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Gail Arnold writes our Society Matters column in the real estate section and online. She began her career as an international trade attorney in Washington, D.C., and later worked in the wine industry in Sonoma. “This was a step in the right direction,” she said, “but working as a society columnist is as good as it gets.” Gail has been very active in the nonprofit sector, serving on the research committee of the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara and as the volunteer grant writer for a couple of healthcare nonprofits. Given her strong background in the nonprofit world and her enthusiasm for attending events, she brings depth and passion to her columns.

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LAW & DISORDER With minimal flare-up activity and lots of mopping up, management of the Rey Fire is transferring from a Type I federal team to Los Padres National Forest personnel tomorrow, as firefighting crews have all but extinguished the two-week-old wildfire. The blaze has scorched more than 32,000 acres of the backcountry and destroyed five outbuildings on the remote Ogilvy Ranch. Ongoing fire equipment movement has closed Painted Cave and Gibraltar roads to all but residents. East Camino Cielo Road remains closed to the nonresident public for the same reason; Paradise Road is open. The fire’s cause remains under investigation.

‘Dead Pool’ Duel

Water Agencies Fighting Over Last Drops in Lake Cachuma

by N i c k W e l s h

he bad news is that Lake Cachuma — chief water supply for 225,000 county residents—is now only 7.6 percent full. That’s an unprecedented historic low. Even worse, once the dam drops down to 6.2 percent capacity, what’s left— left known to water officials as the “dead pool”—is off-limits for human consumption. Even worse still, relations between water agencies fighting over the last few drops have reached new lows, as well. The latest flash point came to light two weeks ago when South Coast water agencies belatedly discovered that 2,000-3,000 acrefeet more water from Lake Cachuma had been released this summer than they expected. These releases are legally mandated to satisfy the downstream rights of Lompoc and other communities—Buellton, Solvang, and Santa Ynez—located below the dam. South Coast water managers said they were led to believe this year’s release would range in size from 8,000-9,000 acre-feet. Instead, it wound up being 11,600. The surprise of South Coast water agencies was anything but accidental. Instead, it was engineered to perfection by Bruce Wales, general manager of the Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District, who availed himself of highly arcane water-rights language dating back to 1973. This language allowed Wales to secure permits from the federal Bureau of Reclamation — which owns the dam and dictates how it operates — and receive “negative” water credits. This enabled the Santa Ynez dis8

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trict to “borrow” water from future rains and use it today. (The only proviso is that this water must be paid back.) In person, Wales may come across as the consummate good old boy —“with manure on my boots,” as he put it—but he also holds a PhD in biology and a master’s degree in meteorology, taught at UCSB, and enjoyed a 20-year career as a private water consultant. Wales openly acknowledged his intention was to fool South Coast water agencies. He said he’d been discussing the expanded release with Bureau of Reclamation officials for more than a year.“And I never hid the football from them,” he said. “With these other guys,” Wales said—referring to South Coast water agencies —“I definitely hid the football. If I showed them my football, they would have tried to deflate it or steal it.” While some South Coast water operators remain incensed, Wales makes no apologies. “We have people on the river who are going to run out of water this year if it doesn’t rain,” he stated. The City of Lompoc, with nearly 10,000 customers, relies exclusively on wells fed by the Santa Ynez River. It has no other sources. Beyond that, Wales elaborated, “The degree of trust is such that we don’t trust each other.” Santa Barbara city water czar Joshua Haggmark acknowledges what Wales did was perfectly legal but fumes that how he did it was “borderline criminal.” Haggmark is also angry that the Bureau of Reclamation never saw fit to notify any of the other agencies drawing water from Lake Cachuma.“This is extremely

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frustrating,” he said. Haggmark said he and other South Coast water directors have made their needs and plans explicitly clear; Wales, he said, should have done the same.“This puts us and the lake in a compromised situation.” With the lake so much lower than expected, Haggmark said, Santa Barbara City Hall will have to accelerate discussions about enacting an outright ban on outdoor irrigation. Likewise, he said, the depleted lake could seriously impede the ability to convey state water pumped into Cachuma to the emergency pumping barge located about 2,000 feet away. (It’s harder to move water over shallow and dry surfaces than deeper, wet ones.) This predicament, in turn, could force water agencies reliant on Cachuma to build a new pipeline, which could cost as much as $2 million. If it doesn’t rain the coming year, those agencies were already contemplating building such a pipeline by September 2018. With the depleted reservoir, it could be September 2017. Haggmark charged that many of the downstream water agencies have relaxed conservation efforts in recent years. “If they’d maintained those efforts, they wouldn’t have needed the additional water in the first place,” he charged. Haggmark, Wales suggested, “doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” Most of the water agencies alluded to by Haggmark, Wales said, take very little out of the river. Lompoc takes the most and has cut water consumption by 29 percent during the past three years, more than twice the amount ordered by n state water officials.

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NO LOVE LOST: Santa Barbara city water boss Joshua Haggmark (right) said a successfully sneaky move by Bruce Wales (left), general manager of the Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District, to release more water downstream was “borderline criminal.”

A legislative effort to make California’s 9-1-1 system more efficient for wireless callers was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on August 29. Introduced by Assemblymember Das Williams, AB 1564 contributes to the broader effort to route emergency calls from wireless phones to the nearest public safety office instead of the system’s default California Highway Patrol dispatch center (unless the call is made from a California highway or freeway). Santa Barbara Fire Department Chief Pat McElroy helped spearhead the update effort with Williams and Angelo Salvucci, a county emergency services medical director.

Lori Luhnow (pictured left), Santa Barbara’s new chief of police, has taken a leave of absence after the sudden death of her fiancé last week. Marc Homan (right), who pinned Luhnow’s new badge to her uniform at her swearing-in ceremony this July, died of a heart attack Thursday in Coronado. Luhnow is expected to be off work this week and next week but said she is committed to remaining Santa Barbara’s chief. Captain Bill Marazita, commander of the department’s patrol division, is acting chief in her absence.

CITY After 22 years of service, the quaint and beloved Coffee Cat is pouring its final cups. Though rent has stayed steady over the years, owner Krista Fritzen, who bought the corner café on Anacapa and Anapamu streets 13 years ago, pointed to the “difficulty of running a business in Santa Barbara without a lot of capital” as one of the reasons behind her decision to close. But, she

School District Going Digital

Wasting little time addressing an ongoing concern among Santa Barbara Unified School District teachers, newly hired Superintendent Cary Matsuoka unveiled his vision for the district’s transition from traditional textbook instruction to an everexpanding digital world of educational tools. “There’s a place for books, but we have to create space for digital,” he said during the first Board of Education meeting of the school year, on August 23. Matsuoka detailed a handful of pilot programs, initially for math teachers, during which students would spend a few months trying out cutting-edge curriculum to find the best fit before the district pulled the trigger. He reasoned that the district could spend roughly $50,000 on each pilot program before committing to a larger, long-term investment. He wants the pilots set up by mid-October, feedback by February, and possible procurement and distribution of the new instructional material as early as this coming spring, or by August 2017 at the latest. “Teachers have been under so much stress and strain developing their own curriculum,” boardmember Kate Parker said. “It’s been an issue for a number of years. I’m very enthusiastic in moving forward … to get our teachers some consistent — Keith Hamm instructional materials.”

COUNTY Health officials confirmed on 8/25 the first case of Zika virus infection in a county resident — a pregnant woman who contracted the virus during travel to Central America. “There is currently no risk for contracting Zika virus in Santa Barbara County via infected mosquitoes,” assured Dr. Charity Dean, the county’s health officer. The best ways to avoid the virus are to take precautions when traveling to areas with Zika, she said, and when engaging in sexual contact with someone at risk for the infection. The greatest concern is for fetuses, as the virus can cause microcephaly (small-head syndrome), brain damage, and other birth defects. Research is underway to develop a vaccine. Cottage Health hospitals in Santa Barbara and Goleta were two of nine California facilities to receive the highest rating from the federal Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services. Of the 4,600 hospitals in the U.S. assigned one to five stars, only 102 received five stars. The star ratings were based on an aggregate of 64 other existing ratings that measure healthcare aspects like heart-attack care and low post-surgery complication rates. Search “hospital compare” at medicare.gov to learn more.

ENVIRONMENT The Coast Oil Well Cleanup Act, aimed at properly capping leaky, abandoned oil wells along California beaches, is headed to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk, after passing the Senate floor last week with a 31-5 bipartisan vote. The bill, authored by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, requires that the California State Lands Commission locate and plug so-called legacy wells that were improperly shut down by companies no longer in business, such as Summerland’s Becker Well. There are an estimated 200 such wells statewide, the majority in Summerland and Ellwood.

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LAST MAN SITTING: “It’s the best haircut in town,” said Dennis Reilly (seated), Henry Franco’s final customer at 27 1/2 East Victoria Street.

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said, “We’ve been blessed with really loyal and generous customers over the years,” including a constant stream of artists, students, and employees from the nearby County Courthouse and administration buildings. “I just want to thank the community around Coffee Cat for so many years of patronage.”

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Larry Crandell, the genial emcee for hundreds of charity functions large and small, died Tuesday afternoon at the age of 93. So widely loved that he was nicknamed “Mr. Santa Barbara,” Crandell made his fortune in real estate in partnership with Michael Towbes after a successful business with the Arthur Murray Dance school in the 1950s. He was awarded a Purple Heart in the Army Air Corps during World War II. In his long career as a volunteer, Crandell was able to find the humor in any auction item and used it to coax larger and larger bids in live auctions and events from college to preschool level. Once determined, a public celebration of his life will be announced.

POLITICS An auction fundraiser for the political wing of Planned Parenthood, with a playful title that sounded more like the beginning of a bar joke, raised $10,000 on 8/25 to ensure “services are available to the women who need them,” said Jenna Tosh, director of Planned Parenthood California Central Coast, the new name for the tri-counties’ branch. Politics, Sex & Cocktails speaker Beth Parker, chief legal counsel of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, outlined the gravity of the impending election on the fate of reproductive care and applauded the Supreme Court’s decision in June to strike down Texas abortion restrictions. She pushed support for current nominees so they can continue progress. n

by k e i t h h a m m fter 21 years in business, a downtown fixture of men’s haircutting, styling, and shaving closed its doors on August 26. Members Only Barber Shop proprietor Henry Franco said a recent rent hike at his 190-square-foot shop on East Victoria Street is to blame. A notice of the monthly jump—from $695 to $1,000, plus an additional $200 for building insurance and maintenance — arrived in late July, slipped beneath the door of his shop. Franco said he wanted to negotiate but was unable to reach the building’s new landlord, Ray Mahboob, who bought it in May as part of a six-property portfolio consisting of two office buildings and four apartments complexes. As part of the package, Mahboob paid $2.4 million for the 27-27½ East Victoria Street property. “Right now I’m kinda in limbo,” Franco said. “It’s a heartbreaker. A lot of businesses are being displaced downtown. It’s ripping the fiber out of Santa Barbara.” Mahboob—who also recently purchased

the Funk Zone building home to the Santa Barbara Surfing Museum for $5.6 million in cash—explained that the 19 businesses at 27-27½ East Victoria Street have been paying below-market rent over the years. “This [increase] is just catch-up,” he said. “We tried to come up with a number that would be fair and that would make [tenants] stay.” He said that only two businesses are leaving. Mahboob added that with Franco’s space, there seems to have been some confusion on utility expenses, which would have affected the new asking price. “I don’t want him to leave,” he said. “If you talk to him, tell him to come back.” By late afternoon last Friday, however, Franco had already cleared out. He’s also already looked at a new location. In the meantime, he’ll meet with clients on a pop-up basis at Amigos Hair Cutting on De la Vina Street, or Danny’s Custom Styling on upper State Street, both of which can offer him an open chair on Mondays. The 75-year-old Franco said he has about 175 steady customers,“just enough to keep an old man busy.” n

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by k e i t h h a m m ust about everybody paying attention to the recent dustup at the Carpinteria Unified School District is waiting for the Board of Education to provide details about a separation agreement struck between the five boardmembers and Micheline Miglis, who abruptly left her post as superintendent on August 22, the day before the first day of school. Dozens of Miglis’s supporters— some of them in tears—packed the meeting announcing her departure. “Miglis and the district jointly drafted a separation agreement that has a confidentiality clause,” said board president Andrew Sheaffer. “There is really nothing more I can say other than this was a difficult but unanimous decision by the board.” Meanwhile, concerned parents, teachers, and administrators remain confused. “We just want to know what happened,” said Maureen Foley, one of independent.com

three candidates vying for two board seats up for grabs this fall. Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover with the Sheriff’s Office said that Miglis isn’t under investigation. Queries urging the board to provide examples of Miglis underperforming or for failing to follow procedural channels have been rebuffed. “It’s a personnel matter,” Schaeffer said. “I’ve been constantly grateful to work with extremely talented faculty and staff, and I’ve felt overwhelmingly privileged to interact with the families and the community of Carpinteria,” Miglis said.“I am grateful beyond words for the tremendous support.” The board hired Miglis after a $12,555 search conducted by a private consulting firm. Her first day was July 8, 2015, and her annual salary, including benefits, was $177,160. Former Santa Barbara Unified School District superintendent Brian Sarvis is serving until Miglis’s permanent replacement can be found. n

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anta Barbara County Supervisor Doreen Farr expressed public frustration that Cottage Health was not doing more to meet the county’s unmet need for in-patient, medically supervised detox beds. Noting that Cottage had purchased three other hospital facilities in the past several years, Farr stated, “It would be nice if they could find a detox bed in each hospital,” Farr said during a Board of Supervisors meeting last week. “That might solve the problem right there.” Farr said she intended to repeat the same concerns this week at a “community listening” session organized by Cottage’s director of population health, Elizabeth Majestic. Farr’s comments came during board discussion over significant service gaps in treating the county’s mentally ill and drugdependent population. One of the key gaps identified by the county’s Behavioral Wellness director, Alice Gleghorn, was the total absence of in-patient detox beds that could be paid for by Medi-Cal. Gleghorn said she thought four such beds would go a long way to meeting existing needs, enabling her department to treat up to 50 clients a year. Of the detox beds now available throughout Santa Barbara County, Gleghorn said, all relied on what’s known as the “social” model of service. For individuals suffering from acute chemical withdrawal — whether alcohol or opioids — Gleghorn said more direct medical interventions are often warranted. Farr, an outspoken advocate for better mental-health and addiction services, asked whether Behavioral Wellness could simply “purchase” the four needed beds from Cottage. Gleghorn responded that Cottage does not accept Medi-Cal reimbursements for such services. Farr’s comments came just as Cottage’s Santa Barbara and Goleta Valley hospitals won prestigious five-star designations from the federal Centers for Medicare &

Medicaid Services for quality of care. As such, the Cottage facilities are two of only nine in California— California and 102 nationally— nationally to be so honored. In a follow-up interview, Farr said the absence of inpatient detox beds was a serious countywide problem. “Medical detox is incredibly important,” she said. “People have serious dependency issues, and if they’re at a point in their lives where they’re willing to say,‘Okay, I need to get my life back in order,’ we need to have something available to take advantage of that opportunity.”

