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A New Low for Rick Caruso Parking Anxieties Put Miramar Back in Limbo

NOT SO FAST: Rick Caruso and company (above) were none too pleased with a vote from the Montecito Planning Commission (below) to push back a decision on Caruso’s third Miramar Hotel proposal in almost eight years.

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ne word came to would-be Miramar Hotel developer Rick Caruso on Monday: limbo. After a six-hour hearing in which dozens of Montecito residents expressed impatience over the years of talk of reviving the hotel as they also voiced strong concerns about its effects on neighborhood parking, the Montecito Planning Commission voted unanimously to postpone a final decision on a newer, smaller Miramar proposal until January 21, 2015.

In August, Caruso — who has had two previous iterations of the hotel approved by the County Board of Supervisors in 2008 and 2011, only to see those projects stall for different financial reasons — submitted his third application and has since erected story poles on the property and earned the wholehearted endorsement of the Montecito Association. Caruso’s third bid scaled back the number of rooms from 186 to 170, decreased the overall square footage, and tailored the exterior into more of a Montecitofriendly, Cottage-style aesthetic. But with that cozier design came fewer parking spaces than previously proposed, down to 436 on-site spots compared to the 494 previous that would have been a mix of on-site and underground.

The parking issue was raised in a letter from a Pasadena law firm representing a Miramar Avenue resident worried that parking at her home would be imperiled by the project. The concern was seconded by commissioners who said that those 436 spots — 59 of which would dot the entry area, oceanfront, and Miramar Avenue — wouldn’t be sufficient for a 170-room 10

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hotel with amenities for nonguests, including a beachfront restaurant, spa, and beach club.

The proposal also included 89 spots set aside for public parking — a slight jump from the 82 public spots in the last proposal — but it was not enough to assure the commissioners that beachgoers, hotel guests and employees, and neighbors wouldn’t find themselves in a constant battle for parking.

The attorney heading that law firm, Robert Silverstein, has gone toe-to-toe with Caruso in the past, representing a Glendale hotel owner who didn’t want to sell his property to Caruso for the developer’s Americana at Brand project.

Silverstein’s website also cites several successful

cases filed under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the Public Records Act (PRA), two laws on which Silverstein based his letter to the Montecito Planning Commission.

In his letter, the attorney alleged that certain documents related to the Miramar proposal weren’t made available on time — a violation of CEQA — and that a PRA request his firm submitted to the Montecito Water District regarding the hotel plans wouldn’t be realized until after this week’s meeting. In his letter — submitted four days ahead of the Monday meeting — Silverstein lobbied to have a final decision delayed on those grounds.

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Silverstein’s client, as well as the commissioners, also raised concerns about the hotel’s water use. The property — with five water meters on site, the first of which was installed in 1924 — is considered an existing district customer, said district general manager Tom Mosby, and would be granted 45 acre-feet per year; if it were to exceed that supply, fines would be imposed.

Mosby said the district expects to have 2,600 acre-feet available overall for the next water year, which is half the amount when the rationing ordinance was imposed earlier this year.

Reducing Silverstein’s letter to “smoke screens,” Matt Middlebrook, Caruso’s righthand man, repeatedly told the commissioners that the developers, who were shooting for construction to start in June 2015 with an opening in 2017, would do everything to ensure the operation — estimated to cost $200 million on Caruso’s dime — ran smoothly.“We will make this work,” Middlebrook said. “And if it’s not, we will invest the resource to make sure it does. We’re not going to let a $200 million investment not work.”

A heated Caruso made his frustration clear toward the end of the hearing, after the commissioners had all but voted to delay making a final decision. Caruso, the third developer to try to get a reimagined Miramar off the ground in the last 15 years — Studio  cofounder Ian Schrager was the first, followed by Ty Warner — reminded the commission that he already has a larger-scale project approved.“What I can’t afford to do is to be in limbo,” Caruso said, asking that the commissioners vote on the third revision rather than postpone their vote. “Take a vote, and if you don’t like this project, vote it down. But we’re not changing it. I’m fine building the other project.” After the meeting, Middlebrook declined to comment on what Caruso ■ will do next.

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Julio “Candyman” Diaz, the former Milpas Street doctor charged with overprescribing pills and linked to 20 overdose deaths, withdrew the guilty pleas he entered in a deal with federal prosecutors earlier this year. Diaz successfully argued to the judge that his former attorney — he has had four — didn’t adequately inform him of the consequences of his pleas.

Under that deal, Diaz admitted to 11 of his 88 charges and faced up to 200 years in prison.

Prosecutors say Diaz will now head to trial in May on the 88 charges, which could land him more than 1,500 years in prison.

After 33 years working for County Probation, the last three spent as department chief, Beverly Taylor will retire on 1/8. Taylor took the helm in December 2011, soon after prison realignment (AB 109) kicked in, and she commended “the good work that our county has done on very controversial legislation.” Taylor said she was also proud to be the manager of Santa Maria Juvenile Hall during its expansion in the early 2000s.

“After three decades, I really do count myself blessed to have been part of the Probation family,” she said, adding she plans on sewing, traveling, and spending more time with family.

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Holiday cheer was alive and well Tuesday night as more than 150 low-income residents enjoyed tamales and tacos, decorated cookies, and opened personalized presents at the Cabrillo Pavilion Arts Center for the 14th annual Police Activities League (PAL) holiday dinner (above). PAL, which provided families a ride to the oceanfront venue, is a nonprofit that has been connecting police officers with underprivileged youth since 1999. “The families who are most in need are the ones who are here,” said Officer Brian Kerr, who was recently chosen to head PAL after veteran officer Ken Wojciechowski announced his retirement last month.

CITY Although no official application has yet been submitted, the City Council gave Tesla Motors the green light to open a new car dealership — “a gallery,” in the Tesla lingo — at the spot on Hitchcock Way now occupied by Don Hughes Volvo.

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Léni Fé Bland (pictured) passed away at her home on December 14. She was 99 years old, and just a few weeks shy of what would have been her 100th birthday.

As a philanthropist, humanitarian, and patron of the arts, Baroness Fé Bland had few equals. The foundation she formed to sponsor scholarship awards for promising classical musicians and vocalists gave $2 million to more than 1,500 artists over a span that stretched more than 20 years, in what was only one of the more visible of the countless acts of generosity and support she performed throughout her life.

Fé Bland was an important donor to the renovation of the Granada Theatre and of the New Vic theater. She helped found the State Street Ballet and was an enthusiastic patron of CAMA (Community Arts Music Association), the Santa Barbara Symphony, Opera Santa Barbara, UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Santa Barbara Foundation, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Although music, dance, and theater were her core passions, she supported social programs generously, as well. Fé Bland not only donated to such organizations as Casa Esperanza, Transition House, and the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission, but she was also known to arrive at mealtime ready to work in the kitchen with the other volunteers and visit with the people coming through the shelters.

Her close friend and frequent collaborator Sara Miller McCune described Fé Bland as someone who “saw the big picture, but never lost her awareness of the fact that at any moment there are people among us who live in sorrow and despair. … In England, Léni Fé Bland was a chartered accountant, and during the war she became the managing partner of her firm,” McCune went on. “At that time, women just didn’t do that sort of thing. But that was Léni, and, as with everything she took on, Léni saw, Léni could, and Léni did.”

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As part of its plans, Tesla intends to enclose more than 9,000 square feet of open air space.

For that enclosure to be exempt from City Hall’s calculations limiting the annualized amount of commercial growth, Tesla’s proposal needed to be designated a “community benefit.” The council approved this without comment.

The bank Forbes calls Warren Buffet’s favorite, Wells Fargo, opened its fourth Santa Barbara location this week at the old Blockbuster store at 101 North Milpas Street. A company statement explained the location staff will include a business specialist for customers in need of payroll services, lines, and loans, and equipment financing, and also private bankers for customers with complex portfolios. Wells signed the lease for the 2,600-square-foot space in July.

COUNTY The largest rocket to ever launch from the West Coast shot from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 7:19 p.m. on 12/12, gliding into low orbit where it released a highly classified spy satellite. The Atlas V rocket, with its four solid rocket boosters and a new second-stage engine design, produced around 2 million pounds of thrust that rumbled through Santa Barbara and lit the evening sky. Watch a video of the show at independent.com.

EDUCATION Early-education programs in Santa Barbara County got a $3.5 million boost from five area foundations in a nationwide push to increase opportunities for tots. Funds from Orfalea Foundation, James S. Bower Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Parker Foundation, and the Towbes Family Foundation will support kindergarten readiness in targeted communities, encourage family-based education, and create a network of 40 preschool centers. “Only about three or four of 10 children

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ENVIRONMENT Paul Valentich-Scott, curator of malacology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, along with USGS scientists, published the discovery of a new genus and new species of bivalve mollusk from the Arctic Ocean in the international science journal ZooKeys. The discovery was made when Brian Edwards was working as the chief scientist on a joint U.S.-Canadian expedition in the summer of 2010 mapping the Arctic seafloor and the sediments beneath.

UCSB researchers and Ventura County high school students joined forces in an effort to rid the Santa Clara River of invasive arundo donax, or giant cane, which also infests Santa Barbara County. The group is using riparian restoration techniques to banish the nonnative reed and reintroduce native species to a 13-mile stretch of river. Believed to have been brought to Southern California in the 1800s as an ornamental and erosion-control plant, arundo has thrived, choking out native species and taking water with it.

Locally, arundo donax stands have been removed along the Santa Ynez River, Arroyo Burro Creek, and Rincon Creek.

DEATHS Agnes Guevara, owner, founder, and matriarch of the Rose Café on Haley Street — Santa Barbara’s oldest traditional Mexican restaurant — died 12/10 at the age of 97 of natural causes. In the 70 years that Guevara has owned the Rose, it’s been closed only four times. The 11th marked the fourth. Low key, unassuming, but warmly inviting, Guevara’s restaurant is a definitive local haunt, and she kept an active hand in the operation until recently, when old age caught up with her. Her first job at the restaurant was as a dishwasher, and she took it over in 1945.

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The Struggle of Working Families, Seniors, and Soldiers LITTLE MESSENGERS: Two girls drink a pear smoothie at Storyteller Children’s Center before bringing donated food, recipes, and good eating habits back home to their parents.

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ver the next two weeks, as Santa Barbarans sip on eggnog and slice into holiday roasts, it’ll be hard to remember that one in four of their neighbors needs help getting enough to eat.

This year, the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County served 140,575 people — a full quarter of the county’s population — who often forgo square meals to keep their lights on or pay for medication. Most eat food past its expiration date, water down drinks, or pawn their property; nearly 80 percent say they eat fast food because they can’t afford healthier options. And though the Foodbank’s homeless clients capture a lot of public attention, they are only a fraction — 7 percent — of those served. The rest are farmhands in the north, service workers in the south, and low-income residents all over.

Feeding America, a national hunger-relief organization, issued a report this week that details the grim but repressed realities of “food insecurity” at local levels. Santa Barbara ranked 14th worst out of California’s 58 counties in terms of meeting its residents’ daily food needs.

Last year, it was 15th. “[The] faces of food insecurity and hunger may not stand out from the crowd, but the poverty of working families and the day-to-day trade-offs that the study brought to light are alarming,” said Foodbank CEO Erik Talkin.

The report also highlights the demographics of hunger. Of the Foodbank’s participants this year, 35 percent were children, and 15 percent were seniors; 65 percent were Latino, 38 percent were white, and 3 percent were black; 17 percent of client households included a military veteran or active service member; and 38 percent of households receive benefits from SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly the Food Stamp Program). In a separate report released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors this week, 80 percent of the city residents requesting food assistance live in families, and 70 percent are employed.

Talkin said even though the economy is climbing out of the Great Recession, food security hasn’t seen a corresponding increase, because people continue to work lower-wage jobs and can’t reach reasonable levels of financial comfort. The lack of awareness is often

rooted in shame, he said. “It’s not something people want to talk about,” he explained. “You want to keep it secret if you don’t have enough money for groceries.”

In tandem with shifting demographics, more and more seniors and “pre-seniors”— those in their late fifties or early sixties who are close to retirement but struggling to find work in the meantime — are asking for help, Talkin said.

He also pointed to the notably high number of military households that have a hard time putting food on the table while their breadwinner is overseas. People tend to think the government takes care of such families, but that’s too often not the case, Talkin said.

Feeding America paid special attention to health issues, noting the frequency of high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity among those struggling with food security. Equally, many of Foodbank’s 330 nonprofit partners include an educational element in their services, Talkin went on. “It’s not just distribution,” he said. “We try to teach people how to be healthy on just a little bit of money.” Last year, the Foodbank distributed 9.3 million pounds of food, half of which was fresh produce.

Tuesday morning at Storyteller Children’s Center on De la Vina Street, Maria Lopez made a pear-and-banana smoothie with a group of low-income and homeless 4-year-olds. She showed them how to cut the fruit with plastic knives and scoop vanilla yogurt. If it hadn’t been raining, they might have had their lesson near the backyard vegetable garden. The kids — visibly jazzed by their creation — went back to their parents with more fruit and a recipe. Recently, they prepared broccoli, put together a black bean salad, and made guacamole, all part of the Foodbank’s FLIP (Food Literacy in Preschool) program that translates to healthier eating habits for their whole families, said Storyteller director Terri Allison.

With the ultimate goal of shepherding children into successful school careers, the center not only makes the food lessons fun for the kids but also takes them seriously. As Allison put it, “If you’re not hungry, you can pay attention.”

For more information on Foodbank, including ways to donate, visit foodbanksbc.org.

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WALK THE LINE: Union members march down Anacapa Street in front of the downtown courthouse.

Court Workers Demand Raises

Courthouse workers walked an informational picket line this Monday, expressing anger and concern that they haven’t had a pay increase in six years. A similar action was held Friday in Santa Maria. According to union organizer Mike Woods of Service Employees International Local 620, Santa Barbara County’s 145 courthouse workers — clerks, reporters, collection agents, legal processors, and information technicians — are paid on average 5 percent less than their counterparts from five counties with comparable populations and caseload volumes. “The work we do is judicial, and it is important,” said clerk Debbie Graydon. “I’ve been here 32 years and make $23.13. In other court rooms, they are making $28-$31 an hour.”

The union is demanding a 7 percent pay increase to be spread over an indeterminate number of years. The last contract between the Superior Court and its workers expired October 31, and five negotiation sessions have taken place since August. Court executive administrator Darrel Parker said he could not comment on the specifics of contract negotiations, but he did acknowledge courthouse workers have been asked to do much more in recent years with fewer people. In the past two years, 47 courthouse employees have left under intense budgetary constraints. Read more at independent.com.

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hat used to be a fraternity house became home to about 35 homeless individuals in Isla Vista this week as the brand-new apartment complex, Pescadero Lofts, opened its doors.“When I say homeless, I do mean homeless,” county Housing Authority executive director Fred Lamont told the handful of dignitaries and more than 100 community members gathered to tour the units on Tuesday. The project was built with federal tax credits, and redevelopment funds paid for the land. About 80 percent of those who moved in were surveyed in the 2013 homeless count, which found about 80 people in the Isla Vista area.

Preparation efforts continued this week for the next count and “vulnerability index” survey — slated for January 28 and 29, 2015 — which occurs every other year. New this year, the 500 or so volunteers who take to the streets will use a smartphone app to ask questions, which will not only save data-entry time (and eliminate human error) but also allow the ongoing lists to appropriately match resources.

During the survey, equipped with $5 gift cards, socks, and cereal bars, the volunteers spend two days speaking to as many folks on the streets as possible — inquiring about housing history, number of emergency room visits, number of times the person has been attacked or offered money for sex, where the person usually sleeps, among other questions. “It’s a brief intervention,” advised Father Jon Hedges, who doubles as a St. Mark’s chaplain and ADMHS (Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services) case manager. “[We] don’t make unrealistic promises,” he added.

Hedges is heavily involved in both efforts.

He was instrumental in creating the list of new loft residents, all of whom he knows personally. Most of the residents were “housing ready”— likely to live on their own with supportive services. Speaking to both count volunteers and community members this week, Love counseled against using the phrase “homeless population.” He said, “These are people.”

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Flexing most aggressively is the Goleta Water District, which announced last week it had retained a heavy-duty Los Angeles law firm to prevent the Montecito Water District from pursuing a deal with the owners of Goleta’s Slippery Rock Ranch, who boast they have an underground water basin with the same storage capacity as Lake Cachuma. Whether such claims can be backed up has yet to be seen, but John McInnes, general manager of the Goleta Water District, put the Montecito Water District on definite notice LIQUID LASHING: A wave crashes against the harbor there would be no discussion on breakwater during this week’s storm. the matter.

McInnes contends that any pumping of under construction at the base of State Street, the Slippery Rock basin will suck water from is slated to add to the demand by 8.25 acreGoleta’s groundwater supply given their close feet a year. So far, City Hall has relied almost proximity; Montecito, with no groundwater exclusively on voluntary compliance programs, basin to speak of and in a desperate search and a shift to a more adversarial regulatory for supplemental water, had hoped Slippery approach is regarded by water planners with Rock might provide the buffer it needs. Other some trepidation, particularly where the water South Coast water agencies had hoped from savings involved is relatively small. the sidelines that a test well could be pumped The $42 million question is whether the over the Slippery Rock basin to determine if its planners can accumulate enough water by impact on Goleta was as McInnes maintained. conservation, additional rainfall, or buying it If not, Slippery Rock was seen as a possible from Northern California rice farmers that short-term water option that might buy area they won’t feel compelled to sign a contract water agencies a little more time to develop a next April to recommission the city’s long-dorlong-term response to one of the most fero- mant desalination plant. For billing purposes, cious droughts to hit California. the cost of recommission is estimated at about Moving with more genteel force, the Santa $40 million with another $5 million a year to Barbara City Council agreed — at least in con- actually produce water. cept — that it would make sense to prohibit During a live radio broadcast hosted turf irrigation within city limits, barring tor- by KCRW’s Warren Olney, Mayor Helene rential downpours. Even with a host of excep- Schneider found herself pressed gently but tions written into the proposed measure, city persistently to explore options other than water planners estimate such a ban could save desalination. Bob Wilkinson, a professor at about 1,100 acre-feet a year, about one-tenth UCSB’s Bren School of environmental science, the city’s annual water use. Councilmembers noted that all but one of the many desalinawere conditionally open to a ban on new pri- tion plants built in Australia have since been vate wells within city limits, though to date mothballed because of the cost associated such drilling has not emerged as the problem with their operations. He promoted the purit’s been in Montecito, where just this year, 70 suit of reclaimed water — indelicately dubbed new well-permit applications have been sub- “toilet-to-tap”— instead. mitted. Likewise, they supported efforts to Schneider noted that the city’s water masdefer the installation of landscaping in new ter plan called for desalination as a last-gasp developments. solution in case of a persistent and virulent Councilmembers were far less interested in drought. If it doesn’t rain in appreciable quantibanning the construction of new swimming ties the next year, she said, Santa Barbara will pools — there are about 15 installed a year — or need an emergency water supply the year after. new developments that increase net water In that scenario, she argued, City Hall would consumption. In the past 10 years, such devel- have insufficient time to develop a new water opments have generated 28 acre-feet of new source other than desal and secure the neceswater demand a year. The Entrada project, now sary statewide permits.

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hat started more than a year ago as a seemingly innocuous proposal to reopen an old well off Haskell’s Beach may become a death penalty for Venoco’s Ellwood Onshore Facility (EOF), the processing plant between Sandpiper Golf Club and the Bacara Resort that the oil company took over in 1997.

With the State Lands Commission expected to approve that project on Wednesday (their vote happened after press time), the City of Goleta took preemptive steps in City Hall on Tuesday night to fight back, essentially going for the throat of the 40-plus-year-old EOF. A split Goleta City Council — with Tony Vallejo and Roger Aceves both dissenting — called for a March 2015 hearing to consider shutting down the EOF for good. The council also sent a strongly worded letter to the State Lands Commission, reiterating concerns over the “inadequate” environmental analysis of the project and a number of errors made by State Lands’ staff. That was bolstered by a 200-page letter sent by the Sohagi Law Group, which the city retained to aid in this battle.

The March hearing will fall under the protocol of an updated ordinance, also passed by the same split of votes Tuesday night, to terminate legal but nonconforming uses in the city.

That’s how the EOF, which is surrounded by recreational zoning, has been classified since 1991, six years before Venoco purchased the plant and 11 years before Goleta became a city.

About half of the two dozen public speakers, including a number of Venoco employees wearing blue jumpsuits, spoke against the ordinance update, with some fearing it would affect garage conversions, real estate prices, and business development.

But the council majority determined those concerns were outweighed by what staff called an “archaic” ordinance that would have required quasi-judicial proceedings that could be triggered by any member of the public. The updated ordinance, which still needs a second vote to be adopted in January, now puts City Council in charge of proposing such terminations, establishes a standard five-year shutdown timeline that can be appealed (there was

no previous minimum), and turns the process into a more familiar public hearing, sans stenographers, lawyers, and cross-examinations, which the old ordinance required.

