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“This is easily my favorite time of year,” says Aly Comingore (far right), the guiding force behind our annual Music Issue. For 2013, Aly and intern Rachel Cabakoff scoured the net to hunt down Santa Barbara’s next great unknown. “After six years of covering music here, I thought I knew everyone and everything,” says Aly. “Boy, was I wrong.” Sites like ReverbNation and SoundCloud led Aly and Rachel to 2013 featured artists like Jay October and Swim Lessons, along with a wealth of new talent brewing just below the State Street circuit. It’s just one of the reasons she’s so proud of this year’s issue. “If you love music, there’s nothing better than introducing your friends to a new, rad band.” Learn about 12 starting on page 27.
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his year, we faced the classic Goldilocks conundrum in deciding which candidates to endorse in the Santa Barbara City Council race; some were too hot, others too cold, and few just right. To an uncommon degree, however, they have all contributed to Santa Barbara’s public discourse. Ultimately, we opted for the candidates we believe are most committed to using all the tools available to promote the development of affordable housing and meaningful transportation alternatives. More than good intentions, however, we selected the candidates who bring the right mix of experience, knowledge, and stubborn creativity necessary to translate that vision into meaningful policy. Likewise, we selected
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those candidates we deemed the least prone to hysteria and histrionics on the matters of homelessness and public safety. Also guiding our choice was the candidates’ awareness and attitude regarding some of the looming challenges now confronting City Hall. Two years ago, the city’s Redevelopment Agency — like all such agencies statewide — was abolished by state fiat. Whether right or wrong, that action has seriously hamstrung City Hall’s ability to support affordable housing projects, invest in the arts, take care of its parking lots, and solve the problem of $250 million in unfunded pension liabilities without vilifying the frontline city employees who do the people’s work at City Hall.
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e enthusiastically endorse Mayor Helene Schneider to a second term. During the past two years, especially, Schneider has come into her own. She’s smart, open, and ubiquitous. And her grasp of detail is nothing less than exceptional. Throughout most of her term, City Hall has weathered the fiscal storm of the international recession. In that time, 80 positions were eliminated by attrition — at a savings of $8 million a year — but no employee was laid off. Four more cops were hired, and a new restorative policing program was hatched. After years of intense wrangling, a new General Plan and a plastic-bag ban were both unanimously approved. Under Schneider’s guidance the Rental Housing Mediation Task Force, which had been effectively slated for elimination, was saved, and the city increased its investment in the arts. When it appeared the state might force City Hall to sell off its downtown parking lots — as a consequence of the Redevelopment Agency’s elimination — Schneider led the Mayor Helene Schneider successful charge to save them. In the nuts and bolts of pothole politics, Schneider a major policy initiative would be adopted has excelled. She played a key role in the restrip- behind closed doors without benefit of even ing of Cliff Drive (Highway ) — giving that one public hearing. A similar lack of openness busy, dangerous thoroughfare what’s known in doomed the package of initiatives the mayor the parlance as “a road diet.” Even those coun- proposed early last year, which, if passed, would cilmembers who regarded such initiatives as have generated $12 million for City Hall and the social engineering have had to admit it’s been public schools. The plan was undeniably crea success. And when it is called for, Schneider ative and bold, but because Schneider sprang can play a mean game of hardball. By threaten- it on the community without consulting any ing to withhold the permits necessary to build of the key stakeholders first, she was forced to the massive freeway-widening project unless beat a strategic retreat. But even so, we were certain city infrastructure needs are addressed, heartened to see the extent to which Schneider Schneider is definitely getting Caltrans’s atten- was willing to stick her neck out to secure new tion. How that plays out, however, has yet to be revenue streams for City Hall. Despite strong seen, but without such a credible threat, we’re personal and political differences among some confident the city’s needs would have gotten of its members, under Schneider’s guidance the shorter shrift. council has stayed working as a highly funcOf course we don’t always see eye-to-eye tioning body. In this time of political shutdown, with the mayor. We disagree that a gang injunc- it is a gift that Santa Barbara has a government tion is needed in Santa Barbara. Like many in that works — and that is in no small part due to the community, we were offended that such our Mayor Helene Schneider.
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f the three council seats up for grabs, (SBCAG), will bring to the council an obvious two are currently occupied by incum- intelligence and sunny congeniality; he knows bents Bendy White and Frank Hotch- traffic and transportation issues like few others kiss. We are happy to endorse White — who on the South Coast. After his having served seems built into the very DNA of City Hall, two terms on the City Council 10 years ago given his length of service on numerous boards — and the Planning Commission before that and commissions. While there is much to — we know Hart’s qualified. We remain conappreciate about Hotchkiss — he’s plainspo- cerned how he will juggle his council responken, self-deprecating, hardworking, and gets to sibilities with the full-time job he now holds the point faster than any down at SBCAG. More of his colleagues — we difto the point, when City Hall and SBCAG find fer on too many key issues relating to housing, trafthemselves at loggerfic, and the environment heads — as they curto endorse him. For the rently are — over aspects second and third spots, we of the freeway-widening recommend Gregg Hart project, we’re concerned how Hart will manage and David Landecker, his conflicted allegiances. two progressive-minded We are persuaded that former councilmembers. While both have notable he has the energy to do blind spots, both bring both jobs, and he should recuse himself from a high level of intelligence, independence, and council votes regarding experience. the freeway. We are confident all David Landecker, who was forced to resign three will pursue the Harwood “Bendy” White admittedly limited opporfor shoplifting when tunities to build new he sat on the council housing that’s affordable 22 years ago, has more to people other than milthan redeemed himlionaires. To that end, self. He was an effective and inventive executhey will support strong tive director first of the incentives for multiple, Neighborhood Clinics smaller “affordable-bydesign” housing units. To and then the Environthe extent City Hall can mental Defense Center. jigger land-use policies to He brings with him a lifeencourage the developtime of experience in the nonprofit world, private ment of rental housing — 62 percent of the popubusiness, and with organizations ranging from lation rents — we are conthe Chamber of Comfident that these three will do so. This, necessarily, will Gregg Hart merce to the Citizens be accomplished by reducPlanning Association. If ing the amount of parking Landecker can keep his bull-in-the-china-shop required for new residenproclivities on a short tial development. And this change can work only by leash, we’re confident expanding the range of he can make a valuable contribution. commuter choices available to city residents. The Megan Diaz Alley, car must become just one the most progressive of many options. Even so, candidate in the race, all councilmembers will impressed us with her need to remain alive to passion and energy. neighborhood concerns We’re hoping that she about parking, congestion, remains active in city and density. politics. Likewise, we It’s an exceedingly delihope that Michael Jorcate balancing act: one that dan, a city planning Bendy White clearly gets. commissioner and White has already played David Landecker shrewdly outspoken a quiet leadership role on middle-of-the-roader these matters. When the council was polar- who did not get his campaign organized early ized to the point of impasse — neighborhood enough to compete in this large body of canpreservationists objected that additional densi- didates, will consider running again. ties would destroy the city’s character — White But for this election, we believe that Mayor played a key role in striking a compromise. Helene Schneider, Councilmember Harwood Gregg Hart, a spokesperson for the Santa “Bendy” White, Gregg Hart, and David LanBarbara County Association of Governments decker will serve our city best.
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POT, KETTLE, BLACK: Banner critics point out that the union hires low-paid, nonunion workers to hold up their signs.
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labor union that’s generated considerable attention over the “SHAME” banners it plants throughout Santa Barbara may have crossed a legal line it regularly toes. Two men believed to be with the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters — the Los Angeles–based union with 65,000 members that aggressively pickets developers, contractors, and anyone else it feels has wrongfully hired nonunion workers — are accused of breaking into the locked dumpster of an East Cota Street construction firm to steal client lists and other privileged material. The nighttime burglary of Frank Schipper Construction was witnessed by a nearby resident, who watched the men drive away in a car registered to the union. But due to a lack of additional info — including more detailed descriptions of the suspects and the actual value of what was taken — the police investigation stopped before it really began, which frustrates Schipper president Paul Wieckowski. “The union’s attitude is: ‘We’re going to do what we want to do, and you can’t stop us,’” said Wieckowski. “And the police are unwilling to do anything about it.” Up until the incident, Wieckowski and other contractors wondered how the union carpenters were able to pinpoint their client rosters. “I always thought there was a spy,” explained Wieckowski, who hires both union and nonunion subcontractors, depending on the size and scope of the work. “Whoever does the job well and for a good price,” said Wieckowski,“we want them.” 12
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At around 10:30 p.m. on September 3, a man living in a condo above the Schipper office awoke to the sound of his dog barking. He went to his balcony and looked down to see two white males in their forties — one described as heavyset and wearing a dark ball cap with a red bill, the other with light, curly hair and wearing glasses — putting paperwork from the dumpster into a small white SUV. The witness headed downstairs to confront the men as they drove away, and he managed to type the car’s license plate on his iPhone. Police found it registered to a 2005 Ford owned by the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters in Los Angeles and forwarded that evidence to detectives, but the case has since been deactivated.“If additional information on the case surfaces,” said SBPD spokesperson Sergeant Riley Harwood, “we’re always prepared to reopen it. … There are definitely suspicious circumstances present.” Wieckowski said police detectives advised him to speak with the District Attorney’s Office, but Deputy DA Brian Cota said that without anyone to prosecute, it’s difficult to build a case. The first step needs to be taken by the police department to identify possible suspects; otherwise, Cota suggested filing a complaint in smallclaims court. Instead, last week Wieckowski sent a letter to a number of his fellow contractors, warning them of the union’s unchecked “criminal activity.”
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Beach — were either unreturned, directed to a Santa Barbara phone number, or forwarded to its Los Angeles headquarters. A man who identified himself as Joe answered the Santa Barbara line and declined to comment on the allegations. At the Los Angeles office, Justin Weidner issued a “no comment” response and hung up. Calls made to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBC), of which the Southwest Council is an affiliate, went unreturned. This summer, the UBC put the Southwest Council under emergency supervision after charges of malpractice, intimidation, wrongful conduct, and financial irregularities surfaced. In a six-page fax sent July 19 to all of the Southwest Council’s 31 local chapters, a massive political shake-up was announced with the UBC chief, Douglas McCarron, removing his younger brother, Mike McCarron, from the head of the Southwest Council. The decision was reportedly fueled by familial bad blood and tension among union brass. Also this summer, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) launched an investigation into reports that union members had followed supervisors with a Phoenix drywall company to individual job sites, running red lights and weaving through traffic to keep pace. The NLRB eventually determined that the union was innocent, noting that the National Labor Relations Act allows such tactics so long as “[n]o one is injured, nothing was thrown, no one was prevented from going to work or leaving, and no vehicle was harmed or excluded from the premises.” NLRB representatives were unavailable to cont’d page 14 speak on that matter or any
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Two men and a 6-year-old boy were hurt in a high-speed crash at the intersection of Arrellaga and De la Vina streets Monday afternoon (above) when 28-year-old Evan Githens blew a stop sign in a stolen truck as he fled from pursuing Sheriff’s deputies. Githens broadsided a passing Jeep that hit a Honda CRV, and he was arrested a few blocks away after he fled the mangled truck on foot. In the car with him was an adult female and two boys — the 6-year-old and his 4-year-old brother — she was babysitting. The woman was detained and interviewed and later released. The child and the drivers of the Jeep and CRV were taken from the scene on stretchers, but the extent of their injuries is unclear. Githens was charged with a slew of felonies and is being held in County Jail on $100,000 bail. Cayucos resident Jeremy Bordegaray, 29, was shot by a Santa Barbara Sheriff’s deputy Sunday evening during a violent and bizarre confrontation on Beach Club Road near Carpinteria. According to Sheriff’s officials, three deputies responded to a trespassing call in the neighborhood at around 7:45 p.m. and found Bordegaray lurking in an unoccupied home with a loaded handgun in his backpack. He was arrested, handcuffed, and put into the back seat of a patrol cruiser, but he managed to break the car’s plexiglass partition, crawl into the front seat, and start driving away. The deputies gave chase on foot with one of them firing on Bordegaray as he attempted to escape. Bordegaray, who has an extensive criminal history, remains in critical condition at Cottage Hospital and has been booked in absentia on a number of charges. The deputy was placed on administrative leave per departmental protocol, and an investigation into the shooting has been launched. Authorities on 10/3 released the name of the suspect who allegedly shot a Santa Barbara man in the chest in the 1100 block of Bregante Lane on November 25, 2012. Long Beach resident Johnnie Gray, 38, has been held since March in Long Beach for attempted murder and for allegedly selling, furnishing, and transporting drugs. Santa Barbara detectives obtained a $1 million warrant on Gray in March after identifying him, and he’s scheduled to be extradited to Santa Barbara in the coming weeks, police said. Gray, who is suspected to have ties to a Long Beach gang, was reportedly in the S.B. area at the time of the shooting because he and the victim were involved in a crack cocaine deal that went bad. Joseph Castro, 20, and Isaac Jimenez, 23, will stand trial for the shooting death of Kelly Hunt, gunned down February 19 on Olive Street. According to testimony from detectives during
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The University of California recently unveiled changes to its health insurance plans — including the elimination of Anthem plans — that will reduce UCSB employees’ options of getting treatment at Sansum Clinic and Cottage Hospital. Hundreds of UCSB faculty and staff gathered on campus last Thursday to voice their concern about the changes, railing against being left out of the negotiations and now being forced to decide on new NOT HAPPY: UCSB Faculty Association plans before the changes take effect in President Nelson Lichtenstein addresses the January. crowd at a UCSB Health Care Town Hall Forum. For the entire UC system, Anthem plans will no longer be available in 2014. To replace them, the university system will offer UC Care, a three-tiered system. UCSB employees are upset over the first tier, a $20 co-pay PPO plan that contracts primarily through UC medical centers, which UCSB doesn’t have. And the only medical facilities in the area that have agreed to accept Tier 1 so far are in Lompoc, Santa Maria, and Ventura. The second tier of UC Care — also a PPO plan — will work at Sansum and Cottage, but it will charge patients for 20 percent of their services (with a $5,000 cap). According to UCSB’s Human Resources director, Tricia Hiemstra, 750 UCSB employees are currently enrolled in Anthem plans. Speakers on Thursday said the Office of the President should have taken Santa Barbara’s medical provider landscape into account when making the changes. They said they were angry about the lack of a Tier 1 plan in the area and resented having to wait and see if negotiations with Sansum and Cottage bear any fruit. “If that’s the best the Office of the President can do right now, you’ve failed,” said Stuart Feinstein, a longtime molecular biology professor. “This is reneging on a responsibility. This is a completely unacceptable and unsatisfying situation.” Dwaine Duckett, the vice president of human resources for the university system’s Office of the President (UCOP), answered questions at the meeting, and said that the pending separation from Anthem is due to the company’s slated price increases, with plans scheduled to go up by $60 to $175 per month. Duckett noted that UCSB employees will still be able to be treated at Sansum and Cottage, but he acknowledged their strong — Lyz Hoffman frustration over losing that top-tier PPO option.
for its large selection of hats, will shutter the 911 State Street location by December. “We can’t afford to be here anymore,” said Susie Dougherty, co-owner with her husband, Ed, since 1976. She cited the sluggish economy and a $9,000 monthly rent as the major reasons for calling it quits, but she sounded optimistic over the phone: “We’ll have some time to enjoy time on our boat.” The store’s been downtown for 63 years. Lemm and Flo Eldridge opened it in 1950 and sold baskets, hence the name. The Doughertys bought it from them 26 years later and focused more on hats starting in the 1990s. Merchandise will go on sale at discounted prices starting next week.
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Supporters of Mercy for Animals gathered 10/8 next to the dolphin fountain, accompanied by an inflatable dog in a bun (above). The pro-vegetarian organization, committed to abolishing animal cruelty on farms big and small and the consumption of meat in general, launched the West Coast portion of a six-week nationwide campaign yesterday in Los Angeles and stayed for an hour in Santa Barbara before heading up to Monterey. “We engage people to make the connection between animals on their plate and the cats and dogs we love,” said campaign coordinator Jeni Haines. “We have to question why we call some animals dinner and some pets.” The city’s oldest surviving retail store announced Tuesday that it’s going out of business. The Green & Yellow Basket, perhaps best known
The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan to provide Jalama Beach with affordable overnight lodging, including yurts — popular at Lake Cachuma — and cabins. The project was suggested in the wake of the demolition of the old, affordable Miramar Hotel and the in-limbo construction of the new, high-end Miramar Beach Resort; the county required its developer Rick Caruso to pay $1.395 million to create new low-cost beach accommodations. Caruso paid that fee last April, and the county has until April 2022 to use it. The yurts can sleep six people and will cost $150-$200 a night. Isla Vista’s Loop Mixed Use Building on Trigo Road will be sold to a new owner but will remain affordable housing for the originally required 55 years, the county supervisors voted Tuesday. In December 2010, d3 Partners received a five-year, $1.5-million loan from Redevelopment Agency funds for the building, which has five of its 25 cont’d page 15 units reserved for low-
Legalizing Marijuana, Hemp Buddy Duzy Explains Ballot Initiative
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hough California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana with the passage of Proposition in 1996, voters have had a harder time agreeing on whether recreational use of the drug should be allowed. In 2010, such a proposition was narrowly defeated at the polls, and in 2012 — when voters in Colorado and Washington legalized it — none of the six separate measures proposed by various factions of the Golden State’s marijuana movement could gather enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. California’s next chance will be November 2014, and the only proposed legislation currently moving toward that ballot is the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative, which must gather nearly 505,000 signatures by February 24, 2014. Shouldering a lot of that effort is Berton “Buddy” Duzy, a Simi Valley contractor who has been involved with marijuana reform his entire adult life due to his longtime friendship with author/activist Jack Herer. Last week, he spoke about his legislation with The Santa Barbara Independent, and what follows is an edited version of the conversation.
THIS BUD’S FOR US: Berton “Buddy” Duzy is one of the folks behind the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative, which needs to collect about 505,000 signatures by February 24, 2014, to qualify for the November 2014 ballot.
Why didn’t the legislation in 2010 pass? It didn’t pass because it was very poorly written and put together really quickly without much thought. What they ended up doing was allowing each city and county to allow for the sale of marijuana, and if you look at California politically in terms of the red-blue map, most counties are red, and most likely they wouldn’t have allowed it. That would have forced sales into Bay Area counties and Los Angeles. The rest of California would have been forced into a quasiblack market and have to drive to Oakland to buy as much pot as they could. Even some of the activists were opposed to that initiative because it was so poorly done. Did the recent comments from the Obama administration about leaving alone the states who legalize marijuana give you any extra hope? It’s not the first time that the federal government said they were gonna leave pot alone. They said they were gonna leave medical patients alone, too, when Obama was first elected, but they’ve been very aggressive with their enforcement. So I’m not 100 percent on board. I’ll believe it when I see it. Hemp seems to be as much a part of your bill as recreational marijuana, right? Industrial hemp is the central part of our bill. We believe that we should have been using hemp for paper a long time ago instead of cutting down all the trees, which is what we have been doing for the last 60 years. So it legalizes hemp for farming, and it also uses an excise tax we collect from recreational pot sales to fund a startup of these
industries. We intend to make California the first major state in the union to create a domestic infrastructure for the utilization of industrial hemp. And we do deal with the recreational and medical side of cannabis, too. It’s a comprehensive piece of legislation. How does your initiative deal with driving while stoned? What we did was eliminate the testing for metabolized THC, the type of testing where you can be dirty two months later. Instead, there is a test that is available for active THC, which means you actually smoked some pot and are actually high. We also demand that the state adopt existing scientifically based performance standards, or that they can do their own scientifically based performance standards. That’s the same thing they do with alcohol. They test drivers at certain levels and find the level where impairment exists. Do you expect any opposition from the cannabis-collective side? It will benefit the collectives because it takes local governments off their backs, and it eliminates the need to collect tax from medical pot. It does a lot to help them, and we expect them to be on board. So what are the chances it will pass in 2014? I think the chances are really good. The volunteers are all very excited and motivated, so we’re expecting it to pass.
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other because of the government shutdown. Harwood said while officers are periodically called out to Santa Barbara construction sites to kick union members off private properties — where they show up to recruit, demand information of site bosses, and look for union defectors — the SBPD’s interactions with the carpenters have been minimal. When the union decides to picket locations with its “SHAME” banners, Harwood went on, representatives notify police beforehand and appear well versed on the laws governing public access and sidewalk clearance. Wieckowski, on the other hand, described the union reps as tattooed “thugs” who sometimes aggressively refuse to leave construction zones. Most recently, they’ve shown up at Schipper’s projects at the Santa Barbara Zoo and the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. Wieckowski is quick to point out that other labor unions in town are much more professional in their competitive bidding tactics and that he supports the right of free speech, but he said the carpenters seem more bent on bullying the competition than facilitating fair and quality work.“They want to put these small companies out of business,” he claimed.“It’s not like they’re trying to better themselves. They’re desperate.”
