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Downtown Dirt

Grunge groups, lounging louts, and Hassling half-wits take over brick “art corral” on 500 block of State Street; Sharon Byrne wonders: whose city is it anyway? p. 12

Microbial Mayhem

Cole Porter noted that “birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it,” but probably never realized that septasexual single-cell amoebas do it too, p. 25

That’s Entertainment!

Man About Town goes ALL SHOWBIZ as Santa Barbara Fair & Expo brings “Hollywood & Vine” (along with Alaskan Racing Pigs) to town, p. 21

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o, babe, I have this deck of cards.” I’d timed my strike surgically, catching my wife unawares, in her bathrobe, after a post-hike shower. “And?” she asked somewhat impatiently, maybe flirting a bit. “What, do you want to play war?” “No, honey,” now I’m impatient, exasperated. “You know I hate war, just come take a look. This deck of cards is unique.” She put down her hair brush and looked. I set the hook, and reeled her right in. “See, all the backs are different colors. It’s a magic deck.” She furrowed her brow, half-smiled and walked over. I had her right where I wanted her. Now all I had to do was get her in the boat.

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azza’s Missive – The Sentinel’s Editor-in-Chief contemplates yet another new M career as Merciless Matt the Mighty Magician after duping his wife with a card trick he learned from the guys behind Santa Barbara magic powerhouse Magic Geek, Inc. Here’s a hint: Stick to writing, Matt. (Or, perhaps better yet, practicing law.)

It’s Crime Time – Boozers get weird. That pretty much says it all this week.

Letters to the Editor – Crime Time is good (even if the “humorâ€? is sometimes too buried in sarcasm) and big, clunky government is bad. Universal truths. . The Beer Guy – Zach Rosen finishes his east coast tour in New York and hits a few well-known (and at least one not-so-well-known) foodie and beer-ie haunts. (Your trip sounded great, Zach, but we’re glad to have you back in town again. See you at the Dutch!) E ight Days a Week – Jeremy Harbin is a funny guy – seriously – and is on some kind of roll this week in the Sentinel’s quasi-calendar. (Great work, Jeremy, really, truly enjoyed it.) Better let him know of anything cool going down around town – he’d love to help get the word out for your next gig or shindig or soirĂŠe. S anta Barbara View – Sharon Byrne tells it like it is in connection with the “homelessness issueâ€? (well put, Sharon, bravo); Ray Estrada goes Richter this week, covering the SB Chamber, Biz Expo, local entrepreneurs and economic forecasts and even mattresses in his Business Beat. (Thanks Ray!)

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Presidio Sports – Results of the CIF Northern Area Re-leaguing Meeting (who’s going where?), SBART Athletes of the Week and John Dvorak moonlights as a movie critic after watching sports flick 42. (Keepin’ It Reel’s Jim Luksic does the same damned movie, and if one compares and contrasts the reviews, one will find interesting similarities and differences. Cool.) Oh, and all the sports events for the weekend are here too, so check it out.

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Keepin’ It Reel – Jim Luksic gushes like a geyser over “the year’s best filmâ€? and finds the latest Jackie Robinson flick well-intentioned and cinematically strong but ultimately tagged out at second base. (Right on, Jim, keep them coming.) I n the Garden with Mr. Greenjeans – Randy Arnowitz is back, this time talking plants in terms of their water needs so you know what to plant where and how much to water it. Sharpen up that green thumb (does that make any sense?) and get going in the garden! an About Town – Mark Leisure likes Earth Day, Wine, the Earl Warren Showgrounds M and the Film Festival. (Wait a second‌ we thought you didn’t like the Film Fest and were sick of talking about it a couple months ago. What gives? Is that Roger Durling promising you an all access super pass next year, Mark?)

Faces of Santa Barbara – Fine art photog (and Sentinel newcomer) Patricia Clarke brings us two great pics of two lovely ladies, locals Susan Tibbles and Sara Lytle. (Thanks Patricia, digging this and hope to keep it going.) Pump Yourself – Jenny Schatzle gets you going on that beer gut with a terrific body weight workout anybody can do anywhere. Make it happen, folks, summer is almost here‌ (And hey Jenny, right on.)

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Mad Science – Rachelle Oldmixon arouses our prurient interests with a piece on bacteria sex. (Thanks Rachelle, never thought we’d go into microbial porn but, hey, what the hell. It’s a victimless crime, we think.) You Have Your Hands Full – Olivia Peters didn’t make the Math Super Bowl Team at Roosevelt (she was an alternate) and mom Mara finds the silver lining in a piece that lots of parents today might find insightful. (Thanks Mara, enjoyed it. And hey Olivia, we’re rooting for you next year kid, study hard and go get ‘em.) LOVE mikana – Adesso Jewelry sale (men, think of your wives and girlfriends) and the art of the grilled cheese sandwich (women, think of your husbands and boyfriends). The Weekend Guide goes from Earth Day to sweating outdoors to Bacara and the Four Seasons. Nice progression, we suggest following our favorite birds’ advice to the letter this time around. Tweet tweet.

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Residential Real Estate – DJ Big Mike and Jazzy Fresh J-Kell bring the noise on this week’s real estate picks. Word to your mother. Open houses too. Yo yo yo.

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...continued from COVER the Santa Barbara offices of Magic Geek, Inc., one of the world’s largest online retailers of a huge variety of magic tricks and related stuff that will consistently leave your jaw on the floor. (When a skilled person performs them, anyway.) I’d met Founder/President Brian Sutherland through a mutual friend a few days earlier and pretty much knew immediately that he and his business would make a terrific story. Brian doesn’t look like a magician. (Calm down, calm down… I’m not stereotyping a disadvantaged or constitutionally protected group here; I’m just saying.) He’s young, handsome and pretty clean cut. He’s reasonably social (but not overbearing), easy to smile, and has a confidence about him. He seems, frankly, trustworthy and honest. Quite trustworthy and honest indeed. (Damnit. Now that I think about it, that’s perhaps the single most stereotypical description of a skilled magician anyone has ever written. Tricked again!) Brian got his start in the magic business pretty early. “My folks used to like to eat at Mi Casa in Costa Mesa when I was around 11, and I’d get to walk across the street to Hollywood Magic Shop while they finished up.” (While they finished their margaritas, I’m guessing.) “I really got hooked on little pranks and jokes and gags and tricks.”

That might well be the understatement of the year. By the time he was 14, Brian had auditioned and been accepted to the Magic Castle Junior Society, a relatively small and exclusive program in Hollywood for elite young magicians. Then he was off to Chavez Studio of Magic working toward a degree (yeah, you read that right), which he earned, in sleight of hand magic and other classic styles. By 1994, Brian was 16, performing all over the place and getting paid. Then his parents moved from sunny Orange County (Dana Point) to beautiful Northern Idaho (Coeur d’Alene). That was when Brian opened up his first magic shop. (He was homeschooled so, don’t worry, his parents did just fine.) “Fourth Street Magic – that was the name of the shop in Coeur d’Alene – was a passion project for me,” Brian reminisced, “I think I was working at Starbucks and Kinkos at the same time to earn a few bucks. I was also performing at a local amusement park and doing a few other magic gigs.” Brian closed Fourth Street when he came to Santa Barbara a few years later, but magic was still in his blood. “I was taking a business planning class at Antioch University,” he told me, “and I eventually decided to start the business that I was planning rather than study it.”

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Magic Geek, Inc. Founder/President Brian Sutherland (left) and Media Director Chris Ballinger.

And with that, Magic Geek was born. “The business really started online in the middle-late 1990s. We were selling all sorts of magic tricks and supplies, and then saw a demand for juggling implements and related supplies too. So we started a new, separate site, www. jugglingstore.com. We were early, even very early, to the online magic sales market, and were literally the first online retailer specializing in juggling supplies – and we found that there was a market for it.” But it wasn’t always easy. “There were very few solutions for shopping cart platforms back then,” Brian laughed,

“and related technology, certainly that which was available to the smaller guys, was either non-existent or clunky and difficult to use for both the retailer and the customer. But we made it work.” Indeed they did. But that wasn’t the end of it. Brian always really wanted that brick and mortar presence as well – call it Fourth Street Magic nostalgia – so he opened up a small retail shop in some space in an old Victorian at the corner of Haley and Chapala. Magic Geek was off and running (and tricking and juggling). ...continued p.14

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A variety of crimes are committed every day in Santa Barbara; most of these crimes are petty but they do offer a window into if not the soul of the perpetrator, at least his or her thought process. Our following (and totally unsolicited) thoughts, observations, and comments are put forth for your consideration.

The Disease of Alcoholism

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eople drink. Often too much. Hell, even we here at the Sentinel have found ourselves guilty of over-indulging from time to time (to time). Like it or not, drinking – even excessive drinking – is not just part of our more general popular (and even our not-so-popular) culture, but the very culture and fabric that make up Santa Barbara and environs. That’s not a bad thing, necessarily. In fact, it can be a good thing. We are a celebratory, jovial people often, and many of us choose to manifest that gregarious nature with friends and family over a great bottle of wine or terrific cocktail (or, in Zach Rosen’s case, a few wonderful and perhaps rare brews). And that’s good. Very good, even. As long as it stays responsible and fun. But that’s not always the case. There’s a flip side to the fun and the laughs and the good times that is more than just a mind-numbing red wine headache or other horrifyingly bad hangover. (Those are just part and parcel of even responsible consumption; you have to pay to play, folks.) There’s a darker side. And as we sat this week, like we do every week, in the Figueroa Street station of SBPD and read through dozens of police reports, there it was, that dark side, big and ominous and staring us right in our collective face. We don’t know, maybe it was because taxes were due on April 15. (Oh shit, we forgot!) Maybe there was something in the water. (Alcohol, probably.) But of 30 reports that actually contained officer narratives of arrests and detainments – some were just one sheet booking reports without significant detail and we didn’t include them in that number – 19 were detainments for public intoxication. In other words, 63% of the more detailed materials we read in the media stack (that’s what SBPD calls the pile of materials journalists are permitted to review each week) were people who couldn’t care for themselves or were threats to others due to consumption of alcohol. Wow. Alcohol is a dangerous drug with serious, life altering consequences when abused. Just as bad or worse than many drugs that have been deemed illegal and harmful to the

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CRIME TIME QUOTE OF THE WEEK “Just book me in a-hole. I’m back at home here anyway.” -Highly intoxicated 60-year-old transient female found drinking on a Milpas bus bench mid-day last weekend in response to the dreaded “In Case of Emergency” question most people seem to have a difficult time answering. youth and the general population. (Marijuana the gateway drug? Get real. Booze is the ultimate gateway drug. Tokers chill. Boozers get weird. Straight up.) So hey, next time you’re tipping back that glass of wine or beautiful cocktail or refreshing brew with friends and loved ones, think before you order the next one (and the next one). As one friend of the Sentinel would say, think of the hangover, but also think about how that next drink might affect your night, your next day, your week, your month and even your year. And every once in a while, skip it and just go home. The following folks would have been smart to make that choice last week. But they didn’t.

