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A man accused of stabbing two homeless people as they slept in the summer of 2012 was convicted by a Los Angeles jury this week on three counts of attempted murder after he stabbed three transients in that city and left rambling “death warrants” at each scene. Courtney Anthony Robinson’s defense attorney argued he was delusional and “acting under the orders of God.” It’s unclear if and when Robinson will be prosecuted for his alleged Santa Barbara crimes.

A Goleta woman was struck and killed by a freight train on 2/14 near Goleta’s Amtrak station. Suzanne Worsham, 49, was talking on her cell phone after visiting a friend at a nearby encampment when she walked onto the tracks.

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BREAKING POINT: Chris Mitchum claims Lois Capps’s attack ads caused him to lose the election.

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BY N I C K W E L S H epublican congressional candidate and onetime kung fu action star Chris Mitchum charged that incumbent Congressmember Lois Capps — who beat Mitchum by fewer than 8,000 votes in last November’s election — took his words so violently out of context in TV and radio ads that they constituted defamation of character.

In legal papers distributed to the media this week, Mitchum charged that the offending ads “changed the outcome of the election in Capps’ favor.” Mitchum alleged he sustained “severe emotional shock and distress” as well as “embarrassment, humiliation, loss of employability, loss of future employability, and anguish.” Mitchum is also suing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which spent $99,000 to air the ads.

Mitchum took exception to the TV and radio spots in which he is quoted stating, “I do not intend to go to Washington, D.C., to represent the th District.” Had Capps quoted Mitchum completely, prospective voters would have heard him say, “I do not intend to go to Washington, D.C., to represent the th District to bring back baseball fields; that’s not why I am going. I am going to fight for my country, and I happen to be from the th District.”

Capps’s ads described Mitchum as “a Tea Party darling,” suggesting that if elected, he would represent the Tea Party on a host of issues rather than his constituents. Because the ads provided only a partial quote, Mitchum’s attorney Josh Lynn contends, Mitchum was made to look like “a hypocrite and narrow-minded ‘Tea Party’ advocate,” and alternately, that “he would use the elected office for his own purposes not those of his district.”

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Typically, the courts afford candidates extremely broad latitude in speaking critically of their opponents for fear of chilling political free speech and the robust exchange of views and information prior to an election.

For elected officials to prevail on defamation charges, they must prove that the statement was false and the person making it knew it was false at the time. As a rule, that’s a high burden of proof. Lynn insisted Capps crossed the line.

“They took [Mitchum’s] statement, butchered it, changed the meaning of the words coming out of his mouth to say he wasn’t going to do his job,” Lynn said.“It’s not right.”

The ads proved controversial during the campaign itself. When they aired, both Capps and Mitchum had conducted polling that indicated the race was too close to call. Capps, accustomed to relatively easy victories during her 16 years in Congress, organized a last-minute push to rally the troops.

And for Capps, frequently voted “the nicest member of Congress” by congressional staffers, the ads in question were uncharacteristically aggressive. Her campaign advisors insisted the ads were accurate because Mitchum, a conservative Republican, had repeatedly stated he was going to Washington to re-instill the original values of the founding fathers rather than bring home the proverbial bacon. Privately, some longtime Capps supporters found the ads hard to stomach.

Capps’s campaign consultant Bill Carrick issued a two-line response to the Mitchum lawsuit, stating that Capps had yet to be served with the claim and could not comment. He added, “But she is proud of the campaign she ran and is confident there is no validity to this frivolous lawsuit.”

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Given the tradition of political mudslinging that’s long prevailed in the United States, Mitchum’s charges might seem a stretch. But Lynn contended that a recent court ruling — pitting ABC news reporter John Stossel against a minister preaching the gospel of prosperity — provided Mitchum a legal leg on which to stand.

In that case, Stossel accurately quoted the minister exclaiming over how rich he was. But Stossel failed to also disclose the minister was quoting a fictitious persona he devised to illustrate that even the wealthiest can be plagued by feelings of emptiness. Ultimately, ABC agreed to settle the case and issued a public apology.

That case, however, involved a news broadcast.

Courts have been more forgiving of the exaggeration, distortion, and outright deception that’s often part of campaign rhetoric.

Mitchum declined to speak about the emotional distress he claimed Capps “intentionally inflicted.” But in a written statement, he accused Capps of “brazen campaign improprieties,” and a “win-at-all-costs approach” that has contributed to a “decline in American ideals.” In conclusion, he stated,“Mrs. Capps’ astounding, deliberate and blatant falsification of the truth renders her unacceptable as a public servant.”

Jessica Levinson, an attorney specializing in election law issues at Loyola Marymount, commented, “A lot of ads are sleazy. A lot of ads are misleading. But that’s not enough to qualify as the intentional infliction of emotional distress.” In such cases, she said, the judges want proof that the pain and suffering was intended.

And she said many judges will require medical records indicating physical manifestation of the alleged distress, such as nausea, insomnia, or weight loss.

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Sheriff’s and Coast Guard helicopters responded to reports on 2/16 of a panga with two outboard engines (pictured) near Tajiguas Beach, and found full fuel containers floating in the water and the 30-foot panga being towed toward the harbor by Erik Bjorklund. When the Coast Guard cutter arrived, Bjorklund claimed the boat under the “law of salvage” and refused to abandon it when deputies told him it was evidence in a possible narcotics case. Bjorklund was arrested for interfering with an investigation, cited, and released at the scene. The Sheriff’s Office took possession of the panga. No narcotics were found.

Superior Court Judge Donna Geck has ruled that former Boy Scout volunteer Al Stein is liable for $775,875 in damages for molesting a 13-year-old scout in 2007. Since Stein, now 36, is “destitute” and reportedly living on SSI in a Salinas motel, the ruling is “purely symbolic” and marks a closure to the case, said the victim’s attorney, Tim Hale. The victim and his family had sued the Boy Scouts of America and the area Los Padres Council, as well, both of which settled the case after three days of testimony.

On 2/11, Los Angeles police found the tan 2005 Chevy Tahoe used in the kidnap and robbery of a woman in Isla Vista on 2/9. Two Hispanic males — one in his mid-thirties and the other in his fif-

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Dr. James Withers — the Pittsburgh-based founder of Operation Safety Net and the International Street Medicine Institute — spoke first about his experiences conducting homeless medical outreach. Following Withers was Dr. Jim O’Connell, the president of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless program, who imparted his decades of experience to the students. O’Connell shared stories of his former patients and stressed the importance of providing medical care to all people who need it, even in your own backyard. “What you do on the streets is global health,” he said. “There is so much going on — Lyz Hoffman just outside our doors.”

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ties — drove her to her bank, made her withdraw cash, and then returned her to I.V. No arrests have been made. Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Anonymous TipLine at 681-4171.

New Koosharem Corporation, the parent company of Santa Barbara–based Select Staffing and recent merger partner EmployBridge, announced Monday its board of directors had fired longtime Select Staffing leader and Hope Ranch resident Stephen Sorensen after discovering he allegedly “orchestrated the diversion of $2.7 million” of company money into an “entity” he controls. An attorney for Sorensen told the Pacific Coast Business Times that his termination was in retaliation for a lawsuit he filed a week earlier against New Koosharem for unjustly driving him out of the business he helped create.

Seven Isla Vista restaurants and liquor stores — Pizza My Heart, Keg N Bottle, Sorriso Italiano, Six Pak Shop, Freebirds, El Sitio, and Giovanni’s — were cited last Friday for selling alcohol to minor decoys. All but Keg N Bottle were first-time offenders, and the consequences could be a license suspension or up to a $3,000 fine. Employees who sold the booze are personally charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor, which results in a minimum $1,000 fine and community service Deputies and a nonprofit organization tied to the Sheriff’s Office will hold a barbecue fundraiser for Deputy Dan McSkimming on 2/21, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Elks Lodge in Goleta, with $10 tickets at the door. McSkimming, a 43-yearold 16-year veteran of the department, suffered a freak accident in August in which a neck injury caused a stroke. He was temporarily placed in a

medically induced coma but has made strides since; doctors estimate his recovery time will be long. Money raised will help cover mounting medical bills for the married father of two.

CITY What will be a joint effort by the City and County of Santa Barbara regarding transportationrelated changes to the Mission Canyon area passed muster with the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, one week after the City Council gave its green light. A dedicated bike lane and sidewalk, among other alterations meant to make the corridor safer for pedestrians and bicyclists, are proposed; opponents worry they will create new safety issues. Design plans for the suggested changes are still to come, as is funding.

About 250 people packed Blind Tiger on 2/15 for a benefit concert that raised just over $9,000 for Grace Fisher, the 17-year-old girl diagnosed in December with a rare, paralyzing illness called acute flaccid myelitis. Family friend Paul Corr told the crowd Fisher is doing well at a rehabilitation hospital in Denver, now able to talk in words and short phrases, spend time outside, see visitors, and ride an exercise bike. Corr encouraged friends and community members to continue to think of creative ways to raise money to cover Fisher’s mounting medical bills.

COUNTY Health officials announced on 2/13 five confirmed flu-related deaths in the county this season. All but one of the victims were 65 years old or older; four people younger than 64 have also been admitted to Intensive Care. This flu season has been worse than last, said Public Health Officer Dr. Charity Dean, who mandated flu vaccines for employees cont’d page 12

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bout the only safe, simple, and irrefutable fact about the Eastside Business Improvement District (EBID) proposed for Milpas Street is the complete and total communication failure that’s surrounded its inception. In the past week, that failure went from bad to much worse.

A public venting by supporters and detractors of the proposed district drew a standingroom-only crowd at the Neighborhood Advisory Council meeting last Wednesday at the Franklin Community Center.

Coursing through the debate was an unmistakable undercurrent of ethnic tension. Sunday afternoon, things got tenser still when a group of 15 activists asso- GROUND ZERO: Santos Guzman’s El Bajio restaurant has ciated with PODER, a Latino emerged as a flash point in the festering debate on whether rights organization, picketed Milpas Street needs a business improvement district. the El Bajio taqueria on Milpas Street because the owner, Santos Guzman, is written up the draft plan. That lack of beforea strong supporter of the EBID. Police were the-fact engagement has put many business called twice. No arrests took place. But bad owners’ noses out of joint. That many of these blood ensued. businesses happen to be small, Latino-owned Afterward, Guzman called the protestors establishments with long histories on Milpas “bullies.” He claimed they chanted he was “a Street has heightened the sense of distrust. sellout and a bastard” and that they told his cusByrne explained she wanted to do outreach tomers they’d get sick if they ate there. One cus- first but said she’d been given specific instructomer claims he was told there was “spit” in the tions by City Hall to wait until a finalized plan burritos. Gaby Hernandez of PODER denied was in place before reaching out. At City Hall, the allegations, insisting that she and two other the recollection is different. Nina Johnson, assisPODER representatives met with Guzman tant city administrator, said City Hall insisted and characterized their conversations about that a business plan be in place before Byrne and the business district — which they contend will the MCA began circulating petitions among the accelerate the process of gentrification taking 600 affected businesses to secure their needed place on Milpas Street — as “quiet and polite.” approval.“There’s a difference between circulatHernandez countered that one EBID sup- ing petitions and doing outreach,” Johnson said. porter showed up during the picket, sat out- “Outreach you can do at any time.” side staring at the protestors, and threatened to Maybe. But maybe not anymore. EBID supassault them if they didn’t leave in 40 minutes. porters — even those who are Spanish-speakHernandez said she told a police officer about ing Latinos — claimed they’ve been accused of the threat but has not filed a complaint. Tuesday “harassing” and “intimidating” business ownnight, EBID supporters responded by rallying ers when they thought they’d been having corand eating at Guzman’s restaurant, vowing not dial conversations on the merits of the plan.

Conversely, some business owners opposed to be shouted down by the other side.

Milpas Street has been abuzz about the to the EBID claim one MCA boardmember proposed EBID since it was unveiled before ripped anti-EBID flyers off their walls. Others the City Council in November. As proposed, expressed concern about economic retaliation. the district would encompass 601 businesses, Members of the Neighborhood Advisory which would be assessed $250 a year on average Council want to know how Byrne and the MCA to generate an annual budget of $165,000 for planned to restore a sense of trust for those cleanup efforts and special events. Currently, who felt excluded. One councilmember asked the Milpas Community Association (MCA) whether Byrne had a “restorative strategy” does much of this work but has had to rely on a or if she were going to “bull-in-a-china-shop relatively small number of donor businesses to it” instead. Most agreed outreach had been a serious problem even if the ultimate goals — a get the job done.

Aside from concerns about gentrification, clean, safe, and healthy neighborhood — were the most glaring problem articulated at last commonly shared. Byrne took exception. “I Wednesday’s meeting was lack of prior out- wouldn’t say it qualifies as a disaster,” she said. reach. By the time most businesses ever heard “There are a lot of businesses who are not here about the proposed EBID, Byrne and the MCA tonight,” adding that 80 percent of the busi■ had already hired a private consultant and had nesses approached support the plan. independent.com

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A quantity 34 times the size of Manhattan covered ankle-deep in plastic — eight million metric tons — enters the oceans every year. That’s the metaphor of choice for Roland Geyer, associate professor at UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, who contributed to new research published last week in Science that warned unless waste management improves, the amount of plastic in the ocean will increase considerably over the next decade.

The group of international researchers calculated plastic waste generated in the world’s 192 countries with coastlines. Some rapidly developing nations are creating more and more trash but are lagging in waste infrastructure, Geyer said. China, according to the study, is the worst plastic polluter; it produces as much as 3.53 million metric tons of marine debris each year. Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam were next on the list. In the United States, which clocked in as the 20th worst plastic contributor, the waste management system we know today is only about 40 years old. “In countries like Europe and the U.S., the main pathway might just be littering,” Geyer said. “Just people going to beaches and not being aware that their wrappers or bottles get left behind.”

The true magnitude of plastic waste within the world’s oceans is vastly greater than the estimated 250,000 metric tons that’s floating on top. “I think it’s a real wake-up call,” Geyer said, calling for all plastic to be recycled or captured in landfills. “If there are products that are notoriously difficult to keep out of the ocean, then maybe a ban or product redesigns.” California is currently tied up in a plastic-bag controversy. The bag industry collected enough signatures to put a referendum to the statewide bag ban on the November 2016 ballot. Though he didn’t study bags specifically, Geyer said that “plastic bags probably are real environmental hazard” because if not managed properly, — Kelsey Brugger a little gust of wind could blow them offshore.

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Another kelp project received unanimous approval on 2/13 from the California Coastal Commission to grow the seaweed off Goleta Beach. The Beach Erosion Authority for Clean Oceans and Nourishment (BEACON) will set granite columns 800-3,000 feet offshore in the hope of bringing kelp forests back to their former numbers, wiped out after El Niños of the 1980s.

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Citing safety concerns, Goleta has decided to delay until March the reopening of the southbound onand off-ramps at Los Carneros Road, closed since last February.

The overhaul involves replacing the SBCC students who won top awards at S.B. Hacks include outdated bridge over the nearby (front row, left to right) Nidhal Selmi, Colin Allen, Zack railroad tracks. During construction, Feinn, and Russ Fenenga and (back row, left to right) the freeway overpass has stayed Ashley Cortez, John Michael Bachmann, Tyler Hall, and open, but lanes in each direction Jon Steelsmith. were reduced. When the ramps reopen, a dedicated right-turn lane onto the Two Santa Barbara City College teams were on-ramp should alleviate congestion. Bike among the top winners at UCSB’s S.B. Hacks lanes and a sidewalk round out the upgrades. hackathon. The 36-hour, no-sleep event drew about 550 college students from 15 schools across the state. Team WiPi won Best Overall ENVIRONMENT Hack for Eco Node, which networks environmental sensors for water, soil, and air pressure The National Science Foundation awarded a in pipes. Team Event Hype won Best iOS Hack $997,312 grant to UCSB researchers to study the relationship between kelp forests and App for an iPhone app that organizes data and connects users at public events. beach environments. A team of graduate and ■ undergraduate researchers will examine how washed-up drift kelp, or wrack, contributes

helicopters, like the one seen here, received more than $800,000 in donations for painting and repairs in recent years.

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BY LY Z H O F F M A N ounty officials raised their eyebrows in January over hefty, roundabout donations made by a nonprofit organization to the Sheriff ’s Office. The gifts violated policy by not first winning the approval of the Board of Supervisors and frustrated the Auditor-Controller by neglecting to get those donations on the books in a timely manner. What was on the table in January — the Sheriff ’s Office asking the supervisors to officially accept $826,065 worth of helicopter-related donations — came back this week with warnings for Sheriff Bill Brown to not let history repeat itself.

The organization in question, Project: Rescue Flight, formed more than a decade ago and over the past few years has contributed to the department’s Aviation Support Unit.

In the 2013-2014 fiscal year, the organization wrote a $307,556 check to paint four helicopters and cover other expenses. In the first half of this fiscal year, Project: Rescue Flight forked over $18,509 for more painting and some repairs. The third donation under scrutiny was $500,000 for mechanical work.

When Brown asked the supervisors for

their after-the-fact endorsement, the board and Auditor-Controller Bob Geis balked, as policy requires all donations greater than $10,000 to be preapproved; Geis’s office expressed worries about recording priorperiod transactions. Also troublesome was the fact that a majority of Project: Rescue Flight’s seven-person board were Sheriff ’s Office employees. A subsequent meeting between the parties remedied the latter issue, with department employees no longer making up the board’s majority.

The supervisors on Tuesday ultimately accepted the donations, but they asked that the policy return to their agenda for reiteration. Taking flak from the supervisors, Brown said that Project: Rescue Flight gets much of its money from another nonprofit that wishes to remain anonymous and refuses to donate directly to government entities. He said the group made efforts to be on the up-and-up by following the legal advice of a “prominent” law firm. Still, Supervisor Peter Adam called the matter “troubling,” using the donations’ purpose to make his point.“What if we didn’t approve this today?” he asked. “Can you un■ paint a helicopter?”

Skids Greased for Las Varas

Putting a near end to years of bureaucratic back and forth, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to propel the Las Varas Ranch development proposal closer to a final decision. The Gaviota Coast project’s environmental analysis has put it in limbo for some time, as it was punted from the county’s Planning Commission to the board twice over concerns about its depth. But the supervisors — led by 3rd District Supervisor Doreen Farr — okayed the environmental review this time around and asked that the Planning Commission provide them a final recommendation on the ranch’s future. For years, the Doheny family has sought to recalibrate their property for a small slate of future houses, plus trails and a public parking lot to soften the deal.

For several hours, the board listened to dozens of conservationists — a few got quite zealous — who expressed concern about the potential “mansion-ization” of that area, and others who worried that the proposal’s trails were too much of a compromise.

Fears about impeded views, changes to agriculture operations, and reduced recreational opportunities also punctuated the hearing. Acknowledging those concerns and “how deeply people care about that stretch of precious coastline,” Farr said it was time for the commission to either give a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. Farr requested that the commission schedule their meeting as soon as possible so that the Dohenys could get closer to their long-awaited answer. “A process that should be linear is start— Lyz Hoffman ing to become circular,” she said. “I think it’s gone on long enough.”

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leven oil wells in Lompoc, Casmalia, and Cat Canyon are among hundreds failing to comply with federal safe-drinking-water laws because of an administrative mess within the state’s Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR). Oil wells drilling in drinking- or irrigation-water aquifers must file a lengthy exemption form with DOGGR, but an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) audit of the department in 2011 found deficiencies in the state agency’s monitoring program.

According to Kevin Drude, the county’s Energy Division director, no injection wells — which replace the oil removed underground with residual water from drilling operations — in the county drill into potable water supplies, though he said he’s meeting with DOGGR representatives this week.

