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he University of California has purchased three of Isla Vista’s largest apartment buildings from a Chicago investor for $156 million, breaking area records and becoming the number one landlord in the unincorporated student community. Documents recently made public by the Santa Barbara County assessor’s office show that on June 5, the university paid $92 million for Tropicana Gardens, a 279-bedroom apartment building at 6585 El Colegio Road. It also paid a combined $64 million for Tropicana del Norte at 6525 El Colegio Road and Tropicana Villas at 811 Camino Pescadero, with 241 bedrooms and a parking lot. The properties house more than 1,000 students. John Longbrake, UCSB associate vice chancellor for communications, described the deal in a press release Tuesday as part of the university’s “ongoing efforts to play a larger role in student life in Isla Vista, and to improve the living experience for a large number of UC Santa Barbara students and the surrounding community …” “This was a unique opportunity for the University to make a significant impact and demonstrate our ongoing commitment to the community,” he said. The Tropicanas will remain student housing, UCSB officials said, and will likely be 8
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renovated and integrated into the academic and social life on campus. Previously, the university had owned only the El Dorado and Westgate apartments with 113 bedrooms “inside the box” of Isla Vista proper, an area bounded by the campus, the ocean, Camino Majorca, and the south side of El Colegio Road. With the Tropicanas in hand, UCSB now owns 633 out of 8,486 bedrooms in the community, more than any other single entity. University-owned apartments typically rent for nearly 15 percent less than marketpriced apartments. University student housing is a self-funded enterprise and receives no state money for its operations. The purchase of the Tropicanas is the largest commercial real estate transaction in local memory, experts in the business said this week. In Isla Vista, it follows the $38 million sale of Icon and Icon Gardens in March. The seller of the Tropicanas was Peter Stelian, president of Isla Vista Investors and founder and CEO of Blue Vista Capital Management, the Chicago real estate investment firm that purchased the three buildings in 2010. According to a Wall Street Journal story about that deal, Tropicana Gardens was valued in 2010 at $64 million, and the sale price for Tropicana del Norte and Tropicana Villas was $37 million. Since universities are exempt from property taxes in California, the loss of the Tropiindependent.com
canas would diminish government coffers for schools and services, county officials said. The Tropicanas paid $1.1 million in basic property taxes last year. Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr, who represents Isla Vista, said she appreciates the university’s desire to monitor and provide more student housing but said she was “really surprised” by the purchase. When the university bought Francisco Torres in 2002, Farr noted, “… it was a real hit for the entities that received the benefit”—particularly Santa Barbara–area school districts, which collect about $700,000 in tax revenue every year. The move also displaced hundreds of Santa Barbara City College students, who increasingly occupy many of Isla Vista’s privately owned units. A 1970 Grand Jury report suggested the university seriously consider buying Isla Vista, noting UCSB would be required to pay for and provide all services. A provision in UCSB’s Long Range Development Plan requires the university to pay the county mitigation fees of $280 per bed per year if it purchases property in Isla Vista. Farr said county staff and university administrators regularly meet to discuss various ways to reduce the school’s impact on the community; this issue will be folded into those discussions. Kelsey Brugger contributed to this report.
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About 40 Refugio Oil Spill cleanup workers were quickly moved out of Tropicana Student Living in Isla Vista after one of them was arrested for DUI on 6/25. David Stern, attorney for Patriot Environmental Services, said the driver has been terminated and explained the cleanup company has a “zero tolerance policy.” The other men in the car had gang affiliations or criminal records, said Foot Patrol Lieutenant Rob Plastino. Stern said Patriot conducts “thorough background checks on all our employees.” He would not address claims that Patriot hires ex-convicts. “Patriot does not comment on rumors,” he said. Early-morning bicyclists made a grim discovery along Tepusquet Canyon Road near Santa Maria on 7/11. Deputies arrived to investigate and found a human body that had been dead for some time. Detectives and forensic examiners on the scene stated the decomposition and mummification would hamper identification and that they couldn’t yet say if a crime was involved in the death. The investigation is ongoing, and no further details were released. Legal skirmishing continued in Judge Colleen Sterne’s courtroom this week for public beach access at Hollister Ranch. Two years ago, Hollister Ranch property owners sued the California Coastal Commission and the State Coastal Conservancy to stop enforcement of a 1982 offer intended to allow the public to travel along the coast via a bluff-top trail and road to reach a 3,880foot private beach at the ranch. This week’s hearing was about exchanging evidence and discovery documents. Two months ago, Judge Sterne denied a motion by ranch owners for the pretrial settlement of certain issues. The case is expected to go to trial early next year. ke lsey b rugge r
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Anthony John Griffin (pictured below) led Santa Barbara police on a violent chase in his RV Monday afternoon in which at least nine vehicles were hit — including a school bus filled with children — and two officers were injured. None of the schoolchildren were hurt, but one motorist was taken to the hospital with back pains. Police were responding to a 1:49 p.m. domestic violence call involving 28-year-old Griffin and his girlfriend near upper State Street when Griffin locked himself in the RV where they live. As police were negotiating with him to come out, he reportedly cut his own throat with a steak knife, inflicting superficial wounds. Griffin then sped off, running over an officer’s foot and slamming into multiple police cruisers. Police gave chase, but soon after, one of their cruisers collided with a motorcycle officer, who sustained a dislocated finger. Police called off the pursuit and monitored Griffin’s movements from a distance. Griffin surrendered without further incident when his RV broke down at around 2:30 p.m. on westbound Foothill Drive. He was noticeably drunk, authorities said, and on probation. Griffin was charged with a number of felonies, including domestic abuse, resisting arrest, and hit-and-run. His — Indy Staff bail is set at $500,000.
About an hour after the last few college students trickled out of Goleta’s Old Town Tavern (above) on 7/9, the bar was engulfed in flames, badly charring its interior, melting the TVs, and leaving a thick layer of soot over everything. For owners Briny and Bob Litchfield, the last several days have been consumed by meetings with insurance brokers, and it remains to be seen if the Old Town Tavern, or OTT as it’s called, will be repaired and reopen. “I’m just glad nobody was hurt,” Briny said, “and that it wasn’t arson.” OTT is one of a few remaining dive bars known for karaoke. As fate would have it, the cause of the fire was narrowed down to a defective power strip near the karaoke machine.
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THROWDOWN: Leading dueling efforts to create a business improvement district on Milpas Street are Sharon Byrne (left) of the Milpas Community Association and Jacqueline Inda of the Greater Eastside Merchants Association. Both are running for City Council this November.
OppOseD: Brad Miller implores the supervisors, on July 7, not to adopt CHP recommendations that ban skateboarding on certain county roads.
Skateboarders are particularly adept at getting back up after a hard slam. Case in point: 48 hours after the County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 last week in favor of banning skateboarding on dangerous sections of Gibraltar, North San Marcos, and Painted Cave roads, a group of area downhillers launched a petition and letterwriting effort to change supervisorial minds. Petitioners contend that those roads are, in fact, relatively safe because they’re sparsely populated and carry very little traffic. This ban, they explain, will push downhillers onto busier, more dangerous roads. Supervisor Steve Lavagnino — the vote’s lone dissenter — agreed with the downhillers’ proposed alternative to an outright ban. “I think it’s much more a matter of signage,” Lavagnino told The Santa Barbara Independent, adding that cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and skateboarders all need to be reminded to safely share the roads, especially steep ones with blind corners. But the key issue, according to ban-friendly supervisors, is to protect public coffers from litigation if a downhiller collides with a car, for example, and sues the county. However, in the last three years, “the county has not faced any skateboardbased litigation involving roadways,” according to County Counsel Michael Ghizzoni. As of Wednesday morning, petitioners had gathered more than 1,000 signa— Keith Hamm tures. The board revisits the issue on July 21.
cIty Unable to keep up with two commercial loan payments in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, Unity Shoppe is selling its 13,000-square-foot building at 1219 State Street, home to the charity nonprofit’s thrift store. The property is listed for $5,450,000. Unity Shoppe is looking for a buyer that will allow the thrift store to operate under a one- to two-year lease agreement as Unity regroups in its headquarters nearby on Sola Street, according to Barbara Tellefson, the organization’s president and operations director. “People think that we’re just giving toys away at Christmas, but it’s so much more,” Tellefson added. “Three thousand seniors and 10,000 families across the county depend on us.” Unity’s financial troubles date to 2009, when its partners of what’s now the New Vic Theatre voted to lease that space to Ensemble Theatre Company. Activists rallied by Environment California gathered at Goleta Beach 7/9 with Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider in support of California’s ban on plastic grocery bags. The groundbreaking law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2014, was scheduled to go into effect this month, but out-of-state industry investors financed a referendum to overturn it that will appear on the November 2016 ballot. “It just makes sense to have one simple and consistent rule throughout the state,” said Schneider, who voted in favor of Santa Barbara’s own bag ban.
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Several dozen Santa Barbarans came together 7/11 near the Amtrak station to speak against the proposed Phillips 66 rail spur that would allow a Nipomo refinery to receive oil by train. The demonstrators, organized by Food & Water Watch, the Sierra Club, and SBCAN, said the project would put 125,000 county residents at risk; they live near train tracks in the “blast zone,” which is the one-mile evacuation zone recommended by safety officials in the case of an oil train derailment and fire. In a prepared statement, Supervisor Salud Carbajal said he has “strong concerns” over the inherent risks of transporting oil. He pointed to the Refugio Oil Spill and the 2013 LacMégantic, Quebec, derailment that killed 42 people and leveled almost half the town.
cOunty The fate of chaparral woodlands will find a voice in larger discussions concerning water, housing, and traffic on July 22 as the Eastern Goleta Valley Community Plan goes before the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission. While chaparral doesn’t occupy the Western psyche with as much majestic weight as a mossy oak grove, it’s an arguably vibrant plant community home to some of Santa Barbara’s coolest critters, including the Santa Ynez walking stick and the elusive ringtail cat. The problem, environmentalists say, is chaparral often falls beneath the blade of fire-season brush eradication, clearing the way for weeds both invasive and more flammable. Such clearance also rids mountainsides of the soil-stabilization network of roots chaparral provides. cont’d page 10
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Business Improvement Districts Duke It Out on Milpas Street
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by N I C k W e L s h here was no cutting the proverbial baby in half by the Santa Barbara City Council this Tuesday; it was more a case of jamming vinegar and baking soda into the same bottle and asking the contents not to explode. At issue were two rival business-improvement-district plans currently being proposed for the betterment of Milpas Street. While stated objectives are the same, the personal and political relationships between the two camps could not be more intensely fraught. On the table Tuesday was a proposal hatched by the recently reborn Greater Eastside Merchants Association to create a business improvement district (BID) encompassing the 109 businesses located on both sides of Milpas Street between Ortega and Yanonali streets. According to Jacqueline Inda, who is midwifing the effort while also running for City Council, the new district would help “brand” that stretch of Milpas as a historically unique area. It would, she explained in an interview before the council meeting, be designed to promote additional foot traffic and shopping while preserving the momand-pop vibe of Latino-owned businesses. Many small-business owners — who reportedly closed their doors to attend — jammed the council pews, standing up in unison to express their support. This proposal emerged in direct reaction against a more sweeping and expansive plan that was first unveiled last November by the Milpas Community Association (MCA). That proposal — dubbed “E-BID” — would run up Milpas Street from the waterfront to the Santa Barbara Bowl and also include much of the industrial yard zone between Milpas and the railroad tracks. The MCA proposal would include roughly 600 businesses and generate $160,000 in annual revenues. By contrast, the proposal before the council Tuesday — dubbed “M-BID” — would independent.com
generate roughly $5,000 a year. Many councilmembers expressed skepticism that anything could be done with so small an amount. MCA executive Sharon Byrne noted that the Christmas-tree lights her group puts up every year cost $10,000. For either of these BIDs ever to see light of day, a majority of the affected business owners must sign on the dotted line. But ultimately, the City Council has the last word. While no action was taken Tuesday, councilmembers made it abundantly clear they didn’t wish to be dragged into the ethnically tinged acrimony and political melodrama that’s marked relations between the rival camps. Nor did they believe Milpas Street was big enough to sustain two separate BIDs. The councilmembers instructed the two sides to go hash out their differences behind closed doors and, if possible, to come up with a unified plan. Mayor Helene Schneider said the competing camps shouldn’t come back before next January, and the rest of the council agreed. The larger MCA proposal has already generated 160 signatures by affected business owners but, seven months into an arduous campaign, still needs about 270 more. Although supporters of the smaller BID have yet to begin collecting signatures of support, they claim they already have 80 in the pocket. Councilmembers also made it clear they didn’t want advocates from the smaller effort rushing their application because they have the votes.“Don’t put us in a position where we have to choose,” cautioned Councilmember Gregg Hart. MCA’s Byrne, also running for City Council this November, stated she’d tried to conduct mediated talks with their critics several times but had been shined on or rebuffed. Byrne also said her group would not be able to make an August 3 BID summit, announced with great fanfare by the other side, because they just heard of it a day ago and many boardmembers would not be in town. n july 16, 2015
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PetroRock Energy submitted an application to the county’s planning department last week to drill 230 cyclic steam injection wells, bringing the total number of pending steam wells in Santa Barbara to about 700. Kevin Drude, the county’s Energy Division deputy director, said more applications might trickle in as the economy improves, but he doesn’t expect any new bids in the immediate future. If granted after roughly a yearlong environmental review process, Bakersfield-based PetroRock would triple its operations in the county. The company received approval early last year to drill 56 new oil and gas wells to augment its 17-oil-well project. Meanwhile, Drude said, the department just received the go-ahead from legal and accounting departments to start processing the environmental impact review for an application for 233 steamed wells from ERG Resources, the company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year after the price of oil tanked. The company plans to sell the business but maintains existing operations, according to court documents. In April, Bakersfield-based Aera Energy submitted an application to drill 144 oil wells — known as steam flooding, slightly different from cyclic steaming — at East Cat Canyon Oil Field. Also, Pacific Coast Energy Company is still in the process of trying to double its 96 cyclic-steaming-well project. Last week, the supervisors okayed a permit for seep cans at the company’s Orcutt facility. The planning department has 30 days to deem an application complete or incomplete based on a list of criteria, Drude said; most fall short of completion on the first — Kelsey Brugger proposal.
news briefs cont’d The Gaviota Rest Stop closed yet again last week because of a waterline leak. The rest area reopened in May after being closed for nearly a year for renovations, including to the plumbing system. Within a few days of reopening in the spring, it briefly closed again after another leak. Caltrans spokesperson Jim Shivers said, “We do our very best with this project to renovate rest areas, but when you are talking about water and plumbing used 24/7 by a million people per year, you will encounter issues.” The rest stop should reopen Friday.
EDucAtIOn Shellphish, a group of UCSB hackers, won $750,000 last week as one of seven teams to qualify for the final round of a national cyber security competition commissioned by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The contest, known as the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, tasks each team with creating an automated security system best able to repair software weaknesses and protect against cyber attacks. The seven teams chosen from 28 semifinalists will go on to compete next summer for almost $4 million.
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The financial woes of La Casa de la Raza (pictured) reached a snapping point Wednesday morning as Superior Court Judge James Herman refused to stop foreclosure proceedings on the lower Eastside community center, a Latino hub since 1971. La Casa asked for court intervention on June 16, alleging that Fidelity Mortgage Lenders “took advantage” of La Casa with “grossly one-sided” default interest rates, late fees, and other charges both “arbitrary and inflated.” Lawyers for Fidelity — headed up by Wayne Grajewski in Los Angeles — countered that “what [La Casa] fails to mention is that [since December it] has failed to make any of its monthly loan payments.” With the injunction request, La Casa was asking to “put [the foreclosure] on ice and allow us to settle our differences with [Fidelity],” attorney Matt Clarke told The Independent. Describing his ruling as “not a happy one,” Judge Herman cited “undisputed evidence that [La Casa] is in significant and continuous default. It’s really unfortunate because my view is that it’s a great resource for the community.” “This is déjà vu, man,” Frank Bañales told The Independent, referring to La Casa’s history of financial precariousness. As the cofounder of the Zona Seca nonprofit organization, Bañales rented space inside La Casa’s building when it was just starting out. “I feel bad for them. La Casa has had a difficult time developing a sustainable revenue source,” even with its rich history of hosting theater groups, Fiesta de la Comunidad, and now-famous bands, such as Los Lobos. After the court hearing, Grajewski said reinstatement of the loan is still on the table, at a cost of more than $50,000, according to court documents. But from La Casa’s perspective, “without all [Fidelity’s] bogus charges,” it’s a lot closer to $30,000, Clarke said. Also, according to county records, as of June 30, La Casa owes $20,456.80 in property taxes. When asked if La Casa has a potential beneficiary ready to step up, Clarke said, “We will see.” Foreclosure is set for July 20. — Keith Hamm
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ave Blunk knows how to make a stink. Early Monday afternoon, Blunk—who runs a motorcycle repair shop on the Eastside — and a crew of about six cohorts walked into the City of Santa Barbara’s zoning and planning building on Garden Street armed with a bucket of dead fish. Four tilapia to be exact. For good measure, Blunk had let the fish fester in the sun for nearly two days. They’d gotten sufficiently ripe, he said — he almost puked on the drive over. Inside the government building, the effect was less dramatic. “It wasn’t real bad, but it could fill up a room eventually,” he said. Blunk is one of the ringleaders for a group of residents complaining about the loud noise and penetrating stench they say emanates from the Santa Barbara Fish Market’s new warehouse and processing plant located at 528 North Quarantina Street. Blunk claimed City Hall had been unresponsive to their repeated complaints, and the dead-fish stunt was his way of repaying the compliment. Unbeknownst to Blunk as he walked into the government office building, he’d already won. Two days prior, Santa Barbara City Attorney Ariel Calonne had notified Fish Market owner Brian Colgate—via a threeparagraph letter—his entire operation was a zoning violation just as Blunk had maintained. “You must cease seafood processing operations at this location,” Calonne stated. But Colgate only got that letter when he showed up at the Garden Street building shortly after Blunk and crew to see what the fuss was. There, city planning czar George Buell took Colgate into a private room and handed him the note. Colgate’s still figuring out how to respond. For the past 15 years, Colgate has run the popular Santa Barbara Fish Market by the city harbor. He specializes in selling what Santa Barbara fishermen catch to area residents and restaurants, serving as a conduit between these separate universes. In November, Colgate opened up the new Quarantina Street warehouse and processing operation, which offloads fish, keeps them refrigerated, and gets them ready for market.
