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S haron’s Take – In part one of a series, Sharon Byrne reports that problems with mental health will drive us mad, especially in California; that’s where Milpas Outreach Program comes in

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The Weekly Capitalist – Jeff Harding thinks Russia’s leader is Putin on the risk, which leads to instability and war L etters to the Editor – Wade Hampton argues against John Kelley’s take on government and capitalism; Harlan Green and Jeff Harding on wealth creation; and an anonymous reader feels the Fiesta heat

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The Beer Guy – Zach Rosen rolls out the barrel and expounds on the upcoming SB Arts Fund exhibit “Spirits: The Art of Distillation”

15 Days a Week – Jeremy Harbin’s datebook covers it all from soups to nuts, Anchors and Ales, sausage and cheese, pillar to post – well, you the get the eclectic picture

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Santa Barbara View – Due to the code of silence, Sharon Byrne writes, a broken window can be a pane for residents and police; and Katie Davis examines whether Measure P measures up

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Common Sense Today – John Kelley analyzes how the “eagle flies” in the form of a necessary minimum-wage increase in California, come 2016 Presidio Sports – John Dvorak runs down SB Track Club coach Josh Priester and recaps Dwight Howard’s visit to SB, while Barry Punzal makes a splash with surfer Matt Becker

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You Have Your Hands Full – Mara Peters dishes out ample food for thought at the SB Foodbank, where volunteers abound

Stylin’ and Profilin’ – Megan Waldrep, who knows all about Mardi Gras, gets into the swing of Santa Barbara-style Fiesta

Keepin’ It Reel – Do you like apples? This time around, James Luksic actually recommends four movies. How do ya like them apples? Plan B – Here’s mud in their eyes: in part two of a series, Briana Westmacott ventures abroad with her family, to Europe and beyond

Food File – Christina Enoch roams the neighborhood and discovers plantbased cuisine to enliven your palate at Mesa Verde on Cliff Drive

Up Close – Jacquelyn De Longe gets personal with chef Derek Simcik to discuss the Chefs Collaborative Pop-Up Dinner and his upcoming Goletabased venture, Outpost

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American Girl – Tommie Vaughn experiences the Great Outdoors, thanks to a summer of camping with the family – all that and s’more

Man About Town – Mark Léisuré gives a shout-out to big names coming to SB Arts & Lectures starting in October, peeks into the SB Museum of Art, and lists who’s performing at SOhO

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Mad Science – Rachelle Oldmixon dissects Ebola and analyzes just how safe Americans are from the outbreak

Commercial Corner – Commercial property around SB is through the roof, with 52 sales in the first two quarters setting an all-time mark

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by Sharon Byrne

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Sharon Byrne is a lead writer for www.sbview.com, an outlet for informed opinion writing and thoughtful analysis about the stories, events and people that shape Santa Barbara. Sharon’s education in engineering and psychology gives her a distinctive mix of skills for writing about and working on quality-of-life, public safety and public policy issues. Her hyper-local SB View column can be found every other week on page 12.

Still Crazy After All These Years? Part 1

heard a man shouting the odds outside my bedroom window Tuesday morning. Living close to the Bar Zone’s vibrant Night Life District, one gets attuned to noise on the street. It’s the noises that don’t belong that warrant investigation. These can turn out to be drunken carousing, domestic arguments that have moved outdoors, gang fights, etc. Our man in the street was screaming about TV – don’t watch it! Don’t listen to the radio! Don’t read the news! It’s all lies and propaganda! He was disheveled, dirty, eyes darting back and forth, lips curled. Not. Tethered. To. Reality. I wondered if I should call 911. But what can the operators do? Yeah, he’s disturbing the peace, but he’s clearly mentally ill. They can remove him from the neighborhood…but to where? Jail? Last I checked, the police aren’t mental health workers. It’s really not their

purview. Except that increasingly, in California, it is. There are reams of news stories and studies declaring that within the ranks of the homeless, a significantly large number are mentally ill. Many of us have had the experience of encountering someone homeless nattering to themselves, gesticulating wildly. If you haven’t… well, you must not get out much. Citizens and police get the first contact, and we’re little equipped to deal with them. On the Milpas Outreach Project, where we’re working to help chronically homeless individuals leave life on the street, some team members felt strongly that a couple of our cases were seriously mentally ill. It seems intuitive – if you’ve become an addict living on the street, you might not have had the greatest mental health to start with. It’s probably gotten worse through addiction. But surprisingly, or

maybe not, when one of them completely sobered, his repeat drunken violence dwindled to a small anger-management issue. Alcoholism had acted as a massive amplifier for a very manageable mental health problem. Advocates have been ratcheting up the call for mental health spending in this state, but maybe what we need is more funding to the counties for drug and alcohol abuse prevention and treatment. That could help make acute mental health issues associated with homelessness more manageable in each locality, where the problem is experienced. Speaking of locality, back to our man in the street: so what should you do in a situation like this? Drunk or not, the guy is clearly not in a state where he’s functioning well. Why don’t we have something for people like this? Turns out, we do. Thanks to those helpful online commenters who keep pointing me to Prop 63 – that was supposed to help with these problems. The good people of California passed Prop 63, known as the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), in 2004. This tax on the wealthiest 0.1 percent of California taxpayers, about 30,000 people, is one of only four tax increase initiatives passed in this state. If you are one of these high earners, you pay an additional 1 percent tax on every dollar you make over the $1

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million mark annually into the MHSA, billed as the way to transform California’s public mental health system, with a focus on promoting recovery-oriented programs. Some of the funds were supposed to go to providing direct services to severely mentally ill individuals, and provide new approaches and access to underserved communities. So here’s the help for our man on the street, right? Umm, no. A decade after passage, the state has raked in billions for mental health… and we still have seriously mentally ill homeless people wandering about, unable to get help. Our county’s ADMHS (Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Services Department) recently had a rather large… pardon the pun… breakdown. Our sheriff is trying to allocate a wing of the new jail to deal with the fact we have a measly 16 beds in the entire county for acute mental health care. The police have little choice but to book serious cases into jail for a few days or hours, to prevent them from being a danger to themselves or others. If we’re going to keep incarcerating the mentally ill, Sheriff Brown wants to at least try to plan adequately for it. What the heck happened to the Mental Health Services Act? Where did all the money for the seriously mentally ill from Prop 63 go? The answer in Part II, next edition.

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Jeff Harding is a real estate investor and a writer on economics and finance. He is the former publisher of the Daily Capitalist, a popular economics blog. He is also an adjunct professor at SBCC.

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ou have to accept the fact that a large part of humanity, especially political leaders, act irrationally. You only have to look at these countries to see that the ideas and methods chosen by the rulers of most countries don’t work very well. And history shows that they keep choosing the wrong ideas, even with the knowledge that they don’t work. They can be irrational for quite a long time, centuries even. This makes these people dangerous because they create instability and wars. Russia is a pretty good example. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s modern version of a czar, is doing just that. There was a lot of hope by the West when the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Empire collapsed that Russia would become just like us. There are a lot of reasons why that didn’t happen. Let’s just say they blew a golden opportunity. Today, Russians live under the autocratic rule of men, not law. Political

freedoms that we are accustomed to are gone. While things are a lot better for many people that is because there is stability, a certain amount of modestly “free” enterprise, and things are run better because the government has let businesses run business, so long as they toe the official line. This progress was a kind of bounce-back from years of a command-style socialist economy. But you have to filter that through a backdrop of corruption and cronyism. Things are better in the commercial centers. Go out into the countryside and things are bad. Putin reversed the country’s course toward liberalism. He controls the media, and thus attempts to control popular opinion. He stifles dissent by jailing opponents and “disruptive element of hooliganism” (such as the punk band Pussy Riot). Many believe he is behind the assassinations of reporters and opponents. He has expanded staterun enterprises to the point where they

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amount to about 50 percent of the economy. The bureaucracy has doubled. The country and the government are supported by state-controlled oil exports (75 percent of Russian exports). He and his cronies have become very rich. Some estimate Putin’s personal wealth at $130 billion, but there is no way to really verify that number. Not exactly a formula for success. As a result, the Russian economy is stunted: California (40 million people) has a higher gross domestic product than Russia (144 million). Putin, like most autocrats, has insulated himself from the people and popular opinion. Polls indicate that

“Putin’s a throwback, because he has territorial ambitions and believes that he will make Russia a great nation.” people want less government control and less centralization. Yet, he has almost unlimited power. Some say he is controlled by the oligarchs, but the evidence shows it’s the other way around: he controls them. Being a crony of Putin makes you very rich and very powerful. Being an opponent lands you in jail and strips you of your wealth. If you wish to place Putin in historical perspective, he would be a kind of 19th-century potentate. He has a view of Russia that is based on two concepts popular in the 19th century: hegemony and mercantilism. What this means is that he sees the role of the state to advance Russian political and economic interests and control over those he perceives as Russia’s “enemies” – by force if necessary. In the 19th century and early 20th century, it led to colonization and to wars. Certainly Japan and Germany saw the world this way and led us into World War II, the greatest conflagration in history. There was and is a better way of achieving prosperity than domination and colonization, and that is cooperation, liberalization, and the reduction of government interference in commercial affairs. Just like commerce at home brings prosperity when government gets out of the way, commerce between people in different nations prospers when government gets out of the way of international commerce. And that is what is happening in much of the world today as trade barriers drop and

prosperity, rather than war, breaks out. Putin’s a throwback, because he has territorial ambitions and believes that he will make Russia a great nation. He invaded Georgia under a pretense of protecting ethnic Russians. His message to the Georgians: Don’t “eff” with me; I can crush you any time I please. He seized Crimea from Ukraine on the same pretense. That’s where Russian has a naval base and a large fleet of warships. Ignore all the drivel that Crimea used to belong to Russia. He violated a wellestablished, internationally recognized border and seized territory, the first time in Europe since Hitler and Stalin. He has set his sights on eastern Ukraine using that pretense. Why Ukraine? Hegemony. He wants a “buffer” against his “enemies.” There is also a mercantilist aspect: eastern Ukraine is its industrial heartland, and it has a huge defense industry that Russia still needs. It would be a mistake to underestimate the need for stability in that part of the world. Europe doesn’t exactly have a good reputation as a stable region after several centuries of wars; stability is a really big thing for that continent. It doesn’t take much, it seems, to break it down. It took a major war for post-Soviet Yugoslavia to stabilize (resulting in Serbia, Slovenia, BosniaHerzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia becoming separate countries). This makes Putin dangerous, because he is upsetting regional stability and his Western-leaning neighbors are in a panic (Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia). For good reason, these former Soviet colonies fear Russia. What if he moves Russian troops into the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine and declares it an autonomous region of Russia? Nobody will stop him. He has already downplayed the destruction of a passenger jet. I think he is ready, willing, and able to take eastern Ukraine regardless of the economic consequences imposed on Russia, because he thinks it is in Russia’s long-term strategic interest to do so. I am not an advocate of starting a war with Russia or anyone else for that matter. Most of our recent foreign policy and resulting wars have been disastrous, because we naively get involved in things without understanding the true situation on the ground much less the lessons of history. Yes, the situation between Russia and Ukraine is complex, and the U.S. and the EU have often behaved toward Russia in hegemonic and mercantilist ways. But had Putin seen the world in modern, liberal terms, we wouldn’t be having these problems. History tells us that things have a way of getting out of hand if you ignore the problem. Anything short of war should be employed to keep Putin behind his lines. If not, you never know what will happen. Why take that chance?

