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WELCOME TO THE LARK

by Matt Mazza

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ow’s the oven, Nick?” I was standing in the small pick-up area of the Lucky Penny, the Funk Zone’s latest soon-to-be-open and much-hyped addition, on my way to a party at The Lark, which itself has attracted both local and national media attention and will anchor arguably the most talked about project in Santa Barbara in recent years, 131 – 137 Anacapa Street. I’d arrived a few minutes early and stopped in briefly to see what all the commotion and laughter I’d heard from the parking lot was about. But all the commotion and laughter stopped suddenly when the foregoing words were uttered. They came from somewhere behind me, and from the mouth of Executive Chef Jason Paluska. The small but previously energetic and talkative group of clearly quite interested persons immediately stopped chatting and fixed their gaze directly on Executive Sous Chef Nick Flores, who had his head practically inside an extremely hot wood-fired pizza oven, first studying it, then moving some coals and ashes around gently, and ultimately grabbing ...continued p.3

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That’s the back of Executive Sous Chef Nick Flores’ head as he peered into Guiseppe’s Forna Classico woodfired brick pizza oven in the Lucky Penny. (The whole room was holding its collective breath, Guiseppe, but you pulled it off. Well done.)

a round blade wood pizza peel from the counter behind him and inserting it briskly. The tension in the room was palpable. No one spoke. A perfectly cooked pizza emerged on the peel, and was quickly touched with olive oil and topped with some arugula and black pepper (and perhaps parmesan, I couldn’t see perfectly and Nick worked rapidly). Nick cut the pizza, fast, then picked up a piece and bit into it. He looked up. And he smiled wide. “The oven is money.” All hell broke loose. The group of people in the corner broke into song, loudly, belting out a uniquely Sicilian celebratory tune, waiving arms and hands

wildly, grinning and laughing and kissing and hugging. Jason went quickly behind the counter and studied the oven and the coals and spoke to Nick – I couldn’t hear a word they were saying over the din – before grabbing a slice for himself, biting into it and smiling. The celebrating Sicilians descended upon me like I was part of the family. “I built-a the oven,” Guiseppe Crisa cried, “I built-a the oven! Have a piece-a the pizza!” Guiseppe, I learned when things calmed a bit, is a terrific guy with a business called Forno Classico in Goleta that, you guessed it, makes authentic wood-fired brick ovens. “I’ve done a lotta of business in town,” he was near tears, seriously moved, “and I love everybody. But here I

And that’s the Sicilian contingent – pizza in hand – that went nuts after the oven was declared fit for business. From left to right, we have Barbara Benon, Gaspore Oneto, Guiseppe Crisa, Executive Sous Chef Nick Flores and David and Stephanie Berger.

make-a money and I have-a fun. What a project, what a project!” Gaspore Oneto and Barbara Benon, both part of the raucous crowd, helped me to a piece of pizza and I gave it a try. Nick was right. The oven – and the pizza that came from it – was money.

Celebrate Good Times

It’s tough to write a piece like this one, it really is. There’s just so much to talk about and so little space to do it in. On the one hand, I didn’t necessarily want to lead with the Lucky Penny (although it is in fact terrific and very exciting); I wanted

to start instead with the frankly staggering design and aesthetic of The Lark (which is truly special indeed). But that first experience with Jason and Nick and Guiseppe and Gaspore and the gang was indicative of the general mood and feel of everybody I spoke with that has been involved in bringing both places to life. It’s electric, man, exciting. And it’s very cool. The party I was attending was a celebration of the (very) near completion of both restaurants, thrown in appreciation of the designers and craftsmen that made ...continued p.5

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Content

COVER

Mazza’s Missive – Editor-in-Chief Matt Mazza gets a sneak peak at the much-anticipated Funk Zone additions The Lark and Lucky Penny. (Spoiler alert: He loves both.) He is also accosted by a merry band of celebrating Sicilians. Not bad for a day’s work.

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I t’s Crime Time – You know the deal. Stubborn pill-poppers, ancient gang bangers, angry drunks, baaaaaad lawyers and violent panhandlers. Oh, and heroine-laden recreational vehicles parked on our city streets. Don’t forget about those.

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L etters to the Editor – Santa Barbara surfer chicks try to steal Matt’s camera at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington; tiny flamenco dancers delight at Fiesta; lots of people read the Sentinel online (seriously, even we were surprised at the numbers when we finally looked); and Larry doesn’t believe in climate change. Uh-oh.

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F ood File – Christina Enoch is back from Tahiti – the Sentinel has apparently really upped its pay for contributors – and knocks it out this week with a few girlfriends at iGrill Korean BBQ. (Sentinel field trip coming soon, for sure.)

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E ight Days A Week – Jeremy Harbin is threatening to take Matt’s job with his witty prose and uber-intelligence. Matt, of course, has little of either, so he’s at a significant disadvantage. And to think that Jeremy is doing it all in the context of a “calendar.” (You’re in trouble, Matt, big trouble.)

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Santa Barbara View – It’s a fiesta (quasi-pun intended) of buying local and local retail, as both Sharon Byrne and Loretta Redd address the issue from different perspectives; Ray Estrada talks summer festivals and economic impact here in town. (Thanks, SB View, we really enjoyed the entire column this week.)

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Faces of Santa Barbara – Newly appointed Fiesta Division Chief of Pageantry Marc Martinez – who was in one hell of a turquoise Fiesta suit at the Recepcion del Presidente last Sunday – is in focus in Patricia Clarke’s column this week. Thanks, Marc, for all you do; and thanks Patricia for bringing this type of story to the rest of us.

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P residio Sports – The ‘Sters head to the National Baseball Conference World Series (go get ’em boys); local phenom Conner Coffin wins his second-straight Pro Junior Championship at the US Open of Surfing (what up, Conner, congrats); SB Soccer U-15 Boys White team wins a second-straight national championship (wow, on a roll here, right on); and San Marcos Royal Bradlee Van Pelt (class of 1999) was inducted to the Colorado State Athletic Hall of Fame for his collegiate football career. We produce lots of talent, folks, go read all about it this week.

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Pump It – Jenny Schatzle and her “Schatzle-isms.” And her brutal workouts. And her motivational talks. And her energetic spunk. Get a little bit of it all this week right here in the Sentinel.

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Valley Girl – Jana Mackin spends a day up at Ampelos Cellars with owner Peter Work and tells the terrific story behind the vines. It’s a good one, so go check it out.

M ad Science – Lots of technology is commercialized out of UCSB these days, and this week Rachelle Oldmixon brings the research and accomplishments of the guys at Aptitude Medical Systems to Sentinel readers. Let’s just say they are trying to do more for mankind than most. And they just might be wildly successful.

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T he Rant – Katie Cusimano doesn’t like media talking trash about the post-baby weight situation of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. We ain’t saying anything more other than, hey Katie, terrific column this week. (We don’t want to get on her bad side.)

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The Weekly Capitalist – Jeff Harding takes on President Obama’s approach to bettering the economy, point by point. (It’s actually more of a total outright attack upon our entire government and political system’s approach.) Four words: Jeff Harding for President. (Well, maybe we shouldn’t go that far.)

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M an About Town – Mark Léisuré likes polo. And shrimp cocktails. And martinis. What the hell do they do at those matches down in Carp/Summerland, anyway, Mark?

K eepin’ It Reel – Jim Luksic is back with more witty movie reviews! He likes exactly 25% of the films he discusses this week. And so, it follows, logically, that the movie industry is failing miserably. Thanks Jim.

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You Have Your Hands Full – Mara Peters wants all of her children to jump off of Goleta Pier. We’re calling the cops. LOVEmikana – Everybody’s favorite Santa Barbara birds bring art, sustainability and clothing this week, as well as great food and booze. And more stuff to do this weekend in the coolest Weekend Guide around. (Thanks LM!)

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Residential Real Estate – This week, Professor Calcagno opines upon the historical and academic underpinnings of classical economic theory in the context of a vastly complex residential real estate market. Brilliant, Michael, absolutely groundbreaking.

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...continued from p.3 Back of the house leaders: Executive Chef Jason Paluska in the right foreground, and Executive Sous Chef Nick Flores flanking him. (Make it happen, guys, can’t wait for that pork shank.)

Local son Avery Hardin is knocking out a little spinach salad in the open kitchen at The Lark. (That basil vinaigrette was delicious, Avery, nice.)

the whole thing possible. There was great beer from Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company, beautiful pizzas from the Lucky Penny, delightful salads and other goodies from the kitchen at The Lark and terrific French and Santa Barbarabased wines from Les Marchands next door. (Les Marchands is another story for another time, although I must say that the place looks absolutely fantastic – sort of Parisian wine bar meets California-

Executive Chef Jason Paluska is getting his kitchen team ready for game time…which is coming soon!

chic contemporary design – and I spoke briefly with Managing Partners Brian McClintic and Eric Railsback, both of whom are basically celebrity Master Sommeliers and terrific guys with tons of knowledge and background. More excitement.) I spoke at length with everybody from Restaurateur-cum-Designer Extraordinaire Doug Washington, of Town Hall and Salt House fame in San Francisco (and many others too,

those are just both personal favorites), to Architect Clay Aurell of AB Design Studio, Inc. right here in Santa Barbara, to General Contractor Dan Bush (he’s worked extensively with Doug and my gut is that they sort of share one mind when it comes to bringing Doug’s unique design and aesthetic to life), to job Superintendant Rick Musmecci of Young Construction. I’ll make this simple. Each and every one of them – as well as all the craftsmen that worked as part of the huge team – said three basic things: (1) They are extremely proud of this particular job; (2) they had a blast working together to bring it to life (even if there were trying times…the project was no pushover and every single system – electrical, plumbing, mechanical,

structural – was completely removed and replaced in a massive overhaul of the previously existing Bay Café building), and (3) none of it would have happened without the drive and dedication and love of one person: Managing Partner Sherry Villanueva.

The Lark Is Beautiful

“We just have such a truly amazing team,” Sherry gushed when I cornered her. “It’s everybody around us here tonight that made…” she looked around, peacefully, calmly, and continued “… this.” The Lark – which takes its name from a luxurious Southern Pacific Railway ...continued p.9

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It'sCrimetime...

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

Recreational Vehicle Parking Activists In Uproar… Or Not

BPD discovered that a dilapidated recreational vehicle parked on a city street just off State had false tags and that its registration had actually expired many months ago. After knocking on the door and not receiving a response, officers began preparing to tow the RV for a variety of violations. Just then, a 26-year-old local woman popped her head out and began complaining. When asked her name, she gave her sister’s – and it returned an outstanding arrest warrant. Then she came clean with her own name – and it returned another outstanding arrest warrant. Officers searched the RV after detaining the woman and found lots of heroine paraphernalia and other bad stuff. A hooded protester speaking on condition of anonymity based on an alleged fear of retaliation by local law enforcement contacted the Sentinel and complained that, like the foregoing woman, he doesn’t “have a place to park [his] beat up RV for weeks on end within the city limits and [is] being denied his civil rights to live publicly in squalor and openly use hard drugs.” We haven’t found a reputable civil rights attorney to help him yet.

Cottage Hospital Refuses To Act As Painkiller Convenience Store For Stubborn Drug Addict A 52-year-old Lompoc woman refused to leave Cottage Hospital after being asked repeatedly to go one night last week around 9pm. When officers arrived, the woman explained that she had not been given proper medical care for her injured back and demanded lots of powerful painkillers. SBPD advised that – contrary to what appears to be the case from multiple television and radio spots these days – doctors actually control the prescriptions they prescribe to patients, not the other way around. But the woman ignored officers, and instead told them that she would stay in the hospital and “wait for the shift change.” She ended up waiting in a jail cell. And her back is still in excruciating pain.

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CRIME TIME QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“You aren’t even real cops.” -Famous last words of a drunken 28-year-old Santa Barbara woman before she was detained for resisting arrest, battery and disturbing the peace outside a popular local nightclub one night last week. (Oops.)

Dumbfounded Drunken Driver Arrested On Downtown One-Way SBPD arrested a 33-year-old Santa Monica man for driving under the influence after he was spotted going the wrong direction on a busy downtown one-way street over the weekend. A high-ranking local police officer who wished to remain anonymous told the Sentinel, cackling deviously, “Why do you think we made the downtown area so damned confusing? One-ways, roundabouts, bulb-outs… hell, we can barely navigate the area stone cold sober, and we live here and enforce the damned traffic laws! Drunks and tourists don’t stand a chance!”

Ancient Gang Banger Not That Bright A 46-year-old self-proclaimed member of the East Side Locos gang was picked up for severe public intoxication and taken to Cottage Hospital for treatment. While he was there, the man was generally boisterous and difficult, and was seen vandalizing a hospital room with a black marker. SBPD was called and quickly arrived. The gang banger denied the vandalism while repeatedly – and quite proudly – telling officers that he is a member of the East Side Locos. It’s tough to figure out what actually did him in: The marker found in his pocket, the eye-witness testimony of the highly credible nurses or the fact that he had written the letters “ESL” all over the walls and door.

