchestra and the Music Academy’s SING! Children’s Chorus • Lobero Theatre

• $20-$50 VIP • www.lobero.org • 7pm, Sat, 12/14, & 3pm, Sun, 12/15.

Carpinteria Holiday Spirit Parade • Linden Ave, Carpinteria

• free • www.carpinteriaevents.com • 3pm, Sat, 12/14.

Sunday 12/15

LECTURES/WORKSHOPS

Possibilities: An Artist Talk with Edie Fake • will share insights into a widely respected and varied practice that includes drawings, paintings, installations, comics, books and zines • Mary Craig Auditorium, SBMA • Free • www.sbma.net • 2pm, Sun, 12/15.

MUSIC

• Earl Warren Showgrounds • $7 • www.gemfaire.com • 12pm–6pm, Fri, 12/13; 10am–6pm, Sat, 12/14; 10am–5pm, Sun, 12/15.

A Country Christmas On Ice!

• Step into a winter wonderland for a festive performance and skate to holiday classics • Ice in Paradise • $20-$30 • www.iceinparadise.org • 12:30pm, Sun, 12/14.

70th Annual Milpas Street Holiday Parade • Celebrating Christmas dreams • from De La Guerra st. to Mason st. • free • 5:30pm, Sun, 12/14.

Palm Tree Dedication for Sojourner Kincaid Rolle

• Friends of Sojourner plaque dedication with reception to follow • Behind the County Courthouse • 1pm, Sun, 12/14.

It’s Your Library

STAY & PLAY • Share stories with kids • Montecito Library ~ 9-10:30am Tu MUSIC & MOVEMENT • Ages 2-5 • Central Library ~ 10:15-10:45am We.

BABY AND ME • For babies 0-14 months • Courthouse Sunken Garden ~ 11-11:30am & 5-5:30pm We.

LIBRARY ON THE GO • Oak Park ~ 10:00am - 12:00pm, Fri, 12/6 • Annual Downtown Holiday Tree Lighting ~ 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Fri, 12/6

• Villa Santa Fe ~ 10:30am - 11:30am, Tue, 12/10 • Presidio Springs ~ 12:15pm - 1:15pm, Tue, 12/10 • State St. near the Farmers Market ~ 4:00pm - 6:30pm, Tue, 12/10 • Harding School ~ 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Wed, 12/11 • Bohnett Park ~ 3:30pm - 5:00pm, Wed, 12/11 • Shoreline Park ~ 10:00am - 12:00pm, Thu, 12/12 • Oak Park ~ 10:00am - 12:00pm, Fri, 12/13 • Paseo Nuevo ~ 10:30am - 1:30pm, Sat, 12/14 • Milpas Street Holiday Parade ~ 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Sat, 12/14

Winter’s Gifts • Santa Barbara Master Chorale featuring David Torres, Artistic Director and the 26th Annual Holiday Concert and Carol Sing-Along • Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church • $23-$25 • www.sbmasterchorale.org • 2pm, Sun, 12/15.

Special Events

Light Up a Life • Hospice of Santa Barbara’s 41st annual Santa Barbara event with Lois Mahalia, Rev. Julia Hamilton, poet Perie Longo, and cookies from Aunt Janet’s Cookies • Lobero Theatre • suggested $15 donation • www.hospiceofsb.org/lual • 5:30pm, Sun, 12/15.

YOUR BUILDING ? WOULD YOU LIKE

We need a wall in Santa Barbara for a mural. We will help with funding and local art group, The Abstract Art Collective, will create the mural. The wall can be any size or shape as long as it’s exterior and public-facing. Email, Info@SBbeautiful.org, if you have a wall for the project. Be sure to include the street address.

Photo courtesy of SB Trust for Historical Preservation

Fried Green Tomatoes

The classic tale of unlikely friends (Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy) and the sisterhood that bonds them will be front and center as the Granada’s Santa Barbara Home Movies Series presents Fried Green Tomatoes. Enjoy a pre-screening conversation with author and screenwriter, Fannie Flagg, at the Granada, at 7pm on Tuesday, December 10th.

For tickets ($5), www.granadasb.org

Black Hollywood: Nickel Boys • Two teenager boys navigate life at Nickel Academy, a racially segregated labor camp posing as a reform school for children • Pollock Theater • free • www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu • 2pm, Sat, 12/7.

Fried Green Tomatoes • Santa Barbara Home Movies Series presents the classic with a pre-screening conversation with author and screenwriter, Fannie Flagg • Granada Theatre • www.granadasb.org • 7pm, Tue, 12/10.

To have your events included in VOICE Magazine's calendar or arts listings, please email information to Calendar@VoiceSB.com by noon the Tuesday before publication.

By Harlan Green / Special to VOICE

ISAID LAST WEEK THAT:

“Many of us remember when a gallon of gas was less than $2, or a quart of milk less than $1, or housing was last affordable in the 1970s. I remember the inflation surges in housing. What happened?”

So, shouldn’t we as voters be able understand how to fix inflation such as we just experienced with the COVID-19 pandemic? That didn’t happened on November 5th. Trump was able to convince most of his voters to blame someone rather than learn what needed to

be done, and had already been done, to cure the problem.

It is now doubly important because if Trump raises tariffs and begins to deport undocumented workers on ‘Day One’ of his presidency as promised, inflation will soar again and the U.S. economy will quickly go into a tail spin.

By Harlan Green

It has always been difficult to pierce the fog of propaganda and obfuscation that has dogged anything related to our economy because the U.S. economy is the most complex in the world with its competing mix of private and public enterprise

needed to to make it work.

The retail Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the FRED graph above dating from 1980 is the eaiest way to understand why we had high inflation spikes and how long it took for it to return to normal.

Simply put, the spikes that hurt most Americans were due to supply shortages mostly out of our control. The 1980 spike was mainly because of an oil shortage that took a decade to reverse. In 2022 the other high spike was the COVID-19 pandemic that shut down supply chains and took approximately three years to recover.

It didn’t matter which political party was in charge—Republicans in 1980 and Democrats in 2022. Both parties had the tools to mitigate the inflation surges that took some time, as I said.

How were they solved?

Both political parties used their financial institutions, mainly the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department, and did not disparage them as Trump’s MAGA supporters do as a matter of policy. Because they control the flow of money—regulating whether there is too much (inflationary) or too little (deflationary) money is in circulation to counter the supply

disruptions.

But playing the blame game that has enraged so many working class voters doesn’t solve the inflation problem, though it did win enough workers to the Republican side. They now must prove they actually know something about its causes.

What will hinder any good faith effort to tame inflation is the maldistribution of the money supply. Too much of it is in too few hands, a hallmark of what has been called the second Gilded Age that has favored the wealthiest since the 1970s, and not ordinary workers damaged most by higher inflation whose household incomes have stagnated since then.

We have working solutions to the inflation that has plagued the American economy for decades. But deporting undocumented workers and raising tariffs will raise inflation, since tariffs are a tax on imports, and fewer immigrants form the backbone of the supply sector (restaurants, transportation, retail, construction) that has been the backbone of this recovery. It will cause a labor shortage, which means fewer goods and services will be produced, thus raising the price of things, as well.

This is the most basic of Econ 101 priinciples, but Trump was

able to fool his voters because there is a general ignorance of economic principles.

And our capitalist system hasn’t been helping the working class since the 1970s, as I’ve said in past columns. The increasing income inequality created an almost unstoppable anger that grew after decades of income loss for working class voters as more and more wealth was shunted upward creating ever larger budget deficits.

If we are able to reverse the income inequality with more progressive taxation policies that pay for a better social benefits, for instance, we might convince more voters to realize government isn’t the problem and inflation is really governed by the common sense rule of supply and demand. They might then not choose someone owe only knows how to blame but rather vote for real economic solutions to mitigate inflation.

Once Roosevelt created the New Deal in response to the Great Depression, governments began to work for ordinary Americans— from social security to a federal minimum wage, to workers rights. Only such a private-public partnership will help to cure our inflation problem.

NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONS ON APPLICATIONS REGARDING PROVISIONS OF TITLE 28 AND/OR 30 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA (SBMC)

The Secretary of the Staff Hearing Officer (SHO) has set a public hearing for Wednesday, December 18, 2024 beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the David Gebhard Public Meeting Room, 630 Garden Street. On Thursday, December 12, 2024, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 will be available online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHO. Agendas, Minutes, and Staff Reports are also accessible online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHO.

TELEVISION COVERAGE: This meeting will be broadcast live on City TV-Channel 18 and online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CityTV. See SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CityTVProgramGuide for a rebroadcast schedule. An archived video of this meeting will be available at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHOVideos.

WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT: Public comments may be submitted via email to SHOSecretary@ SantaBarbaraCA.gov before the beginning of the Meeting. All public comments submitted via email will be provided to the SHO and will become part of the public record. You may also submit written correspondence via US Postal Service (USPS); addressed to SHO Secretary, PO Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. However, please be advised, correspondence sent via USPS may not be received in time to process prior to the meeting and email submissions are highly encouraged. Please note that the SHO may not have time to review written comments received after 4:30 p.m. the Tuesday before the meeting. All public comment that is received before 4:30 p.m. the Tuesday before the meeting will be published on the City’s website at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/SHO Comments provided via USPS or e-mail will be converted to a PDF before being posted on the City’s website. Note: comments will be published online the way they are received and without redaction of personal identifying information; including but not limited to phone number, home address, and email address. Only submit information that you wish to make available publicly.

APPEALS: Decisions of the SHO may be appealed to the Planning Commission. Appeals may be filed in person at the Community Development Department at 630 Garden Street or in writing via email to SHOSecretary@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. For further information and guidelines on how to appeal a decision to the Planning Commission, please contact Planning staff at (805) 564-5578 as soon as possible. Appeals and associated fee must be submitted in writing, via email to PlanningCounter@SantaBarbaraCA.gov and by first class mail postage prepaid within 10 calendar days of the meeting that the SHO took action or rendered a decision.  Appeals and associated fee post marked after the 10th calendar day will not be accepted.

NOTE TO INTERESTED PARTIES: Only those persons who participate through public comment either orally or in writing on an item on this Agenda have standing to appeal the decision. Grounds for appeal are limited to those issues raised either orally or in written correspondence delivered to the review body at, or prior to, the public hearing.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: If you need services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the SHO Secretary at (805) 564-5470, extension 4572. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

• 1517 Shoreline Dr

Assessor’s Parcel Number: 045-182-007

Zoning Designation: E-3/S-D-3 (One-Family Residence/Coastal Overlay)

Application Number: PLN2023-00097; Filing Date: March 27, 2023

Applicant / Owner: Natalie Ochsner / Sarah and Michael Paskin

Project Description: Coastal Development Permit and Modification for one-story residence with garage.

• 308 W Yanonali St

Assessor’s Parcel Number: 033-031-012

Zoning Designation: R-4/S-D-3 (Hotel-Motel-Multiple-Family Residence/Coastal Overlay)

Application Number: PLN2023-00472

Applicant / Owner: Trish Allen, SEPPS, Inc. / 308 W YANONALI STREET LLC

Project Description: Setback Modifications associated with alterations to existing residence.

• 344 La Marina

Assessor’s Parcel Number: 045-061-020

Zoning Designation: E-3/S-D-3 (One-Family Residence/Coastal Overlay)

Application Number: PLN2024-00052; Filing Date: February 21, 2024

Applicant / Owner: Chris Cottrell, Dovetail Architects  / Gulje, Daxter H

Project Description: Coastal Development Permit for Accessory Dwelling Unit.

• 303 Cooper Rd

Assessor’s Parcel Number: 041-321-002

Zoning Designation: E-3/S-D-3 (One-Family Residence/Coastal Overlay)

Application Number: PLN2024-00310; Filing Date: July 29, 2024

Applicant / Owner: Shaun Lynch, Evoke Design Studio  / Dyer Family Trust 5/8/19

Project Description: Coastal Development Permit for Accessory Dwelling Unit.

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• Structural Correction Work

• Concrete Driveways

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT: The following Individual is doing business as NUGGYVERSE

TRADING CO at 5142 Hollister Ave, Ste 500, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. ALISON K. MCBADE at 5142 Hollister Ave, Ste 500, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on November 14, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2024-0002677. Published December 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following Individual is doing business as HONOR NUTRITION at 4028 Invierno Drive, B, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. KATHRYN M PARKER at 4028 Invierno Drive, B, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on October 22, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2024-0002460. Published November 15, 22, 29, December 6, 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT: The following Individual is doing business as VANDYGEAR at 1505 W Pine Ave, Lompoc, CA 93436. ROSALVA RAZO at 1505 W Pine Ave, Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on November 27, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2024-0002802. Published December 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as ANCIENT EARTH PIGMENTS at 5574 Somerset Dr, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. ATELIER NELSON LLC at PO Box 6535, Santa Barbara, CA 93160. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on November 26, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2024-0002793. Published November 29, December 6, 13, 20, 2024.

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VOICE Magazine • Community Market • LEGAL NOTICES

Santa Barbara Mortgage Interest Rates

Contact your local loan agent or mortgage broker for current rates:

DRAPER & KRAMER MORTGAGE CORP.

Please call for current rates: Russell Story, 805-895-8831

PARAGON MORTGAGE GROUP

Please call for current rates: 805-899-1390

HOMEBRIDGE FINANCIAL SERVICES

Please call for current rates: Erik Taiji, 805-895-8233, NMLS #322481

MONTECITO BANK & TRUST

Please call for current rates: 805-963-7511 • Coastal Housing Partnership Member

SB MORTGAGE GROUP

Simar Gulati, 805-403-9679

U.S. BANK

Please call for current rates: Teri Gauthier, 805-565-4571 • Coastal Housing Partnership Member

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT:

The following Limited Liability Company is doing business as AEGEAN at 731 De La Guerra PLaza, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. AEGEAN NEOTAVERNA LLC at 325 Milpas Apt 2, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara on November 5, 2024. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2024-0002600. Published November 15, 22, 29, December 6, 2024.

NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONS ON APPLICATIONS REGARDING PROVISIONS OF TITLE 28 AND/OR 30 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA (SBMC)

The Secretary of the Planning Commission has set a public hearing for Thursday, December 19, 2024 beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street.

On Thursday, December 12, 2024, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Thursday, December 19, 2024 will be posted on the outdoor bulletin board at City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, and online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/PC. Agendas, Minutes, and Staff Reports are also accessible online at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/PC.

TELEVISION COVERAGE: This meeting will be broadcast live on City TV-Channel 18 and online at SantaBarbaraCA. gov/CityTV. See SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CityTVProgramGuide for a rebroadcast schedule. An archived video of this meeting will be available at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/PCVideos.

WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT: Public comments may be submitted via email to PCSecretary@SantaBarbaraCA.gov before the beginning of the Meeting. All public comments submitted via email will be provided to the Commission and will become part of the public record. You may also submit written correspondence via US Postal Service (USPS) addressed to PC Secretary, PO Box 1990, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-1990. However, please be advised, correspondence sent via USPS may not be received in time to process prior to the meeting and email submissions are highly encouraged. Please note that the Commission may not have time to review written comments received after 4:30 p.m. the Tuesday before the meeting.

All public comment that is received before 4:30 p.m. the Tuesday before the meeting will be published on the City’s website at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/PC. Comments provided via USPS or e-mail will be converted to a PDF before being posted on the City’s website. Note: comments will be published online the way they are received and without redaction of personal identifying information; including but not limited to phone number, home address, and email address. Only submit information that you wish to make available publicly.

APPEALS: Decisions of the Planning Commission may be appealed to the City Council. For further information and guidelines on how to appeal a decision to City Council, please contact the City Clerk’s office at Clerk@ SantaBarbaraCA.gov as soon as possible. Appeals may be filed in person at the City Clerk’s office at City Hall or in writing via email to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov and by first class mail postage prepaid within 10 calendar days of the meeting at which the Commission took action or rendered its decision.  Appeals and associated fee postmarked after the 10th calendar day will not be accepted.

NOTE TO INTERESTED PARTIES: Only those persons who participate through public comment either orally or in writing on an item on this Agenda have standing to appeal the decision. Grounds for appeal are limited to those issues raised either orally or in written correspondence delivered to the review body at, or prior to, the public hearing.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: If you need services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator’s Office at (805) 5645305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

• 119 Harbor Way

Assessor’s Parcel Number: 045-250-013

Zoning Designation: H-C/S-D-3 (Harbor Commercia/Coastal Overlay)

Application Number: PLN2023-00445 Filing Date: February 21, 2024

Applicant / Owner: Lauren Ballantyne, Sherry & Associates Architects, Inc. / City Of Santa Barbara

Project Description: Expansion of existing restaurant into adjacent retail space.

