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hough this year’s Santa Barbara City Council elections were nothing less than historic—the first time in 60 years city voters have elected their councilmembers by geographic district—the turnout was less than awe inspiring as only 35 percent of registered voters cast ballots. Typically, that percentage hovers between 38 and 42 percent citywide. Incumbent Councilmember Randy Rowse — now representing District 2’s Mesa and upper Westside neighborhoods — beat his nearest opponents (Luis Esparza and Missy McSweeney-Zeitsoff) by a margin of five to one, but that outcome was all but preordained. Rowse —a popular moderate-conservative, decline-to-state candidate—faced no viable opposition despite the three names stacked against him on the ballot. He was expected to cakewalk to a sweat-free victory, and he did exactly that. This notable lack of suspense might explain why turnout was lowest in Rowse’s district even though it’s populated with some of the highest propensity voters within city limits. Even Rowse’s victory party, held at his restaurant, the Paradise Café, was a desultory affair; about 15 self-described “old people” squinted at the wall-mounted TV in the bar for election results as waves of Santa Barbara City College journalism students washed in and out looking for quotes for their class assignment. No fan of district elections — forced on City Hall by a lawsuit alleging Latino voters have been effectively disenfranchised by ethnically disparate voting patterns — Rowse expressed concern the new council would not care as much about “the whole city.” That being 8

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said, he pledged to continue pushing for a new and improved police station, while throwing himself into the hyper-localized politics of pothole filling and mattress removal. The other incumbent to win by an impressive if predictable victory margin was Westside resident Cathy Murillo, running for District 3. Murillo beat rival Sharon Byrne, a community activist best known for her work on the Eastside with the Milpas Community Association (MCA), by a margin of two to one. Murillo celebrated by hosting an alcoholfree “tacos and cake” party at Super Cucas by San Andres and Micheltorena streets on the Westside. The only Latina ever elected to the council, Murillo pledged to double down on such micro-neighborhood issues as speeding, parking, stop signs, and street-beautification efforts. Frequently mentioned as a potential mayoral candidate two years hence, Murillo —who holds down the political left on the council—told reporters at City Hall, real and J-school students alike, she was committed to serve “not just the next four years but forever.” The big news of the night was not just that Jason Dominquez won his bid to become the first councilmember representing the Eastside’s District 1 but the extent to which he utterly squashed his two main rivals, Andria Martinez Cohen and Jacqueline Inda. (Inda, a grassroots community activist, was one of the litigants in the district-elections lawsuit. Martinez Cohen was strongly backed by the Democratic Party, public employee labor unions, and CAUSE [Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy], otherwise known as “The Machine.”) In the one district with no incumbents, Dominguez—a lifelong Democrat — won despite strenuous opposition from his own party and with

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equally enthusiastic support by Republican Party leaders like Central Committee Chair (and outgoing councilmember) Dale Francisco. (Party bylaws preclude the Republican Party from officially endorsing candidates of opposing parties.) Dominguez, by far the oldest of the District 1 candidates, boasted a résumé that included stints with the Los Angeles City Attorney’s and county District Attorney’s offices, and the Santa Barbara County Counsel’s office, not to mention eight months as executive director of the Legal Aid Foundation. Such credentials stood him in good stead with moderate voters of both parties, big shots within the downtown business community, and activists associated with the Milpas Community Association. In stark contrast, Martinez Cohen —who placed second—had no prior political experience and had been enlisted to run by councilmembers Gregg Hart and Cathy Murillo after attending a forum about women in political power. Dominguez held his victory party at El Bajio restaurant on Milpas Street, a politically charged statement. El Bajio’s owners took intense flak earlier this year for supporting a business improvement district proposed by the MCA and denounced by Councilmember Murillo, smaller Latino-owned businesses in the area, and a handful of Latino activists. On election night, Dominguez said he chose El Bajio “for its great Mexican food,” but in the months to come, he’ll have to decide between the MCA plan and a competitive but much smaller proposal hatched by his campaign rival Jacqueline Inda. Almost universally, the explanation given for Dominguez’s success is,“He worked his ass off.” According to aneccont’d page 11 

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Victoria Harris, 67, of Cambria was killed in a hit-and-run on Hollister Avenue west of Arboleda Road on the night of 10/30. Eileen E. Fox, 50, of Santa Barbara was driving her 2013 Nissan Murano westbound on Hollister, where Harris had parked her 2015 Toyota Corolla on the road’s shoulder. The CHP reports Harris stepped out of her car and was hit by the Nissan. She died due to injuries at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Fox fled the scene but was later arrested at a Goleta residence for alleged felony hitand-run and involuntary manslaughter. She was booked into Santa Barbara County Jail on $100,000 bail and bailed out.

The streets were quiet this Halloween in Isla Vista, with only about 500 partygoers roaming Del Playa compared to 12,00015,000 in 2013. Pending final numbers, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s spokesperson Kelly Hoover said 16 people were cited, and 28 were arrested for misdemeanors over a two-day period. Last year, I.V. saw 40 Halloween weekend citations and 40 arrests; 250 citations and 200 arrests were made during 2013’s three-day operation. Only seven partyers were taken to the hospital this year, which the Sheriff’s Office said is much lower than in years past. The county supervisors took steps this week to strike the word “dangerous” from Santa Barbara’s so-called dangerous dog ordinance. Current law requires such dogs to be euthanized. Last year, Animal Services put down 300 dogs (without request). The number has steadily decreased since 2011, when 939 dogs were euthanized. (Santa Maria had the highest percentage.) The law will instead classify ill-behaving dogs as either “restricted” (could be muzzled or trained) or “vicious” (sent to a sanctuary or put down). In addition, people who do not pick up dog waste in unincorporated areas could be subject to fines.

CITY Noting the downgrade of Saks Fifth Avenue on the corner of Carrillo and State to its discount store, Saks Off 5th, Michael Martz, a founding partner at Hayes Commercial Group, stated last week that demand has dropped for downtown’s prime shopping blocks. Martz attributed the “tepid” interest among potential tenants to the arrival of low-end retailers such as Marshalls and H&M, which he sees as diminishing State Street’s appeal as a boutique shopping area. Nonetheless, the overall retail vacancy rate in the area is 2 percent, compared to a forecast 13 percent nationwide for 2015’s third quarter.

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Authorities believe 21-yearold Max Pappas shot his mother, Lori Wolf-Pappas, at her Santa Ynez Valley home before fatally shooting himself in the head. They are the son and estranged wife of Steve Pappas, who ran for 3rd District county supervisor in 2008 and lost and then spent years in court contesting the outcome. Sheriff’s officials and California Highway Patrol officers discovered Max Pappas’s body in a car crashed on the Lori Wolf-Pappas (left) and Max Pappas 1500 block of Refugio Road at about 2:10 p.m. on October 31. Authorities believe he shot himself while driving. At the house associated with the car, Sheriff’s deputies found Wolf-Pappas, who was 57, dead. Max Pappas had no guns registered to his name, according to Sheriff’s spokesperson Kelly Hoover, and no firearms were found in the house. Hoover said the department is working to determine where the handgun came from. Max, who has a younger brother, had reportedly moved in with his father. Hoover said the deaths are under investigation and declined to release further information. Pappas had been in a recovery home, where staff observed significant mentalhealth issues. Since January 2014, three disturbance calls were reported at his mother’s house. In the last year, two domestic-disturbance calls and three noise complaints were made at his father’s Los Olivos home. No guns were found in either home, and neither parent has guns registered to their names. On September 2, Max Pappas was charged with attempting to “commit a violent injury” against his father, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Steve Pappas had made a citizen’s arrest for assault after Max allegedly threw a towel hanger and other items at him during an argument. Steve was not injured. Max spent the night in jail. He pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge. In 2012, Max was charged with an alcohol-related misdemeanor. Friends recalled Max Pappas as friendly and outgoing in high school but said he had not been doing well recently. His demeanor had changed entirely, one friend said. He appeared emotionless and was reportedly in therapy. Many people have posted “Rest in Peace” messages on social media accounts. This is the second murder-suicide in the Santa Ynez Valley in a few weeks. Last month, Gregg Hamilton shot and killed his wife, Kimberly Hamilton, before taking his own life. In the Sheriff’s Office jurisdiction, no other homicides have been reported this year; last year, there were five, and one in 2013, excluding murder— Kelsey Brugger suicides.

Becker well at Summerland Beach (pictured). InterAct must now produce an engineering plan for the capping project. Total cost for this phase will be about $70,000, according to Steve Curran, a petroleum-drilling engineer with State Lands. Over the coming year, environmental-impact and safety studies will compose phase two, and, optimistically, phase-three proper capping will take place next fall or winter, Curran said. The total cost has been estimated upward of $800,000. Booze will be sold on the Chumash Casino gambling floor, and only patrons 21 and older will be let in as part of a temporary permit

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granted by the state’s Department of Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC). The change — 18-year-olds were previously allowed on the floor — enables the casino to serve alcohol in certain areas with a number of conditions, including no alcohol 1-9 a.m. The permit lasts 120 days and can be renewed indefinitely until an ABC judge makes the final decision, which can be appealed. Sheriff Bill Brown and 3rd District Supervisor Doreen Farr have protested the decision due to concerns over drunk driving.

PEOPLE Nonprofit Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara announced last week that longtime fundraiser Barbara Ben-Horin will serve as its new chief executive officer beginning January 2016. Former CEO of 20 years Monica Spear resigned from her post in May, and since then boardmember Tracy Jenkins has acted as interim CEO. Ben-Horin has over 35 years of experience leading major local and national nonprofits such as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Foundation for SBCC, and Planned Giving, a financial support branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. n

OPEN ARMS: Foster parent Jamee Baker (center), who adopted her first child last week after taking in 15 foster kids during the past five years, was recognized for National Adoption Month.

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very time Jamee Baker and her husband bring a new foster child into their Orcutt home, they go to HomeTown Buffet. It’s a ritual they began after three little girls — ages 3, 9, and 11 — arrived at their doorstep, reunited for the first time in several years. Unfed and unwashed, they were scared to death. Baker’s first instinct, as it often is, was to wrap her arms around them. But they were not receptive. “They could not even tell us what kind of food they wanted to eat,” she said. At the buffet, Baker could see what foods they chose to eat. Baker, who is just shy of 50, was one foster parent recognized by county supervisors this week for the 15 kids she has brought into her home in the past five years. Last week, she and her second husband, Ronnie Baker—whom she married after she lost her husband to cancer 10 years ago—adopted a 14-year-old boy, Egan. Next month, they will adopt Jonathan, who is 10. They also have five biological adult children between them. Fifty-six foster homes exist in the county, most in North County. At any given time, about 450 county kids are in foster care, spending an unknown amount of time in a home, sometimes several in one year. In the past five years, an average of 90 kids were adopted annually. Currently, more than 100 foster children are waiting to be placed in permanent homes through adoption, and 133 children have been placed out of the county. Some have specific needs—due to substance abuse or mentalhealth problems—are living with relatives, or are older and in transitional housing (whether they prefer it or not). Foster parents receive $500-$900 a month per child based on age. On November 18, juvenile court will finalize seven adoptions. Supervisor Doreen Farr, who has three adopted adult sons and sponsored the county recognition, recalled the county placed her first child with her family nearly 34 years ago. At a foster-care stakeholders meeting Tuesday, social services professionals talked about reducing the number of children in group homes—there are 37 children now —because a state law going into effect in 2018 only allows short-term group homes. independent.com

When a child enters a foster home, the parents are often unaware of the trauma he or she has experienced.“I think a lot of families, if they [knew] everything up front, they wouldn’t want to do it,” Baker said. “You are not going to get a foster care kid who doesn’t have baggage. You are not even going to get a regular person who doesn’t have baggage.” At least five of her foster kids, Baker said, asked if they had to shut their bedroom door at night. She could never figure out why. Baker recalled she would find those little girls tucked into one bed. Later, she learned all three had slept together in one bed in a trailer at their grandmother’s house. There had been no running water; they had slept in their clothes. The two little ones had no clue how to take a shower. The youngest spoke little English. “We made it through it,” Baker said, before the three were adopted. Baker knew she wanted to be a mother by the 2nd grade. She became a foster mom one week after she married Ronnie, who had never met his father and was in and out of his mother’s home as a child. They never imagined they would adopt a child, but that changed shortly after Egan, who was 11, and his older brother, 13, arrived. “They were just itty-bitty,” she recalled. The older brother suffered from mental illness and ultimately needed to be placed in a group home for safety reasons. The decision, Baker expressed, was difficult. She decided to adopt Egan in part so he could stay close to his older brother, who is now 17, has a job, and is doing well. Finding permanent homes for older children is often more difficult. Baker’s decision was made one day when she was touring a house she was looking to buy.“Egan was with us, running from room to room,” she recalled. “He stops, and he goes,‘Hey, if this house is for sale and we’re buying it, does this mean it’s our forever home?’” Baker, who is a devout Christian, knew she was “supposed to be adopting him.” Egan, Baker said, still wonders,“Why do you want me?” In accepting her award, Baker told the supervisors: “If we had a bigger house, we would take more.” To report child abuse, call 1 (800) 367-0166.

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By 9 a.m., just as the fire reached a critical tipping point between some semblance of control and genuine catastrophe, “We had nine tankers in the air, and 10 helicopters,” Nunez said. A 10th plane, the venerable DC-10, arrived around 9:30 a.m. “Because the fire was burning in two drainages, we wouldn’t have had the resources to stop it if it had started moving downhill in both canyons simultaneously,” Nunez said. The assessed property value within the Montecito Fire Protection District — which maintained evacuation warnings for its neighborhoods north of Highway 192 for 25 hours—is more than $8 billion, according to district spokesperson Geri Ventura. By noon, promises of averted disaster started to take shape, but crews remained vigilant as the forecast called for another blow of afternoon sundowners. The collective sigh of relief came Friday morning, after a long night without any flare-ups. The general sentiment among firefighters is that the multiagency coordination was an exemplary effort combined with favorable alignment in the heavens. While Thursday’s sundowners—though nerve-racking—didn’t live up to their ominous forecast, Gibraltar crews had also enjoyed the operational ease of not having to compete for aircraft, engines, and boots on the ground, as no other major fires were burning in the state. Add that good fortune to the fact that firefighters have been in training for a worse-case scenario. After all, firestorms are Santa Barbara’s most common natural disaster. Back in April — as the region entered its fourth year of severe drought, with all its attendant dead or dying grassland, shrubs, and trees—a multiagency caravan of firefighting shot-callers toured three major South Coast wildfire sites — Gap, Painted Cave, and Tea—to revisit access points, lines of attack, and lessons learned. After that, an incident management team was selected from firefighting agencies countywide and trained to be ready at the drop of a hat. On the day before the fire, fire departments raised firedanger alerts for the coming sundowners as chiefs powwowed via conference call to discuss getting more men at the ready. County Fire, for example, up-staffed with two extra brush trucks, a water tender, a 20-man hand crew, and a battalion chief, according to Captain David Zaniboni. Lastly, on the night before the fire, the Montecito district’s MERRAG (pronounced “mirage,” a k a Montecito Emergency

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The wheels of justice have churned exceedingly slowly for Linda Louise Archer, the homeless woman found beaten to death in a culvert by the Castillo Street off-ramp back in 1997. It took Santa Barbara investigators 18 years to arrest Manuel Salmeron Manzanares (pictured) earlier this summer for Archer’s murder. And it took another three hours of waiting around in Judge Clifford Anderson’s otherwise unused courtroom on October 30 for Manzanares to plead guilty to seconddegree murder, a process that took no longer than 10 minutes. Garbed in County Jail blue with slippers, orange socks, and a locked chain cinched around his waist, Manzanares answered “Yes,” with the aid of an interpreter, to a series of questions from county prosecutor Arnie Tolks. Manzanares, 37, will spend at least 16 years in state prison before becoming eligible for parole. The procedure was utterly devoid of any trace of courtroom melodrama. None of Archer’s relatives were on hand, nor was the city detective Andy Hill, who got Manzanares to confess to the crime by confronting him with a last-minute DNA match. At the time of the killing, Manzanares was a quasi-homeless youth barely north of age 18. Born in Mexico, he immigrated to the United States as a child with his family and grew up in Santa Barbara. According to court records, he would amass an extensive record of petty street crimes associated with his drug addiction. There was little evidence of the violence used to kill Archer, then a 43-year-old mentally ill street person with two kids. Even in his confession, Manzanares was skimpy on details. He and Archer had agreed to have sex, but Archer reportedly wanted a beer first. Manzanares objected. That seemingly minor disagreement escalated into a violent fight. Evidence suggests that Archer fled her homeless camp and that Manzanares caught her and beat her to death with a tree stump. In 2012, city police detectives sent dried skin taken from underneath Archer’s fingernails to a national DNA lab to see if it matched anyone behind bars. It belonged to Manzanares, who was being held in the Lompoc federal prison for having re-entered the U.S. illegally. For whatever reason, Manzanares came clean to Hill and another detective. The only question was whether he’d be convicted of second-degree murder — no evidence indicated the premeditation required of first-degree murder — or manslaughter. He won’t be sentenced for the killing —  Nick Welsh until December 1.

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EXALTING AND EXHALING: “Do you have any idea how long it’s been since I’ve had any fun?” asked a much-relieved Councilmember Cathy Murillo (left, standing next to defeated District 1 candidate Andria Martinez Cohen).

elections cont’d from p.8 dotal lore from precinct walkers and door knockers of all stripes, Dominguez didn’t just knock on every door; he got there first. For Daraka Larimore-Hall, chieftain of the Democratic Party, Dominguez’s victory was a bitter pill.“The question now is which Jason Dominguez won the election,” Larimore-Hall stated. “He presented so many faces throughout the campaign.” Tuesday night marked the second time Dominguez would get the best of Larimore-Hall. In 2004, Dominguez edged him out in a race for a spot on the Democratic Central Committee. Dominguez had sought the party nomina-

tion this year, but he was turned down and told to wait for future opportunities. While Tuesday’s turnout proved lackluster compared to previous citywide elections, champions of district elections noted that voter turnout in Districts 1 and 3—traditionally notoriously low—were higher than usual, 38 and 35 percent respectively. Typically, turnout in these neighborhoods ranges from 28-32 percent. Likewise, they can claim far more Latino candidates ran this year and that, for District 1, four of the five named candidates — and certainly the top three vote getters—speak Spanish. n independent.com

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by T y l e r H ay d e N only two appointments since his screening three months ago. But the department still struggles to manage patients’ very soldier has a wartime memory that aches “I asked to be seen more often, but they said they didn’t have schedules, according to a report issued Wednesday by the deeper than the others. For Corporal Michael the staff,” he said. “I’d really like to see someone at least every U.S. Government Accountability Office. A review of 100 cases Stout, it was the first few minutes of a predawn other week.” nationwide found vets waited an average of 26 days from their raid that went terribly wrong. Stout echoes a complaint being voiced by an increasing first request for mental-health treatment to get an appointStout was a Marine Corps air support operator number of Santa Barbara veterans troubled by extremely long ment. Some waited up to 279 days. Others were forced to go 57 on his second deployment in 2013, directing coalition attacks wait times and frustrated with the VA’s often impenetrable days after their first assessment to begin treatment. VA officials said they’re taking the report seriously. The and medevacs in Afghanistan’s battle-scarred Helmand Prov- bureaucracy. It’s a nationwide problem, especially as more ince. One morning just before 4 a.m., he safely guided a Danish public attention is paid to PTSD and suicide rates among sol- department admitted individual clinics are having a hard time Special Forces helicopter to its landing site at a nearby village. diers. Santa Barbara’s vets stress clinic doctors and nurses are meeting demands but noted hiring goals have been reached As the chopper touched down and the troops jumped out, one excellent and doing their best, but they don’t have the staffing at the national level. The VA hired 5,300 mental-health cliniof them immediately stepped on an IED that tore off his left or hours to help. cians and administrative staff from 2012-2013, and increased arm and leg. “It happened just like that,” mental-health staffing by a fourth between said Stout with a snap of his fingers. “The 2010 and 2014. Still, a federal audit released this August says the VA hasn’t been effecsituation shifts so quickly.” The Special Forces team repeatedly tive in its hiring opportunities or using existing personnel to improve access to radioed for a rescue, and a U.S Marine helicopter still circling the area confirmed timely care. The agency doesn’t have a over and over it was ready to swoop in. But good way of determining staffing needs at the mission’s commander,“looking out for specific locations, and so 94 of 140 facilities the lives of the marines on that aircraft are still short of psychiatrists. The deficit is —the multimillion-dollar aircraft—and exacerbated by a countrywide scarcity of the mission,” denied the requests, which psychiatrists in general. Stout had to relay to the desperate men Santa Barbara’s VA clinics—the Calle in the field. “The commander just kept Real location and an office in Santa Maria saying, ‘No, no, no,’ ” remembered Stout, —provide health care to 5,437 individual his eyes brimming. “It was just the sadveterans. It has offered mental-health serdest moment …”When marines transport vices to 2,487 vets so far this year, coma soldier killed in action, they announce pared to 2,147 in 2010. Practitioners have they’re carrying an “angel.” That morning, held 12,252 appointments in 10 months this year, up from 9,969 in all of 2010. Those Stout helped lead one angel back to base. The memory still haunts him. So do sessions include face-to-face encounters or many more moments of sudden death and meetings set up through what the VA calls violence. Stout coordinated daily gun runs “telemedicine technology.” and Hellfire strikes against the Taliban. The mental-health team in South “When there was downtime, I started to YOUNG GUN: Michael Stout grew up with little money and little encouragement to attend County currently consists of one partrealize I played a significant part in killing college, so he joined the marines at 17. “It was what I felt like I should do, what I wanted to do,” he time psychologist and two part-time psypeople I didn’t know,” said Stout. It wasn’t said. “And it just so happened to be the only option I had.” chiatrists. Three existing positions remain enough that American generals and politiopen and unfilled — for a psychiatrist, cians said he was fighting in a justifiable war.“With what I felt, Grievances started increasing this summer after the Calle psychologist, and nurse. A new psychiatrist position will be it was hard to reconcile,” he said. Real clinic lost some of its staff to attrition, lured away by less created next year. Stout, 24, left the Marine Corps in May 2013 and enrolled exhausting jobs with better pay. Because of the VA’s lengthy The North County clinic at the moment has three psycholin Santa Barbara City College. He jumped straight into his hiring process, it can take five or more months to find replace- ogists (who split their time with the San Luis Obispo office), studies, met a girl, worked security at Dargan’s, and began ments. “Our office has had a noticeable uptick in complaints one psychiatrist, three social workers, and a nurse practitioner. a newswriting and photography internship with this paper, about VA care,” said C.J.Young, press secretary for Representa- It is looking to hire two psychologists, two social workers, and where I was his supervisor. In person, Stout was gracious tive Lois Capps. “People are upset that their calls aren’t being an additional nurse. and plainspoken with a wry sense of humor. He excelled as answered and that their cases are being kicked down to Los VA spokesperson Michiko Riley in Los Angeles was unable to provide answers to some of the other questions submitted an intern. Something, however, was weighing heavily on his Angeles.” mind. Dr. Joe Blum worked as a physician in the Santa Barbara by The Santa Barbara Independent last Friday, such as how It was only later that I learned Stout was struggling with outpatient clinic for more than three decades before retiring long the average wait time is for veterans seeking an initial PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder.“I had a lot I wasn’t deal- nine years ago. Even back then, the same problems persisted mental-health diagnosis, what other agencies or organizations ing with at the time,” he said. “I didn’t even have the words to —overtaxed caregivers hamstrung by a rigid system of checks the VA refers patients to if it can’t provide the needed care, or ask myself the deep moral questions I had about my experi- and balances that drowns them in paperwork and keeps them exactly how often a VA patient is able to meet with a mentalence in Afghanistan.” Stout noticed he was becoming per- from patients. “They’re very dedicated and feel honored to health worker. Riley said the paper’s Tuesday-afternoon deadpetually anxious. He began to worry about how much he work for our veterans, to go beyond duty on all levels,” he said. line was too quick of a turnaround for the media-submission was drinking, which, as the son of two addicts, was always a “But for some reason, because of these administrative hurdles, process at her office, which has a new boss.“With new leaderconcern of his. He had nightmares of being shot at in a guard they’re unable to take care of people in a timely fashion.” ship comes new policies,” she said. “A year ago, it might not More recently, in April 2014, a damning spotlight was have been a problem.” tower. His relationships suffered. He’d jump to full alert when a helicopter passed overhead. Hoping to numb this inner pain, thrown on the VA when CNN reported at least 40 veterans The Veterans Center in Ventura often fills the void left by he kept as busy and distracted as possible. died while waiting for care at the Veterans Health Adminis- the clinics. Though technically under the VA umbrella, it operThen Stout read a description of PTSD and thought to tration facilities in Phoenix. An investigation revealed that ates independently as a more nimble, community-based haven himself,“Man, this is me.” This is when he reached out for help. clinic records had been manipulated to meet performance for 4,500 Ventura and southern Santa Barbara county vets. It turned out to be relatively simple to schedule an appoint- goals, which kept more than 1,700 veterans off an official Its five full-time counselors, four of whom are veterans, proment at the Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic on Calle Real, waiting list. Federal officials concluded the VA had displayed vide one-on-one and group therapy, connecting with patients where a psychiatrist diagnosed him with the disorder. He was “significant and chronic system failures” within a “corrosive through UCSB, SBCC, the Veterans Memorial Building, and prescribed an antidepressant, but the medication left him culture” of administrative misconduct. In the wake of the via events like air shows, Stand Down, and VetNet meetings. groggy and uncomfortable. What he really wanted to do was scandal, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki resigned, Vet Center outreach specialist Jose Perez said the criticism talk to someone. and Congress passed a $15 billion bill to drastically overhaul he hears most often from those seeking help from the clinics Booking the regular therapy sessions his VA benefits entitle the agency by increasing staff levels and improving access to is that the locations are shorthanded and can’t hold onto their him to, however, has proved exceptionally difficult—he’s had non-VA medical centers. employees. “As soon as they get to know a doctor, the doc12

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tor moves on,” said Perez. “That’s a concern.” Perez estimated that 65-75 percent of the vets his office serves suffer from PTSD. More and more, Central Coast communities are picking up the slack, as well, Perez said. “Santa Barbara has been amazing the last two years,” and San Luis Obispo, which has its own Vet Center, is “becoming a model for veteran care.” Perez said that running the VA gauntlet can be a daunting task but the resources are out there. “I personally feel loved and supported by the VA,” he said. “I would encourage all veterans to not give up. Even if you get a few ‘Nos,’ keep looking.” Dr. Larry Decker agreed the Central Coast safety net is a strong one.“I think there are quite a few options here,” he said, pointing to the new Veterans Choice Program that allows patients to see a private practitioner if VA wait times are too long, no specialists are available, or if the closest clinic is located especially far from a vet’s home. Hazel Blankenship with the PierreClaeyssens Foundation said the same thing. “It’s better than it was. There’s a lot more available compared to just a few years ago.” The New Beginnings Counseling Center, Vista Del Mar, Jewish Family Services, Oxnard Family Circle, Catholic Charities, Casa Esperanza, UCSB’s Veterans Resource Team, and the Veterans Treatment Court have all been routinely praised for their good work. Decker cofounded the Ventura Vet center (which was originally located in Santa Barbara until it moved south to be closer to a bigger vet population), and he now contracts with it through his Garden Street practice. He specializes in PTSD and wrote a book on the condition. “If you’re in combat and trying to kill people, and people are trying to kill you, that changes who you are,” he said. “Combat soldiers really know something that we civilians don’t know. And for the most part, civilians don’t care. Vets recognize that easily.” That inability to relate, which Stout described in detail upon his return home, isolates, saddens, and angers many veterans, Decker said. “People go to movies and read books, and they think they know what these guys go through,” he went on. “That’s total crap.” Studying PTSD, as he put it, is a moral opportunity for the rest of the U.S. population to become more sensitive to what men and women endure on the battlefield and what they deal with stateside. Decker and

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others remembered the case of Eddie Van Tassel, an Iraq war veteran with PTSD who waved an American flag and brandished an unloaded pistol on the La Cumbre overpass in 2008 to bring attention to veterans’ issues. The Wounded Warrior Project publicized a survey this week of 23,000 injured soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. More than three quarters of them — 76.2 percent —said they are struggling with PTSD, and 35 percent said they’ve experienced difficulty getting mental-health care. Defense Department estimates put the number of veterans with obvious physical injuries from the wars at around 52,000 but more than 10 times that figure as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. New government research shows that between 2000 and 2010, 43,208 veterans committed suicide. Among men 18-29 years old, the annual number of suicides per 100,000 people was 83.3 for veterans and 17.6 for nonveterans. A total of 6,840 U.S. service members have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Stout said sharing his inner demons has helped soften the effects of PTSD. He’s stopped drinking, as well, and he recently turned a corner where the future doesn’t seem so dim. “I’m really glad I feel that way,” he said with obvious relief. His advice for other veterans is to let it out.“Talk to another vet,” he said.“Try to connect. Talk about anything and everything so you can start putting words to your thoughts.” So he can help fellow soldiers help themselves should they need support, Stout wants to become a social worker. “The system is structured well, but it often doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to,” said Stout, who even after volunteering at a veteran resource center has had a hard time navigating his healthcare options. His roommate, also a veteran, just received a $600 bill from Cottage Hospital for services he was incorrectly told were covered by his VA benefits. Stout understands changes at the VA need to happen on a national level for there to be any big impacts here in Santa Barbara. In the meantime, he declared, “They need to put a lot more effort into the front end and have as many people as they need to see vets adequately.” It can be hard for marines like him to ask for a hand, so when they do, it should be there, Stout said. “We’re not broken, but we are different.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs maintains a hotline for veterans in crisis that operates 24 hours a day. Call 1 (800) 273-8255, go to veteranscrisisline.net/chat, or send a text to 838255.

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smoke on the horizon, I freak. I’m squirrelly that way. With that in mind, I was beyond relieved that firefighters managed to wrestle last week’s Gibraltar Fire into submission so quickly. A big and belated thanks goes out to former county supervisor Willy Chamberlin, who died of cancer a few months ago. More than anybody else, Chamberlin got our air tanker base reestablished in Santa Maria after a few years’ hiatus. That base proved absolutely critical for loading and reloading the 10 planes deployed and armed with chemical fire retardant. Without Santa Maria, the tankers would have had to fly in from much farther away. That translates to fewer drops and a less concentrated attack. That matters. Chamberlin was the proverbial tall drink of water who favored cowboy hats, blue jeans, and platter-sized belt buckles. He was elected county supervisor in 1992 as the voice of ranchers and farmers railing against the environmentalist majority. He got on our bad side early, boasting he’d been endorsed by every newspaper on the South Coast. We hadn’t, and when we pointed that out, he explained he meant “reputable” papers. Relations went south from there. If we ever managed to get under Chamberlin’s skin—and we tried—he made a point to never let it show. Ultimately, Chamberlin managed to lose the same election he won—after a grueling recount fight took place in several court-

rooms. He left office, and we lost track. In 2011, he called out of the blue as if we were the best of friends. He was on a mission, and he needed a journalistic stooge. At the time, Santa Barbara had barely escaped three massive back-to-back wildfires in 18 months. Compounding the problem, Santa Barbara found itself without an air tanker station, which had existed from 19582007 at the Santa Barbara airport. But it was too small, so it was shifted up to Santa Maria, which boasts one of the biggest airports in California. Two years later—in 2009—bean counters with the cash-strapped U.S. Forest Service determined they could save $200,000 a year if they shut down Santa Maria. Instead, we were notified, we could rely on “call-whenneeded service” that would be provided out of bases in Lancaster or Paso Robles. Not cool. Local fire chiefs were kept out of the loop. By the time they knew what hit them, they were on their backs. Initially, Forest Service officials insisted they could have tankers in the air within 30 minutes. That got pushed back to four hours. But with the onslaught of the Jesusita Fire in 2009, we found out it was really between 36-48 hours. Early on during Jesusita, it turns out, three air tankers had been deployed out of Santa Maria. But Forest Service administrators grounded them. It wasn’t fire season yet, and no contract had been signed between the Forest Service and the private contractors loading retardant onto

the planes. Thirty-six hours later, sundowners kicked in. What seemed like a punk-ass

fire raged out of control. Eighty homes went up in smoke. By the time air tankers were activated, it was already too late. In response, Congressmember Lois Capps worked to get the tanker base reestablished but met with limited results. Chamberlin, a Republican, went to work on the other side of the aisle. Chamberlin and the fire chiefs got resolutions of support from every city council on the South Coast. He got former Ventura County congressmember Elton Gallegly to set up a meeting with top brass from the Forest Service. He worked his connections for all they were worth. Behind the scenes, Forest Service officials subtly suggested Chamberlin might be a tool for fire privateers who made money by selling retardant. They pointed out that the Zaca Fire of 2007—the second-biggest in the state — cost $120 million to put out though not one structure was ever threatened. Even so, the Forest Service picked up the tab for 1,700 flights and 2.5 million gallons of retardant. On the flip side, it turned out one of the Forest Service administrators most responsible for shutting down the Santa Maria base had recently retired and gone into business with a private firefighting-equipment contractor. He contacted the Santa Barbara Fire Department about leasing a massive super-scooper air tanker capable of dropping 28,000 gallons an hour. Given that the Santa

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Maria tanker base was shut down, he noted in his sales pitch, Santa Barbara might need one. Local firefighters went ballistic. Media stooges got called. In response to the political pressure Chamberlin helped generate, the Forest Service announced it would reopen a tanker base in Santa Maria. In exchange, the locals agreed to pony up some of the resources needed to keep the base open. From what I’m hearing, that’s not happening. Given the escalating costs associated with front-country firefighting, that’s not cool, either. This summer, the Forest Service issued an official fatwa, noting that 52 percent of its budget is now spent fighting forest fires. In 1995, it was only 16 percent. In 2015 alone, California has experienced 5,225 fires, consuming more than 217,000 acres, and chasing 23,000 people from their homes. Five years ago, there were 2,400 fires and the acreage consumed one-quarter as much. Nationally, fire season is now 78 days longer than it was in 1970. In places like California, it’s somewhere between 300-365 days a year. In just the last year, the cost of fire suppression increased by $115 million. Since 1998, the number of firefighters hired by the Forest Service jumped from 5,700 to 12,000. Because of this, the Forest Service can’t do a lot of other things it’s required to do. Among the programs shortchanged are a host of fireprevention initiatives designed to limit the intensity of fires once they start. The punch line? The Santa Maria tanker base was, and is, invaluable. Thanks a bunch, — Nick Welsh Willy.