Spunky Tourist Welcomed To Town By Friendly Panhandler A tourist was walking down Stearns Wharf and noticed a “coin toss game” on the beach below. (You know, the one where the unwitting tourist tosses some change down on to a panhandler’s blanket for some silly reason?) When the tourist called down to the 52-year-old Santa Barbara man with a house in town who was running the game, the local man nicely asked the tourist to meet him at the base of Stearns Wharf and State, which is where the local man smashed the tourist in the face with a bike lock attached to a chain and was arrested for an assault with a deadly weapon. The good news is that we’ve discovered one way to ensure the arrest of aggressive downtown panhandlers. The bad news is that there are no more tourists coming to Santa Barbara. Good thing we aren’t taking any proactive steps as a community to do anything about this issue.

Angry Drunk Does Not Always Equal Mental Health Issues SBPD responded to reports of a man screaming at himself and passersby on lower State Street at 8am one morning last week. When officers arrived and gently questioned the man expecting potential mental health issues, he turned and screamed at police that he was still drunk from last night. That’s nice.

Drunk Lawyer Blows It A 48-year-old Santa Barbara woman drank herself silly, got in her car and drove to a quiet Westside street, where she parked in the middle of the roadway and began screaming wildly at people in the houses around her just before 2am one night last week. Not surprisingly, SBPD was called and found the woman just as described above. She quickly admitted to driving, and was clearly extremely intoxicated. When officers ran her information, they found she was on DUI probation and arrested her. She described her occupation as “Lawyer,” and her employer as “None of your Beeswax.” Is that a new firm in town? (Not funny, we know.) One less drunken lawyer on the street. (Shame.) There’s a lot of jokes we could make here, we suppose, especially since our Editor-inChief is a lawyer. But we can’t think of any really good ones.

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Local gals Shea Gorden, Lindsey O’Hara and Christina Collins (left to right) tried to steal my camera at the US Open in Huntington Beach. They failed. But I think I bought them a beer anyway.

ey Matt, if you get a chance, I’d love those pictures we took in Huntington yesterday. Thanks! Christina Collins Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: So, there I am, sitting in some Main Street bar at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach last week talking to a lovely couple next to me just after a terrific party at the International Museum of Surfing celebrating all things Australia – the Australian Open of Surfing is coming up in February 2014 and looks like a wonderful (and riotless!) event – when I notice that my camera is gone. I turn to find three young ladies behind me, giggling and taking pictures of each other with it. They are a friendly bunch and I take a few shots, at their request, of all three of them together. Then I learn that they too are from Santa Barbara. (I should have known. Seriously. Just look at them.) It’s a small world, y’all, and we Santa Barbarans seem to be all over it. Very cool. Anyway, the ladies were having a blast at the competition (so was I). I was shocked to find that they were generally unaware of the Sentinel and promised – after showing them pictures of my kids and chatting them up for a bit – to put their picture in the paper if they would promise to pick us up this week. They did, and so I am. It was a pleasure meeting you, Christina Collins, Shea Gorden and Lindsey O’Hara… hope you enjoy the read. And hope to see you around town soon. – MSM)

Tiny (Flamenco) Dancers Hi Matt, not sure how much of Fiesta you’ll be covering, but there is a real sweet side each year: the flamenco dancers! Here is a picture of my daughter, Samantha

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Tiny flamenco dancers Samantha Fallon (left) and Fallon Erickson, both just 5 years old, are going to get down all over town with the rest of the pena flamenca for Fiesta. Go check them out, should be a blast.

Fallon, and her friend, Fallon Erickson, who will be dancing all over town with the Linda Vega Dance Studio. Check them out on Friday, August 2, at El Paseo Restaurant (4pm) and the Paseo Nuevo Mall Center Courtyard (4:45pm); then on Saturday, August 3, at De La Guerra Plaza (1:15pm) and Paseo Nuevo Mall Center Courtyard (again, at 4:45pm). Should be fun! (And don’t worry, the fountain at Paseo Nuevo has been changed since you last covered it – maybe even because you last covered it.) Keep up the great work with your paper! I look forward to it each Friday. It makes my Stairmaster routine at the gym go by a teensy bit faster reading it cover ...continued p.14

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by Christina Enoch

Happy iGrill customers Max and Bill Wagner dig in – not a lot of conversation, they are focused on that food!

On Local Korean Food and Angry Hairstylists Like I said, iGrill has quite the chic and clean interior.

That’s Kimchi Jiggae – Kimchi stew with pork and tofu.

hen I feel homesick and want Korean food, I typically head down to Koreatown in L.A. I have to fight some traffic, sure, but I get my hair done in K-town too. So the whole thing is generally worthwhile. As much as I enjoy the drive, however, I’ve always secretly wished I could stay closer to home and get some good (or better) Korean food right here in Santa Barbara. Well good news, everybody. My wish recently came true.

Bang Up Bulgogi In An Unlikely Place I was doing nothing in particular on Upper State Street when I came across a sign that read iGrill Korean BBQ Restaurant. (Could it be? No, it couldn’t. Or could it?) I quickly parked my car and peered through the window. Looks great. Interior is sweet. It’s chic and clean. I quickly called up my trusty Korean girlfriends for lunch. And a few hours later, we were all gathered up at an iGrill table, chatting and excited. Please be somewhat close to authentic Korean, I pleaded internally. Please, please, please. Before I get to the food, it’s worthy to note for you Korean food neophytes out there that you actually grill your own meat at a lovely little built-in grill at the table (thus, iGrill). It’s easy and fun, but I generally highly recommend bringing extra clothes with you when you go to an authentic Korean BBQ restaurant since it is a fact that you will smell like BBQ smoke for next few days. I usually change into a new outfit after a meal and place

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.

the smoke-infused garments in an airtight plastic bag in the trunk. Then I roll down all the windows in the car, drive home (or to the stylist’s place), and wash my hair thoroughly. I’m just saying. Anyway, iGrill seemed to have a nice ventilation system so all was well and I felt reasonable secure with just a single outfit. We quickly ordered a bottle of Korean Soju and had a look at the menu. (Soju at lunch? No problem. In fact, I highly recommend it.) The choices were somewhat foreign to us – sort of “Korean for beginners” and perhaps done by a non-Korean – but we ordered what sounded familiar. Bulgogi, which literally means “fire meat,” is one of Korea’s most popular beef dishes, and it’s made from thinly sliced sirloin marinated in a mixture of soy sauce, sesame oil, black pepper, garlic, onions, ginger and sugar for two to four hours to enhance flavor and tenderization. (My

Bibimbap is served in a super hot stone pot and is pretty damned good.

This is the built-in grill at the table – this is where iGrill gets its name. Banchan side dishes for dipping your tender meat. Wow.

mom adds grated Asian pear to tenderize the heck out of the meat. Sorry, I know, that’s enough of my inner Korean talking.) iGrill’s Bulgogi is actually very good, very tender and flavorful. I give it two thumbs up. So do other Koreans around the table. More Soju. More chatting. More laughter. Nice start. Koreans usually dip their fire meat in very pungent fermented soy bean paste and eat with thinly sliced raw garlic, but that’s really for “Advanced-Korean-FoodEaters” because it could be overwhelming. iGrill instead serves three little side dishes for dipping called Banchan, all of which are delicious and very approachable (even for Korean food beginners). Let’s talk Kimchi. It’s important. So important, in fact, that Koreans say “kimchi” instead of “cheese” when getting their pictures taken. The reddish fermented cabbage dish – fermented for days or even months – is considered one of the healthiest foods on the planet. But don’t ask me how to make it; I’ve no idea. Good Kimchi is an art. It takes a special magic on the fingers of the person who makes it. I’m no magician. But iGrill, it seems, has found one. iGrill makes its own Kimchi in-house

(that alone is impressive). And it’s delightful. There are few things better in this world than well-made Kimchi over just-cooked fluffy steaming white rice. In fact, I’m salivating just thinking about it. And now I can get it right here in Santa Barbara. Make sure you try the Kimchi Seafood Pancake. It received eight thumbs up from four Korean girls. In fact, we ordered two rounds of pancakes and ultimately gave it an aggregate of 16 thumbs up. They were thin and delicate yet packed with flavor. In fact, they tasted just like the ones back home. Bibimbap – literally, “mixed rice” – is a bowl of warm white rice topped with namul (sautéed and seasoned vegetables), gochujang (red chili paste) and a fried egg that is served in a hot stone pot. (It’s super hot so be careful.) Truth be told, I wish there are more Korean vegetables on it, but I understand it could be hard to get ingredients in Santa Barbara. We all enjoyed it nevertheless. After 5 rounds of all you can eat BBQ and Soju, we’d had enough. (Trust me, Korean girls can eat, and eat we did.) Nobody was disappointed and all of us agreed that iGrill Korean BBQ was a place to which we’d return. I can hear my L.A. hairstylist weeping already. Mashigae Dsaeyo! (That’s bon appetit in Korean.)

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Oh great…the plumbers. That’s Andrew “Gerbie” Gerbac on the right (he’s the worker, apparently) and Tyler Gillmore next to him (he’s the boss/supervisor), together with friends Kami Punzal (future sports writer) and Alicia Adams.

train that went between Los Angeles and San Francisco at the beginning of 20th century – is, in a word, beautiful. The attention to detail is amazing. (Few, if any, will dispute the former; nobody will dispute the latter.) From the massive 23-foot-long, 49-inchwide live edge community table Dan Bush built from a single slab of solid Douglas Fir taken from a 106-year-old tree that had been stuck by lightning and salvaged – by Dan himself – from the forest floor (all tables in the dining room are made from the same tree…yeah, you read that right), to the enclosed dining booths with benches from repurposed church pews, and from the 100-year-old Catholic confessional from Provence tucked privately into a cozy alcove (for two!) to the library card catalogue and radio cabinets used for server and hostess stations, nothing appears to have been overlooked. The lighting is brilliant (both in The Lark and Les Marchands, frankly), and large quasi-rural/industrial fixtures add depth and context to the room in a way that doesn’t take away from but rather complements other design aspects. Vintage porcelain baby bathtubs and French wall sinks are used as outdoor planters on the warm and inviting patio. Mix and match vintage chairs are a nice touch that keep you on your toes. Hell, look long enough and you might even see that the massive communal table mentioned above is supported by antique warehouse radiators – radiators, man. (What?!) And Sherry effectively refuses to take credit for any of it. With that said, there is a clear and overwhelming consensus among everyone involved that none of it would have happened but for her drive and unwavering commitment. (Even Doug Washington appreciated her tenacity, describing late night emails about everything from door knobs to whatever else was on her mind.) The place is amazing, Sherry, and, by all accounts, you did one a hell of a job. Now all you have to do is fill it with people and start serving delightful food and drink. What’s so hard about that?

and I’m having a great time.” Then Jason launched into a long and almost inappropriately excited discussion of fresh seasonal ingredients he’s using for the menu. “Whether it’s avos from Carp or some smaller ranch even closer or urchin from right here,” he pointed to the channel, “or mussels from Hope Ranch or whatever, we are laser focused on using the best local produce, fish, meat, chicken and so on that we can forage and find.” “For me, it’s about simple complexity. Like, take, for example, this slow braised pork shank I’m working on,” he pointed to a nearly finalized version of the menu he shared, “most everybody has had pork shank, so, on the one hand it’s

a simple, approachable dish. But we do it with beer-braised swiss chard, smoked ham hocks and a blackberry jus…and we serve it with ancho honey cornbread. It’s all about technique. Smokey, sweet, tender, salty…it’s all there in balance.” Jason had me at pork shank. I was salivating, hard, by the time he got to “ham hocks” and was blown away by the whole blackberry jus thing out of left field. Love it. “So…ah, JP, what else you got on there?” I asked, taking a peek at the menu and acting all weird, like it’s some sort of drug deal we’re discussing. ...continued p.20

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Everything, of course, which is why Sherry is lucky to have General Manager Dan Russo and Executive Chef Jason Paluska in the house. Both are very experienced – Dan has done 20 years in the restaurant business, most recently as the GM at critically-acclaimed RN74 in San Francisco and Girl & The Goat in Chicago (he opened the latter as GM); Jason came from Salt House (he helped open it) and RN74 (sous chef ). And both know well the high standards to which The Lark will undoubtedly be held. (Master Somm Eric Railsback is the Wine Director, which won’t hurt either.) Once again, it appears that the right people are in the right places. I sat down with Chef Jason (“JP” to some) for a few minutes during the party to get a feel for the kitchen and the menu, and I must say that he was incredibly friendly and open at a time when he is likely sleeping little and working lots to perfect recipes and train the entire back of the house. So first, JP, thanks, man, for spending the time. Right on. “I’m thrilled for this opportunity,” he told me, smiling, on the patio, “I moved to Santa Barbara in April and am just blown away not only by the quality of the local wares but also the community itself. It’s really welcomed me

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They’re not messin’ around over there at the Music Academy of the West: They’ve got faculty member and pianist Warren Jones conducting, they’ve got Juilliard faculty member David Paul directing, they’ve got a 45-member orchestra, they’ve got the esteemed Voice Program Director Marilyn Horne, they’ve even got – are you friggin’ kidding me?! – staging by Metropolitan Opera vet Charlie Corcoran! The source material doesn’t even need to be good with talent like this, but lucky for us these monsters of opera will stage Mozart’s beloved The Magic Flute – the first Santa Barbara production of this work in 15 years. So what the heck are you waiting for? I know you read this column with your iCal open; add this event for tonight at 7:30pm at the Granada Theatre (1216 State Street). Go see it again on Sunday at 2:30pm. Tickets start at $15; get them by calling 805.969.8787 or by visiting www.musicacademy.org.