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

his letter is in response to last week’s article improperly titled “Common Sense Today” (Sentinel # 3/15). I am sure that the author, John D. Kelley, is a very nice man. He is, however completely, wrong. He states that “Government is capitalism’s best friend.” He has no idea what capitalism is and what government, (especially American government), is all about. “It ain’t so much the things you don’t know that get you in trouble. It’s the things you know that just ain’t so!” – Artimus Ward, 1834-1867. The word “capitalism” was invented and defined by Karl Marx. He used it to attack American and West European free societies and to promote socialism. If we use his definitions, we lose. Liberal intelligencia and Marx have presented us with only two economic systems: “Greedy, Corrupt Capitalism” (bad), and “Socialist Government Control” (good). Mr. Kelley, evidentially, believes this. He is unwittingly attacking individual freedom and preaching Marx. The simple definition of capital is “tools

that can be used to produce things of value.” A hammer and a plow (or sickle) are capital goods because they are used in production. Since all societies must either produce or perish, all societies can be called capitalist! The difference between the two broad types of capitalist systems is, who controls the capital? In a free-market system, capital ownership is open to everyone, (except government). (Read the Constitution and the Federalist Papers). The stated goal of our founders was to set up a simple system of laws to protect the individual’s God-given right to control and protect his own life, liberty and property from government. The Constitution gives separation of government powers, limits, checks and balances to control government. The legitimate purpose of the law was to prevent “plunder”; (the taking of property, by force, from the producer and rightful owner by a non-producer and thief ). Today’s government has become the instrument of plunder. George Washington gave us a clear definition of ...continued p.14

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The inaugural exhibit examines the processes of distillation and production of vodka. Cutler’s Vodka is such a pure example that it even picks up a gentle sweetness from the natural flavor of ethanol. Ian and Marcello worked with each artist and taught them about the craft of distillation. Dug Uyesaka will be displaying a line of prints that conceptualize the process of fermentation and distillation. Gregory Beeman produced a series of four pieces that take the viewer through the purification process of vodka. These paintings illustrate the vodka being distilled multiple times, with their form and color simplifying with each progression. The exhibit even includes the etymology of the word spirits as it was first applied to distilled beverages. Distillation has its origins in alchemy and the term spirit referred to the alchemists’ view that distillation removed the spirit from the liquid. This story is embraced by Lindsey Ross, a specialist in authentic tin-type photography. Her photograph “Goddess” imagines the word spirits as a wispy image of a luxurious lady surrounded by rosette décor, a wroughtiron frame, and a fluttering piece of lace that fences her into the image. Her limbs are intertwined between flowing hair and a sheer cloth. This combination of fabric and frame surrounding her delicate form captures the airy swirls of distillate and depicts the spirit caught in the still, waiting to be separated.

Coming ‘Up’

Vodka served neat (meaning that the spirit is served by itself and is not mixed with water, ice, or any other mixer) is definitely a purist’s approach to the spirit but it is not for everyone. Skye Gwilliam, or you probably know him by his more common art persona, GONE, created a series of paintings for the Spirits exhibit, including his art piece “Up”. The cocktail term up or straight up means that the mixture has been stirred or shaken with ice, and then strained and served without ice. Serving a cocktail straight up helps preserve the flavor of the drink since there is no ice that can melt and dilute the other flavors. “Up” consists of white paint on top of a dark background and depicts a martini glass on a table. It is this combination of light lines with dark highlights that gives this painting its form. Speckles of white paint garnish the side of the glass and add definition to its shape. For those who do not want to brave the more brisk character of drinking vodka neat then the vodka martini is probably for them. This iconic cocktail is prized for its purity of flavor and the simplicity of its ingredients (vodka, dry vermouth and a garnish). Skye’s “Up” captures the elemental elegance of this cocktail and the limited palette highlights its basic ingredients. His other paintings in this

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“Still Life No. 1”. This mixed-media assemblage of objects display the inner mechanics of a distillery. Coils, springs, and faucets jut in-and-out of a wooden box with a bottle of Cutler’s Vodka as the centerpiece. The combination of art and alcohol is a natural one, and I suggest swinging by Reds to appreciate the pieces for yourself. The exhibit includes art from Gregory Beeman, Nik Blaskovich, Michael Irwin, Skye Gwilliam, Dan Levin, Lindsey Ross, Dug Uyesaka, and Dana Walters. Spirits will be on display until September 7, but there will be an opening this Saturday, August 9, from 1-5 pm with an after party from 5-8 pm. Ian will be giving a brief talk at 3 pm and 6 pm. And if you are not a vodka fan, don’t worry. Reds has plenty of beer there, too.

series use similar techniques to depict the essence of vodka in the distillery, bar, and liquid. The martini is the subject of some of the other art pieces being displayed in the Spirits exhibit. Dan Levin has produced three mixed-media pieces for the exhibit, including two works that use the image of James Bond (the Sean Connery version of Bond, of course) to examine the role of the martini in pop culture. They are in separate color schemes and are adorned with a martini glass filled with bullet casings. The cockeyed angle of the martini glass references Bond’s famous line “Shaken, not stirred.” Ian has described the inner mechanics of fermentation and distillation as a “Willy Wonka-style factory”, and Dan has created this whimsical view in

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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 those that have yet to be published.

Saturday

don’t fit in. But you know what? I’m going to try one last time! (If they’ll let me.) Tonight at Les Marchands, it’s Monday Night Flights. The experts over there will pair wine with your meal and tell you all about the grapes and where they come from, and all of that good stuff that makes you feel warm inside when you’re able to later impress somebody at a party.

August 9

Arts and Recreation

If you’re reading this, you, like me, made it to another week. Congratulations. But let’s not rest on our sun-shiny laurels for too long. There’s another week ahead, folks, another week of performances and charity galas and… and… could it be? Art? Yes, art! Start this bi-week off with a little bit of the artsy stuff (art) down in the Funk Zone. This is, by my calculation, the second Saturday of the month, so the artistic types (artists) down there will be in their studios and out on the streets from noon to 5 pm for the Second Saturday Art Walk. Let’s face it, guys, the FZ ain’t that big; just find a relatively major intersection (I suggest the one with MichaelKate and the Arts Fund Gallery on it) and you’ll also find some art. But be sure to explore your way over to 206 Gray Avenue. That’s the location of Koplin/Levin Studios and the site of assemblage artist Dan Levin’s show Fridge Magnets. It runs from noon to 3 pm and will feature “a big metal wall covered with 100+ magnets.” If you’re familiar with Dan’s work, you know the title of this show’s probably just a bit subversive; if he’s working with his usual found objects and assorted oddities, these magnets won’t be of the variety attached to the average fridge.

Sunday

Tuesday August 12

They Couldn’t Resist

Do you enjoy intelligent discourse? Do you like documentaries? Do you find the history and current state of antibiotic resistance interesting? If you answered “yes” to all three of those questions, then I have just the event for you. It’s not only a panel discussion, not only a film screening, and not only a Q & A. It’s all three! Truly unbelievable. The holy trinity of smart! A triptych of sciencey stuff! The movie: Resistence. The panel: Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics scientists and the filmmaker Michael Graziano. The Q & A: you! (Well, the “Q” part anyways; the A part will rightly fall to the experts.) All your science buddies will be there at the New Vic (33 West Victoria Street) at 7 pm. RSVP by going to www.kitp.ucsb.edu/resistance-rsvp or by calling (805) 893-6363.

Wednesday

August 10

Vino + Vinyl = Vinyl

If there’s one thing I know, it’s that vinyl is hot, hot, hot right now! Look out, Gramps, here comes millennial Cayden and his boomer dad, David, to raid your storage shed. Not sure if you got the news or not, but… vinyl is back! Cayden and David love the quality time they’re spending together these days – just hangin’ out, kickin’ back, spinnin’ the deep cuts – and they just can’t get enough of everyone’s new old favorite format! Wax, baby, thick-cut slabs of it! Hey, wait a minute Gramps, what is this? Jazz?! Come on, David, let’s take the gang back over to the duplex and get Deep Purple’s Machine Head back on the turntable ASAP! Or, hey, we could always swing by Municipal Winemakers (22 Anacapa Street) in the Funk Zone for their Sunday Winyl event, where they’ll host a “mellow DJ session” from 5 to 8 pm. Sound good? Good! Sorry, Cayden, no wine for you, buddy!

Monday

August 13

Run, Santa Barbara, Run

Well, it’s Wednesday (sometimes I call it “hump day,” just for a little fun), and last time I checked, it’s still summer, so you know what that means: Nite Moves, mi amigos, Nite Moves. Nite Moves, for those of you who’ve had your little faces buried in the sand for the last couple months – or haven’t been reading your 15 Days (shame on you and your extended family!) – is a weekly running and swimming event that takes place every Wednesday evening during the summer along a just-delightful stretch of Leadbetter Beach. After you run or swim, be sure to stick around for refreshments. Go to www.runsantabarbara.com to register.

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What a Country

August 11

Want Some Wine with That Cheese?

Question: You know what you call a guy like me in a nice place like Les Marchands Wine Bar (131 Anacapa Street)? Answer: lost. I try, I really do. I sniff the wine, I hold it up to the light, I take a sip and gargle it – but I just can’t ever seem to fit in. Someone’s always coming over to my table saying, “Uhhh, duhhh, I’m a big dumb jerk and I’m trying to enjoy my wine with my wife, so please stop making such loud gargling noises” or “Uhhh, duhhh, I’m a real stupid idiot and I don’t think you should have another glass because you’re obviously intoxicated.” What can I say, folks? I just

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I’ll give you guys a little peek behind the curtain here: Each week from a chamber deep within the Sentinel offices, I brainstorm some general ideas for calendar entries while a team of interns from UCSB takes notes. They then go and write up a first draft. Once I approve that and add my trademark hilarious titles, I print out the final version, and then leave it under editor James Luksic’s pillow. But here’s the thing: before any of that happens, I have to decide what events “I” am going to write about in the first place. Usually, that involves a careful consideration of the payola I receive along with the press release – usually an extravagant meal or expensive bottle of wine or trip to Palm Springs, stuff like that. But when I saw that Country Nation was playing the Parks and Recreation Department’s free Summer Concert Series today at 6 pm, well, I just knew I had to write about it and tell you all to go down to Chase Palm Park with the whole fam for some serious “high-energy contemporary country” jams! See you there!

Friday August 15

Up in Smoke

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We’ve all had a lot of fun these last couple bi-weeks playing the game called “Will Somebody Pee in my Driveway Tonight?” (For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, this is a game in which we all guess whether or not concert attendees will pee in the driveways of residents living near the Santa Barbara Bowl tonight. To do that, we simply look at the band playing and try to wager an educated guess.) The mail has really been pouring in with guesses for all Bowl events, so thanks to all the 15 Days heads out there who’ve been playing along. Tonight’s band? Rebelution. Too easy? I’ll make it easier: Iration will open. So, yeah, not to spoil this round of WSPIMDT?, but Milpas and Anapamu-dwelling folks around the Bowl should expect some intermittent showers. On a related note, they shouldn’t be too alarmed by the cloud of green smoke over the Bowl or by

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the Cheech and Chong-style vans parked in their spots. But, hey, these two groups with the reggae sound that drives the I.V. crowd wild are from right here in Santa Barbara, so show some civic pride and get your tickets at www.sbbowl.com.

