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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9

An Evening with

Richard Thompson Solo Set Followed By Richard and His Electric Trio

“The finest rock songwriter after Dylan and the best electric guitarist since Hendrix.” – Los Angeles Times Don’t miss this rare evening with Richard Thompson—in both solo and trio settings!

Santa Barbara View – Sharon Byrne often says “Don’t mess with Milpas!” and the Outreach Program proves why; Loretta Redd evaluates retirement funding and pensions, all the while questioning the word unsustainable.

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S tate Street Scribe – While he pledges allegiance, Jeff Wing looks over his shoulder at 1776 and tips his powdered wig to our Founding Fathers, who paved the way for Benny Hill and Arthur Teacher’s Fish and Chips to come ashore. Jeff then turns the pages of history to Santa Barbara, circa 1986.

Letters – Mail poured in about Jeff Wing’s column on Summer Solstice and the parade; C. Cochrane really misses CrimeTime; Harding vs. Piketty again; grateful Grace Hay on behalf of Rock the Casa.

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In The Zone – Testing, testing... 1, 2: Tommie Vaughn takes it from the top, meeting with Hidden City Studios owner and engineer Elliott Lanam. Beer Guy – Zach Rosen enjoys bonding over beer and beer-related events, as evidenced by emphasizing the word camaraderie. So pull up a barstool and read awhile.

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15 Days A Week – The SB Farmers Market? Nite Moves? First Monday? And Shuck ‘n Swallow? Whatever the event, Jeremy Harbin knows what, why, when, and where.

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Presidio Sports – Barry Punzal applauds Stamatia Scarvelis’s career at Dos Pueblos High, as well as successful teamwork among the SBSC U18 team.

Keepin’ It Reel – James Luksic taps his feet to Jersey Boys, gets hungry during Chef, and cringes during 22 Jump Street. Santa Ynez – Eva Van Prooyen traverses the mountain pass to explore SY Valley, encompassing Solvang, Los Olivos, Buellton, and Ballard. Goleta – The “Goodland” just northwest of SB has countless amenities and increased housing prices to match, according to Kelly Mahan, number-crunching on the scene.

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Mad Science – Always wanted to know about wet cohesion on a molecular level but were afraid to ask? Rachelle Oldmixon’s stick-to-itiveness pays off, thanks to Nadine Martinez.

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Weekly Capitalist – Jeffrey Harding looks over his shoulder at Homo sapiens and ponders human nature, our power structure, and laws, from pillar to post.

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Marshall Crenshaw & The Bottle Rockets Power pop legend, Marshall Crenshaw teams up with seminal alt-country stalwarts The Bottle Rockets, who will play their own set and then join Marshall as his backing band for his ‘80s radio classics like “Someday, Someway” and “Mary Anne” as well as his critically acclaimed current material. Bo Willis Productions

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Stylin’ & Profilin’ – Hats off to Megan Waldrep, up to her typical fashion sense while getting artsy and crafty at the Art of Craft.

Food File – The new cookbook Santa Barbara Culinary Arts: A Taste of Santa Barbara’s Culinary Bounty is simmering with 60-plus recipes from SB food specialists – so dig in.

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Man About Town – Mark Léisuré is all over the musical map and describes his good fortune in covering the sounds of music from Live Oak to Summer Solstice.

ShopGirl – Kateri Wozny asks where “Dani” has been and discovers the answer is a kids’ boutique in Montecito. Cut.Chew.Eat.Repeat – When she’s craving a special event like CRAVE, Jacquelyn De Longe minds her P’s: politics, paintings, and Penelope Gottlieb.

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by Sharon Byrne

Don’t Mess With Milpas!

n April, several buildings on Milpas received a thorough dousing in some lousy graffiti. I say lousy because it wasn’t anything artistic. Nothing original. Just scrawls. If you’re going to risk getting seriously busted doing graffiti, at least aspire to be Banksy-esque. There’s no achievement in juvenile scrawls. Three year-olds can do that… One of our merchants called me the next day – he’d caught the guy on video. The merchant asked me to connect him to the police, and I did. He turned over the tape, and the Nixle alerts went out. This merchant has a high volume of consumer traffic, and asked some of his regulars if they knew the vandal. Turns out, several did. Santa Barbara is, after all, a fairly small community. So the merchant gave the ID to the police, and pushed for an arrest. Wish granted. This particular merchant doesn’t want a bunch of accolades or acknowledgements, so we’ll leave it quietly at this note of gratitude. We’re happy for Milpas to acquire a reputation of busting graffiti vandals. Don’t mess with Milpas! Vandalized property owners can get restitution for vandalism damage. It’s

handled by the District Attorney’s office. You can find out more here: www. countyofsb.org/da/vw_compensation.html

Project Aims High, And Scores

roblem: What do we do about the chronically homeless remaining on Milpas, or anywhere in the city for that matter? Add the following constraints: • They’re banned from all local homeless facilities for repeat poor behavior. • Life on the street has become a way of life. Change is frightening, and difficult. • Multiple contacts with Police and Fire create continued detrimental behavior effects on the community hosting them. The Mission: Move them out of homelessness in six months or less. The Team: Milpas Businesses, Restorative Police, Mental Health, Common Ground outreach volunteers, formerly chronically homeless, Legal Aid, Casa Esperanza, Veterans Administration (from LA), C3H, and more. The Results: We’re batting about .400, which is astonishing, given the fact that some have been homeless for decades. The business community on Milpas has stepped up: we’ve paid for detox, and for

Sharon Byrne

Sharon Byrne is executive director for the Milpas Community Association, and currently serves on the Advisory Boards for the Salvation Army Hospitality House and Santa Barbara County Alcohol and Drug Problems.

sbview.com driver’s licenses at the DMV so they could have ID to get on housing lists. We’ve written a grant for one, and are advising him how to create a micro-enterprise. We’ve hired another at a Milpas business to provide income and a sense of purpose. Bureaucratic hurdles in accessing programs have been cleared. People formerly at odds are working together. Progress is being made. I will write about this more in-depth in July, as the project closes in June. Honestly, it’s giving me hope that a community can solve this problem for itself.

World Cup Extravaganza

hanks to John Palminteri, I discovered Nat “Nathalio” Waller intended to provide 4,000 tacos for the Brazil V Mexico game at Pro Garden Supply on Milpas. No, you don’t need to get your eyes checked. You read that right. 4,000 free tacos. I immediately hustled over to find out if Nat was open to inviting the

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neighborhood. He enthusiastically said yes, because he’s just an all-around great guy. I sent out the invite immediately to the Milpaserenos. Turnout was huge. The tacos were amazing! The setting was awesome because Pro Garden Supply is loaded with gorgeous plants, flowers, and trees. The match was electrifying. Milpas is the perfect place for World Cup action. Mental note to self: make Milpas into World Cup HQ Santa Barbara in 2018, if I’m still kicking. Thank you, Nat!

We’re Moving On Milpas!

e’re three months into the Milpas 1000 Challenge to drop 1,000 pounds collectively, and get fitter around here. This month’s Milpas Moves! – our free community workout – came from Esteban Ortiz, who teaches a butt-kicker of a Zumba class at Casa De La Raza at 6:00 PM Mondays and Wednesdays for the bargain price of $5. If you’ve never tried Zumba, it’s a blast. Think Salsa dance meets aerobics. A cardio workout that’s sexy. You actually feel good while burning massive amounts of calories. About 10 minutes in, you’re convinced you’re at least part Latino, as this is clearly in your blood. Plus, you can’t stop smiling even though you’re sweating. In public. Pushy Shovels grows incredible organic produce in the Eastside Community Garden, just a few blocks off Milpas. ...continued p.31

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STATE STREET SCRIBE by Jeff Wing

Jeff is a journalist, raconteur, autodidact, and polysyllable enthusiast. A long-time resident of SB, he takes great delight in chronicling the lesser known facets of this gaudy jewel by the sea. Jeff can be reached at jeffwingg@gmail.com

Broad Stripes. Bright Stars.

uly 2, 1776 – A dozen or so knee-sock enthusiasts gather in a large darkened room and bolt the door. These nascent Giants of Liberty, our Founding Fathers, are about to change the course of human events, put shoulders to the massive Hobbesian wheel of history and in a fever of invention redraw the Rights of Man, actualize the Magna Carta, and alter forevermore the intertwined destinies of all people everywhere. They will be performing these feats wearing inept doll’s hair wigs that appear to have been hastily glued together in a school for the blind, and those ass-hugging revolutionary trousers that so unnerved the French when old Ben Franklin was ambassador there. Despite these setbacks, the architects of our national sovereignty solemnly adopt the resolution to cleave the 13 American colonies from the British Empire. The momentous meeting concludes with the murmuring handshakes and backslapping hubbub that once passed for celebration. They realize there will surely be war; a

Revolutionary War. What they don’t know is that the English will later sneak back in, their Trojan Horse the maddened RevengeAnglophilia of the late 20th century; the Arthur Treacher Fish-and-Chips plague, Benny Hill’s unexpected classification as a “comic,” the lung-crushing MerchantIvory steamroller with its endless gauzy tape loop of Colin Firth in lace cuffs staring dolefully at his lipless, stick-figure girlfriend across an airless drawing room, and the mop-top tea party that swarms ashore to sucker-punch Elvis and slap around a stunned Connie Francis. Worst of all, our great nation will thereafter suffer at least one nattering anglophile per tormented office, he who regales you with his perfect “accent” in the lunchroom every noontime until you want to crush your congealing Sloppy Joe against his bowl cut. Thanks, Founders. Two days after the voice-vote Resolution to leave Mother England in a huff, a bunch of the founding guys in their Jiminy Cricket tailcoats get around

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to signing the hardcopy, which has by now been promoted from Resolution to Declaration. But not before this fateful missive is dispatched: “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America,” a wildly mistaken John Adams writes to his wife, Abigail. Thereafter, his blood descendants will miss, by two days, every July 4 hullabaloo till the end of history. September 14, 1814 – An American lawyer, blueblood, and amateur poet named Frank rises with the dawn aboard the British flagship HMS Tonnant, dresses and heads topside. The War of 1812 is two years old. The previous evening, Frank had dined

“I watch with momentary interest as a pot-bellied guy in cut-offs and a top hat proffers a colored cone of some kind, waving a font of sparks in front of him like a man watering a lawn, eyes closed.” shipboard with the gracious British captain and crew and then watched helplessly from the deck as, through the long night, the British lobbed wave after wave of cannonade and corkscrewing rockets onto the beleaguered Ft. McHenry, guardian of Baltimore Harbor. Frank had been trapped on the Tonnant during a friendly and pre-arranged prisoner exchange at whose conclusion the British declined to return him to shore – realizing the American was now aware of the disposition of His Majesty’s warships and might blab to his compatriots. He would have to wait until the conclusion of the battle to be put ashore with his freed colleague. Now, morning on the water is utterly silent. The lawyer leans over the deck amidships and stares hard at the shoreline through a peaceably drifting scrim of smoke. He can just make out the enormous American flag flapping serenely over the smoldering fort – a stubborn, striped, burned rag on a stick, waving in early breezes; two fingers, and the back of a hand raised to the British Empire, the victorious archer’s salute. Not as exclamatory a gesture as its colonial counterpart, the singular raised finger. But still. “The flag is still there!” he blurts aloud, pissing off the British sailor who has arrived to summon him. Francis Scott Key heads below decks to join his weary hosts. On the way, he stops in at his cabin and grabs his pencil. July 4, 1986 – I’m prancing (there is no other way to describe it) across another shore, Leadbetter Beach, my pitifully sunburned arms daintily aloft and flapping as I hippity-hop, tip-toe, zig-zag

and otherwise delicately hyphenate my way through a fusillade of bottle rockets, Whistling Jupiters, cherry bombs, and roman candles. It’s a war zone, and a tradition here in Santa Barbara that is soon to go the way of tort reform and biking without a helmet.. The good people of SB have come down to the water in their hundreds to ring in another national birthday with kegs and ordinance. Pits have been dug into the picturesque shoreline and the patriots in their board shorts and bikinis are tossing fireworks at each other with beer-infused abandon. I watch with momentary interest as a potbellied guy in cut-offs and a top hat proffers a colored cone of some kind, waving a font of sparks in front of him like a man watering a lawn, eyes closed. Leadbetter beach this day is a sun-drenched scene of commemorative mayhem, the stink of dime-store gunpowder commingling with the heady, almost pheromonal scent of sizzling hot dogs and spare ribs. Guess what? The hopeful, bewigged guys in their embarrassing buckled shoes and gigolo pants were on to something, and the naive promises made in that room – the handwritten promises – have found their way, have found traction, through the succeeding centuries of war, privation, avarice, greed and hypocrisy – the human race’s unavoidable party mix. More to the point, I’ve just met a girl. And isn’t that the way these things always wrap? Juud is visiting from Holland; windmills, tulips, weather like an Old Testament punishment. I met her at the club the other night and we’re meeting again later in the day. She promised! In time, she’ll bring me my Stella, my Sam, and through her dazzled eyes my first understanding of how strange, exotic, musical, loudmouthed, and frankly crazy this country is. This afternoon I’ll flee the Battle of Leadbetter Beach at fireworks apogee. To my mild surprise, Judie will actually show up at Dave and Susie’s on Bath Street. I’ll spend the afternoon beginning my 27-year freefall into the happiest, most beautiful green eyes I will ever see. By that evening I’m still at it, as SB’s explosives experts put on their yearly show, launching colored fire over our own harbor in a display meant to mimic that of the assault on Ft. McHenry, the bombs bursting in air that Frank Key was so anxious to note. My new Dutch friend is here beside me. She sees all this stuff from a new window, and she adores what she sees here. In time she’ll show me everything I might otherwise never have apprehended about promises, and about my country, about Sinatra, about Jimmy Stewart, about Betsy Ross, about Frank O’Hara, Salinger, Saul Bellow, about Steinbeck’s possible analog for the U.S. – lumbering, approval-seeking, puppy-crushing Lenny. Judie and I, we’ll teach each other. Hoo boy. I’ve got a lot to learn about this place. But there is puh-lenty of time. Tonight I find I’m just staring at Judie as she stares, smiling like a fool, at the sky.