RECENT REQUEST: Farr lobbied Cottage CEO Ron Werft to not cut funding for homeless services. When Santa Barbara County shut down its own public hospital back in the 1970s, Farr stated, it was “understood” that Cottage — a nonprofit health-care provider— provider would fill the breach and provide services to low-income individuals with chemical dependencies and mental-health issues, among other things. Farr, whose mother worked as a nurse in such a facility elsewhere in California, acknowledged any such agreement was a “handshake deal.” Over time, she said,“Cottage has evolved.” By that, Farr meant Cottage purchased what was left of the financially moribund St. Francis Hospital after it shut its doors

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NAME GAME: Pseudo-social scientists are out to refute my Theory of Lee, but recent events in Lompoc have proved how wrong

they are. The Theory of Lee holds that anyone with the first, last, or middle name Lee —or any of its many variants—are statistically predisposed to commit sociopathic acts with greater frequency and severity than their numbers suggest. This May, a new study came out that concluded the name most associated with criminal behavior was “Jeremy.” Lee doesn’t even make the top 20. Obviously anyone named Jeremy has issues that give rise to inappropriate aggression. But not anything like people named Lee. The most recent case in point is still unfolding in Lompoc, where police have issued an all-points bulletin for a stolen Buddha statue —six feet tall and four feet wide — which until 3 a.m. on August 23 had been the property of noted husband-and-wife psychic scam artists, who, it turns out, were both named Lee even before they tied the knot. The apparent mastermind of this duo is Gina Lucyfenia Lee, age 30, who stumbled onto her “gift” at age 11 and has been practicing it on other people’s bank accounts since age 16. Her accomplice and husband is Anthony Lee Davis, whose role—other than driving about in a white Mercedes with the dealer plates still on —has not been apparent. Davis’s mother, it’s been said, might have

been a psychic. Whatever the division of labor, it appears to have paid off. Since moving to Lompoc in 2012, the two Lees pleaded guilty to ripping off two customers for $244,800. Before that, they nailed a couple in L.A. for $201,000. In the parlance of California criminal code, this constitutes “excessive fraud,” suggesting by implication some kind of fraud might be considered more reasonable. To call what they did a scam is a stretch. Though brazen in the extreme, no cleverness was involved. Gina Lee marketed herself as a psychic and then “discovered” black magic spells that cast a dark pall on a given client. She would “cleanse” these spells for a fee of $700, but to do so, she needed to have in her possession all of her client’s financial assets. Cash. Gift cards. The more money, the longer the cleansing took. Often, many months were required. Even the most gullible would demand their funds returned. When this sad day occurred, Gina Lee would say, “What money?” If they persisted, she’d say,“Are you crazy?” If they persisted still, her husband —Anthony Lee Davis a k a “Rocky” — would enter the room and tell the victim to keep it down. Or that the police were on their way. The Two Lees took one Lompoc woman for $237,000 this way. She owned two houses, had a job, and, as she stated in her sentencing statement, was known by her smile. Now she hardly smiles at all, can’t sleep, has nightmares, and

is afraid to work. When she had doubts and asked for her money back, Gina Lee first told her that Anthony had brain cancer and was going to die in three months. Gina frequently texted the victim “Love you.” Now when she hears the word “love,” she said she feels “sick and scared.” When the victim insisted on getting her money back, Gina said she was nuts. Anthony accused her of wanting Gina to cast an impossible spell — to make a coworker fall in love with her. Then he called the cops. Another Lompoc resident got took for $7,800. The Two Lees fled to the Siberia of Lompoc only after they got chased out of Northridge for getting caught running a similar scam. There, they took a married couple for $201,000 the same way. Mike Basra said his wife contacted the Lees after their home was occupied by paranormal forces. He heard loud growling, like a dog was in the room. There were loud thumps, like a car crashing into the outside of their house. “Evil stuff,” Basra said. Gina knew things no one but family or friends could have known, he said. She became the Basras’ new best friend. She insisted they become hers. To cleanse the evil spirits, Gina needed Basra to drain his retirement account and his bank account and convert everything into cash. Nothing traceable. When the Basras eventually insisted on getting their money back, it was, “What money?” The Basras went to the L.A. County

Sheriff, who took no action. Ultimately, the Basras sued. When the two Lees didn’t show, the Basras won a default judgment. But no actual cash. Lompoc cops pursued the case. They brought charges. They insisted bail to be set at $1 million. The Lees were looking at four years and eight months in state prison. Amazingly, they came up with $244,000 in restitution, $137,000 in cash, and the rest in three cashier’s checks. Gina Lee reportedly said she had no idea where the money was coming from. She knew, however, exactly when it would arrive. Being a psychic, she was right. Neither police nor prosecutor Steve Foley know where the money came from either, but they have lots of guesses. With bail, the cleanliness of the cash matters; with restitution, it turns out, it doesn’t. Representing the two Lees were two expensive criminal defense hotshots from L.A. One previously defended a man accused of throttling a woman on a plane for reclining her seat into his space. Another achieved fame for waging what’s become known as the “burrito defense.” This entails gesticulating with a burrito while addressing the jury. Because restitution was made, the defendants got five years probation and no time. For the next five years, however, both are prohibited from selling psychic services. Even so, they’ll still be named Lee. Not Jeremy. But Lee. Don’t forget it. — Nick Welsh

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her two children Kristi (Dave) Morris and Scott Davis, her 6 grandchildren Ryan (Rona) Morris, Devon Morris, Caleb (Haley) Davis, Alison (Cameron) Chapman, Mackenzie (Aaron) Bilane, Ethan Davis, and her 2 greatgrandchildren, Kaela and Colin Morris. A celebration of Audrey’s life will be with her immediate family.

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take place in the Chapel at La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road in Montecito, at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, September 5, followed by a reception. A second celebration of Carol’s life will be at Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, Los Angeles, on Saturday, September 24, at 10:30 a.m., followed by a luncheon and shared memories. To honor the life of Carol Carrig, IHM, donations may be made to the IHM Center for Spiritual Renewal at La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 or to the Immaculate Heart Community, 5515 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028.

and play bluegrass autoharp, being a perfect shot when her son took her to target practice, and traveling to Prince Edward Island with her sister and niece. Her family will miss her profoundly. There was never, nor will there be, another person like Michelle, Mom, Ñaña. Until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

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Michelle Jones Leder In Loving Memory of Jennie Beltran. My Jen Jen, I can’t believe it has been a year since you flew from my arms to God’s. I miss you so much it hurts. Every day you fill my heart and soul with nothing but love and the pure joy you gave me. You gave so much of that love and joy to so many throughout your life; you all know who you are! We all think of you today and smile that we were all blessed to have you in our lives. I love you always, baby girl. Your Shannon

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Audrey Louise Davis passed away peacefully on August 22, 2016, in Santa Barbara. At 90 years old, she spent the last two years living with dementia. Audrey was born on February 8, 1926, in Portland, Oregon, to Ivan and Beatrice (Chaneay) Wood. She attended schools in Portland and majored in art at the University of Oregon. There she met Al Davis, who also attended Grant High School with her in Portland. They were married August 29, 1948, and lived in Portland raising their two children, Kristi and Scott. They enjoyed the outdoors, but the rain encouraged them to move to Santa Barbara. Audrey taught school and worked at Westmont. In retirement she pursued her art, painting beautiful watercolors. A memorable experience was traveling to Giverny and painting where Monet created his famous "Water Lilies." Audrey and Al enjoyed traveling and spending time with their seven grandchildren, always encouraging a love of the outdoors and each grandchild’s interests. They were active members of Community Covenant Church. Al passed away in 2007, and Audrey continued painting and helping others. She could be counted on to drive a friend to an appointment or prepare a special meal for each of her grandchildren. Known for her smile, her encouragement, and sense of humor, she always added a sparkle to situations. Audrey was preceded in death by her husband, Al, in 2007, her grandson, Rob Morris in 2011, and her two sisters, Miriam Johns and Kay Scoggin, both in 2014. She is survived by 14

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Carol Carrig, IHM, died on August 20 at Serenity House in Santa Barbara. Cancer claimed her life at age 83. She was blessed at bedside and in her year’s final journey by beloved friends and members of the Immaculate Heart Community and the Beatitudes Community of Santa Barbara. Carol celebrated her 65th anniversary as an IHM last year. Carol was born on New Year’s Day, 1933, in Omaha, NE, the only child of Betty and Charles Carrig, who moved to Los Angeles in 1936. After graduation from Bishop Conaty High School in 1950, Carol entered the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, taking the name Sister Mary Carol. She taught in several schools in Los Angeles and was principal at Our Mother of Good Counsel School for seven years. In Santa Barbara Carol was principal of Marymount School from 1973 to 1977. Carol received her BA from Immaculate Heart College and her MA in religious studies from UCSB, where she began doctoral studies in confluent education. She suspended work on her dissertation when she and her husband, Michael Terry, left for Uganda to serve for four years as missionaries through the Volunteer Missionary Movement. Returning to the U.S., Carol settled in Santa Barbara, where she was employed at La Casa de Maria Retreat Center, at Bishop Garcia Diego High School, and at the Fielding Institute. Carol retired after serving for 13 years as director of the IHM Center for Spiritual Renewal in Montecito. Carol loved living in Santa Barbara; she loved to travel, visit relatives and friends, and enjoy simple pleasures like walking on the beach, reading, pursuing her interest in centering prayer, and listening to music. She made time for private retreats and participated in programs at La Casa de Maria, nurturing her life of prayer and contemplation. As a spiritual director she was guide and friend to many. A gentle woman, Carol possessed a deep sense of gratitude and of being blessed by the kindness and generosity of her many friends. Her contacts and friendships spanned decades and distances. She created community wherever she served and graced the lives of all who knew her. With gratitude, the Immaculate Heart Community acknowledges the caring of many in the Santa Barbara community who comforted Carol and accompanied her in her final year and days on Earth. Carol is survived by numerous first and second cousins and their children throughout the United States, all with whom she kept in close contact and loved dearly. A celebration of Carol’s life will

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Michelle Jones Leder, cherished first child, mother, wife, sister, aunt, died peacefully at home early Saturday morning surrounded by her family after a long journey with cancer. She was a dynamic presence to her family, hilarious and humane, and a model for how to live in every season and in life’s final hours. She could solve any murder mystery within the first few pages, fed her dachshund his favorite biscotti, and was an equally ardent fan of Tony Romo and Jane Austen. Michelle was born May 7, 1946 in San Antonio, TX, to Col. David (of Goleta) and Kathleen Scanlon Jones. She lived all over the world with them and her younger siblings, Lisa and Casey, including Ecuador, where she acquired her nearly perfect Spanish as a child, and the Philippines. She attended Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY, where she was a cheerleader and kept a diary of her favorite poems and philosophies, which she revisited often in her final weeks. She also attended UCSB and returned to New York to study at SUNY New Paltz. Michelle was a beloved teacher in New Paltz, Goleta Union, and the Hanford School District for over 30 years, where she was known as Mrs. Beloof. She gave generations of children a start in life as readers and writers. She taught them to look to the horizon, and beyond. She and her husband, Robert Leder, enjoyed traveling for his work at Bell Helicopter, as well as for pleasure. Michelle retired in Santa Barbara, where she delighted in Mexican cooking and watercoloring with her beloved sister, Lisa; was near her daughter, Paige; and taught us all that humor and compassion make every dish better. Michelle is preceded in death by her parents as well as her daughter, Paige Beloof, whom she missed so much in her final year. She is survived by her husband, Robert Leder; her son, Matthew Beloof; her sister and brother-in-law, Lisa and Michael O’Connell; her brother and sister-inlaw, Casey Jones and Lee Barton; and her nieces and nephews, to whom she was Ñaña. We were able to remind her in her final days and hours with us what we would always remember: feeding her baby brother a teaspoon of mustard and years later helping him with his science homework, listening to Glenn Yarborough records with her adoring husband in the summer of 1967, teaching her sister to read

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Edwin Ryder Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, October 7, 1922, to Emma Holland Ryder Edwards and John Edwards. He attended various schools including Santa Barbara High School — a Don. He also helped his dad, a concrete contractor. Their stamped work can be found in different locations within Santa Barbara (JOHN EDWARDS or EDWARDS & KING). When he joined the Army Air Corps, he was an aircraft mechanic and crew chief. Ed worked on many planes including a B-17 flying over the “hump” to China. After WWII, Ed got his aircraft A&E license and worked on many planes, including the X1E #2 rocket plane for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Edwards Air Force Base. Later he went to work for Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. Ed worked as a mechanical technician in many shops. He also supervised the Inorganic Materials Research Department and Fusion Energy mechanical shops. When he retired from the Lab, Ed enjoyed time with his wife Vi, married 35 years, and his kids and grandkids. He is preceded in death by 4 wives, 1 grandchild and 1 great grandchild. Survived by 11 children, 27 grandchildren, and 19 great-grandchildren, who miss him very much. He died August 14, 2016, at age 93, peacefully in his sleep in Bozeman, Montana. There will be no services.

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Frances Harriet Berendsen, 100, of Santa Barbara, California, passed away August 19, 2016. She went on her final journey with her loving family surrounding her bedside. The funeral mass will be conducted by Father Jesus Silva at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Santa Barbara on September 16, 2016, at 10 AM, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. An early Spring Funeral mass is planned in Burlington, LA, in April 2017.