“This is an anomaly on the West Coast: We have a processing plant in our urban environment,” said Councilmember Jim Farr, who voted along with Paula Perotte and Michael Bennett in favor of the night’s EOF-aimed decisions. “We are attempting to maintain … the ability of our city to control our destiny and the future.”

That control was very much called in doubt by Venoco’s proposal to reopen the old well — accessed from a rusty pier extending from the bluffs below Sandpiper — which was shut down in the mid-1990s due to leaks when Mobil owned it. Since March 2013, Venoco and the State Lands Commission have steadily argued that the oil field was repressurizing, that the reopened well wouldn’t extend the life of the EOF, and that if the city didn’t process the permits required, Venoco would pursue oil processing atop the piers.

The city and others expressed numerous concerns — there’s no proof of repressurization, for instance — and asked for the environmental report to analyze processing up the coast at Las Flores Canyon instead, which is where Santa Barbara County voters in 1998 demanded all new South Coast oil be handled.

State Lands didn’t comply with that request, according to the city, and, in a final defiant move, ignored requests to move the meeting away from the holidays and closer to Goleta.

Instead, State Lands scheduled the meeting just one week before Christmas and in Newport Beach, further away than the originally scheduled Los Angeles meeting.

So City Council members and staffers left Tuesday night’s meeting after 10 p.m. to drive to Newport Beach, where they planned to argue their case once again. With the EOF potentially off the table as a place to process the pier oil, Goleta City Attorney Tim Giles hopes State Lands will look a little more closely at the next step. “This should make the fundamental flaw in all of their arguments stand out,” said Giles. “Why approve processing at the EOF if the EOF is going away?”

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NEW LEAF: Dr. Alice Gleghorn, new director of the county’s mental-health division, will help the department shift priorities.

Behavioral Health’s ‘Big Bang’ Dr. Alice Gleghorn Takes Over Once-Struggling Department

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BY LY Z H O F F M A N f all goes as planned for the county’s Department of Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health Services (ADMHS), 2015 will mean major change. There has already been significant turnaround at the agency — with budget improvements and shorter times to see psychiatrists — but its top priority is reimagining the department in a light that shines brighter on prevention than on crisis treatment.

Helping that mission is a big state grant that ADMHS put toward the rollout of several programs aimed at reducing the need for hospitalization and emergency-room visits: triage teams, a residential respite house, and a 23-hour bed center.

Steering the 400-employee department through this transition will be its newly hired director, Dr. Alice Gleghorn, who came aboard December 8 after working for nearly 20 years for San Francisco’s Department of Public Health. Gleghorn — who briefly attended UCSB before graduating from UCLA — marks ADMHS’s first permanent leader since 2012, when Public Health director Dr. Takashi Wada took over after the departure of Ann Detrick.

On her fifth day on the job, Gleghorn chatted with The Santa Barbara Independent about the department’s transformation — which she dubbed its “Big Bang”— and hinted that ADMHS may soon be rebranded as the Behavioral Health Department. “It’s hard to respond to initials,” she said.

ADMHS has made some major changes recently. What is your vision for the department? Everything that I saw and all the people

I met reflected that they were committed to the change in philosophy and approach. I have some experience with systems change in all my previous positions, so I felt this was a good fit and I wanted to be part of it. They’ve got the ball starting to roll.

What did you do in your previous job in San Francisco that could work here? I was up there for 19 and a half years, so I did a lot of different things. I was the lead for San Francisco on implementing the Mental Health Services Act for the first five years. We did have a lot of innovative programs with medication-assisted treatment for substance abuse. A lot of those things are things I’d like to work with the programs here, but I need to spend some time learning the different components of this system and work in a collaborative way to figure out where we go next.

Any programs in particular? Methadone [for heroin addiction] is well-established here, but there are other medications you can prescribe to family members of opiate users to reduce an overdose. That’s an important area I’d like to see. There have been issues with overdose.

People have said,“Yes, we need this.”

What drew you to this position? It doesn’t bother me that something is challenging. I know you can typically get there in the end. It may not be there on the time frame you were hoping for to start with, but I have enough experience attending to all the details and pulling all the threads through that you can finally get where you want to go. Sometimes you just ■ have to be a little more patient.

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they won’t crack down on Native American tribes growing and selling marijuana, will the Chumash cash in on the cash crop? Offhand, I doubt that the Chumash will join in the grassy bonanza; enough green is probably being harvested at the casino without digging up a new controversy. I’ve queried the tribe and await a reply.

HOARDING: Once again, the New Yorker cast

its eye on Santa Barbara, but not on a subject we’d be proud of: hoarding.

The December 15 issue included an article by Joan Acocella about “hoarding disorder,” what shrinks now call a form of mental illness. The author tells of her late mother, who enjoyed the heck out of saving food containers. When Meals on Wheels arrived at her Santa Barbara apartment,“she wanted no part of the food,”Acocella said. What she lusted for were the containers it came in. So once a year Acocella flew in from New York, cleaned out the cabinet, and threw them all away. Then, a year later, she’d return to toss out the new batch her mother had stashed during the previous 12 months.

It’s by no means the most flagrant case of hoarding disorder, or HD, as the American Psychiatric Association calls it, and nowhere near as nauseating as the shocking scenes shown on TV reality programs.

I know someone with a mild form of it, and

probably you do, too, if you could get past their door. Rare? By one estimate cited by Acocella, up to 15 million Americans are pathological hoarders.

LOOKING TO 2015: Will the Santa Barbara

City Council gracefully okay district elections or will it face our town being branded as racist?

Will it settle Barry Cappello’s lawsuit or find itself dragged into court on April 6 — and certainly lose after being slammed from coast to coast for resisting equal rights for a minority?

Sorry to put it so bluntly, but let’s face the facts. In a city that’s 38 percent Latino, only one has been elected to the City Council in the past 18 years. That’s the energetic Cathy Murillo, now sitting on the council.

I mean, is this America or what? Is this quasiliberal Santa Barbara or some redneck highdesert town? I’m reluctant to point this out, but we can be pretty smug people. “Hey, I’m all right, Jack. Majority rules, and they ain’t in the majority.”

But the California Voting Rights Act says different. If it can be proved that our voting pattern is polarized, it’s not legal. And the legal remedy is City Council elections by district. Right. Cut the town up into a system of electing council folk by neighborhoods, the way we did before 1968. (Only with better results, I hope.) After Cappello sued the city to force district elections, an April 6 Superior Court trial was scheduled,

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to be presided over by Judge Donna Geck. There seems little doubt that she’ll find us polarized to heck and gone, and order district voting.

But after a week of testimony, our shining reputation will be in tatters. So far, the council has dug in its heels and opposed going to district voting, for reasons that escape me. True, under great duress the council has set TOP CROP: The U.S. Department of Justice has ruled that a November 2015 election on tribes — including the Chumash — may grow and sell marithe issue. Cappello told them, juana, as long as they follow the same rules established “We’ve dragged you kicking and for states. screaming to this issue, and you the storied De la Guerra wedding couple on don’t like it.”

Such a vote may be moot if wiser heads settle horseback. the issue first — and a closed-door session this week was followed by talks on Wednesday. Set- BEST OF BROTHERS? I have a twin (yes) ting all-important district boundaries may be brother, and we always got along. But in the current Ensemble Theatre production of The Best next. Let the gerrymandering begin!

Brothers, Hamilton (Michael Polak) and Kyle FIESTA IN JANUARY: It’s been a while (Kasey Mahaffy) don’t always see eye to eye, since Santa Barbara had an entry in the Rose sometimes comically, sometimes deadly seriParade, but after much work, Fiesta El Presi- ous. Speaking of which, their late mother also dente Cas Stimson will lead an Old Spanish takes the stage — depending on which brother Days contingent to Pasadena on January 1. dons the elegant hat and gloves. Call it a black Four Belgian horses will pull a wagon carrying comedy if you like, but you never take your eyes Pasadena-born Stimson, his dentist wife, Kathy off the boys to see what they’re up to. (Through McClintock, and other Santa Barbarans. They’ll Sunday at the New Vic.) be flanked by 10 dancing “Spirits of Fiesta” and — Barney Brantingham

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believe we are all made in the image of God — and that means every life matters. At this time in our history, our justice system and cultural surroundings keep drumming a different message. It’s like Orwell’s Animal Farm: Some of us are more equal than others. I agree there are lots of injustices in this world, but right now, the heaviest burden of justice misplaced is on young, black males.

In my lifetime, I have experienced both the Civil Rights Movement and the gutting of the Civil Rights Act by our Supreme Court. I have experienced our nation both as a beacon of hope in the world and its becoming greedier and meaner and more xenophobic. I experience these cultural changes as evil because of my faith, and that’s why I must say, black lives matter.

Returning to the roots of our faith, and admitting our participation in the practice of this evil, will lead to new levels of accountability for police officers and for us all.

—Rev. Dr. Myrna Tuttle, S.B. Justice will follow.

As for the Revenue Neutrality Agreement (RNA) Goleta has with the county — the worst ever written in California — Goleta’s objections are characterized as “sniveling and whining” with no attempt to justify this extraction, other than being “skunked” at the bargaining table. The county’s levy on Goleta is approaching $100 million, a staggering figure for our city of 30,000. Imagine what we might have done with all that.

And why include the City of Santa Barbara in this discussion? Whatever our disagreement with Santa Barbara over the airport property, that fair city is really not involved in the RNA discussion at all; Isla Vista, though hurting the South Coast’s image in general, is not a problem of Santa Barbara’s making.

The plain fact is that when the Goleta area was in the county’s domain, it was vulnerable to the depredations of its neighbors. And our neighbors took advantage of that vulnerability. Now that Goleta is flourishing, it is time we reviewed all agreements in the hope of revising those that are unjust. Simple justice and fair play demand it. So, too, —Jim Farr, Goleta I’m hoping, will the Poodle.

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resident Obama is making a list and checking it twice. On his naughty list are the CIA, law enforcement, the border patrol, our military, and hardworking Americans. Instead, why doesn’t he stand up to our real enemies (Iran, Islamic jihadists, Russia, China, etc.)? So much for a Merry Christmas. —Diana Thorn, Carpinteria

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Agnes Mata Guevara

// – //

Obituary for our loving Angel and Matriarch, Agnes Mata Guevara, aka Mamanita by her children and Gramanita by her grandchildren. Her age at death was  years. She resided in Santa Barbara, CA, across the street from her restaurant the Rose Café on Haley St. She passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on Wednesday, Dec. , around : pm. She was born on July , , in Camaron, TX. Her parents were Luterio Mata and Petra Mata of Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Mamanita didn’t have any formal education, but she did have a big heart and a lot of ambition.

She left Aguascalientes, Mexico, after going through a divorce with her first husband, Geronimo Barajas.

She wanted to make a better life for her and her  children, Manuel, Raquel, Jose, and Esperanza. She came to Santa Barbara, California, where she knew she had relatives.

Her aunt “Tia Severita” was able to put her to work and provide housing for her. They worked together, cooking and serving food to the farm workers through the bracero program. Mamanita was inspired to make more money so that she could bring her  children back to the United States with her. Her children had been in the care of her parents for  years in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

During those  years, she had the opportunity to work at the Rose Café in the  Block of Haley St. She was offered the opportunity of a lifetime. The owner Dona Rosa the owner had passed and her daughter Emma advised Mamanita that she would be moving away. She offered her to buy the business. Now during those  years Mamanita had remarried. Her husband, Antonio Guevara, and she had  children, Teresa, Anita, and Jorge.

Mamanita has received numerous awards for her food and service at the Rose Café including the recent Independent’s “Izzy Award.”

Her heart was so big she would never close her restaurant on holidays. She had a warm spot in her heart for the family-less and the homeless and stayed open so that they could come in to eat during those times when most are with their families. In fact, her business 20

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has only been closed  times in all the years of her ownership since .

Agnes Guevara “Mamanita” is survived by her husband, Antonio Guevara, and  of her  children: Manuel Barajas, Jose Barajas, Esperanza Arriaga, Anita Olvera, and Jorge Guevara. She had many Chominos and Chominas; that is what all of her grandchildren will remember being called by her. Manny Barajas Jr., Rafael “Lalo” Barajas, David Barajas, Gina Barajas Trejo, Veronica Barajas Salaman, Yvonne Barajas Rosas, Joseph “JJ” Barajas, Monique Barajas, Jaime Maldonado, Ignacio “Nachito” Loza, Aracely Loza, Pedro Arriga, Marcos Arriaga, Elena Arriaga, Rudy Arriaga, Ronnie Urzua, Sonny Urzua, Lisa Urzua, and Rachelle Urzua, Jorge Guevara Jr., Michael Guevara, and Sarah Guevara Urquiza. She has many, many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And, she remembered each one until her recent passing.

She was preceded in death by  siblings, a sister and her brother Antonio Mata and daughters; Raquel Loza and Teresa Urzua.

Our Mamanita, our Gramanita will always be remembered for her huge heart, tender advice, inspiration, and all the sweetest unconditional love she spread evenly to all that were endeared to her. When asked to think of all of her children, her future generations of children, and what her wish for the future would be, she simply stated, “Felizidad, alegria, y mucho amor.” This translates to “The best happiness, and love for each other.” She said, “Everything is and will be okay, as long as we always stay happy and never forget to love.”

Rosary will be held at Holy Cross church on La Mesa on Friday, Dec. , at : pm. A memorial service will be held Sat. Dec. , , at : am at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Santa Barbara, CA . Please call () - for further information.

Cyril Johnson  - 

Cyril Johnson, , passed away Thursday, December , , at Valle Verde Health Center after a brief illness, with family members at his side.

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Cyril was preceded in death by his parents, wife Jean,  siblings and grandson Brian A. Lehner. He is survived by his four children and their spouses, Judy (Norton) Lehner, David (Katie) Johnson, Charlie (Paula) Johnson, Bruce (Roxann) Johnson;  grandchildren,  great-grandchildren; and a large extended family.

The family would like to thank the nurses and staff of Valle Verde Health Center as well as Visiting Nurse & Hospice for their compassion and care during Cyril’s final days.

A celebration of life service has been planned for Saturday December , , :pm at Cambridge Drive Community Church,  Cambridge Drive, Goleta, CA  with reception immediately following. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to Valle Verde Health Center,  Calle De Los Amigos, Santa Barbara, CA .

tenacity to get things done and that Brooklyn accent. He was the first to help out a friend and sometimes even a stranger.

Gene is survived by his brothers Andrew and Howard; Sons, Rob and Adam; grandchildren; Amanda, Danny, Harry and Benjamin and his best friend and love of his life, Truman his dog.

Funeral services and burial were held in Paramus, New Jersey.

Those that knew him can still hear his famous line “Have a great day. I know I will!”

Lila Lee Davis

// – //

Beth Landes  – 

Gene Schechter  – 

Gene Schechter, , passed away unexpectedly on November , , in Liberty, New York. He grew up in Brooklyn and maintained a bicoastal residency in Santa Barbara and Livingston Manor, NY, for over  years.

He was the president and owner of Data Command Ltd., which was headquartered in New York. Upon leaving Data Command, he founded Cardinal Construction, which built homes in New Jersey, Connecticut and California.

Gene had an unmatched passion for life and pursued his dreams: from trekking up to Kala Pattar above Base Camp Everest for his th birthday, getting his pilot’s license and flying under the George Washington Bridge (of course thereby losing his license), owning a race horse farm in Kentucky with jockeys like Angel Cordero Jr. and Julie Krohn riding for him, tracking down Bengal tigers on elephant for that perfect photo, skydiving on his th birthday and of course traveling to many countries for the history, food and culture.

He never had one bad day in his life and woke up every morning smiling and laughing. Gene will be remembered for his generosity, loyalty, crazy sense of humor,

Library Science at the University of Washington, Seattle, where Lee and the three children lived for a year. She then served as a reference librarian at the Santa Barbara Public Library until retirement.

In  she moved to New Mexico with her daughter Denise Lin and son-in-law, Michael Marcotte.

Lee is predeceased by her son, Blaine Snyder, who died Feb. , .

She is survived by daughters Janine Parakletos of Los Gatos, Calif., and Denise Lin of Albuquerque; grandsons Kian Kaul of Portland, Ore.; Tamon Ahmadian of Santa Barbara; Jeremy Lin of Capitola, Calif.; and Derek Lin of Berkeley, Calif.

A private memorial service was held at her home in New Mexico.

According to her wishes, her ashes will be returned to the site of the family homestead in Colorado.

Lila Lee Davis—known as Lee, Yi or Catherine, died Nov. , , in Albuquerque, N.M., from complications of pneumonia. She was .

Lee, known for her acerbic wit and fiercely left-leaning political views, was an accomplished poet and hosted popular “Poetry Tuesday” groups in her Santa Barbara home for many years. In , she published “Shadows Left Behind Us.” She continued to produce and edit poetry until her final days.

Her family is compiling a collection of her work for eventual publication.

Lee was born on March , , in Craig, Colorado, the third of four daughters (Lois, Dorthy, Lila and Annabelle) of Ralph and Belle Davis. She grew up on the rugged homestead her parents ranched in Moffatt County. Lee grew up riding horses, roping cattle and building fences. She attended the University of Colorado in Boulder to become a veterinarian. However, literature and poetry won her heart and she obtained her degree in English. She returned to Moffatt County, where she taught school in a one-room schoolhouse, then worked as a tour guide at the newly opened United Nations in NYC, and performed as a singer and recreation director for servicemen stationed in Mets, France.

At  she married Harold Alan Snyder. They lived in the Azores, Morocco (where daughter Janine was born in ); France (where son Blaine was born in ); and England (where daughter Denise was born in ).

In , the family settled in Santa Barbara, California. Lee and Alan divorced and Lee became sole provider for the family. In , she completed a master’s in

On November , , our beloved Beth Landes,  years old, passed away peacefully under Hospice Care in Walnut Creek, CA. She was born to Eva Chew Hardman and Charles Tod Hardman on July , , in Charleston, West Virginia. Their family later moved to Jacksonville, Florida and then in  relocated to San Rafael, CA, where Beth graduated from Tamalpais High School. She and Max Landes, son of Ethaniel and Grace Waddell Landes of Clinton County, Indiana, married on November , , in Marin County, CA. They remained together until his passing in December  in Santa Barbara, CA, where they had lived since .

Beth volunteered at the Harding School Elementary lirary as well as La Cumbre and Santa Barbara High School marching band activities. She was an avid gardener and had collections of chrysanthemums and fuchsias admired by many. Since  she was a member of the Santa Barbara antique collectors Back Fence Club. She is survived be her daughter, Marilyn Clayton, and son, Clifford Landes.

In memory of Beth, donations may be made to Hospice Care or to your favorite charity.

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10 years before. With this performance, Collert entered For five decades, Swingin’ Dave Collert served not only rock history but also American history, as this as Santa Barbara’s Duke Ellington of the guitar. was one of the watershed moments in the gay liberation From the 1960s through the 2000s, Collert lis- movement — a national television broadcast of a glamtened to, analyzed, and played nearly every style of gui- rock song celebrating same-sex attraction.

After working in tar, mastering rock, pop, N.Y.C. and visiting and jazz from the inside out. When he finally Paris, David returned settled on a musical to Santa Barbara and home base in the 1970s, formed Cocktail with it was the style of Django Grant Loud on vocals Reinhardt that he took and thus entered into up and mastered seamthe prime of his years as lessly. Although it will be an interpreter of stanfor his work as Swingin’ dards and jazz classics.

Dave — first in Cocktail In the period 1971-89, he and later in Tom Foolmanaged Fancy Music, ery and Hot Club — that a legendary gathering Collert will be most place and resource for remembered, he earned the city’s music comhis place in music history munity. From there, several times over, not he went on to co-own only as a prodigy guitar Sound Advice (1990player, but also as a gifted 96). Brad Nack rememcomposer and arranger bers buying guitars there, and how acceptand as an authority on ing and supportive guitars, technique, and equipment.

Collert was of young Born in Hollywood musicians coming up in 1952, Collert moved through the ranks: to Santa Barbara with “Dave came to some his family when he was 9 gigs that I played with Spencer Barnitz, and I years old. He formed his HOT: Dave Collert played his favorite Jacques Favino first band with longtime know that we weren’t guitar with his Hot Club Band in 2013. friend Jay Dee Daugherty really all that together when the two were students at La Cumbre Junior High. in those days. It was obvious that Swingin’ Dave was on Daugherty would go on to fame as the drummer for Patti another level musically, but he still showed up and offered Smith, but it was in the company of Collert that he devel- us acknowledgement and respect, even when I’m pretty oped his style in early bands like Weirdo Stud (1968-69) sure we didn’t deserve it.”

Collert also did session work in Los Angeles — meeting and King Tut and the Space Queers (1970-74).

