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THESE GIRLS DO ROCK

AWAY FROM THE PRESSURE AND CRITICAL EYES AND EARS OF THEIR MALE PEERS, GIRLS FROM THE AGE OF SIX TO SIXTEEN ARE SIGNING UP FOR GIRLS ROCK SANTA BARBARA SESSIONS. AFTER A FEW OF THESE 10-WEEK COURSES MANY OF THE GIRLS FIND THEMSELVES AS PROFICIENT WITH THEIR INSTRUMENTS AS ANY OF THE ROCKAHOLIC BOYS THEY KNOW AND HAVE HEARD. (STORY ON P. 22)

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ROD LATHIM SEES GHOSTS

BY JEFF WING

WELL, HE DID SEE ONE GHOST IN THE BASEMENT OF THE BIG YELLOW HOUSE WHEN HE WAS FIFTEEN YEARS OLD, AND THAT APPARITION BECAME HIS INSPIRATION. TODAY, A WHOLE LOT OF A FEW YEARS LATER (35 IF ONE IS COUNTING), ROD IS A CELEBRATED AWARD-WINNING WRITER, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, DOCUMENTARIAN, AND ARTIST, AND IS ABOUT TO EMBARK ON HIS SCARIEST VENTURE YET: PUTTING ON UNFINISHED BUSINESS, THE TWO-ACT PLAY HE’S WRITTEN, AT THE LOBERO...

A LIFE IN TWO ACTS

od Lathim saw his first dead body at 15, in a cellar. The body was not one of those unsmiling cadavers with a toe tag, recumbent on a cold slab and bringing nothing to the party. It was blithe and fleet of foot. It wasn’t even a body, exactly. One would use the “G”

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word here (rhymes with toast), but the term is so loaded with baggage it can be off-putting to strict materialists – those in thrall to the five senses. So this entity, once it had made itself known, seemed benign enough, even a little curious, as if Lathim were the anomaly and not this companionable disturbance that seemed to be the vibrant, roaming residue of a once-living little boy. Lathim, initially ...continued p.28

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State Street Scribe – Jeff Wing unpeels the multiple layers of playwright Rod Lathim, whose first autobiographical work Unfinished Business, about his life-altering experience, takes the stage in Santa Barbara

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T he News Page – Lennon James analyzes new laws, previews Barry Kitnick’s exhibition at UCSB and La Mission Café, French art, skips the usual New Year’s resolutions and pinpoints more amusing ones, and gets an assist from Erin Graffy about the Rose Bowl parade

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Bi-Weekly Capitalist – It’s that time of year when Jeffrey Harding prepares to conduct his Real Estate Investment course at SBCC

Letters – Jim Mahoney on Hot Spots, an anonymous resident is tired of someone’s crap, while Alan Hurst, Leoncio Martins, and Harlan Green sound off about Jeffrey Harding and minimum wage

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eer Guy – A new year hasn’t tripped up the prolific Zach Rosen, who churns B out and serves up yet another comprehensive overview of brews you can use

The Fortnight – Jeremy Harbin’s calendar chronicle has changed its name (from 15 Days a Week), but that won’t undermine the actual contents, which the author refers to as a “compulsory rundown”

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Man About Town – Mark Léisuré relives his New Year’s Eve night on the town, looks forward to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Movies That Matter, all that jazz, and a hodge-podge of other events

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Hands Full – At the precipice of a new year, Mara Peters sets the table – no matter how many family members pull up a chair

Keepin’ It Reel – James Luksic still hasn’t bothered with the latest Hobbit or lengthy Unbroken, but he dissects no fewer than five other films to kick off 2015

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SB View – Sharon Byrne and her daughter jump-start the year with the “weird” side of Santa Barbara, while Cheri Rae doesn’t appreciate immigrants being called “illegals”

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In the Zone – Tommie Vaughn tunes into the empowering program Girls Rock Santa Barbara and sits down with Jen Baron Up Close – Jacquelyn De Longe looks to cleanse and purge, with help of Boochies’s owner Rebekah Winquest Shop Girl – It’s crunch time: Kateri Wozny pops into Santa Barbara Popcorn Company and gets her munch on, thanks to owner Christopher Pollastrini Food File – Christina Enoch brushes up on her French while indulging at Pacific Crêpes. Sacré bleu!

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New Laws For 2015

by Lennon James

■ Undocumented Drivers: As of Friday, January 2, every “undocumented” person is allowed to apply for and receive a California driver’s license. The new licenses, however, will read: “Not acceptable for official federal purposes,” promises DMV spokesman Armando Botello. One can make an appointment online, and more than a million applications are expected...

■ “Yes” Means “Yes”: Then again, “Yes” may mean “Maybe.” This is a change from previous California guidelines, which stated emphatically that “No means no.” To receive state funding, colleges must consider sex “consensual” only if both parties actively agree to it and are not drunk or passed out. California becomes the first state in the nation to use this criteria for sexual consent. Which means, we gather, that “No” still means “no” among the great unwashed... oops, we mean ordinary citizens who don’t happen to be anywhere near sexually licentious colleges and universities...

Hey, hey, hey, don’t post this one (unless the babe has given permission)

■ Naked Selfies: Okay, you in your adolescent wisdom took some photos of you and your lover in a state of undress, maybe even performing “unmentionable” acts (though we don’t know what classifies as “unmentionable” anymore, other than making fun of Muslims). And, hey, what could go wrong? No one is going to post that, right? Well, you are

■ Let My Chickens Go: From this day forward, every little clucker will be ensconced in a pen at least large enough that it can now stand up tall and fluff its wings without slamming up against the steel bars of its lifetime prison.

probably correct but this new law now makes it a misdemeanor if anyone, including you, posts it without permission...

■ Single-use Plastic Bags Banned Forever (or at least until someone discovers they can be used more than once): Beginning in July, “paper or plastic?” will not be a question; it in fact will be cause for alarm, as those flimsy plastic bags we’ve all come to love as receptacles for doggie and kitty doo doo and as bathroom trashcan liners will be prohibited, verboten, outlawed in the entire state of California. The law does not apply to bags used for fruits, vegetables or meats, or to shopping bags used at other retailers.

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■ Kill Switch on All Smartphones: Boy, these California lawmakers, who, by the way, come up with an average of three new laws a day, every day, every year, every decade, keep themselves busy. They have decreed, for example, that beginning July 1, all smartphones must be saddled with an anti-theft device – a (trigger alert!) “kill” switch – that, once turned on will deactivate the phone. ■ More Paid Sick Leave: In legislators’ (such as Hannah-Beth Jackson’s and Das Williams’s) unending effort to raise the unemployment level in this state, California employees now earn one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours they “work” or at least are on the clock. If we’ve done our calculations correctly, that means a 40-hour-a-week worker is now eligible, in addition to a normal two-week vacation, maternity leave, family or “friend” illness leave, various and sundry holidays, will now also be able to take nine days of “sick” leave. Which doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for actual work, but then, who needs more stuff, anyway? ■ Upset Interns: Whether paid or unpaid, interns now have the power to sue an employer for (sexual?) ...continued p.6

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harassment, even if they’re not technically classified as employees. Who knew they couldn’t? ■ Another Brick in the Wall: From now until doomsday (which may be closer than we’d like to believe), a kindergartener up to a third-grader will not, cannot, be suspended from attending class, even if the little snot has clearly demonstrated “willful defiance.” In fact, no student in any grade, can now be expelled for “willful defiance.” The law blocks school districts from suspending or expelling most students for “disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority” of school personnel. This new law is, we are sure, extremely popular among teachers and anyone involved in educational supervision... ■ Limit to Football Practice:

You won’t be allowed to do this any longer… well, yes you will, but no more than twice a week during football season, and never during the off-season...

High school football players are now limited to two “full-contact” practice sessions in a week for no longer than 90 minutes per day. Full-contact practice is prohibited during the off-season. The idea here is to limit the number of head injuries, though how limiting practice sessions to just two a week will accomplish this is unexplained. No doubt, this is simply the opening gambit in the effort to do away with football entirely... ■ A Dog Eat Dog Diner: Hey, here’s one we like: It will now be up to a restaurant owner (what an unusual concept) whether to allow or forbid their customers to bring a dog to their eatery’s patio. Dogs, other than “service” dogs, will still be banned from inside, but this is a move in the right direction. The canine-loving heroes who introduced this bill are Assembly member Democrat Mariko Yamada and Democrat Senator Ted Lieu, and all dog owners owe them a debt of gratitude... ■ No More “Mother” or “Father”: This new law belongs in the “We should have seen this coming” file. Instead of “mother” or “father,” you can now be identified as just “parent,” on your child’s birth certificate. This is to

accommodate same-sex or transgender couples. Similarly, coroners must list the gender of the deceased consistent with how the person lived and selfidentified, instead of relying only on his or her anatomy. Ah, well... ■ Out with “Happy Endings?” AB 1147 gives local governments more oversight of massage parlors, whatever “oversight” means... ■ Other New Laws: Crack cocaine and powdered cocaine will now be treated equally as far as the law is concerned, and penalties for dealing or possession of either substance will be the same... Although there’ll be new restrictions on the number of “wine-tasting” events, there will also be an expansion in the category of who qualifies to teach winemaking and beer-making. This new law also allows students of such classes to actually taste their creations... AB2444 bans the sale of the Confederate flag and of merchandise inscribed with its image in state government stores... Uber and Lyft drivers need new insurance coverage if they wish to continue to provide these services... Lazy voters take heart: now you have even more time to mark even more ballots and get them in the mail. They need to be postmarked by election day, but can still be counted if received even three days later. The old adage about voting “early and often” can now be edited to voting “often” as “early” is no longer a requirement... More money for entertainment industry unions, who’ve basically chased low-budget filmmakers from California. AB 1839 raises the money available for film and TV productions from $100 million to $330 million...

Art for Art’s Sake ■ Toute la Journée:

Paul Day’s extraordinary sculptures will be on display in Paris from Sunday, January 11, through February 15

The Sentinel, in the shape of one Lennon James, has received an invitation, written entirely in French, to attend sculptor Paul Day’s newest exposition. The only problem (we translated it) is that the event featuring

Mr. Day takes place in France on Sunday 11 January, and we just don’t have enough time to arrange it. Besides, First-Class airfare was not included. Hey, we would have flown Business. The exhibit will be up through February 15 at 5 Rue du Bailliage in Paris...

New Year’s Resolutions

and it says, ‘One at a time, please!’” It does, however, sound like something Joan Rivers would have said. Claire Sinclair (Playboy Playmate of the Year, 2011) has resolved “to become the paler version of Beyoncé.”

Making the Universe Right ■ Dissenting Dynasties:

■ Badda Bing Badda Boom:

Curvy cutie Claire Sinclair stars in Pin Up, The Art of Sexy. Revealed in Las Vegas. The show, we believe, continues at the Stratosphere downtown...

From “How To Make The Universe Right; The Art of the Shaman from Vietnam and Southern China” by Trian Nguyen; the catalogue has been curated by Barry Kitnick, Dan Mills, and Trian Nguyen

We big shots at the Sentinel believed there would be lots of New Year’s resolutions posted by celebrities, politicians, and high-profilers of all stripes and that we’d have fun reporting on them. Forget that. Most of them are sappy (“Read a book a week; lose ten pounds; live and eat healthier,” yadayadayada). But, we did find half a dozen at least worth reporting on: Eli Braden (comic/writer, The Howard Stern Show and others) tweeted that his “Don’t make love to Victoria’s Secret models resolution is going great so far...”, which earned a chuckle or two over here. Bill Oakley (writer/producer The Simpsons) resolved last year to “never regret getting the NPR logo tattooed” on his forehead. This year’s resolution is probably the same. Former Saturday Night Live writer/ comic Colin Quinn’s 2015 resolution is to incorporate the near ubiquitous phrase “I don’t roll that way” into at least one conversation a week. Patricia McConnell (animal behaviorist, The Other End Of The Leash) is determined to “dance in the living room to 60s music three times a week.” We hope there is no YouTube video to follow. We don’t know who said this, but it’s too good not to print: “You know it’s time for a New Year’s resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale

Barry Kitnick’s private collection of items, mostly from Vietnam, made by members of the Yao minority and other cultures from north Vietnam and southern China will go on exhibition at UCSB on Friday, January 16. One of the curators of the collection, associate professor of Art and Visual Cultures at Bates College, Trian Nguyen, will give a talk beginning at 3:30 in the Art, Design, & Architecture Museum on campus. “The people who made these artifacts,” Barry points out, “were a Chinese minority who separated themselves from the Chinese and eventually went over the mountains to Vietnam. They had their own culture, their own religion; they were outsiders.” The collection will be open for public display in the main gallery, and in one of the three side galleries there will be a complete Yao Shaman shrine, along with a video of the area of the world where this culture of more than a million people thrived for more than 2,500 years. Items on display include painting scrolls, hand-made paper scrolls, rattles, shaman books, shaman robes, bells, ritual swords, hats, a variety of clothing, and other artifacts. The museum is open from noon to 5 pm Wednesday through Sunday and admission is free. To learn more, visit www.museum.ucsb.edu. The exhibit will be up until May 1.