Saturday August 3 There He Is

Do you ever notice how people blame everything on technology and the internet? For example, “scientists” claim websites like Twitter and Facebook are “rewiring our brains” and giving us “shorter attention spans.” I say it’s all a bunch of, uh, sorry, just got a text. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, science. I think it’s high time these academics push their glasses up their noses and look a little deeper – that’s right – to the original source of cortex-confounding stimulation: the Where’s Waldo? series of children’s books. These ever-popular wordless wonders that barrage the onlooker with page after page of synapse-shattering informational overload have been hampering the development of reading comprehension and study skills in the youth of our great nation for twenty-five years now. To my chagrin, Granada Books (1224 State Street) will celebrate Waldo’s birthday with a free gathering today from noon until 2pm. They’ll have cake, prizes and games. Waldo himself will even be there with Wenda and their dog Woof. On second thought, I do love cake. And I’m intrigued by the mention of these new characters Wenda and Woof... I wonder where they are! See you there!

The Odyssey Project is an experimental theater course that brings UCSB students together with teens from Los Prietos Boys Camp to interpret and update Homer’s The Odyssey. Professor Michael Morgan heads this now three-year-old project. A documentary made last year called The Odyssey Project: A Journey Home shows how the program encourages personal growth in its participants through immersion in the arts. Stream the short documentary online for free at www.vimeo. com/59348805 and see a performance today at 2pm at the Marjorie Luke Theatre (721 East Cota Street).

Monday

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Art Everywhere

Neon Donuts is a solo show displaying the work of local painter Nancy Rinn. Promotional material promises “bold watercolors.” If that’s not enough to get you out to Anna’s Bakery at 7018 Marketplace Drive in Goleta to view the show, maybe the promise of delicious, real-life donuts is. Also in the Camino Real Marketplace is Camino Real Cinemas, where you can pick up a Sentinel to read over your pastry and coffee, or popcorn and movie if you have more time. Happy Monday.

Tuesday August 6

Surf on Film

If you’re anything like me, you’re not allowed to surf due to your blatantly unchill vibes and inability to maintain balance when you come within fifteen feet of a surfboard. It’s for people like us that the surf gods invented surf documentaries; they let us experience the fun of the sport from the safe, dry confines of a darkened theater. It just so happens that a doc called Discovering Mavericks is screening at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum tonight at 6pm. It was directed by UCSB film studies graduate Joshua Pomer, made its debut at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and was scored by locals Yoni Berk

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and Burleigh Skidmore. And for some non-local cred: the movie won the Audience Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival and is narrated by Dean Winters of Oz, 30 Rock and Allstate fame. Find the Maritime Museum at the Santa Barbara Harbor, 113 Harbor Way.

Wednesday August 7

No Really, We Mean Everywhere

When physician’s assistant Lawrence Spann saw Linda Saccoccio’s paintings, he knew he wanted to bring them into his workplace, the Sansum Clinic. With the support of his peers and higher-ups, the project to turn the lower level of the facility – home to the Anticoagulation Clinic – into an art gallery began. After a year of exhibition, a closing reception for the artist’s Seven Chakras works will take place today from noon until 2pm. The Clinic will continue to host art, believing it to promote healing. See www. lindasaccoccio.com for more about the artist. Find the Anticoagulation Clinic at 317 West Pueblo Street.

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Friday August 9

Oysters and Espionage

Now you know: Every Friday and Sunday until the end of the summer, Chuck’s Waterfront Grill has a special going on that sounds mighty tasty. From 3pm to 5, they’ll be grilling out on their patio, serving up fish tacos for $2 each and oysters for $10 per half dozen. Not a bad way to start your Friday; after you fill up, head out to the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Gardens (1100 Anacapa Street) for yet another film in UCSB Arts & Lectures’ series Alfred Hitchcock Nights. Tonight it’s the spy movie Notorious from 1946. Don’t forget your beach blankets and low-backed chairs for this popular and free event.

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Buying Local and Community Wellbeing – Closer Than You Might Think by Sharon Byrne

Sharon Byrne

Bigger Isn’t Better in Rubles or Dollars Sharon Byrne is executive director for the Milpas Community Association, and currently serves on the Advisory Boards for the Salvation Army Hospitality House and Santa Barbara County Alcohol and Drug Problems.

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Rick Feldman with Salud Carbajal at Kids Day December 2012. Yes, those are Tri-County Produce apples in that basket.

e hear the repeated call from numerous sources to buy local and support small businesses (even in Amex commercials), and it intuitively makes sense. The more times a dollar changes hands within a community, the more prosperity that community generates for itself. But that local prosperity also generates a big impact in extended community benefit that doesn’t get nearly as much airtime. Here’s an example. While perusing Tri-County Produce, you might notice Santos of El Bajio or Isodoro of Super Rica selecting produce for their restaurants. Over in the grains section, you could run into Chris of The Shop purchasing blue corn meal. Local merchants are buying locally for use in their businesses, rather than from a regional or national food distributor. The dollar is changing hands at least twice in this example: you, the restaurant patron, eat at a locally-owned eatery that bought its produce from a local market. All this occurred on one street, Milpas, so we’re talking micro-local here. Here’s where the second tier of buying local kicks in: community wellbeing.

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John Dixon of Tri-County Produce is one of the most giving merchants in this city. He donates to the Zoo, Casa Esperanza, the Milpas Community Association, and Rescue Mission – all in the Milpas area. One merchant thus extends benefit to the surrounding community in a big way. Further, John is a longtime supporter of PAL, which serves junior high kids in providing after-school sports free of charge. Some of the families, mine included, that benefitted from PAL, shop at Tri-County Produce, putting money back into John’s hands to be redistributed back out into the community. John also donates produce to charitable events. Recently, the Dons Riders from Santa Barbara High School decided to do a BBQ fundraiser. They enlisted Sebastian Aldana of Los Amigos Café to cook for the event, and hosted it at Casa De La Raza. Sebastian asked John to provide the produce for the event, and the Dons Riders sold the tickets to the community. The Dons Riders decided they too wanted to give back to their community, and voted to award a portion of their proceeds to support the Milpas Holiday Parade. So merchants’ support of a local charitable event provides extended community benefit, as the businesses and non-profits collaborate to generate proceeds that flow back into the community, further enriching it. Buying local in this example generated increased community wellbeing that is hard to measure in a strictly financial sense. I have often been stunned by the generosity of merchants in the Milpas corridor. Santos Guzman of El Bajio decided last year to lead a charge to get

purchasing from believes in investing in their community, and walks their talk. Those are the places to buy local whenever possible

holiday lights up on Milpas and create a vibrant community holiday spirit. Enjoy that salsa from El Bajio! You help light up a community for the holidays. Los Agaves, Super Rica and La Colmena support the holiday lights too, so enjoying salsa pretty much anywhere on Milpas generates community benefit. But wait, The Shop, Los Agaves, and Super Rica also support the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics, one of which is located on Milpas. Enjoy that salsa! Heap it on! It’s beyond guilt-free at this point. Rick Feldman of the Eyeglass Factory realized that some kids that couldn’t see well also couldn’t afford glasses. How could they be successful in school? He created Kids Day, helping over 500 kids every year get free eye exams and glasses, and he’s been at it for more than a decade. Those hip frames you got at the Eyeglass Factory likely helped a child see. Even a burger can generate community benefit. Dave Peterson of McDonald’s gives out tons of backpacks to kids prior to the start of the school year. The Habit gives out hundreds of free burger tickets to volunteers at our big neighborhood cleanup. Buying local from these types of businesses generates extended community benefit beyond just supporting small businesses in today’s global economy. Large corporations have a different giving paradigm, and are not as closely connected to a community’s wellbeing, even though locals buy from and work for them when they operate here. They’re typically headquartered remotely, and the unique nuances of individual communities present a tricky terrain for them to navigate. Some, like Rabobank, are very connected to their community and support it generously. We all have to buy some things from the Big Guys: air travel, wireless service, refined petroleum, automobiles, etc. But where you can make the decision to buy local, it can pay off significantly in extended community wellbeing. Check and see if the merchant you’re

by Loretta Redd

ack from a three-week excursion to the Balkans and Russia, I didn’t imagine Santa Barbara would share much in common with one of the largest structures inside of the Kremlin Walls; but I was wrong. The vast shopping mall, called GUM (pronounced ‘goom,’ not ‘gum’) with its 794-foot facade and glass-domed roof, is filled with three stories of international, high-end retail stores. The joke for the locals – well, except for the Chinese and the Russian mafia – is that no one can afford to buy any of the items displayed in the over 200 stores represented. The storefronts are small, with eye-candy offerings of imported china, furs, clothing, jewelry and accessories that sparkle... rather like boutique billboards. It is the trend among the mega-giants; downsizing in targeted communities, while tapping cellphone signals to monitor buying behavior. And what does this Snowden-like, unaffordable, international fashion feast have to do with our local and regional commerce? It is exemplary of what is happening along the retail stretches of State Street and throughout our California beachside communities, putting our locally owned businesses into bankruptcy and turning each town into a cookie-cutter replica of one another. In Malibu, California, a small but determined group has formed “Preserve Malibu,” in an effort to keep chain store developers from forever changing the character of their town. And they are not alone. Communities such as Sausalito, Arcadia, Ojai and Coronado have all successfully passed ordinances aimed at slowing giant retailers from not only changing the face of Main Street, but making rental space unaffordable to locally owned businesses. Coronado’s “Formula Restaurant Ordinance” and Sausalito’s “Formula Retail Ordinance” both treat “formula” restaurants – Carl’s Jr., Burger King, McDonald’s and the like – to being placed on a limited number of corners before a special use permit is required. Retail stores require other special permits to open or expand, in order to “provide unique and diverse retail base and to encourage small, local retailers to contribute to the economy.” The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (www.ilsr.org) offers the Top 10 Reasons to Support Locally Owned Businesses: 1. Local Character and Prosperity – In an increasingly homogenized world,

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communities that preserve their one-of-akind businesses and distinctive character have an economic advantage. 2. Community Well-Being – Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic relationships, and contributing to local causes. 3. Local Decision-Making – Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and feel the impacts of those decisions. 4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy – Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back to the local economy. 5. Job and Wages – Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do. 6. Entrepreneurship – It fuels America’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs into the middle class. 7. Public Benefits and Costs – Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls. 8. Environmental Sustainability – Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers, which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss and pollution. 9. Competition – A marketplace of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long term. 10. Product Diversity – A group of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national or international sales plan, but on their own interests and needs of local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices. Mega-stores such as Home Depot have captured more than half of all hardware and building supply sales nationally. Once seen as a source of convenience to both homeowners and builders, they are now gobbling up installation services. Whereas they used to be a source of referrals for local subcontractors, they are increasingly bringing in their own groups for higher premium and profit margins. One needs to look no further than the square-foot costs for rental space on

State Street to see the destructive force of developers and commercial real estate groups, but who do we complain to, our Chamber of Commerce where they’re all members? We live in a supposedly consumerfocused, bigger-is-better ideology that dominates our economy. According to Stacy Mitchell of ILSR, studies comparing California farming towns and also Midwest manufacturing cities found that communities comprised primarily of small, locally owned businesses had “a richer civic life, with twice the number of community organizations, twice the number of local news sources... and better scores on more than 30 measures of wellbeing, including literacy, acreage of public parks, and the extent of poverty.” Whether inside the Red Square of Moscow or the beachside communities of California, there is empirical evidence that “a locally rooted economy fosters social ties and civic engagement.” In Malibu, where 27 year resident Dick Van Dyke noted he couldn’t buy a screwdriver within the city limits, they are doing more than complaining. They’re following the lead of cities like Sausalito, whose Formula Retail and Restaurant Ordinances were unsuccessfully challenged by developers and property owners in 2003. The Supreme Court ruled that the ordinance doesn’t violate the U.S. Constitution’s Commerce and Equal Protection clauses, and that the restrictions were a valid use of municipal authority. There’s an election cycle on the horizon, and the plight of “independent small businesses” should be a topic for discussion. Will any of the Council or candidates be willing to suggest their own formula ordinances, or will Santa Barbara continue becoming a homogenized, boutique storefront for the pabulum products of unattached retail giants? Unlike so many of our local challenges, there is a legal precedent and solution for this one, but it will take the Ordinance Committee, the vote of the Council and the will of the people to get it done.