Steve Bohlen, appointed head of DOGGR last summer, said the state water board is working with DOGGR to identify injection wells pumping into aquifers that might not be exempt. “The water board’s specific task is to identify nearby water wells and evaluate their vulnerability,” he said. “It is looking at regions

of the state with injection wells that pose a high risk to usable groundwater resources, including Santa Barbara County.”

With California’s four-year drought, environmentalists are crying foul, calling on the state to act quickly. The EPA audit had found DOGGR too lenient in the water it considered clean enough to protect, among other problems. The extent to which these injection wells are contaminating the water supply statewide remains to be seen, and state regulators have recently scurried to comply with EPA stipulations requiring state regulators to draft a plan to remedy the problem.

DOGGR has written to the EPA, promising to bring the regulations back into compliance.

The state agency has until 2017 to either fix the permit system or shut down the disposal wells.

Last summer, 11 wells in Kern County were closed when it came to light that they were too close to about 100 water wells. California has more than 50,000 injection wells. Of the 2,500 wells recently permitted, 532 are waterdisposal wells. Preliminary testing of nine wells give an indication that no drinking water was ■ contaminated, said state officials.

Pies in the Sky

Though several stressed it was far from official, Santa Barbara school district boardmembers entertained the idea of placing a facilities bond measure on the November 2016 ballot at a workshop held Tuesday night. The school district’s facilities committee has met monthly for the past year, but in December, committee member and longtime school advocate Lanny Ebenstein put the brakes on the process of finalizing a facilities master plan. Overwhelmed by the amount of detail for 21 school sites, he called for priorities.

On Tuesday, Ebenstein made a case for eliminating 93 portables at elementary schools and developing permanent classrooms at a price tag he estimated to be $80 million. No one objected that portables were a key issue, though total cost has not been solidified. The board directed the committee to come back with a plan that outlines categories for expenses — removing portables or safety upgrades, for instance — at the site and district level.

Last fall, community members attended town hall meetings to express renovation wishes at their campuses. Some of what they came up with — a bigger pool at San Marcos or gymnasiums at all of the junior highs, for instance — were dubbed the “pies in the sky” but nonetheless a barometer for what a dream school campus could look like.

Several facilities committee members also took to the podium Tuesday and noted the area “political climate change,” pointing to school facilities bonds floated by Santa Barbara City College and Montecito Union School that were unsuccessful last November. In 2012, the school district placed a parcel tax on the ballot that failed. The city, county, and SBCC are considering other area tax increases in some form or another in 2016, Ebenstein added. The issue could also hinge on whether or not Governor Jerry Brown would place a state school facilities bond on the ballot in 2016; many are skeptical he would. Without a state bond, school modernization continues to be the burden of area communities.

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he 113-year-old Grace Lutheran Church in Santa Barbara, facing the inevitable after decades of declining membership, closed its doors forever last Sunday as a house of worship in the Lutheran faith, leaving its aging members, all 42 of them, unmoored but unshaken in their mission.

Since the 1970s, the A-frame church at  State Street had always been a place where a homeless person could get a blanket and a meal. Now, the congregation is bequeathing all of its land to help the poor — two acres’ worth $7.5 million in a major shopping mall.

On one acre, the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara plans to demolish Grace Lutheran and build Grace Village, a three-story structure with 60 rental apartments for low-income seniors, in accordance with the congregation’s last wishes. The remaining acre, which is under commercial lease, will generate about $100,000 yearly for the needy, church leaders said.

“The way they’re using their property is extraordinarily admirable,” said the Reverend Mark Asman of Trinity Episcopal Church. “Numbers don’t always tell a story. I’d measure the size of their heart and say their heart is alive.”

For Grace Lutheran members, the satisfaction of giving has been tempered by grief over the loss of a “church home.”

They pondered their options for 10 years before voting last spring to proceed with closure.

“This is extremely painful and even a little divisive,” said Barbara Wagner, who first started attending services at Grace Lutheran in the late 1970s with her husband, Martin Scharlemann. “It’s hard to imagine not having that church in our lives. They are the sweetest, most determined-to-do-good people I’ve ever met.

“We’re going to enter a period of mourning — and then we’re going to look for a church that has lots of young people.”

The Grace Lutheran property was purchased for $200,000 in 1956 when it was in farmland. Membership peaked at just under 200 in the 1960s and then dropped steadily, church leaders said, mirroring a 40-year decline in mainline Protestantism across the country. Beginning with the ’60s rebellion, scholars say, many young Americans shifted to less traditional,

more unscripted evangelical churches, or they dropped out of organized religion altogether.

“Grace Lutheran is prototypical of the larger pattern,” said Wade Clark Roof, professor emeritus of religion and society at UCSB. “For a long time, mainline Protestant churches were a bridging institution, the center of the culture holding things together. But they were pushed aside. Oldstyle Protestants have been the ones who have suffered the most.”

Sunday’s closing service at Grace Lutheran was old style in its formal hymns and scripted prayers, but the theme, taken from the Bible, was “Behold I am making all things new.”

“This is not Grace Lutheran’s funeral but its transformation, its metamorphosis into something new and good and lifegiving,” Bishop R. Guy Erwin told the listeners, as many wiped away tears.

The land for Grace Village is worth $5.5 million and represents the largest private gift in the history of the Housing Authority, said Rob Pearson, executive director.

There are presently 1,500 elderly residents on the waiting list for public housing in Santa Barbara.

Construction on Grace Village is expected to begin in mid-2016. Until then, the church building will continue to function as a food pantry and a meeting space for nonprofit groups, and Templo Calvario will hold services in Spanish there.

The remaining acre of church land, now under lease to Vons and AC Fitness (a club in the old Strouds building) will be owned and administered by California Lutheran Homes, church leaders said. The lease revenues will go to Transition House, Habitat for Humanity, Lutheran World Relief, and a food pantry at Grace Village.

Transition House was cofounded by Grace Lutheran, Trinity Episcopal, and a handful of other churches that took turns running monthly homeless shelters between 1984 and 1986 in their basements and fellowship halls. Congressmember Lois Capps, a longtime member of Grace Lutheran, recalls working as a nighttime proctor in those days. The church volunteers were named as Local Heroes by this newspaper in 1987.

“It was a vibrant church,” Capps said.

“There’s some sadness and poignancy in the closing, but it can be the sign of better ■ things to come.”

BY J E R R Y R O B E R T S CRUEL IRONY: The nation’s top climate-science denier has taken power over environmental policy in Congress — just as actual climate scientists have forecast California’s worst drought since the Middle Ages.

Far more than a shortage of precipitation, the state’s fouryear drought represents the start of a 1,000-year event, new research shows, propelled by atmospheric warming caused by greenhouse-gas emissions.

“The current California drought is exceptionally severe in the context of at least the last millennium,” concluded a recent study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The state’s drought is shaped not just by rain and snow scarcity but also by “record high temperatures,” noted two climatologists, who live in the real world.

Back in the Beltway, however, James Inhofe (R-OK) last month assumed chairmanship of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, where his evangelical Christian views on climate change now hold sway over efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

“Climate is changing and climate has always changed and always will,” Senator Sooner promptly declared.“The hoax is that there are people who are so arrogant to think they are so powerful they can change climate. Man can’t change climate.”

As policy makers from Santa Barbara to Sacramento earnestly seek ways and means to relieve California’s parched condition, Inhofe’s political ascendance highlights one broad obstacle to addressing the existential threats of climate change and drought. Sadly, it is but one of several baked-in, intractable impediments framing the crisis.

MEGA-DROUGHT: The latest scary report on California’s drought is based on historic measurements of tree rings, which grow narrowly in dry years and wider in wet ones. Similarly, a separate study, published last week in Science Advances, points to a looming “mega-drought” throughout the Southwest in this century, comparable to that which destroyed the Ancestral Pueblo culture.

“Our results point to a remarkably drier future that falls far outside the contemporary experience of natural and human systems in Western North America,” the authors wrote. “Future droughts will occur in a significantly warmer world with higher temperatures than recent historical events … ” A real-time illustration of the problem: Rain drenched the state in December, and runoff temporarily boosted reservoir levels; however, because temperatures were warm, snow formed only at very high elevations, so there was little buildup of Sierra snowpack, the crucial source of sustained water supply.

POPULATION: Environmentally conscious Californians so far are meeting the state’s goal of reducing overall water consumption by 20 percent by 2020.

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still won’t meet forecast demand as population grows.

That is the conclusion of an investigation by the Sacramento Bee, whose reporters surveyed 370 local agencies, then compared their demand forecasts to Department of Finance population projections.

“The key to this is, our water sources don’t increase as population grows,” a Natural Resources Defense Council analyst told the newspaper. “If population is to grow, we need to figure out a way to do it with the same amount of water.”

GEOGRAPHY: One fundamental fact has shaped California’s water wars: Most of the state’s water is in the north, while most of its people live in the south; most recently, for example, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and the Central Valley received less than an inch in early February, as up to a foot fell in northernmost counties.

However, the war briefly halted in 2014, when Capitol pols forged a rare bipartisan agreement on Proposition , a $7 billion bond ballot measure.

Voters bought it, 2 to 1. Alas, the mini-era of good feeling ended quickly.

Committee hearings on how to spend the billions began last week, and the complex crosscurrents and bitter conflicts of water politics — fish versus farmers, conservation versus development, coastal versus inland — swiftly resurfaced.

Notably, the California Water Alliance, representing Central Valley interests, attacked Save the Delta, an influential environmental group, over the need to build new, low-elevation reservoirs to collect and save more warm winter runoff.

“Millions of Californians should be very concerned that some extremist groups and individuals are pushing to move storage project dollars away from the creation of new water storage,” the pro-ag group charged. “Voters need to know that they will not become victims of a bait-and-switch … ” As combat resumed, the State Water Resources Control Board was to convene this week for hearings on a range of possible anti-drought next steps, from greater rationing to more wastewater recycling.

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SLIPPERY ROCK OR SLIPPERY SLOPE?

When considering the water wars now erupting throughout the South Coast, the question shwinging most immediately to mind is this: Is that saber out of your pants or are you just unhappy to see me?

Of all the noise emanating from swords and scabbards, the most compelling involves the Goleta Water District’s declaration of legal warfare last week against Dick Wolf — the oneman media empire who gave unto the world TV melodrama Law & Order — over Wolf’s plans to sell water from his Slippery Rock Ranch in Goleta to the parched lawns and wilted shrubs of Montecito.

In recent weeks, Wolf and his wife have made it a point to be well-nigh ubiquitous.

They showed up at the ribbon-cutting-andshovel-digging ceremony for the city’s new children’s museum across the tracks from Santa Barbara’s Ye Olde Railroad Depot. Wolf was recently appointed chair of the board for the Bellosguardo Foundation. That’s Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider’s problematic pet project to convert what’s long been the vacant robber baron mansion — located on the waterfront across from the bird refuge and built for said baron’s recently dead and daffy daughter — into a world-class art museum. Most recently, the Wolfs’ Montecito manse was this month’s art-n-architecture pin-up in Santa Barbara Magazine, journal of choice for the can’t-betoo-rich-or-thin set.

Lining up against Wolf — mano a mano and eyeball to eyeball — is John McInnes, general manager of the Goleta Water District, whose other claim to fame is that he plays bass for the band Claude Hopper, itself one of Santa Barbara’s poorest-kept musical secrets. The bone of contention between Wolf and McInnes is the untapped ocean of water lying underneath the wonderfully named Slippery Rock Ranch — 780 acres located in the foothills above Goleta — that Wolf bought from the Schulte clan back in 2008.

As has been reported, Wolf wants to make that water portable and profitable as well as merely potable. He’s offering the Montecito Water District enough water from his Slippery Rock Ranch to get Montecito out of its desperate shortage. Actually, Wolf has stayed strategically out of the limelight, preferring to assign land-use agent Mark Lloyd and attorney Steve Amerikaner to make things happen. In the dangerous intersection between development and politics, Lloyd and Amerikaner rank as fivestar players. Where most mortals struggle with the rudiments of tic-tac-toe, these two play D chess. More alarming, they’re smooth, charming, and ingratiating about it, too.

McInnes has assigned himself the role of skunk at Montecito’s garden party, fly flapping in Wolf’s ointment. He contends that the water basin underneath Wolf ’s property — known poetically to hydro-geologists as “The Chalice” — is geologically “connected” to Goleta’s underground storage basin. According to McInness, that means Wolf can’t draw water out of The Chalice without sucking the proverbial milk-

shake out of Goleta’s groundwater basin in the process. That’s something up with which McInnes — as line-in-the-sand defender of 87,000 Goletans’ water supply — will neither abide nor put. It should be understood that Wolf is proposing to put McInnes’s claims to an empirical test. The existing evidence is iffy enough to make it debatable. If in settling this debate, Montecito can buy 1,000 acre-feet of water for $500,000, so much the better.

Stylistically, McInnes tends to be all elbows and knees, having learned his political kung fu while working for former county administrator Mike Brown, famous still for his spit-flying rages. Last week, McInnes filed a lawsuit against Wolf and his Slippery Rock Ranch seeking a judicial declaration that the sanctity of Goleta’s water rights trump Wolf’s ability to do as he pleases with the water lying underneath his own land. How a judge might rule, I do not know, but from the outside looking in, Goleta’s claim seems to fall somewhere between overreach and a stretch. In the excruciatingly calibrated world of water rights, the legal entitlements of “Overlying landowners” — which Wolf is — clearly trump those of “Appropriators” — which is what Goleta is. Should the case go to trial, maybe Wolf can use it as a plot for one of his spinoff shows. But in the meantime, he ain’t backing down. In fact, he’s upped the ante. Last week, his agents showed up at the Montecito Water Board meeting to propose a specific deal. And Wolf is offering to cover any legal bills Montecito incurs should Goleta get too agitated and frisky. Next week, the water board is slated to respond.

As a practical matter — as distinct from dramatic spectacle — the Slippery Rock deal ranks

as a genuine head-scratcher. Given the crying need for locally originated water supplies, the appeal is obvious and overwhelming. But given the precedent such an arrangement could set, maybe Wolf should rechristen his Goleta ranch “Slippery Slope.” If Wolf, Lloyd, and Amerikaner can help Montecito in its hour of need, what’s to stop them from also “helping” out many of the proposed developments struggling to get off the drawing boards along the Gaviota Coast? Many of these proposed developments are currently hamstrung by marginally reliable water supplies. Many happen to be represented

by Lloyd and Amerikaner. Coincidence?

For California to survive this and future droughts, more inventive and efficient management of groundwater basins is essential. That’s reality. In this vein, Slippery Rock could be the shape of things to come. But the conversion of private ranches into private water companies could also give rise to serious mischief at the expense of coastal preservation. Any way you do the math, land + water = development. Always.

That’s even more true when breathtaking ocean views are involved. As a matter of law and technology, any water wheeling needed to bring this ominous scenario to life would require the active cooperation of some existing water agencies.

And yes, these agencies are publically owned, operated, and accountable. But water districts can be taken over. Just like water, money always finds its own level. In the meantime, speak softly, but carry a sharp sword.

— Nick Welsh

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he City Council just adopted an ill-conceived pedestrian bridge concept for the west side of the historic landmark Mission Creek Bridge into bucolic Mission Canyon. A bridge has never been here, blocked by private property. This private parcel remains. Walking here will still mean being at the mercy of vehicles.

The bridge plan mandates that East Los Olivos Street and Mission Canyon Road be moved eastward and widened. By the reservoir, the path will be lost, so access to the bridge there will be lost, say city engineers. Rocky Nook Park has to give up land.

This plan does not improve safety, because the new road increases speed, according to the traffic engineers.

Two historic walls will be moved and a hole put in another. The entry into Mission Canyon will be permanently altered into a wide expanse of pavement, not to mention a view of a new bridge instead of foliage.

To improve safety without destroying historic resources or aesthetics, the Alameda Padre Serra merge onto East Los Olivos should be reconfigured with a freeform T or a triangle-shaped roundabout. Traffic could move smoothly. Pedestrian crosswalks could be added at narrow places. We could still access the east-side path and pedestrian bridge.

We need real solutions, not this phony one.

— Paulina Conn, S.B.

Viral Immunity

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t was obvious in Starshine’s February 12 column that her insight and exploration into measles vaccinations lacked the research that would have connected her to the real issues here — which are twofold. As a nutritional health practitioner, I first see this as ultimately about pharmaceutical companies pushing a vaccine that will yield a huge profit. Second, big business needs to influence legislation to force people to have to vaccinate, no matter what.

How many of us got measles and mumps growing up?

I did, my sisters did. These childhood infectious illnesses can actually challenge the immune system and make it stronger. They aren’t the bad guys. But there is big money

to be made. Sadly, the more vaccines we give people, the less immune opportunities children have to get the developmental challenges these common childhood illnesses provide.

Vaccines have always had problems. With something like polio, the vaccine was clearly worth any side effects.

Measles is a whole other class!

I encourage Starshine to use her power of word in what she is most talented at — rather than medical advice full of tricksterism that is truly scary.

— Dale Figtree, PhD, S.B.

On Sansum Time

Open Letter to Sansum’s Dr. Ransohoff, Vicki Hazard, and Vince Jensen: ou’ve sent two letters soliciting funds for the Breast Tomosynthesis System. It sounds important, yet it’s somewhat odd to be soliciting your customers, as we all already subsidize you. We subsidize you with our time.

We mostly come early, are often kept waiting, and do so willingly. And now you want our money, too?

Why don’t you contact us to let us know when you’re running late? Haven’t the airlines been doing that with flight arrival times for years? Wouldn’t that demonstrate respect for your customers and acknowledge the value of our time?

Patients are charged for a missed or late appointment — does that work the other way, too? Will Sansum pay a patient for his/her time when a provider misuses it?

Enacting such improvements is not hard.You’ve demonstrated success with the implementation of My Chart and preregistration — both are excellent, and kudos to the docs for timely responses. Hopefully they can progress to the point that they can look at both patient and screen.

Two more things to consider are same-day appointments (not urgent care) and a medical advice phone line for questions. Kaiser Permanente has provided an effective one with no fuss or legal disclaimers. Yes, I’m now asking you for money to fund such things, but wouldn’t that help the spirit of community and partnership? And some better outcomes, too?

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obituaries Elayne Marilyn Barco 4/29/1926 – 2/12/15

Elayne was born In New York on April 29, 1926, and quickly matured into a beautiful woman with a lively spirit that would mesmerize anyone that she met. Elayne was a delightful combination of brains, beauty, style and wit. She was happiest among friends and family, laughing, dancing and sharing stories. She aged gracefully, always holding on to a youthful enthusiasm for life and style. A woman blessed with impeccable taste, she created an exquisite and inviting home filled with warmth and love.

Elayne lived a life full of wonderful memories, memories to remain forever in the hearts of those lucky to be loved by her. Elayne was an amazing friend, grandmother, loving wife, devoted sister and the best Mother.

She passed with her loving family surrounding her at home. Arnold Barco, her loving husband, predeceased her. She is survived by two daughters Kathy Story and Peggy Olcese-Boyd; a son, Don Boyd; and four wonderful grandchildren, Shahnti Brook, Jason Olcese, Shay Brook and Brianna Olcese.

In a quote often used by Elayne, “Here’s looking at you, Kid,” we will miss you every hour and hold close to our hearts the memories you gave us. The world loves and misses you dearly Elayne.

Memorial contributions or donations may be made to the charity of your choice in honor of Elayne.

Alanna had a love for anything Hello Kitty. Her magnetic smile and laughter were certainly addictive and infectious. She graduated from SBCC cosmetology academy as an esthetician. Alanna continued her passion with makeup in her many faces along with her unique style.

Everyone always looked forward to see what she would be wearing next.

Alanna overcame so many hardships especially after losing her leg several years ago. It was truly amazing what she was able to do and accomplish.

She was an original, creative individual and delighted in the simple treasures of life.

Alanna would want you all to embrace life and know that she will be eternally with you.