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Finally, a Place to Eat ■ Chicken Wings: The folks at Santa Barbara Airport announced the opening of La Mission Café at the John T. Rickard Airline Terminal. The remodeled and expanded café was opened by mayor Helene Schneider on Thursday, January 8, at 4 pm in a traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony. There have been many complaints about not having a place to eat and/ or drink outside the security area, and in response to the grousing, Tasneem Vakharia, owner of First Class Concessions, has created just what the public has been clamoring for.

Fiesta Dancers Shake it for Rose Parade

by Erin Graffy ■ Shake it Off: For the first time in nearly 70 years, Santa Barbara was in the Tournament of Roses Parade. Old Spanish Days Fiesta put Santa Barbara before a live audience of 800,000 people and another 85 million watching worldwide. The local entry featured the famous 1836 De la Guerra wedding party on horseback and in carriage, and 10 dancers comprised of Spirits of Fiesta and Spirit finalists from five different dance studios.

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Add Dan Encell to your team of trusted advisors! Erika Martin DelCampo, Corrie Jimenez, choreographer Daniela Zermeno, and Jocelyn Cardenas were members of the Old Spanish Days “Fiesta All-Stars,” comprised of Spirits of Fiesta and finalists from several different studios. Here they perform in their “Shake it Off” video highlighting their performances at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center Equestfest and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade.

The girls did not march but actually danced the entire 5.5-mile route... in high heels! First they sashayed with colorful shawls; the second half they performed the dance they presented at the Tournament of Roses’ Equestfest three days earlier, amid huge cheers from the crowd. Their feet were bruised, blistered, and bloodied (yes!) when it was over, but they were unfazed. For their finale, they stripped roses off the carriage and handed them to families and children toward the end of the parade route. The dancing damsels recorded their entire adventure, edited it, and posted it within hours after the parade. Check out YouTube, “Old Spanish Days Rose Parade Fiesta Dancers 2015: Taylor Swift, Shake it Off” – you’ll see how they did it.

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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.

by Jeff Harding

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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Real Estate Tycoonism 101

ours truly is once again being unleashed on the unsuspecting as an adjunct professor at SBCC. It’s time for me to gear up for my real estate class at SBCC, and I look forward to it every year because I love teaching. The course is Real Estate Investment (FIN 204 – 61449) and starts on Tuesday, January 20. It will be held once a week on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 9:05. It is a three-unit college credit course. My classroom is located on the beautiful West Campus, where there is plenty of parking in the evenings. SBCC is on the semester system and the course ends on May 12. If you are interested in becoming a successful investor, you should take my course. Why real estate? For centuries real estate has been one of the main paths to wealth and financial independence. Business is one path. Banking and finance is another. And then there is real estate. Unlike the Warren Buffets and Bill Gates of the world, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to do well with real estate. Hey, just look at me or The Donald! Real estate investing is something everyone can do and become successful. All you need is the right tools, and that’s what the course is all about. Why me? I’ve been at this business for

almost 40 years as a real estate lawyer, investor, financier, developer, and manager, so I have a pretty good idea of what it’s about. This is not a course about real estate theory. I have a lot of practical experience and I teach students stuff that isn’t in the book. To inspire students, I also bring in successful investors to talk about their life in real estate. My students tell me that it is a lot of fun and, often, one of the best classes they’ve had in college. Actually, I am not teaching students to become real estate tycoons but rather to be successful people who invest in real estate. As I tell my students, this is a getrich-slowly class. Why do I love teaching? To me, it is a privilege. My students are a mixture of typical college undergraduates, as well as a large contingent of members of our community, and they are all eager to learn the business of real estate investing and better their lives. If I can give them a bit of a head start, it is all worthwhile. And, I get to teach at the nation’s number-one community college. If you would like to join us, you need to act soon. You can apply online at www. sbcc.edu/apply/apply_to_college.php or call 965-0581, ext. 7222 or 730-4450. I hope to see you there.

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ell this is really progress: the iron wolf huffed and puffed, and Hot Spots was flat in just under two hours. Let the boutique hotel begin. Jim Mahoney Funk Zone

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Capitalist and Monopoly

What a dump: someone downtown literally darkens the door

C’mon guys and/or girls, or whoever has decided this doorway would make a good bathroom: can’t you at least clean your crap up? Santa Barbara looks pretty spiffy most of the time, at least until creeps like you begin to tear it apart. I guess you turned your “bedroom” into a toilet and then left it all “behind” so to speak for the store owner to clean up. Or, maybe you are just a jerk. In any case, anyone who thinks they are “helping” you by throwing coins and bills your way, isn’t helping anything

First of all, let me say that I really enjoy “The Weekly Capitalist” – but have you thought that you might need to change your byline, since The Sentinel only comes out every other week now. How about the “Fortnight Financialist?” Anyway, just teasing; that’s not the point of my letter. I’ve been studying the world economy thoroughly over the last couple of years trying to figure out the big picture and what happened to my middle-class American lifestyle and all the promises that were broken, stolen, or that seemed to have just evaporated into the atmosphere over the last decade or two. The conclusion I have reached is based on an analogy I have formulated. Monopoly is the famous board game which I’m sure most readers are familiar with and remember playing at some point when they were young. When you open the box and pull out the pieces, all the players get giddy and eager to play. They each are equally given a handful of colorful cash, and the opportunity to win and succeed and entertain their wildest financial fantasies. Everybody who plays Monopoly gets instantly filled with hope and ambition and a spirit of healthy competitiveness and drive. It seems like good, clean ...continued p.32

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New Beer in the New Year

’ve got a feeling that 2015 is going to be a big year for Santa Barbara beer. With Pure Order Brewing Co. opening locally, Captain Fatty’s Craft Brewery opening in Goleta, and Rincon Brewery and brewLAB coming out of Carpinteria, 2014 saw more breweries opened in the area than ever before. Plus, there are several more breweries in the works. It will be exciting to see the new beers that come from these establishments. Of course, your local favorite breweries are still churning out new, exciting beers. Start off your new year with a Hoppy New Beer from The Brewhouse. This 6.8 percent ABV India Pale Ale (IPA) can help brighten up your winter. It has a marigold color with a crisp, caramel malt character that adds a snap to the fragrant, hoppy aroma. This beer is brewed with about a 50-50 split between New Zealand Galaxy hops and U.S. Mosaic hops to give it a lush aromas of pine trees, passion fruit, and clementines. They are also serving their bold, bourbon, and cedar-themed Big Johnson Barley Wine. Grab a snifter of this high octane brew while it is still available.

New Direction for an Old Brewery

If Hoppy New Beer is not enough to quench your thirst for IPAs, then definitely swing by Telegraph Brewing Co. From their sour ales to their barrel-aged brutes, Telegraph Brewing has made a name for themselves by producing well-crafted, but esoteric, beers that never really seem to fit into any of the existing beer styles. Although they have started to introduce more yeasts into the brewhouse, many of their beers, like California Ale or White Ale, still get their soft, fruity Belgian flavors from their house yeast. So it was a shock to Telegraph’s fans when they announced their IPA series, a line of beers that will explore the different styles of IPA. First is American IPA. This light copper-colored brew is a classic representation of this hoppy style. The aroma is intricate and well-constructed. Grapefruit and citrus aromas are the most fragrant and sit on top with a spicy note just underneath. An herbal hoppiness provides a base for the other

aromas, and the caramel malt flavors help support the various hop aromas. Although there is a decent maltiness to the beer, it comes off as more juicy than sweet. Telegraph is not going to produce a straightforward example of the style and opted to use a touch of Meridian hops in the brew. This atypical hop is a personal favorite of Telegraph and has a sweet lemon and tropical fruit character

Zach Rosen is a Certified Cicerone® and beer educator living in Santa Barbara. He uses his background in chemical engineering and the arts to seek out abstract expressions of beer and discover how beer pairs with life.

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Tell us all about your art opening, performance, dance party, book signing, sale of something we can’t live without, or event of any other kind by emailing inthezone@santabarbarasentinel.com. If our readers can go to it, look at it, eat it, or buy it, we want to know about it and will consider it for inclusion here. Special consideration will be given to interesting, exploratory, unfamiliar, and unusual items. We give calendar preference to those who take the time to submit a picture along with their listing.

Two-Week Increments

ime continues – however much we’d like it to do otherwise – to move forward in fortnightly increments. And so should we. For the new year, then: a new calendar, a new column here in the Sentinel. It’s called the Fortnight. Consider it more than a compulsory rundown of openings and auctions; consider it a public service. I’ll read the press releases so you don’t have to, and I’ll highlight each fortnight’s noteworthy event in the detail it deserves. I’ll do it free from the obligation of having to show equal attention to the complete-dud non-event that gets written about only because there’s space to fill in the Sunday-through-Tuesday slot. You’ll get my thoughts on a handful of handpicked events and there won’t be anymore squeezing 200 words out of, say, a canned food drive at the retirement home or drink special at a bar in Buellton. I’ll keep a 15-day format in case anyone needs it for ticking off days until their prison release; I just won’t say much when I don’t have much to say. I’m trimming the fat for 2015.

Saturday

January 10 Getting Up, Getting Out

■ There was something about the way the curtains bunched up as they hit the floor that she found beyond beautiful. Those folds of fabric seemed to be the source of the light that awakened her, a cotton-polyester blend of life and warmth and newness. Worth the trip to Ikea, worth having Marcus come over to drill the rod into the wall above the window frame, and definitely worth the now silly-seeming mental anguish she put herself through wondering whether or not plum would have made a more accurate statement about who she is as a person than the pastel yellow. She was proud of herself. To have the earth revolve around her curtains… it’s all she ever really wanted. Dreams come true, but they also end. When she was awake enough to feel less accomplished as an interior designer, feet planted firmly on her bedroom floor, she glanced back over. Same curtains, different light. Her mind moved to her day ahead: coffee with Jamie, the gym, a date with Oliver. When he asked her to go see JackShit and Friends with him at the Lobero Theatre (33 East Canon Perdido Street), she was turned off by the name of the group and wanted to turn him down. But she liked Oliver. She didn’t want to discourage him too much, send the wrong signal, and he

explained that the members of JackShit are “heavy hitters” in the music game, members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in some cases, players with serious credits with Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, John Hiatt, and Sheryl Crow. She still didn’t care, but tried her best to pretend: “Sounds like fun,” she chirped. “I’ll meet you there at 8 pm.” Take my word for it; you would have thrilled. Our protagonist was about to wake up in the next chapter to a call from the police. After that, we were going to start the day with – surprise! – Oliver instead of the main character, to see what the world looks like from his perspective. It would have been good – if it weren’t the dumbest idea I ever had. Auld calendars be forgot, I say. Welcome to The Fortnight!

wasn’t totally dismissive of the press release from SBCC’s Center for Lifelong Learning that frames its new semester of classes beginning today as aides in your quest to keep your resolutions. If you’re serious about changing your life, taking a class is a relatively low stakes-high reward way to go about that. Learn to paint or act, dance or cook, have some sessions with a certified life coach, get on the paleo diet (see entry for January 21). Whatever your resolution, there’s probably a class to help you. See more information at www.sbcc.edu/cll.

Tuesday January 13 Eat Up

Monday

January 12 Class Up 2015 ■ Although the general consensus seems to be that new year’s resolutions aren’t much more than lies we tell ourselves, it doesn’t hurt to make one or two. I always do. Something good usually comes out of identifying what you’d like to change about your life – even if you don’t follow through immediately. That’s why I

January 15 I Love Me ■ Hey, guys, focus on you today, okay? Can you do that for me? Guys?

Friday

January 16 Hear Bob Speak ■ Drop $100 on today’s luncheon at the Coral Casino. The spread ought to be pretty tasty, but you’re paying for the speaker, not the food. Hear journalist Bob Woodward give his talk Presidential Leadership and the Price of Politics. Get tickets at westmont. edu/leadershipseries.

Saturday

January 17 Kick Out the Jams ■ Go see local indie band Ghost Tiger at SOhO (1221 State Street) tonight. I saw them once at Muddy Waters and liked how they weren’t a funky jam band. The Blues and Greys support. Opening the whole show is a band called Mango Mango that spells its name with letter As that have the little circle on top that you see in Scandinavian alphabets – making them without a doubt the worst offender in tonight’s lineup of bands with not-sogreat band names.

Sunday

January 11 California Dreamin’ ■ I’m not sure who has authority over these unofficial “national days” or where they come from, but today is apparently National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day. So here’s hoping that every Californian has a puddle to splash in today.

Thursday

■ Get your veggies: the State Street Farmers Market sets up on the 500600 blocks of State today from 3 to 6:30 pm.

Wednesday

January 14 Be Kind Day ■ Do the unofficial “national months” have the same governing body as the unofficial “national days”? Either way, January is apparently National Be Kind to Food Servers Month. Readers of the old 15 Days a Week know, of course, that I make a great living as the head of the Sentinel’s Department of Calendaring, but for the calendar writers out there – who are definitely not me, no way; it’s not who I am – waiting tables in between calendar gigs, I say be extra nice to your servers this month.