Frances was born in Dodgeville, Iowa, on October 30, 1915. All of her 100 years she enjoyed life and spending time with her family and friends. Frances is preceded in death by her parents, William J and Theresa M Riffel; one sister, Antoinette M Riffel; and three brothers, Clarence, Joseph and William Riffel. She was married to Lawrence C Berendsen, who died in 1965. They operated an Investment firm in Burlington, Iowa, until 1965. Two of her four children entered God's abundance, one in 1969, Donna T. Meza, and in 2003 Jean M. Widstrup. One of her grandchildren, Kathleen M. Herrera, died in 2011. She is survived by two sisters, Loretta I. Riffel of Davenport, Iowa, and Helen T. Schmeiser of Burlington, Iowa, two daughters, Mary A. Longmore, and son-in-law Morley W. Longmore of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Nancy K. Berendsen of Uraguay. She is also survived by 29 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society and American Diabetes Association. The family wishes to extend their gratitude to Valle Verde Medical Center and staff for their support of Frances and her family.

Helen Georges

Mom passed away peacefully at home July 4, 2016. She was 92. Raised in Santa Barbara, she was one of the few remaining unacknowledged elders of the Chumash Nation. Among her relatives were the Lopez, Romero, Robles, Dominguez, Felis, and Cota families. We would go shopping downtown, and everyone we met were either related to us or she knew them on a first name basis. This was just on her mother's side of the family. On her father's side, relatives of note were English pioneer Michael White (Whites Landing on Catalina Island); "Don" Francisco Alvarado, retired sergeant of the Santa Barbara Royal Presidio; and Juan Alvarado, revolutionary governor of California from 1836-1839. Her grandmother was full-blooded Shoshone Indian. She met and married Harold V. Georges when they worked at the Goleta Lemon packing plant. He was a handsome Marine from Minnesota. They enjoyed over 70 years together until Dad died last March. They lost 2 sons too soon, Jerry, KIA in Vietnam, and "Tinker," age 21 from complications of cerebral palsy. In the second half of her life she volunteered every day at the Food Bank warehouse in Goleta, til well into her eighties, receiving numerous awards. To remember her is to remember a kind, loving human being, who put everyone else first. Her warm, welcoming smile made people happy. She was the heart and soul of the family. We say good-bye to our mom, Gramma, Great gramma, Great Great Gramma, "Bill." Til we meet again, Ben, Dot, Ken and Itoo.

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by L e e M o L d av e r with Chase and her experience stopping an already n True Grit, the teenage protagonist, on the trail approved, big project were lessons she carried the rest of her father’s killer, would bluff people who tried of her life. They influenced her active involvement to block her with the impending wrath of lawyer with the Sierra Club, State Parks, Get Oil Out, and J. Noble Daggett. Eventually, a U.S. Marshall says, other environmental organizations in Santa Barbara. “Lawyer Daggett again!” and the Texas Ranger he’s In the Wilcox fight, Sue never wavered in her with answers, “She draws him like a gun.” For Sue determination. Before the days of emailing, she Higman, it wasn’t a fictional lawyer but Pearl Chase’s would repeatedly scan her files of names and phone spirit that was invoked at every public hearing, civic numbers, exhorting acquaintances, allies, and affinity gathering, or private conversation. Once, when Sue groups to attend hearings, write letters, and make approached the lectern to tesphone calls to “Save the Wilcox tify on the need to preserve Property.” She did it in the design a quiet Santa Barbara landreview phase, the environmental mark, a councilmember was review, Planning Commission overheard whispering, “Here hearings, City Council appeals, comes Pearl Chase again.” through the Coastal CommisSue, who was a “Pearl’s sion, in an election, and through Girl,” had been mentored in the project revisions and redepersistence by the civic leader signs. She never stopped, and she when it came to stopping rarely doubted, at least in public, big projects. And preserving that they’d succeed. the Mesa’s Wilcox Property But, initially, Sue had no clear idea how to get there. Unlike became Sue’s last big battle. Pearl Chase, Sue couldn’t write It probably never occurred a big check to lawyer up. Unlike to Chase, who died in 1979 at the age of 90, that Wilcox Pearl and Harold Chase, Sue would need “saving.” The wasn’t close enough to the area’s social or financial elites to ask Mesa was one of the later city neighborhoods to build them to pony up money to buy out. When Chase was young, Wilcox. She couldn’t pick up the going up and down Carrillo phone, the way Chase did, and TIRELESS: Sue Higman learned to wage the good land-use fight from Pearl Chase, Hill to get there was one slow call the governor, the mayor, or skills she used to save the Wilcox Property. slog by horse and buggy, and the city manager and expect her it was home to small farms, call to be taken, let alone have commercial nurseries, and mini-ranches. Wilcox had them agree to do what she wanted. If her goal was been a nursery, which explains its paved driveway clear, her path forward wasn’t. Ingenuity and relentfrom Cliff Drive, stone remnants, and rich array of less cheerleading would have to substitute for money trees and foliage planted by former owners. It hadn’t or patrician access. been virgin landscape for a hundred years. One friend mentioned the campaign for Los Osos By the 1980s, community priorities were changing. near San Luis Obispo, and, suddenly, Sue was able to Outer State Street and La Cumbre Plaza had been unveil a tool no one had ever heard of —SWAP, or developed, their Los Angeles–like traffic congestion Small Wilderness Area Preservation—to seek grants. angering and alarming residents. Developers some- Another pointed her to the 1994 Coastal Preservatimes seemed a step ahead of the city. At East Beach, tion Conference at UCSB, where top land-protection an L.A. developer “converted” Kingswood Village into gurus showcased different techniques. Sue was riveted El Escorial’s suites-hotel, evicting the city’s commu- by the Trust for Public Lands’ (TPL) Debra Geiler, who said TPL had never done a “big project” in this area nity development director in the process. When two respected area businesspeople but was “very interested in new, local opportunities.” announced they were optioning the Wilcox Property Within days, Geiler was back in Santa Barbara, to build high-end housing, a plan later changed to a meeting with Sue — and Sue’s staunch ally, neighsenior retirement community, Santa Barbarans were bor Marjorie Hawksworth—the Coastal Resources dismayed. Sue and her husband, Jim Higman, were Information Center, then-mayor Hal Conklin, city livid. Their small ranch house looked out over Hen- administrator Sandra Tripp-Jones, Land Trust of dry’s Beach to Wilcox, where Jim, who died in 2012, Santa Barbara County’s David Anderson, et al. A and Sue hiked its abandoned road weekly to watch grassroots, area-wide campaign to save the Wilcox the sunset. But Wilcox was zoned “residential”; the Property was launched, with the consent of developnew owners had a legal right to build. ers Wayne Siemens and Dave Grootenhuis, to try to Sue vowed to fight. In 1987, she was almost 70 and buy the property for the community. Two years later, long retired. She was near the age Pearl Chase had when civic leaders gathered at Wilcox to dedicate the been in a long-ago anti-high-rise referendum cam- Douglas Family Preserve, Sue had been transformed paign. Where Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden from a Doña Quixote of lost causes to a Local Hero. sits today, an 8- to 10-story apartment building was Sue wasn’t always easy to work with — and neither approved in 1968 after a long, contentious debate. was Pearl Chase. She didn’t always level with allies, Pearl Chase knew a successful referendum wouldn’t elected officials, civil servants, or reporters trying to be easy. She mobilized Pearl’s Girls, including Sue, help her, and it might have been serendipity—and whose phone rang that week, asking for her help in a swath of people and policies—that made Wilcox/ alerting the community. Douglas happen. But in the end, Sue was the “mother Sue later became treasurer and president of the of the Wilcox Property.” When she died on May 27 at Community Arts Association’s Plans and Planting age 97, one of the last of Pearl’s Girls, she died content. Committee, Pearl Chase’s organization. Her training n

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espite having just earned their sixth National Baseball Congress World Series National Championship [independent.com/foresters6], the Santa Barbara Foresters have no place to play in town. From 1961-1972, I was superintendent of the city recreation department and witnessed the loss of the aging Laguna Park—home to the Foresters and the Dodgers’ farm team, and also very important to the rec department’s youth baseball programs. When City College expanded in 1962, Pershing Park’s grandstands and men’s and women’s softball field complex were lost in exchange for a baseball diamond. Part of the statements at the time indicated a softball complex would be built later at Las Positas Park. Some 46 years later, all we have are memories, due to the City Council’s failed promises. Las Positas Park (now Elings Park) has the space to develop a ball park; however, it would take time and funding. A quicker path would be to simply upgrade the baseball diamond and restore the grandstands and lights at the city-owned Pershing Park, thereby utilizing the Joint Use Agreement between the city and City College. Not only would baseball return to Santa Barbara, benefiting the local youth baseball program and adult men’s baseball program, but the Santa Barbara Forest—Bill Bertka, S.B. ers could finally come home.

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was recently in Isla Vista to listen to residents’ concerns, and I ran into a team from Isla Vista’s Foot Patrol. It was an iconic moment, unique to our area, a police officer from the University of California and a deputy sheriff from the County of Santa Barbara, patrolling together and, of course, on foot. It was a quiet morning, and the officers had a few minutes to chat—police shootings, local crime, Deltopia, Halloween. The conversation was striking in that, though separated by very few years of age, the officers spoke of the students as if they were their own kids, maybe more like their younger siblings. They obviously cared. A lot.

We also talked about their lives and their unique challenges: mandatory overtime, the background threat of random violence, and the uncertainty of whatever that “next call” might bring. Our conversation ended with a radio call that sent them sprinting down the street. We have extraordinarily high expectations of our officers, to know exactly how to respond to every difficult and chaotic situation. And they should have high expectations of us … in terms of our willingness to fund the best possible training and equipment, hire and retain the best possible people to be their partners, and to have their backs when they have labored mightily but not quite achieved the level of perfection that we demand. We expect the best of our officers, and we in turn should give them ours. —Bruce Porter, Santa Ynez

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today it never rises on the Las Cumbres Observatory.“We keep you in the dark,” its founder Wayne Rosing is fond of saying. Rosing, a godfather of early computing, who made a fortune at Apple and Google, was always an admitted space junkie. He had long puzzled over a major dilemma facing astronomers studying the cosmos: Telescopes, no matter how large, could only view a narrow, stationary window into the universe. As the Earth turned and clouds drifted, the night sky disappeared. In the early 1980s, Rosing began to envision a connected network of telescopes, even relatively small ones, which would allow for 24-hour examination of the stars. This would be a critical tool to study fast-moving and one-time events such as an asteroid whizzing past Earth or a supernova exploding thousands of light-years away. But back then, the technology didn’t exist for such an expansive undertaking; the Internet as we know it was still a decade away. By 2005, the world of technology had caught up with Rosing’s dream. He was living in Montecito, so he decided to start Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) in a Goleta office park, next to UCSB and its world-class science departments. It was not hard to find young engineers and astronomers hungry to innovate. Nine years and more than $100 million later, the LCO network sprang to life. Today, LCO has 18 telescopes strung across the globe in Chile, Australia, South Africa, Maui, Texas, and the Canary Islands, streaming oceans of invaluable images and data through its open-source network to scientists from China to Israel. Even schoolkids in Goleta and London can train

LCO’s lenses on glittering galaxies for their science fair projects. Until recently, few people outside the insular ranks of professional astronomy had heard of LCO. That was by design. Their scientists and engineers worked quietly in the Cortona Drive offices, creating this vast, revolutionary project. Slowly, during the last year, the observatory has been introducing itself to Santa Barbara and the rest of the world. Through public talks and kids’ camps, its scientists are explaining how and why LCO became the leader in what’s known as “time domain” astronomy, and what implications that will have for underby standing our place in the stars. tyler HayDen It turns out LCO employees are a gregarious lot who take honest joy photos by in talking to laypeople about the uniPaul wellman verse. And their efforts come at a fortuitous time, when the public’s interest in space has been piqued by a number of astonishing discoveries —stars ripped apart by black holes, dark energy stretching the universe beyond what we thought possible, and, most amazingly, the detection of a planet in our galactic backyard that might support life. LCO has played a part in it all.

From Dusk ’til Dawn “In the early days, we were in the building constantly,” remembered operations manager Annie Hjelstrom. “We were all young and single. We had nothing else to do, and we were really excited about what we were working on.” Hjelstrom majored in aerospace engineering and minored in astrophysics, an area of science typically dominated by men. After graduation, she joined the Peace Corps

in the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu, teaching students car mechanics where there are no cars, and how to work a computer that was being powered by a generator. While deciding what to do next, Hjelstrom came across an LCO internship on Craigslist. Like many of her colleagues, Hjelstrom didn’t have any telescope experience when Rosing hired her.“Maybe he wanted us to approach the project with fresh eyes,” she said. Long gone are the days of Galileo, when astronomers peered through one end of a telescope and found planets out the other. Today most telescopes are robotic with imaging sensors, similar to a digital camera. LCO started with a commercial-brand frame and then engineered its own internal components. Beginning with 0.4-meter telescopes, the staff tested early creations in their parking lot, where they battled South Coast fog and light pollution. Once they had the 0.4-meter dialed in, they upsized the process to 1 meter and 2 meters, now their largest telescopes. A telescope’s size refers to the diameter of its primary mirror.“Imagine the mirror is like a bucket,” explained Hjelstrom. “The bigger the bucket, the more light you can catch, and the fainter the objects you can see.” Compared to other professional telescopes, 2 meters is on the smaller end. For example, UCSB Chancellor Henry T.Yang is part of an effort to build a 30-meter monster in Hawai‘i. “But what we can’t accomplish in size we’re attacking with the network and sheer numbers,” said Hjelstrom. Hjelstrom has overseen many of LCO’s telescope installations, including those in Texas, Chile, and South Africa. Now she and her team are figuring out how to move two 1-meter units to a Tibet mountain. It won’t be easy. The site is 17,000 feet high and is -20 degrees in the winter. Their goal is to have the telescopes up and running by next summer. Then, they plan to deploy two more to the Canary Islands and another to Texas in order to fill out the network’s remaining blind spots, all in the Northern Hemisphere. The system then will

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it is. That’s where LCO comes in, as the observatory is able to continually collect new, better data, from multiple supernovae without any downtime. Supernovae happen quickly.“The star is blowing up in the time it takes you to sneeze,” explained Howell. The stuff that’s ejected moves at 30,000 kilometers a second, forcing the LCO network to adjust rapidly when one of these colorful galactic bombs goes off.“I’ve gotten an alert at dinner that we need observations right now, and I’m like, okay, here we go.” Howell heads a group of 100 fast-response collaborators across the planet. They call themselves the Supernova Key Project, and their goal is to track 500 supernovae over three years. LCO also observes elusive tidal disruption events, when a star is torn apart by a black hole. One of LCO’s postdocs recently discovered an easier way of finding these colossal tugof-wars — he found they tend to happen in an unusual type of galaxy with both old and young stars. “We’re really leading the world in this kind of research,” Howell said.

