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They loved them in Ljubljana. ArtBark’s production in Slovenia of Alma Sama won such acclaim that the theater company was invited to the neighboring Festival Velenje and back to the Cankarjev dom next year. The 65-minute work was created in Santa Barbara in part and involved the use of newspapers, happily including The Santa Barbara Independent among them. “Several audience members commented on how much they liked the title of the paper,” Misa Kelly (second from left) wrote to tell us. Here, she’s with Cecily Stewart (left), Trina Mannino, and Mojca Majcen.
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County Fire investigators are looking for information on one or two individuals — likely juveniles — after a fire broke out Monday afternoon near where they were seen hiking behind a Lompoc water-treatment plant. The vegetation fire, which stoked fears of potential disaster given Santa Barbara’s unusually warm and drought-stricken conditions, scorched 320 acres of the Burton Mesa. By Wednesday morning it was almost fully contained. An estimated 1,400 nearby residents were affected by evacuation orders; 625 firefighters were aided by four air tankers, three helicopters, and 24 engines. No homes were lost, and no major injuries were reported. The fire cost an estimated $650,000 to contain. Those with information about the hikers are asked to call the fire inves— Indy Staff tigation tip line at 686-5074.
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Dr. Jon Smith may be under criminal investigation for “unauthorized post-mortem procedures” for his work as Ventura County’s Medical Examiner, but in Santa Barbara — where he works as one of the county’s two forensic pathologists — Smith remains on the clock to perform autopsies. Santa Barbara Sheriff’s spokesperson Kelly Hoover said the Coroner’s Office conducted “extensive research” into Smith and is confident his “protocols and practices were and are lawful.” Smith garnered headline coverage when his Ventura Medical Examiner’s offices were searched by authorities last week.
Santa Barbara has experienced one murder this year, that of a homeless man beaten to death near the homeless shelter. Aggravated assaults are down slightly. Thirteen rapes have been reported so far this year, down from 15 in 2014, 22 in 2012, and up from four in 2013. Burglaries are down 11 and 42 percent from the previous two years. By contrast, car burglaries are up 63 percent. Gang incidents and gang-related incidents, strikingly, are down to five-year lows. Transient-involved street crime, however, has jumped significantly to 2,859 year-to-date compared to 2,504 the year before and 1,527 the year before that. Arrests for heroin and methamphetamine have been running about twice their five-year averages. pau l wellm an fi l e photo
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by N i c k W e l s h fforts to have the city’s reclaimedwater system rebuilt and running in time for this summer’s high temperatures — and even higher water demand—hit a serious setback when it turned out the project designer used the wrong waterquality data when calculating what kind of filters were needed to bring treated effluent up to state field-irrigation standards. Because the water-quality data was wrong, the filters purchased for the task are not adequate, and new ones have to be bought. This will set the project back at least three months and by as much as $1.7 million. Exactly where the wrong data came from and how the project designer came to rely on them remains very much an unanswered question, despite Councilmember Dale Francisco’s repeated attempts to ask it at this Tuesday’s council meeting. The main point, according to Mayor Helene Schneider and Public Works administrators, was to move forward as fast as possible; that meant digging into City Hall cash reserves to 8
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bring what’s become a $13 million construction project to fruition. Santa Barbara’s reclaimed-water system was first built in 1989 in response to the last major drought. By irrigating fields, parks, and larger properties with reclaimed wastewater, the intent was to reduce the demand for potable — drinkable and bathable — water. The project was expensive to build and expensive to run, but 800 acre-feet of water in times of drought was significant. In the past five years, however, the project had come into serious disrepair. At best, 30 percent of the water delivered via purple pipes was non-potable. The rest came from the city’s drinking supply. By the time City Hall set about to fix the old system—under relentless hectoring from former water commissioner Russell Ruiz — the current drought began achieving critical mass. In the past 15 months, most of the water coursing through the purple pipes has been potable, though non-drinkable water produced by the city’s Val Verde well has made a significant contribution. independent.com
According to Public Works chief Rebecca Bjork, the private consultant hired to design the new project used the wrong numbers, pure and simple. The contractor has agreed that the water-quality specifications were incorrect but has reportedly not stated where the wrong numbers came from. And there’s been no agreement how much — if anything— anything the contractor will pay City Hall back for the mistake. At Tuesday’s council meeting, City Attorney Ariel Calonne said his department is “looking at dispute resolution,” meaning the next time the council hears about the issue it will be behind the closed doors reserved for litigation and possible litigation. Exactly how much extra City Hall will have to spend to reactivate the reclaimed-water plant is a semi-squishy number. Public Works staffers estimate it will cost an additional $1.3 million, but with change work orders thrown in just in case, they recommended the council authorize the expenditure of $1.77 million in reserves. With little discussion, debate, or venting, the council voted 7-0 to do just that. n
Duanying Chen (pictured), arrested last May after he strangled his girlfriend during an argument and later tortured their puppy to the point it had to be euthanized, was sentenced Tuesday to one year in jail and five years of probation. He had pleaded guilty to felony charges of animal cruelty, domestic assault, and witness intimidation. Judge Brian Hill handed down the sentence after prosecutor Kevin Weichbrod presented a gruesome slideshow of the dog’s wounds. Obviously malnourished, “Davey” suffered burns over 80 percent of his body, and X-ray evidence pointed to a “series of injuries that occurred over time.” Weichbrod and Animal Control officers argued for the maximum sentence for Chen of seven years, six months state prison. “I can only beg for your mercy,” Chen said in court. “I let my emotions get the best of me.” Keith Cheung, who suffered a debilitating head injury in Elliot Rodger’s killing rampage last May, has filed suit against Santa
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Conflicting witness and victim statements placed a single gun in the hands of two separate men in the shooting of two UCSB students in Isla Vista last month in a drug deal gone bad. At the preliminary hearing on 6/26, investigators described drugs and weapons scattered throughout the apartment, “pay and owe” sheets in a folder, and the video security system for the front door. Witnesses said the students might have been targeted for robbery because of their large supply of medical marijuana. The accused, Jose Gutierrez (pictured left), 19, and James Taylor (pictured right), 22, remain in custody.
cIty Long-simmering efforts to bring newsstands located throughout downtown Santa Barbara within the regulatory confines of City Hall’s aesthetic review were delayed by another month after News-Press editor Don Katich and Independent publisher Joe Cole objected the proposed guidelines gave too much discretionary authority to the city’s Public Works director. There are roughly 700 newsstands distributed throughout downtown. The NewsPress has 101; The Independent has 77. The new ordinance would require annual fees for the cost of newsstand inspections. If City Hall were to make the improvements required by the new ordinance, they would do so at a cost of $110 an hour.
REfugIO OIL SPILL As of the past week or so, Plains All American Pipeline suspended ocean cleanup, stating all its oil appeared removed. The company is on the hook for about $96 million in cleanup costs, the tar balls at Manhattan Beach tested positive for the Refugio Oil Spill, and El Capitan beach reopened. About 580 people are working on shoreline, large stone, and cliffface cleanup, and Plains estimates 96 percent of the shore is now cleaned. About 238 are working in the command center. The dead animal count is slowing, at 195 birds and 106 mammals as of press time.
“They need to get some real environmental religion,” Barry Cappello declared, talking about Plains All American and the classaction suit he filed in federal court on 6/23 for Arroyo Quemada homeowners. Cappello faulted Plains for cutting corners and not installing an automatic-shutoff system, and he explained the continuing threat of future spills from Line 901 looms largest. Plains has the reputation of a “serial violator [and] something needs to be done,” Cappello said. The lawsuit seeks millions and could wind up representing as many as 3,000-25,000 oceanfront property owners between Point Conception and the Mexican border. To the surprise of pretty much everybody paying attention to the 138-square-mile closure of all fishing grounds in and around the spill site, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife reopened the closed region on 6/29. “Turnaround was incredibly quick, and everybody was stoked that all those fish came in clean,” said commercial fisherman Michael Harrington, referring to the range of invertebrates and finfish that were collected and tested for contamination. Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Alexia Retallack said that the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment “worked with the testing labs to expedite the process.” Heading into the busy holiday weekend, the county Public Health Department says beachgoers can hit the water with peace of mind. Except for Refugio State Beach — closed since the May 19 oil spill — “ beaches are open, and we believe they are safe,” said the department’s Susan Klein-Rothschild, adding that tar balls and oily water should be avoided and that tar should be cleaned from the skin if contact is made.
EDucAtIOn The latest in a list of significant changes, Brooks Institute has announced Edward Clift as the new president of the school of visual, new media, and communication arts. Clift — nephew of the late actor Montgomery Clift — carries an MFA in photography and a master’s and doctorate in communications. Prior to joining Brooks, Clift served as the founding dean of the School of Media, Culture & Design at Woodbury University in Burbank. This fall, the Santa Barbara–born Brooks will complete its transition to Ventura under new ownership by gphomestay, a company specializing in placing international students in host homes.
StAtE Starting 7/1, hunters in California wildlife preserves and ecological areas must use non-lead ammunition, which will also be required when hunting Nelson bighorn sheep anywhere in the state. Phase 2 of the phaseout of lead ammo begins next year, when nonlead shotgun shot will be required for hunters of most game birds and mammals. Starting on July 1, 2019, non-lead ammunition will be required when taking any wildlife with a firearm anywhere in California. n
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in the early 2000s, Vaughan sold Vioxx, a overnor Jerry Brown wasted little painkiller manufactured by Merck that was time signing into law SB 277, the taken off the market in 2004 after evidence state bill that reverses a 1961 law showed it posed a serious heart risk. The comallowing parents to file a personal- pany paid nearly $1 billion and pleaded guilty belief exemption with the school nurse’s office to criminal charges over the marketing of in lieu of fully vaccinating their child. the drug. “The way that the data can be manipuIn practical terms, the law does not go into effect until next school year, when public or lated on the safety of a drug — that was really private school children must prove they have eye opening,” she said. This background gotten all doses of the 14 shots on the mar- prompted Vaughan to found the Council ket — or provide a doctor’s note exempting for Vaccine Safety, a 400-member nonprofit them for medical reasons. The mandate kicks in as students enter kindergarten or the 7th grade, or transfer schools. Each year, the law is expected to impact about 13,000 students across the state. In Santa Barbara County, 372 kindergarteners out of 6,641 did not have all the required shots in fall 2014. But causing publichealth officials concern this year, pockets across the county — typically afflent ones — have some of the highest exemption rates in the state. For instance, 30 percent of kindergarteners at Waldorf School in Santa Barbara and 15 percent of Vaccine skeptic Brandy Vaughan (far right) kindergarteners at Santa Barbara Charter School and Coastline Chris- that hosts events to discuss the risks associtian Academy filed such forms last fall. At ated with vaccines. Vaughan acknowledged Montecito Union, 20.8 percent of kindergar- her group’s small size and added that very teners opted out of the recommended shots, few parents chose not to vaccinate their child about 7 percent lower than the previous year. entirely. Many, she said, chose to selectively A state law that went into effect on the delay getting the doses. first day of 2014 required parents to conLast week, Assemblymember Das Wilsult doctors before submitting an exemp- liams abstained from voting on the bill, cittion form and likely contributed to drops at ing the absence of an alternative schedule some schools. “For us, this law will help us in the legislative language as one reason. He push over the line,” said Montecito Union said the bill “had too much momentum” and superintendent Tammy Murphy, noting her did not provide flexibility for people with school nurse went through every personal- doubts about vaccines. State Senator Hannahbelief exemption form to send letters home Beth Jackson, on the other hand, has been a for kids who were partially immunized. On strong supporter and coauthored the meathe flip side, Franklin, Harding, and Adams sure, standing next to Senator Richard Pan, elementary schools, as well as schools in Santa a Democrat and pediatrician who sponsored Maria, have extremely low personal-belief- the bill, when it was introduced in Februexemption rates. ary after the Disneyland measles outbreak Statewide, about 10 percent of kinder- affected 117 people nationwide. garteners are not fully vaccinated. In recent Exactly what the law will mean for small, months, a small minority vocally opposed independent schools remains to be seen.“My SB 277, contending it inhibits choice and vio- school will close,” said Tracy Roberts, who lates a child’s access to public education.“The runs an alternative home day care in Los Oliwhole movement is very well educated and vos. Of her 12 students, just one is fully vacwell spoken,” said Brandy Vaughan, a single cinated. She surmised anti-vaxxers — often mom who has a 4-year-old son she planned highly educated parents who won’t “just to send to Waldorf School this fall. “[We] are comply”— will homeschool or leave the state. not going to just acquiesce.” Anti-vaxxers Roberts took exception to the fact a child fully around the state angry about the bill’s pas- vaccinated except against hepatitis B — sexusage have threatened lawsuits. ally transmitted or by needles — would be Vaughan is a former pharmaceutical sales prohibited from going to school under the n rep turned anti-vaxxer. As a fresh UCSB grad new law. cou rtesy
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Barbara County, the Sheriff’s Office, UCSB, and Rodger’s parents in Los Angeles Superior Court. Cheung was biking down Del Playa Drive when Rodger drove into him; he landed on the car hood and was carried along until Rodger crashed, and Cheung fell onto the ground. Thinking he was a second suspect, authorities handcuffed Cheung. Among other allegations, the suit contends law-enforcement officials violated Cheung’s constitutional rights by denying him immediate medical attention.
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With its budget in the black, Santa Barbara Unified School District administrators and boardmembers are looking to sock away money on a regular basis as a buffer against financial challenges ahead. Their recently hatched idea has a ways to go before it can be addressed as evolved public policy, but the gist of it calls for the creation of an irrevocable trust to pay long-term pension costs. “It’s a response to having gone through some bad years,” School District Boardmember Ed Heron recalled Monique Limón, who was on the board in 2011, when belt-tightening during the recession was most severe. At a budget meeting last week, Boardmember Ed Heron calmly urged administrators to “think as conservatively as possible” as the district approaches the end dates of temporary funding sources enacted in 2012. “Things are better, but we have a lot in front of us that we’re concerned about,” Heron told The Santa Barbara Independent, referring specifically to the 2016 sunset of a sales-tax increase and the 2018 expiration of an income tax increase, both of which were part of a statewide ballot item called Temporary Taxes to Fund Education, better known as Proposition 30. Also in 2012, by a district-wide two-thirds majority vote, measures A and B levied a temporary parcel tax, which will go away in 2017. If carried out, the effort would mark the first time the district has set up such a trust, according to Heron, adding that it would make for a stronger balance sheet as the district looks for affordable loans to cover payroll, for example, since property taxes only come in twice annually. As for funding the trust, Heron said a few pension obligations are going away soon and that spending could be redirected to the newly set up pool. The balancing act, says Limón, is that “we don’t want to put money in there that takes away from the students.” The board’s next meeting is on July 7. In other news from the district, Jennifer Lindsay, who teaches 6th grade at Harding University Partnership School, was named Educator of the Year for 2014— Keith Hamm 15.
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by N i c k W e l s h rice, Postel & Parma, one of the oldest law firms in the state and once Santa Barbara’s premier water-rights legal team, settled a malpractice suit brought against it by the Montecito Water District and Carpinteria Valley Water District for $3.85 million. The lawsuit was initiated in 2012 and officially settled this year on April 7. Terms of the agreement were released in response to a Public Records Act request filed by The Santa Barbara Independent. That the lawsuit was filed at all qualified as huge news in Santa Barbara legal circles. One of the founding attorneys for Price, Postel & Parma essentially gave birth to the Montecito Water District, and for decades the firm represented both of the complaining districts. Boardmembers for the two water districts, however, experienced a violent crisis of faith when, they claim, attorneys for Price, Postel & Parma pressured them to settle a major construction malpractice case on the eve of a trial they’d been assured they would win. That lawsuit involved a cover for the Ortega Reservoir that allegedly caused the reservoir to leak at a rate of 79 gallons a minute. Over time, some water boardmembers grew convinced their attorneys took a dive
in the case because of a conflict of interest. During court proceedings, attorneys for the two water districts sought to introduce internal memos and emails showing that Price, Postel & Parma had ambitious business plans that involved a close financial relationship with engineering firm Penfield & Smith, which was involved in the reservoir cover. In addition, they sought to introduce memos they claimed showed their attorneys with Price, Postel & Parma felt their relationship with Penfield & Smith could leave them vulnerable in the courtroom. The problem started when the two water districts—which jointly own and operate the Ortega Reservoir—were required by new federal regulations to cap the reservoir with a metal roof. But the work inflicted serious damage to the foundation, discovered in 2007, causing it to leak. Repairs would cost in the order of $5 million. Water district officials were caught off guard when their attorneys urged them to settle for $2.9 million. They were even more flummoxed to discover there wasn’t adequate insurance coverage to pay for the repairs. They accused their attorneys of being asleep at the switch. Both water districts have since obtained new counsel. None of the parties involved would comment for this article. n
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Court’s stamp of approval mirrored what, by any measure, was an extraordinarily swift transformation of public opinion, as the notion of gay marriage moved from the margins to the political mainstream. It’s worth recalling that in 2000, voters, by a nearly two-to-one margin, approved Proposition 22, a formal ban which enshrined in state statute these words: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” Eight years later, passage of Prop. 8 upheld that sentiment, but by the far narrower margin of 52 to 48 percent. Exit polls showed then that it won largely because of overwhelming support from those who said they attend church regularly; still, gay marriage advocates found reason for optimism, in data showing younger voters opposed Prop. 8, 61 to 39 percent. As civil rights lawyers in California fought to overturn Prop. 8, other activists began to win legal and political battles against bans
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by J e r r y r O B e r t s an Francisco sweltered in recordhigh 94-degree temperatures on May 15, 2008, as Mayor Gavin Newsom stood outside City Hall and delivered a hotheaded message to conservative foes of his gay marriage crusade. On that scorching Thursday afternoon, Newsom and a boisterous crowd of supporters reveled in a state Supreme Court decision that upheld his hugely controversial move, undertaken four years earlier, to allow gays to wed in the city. “As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation,” crowed the 40-year-old Democratic mayor.“It’s inevitable. This door’s wide open now. It’s going to happen — whether you like it or not.” No one knew it at the time, but the celebration was decidedly premature. Not only would the same-sex-marriage issue drag through courts for seven more years, but also Newsom’s boastful words would soon backfire on the movement. Within a few months, his last sentence, delivered with a smirk, would be featured in an iconic, effective TV ad for Proposition 8, a measure sponsored by the conservatives Newsom had taunted, which for a time banned gay unions in California. Although state and federal judges later cast Prop. 8 aside, not until last week’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision was the right of gays to marry anywhere in the nation secured — and Newsom, now Lieutenant Governor, finally vindicated. “This cause for celebration closes one chapter of civil-right injustices enforced by state laws,” he said after the new ruling. “To deny the value of any love devalues all love.”