January 18 Only at SOhO ■ “Only in [insert place]” is an overused expression that people say to express their belief that something probably doesn’t exist or wouldn’t happen anywhere else. People are usually wrong when they say it. So at the risk of both using a trite cliché and being just plain wrong: only in Santa Barbara would you be able to see superstars (and local residents) Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins perform in such an intimate venue as SOhO (1221 State Street). 6 pm; tickets at sohosb.com.

Monday January 19 MLK DAY ■ Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

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January 20 Random Treasures ■ Hit the Early Bird Flea Market. 7 am to 6 pm; Earl Warren Showgrounds.

Wednesday

January 21 Curiosity and Coexistence

paleo one, the structure of a strict regimen with clear instructions that explicitly lays out what you can and can’t eat, then you should have it. What do I care? That’s the beautiful thing about it: there’s room enough in this world for people on the paleo diet to coexist with people who can’t part with grains and beans and cheese. Do what you have to do, let your neighbor do what he or she has to do, and everybody just do your best. But let’s talk about it. Let’s stand together with our different opinions – for world peace. Register for this class at www.sbcc. edu/cll; course number 1594901; $14. Find Mikki Reilly online at www. fitnesstransform.com.

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Thursday

January 22 Wade Pool Sharks

■ With a name like Sharks… Bite Size, you might think this is a promotion at Chuck’s Waterfront Grill, but it’s actually an exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center (211 Stearns Wharf ). So go pet some sharks from 10 am to 5 pm.

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Friday

■ It’s (apparently) National Pie Day, so maybe you’d like to try out Simply Pies in Goleta (5392 Hollister Avenue). Open from 7:30 am to 6 pm. They have lunch. www.simplypiessb.com

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Saturday

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■ Local business owner (downtown’s Fitness Transform Studio) and paleo diet promoter Mikki Reilly will discuss her book today at 6 pm at her studio (1213 State Street). That book is called Your Primal Body. If you’re curious about the paleo diet, this is a must-attend class. Ms. Reilly is, by all accounts, the local authority on the subject, and has the City College seal of approval (this discussion session is being offered through SBCC’s Center for Lifelong Learning). If you’re not familiar with the paleo diet, it’s a way of eating that’s modeled on what early humans from the Paleolithic period must have had on their plates when they got home from the office and sat down at the dinner table. Paired with exercise, it surely works as intended for weight loss and getting into athletic shape. Of that I have no doubt whatsoever. Now, be forewarned! I am about to give my opinion. Here it is: All you need to do to be healthy, diet-wise, is eat vegetables. You know that buzz-phrase that’s getting tossed around more and more – “plant-based diet”? Yeah – have one of those. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t eat meat or other non-plants; I’m saying you should eat mostly plants. Eat meat and cheese once a day or once a week – if you want. Have dessert once a week or fortnight. Make sure a high percentage of your meals are good for you, and use common sense. Just remember the famous Michael Pollan quote: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Or don’t, if that’s what makes you happy. Having said that, if you need that structure provided by a diet like the

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Members of Kansas surround manager Budd Carr backstage in Atlanta in 1974

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.

Happy New Year!

o, how was your night? Mind went from the sacred to the profane – if you’ll pardon the hyperbole – with a few station stops in between. The evening started off with a barbecue ribs dinner at home, since I’d missed out on my birthday for reasons I’m not going into here. They were almost as yummy as my partner looked in her slinky dress and cheery attitude (I’m still not sure which is sexier). Then it was off to Unity Church for the annual Burning Bowls ceremony. Reverend Larry Schellink is such a marvel of inspiration, a quiet and charismatic leader who speaks in terms of “we” and “our” (not “you” or “I”). We wrote down on flash paper what we are letting go of and then, one by one,

walked to the front touch the paper to the flame of a solitary candle, and drop the paper into the bowl where it turned to ash in mere moment – a wonderful metaphor for how quickly change can happen when put to the test. Then we wrote a letter to God asking for his help in living a more mission-driven life in 2015, in specifics or generalities, or both. Rev. Larry spoke of the desire to be pulled by mission and passion rather than pushed by pain, which is still resonating deep within. All our neighbors seemed like longtime friends by the end of the 75-minute service. A quick jaunt down Anacapa Street to the Granada ensued, where we caught the first half of the Santa Barbara Symphony’s annual New Year’s Eve

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pops concert. Having missed last year’s show, I’d forgotten what a joy it is to see Bob Bernhardt at the podium. We’re so lucky to have secured the annual services of this 22-year Boston Pops veteran who created a program designed to honor that venerable orchestra. He has a wonderful combination of musicality and knowledge that conveys with both ease and infectious energy, introducing each piece with the innocent wonder of a child and the wisdom of a grandfather. The first half represented founder Arthur Fiedler’s tenure. There were marches from Souza and Bizet, an overture from Suppe, and two pieces from longtime Boston Pops composer Leroy Anderson (including the novelty “The Typewriter”, which retains its humor even in the digital age), before the set closed with Michael Chertok’s masterful turn at the piano for Gershwin’s famed “Rhapsody in Blue”. Next, we came back home to bundle up for the night and headed back out for our annual Christmas decorations tour. Nah, we don’t take the official Trolley of Lights tour – can’t afford that sort of luxury on a Sentinel salary, and besides, the tours are so popular it seems the tickets are gone before they even go on sale. But we’re also not crass enough to actually follow the trolley parade as has become popular in recent years. All we do is look up Harley Hahn’s directions, which are updated every year on his website (harley.com) and don’t stray all that much from the official trolley tours. With limited time, though, we truncated our tour and scampered over to the east side for the most spectacular display, at 1209 E. Quinientos Street, where the owners have spent tens of thousands of dollars decorating the joint in everything from moving Santas to life-size snow globes and a heckuva lot of lights. (I shudder to think about the electric bill.) Finally, with annual traditions behind us, it was time to head over for what become a new annual event: the New Year’s Eve Carnival Party Extravaganza at the Art Foundry in the Funk Zone, where we let it all hang out. Sexy burlesque dancers, slinky salsa performances, a great live band and a terrific DJ plus lots of happy, high-

energy folks hopped up for hitting 2015 together made this quite the bash. Good music, good friends, good times. The champagne flowed freely before and after midnight, and the partying continued well past midnight, though I can’t attest to how many people make it to the 4 am closing time, as I helped my well-lubricated partner out to the car I had retrieved so she wouldn’t have to negotiated the Funk Zone streets. (Four different parties thought I was their Uber ride before I went back inside; I still can’t figure out why I didn’t come up with that idea first, ‘cause, you know, then I could afford things like the Trolley of Lights.) Congrats to Robin Elander, who co-created the event as a benefit for her Santa Barbara Open Streets nonprofit. See you next New Year’s!

Mark at the Movies

In case you haven’t noticed, SBIFF 2015 is just around the corner. The 30th edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival kicks off two days earlier this year, on Tuesday, January 27, and adds an extra day to the schedule, running until Saturday, February 7. The film schedule came out about 18 hours after my deadline, so I’ve got nothing for you there, except we do know through back channels that Budd Carr – the longtime movie music supervisor who has teamed with Oliver Stone for every film in the last 22 years – will premiere his documentary on Kansas, a band he both booked and managed back in an earlier phase of his career. It’s kind of nice this year because none of the tribute winners are big mega-stars, the $20-million-a-movie kind like we’ve had before. Instead they’re either up-and-coming actors or well-established ones who have had exceptional roles in 2014 films. We’re talking Jennifer Aniston (Cake), Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke (Boyhood), Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) and Michael Keaton (Birdman), plus Chadwick Boseman (Get on Up), Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood), Logan Lerman (Fury), David Oyelowo ...continued p.14

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ever going to copy a press release and paste it here (which will never happen because that would defeat the idea behind this column), it would be a DJ Darla Bea press release. I’d do it just to show all other press release writers how it’s done. It’s a thing of beauty, a DJ Darla Bea PR email – dates and times and addresses in all the right places. What, when, where lists! Concise, straightforward, and spell-checked description! A picture attached! It’s the full package, folks. But as good of a press releaser as DJ Darla Bea is, it’s probably not the thing

she’d have me write about in this space. The reason for her releases: her DJ gigs, of course, her turns at the turntables. She’s a regular at Blush Restaurant and Lounge (630 State Street), where she provides music for their themed dance nights. Tonight at 10 until the place closes up, it’s what the DJ herself has dubbed “Happy New Wave: Dance Dance Resolution.” It’ll be an ‘80s-themed new wave party, and eraappropriate dress is encouraged. You could do worse in DTSB than spend a night at Blush. It’s got ample seating, an expansive outdoor area with plenty of heaters and fireplaces, and a menu that looks pretty good – though I have to admit I’ve only visited for drinks, not dinner. The staff there has been welcoming each time I’ve been in and the DJ (not Darla Bea at the time) accommodating to requests from the crowd of people who seemed in good spirits each time. If I were to throw on my bright pink tee and white suit jacket and head out onto the town tonight, I think I’d head to Blush a little early, grab a booth, and order up some food. I think I’d have to try the prosciutto and fig flatbread, the ahi tartare, and the California burger. After that, I’d order up a cocktail and

digest from the comfort of my booth. And, if I were the dancing type (or ordered up enough of those cocktails), I’d let DJ Darla Bea move me with music out on the Blush dance floor. It’s sounds like it could be a pretty good Saturday night. It’s free for those 21 and over. Blush is open today from 11:30 am to 2 pm. For more information on the restaurant, go to www.blushsb.com. Garden Party ■ For a completely different Saturday, join the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County for the all-day Gardening in Drought: A Symposium at the Louise Lowry Davis Center (1232 De La Vina). It starts at 8:30 am and ends at 5 pm. It’s free and open to the public. See more information at cesantabarbara.ucanr. edu. For the Birds ■ The Santa Barbara Audubon’s Winter Bird Count 4 Kids happens today from 9 am until noon in Goleta at Lake Los Carneros Park. Kids should be ages eight to 16 and accompanied by an adult. They can expect to learn the basics of bird watching and to eat some

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(Selma), Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), and Jenny Slate (Obvious Child), who share the stage for the Virtuoso Awards. We should have much more on the fest next issue... or not. You never know with a man of leisure, although any selfrespecting Man About Town really can’t ignore the city’s biggest annual cultural event.

Flicks of the Heart

Meanwhile, former Santa Barbara mayor Hal Conklin is inaugurating a new series of screenings called Movies That Matter, patterned after his longrunning column Cinema In Focus, which examines current movies for social, spiritual, and community themes. For the new series, Conklin will be joined by various spiritual leaders in the community in screening recent films, followed by a discussion with the audience. “Healing of the Heart” is the theme for this first season of Movies that Matter, which gets going at the Granada on Monday, January 12, with Invictus, the story of Nelson Mandela’s quest to unite apartheid-torn South African

through enlisting the national rugby team to vie for the 1995 World Cup. Reverend Mark Asman of Trinity Episcopal Church is the special guest. The rest of the series has The Way on March 16 with Father Larry and the Santa Barbara Old Mission Parish; My Family – Mi Familia on April 27 with a representative of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Places in the Heart on May 11 with Rev. Denny Wayman, the Methodist Churches of Santa Barbara), and Nicky’s Family on June 8, with Rabbi Stephen Cohen and Congregation B’nai B’rith. Also at the Granada, a special screening of Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights, with live accompaniment by the full Santa Barbara Symphony as part of the orchestra’s regular season. Two shows only, January 17-18.

Jazz in January!

It’s not that easy to find dates with the downbeat-ers often around these parts, though with a couple of series from UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Lobero, jazz is on the comeback trail. Yet somehow we have two impressive gigs slated for this next week here early

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in January. Singer Barbara Morrison heads back to SOhO on Sunday, January 11, for another afternoon date with the Santa Barbara Jazz Society exactly one year since she last played there. Morrison has played with so many big names in jazz it would take most of my column to list them, but her career dates back to singing with such legends as Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie. It’s also modern enough for her to have earned a current nomination for a Grammy – her third since 1982 – for best large jazz ensemble album. The scope will be a bit smaller at SOhO, where she’ll be ably backed by Richard Simon, Paul Kreibich, and Ian Bernard. There will be even more excitement on Thursday, January 15, when Gregory Porter makes his Santa Barbara debut at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Porter, who actually attended college on a football scholarship (outside linebacker, so he’s no dummy), has exploded on the New York jazz scene ever since he showed up in town in a leading role in the Broadway musical It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. The baritone – what else do you expect from a football player? – stuck around town when Wynton Marsalis grabbed him for a gig with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra – which we’ve seen in town periodically) and the ball began to roll, quickly. He released his debut album Water in 2010, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, then found a similarly warm reception when he lent more of a soul flavor to the follow-up, 2012’s Be Good, which nabbed a nod for Best Traditional R&B Performance. Proving the third time’s the charm, Porter’s next album Liquid Spirit, won the 2014 Grammy for Best Vocal Jazz Album. Critics love him, fans love him, you’ll love him, as Porter is the rare jazz singer who’s both literate and luscious, given to both melody and meaning. That concert inaugurates UCSB A&L’s Jazz Series, which continues four weeks later on February 12 with Cécile McLorin Salvant, an even younger vocalist who also enjoyed a Grammynomination in 2014 and is also making a Santa Barbara debut. Just 24, Salvant, who has French and Haitian parents, won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010 as a teenager and hasn’t looked back. Her ability to bend notes as well as inhabit a song with her tone and personality has won the inevitable comparisons to Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald – but it was The New York Times that said so, not some anonymous blogger in cyberspace. Vocals rule again just 10 days later, when the great Cassandra Wilson returns to town at Campbell Hall on February 22,

followed by venerable keyboard masters Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on March 22, downtown at the Granada. You get a pretty good discount if you buy tickets to the whole four-concert series, by the way.