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In February 2013, before LCO was online, a 20-meter meteor blew up over a small Siberian town, at a force 30 times greater than the Hiroshima nuke. It shattered windows for miles and sent 1,500 people to the hospital. “No one saw it coming,” recalled LCO’s Tim Lister, who leads LCO’s Solar System Group. Astronomers were focused on a larger meteor careening within 17,500 miles of Earth — a hair’s width in space terms. It was a stunning reminder of what could—and has—happened. Every night, search teams around the world survey the sky with widefield cameras, looking for new asteroids and comets called Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). They always find a few hundred. Most are too small or too far away to be of any interest. Others are stuck in orbit in our solar system’s asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But those that will come within 1.3 AU of Earth are measured and logged. (AU stands for astronomical unit, or 149.6 million kilometers, the distance from the Earth to the sun.) The searchers then turn over the information to LCO scientists, who assume a central role in tracking these NEOs, in collaboration with NASA and other observatories. In all, 14,642 Near-Earth Objects have been discovered as of August 10; 1,720 have been classified as “Potentially Hazardous Asteroids,” meaning they’ll pass Earth within 0.05 AUs. Lister noted how in 1908, a small asteroid slammed into Siberia, rather than exploding above it. The impact leveled 1,000 square miles, wiping out 80 million trees. Sixty-five million years ago, a bigger rock took out the dinosaurs. Lister, hardly an alarmist, explained that most NEOs have less than one in a million chance of hitting Earth. Still, NASA has its own Planetary Defense Coordination Office to warn the public of any threats, and it’s grateful of LCO’s eyes on the sky. “They’re a very productive group,” said Dr. Lindley Johnson with Planetary Defense. “And we certainly appreciate their help.” Asteroids and comets aren’t just potential death dealers — they also offer remarkable insight into solar system evolution.“Asteroids are what’s leftover when you’re done making planets,” Lister said.“They allow you to see what was happening during those early stages of formation.” Comets

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delivered a lot of Earth’s water in its early history and have been shown to contain the very building blocks of life. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft detected organic materials in an icy comet skirting Jupiter for the first time this May. LCO is able to supplement such findings with its own research. LCO is also uniquely set up to use “gravitational microlensing” to discover planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. Rachel Street heads up that crew. Very basically, Street explained, a microlensing event is when a planet moves between Earth and a background star. This subtly bends and magnifies the star’s light. Scientists can measure that blip to find cold, remote planets that would otherwise be impossible to spot. They’re the loners of the universe, but they may help explain how worlds form and interact with one another. The overlap happens briefly and only once, so Street and her team are always on their toes. Like Howell, she often receives sudden notices that require immediate attention. LCO pinpoints around 2,000 microlensing events a year and then homes in on 10-15 planets for further study. Street recently coordinated with NASA’s Kepler mission to peer into the bulge of our galaxy. LCO was one of just a few organizations selected to participate in the landmark study, where hundreds of new exoplanets were discovered. Street, who was raised in the U.K., had her interest in astronomy sparked when, as a child, she and her father would stand in their backyard and gaze up at the stars. Now Street takes great pride in LCO’s ability to connect with people new to astronomy. She works closely with her UCSB

interns.“It’s a way of getting them into technical STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) that they maybe wouldn’t have considered.”

be curious It’s Edward Gomez’s job at LCO to show kids and adults that astronomy isn’t impossible. As LCO’s education czar, he works to engage the public in tangible and meaningful ways. “People want to participate in science,” he said. “The idea that they can contribute to scientific discovery—that’s a very powerful thing.” Recently, Gomez created a program to track two different asteroids; participants’ observations factored directly into LCO’s final findings. Gomez also just organized Camp Cosmos, where 60 kids aged 7-12 — half of them Santa Barbara Boys & Girls Club members—spent a week at LCO. They built robots and watched the scientists in action. At the end of the sessions, they hiked up to Sedgwick Reserve’s telescope to gaze at Saturn. The kids shrieked with excitement when they realized they could clearly see the gas giant’s luminous rings and glowing moons. “It was a phenomenal experience,” said Gomez. Gomez, who lives in Wales but travels to Goleta a few times a year, admitted he’s had better luck connecting with educators in England and Australia than their U.S. counterparts. “Maybe they’re a bit intimidated,” he theorized. Goleta Valley High School has, however, tapped into the network for local and state science fairs. Other young students across the globe regularly post (and boast) online images of nebulas, quasars, and other celestial bodies they captured with LCO’s telescopes. With additional funding, Gomez said, he hopes to expand LCO’s education arm, a small but central component of the organization since its inception. “Our overriding ambition is to make everyone realize they are a scientist,” he said. “The basis of science is just asking questions.” Elementary students are great at that. It’s as we get older that our curiosity fades. But, Gomez noted, it doesn’t take much to rekindle that wonderment.

A lot of wonderment ignited this week when, on August 24, LCO astronomers and an international team of scientists made a showstopper of an announcement about the search for life outside our solar system — a rocky planet, slightly larger than Earth, was found orbiting the nearest star to our sun. The newly discovered world, named Proxima b, lies within the so-called “Goldilocks zone” of its star, meaning it’s neither too hot nor too cold to support liquid water. That means it could be similar to Earth in other crucial ways, and be home to some form of Proximese alien. “Finding that our neighboring star system has a planet in the habitable zone really opens a new phase in planetary science,” said Street. “The dream of directly exploring an exoplanet has suddenly become tangible.”

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Journey, Dave Mason Giving everyone a reason to believe to this very day, Journey continues their saga as one

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thurSday 9/1 9/1: Eminence Ensemble with The Hypno Rings & Savage Henry Prog rockers Eminence Ensemble will rumble down from their Colorado Rockies home to S.B. with two homegrown acts from Isla Vista, jazz-funk fusion group The Hypno Rings and riff-heavy funkers Savage Henry. 7pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $10. Ages 21+. Call 965-8676.

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improve the lives of animals. There will be a Q&A with guest speakers as well as vegan appetizers and beverages. All proceeds will benefit animal rescue and protection programs. Appetizers: 5pm; screenings: 6:30pm. The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria St. $30-$50. Call 965-5400. Read more on p. 41.

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9/1: Animal Film Festival on Tour Hosted by animal welfare advocacy nonprofit Davey’s Voice, the Animal Film Festival aims to inspire filmgoers to become active in improving the lives of animals. These films explore aspects of animal welfare, animal rights, the human-animal bond, and programs demonstrating ways to

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when film producer David O. Selznick pulls director Victor Fleming off The Wizard of Oz and sends for Ben Hecht, “the Shakespeare of Hollywood,” to create a new screenplay for Gone with the Wind Wind, which has already started filming. Watch these three men work on the creation of one of the most enduring films of all time. The show runs through September 18. Thu.-Fri.: 8pm; Sat.: 7pm; Sun: 2pm; Wed.: 2 and 7pm. Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura. $20-$95. Call 667-2900. rubicontheatre.org

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Christian Love (son of The Beach Boys’ Mike Love) has had several bands in his musical career, toured with the Beach Boys, and opened up for Matchbox Twenty and David Wakeling of The English Beat, and he will play original music for his hometown on this night with his band. SoCal’s pop-rock singer/

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9/2: Party in Your Pajamas! Kids Night Out Let your kids get creative with games, movies, and art projects galore at this party where pj’s are mandatory and so is the fun! Dinner and healthy snacks are included. 6-9:30pm. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $25-$30. Ages 3+. Call 884-0459 x16. exploreecology.org

9/2: Crafternoon Make something different every week! All materials are supplied for this creative and crafty drop-in session with written and visual instructions. Younger crafters may want to bring an older person to work with. Bring your friends and your imaginations every Friday! Noon-4:30pm. Library Patio, Solvang Library, 1745 Mission Dr., Solvang. Free. Grades 4+. Call 688-4214.

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9/4-9/5, 9/7: James Joyce Karaoke You know you you’ve been wanting to try this. Take the stage already, try it out, and sing like the star you know you are. 9pm1am. The James Joyce, 513 State St. Free. Call 962-2688.

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9/3: Kap Slap You will not have felt this good until after you dance to L.A.’s Kap Slap, whose dance tracks meld influences like trance synths and dubstep screws and chops. 8pm. Tonic Nightclub, 634 State St. $10-$15. Ages 21+. Call 897-1800. tonicsb.com

Sunday 9/4 9/4: The Zombies Although the original incarnation of The Zombies disbanded in 1967, this current lineup led by founding members Colin Blunstone (vocals) and Rod Argent (keyboards) still play the hits including “She’s Not There,” “Tell Her No,” and “Time of the Season,” as well as new music from their latest album, Still Got That Hunger. 6pm. Libbey Bowl, 210 S. Signal St., Ojai. $20-$78. Ages under 18 must be accompanied by a paying adult. Call (888) 645-5006. Read more on p. 44. libbeybowl.org

9/4: Sunday Polo Tournament: Harry East Memorial Final Wear your best polo attire, complete with a large hat, for an afternoon of adrenaline-pumping action. Your gen-

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Riverbench S.B. as they open their exclusive, limited-quantity wines in honor of all your hard work on this national holiday. Each glass of the 2010 and 2013 Tributary Pinot Noirs showcases the true essence of Riverbench vineyard. 11am-6pm. Riverbench Winery, 137 Anacapa St., Ste. C. Free-$20. Call 324-4100.

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9/4: Metalachi You will love this mix of metal and mariachi from this band from Veracruz, Mexico, via Hollywood, California. Metalachi consists of six members who have legendary backgrounds: Vega de la Rockha, Pancho Rockefeller, El Cucuy, Ramon Holiday, Maximilian “Dirty” Sanchez, and Warren Moscow. 8pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $12. Ages 21+. Call 965-8676.

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9/4: Mindfulness Practice Retreat Are you craving a calm mind? Join in this half-day refuge, and open your heart to find peace within yourself and others through gently guided meditations, including metta loving-kindness meditation with Radhule Weininger. Beginners and those with practice are welcome. 2:30-6pm. La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Rd. Donations accepted at the door. Call 969-5031.

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9/4: First Sunday Tea Dance Come listen to a variety of music played by Robert Taylor that will have you dancing traditional ballroom dances such as the cha-cha, fox-trot, waltz, and more at this monthly tradition. Come try your moves on the beau-

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Service The Unity Shoppe presents this celebration to thank everyone who joined in a combined effort to give the community a distribution center for those suffering a personal crisis, fire, or flood and provided services to assist thousands of low-income families, children, the elderly, and the disabled throughout S.B. County. Join Kenny Loggins (pictured), KEYT, the Unity Shoppe Board, and friends for an evening of tributes and entertainment by area youth, volunteers, celebrities, and supporters. 7:30pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $50-$100. Call 899-2222. granadasb.org

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9/1: Family 1st Thursday: Brush Painting and Calligraphy Bring the whole family, and create your own version of a Chinese landscape with calligraphy in ink on brown pulp paper. Museum teaching artists will assist families in creating this special exhibition-based art project that you can hang in your home or room. Afterward, enjoy the galleries until 8 p.m. 5:30pm. Family Resource Ctr., S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 963-4364. sbma.net

9/1: Opening Reception: 2nd Annual See International Fundraiser Please join the Abstract Art Collective (AAC) and See International for an exhibition featuring a Grid Wall consisting of 100, 10”x10” panels of original art donated by AAC members, plus a juried exhibition of larger works. Proceeds go toward cataract surgery at the See eye expedition clinics worldwide in disadvantaged communities. Enjoy cheese and award-winning wines donated by Windrun Vintners. The exhibit shows through Sept. 29. 5-8pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 770-7711.

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9/1-9/3: Nell Campbell: Images of Cuba Open your eyes to sights seldom seen by Americans in this exhibit by S.B. photographer Nell Campbell, whose beautiful and fascinating images capture life and labor on the island nation. The exhibit shows through September 17. Thu., Sat.: noon-5pm; Fri.: 3-8pm. Jared Dawson Gallery, 4646 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call 318-1066.

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9/1-9/7: S.B. Art Association Exhibit Art at the JCC (Jewish Community Center) presents this 2016 exhibit featuring original works in diverse media by area artists with an opening reception that will have wine, appetizers, and live music by Trudy & Oscar, who will sing Latin, samba, bossa nova, pop, and original songs on guitar. The exhibit shows through November 2. 5-8pm. Bronfman Family Jewish Community Ctr., 524 Chapala St. Free. Call 957-1115.

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9/2-9/7: Goleta Valley Art Association September Art Exhibit You’re invited to see 40 new works of art in watercolor, collage, and oil painting from many award-winning area artists. The exhibit shows through September 28. Thu., Tue.-Wed.: 10am-8pm; Fri.-Sat.: 10am-5:30pm; Sun.: 1-5pm; Mon.: noon-6pm. Community Events Rm., Goleta Library, 500 N. Fairview Ave., Goleta. Free. Call 964-7878.

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9/3: Art From Scrap Workshop: Pirate Treasure Chests Using a huge amount of materials found in the store, artist Beth Amine will guide imaginations from ideas to a finished treasure chest, where the most valued swag and loot can be kept and hidden. 10am-noon. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $8. Children ages 5 and younger must be accompanied by an adult. Call 884-0459 x11.

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9/3: Artist’s Marketplace: First Saturdays This marketplace is a fundraiser for the Arts Center and is an opportunity for member artists to display, demonstrate, and sell their original art, which consists of weaving and fiber arts, jewelry, stained/fused glass, painting, photography, and more. 10am-4pm. Courtyard, Carpinteria Arts Ctr., 855 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call 684-7789.