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ith his stocky torso, cannonball head, and imposing biceps, Patrick Hodgins resembled an old-school boxer trained and conditioned to absorb nonstop punishment in the ring. And for much of last Friday afternoon, in oxygen-deprived, jam-packed county supervisors chambers, that’s exactly what he did. Hodgins, director of Safety and Security for Plains All American Pipeline, was clearly the star witness during a joint oversight hearing convened by State Senator HannahBeth Jackson and Assemblymember Das Williams “to get answers” about what the pipeline company should have done in response to the May 19 oil spill at Refugio — as opposed to what it actually did. Under prolonged and occasionally peppery questioning by Williams, Jackson, and Santa Cruz Assemblymember Tom Stone, Hodgins was relentlessly polite and contrite. He apologized profusely for the spill and reiterated Plains’ pledge to do whatever it took, regardless of the cost, to clean up Santa Barbara’s worst coastal spill in 25 years. “Just one oiled bird is one too many,” he intoned. Under questioning, Hodgins never flared or snapped back. At all times, he came across as professional, cooperative, and responsive. But when it came to explaining the $96 million question — why it took Plains nearly three-and-a-half hours to notify the National Response Center that there was an oil spill in the ocean after the company first saw fit to shut down the Refugio pipeline over safety concerns — Hodgins offered up a bundle of nonresponses and partial responses that left his questioners obviously frustrated. When Williams asked directly why the company waited until 2:54 p.m. to make that call after it shut down the pipeline at 11:30 a.m., Hodgins answered, “I don’t have that information in front of me, Senator Williams.” When repeatedly pressed, Hodgins said any records that could provide “a second-by-second” account of events that day are now in the possession of federal pipeline inspectors investigating the incident. According to what was understood before last Friday’s hearing, Plains personnel first noted pressure anomalies in the pipeline at 10:30 a.m. and again at 11:30 a.m. At that time, Plains employees working at the company’s Midland, Texas, control center shut down the pipeline by remote control. The 12
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first official calls of alarm, however, would not be made by Plains but rather by Santa Barbara County Fire and Sheriff’s personnel. That happened around noon, when they noted an overwhelmingly intense and pervasive petroleum odor and, later, oil gushing out of a culvert overlooking the beach with the force and volume of a fire hose. By 12:43 p.m., county emergency personnel would contact the National Response Center — an über-governmental agency responsible for mustering emergency response teams to major disasters both natural and man-made. It would not be until 1:30 p.m. that Plains would track the origin of the oil spill to land located above the freeway and to a rupture of its Line 901. At 2:54 p.m., a Plains employee in Bakersfield identified only as James finally notified the National Emergency Center that the spill had hit the water and provided some coordinates for where the oil-borne contamination actually was. (Documents released earlier in the week show that Plains’ Bakersfield team — charged with making emergency notifications — experienced difficulty communicating with employees at the site, presumably because they were busy trying to erect a berm to block the escaping oil’s path to the sea.) “Do you think that it’s wise to wait until you see a spill to begin with response?” Williams asked Hodgins. “You need to know where it is,” he replied. Williams then asked whether Hodgins felt “a little embarrassed” that county firefighters issued the first notice. He answered, “We’re deeply sorry for what happened here.” To the extent Williams got any satisfaction with this line of questioning, it would come from Mark Ghilarducci, director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. Citing a chapter of state law mandating that such reports be made within 30 minutes, Williams asked Ghilarducci whether Plains had complied with that law. “It doesn’t appear to me that they met the criteria,” Ghilarducci replied. As to the penalties for such transgressions, he said that would be up to the state’s Attorney General or Santa Barbara’s District Attorney. Hodgins’s notable lack of information proved even more vexing to his interrogators when they asked about the advanced level of corrosion along the ruptured pipeline. Reports issued by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) indicated that 82 percent of the metal had been corroded, well beyond the threshold of
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safety concern. Williams, Jackson, and Stone asked Hodgins numerous questions about the company’s awareness of corrosion and, more specifically, whether the Line 901 inspection the company conducted in 2012 gave any hints of the problems to come. Hodgins replied variously,“The first time I heard anything about the corrosion is what I read in the newspapers” and “We had no indication at all to assume there was an issue.” When Hodgins said he was “shocked” by field measurements showing the severity of the problem, Jackson shot back, “That’s what’s of interest to me — that you’re ‘shocked’ this pipeline was corroded.” Hodgins explained the 2012 inspection results were in the possession of PHMSA investigators. An exasperated Jackson shot back, “Why do I know more about what caused this than you do?” Assemblymember Stone seemed especially interested in what the 2012 inspection results might show, but he, too, got nowhere fast. “I do not have that information in front of me,” Hodgins replied.“It looks like you didn’t come very well prepared to answer questions,” Stone commented. Jackson was blunter. “We’re all a little frustrated we’re getting this dodge-around.” Since the spill occurred, both Jackson and Williams — speechifying, lefty Dems endowed with eco-minded street cred — introduced a handful of bills designed to tighten up the regulatory safeguards under which oil pipelines must operate. If passed, they would increase the frequency of inspections and require that pipelines come with the best available safety technology, including but not limited to automatic-shutdown equipment. Currently, Plains All American Pipeline falls under federal regulatory oversight. Should the Jackson-Williams package gain traction, the state of California — with stiffer safety requirements — could be put in the regulatory driver’s seat. Perhaps the most quietly devastating witness at Friday’s vent-fest was Dianne Black, a 31-year veteran of the county’s bureaucratic trench warfare. Black is now second in command at Planning and Development, and she testified how every major pipeline operator in the county — except for Plains — equipped their pipes with automatic-shutdown systems. The advantage of such equipment, she noted, is that the pipeline shuts down “without human intervention” when a serious problem is detected. The equipment would not have prevented a leak from occurring, Black said,“but there would have been an earlier reaction, and it could have reduced the oil spilled.” Hodgins had testified earlier that if a pipeline was to shut down too suddenly, it could cause a huge pressure backlog. He described this phenomenon as “a hydraulic hammer.” He said that under federal regulations, no oil companies are required to use automatic-shutdown systems, but he insisted that Plains met or exceeded standard practices for the industry. Black noted under questioning that every pipeline bringing crude oil to onshore refineries from offshore platforms comes equipped with automatic-shutdown systems — likewise for a host of other pipelines. Since 2002, Black said, county regulators have used the California Environmental Quality Act to crowbar oil-pipeline operators to use automatic-shutdown systems even though federal law does not require it. No companies — with the exception of Plains — have resisted. Most, she added, don’t wait to be told to include such equipment in their project applications. Jackson asked Black if she knew how much the equipment costs. Black didn’t know but noted,“Not as much as they’ve spent already.” To date, Plains has spent $96 million on the cleanup effort, which the company described as 96 percent complete. By contrast, there was little quiet or subdued about Supervisor Janet Wolf’s testimony. Wolf gave angry expression to Santa Barbara County first responders, government officials, members of the area media, and the public who felt stiffarmed and shunned almost from the start of the cleanup campaign by the Unified Command. The Unified Command
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was established principally by the United States Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency, but it also included key state agencies and Plains All American Pipeline. “From the first day of the spill, the expertise and perspective of local elected officials and senior staff were largely dismissed,” Wolf stated. “Santa Barbara County Fire Department first responders were turned away from cleanup activities on the first day of the spill. Further, when the county asserted how to best outreach and communicate with our constituents, our proposals were denied or severely restricted.” Particularly galling, Wolf said, was the influence asserted by and deference given to Plains All American representatives as members of Unified Command. At the first press conferences held in the wake of the spill, Wolf stated, “Plains executives provided overt messages and were given free rein to make whatever statements or representations, while our county officials’ statements and comments were scrutinized.” A Unified Command press conference, Wolf concluded, was not the appropriate vehicle for Plains “to conduct damage control.” Wolf blasted state officials, as well, blaming them for blacking out information about the origin of tar balls washing ashore in Manhattan Beach and other communities to the south. Wolf said she was first told that tar-ball “fingerprint” results would be made available within five days, but county officials had to ask again on June 8 and 15. Ultimately, she would find out last week but through media reports and not from Unified Command. It would be Plains itself that revealed that tests showed some, but not all, of the tar balls washing ashore in Manhattan Beach originated with the Refugio Oil Spill. Speaking with a searing sincerity, Chuck Bonham, director of California Fish and Wildlife, addressed Wolf ’s concerns and took “personal responsibility” for the information blackout. His chief priority, he said, was to gather information as to the cause, extent, and impact of the oil spill. That information, he made clear, would be crucial to the success of any criminal or civil litigation brought against the pipeline company. “I have important relationships with the Attorney General and the County District Attorney,” he said, “and I’m not going to do anything to jeopardize their ability to make
the best case possible.” Bonham acknowledged that state and federal agencies could have done a better job working with the locals, adding, “This is so much more than an individual oil spill.” He noted how the Santa Barbara spill of 1969 gave rise to the modern environmental movement and described the stretch of beach contaminated by the Refugio spill as both “fragile” and “iconic.” Any Plains officials present had to be unnerved by Bonham’s passion as well as how minutely he said he’d measure every microscopic disruption the oil spill inflicted on the Refugio ecosystem. Working hard on exactly how much it would cost Plains to restore the environment, make compensation, and pay damages, he noted, is a crackerjack team of employees “dominated by egghead economists.” The meeting took much longer than anticipated; the room grew hot and humid with the heat of so many bodies; 30 members of the public signed speakers’ slips to testify. A few people left, but not many. Williams had to duck out for about 15 minutes while Linda Krop, senior attorney for the Environmental Defense Center, delivered a few cautionary notes. She reminded those present that the figure of 21,000 gallons widely reported to have escaped into the ocean was a number produced by Plains. “I hope people will stop using that figure,” she said. “Once it’s in the water, it’s impossible to quantify.” Likewise, Krop took exception with Plains’ cleanup estimates. “We don’t believe 94 percent of the beaches are clean.” Considering the circumstances, Plains’ Patrick Hodgins did about the best he could have been expected to do. Given that Santa Barbara’s oil spill has already been seized upon by candidates running for U.S. Senate as well as the area congressional seat, Plains and Hodgins will no doubt endure much political heat in the coming months. And given that Plains is the biggest pipeline company in the United States, moving fully one-quarter of all oil and gas produced in the country in its 18,000-mile system, the ramifications could easily transcend the parochial insularity of South Coast environmental politics. Among his many remarks, Hodgins said, “No one ever wants to have a spill like this happen.” He and the rest of Plains might find themselves surprised how true that is. n
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GOT XANAX? So it’s come to this: It’s time to
bring back the firing squads.Weirdly, this would be the most sensible and un-ironically humane suggestion to come out of the 127 pages of nasty, snarky, and scholarly exchanges between members of the U.S. Supreme Court on the subject of the death penalty this week. I’m not sure why, but in recent years, the Supreme Court of the United States has come to be known as SCOTUS, much the way the president is now popularly known as POTUS. Both acronyms conjure images of body parts I’d rather not visualize, so somebody needs to fix that. That being said, it’s been an extremely productive week for SCOTUS, and the results have been profoundly mixed. Gays can now marry, while efforts to keep mercury out of the air took a punch in the throat. Yet another attempt to deep-six the Affordable Care Act , on hyper technical grounds, was sensibly deep-sixed. On the death penalty, the Supremes were asked to decide whether using a Xanaxlike medication — as opposed to the barbiturates traditionally used — as part of the chemical cocktail used to dispatch individuals sentenced to death constituted cruel and unusual punishment. A majority concluded there was no evidence to suggest midazolam — the new knockout agent under contention — was too weak and feckless to reliably mask the excruciating pain inflicted by the two other compounds that make up lethal injections. More creatively — and weirdly
— the majority also opined that any inmates challenging lethal injections on cruel-andunusual grounds needed to first identify an alternative method to be offed before their petitions could be considered. Much of the debate was totally predictable yet compelling. In his dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer made a sweeping case against capital punishment in any form, arguing innocent people have been and will continue to be wrongly executed. Since 2002, Breyer pointed out, 115 inmates sentenced to death were factually exonerated. In 2014, there were six. All had served more than 30 years before their innocence was established. Those were the lucky ones. The FBI examined 35 capital cases and found flawed microscopic hair analysis had been submitted by the prosecution as evidence in 33. Nine of the 33 defendants had already been executed. In response, Justice Clarence Thomas described the unspeakable cruelties inflicted by capital case defendants in such convincing detail I had to rinse the blood from my mouth. Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom withering disdain is high art, sneered and withered as only he can. He mocked Justice Breyer’s dissenting treatise as being “devoid of any meaningful legal argument,” adding it was “full of internal contradictions and (it must be said) gobbledygook.” For my money, Justice Sonia Sotomayor stole the show. She pointed out that the lethal injection had been invented in the 1970s right after the Supreme Court lifted a five-year
moratorium on executions citing the arbitrary and capricious manner in which they took place. The first person to be executed post moratorium was Gary Gilmore, shot to death in Utah by a five-person firing squad. For a nation still badly torn on capital punishment, that was way too much information. To put a happy face on the death penalty, the state of Oklahoma concocted what’s known as the lethal injection protocol. Sodium thiopental, a quick-acting barbiturate, was administered to render the executed “insensate” to the effects of potassium chloride, which in the words of Sotomayor functions as “the chemical equivalent of being burned alive” before it stops the heart. To prevent the unsightly writhing associated with such pain, a paralytic agent is also administered. Most states, it should be noted, have banned the use of such paralytic drugs for animal euthanasia on humanitar10AM - 4PM ian grounds. In recent years, companies that manufacture the knockout drugs used in lethal injections have stopped making it or selling it to correctional institutions in response to pressure from death-penalty opponents. In response, Oklahoma switched to midazolam, prompting the challenge before the supremes. Sotomayor expressed extreme doubt about the sole expert who testified that midazolam could get the job done. The only “scholarly” sources he cited, she noted, were an Internet website — www.drugs.com — and a fact sheet prepared by the drug’s manufacturer.
As an anesthesia, Sotomayor observed, midazolam is generally recommended for “not terribly invasive” procedures like colonoscopies and is never a stand-alone drug in major surgeries. The first inmate to be executed with midazolam writhed about for 10 minutes, screaming,“This shit is fucking with my head.” In another case, an Arizona inmate was given 150 percent more than the recommended dose for executions yet “gasped and snorted for two hours” before his ghost got given up. In neither case did the new chemical curtain prove effective. It should be noted, however, several other executions have since taken place without incident. The firing squad, Sotomayor argued, might actually be the most humane alternative to what was invented to be a humane alternative to the firing squad. She cited evidence that 7.4 percent of 1,054 lethal injections 48 MONTHS administered between 1900 and 2010 appear SPECIAL to have been “botched.” That figure is based on post-mortem blood tests showing that levels FINANCING of the knockout drugsAVAILABLE used were not sufficiently high to “maintain unconsciousness in the face of agonizing stimuli.” By contrast, Sotomayor noted that not one of the 34 firing squad executions administered in Utah have experienced such technical difficulties.“Such visible yet relatively painless violence may be vastly preferable to an excruciatingly painful death hidden behind a veneer of medication,” she argued. “The States may well be reluctant to pull back the curtain for fear of how the rest of us might react to what we see.” Failing that, we can always reach for the Xanax. Make mine a double. — Nick Welsh
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Josie Mae Howard 12/20/31 – 06/14/15
Josie Mae Howard, also known as “Jo-Mae,” finished her earthly duties on June 14, 2015, at age 83. She was born on December 20, 1931, in Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Lucille Johnson and Willie Wells. She was a proud devout Christian and served the Lord faithfully. She was compassionate and loving. It was her mission in this life to love, feed, care for, and nurture all people. She began that mission in Jackson, Mississippi, where she worked for The Mississippi School of the Blind, caring and preparing meals for the students. She continued that work when she moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1979 and worked for the Peterkins Nursing and Convalescent Homes for 30 years. Even though she had a big, loving heart for everyone, it was her family and her children she loved the most. In 1951 she married Charles H. Howard, Sr. (deceased). Together they built a strong and proud southern family. To all that knew her, you know that she spoke proudly about her fourteen (14) children: Willie E. Wells, Herman L. Howard, Charles H. Howard, Jr. (deceased), Earnest E. Howard, Janice R. Hart, Randy E. Howard, Ronald D. Howard, Samuel R. Howard, Jesse E. Howard, David S. Howard, Donald R. Howard, Donna K. Jackson, Jerry J. Howard, and Rashunda M. Howard. She is also survived by her sister and brother-in-law Betty and Frank Hughes, her brother and sisterin-law Arthur Yvonne McNair,
Death Notices Dorothy G. Beverly, 90, passed away on June 27, 2015, in Santa Barbara. Services Pending. Wanda M. Barnett, 85, passed on June 24, 2015. Formerly of Santa Barbara. Private Services. Thomas Joseph Easterbrook, 57, passed away on June 29, 2015, in Santa Barbara. No services planned. Elizabeth Proffer, 100, passed away on June 23, 2015, in Santa Barbara. No Services planned.
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Jr., her best friend and cousin Mary Lee Griffin (also known as “Momma Honey”), 39 grandchildren, 47 great-grandchildren, and many cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends. She was a strong and loving mother who will be missed very much. To sign the family’s online guestbook, share stories, and post pictures please visit our website: www.garciamortuaryoxnard. com, and click on Josie’s name located below “Obituaries.” Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Garcia Mortuary, 629 South A Street, Oxnard. For further information, please call (805) 486-9148.
Martha Shore Riel 01/24/19 – 05/31/15
Martha Jean Shore changed her family forever when she arrived at their home in rural Coats, Kansas, January 24, 1919. She joined her mother and father, Helen and Howard Shore, and four brothers: Howard Jr., Bill, David and Dick. A fifth brother, Paul, joined the tribe several years later. As the only girl among six siblings, she learned at an early age how to hold her ground and to work through or around obstacles. Following her father’s death when she was three, Martha and family moved to a log house near Cody, Wyoming, to homestead. One of her earliest claims to fame was taking second place in the county spelling bee as a third grader; another was learning to ride bareback, even if under duress. She was also very proud of playing for her high school basketball team. After graduating from Powell High School in Wyoming in 1936, Martha moved to Seattle where she attended business school with the goal of attending college and becoming a librarian. A blind date changed those plans. She met Percy Wallace Rairden, Jr., on that date, and the two were married several weeks later, shortly before he shipped out to the Pacific with the U.S. Navy. Martha and Wally had three children – Tony, Martha and Kathy – as the family moved from Seattle to China Lake, San Francisco, Corvallis, Honolulu, Charleston, S.C., Los Angeles, Monterey and in 1952 to Santa Barbara.
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Friends and family describe her as caring, clever, opinionated and funny. She was known for her sly humor, joy in being silly, determination, independence, and love of animals, especially her dogs Sam, Annie and Daisy. She loved babies, fireworks, kite festivals, honky-tonk piano, Christmas and the zoo. She delighted in school performances, recitals, local theatre and the piano performances at Heritage House as well as the weekly Happy Hours there. Martha had a knack for knowing exactly what young grandchildren would enjoy including flashlights, dress-ups from the thrift store and purses filled with mirrors, chap stick, tissues and other treasures. She regularly raided her sonin-law’s cast-off wardrobe to dress Charles, her driving buddy. Charles was, technically, a handsome mannequin, who rode in her passenger seat for safety, not the carpool lane. His preferred attire was seersucker blazer and a snappy tweed ascot hat. A community leader, Martha was active with Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, PTAs and Mended Hearts, which she served as president. She traveled quite a lot with her second husband, George Riel, seeing much of the state, country and some of Europe with him. An avid reader with an accomplished green thumb, Martha worked in the insurance industry and as a county administrative secretary. In retirement, she devoted many hours to Mended Hearts and to neighborhood activism. In her 80s she acted on two of her longtime goals – a ride in a hot air balloon and a flight in a glider, which she found exhilarating. Her son, Tony, and her four older brothers predeceased Martha. She is survived by her brother Paul, daughters Kathryn Rairden and Martha Lannan, grandchildren Leslie, Michael and Hillary Lannan and Lindsey Rairden and several nieces and nephews. In honor of Martha, contributions may be made to the local chapter of Mended Hearts c/o K. Fox, 22 W. Pedregosa St., Santa Barbara 93101. They may also be made to Cold Noses Warm Hearts, a dog rescue organization, c/o Little Dog House, 5758 Hollister Ave., Goleta 93117.
Eric Schulenberg
11/06/54 – 06/25/09
Eric, It doesn’t seem possible that you left this Earth six years ago. There isn’t a day that has passed that we haven’t thought of you and missed you. Carolyn does you proud with her hiking and road trips, Andrew shares your curiosity for the world, and I see you in all of nature’s beauty. When I went to Yosemite last week, you were everywhere. Aloha nui loa, my brother. Sarah and family
Vivian Marie Hapeman Obern 05/20/21 – 06/21/15
Vivian, ‘Vie,’ passed away peacefully on June 21, 2015, at the age of 94. Vivian was born in Park Ridge, Illinois, on May 20, 1921, where she had a wonderful childhood as the youngest of four children. She attended Principia College in Illinois, where she graduated with a B.A. in political science in 1942 with her classmate George Obern. She and George were married at her family home after he joined the navy during World War II. With their young son Vaughn, Vivian and George moved to Santa Barbara in 1947 when George was hired by UCSB as Public Information Manager. Vie and George became active in community affairs. She was a dedicated volunteer, serving on many historical and land-preservation organization boards. Vivian received many recognitions in her lifetime. Among them: two PTA Honorary Service Awards, Santa Barbara’s Woman of the Year (1989), S.B. National Horse Show dedication (1994), Distinguished Alumni Award from Principia College (1996) and Pearl Chase Historic
Preservation and Conservation Award (1998) the SB Trust for Historic Preservation created the George and Vivian Obern Preservation Stewardship Award in their honor. Vie was a founding member of the S.B. Trails Council but one of her major achievements was initiating and helping raise the millions of dollars needed for the construction of the seven-mile Goleta bikeway, which was named the Obern Trail. Vie is survived by her children, Vaughn Obern, Dale Obern Hoeffliger, and Reade Obern; son-in-law Greg Hoeffliger; and daughter-in-law Nancy Obern, as well as her four granddaughters, Aimee Hoeffliger Pier, Natalie Hoeffliger Goodwin, Allison Hoeffliger, and Megan Hoeffliger, and grandsons-in-law Stacy Pier and Kevin Goodwin. Vie has six great-grandchildren — Thatcher and Porter Pier, Ashlin and Westin Goodwin, and Addison and Levi Hoeffliger — as well as many nieces and nephews. Thank you to the Care Committee of the First Church of Christ Scientist for the dedicated visits to Vie and Abundant Care staff for their care. Vivian appreciated the many others who came to see her and keep her up-todate on activities. In lieu of flowers, please make donations in Vivian’s name to: the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, 123 E. Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; the Santa Barbara Trails Council, P.O. Box 22352, Santa Barbara, 93121 (or www.sbtrails.org); the Principia, Annual Fund Office, 13201 Clayton Road, St. Louis, MO, 63131 (or www.principiagiving.org); and the Care Committee of the First Church of Christ Scientist, 120 E. Valerio, Santa Barbara, 93101. A celebration of Vivian’s life will be held on Saturday, August 1, 2015, from 2:00-4:00, at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, 1535 Santa Barbara Street. Guests are invited to wear attire suitable to their affiliation with Vie in such organizations as Fiesta, Trails, de Anza, DUV, Sage Hens, and so on.