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Michael Stephen Denton 08/15/52-09/23/15

Rich Gagnon was born on September 10, 1925, in Woodland, Maine. He graduated from St. Croix High School at age 15. After one year at the University of Southern Maine, he enlisted in the navy. Later he enrolled at the University of Maine, graduating with a B.A. in education. He started teaching biology in Casa Grande, AZ. He then attained his master’s degree in counseling from the University of Arizona. While in Casa Grande, he met and married a most wonderful lady — Betty Jane Dean. In 1954 the Gagnons moved to Corona, CA, where he taught biology. In 1958 they moved to Ventura, CA, where he taught physiology and oceanography at Ventura High School and algebra at Ventura College. He then attended Oregon State University, earning his second M.A., this one in biology. After twenty years of teaching in Ventura, Rich decided to change his life. He separated from Betty, although they maintained a loving relationship until Betty’s death in 2009. Rich had many talents, and he used them to enter each new job with a spirit of enthusiasm and complete immersion. He waited on tables at the Biltmore Resort, Alisal Guest Ranch, Marianne’s, and others. He then worked for a year as a psychiatric assistant at Cottage Hospital. Consequently, he became the activities director at Patterson Gardens (now Buena Vista) where he was awarded a certificate from the Area Agency for the Aged for making improvements in the activities department. Finally, he became a caregiver for a gentleman with mental-health problems. In 2003 Rich met Juan Cruzado. They have had a close relationship ever since and have done considerable traveling together in the U.S. and Europe. In addition to Juan, Rich is survived by his four children: Rick, Dennis, Michele, and Timothy. He also leaves seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Special thanks to the nurses at Hospice and Visiting Nurses of Santa Barbara. Memorial services will be held at Unity Church, 227 E. Arrellaga in Santa Barbara at 2:00 p.m., November 7. Memorial 16

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Michael Denton transitioned to a softer place on Wednesday September 23, 2015. His last moments were on the beach, where he had found peace and solace from childhood to his final days on earth. He always believed that when it was your time, it would be revealed to you. And so it was, surrounded by the sights, sounds and smells of the Pacific Ocean, that he left us. Michael was born and raised in Santa Barbara. He spent his formative years on the Mesa, living across the street from Mesa Lane. It was a simple time of building forts, riding bikes, backyard sleepovers, and early-morning dawn patrols in search of waves. In 1962, his family moved to the San Roque area where he made new friends who would remain a part of him the for rest of his life. Michael’s sense of humor and sense of fun led him into theater arts in high school, and while he was in the air force managing weather devices in southern California, he established an off-base company to put on plays for the local community. After his honorable discharge from the air force, he spent an entire year traveling from Santa Barbara to South America with Tulum Dothee, with whom he was married from 1983-1988. Michael was a graduate of both San Marcos High School and Santa Barbara City College. He was part of the Marine Technology Program, which provided him with the skills for challenging worldwide work, allowing him to be in and around the ocean that he was so connected to. His band of “fraternity brothers” still continues on from that time. After leaving the diving community, Michael was employed by Robert Mondavi as their master landscaper, caretaker and maintenance supervisor for all the Mondovi Corporation holdings in Napa Valley, as well as for the family’s private estates. When he moved back to Santa Barbara in

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2006, he worked both in Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez as an independent contractor. He also donated his time to the Trinity Garden rebuilding a greenhouse, maintaining the mechanical equipment and putting his ability to grow anything to good use. The garden was a perfect fit for his knowledge and creative spirit. Michael is survived by his mother, Margaret “Peggy” Denton; his sister, Sandra Denton and two nephews, Philip Scheid IV and Owen Scheid. To his family he was a loving son, brother and uncle. Anyone who knew Michael remembers him as a big man with a kind and sensitive heart, a wicked sense of humor, a musician, a rescuer of dogs and a planner of adventures. He was always ready to roll at a moment’s notice. His was a heart that would give his last dollar to a stranger in need. He was a multi-talented master gardener and tradesman, a prankster with the best of them who always left the room with a good-natured wink and a lasting and endearing friendship to all he met. He will be missed tremendously by all whose lives he touched. His spirit will live in our hearts and souls forever. A memorial service will take place in the spring of 2016, leaving from the Santa Barbara Harbor, where family and friends will gather to release his ashes, as he requested, into the sea, which he loved so much.

and joined the L.A. Thunderbirds roller derby team, known to TV fans as “Sweet Sue.” Following that she took advantage of her City College journalism training to work in the News-Press library, eventually becoming head librarian. While traveling with Brantingham, she photographed many foreign countries during their travel-writing trips abroad. Her photographs often accompanied Barney’s News-Press travel stories and columns in The Independent. She became an avid cook, inspired by TV food shows and a vast library of cookbooks she collected. Her neighbors and family looked forward to tasting the complicated dishes she delighted in sharing. She spent much of her time working on their home in San Roque and could often be found on her front porch reading and listening to KUSC classical music station. Each weekend she would set out with friends to visit thrift shops, delighting in returning home with a trunkful of treasures, fun at the cost of about $10. She also delighted in three cats that adopted the house. She is survived by her husband and two brothers: Paul, of Ojai, and Peter, of Santa Barbara. She was preceded in death by her parents, Peter and Vivian, and her brother David. She asked that donations be made to Planned Parenthood.

Lillian Winnikoff 1932-2015

Susan Vivian De Lapa 1950-2015

Susan Vivian De Lapa, 65, former head librarian at the Santa Bar Barbara News-Press and column photographer at The Santa Barbara Independent, died on October 18 Independent at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital of a heart attack. At the time of her death she was married to Barney Brantingham, columnist at The Independent. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, she moved to Santa Barbara with her family in 1961. An outstanding athlete, she excelled in track and other sports at Bishop Diego High School and Santa Barbara City College. When she failed to qualify for the 1972 Summer Olympics, she attended on her own, traveling on a shoestring budget. She taught herself to become a competitive skater

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Lillian Winnikoff was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and passed away peacefully, surrounded by family in Santa Barbara, California, on the morning of October 14, 2015, at the age of 83. Lillian was predeceased by her husband of 57 years, Albert, son, Joel, and sisters, Deanna and Rita. Lillian is survived by her son, Marc; daughter-in-law, Meryl; and grandchildren, Jacob and Sophia. Lillian, in addition to being the consummate wife and mother, opened a residential real estate firm in Malibu with her husband, Albert. From their kitchen table they conducted an admirable volume of business selling and leasing homes, condominiums and land. Her work ethic was unparalleled, doing whatever it took to get a job done. However, her real passion was family, and she relished the time

when three generations of her family were under one roof celebrating birthdays, holidays or just being together. Lillian’s care was complex and difficult at times. We would like to thank Dr. Gerald Svedlow, Dr. James Moghtader and Dr. Natasha Marsten for their heroic efforts and compassionate care. We would also like to thank the entire staff at the Samarkand and Serenity House for making her comfortable. The family also thanks Cantor Mark Childs, who provided Lillian and her family with thoughtful and compassionate spiritual guidance. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Lillian’s name to Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care Foundation, 509 East Montecito Street, Suite 200, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

Vincent Ross Pickett 01/30/13-10/12/15

Vincent Ross Pickett died in his sleep October 12, 2015, at Vista del Monte retirement home in Santa Barbara, CA. He lived almost 103 years. Until the last few months, he was alert, his phenomenal memory intact, and he was painfree and happy. He was born in Los Angeles at the home of his grandparents on January 30, 1913. He lost both his parents to TB when he was a young boy. His only sibling, a beloved sister Dorothy, died of TB when he was a teen. He was raised by his Aunt Josephine and her husband, Ralph Wilcox. Ralph built their Spanish-style home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles and passed on his building skills to Vince. Vince graduated from Hollywood High, where he was in gymnastics, track and the school band. He graduated from Loyola University with a degree in economics. He met Helen Shindel, a graduate of Mt. St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles, at a concert. Both were music lovers. He played the sax and clarinet, and she played the piano. They were both great dancers. They were married on August 30, 1937, at St. Basil’s Church on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. Vince started his own building business in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles in the mid-1930s. His new business was interrupted by World War cont’D

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passed on from this earth last Sunday, October 25, at his home in Santa Barbara. Stewart was the son of Jim Mills and Mary McLaughlin and brother to James, Patrick, and Steven Mills. He was born in Carmel Valley on August 16, 1986. He graduated from Summit High School in Bend, Oregon, in 2004 and UC Santa Barbara in 2009. His last place of employment was The Santa Barbara Independent, where he had just started working as a sales representative. In his short time on this planet, Stewart left a remarkable impression among friends, family, colAN OPEN HEART: With his remarkably positive, easy empathy leagues, and acquaintances that and sense of fun, Stewart Mills made a friend of almost everyone cannot be overstated. People he met. would marvel at his positive attiI’ve hired several people in my career because I just tude, easy smile, and sheer enthusiasm and appreciation for life. Stewart had an uncanny ability to form plain liked them so much. Stewart was one of those meaningful relationships with nearly everyone he people. He started every day with a smile and met met. The outpouring of love and support on his Face- every new challenge with an open heart and an eagerbook page is a testament to the kind of human being ness to try new things and give them his all. We have a pretty tight-knit family here at The Indehe was: smart, steadfast, loyal, fun, and, most imporpendent, and Stewart fit right in. In addition to his tant, full of love and empathy for others. Stewart loved his mother to the moon and back role as a sales representative, he volunteered to help and would either talk to or text her every day. He with projects and parties and just about everything was a crackerjack mixologist, working as a bartender that was presented to him. He wrote me a note on and server at several high-end restaurants in Santa the night of his first day at work here simply to let me Barbara and San Diego. All of Stewart’s friends know know what a great day it had been, how supportive of his passion for rock music, especially heavy metal, everyone was, and how much he enjoyed the work. which you could often hear blasting from the speakers I thought it was a kind gesture and thanked him for of his beat-up Honda Element as he drove by, banging the note. But he didn’t stop there. Stewart wrote me his head and throwing up the “horns” with a big smile notes almost every week to thank me, give kudos to on his face. He was also a very good metal drummer his coworkers, and reiterate how much he appreciated who would spend hours listening to songs to get the the environment. intricate syncopations right, jamming with his brother Earlier this month, several of us had a chance to Patrick and his good friend Sean during their college travel to Monterey for a sales training meeting with years. He was a dog lover who most recently formed other newspaper companies. I’ve always loved the a strong bond with his roommate’s golden retriever, opportunity to travel with colleagues: to get a different perspective, to see people out of their usual enviKaya. Stewart’s passing has left a huge hole in the lives of ronment. This trip was short but exceptional. It was those who knew him best. He was a truly unique and refreshing to see Stewart interact with a whole range special young man who left us far too soon, but his of new people, and it was evident that he could hold legacy of friendship, compassion, and lust for life will his own with these seasoned professionals. But even live on in our hearts forever. There will be a celebration more special was the opportunity to meet Stewart’s of life in Stewart’s honor this Saturday, November 7, at brother James and James’s fiancée, Jess. Stewart had 11 a.m. at Manning Park. If you’d like to attend, please told me earlier that James was “the coolest person on RSVP to the open invite on Facebook so his family the planet,” and seeing the two of them together, it knows how many people to expect (facebook.com/ was evident how much Stewart loved James and his events/115936268767580). — James Mills entire family. Stewart grabbed hold of every day and squeezed it for all it was worth. He was quick-witted, astute, ome people come into our lives with a spark and optimistic, and empathetic. These all happen to be verve that make us feel as if we’ve always known important qualities for salespeople, but they’re also them. Stewart Mills was such a person. Such a important qualities in life. Stewart was living life to friend. He came into the lives of those of us at The the fullest, and we were lucky to have had him in Santa Barbara Independent very recently, in August our midst for the brief but full time that we did. We of this year. But in the two short months that we knew were charmed by him and enriched by his influence. him, he touched us with his enthusiasm, his positive More than anything, we were fortunate to get to know energy, his compassionate nature, and his willingness him and to call him our friend. We miss you, Stewart. — Sarah Sinclair to learn, take risks, and help out.

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II. During the war, Vince worked in the military aircraft industry at Bendix Aviation as a draftsman. After the war, he resumed his career as a building contractor. He was an artistic master of custom modern homes, which were ahead of their time in their simplicity, beauty and utility. A daughter Mary Lynn was born in 1938. A son Joseph France was born in 1948. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Hermosa Beach. Attacks of asthma and hay fever from the pollens of the valley trees forced the move. There he continued to build in Hermosa, Manhattan, and Redondo beaches and Palos Verdes. Many of the people he built homes for remained lifelong friends. He loved being with his family. He enjoyed coming to Mary Lynn’s and her husband Mike’s (Mallen), where he enjoyed Mike’s roses and the quail which roamed the yard. He also looked forward to lunches at his favorite Santa Barbara restaurants with Mary Lynn. He loved to travel to Joe’s and his wife Anne-Marie’s house in Tucson, Arizona, where he was pampered with Anne-Marie’s cooking. He and Joe both shared a love of sports and cars. Grandchildren include: Michele (Todd Pappas) Mallen, Kevin (Yuko Okumura) Mallen, Pamela (Bill) Poehler, David (Patti) Mallen, Thomas Pickett, Cambria Pickett (AJ McLean), and Sara (Katie Horlander) Pickett). Great-grandchildren Malin Pappas, Alexia Pappas, Lily Poehler, Kiara Mallen and Simone McLean were very dear to him. He was looking forward to the arrival of Simone’s new brother or sister in the spring. Vincent and Helen both enjoyed travel around the U.S. and Canada and made many memorable trips to Spain and Portugal. Vince loved to BBQ steaks, and both loved to entertain. He was known for his love of great food and drink. After Helen’s death, Vince moved to Santa Barbara from Hermosa Beach to be closer to Mary Lynn and Joe and their families. In his nineties, he moved to Vista del Monte retirement home. He received excellent care at Vista del Monte and was one of their favorite residents. They, his family and friends who knew him, will miss this very gentle man. As he wished, there will be a private family party in his honor in late November. Donations in his memory can be made to the University of Arizona Cancer Center, Development Office, P.O.Box 245013, Tucson, AZ 85724 or The Fact Foundation, which supports members of the Vista del Monte community, at kchurch@front porch.net.

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Dan Abbott Schwab went to be with the Lord on October 18, 2015. He was born in Augusta, Kentucky, in 1935, the oldest of six children, of Fenton and Mary Ellen Schwab. He graduated from Augusta High School and attended Campbellsville College before coming to California where he joined the air force. Danny was stationed for four years at Oxnard Air Force Base during which time he met his future wife, Alyce, who was in the USO. They were married in 1961 and had two children, Kristen Lynn and Ryan Keith. They moved to Santa Barbara where they built a home and lived for 37 years before moving north to Orcutt, California. Dan worked with computers while in the air force and went to Sawyers Business School after his discharge. He then worked for Tidewater Oil Co. in the Los Angeles area until his move to Santa Barbara. He was employed by UCSB for two years and by the County of Santa Barbara in the data-processing department for 22 years until he retired as a shift supervisor. Dan and Alyce traveled extensively from 1980 until he developed Alzheimer’s. He loved gardening, travel, and playing basketball; Dan was a lifelong fan of the University of Kentucky basketball team. He loved music, especially Brazilian jazz, and passed that love on to both of his children. He also loved the Lord and attended Grace Church and Bethany Congregational Church in Santa Barbara, and Christ United Methodist Church in Santa Maria, developing church families in both places. Dan is survived by his wife, Alyce; his children Kristen McIntyre (Bob) and Ryan (Teri); his two grandchildren Sarah Pipkin (Alex) and Anna Williams (Michael); his three brothers Steven, John and Budd; and nieces and nephews and their families. He is predeceased by his parents and two sisters, Susan and Betsy. A memorial service and homecoming celebration will be held at Christ United Methodist Church in Santa Maria on January 16, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. The family wishes to thank the caregivers at Alejandro’s Care Home, his doctors and their staffs, and the compassionate people at Marian Hospital who attended him in his last days there. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Christ United Methodist Church.

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n the mid-Riviera, we woke up last Thursday to helicopters flying overhead and fire truck sirens. After checking InciWeb, The Indy’s updates, and Ray Ford’s ever-reliable reporting, we realized our city could be facing another hellacious wildfire. Our family members lost their house in the Tea Fire, and their neighborhood was warned to evacuate on Thursday. By Sunday, it looked like firefighters had prevented the worst-case scenario. We are so full of gratitude for every firefighter we saw drive by, tired, with the battle against smoke and fire in their faces. They worked extremely hard to save our city. My family wants to say THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts to all the firefighters and pilots who fought this fire. For your bravery, you deserve a ticker-tape parade on State Street; you should also be supported by our community with affordable Santa Barbara housing, a pay increase, and our deepest respect and gratitude! — Angela Kelly, S.B.

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s last week’s “Grim and Grimmer” explained [independent.com/grimmer], the State Water Project (SWP) costs our county $50 million-plus a year and delivered only 5 percent last year. But if we had the desal plant that was voted on in 1991, and not state water, desal (total cost $34 million) would be running and would have been upgraded as new environmentally friendly technology came online. All of Santa Barbara would have a reliable supply of water at a fraction of the cost we are shelling out now. We never needed both desal and state water. And the state water that isn’t there is costing us dearly. Wouldn’t it be sounder to get rid of the SWP contracts and just rely on desal? I can think of better ways to spend $50 million a year than on pipes that don’t supply water when we need it; when they do have water, we have no place to put it all. State water was a bad idea in 1991 and is still a bad idea today for the very same reasons laid out in 1991.

And then there are the Twin Tunnels; the huge expense they would add for no more water is insane. But as long as we are locked into the SWP contracts, we will be responsible for our share of costs on whatever projects the state’s Water Resources department — Carolee Krieger, S.B. chooses to pursue.

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n last week’s Gustavo the Gardenator column [independent.com/leafblowers], we learned that illegal gas leaf blowers are fast and cheap. No surprise there —from litterers to negligent pipeline operators, many scofflaws and polluters justify their actions as necessary to save time or money. But no matter how efficiently performed, blowing clouds of dust from one property to the next often seems ridiculous. These machines are sufficiently noisy and noxious to have been banned in over 20 California cities. In one hour, they release more disease-causing hydrocarbons and particulate matter than hundreds of miles of driving. With gas blowers, the savings accrue to the landscaper, with the costs borne by the ears and lungs of neighbors. The quickest and easiest step to lessen household environmental impact is to get rid of gas-powered tools, especially blowers.

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¶ Last week’s “Endorsement Wars” news article contained an editing error that gave Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County’s endorsement to “her” when it should have been to “him,” i.e. Salud Carbajal, for Congress.

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O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Leader of

Charles Donelan, relishes the fact that our smallest actions have consequences, some bad but some very good. These works are an accumulation of unexpected results on both the intentional and accidental of the artists. The exhibit shows through December 5. Wed.-Sun.: noon-5pm. Arts Fund Gallery, 205-C Santa Barbara St. Free. Call 965-7321 or visit artsfundsb.org. 11/5-11/6: 8th Annual Cash for Candy Start practicing preventive dentistry and sell up to five pounds of Halloween candy for $2 per pound. Thu.: 5-8pm; Fri.: 4-8pm; Sun.: 11am-3pm. Johnson Family Dental, 3906 State St.; 687-6767. 678 Alamo Pintado Rd., Solvang; 688-9999. 103 S. Mills Rd., Ste. 101, Ventura; 643-5026. Free. Visit tinyurl.com/ cashforcandysb. 11/5-11/6: Iluminando la Noche (Light Up the Night) With the time change, it will get darker earlier, and you must be visible while you are on your

11/5-11/8: Painting Movements: Exhibition and Art Opening Artist Si Jie Loo will feature her works done by collaborating with S.B. arts and cultural groups throughout her residency with Morris Squire Foundation. She will show pieces that were painted during live musical performances as well as sketched during Adam Barruch’s Sweeney Todd. The exhibit will show until November 8. Fri.Sat.: 4-8pm. Sun.: 11am-3pm. Ayni Gallery, 216 State St. Free. Visit tinyurl.com/Painting Movements. 11/5-11/7: WoW 3rd Annual Sale WoW (Wonders of Weaving) will have one-of-a-kind handmade items created by weaving, spinning, knitting, basketry, papermaking, and sewing for sale with proceeds benefiting WoW at the CLL (Center for Lifelong Learning). Noon-7pm. S.B.

11/5: French Vanilla, Bernard Herman, Honey Maid, Text Back L.A.-based punk band

Public Market, 38 W. Victoria St. Free. Visit sbfiberarts.org. 11/5: Hot Buttered Rum, The Wild Reeds Hot Buttered

11/5: Senior Swing with Len Berman Get your swing on

Rum consists of five best friends who will play inviting originals and timeless classics from The Beatles, Hank Williams, and more. Also performing will be The Wild Reeds, a former three-part harmony band and current indie folk-rock force. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $13-$15. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com. Read more on p. 59. 11/5: Pop-Up Opera Get a sneak peek into what Opera S.B. is preparing for its season at this crowd-pleasing pop-up performance. 5:30-6:15pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 963-4364 or visit sbma.net.

with band Jazz Plus, which will play Dixieland, blues, jazz, and swing music. This is a trial program, so show your enthusiasm to have these “swings” continue in 2016. 4-5pm. Jewish Federation of Greater S.B., 524 Chapala St. Free. Call 597-1115 or visit jewish santabarbara.org.

Friday 11/6 11/6: A Crimson Holiday Grand Opening Party This holiday gift gallery will feature 39 artists and a great selection

of fine arts and crafts for your home, family, and friends. Join the annual gallery opening for refreshments and a sneak peek at all the gifts. 4-8pm. La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call 453-4897 or visit acrimsonholiday .com. 11/6: Dance to Painting Movements If you enjoyed Si Jie Loo’s art opening and exhibition, come out and dance to it. Kenya’s DJ Bixten will be throwing down African beats alongside the rhythmic paintings. 10pm-1am. Ayni Gallery, 216 State St. Free. Visit aynigallery.com. 11/6-11/8: Conference: XVIII

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binational relationship between the U.S. and Mexico and explore the history, culture, literature, 11/6-11/7: Pippin S.B. High School Theatre will present the musical about Pippin, the hero, as he journeys through war, sex, politics, and love while being guided by the mysterious hand of the Leading Player. Come see this show that is filled with dance, passion, and iconic music including “Corner of the Sky” and “Magic to Do.” It shows November 13-15. 7pm. S.B. High School Theatre, 700 E. Anapamu St. $10-$25. Call 966-9101 or visit sbhstheatre.com/tickets. isacc hernandez

11/5-11/11: Art Exhibit: Unintended Consequences This exhibit, curated by The Santa Barbara Independent’s own

bicycle. The S.B. Bicycle Coalition will be hosting its fifth annual free light distribution to lowincome cyclists in need. Bilingual volunteers will be available with safety tips. Thu.: 5pm. 628 W. Micheltorena St. Fri.: 5pm. Milpas and Yanonali sts. Free. Call 8458955 or visit sbbike.org.

urban culture, hip-hop, and the meaning of identity with poet, playwright, and spoken-word artist Paul Flores, who has been named Best Politically Active Hip-Hop Performance Artist by San Francisco Weekly. 7:308:30pm. Reds Bin 211, 211 Helena Ave. Free. Call 893-8411 or visit www.mcc.ucsb.edu.

French Vanilla, solo musician from New York Bernard Herman, S.B.-based pop-rock band Honey Maid, and electronic music project Text Back will provide a night of eclectic music for all ages. 8pm. Funzone, 226 S. Milpas St. $5. Visit sbdiy.org.

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Afro-Cuban jazz Arturo O’Farrill (pictured) will bring the vital musical traditions of Afro-Latin rhythms, percussions, modern jazz and swing, and an 18-piece orchestra to S.B. 8pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $10-$35. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures .sa.ucsb.edu.

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11/5: Doublewide Kings When you’re done with all that 1st Thursday has to offer, take in The Doublewide Kings, a band that will play you cover tunes and original music that represent roots-rock, Americana, countryblues, and the glory days of ’70s FM radio. Bar opens: 9:30pm; show: 10pm. McCune Founder’s Room, Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $20. Call 899-2222 or visit granadasb.org.

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11/6: Santiago VaqueraVasquez Author Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez will sign copies of his new book, One Day I’ll Tell You the Things I’ve Seen, which consists of stories that take readers around the world from California to Madrid to the Asian shores of Istanbul and deal with literal and metaphorical borders, in relation to complex memories and relationships. 7pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call 682-6787 or visit chaucersbooks.com.

that 35 percent of California’s plants are now rare or endangered? This year’s speakers will discuss scientific resources, inspiring partnerships, and the challenges and complexity of each plant species. 10am-4pm. Fleischmann Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. $25-$50. Call 682-4726 or visit sbbg.org.

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11/6-11/8, 11/10: Venus This tale of exploitation and love is from the real-life story of Sarah Baartman, a young Black woman from South Africa who was lured from her home and billed in one of the most famous freak shows of the 19th century. Watch as she rises to stardom and ultimately falls into destruction. This production includes mature content and language. Fri.: 7:30pm; Sat.: 2 and 7:30pm; Sun.: 2pm; Tue.: 7:30pm. Performing Arts Theater, UCSB. $13-$17. Call 893-2064 or visit theaterdance .ucsb.edu. Read more on p. 53.

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11/7: Beach Ball Competition and Show All day, UCSB’s Cotillion Dance Club will host a ballroom, Latin, and nightclub dance competition. Watch dancers from all over California compete in sassy salsa, tango, swing, and many more styles. 9am. Robertson Gymnasium, UCSB. $15-$25. Visit beachballatucsb.com.

Brooks and Meryl Streep, this film will raise profound questions about what it means to live well. 7pm. Unitarian Society, 1535 Santa Barbara St. Free. Call 845-5314 or visit alliancefor livinganddyingwell.org. 11/6-11/7: Secondhand Delve into the lives of three college seniors as they wrestle with the confusion of growing up only to find out that the joy is in the journey. 8pm. Black Box Theatre, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Rd. Free. Call 565-7040 or visit westmont.edu. 11/6: Skateflix Come enjoy a fun-filled evening with live music, food, drinks, friends, and a skate video contest, all to raise money to benefit the Carpinteria Skate Foundation, with the mission of bringing a public skate park to Carpinteria. 6-10pm. Carpinteria Arts Center, 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Email leighanne@ carpskatepark.org.

saTurday 11/7 11/7: Dirty Paki Lingerie Listen to stories of six Pakistani-American Muslim women who break down the stereotypes of Muslim women by transcending boundaries of culture, religion, and gender. A Q&A with writer and performer Aizzah Fatima will take place following the show. 8pm. MultiCultural Ctr. Theater, UCSB. $5-$15. Call 893-2064 or visit www. mcc.ucsb.edu. 11/7: LGBTQ Youth Conference This event will hold a clothing swap, parent/facilitator workshop, drag performance, and more. This will be most beneficial for those in middle school to high school. 9:30am-4pm. First Congregational Church, 2101 State St. Free. Visit santabarbarafirst .org.

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you need. 10pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $12. Ages 21+. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com. 11/7-11/8: Invertigo Dance Theatre: Reeling This hourlong dance work is set in a bar where lines blur between being in and out of control, and the dual meaning of “reeling” will examine boundaries between fun, violence, and sensuality through dance. Sat.: 7pm. Sun.: 6pm. The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St. $35. Call 965-5400 or visit ensembletheatre.com/ rental-shows/index. 11/7: S.B. Music Club Concert How lovely that more than 10 performers will gather to play Vivaldi’s Concerto in E Minor, Hogan’s Suite for the Senses, Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and Puccini’s Desperate Divas just for you. 3pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 617-3401 or visit sbmusicclub.org.

invites you to dance the night away. 10pm. Blind Tiger, 409 State St. Free-$10. Ages 21+. Visit wearetreo.nightout.com.

sunday 11/8 11/8: Lolly Allen Quintet Lolly Allen will take the stage with her vibraphone (a percussion instrument similar to a marimba) and her accomplished quintet (a saxophonist, bassist, pianist, and drummer) to play some amazing jazz. 1-4pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $7-$25. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com. 11/8: Art Reception: ArtSEE This fundraiser art exhibit for SEE International, a humanitarian organization whose volunteer eye surgeons work on restoring the sight of the disadvantaged blind, will feature a 100-piece wall of affordable art. The show ends Nov. 29. 2-5pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Visit abstract artcollective.com.

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11/7: WeAreTreo Welcoming the party scene to S.B with remixes of Sia’s “Elastic Heart” and Sigma’s “Nobody to Love,” this house music deejay trio

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Stranger, Sensamotion The six-piece collaboration of South Bay reggae will combine rootsy vibes and unique bass lines, separating it from other mainstream reggae bands. Also performing will be reggae, roots, rock, and soul band from San Diego Stranger and reggae and dubfire rock band Sensamotion from New Jersey. 8pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $13. Call 965-8676 or visit velvet-jones.com. 11/8: Hymn Sing You are invited to sing with Pastor Keith Jones and Director of Music Adam Phillips, who will provide an afternoon of their favorite hymns accompanied by the organ, cello, viola, fiddle, mandolin, and acoustic guitar. 4-6pm. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 380 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call 967-1416 or visit gslcms.org.

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11/8: Studio Sundays on the Front Steps: Colored Pencils You will reimagine Flor Garduño’s 1989 “Basket of Light” (pictured) as a triptych by adding color and words to the images. 1:30-4:30pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 963-4364 or visit sbma.net.

In the 2013 documentary White Like Me: Race, Racism and White Privilege in America, scholar Tim Wise explores how racial identity and whiteness influence the lives of white Americans by examining how they have impacted his own life and what it really means to be “white in America.” The following day, this anti-racism author and educator will deliver the keynote address at the 25th Annual Leonardo Dorantes Memorial Lecture. His lecture Resurrecting Apartheid, from Ferguson to the Voting Booth to the Border: Combating Racism in the Post-Obama Era heightens awareness and understanding of racial and ethnic differences. A reception and book-signing will follow the presentation. Mon.: 7pm. Administration

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11/10: Catalyst Quartet The prize winners of the Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Award in Switzerland and participants of many classical festivals around the world, The Catalyst Quartet (pictured), a string quartet, will put on a show never seen before. 7:30pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. $18-$22. Call 963-4364 or visit sbma.net. Bldg., Rm. 211. SBCC, 721 Cliff Dr. Tue.: 12:45-2:05pm. Garvin Theatre, SBCC, 721 Cliff Dr. Free. Call 965-0581 or visit tinyurl .com/TimWiseSBCC.

