An Insider's Guide to Winning City Council Elections by Montecito Journal

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AS THE CITY GETS MORE INVOLVED IN FUNK ZONE REDEVELOPMENT, WHAT’S LEFT IS LIKELY TO BE SOMETHING LESS THAN FUNKY, P.12

AFTER THREE YEARS, THE MICRO WRESTLING FEDERATION BRINGS ITS CAST OF CHARACTERS BACK TO THE MAVERICK, P.27

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Insider’s Guide

to Winning

CITY Council Elections IT’S A LONG JOURNEY TO THE SANTA BARBARA CITY COUNCIL, BUT IT STARTS WITH ONE SIMPLE STEP: THROW LOGIC OUT THE WINDOW

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Content

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I t’s Crime Time – Senior citizens get arrested for drunken and belligerent behavior, too (it’s not just the young whippersnappers); SBPD spends lots of time dealing with drunken homeless folks; at least one homeless person knows how to game the system; and perhaps our favorite Crime Time quote of the Week. Ever.

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L etters to the Editor – Our use of the word “ancient” to describe a 40-something late night Wildcat partier a couple weeks back draws a letter (and takes Editor-in-Chief Matt Mazza for a walk down memory lane); Jim Mahoney loves the Metro Art Pole in the Funk Zone; politics are (finally) back in the Sentinel (everything from the national debt ceiling to the Las Positas Tennis Court fiasco); and columnist Jeremy Harbin gets a letter. A handwritten letter.

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T he Dish – La Bella Rosa. One of our collective faves here in town. There’s nothing like a great cup of coffee and a little morning trip with the family to the Westside (if you don’t live there already) for some fresh baked Mexican pastries. Thanks Wendy Jenson for reminding everybody. (Sentinel field trip!)

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T he Beer Guy – Anything but a pilsner, laments Zach Rosen… well, sort of, anyway. It turns out that old Zach really likes pilsner-style beers, and there are a few good ones right now in SB.

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S anta Barbara View – Loretta Redd brings an insider’s view to the politics of our city council race (loved it, great piece that everybody should read); More street-level straight talk on “Living with Gangs” from Sharon Byrne (terrific, again, Sharon, thanks).

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E ight Days A Week – The Sentinel’s comedy-calendar thingy is really taking on a life of its own now that author Jeremy Harbin has quit his day job to write full time. We’re not sure if that’s good or bad, but it is definitely interesting. And entertaining.

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In the Zone – Jeremy Harbin – yeah, that Jeremy Harbin, the one who quit his day job to write (sucker!)

– brings a lovely little Funk Zone story about a local band that boasts three talented musicians and rocks the house (typically Fig Mountain’s tasting room) hard. And they are just kids. So maybe they rock their parents’ houses too.

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The Weekly Capitalist – Old friend Jeff Harding keeps it real about the zoning and economics of the Funk Zone. Can we the people actually keep the Zone funky? Or will the City take over and ruin it (i.e., completely homogenize and gentrify it) for everyone?

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F aces of Santa Barbara – Creative force Stuart Carey graces the Sentinel this week thanks to Patricia Clarke. (Right on, Patricia, keep them coming.)

Presidio Sports – Gaucho Soccer started training camp last week with a chip on its collective shoulder; Frances Chase Dunn reviews the New Balance 1400 in her Running Product Review.

P ump It – Jenny Schatzle has a new program. Be afraid. Be very afraid. (We’re kidding, Jenny’s a pussycat and just wants to keep growing her community of positive and healthy locals.) Lesley’s Take – City Council candidate Lesley Wiscomb weighs in on local programs effecting positive change in our youth population. Children are our future, after all, aren’t they?

Mad Science – Rachelle Oldmixon provides a primer on the scientific method. Sounds boring, right? Well it isn’t, and we bet you’ll enjoy it as much as we did. (Nice piece, Rachelle, seriously. Get people thinking.)

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Man About Town – Mark Léisuré is a bit grumpy this week, maybe he’s been going out too much. He’s got beefs with PCPA and Stow House, but we’re pretty sure he’ll get over them. He comes back to his more centered and mellow self while discussing dance band Area 51 and Toad the Wet Sprocket.

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Girl About Town – Julie Bifano had a pretty good time dressed up in ‘20s garb, gambling and mixing it up for Shawn Comrie’s casino night 40th birthday bash at Seven Bar and Kitchen. (We hear EIC Matt Mazza did too, but that’s another story.) And she’s got the pictures to prove it.

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Food File – Christina Enoch finds a hidden gem in Book Ends Café, up above Antioch University downtown. Better get in there and check it out before everybody else discovers it. Come to think of it, grab us a few Brisket Bahn Mis and those delightful looking cookies to go while you’re there. Thanks.

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Valley Girl – Jana Mackin has found a sport she digs. Micro-wrestling. Not sure what that is? Ah, let’s just say it involves Little People in tight suits and, well, wrestling. That’s just about all we can say about that. Go see the show next Thursday at the Maverick Saloon in Santa Ynez. (Sentinel field trip! Seriously.)