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Letters

Although you might not believe it, we actually want to hear from you. So if you have something you think we should know about or you see something we've said that you think is cretinous (or perspicacious, to be fair), then let us know. There's no limit on words or subject matter, so go ahead and let it rip to: Santa Barbara Sentinel, Letters to the Editor, 133 East De La Guerra Street, No. 182, Santa Barbara, California 93101. You can also leap into the 21st century and email us at tim@santabarbarasentinel.com.

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Wing And A Prayer

udos to Jeff Wing for his column about Summer Solstice, Atheists and Pantheists and Little Lambs Eat Ivy. A friend was raving about it at Peet’s and when I said I’d look for a copy, he gave me his to be sure I’d get to read it. I loved it and promptly shared it at the office, told friends to pick up a copy, and sent the link to out of town friends. Didn’t take long for the replies to come in: “That’s hysterical. Thank you” ... “Nice writing, yes” ... “Made me laugh.” So Jeff, thanks for your good writing and good humor. Looking forward to more in State Street Scribe, J.M. Kremer Santa Barbara

Right Wing

Someone (actually several someones) told me there was a new humor gunslinger in town penning a column called “State Street Scribe.” So I went out and picked up a Sentinel to see about this Jeff Wing guy. His latest piece on the Solstice Parade was both clever and funny, not to mention well-

written. Excellent work. Jim Alexander Montecito Journal humorist Santa Barbara

Ice Cream, You Scream...

Stumbled upon your “Atheists and Pantheists and Little Lambs Eat Ivy” column and thoroughly enjoyed it; so much so in fact that I swiped another half dozen Sentinel copies and passed them out to like-minded friends with your page 6 dutifully dog-eared. Really good job. I now plan to view the parade with ice cream cone in hand, just so I can throw it away in nausea when those overtanned retirees who fancy themselves “fit” come strolling up the block with their hairy upper arms, regrettable form-fitting Lycra, and sweaty, balding pates ringed with denuded wildflowers. Thanks for that image. Certainly, Robert Santa Barbara ...continued p.15

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with Tommie Vaughn Tommie adapted her love of the stage to the

love of the page. As lead singer for the band Wall of Tom, she created This Rock in My Heart and This Roll in My Soul, a fictional book series based loosely on her experiences in the L.A. music scene. Now she’s spending her time checking out and writing about all things Santa Barbara. Reach Tommie at www.TommieV.com or follow her on Twitter at TommieVaughn1.

A Star for a Day

ack in 2001, I got my first job in Hollywood. No, not a singing job, but one that would lead to almost every connection I have in the music industry today. The day I walked into the infamous and top-of-the-Billboardcharts legendary Cherokee Recording Studios on Fairfax Avenue, north of the heart of Melrose, my rock-and-roll life truly began. Sadly, Cherokee was one of those incredible recording studios that became an overpriced dinosaur, with all of its amazing and rich analog consoles. The moment that digital recordings – or for those in the know, pro-tools – came onto the scene along with a little help from Napster, they rocked the music and recording industry to its core, when every Tom, Dick, and Sally could record themselves in their basement and come out sounding just like they spent thousands in a giant studio. Cherokee, like quite a few others around the world

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closed down, and a new sort of studio was born. Now, some would argue (and some being some giants in the music industry,

i.e., Dave Grohl, ahem: Sound City, anyone?) there is no replacing the true sound of analog and the feel of recording live as a band in a large studio, that digital is the downfall to mainstream music today, where anyone, (and I mean anyone) can sound like a million bucks with the help of digital cut, paste, and don’t forget Autotune. But today’s listener is different than the folks of the 1960s or 70s, (lucky bastards) even the 80s and 90s. People today want immediate gratification.

People don’t have time to waste, they want music to be quick, to the point; give them a hook, shake their booty a little bit in the car while they drive to work, and then they want to be done with it. I’m not saying that’s me. I’m one of those old rocker chicks who wants an epic guitar solo and imperfect voice. Shoot, I even love a three-minute instrumental intro. But I digress; let’s just say with my experience ...continued p.14

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by Zach Rosen

A Week of Beer

he word camaraderie is often used in the beer industry. Camaraderie is what fuels collaboration brews and beer events, and this is certainly the theme behind the Beer Blogger Series from Santa Barbara Brewing Co (SBBC). Brewmaster Kevin Pratt introduced this series as a way for him to come together with beer writers and produce beers that juxtapose the views of those who write on beer with those who produce it. I recently had the pleasure of working with Kevin to brew a beer for the Beer Blogger Series. Kevin and I first met in Oakland at the Certified Cicerone exam in 2009. So it was a nice surprise when I heard that he had gotten hired at SBBC several years back. We met up for a late lunch at Galanga Thai Restaurant soon after he arrived. We spent the afternoon eating curry and talking about the Santa Barbara beer scene. Even though we had already known one another, it was this meal that I identify as one of the beginning moments of our friendship, and it was these flavors that I wanted to capture with our collaboration beer, High Thai’d. We spent a few weeks working on the recipe, and what we came up with is a thai curry saison (an effervescent, herbal Belgian-style beer) aged on toasted coconut, fresh ginger, and kaffir lime leaf. A month or two ago, I joined Kevin and his team to brew this tasty beer.

Brewing Some Saison

The brew day started at 5:30 am and when I arrived, assistant brewers Gavin Cook and Brittany Welchel were working on the crucial first step of the brewing process: coffee. With the brewing water (in brewing lingo this water is referred to as liquor) warming, we got caffeinated as we measured out the spices and hops. The whole room swarmed with aromas of cinnamon, cumin, coriander, tumeric, and other spices as we measured them by the half-pound. Caffeine can only do so much, but fortunately these intense, enticing aromatics woke us all up. The brewing liquor (water) was now hot enough, and it was time to mix it with

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Last week, I made some veiled comments about The Wine Industry’s Number One Big Shot. Well, not veiled enough, apparently, as evidenced by my two new black eyes. Turns out, Big Wine reads this calendar. The minute the last issue hit the stands, they sent some henchmen down from the valley to pay me a little visit. So learn from my mistake, everybody, and make sure not to make eye contact with certain known wine personalities – and definitely don’t write about them – when you go to today’s premier tasting event, the Santa Barbara Wine Festival at the Museum of Natural History (2559 Puesta del Sol). Instead, just relax and enjoy the wine paired with food from some of the best spots around town. Get your tickets while they last at www.sbnature.org.

Sunday June 29

Aw, Shucks

I don’t know what took me so long, but I only tried oysters for the first time a couple years ago. I was at a fancy-schmancy establishment here in town with my fly-as-hell lady friend – yeah, you read that right – and the server had a whole spiel about the oysters. They were from different regions and were each very special little oysters in their own special ways. But to me, they all just tasted like seawater. Like slimy globs of salt and water. Not for me. But then I tried oysters a second time and really liked them. So what lessons can we glean from this whirlwind of a tale? Lesson One: Try everything twice, once at a fancy restaurant and then the second time also at a fancy restaurant. Lesson Two: Go to the second annual Shuck ‘n Swallow oyster-eating event today at the Fork and Finch restaurant at the Canary Hotel (31 West Carrillo Street) at 1 pm. They’ll have food, drinks, competition, and general oyster-based good times. Get your tickets by searching nightout.com for the event.

June 30

Why do you hate music so much? What do you have against beauty and craft? It must be a sad life you live there, shielding yourself from great art all the time. Okay, I take it back. I didn’t mean it. It just hurts me that you were considering going all the way through this day without stopping by the Music Academy of the West (1070 Fairway Road) to take in some classical music. It’s free, after all. At 1 pm, the institution’s flautist fellows will take the stage for the Flute Masterclass in Weinman Hall. It’s a win-win type of situation if you look at it in the way I’ll explain after this colon: the fellows get to practice in front of a real live audience (that’s the first win), and you get to enrich your life with some music, for once (that’s the second win).

Tuesday July 1

June Gloom Officially Over

It’s the first day of a new month. Here’s what you do: Wake up at your normal time, but instead of brushing your teeth and evacuating your nighttime buildup of fluid, stay under the sheets. Now think about what you’ve done this month and how you’ve acted. Don’t get out of bed until you’ve mentally composed a list of at least 20 ways to make July better than June. Items could include: Be kind to co-workers; eat healthier; continue to ignore the World Cup; try tomatoes for the first time. Okay, now that you’ve made your list, it’s time to tackle it. Unfortunately, I can only help you with the healthy eating and the tomato eating. The Santa Barbara Farmers Market rotates around town, but today it’s on the 500 to 600 blocks of State Street from 4 to 7 pm. Go, buy healthy fruits and veggies and whatnot (that was the first thing on your list), and make sure to get at least one tomato to eat (that was your third thing). As for your other items, I say: screw your co-workers, who needs ‘em? Also: What, you don’t like soccer? Give it a chance, guy.

Wednesday

July 2

Trump the Hump

Some people refer to today as “hump day.” Ever hear that one? Yes, sir or ma’am, that’s the term some might use on a Wednesday just like this one. I never cared for the phrase myself, but it’s pretty common, so we’re all just going to have to get used to it. Well, to help you get over the week’s hump, maybe you just need to get over your own personal fitness hump to achieve your goals. Are you interested? Did I pique your interest? So, what am I saying? I barely know, but I’m trying to say that every Wednesday during the summer, you could, should you so choose, participate in Nite Moves, the hump day running and swimming event that goes down at 6 pm at Leadbetter Beach. If you like to run or swim – or both, one right after the other, like a true hump day badass – then you’ll want to strap on your Mizunos and run as fast as you possibly can to www. runsantabarbara.com to sign up.

Thursday July 3

What a Day

It only happens once a month, folks, and that’s just how the world works: First Thursday. Unless, of course, you figure time is a social construct, and, hey, what the heck is a “month” anyway, man? You guys dig? I’m thinking that you all do indeed dig very hard. But, it’s like I always say, you’ve got to work within the system to fight the system (that’s why I chose Calendar Writer as a career

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when my aptitude test told me I should just walk into the ocean). So bearing that in mind, though we might not believe in it, per se, we should still acknowledge that today is the first Thursday of the month, or, rather “month” – that’s better. So what happens on “First” “Thursday?” (This could get messy; for readability’s sake, just assume I’m doing that air-quotes gesture for every word following this parenthetical.) Now to answer that question you were definitely asking aloud as you were reading: Everything happens on First Thursday. Just go downtown and see for yourself as art-leaning establishments open the doors for your viewing pleasure. Take, for example, Artamo Gallery (11 West Anapamu Street), which will display Ann Baldwin’s collage and photo paintings. I mean, what the heck even is a photo painting? The whole time I was pursuing my master’s of fine art, none of my professors told me an artwork can be both a photo and a painting. I always thought you had to choose one or the other. Let’s learn together tonight at First Thursday. More info at www.santabarbaradowntown.com.

Friday July 4

What a Country

Let’s see, not much going on today. It’s just like any other ordinary Friday… you know, going to work and then going home, not celebrating America’s independence from Britain... Psyche! Gotcha! Did I get you? No? Well, you are just too smart. What’s someone as smart as you doing reading a calendar instead of performing brain surgery? Look, sweetie, obviously you already know today is Independence Day a.k.a. the Fourth of July. I kindly suggest you head to West Beach whenever you can (festivities start at noon) and steel yourself with hotdogs and beer and the American spirit in preparation for the fireworks show tonight. There’re other freedom-loving events going on around town like the Spirit of ’76 Parade (starts at 1 pm at State and Micheltorena). Of particular interest is the Fourth of July Old Mission Alternative Site Art Show. It was started a few years back when the non-alternative-site show was cancelled without a lot of notice, and artists being creative people and all, well, they just moved the show down the street. More than 50 local artists and craftspeople will participate; it’s at 2227 Garden Street from 10 am to 5 pm. But whatever it is you decide to do today, there’s one very important thing to remember. Here it is (are you ready?): Saying “May the Fourth be with you” is straight up played-out, dog. It wasn’t cute last year, was less cute on May fourth earlier this year, and will continue that trajectory for a few years until it gets funny to say in an ironic way, i.e., “The Borat Effect,” as in: “Hey, Happy Independence Day 2016. May the Fourth be with you! Remember when literally everyone you knew thought they were being cute posting that as their Facebook status? Hey, remember Facebook? My wife!” Happy Fourth, everybody.