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Don’t Forget about Solvang

August 16

Anchors & Ales

If there are any Hollywood execs up here in Santa Barbara reading this right now, hang onto your boaters, because I’ve got a pitch that’s going to knock your Gold Toe socks clean off: Sommeliers vs. Cicerones. As the tasting rooms empty out late one night in the Funk Zone, a tipsy beer expert leaving Fig Mountain accidentally rolls his bushel of centennial hops into a wine barrel outside Santa Barbara Winery, setting off a domino effect and spilling an alarming volume of pinot noir. Wine runs red over Yanonali Street while the cicerone flees. A group of wine experts walking home from Les Marchands happens upon the gruesome scene and notices the bushel of winesoaked hops scattered across the ground. Yada, yada… we end with a big fight between a bunch of cicerones and sommeliers. It’s educational, there’ll be a romantic element with a forbidden relationship between two lovebirds – a beer drinker and a wine lover – and we’ll pull the Sharknado crowd in with some over-the-top kitsch. It’s Somm meets Drinking Buddies meets Cowboys & Aliens. Before you make up your mind on how much you’ll be paying me for the idea, here’s another beer-based pitch: Check out Anchors and Ales, a beer-tasting event at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (113 Harbor Way) today from 5 to 8 pm. Attendees will taste beers from a dozen craft breweries and learn about beer’s relationship to water and the sea. It’s curated by the Sentinel’s own Zach Rosen, who is already attached to my Sommeliers vs. Cicerones project in the role of the cicerone who rolls around a bushel of hops with him everywhere he goes. Go to www. sbmm.org for more information and tickets.

Sunday August 17 You Surf

Santa Barbaran fundraisers can be a bit predictable sometimes: wine, silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, repeat. Not that I’m complaining – it’s a perfect formula. But cheers to iSurf and Pali Wine Co. (116 East Yanonali Street) for mixing it up a bit: at their fundraiser tonight, the iSurf Block Party, which will raise money to send girls to an after-school surfing program, there will be a pig roast taco bar, an ice-cream stand, a chocolate shop, beer, a DJ, and a raffle to go with the wine and auction. Get your tickets by searching the event name on www.nightout.com.

Monday August 18

Third Monday

Today is Third Monday, so you know what that means. On Third Monday, we pick a place that’s open on Mondays and then we eat there. It’s just that simple. Today, we’re eating at eight different restaurants. Why? Because of Granada Books’s (1224 State Street) Dining with Books program, that’s why. If you go to Jane, Opal, Trattoria Vittoria, Downey’s, Tupelo Junction, Brasil Arts Café, Saigon, or Scarlett Begonia, take your receipt over to Granada within seven days and get 20 percent off a book. Of course, not all these restaurants are open on Mondays – a big Third Monday no-no – but they’re included here for your information, in case you’d like to dine with books later in the week.

Tuesday August 19

Beer, Sausage, Cheese

Sometimes, life’s tough. The boss is over your shoulder wanting to know when the project that he keeps making changes to will be on his desk. The significant other’s giving you grief because you’re spending too much time at the office on that project your boss keeps making changes to. You missed your kid’s first steps because you were at the office working on that project for your boss. To be honest, it sounds like most of your problems stem from a bad working relationship with your boss. Maybe you should schedule a meeting and try to explain why the project is taking so long and that your long hours aren’t really benefitting anyone. I mean, he’s a reasonable guy. He’ll understand. But, I totally get that you might not want to do that, so instead you should call in sick and then go to the Hoffmann Brat Haus (801 State Street) at 6 pm to blow off some steam with beers and cheese and sausage. The Brat Haus will offer educational tastings and pairings tonight that are so good, they’ll make you want to just quit that job and eat cheese for the rest of your life (but how do you monetize that?).

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August 20

As every Santa Barbaran knows, it’s totally normal to drive to Solvang in the middle of the week just for fun. Most Santa Barbarans do this regularly. But if you haven’t taken your mid-week Solvang trip recently, here’s a pretty good reason to go: Third Wednesday Wine and Beer Walk. You get tickets and a logo glass and a map, then you walk around and taste wine or beer. Just head into downtown Solvang and go to Olive House (1661 Mission Drive) for your tickets. Go to www.solvangthirdwednesday.com for more information and a list of participating wine and beer places.

Thursday August 21

Casa Loves Cantinflas

So you’ve got a 110-minute hole in your Thursday-night schedule, you say? Well, you’ve flipped to the exact right place, my friend, because I happen to be privy to a movie screening going down tonight. It’s a screening of a movie that is – you guessed it – exactly 110 minutes long! No need to thank me; this is what I do. You simply going to this screening at Casa Dolores (1023 Bath Street) at 7:30 pm to see El Barrendero is thanks enough. El Barrendero stars the Mexican comedian Cantinflas – the subject of Casa Dolores’s Summer Film Series this year. There’s a suggested $5 donation to watch; it’s in Spanish with English subtitles. Go to www. casadolores.org for more information.

Friday August 22

Which One’s Dante?

What seemed at first glance like a friendly request from one local celebrity to another earlier this month was so much more: a sarcastic smack of snark! A micro-blog entry sent out into the interverse from a Twitter account belonging to SB surf rockers Dante Elephante read: “@katyperry please stop singing about Santa Barbara in your songs… thanks!” Surely the band had been hacked! Certainly no up-and-comer would purposefully insult the Godmother of Contemporary Santa Barbara Pop Music herself. Alas, further research turned up a screenshot of the tweet displayed on the band’s Facebook page – a badge of punk pride, it would seem! This sort of incendiary behavior undoubtedly alarms most decent, God-fearing Santa Barbarans, but rest assured; it seems the unsavory sentiment expressed by the young rock ‘n’ roll group is shared by only a small underground community of contrarian revivalists who stubbornly insist on the relevance of guitar-based music. While Katy Perry has not responded to the Tweet Heard ‘round Dante Elephante’s Social Media Pages, there is no indication that she won’t show up to the SOhO Restaurant and Music Club (1221 State Street) tonight around 8 to give the band a piece of her mind in person. Dante Elephante will headline the show; San Francisco’s The Electric Magpie, Isla Vista’s Sun Daes, and Santa Barbara’s DJ Darla Bea will support. Get tickets in advance at www.sohosb.com or at the door tonight. Neither Ms Perry nor Danta Elephante could be reached for comment (full disclosure: I didn’t try to reach them).

Saturday August 23 Aloha to You

In recent weeks, you’ve been to the French Festival, you’ve been to the Greek Festival, now… go to the Fifth Annual Aloha Spirit Bash. This is your chance to soak up some Hawaiian culture. It’s on the Elings Park soccer field (1298 Las Positas Road) today from noon to 5 pm. Expect dancing, food, and music. Tickets including a meal are $25; $10 without the meal. Get tickets and more information at www.alohaspiritbash.org.

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Broken Window Breaks Code of Silence

n the course of working on improving neighborhoods, I continually run into hesitation around involving the police. The communities I work in are predominantly Hispanic, where there is understandably some fear regarding exposure of citizenship status. A code of silence regarding police is the norm, egging on criminal activity. No need for would-be perpetrators to sweat because engaging the police might actually turn out worse for crime victims than being robbed, for example. At least, that’s the thinking. My best friend is first-generation American, as am I. His parents are Mexican. Mine are British. As children, we both experienced our parents’ heightened concern over engaging with U.S. authority figures, like police. When you are an immigrant seeking citizenship, you never want to bring negative attention to yourself because you can be deported. His parents entered the country illegally in the 1970s; they’re citizens now. Mine came here in 1967. It took eight long years to get their citizenship, and they prize

it. My father jokes he is more American than I’ll ever be because he sought U.S. citizenship, while mine is just a happy accident of birth. My friend was taught to keep his head down and his mouth shut. Never call the police – we could get deported. Never throw rat (by reporting crime). The perpetrator might live nearby or know who your family is. When the police let him go, he’ll pay you back. Sometimes when my friend sees me engage in Neighborhood Watch activities, he experiences notable consternation. On the closing day of Fiesta, we decided to go see a movie at Metro 4. Walking down Haley toward State, I saw a young teen, jerking a bit as he walked past the Holiday Inn, shouting randomly. I watched as he paused before a car parked on the street, and proceeded to kick in the passenger window, in broad daylight. My friend turned, hearing the explosion of glass, and yelped, “What was that?!” I shouted, “Stop! Citizen’s arrest!” The kid yelled an expletive, booking

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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.

sbview.com down Haley, turning south on Chapala. I whipped out my phone. My friend said, “You’re not going to call the police!’ Then he groaned. “We’ll miss the movie.” I stared at him. Hard. He sighed. He knows me. The Holiday Inn valet hurried over and asked if we’d seen what happened. I gave the police the kid’s description, the direction he was headed, and my location. Dispatch asked me to wait there for an officer. My friend sighed loudly, frustrated, and then his eyes widened. He said, “What if he’s headed to our neighborhood?” Our area, at the deadend of De La Vina and Gutierrez, has encampments used often by the young transient set. This kid was clearly jacked on something. My friend wondered if he should tail him, in case the kid busts out more windows on his rampage. Wow. He instantly moved from “Don’t call the cops” to “I’m going to go keep eyes on him until they get here.” Very cool. The next 10 minutes passed in a flurry of phone calls with dispatch, the responding officer, and my friend, who tracked the kid as he busily continued his vandalism spree. He took off near Lily’s Tacos, and my friend lost sight of him. He asked people on the street if they’d seen him. Not everyone wanted to be a good citizen, but when he told a group of Hispanic men in Spanish that the kid was busting out car windows, they pointed down an alley. The kid jumped the fence to the freeway, but came back over into the parking area by the Roasting Company. Two female officers arrested him while he shrieked epithets and resisted fiercely. My friend watched to make sure the officers had him safely because, you know… they were lady cops and all.

I suspect he secretly wanted to be their back-up. Our neighbors saw us giving the police our statements, and one chided my friend in Spanish about being a rat. My friend let him have it, long overdue, as this neighbor is not a particularly stellar guest of the U.S. What if it had been his windows that got smashed? Would he want us to protect the perpetrator from police then? Doubt it. My friend shredded the old code of silence – a welcome turn of events. I hugged him for it. A democratic society depends on its citizens to help determine its laws, and assist in ensuring that they are upheld. See criminal behavior? Report it. You know you’d want your fellow citizens to stand up and do it, if you were the victim.

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...continued from p.7 government, He wrote, “Government is not eloquence. It is not reason. It is force, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” James Madison wrote, “If men were angels, we would need no government. If angels could govern men, there would be no need for controls upon government.” Corruptible government officials are not angels. The alternative to “free market” is “monopolistic capitalism,” where capital is owned or controlled by a select few. While claiming to make things fair and just, socialists steal the individual’s rights and property while claiming, in their arrogance, that they are smarter than the stupid individual and are, therefore, more capable of running his life, (for his own good). They lie! While calling the upper two-percent villains, they actually create them with special favors and granting monopolistic advantages in re-payment for their political funding and support. They then tax and over-regulate the entire market, which they blame for the inequity that they caused themselves. Mr. Kelley’s history is skewed. The “Age of Enlightenment” did not give us Karl Marx; It gave us Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, and the power of individual rights. It rejected “The Devine Right of Kings” to which big, uncontrolled government would return us. He should study Adam Smith’s masterpiece, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations. Smith proves that free markets are not uncontrolled nor unfair but the most truly just system. A free, competitive market always automatically produces the highest quality and the lowest price. The competitor who best satisfies the most individual customers profits the most. Isn’t that fair? Prices and production are naturally controlled by “the invisible hand” of supply and demand, not by some faceless bureaucrat in an ivory government tower who thinks he is smarter than us.