Lounging with Léisuré Kenny Loggins at SOhO on January 18

Looking for merry melodies or other musical mirth with Mark? Here’s where you might find me this fortnight: Ingrid Michaelson headlines this year’s Kids Helping Kids concert Saturday, January 10, at the Granada Theatre, which is the culmination of the year-long advanced placement economics class at San Marcos High School. The program has done amazing things over the years, and the first several concerts featured some alumni made good, including Toad the Wet Sprocket and Plain White T’s Tim Lopez. Michaelson’s connections are more peripheral, but her do-it-yourself background is also a worthy story and perhaps an inspiration to the students. Jon McLaughlin opens.... If you like your music a little crunchier, Sings Like Hell kicks off its new concert series at the Lobero with the return of Jack Shit and Friends, featuring a rhythm section comprised of members of Jackson Browne’s and Elvis Costello’s bands, which the likelihood that at least one of this big names shows up for at least a few songs.... Over at SOhO, a concert to benefit Direct Relief International’s fund to aid Ebola victims in Africa includes sets from five different bands, four based in Santa Barbara. David Lindley, who used to play the Lobero for Sings Like Hell, brings his crazy pants and weird string things and all for a gig sponsored by the venue itself on Friday, January 16.... Local band Ghost Tiger has an EP Release Show at SOhO on Saturday, January 17.... The next night, folk-pop superstars Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald share the stage at SOhO in the club’s second monthly concert in a year of benefits to celebrate its 20th anniversary... On Tuesday, January 20, Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers fame brings his acoustic trio to SOhO, which also hosts the super-fun Marchforth Marching Band – we heard them at Live Oak Music Festival last summer – the next night, January 21.

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

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

Setting the Table

f you are a helicopter parent, you already know this. Statistics prove that sitting down and eating with your kids at dinner ensures they will be successful and smart people. Hands down. They learn manners, the ability to speak and communicate, and it fosters a strong relationship with parents. I can’t tell you how many New Years have come and gone with my annual resolution to have family dinners, every night, homemade, nutritious and peaceful. But it wouldn’t take long before I would flame out (my record is around a week). Charlie’s early years were the worst. He would chuck food from the high chair and the other three would rapidly lose interest after two bites, at which point they’d start doing laps around the table. Alpha and I

would sit in front of our food shouting to each other about our day trying to hear above the din. It was torture, far more effective than anything the CIA comes up with. I willingly went against the stats, fed them early, and put them to bed many times before Alpha even got home (7 pm was really my limit.) And though I felt a tinge of guilt when my husband and I sat down for a civilized meal that we weren’t producing the communicative, successful kids I should, I got over it pretty quickly. Like most things in parenting, it’s a slow evolution that you don’t notice until you hit a serious milestone step that grabs your attention. It was New Year’s Eve around 7 pm. Teddy had taken pride in setting the table. Liv had poured the drinks and we were

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eating Alpha’s specially made chicken fajitas. Talking about our New Year’s resolutions. Liv kicked it off with something thoughtful. “I want to get one-percent better at water polo every time I practice,” she said. Alpha and I caught each other’s eyes, both surprised. That would be one of our resolutions. Olivia went on to tell us about an inspirational woman who spoke to her 6th grade class. She opted to play men’s baseball and had to push herself to get onepercent better each time she played so she could successfully compete with the boys. Olivia, always offering gems to the family, set a remarkable tone for the table. Charlie, the food chucker, went next. “I want to get better at skiing,” he offered up. Now Charlie had just torn up the slopes at Mammoth Mountain. Leaving his two older siblings in the dust. “How about bike riding?” I challenged him. “That could use some work.” (Three days prior, our fourth child – age five – had dragged his bike out of the shed, pumped the tires, and nagged Alpha to no end to teach him to ride it without training wheels. When he couldn’t get his dad’s attention, Jackson took him out and taught him the basic concept.) “Oh, yes! I will be an amazing bike rider this year!” he smiled at us. Jackson announced he wanted to lose weight, which made the whole table crack up. I laughed the hardest because this kid has really arrived to the adult world. The fact that he even

knows most people resolve to go to the gym more on New Year’s is a wild thing for me to comprehend. Once he had everyone’s attention, he raised his skinny arms and said something about lacrosse (it’s always lacrosse) and his training. But I couldn’t help staring at my oldest, at the other end of the table, growing up. Teddy was last. No matter how much we told him we wanted something serious, he laughed and giggled and couldn’t figure out one thing to talk about. We spoon-fed him answers about his writing, math even the piano. Ultimately, because he couldn’t take the exercise seriously, he was assigned KP duty and required to clear the table and wash all the dishes. And it was there, on the couch, that I realized how amazing 2014 really was. The dinner ritual of setting the table, having a conversation and cleaning up after was not such a lost cause in the Peters’s house any more. The New Year’s conversation was a long one – we even had lingered well after the food was cold. There were no laps around the table. It was all so good. A few minutes later, Teddy, poking his head from the galley, asked me, “Mom, you didn’t give us your resolution. What is yours?” “Teddy, don’t you know? I don’t do resolutions because you never keep them!” I told him. He looked at me in surprise, burst out laughing, and went back to washing dishes. Sometimes you just have to resolve to let things happen on their own time.

Peters Pick I’m schatzling. Which means no wine for six weeks. Which is not such a big deal. I’m not a huge drinker. But I am still in mourning. I can’t go see my good friend Jim Mischler at the Paradise Cafe. It just wouldn’t be the same without the wine. You see, he offers up the most amazing wines for the table. I never order; I always go with his recommendations – and they’re always solid. His taste in wine has gotta be the best in Santa Barbara. Okay, I need to stop writing about it. I am starting to get thirsty. The Paradise Cafe, 702 Anacapa Street, (805) 962-4416.

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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.

Catching Up

erhaps a shovel would’ve been a useful holiday gift, as digging through the backlog and onslaught of new movies isn’t on my bucket list. Given the abundance of offerings up and down the Central Coast, lengthy and torturous Unbroken has eluded my grasp. This critic has also failed to trek Into the Woods, despite its topshelf cast in full throat. Top priority – as I’ve reiterated for weeks – will be American Sniper, when it finally shoots its way into Santa Barbara on Friday, January 16. Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson’s intriguing take on Thomas Pynchon’s latest best seller, has landed at Paseo Nuevo, where you’ll find me sooner than later. Meanwhile, Selma comes marching into Goleta. Any reader expecting political commentary in this corner about The Interview will be disappointed; I haven’t felt the urge to download Sony’s controversial comedy. For now, here’s a checklist of a handful of concurrent pictures, most of which are worth at least a matinee, in lieu of the NFL playoffs:

In Code Mode

s has been well-documented by now, The Imitation Game tells of the real-life heroic tale of Cambridge computing pioneer and subsequent war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) who created a machine to crack the Nazis’ code. Among his assistants, Turing meets his match – professionally and personally – in Joan (Keira Knightley), who eventually discovers his secret of homosexuality, for which he is persecuted. As the tormented protagonist, Cumberbatch boasts a shackled complexity but rarely shows off; there’s an innate savoir-faire to his performance. Knightley, no stranger to period pieces, puts an exclamation point on a fine year that included Begin Again. Minor quibbles include the story’s tendency to feel dumbed-down; pivotal moments are too often belabored or overexplained. The snooty man who hires him comes across more as a caricature than an actual human. And despite such a fascinating individual under the microscope, audiences come away feeling somewhat short-changed about delving into his scientific mind. Even so, Cumberbatch and his comrades are hunkered down enough to keep this enriching and compelling Game from straying out of bounds.

Gamblin’ Man

n The Gambler, a remake of the 1974 also-ran, Mark Wahlberg is the titular risk-taker who doesn’t know when to fold ‘em. On the face of it, the premise – centering around thousands of dollars, threats, gangsters, and hitmen – smells as stale as an Old West casino. But director Rubert Wyatt mines his share of gold, with a tip of the cap to Jessica Lange (as the hero’s affluent mother), John Goodman, Michael K. Williams, and Wahlberg himself. Brie Larson, glowing as the love interest and student genius, fares less realistically. The filmmakers give short shrift to the titular player’s motives; Wahlberg shrugs, smirks, or simply does a slow burn while others address him. And no matter how often Wyatt turns up the volatile heat and spices things up with sex appeal, there’s no avoiding the general insignificance and absence of imagination.

Wild Child

dapted from the aptly named Cheryl Strayed’s admired memoir, Wild stars Reese Witherspoon (in her Mud mode) as a forlorn woman reeling from a

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broken marriage and the death of her mom (stellar Laura Dern, via flashbacks). The self-destructive explorer opts to hike alone – albeit with a massive backpack – along the Pacific Crest Trail, encountering male companions, a journalist who assumes she’s a “hobo,” and the token picturesque scenery. Director Jean-Marc Vallée falls short of the masterful touches and nuances found in Dallas Buyers Club, yet manages to hold interest by skipping around while avoiding stagnation and redundancy. Following the limitless physical path of one individual could, by its very nature, become tedious – but Vallée shapes the proceedings in a beguiling fashion. Participants our exhausted lead meets along the way sprinkle in much-needed flavor, and sharp camerawork captures the surroundings without tourist-like, excessive rubbernecking. Whether Strayed’s tale is ultimately substantial or meaningful to all audiences is another story.

Back in Black

he Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death is a would-be horror flick and hollow sequel to the spooky Daniel Radcliffe-starring original two years ago. This time around, orphaned kids must relocate from their London home to the boggy and abandoned house nestled in the British countryside. It’s billed as a “supernatural thriller,” which proves to be the mother of all misnomers. As a caretaker, Phoebe Fox has a classical face and essence that buoys this drab production, but the supporting cast members amount to cardboard cutouts. Scares are undetectable. Under the watch of Tom Harper, the movie has a drained, colorless appearance, a dispassionate manner, and unspools in a spirit of hopelessness.

Lyin’ Eyes

ig Eyes, the newest project from Tim Burton – without Johnny Depp, hard to believe – is another real-life story that observes painter Margaret Keane (dutiful and charming Amy Adams). As a single mother, she moved to San Francisco and met a dashing artist and realtor (Christoph Waltz) who at first questioned her subjects’ calling card: large, sad eyes (“like pancakes” he points out). Her husband, lo and behold, isn’t quite who he claims, but his showmanship helps the couple earn unforeseen profits. The heroine’s flickering delusions of grandeur will backfire and pull her into a lawsuit. Waltz, whose brashness and articulacy served him (and audiences) so well in Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds, leans toward the grating side here. To my eyes, Big Eyes marks the first time the two-time Oscar winner has been caught acting, especially during the regrettable court proceedings. The picture itself is shot in a clean, breezy method, as if not to be taken too seriously. In spurts, it feels selfglorifying, though Danny Elfman’s score complements – rather than overwhelms – the action.

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MONTECITO | Montecito Valley Views | Offered at $5,900,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Bob Lamborn 805.689.6800 Bob represented the buyer.

SANTA BARBARA | Artful Architecture | Offered at $4,990,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Suzanne Perkins 805.895.2138 Suzanne represented the seller.

SANTA BARBARA | Montecito Ocean View | Offered at $4,285,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Maureen McDermut 805.570.5545 Maureen represented the seller.

SANTA BARBARA | California Living | Offered at $3,995,000 Montecito - Upper Village | Wade Hansen 805.689.9682 Wade represented the buyer.

SANTA BARBARA | On the Riviera | Offered at $3,950,000 Santa Barbara | M. Calcagno 805.896.0876, N. Hamilton 805.451.4442 Michael & Nancy represented the seller.

SANTA YNEZ | Double J Ranch | Offered at $3,495,000 Santa Ynez Valley | Patty Murphy 805.680.8571 Patty represented the seller.

MONTECITO | Sought-after Montecito Location | Offered at $3,495,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Kathleen St. James 805.705.0898 Kathleen represented the seller.

SANTA BARBARA | La Vista Views | Offered at $3,375,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Nick Svensson 805.895.2957 Nick represented the buyer.

VENTURA | Cape Cod-Style | Offered at $3,200,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Janet Caminite 805.896.7767 Janet represented the buyer.

MONTECITO | Coast Village Road Luxury Residences | Offered at $3,050,000 Santa Barbara | M. Calcagno 805.896.0876, N. Hamilton 805.451.4442 Michael & Nancy represented the seller.