Neighbors on Cota Street — like Blunk —said the loud noise made by the refrigerator motors kept them up at night. Clouds infused with fish-oil vapors rendered nearby backyards uninhabitable —or so it was alleged. Colgate took pains to rectify these problems, according to city planner Danny Kato. But for the neighbors, it wasn’t enough. They hired an attorney who argued that Colgate was engaged in “fish processing and wholesaling,” rather than “food product manufacturing.” This might seem a nitpicky distinction, but not when zoning rules are at issue. The only places where fish processing is allowed are waterfront areas zoned for “oceanfront” uses. And Colgate’s Quarantina Street plant isn’t in one of them. When City Attorney Calonne got around to looking into the matter, he weighed in with the neighbors. The problem isn’t just that Colgate’s 47 employees could be out of jobs and his business no longer sustainable. It’s that Colgate worked hand in glove with City Hall planners and zoning officers every step of the way in securing the permits needed to open his new plant. Never, he insisted, were there any discouraging words. “It was green light, thumbs up, no problems, sounds good,” he recalled. “Throughout the permitting process, we disclosed 100 percent what we’re doing now. Nothing’s changed.” Planner Kato confirms this. “Planning staff’s initial determination was allowed by zoning,” he wrote. “And we were working with the applicant to eliminate the nuisances of noise and odor.” Kato added that Colgate “took steps” to reduce the odor and was in the process of securing the permits to install noise dampeners. When the neighbors insisted Colgate’s plant was a zoning violation, Kato said, “… it took a while to work through the issue.” What happens next is uncertain. Calonne has invited Colgate and his attorney to talk out how to proceed. In the meantime, Kato said, “Unless I receive direction otherwise, we won’t require the operation to shut down until a clear path has been established.” n
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For Santa Barbara Mayor Helene Schneider, the Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee’s endorsement would have appeared a slam dunk in her current campaign to replace Lois Capps as Santa Barbara’s representative in the U.S. Congress. Since announcing her candidacy a few months ago, Schneider has made her feminist credentials the centerpiece of her campaign. More than that, Schneider had served as president of the Women’s Political Committee in years past and had long been a strong and influential figure on its board. Yet Wednesday night, it was only by the skin of her teeth that the committee did not endorse 1st District Supervisor Salud Carbajal — a fellow liberal Democrat — who is running hard against Schneider for Congress. After much debate and discussion, the votes weren’t there for either of the candidates to win the endorsement. In a meeting described by participants as being pin-droppingly suspenseful and breath-suckingly intense, it was Carbajal, not Schneider, who won the recommendation of the group’s five-person candidates’ assessment team. Tipping the balance in Carbajal’s favor with the assessment team were his positions on immigration reform and the gang injunction, which had been unsuccessfully pursued by the City of Santa Barbara under Schneider’s mayoralty. The endorsement was not up to the assessment team, however, but to the board of directors. Neither of the two candidates could muster enough votes from the board to meet the committee’s two-thirds requirement for any endorsement. For Schneider, the results have to be seen as a serious close call. What influence this non-endorsement might have on other key like-minded organizations, like the Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, or — more nationally — EMILY’s List, is a matter of speculation, but Wednesday night’s action strongly suggests that the road ahead for Schneider runs steeply uphill. Earlier this week, Carbajal announced he’s raised $623,000 in his bid for the office; Schneider reported $225,000. And Katcho Achadjian — one of two Republicans running — reported raising $120,000. In response, Schneider’s campaign manager, Dave Jacobson, issued a written response highlighting the numerous endorsements Schneider received from many past presidents of the Women’s Political Committee, not to mention the head of California’s National Organization for — Nick Welsh Women and the director of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
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Responding to hundreds of parent requests, Goleta Unified School District will expand after-school care this fall, with @afterschool pilot programs at Brandon, Ellwood, Hollister, and La Patera elementary schools. The district-funded program joins an existing state-funded program for low-income families and privately run enrichment classes. While the district covers staffing to provide activities and homework help until 5:30 p.m., parents will pay a nominal fee, according to Program Coordinator Pam Rennick. “The goal is to expand @afterschool to all nine of our schools,” she said.
POLItIcS Growing sentiment to dump Donald Trump took another step forward Tuesday as prominent Hispanic Republicans — including Abel Maldonado, whose political ascension spans from Santa Maria City Council to a short stint as California’s lt. governor — published an open letter to the brash businessperson. On June 16, Trump announced his 2016 presidential bid with a divisive speech that characterized Mexican immigrants to the U.S. as drug mules and rapists. “America,” the letter states, “more than ever needs a president who will unite us — with both words and deeds — not further divide us. You fail on all accounts. As such, not only have you lost our respect and our buying power, but you have lost our vote.”
EnVIROnmEnt Community Environmental Council (CEC) CEO Dave Davis will hand over the reins
to Sigrid Wright at the end of the month. Wright — who’s been with the CEC since 1995, coauthored one of the first regional energy plans in the U.S. to move away from fossil fuels, and has overseen the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival — will be the first female CEO of the 45-year-old nonprofit. “It’s an honor to lead the next chapter of CEC and to build on our legacy of finding positive environmental solutions,” said Wright, noting, “our community has some daunting challenges ahead as we look at how to maintain quality of life amidst a changing climate, long-term drought, increasing strains on resources, and other significant challenges.” Davis has been CEO since 2005.
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about as a super hero, it would no doubt be as a retro-fied vestal virgin, selflessly sacrificing herself hither, thither, and yon so others might dwell on a more byoo-tee-full planet. Even by the most fainthearted feminist standards, this posture is humiliatingly retrograde. But in light of congressional reaction to the Refugio pipeline oil spill, the shoe might actually fit. In other words, Santa Barbara’s beaches may not have been sullied in vain by Plains All American Pipeline. Given the confluence of political trajectories, I’d wager your next paycheck that the federal agency most responsible for oil pipeline safety will be forced to take meaningful steps when it comes to imposing toothier pipeline safety requirements. These new standards will not merely apply to the oil and gas pipelines zigzagging through Santa Barbara County. They will apply to all two million miles of pipelines now snaking their way across the country. When that happens, those new regs will bear the stamp “Made in Santa Barbara.” Maybe I’ve been smoking too much tailpipe exhaust. Maybe I’m getting up too early in the morning. But having watched this week’s congressional Energy and Commerce Committee hearings on pipeline safety, I came away convinced that they can’t just do nothing anymore. Nor do they want to. By way of perspective, Energy and Commerce packs serious political wallop. That the
hearing happened at all signifies. That Republicans as well as Democrats were scrambling to out-do one another when it came to grandstanding over our oil spill signifies even more. The designated fall guy was Stacy Cummings, acting interim executive of the Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, (PHMSA), the federal agency whose job
it is to make sure oil and natural-gas pipelines are operated safely and soundly. Back in 2011, when funding for PHMSA was last authorized, Congress required the agency to enact 42 new operational safety “mandates” to address glaring, long-standing deficiencies in oversight. Four years later, 17 of those 42 mandates remain figments of a very frustrated congressional imagination. Among those 17 are new requirements for automaticshutoff systems for new pipelines, minimum standards for leak-detection equipment, and actual deadlines for pipeline operators to report oil spills. As committee chair Fred Upton, a moderate Republican from Michigan repeatedly noted, such safeguards could have made a real—not just hypothetical— difference in terms of damage inflicted by the Refugio spill. Upton, it should be noted, experienced a major pipeline spill in his district several years ago. And Plains—as it was frequently noted — has experienced yet another spill since Santa Barbara’s, a 42,000-gallon gusher outside St. Louis that briefly threatened a local water reservoir. On the witness stand, PHMSA’s Cummings dodged and danced like Fred Astaire
wearing rusty leg irons. With all the pro-
fessionalism of a career bureaucrat with a neon bull’s-eye on her back, she expressed nonstop enthusiasm for PHMSA’s safety mission, endlessly intoning the mantra “Integrity Management,” as if it meant something. But when it came to answering repeated questions about when PHMSA would actually enact the safety mandates Congress demanded five years ago, Cummings was a Mt. Vesuvius of nonanswers so sublimely boring and opaque as to defy recollection. Even Congressmember Lois Capps found her patience strained and complained Cummings’s responses were “so obtuse.” As reported before, the Plains pipeline that ruptured also happens to be the only pipeline in Santa Barbara County without an automatic-shutdown system. As far back as 2010, Congress was demanding PHMSA seriously explore such technology. Paul Tonko, an irascible Democrat from New York, repeatedly demanded to know when that would happen. When Cummings said such information could be found on the PHMSA website—if you want to get lost, try navigating it—Tonko went a little ballistic. “Don’t tell me to go find it myself on a website,” he incredulated. “When will it be finished?” Cummings dispensed more happy talk about stakeholder meetings and the Integrity Management program, prompting a desperate Tonko to wail, “Is your answer go find it myself?” To the extent I was able to discern an actual response, it appears PHMSA submitted some language several years ago that no one in Congress has yet seen to the Office of Manage-
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If ever approved, pipeline companies will be required to ask themselves whether they think automatic-shutoff-system technology—enormously expensive—would be economically feasible. That the meeting happened the way it did had everything to do with the intercessions of Capps, now finishing up her last term. Capps asked about the huge discrepancy between the level of corrosion actually found on the pipe as opposed to the level of corrosion indicated by a smart-pig test — the industry standard — conducted just two weeks before the rupture. Where the smart pig indicated the pipe was 45 percent corroded, the autopsy revealed corrosion levels closer to 82 percent. Capps wanted to know if such discrepancies were common, and if so, how anyone could sleep soundly at night based on positive smartpig results. It was Cummings’s answer— something swirly about data, results, and expectations—that prompted Capps’s “so obtuse” outburst. I don’t know what will come from all this; something will. And that ain’t nothing. The real Saint Barbara —namesake to both city and county —was for eons the divine presence to whom one prayed when confronting imminent doom. Since then, The Church has seen fit to evict Barbara from the pantheon of saints. But given the inevitability of future oil spills — and other catastrophes —it’s high time we brought her back. Only this time, give her a cape, sexy boots, and a utility belt. — Nick Welsh
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Patricia E. McNamara 12/10/26 - 06/23/15
Patricia E. McNamara passed away on June 23, 2015, at her home in Santa Barbara. Pat was born in Beemer, Nebraska on December 10, 1926. She was a much loved business teacher at Santa Barbara High School for 21 years. After retirement she decided to take an Adult Ed class in watercolor painting and discovered her passion. Currently she has a showing of three of her paintings at the Santa Barbara Public Library. Pat is survived by her sister, Mrs. Kathryn Von Seggern, and three nephews, David, Patrick and Jim. Services will be held at Our Lady of Sorrows with the Rosary at 9:45 am right before 10:00 am Mass on Thursday, July 16th. There will be a gathering in the church hall right after services. Family and friends are encouraged to attend and share their memories and photos. In lieu of flowers, send donations to the charity of your choice.
Elaine Urton 05/01/1914 – 06/16/2015
While Kenneth was pursuing his very successful career as a builder, Elaine was actively involved in community affairs, mainly in promoting the arts. She was a volunteer with the Santa Barbara Art Museum since its inception in 1941 and chaired the Building and Grounds Committee for many years, as well as the membership committee. Later, she chaired the Women’s Board and became an Honorary Sustaining Trustee of the Museum. She also chaired the Women’s Board of the Music Academy of the West and was a volunteer with the Assistance League. She was indeed a lifelong patron of the arts and was also a very accomplished artist in her own right. Her oil paintings and watercolors exhibit a prodigious talent. In addition, she was a fine pianist who performed duets with other players. Elaine’s many activities did not interfere with the loving relationship she enjoyed with her husband. Devoted to each other, they experienced much together, including travel to exotic places: the Silk Road, the Galapagos Islands, Korea, Russia, Sweden, Ecuador, Kenya, and Morocco, among many others. Antarctica was the only continent they didn’t visit. She shared her husband’s passion for sailing and crewed for him when he competed in races in flatties and Geary sailboats. Then they acquired the 46-foot Selene, which they sailed frequently to the Channel Islands. In 1957 Kenneth became Commodore of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. Elaine became a widow in 2003 and is survived by her two daughters, six grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and five great-great-grandchildren. She will be remembered as a remarkable person, lovely and spirited, witty and interested in everything from politics to Nietzschean philosophy. Her memory will be treasured by those of us who knew her.
her husband, Margie completed a degree in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She continued her involvement with community organizations, including the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, The Catholic Education Foundation, the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Music Academy of the West, Lotusland, and the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, among others. Margie loved traveling, gardening, playing bridge, and listening to Mozart. She shared an irreverent sense of humor with friends and family and did not suffer fools. She loved to sing, joining the choir at the Santa Barbara Mission and then later at the San Roque Church. Margie’s interest in genealogy drew her to research and write the histories of her ancestors, as well as her husband’s. In 2013 she published Seeing the Elephant Elephant, a story of her great-grandfather James Stringer Fleming’s journey across America during the California Gold Rush. Margie is survived by her six children — Cecily, Baird, Tom, Amanda, Margaret, and John — their spouses, 10 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, as well as several cousins, nieces, nephews, and two sisters-in-law. A memorial service for Margie will be held at 10:30 am on July 25, 2015, at the San Roque Church, 3200 Calle Cedro, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.
Adrienne Patricia Basil 11/11/49 – 07/02/15
Margaret Duque Marble 11/25/33 – 07/05/15
Artist, Musician, Patron of the Arts Elaine Urton died on June 16, 2015, after a brief illness. She was the beloved wife of Kenneth Urton, a prominent builder, whose projects included the Earl Warren Showgrounds, the Santa Barbara Airport, Television Station KEYT, and many others. Kenneth was the partner of his father, Charles Urton, who had built the Granada Theatre, the News-Press building and other major structures. Elaine was born May 1, 1914, in San Francisco, the elder daughter of Whitford Kelly and Edna Stone. She attended the California College of the Arts in Oakland and then worked as a window designer for Gatner and Mattern. In March 1934, she met Kenneth. They were married on June 30, 1935. While they were expecting their first child, Sherrill, they moved to Santa Barbara, where Charles Urton made Kenneth his partner in Urton Builders. Sherrill arrived in 1936, and two years later her sister, Marcia, was born. 16
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Margaret Duque Marble died on July 5, 2015, due to acute kidney failure. Born in Los Angeles in 1933, Margaret Mary Duque attended Marymount and Marlborough schools before going to Georgetown Visitation in Washington D.C. In 1955, Margie married William Baird Marble, Jr., moved to Pasadena, and raised six children. A born leader, Margie led a variety of organizations there: president of the Junior League of Pasadena, president of the Town Club, and was a Dame of the Royal Institute. Margie always had a place in her heart for Santa Barbara and cherished her childhood memories of summers spent at Reina de Paz with her beloved horse, Louie. In 1977, the Marble family moved to Montecito. After the death of
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Adrienne Basil, also known as Anne, and affectionally as Ms. B, passed away peacefully Sunday morning after a brief and relatively painless struggle with cancer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Edith Maffie Basile and Monty P. Basile. They owned a sucessful Italian restaurant there. Her mom also sang at the restaurant but passed away while Adrienne was still young. Later as a young adult, Anne moved to Southern California where she became a hairstylist in Brentwood. She eventually moved to Santa Barbara where she co-owned her own salon. After a period of time, she branched out and started a coffee shop where she hosted poetry readings and enjoyed reaching out to customers. For the past 14 or so years, though, Ms. B has worked in the Carpinteria school district. She loved interacting with the kids and was known for her outgoing care and concern for them and her quirky sense of humor. The latest stage of her life was as a student at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she studied on weekends and in her free time to complete her Master’s degree in psychology. She also worked as an intern at the Salvation army, where, again, she always enjoyed helping and
interacting with her clients. In her last days she had hoped to be healed so she could help heal and encourage others. That was not to be ... so we hope you find encouragement and healing in your memories of her. She is survived by her three brothers, Monte E. Basile, Mark G. Basile, and Michael W. Basile; numerous friends who will miss her immensely; her dog, Smootchy; her kitty, Kita; and a front porch stray that continues to be fed ... An informal celebration of her life will be at Hendry’s Beach, Santa Barbara, CA on Thursday, July 16 at 5 pm. A memorial website has been set up at adrienne-basil.forevermissed.com
Paul Douglas “Pete” Gillespie, Jr. 06/24/34 – 06/19/15
Pete led an active and diverse life and enjoyed sailing, diving, and time on the water. He was an avid lifelong fisherman, a builder who loved to work with his hands, and a gentle soul who gave a loving home to many cats and had a special connection with each of them, especially the shy ones. Pete’s fight with cancer was only two months long, but he confronted it in the sprit of his beloved USC Trojans’ motto: Fight on! To help him fight on for his favorite causes, in lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah (www. bestfriends.org), or the Wounded Warrior Project (www.woundedwarrior project.org). Pete is survived by his wife and two children and many good friends. A memorial service will be held on August 15, 2015, at his home in Placerville.
Dylan Corselius Willson 05/27/86 – 07/14/08
Paul Douglas “Pete” Gillespie, Jr., a longtime Santa Barbara-area resident, died on June 19 at his home in Placerville, CA. Pete was born on June 24, 1934, in Troy, NY, and grew up in the boarding house his parents ran. During the war, he and his elementary-school buddies protected the homefront as best they could by dutifully watching for German U-boats in neighboring Long Island Sound. After the war, the family moved to Santa Barbara, where Pete played center for the Santa Barbara High School basketball team. He graduated from MIT in 1960. After college, Pete joined the navy where he flew A-4 fighter jets and later served as executive officer of the USS Tawasa. He returned to California to get his PhD in chemistry from the University of Southern California in 1971 and then moved to Europe to work as a chemist, living in Paris and Munich. While in Germany, he met and married his wife, Agi, and adopted her two young children, Anke and Dirk. The family moved to Solvang in 1982, and Pete spent 18 years as a chemistry teacher at San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara, where “Dr. G” was a devoted mentor and educator. In his spare time, he rebuilt a Triumph TR3, a British roadster he had when he was young, from the ground up. After his retirement, Pete and Agi moved to southern Utah to enjoy the beauty of its red rock desert. In classic Pete style, he built their house with his own hands and, for good measure, a pottery studio for Agi. When not taking hours-long hikes in the canyonlands, Pete worked as a consulting chemist. But, eventually, they missed California and moved to Placerville, where Pete continued to take hiking and fishing forays to the Yosemite area by himself, even at age 80. He also gardened and worked to train graders for California’s teacher qualifying exams until three months before his death five days short of his 81st birthday.