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9/6: Lompoc Valley Art Association Monthly Meeting Come for a little social time and a general meeting, and then listen to guest speaker and S.B. native Linda Mutti present a program on Pastels Along the California Coast and life as a plein air painter in both pastels and oils. Refreshments will be served. 6:30pm. Stone Pine Hall, 210 S. H St., Lompoc. Free. Call 291-3416. lompocart.com

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9/6: One Hundred Paces, Ben and Ash, Rusty Lindsey The moving and poignant folk-rock of S.B.’s One Hundred Paces has won the appreciation of thousands of listeners ever since the band rose to public fame with an appearance on the soundtrack of MTV’s Teen Mom 2. Openers Rusty Lindsey brings a Smoky Mountains touch to his S.B. songwriting, while Ben and Ash are a singer/songwriter pair who met on State Street. 6:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $8. Call 962-7776.

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WedneSday 9/7 9/7: Eve 6 With their hit “Inside Out” staying on alt-rock and pop-rock radio airwaves since its release in 1998, Eve 6 has lasted as one of the most enduring acts from the 1990s rock scene. 8pm. Velvet Jones, 423 State St. $20-$22. Call 965-8676. velvet-jones.com

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9/3: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Admiral James T. Kirk takes the EnterEnter prise’s helm in an intergalactic showdown to stop his nemesis Khan (Ricardo Montalbán) from using the life-generating Genesis Device as an ultimate weapon. 7pm. Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Ave. $7. Rated PG. Call 684-6380.

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9/3: Close Encounters of the Third Kind After Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) has an extraordinary encounter with a strange spacecraft, he is driven to an emotional breaking point that culminates in a quest to Devil’s Tower monument in Wyoming. 7:30pm. Libbey Bowl, 215 S. Signal St., Ojai. $8-$12. Rated PG. Call 646-8946.

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9/3: Enchanted Follow the beautiful princess Giselle (Amy Adams) from musical animated land to the real gritty reality of modern-day Manhattan, where she finds true love with a divorce lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy-tale prince (James Marsden), who comes to find her. 8:30pm. Anisq’Oyo’ Park, Embarcadero del Mar and Madrid Rd., Isla Vista. Free. Rated PG. Call 966-3652.

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9/7: Astronomy on Tap Come hear a short but fascinating public astronomy talk from Rachel Street on bending light to find new worlds, and one from Griffin Hosseinzadeh on catching supernovae. Have an adult beverage, talk about astronomy in the news, and maybe win a prize! 7:30pm. M8RX Nightclub & Lounge, 409 State St. Free. Ages 21+.

tinyurl.com/AstronomyOnTap7Sep16 9/7: Greg Gorga: Tragedy at Honda Greg Gorga, executive director of the S.B. Maritime Museum, will talk about the Honda tragedy, which took place in 1923 off the coast of what is today Vandenberg Air Force Base and is still considered the largest naval disaster in U.S. Navy history. He will also discuss the numerous factors which led to the loss of seven naval destroyers in less than five minutes. 6pm. Community Hall, Montecito Library, 1469 E. Valley Rd., Montecito. Free. Call 969-5063. sbplibrary.org

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At the start of every harvest since 2008, vintners Louis Lucas (second from right) and Royce Lewellen (third from left) host an annual blessing of the grapes, which this year was on August 25 and featured pinot grigio grapes from Goodchild Vineyard on Foxen Canyon Road. Father John Finley (far right), who does missionary work for the Orthodox Church, had been a member of the Lucas & Lewellen Vineyards’ wine club since 2005. “When they found out I was a priest, they said, ‘We ought to have our grapes blessed,’ ” recalled Finley. “They asked if I do that, and I said, ‘Yes.’ I’ve been doing it ever since.”

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f you care about changing the lot of the less fortunate as much as you care about fitness, then the Yogi Movement is for you. The brainchild of Linda Sturesson, Marta Waldrop-Bergman, and Isa Olai, who are all Antioch University students from Sweden, the socially aware yoga class pops up in different Santa Barbara locations every month, and any donations made by attendees go toward creating educational opportunities for orphan girls TWISTED ACTIVISM: From left, Yogi Movement’s cofounders Marta in India. Waldrop Bergman and Isa Oestman Olai (in backbend) pose with social “We’re trying to attract people who like media coordinator Camilla Yahyaoui and public relations officer Linda to do something healthy and at the same Sturesson. time help a good cause,” said Sturesson. “We’re all feminists, and that’s why we’re focusing on girls in India. When girls are educated, house, my muscles were supple, and my mind was they’re not obligated to get married to take care of soothed. The Upa-based regimen was enhanced by themselves, and by opting to become career women, the scent of jasmine incense and the soft strains of the country’s GNI [gross national income] rises. live, electronic ukulele. Best of all, the meditation Everybody wins. In collaboration with nonprofit period allowed me time to contemplate the truth in organization Commit to Change, we make a differ- the trio’s simple but heartfelt motto: “Do good, and ence in the world and help you beat the high cost of feel good.” — Karen Robiscoe expensive yoga studios, too.” That’s a transcendental experience any way you Yogi Movement’s next pop-up is Wednesday, September downward dog it. After attending their most recent 14, and the suggested donation to participate is $5-$10. class, staged on the sand in front of Cabrillo Bath- See facebook.com/yogimovement.

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Going into the 1970 Alabama game, Cunningham said,“I was nervous. I didn’t want to make a dumb mistake.” He was the second-string fullback behind Charlie Evans, but coach John McKay sent him onto the field in the first quarter, and the result was described by the title of a book published in 2006: Turning of the Tide. “The book told the civil-rights thing,” Cunningham said, but after he’d grown up in racial harmony in Santa Barbara, the monochromatic faces on the other side of the line in Birmingham did not register with him. “I was glad I got a chance to play,” he said. “Line up and play football with intensity, and what will be will be. We were bigger, stronger, and faster. I think Bear Bryant knew he was going to get beat, but he didn’t know he was going to get beat like that.” In retrospect, the 66-year-old Inglewood resident said, “Everybody understands what’s happened to football in the South. I tell my nephew he can go to any school because of that. I’m proud to be part of it.” After participating in pregame activities Saturday, Cunningham said, “I’ll go up in the stands and root hard for the Trojans.” Alabama, which for many years now has been playing with a full deck, will not be overpowered this time.

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RUNNING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: Sam Cunningham (39) charges through the Alabama line during the historic 1970 football game. He’ll be USC’s honorary captain on Saturday when the Trojans take on the Crimson Tide, ranked number one.

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hen I first got into Santa Barbara He had “no desire to leave Bruno and Kris,” but wines about 15 years ago, a chance couldn’t help responding to a blind job posting out visit to Koehler Winery led me to of curiosity. Peter Koehler really liked the honesty sign up for its wine club, no doubt of his cover letter, in which Murphy explained to get some deal on what I was buying that day. that his “prime directive is to make the best wine I can’t remember if that was first of what would possible. We can get wrapped up in dogma and eventually be many club memprinciples, but the goal should be to make world-class wine,” berships, but I do know that it he explained. Four hours later, was the first one I quit. Even as he had a new job. a fledgling connoisseur, I could Murphy hit it off with Vinetell the wines weren’t great; nor yard Manager Felipe Hernanwas there much of a backstory aims to liFt the historiC dez, who helped plant the propto share while drinking them. The brand just didn’t buzz. erty’s earliest grapes in 1972, los olivos estate That’s all starting to change when it was owned by Love for this Foxen Canyon Road Boat producer Doug Cramer. by Matt KettMann estate thanks to the July 2014 Koehler, originally from Gerhiring of winemaker Colin many and wealthy from selling Murphy, who’s improving quality and reinvigo- automobile parts, took over the property and its rating the four-decade-old, 64-acre vineyard. “To beautiful contemporary Mediterranean mansion, be a player today, you have to be solid across the complete with stark white pool statuary, in 1996. Since being hired, Murphy has embraced board,” Murphy told me as we drove through the vineyard a few months ago.“You can’t just be good Koehler’s old vines, including riesling, sauvignon at one pinot.” blanc, and cabernet sauvignon. “This is the old Originally from Vacaville, which is near Travis California cab, not those bigger styles,” said MurAir Force Base, where his dad was stationed, and phy, who, along with Hernandez, is trying to save “a stone’s throw from the Silverado Trail” in Napa, these aging vines with inventive pruning techMurphy, like many vintners-to-be, recalled wine niques. For the blocks whose age is limiting yields, always being on the dinner table as a kid. “It was they are interplanting with new cuttings, all to save jug wine for sure, but it was still wine,” laughed the character and magic of those older vines.“The Murphy, who graduated in 1994 from UCSB with vineyard is a treasure,” said Murphy.“We don’t want a film studies degree. But rather than play the Hol- to start yanking stuff out.” lywood game like his classmates, he got a job at a He’s still overseeing quite a slew of reds and tasting room on Stearns Wharf and was quickly in whites—12 different wines overall, from Rhône the cellar, working in the trenches for Santa Ynez and Super Tuscan blends to sangiovese, syrah, cab, Winery and J. Carey (both long gone) and then and pinot to chardonnay, sauv blanc, and riesling— Foley, Lincourt, and Bedford Thompson. In and sees lots of potential growth for grenache blanc and their rosé, “which we cannot 2010, he started helping living legends Kris Curran and Bruno D’Alfonso seem to make enough of.” on their labels.“I’ve been fortunate, With his 21st harvest imminent, over 20 years now, to have great Murphy remains excited and anx5360 Foxen Canyon Rd., ious as usual. “I’m always more at mentors,” said Murphy. “Getting Los Olivos; to work with Bruno was just ease once it starts,” he told me last koehlerwinery.com awesome. He told me, ‘You get week. “It’s just me and 110 tons. I to learn from all the mistakes I’ve suppose it doesn’t get more handsn made.’” on than that.”

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1117 State Street, 805-284-0078 · One of the world’s foremost documentary photographers, Colin Finlay, captures images of conflict, famine, genocide, and environmental devastation that have appeared in TIME, Vanity Fair, Wired, U.S. News and World Report, and Los Angeles Times Magazine. D

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1021 Chapala Street, 805-899-8820 · Featuring the art of Matt Rodriguez, showcasing a selection of mixed media pieces using both oil and acrylic paint. SANTA BARBARA COMMUNITY BANK

21 East Carrillo Street, 805-965-8343 · Santa Barbara Community Bank is honored to present a selection of paintings by the community’s finest artists in collaboration with Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery. Our historic adobe building and patio create a beautiful setting for fine art, enjoy strumming guitarist Al Vafa, appetizers & libations. F

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23 East Canon Perdido Street, 805-965-6448 · “Fahrenheit 93101: Santa Barbara Artists Respond to Climate Change.” Join artists and the VOICE Team for a reception and talk about what more than 65 percent of the country thinks is important - Climate Change. Discover how artists are acting locally and thinking globally. Live music and refreshments. G

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902 Laguna Street, 805-961-9200 · Discover PathPoint: a local nonprofit, based in Santa Barbara serving five counties. PathPoint empowers individuSPONSORS

WWW.D O W N T O W N S B . O R G als with disabilities to live and work as valued members of our community. SEPTEMBER Join us for a night of wine, cheese, guest speakers and a beautiful art display inspired by the work of our participants. 1st THURSDAY PARTNERS H

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711 Chapala Street, 805-453-5954 · “South Swell” is a group show highlighting the works of local photographers Will Adler, Morgan Maassen, Andrew Schoener, and Tosh Clements. Their visceral love for the ocean and its culture runs deep through their veins, and can be seen on exhibit at Breakfast Culture Club. MENTAL WELLNESS CENTER

617 Garden Street, 805-884-8440 · The Mental Wellness Center serves youth, adults and the families of the Santa Barbara community affected by mental illness. Join us for live music, local art, appetizers and the opportunity to learn about the MWC. J

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20 East Cota Street, 805-899-4694 · Nectar is proud to present Lucinda Rae’s art. Her art activates beauty to reveal moments of truth. Her focus is from the visions she receives as expressions in the faces of the holy feminine and the realms of the divine. 524 Chapala Street, 805-957-1115 · Art of a variety of subjects in diverse media by some of Santa Barbara Art Association’s 550 members were juried into this show by Nathan Vonk. Reception will have live music and wine.