Sunday July 6

Now That’s Service

It’s Sunday, shouldn’t you be in church? Maybe that’s not your “thang.” In that case, you could head out to what the Bible describes as the opposite of church: a bar. Specifically, Sandbar (514 State Street). Tonight is what they call Service Industry Night, meaning they’re offering drink specials ...continued p.12

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...continued from p.11 for those in the service industry. Finally, wait staff, cooks, and barkeeps: a reason to drink. Sandbar says to text “SBSIN” to 353535, but, honestly, I have no idea what that will accomplish. Maybe they send you a discount code back or something. Maybe they send you flirty texts during the day and then another one around closing time that just says “U up?” Either way, here’s to you, service industry folk, especially the ones with tattoos and neat haircuts that know more than anyone thought possible about wine or cheese or oysters or whatever other delicious fare you serve us all up.

Monday July 7

First Monday is Back Again

Well, well, well. If it isn’t First Monday. I didn’t think you’d have the nerve to show your face back here, First Monday. But I guess I should have known. You show up here every month, don’t you? You come back around here wanting us to go eat at delicious restaurants that are open on Mondays, and we do it, all because you’re First Monday. And scene! Folks, that was just a little bit of acting on my part. You see, I was pretending that First Monday was a sentient being that I could have a conversation with. Is that personification? Anthropomorphizing? The Pathetic Fallacy? Who knows – what am I, an English teacher? Nope, I am not, friends. I’m but a humble calendar writer. Here’s the real scoop: Days of the week, no matter how special they are – like First Monday, the day we pick a restaurant that’s open and then go eat at it – cannot interact with people. I mean, they’re days of the week; they can’t talk. What are you, crazy? But gee whiz, man, let’s get down to business, finally: Today we’re eating at Panino. That’s right, Jack. In fact, I’m having a sandwich at all three Santa Barbara locations, all because I can. Italian Combo in Goleta, English Stilton and Asian Pear downtown, and the Panino Cobb in Montecito. Maybe I’ll even have a soup and salad with each one. Why? Again: because I can. Get used to it. They’re open from 10 am to 4 pm.

Tuesday July 8

Brats and Beers

Let’s just go ahead and talk about the thing we’re all thinking about: bratwurst. We all love it and want to eat it for every meal. When we’re eating our sad oatmeal in the morning (yeah, you think putting those raisins in there makes that oatmeal less depressing? Think again.), we’re thinking about brats. When we pull out our pathetic little tuna sandwiches at our desks to eat over an Excel

spreadsheet, we’re thinking about brats. When we finally get home and microwave our Hungry Men, we’re thinking about brats. This is a universal truth; don’t you try to dispute it, you naysaying contrarian. So why don’t we all just go eat bratwurst for once? I say we do so at the Hoffmann Brat Haus (801 State Street) today at 6 pm. Wait, what is this, First Monday? Nope, it is not, friends. There’s a very special reason we’re going there today: They’re throwing a Tuesday Tasting. That means they’re going to pair European beers with sausage and cheese, all while explaining how these brews have influenced the American craft beer movement. Count me in, and pass me a brat!

Wednesday July 9

Who Likes Music?

If we’re talking music, my tastes, as all regular 15 Days readers know, lean mostly toward Steely Dan. Exclusively. If it ain’t The Dan, I don’t want to hear it, man. That’s what I’m always telling people, anyway. So when I heard Richard Thompson of Fairport Convention fame was playing the Lobero (33 East Canon Perdido Street) tonight at 8, my first reaction was to do that thing where you pretend to fall asleep while the person you’re talking to is still talking. Classic move. People love it. But then, this person kept saying how great Thompson is, how he’s made some classic albums, and what a great guitar player he is. So I checked it out, and, dang, it’s pretty good. Get your tix at www.lobero.com.

Thursday July 10

From the Heart

Quick: Name a place in Santa Barbara you’d love to see a concert. The top of the courthouse?! Okay, yeah, that would be pretty cool. But this one is not there. Sorry. The steps of the Mission?! Yeah, that would be awesome. Not happening, though. Set your expectations just a tad bit lower. Chase Palm Park?! Ding Ding Ding! Those dings are some sort of game show buzzer sound going off meant to convey to you that you, my amigo, have just hit the old nail right on its old, bald, sunburned – it really should wear a hat if it’s going to go out into the sun – head. The concert I aim to tell you about, the one performed by Captain Cardiac and the Coronaries, will go down at Chase Palm Park today at 6 pm. The best part? It’s completely free! But wait, maybe the best part will be the 50s and 60s hits that are so good they give you... a heart attack! Because of the band’s name! You get it!

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Friday July 11

Throwing Shades of Soul

A few weeks ago, Jeff Beak – oh, is it Jeff Wing? Oops, honest mistake. I knew the man was named after a bird somehow. (It wasn’t really a mistake. I wrote that on purpose to be disrespectful because I am seriously cheesed off at this guy. More on that soon.) Anyhow, this Wing character, a writer whose work appears in this very paper, wrote an article on the Santa Barbara music scene. Sounds pretty good, huh?! Well, I’ve got real news for you: It wasn’t. Ask me why. Well, since you asked, old Chicken Wing decided to write his article about bands from the eighties. I mean, can you believe the nerve of this guy? How dare he do that, when I grew up here in the seventies! I find it blatantly disrespectful that he wrote a whole article on Santa Barbara music yet completely disregarded my personal memories and opinions. I’m so P.O.’d, I’m still thinking of crafting a very cutting letter about it – really put him in his place. Maybe I’ll organize a whole letter-writing campaign. Either way, I’m coming for you, Turkey Breast. I say all this to say: All real Santa Barbarans who know real music will surely turn up to SOhO (1221 State Street) tonight at 7 for Shades of Soul. They’re a band from the best decade in SB music, the seventies, and they’ll be playing all the hits you crave. Get your tickets at the door.

Saturday July 12

Feelin’ French

Freedom people – whoops, sorry – I mean French people. (That’s just a tick I picked up in 2003, the year Bob Ney renamed “French fries” on the menu of the congressional cafeteria to “freedom fries” after the French opposed our invasion of Iraq, and when I learned to use Wikipedia.) Like I was saying, French people are great. I enjoy their Nutella crepes, their bread, their striped shirts, and their fries, just to name a few things. But you know what I like most about France? The Santa Barbara French Festival here in Santa Barbara. It’s a great day in Oak Park (300 West Alamar Avenue) where you can get a taste of France without leaving city limits. There’ll be food, music, dance, and – of course – the poodle parade. It’s free! Happy Bastille Day (in a couple days)!

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...continued from p.8 over the years in the music industry, I am totally at home within a recording studio – digital, analog, or my very own basement.

Hidden within a City

So when I found out there was a new recording studio tucked perfectly within the Funk Zone, I clapped my hands and scooted over to meet with Elliott Lanam, the owner and head engineer at Hidden City Studios, on the corner of Garden and Yananoli. First off, I must report, the studio itself is hidden within a woodworking building that used to be the production studio for none other than Hall and Oates. (“Maneater”? “Rich Girl”? “Private Eyes”... anyone?) Just that tidbit of music history might be what gives Hidden City Studios its retro-cool feel, dripping with low lighting, rock memorabilia, and vintage equipment strewn around like every musician’s fantasy, like a classic Hammond organ, and plenty of classic Fender crate amps to create those rich guitar tones of the 60s and 70s. The studio itself is made up of four (six if you count the vocal and drum booths), two control rooms and two live rooms – and I gotta say, the vibe is really cool, super low-key, and comfortable. It’s absolutely perfect for an artist to feel at home in order to release his or her soul songs properly.

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Elliott Lanam opened his pro-tools driven Hidden City just five months ago and already word is spreading around town of his engineering talents, reasonable rates ($50 an hour folks) and the downright cool factor of Hidden City itself. Elliott began his journey in music behind a piano at the young age of seven, moving through teachers and styles, ending with a passion for keyboards, the blues and jazz. It was through his own music and recording his passion that brought him to want to work at the largest studio in Santa Barbara, Sound Design Studios, where he interned for three years gaining knowledge working with the likes of Depeche Mode and the Jacksons, then moving over to Playback

Studios, where he became a paid engineer and producer, working with Santa Barbara’s darling Katy Perry, before venturing out on his own and creating Hidden City Studios.

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“I worked at those high-end studios for years and they are totally amazing with all the gear and consoles, but what I wanted to create here at Hidden City, was an accessible atmosphere, where artists could come and record their music and not go broke. Because, who are we kidding? Musicians don’t tend to have a lot of money.” Elliott smiles and I’m nodding in agreement, thinking of almost every musician I know and love. “I spend about fourteen hours a day here, I sometimes don’t even go home if I’m working on a session. I love that an artist will come in as a stranger, and when

they leave, we are like best friends. It’s an amazing experience to have with someone. I get to make people’s dreams come true. They come here with a song, sometimes just an idea, and we suss it out together, getting the best recording possible, and they leave with that song in their hand. It’s a pretty cool job to have; they really are a star for a day.” Is his studio for the huge musical stars? Maybe, Elliott says, but mostly they stick to the big studios in town. For now at least, he tends to work with the first time recordings to the mid-level acts, dabbling in voiceovers and jingles for commercial use – that is until the big shots discover the hidden gem within the always-happening Funk Zone. Book your time soon, before Elliott raises his rates because he is so damn busy. He is such a nice guy, you will be at ease and in your creative zone in no time, enabling you to record your dreams, one song at a time. Hidden City Studios: www. hiddencitystudios.com, (650) 454-5459

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It’s Downright Criminal I like free literature, and your paper (though mostly filled with boring stories that advertise local businesses) was worth the price until I opened the last one. No CrimeTime?! The only other half-decent section is the Presidio Sports, which spotlights local athletes – not L.A. or other big-city hipster chefs who have relocated to S.B. so they have less competition, can overcharge, and hire good-looking servers who use improper grammar – “How’s it tasting?” Anyway – who cares about these restaurants, or about real estate being expensive (June 14 ) –we know about that. Of course, there were a lot more real estate broker ads last issue and the usual restaurant ones. So, I’m sure you guys are making money – good job – but without Crime Time, your paper blows. Sincerely, C. Cochrane (Publisher’s Note: Don’t mince words – please, say what you really mean. As for CrimeTime, a revamped version will bless these pages soon. – T.L.B.)

The Unanswered Question

Working with various colleagues over many years, French economist Thomas Piketty has collected and analyzed a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. The results are reported in his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty observes that the main driver of wealth inequality – the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth – today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. He also points out that since economic trends are not acts of God, political action can curb these dangerous inequities as it has in the past. Several issues ago, [Jeff Harding] wrote a column in this publication criticizing Piketty’s book. I wrote a letter commenting on your column that concluded by asking, “How can we promote a healthy relationship between capitalism and democracy?” Unfortunately, you have responded to my query with assertions like these: “Wealth inequality is a fake issue,” “There is no permanent wealthy elite,”

and, “What is a threat to democracy is the ascendancy of the Progressive ideas that you support, which advocate the centralization of authority in the hands of a cadre of bureaucrats who usurp our rights to make our own economic decisions.” At the same time that you make those unsubstantiated assertions, you characterize my comments this way: “The reason these discussions go nowhere [is that] heartfelt assertions not supported by data or theory do not constitute an argument.” The irony is that the criticism you direct at me accurately describes the character of your own comments. A better understanding of the relationship between capitalism and democracy could improve the way our country works for all of us. This issue deserves a discussion that goes beyond ideological posturing. Will you begin this important conversation by writing a column that responds to my question in a constructive way? Regards, John D. Kelley Santa Barbara (Jeff Harding replies: Very nice letter, well written, but you don’t offer anything other than to say Piketty is a great guy, wrote a big book, and comes to the conclusion that wealth inequality is driven by capital’s greater return as a percentage of GDP: r > g where r is “capital” and g is “output” (or GDP). You offer nothing to support Piketty. Even many mainstream economists (e.g., Larry Summers) have eviscerated Piketty’s claims, data, and conclusions. If you believe in Marxist economic theory, as does Piketty, then you will like him. If you believe Marxism is a failed theory, you won’t. Piketty doesn’t understand capital theory or capital’s role in the economy. His conclusion that we must destroy capital to bring down the rich in order to promote wealth equality is absurd on its face and would lead to mass poverty in this world. That, my friend is much more dangerous to democracy than the phantoms that Piketty fears. Too bad you or he can’t see that. John, I can’t convince you, so I’m not going to try. You reject all of my arguments outright without any facts or theory to support them other than “Piketty says.” I’ve contradicted many of Piketty’s claims, which are the basis of ...continued p.19

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Ingredients in Place All Along for Great Season at Dos Pueblos by Barry Punzal

Stamatia Scarvelis sets the bar high at Dos Pueblos.