It is time once again to light a candle with Dylan. In these long seven years he has never failed to stay close, to share in our laughter and joy and take our hands in difficult times. Though the tears have been many, the bond remains strong. His open heart continues to embrace us all and help us to see what is really important. May this day glow with flames of love and peace.
Memory Faith McAdams 03/13/69 – 06/29/15
Memory Faith McAdams, a remarkable, inspiring person beloved by so many, passed away in her sleep June 29 in her home in Ventura. She was the daughter of Yonica McLaren and Brian McAdams. Memory was born March 13, 1969, in Laguna Beach but grew up in Santa Barbara. She was a bright, extremely popular student, graduating from Roosevelt Elementary, La Cumbre Junior High and San Marcos High School. Her athletic prowess included swimming, surfing, skiing, track and field and especially volleyball, where she was a star of the powerful San Marcos team.
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involved with many other organizations, including the Dream Foundation. In her spare time, she was a keen athlete, lights on Tuesday night, July 7, when and she began competing in triathlons at the Debby Davison lost her long, valiant age of 50. Debby placed first in her age group battle with cancer. Davison was the three years in a row. Her breast cancer diagface of Santa Barbara’s television station nosis didn’t slow her down, either. Despite KEYT for nearly two decades, and she will the side effects from chemotherapy, which long be remembered for her professionalism, forced her to have both hips replaced, she elegance, and grace under pressure. continued to compete. Sunday mornings you Debby was born in Lawrence, Massachu- would find Debby riding her bicycle with setts, in 1950. She got her start in the news longtime friend Anne Towbes. Other days, business in Florida, eventually heading west she’d be swimming laps at the Coral Casino. to become the first co-anchor for the leg- And she was often spotted walking her dog, endary Hal Fishman in Darby, with friends Los Angeles at KTLA. at the beach. She was She then worked in Tucalways on the go. son but was recruited The public Debby by KEYT station owner was precocious, witty, Bob Smith to come to beautiful, and talSanta Barbara. Here she ented. The private worked as a main anchor Debby was all that for 16 years, retiring in and more. She was a 2006. fantastic friend (even Her first big news when she disagreed story broke about two with you), adventurweeks after she arrived ous, fun-focused, and in Santa Barbara, the loving. 1990 Paint Fire. Her Debby was a gourmet cook, tireless calm on-air presence hostess, and a talented during those tragic seamstress. She had an hours reassured Santa eye for interior decoBarbarans and estabrating. She and her lished an immediate husband, Dennis, built confidence in KEYT’s broadcast. She mentored or remodeled several many of the people she FAMILIAR FACE: Debby Davison homes both in Santa worked with over the anchored newscasts for KEYT for Barbara and Utah. When they were done, years, making them almost two decades and was a they were Architectural better newspeople and frequent host for charitable events. often sending them on Digest worthy. to bigger markets. And, most of all, viewers Debby loved puzzles and games, often trusted and respected her. spending afternoons playing bridge or During her tenure at KEYT, Debby was a mahjong with her friends. She loved having faithful annual cohost for the station’s Unity conversations of substance, often following Telethon, which raised millions of dollars for one of the famously delicious dinners she’d families struggling financially in our com- cooked for friends. munity. Her commitment also extended to Debby is survived by her loving and supthe annual Children’s Miracle Network Tele- portive family: her husband, Dr. Dennis B. thon, and she was the popular host of the Phelps; her sisters, Linda Goodwin and Mary long-running Cottage Hospital HealthLife Matas; and her sons, Eric and Scott Davison, television series, which provided education and their wives, Stacy Davison and Denise and practical information about health and Britton. We are all richer having had her in our wellness to the community. She was long involved with the Council on lives, whether seeing her on television or Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (CADA). She enjoying her company in person. She was not only was a member of its board but also one of a kind. Perhaps her greatest impact went on several climbs for the Summit for was the selfless support of the community Danny fundraiser. She hiked and climbed in she loved. She gave back continuously, never the Arctic and Ecuador. Last year, in between expecting anything in return, just hoping to chemotherapy sessions, she traveled to New help make Santa Barbara a better place. Zealand for a 50-mile trek. She even found The family invites the public to a special time to upload pictures during that trip so tribute to Debby Davison at the kickoff of that folks back home could live the journey Carpinteria’s Relay For Life, which benefits vicariously. The money raised was used to the American Cancer Society. The rememfund programs for troubled teens. brance begins 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 18, at Debby was an avid supporter of CALM Aliso Elementary School, 4545 Carpinteria (Child Abuse Listening Mediation) and Avenue. For any questions regarding the cohosted its annual celebrity author’s lun- event, please contact Alexandra Heath at cheon. Her community spirit kept her the American Cancer Society: 364-3232. n
obituaries cont’d Memory’s natural beauty enabled her to serve as a model for several beach and lifestyle companies in Santa Barbara. At age 19, Memory enrolled at San Diego State University, majoring in sports medicine with a goal of becoming a physical therapist and athletic trainer. She was invited to contend for a spot on the Aztecs, women’s varsity volleyball team, but declined, preferring to devote her attention to her studies and assorted activities she engaged in. On June 26, 1989, just 20 years old, Memory’s life changed forever. She was traveling home on the Pacific Coast Highway to visit when she was struck head-on by a driver who had veered across the center line. A desperate battle ensued to save her life. She was extracted via the Jaws of Life and helicoptered to the trauma center at St. John’s Hospital in Oxnard. Doctors warned her parents that she would have to be extremely fortunate to survive — but Memory refused to give up and clung to her life in a deep coma for two and a half months before miraculously showing signs of awakening. This was the beginning of her new life. Memory survived, but her body was broken and she had suffered a major brain injury. She had to relearn how to walk and talk — her brain did not remember how to do these most basic things. Eventually Memory was transferred to the Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara, where, with their incredible care, she continued to make slow but steady progress. After that she moved on to Solutions, a transitional living center, to continue her therapies. She became active with Jodi House, an organization created to help brain injury survivors and their families adapt to their new lives, and found her 10-year interaction there most enriching. The following years were extremely tough as Memory’s old life receded beyond reach and she could not find a path to a fulfilling new one. This changed in 2005 when she moved to Ventura into the home and care of her uncle and aunt, David and
Terryle Wilk. Memory enrolled at Ventura College and took classes through its Educational Assistance Center. This special attention allowed her to thrive and gain a new sense of self-esteem. When she had completed all the classes offered by EAC, she signed on as a volunteer student assistant to help others who needed it. Most importantly, Memory discovered the Brain Injury Center of Ventura County, where she met many other survivors and forged deep friendships that would last the rest of her life. Memory became known for her friendly spirit and consideration for others. She made every new survivor feel they had a home in the group and a friend in need. Memory became a leader of the Brain Injury Center, participating in all of its educational, social and community service activities. She spent hours on the phone every night talking with other survivors, making sure they were doing okay and reminding them about weekly BIC activities. Her own ability to remember was almost completely destroyed by the brain injury. Memory used to tell people “My name is Memory, but that doesn’t mean I have one.” She will be remembered for her robust sense of humor and a gigantic heart brimming with love for her family, friends and anyone else who needed some. She is survived by her mother, Yonica; father and stepmother, Brian and Jonni; her grandmother, Elaine McAdams; sisters, Julia Hope McAdams and Lindsay Johnson; her uncle Dave and aunt Terryle; her aunt Barbara Menne; her cousins Travis Hutchison, Fiona Clark and Tory Menne; and her boyfriend, Jonathan Davies…as well as many more in her extended family who loved her dearly. A Celebration of Memory’s life will be held July 26 at noon at Lion’s Club Park in Carpinteria. In lieu of flowers, the family encourages donations to the Brain Injury Center of Ventura or Jody House of Santa Barbara.
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He Was Too Clever by Half
ON A SHOESTRING: Edward J. Leven arrived
in town in 1960 with a handful of rubber checks and proceeded to buy a couple of multimillionaire Avery Brundage’s properties on a shoestring. Brundage, onetime virtual czar of the Olympics, would soon regret the deal and that he hadn’t looked closely into Leven’s dubious real estate dealings. Leven also bought the family-owned Santa Barbara bus company, perhaps for the nickels in the fare boxes. Using wife Joyce Stone Leven’s alimony, he planned to live in a grand manner and parlay his new holdings into a multimilliondollar estate. “It is our hope that in 10 years Mrs. Leven will have $2 million free and clear in local real estate,” Leven predicted. (That’s when $2 million would buy a gorgeous Montecito mansion.) Nothing could be in Leven’s name because of his two-and-a-half-year prison jolt for forging someone else’s name in a San Francisco apartment house deal. The Santa Barbara Transit Company, owned by Gaylord Spreitz and other family members, was soon plunged into chaos. Drivers went on strike because Leven’s checks bounced, service was interrupted, the insurance was canceled because of nonpayment of premiums, and the feds threatened to sue for unpaid taxes.
Meanwhile, the Levens were living high on the hog in the former Walker mansion, a 15-bedroom spread on Sycamore Canyon Road, and spending time at a rented beach cottage, complete with servants. But in less than two years, Leven, his wife, three children, 11 cats, a dog, and rabbits were stealing out of town in the dead of night with four vanloads of furniture, leaving behind a bankrupt bus company, thousands of unpaid bills, liens, and lawsuits. The small bus company, which people joked ran a “Toonerville Trolley” operation, had been looted. With a net worth of $148,000 when Leven took over, it was worthless when he left town and owed $185,000. The little buses reminded me of the one in The Graduate. After Leven left town, a receiver was appointed to manage what was left of the company. After the mess was explored, the public Metropolitan Transit District was formed, with new buses and vastly improved service, from Carpinteria to Goleta. Leven’s problem may have involved his admiration for New York swindler/ blackmailer/draft dodger Serge Rubinstein. “Serge was one of the fastest men with a balance sheet I had ever seen,” an admiring Leven once said. Too fast, it seems. In 1955, Rubinstein was found strangled to death on the floor of his Manhattan mansion. One woman had left the womanizing Rubinstein’s place earlier in the evening, and
he was soon on the phone trying without success to convince another to visit. At some point that night, he was murdered. As for Leven, he reportedly had a blonde alibi. The crime remains unsolved to this day. After Leven split town, Brundage’s people repossessed the El Presidio property in downtown Santa Barbara and the Montecito Inn. Before he took off, leaving a financial shambles behind, Leven told people he planned to head south and subdivide the Beverly Hills Golf Course. To my knowledge, that never happened. THE MUSIC MAN: For two hours, I was
back in the innocent Iowa of 1912, watching a small-town piano teacher falling in love with a rascally traveling salesman, and vice versa. The magical time traveling took place at Santa Barbara City College, where the Theatre Group is staging Meredith Willson’s The Music Man (through July 25). Director R. Michael Gros has put together a delightful musical harking back to Willson’s own Iowa childhood, featuring girls in pinafores, gossiping mothers in flowing frocks, and barbershop quartets singing sweet songs of yearning love. TY WARNER: As expected, the Beanie Babies
billionaire has won a sentencing appeal and won’t have to serve prison time for tax eva-
OLYMPICS CZAR: Avery Brundage was no match for Edward Leven, who swindled El Presidio and the Montecito Inn from him.
sion. Federal prosecutors had appealed the judge’s sentence allowing probation for the owner of the Biltmore Santa Barbara and San Ysidro Ranch. Ty still has to serve two years’ probation and pay a fine of over $53 million — and he owes taxes on the $25 million he was caught hiding in a Swiss bank account. REESE READS HARPER LEE: Ojai resident
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r. Joseph Blum has retired after 32 years serving local veterans, and I would like to express gratitude to an unsung hero: Here’s an example: Dr. Blum gave me a referral to a non-VA clinic, and when I had trouble scheduling the appointment, he went out of his way to make multiple phone calls, send emails, and have his staff continue to follow up. He kept me in the loop about their obstacles and progress. Dr. Blum served veterans and thanked us for our service while keeping his humanity in the face of mountainous bureaucratic red tape, working in an understaffed clinic with a staggering caseload, and receiving what I assume was a modest salary. Some VA Clinics in this country have come under fire for long waits and impersonal treatment, but I cannot speak highly enough about the way our veterans are treated in Santa Barbara. The whole staff is courteous, efficient, and genuinely caring. I see homeless veterans come in wearing filthy clothes and receive the same respect as everyone else. Thank you, Dr. Blum, for your service to our country and our community. I hope you enjoy a well— Mark Collier, S.B. deserved retirement.
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inflicted unspeakable cruelty on a young puppy, but he also tried to strangle his girlfriend and later to intimidate her as a witness. Any one of these actions calls for the maximum sentence, not a paltry 365 days in jail and five years’ probation. There is a documented relationship between animal abuse and violence toward human beings. Judge Hill’s failure to impose a stiffer sentence puts all of us at risk. Please join the March of Mourning for Puppy Davey on Sunday, July 19, 1 p.m., at the Courthouse Sunken — Lee Heller, Summerland Gardens.
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Santa Barbara’s Plants and Animals Struggle to Survive Extreme Drought
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FULLY BAKED: Dead trees blanket the north side of Figueroa Mountain.
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You don’t have to go far to acquaint yourself with the evidence. Along Loma Alta Drive, look across the city, and you’ll notice dozens of dead pine trees poking through the green like fire torches. Keep heading uphill to La Mesa Park, and you can meet its new resident: a young coyote. It arrived in
CASUALTIES: The Animal Rescue Team cares for orphaned coyote pups.
town skinny and edgy. It’s now plump and surprisingly bold, trotting along playground paths in the middle of the day. One Mesa resident admits she feeds the outsider raw chicken. “He loves it,” she said. Less than a mile away, a whole family of coyotes wanders between Elings Park and Honda Valley Park next to Miramonte Drive. Their yips and yowls bounce along the corridor every few nights, startling neighbors — including this reporter — who’ve lived in the area for years and never heard such sounds.“Carnivores are learning there’s good stuff to be had, like cats, dogs, and pet food,” —Paul Collins, said Collins. “Once you get a group moving Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History to a semi-urban area and they mate and have young, they become urban coyotes.” Collins, always measured and hardly an alarmist, has been logging the calls he
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receives about wildlife encounters. The list keeps growing. “People are seeing things they’ve never seen before,” he said, like bobcats in their backyards. He also has records of mountain lions on the Mesa and in Hope Ranch. Farther outside the city, key wetlands that normally support an abundance of life are dry as a bone, and that loss of habitat is contributing to the invasion. paul wellman
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eath in Santa Barbara’s natural world is typically swift and violent—mountain lions pounce on deer, hawks snatch up snakes, frogs gulp down dragonflies. Even plants have their dramas. That’s changing— changing slowly and sometimes imperceptibly, but it is. After more than four years of record-breaking drought — intensified by rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns — the living things along our coast and in our mountains are gradually fading quietly away: through starvation, abandonment, and deadly thirst. The bodies of emaciated foxes are turning up on San Miguel Island, malnourished crows are falling all over the county, and the forests are littered with millions of dead trees. Once we look past our water bills, a muddy Lake Cachuma, and bureaucratic wrangling over desalination plants, we see evidence of ecological impact all around. Most of the effects aren’t instant or catastrophic. Instead, they’re cumulative and evolving, hitting critters as ordinary as squirrels and as rare as tiger salamanders. Evidence, both anecdotal and scientific, reveals a system out of whack. Santa Barbara hikers tell of empty creeks and fields of wilting wildflowers, while area scientists use words like “severe,” “alarming,” and “unprecedented.” City managers are watching urban forests bend under the heat; county officials fear the next wildfire. Paul Collins has worked at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History for 42 years. As its curator of vertebrate zoology, he’s seen droughts come and go. “This one is drier,” he said with conviction. “Grasslands are really burned. Animal populations are getting hammered. This is certainly an extreme event.”
Perhaps less visibly, the drought is taking a toll on the building blocks of the food chain. Without rain, plants are producing fewer seeds and roots for little herbivores such as mice, moles, and rabbits to nibble on. Insect populations have thinned out, and many pollinators such as bees and beetles are now in a sort of hibernation until the rains return. Some animals will stop breeding because they don’t have the necessary energy. When that happens, whole populations of unique subspecies can disappear. That’s a real possibility for a colony of chipmunks that lives atop Mount Pinos and is in danger of “blinking out,” forever altering that ecosystem. The same goes for the giant kangaroo rat in the Carrizo Plain, where thousands of acres of grassland have turned to desert. White-tailed kites, with fewer voles and other rodents to hunt, are starting to reproduce less often. And egg clutches of other birds are shrinking, as well. A chick will be pushed out of its nest if there’s not enough food to go around.
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White-tailed kites, with fewer voles and other
rodents to hunt, are starting to reproduce less often. The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network — which, in an average year, takes in a little more than 3,000 sick and injured animals, mostly birds, reptiles, and small mammals — has already rescued 300 more than usual. “We’re seeing an increase in songbirds and a huge numbers of crows,” said Julia Parker, the organization’s director of animal affairs. “We call them ‘teacup crows’ because they’re so tiny and underfed.” Insectivores, like scrub jays and woodpeckers, are now common patients at their facility, as well as a number of cormorants that recently came in “emaciated.” The Animal Rescue Team in Solvang has also broken its record, said executive director Julia Di Sieno last week, for taking in bobcats, foxes, badgers, squirrels, deer, mice, bats, skunks, buzzards, and more. “Right now, I have 12 orphan coyote puppies. I’ve never had that many,” she said. “In my heart of hearts, I know it’s connected to the drought. These animals coming into neighborhoods are desperate.” She reminded anyone with pets, especially chickens or rabbits, to keep them safe at night. The California Roadkill Observation System says more deer were hit in 2014 than last year, and the California Department of Transportation says it’s seeing an extremely high number of collisions between cars and wildlife as animals are forced to cross into traffic, searching for green grass. But the fauna that can’t just get up and move — such as federally endangered steelhead trout, tidewater gobies, and three-spined sticklebacks — along with similarly threatened species of amphibians dependent on constant water — such as the arroyo toad, red-legged frog, and tiger salamander — are in especially dire straits. Many of the tributaries along the Gaviota Coast have dried up, forcing remaining populations to either cannibalize themselves or cram into smaller and smaller areas. That makes them easy pickings for predators, said U.S. Fish & Wildlife biologist Chris Dellith.“It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.”