ART CRAWL 735 Anacapa Street · The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, in partnership with Downtown Santa Barbara, will lead a curated Art Crawl through 1st Thursday festivities. The Art Crawl starts at 5:30 pm in de la Guerra Plaza on the back steps of City Hall (735 Anacapa Street, then head around to the back). 1ST THURSDAY PERFORMERS HEADSHINE · 900 State Street, Marshalls Patio, 5:00-8:00 pm · Headshine realizes their dreams with chill, acoustic Cali rock. With a touch of reggae and California sunshine, the Huntington Beach singer/songwriter has cultivated a surfer/acoustic sound called Headshine; and it’s what happens when something comes alive inside and begins to radiate. RHYAN AND ZEYN SHWEYK · Paseo Nuevo Center Court, 5:00-7:00 pm · Rhyan and Zeyn Shweyk, 11 and 12, have been playing classical piano since 5, composing since 8, and recently teaching music to youngsters of all ages. They aspire to introduce children, and attract more adults, to classical music, and to work together as a neurologist and a cardiologist to somehow better heal and cure using music. 1ST THURSDAY: AFTER HOURS

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33 EAST CANON PERDIDO STREET, 805-966-4946 · DANCEworks is kicking

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was struck by how it’s both refined and raw. I immediately said,‘I need Glass Menagerie take place? to do this at some point.’” As trivia questions go, that would seem to be an easy What did he see in the mateone: the squalid, Depression-era St. rial that he missed the first time Louis apartment of Amanda Wingaround? “It’s full of both brash American optimism and brash field and her two grown children, restless aspiring writer Tom and cruelty,” he said. “This is a crueler emotionally stunted Laura. play than Julius Caesar. CharacBut that’s in fact wrong. It actuters engage in complete and utter ally takes place inside Tom’s head, as betrayal.” he recalls — perhaps accurately, perHis staging will be “very minihaps not— not the evening that forever mal. There’s not a lot of stuff on the changed his life and that of his sister stage. The actors are kind of bare and mother. and exposed. The characters are Tennessee Williams’s semi-autoall fragile. They’re all breakable.” At least, that’s how Tom sees them.“As biographical drama is widely cona memory play, it’s difficult to tease sidered one of the greatest American out what is the reality and what is plays and remains one of the most widely produced. (PCPA staged it [emerging from] Tom’s imaginaearlier this year.) But even if you’re tion,” Blondell said. “This is from TOM REMEMBERS MAMA: (From left) Paige Taut, Victoria Finlayson, familiar with the material, it’s easy Tom’s perspective. It’s his version of and Stan Hoffman star as the Wingfields in Lit Moon’s memoryto forget the fact that it is — as Tom the story. The audience must then oriented production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. explicitly states — a “memory play.” decide whether he’s a reliable narrator or not.” In most stagings, no strong disBlondell said. “His character has to live with tinction is made between the Tom who So the focus will shift as the story unfolds, interacts with his mother and sister and the the painful knowledge” of his own destruc- reflecting the way some memories are vivid Tom who occasionally steps out of the story tive behavior, which still haunts him decades (if not necessarily accurate) while others to comment on the action. In both the past later. are hazy in our minds. Music will be way in and present, he’s almost always a young man As area theater audiences know, Blondell the background, barely audible, but adding in his twenties. The scenes he is recalling are has been taking a fresh approach to famil- to the emotional texture. “We are trying to fresh in his mind, since not that much time iar material for more than two decades (Lit make certain moments explode with a cerhas passed. Moon will celebrate its 25th anniversary tain vehemence,” Blondell said.“We’re letting As is his wont, John Blondell, artistic this year). While he has staged many clas- the vitriol rip. This material is both refined director of the Lit Moon Theatre Company, sic dramas — he will oversee an ambitious and raw.” Not to mention memorable. is taking a different approach. When he pre- Shakespeare Festival in November, with sevmieres his production of The Glass Menag Menag- eral companies performing in various Santa —Tom Jacobs erie this weekend at Westmont College, Tom Barbara venues — this will be his first time The Glass Menagerie plays will be played by Stan Hoffman — a man in tackling Tennessee Williams. Friday-Saturday, September “For years, I did not like this play at all,” his seventies. 2-3, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, September 4, at The clear implication is that, this time he admitted. “I thought it was dated. Then 4 p.m. in Porter Theatre at Westmont College around, Tom is reaching way back in time, about two years ago, I taught it in my Greater (955 La Paz Rd.). For ticket information, call recalling events that happened 40 or 50 years Literature of the Stage class [at Westmont, 565-7140 or see litmoontheatre.com. earlier. “For him, memory is a real burden,” where he heads the theater department]. I

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Still Got that hunGer The Zombies return with a brainy new release — only their sixth studio album in 50 years! Colin Blunstone remains one of the most richly vibrant pop-rock vocalists of all time, and chief songwriter/co-vocalist/organist Rod Argent brings the trademark Zombies sound — aided considerably by Kinks and Argent bassist Jim Rodford, Jim’s son Steve Rodford on drums, and guitarist Tom Toomey. Among the best tunes are the soulful “Moving On,” the radiant remake of the band’s ’60s hit “I Want You Back Again,” the Steely Dan–esque “And We Were Young Again,” and the Beatles-referencing “Lady Madonna” sound-a-like “Maybe Tomorrow.” Also cool, the album cover was painted by Terry Quirk, who likewise did the trippy art for the classic Odessey and Oracle record. The Zombies play Ojai’s Libbey Bowl on Sunday, September 4. For The Indy Indy’s interview with Blunstone, see page 44. —Sean Mageean

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Death Grips is back from its self-imposed early retirement with Bottomless Pit Pit, an announcement they made two years ago that was met with a mixture of skepticism, disappointment, and confusion — especially since the three-musician team of rapper MC Ride, drummer/producer Zach Hill, and coproducer Andy Morin have continued to put out albums and tour since that fateful and empty declaration. Bottomless Pit blasts into existence with the furious punk guitar glory of “Giving Bad People Good Ideas,” courtesy of Tera Melos guitarist Nick Reinhart. The energy of the album is frenetic throughout, but it tones down in tracks such as “Warping,” an ode to the lifelong shifting of personality and perspective, and “Eh,” a disarmingly vulnerable track where MC Ride digresses on self-esteem problems, his larger-than-life persona, and disdain for society at large often overshadows. The punk energy at the album’s start returns for the triumphant final track, “Bottomless Pit,” culminating another wild, fever-dream ride of a Death Grips album. — Kyle Roe

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film fest In 2014, the FBI added animal cruelty to its National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), effectively making it a felony to abuse pets and livestock. Santa Barbara had its own experience with devastating animal cruelty when Davey, a 5-month-old miniature pinscher, had to be euthanized after being viciously tortured by his human owner. It was a shocking case of sadism, yet the perpetrator only served six months in jail. From the unspeakable tragedy, however, came the nonprofit Davey’s Voice (daveysvoice.org). Formed in 2015 by Gretchen Lieff, the group was founded to “educate the community so another animal does not have to suffer as Davey did,” among other things, according to its website. One way the organization is doing that is by hosting the Animal Film Festival On Tour, started four years ago by Grass Valley’s Center for Animal Protection & Education (CAPE). The cinematic lineup includes films that “explore aspects of animal welfare, animal rights, the human-animal bond, and programs demonstrating ways to improve the lives of animals,” said Lieff. Attendees will see David and Goliath, about a Jew who befriends a German shepherd while hiding from the Nazis; You’ve Got a Friend in Me Me, the story of a young man and his friend, a turkey (pictured above); The Ethics of Diet Diet, a one-minute animated film about the effects of food choices; a spay and neuter PSA PSA, showing a 1950s housewife who realizes the importance of spaying and neutering; Finding Shelter Shelter, which follows a British family that moves to a small town in Bulgaria and ends up opening a dog shelter; and the Davey’s Voice film, showing the 2014 march to the Courthouse in memory of Davey. In addition to the viewing selections, there will be a Q&A with David and Goliath director George Zaverdas, a recognition ceremony for individuals involved in bringing about justice in animal abuse cases and animal welfare legislation, and vegan cuisine and wine. The festival takes place Thursday, September 1, 5-8 p.m., at the New Vic (33 W. Victoria St.). All proceeds will benefit CAPE and Davey’s Voice. Tickets are $30-$50; see daveysvoice.org or animalfilmfestival .org. — Michelle Drown

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oldface names and high taste unify the Women Sculptors, currently on view at Westmont’s RidleyTree Museum of Art. Inspired by Revolution in the Making, a major show of abstract sculpture by women currently on display at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in Los Angeles, Ridley-Tree director Judy Larson shuffled the museum’s programming to put this selection of works by women from its permanent collection on display. Through the generosity of the Dewayne and Faith Perry Print Acquisition Fund and a couple of key outside loans, Larson has conSHOW ME THE BUNNY: Kiki Smith’s “Kneeling Woman with Rabbit” is textualized the signifione of the highlights in the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum’s show of cant collection of threeWomen Sculptors. dimensional work by women in the museum’s already-impressive permanent collection subservient to the works’ haphazard structure; with some excellent works on paper. As a the artist seemingly unfazed by notions of the result, the walls of the show are punctuated medium’s normal trajectory. by prints from such well-known sculptors Rounding out the show’s contemporary as Louise Bourgeois and Lee Bontecou. edge, Lynn Aldrich’s “Primary Virtues: Faith, A plasticine pipeline balanced delicately Hope and Love” (1989), embodies a late-20thatop jagged-topped glass jars slashes through century affinity for the conceptual using a the museum’s main gallery, a conduit seem- rebus format of layered crutches, endless ingly destined to rupture. This signature velvet hearts, and illicit, airtight packets. One piece of the show is “Untitled” (1989) by the can imagine the artist’s cathartic expression German artist Asta Gröting. Stylistically, it of feminine strength rebounding in unison is the show’s most severe work and supports with her personal life. The aesthetic outcome the notion that the modern experience of is graceful — a girlish counterweight to “women sculptors” is decidedly art first and Gröting’s genderless severity, and a definite gender roles second. Seen here in Santa Bar- highlight of the show. bara, Gröting’s work bears an eerily prophetic In terms of dealing with the female experelation to last year’s Refugio Oil Spill. rience, there is no single work in the show Exhaling calm among the ramped-up more poignant than Kiki Smith’s mixed conceptual pieces, a cluster of five stoneware ink-and-etchings piece, “Kneeling Woman works by recently deceased sculptor Karen with Rabbit” (2004). The gaze of a stoic rabKarnes allows the viewer to take an honorable bit confronts the viewer from the palms of pause. The works span from 1970-2010, and a woman who appears to be spellbound by the most recent piece, “Two Pieces Joined” the creature, seeking guidance as she kneels (2010), sheds light on gender roles by melt- in a humble, prayer-like position. Layers of ing two small salt and pepper shaker vessels creased Nepalese paper are collaged together into a beautiful balance of masculine and in a way that bring to mind a cognizance of feminine. Even as she turns away from pro- aging and draws attention to the humanity ducing usable ceramics, Karnes adds a note of the individual behind the artwork. As the of artisanal softness to the show as a whole. first generation of liberated females struggles Opposite Karnes, both aesthetically and to reconcile endless professional possibilities spatially, is another ceramic artist and a with the assurances enjoyed by their ancesWestmont favorite, Jenchi Wu, who finds a tors, the piece brings to light a still-taboo home among heroes with her installation unintended consequence of feminism: the “Colony” (2010). Seemingly agnostic toward paradox of choice. Certainly one choice the museum’s interior-exterior boundaries, we can all make is to visit the Ridley-Tree Wu’s pieces can be found throughout the Museum and bear witness to the feats of the campus’s sprawling 110-acre estate. With internationally acclaimed consortium of artunusual bodily forms and unfinished edges, ists on display in Women Sculptors. the artist’s base-like use of ceramics is entirely — Hannah Kymila Johnson independent.com

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hen one thinks of the British Inva- Odessey and Oracle in 1967. The Beatles had sion of the mid-’60s, a handful of just finished recording Sgt. Pepper, and, as truly iconic bands come to mind Blunstone explained: “John Lennon’s Melimmediately —The Beatles, of lotron was in Studio 3, and Rod used it extencourse, followed closely by The Rolling Stones, sively, but more important than that, we used The Kinks, and The Who. Then there’s The the same recording engineers, Geoff Emerick Zombies. The Zombies and Peter Vince,” he said. stood apart from their The album stands the test peers with a jazz-tinged of time. sensibility of sophisticaBlunstone has always tion, one juxtaposed with had one of the richest, a sense of yearning and an most vibrant voices of any by Sean Mageean oftentimes melancholic, male rock singer, although masculine vulnerability. Their songs, such ironically he first came into the group as a as “Time of the Season,” “Care of Cell 44,” rhythm guitarist before it was decided he and “This Will Be Our Year,” were filled with would be the lead vocalist.“In some ways, Rod stunning harmonies and beautiful melodies. learned to write songs writing for my voice, When they visit our region with an upcom- and I learned to sing by singing Rod’s songs,” ing show at Ojai’s Libbey Bowl on Sunday, he said. “To this day, we will still work out a September 4, fans will remember what makes song around the piano before we present it to them such a standout act. “Like every other the band,” he said. band, we were trying to find something that Although the original incarnation of The was memorable and hadn’t been used before,” Zombies disbanded in 1967, there were various singer Colin Blunstone said of the band’s resurrections during the ’90s and early ’00s and name in a recent phone interview. “In those three more studio albums before the current days, there wasn’t a zombie culture, so it was lineup, featuring Tom Toomey on guitar, Jim Rodford on bass, and Steve Rodford on drums, an even more left-field name then.” The British youth culture explosion was as well as Argent and Blunstone, gelled. The at its zenith in London, which had a ripple latest Zombies album, Still Got That Hunger, is effect on Western culture.“It was a very excit- a strong return to form. The song “New York” ing time when it seemed that everything is a nostalgic look at the band’s first trip to the was possible, and it was a time when the arts U.S., during which they met Patti LaBelle and world seemed to be centered on London other American music heroes during their —with photography, you had David Bailey; participation on a Murray the K Christmas with fashion, Mary Quant and Twiggy; with special.“Maybe Tomorrow” salutes The Beatles films, you had Michael Caine,” Blunstone said. with its coda, but almost didn’t make it on “The Beatles were so innovative that for once the record due to the use of a few Beatles Britain led in music as well as everything else, lyrics. “Our management were able to get the and we were fortunate enough to become part track to Paul McCartney, and he downloaded of that movement,“ Blunstone noted. it, listened to it, and approved it,” Blunstone While first album Begin Here was “a rushed explained. The song is a touching gesture and affair,” “Odessey and Oracle is a product of us a further intertwining of both bands’ legacies. Blunstone noted he had good memories being out on the road for three years and Rod [Argent] and Chris [White] had become more of Santa Barbara, but the band’s upcoming sophisticated writers. They had a back catalog performance at the Libbey Bowl will be his of songs, and the band was a lot tighter,” he first time in Ojai. “We’re all looking forward said. The band rehearsed relentlessly before to coming back to California,” Blunstone going into Abbey Road Studios to record concluded.

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the entertainment a musician brings to the room, she or he also brings a hidden history of losses or setbacks, with each song a testament to the struggles that buffered the musician en route. It’s one reason why music is so powerful: It is a renewable medicine for the soul, a reincarnation and reformulation, a casting of light upon shadows. This weekend, a few homegrown acts will raise the roof of their respective rooms with vivifying soul-funk and invigorating rock that builds on a place of loss: Bella and the Heart and Soul Band, who play this Sunday, September 4, at 5 p.m. at High Sierra Grill & Bar (521 Firestone Rd.) in Goleta, and Beware of Darkness, who plays Velvet Jones (423 State St.) with U.S. Elevator on Saturday, September 3, at 9 p.m.