MONTECITO | Montecito Farmhouse | Offered at $2,995,000 Montecito - Upper Village | Cristal Clarke 805.886.9378 Cristal represented the seller.

CARPINTERIA | Equestrian Retreat | Offered at $2,950,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Suzanne Perkins 805.895.2138 Suzanne represented the seller.

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SANTA BARBARA | Tropical Retreat | Offered at $2,950,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Michelle Cook 805.570.3183, Bob Lamborn 805.689.6800, Maureen McDermut 805.570.5545 Michelle & Bob represented the seller. Maureen represented the buyer.

SANTA BARBARA | Neo Classical-style | Offered at $2,895,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Marilyn Rickard 805.452.8284 Marilyn represented the buyer.

SANTA BARBARA | Classic Estate | Offered at $2,849,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Janet Caminite 805.896.7767 Janet Caminite represented the seller.

MONTECITO | Upper Village | Offered at $2,825,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Nick Svensson 805.895.2957 Nick represented the seller.

MONTECITO | Coast Village Road Luxury Residences | Offered at $2,600,000 Santa Barbara | M. Calcagno 805.896.0876, N. Hamilton 805.451.4442 Michael & Nancy represented the seller.

MONTECITO | Montecito View Home | Offered at $2,575,000 Montecito - Upper Village | Cristal Clarke 805.886.9378 Cristal represented the seller.

SANTA BARBARA | Botanical Gardens Retreat | Offered at $2,495,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Jennifer Berger 805.451.5484 Santa Barbara | Frank Hotchkiss 805.403.0668 Jennifer represented the seller. Frank represented the buyer.

SANTA BARBARA | Stunning Las Alturas | Offered at $2,350,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Bob Lamborn 805.689.6800 Bob represented the buyer.

SANTA BARBARA | Mediterranean-Style Casa | Offered at $2,220,000 Montecito - Upper Village | Diane Randall 805.705.5252 Diane represented the buyer.

Other Noteworthy Significant Sales VENTURA | Seacliff Beach Colony | Offered at $2,788,800 Montecito - Upper Village | Christine & Fal Oliver 805.680.6524 The Olivers represented the buyer. SUMMERLAND | Beautiful Views | Offered at $2,175,000 Montecito - Coast Village Road | Vivienne Leebosh 805.689.5613 Vivienne represented the buyer. SANTA BARBARA | Hope Ranch Opportunity | Offered at $2,120,000 Santa Barbara | J. Krautmann 805.451.4527, D. McKnight 805.637.7772 Jay & Darcie represented the buyer.

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hat follows is a collection of odd experiences over the past week. They’re not particularly indicative of Santa Barbara, except that they occurred here. And that they’re not particularly weird, except, well… they are a bit odd. First there was the New Year’s-ish beach walk, over the weekend, before the holiday week ended. My daughter expressed interest in going. She’s 17. She’s been a marvelous child, but those teen years… well, they have their tense moments. I know she’s supposed to pull away and become her own person. I welcome it. I just wish it didn’t feel quite so much like continual rejection. But on receiving this invitation for the impromptu beach walk, I happily hoped I still have some status as a vaguely interesting person she might want to spend time with. Hooray! So off we went to Hendry’s, with trusty mutt eagerly in

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tow for the equivalent of Dog Happy Hour. On arrival, we saw this couple standing at the water’s edge, and the guy was smoking a cigarette. I thought to warn him that there is a ban on smoking at county beaches and offer to let him put his butt in my dog-poo bag, but was still giddy with the notion that my daughter actually sought out my company, and decided to skip the “responsible citizen” bit for one day. She usually rolls her eyes when I don that role, and I didn’t want to spoil the good mood. Five minutes later, we hear this woman screaming behind us about how this is her beach, how dare they! She lives here, damn it, and who the f&*$ are they! It was bad enough she had to smell his damned smoke, and then he had the gall to put the cigarette out in the sand and leave it there, oh my god! My daughter and I turned in surprise as

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sbview.com this escalated. The couple at the waterline earlier was walking some ways behind us, and this woman, shouting the odds, was walking parallel to them, her embarrassed husband trailing far behind her, clearly pretending he was some random beach walker, and not any part of this scene. You’d have thought the man singlehandedly engineered the genocide in Rawanda or was in charge of Abu Ghraib, to hear her. At that point, the weird kicked in, and I actually felt sympathetic to the Smoking Man and his wife. My daughter obviously felt the same, as she said, ‘Mom, I feel so bad for them!’ So we approached. Turns out they were British tourists, and were quite surprised by the vehemence of the upbraiding. My daughter and I apologized, explained about the ban (they hadn’t been aware, and the signs are a bit small and oddly placed), and explained we’re not all like this. I really should have done the helpful citizen bit at the start, darn it. Could have avoided the histrionics of the whole beach-Nazi scene. What is also weird about that is that I usually promptly direct would-be litterers to the trash bins. Two nights later, I am walking the mutt and am almost back at the house. I see this oddly dressed woman out in the middle of the road, and she’s picking up something in the street. She crosses to the sidewalk, a few feet from where I am, and drops her street pick-up. It clinked on landing – broken glass. I asked, hey, why didn’t you walk 10 feet farther to the trash bin on the corner? Why drop it here on the sidewalk? She didn’t even look back. I guess she’d done her civic duty in removing it before some car or bike ran over it and got a punctured tire. On Monday, it felt like everyone was dazed and confused from the holidays, struggling to get back into the grind. People drove and acted erratically. A pedestrian walking down State decided to step out in front of my car as the light turned green at Canon Perdido. Enjoy your shopping, there, hon. Don’t let those pesky traffic signals slow your progress any! People drove right by the flashing school bus stop sign. They darted across traffic when the road wasn’t clear – because clearly, getting there five seconds

One driver mistakes a sidewalk for a parking lot

ahead of everyone else was so very worth risking lives. I was beginning to wonder if something was in the water. Maybe when we switched over to groundwater, yeah, maybe something is off there. And then today, there was this. A sidewalk is so totally the right place to park your car. To be fair, when this was a 1940s gas station, it had a beveled ramp into the lot of the old gas station. But it’s been fenced off since 1985. I doubt this driver was confused with pre-1985 conditions. Whatever.

Stirring Up the Melting Pot by Cheri Rae ot so many branches away in my family tree, several Sicilian relatives made their way to America on a treacherous overseas journey. One was so desperate to leave the povertystricken conditions of his village in the Old Country, he stowed away in an empty wine barrel. They arrived poor, unskilled, without papers, and unable to speak the language. As they set about making a life in a new world, they took low-end factory jobs working for a pittance and lived in cramped tenement housing. They were marginalized and ridiculed for their unfamiliar food, language, and close family ties. Stories like theirs have been endlessly romanticized in a series of Mafia movies that actually feel rather familiar to me. It took time, but over the generations several Sicilian family members worked hard and have distinguished themselves in business, the arts, finance, and real estate among other professions. And the earliest arrivals became naturalized, American citizens who voted in every election afterward. And my Dutch uncle – who arrived penniless, without papers and without a sponsor – loved to tell the story about how he got his driver’s license by handing over cash to a cop. It made all the difference in his ability to make a living in the United States. He died a millionaire, with many mourners at his funeral telling stories of his kindness, business acumen – and his pride in becoming an American citizen. America might be called a melting pot, but for many successive groups

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sbview.com of immigrants, it’s more like a stew of separate ingredients for a long, long time. It has begun heating up and bubbling over with resentment with the passage of a new law that allows individuals to obtain a driver’s license before obtaining citizenship. The ugly headline in a local newspaper of record announced the news in the most dehumanizing way: “Illegals line up for driver’s licenses.” Sorry, they’re not “illegals.” They’re people. Individuals who have heeded the call to come to America for a better life, just as so many of our family members did – from so many different countries, not so many years ago. Waves of Greeks, Irish, Italians, Poles, Germans in the early 20th century, Vietnamese, Cambodians, those from south of the border. Words matter. In all my years as an editor, if I haven’t learned anything else,

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at least I’ve learned to refer to my trusty Associated Press Stylebook, the industry standard, whenever there’s a question about usage of a word or phrase. AP It has a lengthy section on illegal immigration that includes: “Except in direct quotes essential to the story, use illegal only to refer to an action, not a person: illegal immigration, but not illegal immigrant. Acceptable variations include living in or entering a country illegally or without legal permission. Except in direct quotations, do not use the terms illegal alien, an illegal, illegals or undocumented.” Yesterday, individuals seeking a better life gave up everything and traveled to America from Europe; today from Latin America; tomorrow from who knows. The sum total of these individuals has added much to our American culture, but still the “us” vs. “them” continues, as so many seem to forget just how they became Americans, too.

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Let’s Hear it for the Girls!

hen I was a little girl, all I wanted to do was sing. I would grab a hairbrush, jump onto the brick bench built into our fireplace, and instantly I was on stage performing for everyone (or no-one) who would give me a chance. Sure my parents thought I was cute, but never did it occur to them that maybe, just maybe they should put me in some music lessons, dance, or performance class. Who am I kidding. I’m not really sure anything like that existed at the time in the sleepy coastal town in Oregon where we lived, but maybe piano lessons? Nope. My parents weren’t too surprised when I moved to Los Angeles to pursue a singing career, but they never really understood it. I think it scared them

more than anything, frightened for my well being in the big city, afraid I would get myself into trouble.

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I did of course get myself in trouble, but I had one hell of a good time doing it and the lessons I learned growing up in Hollywood, attending the “University of Rock ’n’ Roll”, a real world type of school where my classrooms were the dirty stages of the Viper Room and the Roxy, the Kibitz Room and the Hotel Café and my teachers were my peers as we sweated our way from the underground, to become masters of the D.I.Y. music revolution.

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Now… 15 years, four albums and hundreds of shows later, I’m a mom with two very rock ’n’ roll kids who perform every chance they get, and instead of smiling and shaking my head in wonder, I cheer them on, knowing that when they are ready, (and if they really want to) I will gladly give them every lesson they would ever need to get a head start into the wonderful world of musical expression. That being said, I have been doing my research into the many musical outlets for kids in Santa Barbara and one name keeps repeating as my go-to girl in SB’s children’s music scene – that name is Jen Baron, founder of Girls Rock Santa Barbara (GRSB).

school 10-week programs are crafted to each student, teaching the Girls Rock motto: “Love the music you make and love yourself for making it.” Classes are taught by instructors from the world’s leading music conservatories, who are talented musicians and teachers, as well as amazing mentors for each child in the program. They are even offering for the first time a free after-school program for girls ages 12-15 at Santa Barbara Junior High, but open to girls from any school in SB. But it doesn’t stop there. At the end of each 10-week session held at the MacKenzie Park facility (3111 State Street, enter via Las Positas), students that are part of the Rock Band program

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and the Intro to Songwriting program (along with a few others) get to record their song in a professional recording studio (a partnership with Notes for Notes). That same song that the girls wrote collaboratively with their “band” will be performed live at a sold-out showcase at Soho Music Club in Santa Barbara.

Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History I caught up with Jen to find out more about her program, how she got started, and why in the world would a program this great have to be just for girls. Q: So how about a little backstory – how did all this get started? A: Girls Rock is a program that started up in Portland, Oregon in the early nineties, coming off of the riot grrrl scene. (For those who are not familiar with this term: “Riot grrrl” is an underground, feminist-hardcore punk movement. It is often associated with third-wave feminism, which is sometimes seen as its starting point. It has also been described as a musical genre that came out of indie rock, with the punk scene serving as an inspiration for a musical movement in which women could express themselves in the same way men had been doing for the past several years.) And now there are ...continued p.24

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over eighty-six nonprofits all over the world, all separate entities, standing for the same concept – music and selfempowerment for women and young girls. How do you find your teachers and how many are there? Right now, there are 11 teachers, including myself, as well as student interns from UCSB. We do a lot of recruiting from Berklee [College] of Music in Boston, and all of our teachers are very accomplished musicians and are able to teach multiple instruments, which is really helpful when in a group setting such as the Rock Band class.

Executive director of Girls Rock, Jen Baron

it’s a seven-year-old who can’t hold down an e-string, that girl is going to rock it and feel total confidence. It’s a really beautiful thing.

Being a musician, I’m curious on how you can teach a child an instrument in only ten weeks? Ours is kind of a backward approach to classical music training. We do so many icebreakers and bonding experiences that I think we show them the joy in music and learning an instrument, that their love and excitement gets them there, they want to learn it and they are very

Emily playing bass with her band, the nameless, performing “stand up” at our benefit concert at Marjorie Luke Theatre to a sold-out crowd of 800

capable. They learn these life skills of working together, especially in the band experience, all tailored to the child and her capabilities. I mean, for anyone to write a song within a group, record it, and then perform it on stage in front of friends and family, even if

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Do you find that parents are much more receptive to their child’s aspirations these days? Absolutely. Our parents are wonderful and are super-supportive of our programs. But we get a wide range of girls coming to us; some, yes, have musical aspirations and do have some background training, but others have no experience and especially with the younger students, parents bring them to us hoping to give their shyer children confidence and acceptance. Our program teaches girls how to work together and empower each other, support each other, and feel safe within their peer group, being able to identify together with a common love and goal. I do have a daughter who although she is too young at the moment, will love your program when she gets older. But I have to play devil’s advocate: I have a son, who is every bit a rocker and would love your program. Why no boys? (Laughing) I have a son, too, and I have to explain to him all the time why he can’t be a part of this. You see, there are so many different musical programs for boys in Santa Barbara, like Notes for Notes and Rockshop; we EARTHQUAKE RETROFITTING 50 + YEARS EXPERIENCE - LOCAL 35+ YEARS

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just wanted to create a safe bubble for girls where they didn’t feel like they had to worry about how they look or act, where they could just be themselves without the worry of what a boy would think. We are just trying to build confidence and somehow even out the playing field. In the past, most people were accepting of a female singer, and now more and more girls are stepping behind the drum kit or strapping on a bass, it’s so cool to see the girls having that confidence to take on what used to be a maledominated instrument.