Alanna is survived by her father, Stephen; mother, Gloria; brother, Julian; plus numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and so many loving friends.

Please join us for a celebration of her life at Butterfly Beach, Montecito, March 14, 2015, 4 pm.

A memorial fund has been set up at Bank of the West (both locations)

Frederic Hudson 1934 – 2015

of Santa Barbara (now The Hudson Institute of Coaching) – a learning organization focused on the intersection of development and change in the lives of leaders today.

A Rockefeller and Danforth Fellow, he earned his Master of Divinity in social ethics from Colgate Rochester Divinity School in 1959, and in 1968, his PhD in interdisciplinary studies (psychology, philosophy, and religion) from Columbia University. His research and dissertation studied a group of social activists working in N.Y.C. between 1890 and 1920. He was Associate Dean of Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1961-64; Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1964-69; Academic Dean and Professor of Philosophy at Lone Mountain College (now University of San Francisco), 1968-74. Dr. Hudson wrote The Adult Years (1992, revised 1999) Jossey-Bass Publishers. In 1996 he co-authored The Joy of Old, and with his partner, Pamela McLean, PhD, wrote LifeLaunch – A passionate guide to the rest of your life. In 2001 he wrote The Handbook of Coaching, an early and seminal book on what was then the emerging field of leadership coaching.

Frederic had many talents and passions, including a lifelong love of his piano, writing, dancing, the game of tennis, the creativity of photography, the fun of birding and the mysteries of nature.

For those wishing to make contributions to commemorate his life and work, contributions can be made in honor of the life of Frederic Hudson to Fielding Graduate University’s Frederic Hudson Scholarship Fund, dedicated to promising doctoral students who would not otherwise have the means to pursue their learning goals. Fielding Graduate University, 2020 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Notes and condolences may be sent to the family at: Hudson Institute, 41C Hitchcock Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

respected electrical contractor and later had a home inspection business. His greatest joy was his family, and his devotion to them knew no bounds.

He is survived by Sabra, the love of his life and wife of 35 years; his daughter from his first marriage, Loriel May, and son-in-law Bruce May, MD; grandchildren, Parker and Emily May. He is also survived by his children with Sabra, daughter, Jenny McGibbon, son, Jim McGibbon, and Bailey, his Labradoodle, and many other friends and relatives.

Those who knew him appreciated his positive spirit, brilliant and curious mind, and loving kindness.

He graduated from Santa Barbara City College and was a member of Mensa. He could make and fix anything and experienced great satisfaction from building the family home and maintaining and improving it through the years. He loved to cook, play board games, paint, go for walks, meditate, complete house projects, read science and sciencefiction books and articles.

Despite all the treatments and surgeries he was subjected to in the last years, he never lost his positive attitude and always treated everyone with love and kindness no matter how sick he felt. He was truly an inspiration to everyone he knew.

The family would like to thank Santa Barbara Cancer Center, Beverly Hills Cancer Center and his sister Susan McGibbon, who provided loving support throughout his battle.

A memorial will be scheduled.

Alanna Nicole Henderson 03/11/1986 – 01/26/2015

Alanna, 28 years old, passed away in Ventura, CA. She was born and raised in Santa Barbara, CA, and attended local schools beginning with Roosevelt elementary, where she began relationships that lasted a lifetime.

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08/31/1939 – 01/26/2015

1947-2015

John McGibbon, 67, of Goleta, California died on February 7, 2015, after a two-year battle with cancer.

He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and as a child lived in Richmond, Virginia. He moved to Santa Barbara in 1965 and was part of the Mountain Drive community at that time. John was a union electrician for several years and then became a

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On Monday, February 9th, 2015, Frederic Hudson died at the age of 80 at home and surrounded by family in Santa Barbara after a long journey with Alzheimer’s disease.

He leaves behind his wife, Pamela McLean, and their three children, Christopher, Michael and Charles; and three children, Jeffrey, John and Lisa, along with their spouses and five grandchildren from his first marriage.

Dr. Hudson was a key visionary and Founding President of The Fielding Institute (now Fielding Graduate University), 1974-1986, one of the first blended learning institutions accredited in the U.S. In 1986 he transitioned from Fielding to establish The Hudson Institute

sical ballet in the greater Los Angeles area after beginning his career years as a young space project engineer at McCullough Corporation in Long Beach. His appreciation of beauty and form in nature led him into photography. He loved bike riding and racing as well as fishing and exploring in Baja.

He enjoyed his last months in his nice cottage at Pilgrim Terrace in Santa Barbara. Up to 6 weeks ago, he could still be seen riding his racing bike around Santa Barbara. Stephen leaves behind his sister, Jane Mason (Burke) of Santa Barbara; his nieces, Amy Burke (Pantelleria, Italy), Virginia Bryant Case (Tucson, AZ), and Tara Mason Goodall (The Woodlands, TX); and his nephew Traford Hudson Burke (Santa Barbara)—all to whom he was a very interesting and interested Uncle Steve. We will all miss his wacky sense of humor and his eccentric yet eclectic worldview.

He left us still painfully shy but with a tender heart that touched many. He was preceded in death by his brother, Phillip Stuart Mason, also of Santa Barbara. A memorial will take place late April in Santa Barbara.

R.I.P. Dear Stephen.

Our brother, uncle, cousin, and friend Stephen Traford Mason died quickly and quietly of a massive heart attack on January 26, 2015, at the age of 75. Born in Santa Monica on August 31, 1939, he spent most of his life in Los Angeles and, happily, was a Santa Barbara resident for the last 12 years.

As a youth, he attended Brentwood Elemen,tary, Emerson Jr. High, University High, and UCLA, all in the West Los Angeles area.

Steve was a huge sports fan and would have been very sad to miss the great Super Bowl this year. He was also a horse racing aficionado and spent lots of time at the Showgrounds and even more time trading stocks on his computer and carefully tending his vegetable garden. In his earlier, more vigorous years, he was a well-known photographer of clas-

Fred Fassett, formerly a longtime resident of Santa Barbara, passed away in Scottsdale, AZ, with friends and family by his side, following a brief battle with cancer.

Fred was beloved by thousands as a psychic, spiritual counselor, healer, and teacher. He is survived by his half-sister, Helen Wagner; close friend Mark Harbitz; spiritual son Patrick Hachler; and spiritual grandson Alan Hachler.

He leaves behind several distant family members and a host of friends, colleagues, and students in whose lives he played an important role. A celebration of his life will be held Sunday, Feb. 22, 3pm at Shoreline Park. For further details see www.psychicfred.com.

Death Notices Dorothy Elizabeth Bolstad Naegle, 83, passed away on February 4th, 2015. Memorial Service - Thursday, March 12, 10:00 am at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.

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produced an almost running commentary — “There’s a tooth, there’s a rib, that’s part of a to be the world’s preeminent mammoth mandible, there’s part of a tusk.” As the mampaleontologist, has died at 81. The loss moth material was dated, further dating was to the community is enormous. Most performed on the Arlington Springs Man. of the articles on mammoths written over the The result was the tantalizing possibility that past several decades were either authored by humans and pygmy mammoths may have been him or referenced his work. His teaching and contemporaries on the Channel Islands. mentoring were likewise renowned. Beyond Larry also worked throughout the west that, his friendship and and in Siberia, where zest for life touched he was one of the few non-Russian investigamany. For almost two decades, before declining tors to participate in the health brought his visits excavation of an intact, to a close, his work in the frozen mammoth. The Channel Islands made frozen fur was defrosted him a familiar presence in with hair dryers, and Santa Barbara.

Larry was able to subsequently boast that “it Larry held a PhD from was my first opportunity the University of Arizona in geology. For 25 years, to pet a mammoth.” he was professor of geolDr. Agenbroad’s ogy and paleontology at seminal accomplishNorthern Arizona Univerments at Mammoth sity. Although he excelled Site and on Santa Rosa Island were a reflecthere as both teacher and researcher, two of his tion of his great passion for paleontology and greatest contributions were elsewhere. boundless, infectious In 1974, Larry was enthusiasm. I doubt he would have considered called when a mammoth tusk was found by a MR. MAMMOTH: Larry Agenbroad he ever “worked” a day in his professional life; it developer in Hot Springs, holds a pygmy-mammoth femur in his right hand and a full-sized one in South Dakota. Further his left. was all fun, even in an era excavations yielded much when the trials of doing more material, which led to the creation of the field research were much greater than they are Mammoth Site at Hot Springs. Larry served as today. He taught and mentored with gentleness its director for 40 years, stepping down only and humor, and he was generous of spirit. My last year. Today, the site (which is a Pleistocene wife, who has no background in paleontology, sinkhole) is acknowledged to have the highest accompanied us on a Santa Cruz Island trip to density of Columbian and Woolly mammoths prospect for mammoth material. Larry gently in the world, the excavations of which have all maneuvered her so that the first “find” of mambeen left in place. It has a major museum, a moth bones was hers. large staff, and an ongoing research program.

My last time in the field with Larry was a few Most of the world’s great mammoth paleon- years ago on Santa Cruz Island. An apparent tologists have passed through the site, as have mammoth tusk had been found, and Larry was generations of students and colleagues whom called in, only to identify it as a fossil baleen whale mandible. My involvement began with Larry mentored.

Larry came to work in our part of the world an evening call, no identification from the caller in 1994, when a nearly complete fossil pygmy but a growled, “Chuck, it’s not a mammoth tusk; mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) skeleton was it’s a baleen whale mandible. Get your butt out found on Santa Rosa Island by Tom Rockwell, here.” I spent the next two days on Santa Cruz a geologist at San Diego State University. Fos- with Larry and Don Morris, archaeologist for sil pygmy mammoth material was known on Channel Islands National Park. On the second the Channel Islands as early as 1856 and first day, after the excavation was finished, we sat described in the paleontology literature in 1928. at the site, waiting almost two hours for the Subsequent sporadic collections were made, helicopter to take us off the island. I had the including those by Dr. Phil Orr, of the Santa rare privilege of listening to Larry and Don, Barbara Museum of Natural History, in the two great researchers and world-class racon1940s and 1950s. (Orr also found Arlington teurs, swap stories of their experiences all over Springs Man, one of the oldest documented the west. That day remains one of my most human presences in the Western Hemisphere). delightful experiences in a lifetime of Channel Prior to the 1994 find, the material had not Island trips. been well studied. Dr. Agenbroad changed that.

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TOOL OR TROUBLE? A Phantom quadcopter gets ready for liftoff.

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f Eric Foote’s drone could talk,

it might borrow a line from an android in Blade Runner: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”

The remote-control eye in the sky has skirted a train barreling up the Gaviota Coast and looked down on paragliders drifting along the Douglas Family Preserve. It’s followed a surfer slicing through glassy ocean above thick kelp forests and trailed a rock climber inching up the Santa Ynez Mountains. It’s flown with pelicans above the Santa Barbara Harbor and peered across a sunbaked city from the Mission’s steeples.

Those moments are neatly packaged in a fourminute movie that played during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and gave Foote’s new aerial video company its big break. “Things really started taking off,” he said. The former golf instructor had been a photography hobbyist for a long time and now pays the bills with real estate shoots and promo reels for places like Lotusland. With lots of competition in town, “I’m using the drone to carve out a niche,” he explained.“There are so many applications for it.”

But Foote, like thousands of commercial drone operators across the country, including a number in Santa Barbara, has been navigating hazy skies the last few years, as government regulations hadn’t caught up with the new technology. That all changed Sunday when the fog started to lift and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), finally acting on orders from Congress in 2012, released its proposal for governing the small commercial aircraft instead of banning them outright.

The proposed rules would allow drones weighing up to 55 pounds to fly below 500 feet and within sight of their pilots during daylight hours. Operators would need to be at least 17 years old, pass an aeronautics knowledge test, and be vetted by the Transportation Security Administration. “We have tried to be flexible in writing these rules,” said FAA Administrator Michael Huerta. “We want to maintain today’s outstanding level of aviation safety without placing an undue regulatory burden on an emerging industry.”

The FAA will start 60 days of public comment on the suggested guidelines, but industry experts predict it will take another year or two before they’re fully ironed out and imple-

nationwide. Sunday’s announcement doesn’t apply to hobbyists, who are already supposed to follow basic guidelines for model planes and helicopters — stay below 400 feet, avoid populated areas, fly sober, etc. And public entities, such as publicly funded universities, law enforcement agencies, and fire departments are still required to get FAA clearance before they can launch a drone, also called a UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System).

Most trade groups and business interests are applauding the new commercial framework. They’ve long argued that drones are a transformative technology for a whole range of fields like search and rescue, medical support, power line and pipe repair, and wildlife observation. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International predicts the industry will create 70,000 jobs and $13.6 billion in economic activity in the first three years drones are allowed to fully share the skies. Doorstop deliveries like those envisioned by Amazon.com still wouldn’t be allowed, however.

Also this week, the White House — whose lawn became a symbol of UAS intrusion when a drunkenly flown drone crashed into it last month — issued a memo that orders federal agencies to disclose their drone policies in the next year. Their use along the Mexican border is no secret, but new covert programs are expected to quietly materialize.

Concerns linger across the country over privacy and First Amendment rights. It’s no exception in Santa Barbara, a wealthy and picture-perfect place covered in grand estates, open-air weddings, and scenic vistas that seem to beg for more and more airborne lenses. And the discussion is only gaining momentum as daily reports come in of close calls with crowds and planes and incidents of spying among neighbors.

A recent Reuters poll of 2,400 Americans found that 73 percent of them want more drone regulation; 42 percent oppose all private ownership. In a speech last September, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor openly worried about an American dystopia of ever-present surveillance as swarms of cameras take to the sky. “We are in that brave new world,” she said,“and we are capable of being in that Orwellian world, too.”

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mented. In the meantime, commercial use is still outlawed, and operators will keep burying their drone services in contracts, billing for “location fees” and other costs instead of actual flying time.

Luckily for them, the current regulations are open to interpretation and rarely enforced. There have been just five cases to date, and the closely watched prosecution of the pilot who filmed a TV spot over the University of Virginia in 2011 ended out of court this week. The pilot was originally fined $10,000.

He wound up paying a $1,100 settlement without admitting any wrongdoing.

The FAA does allow for some commercial use but only with express permission, which it started giving out last year, mainly to Hollywood film studios and crop surveyors. A mere 28 exemptions have been issued with around 350 pending

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COVER STORY Up until a few years ago, the word “drone” described a $17 million Predator skulking above Afghanistan. But as the technology was dumbed down for civilian use and prices dipped to consumer levels, the term started to include $50 toys at Brookstone as well as professional-grade units for photographers.

Chinese company DJI makes one of most popular brands. Chances are, if you’ve seen a drone in action, it’s in the DJI Phantom line that retails between $500 and $1,300. I’ve personally spotted four drones in the last few months — at the Santa Barbara Bowl, East Beach, Isla Vista, and the Mesa. All were Phantoms. And any time there are good waves at Rincon, there’s bound to be one or two overhead.

The DJI models are about a foot and a half wide, weigh 2.5 pounds, go as fast as 30 mph, and sport four propellers above a battery pack and rigid landing gear. Called “quadcopters,” they take off and land vertically and are relatively easy to maneuver with a bit of practice.

The newest Phantom has a nearly 1,500foot radio range and can reach an altitude of 1,000 feet. It also has an “autonomous” option where the user enters GPS coordinates on a smartphone and watches as the drone carries out its mission. Other brands can go much higher (above 6,000 feet) and much faster (more than 100 mph.)

Operators used to attach their own GoPros to Phantoms, but the drones now come with a built-in camera capable of beaming videos or stills back to the flyer’s phone in real time.

Varieties built more for speed or strength rather than imaging serve cocktails in Singapore restaurants, guide visitors through MIT’s confusing campus, and herd sheep in New Zealand. A cottage industry of accessories and add-ons is big and only getting bigger.

John Brainerd, a manager at Samy’s Camera, said the chain started carrying drones in March 2013. Business has been steady since, and the Santa Barbara store sells several a week. Across the U.S., around 200,000 drones are sold every month. Brainerd said his customers run the gamut from firsttime hobbyists to serious photographers because “it’s sort of a kick in the pants. It’s a fun thing to do.”

He recently sold one to a land surveyor who studies cliff erosion and said they’ve been especially popular with off-duty cops.

“People in general are enamored by them,” he went on.“They want to talk about them and understand them.” But, Brainerd explained, they come with a lot of risk and liability. “I personally wouldn’t get one,” he said.

The Santa Barbara Independent spoke with a number of photographers about their UAS use on the condition of anonymity. One said he and others find it easy to “fly under the radar” and avoid the FAA, which has started to enlist area police agencies as their eyes and ears for enforcement.

While he’s seen a lot of online complaints and “bravado”

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about snooping over private property, he said anyone who has come across him mid-flight approaches with smiles and questions.

Another source was dubious over protests of peeping from the heavens. He claimed most drone cameras are “very fisheye” and show little detail and that they sound like a “swarm of bees” when they approach. “You can’t sneak up on someone,” he said. “They have no stealth ability.” That may or may not comfort folks, especially those who’ve had an unexpected face-to-face with a hair-raising UAS.

tive,” Jackson said.“The real purpose is to set expectations and boundaries for what people can and can’t do with respect to these new technologies.”

The new law would address civil matters, meaning a homeowner could sue a drone operator if his or her UAS crossed privacy lines or damaged property. Criminal parameters are already set, but Santa Barbara officials report very few complaints. Residents especially anxious about drones dropping in announced can register their home address with NoFlyZone.org. The brand-new company then relays the GPS coordinates to participating drone manufacturers and creates an invisible “geofence” around the property that keeps the drones away. More than 2,300 customers across California have registered.

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Jackson, who is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees legislation on privacy issues, said she wants to avoid an incident like the one in New Jersey when a man shot a UAS out of the sky near his house. Last January, residents of Deer Trail, Colorado, considered issuing licenses to shoot down drones that dared enter their airspace.

Plus, they’re dangerous pieces of equipment, Jackson continued, pointing to a fatal accident in Brooklyn two years ago. A 19-year-old lost control of his model helicopter and it sliced off the top of his head.

“These things can decapitate people,” Jackson said.

After drones buzzed too close to wildlife and spooked hikers, the National Park Service banned their use. The State Parks department is considering a similar injunction, Jackson said, and law enforcement agencies may make the airspace over their headquarters and jails off limits, as well.

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VOYEURS AND VIOLENCE State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson was recently eating dinner with friends on their back patio when a blinking drone came around the corner of the house. She said it hovered near them for about five minutes, a camera trained in their direction. Then it flew off.“It was shocking,” she said. “Unsettling. You think you have a right to privacy there.” Last month, a Mission Canyon resident called The Independent about a similar runin on her property, and a reporter with our paper had a comparably eerie encounter in his Milpas Street backyard.

Not long after Jackson’s experience, she started looking into drones and quickly realized “there are no rules.” So at the end of January, she introduced Senate Bill  that extends existing state laws around privacy and trespassing to the small aircraft.

The proposed state regulations are “not designed to be puni-

While the FAA has the ultimate authority over goings-on in the air, the county does have some of its own municipal codes, said Santa Barbara Sheriff ’s spokesperson Kelly Hoover. Generally speaking, its model aircraft rules extend to all drones, commercial or otherwise. Hoover also said that per FAA policy, “no UAS may be operated within five nautical miles of the Santa Barbara or the Santa Maria airports; it may also include some of the smaller local airports.” Measuring out from the Santa Barbara Airport, that restricts all of Isla Vista and Goleta, big chunks of Noleta, and the western edges of Santa Barbara.

Violations carry a fine of $10,000.

Hoover said her office does not track UAS complaints. Santa Barbara Airport director Hazel Johns said her office hasn’t fielded any. And if recent interviews are any indication, when a county deputy or city cop comes across a droner, they most often turn a blind or approving eye on the action.