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cal Restoration on the California Channel Islands Ken

Owen will discuss and share photographs of the most interesting ecological restoration projects of native animals and plants in the fragile ecosystems on our nearby islands. 6:308pm. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. Free. Call 682-4711 or visit sbnature .org. 11/9: Five Wishes Community Workshop The Five Wishes process, developed by Aging with Dignity, helps for-

mulate the decisions you put into your Advanced Care Directive. Learn how to have conversations with your loved ones and doctors about health-care decisions. 10am-noon. 3rd Floor Conference Rm., Sansum Clinic, 215 Pesetas Ln. Free. Call 681-7582 or visit alliancefor livinganddyingwell.org. 11/9: The Archaeology of Democracy Dr. John McK. Camp, director of the Athenian Agora Excavations at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, will illuminate archaeological material that will shed light on the development and practice of the political phenomenon of Ancient Athens. 6pm. Karpeles Library Manuscript Museum, 21 W. Anapamu St. Free. Call 962-5322 or visit tinyurl.com/ ArchaeologyOfDemocracy.

Tuesday 11/10 11/10: The Pimps of Joytime, Con Brio When you mix a deep bluesy groove with full-on EDM (electronic dance music, if you didn’t know), you get The Pimps of Joytime. Joining them will be Con Brio, a dance-heavy funk-and-R&B band. 9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $15-$18. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com.

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11/11: Blitzen Trapper Experimental country/folk and rock ’n’ roll band Blitzen Trapper (pictured) has just recorded its seventh record, VII, and is ready to share it with S.B. 8pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $18. Call 962-7776 or visit sohosb.com. 11/10: An Evening of SelfExpression: MC Fong Tran Spoken-word artist and poet MC Fong Tran will share what gives him his drive: social justice, community liberation, and his mom. Anyone is invited to artistically express themselves through music, poetry, spoken word, and dance on this night. 7:30-9pm. Biko House, 6612 Sueno Rd., Isla Vista. Free. Call 893-8411 or visit www.mcc.ucsb.edu. 11/10: How to Wow Your Audience, Be It One or Many Actor Ann Dusenberry will teach you how to project a strong image, speak with strength, get rid of shaky knees, and have people listen to you, whether in person, onstage, or in front of a group. Registration is recommended. 5-7pm. Community Partners Ctr., Union Bank, 11 E. Carrillo St. Free. Visit awolsb.org. 11/10: Dorado Schmitt & Django Festival AllStars Gypsy jazz genius and French guitarist and violinist Dorado Schmitt and his ensemble are back in S.B. for an encore performance. Schmitt will take traditional Roman music and Gypsy jazz and rebel with an electric

guitar. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $35-$105. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com. 11/10: Akram Khan Co.: Kaash Hindi for “if only,” Kaash is inspired by creation and destruction, Hindi gods, Indian time cycles, and black holes. Composer Nitin Sawhney, sculptor Anish Kapoor, and talented dancers will continue Khan’s quest to bridge the worlds of contemporary dance and the Indian classical dance kathak. 8pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $20-$48. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu.

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ing to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians Learn about the self-educated pioneer and visionary artist Edward S. Curtis, who set out to document traditional Indian life before it was gone. Get the gallery exhibit tour and discuss with filmmaker Anne Makepeace along with watching the film. 6-9pm. Fleischmann Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. $8-$12. Call 682-4711 or visit sbnature.org.


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11/7: S.B. Veterans Day Half Marathon Run a 13.1-mile beach-to-beach half-marathon, partake in a team relay, and enjoy the breathtaking views of Goleta Beach and the Santa Ynez mountain range. The race will end at Leadbetter Beach with a Finish Line Festival BBQ. This race salutes and honors all veterans. 7am. University Plaza, UCSB. Military/veteran: $75. Regular: $95. Team relay: $260. Visit sbmarathon.com. 11/7: Line the “Veteran’s Mile” Encourage runners in the marathon during the final mile of the race! This mile will be decorated with American flags and campaign flags from all the wars and conflicts of the 20th century. There will also be military vehicles on display and a special flyover of a vintage aircraft around 9:30am. Line up from Shoreline Park to Leadbetter Beach. 8:30am-noon. Shoreline Park, Shoreline Dr. Free. 11/8: 3rd Annual Salute to the Vets Come see vintage military vehicles and enjoy a BBQ, live music, a pin-up contest, vendors, kids’ games, a raffle, and a silent auction. Proceeds benefit tri-county veterans programs. Noon5pm. Carriage and Western Art Museum of S.B., 129 Castillo St. Free. Call 350-2006 or visit tinyurl .com/SaluteToVets 11/8: 2015 Veterans Day Parade There will be more than 20 different vintage WWII military vehicles along with the Primetime Band, the Sea Cadets, the UCSB Surfrider Battalion, floats, and more in this parade that begins at Sola Street and travels down State Street to end at the Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort (633 E. Cabrillo Blvd.), where you can relax before the concert (bring a picnic or check out the food trucks). This year’s parade will feature an Astounding Flyover of more than 30 vintage war birds in precise formations. The U.S. Navy’s Parachute Team, the Leap Frogs, will tie the parade and concert together in an amazing display of precision and accuracy when they land in front of the hotel at the end of the parade. Call 259-4394 or visit pierreclaeyssens veteransfoundation.com/veterans-day-weekend. day-weekend day-weekend. 11/8: 2014 Veterans Day Concert This 75-minute concert of patriotic and classical pieces from the Westmont Orchestra, led by Dr. Michael Shasberger, will be uplifting and inspi-

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rational. 2pm. Outdoor Pavilion, Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. Free. Call 259-4394 or visit pierreclaeyssensveterans foundation.com/veterans-day-weekend 11/10: Make Cards and Letters for Veterans & Service Members Celebrate this day by creating a handmade card or letter to thank our veterans and current service members. All supplies will be provided. 11am-4pm. Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call 964-7878 or visit sbplibrary.org. 11/11: If All the Sky Were Paper Experience an evening of true humor and love, all with letters. Taken from real letters by troops and their loved ones during war, this play is full of battle, conflict, and the real meaning of appreciation. Be inspired by the correspondence of those caught up in war. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $10-$130. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com. Read more on p. 51.

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Text and photo by Caitlin Fitch “It’s always been on my bucket list to run a half-marathon,” said John Gavin (pictured). “I was out running barefoot one morning, and I figured if I’m gonna do this, I might as well do it as a fundraiser.’” So he’ll be running all 13.1 miles of this Saturday’s Veterans Day halfmarathon, from UCSB to Leadbetter Beach, completely barefoot to raise money for the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara, where he volunteers his time. “My wife calls me a caveman,” admitted Gavin, who’s been running, skateboarding, and doing most other things without shoes for years now. “I just like it; I really do.” With the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten, as a main sponsor, Gavin is raising money quickly, but you can chip in yourself by visiting: tinyurl.com/barefootathon.

Story Pirates

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or more than a decade, the Story Pirates have given theatrical life to tales written by children, teaching creative writing and performing for more than 100,000 kids in more than 250 schools since 2003. This week, they spent time doing workshops and running assembly performances at both Isla Vista Elementary and the Crane School, and will be presenting even more of those students’ sagas this Sunday at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Here’s Producing Director Gabe Jewell on what to expect:

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a compromised range of or years, Isaac Osborne motion. A few months suffered chronic back later, I’m upright, better pain from two bad car aligned and balanced, accidents. While he was living and I move more effiin Hawai‘i, his search for relief ciently, from the ground led him to Emmett Hutchins at up. the Guild for Structural InteVery early on, Strucgration. Starting in the 1960s, tural Integration practiHutchins had for many years tioners clicked Polaroid worked directly with Dr. Ida photos to document Rolf, the Columbia Univerclient progress, but the sity biochemist who developed documenting technique Structural Integration, more became cumbersome popularly known as Rolfing. with digital cameras After Hutchins helped heal daisy-chained to deskOsborne’s back, he mentored top computers. Then the him through guild training and iPad came out. That’s his own start-up in 1999. when Osborne saw Osborne moved his pracopportunity in its builttice, Motion Unlimited, to in camera and big touch Santa Barbara in 2009, and he APP FOR BACK: Isaac Osborne digitized his screen. recently launched Body Align bodywork skills into a new app that tracks “What I love about Pro, a health-and-fitness app progress. using the app in my for iPhone and iPad that tracks practice is watching peoa person’s progress through physical therapy with still photography, video, and ple light up with the changes they see,” Osborne said. “It’s really helpful to show a person what their body image superimposition. For me — suffering a newly fractured T1 verte- looks like in relationship to gravity, a key component bra (bodysurfing) on top of an old collarbone snap to improving posture. With the app I’m able to take (snowboarding) — Osborne’s treatment program photos and videos so we have a before marker to included the breaking of scar tissue and its attendant work from; then as we go through treatment, we can off-kilter muscle memory while creating proper skel- compare new photos and video to see the results of etal symmetry through posture therapy and exercise. change.” See bodyalignpro.com and motionunlimited.net. It worked, and Osborne has the pictures and video to prove it. My before shots depict a slouched frame with — Keith Hamm

Do you have a set performance, or is it a blank slate each time? We have a large collection of stories that we call our great-

est hits, so we choose from those, and then we use a couple stories from kids in the community as new material. Every show also has an improvised portion, where we’re creating a story on the spot from suggestions that kids in the audience give. And there’s lots of puppets and costumes and colorful stuff?

Yeah, it’s a pretty wild and silly costume setup.

What’s the appropriate age? All ages, honestly. We say 3-12, but we

also pride ourselves on 5-year-olds and 95-year-olds being able to sit next to each other and laugh at the same joke.

What’s the reaction of kids seeing their stories onstage?

They love it. We hear a lot of the time from kids, from teachers, and from parents that bringing their stories to life makes the kids more confident writers and learners and more excited about their education in general. Why is it so powerful? Anytime that a writer can see his or her words performed by someone professionally talented is affecting, even for adults. So when kids get to see their ideas celebrated, it’s special for them. Do you see the organization as providing some of the arts education that has been cut? It varies. We go into a variety of

schools, and a lot of them do not have any arts funding or programming. It’s a refreshing experience for the kids and also for the teachers. We do think that arts are a really important part of a complete education. — Matt Kettmann

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Story Pirates take over UCSB’s Campbell Hall stage on Sunday, November 8, at 3 p.m. See arts andlectures.sa.ucsb.edu or call 893-3535 for tickets.


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he Dream Foundation will honor its corporate partner Gentiva Hospice Foundation and acknowledge supporters of the newly launched Dreams for Veterans program at its 14th Annual Celebration of Dreams Gala on November 7. The Dream Foundation is the only national organization that grants wishes to adults facing life-threatening illnesses. Founded in 1994, the organization, which is headquartered in Santa Barbara, served its 20,000th dream in 2014. “For families who have been financially devastated by medical expenses, a dream is the comfort of knowing the heating bill will be paid,” explains the foundation’s website. “For those with young children, it’s creating happy memories and having fun. For young adults, a dream can be meeting a personal hero. And for children facing the impending loss of a parent, a dream is receiving support and compassion.” Two notable attendees at Saturday’s gala will be Sheri and Jimmy Malone, wife and son of dreamer James “Jim” Malone, who passed away on June 24 from adenocarcinoma, one day before fulfilling his dream of visiting Washington, D.C. Malone was a U.S. Navy veteran who served 1977-1981. He received his wish from the Dream Foundation through the newly launched Dreams for Veterans program, which serves terminally ill vets. “This is such an important program,” said Sheri Malone. “Our veterans are an underserved part of our population, and it’s disheartening to me that I’m starting to hear stories again about how a lot of these veterans are coming home and they’re not feeling like they made a difference. They’re not feeling like it mattered, and their service matters so much to this country, and the Dreams for Veterans program and the Dream Foundation is such a good way to give back to these veterans.” The gala’s honorees include Gentiva Hospice Foundation, which has helped serve more than 9,000 final dreams; CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. and its president/CEO Andy Puzder; John Paul DeJoria, CEO/ cofounder of John Paul Mitchell Systems; and The Patrón Spirits Company. There will be performances by American rock band OAR, country singer Natalie Noone, and classical singer Sara Stevens. Santa Barbara’s Andrew “The Bachelor” Firestone, and his wife, Ivana, will host a live auction. There will also be a surprise cameo appearance, promised the foundation’s executive director, Kisa Heyer. “I’m not allowed to say who will be doing it, but we are very excited about that, as well,” said Heyer, who also explained that the foundation will unveil a new logo and mission statement at the gala. The gala will be held on Saturday, November 7, at Bacara Resort & Spa. See dreamfoundation.org. — Sydnee Fried

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idding Around Yoga recently spread its happy tot karma at the Santa Barbara Yoga Center, introducing children and parents to their transformational children’s yoga training. “Kids have said to me, ‘I found myself; I remember who I am,’ ” explained Haris Lender, founder of Kidding Around Yoga and 16-year veteran of her craft. Lender’s instruction is geared toward helping children self-sooth with breathing instruction, relaxation techniques, stretching and strengthening, and imagination. She feels that all children should be practicing yoga daily. “Kids take on the stress of their parents,” she said. “They need this more than we understand.” Here are her best tips to help little yogis connect to their inner selves.

Adults and kids can learn yoga together.

Meet children on their level: “They don’t always

know how to follow the rules,” said Lender, who allows kids to make a lot of noise, jump around, and speak out of turn.

Use mindful techniques: It’s important to give kids

some time to “just be” when they are free from competition, academic pressures, and busy schedules. Lender explained, “I love it because parents show me videos of how they snuck up on their kids sitting in their bedrooms meditating.”

Talk to kids during a pose: If it is a boat pose, for example, she suggested asking children what kind of a boat they are and then allowing them to play out being a canoe, kayak, sail boat, or pedal boat. Meanwhile, they will not

notice that they have been holding a pose for 45 seconds and have been strengthening their core muscles. Make it playful: It’s taken Lender years to perfect her series of original kids’ yoga songs, which teach kids about acupressure points, peaceful living, and practicing on their own. She also includes games and activities that focus on relaxation, balance, and movement. Follow traditional yoga routines: Offer children

everything that would be in an authentic yoga class. “If you forget your meditation, or your pranayama, they are not going to float out the door,” she says. “And if kids aren’t floating out the door, then we haven’t done our job.” — Carolina Starin

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1) What the hymen is: a stretchy membrane that partially covers the vaginal opening. What the hymen is not: remotely relevant to a woman’s value. In centuries past, when daughters were brokered out to husbands like so much cattle, a virgin bride was expected to stain the marital bed sheets with blood from the inaugural straining of her hymen. (Think of it like the tamper-proof seal on a bottle of Tylenol; once it’s prodded out of the by Starshine way, there’s no putting it back.) These sheets are a plot point in Shakespeare’s Othello, and even Yentl. But the notion email: starshine@roshell.com dates back to the Bible, which states that if the marital sheets are clean, the bride must be returned to her father’s house and stoned to death by the men of her village. Seems fair. But modern-day Maryland is neither that time nor that place. And behaving as though it is—as though a woman is a less valuable partner for having unapologetically, even frequently explored her sexuality before promising herself to one person for the rest of her life—is an insult to all women. As Othello’s poor Desdemona says, “By heaven, you do me wrong.” 2) A woman’s daddy and her vagina should have less than nothing to do with one another. They shouldn’t even have both been mentioned together in the previous sentence, and I apologize for that. The notion that a woman’s sexuality is any of her father’s business is fostered by rituals like “purity balls,” prom-like events held throughout the U.S. at which young Christian girls formally pledge to their fathers to abstain from intercourse until marriage. Though the phrase “purity balls” makes me giggle and I pledge to snicker about it with my own dad the next time I see him, it’s messed up to put a prepubescent girl on her father’s arm dressed up like a woman — so that he can tell her how much he dreads her becoming one. 3) Where was the groom’s certificate of purity? How would he vouch for his chastity — if anyone even cared about it? How would his mommy figure into the equation? Discuss. 4) The integrity of a hymen is no measure of sexual experience. It can be stretched and bleed from riding a bicycle or even inserting a tampon. Some girls don’t have much of a hymen to start with. So any doctor who’d associate this trifling anatomical flap with “purity” isn’t worth his speculum.

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living | Sports GENERATIONS OF GRIDIRON: Tim Jimenez Jr. (right) is carrying on the Carp High football traditions of his family, including his uncle Tony Jimenez Jr., who played for Coach Lou Panizzon (center) in the 1970s.

11/7: Running: Santa Barbara Veterans Day Half Marathon Dwindling participation led organizers to cancel the Santa Barbara International Marathon after a six-year run, but all energies are focused on its offspring, the 13.1-mile half marathon. There is a new starting line on the UCSB campus. A two-mile straightaway on Highway 217 will tempt runners to go out fast; they may regret it when they encounter the climb from Las Positas Road up Cliff Drive in the 10th mile. The last two miles will go downhill to “the world’s most beautiful finish line” at Leadbetter Beach. The cutoff time is four hours (18:18 per mile). The fastest time on the old course was 1:06:24 by Julian de Rubira in 2010. Alvina Begay’s 1:15:00 in 2012 is the women’s record. 7am start. University Plaza, UCSB. Visit sbmarathon.com.

Jimenez Football legacy Family of Stars Keeps Scoring as School Celebrates 40th Anniversary of First Championship Season

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city teeming with very big and very fast young men, and perhaps he’d be playing football with them on a powerful high school team. But that would have defied more than 60 years of tradition in Carpinteria, the hometown of his grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. So after Tim completed the 7th grade, his family moved to Carpinteria. His dad, Tim Sr., kept his job at a club in Las Vegas, commuting every Tuesday and returning home Friday. Why go to all that trouble? “Tim had to live up to the Jimenez legend,” his father said. “He got the triple whammy: my father, myself, and especially my brother.” The Jimenez boys have been good-luck charms for Carpinteria High football. Tony Jimenez Sr. was the first, an All-CIF running back as a senior in 1953, when the Warriors went undefeated in the regular season but lost to Hawthorne, a vastly larger school, in the play-offs. His two sons, Tony and Tim, helped take the Warriors several steps further. Tony Jimenez Jr. was a Carpinteria linebacker and running back in 1975, a season that will be remembered this week and forever, because, as they say, “Warrior Spirit never dies!” Those Warriors went all the way to the school’s first CIF football championship. The community will gather for a 40th anniversary celebration on Saturday, November 7. Tim Jimenez Sr., Tony’s much younger brother, came along at the tail end of Carpinteria’s run of three consecutive CIF titles (1987-88-89). A linebacker and running back like Tony, he was a key player on the team that brought the school its fifth CIF trophy in 1991. Tim Jimenez Jr. grew up hearing about those gridiron heroics. Other family members, like his father’s cousin Alex Jimenez, who scored four touchdowns in a game, had their moments under the lights at Carpinteria Memorial Field, which until 1999 was located at the Middle School in the heart of the town. Tim saw his own cousin, Tony’s son J.P., play for the Warriors in 2006. Another reason young Tim’s parents wanted him to experience his high school years in Carpinteria is the character of

the town. “You walk down the street, and you know everybody,” his father said. Instead of Facebook images, residents see real faces. “In Las Vegas, there are more places to go and things to do,” young Tim said. He could have vetoed the move, but he saw Carpinteria’s positives: the beach, the sense of community, and a quaint Foster’s Freeze. Tim, a six-foot, 170-pound senior, was appointed a captain of this year’s Warriors, as his father had been 24 years ago. He is a safety and linebacker, a hybrid defensive position that’s called “Warrior.” He also returns kicks. During the October 16 game against Cantwell-Sacred Heart, he scored a touchdown on an 82-yard punt return. That was the day that all roads leading to the South Coast were jammed with traffic because of the closure of mudswamped Interstate 5. Tim’s father was stuck somewhere on Highway 150 while the Warriors were romping to a 54-0 victory. “That’s the only game I’ve missed since my son was 6 years old,” he said. The Warriors went through a tough nonleague schedule, and despite a 3-6 record, they should reach the CIF play-offs if they take care of Fillmore at home Friday night, November 6. But the play-offs are not promising. The Tri-Valley League, comprising four small schools, has been thrown into a postseason grouping of gridiron giants. Not even Bishop Diego, the TVL leader with a 9-0 record, is expected to go far against such teams as Camarillo, Lompoc, and Arroyo Grande. Ben Hallock is in his second tour of duty as Carpinteria’s head coach. Both of the Tim Jimenezes have played for him. “I couldn’t ask for a more supportive community,” Hallock said. “Even when things aren’t going well, people tell me, ‘Keep after it. Hang in there.’” Things went very well in 1975, the debut season of alumnus Lou Panizzon as Carpinteria’s coach. After going 7-1 in the regular season, the Warriors took down Santa Ynez, 25-6; Valley Christian, 10-6; and in the semifinals, they stopped Paso Robles for the first time in 27 years, 6-0. In the title game, they defeated L.A. Lutheran, 9-6, on Walter Requejo’s 11th field goal of the year.

Panizzon, who retired as coach after the 1989 championship, will preside over Saturday’s 40th anniversary celebration at the Veterans Memorial Building. Last week he dropped by the campus field, where Tony Jimenez was watching his nephew practice. “Mr. Panizzon!” he said reverently. “It took me a while to get across town,” Panizzon said. “There used to be just two stop signs.” He reminisced with Jimenez, who was 56 and 175 pounds back in the day and still appears to be about the same. “He was one of those little guys who can hit, like a little baseball player who hits home runs,” Panizzon said. “He had a nose for the ball. He forced a fumble against Paso Robles.” Carpinteria’s first CIF champions were very much a team, with 11 All-TVL and six All-CIF players. They included Jay Canton, who rushed for over 1,000 yards; Requejo, who made a 50-yard field goal; Doug Pauley, a receiver who went on to play for Woody Hayes at Ohio State; and quarterback Keith Bell, the league MVP. Tony Jimenez, a junior in 1975, returned the next year and made All-CIF, thus completing the first father-son combination at Carpinteria to attain that honor. They were later joined by Henry and Aaron Gonzales. Quarterback Steve Perez, who played a part in the 1975 title, also made All-CIF. But the 1976 team was knocked out of the play-offs by an old nemesis. “Paso Robles ended my career,” Jimenez said. “Damn those guys.” There are plenty of sweet football memories in Carpinteria, but a few lemons have dropped along the way, even on n the Jimenezes.

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vegetarian bases, and even “mostly dry ramen,” with more of a sauce than soup as the liquid. This past Sunday, for instance, Simcik went completely vegan, using a paragraphlong list of vegetables, from mushrooms and seaweed to eggplant and bok choy, to concoct a stunningly rich broth that easily pleased this meat lover. Restaurants across Santa Barbara are also playing with the format, so Simcik decided to gather the ramen-istas under one roof for a friendly competition called Ramenfest on Saturday, November 14, noon -4 p.m. Participants include Outpost, Sama Sama Kitchen, The Black Sheep, Hungry Cat, Julienne, Barbareño, Finch & Fork, and Wildwood Kitchen, and the winning chef, as voted by the public, will be deemed “Ramen King of Santa Barbara.” “I’ve been with Kimpton eight years, and I am always participating in everyone else’s charity events, so I wanted to do my own,” said Simcik, explaining that the winning chef will donate proceeds to the charity of his or her choice. “This was the perfect combo of bringing everyone together and having a really fun day.”

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 October 2015: Caffé Primo, 516 State St.; Farmer Boy, 3427 State St.; Kanaloa Seafood Kitchen & Market, 715 Chapala St.; Kimchi Korean Restaurant, 3132 State St.; Lucky Dragon, 6831 Hollister Ave., Goleta; Nectar, 20 E. Cota St.; Zizzo’s Caffé & Brew Pub (inside Ice in Paradise), 6985 Santa Felicia Dr., Goleta.  September 2015: Kol’s Café, 6533 Trigo Rd., Isla Vista; On the Alley, 7038 Marketplace Dr., Goleta.  August 2015: Crushcakes, 5392 Hollister Ave., Goleta; Rebar Coffee, 214 State St.  July 2015: Globe, 18 E. Cota St.; Los Altos, 318 N. Milpas St.; The Fig Grill, 5940 Calle Real, Goleta; The Nugget, 21 W. Victoria St.  June 2015: Dawn Patrol, 324 State St.; Haggen, 163 S. Turnpike Rd., Goleta; Haggen, 2010 Cliff Dr.; Haggen, 3943 State St.; Haggen, 850 Linden Ave., Carpinteria; I’a Fish Market and Café, 38 W. Victoria St.; Yoichi’s, 230 E. Victoria St.  May 2015: Crushcakes & Café, 1150 Coast Village Rd. (now closed), Montecito; Jersey Mike’s Subs, 3325 State St.  April 2015: Haggen, 165 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta; Merci To Go, 1024 Coast Village Rd., Montecito; Nuance, 119 State St.; OTaco, 6530 Pardall Rd., Isla Vista; PizzaRev, 12 W. De la Guerra St.; Sublime, 901 N. Milpas St.; The Mex Authentic, 413 State St. March 2015: 416 State, 416 State St.; East Beach Tacos, 226 S. Milpas St.; Las Brasas Mexican Grill, 5915-B Calle Real, Goleta; Live Oak Café, 2220 Bath St.; Sushi Café, 28 W. Figueroa St.; Terraza Café, 3007 De la Vina St.  February 2015: Cielo Bar and Grill, 5096 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria; The Honor Bar, 1255 Coast Village Rd., Montecito; Yume Sushi, 428 Chapala St.  January 2015: La Hacienda, 298 Pine Ave., Goleta; La Mission Café (Airport Downstairs), 500 Fowler Rd.; Lilac Patisserie, 1017 State St.; Santorini Island Grill, UCSB Ucen; Shalhoob Meat Co. Patio, 220 Gray Ave. December 2014: Kyle’s Kitchen, 5723 Calle Real, Goleta; Patxi’s Pizza, 515 State St.; Pizza Hut, 915-A Calle Real, Goleta.  November 2014: Freeman’s Flying Chicken, 3400 Calle Real (Earl Warren); Tino’s Italian Grocery, 210 West Carrillo St.

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grew up in the Silicon Valley, attending high school in the early 1990s just down the road from places such as Santa Clara, Cupertino, and Palo Alto, where the world’s digital revolution was ablaze. Both of my parents worked for tech companies, most notably my mom, who went from being one of Intel’s first receptionists to a respected executive during her 40 years there. Granted, I was just 18 when I left San Jose for college in Santa Barbara, but I had a pretty good idea of what a booming tech scene felt like. So when I graduated from UCSB 16 years ago, started reporting for this newspaper, and sporadically heard that Santa Barbara was on the verge of its own tech boom — that the arrival of “Silicon Beach 2.0” was imminent, a notion that hit headlines every few years — I’d mostly just scratch my head. Sure, there were a few companies here and there, but there was no noticeable scene that affected the overall community, no “ecosystem,” as techies are prone to say. Then the rumors started again a couple of years ago, but this time, there were glimmers of truth. Sonos had Super Bowl commercials, people I knew worked at Yardi and Citrix, I’d been to events at QAD, and Lynda.com started sponsoring the film fest. Then I found myself writing about start-up weekends and hackathons, interviewing executives from companies such as AppFolio, and walking by places such as Invoca, where big open windows showed off colorful, buzzing offices full of young-ish employees — you know, what you think the inside of Google or Facebook headquarters looks like. As IPO became a more familiar abbreviation, I also noticed residual effects: more people in their twenties, thirties, and forties were living in town, supporting good restaurants and wineries, and getting involved with music and the arts — collectively contributing to a more interesting and eclectic Santa Barbara. “Could it be?” I began to consider. “Could Santa Barbara really be experiencing a tech boom?” About six

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months ago, I got tired of wondering, put on my reporter cap, and started calling around to find the answer. It turned out that executives were eager to talk, thankful for the attention, and resounding in their response: Not only is Santa Barbara’s tech sector buzzing, but our relatively small region is becoming known nationally as a hub for quality start-ups. According to many experts, when it comes to doing tech in California, Santa Barbara is actually considered number three — albeit a distant third — behind Silicon Valley and Santa Monica (which, by the way, took that “Silicon Beach” moniker and ran with it).

There are challenges, of course, much like the ones we all face: Cost of living, especially housing, is high, yet wages struggle to compete with bigger cities. The talent pool is not especially deep. Physical growth is constrained by lack of available building space, which means companies must consider expanding elsewhere when they reach a certain size. Air travel from our pretty airport can be an expensive pain in the butt. (Though subscription-based airlines like Surf Air are helping.) But the advantages of basing your tech firm here are myriad, as well — again, much like the ones we all enjoy. The quality of life here is unparalleled. Traffic doesn’t really exist, so commutes are usually 15 minutes or less, and that’s often on foot or bike. You can surf on your lunch break and catch a world-class concert after dinner. Renowned computer science, engineering, and entrepreneurial programs at UCSB, SBCC, and even Cal Poly up the coast — not to mention more of an engineering and STEM focus at schools like Dos Pueblos and Santa Barbara High — translate to a steady flow of marketable brilliance flowing into our streets with every graduation ceremony. And thanks to a reliable track record for bright people and quality companies, luring people from Silicon Valley to Santa Barbara is easier than ever before — if only because there are now more opportunities to explore if that first job doesn’t work out. So after speaking with more than 30 executives and getting survey questions answered by nearly 100 companies and organizations, it’s quite clear to me that Santa Barbara is well on its way to becoming a digital paradise by the sea. And that’s something we’d all benefit from supporting because these are generally very clean, good-paying jobs that don’t require tons of space to employ smart people. Those who complain that there’s no way to keep their kids in town should take note. What follows is just a sampling of the histories, people, and trends pushing this new reality, as well as the results of our first-ever survey. Welcome to Tech-Topia.


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BRiAn CoRyAt, local Market launch In a nondescript office building just behind The Press Room on Ortega Street, Brian Coryat oozes start-up optimism. As the successful visionary behind ValueClick, he’s a second-generation entrepreneur who’s back at it again with all the experience, wisdom, and, yes, money to make his next vision come to life.“The start-up experience is pretty radical,” said Coryat, who now runs Local Market Launch, which gives companies a way to manage their online presence, from Yelp reviews to regional white pages.“It’s a roller coaster, and you have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.” He came to town to work for Raytheon in 1991 and found many challenges in building his own company.“It was really hard to recruit anyone who knew anything with any kind of experience,” he said. “But it’s getting richer by the minute,” said Coryat, who laughs at the thought of first meeting Kevin O’Connor in suits on New York’s Madison Avenue — now they’re surfing buddies.“I ride my bike here and wear shorts,” he said.“There’s a lot of creativity, and people do work hard, although they may not work a grind.”

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Woody Rollins moved to Santa Barbara from Boston 11 years ago and was quickly impressed that Santa Barbara tech focused on “the hard stuff,” like cloud computing. He cofounded Eucalyptus Systems, which raised $5.5 million from Benchmark Capital in 2009 and sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2014. “Santa Barbara as a community is very collaborative,” said Rollins, who now runs AppScale, which lets users manage data seamlessly across different cloud systems.“It’s different than Silicon Valley and different than Boston. People are willing to help, folks who have been successful and [are] happy to share their knowledge. That is very, very unique.” As for challenges, Rollins said it can be hard to find mid-level executives in Santa Barbara and traveling for work can suck. “We have the most wonderful airport,” he said, “but it doesn’t always provide us with great connectivity.”