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Jen is a busy lady, wearing many hats in GRSB, all this and only a year into her successful nonprofit. 2014 was an incredible year for her and GRSB, not only becoming a legal non-profit on its own right, but garnering the attention of local news, radio and some celebrity attention too, with none other than new Santa Ynez Valley resident Pink attending her last Soho showcase with her daughter Willow in tow. The New Year holds many more exciting opportunities, not only for enrolled students but also for Girls Rock, being a nonprofit dependent on the generosity of our powerful Santa Barbara community.

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The first fundraiser begins now, with every Wednesday during the month of January at Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company. The Charity Tap handle gives 50 percent of profits of the selected beer going toward GRSB. Grab a brew every Wednesday and help out the scholarship program, so all girls, no matter their parents’ income, can join in the fun and learn the beauty of music. In conjunction with it all, on March 7, GRSB is the selected charity for the highly successful Girl on Fire 5K & 10K Run (www.girlonfirerun.com), and both GOF and GRSB will be at Fig every Wednesday from 6 to 9 pm to answer questions and learn more about both programs. And it looks like Jen and her girls are planning a super special show on the final Wednesday of the month (28th) too. So mark your calendars, get on down to Fig Mountain in the Funk Zone, and show your support for Girls Rock Santa Barbara.

For more information, go to www. girlsrocksb.org, or call (805) 861-8128 or email Jen Baron at girlsrocksb@gmail.com.

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BY JACQUELYN DE LONGE

Our former restaurant reviewer takes a closer look at the people, places, and things that make Santa Barbara so unique. This freelance writer’s credits include Chef’s Profile for Food & Home Magazine, repeat comedic monologues for the national play, Expressing Motherhood, and many more. If she is not writing, practicing Pilates or yoga, you can find her chasing her two kids and two dogs around Santa Barbara.

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here is an undeniably strong link between the mind and the body, and just as strong a connection between emotions and the stomach. To purge the burdens and toxins of last year and start the new year with a clean mind and clear soul is the kindest thing anyone can do for themselves. That is the belief of Boochies’ owner, Rebekah Winquest, whose love of a healthy lifestyle led her and husband, Shawn, to open up one of Santa Barbara’s tastiest health-food cafés. This quaint eatery on De la Guerra off Chapala has been providing fresh, daily made organic juices, drinks, and desserts for the past two years while also serving up gluten-free and mostly raw foods to the pleasure of West Coast health nuts. Rebekah shared her story and philosophy of how Boochies came to be. From an early age, she had been interested in the physical connection between the stomach and the brain. It started when her father, a pastor, began to pose questions to his congregation of food and its relation to well-being. By the time she reached junior high school, she had become a self-professed “health food nerd,” learning her basis kitchen skills from her mother and applying them to the natural ingredients she could access. Rebekah continued her education, receiving her bachelor’s degree in holistic nutrition. “This lifestyle is about so much more than weight loss. The body is made to rejuvenate, and I want to help facilitate that.” Rebekah speaks so passionately of her craft, it is clear she has followed a calling. When she is not grinding the best foods for your body at Boochies, you can find her speaking locally to others about the food-body connection at the Oceanhills Covenant Church Moms & Mentors programs or

at Bright Start Preschool. With a laugh, Rebekah recalled how Boochies got its start and unique name. Eleven years ago in Los Angeles when Rebekah and Shawn first started dating, she was beginning to test out healthy concoctions in her kitchen and regularly brewed kombucha, earning her the loving nickname “Boochie” from her future husband. Rebekah kept creating, and a few years later she started a health food line, Just Good Energy, which was carried in 30-plus stores including Whole Foods and Mother’s Market. The two married a few years later and had ...continued p.27

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love going to the movies and my favorite snack of all time is popcorn... but not the kind you buy at the movie theater counter. I like flavored popcorn – cheddar, caramel, kettle corn – you know, the kind you want to sneak into the movie. While shopping at Lazy Acres, I came across a Balsamic & Italian Herb Popcorn from the Santa Barbara Popcorn Company. I had no clue there was such a local business and was even more excited to munch on a new flavor! “The Balsamic and Italian Herb popcorn flavor is the only one on the market as far as I know,” said Santa Barbara Popcorn owner Christopher Pollastrini as I took a peek at his “lab” one day. Pollastrini grew up popping kernels with his family and later developed the idea while attending UCSB to sell the edible puffs. It took Pollastrini 10 years to create the exotic recipes and launch his business in April 2013 with the encouragement of his family and friends. “I don’t know where I’d be without them,” he said. “All of my accounts heard about my product through word of mouth and asked to carry it.” Besides being a successful business owner, Pollastrini also has a degree in

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microbiology and has been a biology teacher for last six years at San Marcos, Dos Pueblos, and Santa Barbara High schools. He is currently taking this semester off to focus on his popping business. On an average, he spends eight hours a day, two days a week. “I never saw himself as an entrepreneur; I wanted to be a teacher. I like helping people,” Pollastrini said. “I do embrace

Not only are the flavors savory but also healthy. All Santa Barbara Popcorn flavors are vegan, organic, whole grain, non-GMO, gluten-free, zero trans fat, and California grown. The kernels come from Pleasant Grove Farms in the Central Valley. On an average, Pollastrini goes through about 300 pounds of organic kernels per month to make his one-of-a-kind creations. “I wanted to go organic because the popcorn has to be the best on every level: the healthiest, the cleanest, and most delicious,” he said. Santa Barbara comes in five delicious flavors, including Sea Salt & Olive Oil, Maple & Brown Sugar, Balsamic & Italian Herb, Honey Dijon, and Jalapeño “Jack”. Three new flavors have also been recently launched, including Pumpkin Spice, Cracked Pepper & Sea Salt, and Cocoa and Coffee. “Besides that it’s local, the flavors are unique,” Pollastrini said. “There are not a lot of savory popcorn lines out there and also the fact my product is organic is unique, a vast majority of popcorn is not organic.” I tried the Cocoa and Coffee and Sea Salt & Olive Oil and all I can say is they are snack heaven, a must-have each time I make my way to the grocery store. “Sea Salt & Olive Oil is the most

popular flavor,” Pollastrini said. “There’s something for everybody; that’s my intent. The community response has been overwhelmingly positive.” Pollastrini also has more creative recipes up his sleeve, with five to 10 additional ones he is working on. “I love crunchy snacks, and popcorn is such a good flavor vessel to add things to it – it’s very versatile,” he said. Small bags are $4 and large bags are $5 to $8, with soon-to-be new aluminum lining packaging that will increase the shelf life: five weeks for large bags, and three to four weeks for small bags. “It allows the product for more oxygen and moisture,” Pollsatrini explained.

National Popcorn Day With National Popcorn Day on Monday, January 19, Pollastrini said that he might possibly be launching a new flavor that day – if not, then soon afterward. Fans will have the opportunity to vote on Instagram (@ sbpopcorn) for the next delicious pop in the coming weeks. As far as what the future may pop up, Pollastrini would like to keep his company local. “I would like to expand and not be fixated on dominating the world,” he said. “I would like to let it reach its full potential and see where it can go.” I took my new unique snacks and headed toward the theater, where I did not feel a bit sorry for the moviegoers with their “average” popcorn. (By the way, the new Reese Witherspoon flick, Wild, is a great one.) Santa Barbara Popcorn is sold at various locations throughout Santa Barbara and online. For more information, visit www.sbpopcorn.com. Don’t forget to like them on Facebook and follow them on Instagram!

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shocked by the ethereal presence, never felt threatened; in the absence of any responsible (if dead) adult rushing in to claim the kid, Lathim eventually named him Hector.

The Big Yellow House

This defining event occurred in the former wine cellar of a well-known local

landmark long rumored to be a swarm with translucent former tenants. The Big Yellow House, in Summerland, was known to be “haunted,” or as those who have passed might describe it, a nice place to chill. Lathim would soon enough write a popular history of the place, but was, at the time of his revelatory sighting, a newly minted

ninth grader at Santa Barbara High School, already exhibiting the restless mojo that would be the hallmark of his creatively nomadic adulthood. The spiritual awakening occurred in the midst of an early business opportunity. “My family had been going there a couple time a month to eat when it was the original Big Yellow House in the early ‘70s. I’d always loved the wine cellar there, and we would always walk through it on the way out. One night we were getting ready to go and told Don, the manager, that we were going to walk through the wine cellar. He says, ‘Oh, we had to close the wine cellar.’”

Rod Lathim, Dillon Yuhasz, Ann Dusenberry, Katie Thatcher, Laurel Lyle, and Luke Mullen behind the scenes of Unfinished Business (photo by TC Reiner)

In an early example of the full frontal opportunity-seizing that would later typify Lathim’s style, the hairy-headed freshman let fly. “Oh, you could do so many cool things with that cellar!” he loudly lamented to the assembled grown-ups. One imagines Pater and Mater Lathim exchanging knowing glances at Rod’s outburst. The manager walked straight into the trap by calling young Lathim’s bluff. “Like what?” he wanted to know. To which Lathim responded with a loud array of ideas. The manager, taken aback, was hooked. “Well,” he said, “Why don’t you manage it?” “Really?!” The future artist/polymorph then looked beseechingly at his folks and asked them the one question whose answer would make or break this watershed opportunity. “Can you guys drive me here?” “I didn’t even have a driver’s license,” Lathim laughs. The precocious 15-yearold set up shop and the Big Yellow House’s former wine cellar-turned gift shop became a growing concern,

successful enough that the young hotshot’s earnings there partly funded his later college education. Soon enough, in walked Fate. “He was this little kid,” Lathim recalls, “just walking around in the cellar. If someone had asked me before if I believed in ghosts I would’ve said, ‘No!’”

A Force of Nature

Fast-forward 35 years. Today, Lathim is a much-beloved giant in the regional theater scene, and a much sought-after consultant in the nonprofit realm, Lathim is a force unto himself and has been since before he was old enough to sip a beer. His indefatigable decadeslong run as both humanitarian and civic superman are well documented, but two of his accomplishments are jewels in the crown that bear mentioning here. At the tender age of 19, Lathim founded Access Theater, under whose glowing proscenium a generation of socalled “disabled” theater greats seized an opportunity and stunned “abled” audiences in their tens of thousands, simply by being given the forum to open themselves and shine. Who knew? Rod knew. And when, in 2003, the timeworn Santa Barbara Junior High auditorium emerged from its chrysalis as a gorgeous, state-of-the-art performance space called the Marjorie Luke Theatre, the ringing success of the $4,000,000 restoration had much to do with Lathim’s Luke Theatre Board presidency and role as project manager. From playwriting and producing, to documentary filmmaking (Citizen McCaw), to museum exhibits of his art, Lathim’s story is one of a human dynamo who throws himself at life with the excitement of a kid trying caffeine for the first time. Now he’s ready to tackle death. So to speak.

Taking Care of Business

On January 22, Lathim’s play Unfinished Business opens at the Lobero. An expansion of a glowingly reviewed one-act that debuted at the same theater in 2013, “Unfinished Business” is a two-act play inspired by actual events surrounding the passing of Lathim’s mother and the colorfully fractious crowd, mortal and otherwise, that gathered to see her off. Structurally, the play takes a page from the breakout Japanese movie classic Rashomon, wherein the same captured event is viewed from several different perspectives, each adding a layer of revealed truth to the one that preceded it. When the pieces suddenly ...continued p.30

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fall together before the audience’s startled eyes, the effect is transforming. The first iteration of the story, the 2013 Unfinished Business one-act, had been drawn from a journal Lathim had been fitfully writing around the time of his mother’s passing. “I’d grabbed a pad of paper… I thought, ‘I’ve gotta get this all down.’ I was so afraid the whole day would just disappear into the ether, there was so much to deal with.” His intent had been to capture, for his own sake, the sights, sounds, words and moments of an event that is among the most affecting one can experience; the passing of one’s mother. Lathim’s sporadic and hurried journaling that day also noted the visits of certain disembodied well-wishers from beyond our temporal neighborhood, including a gentleman whose presence went largely unexplained. When four years later he stumbled upon the notebook again, it sang to him. He began to wonder about possibly weaving the journal he had kept that day, the day of his mother’s death, into a narrative through which he might share some portion of the exaltation that was a keynote of her passing. He conferred with a close artist friend, Ellen Anderson. Did she think there might be something there worth sharing? “She said, ‘Yes, yes, yes! You need to do this’. And that opened the door of possibility. I also thought I needed the writing of the play to process the episode. Four years out, I thought maybe I had the necessary distance to see the event more rationally, to be more objective about it.” When the one-act opened at the Lobero, the response was visceral and immediate. The show earned great reviews and engendered rich conversation from theatergoers; the playwright’s Holy Grail. Lathim knew what he wanted to do. “In my own journey, I knew there was more to tell.

learn to work your ensemble with both. That’s the deal. As for the more prosaic aspects of transitioning, Lathim deals with those in the play, too. A big part of dealing with the finality of death is, per the Western obsession with protocol, suffering such paperwork and legal minutiae as one dare not contemplate while in the throes of grief. There are organizations in the area that can assist both the dying and the beleaguered living, and learning to make use of those incredibly helpful Earthly resources is a centerpiece of the evening, too.