Ray Estrada

Ray Estrada is a writer, editor and media consultant who has worked for newspapers, radio news, wire services and online publications for the past 40 years. He has taught journalism at the University of Southern California and now runs his own consulting business based in Santa Barbara.

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Bratton, executive director of the event for the past 16 years. “We need more contributions to assure that Summer Solstice Celebration, a non-profit 501(c)3, will continue to produce this beloved event.” Bratton said, “We had more artists receiving funding to create floats than previous years.” She said attendance was up, but attendees spent less money on Friday and Sunday. Solstice puts more patrons in the South Coast’s bars and restaurants, but it’s hard to say how many folks stay in overnight lodging for the celebration since most motels, hotel and bed and breakfast spots are at capacity in the summer anyway. However, the rates for summer lodging definitely go up. “Everybody raises their rates during the week of Fiesta,” said Erin Graffy, who conducted a study on Old Spanish Days economic impacts a decade ago. “Also, smaller properties often required people to book a whole week (not just weekend) because the demand was so high.” So, Graffy said, multiplying the average rate against the incremental increase came out huge. “We had calculated everything very conservatively, erring on the side of caution,” she said. “The research we found showed (this was almost 10 years ago) that Fiesta added an additional $25 million dollars to the economy (today worth about $32

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million),” she said. “Again, this is over and above the average summer week’s earnings.” Graffy said Fiesta also infuses more than $76,000 into the city’s coffers from additional bed tax alone. “Fiesta also takes place in our most beautiful public places; along State Street with its beautiful architecture, in front of the Mission, in the stunning Sunken Gardens, along the beach boulevard, dancing up at the zoo,” Graffy said. “Photographs of these events provide tremendous promotional value to the city.” Camera crews also are abundant during the Solstice Celebration and its images are seen worldwide. In the 1995 movie Steal Little, Steal Big, starring Andy Garcia, the Solstice parade up State Street was used as a backdrop. Not an Oscar winner, but the film certainly played off the color and revelry of Solstice. “It was good for the event as they also gave us some money to stage the parade and evening event,” Bratton recalled. “It was fun as they hired so many locals as extras too in all kinds of scenes.” Bratton’s sister was in a couple of those scenes. “It was Andy Davis the director who was responsible for this,” Bratton said. Some South Coast residents may leave town for Fiesta, and Solstice for that matter, since they have experienced them many times and hate to admit they live in a town with a tourist economy. Others who stay might complain about the hoopla, parking problems, cost of increased police presence and trash pickup. However, it’s hard to argue with the overall economic benefits of the South Coast’s summer events. Another example of this is that many nonprofit and service organizations make most of their annual revenue during Fiesta. “So, Viva La Economic Impacts and Positive Cash Flow... from Fiesta!” Graffy said to the naysayers.

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to cover. Viva. Ronda Fallon Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Well, Ronda, after being dressed as a flamenco dancer in the paper myself last week, the very least I could do is attend a show with my kids – they’ve been asking about daddy’s new “outfit.” And now that the fountain has lost its pink tip, I feel comfortable bringing the girls to the mall again; in fact, we shop there all the time. Anyway, I’m definitely looking forward to some kiddie flamenco, sounds terrific. Thanks for the heads up… and, please, don’t worry, I won’t actually wear a flamenco outfit myself. – MSM)

The Sentinel’s Robust Online Capability Hi Matt, I am wondering if there’s a way to download your paper in electronic form. There are often local tibits and articles I like to share with others via the internet, but a link doesn’t seem to be as effective as putting a file directly onto a blog or email. Thanks very much. Maggie Lang Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for reaching out, Maggie. While you can read us online every week (www.santabarbarasentinel.com), the short answer is no, there is no way to

download individual articles. But with our online numbers creeping up each and every week – we had 48,000 people digitally flipping through the e-version last week, for example – we are looking pretty seriously at increasing our presence online. So stay tuned. And keep reading. – MSM)

Larry the (Climate Change Denying) Cable Guy Hi Matt, when I was in the hospital as a child I remember the nurses coming around to take the flowers out of my room for the night. I asked them why they did that, and they told me it was because plants breathe in Oxygen at night and exude Carbon Dioxide (CO2), but through the day the process is reversed, taking in CO2 and exuding Oxygen. Just think about it, these nurses knew more about it than Al Gore. Amazing. Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide. He has published a mind boggling 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology. When asked about the creation and control of CO2 emissions, he stated, “The volcanic eruption in Iceland, since its first spewing of volcanic ash, has in just four days negated every single effort all people have made in the last five years to control CO2 emissions.” He then pointed out that “this evil Carbon Dioxide that we are trying to suppress is an essential chemical compound that every plant on the planet requires to live and grow and to synthesize into Oxygen for us humans and for all animal life.” He says he realizes how disheartening it must be for people who have been taken in by the climate change hucksters to think that many of the things a lot of people do in order to reduce Carbon emissions, which we are all familiar with, have gone down the tubes in just four days from that one volcano in Iceland alone. But it gets worse. Plimer then points out that there are 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time. Every day. And then it gets even worse. He then points out that when Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere than the entire human race has emitted since they have been on Earth, and it was active for over a year. Then there is the natural 800-year warming and cooling cycle the Earth goes through, of course, and solar flares. And then we have the wildfires that rage across Australia and the Western US, which alone will negate our efforts to reduce Carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year. And please do not lose sight of the fact that our government just tried to impose a whopping Carbon tax on you using the bogus human-caused climate change basis. Also, if you are a thinking person – and I am sure all Sentinel readers are – you’ve probably noticed that Global Warming is out and Climate Change is in. And you’re wondering, why is that? It’s because the planet has actually cooled by 0.7 degrees in the past century. And, just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme – that whopping new tax – imposed on you that will achieve absolutely nothing except making you poorer. It won’t stop any volcanoes from erupting, that’s for sure. But look on the bright side, more and more people are catching on to the con, thanks to the efforts of people like Mr. Plimer, and there are a lot fewer volcanoes erupting today than there were when our forefathers first learned to walk up-right. And we’re still here, right? So hey, relax, remember to take the flowers out of your sleeping quarters at night, and have a nice day! Larry Bond Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Oh boy, Larry, here we go again. We’re off of anarchy and on to climate change. I have an undergraduate degree in philosophy and a law degree; in other words, there’s not a huge amount of science here. But I’d welcome a letter from someone schooled in the appropriate sciences about these issues, replete with citations and statistics and all sorts of other things that might make for a credible read in support of or in opposition to Larry’s points. I think that would be fun, and am looking forward to it with great anticipation. Thanks for the letter, Larry, always a pleasure. – MSM)

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Faces Of Santa Barbara by Patricia Clarke

Patricia Clarke is an award-winning international photographer based in Santa Barbara. Her work has been featured in London, Italy, Prague and around the United States. In recent years she has been turning her lens to her own fascinating community. In addition to her local portraiture service, www. yourbestshot.us, Patricia’s fine art photography can be seen at www.patriciahough tonclarke.com. She can be reached at (805) 452-7739.

Marc Martinez, Division Chief of Pageantry

f you’ve ever been to La Fiesta Pequena, you may have noticed two costumed guards at the door to the Old Mission. Unsung Fiesta Hero Marc Martinez and his wife, Donna, standing sentinel, are two of the gentlest, most generous and hardworking people I know in Santa Barbara. Standing Sentinel 2008 ©Patricia Houghton Clarke Marc has been a board member of Old Spanish Days Fiesta for many years, and I have had the pleasure of knowing him and working with him over the past decade. Our first project together Mariachis del Desfile was in 2001, when he contributed 2008 ©Patricia Houghton Clarke his voluminous historic collection of Fiesta memorabilia to a community event at the Santa Barbara Bowl called Buckaroos at the Bowl. Since then I have been repeatedly wowed by his knowledge of Santa Barbara Sailing Ships history and his tireless, serious dedication to his volunteer effort as Fiesta’s Float Master. 2008 ©Patricia Houghton Clarke Congratulations, Marc, on your new role this year as Fiesta’s Division Chief of Pageantry. You deserve every bit of it. Viva!

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Foresters Develop Strong Bonds on the Way to Wichita by Kristen Gowdy

our pitching is going to keep the other team down.” One area that hasn’t been as consistent for the Foresters has been offense. Out of the top 20 CCL batting averages, only Lechich’s .339 makes the cut, ranking 11th in the league. With 17 combined home runs in 49 games on the year, the Foresters have also been lacking in power. Pintard said from the beginning that this would be a team that relied on pitching and defense, but the inconsistency of the offense has hurt the

Foresters Manager Bill Pintard gets a Gatorade shower by players Hunter Lemke and Louie Lechich. (EMI Photography)

Aggressive base-running has also been an advantage for the Foresters, who have several speedsters in their lineup. Ben Johnson and Steven Reveles have stolen 18 and 17 bases respectively, and are tied for the top two spots on the CCL’s stolen bases list. Colt Atwood ranks third on the list with 14 steals. “Everybody knows that we want to steal,” Pintard said. “They’ll do everything they can to keep us from running, but we are going to run. We play our game.” Following the trend set by last year’s team though, the two-time defending national champions will mostly rely on their pitching staff as they look for a three-peat. “We just need to be focused up there and win every pitch,” Antone said. “If we do that, we should be fine.” The Foresters begin the long bus ride to Wichita, Kansas on Tuesday, and will play their first World Series game on Friday night. Lemke said that the team has high expectations despite the losses in the CCL championship series last weekend. “We’re going in… knowing that we are the team to beat and that everyone wants to beat us,” Lemke said. “We just need to stay together as a team and play as a team and do everything all together. We just need to play our game.”

Coffin Nails Down Second Junior Title at U.S. Open of Surfing

t the beginning of the summer, manager Bill Pintard said the key to success for this year’s Foresters would be team chemistry. “We just have to gel, chemistry-wise,” Pintard said in June. Now, with just the National Baseball Congress World Series left for the team, the bond that the players have formed with each other has revealed itself in many different forms. It was shown when standout catcher Jacob Felts went down with a shoulder injury in late June, and the team had to put together enough offense to win without Felts’ .429 batting average. It was shown when the Foresters committed a season-high six errors in one game against the Pacific Union Capitalists, but responded to win 13 of their next 15 games. It was shown as recently as last week, when the Foresters clinched the North Division CCL Championship. At the conclusion of the game, pitchers Hunter Lemke and Louie Lechich teamed up to dump a celebratory cooler of Gatorade onto Pintard. When Pintard saw the duo attempting to sneak up on him, he ran away protesting. The Gatorade fell short of its target.

But Lemke and Lechich were not done. They grabbed another cooler of Gatorade and hid among their smiling teammates. At the conclusion of Pintard’s speech, they drenched him in blue Gatorade to the cheers of their teammates and the rest of the coaching staff. “There’s definitely a lot of team chemistry with this group,” a dripping Pintard said after Friday’s win. “They’re a really special group and they really care about each other.” It has taken more than chemistry though for the Foresters to make it this far. Their 33 wins have come as a result of a consistently dominant pitching staff and a resilient small-ball offensive strategy. Duke senior Drew Van Orden anchors the pitching staff, which has been the cornerstone of the Foresters’ success. Van Orden’s 1.04 ERA ranks second in the California Collegiate League, and he also ranks second in the CCL in wins (5) and strikeouts (55). Led by Lemke’s seven saves and Tejay Antone’s 1.80 ERA, a host of relief pitchers have ensured late-game success for the Foresters. “If we get down early, we don’t panic because our pitchers have been pitching very effectively,” Pintard said. “We know

‘Sters in crucial situations, including the CCL Championship series against the L.A. Brewers last weekend. After pounding out 12 hits to score seven runs against the Santa Paula Halos on Friday night to clinch the CCL North Division Championship, the Foresters coughed up just one run in the two losses to the Brewers. “We have had some lulls here and there [offensively], we just need to stay consistent in the batter’s box,” Lechich said of his team’s lackluster hitting efforts. With CCL play behind them and the double-elimination NBC World Series beginning this weekend, the team will look to Lechich and Felts – who played in his first game on Friday since injuring his shoulder – to provide an offensive spark. But Pintard said that the team will also look to stick to the gritty, small-ball style that has proven effective for them all year. “If we have to bunt and move guys over that way, then we will end up doing that,” Pintard said. Pintard has shown throughout the season that he is not afraid to issue the bunt sign. The Foresters have laid down 37 sacrifice bunts this season, and have a combined 54 total sacrifices – including sacrifice fly balls and groundouts.