The Sheriff ’s Office doesn’t own or operate a drone in an official capacity, Hoover explained. But she confirmed a department member used his personal UAS during a response call on at least one occasion. On May 29 last year, dispatchers received a -- call from a man who claimed to have murdered his wife and children and said he was going to kill himself in their Arroyo Road home.

During the early stages of the incident, which turned out to be a hoax, a “member of the Sheriff ’s Office, who personally owned a UAS and had been doing research for the Sheriff ’s Office regarding this emerging technology, launched his UAS over the residence briefly in an attempt to gain an aerial view of ANYWHERE the residence and property,” AND EVERYWHERE: Hoover said. The drone was A Phantom drone hovers grounded a short time later over the courthouse as when a helicopter arrived on its pilot uses his iPhone to take pictures and the scene to provide surveilvideo with the on-board camera. continued...

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lance. The department has suspended the use of drones until it develops a complete program and set of policies around the devices, Hoover said.

SBPD spokesperson Sergeant ant Riley Harwood said s the last time he worked Fiesta, the crowd cast nervous glances skyward when a drone started flying patterns over Fiesta Pequeña.“It was moving all herky-jerky, and people thought it might hit them in the head,” he said. Dispatchers, though, rarely take calls about drones, and there’s nothing in the city’s municipal code to deal with them.“[The law] is behind the curve,” Harwood said. The department has explored the idea of buying a UAS, he explained, but that’s as far as it’s gotten because of the agency’s relatively small size and the amount of money and training it would take to designate a pilot.

According to the most recent data available from November 2013, approximately 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have gotten permission from the FAA to deploy drones. Some have toyed with the idea of outfitting them with tear gas, rubber bullets, and tasers.

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COMMERCE AND KIDS Village Properties uses drones to advertise its real estate. So does Berkshire Hathaway and other Santa Barbara firms that declined to be interviewed. Agents said they’re especially useful for large ranch lots and hard-to-reach houses in the Montecito hills. At $500 for a simple photo shoot and up to $3,000 for a full-on film tour, the special treatment is reserved for properties worth $1 million or more.

At the Santa Barbara Bowl, a few acts touring last season brought their own drones to the venue. But since there’s little precedent on liability, and because the ever-moving, LED-lit machines can be distracting for the audience, the Bowl will likely ban them.

David Baeza, a Santa Ynez Valley resident and former Citrix VP, recently launched a start-up called Vine Rangers.

Still in its testing phase but slated to open for business in March, it will be the first company of its kind to survey vineyards with infrared cameras on drones that can measure water saturation and grape ripeness and pick out diseases before the winemaker can.

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The UAS would be launched during emergencies and for training and fire prevention, he said, and a pilot who’s been certified through an FAA ground school and has a Class III medical clearance would fly it. The department already has one such pilot on staff.

robotics engineer. With the drought on their minds and one of Santa Barbara’s biggest industries relying on their judgment and yield, winemakers will find drone data invaluable, Baeza said. Vine Rangers has submitted its exemption request to the FAA and will hear back soon. In the meantime, Baeza is partnering with UCSB researchers on their SmartFarm initiative and is hosting the Wine + Tech + Food Conference (WTF Conf) next month.

It’s a mystery how many UCSB faculty members are using drones as part of their research. Since they don’t have to include that info in their applications, it’s almost impossible to tell, said school spokesperson George Foulsham.

Several professors are heading projects about air and ocean drones with the goal of making improvements, he said, and those are mentioned in applications about nano-assembled batteries, target localization and tracking, and guidance of unmanned vehicles.

Dos Pueblos High School teacher John Dent runs the school’s DPNews program and purchased a Phantom with grant money about a year and a half ago. The thing was an instant hit.“It has invigorated students who were otherwise not engaged,” he said.“It has made some of our videos wow people.”

Beyond that, Dent says the UAS is teaching students an employable skill.

Dent just submitted another application for more drones and hopes to bring in a professional pilot to teach his kids the finer points of flying. Parents collectively dig the program, as well.“It’s all �

about giving the students a leg up when they graduate high school,” Dent said.

And with luck, the concept will catch on at other campuses. “I’m trying to be a pilot program,” he said.“Pun intended.”

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STAREDOWN: The author confronts a drone invading his where the industry has been and where it’s likely to personal space. go. Earlier this month, he spoke to 50 police chiefs at the DoubleTree about their UAS options. (Santa Barbara chief Cam Sanchez didn’t attend.) And he’s firmly abreast of the pending FAA policies, which he said would be enforced by the agency’s Flight Standards District Offices. The closest one to Santa Barbara is in Los Angeles.

On the subject of cops potentially abusing the technology with dishonest surveillance, Dombroff doesn’t share the skepticism many have.

“Civil-liberties groups don’t like the idea of the expanded ability to law enforcement,” he said. “But that’s assuming they will misuse [drones], and I don’t think that’s the case.”

Dombroff has spent much of his career on the legal end of aviation accidents. He was involved in the aftermath of the helicopter crash on the Twilight Zone movie set that killed Vic Morrow and two child actors, and he said the use of small, nimble drones would invariably prevent such accidents and save lives. According to the FAA, 17 manned aircraft performing aerial photography crashed between 2005 and 2009, killing 19 people. Santa Barbara’s own filmmaker Mike deGruy died in 2012 when his helicopter went down during a location scout in Australia.

Drones are already powering a vast new realm of money-making and public-service schemes, Dombroff went on.“The engine is too big to be stopped,” he declared. But he called the pilots who buzz directly over crowds “irresponsible and reckless.”“I don’t know if it’s arrogance or stupidity or both,” he said. And speaking to those who claim that civilian drones are too lightweight to do any real harm, Dombroff said, “Let them take a propeller across the face and see how it feels.”

With regard to all the “hand-wringing and arm waving” over the pending FAA laws — why they’re taking so long, what they will and won’t allow, how they’ll impact professionals, and so on — Dombroff said to relax.“It’s going to be addressed,” he promised.“The self-induced hysteria is unnecessary.”

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/, /: Concerto Concert The Westmont College Orchestra will perform original literature, transcriptions, and arrangements as a full orchestra and string orchestra and in small ensembles.

Various styles from the Renaissance through the st century will be presented. Fri.: pm. Page Multipurpose Room, Westmont College,  La Paz Rd. Sun.: pm.

First Presbyterian Church,  E. Constance Ave. Free-$. Call - or visit westmont.edu. /, /: Schoolhouse Music This chamber concert series will feature The Artistry of Strings on Friday, which is a group composed of five master musicians from around the nation who intensively rehearsed and now perform the chamber music they love and on Sunday The Choral Project, a -member auditioned, mixedvoice choir with an outstanding reputation for performing highlevel choral literature and bridging

the gap between text and music, singer and spectator; they will perform a dynamic repertoire from the sweet to the sublime. Fri.: :; Sun.: :pm. St. Mark’s-inthe-Valley Episcopal Church,  Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. $-$.

Call -. /: Three Women and the Truth This trio of accomplished, award-winning female songwriters, Eliza Gilkyson, Mary Gauthier, and Gretchen Peters, will bring clarity to many of the challenges we all long to make sense of through songs that touch on the timeless and the mythic. pm.

Lobero Theatre,  E. Canon Perdido St. $.-$. Call - or visit lobero.com. /: The Coup By merging danceable beats with punk’s urgency and the astute social commentary of hip-hop, The Coup will craft a unique sound drawn from the past while always

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SATURDAY 2/21 /: An Evening with Celebrity Chef Cat Cora Spend an intimate evening with Cat Cora and learn about her experiences as a chef, her culinary passion, and her love for S.B. After the Q&A, mingle with other foodies while enjoying small bites by Bacara’s award-winning chefs and wine by Margerum Wine Co. -:pm. Bacara Resort & Spa,  Hollister Ave., Goleta. $.

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/: Being An Ally: Stopping LGBTQ Bullying Summit This one-day summit brings together various schools, community groups, and organizations to stop bullying of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, or Questioning) students and youths. Learn about coming out, community resources, data and research, how to respond to hateful language, and more. End the day with creating a new anti-bullying campaign for your school and designing a T-shirt. am:pm. Louise Lowry Davis Ctr.,  De la Vina St. Free. Call - x or email tyler@ pacificpridefoundation.org. /: Set List The show that made you laugh is back.

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Comedians will take the stage and use a list of “never before seen topics.” Special guests will include Henry Phillips from movie Punching the Clown, Rick Overton from Groundhog Day and The Office, Matt Kirshen from Last Comic Standing, Kimmie Dee from NO INDOOR VOICES Productions, and Australia’s own Wil Anderson.

Purchase your tickets prior to the show and participate in a special happy hour! Happy hour: -pm; show: -:pm. Telegraph Brewing Company,  N. Salsipuedes St. $-$. Visit nightout.com.

/: Big Mountain, Cornerstone American reggae-and-pop band Big Mountain, known for its cover of Peter Frampton’s “Baby, I Love Your Way” in , is coming to town. Joining them will be California-based, high-energy urban reggae band Cornerstone, made up of of S.B.’s area reggae veterans. :pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Ages +. Call - or visit sohosb.com. /: Butterfly Book Making Children’s picture book author and artist Beryl Reichenberg will hold an art class. Make a butterfly book you can hang in your room. The author will also read from one of her children’s books, Butterfly Girls.

Space is limited, so call to register. pm. Granada Books,  State St. Free. Ages +. Call -. /: Herb Walks with Lanny Kaufer Water has returned to San Antonio Creek, along with miner’s lettuce and other edible greens. Identify, demonstrate, and discuss the many uses of wild plants for foragers, herbalists, and naturalists looking for food, first aid, home remedies, and more.

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all levels. :am-:pm. Tucker’s Grove County Park, Goleta. $-$. Call - or visit herbwalks.com.

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/: 11th Annual Free Dental Day Dr. Steven Johnson is out to change lives by offering free smiles to anyone who needs dental work. Patients will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis and may choose any of the following procedures: a filling, tooth extraction, or cleaning. Be a part of this day of dentistry with love. am-pm. Johnson Family Dental,  State St. Call -.  Alamo Pintado Rd., Solvang.

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– Neil Gaiman, on We Are Pirates /: Variety United to Benefit S.B. Humane Society Variety United is a classic variety show with professional and community performers. Help find permanent and loving “furever” homes for homeless animals while enjoying a range of entertainment. Donations of new or used fleece blankets and new cat and dog toys are encouraged. There will be an artist and vendor marketplace before the show. Lobby marketplace: pm; show: pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre,  E. Cota St. Free-$. Call - or visit luketheatre.org. /: Art From Scrap Work-

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Novelist Daniel Handler explains the shadowy origins, suspicious activities and dubious conclusions of famed and elusive author Lemony Snicket, whom he happens to closely resemble. The beloved author will share unreliable anecdotes, baseless accusations, curious digressions and impractical jokes.

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Come and use discarded and recycled materials found in the store to create a unique and magical house for a wizard or fairy with help from artist Beth Amine.

Come alive with eco-art! Ages  and under must be accompanied by an adult. am-noon. Art From Scrap,  E. Cota St. $. Call  x or visit exploreecology.org.

/: Jennifer Ouellette: Me Myself, and Why Science writer Jennifer Ouellette will discuss her book Me, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of Self, about what science has to say about who we are and how we got that way. She has previously covered topics such as the acoustics of Mayan pyramids, New York City subways, and the physics of bubbles. :-:pm. Vista del Monte,  Modoc Rd. Free. Call

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by Lyndia Lunch, joined by Admiral Grey on Sunday (reservations are required).

/: Worm Composting Workshop Learn to worm compost, a fun and easy way to transform waste into the best organic fertilizer nature can provide, the vermicompost. The owner of organic nursery Healing Grounds Nursery will teach how to create and take care of your worm bin, harvest compost, and make and use compost tea. Worm composting kits and worms will be for sale. -pm. Art From Scrap,  E. Cota St. $.

Call - x or visit exploreecology.org.

Sat.: -pm; Sun.: -:pm.

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that explores the creation of Federico Fellini’s iconic  film La Strada. The film focuses on a carefree girl, who is sold to a traveling entertainer, and her physical and emotional pain along the way. The last show will be on Feb. . Sun., Tue.: pm. Center Stage Theater,  Paseo Nuevo. $-$. Call - or visit centerstagetheater.org. /: Vienna Boys’ Choir This modern-day descendant of the boys’ choirs from the Viennese Court, dating back to the late Middle Ages and established

by Emperor Maximilian I, will perform for the people of S.B. Choristers between the ages of - will perform composers such as Mozart and Schubert. pm. Granada Theatre,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit granadasb.org.

/: Taj Mahal Trio The composer and multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal, a two-time Grammy winner and one of the most influential American blues and roots artists of the past half-century, will perform his music reflecting cultural sources from the Mississippi Delta and the Appalachian backwoods to the African continent, Europe, and more.

VIP tickets include a preshow reception and premier seating. pm. Lobero Theatre,  E. Canon Perdido St. $-$. Call - or visit lobero.com.

SUNDAY 2/22 /, /: Fellinifest 2015: La La La Strada Jeff Mills and Proboscis Theater Company will present this new play

Sweet Love /: Ready, Set, Adventure Do you love robots, aliens, sharks, and monsters under the bed? This film program will be an action-packed collection of live-action and animated films

GAME OF THE WEEK Isabel Bayrakdarian

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/: Neil Hamburger This Funnyman performs up to  shows a year internationally and has made appearances on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and more. His was among SPIN’s “ Greatest Comedy Albums of All Time.” Don’t miss America’s funnyman Neil Hamburger. pm.

Velvet Jones,  State St. $.

Ages +. Call - or visit velvet-jones.com.

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Gala fundraising concert for the UCSB Bel Canto Fund

Gypsy-themed songs by Liszt, Schumann, Dvorak, de Falla, Albeniz, and Lecuona, inspired by the passionate gypsy melodies of Eastern and Central Europe and the fiery Eu flamenco music of Spain and Andalucia

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/-/: College Baseball: Kentucky at UCSB UCSB starting pitchers Justin Jacome, Dillon Tate, and Shane Bieber all notched victories last weekend, as the Gauchos allowed just two runs in the first  innings of the season against Brigham Young. Kentucky scored  runs and banged out  hits, achieving a . batting average, in wins over Ball State and Richmond.

Eight different Gauchos had multiple hits against BYU, led by first baseman Dalton Kelly (-for). Fri.-Sat.: pm. Sun.: pm. Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, UCSB. $-$. Call -UCSB () or visit ucsbgauchos.com

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from countries including Argentina, Slovenia, Canada, Russia, France, and more. Hang on during this ride (one film contains mild, brief swearing). am-:pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $-$. Call - or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu. /: Wild Child, Desert Noises, Goodnight, Texas Defined as an “indie powerhouse,” Wild Child mixes folk, pop, and gypsy melodies, making it sound like nothing else.

Incorporating violin, ukulele, cello, piano, bass, banjo, and horns, Wild Child has broken through as a preeminent Austin-based band. Joining them will be blues, Americana, and psychedelic-rock trio Desert Noises and folk-rock duo Goodnight, Texas. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Call - or visit sohosb.com.

/: Bridal Show and Wedding Fair Simply the Best Wedding Showcase fair will capture the essence and romance of that special day for brides and bridegrooms-tobe. The Man Cave for Grooms

is dedicated to all the needs of grooms and groomsmen. With photographers, planners, caterers, and more, this is a one-stop shop to secure all your celebration needs. am-pm. S.B. Rockwood Woman’s Club,  Mission Canyon Rd. $-$. Call - or visit simplythebestofsb.com.

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Daniel Handler explains the shadowy origins, activities, and conclusions of famed and elusive author Lemony Snicket. The author of A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions will share anecdotes, accusations, curious digressions, and impractical jokes.

There will be a Q&A following his discussion, which contains mature content. pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $-$. Call - or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu. Read more on p. .

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24 /: Digital Photography For Beginners Do you have a digital camera, smartphone, or tablet and want to learn how to take beautiful pictures, change camera settings, print pictures, and move them onto a computer? Then this class is for you, but space is limited, so registration is recommended. -:pm. Goleta Library,  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call - or visit sbplibrary.org.

United Way of Santa Barbara County 320 E. Gutierrez St. Starts Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 • Walk-ins only Tuesday, 2:00-5:00pm United Way of Santa Barbara County 320 E. Gutierrez St. Starts Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 • Walk-ins only Wednesday, 2:00-5:00pm Grace Lutheran Church 3869 State St. Starts Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 • Walk-ins only Thursday, 2:00-5:00pm Goleta Valley Community Center 5679 Hollister Ave. Starts Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 For Appointments call GVCC 967-1237 • Walk-ins: Limited Friday 9:00-12:00pm and 1:00-3:00pm

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ing reception for new exhibition Bandera Ware: From Revolution to Republic, which will feature a rare style of earthenware ceramics created in Jalisco utilizing colors of the Mexican flag. A special pre-

sentation will be given by Consul General of Mexico Ms. Berenice Diaz Ceballos at pm. Noon-pm.

Casa Dolores,  Bath St. Free.

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in S.B., singing songs like “If You Don’t, Don’t,” “Just Watch the Fireworks, “ and “Futures” with insightful lyrics that make the rites of passage sound like poetry, all to the backdrop of awesome pop and rock. pm. Velvet Jones,  State St. $.. Call - or visit velvet-jones.com. /: Fellinifest 2015: Mar-

lene: The Competition

Hungarian theater artist Eva Magyar will present this onewoman exploration of the trials and challenges faced by a Marlene Dietrich impersonator living in London circa . You know Marlene Dietrich? She was the international symbol of glamour as well as legendary actress and singer in the ‘s and ‘s. pm. Center Stage Theater,  Paseo Nuevo. $-$. Call - or visit centerstagetheater.org.

TUESDAY 2/24 /: Bandera Ware Coinciding with Mexican Flag Day (Día de la Bandera), Casa Dolores will have an open-

/: Nederlands Dans Theater 2 Famous for its bold choreography and unparalleled performances, NDT is a brilliant ensemble of  of the world’s most talented dancers who will perform a wideranging program of dance by Europe’s most sought-after choreographers. pm. Granada Theatre,  State St. $-$.

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/: Screening: No Más Bebés Por Vida This work-inprogress film No Mores Babies for Life investigates the history of Mexican-American women who were sterilized during the s. A story of blatant injustice, uncommon courage, and activism, this film focuses on mothers, lawyers, activists, and doctors who stood up to powerful institutions and faced public exposure in the name of justice. There will be a Q&A with director Renee Tajima-Peña. pm. MultiCultural Theater, UCSB. Free. Call - or visit mcc.sa.ucsb.edu.

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Ghaith Al-Omari, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, previously served as Executive Director at the American Task Force on Palestine and in various positions within the Palestinian Authority, including Director of the International Relations Department in the Office of the Palestinian President, and advisor to former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.

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Authors Karen Marie Roberts and Dana Simpson and photographer Tim Hauf will sign their new book, Journeys: Healing Through Nature’s Wisdom, which teaches the idea that thoughtful engagement with nature nourishes our identity. With inspirational essays and photographs, this book demonstrates that courage will open the path to new realms. pm. Chaucer’s Books,  State St. Free. Call - or visit chaucersbooks.com.

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Pop Pop, Fizz Fizz Text and photos by Caitlin Fitch “I love working here. Come on — it’s a candy shop!” said Henry Heisterkamp (above), a City College student who began working at Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop (1021 State St.) when it opened in October 2014. With tons of sugary items straight out of the old days, the store has everything to satisfy your sweet tooth — from bacon- and ranch-flavored sodas to a plethora of taffy and candy choices, along with heaps of other wild merchandise. Eighty-five of the 500 pop choices are bottled specifically for Rocket Fizz with their own formulas.