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Detractors like Wieckowski often note that the protesters are not union members, but placeholders hired for $25 a day to wordlessly pass out fliers that feature a rat nibbling on an American flag below the screaming headline: “SHAME ON [person/company] For Desecration of the American Way of Life.” Indeed, while pleasant when asked for details on their mission, the sign holders appear to have little to no knowledge of the issue. The signs often claim there is a “labor dispute,” but NLRB records do not show any formal
grievances with the Southwest Council and the folks targeted. The scattershot approach the union uses when choosing whom to banner seems to be based solely on lost contract bids rather than gripes over substandard wages or benefits. The Southwest Council has deployed its banners since at least 2004 and has been known to stake out locations for months on end, as when it descended on Goleta Hospital Foundation trustees last year after Cottage Health System’s general contractor went nonunion for a major remodel.“[The union’s] angle is pretty despicable,” said board chair Jeffrey Bermant at the time, explaining he and the rest of the trustees weren’t involved in choosing subcontractors. “We have absolutely no say in how the hospital is built. … They seem pretty removed from reality.” Right now, banners sit in front of the Charles Schwab office on Chapala Street and what will be the new Fresh Market location (formerly Scolari’s) on Milpas Street. Both businesses hired Thomas Drywall instead of going through the union. A sign is also in front of Alma del Pueblo’s sales office, calling out Marge Cafarelli and her Urban Developments for hiring Triton Construction to plaster the mixed-use project being built on Chapala Street. Cafarelli said while union members have stopped “busting their way” through the construction site — she had to call the police on them more than once — they’ve hired sign holders to stake out a stretch of sidewalk on State Street right next to the Arlington Theatre. Commiserating with other banner targets, Cafarelli said while she doesn’t like how the union and its members conduct themselves, she’s resigned to the Southwest Council’s presence in Santa Barbara.“There’s nothing you can do, so you really can’t get too worked up about it,” she said. “At least they spelled my name right.”
Alzheimer’s Facility by Auto Mall?
A new facility to serve people with Alzheimer’s disease might now be built on a vacant lot on South Hope Avenue that’s zoned for auto dealerships thanks to a key procedural vote by the Santa Barbara City Council this week. With no opposition — but considerable misgivings expressed by Mayor Helene Schneider — the council voted to amend the specific plan governing the 25-acre swatch of land known as Rancho Arroyo to allow the development of an Alzheimer’s care facility or rental housing on a triangular lot — 1.76 acres big — that’s constrained by seismic faults, setback requirements, and a creek bed. Matthew Graham of Graham Chevrolet showed up — accompanied at the council podium by his wife and infant child — and objected that residents of the new facility would be subjected to loud noises and bright lights from all the dealerships at night. Graham said that trucks bearing the cars of tourists who lost their keys arrive at all hours of the night and that, invariably, the car alarms of such cars are activated upon delivery. “It’s just so random,” he said. “You have no idea when it’s going to be.” City Hall created the auto mall in that neighborhood in the mid-1980s, and administrators have been loath to surrender the sales-tax potential posed by a potential car lot on the site. But because the lot is only half the size of viable car lots in the area — and has environmental constraints — there have been no takers in the auto sales industry for more than 25 years. Councilmember Cathy Murillo noted that the nearby Mel Clayton dealership has been vacant so long that weeds reclaimed the parking lot, indicating a shift in car-buying habits. She also waxed wistful about the miniature-golf course that once was on the site, suggesting such a course would be good for at-risk teens. “I am a great miniature-golf-course person,” she added. “I’m a great putter.” Mayor Schneider went along only reluctantly, recalling her great disappointment at having voted to allow a housing development on land zoned for manufacturing on East Montecito. She said she had been told it would provide housing affordable to nonprofitagency employees. After the initial developer went bankrupt, a new developer built the condos, but at market rates and not for nonprofit workers. The mayor opened her remarks making a plea for a new green dealership. “Elon Musk, if you’re listening,” she — Nick Welsh said, “we love Tesla.”
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news briefs cont’d from p. 13 income residents. Under the loan agreement, d3 paid back the $1.5 million plus interest. The county’s Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services department will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal grant money through July 2016 to pay for treatment programs for veterans involved in the justice system. The money — not to exceed $325,000 a year — will expand services provided through the Veterans Treatment Court in Santa Maria. Under the program, vets who have been charged with misdemeanors and select felonies — and also suffer from PTSD, brain injuries, or substance abuse — but then spend 12-18 months receiving outpatient treatment and detox services can then have their charges reduced or dismissed. The grant will help an extra 25 vets per year. To spread the message of healthy eating and adequate exercise to low-income residents, the county’s Public Health Department will receive $865,833 a year in federal funding through 2016. The money comes from the state’s Network for a Healthy California program, which is paid for by the USDA. Public Health will work with community organizations to get the word out. The grant money is about $81,000 more than the previous agree-
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ENVIRONMENT The Environmental Defense Center (EDC) on 10/4 filed an appeal of the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission’s 3-2 approval of the Santa Maria Energy Oil Drilling and Production Plan, said Nathan Alley, an attorney for the EDC. Located on a property near Orcutt, the project would see the construction of 110 new oil wells — there are already 26 pilot wells at the site — as well as two steam generators, a crude-oil pipeline, and a water pipeline that will transfer recycled wastewater from the Laguna County Sanitation District for the steam generators, which will emit greenhouse gases. The Planning Commission approved the project with a 29 percent emissions threshold, releasing about 67,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases per year. The EDC has argued that the project could technically be held to zero emissions. The appeal will be heard by the Board of Supervisors at a later date. Doug Anthony retired as the deputy director of the county Planning and Development Department’s Energy and Minerals Division earlier this year, but his retirement will be short-lived. The supervisors voted 5-0 Tuesday cont’d page 17 to temporarily rehire
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The Board of Supervisors approved hiring new CEO Mona Miyasato (pictured) on Tuesday with a 5-0 vote, ending a months-long search after the supes decided not to renew current CEO Chandra Wallar’s contract in April. Miyasato, who starts December 9, comes from Marin County, where she served as chief assistant county administrator since 2008. Before that, she held multiple positions with the City of Santa Monica, including that of deputy city manager. “I am honored to be selected,” Miyasato said. “Santa Barbara is a world-class county, with engaged residents, dedicated employees, and a board that has made tough choices over the last several years to better position the organization toward a stable and thriving future.” During Tuesday’s meeting, the supervisors thanked Wallar for her three years of service, especially given the tough financial landscape she navigated during her time on the South Coast. Her contract wasn’t renewed after the board discovered she had been seeking the same job in Orange County, which she ultimately declined because it was below her desired salary. In an email to The Santa Barbara Independent on Tuesday, Wallar said she had no firm plans for the immediate future “other than a short vacation with family. … I am hoping some exciting opportunity comes my way.” Miyasato grew up in the Los Angeles area and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from UC Berkeley and a master’s in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She originally wanted to be a journalist, she said, but felt that government service would be a better way to “effect change in whatever way I could.” Nels Johnson, a longtime county reporter for the Marin Independent Journal, praised Miyasato’s work, saying “she is among the very best” and that “a big loss for Marin is Santa Barbara’s gain.” Major issues facing Marin County during Miyasato’s tenure, Johnson said, included high-density, low-income housing and pensions. The Bay Area county is smaller than Santa Barbara (828 square miles compared to 3,789) with fewer residents (252,400 vs. 423,895), but Miyasato said the areas share a lot of the same values, including environmental activism, agricultural heritage, public safety, and financial stability. Miyasato’s contract will run through December 2017. She will be paid $230,000 a year — $2,000 less than Wallar — and will receive $5,000 a year in retirement contributions, $600 a month for a car allowance (plus mileage reimbursement), and $20,000 for relocation expenses. She said she hadn’t yet decided where she will live but is looking forward to carrying on her Marin tradition of taking long walks with her husband and dog. “I’m thrilled to be starting there,” she said. “I’m really looking forward to it. There’s a great energetic vibe and history.” Assistant CEO Terri Nisich will serve as the interim chief until Miyasato starts in December. Miyasato will first meet with the board — Lyz Hoffman November 5.
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Anthony — who worked for the division for 27 years — as a part-time employee while the county deals with a staffing shortage. Anthony’s expertise, officials said, will be integral in handling the EDC’s appeal of the Santa Maria Energy oil drilling project, as well as the upcoming review of the 4H Shell Mound project. As expected, the many sea-otter support groups vying to be part of the federal case that seeks to keep the controversial “no otter zone” intact south of Point Conception were granted “intervenor” status by the court last week. Both the Santa Barbara–based EDC and The Otter Project were granted that status because they had brought the lawsuit that forced the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to move forward with declaring the quarter-century-old otter translocation program a failure and ending it for good at the end of last year. The other groups, Friends of the Sea Otter, the Humane Society of the United States, Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and Los Angeles Waterkeeper, were allowed to join the case by the judge’s discretion.
EDUCATION This Monday at UCSB, education experts, faculty, students, and others concerned about making college affordable and accessible presented several solutions — both short- and long-term and fiscal and non-fiscal — to Assemblymember Das Williams and members of the Legislature sitting on the California Assembly Higher Education Committee. The three-hour hearing included testimony from several experts from the California Student Aid Commission, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the Institution for College Access and Success, and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Simplifying the process for obtaining financial aid, improving textbook rental options, and creating online materials and lectures were presented as possible solutions to ensure California sees a growing educated populace. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a host of education bills 10/2 that will help usher in
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Common Core State Standards, new content guidelines for K-12 classrooms across the country. Of the governor’s 2013-2014 budget, $1.25 billion pays for professional development, instructional materials, and technology to implement the new standards. He also approved bills that mandate installing carbon monoxide devices in classrooms, issuing local education bonds, adopting K-8 instructional material to complement the new standards, and ensuring that social science curriculum incorporates histories of César Chávez, the farm labor movement, and Filipino Americans. Close to 100 enthusiastic parents, students, and faculty flooded Tuesday’s Santa Barbara Unified School District meeting to urge the board to renew the charter of the Santa Barbara Charter School (SBCS). Ten public commenters said SBCS’s close-knit environment — the K-6 school holds just under 300 students, 14 teachers, eight aides, two administrators, and several involved parents — has allowed both highachieving and special-needs students to thrive for 20 years. SBCS directors Dave Weisman and Bev Abrams addressed recent concerns of the board, including diversity, transparency, test scores, process of admitting new students, Common Core State Standards, and general progression since the last renewal in 2008. “Really, this process is an opportunity to make something better,” Board President Monique Limón said. The board will see a report at its October 22 meeting before voting on the renewal on November 12.
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The proposed North County Jail could expand to include additional beds and space for reentry programs if the county is awarded approximately $38.9 million in state funds. The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to allow Sheriff Bill Brown to submit an application for the award — recipients will be announced in January — but stipulated that amendments need to be made to the jail contract’s language and that discussions still need to be had on how to finance the new facility. The proposed jail, to be located near Santa Maria and projected to be up and running by 2018, could increase its number of beds with the money from SB 1022, which will put bond sales toward jails’ increased bed space, treatment programs, and reentry services meant to help reduce recidivism rates. With the $38.9 million, Brown said, he would add a 52,208-square-foot wing (that would serve as a multipurpose room for beds and treatment services) as well as an additional 228 beds to the proposed 376 beds; there would be 128 beds for inmates in treatment and two 50-bed units for those in transitional housing. The additional room, Brown said, would not “just add space to warehouse people” but would “turn lives around.” In making his case to apply for the award, Brown argued that the $80 million already set aside for construction is now insufficient because of the County Jail’s increased inmate population brought on by the new California law — AB 109 — that shifted responsibility for certain types of inmates from the state to the counties. Since its passage in 2011, Brown said, the jail’s population has risen by 11 percent, with half the inmates there as a result of AB 109. The county would have to match 10 percent of the award, and supervisors reluctantly said $3.9 million in strategic reserves could cover that cost until another funding source is found. Receiving the award would up the expected annual operating costs for both jails — around $17 million — by $310,700 a year, an amount that the board said it’s unsure how to pay for. Brown said additional AB 109 — Lyz Hoffman funding might help make up the difference.
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t’s been more than a week since the U.S. government froze during a high-stakes squabble between Republican lawmakers and the president over federal spending and the implementation of Obamacare, and as of press time, Congressmember Lois Capps’s latest motion marked the ninth time policymakers have attempted to alleviate the standstill. On Tuesday, Capps led a measure to give the House of Representatives an opportunity to vote on the Senate spending bill, which would have funded the federal government for the time being — until November 15 — at the negotiated rate of $986 billion and given both houses more time to reach a long-term budget compromise. “The shutdown could have ended right here,” Capps said on the House floor after the motion died. “Instead we find ourselves here, picking and choosing, and waiting for them to decide whose lucky day it is to be funded by the Republican leadership.” Last week, Capps conducted a conference call — briefly postponed by the Capitol Hill shooting — to discuss tensions in Washington and its impact on her constituents on the Central Coast. Capps said the “misguided” and “unnecessary” decision by the “irresponsible Tea Party wing” of the Republicans in the House has seriously impacted many residents — not just government employees — throughout Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties. “We’re really playing with fire,” Capps said. Employees affected in her district include those who work at the Carrizo Plain National Monument, the Goodwin Education Center near Painted Rock, Camp Roberts Historical Museum, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Los Padres National Forest, the California National Guard, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, as well as countless small businesses and those working in the private sector. At Vandenberg Air Force Base, 816 of the nearly 1,100 civilian employees with the th Space Wing who were furloughed last week have returned to work. According to the U.S. Air Force website, civilians are expected to be paid retroactively; military personnel were not furloughed. “Unfortunately, the return of our civilians does not necessarily mean we are back to business as usual,” Col. Keith Balts said. “Without an approved budget, we are limited in how we spend our resources. And depending on how long this budget uncertainty will last, we may have to take additional steps with respect to our personnel or operations here on base.”
The private sector has experienced setbacks, as well. Santa Barbara Adventure Company Director Michael Cohen said he had to downsize operations dramatically because one-third of his outdoor business involves kayak trips and sea-cave tours of the Channel Islands National Park, which is currently closed to the public. Cohen added he had to cancel school field trips and corporate team-building outings — planned months in advance by customers often traveling long distances — through October 10, costing his company an estimated $33,000. He also had to scale down from 15 employees to five for the time being. “I certainly hope it changes,” Cohen said.“My two sons, who are 5 and 7, are able to work out differences when they have a disagreement. … Congressional leaders are hurting small business and the public.” Santa Barbara Adventure Company, he went on, is currently offering a “shutdown special”: 50 percent off for all government employees joining an existing, nonislands trip, and 25 percent off gift certificates and vouchers for future island trips if visitors purchase them before the shutdown ends. Capps is also part of efforts to ensure members of Congress are not paid during the shutdown. Further, she added that uncertainty at the national level sparked constituents — including potential start-up companies on the Central Coast — to ask: Can we rely on the federal government? “That cripples us tremendously,” Capps said, adding she plans to work hard to instill faith back into the federal government. “I want that consistency, to be a reliable partner with the private sector.”
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LOWER AND LOWER: Cachuma Lake currently looks much as it did during the 2004-era drought, pictured on right.
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parade of sunny days may be nice for beachgoing and biking, but months of cloudless weather can bring back not-so-nice memories of water rationing. Everyone’s waiting for the first drop of significant rain, even as the experts are predicting another dry winter. Lake Cachuma, the main water source for 200,000 people living on the South Coast, is more than half empty. Two years of little rain and runoff have left a giant bathtub ring around its steep shores. Since water last spilled in 2011 over the Bradbury Dam, which forms Lake Cachuma on the Santa Ynez River, the level of the reservoir has dropped 44 feet. Every month without rain, it drops another three feet. County records show that Lake Cachuma has slipped below the halfway mark only twice before, during the drought of 19871991 and during most of 2004. As of this week, the reservoir contains 90,000 acre feet of water, down from 196,000 acre feet at full capacity. “This is absolutely not looking good,” said Tom Mosby, general manager of the Montecito Water District, which is facing big cutbacks in its supply from Jameson Lake, a districtowned reservoir upstream from Lake Cachuma.“The community is thirsty. If it doesn’t rain, come February we will be in trouble.” Unfortunately, the smart money is on a dry winter. According to Bill Patzert, a climatologist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Southern California is headed into another year of below-average rainfall, part of a 20-year cycle that began in 1998, bringing drier winters and colder summers.“There’s definitely no El Niño going to gallop over the horizon and save you,” Patzert said, referring to the climatic conditions in the Pacific Ocean that favor biblical rains. “A dry decade every once in a while is good, because it makes you rethink your water usage and your future.”
LONE HOLDOUT
Yet, in a break with past practice, the five water agencies that depend on Lake Cachuma — Carpinteria, Goleta, Montecito, Santa Barbara, and Santa Ynez — are not taking across-the-board cutbacks in deliveries from the reservoir. Four of them favor such a measure, but the Goleta Water District, the largest user of Lake Cachuma water, is opposed, saying it’s too soon. And the other agencies are not about to accept cuts if Goleta won’t go along. “Goleta has invested a lot of time and resources in really securing our diverse water portfolio so we can weather situations like this,” explained Kirsten McLaughlin, Goleta Water District’s supply and conservation manager.“Taking an automatic reduction in lake supplies at this point is beyond premature for us.” But Kevin Walsh, a trustee of the Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District, Improvement District No. , which serves Santa Ynez, Los Olivos, Ballard, and Solvang, would like to avoid
a repeat of the severe water rationing that he was forced to impose during the 1987-1991 drought, when he worked for the Goleta Water District. Today, Walsh favors an immediate 20 percent cutback in all Lake Cachuma deliveries in order to stretch the reservoir supplies. “It would send a unified signal to the public,” Walsh said. “The pain from smaller reductions early on is far, far less than the pain and trauma of larger, more drastic reductions later.” Back in 1989, with Lake Cachuma well below the halfway mark, all five agencies voluntarily took a 20 percent cut in water deliveries from the reservoir. In 1990, they agreed to cut back by as much as 45 percent. But by then, the lake had shrunk to a level so low that the agencies were forced to install a barge to pump water through a floating pipe and up into the tunnel that delivers water to the South Coast. At the current rate of the drawdown at Lake Cachuma — which includes daily deliveries to the South Coast, daily releases for endangered steelhead, sporadic releases for downstream ranchers, and evaporation loss — the reservoir’s water level could drop below the tunnel by the end of next year if the dry weather continues. “We don’t want to have to pump water out of a mud hole,” Walsh said, recalling the summer of 1990, when it seemed the reservoir might go dry. “That really was no fun.”
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On Friday, October 11, the five water agencies will meet at the Cachuma Operation and Maintenance Board offices to start discussing how to deploy the pipe and the barge in case of a third consecutive dry year. There is nothing in their contracts with the Bureau of Reclamation that requires the agencies to take cutbacks from Lake Cachuma during droughts, but according to a Bureau environmental report for the renewal of those contracts in 1995, the long-term safe yield of the lake is “based on the acceptance of a 20 percent shortage in total Cachuma Project water deliveries in any single dry year” whenever the lake drops to half-empty. In 2004, when the lake dipped below that mark, the agencies agreed to reduce their deliveries by 20 percent, though it soon rained and no reductions were needed. Today, in blocking an allencompassing agreement to cut back, Goleta water managers say they have to keep their customers’ pocketbooks in mind. The lake is their cheapest water supply. Goleta would have to order more state water from the California Aqueduct — an expensive proposition — to make up for any reductions from Lake Cachuma, McLaughlin said. Besides, Goletans are already the most frugal water users on the South Coast, said Lauren Hanson, the Goleta Water District director who serves as president of the Cachuma board. According to the county Water Agency, the residential water use in Goleta averages 66 gallons per person per day, compared to 84
gallons in Carpinteria, 86 gallons in Santa Barbara, and — with large estates and ranches driving up the average — 290 gallons in Montecito and 331 gallons in and around Santa Ynez.“The Goleta Water District serves a community that began conserving in the 1990s during those difficult drought years and never stopped,” Hanson said. In addition to water from Lake Cachuma, Goleta and other South Coast agencies can draw supplies from underground water basins. And since the mid-1990s, they all have access to state aqueduct water, though it too is subject to cutbacks during dry periods. Due to the drought-like conditions, the state Department of Water Resources this year will deliver only 35 percent of the water that county voters agreed to pay for back in 1991 during the five-year drought. Last year, the department delivered 65 percent of entitlements. Charles Hamilton, general manager of the Carpinteria Valley Water District, said Carpinteria is ready for a prolonged drought because it can draw on its large underground water basin and supplies of state water banked in other reservoirs. Hamilton said he’d be willing to go along with a 20 percent cut in Lake Cachuma deliveries now, but can see Goleta’s point of view.“I didn’t press the issue,” he said.“You wouldn’t do it unless everybody did it. But it’s something that may very well be prudent six months from now.” Montecito Water District’s Mosby thinks some of the agencies have lost their institutional memory of just how bad a drought can get in Southern California. “Nobody’s issued any type of drought or water shortage alert,” he said. “If we didn’t have state water today, we would have been meeting months ago.” Montecito is using state water to help make up for the dropping levels at Jameson Reservoir, but Mosby is worried that the state will cut allocations further if the dry weather continues.“The State Water Project has been our savior, and thank God we have it,” Mosby said.“But next year, what is [the Department of Water Resources] going to do to us?” In Santa Barbara — where it rained less than 9 inches last season, or half the historical average — the city has enough well, state, and Lake Cachuma water to get through a third dry year without imposing rationing, said Rebecca Bjork, city water resources manager. And although the Lake Cachuma agencies can’t agree on blanket reductions, the city has decided to carry over 20 percent of this year’s Lake Cachuma supplies to help offset next year’s demand. “We’re very conservative in our water-supply planning,” Bjork said. “I know people are concerned because it’s dry and they’re not hearing a drought message. But if we ask too frequently, people will become less responsive. We want to ask them when we really need it.” Special from Mission and State; read more at missionandstate.org. october 10, 2013
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Virginia Fanos, beloved daughter, mother, sister, aunt and grandmother, passed away on October , . She was . Born Virginia Angelos to Kaliope Moschos and Adam Angelos on January , in Martins Ferry, Ohio, she moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., where she married in and later had four children. Virginia moved with her family to New Brunswick, N.J., in and worked at Douglass College, a division of Rutgers University, for several years. In , Virginia moved to Santa Barbara with her parents, siblings and children. She worked for Santa Barbara County Auditor Comptroller, and later became a member and officer of the Santa Barbara County Retirees. Throughout her life she had a keen interest in government and civic affairs. She was also heavily involved with the St. Barbara’s Greek Orthodox Church, where she was one of the founding members of the church’s Senior Group.