Conner Coffin locked up his secondstraight Pro Junior championship at the U.S. Open of Surfing on Saturday, besting Carlos Munoz, Jake Halstead and Ramzi Boukhiam in the final heat with a winning two-wave score of 15.77. “It’s insane, has to be one of the best feelings ever,” Coffin said right after his victory. Coffin, a Santa Barbara native, exhibited expert wave selection in the final. He took off on only four waves, establishing himself early in the heat with an 8.17 on his first ride. Coffin added a 7.0 and a 7.60 on his second and third wave. His patience was on display as the 20-year-old waited 15 minutes between his first and second wave. “I almost didn’t go on that first little left,” Coffin said. “I thought there were going to be more waves, but that first one kept walling up on the inside and it felt good to start with an 8. It was a gnarly final and I knew an 8 wasn’t going to cut it. I felt a little relieved when I got the 7, but knew the guys were capable of big scores. I knew Carlos [Munoz] could throw some crazy Hail Mary and pull it. I was shaking during the last two minutes. I was so nervous, but this is the best feeling ever, winning and having my family chair me up the beach. Last year was awesome and I’m just so happy to win again.” The swell was relatively quiet during the heat as Coffin found three waves to his liking in the 30-minute final. Halstead and Munoz took off on seven waves each. South African Bianca Buitendag

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by Jenny Schatzle

Fitness Professional/Life Motivator Jenny Schatzle runs the popular Jenny Schatzle Bootcamp right here in Santa Barbara. N.A.S.M , Cardio Kickboxing and SPIN Certified, Jenny was recently awarded Best Outdoor Fitness Program in town. Her motivation, energy and enthusiasm have created a community and program of all ages and fitness levels that cannot be described. It has to be experienced! Free on Saturdays at 8:30am. Go to www.jennyschatzle.com for details.

Alive and Living

Santa Barbara native Conner Coffin wins second-straight Pro Junior championship at the U.S. Open of Surfing.

claimed the women’s Pro Junior. It’s the third straight year that a Santa Barbara product has won a U.S. Open Pro Junior title as Lakey Peterson won in 2011 and Coffin in 2012.

Santa Barbara Soccer Club’s U15 Boys White Wins Second National Championship The U15 Boys White team from Santa Barbara Soccer Club clinched its second straight US Youth Soccer National Championship on Saturday with a 2-1 overtime win over Dix Hills Elite of New York. Lucky Puengrod’s overtime goal was the game-winner for Santa Barbara, which took a 1-0 lead in the first half on a goal by Sahid Conteh. Conteh scored in the 26th minute to give Santa Barbara the initial edge. The score held until the 65th minute when Dix Hills’ Christopher McAuliffe converted a corner kick to tie the game. Puengrod scored on a penalty kick in the second overtime. Santa Barbara was 3-0-1 at the national tournament in Overland Park, Kansas. The full Santa Barbara roster, coached by Rudy Ybarra, includes Juan Pablo Santana, Timothy Heiduk, Carson Vom Steeg, Juan Alvarez, Francisco Arroyo, Tanner Mees, Benjamin Garcia, Jules Pasco, Antony Andoyan, Eric Contreras, Brandon Sanchez, Jacob Blacker, Giovanny Acosta, Raul Guerrero, Chairat Puengrod, Edward Delgado, Brian Finger, Shea Blackman and Sahid Conteh.

Van Pelt to Enter CSU Hall of Fame Bradlee Van Pelt was announced as one of six 2013 inductees to the Colorado State Athletic Hall of Fame, the university announced this week. Van Pelt, who graduated from San Marcos High School in 1999, played three years of quarterback at Colorado State and was drafted in the NFL Draft’s seventh round by the Denver Broncos. While at CSU, Van Pelt became only the fourth player in NCAA history to throw for at least 5,000 yards and rush for more than 2,000 yards during a career. He led the Rams to three consecutive bowl appearances and was named the Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year twice.

During his senior season, Van Pelt flirted with becoming the first collegiate quarterback to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season. At San Marcos, he was recruited from Santa Barbara after a senior season in which he excelled at two positions. Van Pelt totaled 1,265 yards and 13 touchdowns throwing and 1,294 yards and 24 TDs rushing. On defense, he had 41 tackles and three interceptions. He was named the CIF Division IV Player of the Year, adding the Channel League MVP and All-County Player of the Year awards. Van Pelt started his college career at Michigan State before transferring to Colorado State.

WEEKEND SPORTS CALENDAR

FRIDAY – AUGUST 2 Old Spanish Days Rodeo, at Earl Warren Showgrounds: While the Professional Bull Riders competed on Thursday night, the PRCA Rodeo invites spectators to watch on Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30pm, and on Sunday at 1:30pm in the afternoon. A Fiesta tradition since 1924. SATURDAY – AUGUST 3 Santa Barbara Golf Classic, at Santa Barbara Golf Club (Muni): This two-day, 36-hole golf tournament features a format in which two partners compete together. Steve Lass and John Pate have won the tournament a record 12 times together. SUNDAY – AUGUST 4 USPA Piaget Silver Cup, at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club: Part of the High Goal Season, the Piaget Silver Cup is the oldest polo trophy in the United States. Matches will be held at 1 and 3pm on the field in front of the grandstands. Gates open at noon. Dress code is casual; however, many people enjoy dressing up. TUESDAY– AUGUST 6 Movie Screening of Chasing Mavericks, at Santa Barbara Maritime Museum: Come see Chasing Mavericks, a film by UCSB film studies graduate Josh Pomer, with screenings at 6 and 8 pm. The story of Mavericks, California’s world-famous bigwave surf break, is one of triumph, danger and loss. The movie provides an insider’s view of how the wave was discovered and made into legend.

ome people have come to call them “Schatzle-isms” but I just call them Jenny Schatzle life lessons. They are universal truths, stemming from my experiences, that I think everybody should internalize and consider. I finish every Bootcamp with one, and we recently finished a Sentinel Bootcamp. So here, dear readers, is my closing question to you: Are you living the life that you want and the life you always envisioned? If your answer is yes, then, please, by all means, pat yourself on the back and proceed to the workout below. If your answer if no, however, ask yourself these follow-up questions: Why not? And more importantly, how are we going to get you to where you’d like to be? My program is about proper nutrition and fitness – just ask anyone who has done it regularly – but it is also about making positive choices, creating happiness and making room in your life for amazing experiences, relationships and great memories. I’m not asking you to change every routine and indulgence that you have, not at all, but I am asking you to let go of self-destructive behavior and the past, and start taking steps toward that life you’ve always wanted. Like I say every week, it’s simple, and I can help. All I need from you is the desire to change and I have the rest. It’s your life and you should live every day to the fullest. What else is there? Think about it. Now let’s get to that workout.

Warm-up:

Jumping jacks – 10 Squats – 10 Push-ups – 10 Mountain climbers – 10 (Repeat three times)

Workout:

This is brutal: 100 jumping jacks 10 pop ups 90 mountain climbers (regular) 10 pop ups 80 crunches 10 pop ups 70 mountain climbers (twist) 10 pop ups 60 tire jumps 10 pop ups

50 side lunges 10 pop ups 40 squat jumps 10 pop ups 30 jump lunges 10 pop ups 20 frog jump squats 10 pop ups 10 jumping jacks 10 pop ups

What’s A Pop Up?

I know, this week’s workout is similar to last week’s workout, except for that I’ve added 10 pop ups between each movement and the movements themselves are in a different order. If you don’t know what I mean by a pop up, or want to learn exactly how to execute a proper pop up – which, by the way, is one of my favorite and most devious movements – please go to my YouTube channel (Jenny Schatzle) and watch the video on how to do one right. This workout should be done for time, so flow as quickly as possible through the movements and keep your heart rate (way) up. Do it once through and, if you need more, go for a second round. But this one will be – or at least it should be – quite the little challenge. Love it. As always, if you have any questions about anything (or you want more or need a little motivation), please feel free to contact me directly at 805.698.6080 or jenny@ jennyschatzle.com. Write Jenny a letter (letters@santabarbarasentinel.com) or contact her directly with any questions at jenny@jennyschatzle.com. And go get ‘em, the Sentinel is rooting for you.

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by Jana Mackin

A journalist and a poet, Jana has lived everywhere from New Orleans and Butte, Montana to Saudi Arabia, where she taught English to children. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post and San Francisco Examiner. She now lives in the Valley.

A Dream Come True: The Story of Ampelos Cellars Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

t the heart of the Santa Rita Hills appellation is Ampelos Cellars – a viticulture pastorale of cultivated primavera in otherwise parched grazing land. The noonday sun promises sweltering heat as sweat trickles down my forehead. I walk with Peter Work, who together with his wife, Rebecca, owns and farms the 82-acre property. Peter is patience in motion, delicately educating me about the vines. Twenty-five acres of Pinot Noir, Syrah, Viognier, Grenache and Syrah vines flame the hills green. Come harvest, fiery colors and ripe fruit will color the property into an Impressionistic autumn palette. Ampelos ranks among the bed-rock vineyards in this “New Frontier” appellation, granted American Viticultural Area (AVA) status in 2001, that has wowed the Grand Cru of wine snobs and aficionados around the world. Peter’s footprint sets deep in the tierra loam of Santa Rita Hills. He helped found the Santa Rita Hills Winegrowers Alliance and has served on the board. He has also served on the board of the Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association. He is a viticulturist, a winemaker and an educator of biodynamic/organic viticulture.

Peter, head forklift operator, gets it done at the production facility.

Peter Work, patriarch of Ampelos Cellars, at home with Artemis and Apollo just before a long day in the vineyards.

As we walk (ok, sometimes we drive Peter’s old GMC pickup with more than 200,000 miles), a hen scurries with her brood through the vineyard. About 90 chickens help form part of the vineyard terroir. Towering owl boxes built by Peter – whose job titles range from carpenter to tractor driver to winemaker and on

Savor the Summer Simple. Rustic. California.

Peter and Rebecca aren’t only growing grapes in the Santa Rita Hills – here’s Peter in the garden.

from there – invite the predator birds for varmint control. Artemis and Apollo run like mad dogs and Englishmen in the heat through the 100% solar powered vineyards that have earned the rare triple crown of USDA Stellar Organic, Demeter Biodynamic, and Sustainability in Practice (SIP) certifications. What intrigues me, particularly, are fledgling Alsace-style Riesling vines sprouting out of grow tubes on a steep hill. Turns out that Peter and Rebecca went over to Europe and brought back thousands of cuttings, which they nurtured and planted and tended. Tough work on the steep hill. But these are people not afraid to dig in compost. Steeple upon steeple of grow tubes sprouting vines stack against the hill. “The vines want to grow,” says Peter, 54. “If we listen to the vines, they tell us what they want. They teach us.” And Peter taught me.

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What was the genesis of this trellised Elysium whose fruit again promises a remarkable “Rho” Pinot Noir fit for the ages? What sunlight beckoned the vines to grow?

Those are Riesling vines poking out of growing tubes on a steep and rocky hillside vineyard. (When can we try the Riesling, Peter?)

The fruits of Peter’s labor. Literally. And figuratively, I suppose.

It was a twist of fate. And a cruel one at that. Peter and Rebecca’s viticultural dream was cultivated not just from the parched earth but from the twisted, moaning, cracking calamity of 125,000 tons of shattered glass amidst a million cubic yards of debris that nearly morgued Peter at Ground Zero on 9/11 as well.

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McMillan and many others who shared their knowledge to help cultivate the fledgling winery and vineyard. 2004 was their first harvest – 15 tons of Pinot Noir and six tons of Syrah. In 2005, they planted 10 more acres on top of the original 15 acres of vines. Then in 2006, the Works converted Ampelos Cellars to organic and biodynamic farming as part of their commitment to organic and sustainable viticulture farming. Among those that influenced Peter to convert Ampelos to biodynamic sustainability was Dr. Rudolf Steiner, a philosopher, scientist and founder of biodynamics. Likewise, Goethe’s work, Metamorphosis of Plants, played an important role. In 2008, Ampelos was certified sustainable. In 2009, the vineyards were also certified organic as well as biodynamic. That’s quite an evolution for a couple that, starting out, “could barely keep a house plant alive.” “Peter and Rebecca have been a major contributor to the Santa Rita Hills AVA,” said Jeff Newton, 61, vineyard manager/ consultant. “One of the things they’ve done is to be very committed to biodynamic farming and certified organic. They are people who changed tracks. They stopped doing the tech thing and started growing grapes and making wines and have been successful. They produce excellent grapes

Sure beats an office job, don’t it Peter?