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Daniel Handler, who has on occasion slyly identified himself as Lemony Snicket’s “representative,” recently took time from a tour promoting his new book, We Are Pirates, to talk to The Santa Barbara Independent. He’d just flown in from wintry New York City and was back in his unseasonably warm hometown of San Francisco. The author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, as Lemony Snicket — and numerous grown-up books as Daniel Handler — was gracious and impressively cheerful that morning, considering most of us would be using jet lag as an excuse to lie about and groan.

Are book tours as grueling as they sound I actually like book tours. That’s not to say that every moment sitting in an airport is an unmitigated pleasure, but I work all day in my office, and it’s nice to get out in the world. I’ve been to the U.K., Australia, and Italy — the only country where I didn’t speak the language. I tried talking to a room of children, but that’s hard even when you do speak the language.

We Are Pirates is not your first book to feature a disaffected teenager. Were you a rebellious youth?

I felt hemmed in and had glimpses of an exciting life that I was being denied. Of course I blamed my parents. I thought I was an adult. All youths think they’re ready to have an adult life.

Piracy, both metaphorically and actually, is a theme of We Are Pirates. I understand you have always wanted to be a pirate; is that right?

I dreamed of the swashbuckling pirates of the 19th century. I read books by Robert Louis Stevenson and others. I wanted to climb aboard a ship and take it over by sword. I loved the swashbuckly pirate books, loved the old Errol Flynn films. I had no interest in starving and getting

scurvy, but the fantasy of flouncing aboard a ship ip and taking it over by sword rd … [Laughs.]

You play accordion, n, sometimes with The e Magnetic Fields. How w do you come by yourr interest in music?

I had a big classical training, in piano and a boys’ choir [the renowned San Francisco Boys Chorus], but puberty wrecked my career. My parents later told me they considered castration to save my career.

What sort of work schedule do you have? We have a child, so we wake up early, and I work all day long. I knock off about 3 p.m., when everybody else is thinking of knocking off but has to stay longer. I do a lot of research … so I’m prepared when I sit down to write. I don’t self-criticize. The first draft is long and baggy. Then I start the cutting down.

Sometimes I work hard on one paragraph; other times I write a lot and go back. There are tons and tons of rewrites.

Your Arts & Lectures talk is Who Is Lemony Snicket?

Will you answer that question? Probably not to anyone’s satisfaction.

— Carol Douglass

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Daniel Handler will be in town Monday, February 23, at 8 p.m. at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

—Patrick Reynolds

HEALING HELP: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious affliction that affects many — if not all — combat veterans.

Not only does the person diagnosed with PTSD suffer, but it can also be difficult for family and friends to know how to help.

Santa Barbara psychologist Larry Decker recently wrote the book The Alchemy off Combat: Transforming Trauma in Combatt Veterans to address these issues. The bookk “is an important discourse on the value off d trauma and its underlying spirituality,” said ll Dr. Edward Tick, author of War and the Soul,l ““as wellll as an excellent ‘how-to’ guidebook on practicing therapy with former combatants.”

Decker, who has specialized in PTSD for more than 30 years, will give a talk and sign books Wednesday, February 25, 6-7 p.m., at UCSB’s Mosher Alumni Hall. The event is free. For more information, contact Kevin Hagedorn, UCSB coordinator of veterans and military services, at 893-4724 or email kevin.hagedorn@sa.ucsb.edu.

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“We wanted to create a forum where education and camaraderie were the focus,” said Brechbiel. Added Rojas, “We wanted to get away from the ‘hands over your test paper’ attitude you see out there with cocktail creation.” So the two created The Bartender’s Cabinet, a monthly meeting of barkeeps to discuss everything good about the industry. Enlisting Brandon Ristaino of The Good Lion, the trio are bringing together intellectual speakeasies for those usually on the other side of the bar.

So far, presenters have included Ian Cutler of Cutler’s Artisan Spirits, discussing gin distillation, and Dushan Zaric of New York’s Employees Only, who explained how bar service is being reinvented. Upcoming topics will touch on the history of sherry, a sake and Japanese whisky tasting, and trips to various distillers near and far. The next meeting is Monday, February 23, at an undisclosed location. To get an invite, send your info to sbbarkeeps@gmail.com. You don’t have to be a working bartender to join — just have an interesting spirit!

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he temperature was an inescapable topic when John McCutcheon decided to make a mid-winter move from New England to Santa Barbara. McCutcheon, the director of athletics at the University of Massachusetts for the past 11 years, will become the boss of UCSB’s intercollegiate sports on March 2. He spoke to reporters in Amherst after the word got out in late January, explaining, “When the chancellor called me last night and made the offer, I said, ‘This really isn’t fair, when it’s going to be minus-6 here.’ ” It will be a return to familiar surroundings for McCutcheon. Prior to taking the UMass job, he spent 12 years as athletics director at Cal Poly. At both schools, he had a reputation for seeing projects through — a baseball stadium at Cal Poly and a major football upgrade at UMass.

McCutcheon, 61, made an introductory visit to UCSB two weeks ago. Chancellor Henry Yang expressed confidence that he had the right man to promote excellence in athletics while respecting the academic standards of the school.“We are the cradle of Nobels,” Yang said proudly.

In a question-and-answer session with the media, McCutcheon projected ease and polish. He outlined three guiding tenets: “To give our student-athletes the best possible experience … to build winning programs … and to do it the right way.” He described his role as a facilitator who will strive to provide support and resources for the 20 Gaucho teams “and then stand back and let the coaches coach and let the players play.”

The big questions are temperature-related. How much fire will McCutcheon bring to this job, most likely the last of his career? Will he be able to warm up old and new donors needed to keep the Gauchos competitive on a national level?

Will he help stoke up the enthusiasm for UCSB athletics that has been simmering on campus and in the community?

Although he said it is premature to get into specifics, McCutcheon did indicate his interest in improving facilities.

There is a proposal to put lights in Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, home of the Gaucho baseball team. McCutcheon said half-jokingly that he was ready to sign up pledges on the spot. “That’s one of our priorities,” he said of the baseball program, which would start the 2015 season last weekend with a four-game sweep of Brigham Young. “We have a great coaching staff, a great team … Let’s make it as exciting a place to come as we possibly can.”

Likewise, he wants to bring more excitement for Gaucho basketball games at the Thunderdome, “whether that’s through the addition of video replays, things like that — physical improvements we can make in the facility, make it a more fun place to come and enjoy a game. It’s very competitive these days with what spectators can get right on their TV sets at home in high definition. We need to find a way to compete with that, so that when you come into the arena, you get a different experience than you can get at home.”

A key ingredient, he added, is “how the teams are doing on the court.” The Gaucho men’s team is in good position to make a run for one of the top seeds in the Big West Tournament, while the women are the only winless team (0-23) in NCAA Division I basketball. “We’re going to do all we can to support Bob [Williams] and the women’s program to be successful,” McCutcheon said, mentioning only the men’s coach by name. Carlene Mitchell’s future as women’s head coach will be an issue for him to deal with after he becomes the Gaucho sports boss in the last week of the regular season. “On the women’s side, I will say my concern right now is for those young ladies on the

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NEW RECRUIT: UCSB Chancellor Henry Yang (left) welcomes John McCutcheon to the Gauchos team. McCutcheon has been hired as the university’s new director of intercollegiate sports and will take up his post March 2. McCutcheon was formerly the athletics director at Cal Poly and most recently at the University of Massachusetts.

team,” McCutcheon said. “[Losing every game] isn’t a fun experience … It’s not something they want to go through; it isn’t for the coaches, either. My focus right now is to give them every kind of the support we can, so they deal with that, deal with academics, and deal with everything else they have going on in their lives until we get to the end of the season and go from there.”

TARK THE SPARK: The Thunderdome did not need a video board to stir up the crowd during the 10 seasons (1983-92) that Jerry Tarkanian dominated the Big West Conference with his UNLV Runnin’ Rebels. Too much of a rogue to fit in at a UC school, Tarkanian was a perfect fit in Las Vegas and a good friend to former UCSB coach Jerry Pimm. Because of UNLV’s national ranking, the Big West could count on one or two other teams being invited to the NCAA tournament. The Gauchos made it in 1988 and 1990.

Three of the five largest crowds in Thunderdome history — exceeding the official capacity of 6,000 — came through the doors when the Runnin’ Rebels were on the floor. Pimm’s Gauchos upset them three times, most memorably in 1990 by a score of 78-70. UNLV subsequently won the national championship (also known as the NCAA title, but not in Tarkanian’s dictionary) and put together a 45-game winning streak that ended at the 1991 Final Four.

I met Tarkanian early in his career at Vegas — before the school joined the Big West — when UCSB played in a December tournament known as the Rebel Roundup. With an impish smile on his face, Tarkanian regaled a gathering at a pre-tournament reception with stories about his players.

His affection for them was apparent in his description of Lewis Brown, a 6 11 man-child.

“Lewis was from the next world,” Tarkanian said.“I never could figure him out. We had an assistant who took charge of Lewis and set up these goals for him. Lewis would pay attention, then go out and do the opposite. By January of that season, our assistant was a vegetable. If Lewis was a jerk, you might understand him. But he was a nice kid. He told me, ‘Coach, I like you. I’m gonna plant fruit trees in your backyard.’ I said,‘Hell, I’ll plant the trees. Can’t you just play basketball?’”

Tark’s talent for getting young men from diverse backgrounds to play basketball together at a breathtaking pace earned him widespread respect. Jerry Tarkanian passed away last Wednesday, February 11. I expect that Dean Smith welcomed him through the pearly gates last week.

CIF PLAY-OFFS: It is an exciting time of year in high school sports. The CIF Southern Section winter play-offs begin this week. Can the Santa Barbara Dons live up to their high seedings in both the boys’ and girls’ basketball tournaments? Will the San Marcos boys be able to recover from the injuries that slowed them down late in the season?

Will the Bishop Diego girls thrive against comparable small schools in the A division? Will the five home matches in boys’ soccer Friday — at Dos Pueblos, Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Cate, and Laguna Blanca — be a springboard for one or more teams to make a long run?

How far will the San Marcos Royals be able to carry the torch for regional girls’ water polo?

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AU NATUREL: “I like to think of ourselves as mixologists, as bartenders for health powders,” said Blaine Lando (right), head of Mattole Valley Naturals. The company’s product is based on nearly four decades of nutritional alchemy by his dad, Dr. Barre Paul Lando, and creates über-healthy concoctions, from herbal blends to protein powders. Maressa Garner (left) serves as the administrative director.

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n an impeccably clean commercial kitchen off of as the Full Spectrum, which mixes sea vegetables, chlorella, Salsipuedes Street, almost in the shadow of Highway mature green papaya, aloe, antioxidant fruits, and reishi , there’s a five-gallon container of something called mycelium.

“Longevity” stacked alongside buckets of bladder Two of the three lines of protein powders come from wrack, yacón, cordyceps, jiaogulan, tocotrienols, rockweed, the whey of cow and goat, and the third is vegan, based on and about two dozen other obscure ingredients that would biofermented brown rice. “It’s almost like adult formula,” stump even the most botanically aware Americans. This said Blaine, adding, “We are one of the only companies is the working heart of Mattole Valley Naturals, a steadily that specialize in goat protein formulations.” Thrown in the growing Santa Barbara company that creates multiple lines blender with some almond milk and frozen bananas, these of über-healthy concoctions, from herbal blends to protein ingredients come out tasting pretty delicious. powders, all based on nearly four decades of nutritional The blends, which are available online and in some alchemy by Dr. Barre Paul Lando. health-food stores, are not cheap, ranging from about $30After years of setting up his own patients with these $40 per batch — another indication that this isn’t your special blends, Lando, who usual wheatgrass additive.“It’s treated people with his mix of frustrating for us when we get Western and Eastern medicine lumped into that category, for years in Carpinteria, was because we are very different,” convinced by his son Blaine said Maressa Garner, Mattole to make the products available Valley’s administrative commercially. Raised in director.“It’s for the discerning customer. We’re not loud or Hawai‘i, Blaine came to the ostentatious.” And they’re mainland to attend UCSB, careful not to make any claims and after a few years in the clothing industry, he saw that of magical healing powers, the “booming” natural-foods either, instead focusing

BY MATT KETTMANN market would be a good fit squarely on their ingredients. for his dad’s formulations.

Indeed, starting the “Although I’m new to the industry, I’ve lived the holistic company — which is named after the Northern California lifestyle my whole life,” said Blaine, who’s been taking these valley along the Lost Coast where Dr. Lando now mixes since childhood and is now putting branded spins lives because it’s the “epitome of clean, untouched, and on his father’s basic formulas. “I like to think of ourselves unadulterated”— Blaine realized that locking in reliable as mixologists,” he explained, “as bartenders for health sources would be key to the business. “The hardest part is powders.” finding vendors we trust,” he said, noting that they test for Aside from the exotic ingredients, the herbal mixtures organic and non-GMO standards. are based on blue-green algae that’s harvested from He believes such diligence is critical. “The best strategy Oregon’s Klamath Lake. “This is the most complete food in this industry, because it is so fast-paced and so booming, on the planet,” said Blaine, explaining that the only reason is to be as transparent as possible,” Blaine explained. their business is not certified organic is because they use But doesn’t he worry that a competitor might steal his “wild-crafted foods” like this algae. Of the six current formulas? “If this industry grows and we all get healthier herbal blends, there’s the workout-friendly Performance in the process?” he asked.“That’s the most important thing.”

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hile still small in number, Santa Barbara County’s grenache producers are a proud and dedicated bunch, and the grape is slowly emerging from the shadow of its more popular Rhône sibling, syrah. Grenache was first made famous by two Old World regions: France’s Châteauneuf-du-Pape, an area in the central Rhône Valley where pebble-covered vineyards could be mistaken for cobblestone roads, and the Catalonian region of Priorat in Spain, where ancient volcanic landscapes offer chipped dark slate soils. It also thrives on the Central Coast, thanks to a fairly dry and very long growing season, which can produce juicy, berry-rich, and not overly tannic but savory wines, the best of which will only get better with age. Vineyards already excelling include John Sebastiano, Camp Four, Purisima Mountain, Larner, Thompson, and Bien Nacido, and you can always count on grenache wines made by Beckmen, Harrison Clarke, Kaena, and The Ojai Vineyard. Here are eight more current releases worthy of tracking down.

Sillix Santa Ynez Valley 2012: Sourced from Camp Four Vineyard, this is Blake Sillix’s third vintage, and each one gets better. Tart cherry, savory lucques olive, wild strawberry, and leather; a lean wine that would be perfectly paired with freshly made chilaquiles (preferably from La Super-Rica). $37.

Chris Hammell Wine Alliance Truebeliever California 2011: Chris Hammel planted his grenache on a back corner of Bien Nacido’s sloping land that mountain goats would struggle to scale. Bursting with ripe berry fruit, Santa Maria garrigue, and a velvety, smoky finish. Best pair it with medium-rare tri-tip and a freshly baked baguette. $80.

Carr Paredon Vineyard 2012: Ryan Carr manages this vineyard himself. Cranberries and tart raspberries and licorice, with a crisp and polished palate; a refreshing glass. Try it with a goat cheese, roasted beet salad, and toasted walnut bread. $35.

De Su Propia Cosecha Spanish Springs Vineyard Edna Valley 2011: A fresh wine — fragrant with juicy blueberries, boysenberries, and blackberries, leaves and all — this has depth, weight, and a welcoming spicy finish. Would be a triumphant match with merguez in a roll and some frites on the side. $34.

Casa Dumetz “Common Ground” Thompson/Tierra Alta Vineyards 2013: Fun, zingy, and vibrant. Juicy pomegranate notes would make this a perfect match for a Moroccan tagine. $35.

Jaffurs Santa Barbara County 2011: Fresh strawberries with a hint of caramel and dried herbes de Provence, a very light elegant wine with a touch of spice on the finish. Have it on hand with a plate of carnitas tacos and salsa verde. $34.

Tercero Watch Hill Vineyard 2010: Bramble, dried cranberry with a grippy tannic finish — just perfect with a juicy burger. $35.

Samsara Larner Vineyard 2011: Fragrant blackberry and black olive nose with aromatic white pepper. A perfect pairing with barbecued lamb chops, rosemary, and grilled red bell peppers. $40.

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t might seem obvious, but Pro Era rapper/ producer Kirk Knight says he’d be a chemist if he weren’t rapping.

“I was into chemistry really hard when I was in high school. I got an 85 or a 90 on the Regents Exam when I was younger. I was in a chemistry class a year or two before that — I can’t even really remember — but I was taking advanced chemistry as a sophomore.”

Staying ahead of his grade has always come naturally to Knight, who first began accruing production credits at the age of 15. As a producer, Knight’s sample-heavy beats feel perfectly reflective of the Pro Era collective’s larger ethos — soulful and straightforward, potent and without frills, and delightfully void of the increasingly unavoidable fist-pump-sub-bass.

Knight’s flow is aggressive — more like an impassioned rant than an OG Maco–style tantrum — with each verse competently assembled with plenty of room for embellishment.

He even slightly channels ODB with playful vowel refrains and loosey-goosey melodies. It’s all totally impressive, especially given Knight’s persistence at remaining “under the radar.”

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I recently caught up with Knight in anticipation of his February 26 show at Velvet Jones with Mick Jenkins. For tickets and info, call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones.com.

This is a weird question, but what would it be like to hear one of your tracks as someone’s ringtone? I’d actually be complimented. I remember when I was out in Cali, a friend turned on their CD player in the car and the first song that played was my song “Dreams” from when I was 16. We tried to change it — that song “Dreams” is my favorite song, and it’s really kind of personal, so I was like, “Ahhh, I don’t wanna hear this right now,” and then the next song was “Extortion” [another early Knight track]. That was ill, especially because it was on a CD. She had to burn that shit on her computer just to play it in her car.

Pro Era’s sound is unique in that it sounds geographically specific without being limited by that legacy. Do you think it’s possible for a group like Pro Era to grow out of a community void of that same hip-hop or cultural legacy?

What’s imbedded in you is always going to be there — it can only be weakened by your environment. If I go to Cali right now, and I start living in Cali, I’d still be making that aggressive music. But due to the fact that my everyday life in Cali, and me living in the now, the grittiness and the New York that’s in me will be weakened, in terms of music. So when I start making beats, I start with an 88 [BPM] instead of a 96. That’s the only way I can explain it. It’s a faster pace; it’s different.

In Flatbush, I can only talk about my side of Flatbush. I lived all in Parkside and that, and there’s two types of Flatbush: There’s the whole Flatbush money-violence-drug shit, and then the Flatbush where we have those aesthetics, but we bring something totally different.

People look at me and think,“Oh, he’s about to rob me,” and I really do get that because people do say I look like that, but in all actuality, I’m one of the nicest guys, and I’m one of the most knowledgeable guys, at least in terms of just thinking, because I think a lot. People judge a book by its cover. I might look like a hood dude, but my mental is totally different.

— Jake Blair

CASSANDRA WILSON COMING FORTH BY DAY This lush, contemplative take on the music of Billie Holiday is anything but a typical tribute album. To begin with, Cassandra Wilson commands so much respect as a vocalist in her own right that anything resembling an imitation of Holiday’s distinctive tone is out of the question. Wilson connects with Lady Day much more by mood and intuition than by any superficial vocal resemblance. Add to that the fact that this record represents a significant departure for her in terms of production and collaboration; Wilson

recorded Coming Forth by Day with producer Nick Launay (Arcade Fire, Nick Cave) and an ensemble featuring T Bone Burnett and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on guitars, Van Dyke Parks arranging the elaborate string parts, and the rhythm section from the Bad Seeds (Thomas Wydler and Martyn P. Casey).

While it’s hard to imagine this supergroup will be the one onstage at UCSB’s Campbell Hall when Wilson arrives there on February 22, one can dream. The album reveals yet another aspect of this visionary

artist’s immense talent, as Wilson ventures into the orchestral territory mapped out by Arcade Fire, with her sainted muse Billie Holiday by her side. — CD

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SANTA BARBARA NEW MUSICALS: Theater League brings Ragtime to the Granada in March 2016.