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In a competitive free market, the largest, most powerful corporation, (such as IBM), is helpless before an individual (such as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs) with a better idea. Free competition is a refining factor, not an evil that does not fit in the bureaucrat’s neat little plan or bother his rich friends. The part of Mr. Kelley’s piece that most disturbed me was his statement, “Capitalism, like a spirited horse, needs strong government as a rider to guide it along the right path.” I must contrast that statement with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “Some men were not born with saddles on their backs and others born, booted and spurred and destined to ride them.” Who is most competent to determine “the right path” for you to take, yourself or some arrogant bureaucrat? The common sense that Mr. Kelley avoids is that the main opponent of individual freedom is tyranny. The third-world nations that he cites have “infrastructure” but no individual freedom and therefore, no production or wealth. The first 150 years in America, we grew from a wilderness to the most free, successful, productive, and truly charitable nation in world history. For the last 100 years, we have gradually but consistently forsaken our original basic concepts. The observable result is that we are now more than $17 trillion in debt, half of the people produce nothing but waste and are supported by the productive half, government has become huge and oppressive and we are near bankruptcy. Scandals of government’s abuse of power are everywhere. Gee! Are we doing something wrong? Whatever happened to that “common sense” of America’s founders contained in our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and Federalist Papers? Read them for yourself, then you decide. Wade Hampton Santa Barbara (John Kelley replies: I appreciate that you responded to my article. However, I

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must object to your unfounded claim that I’m “attacking individual freedom and preaching Marx.” For many years, Americans believed that only democratic countries could be capitalist. Currently, capitalism is working effectively in countries with a wide variety of cultures and governmental approaches. For example: the U.S., China, India, and Russia. They all have relatively strong governments supporting their unique versions of capitalism. It is this cultural context that free-market devotees are often blind to. My premise that government is capitalism’s best friend is simply an observation that strong government is a necessary condition for capitalism to achieve its narrow goal of wealth creation. This does not mean that this wealth creation will always produce desirable results. History and current events show that the desirability of the results varies widely, depending on specific circumstances. Unfortunately, economic success alone does not lead any country toward a more just society and/or a healthier environment. Capitalism is like football. It needs infrastructure, a ball, and a field to be played on; government, the rules of the game; regulators, the referees; companies, the teams; strategy, the plays; and money, the score. Without this structure, there is no football game – only chaotic tribal warfare. That’s just common sense.)

Follow the Money

Jeff Harding (The Weekly Capitalist) is right that it helps to have a background in economics to understand just how government creates wealth. For instance, our freeway system (originally conceived to facilitate quick transportation of ICBM missiles) made creation of suburbs possible, which became the foundation of middle-class wealth. Without Hoover dams, we wouldn’t have cheap – or even enough electricity – to generate economic growth. Doesn’t that create more wealth? Let’s see – does Harding really believe that government spending on education doesn’t generate more wealth creation possibilities for the educated? In fact, if governments don’t spend more on our crumbling infrastructure –there is something like $2.2 trillion just in deferred maintenance of roads, bridges, and electrical grids, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers – untold amounts of wealth will be lost to businesses unable to move their products and services easily, or their employees inability to commute to work. Then there are the effects of global warming – which if not mitigated soon – could prove disastrous to many areas of our economy. There is almost no sector of our economy that doesn’t require some form of government services to create more of “our” wealth. Sincerely, Harlan Green, editor PopularEconomics.com Santa Barbara (Jeff Harding replies: If the government created wealth, it wouldn’t need to tax us.

Unfortunately, it taxes our wealth and spends it on things that don’t create wealth. Thus, they need to keep taxing us. Someone has to first create that wealth for them to spend, and that is us. Let’s say you and I are stranded on that proverbial desert island. We are busy searching for something to eat just about all of the time. One day you come to me and say, “I want to build a big dam to catch fish. Help me out. You give me food and I’ll build the dam. It will take two weeks.” I say, “I’m too busy just surviving each day to do that. I can’t get enough food each day to feed you and me. I’ll starve. No.” Until we able to find and save enough food to feed both of us while you are building the dam, it won’t get built. If we do save enough food, then we have something called “capital” or wealth. Do you see the analogy here? In order to build a dam or a freeway, the money has to come from the private sector through profits saved and not spent. We create wealth first, then government spends it on things it thinks are useful to us. If those roads and dams generated enough revenue to turn a profit, then they wouldn’t need us; after a few tries with our money, they would be self-sufficient. You are correct that roads and dams are useful, but it is we who create more wealth, not government. Also, you should also realize that we don’t need government to build roads, dams, and schools; the private sector does that quite well without taxing us. Private operators usually make a profit on such investments. Too bad government can’t. The unfortunate part is that vast portion of government expenditures are not for infrastructure but on things that are definitely a drain on the economy: wars, bailouts, money-wasting health care schemes, cronyism, and pork. Thanks for reading the Sentinel!)

Feeling the Heat

I think it’s time to rethink holding Fiesta in August. It be traditional, but with climate change, we have to consider the comfort and safety of horses working midday in 90-degree, humid weather for our entertainment. A quick online search reveals: “Because horses are more stressed when competing in the heat of the day, encourage organizers to schedule events during cooler periods of the day or in shady areas, or to cut back on intensity or effort... It only takes 17 minutes of moderate intensity exercise in hot, humid weather to raise a horse’s temperature to dangerous levels. That’s three to 10 times faster than in humans. Horses feel the heat much worse than we do.” Visit equineink.com/2010/06/30/ study-shows-horses-are-more-susceptibleto-heat-than-humans/ Also, the Mercado, while always wonderful, is uncomfortable in the heat of day. I think it could use some overhead mesh panels to provide cooler shady areas. Let’s consider moving Fiesta to cooler June or July. Thank you. A Concerned Reader

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The Eagle Flies on Friday

he old blues song, “They Call It Stormy Monday,” says, “the eagle flies on Friday, and Saturday I go out and play.” The “eagle flies” is, of course, a metaphor for payday wages. These days, the eagle is flying so low that many workers are demanding an increase in the minimum wage. The U.S. minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour since 2009. In California, we recently increased our minimum wage to $9 per hour, with another increase to $10 per hour planned for January 1, 2016. Some free-market devotees claim state-mandated, minimumwage increases will kill jobs and threaten prosperity. Is that really true? Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, was a legendary American entrepreneur. Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first affordable American automobile. Ford’s Model T transformed the automobile

from an expensive curiosity into a cultural icon that profoundly impacted the landscape of the 20th century. Ford also had transformative ideas about wages. In 1914, he doubled the pay rate of most of his workers to $5 per day. That is equivalent to $120 per day in today’s economy. A newspaper described Ford’s announcement as “shot like a blinding rocket through the dark clouds of the present industrial depression.” The $5 workday was designed to provide financial security for Ford workers and reduce the cost of excessive worker turnover. Many Ford departments had been hiring 300 men per year to keep 100 slots filled. The move proved extremely profitable; instead of constant employee turnover, the best workers in Detroit flocked to Ford Motor Company, bringing their expertise, raising productivity, and lowering training costs. Ford’s strategy of increasing his workers’

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pay enabled them to afford the cars they were producing, giving his company and the economy a boost. Ford called his policy “profit sharing” rather than wages. Although Detroit was already a high-wage city, Ford’s competitors were forced to raise wages or lose their best workers. Since the 1970s, productivity has substantially increased, but wages have been flat. Wages for most workers in the U.S. are not keeping up with the cost of living. The current U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 per hour equals $58 per day. This is equivalent to less than half what Ford paid his workers 100 years ago. Since 1950, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio in the U.S. has increased 1,000 percent. In 2013, the average pay of top restaurant CEOs was more than 700 times the average pay of full-time minimum wage workers. These corporate CEOs earn more on the first morning of the year than their minimum-wage workers will earn in a whole year. Fast-food workers are now protesting and striking around the country, and some have been fired or arrested as they demonstrate for increased wages. At the beginning of 2014, thirteen states implemented modest increases in their minimum wages. Economists at Goldman Sachs conducted a simple evaluation of the impact of these state minimum-wage increases. Their analysis found that the states where the minimum wage went up had faster employment growth than the

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states where the minimum wage remained at its 2013 level. San Francisco and Seattle, the U.S. cities with the highest minimum wage, also have the highest rate of small-business job growth in the country. To keep this beneficial economic momentum going, Seattle recently raised its minimum wage to $15 per hour. Nick Hanauer, a contemporary American capitalist and entrepreneur, has founded, co-founded, and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries. His business instinct made him the first nonfamily investor in Amazon. He believes that, “the model for us… should be Henry Ford, who realized that all his autoworkers… weren’t only… labor to be exploited; they were consumers, too.” The demand for goods and services is the primary engine of our economic growth. Consumer spending is more than two-thirds of our economy. Raising the minimum wage isn’t bad for our economy. It’s an indispensable tool to make our economy more stable and sustainable. We need to get more money in the hands of the 70 percent of American families who depend solely on wages. As Hanuer points out, “If workers have more money, businesses have more customers.” Hey, CEOs! If we can’t buy things, you don’t make money, so share the profits with your workers. Let the eagle fly high – that’s just common sense.

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Priester Takes New SB Track Club to New Territory

by John Dvorak

Keegan Cooke comes from Zimbabwe to train with Priester at Westmont College in Santa Barbara

Josh Priester, flanked by decathlete Tom FitzSimons and heptathlete Barbara Nwaba, is head coach and visionary behind the Santa Barbara Track Club

gold medal at the Thorpe Cup, two athletes on the podium at the USA Track & Field Championships, hosting the world-record holder in the decathlon... it’s been that kind of year for the newly formed Santa Barbara Track Club. At the reins is Josh Priester, a multievents coach with the vision of establishing Santa Barbara as an elite training destination for some of the world’s best track & field athletes. “We are providing a home for young women and men to pursue their lifelong dream of competing for Team USA, as well as other countries,” Priester said. “Perhaps some of our athletes will even realize their ambition of competing in the Olympic Games.” One of those athletes is Barbara

Nwaba, a former UCSB athlete who placed second at the USA Track & Field Championships in the heptathlon in June. Nwaba, a prospect for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, continued a strong summer with a record-setting victory in Germany last week at the Thorpe Cup. “What separates (Josh) from other coaches is his passion for the sport and his patience,” Nwaba explained. “I think that the most important part of a coach is having someone who believes in you.” Santa Barbara Track Club began as the Women’s Athletic Performance Foundation in 2012, established to train elite female heptathlon athletes looking to compete at the international level. By opening up the program to male athletes and youth athletes, the Santa Barbara

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Track Club was born in 2013. The notable accomplishments are already stacking up both near and far. SBTC recently saw two of its athletes, Nwaba and Tom FitzSimons, record top-three finishes in the multi events at the USA Track & Field Championships. Lindsay Schwartz won the Sam Adams Invitational and earned a silver medal at the Pan American Multi-Events Cup in Canada. Nwaba, Schwartz and Megan Tice combined to win the team title at the Jim Bush Southern California & USATF West Region Championships. SBTC has been finishing alongside, and in many cases defeating, athletes competing for Nike or Adidas, among others. “Santa Barbara has a legacy in the decathlon and heptathlon through the work of coach Sam Adams,” Priester said. “It is exciting that we can begin a new chapter for our community. My hope is that people in Santa Barbara will embrace the work we are doing throughout all levels of the club.” SBTC’s effort to connect with the local Santa Barbara community has been expressed by establishing multiple AllComers Meets at Westmont College this summer and hosting a summer youth camp. The idea is to increase the number of opportunities for the local track community to compete and interact while promoting the sport in general on a regular basis. “Whether or not they choose to pursue track & field or athletics when they get older is really beside the point. I am confident that our programs inspire kids to dream and to make a connection between hard work and success,” Priester explained. In the spring, SBTC helps bring Olympic champion and world-record holder Ashton Eaton to Santa Barbara to train. Eaton shares Priester’s passion for the sport and has been great at being available to local youth. “It’s just about showing kids that there’s other options. If you don’t like basketball, volleyball or soccer, then there’s this other

thing called track & field that you can do a lot of stuff in if you want,” Eaton told Presidio Sports earlier this year at Westmont. “People see LeBron James or whatever on TV, and they want to be that guy. They don’t really see track & field on TV so they have no idols there.” Eaton, the LeBron James of track & field, also said Santa Barbara was the perfect place to escape rainy Eugene, Oregon, during the wet spring months. “It’s been great for our preparation. We started in 2012, the year I won the Olympics, and I think I lend a lot of that to some decent training here.” Priester helped establish the Sam Adams Combined Events Invitational at Westmont College, an event that has attracted some of the world’s best multievent athletes, including Eaton. “A number of Olympians, Olympic champions, world-record holders, national record holders – so it’s turned out to be quite the event,” Priester said. “At the end of the day, people want to be here in Santa Barbara to train and to compete.” Keegan Cooke, from Zimbabwe, decided to join SBTC this year and train with Priester. “I was in the States, but I didn’t have anywhere that I was based, so I was kind of moving all over the place hoping for a really good situation, and this has turned out to be more than a really good situation,” Cooke said. Each Month, Presidio Sports recognizes a local sports figure for their extraordinary contribution to the Santa Barbara athletic community. The Sports Figure of the Month series is made possible by American Riviera Bank.