Drunks In Paradise

A female 23-year-old UCSB graduate student had difficulty standing and repeatedly attempted to enter a local nightclub after being told to go sleep it off. When officers finally were called at around 11:45pm, she was unable to tell them who might pick her up and take her home so she was detained for public intoxication. (Here’s an idea: Study instead. You’ll be glad you did.) A 39-year-old man from Escondido drove into a DUI checkpoint reeking of booze at 11pm. When asked about the stench, he was non-compliant and argumentative, and refused to follow instructions. He was arrested for driving under the influence. His 44-year-old girlfriend was also arrested after she repeatedly refused to stop harassing officers as they gave the man field sobriety tests (which he failed). Classy couple. At 2:30pm, a 50-year-old Santa Barbara man was seen walking in and out of traffic on Mission Street and was unable to answer questions or stand on his own when officers approached. He was eventually detained for public intoxication. (“Where’d they put that sidewalk, anyway?”) A 25-year-old Ventura woman was engaged in “mutual combat” with another woman at 11:40am, and was ultimately detained for public drunkenness. Great way to spend your morning. A 43-year-old transient male was too intoxicated to respond to any questions at all. Detained. (We won’t respond, either.) A 39-year-old male transient admitted to drinking loads of vodka around noon. He was unable to stand or walk, and was illegally lodged in front of a State Street business. (“Don’t worry folks, just step over the drunken middle-aged homeless man and come in and shop!”) A 22-year-old Isla Vista man was found passed out on a State Street bench at 2am (predictably). After being admitted to a sobering center, he was so disruptive that he was eventually removed and detained for public intoxication. (If at first you don’t succeed in getting arrested, try, try again.) A 33-year-old local bar manager was found, drunk, standing in the middle of a busy street downtown at 1:30am. She refused to follow directions and would not comply with sobering center terms. So she went to jail. (Great time to stand up to the cops on principle and integrity. On second thought, maybe you should have just gone to the sidewalk and walked away.) A 42-year-old Santa Barbara woman was passed out in the street at 4:45pm. Nice. Real nice. A 32-year-old transient male was too drunk to walk away from officers when they gave him the chance at 11:30am. A 24-year-old man from Tarzana became aggressive with club security when they asked him to leave at 1am since he couldn’t stand up. A 64-year-old female transient was hiding in some bushes on West Carrillo and harassing passersby at 4:20pm. She could not be controlled when officers finally responded. A 21-year-old transient male was yelling obscenities on State Street at 11:30pm and was “at a level of intoxication causing him to be unable to care for himself.” A 54-year-old transient man was drunk and disturbing and loitering at State Street businesses at 9:30am. A 47-year-old transient male “drank a 24oz can of Steel Reserve” and was “unable to walk and was sleeping on private property after repeated warnings.” (Try Budweiser.) A 42-year-old transient female, cited earlier in the day for an open container, was found passed out in a busy local parking lot covered in urine. She peed all over the squad car on her way to detox. (That’s one way to avoid future detention.) Ugh. There’s more but we’re done this week. Hold it together out there folks. Have fun but have some (self ) respect too. Jesus.

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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 letters@santabarbarasentinel.com.

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att, I’ve enjoyed your Crime Time with many a laugh. In this last issue (Vol. 2, Issue 14), there is a piece about a 46-year-old found asleep behind the wheel of an automobile at a stop sign at 2am. I have read the article over and over and there is a sense that in the comments section that you feel that it was improper to have law enforcement enforce the law. If this man had killed or paralyzed my wife or daughter I would not give a rats ass whether he or she was homeless, the president, an alcoholic or a fine up-standing member of the community. It would be murder. And I would be furious beyond words. For this person to be on the road is just beyond my comprehension. In my field of air-traffic, if I would have been this person my career would have been on the line. What if you received the call that a drunk had just killed your family? What if this person was suffering a cardiac arrest? Is it not prudent for law enforcement to investigate? You actually printed, “Shame on the SBPD.” Wow! I hope it was meant to be humorous.

Keep up the paper, it is a refreshing take on SB, especially when compared to the local daily and the other local weekly. But this was a real low point for me in your publication. Jeff Lovegreen Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for the note, Jeff, I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the paper and found humor in It’s Crime Time. We want there to be some laughter, of course, and we also want to raise important issues to our readership. I went back and re-read the piece to which you refer and, well, let me be absolutely clear: The piece was meant to be “sarcastically indignant.” A man passed out behind the wheel at a stop sign at 2am in the middle of town clearly merits police investigation. And if he killed my wife and kids I too would be unimaginably destroyed. (Frankly, if he were having a heart attack and the police ignored him, I might be angry as well given the circumstances.) So, to ensure clarity and my own personal integrity, please know that I (and this paper) fully support SBPD’s actions that night. Spot on, terrific police work, and

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eer is about travel. Each location you visit offers the possibility of trying beers that aren’t available in your area. The beers you find along your adventures become a part of the city they were discovered in. The memory of their flavors etch into your mind like a photograph and are part of the souvenirs that you bring home with you. I keep this in mind every time I travel. And I make sure to uncover as many unknown beers as I can. After my recent adventures at the Craft Brewers Conference in Washington, D.C. (see the past two columns for a recount of those tales), I wasn’t quite finished. I left our nation’s capital on a bus towards New York City (NYC). And after hours of travel, I arrived at Penn Station and headed towards the bar d.b.a. in Williamsburg. I met the friends I would be staying with at this spirited beer and whiskey joint and we celebrated my

DGBG’s main dining room; truly a place to behold. And that Thai sausage with a quail egg was just dreamy. Zach Rosen is a Certified Cicerone® and beer educator living in Santa Barbara. He uses his background in chemical engineering and the arts to seek out abstract expressions of beer and discover how beer pairs with life.

arrival in NYC with a River Horse (Lambertville, NJ) Oatmeal Stout hand pumped from a cask. The roasty, smooth mocha-flavored brew warmed me from the brisk weather outside. My goal while in the city was not so much to see the normal touristy sites. No, my goal was different. I was there to explore the different dining and beer marvels spread throughout the Big Apple.

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EATALY One of the culinary sites I made sure to see while in NYC was Eataly. Located near Madison Square Park, this gigantic establishment is a mecca of Italian cuisine and features a central marketplace with numerous restaurants integrated throughout the store. Aisles of pasta, coffee, chocolates and other delicacies are surrounded by counters presenting seafood and cured and raw meats in a mesmerizing display. Culinary artists roll out fresh pasta in front of patrons, pulling out bread loaves from the roaring ovens and piling them high in baskets. While this is exhilarating enough for any foodie, my true interests lied on the top floor of the building where Birreria is located. Built on Eataly’s roof, this is a brewpub of unparalleled quality that has been crafted by three masters of the Italian brewing style: Sam Calgione (Dogfish Head), Teo Musso (Baladin) and Leonardo Di Vincenzo (Birra Del Borgo). My companions and I headed to the top and entered Birreria’s main floor. Entrants are first faced with the small brewery encased in glass. The brew system and fermenters are plated in copper, which leaves them glittering behind the glass walls like a fine jewel being displayed in a museum. Birreria has three house beers, and each one uses brewing philosophy and ingredients that are direct from Italy. They are all conditioned in oak casks to give them a gentler flavor and softer mouthfeel from the natural carbonation. (I’m in beer heaven.) Wanda, one of Birreria’s house brews, is an English-style mild ale with flavors of toasted malts accented by cherry and licorice. It is brewed with chestnuts to give the beer an earthen nuttiness similar to an artichoke heart. Urma, my love, contains coriander, peppercorn, sorrento lemon and heirloom navel oranges. The base beer is an amber ale that has been continually hopped. This process of adding hops continually during the brew is the signature move of Sam Calgione and leaves a very smooth hop character (try the Dogfish Head 60 or

The dining patio at Birreria was a real highlight with great views and great brews…

90 Min to experience this process effect). Urma was elegant and well-rounded with a flavor that reminded me of a XO cognac finished with a citrus peel twist. Gina, my mistress, plays off the classic American pale ale style but is brewed with fresh Italian rosemary from the hills of Borgorose. The beer had a honey-malt flavor with a slight tartness and resinous finish. The thyme left its scent throughout the beer; making it a fragrant experience. The restaurant itself is located in a covered patio outside. The New York skyline is exposed to diners and the roofs retract allowing the sun to shine in when it’s out. The cuisine consists of an Italian base that has been fused with German and Austrian influences. My favorite lunch item was a pork shoulder that had been braised in beer and apricots. (Come to daddy.) It was served on a bed of shredded celery and apples with a splash of mustard vinaigrette. I complemented these flavors with a bottle of Captain Lawrence Brewing Co.’s (Elmsford, NY) Golden Delicious. This Belgian-style Tripel (12% ABV) aged in Lairds Apple Jack barrels had a crisp, braeburn apple character with a whiskey-like finish that left a Tiger Balm feeling in the chest. It was perfect for

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There’s that Thai sausage with the quail egg I keep talking about at DGBG. I had to put the picture in to constantly remind myself of the splendor.

…and the main bar at Birreria was simply more of the same.

Tre at Birreria was a perfect end to my meal, especially when paired with that River Horse Oatmeal Stout. (Wow.)

was composed of a base of walnut and pecans in a nocello (walnut-liqueur) syrup. A white chocolate chantilly (mousse) layer was sandwiched between the nut section on the bottom and a pear compote on top that was finished with a peppercorn jam and a single caramelized walnut. The Lurisia Sei (Six), a white beer brewed with buckwheat and angelica seed, refreshed the dessert’s This beer, the ’99 JW Lees Harvest Ale I had at Beer Table before coming flavors with a mimosa-like home, was a special one that will now forever remind me of this trip and quality accented by notes that bar and those friends. (Beer’s cool, ain’t it?) of orange and white grapes. (I know that’s a lot. But I’m still in beer cutting through the dish’s richness and the vinaigrette’s tartness provided a nice heaven so, please, bear with me.) contrast to the beer’s fruity flavors. I was spent at this point, but there was no way we were going to leave without trying some of Birreria’s desserts. Tre has a Birreria was first on my list of places to rum syrup-soaked rice sponge cake placed visit, but a close second was the gastropub on the bottom of a clear cup with a shape DBGB. This restaurant is the brainchild similar to an oversized shot glass. Three of Chef Daniel Boulud. He designed layers of chocolate mousse are placed on DBGB to be an American tavern with a top of the cake; starting with a Bavarian French flare. The restaurant walls are lined chocolate then a dark milk section before with kitchen equipment and dry goods being topped by a white chocolate layer. ornamentally placed upon shelves of black Once again I tried the River Horse and chestnut-colored wood. Oatmeal Stout (the brew I had in d.b.a.). They carry about 100 beers (20 on draft) It provided a toasted chocolate flavor with that focus on American breweries, however a silky body (from the oats) that worked I found other countries well-represented on well with the mousses’ light texture. Each the beer list. I made sure to try the newly sip cleansed the dessert’s flavors with an released Iron Throne from Ommegang espresso-like briskness. Brewery. This Belgian-inspired brewery The Cioccolato E Pere (chocolate located in Cooperstown, NY, produced and pear) was just as tasty. This dish Iron Throne for the premiere of HBO’s

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Game of Thrones third season (look for it locally at Whole Foods and other beer stores around SB). I found the brew generally light with hints of apple and pear, but the finish had gentle bite from the bitterness and alcohol warmth. The beer blended perfectly with DBGB’s Thai sausage. The wurst was adorned with chili sauce and a quail egg placed upon a plateau of basil fried rice. (In my experience, basically everything is better with a quail egg.) When separate the two were miraculous but together they were truly magical. The beer lifted the sausage’s bursting Asian-themed flavors with its fruit-forward character and quenched the sausage’s saltiness with its sweetness and carbonation. DBGB lived up to my expectations and was able to impress (even after witnessing the grand splendor of Eataly and Birreria).

BEER TABLE My trip was coming to an end when we stumbled upon Beer Table while meandering through Park Slope. This small, dim beer bar was the most pleasant surprise of my time spent in the Big Apple. The draft beers were listed on a large paper scroll that looked like a torah. The beer selection tailored towards the connoisseur crowd by featuring aged brews and rare offerings (that also happened to be priced better than anywhere else I found in NYC). I reflected on my trip while I sipped a ‘99 JW Lees Harvest Ale. This strong English ale was decadent with flavors of prune and syrupy malts, and the rich brew inspired deep thoughts as it finished with a brandy note and a bit of ember in the chest coming from the high alcohol content (11.5% ABV). Looking back, I was overwhelmed by the array of new beers I had been exposed to. I wasn’t going to bring home any souvenirs (except for a brewery shirt or two) but the beer memories I had made were more than enough to fill a photo album. After my 10-day tour of DC and NYC I had tasted and sampled my way through well over 100 different beers. My palate (and mind) was exhausted from analyzing beer flavor and I was looking forward to heading home. Back to our cozy and always growing beer scene. Cheers everybody, I can’t wait to see you all around town.