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father, a grandfather, and a greatgrandfather. Well-known and well-liked, he could most often be seen at the restaurant that he shared with his wife, Agnes: the Rose Café. Born on August 18, 1924, in Guanajuato, Mexico, he and his five siblings were raised by their parents. In 1945, he came to Santa Barbara to work with the bracero program. While working, he met the love of his life, Agnes Mata. They married two years later in Ventura and had three children together: Teresa, Anna, and George. He also helped raise his four stepchildren from Agnes’s previous marriage: Manuel, Joe, Esperanza, and Raquel. In 1953, Tony, along with his stepchildren, helped Agnes to succeed when she took over the Rose Café, where she had worked for many years. Although he had been in construction for many years, he continued to work alongside his wife to help make sure that the restaurant would thrive. Tony worked more behind the scenes at the Rose. He was there seven days a week, starting his day at 4 a.m. to begin the prep work that needed to be done prior to opening, which was at 7:30 a.m. daily. He would then change over to helping his daughter Anna with waiting on tables in the front of the restaurant, while Agnes and their son George would be cooking in the kitchen. Tony would return later in the evening and help close the restaurant for the night. Over the years and even since Tony has passed, customers have shared with his sonin-law Ernie how, after the restaurant had closed at 2 or 3 a.m., Tony would still be selling beer out of the back door of the restaurant. Since this was the 1950s and 1960s, his motto was, “If they’re old enough to walk and had a little money in their pocket, then they were old enough to drink.” Over the years, he became a regular fixture in the restaurant, serving customers chips and salsa and trying to sell every customer “a cerveza.” He was lovingly considered a grandfather to many customers who walked in, often coming around to customers to make sure they ate before their food got cold. In his older age, he moved slower and slower, yet he never missed a day coming into the restaurant. Tony’s favorite sport had always been boxing. He introduced the sport of boxing to his daughter Anna, and they watched many fights together, both on television and at live matches in Los Angeles. According to Anna, those were the good ole days, with many fond memories. He was also known as a very avid pool player and was considered by some as a pool shark at the local billiard rooms. He was like “the Minnesota Fats” of Santa Barbara and would always hustle unsuspecting billiard players who thought they had half of a chance of beating him.
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Tony was also known for his unorthodox craftsmanship. Even though he wasn’t the greatest fix-it man in town, he always attempted to go at it alone; he would have to completely fail before he asked for help. It was for this reason that he earned the nickname “Ultimate MacGyver” with his family and close friends. If you frequent the Rose Café on Haley Street and look closely, you will be reminded of Tony and his handiwork.
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In December 2014, Tony lost the love of his life, his wife of 68 years, Agnes Guevara. They had lived in a quaint little house across the street from the restaurant. As hard as her passing was on him, he continued to live his life, following his usual routine. Yet we always knew that it wouldn’t be long before he joined his wife; living without her was not easy for him. On May 4, 2015, Tony passed away, surrounded by his family. He had lost his wife only five months prior, and his family believes that she wanted her husband back with her. We know it was difficult for him to be without her, and we are now comforted in knowing that they are finally reunited. He joins in heaven his wife, Agnes, his daughter Teresa, and stepdaughter Rachel. He is survived by his children Anna (Ernie) Olvera and George (Elsa) Guevara and his stepchildren Manuel Barajas, Joe Barajas, and Esperanza Ariaga, as well as a large family of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He also leaves behind a long list of customers and friends, many of whom looked up to him as a father and grandfather, and he is deeply missed. Haley Street is a lot quieter without him, and a legend has passed on. Dad, Grandpa Tony, we miss you every day and love you even more. Rest peacefully.
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he rinse water from my hand-washed dishes and rinsed-out dog bowls are not enough to support my suffering apple tree. This evening I went out to add water with a hose, and an Allen’s hummingbird flew into the sparkle of the water drops. He stayed, bathed, fluffed, and drank for two beautiful minutes. My water usage has been 40-60 percent less than last year, but tonight I will not wash my dirty hair, and I will wear a cap tomorrow. I will hand wash my underwear and deal with my armpits with a washcloth. I think I may give that hummingbird another chance for relief tomorrow. Sorry, City Water, charge me more money to assist our environment if you must. —Laurie Lea, S.B.
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hile it is smart, good, and necessary that yards are being converted to water-wise spaces, three practices concern me: Ornamental grasses like Mexican feather grass can get out of control very quickly, invading cracks in sidewalks and neighbor’s yards. Unfortunately, this is not the only invasive species being used: The dramatic increase in palms means trees that are not very bird- or bee-friendly. And the narrow strips between the sidewalk and road are getting harder to navigate. Wide and short plants that grow onto and over the sidewalk make it difficult to navigate around and under the foliage, especially when two or more folks are passing one another. Just because it looks good in a picture doesn’t mean it’s appropriate for the space. Do your homework. A landscaper or gardener’s suggestion doesn’t mean the plant is good or — Catherine Quinn, S.B. problem-free.
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t’s time to go to work on the desal monster. Most of you were not here for the last costly desal plant disaster. The plant wound up watering camels in the Arabian desert at a cost of at least $25 million to Santa Barbara taxpayers. Lovely! This one might wind up in Arabia again to water terrorists and their camels. It will cost over $100 million in the first 10 years! I say: Send the council to Arabia, and keep our money here before they waste it again! Not one member of the present council should ever be elected to any office again! They are financial terrorists! —Ernest Salomon, S.B.
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agree with the Angry Poodle Barbecue [independent.com/doghouse] this past week. Notwithstanding sentiments to the contrary — particularly in light of the recent Plains All American Pipeline tragedy — it would make environmental sense for the State Lands Commission to approve the Venoco lease line adjustment that would reduce seeps of fossil fuels, especially methane, into the Santa Barbara Channel. —Lanny Ebenstein, S.B.
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n May 19, 2015, our world, our home, was forever changed. Home of the elders, the children, the dolphins, the whales, the starfish, the bluffs, the cormorants, the kelp, the tiny sand fleas, the seagulls, the children of the future: For all of us, your “incident” damaged our home, changed our world, Mother Earth, forever. Many of us have been working passionately for more than 20 years to protect and preserve the Gaviota Coast. It is one of the few places like it remaining on this planet. With this “incident,” we are all heartbroken.
Ironically, this may prove to be a Rite of Passage for us. In a way, we were at a crossroads, a Threshold. Some of us were divided; we had our different ideas, opinions, history, and different stories. This “incident,” this wounding, has, in a way, served to galvanize our community. Soon, we will be holding our Healing and Prayer Ceremony. And I imagine hundreds of people will be attending, all of the beings who share this home we call the Gaviota Coast and this marvelous, giving Being we call Mother —James Smallwood, S.B. Earth.
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he damaged pipeline at Refugio is but a small segment of the 1,500-mile line to Corpus Christi, Texas. It has been repaired and should be turned on for continued service. The line, designed to carry 3,000 gallons of oil daily, has operated for years without failure. This one incident is unfortunate but not a reason for permanent shutdown. The main reason so much oil escaped was due to delays by the government of 18 hours to come to the scene to advise the line owners. The feds were the problem, and the investigation can go on for months. If the line is not reopened, then trucks should be allowed to move the oil, or the offshore wells will be shut down and the state and county will lose millions of dollars in revenues for schools and roads. —Justin M. Ruhge, Lompoc
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What, No U.S. Independence? UNLIKELY VICTORY: There were at least 13 ways the American colonies could have lost the Revolutionary War, some historians say. And if we’d fought a losing battle long enough, we might have found ourselves “savagely repressed” by the English army, historian Thomas Fleming contends. But sheer luck intervened time and again to snatch victory for the beleaguered colonists and defeat what was then probably the world’s most powerful army, Fleming writes in the book What If?, in which historians pose whatmight-have-been questions about past wars. Without that Yankee luck, we might not be shooting off fireworks to celebrate our “independence” from England on July 4, and George Washington wouldn’t have been our first president. He might have been hung. After 1776 we might have remained under the thumb of famously “mad” King George. Think back: Our brave forefathers pitted a ragtag band of soldiers against a powerful nation. The sun, it was said back then, never set on at least some part of England’s far-flung gulag of colonies. “If the Americans had lost the war early in the struggle, they might have been permitted a modicum of self-rule, there would have been few if any hangings,” Fleming contends. “If victory had come later, when the British government and people were exasperated
by long years of resistance, Americans might well have become a subject race, savagely repressed by a standing army and ruled by an arrogant local aristocracy,” Fleming said. “When a historian ponders the what-ifs of the American revolution, chills run up and down and around the cerebellum. “There were almost too many moments when the patriot cause teetered on the brink of disaster to be retrieved by the most unlikely accidents or coincidences or choices made by harried men in the heat of conflict,” he wrote. One case in point: In mid-August 1776, the ink barely dry on the Declaration of Independence, Washington’s small army had been badly beaten at the Battle of Long Island and faced almost certain “annihilation,” writes famed historian David McCullough. The huge British fleet, looking as large as “all London afloat,” in the words of one spectator, had begun arriving in New York Harbor in June. “The defense of New York was considered essential by Congress …” McCullough wrote. Washington, however, had never led an army in the field. Washington, with at the most 12,000 troops on Long Island, faced an army of perhaps 20,000. On Tuesday, August 27, the Americans were routed, outfought, and outflanked. It was “a situation made for an American catastro-
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phe,” according to McCullough. The revolution might have been squelched, like a baby strangled in its crib. Washington, many of his best officers killed or missing, fell back with his exhausted men to fortifications on the Heights, awaiting a final assault. The East River was to his back. British historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan put the situation this way: “Nine thousand [or more] disheartened soldiers, the last hope of their country, were penned up, with the sea behind them and a triumphant enemy in front, shelterless and famished on a square mile of open ground swept by fierce and cold northeasterly gale …” Food was running out for the Americans along with time. But British General William Howe chose not to follow up his victory by attacking. After all, British ships could sail around up the river, cutting off the Americans, and force them to surrender. But that same cold wind and rain kept those ships from coming upriver with the tide, a wind that blew for most of a week.
Washington finally decided to take to the boats under cover of night. Every vessel that could float in the New York area was summoned, and troops took turns silently climbing aboard to escape the trap. But as dawn arrived, many soldiers still awaited their turn to leave. However, luck was still with the Americans. A thick blanket of “friendly fog” moved in, covering up the operation from English eyes. When it lifted, the shocked English discovered that the foe was gone. McCullough calls it “the Dunkirk of the American Revolution.” It was a close call, but there would be many others before the British army, the French fleet at its back, was trapped five years later at Yorktown and surrendered. “Oh God! It is all over!” exclaimed the British Prime Minister, Lord North. Happy Fourth of July, everyone! — Barney Brantingham
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UCSB alum, Nicholas Priedite, 24, developed a keen sense of food at home the way so many do. “Dinnertime meant much more than ringing the dinner bell,” he recalled. “The process of preparing a meal from start to finish, beginning with planning the dishes, gathering ingredients, prepping, cooking, plating, and, don’t forget, dishwashing— all of these tasks were done socially washing and, more importantly, with creativity in mind.” Discovering Texas BBQ, especially Franklin Barbecue in Austin, was a revelation for Priedite, who works as a server at Boathouse.“Could one possibly join the ranks of Eric Ripert, Thomas Keller, and Anthony Bourdain doing BBQ?” he wondered. “It may sound simple, but the complexities found in slow-smoking any select cut of meat is quite impressive, from the wood you smoke with to the exact temperature you’re smoking at, seasonings, brines, and even carving the finished product— product all work in infinite combinations to create a variety of BBQ. And I became hooked.”
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Priedite served up a Texas-inspired smoked brisket plate with slices of the flat, the point, and chopped burnt ends. He claims brisket is the “most difficult but rewarding cut of meat.” He plated the beef along with his smoked blood-orange marmalade, house-made dill pickles, sliced white onion, and house-made wholegrain-mustard potato salad. His special Texas rub contained black pepper, salt, red pepper, paprika, garlic powder, and onion powder. He smoked the 10-pound packer cut with post oak in a Weber smoker. “The challenge with a packer brisket is the possibility of overcooking the flat, which has less fat running through the muscle tissue,” he explained, “making it leaner and requiring less cooking to render down while possibly undercooking the point, a very marbled and fatty end requiring more time to render down.” His method was to go for nine hours of smoke and then wrap the brisket in butcher paper and finish to a desired temperature, around 195 degrees Fahrenheit in the flat. He even built in enough time to let it rest for 90 minutes before carving. Priedite also offered a hint of dessert: honeydew and vanilla syrup, which he said was a twist on an “old frontiersman dish” he read about on the back of a rye bottle. “Originally the melon was served with a peated syrup, similar to caramel,” he said, “but I decided that the vanilla would be nice with the pepper and smoke in the other dishes.”
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Know your fuel: “Be sure to use natural charcoal, never matchlight, and avoid lighter fluid,” he insisted. “If you can, use hardwoods, but be knowledgeable about what smoke works best with which meat. For example, hickory and mesquite are very bold hardwoods and should be used for heartier meats such as beef.”
Brine your meat: “It’s very easy to prepare and really adds to the finished product, even when grilling,” Priedite advised.“It is similar to marinating but in a much saltier water solution that hydrates the cells of the muscle tissue and creates really tender meat. We can save the full science lecture for another day.” independent.com
Know your source: The end product can only build on what you start with, no matter your skill or technique.“Build a rapport with your butcher,” he said. “He’s a good guy!”
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It turns out Tony Figueroa, our runner-up, is making a habit of coming oh-so-close to victory: He lost the KEYT Backyard BBQ Contest by one point. “I feel each was a win just to be chosen to compete,” said the Washington State–born, Santa Barbara– raised salesman-by-day for SecurePRO, “although next year I will have a winning dish.” He credits his old Santa Barbara family for his love of food, explaining that he got his start “at age 12 when I was asked to fill in for my mom on the fishing boat,” where she ran the galley. “BBQ just became more of a passion in the last 10 years,” he said. “Cooking is a high for me; it is calming to me.”
Figueroa served a tri-tip and burger dip — you read correctly, both meats, one roll — with horseradish aioli, Santa Maria–style beans, and Brussels sprouts with bacon. “It’s definitely a meat lover’s sandwich,” he said. “The burger reminds me of the 805, and the fresh-cut onion rings wrapped with bacon seemed to work very well also.” The aioli was certainly a hit with the judges, as one opined, “The sandwich is just an excuse to get the horseradish into your mouth.” “My rub is the key to my seasoning,” explained Figueroa.“I hope to package it this year. It’s different than the usual Santa Maria style, and then I use Figueroa Mountain beer to brine my tri-tip.” Indeed, at one point he told the judges, “I cook with beer more than drink it.”
Tony’s TiPs cook with love: “The number-one trick is to BBQ with love and for the love of it,” said Figueroa, who competed in part to honor a childhood friend, Oscar Castellanos, who recently passed away. don’t overcook: “Cook to a doneness under what you want in the end,” he advised. “Then wrap tri-tip in foil for about 10 minutes, which lets it continue cooking and allows for the juices to retract back into the meat.” mess with things: He’s all for using traditional pinquito beans but subs in chorizo instead of the usual ground beef, for example.
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UCSB Film Studies grad Joshua Pomer directed award-winning docs like The Westsiders, about a surf tribe from Santa Cruz, California, and Discovering Mavericks, about the bigwave spot. “I guess filmmaking and BBQ can connect in some ways,” he surmised. “For the BBQ competition, I want to tell a story with my BBQ.” He went with spice as his theme and even served his food “on red plates symbolizing the red roofs of Santa Barbara.” Pomer served Texas-style beef brisket with an extra-spicy BBQ sauce alongside macaroni and cheese with white cheddar, asiago, and spicy jack.
Pomer’s Tricks skip the charcoal: He’s a big fan of almond wood, explaining, “It gives off an amazing smoke, and when you slow cook at under 200 degrees, you will see a red smoke ring in the meat.” don’t let the side dishes be afterthoughts: Pomer showed that by serving cupcake chicken (a thigh deboned, cooked in a cupcake
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blocks from the house I lived in 1972-1993,” said Wood.“In the ’70s, you could still run barefoot across the freeway between Rancho Embarcadero and Haskell’s Beach and not see a car coming in either direction.” An avid home-cuer, Wood has worked in software R&D and managed Chuck’s Waterfront Grill and The Endless Summer Bar-Café. Wood served Classic Central Coast Tri-Tip BBQ alongside chipotle beans, her grandmother’s potato salad, and grilled garlic San Luis Sourdough.
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hands off! While some grilling experts suggest flipping your meat so the juice keeps headed toward the center, Gimenez argued, “Flip your meat as little as possible. Only once is ideal.” Just let the heat do its work. Be still and quiet: “Never walk away from your grill,” Gimenez said. “Watch and listen to the meat all the time.” Your goal: to become the BBQ whisperer.
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Thursday 7/2 7/2: Parade Craft Workshop: Library Superheroes! Follow the Summer Reading Program theme of “Superheroes,” and make your own original Library Superhero costume to wear in the hometown Fourth of July Parade. Email or call to sign up. All materials will be provided. 10:30am-noon. Solvang Library, 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Children 6 and under must be accompanied by an adult or teen. Call 688-4214, email solvang library@santabarbaraca.gov, or visit sbplibrary.org. 7/2: Screening: Earthquake As part of Downtown S.B.’s 1st Thursday, the museum will screen this Academy Award– winning film outdoors in line with the thrilling Quake! The 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake installation. Earthquake (1974) is the
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story of struggling for survival after an earthquake destroys most of L.A. Enjoy other exhibits before the screening. There will be wine, beverages, and Mexican fare from Mony’s Food Truck available for purchase in the courtyard. 5pm; screening: 7pm. S.B. Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St. Free. Call 966-1601 or visit santabarbaramuseum .com. 7/2: Exhibit Opening: Drought Resistant CJM::LA (Courtney Jane Miller Landscape Architecture) presents Drought Resistant, an exhibit by artists Megan Mueller, Cathy Ellis, and Jenalee Harmon. The idea for this exhibit came from a creative conversation between several artists within the community about the desperate need for more quality venues for contemporary art. The exhibit shows through July 31. 5pm. CJM::LA, 300 E. Canon Perdido St., #C-2.
Free. Call 698-2120 or visit cjm-la .com/events. 7/2: Curated Cocktails: Psychosexual Zombies Participate in a happy hour at the museum and join other warm bodies with cold drinks! Signature cocktails by mixologist Chris Burmeister will be available for $5. Tours of the current exhibition, Teen Paranormal Romance, treats from Whole Foods, and music by DJ Darla Bea will also be happening. 7-9pm. Museum of Contemporary Art, S.B., 653 Paseo Nuevo. Free. Call 966-5373 or visit mcasantabarbara.org.
7/2: Stand Up 4 Autism Celebrity Stand-Up Challenge Join this hilarious event where professional comic headliners like Carol Metcalf and Dwayne Perkins will perform and compete with S.B. “celebs” such as Mayor Helene Schneider and John Palminteri. Proceeds will go toward The Autism Society of S.B. 8pm. 7/2: Concerts in the Park: SOhO Restaurant The Long Run It’s that time & Music Club, 1221 again! Bring your lawn chairs, State St. $20. Call blankets, picnics, and family 962-7776 or visit and friends to experience a sohosb.com. tribute to the legendary rock band The Eagles. Sing along 7/2: Family 1st as they play a long list of The Thursday: AniEagles’ chart-topping hits, such mal Mask and as “Hotel California” and “Take Bird Designs It Easy.” 6-8:30pm. Chase Palm for Bronze VesPark, 236 E. Cabrillo Blvd. Free. sels Taking your Call 897-1946 or visit santa inspiration from a barbaraca.gov/concerts. 3,000-year-old Chinese ritual vessel,
you will form an animal mask and bird design with elaborate patterns, using metallic oil pastels and pencils. There will be teachers there to help guide you. 5:30-7:30pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 963-4364 or visit sbma.net.
the blues legend B.B. King. Fill your ears with songs such as “The Thrill Is Gone,” “Rock Me, Baby,” and “Lucille.” 8pm. Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. $10. Call 684-6380 or visit plazatheater carpinteria.com.