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There was more story to be told. There was more character development to be done. I knew I had to keep digging.”

Separating the Layers

As he began to flesh out the longer version however, adding six new characters and developing a story arc more fitting to a more involved stage work, he found the piece a thick stew of ideas he feared was becoming indigestible. A trusted friend concurred. “Yikes,” Lathim says now. “That scared me.” He realized he’d just been stacking material onto the previous version, trying to get everything in. “But then I wondered, what would happen if I did this in layers?” He took the story apart, or rather, broke it into its fractal components, each piece being itself a mirror of the whole. “The first layer is just the physical world. I tell enough of the story to know where we’re going. Then I stop and reset.” The second layer retells the story, and this time it’s colored and informed by the introduction of elements whose collective effect is to reframe what the audience thought they had absorbed in the first telling. A mysterious stranger enters (as actually

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happened) on whose shoulders the story may or may not resolve. By the third layer, the audience is ripe for revelation, and they are not disappointed. This is theater as a transfiguring event. As was done with the shorter, arguably less transporting version, there will be mediated audience discussion after each performance. Catalytic theater like this only works with a cast that lives and breathes, and Lathim has gathered the best, some of whom are reprising roles related to those they played in the 2013 one-act. Jay Carlander, Ann Dusenberry, Marion Freitag, Brian Harwell, Leslie Gangl Howe, Laurel Lyle, Laura Mancuso, Luke Mullen, Solomon N’dungu, Jenna Scanlon, Katie Thatcher, Cali Rae Turner, and Dillon Yuhasz will be living the story within arms’ reach of an audience seated around them on the Lobero stage. The play’s design and the disposition of the audience is commensurate with the utter intimacy, sometimes unbearable, of the final convulsive exit that awaits each of us at the end of the twilight.

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For all that, there are laughs, reportedly the sort that come out of nowhere and have you helplessly guffawing and snorting. Life is, after all, less like a box of chocolates than like a broken Jackin-the-Box. You turn the little crank to no apparent avail, wait a while and walk away, confused and disappointed. That night while you’re working through your Salisbury steak, the little bastard pops up with a musical bang in his colorful puppet silks and you fling gravy all over the wallpaper and new shag carpet. Life! It’s all over the map. And so is its less popular fraternal twin, Death. But they’re a set. And you really have to

Among the area helpmates available to struggling, grieving families are the SB Chapter of IANDS (Int’l Association of Near Death Studies) and their terrific President Barbara Bartolome, Shared Crossing, Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care, the Spiritualist Church of the Comforter’s Reverend Judie CampbellClark, and a coalition of helpers called the Alliance for Living and Dying Well and their vaunted “5 Wishes” form; a cost-free tool for putting down in writing what one does and does not want to happen in the final hours. This play covers much heavy emotional and practical ground. Brace yourself. “You can save yourself a lot of angst by being prepared,” Lathim understates, emphasizing the importance of establishing the “5 Wishes” (or other legal instrument through which the decedent can have expressed her or his wishes regarding the final curtain), lest there be any confusion among emotionally enervated, squabbling family around the death bed. “We’re all going to be there,” Lathim says. “Sitting next to someone who is dying, or dying ourselves. I’d love people to just… entertain the thought that maybe, all around you there are amazing things happening in a parallel universe.” He rolls his eyes and waves his hands. “I know that sounds so woo-woo. But that parallel universe is right here. In the room. Now, some people are going to say ‘Come on, Rod! I don’t believe that!’ And that’s totally okay. But someone else might wonder, What if?”

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American IPA, a new direction for Telegraph Brewing

kegged when I tasted a sample of it. This means it was a little unfinished but still left a good first impression. The Belgian IPA was fermented with their house yeast to produce aromas of sweet apples, pear, and even a hint of banana. The popular American hops, Cascade, and Centennial, add citrus tones, and the English East Kent Goldings hops and Czech Saaz hops contribute a floral spiciness that helps sharpen the other flavors. The malt character is lighter than in the American IPA and adds a gentle note of grain. For their third beer in the series, they will soon be brewing an English IPA, so keep an eye out for it coming down the line. Both of these beers are perfect examples of their respective styles, and though they are uncommon for Telegraph’s style, the quality of these two brews is representative of the immense skill housed in this local brewery.

Try a New Style If you are seeking something different, then swing by the Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co tasting room in the Funk Zone. Its latest beer, From Zero to Sexy, is a mocha blonde. This is a new style, more commonly called a blonde stout, that is a spin-off of the black IPA concept. In black IPAs, the beer is colored black with special grains that add hue but almost no roastiness. A black IPA looks dark and rich but is really a crisp IPA. Since black IPAs have become popular, breweries have been playing with the concept, producing black witbiers, black saisons, and other darkened versions of light-colored beer styles. Blonde stouts are the newest iteration of this idea. Brewers infuse coffee and/or chocolate into a lightcolored beer to give it a stout-like roastiness. While this beer style has been around for a while, it is only now becoming popular, and there are blonde stouts popping up all over the

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country. Figueroa Mountain’s version has a honey malt taste with a bitter finish. The mocha aroma is prominent in the nose and definitely establishes the idea of a blonde stout.

Come to the Gardens Regular readers of this column are aware that I also organize beer events and festivals. I try not to play favorites with my events, but if I am going to be honest, the Santa Barbara Beer Garden is by far my favorite of the festivals I do. This explorative festival places guests in the gorgeous Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, where they spend an afternoon tasting beer while walking through the splendor of this lush garden setting. Only one beer is served in each section, and I pair the beer being served with its surroundings. I personally work with the brewers to produce one-off, special-edition beers just for the festival. For example, last year Telegraph Brewing produced a special version of their Handlebar Abbey, a Belgian-style amber ale blended with cold-pressed Salvadorian coffee from Handlebar Coffee Roasters. For the festival, brewer Paul Rey produced an oak tincture and blended it with the beer to give the brew a gentle woodiness. The beer was served in the Discovery Garden surrounded by coffee plants and interactive exhibits on oak trees. There will be 10 breweries this year. Nine of them will be local favorites, though I also like to invite one brewery from outside of the Central Coast. This year, I have invited Bravery Brewing from my hometown of Lancaster, California. I have known owner, brewmaster, and fellow Certified Cicerone, Brian Avery, since middle school and am excited to work with him on the festival. Since opening in 2011, the brewery has grown exponentially and Brian has become known for using fruit, herbs, and spices in creative and

daring ways. Most people do not get out to the Antelope Valley on a regular basis, so this festival will be a chance to try the splendid beers from Bravery Brewing. In addition to having more breweries, we will also be having more music this year. I work with the musicians and have them pair their tunes with the setting and the beer. We will also be introducing a VIP ticket. This pass gets you early entry to the festival and access to a preliminary tasting in the SB Botanic Garden’s charming library.

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fun. In the beginning and middle stages of the game, it’s really exciting to make all those big deals, exchanging giant amounts money, building houses and hotels and owning railroads and energy companies – being surprised and invigorated by all the unpredictable ups and downs that appear around every corner. It’s also an educational experience to play Monopoly, one that safely teaches youngsters the skills of budgeting, the risks of investing, and the ins and outs of financial negotiations. Even when you lose money or get bad luck, pay a fine, or go to jail in Monopoly, things can quickly turn around, and then you are back on your feet and in the money again. However, at some point in the game there is a decisive tipping point, and suddenly the players are confronted with the harsh reality that there will be big winners and big losers, and nobody left in between. By the end of the game, most of the players are bankrupt except for one or two giant tycoons who now own everything. At this point, the game ceases to be fun anymore for the ordinary schmucks, who quickly begin to lose interest. Of course, the winner wants to keep playing because he’s got all the power and money. He tries to encourage the rest to keep going round the board one more time. Like food stamps or unemployment checks, the losers are doled out a measly consolation ($200, wow!) when they pass Go. But that amount only lasts us a couple of rolls of the dice, until they inevitably land on the wrong property again and are forced to pay rent or penalties that they cannot afford. It’s not much of an existence, but somehow these suckers are persuaded to believe that things will improve and to keep playing, as depressing and miserable as it is. Actually seeing the winners goad the losers is a lot like watching the sad sight of a cat teasing the poor mouse it has captured. The cruel cat gives the mouse a little head start, and then catches it again for his own amusement. It’s pure and helpless humiliation from the mouse’s point of view. On the Monopoly board, there are no safe places to retire or escape (except jail) and no secure jobs or old folks’ homes. After all, security and stability is not the name of the game; Monopoly is about risk and danger and winnertake-all. And that’s how it always ends: the winner has everything and everyone else is broke and in debt. Game over. But have you noticed that the bank never goes broke? In fact, if there were no bank, there would be no game in the first place. Children who play Monopoly finally get bored and fed up of losing. Then

they look for another game with which to amuse themselves. After all, no single kid can force the rest of them to keep playing if they don’t want to – and besides, the Monopoly money isn’t real – kids know that. They can decide to play tiddlywinks instead now or hopscotch, or go outside and play tag or hide and seek, and it will be just as thrilling for them and just as “real” to them. Games are fun, but nobody likes to keep losing and losing. The point is that capitalism (like the board game of Monopoly) is really just a diversion that exists in our imaginations. Only to the extent that we consent to go along with it is the game “real” in any sense. When we grow up, we learn new games, but they are still only games and models of reality. Unfortunately, the stakes suddenly become life and death. Because of our beliefs and personal investment about what we think is real, we suffer or we prosper. If we win, we survive; if we lose, we are dead. But is that really true? In my view, having lived in the illusion of a capitalist society all of my life, I feel like I and all of us are the victims of a terrible deception. It’s apparent to me that we have all been lured and convinced – and basically forced – to play this supposedly real-life game of Monopoly, with very little thought as to what the alternatives could be, and what the truth actually is. Nobody really gives us the option to not participate. Unless we want to totally drop out of society and go live in the hills like Grizzly Adams (which there are laws against these days), there really isn’t any other game in town. We grow up being groomed to accept and then indoctrinated into an artificial and man-made system, one which has been constructed and manipulated by others who don’t necessarily have our best interests at heart. Choose a race car or an iron, we are told, and go around the board like rats in a maze, without questioning the whole point or benefit or sanity of it all. The establishment forces us all to play the game, so that those at the top can continue to dominate and reel in the riches and maintain the control. They are like the bully kid who intimidates the weaker ones into obeying his rules. But most of us don’t have any chance of ever winning this game of Monopoly – and we should resent being forced to play it, if we don’t want to. A lot of people just want to live and let live – not conquer the world and impoverish our opponents. It is true that it is human nature to be competitive. However, it is also true that people naturally are empathetic and want to cooperate and help one another. We aren’t all reptiles. All this brings me to the point I

was hoping you might address in your column. It is the topic of the Global Economic Re-set that I have been hearing about through alternative media sources. Is it true that there is a strategy among the global elite bankers to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency? I’ve also read that there were certain societies in the past where the king would forgive and erase all debt every seven years, and that everybody got a chance to start fresh. This is mentioned in the Bible (Deuteronomy 15:1) Could this happen today? I mean, the amount of debt is so great that it can never be truly repaid or collected. The bankers have all the money now, and as long as the central banks can continue to print it out of thin air, it is basically fake money (just like in the game of Monopoly). I know this sounds idealistic and probably naïve, but can’t we end this game and just start over? I mean, look at nature and the animals; they are not capitalists or monopolists. Sure, the lion is the king of the jungle, but he doesn’t put everybody else out of business. The lion doesn’t even try because he knows he would be outnumbered. Human beings, however, seem to be brainwashed into this notion that one slave owner can control 1,000 slaves. He does this through fear, threats, intimidation, violence, leverage, propaganda, religion, superstition, and other deceptive and oppressive tactics. Sooner or later, the masses wake up and the heads roll. Revolutions occur, and we start all over again. This is the way that it has been since the beginning of civilization. But it seems pretty stupid and it certainly isn’t fair. If humans were able to put aside their greedy and monopolistic urges and live like the animals in nature, do you think it would really be much worse than it is now? I sometimes think about that. Anyway, I’m getting off track... sorry. With regard to this issue of an economic re-set, I have heard that it is the plan of the global elite (slave owners) to create a single world currency that is controlled by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and that the U.S. petro-dollar’s days are numbered. The world reserve currency has changed hands several times throughout history, with the British and French currencies, for example. Can the United States government and Wall Street continue to bully the rest of the world into accepting dollars? Finally, I would love it if you could write about Crypto-Currencies like Bitcoin – not as an investment, but as a preferable alternative to fiat currency. If people can exchange goods and services safely and confidentially without the