Ampelos is Greek for “Vine.” “Moira” is Greek for fate. Fate canceled Peter’s business meeting scheduled in the first tower of the World Trade Center, and interrupted his plan to board a WTC PATH commuter train that ran beneath the twin towers. The couple had caught the red-eye to Newark, arriving the early morning of 9/11. Peter had a meeting in the first tower of the World Trade Center. But his meeting was canceled at the last minute. Had Peter boarded the PATH train, he would have caught an express train to oblivion. The subway train was slated to arrive under the WTC at 8:45 am. Flight 11 hit the North Tower at roughly 466 miles per hour just after 8:46am. “Live,” Peter told me. “You need to dare to dream. People dream too little.”

From Board Rooms to (Sustainable) Wine Rooms Peter has had an interesting career, with positions ranging from Senior Partner at Price Waterhouse to Director of IT at Disney to Chief Technology Officer at Exult. “Sometimes in life you have to get up to 10,000 feet to get high above the level of regular day-to-day and see what you really want,” said Peter. I couldn’t agree more, Peter. He and Rebecca met at Price Waterhouse in 1992 and were married in Greece in 1995. They also own Ampelos Resort together, a small B&B on the island of Folegandros. The new chapter in the Works’ life story began while they were still corporate executives living in Los Angeles. Weekend jaunts to Santa Rita Hills lured them to the area and they purchased 82 acres in 1999. “When we started in 1999, there was nothing but grazing lands. We had a big house in Los Angeles,” said Peter. “We would go on wine expeditions on the weekend. We loved the area. We loved the climate. We loved the ‘New Frontier’ way of thinking.” Busy with their lives, their son, Don

Peter Work and Ampelos Cellars Tasting Room Manager Heather Flores hard at work (sure beats an office job, don’t it Heather?).

(now Sea Smoke Cellars’ cellar master), began installing irrigation and trellis systems. In 2001, 15 acres of land was planted with vines. This was the seminal year of 9/11. That defining moment and subsequent postmortem by Peter and Rebecca on their existing lives as corporate executives in banking and information technology led to a tectonic shift from the high-rolling, corporate stratosphere of Gulfstream jets and private yachts to a slow-ripening epiphany of farmers, vintners and stewards of the land, savoring the fruit of a dream realized instead of dumped in the rubble of Fresh Kills Landfill. The couple quit their corporate jobs in January, 2002. “When I get up in the morning nothing excites me more than to dig into what we are now doing,” Rebecca told me, smiling. Since then, Ampelos Cellars has evolved into a small, environmentally and socially responsible vineyard on the forefront of organics, biodynamics and sustainability. Besides the Works’ own extensive research, they learned from their son and such experts as Jeff Newton, Philippe Coderey, Lars Petersen, Bruno D’Alfonso, Kris Curran, Craig

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and very, very good wines.” “And they have a very good story.” Indeed they do, Jeff. Indeed they do.

The Story Continues… In Lompoc The Ampelos story continues at Ampelos Cellars Tasting Room at the Lompoc Wine Ghetto, which showcases their wines. They produce 3,500 cases annually. They also have collaborated with clients such as actor Kurt Russell to create wines like Russell’s Gogi label. Besides showcasing wines, the tasting room is a testament to recycling design and sustainability. While you sip a 2012 “Phi” Viognier, a 2009 “Gamma” Syrah or 2009 “Lambda” Pinot Noir, gaze up at the lighting provided by grow tubes hanging from vineyard stakes. The bartop and tables come from redwood fence salvaged from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Insulation is provided by styrofoam shipping containers Peter saved from a dumpster. As you sit in a chair made from recycled pallets, contemplate the Bennu Bordeaux-shape bottles made of recycled glass that “mingles notes of soda ash, sand and limestone.” Then, as you pour that beautiful Pinot Noir from refired glass, mentally compare it to the shattered glass of might-havebeens at Fresh Kills had not fate butted in. And remember to dream.

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by Rachelle Oldmixon

From Research to Commerce: UCSB Entrepreneurship Shines with Aptitude Medical Systems Aptitude Medical Systems founders Jackson Gong, Scott Ferguson and JP Wang (from left to right) are making a big difference in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. (Go Gauchos!)

his week’s science story really begins in January, 2011. Three men, two graduate engineering students and one post-doc in the Institute of Collaborative Biotechnologies at UCSB noticed the potential impact their research could have on the world outside academia. They discussed taking their research into the public sphere in the form of a startup company. But starting a company based on innovation and new technology isn’t cheap. And academic researchers at their level are not exactly rolling in extra dough. If they were going to launch such an ambitious start-up company, the men needed to know that it provided a desired product and that they could fund the initial costs. Luckily, UCSB has a history of producing young entrepreneurs. To foster that tradition, UCSB’s Technology Management Program founded the New Venture Competition over a decade ago. Students who participate are paired with mentors and given the guidance they need to develop a strong business plan, evaluate the market, and even develop a prototype. This year, the winning business will be awarded $10,000 in start-up funds and is eventually often further supported by investors who attend the final day of the competition. That opportunity is one most young entrepreneurs can only dream of having. And it’s one that doesn’t often come around twice.

Achieving the Impossible Scott Ferguson, Jackson Gong, and J.P. Wang did not let their company stay a dream for long. The two engineers and biologist took full advantage of the competition and dove in head-first. In addition to working full-time in their lab on campus, which often requires ten hour days, the three dedicated innumerable

hours networking, attending seminars, defining their dream company and fighting for their place in the competition. From November of 2010 to May of 2011, I can only imagine that they slept little and worked more hours than most work in a year. All that time (and sleep deprivation) paid off. Their company, Aptitude Medical Systems, was one of the six chosen to advance to the final round of the New Venture Competition, ultimately winning the awards for both best business plan and most fundable idea. (For those of you who are interested, you can still watch their pitch to the judges at http://www.uctv.tv/ search-details.aspx?showID=22629. The video has all six pitches, so if you want to focus on Aptitude Medical Systems, skip ahead to 42:40.) If you have been paying attention up until now, you’ll notice that I still haven’t told you what the men of Aptitude Medical Systems proposed their company would do. When I spoke to Scott, he kept it a secret, too. I think he likes the suspense. It’s simple, really. Aptitude Medical Systems is in the business of doing what was previously impossible.

Making the World a Better Place Many diseases are detected through a doctor’s diagnosis. Of course, a diagnosis for anything more serious than a cold is usually made after some sort of test. These tests often include looking for what is called a biomarker, a molecule or cell within the body that indicates the presence of the disease in question. Tests frequently, ah, test for those markers. However, many biomarkers are structurally very similar to other biomarkers, leading to false positives

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or, worse, false negatives. These tests are typically developed by using a particular natural resource: a living body. Both human and nonhuman entities are already capable of detecting many of these biomarkers. That’s how the immune system targets infections. The typical technology teaches an animal’s immune system to respond to the biomarker of interest. The molecule produced by the animal in order to “tag” the biomarker is then collected and altered so that the human eye (or a computer’s camera) can detect it. The detector molecule, typically an antibody, is then used to test human samples for the target biomarker. Simple, right? Well, while antibodies are the most common means for detecting disease biomarkers or targeted therapies, they are fraught with limitations. For example, often they fail to effectively recognize the right biomarkers; other times, they are just not sensitive enough to permit early detection of disease or to screen broad populations. Enter the men at Aptitude Medical Systems. They, together with a team of UCSB graduates and industry veterans, have taken the research they started in the H.T. Soh Lab at UCSB and used it overcome the limitations of that system. They have created a new generation of synthetic antibodies using nucleic acids. This has allowed them to reach a level of precision previously unheard of in the medical field, enabling and facilitating new products, diagnosis and treatment. In short, they are making the world a better place. Period.

A Local Business With (Increasingly) Global Reach Ferguson, Gong and Wang love what they do. It’s their passion, their contribution to the betterment of medicine. What I find sad, though, is that most patients will never know that their lives were saved by an innovation too small to see with the naked eye. It’s not a shiny new medical toy that will attract the attention of news stations. Even I would never have heard of the work Aptitude Medical Systems’ aptamers are doing had I not met Scott Ferguson. It’s a little shocking, really. Most of us living in Santa Barbara, myself included, had no idea that there was a company revolutionizing medical technology in our backyard. Better yet, I bet even fewer knew that the company, started just two years ago, was already working with international clients. But there is. And they are. As Scott says, the future is bright. And UCSB’s stellar researchers and entrepreneurial spirit is making it that way.

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Rant by Katie Cusimano

A Royal Mess

atherine, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth last week to an 8-pound, 6-ounce baby boy. For a woman who was rumored to top the scales at roughly 120 pounds, that’s a whole lotta baby. So, many are wondering, why is she still so fat? Anyone who had the pleasure of catching a glimpse of the Duchess during her visit to the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club in July of 2011 knows she is not a hefty Highness. To label her as “fat” or “out of shape” is just plain mean. Girlfriend is as fat as my forearm. From the moment Prince William and Kate’s engagement was announced in November, 2010, the obsession with Kate’s weight began. The press wondered whether it was stress – gee, ya think? – or whether Kate was following in the rumored bulimic footsteps of Princess Diana. Katie Couric, nutrition and fitness specialist that she is, even publicly denounced Kate as appearing too skinny. I’m certain Her Royal Highness, upon learning of Couric’s concern, rushed over to a Mr. Softee truck and slugged down a double dip, just to remain in Katie’s good graces. It was rumored Kate dropped two dress sizes during her five month engagement to William. Um, yeah… I starved myself for one full year to impress 150 wedding guests, most of whom were my husband’s Sicilian relatives I didn’t even like. Kate was wearing a dress designed by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen and

was strutting down the aisle in front of millions... including David Beckham. If Mr. Beckham had been a guest at my wedding, I would have requested a FenPhen-themed bridal shower immediately following my engagement.

Some Journalists Sound Like Crying Babies

Fast forward to last week. In my zeal to catch up on the latest online gossip, I made the mistake of scrolling through the comments following coverage of the Duchess’s departure from St. Mary’s Hospital: “ The Duchess Cathryn (sic) looks more pregnant NOW than she did before she gave “birth”! Are we sure we are not being pranked?” “ Kate doesn’t look hot anymore now that she is spitting out babies.” “Time for the sit-ups, Kate.” “ When is she gonna lose that baby weight?!? She’s HUGE!” Huge? I should be so huge. When I saw the photos of HRH, taken less than 24 hours after giving birth, my jaw dropped. Not even Beyonce, who needed only to un-snap her pretend-pregger prosthetic, was able to bolt from her bed and hail a cab that quickly. Silly me. I thought the princess looked fabulous. Great polka dot dress, fabulous blow-out, darling wedges and the post-birth “glow” that must only emanate from mothers of freshly-birthed kings. When I left Cottage Hospital following

Katie Cusimano is a Los Angeles-born, 4thyear college dropout and longtime Santa Barbara resident who revels in exposing the absurdities of everyday life around town. She worked and volunteered for numerous local establishments before finally settling on the glamorous career of co-parenting her two daughters to be ungrateful teenagers. Currently she serves as president of the SBHS Theatre Foundation and manages promotions for the program.

the birth of my 8-pound, 14-ounce firstborn, an elderly volunteer struggled to wheel my chubby, adult-diapered body to the curb as the sun highlighted the oily roots of my nasty bed head. I wore XXL sweats which, sadly, still fit. My “glow” was Percocet-induced and my parting gift was a barf bowl in my lap. The sign on my minivan read, “Congratulations! It’s a Girl!” At that very moment, I began to plot my future revenge against my daughter during her teen years. Seriously? Do people really think labor and delivery magically restore your body to its pre-pregnancy, svelte state? That might be possible if your gynecologist removes your pancreas and large intestine, along with your baby and placenta. But real women – normal women – learn that bodies need time to rest and recover. Two things crying newborns and the media clearly don’t understand.

Focus on the Small Things (You Know, the Newborns) The condition of a woman’s lady parts post-birth is equivalent to what would result if a man sat butt-naked on a Magic Bullet. If Prince William emerged from a hospital after sitting on a spinning blender, I doubt Wolf Blitzer would criticize the size of his package. Yet our obsession with womens’ fitness and physical beauty has reached such unattainable standards that we criticize a princess for being human – and for having the courage to display the natural progression of a post-pregnancy body. She could have hidden her bump with an oversized Burberry bag, or

covered her belly with a convenientlyplaced baby blanket. But she chose to be honest. (Except for the hair. No one has that hair.) I could almost hear the collective sighs of relief from women all over the world, grateful that Kate was sporting a mummy tummy. After I gave birth, I wasn’t concerned with how bangin’ my body needed to look. My priorities were learning to pee on my own and how to sneak in a shower each day before 6pm. My local gynos recommended I not return to strenuous activities or exercise until 4-6 weeks after giving birth. I have had more than one friend in Santa Barbara ignore similar advice, only to injure their innards and suffer setbacks that long-exceeded the 6-week time frame. Why? Is it the fitness culture in Santa Barbara? Is it a California thing? Or is it more pervasive than that? OK Magazine, published by American Media Inc. out of New York, published a six-page “Duchess Diet and Shape-up Plan.” Seriously? Wait. It gets better. Inside, the magazine ponders: “The question on everyone’s lips is not just the name, sex or weight of the baby, but also how Kate plans to return to her pre-pregnancy glory.” How sad to put so much pressure on a woman who just made a person. According to Mayo Clinic certified nurse-midwife, Mary M. Murry, R.N., C.N.M., “there’s no magic timeline for returning to your pre-baby form. You were pregnant for many months, and it might take at least that long – if not longer – for the changes in your body to fade. Some changes might be permanent.” She’s not kidding. My permanent changes are now 20 and 17 years old and still live at home. In any event, I hope Her Royal Highness postpones the royal gym and dotes over Boy George for as long as possible. A wise mentor once told me, “Your tummy will always be around you... your children will not.” And now, nearly two decades after birthing my amazing daughters, I have plenty of time to do crunches. I can sweat it out at the gym today because I didn’t sweat the small stuff back then. When they were little and my tummy was not.