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been songwriting and singing since I was a baby,” says Erica SINGING SOUL: Bella, lead singer of Dew, a k a Bella, the firebrand the Heart and Soul Band, has become a singer of the Heart and Soul popular area singer for her soulful and Band. She recalls making up rhythmic take on classic hits. lyrics to cassette B-side instrumentals and singing Madonna while standing on a table. She sings loud and proud now, with spirited renditions of soul and funk tunes, and with originals up her sleeve. In her daily life as a manager for Pier 1 Imports, Bella enjoys a sense of competitive achievement; besides music, business is her other passion.“I like the challenge of reaching sales goals and really beating them,” she said. Musically, Bella has her eyes set on a prize, with Grammy dreams squarely in sight, and the future is just beginning to blossom, step by step. The Heart and Soul Band’s recent Fiesta show at De la Guerra Plaza was the best they ever had, she says. “It really was a dream come true for me — I’ve been in Santa Barbara for so many years, and all I ever wanted to do was perform on that stage—my prayers were answered,” she said. Though she plays covers with the Heart and Soul Band, she is soon to launch her Bella and the Originals project, where she can come into her own with songwriting. There was some loss on the way to these dream realizations. The name Bella — and her presence onstage — would never have happened without the support of her departed music partner, Micah McCabe, who helped develop her original sound and suggested the name before passing away in 2013. She carries the name in his legacy, and her performances are a way of bringing light to the darkness of his loss. “I feel like he has guided me divinely,” she said. Lost though he is, his spirit fills her with faith.“I’m going to keep pursuing my dreams; I’m gonna be an old lady in a sparkling dress, and I’m really excited.”

AWARE OF DARKNESS: “There is a season for every part of life,” sings Beware of Darkness singer Kyle Nicolaides in their newest song, “Muthafucka,” off

their soon-to-be-released album, Are You Real? The song is a paradoxical powerhouse of Zen enlightenment, part badass “I’m back” anthem and part serenity, even with the crunching guitars. But there is stillness in this big move, with Nicolaides reflecting as he rocks. The lyrics were born during the turbulent phase following the band’s first album, when he fell into deep self-doubt. “When you’re young and stuff happens to you, you don’t know how to deal with it, and everything’s the end of the world,” he said. As he’s gotten older, he’s come to accept “there’s an ebb and flow to everything,” and meditation has allowed him to reach for a brighter phase of life.“It’s saying, yeah, we all have dark seasons, but we don’t have to let them define us. That song was a conscious choice of saying, I’m not who I used to be, I’m not the sad guy, I’m going to overcome this, and I’m going to thrive.” n

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ith an image approximating Public Enemy’s gun-sight logo looming large behind them on the Bowl’s stage, Ben Harper’s seven-piece collective — the Innocent Criminals At the S.B. Bowl, — delivered a rousing set, Sat., Aug. 20. from the first song Harper ever wrote (poignant “Pleasure and Pain”) to the pop-blues rocker off his defiant 2016 album, Call It What It Is. Sounding like a young Robert Cray, Harper opened with the hooky, nostalgic opener “When Sex Was Dirty.” Another highlight was the new record’s fierce title track, with racially charged lyrics thematically recalling

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here’s a new mafia sensation in TV town, and neither New Jersey nor the Soprano family have anything to do with it. In fact, the show comes straight from the mafia motherland of Italy. The muchpraised and vastly popular Italian television series Gomorrah does come equipped with subtitles, which only serves to authenticate the subject at hand. In Stefano Sollima’s potent, serialized version of the story, which became a huge hit in Italy and beyond with its 2014 opening season, grit and episodic narrative wisdom have the brutal, clan-based, and centuries-deep “Camorra” crime syndicate headquartered in Naples. Based on the renowned exposé of a 2007 book by Neapolitan journalist Roberto Saviano, then made into a cool and gutsy film in 2008 directed by Matteo Garrone (one of the powerful, memory-seizing films in the 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival lineup), the material has gone both big and small with its television incarnation: smaller in screen and audience count, larger and more malleable in episodic possibilities and mega-story tentacles. The big question is: Will American audiences take to reading subtitles in the comforts of their own homes? (There are even subtitles in sections of the Italy-based broadcasts, to clarify the Neapolitan dialect for much of Italy.) This is one case where subtitled programming rewards even the dialogue-on-screen-wary, and is smart and vivid enough to capture the attentions of restless TV watchers and the art-film audience. It makes perfect sense that the festival-connected Sundance channel is behind the broadcast. In a way, The Sopranos has rightfully lorded over — forcefully protected its turf, so to speak — in the genre. The HBO series had a profound impact on the evolution of contemporary television and hypnotized viewers. So the delayed U.S. arrival of Gomorrah was a wise if accidental marketing move. Stylishly and artfully made, Gomorrah defies oldschool paradigms of television and achieves a delicate balance of emotional engagement and neutrally dispassionate — almost journalistic — observational qualities in the telling. A handheld camera, the grim genuineness of real locations and local extras, and

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other raw touches help to keep edginess, objective detachment, and emotional connection with the characters. As with The Sopranos, The Godfather franchise, and other examples of worthier mafia chic in film/TV land, we recognize the evil of the characters’ antiheroic ways — and way of living — while connecting with their human foibles and sentiments. At the center and also on the fringes of the larger story is syndicate boss Don Pietro Savastano (Fortunato Cerlino, suave but ruthless) and his wife, Imma (Maria Pia Calzone), in a protracted turf war in a drug-dealing trade. In the opening episode, we follow the path of the older and wiser Attilio and the young up-and-comer Ciro. Their “day job” includes torching the house of a foe’s mother and then following the retaliatory wheel of justice, from a vicious attack on a bar to a climactic turf war shoot-out scene in a darkened factory where drugs are stored and bullets fly. In that scene, a certain “you are there” veracity, not to mention uncensored violence, reminds us that we’re not in the old television domain anymore. An odd leavening subplot relates to the search for the right new couch in the boss’s lavish home, a splash of bourgeois trivia amid the mayhem. But even a gaudy, rococo couch, cast off to a trash heap, becomes a loaded narrative prop, as host of a possible police “bug” and a hiding spot for a young syndicate wannabe boy playing “lookout” with his friends. With this coda to the episode, we get the clear notion that the next generation of casually brutal syndicate thugs is waiting in the wings. And so is the sure allure of this chilling, riveting series. —Josef Woodard

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PREmiERES The Light Between Oceans (132 mins., PG-13) Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander star as a couple who rescue a baby girl off the coast of the lighthouse they mind in Western Australia in this post-World War I period piece. Based on the 2012 book of the same name. Paseo Nuevo Morgan (92 mins., R) Director Luke Scott (Ridley’s son) makes his debut with this science-fiction thriller about a laboratoryraised humanoid, Morgan. After she attacks one of the scientists, her fate must be determined by a corporate troubleshooter— troubleshooter let her live or terminate? Kate Mara, Toby Jones, Michelle Yeoh, and Jennifer Jason Leigh star. Camino Real/Metro 4 No Manches Frida (100 mins., PG-13) This Mexican remake of the 2013 Germany comedy tells the story of a hapless bank robber and his ditzy partner who return to the spot where they buried stolen money only to find a high school gym has been built on the location. Fiesta 5 Sully (96 mins., PG-13) Clint Eastwood directs this biopic about Chesley Sullenberger, the U.S. Airways pilot who landed his distressed passenger plane on the Hudson River in 2009, saving all of those onboard.

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A Tale of Love and Darkness (95 mins., PG-13) Natalie Portman directs and stars in this drama about Israeli writer Amos Oz and his days as a child living in Jerusalem during the first years of the formation of Israel. Plaza de Oro

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O Ixcanul (93 mins., NR) This artful, unsentimental yet emotionally rich GuaGua temalan film presents a fascinating, rustic portrait of life in a rural, Mayan region of Guatemala, an area and subject matter rarely seen or dealt with in international cinema. Writer/director Jayro Bustamante’s tale is told with deceptive directness and simplicity, and in rapturous visual terms. Our tragic, young 17-year-old protagonist, Maria (María Mercedes Coroy), deals with sexual awakening and the tension between being a pawn in the arrangedmarriage game and desire to escape to America with a handsome drifter. Snakes, prayers at the volcano (“Ixcanul”), mating and slaughtered pigs, and airs of indigenous mysticism are among the elements figuring into a film blissfully unlike most you will have a chance to see. (JW) Sun.-Wed., Sept. 4-7, Riviera

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It’s funny because it’s true, this comedy about the immense pressure of responsibilities and expectations facing modern mothers, starring Mila Kunis as an overworked, under-joyed mom who decides to live a little more freely. The jokes are good-natured if a little ordinary, and what it lacks in creative edge it makes up for in the pertinence and timeliness of its much-needed comic takedown of domestic inequalities. (RD)

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Ben-Hur (125 mins., PG-13) Timur (Night Watch, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Killer) Bekmambetov is a flawed visual genius like Terry Gilliam: full of brilliant ideas but without much talent at narrative coherence. This time, however, he’s messing with something mainstream moviegoers used to cherish — the religious epic. Even though Bekmambetov builds a lot of visual power in the first third of the movie and sticks close to the 1959 version, the whole thing falls apart when he abandons plot logic. Minus Charlton Heston’s preposterous bombast, this feels corny and pointless. (DJP) Fiesta (2D) Café Society (96 mins., PG-13) The pressing question with any new Woody Allen film: Where does it register in the ranks of his massive filmography? Café Society is neither a dazzler nor a dozer in the oeuvre, but it rewards a look-see, especially as a rare example of a period piece in sync with his obsessive ’30s-era musical tastes (e.g., Rodgers and Hart’s anthemic “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was”), flitting from the pre-World War II Hollywood scene to the gangster-ized N.Y.C. nightclub scene with a beauteous visual glow, and wildly varying degrees of dramatic-comic focus. It’s also a tale of three in love with Kristen Stewart— Stewart her mid-lifer agent boss (Steve Carell), his New Yorker nephew (Jesse Eisenberg), and Allen’s unabashedly smitten camera. (JW)

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Don’t Breathe (88 mins., R) In Don’t Breathe, Breathe some thieving young rapscallions get more than they bargained for when the owner of the home they invade turns out to be a blind monster of a man with a sixth sense for murder. Though well-made and wellacted, it’s essentially a long chase scene, one that at some point becomes a little exhaustingly repetitive. “When will it end?!” cried an audience member at my viewing. If you were wishing this dark tunnel of a movie were as good as it could be, don’t hold your breath. (RD)

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Equity (100 mins., R) In this financial thriller, Anna Gunn stars as an investment banker who is pulled into a scandal and corruption at the highest levels. Riviera

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Maybe it isn’t one of those sequels that turn out better than the original, but it won’t invite disgrace on the Pixar brand, either. The first half of Finding Dory isn’t funny and goes pretty much where you expect it to — Dory remembers her parents, invites Nemo and Marlin on an adventure, and then gets waylaid. But the second half is all preposterous

problems and crazy solutions. An insecure octopus and the voice of Sigourney Weaver help the forgetful blue tang negotiate a fable about trusting her own heart’s ways. (DJP)

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Florence Foster Jenkins (110 mins., PG-13)

Real-life New York heiress and socialite Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) dreamed of being an opera star— star despite the fact that she couldn’t carry a tune or sustain a note. Audiences turned up to be amused by the unwitting Jenkins singing. Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant star. Fairview/Paseo Nuevo Hands of Stone (105 mins., R) In this sports biopic, Edgar Ramírez stars as boxer Roberto Duran, who started fighting professionally at age 16 and continued until his retirement at age 50. Robert De Niro and John Turturro also star. Paseo Nuevo

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tential antihero hit man Arthur Bishop does not improve the franchise. Statham is riveting, the least show-offy of the new breed of action heroes. But the movie is just James Bond lite — two hours of high technology and fights in exotic locales with a Scotch-taped plot ready-made for gamers. Statham fights his way through three hostile environments and then takes on his formerfriend-turned-foe, Riah Crain, while the clock ticks. Camino Real/Fiesta 5

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Pete’s Dragon (102 mins., PG) In this Disney remake of the 1977 film by the same name, forest ranger Grace Meacham (Bryce Dallas Howard) happens upon a young boy who has been living in the woods with a dragon named Elliot. When Grace tries to find out who Pete really is, dragon hunters make plans to capture Elliot.

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A modern-day Western tersely told, this grim-toned tale of two bank-robbing brothers (Chris Pine and Ben Foster) and the sheriff (Jeff Bridges) who tries to stop them is something more than a shoot-’em-up. With a taut and tense violin soundtrack and starkly southwestern cinematography, the film has enough gravitas and emotional ambiguity to give it an air of greatness — a meditation on how all of us might be a little bit good, a little bit bad, and a little bit ugly. (RD) Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo Jason Bourne (123 mins., PG-13) Welcome back to the gray-green world of Paul Greengrass’s mighty moneymaking Bourne franchise. This time our reluctant murdering semi-automaton and title hero has been fished out of obscurity by Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) so he can disrupt the cowardly CIA from corrupting an idealist of the Silicon Valley persuasion. The plot is as murky as the director’s vision: Even Las Vegas seems like an existential destination, though the car chase through downtown and The Strip livens up the Bourne self-repeating plot mechanism. (DJP) Arlington Kubo and the Two Strings (101 mins., PG)

The stop-motion-animated feature follows a young villager named Kubo (Art Parkinson), who is thrown into an adventure when he accidentally summons an ancient and vindictive spirit and must uncover his samurai legacy.

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A ragtag gang of pets go looking for their lost comrades in the big city, running away from dogcatchers — it’s a wonder that Disney didn’t get around to suing on behalf of Oliver & Company or Lady and the Tramp. But The Secret Life of Pets is a lot better than its deriva tive premise thanks to great animation, a swift-moving plot, and great character voices like Louis C.K., Jenny Slate, and Dana Carvey. (DJP) Arlington (2D) Southside with You (84 mins., PG-13) This romantic comedy depicts the first date of future president Barack Obama and future first lady Michelle Robinson in Chicago’s Southside. Plaza de Oro

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Suicide Squad (123 mins., PG-13) What hurts the most about this muchanticipated anti-superhero movie’s abject failure is that it was made by David Ayer, who directed the tense, thrilling Fury. This is all flab: despite some great work by Margot Robbie and Will Smith, Suicide Squad feels like a long, discursive intro followed by a prolonged preface, until we realize this gunk is going to be the movie. By then it’s all over with no winners or losers, a genre deconstruction that (to put it politely) makes everything worse. (DJP)

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War Dogs (114 mins., R) Todd (Road Trip, The Hangover) Phillips isn’t exactly a subtle director, and War Dogs doesn’t feel like an understated movie. Yet this Jonah Hill/Miles Teller vehicle works well as political satire. The true story of two young guys riding prevailing political winds into unlikely arms-dealing success feels a little The Wolf of Wall Street exploitative at times, but it springs an unexpected wallop at the end, proving yet again that petty crime may not pay, but outrageous white-collar infamy can be a lucrative gas. (DJP) Fairview/Fiesta 5

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(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Truth decay is in its early stages. If you take action soon, you can prevent a full-scale decomposition. But be forewarned: Things could get messy, especially if you intervene with the relentless candor and clarity that will be required for medicinal purification. So what do you think? Are you up for the struggle? I understand if you’re not. I’ll forgive you if you simply flee. But if you decide to work your cagey magic, here are some tips. (1) Compile your evidence with rigor. (2) As much as is humanly possible, put aside rancor. Root your efforts in compassionate objectivity. (3) Even as you dig around in the unsightly facts, cherish the beautiful truths you’d like to replace them with.