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Space is limited, but if you have an event, exhibit, performance, book signing, sale, opening, trunk show, or anything else interesting or creative that readers can attend, let us know at 805-845-1673 or email us at tim@santabarbarasentinel.com. We’ll consider all suggestions, but we will give extra consideration to unusual events and/or items, especially those accompanied by a good visual, particularly one that has yet to be published.

• Friday

• Saturday

–The Bowl and The Blues

–Cocktails and Couture

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Only one word can describe my disposition on a Friday evening after leaving work: tingry. That’s a made-up word combining “tired” and “hungry,” of course. While the latter is easily remediable, the former will have to wait, because there’s a lot to do tonight. So much, in fact, you’ll want to get something quick – maybe walk through the door of The Pan (18 E. Cota St.) as soon as they open at 6pm – before we find a main event. After that, you could follow me down Anapamu to the Santa Barbara Bowl, where the pride of Iceland Sigur Ros will perform tonight. Theirs is a form of rock-based atmospherics designed to make the spine tingle or the ground shake, depending on which part of their discography you consult – but they often achieve both simultaneously. Synthesizing dude-bro Oneohtrix Point Never will open with his retro-futuristic sonic experiments, which I’m curious to see go over in a live setting. Ticket-holders for this one are no doubt excited to see these acts soundtrack a perfect Santa Barbara night in the open-air Bowl. Ethereal post-rock and electronica not your jam? I wouldn’t blame you; I’d simply point you instead to the UCSB Arts & Lectures presentation of Taj Mahal and singer Shemekia Copeland. Mahal is a two-time Grammy Award winner that plays the blues – and has been for the better part of the last half-century – with the influence of other roots music from around the world. Show up with your dancing shoes and forty-five U.S. dollars ($18 if you have a UCSB student ID) to Campbell Hall at 8pm. Call 805.893.3535 or visit www.artandlectures.ucsb.edu for tickets and more information.

–Space-Cases at Westmont

If you’re not in the mood for music, there are two events to consider on the Westmont College campus tonight. First, there’s the Fringe Festival, a whirlwind of eighteen theater and dance pieces. It starts at the Porter Theatre and then moves throughout the campus. See it tonight and again tomorrow night from 7 to 10:30pm for $10 ($7 for students and seniors). Get tickets by going to www. westmont.edu/boxoffice or calling 805.565.7140. Also at Westmont tonight and every third Friday of the month is the free to the public Keck Telescope Viewing. Come after 7:30pm to take a peak through the telescope at the Westmont Observatory on campus at 955 La Paz Road. Call the Telescope Viewing Hotline at 805.565.6272 for more information.

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What do you call a guy like me at Bacara’s Cocktails and Couture Trunk Show? Lost! Or, how about “quickly removed from the premises.” Oh well; I might not know what “couture” or “haute” means, but I do know that this event will feature sneak previews of collections from designer brands Diane von Furstenberg and Haute Hippie, samplings of signature Bacara cocktails, and an opportunity to shop for yourself or someone you love. Admission is complimentary to The Boutique at Bacara Resort and Spa at 8301 Hollister Avenue. The show starts at 4pm and ends at 6pm.

–Popular Poetry

I’ve been reminding you here the past two weeks that this month is National Poetry Month. If you’ve missed previous events, be sure to attend tonight’s Whitman-Stein Poetry Fest, Santa Barbara’s possibly best-attended and perhaps most looked-forward-to poetry event of the season. The fest celebrates LGBTQ poets by having its readers recite a favorite gay (or L, B, T, or Q) poet in addition to their own work. Founder and Organizer Ron Alexander keeps things moving by inviting a few more poets than you would traditionally see at any one reading; this year’s event showcases six Californian poets. It happens on campus at UCSB in the Student Resource Building. Go to www.whitman-stein. org more directions. This event is free to students and a $5 donation to everyone else.

–Earth Day Festival – Day One

This year’s Earth Day Festival at Alameda Park has a lot to offer. Day One starts this morning at 11am and goes to 7pm tonight. To start, there will be eight zones across the park: Bike Valet, Public Square, Sports and Recreation, Eco Marketplace, Green Car Show, Live Green, Kids Corner, and Social Media Lounge. While the zone titles should mostly explain what will go on there, each has its own activities; for details, see the event’s website, www.sbearthday.org. There’s also a packed main stage schedule that features local musicians and organizations. Highlights there should include surf-rockers the Blue Suns at noon, Santa Barbara Dance Arts at 2pm, and the Environmental Hero Award presentation at 2:45pm. If you want to interact, you could learn to roll sustainable sushi over at the Live Green zone’s mini-stage, or get your kid an eco-education over at the Kids Corner mini-stage. Close the night out with reggae punks the Mad Caddies back at the main stage. This event is free all day.

• Sunday April 21

–Earth Day Festival – Day Two

You got the lay of the land yesterday: you found the food court and beer garden, you wandered around in each of the eight zones, and you picked up the “family passport” at the Car Free Checkin Booth to keep your little beansprout entertained. For Day Two, pick up your Clif Bar reward from a greeter on the way into the park (you’re going to need the energy), and go check out the 14-foot wave made of plastic bottles and then get some rock-climbing in at the Sports and Recreation zone. Catch your breath in the Green Car Show zone while you evaluate the latest in efficient and alternative-fueled vehicles. Next, walk over to the Public Square, but don’t mistake its main attraction for a kissing booth. That’s the Public Officials Booth, where some of our local legislative leaders will be holding public office hours. The main stage today has Bill Nye (that’s the Science Guy) accepting his Environmental Hero Award at 2pm. There’s a whole lot more happening here, so I suggest you go to www.sbearthday.org for many more details, or just show up at Alameda Park and explore.

–Synergy on Sunday

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Sunday’s a day to both wind-down from the weekend and to gear-up for the workweek. So here’s one way to relax while getting your mind back in office-mode: see SYNERGY: A Dance Alliance Genre Blending Collaboration. The “synergy” part gets you practicing your office-speak; the “dance” part lets you sit in the seats of the Lobero Theatre and take in this stylistically varied Santa Barbara Dance Alliance presentation. Students should head to the theatre at 33 East Canon Perdido Street with $18, SBDA members and seniors with $22, and everybody else with $30. For $50, you can join the cast of local dancers at a post-show soirée. Champagne will be served, but take it easy – you’ve got to get up tomorrow and pre-prepare some actionable recommendations before you interface with your end-users.

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• Monday April 22

–Volunteers Needed

This Monday is the perfect day to start doing something good for your community. The Santa Barbara Public Library System is looking for volunteers to help local adults with reading, writing, math, and English language skills. To do that, you’ll first need to complete nine hours of training before being paired up with an adult learner, who you’ll meet with once or twice a week at your library. The first three-hour training session is tonight at 5:30 (the two remaining sessions are Wednesday and Thursday at the same time). Call 805.564.5619 or email literacy@sbplibrary.org to sign-up for the tutor training at the Goleta Library at 500 North Fairview Avenue. The SB Public Library has offered this successful, free, and accessible service to the community for the past twenty-five years.

–Unite to Light

Here’s another way to give back this Monday: log on to www.unite-to-light.org and donate just $15. Unite to Light is a local non-profit organization that provides solar-powered LED lights to people in developing countries that go without something we take for granted: light after dark. Replacing a family’s expensive kerosene lamp makes the home a safer and healthier place for everyone inside. Your $15 sends one light to a family in need. Unite to Light recently wrapped up a donation drive on the website IndieGoGo, which offered the incentive of sending a light not just to a family in a developing country, but to the donator, as well. The drive introduced the organization’s new product, a combination LED light and USB cell-phone charger.

• Tuesday April 23

–A Little Too Ironic

Arbor Day: like Earth Day, but a lot more specific. Today’s not actually Arbor Day (that comes on Friday, the 26th), but the Santa Barbara Central Library is just too excited to wait that long. Local artist and illustrator Gail Lucas will appear at the library’s story time at 10:30am to read her children’s book, Trevor, the Traveling Tree. I’m guessing this isn’t hard sci-fi, but Trevor better have one heck of an origin story to be able to just travel around unfettered by his root system like that. How does he do it? Please ask him for me; he’ll be making an in-the-bark appearance. So take your little saplings along to 40 East Anapamu Street to have fun and learn a little something, too. Just try not to think of what a horrific, gruesome scene a library must be to a sentient tree.

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–Defiant Ones

If you’d rather your entertainment for this Thursday night be free of charge and come in only two dimensions, I suggest you take yourself down to the Mary Craig Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State Street). The film The Defiant Ones will be screened to further inform the exhibit This World is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs. Chosen by artist Danny Lyon due to its lasting influence on his work, the 1958 movie features Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier playing escaped convicts that have to learn to cooperate. Drop by the museum’s visitor services desk or visit www.sbma.net to reserve your spot. The movie starts at 5:30pm.

• Friday April 26

–Haber at the Hangar

Since our last Friday, we’ve celebrated two holidays, patronized the theater, heard some music, and even stopped to smell the roses. It makes me wish we had photographer Michael Haber with us the whole time to document the fun. Too bad; I don’t think he works like that. He does work, however, for some very recognizable name brands. A quick peruse through his website (michealhaberphotography.com) shows a sampling of his professional photos taken for the Gap, Tilly’s, Target, and many others. His personal photos get perhaps even more interesting and definitely show the accomplished photog’s artier side. Tonight at the Hangar (201 West Montecito Street), you can see for yourself. The opening is from 5 to 9pm, and features collaborations with Sophie Haber and Trevor Gordon. A portion of the proceeds from prints sold will benefit the Anne Kent Taylor Foundation, which serves Kenyan children. Call 805.969.3963 or email maryanne@ marymacevents.com to RSVP.

–Don Pasquale

Here’s one more option for this Friday, and our last one of the week: Opera Santa Barbara’s presentation of Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. Tonight at 7:30pm (and again on Sunday at 2:30pm), Artistic Director Jose Maria Condemi will call the 2012-2013 season to a close with Donizetti’s 64 th opera, a comedy about the scheming titular character. The Granada Theatre crowd is sure to be pleased by the performance from Metropolitan Opera bassbaritone Philip Cokorinos as Don Pasquale and the rest of the impressive cast. Find the Granada at 1214 State Street. Get tickets by calling 805.899.2222 or by emailing www. granadasb.org.

–Just Rosy

If we’re celebrating Arbor Day early, do flowers count? I hear the roses are in bloom and ready to be enjoyed over at the A.C. Postel Memorial Rose Garden (in Mission Historical Park across from the Old Mission). Stop and smell over 1,600 roses in over 240 varieties. In addition to city staff, the garden is maintained by volunteers, so thank your neighbors by taking a walk over and checking the garden out. If nature’s beauty and the sweat of your fellow citizens is not enough to get you out, one fun game to play here is the “point out unintentionally funny or inappropriate variety names as displayed on their placards” game.

• Wednesday April 24

–She’ll Be Bach

The classical music appreciating public wanted more, so UCSB Arts & Lectures brought them more. Back by popular demand is Jennifer Koh, the accomplished violinist that first impressed Santa Barbarans in October of last year. Known for her virtuosic and intense performances, the accomplished violinist will give us Bach and Beyond Part II. In this second installment of a three-part series, she’ll play pieces by Bach, Bartok, and Phil Kline. The world-renowned Grammy-nominated musician plays tonight in Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West (1070 Fairway Road). Students pay $9, the general public pays $30; both will be subject to a Hahn Hall facility fee. As always, 805.893.3535 or www.artsandlecture.ucsb.edu for tickets and more information.