he dents and divots from long shot put and discus throws can be filled, but the marks Stamatia Scarvelis recorded at Dos Pueblos High figure to last for a long, long time. Scarvelis capped a brilliant high school track and field career by winning the throws double at the CIF State Championships and three-peating as the girls shot put champion. She became the first prep girl to win three straight shot put titles in 30 years. She rewrote the school record book several times in her career, and leaves DP as its most decorated track and field athlete of all-time. The records that others will be shooting for are 53-3.50 in the shot put and 172-7 in the discus. Both were set this year, during a season in which she won every competition. DP track coach Chris Mollkoy called Scarvelis “the greatest athlete I have ever had the privilege of coaching or being associated with. Her work ethic, attitude and fierceness as a competitor put her in a category all by herself.” Presidio Sports is pleased to recognize Scarvelis as the Sports Figure of the Month. “I’m really happy with what I was able to do,” said Scarvelis about her high school accomplishments. Now it’s on to national competition and a shot at making the U.S. team for the World Junior Championships before heading off to UCLA. Scarvelis is preparing for the U.S. Track and Field Junior National

Championships, July 5-6, at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. The event serves as the qualifier for the IAAF World Junior Championships, which also will be held at Hayward Field, July 22-27. At the junior nationals, she’ll be competing against the U.S. high school leader in the shot put, Raven Saunders of Burke, S.C., (56-8.25), number three-ranked Ashlie Blake of Liberty, Nevada (51-7.25) – Scarvelis is number two – and the top collegiate freshmen. “I definitely think some PRs are going to be made,” she said. Leslie Wiggins Roth, the former Dos Pueblos track coach, said one of the many qualities that impresses her about Scarvelis is grace under pressure. “She is obviously one of the most talented athletes in the country, and competing at that level comes with tremendous amounts of stress and attention to detail,” Wiggins Roth said. “She deals with that stress incredibly well, always demonstrating grace, composure and a smile. I think it is her family that has given her the confidence to be so competitive and carefree at the same time. Brothers Steven and Nic push her harder than anyone to be the most competitive person she can; she is always trying to keep up with them. Her father, George, helps her to be disciplined and to realize how to set and achieve her goals. Her mom, Alexandra, is the one who shows her how to be genuine toward others, how to control her emotions and not get too caught up

in the little things. Stamatia is blessed with an incredible support system that allows her to really shine.” As she stood at the top of the podium following her third state shot put title, Scarvelis said she thought about all the support she’s received from her family and her personal coaches Ken and Ramona Pagel during her high school career. “I was happy to do what I needed to do to win, realizing how much of my success goes to the people that surround me like my family and my coaches,” she said. Her brothers provided a big inspiration to her success. “I went to DP because my brothers were on the record board, so I wanted to be on the record board,” she said. Her name will be up there for a long time.

Beautiful Gamers: SBSC U18s Use Talent, Teamwork

here was a time when the core group of the Santa Barbara Soccer Club’s Boys Under-18 team suffered through 8-0 and 9-0 losses when it ventured down south for weekend tournaments. That was when they were 10. That core group has since blossomed into premier players and, together with talented players from around the tricounties, they now beat those clubs that handed them lopsided losses years ago. “The tables have been turned completely,” U18s assistant coach Jesus Landeros said. In May, the SBSC U18s captured the California Youth Soccer Association’s So Cal State Championship and qualified for the U.S. Youth Soccer Far West Regionals in Albuquerque, N.M. They were joined in New Mexico by the club’s U16 team, which is seeking a third straight national title. Rudy Ybarra is the coach for both teams. The U18s have some of the best high school seniors and juniors in the Santa Barbara area. They include Robbie Landeros (San Marcos), Pepe Barron (Santa Barbara High), Robert Soto (SBHS), Jumoke Hutton (SBHS), Ricky Arroyo (Carpinteria, SBCC),

Julio Rubio (Dos Pueblos), Geoffrey Acheampong (Cate), Damian Nunez (Laguna Blanca) and Ryan Bickett (Laguna Blanca). From the county are Abu Danladi (Dunn School), Miguel Padron (Pioneer Valley), Ricky Reyes (Lompoc), Juan Robles (Hancock College), Daniel Gail (Santa Ynez) and Noah Blacker (Santa Ynez). Players from Ventura County include Damian Calderon (Nordhoff), Auggie Andrade (Nordhoff), Conor Daly (Nordhoff), Erik Ambriz (Santa Paula), Randy Mendoza (Santa Paula) and Joe Hernandez (Ventura). The players are skillful and talented, but Landeros is quick to note their success is a credit to the excellent coaching they’ve received in their time with the club. “One of the key aspects of the kids’ development is they’ve had some of the best coaches in the area,” said Landeros, citing Matt Winecki, Lloyd Biggs and current coach Ybarra “(The players) been very fortunate to have consistently good guys teaching, massaging and expanding their game.” Ybarra, in particular, has been instrumental in the club’s recent success. “The man knows the game inside and out, and he’s able to pass that on to the kids,” Landeros said of the former Santa Barbara High coach. “It’s one thing to have talent, it’s a whole other thing to know what to do with it and recognize what’s going on in a certain game. That’s what Rudy brings to the table. Rudy is a proven winner at every level.” Danladi is the marquee player on the squad. He was named the Gatorade National Player of the Year and has a scholarship to UCLA. But the SBSC U18s have proven they can win without Danladi. “Everybody gets caught up with a player like Abu,” Landeros said. “He is a player at another level, and I expect him to play professionally. However, this is a special group of players. There is talent up and down the roster. One of the things that was nice for them was to go through this most recent competition without Abu. It just

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reiterated to everybody: ‘That you guys are solid. Obviously, you’re a special team with him, but you’re an excellent team without him as well.’” The team is so deep in soccer talent that it has allowed Ybarra to move players into different positions without any problems. Landeros is a perfect example. He was an attacking midfielder at San Marcos. On the club team, he plays center back along side Randy Mendoza. The pair has been outstanding. The defense allowed only six goals during the National Cup. The outside backs are Hutton and Arroyo. Barron, a 20-goal scorer at Santa Barbara High, also has played at an outside back position. “At the level we play, these guys can all play,” Landeros said. “It goes back to using the talents you have on the team to make it a strong team. Rudy sets up the formation in accordance to our opponent.” Acheampong runs the attack in the midfield. The other midfielders are Rubio, Calderon and Andrade, who will be joining Robbie Landeros at the University of Seattle in the fall. Barron, Danladi, and Padron are the forwards. Landeros said Padron stepped up big at the National Cup. “Miguel had an outstanding National Cup,” he said. “He’s just a dangerous guy. Teams tend to focus on Abu because he gets all the attention, but when Miguel gets on the board it’s very likely he’s going to get a hat trick. “That’s the strength of the team. It’s not one guy we rely on. It’s a team game.”

Far West Regional Update

t was a thrill-ride of a final for the Santa Barbara Soccer Club’s boys Under-18 team at the United States Youth Soccer Far West Regionals in Albuquerque, New

Mexico. Miguel Padron scored four goals, and Santa Barbara bounced back from a 2-0 deficit inside the first 10 minutes and beat Southern California rival FRAM Premier of Palos Verdes 5-3 for the regional title and a berth in the USYS National Championships in Maryland next month. Padron, the offensive MVP of the Pac 7 League from Pioneer Valley High, scored in the 30th minute and in firsthalf stoppage time to square the match at 2-2 at halftime. He gave Santa Barbara the lead three minutes into the second half and scored again in the 85th minute for a 4-2 advantage. FRAM responded quickly with a goal from Grant Sampson. Geoffrey Acheampong sealed the win for Santa Barbara in the 91st minute. Padron and Acheampong finished 1-2 in goal scoring in the division, with eight and seven respectively. Overall, the 18s went 6-0 at the Far West Regional. This was the second time SBSC and FRAM played each other in a final this year. SBSC beat the Palos Verdes-based team in the championship of the Cal South National Cup in May. SBSC’s U16 team gave Santa Barbara another Far West Regional title, as the 16s successfully three-peated by beating Arizona’s SC del Sol, 2-1, in the final in Albuquerque. Like the 18s, the 16s advance to the USYS National Championships in Germantown, Maryland, where they will be seeking a third straight national title. In the regional final, Santa Barbara got first-half goals from Francisco Arroyo and Sahid Conteh and the defense shut out SC del Sol in the second half. Arroyo gave Santa Barbara an early lead with a goal in the fourth minute. But SC Del Sol equalized in the 14th minute. Conteh scored the eventual game-winner in the 37th minute.

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by James Luksic A longtime writer, editor and film critic, James has

worked nationwide for several websites and publications – including the Dayton Daily News, Key West Citizen, Topeka Capital-Journal and Santa Ynez Valley Journal. California is his eighth state. When he isn’t watching movies or sports around the Central Coast, you can find James writing and reading while he enjoys coffee and bacon, or Coke and pizza.

Cold Front On The Horizon

ar as I can tell, July’s cinematic forecast on the Central Coast looks unseasonably lukewarm. Almost halfway through the year, I still haven’t seen a more satisfying film than The Lunchbox – delivered fresh from India – nor a more impressive performance than Jude Law’s in Dom Hemingway. Does the fact Tom Cruise’s thriller Edge of Tomorrow is currently in my top five say more about Hollywood or me? Summer’s mainstream mix will offer Sex Tape, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Tammy, and Begin Again – the last of which seems most capable of delivering, based on its star power: Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Keira Knightley, Adam Levine, and Catherine Keener. Upon reflection, the June swoon didn’t blur the silver screen. This edition’s batch of reviews is comprised of two enjoyable (albeit imperfect) pictures and a comedic sequel that serves up less laughs than redundant lunacy:

Boys Of Summer

ny fans of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons should get nostalgic pleasure from Clint Eastwood’s biopic Jersey Boys, based on the acclaimed Broadway show. It is often diverting and enjoyable, though it’s fair to say the filmmaker and jazz aficionado doesn’t possess the dramatic touch within this genre as he does for Westerns and other blood-soaked pictures. The narrative, which rotates a handful of narrators speaking to the camera, follows the New Jersey band’s background and struggles (“It was the musical equivalent of room service”) en route to the top. The primary speaker isn’t John Lloyd Young as Frankie but charismatic Vincent Piazza as Tommy, who struts away with the movie in a casual and sly, wholly organic manner. If you employ one guy to serve as your story’s frontman, he’d better be personable; Piazza is incapable of a

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false gesture and thus comes off as authentic, rather than a narcissist in a hallway of mirrors. Christopher Walken, meanwhile, manages to tone things down as an obscenely rich mobster. As the picture motors along, we’re treated to the standard hits of Frankie’s foursome: “Sherry”, “Walk Like A Man”, “Stay”, and – though I bemoaned the script’s belabored setup for it – “Big Girls Don’t Cry”. The production’s downside emerges when the screenplay veers into pedantic, dumbed-down territory. (At one point, the so-called Joe Pesci character actually asks, “Funny how?” as if tossing a cheap homage to Scorsese’s GoodFellas.) The director’s uneven Bird, spotlighting Charlie Parker, was a minor success. This time, Eastwood has the knack to smooth out any bumps with gorgeous glimpses, including a climactic tete-a-tete within a booth at the quartet’s favorite diner. The two actors involved and cinematographer Tom Stern (who also shot Eastwood’s Hereafter) handle it expertly, as snowflakes fall gently outside the window to frame a perfect moment. That sequence injects harmony, not unlike the Four Seasons’ singing, into the band members’ internal conflicts that over-inflate the drama.

Happy Meals

hef is a slushy and feel-good dramedy starring Jon Favreau (who also wrote and directed) as the titular cook in a high-brow restaurant whose owner refuses to change the menu. The hero, who prefers to get creative with culinary dishes, insists on altering the bistro’s “specials” for Los Angeles’ acclaimed food critic (Oliver Platt). It’s all rather straightforward and fundamental, including a subplot centering around the chef ’s estranged wife (Sofia Vergara, never better) and their bored son. As the hero veers toward pursuing his dream in the form of meals on wheels, social media comes strongly to the fore: his son frequently shoots photos and records their adventures via cellphone, while Twitter ignites a personal and profane debate. Favreau stacks the support high, serving up first-rate John Leguizamo, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, and Bobby Cannavale (Blue Jasmine), among the crew. Too bad Robert Downey Jr., who can actually be warm and personable as proven in Chaplin and The Soloist, here reverts to smug indifference – full of starch, if you will – in a cameo as the wealthy ex-husband. Throughout the technical gadgetry and sandwich-making bravado, Favreau’s moral to the story is all too clear: strive to redeem yourself and be happy. It’s an old and contrived message, wrapped in shiny tin foil.

Jump Dump

he script of 22 Jump Street, a sequel to 21 Jump Street from just two years ago, pits the same players: two undercover cops (Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill) assigned by their superior to infiltrate a college campus to nail drug dealers. Early on, we realize the script will be stuffed with groaners when a participant refers to the transparent office of their captain (Ice Cube) as a “cube of ice.” By now, all actors on board have become too comfortable, at ease with such buffoonery. Hill, to his credit, is a natural when called upon to be attacked, teased, or beaten; this time, an octopus and sassy coed get the best of him. Conversely, Tatum seems most effective when playing it cool and deadpan, rather than getting hysterical – such as when he learns about the captain’s daughter. Particulars of the case are mind-numbingly simple: a young lady has died at the hands of a dealer with a distinctive tattoo. Lo and behold, the suspect might just be a college football star with whom Tatum bonds. His crime-fighting partner gets jealous about their fractured friendship and pouts a lot. The person pegged as the guilty party is quite a stretch, and the pursuit of justice knows no boundaries, steering into Fast & Furious territory.