7/2-7/5, 7/7-7/8: My Fair Lady This show is almost coming to an end so “Kick up a rumpus, don’t lose your compass,” and get me to this play on time! Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, with memorable tunes such as “The Rain in Spain” and “On the Street Where You Live,” explores society’s prejudices toward class and gender. The show runs through July 12. 8pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. $21.25-$49.50. Ages 5+. Call 922-8313 or visit pcpa.org. Read more on p. 53.
7/3: Jeremy Denk Leads Mozart Pianist Jeremy Denk — who won Musical America’s 2014 Instrumentalists of the Year award and has appeared with the L.A. Philharmonic and symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, and London — will guide this all-Mozart program. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. Free-$50. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.
7/2: Mean Ends, Lifecamp Come for the fun and the music, of course. Mean Ends, a fourpiece punk band from Arkansas, and Lifecamp, a five-piece punk rock band from our own S.B., will share their punk vibe with you. 8pm. FUNZONE (East Beach Batting Cages), 226 S. Milpas St. $5. Visit sbdiy.org. 7/2: Art Reception: For the People, By the People: Government at Work in Santa Barbara County 1850-1950 Do you wonder how the county government has evolved? For the first time ever, the Board of Supervisors’ minute books from 1850 will be on display. These handwritten notes will portray the fascinating transition of California from a Mexican territory to a State of the Union. This exhibition will bring history to life. The exhibit shows through September 18. 5-8pm. Channing Peake Gallery, S.B. County Administration Bldg., 1st Floor, 105 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 568-3990.
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7/3: Channel City Kennel Club Summerfest Dog Show This 48th All Breed Dog Show will be held in conjunction with the three-day El Camino Real Summerfest Cluster Dog Show. More than 2,500 dogs and 160 different breeds will compete in conformation, obedience, and rally. Meet your favorite breeds, and learn about ones you’ve never seen. Vendors will be selling dog collars, grooming supplies, crates and mats, and other specialty items. 8am-6pm. Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura. Free. Call 252-0047 or visit cckcdogs.com. 7/3: Macaroni Kid Arts & Crafts Carpinteria Library will partner with Macaroni Kid so that you can make your own patriotic art and crafts with macaroni. 5-8pm. Carpinteria Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call 684-4314 or visit sbplibrary.org.
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7/4: 61st Annual Elite Rehab Semana Nautica 15K & 4K Put together your best red, white and blue running outfit and enjoy Semana Nautica, a favorite S.B. tradition. The flat and fast 15K course meanders through Goleta and finishes at San Marcos High School. This year presents the introduction of a family-friendly 4K, as well.
Proceeds will support community events and youth running development. 7am. San Marcos High School, 4750 Hollister Ave. Free-$45. Visit tinyurl.com/ eliterehabsemananautica. 7/4: Sala Disco Day Club: Moon Boots, Zander, Tsounami Get your day party on before all the fireworks begin. Moon Boots will play soothing sounds of underground disco and R&B boogie records. Special deejay guests Zandern and Tsounami will join in on the fun. During all the dancing, get free BBQ available until 4pm. 2-9pm. EOS Lounge, 500 Anacapa St. $5-$10. Ages 21+. Call 564-2410 or visit moonbootsjuly4.nightout .com.
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7/4-7/5: S.B. Arts & Crafts Show Established in 1965, this weekly event is home to more than 210 artists and artisans who live in S.B. County and personally produces each piece that is for sale. Meet and talk to them about their work, and maybe buy something beautiful for yourself. 10am-dusk. Cabrillo Blvd. from Stearns Wharf to Calle César Chávez. Free. Call 560-7557 or visit tinyurl.com/sbartsand crafts.
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7/5: Exhibit Opening and Lecture: The Paintings of Moholy-Nagy: The Shape of Things to Come This exhibit will explore how the practice of painting served as the means for this artist to imagine reproductive relationships between art and technology and features a suite of paintings executed on traditional supports, as well as on plastics and aluminum. Guest curator Joyce Tsai, author of three books about László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), will examine the challenges he faced as an artist in exile, working in an age of technological progress and catastrophe, and the work of his final years at this
7/6: Summer Classic Film Series: The African Queen This 1951 film tells the story of British Methodist missionary Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) and the surly Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), owner and operator of a run-down river boat called The African Queen. Watch their relationship grow as they develop love and respect for each other on the river in Kungdu, German East Africa. 7pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org.
Tuesday 7/7 7/7: TroyBoi From South East London, TroyBoi is a multitalented musician and music producer who is also half of the deejay duo SoundSnobz and is ready to reveal his infectious music with S.B. Watch him live as he produces a wide variety of genres and highly musical and versatile tracks. 8pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $15. Ages 18+. Call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones .com.
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Ojai Fourth of July Celebration Awaken with patriotic spirit this year with breakfast, a Youth Freedom Run, the parade, with this year’s theme, “Honoring Friends, Family and Community,” in downtown Ojai, followed by live music, food, games, and topped off with fireworks. All you need are blankets, chairs, coolers (no alcohol, please), friends, and family. Breakfast: 6-10am; Chaparral Auditorium, 414 E. Ojai Ave., Ojai. Youth Freedom Run: 8:45am; Libbey Bowl, 210 S. Signal St., Ojai; ages through 12; $1 donation. Parade: 10am; Downtown Ojai. Celebration: 5-9:30pm; fireworks: 9:30pm; Nordoff High School, 1401 Maricopa Hwy., Ojai. $5-$25. Visit 4thofjulyinojai.com.
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7/7: S.B. Festival Ballet Come in ballet gear, and bring a friend! The dancers of S.B. Festival Ballet will show how to incorporate nursery rhymes and animal movement with ballet. S.B. Festival Ballet is one of the longest-running nonprofit organizations of dance in S.B. 10:30-11am. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Ages 3-5. Call 564-5603 or visit sbplibrary.org. 7/7: The Postman Always Rings Twice As part of the Crime Fiction in the Movies series, this 1946 film noir,
based on the 1934 novel by James M. Cain, will be shown. Follow the lives of a married woman and a drifter in love, who must live with the consequences of murdering her husband. 2 and 7pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb .org. 7/7: SonataFest This Music Academy of the West’s Festival Artists Series, formerly known as Tuesdays @ 8, is back for outstanding chamber ensemble concerts featuring the academy’s faculty, fellows, and guests. The program will
include sonatas by Hungarian composer Leo Weiner, Israeli composer Lev Kogan, American composer Pierre Jalbert, and German composer Johannes Brahms. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. Free$42. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero .com. 7/7: Aerosmith Aerosmith is coming to S.B. for the band’s Blue Army tour, the name of which, according to Joe Perry, “came from the fact that everyone in our audience from the ’70s was wearing blue denim, and it looked like a sea of blue …” Special guest will be “The Cult of Personality” rock band Living Colour. 6:30pm. S.B. Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. $80-$355. Call 962-7411 or visit sbbowl.com. Read more on p. 45. 7/7: John Mayall Influenced by his guitarist father’s extensive jazz record collection and folk, blues, and jazz greats such as Lead Belly and Eddie Lang, John Mayall will bring everything from Chicago-style blues to jazz- and rock-infused blues. 8:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $28-$60. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.
7/7: Book Reading: Cari Beauchamp Award-winning author and writer Cari Beauchamp will discuss early Hollywood and her new book, My First Time in Hollywood: Stories from the Pioneers, Dreamers and Misfits Who Made the Movies. This anthology has stories of legends in the film business and their first trip to Hollywood. Learn about the golden age of actors, directors, and writers from information drawn from letters, autobiographies, and other memoirs. 7pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call 682-6787 or visit chaucersbooks .com.
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7/7-7/8: Nifty Balloon Shows Join this family-friendly event where balloon sculptures and animals will come to life! Enter a fantasy world of balloons never seen before, and also enjoy music, storytelling, and comedy. Tue.: 10:30am-11:25am; Solvang Library, 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang; 688-4214. 3:30-4:15pm; Carpinteria Library, 5141 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria; 684-4314. Wed.: 10:30-11:15am; Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito St.; 963-3727. 3:30-4:15pm; S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Call 564-5603. Free. Visit sbp library.org.
Musicals.” This series will hold two screenings: Wednesdays at Isla Vista Theater and Fridays at the Sunken Gardens. Start this series with this exhilarating, romantic musical comedy filled with memorable songs such as “Good Morning,” “Singin’ in the Rain,” and “Moses Supposes.” 7:30pm. Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista. Free. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb .edu.
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The Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara joins with Dorothy Rupe Foundation at Santa Barbara City College I am thrilled to be enrolled in the Dorothy D. Rupe Memory Care Program, sponsored by Santa Barbara City College and taught by Michelle Lehne, a certified CNA instructor. The program offers a series of classes to family and professional caregivers as a way to understand and respond to Alzheimer’s disease and age-related dementia from a different, more lifeaffirming perspective. Because of the generous support of the Rupe Foundation grant, classes are free for all enrollees.
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The class I will be attending, “The Art of Caring for the Person with Dementia-Memory Care Basics”, will focus on improving the quality of life of older adults challenged by dementia, while enhancing the life of the caregiver who attends to their needs. Classes start August 27th, 2015 of this year. I encourage anyone interested in the classes to contact Michelle at 805-730-5138 or mxLehne@sbcc.edu for more information. The Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara will host an informational open house about the program on Wednesday, July 15, 6:30 P.M- 8:30 P.M. at our community on 1820 De La Vina Street. www.oakcottagesb.com. As Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara welcomes more residents, our goal is to introduce healthy communication and meaningful activities into our programming. We also want to extend these resources to others in Santa Barbara who are caregiving for older loved ones. The Dorothy Rupe Foundation classes will be one of the more valuable tools we can share. Come and be part of the wonderful magic we offer to our community. -Shane M. Lopez
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Turns 100 Years Old
Text and photos by Caitlin Fitch If you followed John Riffero around for a day, you probably wouldn’t guess that he’ll be turning 100 on July 8. He still mows his own yard and goes to the harbor almost every day to visit friends and sit in the sun. Riffero even maintains the rental properties he owns, mostly by himself, lifting his mower in and out of the 1970 VW truck that he’s owned since 1971. Riffero moved from Italy to Santa Barbara when he was 9 years old and has been here ever since. In September, he and his wife, Emma (pictured left), will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary along with their two children, eight grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. The World War II veteran was also the youngest person to pass the real estate broker test in his day and has since helped many people with their taxes and immigration papers throughout the city. So what’s this soonto-be centenarian’s secret? “Live sparingly in everything, your whole life,” he advises.
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o you think that native plants are dif dif- cus cultivars); ‘Canyon Snow’ iris (Iris sp.); lemonade ficult to grow? I was beginning to think berry (Rhus integrifolia); hummingbird sage (Salvia so myself when my first three attempts to spathacea); ‘Ray Hartman’ wild lilac (Ceanothus grow a flannel bush (Fremontodendron californicum) arboreus × griseus); ‘Winnifred Gilman’ sage (Salvia resulted in three dead plants. It is true that native clevelandii); and coral bells (Heuchera cultivars). All of these plants work plants earned a difficult together with other natives reputation because many and exotic plants in your landthrive in very particular scape, and they can handle a conditions — in my case, little water in the summer if you the flannel bush expects want to keep them from going it to be dry all summer dormant. And these are just the so reacted poorly when I first eight — we have another watered nearby plants. easy eight on our website, as But many native plants well, and we are always evaluatare quite easy to grow. ing plant performance to see The horticulture staff at what else is similarly “easy” here the Santa Barbara Botanic FOUR OF EIGHT: Half of the “easy eight” are (clockwise from top) ‘Winnifred Gilman’ sage, in Santa Barbara. Garden have identified California seaside daisy, lemonade berry, and Learn more about them all a list of plants that are ‘Canyon Snow’ iris. at sbbg.org/easy-8, or stop by drought-tolerant but can the Garden Growers Nursery also take a bit of summer water; thrive in a variety of soils and light conditions; at the Botanic Garden, where our Landscape for and are, of course, beautiful. We’re calling the first Life program can also help you design a garden that ones on the list the Easy Eight. They are the follow- takes into account your soil, light, and water (or ing: ‘Howard McMinn’ manzanita (Arctostaphylos lack thereof). This is the perfect time to plan for fall densiflora ×); ); California seaside daisy (Erigeron glau- planting. — Steve Windhager
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ountless times people have asked, “Where’d you go to college?” I would tell them that I started playing the violin professionally at 16 so I did not need a degree. The real reason I did not attend college was because of my paralyzing fear of math. It started with a job interview at California Donuts in 1974. Their old-fashioned cash register did not add the dollars and cents. “You just have to do a little arithmetic in your head,” the manager said, “What’s 3 plus 9 minus 8?” “Fourteen?” I guessed. “Sorry,” he said, “We need someone who can add.” Later, I desperately wanted to attend Cal State Northridge and play in their orchestra, but I scored poorly in math on my SAT. My bright idea was to get my smartest friend to take my makeup exam. It was easy back then. I signed in at the front door, and she sneaked in the side door. Those pesky testreview people caught me. They said I could not possibly have learned calculus in that short of a time. They said for me to get MATH LIBERATION: The author overcame a into university, I would lifelong fear thanks to this favorite book. have to transfer from junior college. They promised it would not remain on my record. Instead, it remained a shameful secret in my heart. Life went on, and I made a decent living as a musician for more than 25 years. Last January, I decided it was time to rectify the sins of my past. I enrolled in Math 004-Pre-Algebra at Santa Barbara City College at the age of 57. Professor Derek Milton was great. He even provided a tutor out of his own pocket. When I launched into my “I’m horrible at math” diatribe, he stopped me. “Never say those words again,” he said. “You’re just reinforcing the negative. You are good in math.” He was right! I loved sitting down with my new mechanical pencil and clean sheets of paper, figuring out problems. I had been given the chance to reclaim my youth with an extremely high fun quotient. Life is messy and unruly. But math is orderly with simple rules — and it is glorious! SBCC has given me another lesson: that a blessing of age is not being afraid to look stupid. During a lecture on “variables in fractions,” I would whisper to a classmate, “Did you get that?” Invariably, I would be the one to raise my hand with, “I don’t get it!” My greatest achievement in life has been to be surrounded by smart, generous, loving people. It is still hard to ask for their help, but I have learned the most spiritual, transformational moments come from being truly stuck and forced to surrender. It is understandable why many students do not make it through to the semester’s end. But for those of us who stayed, showed up for tutoring, did the homework, and asked the most questions — it paid off. Now I know that 3 + 9 – 8 = 4. The miracle is, I also know (14xx9y10) (-8xx5y4) = -112xx14y14. With the help of my fellows, some hard work, and a little grace from God, I passed with a B. What I’m most grateful for is that the person sitting in my seat on exam day was me. — Cody Minnick Free independent.com
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n March 1924, a woman named Theresa came through the opening to the pass, and a wooden bridge was constructed the Gaviota Pass on her way to San Francisco. With a over the creek. In 1915, the State Division of Highways took penny stamp, she mailed a picture postcard of the scene over: graveling, straightening, widening, and rerouting. A steel to a Mr. and Mrs. Radka of Detroit. Ninety years later, that post- suspension bridge replaced the wooden span, and eventually card has found its way back to Gaviota, where I am holding it in a 190-foot reinforced concrete overpass replaced the steel bridge. There was concern my hand. “Here are some about the danger posed by of the mountains we have a large overhanging granite seen!” Theresa wrote, and rock on the western side it’s easy to understand how of the pass, the one resemimpressed she was. The bling the head of an Indian. area has changed, but its Fortunately, folks protested essence is immutable, and destruction of the rock, and its rugged beauty endures. although some safety modiA crucial gap in the fications were made, most of coastal mountains where it was retained. The Indian is the highway curves inland still there, a distinctive sentijust northwest of Santa nel on the southbound side Barbara, the Gaviota Pass keeping silent watch over his came into regular use domain. after the founding of the The highway underwent Santa Ynez Mission, and POSTCARD MEMORIES: This is the front of the Gaviota Pass postcard the author found with a penny stamp and a traveler’s tale on its most significant transwas almost the scene of the back. formation in the 1950s, with an ambush in 1846, when its gradual conversion into a Mexican forces waited on the cliffs for John C. Fremont, who was tipped off and chose the four-lane, limited-access freeway. Rather than further widentrickier San Marcos Pass to invade the coast. In the 1850s, pio- ing the gorge by removing massive amounts of rock from the neers chiseled the rock wall to widen the opening for wagons, mountainside, the Gaviota tunnel was “holed through” early in but mud, debris, and boulders often obstructed the trail. Wil- 1952 and completed in May 1953. (In one of those quirks of cinliam Brewer, who passed through in 1861 as part of a geological ema history, it’s the tunnel Dustin Hoffman drives through in survey team, wrote, “This sandstone ridge is a continuous one, The Graduate, though we know he’s headed north rather than and has but one break, the Gaviota Pass, for a hundred miles south as the movie suggests.) Locals still recall seeing ladders or more. At the Gaviota a rent or fissure divides the ridge, but high on the rock that were supposedly left behind by surveya few feet wide at the narrowest part and several hundred feet ors; these gradually disintegrated, but they were there at least high. The road passes this ‘gate’ and then winds up a wild rocky into the 1970s, when two young guys named Pete and Mark decided to climb them. “The view was great,” recalled Pete years canyon, the wildest pass I have yet seen here.” Traffic grew in the 1860s as ranches developed inland and later. “The condition of the ladder, sketchy.” the first county road was built. Dynamite was used to widen — Cynthia Carbone Ward
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s summer sets in and beachgoers steadily increase along the Santa Barbara coastline, it’s a good time to enjoy the wonderful healing benefits of the sun while avoiding the damage, for the sun’s natural rays are healthy when done in moderation. You may notice that after a good dose of sun at Butterfly Beach (or wherever your favorite spot may be), you feel better in many ways. This is because our skin produces healing hormones in response to the sun, particularly vitamin D, which the body produces depending on individual need. Research suggests that if we are in the sun just until our skin starts to get pink, we produce a therapeutic dose of Vitamin D, whose wide range of benefits include protection against 17 types of cancer, decreasing inflammation, and protection from cold/flu, stroke, hypertension, chronic pain, diabetes, depression, and osteoporosis. This can take 15 to 20 minutes for lighter skin tones, and 60 to 80 minutes for darker skin tones. For the best effect, expose as much of your body to the sun, and refrain from showering for at least 30 minutes after sun exposure. But keep in mind that sunburn is never the goal. Repeated sunburns are linked with increased formation of various skin cancers. The most effective way to prevent sunburn is to wear UV protective clothing or natural topical SPF protection, especially when you start getting pink. Consuming antioxidants (like those weekly tasty berries from the farmer’s market, and other fresh fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds) and avoiding junk food and sugar will provide your skin natural sun protection and provide that natural glow. If you feel dizzy, short of breath, or overheated, get out of the sun immediately. Stay hydrated, and enjoy the sun! — Jonathan Birch
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so Flaco is a freshwater lake sustaining a wealth of flora and fauna tucked inside the Oceano Dunes near the northern end of Santa Barbara County by Guadalupe. Concealed by the dunes, the lake is usually serenely quiet, but it’s not uncommon for the silence to be broken by some of the 200 bird species bathing in the water, wings furiously flapping, or a great blue heron squawking in flight, pterodactyllike, just above the dewy mist hovering over the lake. The lake got its unique moniker when two explorers from Gaspar de Portola’s 1769 expedition hunted and ate a skinny black bear along the shoreline. The story goes that the Chumash had been competing for food with the bear, so they fed it tainted meat. Several of the conquistadors who ate the infected flesh later died as a result. A manager of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge once told me it was possible to see endangered California least terns roosting on the boardwalk that crosses the lake during the summertime, when the parents teach their fledging chicks how to fish from the railings. Though they’re the smallest species of tern — hence the “least” — what these aerodynamic birds lack in size they make up for in entertainment, especially in their aerial assaults on tiny schools of freshwater fish. Like the also-endangered snowy plover, least terns nest in the natural depressions of the nearby sand dunes. The parents
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BEACHERS BEWARE: Sunshine can be fun and healthy when enjoyed in proper amounts.