In 1973, Collert and Daugherty hooked up with Lance famous Wrecking Crew members such as Tiny Timbrell Loud, Kevin Loud, and Kristian Hoffman to form the and Tommy Tedesco and working with Stewart Levin Loud Band, a precursor to the Mumps. Lance Loud had Productions. Raymond Kurzweil ran through the K250 just achieved national Synthesizer with Dave, which led to a meeting recognition for his with Bob Dylan. involvement in the reality television program An Many people will also remember Swingin’ American Family, and his Dave’s famous cars, which band became a vehicle for some of the first openly included his well-known blue and red Citroëns, gay sentiments in popua Lamborghini, and a lar music. Critics today acknowledge the Mumps, Rolls-Royce. From his Loud, and Hoffman’s next automobiles to his hair group as the greatest “lost” and clothes to his ubiqband of the New York New uitous sunglasses, SwinWave scene, and many gin’ Dave always had a of the era’s best-known charisma and style that musicians cite them as an influenced his many fans.

That personal style important influence.

Collert was with the carried over into his LOUD: The Lance Loud Band circa 1973 was (front group when they appeared relationships, marked by row, from left) Kristian Hoffman, Jay Dee Daugherty, as the Loud Band on The Collert’s romantic streak.

Collert, and Kevin Loud and (back row, from left) Recent years found him Dick Cavett Show on FebMichele, Lance, and Delilah Loud. ruary 4, 1974. The group sharing his life with fianplayed “Muscle Boys,” a cée and photographer song that Collert cowrote with Lance, and the largely Joanne A. Calitri. The couple was in New York City on gay audience in the Ed Sullivan Theater, which included a visit and planning to settle there when Collert died Andy Warhol, gave them a wild standing ovation. For unexpectedly. He was working on new music at the time.

Collert, this was a great moment because he was play- In his words: “I’m mixing the sweetness of Django and the ing on the same stage his idols, the Beatles, had played craziness of Charlie Parker.”

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Proposal Takes All Local Road-Improvement Money for Decades

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s of late, the trend with some jour-

nalists seems to be that stories should be written to fit a preconceived narrative, and as a result, facts become a secondary concern at best and a bother at times. There’s also the trend to repeat erroneous information as fact, just because it appeared on the Internet. The Highway  Widening Project seems to be no exception. Ann Louise Bardach makes many claims that are untrue in her “Bare-Knuckle Politics — Santa Barbara–Style” opinion piece. You would think that a PEN Award–winning journalist would check her facts a little more closely before publishing.

Here’s the big picture on this issue. If we move forward with the  Highway Widening Project as proposed, in 20 years the highway will be widened, local traffic will be worse, and we will have to tell voters that we don’t have the funds to pay for reducing congestion because we already spent our local money on a state highway.

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SCHNEIDER Now, I will respond to just a few of Bardach’s many over-the-top and inaccurate claims.

Perhaps the most absurd claim is that questioning or criticizing the design, adequacy, or funding structure of the project as proposed will somehow result in a loss of funds. Bardach writes, “Others fret that they might convince Governor Brown and Caltrans to tell Santa Barbara to take a hike (literally) and give the millions to one of dozens of supplicating communities desperate for highway loot.”

This is the fact: Neither Caltrans nor any other agency outside Santa Barbara County has given any money for this project — zero dollars.

The only money for the  as currently designated comes from S.B. County taxpayers in the form of Measure A monies and reimbursements from the state of our gas taxes. These total roughly $310,000,000 (Measure A for $140M + STIP and gas tax $170M = $310M). That’s it.

The STIP (State Transportation Improvement Program), or gas tax, funds come only from the South County, and the $170 million is 100 percent of those funds for decades. The SBCAG Board decided this after voters approved Measure A. There is no state money that Governor Brown or Caltrans could take away from Santa Barbara. Period.

Next issue. Bardach writes that somehow, even though we’ve been spending gas-tax dollars on local projects for many years, we can no longer do so. She repeats an incorrect statement by writing “the mayor’s colleagues reminded her that ‘state and federal gas-tax funds that are being used as a portion of the funding for the widening cannot be used for local road maintenance.’”

Gas taxes are used for local projects, allowing other maintenance funds to go further. Even The Santa Barbara Independent’s Nick Welsh

reported in a story on January 15, 2014, that in the City of Santa Barbara alone, “they [gas tax funds] were used to build the new Loma Alta sidewalk, one of the best public works projects in eons. They were also used to resurface upper Chapala Street with new quieter rubberized asphalt. Likewise, the bike lane on Mission Street and the new sidewalks on Cabrillo Hill.” In addition, the Santa Barbara County 2012-13 Road Maintenance Annual Plan (RdMAP) lists state gas-tax revenues as part of the primary funding sources (see page 26).

The use of all our STIP and gas-tax funds for the  is too great a sacrifice for South Coast communities. While I’ve been saying this for the past two years, I wish I had spoken out five years ago, when the original investment plan was first presented to the SBCAG board, even though I was not on the board at the time.

The SBCAG board needs to amend the Investment Plan.

Bardach’s next claim is in regard to what transpired at a closed session of the Santa Barbara City Council. She writes, “Then, in late September, her own City Council voted down 5-1 Schneider’s request to sue SBCAG.” I cannot divulge what happened in closed session, but it is obvious by now that the City of Santa Barbara did not sue Caltrans. Further, it is a fact that the closed session she references did not have any reportable action. In other words, there was no public statement about who voted for what, if anything. Instead, Bardach chooses to repeat information without confirming its accuracy or where it originated. But, hey, someone wrote it on the Internet.

Finally, there’s the whole st Amendment issue. Bardach writes, “Last month, members of SBCAG and the public told Schneider she needed to recuse herself from any legal proceedings regarding the . To the jaw-dropping astonishment of all, she refused, although she had demanded that SBCAG staffer and Santa Barbara City Councilmember Gregg Hart recuse himself on  issues before the City Council — with a much less significant conflict of interest.”

In fact, there’s a big difference between my participation as an elected official on a public policy issue and Councilmember Hart’s common-law conflict of interest, as both a member of the City Council and an employee of SBCAG. Councilmember Hart recused himself on the advice of the City Attorney. Contrast this with SBCAG’s legal counsel, who stated publicly in not just one but two SBCAG board meetings that I do not have a conflict of interest. My free speech right to disagree with the majority of the SBCAG board’s opinions does not disqualify me from participating on that board on a matter of important public policy.

I know the Highway  Widening Project is complicated and at times can be frustrating; however, the more one learns about the details and the implications of the project as proposed, the more alarming the concerns become. We cannot bury our heads in the sand and simply hope for the best. We must fight to ensure that this project is in our community’s interests. ■

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erched high above the Santa Ynez River and dressed in faded clumps of wispy lichen, two wind-whipped white crosses enjoy what may be the prettiest view in all of Santa Barbara County.

The crosses rise above the geographic heart of the grape-growing region now known to wine aďŹ cionados everywhere as the Sta. Rita Hills, today considered one of the best places to grow pinot noir and chardonnay on the planet. But it hasn’t been that way for very long. In fact, when the crosses were ďŹ rst erected in the early 1990s, beans and walnuts were a better farming bet than wine grapes, and most people merely snickered at the notion that any part of Santa Barbara could become a world-class wine region.

That’s no longer a laughing matter, for wine is quite possibly the wealthy county’s most lucrative industry. The seed of that reality was ďŹ rst planted in 1971 on land across from the crosses at Sanford & Benedict Vineyard, which provided the ďŹ rst evidence that quality wine was possible here. On the same property and literally in the crosses’ shadow today, the Mt. Carmel Vineyard, planted in 1990, further solidiďŹ ed the reputation of the region — which was federally recognized as an appellation in 2001 — and fostered wineries that are now considered iconic, such as Brewer-Clifton, whose 2012 Sta. Rita Hills pinot noir was just named eighth best wine in the world by Wine Spectator. Real estate prices skyrocketed accordingly, with a nearby ranch down the road selling last summer for nearly $25 million.

But the crosses also bear witness to melancholy. In fact, the very structure that they rest upon — a nearly 40,000-square-foot monastery for about 20 cloistered nuns — is an utterly dilapidated landmark of failed dreams. Construction crews walked away from the problemriddled project when the nuns’ money ran out more than 20 years ago, so the half-ďŹ nished monastery sits in perpetual purgatory.

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Inside the exposed plywood walls and perfectly intact glass windows are unattached toilet bowls and kitchen sinks, cans of paint thinner, piles of drywall, and leftover hammers. Red tiles sit in stacks on the roof, tumbleweeds grow in alcoves, and reams of wallpaper, shredded wood, chunks of cement, and other detritus are piled up out back. Yet the dead building is eerily alive — songbirds scamper in the towering chapel’s shade amid rumors of resident coyotes and cougars — and, from a short distance away, it looks like an ongoing project, as if construction crews are merely on lunch break.

The crews aren’t coming back, though, and the building will never be ďŹ nished. Today, along with the 24-acre Mt. Carmel Vineyard, the half-completed monastery and the surrounding 201 acres (including 61 acres of new vineyard) are known as Rita’s Crown, which the state’s public employee beneďŹ t ďŹ rm CalPERS owns as an investment property.

The nuns, meanwhile, never left. The Carmel of St. Joseph order lost the building, the vineyard, and about 300 acres of land to lawsuits and bankruptcy, but Sister Jean Marie, Sister Patricia, and Sister Mary Anne, all in their eighties, still live just down the hill in a collection of manufactured homes and trailers propped up on cinder blocks. They see their failed dream on the way to 8 a.m. mass at Mission Santa InĂŠs every day of the week — when they also drive through now-famous vineyards, such as Sea Smoke, that their former land inspired — yet rise above what must at times feel like a cruel penance. “I’ve been at peace about it because no matter what happened, I didn’t enter this for the property,â€? said Sister Jean Marie last week in the mobile home they use as a living room, the monastery’s crosses staring in through the kitchen window. “I entered this for the Lord, and no one can take Him away.â€?

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By 1986, Sister Jean Marie Kirby was 40 years into a clois- Piazza, who’d worked his way up from flipping burgers to tered life. Born in Los Angeles and raised the middle owning a bunch of McDonald’s restaurants, wanted to get of five Irish-Catholic kids near the corner of Olympic in, too, so he and Albrecht would occasionally explore the Boulevard and Western Avenue, she learned about God Santa Rosa Road and Sweeney Canyon areas for available from her devout mother, who’d met her attorney father properties in a four-by-four. “It was impossible to find when he taught at the Catholic University of America in anything for sale,” Piazza told me over the phone recently.

Washington, D.C. Mom encouraged college, but in 1946, Realizing that the nuns’ new property was a southJean Marie joined the Carmel of St. Joseph order, donned facing slope that overlooked Sanford & Benedict, Albrecht a habit a year later, and, in 1949, moved with the order to and Piazza — who was already a big benefactor for the a monastery in the middle of Catholic Church — asked the Long Beach. bishop for an introduction to Four decades later, the city the nuns. Speaking to Sister grew to be one of the biggest Jean Marie through a protective in California, and the monscreen, the men pitched the idea astery was amid the madof a vineyard as a small revenue ness of a metropolis. “We no stream for the order. “Frankly, longer had solitude,” recalled we thought this deal was, no the rosy-cheeked Sister Jean pun intended, made in heaven,” Marie, who I first met earlier said Piazza, who today serves this year when she greeted me on the Lakewood City Counwith a soft, lingering handcil. “It was good for them, and shake through her car window it was good for us.” Convinced, at the property’s gate at the end the nuns gave a 30-year lease of Mail Road. She was small in on that part of their property to stature and dressed in variPiazza and Albrecht, who died ous shades of brown, which I in November 2013 after 80 years expected from seeing videos of life. of The Open Book, her fireBy the time the nuns sold the Long Beach property for and-brimstone-focused cable $3 million and purchased the access show. When I left two hours later, I was surprised to new land for about $900,000 in learn that it was her 86th birth1988, the deal — which included day and she was off to shake many complicated hicthe Pope’s hand in Rome a few cups — had grown to 400 acres days later. and involved Sister Jean Marie’s The order’s mid-1980s real brother, Joe, who was an oral As Sister Jean Marie oversaw the Carmel estate search, which included surgeon. The nuns moved to a of St. Joseph’s monastery construction (seen shortly before work halted at top), near misses in Orange County temporary home in Solvang; Sister Patricia (above) and the other nuns and Ojai, was aided by inherimost spent the days tending to farmed their property while living in a tance money that was trickling various gardening and livestock rented house near Solvang. in from the estate of Sister Jean duties on their new ranch, but Marie’s grandfather, who left Ireland during the Famine, Sister Jean Marie diligently plodded through the County became a banker in Iowa, and then founded the Western of Santa Barbara’s development process, already then Surety Company in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Upon see- notorious for onerous restrictions. ing a listed ranch nearing foreclosure with views of the For the first time since her teenage years, Sister Jean Santa Ynez River, the nuns jumped at the deal, believing Marie was living outside of the cloistered life and naviit was the perfect place to erect a new monastery where gating what quickly became a tremendously complex the order could escape modernity and return to serenity. development project. Due to reasons that aren’t quite clear Since the nuns’ Long Beach property was such a promi- to anyone today, the order’s vision for seclusion for a dozen nent building, their move was covered by the Long Beach or so nuns grew into a grand affair, as if to impress the Press-Telegram, which is where Seal Beach fishing bud- Vatican itself.

As Sister Jean Marie’s ideas were laid down on archidies Walter Babcock, Ron Piazza, and Paul Albrecht read that the sisters would be moving to a prime slice of Santa tectural documents, Piazza and Albrecht took cuttings Barbara’s budding wine country. A dentist and restaura- from Sanford & Benedict and planted them into what teur, Babcock already owned property west of Buellton they called Mt. Carmel, then only the second vineyard in on Highway  and was planting grapes that his son, that specific stretch of the Santa Ynez Valley. Their dreams Bryan, was turning into wine. Albrecht, a yacht salesman, continue to bear fruit today, but Sister Jean Marie’s turned was doing the same on Eleven Oaks Ranch near Solvang. into a nightmare.

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When plans for a 40,000-square-foot monastery in the middle of virgin agricultural land first came to the County of Santa Barbara in the summer of 1988, decision makers were baffled. “I was sympathetic with their intentions, but absolutely opposed,” recalled Michael Benedict, who was the th District planning commissioner at the time. Because Benedict had an easement to a well through the nuns’ property, he recused himself from voting on the matter, but he helped them weave through the planning process anyway. “They were innocent ladies who didn’t know anything about the ways of the world,” said Benedict.“They were not astute or penetrating in their business dealings.”

The other commissioners were also reticent to allow such a development in the middle of farmland, but constitutional protections for religious freedom superseded county concerns about view sheds, square footage, and aesthetics.

Denying or requiring drastic changes could be grounds for a federal lawsuit.

Plus, all decision makers were “heavily lobbied,” said Benedict, who recalled getting more than 50 phone calls from area Catholics demanding approval.

“So the project got approved,” he said,“and that was just the beginning of this sad saga.”

Though Sister Jean Marie wanted to move slowly, the county required construction to proceed quickly. The nuns had plans drawn up by architect R. Brian Nelson, who’d recently finished the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission.

Then they hired Santa Maria’s Diani Construction, which had just built a home for the Josephite Fathers in Orcutt.

Immediately, there were problems with the plans’ structural engineering, so much so that the first engineer, Max Onichak, warned the architect and county in March 1992 that construction should cease.

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The latter comment has unanimous agreement today, but fingers point in all directions as to why. By the time the nuns’ money ran out and workers walked away in 1993, Sister Jean Marie was blaming the county for the pressure, Nelson for the plans, and the Dianis for everything else.

Many who watched the situation unfold feel that the nuns were taken advantage of, that the hired hands acted as if they were eating from an endless trough of Catholic Church money.

But there’s no hard evidence to support that, and Jim Diani and Nelson (through his wife, Marcia) outright deny the allegation. Each say that, because they were dealing with nuns, they didn’t follow their usual due diligence regarding vetting their client. Since then, the Catholicraised Diani won’t work on a project without analyzing the finances first, and Nelson, who’s dedicated most of his professional life to building homeless shelters, won’t engage in a deal unless a general contractor is involved. Like Onichak, both admit the project is the only unfinished tarnish on their résumés.

Almost every one of the two dozen people interviewed for this story believe that the cloistered order of nuns simply got in way over their heads and eventually learned that faith, no matter how devotional, doesn’t write checks. “All those little nuances, the structural issues and the county permitting issues, they weren’t significant,” said Diani, whose company, which his dad founded in 1949, “took hits” in the press for what he calls “misrepresentations” when construction ceased. “They were just significantly short of funding.”

Finding out exactly how much proves difficult, but Sister Jean Marie recalled thinking that the project as proposed would cost $1.5 million. By the end, she said the order paid out more than $3 million, including donations from widely publicized fundraisers and other Carmelite orders. It wasn’t enough to finish the project, but Sister Jean Marie still believes everyone was paid in full for work done. Lawsuits none-

theless ensued, and the Dianis prevailed in theirs, though they eventually only got 20 cents to the dollar owed, according to Jim Diani.

Officially bankrupt, the nuns almost lost everything, but Sister Jean Marie’s brother Joe agreed to relinquish his interest in the 300 acres that included the monastery and vineyard in exchange for the bank backing off the 100 adjacent acres that he owned. That’s where the sisters live now, their trailers surrounded by shrines, stunning vistas, and Stations of the Cross withering from weather and time.

With the dream disastrously done, the Carmelite superiors told the remaining nuns to adhere to their vows and return to cloisters in proper monasteries. Sister Jean Marie and Sister Patricia defied the order and stayed; Sister Mary Anne returned after a short stint away. They still consider themselves Carmelites but are known as Divine Mercy now, which is the name of the corporation that holds their property in trust.

With “visions” a recurring theme in her daily discourse, Sister Jean Marie — who believes the world is “rushing to its ruin” but says she knows that will be followed by a great return to God — remains a central, almost prophetic figure in the eyes of her fellow sisters, and any regrets are consoled by unflappable faith.

“It’s been up and down, with a lot of joy, a lot of heartache, a lot of tears,” said Sister Patricia in her brown habit last week as gray skies swarmed above their private trailer park. “But the Lord is with us, and we are with Him. We have made the right choices all along.”

Most others see it differently. “Given the naïveté, the simplicity of the nuns, their openheartedness, and their willingness to help others, it was a travesty how things unfolded,” said Benedict, who believes they were taken advantage of along the way but admitted that the nuns and their “moral advantage” were “coconspirators” in that demise. “It left this scar that’s been sitting here in the middle of the Sta. Rita Hills for years and years.”

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That’s despite the fact that Brewer, Babcock, and Longoria — who gathered in my kitchen a few weeks ago to taste through about 20 different Mt. Carmel wines — remember that the vineyard wasn’t in good shape back then. “It was always one step behind,” said Babcock. The vineyard succeeds against all odds because the chalky, white limestone soils make it hard for vines to survive, so they focus their energy into the few grape clusters. That translates to intriguing flavors in a finished wine, which are further enhanced by the long ripening season that the southfacing hillside enjoys due to constant wind and frequent fog. Those characteristics are also associated with the wider region around Mt. Carmel, and vintners convinced the federal government that the area between Buellton and Lompoc should be a separate wine-grape-growing appellation called the Sta. Rita Hills, which was approved in 2001.

The farming got better in 2005, when Brewer and Clifton convinced Piazza and Albrecht that the two winemakers should farm the vineyard and use the grapes exclusively. What about Babcock, Longoria, Clendenen, and others who’d bought grapes for years? “I don’t imagine they were stoked,” admitted Brewer, though he’s quite friendly with all of them to this day. That tenure, which lasted until frost decimated the 2011 vintage and the vineyard contract “fizzled,” turned Brewer and Clifton into farmers, thereby improving their winemaking, as well. Though they no longer use Mt. Carmel fruit, they do farm three other vineyards around the Sta. Rita Hills today in very much the same program they started around the tattered monastery.

In 2012, Piazza started taking the grapes for his own project. “I’ve put so much money into the vineyard, I’ve become convinced that the only way to return a little investment is to sell some wine,” said Piazza, who joked that he has to own 10 McDonald’s now to pay for the vineyard. “So we are making a go of it with Mail Road Wines to see if we can at least break even.”

A partnership with McConnell’s Ice Cream owner and longtime wine lover Michael Palmer, Mail Road Wines are made by Matt Dees, the young but highly celebrated winemaker for Jonata, one of Santa Barbara County’s most coveted and well-financed wineries.“There’s an incredible directness to the Mt. Carmel wines,” said Dees, who also attended the kitchen-table tasting with Palmer to show off the new project.“They’re shockingly straightforward. They start off like a laser beam, and the evolution in just one year in the barrel is like something I’ve never seen.”

OWNING THE CROWN Though Ron Piazza will extend his lease on the 24-acre Mt. Carmel Vineyard for another quarter century when his first 30-year lease comes up in 2017, he admitted that not buying the entire property when it went to auction out of the nuns’ bankruptcy was a big mistake. Instead, a developer named Joe Risi, who started building a fortune on Las Vegas and Arizona real estate at age 19, bought the 300 acres on Halloween of 2001 for $1,040,000. He didn’t know much about wine or even the empty monastery, but it was the aftermath of /, and he figured it would be a beautiful place to hole up if the world went to war.“It really did feel like Armageddon, and we were all kinda freaked out about the state of the world,” Risi said over the phone from Tucson.