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...continued from p.15 his conclusions, but that doesn’t deter you as a true believer, so there is no point to continue this discussion. If you wish to learn, then I can point you to alternate views of the world, views of which you are not aware. You would find eye-opening economists Robert Murphy and Carlos Lara’s analysis of Piketty. Please Google the Free Advice blog where you will find an article titled “Full Review of Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” Also, you should read an article by economist Donald Boudreaux in Barron’s titled “Piketty: A Wealth of Misconceptions.” There are many, many more criticisms of his flaws and inaccuracies that I can point out to you, if you are willing to hear something other than your choir. The problem with this forum is that I cannot possibly do a thorough analysis of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, so

I have pointed out the major flaws which are understandable to a non-economist. The articles mentioned above do a much better job of it. John, this conversation is boring, so unless you can come up with something to say, this is the end. – J.H.)

In The Books

To say that Thomas Piketty adds nothing to the discussion of the history of capitalism in his Capital in the TwentyFirst Century, is like saying Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations added nothing to economic history when it was published in 1776. Adam Smith was a Scottish professor of moral philosophy, while Thomas Piketty is the modern equivalent, a French professor of macroeconomics and the first with Emmanuel Saenz to research 200 years of economic history that documents just how wealth is distributed in good times or bad. Piketty’s

book is indeed historic in this regard. It is true that Professor Piketty does not expend a lot of words on the effects of wealth inequality. But Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s book, The Spirit Level, does. It documents the soaring crime rates, including gun violence, lower social mobility, and education levels, as well as poorer health outcomes that occur in nations with high Gini coefficients (the agreed upon measure of income inequality), such as the USA. And it is well-known that much of the current anti-democratic policies— including the suppression of minority voters’ rights, collective bargaining, degradation of environmental regulations, opposition to progressive taxation, and even women’s right to plan their own families, have all happened over the past 30 years and a return to the record income

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pproximately 30 miles north of Santa Barbara, situated between the Santa Ynez Mountains to the south and the San Rafael Mountains to the north is the Santa Ynez Valley. Originally inhabited by the Chumash Indians, the valley has a rich history and culture, and spills over with natural beauty. Ancient oaks stretch out over rolling hills, and vineyards line the countryside, soaking up the sun and relishing in the moderate climate of cool nights and warm days. The valley offers up casual and peaceful country living while boasting an impressive collection of world-class wines (and beer), art galleries, restaurants, bakeries, shopping, orchards, vineyards, top-notch schools, parks, hotels, spas, entertainment, fairs, parades, hiking trails, and markets. A true treasure of Santa Barbara County, the valley has a population of about 20,000 residents living in the communities of Santa Ynez, Solvang, Los Olivos, Ballard, and Buellton.

Solvang anish for “sunny fields,” the city of Solvang was founded in 1911 on almost 9,000

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Santa Ynez he town that gave the valley its name is the township of Santa Ynez – named after

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ocated roughly 15 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, the city of Goleta (lovingly referred to by community members as the Goodland) is home to about 30,000 people. The area, which was an unincorporated portion of Santa Barbara County until 2002, offers a family-friendly place to call home. The draw? Exceptional schools, beautiful parks, a warm climate, and less expensive housing prices, compared to many other downtown Santa Barbara neighborhoods. “We see a lot of young families choosing Goleta to get a little more space and land for their money,” says Goleta and Santa Barbara realtor Marie Sue Parsons. The current median home price in Goleta is $803,500 (not including condo sales), slightly down from $830,000 from just one year ago. Parsons says the market is traditionally a sellers’ market, with low inventory of homes at any given time. There are currently 74 active listings in Goleta. “Typically we see a well-priced home garner multiple offers very quickly,” she said. Recently though, the market has slowed, and homes are staying available for a longer period of time, possibly due to the increased average price. “It is very difficult to find a home under $750,000 that is in decent condition,” she said. The high prices and high demand are likely due to several factors that appeal to homebuyers: nearby employment opportunities at thriving business districts (Deckers Outdoor, Raytheon, Citrix Online, Yardi Systems, and others); proximity to UC Santa Barbara (which remains one of the largest employers in Goleta, with more than 1,000 Mortgage Solutions faculty members); family-oriented parks, including Tucker’s Grove, Girsh Park, Ellwood

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Mesa, and Goleta Beach Park and the pier; a planned ice skating rink in the near future (still in the funding phase); numerous shopping centers; local hospitals; two major golf courses (Sandpiper and Glen Annie); lots of biking and walking trails (including around picturesque Lake Los Carneros); Bacara Resort & Spa; and annual community festivals like the Lemon Festival (a nod to Goleta’s citrus and avocado history), Fiesta Ranchera, concerts at the Stow House, and more. “I raised my own kids in Goleta’s parks and at the beach; it’s a wonderful place to raise a family,” Parsons added. While Goleta is only roughly eight square miles in size, it boasts more than a dozen elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as at least 10 distinct neighborhoods, some of which are defined by the school district in which they’re located. In addition to young families, homebuyers tend to be business professionals employed in Goleta, and university professors and faculty. Goleta is also a great place for first-time buyers, who don’t mind paying a little less for a fixer-upper in some of the older neighborhoods, such as Old Town. Several new housing developments are in the works within Goleta city limits. The Bluffs, a luxury gated housing development with 62 single-family homes, finished construction last year, while Village of Los Carneros, a massive 465-unit development featuring single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes, townhomes, condos, and apartments, along with pools and recreation areas, just received approval from the Goleta Planning Commission earlier this week. The development, to be built on a currently vacant 40acre site near Los Carneros Road, just south of the 101, is marketed as being a provider of workforce housing for the city. Out near Sandpiper, on Hollister Road, another housing community is nearly complete: The Hideaway, a mix of 101 residences in the form of townhomes, single-family residences, studios, condos, and carriage units. Real estate prices in Goleta will be interesting to watch in the next few months and years, as an influx of available units may cause prices to stabilize, or possibly decrease. One thing is for sure: a homebuyer looking to buy in Goleta will soon have lots of choices, and whatever house they settle on, the charm of the Goodland will make it a home.

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Graduate Student Sticks with Adhesion

sincerely believe that some graduate students are superheroes. Where I could barely manage to keep up with my research and hit the gym regularly, they somehow do it all and then some. Nadine Martinez, a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Development Biology at UC Santa Barbara, is one such superhero. Nadine arrived at UCSB with four young children, and a fifth on the way. Instead of looking for an extended leave of absence when her son was born, Nadine took four weeks off before returning to the lab. Since then, she has been a powerhouse not only in her department, but in two different departments on campus. Nadine works with both Dr. Herbert Waite, the head of the Waite Lab in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Development Biology, and Dr. Jacob Israelachvili, the head of the Interfacial Sciences Lab. When Nadine described her work to me, I have to admit, it went over my head. That doesn’t happen often. It took many questions, diligent notes,

A self-professed science nerd, Rachelle has her B.A. in neuroscience from Skidmore College in upstate New York, and is working towards her Master’s in psychology at UCSB. In her free time, she blogs at www.synapticspeculations. com. She never could quite understand why she had to choose just one area of science; they are all fascinating. Especially when paired with some classic rock.

and countless re-readings of her labs’ most recent scientific publications for me to even begin to grasp what her research focuses on. Nadine is currently concentrating on a cross-departmental study investigating wet adhesion – or the ability of a substance to “stick” to another even in wet conditions – on the molecular level. It may seem a bit odd to study wet adhesion, but it has many surprising applications in the biomedical field. After all, our internal organs, our bones, and our teeth are all

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wet. Finding an adhesive inspired by nature that will adhere to wet organs or bones would be extremely beneficial to medicine. In order to study wet adhesion in the natural world, Nadine uses mussels as a model organism. Mussels, as you probably know from your trips to the beach, attach themselves to rocks and other hard objects – generally referred to as substrates – in the intertidal regions for the duration of their lives. They are almost always submerged underwater, yet they adhere to their substrates almost as well as wall paint sticks to my rug. In order to understand what makes them cling so well, Nadine has studied many of the proteins contained in the viscous secretions of the mussel that attaches to a substrate and hardens into a byssus, or a group of strong thread-like structures. One such protein in mussel foot protein 3s (mfp3s), a protein that remains stable and functional across a wide of pH range. Extensive research on this single protein resulted in an interesting discovery: the protein mfp3s adheres to hydroxyapatite extremely well. Yeah, I didn’t know what hydroxyapatite was either. It’s a naturally occurring mineral rich in calcium. It just so happens to be present in our bones and our teeth. While mfp3s is not adhesive under human physiological conditions, similar proteins – such as the recombinant protein rmefp-1 – are adhesive under physiological conditions. Imagine what we could do with a synthetic version of those proteins!

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ne thing I’ve learned in my life is that there is very little new under the sun. History is something we think we know, but we don’t and thus we keep making the same damned mistakes over and over. Alas. Okay, yes, there is technology and that has changed our lives in many positive ways. But that’s not what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about the way Homo sapiens organize themselves into societies. Amazingly over the millennia, there have been few models of social organization. In almost all of them, a hierarchical power structure emerges that seeks to control the group. From clan to village to tribe to nation to state, someone always end up with the sword. Without government (and its use of force), it’s advocates say, we would have anarchy and chaos. That argument has been used to justify government intrusion into every cranny of our lives. By their definition, nothing in our day-to-day lives would be possible without the government

helping us each step of the way. The result of this philosophy is that most of our legislatures, from our cities to the county to the California Assembly to Congress, have become our worst mothers and often harshest fathers, “protecting” us from ourselves, nudging us in directions they think will solve society’s ills, or punishing us for certain behaviors (such as what we want to smoke or drink). Fortunately for us, human nature has a perverse way of doing the opposite of what our legislative mamas and papas want. You should know that I’m one of those types who doesn’t like to be told what to do. I think I am perfectly capable in deciding what I should do or not do when I get up in the morning, so long as it doesn’t interfere with your right to do whatever the hell you want to do. Which makes me a bit sensitive to authority when it smacks into me. So when I read that more than 800 new laws were enacted by the California

legislature in 2013 (the list of the titles of the new laws runs 55 pages), it gets me quite choleric. I looked up our local legislators, Hannah-Beth Jackson in the California Senate and Das Williams in the Assembly. In the 2013-14 legislative session, Jackson sponsored 47 bills and Williams 40. Hanna-Beth never saw a “wrong” she didn’t think needed a law to make it “right.” Jeez, lay off, will ya! According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, “In 2013, all 50 states… enacted nearly 40,000 bills and resolutions.” Yikes, 40,000! I am sure that we got along just fine the prior year without those 40,000 new laws. The problem with the do-good theory of legislation is unintended consequences. Our legislators have no clue what the outcomes of these swarm of laws will be. They don’t measure the ultimate cost and

“The problem with great ideas such as those in our founding documents is that they lose steam over time.”

burdens on those afflicted with these laws. And we wonder why we drive people who actually do things like create jobs out of California. Maybe it has something to do with the cumulative weight of all these do-good laws? Let’s step back a minute and talk about the purpose of government. History revealed to our founders the unfortunate consequences of a powerful central government. So they decided to invent a new country from scratch. The United States of America was a bold experiment to rein in government power: a first in history. The original idea of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution was that we are all born with rights that can’t be taken away… by anyone, especially government. “… all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness [a euphemism for property]”. We rule government, not the other way around. The problem with great ideas such as

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those in our founding documents is that they lose steam over time. It’s not that they don’t work. They do and those in our Constitution are the only ideas of social organization in all of history that have created freedom, well being, and prosperity. Why do they lose steam? There is something about human nature that creates some people with the desire to rule others by force. Some are better at wielding the stick than others. The flip side of that is that some people want to be ruled. Give them freebies, and they will gladly throw human rights and natural law out the window. It’s been a constant tug of war between these two factions since the beginning of the U. S. of A. The result is that the stick wielders have gained dominance and, based on current trends, we will eventually lose the freedoms which are essential to a healthy, free, and prosperous society and our great experiment will – like many great civilizations – sink into history’s muck. You think me alarmist? Not too long ago, persecuting post-Slavery AfricanAmericans with Jim Crow laws was acceptable. Or how about putting American citizens in concentration camps during WWII? Or how about FDR’s New Deal trying to create a Soviet-style, centrally planned economy? These actions weren’t created by dictators or military juntas: it was done by legislation in a supposedly free society that thought it was okay to toss out human rights. We do this, my friends, because we forget what made us great. We are capable. I’m not saying that Hanna-Beth and Das want to toss us into concentration camps; that would be missing my point. The point is that we are losing freedoms by little increments that don’t even register on the alarm meter (death by a thousand little cuts). Yet eventually, we will wake up in the morning and realize that our governments have more control over our lives than we do. This do-goodism, while well meaning, will end up suffocating us. So, Hanna-Beth, Das, and Lois Capps, I don’t mean to pick on you unfairly. But you think your job is to pass legislation to “fix” us. With all due respect, we don’t need it. Just stop. Maybe for one year, you can just back off and stop passing new laws. They are burdensome and, as far as I can tell, haven’t done much to improve our lot. Then see how it goes. If we fall into chaos, then I will grant you the point. I think we’ll be just fine without them.