Death Notices ARLT, Catherine K.; of Santa Barbara; died October , (Born: //); she was . Memorial Service on / at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church. Arrangements by Welch-Ryce-Haider -.
Virginia was very proud of her children and is survived by three children: Kaliope Calagias of Los Angeles, Dr. Irene Fanos Barth of New York City, and Peter Adam Fanos of Santa Barbara. In addition, Virginia is survived by her sister Mariann Zacharellis a long-time Santa Barbara resident now of Sun City, Arizona, son-in-laws Stratis Calagias and Richard Barth, and daughter-in-law Renee Fanos, granddaughter Alethia Calagias, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her son George Fanos, her brother Peter A. Angeles who taught at Santa Barbara City College and authored many books, and sister Tina Dietche, who also was a long-time Santa Barbara resident. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests donations be made to the St. Barbara’s Greek Orthodox Church and the Alzheimer’s Association Santa Barbara Chapter. The viewing will be held at Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Home in Goleta at Ward Drive, on October , at :pm. Funeral services will be held at Santa Barbara Greek Orthodox Church - on Friday, October , at :am, followed by burial : noon at the Santa Barbara Cemetery. A Memorial service to honor the life of Virginia Fanos will be hosted on January th, at the Santa Barbara Greek Orthodox Church. To leave online memories or condolences, please visit www. wrhsb.com
Henry H. Tai // – //
FAIRBANKS, Beatrice “Bibi” Putnam; of Santa Barbara; died September , . Funeral Mass on Friday at am at Mt. Carmel Catholic Church, interment following at Santa Barbara Cemetery. Arrangements by Welch-Ryce-Haider -. GONZALES, Eleanor E.; of Santa Barbara; died October , ; she was . Vigil/Rosary Wednesday, Oct. , at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church at :pm. Funeral Mass; Thursday, Oct. , Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church at am. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. Memorial Donations: In Lieu of flowers please give donations to Visiting Nurses and Cancer Center Foundation of Santa Barbara. Arrangements by Welch-Ryce-Haider -.
In , Henry H. Tai set out from his home village in Jiangsu Province for a ,-mile trek through war-torn China. He walked and hitched rides, slept along roadsides, and dodged check-points manned by Japanese soldiers who had invaded China. It was a month and a half
later when he reached Chongqing, China’s interim capital during its war with Japan. His sole purpose: to go to college. This yearning for learning dimmed only when Alzheimer’s began to consume his mind and, later, his body. Tai died in his sleep on Aug. , . He was . Today UCSB will dedicate the Henry H. Tai East Asian Collection, which he headed for years until retiring in , and to acknowledge an endowment fund his children have set up to support his legacy. Tai’s life stories, however, spanned wars and cultures, and they were the stories of China and America in the last century. He was born on April , , in Tai Village, the ancestral home in Wujin, a town that’s miles west of Shanghai. He was the eldest of the village head and designated to be the family scholar. But his studies were disrupted, first by Japan’s invasion of China in , later by the civil war between Chinese Nationalists and Communists. In , he graduated from the School of Journalism at National Chengchi University in Nanjing and boarded one of the last ships to leave for Taiwan as the Communists declared victory. In Taiwan, he worked as a newspaper journalist, first at Zhonghua Daily and then moving to the Central Daily News as its international news editor. He married Yu-Ching Chiu, also a Wujin native, and they had four children. In , they made a decision that would change the course of their lives: Tai set out alone for the U.S. He entered Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University to study library science and became a university librarian at Penn State at Slippery Rock in September . But he continued to work on his thesis on weekends and received his MA that December. In , Tai took a job with the State University of N.Y. at Binghamton, and his family joined him from Taiwan. In , he became the first head librarian for what was called the Oriental Collection (now East Asian Collection) at UCSB. After retiring in , he turned full attention to helping Chinese students and immigrants in Santa Barbara. In , he spearheaded and formed the S.B. Chinese American Association, serving as its first chair and editor-in-chief of its newsletter. Many honored him by referring
to him as “Dai lao,” or “Elder Tai.” Tai is survived by two sisters, a brother and a daughter in China; three daughters, a son and their spouses, eight grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren in the U.S.
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Troy Jonathon Geck // – //
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Troy Jonathon Geck, , of Santa Barbara, Ca and White Bear Lake, MN passed away accidentally and unexpectedly September , . He was born in St. Paul, MN on May , , son of Donna and Tim Geck. He graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, Ca. He was a student at UC Merced, Santa Barbara City College, and Century College. He worked part time at Venberg Tire. Growing up Troy was a student in Santa Barbara, Ca and spent his summers wakeboarding on White Bear Lake. Troy loved anything on board including snowboarding and longboarding. Troy is survived by his parents Donna Geck and Tim Geck, Tim’s wife Holly, along with Brothers Tyler and Marshall, his twin Sister Paige and other Sister Drew; as well as Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and many friends. Troy died before he was able to fulfill a future of boundless promise. He was a young man of great character and a big heart who thought of others before himself. Troy meant much to many, left us too soon and will be greatly missed by all of us. Troy had it all, looks, brains, personality, and athletic ability. He would light up a room. There was a public celebration of his life in Minnesota. Services in Santa Barbara will be private. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the charity of your choice.
I don’t know what I will do to carry on dear I guess I’ll think about you almost every minute all day long I’ll think about our happy times and things you used to say I’ll remember favorite places as the thoughts won’t go away I’ll remember holding you tight and think about you darling all the night I’ll remember how you loved me until the pain brings on the tears And I’ll cry myself to sleep each night until another day appears Then I’ll start all over just trying to get through I’ll pray all the time dear this just can’t be true For there has never been an angel quite as sweet as you We all seem to understand our time here isn’t long But like so many others sometimes we didn’t get along Now after almost years our time together is gone I’d give a million dollars to change what I’ve done wrong I don’t know how I found the sweetest girl with all the class I know God sent you for me but don’t why He called you back I guess they need you to show the angels how to act.
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WEIRD-ASS SYMMETRY: Talk may be cheap, but silence is really expensive. I’m referring to the utter void in any communication at any level between the United States — a k a “the Great Satan” — and Iran — a k a “the Axis of Evil” — since November 4, 1979. That’s the starting date of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, in which Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans captive for 444 days. Since then, we’ve gone through six presidents and 34 Super Bowls. That’s a very long time to stew and simmer. Two weeks ago, that silence was broken. President Barack Obama busted his now famous “reach out and touch somebody” move on Iran’s new President Hassan Rouhani — light-years more moderate than his infamous predecessor — then in New York as part of a whirlwind United Nations charm offensive. Given how many itchy trigger fingers occupy Rouhani’s part of the world, this simple, though admittedly limited, act of sanity should have garnered far more attention than it received. I mention all this because Iranian writer and journalist Hooman Majd will be speaking at Santa Barbara City College this Thursday afternoon (2:30 in Room A in the East Campus Administration Building) laying out a cautious, guarded case for real optimism. Rouhani ran for office as a moderate and reformer; his overtures to the United Nations and willingness to deal with the United States over Iran’s nuclear power program, Majd said, “suggests he means
it.” Mostly Majd, speaking at the invitation of SBCC Professor Manou Eskandari-Qajar, said he hopes to dispel some powerful “preconceptions” people have about Iran. First, he said, it’s not anything like the absolute dictatorship of North Korea. Though autocratic and repressive, Iran has elections. And within the Iranian media — admittedly very constricted — he noted there’s genuine debate on some issues, like how Iran should respond to what’s happening in Syria. Not all Iranians wake up in the morning raring to attack the United States, Majd stressed, though they live with a keen appreciation that the United States could — and might — do just that to them.While Majd did not dismiss Iran’s previous president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as an outright “whack job,” he acknowledged that Ahmadinejad — a screaming anti-Semite and Holocaust denier — reinforced and confirmed all the worst fears anyone could have about Iran. He noted that the candidate closest to Ahmadinejad in the most recent presidential elections came in a distant third. Majd said it was unrealistic to expect Iran to surrender outright on the issue of nuclear power. “It’s a matter of national pride,” he said. “If France gets 60 percent of its energy from nuclear energy, then why can’t Iran?” Sanctions have crippled the country’s economy, and the more oil Iran can sell on the international market, he said, the better. Majd, who grew up outside of Iran but remains very connected (he’s related by marriage to former president Khatani), suggested Iran would accept
far more stringent and frequent inspections of its nuclear facilities and would reduce the number of centrifuges involved. “There is a deal to be made,” he stressed. I know all this sounds hopelessly Kumbaya. But the opportunities presented by the brief phone call between Rouhani and Obama — legitimately historic — should not be squandered. In a striking coincidence, the day before Majd spoke at SBCC, Westmont College sponsored a talk at the Coral Casino by former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, who helped precipitate the Iranian Hostage Crisis in the first place. I pretend no fairness where Kissinger is concerned; he’s one of the great villains of all time. No doubt Henry’s the screaming genius everyone says he is when it comes to international affairs. But the trajectory of Kissinger’s career demonstrates mostly that you can get away with murder so long as you’re on the winning side. It’s become trite, I recognize, to call Kissinger a war criminal. But let’s just say if all the blood on his hands was water, we’d never have to worry about drought again. Kissinger — then serving under Richard Nixon — designated the shah of Iran (who’d been reinstated to the Peacock Throne in 1953 thanks to a military coup, Operation Ajax, orchestrated by the CIA) as the U.S. military proxy in the Middle East. Under Nixon and Kissinger, the U.S. sold the shah as much weaponry as Iran’s vast oil wealth could pay for, and they turned a blind eye to the shah’s increasing reliance on torture and repres-
sion as part of his march toward “modernization.” If the shah wanted to spend $100 million on a birthday bash celebrating 2,500 years of monarchy, what was a little excess among friends? In January 1979, the shah was forced into exile by a revolution that included not just the religious extremists but also many secular, educated, and “modernized” Iranians. By the fall, the shah — sick with cancer — wanted sanctuary in the United States. President Jimmy Carter wisely resisted. If the Great Satan accepted the shah, then wanted in his own country for prosecution, Carter knew the shit would hit the fan and there’d be no getting the toothpaste back in the tube. The shah could just as easily play tennis with rich people in Mexico, Carter argued, as he could with the one-percenters in Malibu. Kissinger thought otherwise. How would other dictators be willing to do the United States’ bidding if we turned our back on the shah in his hour of need? It was a matter of national honor. Kissinger and his patron David Rockefeller leaned hard on Carter to admit the shah. At the time, Carter had a major nuclear weapons treaty — SALT II — he was desperate to pass. It was far from certain whether he had the votes. If Kissinger opposed it, Carter’s treaty would be sunk. Carter did the math and admitted the shah on October 22. Thirteen days later, the world blew up. The rest, as they say, is history. The intervening silence has been anything but golden. Good thing talk is cheap. We’ve got so little to lose.
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n a couple of Santa Barbara Independent news articles on the coming City Council elections [“The Mayor’s Massive Flex,” 8/8/13, independent.com/cityracesfundraising; “Dissecting Campaign Cash,” 10/3/13, independent.com/ dissectingcampaigncash], candidate Lesley Wiscomb is mentioned as having garnered support from opponents of the high-density housing “smart growth” agenda, permitting an implication that she is a one-trick pony marching in lockstep with anti-housing advocates. Hogwash! Who the hell else are those who are skeptical of our risky-assumption housing schemes going to support, the true-belief ideologues candidates who will embrace just about anything that promises “affordable housing” miracles? I first met Lesley Wiscomb only recently, and without discussing any specific issues, the impression that came immediately to mind was: This is exactly the kind of candidate we dream of trying to attract to run for local office. I honestly don’t know whether her attitudes on specific issues square with mine; it suddenly didn’t matter. I do know that she will assess issues rationally and compassionately, with a quick intelligence and a broad, analytical, and open mind. What more could we ask? To not elect someone like this when we are lucky enough to have them come forward would be a travesty! We, as voters, are often told we get what we deserve. Here, at last, is a golden opportunity to elect someone who stands out, perhaps even beyond our deserving. Let’s grab it. — Joe Rution, S.B.
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When Voting Is Illegal usual. Whenever he sniffs the ugly scent of rank injustice, he lets loose on his Santa Barbara TV talk show. “This will happen here!” Ernie warned after an L.A. Superior Court judge cancelled Palmdale’s November 5 election. Judge Mark V. Mooney slammed the windblown high-desert town, calling its at-large system of voting unconstitutional because it makes it virtually impossible for minority City Council candidates to get elected. He nixed the November election and banned another until the city installs district-by-district votes. Palmdale, its population 69 percent Latino or black, has elected exactly one Latino and no blacks since it became a city in 1962. Odd, huh? Forty percent of its people of voting age are Latino, and 17 percent are black. But why should Santa Barbara, so proud of its Hispanic heritage — Old Spanish Days and all that — also be cruisin’ for a bruisin’ in court? After all, the Fiesta City, with an estimated Latino population of at least 35 percent, does elect Spanish-surname City Council candidates — about once a decade. Let’s see, Gil Garcia joined the City Council in 1991 and served 10 years, and Cathy Murillo won a seat in 2011. In July, the judge ruled the Palmdale system unconstitutional, but the city chose to ignore the decision and went right ahead with at-
large election plans. ting the town up into Modesto and other wards just created litcities have heeded the tle fiefdoms ruled by fuddy-duddy councourt and switched to district elections, but cilmembers more not Palmdale. concerned with Why anyone would potholes than city want to live in that problems as a whole. godforsaken redneck One was even caught town is beyond me, lying about being except to escape the a star major league urban horrors of L.A., outfielder many but you’d think the years earlier. Salomon says the City Council would city has other things at least make a stab on its agenda than at democracy. But ELECTION VETO WOES: Ernie Salomon worries voting rights, like no, it would rather that Santa Barbara’s lack of ward elections might fight than switch and cause it to go the way of Palmdale. kissing up to the is appealing the ruldowntown business ing. Its city attorney calls the ruling “wildly establishment, while residential neighborhoods unprecedented and radical.” So was the U.S. are shortchanged in services.“Bars, visitors, and Constitution. tourists are more important than our local The city of Whittier, also being sued under residents.” the 2002 California Voting Rights Act, has Mayor Helene Schneider tells me that Santa scheduled an election next June asking voters Barbara has no plans to go to a district system. whether they want to switch. Interestingly, its And she pointed out that an election would be April election will be by district. required to revise the charter and return to some You might be surprised to learn that Santa form of the ward system. Barbara used to vote under the ward system. That might be a problem. People are used to But that ended with a major charter revision in voting on all candidates they hear about, not just the 1960s. The feeling, as I recall, was that split- those running in their district. One option is a COU RTESY
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hybrid district system with the mayor running at large and all voters getting a shot. As fair as this might seem, I don’t see it happening anytime soon — unless some out-oftown judge bangs his or her gavel. And so far, I don’t know of anyone running to the Courthouse to file suit. The California Voting Rights Act bans atlarge elections aimed at watering down voting power of minorities. About 20 cities, school districts, and other agencies have been sued, and most ended up abolishing the at-large route, according to the L.A. Times. If Ernie is right, could Santa Barbara be the next one in court? NOT CITY OWNED: There seems to be some confusion in the minds of some about who will own the hilltop Clark property, Bellosguardo, now that the late Huguette Clark’s $300 million estate has been settled by negotiation. The City of Santa Barbara will not own it, although the mayor gets to nominate seven people for the board of directors. It will be owned by a New York nonprofit run by a board of 10 members. The other three will be nominated by the following: one by Clark’s longtime Santa Barbara attorney, James Hurley; one by Clark’s distant relatives; and one by the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The New York attorney general will have to approve the directors. — Barney Brantingham
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studio band,” their Facebook page brazenly proclaims, and if you’ve caught them live, you understand why. Onstage, The Reignsmen exude energy first and foremost. Sure, the guitar tones are a little muddy, but that’s kind of the point. Taking cues from the anthem-sized harmonies and triumphant lyricism of bands like Mumford & Sons and Kings of Leon, The Reignsmen inject their brand of folk rock with a hard-drinking, hard-partying swagger that’s helped them find a happy home in the bars and clubs of lower State Street. And with song titles like “Forever Faded,” who can argue?