Around the time that he initially toured the property with Sister Jean Marie and learned of her visions that the monastery would yet be completed, Risi experienced health scares that, according to even his doctors, completely disappeared in a miraculous fashion.

The tremendous series of events changed his life. He became a devout Catholic, volunteered in a Rwandan village, and had bronze statues of the Madonna made for Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Montecito as well as a handful of holy sites around the world.

Risi tried in vain to get the Catholic Church and others to buy the property and fund completion of the monastery, and eventually entertained the interests of Keenan Ivory Wayans and a helicoptered-in group of black-suited gangsters. He sold off a 100-acre parcel for about $1 million, which is now Wenzlau Vineyard, and at one point was in escrow to sell the rest to Stan Kroenke, the mogul who owns Jonata Winery as well as the Denver Nuggets and other teams.

(Kroenke did cash in on his own Sta. Rita Hills dreams last July, though, when he purchased 3,600 acres of the nearby Rancho Salsipuedes for $24,142,000.)

In 2007, Risi was approached by Napa vintner William Hill, who fronted one of CalPERS’s investment wings called Santa Colina LLC (which means “holy hill”); he sold the property for $4.5 million. Right away, Hill planted 61 acres of pinot noir and chardonnay as Rita’s Crown Vineyard, and respected vintners such as Ken Brown and Bryan Babcock have been using the fruit ever since.

It’s not easy to tell that CalPERS still owns the property — the shell game of ownership entities serves to distance the retirement fund from bad publicity over risky real estate investments — and many believe that the property PAUL WELLMAN

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Last month, Sister Jean Marie underwent an aortic valve replacement in anticipation of hip surgery next spring. Yet she was happy to romp with her walker through the sprouting clover when I visited her last week, and she smiled upon Bryan Babcock, whom she hadn’t seen in years. He profusely thanked the nuns for the impact they’d made on Santa Barbara wine country and his own career and gave Sister Jean Marie a case of his “Slice of Heaven” pinot noir, which is from Rita’s Crown and is an ode to the nuns.

“The nuns were looking for their little slice of heaven, and they were in the right place, but they missed just slightly,” Babcock said. “Outside the walls is perhaps one of the first grand crus ever to take place in Santa Barbara, but inside of the walls is the deepest, darkest funk.”

There’s an expected amount of bitterness in Sister Jean Marie, who follows her knowledgeable explanation of why wine grapes excel in the Sta. Rita Hills with the lament that the sisters never benefited from the discovery. There’s also quite a bit of mysticism and intrigue woven into Sister Jean Marie’s version of events, from the dreams of neighbors to alleged attempts on their lives to wildfires that stopped just short of the monastery’s wooden walls. But most of all, Sister Jean Marie believes that the monastery will one day be completed as planned.

“The monastery will yet be finished,” she told me at the end of our first meeting back in May.“A great work lies in the future, and that’s comforting to my soul.”

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will hit the market next year. In fact, a visit to the website of Pacific Vineyard Partners & Meriwether Farms, the current ownership front, reads as if the property is already on the market. Given that the sale includes a 40,000-square-foot nuisance that will require at least $500,000 just to tear down and a long-term lease on the property’s premier vineyard site, it may be a tougher sell than usual.

And no one’s taking Mt. Carmel from Ron Piazza, who’s fended off previous attempts to kick him off the lease from every owner. “I’ve been challenged by the nuns,

by Risi, and by a couple of others,” said Piazza.

“We’ve stood the test of time in court, so I feel pretty comfortable that I’m there for a while.”

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As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. And if you have an event coming up, submit it at independent.com/eventsubmit. /: The th Annual Sweater Party Show off your ugly holiday sweaters with bands The Upbeat, One Two Tree, and Zach Gill of ALO. The Upbeat will pump out unique blends of ska, reggae, and rock with environmentally conscious lyrics; soulful, sweet, and rootsy One Two Tree will get you swaying with their vocals, mixes, and grooves; and songwriter Zach Gill will deliver easygoing pop with a large dose of buoyant soul.

Proceeds will go to the Unity Shoppe and East Side Boys & Girls Club. :pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $.

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18 AND 23 /, /: PAWS to Read Join the Channel City Kennel Club and practice your reading skills with one of their furry friends.

Reluctant readers can get practice reading aloud to the kindest, least judgmental listeners around. Thu.: -pm; Tue.: -pm. Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free.

Ages -. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org. /: Moscow Ballet: Great Russian Nutcracker Making a stop on its North American tour,

the Moscow Ballet will have top Russian artists performing this classic ballet featuring the stunning Dove of Peace, dancers with white feathered wings creating a bird with a -foot wingspan. pm.

Chumash Casino Resort,  E. Hwy , Santa Ynez. $-$. Ages +. Call () - or visit chumashcasino.com. /: Willie Watson A folk singer and founding member of Americana string band Old Crow Medicine Show, Willie Watson will play his skillful and subtle banjo and guitar accompaniments, soaring with adorned vocals. He will play old and new songs, including ones off his debut solo album, Folk Singer Vol. . -:pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit sohosb.com. /: Whine and Dine Toastmasters Club Meeting How long have you wanted to improve your public speaking, communication, or leadership skills? Whine & Dine provides a supportive and positive learning experience resulting in greater self-confidence

and personal growth. Network, support, and access greater opportunities will be available to you. pm. Mulligans Café & Bar,  McCaw Ave. Free. Call - or visit whineanddine .toastmastersclubs.org. /: Community Meeting Pastor Wallace Shepherd will lead this discussion that will allow community members to share their thoughts on the recent police officer shootings of minorities and to learn about the S.B. Police Department policies, practices, and training in regard to these issues in our community. :-:pm.

God’s Open Door Second Baptist Church,  E. Mason St. Free. Call -.

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/: Fiesta de Navidad Spend a special evening in the beauty and tradition of Mexico, with folk art scenes of the nativity. Mexican hot chocolate and sweet breads will be served while you shop for tin ornaments for your Christmas tree.

Visitors are encouraged to bring a gift or art supplies for donation to support the Westside Boys & Girls Club and La Casa de la Raza.

For our complete guide to -pm. Casa Dolores, this year’s holiday happenings, see  Bath St. Free. Call independent.com/tistheseason. - or visit casa dolores.org.

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and her magical nutcracker doll as she encounters the Rat King, Land of Snow, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and more. Fri.: pm; Sat.: pm. Carpinteria Middle School,  Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. $. Call - or visit tinyurl.com/curtisdance. /: Internet Safety and Security Protect yourself while surfing the web. Learn how to safely browse the Internet, create strong passwords, and stay secure when shopping or banking online. Registration is required. -pm. Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta.

Free. Call - or visit sbp library.org.

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/: Game Night Are you up for a heated game of Go Fish?

Join Corks n’ Crowns’ first installment of its Drink, Eat and Play Games series. There will be classic board games and the more risqué Cards Against Humanity. HEATCulinary will be serving food for this event. Join this night of games, drinks, and food by the fireplace. -pm. Corks n’ Crowns,  Anacapa St. Free. Ages +.

Call - or visit corksandcrowns.com.

/-/: West Coast Ballet: A Gem of a Nutcracker This ballet troupe will present its production of Tchaikovsky’s classic holiday ballet of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s eternal Christmas story complete with falling snow, dancing sweets, magical dolls, waltzing flowers, and more.

Sat.: :pm; Sun.: :pm. Center Stage Theater,  Paseo Nuevo. $$. Call - or visit centerstagetheater.org.

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/-/: Your Cosmic Quest Do you ever wonder what you’re actually seeing when you look at the sky? During this presentation, you can ask questions and have them answered immediately. Explore the seasonal sky with wonder and knowledge. This show occurs weekly until December . Sunday shows will be in Spanish. pm. S.B. Natural Museum of History,  Puesta del Sol. Free-$. Call - or visit sbnature.org. /: The Stringtown Ambassadors Hailing from North Carolina, this fiddle-mandolin duo will play Appalachian old-time and contemporary folk music. Self-described as “Upscale Street Folk,” The Stringtown Ambassadors perform with passion and energy, scaling the walls of genre to encompass a wide range of sound and style. pm. Creekside Inn,  Hollister Ave. $.

Call - or visit creeksidesb .com.

/: DIY Bracelet Craft The DIY, as in do it yourself, means that if you still need a heartfelt holiday gift to give, then don’t miss this chance to use fabric, beads, and wire to make original bracelets at this fun and creative gathering.

Children younger than  must be accompanied by an adult. :-:am. Solvang Library,  Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org. /: Lakey Peterson Leadbetter Classic The Surf Happens Foundation will host this inaugural surf competition and community

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GAME OF THE WEEK /-/, /-/: High School Girls Basketball:  S.B. Tournament of Champions At halftime of S.B.’s opening-round game against Hanford, former Dons great Kristin (Knapp) Cole — whose , career points are second in school history and who went on to play for Notre Dame and is the current assistant coach at Texas-Arlington—will have her jersey retired. If the Dons defeat Hanford, they are likely to face Sierra Canyon, the defending Tournament of Champions (TOC) champions who won the State Division  title last season, while S.B. was runner-up in Division . There are  elite teams in the TOC Gold Division and another  in the Green Division. Games will be played at the S.B., San Marcos, Cate, and Bishop Diego gyms. J.R. Opening Game: Fri., Dec. , pm. J.R. Richards Gym, S.B. High School,  E. Anapamu St.; Maury Halleck Gym, San Marcos High School,  Hollister Ave.; Sprague Gym, Cate School,  Cate Mesa Rd., Carpinteria; Bishop Garcia Diego High School,  La Colina Rd. Free-$. Visit sbtoc.com for a schedule.

gathering where all skill levels are welcome, including the U push-in and paddle divisions for learning surfers. The LPLC also promotes the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, featuring a surf class with special pro guests for area youth surviving cancer, and the Surf Happens Foundation. ampm. Leadbetter Beach, Shoreline Dr. Free. Call - or visit surfhappens.com/lakey-petersonleadbetter-classic.

SUNDAY 12/21 /: Winter Solstice Yoga This class will feature astrology with Carlen Young, followed by all levels of Vinyasa flow yoga and restorative yoga. Celebrate the longest night of the year and the return of the sun with live music, yoga, and astrology to set your intention for the coming year. :pm. DiviniTree,  E. De la Guerra St. Priced on a sliding scale.

Call -. /: Ruben Lee Dalton Band CD Release & Winter Solstice Celebration Celebrate the winter solstice with acoustic rock act Ruben Lee Dalton Band’s A Night Like This CD release. Along with them will be Rusty Lindsey showing off his Southern roots, blues, and jazz guitar work and rock guitarist and composer Bear Erickson playing a menagerie of music styles. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $. Call - or visit sohosb.com. /: Shawn Thies & Friends Christmas Concert Chime in the spirit of the season with a

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heartfelt, inspirational evening of music that will feature original and traditional Christmas songs.

Sing along and feed your soul with this evening of song. pm.

Unity Church,  E. Arrellaga St. Suggested donation: $. Call - or visit unitysanta barbara.org.

MONDAY 12/22 /: Free Glaucoma & Hearing Screening Did you know that glaucoma is a disease that damages the eye’s optic nerve and is a leading cause of irreversible blindness in more than three million Americans? Did you know that about  percent of adult Americans report some degree of hearing loss? Come and get screened for these two common conditions. am-pm.

S.B. Cottage Hospital MacDougall Eye Ctr.,  W. Pueblo St. Free. Call - or visit cottagehealthsystem.org. /: La Casa Yoga & Mindful Movement This class is perfect for all ages, bodies, and skill levels and will provide a series of gently held, personalized poses, breath-work exercises, and various relaxation techniques with props provided.

There are many benefits from this healing, replenishing, and balancing practice. -:am. $. La Casa de Maria,  El Bosque Rd. Call - or visit lacasademaria.org.

TUESDAY 12/23 /: Winter Wonderland Storytime Cozy up with your little ones with stories and move to music and fingerplays.

Holiday crafts will precede this story time. :-am. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library,  E. Anapamu St. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org. /: Holiday Karaoke Reading is so much more fun when you sing along with Larry’s Holiday Karaoke. Bring the family, learn about why karaoke is great for readers, and sing with Larry Nimmer. -pm. Carpinteria Library,  Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org.

/: Rainbow Loom Bracelet Making Did you miss this trend a while back? Come learn how to weave colored rubber bands into fashionable accessories, or perfect the bracelet-making skill that you already have. All supplies will be provided. -pm.

Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Ages +. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org.

WEDNESDAY 12/24 /: Posada Posada is the reenactment of the journey of Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem as they seek shelter for the birth of Jesus. Join in as you journey through town and conclude at the church with a simple carol service and reception. pm. Fess Parker’s Wine Country Inn,  Grand Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Call - or visit smitv.org.

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CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY SERVICES TUESDAY 12/23 Candle-Lighting Services:  and pm.

Unity Church,  E. Arrellaga St. Call -.

WEDNESDAY 12/24 Christmas Eve Services at the Old Mission: pm, pm, and midnight.

Old Mission S.B.,  Laguna St. Call -.

Service of Lessons and Carols: pm.

El Camino Presbyterian Church,  Calle Real, Goleta. Call -.

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Royal Hours: am. Vesperal Liturgy: :am. S.B. Greek Orthodox Church,  San Antonio Creek Rd. Call -.

From Fear to Joy Christmas Eve Service: pm. Shoreline Community Church,  San Andres St. Call -.

Children’s Nativity Service: pm. Trinity Episcopal Church,  State St. Call -.

Family Service: pm. Service with Chancel Choir: pm. Service with Communion and Chancel Choir: pm. First United Methodist Church,  E. Anapamu St. Call -.

Calvary Chapel’s th Annual Christmas Eve Service:  and pm. Granada Theatre,  State St. Call -.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service and Caroling: :pm. First Congregational Church,  State St. Call -.

The First Christmas Carol Candlelight Service: pm. Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Call -.

English Family Mass: pm. Spanish Mass: pm. Our Lady of Sorrows Church,  E. Sola St. Call -.

Family Service: pm. Lessons and Carols Service: pm. Christmas Eve Service: pm. Unitarian Society of S.B.,  Santa Barbara St. Call -.

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Christmas Eve Worship: pm. First Presbyterian Church,  E. Constance

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Music of Christmas: :pm. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service: pm.

St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church,  Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos.

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S.B. Community Church,  Cieneguitas Rd. Call -.

Celebrate the Wonder of Christmas Service: pm. New Life Church,  E. Alamar Ave. Call -.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service: :pm. Calvary Baptist Church,  W. Islay St. Call -.

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Hope Santa Barbara, Elings Performing Arts Ctr.,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call -.

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Emanuel Lutheran Church,  Modoc Rd. Call -.

THURSDAY 12/25 Christmas Day Service at the Old Mission: :, :, and :am. Old Mission of S.B.,  Laguna St. Call -.

Christmas Day Service: :am.

Christmas Day Dinner: :am. All Saints-by-the-Sea Church,  Eucalyptus Ln., Montecito. Call -.

Nativity of Christ Orthros: am.

Divine Liturgy: am. Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church,  San Antonio Creek Rd. Call -.

Christmas Day Holy Eucharist: am.

Trinity Episcopal Church,  State St. Call -.

Christmas Day English Mass: : and :am. Christmas Day Spanish Mass: :pm. Our Lady of Sorrows Church,  E. Sola St. Call -.

Christmas Day Service: am. St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church,  Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. Call -.

Christmas Day Worship Service: am. Emanuel Lutheran Church,  Modoc Rd. Call -.

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Admittedly, this sounds like an unpromising premise for a book, and knowing that What Happens Next? is part of the University of Iowa’s series Iowa and the Midwest Experience may make some readers even more skeptical of the book’s appeal. That would be a shame, though, because Bauer takes this apparently mundane material and turns it into literature. His writing is precise, gently humorous, and full of insights into why we make our live’s decisions and how we respond to their consequences.

His essays attempt to answer two fundamental questions: Why are we the way we are, and what makes our parents tick? For Bauer, as for most of us, the answers are connected.

Yes, as a writer he draws on fond memories of “playing ‘avalanche’ in the coal shed” and pretending that the family’s “dark, low-ceilinged chicken coop” was a “vast stadium hosting a daily televised World Cup” of egg gathering.

sYet his parents’ dish satisfaction with d one another, and especially the dis-appointments off his mother, clearlyy launched him outt d of rural Iowa and into the wider world.

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Also on deck is In the Field, the newly established (and jaw-droppingly beautiful) clothing, housewares, and lifestyle boutique that lives just down the road from Deck the Halls takes place the Rancho. As far as libaSaturday, December 20, tions go, there will be plenty noon-8 p.m., at the Ojai of options from Sama Sama, Full Rancho Inn (615 W. Ojai of Life Flatbread, the French Press, Ave., Ojai). For info, call Kotuku Elixir Bar, and the Blue Owl. 646-1434.

And that’s just for starters. As of press time, more than 40 vendors had signed on to participate.

“Bringing together creatives is a huge part of why I love having a business,” said Osehan. “It allows me to create a platform for gathering all the people that inspire me. Deck the Halls is about bringing together the community of artists we are so lucky to have at our fingertips. It’s a way for me to create an intimate experience for people to gather with their friends and family while exploring what these talented artists are putting out into the world.” — Aly Comingore

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After the season ended, the manager asked Bloom if she would Five years ago, Bloom was hit by a car while crossing the street to continue working in the candy section, where she became popu- pick up a gift for somebody. She had to get metal rods put in both lar with her children’s friends and the younger generations who of her legs and hip. “And they had to do some screwing in the head. frequented the store. In time, the candy department was removed, I don’t think they did too much to improve me.” She temporarily and she was transferred between several different departments, her took a leave from Macy’s to focus on physical therapy to walk again. favorite being the children’s section.

The Macy’s staff bought Bloom a scooter so she could come back to After a few years of work under her belt, Bloom’s boss said she work; one year later, she did. “In fact, the scooter is still there,” Bloom was planning to retire on her 65th birthday. She asked who the new laughed. “I said, ‘What do you think? I’m going to run into problems department manager would be, and he replied, “[She’s] sitting right again?’” there.” Bloom enjoyed her new position for a while but soon realized Seemingly nothing can keep Bloom from her work at Macy’s. she preferred interacting with customers rather than managing her She never expected to be at the job for this long but holds no regrets coworkers. “I said, ‘I don’t think I want to be manager anymore; I other than that her husband was unable to meet their grandchildren want to go back on the clock and do what I want.’” When the store and see what she’s made of her life. “It’s been an exciting advenbecame Macy’s in 2006, Frank Perez relieved Bloom as manager, and ture; it’s been happy times, and I’ve gone through quite a bit.”

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y friend asked innocently if most of the ornaments on our Christmas tree were from my childhood. “God, no!” I said.

The idea of having imported anything from that sad and ancient realm was incongruous to me. Not a single holiday artifact has survived from those days, but I found myself summoning up memories.

I recalled delicate glass bulbs packed in straw.

There was a nativity scene, as well, painted clay figurines of shepherds, wise men, a lamb, and a cow, and Mary and Joseph by the manger with a removable baby Jesus, all grouped in a semicircle on top of the television set.

My family’s efforts at Christmas cheer diminished over the years until, in time, there was barely a nod. I remember my sister Assunta and I pulling a small discarded tree from the top of a trash can on Coney Island Avenue a few days after Christmas, peeling off fragments of tinsel, hoping we might even find a forgotten ornament among its branches.

In any case, now the top of the tree in our living room has a beautiful white angel from Assunta. Hung among its branches are funny little mementos of my daughter growing up: a Clara from the Nutcracker Suite, who lost her arm in the early 1990s, a mermaid and a reindeer, tiny bicycles and violins, and even a banana and a plastic ear of corn, which, as my daughter’s British boyfriend, Xander, remarked, have astonishingly little relevance to Christmas.

My brief look back into those murky waters of long ago only underscored the goodness of the present. We walked with friends on the beach at low tide, placing starfish back into the sea. There was a windfall of oranges to gather from the ground, and a neighbor gave us raspberry-lavender vinegar and sweet dried tomatoes from her garden.

Xander told us about his family’s English traditions: the reading, in hushed reverence, of ’Twas the Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve, a bit of mince pie and port left out for Santa and a carrot for the reindeer, the turkey stuffed with sausage, and the brussels sprouts. We played “Greensleeves” and carols and Handel’s Messiah.

Christmas morning, we awoke to toast and coffee and Christmas stockings stuffed and lumpy with licorice and chocolates, oranges and bananas, soap and surprises. And through the magic portal of a computer screen, we visited Xander’s family in England.

Then gifts were opened, given with love, each one perfect, and the best gift of all is to see one’s child happy, and this I have received manifold.

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Among the early adapters to this new wave of Ojai love was Shelter Social Club, the Santa Barbara–based visionary project that helped rethink — and at times, completely remodel —spots like the Presidio Motel, the Agave Inn, and Indy Foodie Award winner Sama Sama Kitchen. With their 2012 takeover of the Ojai Rancho Inn, proprietors Kenny Osehan and Chris Sewell successfully built a hub for the then still-burgeoning Ojai new school, thanks in large part to their annual holiday pop-up gathering, Deck the Halls.