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Friends and founders of Art of Craft: Tu Pham, Derek Galkin, and Sal Masakela (Photo credit John Bostwick)

rt of Craft. Contemplate this for a moment: the words directly spell out the intention of the Santa Barbara-based enterprise. Founded 11 years ago, Art of Craft is unlike any business you’ve ever seen or heard. A conduit for creative forces to come together for exclusive projects, Art of Craft brings art and philanthropy together in a fresh and genuine way. It’s not just about making products to sell, it’s collaborative efforts of artists, at their pinnacle, joining together to do philanthropic deeds while challenging, creating, and preserving crafts for future generations. This is the Art of Craft, and it’s alive and well in our fair city. Here’s how it works: the beginning of each month introduces a craft and artisan. Together, AoC and artist of choice design a collection based around the artist’s livelihood. Ten percent of sales goes to the artist’s selected cause of choice. On the 15th of each month brings the “Celebrate Design Co-op”, a permanent collection in which 10 percent of sales directly fund an Art of Craft scholarship, continuing growth and interest for future generations to explore the artistic lifestyle as a career. A perfect example of how the company makes a difference is played out through the collaboration with Nathan Sawaya, an acclaimed New York/Los Angeles-based artist who creates artwork and large scale sculptures using LEGO bricks. Sawaya always had a desire to add a philanthropic angle to his business and getting involved with Art of Craft pushed him to finally launch his foundation, Art Revolution.

Art of Craft was the spark that pushed the artist far enough to not just pick a foundation to contribute, but to actually start his own. One of the most thought-provoking aspects of Art of Craft is the story of its founders. Let’s introduce the players. Born in Vietnam, Tu Pham is the cool, calm, and collected feminine energy that creates and protects the overall brand image through graphic art, keeping the business on solid ground. Her creative conscience awakened in college. As a veterinarian school-bound college co-ed, she took a class in photography that changed the course of her life into the world of art. Tu started to manipulate photos in the dark room at college and became one of the last designers to physically cut and paste projects. (Exacto knife and glue, no keyboards – authentic graphic design.) “When Derek asked me to hop on board, I was super-excited,” she says. “To meet people who do creative, cool things built into a business and on top of that and, with the charities, helping people who don’t have the marketing and fashion sense, helping them have a business marketing understanding... being able to help all these people and being able to enjoy it at the same time is pretty awesome.” Derek Galkin, also co-founder with Steven Tiller of locally loved and nationally respected shoe company SeaVees, is the action man, the connector, and the executioner. With an extensive career building brands and business, this born-and-bred Californian’s wheels are constantly turning, inventing new ways to connect with consumers. He explains,

Me, too! Collaborative effort with former J.Crew lead menswear designer Todd Snyder benefiting the “Celebrate Design Co-op” collection to fund Art of Craft’s annual scholarship. (Photo credit Art of Craft)

“For me, it was the desire to celebrate and give back. I spent the majority of my career building brands, and my successes have come from surrounding myself with amazing artisans. I realized that those artisans are so consumed with what they do every day that a lot of times they don’t get to stop and get to celebrate their craft. “Simultaneously, I think a lot of entrepreneurs have the desire to have a philanthropic angle to their business but just don’t know how to do it. Art of Craft was that opportunity to build a medium that allowed us to celebrate what people do all day and their passions, as well as be able to give back to preserve the future of their craft. It was a strong desire to feed that need, the missing piece of what we do. As Tu would say, it’s inspiring and preserving crafts.” The final piece of the puzzle is Sal Masakela – the voice, the creative child, and Jack-of-all-trades of the pack (though they all are respected Jacks and Jills in their own right). NYC-born and Californiaraised, Sal is widely known as the voice of ESPN and X-Games. Growing up in a hyper-creative household (his father is one of the world’s most celebrated horn players, Hugh Masakela), music and art have been in his blood since day one. At ease in front of the camera, Sal’s talents have led him to an “accidental”

career in journalism and, in turn, spinning him into all sides of the artistic spectrum from fashion to film to music and beyond. (He has grown into a critically acclaimed singer/musician himself and also owns a film company to boot.) Sal, best friends with Derek for more than 20 years (he was best man in Derek’s wedding) explains the special dynamic of the group: “Overall, for me, the idea of being able to do business with friends... there’s an advantage to being really open and honest with each other in a way that people don’t have because they are worried about hurting feelings, etc. We don’t hold it in. If it’s something we disagree on, we figure it out. Friendship plays a big roll.” Tu confirms, “We’ve been doing this together for a long time, so we have the basic formula. We’re pretty solid on that.” Easy to navigate, the clearly laid-out website (www.artofcraft.com) presents ongoing projects to which you can contribute while being able to see exactly how much money is being raised. You’re immediately involved and can visualize the difference that is being made with each purchase. Special edition T-shirts are also available for each artist, giving consumers various options to participate no matter what price point. Sal points out one of the bonuses of the company. “I like the idea of Art of Craft not just being a place necessarily where people are always going to come to purchase, but if they come and learn stories or find something interesting and view the different pieces we have going, then hopefully it’s something they are talking about with others and sharing with others, and they come back again and find something that they’re into... somewhat of a portal for people to come and learn stories and about people doing really rad stuff.” Former head of menswear at J.Crew, Todd Snyder as well as award-winning, Santa Monica-based photographer Timothy Hogan are also in the artist rolodex. What’s the five-year game plan? To Sal, it’s simple: “Five years for me (would be) to become somewhat of a household name and brand for cool and progressive popculture and savvy brands. It’s a one-stop shop for people to learn about people with interesting, passionate stories being able to celebrate that with items that are lasting and being able to tie in philanthropy. It’s something that I hope catches on and that people find really cool and get excited. In five years, I’d really like for people still to be asking, ‘I wonder what Art of Craft is doing next?’” A sense of community, love, and support is the underbelly of the whole operation, and it has been a privilege to see friendship as the cornerstone of making this company a success. An authentic way to exclusively connect the art community to charitable contributions, Art of Craft shows us we can make a difference from coast to coast with something we all understand: getting by with a little help from our friends.

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ig win this week: we scored grants and a nod of enthusiastic approval from the Visual Art in Public Places Committee for a project near and dear to our hearts on Milpas: Yes, We Can! turn our public trashcans into art. Our trash cans are… well, eclectic, as we have multiple styles, and they’re not always in the best shape. They’re expensive to repair and ridiculous to replace: like $2,000+ per can. So rather than pester the city to spend a bunch of taxpayer dollars, we wondered if we could take ownership of them by turning them into public art pieces? We need to clear the Architectural Board of Review, but things are progressing. We’ll create some prototypes, with the Casa De La Raza youth arts team preparing the art. They’ll work up colorful pieces depicting a clean, healthy Milpas community. We’ll capture the art with a high-res camera, print it to outdoor vinyl banner, and wrap the cans. It gives Milpas an instant facelift, provides a public gallery for our youth to display their artwork, and gives kids (our most prolific litterers) a vehicle to educate each other on creating a better place for us all.

Gunning For Retirement

by Loretta Redd hy is the word “pension” so often preceded by the term, “unsustainable” these days? Nothing is unsustainable in either private investment or in public funding... it just mean we pay a whole lot more. There are two camps of retirement funding, public and private. The private 401(k) plans have “defined contributions,” and the public employee pension plan has “defined benefits.” Each seems to think the other is the devil incarnate, and both are up to their eyeballs in greed, political favoritism and questionable investment returns. And, by the way, the public (that’s you and me) is on the hook for both of them. The anti-public pension campaign is gaining strength in the media and in the courtrooms, and for good reason. Whereas public service once denoted hard work, dedication, and civic mindedness, paying lower wages but with the promise of a guaranteed pension, today’s government employees have been painted as mostly lazy, overpaid grifters living on the public dole. We often hear about “generous retirement packages” of the six-figure variety, attributable to union greed and worker ‘entitlement.’ The fault and inequity among public servants, however, lies mostly at the feet of our elected representatives. Mathew Brouillett, president of

Loretta Redd’s diverse background includes being a psychologist, business owner, non-profit director, Air Force officer, writer, speaker, and executive coach. Loretta has served on several Santa Barbara city committees and has been a candidate for public office.

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Common Wealth Foundation, states, “Pension benefits have been used as a political football. Politicians are able to make promises today that they hope they can pay for tomorrow, hoping tomorrow never comes. Deals between union and politicians have left teachers, cops, firemen caught in the middle and demonized because public opinion has turned against generous benefit packages.” I admit to being a little tired of the golden trilogy of teachers/fire/police to invoke public sentiment for higher wages and retirement, because they represent only a small proportion of government retirees. But Mr. Brouillett has a point: there is little equanimity among publicsector retirement packages, with shameful evidence of political sell out. As an example, in the State of California prison guards can retire seven years earlier than teachers, with benefits that are 77 percent higher. Forget the logic of betterpaid, higher-quality teachers resulting in fewer people in prison, apparently the image of iron bars and handcuffs is a more powerful motivator in Sacramento than chalkboard and dunce caps. Conservative groups continue to vilify those in government service, apparently with growing success. While strategically working to get pension reform on state ballots, they’ve mounted an interesting campaign of educating judges on retirement benefit law. A symposium in Charleston, South Carolina, hosted by George Mason University and paid for by various corporate interests, offered continuing education units to sitting judges on “The Economics and Law of Public Pension Reform.” At the same time, those wanting to reduce employee and union benefit packages deflect attention from lavish payouts to corporate executives, from the uncertainty of future Wall Street investment returns, from the cost of the bank failures of 2007, and especially from the $80 billion in annual corporate subsidies and tax breaks. I don’t know which is more offensive: pension spiking or corporate bail outs. But I know that whether the money comes from increasing taxes and decreasing services, or increasing prices and decreasing oversight, neither system has our financial interest at heart and both look to lawmakers to make them money. “Sustainability” apparently has less to do with labor these days than it has to do with lobbying.

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by Christina Enoch Chef Mark Brouillard (Fresco Valley Cafe)

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e have to admit that we are pretty much spoiled as far as the food scene goes in this town. We are blessed with the bounty of its offering. Fish doesn’t taste fresher, a strawberry doesn’t get sweeter than in this town. So when I heard there’s a cookbook written in collaboration with local chefs, caterers, and food purveyors, I thought: Why hasn’t anyone thought of that before? Santa Barbara Culinary Arts: A Taste of Santa Barbara’s Culinary Bounty features 62 top recipes from Santa Barbara County food specialists. What a brilliant idea. I flipped through the cookbook, and I already saw a few favorite dishes at my favorite restaurants. The cookbook is a special project of the nonprofit SB Culinary Arts, which endows the Santa Barbara Culinary Arts Scholarship in honor of Julia Child for SB City College Culinary Arts students. A cookbook launch party was held at the Gourmet Dining Room at SBCC. Right outside the dining room, there were local celebrity chefs signing the books and greeting fans. Happy to see some familiar and famous faces, I made my way to the dining room.

After years of working full time for an ad agency, Christina found her passion in cooking and food. Now armed with her newfound title, “Culinary School Graduate Food Blogger,” she writes and shares her passion for food, cooking, restaurants, photography and food styling in her popular blog, black dog :: food blog. Christina’s a proud mommy of not one but two shelter dogs and lives here in Santa Barbara with her husband. She’s also an avid Polynesian dancer, beach lover, traveler, swimmer, snowboarder and most of all, a lover of anything edible and yummy. Check out her ramblings here and at www.blackdogfoodblog.com.

Inside, Happy Canyon wines of Westerly Winery and Santa Ynez Refugio Ranch were poured, and samples of delicious appetizers were prepared by City College faculty and students and selected chefs featured in the cookbook. It’s like a Costco sample trip but 100 times more gourmet. As a fan of taking care of my lunch by sampling at Costco, my camera and I were happy to munch on these amazing little bites from culinary wizards all over town. I went

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amazing cause to support our reputable culinary school. “It is important for chefs to support each other and participate in ways that further our community and help the next generation of chefs to be able to continue what we are doing. SBCC Culinary Arts is a great program not

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for a first round, then second, then put my sunglasses on, went for the third round. I could have gone for the fourth if I really wanted to. To name a few gourmet samples, lobster terrine, salmon en croute, pan-seared duck breast, praline bread pudding… and to name a few celebrity chefs: Michael Blackwell (Montecito Country Club), James Sly (Sly’s), Greg Murphy (Bouchon), chef Vincent Vanhecke (The Valley Club of Montecito), chef Johan Denizot (Miro at Bacara Resort), Randy Bublitz (head of the School of Culinary Arts). It was great to see all the chefs, restaurateurs, and food purveyors come together as a community for this

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only for the students, but a pool from which chefs can confidently hire qualified graduates.” As I was leaving the launch party, I had the biggest smile. Not only because of the amazing food I had, but from this unspoken connection I felt from everyone involved. The cookbook was edited and designed by Tama Takahashi and the photography was taken by Linda Blue. All proceeds go toward scholarship endowment for culinary students at SBCC. I think I am going to get a few more copies as gifts, just because I want to brag about living in Santa Barbara.