Sea Change on Land
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To see what’s happening in the wilds, head to Paradise Road. There, you’ll be greeted by line after line of desiccated oaks. On the north side of Figueroa Mountain, you’ll see entire stands of dead fir and pine glow orange like New England foliage in the fall. Last month, the California State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection announced approxiFigueroa Campground mately 12.5 million dead trees now blanket Southern California. In 2014 alone, an estimated 3.3 million trees died, nearly double 2013 mortality rates. As a result, the board announced it’s adopting emergency regulations so landowners can cut down dead
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NO FEAR: The coyote in La Mesa Park has grown accustomed to its human neighbors.
and dying trees without having to go through the time- was 61 percent and dropping. Out in the field, Himconsuming process of applying for removal permits. melrich said the difference is obvious. More of the “The drought is having compounding effects on the brush is dying sooner, especially the shallow-rooted landscape,” said board director George Gentry. These manzanita bushes. UCSB ecology professor Carla D’Antonio has been emergency regulations are aimed to allow people to protect their homes and land this summer from cata- studying chaparral for three years near Painted Cave. While the plants are well adapted to such extreme strophic wildfires and hazardous falling trees.” According to CalFire, 2,313 wildfires burned conditions and can bounce back with just a little rain through the state between January 1 and July 4 last or fog, she explained, they’ve lost a lot of leaves, which year. During the same time interval this year, there bakes the ground under them even more. “Some of were 3,129. Andrew Madsen, a spokesperson for the our readings show the plants are more stressed than U.S. Forest Service, said he’s surprised how many visi- anything we’ve seen in the literature,” she said. “It’s tors to Los Padres National Forest were unaware prior remarkable that they’re still alive.” to their trip how dry and dangerous the conditions are: “We get a lot of questions from folks who’ve been hiking and camping about all the dead trees.” Madsen said Forest Service crews have had to work harder and longer to clear fallen trees from fuel breaks, but with moisture levels so low, “even a green tree can still easily burn.” Every two weeks, Tom Himmelrich, a vegetation management captain with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, takes fuel moisture samples from Tepesquet, Harris Grade, Cachuma, Refugio, and West Gaviota. He tests chamise, an evergreen chapar- SILENTLY SUFFERING: Many badgers and bobcats are desperate ral shrub that’s a good indicator of overall for food and water.
dryness. Anything at 60 percent or more means it’s dry and ready to burn, especially with low humidity or wind. The average fuel moisture at the end of June
Other vegetation, less perfectly resilient to such atypical weather, is losing its battles against the sun. The conifers and oaks that have died and turned to kindling likely suffered one of two fates. One possibility is that the arid soil shut down their plumbing, so they stopped photosynthesizing and starved to death; embolisms formed in the trees’ long siphons that run from their roots to their branches, and the whole system lost pressure. That’s why plants wilt. The other is that the trees — parched, weakened, and unable to muster defenses against ever-present pests — succumbed to bark beetles. Normally physically pushed back by oozing sap created by a tree when it’s healthy, the swarming destroyers burrow in and lay larvae that continued>
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feed on living wood. Bark beetles prolif proliferate in warm weather and send signals to others of their kind when the getting’s good. Other types of insects, including spruce budworms, and a whole range of different fungi similarly attack a tree when it’s vulnerable. UCSB Bren School professors Naomi Tague and Frank Davis study large tree die-offs and find exactly what did the killing. There’s been a 10 percent mortality rate — as opposed to the normal 1-2 percent — in some areas of the western U.S.“Every year, a few trees will die,” said Tague.“That’s okay. That’s natural selection. But when it’s been a few years of massive die-offs, you really start to see it.” Davis said what’s happening now is “unprecedented in terms of modern records.” He pointed to aerial survey photos that show “hot spots” of dieback in the region and explained that the phenomenon is so unusual he hopes the results of such studies will help resource managers come up with better ways to predict the impacts of climate change on forests. As bigger areas of longstanding trees disappear, it becomes harder for seedlings to replant themselves. “Along Rattlesnake Trail, there are ponderosa pines that are looking really sad,” said Tague. “If they died, I don’t know if they would come back.” Forests are an iconic part of America’s heritage and aesthetic value. They support huge parts of the country’s economy, from logging to recreation. And they need proper management to survive. There’s been a lot of fuel suppression in some landscapes, but controlled burns should be allowed to happen, Tague argued. “When they’re doing a controlled burn in Sequoia National Park and it’s smoky, they’re not doing that to annoy you,” she said. In terms of Los Padres recreation, hunter Anthony Prieto said pigs, deer, and other thirsty game have concentrated on private land where there are wells and troughs, which is off-limits to most hunting. Without ground moisture, animal prints don’t stick, and tracking becomes near impossible. Fire threats turn even target practice into risky business. And the whole hunting experience becomes miserable with the sun beating on your neck and the dust swirling down your throat. “That’s why I go to Montana,” said Prieto. Seasoned hiker and backpacker Bryan Conant of the Los Padres Forest Association said he discourages visitors from exploring the southern areas of the forest. It’s just too hot and dry. “Springs that I thought would never dry up are now dried out,” he said. “When it’s 95 degrees and there’s not a lot of water, it’s not a lot of fun.” Hurricane Deck is especially unforgiving right now. As the mountains and their users weather these new realities, plants and animals on the Channel Islands are also trying to cope. Denise Knapp, an ecologist at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, talked about dead stands of bishop pines on Santa Cruz Island that normally support endemic scrub jays. “It’s frightening,” she said. Alligator lizards have also started to decline on San Miguel and Anacapa islands. 24
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LoSt INveStmeNtS For many Santa Barbara city residents, the death last fall of four historic stone pines along Anapamu Street was the wake-up call that the drought wasn’t just a worry for water district managers. The remaining pines are now being kept alive with a slow-release irricade watering system originally developed in Australia. Parks and Rec’s Jill Zachary said Santa Barbara, with its extremely tight water budget, has been forced to decide which vegetation to save and what areas to let die. Patches of grass that see “active adult recreation,” such as Dwight Murphy Field and the Cabrillo Ballfield, still get watered, though with non-potable water, which causes salt buildup. Other spaces, like Shoreline Park, are completely left alone. The city has altogether stopped making landscape improvements. When ornamental plantings, such as the floral gateway from Calle César Chávez to Chase Palm Park, die off, they’re replaced with mulch. “Parks are looking much more basic these days,” said Zachary. Santa Barbara has an inventory of approximately 50,000 trees. Many of them in Alameda, Orpet, and Plaza de Vera Cruz parks were planted in the 1920s to diversify our urban forest. In a recent survey of California cities, Santa Barbara ranked number one in diversity with more than 450 different species. On average, it loses around 100-150 a year with an express goal of planting a new tree every time one dies. Now, the city is losing around 250-300 trees a year, and it has suspended its replanting program.“We’re in decline mode,” explained city arborist Tim Downey. He said his staff is constantly toiling to diagnose, observe, and save stressed trees, and
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they’re training other department employees to be on the lookout for signs of danger. That includes wilting, leaves not appearing in the spring, and increased fruit production. When a tree thinks it’s on its way out, it’ll produce copious amounts of especially tasty fruit to ensure its genetic survival. Downey cautioned residents against hasty action when a tree looks troubled. “Once the chainsaw starts, there’s no going back,” he said. One way to be sure a tree is dead is to wait and see what it does. A lot of deciduous trees won’t produce leaves during a drought. And some trees that are evergreen here because of our temperate climate are deciduous in other parts of the world, so losing their leaves is okay. They’ll grow back.“We live in a desert,” Downey said,“but people don’t believe it.” The redwood grove in Goleta’s Stow Grove Park is in poor shape. More than a dozen of the giants have already been chopped down. Rosemarie Gaglione, Goleta’s public works director, said the city is doing all it can to save the historic redwoods — planted around the time the Stow House was built in 1872 — but it’s difficult because they’re not native to the area and are meant to live in cool, foggy climates. Water may be trucked in to keep some of the trees alive. Gaglione’s biggest concern is Lake Los Carneros. Without rain to fill it from above or a high enough water table to recharge it from below, the lake is in danger of becoming too shallow to support migratory birds. “If it gets stagnant, they might not come back,” she said. Goleta can’t simply refill the lake with recycled water because it’s unlined and sits atop an aquifer. And aerating won’t work if levels fall too low, Gaglione said. “That just churns things up.”
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AXING HISTORY: Starved of water, a century-old Italian stone pine was chainsawed after dying last fall.
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As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. And if you have an event coming up, submit it at independent.com/eventsubmit. Caylee’s First Big Show!!!
16-18 7/16-7/18: On the Verge: Caylee’s First Big Show!!!/Sweet Child This double-feature performance by playwright Roxie Perkins will explore the thresholds of womanhood. First, an amateur singer/ songwriter will question her identity in the form of a pop concert in Caylee’s First Big Show!!! Following that is Sweet Child, the story of an impoverished teen wanting to enlist in the armed forces to find her missing brother only to be waylaid by her drug-addicted mother. 7pm. The Narrative Loft, 1 N. Calle César Chávez, #240. Donations are suggested. Call 455-5598 or visit onthevergefest.org.
thurSday 7/16 7/16: Concerts in the Park: Captain Cardiac and the Coronaries Take a trip to ’50s and ’60s rock with a band that has been featured at world-class venues and has made appearances at three Super Bowls. Come to the party in the park for a rockin’ good time. 6-8:30pm. Chase Palm Park, 236 E. Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call 897-1946 or visit santabarbaraCA.gov/concerts. 7/16: Learning from Ray Strong After traveling around San Francisco, Larry Iwerks, painter and student of American landscape artist Ray Strong, will share his experiences of Strong and the natural world. Membersonly reception: 6:15pm; lecture: 7pm. S.B. Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Wy. Free-$10. Call 962-8404 or visit sbmm.org. 7/16: Proposition 47: The Civil and Criminal Law Implications Distinguished speakers including Sheriff Bill Brown, Public Defender Rai Montes de Oca, Deputy Chief Probation Officer
Tanja Heitman, and others will lead this panel discussion on the Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative. One hour of MCLE (Minimum Continuing Legal Education) credit will be available for California attorneys for $10 admission. 6-7:30pm. Louise Lowry Davis Ctr., 1232 De La Vina St. Free. Call 897-2568 or visit sbplibrary.org. 7/16: Sunset Sips at the Zoo This happy hour with a twist will offer you the choice of sipping area wines and eating hors d’oeuvres on a scenic hilltop, strolling among your favorite animals, or riding on the train. 5:30-7:30pm. S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. $30. Ages 21+. Call 962-5339 or visit sbzoo.org. 7/16-7/18: On the Verge: Lady-oke! An Interactive Karaoke Performance Event This interactive theatrical event incorporates karaoke, live music, song, and dance as performers create an homage to historically prominent female sirens and songstresses. 9pm. The Narrative Loft, 1 N. Calle César Chávez, #240. Donations are suggested.
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Friday 7/17 7/17-7/19: Over the River and Through the Woods In this play you will follow Nick, a single Italian-American guy from New Jersey who has been offered his dream job in Seattle. His two sets of grandparents, who he sees every Sunday, don’t want him to move, so they arrange a series of schemes to keep him around. The show runs through July 26. Fri.-Sat.: 8pm; Sun.: 3pm. Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. $12-$15. Call 684-6380 or visit plaza theatercarpinteria.com. Read more on p. 44. 7/17: Don’t Go Breaking My Heart S.B. Matchmaking and self-defense Master Teri CoffieMcDuffie will host this interactive self-defense party, which supports the nonprofit organization Coastal Self-Defense Academy. Support other community members with a night of wine and smiles, and learn basic and
potentially life-saving moves. This is a first-come, first-served event, limited up to 100 people. 5:30-7:30pm. S.B. Self-Defense, 517 De la Vina St. Free; suggested donation: $10. Email tami@ sbmatchmaking.com or visit tinyurl.com/dontbreakmyheart2.
7/17-7/19, 7/21-7/22: Man of La Mancha PCPA presents this award-winning musical of the errant poet, playwright, and parttime actor who defends himself against the Spanish Inquisition. Don Quixote dares us all to dream the impossible dream in this still relevant depiction of the human spirit. The show runs through August 16. 8pm. Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. $21.25-$49.50. Recommended for ages 12+. Call 922-8313 or visit pcpa.org. Read more on p. 43. 7/17: “What Is ‘Clean Eating’?” Clinical Dietitian Stacey Bailey will lead this information-filled class that encourages healthy eating habits and helps manage the diagnosis of diabetes. The next class, with topic “Understanding Diabetes Complications,” will take place Monday, July 20. Noon-1pm. Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital, 2050 Viborg Rd., Solvang. Free. Call 694-2351 or visit tinyurl.com/nutritionclasses for a full schedule.
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7/18: Beachside Food & Wine Fest Enjoy food, beer from regional microbreweries, music, and premium California wines with an ocean view at this event, part of the 12th Annual California Wine Festival. This annual festival also includes exclusive tastings for the committed winos on Thursday and Friday. VIP: noon4pm; general: 1-4pm. Chase Palm Park, 236 E. Cabrillo Blvd. $69$119. Old Spanish Nights Tasting: Thu.; 6:30-9pm; Casa de la Guerra, 15 E. De la Guerra St.; $49. Sunset Reserve & Rare Wine Tasting: Fri.; 6:30-9pm; Chase Palm Park, 223 E. Cabrillo Blvd.; $110. Ages 21+. Call (800) 936-3126 or visit californiawinefestival.com. 7/18: K-9 PALS Art & Craft Sale Decorate your home or give a gift of art, jewelry, or something ceramic, all made by S.B. artists. Nestled in a garden cottage by the ocean, this shopping experience will be abundant with creative goods. Proceeds will benefit K-9 PALS, which provides resources for and rescues homeless dogs in the county shelter. 11am-3pm. 519-A Walnut Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call 570-0415.
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7/18: Foreverland: The 14-Piece Tribute to Michael Jackson With four vocalists and a powerhouse rhythm and horn section, Foreverland will re-create hits from the Jackson 5 era through the end of Michael Jackson’s career. This tribute band is sure to be a thriller. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $15. Ages 21+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.
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7/18: Piedra Blanca Nature Hike This super scenic trail heads north out of the Sespe riverbed and to an Ojai landmark, the “white rocks” formation. Hikers will climb over the rocks, up the Piedra Blanca Creek with herbalist-naturalist Lanny Kaufer, identifying edible and medicinal trees, shrubs, and plants along the way. Meet at Maricopa Plaza to carpool. 8:30am-3:30pm. Piedra Blanca, Rose Valley Rd., Ojai. Free-$25. Hikers ages 17 and under must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian. Call 646-6281 or visit herbwalks.com. 7/18: 2015 Blondes vs. Brunettes Game Day The Alzheimer’s Association’s flag football game will have teams play flag football to increase awareness of Alzheimer’s disease among a new generation. Spectators can join the tailgate party for a chance to win raffle prizes, enjoy foods and drinks,
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and participate in fun activities. Funds raised will benefit the care, support, and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association. Tailgate party: 11am; game: 12:30pm. S.B. Polo and Racquet Club, 3300 Via Real, Carpinteria. $20. Call 892-4259 or visit act.alz. org/BvBSB. Read more on p. 33. 7/18: On the Verge: Monsters of Paris This staged reading is based on the true story of Joseph and Henriette Martel months before WWI. Follow Henriette’s story of choice, circumstance, and desire after Joseph refuses to defend his wife’s honor. 4pm. The Narrative Loft, 1 N. Calle César Chávez, #240. Donations are suggested. Call 455-5598 or visit ontheverge fest.org. 7/18: CALICO the Band + Patrolled By Radar CALICO is a trio of dedicated musicians that stand for California country, and they will share timeless roots music through their voices and harmony. Also taking the stage will be Patrolled By Radar, self-described as a “consummate bar band in the ’70s pub rock tradition.” 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $34. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com.
This Japanese Buddhist cultural celebration will feature flowerarranging demonstrations, karate, art, children’s games, bonsai exhibits, and a taiko drum group. Pre-order your bento box meal online. 12:30-5pm. Buddhist Church of S.B., 1015 E. Montecito St. Free. Call 962-3633 or visit buddhistchurchofsantabarbara .org. 7/18: Garden Explorations: Awesome Owls Do you have a fascination with owls and want to see one up close? This guided exploration will include time with microscopes and other fun tools. Parents, you must remain at the garden while the kids learn all things owl by registering for the tour, or you can enjoy breakfast on the cottage deck. 10am-noon. S.B. Botanic Gardens, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. $10-$15. Ages 6+. Call 682-4726 or visit sbbg.org.
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7/18: Beach Flow: West African Dance Dance in the sky and under the sun to live drumming. All levels are welcome, and all you need is a hat, sunscreen, energy, and a friend or two. 11am-noon. East Beach, E. Cabrillo Blvd. $15. Visit tinyurl .com/beachflow2. 7/18: Concerto Celebration Courtney Lewis, New York Philharmonic assistant conductor, will direct the orchestra and winners of Music Academy of the West’s highly competitive Concerto Competition. These musicians will perform as soloists while each section of the orchestra will shine in Bartók’s symphonic masterpiece, the Concerto for Orchestra. 8pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$50. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. 7/18: Obon Festival The origin of Obon tells the story of Mahamaudgalyayana and how Buddha helped him find enlightenment after his mother’s death.
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7/18-7/19: S.B. French Festival Celebrate Bastille Day and all that is French at this S.B. tradition with delicious wine and crêpes, mimosas, and more. There will be music, dance, can-can, African belly dancing, crafts, and the Poodles & Pals Parade. On se voit là-bas! 11am7pm. Oak Park, 300 W. Alamar St. Free. Call 963-8198 or visit frenchfestival.com for a full schedule. Read more on p. 39.
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Sey 7/18: Ojai Film Society Summer Saturday Series: Seymour: An Introduction Writer and director Ethan Hawke met Seymour Bernstein at a party and fell under his spell of music. Seymour had a long and illustrious career as a piano performer until he devoted himself to teaching. This documentary shows a warm portrait of this exceptional man. 4:30pm. Matilija Auditorium, 703 El Paseo, Ojai. $7-$10. Call 646-8946 or visit ojaifilmsociety.org. 7/20: Summer Classic Film Series: Lawrence of Arabia Thomas Edward Lawrence has been labeled everything from hero to charlatan to sadist. Journey with him as he investigates the progress of the Arab revolt in WWI, organizes a guerrilla army, leads the Arabs in desert raids and attacks, and destroys the power of the Ottoman Empire. This film must be watched on the big screen. 7pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. 7/21: Crime Fiction in the Movies: The Lady from Shanghai This whodunit thriller tells the story of Irish seaman Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles), who falls in love with a married woman (Rita Hayworth). When her husband turns up murdered, Michael gets blamed. Who set him up? Oh, these film noir plots! 2 and 7pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. 7/21-7/22: Summer Movie Fun House Series: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 Flint Lockwood now works for his idol Chester V., but he is forced to leave when they learn that his machine is churning out menacing food-animal hybrids. Be dazzled and entertained by the hungry taco- cont’d on p. 31
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Over the River and Through the Woods A Play by Joe DiPietro Directed by Jordana Lawrence
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7/19: Count Basie Orchestra In the history of jazz music, there is only one leader that has won 18 Grammy Awards and whose band still sells out concerts even though he is no longer with us, and that is pianist and bandleader William James “Count” Basie. Come stomp your feet to songs such as “One O’Clock Jump” or “Bill’s Mill,” and sway to “April in Paris.” 4pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $28-$70. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org.