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Obama: Summer Tour 2013

erhaps I am a bit harsh on President Obama. I have used these pages on occasion to criticize his policies. I don’t mean to pick on the guy but… hey, he is the president, he has the bully pulpit, and whatever he says and does is subject to fair criticism. For those who don’t know, I heavily criticized “W” Bush for many of the same things. Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but the difference between our two political parties isn’t that great. So here goes. I’ll try to be fair. The president announced that this summer he will focus on “the economy.” Meaning that he will give speeches around the country to remind us that he “will spend every minute of every day doing everything in [his] power to make this economy work for working Americans again…” Wow that sounds like hard work, as W. Bush used to say. The crux of his four speeches and addresses made last week on the economy is this: If we don’t make the investments America needs to make this country a magnet for good jobs, if we don’t make investments in education and manufacturing and science and research and transportation and information networks, we will be waving the white flag while other countries forge ahead in a global economy. To sum up the president’s specific plans to grow the economy, he wants the government to “invest” (i.e., spend) in infrastructure, education, clean energy technologies and Obamacare. He believes these kinds of fiscal stimuli (government spending) will revive the economy so that middle-class families will be better off: “[F]or decades, a growing middle class was the engine of our prosperity; it’s what made us great. If you worked hard, you knew your work was going to be rewarded, with fair wages, good benefits, the chance to buy a home, save for retirement, and most of all, the chance to pass down a better life to your kids. That’s the American Dream.” The only problem is that he’s wrong on all counts. Now wait a minute before you throw away this worthy journal. I’m not against having good roads and bridges, better education and good health care. It’s just that his programs will never achieve these goals. He’s already tried these things and they failed, so why does he think they will work now? Back in 2009 he pushed

through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which spent about $800 billion on infrastructure, tax relief and entitlements. I dealt with the failure of this Act in my last column, but at the bill’s signing V.P. Joe Biden said: “Starting today, our administration will be working day and night to provide more aid for the unemployed, create immediate jobs, building our roads and our bridges, make long-term investments in a smarter energy grid, and so much more. And as we turn the economy around, we’ve got to make sure of one more thing. Last time an economic recovery occurred after a deep recession, the middle class got left behind – the middle class got left behind.” Sound familiar? Four years later, the middle class still got left behind and the economy isn’t thriving. It was supposed to work, damn it. It doesn’t work because the premises on which the president’s policies are based are wrong. These things never work. To have a clue on how to fix the economy and help the middle and lower classes you have to know why things got broken in the first place. And the Administration doesn’t. It attempts to fix symptoms rather than causes. If you stop the thermometer from going past 101° you won’t cure the fever. Spending on symptoms may be good politically, but economically it’s basically a waste of money. What the economy needs to grow is more savings (capital), not spending; less regulation on companies and entrepreneurs who would expand businesses and create jobs and wealth; less government spending and taxation; and less money printing by the Fed which distorts the entire economy, trashes the dollar, and creates unsustainable bubbles. It is the common belief and an article of faith of the Administration that government can create jobs and thus prosperity. We hear the president say that if it weren’t for the gridlock in Congress, which hampers his efforts to spend more money, we’d be able to create jobs and grow the economy. Nothing is further from the truth. As I pointed out in my last column, few, if any, of the “jobs” created by the 2009 Recovery Act lasted longer than the money spent. Only private businesses can create real lasting jobs because an enterprise must satisfy consumers’ needs and yield a profit. Profit is the signal to the entrepreneur that he or she is doing something right, and thus the

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business and jobs survive. Jobs created by government only exist because taxes from these profits pay for them. Will better roads and bridges create long-term prosperity? Perhaps in the abstract. That is, the lack of such would hamper the economy, but despite the claims of proponents of more spending, the good ol’ U.S. of A. has the best infrastructure in the world. More and more spending would be just another handout by Congress to reward favored constituents. It didn’t work the first time (Recovery Act) and it won’t work now. Will cheap energy save the economy and thus the middle class? Well it helps

“Four years later, the middle class still got left behind and the economy isn’t thriving. It was supposed to work, damn it.” in that consumers and businesses spend less on energy. But the government had absolutely nothing to do with this and nothing it can do in the future will help because the boom in natural gas and oil shale production occurred due to one thing only: high prices. Market forces signaled energy producers that there was a need for more energy, private capital was invested in the sector, and more oil and gas was the result. What happens when the government gets involved in energy? Solyndra’s default on $538 million of federal loan guarantees is a good example. We now see many of these government-funded clean energy companies quietly shut

down because the market wasn’t there for their product. Obviously private capital was aware of this and didn’t invest such speculative projects. According to the Mercatus Center very few jobs were created from the government’s efforts to fund solar energy. Yet President Obama still sees this as the cornerstone to revive American manufacturing. Education spending? This is a real hot potato because we do have a crappy education system. According to private industry, high school and college graduates still lack basic skills needed to get jobs. Industry has a hard time trying to fill jobs, especially in technical areas. Will more spending on a broken system solve our skills problems short term or long term? I doubt it. For the life of me, I don’t understand how Obamacare will create jobs, revive the economy and help the middle class. I would agree the health care system is broken but that is because it is one of the most heavily regulated industries in America. If you wish to understand the problem, you can’t keep calling it a free market industry. It’s funny that food, for instance, is the one thing that everyone needs the most to survive, yet the food industry provides the most choices at the cheapest prices. Funny also that it is one of the least regulated (compared to health care) vital industries in America. Giving the government almost complete control over the health care system will only make it more expensive and less effective, as every government controlled health care system around the world has found out. Who knows, maybe the president will swing by Santa Barbara on his summer econ tour. We can then hear how he intends to do everything he can to help the middle class. If he does, watch your wallet. You’re going to pay for it.

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I’m in a mental fetal position, tortured by thoughts of delicious food and delightful wines and craft cocktails, unable to continue the conversation in any meaningful fashion. “Yeah, Jason, just really happy for you guys. “So, ah, when do you open?”

It’s Gonna Be Money, Baby After my “interview” with Jason, I got down to the business of getting down. (What can I say? It’s my favorite part of the job.) I enjoyed a couple slices of those great Lucky Penny wood-fired pizzas,

scarfed down a little spinach salad, drank a Fig Mountain beer or two, talked to the people who made it all happen, took some pictures, walked the property and checked all the cool stuff out and generally had a blast. I could go on for thousands of words here – like I said, this is hard – but I guess I’ll finish with this. To me, The Lark and the Lucky Penny really represent a potential confluence of design and food and wine and drink and service with a Santa Barbara vibe that could be very special. (Think casual, contemporary, sophisticated but approachable and fun.) I’m into it, way

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into it, and can’t wait to get in for dinner. I won’t have to wait long. The whole thing opens to the public on Tuesday, August 6. I’m telling you, it’s going to be money.

STUFF I LIKE

Superintendent Rick Musmecci of Young Construction kept everybody in line. Here he’s standing out in front of the Lucky Penny (yep, those are real pennies covering the entire exterior of the place). Hey Rick, I couldn’t help but overhear that you love riding motorcycles in San Francisco. Sounds like fun.

I like lots of stuff this week. I’ll try to be brief. First, I like The Lark and the Lucky Penny. Check them out at www. thelarksb.com and www.luckypennysb. com (both sites will be fully operational soon). Better yet, just walk by and check the whole thing out or make reservations for August 6 at (805)284-0370. See you there, for sure. Second, I like local filmmaker Josh Pomer’s surf documentary Discovering Mavericks, which played to a sold out crowd at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival back in February. (It also had a successful run at the Newport Beach Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award.) Josh is showing his flick at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum on Tuesday, August 6, with one showing at 6pm and another at 8pm. Check that one out for sure, should be a blast. ...continued p.30

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with Mark Léisuré

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

Chukkers, Shrimp Cocktails And Martinis

know what you’re thinking. Why do they call it a chukker anyway? Truth is, I don’t know. It’s probably not too hard to figure out. You could look it up. Or I could. Wikipedia, I’d imagine, might even have the answer. But the deeper truth is I don’t care. What I do know is that it’s the same thing as a period in hockey or a quarter in football or basketball – a rose by any other name... Except there are six of them in a match and they’re 7 ½ minutes long each. We’re talking about polo here, and what I also know is that polo is one of the coolest professional sports you’ll ever get to watch around these parts. In fact it might be the only professional sport you can see in the area. And this isn’t the minor leagues, either. During high goal season, which is going on right now at the Santa Barbara Polo Club, some of the very best players in the world congregate Allie Azzaro charges down the field at the Santa Barbara Polo right here in Santa Barbara Club. (well, actually, on the border between the beast in Boston and Baltimore (not Summerland and Carpinteria) for two to mention Chavez Ravine), the genteel folks to show up every Sunday during months of tournaments. Polo boasts an incredible combination the summer at the Polo Club are totally of speed, power, finesse and reaction time laid back, clad in lovely summer dresses – and that’s just the horses. (Which, by (and inexplicably, since they have to walk the way, are called polo ponies. And I do on grass most of the time, high heels) know why. It’s because originally horses or summer slacks and perhaps a sport had to be under a certain height to qualify, coat. Casual elegant. They hang out in and although that restriction has been the clubhouse or the “boxes” – which are lifted, most of the equine athletes are still nothing like the luxury boxes at Dodger Stadium, just canvas chairs on concrete on the shorter side for agility reasons.) Anyway, polo also has a lot of unusual set aside for sponsors – and often don’t rules regarding what the players can do even pay attention to the action on the in trying to use their mallets to drive the field as they gossip about the happenings hard plastic ball through goal posts on a in Hope Ranch or Montecito movers and field 300 yards long (you could fit nine shakers, or the terrific hors d’oeuvres at football fields in there). One says you can’t the party last night. No beer drinkers and cross the line of play, which is a little hard sunflower seed spitters here. It’s shrimp to explain, but sometimes it seems like cocktails and martinis all the way. But despite all the wealth around you, the horses and riders are just milling right next to the ball, while at other moments it doesn’t cost a pretty penny to get in. In the action is positively explosive. Which fact, the price of admission on Sundays is is incredibly exciting, especially when all just $10, including for tournament finals, eight horses on the field are charging after and it’s absolutely free when matches are a loose ball right in front of the clubhouse scheduled on weekdays. The final of the second high goal and the energy is palpable. But it’s also one of the most leisurely tournament was played last Sunday, and a sports to watch. Whereas fans of really weird thing happened: The sponsor football, hockey and basketball can of the winning team was named the get pretty rabid when their teams are MVP. That might not sound like much, competing, and even baseball brings out but in polo, the sponsors actually play

Winners of the “Rock & Roll division.

Sugar Erskine denies Tavi Usandizaga in a match at the Polo Club.

on the field with the other three professional players they’ve hired to join them – often for hundreds of thousands of dollars for the summer. That’s like Steinbrenner forming the double-play tandem with Jeter on the Yankees, or Artie Moreno catching Zack Greinke for the Angels. Sure, the sponsors occasionally score a goal or two if they’re really lucky, and maybe contribute a bit on defense, but mostly they just get out of the way and let the hired guns run the action. So the fact that team Restoration Hardware’s Ben Soleimani scored five goals last Sunday, as many as his superstar teammate Hilario Ulloa did, blew a lot of people’s minds. Including his. “It’s amazing,” he said after collecting double hardware for the tournament victory and the MVP award. “I’m going to Disneyland.” Now that’s a man who understands leisure.

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by Jim Luksic

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

The Conjuring

his bona-fide supernatural frightfest, inspired by a true story about a family in Rhode Island, circa 1970, is a cut above what we’ve endured from the mainstream horror mill. The Perrons unwittingly moved into a haunted farmhouse that has a history of murderous, suicidal secrets. Helping to investigate and fend off the evil spirits is a religious, married couple (believable Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) who specializes in paranormal circumstances. As the wayward Perrons with a brood of children, Rob Livingston and Lili Taylor strike the right balance of playing it straight, being concerned and personable. Director James Wan, too, generally handles the mayhem and macabre with integrity – even when things get out of control before the curtain comes down.