• 1269 Ferrelo Rd

Assessor’s Parcel Number: 029-271-006

Zoning Designation: RS-15 (Residential Single Unit)

Application Number: PLN2022-00036

Applicant / Owner: Tom Moss, Anacapa Architecture / Jarryd Neil Commerford

Project Description: Appeal of SFDB final approval of a new 3-story home.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE NUMBER

: 24CV05296

Petitioner: Lucia Reyes Victoria filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: PRESENT NAME: Anahi Neri Pineda to PROPOSED NAME: Anahi Reyes Victoria. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 12/20/2024; Time: 10:00 am; Dept.: 5; ROOM: [ ] other (specify): at the: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (To appear remotely, check in advance of the hearing for information about how to do so on the courts website. To find your courts website, go to www.courts.ca.gov/find-my-court.htm.) 3 a. [X] A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks before the date set for hearing on the petition in a newspaper of general circulation: [x] (for resident of this county) printed in this county: VOICE MAGAZINE. Date: 10/16/2024 /s/: Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court. Legal #24CV05296 Pub Dates: November 22, 29, December 6, 13, 2024

Insertion Date: Print: 12.6.24 Norma Welche, City Admin Digital included 12.4.24 7.88”x2 col; $75.33 • Ordinance 6165

ORDINANCE NO. 6165

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 18.40 AND REPEALING SECTION 2.12.035 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO AIRPORT POLICE AND ENFORCEMENT

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on November 19, 2024.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(SEAL)

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 6165

STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) )

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. )

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on November 12, and adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on November 19, 2024, by the following roll call vote:

AYES: Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Alejandra Gutierrez, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Mike Jordan, Kristen W. Sneddon, Mayor Randy Rowse

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on November 19, 2024.

/s/

Sarah P. Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on November 19, 2024. /s/ Randy Rowse Mayor

Local Landmarks provide settings for Holiday Concerts

CELEBRATE THE SEASON THROUGH SONG AS TWO RECENTLY RENOVATED CITY LANDMARKS host holiday concerts this December. Presented by the City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department and the PARC Foundation, these free festive events are open to the public, offering everyone the chance to enjoy live music and community.

The Santa Barbara Strummers will hold a singalong, featuring popular holiday songs and carols, at the Plaza Del Mar Band Shell Sunday, December 8th. Songbooks will be provided so that everyone can sing along.

The Treble Clef Women’s Chorus will perform later in the week at the Alameda Park Bandstand on Thursday, December 12th, singing a mix of holiday favorites and uplifting songs.

Guests are invited to bring picnics, blankets, and chairs to enjoy the show. Alcohol is not permitted at either of these family-friendly events. www.sbparksandrec.santabarbaraca.gov

Unity Shoppe’s Holiday Telethon

STIRRING UP HOLIDAY CHEER AND CHARITABLE SPIRIT THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY, Unity Shoppe will host its 38th Annual Holiday Celebration and Telethon Friday, December 13th from 5 to 8pm at the Kenny Loggins Event Center. Broadcast live on KEYT, the event will feature special appearances by Kenny Loggins, Brad Paisley, Michael McDonald, Jeff Bridges, and other surprise celebrity guests. Duane Henry will join Catherine Remak, Kerri Murray, and Lance Orozco as MCs for this year’s event.

The funds raised from the Telethon will be vital in helping the Client Service Center where clients can shop in a store-like environment for groceries that support a healthy diet, household necessities, personal care items, and clothing, as well as other essential programs, ensuring fresh, healthy, and non-perishable foods are purchased for Santa Barbara County residents. During the holidays, thousands of children and their families will also visit Unity Shoppe’s Holiday Store to select their favorite toys and gifts, creating a joyful and memorable season for all.

In addition to the festivities at the Event Center, filming will take place at Unity Thrift and Gift Shoppe, located at 1207 and 1209 State Street. The sale of donated items at these shops directly benefits Unity Shoppe’s numerous programs. Unity Shoppe’s Transitional Assistance Program(TAP) and Job Smart services are also based at these locations, offering vital support to individuals transitioning into new housing after experiencing homelessness and helping them with job search resources.

www.unityshoppe.org

2024 ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR

Outdoor holiday concerts will come to Plaza Del Mar and Alameda Park

Photo courtesy of Unity Shoppe

Luscious Moments

The holiday season brims with Luscious Moments at VOICE Gallery. Experience the beauty, color, shapes, and love that artists bring to the season. Enjoy sculpture, paintings, photography, and printmaking... See what your friends have been doing and take a Luscious Moment for yourself to breathe in the artwork. 1st Thursday Live music, sips, and small bites.

Participating Artists:

Adria A. Abraham

Larry Glynn Adams

Andie Adler

Voula Aldrich

Lynn Altschul

Peter Andrews

Maxine Apke

Sophia Beccue

John Behring

Bruce Berlow

Bruce Birkland

Bonny Butler

Katrina Carl

Merith Cosden

Duane Dammeyer

Beverly Decker

Frank DiMarco

Lynn Dow

Thore Edgren

Elmer

Chris Fletcher

Andrew Garcia

Rosemarie Gebhart

Ruth Green

Roberta Gross

Ray Harris

Bay Hallowell

Fred Hecht

Kelly Hildner

Bo von Hohenlohe

Lenore Hughes

Jana Julian

Dennis Kirby

Francine Kirsch

Rod Lathim

Fred Lehto

Manny Lopez

Susan Lord

Charlene McGinnis

Patrick McGinnis

Jerome Mercer

Kerry Methner

Melinda Mettler

Jane Mick

Danelle Moon

Chris Star Morgenstern

Cindy Morgenstern

Jami Joelle Nielsen

Edward Rodgers

Helle Scharling-Todd

Jan M Smith

Deirdre Stietzel

Franchesca Perrell

Patricia Post

Tom Post

Susan Price

Jill Sattler

Carla Spence

Marianna Tuchscherer

Michael Vilkin

Terrance Wimmer

JoAnne Meade Young

John Whitehurst

Rich Wilkie

Joyce Wilson

Paige Wilson

Lewis Hamilton

Oil on Canvas by Rich Wilkie

La Palma Negra, Belgian Black Marble by Fred Hecht

From The Signal to Sanctuary, These Creators Explore Outer, Inner, and Liminal Space

By Jesse Caverly / VOICE

WHEN NASA SENT THE GOLDEN RECORD, a gold-plated disk representing the human race, into interstellar space on the Voyager spacecraft, some sounds and images were bound to end up on NASA’s cutting room floor. One of those redacted pieces will be here at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and discussed at length this Sunday, December 8th, with author Emily Rapp Black joining visual artist Dario Robleto in the Mary Craig Auditorium.

“Are we alone? Does love survive the death of cells? What do we owe to the memories of one another’s hearts?” These are the kinds of questions Robleto’s art asks. A multidisciplinary artist, researcher, materialist poet, and self-proclaimed citizen-scientist, Robleto is bringing to fruition an ambitious trilogy of films that serve as recordings about…recordings. How the human race has chosen to remember itself, or be seen by others, or be reflected in history — which is another kind of recording.

An incredibly layered work of art, The Signal, an exhibit at the SBMA that opens December 8th and runs through May 25th, 2025, places 3D art alongside drawings on paper, as context around the centerpiece: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, an immersive, 70-minute movie based on a rare and forgotten document—the first audio recording of warfare made in 1918.

This recording was considered for inclusion on NASA’s Golden Record, but ultimately rejected. That it was in the running, and then omitted from the final record sent into space, inspires so many questions about memory, how we wish to be seen, and what constitutes an honest and frank reflection of ourselves. These are questions that reverberate throughout Robleto’s work.

At the heart of his art is a melancholia and an aching meditation on

love and memory — territories and spaces writer Emily Rapp Black is deeply familiar with. A survivor of loss, from the intimately physical to losing her dearest beloved, Black understands the devastating power and elasticity of memory. Similar to Robleto, she has explored these familiar and alien liminal spaces in her work as a writer.

The Still Point of the Turning World, and Sanctuary: a Memoir, are a pair of books that follow the diagnosis of her son Ronan with a rare and fatal disease that would take him from her. The journey she chronicles, from the depths of grief to finding resiliency, reveal a gifted storyteller able to articulate yearning. Once a student at a divinity school, she has the necessary lens to observe pain and loss and give it a voice.

“Studying belief systems is a way of studying the heart,” Black said, “and all writing seeks to find meaning and traction there — sometimes that is intellectual, but the books that move us most are those that make us feel embodied and human, which itself requires a kind of belief in the innate goodness of people and the world.”

Both artists are finding

ways to illuminate these mysteries. “Just as Dario’s work is incredibly tactile and vital-seeming, particularly because he uses many modalities to express the connection between memory, empathy, and time — or how love stretches and shrinks time, and vice versa — stories, too, are living documents,” Black said, when asked about how their work overlaps. “Just as a viewer brings their own unique experiences and losses and joys to the visual experience, the reader brings those elements to the page to interact with what the writer has created, which is a kind of shrine created by story, but not one that is fixed or dogmatic.”