• Thursday April 25

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–Animals and (not for) Children

It looks like we’re going two nights in a row with a UCSB Arts & Lectures event. This one sounds interesting and lively; apparently, the critics agree. Time Out London called The Animals and Children Took to the Streets “a mind-blowingly beautiful piece of theatre,” while the Guardian heaped on similar praise. It might have something to do with the show’s fresh mix of live music, acting, and animation. It’s all brought to us by a theatre troupe from London called 1927. This is its second production since its start in 2005, and in addition to the critical acclaim in the press, it has received several awards from around the world. It plays tonight at 8pm in Campbell Hall at UCSB. Think twice about bringing the young ones; Animals and Children contains some mature content. $38 and $18, respectively, to the general public and to students. 805.893.3535 or www.artsandlecture.ucsb.edu for tickets and more information.

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Whose City Is It, Anyway? by Sharon Byrne

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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.

out-of-town youth grunge set’s? There’s a saying: “Live in New York, but leave before you get too hard. Live in California, but leave before you get too soft.” We’ve been way too soft on this one, people.

Business Beat by Ray Estrada

New SB Chamber Chief Named

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This set of grungy youth have been occupying the brick structure on the 500 block of State for far too long now.

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passed by the grunge set hanging out on the brick “art” structure in the 500 block of State, and this is what I got: “How bout you give me five bucks for sitting on my ass?” one calls out. “How bout you get a $%*! job!” I responded. Not very ladylike, but I’ll be damned if I’ll let them bully me. When they started taunting and threatening me, I stopped, and said I am calling the police while taking their picture. One of them hid his face. Most people don’t want the hassle, understandably. Better to just hurry by, or avoid the area altogether, so the louts win, effectively. They have control of the block. This continual occupation of the public-art-brick-bench by the lout set is starting to boil. It’s long been a problem, but recent violent incidents, including an assault on a shopkeeper and a guy waving a machete while demanding money, have upset people. Citizens want something done.

Suggestions put forth, with some attempted: 1. Police them out of here. I see Officer Beutel hover over them like clockwork around lunchtime, which curbs some of the nastier behaviors, but the cops can’t legally order them off the brick thing. It’s public art. Maybe not your taste, and maybe you don’t think taxpayer dollars should have funded it. But we have no ordinance against loitering, nor do we have a time limit on public spaces, so sitting there all day is legal. Cops can only make an arrest for illegal activities. 2. Stop them from panhandling. Courts have ruled that anyone can be

in a public space with a sign soliciting alms, protected as free speech, even if the sign contains offensive expletives. Strong-arm tactics are not legal, but tourists don’t know that, and few of us would make a citizens’ arrest and press charges. 3. Repurpose it. I called the Chamber of Commerce and the Visitor and Convention Bureau and suggested we make it a temporary tourist kiosk, put out pamphlets, and have some volunteer tourism ambassadors sit there. “Er, well, um, we really don’t do that,” was the awkward response. I even called groups to do voter registration drives there, but they’re only active during elections, and would they need a permit? Scratch that idea. This thing actually was an MTD stop, but because of the lout occupation, MTD drives on by. 4. Put plants there. Preferably cacti. 5. Move it. The artist disagrees. We’re just displacing the problem. It’s happening in front of Yogurtland too, so see, they’ll just find some new spot to take over. Physically, this one’s not going to be easy to move. 6. Citizens reclaim it. If we sit there all day, they can’t, right? Shift sign-up lists, anyone? 7. Get rid of it. The Arts Community is decidedly against this. Can’t the police deal with it? See #1 and 2 for limits on police power. 8. Stop Wall Street Greed and end the disparity between rich and poor to solve homelessness. Sure, we’ll get right on that. No one’s solved it in decades, but let Santa Barbara lead the charge! To the homeless advocates itching to

“To the homeless advocates itching to plead these are mentally ill-drug-addictedalcoholic-veteransdeserving-of-ourcompassion. . . Stop. ” plead these are mentally ill-drug-addictedalcoholic-veterans-deserving-of-ourcompassion… …Stop. They’re 20-somethings traveling the Seattle-Portland-California circuit. They’ve dropped out to hang out and do the sidewalk-sprawl that has driven Haight-Ashbury and Berkeley crazy for years. They pull in generous handouts from State Street visitors, with the Bank of Mom and Dad for back-up. Offer them shelter and services, and they’ll laugh at you. They aren’t homeless. They’ve just decided to forgo the expense of lodging for camping freely in your town. They view employment as capitalistic penal servitude, utterly beneath them. They’d rather you keep handing over $5 to them for “doing nothing,” extortion for not harassing you. So this isn’t about whether Santa Barbara has to sacrifice public art or public space to the homeless. The bench occupiers aren’t homeless. This is about how tolerant we are, as a city, to packs of traveling youth who decide to camp here, take over our public space, and intimidate us for money for today’s grub, booze, and smokes. Some even chase or assault us, as happened recently, when we don’t willingly fork it over. We’ve been far too tolerant, apparently. We whine that we won’t go downtown anymore because this crowd has taken over. Why did we hand it over to them in the first place? When we avoid State, we are indeed handing it over. Worse, we’re punishing local businesses, people who actually ARE our fellow citizens. Whose city is it, anyway? Ours, or the

en Oplinger from Bellingham, Washington, has been hired as the permanent replacement for Steve Cushman, who abruptly left his 24-year job as president and CEO of the Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce almost a year ago. Zoe Taylor, former Ventura chamber chief, has guided the Santa Barbara chamber on an interim basis since June of last year. Prior to Cushman’s departure, the chamber vice president and marketing chief departed. Oplinger comes on board just as chamber membership director Scott Ericson has begun to bring in new members. Since 2007, the chamber has lost several hundred members. Since Ericson and Taylor came on board, dozens of new or returning chamber members have been paying dues. Taylor will work with Oplinger as he transitions into his new post as head of the oldest South Coast business organization of its kind, which was founded in 1899. Cushman still has a weekly radio program in Santa Barbara.

Sit ‘n Sleep Grand Opening Set for April 23

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n the other end of State Street, the Sit ‘n Sleep showroom, 314 Anacapa Street, plans to have a grand opening at 10:30am on April 23. The store is situated between Highway 101 and REI. Sit ‘n Sleep touts itself as Southern California’s largest mattress retailer and sleep expert after being in business for more than 30 years. The showroom features the company’s Sleep Match Technology, which fits customers for a mattress that is customized to their specific needs. The Santa Barbara store carries leading mattress brands, including Sealy, Simmons, Serta, Kluft, Tempur-Pedic, Sherwood, Octaspring, Dr. Breus, and Stearns and Foster.

Large Crowd Expected for Saturday’s First SB Biz Expo

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ome 200 people are expected to attend the first Santa Barbara Business Expo, sponsored by the Women’s Community Business Network, from 9am to 2pm on April 20 at Fess Parker’s

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DoubleTree Hotel & Resort, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. Organizers plan to make it an annual event, to develop continuity along with the launch of an online Business and Services Directory. For more information, e-mail sandy@wcbusinessnetwork.com. Vendors will display products and services they feel will be of interest to the business community of the area. The expo will feature prominent area business people who will share their experiences and offer tips and tactics. The expo will include dozens of displays, booths, handouts, samples, and information on a variety of organizations with business-oriented products and services. Expo speakers, including entrepreneur Patty DeDominic and Web guru Lorrie Thomas Ross, will focus on the importance of networking in business, why your business must grow to survive, how to use social media for your business, funding your business, printing and advertising in 2013, and how Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, can affect business. More information may be found at the expo’s website: www.BusinessExpoSB. com.

Top Economist Says Jobs Will Grow Slowly

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outed as the nation’s most accurate economist, professor Sung Won Sohn told a Santa Barbara audience April 12 that he expects the county’s jobless rate to drop to about 7.3 percent by the end of the year, down from 7.8 percent now. A Wells Fargo Bank senior economist for many years, Sohn now teaches at Cal State Channel Islands. He spoke to about 100 people at Santa Barbara City College on Friday morning. “Santa Barbara County is better off than the rest of California,” Sohn said. However, he said he does not put much faith in innovations such as green technology, business incubators and co-working clubs as the best ways to generate more jobs. He said Santa Barbara is a great place for a business to operate because the digital revolution allows them to send their services anywhere. After leaving his native South Korea at the age of 17, Sohn became a U.S. citizen. Despite his belief that China

could become the largest economy in the world within the next few decades, he encouraged the audience to always invest in the United States. “You should never bet against the United States,” he said. “America always comes back.” Even though many U.S. companies relocated overseas recently, some are “reshoring,” or coming back. These include GE, Caterpillar and GM. “They have found that it’s cheaper, more efficient and better quality,” he said. On various issues, Sohn said: • President Obama’s proposed budget probably won’t get through Congress because it still calls for hundreds of billions of dollars to pay down the national debt; • Immigration is a good thing for the United States. “We need the people who pick the apples and people who can work for Apple as well,” Sohn said; • The stock market will continue to improve – even though the overall economy isn’t getting that much better – because the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates low; • The Fed might raise rates late next year or early 2015 and that will cause stocks to tumble; and • Santa Barbara County jobs will increase, “but at a slow rate.” Most new jobs will be in the professional services and business sector, along with information technology. Along with teaching at the Camarillobased university, Sohn is vice chairman on the board of clothing retailer Forever 21 and a former senior economist on the President’s council of Economic Advisors in the White House. The Wall Street Journal recognized Sohn as “the nation’s most accurate economist” in 2006.

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A Dynamic Duo It was around that time when Brian met Santa Barbara local Chris Ballinger, who was then 16 or 17 and another young magic hotshot with a similar background. “I’d heard of this magic club Brian had started in town and decided to join,” Chris told me from a couch in the Magic Geek warehouse, also clearly enjoying the look back over the years. “We’d meet up above Rusty’s on Carrillo and run through tricks and talk magic. Brian eventually asked me to come work at the shop and I immediately accepted. I’d been working at Limo’s Feed and Pet Supply up in Goleta as a Certified Pet Food Expert so it really wasn’t a question.” (Chris had also been a longtime and accomplished magician, becoming a member of the Magic Castle Junior Society and performing around town at, for example, children’s parties and farmers markets and other gatherings. In short, he’s another quite talented magician…and he knows a hell of a lot about dog food to boot.) Eventually, the brick and mortar presence made less sense, and it became clear that the path forward for Magic Geek was online. So Brian shut down the shop and focused all of his energy on what was then a fast-growing sector: E-commerce. Around the same time, Chris headed down to LA to study film and theater at Occidental College, which eventually

led him to a job as the Assistant to the Executive Producer of the popular television series Bones. “It was really a writing-track job, and I was pretty happy with it. But then the writers’ strike happened – I literally had to cross the picket line to go see the birth of my first kid – and I was told, just hours after my kid was born, that I didn’t have a job in Hollywood anymore. It was a tough day.” I imagine that’s a reasonably accurate depiction. But, like all good stories, there was a silver lining. Chris had been moonlighting with Brian, doing some web design and other work in his spare time, and soon came back to Magic Geek full-time. I think of this as the beginning of the Magic Geek modern era.