Chef Johan Denizot (Miro at Bacara Resort)

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Chef Roberto Lopez Carrillo (SBCC Culinary Arts and hotel management)

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Teens, Milk Cartons, and Solstice

with Mark Léisuré

Mark spends much of his time wandering Santa Barbara and environs, enjoying the simple things that come his way. A show here, a benefit there, he is generally out and about and typically has a good time. He says that he writes “when he feels the urge” and doesn’t want his identity known for fear of an experience that is “less than authentic.” So he remains at large, roaming the town, having fun. Be warned.

A Ghost and Dustbowl Revival

our intrepid columnist (that would be me, though I’m not even sure what the word “intrepid” means, but I’ve always liked the sound of it) made it up to the Live Oak Music Festival in mid-month for only two of the three weekend days and didn’t even stay to hear the closing set from Railroad Earth, the bluegrass-jam band he’s seen so many times before, including a set at the semiprivate Shobefest way back when. (If you don’t know about the Shobefest, which was revived two autumns ago following the death of its namesake – well, don’t ask, ‘cuz you’re not invited!). If you wanted to infer that he didn’t have such a great time up there this year, that wouldn’t be entirely incorrect, but there were a couple of discoveries for this well-traveled music journalist. Let’s begin with The Dustbowl Revival, the rag-tag octet that calls itself a roots-jazz collective but really dig deep into the great old songs conjured by its name with more of

a cabaret flair. After the band’s two sets at Live Oak, it was easy to see why Dustbowl Revival won the LA Weekly’s Best Live Band of 2013 award – the group’s upbeat sojourns into the heartland and beyond swing with an infectious fervor and seemingly spontaneous forays. They were the perfect choice for Friday night’s latenight set for what used to be called the barn dance; folks were swinging ‘til after the clock struck midnight. ‘Twas also good to catch up with Marley’s Ghost, the veteran acoustic band with a far mellower and perhaps cerebral approach to Americana roots music. Or at least that was the takeaway from their workshops – of which there were three during the weekend – when they not only answered every question posed but demonstrated the concepts behind their choices. Sure would be nice if this outfit – which features a local, Jon Wilcox, on mandolin and such, would play in town more often than once a decade.

We also enjoyed Lily & Madeleine, the Indiana-based duo of teenage sisters that feature naturally close harmonies that sound almost ethereal – though too many of their songs have the same tempos, themes, and reliance on metaphors and clichés. But they’re teenagers! It’ll be interesting to hear how they develop over the next few years. No such waiting issues are necessary for the Milk Carton Kids, the L.A.-based flat-picking harmony duo who played the Lobero Theater four days later. All we can say is: “Wow!” (I mean, if we were smarter, we’d say a lot more about the nature of their cleverly constructed tandem singing, Kenneth Pattengale’s brilliantly evocative songwriting, the surprisingly funny deadpan humor of his partner Joey Ryan, and the way the duo has evolved in just a couple of years to become the current generation’s critical equivalent of Simon & Garfunkel. But we’re not. So it’s “Wow!”) Those charming harmonies would still be ringing in this writer’s brain if not for the sounds of Summer Solstice – including the all-too-rare coming together of bluescountry-rock sister Tina and Laura Schlieske and the reunion of Raw Silk with Leslie Lembo on Friday night, and the insistent drum beats (African, Brazil, what-have-you) during the parade. That, and the indelible melodies of Camelot, so expertly delivered by a cast of veteran Broadway performers supported on stage by a chamber-sized version of the Santa Barbara Symphony. All this great music over the course of 10 days (and that’s not even mentioning the first week of the Music Academy of the West what with the Takacs Quartet, stringquartet seminar recital and maestro Larry Rachleff leading the academy’s Festival Orchestra). I could say, sarcastically, that it sucks to be me, but instead I’ll paraphrase Lancelot du Lac and query where in the world is there in the world a man who so lucky as he? “C’est Moi”!

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Hey, but it turns out you don’t have to be rich to live a little bit in my (musical) world. At least not over the next seven weeks, as Santa Barbara Parks & Rec (I’d

would love to see a TV show about our own governmental gang, by the way) launches its best gift to the city: Concerts in the Park. The shows take place every Thursday (save during Fiesta week) at Chase Palm Park, where you can picnic, throw Frisbees, play with your dogs, and listen to (and dance to) a whole lot of bands spanning everything from hard rock to ‘50s pop and Latin. And it’s all utterly free! The series kicks off on Thursday, July 3, with Sgt. Peppers, who are quite a fine Beatles tribute band (even donning some of the costumes) capable of playing more than the Fab Four, which they demonstrated a few years ago during one of the rocking-est evenings ever at Chase Palm. Thursday, July 10, brings the return of Captain Cardiad & The Coronaries, who also wear outfits appropriate for their appropriations of early rock ‘n’ roll hits done up over the top. Check the schedule for the rest of the season’s acts. But may we be so bold as to suggest an addition perhaps for next year’s bookings? Dustbowl Revival!. More free stuff: the UCSB summer film series begins on Wednesday, July 9, with free screenings every Wednesday (at Campbell Hall on campus) and Friday (at the County Courthouse Sunken Gardens). This year’s theme is “Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd: Comedy Classics of the Silent Era”, meaning we’ll see some of the best films ever made from some of the greatest comic actors of all time.

Blasts from the Past

Where else might you find me this fortnight? Honeysuckle Possums CD Release Picnic and Concert at the Alpha Resource Center’s Imagine Park on Sunday, June 29. Joan Baez & Indigo Girls – featuring folkies from vastly different eras and approaches – at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Wednesday, July 2. The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir with his band Rat dog on a double bill with Black Crows’ Chris Robinson’s Brotherhood at the Bowl the following night. The great Richard Thompson doing both solo acoustic and electric band sets at the Lobero on July 9. Beatles’ drummer Ringo Starr and the latest version of his All-Starr Band at the Bowl on Saturday, July 12. Rock on!

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Owner Dani Leholm sets the bar for kids’ fashion.

by Kateri Wozny Kateri is an award-winning journalist with a

background in print, online, radio and TV news. A native of Minneapolis, MN, she has written for the Chicago Sun-Times Media Group, Pepperdine University and Acorn Newspapers. She works full time as a public relations manager locally and loves exploring the Santa Barbara fashion scene. Follow her on Twitter @kitkatwozny.

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hen I open my mailbox, bills galore usually fall out onto the ground. Oh, the heartache! But recently I received an invitation with the envelope saying in big bold words, “You are invited to a birthday party!” I love birthday parties, especially the cake for my sweet tooth. As I ripped open the invitation, I learned it was for my girlfriend’s twins (boy and girl) who were about to turn 3. Kids? Not my area, but instead of getting the typical toy, I wanted to buy them something sophisticated and classy. Luckily for me, a few days later as I got my Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf fix on Coast Village Road, I took a stroll and came across Dani BOY Kids Boutique. I immediately thought of the song lyrics “Oh, where have you been, Danny Boy?” Here it is, the answer to my wallet’s prayers (oh wait, I’m shopping for someone else this time – selfish me!) and thank God I found it. “It really has nothing to do with the song,” laughs owner Dani Leholm. “Ever since I was a young girl, I would say, ‘(My name is) Dani, like a boy’ because people thought I said Annie. I also wanted to tie in both boys and girls in the name.” The boutique – which is bouncing with pop music – opened in March and has a variety of clothes, shoes, and accessories for boys and girls ages 2-16. Since its opening, parents and kids have taken an immediate liking. “Montecito was lacking a kids store,” Leholm says. “The kids needed a store exclusively for them where they can come in and feel like their own fashionista, and dress mommy or daddy.”

Leholm is a third-generation Santa Barbaran who comes from a family of entrepreneurs (her grandfather owns Santa Barbara Stone) and understands kids’ fashion. As a child, her grandmother would take her on shopping trips to Christine’s store, where she would pick out her own outfits. Leholm now has kids of her own, both girls, who are 2 and 7½. “My eldest daughter is my real inspiration,” Leholm says. “I take her on buying trips with me to get her feedback, and that way she can also see that there is a whole lot more out there to choose from.” Leholm even once worked as a buyer and assistant manager at Due Maternity on State Street and now can see her customers’ children growing up. “The best part is seeing my customers from Due Maternity buying for their kids who now who are 8 and 10 years-old,” she says. The “it” items for girls in the boutique are black leggings or Native shoes. Other girl brands that rock the store are La Made, Vintage Havanna and Hudson Jeans. With boys, must-haves are suits, shorts and jackets from brands such as Seven, Munster and Frye. Dani BOY Kids even carries Project Runway’s third season winner Jeffrey Sebelia’s “La Miniatura” line. Prices range from $16 for tanks and a La Miniatura jacket for $129. I started to enjoy rummaging through all of the adorable items and found the perfect outfits for the twins. For the girl, I bought her the cutest Juicy Couture star romper… and for the boy? He’s going to be breaking hearts with the “Hello Ladies” graphic T-shirt by Prefresh. “The kids really have fun playing dress up,” Leholm says. “Even with the

accessories, it can really pop out their outfit.” And the fun doesn’t stop there. There’s a rug with a hopscotch drawing for kids to play on, a couch to relax on, and even a measurement wall, which is done on a child’s birthday with the opportunity to receive 15 percent off a purchase every birthday afterward. “I want the kids to remember this store with the measurement wall and even have them come back five years later and see it,” Leholm says. “You feel like you’re at home, it’s a family environment in here.” Down the road, Leholm would also like to walk in a child’s footsteps and open up Dani BOY Kids Shoes. “There is a lack for the kids’ shoe stores,

and I feel it will be a big hit,” she says. I knew for sure as I left with my purchases that my gifts would be the talk of the party, and that the twins would make a statement. Makes me want to have one of my own... wait a second, did I just say that? Dani BOY Kids is located at 1187 Coast Village Road, suite 5. Hours are MondaySaturday from 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm. For more information, call 770-3156 or visit www. daniboykids.com. (Heck, for delivery options, there’s even gift wrapping, curbside pick-up, and home delivery within a five-mile radius!). Don’t forget to like and follow their Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram accounts.

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by Jacquelyn De Longe

As a writer, busy mother of two toddlers and Pilates Instructor at P.U.L.S.E., Jacquelyn De Longe finds her fast-paced life often keeps her out of the kitchen and frequenting area restaurants. New to Santa Barbara, she explores treasures of the local culinary scene with a fresh, honest and entertaining perspective.

Passion, Politics, and Paintings Penelope Gottlieb in her home studio

nown for making a statement, painter Penelope Gottlieb departed from her anythingbut-formal paintings by leaping off the canvas, and creating an all-encompassing environment at the Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MCA) special event, CRAVE: Penelope Gottlieb, The Night the Forest Spoke. First created last year by Miki Garcia, executive director of the MCA, this soldout project creates a participatory, sensorybased, one-night artistic endeavor. When first approached, Gottlieb felt honored and delighted at the challenge to bring her work and its environmental message into an even greater conceptual installation.

Garcia states, “As with Maria Rendon, Nathan Hayden, Hannah Vanstein, and Diana Puntar, our previous Crave artists, we are so indebted to the artistic vision put forth for our audience. They truly are oneof-a-kind, unforgettable art experiences.” For CRAVE, Gottlieb’s first choice was chef Justin West of her favorite local restaurant, Julienne. With an intention to indulge all five senses; sight, taste, touch, sound, and smell, she contacted West to see if he would be interested in participating and was pleasantly surprised by his excitement. Gottlieb beams of her creative partner, “He was over-the-top, superenthusiastic about the idea. It was a lovefest once we started working on the menu.”

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Together, the two have created an impeccable evening yet they are keeping the many courses and environment quiet until the night of the event. The only clue she gave me was that the participant will be introduced to the experience with an edible blossom prosecco as they walk through the door. Nice way to start the evening. I can’t wait to indulge my other senses! The idea of mixing and matching is not uncommon here in Santa Barbara. The meal concept is similar to the upcoming Local Treasures Dinner at the Lark happening on Sunday, June 29, (tickets still available), where a gourmet fivecourse meal of seasonal ingredients is paired with local wines. There is also the experience of indulging in multiple senses like the Flavors of the Season Beer and Live Music Pairing, a quarterly event held at the Bourbon Room where live music and craft beer blend. Both are private events and require tickets to be purchased in advance. I visited with Gottlieb, a fellow Los Angeles transplant (like myself ), at her home studio perched above the Pacific and was awestruck by the beauty of the manicured grounds and vast ocean view. Just as striking and put together as her surroundings, Gottlieb greeted me warmly, and over a cup of coffee we chatted of her experience as an artist and our six degrees of separation. With a BFA from Art Center College of Design (yep, I did that, too) she started out as a professional illustrator and worked her way up to some of the biggest well-known clients around, perfecting her skill of rendering with life-like precision, but in her late 30s she began to burn out. Always with aspirations of becoming a fine artist, Gottlieb distinctly remembered her tipping point. It was while she was drawing a hamburger for a major chain such as Wendy’s or McDonald’s, and the notes from the client read: too many sesame seeds on the bun, only one tomato slice not two, and with each revision came more pointless changes. She found herself consumed by a project she had no investment in. This is when she realized

that her talents might be able to serve a greater good, so she took the risk and left her commercial artist career, crossing over to fine art and pursuing her MFA at UCSB. (I, too, had a similar moment, as a GFX producer on a cellphone commercial and changed careers.) “Had I known how gratifying this transition was going to be, I would have done it years before,” said Gottlieb. Getting to paint what she wants and not what she has to, makes it easy for her to dedicate herself to her studio. She is no Sunday painter; just like any full-time employee, she starts in the morning and works through until the late afternoon Monday through Friday and even on an inspired weekend. When she is not painting in her studio, you can find her in her garden of course, or cooking, playing the harp, or spicing it up with a tango. The biggest surprise Gottlieb has come across working for herself is how slow it can seem things move, from the work being made, seen, and then finally responded to takes great patience. I have always been inspired by the confidence an artist must have in themselves and their work. It’s an unwavering belief that they are an artist and what they are doing is important, and in Penelope’s case it is. Her paintings lure the viewer with their beauty, and then like vines wrap around them, holding them tight with their message of environmental extinction. Gottlieb is currently represented by Edward Cella Art + Architecture in Los Angeles and will participate in its upcoming group show celebrating the opening of the new gallery space. She has had solo exhibitions at Michael Kohn Gallery and Kim Light/Lightbox Los Angeles (where I was once employed years ago) among many others group shows. Her paintings are in numerous Public Collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Chicago Art Institute. Boldly pushing the boundaries of their abilities, Gottlieb and West are two creatives whose talents I look forward to experiencing on multiple levels.