(June 21-July 22): A woman in the final stages of giving birth may experience acute discomfort. But once her infant spills out into the world, her distress can transform into bliss. I don’t foresee quite so dramatic a shift for you, Cancerian. But the transition you undergo could have similar elements: from uncertainty to grace; from agitation to relief; from constriction to spaciousness. To take maximum advantage of this blessing, don’t hold onto the state you’re leaving behind — or the feelings it aroused in you.

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Illuminati do not want you to receive the prophecy I have prepared for you. Nor do the Overlords of the New World Order, the Church of the SubGenius, the Fake God that masquerades as the Real God, or the nagging little voice in the back of your head. So why am I going ahead and divulging this oracle anyway? Because I love you. My loyalty is to you, not those shadowy powers. Therefore, I am pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to evade, ignore, undermine, or rebel against controlling influences that aren’t in alignment with your soul’s goals.

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional character known as Superman has one prominent vulnera bility: the mineral kryptonite. When he’s near this stuff, it weakens his superpowers and may cause other problems. I think we all have our own versions of kryptonite, even if they’re metaphorical. For instance, my own superpowers tend to decline when I come into the presence of bad architecture, cheesy poetry, and off-pitch singing. How about you, Capricorn? What’s your version of kryptonite? Whatever it is, I’m happy to let you know that you are currently less susceptible to its debilitating influences than usual. Why? Well, you have a sixth sense about how to avoid it. And even if it does draw near, you have in your repertoire some new tricks to keep it from sapping your strength.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): Are you willing to lose at least some of your inhibitions? Are you curious to find out what it feels like to cavort like a wise wild child? If you want to fully cooperate with life’s plans, you will need to consider those courses of action. I am hoping that you’ll accept the dare, of course. I suspect you will thrive as you explore the pleasures of playful audacity and whimsical courage and effervescent experiments. So be blithe, Taurus! Be exuberant! Be open to the hypothesis that opening to jaunty and jovial possibilities is the single most intelligent thing you can do right now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What’s the current status of your relationship with your feet? Have you been cultivating and cherishing your connection with the earth below you? The reason I ask, Gemini, is that right now it’s especially important for you to enjoy intimacy with gravity, roots, and foundations. Whatever leads you down and deeper will be a source of good fortune. Feeling grounded will provide you with an aptitude for practical magic. Consider the possibilities of going barefoot, getting a foot massage, or buying new shoes that are both beautiful and comfortable. Homework: All of us are trying to wake up from our sleepy delusions about the nature of life. What’s your most potent wake-up technique?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In one of my dreams last night, a Leo sensualist I know advised me to take smart pills and eat an entire chocolate cheesecake before writing my next Leo horoscope. In another dream, my Leo friend Erica suggested that I compose your horoscope while attending an orgy where all the participants were brilliant physicists, musicians, and poets. In a third dream, my old teacher Rudolf (also a Leo) said I should create the Leo horoscope as I sunbathed on a beach in Maui while being massaged by two sexy geniuses. Here’s how I interpret my dreams: In the coming days, you can literally increase your intelligence by indulging in luxurious comforts and sensory delights.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The dictionary says that the verb “to schmooze” means to chat with people in order to promote oneself or make a social connection that may prove to be advantageous. But that definition puts a selfish spin on an activity that can, at least sometimes, be carried out with artful integrity. Your assignment in the coming weeks is to perform this noble version of schmoozing. If you are offering a product or service that is beautiful or useful or both, I hope you will boost its presence and influence with the power of your good listening skills and smart conversations.

VIRGO

SAGITTARIUS

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Play a joke on your nervous anxiety. Leap off the ground or whirl in a circle five times as you shout,“I am made of love!” Learn the words and melody to a new song that lifts your mood whenever you sing it. Visualize yourself going on an adventure that will amplify your courage and surprise your heart. Make a bold promise to yourself, and acquire an evocative object that will symbolize your intention to fulfill that promise. Ask yourself a soul-shaking question you haven’t been wise enough to investigate before now. Go to a wide-open space, spread your arms out in a greeting to the sky, and pray for a vision of your next big goal.

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you are attuned with the cosmic rhythms in the coming weeks, you will be a source of teaching and leadership. Allies will feel fertilized by your creative vigor. You’ll stimulate team spirit with your savvy appeals to group solidarity. If anyone can revive droopy procrastinators and demonstrate the catalytic power of gratitude, it’ll be you. Have you heard enough good news, Sagittarius, or can you absorb more? I expect that you’ll inspire interesting expressions of harmony that will replace contrived versions of togetherness. And every blessing you bestow will expand your capacity for attracting favors you can really use.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s quite possible you will receive seductive proposals in the coming weeks. You may also be invited to join your fortunes with potential collaborators who have almost fully awakened to your charms. I won’t be surprised if you receive requests to share your talents, offer your advice, or bestow your largesse. You’re a hot prospect, my dear. You’re an attractive candidate. You appear to be ripe for the plucking. How should you respond? My advice is to be flattered and gratified, but also discerning. Just because an inquiry is exciting doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Choose carefully.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Would you like to become a master of intimacy? Can you imagine yourself handling the challenges of togetherness with the skill of a great artist and the wisdom of a love genius? If that prospect appeals to you, now would be a favorable time to up your game. Here’s a hot tip on how to porceed: You must cultivate two seemingly contradictory skills. The first is the capacity to identify and nurture the best qualities in your beloved friend. The second is the ability to thrive on the fact that healthy relationships require you to periodically wrestle with each other’s ignorance and immaturity.

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JUDICIAL SECRETARY Under general supervision, performs specialized and confidential secretarial work for several judges and/or other Court appointed officials; maintains judges’ calendars and coordinates these within the court’s calendar system, and performs related duties as required. Current opening is full-time, regular status (benefited). Work location of this position will be downtown Santa Barbara. This position supports criminal judges in South County. $18.66 - $22.78 Hourly + Benefits See more details and apply at: http://agency.governmentjobs.com/sbcourts/default.cfm

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A career at Cottage Health is an experience in caring for and about the people who call our coastal area of California home. Our not-for-profit health system identifies closely with the communities we serve and has a long tradition of providing area residents with highly personalized, clinically excellent care. Patients aren’t just patients here – they’re neighbors. Be there for them through one of the openings below.

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Cottage Business Services

Non-Clinical • Catering Set-Up • Environmental Services Rep

Nursing • Anesthetics • Bed Control Coordinator (RN) • Clinical Documentation Specialist (RN) • Clinical Manager – Telemetry • CNC – Surgery • Cottage Residential Center • Electrophysiology • Emergency • Eye Center • Hematology/Oncology • Infection Control Practitioner • Manager – Cardiology • Manager – Endoscopy • Manager – Palliative Care • Manager – Surgical Trauma • Med/Surg – Float Pool • Neurology/Urology • NICU • Orthopedics • PACU • Pediatric Outpatient • Pediatric Research Coordinator • Peds • Psych – Per Diem • Pulmonary Renal • Research • Surgery • Surgical Trauma • SWOT • Trauma Program Manager

• Environmental Services Supervisor • Information Security Technical Writer

• Director – Contracting • Director – Corporate Finance • Manager – Accounting • Manager – Decision Support

• Interpreter – Temp

• Manager – HIM

• IT Project Manager, Sr.

• Supervisor – Admitting

• IT Systems Engineer – Citrix • PBX Operator • Preschool Teacher • Research Coordinator • Room Service Server • Security Officer • Sous Chef

Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital • Neuropsychologist – Part-Time/Exempt • Occupational Therapist – Per Diem • Speech Language Pathologist – Per Diem

Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories

Allied Health

• Account Manager – Sales (LA Service Area)

• Behavioral Health Clinician • Chemical Dependence Technician

• Certified Phlebotomy Techs – Full-Time, Part-Time, Per Diem • Clinical Lab Scientist – Days/Nights/Evenings – Core Lab/SBCH Clinical Lab

• Physical Therapist • RCP – Neo/Peds • Speech Language Pathologist – Per Diem

• Lab Assistant – Per Diem

• Surgical Tech I

• Lab Manager – Blood Bank (CLS)

• Support Counselor – SLO Clinic

• Sales Representative – Lab

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital

• Histotechnician

• Transfusion Safety Coordinator

• Please apply to: www.pdllabs.com

• RN – ICU – Nights/Days

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital • CLS – Day/Evening

Clinical

• Environmental Services Rep

• Medical Assistant – Peds Ventura Clinic

• RN – Cardiac/Rehab

• Environmental Services Rep Lead

• RENTAL & RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR SELECT FULL-TIME POSITIONS • CERTIFICATION REIMBURSEMENT

We offer an excellent compensation package that includes above-market salaries, premium medical benefits, pension plans, tax savings accounts, rental and mortgage assistance, and relocation packages. What’s holding you back?

Please apply online at jobs.cottagehealth.org. Or to submit a resume, please contact: Cottage Health, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689 Please reference “SBI” when applying. EOE

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ACADEMIC COORDINATOR II

CARSEY‑WOLF CENTER The University of California, Santa Barbara seeks to appoint a full‑time Academic Coordinator to serve as the Associate Director of the Carsey‑Wolf Center (CWC). Application deadline ‑ September 9, 2016. Immediate hire date, although the position will remain open until filled. The Associate Director will provide day‑to‑day management of all Carsey‑Wolf Center operations, reporting to the Director. These operations include managing staff, coordinating CWC activities, planning and marketing Pollock Theater events, developing projects, collaborating on program budgets and funding, grant writing and administration, and coordinating with the Development Office. The position requires occasional off‑campus visits and weekend and evening events. (For further information on the CWC, please go to www.carseywolf.ucsb. edu.) The Associate Director must have experience in writing and administering grants and in managing complex, interdisciplinary organizations and projects. Sophisticated communication skills – especially writing – are essential, as is attention to detail. Professional experience relating to the Carsey‑Wolf Center’s main program areas (which include activities in the Pollock Theater, the Media Industries Project, the Environmental Media Initiative, student internship programs, and broader issues in the areas of film, television, and new media) is preferred. The department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service. A Master’s degree or equivalent is required. Please submit a cover letter, CV, and at least two letters of reference. Applications will be accepted via UC Recruit at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/ apply/JPF00795. For more information, please see our website at http://www.carseywolf. ucsb.edu/ 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.

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ASSOC. DIR. OF DEVELOPMENT, HUMANITIES & FINE ARTS

OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT Works with donor prospects to optimize philanthropy to benefit UC Santa Barbara and to support the priorities of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts. Primary emphasis is on the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individual prospects (alumni, parents and friends) and when appropriate, foundations and corporations. Focus will be on organizing donor outreach, developing online giving strategies, securing new and renewing annual gifts ($1,000+), with an added emphasis on building and maintaining an active pipeline of $1,000 ‑ $24,999 gifts, as well as helping to identify, cultivate and solicit major gift prospects starting at $25,000. With regard to major gift prospects develops and executes individual prospect strategies to maximize philanthropic support. Focuses about eighty percent (80%) of time on direct fundraising and fundraising outreach activities. Twenty percent (20%) is focused on other activities. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Minimum of 5 years of fundraising experience or equivalent background experience. Proven skill in goal achievement. Demonstrated skill at building relationships and working with donors toward significant philanthropic outcomes. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Able to establish strong, interpersonal relationships with academic leaders, trustees, community leaders, donors and volunteers (including staffing volunteers), and other staff. Ability to work independently and as part of a team, under deadlines, without close supervision; self‑direction in the initiation, coordination and completion of tasks, acute attention to detail is essential. Commitment to and ability to articulate the case for higher education, and UC Santa Barbara in particular. Understanding and/or experience working within the environment of a large, public research university (and in particular schools, colleges or institutes within a large university). Knowledge of office and productivity software sufficient to function smoothly in a highly technology‑based environment (including but not limited to word processing, spreadsheet, database, email, and Internet applications). Notes: Fingerprinting required. This is an annually renewable contract position. Flexibility and willingness to travel frequently. Ability to work comfortably with a flexible work schedule including some evening and weekend work. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. 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. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb. edu Job #20160440

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EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE ASSOC. VICE CHANCELLOR

HOUSING & RESIDENTIAL SERVICES Provides confidential executive support to Associate Vice Chancellor (AVC). Serves as the primary point of contact for internal and external constituencies on all matters pertaining to the AVC, and serves as a member of the management team. Responsible for all fiscal and office operations for the AVC’s office. Provides research, analysis, advice, and recommendations in all areas and on the many issues and concerns of the department. Responsibilities are as varied as the broad range of issues that may reach the AVC from campus departments, students, parents, faculty, staff, customers, etc. Provides management and resolution of those issues, forwarding to the AVC only those issues that have the highest priority. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong analytical and communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team environment. Ability to work with an ethnically diverse and culturally pluralistic student body and staff. High level of computer proficiency. Exhibits UC competencies including: communication; diversity and inclusion; employee engagement; innovation and change management; job mastery and continuous learning; resource management; results orientation and execution; service focus; teamwork and collaboration; and people management. Broad knowledge of UC policies and procedures. Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage a wide variety of responsibilities and projects accurately and consistently, while maintaining a high level of confidentiality, initiative, independence and judgment. Notes: Fingerprinting required. Must maintain a valid CA driver’s license. $61,905‑$86,627/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration, apply by 9/8/16, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20160426