Past, Present and Future “I’d seen the business really change over almost a couple decades,” Brian said. “I mean, when we first started back in the 90s, people were reluctant to shop online – they used printed catalogs and order forms most of the time. Things have changed quite a bit since then.” My have they. Magic Geek’s offices are in a small warehouse downtown, and aren’t what you’d think they are. Nothing is sold out of the physical location; all sales are done online. There’s a regulation basketball

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Georgia and, yes, even California. International sales are growing and make up a small but meaningful portion of Magic Geek’s revenue. “Norway is huge for us right now,” Brian proclaimed. One corner of the main workspace is filled with video production equipment. (I was admittedly baffled.) Brian and Chris explained. “Video – original content video – is absolutely huge for us right now. We have over 1500 videos of tricks on YouTube, and nearly 23 million views. This is really a critical area for business, and we are out ahead of most of our competitors here. The bottom line is that our customer base is constantly changing, evolving really, and we see the future as being not only more strategic and creative outreach through Magic Geek knows how to party. Hard. With childrens floaty toys. And Sprite. social media and original (See? More great creativity and imagination. Told you.) content but also some of hoop, a foosball table, a few skateboards, the older methodologies as well.” magic tricks and juggling stuff everywhere “Yeah,” Chris added, “we still send a and a keg-erator, amongst other things. newsletter – the Geeky Times – to our (“I’ve been told that we are the only non- customers and also blast a weekly email restaurant with a keg of Guinness tapped we call Monday Morning Magic to nearly constantly,” Brian said proudly.) clients who want it.” (Remember Chris’s Come to think of it, maybe that’s writing background?) precisely what you’d expect at a magic In other words, Magic Geek is a one trick warehouse. stop shop for anything and everything Anyway, customers are literally all over magic. If you’re interested, these guys have the world. I saw orders being filled for a huge wealth of knowledge and insight… magic hungry folks in Texas, Missouri, ...continued p.22 Florida, Washington, Pennsylvania,

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...continued from p.7 the right result. Maybe the guy will think before he jumps behind the wheel next time. I sure hope that’s the case. Thanks again, Jeff, and please do keep reading. – MSM)

The Need for Government 2.0

Sharon Byrne hit the nail right on the head when she wrote in the Sentinel (Vol. 2, Issue 14): “Government is no longer by the people, of the people, for the people. It’s a massive self-propagating entity for career politicians and entrenched bureaucrats, to further their careers, enabled by those with sufficient time and money to lobby them.” Everyone in the country should read, ponder and act on that and work to rectify the abysmal situation in which we now find our cities, states and country. A. Thompson Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Great letter, it’s actually quite thoughtful. I enjoyed Sharon’s piece last week too; in fact, another selection of her prose seems rather appropriate here: “This 1.0 model of government is laborintensive, ridiculously unwieldy, glacially slow, exorbitantly expensive, and produces a lot of bad results. Somebody please bring on Government 2.0, the open-source version with low overhead, fast performance, user-friendly features, and far fewer steps required to achieve

desirable outcomes.” Couldn’t have said it better myself. Although, come to think of it, I have a few additional attributes for Government 2.0: I’d like it to be a government that actually represents the interests of the people – rather than the interests backed by those people or business constructs with more dollars – and the broader City, County, State or Nation (whatever the case may be) in a way the engenders mutual respect, trust and confidence, thereby strengthening the constituency and helping the whole damned thing, public and private alike, to move forward in a more open and positive direction. Thanks for the letter and thanks, Sharon, for the thoughtful, insightful column. – MSM)

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Dear Matt, our heartfelt thanks to you for your generous donation of ad space a couple weeks back (Vol. 2, Issue 12) for Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter. We received a very positive response to the ad, and appreciate the impact it will have on our organization and efforts. Thanks again! B.U.N.S. Santa Barbara Animal Shelter Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for the nice letter, BUNS, I’m nothing if not a sucker for bunnies and couldn’t have been happier to help. It feels good. Onward we go. – MSM)

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Final Northern Area Re-leaguing Proposal Decided by John Dvorak

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onday’s CIF Northern Area ReLeaguing meeting at Bishop Diego High School lasted over five hours, with a final proposal on the issue of re-leaguing for the 2014-15 school year being approved by a 31-24 vote. Sixty-one of the 63 schools in the Northern Area, which stretches from Calabasas to San Luis Obispo, were represented at the meeting. The final proposal includes no changes for the Channel League while the local smaller schools will see some differences. “We are OK with the outcome of the meeting,” said Channel League representative David Hess, the Ventura Athletic Director. “In a perfect world, the Channel League would have picked up a team or three and be an even numbered league (less byes in the schedule.) But unless a new school is built, you cannot add a team without taking it from some other league. That’s where it gets tricky. Although several schools in the Marmonte League were interested in leaving that league, they did not want to have to send teams all the way to Goleta.” Cate School will see one of the biggest changes in its athletic landscape. The Rams will move into the TCAA after being in the Condor League for over 50 years. Joining Cate in the TCAA from the Condor League will be Thacher, leaving Laguna Blanca, Providence Hall and the new Garden Street Academy as local schools that remain in the Condor League. “It certainly will be different for us. We’ve been in the Condor League for 50-plus years. We have a lot of great relationships with that league,” said Rams Athletic Director Wade Ransom. “The move to TCAA will provide some stability and consistency for our entire athletic department and especially our girls sports. We look forward to competing against schools of similar size. We look forward to forming some new rivalries and having some great competition, and providing an exciting experience for our student-athletes.” Bishop Diego and Carpinteria will remain in the TCAA, which loses Oak Park to a new league consisting of Agoura, Calabasas, Moorpark and Newbury Park. Another new league will be established that includes Camarillo, Royal, Simi

Valley, Westlake and Thousand Oaks. These two new leagues will form a twotiered association for football only. Oaks Christian and St. Bonaventure, current members of the TCAA, had previously been moved to the parochial schools area and will also be leaving the TCAA after next year.

Athletes of the Week: Alex Valente and Bruna Magalhaes

Brian Helgeland’s film 42 focuses on the lie and baseball career of Jackie Robinson.

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New Film ‘42’ Honors The Late, Great Jackie Robinson

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Dos Pueblos swimmer Alex Valente, Athletic Round Table Athlete of the Week.

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os Pueblos swimmer Alex Valente and SBCC tennis player Bruna Magalhaes were recognized as Athletic Round Table Athletes of the Week on Monday. Valente is coming off a recordbreaking weekend at the Mt. SAC Meet of Champions. After setting the meet record in the 100-meter butterfly during Friday’s prelims, Valente came back and lowered his time to 48.86 in Saturday’s finals. The sophomore placed second in the 100-meter backstroke and was a member of the medley relay team that set a Channel League record. Magalhaes won the singles crown at the WSC Tournament. The freshman from Brazil qualified for the SoCal Regional in both singles and doubles. Honorable Mentions included Walker Bell, Dos Pueblos Swimming; Robby Nesovic, UCSB Baseball; Daniel Buratto, Dos Pueblos Baseball; Glen

f you tuned into an MLB game on Monday, and aren’t terribly familiar with baseball and its customs, then you might have asked yourself, “Why are they all wearing the number 42?” It’s the number worn by one of baseball’s most important icons, and April 15 marked the 66th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut as the first African American player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, now commemorated by every player wearing the number 42. It also marked the end of the first box office weekend of Brian Helgeland’s film 42, which steals not only bases but hearts too in this inspirational biopic about Robinson. 42 tells the story of Robinson’s rise from the segregated minor leagues to starting in the World Series with the then-Brooklyn Dodgers. It covers a relatively short period of his life, but it covers it in detail. At the start of the film we’re presented with a smart and smarter-mouthed Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), an excellent base stealer and talented shortstop in the “Negro Minor Leagues.” He’s likeable as a character, and only more so once we find out he’s been discharged from the army for refusing to sit in the back of an army bus. This mettle will be put to the test when Dodgers manager Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) approaches Robinson with an offer to play with the Dodgersaffiliated Montreal Royals. Ford gives an immediately amusing performance as the gruff-voiced, bowtie-wearing manager, both a shrewd businessman and a devout Christian.

While Robinson’s story is inspiring and his struggles aplenty, his story is straightforward and his character remains unchanging. It’s hardly a surprise when not all of the Dodgers take kindly to his presence on their team, or when angry townspeople try to shout him off the field. It’s interesting to see how Robinson deals with the sudden onslaught of racism, sure, but the real driving curiosity of the film lies in Rickey’s motivation: why sign an African American in the first place at this time and place? Ford’s performance is rock solid and his motivations ever-changing, acting in good foil to Robinson’s invariable drive in the face of deeply seated racism. Ford puts forth a fantastic blend of charisma and take-no-shit in his supporting role. Alan Tudyk too gives a wickedly antagonist performance as the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies whose taunts toward Robinson on the plate had me increasingly wanting to throw myself at the screen in the same way we see Robinson’s colorful cast of teammates growing more and more frustrated and unable to sit by in this highly charged moment. Beware: the language at times is not pretty. The baseball scenes, shot with beautiful color and detail, showcased the patience and attention the sport requires. Immersed right on the diamond with the players, we see catchers flashing signals in close-up and the scuff of Robinson’s heel against a base as if we’re right on the field with them. Audiences both on-screen and off will hold their breath as Robinson edges around bases and makes his steals in scenes characterized by tension. The film itself sticks very close to Robinson’s life and career, incorporating in documented quotes from real conversations, which will make enthusiasts happy. While the film tends toward dialogueheavy and boasts one-too-many heartto-hearts between Robinson and Rickey in my opinion, it still delivers those big

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pop-up moments of explosive action to help punctuate the occasional patterns of slow the film falls into. Helgeland hits on some key emotional points throughout the film, and perhaps the most poignant scene depicts a young child with his grandfather out to watch one of Robinson’s games. When his grandfather starts shouting racial slurs and abuse at Robinson on the field, the boy seems torn. When he realizes everyone is doing it, he joins in and perpetuates the hate without an awareness of what he’s even doing. It’s this kind of attention to detail and quiet commentary put forth by Helgeland that strengthens the film and makes the achievements of both Robinson and Rickey all the more important. “Maybe tomorrow we’ll all wear 42,” shortstop Pee Wee Reese says to Robinson before the start of Robinson’s first World Series game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, “That way they can’t tell us apart.” This line pays homage to the tradition to honor Jackie Robinson’s life through the use of his jersey in the same way the film seeks to honor this important moment in history. 42 is an all-around inspirational film with a strong cast of characters rounded out by some truly beautiful cinematography. If you don’t mind a

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movie with a slightly slower pace amidst the rollercoaster of superhero action movies that have been populating the box office of late, then 42 hits a home run for all audiences.

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Karch Kiraly Tournament of Champions, at Santa Barbara High School: Sixteen elite high school boys’ volleyball teams competing in a two-day tournament named after the Dons legend. Dos Pueblos vs. San Marcos Baseball, at San Marcos High School: The Chargers’ Gabe Speier will be on the mound, the DP ace who will be playing for UCSB next year. Dos Pueblos won Tuesday’s game 5-4 but San Marcos won the first matchup 6-0. Dos Pueblos will be trying to protect its first-place status. Gametime 3:15pm.

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Santa Barbara Chardonnay 10-Miler & 5k, at Leadbetter Beach Park: One of the bigger springtime running races in Santa Barbara. Race begins at 8am. County Track & Field Championships, at Carpinteria High School: Santa Barbara County high schools gather to crown the area’s top track & field athletes.

Dos Pueblos shortstop Ben York leaps to catch a high throw at second base as San Marcos’ Isaac Rodriguez slides safely to the bag. The Chargers beat the Royals on Tuesday on a walk-off hit in the bottom of the seventh inning. The same two teams meet again on Friday.

Earth Day Festival, at Alameda Park: This year the festival, both Saturday and Sunday, has created a new sports and recreation area. It’s a haven for sport, fitness and outdoor companies that carry an environmental or health/ fitness related message. There will be local and regional companies/businesses showcasing sport, fitness and outdoor lifestyle related products and ideas.