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You Have Your Hands Full by Mara Peters Former editor for the fashion/lifestyle section of the New York

Post, Mara moved to London and worked as a contributing editor for the Daily Mail’s You Magazine, freelancing for Look Magazine, NY Post and the Style Magazine for The Sunday Times. To remain sane during diaper years she writes a mommy blog, You Have Your Hands Full – www.handsfullsb.com.

Time to Brace Yourself

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he real issue is compliance,” the orthodontist looked deep into my eyes for just a second before he quickly shifted to the charts on the table. Hold on a second – I started in the middle of the story. Let’s rewind. It was time for our oldest to get braces. The dentist had examined his teeth and triumphantly stated his bite was nearly perfect. The gap in between the front teeth – purely cosmetic; the fix would be fairly easy. I drove home in a state of euphoria, explaining to my entire brood about my overbite that took 12 years of intervention to fix. My fourth-grade school picture was just one tragic documentation of the torture: I was actually wearing my headgear. (In hindsight, I wonder what the hell my mom or the photographer were thinking: would it have been so bad to take the socially crippling contraption off just for a few moments to get a nice school portrait?) The kids marveled at the stories, horrified at the idea of the awkwardness of my headgear and the social stigma that went with it. But this was a new generation, new world: Jackson was going to have it easy. So we ended up in the crowded office, all of them in tow to experience a new cycle in our lives. Monthly vaccine visits to the pediatrician that dominated my previous decade were now to be replaced by the tightening and adjusting of teeth for the next. The orthodontist immediately impressed us with how trendy he was – he kindly showed us multiple options to reduce his gap. Jackson was eyeing the clear brackets; I asked him which ones he wanted and he shyly pointed. “The clear ones are more expensive right?” I asked the expert. He nodded. “Yeah, you are so not having those,” I laughed, picking the standard silver brackets. I caught the doctor suppressing a chuckle. “That’s kind of funny that he thought he had an option,” he smiled, and I knew he was silently saying to himself, “Nice to see a parent making that decision.” My first clue that this new generation, new world was very different from my own. (To reiterate, I wasn’t even

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allowed to take my headgear off for a picture, let alone choose my own type of braces…) Then he hit me with the price. Wow. Multiply that by four and we could probably take down a small cattle farm in Argentina. “I thought you’d go easy on me,” I told him. “We were saving all our cash for Teddy, the thumb sucker.” Immediately all eyes turned to my third (who broke out into a nervous smile, revealing a ridiculous overbite). “My man,” the orthodontist tried to sound calm, “let’s get you into the chair and have a look at these chompers.” With that, Jackson’s basic charts were taken off the screen and up popped the picture of… a neck gear. Oh, man. New generation, same mechanism for buck teeth. All the euphoria drained from my body as I knew my future involved multiple phases to fix Teddy’s teeth. He immediately burst into tears, as the others looked on sympathetically. Now, I was really kicking myself: why had I been so over the top about the horror of it all? I never should have gone there. “It is all about compliance,” the orthodontist told me. “If he can wear this at night, we can be successful – if he complies.” If, did he say? Although I was in shock at the dramatic turn of events, I hadn’t

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lost my mind. Trust me, I have an if: if I’m going to pay thousands of dollars, there would be no ifs. This child will wear his neck gear; in daytime too if he’s told. When I double-checked the diagnosis with our amazing dentist, the same word came up: compliance. Then something clicked. As much as we have evolved, there was something to be said for the grin-and-bear-it generation that I grew up in. Twelve years wearing a torture contraption actually taught me about grit, perseverance, and results (I have really nice teeth). Today, the question is whether we even make the hard choice as parents, forcing our kids to comply, which would then result in some real tools for life. “It is a new era of – not helicopter parents – but snow plowers,” a friend told me as I explained the difference of 20 years. “Parents want to smooth the way, and there are a lot of unintended consequences for doing that.” Not on my watch, I told myself as we sat in that orthodontist’s office. Biting my lip and looking squarely into my child’s tearing eyes, I told him this was something he was going to have to do, just like I had. He smiled warily in our solidarity and hopped off the examination chair as his siblings snickered and teased. Olivia proclaimed she had perfect teeth (we’ll see), and Jackson threatened to tell Teddy’s whole class about the neck gear if “he didn’t pay up.” And I had to swallow

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my need to make it all right. Because it just was not going to be for a while. But you know, that son with the perfect bite was three days away from braces when a lacrosse stick managed to hit his beautiful (but very exposed) front tooth, shattering it in half. As he cried, blood spurting everywhere, I realized we never get off easy. We constantly have to prepare for the neck gear, and the unexpected, armed with resilience and grit. Yeah, I think I’ll comply.

Peters’ Pick I understand why some people call her the Child Whisperer. I have watched her shoot Novocain into my kids’ mouths without them even knowing a needle was on the cards that day. Or the way she intelligently will explain the upside to chocolate and ice cream (versus Gummy Worms and Jolly Ranchers). But that is not why I go to Dr. Annie. I go because she is a close friend. Or that’s the way I feel when I enter her office. She hugs me tight, lingers to chat, and truly connects. I walk away knowing I have the best dentist on the planet. So when Jackson broke his tooth on a weekend, it was no surprise that she met us in the office 10 minutes later – giving us enough time to make the playoffs. Dr. Annie PhamCheng, (805) 681-7301, 6134 Calle Real, suite B, Goleta.

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Seeking a fun evening on the town? There’s an aptly named app to check beforehand. (photo: Sean Checketts)

by Grant Lepper

Grant’s an entrepreneur, start-up strategist, digital marketing pro, sailor, hiker, cyclist, mentor and writer. With more than 20 years of creative marketing experience, Grant’s been on the founding team of four startups, run his own shop and delivered forward thinking digital marketing and creative solutions to emerging and established companies in technology, hospitality, education and active-lifestyle industries. Today he’s the Senior Partner of Digital Strategy at PULL Brand Innovation (pullinc.com).

Teamwork Propels Night Out Spencer, Milo, Dusty, and Bryan of Night Out

eamwork is the synergy that powers dreams. Last week, I met up with Santa Barbara’s startup founders of Night Out, a desktop and mobile app which delivers the places, happy hours, and events going on around you for food, fun, drink, and nightlife. The two founders, Dusty Stutsman and Bryan Brand, understand the value of teamwork, and powering their dreams. If you haven’t downloaded the app yet, let me explain what it does. Night Out works hand-in-hand with promoters, nightclubs, festivals, and venues in a city centric model nationwide to deliver the most comprehensive and relevant nightlife content available to your mobile device. The site and app make it simple to sift through all the options based on the person’s location, price range, date/time, theme and more, so they can always find the best spot for them. Meeting their freshman year on the football field of SB City College, the young men became the best of friends. “Dusty was a running back, and Bryan was a linebacker,” says Reggie Bolton, their head coach from a decade ago. Coach Bolton has since moved on, now at Bakersfield College, but he recalls the two well. It was his third year of coaching at SBCC and it was all coming together, according to Coach Bolton. “We were 3 and 2, playing L.A. Valley and Dusty got hurt on offense.

At that point, Dusty was our go-to guy and that season went from potentially being in the playoffs and making a statement in our conference – to going into a tailspin,” Bolton explained. “However, our defense with Bryan as the leader stayed strong, and we were the best defense in conference that year.” Regardless how the season actually ended up, Bolton was obviously impressed with the duo. “They were destined to be successful, they put all their work ethic and values into everything they did. They weren’t just good football players,” he gushed. “They were good students and good people. Those guys were destined to be the kind of guys to start their own business and be successful at whatever they wanted to do.” Kind words from a coach, for sure. Mine usually yelled and threw hard objects at us for sport – usually a baseball, sometimes a boomerang; he was Australian. I asked Dusty how two CC football players ended up back in SB after leaving town to finish college in their second floor offices in Victoria Court; a beer-pong shot across the landing to SOHO’s entrance and a couple of bounces downstairs to the eateries of Olio Pizzeria, Scarlett Begonia, the Arlington Tavern, Arigato Sushi, and the Alma del Pueblo Public Market. I guess if you’re doing a “food and drink” technology platform, it makes sense to be

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around some of the action. “I took a trip to Ann Arbor Michigan to watch the Michigan vs. Ohio State football game in ‘07,” Dusty began. “My buddy at Michigan’s roommate ran a website out of their apartment called EatBlue.com,” he tells me. “There were stickers everywhere printed with the name, so finally I had to ask what EatBlue was and he said, ‘Let me show you.’” Dusty continued, “So, we hopped onto this website, we were all hungry, and ordered some sandwiches right through the site which was really easy.” The sandwiches showed up 15 minutes later and were tasty, but it was on the plane ride back to Ft. Collins that the lights came on. “I thought, wow, this could be something really awesome for Ft. Collins,” the location of his eventual alma mater of Colorado State after his first two years at SBCC. “At this point, Bryan and I were best friends and talked all the time while he was at Wagner College in Staten Island,” he said. “Very long story short,” said Dusty, packaging it up, “Bryan and I partnered and created an online restaurant discovery website called SBMenus.com,” where you can order food from more than 70 local restaurants for takeout or delivery, bringing the two back to SB’s beachside paradise after college. “It was our first business,” Dusty explained, connecting the dots from Santa Barbara, Colorado, Michigan, New York, and back again to Santa Barbara. “We licensed the software from a third party company to create SBMenus.” “We didn’t deal with any of the technology or development, but shared our input on features and did the sales and marketing,” speaking of their entry into the world of technology startup companies. Coming full circle with SBMenus, “We had a bar and happy hours specials page,” Dusty explained. “Bryan was also working at a nightclub downtown and was very ingrained in the nightlife scene, so we kept that section very up-to-date with what was going on with the DJs, happy hours, and events.” “The one thing about that page was it was pulling all the traffic,” said Dusty. “Our business model was focused around food delivery, but the most popular page was the bars and happy hours,” he said referring to their conundrum with the developers of the software they were using. “That section was their last focus.” But it was the most popular section of their offering. What to do? Expand the team to build the technology. Actually, first they tried

outsourcing. “We knew we had something because people were very interested in the content,” so we had to build our own platform, Dusty expounded. “This was at the very forefront of the iPhone and the App Store.” He said they had an opportunity “to spin off and bring the bar specials and happy hours to a geo-location-based application for mobile devices.” “We had the first conceptualization of the Night Out iPhone application completed in about three months,” Dusty shared the chronology. “But it took about six months in actual development for the first app, which was basically me on the phone at two, three, four am going back and forth with the company in India. The process was pretty rigorous and probably took longer than it should’ve,” he said of the outsourcing which got them started, but finding local talent was what they really needed. It was during their third adaptation of their iPhone application that they met Spencer Steffen. “I was bartending at Union Ale,” said Dusty talking about the chance encounter that ended up delivering the other half of their team. At the time, Steffen and Milo Delgado were part of a two-man web design firm called Citrus Media, housed in the Funk Zone. Spencer was the programmer, specializing in Ruby-on-Rails projects, and Milo was the creative one, adding paint and shine through the user-experience and interface design for client-based projects. While the two originally engaged with Dusty and Bryan as contractors to build out the mobile and web-based versions of Night Out, they’re now a permanent part of the five-man team, along with Spencer’s rug-of-a-dog Deuce. Night Out has increased its reach to now include at least 43 cities, with more than 37,000 users across the U.S. With its event ticketing component, which is a leading SaaS solution for event organizers that is built specifically for nightclubs, music venues, festivals, promoters, bars, artists and more, they’ve sold more than 47,000 event tickets to date! Download the app for your mobile device, or check out the website to see for yourself just how cool this thriving Santa Barbara startup is.

Learn more: nightout.com sbmenus.com

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