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Plan B – Briana Westmacott went to Mexico with her family and failed miserably at meditation. But she had a wonderful time. And we’re all jealous. (Sentinel field trip!) L OVEmikana – Everything from a diddle-eyed Joe to damned if we know, if you know what we mean. (Assuming you don’t, then consider that our favorite birds cover everything this week from outdoor activity to fermented foods to cheese. And that doesn’t even include the Weekend Guide. Can anybody say, “Prolific?”)

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Commercial Corner – Everybody’s favorite commercial real estate team is back! Austin Herlihy and Chris Parker bring the 2013 Q2 numbers for your reading enjoyment. (Thanks guys, welcome back.)

Residential Real Estate – Not to be outdone by his commercial counterparts, Michael Calcagno shamelessly plugs three new condo projects. (Justin Kellenberger got the week off, but Michael forged ahead anyway. Talk about commitment. Fortitude. Resolve.)

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Loretta Redd

by Loretta Redd

s summer’s sun comes to a close, the race for Santa Barbara City Council heats up. With ten candidates in the running, political insiders have winnowed the field down to six or seven “viable” entries... which leaves a pretty large group from which to choose. The Mayor, for all intents and purposes, is running unopposed, which is a testament to her growing leadership over the past four years. She runs a council meeting with efficiency without being dismissive, which is more than I can say

about prior mayors. With the exception of a poorly thought out tax proposal, she’s made few missteps. Running for council is not as easy as it might seem. Having subjected myself to this giddy game of political pandering in the 2005 election, and again for Das Williams’ vacated seat filled by Randy Rowse via appointment, I hope to educate both avid and reluctant voters on what it really takes to win, and why many of you will never see a single candidate standing on your doorstep during this election or

Loretta Redd’s diverse background includes being a psychologist, business owner, non-profit director, Air Force officer, writer, speaker, and executive coach. Loretta has served on several Santa Barbara city committees and has been a candidate for public office.

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any other. First, I take my hat off with a very deep bow to any citizen who decides to make this journey. It isn’t for the faint of heart; it requires education, determination, unabashed persistence in asking strangers for money and support, and a clear vision of what you might hope to achieve in office. Unfortunately, a candidate’s “message” is often contrived to appeal to the greatest number of proven voters, or is crafted to fit the issue “du jour.” The

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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.

Truly Ancient Late Night Partier Tossed From Local Watering Hole

e wrote a couple weeks ago that an “ancient” 48-year-old late night partier had (surprisingly) been tossed out a nightclub for being “too intoxicated.” (There’s a terrific Letter to the Editor in this issue about that little piece, check it out.) Well, this week, the term “ancient” has been redefined. A 61-year-old Santa Barbara woman was staggering around the ‘Cat at 1am last weekend, bumping into other patrons and, perhaps regrettably, into local law enforcement officers on nightclub duty. Oops. When security escorted the woman out, she lost it, becoming combative and grabbing officers and generally resisting arrest. That, together with public intoxication, was the charge leveled against her when she was arrested out front. Oh, the kicker? When asked the always challenging “In Case Of Emergency” notification question, the woman replied, probably quite honestly due to intoxication (and age?), “I can’t [expletive] remember.” Wow. (Anecdotally, if the woman had been in her forties, some might have referred to her as a Cougar due to her presence in a predominantly college-aged bar. If she’d been in her late thirties, however, she might have been called a Bobcat. What do people call 60-year-old women in predominantly college bars? Do tell.)

Apparent Crackdown On Local Homeless Nets Lots Of Drunks There are lots of arrests of local transients each and every week for public intoxication and other crimes. But this week, as we pored through police reports in the Figueroa Station, we couldn’t help but notice what appeared to be a spike in the volume of these arrests. Here are a few of them, just to give you a flavor of what our officers spend quite a bit of time doing these days.