Parallel Stories, an SBMA series that pairs the written word with visual media, has found a potent combination with Robleto and Black. For Black, a robust curiosity and compassion, and an engagement with mystery, are ‘salvific and transcendent.’

“That sense of ‘not knowing but grappling with trying to know’ is a key theme for both of us,” Black continued. “And this: love and empires fall, art somehow remains. I get that sense from his work, and I believe it to be true about all art — that it’s one great conversation across time and history.” For more, visit www.sbma.net

Dario Robleto

Author and memoirist Emily Rapp Black Courtesy of SBMA

Dario Robleto, American Seabed

Dario Robleto, stills from Ancient Beacons Long for Notice

Photos and movie stills courtesy of SBMA

10 West Gallery • Art & Pottery ~ Dec 8 • 10 W Anapamu • 11-5 We-Mo • 805-770-7711 • www.10westgallery.com

Architectural Fdn Gallery • Kids

Draw Architecture ~ Jan 4 • 229 E Victoria • 805-965-6307 • 1–4 some Sa & By Appt • www.afsb.org

Art & Soul Gallery • 116 Santa Barbara St • artandsoulsb.com

Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB • POOCH: The Art Full Life of Keith Julius Puccinelli ~ Dec 15 • 12-5 We-Sun • www.museum.ucsb.edu

Art From Scrap Gallery • Environmental Educ. & Artistic Expression • www.exploreecology.org

ART VENUES

Corridan Gallery • California Sojourns by Karen Fedderson • 125 N Milpas • 11-6 We-Sa • 805-966-7939 • www.corridan-gallery.com

CPC Gallery • Beauty of the Cosmos ~ Jan 26 • By appt • 36 E Victoria St • www.cpcgallery.com

Cypress Gallery • 119 E Cypress Av, Lompoc • 1-4 Sa & Su • 805-7371129 • www.lompocart.org

Elevate Gallery@ La Cumbre Center For Creative Arts • Rod Rolle: Great Seal of the Navajo Nation, Monument Valley Photo Exhibition; Gallery Artists ~ 12/24 • noon-5 Tu-Su • www.lcccasb.com

Elizabeth Gordon Gallery • Alberto Valdés: Mi Vida es Mi Arte & Emerging artists from around the country • 15 W Gutierrez • 805-9631157 • 11–5 Tu-Sa • www.elizabethgordongallery.com

The Arts Fund • Mentorship Exhibition • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S Hope Ave • 11-5 We-Su; www.artsfundsb.org • 805-233-3395

Atkinson Gallery, SBCC • gallery.sbcc.edu

Bella Rosa Galleries • 1103-A State St • 11-5 daily • 805-966-1707

The Carriage and Western Art Museum • SB History Makers Exhibit featuring Silsby Spalding, WW Hollister, Dixie; Saddle & Carriage Collections • Free • 129 Castillo St • 805-962-2353 • 9-3 MoFr • www.carriagemuseum.org

California Nature Art Museum • CA, Quilted: Wild in the Oak Woodland ~ Jan 13 • 1511 B Mission Dr, Solvang • 11-4 Mo, Th, Fr; 11-5 Sa & Su • www.calnatureartmuseum.org

Casa de La Guerra • Haas Adobe Watercolors • $5/Free • 15 East De la Guerra St • 12-4 Th-Su • www.sbthp.org/casadelaguerra

Casa del Herrero • Gardens & House • by reservation • 1387 East Valley Rd • tours 10 & 2 We & Sa • 805565-5653 • www.casadelherrero.com

Casa Dolores • Bandera Ware / traditional outfits ~ ongoing • 1023 Bath St • 12-4 Tu-Sa • 805-963-1032 • www.casadolores.org

Channing Peake Gallery • 105 East Anapamu St, 1st fl • 805-568-3994

Colette Cosentino Atelier + Gallery • 11 W Anapamu St • By Appt • www.colettecosentino.com

Community Arts Workshop • 631 Garden St • 10-6pm Fri & By Appt. • www.sbcaw.org

El Presidio De Santa Bárbara

• Nihonmachi Revisited; Memorias y Facturas • 123 E Canon Perdido St • 10:30-4:30 Daily • www.sbthp.org

Elverhøj Museum • 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang • 805-686-1211 • 11-5 Th-Mo • www.elverhoj.org

Faulkner Gallery • 40 E Anapamu St • 10-7 Mo-Th; 10-5 Fri, Sa; 12-5 Sun • 805-962-7653.

Fazzino 3-D Studio Gallery • 3-D original fine art • 529 State St • 805-730-9109 • www.Fazzino.com

Fine Line Gallery @ La Cumbre Center For Creative Arts • Multi-Artist Space • noon-5 Tu-Su • www.lcccasb.com

Gallery 113 • SB Art Assn • 1114 State St, #8, La Arcada Ct • 805-9656611 • 11-5 Mo-Fr; 11-2 Sa; 1-5 Su • www.gallery113sb.com

Gallery Los Olivos • Winter Celebration ~ Dec 3 - Jan 31 • Daily 10-4 pm • 2920 Grand Av • 805-6887517 • www.gallerylosolivos.com

Ganna Walska Lotusland • Gardens • by reservation • 695 Ashley Rd • 805-969-9990 • www.lotusland.org

Goleta Valley Library • GVAA Artists Exhibit • 500 N Fairview Av • 10-7 Tu-Th; 10-5:30 Fr & Sa; 1-5 Su • TheGoletaValleyArtAssociation.org

Grace Fisher Fdn Inclusive Arts Clubhouse • Paintings by Grace Fisher • 121 S Hope, La Cumbre Plaza • We-Su 11-5pm • www.gracefisherfoundation.org

Illuminations Gallery @ La Cumbre Center For Creative Arts • Multi-Artist Space • noon-5 Tu-Su • www.lcccasb.com

James Main Fine Art • 19th & 20th Fine art & antiques • 27 E De La Guerra St • 12-5 Tu-Sa • Appt Suggested • 805-962-8347

Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara • Portraits of Survival interactive - Ongoing • 524 Chapala St • 805-957-1115 ext. 114 Karpeles Manuscript Library & Museum • The flight of Apollo 13 documents & more ~ Ongoing • 21-23 W Anapamu • 10-4 Tu-Su • 805-962-5322 • https://karpeles.com

Kathryne Designs • Local Artists • 1225 Coast Village Rd, A • 10-5 Mo-Sa; 11-5 Su • 805-565-4700 • http://kathrynedesigns.com

Kelly Clause Art • Watercolors of Sea & Land • 28 Anacapa St, #B • Most weekdays 12-5 • www.kellyclause.com

Lompoc Library Grossman Gallery • 501 E North Av, Lompoc • 805-588-3459

Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center • Rincon- Queen of the Coast~ Jan 9- Mar 2 • 12-4 Th-Su • 865 Linden Av • 805-684-7789 • www.carpinteriaartscenter.org

Maker House • Thomas Müller: Solo Exhibition - rats live on no evil star ~ Dec 6 • 1351 Holiday Hill Rd • 805-565-CLAY • 10-4 Daily • www.claystudiosb.org

Marcia Burtt Gallery • Structures ~ Dec 1 • Contemporary landscape paintings, prints & books • 517 Laguna St • 1-5 Th-Su • 805-9625588 • www.artlacuna.com

MOXI, The Wolf Museum • Exploration + Innovation • 10-5 Daily • 125 State St • 805-770-5000 • www.moxi.org

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara • Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga & Porfirio Gutiérrez en Conversación/in Conversation ~ Jan 12 • 653 Paseo Nuevo • www.mcasantabarbara.org

Museum of Sensory & Movement Experiences • La Cumbre Plaza, 120 S. Hope Av #F119 • www.seehearmove.com

Palm Loft Gallery • 410 Palm Av, Loft A1, Carpinteria • By Appt • 805-684-9700 • www.palmloft.com

Patricia Clarke Studio • 410 Palm Av, Carpinteria • By Appt • 805-452-7739 • www.patriciaclarkestudio.com

ART EVENTS

Funk Zone Live! • Visit the Funk Zone and sample local created fare including food, sips, music, fine art, and more! See page 29 in this issue for details! • 5-8pm Fri, Dec 6th.

Opening Reception with the artists at Gallery Los Olivos for Winter Celebration • Artist reception • 2-5pm Sat, Dec 7th.

2024 SBCC Arts & Crafts Fair • See what your neighbors have been creating! • Paintings, Jewelry, Weaving, Glass, Ceramics & more! • Wake Campus (300 N. Turnpike Rd.) • 102pm Sat, Dec 7th.

Indigenous DNA: Decolonized Native Art Opening Ceremony

• Community Arts Workshop • Free admission • www.sbcaw.org/upcoming • 5:30pm, Friday, Dec 13th.