GONE FISHING: Watching least terns dive for fish is a nice way to spend a morning at Oso Flaco Lake.
will hunt fish at the lake, typically with the females waiting on the railing as their mates arrive with beaks full of fish. After the transfer is easily made, the females fly off to their nests. The best time to catch this behavior is early in the morning, when weather conditions are calm and Oso Flaco Lake epitomizes tranquility. See dunescenter.org for more info. — Chuck Graham
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or me, the issue first came to light while I was staring up the skirt of a drag queen. Stage-side at a Pride festival with my family one summer, I pointed out a dazzling diva, gasped, and said, “Ooh! Look at her spectacular shoes!” Sheepishly, my son asked me why I referred to her as “her” when her biceps, Adam’s apple, and baritone growl indicated that she was a he. It was a fair question, but before I could craft a careful response, this tumbled out of my mouth: “Well … I guess because she’s gone to a whole lot of trouble to be perceived as a she … and frankly, what do I care?” Thus was my position on LGBT pronoun-ing established. Because I truly didn’t care. Why on earth shouldn’t people be called what they want to be called? I’m no us-versus-them gal. I’m a fiendishly tolerant liberal; I don’t give a flying flush who’s allowed into the ladies’ room — and you can’t make me squirm. … Except that I’ve recently changed my mind. And I’m squirming. As we are being introduced to more and more transgender folks, from Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox to Chaz Bono, we’re learning that some individuals prefer to be referred to not as “he” or “she” — but by the pronoun “they.” Yep: “They.” Perhaps you heard the Terry Gross interview with Transparent series creator Jill Soloway, who said this of her real-life transgender-female father: “They’re a really private person.” Or maybe you’ve seen the They Is My Pronoun Tumblr site, whose creator Lee Airton writes, “I have been openly requiring ‘they’ as my personal pronoun since 2011.” Requiring?? Aha. Well, I see your by Starshine requirement and raise you one “Oh, yeah? Make me.” Look, I’ll learn all the lingo that’s email: starshine@roshell.com asked of me. I’ll call you “nonbinary,” “agender,” “bi/pan,” “genderqueer” — whatever you like. Send me a list! But I won’t call an individual human “they” any more than I’ll refer to myself by the royal “we.” It makes us both sound schizophrenic, and we’ve got enough problems already. This isn’t gender policing, my friends. It’s grammar policing. And it’s kind of a thing with me. “They” is a plural personal pronoun that’s already frequently abused these days, paired willy-nilly with singular nouns, like this: When someone is too lazy or ill-informed to use language properly, they just say whatever the hell they want. To be fair, our language doesn’t currently offer any options that are both appealing and correct. If you replace “they” in the above sentence with “he,” it feels sexist. Using “she” is pushing an activist agenda. “One” is stodgy. “He/she,” “s/he,” or “he or she” are ugly and cumbersome. And they’re all distracting; they put distance between the audience and the message at hand. My friend Alisa says I shouldn’t be such a fussbudget. “Language evolves to meet the needs of the people it serves,” she says, sounding like the progressive human I thought I was before “they” started in with this outrageous pronoun mayhem. To her point, Sweden has just added a gender-neutral pronoun to its dictionary. But similar efforts in English have failed for over a century. I concede that my own chafing at brazen barbarism of the King’s English is nothing compared to what it must feel like to be labeled daily, even hourly—sentence by careless, er, grammatically correct sentence —with tags that don’t fit. Have never fit. And will never fit. I don’t believe that the purpose of language is to make people comfortable. Then again … I don’t see why it shouldn’t try to do so. After all, we’re an enterprising nation that discarded the stodgy old English customs we didn’t like, adapted, and built onto what made sense — and just legalized gay marriage nationfreakingwide! Go, SCOTUS! So, what the hell. I suppose I can put up with a little semantic squirming if it helps us all keep working toward respect and kindness. It’s better than fostering a world of us versus them. Or we verus they.
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Starshine Roshell is the author of Broad Assumptions.
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living | Sports
On Female Athletes and Semana Nautica by John Zant
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ure — such as the Women’s World Cup of soccer — some fans of the male persuasion can’t handle the truth. So they attempt to belittle the events. It’s a sign of progress that the wise guys no longer go unchallenged. Andy Benoit of Sports Illustrated carelessly tweeted that women’s sports are “not worth watching,” and he found himself the target of a “Really?” routine conducted by former Saturday Night Live sidekicks Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler. That’s like playing tennis against a mixed doubles team of Roger Federer and Serena Williams. Small wonder Benoit tweeted an apology over his remark. In one of my favorite lines, Meyers asks if watching the NFL Draft — “a full day to find out if your favorite college player is going to have to go mansion shopping in Jacksonville or Tampa Bay” — is really a guy’s idea of excitement. For my money, the Women’s World Cup has been highly entertaining. Soccer matches don’t get much more intense than the Germany-France quarterfinal, which came down to the final penalty kick after both teams beat each other to exhaustion. You like blood and guts? Kheira Hamraoui of France was clamoring to get back on the field even though blood was streaming down her face. Likewise, Kelley O’Hara of the United States spewed blood after a collision against China. There was an outstanding display of competitive spirit in the final women’s match of the California Beach Volleyball Association Masters Championships at East Beach last Saturday. Santa Barbara’s Jackie Campbell and Ilga Celmins of Aptos paired off against Marla O’Hara of Oxnard and Vladia Vignato of L.A. Campbell, 51, has been hitting balls on the beach since 1986, when she graduated from UCSB. She and Celmins, a frequent partner, were quietly in sync as they won the opener of the best-of-three match, 21-19, and moved out to an 8-2 lead in the second set. O’Hara, 54, was a boisterous presence. Her energy belied the years she pursued the sport: 239 events in the old, cashpoor women’s pro tour and only one title (Manhattan Beach 1992) to show for it. She refused to go down without a fight Saturday. “It’s all good. It’s all good,” she shouted. “We got this. Let’s get one back right here. One at a time. Just chip away.” Vignato, a fresh 40, got the message. She and O’Hara seemingly took over the second set with a 19-14 lead. “Time out while I empty the sand out of my ears,” said O’Hara, who had flung herself freely around the court. Campbell and Celmins came back with a run of their own and went up 20-19, a chance to serve for match point.
BALLS OF FIRE: Passionate volleyballers Vladia Vignato (top and below, left) and Marla O’Hara spiked and set in the sand of East Beach.
They had two more chances, at 21-20 and 22-21 — the latter when Celmins’s long hit barely caught the back line and O’Hara assured her, “You got it” — but each time they were denied the winning edge. Instead, O’Hara and Vignato prevailed, 24-22, to force a deciding game, and they won that one, too, 15-10, scoring the last five points when O’Hara’s serves swerved crazily into a stiff wind. “It was fun, and painful,” said Campbell. She and Celmins settled for second place for the fourth consecutive year. But in a magnanimous gesture, O’Hara presented Campbell with the spoils of her victory: a Yater surfboard valued at $1,000. The beach volleyball tournament was an early event in the 78th Annual Semana Nautica Summer Sports Festival, a parade of participatory events on land and sea. It resumes Thursday, July 2, with the Reef & Run ocean swimming series off the Cabrillo Bathhouse at East Beach. Two races for people with strong minds and bodies are the Fourth of July 15-Kilometer Run, starting at 8 a.m. at San Marcos High, and the Six-Mile Ocean Swim, from Goleta Beach to Hendry’s (Arroyo Burro) Beach, starting at 9 a.m. Sunday, July 5. NATIONAL TRACK CHAMP: Barbara Nwaba of the
Santa Barbara Track Club (SBIC) joined some elite company last weekend at the U.S.A. Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. In winning the heptathlon, she became the sixth highest-scoring American woman in the history of the event. She accumulated 6,500 points, also the fifth highest score in the world this year. “Fifth in the world? That’s amazing,” said Nwaba, who will lead the U.S. contingent at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, starting August 22. Entering the final event, the 800-meter run, Nwaba had a slim eight-point lead over three-time champion Sharon Day-Monroe. “Sharon needed to run a half-second faster to outscore me,” Nwaba said. She also knew that she had a chance to hit 6,500 points — obliterating her previous best of 6,342. “Coach [Josh Priester] told me I had to run 2:07.12,” she said. “I ran 2:07 twice this season [best 2:07.37], so I knew I could do it with a little more adrenaline. I was pretty much running scared. In the last lap, I thought, ‘I’d better not lose this.’ Coming toward the line, I still felt strong. Nobody was in front of me. I knew I had it.” Nwaba was timed in 2:07.13, just enough to hit her scoring target. Day-Monroe, the only active U.S. heptathlete to score higher (6,550 in 2013) trailed by two seconds and finished with a total of 6,452. Nwaba was runner-up in the nationals last year and also in the 2012 NCAA Championships, when she was a UCSB senior. 7/3-7/5: Swimming: 47th Semana Nautica Age-Group Meet The S.B. Swim Club hosts teams from She set two other personal bests Southern California, Arizona, and Colorado. Friday’s first event, the 400-meter freestyle, awards the in her victorious competition, Capps Family Plaque to the open winners. USC-bound Walker Bell of the SBSC will compete in the 400 sprinting to a time of 23.76 secIM. Saturday morning features a fast and furious schedule of 50-meter races in all strokes. Look for the onds in the 200 and exceeding hometown club’s Ali Powell in the girls’open 50 free. Fri: 4-6pm. Sat-Sun: 8:30am-1:30pm. Los Baños 20 feet in the long jump for the Del Mar Pool, 401 Shoreline Dr. Free. Call 966-9757 or visit sbswim.org. first time with a leap of 20'5¼".
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Two other Santa Barbara athletes placed fifth on the final day of the nationals at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field: heptathlete Lindsay Lettow of the SBTC with a barrier-breaking score of 6,023, and former UCSB half-miler Ryan Martin in the men’s 800 in 1:46:04. BIG-LEAGUE BUZZ: Goleta’s James McCann is creating
quite a stir as a rookie catcher for the Detroit Tigers. He slammed a solo home run in the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday to give the Tigers a 5-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox. It was his second walk-off home run in 38 days and the third round-tripper of his career. His first also was unusual — an inside-the-park home run. McCann, who starred at Dos Pueblos High and Arkansas, has a .254 batting average and is solid behind the plate, throwing out more than 50 percent of attempted base stealers (13 of 25), the best performance of any major league catcher.
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ikita Gruzdev is a self-taught ice cream expert and self-appointed brand ambassador for McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams (728 State St.; 324-4402; mcconnells.com). The 4-year-old fan, who’s also my son, jumped at the chance to interview Luis Bermudez, a seasoned McConnell’s scooper, about the sweet life of a professional ice cream man. My favorite flavor is Golden State Vanilla. What’s your favorite? Mine has got to be the Eureka
Lemon & Marionberries. It’s very citrusy and perfect on a hot summer day. Do you ever ask to get paid in ice cream? Dur-
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Chocolate B-Day Cake: “I’m kind of a purist when it comes to chocolate cake, and this one is pretty killer,” said Thomas, whose simple chocolate buttercream-and-glaze frosting is a go-to for those seeking classic flavors. Strawberry Rhubarb Milk Jam Ice Cream Pie: “I could eat this for breakfast,” said Thomas
of the salty pretzel crust with a fruit-and-ice-cream pie filling. “I like to use salts and savory nuts in my desserts to balance the sugar.”
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Plum Clafoutis: “I don’t have a big sweet tooth,” admitted Thomas, discussing this French custard poured over tangy summer plums. “This has a wonderful tartness that goes well with ice cream.”
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You took a 10-year break from the music business — how does it feel to be doing it again? The music industry is a different beast now with the Internet being so powerful and all the self-promoting one can do. Years ago, I would sit around and wait for the phone to ring. Managers, record companies, promoters — they held all the power. Today there is more room to be self-empowered. And also, my goals aren’t as lofty these days. I don’t need to be mega-famous. I’m happy to just make a living doing what I love.
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fter taking a decade-long break from music to raise her children, Santa Barbara native Cory Sipper is making a comeback. The celebrated singer/ songwriter, who has been making music since she was 13, just released her fifth album, titled Make Your Magic. With Sipper’s songs featured in television shows and commercials both domestically and internationally and creative partnerships with members of Toad the Wet Sprocket, many have already fallen under her spell. I corresponded with her in an email interview about her life in the music industry, allowing herself to be vulnerable, and raising chickens.
You have a song on your new album called “My Turn to Shine.” What’s the origin of that song? It’s a vulnerable song with a backbone of strength. And that pretty much sums me up as far as my music career. Back when I was first in the music industry, I was very naive and a lot more self-conscious, and I got knocked around. Now I’m a little older and hopefully a little wiser. When you put yourself out there, you are vulnerable. And, when you first start out, you never know how many people will “get your scene,” so to speak.
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Tell me about the title, Make Your Magic. What inspired it? [It] means doing your thing, following your heart. The first song I wrote on the album is called “Wild Heart.” I wrote it to myself, to champion myself through this huge project I was taking on, making another album after so many years away. We
all “make our magic” when we feel the fear and do it anyway. What was it like working with members of Toad the Wet Sprocket? I’ve known Glen Phillips for a long time. I just kept hearing his voice on “Campfire,” so I asked him if he’d lay down a backing vocal. I feel very lucky to have his talent on the album. As for Dean Dinning, Toad’s bassist, I didn’t know him well at all, but he was doing some recording at the same studio I was working in. I had a feeling that he should play bass on some of
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Aryn Wüthrich, the San Diego native better known as Ryn Weaver, is no fool when it comes to making her mark on the pop music scene — her album is both dynamic and dynamite. Although The Fool Fool, which was released June 16, is Weaver’s proper introduction into the music world, her hit single “OctaHate” was released a year ago, peaking at number 27 on the Billboard Pop Songs chart. Weaver’s warning on “OctaHate” for a scorned lover to “watch it” perhaps
the songs, so I asked him one day. It was the best instinct to follow because we had an amazingly fun time. He ended up coproducing one of my favorite songs on the album called “Black or White.”
also served as a teaser for listeners to stay tuned for what to expect on this debut album. The instrumentation on The Fool unmistakably draws inspiration from the electronica ambience of Imogen Heap and Róisín Murphy, which is especially apparent in “Runaway” and “New Constellations.” Her pop vocals, however, are more comparable to Florence Welch throughout and occasionally Lana Del Rey — close your eyes and see how “Free” shares similar sound to Florence and the Machine’s recent single, “St. Jude.” While Weaver stays faithful to her alternative, electro-pop sound, she takes a more folksy turn with “Traveling Song,” which evokes an acoustic, openmike-coffee-house feel. “Hear my heart beat major
To what extent does Santa Barbara as a city or as an atmosphere influence your music? Well, the Santa Barbara people I have worked with musically have very much been a part of my sound. Bruce Winter [has] produced all my albums and is a huge part of my sound. I met him at Santa Barbara High School! Everyone in my band and the folks I record with are people I’ve known for years and years; we were all raised in this little city together and have been influenced by its unique vibe. What’s it like raising chickens? It’s awesome. When I wasn’t doing a lot of music, when my kids were in diapers, I did a lot of “homesteading.” I baked a lot and learned to sew and embroider and got backyard chickens and ducks, too. I would like goats, but we don’t really have the time or space. I guess you could say I’m kind of a farm girl at heart. Funny though, people ask me, “Do you eat the eggs?” Um, yeah, we eat the eggs. Why else would anyone have chickens in their backyard? — Richie DeMaria
keys” is her request, and if Weaver continues on the path that The Fool has put her on, expect the timbre of those keys to resound for a good while. — Caitlin Trude
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from Boston Next Tuesday, July 7, rock-and-roll legends Aerosmith and Living Colour will present Santa Barbarans with the concert of a lifetime when the two bands perform live at the Bowl. With the Blue Army Tour 2015, named after the fact that fans in the 1970s wore so much denim that it created a “sea of blue” at concerts, Aerosmith promises a set of career-defining classic rock hits like “Dream On,” “Walk This Way,” and “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing.” O riginating in Boston in 1970, Aerosmith has since been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; received four Grammys, 10 MTV Video Music Awards, and four Billboard Awards; and sold more than 150 million albums worldwide. The band includes the original members of Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (lead guitar), Brad Whitford (guitar), Tom Hamilton (bass), and Joey Kramer (drums). Tyler, known for his dynamic stage presence and gaudy clothes just as well as for his vocal range, is one of rock’s most illustrious frontmen. Hailing from New York City, 1980s rock band Living Colour presents a musical fusion influenced by metal, funk, and alternative rock. The band helped break down racial barriers in the late ’80s, resulting in a diverse and open-minded musical era that carved a path for future rock bands like Rage Against the Machine and Killswitch Engage. The band will release their new album, Shade, Shade later this year. Don’t miss the chance to be a part of American rock history. — Cassandra Miasnikov
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arT CraWL: 735 Anacapa Street The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, in partnership with Downtown Santa Barbara, will lead a curated Art Crawl through 1st Thursday festivities. The Art Crawl starts at 5:30pm in de la Guerra Plaza on the back steps of City Hall (735 Anacapa Street, then head around to the back).
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1ST ThurSDAy program is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara that takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Participating art venues offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm. 1st Thursday venues also provide additional attractions, such as live music, artist receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. Additionally, State Street comes alive on 1st Thursday with performances and interactive activities.
E Pa Pa aCIFIC CIFIC WE WEs sTErN sTE NB BaNK 30 East Figueroa Street, 805-883-5100 Michael Drury and Jeremy Harper have come together to exhibit paintings of our local land- and sea-scapes and of country farther away. The work continues a long tradition of plein-air painting personified by artist Ray Strong one of the founders of the OAK Group. Michael and Jeremy’s connection to and familiarity with land and sea is evident in these recent works by the two OAK Group painters. F saNTa NTa Bar NTa BarBara Bara TraVEL: ra 1028 State Street, 805-869-1107 Looking for a unique destination with ancient sites and eco-friendly adventure? Santa Barbara Travel presents Easter Island. Discover the remarkable culture that built the hand-carved statues. Hike the national park museum, enjoy surfing, SCUBA, and horseback riding. (Presentations by SPM Hotels representing authentic Polynesian hotels: 6pm & 7pm.)
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1 suLLIVa LLIV N GO LLIVa GOss - aN aMErICa IC N GaLLEry ICa 11 East Anapamu Street, 805-730-1460 Sullivan Goss celebrates the opening reception of our blockbuster summer show California Cool, an exhibition highlighting historical and contemporary innovations in art that could only have come from California. Also on view Ray Strong: American Artist and Declarations of Independents.
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2 ChaNNING PEaKE GaLLEry: ry 105 E Anapamu St, 1st floor ry: FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE: Government at Work in Santa Barbara County 1850-1950 features a historic look back at the origins of government. The Board of Supervisors is offering its citizens a rare opportunity to view original ledger books, historic photographs, maps and artifacts from that period. Follow the transition of California from a Mexican state to a State of the Union, witness remarkable stories of early citizens, the establishment of the infrastructure of the County; and learn who the people were that led the government during that time.
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arTa arT TaMO G GaLLEry: ry 11 West Anapamu Street, 805-568-1400 ry: The Artamo Summer Exhibition presents a selection from our inventory of works by artists Ann Baldwin, Teri Blodgett, Janet Bothne, Agustin Castillo, Keith Clark, Judy Hintz Cox, Kaori Fukuyama, András Györfi, Christina Hall-Strauss, Cody Hooper, Françoise Issaly, Michael Kessler, Elana Kundell, Ana Marini, Rose Masterpol, Jack N. Mohr, Michael Moon, Julia Pinkham, Ashleigh Sumner and the newest artist addition to our gallery, Michael Quinlan from New York.
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G LLEry Ga ry 113: 1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #8, 805-965-6611 Gallery 113 presents original art by members of the Santa Barbara Art Association. Artist of the Month, Suemae Lin Willhite, delivers delicate fine lines and dynamic brush strokes with ease, grace and clarity in her classic black and white Chinese landscapes, vibrant colors of Koi fish, and dancing brush strokes of flowers. The featured artists are Michael Heffner, Marlise Senzamici, Wilbert Lick, Bruce McFarland, Jane Hurd, Christine Beirne, and Carol Dixon. (Open 11am-5pm Mon – Sat and 1-5pm on Sun.)
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MusEuM OF CONTEMPOrary arT ar 653 Paseo Nuevo Terrace, 805-966-5373 Curated Cocktails: Psychosexual Zombies Join us for Happy Hour at the Museum! We’ll have warm bodies and cold drinks! MCASB is offering $5 signature cocktails created by Outpost at the Goodland’s resident mixologist, Chris Burmeister. FREE tours of the current exhibition, Teen Paranormal Romance, FREE art activities, treats from Whole Foods Santa Barbara and a special set by DJ Darla Bea.
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saNTa NTa Bar NTa BarBara Bara PuBLIC MarKET 38 West Victoria, 805-770-7702 Stop in to quench your thirst and fill your bellies. Our featured artist Matt Rodriguez will fill the Kitchen with his unique and impressive creations while you enjoy some delicious snacks from Belcampo Meat Co. Sample libations including Lincourt Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, as well as frothy beers from Golden Road such as Heal the Bay IPA, 329 lager, and Wolf among Weeds DIPA. Finish the night off with some mingling in Wine+Beer and a loop around the Market for a treat!