This Saturday, December 20, the event returns to the Rancho grounds for the third year in a row. And trust us when we say it’s going to be one for the books. In addition to its staple S.B. makers like Make Smith, Torchlight Jewelry, Rebekah Miles ceramics, The Lower Lodge, and Tabletop Made, Deck the Halls is featuring a whole new crew of creative faces and goodies. Among the newcomers are Los Angeles vintage purveyor Sam Roberts L.A., who’ll bring with them imp pressiv sivee co an impressive collection of hats and covetable wardrobe items.

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The First National Gold Bank, the three-story building at left, circa 1880, was established in Santa Barbara in 1873 by Mortimer Cook.

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ortimer Cook opened this city’s first bank on October 6, 1871. Before this, almost all financial transactions were handled in cash, with Santa Barbarans acting as their own bankers.

In the first half of the 19th century, silver, gold, and even cattle hides were mediums of exchange. By the 1860s, American currency was becoming more common. By and large, people kept their money in their home. The county treasurer would hold large sums for people, and visitors could count on the Wells Fargo office for safekeeping of their funds and other valuables. As the city moved into the 1870s, however, it was still without a true bank.

Mortimer Cook came to Santa Barbara in 1871, bringing with him the only iron safe in town. The first newspaper advertisement for his private bank stated, “Mortimer Cook, banker, capital stock $40,000. I am prepared to do all and every business in my line. Buy and sell greenbacks [paper money] … Receive deposits and do all other business connected with general banking business. Hours from 9 am to 3 pm.”

In 1873, he founded the First National Gold Bank of Santa Barbara with himself as president at a salary of $1,200. The new bank’s cashier was A. L. Lincoln, builder of what is today the Upham Hotel. Bank advertisements offered time certificates at a monthly interest rate of one and one-half percent.

In 1874, the bank moved to the northwest corner of Canon Perdido and State streets. The bank did well until a serious drought in 1877 caused financial panic. A run on the bank appeared imminent. W.W. Hollister, the bank’s vice president and one of the city’s outstanding entrepreneurs, averted disaster by placing himself at the bank’s doors and personally guaranteed the holdings of worried depositors.

Still, the bank was badly hurt, and Cook lost most of his personal fortune. He had been very active in the community, twice serving as mayor. His office building at State and Carrillo streets with its large clock tower was a downtown monument until its destruction in the 1925 earthquake. His home, which still stands at  Chapala Street, is an outstanding example of the Italianate style of Victorian architecture and is a City of Santa Barbara Historic Landmark.

The second bank to open here was Santa Barbara County Bank, founded by William Eddy in 1875. Eddy had come to Santa Barbara after trying his luck in the silver fields of Nevada. On the board of directors was John Edwards, whose three sons would go on to become presidents of banks in Santa Barbara. Although the city’s population stood at only around 3,000 at this time, it was still one of the fastest growing in the state, and by 1880, the bank had become a solid success.

Santa Barbara’s third bank was born in the autumn of 1886. Santa Barbara Savings Bank was formed in the excitement of the knowledge that the Southern Pacific Railroad would soon reach the city. The bank officially opened under a new name, the Commercial Bank, just two days before the much-anticipated arrival of the railroad in August 1887.

By the mid-1880s, the father of it all, Mortimer Cook, had moved on to the Washington Territory and then the Philippines, making fortunes, losing them, and then making them all over again. He died in the Philippines in 1899 a wealthy man, having made his final fortune in the lumber business.

—Michael Redmon

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Letter to the Bullied

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can’t take this anymore. I can’t read one more news story about a child who committed suicide after being relentlessly bullied.

Bullying is the new smoking: The bad kids do it and always for terrible reasons. The schools are wallpapered with posters urging you not to do it. And apparently, bullying kills — far faster, in fact, than lung cancer does.

But I don’t want to talk about bullies, those cowardly cretins who think they can deflect attention from their own festering failures by kicking around someone who’s simply less inclined to be mean. It’s obvious; no one should harass or humiliate another person. But do you know what else shouldn’t happen? Children should not kill themselves. Ever. And that’s what I want to talk about.

This is a message for the bullied — a pissed-off missive for kids who’ve fallen prey to some loud-crowing schoolyard tyrant or cackling klatch of neighborhood creeps.

Dear Bullied Kid, Yeah, you. The one wearing that mantle of shame. I’ll be honest: It doesn’t look great on you. It’s not your color, not your size. I see you in something more colorful — something lighter.

Word has it you’re being pestered by the local toughs. Do they say you’re weird? Call you a freak? Insist that you don’t fit in? Joke’s on them because you’re in great company: Nearly a third of American students say they’ve been bullied this year alone. That means one in every three kids on your block, your bus, your team feels the same way you do at any given moment.

As a once-bullied kid myself, I have a secret for all of you: You’re going to be just fine. Right now you’re surrounded by the voices of a few particularly loud jerksticks who never learned how to be comfortable in their own skin. The only way they feel safe in the tiny world you both share is to label someone else as a target. And for no rational reason, you’re the flavor of the month.

by Starshine When you’re at the center of a pack of yipping coyotes, it’s impossible to hear the friendly voices, or see the welcoming smiles, of the world just beyond email: starshine@roshell.com that unnerving circle.

But I’m here. I live in that world just past your classroom door, your school walls, your oppressive neighborhood in your too-small town. And I promise we’re all waiting to marvel at the fascinating, not-exactly-likeeveryone-else package that is you. Out in the real world, we love people who fly an unexpectedly hued flag — especially survivors: Whoa! Hi, there, unique person who’s overcome unfair struggles! Come sit by me and tell me what it’s like to be you!

Before long, you can wing out of your frustrating, soul-crushing coop and join us — alighting wherever you want! The world is mind-bogglingly bigger — and kinder — than you know. Can you imagine anyone in Montana, Brazil, or Iceland giving a hot howdy-do if you have a lisp or grew up in a run-down house or prefer cheerleading to football or wore the same clothes two days in a row or liked a boy who didn’t like you back? No. One. Will. Care. It’s a fact, my friend.

Your bullies have only a little time left to try to convince themselves that they’re powerful and you’re afraid of them. Meanwhile, focus on what’s fantastic about you — the thing you’re great at, the quality that makes you remarkable. Heck, maybe it’s your ability to be picked on daily without collapsing in a pity puddle. Now say that thing aloud, like this: “I am terrific at [fill in the blank]. Man, I’m amazing at that.”

Here’s another fun tidbit: Bullies grow up to be losers. It’s true! Having worked so hard to clamber atop their tiny little bubble, they can never muster the chutzpah to leave. They wind up trapped in stifling jobs and humdrum marriages and spend their nights Googling all the people they used to point and laugh at — wondering how come you wound up so successful.

The best part? You won’t even have time to feel smug because you’ll be so busy sharing your sparkly you-ness with a grateful world. See you there, kid. I’m counting the days.

For help dealing with bullies, see helpguide.org’s “Dealing with Bullying” (tinyurl.com/kqzv3hj). And if you’re considering harming yourself, please call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) anytime, day or night. They totally get what you’re going through.

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College Hoops So Far

First Quarter Grades for UCSB and Westmont Basketball

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way through the college basketball season, Kentucky is ready for the NBA; Duke, Arizona, and a few others are vying for top NCAA seedings; and then there’s everybody else. Santa Barbara’s teams fall into the last category. They are so mainstream that their freshmen are expected to stick around and become seniors.

While the players are dealing with term papers and final exams, here is a progress report from courtside, with all grades subject to improvement.

UCSB MEN (4-5) – C+: The Gau-

chos had a solid B until their last outing, a 79-65 loss to the University of San Diego (USD) at the Thunderdome. It was a strangely lackluster performance after the Gauchos had been setting off thunderclaps all around the country. Four times they staved off defeat — temporarily, in three cases — by making clutch shots in the final seconds of regulation time.

At Florida Gulf Coast, Alan Williams coolly swished two free throws with 1.2 seconds, showing to send the game into overtime. The high-flying Eagles, led by guard Brett Comer, hero of their NCAA run in 2013, prevailed in the extra period, 81-75.

At the Great Alaska Shootout, Michael Bryson hit a threepointer at the buzzer to force overtime against Mercer. This time, the Gauchos went on to win, 65-60. In the title game of the tournament, John Green drilled a three with six seconds left to tie Colorado State, but a foolish foul gave the Rams two free throws and a 65-63 victory.

At Southern Methodist, the Gauchos rallied from a 14-point deficit in the second half, and Gabe Vincent’s three-pointer in the final 10 seconds tied the score, 67-67. The Mustangs regained control in overtime and sent their fans home happy, 80-73.

After playing so tough on the road, and having Williams anointed by Sports Illustrated as “the nation’s most productive power big man,” the Gauchos figured to get on a roll against San Diego last week. But they got off to a horrid start, and USD scored points in trios (hitting 10 of 14 shots from long distance).

At one point, a Torero player grinned sheepishly when his heave above the key banked through the hoop.

After a forgettable first half, “Big Al” Williams went on a spectacular shot-blocking rampage to reward Gaucho fans who wanted to see some spark from their men. This still is shaping up to be one of UCSB’s most talented teams, and it was encouraging to hear the players criticize their own effort. “We didn’t play Gaucho basketball at all,” said Vincent, an exciting and excitable freshman guard.“[USD] played well, hit shots. No excuses. We came in and weren’t ready for it.”

SHOOTING FOR GLORY: UCSB women’s coach Carlene Mitchell (above) looks for a ray of hope during the winless start to the season. At left, Gaucho Alan Williams (#15), who was anointed by Sports Illustrated as “the nation’s most productive power big man,” averages 18 points, 12 rebounds, and almost four blocked shots per game.

The Gauchos will try to get their game back on track Friday, December 19, when they host San Diego Christian, a team they should put away early. Game time is 4 p.m. After visiting Oregon and Oregon State, UCSB brings in the New Year at home against Vermont (Jan. 2, 2015) and Florida Gulf Coast (Jan. 5), a Pacific Coast rematch of their November shootout.

UCSB WOMEN (0-9) – E: That grade is for effort, the best thing

that could be said about a team that has fallen on hard times. It has been a precipitous fall, from the NCAA Sweet  in 2004, to the vicinity of the nation’s bottom 16. The Gauchos’ losing streak is their longest since Mark French’s first team finished the 1987-88 season on a 0-11 slide. (That was an improvement; the previous year’s team lost 17 straight.) French subsequently built a fabulously successful program that averaged 25 wins over a 10-year span. The women pulled in 3,000 fans a game at the peak of their popularity. Last Friday, a gathering of 342 looked on glumly as the Gauchos endured a 7½-minute scoreless drought in the second half while losing to Pepperdine, 66-44.

The program had started to slide when Carlene Mitchell, the second of French’s successors, took over, and in her fourth year, she has been unable to reverse the trend. A preseason poll picked the Gauchos to finish ninth — last— in the Big West Conference. The motivation to prove the naysayers wrong has not produced any positive results. The Gauchos play hard on defense, but it’s difficult to win when your shooting accuracy hovers around 30 percent and each misfire further erodes a

shooter’s confidence. It hasn’t helped that Mitchell’s two most promising freshmen have been waylaid by injuries.

Next up for the Gaucho women is a home game Friday, December 19, 7:30 p.m. (following the men’s game), against Louisiana State, which is coming off two consecutive Sweet  appearances. Then it’s “Ho-ho-ho” three days after Christmas, when the Gauchos visit No. 7–ranked Stanford, a Final Four participant six out of the last seven years.

You couldn’t find a nicer bunch of women than these Gauchos. “We’re doing all the right things,” said Mitchell, who joined the team in singing carols for Cottage Hospital pediatric patients last week. The former longtime Rutgers assistant acknowledged that it’s her responsibility to prepare the team “to compete and get after it.” They’ll have to toughen up to reach more than a few ears when they sing,“O Come, All Ye Faithful.”

WESTMONT WOMEN (7-3) AND MEN (6-4) – B: How tough

is the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC) in NAIA Division  basketball? The Warrior women, national champions two years ago, started the season 7-0 in non-conference games, then lost their first three in GSAC action. Westmont took down defending national men’s champion Vanguard in its GSAC opener and then was ambushed by Concordia in the next game.

Daniel Carlin, a 6 9 senior from Australia, dubbed “The Thunder from Down Under,” is starting to assert himself for the guys, registering his second straight double-double and scoring the game-winner in a 68-67 victory over Pomona-Pitzer.

Westmont is taking a break from the GSAC until January.

On December 29-30, it will host the 39th annual Tom Byron Classic and the Westmont Holiday Classic women’s tournament.

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or those of you still trying to deny SoCal’s psychedelic rebirth, I advise you to pencil December 26 in your calendar. That’s because on the Friday after Christmas, SOhO is turning its stage over to four of the West Coast’s most promising young guitar trippers. The lineup, which features The Abigails, Pearl Charles, and Jeffertitti’s Nile, is being spearheaded by Los Angeles’ own Mystic Braves, who by all accounts were some of the first to put down roots in L.A.’s now-thriving neopsych scene.

“I feel like it’s been less than two years since it all started, but now it’s this whole world where everyone knows everyone,” said Braves frontman Julian Ducatenzeiler. “I guess you could say we’re all kindred spirits because we all get along and understand what everyone’s doing and going for.”

While Mystic Braves’ cohorts may be growing, it’s doing little to dilute the band’s impact.

Earlier this year, the quintet released Desert Island, a dreamy, nimble album that flows in time with its touchstones, rather than riding in their wake. As for sound, the band’s vibe is firmly rooted in the legacy of groups like The Electric Prunes, The Chocolate Watchband, and The Zombies, but their hazy, organflecked songs don’t read as obvious or knock-off. Take “Bright Blue Day Haze,” the rambling, jangly lead track off Desert Island that shimmies and shakes with a heady mix of bluesy reverie and defiant spirit.

As further proof of their worth, earlier this year Mystic Braves found themselves on the receiving end of some serious validation when the aforementioned Zombies cherry-picked them to open for two separate Los Angeles dates.

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“We got to see them play live at South by Southwest the year before, and we thought that was it. We saw The Zombies — wow, we did it,” laughed Ducatenzeiler. “Then all of a sudden, we got the chance to play for them.

We were just shitting our pants. It was a dream come true.”

While this Friday’s show might not boast the high profile of the aforementioned Zombies gigs, it’s still got plenty going for it. “It’s all of our friends,” said Ducatenzeiler. “Jeffertitti’s Nile was a band we looked up to before we even began. Pearl Charles is now kind of booming; she’s playing every show she can.

And The Abigails are just awesome at what they do, and no one else is doing it. It’s going to be an eclectic show, and we’re really excited.”

Mystic Braves, The Abigails, Jeffertitti’s Nile, and Pearl Charles play SOhO Restaurant & Music Club on Friday, December 26, at  p.m.

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JERRY LEE LEWIS ROCK & ROLL TIME

Back at the dawn of rock ’n’ roll, when Sun Records’ legend was aborning, Elvis was proclaiming that’s all right while Johnny walked the line; meanwhile Carl warned us to lay off of his blue suede shoes, and Roy was vexed by a mean little mama. But really, it was fiery hell-raiser Jerry Lee — and his pumping piano — who left us breathless. Did he sell his soul for rock ’n’ roll? Maybe. He’s certainly had one hell of a life, though. Fast-forward to 2014; after 55 years and more than 60 records, rock ’n’ roll’s original wild child has gifted us with a new 11-track release.

A fine follow-up to 2006’s aptly titled Last Man Standing and 2010’s Mean Old Man, Rock & Roll

Time is all Killer, no filler. This latest gem also boasts a host of all-star contributions from loyal Lewis acolytes Robbie Robertson, Neil Young, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Nils Lofgren, and Kris Kristofferson, among others. It seems appropriate, considering he is one of the last living links to the source. The whole album rocks, especially the Kristofferson-penned title track, which Lewis ends with a wry chuckle, and the cover of the great Chuck Berry’s “Little Queenie,” which Jerry Lee kills while Richards lays down the groove. Lewis’s takes on Dylan’s “Stepchild” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Mississippi Kid” are equally amazing. But ultimately his rendition of Johnny

Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” is the choice cut, as well as a fitting homage to his Sun Records homeboy. Pete Townshend once sang, “Long live rock — be it dead or alive!” As long as Jerry Lee Lewis is alive, rock ’n’ roll will survive.

— Sean Mageean

Santaa Barbara Revel Revels, ls the communit community ity organi organization responsible for presenting charming and historically accurate annual holiday performances at the Lobero Theatre since 2008, is back with a new theme: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice. And, since this is a Revels production, that means something quite specific, as in the celebration of a group of Irish emigrants on board the S.S. Furnessia, a ship out of Londonderry bound for New York’s Ellis Island in December 1907. Getting the history right is just one way in which this fast-growing SET SAIL national movement sucAT T H E LO B E R O ceeds in bringing tradition to life. The others include establishing a sense of community through participatory theater, song, and dance and giving area artists a chance to engage their creative and scholarly impulses. For example, this year’s production will feature the efforts of a young music director, Adam Phillips, who contributes original arrangements of historically correct versions of such Irish classics as “Danny Boy.” Revels artistic director Susan Keller, who brought the idea to Santa Barbara, clearly enjoys the excitement and challenge of mounting this multidimensional production featuring nearly 70 performers.

Keller also participates actively in the national Revels network and thus knows which of the themes in the Revels repository are popular. She reports that this Irish Christmas has been done “four times in the past, including at Cambridge [Massachusetts, a Revels epicenter]. There are also several other companies doing it this year, but we are the only one to set it on a boat.”

Popular Santa Barbara actor Matt Tavianini returns as a performer and makes his debut as co-director with Keller of the Mummers play. Last year’s Haddon Hall fool, Tavianini plays a sentimental Irish poet this year. Perhaps the most exciting addition will be dancers from the Claddagh School of Dance, led by Mia Leonelli, a UCSB student and Dos Pueblos graduate who has held the title of Western States Irish Step Dance Champion. Performances are on Saturday, December 20, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday, December 21, at 2:30 p.m. For tickets and information, call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com. — Charles Donelan

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ike fingerprints and footprints, tire tracks are what forensics refers to as “impression evidence.” The FBI keeps an extensive file of tread designs, and police investigators are trained not only to identify the vehicles that suspects drive but also to uncover a whole range of other facts about the scene just from looking at the patterns rubber leaves on asphalt. In Chakaia Booker’s beautiful, moving new exhibition at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum, not just the treads but whole tires are reclaimed from this kind of scientific objectification and elevated — through a highly expressive, gestural process — to the level of fine art.

It’s fun to imagine the kind of mental overload these works might cause for a crime-scene analyst. Just what happened here? This is impression evidence that tells a much bigger story than what type of car hit the brakes at what speed and for how long. In works like “Color of Hope” (2010), a horizontally organized weave of spiraling black rubber that stretches 14 feet long and more than eight feet high, Booker achieves a nuanced boldness that revives and challenges the modern sculpture traditions of industrial fetishists like Richard Serra and transformational shamans like Joseph Beuys.

Working with materials that are close to hand in northern New Jersey and in Pennsylvania (where Booker lives and has her studio, respectively), the artist cuts, ties, crimps, tangles, staples, and connects tires from cars and bicycles until she has conjured a new object with a powerful aesthetic presence. And what she comes up with varies widely, from anthropomorphic figures like “Holla” (2008) to Rodin-esque monumental gates such as the one-ton “Added Substance” (2008).

In a gallery talk at the exhibition opening on December 11, Booker expressed equal parts humility and confidence by acknowledging that she is not the first or the only artist to make sculptures from tires. “Rauschenberg had his thing, but I’m not Rauschenberg,” she told the group and went on to explain that when she goes to work there are “no rules” and that she tries to do something different every time. Booker described her titles as “deliberately open ended” and declined to interpret any individual piece so as not to interfere with the viewer’s own imagination.

The show looks great in the space, and the prints, most of which are untitled, open up the sculptures by returning to the patterns that attracted Booker to tires in the first place. These fine prints are collaborations with master printmaker Phil Sanders that employ woodcut, chine-collé, embossing, and hand painting to achieve a classic yet soulful austerity. Moving back and forth between the prints and the sheer physicality of the big, black rubber sculptures, one gets a glimpse of the creative mind behind them both, and it is one that combines a strong sense of place and of history with extraordinary resilience and an ability to start every day by looking at the world anew.

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LITTLE DICKENS: Victoria Finlayson and Stanley Hoffman use puppets to portray members of the Cratchit family in Lit Moon’s Humbug!

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GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE! EDITOR ’ S NOTE : In response to an inquiry concerning this year’s production of Lit Moon Theatre Company’s show Humbug!, director John Blondell sent a message so replete with Eastern European atmosphere and holiday good spirits that we chose to run it in full as an alternative to the usual preview article.

2009; in 2010, we decided to move on to other things and actually created a dierent Christmastime show, which was called Once, a Traveler ‌ during that season. Since then, Humbug! has been in the recesses of the company’s memory, waiting for the right moment to emerge again.