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tech scene was quiet by design: Places like Delco and General Research set up shop near the airport in Goleta, working on top-secret defense projects for the government. That industry still thrives in whispered ways, with companies like Raytheon, Santa Barbara Focalplane (a division of Lockheed Martin), and Tecolote employing hundreds in various research and development capacities. UCSB’s computer science program simultaneously got serious, thanks largely to the work of Glen Culler, who fostered the first tests for what would become the Internet. “He was way ahead of his time,” said longtime UCSB professor Dick Kemmerer, who recalled more than two dozen small companies, usually with three-letter names such as ACC, spinning out of UCSB in the 1970s and 1980s. “There were booms caused by people,” said Kemmerer, citing other former professors such as Virgil Elings, who built a vast fortune on microscope technology. By the early 1990s, John MacFarlane had arrived for postgraduate work at UCSB, only to leave and start Software.com, which built the early nuts and bolts of email. That merged with Phone.com to become Openwave in a 2001 deal valued at $6.4 billion, money that spread into various facets of Santa Barbara life and fertilized the start-up scene. There was also a wave of online advertising companies, such as Commission Junction (now called Conversant, but still headquartered in Santa Barbara) and the “Clicks” of ValueClick (acquired by Conversant in 2014) and DoubleClick (acquired by Google). In 1997, UCSB professor Klaus Schauser — supposedly media shy and the only person to decline an interview for this issue — launched Expertcity as a means of connecting confused computer users with trained technicians. Schauser soon realized that the remote desktop interface he’d created, which became GoToMyPC, and the conference-call-like technology, which became GoToMeeting, were more valuable than the service itself. Expertcity “pivoted” its focus and was acquired by Citrix in 2003, reportedly for $225 million. That began Citrix’s increasingly strong presence in Goleta, where more than 300 people are now employed by the Santa Clara–based, multinational company’s online division. Citrix’s belief in Santa Barbara’s potential was hammered home this year when it hosted one of its Startup Accelerator programs in town, incubating eight start-up companies. “The Innovator Program is a way to place a lot of small bets,” said Citrix Online CTO Bernd Christiansen (an Expercity alum) at the program’s finale inside the Deckers rotunda on September 16. “It’s not about Citrix. It’s about Santa Barbara cultivating an ecosystem to keep more people here.”

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sing their experience, reputations, and own newfound wealth, the leaders of these early companies all went on to start more businesses in Santa Barbara. Schauser scored another success when his AppFolio went public this June, raising $74 million; John MacFarlane runs Sonos, the digital audio company that’s taken over many buildings downtown and across the world; ValueClick’s Brian Coryat now runs Local Market Launch; and DoubleClick’s Kevin O’Connor started FindtheBest.com, which recently pivoted into a company called Graphiq. Other executives from these firms went on to start RightScale, LogicMonitor, Riptide IO, and other companies that are moving toward IPOs or other “liquidity” events. Here’s a look at some of those second- and third-gen entrepreneurs.

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steve FRAnCis, logicMonitor Steve Francis moved to the United States with his wife 22 years ago, worked in IT at UCSB, and then joined Expertcity before it was sold to Citrix. In 2007, he started LogicMonitor, which allows companies to monitor their entire “technology stack” (from networks and servers to apps, company storage, and cloud) through one portal. “There is still a perception that Santa Barbara is a small town without much of a tech scene, but that’s just not true anymore,” said Francis. “Anyone working in tech in Santa Barbara has lots and lots of opportunity, from big companies like Yardi and QAD, as well as the little start-ups. There is an ecosystem.” The small-town vibe can be helpful, too. “There’s a lot less job hopping,” he said. “Employees don’t tend to work for six months and then get a bigger offer.” That also goes for the reduced capital-raising opportunities.“If LogicMonitor had been in the Bay Area, we probably would have raised more funding in our life cycle up to this point,” he said. “But I don’t think that necessarily would have been a good thing.”

In the world of start-ups, the eventual goal, especially after taking on investors, is a “liquidity” event in which equity and stock value is exchanged for cash. Most often, this means an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange like NASDAQ, a k a “going public,” or being acquired by a bigger company. For being a traditionally male-dominated tech sector, it’s intriguing that three of Santa Barbara’s most inspiring success stories involve women leaders.

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lyndA WeiMAn, lynda.com In April 2015, Lynda Weiman and Bruce Heavin sold Lynda .com to LinkedIn for $1.5 billion, one of the biggest deals for a Santa Barbara company in years. “It will be such an amazing accelerant of our idea,” said Weiman of the instructional web video company, which moved from Ojai to Carpinteria in 2010. The deal “came out of left field,” said Weiman, who is no longer involved with the company but hopes having LinkedIn here will only make recruiting employees to Santa Barbara “more appealing.” She explained, “A lot of Silicon Valley companies hire out of UCSB. It would be wonderful to grab more of that brain trust and keep it here.”

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When Pam Lopker graduated in mathematics from UCSB in the early 1970s, she took a job at a defense firm but had to quit when, as a female, she couldn’t go on the military ships. Instead, seeing her husband’s computer woes in running Deckers, the shoe company he cofounded, she started building software programs for global manufacturing companies. Today, QAD employs 1,600 people around the world, with 220 in Santa Barbara at their hilltop headquarters overlooking Summerland, and went public in 1997. Lopker, who remains very involved in QAD, believes Santa Barbara can be a tough place to do business because of the high taxes and lack of space — once you get above a couple hundred people, other places make a lot more sense — and thinks that more could be done to foster tech growth regionally. Most of her Summerland employees live in Ventura County, actually, due to Santa Barbara’s expensive housing. But she gives much credit to her alma mater.“The tech companies now in Santa Barbara are directly attributed to the growth of the engineering department at UCSB,” said Lopker.

Idea Stage: Come up with an idea. Cofounding: Develop team to implement idea. Boot-Strapping Stage: Funding the idea with your own savings. Seed and Angel Round: Getting investments from friends, family, and angel investors, who are accredited investors but using their own money, usually in exchange for ownership equity. Series A Round: The first call for significant venture capital, in exchange for stock in the company. Series B, C, and Onward: More calls for venture capital in exchange for stock. No limit on rounds, but too many rounds with too much cash scare investors, indicating a delay in the actual business profitability or functionality. Liquidity Event: Merger, purchase, or initial public offering of company. How to get to this point is called a company’s “exit strategy.”

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After selling DoubleClick, Kevin O’Connor came to Santa Barbara to escape 80-hour work weeks in New York City.“I just wanted to raise my family in a great place,” he said. “I didn’t come here to do a tech company.” But he was soon building a data-aggregation site called FindtheBest.com, which he just morphed into Graphiq, a company that puts the data into visualizations used mostly by media. Such a pivot is a move second-generation entrepreneurs like O’Connor aren’t afraid to make.“They have that experience and credibility if you’re going to raise outside money,” he said of folks like himself.“And they also have money so they can invest in their own companies and take more risk.” He fends off notions that Santa Barbara is not a hard-working place, arguing that his employees do have more fun time because they don’t commute for hours each week. “My joke about this area is that we may have as much technology as Silicon Valley per capita — we just don’t have any capita,” he laughed. “But we’ve probably recruited more people from Silicon Valley than we’ve lost to Silicon Valley. It’s gonna kill it here. The companies that exist right now are doing extremely well.”

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As an economics major at UCSB, Ali Bauerlein realized that her grandmother’s reliance on immobile, loud, cumbersome refillable oxygen tanks to survive was a problem that needed solving. So in 2001, as a sophomore, Bauerlein teamed with two friends and developed a much more portable solution that concentrates the ambient oxygen. “None of us had the skills, but we had the problem,” she said of her team, which built a strong business around the new product, now protected by 27 patents, under the name Inogen. “It provides a lot more freedom and mobility for patients,” said Bauerlein.“They never have to worry about running out of oxygen again.” The Goleta-based company went public in 2014, raising more than $75 million in an IPO, and now shows a market cap of more than $815 million. And they’ve only tapped about 2 percent of the oxygen market so far, which they do through direct sales and marketing in TV infomercials, as well as in AARP magazine, Parade, and other publications. Last year, they did more than $112 million in sales.

Invoca looks like a place you want to work. The Chapala Street office building’s interior walls are vibrantly colored, boasting both the logos of serious clients, as well as company values like “Be Agile.” Bikes and scooters huddle near the lobby, Nerf guns are peppered amid standing desks, a rooftop patio has Wi-Fi and a barbecue, and a bar with a piano, foosball, darts, and draft beer awaits happy hour in the basement. Formerly known as RingRevenue, Invoca licenses software to companies that sell and market through the telephone. The company employs about 160 people in downtown Santa Barbara, has hired key folks away from Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce, and Scott Herriman is reportedly inching toward a 2017 IPO, recently hiring a new CEO in preparation. Financial ambitions aside, the company, much like Sonos down the street, is bringing to Santa Barbara that youthful, work-hard/play-hard culture that is so famous in Silicon Valley. “Collaboration is the culture that drives that,” said Invoca’s Scott Herriman. “On one hand, people want a quiet space to get work done, but the value of knowing what’s going on around you has been tremendous. Teamwork suffers from being segmented.”

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Every Monday: Makerspace Open Lab night at the library. 4-8pm. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. sbhacker space.com and sbplibrary.org Every Thursday: Santa Barbara Hackerspace hosts Think Tank Thursdays. 6-9pm. 5782 Thornwood Dr., Goleta. sbhackerspace.com Every Saturday: Santa Barbara Hackerspace hosts weekly general meeting, the best introduction to the group. Noon9pm. 5782 Thornwood Dr., Goleta. sbhackerspace.com Every Third Wednesday: Santa Barbara Apple Users Group: SBAUG’s general meeting. 6-8pm. S.B. County Genealogical Society, 316 Castillo St. sbaug.org Weekly: Free computer instruction is offered at the Central Library every afternoon Mon.-Sun., 1-5pm. Free drop-in assistance for mobile devices is also offered at the Central Library Tue. and Thu., 4-6 pm, and Wed., Fri., and Sat., 10am-noon. (Holiday exclusions apply.) S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. sbplibrary.org November 6: ProCore Nails It: The Carpinteria-based, construction-focused tech firm partners with Habitat for Humanity to do community and home repair outreach. ‘It’s not the hotbed of capital flows that 8:30am-4:30pm. Ortega Park. Register: procore.com/ procorenailsit you get in the Bay, but we are definitely on November 10: UCSB TMP Distinguished Speaker Series: the radar. All the VC firms are aware of the Mark Coopersmith will discuss his role as an entrepreneur, Fortune 500 exec, and author. 5:30pm. Embarcadero Hall, Santa Barbara success stories.’ 935 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista. tmp.ucsb.edu — Daryl Bernstein, rightsignature November 16: Yahoo’s Stas Zvinyatskovsky talks technical excellence. 6-8 p.m. RSVP at meetup.com/SB-Agile November 17: UCSB TMP Distinguished Speaker Series: RightSignature’s Daryl Bernstein will talk about taking start-ups from idea to success. 5:30pm. Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista. tmp.ucsb.edu November 18: MIT Enterprise Forum Central Coast: A panel of experts will discuss UCSB’s role in the American Institute of Manufacturing: Photonics. 5-8pm. Cabrillo Arts Pavilion, 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd. mitcentralcoast.org December 1: New Venture Competition Pitch Session: Open to UCSB students and mentors only, this is a great intro to the competition, teammates, and more. 6-8pm. Corwin Pavilion, UCSB. tmp.ucsb.edu December 3: StartupSB’s State of Entrepreneurship: A rundown on success stories, new enterprises, and more from leading entrepreneurs. 6pm. Impact Hub Santa Barbara, 1117 State St. Tooey CourTemanChe, ProCore startupsb.com/stateofentrepreneurship December 10: Adizes’ Pavel Golenchenko on mastering change. 6-8 p.m. RSVP at meetup.com/SB-Agile Though he admittedly is a 47-year-old man with a 4-year-old’s nickname, Tooey December 10: Impact Hub Crowdfunding Campaign Wrap-Up Party: A celebration of the support and money — whose mom took to calling him that rather than Craig, Jr. — grew up in the conraised to make Impact Hub Santa Barbara a reality. impacthubsb.com/crowdfunding struction industry but got into Silicon Valley tech by the mid-1990s. He “begrudgJanuary 14, 2016: New Venture Competition Sign-Ups: UCSB students can sign up to take part in the annual ingly” moved to Santa Barbara in 1999 to please his wife and got frustrated trying New Venture Competition. 6:30-7:30pm. ESB 1001, UCSB. tmp.ucsb.edu to build a home here. “When Rincon was pumping, no one would show up to January 29-31, 2016: Impact of Things Hackathon: This hands-on hackathon will focus on wearable technolbuild the house,” Tooey Courtemanche recalled. “It was driving me nuts.” So with ogies. impacthubsb.com/wearableshackathon an engineer, he developed a web-based solution called ProCore that is now the February 3-5, 2016: Startup Champions Network: StartupSB welcomes this group, formerly Startup America, top project-management tool in the global construction industry, used by everyto Santa Barbara. More than 75 start-up leaders from around the country will tour Santa Barbara and interact day homeowners, independent architects, multinational construction firms, and with entrepreneurs here, culminating at the Impact Hub on February 5 at 5pm. startupsb.com/scn nuclear power plants. February 15, 2016: UCSB Tech Savvy Conference: The Santa Barbara-Goleta Valley American Association of ProCore has no trouble recruiting from Silicon Valley. “When we bring them University Women branch, in collaboration with UCSB’s Women’s Center, presents this inaugural one-day conferdown to our campus in Carpinteria, they say, ‘Are you kidding me?’” said Courteence that brings junior-high-aged young women to the UCSB campus to experience the collegiate environment and engage in hands-on activities in a variety of STEM fields. sbgv-ca.aauw.net/techsavvy manche.“The quality of life is through the roof. We can attract the best and brightest March 2016: StartupSB’s Innovate and Create Weekend: Dates and details coming soon. from all over the nation to come work here.” His problem is the other way around. startupsb.com/innovateandcreate “When you want to open a regional office in Boston or Chicago or New York, you

can’t get anyone to work there,” he said.“That’s a serious challenge.”

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MAx dRuCkeR, social intelligence Max Drucker’s career started at Apple in Cupertino almost 20 years ago, but he came to Santa Barbara in 2001 to run his own software company called Steel Card, which he sold to ChoicePoint (now owned by LexisNexus) in 2006. Why Santa Barbara? “That’s an easy one, man,” he said. “Anyone’s that’s ever been to Santa Barbara knows why.” Today, Drucker runs Social Intelligence, which uses social media data to help people get better prices on life insurance, higher credit scores, and even identify insurance fraud.“Millennials have the lowest credit scores of any generation largely because they don’t use traditional forms of credit,” said Drucker. “Social Intelligence is really about giving people the power to leverage and monetize their own data.” He’s happy that a major talent-sucking gorilla like Facebook or Google isn’t yet in town and proud of the employees that are here. “You have a talent pool that’s equally focused on the lifestyle and the job,” he said. “That makes for a great employee base.”

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JACQues hABRA, Noospheric Jacques Habra arrived in Santa Barbara from Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2006.“I felt like I was the only tech entrepreneur in the area,” he said. “The focus was on tourism and real estate. That certainly has changed.” Habra’s incubator Noospheric helps take companies like TrackR from idea to market and believes more should be done to foster such growth. “Planning officials should be thinking about software and the kind of tech companies that take up much less space,” said Habra. “They don’t need to manufacture anything. It’s more about people, and it doesn’t take a huge amount of people to build a powerful, worldwide-impact kind of start-up.”

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John Greathouse broke into the Santa Barbara scene with Computer Motion when robotics was hot at UCSB and has made wise investments of time and money since then in Citrix, RightScale, Eucalyptus, and Invoca. “Hopefully there’s nobody left who thinks we can’t build world-class companies in town,” said Greathouse, who is a partner at Rincon Venture Partners, a real homegrown venture capital firm, and also teaches in UCSB’s Technology Management Program.“That was something that held people back like five-plus years ago. But we’ve arrived.” He sees start-up companies as dandelions, with seeds blowing in the wind to start more little companies.“That takes time,” he said. “You can’t just flip a switch and have all those conditions manifest themselves. I definitely feel it here these days. But it’s taken 20 years.”

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When Goleta-raised, UCSB-educated web designer Kyle Ashby returned to town in 1999, he saw a lot of opportunity for tech in Santa Barbara but not much support, like what he’d witnessed for filmmakers and musicians back in his Isla Vista days. “The arts community has been doing this for a long time,” he said. “But nobody had wrapped their heads around how that could work for the tech community.” After working on his own for nearly a decade, Ashby was inspired by the start-up buzz from around the country and hosted the first StartupSB weekend in November 2011, when teams went from concept to prototype in about 72 hours. The fifth one will be sometime next year. But Ashby’s primary goal today is opening the Impact Hub on State Street. An 11,500-square-foot building, the hub — one of nearly 80 nationwide focused on incubating socially progressive and beneficial businesses — will house small offices for start-ups and nonprofits, co-working space, programming for all to learn, and much more. “There are a lot companies doing the right thing and making the right impacts in our communities that we can learn from,” said Ashby, who plans to open by December 1.

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As with any industry, tech needs a support system to thrive. Santa Barbara now enjoys quite a healthy network of educational and experiential programs, as well as venture capital to support the best ideas. Here’s a rundown.

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There are a number of younger start-ups to keep an eye on, ranging from still in development to well-funded. They’re expanding the typical business-to-business, software-as-a-service scope of Santa Barbara tech, entering the Internet of Things, consumer electronics, and even virtual reality. Here’s a brief list.

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dAve AdoRnetto, uCsB’s tMP and GeM Dave Adornetto left the private sector a few years ago to run UCSB’s Technology Management Program (TMP) and the associated New Venture Competition, which just celebrated its 16th annual affair. “TMP was developed to give highly technically trained STEM students at UCSB a broader background in business,” said Adornetto, “so that when they hit the job market, they can be much more valuable and advance quickly.”And it works: Almost every executive credits TMP’s impact as one of the major reasons Santa Barbara tech is thriving. Adornetto recently took the reins of another promising initiative called GEM, or Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet, a collaboration started in 2012 between the City of Goleta, Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce, and UCSB. “The goal is really economic vitalization,” said Adornetto, who manages the shared office space and mentorship program in Old Town Goleta. “Hopefully when the teams graduate from the program, they set up shop in Goleta or Santa Barbara and they feed back, mentoring other teams. It’s a whole ecosystem that self-feeds over time.”

MelissA MoReno, sBCC & Mit enterprise Forum Santa Barbara City College is making an impact on the start-up scene, as well. In 2008, Melissa Moreno cofounded the Scheinfeld Center for Enterprise & Innovation, which teaches students how to build a marketable business while also inspiring them with lectures by successful entrepreneurs such as Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia, Pam Lopker of QAD, Doug Otto of Deckers, and Wayne Rosing, former VP of engineering at Google.“We’ve been discovering that not only is there a hotbed of tech activity,” said Moreno,“but this is a place where entrepreneurs like to retire.” Moreno also recently started Enterprise Launch, where students have a single semester to take a product from concept to reality.“We’re more about, what skills do these students have that they can draw from to create their own jobs immediately?” said Moreno, noting that FuelBox started in this program and is now worth an estimated $4.5 million.“It gets students thinking in a different way.” Moreno is also on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum, which hosts monthly panels of experts in specific sectors, including recent ones on the audio industry and disaster relief. “It’s a simple model that keeps us going,” said Moreno, whose chapter spans from San Luis Obispo to Thousand Oaks and is one of 20 nationwide. “We’re just trying to keep connected to what’s happening in technology.”

TrackR cofounders Chris Herbert (left) and Christian Smith TrackR: TrackR, which makes a device that affixes to your keys or other easily lost items and tracks their location on your smartphone, recently received $8.7 million in funding. “The market likes the product, so right now we need to increase sales and expose the company as quickly as possible,” said CEO Chris Herbert, who’s attracted most capital from out of town.“It takes a lot to get the initial start-up going, but once you get that momentum, it builds rapidly and exponentially.”

CoMpAnIES To wATCH conTInued Milo: This company, which is developing a Fitbit-like wristband to monitor blood-alcohol

levels, won UCSB’s New Venture Competition this year, participated in Citrix’s Innovators Program, and earned the support of Matt Dies, whose daughter, Mallory, was killed by a drunk driver. “In Santa Barbara, there was a huge amount of respect and validation for our idea,” said cofounder Evan Strenk. “We would have gotten a little buried within the thousands of companies coming out of San Francisco. That’s allowed us to get buzz around our product. People want to help, and we instantly had angels. There is a really good scene.” ShipHawk: When Westmont grad Jeremy Bodenhamer bought a packing/shipping shop

and realized it would cost $4,800 to deliver a wooden rocking horse, he realized there was a problem. ShipHawk is his answer — a digital platform that makes it easy for e-commerce businesses to ship oddly sized packages and everything else to customers. Today, Bodenhamer could have shipped that horse for $300.


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Smartstones: Andreas Forsland’s invention may improve

the lives of the elderly, developmentally disabled, and others who have trouble communicating — and perhaps change culture for the rest of us. Called Smartstones, his handheld, rock-like devices allow people to communicate with preprogrammed gestures, so college kids could say hi to mom with a quick swipe, older people can check in with their kids the same way, and autistic people can better “talk” to each other. “We have big populations of people who live in the shadows,” said Forsland. “We could be introducing something that might help them have a more diverse social environment, where people who have felt isolated can comingle with everyone else.”

World Viz: Getting an undisclosed amount of funding from Intel in April, World Viz is using virtual reality to expo-

nentially save costs on the design of airplanes, hospital rooms, and other places that typically require expensive foam models. But the possibilities are endless, with VR value expected to exceed $150 billion by 2020.“We’re really focused on putting the rubber on the road,” said CEO Peter Schlueer, a former music journalist who’s helped the company double in size over the past year.“We definitely have a strong technology road map that will keep us busy for a while.”

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Tech Survey 2015 apEEl SCiENCES Welcome to the nuts and bolts of Tech-topia.

What follows is a listing of every company and organization that responded to our widely publicized Santa Barbara Tech Survey. We won’t pretend that this is a 100 percent bulletproof list of every single outfit working with any form of technology in Santa Barbara today. But with nearly 100 entries, we do believe it to be the most comprehensive effort to identify the players in Santa Barbara’s tech scene. And yes, we are using the word “tech” incredibly broadly, including everything from SaaS (software as a service) and cloud computing companies to biomedical firms and defense companies. We’ve tried to break them up into meaningful categories, though realize many could fall under multiple titles. Additionally, we have included a list of “Resources,” which are all the folks working in the various roles, from marketing to office rentals, required to keep our burgeoning tech sector healthy.

If we missed you, please visit independent.com/tech to ensure that we get you next time!

LIFE SCIEnCES Though Santa Barbara doesn’t pack quite the dense punch of the biomed/pharmaceutical complex of San Diego, there are quite a few companies, usually with UCSB ties, that are involved in improving our health and well-being. This category also includes companies that serve the life science industry itself.

123CoMpliaNCE

Founded: October 2012 Employees: 30 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Self-funded We offer quality cloud-based solutions designed specifically for the rigorous compliance needs of the life science industry, specifically for medical device, pharmaceutical, and health-care sectors. 123compliance.com

aCTiVEliFE SCiENTiFiC

Founded: July 2007 Employees: 7 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Currently raising Series B ActiveLife Scientific is transforming the way injuries and diseases are diagnosed and treated. ActiveLife’s flagship product, the OsteoProbe, is a handheld device for measuring bone strength. Debunking the myth that density is synonymous with strength. OsteoProbe is positioned to help the more than 320 million people at risk of bone fracture for reasons not explained by low bone density. After collaborating with Mayo Clinic, Harvard, Columbia, and many more of the leading medical centers worldwide, the company is now seeking FDA clearance so doctors and patients can benefit worldwide. activelifescientific.com

Founded: June 18, 2012 Employees: 36 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series A Apeel Sciences is a team of scientists working on a new kind of organic agricultural technology. Apeel uses uneaten parts of plants, like leaves and stems, recycling them to create a natural formula that protects food crops and keeps produce fresh. Apeel’s new, plant-based approach to produce protection improves the quality of fresh fruit and vegetables while helping to reduce food waste, which in turn helps to reduce water and energy use. apeelsciences.com

iNogEN, iNC

Founded: November 2001 Employees: 411 Estimated worth: Market cap: $815 million (as of 10/28/15) Stage of growth: IPO in February 2014; NASDAQ: INGN Inogen is a medical technology company that primarily develops, manufactures, and markets innovative portable oxygen concentrators used to deliver supplemental long-term oxygen therapy to patients suffering from chronic respiratory conditions. Traditionally, these patients have relied on stationary oxygen concentrator systems for use in the home and oxygen tanks or cylinders for mobile use, which must be delivered regularly, have a finite amount of oxygen, and require long, cumbersome tubing. The Inogen One systems concentrate the air around the patient to offer a single source of supplemental oxygen anytime and anywhere with a portable device weighing approximately 4.8 or 7.0 pounds. That reduces reliance on stationary concentrators and scheduled deliveries of tanks, thereby improving patient quality of life and fostering mobility. inogen.com

iNToUCH HEalTH

Founded: 2012 Employees: 200 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Incorporated InTouch Health is focused on enabling health-care providers to deliver care when and where it is needed. Our Telehealth Network and services can expand access and delivery of high-quality clinical care to any patient, at any time, while reducing overall costs of care. intouchhealth.com

SiENTRa

Founded: 2006 Employees: 100-150 Estimated worth: Market cap: $75 million Stage of growth: Post-IPO, NASDAQ: SIEN Sientra is a medical aesthetics company committed to making a difference in patients’ lives by enhancing their body image, growing their self-esteem, and restoring their confidence. Sientra offers a broad and compelling array of plastic-surgery devices for aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. sientra.com

TRUEViSioN 3D SURgiCal

Founded: February 2007 Employees: 45 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Early Stage TrueVision 3D Surgical provides medical products designed to make a measurable difference in patient outcomes and surgeon comfort. The product profile includes the Digital Microscope Platform, which consists of a 3D high-def digital imaging, record, and playback functions and a host of related applications that guide the surgeon. Collectively, the platform solves myriad surgical issues in numerous verticals including ophthalmology and neurosurgery. TrueVision’s quest for improving the human experience ex-

tends beyond the walls of the operating room into local, state, and national communities through donations of equipment and personnel to nonprofit health and wellness sectors. truevisionsys.com

USDM liFE SCiENCES

Founded: March 2000 Employees: 250-270 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Private, 25 percent-50 percent growth last three years USDM is changing how compliance is addressed for life science companies worldwide. We partner with technology vendors who lead in the life sciences sector, assimilate the technology into an adaptable model, and support the proper implementation and maintenance of such systems. Our partners include Salesforce, Agilent, Oracle, and SAP, as well as many others. Our clients include medical device and emerging biotechnology companies, and the largest pharmaceutical players. Our team grows as quickly as we can to find the rare people who can support our mission with the same passion and capability. usdm.com

InTErnET oF THInGS If you haven’t heard about the Internet of things, or IoT, it’s time to get on the bus because you are probably already using them. IoT is the umbrella term for physical devices that are digitally connected in order to collect and share data that is usually accessed through the cloud.

222labS

Founded: January 2015 Employees: 5 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Seed stage 222Labs is developing Purpose, an Internet of things (IoT) product and platform that monitors many different environmental conditions, activities, and security for homes and businesses. 222labs.com

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Founded: February 2012 Employee: 3 Estimated worth: $3 million Stage of growth: Start-up SanWood, LLC, is focused on the design, development, and implementation of IoT sensor technology. sanwoodllc.com

SMaRTSToNES

Founded: November 2013 Employees: 8 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Seed stage Smartstones is a new communication platform that gives people the power to send spoken messages with only gestures, instead of texting or talking. It includes an IoT sensory device resembling a stone that can be configured with a free mobile app. smartstones.co


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No one buys software in a box anymore. We access it through the Internet and rent it to solve our digital problems. The outfits that provide such technologies are collectively known as SaaS companies, as in software as a service. Santa Barbara is a hotbed of SaaS, with nearly a third of all survey respondents falling into this category. This group also includes companies that identify as DaaS (data as a service), PaaS (platform as a service), and even aPaaS (application platform as a service).

agEpaTH

Founded: May 2015 Employees: 4 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Angel AgePath is an eldercare navigation platform. We help families save time, reduce cost, and improve quality of life by providing personalized geriatric care plans for aging well. By combining eldercare expertise with innovative software, our platform empowers families to connect with resources and services through one simple dashboard. agepath.com

Founded: 2006 Employees: 500 Estimated worth: Market cap: $573 million (as of 10/28/15) Stage of growth: IPO in June 2015; NASDAQ: APPF AppFolio creates complete, easy-to-use, cloud-based software for multiple vertical markets. Today, our software serves the legal and property-management industries. appfolio.com

appSCalE SySTEMS

Founded: February 2013 Employees: 12 Estimated worthy: Decline to state Stage of growth: Private investors An aPaaS, or application platform as a service, company, AppScale is an open-source implementation of Google’s game-changing platform App Engine. With AppScale, developers can very rapidly develop web and mobile applications using the de facto standard, enterprise-tested, and validated App Engine APIs (application program interfaces) and run the apps on any cloud — public or private. AppScale can run App Engine apps wherever they desire and without modification. appscale.com

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Founder: August 2005 Employees: 60 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Decline to state FastSpring is an award-winning e-commerce and subscription management leader that powers the sales for software, SaaS, and digital content. Whether you’re selling to customers locally or across the globe, FastSpring helps maximize conversions, increase sales, and grow your business. Clients include a diverse array of companies and customers, from small businesses to internationally recognized brands such as Adobe, SmithMicro, the American Heart Association, MacPaw, and Random House. Now celebrating its 10th year in business, FastSpring currently supports more than 2,500 clients worldwide, reaching over 3,600,000 customers in 240 countries across the globe. fastspring.com continued>

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Founded: January 2009 Employees: 65 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series B funded and self-sustaining AutoVitals makes SaaS-based productivity and customer-engagement products for independent auto-repair shops, including website and SEO, tabletbased digital inspection tools, shop workflow management, and team labor-management tools. autovitals.com

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Tech Survey 2015 CiElo24

Founded: January 2013 Employees: 35 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series A round just raised $5 million Cielo24 provides searchable video data and insights for the education, enterprise, and entertainment markets, powering content discovery, engagement, monetization, and asset management. cielo24.com

FolloWUp.CC

Founded: 2007, but acquired 2014 Employees: 10 Stage of growth: Private A lightweight sales-automation tool for Gmail, FollowUp.cc helps sales teams and business professionals work more productively. followup.cc

gENRoCkET

Founded: February 2012 Employees: 7 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Angel GenRocket is a SaaS-model software platform that software developers and quality-assurance engineers use to generate all the test data they need to fully test their software. genrocket.com

gRoUpgETS

Founded: September 2013; first deal September 2014 Employees: 5 Estimated worth: $1 million+ Stage of growth: Privately bootstrapped/pre-angel Groupgets is a secure online group-buying platform with a tech hardware focus for products that already exist (not projects). It is best suited for products with very high minimum-order quantities or that are much cheaper in volume. GroupGets creates and nurtures communities of developers around some of its products to facilitate rapid prototype development long after the buy — we help users collaborate on the purchase and on development. We also locally design custom accessory hardware and software to lower the technical barrier of entry for some of the products that we carry. groupgets.com

iNVoCa

Founded: May 2008 (formerly RingRevenue) Employees: 160 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series C; $30 million in venture capital raised to date Invoca helps the modern marketer drive inbound calls and turn them into sales. By bringing call intelligence to marketers and their existing marketing technology systems, Invoca’s platform delivers the visibility required to engage mobile customers beyond the click. From attribution to intent, marketers gain a complete understanding of the customer’s journey across digital, mobile, and offline touch points so that they can optimize their marketing spend, drive quality inbound calls, and deliver a better customer experience. Invoca is backed by Accel Partners, Upfront Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners, and Salesforce. invoca.com

loCal MaRkET laUNCH

Founded: November 2011 Employees: About 40, including 25 in Santa Barbara Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Backed by founder/CEO Brian Coryat, as well as Rincon Venture Partners and several angel investors made up mostly of successful area entrepreneurs; last raised Series A We provide a cloud-based software platform that allows national multi-location brands, such as Waffle House and Carvel, to control all of their digital business profiles (such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yelp), local landing pages, and store locators from one central interface. The software also monitors local presence and reviews, allowing the national brand centralized access to real-time, results-based data. localmarketlaunch.com

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Hg DaTa

Founded: 2010 Employees: 40-60 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of Growth: Series A venture-capital funding A DaaS company, HG Data is the global leader in competitive intelligence

‘My friends said, “Why are you going to this small town in the prime of your career when you could work for some major pre-IPO company and make a ton of money?” But I was tired of working for the man, and I wanted to do my own thing. This is a really exciting time, and I want to be part of it. Santa Barbara always was near and dear to my heart, and I want to help it grow and help these companies tell their stories.’ — anDrea hollanD, Diale DPr

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for installed technologies. The world’s largest technology companies, fastest-growing start-ups, and some of the most innovative OEM partners use HG Data to build market analysis, competitive displacement, predictive modeling, marketing campaigns, and client-retention initiatives. Every day, HG Data indexes more than one billion unstructured documents — including social media, case studies, press releases, blog postings, government documents, content libraries, technical support forums, website source code, and job postings — to produce a detailed, accurate census of business-to-business technology installations in use at companies globally. hgdata.com

logiCMoNiToR

Founded: July 2008 Employees: 115 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series B LogicMonitor’s SaaS performance-monitoring platform provides IT Ops teams with end-to-end visibility and actionable metrics to manage today’s sophisticated on-premise, hybrid, and cloud infrastructures. Deploy and manage monitoring faster and automatically with AutoDiscovery of devices. Act on infrastructure performance data using built-in and customizable dashboards, performance forecasting, and complete reporting. Use built-in workflow capabilities, including alerting routing and escalation management, to improve IT team’s issue response and resolution time. logicmonitor.com

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pRoCoRE TECHNologiES iNC.