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ack in the ‘70s I decided to move to Tucson, Arizona. I didn’t know much about the place but I pictured a barren, parched, wasteland of a desert with dusty men carrying guns and sporting large, black mustaches. I was dead wrong about the landscape but the men, well, it was the ‘70s... I said goodbye to my family, my friends and to New Jersey. I grabbed my Irish setter, piled into my Jeep CJ5 and hit the road. I had only a vague idea where Arizona was but figured it was only a state or two away and probably a day or two’s drive. You can imagine my surprise when after an entire day of driving I was still only on the other side of Pennsylvania. I did arrive safely in Tucson, however, and soon discovered that I couldn’t have picked a place more different from New Jersey than if I had landed on Mars. There was that debilitating summer heat, of course, but I found the Sonoran Desert to be surprisingly verdant, colorful and alive with so many alien plants and reptiles that I was sure I had found my new home. Who knew that there was more to the desert than stark, foreboding cacti? At home now in Santa Barbara, I’ve come to realize that here, too, you can grow drought tolerant and even drought loving plants in your garden that don’t have to be spiny, rigid and cactus-y. Many plants that are available here are waterwise, showy and lush. The San Marcos Growers website (http://www.smgrowers.com) has a simple, easy-to-understand and practical way to describe the water requirements of the plants they grow. It basically puts the plants’ water needs into four, bite-sized

them in gardens with plants that have medium or high water needs. If I want to mix these plants with thirstier ones, here’s what I do. If the garden is on drip irrigation, after the drought plants are fully established I remove the emitters from them and allow them to borrow water from a neighboring plant that is irrigated. A partial list of plants in this group include:

Who says cacti are ugly? (Shot this in Tucson last month.)

categories: no irrigation required, low water needs, medium water needs and high water needs. No irrigation required. This is the droughtiest category and plants in this group include trees such as our California pepper (Schinus molle). These plants can exist on just our rainfall but would likely benefit by a very occasional watering. We’ll skip this one for now and get to the good ones. Low water needs. Now we’re getting somewhere. Many of these plants masquerade as drought tolerant but are surprisingly showy and colorful, not to mention downright aromatic. They can probably survive on our rainfall alone, but surely respond to a thorough irrigation every 4-6 weeks depending on your soil type. Naturally, sandy soils will require more frequent irrigation while heavy clay will need much less. Many of the popular plants in our Santa Barbara gardens fall under this category and are often killed off by enthusiastic gardeners including

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Coastal sagebrush (Artemisia californica ‘Canyon Gray’) Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea var.) Ceanothus (Ceanothus sp. var.) Purple-leafed hop-bush (Dodonaea viscosa ‘Purpurea’) Shrub daisy (Euryops pectinatus) Lavender (Lavandula sp.) Hairy awn muhly (Muhlenbergia capillaris) Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri) Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) Mexican sage (Salvia leucantha) pineapple sage (Salvia elegans) Mexican marigold (Tagetes lemmonii) Medium water needs. Probably the majority of the plants we grow fall into this group. These babies need regular irrigation to flourish, but are not necessarily “thirsty” plants. Depending on the time of year and how much rain we get, they’ll usually require water from once or twice a week in the summer to less or none in the winter. Some typical plants in this category are: Agapanthus (Agapanthus sp.) Peruvian lily (Alstroemeria hybrids) Canna (Canna var.) Red trumpet vine (Distictis buccinatoria) Hydrangea (Hydrangea sp.) Tree mallow (Lavatera maritima) Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum) Dwarf maiden grass (Miscanthus sinensis ‘Adagio’)

Hydrangeas are “medium” water users and not especially thirsty plants.

New Zealand flax (Phormium hybrids) Chiapas sage (Salvia chiapensis} Sinaloan blue sage (Salvia sinaloensis) Star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) Waverly sage (Salvia ‘Waverly’) High water needs. Plants belonging to this group prefer to not dry out and require water once or twice per week. During the summer if it’s exceedingly hot and windy, they may need water even more frequently. Often, these plants are put in or near a water feature. Some of these include: Black taro (Colocasia esculenta ‘Black Magic’) Papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) Giant Horsetail (Equisetum myriochaetum) Various ferns As you can see, aside from the bougainvillea, none of the plants under the low water needs category are thorny, spiky or will snag you when you walk by. Many if not all will add color and texture to your garden and will help to reduce your water bill.

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Get Out Farm animals abound again this year at the Fair & Expo.

there’s even complimentary massage from Tracey and Sally from Massage Therapy in Old Town Orcutt, if your drinking arm gets tired from lifting the glass over and over. Get details and tickets at www. sbcountywines.com/events/festival.html.

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Earth Day Santa Barbara is credited with spearheading the environmental movement, instigated by a horrific oil spill off our coast back in 1969. So it’s appropriate that Earth Day – now held nationally around April 22 – is a pretty big deal around these parts. In fact, Community Environmental Council’s event has become a two-day festival that takes over Alameda Park downtown on the weekend closest to April 22, which would be this Saturday and Sunday. Activities include lots of entertainment on a couple of different stages (solarpowered, naturally) featuring local bands Dante Elephante and Mad Caddies and yoga with Yoga Soup, scads of food and drink stands (serving mostly healthy stuff, of course), myriad Eco-Marketplace exhibitor booths (featuring all sorts of natural and earth-friendly items and concepts including cool gadgets and organic clothing), and a fabulous Green Cars exhibit, which is the longest-running such show in the U.S. and where you can test drive several low-emissions vehicles (including the brand new 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV which won’t be available for sale until summer). CEC has chosen two people to receive the 2013 Environmental Hero Award: Van Jones, founder of Rebuild the Dream and Green for All who wrote

the bestsellers The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream, will accept his at 2:45pm Saturday, while Bill Nye (The Science Guy), whose latest project is hosting a show on Planet Green called Stuff Happens, picks up his award at 2pm Sunday. Don’t miss the 14-foot “wave” made of 6,000 single-use plastic bottles that will be on display at the Dopper booth in the Sports & Rec zone (but they’ve already got plenty of material, so bring your own water bottle to the festival and take advantage of free water stations to refill). And by all means, find alternative transportation to get there: bus, bike, walk, scooter, or at least carpool! Details and full schedule online at www.sbearthday.org.

“We’re Going Hollywood!” is the theme for the 24th annual Santa Barbara Fair & Expo, which opens Wednesday and runs through next Sunday. Not that the theme actually matters much, as things don’t change a lot over at the Warren Fairgrounds – they just reEarl name buildings and areas with titles like “Hollywood and Vine” and “Sunset the Boulevard” stages, the “Chinese Theater” (Warren Hall), and “Studio Fun” (Exhibit

SBIFF Redux Speaking of Hollywood, have you noticed all the films that screened at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival that have already returned to town for commercial runs? The Sapphires is still playing at Paseo Nuevo, and No wound up a three-week run at Plaza de Oro yesterday, where Starbuck – which won the Audience Award at the 2012 fest – still holds down a spot at the twin cinema. And opening tonight is Disconnect, which kicked off the 2013 fest at the end of January. The first feature film from Murderball director Henry Alex Rubin, Disconnect was also the first opening night film ever to earn a second screening in the history of SBIFF. It’s also getting good reviews across the nation, pulling down a solid 65 from Metacritic’s aggregate score. That’s reason enough to maybe stay indoors after all.

Wine & Walk Santa Barbara has a plethora of tasting events all over town and beyond, but really what’s to complain about? Terrific restaurants and independent chefs abound, and we’ve got perfect weather for that sort of thing – never too hot or cold – and the climate is also conducive to growing the sort of grapes that make great wine. The season gets underway this weekend with the Santa Barbara County Vintners Festival, which is holding its main event this Saturday at Mission Santa Ines up in the valley for the first time in 30 years. An added draw for South Coasters is that the food lineup is Valley-heavy, which means you’ll get to sample fare not normally served at events closer to town, including tastings from Trattoria Uliveto, the Hitching Post II, Ballard Inn and Luna Oliva. Donna Greene & the Roadhouse Daddies and The Rock ‘n’ Blues Band provide the music, a photo booth provides mementos, and

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Building). But you might want to keep your smart phone video camera running with all that’s available, from 30 carnival rides (including, in a nod to Earth Day, a solar powered carousel), the ever-popular All Alaskan Racing Pigs, magicians, hypnotists, rock and salsa bands, and much more. The complete schedule and tickets are available online at www. earlwarren.com/fair.html.

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.

The 24th annual Santa Barbara Fair & Expo takes place at Earl Warren Showgrounds from Wednesday, April 24 to Sunday, April 28.

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...continued from p.14 and they are sharing it in creative and fun ways that will hold your interest. It held mine. And I don’t know a damned thing about magic.

A Day In The Life So here’s what goes down most days at Magic Geek headquarters (beyond the more mundane order filling and distribution etc., anyway). Chris and Brian put their (incredibly imaginative and innovative) heads together to create a new magic trick that will be the latest thing in the magician crowd. Then they build it. Then they dial the trick themselves and film typically Chris performing it on a mock set designed to look and feel like a magic shop in the warehouse. “We really try to recreate that brick and mortar feeling in our videos,” Brian said, “we film the tricks straight on, just like you’d see it in a magic shop. People respond well to that – it’s nostalgic for lots of magicians, I think, and makes the whole e-commerce thing more real, more tangible.” “Yeah,” Chris chimed in, “we enjoy the film production aspect and are always trying new concepts and ideas. And we really are ahead of the pack with our approach. Sometimes we’ll just go out to State and film the tricks on passerby so customers can see a genuine reaction.”

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(Of course, it turns out that Chris is a perfect complement to Brian for all this, with his background not just in magic but also in film and theater and Hollywood.) Once the trick is really tight (my word), Brian and Chris film an instructional DVD that is packaged along with the trick so customers can learn it straight from the guys who made it (or mastered it, or both). Pretty cool, huh? All you have to do is go to www. magicgeek.com to check out the more than 8500 tricks you can learn (Magic Geek didn’t create all of those, obviously, but has access to tons of great stuff in addition to its original material), and you’re off and running with your neophyte magic career. Like I was, when I left the warehouse. ••• “So then, you must be thinking that the whole deck is red Jacks, right?” “Uh-huh.” My wife was already knee deep in the trick, watching the deck closely, sometimes glancing toward my right hand to try to catch the ruse. But the trap had been sprung long ago; her efforts at discovery were futile. I flipped the deck over under her watchful eye and, as sure as the day is long, all those cards came up Jacks of Clubs. (Well I’ll be damned…it almost even surprised me.) She clapped and laughed her wonderful

laugh. “How did you do that?” I was glowing. I could feel it. “Like any other person skilled in the arts of magic, I’ll never tell, my dear.” She rolled her eyes, walked away, and went back to brushing her hair. With a great big old smile on her face. Hey Brian and Chris, it worked, guys, thanks for the trick. I’m coming back for more. What can I say? I’m a Magic Geek. And I’m proud of it.

STUFF I LIKE I like random stuff this week. I really like Magic Geek and the very Santa Barbara guys behind it. Check out www. magicgeek.com, or go to www.youtube. com and search on Magic Geek, Inc. (They do a pretty cool trick involving an explanation of Angry Birds. Fun.) And hey, if you ever have a party that might benefit from a trained magician’s (and pretty nice guy’s) presence, do get in touch with Chris at chris@magicgeek. com. He still performs and it could be pretty fun for your next Shindig (that’s right, Stephanie Sanders). Thanks again for indulging me, Brian and Chris, I had a blast. I also like the magic of high school sports. (Too much? Yeah, I know.) And very few organizations help benefit local programs and athletes as much as Ye Old Gang does

the Santa Barbara High School Dons. Former Don Sal Padilla (’51) and others organized Ye Old Gang back in the 70s and the group has continued to provide financial and other support for the Dons ever since. (I dig that, and truly believe that this is the stuff that strong community is made of.) The 12th Annual Ye Old Gang Golf Tournament is on for this Saturday, April 20, 2013 at the Montecito County Club. It will be a blast – it’s Ye Old Gang’s 40th anniversary too – and all proceeds go to SBHS’s athletic program. There are still a few spots, so hurry up and call Ye Old Gang President David Bolton (805.9620605) or Bill Brace (805.689.4181) to get details and reserve yours. And remember, Once a Don, Always a Don. (Hit ‘em straight guys, and keep up the good work.) Finally, I really like Mother Earth, and MUS’s Earth Day program last week got me all fired up. (Congrats to Co-Chairs Dagny Dehlsen and Shannon Murray on a great event, kids and parents alike loved it.) So after you’re done with the Ye Old Gang, go spend a few hours enjoying Community Environmental Council’s Earth Day Festival at Alameda Park. It’s sure to be fun, informative and a real celebration of all of what we must cherish and hold dear not just for ourselves but for our kids and grandkids and great grandkids and and and. Check out www.sbearthday. org for information. See you there. Peace. See y’all next week.