I wanted to work on it again this year for a variety of reasons: I think it’s it Moon developed a lovely little piece, and I wanted Humbug! A (Lit Moon) to see what the experience and Christmas Carol in knowledge of the intervening 2007, following a fall years would bring to it. I wanted tour that brought the comto keep the artists of the company to Poland, Montenegro, pany working. I wanted to build and Macedonia for the first the company’s repertory again;

by John Blondell of what is now many times. I this follows my desire to have a believe it was during the tour itself five-play repertory, which we can that we decided to work on Dickens’s bring out and play at any time.

A Christmas Carol. When the tour ended, my Admittedly, these are all surface reasons, family and I spent a month in Hungary, and I reasons that have to do with the company as an remember an afternoon at a Budapest coee- ensemble of artists that need to work and with house called LukĂĄcs. The raking late-autumn the continued growth of a theater ensemble. light streamed through the plate-glass windows; There are deeper reasons, though, ones that young, beautiful, black-uniformed and aproned speak to the deep currents of meaning and feelwaiters moved around the place like water bugs ing in Dickens’s story and in the performance on a pond; and the room was ďŹ lled with the that we have developed from it. It’s commonaroma of cake, coee, and the buzz of conversa- place to think of this period before Christmas tion. That afternoon was my ďŹ rst real inspiration as “The Holidaysâ€? and to get caught up in the for the piece and contributed to the costume abundance of parties, travel, spending, and stress design and my sense of some of the theatrical that become associated — whether one likes it or atmospheres that I wanted our staging of the not — with the season. In the Christian calendar, piece to convey. though, the season is Advent: a season of darkUpon our return from Europe, we com- ness, loneliness, and waiting. For me, working menced rehearsals around my family’s large on A Christmas Carol reminds me of this deep, farmhouse table. We worked in the late after- primal rhythm. The story, for all the Christmas noon, and our children — who were young customs and traditions that are inspired by it, is at the time — hung out, talked at us while we dark, foreboding, and ďŹ lled with loneliness. It is, rehearsed, asked for things to eat, and generally I have to keep remembering, a ghost story.

Generally I like to revisit material to see what contributed to an atmosphere of hearth, home, and hospitality, even though it was at times else we have to oer it. In this case, I like to revisit crazy making. I remember our ďŹ rst rehearsal A Christmas Carol to see what it has to oer me, vividly: For some reason, I had the idea that I what it has to remind me, and what new phase wanted us to make puppets and masks out of of life it might invite me into. This, it seems to bread or pie crusts, so we spent the rehearsal me, is what the story tells us: Ebenezer Scrooge reading the script, kneading dough, trying to is all of us, in various ways; we are all miserly, make puppets and masks out of them, and then cold, unfeeling, uncaring, lonely, and afraid, and baking and eating them. I’ve had a lot of bizarre, we all carry the potential for transformation ďŹ rst-rehearsal notions, but that is one of the and regeneration, to be made anew, and to melt most memorable. the coldness that is within us for the warmth of The table was soon to become the produc- generosity, kindness, and love. tion’s dominant scenic element, and we started to use it in many ways — as desk, table, bed, and Lit Moon Theatre Company quasi-puppet theater. It dominates the stage, presents Humbug! A (Lit Moon) is redolent of the images of home, food, and Christmas Carol at Westmont’s Porter Theatre family that dominate the center sections of the Thursday-Saturday, December 18-20, at 7:30 p.m. play, and ďŹ gures signiďŹ cantly in the production’s For tickets and information, call 565-7140 or visit ending moments. westmont.edu/boxoďŹƒce.

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GETTIN’ THE BAND BACK TOGETHER: Cracker cofounders David Lowery (left) and Johnny Hickman rounded up the band’s original members for their first new album in five years, the recently released Berkeley to Bakersfield. Cracker plays the Lobero Theatre on December 29 with Lowery’s other band, Camper Van Beethoven.

When did you start working on Berkeley to Bakersfield? I probably started on it in May/ June 2013. After we finished the last Camper record, I sort of immediately started working on the Cracker stuff. I did most of the country disc before the Berkeley disc. The Berkeley disc was sort of just an accident. It was right before Halloween 2013, and Davey Faragher and Michael Urbano and I discovered that we all had a few days free, so we went to Michael’s studio in Berkeley to write some songs. We ended up writing all the music for that Berkeley album in those three days. We ended up with these two really distinct projects, and we thought about kind of weaving them together on one disc.

What made you decide to separate it into two albums? Drew, the guy who mixed it, and my wife, who’s also our manager — I should say that she was our manager first. She always wants me to tell people that. It’s not a Spinal Tap situation. [Laughs.] She’s been in the music business for 30 years. But we were all sitting around listening to it, and we all agreed that it was two different records, which led us to just making it a double disc. It’s conceptual; it tells a whole story, and it continues with my Joan Didion–style essays. I feel like they’re not really songs anymore; they’re more like essays about California.

[Laughs.] That’s what I’ve turned into.

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hen it comes to cultish alt-rock followings, David Lowery’s presence looms large. As the frontman for fusion-y alt-rock act Cracker, Lowery weaves country, blues, and grungy guitars into songs that verge on smartly crafted prose. As the head of the equally brainy, slightly louder, and decidedly more avante-garde Camper Van Beethoven, the singer plays up his abstract side. And together, both acts have helped fuel Lowery’s more-than-three-decadelong career.

Next Monday, December 29, Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker co-headline a bill at the Lobero Theatre in support of Berkeley to Bakersfield. The double album, which saw its release last week, is Cracker’s first in over five years, and its material spans the places — and stylistic range — of the band’s lengthy career. I recently caught up with Lowery from his home to talk writing tactics and late-career revelations.

What led you to the guitar? Well, my sister started learning banjo, and I started learning guitar to sort of accompany her. But then she stopped playing, and I kept playing.

And you moved around a lot? Yeah, but mostly we grew up in Southern California. I’m proud to claim the Inland Empire as my home. I know it’s not really glamorous, but somebody’s got to do it; somebody’s got to stick up for the Inland Empire.

[Laughs.] I remember as a kid, the city held a contest for a new slogan, like a bumper-sticker slogan for the Inland Empire. Me and my buddies wrote in “We Will Kick Your Ass.” [Laughs.] It failed, but I still think it’s really appropriate.

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When you get a song idea in your head, is it pretty obvious from the start that it’s going to be a Camper song or a Cracker song or a solo song? Most of the time it is, but it’s not always. There’s a song on that Camper album New Roman Times that is actually a [Cracker guitarist] Johnny Hickman and me song. It was sort of a strange track, and after a while I realized that Camper would flesh it out better. I gave it to them, and they immediately got it, figured it out, and put all kinds of weird shit on it, and it was perfect. So it’s not always obvious, but most of the time it is. In Camper Van Beethoven, you have some sort of hybrid, folky, psychedelic things, and then you mention two of the following: space aliens, weird conspiracy theories, or hallucinogenic drugs. If you use one out of the three of those, then you’re fine. [Laughs.]

I have family down there. I think it [Laughs.] How long into the 30-year career did it take to figure out might be one of the weirdest places that formula? Twenty years. Yeah, it took about 20 years to figure in Southern California. Yeah. My that out. [Laughs.] sister lives there still, and I enjoy going back. It’s an interesting place. Have you had any other late-career writing revelations? Yeah. A It perfectly explains Cracker from the friend of mine asked me if I’d ever tried to get up and write a song rock ’n’ roll through the punk-rock thing first thing in the morning. I was like,“No! Why would I do that?”

by Aly Comingore to the country roots stuff. We’re a product But he compared it to being stoned; like you listen back later, and of that area at that time for that reason, you the stuff is still good. [Laughs.] So I tried it, and I discovered that Did music factor in pretty heavily when you were a know?

I was in Santa Cruz for eight years, too, if you wake up at 6 in the morning and try writing a song, a lot of kid? Well, my mom is English, and my dad was in the but most of the people that I played with up there — Victor the times you have the whole thing recorded by 9 a.m. and your military, and they met in England in the early ’50s. If you were a cool kid growing up in England in the ’50s, you were listening [Krummenacher], the bass player for Camper; Chris Pedersen, phone hasn’t even rung yet. The last two Camper records, and to — I don’t even think they called it country music yet; it was hill- the drummer for Camper; and Chris Molla — were all from the most of the Cracker double disc, all the words and most of the billy music. So we listened to a lot of country, bluegrass, and folk Inland Empire. So even Camper is an Inland Empire band, really. vocals were sung before 8 in the morning. It’s really bizarre. growing up. But English people are just kind of hipsters, so my mom went to see the Beatles when they first started. It was a lot of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven play Monday, December 29, at 8 p.m. at the Lobero Theatre (33 E. Canon Perdido St.). rock ’n’ roll and a lot of country music in my house. I was always Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com for tickets and info. around it, even though neither of my parents played anything.

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SUPPORT SYSTEM: Say what you will about the spending mĂŞlĂŠe that is December, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something truly great about the holiday gift-giving tradition. This year in particular, though, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve adopted a brand-new Christmas mantra called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Experiences are better than stuďŹ&#x20AC;.â&#x20AC;? And let me tell you, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a total delight in practice.

How do you swap out your physical gifts for experiential ones, you ask? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simple. Instead of buying your beau a spendy new watch, propose a weekend getaway. Rather than gifting your BFF an awesome new T-shirt, get â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em concert tickets (and hope they take you as their +1). Or, if you really want to feel like Ultimate Santa, make a donation on behalf of a loved one. I promise, even the grinchiest Grinches will crack a smile when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the receiving end of some genuine do-goodery.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re intrigued but not yet 100 percent on board with the idea, I recommend giving it a test run this Friday, December 19, at FUNZONE. Starting at 8 p.m., the East Beach Batting Cages will host a four-band beneďŹ t concert for the Public Library in Ferguson, Missouri, featuring Santa Barbaraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Watercolor Paintings, Chaye Tione, Sun Daes, and Bambo.

If you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been keeping up with the news, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no matter. The show (which costs a measly $5, I might add) is not about lobbying for or against the police on the issues involving the death of Michael Brown. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about supporting a library thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going above and beyond the call of duty when its patrons need it most.

Ever since the non-indictment ruling came down in the case of Brown, Ferguson has been a city under ďŹ re. Between looting, rioting, and general unrest, citizens (especially the young ones) have had few safe places to turn to.

In reaction, the Ferguson Public Library has vowed to keep its doors open, no matter what the situation outside, and provide people with a safe, welcoming environment to get water, check email, and escape the disorder of the streets.

In the case of school closures, the library has also opened its doors to children and teachers for activities and oďŹ&#x20AC;-site classes.

As for FUNZONE, organizer and director Spencer VonHershman saw the Ferguson Public Library fund as an ideal way to help out a community in need without getting political about it. In conversation with KCSBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steve Snyder on Monday night, VonHershman pointed out that we Santa Barbarans often take for granted how safe our community is in comparison to the rest of the country and that, given our position, we should be giving to those less fortunate â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially around the holidays.

In addition to sets from the aforementioned bands, FUNZONE will be hosting a raďŹ&#x201E;e and a silent auction. Prizes include (but are not limited to) gift certiďŹ cates to Granada Books, the Isla Vista Co-op, and Santa Barbara Water Taxi, as well as a Fender Jazzmaster signed by Dinosaur Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s J Mascis (!!!!!). So come hang out, buy a ticket for a friend, and then jump on board the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Experiences are better than stuďŹ&#x20AC; â&#x20AC;? bandwagon. Mutual seasonal satisfaction guaranteed.

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a&e | POP, ROCK & JAZZ PREVIEW JUST JUST PRESS PRESS PLAY: PLAY: Beta Beta Play’s Play’s (from (from left) left) Tommy Tommy Cantillon, Cantillon, Michael Michael Cantillon, Cantillon, Mike Mike Dyer, Dyer, and and Matt Matt Palermo Palermo dish dish on on their favorite holiday tunes. their favorite holiday

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f you celebrate the season in Santa Barbara, there are a handful of things you’ve come to rely on. For one, that giant Christmas tree planted smack-dab in the middle of State Street. There’s also dueling Nutcrackers, a big ole Christmas parade, and Tommy & The High Pilots’ annual holiday concert spectacular. Back in October, the Santa Barbara rockers made a bold name change after more than six years as the Pilots. They’re now going by Beta Play, but that’s certainly not stopping them from keeping their Christmas tradition alive.

This Saturday, December 20, Beta Play makes its hometown debut at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club for a seasonal, special-guest-starstudded benefit concert and peanut-butter drive in support of the Unity Shoppe. In anticipation, we asked the guys to play Santa and bring us a holiday playlist filled with their favorite songs of the season. To listen online, visit independent. com/betaplayxmas.

MIKE DYER (BASS) Nat King Cole, “The Christmas Song” This song is the most obvious choice, but I have great memories from every phase of my life attached to this song. This song was written in a blistering hot California summer to help the writers cool down. That must be why it makes me yearn for reading books by the fireplace in the freezing Missouri winter, which is where I’m headed for the holidays. I’m always happy when this song comes on and can’t help but hum along.

John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band, “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” Leave it to John Lennon to join the saturated commercial holiday music genre by composing a catchy Christmas tune that still maintains John Lennon’s signature honesty and social consciousness. Or as Lennon explained it,“putting your political message across with a little honey.” This song allows me to indulge in what the Xmas season means to me without lyrics about reindeer and Santa’s sleigh.

MICHAEL CANTILLON (KEYS/BACKUP VOCALS) Bing Crosby, “White Christmas” When I hear this song for the first time every year, it finally hits me that Christmas is right around the corner. Everything about this version puts me in the holiday spirit. It ain’t Christmas without some Bing Crosby.

Frank Sinatra, “Let It Snow” This song always makes me envision a log cabin

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MATT PALERMO (DRUMS/BACKUP VOCALS) Frank Sinatra, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” It’s the “warmest” of all Christmas songs to me.

I’m instantly comfortable when I hear it, and I guess it’s deeply linked with my childhood because it always transports me back in time to the house I grew up in. Fun feeling.

Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Christmas Time Is Here” I love that melancholy jazz vibe for some reason — it also makes me comfy and takes me back to childhood. And A Charlie Brown Christmas is such a great classic — always a good re-watch.

TOM CANTILLON (GUITAR/LEAD VOCALS) Mariah Carey, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” It’s hard to imagine a holiday standard that doesn’t date back 50 years, but Mariah turned this into one instantly. The message captures the true spirit of the holidays: Being with loved ones is much more special than any gift you can open.

And Mariah’s voice! She could sing a Tylenol commercial, and I’d listen.

U, “New Year’s Day” Apparently Bono started writing this for his wife but reshaped the song to be about understanding in a time of global unrest. There is a “struggle for love,” as he puts it — a message that will never grow old and one that is relevant to this day. Adam Clayton’s bass line rips through the speakers, giving this very heart-filled song that ’80s U muscle. There are a lot of lyrics to sink your teeth into here, but “I will begin again” is simple and beautiful.

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FEED THE BIRDS: Jean Swiggett ‘s “Stephanie and Birds” is on view at Sullivan Goss.

art exhibits MUSEUMS Art, Design & Architecture Museum – Eric Beltz: The Cave of Treasures, through May , . UCSB, -.

Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Pamela Benham: Pamela Benham Paintings; Evita, Abstract Art Collective: AbstraX, through Apr. , ; multiple permanent installations.  W. Anapamu St., -.

Museum of Contemporary Art S.B. – Requiem for the Bibliophile and Bloom Projects: Lisa Tan, Sunsets, through Jan. , .  Paseo Nuevo, -.

Rancho La Patera & Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Valley Historical Society.  N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, -.

S.B. Historical Museum – Under the Umbrella: Lutah Maria Riggs, through spring ; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission.  E. De la Guerra St., -.

S.B. Maritime Museum – Patti Jacquemain: From the Mountains to the Sea: Woodblock Prints and Mosaics, through Feb. , .  Harbor Wy., -.

S.B. Museum of Art – Contemporary/Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection; Art to Zoo: Exploring Animal Natures, through Jan. , ; Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Collection of Michael Armand Hammer and Martin Kersels’s Charm series, ongoing exhibitions.  State St., -.

S.B. Museum of Natural History – John Gould and Illustrators: The Bird Man, through Jan. , .  Puesta del Sol, -.

Ty Warner Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations.  Stearns Wharf, -.

Wildling Museum – Painting the Wilderness, through Jan. , ; Charley Harper: Beguiled by the Wild-ling, through Jan. , . -B Mission Dr., Solvang, -.

GALLERIES Allan Hancock College Library – Children’s book illustrations, ongoing.  S. College Dr., Santa Maria, -.

Architectural Foundation Gallery – Kids Draw Architecture , through Jan. , .  E. Victoria St., -.

Art from Scrap Gallery – Homespun Holiday, through Jan. , .  E. Cota St., -.

Artamo Gallery – Michael Kessler: Water & Stone, through Jan. , .  W. Anapamu St., -.

Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts – Robert Rheem: Recent Paintings; Source & Inspiration, through Dec. .  Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, -.

Bella Rosa Galleries – Donna Diglio: A Gem Packed Life; Dan Levin: Micro Sculpture; Ronald Stevens: Gemstone Carvings.  State St., -.

Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr. – Voices, ongoing.  Chapala St., -.

The C Gallery – Natural Tendencies, through Jan. , .  Bell St., Los Alamos, -.

Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit.  Pueblo St., -.

Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – Portals, through Jan. .  Linden Ave., Carpinteria, -.

Casa Dolores – Saintly and Spirited: Art Made of Tin; Objects from the Permanent Collection, through Dec. .  Bath St., -.

Channing Peake Gallery – NEAR AND FAR: Plein Air in County Parks, through Feb. , . S.B. County Administration Bldg.,  E. Anapamu St., -.

Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Samuel Smith, through Dec. .  State St., -.

ElverhØj Museum – Eyvind Earle: An Original American Master, through Jan. , .  Elverhoy Way, Solvang. -. galerie – Holidaze Group Show, through Dec. .  W. Matilija St., Ojai, -.

Gallery  – Allison Wells: Hereabouts and nearby, through Dec. . La Arcada,  State St., -.

Gallery Los Olivos – Small Treasures, through Jan. , .  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -.

Harris & Fredda Meisel Gallery – Friends & Family, through Jan. , .  De la Vina St., -.

James Main Fine Art – Channing Peake: Self-Portrait, through Jan. , .  E. De la Guerra St., -.

Jane Deering Gallery – The Flat File Project, ongoing.  E. Canon Perdido St., -.

The Lark – Kevin Eddy, ongoing.  Anacapa St., -.

Larry Iwerks’s Weldon Art Ranch – x ARTXtravaganza, through Jan. , .  Weldon Rd., -.

Los Olivos Café – Sharon Foster: Our Beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, through Jan. , .  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -.

Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing.  Anacapa St., -.

Marcia Burtt Studio – End of the Year Exhibition, through Jan. , .  Laguna St., -.

Montecito Aesthetic Institute – Neo Diversity, through Jan. , .  Coast Village Rd., Ste. H, Montecito, -.

MultiCultural Ctr. – Judy Baca, through Dec. . UCSB. -.

Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Arts – Gil DiCicco; Sue DiCicco, ongoing.  State St., -.

Pacific Western Bank – Celebrating  Years of I Madonnari Posters, ongoing.  E. Figueroa St., -.

Pacifica Graduate Institute – Mythic Threads: Art, Healing and Magic in Bali, ongoing.  Ladera Ln., -.

El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park – Nihonmachi Revisited: Santa Barbara’s Japanese American Community in Transition, -; Memorias y Facturas, ongoing.  E. Canon Perdido St., -.

S.B. Artwalk – Arts & Craft Show, ongoing Sundays. Cabrillo Blvd. at State St. S.B. City Hall Gallery – Pursuit of Passion: Early Santa Barbara Women Artists, through Feb. , . De la Guerra Plaza, -.

S.B. Tennis Club – Angels and Things with Wings, through Jan. , .  Foothill Rd., -.

Sojourner Café – Peggy Oki, through Jan. , .  E. Canon Perdido St., -.

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Leon Dabo: Art for Art’s Sake and Dan Lutz: Original Expression, through Dec. ;  Grand, , through Feb. , ; Anders Aldrin: Color Seeking Form, Jean Swiggett: One Man Renaissance, and Agoraphobia: Portraits of American Interiors, through Mar. , .  E. Anapamu St., -.

Tamsen Gallery – R.W. Firestone, ongoing.  State St., -.

UCSB Library – Images of Africa; An Artist Looks at His African Heritage, through January . UCSB, -. wall space gallery – Barbara Parmet & Christa Blackwood: Unbound, through Dec. .  E. Yanonali St. C-, -.

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St. Anthony’s Chapel – Quire of Voyces: Song of Songs.  Garden St., -.

SAT: pm SUN: pm Trinity Episcopal Church – Advent Organ Series Final Concert.  State St., -.

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POP, ROCK & JAZZ

Adama –  Chapala St., -.

THU: Greg Harrison (pm) Blush Restaurant & Lounge –  State St., -.