C ENCa ENC NTO: 1114 State Street #22, 805-722-4338 Come join us for our 3rd annual ENCANTO <3 LOBERO party. Live jazz standards by the BLUE MOON QUARTET from 6–8pm + a POP UP TRUNK SHOW with local artists from 4–8pm. A percentage of all sales will go to the LOBERO THEATRE to help fund music education programs for kids. And then join the BLUE MOON at the LOBERO for the 1st Thursday: After Hours party, let’s celebrate summer! D
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H Casa Casa MaG a aZINE: a 23 East Canon Perdido Street, 805-965-6448 Je suis OCEAN! Artists find their soul connection to the waters and ocean life from whence they come and then celebrate it with works in many medias. 25% of all sales to be donated to the Environmental Defense Center and Community Environmental Council. Music and sea chanteys with Harold Kono. Refreshments. Wine provided by Margerum Wine Company - MWC. i sOJOurNEr: 134 East Canon Perdido, 805-965-7922 Join us for live music with Michael Frey, the brilliant artwork of Vandana Khare and a surprise tasting. J CJM::La ::L : 300 E. Canon Perdido Street, #C-2, 805-698-2120 ::La Courtney Jane Miller Landscape Architecture presents sculptor Megan Mueller in a solo show opening July 2nd from 5pm8pm at their Canon Perdido design studio. Mueller uses a variety of unexpected materials to make her lively and humor filled work. Food and beverages will be on hand at the opening. k INdusT dus ry hOME: 740 State St. Suite 1 dusT Stop by - we’re showcasing artist Halli Heald and her paintings of some of your favorite Santa Barbara cocktails from an aerial view (for sale). Hallie, a recent graduate of Westmont College, lives and works in NYC as a freelance illustrator & stylist. Among her many accomplishments as a Studio Art Major, one of her most notable bodies of work was 1 for 365, her commitment to painting a series of daily 12x12” gouache illustrations from September 2013 September 2014. Beer and wine will be served.
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saNTa NTa Bar NTa BarBara B arTs arT Ts: 1114 State Street #24, 805-884-1938 Trunk Show: Randy Meaney Jewelry Randy Meaney’s love of color, texture and quirk are visible in her one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces. Mixing up various metals and stones, she conjures beautiful necklaces, bracelets and earrings from pearls, turquoise, glass beads, agates, bronzes, anything else within her sights. Wine served by Grassini Family Vineyards.
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G uNION NION B BaNK COMMuNITy NITy Par NITy ParTNE arTNErs CENTEr 15 E. Carrillo, 805-963-8862 Ever wondered what gives fireworks their color? Why some wines go bad after opening while others improve? If we’ll find other life in the solar system in our lifetime? There’s always the internet for such questions, but sometimes it’s nice to just ask someone who knows – a real, live person. We are “Ask a Scientist,” a national organization with a local in association with UCSB, bringing scientists and engineers together with their local communities. In honor of Anti-Boredom Month (who knew?), we’re brushing up on the science of fireworks and brain chemistry. We’repartnering with Oreana Winery to bring you the science of wine, along with a little blindfolded art competition.
L saLT: 740 State Street, 805-963-7258 Come jump into our Himalayan Salt Caves and toast with us to celebrate July 1st Thursday! M COuCh sB: 9 West Ortega Street, 805-965-8505 Zach Brown’s stunning landscape and seascape photography reflects a special love and respect for the natural beauty of our area. Having spent the last ten years shooting photographs and video of the Santa Barbara coastline and inland area, he has developed a unique approach to capturing its magic with a style that is both surreal and right to the heart. n sErVICE rVICE r VICE OBJECT OBJECTs s 27 E. Cota Street, Suite 500, 5th Floor, 805-963-1700 Service Objects is dedicated to improving the environment with real time data validation technology. Come for our Open House while we exhibit photography by Mark Sanders. Influenced by the works of Edward Curtis and Martin Chambi, Mark has spent years chronicling the rugged beauty of the ancient ruins in the North American Southwest. Please join us while we display Mark’s photography! PErFOrMaNCEs MaCarONI KId saNTa BarBara Corner of State & Anapamu Street, 805-415-5781, 4pm-7pm Join Macaroni Kid Santa Barbara as we celebrate the July 4th holiday with Santa Barbara kids and families from 4pm to 7pm. Join us to make red, white and blue macaroni jewelry and Uncle Sam Face Masks at this fun 1st Thursday event for kids. Learn more about the Macaroni Kid Santa Barbara website and the free weekly e-newsletter with events for kids and teens while your kids make FREE July 4th crafts. MIssION CaNyON: 900 State Street, Marshalls Patio, 5pm-8pm Mission Canyon, Robert Brown and Pat Hackney, brings to life songs and good memories with acoustic instruments and vocally rich arrangements. From Americana to Motown, songs widely known and loved, Pat specializes in instrumental solos and harmony and lead vocals while Robert covers lead and harmony vocals and rhythm and lead guitar. FLaMENCO! saNTa BarBara: Paseo Nuevo Center Court Join the amazing and talented dancers of FLAMENCO! Santa Barbara, directed by Linda Vega. Get in the spirt of Old Spanish Days Fiesta with colors, whirling dancers and music by Jose Cortes, guitarist Gabriel Osuna and Gerardo Morales on percussion.
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1st Thursday: After Hours lights up the Lobero Esplanade. The Lobero Theatre is kicking off Independence Day weekend with an After Hours bash complete with live music by Blue Moon Trio and refreshments. Bring a friend, and enjoy some tunes outside on the Lobero’s lovely Esplanade.
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What was it like working with Pharrell? We’ve worked with Pharrell now at this point five times, the two biggest shows being at the Academy Awards. We performed with him at the beginning of his performing career, not his producing career, so it was nice to see that come to life. It’s been a great opportunity for the kids. How does it feel to work with such big names? It’s exciting. I think it’s really amazing when you can find something that you love to do and you are good at it and people recognize that and want to help you on that path … Seeing my kids grow and change is the goal, so it’s just wonderful having all the support— support it means I can do more for my students and more for their education. What’s new in the opera world? Progressive opera is up-and-coming and really starting to take shape. There are a lot of really great companies, such as Pacific Opera Project and The Industry opera, which make it a lot more approachable. In February, I did a Star Trek version of a Mozart opera; we were all in Klingon outfits, and one of us was dressed as Spock. The other opera that we did, we rewrote the libretto so that the text included references to Eagle Rock Boulevard and getting Pabst. As long as you are in the right niche, opera is really accessible to any age, any gender. What inspires your teaching methods? I certainly wouldn’t have access to the arts-rich community in L.A. had I not come from such strong programs in junior high and San Marcos. Carolyn Teraoka-Brady, my choir teacher in high school, has really been a strong mentor and strong support to me. She was at the forefront of student-directed education. We still keep in touch and give each other critical feedback. Her teaching method is the exact model I take to my classroom. What are some recent performances that stand out to you? We just performed at Walt Disney [Concert Hall], and that was so wonderful. It’s such a beautiful space. Most of my kids are low-income, so they’ve never been there, let alone ever performed on the stage. Performing with L.A. Master Chorale was a really exciting experience, as well. I want my kids to work with lots of different conductors, to see how a different gesture makes a different sound, the different experiences you receive when you’re under someone else’s baton. What are your tattoos about? I have a couple music tattoos, one of which is inspired by a piece by Robert Frost, “Come In.” The poem is about a song thrush calling you into the woods, calling you to give up. High school’s hard, and to come out of that darkness … It’s about this dichotomy of going into the woods and surrendering or staying outside and fighting the urge to give up. The rest are miscellaneous, family tattoos, different bullshit. n
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SURROUND SOUND: Conductor Larry Rachleff led the Academy Festival Orchestra through a warm, tight, punchy performance of Berlioz’s Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, Ravel’s Boléro, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances.
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Ravel’s Boléro, presented by the Music Academy of the West. At the Granada Theatre, Saturday, June 27. Reviewed by Gustavo Uribe
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he Music Academy of the West’s Academy Festival Orchestra (AFO) held down the fort at the Granada Theatre and laid down the tutti forte with cannonball gusto. Conductor Larry Rachleff ’s prestissimo pace and telepathic cueing delivered a warm, tight, and punchy sound, making AFO’s performance of Berlioz’s Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, Ravel’s Boléro, and Rachmaninoff ’s Symphonic Dances action-packed. For those not familiar, the Music Academy of the West (MAW) conservatory has an eight-week grooming summer program for students and recent graduates of top-ranking music schools such as Juilliard, Thornton, Rice, Eastman, Colburn, and even international programs. Those selected are the crème de la crème of up-and-coming classical musicians, and MAW offers them full scholarships, a boot camp of master classes, and the chance to enter the symphonic major leagues. Saturday night’s program featured golden nuggets from masters who are known for their advancement of orchestration: Berlioz for his dreamlike Symphonie Fantastique and his Treatise on Instrumentation, a book on the technical study of instrumentation; Ravel for Boléro and his creative arrangement of Mussorgsky’s piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition; and Rachmaninoff for his cleverly structured, moody Piano Concertos I, II, III, and IV. With maestro Rachleff ’s Hollywood-style conducting, the evening took on a cinemascopic aura. In Berlioz’s Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, I was first transported to English meadows with plum trees, and then when Rachleff turned up the heat, the shredding strings and two-handed marching-band arm thrusts pumped the orchestra into an Indiana Jones frenzy. Ravel’s Spanish-themed Boléro evoked a sensual 10/Chariots of Fire explosion as the conductor nodded his head, psychically cuing the soft snare drum and then passing the melodic torch to the woodwinds, the brass, and so forth, with the melody ever so slightly building into crescendo and changing timbre like a circular wall of mirrors. As the music grew, it evolved into an aural Lawrence of Arabia with cinematic strings, timpani, and brass. The tutti orchestra, urged on by Rachleff ’s karate chops and head jolts, finally climaxed with raucous cymbal crashes and forte brass that made the audience go wild. Rachmaninoff ’s Symphonic Dances were an epic dance-to-the-death with machine-gun timpani. B-b-b-b-b-bum! In later passages, the remarkably tight violin section was so synced that I could hear their vibratos line up to one degree of a millihertz in separation; you could see 50 fingers bend their strings in perfect harmony. It was incredible. The conductor pushed the thoroughbred musicians with no hesitation, n and the results were amazing and bravissimo!
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lements Theatre Collective consistently produces some of the most sophisticated and ambitious work in Santa Barbara, and its upcoming production of Samuel D. Hunter’s Obie-winning play A Bright New Boise is sure to continue in this tradition. The play, which runs July 10-26, examines the American working-class experience from the break room of an Idaho Hobby Lobby, where employees forge connections despite having little in common beyond their jobs as craft-supply peddlers. While this concept has the potential to be dreary, A Bright New Boise offsets the bleak impression of life’s seeming dead ends with entertaining characters who hunt for greater significance in ordinary moments. Director Stephanie Farnum describes this search for more substantial meaning as a response to the banality of life. “The divine must be out there,” she explained. “But once we’ve gone to that end of the spectrum, we realize we’ve lost touch: Everything is too monumental, and we crave the banal again.” by Maggie Yates The story concentrates on Will, an Evangelical Christian who decides to reunite with the son he gave up for adoption years ago. With the threat of the imminent rapture in mind, Will gets a job at the Boise Hobby Lobby where his son works, determined to make a personal connection. Like any representation of a population subculture, the Hobby Lobby employees demonstrate a variety of personality quirks. Farnum refers to the examination of these characters’ eccentricities as a look at “the everyman nature of crazy.” Will may be strange, but the moments in which he interacts with characters stranger than he is allow the audience a new perspective on his situation. A Bright New Boise offers a distinctive but accessible take on the peculiarities of being part of a community—especially one that is recognized as being mainstream resistant. Farnum pointed out, for example, that our general understanding of cults or fringe religious groups is of “those insane people over there, people
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EVERYMAN ECCENTRICS: The cast of A Bright New Boise play quirky Hobby Lobby employees.
who are nothing like us, people who we could never end up like. And that’s not reality. This play explores those topics over there by bringing them over here.” Farnum seeks to show that the existence of these subgroups isn’t an anomaly but rather an understandable reaction to the human need for social connection. Elements has been producing plays this season that highlight the theme of power and influence. This was seen clearly in February’s Nixon’s Nixon, and these ideas are prevalent, albeit comparatively subtle, in A Bright New Boise. Hunter’s play focuses on how charismatic characters gain power and wield influence; more importantly, it examines the idea that such power isn’t always wanted and such influence isn’t always intentional. “Power is pervasive,” Farnum said, “and influence is fluid.” For example, the bearing of Will’s religious beliefs (and his captivating nature) certainly coax the direction of the other characters’ experiences; and the power of human connection, limited as it is in the brief interludes between selling craft supplies, is potent. The production features Rob Grayson, Jenna Scanlon, Blake Benlan, Aaron Linker, and the very funny Katelyn Tustin. Performances will be held in a variety of alternative theater spaces, which will make each show unique. Elements Theatre Collective is an advocate for accessible theater, and all its shows are free to the public.
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My Fair Lady, presented by PCPA. At Solvang Festival Theater, Saturday, June 20. Shows through July 12.
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CPA’s My Fair Lady is a faithful rendition of the classic musical. With a solid set of leads and a very animated ensemble, it’s a strong and unswerving retelling of one of Broadway’s biggest and most enduring plays. Under a dreamy blue-green scene of Belle Époque wrought iron, actors Andrew Philpot and Karin Hendricks joust wits and will as Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, respectively, the two carrying the well-worn parts more than capably. Philpot’s Higgins convincingly thinks at a higher speed than the surrounding characters, his energy brisker, his air of debonair more palpable, and his insults most stinging. Hendricks, as Doolittle, has a soaring voice with comic chops to boot. Their foils, Peter S. Hadres as Colonel Pickering and Kitty Balay as Mrs. Higgins, are loyal and fitting adherents to their parts, true to form. Deserving special mention, though, would be Erik Stein as crowd favorite Alfred P. Doolittle, Eliza’s boozing and charmingly amoral father. He swigs and swaggers with a balance of grace and grime as artful as Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow, meticulous as a maestro in his brash bumbling and woozy dance.
LOVERLY: Karin Hendricks and Andrew Philpot joust wits and wills as Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.
Yet he wouldn’t be so without the support of the ensemble, who also deserve special mention, being something of a focus for director and choreographer Michael Jenkinson. To the credit of his vision and intention, the Cockney lower and stiff-lipped upper classes alike interacted and danced as fully-fledged characters that merely lacked lines (as opposed to mere dancers). In the attention to their expression and the realism of their physicality, Jenkinson and the actors have endowed their ensemble with noticeable personality. This accomplished retelling of a longstanding favorite still brings the laughs and good spirits, and is a great way to kick off the outdoor theater’s summer season. It — Richie DeMaria is, in a word, loverly. independent.com
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LET’S DANCE: On June 27, Martin Gore provided an excellently deep, atmospheric house-music deejay set that got my feet moving.
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HEY, MR. DEEJAY: Here’s a brain twister for you: If a deejay plays dance
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music, and no one dances, is it still dance music? For philosophers and music fans alike, Martin Gore’s headlining set at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club on Saturday, June 27, raised some interesting questions. Because while the ex-Depeche Mode man’s excellently deep, atmospheric-house-music set got my feet moving, I was only one of a handful who dared dance. Most in attendance either recorded the show on their phones, stood and stared, or sat outside, smoking, and I felt like a weird fool. Now I’m not lambasting those who were simply there to listen. I can completely appreciate the experience of soaking in a dance night closedeyed, letting it all wash over you. But something tells me that’s not all that was going on at SOhO. It seemed people were there to bask in the aura of a legend, there to watch his unsmiling presence, the music a mere sideshow. Or, they were led by their great expectations — as one woman yelled, “Play some Depeche Mode! Just one song! That’s why we’re all here!” She was very angry. It was, in microcosm, the weird state of music we are in. Laptops are the new guitars, and with the gear change has come a noticeably more stationary performer and crowd alike. True, the kids stopped dancing at least a decade ago, when we all became bedroom music critics. But even if the action onstage has ceased altogether, the exalted level of show stardom has not lowered, and we bask both in the status of anyone under spotlight, and in our own shared status by association. We idolize the wizard behind the computer and the magic he drops, and we equally memorialize our having experienced it in the instant. (Have you noticed how just about every top hit of the last half decade has been about living this night like it’s the last, like we’re young forever?) Dance floors are just another realm for us to express our great existential anxiety about the worth of our lived experience relative to everyone else’s — I’m alive, please “Like” that fact. Here’s another brain twister: If you went to a dance night so that you could film the deejay, were you really there? Whoever said life is not a spectator sport clearly never lived to our present day, where we endlessly surveil and share in the name of selfhood. We are the drones of our own lives. I’m reminded of The Kinks song that goes: “People take pictures of each other / just to prove that they really existed.” It’s gotten to the point where performers announce phone embargoes, as happened at a The 1975 show I went to last year, when singer Matty declared a song as cell-phone free (and yet nothing is sacred; some kept their smartphones up anyway). In our pursuit of cool, we must gather our gigs and flaunt them, and we cry foul when the performer fails to conform to our carefully curated tastes, which we just posted on Spotify, by the way. Because in many music environments people simply want to be comforted and confirmed. They appreciate music insofar as it can politely pad a commercial setting, soundtrack a drive, or boost street cred. It’s a passive thing. Versatile musicians like Gore get yelled at when they decide to be something other than a nostalgia playlist. So next time, kids, toss your phone, expectations, and ego aside, and dance. Let your evening go unrecorded, and let yourself be free. n
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omething is taken off you, which hurts as you cross the threshold into this new world,” said singer/songwriter David Gray in a recent phone interview. “It doesn’t come for free.” Gray was in Atlanta, Georgia, in the middle of a worldwide tour for his latest record, Mutineers, and was speaking of deconstructing his songwriting approach, of hollowing out the music to find some space. “It’s a painful opening-up process of your emotions and your creative thoughts,” he explained. “It’s scary but worth the effort and the pain.” It’s curious to hear Gray speak of needing to open himself up since his willingness to splay himself emotionally is what made his breakthrough album, White Ladder, so beguiling. Still, there is something fresh and buoyant to Mutineers that is clearly the result of his current reckoning. Songs like “Birds of the High Artic,” “The Incredible,” and “Beautiful Agony” contain enticing musical nuances that reveal Gray’s You like birds, I’ve got the sense, as three shifting path. But the track “Gulls” may be the best of your songs have them in the title. If illustration of where he is anything helps me switch off, it’s watching by Michelle Drown headed sonically. It’s dreamy, nature. I didn’t have a pair of binoculars until moody, hypnotic, visceral. about 10 years ago. When I bought my first pair, “Where I stepped off with ‘Gulls’ it sort of transformed, deepened, and accelerated my —that’s where I want to continue,” he said. interest in what I was looking at. Obviously it’s not for everybody, but for me, it enhances a walk, having my I think Mutineers is one of your best albums. Do you feel binoculars with me so I can look at things. It obliterates it’s more dynamic than your other records? Obviously everything else in my mind, and I am lost to the world you believe in each thing you put out, but this one of the bird, or the creature that I’m looking at. I’m no does seem to have something extra. It took a lot more longer shy about putting these natural references to the to make it; I pulled the music apart and put it back fore in my work. So god knows, the next [record’s] going together again—and the songwriting, too—in order to be plump full of insects. [Laughs.] to try and find something different. I wanted new sonic vistas, basically. I was hungry for something that I hadn’t Your duet with LeAnn Rimes on “Snow in Vegas” adds a had before. When it crystalized and came good—the great dynamic to the song. I met her backstage. She was excitement is palpable, I think, in the music. There’s a a fan of my music, and I really liked her, and we talked sort of verve to the whole thing. about the duets I’d done before on my previous records with Annie Lennox and Jolie Holland, and I said, “It’d What made the process so harrowing? If you want be lovely to sing with you if ever the opportunity arose.” something different to happen, you have to knock And then when I met her the next time, we were talkdown the thing that you already know about. So the ing about the album, and this time I said, “Someone moment when you are suspended over a void with said ‘Snow in Vegas’ would make a good duet.” And she rubble all around, you hope something else is going to queued it on her phone and sang along to the whole turn up. That’s the scary bit. And then learning to trust thing in harmony. And then volunteered to come out the producer’s instinct of what needed to happen. I and sing it live that night. So we promptly organized found it very difficult to relinquish control, but I needed some recording time and recorded it and rereleased the someone else to find my way to something different. record with this version in addition. She’ll be popping into the L.A. Hollywood Bowl [show], and hopefully I read in an interview you had with the Telegraph last year Red Rocks, as well. that you were bored with your sound. I just felt that I’d come to the end of a whole palette of ideas and I needed It seems you have a newfound excitement about your to look for somewhere to start again. I didn’t want to career. I’m almost on the verge of madness sometimes be churning out the same kind of thing. I wanted to with the amount of ideas I’m having. I don’t know regenerate creatively but also personally. In the music, exactly where I’m going. I [may] just make a complete I wanted something that sounded uplifting and ener- fool of myself over the coming years. [Laughs.] I hope gized and joyous. It took a little bit of doing to shake off not, but I feel incredibly excited about the world of possibilities. the malaise of middle age and open myself up again.