Opening Reception & Awards for Wings • 2nd Fridays Art @ SB Tennis Club • 4:30-6pm Fri, Dec 13th. SB Arts & Crafts Show • Local artists & artisans • Free • 236 E Cabrillo Blvd • 10-5 Sun.

Carpinteria Creative Arts • Shop locally made pottery, beach art, cards, jewelry, and sewn articles • 8th St & Linden Av • Free • 2:30-6 Th.

Peregrine Galleries • Early California and American paintings; fine vintage jewelry • 1133 Coast Village Rd • 805-252-9659 • www.peregrine.shop

Peter Horjus Design • Studio • 11 W Figueroa St • www.peterhorjus.com

Portico Gallery • Jordan Pope & Gallery Artists • Open Daily • 1235 Coast Village Rd • 805-729-8454 • www.porticofinearts.com

Santa Barbara Art Works • Artists with disabilities programs, virtual exhibits • 805260-6705 • www.sbartworks.org

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden • In Bloom: Embracing resilience in California’s Native Flora ~ Dec 1; Seed: A Living Dream ~ Dec 7-Ap 6 •1212 Mission Canyon Rd • 10-5 daily • 805-682-4726 • www.sbbg.org

Santa Barbara Fine Art • SB landscapes & sculptor Bud Bottoms • 1321 State St • 12-6 Tu-Sa & By Appt • 805-845-4270 • www.santabarbarafineart.com

Santa Barbara Historical Museum • Edward Borein Gallery and The Story of Santa Barbara ~ ongoing • 136 E De la Guerra • 12-5 We, Fri-Su; 12-7 Th • 805-9661601 • www.sbhistorical.org

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum • Majestic California Piers ~Jan 19; The Chumash, Whaling, Commercial Diving, Surfing, Shipwrecks, First Order Fresnel Lens, and SB Lighthouse Women Keepers ~ Ongoing • 113 Harbor Wy, Ste 190 • 10-5 Th-Su • 805-962-8404 • www.SBMM.org

Santa Barbara Museum Of Art • Moving Pictures: Videos by Porter/Tiscornia, and Marclay ~ Jan 12; In the Making ~ Mar 9; Friends and Lovers ~ Mar 2; Accretion ~ Apr 13 • 1130 State St • 11-5 Tu-Su; 5-8 1st Th free; 2nd Sun free Tri-Co residents • 805-963-4364 • www.sbma.net

Santa Barbara Museum Of Natural History • Big Cats & Wild Dogs ~ Mar 9 • 2559 Puesta del Sol • 10-5 We-Mo • www.sbnature.org

Santa Barbara Sea Center • Dive In: Our Changing Channel ~ Ongoing • 211 Stearns Wharf • 10-5 Daily (Fr & Sat 10-7 until 7/27). • 805-682-4711 • www.sbnature.org

Santa Barbara Tennis Club - 2nd Fridays Art • Wings ~ Dec 7 - Jan 1st • 2375 Foothill Rd • 10-6 Daily • 805-682-4722 • www.2ndfridaysart.com

Winter with the Hope of Spring, at Marcia Burtt

FRUIT UPON THE BRANCH AND REFLECTIVE POOLS OF WATER offer a muted color palette at the Marcia Burtt Gallery, which will kick off the gift giving season with Holiday Exhibition opening reception on Sunday, December 8th, from 1 to 3pm. Featuring a wide array of artists and mediums, this year’s selection holds itself close to the muted colors of the season, with the occasional shock of summertime reds, or the verdant green of late Fall.

From the solid assured oils of Susan Petty to the lithography, monoprint, graphite, and pencil of Helen Ward, the full spectrum of nature hangs on the gallery’s walls.

For holiday shoppers, prices begin in the low hundreds, making giving the gift of art an affordable venture. A

Slice of Light Gallery • PassagePhotography by JK Lovelace • 9 W Figueroa St • Mo-Fr 10-5 • 805-354-5552 • www.sliceoflight.com

Stewart Fine Art • Early California Plein Air Paintings + European Fine Art + Antiques • 539 San Ysidro Rd • 11-5:30 Mo-Sa • 805-8450255

Sullivan Goss • Mary-Austin Klein: Airspace ~ Dec 1; Celebrating 40 Years Of Art - 1984-2024 ~ 12/30 • 11 E Anapamu St • 10-5:30 daily • 805-730-1460 • www.sullivangoss.com

Susan Quinlan Doll & Teddy Bear Museum • 122 W Canon Perdido • 11-4 Fr-Sa; Su-Th by appt • www.quinlanmuseum.com • 805-687-4623

SYV Historical Museum & Carriage House • Art of The Western Saddle • 3596

Sagunto St, Santa Ynez • 12-4 Sa, Su • 805-6887889 • www.santaynezmuseum.org

Tamsen Gallery • Work by Robert W. Firestone • 1309 State St • 12-5 We-Su • 805705-2208 • www.tamsengallery.com

UCSB Library • Sea Change ~ Dec 13 • www.library.ucsb.edu

few photographers are represented as well, with both photographic prints and sublimation on aluminum.

The Holiday Exhibition will be on view through to January 26th, 2025.

www.artlacuna.com

Voice Gallery • Luscious Moments - work by 60 + local artists: ~ Dec 3-28 • La Cumbre Plaza H-124 • 10-5:30 M-F; 1-5 Sa-Su • 805965-6448 • www.voicesb.art

Waterhouse Gallery Montecito • Notable CA & National Artists • 1187 Coast Village Rd • 11-5 Mo-Su • 805-962-8885 • www.waterhousegallery.com

Waterhouse Gallery SB • Notable CA & National Artists • La Arcada Ct, 1114 State St, #9 • 11-5 Mo-Sa • 805-962-8885 • www.waterhousegallery.com

Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum Of Art

• The Oak Group: The Grace of the World ~ Dec 21; Fins and Feathers: The Art of Casey Underwood ~ Dec 21 • www.westmont.edu/museum Artists: See your work here! Join Voice Magazine’s Print & Virtual Gallery! To find out more, email Publisher@VoiceSB.com

On the Tree, oil, by Susan Petty

Fog at the Edge of the Forest, watercolor, by Randall David Tipton

Santa Barbara’s Cultural Night Downtown December 5 th

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5 to 8pm

ST THURSDAY is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara that takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Participating art venues offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm. 1st Thursday venues also provide additional attractions, such as live music, artist receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. State Street also comes alive on 1st Thursday with performances and interactive activities.

Galleries, Museums, & Art Venues

1. Voice Gallery • La Cumbre Plaza, 110 S. Hope Ave, H-124 • The holiday season brims with Luscious Moments at VOICE Gallery. Experience the beauty, color, shapes, and love that artists bring. Enjoy sculpture, paintings, photography, printmaking...See what your friends have been doing, and grab a luscious moment for yourself to breathe in the artwork, music, sips, and small bites.

2. Santa Barbara Fine Art • 1321 State Street • Santa Barbara Fine Art Gallery features local landscape artists, most of whom have been painting here in Santa Barbara between 50-70 years! Including Oak Group members and Dolphin sculpture, Bud Bottoms. Enjoy a fun, local vibe. See you on 1st Thursday! (Painting by Ray Strong (b. 1905 - d. 2006) Goleta Beach, 12 x 24 oil on canvas, circa 1989.)

3. UCSB Arts & Lectures at Arlington Theatre • Arlington Theatre, 5 to 7:30pm • Get in the holiday spirit and enjoy a snowy wonderland with light installations, hot cider, and festive performances from Santa Barbara Revels and the UCSB Jazz Ensemble. Stay for the Nutcracker Suite by renowned tap company Dorrance Dance with a jazzy music arrangement by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

4. Tamsen Gallery • 1309 State Street • Please join us at Tamsen Gallery to celebrate the vibrant work of artist Robert W. Firestone. From vivid abstracts printed on glossy acrylic to geometric cityscapes laser cut from metal to dynamic portraits on various mediums, Tamsen Gallery offers a rich visual experience in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara.

5. Santa Barbara Art Works • 28 E. Victoria St. • SB Art Works Holiday Market and Artists opening reception. Live music and snacks. Come shop for some great handmade gifts for the Holidays! Low prices on many great works! Enjoy art from over 15 artists! Plenty of gifts for your loved ones this holiday season with prices as low as $1.

6. Ensemble Theatre Company • 33 W. Victoria St, 805-965-5400 • Ensemble Theatre Company invites you to 1st Thursday at Million Dollar Quartet! The Tony® Award-nominated musical is set on December 4, 1956, when an extraordinary twist of fate brought Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley together at Sun Records. 1st Thursday participants can stop by our ticket office for buy-one-get-one-free tickets to the December 5th 7:30pm performance.