Most area musical theater fans already know that Theater League’s Broadway in Santa Barbara series brings the best national touring companies of current and classic Broadway shows to the Granada every year.

Whether you are still buzzing from last week’s presentation of Guys and Dolls or just wishing you were, next season’s lineup has been announced, so now’s the time to get organized and get tickets for the 2015-16 season.

December welcomes one of the most exciting new holiday shows to come along in years. Forget Rudolph or Tiny Tim or even Santa himself for that matter, and bring on Frank, Dean, Joey, and Sammy for a Rat Pack Christmas, which comes to the Granada December 8-9. Buddy Hackett’s son, Sandy, emcees this night of Christmas songs sung by guys in tuxes drinking cocktails and smoking cigarettes.

On January 12-13, 2016, Granada audi ences will travel back in time to the 1980s with Flashdance the Musical. Based on the iconic 1983 film, this stage adaptation includes all the original hits, including “Maniac,” “Flashdance … What a Feeling,” and “Gloria,” along with several new songs by songwriting team Robbie Roth and Robert Cary. Expect leg warmers, artfully torn sweatshirts, tousled hair, and pouting faces — and that’s just the people in line.

The Producers rolls into town on February 16-17, 2016. In ironic tribute to its own premise, Mel Brooks’s musical adaptation of his own 1968 film has proved to be one of the most successful Broadway musicals of this century. Thrill to Max Bialystock’s audition epiphany as he realizes, “That’s our Hitler!” The Producers is one of the funniest shows ever written, and this production is sure to deliver the goods.

Ragtime has become a favorite among Broadway musical cognoscenti ever since it won a Tony for Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens’s score in 1998. That goes up March 29-30, 2016. Season tickets are on sale now. Call 899-2222 or visit theaterleague.com.

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ederlands Dans Theater last performed in Santa Barbara in 2003. It’s been a long wait for NDT’s fans — those of us who breathlessly pass around their latest YouTube videos on social media, marveling at the dancers’ quick precision and the inventiveness of the company’s choreography, set pieces, and costuming. NDT , a touring company composed of 16 of the world’s most gifted young movement artists, will take the Granada stage on Tuesday, February 24.

Nederlands Dans Theater was founded in 1959

by Benjamin Harkarvy, Aart Verstegen, and Carel Birnie, when members of the Dutch National Ballet broke away to create more experimental work. Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián became artistic director in 1975; his work with the company played a major part in building its current aesthetic. In 2012, Paul Lightfoot — who has danced with NDT since 1985 and has been a resident choreographer since 2002, alongside Sol León — became the company’s artistic director.

Tuesday’s program will include Johan Inger’s “I New Then,” Lightfoot and León’s “Shutters Shut” and “Subject to Change,” and Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s “Sara.” “I New Then” is a lighter work featuring music by Van Morrison, pedestrian costumes, and a swingy, thrown waltz flavor. “Shutters Shut” is a riveting, inventively costumed, meticulously detailed duet danced to the poetry of Gertrude Stein. In the ensemble work “Subject to Change,” a wildly inventive, muscular pas de deux set to Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” unfolds on a big red rug, as men in dark suits swoop and loom around.

“Sara” is an eerie, mesmerizing group work carved out to the last detail: the direction of the gaze, the position of the fingers.

Last week, Lightfoot answered some of The Independent’s questions about the upcoming program and about NDT’s artistic process.

NDT  is NDT’s breeding ground for young dancers, and I’m sure that the audition process is highly competitive. What do you look for aside from extensive classical training?

What is the spark that makes a young artist a good fit for the company? Each year, NDT  holds its annual audition in January. During our last audition, 280 young dancers attended from all over the world. It’s important that dancers have completed a classical ballet education; they need to have a strong technique. Apart from that, musicality is very important. But, of course, there has to be that unknown element which weighs the balance

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by Melissa Lowenstein in an artist’s favor. Many times, I get the question about what that is.

Energy plays a big role in every artist of NDT. There has to be an openness and sensitivity with others. After many years of working with dancers at NDT, I would say that I’d rather work with someone who has better energy and less talent than the opposite … and a creative spirit. NDT is all about creativity.

NDT has such a characteristic sculptural style. How much involvement do the dancers themselves have in building the choreography — in refining it over time? NDT  has two to three productions each season, working with many choreographers. Each choreographer will have their own way of working with the dancers in the studio. This creative process very much depends on the choreographer, but the dancers are there to learn how to be part of a creative process. Choreographers come to NDT with the knowledge that the artists are not just going to be puppets in the work, but thinking, sensitive people who will give their utmost to the work. The artistic team of NDT  is also hugely important in helping the piece grow with the dancers once a work is premiered. A work never has to end. It is a constant journey that the dancers are responsible for and embrace.

How important a role do costuming and set pieces play in your works? As NDT  is an international touring company, many of the works are quite simplistic in terms of set and costumes, as we focus very much on the dance itself. Sol [León] and I believe very much in the details and symbols that we use in our costumes and decor in every piece. “Subject to Change” is perhaps the most interesting on the program. The main element was the red carpet, which acts as a world in itself. It is manipulated by four men who we chose to dress in black suits.

We needed to connect them with the carpet, so we lined the suits with red silk. The main couple is constantly in this changing environment of the carpet and the walls around them. It was hugely inspirational to work with these elements.

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents NDT 2 at the Granada Theatre (1214 State St.) on Tuesday, February 24, at 8 p.m.

For tickets and info, call 899-2222 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

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the conventional way. When he graduated from UCSB’s MFA program with a degree in new media, rather than moving to Los Angeles or New York to seek gallery representation or to Silicon Valley to become a typical techbro, Silva opened a thrift store in Old Town Goleta. What began as an art project in the cozy backside Suite C at

by Charles Donelan  Hollister Avenue morphed from an all-purpose secondhand operation into The Control Lab, the area’s only store that specializes in buying, selling, and trading retro video games. In case you don’t already know, old-school consoles like Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis are, as the saying goes,“a thing,” and The Control Lab has got them by the score. But by now that’s old news, as Silva and his fiancée, Karly Williams, have a new project in the works that’s wedding-related, artsy, and, like much of Silva’s previous work, highly community oriented. Foregoing the traditional honeymoon as well as the standard gift registry, Silva and Williams have established a “honeyfund” to support the construction of a tiny house.

The idea for this minimal structure is a simple one. In the characteristically exclamation-point-studded mission statement on their Honeyfund site, the enthusiastic couple lays it out like this:

A trio of accomplished, richly talented, awardwinning female songwriters whose songs cut through the murky layers of life’s complexities and bring clarity to many of the challenges we all long to make sense of.

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Even after graduating from UCSB —We’re lucky to already have a home full of everything we need, actually too much stuff, so we are asking for contributions to our tiny house project that is going to be displayed at the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival instead of gifts! Here you can contribute to our future, help put us in a better position to battle our student loans, and help make our dreams come true!

The project (see image) has since gained considerable momentum, as a variety of partners have gotten on board, including Sigrid Wright at the Community Environmental Council (CEC). The CEC has chosen Silva and Williams’s tiny house as a featured project at Santa Barbara Earth Day, so that’s where this little home on wheels will make its public debut. In addition to this key opportunity for wider exposure, the pair’s tiny-house project is now being helped along by Kim Yasuda’s sculpture class at UCSB, where the structure is being built, and architect Justin Najjar-Keith, who will help draw the plans. Other contributors to the project include Seattle Tiny Homes, Ashley and Vance Engineering, Santa Barbara Painting, Livingreen, Insulate S.B., Below Magid Construction, and Hayward Lumber.

When I visited Silva at UCSB on a recent afternoon, the tiny house was a not-so-tiny stack of lumber, but as we started talking, it became apparent that the spirit behind this project is anything but small and that it connects to a longstanding interest among the people of Santa Barbara in sustainable alternative housing. Ken Yokota, the affable staff technician who manages the UCSB sculpture yard, joined us to discuss his memories of several such efforts made in these parts, dating as far back as 1971. Yokota himself lived in a tiny house on wheels in a dirt lot behind the Riviera Theatre on Alameda Padre Serra before the area was tamed by more traditional forms of development. Silva told me that the students in Yasuda’s sculpture class were particularly eager to become involved in something that would offer them hands-on experience leading to a livable, sustainable result. Those interested in following the tiny house project as it proceeds toward the big reveal at Earth Day on Saturday, April 18, can learn more by visiting sotinyhouse.tumblr.com. In the meantime, congratulations to Chris Silva and Karly Williams on their impending nuptials and on their unorthodox approach to achieving every married couple’s dream — a permanent honeymoon.

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oth Michael Bernard as Richard Nixon and Laezer Schlomkowitz as Henry Kissinger are superb in this fascinating low-budget, two-man show that manages to wring laughter out of Nixon’s last night in office without resorting to sketchcomedy-style caricature. The brilliant script by Russell Lees relies on a clever device to open this 90-minute dialogue into the space of world history. NOT CROOKS: Laezer Schlomkowitz Rather than have the actors play mul- (left) and Michael Bernard star tiple roles, the playwright gets other in Nixon’s Nixon. characters like Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung into the show by having Nixon and Kissinger play-act multiple roles as part of how they spend this increasingly drunken evening together. This conceit not only unleashes such wonders as Schlomkowitz as Kissinger as Mao, which alone is worth the price of admission, but it also makes dramatic sense.

This meeting, which did in fact take place on the eve of Nixon’s resignation, almost certainly involved a great emphasis on moments of past glory. As all the president’s men, such as Hunt, Liddy, and Dean, were dragging Nixon down, the president must have yearned to return to the safe ground of foreign diplomacy.

Bernard captures Tricky Dick’s hypomania without doing a Nixon impression, and Schlomkowitz is extraordinary as Kissinger, layering in just the right ratio of intensity to diffidence to charm to anxiety. If you are by chance enjoying The Invisible Bridge, Rick Perlstein’s magisterial history of “The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan,” then by all means, go. And if you aren’t, go anyway. It’s ■ that good.

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scar Wilde famously wrote of his greatest play, “It is written by a butterfly for butterflies.” This production of The Importance of Being Earnest, although buoyed by a pair of fine performances by Quinlan Fitzgerald and Alison Wilson, sinks under the weight of an error in understanding ARMY LISTS CONSULTED: The denouement the play’s central figure, Lady of Earnest featured cast members (from left to Bracknell. Rebecca Mason, the right) Adrian Carter, Quinlan Fitzgerald, Ian senior BFA acting student who Elliott, Avila Reese, and Zachary Macias (seated). showed such comedic brilliance as Bottom in UCSB’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has here been encouraged to depart not only from tradition but also from any kind of good sense in an interpretation of Lady Bracknell.

As written by Wilde, Lady Bracknell’s pronouncements are a classic example of structural irony — in other words, the character does not, and must not, know that she is funny. From Mason’s first entrance, it was clear that this performance would depart radically from the conventional approach. Ordinarily, the role is presented, as Harold Bloom has written of the turn given by Dame Edith Evans, “as it must be performed, with Wagnerian severity and frowning high seriousness.” Mason takes the opposite tack, offering an ironic Lady Bracknell who laughs at her own jokes and who gets upset when things don’t go her way.

A carefree Hamlet could be okay, and Falstaff as an ascetic killjoy might be fine, but a self-aware Lady Bracknell? To paraphrase Gwendolen,“I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my ■ nature, but I warn you … you may go too far.”

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So you guys just came back from Europe. How was it? It was amazing; it was my favorite tour so far. It was our second time going there. It was very beautiful.

The response for the new album in Europe was really nice.

Music can be an emotional thing, and this album has a darker tinge to it than Idle Labor.

How do you share that with audiences? Compositionally, I’ve made sad songs, but lyrically it’s introspective, and musically it’s like a landscape for a movie. It can get emotional, and playing it live is a whole different monster.

Is the writing process mostly you or collaborative? It’s all me actually. From the very beginning, I wrote and produced everything. Yeah, basically I like to retreat to my parents’ house when I record. Then when it’s time to tour, I meet up with the band, which is a lot of my friends.

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When he’s not chilling, Vallesteros is trailblazing the indie music scene. His songs marry dreamy ’80s-reminiscent tempos with saturated electronic RETURNS TO THE FOLD WITH NAUSEA interludes. Nausea, Craft Spells’

by Apoorva Chiplunkar recently released follow-up to their 2011 breakthrough, Idle Labor, boasts delicate synth beats that blend fluidly with resonant, warm vocals. Melancholy chord structures are cradled in heady, minimalist guitar lines that channel a musical maturation, especially on tracks like “Breaking the Angle Against the Tide” and “Twirl.” While Idle Labor twisted lyrics about social anxiety into sugary dance numbers like “Party Talk,” Nausea presents a variety of instruments, including flute and clusters of lulled guitar riffs that point to a kind of existential awakening. With a distinct orchestral edge, Nausea provides a lush and raw exposition of coming to terms with solitude and realizing your place in the world.

How is it being at your parents’ place while you’re writing? They leave me alone.

[Laughs.] I mostly write past the 11 p.m. mark. That’s when I hit my stride, and they’re asleep by that time, so they don’t bother me much. And home-cooked meals are good. It’s funny — during this interview my mom just came home from work and was like “Justin!” and I was like,“Mom, I’m doing an interview.”

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Why Nausea? It’s also the first track on the album. I’ve experienced kind of a detachment from reality due to spending a lot of time alone. When you spend so much time alone, it’s hard to come back out for air. It’s a reality that you create for yourself after recording for so long. Trying to get back into reality is kind of nauseous. When I’m on a stride and able to make an album like Nausea, that’s how I really felt at that time.

Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin

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SICK JAMS: On Nausea, the long-awaited second LP from Craft Spells, the band tackles issues of loneliness and explores a diverse arsenal of new instrumentation.

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What are you interests apart from making music? I love reading comic books and manga. I love listening to music. I play a lot of Street Fighter online. And hanging out with friends, my close friends and best friends. I enjoy night driving. It’s one of my favorite things to do. When it’s like 3 a.m. and no one’s on the road, it’s got a therapeutic feel to it.

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Craft Spells play SOhO Restaurant & Music Club ( State St.) on Thursday, February 26, at 8 p.m. with The Bilinda Butchers. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

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SUNDAY!

A Tribute for Billie Holiday’s 100th Birthday

Cassandra Wilson

Coming Forth by Day: A Celebration of Billie Holiday SUN, FEB 22 / 7 PM (note special time) UCSB CAMPBELL HALL

Tickets start at $30 / $15 UCSB students

“Arguably the greatest living female jazz singer… her smoky alto bends almost everything to its will.”

All Music Guide

WHILE WE WAIT: With a new album in the offing, the Avett Brothers (from left: Bob Crawford, Scott Avett, Seth Avett, and Joe Kwon) took to the Arlington Theatre for a lively and packed show last week.

Event Sponsors: Cristina & Erck Rickmers

FULL HOUSE

Hugh Masekela & Vusi Mahlasela 20 Years of Freedom

The Avett Brothers.

At the Arlington Theatre, Tuesday, February 10.

FRI, MAR 13 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL Tickets start at $25 / $15 all students

Reviewed by Cassandra Miasnikov

“Hugh Masekela is still one of the most thrilling live performers around.”

Rolling Stone

T

he Avett Brothers kicked off their show in Santa Barbara precisely at 8 p.m. with the punchy track “Go to Sleep,” during which no one in the audience slept.

In fact, no one in the audience sat down for the first half of Tuesday night’s performance. The show itself was foot-stomping, playful, and loud — something you would expect to see at the Santa Barbara Bowl before the Arlington Theatre. Fans continued streaming in through the first few songs, many of whom wore homemade Avett Brothers T-shirts to commemorate the event.

Even the concertgoers Scott Avett who didn’t make their own merch clapped and sang along to every song.

But the band was not to be bested in enthusiasm by their audience. Each member onstage — actual brothers Scott and Seth Avett, along with bassist Bob Crawford, cellist Joe Kwon, keyboardist Paul Defiglia, drummer Mike Marsh, and violinist Tania Elizabeth — was given his or her own solo during the band’s two-hour-long set. Kwon jammed so hard the strings of his bow were shredding by the end of the second song. The high-spirited dynamic between Kwon and Elizabeth was a sight to behold in itself, as were the impassioned vocal harmonies of Scott and Seth Avett.

By the start of the group’s acoustic folk ballad “Shame,” fans had settled into their seats, singing along with the band as they crooned. The Avett Brothers later settled into an all-acoustic set where Scott delivered a powerfully emotional rendition of the ballad “Murder in the City.”

The band finished their 24-song set list with their most famous song,“I and Love and You,” during which fans ignored any seating arrangements the theater had once given them in favor of crowding around the stage and waving their ■ arms and bodies in time with the music.

Two of South Africa’s true freedom fighters and beloved musical icons come together to honor 20 years of democracy in South Africa and the official end of apartheid.

Chick Corea & Herbie Hancock SUN, MAR 22 / 7 PM / GRANADA THEATRE

Tickets start at $45 / $19 UCSB students A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price

“No other words describe Herbie Hancock better than ‘living legend.’ ” NPR “[Chick Corea is] a venerated maestro.” BBC

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Event Sponsors: Cristina & Erck Rickmers Anne & Michael Towbes Special thanks to:

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LISTINGS art exhibits Thurs 2/19 - 9:00 CABIN BY THE SEA SERIES:

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THE $5 HAPPY HOUR 9:00 MUSIC IS LOVE PRESENTS:

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“KINDRED QUEST” Pre-party w/ Thriftworks & Pegasus Sat 2/21 - 6:00-7:30

TINA SICRE w/ band 9:30

BIG MOUNTAIN CORNERSTONE American Reggae Pop Sun 2/22 - 8:00

WILD CHILD

W/ DESERT NOISES, GOODNIGHT TEXAS Indie folk Mon 2/23 - 7:30

JAZZ JAM W/ JEFF ELLIOTT

straight ahead jazz with local musicians sitting in Tues 2/24 - 7:00

SINGER/SONGWRITER SHOWCASE

KELLY ROSE MATT TURK JESSE RHODES Wed 2/25 - 6:00

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Thurs 2/26 - 9:00 CLUB MERCY PRESENTS:

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

ElverhØj Museum – Ro Snell: Outside In, through Apr. .  Elverhoy Wy., Solvang, -.

Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Abstract Art Collective: AbstraX; Limited Palette Abstracts, through Apr. ; Professional Baseball, ongoing; multiple permanent installations.  W. Anapamu St., -.

Museum of Contemporary Art S.B. – Out of the Great Wide Open, through Mar. .  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. Museum of Art – Visions of Modernity: th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints, through April ; 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., -.

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

Wildling Museum – Wild Spirit: Horses in Art, through June . -B Mission Dr., Solvang, -.

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

Architectural Foundation Gallery – Jeffrey Sipress: Black & White and a Little Red, through Feb. .  E. Victoria St., -.

Artamo Gallery –  Years of Celebration, through Mar. .  W. Anapamu St., -.

Atkinson Gallery – Jillian McDonald: Valley of the Deer, through Feb. .  Cliff Dr., Rm. , SBCC, - x.

Bella Rosa Galleries – Dan Levin: Fridge Magnets, Ronald Stevens: Gemstone Carvings, Edward Borein: Sketches from the West, Marc Chagall: Giclees, and Art Deco Jewelry Collection, through Feb. .  State St., -.

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

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

Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – Illumination, through Mar. .  Linden Ave., Carpinteria, -.

Casa Dolores – Bandera Ware, Feb. -May .  Bath St., -.

Corridan Gallery – Into the City, through Mar. .  N. Milpas St., -.

Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Sherry Spear: Whimsy, through Apr. .  State St., -.

Eastside Library Gallery – AfricanAmericans on the Central Coast: A Photo Essay, through Feb. .  E. Montecito St., -.