Matt Becker Logs Miles for SUP, Big-Wave Surfing

by Barry Punzal att Becker can fill in for the character of Waldo in the “Where’s Waldo?” series of children’s books. The 19-year-old Santa Barbaran has been all over the place. Just replace the red-and-white-striped shirt, blackrimmed circular glasses and red-and-

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NBA star Dwight Howard joins a kickball team at West Beach Professional stand-up paddleboarder Matt Becker was a top finisher at the Molokai to Oahu World Championships in July.

white bobble hat with board shorts, a Stand-Up paddleboard and a paddle. Presidio Sports was fortunate enough to find the local waterman before he heads off on a journey that will take him to Utah, Hawaii, Oregon, Mexico, and back to Hawaii. He had just returned from the islands, where he competed in the prestigious and grueling Molokai to Oahu World Championships last month. “(It’s) a race I do every year,” he told a reporter in an email. “To do well at that race and cross that 32-mile stretch of open ocean known as the Kaiwi Channel, you not only need to be extremely fit and a strong paddler, but also have an innate understanding of the ocean and its moods.” In his third year doing the race, Becker finished third in the 14-foot stock division with a time of 5 hours, 14 minutes, and 30 seconds. He was the best overall finisher from the mainland. In other major SUP competitions this year, Becker placed sixth at the 13-mile Carolina Cup off Wrightsville Beach, N.C., won the dual paddle, and placed fourth in the shootout at Surftech Shootout in Santa Cruz and took first place at the Jay Moriarty Memorial Race in Santa Cruz. He capped last season with a fourth-place finish at the inaugural Ultimate SUP Showdown in Waikiki, Hawaii, an event that featured the cream of the crop competing in racing and surfing. If competing in SUP events wasn’t enough, Becker dived into the world of big-wave surfing. For the last two years, he’s surfed the monster waves of Mavericks in Half Moon Bay. “Big wave surfing, for me, is just something I like to do; surfing Mavericks

and beginning to understand that wave has become a focus of mine in the last couple years,” he said. Right now, he’s prepping for a trip to Salt Lake City for the Outdoor Retailer Show, where he’ll present his signature race board model that he and sponsors Surftech and Bark Paddleboards have worked on over the last year. “After that, I will be flying straight from Utah back to Hawaii for the 2014 Ultimate SUP Showdown in Waikiki.” This year’s Showdown (August 1618) is moving to the next level. The prize money has increased, and there’s a television deal with the CBS Sports Network. After hopefully getting national TV exposure, Becker will head back to the mainland and compete at the Colombia Gorge Paddle Challenge in Oregon. Then comes a big-wave surf trip to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, before finishing the paddling season “with lots of training and the final competition of the year, the Battle of the Paddle,” in Hawaii. That’s his calendar for the coming weeks. Before that, it’s been: “Where’s Matt Becker?” “This summer has been crazy. I’ve probably been home 10 days in the last two months,” he said. “I was traveling up and down the coast of California for a couple of weeks, doing lots of standup paddle racing and training with friends. Then I was in Santa Cruz for the Jay Race for about a week. The Monday after that race I drove down to Santa Barbara to spend three days packing up for a two-week trip to Oregon, where we did a four-day paddling expedition down the southern coast of Oregon, camping and bringing our gear with us

along the way. “After making the 13-hour drive home, I... packed up to catch a 6 a.m. flight out of LAX... to hopefully get some pumping surf in Puerto Escondido.” Unfortunately, the big waves never materialized. “I had four days at home to get over the flu and pack before I flew out to Maui to spend a week preparing for the Molokai to Oahu World Championships. So, to answer your question, I have not been home much this summer,” he laughed.

Dwight Howard Makes Kickball Cameo

by John Dvorak hile he’s one of the best-known basketball players on the planet representing the Houston Rockets, Dwight Howard decided to change sports and join another team last week. Responding to a challenge posted on Twitter by Cody O’Bryen, Howard visited West Beach in Santa Barbara to join the FindtheBest.com team, Notorious FTB, in its weekly WAKA

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League kickball game. A video on YouTube.com shows Howard in the team huddle offering a motivational speech before the game starts. Once the hour-long kickball contest was underway, Howard manned the pitcher’s position and played the entire game. “A lifelong Laker fan, I admittedly held a grudge against Dwight until last Thursday. He won me over when I noticed a giant walking through the sand toward our team,” O’Bryen said. “Planning on tweeting at every Victoria Secret model and seeing what happens next…” O’Bryen is an employee of FindtheBest.com, a local web-search startup company based in Summerland that sponsors the kickball team. The WAKA league is popular in Santa Barbara for young adults with 20 teams competing in its summer season. Howard, in Santa Barbara to train at the Peak Performance Project facility, made other cameos in Santa Barbara in recent days, including joining a fitness training session at Jenny Schatzle’s gym as captured by KEYT news.

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You Have Your Hands Full

Join Jacob team members Allie, Joe, Jacob, Sarah, Lucy, Gwen, and Madeleine get in a training ride along the water front in preparation for the Santa Barbara Triathlon on Sunday, August 24

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.

Joining Jacob Join Jacob team members Joe, Jacob, Hank, Allie, Sarah, Lucy, Rhaya, Madeleine, and Gwen get in a training run along the waterfront

he second Saturday morning of every month the Santa Barbara Foodbank teems with volunteers. They sort through fruit and produce such as grapefruit and cabbage from large bins into manageable crates that can easily be distributed around town. They organize donated food items (checking for expiration dates), as well as package seed

bags – a program that encourages people to grow their own gardens. It is loud and sometimes a bit chaotic as they move through their workstations. But the foodbank is more than forgiving about the cacophony created by this crowd. Because, you see, this crowd that’s coming to help is not filled with your typical volunteers: this is a crowd of

his sponsors and is also holding a family fitness class in which all the proceeds will go to the Join Jacob team. Core Power Yoga is conducting a class to raise money for the Join Jacob Team. They have asked one of the team members to come speak before the yoga class. Additional team sponsors include Bryant & Sons Jewelers, Mission Wealth Management, and Hazard’s Cyclesport. John Herzog, an Ironman and member of the Santa Barbara Triathlon club, volunteers as the team’s coach, running several training clinics for the kids before the real race. Jacob in the transition area at the start of the 2014 Kendra’s Race Triathlon, held at UCSB

kids, ages 5-14, spending a few hours of their weekend doing something that has nothing to do with their own lives. They have come to join Jacob. Before the sorting and organizing begins, Jacob Mansbach – an earnest young fifth-grader from Roosevelt Elementary – stands up and makes a short speech about the foodbank. “Because you are here today,” he concludes, “we’re going to get food to the kids who need it.”

The Team Grows

Jacob knows more than most adults about the foodbank. In the last couple years, he has run a triathlon every summer in an effort to raise money for the nonprofit. The first year, he raised $4,600. Last year, his friend Dario joined him and they raised three times that: an additional $13,000. This year the list has grown to Liam, Gwen, Hank, Madeleine, Olivia, Sarah, Lucy, Madeline, Alana, Allison, Rhaya, River, Jackson and Joe (Jacob’s brother), and their goal is to raise $50,000 for the foodbank by competing in the Santa Barbara Triathlon on Sunday, August 24. The fundraiser has grown into a dynamic movement called Join Jacob – and the Santa Barbara community is rallying to help him. “We were together at a recent event,” reports exercise guru Jenny Schatzle. “Jacob spoke before me, and I was blown away at what he has accomplished at such a young age; he is so passionate about what he is doing,” she adds (Jacob is the first athlete she has ever sponsored). “It was not a question of would I be involved. It was, ‘How can I help share and support what he is doing?’ The cause and Jacob are just awesome.” Schatzle is now one of

Never Give Up

Just two summers ago Jacob’s mom, Jennifer, wanted to broaden his life perspective and thought a couple days volunteering at the foodbank would do the trick. “He is a pretty inquisitive kid,” she recalls, “and he came away from that experience wondering why they needed to package so much food for kids and families. He just couldn’t believe so many kids in Santa Barbara are going hungry.” That summer, Jacob had already set a personal goal to do his first sprint triathlon and saw the opportunity to help the foodbank at the same time: he’d turn his tri into a fundraiser. The next summer, his friend Dario joined him, also compelled by the desire to help people. With two years of fundraising under his belt, Jacob was determined to do even more; he began to speak to kids his age about the foodbank. At an assembly last year at Washington Elementary School, he told the students about his experience. After a couple of hours in front of Lazy Acres with only four dollars and some change in his jar, he was ready to quit, he said, recalling that it felt like a pretty bad day. Then a woman came up to him and asked what he was doing. When he explained he was trying to raise money to help feed Santa Barbara’s kids, she whipped out her wallet and wrote a $100 check. “That was one of the best moments of my life,” recalls a smiling Jacob. “And to think I was about to pack it up. It taught me to never give up.”

Saturdays are for Sorting

Not content to just stop after the summer, the Mansbachs have rallied volunteers to start working at the foodbank on the second Saturday of every

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Members of the Join Jacob Team, row 1: Hank, Joe, Jacob, Rhaya; row 2: Allie, Madeleine, Olivia, Gwen, Alana, and Liam

month, year-round. Typically more than 20 kids show up; 360 have volunteered since January. “It is a full house here every time,” confirms Jane Lindsey, chief development officer of the Foodbank, about the Saturdays. “Sometimes we have to turn people away. The kids are really good at

what we ask them to do. They care about the quality of food we are aiming for and really focus on picking through the produce to get the right food to people.” Madeleine Mishler, a 12-year-old volunteer, originally started going to the Foodbank on the second Saturdays to satisfy her community service hours at

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school. But then she found she kept going back. “It became a habit,” she says. “It was a privilege to be there; you are rewarded with this good feeling for helping other people and feeding families.” Madeleine is now a member of Join Jacob and is spending her entire summer fundraising and training for the triathlon in late August. Liam Tormey, another 12-year-old team member doing his first triathlon, says the goal to raise so much money puts into focus what is important about life. “The stats are shocking; people are hungry here,” he says. “It makes me feel lucky that I don’t have to worry about food.” In Santa Barbara County, one in four people receive food support from the foodbank; more than 104,500 unduplicated people of whom 48 percent are children. Last year, the facility distributed food and resources to support 8.5 million meals, half of which were fresh

produce. So far, the Join Jacob Team has raised $15,000 for this year’s triathlon. The 14 kids aim to raise another $35,000 through family, friends, businesses, and kind strangers. Every Friday and Saturday, they have a stand at the Farmers Market – and you just might see them out at Lazy Acres with a glass jar. “Every donation shows these kids what they are doing matters,” says Jacob’s mom, Jennifer. “When you donate, you’re not just feeding kids in Santa Barbara – you’re teaching kids that they can make a difference.”

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her own label, she began writing because “it just felt good.” In addition to writing, Megan is currently the head designer and creative director for Mew Kids, a children’s clothing line, as well as a co-author of the much loved children’s book Spice & Little Sugar. You can say she wears many hats. Which is fitting. For a fashion writer and all. Discover her world at www.mewkids.com.

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Lady in red: artist and yoga teacher, Bettina Norton lights up El Presidio in a stunning red dress. Side slits are it!