Founded: January 2002 Employees: 292 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series E Procore is the world’s number one, most widely used construction-management software, helping firms drastically increase project efficiency and accountability by streamlining and mobilizing project communication and documentation. Hundreds of thousands of registered Procore users manage all types of construction projects, including industrial plants, office buildings, apartment complexes, university facilities, retail centers, and more. procore.com

pRoDUCTplaN

Founded: January 2014 Employees: Decline to state Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Decline to state ProductPlan is a SaaS company whose software is used by leading companies around the world to plan and communicate their product roadmaps. Some of our customers include companies such as AppFolio, Procore, and Rightscale, as well as many large enterprises including Intuit, Marriott, Toms Shoes, PBS, Fidelity, and Expedia. productplan.com

QaD

Founded: 1979 Employees: More than 1,600 Estimated worth: Market Cap: More than $900 million (as of 10/28/15) Stage of growth: Publicly traded; NASDAQ: QADA, QADB QAD Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise software and services designed for global manufacturing companies. QAD Enterprise Applications is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that helps manufacturers in the areas of financials, manufacturing, demand- and supply-chain planning, customer management, business intelligence, and business-process management. QAD deploys its solutions in the cloud, on premise, or in a blended environment. With QAD, customers in the automotive, consumer-products, food-and-beverage, high-technology, industrial-products, and life-sciences industries can better align daily operations with their strategic goals to meet their vision of becoming more effective enterprises. qad.com

RigHTSCalE

Founded: December 2006 Employees: 150-250 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Raised $62+ million from VCs since its founding. RightScale pioneered cloud management in 2006. Today, leading market analysts predict that RightScale will see rapid growth in the next five years based on its Cloud Portfolio Management product suite. RightScale helps enterprises manage applications across a portfolio of clouds and seamlessly move applications between clouds as circumstances change. With Cloud Portfolio Management, enterprises can provide self-service IT, maintain control over cloud usage, and manage cloud costs. rightscale.com

oNTRapoRT

Founded: December 2006 Employees: 104 Estimated worth: $60-$80 million Stage of growth: Angel Our mission, as a SaaS company, is to support entrepreneurs in delivering their value to the world by removing the burden of technology and automating their business. With Ontraport, all of your business tools, data, and customer information is in one system, and everything works together seamlessly. You’ll create better customer experiences and increase sales, and you can automate everything, saving a ton of time. Plus, you’ve always got one team to call when you have a question or need support. ontraport.com

RigHTSigNaTURE

Founded: January 2009 Employees: About 50 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Acquired by Citrix in October 2014 RightSignature is a SaaS company that’s focused on online document signing. rightsignature.com


Tech Survey 2015 Founded: July 2012 Employees: 23 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series A Riptide IO is changing the way commercial retail buildings are managed. Our BrightWorks Retail solution connects to new and existing legacy equipment in a building-to-cloud-based-building automation. It comes with a predesigned kit of “smart” things, such as smart thermostats and smart plugs, to bring connectivity and control. Through BrightWorks building-management applications, operators use a mobile or web interface to manage the network of devices in their portfolio of stores. riptideio.com

SERViCE obJECTS

Founded: September 2001 Employees: 25-50 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Profitable and privately owned As the industry leader in real-time contact-validation services, Service Objects has verified more than two billion contact records for clients from various industries including retail, technology, government, communications, leisure, utilities, and finance. Since 2001, thousands of businesses and developers have used our APIs to validate transactions to reduce fraud, increase conversions, and enhance incoming leads, web orders, and customer lists. We are fanatical about both data quality and customer service, and we’re proud of our data reliability of 99.995 percent. Service Objects exceeds all expectations by ensuring the most current data-validation services available, reliable real-time results, and a professional atmosphere. serviceobjects.com

SHipHaWk

Founded: October 2012 Employees: 55 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series A ShipHawk is innovating the eCommerce sector by automating shipping and distribution processes through technology. No matter how big, how many, or how diverse the items to be shipped, ShipHawk’s unique SaaS platform offers instant price comparisons, optimal delivery options, and intelligent packaging solutions that minimize costs and improve sales. By aggregating transportation and logistics data from all types of shipping carriers across the U.S. into a single platform, ShipHawk brings the shipping experience from cart-to-customer, arming retailers with the intelligence needed to make better shipping decisions and facilitate business growth. shiphawk.com

SoCial iNTElligENCE

Founded: April 2010 Employees: 50 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series B Social Intelligence develops predictive scoring algorithms and SaaS-based underwriting tools and is the largest provider of social media and next-generation data to the insurance industry. Social Intelligence’s products allow insurers to leverage valuable online data for better risk assessment and decision making across the policy lifecycle. A veteran on the forefront of the industry, Social Intelligence has been providing insurance-claim investigations and social media searches to more than 500 customers and partners, and our team of more than 50 employees ensures delivery of products and services that reflect our core values of privacy, productivity, and innovation. socialintel.com

HArDwArE & MATErIALS This catch-all category includes companies that are inventing, developing, selling, or otherwise dealing with digital hardware and/or material sciences. This includes everything from nanotechnology and optics to hardware resellers.

appliED CaViTaTioN iNC.

Founded: June 2013 Employees: 5 Estimated worth: Approximately $20 million Stage of growth: Early stage, rapid growth, Series A round of funding Applied Cavitation is a nanotechnology process company, combining a revolutionary, proprietary materials-processing technology with productformulation expertise. The current product focus of the company is on the aerospace, 3D-printing, LED, conductive-adhesives, and smart-coatings markets. appliedcavitationinc.com

aSylUM RESEaRCH

Founded: April 1999 Employees: 90 Estimated worth: Oxford Instruments’ market cap is $325 million GBP on London exchange (as of 10/28/15) Stage of growth: Acquired in December 2012 by Oxford Instruments, PLC Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company, manufactures technology-leading atomic force microscopes (AFMs) for materials and bioscience research. asylumresearch.com continued>

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CURVaTURE

Founded: 1986 Employees: 600+ Estimated worth: $300 million Stage of growth: Privately owned Curvature is transforming how companies procure, maintain, and upgrade IT equipment and support for multi-vendor-network and data-center environments. Founded in 1986, the company has become a trusted strategic partner for more than 10,000 organizations globally, including some of the largest telecommunications carriers, top financial services firms, and Global 1000 organizations. The company specializes in delivering 24/7 global technical support, advanced hardware replacement, and complete lifecycle management of networking, server, and storage equipment from corporate locations in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. curvature.com

FliR SySTEMS

AppS, wEB, & ConSuMEr ELECTronICS This is a broad category, with companies that could easily be included in some of the other groupings. The commonality is that these companies are making products, be them physical devices or digital applications, that everyday human beings are likely to encounter and use.

DESk yogi

Founded: June 2015 Employees: 11-15 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Start-up pre-angel Desk Yogi is a digital online wellness solution for working people everywhere. Desk-Yogi.com delivers targeted movement and stress reduction videos in an anytime, anywhere format to office workers everywhere. Give employees a benefit that pays off in 15 minutes or less. desk-yogi.com

gRapHiQ

Founded: May 2009, as FindTheBest Employees: 130 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series B; $17 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the Pritzker Group Graphiq (formerly FindTheBest) is a data aggregation and visualization company focused on turning complicated data into contextually rich presentations of the world’s knowledge. For consumers, Graphiq operates a number of trusted vertical search engines, spanning tech gadgets (specout.com) and real estate (findthehome.com) to education (startclass.com) and government (insidegov.com). For publishers, the company offers several solutions for improving audience engagement with embeddable, contextually rich visualizations. graphiq.com

boSCH aUToMoTiVE SERViCE SolUTioNS

SixpoiNT MaTERialS iNC.

Founded: September 2006 Employees: Fewer than 10 Estimated worth: $12 million Stage of growth: Series B SixPoint Materials Inc. researches and develops bulk crystal of gallium nitride (GaN), which will be used as a substrate for many energy-related semiconductor devices such as LEDs and power transistors. spmaterials.com

WyaTT TECHNology CoRpoRaTioN

Founded: 1984 in Santa Barbara Employees: 4,500 globally, 600+ in Santa Barbara Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Privately held, in fourth decade of sustained growth Yardi is a technology company dedicated to the design, development, and support of real estate software. We offer full business solutions for every real estate market, including multifamily, single-family, affordable, public, senior, and military housing, as well as office, industrial, retail, and self-storage market segments. Based in Santa Barbara, Yardi serves clients worldwide from offices in North America, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East. We are focused on innovation and providing the best products and services to our customers, while taking care of our employees and the communities in which we live and work. yardi.com

CaUgNaTE

Founded: November 2014 Employees: 6 Stage of growth: Early stage, seeking angel/seed funding Caugnate builds mobile software that supports remote collaboration for physical tasks such as training and repair. Caugnate’s initial product uses augmented reality to enable a field service technician to share his or her physical space with a remote expert and receive clear guidance and instruction to efficiently resolve the problem. It’s almost like teleportation — the remote expert (virtually) teleports to where the problem is and works together with the technician, based on 3D modeling, virtual navigation, and shared annotations. caugnate.com

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Founded: January 2003 Employees: 3 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Privately held introNetworks creates private online communities for Fortune 500, small/ medium businesses, associations, membership organizations, and special initiative-driven networks. The system is based on a patented Visual Matching Engine developed in Santa Barbara. intronetworks.com

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Founded: October 1995 Employees: Close to 500 worldwide Estimated worth: LinkedIn’s market cap is $25.8 billion Stage of growth: Acquired in May 2015 by LinkedIn, a public company; NYSE: LNKD Lynda.com, a LinkedIn company, helps anyone learn business, technology, and creative skills to achieve professional goals. With a monthly subscription, individuals and corporate, academic, and government clients have access to a comprehensive video library of relevant, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. lynda.com

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‘We’ve always over-performed in the amount of start-up and tech companies compared to our size. There are a lot of universities that spin off companies. What we’re known for are start-ups that are high quality from the beginning. When we do a start-up, it’s usually good. — sheRylle mills englandeR, uCsB oFFiCe oF TeChnology & indusTRy allianCes

Founded: 1997 Employees: 30 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: 25-year-old start-up Maps.com offers location-based software solutions for media, education, business, and government. maps.com

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Founded: 1982 by Dr. Philip Wyatt Employees: 120 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: And growing Wyatt Technology is the recognized leader in innovative light-scattering instruments, accessories, software, and services for determining the properties of macromolecules and nanoparticles in solution. Our instruments are used in biological and pharmaceutical research and development. wyatt.com

Founded: Santa Barbara division of Bosch founded in 1984 as Vetronix Corporation Employees: 61 associates in Santa Barbara Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Subsidiary of the privately held Robert Bosch Corporation Bosch Automotive Service Solutions designs and manufactures automotive diagnostic tools and software. Our tools are used worldwide by dealer and independent automotive repair shops to diagnose, repair, and reprogram vehicles. bosch.us

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Founded: 1978 Employees: 2,800 worldwide Estimated worth: $3.8 billion (as of 10/28/15) Stage of growth: Publically traded; NASDAQ: FLIR FLIR Systems Inc. is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of sensor systems that enhance perception and awareness. FLIR’s advanced systems and components are used for a wide variety of thermal imaging, situational awareness, and security applications, including airborne and ground-based surveillance, condition monitoring, navigation, recreation, research and development, manufacturing process control, search and rescue, drug interdiction, transportation safety, border and maritime patrol, environmental monitoring, and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives threat detection. flir.com

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Founded: 2001 Employees: N/A Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Bootstrapped and profitable Crowson Technology is a consumer electronics company that designs and manufactures 4-D entertainment products to coordinate seat movement and vibration with on-screen action for luxury home theater and commercial theaters. crowsontech.com

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Founded: June 2015 Employees: 5-10 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Angel Milo is developing the very first wearable alcohol sensor that actively monitors blood-alcohol levels through perspiration. Our sensor actively monitors your BAC and lets you know how you’re trending, helping you know when you’ll be sober again. Milo puts the control back in your hands when drinking. milosensor.com

oToJoy

Founded: May 2012 Employees: 9 and growing Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Angel Otojoy builds hearing-friendly communities by designing and installing assistive listening technology known as hearing loops. Otojoy also develops hearing-related consumer products and software applications. We were recently honored with the Santa Barbara Mayor’s Award for Outstanding Effort for providing civic leadership in the Loop Santa Barbara nonprofit public-awareness campaign. We develop augmented reality technology and accessibility-focused hardware and software. otojoy.com

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Founded: April 2015 Employees: 4 Estimated worth: $1 million Stage of growth: Angel Pinwheel is a mobile application that lets people see and share real-time moments with others nearby. It is a real-time local network, business to consumer. pinwheelapp.com

pUMpFlix

Founded: January 2002 Employees: 6 Estimated worth: $1 million Stage of growth: Continued We are a digital signage network of digital displays connected to the Internet that sits on top of the gas pumps of Central Coast gas stations. We offer our advertising platform to local businesses at a very competitive rate, along with providing local news, weather, and additional content to provide useful information to customers. pumpflix.com

RECapiT

Founded: June 2015 Employees: 4 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Recapit is by Citrix and in beta Why take notes by hand? Recapit will do it for you. Recapit helps you capture what happens in meetings, interviews, and conversations. We do this with an iPhone app that enables you to record, highlight, and transcribe noteworthy comments, as well as upload it to view on a computer. recapit.io

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nationwide at Best Buy, Fry’s, and Staples, with more than a half million devices sold. thetrackr.com

VoiTRix SECUREDoCS

Founded: February 2012 Employees: 11 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Corporate spin-off funded by original company, AppFolio SecureDocs is dedicated to building software solutions that are highly secure, easily adopted, and affordable for any type or size of business. Products are characterized by a simple user interface, features that actually get used, and a publicly available pricing plan with no hidden fees. SecureDocs products are engineered with close attention to client privacy, so we do not have access to client data, and we never market to our client’s end users. securedocs.com

SEEkER

Founded: July 2015 Employees: 4 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Angel Seeker is a new deals-based promotion platform for Santa Barbara businesses. We’ve built an intuitive technology back end that allows vendors to post promotions in a matter of seconds from a cell phone. Seeker attracts users through constantly changing promotions on a fun, social platform. Vendors posting promotions can target specific locally defined user groups like Goleta residents, tourists, etc. Aside from exclusive and structured deals, Seeker also brings preexisting, fast-paced promotions from national vendors online. seeker.co

SkyClopS

Founded: January 2014 Employees: 2 Estimated worth: $100,000 Stage of growth: Start-up Skyclops does aerial photography and videography for real estate, special events, weddings, search & recovery, inspections, etc. skyclopsmedia.com

SoNoS

Founded: June 2002 Employees: More than 1,200 globally Estimated worth: Raised $130 million in secondary equity sale last year. Stage of growth: Series D, raised $130 million last year Sonos is the smart speaker system that uses your WiFi to stream the music you love throughout your home. One easy-to-use app gives you complete control of your entire home listening experience — access all your music, pick any room or every room, and immerse. sonos.com

ToURS4MobilE.CoM

Founded: January 2007 Employees: 10 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Angel We offer guided tours of worldwide destinations to play on your mobile device. Preplan your adventures, pick the best places to visit, and get a personal (virtual) guide. It’s like having a friend show you around, and that’s what most travelers really like. These guided tours provide a day or two of entertainment with turn-by-turn directions, maps, insider travel tips, and descriptions of the highlights along your route. Unlike traditional audio tours, these have tons of photos so you’ll know which building the narrator is referring to. Affordable, a big value, entertaining, simple to use — we’ll walk you through it! tours4mobile.com

TRaCkR

Founded: July 2009 Employees: 15 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Raised $8.7 million in Series A funding TrackR is a consumer electronics company that helps people keep track of their items using their smartphone and small wireless sensors. It is now sold

Founded: January 2015 Employees: 4 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Angel Voitrix helps real estate agents convert online leads to potential clients by providing instant communication and critical insights into prospects. Our first customer is the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors. voitrix.com

WaTER EiNSTEiN

Founded: December 2014 Employees: 5 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Start-up seeking funding. Water Einstein brings outdoor watering management into the 21st century by learning how much water your plants need, integrating weather to prevent watering during rain, detecting links and alerting users digitally, generating usage reports, and more. watereinstein.com

WoRlDViz

Founded: May 2002 Employees: 45 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Closed Series A with Intel Capital in April 2015 WorldViz is the industry leader in immersion-ready virtual reality solutions. Its patent-pending interactive-visualization and simulation-solution technologies are deployed across 1,500-plus Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and government agencies. worldviz.com

SECurITy & MonITorInG The Internet can be a scary place. These companies help make it safer by fighting cybercrime of all sorts and making sure the World Wide Web is staying honest.

laSTliNE

Founded: September 2011 Employees: 50-100 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series B funding received Lastline is focused on real-time analysis of advanced malware and knowing the Internet’s malicious infrastructure. Lastline leverages this threat intelligence to create advanced malware defenses for companies of all sizes. By focusing on cloud-based automated systems and processes, Lastline has developed the technology to analyze advanced malware at an unprecedented speed and volume. This gives Lastline the ability to analyze binaries and web content in real time as it enters the enterprise network, as well as the ability to map the Malscape at a level of accuracy and relevance not previously available. lastline.com

pURECliCk

Founded: 2011 Employees: 4 Estimated Worth: Decline to state Stage of investment: Currently angel, opening Series A funding We identify fraudulent sources of digital advertising traffic at a click, publisher, and network level. We are the only Media Rating Council–accredited company to do post-click fraud detection. pureclick.com

DEFEnSE Santa Barbara’s tech sector history is rooted in companies that worked on defense and space systems for the government. Many of these firms


Tech Survey 2015 loCkHEED MaRTiN SaNTa baRbaRa FoCalplaNE

Founded: February 1985 Employees: Approximately 185 Estimated worth: Lockheed Martin’s net sales for 2014 were $45.6 billion; market cap $65 billion Stage of growth: Lockheed Martin is publically traded; NASDAQ: LMT A facility under the Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control business area, the Santa Barbara Focalplane facility designs and manufactures industry-leading infrared subsystems for military and commercial applications in 96,000 square feet of engineering and manufacturing space. It develops and manufactures multispectral infrared focal-plane array detectors and imaging systems for missile warning, targeting, surveillance, phenomenology, spectroscopy, threat warning, electro-optic infrared, and government science and technology labs. It provides infrared subsystems for Lockheed Martin products, including the F-35 Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) and the Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod. It also provides infrared solutions to other aerospace companies; advanced ground, aerial, and space sensor solutions to government labs; and imaging components to commercial camera companies. sbfp.com

RayTHEoN CoMpaNy

Founded: July 7, 1922. Operations in Goleta started in the summer of 1956 when 46 employees of the Raytheon Television and Radio Company made their move from Chicago. Employees: 1,100 employees in the tri-county area; 61,000 employees worldwide Estimated worth: 2014 sales of $23 billion Stage of growth: N/A

Raytheon Company is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government, and cybersecurity markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 93 years, Raytheon provides stateof-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as cybersecurity and a broad range of mission support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. raytheon.com

aNDERSoN CoNSTRUCTioN iNC.

Founded: June 1983 Employees: 10-20 Estimated worth: $15 million Stage of growth: Privately held We have decades of experience in constructing clean rooms, office renovations, building repurposing, food service, and shopping centers. andercon.net

rESourCES A thriving tech community requires an army of various resource providers to make it tick. The companies, co-working offices, nonprofit organizations, incubators, financial experts, design/marketing/public relations agencies, venture capital firms, and educational programs below are critical to the health of Santa Barbara’s scene.

aNTioCH UNiVERSiTy SaNTa baRbaRa

Founded: In Ohio in 1964, with Santa Barbara campus opening in 1977 Employees: Approximately 50 full-time and part-time employees. Estimated worth: N/A Stage of growth: Established and mature university. Antioch University Santa Barbara offers a lively, intensive undergraduate education and rigorous, real-world graduate degrees. antioch.edu

aNaCapa EQUipMENT bRokERS Founded: January 2000 Employees: 4 Estimated worth: $250,000 Stage of growth: Established corporation We sell used lab and industrial equipment. anacapaequipment.com

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Tech Survey 2015 in San Francisco and New York working alongside Intuit, PayPal, and Digg, founder Andrea Holland brought her talent and team to Santa Barbara, where the tech scene was not just emerging — but booming. Specific capabilities include media relations, media strategy, thought leadership, product launches, events, and more. dialedpr.com

CHaNNEl DaTa SySTEMS

Founded: November 1975 Employees: 7 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Mature Channel Data Systems handles network administration, design and configuration server monitoring, managed cloud services, data-recovery and backup solutions, remote access, VPN and terminal services wireless network design and troubleshooting, data security, mail archiving and security solutions, battery backup and power solutions, computer diagnosis repair, virus and malware removal, custom-built computers and servers, and remote and after-hours technical support. channeldata.com

CHaNNElTECHS

Founded: January 2005 Employees: 5 Estimated worth: $1 million Stage of growth: Early We’re an IT company that services the Central Coast of California. channeltechs.com

Cio SolUTioNS

Founded: 1986 Employees: 50 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Private company CIO Solutions provides IT consulting, design, and management services to the tri-counties and specializes in traditional, premise-based managed services (fixed-fee management agreements), private cloud-computing services, phone systems, enterprise storage, virtualization, and networking. ciosolutions.com

CiTRix STaRTUp aCCElERaToR

Founded: 2010 Employees: 5 Estimated worth: N/A Stage of growth: N/A We fund and provide programs to assist start-ups and internal innovation teams develop customers and products. Our Santa Barbara Innovators program ran June-September 2015, and we had eight teams (five start-ups and three internal Citrix teams). Start-ups received a $25,000 grant, and we partnered with Arrow Electronics, GEM, StartupSB, and the Santa Barbara Foundation. We also provide select teams $250,000 in seed funding. citrix.com

DialEDpR

Founded: February 2013 Employees: 5 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: N/A DialedPR is the only PR consultancy in Santa Barbara focused solely on business-to-business and business-to-consumer tech companies. It was built on the philosophy that communications needs to be agile and always remain nimble and spontaneous yet strategic. With almost a decade of experience

i//WD iNTERNET//WoRlDWiDE DEVElopMENT

Founded: June 1998 Employees: 16 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Established and fully funded I//WD handles Internet and web applications design and promotion, advanced Internet transaction programming, hosting and name-registration services, secured transaction e-commerce, and more. iwdnet.com

kalDERa INC

FiRST CliCk iNC.

Founded: June 2007 Employees: 8 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Established business First Click provides effective online marketing services and products that improve the bottom line. Our emphasis is on sound business practices, creative call to action, technical analytics, and a particular focus on conversions. First Click utilizes all available technology resources — from SEO, SEM, social media, and blog management to expert engines and mobile communications — to develop and manage a successful marketing campaign. firstclickinc.com

Founded: January 2013 Employees: 2 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: N/A Kaldera is a multifaceted firm focused on community building, business development, and marketing for start-ups, organizations, and nonprofits. kaldera.co

liNkD MEDia

Founded: January 2013 Employees: 3 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Not funded Linkd Media is a digital agency spanning from the sandy beaches of Santa Barbara to the rivers of Klamath Falls, Oregon. We help companies take their web experience to the next level, with platforms like WordPress. linkdmedia.com

gERbER kaWaSaki WEalTH MaNagEMENT

Founded: 2010 Employees: Fewer than 20 Estimated worth: More than $400 million under management Stage of growth: Not applicable This wealth and investment-management firm is focused on helping individuals and small businesses in the tech sector. gerberkawasaki.com

gVC CoNSUlTiNg

Founded: April 2010 Employees: 1 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Self-employed GVC Consulting offers marketing coaching and interim CMO services for technology companies. gvancollie@icloud.com

iMpaCT HUb SaNTa baRbaRa

Founded: June 2014, launching December 2015 Employees: 4 Estimated worth: Nonprofit Stage of growth: N/A Impact Hub provides a shared work space, offices, co-working, an Impact of Things lab, and an event space for social entrepreneurs, start-ups, and nonprofits. impacthubsb.com

iNTEgRaTED TElEMaNagEMENT SERViCES

Founded: May 1990 Employees: 20 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Series B Since 1990, ITS has been providing solutions for businesses in and around Southern and Central California from our headquarters in Simi Valley. We’re specialists in telecommunication and Managed IT. We offer everything the SMB needs from voice services and bandwidth to desktop and network support. itstelecom.com

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Founded: June 1999 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and January 2008 in Santa Barbara Employees: Core team is 4 but can range from 6 to15 depending on number of incubating companies Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Client Self-Echo is raising Series A-3; FirstClick is self-sustaining and profitable since 2007; Noospheric is also a large shareholder in TrackR. Providing consulting and strategy for start-ups and company executives and led by entrepreneur Jacques Habra, Noospheric has helped launch and advise 30 start-ups in 15 years, including TrackR, First Click, SBClick, and The Joy Agency. Recent clients include SelfEcho, developers of Mobile Therapy, and a comprehensive SaaS platform that bridges the information gap between clinical psychologists and their patients in between sessions, as well as Noozhawk, Biopac, Steven Handelman Studios, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. noospheric.com

oNiRaCoM

Founded: May 2001 Employees: 20+ Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Privately held Realizing, materializing, and honoring dreams through creativity and innovation is, and will always remain, at our core. We strategize, design, develop, and produce content to evolve dreams into tangible, structured, and prolific successes. oniracom.com


Tech Survey 2015 Founded: April 2013 Employees: 2 Estimated worth: Six figures Stage of growth: Start-up Proven Strategies provides various services including online marketing, nurturing prospects to become buyers, securing sponsors, niche marketing across all platforms, building online presence, strategic ad buys, sales by Internet, internal and external e-newsletters, networking strategies, one-on-one coaching, and more. psm3.co

RiNCoN VENTURE paRTNERS

Founded: 2005 Employees: 4 Estimated worth: We have raised nearly $100 million, over three funds. Stage of growth: We lead most of our rounds, usually coming in at series Seed and A. We also do our pro rata in follow-on rounds. We’re an early-stage venture-capital firm that focuses on business-to-business SaaS start-ups. rinconvp.com

SaNTa baRbaRa CoMpUTER HElp

Founded: 2002 (formerly Santa Barbara Computer Works) Employees: 4 Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of Growth: Series B Online and in-home PC service for home users and small businesses. computerhelpsantabarbara.com

SaNTa baRbaRa TECHNology VENTURES

Founded: 2015 Santa Barbara Technology Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture-cap-

ital fund investing primarily in technology start-ups in the underserved Santa Barbara region. The fund seeks superior returns through an exceptional team, hands-on approach, and a close affiliation with UCSB and Cal Poly talent, intellectual property, and research initiatives. Our funding plan is to engage individuals with nexus to the Santa Barbara region, family offices, and strategic corporate LPs.

SHoW Up WEb DESigN

Founded: October 2012 Employees: 2 full-time, 3 part-time Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: N/A Show Up Web Design is a web design and development firm providing creative web design, development, local SEO, and online advertising. We know what locals need, take the time to understand our clients’ vision, and together come up with a comprehensive plan to ensure that our clients succeed online. We specialize in website design, SEO and writing for SEO, graphic design, and overall marketing/branding strategies. We have extensive experience with WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace, and Wix, and we are a Google Partner. Our goal is help our clients’ businesses “show up.” showupwebdesign.com

SyNERgy bUSiNESS & TECHNology CENTER

Founded: December 2011 Clients: We have about 30 companies involving about 50 entrepreneurs and business leaders. Synergy is a creative and vibrant tech-oriented workplace designed to inspire, harbor, and connect entrepreneurs and professionals pursuing their passions for life and business success. We are a collaborative co-working and business incubator space that brings leading-edge technology together with creativity, innovation, and good vibes. Our passion is people

pursuing their dreams and fostering the personal growth, business success, and soulful fulfillment that comes from finding your calling and living it. synergybtc.com

SaNTa baRbaRa HaCkERSpaCE iNC.

Founded: September 2010 Santa Barbara Hackerspace is an open community workshop to allow access to workspace and equipment for the Santa Barbara community. It started in a one-car garage five years ago, but currently has five co-working offices housing four start-ups. We are a group of makers and software developers in the Santa Barbara community who love coming together to build things. We are a nonprofit organization, and we rely on the membership dues and donations of enthusiastic technologists to keep going. sbhackerspace.com

WoRkzoNES

Founded: April 2013 Employees: 10, including four founders Estimated worth: Decline to state Stage of growth: Self-funded, but Series A round may be soon Founded by four entrepreneurs, workzones is an established co-working club downtown that is the home to dozens of successful small businesses, including several tech-focused start-ups. With shared workspaces and 10 private meeting rooms available to members and drop-in professionals, workzones is a flexible and high-value alternative to an expensive office lease, the isolated home office, or a crowded coffee shop. Taking advantage of the ability to collaborate, workzones’ members and guests have formed an energetic community whose support contributes to the growth and success of each business. workzones.com n

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SB Coffee Roasting Company 321 Motor Way SB 962‑5213– NOW WITH FREE WI‑FI! Santa Barbara’s premier coffee roasting company since 1989. Come in for the freshest most delicious cup of coffee ever and watch us roast the best coffee in town at our historic Old Town location ‑ Corner of State & Gutierrez. Gift baskets, mail order & corporate gifts avail. sbcoffee.com. ethiopian Authentic Ethiopian CUISINE Featured at Petit Valentien Restaurant 1114 State St. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Serkaddis Alemu offers an ever changing menu with choices of vegetarian, vegan, and meat options. Catering Avaliable for parties of up to 40 people. Sat/Sun lunch 11:30‑2:30

irish Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. (next to lot 10) SB, 568‑0702. $$. Open 7 days 11:30a‑Close (Food ‘til 10p, 11p on Sat/Sun). AE MC V Disc. Authentic Irish food & atmosphere in downtown SB. Specialties from Ireland include Seafood & Meat dishes. Informal, relaxed pub‑style atmosphere. Live music Thursday nights. Children welcome. Avail. for private parties. Pool & Darts. Japanese KYOTO, 3232 State St, 687‑1252.$$. 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 reserva‑ tions suggested. Beer, Wine & Sake.Take Out. Birthday customers get FREE tempura ice cream & photo on our website! KyotoSB.com

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 prix fixe 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. Reserva‑ tions are recommended.

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 vin‑ tages by‑the‑glass www.rodneyssteakhouse.com

indian Flavor of INDIA 3026 State 682‑6561 $$ www.flavorofindiasb.com VOTED BEST 17yrs. Finest, most authentic Indian cuisine is afford‑ able 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 &

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Campo Viejo 2013 Tempranillo: At right around $10 retail, it’s easy to think of this Spanish charmer as “Temptranillo.” Even easier is the common quandary of, how do European winemakers make and ship us such tasty values when it’s so hard to get a tasty bargain from California? This medium-weight red offers plum and berry flavors underscored with a bit of earth; it’s far from being as rustic and rich as many riojas, but that makes it an even better food wine — especially this time of year, when we get to start roasting vegetables and braising meat. Think of it as an Old World grape using New World methods — it’s fermented in stainless steel and then aged in American oak for four months. That leads to a very approachable wine. See campoviejo.com. — George Yatchisin

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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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Brasil Arts Café offers Brazilian culture by way of food, drink, and dance! Come try our Brazilian BBQ plate or Moqueca (local sea bass in a coconut sauce). Enjoy our breakfast or $9.95 lunch specials or the best Açaí bowls in town. Be ready to join in a dance class! www. brasilartscafe.com 845‑7656 1230 State Street

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1St tHurSDAy program is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara that takes place on the first Thursday of each month. Participating art venues offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8pm. 1st thursday venues also provide additional attractions, such as live music, artist receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. Additionally, State Street comes alive on 1st thursday with performances and interactive activities. GaLLErIEs, MusEuMs & VENuEs

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1333 State Street, 805-882-2108 Sunrise to Sunset: We have now come to the season of amazing colorful sunrises and sunsets. Plein air painter, Chris Potter will display as many sunrise and sunset paintings he can make in the month of October. You might even be able to identify the day they were done.