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7/21: Kids Learn Birds Learn the basics of birding like how to identify them, where to find them, why they are important, and how to use binoculars. There will be time spent in the park, on a pontoon boat, and in a classroom. The second session is on July 23. Registration is required. 9am-12:30pm. Neal Taylor Nature Ctr., 2265 Hwy. 154. $15. Ages 8-12. Call 688-4515 or visit clnaturecenter.org.
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7/21: Songwriters at Play Presents: Tribute to Woody Guthrie Many musicians including Peter Feldmann, Alan Thornhill, Bruce Goldish, and others will participate in this tribute to folk musician Woody Guthrie, who wrote more than 3,000 traditional, children’s, and political songs, many dealing with migrant workers, coal miners, and the dust bowl. 7:30pm. SOhO Restaurant, 1221 State St. $12. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb .com. 7/21: Swazzle Puppets This puppet company is dedicated to the art of live puppetry as they take young readers on different adventures. “Superconductor: An Adventure Through Music” tells the story of a daring hero who goes on a quest to rescue Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm from the villainous Decomposer. Tue.: 10:3011:25am; Solvang Library, 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang; 688-4214. 3:30-4:15pm; S.B. Central Library,
WedneSday 7/22 7/22: On the Verge: Footprints at Laetoli This is a story of fragile, feminine, and potent journey of evolution. Mary Leakey will lead the audience into a world of fact, fantasy, and fear. The show runs through July 24. 8pm. The S.B. Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra St. Donations are suggested. Call 455-5598 or visit onthevergefest .org. 7/22: Wye Oak This Baltimore duo has now toured two years for its album Civilian, released its fourth full-length album Shriek, and now is in S.B. to share folk-infused indie rock. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $15. Ages 21+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb .com. 7/22: The Dark Side of the Ocean The vast “vertical migration” is when billions of animals rise from the depths to the ocean’s surface, and it happens every night, in every ocean of the world. For the first time, marine biologist and videographer Rick Rosenthal has captured it on camera. There will be a Q&A and reception to follow the screening. Reservations are recommended. 7-10pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free. Call 893-4637 or visit carseywolf .ucsb.edu.
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diles, shrimpanzees, double bacon cheespiders, and other food creatures. 10am. Paseo Nuevo Cinemas, 8 W. De la Guerra Pl. $2. Call (877) 789-6684 or visit metrotheatres.com.
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Nar7/22: Reel Cool Summer Series: The Chronicles of Nar nia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Follow Lucy, Edmund, Peter, and Susan into a magic wardrobe that leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. 6pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $10-$20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org. 7/22: Over the West Side Story Rainbow: West Side Story This film, based on Romeo and Juliet Juliet, is noted as one of the most iconic Shakespeare adaptations to visit the big screen. Become part of the rival teenage gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, and the two lovers who have crossed battle lines. Sing along to “America,”“Tonight,”“I Feel Pretty,” and more. 7:30pm. Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte. Free. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.
7/22: Willie Nelson & Family, Alison Krauss & Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas Come see outlaw country icon Willie Nelson, who has won countless awards and written some of the most memorable songs in country music, including “Good Hearted Woman” and “On the Road Again.” Also taking the stage will be bluegrass/ country/folk artist Alison Krauss with her band Union Station, featuring the world-renowned Jerry Douglas, described by James Taylor as “the Muhammad Ali of the Dobro.” 7pm. S.B. Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas St. $54.50-$114.50. Call 962-7411 or visit sbbowl.com. 7/22: Free Seniors’ Day All those ages 60 and up are admitted free to enjoy the native plants and wildflowers or maybe create a sketch or painting. Wear sturdy walking shoes if you plan on hiking. Stop by the gift shop for your free historic postcard. 9am-6pm. S.B. Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Rd. Free. Ages 60+. Call 682-4726 or visit sbbg.org/classes-events.
Farmers market scheDule Thursday Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 3-6:30pm
Friday Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am
NOW OPEN AT THE MUSEUM Enter the jaws of the legendary giant shark Megalodon and be consumed by its fascinating story and science lessons. Learn about when it lived, why it vanished, how it evolved, and what you can do to help shark conservation. Museum Members enjoy free admission.
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Text by Caitlin Fitch photos by Emilia Neudorff “I love that we do something different every day with this job — I’m trained in everything from wine tours to kayaking to rock climbing,” said Ricardo “Caco” Filipouski, who has worked for Santa Barbara Adventure Company for three summers and can been seen here leading a tour off of El Capitan State Beach earlier this month. “My friends see all the pictures of kayaking, and they say I have the best job in the world, but a lot of work goes into these preparations.” The company had to cease its popular Gaviota Coast tours in the wake of May’s oil spill near Refugio State Beach but recently was able to start offering the paddle again, so folks can get back out on the Pacific, see the kelp forests, learn about marine wildlife, and have a great day in the sun, provided the waves and wind cooperate.
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Personal Perfume At the Grapeseed Company (21 W. Ortega St.; thegrape seedcompany.com; 456-3655), playing doctor and pharmacist while exploring aromatherapy is addictive fun. Customers can self-diagnose and then browse through an encyclopedia of aromatic therapies to pinpoint the associated healing scents. They then mix and match from a selection of more than 100 steamdistilled essential oils and phthalate-free fragrance oils to customize their personalized sniffing cure. “We often have people come in and say they need help relaxing at night,” said Kristin Fraser, Grapeseed’s CEO and founder. “They can make a calming bath potion or a mist for their linens so they can apply it before bed for the aromatherapy benefits.” Whether customers seek to escape stress with the tranquilizing or bewitch a lover with the tantalizing, Grapeseed’s Scent Bar allows them to experiment with making an original perfume as well as organic, locally sourced soaps, creams, and other home scents. “Scent is something that is so individual,” said Fraser, who makes a full menu of innovative products for more than 150 retailers nationwide. “It’s my favorite part of the whole process.” — Carolina Starin
Enjoy lunch, wine, and the stunning views of the Central Coast from the refurbished seats of vintage rail cars on a round-trip train ride from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo on Saturday, July 25. The excursion, which departs from the downtown train station at 10:22 a.m. sharp, will benefit the Gaviota Coast Conservancy’s ongoing mission to protect that pristine stretch of coastline. The route includes views of the Gaviota Coast and Santa Barbara Channel Islands as well as offers rare glimpses of Hollister Ranch and Point Conception before entering the Edna Valley wine country. The mid-century train cars, which were both built by the Pullman Company shortly after World War II, include the 39-seat Overland Trail, which features a barbershop and large murals, and the 44-seat, longdistance Pacific Trail, with reclining seats and large picture windows. Tickets are $110 and must be purchased by Tuesday, July 21, by calling 683-6631. —Molly Forster
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he powder puff may be best known as a go-to staple in any woman’s makeup bag, but it’s taken on a significantly new meaning to me: FOOTBALL. I realize some think that our brand of flag football lacks the intensity of the tackle version, but when I take the field this weekend in front of more than 500 fans to keep the timeless rivalry of Blondes vs. Brunettes alive, there’s no difference to me. I’m a proud member of Team Blonde, and we’ll be stepping onto the well-groomed fields of the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club on Saturday, July 18, to defend our title in the Second Annual Blondes vs. Brunettes flag football game, hosted by the California Central Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Team Blonde’s brutal battle to victory in last year’s inaugural game was unlike anything I had ever experienced in my 20-plus years of competitive sports: As a running back, the first play of the game sent me face-first into the grass after I dodged a steady stream of brunettes, and that adrenaline rush never stopped as I endured elbows, scratches, and tackles all the way to the end zone. But expect even more flags to fly this year, for both teams have been fine-tuning their game plans over the past few months while adding new players, coaches, and strategies. More important than the win is the why: The Blondes vs. Brunettes clash was created nationally by the Alzheimer’s Association in 2005 to increase awareness for a new generation around the disease, which affects twice as many women as breast cancer. Games are held year-round in more than 35 cities, so far raising more than $5 million dollars. We’re now selling tickets with hopes to raise $65,000 for this match, all to benefit care, support, advocacy, and research efforts. So come watch our athleticism speak for itself. I’m confident you’ll see that blondes do have more fun, but this isn’t about who’s smarter or more exciting: It’s about who can score the most touchdowns and win! Then when the 2015 champion is crowned, we can slap each other’s backs for coming together to support a great cause. — Ashleigh Davis
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he old saying “The pen is mightier than the sword” is an adage to which Aija Mayrock, the 19-year-old author of The Survival Guide to Bullying (published digitally on June 30 and also available in hard copy), can certainly attest. The young author moved to Santa Barbara from New York when she was 14 and experienced bullying in both places during her middle and high school years. “I was bullied verbally as well as cyber bullied,” said Mayrock. “I would sit at the table and write stories, and I was different from everyone else, and I think that people are afraid of what they don’t understand.” In 2011, Mayrock entered the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s 10-10-10 youth filmmaking contest by writing her first screenplay, which highlighted the effects of bullying. After winning first place, Mayrock was inspired to “give a voice to the voiceless” through her creativity. “I realized I could tell stories and help people with those stories,” she said. “When I decided to write the screenplay, I wanted to find a way to help kids.” At age 16, Mayrock began writing the The Survival Guide to Bullying Bullying, initially selfpublishing as a $5 e-book so virtually any kid could afford it. But a Publishers Weekly story about Mayrock’s accomplishment caught the eye of Scholastic book publishers, and they wanted to publish the book, as well. “I’d grown up reading their books,” said Mayrock. “I knew it was the perfect home for my book.” According to Mayrock, approximately 13 million kids in the United States are bullied each day. It is her goal not to ever be a bystander, nor let other young people become bystanders, either. “The most incredible thing that has come from this book is that I’ve been getting messages from kids all over the world saying, ‘Thank you for writing this book; it’s showing me that I can be strong and that I can survive,’” said Mayrock, whose nine-chapter book features short quizzes, survival tips, reflection questions, and “rap poems,” which helped her cope with bullying. Now a freshman at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Mayrock is studying film and television production and hopes to continue writing and eventually become an actress and possibly a filmmaker after college. As someone who has found her purpose so early in her life, Mayrock gave the following advice to other young people hoping to make a difference: “One thing I would say is don’t be afraid to create your own path. I went the self-publishing route, which is really, really rare. I would say don’t be afraid to take chances and create your own path to get where you really want to go.”See aijamayrock.com. —Caitlin Trude
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bolt … That’s where I am right now as a parent. My oldest is driving, earning paychecks from two jobs, and getting ready to apply to colleges. As he heads toward the front door for the trip of his life, that list keeps ticking through my head. Have I taught him everything he needs to know? Walking, talking, using the potty. Check. We hit the concrete survival skills early, and we hit ’em hard. Swimming, reading, using crosswalks. Check. Next came the social arts: Sharing, patience, bathing. Nailed it. Kindness, honesty, courage. I’d say 90 percent. Eight-five, ninety. After that, things get fuzzier. Nursing a cold, ironing a shirt, changing a tire … Mmmaybe. In a life-or-death situation. A life-or-death runny-nose, wrinkled-shirt, flat-tire situation. But filing a tax return? Getting mildew off a shower curtain? Shipping internationally? I mean, I can’t even do those things. I work myself into a panic about what I may have forgotten, or merely been ill-equipped, to teach him. Time is running out. Last week I made him return something to a retail store for a refund and schedule a dental appointment. Tonight I showed him how to fashion a double boiler and separate egg yolks from whites because … well, heaven forbid he needs to make tiramisu and has no Internet. Then came the news last week by Starshine that helicopter parenting is leading to depression among college-age kids. Dear god, had I imparted the wisdom necessary for my child to overcome email: starshine@roshell.com his impending sadness wrought by my manic, decades-long wisdom-imparting?! And this week I had another scare. My son came home from the first day at his new barista job and confessed that he had made his manager shriek in horror—and with considerable volume—when he shoved his bare hand into a burning-hot oven. He had been trying to retrieve a warm muffin and “couldn’t quite get the hang of the tongs.” The sight of a new employee thrusting his naked paw into the oven against regulation and all good sense spurred the manager’s damning yelp. And with it, my utter undoing. Tongs. (Tongs?) TONGS. I knew I’d forgotten something. I had shown my son how to do laundry and to laugh at himself. How to drive a stick shift on the 405 and to look people in the eye. How to apologize and stick up for himself and wrap a fancy present with curly ribbon. But I had neglected to show him how to operate a rudimentary serving utensil. Naturally, I began cataloguing the other utensils sure to stump him in life. The confounding corkscrew. The labyrinthine garlic press. The abstruse turkey baster, for all its physics magic! That’s when it occurred to me that I was maybe just the tiniest bit completely insane. There’s no way, right? No way to school a single human in the ways of every kitchen gadget or otherwise steep him in every ounce of essential adult know-how. Not no how. They’ve got to learn some of it on the (tongs-required) job. By the seat of their (never-been-ironed) pants. In the line of (shoot, does he even know how to put out a) fire. Sure enough, it only took another shift before my boy came home and announced that independence was, well, within reach. “Oh, guess what? I got the hang of those tongs.” In fact, now he holds the tongs in one hand to grasp customers’ bagels while slicing said bagels in half with the knife in his other hand. It’s advanced tonging, and he’s very proud of it. “Customers actually come up to the counter and watch me,” he bragged. “I say, ‘Pretty awesome, right?’ And they say, ‘Can I get the key code for the bathroom, please? Look, seriously. I really have to go.’” Yeah. Kid’s gonna do all right.
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Former Wimbledon Quarterfinalist Excels at Santa Barbara Tennis Club Tourney
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Wimbledon men’s singles quarterfinals, you would have been out of luck at the All-England Club this year. But at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club (SBTC), the appearance of Dan Goldie was a throwback to the days U.S. men populated the late rounds. Goldie, a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon in 1989, limped away from the pro tour 25 years ago with stress-fractured shins. He did not pick up a racket again until last fall to play in a charity event at Stanford, his alma mater. He began practicing against college players, and last week he returned to competitive tennis at the Ted Smyth USTA National Men’s 50 Hard Court Championships, the SBTC’s premier event for 15 years. Fit and energized at 51, Goldie was a boy among men. He claimed titles in both singles and doubles, playing nine matches without losing a set. The singles final was a 6-1, 6-2 rout of Ventura’s Thomas Kong. Goldie and Mark Wooldridge, a Santa Barbara native, prevailed over Jeffrey Burnett of North Palm Beach (FL) and Mitchell Perkins of Seattle in the doubles final, 6-3, 6-2. Goldie, a Palo Alto financial advisor, called the reception of Santa Barbara fans “a warm welcome back to tennis for me.” He recalled his days as a pro, when the competition at home and abroad was hot. He upset Jimmy Connors in the second round at Wimbledon in 1989 and was one of four U.S. men to reach the quarterfinals, where he lost to Ivan Lendl. John McEnroe was the highest-seeded American at the time. Goldie would play rising stars Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi before he was through. Goldie came into tennis as a natural athlete who also played basketball, football, and soccer. “Every sport develops different parts of the body and the brain,” he said. “I met a coach who thought I could be good at tennis. I was almost 13 when I started playing in tournaments. I had to catch up.” Blessed with a strong 6´2˝ body, he became good enough to earn a scholarship to Stanford. During his long absence from tennis, Goldie remained physically active. “I played 15 years of recreational soccer,” he said. “The grass didn’t hurt my shins.” Now that he has made a healthy return to the courts, he is ready to see if tennis can be his lifetime sport. Wooldridge, who went from a championship team at Santa Barbara High to play No. 2 singles at Cal and spend four years on the pro tour, has made a nice transition to over-50 tennis. A Manhattan Beach resident, he sticks to doubles and has won the last three championships at the Ted Smyth tournament with three different partners. Larry Mousouris, the tournament director and a fixture at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club for 42 years, was gratified
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by John Zant to see Wooldridge and other players that he once coached still enjoying the game. But he is concerned about the spotty showings of U.S. men in primetime tennis. In a culture where “everybody gets a ribbon,” Mousouris observed, the incentive to become the best appears to have waned. He noted the demise of a regional points system that used to stir up competition. “Now you have to have the money to fly around to build a national ranking,” he said. Prestigious tennis academies also suck up the dollars. In a system where everybody tends to take the same approach, Mousouris sees an overabundance of “cookie-cutter players.” Goldie was impressed by the speed and power of the college players he’s gone up against. “They hit balls so much harder,” he said. But few of them make an impact in the international game. Wooldridge theorized that “there are so many athletes in the U.S. … nobody learns what it takes to be a champion. They beat each other up and don’t get to really believe in themselves.” U.S. women’s tennis does not suffer in a similar fashion, not with Serena Williams slamming away and such players as Madison Keys on their way up. “A woman in tennis — you’re a rock star,” Mousouris said. “Men have football, basketball, and baseball.” But if you’re over 50 and still have the legs to run and the arm to swing, tennis is a sport that abides. NOT SUCH A LONG WAY: The new rock stars of sports
are the U.S.A. women’s soccer team. Since winning the Women’s World Cup in Canada, they have been fêted in celebrations and parades on both coasts. It would be easy to remark how far the team and the sport have come since the first women’s world soccer championship was won by the Americans in 1991, but the only real difference is in the attention they’ve received. “We are linked,” said Carin Gabarra (formerly Jennings), the MVP of the 1991 tournament in China. “The game has changed, but mentally, we could compete today. We were tough. We have this fighting American mentality. It’s been that way since the ’80s.” Gabarra graduated from UCSB in 1987 after scoring an NCAA-record 102 goals for the Gauchos. She returned in October of 1991 as a starter on the national team that defeated the UCSB women 10-0 in an exhibition match before departing to China. In a semifinal match against favored Germany, Gabarra had a performance that foreshadowed Carli Lloyd’s sensational first half against Japan in this year’s final. The former Gaucho scored goals in the 10th, 22nd, and 33rd minutes, staking America to a 3-0 lead. She didn’t strike
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7/17-7/19: Baseball: Menlo Park Legends at Santa Barbara Foresters There are only five games left on the Foresters’ 2015 home schedule: this series against the Legends and a July 25-26 pairing against the San Luis Obispo Blues. Nine players who have helped the Foresters compile a 27-6 record were named to the South roster at Wednesday’s California Collegiate League All-Star Game in Compton. They include Arizona State third baseman David Greer (.449 batting average) and Tulane catcher Jeremy Montalbano (six home runs and 28 RBIs). Fri.-Sat.: 5:05pm. Sun.: 1pm. Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, UCSB. $1-$6 (parking fees apply). Visit sbforesters.org.