need and trust of banks and government oversight, do you believe this would be a more sound and fair monetary and economic system? For example, a person who wants to send money via Western Union to Mexico has to pay up to ten percent in service fees. This is totally unfair and unnecessary in the computer age, a fact that people are going to wake up to when the alternatives are finally presented to them. Why are we paying the banks and the governments to use their lousy money, when we can use a cheaper and less corrupt crowd-sourcing option? Thanks, Jeff [Harding]. I know this was a long letter. I appreciate your time and attention, and look forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions on these subjects. I frequently contribute my own insights to the Sentinel and other local papers, and I have a lot of questions and ideas. My personal view is that the world is on the brink of some really monumental and revolutionary changes. Despite the gloom and negativity that many predict, I think the human race is getting closer to peace and freedom for all. What do you think? Sincerely, Alan Hurst Santa Barbara (Jeffrey Harding responds: Wow, Alan, you certainly have a lot to say – but you have a rather depressing view of the world. This isn’t the forum for me to address all of your issues, but I think I understand your frustration. I don’t have your Monopolyboard world outlook, though I’ve had many pleasant hours playing Monopoly. Wouldn’t it be great if we did have a system which allowed social cooperation at all levels of human interaction, where cooperation led to harmony, fulfillment, and even well-being? I agree with you that it is people’s natural inclination to act cooperatively. Such a system would be organically created from the ground up, not from the top down. I think you may guess where I’m going here. And that is that we have already invented such a social system, and it is called free market capitalism. I know you and many readers will probably doubt that assertion, but that is because you and they probably think that what we have today is free-market capitalism, and that it is an oppressive flawed system that requires the hand of government to protect us from its flaws. That is not the case. What we have today is not capitalism but crony capitalism, whereby the system is rigged to bail out banks and corporations that fail, whereby the central bank prints money that completely distorts the markets, and where political power is bought and sold by those who have the money to do it. All this is overlaid onto a market-based economy, which results in booms and busts,

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bailouts, and “cures” that only make the problem worse. Free-market capitalism is a system based on cooperation in the market place, meeting the needs of consumers (you and me), creating jobs and wealth for all, and living under the rule of law (which is referred to as Natural Law, as explained by John Locke and was embodied in our Constitution). We’ve strayed pretty far from those ideals. To the extent the world has seen freemarket capitalism operate, it has created unprecedented wealth for all, not just for successful entrepreneurs. Because you are so pessimistic, I urge you to count your blessings because, as distorted as our system is, it still has produced the most prosperous, wealthy country in the world. A good way to cheer yourself up would be to read books such as Poverty and Progress: Realities and Myths about Global Poverty by Deepak Lal, and It’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years by Stephen Moore. They show how much progress we’ve had thanks to capitalism, even today. Alan, you are not a slave, you are not being oppressed by a hidden cabal, and opportunity abounds for you still. I don’t believe anyone is pulling your strings and forcing you to behave against your will, directly or indirectly. We humans are flawed creatures and all systems are flawed because of our humanity, but capitalism is the one system that accounts for our flaws better than any other. Thanks for writing in. – J.H.)

Waging Battle Mr. Jeffrey Harding’s apathetic comments in your paper on December 27 (Letters, Sentinel 3/26) against minimum wage increase, indicate his inability to articulate a cogent defense of the unlivable minimum wage. The labor Department’s July reports showed that “in the 13 states that boosted their minimum at the beginning of the year, the number of jobs grew an average of 0.85 percent from January through June. The average for other 37 states was 0.61 percent.” The findings of this report are neither anomalous nor surprising. Harding’s argument against raising the minimum wage is the contention that employers will respond to a higher minimum wage by firing workers in order to reduce labor costs; therefore, workers would be wise to keep their heads down and accept $7.25 hour. This argument resembles a folk tale in the sense that it is a) fictional, b) passed down from generation to generation, and c) recited with slight variations. In reality, raising the minimum wage appears to have either a slightly positive or statistically insignificant effect on the

unemployment rate. After reviewing [more than] 60 studies , the Labor Department concluded that minimum wage increases have no discernible effect on employment. Let’s look at some of the reasons why a wage increase does not cost jobs like Jeffrey’s [reasons] say. First, a majority are employed by big corporations. These corporations have recovered from the recession with more than enough money to cover a wage increase. Seventy-five percent of the largest employers of lowpaid workers bring in more revenue now than they did before the recession. The notion that corporations do not have enough money to pay workers a living wage when corporate profits are at alltime highs and CEOs average $774 to every dollar a minimum-wage worker

“Most” workers are not employed by big corporations, rather it’s about 50-50 between small businesses and large businesses earns is absurd. Despite the apocalyptic rhetoric from Jeffrey, research indicates raising the minimum wage could actually benefit corporations. MIT professor Zeynep Ton conducted an in-depth study of major retailers and found that paying workers higher wages causes what she calls a “virtuous cycle.” According to Ton, “investment in employees allows for excellent operational execution, which boosts sales and profits, which allows for a larger labor budget, which results in even more investment in store employees.” Consider the fact that Trader Joe’s starting wage for a fulltime employee is more than double that of Trader Joe’s competitors. Not coincidentally, Trader Joe’s has 40 percent more sales per hour than the average supermarket. Small businesses are not concerned about the cost of labor. The National Federation of Independent Business conducted a survey of small businesses and found that only around three to five percent consistently list the cost of labor as their biggest problem. The issue is not whether wages are too high but whether there is sufficient demand for goods. It is no surprise that demand is teetering, given that 35 million Americans make under $10.55/hour. The depressed wages of American workers are actually hurting the economy. Raising the minimum wage

would increase demand, thereby helping small businesses. It is easy to imagine minimum-wage increases occurring in a vacuum, but the reality is that rising labor costs are offset by workers buying more with their bigger paychecks. I hope at this point it is clear enough for Jeffrey understanding that raising the minimum-wage benefits workers and the economy without hurting corporations. Anybody who continues to oppose a fair living wage are increasingly disconnected from reality. Perhaps they should consider science-fiction writing as an alternative to political punditry. I hear the alternate history sub-genre is poised to take off. Sincerely, Leoncio Martins Montecito (Jeffrey Harding responds: Thank you for writing again about minimum wage. I know you can dig up data to support the premise that minimum-wage increases are good for the economy. Much of that data comes from mostly progressive economists. So, I will try to refute your comments point by point. First of all, there are many studies of the impacts of minimum wage, the majority of which state that it reduces employment. For example, last month an empirical study by economists Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Wither at UC San Diego concluded: “Over three subsequent years, we find that binding minimum-wage increases had significant, negative effects on the employment and income growth of targeted workers. Lost income reflects contributions from employment declines, increased probabilities of working without pay (i.e., an “internship” effect), and lost wage growth associated with reductions in experience accumulation.” While publications such as The New York Times and Washington Post continue to assert that “most economists” agree that minimum-wage laws don’t reduce employment opportunities for lowwage workers, the fact is that studies show that “most economists” either didn’t agree or were uncertain (56 percent) versus only 32 percent who did agree. Second, your statement that employment went up in certain states despite minimum wage laws is not relevant. I could say that employment went up despite minimumwage increases. Or that employment went up because of a mild economic recovery. Or I could say, more disturbingly, that the number of employed people as a percentage of the total population is decreasing – and, if I were disingenuous, I would blame minimum-wage laws. You are not presenting economically valid data (post hoc ergo propter hoc). As to the Department of Labor study you cite, I couldn’t find any such thing of that date in the Bureau of Labor

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Statistics database. But there was a study in February of last year, which pointed out that “… increasing the minimum wage results in a substantial drop in the rate of job creation. They determine that the decline in job growth is the result of expanding establishments decreasing the number of jobs they create, rather than resulting from additional job losses among declining industries. The authors find that those most affected by the decline in job creation tend to be younger and less educated job-seekers, because these job-seekers are more likely than other workers to be interested in obtaining jobs that pay minimum wage.” That study suggested that workers aren’t necessarily laid off as a result, but opportunities were taken away from those who need these jobs the most. It’s a complex issue because you need to have an apples vs. apples comparison. Most studies have found that it does reduce employment. Thirdly, “most” workers are not employed by big corporations, rather it’s about 50-50 between small businesses and large businesses. It’s not an argument to say these Big Evil Rich Corporations can afford to pay higher wages. I’ll say it one more time: they don’t set wages; consumers set wages by their buying patterns. You seem to lump all businesses together in one big pile and draw general conclusions and ignore the fact that each business has its own cost structure, and some can and do pay more and others can’t. You belie your own argument when you say Trader Joe’s pays wages higher than minimum wage because they can attract better employees and increase sales and prices. Consumers are rewarding them, not for paying high wages, but for out-competing their competitors. Are you saying, therefore, all grocery stores can pay higher wages? It’s a competitive business and my informed guess is that your local convenience store with really tight margins can’t do that because their customers aren’t willing to pay Trader Joe’s higher prices. Would you force them to pay higher wages and let them go broke? Fourthly, the assumption that putting more money into the pockets of workers as a result of minimum-wage increases will give a boost to the economy is wrong. I ask you again: how does taking money out of the pockets of producers and employers (who spend money), and give it to workers to spend end up as a positive? If workers are paid more than they produce, then a business will go broke. The only way to properly set wages is not by government controls, but rather by the actions of millions of consumers who wisely spend their own dollars – it’s called the market economy. Wage controls will result in fewer jobs, less wealth and productivity, a declining economy, and greater poverty. History has proven that. – JH)

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by Christina Enoch

Owner Yvan and his wife, Yamilcen

C’est Très Bon! Cozy little hideaway with awesome crêpes. Welcome to little France on our very own Anacapa Street.

o you have that one place in town where you feel so comfortable, you can roll out of bed, go there, order the same thing for years? On weekends, I literally roll down the hill with no makeup on (I look nothing like my profile, sans makeup), go to Pacific Crêpes, and order the same thing: a cup of cappuccino and La Française (two eggs overeasy, sliced ham with Swiss cheese). At this point, I’m pretty full but don’t stop; I finish strong with Nutella and banana. Maybe Nutella is good for digestion. I love crêpes so much that in every new town (I’m a drifter), I always go around looking for that perfect place. I personally believe every town must have a good crêpe place (as well as Jiffy Lube or a good dry cleaner). So far, I had a pretty good one in San Francisco and Tahiti. Here in Santa Barbara, I’ve been quietly loving Pacific Crêpes. But it’s about time to reveal my secret; sharing is caring. Pacific Crêpes has been owned by Yvan Morin and his wife, Yamilcen, since 1997. Yes, he is from France and his mom and dad helped with the menu. So yes, their crêpes are authentic. Beautiful Yamilcen, owner Yvan Morin’s wife, making the perfect cappuccino

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.

“Since we opened, nothing much has changed”. Well, that is one great sign. I see a few french regulars talking to Yvan as they were leaving. I know we have a pretty big french community- guess this is where they all go to when they are homesick. It’s cozy and charming with French books, maps, and posters. It really makes you feel like you are in France. It’s on the shaded side of Santa Barbara Street,

Love this classic French sandwich. The simpler the better.

Celtic salad with artichoke hearts, tomato slices, goat cheese, potatoes, and prosciutto.

Green salad that comes with crêpe is so delicious. The dressing is to die for. Top secret recipe from Yvan’s mom. You can also purchase the dressing.

so sometimes people overlook it. But if you start sensing the magic of crêpe batter making, let your nose guide you. Their savory crêpes are made with buckwheat flour, and thus toasty and crispy. Aside from my favorite breakfast, La Française, Santa Barbara crêpe (sautéed shrimp and mushrooms with fennel and béchamel sauce) is another popular one. Dessert crêpes are soft and decadent.

My favorite breakfast. La Française: two eggs overeasy, sliced ham, and Swiss cheese.

Santa Barbara crêpe. Sautéed shrimp and mushrooms with fennel and Béchamel sauce.

Whoever invented Nutella must be a genius; I can live off of it. (I should have named my dog Nutella.) I also love simple lemon with butter. If you want to go big, get Brittany – fresh strawberries, blueberries, fruit sauce, and vanilla ice cream. Don’t doubt your appetite. Celtic Salad (artichoke hearts, tomato slices, goat cheese, potatoes and prosciutto) is fresh and satisfying. Simple green salad is absolutely delightful as well. Something about their house dressing. It’s a secret recipe from Yvan’s mom. But you can purchase the dressing there. I ended up buying a big bottle of it. French conversation club meets there every Wednesday night from 5:30 to 7:30. Not sure if my Rosetta Stone levelone French can keep up, but I plan to be there just for the crêpe. So, how do I say, “Don’t talk to me – I’m eating”?

Pacific Crêpes 705 Anacapa Street; (805) 882-1123

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