Grown Ups? Where?

Adam Sandler reprises his role as a lowkey Hollywood success story who moves the wife (Salma Hayek) and kids back to his childhood town. Our story coincides with the last day of school, which leads to more shenanigans than would fit in a calendar year. The starting point? A trespassing deer with a full bladder roams around the hero’s home and soaks half of his family. The attempts at humor, hard to believe, get worse from there – despite the absence of Rob Schneider (typically Sandler’s charity case). The point of this ill-advised sequel, as far as I could determine, involves life lessons dispensed by children, though the difference between the kids and adults is often undetectable. Hayek’s presence and Chris Rock’s wisecracks fail to stem the tide. A climactic showdown pitting college hotshots against old “townies” can’t accurately be described as either mature or creative. Taylor Lautner actually earns a few laughs as the fraternity’s ringleader with a chip on his shoulder.

R.I.P.D. on Life Support

As a slain police officer, Ryan Reynolds finds himself in the Rest In Peace Department, where he’s welcomed by a prissy, no-nonsense Mary-Louise Parker (her choice of beverage: a bottle of Fresca). From that point on, this action-comedy shoots itself in the foot with too many similarities. The bad seeds morph into extra-large caricatures or aliens, perhaps distant cousins of those in Men in Black. One blubbery miscreant, who practically ruins the movie, recalls Fat Bastard of Austin Powers infamy. In patrolling the deceased criminals, the hero will

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You Have Your Hands Full

Don’t worry. I’m ready with my light saber to slay any mean monster who tries to get you.” Even now, at night when I tuck him in he still jumps in his sleep to my touch. He shouts and immediately protects his face from my kisses like he is protecting himself from an incoming grenade in the bunker. God knows what that kid is actually dreaming about. “He is a panicker,” Olivia started saying. “He panics, before he even tries.” Every situation he has ever been in has ultimately been described as a panic attack, a panic moment, in the midst of panicking. Alpha couldn’t take it anymore and finally put a kibosh on the word. “We just can’t use that word so flippantly,” he lectured, “otherwise, he will never be able to shake it. This is a phase, this is not who he is.” “Okay, whatever you say Daddy, but he panics all the time,” Olivia objected.

by Mara Peters Former editor for the fashion/lifestyle section of the New York

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

The Problem With Big Families and Pier-Jumping

e was ready. I actually thought he would do it. Most of the group had jumped and there were only a few left to take the plunge. Off the Goleta Pier. For Junior Lifeguards. “I want to do it, but I am really, really scared to do it too,” my eight-year-old sobbed. “But I really, really want to do it.” I had spent the last half an hour watching his D-Group jump. Those that lingered while climbing the railing had a tough time. It took his sister, Olivia, three attempts before her jump. She finally climbed the barrier; looked straight ahead (instead of down at the 25-foot drop). Only spending whatever few seconds she could on that top railing, she made up her mind that she was going. And then she was a goner, shouting with joy as she hit the water. Swimming to the surface, she emerged ecstatic with

euphoria all over her face. Teddy watched with a mix of admiration for her and disappointment in himself. “Come on Teddy!! It is so fun, JUMP!” she shouted from below. But it wasn’t that easy for Teddy.

Junior Lifeguards Face Their Fears (Usually, Anyway) We were in week three for junior lifeguards out at UCSB. I consider it to be the best program on the planet for kids. Every day, the senior lifeguards systematically push the kids forward, teaching them to face their fears. Mind over matter. Think you can’t run for a couple miles on the beach? Think again. Not strong enough to swim beyond the waves? Try

The Problem With Older Brothers Teddy, definitely not panicking, way up on the Goleta Pier. (No worries, Teddy, you’ll get ‘em next year and we’ll do a whole story on it.)

the daily 100-yard buoy swims in the ocean’s open water. It all builds to the big day – the pier jump, the ultimate moment that they have been aiming towards all summer. Face your fears. Take the plunge. Realize how strong you are. I knew this summer was going to be hard on my little guy. He was playing up (so to speak), the youngest kid in the program. Yes, his participation was partly driven by my motivation to drop all three kids at the same place and time. But there was a bigger reason to sign Teddy up for junior guards. He lives in fear. Ever since he was little, his imagination has run wild. On play dates, I cautioned mothers that he might want to know at all times where they are in the house. He actually believed a monster could (and would) come out to kill him at any given moment. Of course, they really didn’t take me all too seriously. But sure enough, at pickup I’d hear, “Mara, you were right, he never let up. Not even when I was in the bathroom.” The stories were always about how they were shouting back to him from everywhere in the house: “I’m right here.

And so, you can only imagine my panic watching my child try to conquer his fears on the pier. Facing the ultimate test. He gathered his strength, stopped sobbing and walked over to the end. He peered through the railings and sheepishly waved to his favorite lifeguard Andy, floating on a paddleboard. “I don’t think I can do it today Andy!” he shouted down in a strong, confident voice. He was definitely not panicking. No shaking. He was handling himself so well. I couldn’t believe it. “Maybe next time little man,” Andy shouted back. We were hugging and I was telling him how proud I was that he even wanted to do the jump. That was progress. And then we looked up from our really nice little moment. My oldest son Jackson was leading the charge for the next group, the C’s. Before they even lined up, he took to the railing with breathtaking speed, hit the top and launched into space, propelling his large, athletic frame off the pier and into the water. When he surfaced he hollered in victory, “That was so great. Can I do it again?” Teddy sagged against my leg, his head low. I felt all his confidence rush out and knew he felt defeated. And all I could think was sometimes a big family is a real downer.

Peters’ Pick

successful run in the Junior Lifeguards program requires years of preparation and, trust me, we are all over it with our four year old. Travis Allain has been teaching Charlie how to swim twice a week for the past two months. I have watched – in awe – as our little Charlie has gone from a complete liability around the pool to a confident, multiple stroke Junior Lifeguard-in-themaking. Private lessons will cost you $35 for 20 minutes, and they are worth every penny. Travis Allain. 805.637.2109.

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weekend guide

• LOVE IS FREE What: Old Spanish Days Fiesta Where: Various locations throughout downtown Santa Barbara When: Friday, August 2 – Sunday, August 4 Why: Friday kicks off the annual, confetti-filled Fiesta Historical Parade up State Street, followed by Las Noches de Ronda variety show that night, the Fiesta Stock Horse Show & Rodeo, El Mercado de la Guerra (and del Norte) and so much more! How: ¡Salud!

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e like Lindsey Mickelson. Not only because she is smart and talented and beautiful but also because we like what she does. Lindsey created a business called CMND-Z that celebrates her work as an artist. Her clothing line is crafted from screen prints of her artwork and she is now using her showroom in the Funk Zone to host parties. We like parties, too. CMND-Z is proud to announce that they will now be available to help you host your own private print party in their Funk Zone showroom. You and your friends can sip on libations while Lindsey helps you to create your own – and totally unique – shirt/tank/tee that you get to hand print on site. We like it, Lindsey, and we can’t wait to get the LOVEmikana birds in there for some print partying. Cheers! Call or email Lindsey to schedule your private print party: lindsey@cmnd-z.com/ 805.453.4456. And check out http:// cmnd-z.com/ for more details.

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by Briana Westmacott

What’ll It Cost Me: The above mentioned events are all free! Visit www.oldspanishdays-fiesta.org for more info.

• LOOSE CHANGE What: Pop-up Tacos Where: La Ancla (inside Anchor Woodfire Kitchen), 119 State Street When: Friday, August 2 – Sunday, August 4, 11:30am - 11pm Why: This Fiesta pop-up taqueria is serving up farm to table tacos, guacamoles, salsas and tequilas. Aye yai yai. How: Chicken Tinga? Carne Asada? Spice things up with a Hot Tamale!

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What’ll It Cost Me: How many tacos can you take down?

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WINE & DINE

Santa Barbara SOhO SOL By Eve Sommer-Belin

he Sol Food Festival is fast approaching and, to get things going, SOhO is hosting a collaborative food and music fundraiser this Friday, August 2. Start the night off sipping a farm fresh cocktail whipped up by Ian Cutler of Cutler’s Artisan Spirits while mingling with friends. Then, after your palate is ready, dive into a tasting menu dinner debuting SOhO’s new sustainable, local menu paired with Alma Rosa wines. You’ll also find samples and products for sale from Pascale’s Kitchen, Casitas Valley Creamery, The Juice Club and so many more! After dinner, enjoy live music by The Adam Phillips Band and Cali Conscious. Learn more about the Sol Food Festival (happening in September) at www.solfoodfestival.com and make sure to be part of making it happen. Do something good for your soul and support this wonderful event! Get your tickets now on the site (above) or at the door. See you there.

GREEN SCENE Eye on the Tiger

By Courtney Dietz e’re going to keep this simple. Here are three reasons why you should love Tiger Owl Designs:

• They live and work in a yurt in Ventura. (Raise your hand if you’re jealous.) • They use 100% eco-friendly water-based inks and screen by hand. • They use mostly organic fabrics and seek out social and eco-conscious suppliers.

What: Jazz in the Garden Where: Solvang Festival Theater, 420 Second Street, Solvang When: Sunday, August 4, 3pm Why: Need a break from Fiesta? Head up to wine country and Jazz up your weekend. How: Listen to live jazz by Bear Erickson and friends – a jazz trio playing standards with improvisational left turns – in Solvang’s unique open air theater. What’ll It Cost Me: $15 – $25 per ticket.

The designs of Summer Kemick (and her partner Wes Dalton) are simple and embody the spirit of California. Beautiful imagery adorns totes and tees and tea towels and includes waves, redwoods and bicycles in a style that’s as sweet as our local honey. So get down to this Saturday’s (August 3) Meet Your Makers Sustainable Design and Artisan Market in downtown Santa Barbara, meet Summer and get your hands on your own Tiger Owl Designs. Check out http:// tigerowldesigns.com/ and www.meetyourmakers.org for details. Deal Alert: Use coupon code LOVEMIKANA at online checkout and save 10% through August 31!

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REAL ESTATE

...continued from p.24

by Michael Calcagno

When can Baby Noah start surfing, anyway?

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

Where’s the Inventory?

S Third, I like gambling and booze. (What? Everbody’s got vices.) And the guys at Seven Bar & Kitchen have put them together in a Casino Night on August 10 from 7pm to midnight that should be a blast. $20 will get you in the door for gaming and appetizers, and I hear tons of fun prizes will be raffled off. Get tix in advance at www.nightout. com, or get them at the door: 224 Helena Avenue, in the Funk Zone. Check out www.sevensb.com for details. See you there, y’all, daddy needs to make rent. Fourth, I absolutely love being an

Uncle! And my almost 31-year-old little sister, Kim Schmitz, just had the first boy in our family at Cottage Hospital – terrific job on the remodel, by the way – with her hubby and my good friend Ryan. Noah Montana Schmitz was born on Monday, July 29, 2013, at 6:31am; he weighed in at 7.6 pounds and already loves breastfeeding! (Go Noah!) Huge congrats to Ryan and Kimmie and big sister Presley. Very cool, I’m just thrilled for you guys. Peace, everybody, I’m off to see my new nephew!

Come Get Lucky @ 7 August

o what is the true definition of supply and demand? In classical economic theory, the relation between these two factors determines the price of a commodity. This relationship is thought to be the driving force in a free market. As demand for an item increases, prices rise. When the market responds to the price increase by producing a larger supply, this increases competition and drives the price down. This week, as we have seen in the past months, clearly proves this theory to be accurate. Despite the recent increase in interest rates, the market seems to be forging along with an upward trajectory. There doesn’t seem to be a slowdown in the near future, nor does there seem to be a rapid graph busting increase. What it does show is that there has been a steady increase in prices over the last 10 months as inventory has remained low. Let’s take a look at this week’s numbers. In the past week in the areas east of State, west of State and Hope Ranch in the price ranges of $400,000 to $1,700,000, there were 25 new listings to hit the market. Out of those 25 new properties, four have already closed escrow and two are already pending. In the same areas and price ranges in the last week there were a total of 20 closed properties and 28 that went pending. I am clearly not a microeconomics professor but I would venture to say this is a pretty good reflection of “supply and demand.” Anyway, here are a couple properties that sold this week. Neither Mr. Calcagno nor Sotheby’s International Realty is necessarily the listing broker or agent for any of the properties on this page.

304 Samarkand Dr – $852,000

10 th For Casino Night

344 La Marina Drive – $1,156,000

224 helena ave. santa barbara sevensb.com •

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Downtown 18 West Victoria Street #308 2224 De La Vina Street 504 East Arrellaga 18 West Victoria Street #304 18 West Victoria Street #207 665 Del Parque Drive 18 West Victoria Street #109 2110 De La Vina Street # 6

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