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of touring alongside Andrew McMahon (Jack’s Mannequin, Something Corporate), Wanberg’s brother-in-law and mentor, who also helped produce the album. Next up, Erland takes to the outdoor stage at next weekend’s New Noise Block Party with Haim, Cayucas, and fellow Santa Barbarans FMLYBND. And after that, Erland hopes, the long-awaited record deal.“We’ve come a long way independently, and I think we’re ready to find the right team to help us move forward,” he said last week via email. As the band approaches the close of their biggest year yet, Wanberg recounts more than a few near-misses, including one gnarly onstage sound snafu and a tourending whiskey shot that almost felled him. “With no trash can in sight, I had no choice but to find a corner in the shared green room to de-whiskify myself,” he recounted. “I had to perform the show with a trash can off stage left. Luckily, I made it through okay.” Still, when asked to sum up 2013 in brief, Wanberg barely hesitates: “It was the best year ever.” Listen online at erlandmusic.net. — AC
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You know what they say about the best-laid plans, and so does Lindsey Waldon. The NorCal native — and longtime Santa Barbara songbird — had invested no shortage of time into her solo project, Little Indian, when she decided to move back home to Murietta late last year.“I was lost,” she recalled.“I was playing the same venues over and over, and playing with great people, but I wasn’t going anywhere.” Not long after moving home, though, Waldon got the phone call most young songwriters dream of. In her final months in S.B., she had met up with songwriters Thom Flowers (Bad Astronaut) and Jonathan Miller (The Little Heroes) to record vocals on some tracks in their Goleta studio. A few months later, the trio’s songs had made their way into the hands of some publishing houses. Not long after, MTV and Subaru came calling, and Waldon was packing her bags and heading back down south. “We kind of did things backwards,” she explained. “I was brought in by Tom and Jonathan as the talent, but I ended up contributing to a lot of the songs, and that first session kicked off a special little friendship and partnership between the three of us.” Since then, The Blues and Greys have recruited drummer Austin Beede, bassist Michael Million, and keyboard player Zachary Wallace for the live band, and recorded a debut EP, Bright Lights, which drops next week. Anchored by Waldon’s rich, warm vocals and
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It seems somehow fitting that Erland’s pre-show ritual involves evoking the ghosts of musicians past. On tour and at home, the band has made a tradition out of warming up to the tune of “This Train Is Bound for Glory,” a time-honored gospel number made famous by Woody Guthrie. Like Guthrie, Erland’s music is delivered straight from the gut; the band’s crowdfunded debut, On Our Side, is filled with the kind of heart-on-sleeve lyricism and road-weary stories that made albums like Blonde on Blonde and Born to Run American classics. Born out of frontman Erland Wanberg’s solo singer/ songwriter roots, Erland the band includes drummer Nate Keezer, keyboardist Marko Srdanov, and bassist Mike Mooneyham. Together, the foursome has elevated Wanberg’s dusty jams to sweeping, romantic affairs, complete with pedal steel, shuffling drums, and soaring guitar lines that flirt with a subtle country twang. In the nine months since On Our Side’s release, Erland has given due credence to its wandering-man tales, too: The band recently wrapped up a lengthy bout
anthemic lyrics, the EP thoughtfully melds vibrant poprock arrangements with something a little darker and dustier. Take “Lost Lines,” a somber, jazz-inspired ballad that calls to mind indie powerhouses like Sharon Van Etten and White Hinterland, or “New Shores,” a galloping folk number that incorporates hand claps, reverberating floor toms, and meticulously layered harmonies that beg to be cranked from the car speakers. It’s a bold new step and a much bigger sound for Waldon, who up until now has been happy to go it alone. “I’ve never fronted a band before,” she said, “but the dynamic is so amazing between the three of us. It’s really exciting, but it’s also really scary and nerve-wracking. Truthfully, I’m scared shitless.” Listen online at thebluesandgreys.virb.com. — AC
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Say what you will about the Santa Barbara hip-hop scene — Jay October is forcing folks to think again. Born and raised in Freeport, Bahamas, Jay came stateside on a college basketball scholarship in 2006. The game took him to Virginia, then San Diego, then Missouri, where he picked up the mike by way of a friend. “I’m a very competitive person, and I met this guy who rapped, so I started making beats for him,” Jay recalled, “but when he’d leave, I’d start rapping. He told me I sounded like Big Daddy Kane and all these old-school rappers, so I took it as a challenge to get better, and I developed this love for it. It reminded me of the same feeling I used to get when I played basketball. You get in the zone, and you just space out.” When school and basketball ended, Jay decided California was his next stop, and he set his sights on Santa Barbara. “It was just like home. It’s a different breeze here,” he said. That was in 2011. Nowadays, the 25-year-old rapper has posted up in a studio at Haley Ashbury Rehearsals, where he’s putting the finishing touches on his next (seventh) mixtape, Even/Uneven, slated to drop at the end of the month. “It’s a reference to my two sides,” he said. “Sometimes I’m mellow, and sometimes I’m up here.” Depending on his mood, Jay says, his music preferences fluctuate between everything from Juicy J to Katy Perry.“She’s from here, right?” he laughs. But he’s also indebted to the greats; Nas, Nelly, Biggie, Tupac — even Elton John makes the list of folks Jay dreams of collaborating with. He’s a fan of big personalities and performers that make you pay attention. And listening to Jay flow, you can’t help but take notice. His beats are catchy, his lyrics from the heart, and his delivery, well, it’s about as spitfire furious as they come. Subjects range from women to poverty to politics (his “Suits’ Truth Series” is an intense exercise in lost-youth poetry), and samples ping-pong between 8-bit Nintendo noise and vintage tracks, like Nipsey Russell’s “What Would I Do If I Could Feel.” As for the future, Jay sees big things in store for Santa Barbara’s hiphop scene, and he’s more than happy to carry the torch. “It definitely needs to grow, and I want to be one of those people who bring Santa Barbara hip-hop to the forefront,” he said. “There’s so much richness here — it has to blow up, and when it does, it’s going to be insane.” Listen online at jayoctober.com. — AC
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t’s been six whole years since we launched our inaugural Santa Barbara Music Issue back in 2007, and boy has it been a wild ride. And while the excitement over this year’s crop of new talent has us buzzing, it recently dawned on us that it might be time to take a look back. So allow us for a moment to get all nostalgic and celebrate just some of the talent we’ve had the pleasure of hearing before the rest of the world caught on. Reminiscing on that first year — and its contest-free kickoff party — we recall hosting Isla Vista locs Rebelution. The barely legal reggae rockers put on a high-energy show atop our makeshift stage at De la Guerra Plaza and have since gone on to become some of the best-selling modern reggae artists of the past five years. Also on the bill and adorning the pages of that lowly first issue was Kyle Nicolaides, then a pint-sized 16-year-old with a rock ’n’ roll snarl that greatly belied his age. In the years between, the young Nicolaides changed outfits many times over, but always made sure to stay true to his hard-rocking roots; he’s now fronting garage-rock trio Beware of Darkness and touring the world alongside bands like The Smashing Pumpkins, Andrew W.K., and Stone Temple Pilots. And that’s just for starters. Over the course of the past half-decade, these pages have sung the praises of a then barely known Gardens & Villa, who have gone on to sign with indie label heavyweight Secretly Canadian, tour with The Shins, and score the mother of all California concert slots: a coveted spot at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In more recent years, we’ve witnessed Dante Elephante take their surfpop sound to the next level — and pick up a solid chunk of press and gigs in the process. We’ve also watched as Lompocians Saint Anne’s Place became the go-to blues rockers of Santa Barbara proper, and then launched their first official tour through the Midwest. Looking toward the 2013 installment, we’re already banking on more than a few of our featured acts hitting it big. But more than that, we’re downright giddy with excitement at the leaps and bounds taken by the S.B. community in the last six years. Santa Barbara’s music scene may be small, insulated, and desperately in need of some more venues, but goddamn it if it doesn’t have heart — not to mention a crazy wealth of talent. And as for the Music Issue, well, we’re just happy to have watched it all shake down. — AC CO UR TE SY
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/: Sensational Seafood Head down where the land meets the sea this week for a taste of the best seafood in town, courtesy of area chefs and fishermen. Proceeds support the Santa Barbara Sustainable Seafood Program. Preregistration is required. :-:pm. Ty Warner Sea Ctr., Stearns Wharf. $-$. Ages +. Call -.
THURSDAY 10/10 /: Curated Cocktails Join the MCA and a rotating cast of the area’s best mixologists for $ signature cocktails, hits by DJ Empty Priest, and guided tours of current exhibitions. :-:pm. Museum of Contemporary Art S.B., Paseo Nuevo. Free. Ages +. Call -. /: Girl Rising It’s all about women this weekend — a host of S.B. organizations will come together for a screening of a powerful film that puts the resilience of young women in unforgiving situations in the spotlight. pm. Faulkner Gallery, E. Anapamu St. Free. Call -. /: The Avett Brothers The Avett Brothers are in town to show S.B. audiences the heartfelt songs and inventive blend of folk, bluegrass, and Americana that launched a worldwide epidemic of bearded dudes trying to hit the same heartstrings. pm. S.B. Bowl, N. Milpas St. $.-$.. Call -.
/: Free Angela and All Political Prisoners Revolutionary, activist, communist, protestor, prisoner — Dr. Angela Davis has been all of these in her life. She remains a tremendous figure in American history, and her appearance at this screening is not something to miss. -pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. $. Call -. /: The Short Film Experience The Screenwriters Association will put up a new film by Dale Griffiths Stamos — a veteran playwright of the domestic and international stage circuits. pm. Brooks Institute’s Gallery , E. Cota St. Free. Call -. /-/: Floodlit & Fallen Choreographer Brooklyn Hughes will premiere a new work titled “Trees,” while fellow choreographer Devyn Duex will put on “Sand into Glass.” Thu.-Sat.: pm; Sun.: pm. Center Stage Theater, Paseo Nuevo. $-$. Call -. Read more on p . /: Carousel with Yonder Boston-based up-and-comers Carousel will head across the states
from their origins at the Berklee College of Music to bring electropop to S.B’s stages. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, State St. $-$. Ages +. Call -.
FRIDAY 10/11 /: TGIF: Fall Feast The Environmental Defense Center’s last Friday event will bring out the best in S.B. foods — celebrating our area’s best farmers and producers, with refreshments from vintners and brewers. :pm. Environmental Defense Ctr., Garden St. $. Call -. /: The Invisible War The S.B. Library’s Big Read program takes off from the pages of books to shed light on The Invisible War, a groundbreaking documentary on the prevalence and danger of B. rape in the U.S. military. pm. S.B. Central Library, E. Anapamu St. Free. Call -.
/-/: Kids’ Space Adventure NASA’s funding may be cut off (as of press time, but hopefully not by the time you read this), but kids who want to question the celestial heavens and wide realms of outer space still have a place to do so. Fri.: pm; Sat.-Sun.: pm. S.B. Museum of Natural History, Gladwin Planetarium, Puesta Del Sol Rd. Free-$. Call -. /: Central Coast Championship Boxing Chumash is the place for a dust-up this weekend, as hometown brawlers from across the region will go head to head to find out who’s the King of the Central Coast. :pm. Chumash Casino Resort, E. Hwy , Santa Ynez. $-$. Call -.
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Annual fall Plant Sale The S.B. Botanic Gardens has opened up the largest sale of native plants between o LL.A. and S.F. for the public tto peruse and buy, featuriing more than species aand , plants. The sale rruns through November . am-:pm. SBBG Garden Growers’ Nursery, Mission G Canyon Rd. Call -. C am Leadbetter Beach, Shoreline am. and Loma Alta drs. Free. Call () -.
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SUNDAY 10/13 /: Paddle for or Paradise Take to the sea in a kayakk this weekend and learn about the history and environment of the Gaviota upportCoast, all while supportoaliing the Naples Coalireserve tion’s efforts to preserve the scenery and keep opments large-scale developments ster by away. Must preregister cara /. :am-pm. Bacara Resort & Spa, Hollister Ave. $ per person. Call -. /: Grassini Family Vineyards Crush Cookout Celebrate the harvest with the Grassini family for the third year running, with food, drink, wine,
As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. And if you have an event coming up, let us know about it by emailing listings@independent.com. and plenty of activities. Fish, toss horseshoes, or roll bocce balls to your heart’s content. am-pm. Grassini Family Vineyards, Genuine Risk Rd., Santa Ynez. $$. Ages +. Call -. /: Santa Barbara Beer & Wine Festival If you can’t make it up to Santa Ynez, there’s a festival right here in town for you. The Beer & Wine Festival will kick off an afternoon of great drinks and great fun to celebrate the S.B. School of Squash. Noon-pm. Casa de la Guerra, E. De la Guerra St. $$. Ages +. Call -. /: Kim Dower Poet Kim Dower will wax lyrical and sign copies of her newest collection, Slice of Moon. pm. Chaucer’s Books, State St. Free. Call -. /: California State of Mind: Photography on and about the West Coast Colin Gardner and writer Dick Hebdige will join John Divola, discussing the picturesque scenery and sights of the West Coast on film. :pm. S.B. Museum of Art, State St. Free$. Call -. /: Organ Masterworks: Katya Gotsdiner-McMahan From Russia with love — Katya Gotsdiner-McMahan will play the pipes this weekend, performing selections of Bach, Mendelssohn,
Handel, Ives, and more. :pm. Trinity Episcopal Church, State St. Free. Call -. /: Blessings of the Animals Festival For those pet-soul believers, this is the event to ensure their place in doggy- or kitty-heaven. Reverend Dr. Randall Day will bless four-legged family members. :pm. St. Mark’s-inthe-Valley Episcopal Church, Nojoqui and Alamo Pintado aves., Los Olivos. -.
MONDAY 10/14 /: Bill T. Jones Legendary choreographer, director, and writer Bill T. Jones continues his stay in S.B. with a lecture, discussing the philosophy of his politically and socially charged work. pm. Hatlen Theater, UCSB. Free. Call -. Read more on p. . /: Jazz Jam Area bluessmith Jeff Elliott will jam with other S.B. musicians, so dust off the rusty horn, and head down to SOhO. :pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, State St. $. Call -. /: Yuja Wang Pianist Yuja Wang has been described as “superhuman.” She’s a virtuoso on the keys, “stunning” according to the New York Times, and has even been compared to the legendary
JOHN ZANT’S GAME OF THE WEEK /: High School Football: Carpinteria at Bishop Diego This so-called Little Big Game has become a Really Big Game because of the teams’ records and rankings (Bishop Diego -, No. in the CIF Northwestern Division; Carpinteria -, No. ), and the winner will get off to a good start in the rugged Tri-Valley League. Led by a ANNUAL AIRBALL: Bishop’s Christian Pearson trio of senior quarterbacks intercepts a pass in last year’s Carp vs. Bishop — Bishop’s Anthony Carter mash-up. and Gabe Molina, who alternate every play, and Ian Craddock, a three-year starter for the Warriors — both teams have been averaging more than points a game. Defense and turnovers may tell the tale. It’s the only game in town Saturday night. pm. SBCC’s La Playa Stadium, Loma Alta and Shoreline drs. $-$. Call -.
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/: Using the Critical Race Tool of Racial Microaggressions to Examine Everyday Racism Daniel Solorzano goes in depth on one of the subtle factors in today’s racial landscape — microaggressions. He’ll break down their implications on teaching and examine how we can improve the dialogue on race. pm. MultiCultural Ctr., UCSB. Free. Call -.
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Fashion and Fitness Text and photos by Jack Crosbie
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Elbiz Franco’s been in Santa Barbara for 10 years, but he still prefers New York City. “It’s a big city, the way I like it ... This [Santa Barbara] is too small. Nice, but too small.” Franco lives in the fashion world, which definitely thrives more in the Big Apple, but he finds plenty of work as a fashion coordinator in S.B. as well.
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Pirate Comedy
There is a pirate posse coming to town. Unlike Jack Sparrow and his misfit renegades, however, this band of rogues uses the power of the pen to disarm rather than drunken swordplay. They’re called the Story Pirates, and they kick off UCSB’s Arts & Lectures Family Fun series. The group offers a blend of education and theater as improvisational actors, comedians, and musicians create funny-bone-tickling skits and musicals from stories written by kids from around the nation. Performances have been touted as a “Monty Python meets Schoolhouse Rock!” experience. For an hour prior to the main event, there will be food, face painting, and balloons to get the little ones in a festive, fun mood. Story Pirates will be in town Sunday, October 20, 3 p.m., at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Tickets: $15 (general), $10 kids. For more information, call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu. — Michelle Drown
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t is not often that the pruning of a tree garners much attention, let alone the kind of publicity that accompanied the recent trimming that Santa Barbara City workers gave to an old tree in Parking Lot (located at the corner of State and Gutierrez streets). It was the fact of its age and history that triggered the press releases and media alert. Known alternately as the Franceschi Flame Tree or the Sexton Flame Tree, it is a very old specimen of a rare hybrid that was growing in the former site of one of Franceschi’s nurseries. Francesco Franceschi was a nurseryman and entrepreneur who spent about two decades at the turn of the 20th century in Santa Barbara but forever altered its (and that of much of Southern California’s) landscape by introducing hundreds of new plants to California. Among these new plants were many now-common landscape and food crops including rockrose and grape ivy as well as zucchini. He and his pals, including Joseph Sexton, Kinton Stevens, and others, believed that if they grew plants from other parts of the world, the species would eventually become “acclimatized” and thrive here. The underlying science was faulty, but the benign climate that they were experimenting in meant that quite often, they were successful in their endeavor to establish them here. Sexton was no slouch as a plantsman; among his commercial endeavors was the growing of pampas grass for the decorative trade, establishing a seed-and-flower shop downtown. He introduced several varieties of cherimoya and avocado, as well as developed and improved a variety of walnut. He is also credited with creating the flame tree in question. It was made by crossing two spe-
ABLAZE: The flame tree at State and Gutierrez streets is an old, rare specimen.
cies of lovely trees native to different regions of Australia, B. acerifolius and B. populneus. Taxonomists have given it the official name of B. × roseus, and it displays a hybrid vigor by topping out at 70 feet in height. It also sports very bright red flowers similar to its B. acerifolius parent and narrow leaves similar to its B. populneus parent. Because it is monoecious, meaning each tree is both male and female, and there are so few in existence, it remains a rarity. Efforts have been made to replicate the cross, but younger specimens are likely the result of vegetative propagation. Cuttings of the original trees (there is another handsome specimen at Sexton’s old home in Goleta) are somewhat difficult to root, but it has been done. The tree in Parking Lot has suffered the ravages of time and the circumstance of being surrounded by asphalt now. It has become weak and diseased. Cuttings were taken in an effort to keep its legacy alive, and vigorous pruning has been done in hopes of coaxing new life out of the healthy parts of the tree. It will be wonderful to pause under its new canopy and remember the fathers of horticulture in our area, including both Sexton and Franceschi. — Virginia Hayes
BY THE NUMBERS The estimated number of fans who showed up at JFK airport in New York when the Beatles arrived in the U.S. Their live performance two days later on the Ed Sullivan Show was seen by roughly 73 million viewers.
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was 12 years old, riding home from school on an L.A. city bus, when I noticed the middle-aged man staring at me. When I got off the bus, he did, too. As I walked, he followed 30 feet behind me. When I turned a corner, he turned, too. I picked up my pace. So did he. I didn’t know what he wanted. But I knew, like an animal knows it’s being hunted, that I was in danger. Unarmed in an era before cell phones, I considered my options. Break into a run, try to beat him to my house, lock the door, and call the police? No — he’d know where I lived. Bolt to a stranger’s front door and start banging, hoping someone was home? Dive through the hedges up ahead and hide? Or start screaming “HELP!” and crying like the little girl I was trying really hard not to be? When I think back on that day, I get angry. What enrages me most is that I can’t even remember how I made it home safely. All I remember is being terrified, humiliated, certain that I couldn’t overpower him, uncertain if I could outsmart him — and filled with a resentment that’s never really gone away. It’s been a long time since I’ve felt threatened by a middle-aged man. But last week, I was invited to a party billed as “a girls’ night that could save your life.” It was a casual sales presentation for Damsel in Defense personal protection products — think Pampered Chef but with pink weapons that pack a wallop: the Tiny Takedown stun gun. The Pouch by Starshine O’ Pepper spray. And a very pretty, palm-sized, keychain-ready martial arts weapon used to “jab soft tissue or break bones.” email: starshine@roshell.com The tools are supposed make women feel safer walking through the world — or at least through a dark parking lot late at night. But to learn about them is to acknowledge all the infuriating ways we’re vulnerable to attack. The sprays promise to incapacitate even drunk or drugged-out assailants and will stain a bad guy’s face with UV die so cops can identify him for up to a week. But you shouldn’t use them in close quarters, like in an elevator or during a car-jacking — and as Kathy, our Damsel distributor, reminded us, “We don’t get to dictate the terms of our attack.” For up-close encounters, you need a stun gun, which requires direct skin contact with your enemy and comes with a wrist strap attached to a disable pin so he can’t grab your weapon and use it against you. “It’s all less than lethal,” Kathy said. “We don’t want you to kill anyone; we don’t want you to go to jail. We just want them to release you.” You don’t need a license to own this stuff, but I’m not convinced I want it. Would I have felt safer as a 12-year-old with 4.5 million volts in my backpack? Maybe. Would I have been safer? Hard to say. More than 600 women are sexually assaulted every day in the U.S. And Kathy said her product parties often become confessionals with guests sharing personal stories of domestic abuse and random assaults. All of this does little to allay my anger. I’m pissed off that when I’m hiking and pass a guy on the trail who appears to be meditating, I have to yank out my iPod earbuds and check back over my shoulder for several uneasy minutes. I’m frustrated that the things I say to comfort myself — my neighborhood is safe, I’m smart, my dog would bark, I’m tall, I’m loud, I’m not afraid — are nonsense. But I didn’t buy a weapon at the party that night, for several reasons. The good reason: I’m afraid my kids would mess with it. The bad reason: I don’t like to think about needing one. The real reason: I may not be packing any personal protection in my purse, but I’m carrying some anger with me everywhere I go. And the only thing worse than an angry woman is an angry woman who’s armed.