NET WORK STARS: Dan Goldie (top) made it to the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 1989 before shin splints sent him out of the sport. He’s returned to form, as seen this past weekend at the National Men’s 50 Hard Court Championships at the S.B. Tennis Club, where Larry Mousouris (below) has been a fixture for decades.
any goals from midfield, but she did hit a 25-yarder that would have made any highlight film. The final score was 5-2. Sound familiar? After defeating Norway 2-1 in the final, the U.S. players returned to their hometowns with hardly any hoopla. Gabarra has been coach of the women’s soccer team at the U.S. Naval Academy since 1993. Her husband, Jim Gabarra, is coach of Sky Blue FC, a women’s professional team. Their three children have godmothers from the U.S. teams: Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, and Abby Wambach. Carin voiced no complaints about the disparities in pay between women’s and men’s soccer. The U.S.A. women in 1991 received no compensation beyond travel expenses, which included flying coach and staying in budget lodgings. “I’d rather have less pay,” Gabarra said, “and be a world n champion.”
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van Morin is more surprised than any- business seven days a week all summer long. He usually one that his nearly 20-year-old idea to sell cooks in the mornings and then works the room the crêpes in downtown Santa Barbara contin- rest of the day, saying hi to regulars, like Mayor Helene ues to thrive today. The bespectacled, ball- Schneider, as well as college kids (who had a taste of cap-wearing Frenchman, who was born in Brittany crêpe life on European tours) and foreign students —just like those thin pancake-like familiar with the cuisine. vehicles for sweet and savory ingre“In Santa Barbara, it’s nice to go dients—opened Pacific Crêpes in to a place and have people recogOwner 1997, a year after moving to Santa nize you,” said Morin, who caters Barbara for, among other reasons, to quite a few French tourists often the surf. “I looked for French restauwinding up in Santa Barbara after explains HOw tHe rants, and there was Mousse Odile, stopping in Las Vegas, the Grand but that was about it,” said Morin Canyon, and other Southwest tourrecently, sitting on a stool at his bar, ist spots. “Usually by the end of their endureS and evolveS surrounded by French maps, simple trip,” he said, “they’re tired of eating furniture, and a laid-back brasserie burgers.” Morin recently stopped servvibe. by Matt kettMann In 1998, he started serving at ing dinner because he felt his small the Santa Barbara French Festival kitchen couldn’t keep up with the in Oak Park, where he returns this steadily rising quality of newly weekend to serve up crêpes as well as Le Hot Dog, a beef opened restaurants. More importantly, he wanted to frank stuffed into a baguette. “It’s great to be somewhere hang out with his 3½-year-old son at night. Spendoutside instead of inside the restaurant, to see all the ing time with his wife, Yamilcen Morin, whom he met people,” said Morin. “And it’s great business for us.” in Bogota, Colombia, in 2009, is easier: She works in Much remains the same as when the Anacapa Street the restaurant, too, and was eating a croquet-monsieur restaurant first opened, including most of the menu while we chatted. That’s just one of the menu items Yvan — one of few in town with escargot and traditional Morin is tweaking with in this new no-dinner world, French onion soup. His father and occasionally gruff and he’s also exploring evening ideas that involve wine. mother (“Everyone remembers her,” he said), who But even if he just stays the course, Morin seems arrived stateside when Morin moved to the Bay Area quite pleased with his crêpe creation. “It’s been great,” for a couple of years, no longer help run the place, hav- he said. ing returned to France four years ago. But seats are still Pacific Crêpes (705 Anacapa St.; 882-1123; pacificcrepe.com) reliably packed for weekend will serve crêpes and Le Hot Dog at the Santa Barbara French brunch, and Morin does Festival this weekend, July 18-19, at Oak Park. See frenchfestival.com. brisk breakfast and lunch
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NEW KIDS ON VINE: Jason and Holly Djang will pour their Brave & Maiden wines this weekend to accompany a talk on native plants by landscape designer Susan Van Atta.
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BIG ADVENTURE: Man of La Mancha has been a popular musical since its premiere 50 years ago, when it won five Tony awards during its original run on Broadway. In PCPA’s production, David Studwell stars as Don Quixote.
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Broadway. As the title suggests, the man of La Mancha is indeed the aging, mentally infirm knight Don Quixote de La Mancha, who takes to horse with his servant, Sancho, to travel the countryside in search of chivalrous adventure.Yet Wasserman’s script focuses instead on the story of Quixote’s author. Miguel de Cervantes, a tax collector charged with foreclosing on a monastery, awaits trial during the Spanish Inquisition. While he waits, the other inmates decide to take up his case in an impromptu prison hearing, with the stipulation that when Cervantes is found guilty, his possessions will be forfeit and divided among the other prisoners. He agrees, but in an attempt to save his only possession of value, a manuscript (the unfinished Don Quixote), Cervantes asks to present his defense in the form of a play. So begins the play within the play, in which Cervantes becomes Quixote and re-creates his story for the “court.” Quixote travels the countryside, besting enemies that only exist in his befuddled
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Victoria Christina Hesketh’s (a k a Little Boots) boots were made for … working? Or at least that’s what the title of her third studio album, Working Girl, would imply. The English songstress may have taken a couple of cues from the Mother Monster, Lady Gaga, in her latest release, based on her similar synthetic, dance-pop-infused sound. Before Working Girl’s July release, Little Boots gave listeners a taste of her new electro-pop tunes in her 2014 four-track EP, Business Pleasure, all of which appear on the new full-length album. “Taste It” channels the singer’s tweener-pop
mind. While these visions may be specters of madness, Quixote’s experiences with them are real. By seeing the world as he does, said director and PCPA alumnus Mark Herrier, the audience can appreciate the significance of “finding hope amid cynicism, finding courage against overwhelming odds, and being able to see the real beauty within, rather than the façade.” Man of La Mancha is a play that presents magnificent transformation: a prisoner with little hope for exoneration becomes a crazy, splendid knight of his own invention and seeks adventure beyond the dungeons. Man of La Mancha is a layered production in which Quixote, Cervantes, and Wasserman all aspire to show audiences the importance of seeing life as it should be, rather than accepting it for what it is. In this production, Herrier strives for an enjoyable balance of humor and drama— drama a range that matches the assortment of musical styles in the show, from ballads of love to anthems of triumph. — Maggie Yates
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side when it comes to lyrics, as she compares her influence over a man to the effects of licorice, beckoning him to “Wake up and smell the saccharin.” Unfortu Unfortunately for listeners, “Taste It” is more sing-song-y than seductive. On the positive side, Little Boots proves she knows how to “Get Things Done,” one of the more upbeat tracks along with “Business Pleasure,” which both have solid bass lines. “Heroine” is another more hopeful track that shows off her soprano range and her ethereal, breathy vocals.
If Little Boots’ goal was to create an album with tracks that transition seamlessly into one another, she succeeded. Tunes like “No Pressure,” “The Game,” and “Better in the Morning” sound so similar that one might be less prone to restart any of the songs or look up lyrics to sing along with to Working Girl. Working Girl doesn’t stray too far from a 1980sish dance-pop Madonna influence — that’s a plus. However, the hypnotic yet repetitive nature of the album’s tracks may be better suited for a Forever 21 shopping trip than a motivational workday playlist. —Caitlin Trude
GIRL POWER: Singer/guitarist Sofia Guerra wows with a big voice and a bright spirit.
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There aren’t many 9-year-olds like Sofia Guerra. Though at first she may seem shy, put the humble Guerra on a stage, and the young singer/guitarist bursts to life with the confidence and fearlessness of a true rock star. Granddaughter to musician — and Chicago cofounder — Danny Seraphine and niece to Brooklyn jazz musician Gillian Harwin, Guerra was born with musical blood. She sang as soon as she could talk. “Her car seat was always an extra speaker,” said dad Orlando Guerra, owner and operator of Santa Barbara Baseball Instruction/Young Balance. At 3 years old, Sofia Guerra took the stage with Harwin and her Gotham Groovers band to provide backing vocals. Guerra really found her voice when she enlisted in Girls Rock S.B. as a 3rd grader and became singer/ guitarist of the three-piece band The Stripes. “It’s her outlet, and we encourage that,” said mom Danielle Seraphine, who, along with Orlando Guerra, prefers to use positive support instead of parental pressure. At Girls Rock, Sofia Guerra has been such a hit that she was chosen to perform solo at the No Kid Hungry event on May 21 at the Westside Boys & Girls Club, where she wowed the crowd with her powerful voice and her uncommon charisma. After this year’s Foothill Elementary School talent show, she was so overwhelmed with praise, hugs, and squeezes that she fell to the floor. “She brings out the positive in people,” Orlando Guerra said. When not playing guitar or finishing homework, Sofia Guerra likes to write stories about how and why life makes sense. “If you put together all your symptoms, stress, and things happening to you, you see all these trails going different ways that lead to one direct place, to all make one,” she said. Guerra encourages girls like her to “think bright” and pursue their dreams. Though she knows there is no way to be certain about life’s entwining paths, she feels the trails in her life are pointing toward her dream of fame. “I’m halfway there,” she said. Sofia Guerra will play the Girls Rock S.B. Summer Showcase Friday, July 24, at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club. — Richie DeMaria
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his month at the Plaza Playhouse Theater, direc- ways to live their lives,” Lawrence said. “In this play, the tor Jordana Lawrence tackles the generation gap generational gap is between Nick and his grandparents, with Joe DiPietro’s Over the River and Through the who can’t understand why he is moving across the country Woods. The production explores the bonds of familial for a job. They really can’t wrap their heads around it. That’s relationships, specifically those between grandparents what made this play very interesting to me.” and their grandchildren. Lawrence sees Over the River as The play features a tighta drama with comedic moments The plAzA plAyhouse TheATer presenTs knit Italian-American family in that occur naturally through the New Jersey: four grandparents quirks of the characters. Often and their grandson, Nick. This these instances of humor maniclose connection is an essential fest in how the four grandparby Maggie Yates aspect of these characters’ lifeents manage their emotional styles—Nick sees his grandparresponses to Nick’s impending ents every Sunday to share a meal. Yet as life moves departure. Frank, Aida, Nunzio, and Emma devise a forward, it becomes clear that their cheerful ritual can- series of devious, albeit harmless, plots to manipulate not continue forever. Nick lands a job as a marketing Nick into staying in town—including an attempt at executive across the country, and he’s ecstatic for the next playing matchmaker. Director Lawrence also apprecibig step in his life, but he also knows breaking the news ates the aspects of the story that are unexpected. “The to his grandparents will be challenging. As he feared, his author didn’t do what I thought,” she admitted of the grandparents see his choice to pursue the career oppor- play’s conclusion. “He didn’t cop out. He made it real.” tunity as an abandonment of the family’s traditional Over the River and Through the Woods is a play that’s values and a gross mismanagement of his life priorities. produced relatively infrequently, so it will be a fresh stoOver the River illustrates how a generation gap is rytelling experience for most audiences. It demonstrates created when the cultural stagnation of one age group themes of progress and change within the tight bonds of interacts with a landscape of constantly evolving social family and presents a relatable, meaningful tale of growing norms and how the new generation’s lack of adherence up and moving away. to antiquated cultural expectations can be a Over the River and Through the Woods runs July 17-26 catalyst for misunderstanding and resentat the Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, ment between the old and the young. “Every Carpinteria. For tickets, call 684-6380 or see plazatheatercarpinteria.com. generation brings to the table new ideas and
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along the 101. “The place feels like it’s always on the verge of blowing away into dust,” said lead singer and band main-brain Daniel Hopkins. Bonny Doon, who recently played SOhO Restaurant & Music Club with Motopony and Wild Coast, dig deep into the dustier corners of music eras. Though all twenty-somethings, their sound has an out-of-time quality to it, grounded more in the sounds of the 1960s and ’70s than in anything contemporary. In fact, if he could, Hopkins would beam himself back not just to the ’60s, but the 1860s, where he could try his hand at a cannon — and, surely, pen pining war ballads of heartache and homesickness. In our present day, he and band make country-rock to befit wide horizons, sparse expanses, and contemplative road trips. “I’m obsessed with everything Motown and Phil Spector, so naturally they’re going to bleed into my songs; Gram Parsons is my patron saint,” said Hopkins, who also credits soul and funk greats like Sly Stone, Otis Redding, Etta James, Marvin Gaye, and Curtis Mayfield among his holiest music gurus. But it’s more “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” than “Everybody Is a Star,” more soul-searching than party-starting. This is rock for reckoning days. Though endowed with movie-star charisma, the introverted Hopkins is often hindered by his own humility. A guitarist and songwriter since his early teens, Hopkins hasn’t always had the friendliest relationship to his own music, admitting to “completely debilitating” bouts of self-doubt. “There have been many times where I’ve tried to swear off music, declaring that I’ll never play again, because what’s the point? No one seems to care, and the odds are against me at every turn,” he said.“But of course that’s impossible. Usually the next day I’ll be playing again.” Fortunately for us, he’s sticking with it for now. The band is working on new material and promises a new single out in the next few weeks. Keep your ears open for upcoming gigs and Bandcamp singles in the interim, and revel in the rocking reflection.
ALY, ALY OXEN FREE: For those who ever wondered what became of my esteemed and lovable predecessor, Aly Comingore, look no further than the newest video from Santa Barbara synth duo Gardens & Villa, “Fixations.” Aly is there, sunglassed and fabulous, hiding in plain sight betwixt the selfie sticks and e-cigs. The video is a veritable Where’s Waldo of S.B.via-L.A. connectivity: Also featured are Foxygen frontman Sam France as a Warholian party host, and Dante Elephante leader and area impresario (and onetime Bonny Doon drummer, it turns out) Ruben Zarate. For those who don’t know these folks, the video is a fun self-mockery of millennial mores; for those who do, it’s a true delight. The “Fixations” video also serves as a tasty appetizer for Gardens & Villa’s upcoming album, Music for Dogs, out August 21 on Secretly Canadian. Santa Barbara may be a small town, but on the world stage, it’s emerging as a burgeoning musical metropolis. Congrats to Gardens & Villa for continuing to carry the flag. ROCK WALLS: If you’ve ever wanted a vintage photo of a rock god upon
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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. 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 – 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, through 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. Architectural Foundation Gallery – Lori Wolf Grillias: Emerging Pareidolia, July 17Aug. 28. 229 E. Victoria St., 965-6307. Artamo Gallery–Artamo Artamo Summer Summer, through July 26. 11 W. Anapamu St., 568-1400. Bella Rosa Galleries –Valerie Freeman, through July 31. 1103 State St., Ste. A, 966-1707. Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit. 540 Pueblo St., Ste. A, 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. 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; Artists Guild Santa Ynez Valley; Marilyn Benson: California Wine Country, through Aug. 5. 2920 Grand Ave., Country 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 – Lauren McFarland: 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. Ojai Café Emporium – Sharon Butler's students, through Sept. 13. 108 S. Montgomery St., Ojai., 646-2723. Oliver & Espig Gallery of Fine Arts– Tielle Monette and Sergey Fedotov, ongoing. 1108 State St., 962-8111. Pacifica Graduate Institute – Mythic Threads: Art, Healing and Magic in Bali Bali, ongoing. 801 Ladera Ln., 879-7103. PORCH –Swim, through Sept. 3. 3823 Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria, 684-0300. El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park – Nihonmachi Revisited: Santa Barbara’s Japanese American Community in Transition, 1900-1940 and
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Lobero Theatre – 33 E. Canon Perdido St., 963-0761. sat: CALICO the Band + Patrolled By Radar (8pm) Maverick Saloon – 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 686-4785. fri: Dusty Jugz (8pm) sat: Steve/Guy/Kevin (3pm); Crown City Bombers (8pm) sun: Blues Bob (2-5pm) Moby Dick Restaurant – 220 Stearns Wharf, 965-0549. wed-thu: Derroy (5-8pm) fri-sat: Derroy (6-9pm) sun: Derroy (10am-2pm) Ojai Art Ctr. – 113 S. Montgomery St., Ojai, 640-8797. sun: Teresa Russell & Acadiana (6pm) Palapa Restaurant – 4123 State St., 683-3074. fri: Live Mariachi Music (6:30-9pm) Piano Riviera Lounge – 129 E. Anapamu St., 882-0050. tue: Lynette Gaona and the Children Who Rock (7pm) wed: Dan Diamond & friends (7pm) Pure Order Brewing Co. – 410 N. Quarantina St., 966-2881. sat: The Ronelles (2-4pm) S.B. Bowl – 1122 N. Milpas St. , 962-7411. wed: Willie Nelson & Family, Alison Krauss & Union Station (7pm) Sandbar – 514 State St., 966-1388. wed: Big Wednesday (10pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – 1221 State St., 962-7776. thu: Los Aguas, Hector Guerra (9pm) fri: Vaud and the Villains (9pm) sat: Foreverland (9pm) mon: Jazz Jam with Jeff Elliott (7:30pm) tue: Songwriters at Play: Tribute to Woody Guthrie (7:30pm) wed: Wye Oak, Lakes (9pm) thu: Soul Scratch (9pm) Tiburon Tavern – 3116 State St., 682-8100. fri: Karaoke Night (7:30pm) Velvet Jones – 423 State St., 965-8676. thu: Schwayze, The Good Deeds, Carlton (9pm) sat: Dead Sara (8pm) sun: La Vasa, Raised By Wolves, Mother of Dissension, Dead End Cemetery (4pm) thu: The Ataris, The Hideouts (8pm) Whiskey Richards – 435 State St., 963-1786. wed: Punk on Vinyl (10pm) sun: Americana Sunday w/ Matt Armor and Friends (4-6pm) mon: Open Mike Night (8pm)
theater Chumash Casino Resort – Drew's Comedy Club: Shaun Jones. 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez, (800) 248-6274. fri: 7:30pm Garvin Theatre – The Music Man. 801 Cliff Dr., SBCC West Campus, 965-5935. thu-sat: 7:30pm sun: 2pm Ojai Art Ctr. – Mame. 113 S. Montgomery St., 640-8797. fri-sat: 8pm sun: 2pm Plaza Playhouse Theater – Over the River and Through the Woods. 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, 684-6380. fri-sat: 8pm sun: 3pm S.B. Historical Museum – Footprints at Laetoli. 136 E. De la Guerra St., 455-5598. wed-thu: 8pm Solvang Festival Theater – Man of La Mancha. 420 2nd St., Solvang, 686-1789. fri-sun, tue-thu: 8pm The Narrative Loft – 1 N. Calle César Chávez, Ste. 240, 455-5598. thu-sat: Caylee's First Big Show!!!/Sweet Child (7pm); Lady-oke! (9pm)
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Amy. Amy Winehouse and Mitch Winehouse star in a documentary directed by Asif Kapadia. Reviewed by Richie DeMaria
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any creative souls will find a kindred spirit in Amy Winehouse, the focus of Asif Kapadia’s new documentary, Amy. Beneath the shine and scrutiny of camera flashes was a humble North London girl who made music to channel and combat a wellspring of inner darkness. Through home videos and off-camera voiceovers from unseen old friends, Kapadia reveals a compulsively creative old soul happiest in the studio and on the small stage. She was a pure artist, a true jazz singer, says idol and collaborator Tony Bennett — she didn’t care for the massive crowds. But the crowds came like flies to an open wound, hungry and corrosive. We walk with Amy as the press hounds her and the world mocks her, as toxic husband Blake Fielder-Civil drugs her, and as well-meaning but ignorant father Mitch reaps her fame’s rewards. We watch her away from the limelight in intimate and hilarious exchanges with friends and as a bold force in the studio. Personal, revealing, and unobstructed by the usual documentary talking-head-style interviews, Kapadia’s film has the joint closeness and distance of a memorial photo album. Fame killed her as much as her addictions did, and Amy allows us to witness the interrelatedness of external and internal demons. Was it a troubled childhood, an enabling inner circle, a careless and insatiable culture?