Skirting the issue: photographer Christa Comiskey wears the prettiest skirt of all the Senoritas. Family affair with cousin Jessica Para and sisters Monica and Patricia Marquez spreads major Spanish inspiration

ell-versed in Mardi Gras (my grandmother is from N’awlins, so many family reunions are spent in the Big Easy), I was more than curious to experience what every local warned me about: Fiesta. Here’s the conversation I had more times than I can count. Me: “Are you heading to Fiesta?” Local: “Oh, God no! I avoid it at all costs. This is the week I stay out of Santa Barbara. Insane crowds, drunk people...no way. It’s too much!” If the Gras has taught me anything, it’s occasions like this that bring out the best in people – the best in creative fashion, to be exact. Why we must have a crazy celebration to get the cojones to go all out with our wardrobe, I will never know. Can’t a Tuesday be enough? I took the warnings from the wise, donned the best Spanish-inspired dress I could find in my closet, and made it down to the “belly of the beast” to see for myself what all the

talk was about. To my delight, it appeared to be the pretty Hispanic cousin to the party on the other side of the Mississippi. Mardi Gras beads are swapped for giant flowers in the hair, jazz bands are substituted for Mariachi, and urine-lined streets are replaced with rainbow confetti. I’m lovin’ Fiesta, and cascarones quickly became my new favorite accessory. Now, don’t get me wrong; the Cajun carnival is near and dear to my heart (and I realize describing the two is like comparing apples to naranjas), but I’m definitely appreciating the Spanish counterpart on the West Coast. My first Fiesta experience was a great one, and I was happy to see all the people who dressed up. Here’s a mini-highlight of some of the fashions that can be worn any day of the year – Tuesdays especially. Thank you, Santa Barbara, for going all out. Viva la fashion!

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

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

Here Comes The Judge

he law-stained drama The Judge, whose investigation is set for October, includes Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr., and – as if any courtroom needs more star power – Billy Bob Thornton as the prosecutor. If we’re to judge (sorry) by its trailer, it would seem Downey is poised for another Academy Award nomination, as long as director David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers) doesn’t favor silly shenanigans over sharp-witted sophistication. Meanwhile, impressive movies are heating up the Central Coast. (I can’t write with any personal knowledge about Guardians of the Galaxy, the latest comic-book “marvel” to set a summer box-office record.) But as a respite in the aftermath of Santa Barbara’s sun-baked Fiesta, I recommend this fab four:

Serious Business

fine slice of prime rib with a German flavor, A Most Wanted Man comes courtesy of filmmaker Anton Corbijn (who effectively navigated similar turf with The American, albeit in Italy) based on the best seller by John le Carré. The modern-day story places a Chechen immigrant into an Islamic society in Hamburg, where the man – with help from an attorney (Rachel McAdams) – seeks his deceased father’s ill-gotten riches. Our mystery at hand: is the refugee a thief, a terrorist, or completely innocent? Caught up in this high-wire web of intrigue are Willem Dafoe as a British banker, Robin Wright as an American diplomat, and – as the nonnonsense chief of a German spy unit – Philip Seymour Hoffman, in one of his final roles. (The late actor concurrently appears in God’s Pocket and has a cameo in the next Hunger Games.) Wearing his director’s cap, Corbijn demonstrates a knack for imagery, framing, and composition; clearly his work involving music videos and documentaries honed his skills. The movie unspools assuredly, instinctively, and steadily; scenes are chockablock with bristling conflict and tension. In fact, Corbijn proves he was merely warming up with The American, which gave George Clooney the type of no-nonsense turn Hoffman embodies in A Most Wanted Man. Performing so naturally and authentically – downright normal, while chainsmoking throughout – Hoffman calls to mind Gene Hackman, Jeff Bridges, and Sydney Pollack. With his bulky, four-square presence and crusty voice, Hoffman exudes an effortless, Brando-like quality that pulls us in and resonates.

Actors Rock the House

he biopic Get On Up follows the volatile and musical path of one James Brown, a.k.a. the Godfather of Soul. We can assume director Tate Taylor and co-scripters the Butterworth brothers know their popular subject as well as the audience does. The upshot, which Mick Jagger co-produced, is mainly a success with few built-in failures. As the entertaining hero – whose hits include “I Got You,” “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”, and “Living in America” – Chadwick Boseman puts down Jackie Robinson’s baseball bat he quietly carried in 42 and herein comes alive with vim and vigor. The actor seizes Brown’s persona and flair, while mimicking his patois with pin-sharp accuracy. An Oscar nomination for Boseman, as he takes a bow, seems inevitable – though I look forward to the day he stops impersonations and chooses a fictional role. It would be irresponsible not to sing the praises Nelsan Ellis, who stands toe to toe with Boseman

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in a more refined fashion, as the best friend and loyal bandmate. Taylor’s heavy-handed instincts, as was the case with The Help, don’t always serve him well. Fortunately, he has enlisted co-stars Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis to reunite, providing instant credibility and gravitas. Some critics bemoan the film’s nonlinear, hop-scotch narrative, but I welcomed the approach as intriguing and crackerjack.

I Like Lucy

urportedly named after the world’s very first woman (more of an ape), Lucy is writerdirector Luc Besson’s latest cinematic salute to powerful ladies – following the likes of La Femme Nikita, The Professional, The Fifth Element, and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc. Besson’s newest venture is a brisk sci-fi thriller with the infinitely watchable Scarlett Johansson as a woman coerced into unspeakable circumstances: she’s a drug mule who, in turn, gains super powers. It all stems from evolutionary psychology and the claims of a renowned scientist (Morgan Freeman) that humans use only 10 percent of their brains; just wait until the scholars meet our amped-up heroine. If its story feels incomplete and technically shallow, I was simultaneously relieved this 90-minute ride didn’t veer toward 3-hour terrain, as did Christopher Nolan’s overpraised Inception. Besson knows his limits and when to tighten the reins. In the hands of a less-gifted director, Lucy wouldn’t have been nearly as fun and mercurial.

12 Years and Counting

ichard Linklater’s paean to growing up, Boyhood, took a dozen years to create, but the result proves worth the wait. His chronicle of family and life in general – glimpsed mainly through the eyes of a youth (Ellar Coltrane) from ages 7 to 19 – clocks in at 165 minutes, a reasonable haul within such a sweeping, comprehensive context. In the spotlight is Ellar Coltrane, native of the director’s beloved Austin, Texas, and a young man up to the task. His hardworking but loving mom (Patricia Arquette) endures bad choices in husbands (Ethan Hawke and Marco Perella, both outstanding). Along the way, the close-knit family – including Linklater’s own daughter, Lorelei, as the sister – experiences the frustration of moving from town to town and school to school, striving to find their identity and purpose. The prolonged narrative rarely stalls, and if some elements – such as the estranged biological dad and the alcoholic stepfather – are typecast and clichés, they’re altogether real and part of many children’s everyday existence.

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Plan B by Briana Westmacott When Briana isn’t lecturing for her writing courses

at UCSB and SBCC, she contributes to The Santa Barbara Skinny, Wake & Wander and Flutter Magazine. Along with her passion for writing and all things Santa Barbara, much of her time is spent multi-tasking through her days as a mother, wife, sister, want-to-be chef and travel junky. Writing is an outlet that ensures mental stability... usually.

Heading Overseas: Part II

e were stuck, seriously stuck in the mud, in a rented twodoor Twingo in Tuscany. It was a panic situation. At this point, we were submerged in our third week of traveling through Europe, so panic situations were not unfamiliar to us. We had learned, my husband and I, a way to evoke calmness by looking at each other and mouthing one word: Maldives. If you read Part I of Heading Overseas (Sentinel # 3/14), you would know that I had choices for this big birthday trip. One option was going to the Maldives without the kids; the other was four weeks in Europe with them. As we trekked from Budapest to Croatia, across the Adriatic Sea and into Italy, there were moments when we had to deep breathe, to envision ourselves completely relaxing on a far-off Maldive island as a form of meditation. It was our way of provoking serenity through some of the unpredictability that travel and children bring to life. But who wants predictable,

anyways? Maldives had turned into our mantra.

Tuscan Twingos and the Griswold-macotts Before we embarked on our European adventure, some friends had started to joke and call us the Griswold-macotts (referencing the National Lampoon Vacation movies). It’s true we really didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into, taking an eight-year-old and six year-old around Europe for four weeks. We could (and did!) end up in some “Griswold” moments. So there we were, stuck in the mud, in our Tuscan Twingo, and our GPS had just dropped. If you are not familiar with a Twingo, picture a low-budget Smart Car with a manual transmission. When my daughter Elliana first saw our rental car, she was quick to clarify, “Is this a real car, Daddy?” We gave the Italian rental car agent a big smile and began to shove our

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bags in the back. Amazingly, my husband, Paul, fit all of the luggage in the trunk of our Twingo without any pieces having to be tied on the top (“Aunt Edna” style). After being on busses, trains, ferries, taxis, and foot for more than two weeks, we were giddy to be getting some wheels.

A Hand is Handy When You’re Stuck in Mud Paul’s grin was now gone as I climbed out of the Twingo to assess our panic level

and the mud-to-tire depth ratio. The kids were dead silent in the back seat. They knew without getting out of the car that the panic level had elevated to the “Just Don’t Say a Word” height. We had been traveling since early that morning from Venice, across Italy, into Tuscany when we got really lost. Our directions were bad. Our GPS was spotty. And, we had totally underestimated just how hard it would be to drive in Italy. So, there we sat. Stuck in the mud. Silence blanketed us all on the top of a resplendent hill, overlooking

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Lila lost both of her front teeth in Croatia. Turns out the tooth fairy needed a passport this summer, too!

Jason Paluska, Executive Chef Here’s where we got stuck in the mud in Tuscany. Not a bad place to get stuck, eh? I never did take a picture of the Twingo, but this view of San Gimignano is so much prettier than the Twingo ever was.

I can only hope that my girls will keep holding each other this tight during their teenage years. This was in Cinque Terre, Italy.

castles and lush green fields of olive trees and Chianti vines. Travel was testing and tantalizing us at the same time. After checking out the depth of the tire in the mud, I leaned in and gave the Twingo a shoulder push from the back. (I might remind some of you that I grew up driving dirt roads in the country, and that I have experience with mud and cars.) My talented husband began some serious NASCAR maneuvers with the Twingo’s manual transmission. Paul (maybe Clark would be more fitting in this moment) really does know how to work a clutch. The kids remained silent. Eventually, minus a hubcap and with a lot of mud caked on the Twingo, we got ourselves out of that rut and found our Tuscan villa. Here’s the thing, I could fill this entire Sentinel with tales of places that we saw and food that we ate and people that we met along the way. There just aren’t enough words to describe the buildings in Budapest, Holding hands in Dubrovnik, Croatia the color of the water that exists in the belly of Croatia, the tastes that come out of Tuscany, or the perfection that emanates from the south of France. If you are curious, you should go see it for yourself. But the one thing that my family learned from getting We spent more than six months planning the travel details on the road for a month is that traveling is a gift. We may for our trip, and many of our accommodations were made have lost our front teeth in Croatia (see photo to clarify through the website Airbnb. Not only did we find amazing this), a backpack in Budapest, a hubcap in Tuscany, and apartments in Budapest and Dubrovnik, along with villas possibly our minds on the 30-hour trip from Nice, France, in Tuscany and an olive farm outside Cinque Terre, but we back to L.A. Through it all, we gained an understanding also listed our own house here in SB on the site. We rented of the world that can by no means be acquired by staying our home to a family from France for two of the weeks in your comfort zone. And that is truly a gift. that we were gone, and all of it – yes, all of it – worked During that month overseas, “Grab a hand” tumbled perfectly. Maybe we were lucky, but we are now big fans from my mouth multiple times a day. Sometimes we held tight, two by two, and other times we all four of Airbnb. If you have somewhere to go, you should check linked together by fingers while we strolled forward into out their site to see if they have something special for you: unknown territory. This trip gave my family the ability www.airbnb.com. to function together, as a unit, through the highs and I’m also happy to answer any questions that you may have the lows, and we learned something quite significant if you are looking to travel to any of the areas that we went – we can accomplish absolutely anything when we all this summer. Feel free to send me an e-mail: briana@ hold hands. We could even get a Twingo out of the mud santabarbarasentinel.com. without AAA.