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229 East Victoria Street, 805-965-6307 Nina Warner - Urban Space: The Parks of Santa Barbara is an installation of over 60 small oil paintings representing every park in the city. Painted on site, the exhibit highlights the wealth and diversity of our local, public landscape.

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Exhibitions on View: Looking In, Looking Out: Latin American Photography - The scenes of Latin American culture, politics, environments, and individuals are explored in depth. This exhibition, drawn from the permanent collection of the SBMA, highlights works by Latin American photographers or artists who have adopted it as home, so that those from outside the region may look into the lives of Latin America

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1114 State Street #24, 805-884-1938 BUNS (Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter) is a local independent nonprofit dedicated to the care and welfare of rabbits and guinea pigs for over 20 years. BUNS works to find bunnies and guinea pigs permanent homes, and educates the public on caring for their guinea pig and rabbit companions. Check out our bunny raku sculptures and art. You’re no bunny ‘til some bunny loves you! Wine poured by Sanford Winery.

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136 East De La Guerra Street • 805-966-1601 Celebrate a new exhibition and book dedicated to the work of two local architects. Osborne Craig is credited with establishing the Spanish Colonial style in Santa Barbara through buildings such as Casa Santa Cruz and El Paseo, 10 Wa WaTE aTErhOusE GaLLEry which set the standard for our architectural rebirth in the twenties. His wife, Mary McLaughlin Craig, indelibly linked 1114 State Street # 9, 805-962-8885 with Plaza Rubio, established her own identity as an architectural designer for 36 years. Wine & music.premier The Gallery is going on its 31st year and 24 years in La Arcada Courtyard. It features artwork from some of today’s artists. Guest curator, Marlene R. Miller. finest nationally-known painters. Southwest Art Magazine recognized Diane & Ralph Waterhouse among “10 16 ThE yEs sTOrE Prominent People” in the Fine Art Business. Ralph Waterhouse will give a painting demonstration at 5:45pm. 807 State Street (at De La Guerra), 805-966-9777 11 GaLLEry ry 113 The Yes Store is celebrating the opening of its 48th Annual Store on 1st Thursday in November. The Yes Store is 1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #8, 805-965-6611 the nation’s longest running artisan holiday cooperative (1968-2015) that delights locals and visitors to downtown Gallery 113 presents original art by members of the Santa Barbara Art Association. Sue Slater is the Artist of Santa Barbara with an impressive display of high quality local hand crafted art work including jewelry, ceramics, art the Month with paintings that capture a moment in time. She is known for her lively colors with engaging glass, graphics, mixed media, photography, textiles, weaving, woodworking and more. We are open 7 days a week still lifes and cityscapes that invite the viewer to participate and feel at home. The featured artists are Linda through December 24. Please join us on 1st Thursday and throughout the Holiday Season as we present to you the Nelson, Patrick O’Leary, Iben Vestergaard, Marlise Senzamici and Suemae Willhite. (Open 11am-5pm Mon-Sat and finest of Santa Barbara’s artisans. 1pm-5pm Sun.)

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1103-A State Street, 805-966-1707 California Jade: New originals from local artist Ronald Stevens. Carved from native Big Sur, California Jade and other indigenous gemstones, these delightful sculptures carry across a broad spectrum of naturalistic subjects. Also featuring select works by Marc Chagall and Edward Borein. Complimentary Local Wine tastings to benefit The Breast Cancer Resource Center of Santa Barbara.

1323 State Street, 805-364-5141 Celebrate #GiveBackThursday on #1stThursdayDSB! We invite you to get in the spirit of giving in honor of the month of giving thanks. We’re hosting a food drive for Unity Shoppe all month long, but bring canned good(s) tonight to enter and win a fabulous prize. Proudly featuring a local and very talented artist, Robert Stark. Enjoy food, cocktails - and good company!

13 ZFOLIO GaLLEry: ry 1013 State Street, 805-845-7375 ry: ZFolio is Proud to Host Photographer Michael Mendizza. Michael’s images are bold and yet meditative, inviting, bursting with nature’s ever-present beauty. Echoing the works of Georgia O’Keeffe where pattern, texture and bold colors splash across the canvas, Michael’s images, especially large prints, fill the room. His seascapes are living Zen gardens where the timeless movement of water dances around stone. They often represent the Tao, the watercourse way. Meet Michael, indulge or talk shop. At its best photography is meditation.

38 West Victoria, 805-770-7702 Prepared to be WOWed! We’re showcasing the Wonders of Weaving and their talented floor loom skills as our featured artist. I’a Fish Market and Cafe will be serving up steaming samples of clam chowder to compliment the Sonoma cider and Refugio Ranch varietals that will be tasted in the Kitchen. Wine+Beer will be dishing out some suds from brand new Goleta based brewery, M special.

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1028 State Street, 805-966-3116. Learn about the World’s Best, Crystal Cruises, new itineraries, brand expansion – not just in cruising – but in all luxury vacations. Join us at to hear about their new 62-guest Crystal Esprit yacht, river cruises, polar vessels, residences at sea and Crystal Luxury Air, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. (Presentations at 6pm & 7pm).

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21 E. Carrillo Street • 805-965-8343 Santa Barbara Community Bank, in collaboration with Sullivan Goss Gallery, brings a selection of work from each of the contemporary artists represented at the gallery. Come see this beautiful historic building featuring some of the best art that Santa Barbara has to offer. Also: enjoy music by Ali in the outside courtyard.

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1130 State Street, 805-963-4364 Family 1st Thursday: Abstract Texture Studies: Focus in on the details of Raul Corrales’ Blue Jeans, Cuba, (1948) to create an abstract texture study by layering canvas strips and opaque watercolors. (Time: 5:30–7:30 pm, Location: SBMA’s Family Resource Center, Free)

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40 East Anapamu Street, 805-962-7635 ArtSEE: an Abstract Art Collective fundraiser for locally based non-profit, SEE International. One hundred, 11 x 14 inch artworks for $200 each, created and donated by AAC members. 100% of the proceeds to benefit SEE. Also on display is an AAC show juried by Dug Uyesaka with 40% of the proceeds to benefit SEE. SEE International recruits opthomalogists and support personnel to perform free cataract surgery and hold eye clinics around the world – restoring sight and transforming lives.

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11 West Anapamu Street, 805-568-1400 SENSE OF CALM: “Sense of Calm” presents the brand new Color Fields Series of diptych paintings by Jack N. Mohr together with a selection of calming and soothing paintings by Southern California artists Michael Moon and Kaori Fukuyama.

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105 E Anapamu St, 1st floor The Santa Barbara Printmakers will present free printmaking demonstrations from 5 pm-8 pm in the Channing Peake Gallery. Local printmakers Don Zimmerman, Tony Askew, Sara Woodburn, Karen Schroeder, and Garrett Speirs will share their creative processes and diverse techniques including solar polymer etching, monotype, linocut, collograph, moku hanga (Japanese woodblock) and lithography.

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11 East Anapamu Street, 805-730-1460 Sullivan Goss invites you to our Fall Salon, featuring a collection of important historical works by Lockwood de Forest, Leon Dabo, Nell Brooker Mayhew, and contemporary works by Meredith Brooks Abbott, and Sarah Vedder. Also on view: Angela Perko: Earthly Delight; and American Details: Robert Townsend, Dave Lefner, and Mary-Austin Klein.

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12 East Figueroa Street • 805-730-7860 Wine Dine Build, offers premium catering to SB and the surrounding community. They present unique offerings for intimate parties to larger special events. Potek Winery-rooted in traditional techniques and focused on producing the best possible wines from SB’s most exciting vineyards. Stop in, sample some of their delights, and view art curated by Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery.

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1528 State Street, 805-962-6444 LIFESCAPES: Felice Willat’s award-winning photography from her international travels capture the beauty of the human landscape in many different cultures. Please stop by and enjoy a glass of wine while viewing these fascinating images.

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1129 State Street • 805-884-9642 Join the Core Power community for a night of FREE yoga in the courtyard. Beautiful violin music by Vedant Koppera will serenade you during this one hour all levels class. Enjoy delicious treats from Boochies & a glass of wine from Armada. Please bring a canned food item for the Food Bank, to help our community. (Class starts at 5:30.)

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23 East Canon Perdido Street, 805-965-6448 The Art of Music is a dynamic exhibit on the visual convergence of art and music, both important metaphors on their own. Join the CASA Team for a visual and aural experience. Enjoy Harold Kono on the keys, light refreshments, wine and fun.

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35 West Haley Street, 805-899-8811 Alchemy feature’s multiple artists of transformative mediums to excite and delight all that visit! November includes a wonderful local jewelry designer, Amber Dolyak. Live Electronic Kirtan musician; Jacob Duran Conscious Cocktails, a delightful & refreshing mixture of local, organic farm to table drinks with special healthy supplements, evening specials in our Organic Café!

L FOLIO PrEss & PPaPErIE: 301 Motor Way, 805-966-1010 Art by Santa Barbara Montessori Students: chalk pastel self-portraits; tint and shade compositions and decorated capitals using gold leaf; mandalas; watercolors; acrylic paintings; chalk and oil pastels – all displayed at folio press & paperie (in-house letterpress + amazing local stationery/gift shop). M hOTEL MILO: 202 West Cabrillo Boulevard, 805-966-2880 LOOk THROUgH THE LENS: Presenting iconic photographs by esteemed Santa Barbara artist and owner of Dos Pueblos Ranch, Henry Schulte. Come meet the artist and enjoy wine tastings hosted by Deep Sea Wines. PErFOrMaNCEs MIssION CaNyON: SBMA Corner (State & Anapamu) Mission Canyon brings to life songs and good memories with acoustic instruments and vocally rich arrangements. From Americana to Motown, songs widely known and loved, Pat Hackney specializes in instrumental solos and harmony and lead vocals while Robert Brown covers lead and harmony vocals and rhythm and lead guitar. This performance is sponsored by the Santa barbara Performing Arts League. PasEO NuEVO CENTEr COurT: 5:30-7:30 Stop by Center Court for a sneak peak of fashions to be featured at the Paseo Nuevo Runway Show on Saturday, November 7 at 1pm. Get a taste for A day In the Life of our fall collection of sunrise to sunset style. Snap a photo of your favorite look, #PNShopTheLook and share it on Instagram for a chance to win access to the Fashion Lounge on the day of the show! KaLINKa: 900 State Street, Marshalls Patio Kalinka, a Santa-Barbara based acoustic quartet, plays a lively and eclectic blend of Jewish klezmer, gypsy music, Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. Their sound is joyous, sweet, and gutsy. To their wide repertoire, they bring consummate musicianship and zest. Performers include: Fred Nadis (clarinet), Andrew Fedders (bass), Eric Ederer (cumbus and guitar), and Daniel Moltke (violin).

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Cap off this evening with a unique night of entertainment and excitement at 1st Thursday: After Hours. With special programming by Opera Santa Barbara and select members of Mosher Studio artists, and libations provided by Summerland Winery this is an evening not to be missed! The Historic Theatre District is pleased to offer 1st Thursday: After Hours events, hosted by a different Historic Theatre District venue each month. You never know what fun awaits after hours.

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he 1988 movie Heathers starring of the talent this show has attracted, and flows from one tableau to another without Winona Ryder and Christian Slater of the fact that Jenny Mercein, an experi- a break, thus bringing a cinematic sense was one of the defining pop-culture enced Equity actor, director, and a lecturer of camera movement to the stage. “Kinhits of the era. From the point of in UCSB Theater Department, is the direc- dergarten Boyfriend,” a love ballad, puts view of 2015, this could be seen as a bless- tor on this project. Martha Dumptruck in the spotlight. For So what’s it like? The music is pop-rock, fans of the movie who are keeping score ing or a curse. We all know the horrible hair of the ’80s, and the less said about the and not particularly ’80s, but rather the on the plot changes, Martha would seem high school fashion of the period the bet- mash-up of styles and eras that’s typical to have absorbed Betty Finn somewhere ter. But when it comes to between the screen and the stage. The providing material for the type of rock-leaning, closest thing to period girl-forward musical ’80s music is probtheater favored by Santa ably “Candy Store,” a Barbara’s Out of the Box funny/bitchy flirt song Theatre Company, Heathfor the Heathers that ers is blessed with seemevokes, by turns, Toni Basil and Madonna. ingly every advantage, and Heathers: The MusiThe cast draws on cal, which shows Thurstop young talent from day, November 5-Sunday, the 805 and beyond. November 15, at CenMadelyn Adams, who ter Stage Theater, looks plays Heather Chanprimed to make those dler, graduated from PCPA in 2013 and is ’80s edges count. now based in North For Samantha Eve, Hollywood, which founder and guiding is the epicenter of light of Out of the Box, WICKET WAYS: The Heathers are (from left) Katherine Bottoms (Heather NcNamara), Madelyn SoCal’s new musical it’s a chance to go perhaps Adams (Heather Chandler), and Courtney Daniels (Heather Duke). scene. Santa Barbara the deepest she’s gone yet into performing with her local and Indy Award own company. As Veronica Sawyer, the of contemporary writing for the musical winner Katherine Bottoms is Heather new student who first cracks the Heath- theater. In other words, the songs belong McNamara, who is considered the nice ers code and then knocks the Heathers off, to the genres and idioms that the dramatic Heather, which isn’t saying much. With Eve will provide the protagonist and the action requires. The opening number intro- Kacey Link as music director and both central point of view. In a recent press pre- duces the cast and the setting Westerberg scenic design and lighting by Ted Dolas, view, she sang, danced, and looked fresh High, and it is an old-fashioned ensemble this show is sure to look and sound great, so and relaxed throughout in spite of holding dance number but punctuated with some get out your best blazer and call 963-0408 the center spot. No doubt that happy look rather more up-to-date epithets, like freak, or visit centerstagetheater.org for tickets and slut poser poser, and lard-ass. The choreography information. on her face was to a large degree a result slut, —Charles Donelan

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Neil Young’s latest project is a reality-inducing album, which asks listeners to wake up and respond to the ecological destruction that threatens our common home. The controversial Monsanto Company — which formerly produced DDT, Agent Orange, PCBs, and bovine growth hormone, and currently represents a huge threat with its GM seeds and patents — is the chief villain of Young’s harvested song cycle. “A New Day for Love” is a call to arms, while the poignant “Wolf Moon” finds Young paying reverence to nature, despite big industry’s misuse of her. On “People Want to Hear About Love,” Young and the band address the moral torpor of the apathetic masses. The acerbic “A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop” calls out Starbucks and Monsanto for suing the state of Vermont to block GMO labeling, and “Workin’ Man” tackles Monsanto’s egregious lawsuit against Indiana farmer Vernon Bowman. In the tradition of the late, great legends John Lennon, Bob Marley, and Joe Strummer, Young urges us to imagine and make manifest a world where we stand up for our rights against those who would impose complete control. —Sean Mageean

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Meg Myers has no reason to apologize for the release of Sorry Sorry, except that the haunting singer/songwriter’s first fulllength album should have dropped years ago. Having already scored two radio hits with singles “Desire” and “Sorry,” the Tennessee native’s first album was a long time coming. Sorry is 10 tracks of raw and eerie storytelling, falling somewhere between alternative rock and Goth pop. Dark and passionate almost to the point of being disturbing, Myer’s vocals range from soft, broken, and gentle to frenzied growling and screaming in the span of a four-minute song — think Alanis Morissette meets Marilyn Manson. Myers brings in the fullfledged darkness with the lyrically feverish “Desire” and “I Really Want You to Hate Me,” with lyrics such as, “I gotta hunt you / I gotta bring you to my hell,” and, “There’s no love for the wicked.” Pairing violins and harpsichords alongside rock electric guitars, Myers creates a slew of catchy could-be radio hits contained in an album filled with ominous undertones. —Cassandra Miasnikov

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Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

THU, NOV 5 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL Tickets start at $25 / $10 UCSB students

EVERYDAY OBJECTS: Photographer Raúl Corrales’s “Fishing Nets/La atarraya” (circa 1950) captures a lone fisherman from the village of Cojimar, Cuba, flinging a white net, its light fabric floating improbably far into the air. This is just one of the 47 works created since the 1930s by artists living and working in Latin American countries being shown in the SBMA exhibit Looking In, Looking Out.

throwing the net Looking In, Looking Out: Latin American Photography. At the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Shows through March 20, 2016. Reviewed by Charles Donelan

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good photography survey exhibit explores the medium and its function in society simultaneously. For Looking In, Looking Out, Karen Sinsheimer selected 47 works that were created since the 1930s by artists living and working in Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and other nations. All the photos are from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s extensive and significant holdings in Latin American photography, and, in fulfillment of the title’s promise, they allow us to look inward at how these artists think and feel, and outward at what they find when they point their lenses at Latin American life. Thanks to the myriad uses for photography outside gallery walls and to the innovations of photography’s fine art practitioners, the medium never stands still. Documentary and aesthetic objectives merge in these photos, resulting in a sense of a shared practice that nevertheless encompasses a multitude of styles and subjects. Without adhering to a single identifiable school, the images in Looking In, Looking Out evoke an identifiable and coherent point of view. The first thing to know about this shared perspective is that the photographers never forget to connect people to the land. In Juan Carlos Coppel’s “Sin título” (2014) from the series Siete cerros, the wide-open spaces of an agricultural site in Mexico render humans, their tools, and even their vehicles as tiny specks on a long and distant flat horizon line, making it appear as though civilization is a thin layer of glue attaching the land to the sky. “Carpoolers,” a color photo taken by Alejandro Cartagena from a bridge over the highway in Monterrey, Mexico, shows workers sprawled out in the back of a pickup

truck. Again, through a change in perspective, the human figure is redefined—and rehumanized—in relation to the earth below. Another powerful current flowing through the collective consciousness on display is one that cultivates the transcendence in everyday objects. Erika Diettes submerges garments that once belonged to Colombian citizens who have “disappeared” during that country’s political upheaval. Her crisp color images capture the sensuality of bright cloth, moving water, and the light that flashes through it, all the while asserting the poignant absence of the humans who once wore the clothes, many of them presumably drowned in these same turbulent rivers. Looking backward in time at the earlier images in the show, it’s easy to see that lyricism has long been a palpable part of the tradition embodied by such modernist black-and-white photography pioneers as Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Raúl Corrales. It’s heartening to see that the SBMA owns an image that’s at once as iconic and as humble as Alvarez Bravo’s “Dog Number 20” from 1958. Likewise, it’s hard to imagine a more pure display of the black-and-white photographer’s art than Corrales’s magnificent “La atarraya” circa 1950. In the picture, a lone fisherman from the village of Cojimar, Cuba, where Hemingway found his “old man,” flings a white net, its light fabric floating improbably far into the air. The simplicity of the fisherman’s gesture underscores the sense of something miraculous in the flowing spread of his net. As with the photographer’s finger on the shutter button, there’s a deep connection between the precise moment of human action and something larger that n emanates from it.

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he recent blaze in the hills behind narrative born from these letters. All the Sky Montecito reminded Santa Barbarans features authentic accounts of the servicemen of a feeling too familiar: the destruc- and women in combat and the people they tive nature of fire and its ability to corresponded with back home. There are pasdestroy the artifacts that represent a person sionate love letters, letters of loneliness, and or family’s recent (and distant) history. It was letters that describe the bravery and sacrifice in such a fire that Andrew Carroll, author of of comrades. This show demonstrates the the upcoming production If All the Sky Were perseverance of humanity, despite living in the Paper, lost everything—most importantly, let- most frightening of times. ters he’d saved from his ancestors, a family hisCarroll describes the play as one with the tory in a series of first-person accounts. When continual capacity to evolve. With the constant he fully realized his loss, relief came from influx of dispatches donated to the project, an unlikely source: A potential new dradistant cousin conmatic material is fretacted Carroll and quently discovered. All the Sky features sent him a bundle of letters that he was a narrative based planning to throw on Carroll’s global away if Carroll didn’t search for wartime want them. Carroll letters. The narrator accepted the gift and travels to military was inspired by the bases throughout the contents — letters world asking troops by Maggie Yates to save their letters from wartime and letters sent from combat half a world away. and emails; as he journeys, actors perform the While only this tiny portion of the family leg- letters, illustrating the human capacity for suracy in letters remained, their impact motivated vival that remains consistent across continents Carroll to begin building a new, global legacy. and centuries. All the Sky shares true accounts “So many people have letters that they of people from the American Revolution to would otherwise throw away,” Carroll said. the continuing conflicts in the Middle East. “But these letters are part of our national his- “The language has changed,” Carroll noted, tory.” Carroll’s theory was confirmed when, “but the sentiment hasn’t.” after running a column in Dear Abby asking The letters in this show not only describe readers to send him photocopies of their war- heartbreaking moments of cruelty and courtime correspondences for his Legacy Project, age but also demonstrate an encouraging letters from every American conflict and state sense of humor and playfulness to comfort worried friends and family back home. Misstarted arriving in crates via post. Currently, the collection numbers in the sives from people in other countries are also hundreds of thousands. Many notable letters featured, to include the non-Americans’ —such as one written on a piece of Hitler’s perspectives on American conflicts. Early verstationary, pilfered by the American service- sions of the show lacked closure for characters, man who found his private apartment, or a but Carroll’s updated concept allows for the gripping, real-time account of the attack on narrator to provide insight about the actual Pearl Harbor, told from a sailor trapped in fate of each character so the audience has a the USS New Orleans as Japanese bombs bar- sense of completion. A well-crafted tribute raged the naval base — have been displayed in to American history, If All the Sky Were Paper the historical context provided by museums. features letters that are a definitive touchstone But Carroll still yearned to create an artistic in the campaign to save these important pripresentation of these intimate glimpses into mary-source accounts of wartime experiences wartime life. If All the Sky Were Paper is the dating back to the very birth of our nation.

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CSB kicks off the 2015-2016 academic year with Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus, the Obie-winning play about the exploitive sexualization of Sarah Baartman, a sideshow performer known as the Hottentot Venus. Directed by Tom Whitaker, Parks’s work reinvents the life and adventures of Baartman, a South African woman sold into the European sideshow circuit in the early 19th century. Venus’s full figure (a probable case of steatopygia, a genetic quality in which women develop substantial gluteal tissue, resulting in a curvy physique uncommon to women of European decent) earns her a degree of fame throughout Europe as a living curio. Shown through the degrading quality of human trafficking (Baartman sold to the sideshow) and the subsequent objectification of Baartman’s unusual-looking body, Venus examines some of the many damaging effects of imperialism by Maggie Yates and the commoditization of colonized populations. Venus’s “act” in the sideshow consists mostly of displaying her exotic features, including her buttocks and genitals, for the purpose of entertaining attraction attendees. Her unusual physical traits garner wide interest from the public, and Venus is paraded before fascinated audiences from all over Europe. Venus’s popularity brings her a heightened sense of worth, but the objectification of her physical form seals her fate as a subject for constant examination and study. The Baron Docteur, a European doctor of means, purchases Venus as a mistress, though his true intent is to study her body post-mortem. Venus accompanies the Baron Docteur to Paris as a lover and contracts gonorrhea from him. Knowing her condition, he denies Venus treatment for the malady and instead conspires to have her jailed until her death, when he can collect the body for his intended analysis. While not a historically accurate portrayal of the genuine Baartman’s life, Parks’s work is a provocative look at the degrading practices of slavery and human ownership, the perverse thrill of infamy, and the gross objectification of women in the colonial era (especially women of color). While Parks’s drama is certainly driven by the contrast between Venus the person and Venus the object of fascination, Parks’s Baartman is not necessarily written as a repressed character who embodies victimization. The suggestion of Venus’s implicit involvement in her captive lifestyle insinuates that this complex character is, among other things, subtly opportunistic despite her limited control over her situation. Venus isn’t merely a play that scrutinizes society’s obsession with “the outsider” or “the other”; it’s the story of a woman’s rise to and fall from fame within an alien culture. While Venus has little choice in most of her life decisions due to her position as property of the sideshow, she uses what influence she has to maintain her celebrity. Venus’s stardom is a point of leverage — and, ultimately, the key to her ruin. Featuring UCSB undergraduate student performers and live music directed by the UCSB Jazz Ensemble’s Jon Nathan, this fictionalized account of Baartman’s experiences as the Hottentot Venus portrays the racism, sexism, and objectification common in the colonial era and challenges audiences with unfettered views of celebrity, survival, and the portrayal of sex and the human form as oddity commodities.

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hen I caught up with the Parisian piano phenomenon Lise de la Salle, she was getting ready for a nice lunch in New York City. Now a permanent New Yorker since February, she will be performing her Santa Barbara recital debut on Sunday, November 8, at Hahn Hall via the UCSB Arts & Lectures Up Close & Musical series. I spoke with her about her favorite piano players, her technique, and the importance of support.

You played with the L.A. Phil at the Granada Theatre in May. Can you tell us more about your L.A. connection? I’m lucky to have this

relationship with the L.A. Phil. The first time I played with them, I was 20-21 [now 27]. My first time I played with them, it was a big deal to debut with them, but it was also my debut at the Hollywood Bowl, playing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in front of 15,000 people.

CLOSE TO THE MUSIC: Pianist Lise de la Salle emphasizes emotional connection above technicality in the pieces she selects.

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Sviatoslav Richter; growing up, I listened to all of his recordings. For me, the most remarkable thing about his playing is his honesty; he gives 100 percent of himself through his music. You can feel that he is not a show-off player; he is not trying to demonstrate or trying to play the way that the audience wants. He does an incredible job of getting and staying close to the music.

What do you think makes your styling of playing piano unique? What are some of your strengths? That is a difficult question. I don’t consider my way of playing special or unique. I just play the way I play, and I have the most incredible time playing for an audience. Their answer and reaction is there, so my relationship with the audience is the emotional link that we have developed over the years. I’m a very emotional player, and I think the most important thing is to create a mutual feeling that we can share during the performance.

What do you do outside of music — what do you do for fun? [Chuckles.] For fun, I do lots

of things like, you know, “normal people.” I love good food, and I like to explore the nice restaurants. Living in New York, it’s a great place to do that. I love to go to museums when I have time because I was really influenced by my upbringing. Music and painting were the two big focuses in the family. I grew up around art — I think I got the virus. You know, when you have little time with the people you love, your family and friends, you just want to sit in a nice area, drink and talk — to do things that are important in a very simple way that gives you things to think about and grow as a human being. I think too many players today forget that music is not a science. It’s not like if

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What do you look for in music that speaks to you and brings out the connection with the music? I think we pianists are extremely lucky because we have the widest repertoire, but I don’t play music unless I have an emotional connection. Lately, I have been playing a lot of Beethoven and Brahms because I feel very close to the German romantic composers.

When you’re playing their music, do you feel that you’re bringing your voice to them, or do you feel like the music tells you how to play it? Yeah, that raises the question, “What is supposed to be first?” But if you feel that you understand the music, and you have that inner voice that tells you in a way what to do, that is a good sign, a good beginning. Music is primarily about emotion and instinct.

What are your future goals; what do you have planned for us? I’ve had a very exiting trajec-

tory career-wise, but I would be very happy to perform with orchestras that I haven’t played with yet, play in new venues, and develop new musical relationships. You know, this is a very difficult and intense life if you’re not careful and don’t have the right people around. If you don’t take care of yourself, you can be overwhelmed and eaten by the system in a way. I am very thankful because I feel that I have the best people around me — a great team that loves and supports me.

Lise de la Salle performs at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall on Sunday, November 8, at 4 p.m. Call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu for more information. independent.com

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uring his last concert at the Lobero in February 2014, mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile thrilled the audience by segueing from Bach to bluegrass — sometimes in the middle of a piece. Don’t be surprised if similar transitions occur when Thile is onstage at the Lobero this Sunday, November 8, for another passionate solo performance. Thile has been on a wild ride since his last visit. He and his wife, Grimm star Claire Coffee, welcomed their first child, Calvin Thile, into the world in May 2015, and in July, Thile announced that he would succeed Garrison Keillor as host of A Prairie Home Companion in the fall of 2016. With that much going on, most mortals would take some time off from touring, but not Thile, who has more than two dozen gigs scheduled between now and New Year’s Eve, with the month of November devoted to solo shows and December set aside for getting back with his group Punch Brothers. When I caught up with Thile by phone from his home in Portland last week, he was hanging with Calvin, and he had the kind of morning-sun warmth in his voice that the fathers of 5-month-olds get sometimes. About the Bach sonatas, Volume 1 of which he released in 2013, he said,“the second half is coming — I’m getting ready to record it now.” When I asked him what it took

to decide he was ready to record Bach in the first place, he told me that he “learned about Bach by performing” and that he “finally felt up to” recording the sonatas after having played them often enough at theaters like the Lobero, which he praised as “one of the greatest halls in the world.” As for what to expect this time, Thile promised “spontaneous calls set-list-wise — I’m trying to be lighter on my feet.” Something tells me that won’t be hard for this fleet-fingered master musician.

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n the welter of releases that flood the music market weekly, it’s rare to find an artist who manages to remain both original and reliable. Richard Thompson, who made his recording debut with Fairport Convention in 1967, has since surpassed all expectations on both counts. From the moment he began, it was obvious that he was one of the great guitar players in the history of rock, right up with Clapton, Hendrix, and Page. What has only become clearer with the passage of time is that he is also one of music’s greatest singer/songwriters, as well. With Still, his 2015 release produced by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Thompson delivers a sterling performance that ranks in the top five of the more than two dozen records he has made under his own name. When Thompson hits the stage at the Lobero on Friday, November 6, he will open with an acoustic set and then set things ablaze on electric guitar in a trio format with Taras Prodaniuk on bass and Michael Jerome on drums. I spoke with Thompson from his home in Los Angeles last week about the new album, the tour, and what keeps him sounding so good. You’ve worked with two strong producers on your last two albums, Buddy Miller for Electric and Jeff Tweedy for Still. You’ve got the experience to produce yourself — why go into the studio with someone else? It’s possible to get tired of your own ideas, and with someone else, you have a different kind of filter. I can’t necessarily hear what’s not working, but a good producer can tell you that a song is a verse too long, and you may not agree, but oftentimes he’s right.

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Instagram! You get a lot of attention for your guitar playing, but I want to ask about your voice. You sound so authentic and sincere to me. To what do you attribute that quality? Thanks. I think my voice has improved over time, and the sincerity is because I’m a folk musician. With traditional music, you tend to sing in an authentic way. I also sing in a British accent, and not too many people do that.

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ALL IS FAIR: Hope and Justin will debut songs from their new album, Love & War, Saturday, November 7, at Plaza Playhouse Theater in Carpinteria.