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Quieting the Limbic Lizard Sports Psychologist Steve Smith Says Let the Robot Take Over
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Monday night, he certainly was not fretting about his failure to lay down a bunt. It freed him to swing away, and on a 2-2 pitch from Atlanta’s David Carpenter, he smacked a two-run homer that put the Dodgers in the National League Championship Series. Sports psychologist Steve Smith would say that Uribe let his robot do the job. His robot? That’s what Smith calls the cerebral cortex, the part of the human brain that provides a calming focus in situations fraught with anxiety.“The robot is logical. The robot plans. The robot understands. The robot stays cool,” Smith said last week in a presentation at Westmont College.“The robot tells the limbic lizard to be quiet.” The limbic lizard? That’s what Smith calls the limbic system, a primitive part of the brain that unleashes emotions. “It overreacts to everything,” he said.“It’s the first thing that happens when you have a sensation of discomfort. The limbic lizard will freak out, and you can’t stop it.” Smith has been busy counseling athletes in the greater Santa Barbara community. The Harvard-trained psychologist joined the faculty at UCSB in 2004 and has set up a private practice, the Sport Psychology and Research Center. He was a consulting psychologist for UCSB’s Intercollegiate Athletics Department and has continued to work with the baseball team. “He’s got good information,” Gaucho coach Andrew Checketts said. “He talks straight and keeps it simple.” As a young coach, Checketts welcomes the relatively new SHIFTING GEARS: Harvard-trained sports psychologist Steve Smith field of sports psychology into his program.“People look began his career working with children but switched to athletes due for any competitive advantage,” he said.“The mental side to his own experience as a competitive cyclist. is what separates all the players who are big and quick and throw hard. It’s more about what’s between the ears.” At the professional level, psychologists are widely a stressful endurance race. The limbic system kicks in with a employed by major league teams and athletes. Beach volleyfight-flight response. “It tells you to back off from discomfort,” ball star Kerri Walsh Jennings said she achieved her third Smith said. “It will lie to you: ‘I shouldn’t have had that burrito consecutive Olympic gold medal with the aid of sports psylast night … This feels awful; I’m gonna die … My eyeballs chologist Mike Gervais.“He helped us [Walsh Jennings and are bleeding!’ The limbic lizard fights you.” If it wins, you lose. her partner Misty May-Treanor] get out of the worst rut of “The easiest way to deal with the fear of losing is to lose,” our career,” she said.“He taught us the process is so important. Smith said.“That way you don’t have to be afraid anymore.” My mind has been a sprint, but [getting to the Olympics] is a Enter the robot. The enlightened mind does not extinguish marathon. I need to be grounded. There are no big moments; the pain and the anxiety, Smith said, but it enables you to deal everything’s the same.” At the AVP Santa Barbara Open with it effectively. He explained the process with three words: last month, she had a new partner, April Ross, but it was the anticipation, acceptance, and attention. same-old Kerri Walsh Jennings, hitting everything in sight. It’s “Anticipate that things are going to be difficult,” Smith easy to see her winning a fourth gold in 2016. said.“Where is the monster going to show up in the maraTodd Rogers, an Olympic champion in 2008, said perthon? Anticipation gives you power.” Along the same lines, sonal psychologists are a luxury few volleyball players can acceptance of physical and emotional discomfort makes it afford. As one of the most cerebral players on the beach, Rogmore bearable. Smith told of a golfer who stood over a crucial ers is sometimes approached for advice.“I tell them it’s just a four-foot putt with his hands shaking.“He stepped back and game,” he said. “I’ve seen guys go off on their partners when thought, ‘Wow, I’m anxious.’ Those feelings won’t go away. they screw up: ‘You’re killing me! This is my life!’ I say,‘Hey, Accept the fact that they are there. Just don’t feed them. . . . He man, it’s not your life. You’ve got a family. This is just a job and went back and made the putt.” a game.’ ” Golf is “the most psychologically demanding sport, hands Smith, who began his career as a child psychologist, shifted down,” Smith said in a separate discussion. “Golfers are the his emphasis to sports because of his own experiences as a only athletes who ask me,‘Are you a golfer?’ No, I don’t take bicycle racer.“I got into sports psychology because I wanted heroin either. It destroys your mind.” A round of golf is a proto do better,” he said.“What is the mechanism that will get the longed battle against mental demons. best performance out of me? How does it work?” His inquiry Attention is the key to keeping feelings of anxiety and led him to the brain.“I’m in love with the brain,” he said. doom at bay. “You can control your attention,” Smith told His audience at Westmont College was the cross-country the cross-country runners.“Give the robot something to do, team. It was easy for Smith to tailor his message to them; he and the limbic lizard goes quiet.” He suggested the runners is all too familiar with the physical discomfort that arises in might focus their attention on an external object, like the tag
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on a shirt, or, better yet, a relevant internal stimulus, like one’s breathing, the rhythm of inhaling and exhaling. “Are there any strategies that will bring out the limbic lizard in our opponents?” a runner inquired.“Smiling freaks everybody out,” Smith said.“Count the guys you pass out loud,” suggested athlete Seth Gruber. “That’s evil,” the psychologist said. Smith puts little stock in confidence, terming it cheap and artificial.“Confidence and anxiety are both predicting the future,” he said. “Too much confidence, and you get sloppy.” Whether one’s job is to run fast or hit a baseball, Smith emphasized, the best thing an athlete can do is to let his or her robot do the job. SKIP’S ADVENTURE: Former UCSB baseball player Skip Schumaker had two contrasting at-bats for the Dodgers on
Monday night — one of the most replayed hits, and another swing that hardly anybody noticed. Schumaker, the starting center fielder throughout the division series against the Braves, singled in the fourth inning on a drive hit so hard that it tore the glove off Atlanta first baseman Freddie Freeman. In the eighth inning, Schumaker followed Uribe to the plate and flied out while everybody was still celebrating Uribe’s big home run.
FOOTBALL CITY: In addition to Saturday night’s battle of unbeatens between Carpinteria and Bishop Diego High football teams, there is another cross-town game Friday night when Dos Pueblos visits Santa Barbara High; San Marcos, which lost for the first time in six games at Nordhoff last week, starts out Channel League play at home against Ventura. For more sports, including a weekly highlight schedule, see independent.com/sports.
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ith the wine grape harvest in full swing and the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association’s annual Celebration of Harvest set for Rancho Sisquoc this Saturday, October 12, it can be easy to forget that the region’s beer culture is more popping than ever, with an increasing number of homegrown breweries, as well as more options for trying craft beers from around the world. Here’s a look at the latest and greatest flowing from the taps this autumn. Firestone Brewing’s Velvet Merkin:
In 2004, Firestone’s brewmaster ster Matt tmeal Bryndilson concocted an oatmeal Velvet stout that he christened the “Velvet ime to Merkin.” But when it came time release it to the masses, folks got cold er word feet about the name, the latter g. So of which refers to a pubic wig. mely they went with the more tamely named Velvet Merlin for the sixn’t packs, yet Bryndilson couldn’t shake the Merkin dream. So in September, he unleashed thee Velublic, vet Merkin back upon the public, ging this time undergoing extra aging he in bourbon barrels to give the duct utterly smooth finished product fsome distinct roasted and toffee notes. It’s worth the wait. n; ( McMurray Rd., Buellton; 225-5911; firestonebeer.com)
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ous connoisseurs, featuring an intimate lineup of five brewers and five wineries, this first-time festival goes down this Sunday, October 13, noon-4 p.m., at the Casa de la Guerra, with benefits going straight to the S.B. School of Squash. Co-organizer Zach Rosen, who was the youngest Certified Cicerone ever when he achieved that beer sommelier degree in 2010, hopes to break from the “overindulgent nature” of most beer festivals, so he’s blending in some live art, as well.“The hope is to mesh the beer, wine, and art subcultures into an environment that will highlight the creative communities blossoming in our area,” said Rosen. (sbbwfest.com)
Captain Fatty’s Coming: “The free-beer market is booming,” jokes Preston Angell of Goleta’s new Captain Fatty’s Craft Brewery, which has been pouring free tastes of early batches at events like Figueroa Mountain’s FigtoberFests. That’ll end soon, as they’ll have their licenses by the end of October, which will open the way for tastings. Angell, a Westmont biology grad, was brought in by longtime home-brewers John Wadell and Bryan Anderson to round out their business.“I’m Fatty,” admits the thin Anderson.“John’s the Captain.” Though still experimenting, they’ve developed a few key recipes, from a Vortex IPA to Parcel , a honey pale ale that sources honey and citrus from Hollister Ranch. Just like winemakers controlling how their grapes grow, the Captain Fatty’s team is working with the California Malting Company to discuss how to grow and prepare their grains. They’ve also got a line on hops grown in Carpinteria. “Once we get bottling,” said Anderson, who expects that
to be in about a year,“people will be able to take home a true bottle from Santa Barbara.” (captainfattys.com) BiN 2860’s Take-Home Brews: Though located in the heart of wine country, the Fess Parker family-owned BiN is staking a claim on craft brews, with nearly 200 specially selected options for sale at the bottle shop. This fall’s offerings include The Bruery’ss Autumn Maple, brewed with yams, molasses, and maple syrup in Orange County; the New Zealand–based Wired Brewing Co.’s Saison Sauvin, whose farmhouse yeast delivers funky flavors; Shipyard Brewing Co.’s Smashed Pumpkin, a special seasonal brew made by the Portland, Maine, brewery’s top dog, Alan Pugsley; and the Black Maria Imperial IPA from Denmark’s “gypsy brewery.” We will be reviewing these and other BiN beers every week at independent .com/beer. ( Grand Ave., Los Olivos; 688-7788; bin.com)
American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup); the Bourbon Barrel Aged IPA, selected as one of the best 186 beers in the world by Alll About Beer magazine; and the Imperial Ale, h another GABF gold winner, this one with high hops and alcohol. The brewery is also planning to expand in the near future and may start putting their beer in cans, too. ( th St., Carpinteria; 745-8272; islandbrewing company.com) Pure Order Gets Ready: Two years in the
making, Santa Barbara’s newest brewery is slated to open in the next few weeks near the corner of Quarantina and Reddick streets on the Eastside. Cousins James and David Burge based p y on the old German Pure Order Brewing Company einheitsgebot,” which purity law of 1516 — the “Reinheitsgebot, lt, yeast, and hops dictates that only water, malt, can be used in making beerr— — but their aim is to make ales that are reflective of Santa aft a beer that Barbara.“Our hope is to craft ything that is the embodiment of everything h town and makes our small little beach its lifestyle among the mostt desired hose in the world,” said David, whose oked evolving list includes a Crooked ye Neck Hefeweizen, a Red Eye Alee, Wheat, a Santa Barbara Palee Ale, ong ng and a Black Gull Porter, among others. ( N. Quarantina St. St.;.; 966-2881; pureorderbrewingg .com)
Figueroa Mountain’s Holiday Plans:
Coming off the heels of two wild “FigtoberFest” weekends at the Funk Zone brewpub and the original headquarters in Buellton, Figueroa Mountain continues going strong with a wide selection of seasonal brews, including the Munich-style dunkel, Oktoberfest lager, and bock made for the parties, as well as the recently released Big Cone Black Ale and Magpie Baltic Porter. For those seeking rarity, however, hold out for the thirdanniversary ale, which is aging in Cutler bourbon barrels and should be out by Thanksgiving, or a tad longer until Christmastime, when they’ll release a Magpie Porter blended with Rusack Winery petite sirah that’s aging in Sea Smoke pinot noir barrels. ( Anacapa St.; 694-2255; figmtnbrew.com) Telegraph Brews and Waits: As Brian Thompson endures the stereotypically exhausting process of opening a bigger facility next door to Telegraph Brewing Company’s original location on Salsipuedes Street, his team continues cranking out new brews, with a White Ale, California Ale, Rye XPA, and Stock Porter currently running through the taps. Then there’s the Prime Meridian Ale, a dry-hopped Belgian brown that Thompson says has a very distinct lemon and mango character. ( N. Salsipuedes St.; 963-5018; telegraphbrewing.com) Hollister Brewing’s White Star XPA: There are always about 16 beers on tap at Hollister Brewing Company in Goleta, but regulars get most riled up with the coming release of the White Star XPA, which brewmaster Eric Rose calls “a superhoppy pale ale on nitrogen.” The nitro infusion gives it a Guinness-like mouthfeel, lifting the already vibrant hops to a new level. ( Marketplace Dr., Goleta; 968-2810; hollisterbrewco .com) Island Brewing’s Barrel Program: The Carpinteria brewery’s ever-popular Avocado Honey Ale hit the taps last weekend during the Avo Fest, but they continue to fine-tune their bourbon-barrel-aging program, with three currently on sale: the Starry Night Stout (winner of gold medals at both the Great
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by George Yatchisin oma sets its tone immediately, and not just from the warm welcome from the staff, led by owners Tom and Vicki Dolan, or from the glimmering room, a casually elegant touch of the Mediterranean. It does so with the simplest and cleverest of opening bites — you can’t really call them amuse-bouches as that would be too pretentious — blue-cheese-stuffed green olives, flash-fried after a dip in semolina so the soft fruit gets a bit of crunch. This little treat really wakes up the palate and gets you set for a meal that will walk a fine line between comfortable and notable that few attempt, let alone pull off. Not bad for a spot open only since April. Of course it’s almost misleading to say Toma has only been open for six months. It’s in the same beachside spot where Emilio’s had been for 21 years, and Tom Dolan says, “I worked at Emilio’s for 20 years as head waiter and manager. So I had a sense of what this restaurant could be and should be.” Emilio’s shut its doors in April 2012, so it took a year to make all the changes Dolan had in mind, including items such as a temperaturecontrolled wine room,“new tablecloths, tables, Riedel stemware, Fortessa cutlery — we upgraded to a more elegant fashion.” Tom’s wife, Vicki, was a big part of the dining room remodel, having learned much about hospitality after 30 years with the Four Seasons hotel chain. “My wife and I have traveled a lot, have gone to Italy six times,” Dolan says,“and we wanted to bring a lot of that knowledge of restaurants around the world and of Four Seasons around the world to Toma.” They didn’t look globally to find a chef, turning to Nat Ely, the last chef at Emilio’s, who has also worked at Los Olivos Café and Place Pigalle in Seattle. Dolan and Ely opted to retain “certain dishes that people put to the face of the restaurant, like the ahi tuna cones and the homemade bread from a 20-year-old starter. But we’ve evolved, too, and are trying to keep it as seasonal as we can. I hate to say farm-to-table, as it’s so overused these days, even farm-to-bar seems to be the next big thing. But that push makes for a better dining arena for Santa Barbara. Everyone has to jump on this bandwagon to succeed. We’re getting our vegetables from places like Tutti Frutti and Windrose Farms — all in the area.” While the menu features pizzas (from guanciale to smoked salmon) and pastas (from black spaghetti and clams to a meaty lasagne), Dolan is hesitant to call Toma an Italian restaurant, fully aware of all the cuisines that nation encompasses.“It’s Italian-Mediterranean influenced; that kind of sums it up,” Dolan says.“In the end, it’s just really good food.” One flip side of that good food,
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SHORE THING: Fine dining goes back to the beach, at Cabrillo’s Toma restaurant.
and wine, and cocktails (try The Local: Square One Cucumber Vodka, strawberries, basil leaves, agave nectar, and a drizzle of balsamic reduction) push is spending little on advertising.“We market within,” he explains. “The funds have been put back into the best ingredients we can get, the best service. It’s the best marketing you can do, as a customer who comes in tells three people, who come in, who tell three people ….” All those people talking have led to Toma landing at the number one ranking on Trip Advisor. “People call and say,‘You’re number one on Trip Advisor, and you’re down by the harbor?’” Dolan informs. “I just think with our success and the Funk Zone it’s great that people are gravitating back down toward the beach. It’s kind of neat to see the energy come back down this way.”
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by pilgrimages to restaurants including bouchon, Seagrass, and Wine Cask. But let’s face it: Progressive dinners are always better in theory than in practice. And that goes double — nay, triple! — when the stops along the way are actual restaurants, as opposed to home kitchens. So the powers — and chefs — that be at Wine Cask, The Biltmore’s Bella Vista restaurant, and Finch & Fork put their heads together and came up with the idea for this glorious Ménage à Trois. And yes, that’s what they are officially calling it. The threesome represents some of S.B.’s best chefs: James Siao of Finch & Fork at the Canary, Brandon Hughes of the Wine Cask, and Alessandro Cartumini of Bella Vista at the Four Seasons. Each will host one night; the home chef will handle the appetizers and the main, while the others provide the first course and dessert. And it’ll all be washed down with some of our area’s best wines. Let’s move on to the food porn (ahem): Tonight’s dinner will see Siao hosting Cartumini and Hughes at the Canary. The evening will begin with a reception on the rooftop and Siao’s deviled eggs, grilled oysters, and cheddar hush puppies with chipotle honey. From there, the party moves to the dining room for a feast that will begin with pear salad with chard, toasted five-spice pecans, roasted duck, and honey-mint vinaigrette (Hughes); continue with seared prime strip loin and local spot prawns, bone-marrow butter, cauliflower puree, fireroasted Brussels sprouts, and chimichurri (Siao); and finish with caramelized pear and ricotta cheesecake with avocado honey/ pine-nut brittle (Cartumini and pastry chef Don Hall). Next Thursday, October 17, the action moves to the Wine Cask, where Hughes will step into the spotlight, kicking things off in the courtyard with heirloom-tomato-and-lemon-basil arancini, chanterelle tartlets, roasted-beet-and-apple “tartare,” and cured yellowtail and sea beans on water crackers. Dinner will begin with Kabocha squash ravioli with smoked pumpkin seeds, sage, brown butter, and Humboldt Fog cheese (Cartumini); continue with a wagyu beef duo — grilled N.Y. strip with chanterelles and kale, and beef cheeks with fig “risotto” (Hughes); and finish with butterscotch pot de crème with spiced-apple compote, oatmeal crumble, and bacon almond crisp (Siao). The finale will go down Thursday, October 24, at Bella Vista. The terrace reception will feature Cartumini’s bites, including local snapper crudo with finger lime and shishitos; artichoke fritto with pecorino and chives; saffron risotto arancini with oregano-bell-pepper fonduta; and ginger-seared scallops. Dinner will start with smoked pork cheek, chili caramel, roasted-butternut-squash puree, shaved beets, and hazelnuts (Saio); next up is braised beef short ribs and lobster with polenta, carrots, gremolata, and radish (Cartumini); and a warm apple dumpling and vanilla pudding with apple salad will wrap things up (Hughes, pastry chef Rosie Moot). Turned on? Me too. (And three.)
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reat pianists come in many varieties. Some performers have a special affinity with a specific composer, such as Richard Goode with Beethoven, or András Schiff and Bach. Others, like the wildly popular Lang Lang, carry the day with what often gets labeled as “charisma” but can mean many things according to the context. And some simply immerse themselves in the challenges that lie at the heart of what has become the core repertoire of the instrument in the modern era — not only the classical concertos and sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven, but also the huge and hugely popular romantic masterpieces of Rachmaninov and the moremodern but just-as-demanding works of Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and Chopin. The latter course is the one charted by 26-year-old piano sensation Yuja Wang, who will step up to Campbell Hall for her third appearance in Santa Barbara this Monday. In the highly competitive world of classical piano, the diminutive Wang swings like a heavyweight, having impressed audiences all over the world with her technical prowess and broad repertoire that includes many of the most difficult pieces ever written for
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Partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Barbara, Notes for Notes’ MusicBox Studio gives kids the chance to learn how to play instruments, work in a recording studio, and receive educational feedback — all for no cost. The organization also recently introduced a new fundraising tactic. For the cost of $4/month (or $48/year), donators can become Notes for Notes producers. In addition FUTURE tktk SOUNDS: Notes for Notes students man the to helping sustain current and turntables at the organization’s Eastside Music Box. build new MusicBox studios, n the seven years since its founding, Santa producers will receive a variety of benefits, Barbara–born nonprofit Notes for Notes including studio releases, discounts, presale has grown into a national organization, access, and newsletters. providing youths with the opportunity to For more information about Notes for learn the ins and outs of the music world in a Notes, or to donate, visit notesfornotes.org. — Rachel Cabakoff creative environment.
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Stravinsky, a fiendishly difficult piece originally arranged by the composer for Arthur Rubinstein, Wang said she was “fascinated by the angularity of it and how he expanded the language of music and its relation to dance (my mom is a dancer). Genius like Stravinsky’s is utterly inspiring.” Yuja Wang appears in recital at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Monday, October 14, at 8 p.m. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures — Charles Donelan .sa.ucsb.edu for tickets.
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There’s something to be said about finding an artist before they hit it big. Case in point: From London, new duo Jungle, whose online résumé is about as mysteriously nonexistent as they come. But not for long. Since dropping their track “Platoon” a few months back, they’ve been lauded by most of the UK’s music-judging elite. (Nick Lowe, we’re looking at you.) The pair makes its stateside debut this month with the US-only Jungle EP, a four-track sampler that’s as excitement inducing as it is infectious. Lead track “The Heat” is a funkedout R&B number that grooves in the same vein as Prince, falsetto vocals and all. Later, “Drops” takes D’Angelo’s brazen sexiness and backs it up with a trippy mix of low-end and synth sparkle. Still, what makes Jungle a gem of a find is all in the balance. The intricate layers of beats and samples scream high art, while the vocals and vibe teeter on the brink of slow-jam schmaltz. Wound together, though, it’s a guaranteed recipe for impending success. — Aly Comingore
NEBULA DANCE LAB KEEPS EXPANDING
Devyn Duex has big visions. Since founding Nebula Dance Lab in 2010, the mother of two with a full-time day job has also poured full-time creative energy into her performing arts nonprofit. As director, choreographer, and dancer, Duex plays many roles for Nebula, and still finds time to dream up new ventures. The latest of these is Floodlit & Fallen, an evening-length performance at Center Stage Theater taking place October 10-13, featuring seven professional dancers, original costumes, lighting, text, and music. On the program for this weekend are two group works: a reprise of Duex’s “Sand into Glass,” which premiered in 2008 and explores the idea of challenge as a formative force, and “Floodlit & Fallen,” an ambitious new multimedia work by Santa Barbara native Brooklyn Hughes, who’s back in town after earning an MFA in choreography at the University of Arizona. Duex described Hughes’s work as a “fairy tale come to life” and noted that the emphasis on ballet technique has brought out the best in her dancers. In addition to rehearsing for this show, the company has also spent the past year teaching classes through their education outreach program, touring works to dance festivals in Los Angeles and San Diego and planning “Dance for Mobility,” a service trip to Chile in 2014, during which they will perform and teach classes in partnership with the humanitarian organization Free Wheelchair Mission. When Duex named her new company, she chose the word “Nebula” to emphasize the vast scope of her project and the drawing together of disparate energies. True to that vision, the company is now in the early stages of planning for a dedicated training space focused on contemporary dance technique. Ever since the closing of the Dance Warehouse more than 15 years ago, Santa Barbara has lacked a studio devoted to modern dance, and Duex wants to fill that gap. In the meantime, she’s focused on showing work and raising funds; Nebula’s annual gala fundraiser and celebration is scheduled for November. To learn more about the company, visit nebuladance.org. For tickets to this weekend’s show, call 963-0408 or visit centerstagetheater.org. — Elizabeth Schwyzer
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othing invigorates the mind like a good conversation, and that’s exactly what curator Jeremy Tessmer has created by pairing these two excellent shows of Tonalism. One is a historical survey of the style’s original period from 1870-1930, the other a group show of artists who reference the style today, with work ranging from traditional oil painting on canvas or board to photography and tapestry. Thanks to the way that some contemporary artists have adopted the softness, the attention to mood, and the unity of composition that characterized the original generation of Tonalist works, there’s a dialogue here that grounds the recent work in art history, and that makes the older paintings look fresh. Lockwood de Forest, Leon Dabo, Granville Redmond, John Francis Murphy, and Alexander Wyant are just some of the painters represented in Tonalism Then, and while not all of the names will be equally familiar, the aesthetic agenda of the movement is evident in every picture on view. Take “Daylight Full Moon with Reflection,” a small, horizontally organized oil on cardstock by de Forest from 1910. On the surface, it’s a study of a specific light situation, the latent phosphorescence of a daylight moon in a pale sky. Although working entirely within the bounds of conventional representation, de Forest nevertheless finds a suggestive set of shapes in the moon and two tall and spare trees, and, using the reflections of these three images in water, he creates a powerfully symmetrical, yet nearly freeform, shape that dominates the picture. The effect is of a Rorschach blot flipped on its side, with the bones of a Barnett Newman zip lurking within the horizon. The full moon, that ubiquitous Tonalist totem, stands for the union of subject and object; the undivided attention of the viewer absorbed in the singularity of the image that commands it. Lockwood de Forest has found a legitimate heir to his moon franchise in James David Thomas, who has three memorable paintings in the Tonalism Now show.“La Luna en el Labrinto, State II” (2012) captures the spectral beauty of a full moon setting over water through a beguiling combination of oil paint and wood grain. One is never quite sure where the gestures of the painter end and the contours of the surface begin. It’s a thoroughly modern image, but it’s also totally Tonal. David Skinner contributes a pair of small acrylics on paper. They’re just 10� × 10�, but full of life as original compositions, and they play sophisticated post-impressionist games with angles, perspective, and scale. Ben Bauer takes the de Forest daylight-moon challenge and comes up with a beautiful, breathtakingly clean and direct image of a “Spring Moonrise in South Dakota” (2012). Sarah Vedder, the area’s foremost contemporary Tonalist, has been spending time in the Santa Ynez Valley, and her haunting paintings of “Foxen Canyon Field” and “Autumn Vineyards” (both 2011) each bear her signature sense of muted, yearning sensuality. Lindsey Ross, a photographer with an interest in older equipment and film techniques, contributes four elegant and subtly subversive tintypes, including the brilliant and utterly contemporary figure of “Mel” from 2013. Looking at Wolf Kahn’s bold landscape in blue and green from 1998, it’s easy to see why he called this country scene “To Rothko,” and it’s not just the stacking of blocks of saturated color — it’s also the work’s powerful message of transcendence. At its best, Tonalism always points beyond the image toward the spirit immanent in what it depicts. No one captures this aspect of the movement better than April Gornik, and her large tapestry from 2006 called “Bower” has to be one of the most exciting and satisfying works of art shown here this year.