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by Christina Enoch

Brace Yourself for Mesa Verde Plant-Based Cuisine

isten up everyone, I need your attention: I’m crazy about, intrigued, and mesmerized by Mesa Verde. I live in Mesa. When I don’t have anything in the refrigerator, I roam the ‘hood looking for some decent food, and always wish something exciting would pop up. The other day, I ran into my friend Kathleen. She invited me to a spontaneous lunch at Mesa Verde. Past the fast-food joints, barber shop, and gas stations, there it is: beautiful architecture, earthy, environmentally friendly decorations with a hint of industrial flavor that made me jump into the restaurant like a hungry kangaroo. It’s a plant-based restaurant but not your ordinary vegetarian eatery. The chef, incidentally, is also an avant-garde musician. Chef Greg Arnold, who was already known for his inventive plant-based

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Don’t expect tofu, seitan, or quinoa salad here. It’s not your average vegetarian restaurant.

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

cuisine at Sage in Los Angeles, was approached by the property owner Jason Akraa, an architecture and also a fan of Sage. Thus, the “Mesa Verde Project” started. Chef Greg’s food is young, modern, sophisticated, and unexpected just like his music. Somewhere among Morocco, Egypt, South of France, and Sicily... you can’t quite tell what it is. That’s the beauty of it. First up, we had grilled eggplant, burrata, brandy seared portobello,

hazelnut, pomegranate, molasses, and tarragon; simple but intricate. How can these innocent veggies can create so much layers? Wild mushroom tacos with lemon creme fraiche, harissa, pepitas, and baby spring onions – unique and full of flavor. Homemade Falafel plate is served with farro, hummus, cauliflower puree, beet green, piquillo pepper, and bachelor’sbutton edible flowers.

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“Cooking is like music,” Chef Greg says. “I cook as I touch my guitar string. It touches different sensories in our body.” He is known for his paintings as well. Every season, the menu changes. “I get bored making same things over and over. Changes of seasons and produce, creating new dishes keep me excited. I am already designing our fall menu,” Chef Greg adds. The food at Mesa Verde is so mouthwatering, I will soon have difficulty getting a table.

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UP CLOSE

BY JACQUELYN DE LONGE

Our former restaurant reviewer takes a closer look – as only a 3rd-generation SoCal native can – at the people, places, and things that make Santa Barbara so unique. When she is not working for us, she keeps herself busy with various writings, chases her two young children around, and practices yoga and Pilates for some sense of sanity.

Rebel with a Cause

first met chef Derek Simcik briefly at a pop-up dinner at the Telegraph Brewing Company’s tasting room on Salsipuedes Street a week before my scheduled interview with him. Simcik was not the man I had expected. He was better, and so was his food. The Chefs Collaborative Pop-Up Dinner was the brainchild of Simcik and chef James Siao of Finch & Fork. Having scouted the local farmers market and nearby farms, they created a playful, seasonal four-course meal bouncing off each other’s ideas and pairing each dish with specially selected Telegraph beer. With a lanky frame and animated hands, Simcik confidently addressed the room of diners, explaining his creations as they were placed in front of us before returning to the makeshift kitchen, ready to perform his next entrée in full view of his audience. The setting was intimate and ideal, and the food was some of the best I have had in Santa Barbara. (And as a former reviewer of local restaurants, I’ve eaten at many places around town.) His Terrine was a surprisingly rich, dense, and delicious plate of pork and fig. His Gazpacho was light and refreshing, with watermelon and a goat cheese-stuffed squash blossom. He toyed with textures and flavors and even used his tweezers to perfect the plating. For Simcik, every part of the meal matters, from the food to the service and the presentation. As a young man in his early 30s, Simcik has started gathering quite a reputation: Restaurant Hospitality’s “14 watch in

The third dish of the dinner was a light and refreshing summer Gazpacho by Chef Simcik (photo: Jacquelyn De Longe)

Chef Simcik’s Terrine, a creative take on pork, fig, and root vegetables was served as our second course (photo: Jacquelyn De Longe)

Simcik, executive chef of Outpost at the Goodland Hotel The boy likes his toys. Derek Simcik uses a hand-held torch to caramelize the tops of the Tarte Tatin, a delicious desert with plum, biscuit, and ginger. (photo: Outpost)

2014”, Zagat Chicago’s “30 Under 30; “Hottest Up and Comers of 2013” and “Best of the Midwest” two years running by Midwest Living, and a dozen more. He has also been included in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and ABC7 Chicago. When he was only 26, he became an executive chef at Chicago’s Atwood, transforming the downtown hotel restaurant into a chic popular dining experience.

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And now he is at it again, in Goleta to be exact. (Lucky us!) His next venture, Outpost, a California-inspired restaurant at the Goodland Hotel, is set to open late August. The menu will feature area ingredients with local favorites such as battered halibut tacos and guacamole with mango, walnuts, and jalapeños. It will also introduce new flavors such as pork baobuns with pickled Asian pear and chili, and pork belly with apple kimchi and maple yogurt. There will be handcrafted cocktails and regional wines and beers, and also a weekend brunch complete with seasonal “pop-tart.” The breezy indoor/ outdoor setting and hip, laid-back vibe of the restaurant bar will attract locals and visitors alike. Located on Calle Real just past the 217 spit, this will be a dining destination worth the drive. Seemingly tough on the outside, it wasn’t until I had a chance to sit down with him for coffee and chat at Finch & Fork (Kimpton’s sister restaurant to his Outpost) that I got to observe his softer side. Blowing through the restaurant door and frantically scanning the room to make sure I hadn’t blown my interview, I saw Simcik tucked into a corner table working on his computer. My initial thought: This guy is not gonna give the me time of day. But instead as I got closer, greeted me and glossed over my sincere apology with “It’s no big deal. Don’t worry about it.” While Simcik was born in Athens, Greece, he has lived all round the world in places such as Tunisia in North Africa, Frankfort Germany, London, France, and Tokyo, Japan. His father was a biology and chemistry teacher before joining the CIA and taking his wife on a whirlwind adventure around the globe and having

Chefs James Siao and Derek Simcik personally signing each menu at the Chefs Collaborative Pop-up Dinner at the Telegraph Brewing Company

two sons along the way. While both of his parents were from Texas, Simcik spent most of his extended family time with his mother’s cajun side in Louisiana. It was there in the kitchen of his granny and grand-tante (“great aunt” in French, a cajun dialect) that he first learned how to cook. As his interest grew, his mother taught him how to make a roux, then gumbo, then okra, and even though he is now an executive chef and general manager of his own restaurant, she still refuses to give him her secret recipe for red beans and rice. After graduating high school Simcik found himself back in the States and headed to art school in Virginia while he worked at a local restaurant to pay the bills. Yet after one brief semester, he realized that his creative passion was more fulfilled in the kitchen than they were in the classroom. He recalled a pivotal piece of advice his father had given him when deciding his future, “As long as your happy doing what you love and you try to be the best at it, you will succeed.” His father was a wise man, and Simcik has obviously made the right choice. He left to attend the Art Institute of Washington, D.C., and received his culinary degree with a minor in hospitality management. Advice wasn’t the only thing his father passed down, as Simcik is wicked smart.

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He seems the type of person with an episodic memory, creating a virtual timeline complete with sights, tastes, and smells. This is no doubt another reason why he is able to command a bustling kitchen and control the chaos that can flare up. While the world traveling and family heritage alone give Simcik a leg up in the cooking world, it is his passion for the craft itself that sets him above the rest.

I’m a fan of Anthony Bourdain and other chefs who have become household names, and I wondered how Simcik thinks about the whole celebrity chef trend. He explained his love/hate relationship with the concept. “Chefs can let it go to their head and forget about the service and hospitality, which is why we go into this. I look at customer’s requests as a challenge. [Celebrity Chefs is] a way to bring our

world into the public’s eye. We have an aura now in the dining room. More respect and people appreciate the thought put into a dish.” For Chef Simcik, it is not so much a rebellious nature that has him pushing boundaries in food and lifestyle, but instead his adventurous spirit and intensity for life and lead his way. He is a friendly guy who wears his heart and

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passions on his sleeve. (Take a close look at his tattoos when his shirt is rolled up, he really does.) And when you are at his new restaurant, Outpost, invite him over for a beer, and he’ll happily join you in a whirlwind adventure.

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’ve never thought of myself as an indoor girl. I enjoy the great outdoors, I really do. I spent much of my youth with a camp-happy father, and my 20s paddling out with the big boys on dawn patrol. So when my husband suggested camping, I said, “Heck, yeah!” We had enjoyed camping together quite a few times in our single days. I say single, but what I really mean is, without children. Fast forward to now, with a four-year-old and a soon to be yearling, as our darling brood, this was to be – the summer we began camping. I could see it clearly in my mind. The children laughing as we cook s’mores around a roaring fire, the hubby would be strumming the acoustic guitar, playing a mean “She’ll be coming round the mountain”… and I would have a tall glass of red warming my bones, as much as their smiles warmed my heart.

I’m A Dreamer… but I’m not the Only One We were on Amazon Prime in a flash, comparing family tents, buying sleeping bags, loading up on Glow Sticks and marshmallows, all the while talking to friends about the best campgrounds, since we are still newbies to Santa Barbara area. I learned we are so close to some gorgeous California state parks, where we could get our camping feet wet, but if the kids lost their noodle, we could pack it up quick and be home in a flash.

I also found out that it was damnnear impossible to get a camp spot, at one of these amazing parks during the summertime. But I was not dismayed. I signed up for alerts on the Reserve America website, filled in the dates we would like to stay, then kept my fingers crossed as I searched for the perfect blowup mattress. The email came early one morning, and I jumped at the chance – Refugio State Park it was – for two whole nights.

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On that first day of our camping vacation, we packed, unpacked, so we could fit the kids into their car seats, then re-packed around them so they were squished like sardines under the boogie boards and towels. And as we arrived at the campground early, we struggled to put up a tent, unpack the car, all the while pulling rocks out of our daughter’s mouth as she shoved them in faster, since she had the upper hand, being so low to the ground and all, then chasing after our son who was trying to ride off with every new child he would meet. It wasn’t the best spot in the campground, with no shade, no grass, and yeah – it was right next to the train tracks but we staked out the better camp spots, making mental notes of prime sites with shady trees, green grass, and ocean views, that would surely come in handy for the next trip.

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with Mark Léisuré

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

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generally don’t give a you-know-what for hyperbole like “Bold Moves & Big Ideas”, which is how UCSB Arts & Lectures has titled its upcoming 2014-15 season. I mean, really, were they timid and tiny previously? But whatever you call it, A&L – which has become the area’s largest arts promoter – does have a power-packed season in store. Some of the top names in just about every field are due in town over the OctoberJune run, including the return of the Joffrey Ballet and modern dance troupe Pilobolus, and fresh visits from classical musicians Gil Shaham and Brooklyn Rider, pop singer Tony Bennett, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in King Lear; plus Danish theater company Hotel Modern in a piece commemorating the centenary of WWI; basketball great (and now co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers) Magic Johnson; and even The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. UCSB A&L offers lots of discount packages, but if you don’t want to commit to that many shows, this Saturday, August 9, is the day to get ready to hit the Internet, because single tickets go on sale at 10 am. Call 893-3535 or visit www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

Street, its first new location in several years. All of the artists participating in the weekend tour will be on hand, as will one piece each of their work. The tour itself, on Saturday and Sunday, features access to 36 private studios of some of Santa Barbara’s award-winning professional artists, many of whom will actually be at work while you watch, or at the very least be open to questions and explanations. The tour stretches from Goleta to Carpinteria, so it’s not hard at all to make a full weekend out of it. Get info at www.santabarbarastudioartists.com.