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MUSIC BETWEEN FOLKS: Hope and Justin, the Carpinteria folk band centered around songwriting husband-and-wife duo Hope and Justin Schneir, are unafraid to tackle some of the larger questions of existence. On their upcoming album, Love & War —for which they will host a pre-release party at Carpinteria’s Plaza Playhouse Theater on Saturday, November 7 — they adapt traditional styles and instruments to craft contemplative, contemporary folk-pop. The title track collapses together the personal and the political. “This song was really written about a friend going through a relationship split, trying to work things and make peace,” Hope said. “I wrote it in light of how the world was seeming so charged with aggression and war, on how to find peace on a large scale and on a small scale, and wondering if it’s even possible.” It’s that wondering that adds a special gravity to Hope and Justin’s music. The Schneir duo strives to write music that’s honest and openhearted. Spiritual without being preachy, they grapple with questions of doubt and faith through reimagined roots music. Yet at the music’s heart is a level of joyousness, a music born of love — Hope and Justin have been playing music together since the first time they met. The pair began initially as a duo but morphed into a six-piece after calling upon a group of friends to perform earlier material live. Love & War is their first release as a full-on band, and if the lead single is any indication, it’s going to be a very strong one. The band gained recognition in years past, being voted New Folk finalists in the Texan Kerrville Folk Festival, semifinalists in the International Songwriting Competition (beating out more than 20,000 contestants), and winners of Best Folk Song in the West Coast Songwriters Competition. What began as a shared hobby has become a bigger project, one still gaining momentum, but their folk music has not strayed from its roots. “I love that at the base of it, folk music is very simple and easy to re-create and share, and I think with fame-or-nothing shows like American Idol, we’ve gotten away from what music is supposed to be,” she said. Sharon Silva of The Wild Reeds similarly appreciates the approachable quality of folk and American-roots music. “I haven’t seen anything in the Americana scene that’s too good for anyone else,” said one of the singers of the L.A. folk outfit, which plays SOhO on Thursday, November 5, with Hot Buttered Rum. Americana musicians, she said, “are trying to make something real that’s in their heart, and there’s something so wonderful and authentic about that.” NPR recently picked up on The Wild Reeds’ own authenticity when they declared the three-female-fronted band one of the Top 10 Americana bands of the moment in September. On a recent East Coast tour, where the band visited the ancestral home of the music they make, the band was so true to form that “a lot of people thought we were from Nashville,” Silva said. Yet make no mistake: The Wild Reeds are certainly progressive. Deeming their sound “heavy folk,” the group sings deep from the heart with a big and sometimes inventive, rule-bending sound. Besides their obvious talents, The Wild Reeds stand out with their dedication to kindness. Though the newfound fame has thrown their way the difficulties of a more hectic schedule, Silva said the band is focused chiefly on remaining grateful and kind amid the new attention. “I would say that above all, between the five n of us, we’re just trying to keep being good people,” Silva said.

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GRAPHIC: Susan Petty’s “Explorations I” is on view at Marcia Burtt Gallery, where she uses graphite to explore decay and transformation.

art exhibits MuseuMs Art, Design & Architecture Museum – Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful; Talking Back: New Acquisitions; Stephen Westfall: Stars and Candy Wrappers; Walter S. White: Inventions in Midcentury Architecture, through Dec. 6. UCSB, 893-2951. Elverhøj Museum – C. Wood: East to West: The Kimono Series, through Jan. 24, 2016. 1624 Elverhoy Wy., Solvang. 686-1211. Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum – First Long Distance Telephone, Jack N. Mohr: Acrylic paintings, collages, other early works, Lynn Deutch: Antarctica, Kenya, Burma, Galapagos, through Dec. 31. 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 – The Story of Santa Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admission. 136 E. De la Guerra St., 966-1601. S.B. Maritime Museum – Divergent Focal Planes on the Channel: From Darkroom to Lightroom, through Jan. 3, 2016. 113 Harbor Wy., 962-8404. S.B. Museum of Art – Looking In, Looking Out: Latin American Photography Photography, through Mar. 20, 2016; 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 – Edward S. Curtis: Luminous Portraits of American Indian Life, through Jan. 4, 2016. 2559 Puesta del Sol, 682-4711. S.B. Museum of Natural History Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent installations. 211 Stearns Wharf, 962-2526. Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art – Saar, Serra, Surls, and More: Thirty New Acquisitons in Contemporary Art Art, through Dec. 19. 955 La Paz Rd., 565-6162. Wildling Museum – Nature in Motion, through Nov. 2; Legacy and Loss: Landscapes of the S.B. Region, through Feb. 1, 2016. 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 – Nina Warner: Urban Space: The Parks of Santa Barbara, through Nov. 20. 229 E. Victoria St., 965-6307. Artamo Gallery–Sense of Calm, through Nov. 29. 11 W. Anapamu St., 568-1400. Art From Scrap Gallery–Welcome to DyslexiaLand: Population 1 in 55, through Nov. 14. 302 E. Cota St., 884-0459. Arts Fund Gallery–Unintended Consequences, through Dec. 5. 205-C Santa Barbara St., 965-7321. Atkinson Gallery – Richard Ross: Isolated Isolated, through Dec. 4. Humanities Bldg., Rm. 202, SBCC, 721 Cliff Dr., 897-3484. Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts – Ojai Studio Artists: Small Works, through Nov. 15. 8585 Ojai-Santa Paula Rd., Ojai, 646-3381. Cancer Ctr. of S.B. – Art Heals, a permanent exhibit. 540 Pueblo St., Ste. A, 898-2204.

Carivintas Winery – Connie Rohde: The Uninter Uninterrupted Brushstroke, through Dec. 31. 476 First St., Solvang, 693-4331. Carpinteria Arts Ctr. – Inside Out Out, through Nov. 30. 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria, 684-7789. Channing Peake Gallery– Alive in Wild Places, through Jan. 21. S.B. County Administration Bldg., 105 E. Anapamu St. Churchill Jewelers & Gallery –Thomas Van Stein, ongoing. 1015 State St., 962-5815. Cypress Gallery– Angie Hamlin: The Sky's the Limit, through Nov. 29. 119 E. Cypress Ave., Lompoc, 737-1129. Divine Inspiration Gallery of Fine Art – Felice Willat: Lifescapes, through Nov. 28. 1528 State St., 570-2446. Faulkner Gallery – ArtSEE, through Nov. 29. 49 E. Anapamu St., 962-7653. Gallery 113 – Sue Slater, through Nov. 28. La Arcada, 1114 State St., 965-6611. Gallery Los Olivos – Sheryl Knight, Linda Mutti, and Gerry Winant, through Nov. 30. 2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7517. Goleta Library – GVAA November Art Show, through Nov. 25. 500 N. Fairview Rd., Goleta, 898-9424. Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery of Art – Sicilian Translucency: Watercolor Paintings of Traveling Artists, through Jan. 1, 2016. 2415 De la Vina St., 687-7444. Inez Gallery – Rebecca Gomez: Cast Shadows, through Nov. 10. 2446 Alamo Pintado, Ste. B, Los Olivos, 688-8884. JadeNow Gallery – Ryan and Jeff Spangler, ongoing. 14 Parker Wy., 845-4558. Leigh Block Gallery – Susan Savage: Given to the Light, through Jan. 16, 2016. 2050 Alameda Padre Light Serra, Ste. 100, 563-8820. Los Olivos Café – Sheila Krause: From Heart to Art, through Nov. 5; Suzanne Huska: Valley Visions, Art through Jan. 7. 2870 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 688-7265. Lucky Penny – Campbell Baker, ongoing. 127 Anacapa St., 284-0358. Marcia Burtt Gallery – Susan Petty, through Nov. 29. 517 Laguna St., 962-5588. MCASB Satellite – Magic Mountain, through Jan. 31, 2016. Hotel Indigo, 121 State St., 966-5373. MichaelKate Interiors & Art Gallery – Mood Swing, through Nov. 29. 132 Santa Barbara St., 963-1411. The Mitchell Estate Gallery – Michelle Fierro: Paintings from 1995-1996, through Nov. 5. 110 Powers Ave., 568-1700. Montecito Aesthetic Institute – Patricia Houghton Clarke & Stuart Carey: Metamorphographs, through Jan. 5, 2016. 1150 Coast Village Rd., Montecito, 565-5700. 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. Palm Loft Gallery – Heroes' Journey Journey, through Nov. 15. 410 Palm Ave. Loft A-1, Carpinteria, 684-9700. Porch Gallery Ojai – Jeff Mann: A Catalogue of Unnatural Works, through Nov. 15. 310 E. Matilija Ave., Ojai, 620-7589.

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nov. 5-12 El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park – Nihonmachi Revisited: Santa Barbara’s Japanese American Community in Transition, 1900-1940 and Memorias y Facturas, ongoing. 123 E. Canon Perdido St., 965-0093. S.B. Artwalk – Arts & Craft Show, ongoing Sundays. Cabrillo Blvd. at State St. S.B. City Hall Gallery – Ray Strong: Shared Vision/Common Ground Ground, through Feb. 18, 2016. De la Guerra Plaza, 568-3994. S.B. Tennis Club – De mi Sangre: of my Blood, through Nov. 6. 2375 Foothill Rd., Blood 682-4722. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – Morrison Hotel Gallery, ongoing. 1221 State St., 962-7776. Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Lockwood de Forest Brass Cutouts, through Dec. 31; Angela Perko: Earthly Delight Delight; American Details, through Jan. 3, 2016. 7 E. Anapamu St., 730-1460. Tamsen Gallery – R.W. Firestone, ongoing. 3888 State St., 687-2200. wall space gallery – Aline Smithson: Portrait as Autobiography Autobiography, through Dec. 31. 116 C-1 E. Yanonali St., 637-3898.

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Faulkner Gallery – S.B. Music Club. S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St., 617-3401. sat: 3pm Hahn Hall – Lise de la Salle. Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Rd., 969-4726. sun: 4pm S.B. Museum of Art – 1130 State St., 963-4364. thu: Pop-Up Opera (5:30pm) tue: Catalyst Quartet (7:30pm) Trinity Episcopal Church – Mélange: éélange: A Musical Bassoon Mixture. 1500 State St., 965-7419. sun: 3:30pm

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BoHenry's Cocktail Lounge – 1431 San Andres St., 966-7898. fri: Iron Curtain (9pm) Brasil Arts Café – 1230 State St., 245-5615. fri: Live Music Brewhouse – 229 W. Montecito St., 884-4664. thu-sat, wed: Live Music (9pm) Cambridge Drive Baptist Church – 550 Cambridge Dr., Goleta, 964-0436. fri: Donna Lynn Caskey, Dulcie Taylor (7:30pm) Campbell Hall – 574 Mesa Rd., UCSB, 893-3535. thu: Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (8pm) fri: Lake Street Dive (8pm) sat: Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt (8pm) Chumash Casino Resort – 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez, (800) 248-6274. thu 11/5 : Ralphie May (8pm) Cold Spring Tavern – 5995 Stagecoach Rd., 967-0066. fri: JR Allan Hot Combo (7-10pm) sat: Steve Fort (2-5pm); Copper Coast Band (6-9pm) sun: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (1:154pm); Teresa Russell and Cocobilli (4:30-7:30pm) The Creekside – 4444 Hollister Ave., 964-5118. fri: DJ Derrick sat: DJ Frank Ramirez (9pm) wed: Country Night Dargan’s – 18 E. Ortega St., 568-0702. thu: Traditional Irish Music (6:30pm) sat: Live Music (10pm) tue: Karaoke (9pm) The Fig Grill – 5940 Calle Real, Goleta, 692-8999. sat: Dos Pueblos Jazz Quartet (6-8pm) Granada Theatre – 1214 State St, 899-2222. thu 11/5 : Doublewide Kings (9:30pm)

Lobero Theatre – 33 E. Canon Perdido St., 963-0761. fri: Richard Thompson (8pm) sun: Chris Thile (7pm) tue: Dorado Schmitt & Django Festival All-Stars (8pm) Maverick Saloon – 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 686-4785. fri: Wet Stone (8pm) sat: The Regulars, Sometime Boys (2pm); Hats Off Band (8pm) wed: Suzy Bogguss (7pm) Plaza Playhouse Theater – 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, 684-6380. fri: Shane Alexander & The Great Favorites, Justine Bennett (7:30pm) sat: Hope and Justin Schneir (7:30pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – 1221 State St., 962-7776. thu: Hot Buttered Rum, The Wild Reeds (9pm) fri: Young Singers Recital (5pm); 3rd Anniversary of LatiNights (9pm) sat: Access Denied, Vital Signs, Hot Spot (6pm); Brazilian Night (10pm) sun: Lolly Allen Quintet (1pm); Bondax (9pm) mon: Jazz Jam with Jeff Elliott (7:30pm) tue: The Pimps of Joytime, Con Brio (9pm) wed: Blitzen Trapper (8pm) thu: Tokimonsta (8pm) Velvet Jones – 423 State St., 965-8676. fri: RJ (8pm) sat: Agent Orange, Boxheads (8pm) sun: Fortunate Youth, Stranger, Sensamotion (8pm) thu: Lagwagon, Pears, The Runaway Kids, The All Brights (8pm)

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Truth. Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, and Topher Grace star in a film written and directed by James Vanderbilt and based on the book by Mary Mapes. Reviewed by D.J. Palladino

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t’s not that much about Truth actually. A far better title for this TV-news melodrama would be Clearing Mary Mapes, who was the CBS producer whose story about George W. Bush’s Vietnam military “career” led to her and Dan Rather’s downfalls. The movie prompts us to be indignant with Viacom, the parent company of CBS News, who threw Mapes and Rather under a bus, and such anger deserves airing, but maybe not with all the journalistic self-sanctification this movie exudes. A final disclaimer, standard in motion-picture credits, acknowledges that the film is based on real events, though narrative liberties were taken.

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That kind of misrepresentation, slight though it may be, has enormous bearing on the film’s self-righteousness. Toward the end, Mapes (Cate Blanchett) makes a pretty speech to a panel of Viacom stooges about her absence of political bias, the clearheaded goal her 60 Minutes piece maintained: investigating whether Bush faked details of his time in the Texas National Guard. Her critics were trying to discredit her news team with accusations of bias and incompetence leading them into conspiracy webs. The story was all that ever mattered, she claims. But that story is missing from this reenactment, too. This is a movie about ambition; I don’t doubt Mapes and company were onto something. Perhaps they were misled and then crucified. But the film, beautifully shot and directed by James Vanderbilt, and based on a book by Mapes, tucks Bush behind Mapes’s saga, including a father-daughter story about physical abuse. She talks about her critics “hitting” her frequently. This is not, as you might have assumed, a Dan Rather saga and is not much of a Robert Redford movie, either. Worse, it isn’t ultimately concerned with what Bush did. Mapes, the movie tells us, has not held a job since 2004 but apparently hasn’t pursued the story further on her own. All we know is that her career took a big hit, and n that’s the most truth we ever learn.

Burnt (100 mins.; R: language throughout) There is a kind of screenwriting working in this film, more sitcom than cinematic, that paints itself into a tough corner of predictable surprises. There is one nice twist in the film, but most of the surprises owe more debt to Fawlty Towers than O. Henry. The problem lies in the simple fact that this is a weirdly overwrought story about a jerk chef (Bradley Cooper) who wants redemption and somehow finds nice people who enable it. It’s hard to get enthusiastic about the chef, who quit drinking, drugs, and sous chef seductions but still throws kitchen hissy fits that make Gordon Ramsay look like a Zen monk. The cooking scenes (the food porn) are pretty good, and the kitchen

emerges as one of those easily accessed high-drama zones like high school or a police department. The demands of cuisine perfection and the ambiguities of taste contrast nicely against the scrubbed stainless steel and the sizzling pans. The metaphors practically cook themselves. Also, Burnt offers a fine rogues’ gallery of European actors: Sienna Miller (Factory Girl), Daniel Brühl (Inglourious Basterds), and Matthew Rhys (The Americans) among them. And, of course, there is Cooper, ascendant mostly due to the films he made with David O. Russell. This isn’t a Cooper revelation or even a thoughtful parsing of kitchen professionals. You don’t learn how to clean sweetbreads or keep a sauce from separating in Burnt, but the drama of a predictable loser’s

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The following films are playing in Santa Barbara FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, through THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12. Descriptions followed by initials — DJP (D.J. Palladino) — have been taken from our critics’ reviews, which can be read in full at independent .com. The symbol O indicates the film is recommended.

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TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): Before he helped launch Apple Computer in the 1970s, tech pioneer Steve Wozniak ran a dial-a-joke service. Most of the time, people who called got an automated recording, but now and then Wozniak answered himself. That’s how he met Alice Robertson, the woman who later became his wife. I’m guessing you will have comparable experiences in the coming weeks, Taurus. Future allies may come into your life in unexpected ways. It’s as if mysterious forces will be conspiring to connect you with people you need to know.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): Small, nondestructive earthquakes are common. Our planet has an average of 1,400 of them every day. This subtle underground mayhem has been going on steadily for millions of years. According to recent research, it has been responsible for creating 80 percent of the world’s gold. I suspect that the next six or seven months will feature a metaphorically analogous process in your life. You will experience deep-seated quivering and grinding that won’t bring major disruptions even as it generates the equivalent of gold deposits. Make it your goal to welcome and even thrive on the subterranean friction!

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(June 21 - July 22): Here’s the process I went through to create your horoscope. First I drew up a chart of your astrological aspects. Using my analytical skills, I pondered their meaning. Next, I called on my intuitive powers, asking my unconscious mind to provide symbols that would be useful to you. The response I got from my deeper mind was surprising: It informed me that I should go to a new café that had just opened downtown. Ten minutes later, I was there, gazing at a menu packed with exotic treats: Banana Flirty Milk … Champagne Coconut Mango Slushy … Honey Dew Jelly Juice … Creamy Wild Berry Blitz … Sweet Dreamy Ginger Snow. I suspect these are metaphors for experiences that are coming your way.

(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): In the mid-19th century, an American named Cyrus McCormick patented a breakthrough that had the potential to revolutionize agriculture. It was a mechanical reaper that harvested crops with far more ease and efficiency than handheld sickles and scythes. But his innovation didn’t enter into mainstream use for 20 years. In part that was because many farmers were skeptical of trying a new technology, and feared it would eliminate jobs. I don’t foresee you having to wait nearly as long for acceptance of your new wrinkles, Libra. But you may have to be patient.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): The Beatles’ song “You Never Give Me Your Money” has this poignant lyric: “Oh, that magic feeling, nowhere to go.” I suggest you make it your motto for now. And if you have not yet begun to feel the allure of that sentiment, initiate the necessary shifts to get yourself in the mood. Why? Because it’s time to recharge your spiritual battery, and the best way to do that is to immerse yourself in the mystery of having nothing to do and nowhere to go. Put your faith in the pregnant silence, Leo. Let emptiness teach you what you need to know next.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): Should a professional singer be criticized for her lack of skill in laying bricks? Is it reasonable to chide a kindergarten teacher for his ineptitude as an airplane pilot? Does it make sense to complain about a cat’s inability to bark? Of course not. There are many other unwarranted comparisons that are almost as irrational but not as obviously unfair. Is it right for you to wish your current lover or best friend could have the same je ne sais quoi as a previous lover or best friend? Should you try to manipulate the future so that it’s more like the past? Are you justified in demanding that your head and your heart come to identical conclusions? No, no, and no. Allow the differences to be differences. And more than that: Celebrate them!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): Is it possible to express a benevolent form of vanity? I say yes. In the coming weeks, your boasts may be quite lyrical and therapeutic. They may even uplift and motivate those who hear them. Acts of self-aggrandizement that would normally cast long shadows might instead produce generous results. That’s why I’m giving you a go-ahead to embody the following attitude from Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)”: “I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal / I cannot be comprehended except by my permission.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): Regard the current tensions and detours as camouflaged gifts from the gods of growth. You’re being offered a potent opportunity to counteract the effects of a self-sabotage you committed once upon a time. You’re getting an excellent chance to develop the strength of character that can blossom from dealing with soul-bending riddles. In fact, I think you’d be wise to feel a surge of gratitude right now. To do so will empower you to take maximum advantage of the disguised blessings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): You are slipping into a phase when new teachers are likely to appear. That’s excellent news, because the coming weeks will also be a time when you especially need new teachings. Your good for-

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): American author Mark Twain seemed to enjoy his disgust with the novels of Jane Austen, who died 18 years before he was born. “Her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy,” he said, even as he confessed that he had perused some of her work multiple times. “Every time I read Pride and Prejudice,” he wrote to a friend about Austen’s most famous story, “I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” We might ask why he repetitively sought an experience that bothered him. I am posing a similar question to you, Aquarius. According to my analysis, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to renounce, once and for all, your association with anything or anyone you are addicted to disliking.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): The Sahara in Northern Africa is the largest hot desert on the planet. It’s almost the size of the United States. Cloud cover is rare, the humidity is low, and the temperature of the sand can easily exceed 170º F (80º C). That’s why it was so surprising when snow fell there in February 1979 for the first time in memory. This once-in-a-lifetime visitation happened again 33 years later. I’m expecting a similar anomaly in your world, Pisces. Like the desert snow, your version should be mostly interesting and only slightly inconvenient. It may even have an upside. Saharan locals testified that the storm helped the palm trees because it killed off the parasites feeding on them.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Meal Prep Republic at 781 Embarcadero Del Norte Apt 12 Goleta, CA 93117; Peng Xiong (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Peng Xiong filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0002808. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TR Home Real Estate Services at 54 Lassen Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Tanya Magid (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Tanya Magid filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2015‑0002957. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Like A Letter at 248 Santa Ynez CT Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Tye French (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Tye French filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002899. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Dusk To Dawn at 915 Randolph Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Dawn C O’Bar (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Tara Jaysinghe . FBN Number: 2015‑0002886. Published: Oct 15, 22, 29. Nov 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: International English Academy Online at 5455 8th Street Unit #20 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Megan Moreno (same address) Saul Moreno (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Saul Moreno filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Ann Iqbal. FBN Number: 2015‑0002862. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Luxe Lion Designs at 2620 Glendessary Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Margrit Gressierer (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Andrea Luparello . FBN Number: 2015‑0002947. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DMXO Records at 835 N. Milpas Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Carmalisa Kristelle Reichhart; 1210 Del Oro Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Carmalisa Kristelle Reichhart filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2015‑0002930. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ke‑No Dental Studio at 5370 Hollister Ave #J, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; David Vu, 117 Blackburn PL, Ventura, CA 93004 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003000. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Auto Consultant 15, Auto Hunter 15 at 117 Dearborn Pl #125 Goleta, CA 93117; Wei Jun Nie (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Wei Jun Nie filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 29, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002834. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SB Bone Broth at 789 Mission Canyon Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Ava Churchill (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ava Churchill filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002952. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: All Natural Carpet Cleaning at 3019 Serena Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Jebediah Vanveelen (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: J.O. Van Veelen filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 08, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002928. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Kimchi Korean BBQ at 3132 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kimchi Hope, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Soojung Jun filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0002913. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Frutstix, Frutstix Company at 1525 State St Ste 203 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Von Hoppen Ice Cream (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: William J. McKinley, President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002962. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A And J Limousine at 4067 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Andrea M Plackett 141 Valdivia Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Justin S Plackett (same address) This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Andrea M. Plackett filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003038. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB Buggie at 420 East Anapamu Street santa Barbara, CA 93101; MJInvestments Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 14, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0002981. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Black Bow Sweets at 1210 Franciscan Court #4 Carpinteria, CA 93013; L Sweets (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Harvey R. Wolf, Agent filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003040. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Serrano Cleaning Services at 1719 Castillo #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Juan G Serrano (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Jessica Sheeiff. FBN Number: 2015‑0002994. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Yvonne’s Nails Salon at 3528 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Nguyen, Yvonne 7368 Hollister Avenue #1, Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Yvonne Nguyen filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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: 2015‑0003054. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pape Kenworth Paclease at 1322 White Court Santa Barbara, CA 93458; Pape Truck Leasing, Inc 355 Goodpasture Island Road Eugene, OR 97401 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Robert J. Riecke, Vice President filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 29, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002840. Published: Oct 15, 22, 29. Nov 5 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Blue Point Books, BP Books at 805 Palermo Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93190; Cathy Ann Feldman (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Cathy Feldman filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0002868. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Rook Family Tree Chiropractic at 214 East De La Guerra Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Thomas W Rook125 East Islay Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Katryn J. Price filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 19, 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: 2015‑0003016. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ampsense, Ampsolutions, Energyscience/Amploc at 615 La Buena Tierra Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Health Media International (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Steven D. Corry, Pres filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2015‑0002901. Published: Oct 15, 22, 29. Nov 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Maudet’s at 114 East Haley Street Suite E Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Mademoiselle Madeleine LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Benedicke Maudet filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002883. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Elwood Wines at 1225‑1239 W Laurel Ave., Unit 1‑8 Lompoc, CA 93436; Elwood Family Wines, Inc 405 Misty Ridge Dr Keller, TX 76248 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Lea Fainer, Agent filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 30, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. FBN Number: 2015‑0002846. Published: Oct 15, 22, 29. Nov 5 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Spindrift Fish And Dive Operations at 5637 Kent Place Goleta, CA 93117 (same address) Wayne H Klapp (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Wayne H. Klapp filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 19, 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: 2015‑0003010. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Bone Broth Company at 789 Mission Canyon Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Ava Churchill (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ava Churchill filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003003. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: JKM Investment Group, LLC at 165 San Angelo‑G Santa Barbara, CA 93111; JKM Investment Group, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Peter Levy filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2015‑0003026. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hilary Elizabeth at 1409 Bath Street #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Hilary Elizabeth MacDonald (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Hilary MacDonald filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Sep 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0002853. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: I Could Use A Little Help at 1480 Monte Vista Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Kim Redmond 1240 Franciscan Ct #10 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Lynn Redmond 1480 Monte Vista Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a General Partnership Signed: Kim Redmond filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003021. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mark Anthony Rodriguez Painting at 6279 Newcastle St Goleta, CA 93117; Mark Anthony Rodriguez 1210 Cacique #38 Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Mark Anthony Rodriguez filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003070. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Mission City Fumigation Santa Barbara at 650 Ward Drive Suite I Santa Barbara, CA 93111; JL Guron Enterprises, Inc. 77 Manchester Place Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Latoya Guron filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 26, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0003076. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Canzelle Family Farm at 4036 Foothill Rd Carpinteria, CA 93013; Lonson Family Farm, LLC This business is conducted by a Limite Liability Company Signed: Carol‑Anne Lonson, Manager filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 27, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2015‑0003080. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Here & There at 121 West De La Guerra St #10 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sandra Jackson McCartney (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sandra McCartney filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0003106. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Star Nails at 5801 Calle Real Suite F Goleta, CA 93117; Sean Nguyen 100 Sumida Gardens Ln #103 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sean Nguyen filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003127. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Los Amigos Diuscount Store at 631 West Carrillo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Manuel Ramirez 6871 Buttonwood Lane Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Manuel Ramirez filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2015‑0003132. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Boss at 5404 Hanna Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Shaqur National Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Hossin Shaqur filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Noe Solis. FBN Number: 2015‑0002893. Published: Nov 5, 12, 19, 25, 2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Juris Doctor California at 735 State Street #631 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Geoff Conner Newlan 1720‑C San Pascual St Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Geoff Conner Newlan filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 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 Andrea Luparello. FBN Number: 2015‑0002879. Published: Oct 15, 22, 29. Nov 5 2015. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pepperidge Farm Santa Barbara at 4588 Nueces Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Frenando Zermeno (same address) Yvette Zermeno (same address) This business is conducted by a Married Couple Signed: Yvette Zermeno filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Oct 20, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2015‑0003025. Published: Oct 29. Nov 5, 12, 19 2015.

Name Change IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF LESHELLE SIMONE CLARK‑TIRRE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV03262 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: LESHELLE SIMONE CLARK‑TIRRE TO: LESHELLE SIMONE ZYHAILO THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Nov 18, 2015 9:30am, Dept 1, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Oct 05, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Oct 15, 22, 29. Nov 5 2015.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF DMITRII VICTOROVICH ZAGORODNOV ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV02806 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: DMITRII VICTOROVICH ZAGORODNOV TO: DMITRII ZAGORODNOV CALZAGO THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. NOTICE OF HEARING Nov 18, 2015 9:30am, Dept 1, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Sep 21, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JEAN CAROL BALLANTYNE ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 15CV03172 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: JEAN CAROL BALLANTYNE TO: JEAN CELYN BALLANTYNE 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 Dec 09, 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 Oct 02, 2015. by James E. Herman, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

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ARTS & LECTURES Carries out the operational processes of the Arts & Lectures Ticket Office. Processes ticket sales (including subscription sales) for over 100 performances, films, and lectures presented annually by Arts & Lectures with yearly sales exceeding $1,000,000 and supervising numerous part‑time student employees. Is responsible for exact record‑keeping, money deposits, and reporting consistent with University policies and standards. Follows Ticket Office policies and procedures set by the Operations Analyst and Arts & Lectures’ Director and ensures standards are maintained within the Ticket Office. Reqs: Strong communication, customer service, and social skills. Attention to detail and accuracy. Effective problem‑solving and reasoning skills. Experience in database and software tools and/or demonstrated ability to quickly learn software programs. Must possess proficient knowledge of Word, Excel, Internet, and e‑mail applications.

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OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Serves as the primary initial contact for the Senior Director, Executive Development and the Associate Director of Development, University Development. Provides essential administrative and financial support that is critical to the successful operation of a complex fund raising program. Assists the Directors with all aspects of analysis, planning and implementation strategies for the Executive Development Team, to support the research mission

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CONTRERAS AND EILEEN T. CONTRERAS SUPERIOR COURTOF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA In Re: ANTHONY CONTRERAS AND EILEEN T. CONTRERAS, CO‑TRUSTORS OF THE CONTRERAS FAMILY TRUST DATED 10/20/1994 Anne Cogan, successor Trustee of said Trust CASE NO: 15PR00441 NOTICE IS HERBY GIVEN tothe creditors and contingent creditors of the above‑named decedents (i.e. Anthony Contreras and Eileen T. Contreas), that all persons having claims against either of said decedents and/or the Trust entitled, The Contreras Family Trust dated 10/20/1994 are requires to file them with the Superior Court, at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, and whose mailing address is P.O. Box 21107, Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, and mail or deliver a copy to Stanley J. Yates, Anthony for the Successor Trustee (i.e. Anne Cogan) of the Contreras Family Trust dated 10/20/19994 wherein said decedents were the trustors of said Trust, at 260 Maple Court, Suite 230, Ventura, CA 93003, within the later of four months after November 5, 2015 (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed to you. A claim form may be obtained form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail with return receipt requested. Date: October 27, 2015 Stanley J. Yates Attorney At Law 260 Maple Court, Ste. 230 Ventura, CA 93003 State Bar No. 94526 Publised Nov 5, 12, 19 2015. NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BETHENE ELLEN PUTTOCK, DECEASED SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA In re the matter of: The Puttock Family Trust Created November 23, 1992, By Everett Leon Puttock, Deceased and Bethene Ellen Puttock, Deceased. Case No. 15PR00416 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above‑named decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Santa Barbara County Superior Court, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, and whose mailing address is P.O. Box 21107, Santa Barbara, California 93121‑1107, and mail a copy to Charter Claiborne Hughes, as successor trustee of the trust dated November 23, 1992, wherein the decedent was the

by securing support from private donors. Provides administrative support: schedules appointments, makes travel arrangements, updates databases, and handles confidential, high profile, and time sensitive matters. Reqs: Bachelors Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Excellent grammar, composition and proofreading skills. Strong organizational skills and unfailing attention to detail and accuracy. Exceptional verbal and interpersonal skills. Excellent computer skills including strong proficiency in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Internet and e‑mail and demonstrated ability to quickly learn various software programs. Ability to work independently and maintain strict confidentiality in all aspects of work. Ability to prioritize duties and work under tight and shifting deadlines. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Occasional evening and weekend work for events. Occasional local travel. $20.59 ‑ $22.05/hr. he 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. Apply by 11/15/15 Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20150578

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COMMUNITY HOUSING Works independently and is responsible for all functions related to the online rental listings program serving the 14,000 students, 500 staff and faculty who live in the rental community surrounding campus. Has primary responsibility for collecting and distributing information on the local housing market trends. Works with individuals to locate housing and performs a variety of office functions and tenant services. Reqs: Min. of 2 years previous office/clerical and customer service experience. Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook). Understanding of database management, and capacity to troubleshoot vendor‑supplied software. Proven experience with navigating the intricacies of unique circumstances such as landlord‑tenant relationships and university housing environments. Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a team member, with a minimum of supervision in an office with frequent interruptions. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to set priorities, exercise judgment and discretion, organize workload, and accurately perform detailed work. Strong customer service ethic with

case.There may be a court form that you can use your for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center(www. courtinfo.ca.­ gov/selfhelp), If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.­g ov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales papa presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Su Public Notices respuesta por escrito tiene que estar DID YOU KNOW Information is en formato legal correcto si desea power and content is King? Do you que procesen su caso en la corte. Es need timely access to public notices posible que haya un formulario que and remain relevant in today’s hostile usted pueda usar para su respuesta. business climate? Gain the edge Puede encontrar estos formularios de with California Newspaper Publishers la corte y mas information en el Association new innovative website Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de capublicnotice.com and check out the California (www.­courtinfo.ca FREE One‑Month Trial Smart Search gov/selfhelp/espanol/), en la biblioteca Feature. For more information call de leyes de su condado o en la corte Cecelia @ (916) 288‑6011 or www.­ que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede capublicnotice.com (Cal‑SCAN) pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de Summons cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta SUMMONS a tiempo, puede perder el caso por (CITACION JUDICIAL) incumplimiento y la corte le podra NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): DEVON mas advertencia. Hay otros requisitos BUNGENSTOCK and DOES 1 to legales. Es recomendable que llame 20, Inclusive a un abogado inmediatamente. Si YOU ARE BEING SUED BY no conoce a un abogado, puede PLAINTIFF: llamar a un servicio de remision a (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO abogados. Si no puede pagar a un EL DEMANDANTE): LISA abogado, es posible que cumpla con HERBOLDSHEIMER los requisitos para obtener servicios NOTICE! You have been sued.The legales gratuitos de un programa de court may decide against you without servicios legales sin fines de lucro. your being heard unless you respond Puede encontrar estos grupos sin within 30 days. Read the information fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos below. grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after web de California Legal Services, this Summons and legal papers are (www.­ lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el served on you to file a written response Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de at this court and have a copy served California, (www.courtinfo.ca.­gov/ on the plaintiff a letter or phone call selfhelp/espanol/) o poniendose en will not protect you. Your written contacto con la corte o el colegio de response must be in proper legal form abogados locales. if you want the court to hear your CASE NO:1487388

non‑judicial state, with no exemptions from execution. A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award. 4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and paper and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and address of Appeals Board: WCAB Santa Barbara 411 E. Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Name and address of applicant’s attorney: Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; FORM COMPLETED BY: Megan E. Compton, Esq. Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 965‑4540. NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served: as the person sued under the fictitious name of: Alden Fairbanks Market Ready Properties. Published: Oct 22, 29. Nov 5, 12 2015.

an ability to interface effectively with faculty, staff, students and the general public. Note: Fingerprinting required. $20.59 ‑ $24.77/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 by11/15/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150576

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KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS This is an exciting, varied administrative position requiring the ability to interact effectively with KITP scientific visitors, campus administrators and the general public. Serves primarily to support a large and continually changing number of long‑ and short‑term scientific visitors (approximately 1,000 per year). Reqs: Experience with Word and Excel and the ability to learn new computer skills quickly. Ability to complete work assignments with frequent

interruptions and distractions. Excellent customer service skills. Database and web experience are a plus. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license. Occasional night and/or weekend hours during event periods. May be asked to drive van during conference periods. This is a grant funded position with funding until 10/31/16, with expected renewal effective 11/1/16. The KITP has been continually funded since 1979. $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 11/15/15, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20150583

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The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es) Santa Barbara Superior Court 1100 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: Bradford D. Brown, Esq., SBN 165913, 735 State Street, Suite 418, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, 805‑963‑5607 (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): DATE: Mar 13 2014. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer, By Penny Wooff. Deputy (Delegado) Published Oct 22, 29. Nov 5 2015.