Flying Goat Cellars – Nancy Yaki, through Mar. .  E. Chestnut Ct., Unit A, Lompoc, -. galerie – Parallel Realities, through Feb. .  W. Matilija St., Ojai, -.

Gallery  – Gallery  Volunteers, through Feb. . La Arcada,  State St., -.

Gallery Los Olivos – New Perspectives ...

Many Viewpoints, through Feb. ; Member artists of Santa Ynez Valley Arts, through Mar. .  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -.

Goleta Library – GVAA: February Art Show, through through Feb. .  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta, -.

Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery of Art – Reflection, through Apr. .  De la Vina, -.

Hospice of S.B. – Diana Valdez: Ocean of Souls, through Apr. .  Alameda Padre Serra, -.

Jewish Federation of S.B. – Black & White and Shades, through Feb. .  Chapala St., -.

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

Los Olivos Café – Susan Belloni: Love Livin’ in the Valley, through Mar. .  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -.

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

Marcia Burtt Studio – Mark Kerckhoff: a celebration of plein air landscapes, through Mar. .  Laguna St., -.

MichaelKate Gallery – The Abstract, through Feb. .  Santa Barbara St., -.

Montecito Aesthetic Institute – eclecticism, through May .  Coast Village Rd., Ste. H, Montecito, -.

MultiCultural Ctr. – Zéna Allen: Of Water and the Spirit, through Mar. . UCSB, -.

Ojai Café Emporium – Gil and Sue DiCicco, ongoing.  State St., -.

Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Arts – Gil and 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., -.

Porch – The Nature of Love, through Feb. .  Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria, -.

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., -.

Red Barn – Rescue, Feb. -Mar. . Building , Rm. , UCSB. 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 – Rolling Sculpture, through Mar. .  Foothill Rd., -.

Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Anders Aldrin: Color Seeking Form, Jean Swiggett: One Man Renaissance, and Agoraphobia: Portraits of American Interiors, through Mar. . ; Frederick Remahl, , through Mar. ; Ringers: Vintage and Contemporary American Masterworks, through May ; Lockwood de Forest Brass Cutouts, through Dec. .  E. Anapamu St., -.

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

UCSB Library – Girls-in-Justice, through May . UCSB, -. wall space gallery – wsg: ten, through Mar. .  E. Yanonali St. C-, -.

Westmont Ridley-Tree Art Museum – Rembrandt and the Jews: The Berger Print Collection, through Mar. .  La Paz Rd., -.

LIVE MUSIC CLASSICAL

Faulkner Gallery – S.B. Music Club.  E. Anapamu St., -.

SAT: pm First Presbyterian Church – Concerto Concert.  E. Constance Ave., -.

SUN: pm Good Shepherd Lutheran Church – Classics

by Candlelight.  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta, -.

SUN: pm Granada Theatre – Vienna Boys Choir.  State St., -.

SUN: pm Hahn Hall – The Artistry of Strings. Music Academy of the West,  Fairway Rd., -.

SAT: pm Lobero Theatre – Dawn Upshaw.  E. Canon Perdido St., -.

SUN: pm Page Hall – Concerto Concert.  La Paz Rd., -.

FRI: pm

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FEB. 19- 26 S.B. Central Library – Opera S.B. Noontime Concert.  E. Anapamu St., -.

WED: pm St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church –  Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos, -.

FRI: The Artistry of Strings (:pm) SUN: The Choral Project (:pm)

POP, ROCK & JAZZ

Blush Restaurant & Lounge –  State St., -.

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

FRI, SAT: Live Brazilian Music (pm) Campbell Hall – UCSB, -.

SUN: Cassandra Wilson (pm) Chumash Casino Resort –  E. Hwy. , Santa Ynez, () -.

THU /: The Fab Four (pm) THU /: America (pm) Cold Spring Tavern –  Stagecoach Rd., -.

FRI: The Nombres (-pm) SAT: Dan Grimm (-pm); The Excellent Tradesmen (-pm) SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (:-pm); Lady Pharoah (:-:pm) The Creekside –  Hollister Ave., -.

FRI: The Greatest Story (pm) SAT: Do No Harm (pm) WED: Country Night (pm) Dargan’s –  E. Ortega St., -.

TUE: Karaoke (pm) WED: Karaoke - The Band (:pm) THU: Traditional Irish Music (: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) The Goodland –  Calle Real, -.

THU: Live Music Thursdays (pm) Hoffmann Brat Haus –  State St., -.

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

TUE: Indie Night (pm) WED: Karaoke (:pm) Isla Vista School –  El Colegio Rd., Isla Vista, -.

FRI: M.A.K.U. SoundSystem (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., -.

FRI: Three Women and the Truth (pm) SAT: Taj Mahal Trio (pm) THU: Elling Swings Sinatra Marjorie Luke Theatre –  E. Cota St., -.

SUN: MAKU SoundSystem (pm) Maverick Saloon –  Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, -.

FRI: Occasional Mustache (pm) SAT: Travis Mersola (pm); Wet Stone (pm) O’Malleys and the Study Hall –  State St., -.

THU: College Night with DJ Gavin MultiCultural Ctr. – UCSB, -.

FRI: The Coup (pm) Old Town Tavern –  Orange Ave., Goleta, -.

WED, FRI, SAT: 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: Erisy Watt, Junipero, Honey Sticks (pm) FRI: Thriftworks, Pegau (pm) SAT: Big Mountain, Cornerstone (:pm) SUN: Wild Child, Desert Noises, Goodnight, Texas (pm) MON: Jazz Jam with Jeff Elliott (:pm) TUE: Jesse Rhodes, Matt Turk, Kelly Rose (pm) WED: Durango Songwriter All-Stars: Kick-Off Expo (pm) THU: Craft Spells (pm) Statemynt –  State St., -.

THU: DJ Akorn WED: Blues Night (pm) Tiburon Tavern –  State St., - FRI: Karaoke Night (:pm) Velvet Jones –  State St., -.

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he poster for Fifty Shades of Grey, the film adaptation of E.L. James’s erotic novel, asks moviegoers,“Are you curious?” Of course we are. The novel, which tells the story of a college student that enters into a BDSM relationship with a tech billionaire, has sold 100 million copies worldwide and this past Valentine’s Day weekend broke several box-office records. Both the film and the novel it is based on have been the subject of rampant controversy.

This, by the way, tends to be the case when women en masse use their purchasing power to elevate a property to household-name status. The die-hard fans are deafening; the detractors match their decibel level. Amid all that noise, of course you’re curious. Of course you’re asking yourself, “Is this a film worth seeing?” And the answer is, “Yes, absolutely.”

For the uninitiated, the basic premise is, after a chance meeting, Seattle telecommunications mogul Christian Grey becomes obsessed with the idea of virginal college student Anastasia Steele becoming the “submissive” to his “dominant.” He seduces her with his wealth, his power, and his six-pack, but Steele resists signing his BDSM contract. As electric as the chemistry is between the two, their desires are fundamentally opposed. He wants control in the bedroom. She wants control of his heart.

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OF HUMAN BONDAGE: Dakota Johnson (left) and Jamie Dornan star in the steamy film adaptation of E.L. James’s controversial best seller Fifty Shades of Grey.

story’s pornographic absurdity. At the same time, this is a film about sex, and though the BDSM presented here skews vanilla, the bedroom scenes still manage to steam up the joint. Director Sam Taylor-Johnson tells a stylish and campy tale of a woman seduced by a man’s power, a woman unsettled by the thought that she might have to give up her own power in order to make the relationship work. Leads Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan start out the film rough — Johnson reads forced, Dornan comes across wooden — but it doesn’t take long for them to settle into their roles, and once they’re locked in, they fire on all cylinders.

Fifty Shades is often dismissed as fodder for sexually frustrated housewives. I haven’t read the books, but I can assure you, the film is for any adult who likes their movies ■ a little bit silly and more than a little bit sexy.

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t’s hard to avoid comparison between Two Days, One Night and the recently released Cake. Both films are tightly composed, dark character studies. Both focus on middle-aged women in crisis. And both hit their climax as their central characters hit rock bottom. In fact, where Two Days and Cake differ really just lies in the delivery. While Cake spirals out in a number of strange and supernatural directions to trigger our tears, Two Days, One Night STUCK IN A MOMENT: Two Days, One Night moves along evenly and plods along evenly and slowly, making for a slowly, making for a film — and a story — that’s painfully reminiscent of life as we know it. Fabrizio Rongione (left) and Marion Cotillard star. film — and a story — that’s painfully reminiscent of life as we know it.

Marion Cotillard plays Sandra, a beautiful but sad (Catherine Salée) urge her along, blind to (or maybe in young mother who goes back to her factory job after tak- denial about) how close Sandra is to shattering. ing leave to deal with her depression. When she returns, The plotline is almost comically simple, but Cotillard’s she finds herself at the heart of a troublesome battle: Her subtle tics and slow unraveling make it feel wholly compelcoworkers are being forced to choose between keeping her ling. Her performance, paired with directors Jean-Pierre on staff and keeping their yearly bonus. The rest of Two and Luc Dardenne’s romantic, light-leaked, and carefully Days’ two hours unfolds in a series of awkward, sometimes panning shots, create a slightly surreal feel to the whole violent interactions between Sandra and her peers as she thing — a strategy no doubt meant to be indicative of the tracks them down, one by one, and pleads for their support antidepressant fog that Sandra finds herself stuck in. In the in allowing her to keep her job. The task is humiliating, end, though, Two Days, One Night is not a depressing film heartbreaking, and at times even degrading, thanks in or a feel-good film or even a morally grounded film; it’s a large part to Sandra’s still-fragile state. Meanwhile, her chef slice-of-life film that triumphs because it’s not afraid to be husband (Fabrizio Rongione) and best friend/coworker all three.

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The following films are playing in Santa Barbara FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, THROUGH THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26. Descriptions followed by initials — JF (Jackson Friedman) and DJP (D.J. Palladino) — have been taken from our critics’ reviews, which can be read in full at independent.com. The symbol •✯indicates the film is recommended.

FIRST LOOKS ✯ Fifty Shades of Grey (124 mins.; R: strong sexual content including dialogue, some unusual behavior and graphic nudity, and for language) Reviewed on page 47.

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✯ Kingsman: The Secret Service

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (93 mins.; R: crude sexual content and language throughout, graphic nudity, drug use, and some violence)

✯ Boyhood (165 mins.; R: language including sexual references, and for teen drug and alcohol use)

When Lou (Rob Corddry) is shot, Jacob (Clark Duke) and Nick (Craig Robinson) fire up the time machine in an attempt to save their friend.

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Richard Linklater writes and directs this story about a young boy named Mason as he grows from age 5-18. Here’s a sound not made in America enough: existence discussed with a reasoning skeptical voice.

Linklater’s latest is moving but not melodramatic. (DJP) Fiesta 5

The Lazarus Effect (83 mins.; PG-13: (129

mins.; R: sequences of strong violence, language, and some sexual content)

Attention, squeamish moviegoers: By now, you probably know Kingsman is not really a straight-ahead revamp of James Bond and not exactly a loving send-up, either. It’s more a reality check on the genre’s questionable pleasures — a gentleman spy tale that dares to show us the real blood and guts missing from the usual depiction of licensed-to-kill spy victims … in a funny way. Still, the biggest shocker for unknowing fans is Colin Firth, who shows up here knee-deep in carnage in a set piece that would make most zombie moviemakers blush.

More adventurous filmgoers will gleefully greet a film this full of unexpected hits. In it, Firth plays Harry Hart, an old-school British spy. Indebted to the family of his late colleague, he seizes an opportunity to induct his former partner’s son into the cloak-and-dagger trade.

Like a proper  film, the movie roams the globe to battle a super-villain named Valentine (Hart versus Valentine — cute, huh?), who’s played lisping and weird by Samuel L. Jackson. There are moments of crazy clarity here, like Jackson’s monologue about human beings as virus infections, and moments of crazy poetry, with heads blowing up like psychedelic jellyfish floating in space. They just lost their heads, Moneypenny.

Kingsman is a dish best suited to fans of weirdo cinema. Director Matthew Vaughan has worked this genre-deflating turf before in Kick-Ass, a movie that also blended humor, satire, and horrific punctuations to shed reality on comic book avengers. But this one seems more like a pageant of oddities rather than a satisfying foray into illusion piercing. Like a gadget designed by Q Branch, this movie is preposterous and funny but meant to be painful. (DJP) Camino Real/Metro 4

✯ Two Days, One Night (95 mins.; PG-13: some mature thematic elements) Reviewed on page 47.

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PREMIERES A La Mala (99 mins.; NR) An aspiring actress finds a lucrative new side job: flirting with women’s boyfriends to test their fidelity.

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A group of medical students find a way to bring the dead back to life. Olivia Wilde and Donald Glover star.

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McFarland, USA (128 mins.; PG: thematic material, some violence and language) A cross-country coach (Kevin Costner) in a small California town leads his team to championship glory. Camino Real/Fiesta 5 Mr. Turner (150 mins.; R: some sexual content)

Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky, Another Year) writes and directs this look at the later-life years of eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner.

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✯ Birdman

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sexual material throughout, some language, teen partying)

A high school senior fights to change her school’s social pecking order after finding out she’s been labeled a “Designated Ugly Fat Friend.”

Camino Real/Metro 4 Focus (104 mins.; R: language, some sexual content, and brief violence)

A veteran con man (Will Smith) is thrown for a loop when a woman from his past — who is now a skillful femme fatale — resurfaces. Camino Real/Metro 4 (Opens Thu., Feb. 26)

(114 mins.; PG-13: some sexual references, mature thematic material, historical smoking)

Benedict Cumberbatch plays English mathematician Alan Turing, who helped crack the Enigma code during World War II. In the end, The Imitation Game is a good (not great) Hollywood film about the growing pains of a genius. (DJP)

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Jupiter Ascending (127 mins.; PG-13: some violence, sequences of sci-fi action, some suggestive content, partial nudity) In the future, a young caretaker travels to another planet to help stop a powerful family’s reign of terror. Rarely has so much science fiction been applied so liberally, from massive spaceships to hover-skates to elephant humanoids. It would be great fun if the story wasn’t so boring, stilted, and inconsequential. (DJP) Project Almanac (106 mins.; PG-13: some language and sexual content)

A group of teens stumble upon secret plans for a time machine and decide to construct one for themselves. Almanac is not an awful film, but it never lives up to its own potential for amazing or fearful outcomes. (DJP) Fiesta 5 Sponge Out of Water (93 mins.; PG: mild action and rude humor)

SpongeBob sets out on a quest to figure out a stolen recipe that allows him to transport to our dimension. This whole movie would make James Joyce happy; it’s brimming with puns, narrative loops, and complicated satirical references to philosophical issues. (DJP)

Black or White (121 mins.; PG-13: brief strong language, thematic material involving drug use and drinking, a fight) A grieving widower is thrown into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom Fiesta 5 he helped raise since birth.

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James Marsh directs and Eddie Redmayne stars in this story about the early life and trials of physicist Stephen Hawking. While Marsh’s sure-handed direction and Redmayne’s knockout performance anchor the film, it’s Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking that really sets Theory apart. (JF) Plaza de Oro

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 lies almost completely in its performances. (DJP) Paseo Nuevo

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A decorated Navy SEAL sniper (Bradley Cooper) returns home and struggles to reconnect with civilian life after four tours of duty. Cooper is terrific, beefed up and stoic, determined instead of crazy-eyed.

And Clint Eastwood’s no-nonsense direction style pushes us through the melodramatic script moments. (DJP)

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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): There are many dierent facets to your intelligence, and each matures at a dierent rate.

So for example, your ability to think symbolically may evolve more slowly than your ability to think abstractly.

Your wisdom about why humans act the way they do may ripen more rapidly than your insight into your own emotions. In the coming weeks, I expect one particular aspect of your intelligence to be undergoing a growth spurt: your knowledge of what your body needs and how to give it what it needs.

(June 21 - July 22): “Spanipelagicâ€? is an adjective scientists use to describe creatures that typically hang out in deep water but oat up to the surface on rare occasions.

The term is not a perfect metaphorical ďŹ t for you, since you come up for air more often than that. But you do go through phases when you’re inclined to linger for a long time in the abyss, enjoying the dark mysteries and fathomless emotions. According to my reading of the astrological omens, that’s what you’ve been doing lately. Any day now, however, I expect you’ll be rising up from the Great Down Below and headed topside for an extended stay.

(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): Edward III, a medieval English king, had a favorite poet: Georey Chaucer. In 1374, the king promised Chaucer a big gift in appreciation for his talents: a gallon of wine every day for the rest of his life.

That’s not the endowment I would have wanted if I had been Chaucer. I’d never get any work done if I were quaing 16 glasses of wine every 24 hours. Couldn’t I instead be provided with a regular stipend? Keep this story in mind, Libra, as you contemplate the beneďŹ ts or rewards that might become available to you. Ask for what you really need, not necessarily what the giver initially oers.

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.� That’s what American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson advised. Even if you’re not naturally inclined to see the potential wisdom of that approach, I invite you to play around with it for the next three weeks. You don’t need to do it forever.

It doesn’t have to become a permanent ďŹ xture in your philosophy. Just for now, experiment with the possibility that trying lots of experiments will lead you not just to new truths, but to new truths that are fun, interesting, and useful.

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(Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): To make the cocktail known as Sex on the Beach, you mix together cranberry juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, peach schnapps, and vodka. There is also an alternative “mocktail� called Safe Sex on the Beach. It has the same fruit juices, but no alcohol. Given the likelihood that your inner teenager will be playing an important role in your upcoming adventures, Scorpio, I recommend that you favor the Safe-Sex-on-the-Beach metaphor rather than the Sex-on-the-Beach approach.

At least temporarily, it’s best to show a bit of protective restraint toward the wild and sometimes erratic juvenile energy that’s pushing to be expressed.

(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): The art of the French Aquarian painter Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927) appears in prestigious museums. He isn’t as famous as his fellow Impressionists Paul CĂŠzanne and Camille Pissarro, but he wielded a big inuence on them both. His career developed slowly because he had to work a day job to earn a living. When he was 50 years old, he won a wad of free money in the national lottery, and thereafter devoted himself full-time to painting. I’m not saying you will enjoy a windfall like that anytime soon, Aquarius, but such an event is possible. At the very least, your income could rise. Your odds of experiencing ďŹ nancial luck will increase to the degree that you work to improve the best gifts you have to oer your fellow humans.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): What is the proper blend for you these days? Is it something like 51 percent pleasure and 49 percent business? Or would you be wiser to shoot for 49 percent pleasure and 51 percent business? I will leave that decision up to you, Taurus. Whichever way you go, I suggest that you try to interweave business and pleasure as often as possible. You are in one of those action-packed phases when fun dovetails really well with ambition. I’m guessing that you can make productive connections at parties. I’m betting that you can spice up your social life by taking advantage of what comes to you through your work.

(July 23 - Aug. 22): When faced with a big decision, you might say you want to “sleep on it.â€? In other words, you postpone your ďŹ nal determination until you gather more information and ripen your understanding of the pressing issues. And that could indeed involve getting a good night’s sleep. What happens in your dreams may reveal nuances you can’t pry loose with your waking consciousness alone. And even if you don’t recall your dreams, your sleeping mind is busy processing and reworking the possibilities. I recommend that you make liberal use of the “sleep on itâ€? approach in the coming weeks, Leo. Revel in the wisdom that wells up in you as you’re lying down in the dark.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): In 1900, the world’s most renowned mathematicians met at a conference in Paris. There the German whiz David Hilbert introduced his master list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems. At the time, no one had done such an exhaustive inventory. His well-deďŹ ned challenge set the agenda for math research throughout the 20th century. Today he’s regarded as an inuential visionary. I’d love to see you come up with a list of your own top unsolved problems, Gemini. You now have extra insight about the catalytic projects you will be smart to work on and play with during the coming years.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): In 1962, Edward Albee published his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It won numerous awards and is still performed by modern theater groups.