Singing at SOhO

The fortnight kicks off this Sunday with a triple bill from We The Beat headlined by Aussie electronica band Panama in their American debut, boasting such songs as “Always” and “Strange Feeling”. Fronted by songwriter Jarrah McCleary, a classically trained pianist since he was six, Panama has seen its debut EP, release last

March, bring lots of attention, including providing the soundtrack for a Banana Republic ad campaign. The concert is also the literal live debut – as in their first live gig – of Santa Barbara’s own Internet sensation Mexico City Blondes, a duo whose first single, “Fade”, was picked up by every major blog and reached number one on Hype Machine, plus rising local nu disco act Mångo Mångo. Also at the city’s classiest club: the Original Wailers, playing some conscious reggae starting at 10 pm Saturday in the post-show for the Rebelution concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl; the periodic Breakthrough Performance Workshop concert & dance party (featuring the culmination of a 6-week workshop in a final public performance) on Sunday, August 17; the six-time Grammy nominated new age/flamenco-funk guitarist Ottmar Liebert and band – who are sporting two new releases in Threeoh-five and Bare Wood – on Wednesday, August 20; and the return of New Orleans-via-Los Angeles, 19-piece party band Vaud & the Villains on Saturday, August 23.

Elsewhere in Pop

East and West coasts come together in singer-songwriter Shane Alexander, who hails from San Diego but was raised in Pennsylvania and Maryland before moving back to So Cal. He’s put out a half-

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dozen CDs in a 14-year solo career that has also seen many songs show up on TV series soundtracks. The Shane Alexander Band headlines the next concert in the Sings Like Hell series (Vol. 35, No. 2) at the Lobero Theatre on Saturday, August 16, with opening act Sweet Ghosts, an Arizona-based alternative Americana band headed by songwriter Ryan Alfred and singer Katherine Byrnes. In a similar vein to Sweet Ghosts, the enigmatically named Lucinda Lane is actually a recent collaboration marrying the quirky Americana-leaning compositions of guitarist-songwriter (and arts journalist) Joe Woodard with earnest and beguiling vocals from pop-jazz singer Nicole Lvoff, who previously favored pop-jazz, with the great Tom Lackner on drums. LL call their style “IndieBossaSwingTwang”, and we just say, uh, sure. Check it out for yourself in a free show at Blue Agave – fast becoming one of downtown new sites for live music and themed DJ nights – on Tuesday, August 18. Alt-rockers Kiev, who have won praise for their “intricate, eclectic music and big live sound”, hit Velvet Jones on Saturday, August 15. The Granada Theater’s new Concert Series, which even features dancing at the remodeled venerable venue, hosts Margie Nelson’s jazz band in a donor event that’s also open to the public on Wednesday, August 20.

Art out of Bounds

Your man about town goes for the outlier stuff, even when it comes to visual arts. So this two-week period featuring two such events is a keeper. Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s alltoo-rare Atelier returns on Friday, August 15, with an eccentric evening inspired by Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art and Living in the Timeless: Drawings by Beatrice Wood. Highlights include the Dada Disco (where Ballet Russes meets the Bee Gees), featuring an immersive blend of live video, vintage film, performance, hybrid DJ set/pop-up vocals, costumes, and dance choreographed by Robin Bisio and Kaita Lepore Mrazek. There’s also Betelgeuse and Blackness: A Bedtime Interactive Installation, Circular Bikes and Purring Chair by Robert Wechsler, plus specialty drinks and apps and music by local band The Kinds, who will play of mix of California covers and original songs. Not quite as quirky but covering a lot more territory, literally if not figuratively, is the annual Santa Barbara Studio Artists 13th Annual Open Studios Tour. The pre-Labor Day weekend fest begins with a reception on Friday night, August 22, at Corridan Gallery, 125 North Milpas

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...continued from p.12 benzene, radioactive compounds and other dangerous substances that can contaminate water via spills, high well casing failure rates, and other means and put our health at risk. This polluted water must be re-injected underground to dispose of it. But this process has triggered earthquakes in places like Ohio and Oklahoma. The oil companies tell you this is safe, but the oil regulators disagree. In California, the state Department of Oil and Gas recently shut down 11 wastewater injection wells over concerns they were being injected directly into aquifers used for drinking water. The EPA has just released a report saying that monitoring of injection wells is insufficient, specifically stating that, “The safeguards do not address emerging underground injection risks, such as seismic activity and overly high pressure in geologic formations leading to surface outbreaks of fluids.” Santa Barbara County has little water to spare even in the best of years, let alone a time of extreme drought. Many communities near oil fields like Lompoc, Vandenberg Village, Orcutt, and Los Alamos are completely dependent on groundwater that could be contaminated by large proposed oil projects. Our county is riddled with fault lines capable of large earthquakes. Our economy is based on farming,

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wine, tourism, and technology and a healthy environment that are put at risk by nearby high-intensity oil extraction. Agriculture alone contributes $2.8 billion to the local economy. Extreme oil extraction creates few jobs and many of these are temporary or imported specialists. The small increase in oil production we’d see from these techniques is not worth the risk to the other 99 percent of our economy, our population, our health, our food, and our irreplaceable resources. Instead of drilling for more oil here in Santa Barbara County, we should be taking active steps to cut our dependence on fossil fuels in order to reduce our impact on global warming and help move California into a cleaner, 21stcentury energy economy. Voting yes on Measure P is the best way to move us toward that goal.

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veryone is going nuts about the Ebola virus. NBC, ABC, Fox, Buzzfeed, Wikipedia, Huffington Post, and nearly every other news source are all screaming about Ebola and how we are safe here in America. Sure, being told that we are safe is great. Being told of every anti-Ebola policy that the CDC creates is reassuring. What I wanted to know, though, is more about the Ebola virus itself. And what I have learned is still only a small portion of the whole picture that we need to comprehend the most devastating Ebola outbreak ever. The term “Ebola” does not actually refer to one particular virus. Instead, ebolavirus is the name of a genus that contains five species of virus. Meaning, that there are five distinct “strains” of the Ebola virus that can infect humans. All five are viruses that are zoonotic, or viruses that originated in animals and are transferred across species to humans. While most have serious side effects, one – Reston ebolavirus – has never been associated with a mortality. In fact, most people who contract Reston ebolavirus never even display symptoms. If only that were the virus infecting hundreds of people in West Africa. Instead, the three most deadly of the viruses – Bundibugyo ebolavirus, Zaire ebolavirus, and Sudan ebolavirus – have been found to be the culprits behind the current outbreak. Many news sources are citing that these viruses have a 90-percent mortality rate for anyone who contracts one of these viruses. And that figure is technically correct, if the patient never receives any medical care whatsoever. Because there are few “Ebola” outbreaks of great magnitude, it is difficult to get a more accurate number for today’s patients who are receiving the best possible medical treatment available to the areas affected. The idea that there is no cure or treatment for Ebola is also somewhat inaccurate. Two American volunteers who contracted Ebola were recently given an experimental treatment. Within an hour, their symptoms seemed to abate and their prognosis improved. Of course, it is impossible to know if the treatment, referred to as ZMapp, will continue to work or if it is merely masking some of the symptoms. What is particularly interesting is that ZMapp has been in development for several years and is partially funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in the U.S. According to the company that is developing this treatment, Mapp Biopharmaceutical, it is still only in an exploratory stage of development and is not intended to be therapeutic. Up until now, only a small number of healthy patients have been

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.

given the treatment with the intention of observing its behavior within the body. Rushed or not, this treatment may be the stopgap we have all been looking for. Ebola has been a worry for many since it first made its existence known. The first case of Ebola, ever, happened in 1976 and claimed the lives of about 280 people in Africa. It was devastating. But medical personnel, researchers, and the patients all learned quickly that the disease only spread

“The term ‘Ebola’ does not actually refer to one particular virus. Instead, ebolavirus is the name of a genus that contains five species of virus.” from direct contact with infected patients’ bodily fluids. Today, the Ebola outbreak is even worse. If Ebola were to appear in developed countries, such as ours, isolating an infected patient would be easy and even routine. In West Africa, that is not the case. Hospitals are outdated, understaffed, and severely underfunded. There, it is almost impossible to keep an Ebola patient isolated. Worse, medical personnel do not have the supplies they need to protect themselves and other non-infected patients. The CDC is sending 50 doctors and medical supplies to help, but this Ebola outbreak is already moving faster than the World Health Organization can contain it. While we may be safer on another continent, concern for our fellow humans in West Africa should be pushing us to support the medical professionals who are putting their lives on the line to treat patients who have contracted a fast-acting, potentially lethal disease. This Ebola outbreak will be contained, hopefully with the help of ZMapp. And, yes, we will be safe. Our country is lucky enough to have a plan in place and the resources to implement it. Hopefully, we can share enough of those resources to help those in the affected areas.

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Commercial real estate agents with Radius Group who have completed over $550,000,000 in total transaction value and leased/ sold over 2,000,000 SF since 2005. In 2012, along with Radius principal Steve Brown, the team completed 42 deals comprised of 19 sales and 23 lease transactions totaling $113.5 Million in sales volume and more than $21.5 Million in lease value upward of 500,000 square feet.

Commercial Real Estate Sales Set SB-Area Records

6550 Hollister Avenue, Goleta | 39,875 SF | 6.77 CAP rate | Quietly marketed at $14.2 million | This fully renovated, corner-office building at Hollister Avenue and Los Carneros Road recently traded for an undisclosed amount. The property, which remains fully leased for six more years to Cottage Hospital, was one of several purchased by a 1031 exchange buyer.

o far this year (through 30 June), there have been 52 sales of commercial property in and around the City of Santa Barbara, setting an alltime record for the number of sales in the first two quarters of any year, ever. This is the most prolific first half of a year on record, and we are quite possibly on pace to end the year with total sales transactions in the high 90s, which would be the greatest number of annual sales we have seen since Radius began keeping records about 17 years ago. According to Radius’s analysis, properties that were purchased during the recent downturn are now being resold, and in many cases, for a good

deal more than sellers paid for them just a few years ago. The number of 1031 Exchanges has also increased right along with the sales. Two prime examples of properties that were bought within the last couple years and recently resold are the “Starbucks Center” at 1046 Coast Village Road in the Montecito area, and the “Citibank building,” located at 3757 State Street. The Starbucks Center had last been sold in December of 2012 for $10.2 million, and this April it was resold in an off-market transaction after anchor tenant Starbucks renewed at market rate. The $14.5-million resale marks the largest sale ever of commercial property

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The Citibank building on upper State Street in the Whole Foods shopping center was also purchased in 2012 by a local investor, and at the time it had 30-percent occupancy. The buyer then completely renovated both the interior and exterior of the building prior to inking any leases. By the time the building renovation was completed, the vacant spaces had been leased to four different tenants, and the building was then 100 percent occupied. Shortly thereafter, the property was sold in an off-market transaction for $9.8 million.

Other sales included an office building at 6550 Hollister Avenue, which was 100 percent occupied by Cottage Hospital and was one of several purchased by a 1031 exchange buyer coming out of a very large exchange in San Diego. Of major concern is the direction of interest rates. If the 10-year Treasury stays between 2.5 percent to 3.0 percent, we are confident we will see the greatest number of commercial transactions recorded in Santa Barbara in the last 17 years. If rates break toward the upside, that will probably usher in a slowdown in what until now has become a breakneck pace of sales. We believe, however, that strong sales will continue apace.

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