SUN: Chris Fossek (pm) Brasil Arts Café –  State St., -.

FRI: Live Brazilian Music (:pm) Cold Spring Tavern –  Stagecoach Rd., -.

FRI: The Nombres (-pm) SAT: Tom Corbett (-pm); Claude Hopper (-pm) SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (:-pm); Nate Latta Band (:-:pm) The Creekside –  Hollister Ave., -.

FRI: Second Class Citizens (pm) SAT: The Stringtown Ambassadors (pm) MON: Karaoke with Dyno Mike (pm) WED: Country Night (pm) Dargan’s –  E. Ortega St., -.

SAT: Traditional Irish Music (:pm) WED: Karaoke the Band (:pm) Endless Summer Bar/Café –  Harbor Wy., -.

FRI: Acoustic guitar and vocals (:pm) EOS Lounge –  Anacapa St., -.

THU: Huge Thursday with Mackie and Bix King FRI: Live Music (-pm); DNA Presents SAT: DJ Calvin and Kohjay WED: Salsa Night Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. –  Anacapa St., -.

FRI: Live Music (pm) SAT: The Caverns (-pm) FUNZONE –  S. Milpas St., - FRI: Watercolor Paintings, Chaye Tione, Sun Daes, Bambo (pm) Hoffmann Brat Haus –  State St., -.

THU: Live Music Thursdays (pm) Indochine –  State St., -.

TUE: Indie Night (pm) WED: Karaoke (:pm) The James Joyce –  State St., -.

THU: Alastair Greene Band (pm) FRI: Kinsella Brothers Band (pm) SAT: Ulysses Jazz Band (:-:pm) SUN, MON: Karaoke (pm) TUE: Teresa Russell (pm) WED: Victor Vega and the Bomb (pm) Lobero Theatre –  E. Canon Perdido St., -.

SAT: The Christmas Revels: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice (: and :pm) SUN: The Christmas Revels: An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice (:pm) Maverick Saloon –  Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, -.

FRI: Dusty Jugz (pm) SAT: Melissa Rugge (pm); Dusty Jugz and the Gang (pm) Moby Dick Restaurant –  Stearns Wharf, -.

WED-SAT: Derroy (pm) SUN: Derroy (am) Monty’s –  Hollister Ave., Goleta, -.

THU: Karaoke Night (pm) O’Malleys and the Study Hall –  State St., -.

THU: College Night with DJ Gavin Old Town Tavern –  Orange Ave., Goleta, -.

FRI, SAT, WED: Karaoke Night (:pm) Palapa Restaurant –  State St., -.

FRI: Live Mariachi Music (:-pm)

Reds Tapas & Wine Bar –  Helena Ave., -.

THU: Live Music (pm) Roundin’ Third –  Calle Real, -.

THU, TUE: Locals Night (pm) S.B. Maritime Museum –  Harbor Wy., #, -.

SAT: Ukulele music and singing (-:pm) Sandbar –  State St., -.

WED: Big Wednesday (pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club –  State St., -.

THU: Willie Watson (pm); th Annual Ugly Sweater Party: The Upbeat, One Two Tree, Zach Gill of ALO (:pm) FRI: Venice Holiday Show (:pm) SAT: Beta Play, Dark Waves (pm) SUN: Ruben Lee Dalton Band, Rusty Lindsey, Bear Erickson (pm) MON: Jazz Jam with Jeff Elliott (:pm) TUE: Christmas Eve with Dylan Fitzgibbons, Tao (pm) Standing Sun Winery –  Second St., Unit D, Buellton, -.

SAT: Willie Watson, Kathleen Sieck (pm) Statemynt –  State St., -.

THU: DJ Akorn WED: Blues Night (pm) Tiburon Tavern –  State St., - FRI: Karaoke Night (:pm) Unity Church –  E. Arrellaga St., -.

SUN: Shawn Thies & Friends Concert (:pm) Velvet Jones –  State St., -.

FRI: Wil Ridge, Donald Spence, Matt Armor (pm) Whiskey Richards –  State St., -.

MON: Open Mike Night (pm) WED: Punk on Vinyl (pm) Wildcat –  W. Ortega St., -.

THU: DJs Hollywood and Patrick B SUN: Red Room with DJ Gavin Roy (pm) TUE: Local Band Night (pm) Zodo’s –  Calle Real, Goleta, -.

THU: KjEE Thursday Night Strikes (:-:pm) MON: Service Industry Night (pm)

Theater Marian Theatre – Christmas Is Here Again.

Allan Hancock College,  S. College Dr., Santa Maria, -.

THU: :pm FRI: pm SAT-SUN, TUE: : and pm WED: :pm New Victoria Theatre – The Best Brothers.  W. Victoria St., -.

THU-SAT: pm SUN:  and pm Porter Theatre – Humbug! A (Lit Moon) Christmas Carol. Westmont Campus,  La Paz Rd., -.

THU-SAT: :pm Presidio Chapel – La Pastorela: A Shepherd’s Play.  E. Canon Perdido St., -.

SAT: pm SUN:  and pm Rubicon Theatre – A Tuna Christmas.  E. Main St., Ventura, -.

THU, FRI: pm SAT:  and pm SUN: pm

dance Carpinteria Middle School – Curtis Studio of Dance: The Nutcracker.  Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, -.

FRI: pm SAT: pm Center Stage Theater –  Paseo Nuevo, -.

THU /: Momentum Dance Co.: st Annual Company Concert (pm) (sold out) SAT: West Coast Ballet: A Gem of a Nutcracker (:pm) SUN: West Coast Ballet: A Gem of a Nutcracker (:pm) Chumash Casino Resort – Moscow Ballet: Great Russian Nutcracker.  E. Hwy. , Santa Ynez, () -.

THU /: pm Granada Theatre – State Street Ballet: The Nutcracker.  State St., -.

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Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, and Richard Armitage star in a film written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro, based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien, and directed by Jackson.

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fter sitting through all three Hobbit movies in a row last Monday (about eight hours, thank you very much), I feel authoritatively qualified to suggest you don’t. It’s for Middle-earthers only. The padding out of what was once a nice little adventure book isn’t boring, but it frequently seems pointless. All the knitting together with The Lord of the Rings epic tends to dilute the wistfulness that ought to haunt the end of Bilbo Baggins’s stand-alone quest. Make no mistake, though, the finale is the best of the three films because it lets the tragedies in.

In many ways, though, director Peter Jackson seems lost. The new movie begins with a bang — Smaug’s attack on innocent Lake-town — and ends with a huge battle.

But the saga sags in the middle, and there’s too much that’s unintentionally funny. During the Lonely Mountain war, a bunch of giant worms come crashing up from the ground, as if they had escaped from Frank Herbert’s Dune to pad the fight. Billy Connolly, who plays a very Scottish dwarf lord, screams,“Oh, come on!” as if he were speaking for the audience. Even if Jackson is trying to be self-consciously humorous, it just doesn’t work.

The Lord of the Rings films were gigantic, yet they compressed three fat source books with an economy of gesture and an unerring adherence to the big themes. When the extended versions came out, it seemed even grander. In this case, we’re already stuck in the extended version. Many of the liberties that the script lards into the story — the Orc Azog, the political subplot of the Lake-town people, and the LOTR character cameos — seem unwarranted. In other words, it feels as if Jackson lost his mojo.

You can enjoy The Hobbit movies as escape, and maybe someday they will seem epic and not pudgy. But chances are you won’t remember anything like Strider’s lovely marches into doom. Meanwhile, the die-hards can wait and hope this film gets recut into a constricted version. ■

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here was no small number of challenges stacked against Wild, the new feature film from Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée. The plot follows a young woman on a three-month-long and very solitary journey from the Mojave Desert to the OregonWashington border. Even its source material was a built-in hurdle. The film is based on the beloved and best-selling memoir by Cheryl Strayed, and many will come to Wild familiar with its characters and clutching tight to their expectations. But Vallée and screenwriter Nick Hornby (An Education, About a Boy) managed an epic feat with this one, delivering a succinct two-hour retelling that both honors and lives up to its first edition.

Reese Witherspoon plays Cheryl as a twenty-something divorcée hoping to pull herself out of a downward spiral of drugs, sex, and self-loathing by embarking on a 1,100-mile trek along the Pacific Crest Trail. Through a slowly unfolding series of flashbacks, we learn that Cheryl’s self-destructive streak stemmed most directly from the death of her mother, Bobbi (brilliantly portrayed by Laura Dern), who lost her short battle with cancer when Cheryl was just .

As director, Vallée smartly interweaves shots of the journey with Cheryl’s recollections, stemming from her childhood all the way through to the gratuitous trysts that ended her marriage. Smash-cut into key moments in Cheryl’s journey, these asides gradually build a much larger picture about the girl with the enormous backpack.

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Big Eyes (105 mins.; PG-13: thematic elements, brief strong language) Tim Burton directs the story of painter Margaret Keane, whose work found major success in the 1950s —under her husband’s name.

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The Gambler (111 mins.; R: language throughout, some sexuality/nudity) Mark Wahlberg portrays a professor and gambler who’s struggling with debts and carrying on an affair with a student.

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Benedict Cumberbatch plays English mathematician Alan Turing, who helped crack the Enigma code during World War II. Paseo Nuevo (Opens Wed., Dec. )

John du Pont as he meets and coaches a young wrestler in the months leading up to the 1988 Olympic Games. Three chillingly good performances, combined with Bennett Miller’s taut pacing and direction, make Foxcatcher one of those magical cinematic perfect storms. (AC) Paseo Nuevo

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✯ Gone Girl Into the Woods (124 mins.; PG: thematic elements, fantasy action and peril, some suggestive material)

A witch recruits a childless baker and his wife to reverse the curse that was placed on her family tree.

Camino Real/ Paseo Nuevo (Opens Wed., Dec. )

A Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (97 mins.; PG: mild action, some rude humor, brief language)

When the magic that brings the museum exhibits to life starts to fade, Larry (Ben Stiller) unites his historical friends for a trip around the world.

Fairview/Fiesta  Top Five (101 mins.; R: strong sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language throughout, some drug use)

A comedian (Chris Rock) tries to make it as a serious actor after his reality-star fiancée convinces him to get married on live TV. Fiesta 

Unbroken (137 mins.; PG-13: war violence including intense sequences of brutality, brief language)

This is the true-life story about Olympian Louis Zamperini, who was captured by the Japanese during World War II after surviving a near-fatal plane crash.

(145 mins.; R: a scene of bloody violence, some strong sexual content/nudity, language)

When Nick’s wife goes missing and the media starts to swarm, he quickly becomes a suspect in her disappearance.

Director David Fincher makes a sprawling downward spiral seem compellingly watchable. (DJP) Plaza de Oro

✯ The Homesman

(122 mins.; R: violence, sexual content, some disturbing behavior, nudity)

When three women are driven mad by pioneer life, a single woman and her unlikely steward help transport them cross-country to safety. Like the countless westerns that came before it, The Homesman is a fierce tale about survival in a world that barely seems worth surviving. (AC) Riviera Horrible Bosses 2 (108 mins.; R: strong crude and sexual content and language throughout)

Dale, Kurt, and Nick decide to start their own company and then get dragged into a crazy kidnapping plan. This is the kind of Hollywood clunker that even its actors can’t get behind, and it’s sadly evident in almost every scene. (AC) Plaza de Oro The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (123 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences

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Now that she’s shattered the games, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) must fight to save her nation. It’s no exaggeration to say that Lawrence makes the whole movie. In fact, there are few other pleasures in this leadup to the franchise’s finale. (DJP)

Awake: The Life of Yogananda (87 mins.; PG: some sexual content)

George Harrison and Russell Simmons make appearances in this documentary about Yogananda, the yogi who’s credited with bringing Hindu spirituality to the West.

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There’s so much wrong with this movie that it’s difficult to pin down the central problem with Ridley Scott’s retelling of the Bible’s Exodus. But it’s probably a good idea to start with God. For starters, Scott doesn’t want the movie to have one. You can practically see the secular humanist in him trying to rebel against the idea of some vast hairy Maker who orders Moses around, makes him fall from the Royal House of Memphis, marry into a little shepherd family, and then come back as the savior of the enslaved Jews he barely knew. So Scott’s version makes the whole deal seem like a trick of perspective: Maybe it was Yahweh who brought on the locusts and the boils and made the Red Sea part, or maybe Moses was just a crazy guy who happened to coincide with a lot of nutty natural phenomena.

But that’s only one level of Exodus’s problems. The acting, too, is deplorable, from Christian Bale’s squinty theatrics to the weird casting that put campy presences such as John Turturro and Sigourney Weaver in the mix.

In short, there is little to pin your cinematic hopes on in this epic folderol. Even the special effects seem to pale in comparison to the pre-computer Cecil B. DeMille version of the tale. This is a story that inspired many liberation movements, but in Scott’s hands, Moses is just a plague of nonsense. (DJP) Camino Real (D)/

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Big Hero 6 (102 mins.; PG: action, peril, some rude humor, thematic elements) A large inflatable robot befriends a prodigy. Together they assemble a group of friends to form a tech-savvy hero brigade. Big Hero 6 has a lot going for it, but it doesn’t love its own ideas enough to finish strong. (DJP) Camino Real (D)/Metro  (D)

✯ Birdman (119 mins.; R: language throughout, some sexual content, brief violence) A washed-up actor (Michael Keaton) must put his ego aside when he signs on to a Broadway play that could relaunch his career. Birdman is a lot bigger than its injokes and a lot smaller than its faux philosophies suggest. But the reason to love this film is in its performances. (DJP) Fairview

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✯ Interstellar

(169 mins.; PG-13: some intense perilous action, brief strong language)

A group of explorers use a wormhole to travel farther than humans ever once thought possible. Stunning visuals and stellar performances more than make up for Nolan’s sometimes overambitious moments. (JF) Camino Real/Metro  Penguins of Madagascar (92 mins.; PG: mild action, some rude humor)

Four penguin spies join forces with an elite undercover agency to try and stop a villainous doctor from destroying the world.

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✯ The Theory of Everything

(123 mins.; PG-13: some thematic elements, suggestive material)

Eddie Redmayne stars in this story about the early life of physicist Stephen Hawking.

While Redmayne’s knockout performance anchors the film, it’s Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking that really sets Theory apart. (JF) Paseo Nuevo

✯ Citizenfour

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Filmmaker Laura Poitras delivers this first-person account of her interactions with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Poitras’s film plays out like a triumphant, tension-filled masterpiece. (AC) Riviera

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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): “Too much happiness can make you unhappy,” reported journalist Marta Zaraska in the Washington Post. Citing research by psychologists, she concluded that being super-extra cheerful can make you selfish, gullible, and more prone to stereotyped thinking. On the other hand, she said, maintaining merely moderate levels of happiness is pretty damn good for your mental and physical health. So here’s the takeaway, Aries: The astrological omens suggest you’re due for a surge of joy and pleasure. Just be careful it doesn’t spill over into rash, delirious excess. Here’s your watchword: well-grounded delight.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): In the 19th century, the Grimm brothers gathered more than 200 old fairy tales from a variety of sources and published them in an unprecedented collection. Many of their stories are still popular, including “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “Rapunzel.” Around the same time they did their work, a storyteller named Franz Xaver von Schönwerth assembled his own compendium of fantastic myths, fables, and folklore. Unlike the Grimm brothers’ book, his work faded into obscurity. But it was rediscovered in 2011, and 500 lost fairy tales are now finding their way into newly published books. I foresee a comparable phenomenon happening for you in 2015, Taurus. Forgotten stories will return. Raw material from the depths will resurface. Interesting news from the past will come flowing into the present.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Your first task is to ascertain the halftruth, the whole half-truth, and nothing but the whole half-truth. Only then will you be able to find the other half of the truth. I realize it may be frustrating to use this approach. You’d probably prefer to avoid wrangling with the deceptions and misdirections. But I think it’s the only way to jostle loose the hidden or missing information. For best results, be a cunning and unsentimental detective who’s eager to solve the mystery. Don’t focus on finding fault or assigning blame.

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(June 21 - July 22): One of the ingredients that makes yoga mats so soft and springy is the chemical azodicarbonamide. The same stuff is added to the soles of shoes.

There’s a third place where it’s used, too: in the burger buns sold by McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, and other fast food joints. I’m not suggesting that you order a big supply of azodicarbonamide and ingest it. But I do hope you will consider the metaphorical equivalent: doing whatever’s necessary to make yourself bouncy and fluffy and pliable and supple and resilient.

(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): When I started writing horoscopes many years ago, I was a good astrologer but an unexceptional writer. Eventually, the practice of composing 12 packets of pithy prose every week allowed me to improve my authorial skills. The stuff I composed in the early years wasn’t bad, but I wouldn’t want to present it as my work any more. So should I feel guilty that I got paid and appreciated for those old efforts even though I was less than perfect? Did I get away with something I shouldn’t have gotten away with? I don’t think so. I was doing the best I could at the time. And even my unpolished astrological musings were helpful to many people. Now, Libra, I invite you to apply these meditations to you own unfolding destiny.

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): I have lived near an open space preserve for five years. Up until the last two months, it has been a peaceful, quite place. But then the coyotes moved in. Just after dusk every evening, a pack of them start yipping and yowling in the distance. At first I found the racket to be eerie and unsettling. It activated some primal unease in me. And yet the coyotes have never actually been a problem. They don’t roam into my neighborhood and try to bite people or prey on pets. So now I’ve come to relish the situation: The wild things are close and exciting, but not dangerous. I’m guessing this has a metaphorical resemblance to what your life will be like in the next six months, Capricorn.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): You may already know what I’m about to tell you. It’s a core principle at the root of your Scorpio heritage. But I want to focus your attention on it. In the coming months, you’ll be wise to keep it at the forefront of your conscious awareness. Here it is, courtesy of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: “You have it in your power to invest everything you have lived through — your experiments, false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your love and your hope — into your goal, with nothing left over.”

(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont, are really a single town that straddles the border between the U.S. and Canada. Many of the people who live there have dual citizenship, but they’re still supposed to carry their passports with them at all times. I suspect you may experience a metaphorical version of this split in the coming months, Aquarius. You will be in a situation that has a split down the middle or a seemingly unnatural division. Whether it turns out to be a problem or an opportunity will depend on your adaptability and flexibility.

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(Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): “A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this softtinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life.” So says Harry Haller, the protagonist of Hermann Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf. His declaration could serve as an interesting point of reference for you in the coming months, Sagittarius — not as a mood for everyday use, but as a poetic inspiration that you periodically call on to invigorate your lust for life. My invitation has a caveat, however. I advise you not to adopt the rest of Harry Haller’s rant, in which he says that he also has “a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, or a cathedral, or myself.”

(Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): When a dead tree topples over in the woods, its withered branches may get entangled with the branches of a living tree that’s standing nearby. As years go by, the living tree must grow the best it can with the decaying wood trapped in its midst. Has something like that ever happened to you? Are you still carrying the rot that other people have burdened you with? If so, the coming months will be an excellent time to get disentangled. A tree isn’t capable of freeing itself from the dead weight of the past, but you are — especially in the first half of 2015.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): “There are two kinds of light,” said author James Thurber,“the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” Lately you have been an abundant source of that first kind of light, Leo. The fire in your heart and the gleam in your eyes have not only brightened the mood wherever you’ve gone. They have also clarified confusing situations, warmed chilly attitudes, and healed dispirited allies. Thank you! In the coming weeks, I’d love to see you continue on your hot streak.

To help ensure that you do, keep your ego under control.

Don’t let it pretend that it owns the light you’re emitting.

With a little introspection, you will continue to generate illumination, not glare.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): Studies suggest that 57 percent of all people with access to the Internet have engaged in the practice known as ego-surfing. This modern art form consists of searching Google for mentions of one’s own name. This is a suspiciously low figure unless we factor in the data uncovered by my own research — which is that a disproportionately small amount of Virgos go ego-surfing: only 21 percent. If you are one of the 79 percent of your tribe who does not indulge, I invite you to remedy the situation. It’s an excellent time to risk exploring the potential benefits of increased self-interest and self-regard.

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Tandori & North Indian Muglai specialties. World Class Indian Chefs at your service! Traditional floor seating. Indian & Draft Beers, Local Wines. www. indiahouseusa.com

Celebrate Christmas at Moby Dick Restaurant!

Spectacular Ocean Views from Every Seat!

Full menu will be served as well as two great dinner specials starting at 11am. These two fantastic dinners begin with a tasty cup of clam chowder or a fresh mixed green salad, and end with a delicious slice of pumpkin pie, topped with whipped cream.

Hand Crafted Naturally Roasted Turkey Dinner: Served with homemade mashed yams, fresh sauteed green beans, cranberry stuffing, gravy, and cranberry sauce. $22.95 Carve Master Old Fashioned Ham: Slowly smoked with apple wood to keep its excellent flavor and texture. Served with homemade mashed yams, fresh sauteed green beans, topped with pineapple/cherry glaze. $22.95

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.