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Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – Brian Shapiro: Midrash & Miscellany: Contemporary Paintings from Biblical Texts and Julie B. Montgomery: Veiled Terrain, through Aug. 29. 21 W. Anapamu St., 962-5322. Museum of Contemporary Art S.B. – Teen Paranormal Romance, through July 12. 653 Paseo Nuevo, 966-5373. Rancho La Patera & Stow House – Multiple permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Valley Historical Society. 304 N. Los Carneros Rd., Goleta, 681-7216. S.B. Historical Museum – Quake! The 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake, through July 5; Ray Strong: Views of S.B. County, through Aug. 31; The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission. 136 E. De la Guerra St., 966-1601. S.B. Maritime Museum – On the Water Waterfront: Paintings by Ray Strong, through Aug. 31. 113 Harbor Wy., 962-8404. S.B. Museum of Art – The Visionary Photomontages of Herbert Bayer, 1929-1936, through Sept. 27; The Paintings of MoholyNagy: The Shape of Things to Come, July 5-Sept. 27; Degas to Chagall: Important Loans from the Armand Hammer Foundation, Visions of Modernity: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints, ongoing exhibitions. 1130 State St., 963-4364. S.B. Museum of Natural History – Megalodon: Largest Shark That Ever Lived Lived, through Aug. 30; Ray Strong: Artist in Residence, through Oct. 4. 2559 Puesta del Sol, 682-4711. S.B. Museum of Natural History Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations. 211 Stearns Wharf, 962-2526. Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum – Samurai: The Warrior Horsemen of Japan, through Oct. 31. 3596 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 688-7889. Wildling Museum – Birds in Art 2014, through Aug. 10. 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 686-8315.
Galleries Allan Hancock College Library – Children’s book illustrations, ongoing. 800 S. College Dr., Santa Maria, 922-6966. Artamo Gallery–Artamo Artamo Summer Summer, through July 26. 11 W. Anapamu St., 568-1400. Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit. 540 Pueblo St., 898-2204. Carivintâs Winery – Belinda Hart: The Vineyard Series, through Sept. 1. 476 First St., Solvang, 693-4331. Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – California Dreaming, through July 20. 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria, 684-7789. Casa de la Guerra –The Art of Preservation: The Oak Group Remembers Ray Strong,
through Aug. 9. 15 E. De la Guerra St., 966-1279. Casa Dolores–Bandera Bandera Ware Ware, through Aug. 1. 1023 Bath St., 963-1032. Channing Peake Gallery–For the People, By the People: Government at Work in S.B. County 1850-1950 1850-1950, through Sept. 18. S.B. County Administration Bldg., 105 E. Anapamu St. CJM::LA – Megan Mueller: Drought Resistant, through July 31. 300 E. Canon Resistant Perdido St., #C-2, 698-2120. Cypress Gallery –Tonya Romano Schultz: Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful Beautiful, through July 26. 119 E. Cypress Ave., Lompoc, 737-1129. Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Sonia Adams, Sherry Spear, Cathryn Mailheau: Magical Moments ... Windows of Soul Soul, through Aug. 31. 1528 State St., 570-2446. Farmer and the Cook – Celeste M. Evans: Let It Go Lapis, through July. 339 W. El Roblar Dr., Ojai, 640-9608. Flying Goat Cellars – Betsee Talavera, through mid-July. 1520-A E. Chestnut Ct., Lompoc, 436-9032. galerie102 – Aaron Farley, through July 5. 102 W. Matilija St., 272-5111. Gallery 113 – Suemae Willhite, through Aug. 1. La Arcada, 1114 State St., 965-6611. Gallery Los Olivos – Sheryl Knight and Linda Mutti: The Spirit of Adventure, through July 31; Marilyn Benson: California Wine Country Country, through Aug. 5. 2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7517. The Good Life – Meg Ricks: Every River Searches for the Sea: Coastals and Cloudfalls, through Sept. 1. 1672 Mission Dr., Solvang, 688-7111. Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery – F7 Photographics: Embrace the Wonder Wonder, through Aug. 28. 2415 De la Vina St., 687-7444. Hospice of S.B. – James Petrucci: weightless, through July 31. 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, 563-8820. JadeNow Gallery – Ryan and Jeff Spangler, ongoing. 14 Parker Wy., 845-4558. Jewish Community Ctr. – Visual Monologues, through Aug. 25. 524 Chapala St., 957-1115. Los Olivos Café – John Card: Art Pot Potpourri, through July 2; Lauren McFarland: pourri Images of the Central Coast Coast, through Sept. 3. 2870 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7265. Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing. 127 Anacapa St., 284-0358. Marcia Burtt Studio– Wanderlust, Wanderlust through Aug. 23.517 Laguna St., 962-5588. MCASB Satellite – Magic Mountain, through Jan. 31, 2016. Hotel Indigo, 121 State St., 966-5373. Montecito Aesthetic Institute – Eye, through Sept. 10. 1150 Coast Village Rd., Ste. H, Montecito, 565-5700.
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ho’s a good boy? Max, obviously, but, just to warn parents who don’t like their kiddies to view violence—this canine hero does not start in a good place. The film opens in heavy combat scenes with doggy Max leading a Marine troop patrolling Kandahar Province. We first watch our pooch sniff out a stash of weapons. But that success is followed by a bad patrol in which Max’s handler, Kyle Wincott (Robbie Amell) dies with suspicious complications hovering nearby. Meanwhile, back in the States, Kyle’s grieving family inherits Max, who is now more PTSD victim than potential pet. It’s a bit of a stretch, but, this being Hollywood, the heartsore and slightly dysfunctional Wincott family makes space for the snarling brute. Can puppy love help heal hearts and prevent crime? And will you need spare hankies even before the surprisingly suspenseful story takes off? Doggedly affirmative, sir. Okay, it isn’t Hitchcock. There is also a terrible premise involving guns, Latino gangsters, and cartels. Yet the film moves at a brisk pace courting both the
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heartwarming dog tale and the Wincotts’ emotional issues. Thomas Haden Church plays the leatherneck dad, and Josh Wiggins his wayward idealistic son Justin, who also tears up mountain trails on his bicycle. Rounding out the Americana aspect is Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) as a mother who knows a thing or two about male reserve. It’s no Lassie Come Home or Old Yeller. But like most pet films, it plays fetch near the edge of mortality. The problem with Max is the hyper-military angle, especially for those who thought Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper was too gung ho. This one shamelessly plugs the glory of animals fighting wars for us in the last five minutes of credits. Pacifist alarm bells will go off. But it’s also tear-jerking family fun and for those who don’t mind soldier puns, a good example of Semper Fido. n
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FIRST LOOKS Max (111mins.; PG: action violence, peril, brief language, and some thematic elements) See review on page 59. Fairview/Fiesta 5 The Overnight (79 mins.; R: for strong sexuality, graphic nudity, language, and drug use)
Infinitely Polar Bear (90 mins.; R: language)
Mark Ruffalo stars as a manic-depressive father who tries to win back his wife by taking full responsibility for raising their two young daughters.
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Magic Mike XXL (115 mins.; R: strong
Ted 2 (115 mins.; R: crude and sexual con-
This sequel sees main character Mike and his hard-body buddies head to Myrtle Beach for one last blowout performance. Camino Real/Metro 4
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tent, pervasive language, and some drug use)
The first movie was surprisingly funny and had at heart a legitimate conflict, but Ted 2 is just Seth MacFarlane’s now well-worn style of comedy. It’s annoying, as MacFarlane has already inseminated his Family Guy episodes with some of these exact same jokes about fertility clinics and big top-hat dance numbers. And since MacFarlane has made a career out of middle fingering just about everyone via his animated mouthpieces, I feel no problem raising mine in return. (RD) Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo
SCREENINGS The African Queen (105 mins.; PG: thematic elements, some violence, and smoking)
Set at the beginning of World War I, this 1951 classic about missionaries in Africa and the course boat captain who delivers their supplies won Humphrey Bogart his only Oscar.
Mon., July 6, 7pm, Granada Theatre
Aparajito (110 mins.; NR) This 1957 Indian film tells the story of a mother and her young boy, Apu, and the difficulty she has adjusting to his growing independence as he becomes a man.
sexual content, pervasive language, some nudity, and drug use)
Minions (91 mins.; PG: action and rude humor)
Minions Kevin, Stuart, and Bob join forces with evildoer Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock) to help her take over the world. Fairview (2D)/Fiesta 5 (2D) (Opens Thu., July 9)
Wed., July 8, 7:30pm, UCSB’s Isla Vista Theater and Fri., July 10, 8:30pm, Courthouse Sunken Gardens
The Smurfs 2 (105 mins.; PG: some rude humor and action) The little blue creatures are back. This time they have to save Smurfette from the evil Gargamel’s diabolical plan to turn his Naughties into Smurfs using a secret spell known only by Smurfette.
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PREMIERES Amy (128 mins.; R: language and drug material) This documentary traces the life and death of the Grammy Award–winning Amy Winehouse.
Paseo Nuevo (Opens Thu., July 9)
The Gallows (80 mins.; NR) Twenty years ago, tragedy befell students during a high school play. When the current students decide to resurrect it in honor of the accident’s anniversary, bad things happen.
Metro 4 (Opens Thu., July 9)
Forget the giant box-office take and noisy buzz — there are plenty of thrills but no quantum leap in either the fearfactor or special-effects departments. In the end, there is running, munching, and artillery and T. rex gets some awesome roar time. It isn’t brilliant. It’s vintage. (DJP) Camino Real (2D)/
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O Love & Mercy (120 mins.; PG-13: thematic elements, drug content, and language) This is a sweetly over-baked biopic, melodramatic and full of beauty, meant to make us all feel guilty we ever mocked Brian Wilson. The film has great vibrations, and, besides, we know there’s no line between madness and genius and only accomplishments matter in the long run. We ought to stop to admire Wilson’s. (DJP)
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Self/less (116 mins.; PG-13: for sequences of violence, some sexuality, and language)
A wealthy, dying man turns to a radical medical procedure to transfer his consciousness into a younger healthy man’s body. But all is not as it appears.
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Terminator Genisys (125 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of sci-fi violence and gunplay throughout, partial nudity, and brief strong language)
The year is 2029 in this series’ fith installment, and John Connor must send his friend Kyle Reese back to 1984 to save his mother’s life and ensure his own existence.
Arlington (2D)/Camino Real (2D and 3D)/ Fiesta 5 (2D and 3D)
Wed., July 8, 5 and 7:30pm, Plaza de Oro
Singin’ in the Rain (103 mins.; NR) Silent screen actors Don (Gene Kelly) and Lina (Jean Hagen) must make the leap to talking pictures in this 1952 musical comedy.
Jurassic World (124 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril)
NOW SHOWING O Far from the Madding Crowd (119 mins.; PG-13: some sexuality and violence)
Director Thomas Vinterberg’s film maintains the pastoral gentility of the period-piece genre without drowning it in sappy sentiment. Thomas Hardy wrote of a tragic universe stitched with sad happenstance, and Vinterberg does well to maintain both the more shadowy elements of Hardy’s style as well as his lyrical sweetness. (RD) Plaza de Oro I’ll See You in My Dreams (92 mins.; PG-13: sexual material, drug use, and brief strong language) This comedy-drama tells the story of a widow (Blythe Danner) who begins her life anew. Costars include June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, Mary Kay Place, Sam Elliott, and Malin Akerman. Riviera
O Inside Out
(94 mins.; PG: mild thematic elements and some action)
This film’s inner journey is a blast, especially the map of consciousness provided: A train of thought takes viewers from long-term memories, through the Unconscious, and down to a scary pit where memories go to die. We believe a silly premise and feel the war between regrets and happy days raging in a world of animated change. (DJP) Camino Real (2D)/Fiesta 5 (2D)
O Mad Max: Fury Road (120 mins.; R: intense sequences of violence throughout and disturbing images) George Miller’s fourth Mad Max film is a masterpiece. The movie is an escapist odyssey that nonetheless passes hard judgments on humanity, a detailed descent into hell made with sure rhythms by a director who understands when to apply full throttle and when to ease up so we can think over all we have seen. (DJP) Fiesta 5 (2D) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (105 mins.; PG-13: for sexual content, drug material, language, and some thematic elements)
This film is intricately crated, oten very funny, moving in its depiction of friendships and mortality, and all about the extreme love of movies, to boot — it’s Citizen Kane gone to the prom.
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San Andreas (114 mins.; PG-13: intense disaster action and mayhem throughout, and brief strong language) Easily the worst disaster in this film is Paul Giamatti’s performance as a Caltech professor. Outside of that, though, the film isn’t terrible, just a cheesy exploitation of popular fears. Director Brad Peyton seems to be paying homage to Roland (Independence Day, 2012) Emmerich. (DJP)
Fairview (2D)/Metro 4 (2D)
O Spy
(120 mins.; R: language throughout, violence, some sexual content including brief graphic nudity)
Spy is the newest comedy for Melissa McCarthy to shine. It’s an outrageous ride filled with great characters, goofy gore, and more twists than any windy rue de Paris. If laughs are your mission, then see the hilarious and energizing Spy and consider the mission accomplished. (RD) Fairview/Fiesta 5 Testament of Youth (129 mins.; PG-13: thematic material including bloody and disturbing war-related images) A British woman remembers coming of age during WWI in this film about young love and the futility of war.
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a&e | Rob bRezsny’s fRee will astRology week of July 2 gallery next door to the main hall, where he displayed his own work. As you strive to get your voice heard, Gemini, I urge you to be equally cheeky and innovative. Buy yourself a megaphone, or erect your own clubhouse, or launch a new enterprise. Do whatever it takes to show who you really are.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): To determine whether you are aligned with the cosmic flow, please answer the following questions. (1) Would you say that your current situation is more akin to treading water in a mosquitoridden swamp or conducting a ritual of purification in a clear mountain stream? (2) Have you been wrestling with boring ghosts and arguing with traditions that have lost most of their meaning? Or have you been transforming your past and developing a riper relationship with your roots? (3) Are you stuck in a gooey muck? Or are you building a flexible new foundation?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing,” said composer John Cage in describing his creative process. That’s excellent counsel for you to meditate on, Cancerian. The less expertise and certainty you have about the rough magic you’re experimenting with, the more likely it is that this magic will lead you to useful breakthroughs. To bolster Cage’s advice and help you get the most from your period of self-reinvention, I offer you this quote from Picasso: “I imitate everyone except myself.”
TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Taurus singer Sam Smith won four Grammys this year, largely on the strength of his hit single “Stay with Me.” The song has a lush gospel choir backing up his lead vocals, or so it seems. But in fact, every voice in that choir is his own. He recorded 20 separate harmony tracks that were woven together to create the big sound. What would be the equivalent in your world, Taurus? How could you produce a wealth of support for yourself? What might you do to surround yourself with a web of help and nourishment? How can you amplify and intensify your efforts so they have more clout? Now would be an excellent time to explore possibilities like these.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your words of wisdom come from Leo artist Andy Warhol: “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years, when they could just say, ‘so what.’ That’s one of my favorite things to say. ‘So what.’ ” Can I interest you in that approach, Leo? It has similarities to the Buddhist strategy of cultivating nonattachment — of dropping your fixations about matters that can’t be controlled or changed. But I suspect you would draw special benefits from the breezy, devil-may-care spirit of Warhol’s version. So start there.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Born under the sign of Gemini, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who upset traditionalists. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he wasn’t interested in creating idealistic art based on historical and religious themes. He focused on earthy subjects about which he had direct experience, like the day-to-day lives of peasants and laborers. So even though he became a highly praised celebrity by his mid-thirties, the arbiters of the art world tried to exclude him. For example, they denied him a place in Exposition Universelle, a major international exhibition in Paris. In response, Courbet built a temporary Homework: What would be most fun and interesting thing for you to learn next? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her late twenties, J.K. Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. That’s when she began work on her Harry Potter books. Craig Newmark had turned 42 by the time he founded Craigslist. One of the world’s most oft-visited websites is HuffingtonPost.com, which Arianna Huffington established when she was 54. As for Harland Sanders, creator of KFC: He didn’t begin building the global empire of fried-chicken restaurants until the age of 65. I hope the preceding serves as a pep talk, Virgo, reminding you that it’s never too late to instigate the project of
a lifetime. The time between now and your birthday in 2016 will be an especially favorable phase to do so. Start ruminating on what it might be.
Then you’re more likely to recognize the offer that will have lasting value even if it doesn’t make a spectacular first impression.
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(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the power-building phase of your astrological cycle. To take maximum advantage, convey the following message to your subconscious mind: “I know you will provide me with an abundance of insight, inspiration, and energy for whatever intention I choose to focus on. And during the next four weeks, my intention will be to cultivate, expand, and refine my personal power. I will especially focus on what author Stephen R. Covey called ‘the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.’ ”
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I find a lot of people physically attractive, but finding people mentally and spiritually attractive is different and much harder for me.” So says 40ozshawty on her Tumblr page. If you share that frustration, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due to encounter a higher-than-usual percentage of mentally and spiritually attractive people in the next six weeks. But I wonder how you’ll deal with this abundance. Will you run away from it, feeling overwhelmed by the prospect that your life could get more interesting and complicated? Or will you embrace it, daringly welcoming the interesting complications?
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m a big fan of science and logic and objective thinking. Most of us need more of that good stuff. The world would be a saner, safer place if we all got regular lessons on how to be more reasonable and rational. But in the immediate future, Scorpio, I’ll steer you in a different direction. I believe you will benefit from injecting your imagination with primal, raw, crazy, wild mojo. For example, you might read utopian science fiction and fairy tales about talking animals and poetry that scrambles your intellectual constructs. You could remember your dreams and ruminate about them as if they were revelations from the Great Beyond. You may also find it healthy to fantasize profusely about forbidden and impossible and hilarious adventures.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are lots of inquiries and invitations coming your way — perhaps too many. I don’t think you should pursue all of them. In fact, I suspect that only one would ultimately make you a better human being and a braver explorer and a wiser lover. And that one, at first glance, may have not as much initial appeal as some of the others. So your first task is to dig deep to identify the propositions that are attractive on the surface but not very substantial.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I think you will generate good fortune for yourself by choosing between two equally invigorating but challenging tasks: losing your illusion or using your illusion. Both are quite worthy of your attention and intelligence. To succeed at either would fuel your emotional growth for months to come. You probably can’t do them both, however. So which will it be: Will you purge the illusion or put it to work for you?
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Do you sometimes imagine yourself to be an underachieving underdog? If so, I suggest you start weaning yourself from that fantasy. Do you on occasion allow people to take advantage of you? It’s time to outgrow that role. Do you ever flirt with being a self-pitying martyr? Say bye-bye to that temptation. Cosmic forces are conspiring to relieve you of tendencies to act in any or all of those ways. I’m not saying you will instantly transform into a swashbuckling hero who knocks people over with your radiant self-assurance. But you will, at the very least, be ready to learn much, much more about how to wield your vulnerability as a superpower.
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he Govender family will transition Fresco Café North to The Fig Grill over the Fourth of July weekend, hoping to open on Monday, July 6. The emphasis of the new restaurant will be on small plates and craft beers. The Govender family sent me details about the changes: “We are turning over a new leaf! For the past 20 years, we have had proud relationships with two local families who started home-grown restaurants that are a part of Santa Barbara history. We have been a franchisee of Giovanni’s Pizza and Fresco Café Group, respectively, with two decades of experience in operating and managing three restaurants. It is now a perfect time to begin a new chapter with an independent and fresh concept. “For the 11 years that we have been at this Calle Real location as a Giovanni’s and Fresco Café North, we have grown and developed into a restaurant that is a favorite amongst locals in both the family and business sector of our neighborhood. We are looking forward to continuing this tradition but with a fresh menu with simple ideas to include more options in small plate items, local craft beers on tap, and some of our own popular favorites which have become synonymous with the Govender family and our loyal, long serving staff. “Our customers, the life blood of any establishment, will continue to enjoy the same outstanding service from familiar personnel in front of house operations and our busy, competent kitchen. We are looking forward to serving you with the best food, building better relations and offering you a new, tasty menu beginning this summer. Welcome and thank you.” NORTON’S COMING TO GOLETA: Noozhawk
reports that Norton’s Pastrami and Deli at 18 West Figueroa Street will be opening a second location in Goleta next year. CORAZON COCINA OPENING IN MONTECITO:
Reader Laila tells me that Chef Ramon Velazquez just signed a lease to open a brick-and-mortar location of Corazon Cocina in the Montecito Country Mart (ak a the Vons shopping center). It will be located in a redesigned space formally occupied by Xanadu Bakery. Fans of tacos and ceviche, rejoice!