7. KAAREM • 1221 State Street #14 • Celebrate KAAREM Boutique’s 1st Anniversary! Enjoy a special BẠC Collection jewelry pop-up, meet the designer, sip St. Avalo wines made from organically grown grapes, and savor Vietnamese coffee & matcha from Nam Coffee. Plus, preview and shop our KAAREM SS25 Preorder Event. Join us for an evening of celebration and design!

8. the knit shop • 1221 State Street #7 • Join us as we feature local fiber artist Jody James of handmade with jody. Jody's one-of-a-kind knitwear brings a touch of Ojai's creative spirit to your wardrobe. Jody is joined by her daughter Cody Huffman of cody janine clothing with her sashiko jackets and art to wear.

2. See Ray Strong's Goleta Beach and more at Santa Barbara Fine Art!

1. Ring in the holidays with Luscious Moments at VOICE Gallery. This painting by Rich Wilkie will be joined by the work of 60 artists.

4. The vibrant work of Robert W. Firestone will be on view at Tamsen Gallery.

3. Get in the holiday spirit and enjoy a snowy wonderland with light installations, hot cider, and festive performances from SB Revels and the UCSB Jazz Ensemble. Stay for the Nutcracker Suite by Dorrance Dance at UCSB Arts & Lectures at Arlington Theatre.

5. Check out the opening reception at Santa Barbara Art Works featuring handmade gifts by gallery artists.

9. Rilascio Chiropractic

• 1221 State Street #200 • DaviaKing.com - Blind Contour

Live drawing comes to SB… join us to participate in her next creation! Internationally known for her soulful way of bringing humanity together, Davia seamlessly unites our unique spiritual expression through hope, love, and togetherness. We will feature a silent auction, seasonal refreshments, and wellness resources.

10. domecíl • 1223 State Street • domecil hosts Deborah Nolan, owner of Tulsi Shop in Puglia, Italy, whose collection of wearable pieces of art embody the soul of summer. Her unique pieces tell a story of design, craftsmanship, and a commitment to ethical practices. Come meet Deborah on her visit to Santa Barbara!

11. Friends of State Street • CEC Community Hub, 1219 State Street • Join us for the grand opening of the Friends of State Street's new office at the CEC Community Hub. Enjoy a glass of wine, live music, small bites from Opal Restaurant & Bar, and an exhibition featuring drawings commissioned for the State Street Master Plan Project along with art by Peter Horjus. Don’t miss this celebration!

12. Benchmark Eatery • 1201 State Street

• Brian and Dan are a versatile musical duo delivering dynamic performances across rock, country, and blues. With a repertoire spanning artists from Waylon Jennings to Pearl Jam, they bring energy and passion to every show, captivating audiences with their eclectic sound and seamless blend of classic and modern hits.

13. 10 West Gallery • 10 W. Anapamu St. • Art & Pottery: Ten contemporary abstract artists from the Santa Barbara area, plus our annual display of pottery from Mexico, brought from the renowned village of Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua. The artisans are famous for their hand-burnished black pottery and for their intricate hand-painted and etched designs. Perfect for gifts!

14. Sullivan Goss • 11 E. Anapamu St. • Join us for the 16th annual 100 GRAND exhibition. Featuring over 100 works of art for $1,000 or less, the exhibition has become an incubator of emerging talent, an entryway for beginning collectors, and a holiday celebration in the art community.

15. Santa Barbara Museum of Art • 1130 State Street • Join SBMA for Pop-Up Opera in the Museum galleries at 5:30 pm. Then, head to Family 1st Thursday in the Family Resource Center and paint in tempera on watercolor paper and tape to create a scene inspired by Claire Rojas’ Untitled. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 pm! All free!

16. Faulkner Gallery • 40 E. Anapamu St. • The Santa Barbara Art Association presents a show juried by Ralph Waterhouse of

diverse original artwork by some of its 475 members. The show will run from December 4th through January 14th except for the library's holiday closure days.

17. Gallery 113 • 1114 State Street #8 • Exhibit by members of the Santa Barbara Art Association. Artist of the month is Denise Carey. The featured artists are Chris Morgenstern, Lily Sanders, Skip Lau, Carey Appel, Carol Dixon, and Suemae Willhite. The group show includes original art in many mediums from our members.

18. Waterhouse Gallery • 1114 State Street #9 • The Gallery features figurative works, interiors, and cityscapes by some of today’s finest nationally known local and Oak Group artists. Enjoy works by Ray Hunter, Derek Harrison, Wyllis Heaton, Camille Dellar, Ann Sanders, Thomas Van Stein, Nancy Davidson, Rick Garcia, Ellie Freudenstein, and Ralph Waterhouse.

19. Ace Rivington • 1100 State Street • Ace Rivington is honored to feature Santa Barbara-based artist Jon Ortner. Jon's dynamic artistry spans painting, photography, and motorcycling. Known for capturing nature's beauty and the thrill of discovery, Jon’s work will inspire visitors during the December 1st Thursday Art Walk at our flagship store, celebrating creativity, community, and artistic vision.

20. Slice of Light • 9 W. Figueroa St. • We welcome you to join us for a magnificent evening at our photography gallery, featuring the natural beauty of earth and space. Every piece is captured by Santa Barbara local, J K Lovelace. Enjoy fine wine as you explore our latest exhibit, Fall 2024.

21. The Yes Store • 1015 State Street • Join us for our 57th Holiday Celebration! Enjoy great music, beverages, and treats. View the incredible work of all our talented artists. Lots of new work! Enter our raffle to win Santa Bucks. Looking for locally handmade gifts or something special for yourself? Look no further than The Yes Store.

22. Finch & Fork | The Kimpton Canary Hotel • 31 W Carrillo St. • $2 oysters, cocktails, and shop local, all under one roof! Every 1st Thursday, the lobby transforms into a haven for art and music lovers. Join from 5 pm - 8 pm to shop

jewelry from local vendors including VB Jewelry, CreaTiffity Studios, CMH Designs, and Shop Chula. Take a seat at the bar and enjoy $2 oysters & Chalet Style cocktails and bites whilst DJ Dansauce provides the beats.

23. SBIFF’s Santa Barbara Filmmaker Series • SBIFF's Film Center, 916 State Street • We are featuring Jeff McLoughlin's The Artist & The Great Bear. Artist Patti Jacquemain’s mission is to use art to encourage children's appreciation of the California grizzly bear. Showtimes: 5:30 pm, 6:00 pm, 6:30 pm, 7:00 pm. Runtime: 23 minutes.

24. PathPoint • 902

Laguna St. • Join us for PathPoint’s First Thursday event! Discover unique gifts crafted by our talented artists, enjoy live music, and bid on stunning art pieces at our live auction. Sip hot chocolate, tour our gallery, and learn about our mission to create inclusive communities. Don't miss this inspiring evening!

25. Paint at Paseo • Peppermint Parlor, Paseo Nuevo • Come celebrate the holiday season with us at the final Paint at Paseo event of the year! Join us for a cozy night of art inside the Peppermint Parlor, as we host Denisse Villanueva, a local Mexican artist in Santa Barbara. Denisse guides you through a 90-minute acrylic painting experience suitable for all ages and skill levels. All necessary materials like canvases, paints, aprons, and brushes will be supplied.

26. Jake & Jones • 135 E. De La Guerra St. • Jake & Jones, The Eddy, Bibiji & Revolver are hosting a holiday block party at the corner of E. De La Guerra St. and Santa Barbara St. Swing by for an evening of wine, art, bites, and chain stitching. All ages welcome!

27. Santa Barbara Historical Museum • 136 E. De La Guerra St. • Discover unique holiday treasures at the Museum Store! Explore a curated selection of thought-provoking and beautiful items celebrating our city’s rich heritage: vintage books, art prints,

by local artists,

jewelry

children’s gifts, puzzles,

13. A seasonal special event, stop in at 10 West Gallery to see pottery from Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua and art from SB locals!

8. Jody James will be joined by her daughter Cody Huffman for a colorful knitting and clothing event at the knit shop.

6. Ensemble Theatre Company invites you to 1st Thursday at Million Dollar Quartet!

11. Mata Ortiz pottery and the work of ten contemporary artists will be in the spotligt at 10 West Gallery

17. See work by Artist of the month Denise Carey and more at Gallery 113!

16. See work of the Santa Barbara Art Association in an exhibition juried by Ralph Waterhouse on view in the Faulkner Gallery!

15. Try your hand at tempera painting and then take in some the pop-up opera performance at Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

31. Discover enchanting wall coverings and fine art by Colette Cosentino and ethereal fiber and reed petals crafted by Kellen Meyer at Art & Soul.