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eople have preconceived notions about percussion. That’s Ted Atkatz’s lament, and he has a point. Most of us think of drums, cymbals, and their cousins as essentially rhythm instruments — ways of keeping the beat. But to the virtuoso percussionist and longtime Music Academy of the West instructor, who will be guest soloist for the opening weekend concerts of the Santa Barbara Symphony, that’s ridiculously reductive. “To find the lyrical and linear side of percussion is a lifelong pursuit of mine,” Atkatz said in a recent interview. “There are so many nuances to be found. “I have learned over the course of a lifetime in music that every instrument can serve as a melodic instrument. It’s about finding these long lines, in the same way that a clarinetist spins a phrase. Every instrument can sing a song.” Atkatz will demonstrate this lyricism Saturday and Sunday at the Granada Theatre, when he joins the orchestra for a performance of Christopher Rouse’s Der Gerettete Alberich. The contemporary American composer describes the work as a “fantasy for percussion and orchestra.” “It’s a real challenge,” he said from his home in Los Angeles. “This is the first time I’ve played it. I was asked by Nir Kabaretti and the Santa BEAT IT: Percussionist Ted Atkatz takes on the Barbara Symphony people to take it on. It’s been fantastic when he joins the Santa Barbara Symphony about 200 hours of practice time, and I’m not for two performances of Christopher Rouse’s Der quite there yet. Gerettete Alberich this weekend at the Granada. “The concert is opening with a Wagner overture to celebrate that composer’s bicentennial. This piece ties into Wagner in that it’s Rouse’s sort-of sequel “It was rewarding, but it was also the hardest job I’ve to the Ring Cycle. He calls it a fantasy based on the char- ever done,” he recalled. “I also really missed performing. acter of Alberich, who [in Wagner’s opera Das Rheingold] So I decided to get my master’s at the New England Conrenounces love in the name of gold. He’s a little troll-like servatory. At that point, I wrapped my brain around ‘Let’s try and make a go at becoming an orchestral musician.’ character. “Rouse lifts from the end of the Ring directly at the Miraculously, I did.” beginning of the piece, so he’s very clearly making this feel In fact, he got a position with one of the best orchestras like it’s the sequel or maybe a prequel. After these direct in the nation: the Chicago Symphony. “I learned how to quotes from the Ring, it goes into something very other- be a musician playing in that orchestra,” he said. To many worldly and modern sounding. The way I interpret is this people’s surprise, he resigned after a decade and moved piece is Alberich running amok. A lot of it is like hell has to Southern California to pursue a more varied career, broken loose. It goes through a lot of different moods over including playing and singing in his own rock band. “Los Angeles is the perfect city for a musician who has the 20 minutes. “At the beginning and end of the piece, he uses two a bunch of diverse interests,” he said.“Any given week, you güiros. That’s a Latin instrument. It’s essentially a gourd can find yourself recording a John Williams movie score, which has been dried out. Maybe 30 or 40 ridges are cut playing in an orchestra, or performing with a rock band. out of it. You play it by scraping it. It simulates the sound There are venues and audiences and opportunities for all of speech or laughter. Rouse writes underneath [the final of those. I’ve got a wandering mind; any chance I have to notes of the score], ‘Ha ha ha ha!’ Albrecht survives, and change things up is good for me. he’s laughing about the mess he has made. “We premiered a piece of mine at the Music Academy “It’s kind of a bold statement that he’s making, paral- this summer for two percussionists,” he noted. (The year leling his music with that of Wagner,” he said. “It’s gutsy. 2013 marked his 11th year at the school.) “It looks like I’m But that’s one of Rouse’s great characteristics. It’s strong, being commissioned to do some other writing. So that’s a powerful music.” new direction I’m exploring.” Atkatz is a fan of bold choices: He has been making So how — as a composer and/or performer — do you them all his life. The native of Queens, New York, took up make a percussion instrument sing? “It’s definitely a techthe drums at age 10, when his father, an advertising man nical thing,” he said,“but it’s also a mindset.You can always and amateur violinist, instructed him and his brother to surprise someone with percussion.” choose an instrument to play. “I picked the drums,” he said.“I had been listening to my Ted Atkatz performs with the parents’ Beatles records, and I wanted to be Ringo Starr.” Santa Barbara Symphony He gradually got more and more serious about his on Saturday, October 12, at music, although when he attended Boston University, “I 8 p.m. and Sunday, October 13, at 3 p.m. didn’t envision becoming a professional musician,” he said. at the Granada Theatre (1214 State St.). 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PERSONAL, POLITICAL, PROUD Bill T. Jones Returns to Santa Barbara LOIS GREENFIELD
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ersonal or political — to choreographer Bill T. Jones, it’s a false dichotomy. Since the early 1970s, Jones has been crafting dances out of his own distinct human experience. In some cases, the resulting works have been formal studies of movement and music. Other dances tackle a clear topic or narrative: Slavery and emancipation, media and technology, AIDS — these are the works for which he is best known and which garner the strongest reactions. One such dance famously sparked the ire of a New York critic who refused MOVEMENT WITH A MESSAGE: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance to see the production yet wrote Company features dancers Erick Montes, I-Ling Liu, Jennifer a lengthy essay denouncing it. Nugent, Joe Poulson, LaMichael Leonard Jr., Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Speaking on the phone from and Talli Jackson. The group performs three works at the Granada New York last week, the 61-yearTheatre on October 16. old Jones acknowledged that critics and audiences have tended to brand his work as political and social commen- man and his work will recognize his signature weighted tary, while he’s always seen himself as “a formalist and a elegance and nuanced articulation of spine and limbs in poetic choreographer.” all of the works on this program. “I never had an idea that I could be neutral in the world,” Yet for Jones, dance is about so much more than stylized he explained. As a gay African-American dancer who movement — more even than a medium through which came of age in the late 1960s and lost his partner Arnie to convey a message. At its core, he says, dance “reaffirms Zane to AIDS in 1988, Jones sees his dances both as reflec- what makes us a community — even what makes us a tions of his very personal experience and of larger cultural democracy — because we sit down beside people who are and historical forces. different from ourselves and we share something.” Next Wednesday, October 16, UCSB Arts & Lectures As fiercely intellectual as he is intuitive, Jones often edibrings the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company back torializes his own commentary as he speaks. “I’m getting to Santa Barbara with a program of three works spanning awfully grand here,” he observed, before continuing. “Art 1977-2001.“Play and Play” features Zane’s fascination with does for me what religion traditionally did; it organizes photography and film and Jones’s lifelong love affair with a seemingly chaotic universe. When a dance program is music; the L.A.-based Calder Quartet will perform live effective, there’s something that happens in the chemistry alongside the dances. It’s a program that showcases the of the people in the room that is a good thing even after awesome technical prowess of the current company of we leave the theater.” nine dancers and offers a very different angle on Jones’s Just who can partake in such an experience — and who oeuvre from the work he last showed here in 2009: an gets left out — is a question Jones hasn’t forgotten. “Let’s evening-length production based on the life of Abraham face it,” he said.“We live in a country where there are a great many people trying to feed the family dinner for $10, and Lincoln. The earliest work on this program,“Continuous Replay,” therefore a dance performance like ours is a luxury. I don’t dates back to the mid-’70s, when Jones recalled Zane think we should be a luxury.” Noting that he strove for spending “an entire afternoon in the gymnasium of a years simply to provide his dancers with health insurance, former girls’ club in Binghamton, working on a series of and that their incomes place them just a step above “the gestures inspired by his love for Lucinda Childs and his working poor,” Jones spoke of dance as one of the “least interest in karate and photography.” Out of that session elite, most democratic” of the arts.“At the opera,” he noted, came the 45 discreet movements that form the basis of “it’s often $350 a ticket.” this work. The same pride that leads Jones to emphasize his “D-Man in the Waters,” premiered one year after Zane’s company’s relative accessibility is there when he speaks death, can be read as a struggle for survival against the about his dances, his dancers, and even his advice to his powerful current of illness. Context aside, it’s a gorgeous Santa Barbara audience. “Come with people you like, and work of watery metaphor and exuberant athleticism set to come prepared to have a good time,” he suggested.“Come Mendelssohn. Jones has reworked the dance no fewer than prepared to look closely at the patterns, at the ever-shifting 10 times since its original creation, every time drawing dynamics of relationships. And the music is glorious; the something fresh from the company. music will carry you if you give yourself to it.” Jones created “Spent Days out Yonder” on a commission to choreograph a work set to Mozart. As he describes it, the UCSB Arts & Lectures brings dance is an attempt “to find the funk in Mozart” and is built Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance upon his own movement vocabulary; then rehearsal direcCompany to the Granada tor (now co-artistic director) Janet Wong videotaped Jones Theatre (1214 State St.) on Wednesday, dancing in his living room and used those recordings to October 16, at 8 p.m. Jones will also give set movement on the company. a free talk at UCSB’s Hatlen Theater on “I do believe there’s such a thing as style,” Jones noted, Monday, October 14, at 4 p.m. Call 893-3535 adding that as he dances less and less, he becomes more or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu for interested in how to convey the information in his body tickets and info. to those who will proceed him. Those familiar with the
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single silver strand falls from ceiling to floor. Rippling and undulating, it sparkles in the stage lights. Near its base, one woman paws at the stage with one foot like a bird scratching for food. She lifts her hands to claw at her chest and then tosses her hips in tight circles, at once fierce and fragile. “Meyer” (2013) is Alonzo King’s homage to composer and bassist Edgar Meyer, whose soaring score underpins the work. As bows draw faster across strings, the strand of quavering silver becomes three, then five, then a glittering sheet, and the dancing builds from solo to trio to a stageful of bodies leaping and wheeling. Out of this near-chaos emerges a pas de deux that encompasses the central duality of this company: a dance between articulation and abandon, control and release. One moment, she’s doubled over, legs tightly crossed as he holds her hips and spins her on the axis of her toe shoe. The next moment, they’re falling, running backward so fast it seems certain they’ll end up sprawled on the floor. It isn’t until one man turns his back to the audience, walks upstage, and dips his hand into the silvery flow that suspicions are confirmed: water pools and splashes in his palm, and his back and arms respond with fluid rippling. As the dance develops, order yields more and more to chaos: A woman in a whimsical wire-rimmed skirt hops about as her partner rolls on the floor, stuffing his mouth with crumpled papers. On a lesser company, such audacious departures from classical technique might collapse. With LINES, just when things seem to have tipped too far, a single stunning arabesque is all it takes to right it. “Dancing in the Rain,” from two years earlier, can be seen as a partner dance to “Meyer” insofar as both works feature falling water. Yet set as it is here — to a series of searing, melancholy Sephardic songs —“Dancing in the Rain” strikes a very different tone. Again, the action rises from a single human form to a full stage of bodies bouncing around like excited molecules, though this time their fervor feels less like a party and more like a prayer. Among the standout moments in “Dancing in the Rain” is a male duet in which one partner falls repeatedly backward, only to be caught each time by the hands — and then the feet — of his reclining partner. Though the “snow” that pours down at the end has a certain visual appeal, the real pleasure of this work is in the human tableau unfolding down below.
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Cosmic Debris Gravity . Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in a film written by Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Reviewed by Josef Woodard
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pace is the place,” according to the late great avant-jazz icon Sun Ra. Sandra Bullock, a beleaguered and gravitydeprived astronaut in distress, expresses a different opinion deep into her travails in Alfonso Cuarón’s striking new film, Gravity: “I hate space.” Well, okay, I take that muttered comment out of context. In fact, Bullock’s Ryan is an earthling with a sad backstory on terra firma, who loves the quiet, the vastness, and the cosmic vantage point of space, as seen from her slowly drifting, gravity-challenged perspective. But the plot thickens when her mission, with goofy quipster astronaut Matt Kowalski (played by George TOUR DE FORCE: Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity revolves Clooney), is threatened by human error: a Rusaround Sandra Bullock as a scientist stranded in space sian antisatellite test resulting in hailstorms of after an astronomical catastrophe. deadly cosmic shrapnel. Kowalski at one point gives a mock weather report of “clear skies, with chances of satellite debris.” Elsewhere in this road movie Y Tu Mamá Tambien or the vivid mise-enhypnotic, organically suspenseful, and remarkable film, scène of the apocalyptic end-gaming film Children of Men. he sums up the dichotomy of the wonder and fragility of In what is an odd combo of a virtual one-woman show life “up there” by saying, “I’ll admit one thing. Can’t beat — Bullock, in unusually strong form, essentially carries the film in eerie floating mode, except when strapped into the view.” Just as the title itself has a minimal bluntness and a command module — and a metaphorical misadventure, doubled-up meaning, Gravity is a beautifully realized, Gravity carves out a place for itself in the ranks of space spare, yet genuinely spacious (including the stunning cinema. We may be reminded, in a general way, of the fear ersatz spatiality of artfully deployed 3-d) film, teeming and torpor of another lost-astronaut film, Marooned, of with references to modern science and modern existential Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker, or even the man/machine/ angst. Alfonso Cuarón, one of the handful of Mexican- void trip of : A Space Odyssey, but this is a new kind born directors on the scene, is a masterful filmmaker, who of allegorically lined, empathetic odyssey. Gravity gravely brings a freshness and empathetic power to his various — and humanely — goes where many have gone before, cinematic worlds, whether the libidinal vertigo of the great but with a new cinematic view. ■
Stunning Bummer Runner Runner . Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, and Gemma Arterton star in a film written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien and directed by Brad Furman.
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hrillers shouldn’t be polite. If anything, a sense of menace ought to ooze out at you from the very first scenes. And if that isn’t happening, horrific violence (graphic or implied) can usually make an audience un-slump from its chairs. Unfortunately, Brad Furman’s offshore video-poker-gangster-sting film barely makes us wince. Late in the story, when the RUN FOR THE HILLS: Justin Timberlake (left) bad guy is finally out of the bad-guy closet and a couple and Ben Affleck star alongside Gemma Arterton of corrupt officials are in line for a much-foreshadowed in the languid “thriller” Runner Runner. crocodile doom, it’s made manifestly more grotesque by the addition of a tub of chicken fat. Then, as our hearts begin to finally pulse — kerplunk. Nothing. There’s even something like an apology offered. an index to how softly this film was put together: Furman What makes this timidity really unfortunate is that the can’t even heat up the environment with a love triangle banality comes from a first-rate cast. Justin Timberlake made from pure smoldering Hollywood. plays Richie Furst, a Princeton student low on tuition And it’s not like he can’t make a film. His The Lincoln sources who begins recruiting players for an internet Lawyer was one of the most satisfying films of 2011, full of poker syndicate run by Ivan Block (Ben Affleck) until he’s bumps, trumps, reversals, and even a great biker beating. cheated by some of Block’s unscrupulous staff. Brazening But this film, with its mysteriously obscure title, feels like out the loss, Richie travels to Costa Rica, where he not only it was made by somebody embarrassed to be physical. The gets his money back but also a job offer he can’t hardly opening speech in the film has Richie complaining that a refuse. In between the hunky leads in a relationship that’s life without risk, without gamble, is hardly worth living. He weirdly ambiguous is Rebecca, played by the steaming could have added that a suspense film without any detectemotional bruise known as Gemma Arterton. It’s really able pulse is not worth watching. ■
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The following films are playing in Santa Barbara FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, THROUGH THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17. Descriptions followed by initials — DJP (D.J. Palladino), JW (Josef Woodard) — have been taken from our critics’ reviews, which can be read in full at independent.com. The symbol ✯ indicates the film is recommended.