FOREVER YOUNG: The rise and fall of Amy Winehouse is captured in Asif (Senna) Kapadia’s moving music doc, Amy.
It was all of those things, and something deeper and darker, too. Genius can be a lonely island, made ever more desolate by the encroaching and greedy tides of lesser minds. And like Kurt Cobain and others before, Winehouse’s brilliant self-expression only found light from within the shadows of self-obliteration. It’s possible Winehouse would have met a similar end even if fame never found her, but it’s clear that the fakery and fanaticism of stardom expedited her end. We see her gaunt and ghoulish in selfies taken near the end of her life, and her loneliness is profound. So many factors fueled her downfall, from the madness of addiction cycles to the celeb-addicted media rhythms that encouraged them. In its tender and tragic tone, Amy works because when she falls, we feel it, too. n
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Minions. The voices of Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, and Michael Keaton star in an animated film written by Brian Lynch and directed by Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin Reviewed by D.J. Palladino
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n theme park rides, sometimes there are yardsticks with signs that read, “You must be this high to get on this ride.” Someone needs to apply this same standard to children’s movies. You must be this good to be released into theaters where families have to pay hard-earned dough to make their children happy for hours in the dark on a nice summer’s day. Minions would not pass such a test. There’s too much of a good thing here, it turns out. Didn’t you believe that the best part of the two Despicable Me movies were the pill-shaped sidekick creatures speaking a decipherable nonsense language like Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator? And further, that they might prove triumphant in little witty skits of their own wherein botched attempts to conquer the world accidentally work? But the movie based on them released now is completely witless, a lot of predictable slapstick substituting for clever plotting, and even the satire— the teasing of the English royalty, fish in a barrel — is obvious and dull, although the cartoon caricature of a young Queen Elizabeth is skillfully rendered.
SHORTCOMINGS: The Despicable Me spinoff Minions falls short of expectations.
No jokes the grownups might enjoy lurk here. The story, narrated by Geoffrey Rush trying hard to be the voice that led us through Monty Python’s Holy Grail, recites the evolution of the little subservient villain critters before launching into a dumb plot about snatching the English Crown. Set in 1968, there are some parent-pleasing cameos, including four mop tops from Liverpool crossing Abbey Road while a Minion head pokes up from a manhole. Basically a prequel, the movie gains momentum at the end, though it would be wrong to tell you why. A big superhero finale is good with a twist of a joke, but most of the film’s fun occurs during the final credits, in which everybody gets trotted out to show off. And there it is at last, the smart funny stuff that was inherently promised by the premise. But the movie itself never measures up to a fun ride. n independent.com
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FIRST LOOKS O Amy (128 mins.; R: language and drug
strikes. The only way he can keep himself together is by returning to the world of boxing.
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SCREENINGS See the Week for “Summer Movies” on p. 29. Apur Sansar (105 mins.; NR) When aspiring writer Apu attends a village wedding, his life is changed forever when he is asked to become the husband. Wed., July 22, 5 and 7:30pm, Plaza de Oro
SBIFF The Wave Film Festival: France The Santa Barbara International Film Festival presents 22 screenings of French films. Through Sunday, July 19, Riviera
PREMIERES Ant-Man (117 mins.; PG-13: for sci-fi action violence)
Another superhero in the Marvel arsenal is trotted out; this time it’s former conman Scott Lang, who is bestowed with the ability to shrink to ant size while increasing his strength. Arlington (2D)/Camino Real (2D and 3D)/ Metro 4 (2D and 3D)
Cartel Land (98 mins.; R: violent disturbing images, language, drug content, and brief sexual material)
This documentary follows a Mexican doctor who leads a citizens’ revolt against the drug cartels that terrorize the area and, in the U.S., a vet who heads a paramilitary group attempting to keep Mexico’s drug wars from crossing the border. Plaza de Oro Mr. Holmes (104 mins.; PG: thematic elements, some disturbing images, and incidental smoking) The year is 1947, and legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) comes out of retirement to try and solve a 50-year-old cold case. Plaza de Oro Paper Towns (109 mins.; PG-13: some language, drinking, sexuality, and partial nudity — all involving teens)
This film adaptation of the best-selling novel centers on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbor Margo, who suddenly disappears. Margo leaves cryptic clues for Quentin, who with his friends embarks on a wild adventure. Camino Real/Metro 4 (Opens Thu., July 23)
Pixels (105 mins.; PG-13: some language and suggestive comments) Intergalactic aliens discover video feeds of classic arcade games and use them as models to attack Earth. The president calls upon 1980s champions — who are all grown up — of each game to defend the planet. Fiesta 5 (2D) (Opens Thu., July 23)
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Jurassic World (124 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril) 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)/Fiesta 5 (2D) Magic Mike XXL (115 mins.; R: strong sexual content, pervasive language, some nudity, and drug use)
In Magic Mike XXL, the characters are given more depth and are more demonstrative of their emotional sides, but the sequel misses much of the vivifying energy of the original, with only a handful of major dance numbers to perk up the thin plot. We follow them as they engage in various hijinks across the Southern states in a sequel that’s both more slapstick and sensitive than its predecessor but less interesting, too. But rejoin the boys if you’d like to share a goofy and lighthearted road trip with them. (RD) Camino Real/Metro 4
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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) Paseo Nuevo Terminator Genisys (125 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of sci-fi violence and gunplay throughout, partial nudity, and brief strong language)
Besides trotting out the old “I’ll be back” and “Come with me if you want to live” chestnuts, this film’s talk-y, explain-y, and boring-y chatter is so bad I wanted not to live though the first 10 minutes. If you watch this film in 3D with your ears plugged, it’s okay summer fare. (DJP)
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a&e | Rob bRezsny’s fRee will astRology week of july 16 ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Stop Making Sense was originally the name of the film and music soundtrack produced by the Talking Heads in the 1980s, and now it is the central theme of your horoscope. I think your brain would benefit from a thorough washing. That’s why I invite you to scour it clean of all the dust and cobwebs and muck that have accumulated there since its last scrub a few months back. One of the best ways to launch this healing purge is, of course, to flood all the neural pathways with a firehose-surge of absurdity, jokes, and silliness. As the wise physician of the soul, Dr. Seuss, said, “I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells.�
TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): When you read a book that has footnotes, you tend to regard the footnotes as being of secondary importance. Although they may add color to the text’s main messages, you can probably skip them without losing much of the meaning. But I don’t recommend this approach in the coming days. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, footnotes will carry crucial information that’s important for you to know. I mean this in a metaphorical sense as you live your life as well as in the literal act of reading books. Pay close attention to the afterthoughts, the digressions, and the asides.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The English word “quiddity� has two contrary definitions. It can refer to a trivial quibble. Or it can mean the essential nature of a thing — the quality that makes it unique. I suspect that in the coming weeks you will get numerous invitations to engage with quiddities of both types. Your first task will be to cultivate an acute ability to know which is which. Your second task: Be relentless in avoiding the trivial quibbles as you home in on the essential nature of things.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “A poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.� That’s an English translation of an aphorism written by French
author Joseph Joubert. Another way to say it might be, “A smart person isn’t drab and plodding as she bridges a gap, but does it with high style and brisk delight.� A further alternative: “An imaginative soul isn’t predictable as she travels over and around obstacles, but calls on creative magic to fuel her ingenious liberations.� Please use these ideas during your adventures in the coming weeks, Cancerian.
are likely to achieve at least one resounding success in the coming weeks. At this juncture in your destiny, you know exactly how to convert a past mistake into a future triumph. A gaffe that once upon a time brought you anguish or woe will soon deliver its fully ripened teaching, enabling you to claim a powerful joy or joyful power.
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(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The poet Mary Ruefle describes reading books as “a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan.� Are there other ways to do that? Watching films and plays and TV shows, of course. You can also listen to and empathize with people as they tell you their adventures. Or you can simply use your imagination to visualize what life is like for others. However you pursue this expansive pleasure, Scorpio, I highly recommend it. You are set up to absorb the equivalent of many years’ experience in a few short weeks.
(July 23-Aug. 22): July is barely half over, but your recent scrapes with cosmic law have already earned you the title of “The Most Lyrically Tormented Struggler of the Month.� Another few days of this productive mayhem and you may be eligible for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. I could see you being selected as “The Soul Wrangler with the Craziest Wisdom� or “The Mythic Hero with the Most Gorgeous Psychospiritual Wounds.� But it’s my duty to let you know that you could also just walk away from it all. Even if you’re tempted to stick around and see how much more of the entertaining chaos you can overcome, it might be better not to. In my opinion, you have done enough impossible work for now.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “People who have their feet planted too firmly on the ground have difficulty getting their pants off,� said author Richard Kehl. That’s good advice for you in the coming weeks. To attract the help and resources you need, you can’t afford to be overly prim or proper. You should, in fact, be willing to put yourself in situations where it would be easy and natural to remove your pants, throw off your inhibitions, and dare to be surprising. If you’re addicted to businessas-usual, you may miss opportunities to engage in therapeutic play and healing pleasure.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A failure is a person who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience,� wrote American author Elbert Hubbard. In light of this formulation, I’m pleased to announce that you
you think of any ways that your strength might at least temporarily be a weakness? I can. I suspect that if you rely too much on the power you already possess and the skills you have previously mastered, you may miss important clues about what you need to learn next. The most valuable lessons of the coming weeks could come to you as you’re practicing the virtues of humility and innocence and receptivity.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler delivers the following speech to Scarlett O’Hara: “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.�Your oracle for the near future, Aquarius, is to adopt an approach that is the exact opposite of Rhett Butler’s. Patiently gather the broken fragments and glue them together again. I predict that the result will not only be as good as new; it will be better. That’s right: The mended version will be superior to the original.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian rapper Nicki Minaj is not timid about going after what she wants. She told Cosmopolitan magazine that she’s “high-maintenance in bed.� Every time she’s involved in a sexual encounter, she demands to have an orgasm. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to follow her lead — not just during your erotic adventures but everywhere else, too. Ask for what you want, preferably with enough adroitness to actually obtain what you want. Here’s another critical element to keep in mind: To get exactly what you want, you must know exactly what you want.
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Australian actress Rebel Wilson has appeared in several successful movies, including Bridesmaids, Bachelorette, and Pitch Perfect. But she didn’t start out to be a film star. Mathematics was her main interest. Then, while serving as a youth ambassador in South Africa at age 18, she contracted malaria. At the height of her sickness, she had hallucinatory visions that she would one day be “a really good actress who also won an Oscar.� The visions were so vivid that she decided to shift her career path. I foresee the possibility that you will soon experience a version of her epiphany. During a phase when you’re feeling less than spectacular, you may get a glimpse of an intriguing future possibility.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A college basketball player named Mark Snow told reporters that “Strength is my biggest weakness.� Was he trying to be funny? No. Was he a bit dimwitted? Perhaps. But I’m not really interested in what he meant by his statement. Rather, I want to hijack it for my own purpose, which is to recommend it as a meditation for you in the coming weeks. Can
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eader Brendan let me know that Bob Montgomery, owner of the Nugget restaurants in Summerland and Goleta, just opened his third Nugget location at 21 West Victoria Street, the former home of Arlington Tavern and Epiphany. Manager Jemal James tells me that the popular, extensive Nugget menu is available, including the baby-back ribs that were first introduced at the Goleta location. “We are opening up in a new neighborhood,” said James, “and want to invite everybody down.” The new Nugget is open daily 11 a.m.-10 p.m., with happy hour 3-6 p.m., featuring $4 draft beers, $4 cocktails, and $4 house wines. Call 770-2626.
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NOW SERVING BREAKAST: This just in from Cal Taco on Hollister Avenue: “Hi John, Cal Taco Fresh Grill is a family owned restaurant. It has been open for 28 years in Goleta and we just start serving breakfast. We are located on 7320 Hollister Avenue and are open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. We are serving breakfast from 8-11 a.m. Monday-Friday and 8 a.m.-noon Saturday and Sunday. Thank you, Sam.”
SIMPLY CRUSHCAKES: Last week, I reported that
reader The Shadow told me a sign on the window at Crushcakes in Isla Vista indicated that the business is moving to a new location on Hollister Avenue. Crushcakes owner Shannon Gaston emailed me with these details: “Crushcakes & Simply Pies are tying the knot! Crushcakes has purchased Simply Pies at 5392 Hollister Avenue in Goleta and will be serving Simply Pies at all of the Crushcakes locations. Crushcakes Café in Isla Vista will be moving into the Simply Pies location in Goleta and serving our full breakfast, lunch, coffee, and cake menu in addition to the Simply Pies menu. We are remodeling our new location in Goleta and hoping to reopen in August. Stay tuned for our official grand opening party! See you then!” that the Barbecue Company at 3807 Santa Claus Lane in Carpinteria has served up their last rack of baby-backs. I stopped by and confirmed their exit from the under-represented South Coast BBQ scene, which now can be counted on one hand. The business opened in February 2009, replacing Pita Inn, which itself replaced Smokin’ Jacks Kansas City BBQ. rello’s Pizza & Pastaria has appeared at 3807 Santa Claus Lane in Carpinteria, the former home of recently closed Barbecue Company. The ABC license indicates the business is run by Michael Anthony Borrello. SPEAKING OF PIZZA: Reader Robert let me know that another pizzeria is coming to Carpinteria, at 699 Linden Avenue, the former home of Tony’s. The name remained elusive a press time.
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LOS AGAVES OPENS IN WESTLAKE: Los Agaves Restaurant is opening its fourth location at the Shoppes at Westlake Village, located at 30750 Russell Ranch Road. The eatery had a soft opening on July 13 and will hold an official grand opening on Monday, July 20. “We are proud to open our doors to Westlake Village and welcome all to come taste and savor the flavors of authentic Mexico,” said owner Carlos Luna. “At Los Agaves, we have always taken tremendous pride in being a part of the community, embracing our neighboring businesses and residents alike, and we hope to surpass expectations with our dedicated service and quality of food in our new- CUATRO CANTINAS: Los est location for many Agaves is expanding years to come.” Family beyond the South Coast owned and operated, with a new location in Westlake. Luna opened his first location on Milpas Street in September 2008, quickly taking the titles of Best Mexican Restaurant and Best Salsa in 2013, 2014, and 2015 in this newspaper’s Best of Santa Barbara® Readers’ Poll. Los Agaves opened on De la Vina Street in June 2013 and in Camino Real Marketplace in October 2014.
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SAntA BArBArA Winery, 202 Anacapa St. 963‑3633. Open Sun‑Thurs 10a‑6p & Fri‑Sat 10a ‑ 7p, small charge for extensive tasting list. 2 blocks from both State St & the beach. This venerable winery is the county’s oldest‑ est.1962, and offers many internationally acclaimed wines from their Lafond Vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills. Try some of Winemaker Bruce McGuire’s small production bottling. www.sbwinery.com
vegetarian, vegan, and meat options. Catering Avaliable for parties of up to 40 people.
French petit VAlentien, 1114 StAte St. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Open M‑F 11:30‑3pm (lunch). M‑Sat 5pm‑Close (dinner). Sun $24 four course prefix dinner. In La Arcada Plaza, Chef Robert Dixon presents classic French comfort food at affordable cost in this cozy gem of a restaurant. Petit Valentien offers a wide array of meat and seafood entrees along with extensive small plates and a wine list specializing in amazing quality at arguably the best price in town. A warm romantic atmosphere makes the perfect date spot. Comfortable locale for dinner parties, or even just a relaxing glass of wine. Reservations are recommended.
Indian flAVor of INDIA 3026 State 682‑6561 $$ www.flavorofindiasb. com VOTED BEST 17yrs. Finest, most authentic Indian cuisine is affordable too! All You Can Eat Lunch Buffet $9.95 M‑S dinner combos $9.95+ Specials: Tandoori‑ Mixed or Fish, Chicken Tikka Masala, Shrimp Bhuna. Also: meat, curries & vegetarian.Wine & Beer. Take out. 20yrs of Excellence! indiA houSe, 418 State St. Next to 99 Cent Store 805.962.5070. 7 days 11:30a‑ 3:30p ALL YOU CAN EAT Lunch Buffet $8.95. Dinner 5p‑9p. Tandori & North Indian Muglai specialties. World Class Indian Chefs at your service! Traditional floor seating. Indian & Draft Beers, Local Wines. www.indiahouseusa.com
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dArgAn’S iriSh Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. (next to lot 10) SB, 568‑0702. $$. Open 7 days 11:30a‑Close (Food ‘til 10p, 11p on Sat/Sun). AE MC V Disc. Authentic Irish food & atmosphere in downtown SB. Specialties from Ireland include Seafood & Meat dishes. Informal, relaxed pub‑style atmosphere. Live music Thursday nights. Children welcome. Avail. for private parties. Pool & Darts.