Japanese ICHIBAN JAPANESE Restaurant/Sushi Bar, 1812 Cliff Dr., 805‑564‑7653. Mon‑Sat Lunch 11:30‑2:30.

Dinner 7 days a week, 5‑10pm. Lunch Specials, Bendo boxes. Full sushi bar, tatami seats. Fresh Fish delivered all week.

FREE BREAKFAST! Buy one breakfast entree at regular price and receive a 2nd entree of equal or lesser value for free!

Cannot be combined with any other offer.

Valid through 12/24/14.

Give Moby Dick Gift Cards for the Holidays!

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2004 by two longtime friends, entrepreneur Bill Freeman and pizzaiolo Francisco “Patxi” Azpiroz, Patxi’s Pizza MAMMOTH NEWS: I am hearing that the Elephant Bar property might (pronounced “PAH-cheese”) opened have a new lease holder soon.

December 9 at  State Street, the former home of Territory Ahead. The Restaurant Gal, Kid, and I stopped by for dinner and SANDBAR CLOSES FOR REMODEL: This just in were told that the beer-and-wine permit is now active (it from Sandbar at  State Street: “As a longtime reader, I wasn’t on opening day). One of the first things I noticed finally have something to share. Sandbar closed starting was that Patxi’s has created one of the largest patios on December 8 for some upgrades to the building which State Street where there used to be none, and a long bar will allow for more seating in our cantina and a better services both the patio and the interior. We tried the customer experience in many areas. We’re excited for Spinacini Nuovi pizza, and it was delicious. Thanks to the changes, and we can’t wait to get back to serving Santa Barbara around the beginning of January. Happy Julian, Andrew, and Jon-Michael for the great service. holidays, and we can’t wait to see all our amazing cusKILLER SHRIMP CLOSES: On July 27, 2013, the Marina tomers again soon! —Aron Ashland, Managing Partnerdel Rey eatery Killer Shrimp opened a second location Sandbar SB” in Santa Barbara at  State Street, the former home of Sharkeez. Readers Mike, Diane, and Anonymous let me BRASIL ARTS CAFÉ UPDATE: Brasil Arts Café has know that Killer Shrimp closed their doors earlier this expanded its breakfast menu to include breakfast sandmonth. I stopped by and confirmed that their sign is wiches, burritos, and a Brazilian-style ham-and-cheese down and that all was dark and quiet during business croissant. You can try any of the cafè’s Brazilian-style food by stopping by the restaurant at  State Street hours. or by ordering through SBmenus.com.

YOICHI’S: On November 26, I posted a story from reader Terri, who told me that she noticed some activity GOOD FOOD AMERICA: Two Santa Barbara restauin and around the former SpiritLand Bistro at  East rants, Scarlett Begonia and Lucky Penny, were recently Victoria Street. Reader Karl spoke to people inside the featured on Good Food America, the healthy-food travel building and was told that in a few months they will show that airs nationally on Z Living TV (formerly Veria serve Japanese food. Readers Kelly, Karl, and Vicky now Living). The segment featuring Scarlett Begonia sampled tell me that an ABC notice has appeared in the window some of the restaurant’s popular menu offerings, includindicating that the name of the Japanese restaurant will ing Charred Cauliflower (with shallot, pickled Fresno chili, mint castelvetrano olives, house-made cracker, and be Yoichi’s. almond romesco) and Maple Leaf Farms Duck Breast WINE MOVES? This just in from reader Steve: “Hi (with grilled grapes, au jus, pine nuts, and celery root John. There’s an ABC permit for ‘Municipal Wine- purée). The piece about Lucky Penny featured Milpas makers’ posted at the corner of Haley and Laguna Pizza, featuring fingerling potatoes, Mexican chorizo, Streets. A big warehouse-type building is being sunny-side-up egg, spicy tomatillo marinara, cotija, and remodeled.” cilantro. The host, Chef Danny Boome, also sampled the Spiced Lamb Meatball Sandwich with harissa marinara, COW UPDATE: Here is a tip from reader Jonathan: “I blistered Anaheim chiles, shaved pecorino, and arugula, drove past the restaurant on De la Guerra and Milpas served on ciabatta. with the cow on the roof. There was a big sign saying Opening Soon. It looked open, so maybe they already ACCIDENTAL SANTA: My annual Accidental Santa did a soft opening.” Reader Steve W. offered a similar call center will be open from December 21-24, 2-8 p.m. appraisal of the situation.

Children can call (800) 726-8222 to tell their Christmas wishes to one of our many volunteers.

John Dickson’s reporting can be found every day online at SantaBarbara.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‑ 6990 Market Place Dr, 685‑2039. 361 Hitchcock Way 563‑1163 $. Open for lunch & dinner 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 locations 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

RODNEY’S Grill, 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard at The Fess Parker – A Doubletree by Hilton Resort 805‑564‑4333. Serving 5pm – 10pm Tuesday through Saturday. Rodney’s Grill Menu is Fresh and New. Featuring all natural hormone‑free beef and fresh seafood, appetizers, and incredible desserts. The place to enjoy dinner with family and friends by the beach.

Private Dining Room for 30. Full cocktail bar with specialty cocktails. Wine cellar with Santa Barbara County & California best vintages by‑the‑glass www.rodneyssteakhouse.com

Thai YOUR PLACE Restaurant, 22 N. Milpas St., 966‑5151, 965‑9397. $$. Open Mon 4‑9:45pm Tues‑Thurs & Sun 11:30a‑9:45p, Fri/Sat 11:30a‑10:30p. V MC AE. Your Place ‑ The One & Only. Voted “BEST THAI FOOD” for 26 years by Independent and The Weekly readers, making us a Living Legend! Lunch & dinner specials daily. Fresh seafood & tasty vegetarian dishes. Santa Barbara Restaurant Guide selected us as the Best Thai Restaurant for exceptional dining reflected by food quality, service & ambiance.

WINE GUIDE 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

Wineries/Tasting Rooms 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 oldest‑ est.1962, and offers many internationally acclaimed wines from their Lafond Vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills. Try some of Winemaker Bruce McGuire’s small production bottling.www.sbwinery.com

Growler of the Week “Big Dave’s” Egg Nog @ Hungry Cat: Forget about growlers for beer; Hungry Cat (1134 Chapala St.) is selling growlers (and glasses) of egg nog through New Year’s. It’s seasonal, it’s environmentally correct, and it’s a delicious, crème‑anglaise‑based drink so wonderfully rich and deep. While store‑bought nogs often seem phony, you could almost swear you can count the yolks as they lap over your taste buds with this mix, originally concocted by Hungry Cat chef David Lentz’s dad. And then it’s got a big boozy yet miraculously balanced kick powered by Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, Jameson’s Irish Whiskey, and Spanish Don Pedro Brandy. The growler is a flip‑top glass bottle that can be reused if not returned; the nog sells for $38 a liter with refills $34. It can be ordered by the glass for $10, but you’ll end up buying a bottle too. See thehungrycat.com.

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This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 05 2014, I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos for Published. Dec 11, 18, 24, 31 2014.

Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Craft Ber Club at 5330 Debbie Rd #200 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Funk Zone Wines, LLC 1411 San Antonio Creek Road Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Funk Zones Wines, LLC This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17 2014.

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: 2014‑0003237. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Do‑Right Solar at 1094 North San Marcos Road Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Eric Torbet (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Eric Torbet This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Gabrielle Cabello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003297. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: First Pacific Financial Services at 3892 State Street Suite 215 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; George W. Emerson 245 Moreton Bay Ln. #5 Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: George W Emerson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 17 2014.

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: 2014‑0003246. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Ananda Press at 1290 Mountain View Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Gail Brenner (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gail Brenner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19 2014. 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 Christine Brenner. FBN Number: 2014‑0003257. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Andersen’s, Andersen’s Restaurant, Anderson’s Bakery And Restaurant, The Andersen’s, Andersen’s Danish Bakery, The Andersen’s Danish Bakery And Restaurant, LLC at 1106 State Street Santa Barbara, CA

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93101; The Andersen’s Danish Bakery And Restaurant, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Charlotte Andersen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 202014. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003276. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: By Mendi, Mendi Jewlry, The Bazaar Istanbul at 1642 Copenhagen Drive Solvang, CA 93463; Mendi International Corp (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Eyyup Mendi‑President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 212014. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003293. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ranch Guys at 3694 Tivola Street Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Recovery Ranch, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Daniel Ross, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 20 2014.

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: 2014‑0003273. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Mountain And Sea Dental at 2780 State Street Ste 6 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Michael D. Carley DDS, Inc 1115 Cliff Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Michael D. Carley This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 13, 2014. 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: 2014‑0003203. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: My World Productions at 520 W Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Skyler Bennett 521 W. Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Skyler Bennett This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 30, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2014‑0003091. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Baya Recycling Exports at 299 Sherwood Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Mauro Ramon Torrez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Mauro Ramon Torrez (same address) This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 30, 2014. 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: 2014‑0003061.

Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: In‑Depth Imaging at 3866 Center Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; James A. Thomas (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: James A. Thonas This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 19 2014. 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 Tara Tayasinghie. FBN Number: 2014‑0003258. Published: Nov 26, Dec 04, 11, 18 2014.

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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Corral, Corral Solutions at 1574 Green Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Corral Solutions, Inc. (same address) Susan Walseth (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 20, 2014. 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 Tara Tayasinge.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003268. Published: Dec 04, 11, 18, 24 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: France G Cosmetics at 303 West Valerio Apt 6 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; France Grissolange This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: France Grissolange This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003292. Published: Dec 04, 11, 18, 24 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gold Way, LaLa Totes, Where’s My LaLa at 4415 Vieja Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; George Walseth (same address) Susan Walseth (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: George Walseth This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2014.

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 Adele Bustos.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003303. Published: Dec 04, 11, 18, 24 2014.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tri County Residential And Commercial Cleaning Service at 1217 Rugby Avenue Ventura, CA 93004; David Saucedo (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: David Saucedo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2014. 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 Adele Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003290. Published: Dec 11, 18, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Paradise Transportation at 3710 Monterey Pines Street Apt B101 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Paradise Shuttle & Tour Services LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Abel Arega/ Manager This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 5, 2014. 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 Adele Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003402. Published: Dec 11, 18, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Living Dreams Press, Santa Barbara Psychics, School of Living Dreams at 3905 State Street Suite 7‑250 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Amy Beth Katz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Amy Beth Katz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 4, 2014.

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: 2014‑0003382. Published: Dec 11, 18, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Peace Of Space at 2051 Paseo Almeria Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Diane Anthony (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Diane L. Anthony This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 4, 2014. 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 Tara Jayasinghe.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003391. Published:

Dec 11, 18, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: AZ Consulting at 202 LA Jolla Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Abigail Bier Ziv (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Abigail Bier Ziv This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 4, 2014. 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: 2014‑0003387 Published: Dec 11, 18, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Macadamia Nut Company, Santa Barbara Macadamia Nuts at 5290 Overpass Road Suite 210 Santa Barbara, CA 93111, Richard S Sawyer 714 Willowglen Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Richard S. Sawyer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 1, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2014‑0003357. Published: Dec 11, 18, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Select Staffing at 3820 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Real Time Staffing Services LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Paul Galleberg, Secretary This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 4, 2014. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2014‑0003376 Published: Dec 11, 18, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Remodeling

By Design at 2622 Montrose Pl Santa Maria, CA 93105; Cherilyn Milton (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Cherilyn Milton This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 4, 2014. 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: 2014‑0003381 Published: Dec 11, 18, 24, 31.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Caitlin Slutzky, MFT at 2429 Bath Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Caitlin Slutzky 833 Willowglen Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Caitlin Slutsky This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003470. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Genesis Account American Outdoor Schools at 5750 Stagecoach Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; San Marcos Oursoor Education, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jason Lekas, Officer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2014. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

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by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003474. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Goodland Floors at 6115 Coloma Dr. Goleta, CA 93117; John Ramierez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John Ramirez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2014. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003469. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Oil Slick Beach Tar Remover at 2553 Santa Barbara Ave. Los Olivos, CA 93441; John Harmon (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John Harmon This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2014.

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: 2014‑0003472. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bone Joint Walk OUt Orthopedic Clinic, South Coast Orthopedic Clinic, Orthopedic Institute of Santa Barbara, Riviera Orthopedic at 320 West Junipero Santa Barbara, CA 93105; William R Gallivan, JR., MD, Inc 146 Canon Drive santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kim Johnson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 12, 2014. 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: 2014‑0003450. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Made By Dawn at 4195 Carpinteria Avenue Suite 3 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Made

By Dawn Inc 1072 Casitas Pass Road #117 Carpinteria, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kirk Peterson‑President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 8, 2014. 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: 2014‑0003414. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Action Roofing at 534 East Ortega Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; JM Roofing Co Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Sharon S. Fritz Secretarty/Treasurer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 8, 2014.

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: 2014‑0003411. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tournefortia at 38 Santa Ynez Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Gregory J. Arnold (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gregory Arnold This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 24, 2014. 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 Tara Jaysinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003314. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Radis Electric at 3923 Santa Claus Lane Carpinteria, CA 93013; I Koch Electric, Inc 333 Alameda Padre Sierra Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Ingo Koch This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 9, 2014. 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 Adela Bustos.

FBN Number: 2014‑0003416. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Plumbing Factory at 122 Vernal Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93105; The Plumbing Factory (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Daniel J. Brock This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 11, 2014. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2014‑0003444. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Morguelan And Associates Psychological Services at 610 E Pedregosa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Fred Morguelan PHD (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 11, 2014.

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: 2014‑0003439. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Kestrel John at 211 W Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; John P Needham 727‑A Lilac Drive Montecito, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John Needham This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 25, 2014. 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: 2014‑0003331. Published: Dec 18, 24, 31. 2014. Jan 8 2015.

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ALISSA ALEXANDER ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469282 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: ALISSA ALEXANDER TO: ALEESA PITCHAMARN ALEXANDER 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 Jan 7, 2015 9:­ 30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, 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 Nov 20, 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 11, 18, 24, 31.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF AILEEN CHANG ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469501 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: AILEEN CHANG TO: AILEEN FULLCHANG FROM: OMARI FULLER TO: OMARI FULLCHANGE 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 Jan 14, 2015 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, 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 Nov 20, 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 18, 24, 31 2014.

Jan 8 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF RUBY REGINA IBARRA ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469816 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: PEDRO ADBIEL IGNACIO‑IBARRA TO: AILEEN RUBY IGNACIO‑IBARRA 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 Jan 21 2015 9:­30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, 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 Dec 9, 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 18, 24, 31 2014.

Jan 8 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DAVID DANIEL LOPEZ ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1469693 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: DAVID DANIEL LOPEZ TO: DAVID DANIEL ESCOBAR CAMPOS 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 Jan 28, 2015 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, 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 Dec 9, 2014 by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 18, 24, 31 2014.

Jan 8 2015.

Public Notices SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ANACAPA STREET DIVISION Case No. 1469190 (PROPOSED) ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF CONTINUED HEARING ON MOTION TO DECLARE JULIAN NAFAL AS VEXAATIOUS LITIGANT JULIAN NAFAL, PETITIONER, vs. GORDON FORBES, III, RESPONDENT Date: February 3, 2015 Time: 9:30 a.m.

Place: Dept. SB‑5 Assigned to: Hon. Colleen B. Stern, Judge The Court having vacated the dismissal for failure to obtain consent with a request for affirmative relief pending on December 1, 2014, finds good cause to Order a continuance of the previously noticed Hearing on December 1, 2014 to February 3, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in this Department, and that publication, as required by law, be given in the Santa Barbara Independent as the publication most likely to provide Notice for 4 times over 4 weeks prior to the new hearing date. Good cause appearing, therefore it is so ORDERED. John Kenneth Dorwin, SBN 111082 Attorney and Counselor at Law 90 W. HWY 246, Suite 4 P.O. Box 2011 Buellton, CA 93427; Telephone (805) 688‑8377 Attorney for Gordon Forbes, III By Colleen Sterene; Judge of the Superior Court; DATE: 12‑9‑14.

Published Dec 18, 2014.

Summons SUMMONS ‑ (Family Law) NOTICE TO REPONDENT: TROY ALLEN OSTBOE AVISO AL DEMANDANDO: Petitioner’s name is: MAUREEN HOPE OSTBOE Nombre del demandante: CASE NUMBER: (Numero del caso) 1466796 You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL‑120 or FL‑123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call will not protect you.

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COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE OF ESCHEAT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Sacramento entitled In the Matter of Judicial Escheat No. 40, case number 34-201400169087, to escheat certain sums of money. The sums are from the estates of deceased persons whose estates were probated in the State of California, distributed to named persons and thereafter deposited in the treasure of the county where the estates were probated because of the failure of the heirs to claim the amounts distributed. Thereafter, all of the sums of money not distributed were delivered to the State Treasure.

All of the sums of money have been on deposit in the State Treasure for more than fi ve years prior to the commencement of this proceeding.

The names of the decedents whose estates were probated, the property id number, the names of the heirs and the amounts deposited for heirs are as follows: COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Property ID Owner Name 956804005

Decedent/Heirs(s) $ Amount

ROBINSON MATILDA T Decedent GUBERT VIRGINIA Heir

$3,024.99

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the above-entitled court has issued an order directing all persons interested in a sum of money to be escheated to appear before the court in Department 129, Sacramento Superior Court, William R. Ridgeway Family Relations Court Building, 3341 Power Inn Road, Sacramento, CA 95826, on February 5, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. and show cause, if any, why said sums of money should not be decree of said Court vest in and escheat to the State of California.

If the Court enters judgment in favor of the State of California, the property will permanently escheat to the State fi ve (5) years from the date of entry of the judgment. Until that time, i.e. fi ve years from the date of entry of the judgment, claims may be made for the property by contacting the State Controller’s Offi ce, Bureau of Unclaimed Property.

For further particulars on the above entitled matter, reference is made to the petition and order on fi le in this proceeding.

KAMALA D. HARRIS, Attorney General of the State of California TANIA M. IBANEZ, Senior Assistant Attorney General ELIZABETH S. KIM, Supervising Deputy Attorney General CHRISTOPHER LAMERDIN, Deputy Attorney General 455 GOLDEN GATE AVENUE, SUITE 11000 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102-7004 Public: (415) 703-5500 Telephone: (415) 703-5655 Facsimile: (415) 703-5480

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your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courts.ca.­gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

NOTICE‑RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay

back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

Tiene 30 dias calendario despues de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citacion y Peticion para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL‑120 o FL‑123) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefonica o una audiencia de la corte no basta para protegerto.

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar ordenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte tambien le puede ordenar que pague manutencion, y honorarios y costos legales.

Para asesoramiento legal, pongase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener informacion para encountrar un abogado en el

Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.­ sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.­ lawhelpca.org) o poniendose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

AVISO‑LAS ORDENES DE RESTRICCION SE ENCUENTRAN EN LA PAGINA 2: valen para ambos conyuges o pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la peticion, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras ordenes. Cualquier autoridad de la ley que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas ordenes puede hacerlas acerlas acater en cualquier lugar de California. EXENCION DE CUOTAS: Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario un formulario de exencion de cuotas. La corte puede ordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por completo, las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente

exentos a peticion de usted o de la otra parte.

1.The name and address of the court are (El nombre y direccion de la corte son): SANTA BARBARA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 1100 Anacapa Street P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107. 2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, direcion y numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): Dated Apr 24, 2014. LARRY LABORDE, CFLS, SBN: 151975 LABORDE & DAUGHERTY EL CENTRO BUILDING SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101; (805) 963‑4567 Darrel E. Parker, Execcutive Officer; Clerk, by (Secretario, por) Susan Donjuan, Deputy (Asistente) Published Dec 11, 18, 24, 31 2014.

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Tiburon Bay Lane, $4,498,000, 4BD/4.­ 5BA, Sun 2‑4, Debbie Lee 637‑7588 coldwell banker Montecito, 115 Coronada Circle, $1,749,000, 2BD/3BA, Sun 1‑3, Kathleen Marvin 450‑7492

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Montecito

5949 Trudi Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 12‑3, $749,000, Coldwell Banker, Cheryl Imp 805.455.9940

coldwell banker Montecito, 1567 East Valley Road, $6,395,000, 6BD/5BA, Sun 1‑4, Andrea Shaparenko 455‑4945

Hope Ranch

coldwell banker Montecito, 1032 Fairway Road, $995,000, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1‑4, Bonnie Jo Danely 689‑1818

4589 Via Vistosa, 6BD/5.5BA, Sun 1‑4, $3,500,000, Coldwell Banker, Don Brownett 805.837.9064

coldwell banker Montecito, 4591 Sierra Madre, $1,698,000, 3BD/3BA, Sun 2‑4, C. Scott McCosker 687‑2436 Coldwell Banker Montecito, 190

Riviera Coldwell banker Montecito, 17 Conejo Road, $1,895,000, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 2‑4, Patrice Serrani 637‑5112

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722 Calle De Los Amigos, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1‑4, $629,000, Coldwell Banker, Stephanie Rachford 805.252.5229

Apartments & Condos For Rent

coldwell banker Montecito, 26 Calle Crespis, $895,000, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2‑4, Arielle Assur 906‑0194

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