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“Hi John, Longtime reader, first time contributor. Santa Barbara needs to know what’s happening Friday and Saturday nights at the Goodland Kitchen at 231 South Magnolia Ave. in Goleta. Buena Onda, an Argentinian pop-up, is serving up incredible empanadas, tamales, delicious salads, ceviche & yuca chips, and amazing chimichurri. It will be there through August, with outdoor seating, BYOB, and friendly crowds. Not only have we been more than once already (it opened June 11), but we’ve gotten back in line on each trip to order seconds! We suggest the carne and caprese empanadas with the quinoa salad.” Thanks also to readers Avery and Margaret for tips about Buena Onda. NEW SUSHI BAR: Reader Tom says that there is a new sushi bar at Chinese restaurant Empress Palace, 2251 Las Positas Road. I am told it has been in place for several weeks. CLOSURES AT PUBLIC MARKET? Reader Paul
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Channel Sea Food at 240 Santa Monica Way Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Josh Luft(same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Josh Luft filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 Jessica Shieff. FBN Number: 2015‑0001874. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Quad Labs at 432 North 8th Street Lompoc, CA 93436; Solid Rock Homes, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 15, 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: 2015‑0001922. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Chris Casebeer, Realtor at 418 East Islay Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Chris Casebeer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Chris Casebeer filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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: 2015‑0001640. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Foronjy Financial at 100 N Hope Ave. Suite 22 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Bryan Charles Foronjy 1385 Bay Oaks Dr, CA 93402 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bryan Foronjy filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 18 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: 2015‑0001968. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Wellness 4 Life, Santa Barbara Wellness For Life at 3888 State Street Suite 203 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Dale Migliaccio D.C 2973 Arriba Way Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Laurie Moody filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 09, 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: 2015‑0001866 Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bob The Driver at 39 Dearborn Place #95 Goleta, CA 93117; Robert C. Perry (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert Perry filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 04, 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: 2015‑0001814. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Green Leaf Spa at 325 E Betteravia Rd. #108 Santa Maria, CA 93454; Xiaomei Sun (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 04 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: 2015‑0001794. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Creative Kids Book Project at 2375 Foothill Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kara Oh 28 W. Pedregosa Street #5 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kara Oh filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 05, 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: 2015‑0001818. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Knights Pest Management Services at 4326 Calle Real #15 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Damon Richardson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Damon Richardson filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 08, 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: 2015‑0001834. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Pony League Baseball at 2957 Glen Albyn Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Santa Barbara Sports Association 1187 Coast Village Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Ivan Pelly, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0001747. Published: Jun 11, 18, 25. July 2 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Artfilipe Porcelain Paint Supplies at 7532 Newport Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Safe Venture Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 Jessica Sheeif. FBN Number: 2015‑0001891. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Art By Marlea at 2165 Keenan Road Los Olivos, CA 93441; Marlea F. Jarrette (same address) Robert R. Walmsley (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Robert R. Walmsley filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 08, 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: 2015‑0001840. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sirens And Incubi at 1010 N. H Street Ste 1 Lompoc, CA 93436; Phoebe Deleon 404 N 2nd Street Lompoc, CA 93436; Pamela Lewton 4485 12th Street Guadalupe, CA 93434 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Phoebe Deleon filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 08, 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: 2015‑0001844. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Potek Winery at 406 E. Haley Street #1 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Municipal Winemakers, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Lea Fainer, Agent filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 09, 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: 2015‑0001859. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Collegebound Learning Services LLC at 124 E. Arrellaga Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Collegebound Learning Services LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Anne Robinson filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0001916. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pharmersea LLC at 475 Kellogg Way Goleta, CA 93117; Pharmersea LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Daniel L. Marquez filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 Jessica Sheeif. FBN Number: 2015‑0001880. Published: Jun 18, 25. July 2, 9 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Allen Associates, BTS, Built To Ship, BCR, Building Care And Repair, BPS, Building Performance Specialists at 201 N. Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Dennis Allen Associates (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 16, 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 Teresa A. Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0001931. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Original Way at 814 Willowglen Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jeremy David Massel (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jeremy Massel filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0001914. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sar Water at 5142 Hollister Avenue #104 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Stewart Rasmussen (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Stewart Rasmussen filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 03, 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: 2015‑0001787. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Swedemasters at 428 N. Salsipuedes St Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Swedemasters Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on May 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0001741. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gallerie Silo: Artist Studio at 118‑B Gray Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Michael C. Armour 976 Medio Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael C. Armour filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 16, 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: 2015‑0001950. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Access Arrest Records, Access Public Record, Find Anyone’s Info, Name Search, Online Crime Reports, Public Record Search, Search Arrest Records, Access Criminal Records, Arrest Records Online, Find Anyone’s Record, Online Arrest Records, PDC, Search Any Name, Search Criminal Records, Access Public Data, Criminal Record Serach, Find Criminal Records, Online Backround Search, Public Data Check, Search Anyone, Search Public Records at 5662 Calle Real Suite #107 Goleta, CA 93117; National Data Analytics, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2015‑0001896. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Terra Firma at 2765 Las Encinas West Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kirby Joy’s Charity (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Randall Reetz, Vice filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 22, 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0001986. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mesa Liqour at 1818 Cliff Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Mesa SB Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Souad Sarar filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 18, 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0001969. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Southwest Real Estate at 1179 Harbor Hills Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Southwest Property Management Corp. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Michael L. Smith filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0001996. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Marjorie Luke Theatre at 721 E Cota Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Santa Barbara Community Youth Performing Arts Center (same address) This business is conducted by a Corpoaration Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 15, 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: 2015‑0001928. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Path Santa Barbara at 816 Cacique Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Path 340 North Madison Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90004 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Kathleen Tripp, Fin. Director filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0001951. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Wuttke Foundation, The Wuttke Institute, The Wuttke Institute of Neurothearapy at 1135 Eugenia Place Suite B Carpinteria, CA 93013; Wuttke Institute, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Caroline Paine, Agent filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 25 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002026. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Antigua, Chapron International at 246 San Julian Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Eleonore Simone Noelle Chapron‑Paul (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Eleonore, Simone, Noelle Chapron‑Paul filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 24 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: 2015‑0002015. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: On The Alley at 7038 Market Place Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93117; KBV Ventures, LLC 114 E. Haley St. Suite O Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 18 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: 2015‑0001961. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Olympic Mobile Detail at 1072 Casitas Pass Rd #202 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Zach Schaefer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Zach Scaefer filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002001. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Crossfit Innate at 360 S Hope C‑105 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Innate Fitness LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Andrew Araza filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 22 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: 2015‑0001985. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Amaya’s Pupcakes at 221 Hillview Drive Goleta, CA 93117; Aaron Mendoza (same address) Rachel Mendoza (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Rachel Mendoza filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 22 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: 2015‑0001993. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pooppac at 222 Lou Dillon Court Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Susan Davidson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: S. Davidson filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 24 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 Tersa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002014. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Michel Plumbing Inc at 232 Vista De La Cumbre Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Michel Plumbing Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 16 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: 2015‑0001937. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
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The Carpenter will perform a variety of skilled journey‑level rough and finish carpentry, mill work, cabinetry, and other tasks. Repairing, altering and constructing of buildings, facilities, structures and equipment; assure compliance with building, health and safety codes, and standards is required. Participation in the construction, framing and remodeling of classrooms, offices and other District buildings as needed. Operate and maintain a variety of carpentry equipment, participate in department‑wide projects and assist other trades workers with maintenance and repair projects as directed. Estimating labor, material and equipment needed for assigned projects, inspect work done by contractors for adherence to codes and specifications; collaborate with District staff, architects, and inspectors. For more details about this job, please apply on‑line at www. edjoin.org or visit our website at www.sbunified.org.
HVAC Mechanic II
The HVAC Mechanic II will perform preventive maintenance and repair on ventilation and heating equipment, including blowers, heating units, heat pumps, exhaust fans, motors, vacuum pumps, water pumps, chemical injection and sump pumps and related equipment. Inspect, access, diagnose, and repair various types of equipment and systems using PC, laptop or iscope software interface program. Perform preventive maintenance and repair of various kitchen equipment, including
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brass Bear Brewing, Brass Bear Brewing of Santa Barbara, House Snake Brewing at 28 Anacapa Unit E Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Big Bear Brewing of Santa Barbara 1637 Shoreline Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: William Seth Anderson filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 05 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: 2015‑0001820. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A White Jasime Inn at 1327 Bath Street Santa CA 93101; Marlies Marburg Trustee Marlies Marburg Separarte Property Trust (same address) This business is conducted by a Trust Signed: Marlies Marburg filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 09 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: 2015‑0001854. Published: July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015.
Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF BRIAN JOHN PYTLINSKI AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV00105 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: BRIAN JOHN PYTLINSKI TO: BRIAN JOHN WAYNE PYT THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear
freezers, refrigerators, forced air and convection ovens, steam kettles, and ice machines. Perform preventive maintenance on a variety of building equipment and facilities, including replacement of filters and belts; service and repair industrial shop equipment, swimming pool pumps and filter equipment. Operate a variety of specialized repair equipment commonly used in the trade. Work from plans, sketches, blueprints, work orders or other instructions; interpret plans and specifications; check for compliance with codes. Drive a vehicle to and from work sites, suppliers, and contractors. Please apply on‑line at www.edjoin. org or visit our website at www. sbunified.org.
Painter
The Painter will perform a variety of skilled painting tasks and operations involved in the maintenance, repair, alteration and basic construction of District buildings and facilities. Some essential functions for this position are; Painting District buildings and facilities to maintain proper appearance and provide protection from rust and decay, preparing wood, metal, cement, stucco and asphalt surfaces for painting, applying paint, varnish, shellac, primer, enamel or other protective and decorative finishes to various surfaces, and preparing stencils and paint signs. Participation in department‑wide projects and assisting other trades workers with maintenance and repair projects as directed is required. Maintain service records, inspection records, and other documentation as needed. For more details about this job, please apply on‑line at www.edjoin.org or visit our website at www.sbunified.org.
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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 Jul 08, 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 Jun 5, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Jun 11, 18, 25. Jul 2 2015. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JENNIFER CHECCHIO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV00808 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: JENNIFER MARY CHECCHIO TO: JENNIFER MARIE CHECCHIO 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 Jul 22, 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 May 20, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Jun 18, 25. Jul 2, 9 2015. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DOUGLAS M. BLACK and RENEE J. NORDSTRAND‑BLACK ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): COLTON SMITH 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. 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 Public Notices an attorney, you may be eligible for DID YOU KNOW Information is free legal services from a nonprofit power and content is King? Do you legal services program. You can need timely access to public notices locate these nonprofit groups at the and remain relevant in today’s hostile California Legal Services Web site business climate? Gain the edge (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the with California Newspaper Publishers California Courts Online Self‑Help Association new innovative website Center (www.courtinfo.ca.g ov/ capublicnotice.com and check out the selfhelp), or by contacting your local FREE One‑Month Trial Smart Search court or county bar association. Feature. For more information call Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO Cecelia @ (916) 288‑6011 or www. despues de que le entreguen esta capublicnotice.com (Cal‑SCAN) citacion y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una Summons copia al demandante. Una carta o una SUMMONS llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su (CITACION JUDICIAL) respuesta por escrito tiene que estar NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: en formato legal correcto si desea (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): que procesen su caso en la corte. Es FRANCISCO PANTOJAALCACA posible que haya un formulario que DOES 1 to 20, Inclusive 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:1470090 The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es) Santa Barbara Superior Court 1100 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Bradford D. Brown, Esq., SBN 165913, 735 State Street, Suite 418, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, 805‑963‑5607 (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): DATE: Dec 23 2014. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer, By Susan Donjuan Deputy (Delegado) Published Jun 18, 25. Jul 2, 9 2015.
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NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV00714 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: SKYLAR ELAINE ROSENFIELD BLACK TO: ASHLEY ELAINE ROSENFIELD BLACK 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 Jul 29, 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 May 21, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Jun 25. Jul 2, 9, 16 2015.
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ECOMONIC FORECAST PROJECT Handles all fundraising, business and sponsorship matters. Maintains the sponsor and board databases. Conducst all related accounting. Including billing, deposits, collections and contracts for services. Initiates marketing and publicity related to Forecast events, in coordination with external event coordination, graphic art services, arrangements for speakers, boards, event logistics and sponsor recognition. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in Business or Economics or equivalent combination of years of experience, three years of business experience or comparable experience managing the financial affairs of a small business, non‑profit or small university department. Ability to act with extraordinary judgment, initiative, discretion, and independence. Must be able to independently prioritize, organize, and handle a wide variety of responsibilities accurately, consistently and with tight deadlines. Notes:
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Employment Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Must be able to work occasional evenings. $49,193 ‑ $68,932/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 7/13/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150345
Chemical Dependency Case Manager
Cottage Health System seeks per diem Case Manager for our Cottage Residential Center. We’re looking for master’s level professionals with chemical dependency/mental health experience to provide assessment, case management, individual/group counseling to chemically dependent residents and their families. MFT or LCSW preferred. Chemical Dependency treatment experience in lieu of licensure. Good DMV record and California Driver License required. Must be able to work varied shifts.
FINANCIAL COORDINATOR
ECONOMICS Supports the department manager with all facets of department management, particularly financial and data services. Reqs: Previous experience in bookkeeping, including GL reconciliation, financial and budget tracking/reporting, payroll, A/R, and A/P. Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, and have experience working with online or computer‑based financial systems. Ability to efficiently manage multiple, time‑sensitive projects. Note: Fingerprinting required. $20.59/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 7/7/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150337
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
ASSISTANT MANAGER BOOKSTORE Assists the Computer Department Manager with buying of Apple products with a budget of $2,000,000, serving UCSB faculty, staff and students. Assists with long‑range planning, budget projection and financial/buying. Excellent customer service is a strong focus of the operation. Supervises the student staff of the Computer Dept. Reqs: Excellent supervisory, analytical, research and customer service skills required. Knowledge of and experience with Apple and PC environments, related software and peripherals. Planning and budgetary skills required. Ability to communicate with faculty, staff and students regarding service and product quality. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Must be able to work some evenings and weekends. Will be a key holder with shifts for opening and closing the Bookstore according to schedule. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. $20.59 ‑ $21.57/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national
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origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 7/6/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150333
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NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NRI) Provides research and administrative support for the Principal Investigator. Responsibilities include attending to NRI administrative requests related to contracts, grants, and gift funds awarded. Generates monthly analysis and review of approximately twenty research related fund accounts from financial summaries. Provides input for financial reports to agencies. Makes recommendations on short and long‑term resources available
for supplies, equipment, and lab personnel. Based on available resources, works together with lab manager to carry out a plan. Collaborates with PI in preparation of correspondence to prospective donors for both his research and others in NRI. Reqs: Experience and familiarity with administrative and financial duties. Ability to work with attention to detail with continual interruptions. Strong organizational and time management skills. Excellent customer service, and strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work independently under pressure of deadlines, exercising independent judgement. Demonstrated proficiency working with various computer programs such as EndNote and various social networks on the web. Notes: Fingerprinting required. This is a 75% time career position with variable hours. $20.59 ‑ $21.57/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 7/7/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150334
Leave Of Absence Coordinator
Cottage Health seeks Leave of Absence Coordinator to support the Employee Health & Safety Department. This position is responsible for the day to day administration and management of all LOA cases in accordance with CH policies, state and federal regulations. Must have a working knowledge of the California leave statutes, proficiency in Word & Excel, with typing speed of 40+ wpm. The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of LOA administration experience in a large organization, Associate’s degree; and excellent organization, communication & customer service skills. PHR certification and bilingual (English/Spanish) skills preferred. Cottage Health offers an excellent compensation package that includes
COMMITMENT TO OUR COMMUNITIES.
Because we care for our neighbors. A career at Cottage Health is an experience in caring for and about the people who call our coastal area of California home. Our not-for-profit health system identifies closely with the communities we serve and has a long tradition of providing area residents with highly personalized, clinically excellent care. Patients aren’t just patients here – they’re neighbors. Be there for them through one of the openings below. Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
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Change Management Consultant Client Systems Administrator (EPIC) Coffee Cart Barista Concierge Cooks – Part-Time Environmental Services Rep Floor Care Representative Food Service Rep Housekeeping Supervisor Infection Preventionist Data Support (RN) Integration Analyst – HIE Interface Analyst (EPIC) IT Security Architect Sr. IT Security Engineer Laundry Worker I Lean/Process Improvement Consultant LOA Coordinator Manager, ISD Customer Service Medical Receptionist – Pismo Beach Security Officers Study Coordinator Supervisor, Utilization Review Denials & Appeals Process • System Support Analyst – Information Systems • Systems Support Analyst – Supply Chain
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Case Manager – SLO Clinic CVOR Technician Echocardiographer – Per Diem Medical Social Worker – Part-Time Neurodiagnostic Technician Pharmacy Technician Physical Therapist – Per Diem Speech Language Pathologist II – Per Diem • Surgical Techs
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Physical Therapists Psychotherapist Recreation Therapist RN – Per Diem
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CLS – Day Endoscopy Technician – Per Diem Manager – Radiology Medical Social Worker Patient Financial Counselor RN – ED RN – Med/Surg
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Certified Phlebotomy Techs Client Field Services Rep Clinical Lab Scientists Courier Histotechnician Lab Assistants Lab Assistant Processor
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We offer an excellent compensation package that includes above-market salaries, premium medical benefits, Wellness program, pension plans, tax savings accounts, rental and mortgage assistance, and relocation packages. What’s holding you back? For more information on how you can advance your future with these opportunities, or to submit a resume, please contact: Cottage Health, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689. Please apply online at www.cottagehealth.org.
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FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Performs a wide variety of cleaning tasks and is responsible for minor maintenance and storage of equipment. Maintains closet inventory of equipment and supplies, and maintains work assignment to
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department standards. Will assist emergency clean‑up projects. Reqs: At least 1 ‑ 2 years of custodial experience or equivalent combination of experience, training and education, preferably in a school or business setting. Ability to use and care for janitorial supplies and equipment. Ability to accomplish work within deadlines; may handle more than one project at a time. Must be able to work effectively in a team environment and be able to receive and follow instruction from supervisors. Ability to read, write and follow oral and written instructions in English. May be required to wear a UCSB‑provided uniform. Will assist emergency clean‑up projects, maintain closet inventory of equipment and supplies,
Provides physical therapy services to students upon referral. This includes assessing patient needs, developing patient treatment goals, planning and implementing the appropriate patient treatment programs and utilizing a variety of professional physical therapy procedures. Reqs: Must be a CA licensed physical therapist with specialization in outpatient orthopedic therapy. Notes: Must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment date. Must have a current California physical therapist license at all times during employment in order to practice and function in this clinical role. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation may be subject to disciplinary action. This is a 10 month, per year,
and maintain work assignment to department standards. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Shift is 2:00 AM ‑ 10:30 AM. Hours and days may vary to meet the operational needs of the department. Eyesight correction to 20‑20. Average depth perception. Ability to effectively hear and comprehend oral communication. Ability to distinguish smells of various chemicals used in the cleaning process and to detect odors emanating from potentially hazardous conditions. Multiple positions available. $17.54 ‑ $18.98/ hr. plus $.67/hr. shift differential. The University of California is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For primary consideration apply by 7/13/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150343
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SaNta BarBara 1429 ALAMEDA Padre Serra $2,195,000 – 4BD/4BA, Sun 1‑4, Brad Merritt 805 450‑6522 15 W. Padre, Duplex 3/2 + 2/1, Sun 2‑4, $1,550,000, Coldwell Banker, Mark Schneidman 805 452‑2428 1835 SUNSET Avenue, 2BD/1BA, Sun 3‑5, $729,000, Coldwell Banker, Jean Sedar 805‑637‑7848 27 Alameda Padre Serra, 3BD/3BA, $1,328,000, Sun – 2‑4, Scott McCosker, 805 687 2436 333 OLD Mill Rd #327, $495,000, Sun 1‑4, 2BD/2BA, Coldwell Banker, Todd Bollinger 805 220‑8808 333 OLD Mill Road #100, 2BD/2BA + Den, Sun 1‑3, $375,000, Ruth Ann Bowe, Keller Williams Reality, 805 698‑1971
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115 CORONADA Circle, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 2‑4, $1,699,000, Coldwell Banker, Kathy marvin 805 450‑4792
950 MEDIO Road, $1,495,000, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2‑4, Patrice Serrani 805 635‑5112
1395 SANTA Clara Way, 4BD/4BA, $1,639,000, Sat/Sun – 2‑4, Edna Sizlo 805 455‑4567
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riviera 1210 DIANA Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2‑4, $1,249,000 Coldwell Banker, Chris Palme 805 448‑3066
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