Japanese KYoto, 3232 State St, 687‑1252.$$. Open 7days M‑F 11:30a‑2p; Sat Noon‑2:30p Lunch; Sun‑Thur 5‑10p Dinner, Fri‑Sat 5p‑10:30p.Complete Sushi Bar. Steak & Seafood Specials! Sashimi, Teriyaki, original Japanese appetizers & Combination Boat Dinner. SB’s only TATAMI Rooms reservations suggested. Beer, Wine & Sake.Take Out. Birthday customers get FREE tempura ice cream & photo on our website! KyotoSB.com
Steak rodneY’S Grill, 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard at The Fess Parker – A Doubletree by Hilton Resort 805‑564‑4333. Serving 5 pm ‑10pm Tuesday through Saturday. Rodney’s Grill is a fresh American grill experience. Enjoy all natural hormone‑free beef, locally‑sourced seafood, appetizers, and incredible desserts. The place to enjoy dinner with family and friends by the beach. Private Dining Room for 30. Full cocktail bar with specialty cocktails. Wine cellar with Santa Barbara County & California’s best vintages by‑the‑glass www.rodneyssteakhouse.com
Wine of the Week Tablas Creek Vermentino 2014 While it’s hard to beat sipping a rosé on a fine summer’s day, this unusual white is a fine alternative. There are about a 100 acres of it planted in the U.S., but this grape is well‑established in Corsica, Sardinia, and Italy. Tablas Creek’s version is spry and racy, a vivid lemon‑grapefruit citrus core with enough minerality and salinity to give it a pleasing edge. Refreshing, thy name is Vermentino. Not surprisingly Tablas Creek gives this somewhat rustic grape traditional treatment — whole cluster pressing, using native yeasts. They then age in stainless, to keep the wine lean and far from mean, for this doesn’t need any oak or extra tannins. Enjoy on its own or with lots of seafood to make that salinity truly sing See tablascreek.com
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Gills Vintage at 1512 Bath Street #B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kelsey Perry (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kelsey Perry 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0001966. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 2015.
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FBN Abandonment STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Rebecca Traver at 222 West Sola Street #4 Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 5/1/2015 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2015‑0001424. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Rebecca Ruth Traver This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 15 2015. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. for Published. July 2, 9, 16, 23 2015. STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: Eldercare Massage, Massage‑O‑Gram at 241 San Napoli Dr. Goleta, CA 93117. The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 9/14/2014 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2015‑0002666. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Jennifer M. Oetken This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 08 2015. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. for Published. July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2015.
Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Jesse James Horseshoeing at 921 Medio Road Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Elric Jesse James Glover‑Orozco (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Elric Glover filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 01, 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: 2015‑0001765. Published: Jun 25. July 2, 9, 16 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.
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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. 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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. 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: 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: 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: 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.
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e m a i l s a l e s @ i n d e p e n d e n t. c o m 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. 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: 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. 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: El Encanto Bookkeeping at 3463 State St Suite 500 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Andrea Carrara 360 Arboleda Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Andrea Carrara filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 02 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: 2015‑0002090. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Fig Grill, Fig Grill, Fig Grill & Bar, The Fig Grill & Bar, The Fig at 5940 Calle Real Goleta, CA 93117; Govender Group, Inc 873 N. Patterson Ave. Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Indras Govender 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002028. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Ynez Billards & Cafe at 1000 Edison St. Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Riyad Abdulaziz 17016 Harbor Hill Dr. Clinton TWP, MI 48035; Manhal Samaan 2296 Woodcreek Rd. Camarillo, CA 93012; Mitch Samaan 2621 W. Highway 154 Santa Ynez 154 Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Moris Samaan 3548 Glen Abbey Ln. Oxnard, CA 93036 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Mitch Samaan filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 30 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002064. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GBT Sheet Metal at 350 S. Kellogg #L Goleta, CA, 93117; Garrett Lucas Macias 601 Salinas Avenue Templeton, CA 93465; Chad Edward McClintock 5905 Daley Street Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Chad McClintock filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 01 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 Sheaff. FBN Number: 2015‑0002080. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Solid Edge Drafting at 1285 Camino Manadero Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Nickolas Zurlinden (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Nick Zurlinden filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 02 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: 2015‑0002097. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Battery Replacement Company at 740 State Street, 3rd Floor Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Alexander Davis 4924 Balboa Blvd #489 Encino, CA 91716 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 01 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 Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002085. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30. 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Macrocosm Consulting, Santa Barbara Computer Consulting at 467 Mills Way Goleta, CA 93117; This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Macrocosm Communications, LLC filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 02 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: 2015‑0002089. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lavish Hair Imports at 1311 Indio Muerto #C Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Danielle Solano (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Danielle Solano filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 02 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: 2015‑0002096. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Roberts Photography at 3755 San Remo Dr #175 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jonathan E. Little (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jonathan Little filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 01 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: 2015‑0002083. Published: July 9, 16, 23, 30 2015.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Altvs, Chalk Hill Estate Winery, Discoveries Vineyards, Eos, Eos Estate, Estate of the Art, Firestone Vineyard, Firestone Vineyards, Fog Theory Wines, Foley Estates Vineyard & Winery, Foley Estates Vineyard And Winery, Foley Johnson, Foley Family Wines, Foley Food & Wine Society, Foley Food And Wine Society, Guenoc Winery, Kuleto Estate, Lancaster Estate, Langtry Estate Vineyards & Winery, Langtry Estate Vineyards And Winery, Lincourt Vineyards, Lost Angel, Lost Angel Wines, Merus, Roth Estate, Sebastiani Vineyards & Winery, Sebastiani Vineyards And Winery, The Foley Food & Wine Society, The Foley Food And Wine Society, Two Sisters at 5017 Zaca Station Road Los Olivos, CA 93441; Foley Family Wines, Inc 10300 Chalk Hill Road Healsburg, CA 95448 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Omar Percich, CFO & Assistant Secretary filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jun 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: 2015‑0002042. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Wine Spa at 29 West Micheltorena Santa Barbara, CA 93101; SBCLNH (same address) This business is conducted by a Corportion Signed: Scott Crawford, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 10 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002164. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Taoist Light Qigong, Taoist Light Wellness at 411 E. Canon Perdido St. #16 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Chiyan Wang 2510 Whitney Ave Summerland, CA 93067 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Chiyan Wang This statement was 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0001729. Published: Jun 4, 11, 18, 25 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Circuit Kingdom LLC at 733 Cathedral Pointe Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Circuit Kingdom LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002023. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Soccer Shoe Exchange, SBSSE at 3019 Paseo Del Refugio Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Monte Fligsten 1730 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Christopher Julio Rodriguez 3019* Paseo Del Refugio Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Unicorporated Assocition Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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: 2015‑0002115. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2015.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Replay at 2945 De La Vina Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Gregory S. Kirby (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Gregory S. Kirby filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002021. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: MM Stash at 503 N Kellogg Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Karen Ranum (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Karen Ranum 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002019. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ace Rooter at 1177 Harbor Hills Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Sergio Pincheira (same address) Lazaro J Ramirez 525 Coroneel Place Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Lazaro J. Ramirez filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 07 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: 2015‑0002020. Published: July 16, 23, 30. Aug 6 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Somerset Pool Design at 1063 Casitas Pass Rd Carpinteria, CA 93013; Robert Robinson (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Bob Robinson filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 10 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002156. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Telegraph Brewing Company at 418 N. Salsipuedes St. Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Telegraph Brewing Co., Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Brian Thompson, President 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 Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002139. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Motivation For Health at 741 Mission Canyon Rd. (cottage) Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jennifer La Guardia (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jennifer LaGuardia filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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: 2015‑0002148. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015.
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PROGRAM (EOP) Coordinates and manages multiple administrative functions for the EOP office. Serves as the primary initial contact and response person for all department inquiries. Plans, organizes and implements the intake and scheduling structure for students, staff and faculty requesting EOP services. Provides direct administrative and scheduling support to EOP Director and EOP Assistant Director. Responds to inquiries from various campus committees and independently alters respective calendars to accommodate priorities. Reqs: Excellent customer service skills. Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft applications. Ability to deal with frequent interruptions, prioritize multiple task assignments. Team player a must. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. May work occasional evenings and weekends. Mandated reporting requirements of child abuse. $17.83 ‑ $19.01/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 7/15/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150348
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Creative Auromotive Support at 1140 Westmont Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Warren Rogers Franklin III (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 13 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002169. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Type A Creative at 122 W Arrellaga Street #10 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kendall Pata (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kendall Pata filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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: 2015‑0002147. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Paleo Caterers at 3712 Greggory Way #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kelsey Bray (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Kelsey Bray filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 13 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0002175. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lee Key Kayak Films at 1615 Olive Street #B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; David Allan Hutt (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: David A Hutt filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 06 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: 2015‑0002113. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brave Logic at 1615 Olive Street #B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; David Allan Hutt (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: David A Hutt filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2015‑0002112. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara County Employees Association, Seiu Local 620, Service Employees International Union, Local 620 at 114 N. Vine Street Santa Maria, CA 93454; Santa Barbara Employees Association (same address) This business is conducted by a Corportion Signed: Bruce Corsaw filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 Sheaff. FBN Number: 2015‑0002151. Published: July 16, 23, 30 Aug 6 2015.
Education TEMPORARY TEACHING POSITIONS Bren School of Environmental Science and Management Areas of Instruction: Statistics and Data Analysis, Environmental Communication. Positions will remain open until filled. Applications are invited for part‑time lecturers in the Bren School who can teach one or more graduate level courses for masterâs degree students pursuing a professional degree in Environmental Science and Management. Appointments are variable in terms of percentage time and from one quarter to one year, with the possibility of reappointment. The Bren School is seeking a lecturer to teach quantitative methods, including statistics, data analysis, and calculus for environmental science and management. Students must develop skills and conceptual frameworks to effectively use data to solve environmental problems. Course topics include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, experimental design, exploratory data analysis, probability and uncertainty, time series analysis, and spatial stats. Students also must learn specialized data analysis techniques such as environmental monitoring, methods for censored data and time series; spatial data interpolation and prediction; and multi‑criteria decision analysis. Courses may include ESM 206 Statistics & Data Analysis for Environmental Science & Management to be offered in fall quarter, ESM 244 Advanced Data Analysis to be offered winter quarter, and workshops in Excel, R and calculus to be offered at various times. The Bren School is seeking a lecturer to teach students how to clearly and effectively communicate quantitative and qualitative scientific information. This training will focus on masterâs projects, dissertation defenses, presentations and posters for professional conferences, and job interviews. Emphases will be on visual presentation and verbal communication, which students will hone during practice presentations and mock question/answer sessions in weekly discussions. Students will have multiple opportunities to practice and receive feedback from the instructor.
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Courses may include ESM 438/538 Presentation Skills for Environmental Professionals to be offered in winter quarter and ESM 595GP Group Studies (PhD Level) to be offered spring quarter, and individual or group mentoring as students prepare for presentations during the school year. Applicants must possess an appropriate masterâs or PhD degree or equivalent. Applicants should have training and experience teaching in the relevant field. Salary is dependent upon qualifications. Terms and conditions of employment are subject to UC policy and any appropriate collective bargaining agreement. Your application materials should include a cover letter, resume, teaching evaluations (if available) and a list of up to three references with name and phone number. Primary consideration will be given to applications received by August 5, 2015. Please use this UC Recruit link to fill out your on‑line application: https://recruit.ap.ucsb. edu/apply/JFP00499 The Department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service. 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.
Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DOUGLAS M. BLACK and RENEE J. NORDSTRAND‑BLACK ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF 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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GRADUATE DIVISION Provides leadership in the areas of fiscal analysis and planning, human resource planning, administrative processes and physical resources. Reqs: Must be proficient in Microsoft Office. Advanced knowledge of accounting principles, experience in reconciliation, year‑end close, and preparation of summary reports. Demonstrated ability to work with complex and confidential information and to assimilate, analyze and report financial information from diverse sources. Possess excellent oral and written communications skills and has the ability to interact professionally with students, faculty and staff. Note: Fingerprinting required. $4,511 ‑ $5,413/mo. 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
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RESIDENTIAL DINING SERVICES Shares responsibility for the overall Dining operations serving 5,100 residents daily, 24,000 conferees yearly, 10,000 guests and 2,500 off campus meal plan participants yearly with an annual operating budget of $17 million and 181 FTE. Reqs: 10+ years as senior executive and/ or multi‑site culinary senior leader in the restaurant industry or in college and university food service. Culinary degree or equivalent required. Expert knowledge in food preparation, nutrition, special needs and sanitation regulations. Advanced knowledge in food preparation, culinary trends, vegetarian, vegan and raw cuisine, nutrition, special dietary needs, allergy awareness and sanitation regulations. Advanced verbal and written communication in the English language, and active listening, dynamic flexibility, critical thinking, and ability to multi‑task and ensure effective time management. Advanced decision making and reasoning skills, and ability to develop original ideas to solve problems, and perform operations analysis and quality control analysis. Demonstrated skill in leading work groups, managing and supervising complex projects, leading and supervising culinary staff and students. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license and a clean DMV record. ServeSafe certification required. $6,100 ‑ $8,300/mo. 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 7/26/15, thereafter open until filled. Originally posted as Job #20150131; Re‑application is not necessary. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150352
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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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PHYSICS DEPARTMENT Principal responsibilities include the weekly preparation of all lower and upper division Physics instructional laboratories. Constructs apparatus and advises students on the use of a variety of experimental equipment and tools. Assists in the development of computer programs and applications for use in student experiments. Operates, maintains, troubleshoots, and repairs laboratory equipment and electrical circuits. Manages the instructional 3D printer facilities. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in a laboratory science or engineering, or equivalent combination of education and work experience in scientific laboratory techniques. Must be able to effectively communicate and instruct in a timely and direct manner with individuals of all levels of laboratory sophistication. Knowledge of computer systems, software, and hardware common to instructional laboratories. Familiarity with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop preferred. Notes: Fingerprinting required. 75% Time Position. $21.95 ‑ $23.03/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. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150312 UCSB BREN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & MANAGEMENT Academic Coordinator II (appointment variable up to 100%) Title: Manager, Strategic Environmental Communication and Media (Communication) Program The Bren School seeks an individual to serve as the Strategic Environmental
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Communication and Media (Communication) Program Manager for the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The Communication Program Manager is responsible for developing, implementing and evaluating programs, courses, workshops, seminars and guest speakers focused on effective communication of scientific information for graduate students and faculty in the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. The Communication Program Manager: •Develops and implements the Bren Schoolâs Communication Focus and serves as an advisor to Bren students. •Serves as a resource within the Bren School for faculty and graduate students who need information and guidance about environmental communication and media. •Creates and strengthens relationships with leaders in the field of environmental communication for the purpose of infusing real‑world expertise and innovation into communication training and expanding professional development opportunities for Bren students. •Works with Development staff to identify potential partners, writes proposals and actively seeks funding to support training and professional development opportunities for students in environmental communication. •Collaborates with other UCSB units to advance shared initiatives related to environmental communication. •Develops an annual program strategy and budget, tracks expenses, and provides annual and interim reports. The Communication Program Manager works with multiple constituencies, including faculty, prospective and current students, alumni, professionals and members of the community within the region as well as throughout the state and nation. The position also requires collaboration with other Bren units, including academic programs, student affairs, development, career services, and finance. The Manager works independently but generally reports to the Bren School dean. Minimum Qualifications •Masterâs degree in communication, environmental science or related field
•1‑3 years research experience or program management related to environmental communication and media •Experience with curriculum development and administration, and working with students •Excellent organization, and oral and written communication skills •Ability to manage a diverse portfolio of responsibilities simultaneously •Ability to work well independently and as part of a team •Experience building and maintaining professional relationships •Experience writing federal and foundation grants, with proven record of success in securing funding •Experience with budgeting and tracking expenses
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Preferred Qualifications •PhD degree in communication, environmental science or related field •Experience working with graduate students in communication, environmental science or related field •Experience in broadcast media industry or journalism •Experience with web and/or social media outreach
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Salary and Benefits: 100% time appointment for one year from start date, with strong possibility for additional year(s) of employment contingent upon performance. Academic Coordinator II position, with salary step commensurate with qualifications; full benefits package included. Your application materials should include a CV, a list of up to three references with name and phone number and a cover letter. Primary consideration will be given to applications received by August 5, 2015. Please use this UC Recruit link to fill out your on‑line application: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.e du/apply/ JPF00498. For a full detailed description of the Job Description please view this at the UC Recruit link provided above. The Department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service. 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,
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UCSB BREN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT JOB DESCRIPTION Academic Coordinator II (variable up to 100% time) Title: Sustainable Water Markets Fellowship Program Manager Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
Water markets are gaining traction as a valuable tool for maintaining stream flows and promoting efficient water use in agricultural and urban settings. The Sustainable Water Markets (SWM) Fellowship program supports graduate students at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management who study both market mechanisms that can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of water exchange and help keep water in rivers, as well as the science that informs the structure and operation of water markets. The Bren School seeks an individual to serve as the SWM Fellowship Program Manager. The SWM Fellowship Program Manager: •Administers the SWM Fellowship program; •Develops and distributes outreach materials and updates web content to raise the profile of the SWM program; •Actively engages in communication with prospective SWM Fellows, manages the fellowship applications, and coordinates the selection process, and recruits new SWM Fellows; •Advises current SWM Fellows on courses, projects, fellowship opportunities, and related matters; •Works with the Bren School faculty and administration to plan specialized SWM curriculum; •Plans and manages SWM program events and field trips; •Coordinates with Career Development staff to assist fellows with finding summer internships
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LOCKSMITH
HOUSING & RESIDENTIAL SERVICES Performs journey level locksmithing tasks for approximately 8,000‑10,000 Residents and related repairs/ installations for 8 residence halls, 4 dining commons, 1327 apartments, administrative offices and various owned other University properties. Reqs: Eight years of experience working at a journeyman level as a locksmith in commercial and residential environments. Experience with Best Inter‑changeable core system and Schlage institutional lock hardware and cylinders. Experience installing and servicing door hardware including exit devices (Von Duprin) and door closers (LCN). Experience with electronic key control systems (Morse Watchman KeyWatcher). Ability to work in an ethnically diverse and culturally pluralistic team environment. Understanding of safety practices and Environmental Health and Safety policies and procedures. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Hours and days may vary to meet the operational needs of the department. Weekend pager duty and occasional overtime also required to meet the operational needs of the department. Hours and days may vary to meet the operational needs of the department. $30.48/ hr. 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. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150160
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