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Patricia Clarke is an award-winning international photographer based in Santa Barbara. Fascinated by all aspects of the human condition, in recent years she has been turning her lens to her own community. In addition to many local exhibitions over the years, her work has been featured in London, Italy, Prague and around the United States. To see more of her local portraiture work, go to www. yourbestshot.us. Patricia’s fine art photography can be seen at www.patriciahoughton clarke.com. She can be reached at pcphotog@gmail.com

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All You Need Is Your Body

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umb bells. Bar bells. Kettle balls. Medicine balls. Treadmills. Spin bikes. Elliptical trainers. All great when used appropriately, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes we just need to get away from all that stuff and make it happen on our own. Using only your body to workout is inexpensive, convenient, efficient and a great way to burn fat and build muscle. Period. Here is an awesome body-weight workout that you can do at home, in your yard or at the track. You don’t need any special equipment, and my experience is that you can get as good a cardio and strength training workout as any if you are willing to focus and expend the effort for around 30 or 45 minutes. Remember: Nothing changes in our lives if nothing changes. Make today the day you get up, do a few jumping jacks, and work your way through the exercises below. Because once things start to change, things start to change. And that may just be a good thing.

Warm-up:

Jumping jacks – 1 min Jog in place (or around a track or up the street, just make it happen) – 1 min Plank – 30 sec (Repeat this three times)

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wo of Santa Barbara’s unusual and prolific local artists, Susan Tibbles (above)and painter Sara Lytle (below), can occasionally be found enjoying cocktail hour at their favorite haunt, Cadiz (avec moi and other area troublemakers), looking for ways stir up some creative juices, tell stories and have a good laugh.

Workout:

Simple, really. Do each movement below for 1 minute, with a 1 minute rest between movements. Write down how many reps of each individual exercise you did in that minute while you are resting. This should be a challenge for anybody at any level – just ask Editor-inChief Matt Mazza, who huffed and puffed (in a good way) his way through this one just last week. Can you beat his combined total number of 294 reps for all of the exercises? 1. Squat Jumps 2. Push-ups 3. Jump lunges 4. Full body sit-ups 5. Shoulder taps

6. Inner thigh squats 7. Side lunges 8. Spider man push-ups 9. Hip lifts 30 sec each side 10. Pop-ups

If you’re feeling strong, then do it again. Then do it as many days as possible this week. Chart your progress. We’ll do this one again someday and compare results in the future for fun. And if you have any questions about any of the exercises or anything else (or you need a little motivation), please feel free to contact me directly at 805.698.6080 or jenny@jennyschatzle.com. Write Jenny a letter (letters@santabarbarasentinel.com) or contact her directly with any questions. And go get ‘em, the Sentinel is rooting for you.

Susan, fine artist and Curator/Director of 2nd Fridays at Santa Barbara Tennis Club, is putting the finishing touches on the May show. This beautiful and provocative exhibition titled About Face will feature the unique and edgy work of some local favorites, including Ms. Lytle herself, Barry Spacks, Neil Crosbie, Henry Rasmussen, and collaborators Carey/Clarke. The show opens on Friday, May 10, and will run through June 8. For more information about these whimsical, worldly women and their work, go to www.susantibbles.com and www.saralytle.com. And be sure and check out 2nd Fridays if you haven’t already; SBTC graciously opens its club gallery to the general public and there are always treasures to be seen and experienced.

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Bacteria Sex (Yep, That’s Right)

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f I remember my eighth grade biology class correctly, bacteria are asexual living organisms. They reproduce when a parent cell divides, splitting itself into two daughter cells. Great, for us science types perhaps, but not exactly cocktail fodder for other groups. So I must admit that I was very curious when I heard that a lab at UC Santa Barbara was actually studying microbial reproduction. I mean, we already know what we need to know, right? Wrong. It turns out that the last few decades have taught us that there are likely other aspects to microbial reproduction. That is the only way to explain how rapidly they evolve, even when one takes their reproductive rate (hours) into account. The group studying the more racy reproductive habits of bacteria, including Dr. Eduardo Orias (one of the original scientists who worked with the organism), Dr. Marcella Cervantes, Dr. Eileen Hamilton, and doctoral candidate Michael Lawson, have been investigating Tetrahymena thermophila, a single-celled organism that was last studied over fifty years ago. Back then, it was found to have seven different sexes. A microbe with genetically distinct sexes? That seems pretty revolutionary to me.

Battle of the (Seven) Sexes And it was revolutionary, at the time. Since then, however, many microbial species have been found to have unique sexes. The microbes use these sexes to determine if they have enough genetic distinction from one another. This becomes extremely important when you realize that microbes, infectious bacteria included, “trade” segments of their DNA. Called horizontal gene transfer, this process helps spread new, potentially advantageous, genes throughout a population quickly. (If only people could do that! I could have any color hair I want.) In order to maintain genetic diversity, and therefore defend against disaster, microbes need to transfer genetic material regularly. Tetrahymena thermophila is no exception. These microbes regularly exchange parts of their DNA. This DNA is added to the DNA located in a second, largely inactive, cell nucleus called the germline nucleus. It is this nucleus, and

Studies show that bacteria find this graph arousing.

Studying the sexual behavior of any species appeals directly to the dastardly prurient interests of what has clearly become an overly sexually active general public, whipping its constituents into a collective frenzy of impure thought. And frankly, Drs. Hamilton, Cervantes, Lawson (Ph.D Candidate) and Orias (from left), we here at the Sentinel commend you for your contribution.

not the functioning one, that is used to create the next generation of microbes. When trading DNA, Tetrahymena thermophila have a rule: they will not trade with others of their same sex. (I’m searching for a vaguely appropriate joke here but cannot find one. I’ll keep trying.) That means that the microbes search for another microbe of one of the six other sex types. Once two microbes of different sexes find each other, they exchange genetic material. That genetic material helps both microbes complete the second nucleus with new DNA, creating offspring with unique genetic combinations, much like sexually reproducing organisms. We have known all of this for nearly fifty years. Honestly, I’m glad they didn’t teach me all of this in eighth grade, my head would have spun. It seems that it made the original scientists’ heads spin, too. Very little research has been done on the species since, leaving many questions unanswered.

Bacteria Need Love Too One of those questions was taken up by a team of biology labs across the world, including a laboratory here at UCSB. As a team, they set out to figure out how the sex of the offspring is determined. Taking a first stab at the problem, researchers decided to begin by creating strains of the microbe that were missing genes thought to be related to mating. This is a common practice when

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.

studying organisms (from single celled bacteria all the way to rats) called gene knockout and has had much success as a scientific tool. So it made good sense to start out with that method. Using gene knockout, researchers found two genes that are linked to the offspring’s sex. These genes have unique sequences (genes are composed of many DNA base-pairs) for each of the sexes. While humans have an entire chromosome that determines sex, Tetrahymena thermophila have only two

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genes. And those genes are incomplete in the germline nucleus. Meaning, Tetrahymena thermophila can only reproduce after horizontal gene transfer has occurred and they have obtained genetic material that will complete them. Much like the sex of a human child, the sex of a new Tetrahymena thermophila cell is determined randomly. However, a human child may only be male or female. The offspring of these microbes are not so limited, and may be the sex of either parent – or any of the other five sexes the species has. The parent cells’ sexes have nothing to do with the offspring’s sex. The DNA that is transferred between the parents contains information for all the sexes. When the two segments of DNA meet, they fuse at random and that random fusing determines the new cell’s sex. The fact that a single-celled organism has seven sexes and that one cell needs another cell of a different sex in order to reproduce is pretty cool on its own. It sort of blows my understanding of microbial reproduction out of the water. But, research into Tetrahymena thermophila is important for more than the coolness factor. That tiny little microbe shares many genetic qualities with higher organisms, including humans. Any research into its function lends us some morsel of understanding about how we function, particularly on the cellular level. Dr. Orias is even hopeful that we may be able to find medical applications for this new knowledge. Which effectively stems from microbial sex. Isn’t science great?

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A longtime writer, editor and film critic, Jim has worked nationwide for several websites and publications – including the Dayton Daily News, Key West Citizen, Topeka Capital-Journal, Las Cruces Sun-News and Santa Ynez Valley Journal. California is his seventh state. When he isn’t watching movies or sports around the Central Coast and Los Angeles, you can find Jim writing and reading while he enjoys coffee and bacon, or Coke and pizza.

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he year’s best film also boasts the sharpest title: The Place Beyond the Pines, whose trailer had intrigue written all over it, is a juicy steak of a movie – cut from the same stock as Mystic River. Not unlike Clint Eastwood’s magnum opus of 2003, here we have another solemn crime drama set in the Northeast under soapywater skies. What’s more, there will be a significant shift in years and characters’ ages, though in Pines’ instance, the chronological leap comes much later. Ryan Gosling, as a motorcycle stunt rider, reunites with Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance; the upshot is a beefy (140 minutes) and complex rollercoaster about love, loss, greed, envy, loneliness and desperation. The particulars of the case: Our tattooed, grimy and reckless hero bumps into an ex-lover (Eva Mendes); unbeknownst to him, their initial one-night fling produced a son. The daredevil wants to provide for his baby, so he resorts to robbing banks with the help of a mechanic. (“Not since Hall & Oates has there been such a team.”) It isn’t long before an aspiring rookie cop (Bradley Cooper), raising a family of his own, throws a wrench into those financial plans – and turns this story upside-down. The screenwriters pad the narrative with police corruption, drugs and an unlikely bonding between two teens. But it never feels too stuffed; what could’ve become muddled and stale evolves into something fresh, compelling and unnerving. It could be argued Cianfrance is blaming society for his players’ troubles; at any rate, the filmmaker sustains the tension and suspense with precision, while Schenectady, N.Y., provides as appropriate a backdrop as any for these disturbing circumstances. Much ink has rightfully been spilled in praise of the top-billed stars, but it’s the supporters who stick with us: Bruce Greenwood, Ben Mendelsohn (spot-on as the grease monkey) and exceptional Dane DeHaan (Lawless and Chronicle) as the young man seeking answers. About halfway through, Ray Liotta appears and you can’t avert your eyes, nor would you dare: his cameo chills to the core.

Soft Ball The baseball biopic 42 follows the storied path (and uniform number) of Jack “Jackie” Robinson, who became the major leagues’ first black player when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, circa 1947. Writer-director Brian Helgeland, who penned the aforementioned Mystic River, oversees Chadwick Boseman as the groundbreaking player and his wife (a lovely Nicole Beharie) with too much tenderloving care. Subtlety isn’t the movie’s strong point: Many scenes simply

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Saturday - April 272044-Alameda 9:00 am- S.B. Padre Serra THE CROODS (PG) 2D Fri-Sun - 12:40 3:10 5:30 7:50 RENOIR (R) CAMINO REAL Arlington Mon-Thu - 2:00 Theatre 4:30 7:10 Fri &Presents Mon-Thu - 5:00 7:45 Features Stadium Seating Sat/Sun - 2:00 5:00 7:45 (PG-13) SCARY MOVIE VGIULIO  Handel’s CESARE CAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE Fri-Sun Hollister & Storke - GOLETA METRO 4 12:50 3:00 5:10 7:20 ON 9:35 SALE THURSDAY MAY 2 TICKETS Tom Cruise

Mon-Thu - 2:10 5:00 Morgan Freeman  OBLIVION (PG-13) EVIL DEAD (R) 1:00 2:30 4:00 5:30 Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:30 7:10 ARLINGTON - 9:00Mon-Thu pm in- 2:20 2D 5:15 7:00 8:30 9:55 Playing on 2 Screens

 IRON MAN 3

METRO 4 - 10:00 pm in 2D & 3D

7:30

Features Stadium Seating

(PG-13) 618 State Street - S.B.