Albee says the title came to him as he was having a beer at a bar in New York City. When he went to the restroom, he spied the words “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?� scrawled in soap on the mirror. I urge you to be alert for that kind of inspiration in the coming days, Virgo: unexpected, provocative, and out of context. You never know when and where you may be furnished with clues about the next plot twist of your life story.

Homework: Where in your life do you push harder than is healthy? Where do you not push hard enough? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): In Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,â€? a lawyer hires a man named Bartleby to work in his oďŹƒce. At ďŹ rst Bartleby is a model employee, carrying out his assignments with dogged skill. But one day everything begins to change. Whenever his boss instructs him to do a speciďŹ c task, Bartleby says, “I would prefer not to.â€? As the days go by, he does less and less, until ďŹ nally he stops altogether. I’d like to propose, Sagittarius, that you take inspiration from his slowdown. Haven’t you done enough for now? Haven’t you been exemplary in your commitment to the daily struggle? Don’t you deserve a break in the action so you can recharge your psychospiritual batteries? I say yes.

Maybe you will consider making this your battle cry: “I would prefer not to.�

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): “It isn’t normal to know what we want,â€? said pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow.“It is a rare and diďŹƒcult psychological achievement.â€? That’s the bad news, Pisces. The good news is that you may be on the verge of rendering that theory irrelevant. In the coming weeks, you will be better primed to discover what you really want than you have been in a long time.

I suggest you do a ritual in which you vow to unmask this treasured secret. Write a formal statement in which you declare your intention to achieve full understanding of the reasons you are alive on this planet.

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HONOR BAR OPENS: Hillstone, the company behind the Houston’s restaurant chain, has opened The Honor Bar at  Coast Village Road next to Jeannine’s in the former home of Turk Hessellund Nursery. Last August, Hillstone officially announced that they were opening an R+D Kitchen at this address, and I don’t know if those plans are still in the works or if The Honor Bar is a replacement. The Honor Bar dishes out their take on classic finger foods, such as burgers, sandwiches, fries, and even sushi. It has a separate wine-by-the-glass list and a cocktail menu, as well as draft and bottled beer options. The Starters & Snacks section of the menu features Honor Bar Dips, Deviled Eggs, House-Smoked Salmon, and Roasted Nuts & Olives. The Burgers & Sandwiches menu includes the Honor Burger, Veggie Club, Ding’s Crispy Chicken Sandwich, Today’s Featured Sandwich, and French Dip Au Jus.

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MEMORIES: Check out the interior of Pascucci Goleta, circa 2005.

PALAZZIO LOWERS PRICES: This just in from owner Ken Boxer: “Hi John, beginning February 12th I lowered all my menu prices across-the-board at Palazzio. We still will have the same gargantuan size portions, the same high quality ingredients; the only changes our customers will notice will be the significant reduction of our menu prices. We have dropped our prices by 30 to 35 percent. The simple reason for the reduction? I wanted our customers to really see a “value” oriented menu. I wanted to return to the basics, as to why I opened Palazzio. It was all about — VALUE. I have rolled back our menu pricing to what our menu pricing was 15 years ago. It’s a very noticeable difference. I’m hopeful the first thing our customers will notice is how affordable the menu is and the enormous value they are getting for the price.

Best wishes, Ken.” SOJOURNER NEEDS YOUR HELP: This just in from owner Donna Mudge: “John, although the Sojourner has gone through difficult times along the way, most notably the recovery after an arson fire in ’88, the community has always been there. Our neighborhood has experienced several transitions over the last few years with business changes and construction, but I believe our corner will thrive, and we would like to remain an anchor here for many more years to come. We are proud to be a part of such a great neighborhood! We are making internal adjustments to serve our customers better and to be a sustainable and viable business, but we cannot do it without the continued support of our long-standing community of ‘Sojies’ along with our new friends and patrons.‘It takes a village …’ never rang more true for me. Thank you, Donna.”

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sea Fever at 4191 Carpinteria Avenue #10 Summerland, CA 93013; Donald L. Hedden JR 2386 Banner Avenue Summerland, CA 93067 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Donald L. Hedden JR This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 29, 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2014‑0003559. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Entrusted Services at 5385 Hollister Ave Bldg 6 Ste 207 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Eric Adler 125 Willow Springs Ln Apt 203 Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Alec Wayne This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 7, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000057. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Wellness Way of Santa Barbara at 5370 Hollister Avenue Suite K Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Lucas Daniel Chesser 14 East Valerio Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lucas D. Chesser This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 8, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000084. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Beach Cities Brass at 278 Ellwood Beach Drive #14 Goleta, CA 93117; James R Labertew (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: James R. Labertew This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 14, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000144. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Four Seasons Real Estate Solutions, LLC at 3910 Maricopa Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Four Seasons Real Estate Solutions, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Diana McNeill, Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 23, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000251. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: JC Income Tax Service at 107 Dearborn Place #59 Goleta, CA 93117; Jimmy Chiem (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jimmy Chiem This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 23, 2015. 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.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Maria Isabel Hair Design at 3008 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Gerardo Roca 2128 Modoc Rd #F Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gerardo Roca This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 5, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000019. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KATS at 151 Kinman Ave. Goleta, CA 93117; Kari L. Baumann‑Spain (same address) Terence P. Spain (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Kari L. Baumann‑Spain This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 29, 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: 2014‑0003573. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Wild Roots at 6163 Stow Canyon Road Goleta, CA 93117; Lia Grippo (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lia Grippo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 20, 2015.

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: 2015‑0000188. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Breakfast Worldwide at 5 Saint Ann Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Morgan Maassen (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Morgan Maassen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 26, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000270. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Velvet Jones at 423 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; BDC Entertainment, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Chase Gauthier‑General Manager This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2014‑0003588.

Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Nutritional Therapy at 3892 State St. Ste 220 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Vibeke Staal Weiland 1310 Kenwood Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Vibeke Staal Weiland This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 26, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000269. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fairview Property at 1 South Fairview Avenue #E Goleta, 93117; Tanis Hammond (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Tanis M. Hammond This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 20, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000203.

Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/

are doing business as: The Academy of Forest Kindergarten Teachers at 92 St. George Place Goleta, CA 93117; Erin Denee Boehme 420 A Watterson Rd Bishop, CA 93514; Kelly Villarruel 86 Paradise Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Lia Grippo 6163 Stow Canyon Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Kolmi Lata Majumdar 12220 Calle Real Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Kelly Villarruel This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 9, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000101. Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ambrecht & Associates at 1224 Coast Village Circle Suite 32 Santa Barbara, CA 93108; John Ward Ambrecht (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: John W. Ambrecht This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 30, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000361.

Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Cuft Packaging & Retail Supplies at 3523 Modoc Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Raymond Rangel (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 12, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000130.

Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Martens Jewelry of Santa Barbara at 302 W Anapamu #10 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Laine Martens (same address) Dedalo Purificacao (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership) Signed: Laine Martens This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 30, 2015.

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: 2015‑0000355. Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: S.B. Tarot, Santa Barbara Tarot at 280 King Daniel Ln Goleta, CA 93117‑1232; Brian Bailey (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Brian Bailey This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000337.

Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Easy Does It Wellness at 223 W Ortega St Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Elyse Warnecke (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Elyse Warneke This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2015. 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0000342. Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Open Coast Consulting, Zstack Consulting at 130 Clara Vista Ct. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Michael F. Billebach (same address) Patricia A. Craychee This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Michael Billesbach This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000328. Published: Feb

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: IGEEKS at 100 North La Cumbre Road #6 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Daniele Guerrera (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Daniel Guerrera This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 29, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000323.

Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Mex Authentic at 413 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Franco Hospitality Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Gabriel Franco This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 28, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000301. Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Innovative Services at 4708 Calle Reina Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Donna Conran (same address) Shane Conran (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Shane Conran This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 28, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000314.

Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Hens And Chicks at 657 Orchard Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Annie Gray (same address) Sarah McKittrick 545 El Bosque Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Sarah McKittrick This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000379. Published: Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Grace Kathryn Photography, Studio GK at 3335 Richland Dr Apt 8 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Grace Kathryn Lindelien (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Grace Lindelien This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 4, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000415. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MC Plus Bookkeeping at 776 Terni Lane B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Marcella Gomes Clark (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lorne H. O’Rourke This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 26, 2015. 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 Jayasinge. FBN Number: 2015‑0000264. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Plumbing Supplies at 621 N. Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; S.B. Plumbing Supplies, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kim Bantilan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 4, 2015. 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 Jayasimghe.

FBN Number: 2015‑0000407. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

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STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lepiane Wine Company, Lepiane Wines at 1168 More Ranch Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Alison Thomson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Alison Thomson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000378. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Controlled Khaos Catering at 115 S Soledad St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Lorne H O’Rourke (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Lorne H. O’Rourke This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 3, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000394. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: All Creatures Great & Small Pet Sitting at 215 South Bonita Santa Maria, CA 93454; Elaine Sgrol (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 4, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Eva Chavez. FBN Number: 2015‑0000410. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Peterson Apartments at 525 E. Arrellaga Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Nettie A. Peterson 1405 Alamada Padre Serra Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Trust Signed: Nettie A. Peterson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2015. 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 Jayasinge. FBN Number: 2015‑0000375. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Atlas Tours at 2910 Hwy 154, Unit #7 Los Olivos, CA 93441; Christopher M. Rogers (same address) Gretchen A. Rogers (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Chris Rogers This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 2, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000380. Published: Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FNA, Friday Nights Amateurs at 116 W Islay #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Demi Boelsterli (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Demi Boelsterli This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 11, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000498. Published: Feb 19, 26.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KATE at 1145 “C” Coast Village Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Catherine A. McMahon 124 A Pomar Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Catherine McMahon This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 9, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000476. Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

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

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Planning Associates at 519 Fig Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Alexandra C. Cole (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Alexander C. Cole This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 30, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000363. Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tree Club Monthly at 611 Eucalyptus Ave #3 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; David Rodney Innes (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: David Innes This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 10, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000490.

Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Egerer & Associates, Sunshine Painting And Maintenance at 1187 Coast Village Road #1‑279 Montecito, CA 93108; Justin Egerer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Justin Egerer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 9, 2015.

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: 2015‑0000466. Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Intergrated Sensor Technologies at 7787 Wagon Wheel Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Peter Honor (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Peter Honor This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 21, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000221.

Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Wildflower 205 Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Wildflower Foods LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Natalia Martin, Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 20, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000213.

Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nascent Energy Solutions at 1482 East Valley Road, Suite 245 Santa Barbara, CA 93108; West End Partners, Inc (Same Address). This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: Peter S. Dealy, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 20, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000189 Published: Feb 19, 26.

Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Petite Pediatrics 1525 State Street #206 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Charish L Barry 731 E. Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Charish L Barry This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 27, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000285.

Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

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duties allow. Coordinates their daily and long‑range workload and schedules; makes decisions relating to coordination of meetings. Reviews, analyzes and edits their correspondence/reports and generates input, responses or recommendations while assuring compliance with University policies and procedures. Reqs: Excellent business and administrative analysis experience, including strong organizational and office management skills. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of years of experience in business, public administration or related field preferred.

Skill to logically analyze complex situations and data and develop clear and concise reports or recommendations for management. Proven ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret data and provide appropriate response utilizing campus/department resources for report preparation and correspondence, and implementation of policies and procedures. Notes: DOJ/FBI background check completion required prior to hire. May work occasional overtime as operationally necessary.

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JOAN D. HAGGARD, deceased or the HAGGARD LIVING TRUST dated May 12, 1995, that all persons having claims against the decendent are required to file them with the Superior Court at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93121, and mail or deliver a copy to the Law Office of Lana Clark, Attorney for Co‑Trustees, at 1607 Mission Drive Suite 107, Solvang California, within the later of four months after the date of first publication of notice to creditors, or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally deliverd to you, or you must petiton to file a late claim as provided in Section 19103 of the Probate Code. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Dated: February 2, 2015. Signed: LANA J. CLARK State Bar Number (237251) 1607 Mission Drive, Suite 107 Solvang, CA 93463, (805) 688‑3939 jill@lanaclarklaw.com Published: Feb 12, 19, 26 2015.

this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use your for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help C e n t e r ( w w w. c o u r t i n f o . c a .­g o v / selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements.

You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.­ courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.

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is/are doing business as: Brisamar Engineering 434 Loma Alta Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Henry Steven Owens (Same Address). This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: Henry Steven Owens This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 13, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000526 Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Solvang Antique Center, Solvang Antiques at 1693 Copenhagen Drive Solvang, CA 93463; Leads Investment LLC 5015 Nottingham Drive Cambria, CA 93428 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 9, 2015. 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: 2015‑0000458.

Published: Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

Lien Sale NOTICE OF LIEN SALE‑‑ Contents are drum set,small dining room table, and other household goods. Items are being stored for Roberto Avila under Diana Canales in storage at Bucks Moving & Storage 309 Palm Ave Unit D, Santa Barbara CA 93101. 805‑966‑1261 Published Feb. 19 and 26, 2015

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF AMELIA ROMO & VICTORIANO ROMO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1486574 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: VALERIA ARYANA RODRIGUEZ TO: VALERIA ARYANA ROMO 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 Mar 16, 2015 9:30am, Dept 1, 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 Jan 15 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Jan 29.

Feb 5, 12 19 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ALISSA ALEXANDER ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1486491 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 March 18, 2015 9:30am, Dept 1, 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 Jan 23, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Feb 12, 19, 26. Mar 5 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ROBERT KENNETH LANDAU ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 1470091 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: ROBERT KENNETH LANDAU TO: ROBERT WILLIAM BURROWS 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 Mar 18, 2015 9:30am, Dept 1, 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 Jan 23 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Feb 5, 12 19, 26 2015.

Notice to Creditors NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF JOAN D. HAGGARD PROBATE CODE 19040 SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ANACAPA DIVISION CASE NUMBER: 1486928 In the Matter of the HAGGARD LIVING TRUST dated May 12, 1995 JOAN D. HAGGARD, Settlor Judy A. Cushing and Kristina K. Haggard, Co‑Trustees NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all creditors and contingent creditors of

Statement of Damages STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (Personal Injury or Wrongful Death)­ ALI FAAL, ESQ SBN: 270240 Attorney for PLAINTIFF: KATHRYN EILEEN SWEIGART a.k.a KATHRYN EILEEN ZIV‑SWEIGART, Case number: 1416704. TO: DEFENDANT: OLGA ZHURAVLEVA, HERTZ VEHICLES LLC; 1. General Damages a. Pain, suffering, and inconvenience $70.000.00 2. Special damages a. Medical expenses (to date) $3,284.01 b. Future medical expenses (present value) $10,000.00 To Olga Zhuravleva (defendant) and Kathryn Eileen Sweigart a.k.a.

Kathryn Eileen Ziv‑Sweigart (plaintiff) seeks damages in the above‑entitled action, as follows: The name, and address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: ALI FAAL, ESQ.‑SBN: 270240 BOB M. COHEN & ASSOCIATES 16000 VENTURA BOULEVARD SUITE 701 ENCINO, CALIFORNIA; 91436 (818) 986‑3332 Date: May 9, 2013.

Published Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

Summons SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): OLGA ZHURAVLEVA; HERTZ VEHICLES LLC; AND DOES 1 TO 100, INCLUSIVE, AND EACH OF THEM YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): KATHRYN EILEEN SWEIGART a.k.a. KATHRYN EILEEN ZIV‑SWEIGART NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after

obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotasy los costos esentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el graveman de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

CASE NO: (Numero del Caso): 1416704 Pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure Section 872.320 (c), the following language shall be included in the publication of the Summons: “The Property which is the subject of this action is located at 708 East Haley Street, Santa Barbara, California.”

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA 1100 ANACAPA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93121‑1107 The name, address, and telephone number of the plantiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): DATE: Apr 18, 2013.

Gary M. Blair Executive Officer Ali Faal, ESQ.‑ SBN (#270240); (818) 986‑3332 Bob M. Cohen & Associates 16000 Ventura Boulevard Encino, California 91436 Published. Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD; SPECIAL NOTICE OF LAWSUIT (Pursuant to Labor Code section 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure section 412.20 and 412.30) WCAB No. ADJ9761982 To: DEFENDANT, ILLEGALLY UNINSURED EMPLOYER: APPLICANT, Raul Adame DEEFENDANTS, HortiPharm Caregivers & Consulting NOTICES 1) A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, as been filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the above named applicant.

You may seek the advice of an attorney in any matter connected with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that you response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion.

If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office (see telephone directory).

2) An Answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the serve of the application pursuant to Appeals Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board

promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests.

3) You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property or other relief.

If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a non‑judicial state, with no exemptions from execution.

A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award.

4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and paper and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address.

TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and address of Appeals Board: WCAB Santa Barbara 411 E. Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Name and address of applicant’s attorney: Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; FORM COMPLETED BY: Benjamin P. Feld, Esq. Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 965‑4540.

NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served: as the person(s) sued under the fictitious name(s) of: HortiPharm Caregivers & Consulting Published: Jan 29. Feb 5, 12, 19 2015.

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): SARAH KENNELLY aka SARAH FULMER; DOES 1 to 10, Inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): EDWARD ST. GEORGE NOTICE! You have been sued.The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff a letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.There may be a court form that you can use your for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www. courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

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There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away.

If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program.

You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.­courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta.

Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas information en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.­courtinfo.ca gov/selfhelp/espanol/), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision a abogados.

Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.­lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp/espanol/) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales.

CASE NO:1486686 The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es) Santa Barbara Superior Court 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: James B. Cole, Esq., SBN: 156131 Slaughter & Regan, LLP 625 E. Santa Clara Street, Suite 101 Ventura, CA 93001; (805) 658‑7800 (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): DATE: Jan 21 2015. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer, By Penny Wooff Deputy (Delegado) Published Feb 19, 26. Mar 5, 12 2015.

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FEATURED PROPERTY 6909 SOLANO VERDE DR.

FEATURED PROPERTY 492 COOL BROOK LANE

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National Reach, Local Experts, Outstanding Results

STU MORSE REALTOR®

Congratulations on his successful listing and closing of: 108 Mesa Lane, Santa Barbara 2567 Banner Ave., Summerland 150 Santa Ana Ave., Santa Barbara 822 W Pedregosa St., Santa Barbara

“Stu, you are the best Agent we could have hoped for. Thank you!”

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SOMIS, CA Incredible 6 BD/ 5.5 BA, 7,180 sq. ft. gated estate built in 2004 w/ avocado and orange groves, private trails 35 acres & a heli-pad approval. It’s a 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms! Luxury and privacy galore!

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2915 GLEN ALBYN DR

130 VISTA DE LA CUMBRE

SANTA BARBARA Custom home w/

SANTA BARBARA San Roque,

Stu Morse & Associates

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STU MORSE: (805) 705-0161 • StuMorse@GTprop.com 1320 PLAZA PACIFICA

1119 ALSTON ROAD

2446 GARDEN STREET

615 SUNRISE VISTA WAY

NEWING T LIS MONTECITO Stunning 2BD/2.5BA ground floor, single level Bonnymede flat w/ ocean views – luxury at its very best!

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MONTECITO 1+ Acre Montecito Union lot! Build this fully approved luxurious 5BD/6BA + 2BD/2BA ocean view

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SANTA BARBARA 3600 sq. ft. 4BD/3.5BA on the Mesa. Panoramic ocean & island views completely remodeled in 2007.

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6244 MARLBOROUGH DR.

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neighborhood close to parks & shopping w/ 3,015 sq. ft. & dual living possibility!

unit. Excellent house alternative. Garage, pool, downtown location. Move in ready.

acre of private land. Wood flrs, tiled kitchen & baths & more!

floor unit w/ mountain views. Close to tennis courts & picnic area.

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