EMPLOYMENT Nonprofit SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAM ‑ DIRECT CARE MONITOR (FT & PT) $14.50/hr The Direct Care Monitor will work in an interim housing setting to provide individualized client support by helping to develop a plan to address barriers, increase income, and be able to secure and maintain permanent housing. Visit the Path Career Site (http:// www.­epath.org/site/AboutUs/careers. html) to apply online. Search for Job #374 for the PT position and #375 for the FT position, to submit your application.

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2169 Refugio Rd. | $5,200,000 beds 3 baths 3 Dana Istre 805.451.0033

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157 Rametto Rd. | $2,875,000 beds 3 baths 2 Wendy Warren 805.585.8830

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18 W. Victoria St. | $1,180,500 beds 1 baths 2 Pippa Davis 805.886.0174

2519 Emerson St. | $1,175,000 beds 3 baths 2 Jim Witmer 805.448.3921

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636 W. Ortega St. | $1,025,000 Gorgeous Duplex Kim Dorsey 805.895.2968

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641 Por La Mar Cir. “B” | $939,000 beds 2 baths 3 Billy Mandarino 805.570.4827

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331 Santa Rosalia Way | $839,000 beds 3 baths 2 Bob Curtis 805.683.7333

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Offered at $949,000

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he only disappointment I experienced when I visited 790 Mission Oaks Lane last Sunday was that I did not meet the resident cat. Pets are not usually prominent features at open houses, but this cat is noteworthy because he was a gift to the owners from Julia Child. Julia was a frequent visitor, cooking and dining alongside the home’s longtime owner and renowned chef, the late Don “Skip” Skipworth. When Julia passed away, Skip inherited her cat, Minou. Now that Skip has passed away, too, this residence—minus the cat—is on the market, looking for a new chef to enjoy the kitchen and the unique residence that it inhabits. I’m not sure whether to wax more poetic about the exterior or interior of this magical Mission Canyon home. Outdoors, I could have spent all afternoon sitting on the stone bench beside the koi pond, watching the colorful fish swim in the sunlight, and listening to the rush of the waterfall as I admired the central rose garden and the bamboo that surrounds and embraces the property. I learned later that Skip was an expert on bamboo, and there are over 35 different varieties used throughout the property’s thoughtful landscaping. There are at least six different outside seating areas on multiple levels, and with varying views, taking advantage of the meandering pathways and lush plantings all over the property. One such area features a hot tub shaded by a pagoda, while another pagoda graces one of several outdoor living rooms. I was drawn magnetically from one level to the next, admiring the details everywhere I turned: garden statuary, tropical palms and ferns, beautiful wooden fencing, and custom lighting fixtures. However, as many details as I noticed, the overall impression is open, simple, and far from cluttered. Not to be outdone, the interior is just as striking. Entering the main house, one is tempted up the custom mahogany and teak staircase constructed with mortise and tenon craftsmanship. The upstairs holds the master bedroom, bathroom, and an office overlooking the gardens. Back downstairs, there’s a great room encompassing a living and dining room in one grand expanse, with windows, skylights, and sliding doors bringing the greenery inside. On the other side of the wall is the most amazing kitchen you’ve ever seen. In 2007, the home underwent a major remodel, and Viking designed and sponsored the kitchen and culinary area as a teaching space for Skip. He and his partner, Carlos, taught Pan-Asian and French cooking classes over the years for up-and-coming chefs and varied groups of students and friends. The house radiates a warmth reminiscent of the happy, nurturing times spent there. In addition to the main house, there is a two-bedroom, two-bath guest house and a separate one-bedroom, one-bath “tea house.” The Asian influence is found throughout the entire property, with bamboo flooring, sliding shoji screens, and spare geometric lines. The whole place exudes an ambience of calm and serenity that I carried with me down the pathway, past the koi pond, and back out into the real world.

Elegant, single-level ocean view condo in mixed-use building conveniently located to shopping, transportation, restaurants and ocean. Impeccable upgrades throughout completed by current owner. High beamed ceilings, travertine flooring and fireplace. Spacious rooms. Large patio for entertaining. Two-car garage. Elevator to unit for easy access. A rare offering.

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Santa barbara county SaleS area

Seller

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guaDaluPe

santa MaRIa

unInCoRPoRateD

buyer

price

date

addreSS

WIllIaMs Donna M

MaRtIn lIsa s

$50,000

10/23/15

710 ballaRD CanYon RD

u s banK na

neXt geneRatIon CaPItal llC

$667,000

10/23/15

1908 RIngsteD Pl

gueRReRo balDeMaR eu

lIMon lIlIana

$349,500

10/23/15

5931 bIRCH st 1

MagagnosC CaRl tRustee

gaggeRo elIa

$530,000

10/23/15

1012 PalMetto WaY b

CollIn natasHa tRustee

KHasHoggI Mona

$845,000

10/23/15

1531 nantuCKet Ct

JoHnson bRanDon e

valenZuela Jose J

$179,000

10/19/15

45 Pato ave

boltHouse PRoPeRtIes llC

seQuoIa RIveRlanDs tRust

$1,667,500

10/22/15

1620 CastRo CanYon RD

CuRtIs JaMes D eu

aguIla g-boYs llC

$100,000

10/20/15

1220 PeRKIns RD

o'bRIen MICHael D estate

aPPlebee aleX

$700,000

10/20/15

1000 vIa RegIna

stanbRo PatRICK eu

DesHPanDe vaIsHalI K eu

$525,000

10/23/15

5062 bIRCHWooD RD

lYons gRetCHen J tRust

sCHueleR JosHua eu

$590,000

10/20/15

5082 Calle Real a

Regas DoMInIC b eu

PelonIs CHRIs a

$1,250,000

10/23/15

5640 CIelo ave

bRougH sHane P

JDJ lanD Co llC

$297,000

10/23/15

1280 bonIta sCHool RD

KatsaRIs MattHeW s

JDJ lanD Co llC

$148,500

10/23/15

1280 bonIta sCHool RD

FRaZIeR Jan M

JDJ lanD Co llC

$445,500

10/23/15

1280 bonIta sCHool RD

bRougH CoReY l

JDJ lanD Co llC

$297,000

10/23/15

1280 bonIta sCHool RD

gRIsIngHeR DavID W

JDJ lanD Co llC

$2,374,500

10/23/15

1070 bonIta sCHool RD

bennett HeatHeR D

JDJ lanD Co llC

$297,000

10/23/15

2200 bonIta sCHool RD

WHeeleR Douglas l ea

CHRIstoFF CHRIs R eu

$159,000

10/20/15

4867 HeRnanDeZ DR

ReHouse llC

DalRYMPle sHeRRIll

$255,000

10/20/15

4575 eleventH st

FannIe Mae

goDIneZ louRDes

$210,000

10/23/15

325 s D st

CHIeRICHettI JoHn P tRustee

MaRtonY KellI s eu

$375,000

10/23/15

836 CleMens WaY

WIttMan loRI D ea

vaZQueZ RaFael v eu

$295,000

10/23/15

704 e leMon ave

KaelbeR WIllIaM l JR

WHIte JeRoMe

$155,000

10/23/15

536 n l st

ClaRK bRaDleY C ea

W g s InvestMents InC

$2,100,000

10/22/15

664 oaK gRove DR

sIngeR geoRge a eu

FReMantle HugH eu

$2,350,000

10/20/15

1497 Isabella ln

HaZell Joan a

HaRaKe bIlal eu

$527,500

10/23/15

426 PoR la MaR CIR

MaCDuFF MaRIa tRust

tatMan taYloR R

$400,000

10/20/15

2001 stanWooD DR

asHKIn PeggY J ea

tHuRMan baRbaRa J tRust

$2,260,000

10/23/15

1630 MIRa vIsta ave

CIanCIullI DavID F II eu

vogel steven eu

$2,100,000

10/20/15

1742 PRosPeCt ave

MCWIllIaMs MICaH tRustee

RosCoe vIlla lP

$990,000

10/22/15

501 e MICHeltoRena st

CIanI HeDY tRustee

buCHanan leonaRD s ea

$430,000

10/20/15

1515 state st 11

PeDRegosa Cottages llC

gReen MaRIlee M

$760,000

10/23/15

319 W PeDRegosa st

Kelso CHRIstY l tRust

KotHuIs Hans J tRustee

$1,668,000

10/20/15

107 W YanonalI st

buCKeleW ClYDe t tRustee

lee MaY C

$770,000

10/22/15

423 W MonteCIto st b

JoHnson soeRen ea

goZZano tIMotHY l tRust

$900,000

10/23/15

2141 gIllesPIe st

golDbeRg CHaRles eu

Renga MICHael l tRustee

$950,000

10/22/15

533 W PeDRegosa st

QuICK asset seRvICes llC

alDeRson natalIe b

$760,000

10/23/15

1728 gIllesPIe st

baRbeR KatHleen M tRust

tuCKMan bRet eu

$900,000

10/22/15

3319 Calle Roselas

MonRoe KRIstIn l

WIllIaMs JaKe eu

$725,000

10/22/15

3054 FootHIll RD

selleY nICola ea

Kelso CHRIstY l tRust

$1,450,000

10/20/15

3987 la ColIna RD

DonatI ClInton P tRustee

DonatI CHRIstoPHeR M

$352,500

10/23/15

307 s aRboleDa RD

PatRICK DennIs R eu

tRevIllIan teRRI l

$6,495,000

10/23/15

4632 vIa RoblaDa

JaCobson saulP tRust

naYaK CHetan v tRustee

$3,750,000

10/20/15

4642 vIa RoblaDa

JaCobsen Joanne I J

HeRnanDeZ HeCtoR eu

$530,000

10/23/15

855 aMetHYst DR

WebsteR CHRIstoPHeR

vIllanueva PeteR C eu

$348,500

10/23/15

1165 PatteRson RD

DavIs tIMotHY eu

Jalon Jonel a eu

$330,000

10/20/15

5660 s bRaDleY RD

CastIllo Jason eu

HeuCHeRt PHIllIP D eu

$373,000

10/20/15

380 HIgHlanD DR

ClIFFoRD tulson K eu

WIlson toDD

$383,000

10/22/15

114 WIlson DR

MoRtgage eQuItY ConveRsIon

lI Hong

$218,000

10/23/15

881 gReenaCRe DR

FaMIlIa MInettI llC

CHaRles MInettI llC ea

$50,000

10/22/15

W stoWell RD

CHRIstIana tRust

aRns InC

$346,000

10/22/15

907 W Menusa Ct

aRns InC

ResI Reo sub llC

$299,000

10/22/15

907 W Menusa Ct

ResI Reo sub llC

santIago MaRK

$299,000

10/22/15

907 W Menusa Ct

RoDRIgueZ FRanK

MuRIllo RaMon eu

$208,000

10/22/15

213 n CuRRYeR st

RuIZ tRust

FloReZ FloRentIno J eu

$245,000

10/22/15

1038 W MoRRIson ave

PRusKI bRanDon

tRessleR DaRRYl R tRustee

$360,000

10/23/15

1008 ConCePtIon DR

eCKeRt CHaRles v Iv FaM tRust

snYDeR aveRY eu

$315,000

10/23/15

4009 DRaCo DR

natIonal ResIDentIal noMInee

CRIsPIn tYleR M eu

$400,000

10/23/15

4560 FalCon DR

Dugan steven

HaRWooD tRavIs M eu

$300,000

10/22/15

31 vICtoRY DR

laRson bRenna

HalIlI loRDbRenton s J eu

$245,000

10/23/15

1738 n lYnne DR 22

DuaRte JoHn a eu

loPeZ sanDRa

$305,000

10/22/15

1714 aDelYne ln

veRa RICaRDo l ea

lIMon Janet ea

$75,000

10/20/15

519 e san lIno Ct

goulD gaRY e

CHaves leRoY eu

$275,000

10/22/15

4959 FoXen CanYon RD

This data is provided to The Santa Barbara Independent by an outside third-party source and represents a partial list of recorded residential sales in Santa Barbara County on the dates listed. While this information is public record, The Santa Barbara Independent cannot guarantee the accuracy nor the completeness of this list.


FABleD GABles

by Michael Redmon

by G. Vince Giovannoni

G. Vince GioVannoni

Santa BarBara HiStorical MuSeuM

history 101

Hendry’s Beach, circa 1980, the former site of William and Annie Hendry’s farmstead.

hendry endry of hendry’s endry’s Beach, a k a Arroyo Burro Beach?

1419 De la Vina street s I

Michael Redmon is the director of research at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

Based on information from, among other sources, Survivors; Santa Barbara’s Last Victorians, a publication of the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

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Original Owner: H.G. Crane Year of Construction: 1875 Architect: Peter J. Barber (attributed)

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n the 1860s, the section of land encompassing the 1400 block of De la Vina Street belonged to J.E. Goux, a prominent merchant who was involved with many real estate transactions. Between 1869 and 1886, the land ownership was held by H.G. Crane, who was employed as a lawyer and a justice of the peace. During his tenure, it was believed that Crane retained the noted Santa Barbara architect Peter J. Barber to design and build a Victorian-Italianate-style home. In the mid-1890s, the residence was purchased by the Hoover family, of which E.B. Hoover was principal of the Santa Barbara Business College, located at West Arrellaga and Anacapa streets. In 1902, Mary Wright and her relatives acquired and converted the property into a boarding facility known as De la Vina House. As its popularity grew, the property became an informal gathering place for employees of the Flying A Studios, located a few blocks uptown on West Mission Street. Its most identifying feature is the “Flying A Boarding House” sign that hangs from the front porch. The Wright family maintained the domicile until 1930, and various landlords have owned the De la Vina House since then, with each proprietor protecting the home’s original architectural character. A fire broke out in an apartment complex on the same lot in 2011 but did not affect the historic structure. Today, with 16 units inside, the De la Vina House continues to be one of the longest-operating apartment buildings in Santa Barbara.

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lthough officially known as Arroyo Burro, this stretch of coastline between Hope Ranch and the Douglas Family Preserve has been called Hendry’s Beach for decades. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, William N. Hendry and family farmed in this area. A native of Scotland, Hendry was 24 when he set sail for the U.S. out of Liverpool in 1872. It was not an easy passage. Rough seas, seasickness, theft, and fights among the crew and passengers were just some of the problems. Tragedy struck when a young girl stopped eating due to illness; she eventually died and was buried at sea. After a journey of two months, Hendry arrived in Santa Barbara and went to work for Ellwood Cooper on his Goleta Valley ranch. Hendry worked from sunup to sunset, six to seven days a week. Entries in his journal often just read,“Ploughed all day.” Eventually Hendry saved enough to lease a piece of ground of his own in an area now occupied by UCSB. In 1881, he married Annie Stronach, also a Scottish immigrant, and three years later he leased over 360 acres at Arroyo Burro, which included Veronica Springs and a good portion of Hope Ranch. Hendry primarily grew hay, oats, and barley, selling much of his yield to stables in Santa Barbara. He later diversified, with lima beans becoming an important crop. One year the family earned around $4,000 just from the bean crop alone. The Hendrys had 12 children, and the latter often invited friends to swim off the beach at the mouth of the creek; gradually the beach became known as Hendry’s to locals. Around the turn of the century, where the Douglas Family Preserve is today, Chinese farmers raised watermelons. Hendry retired in 1914, and four years later he sold the farm for $80,000, as his children did not follow their father’s footsteps into farming. The family moved into town to a house at 509 Chapala Street. A number of William and Annie Hendry’s sons had gone into the blacksmith trade. In 1906, son William bought the business of Harry Hawcroft at 20 West Cota Street, moving it to 25 West Cota in 1915. Eventually four brothers worked in the shop: William, Allan, Bruce, and Nicol. Nicol moved on to start his own blacksmith and machine shop. Another brother, Walter, became a carpenter in Santa Barbara. Hendry Bros. was a fixture in Santa Barbara until the shop closed its doors for good in 1975. During its run of close to 70 years, the firm adapted to the transition from horse and buggy to automobile as it went from making farm tools, brands, and wagon wheels to fashioning auto and truck springs. Ornamental ironwork also became a lucrative specialty. Among their customers were the Loughhead (Lockheed) brothers, founders of the aviation firm. As for the beach, 30 years of sporadic negotiations with the county came to an end in 1947. For $15,000, Santa Barbara County purchased, with state help, five and a half acres with 500 feet of oceanfront at the mouth of Arroyo Burro Creek for a park. An additional 100 feet of beach was deeded over to the county as a gift. Today, Arroyo Burro County Park, aka, Hendry’s Beach, is one of the most popular beaches on the South Coast.

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OPEN HOUSES Carpinteria

Goleta

1261 Franciscan Court 3, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $455,000, Pacific Coast Realty , JoAnn Pomatto-Gomez 805705-3798

216 Moreton Bay Lane Unit 5, 2BD/1.5BA, By Appt., $435,000, Sotheby’s , Mike Pearl 805-637-6888 Gail Pearl 805-637-9595

1272 Cravens Lane 1, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $829,000 , Keller Williams Realty, Bob Walsmith Jr. 805-720-5362

180 Kingston Avenue #E, 2BD/1.5BA, By Appt., $519,000, Sotheby’s, Mike Pearl 805-637-6888 Gail Pearl 805-637-9595

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178 Serafin Street, 4BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $995,000, Sotheby’s, Marie Larkin 805-680-2525

6049 Paseo Palmilla, 4BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $859,000, Village Properites, Phyllis Lenker 805 886-2342

3375 Foothill Road #1114, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,200,000, Coldwell Banker, Hayley N Hernandez 805-717-8868

284 Coronado Drive, 4BD/2BA, Sat 2-4, $819,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jake Ralston 805-455-9600

3111 Padaro Lane, 5BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $14,600,000, Village Properites, Pamela Regan 805-565-4556

654 Cambridge Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $889,000, Village Properites, Cimme Eordanidis 805-722-8480

Downtown Santa Barbara

20 Baker Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $999,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Randy Freed 805-895-1799

122 West Micheltorena, 2BD/1.5BA, Sat 1-4, $599,000, Village Properites , Chris Salvetti 805-705-4040

641 Por La Mar Circle B, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $939,000, Village Properites, Billy 805-570-4827 645 Costa Del Mar unit C, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $979,000, Village Properites, Billy 805-570-4827 1417 Olive Street Unit B, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,045,000, Sotheby’s, Sandy Lipowski 805-403-3844 401 Chapala Street Unit 305, 1BD/1.5BA, Sat 11-4 Sun 11-4, $1,325,000, Village Properites, Calcagno & Hamilton 805-896-0876 18 West Victoria Street #204, 1BD/2BA, BY APPT, $1,465,000, Village Properites, Tim Walsh 805-2598808 2109 Chapala Street, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-3, $1,495,000, Sotheby’s, Melissa Birch 805-689-2674 618 Anacapa Street #7, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,599,000, Keller Williams Realty , Joe Bral 805283-9912 18 West Victoria Street #310, 1BD/1.5BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $1,999,000, Village Properites, Don Hunt 805-895-3833 18 West Victoria Street #308, 2BD/3BA, BY APPT, $2,600,000, Village Properites, Tim Walsh 805-2598808

Eastside Santa Barbara 30 Winchester Canyon #79, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-4 Sun 1-4, $284,000, Coldwell Banker, Holly Misic 805-3353315

4747 Camino Del Rey, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $655,000, Coldwell Banker, Holly Misic 805-335-3315

753 Cathedral Pointe Lane, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,130,000, Sotheby’s, Marilyn Rickard 805-4528284 7797 Goldfield, 4BD/5BA, Sun 1-3, $2,749,000, Village Properites, Beverly Palmer 805-452-7985

Hope Ranch 835 Puente Drive, 5BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $2,975,000, Village Properites, Brian King 805-452-0471 929 Canon Road, 4BD/4BA, By Appt., $4,895,000, Sotheby’s, Sandy Stahl 805-689-1602

The Mesa 1809 Cliff Drive #2, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $949,000, Village Properites, Nagel 805-689-5959

Saturday 11/7 & Sunday 11/8 2985 Glen Albyn Drive, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,195,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Ricardo Munoz 805-8958725 239 Cordova Drive, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 12-3, $1,549,000, Village Properites, Leslie McFadden 805-2524541

Montecito 1220 Coast Village Road Unit 110, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,069,000, Sotheby’s, Toni Sutherland 805-6181886

546 San Ysidro Road B, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,350,000, Coldwell Banker, Holly McKenna 805-886-8848 216 East Mountain Drive, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $1,449,000, Sotheby’s, Gene Archambault 805-4551190 421 Seaview, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,549,000, Village Properites, Robert Watt 805-252-2190 614 Tabor Lane, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-3, $1,675,000, Sotheby’s, Amie Strickland 805-570-7677 2970 Hidden Valley Lane, 4BD/3BA, Sat 12-3, $2,395,000, Keller Williams Realty, Bob Walsmith Jr. 805-720-5362 43 Humphrey Road, 2BD/2BA, Sat 2-4 Sun 2-4, $2,499,000, Village Properites Marilyn Moore 805-6890507 1211 East Valley Road, 4BD/5BA, Sun 1-3, $2,595,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Yolanda Van Wingerden 805-570-4965 2775 East Valley Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $2,795,000, Sotheby’s, Jenny Hall 805-705-7125

222 Meigs Road Unit 19, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,199,000, Sotheby’s, Diane Waterhouse 805-8862988

815 Ashley Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $3,195,000, Village Properites, Huth Axilrod 805-637-6378

615 Sunrise Vista Way, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun By Appt., $1,698,000, Sotheby’s, Joe Boudre 805-319-5364

193 East Mountain Drive, 3BD/6BA, Sun 2-4, $3,275,000, Coldwell Banker, Dan Failla 805-7081276

1642 Shoreline Drive, 3BD/3BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-4, $1,995,000, Sotheby’s, JJ Lambert 805-350-0924

211 Rametto Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sun By Appt., $3,295,000, Sotheby’s, Maureen McDermut 805-570-5545

1211 Harbor Hills Drive, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-5, $3,500,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Randy Freed 805-895-1799

266 Santa Rosa Lane, 3BD/3.5BA, Sun By Appt., $3,990,000, Sotheby’s, Joe Boudre 805-319-5364

3990 Cuervo Avenue, 3BD/3.5BA, Sun 2-4, $3,800,000, Coldwell Banker, Linda Lorenzen Hughes 805-886-1842

975 Mariposa, 4BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $4,995,000, Village Properites, Christina Chackel 805-448-3081

1509 Shoreline Drive, 5BD/4BA, Sun By Appt., $5,900,000, Sotheby’s, Joe Boudre 805-319-5364

1709 Overlook Lane, 5BD/4.5BA, Sun 1-4, $5,250,000, Sotheby’s, Mark Lomas & Kirsten Wolfe 805-845-2888

Mission Canyon 876 Windsor Way, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $1,075,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Jason Saltoun-Ebin 805-364-3070

923 Buena Vista Drive, 6BD/6.5BA, Sun By Appt., $5,495,000, Sotheby’s, Frank Abatemarco 805-450-7477

1522 East Mountain Drive, 5BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-3, $7,495,000, Sotheby’s, Karen Strickland 805-4553226

Noleta 615 Las Perlas Drive, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $739,500, Sotheby’s, Linda Brown “Brownie” 805-666-9090

331 Santa Rosalia Way, 3BD/2BA, Sat 10-4 Sun 1-4, $839,000, Village Properites, Chris Salvetti 805-705-4040

Riviera 811 East Pedregosa Street, 2BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,195,000, Village Properites, Marcella Simmons 805-680-9981

139 Loma Media Road, 2BD/3BA, Sat 11-4, $1,385,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Kellie Roche 805-705-5334 1889 Eucalyptus Hill Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $1,389,000, Sotheby’s, Cherie De Lisle 805-6365373 3 Las Alturas Road, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $1,599,000, Village Properites, John Bahura 805-680-5175 925 El Rancho Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,788,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Heather M Martineau 805231-3558 712 Arbolado Road, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $2,170,000, Sotheby’s, The Olivers 805-680-6524 1746 Prospect Avenue, 2BD/3.5BA, Sun 1-4, $2,195,000, Village Properites, Priscilla Bedolla 805-6807146 1010 Roble Lane, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 2-4, $2,249,000, Sotheby’s, The Olivers 805-680-6524 116 Orizaba Road, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun By Appt., $2,295,000 Sotheby’s, Joe Boudre 805-319-5364 1829 Mira Vista, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $2,395,000, Sotheby’s, Sandy Stahl 805-689-1602 853 Jimeno Road, 3BD/4BA, Sun 2-4, $2,495,000, Village Properites, Tim Walsh 805-259-8808

1800 El Encanto Road Unit A, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $2,595,000, Sotheby’s, Joanna Slott 805-335-0158 1919 Las Tunas Road, 4BD/4BA, Sun 1-4, $5,950,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Nancy L Kogevinas 805450-6233

Samarkand 1 Rubio Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,585,000, Coldwell Banker, Scott McCosker 805-687-2436

1734 Franceschi Road, 4BD/3.5BA, Sat 1-4, $2,395,000, Keller Williams Realty, Daniel Zia 805-637-7148

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829,000 - Beautiful Townhome At The Villas In Carpinteria

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Dianne & Brianna Johnson Village ProPerties johnson@villagesite.com • 805.455.6570 CalBRE #00947199 CalBRE# 01943572

Location: 1272 Cravens Lane, Carpinteria, CA 93013

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Samarkand (CONTiNUED) 2220 Santiago Road, 4BD/4.5BA, Sun 2-4, $2,995,000, Coldwell Banker, Kirk G Hodson 805-886-6527

San Roque

3867 Cinco Amigos, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-4, $595,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Angela Moloney 805-451-1553 2740 Miradero Drive, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-3 Sun 1-3, $729,000, Village Properites, Sheela Hunt 805-698-3767 616 Calle De Los Amigos, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $815,000, Sotheby’s, Daniela Johnson 805-4534555

1333 Santa Teresita Drive, 3BD/4BA, Sun By Appt., $3,095,000, Sotheby’s, Maureen McDermut 805570-5545

Summerland 715 Russell Way, 3BD/2BA, Sat 1-3, $959,000, Sun and Sea Realty, Roxann F Clark 805-636-5285

15 West Padre, 5BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,499,000, Coldwell Banker, Mark Schneidman 805-452-2428

1123 Manitou Road, 4BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,595,000, Sotheby’s, Alex Rouffaer 805-451-0023

2659 Todos Santos Lane, 4BD/4BA, Sun By Appt., $3,695,000, Sotheby’s, Paula Goodwin 805-4515699

4146 Long Valley Road, 3BD/4BD, Sun 12-3, $1,895,000, Village Properites, Wayne Natale 805-6807227

Westside Santa Barbara

4199 Tims Road, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $3,600,000, Sotheby’s, Patty Murphy 805-680-8571

286 North La Cumbre Road, 3BD/2.5BA, Sat 1-4, $969,000, McPhillips Investments, Robert McPhillips 805-448-6535

927 West Valerio Street, 2BD/2BA, Sat 12-4, $769,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Angela Moloney 805-8795002

2210 Calle Culebra, 3BD/3BA, Sun 12-3, $1,850,000, Sotheby’s, Jason Siemens 805-455-1165

2109 Gillespie Street, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-3, $865,000, Coldwell Banker, Dave Haws 805-757-6492

2631 Freesia Drive, 3BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-3, $2,250,000, Sotheby’s, Dick Mires 805-689-7771

1269 Mountain View, 4BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,199,000, Village Properites, Easton Konn 818-919-6020

415 North La Cumbre Road, 2BD/2BA, Sat 1-3, $939,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Sue Irwin 805705-6973

Upper East Santa Barbara

Santa Ynez Valley

30 West Calle Crespis, 2BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $965,000, Coldwell Banker, Arielle Assur 805-906-0194

2030 State Street #4, 2BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $639,500, Coldwell Banker, Jessie Sessions 805-709-0904

3703 Dixon Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $1,099,000, Village Properites, Chris Salvetti 805-705-4040

1814 Olive Avenue, 3BD/2BA, Sun 2-4, $1,295,000, Sotheby’s, Jim Alzina 805-455-1941

542 Cliffrose Lane, 4BD/3BD, Sun 1-4, $695,000, Village Properites, Patty Armor 805-350-4038

612 Calle Granada, 3BD/3BA, Sun 2-4, $1,595,000, Village Properites, Vickie Craig 805-708-2468

34 E Pedregosa Street, 3BD/3BA, Sun 12-2, $1,350,000, Berkshire Hathaway, Randy G Glick 805-5634066

248 Valhalla Drive, 3BD/3BA, Sat 1-4, $949,000, Keller Williams Realty, Epstein Partners 805-689-9339

Ventura County 1106 Crestline Drive, 4BD/2.5BA, Sun 1-4, $1,765,000, Coldwell Banker, Victor Plana 805-895-0591

3059 Seaview Avenue, 3BD/3BA, Sun 1-4, $2,840,000, Santa Barbara Estates, Christopher A Page 805-2848422

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4326 Calle Real #9, 3BD/2BA, Sun 1-4, $299,999, Coldwell Banker, Ruth Martinez-Infante 805-570-4646

Saturday 11/7 & Sunday 11/8 CONTiNUED

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Keller Williams Realty 1435 Anacapa St | Santa Barbara, CA 93101 805.705.3606 | cindyblomo@kw.com www.cindyblomo.com |CALBRE # 01153525

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Outdoor living at its best! Delightful full-time or vacation townhome, close to the beach and downtown Carpinteria. This beautiful Mediterranean townhome is located in the much sought-after 'Villas' on Cravens Lane. Bright and airy townhome features: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, spacious open floor plan, double-entry front doors, vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, plantation shutters, living room with fireplace, formal dining room, separate family room that opens onto garden patio, large master suite with walk-in closet, 2-car garage, security system, and breathtaking mountain views from gracious upstairs private deck. HOA includes pool and spa.


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