11. Friends of State Street have been busy reenvisioning State! Join them for their Grand Opening!

14. The highly anticipated 100 Grand exhibition returns to Sullivan Goss just in time for the holidays! The exhibition and sale begins Monday Dec 2nd @ 9am.

The High-Tech Tools Police Can Use to Surveil Protesters

When Americans take to the streets to make their voices heard, they’re inevitably dragging their digital trails right along behind them.

By Ilica Mahajan / The Marshall Project

ANONYMITY IS A SHIELD FROM THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY,” wrote Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in a 1995 ruling affirming Americans’ constitutional right to engage in anonymous political speech.

That shield has weakened in recent years due to advances in the surveillance technology available to law enforcement. What used to be a manual process is becoming increasingly automated, making mass deanonymization of protesters, even those taking active steps to hide their identities, possible.

Controversies about facial recognition and masking may dominate the news, but there are a plethora of surveillance methods that law enforcement can deploy to gain insight into peoples’ identities, communications, and purchases. Almost everyone in modern life, and that includes protesters, continuously oozes data that reveals sensitive aspects of their life. Everything from social media posts, to metadata about phone calls, to the purchase information collected by data brokers, to location data showing every step taken, is available to law enforcement — often without a warrant.

Incoming President Trump has sworn that he will pursue various groups like his political enemies or immigrants, and could use the expansion of the national surveillance state for his own purposes.

Avoiding all of this tracking would require such extrication from modern social life that it would be virtually impossible for most people. That said, some simple steps could help in not becoming the lowest hanging fruit, like leaving a cell phone behind. Understanding more about what technologies the local police force has access to can also inform how a community approaches surveillance and safety issues.

Here are just some of the technologies law enforcement can use to surveil protesters.

Stingrays (a.k.a. IMSI Catchers or Cell Site Simulators)—What is it?

International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers, or Stingrays, impersonate cell phone towers to collect the unique ID of a cell phone’s SIM card. These IDs allow law enforcement officials to request additional information from phone carriers, matching devices with owners’ names, addresses, and location histories.

Stingrays help law enforcement to collect data even without a warrant. Since the technology has the capability to collect information about all the phones in an area, it’s an ideal method for identifying people en masse.

While some cities, like New York, have published guidelines on how IMSI catchers can be deployed, others have been less forthcoming — even lying to judges to conceal their use of the technology.

Who sells it?

The name “Stingray” is the name of a specific device made by L3Harris (formerly known as Harris), but has now colloquially become the generic term for all cell site simulators. IMSI catchers are sold by many other companies, like Digital Receiver Technology.

Can it be circumvented?

Apple and Google, which control the operating systems of nearly all smartphones in the U.S., have begun preventing cell phones from dropping down from more advanced and protected network protocols, like 5G, to less secure 2G networks, which are necessary for IMSI catchers to function.

Protesters are also often advised to either put their phones on airplane mode, which shuts down any cellular connections, or just leave their devices at home.

Some groups are trying to develop workarounds to allow phone communication at protests without the need to connect to a cellular network — although research suggests that sort of mesh network communication may not be the most secure either.

Tushar Jois, a City College of New York computer science professor studying privacy, is working on one such app called Amigo. He recommends using end-toend encrypted chat messaging platforms (like Signal), encrypting the data on your phone and in the cloud, as well as enabling settings like Apple’s Lockdown Mode, which enhances the device’s security. Still, nothing beats leaving the phone at home.

Geofencing—What is it?

Geofence warrants, also known as reverse location warrants, are a type of search warrant that lets law enforcement request location data from apps on your phone or tech companies, about all the devices or users in a certain area within a specified time frame. Geofence warrants are being increasingly used on protesters, with evidence of the technique being deployed to identify people demonstrating against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin and the students who marched in protest of a statue of a Confederate soldier on the campus of the University of North Carolina.

These warrants don’t target a specific person or suspect. Instead, they ensnare all devices in a particular area at a particular time. Not only can law enforcement track devices’ locations and identify users, they can also gather other data, like social media accounts.

Critics argue the technology is overly broad, making suspects out of anyone in the general vicinity of a crime scene. In 2011, a federal judge agreed, rendering geofence warrants unconstitutional, but that ruling was later overturned. This past summer, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judge ruled that geofence warrants constituted an unreasonable search, making them illegal in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana.

Who sells it?

Geofencing itself isn’t a technology, so there is no vendor to provide protester data to law enforcement. Instead, these warrants are served to companies that collect location data, like Apple or Google.

Can it be circumvented?

As with IMSI catchers, protesters trying to evade this kind of surveillance either have to leave their phones at home, turn off location tracking services, or use airplane mode. However, if a phone connects to a nearby Wi-Fi signal, its location can still be recorded.

Historically, Google has been a major recipient of these information requests. Google revealed more than 25% of the warrants it received in 2020 were geofence warrants, constituting more than 10,000 requests. Google’s transparency reports do not specify what percentage of the geofence warrants it received that resulted in the company handing over data.

Data Brokers—What are they?

Data brokers are companies that assemble information about people from a variety of usually public sources. Tons of websites and apps that everyday people use collect information on them, and this information is often sold to third parties who can aggregate or piece together someone’s profile across the sites that are tracking them to create a more comprehensive look into their lives. These companies mostly function to sell data about people to advertisers, but law enforcement is also able to purchase such information.

Who sells it?

Companies like Fog Data Science, LexisNexis, Precisely and Acxiom possess not only data on billions of people, they also promote the fact that they have information about someone’s political preferences as well as demographic information about them. Fog Data Science boasts it also has near real time access to users’ geolocation, just because applications often collect this information. By aggregating on various advertising ID’s across various platforms, these companies can understand not only your daily routines and travel, but also where you sleep.

Can it be circumvented?

Short of living off the grid, it can’t, sorry. Welcome to 2024.

In order to get around this kind of surveillance, people would not only need to be regularly changing out their credit cards and website accounts, they’d need to avoid traceable transactions by paying for everything in cash. Data brokers also ingest public government data, so unless someone is entirely off the grid, these firms will likely have something on almost everyone.

Social Media Monitoring—What is it?

Reports of social media surveillance go back over a decade, when law enforcement was reportedly tracking social media sites like Tumblr and Myspace, and Facebook — frequently utilizing networks of fake accounts. More recently, companies like Dataminr have been used to surveil protests, including the George Floyd demonstrations.

There are several tech companies helping law enforcement sift through the “firehose” of social media posts. One firm advertised the ability to help police identify “activists and disruptors” at protests.

Social media gives law enforcement a lot of information about how people are connected to each other, where they are posting from, and what they are posting — whether public or not. Meta sued one social media monitoring company for creating over 38,000 fake accounts on Facebook to collect data on more than half a million of the platform’s real users, including even private posts.

Surveillance of social media accounts allows police to gather vast amounts of information about how protests are organized. Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, claimed, “proactive monitoring will provide the crucial information our public safety agencies need in order to be aware of planned activity as early as possible and to enable them to respond quickly and appropriately.”

Who sells it?

Companies operating in this space include Dataminr, Babel Street, and Voyager Labs. Geofeedia used to be a go-to tool for law enforcement to gain insight into the social media lives of Americans, until Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram blocked access to their feeds in 2017. A few years ago, the FBI purchased 5,000 licenses for Babel Street’s system for gathering information from a plethora of social media platforms.

Can it be circumvented?

Avoiding social media monitoring services can be accomplished by simply logging off, though admittedly this is often easier said than done.

Pictures and other information posted to Instagram or the social network formerly known as Twitter contain metadata, information embedded in images or videos with data about the user’s location or device.

At the very least, privacy advocates recommend waiting to post to social media until you are at a different location, avoiding pictures with people’s faces or other potentially identifying personal information, not posting overly sensitive information about yourself or others and stripping images of their metadata before posting.

Gait Recognition Technology—What is it?

The idea that animals can be identified by how they move about the world has been around since Aristotle.

Capturing a human’s gait on camera started in the 1970s for medical purposes. More recently, by analyzing how a person moves, police use gait recognition technology to, for example, identify a person by their footprints, even if their face is obscured, or they are facing away from the camera. Just last year, a distinctive gait helped law enforcement identify a man accused of robbing casinos in Las Vegas. In recent years, Chinese law enforcement authorities have employed software to automate the gait recognition

process. While there isn’t conclusive evidence of its use in the US as a prepackaged technology, its principles have been applied in the field of forensic gait analysis or forensic podiatry.

Who sells it?

In the U.S., this process has, thus far, been exclusively manual — with forensic podiatry experts assisting law enforcement by analyzing people’s gaits from CCTV camera footage. But it’s likely only a matter of time until the type of gait recognition software utilized in China makes its way across the Pacific. A technology company called Prove has developed a product that lets someone’s distinctive walk act as a key, allowing them entrance into secure locations.

