NEW YEAR, NEW SENTINEL
WE’VE RESOLVED TO EAT BETTER, EXERCISE MORE AND KEEP EACH EDITION ON THE RACKS FOR TWO WEEKS AT A TIME; HERE ARE THE CHANGES WE’RE MAKING FOR 2014, P. 5
THE HOLIDAYS ARE OVER
BUT THAT DIDN’T STOP OUR SHOP GIRL FROM TAKING A TRIP RIGHT DOWN SANTA CLAUS LANE TO HAWTHORN BOUTIQUE, WHERE OWNER KAREN BAUER STOCKS SANTA BARBARA STYLES, P. 24
SANTA BARBARA
every other week from pier to peak
VO L U M E 3 | I S S U E 1 | JA N UA RY 1 0 – 2 5 | 2 0 1 4
W W W. S A N TA B A R B A R A S E N T I N E L .CO M
FINDING SAINT BARBARA’S FINGER
Jeff Wing HOW AN ADMINISTRATIVE FOUL-UP SEEDED MONASTIC HOME FOR ANCIENT APPENDAGE byspecial from Mission & State
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t will surprise some to learn that the Saint Barbara after whom our fair town is named is not Streisand, but a reportedly beautiful, 4th-century firebrand who was done in by her idol-worshipping father when he learned she had found Jesus. He later received his fiery comeuppance, while his martyred daughter entered the pantheon of the holy.
15 DAYS A WEEK PAGE 10
PRESIDIOSPORTS PAGE 16
Some 1,400 years later, on the eve of Saint Barbara’s feast day, conquistador Sebastian Vizcaino was caught in a particularly wild storm off the central coast of Alta California while doing a little colonial window-shopping for Mother Spain. Panicked, he gripped the ship’s riggings and swore a heartfelt oath of fealty to the first cloud-dwelling saint who came to mind should she see him to ...continued p.30
TIME, TIDE & SURF PAGE 20
MAN ABOUT TOWN PAGE 34