FIRST LOOKS ✯ Gravity (90 mins.; PG-13: intense perilous sequences, some disturbing images, brief strong language) Reviewed on page 65. Camino Real (2- D and 3-D)/ Fiesta 5 (2-D and 3-D)/ Metro 4 (2-D and 3-D)
Runner Runner (91 mins.; R: language, some sexual content)
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✯ Inequality for All (89 mins.; PG: thematic elements, some violence, language, smoking images) Inasmuch as America is still reeling from and scratching a collective head over the economic cataclysm that imploded five years ago, we still hunger for answers and some kind of clarity about how the calamity happened, who is to blame, and how further damage can be prevented. What to do? Go to the movies, natch. Inequality for All, like Al Gore’s global-warming cautionary tale An Inconvenient Truth, is part of that new breed of independent, real-world, and more or less real-time-geared documentaries seeking to address a vast and mysterious problem before us through the unpretentious, wise, and charismatic filter of UC Berkeley–based economist Robert Reich, former labor secretary under Bill Clinton, and a sharp, personable pundit you’ve seen on TV and heard on the radio. What makes this film work, in fact, is its humanizing Reich factor. Somehow, despite the sobering and scarifying news delivered in this surprisingly engaging film — about the wild and growing disparity of haves and have-nots and the corrupt scheming of corporations and deregulated bankers in the present day — the bad news goes down a little easier with Reich doing the telling and doing the math. What happened in 2008 may be the touchstone for the current story, but Reich, through the skilled filmmaking agency of director Jacob Kornbluth, sweeps back and forth through history to give a larger picture. We see him in his role as a popular professor and swapping wits with Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly. Rather than blatantly toe a liberal party line, the film deals with both the Occupy movement and the Tea Party in a fairly “fair and balanced” way. Ultimately, Reich errs on the side of optimism, asserting that “history is on the side of positive social change.” That’s a redemptive feel-good moment in a film with tentacles in the real-life-disaster film genre. (JW) Plaza de Oro
✯ Parkland (93 mins.; PG-13: bloody sequences of ER trauma procedures, some violent images, language, smoking throughout)
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Parkland tells the story of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas from the unique point of view of the unfamous. Perhaps the best-known name in the film’s featured lineup is Abraham Zapruder, whose accidentally privileged eight-millimeter footage (he happened to be at the right place at a tragic time) is noteworthy in nearly every discussion of the day. The man himself, played with great humility and feeling by Paul Giamatti, is infinitely less familiar to us. On the other hand, as a kind of existential-victim bookend, the movie concludes with James Badge Dale as Robert Oswald, the destiny-haunted brother of the man who ended Camelot
from a book dispensary window, and even more obscure, though apparently in plain sight all these years. In between, we watch a parade of ordinary yet vital personages: the attendant resident doctor and nurses, an FBI agent, the head of the Secret Service, and the tense-lipped Dallas police in their cowboy hats. Of course, we do glimpse Jackie, LBJ, and, in one of the film’s most memorable performances, Oswald behind bars. But the point of the film seems to be the universality of the tragic day. In the end, it may disappoint ideologues and conspiracy fans, but Parkland is a simply told, touching revisit. It may be a little too bloody and brutal for an after-school special, but it’s a vibrant documentary reenacted with the feeling and decency the topic deserves. (DJP) Plaza de Oro
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The U.S. government calls on Machete (Danny Trejo) to take down an arms dealer in Mexico. Robert Rodriguez directs. Camino Real/Fiesta 5 Romeo & Juliet (118 mins.; PG-13: some violence, thematic elements)
Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth star as Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in this new adaptation. Metro 4 You Will Be My Son (102 mins.; R: brief sexuality, language)
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SCREENINGS The Act of Killing (115 mins.; NR) Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary challenges a former Indonesian death squad to reenact real-world mass killings in the cinematic style of their choosing. Screens as part of SBIFF’s Showcase Film Series. Wed., Oct. 16, 7:30pm, Plaza de Oro
American Winter (90 mins.; NR) This documentary follows a diverse group of American families as they try to cope with the economic crisis. Tue., Oct. 15, 7pm, UCSB’s Pollock Theater
The Devil Wears Prada (109 mins.; PG-13: some sensuality)
A young woman (Anne Hathaway) comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city’s biggest fashion editors (Meryl Streep). Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna will appear for a postscreening Q&A. Screens as part of the Script to Screen film series. Wed., Oct. 16, 7pm, UCSB’s Pollock Theater
Frances Ha (86 mins.; R: sexual references, language)
Noah (The Squid and the Whale) Baumbach directs and Greta Gerwig stars in
this dramatic comedy about a young woman in New York City trying to pursue her dreams. It’s beautifully shot and full of sparkling bits of dialogue, but it doesn’t quite feel like a Baumbach film. (DJP) Sun., Oct. 13, 4:30pm, Ojai Playhouse, 145 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai
A Band Called Death (96 mins.; NR) This documentary follows the story of the 1970s punk-rock trio Death, as well as their post-mortem surge in popularity. Wed., Oct. 16, 6pm, UCSB’s MultiCultural Center
Carrie (90 mins.; R: bloody violence, disturbing images, language, some sexual content)
Director Kimberly Peirce reimagines the classic story of Carrie White, the shy girl who unleashes a telekinetic terror on her small town and classmates. Thu., Oct. 17, 10pm, Camino Real
Man of Steel (143 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action, destruction, some language)
A young wanderer must confront his secret alien heritage and superhuman powers when the Earth is invaded by extraterrestrials. It’s fun and actionpacked, but Man of Steel also feels a little crazy, jumpy, and surreal. (DJP) Fri. and Mon., Oct. 11 and 14, 7pm, Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte
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A divorced woman (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) goes after a new mate but soon learns he’s the ex-husband of her new friend. Sadly, this film’s gimmickry, short-sold narrative elements, and production values often err on the side of glib television work. (JW)
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High school hero Kick-Ass joins forces with a group of normal citizens to take down the evil Red Mist. Fri. and Mon., Oct. 11 and 14, 10pm, Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte
La Piscina (65 mins.; NR) Carlos Quintela’s 2011 drama follows four adolescents with physical problems as they spend a day in the pool with their indifferent swimming instructor. Screens as part of the Next Generation Cuban Film Festival. Wed., Oct. 16, 7pm, UCSB’s Pollock Theater
Bye Bye Birdie (112 mins.; G) A singer travels to Ohio to make his farewell TV appearance and kiss his biggest fan before being drafted. Presented as part of the Sing-Along Under the Stars movie series. Wed., Oct. 16, 7:30pm,
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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): Sometimes you quit games too early, Aries. You run away and dive into a new amusement before you have gotten all the benefits you can out of the old amusement. But I don’t think that will be your problem in the coming days. You seem more committed than usual to the ongoing process. You’re not going to bolt. That’s a good thing. This process is worth your devotion. But I also believe that right now you may need to say no to a small part of it. You’ve got to be clear that there’s something about it you don’t like and want to change. If you fail to deal with this doubt now, you might suddenly quit and run away somewhere down the line. Be proactive now and you won’t be rash later.
(June 21 - July 22): “The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired,” wrote Nikos Kazantzakis in his book Report to Greco. I’m hoping that when you read that statement, Cancerian, you will feel a jolt of melancholy. I’m hoping you will get a vision of an exciting experience that you have always wanted but have not yet managed to bring into your life. Maybe this provocation will goad you into finally conjuring up the more intense desire you would need to actually make your dream come true.
and decorum you like to express. Nevertheless, I am convinced that it is the proper counsel. I believe it will help you make the most out of the highly original impulses that are erupting and flowing through you right now. It will inspire you to generate a mess of fertile chaos that will lead to invigorating long-term innovations. Ready? The message comes from Do the Work, a book by Steven Pressfield: “Stay primitive. The creative act is primitive. Its principles are of birth and genesis.”
translating big dreams into practical realities. “We are stubborn on vision,” he says about his team.“We are flexible in details.” In other words, he knows exactly what he wants to create, but is willing to change his mind and be adaptable as he carries out the specific work that fulfills his goals. That’s excellent advice for you, Capricorn, as you enter the next phase of implementing your master plan.
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(July 23 - Aug. 22): “It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself,” wrote the prominent 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. “I am now 62 years old, yet just one moment ago I realized that I love lightly toasted bread and loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For over 60 years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.” Your assignment, Leo, is to engage in an intense phase of self-discovery like Wittgenstein’s. It’s time for you to become fully conscious of all the small likes and dislikes that together shape your identity.
(Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): Two years ago a British man named Sean Murphy decided he had suffered enough from the painful wart on his middle finger. So he drank a few beers to steel his nerves, and tried to blast the offending blemish off with a gun. The operation was a success in the sense that he got rid of the wart. It was less than a total victory, though, because he also annihilated most of his finger. May I suggest that you not follow Murphy’s lead, Scorpio? Now is a good time to part ways with a hurtful burden, but I’m sure you can do it without causing a lot of collateral damage.
(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): Here’s the horoscope I would like to be able to write for you by the first week of December: “Congratulations, Aquarius! Your quest for freedom has begun to bear tangible results. You have escaped a habit that had subtly undermined you for a long time. You are less enslaved to the limiting expectations that people push on you. Even your monkey mind has eased up on its chatter and your inner critic has at least partially stopped berating you. And the result of all this good work? You are as close as you have ever come to living your own life — as opposed to the life that other people think you should live.”
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(Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): Grace has been trickling into your life lately, but I suspect that it may soon start to flood. A spate of interesting coincidences seems imminent. There’s a good chance that an abundance of tricky luck will provide you with the leverage and audacity you need to pull off minor miracles. How much slack is available to you? Probably as much as you want. So ask for it! Given all these blessings, you are in an excellent position to expunge any cynical attitudes or jaded theories you may have been harboring. For now at least, it’s realistic to be optimistic.
(Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): “It’s an unbearable thought that roses were not invented by me,” wrote Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. You’re not as egotistical as Mayakovsky, Pisces, so I doubt you’ve ever had a similar “unbearable thought.” And it is due in part to your lack of rampaging egotism that I predict you will invent something almost as good as roses in the coming weeks. It may also be almost as good as salt and amber and mist and moss — almost as good as kisses and dusk and honey and singing. Your ability to conjure up long-lasting beauty will be at a peak. Your creative powers will synergize with your aptitude for love to bring a new marvel into the world.
TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): Jugaad is a Hindi-Urdu word that can be translated as “frugal innovation.” People in India and Pakistan use it a lot. It’s the art of coming up with a creative work-around to a problem despite having to deal with logistical and financial barriers. Masters of jugaad call on ingenuity and improvisation to make up for sparse resources. I see this as your specialty right now, Taurus. Although you may not have abundant access to VIPs and filthy riches, you’ve nevertheless got the resourcefulness necessary to come up with novel solutions. What you produce may even turn out better than if you’d had more assets to draw on.
GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): In accordance with your current astrological omens, I authorize you to be like a bird in the coming week — specifically, like a bird as described by the zoologist Norman J. Berrill: “To be a bird is to be more intensely alive than any other living creature. Birds have hotter blood, brighter colors, stronger emotions. They live in a world that is always present, mostly full of joy.” Take total advantage of the soaring grace period ahead of you, Gemini. Sing, chirp, hop around, swoop, glide, love the wind, see great vistas, travel everywhere, be attracted to hundreds of beautiful things, and do everything.
(Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): “I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking about the mountains,” said the naturalist John Muir. Let that serve as your inspiration, Virgo. These days, you need to be at the heart of the hot action, not floating in a cloud of abstract thoughts. The dream has to be fully embodied and vividly unfolding all around you, not exiled to wistful fantasies that flit through your mind’s eye when you’re lonely or tired or trying too hard. The only version of God that’s meaningful to you right now is the one that feeds your lust for life in the here and now.
LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): The advice I’m about to dispense may have never before been given to Libras in the history of horoscopes. It might also be at odds with the elegance
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SPICE AVENUE/INDIA Club Moved from State Street, brand new location! Authentic Indian Cuisine. Zagat Rated since 2006. A family owned restaurant from London, 5 Star Chef from India Dinesh, lunch buffet 7 days a week, w/ special Dosa menu on Sat. & Sun. Beer & Wine. Open 7 days a week. 5701 Calle Real. 805‑967‑ 7171
Irish DARGAN’S IRISH Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. (next to lot 10) SB, 568‑0702. $$. Open 7 days 11:30a‑ Close (Food ‘til 10p, 11p on Sat/Sun). AE MC V Disc. Authentic Irish food & atmosphere in downtown SB. Specialties from Ireland include Seafood & Meat dishes. Informal, relaxed pub‑style atmosphere. Live music Thursday nights. Children welcome. Avail. for private parties. Pool & Darts.
Italian ALDO’S ITALIAN Restaurant 1031 State St. 963‑6687. $$ Open 7 days. Lunch & Dinner. V MC AE DC DV. Local SB favorite for over 25 years offers fast, friendly service in the heart of downtown. Dine outdoors in our heated courtyard. Enjoy new homestyle cui‑ sine like Chicken Parmigiana or Fresh Fish specials in a comfortable, roman‑ tic atmosphere. Vegan & Gluten‑ Free Pasta and Salad Options available. Wine & Beer. Full menu at: www.sbaldos.com
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HOLDREN’S 512 State St. 965‑3363 Lunch & Dinner Daily. Featuring $20 Prime Rib Wednesdays‑ USDA 12 oz Prime MidWestern corn‑fed beef char‑ broiled over mesquite; or try from our selections of the freshest seafood. We offer extensive wine & martini lists & look forward to making your dining experience superb! Reservations avail.
Natural NATURAL CAFE, 508 State St., 5 blocks from beach. 962‑9494 Goleta‑ 5892 Hollister 692‑2363. 361 Hitchcock Way 563‑1163 $. Open for lunch & din‑ ner 7 days. A local favorite for dinner. Voted “Best Lunch in Santa Barbara” “Best Health Food Restaurant” “Best Veggie Burger” “Best Sidewalk Cafe Patio” “Best Fish Taco” all in the Independent Reader’s Poll. Daily Specials, Char‑Broiled Chicken, Fresh Fish, Homemade Soups, Hearty Salads, Healthy Sandwiches, Juice Bar, Microbrews, Local Wines, and the Best Patio on State St. 9 loca‑ tions serving the Central Coast. www.thenaturalcafe.com SOJOURNER CAFÉ, 134 E. Canon Perdido 965‑7922. Open 11‑11 Th‑Sat; 11a‑10:30p Sun‑Wed. SB’s natural foods landmark since 1978 Daily soups & chef’s specials, hearty stews, fresh local fish, organic chicken dishes,salads & sandwiches & award winning dessert . Espresso bar, beer, wine, smoothies, shakes & fresh juices sojournercafe.com
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Wine Country Tours SPENCER’S LIMOUSINE & Tours, 884‑ 9700 Thank You SB, Voted BEST 18yrs! Specializing in wine tours of all Central Cal Wineries. Gourmet picnic lunch or fine restaurants avail TCP16297 805‑884‑9700 www.spencerslimo.com
Wine Shop/Bar RENEGADE WINES: 417 Santa Barbara St. Ste A‑6, 805‑568‑1961. Tues‑Fri 11a‑6p, Sat. 12‑6p. Sun‑Mon by appointment. SB’s oldest wine shop,
over 23 years same location. We are Santa Barbara’s premier wine retailer, offering a wide variety of local and imported wines. Our diverse assort‑ ment of wine comes from the world’s finest vineyards with prices starting around $9. View our full inventory @ www.renegadewines.com. We store your wine. 3000sq feet of temp. con‑ trolled wine lockers; 8 case lockers‑300 case rooms. Off‑street parking. 2 blocks from State St. (2nd driveway @ 126 E. Haley) Monthly tastings & private tast‑ ings available. We ship wine. Keep in touch: Facebook, Google+, Twitter
BABCOCK WINERY & VINEYARDS. 5175 HWY 246 Sta. Rita Hills. 805‑736‑ 1455 Open 10:30‑5 p.m. daily. Join us at the winery this weekend October 12th or 13th and enjoy complimen‑ tary light hors d’oeuvres while tasting Bryan Babcock’s highly sought after single‑vineyard Pinot Noirs, along with his highly acclaimed white wines. Taste the newly released Block 15 Cabernet Sauvignon, and the ethereal Upper Crust Syrah sourced from Bryan’s favor‑ ite vineyards for these varieties. No res‑ ervations are necessary, just stop in and experience harvest right outside our tasting room. Hope to see you soon! SANTA BARBARA Winery, 202 Anacapa St. 963‑3633. Open Sun‑ Thurs 10a‑6p & Fri‑Sat 10a ‑ 7p, small charge for extensive tasting list. 2 blocks from both State St & the beach. This venerable winery is the county’s old‑ est‑ est.1962, and offers many inter‑ nationally acclaimed wines from their Lafond Vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills. Try some of Winemaker Bruce McGuire’s small production bottling. www.sbwinery.com WHITCRAFT WINERY, 36 S. Calle Cesar Chavez 730‑1680. Family owned & operated. Specialist in Pinot Noir .Est. 1985. In Sideways! 1 block from beach. Tastings Fri/Sat/Sun 12‑4 & by appt. www.whitcraftwinery.com
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he annual Santa Barbara Harbor & Seafood Festival is scheduled for Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. at Harbor Way at the Harbor. Admission is free. The festival is presented by the city, Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara Inc., Santa Barbara Harbor Merchants Association, and the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. The 2013 festival will highlight fresh seafood from the Santa Barbara Channel and live musical entertainment featuring Spencer the Gardener. Festival-goers will have the opportunity to meet area fishermen and enjoy fresh lobster, crab, prawns, and other local-caught seafood. Cooking demonstrations at Chuck’s Waterfront Grill GONE FISHIN’: Get your fix of all things maritime at Saturday’s will include seafood-handling tips. Harbor & Seafood Festival. Also, Mick Kronman will be signing his new book called Hooks to Harpoons. This book tells of the evolution of Santa Barbara ARMADA COMING TO STATE STREET: Reader fishing heritage, a story of discovery and adaptation. Brandy let me know that a sign for “Armada Wine & Using gear types as its lodestone, it offers a look at Beer Merchant” has appeared at -A State Street, the fishermen whose initiative and hard work made the former home of Shine Blow Dry Bar. The ABC Santa Barbara a thriving fishing town. permit application says the business will be run by SPEAKING OF ANCHORS: After 8 months in busipartners Jaime Heer and Tucker Huget, along with ness, Anchor Woodfire Kitchen at State Street two investors. closed their doors on September 5. Reader Karl tells PACIFIC COAST CAFÉ CLOSES: Reader Jenny tells me that the investors behind Anchor will be reopenme that Pacific Coast Café at Via Real in Carpining a restaurant at that location in mid-November teria is now closed. with a new name and a new chef. The American cuisine eatery will use fresh produce from the local SHRIMP SPECIAL: Reader Kay Lee let me know Farmers Market, will use the wood ovens left over that Beachside Bar Café at Sandspit Road in from Anchor, and will offer new booths for dining. Goleta has started their “October Shrimp Fest.” The PITA CAFÉ COMING TO HALEY STREET: In deal includes two skewers of grilled shrimp and veglate September, owner Lori Nicolaides told me that etables accompanied by your choice of a side and a the Greek House Café at West Haley Street, which dinner roll. This meal is available during lunch and opened in March 2007, has been sold. Reader Mardinner for $11.95. jorie tells me she drove by the Greek House Café on EPICURE: Visit Santa Barbara’s 5th annual epicure.sb West Haley and found that it is closed and that the space is currently being remodeled. Marjorie said that celebration running throughout October. The event promotes culinary events, prix fixe menus, and more. a new sign on the front of the business indicates that For additional information, call 966-9222 or visit “Pita Café” will be coming soon. santabarbaraca.com/epicuresb. EMPTY BOWL NOODLE BAR COMING TO VICTORIA STREET: Reader Mari sent me a tip that
Empty Bowl Gourmet Noodle Bar is coming to West Victoria Street. It appears that this business is next to, or may be part of, the new Santa Barbara’s Public Market opening behind the Arlington Theatre in the former home of Vons. A message on their website reads: “Opening in March 2014, Empty Bowl Gourmet Noodle Bar will offer authentic regional noodle bowls and specialty small-plate appetizers from Thailand and Taiwan. We will serve handmade dumplings as well as exclusive beverage program to match with our culinary concept.” For more information call 280-8007 or visit facebook.com/ MORE emptybowlsb.
MACAW COFFEE COMPANY: Local entrepreneur Eric Greenspan has launched the Macaw Coffee Company and operates out of Santa Barbara, California, with their farm and factory in Santa Bárbara, Honduras. While he doesn’t plan on opening stores at this time, Greenspan tells me that their coffee will soon be available worldwide at major retailers and grocers. “We are also working on finding a local provider of our product both in retail and restaurants so S.B. can enjoy it,” says Greenspan. “We secured our first major deal, and 50,000 pounds are in production for a beloved national, healthy grocer.” For more information, visit macawcoffee.com.
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We invite you to join us this Saturday, October 12th, from noon to 4pm for our annual Celebration of Harvest! We will feature our current release wines, and the flamenco guitar of Chris Fossek. Handmade pizza from Cecco Ristorante. $10 for Brander club members $20 for the general public Please RSVP (805) 688-2455 or info@brander.com We look forward to seeing you here!
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Administer of Estate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: HARRY OLSON CASE NO: 1438065 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of HARRY OLSON A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: ELIZABETH WILLIAMS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The Petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an Interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 10/24/2013 AT 9:00 am Dept: Five Room: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93121. Anacapa Division. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court an mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: 4007 Via Lucero Apt. I Santa Barbara, CA 93110 Published Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 2013.
California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that LESLIE Z. BRECK be appointed as personal representatives to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: on 10/31/2013 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: Five Room: Judge Sterne SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Margaret V. Barnes #101560, Jeffrey B. Soderborg, #264666; Barnes & Barnes 1900 State Street, Suite M Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑687‑6660. Published Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROBERT W. HESS aka ROBERT WISON HESS NO: 1438198 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ROBERT W. HESS aka ROBERT WILSON HESS A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: JACQUELYN A. QUINN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that JACQUELYN A. QUINN be appointed as personal representatives to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER shows good cause why the court should not ESTATE OF: RODNEY ZIMMERMAN NO: grant the authority. 1438139 A HEARING on the petition will be held in this To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent court as follows: on 11/07/2013 AT 9:00 a.m. creditors, and persons who may otherwise Dept: Five Room: Judge Stern SUPERIOR COURT be interested in the will or estate, or both of OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, RODNEY ZIMMERMAN located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed CA 93101. Anacapa Division. IF YOU OBJECT to by: LESLIE Z. BRECK in the Superior Court of the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the within the later of either (1) four months Adult Entertainment court from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in Curious About Men? Talk Discreetly section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or with men like you! (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal Try FREE! Call 1‑888‑779‑2789 www. delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 guyspy.com (AAN CAN) of the California Probate Code. Other California Feel the Vibe! Hot Black Chat. Urban statutes and legal authority may affect your women and men ready to MAKE THE rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with CONNECTION Call singles in your area! an attorney knowledgeable in California law. Try FREE! Call 1‑800‑305‑9164 (AAN YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you CAN) may file with the court a Request for Special Where Local Girls Go Wild! Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory Hot, Live, Real, Discreet! Uncensored live and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition 1‑on‑1 HOT phone Chat. Calls in YOUR or account as provided in Probate Code Section city!Try FREE! Call 1‑800‑261‑ 4097 1250. A Request for Special form is available from the court clerk. (AAN CAN) Attorney for Petitioner: Steven F. Barnes ¿Hablas Español? HOT Latino Chat. #101561, Jeffrey B. Soderborg, #264666; Call Fonochat now & in seconds you can Barnes & Barnes 1900 State Street, Suite M Santa be speaking to HOT Hispanic singles in Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑687‑6660. your area. Try FREE! 1‑800‑ 416‑3809 Published Oct 10, 17, 24 2013.