9:45 7:40

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Tom Cruise Morgan Freeman  OBLIVION (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:15 Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:15 8:00

Ryan Gosling....Eva Mendes W. & De Midnight La Guerra Pl. -in S.B.2D & 3 CAMINO REALLiotta - 9:00 8pm Bradley Cooper....Ray Jason Bateman....Hope Davis Dwayne THE ROCK Johnson THE PLACE BEYOND       DISCONNECT   (R)  G. I.JOE:RETALIATION   THE PINES (R) 2D: (PG-13) Fri-Sun - 1:15the 4:00Big 7:00 Screen! 9:35 HD - Las9:20 Vegas - on Now On Sale! 1:30 LIVE 4:10 6:50 Fri-Sun 1:20 4:00 7:00 9:40 Mon-Thu - 2:10 4:50 7:40 Mon-Wed - 2:10 4:40 7:30 Harrison Ford....Lucas Black Harrison Ford....Lucas Black Thu 4/25 - 2:10 4:40 42 (PG-13) 42 (PG-13) 12:45 3:40 6:40 9:35 Fri-Sun - 12:30 3:30 6:30 9:25 A Steven Spielberg Film Mon-Thu - 1:50 4:40 7:30 JURASSIC PARK 3D (PG-13) Charlie Sheen Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:50 7:45 SCARY MOVIE V (PG-13) 12:35 1:45 4:40 7:15 10:00 Ryan Gosling....Eva Mendes Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:50 7:40 THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (R) EVIL DEAD (R) OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (R) Fri-Wed - 2:40 5:00 7:25 9:45 Fri-Sun - 12:40 3:40 6:40 9:45 Fri-Sun - 1:50 4:40 7:20 10:00 Thu 4/25 - 2:40 5:00 7:25 Mon-Thu - 2:00 5:00 8:00 Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:00 7:50 Features Stadium Seating Features Stadium Seating 371 Hitchcock Way - S.B. (R)- S.B. TRANCE 916 State Street Thursday 4/25 9:00 Thursday 4/25 - 9:00 225 N. Fairview - Goleta Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:15 6:50 9:15 BLANCANIEVES (PG-13) Tom Cruise Steven Spielberg Film(R) Mon-Thu Mon-Thu 7:00 (R) A PAIN & GAIN  &PAIN & -GAIN - 2:20 5:15 7:50 Fri  OBLIVION (PG-13) JURASSIC PARK (PG-13) Sat/Sun - 1:45 4:20 7:00

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FAIRVIEW

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You Have Your Hands Full

Olivia Peters, all smiles at the Mission. (Hey Olivia, we’re rooting for your here at the Sentinel. Keep working hard and you’ll be the best damned mathematician on the planet.)

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.

The Upside of Feeling Down

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knew immediately something major was wrong. Olivia came rushing down the stairs from school with her worried teacher hovering right behind. Her eyes were red, she was trying desperately to hold back tears but they had already slipped out onto her cheeks. The scene caught me totally off guard. It had been a great day – one of the greatest at Roosevelt Elementary. Kids from every grade had run around the Mission Rose Garden to raise funds for the school. I had run almost the entire 45 minutes with Olivia. We held hands and sang with the loud music blaring across the garden, “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger,” sprinting our way around the picturesque setting to achieve her new record of 27 laps. I headed home with sore limbs and a very happy heart, thinking that life is about the great moments. Olivia and I had rocked it that morning. Now, just a few hours later at pick up, she saw me and started to sob. “I didn’t make the Math Super Bowl team, Mom.” With those words, my happy heart sank.

Disappointment Is A Gift She had been chosen a few months back to be on the math team. It was quite an honor to be chosen. Out of 90 students, six would train and four would go to represent Roosevelt against

other schools and districts. She had been ecstatic when she made the team. Olivia worked hard and did a lot of extra math (much of it beyond her grade level). And then, as the decision day approached, I knew she was confident but anxious. Who would go? Who would become alternates? I had been here before. My oldest, Jackson, had trained too and last year he hadn’t made the team. I stood outside Earl Warren Showgrounds with him as he painfully watched his team go in without him. I felt sick watching him struggle with his own disappointment. But this time, you see, I have the benefit of a year’s experience. Jackson was always very good at math. He wasn’t surprised when he made the first cut. “Mom, I made the math team. Knew it would happen.” Over the weeks leading up to selection day, he was over-confident and sloppy. I would tell him to slow down and take his time. He never listened, just waved me off. “Mom, don’t worry. I’ve got this covered.” Then he didn’t make the team. He took it quietly, but I knew the disappointment was huge. There was a payoff though, as he started to be more methodical with his work. Less cocky, even inquisitive. This year, it’s very rare that he comes home with a math test he hasn’t aced. “It was really hard to not make the team,” he admitted to me a few months after Earl Warren. “But I thought I knew

everything when I really didn’t.” It was then that it hit Disappointment is a gift.

me:

A Lesson Learned We want our kids to be amazing, welladjusted people but that is not going to happen when they are perfect all the time. Since birth they have gotten massive trophies for participating in just about anything when, actually, they need to learn that life is hard, maybe sometimes not all that fair. Facing these challenges, they will rely on their resourcefulness to deal with them. And how do you become resourceful? You fail, pick yourself up, work harder, practice longer and then try, try again. I’ll take that lesson over a fake gold statue any day.

I told all of this to my crying child. “But I wanted to be the best math student in fourth grade,” she confided in me. I told her this was not going to be her year, but the process was the right one. And it had made her better. It’ll prepare her for next time. That is all she could ask for. I know there is another tough day ahead of us as we watch her team go in to compete, but that is what parenting is all about. We can’t shy away from those moments. It was then that I started to hum, and then she started to sing that very morning’s anthem that we ran to in the Rose Garden: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, stronger. Just me, myself, and I. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” It’s a pretty good tune. Try singing it sometime.

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aving trouble hiking with the under-five kids? I see it all the time when I hike Rattlesnake Trail. Two minutes up the hill and parents look like they’ve been hiking for hours. Kids are whining, some already crying – not exactly a great family outing. Or maybe you’ve just taken the wrong path. Forget the trail and go up the creek instead. Make it to the tunnel (10 minutes of rock hopping along flat terrain). Alpha and I bring coffee to go. Watch the kids get dirty and catch frogs. Sunday mornings have never been so good.

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• LOVE IS FREE What: Earth Day Festival Where: Alameda Park When: Saturday, April 20, 11am – 7pm and Sunday, April 21, 11am – 6pm Why: What on earth is more important than celebrating our beautiful mother? How: Explore unique finds: green products, smart technology, cool gadgets, organic clothing and fun stuff you didn’t know you needed until now. Don’t forget to kick back and relax in front of the main stage where live bands will be playing all weekend. What’ll It Cost Me: Free.

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ST FI YL LE E

by Briana Westmacott

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his is big. And it only lasts a couple of days, so we are calling out to you – GET DOWN TO ADESSO FOR A HUGE JEWELRY SALE you don’t want to miss. We absolutely love Adesso Atelier. In fact, each and every bird here at LOVEmikana has at least one (some of us have many) of their signature beaded bracelets. Everything about Adesso’s jewelry line makes us happy and we covet their shop treasures too (scarves and pillows and vases and more). Each piece is the perfect complement to everyday life in Santa Barbara. That’s why we are quite pleased to announce their sample sale. This Friday and Saturday only, you can go to Adesso’s shop (1209 De La Vina Street) and find 50 – 80% off past collections and one-of-a-kinds, and 20% off the current collection along with other Adesso goodies.

• LOOSE CHANGE What: Sweat Outdoors Where: Alameda Park (Sola Street side) When: Recurring Saturdays, 8:30am Why: Give yourself a full body workout through alternating cardio drills, resistance moves, plyometrics, core and balance work. How: Sweat outdoors, straight up. What’ll It Cost Me: $12 online, $15 day-of

• HEY BIG SPENDER What: Cocktails & Couture with DVF and Haute Hippie Where: The Boutique at Bacara Resort & Spa When: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 4 – 6pm Why: The trunk show will feature tastings of Bacara’s signature cocktails as well as a special preview of the designers’ spring and summer collections, including dresses, shorts, tees and accessories. How: Gather your best girls and go shop in-style. What’ll It Cost Me: Admission is complimentary and includes one select cocktail. The shopping will cost you.

So stockpile your gift bags and throw in a little something to treat yourself while you’re at it. It’s not often that you get to gather all the loveliness that is Adesso at a discount… it’s definitely something to shout about!

WINE & DINE Grilled Cheese Goodness

by Eve Sommer-Belin he eminent “They” have declared April Grilled Cheese Month, and why argue? We’ll just join in. In the spirit of this cheese praising month, local clothing company Horny Toad has invited LOVEmikana to participate in its Grilled Cheese Smackdown. As part of our brainstorming on the best grilled cheese we can think up, here is one of the recipes we considered and ultimately craved. It’s simple and tasty. Trust us.

• BONUS TRACK

We know you’ll like this: Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore is hosting a giveaway that you don’t want to miss. Visit (and “like”) their Facebook page, and be entered to win a two-night stay at the glamorous oceanfront retreat, along with a $500.00 gift card to Dressed boutique in Montecito. It’s really that simple, Santa Barbara, so make it happen.

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Tools -Cast iron skillet -Spatula

Ingredients -French bâtard bread -Goat cheese – a medium firm one -Fresh thyme off the stem -Honey -Butter (room temperature) Instructions -Heat cast iron skillet on medium heat. - Meanwhile, build your beautiful sandwich. Butter both slices of bread. Smear on the goat cheese on one slice of bread. Don’t be shy! Squish the

thyme into the cheese. Drizzle with some honey. Top with other bread slice. -Place into hot skillet. -Wait impatiently. -Flip. -Continue to wait impatiently. -Eat. Enjoy. (PS. For the winning Grilled Cheese Recipe, please visit http://www. hornytoad.com/blog)

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REAL ESTATE

1609 Calle Canon

by Michael Calcagno

Michael has consistently been ranked in the top 1% of Sotheby’s agents worldwide. Shortly after joining Sotheby’s, he partnered with Nancy Hamilton to form one of the most successful real estate teams in Santa Barbara. Michael can be reached at Michael@ HomesinSantaBarbara.com

Picks of The Week

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his week has had some great new listings come on the market once again. Not only have we seen another week of great numbers, which I’ll get to in a moment and that are still showing a strong market, but also some great deals. Whether you are looking for an investment property or one to call home, these are all great options. In the Hope School district this week, a 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with approximately 1,350-sq-ft on a quarter-acre lot came on the market for $699,000. The home is nicely updated with lots of future potential. Another new property on the Upper Westside is a 2-bedroom, 1-bath home with approximately 1,100-sq-ft. The home is nicely updated with mountain views. Last but not least is a REO (bank-owned) property on the Lower Westside of town. The property consists of two homes on one lot with the front house having 2 bedrooms and 1 bath with a fireplace in the living room, and the back house includes 2 bedrooms and 2 baths with a 2-car attached garage.

Purchase price: $699,000 Down payment (15%): $104,850 Loan amount: $594,150 Payment: $2,793

Neither Mr. Calcagno nor Sotheby’s International Realty is necessarily the listing broker or agent for any of the foregoing properties

(30-yr fixed 3.875% (3.89% APR))

Property taxes: $640 Home Insurance: $80

3920 Calle Cita

Total Monthly Payment: $3,513

630 Del Monte Ave A & B

Purchase price: $699,000 Down payment (3.5%): $24,470 Loan amount: $674,535 Payment: $2,935 (30-yr fixed 3.25% (3.28% APR))

Property taxes: $640 Home Insurance: 838

Total Monthly Payment: $4,413 Mortgage statistics provided by Justin M. Kellenberger, Senior Loan Officer at SG Premier Lending Group, Inc. Justin can always be reached at justin@sgpremierlending.com. Note: The foregoing economic breakdowns do not include potential tax benefit analyses since that will ultimately depend upon a number of additional factors. But home ownership can indeed have tremendous tax-savings potential and should be considered with your realtor and/or tax accountant as part of the ownership decision.

Purchase price: $649,900 Down payment (20%): $129,980 Loan amount: $519,200 Payment: $2,367 (Rate 3.625% (3.67% APR))

Property taxes: $595 Home Insurance: $80

Total Monthly Payment: $3,042

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1310 Chino Street

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$675,000

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