Can it be circumvented?

It’s difficult to intentionally change one’s gait, so other than affecting a silly walk or taking a movement lesson from Dune, avoiding posting video of people moving around during a protest is the only suggestion given by privacy advocates.

Automated License Plate Readers—What is it?

Automated license plate readers (or ALPRs) are specialized cameras, installed in most major American cities, that log the license plates of every car that passes by. Some are stationary, while others can be installed on police vehicles. ALPRs can track a car’s movement through an area, or tell police officers all the cars that crossed a certain checkpoint during a certain period of time.

Who sells it?

Vendors include companies like Motorola or Flock Safety. The latter also offers a host of other plug-andplay surveillance tools for law enforcement. Motorola is able to pair its surveillance with other datasets, like auto repossession data collected by partner companies, to provide more information to its customers. Other firms in the space include Axon, Rekor, Leonardo, Jenoptik and Perceptics.

Can it be circumvented?

Since obscuring a car’s license plate is illegal, protesters can only be sure to avoid ALPRs by taking public transit, biking or walking. However, certain forms of public transit payments can be tracked, as can walking (using gait analysis techniques).

Camera Systems: Drones, Private and Commercial CCTVs, and Body Cameras— What is it?

Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles, often equipped with sensors like IMSI catchers or video cameras. Some cities are beginning to use drones as first responders, visiting potential crime scenes before law enforcement arrives. Several protesters have also reported noticing drones flying overhead during demonstrations. Recently, police in upstate New York used a drone to solve a case of collegiate art theft.

Private retailers, like Target, have been aiding law enforcements’ video surveillance capabilities by installing their own cameras not only inside retail stores, but around the surrounding neighborhood as well. For example, if a protester ducks into a Target before attending a protest, it might be caught on camera and turned over to police.

Private residence doorbell cameras, like Amazon’s

Ring, have also attracted attention for their partnerships with police, though earlier this year the company changed its policy of complying with warrantless requests for footage.

Body cameras are small recording devices that are usually worn by law enforcement officials. While they are often used to hold officers accountable to the community, they can also be used to identify individuals. California temporarily prohibited facial recognition being used on body camera footage, but the ban expired last year.

Vendors

Drone vendors include Motorola and Axon, both of which also provide body cameras to police.

Private retailers’ camera systems come from a multitude of companies, but those feeds are often combined by technologies like Axon’s Fusus, which bills itself as a “real-time crime center surveillance platform.”

Can it be circumvented?

Those who are at a protest where a drone is being flown will likely be captured on the drone’s cameras. Using a face covering, like a mask, is of increasingly limited value as governments across the country pass mask bans and law enforcement’s facial recognition tools become more able to discern identities of masked individuals.

Biometric Identification— What is it?

Biometric surveillance technologies use physical characteristics to identify people, with data ranging from their tattoos to iris scans to DNA database matching.

Software that detects and logs physical biometric data can be run on previously captured video feeds or even pictures posted on social media.

Tattoo recognition technology is being rapidly improved upon both in the private and public sphere. Federal agencies like NIST have held competitions to help them develop state-of-the-art identification algorithms, and conducted research to find tattoo recognition applications for law enforcement. The Arizona Department of Public Safety has a system it uses to identify tattoos from a database with more than a million photos they acquired from “criminal booking procedures.”

Who sells it?

Companies like Idemia, Dataworks, Rank One Computing, and Neurotechnology are other examples of vendors that help law enforcement with biometric identification.

In 2020, IBM announced it would stop offering facial recognition software, citing civil rights concerns. “IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values,” wrote IBM CEO Arvind Krishna wrote in a letter to Congress.

Can it be circumvented?

Like avoiding other kinds of physical identification, privacy advocates recommend wearing clothing that covers any identifiable markings like tattoos. But since these physical markers are unique and usually impossible to change, they are an added cause for concern.

This story is published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system.

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After decades of plantation agriculture, coconut palms dominate over half of Pacific atoll forests

By Harrison Tasoff / The UC Santa Barbara Current

COCONUT PALMS ARE KING THROUGHOUT THE TROPICS, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries. However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests transformed the palm from the revered “Tree of Life” to a cash crop monoculture grown on Pacific atolls for a singular purpose — production of coconut oil (copra) for export around the world.

Despite wide interest in the global footprint of palm crops, the distribution of coconut palms across tropical Pacific atolls has received little attention. Until now. Published in Environmental Research Letters, research from UC Santa Barbara and The Nature Conservancy provides the first comprehensive map of the vast footprint of coconut palm agriculture across nearly every Pacific atoll.

“Coconut oil used to be essential to atoll economies, but today most coconut palm plantations are abandoned and overgrown,” said lead author Michael Burnett, a doctoral student in UCSB’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology. “With the growing climate threats facing Pacific atolls, it’s critical to figure out where these abandoned plantations are using up critical land and water resources, and where there may be opportunities to restore the native forests to the benefit of islands and islanders.”

Coconut palms now represent over half of the tree cover on these low islands, confining formerly widespread native broadleaf trees to small fractions of their natural range.

“That’s a problem,” Burnett said, “because replacement of broadleaf forests with coconut monocrops has been linked to groundwater depletion, declining seabird populations, and adverse impacts on adjacent coral reefs. Understanding the present extent of coconut plantations is crucial for confronting sustainability challenges facing communities across the Pacific’s 266 atolls.”

This loss of unique ecosystems on Pacific atolls is staggering. It even exceeds the rate of deforestation due to oil palm production, at least in relative terms, in other parts of the world. For instance, 10.8% of Borneo’s land area had been converted to oil palm monocrops by 2015. Meanwhile, coconut palms presently cover 58.3% of the mapped atolls’ total forested area and 24.1% of their total land area.

What’s more, 51.2% of these coconut canopies occur in monocultures indicative of plantation agriculture and drastic ecological changes. Despite the abandonment of many plantations in recent decades, the authors found that coconut palms still surpass native broadleaf trees in terms of canopy area. Yet, forest conversion on Pacific atolls has scarcely received a fraction of the scholarly attention devoted to mapping oil palm-driven forest conversion.

“As the world comes to terms with tradeoffs associated with converting primary forest to croplands, we should not ignore atoll forests and the opportunity to recover these dynamic, resilient systems,” said Alex Wegmann, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy’s Island Resilience Strategy and an author on the paper. “There is increasing evidence atolls play an important role in ocean health as nodes of biological connectivity and as nutrient concentrators — restoring and protecting atoll ecosystems

should be an ‘ocean health’ priority.”

Fortunately, coconut palm plantations have untapped potential for ecosystem restoration, resource conservation, and climate resilience. The paper’s vegetation maps are a first step in helping Pacific atoll communities visualize the state of their forests and evaluate the potential best uses—for coconut production, broadleaf forest restoration, or any path in between.

“Coconuts and coconut trees are deeply woven into the lives and livelihoods of Pacific peoples and communities, symbolizing resilience, and sustenance” said Elizabeth Terk, Micronesia conservation director for The Nature Conservancy. “However, restoring abandoned copra plantations on atolls to native forests offer invaluable ecological benefits, such as biodiversity recovery and climate resilience. Striking a balance between cultural heritage and environmental stewardship is essential for a sustainable future. Mapping the extent of copra plantations on atolls is a crucial step for informed decision-making. Helping to provide a clearer picture of land use, enabling us to balance economic needs with ecological restoration and climate adaption efforts.”

“As the world comes to terms with tradeoffs associated with converting primary forest to croplands, we should not ignore atoll forests and the opportunity to recover these dynamic, resilient systems,” said Alex Wegmann, lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy’s Island Resilience Strategy and an author on the paper. “There is increasing evidence atolls play an important role in ocean health as nodes of biological connectivity and as nutrient concentrators — restoring and protecting atoll ecosystems should be an ‘ocean health’ priority.”

Ecosystem management projects, including the conversion of abandoned coconut plantations to native forests and the restoration of seabird colonies, have shown great promise on atolls. Yet these are invariably multi-year endeavors, and such efforts must be pursued with urgency by local stakeholders to achieve resilience in the face of accelerating climate impacts.

“These maps,” said Burnett, “are part of a growing body of science exploring the numerous opportunities for conservation and resilience on atolls. We hope they will help atoll communities chart their own futures in an era of global change.”

Seabirds like these red-footed boobies do not nest in coconut palms, so the reduction of broadleaf forests would deprive the atoll of the nutrients from their droppings.

Photo Credit: Kydd Pollock

Coconut palms account for more than one third of forested areas on Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia, which falls far short of the region’s most heavily impacted atolls.

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