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Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Tony The Tailor at 30 W. Mission #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101;Anthony John Marzio (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Anthony John Marzio This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 11, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002832. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Westside Dance Santa Barbara at 723 W Mission Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jennifer Phillips (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jennifer Phillips This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002842. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Circle H Studio at 776 W. Hwy 246 Buellton, CA 93427; David Heuer (same address) Kim Heuer (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Kim Heuer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 10, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002816. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Dos Carlitos Restaurant & Tequila Bar at 3544 Sagunto Street Santa Ynez, 93460; CLH Enterprises, Inc. 1212 Coast Village Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: CLH Enterprises, Inc. CEO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002859. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Red Sand Market & Deli at 207 W Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Issam Danial 3374 San Remo Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sumaya Maida (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership Signed: Sumaya Maida This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 10, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002826. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Sage Construction Services at 1307 Salsipuedes St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Bruce M Burke (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bruce M. Burke This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002876. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Poppins Parent Mentoring at 3803 Connie Way Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Michele Martin (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michele Martin This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002944. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Alchemy On Demand at 1774 B Prospect Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Leslee Goodman 1351 S. La Luna Avenue Ojai, CA 93023; Hudson Hornick 1774 B Prospect Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Unincorporated Association Signed: Leslee Goodman This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002840. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: South Coast Janitorial, South Coast Maintenance, Southern Coast Janitorial Services at 5940 Olney Goleta, CA 93117; Thomas D. Ramirez 205 San Napoli Drive Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Thomas D. Ramirez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑0002794. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rick’s Construction & Handyman Services at 2547 Pawnee Court Ventura, CA 93001; Ricardo Pedroza (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ricardo Pedroza This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002867. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Johnny’s Sheet Metal & Heating, Service Now at 879 S. Kellogg Avenue Goleta, CA 93117; Bradley L. Reginato 158 Kinman Avenue Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bradley L. Reginato This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 11, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002829. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Horvath Photography at 1054 Miramonte Dr. #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Anthony T. Horvath (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Anthony T. Horvath This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0002871. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: 3DIFY at 2019 Plaza Bonita Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Samuel Truby Robinson III (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Samuel Truby Robinson III This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002904. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Summer Bizarre at 3732 Greggory Way #4 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Lee‑Ann Curren 525 San Onofre Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lee‑ Ann Curren This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0002856. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Terrabello Design Studio at 2750 San Marcos Ave. Los Olivos, CA 93441; Margaret Johnson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Margaret Johnson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Eva Chavez. FBN Number: 2013‑0002855. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Oberlin Pen Company, Oberlin Watch Company, Tempus Fugit Media at 2113 Castillo St. #B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; James Henderson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: James Henderson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002847. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Tiki Pools at 633 Island View Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Michael Terry (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael Terry This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002813. Published: Sept 19, 26. Oct 3, 10 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Res Calibration at 270 E. Highway 246 Suite 111 Buellton, CA 93427; Robert E Stokes Jr 483 Dairy Way Buellton, CA 93427 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert E. Stokes Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Eva Chavez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002890. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: A & A Import Service at 511 Richardson Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Emilio Valsecchi 233 W. Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Emilio Valsecchi This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 30, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Ian Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002736. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santanas Tailoring at 117 W. Mission Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santana Bueno at 1716 Bath Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Santana Bueno. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002881. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: View at Your Own Risk Productions at 1733 Chino Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Oscar Gutierrez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Oscar Gutierrez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑0002687. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Perez Tax Service at 4123 State Street, Suite 100 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Luis S. Perez 640 W De La Guerra Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Luis Perez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002807. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nomad Caravan at 4873 Kodiak Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Jessica Minter (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jessica Minter This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002806. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Clark Coastal Senior Care at 935 Cieneguitas Road Suite C Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Joseph F Clark (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Joseph F Clark This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002939. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Home Improvement Services at 132 Garden Street, Suite 13 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jon Bryan (same address). This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jon Bryan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 20, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002934. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Massage Kneads at 2315 White Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Keld Lohmann Hove (same address). This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Keld Hove. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 20, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0002937. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Grady Williams Associates at 829 Soledad Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Grady W. Williams (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 05, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002779. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fire & Wine Catering, Fire And Wine, Fire And Wine Wood fired Catering, Fire And Wine, Wine Tours at 2910 Alamo Pintado #7 Los Olivos, CA 93441; Chris Rogers (same address) Gretchen Rogers (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Gretchen Rogers This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 16, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002875. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lucky Penny at 131 Anacapa Street Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Acme Restaurant LLC 120 Presidential Way, Suite 300 Woburn, MA 01801 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Charlotte Villanueva This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002955. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tiny Kitchen Stories at 1419 Salinas Place Santa Barbara, CA 93103; James St James (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Jennifer Lynne St James This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 28, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002711. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bolger Construction at 2431 Mesa School Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Timothy W Bolger II (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Timothy W. Bolger II This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002945. Published: Sept 26. Oct 3, 10, 17 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Hermosa Painting LLC at 1224 Bath Street #A Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Hermosa Painting LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Nancy Ulmer, Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0002999. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Big Drum Marketing at 2815 Verde Vista Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jay Klanfer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jay Klanfer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 27, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑0003001. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Hectic Tech at 655 Larchmont Place Goleta, CA 93117; Jeffrey P Heckey 6289 Westmoreland Place Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jeffrey Heckey This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002998. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Econo Lube N Tune 4118 at 3956 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; L. Visco Enterprises, Inc. 915 Gold Circle Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Lisa Visco This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 23, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002946. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Nomad Specialties at 831 W. Victoria Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Solitude Cyclery LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Damon Williams This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 09, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002815. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simjack Construction at 308 La Marina Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Brian Szymczak (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Brian Szymczak This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 06, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002792. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Wright Center For Orthodontics at 111 W. Micheltorena Street #100 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Wright & Hudson Dental Group, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Chad M. Wright This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002914. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.
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FROM MAKING A DIFFERENCE. Come experience it here. Having a positive impact on others, and feeling fulfillment in return, is a cornerstone of the Cottage Health System culture. As a community-based, not-for-profit provider of leading-edge healthcare for the Greater Santa Barbara region, Cottage emphasizes the difference each team member can make. It’s a difference you’ll want to experience throughout your entire career. Join us in one of the openings below.
Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital
Allied Health • EKG Part-Time • Endoscopy Tech – Part-Time
Nursing • Utilization Management Case Manager • Med/Surg – Float Pool • MICU
• CNA – Per Diem
• Occupational Therapist – Per Diem
• RNs – Emergency, Med/Surg, ICU
• Pharmacist Specialist – Oncology
• Surgery
• Pharmacy Tech – Nights
Management
• Surgical Technicians
• Environmental Services Supervisor
• Telemetry Tech – Per Diem
Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital
• Manager, Purchasing
Non-Clinical • Administrative Assistant • Cafeteria Cashier • Cook – Part-Time • Environmental Services Representative • Security Officer – Per Diem • Senior Administrative Assistant
Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories • Clinical Lab Scientists • Certified Phlebotomy Techs • Histotechnician • Laboratory Assistant – 3-11 PM
• Physical Therapist – Per Diem
• Laboratory Manager – Microbiology
• Recreational Therapist – Per Diem
• Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital • RN – Med/Surg – Per Diem
• Senior Employee Relations Consultant
• RENTAL & RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR SELECT FULL-TIME POSITIONS • CERTIFICATION REIMBURSEMENT
• Systems Security Coordinator
We offer an excellent compensation package that includes above-market salaries, premium medical benefits, pension plans, tax savings accounts, rental and mortgage assistance, and relocation packages. What’s holding you back? For more information on how you can advance your future with these opportunities, or to submit a resume, please contact: Cottage Health System, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689. Please apply online at www.cottagehealthsystem.org.
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ARTS & LECTURES Responsible for the administrative office functions of the Arts & Lectures program, including invoicing, travel, and reimbursement processing, petty cash management, and department auditing procedures. Assists with department payroll. Compiles data for annual, financial, and statistical reporting. Acts as department buyer for all purchasing needs. Reqs: Education and/or work history reflecting a bookkeeping and accounting background. Experience with financial and accounting operations. Strong customer service, administrative, and organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy. Note: Fingerprinting required. $16.97/ hr. For primary consideration apply by 10/20/13, thereafter open until filled. AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20130462
Excellence, Integrity, Compassion
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FRONT HOUSE PERSONNEL SUPERVISOR
Ortega Dining Commons Works as sole manager of the dining commons during weekday evening meals managing all aspects of food preparation and service of meals for up to 1300 customers. Reqs: Able to hire, supervise and train students as well as staff. Ability to communicate, analyze and trouble‑shoot situations as they occur. Work with a diverse staff in all aspects of the Dining Commons. Able to work independently and exercise initiative while also acting as a team member. Experience with Excel and Word. Knowledgeable of sanitary food‑ handling procedures that are used in food service. Ability to assist other parts of the department whenever possible. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license and a clean record. Hours M‑F,1:30‑10:00 pm. Business Opportunity DMV During the summer, hours and days will Help Wanted! Make extra money vary with some weekends. Responsible in our free ever popular homemailer for overseeing a catering program during the summer season. $13.89 ‑ $19.28/ program, includes valuable guidebook! Start immediately! Genuine! 1‑888‑ hr. plus .47/hr. shift differential. Apply 292‑1120 www.easywork‑fromhome. by 10/21/13 AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20130468 com (AAN CAN)
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• Clinical Resource Nurse – Emergency
• Neurodiagnostic Tech II
• Pharmacist Specialist – ED
• SICU
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• HIM Coder III
• Patient Care Tech
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Female Custodian, PTR Great oppty in fun & prof. env. Insure Zoo’s presentation standards for cleanliness and maintenance are met by keeping work areas clean & picking up trash. This position will service women’s restrooms. Req. 2yrs prior janitor exp. good verbal/written communication skills, friendly & team work oriented, ability to access all areas of the facility. Tues & Wed, 8 AM‑4:30PM, some events & hol. $10/hr. BFOQ exception applies. Fax app. 805‑962‑3659, email hr@ sbzoo.org, or send to HR, SB Zoo, 500 Ninos Dr, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
Security Guard, PTR All‑weather foot patrol opportunity for a “night‑owl”, who enjoys working outdoors and with minimal supervision. Patrol Zoo grounds throughout the shift. Responds to a wide variety of routine and emergency situations All‑ weather foot patrol. Swing Shift (4:30PM‑12:30AM) , 3 days/wk, $10‑$11/hr. Go to www. sbzoo. org/employment.asp Fax app. 805‑962‑ 3659, email hr@sbzoo.org, or send to HR, SB Zoo, 500 Ninos Dr, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
assessment and interdepartmental policies and procedures. Aids students in developing personal identity; transitional adjustment; peer, faculty and staff interaction, and issues resolutions. Provides counseling/advising for student majors. Provides academic advising and financial aid support. Holds a lead campus role in advocating for and navigating needs and services of first generation students. Works with EOP Cultural Services and Student Services program areas to integrate department academic services. Reqs: Master’s degree in counseling, social work, higher education or related field and minimum 3‑5 years of experience in an educational setting. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Must work occasional nights and weekends and live in the residence hall during the summer program. $3,980/ mo. For primary consideration apply by 10/14/13, thereafter open until filled. AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20130456
KRONOS CUSTOMER SUPPORT / QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE Serves as the campus customer support subject matter expert for the campus departments. Provides group and one‑ on‑one training for departments on timekeeping policies, and functionalities. Collaborates with divisions, departments and other campus organizational units Management on requirements and training. Works in collaboration with the Campus Kronos/ Housekeeping timekeeping Project Manager to develop appropriate strategies and project Management plans for implementation. Participates Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is in the departmental configuration, in need of a full‑time Environmental testing, adherence to labor relations Services Supervisor to oversee rules, quality assurance, training and housekeeping staff. Will supervise 21‑ support of Kronos/timekeeping system 40 housekeeping employees to ensure for campus. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree proper patient area cleaning, floor or equivalent combination of education buffing, stripping, carpet shampooing, and experience. Strong customer extracting, project work, discharge and service skills, ability to work with others, terminal cleaning. conducting training sessions. Advanced Evaluates and monitors quality technical knowledge of Kronos/ improvement indicators for safety timekeeping time and attendance and sanitation utilizing established software and/or equivalent experience programs and standards. Requires: in related area. Excellent written and 3+ years experience in supervising oral communication skills. Notes: housekeeping staff in large facilities, Fingerprinting required. This is a career knowledge of proper use of cleaning appointment with an end date of fluids, and excellent communication two years after hire date. Possibility skills. Hospital or hotel experience and of continued appointment thereafter bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred. is dependent upon future funding. CHS offers an excellent benefits package $60,000 ‑ $70,000/yr. For primary which includes above‑market salaries consideration apply by 10/21/13, ($60‑$80K/yr DOE), premium medical thereafter open until filled. AA/EOE benefits, pension plans, and tax savings Apply online at https://Jobs.ucsb.edu accounts. Please apply online at www. Job #20130464 cottagehealthsystem.org. EOE
Professional AIRLINE CAREERS – Become an Aviation Maintenance Tech. FAA approved training. Financial aid if qualified – Housing available. Job placement assistance. CALL Aviation Institute of Maintenance 877‑492‑3059
COUNSELOR/ COORDINATOR
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM (EOP) Utilizes advanced skills grained at the Master’s degree level in counseling fields to provide counseling services for personal, cultural identity, relationship, family, sexuality and sexual identity issues. Identifies critical situations and interfaces with appropriate campus units in accordance with professional
Social Services PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS needed at Nuvelles Developmental Services Hollister Day Program. We seek creative, energetic applicants to work w/individuals with developmental disabilities. Duties include leading activities such as arts & crafts and games, leading community outings & providing personal care assistance. If you want a position which will make a difference in the lives of others, this is the job for you. What we offer: M‑F day shift, paid training, CPR cert., health ins. Apply in person at Novelles Developmental Services, 7300 Hollister Ave. Goleta, CA 93117. Please call 805‑ 968‑5360 for more info. Fax resumes to 805‑968‑8008.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gundi Rentals at 319 W Ortega Street Apt A Santa Barbara, CA 93101‑5593; Marta G. Cruz‑Concepcion (same address) Mark A. Rincon‑Ibarra (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Marta G Cruz (Mark Rincon) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 19, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0002927. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hoozdaboss Blessings at 2315 Red Rose Way Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Ronald E. Eger This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ronald E. Eger This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002975. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brandel Hall The Smith Health Care Center, Heritage Court, The Samarkand at 2550 Treasure Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Covenant Retirement Communities West 2710 Gateway Oaks Drive Suite 150N Sacramento, CA 95833 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Grant Erickson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 04, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002758. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wonderful Wine Co at 35 Industrial Way Buellton, CA 93427; BWSC, LLC 795 Folsom Street, 1st Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Partnership Signed: Alexander Oxman This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 17, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2013‑0002875. Published: Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.
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nAme ChAnge IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF MURIEL ANNE TAYLOR ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1418879 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: MURIEL ANNE TAYLOR TO: M AMELIA TAYLOR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall 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. NOTICE OF HEARING Nov 20, 2013 9:‑ 30am, Dept 6, 1100 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara CA 93101. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Sep 29, 2013. by Narzralll Baksh; Deputy Clerk for James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Oct 3, 10, 17, 24 2013.
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130 Hermosillo Road 3BD/3BA, Sun 1‑4, $1,839,000. Brad Merritt 450‑6522. Coldwell Banker
3415 Campanil Drive 4BD/3.5BA, Sat & Sun 1‑5, $2,695,000, Nancy Hussey 452‑3052. Coldwell Banker
Condos For Sale
229 Eucalyptus Hill Drive 3BD/3BA, Sun 1‑4, $3,428,000, Maurie McGuire 403‑8816. Coldwell Banker
350 Mountain Drive 4BD/3BA, Sun 2‑4, $1,700,000. Sofie Langhorne 689‑ 5759. Coldwell Banker
Ocean View Condo Steps to the Beach
595 Sycamore Vista 3BD/2BA, Sun 12‑3, $949,000. Von Gray‑Ferren 805.722.2173. Coldwell Banker
724 Calle De Los Amigos, Santa Barbara 3BD/2.5BA, $699,000. Sunday 1‑4pm, Goodwin & Thyne Properties, Will Stonecipher (805) 450‑4821
Newly Remodled. 3Bd/2Ba. Open floor Plan 960sq ft. Gated community. $359K. Surfside‑ Anacapa Real Estate Port Hueneme. Mark Sabo 805‑944‑2304.
Fall MOVE‑IN $1020 1BD Corner of Hope & San Remo‑N State St‑Barbara Apts Quiet NP 687‑0610 Fall Move‑In Specials‑Studios $1020+ & 1BDs $1120+ in beautiful garden setting! Pool, lndry & off‑street parking at Michelle Apartments. 340 Rutherford St. NP. Call Erin 967‑6614
fall MOVE‑IN Specials. 2BDs $1410+ & 3BD flat or townhouses $2080. Near UCSB, shops, park, beach, theater, golf. Sesame Tree Apts 6930 Whittier Dr. Hector or Ricky 968‑2549 Fall MOVE‑IN SPECIALS: 1BD Near Cottage Hospital. 519 W Alamar. Set among beautiful oak trees across the strert from Oak Park. NP. $1020. Call Cristina 687‑0915 Fall MOVE‑IN SPECIALS:1BD near SBCC & beach @Carla Apts NP. 530 W Cota $1020 Rosa 965‑3200
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Pets/Animals
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View our adoptable dogs at www.k‑ 9pals.org ‑ visit SB Co. Animal Shelter, 5473 Overpass: M‑F 9‑4:30 S 10‑3:30.
Treasure Hunt ($100 or LESS) “NEW” DELUXE DODGER CAP (one size fist all) Orig. $40, now $25. Call Fred 957‑4636.
Meet Henry
Henry is a young poodle mix that is very sweet. He about 12 lbs, neutered, has all shots and is microchipped.
Meet Lelu
Lelu is a pug that just came from the Camarillo Shelter. Her owner turned her in because she just had a baby. Lelu is about 2 years old, spayed, has all shots and is microchipped.
Cold Noses Warm Hearts (805) 964-2446 • (805) 895-1728 • www.coldnoses.org 5758 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117
These dogs would be ever so thankful if you could give them their forever home
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Meet Babyface/Leah Baby Face and Leah are standard poodles that are about 5 years old and chocolate color. They are spayed and current on all shots.
Meet Sage Sage is a very sweet shihtzu girl looking for her forever home. She has a fun personality and loves to cuddle. She is spayed, has all shots and is microchipped.
Cold Noses Warm Hearts (805) 964-2446 • (805) 895-1728 • www.coldnoses.org 5758 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117
These dogs would be ever so thankful if you could give them their forever home
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READY TO BE BUILT MONTECITO Luxurious 5BD/6BA home ready to be built. Views of the ocean & islands. (PRICE WHEN COMPLETE)
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415 ALAMEDA PADRE SERRA
6582 SABADO TARDE RD.
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SANTA BARBARA Lower Riviera
Victorian w/ tons of potential, needs work. Finished home: 4BD/4BA.
story duplex in the heart of downtown SB w/ 3 car garage. Peabody Schools.
Tuscan Villa duplex on a R2 lot. 6BD/4BA. Ocean/city/Riviera views.
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$2,795,000 GTprop.com/524ViaSinuosa
$1,900,000 GTprop.com/1721SantaBarbara
$1,675,000 GTprop.com/15WPadre
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435 EAST VALERIO STREET
361 RAVENSCROFT DRIVE
6260 COVINGTON WAY
724 CALLE DE LOS AMIGOS
911 SAN PASCUAL STREET
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GOLETA The Ravenscroft Ranch Estate is 1.09 acres in a great Goleta neighborhood. Potentially split into 5 lots.
GOLETA Updated 4BD/2BA home in great neighborhood. Fenced yard, 2 car garage, family room w/ fireplace.
SANTA BARBARA 3BD/2.5BA home
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$1,295,000 GTprop.com/435EValerio
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$819,000 GTprop.com/6260Covington
$699,000 GTprop.com/724CalleDeLosAmigos
3887 CINCO AMIGOS
3663 SAN REMO DRIVE #2F
located near La Cumbre Country Club. Updated kitchen, baths & more!
SANTA BARBARA Updated 3BD/1BA downtown home. Mtn views, wood flrs, covered deck, fenced grass yard w/ patio.
$625,000 GTprop.com/911SanPascual
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SANTA BARBARA 3BD/2BA Hid-
SANTA BARBARA 2BD/2BA, updated,
den Valley townhome. Vaulted ceilings, attached 2 car garage & more!
only unit w/ 2 car garage. Pool, Monte Vista Sch., steps to shopping/restaurants.
$575,000 GTprop.com/3887CincoAmigos
$529,000 GTprop.com/3663SanRemo2F
935 CIENEGUITAS RD. #B
625 N. ALISOS STREET
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SANTA BARBARA Updated 2BD/2BA condo. Desirable association w/ pool. Within Hope School District. Priced to sell!
SANTA BARBARA Prime location!
$499,000 GTprop.com/935CieneguitasB
$489,000 GTprop.com/625NAlisos
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Spanish style w/ Riviera views,tile floors. Fully fenced w/ private backyard.
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