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CRIME TIME QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I took a gamble, made an investment, in an effort to get back into the private sector.” -A 33-year-old transient man to SBPD just before he was arrested for possession of 25 grams of methamphetamine, 3.5 grams of crack, a gram of hash, 14 grams of weed, a digital scale, a glass pipe and all sorts of other drug-related paraphernalia. That’s quite an investment. But couldn’t he have just rented a room in a house instead and got a paying private sector job? (What? We’re just saying.) - Officers responded to a call of a bum-fight in progress one afternoon in a downtown park and arrived to find two drunken grownups rolling around in the grass socking each other. When one man “mounted” the other and began to thrash around vigorously – are we sure it was a fight guys? – officers stepped in, only to find themselves mired in the brawl until a leg sweep took the 58-year-old aggressor down. He was arrested for resisting and public intoxication. - A 22-year-old transient man was lying on the ground one evening last week next to a business near De La Guerra Plaza. He was unable to stand up on his own or speak to officers, and appeared to have no idea where he was or why he was there. Then he admitted to smoking marijuana and popping pills, which explained a lot. He was arrested for public intoxication. - A 46-year-old homeless man was found on the Westside one afternoon last week, unable to stand or walk in a straight line or generally care for himself. He was arrested for, you guessed it, public intoxication. - A 52-year-old transient male was found “sleeping” on State Street one night last week. When officers approached and woke him, he berated them with a slur of drunken profanities and couldn’t stand up. Arrested. Public intoxication. - A 43-year-old homeless man was found passed out one evening in some bushes near an Eastside business. He couldn’t walk or care for himself. Arrested. Public intoxication. - SDPD responded to a call of a homeless man yelling and challenging people to fight in front of a local convenience store. When officers arrived, they found a suddenly sleepy 46-year-old transient male passed out on the sidewalk in front of the place. He was, ah, uncooperative after being woken up. Arrested. Public intoxication. - Late one night last week, SBPD came across a severely intoxicated 46-year-old drunken transient man who was muttering incoherently to himself and screaming “Eastside Locos.” When officers approached, he urinated all over himself. Arrested. Public intoxication. There are literally dozens more of these but we think you get the picture. Can you imagine being a beat cop in SB? Rubber gloves are just part of the uniform. Come to think of it, perhaps the City should find some room in the budget for latex uniforms. On the other side of the same coin, can you imagine being a homeless alcoholic? We can, after spending the past year reading these police reports, and it ain’t pretty either. What a way to live, man, for both sides.

Responsible Homeless Man Calls Cops On Himself For Being Irresponsible A 77-year-old transient man called SBPD late one night last week and told officers that he was too drunk to make responsible decisions. So he was arrested and given a hotel room – oh, we mean a jail cell – for the night. If we were homeless alcoholics, we would do this every single night rather than sleep on the mean streets of Santa Barbara. It’s brilliant. It’s also a colossal waste of tax dollars and an indictment of a failed system that provides insufficient treatment options and over-incarcerates. What? We’re just saying.

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Letters

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

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Lorraine Is A Whopping 55 Years Old And Likes to Party

ear Matt, I recently read the Crime Time vignette entitled “Ancient Late Night Partier Tossed from Favorite Local Night Club Under Suspicious Circumstances” (Vol. 2, Issue 30). I do hope I am not the only one to give you flak about this one. Ancient? 48? Really? I could see if this were a college publication, but since the Sentinel is widely available, I don’t think that is its intended exclusive target population. And, I hear that people over the age of 30, or 40 or 50, are allowed into the Wildcat. I get the point that an inebriated 48-yearold man hanging out on the weekend at a typically younger-aged nightclub can be construed as creepy. But ancient? I’m 55, shall I just go check myself into an old folks home, and wait out my imminent death? Lorraine Michalak Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: First of all, Lorraine, please don’t check into an old folks home to wait out an imminent death. That’s nothing that I (or this fine publication) would ever advocate. Quite to the contrary, I’m personally all for people of all ages having a good time anywhere they want. It’s just that I used to go to the Wildcat, rather frequently, first as a young restaurant worker here in town (it was quite the industry hangout back then, and what a hangout it was), and later as a college student. I actually think the place really became the wildly popular bar-cum-club it is today during those years, and I have fond – yet admittedly hazy – recollections of the place. J-Dog and P-Dough and Sparky and Mo-Mo and DB and I-vo and the Viking (rest in peace, Jeff) and all the boys used to sit out back, laughing, joking… indulging. They were fun times, for sure. But enough reminiscing. You really hit upon the main point of the “vignette” (great use of the word, by the way): The older guy was bombed in a predominantly collegeaged bar and that may be construed by some as creepy. And when you read that “vignette” together with the one immediately below it – entitled Youthful Late Night Partier

Tossed From Favorite Local Nightclub Under Suspicious Circumstances (about a 19 year old getting the boot the same night) – well, the age disparity is really thrust in your face. Regardless, check out Crime Time this week. There’s a 61-year-old woman who is tossed out of the ‘Cat for uber-inebriation. Now that’s old, ancient, even, by the ‘Cat’s standards, but it’s not as creepy. What can I say? A double standard is indeed alive and well here at the Sentinel. Thanks for reading, loved the letter… you really brought me back a few years. – MSM)

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Hey Matt, I don’t mean to be a pest but Jeremy Harbin’s picture of one of the Funk Zone’s art poles on page 11 last issue (corner of Gray and Yanonali) was great (A Walk On The Wild Side, Part Deux, Vol. 2, Issue 31). Thanks – these logs temporarily house local offerings and flag the fact that there are still artists close by. The pole that started this type of installation a couple of years ago stands at the FZ’s furthest outpost in front of our finest eatery, Metropulos Fine Foods Merchant, at the corner of Yanonali and Santa Barbara Street. Due to the sticky fingers of souvenir hunters (etc), the life span of these pieces is always uncertain. Here’s a photo showing how it looks today with the bird theme. Long live the Metro Art Pole. Jim Mahoney Santa Barbara ...continued p.18

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Among the many breads are Pan Blanco and Conchas (sweet shell-shaped buns with chocolate and vanilla toppings).

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A former magazine editor, Wendy worked at Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, and Us Weekly in NYC, before moving west with Santa Barbara Magazine. Currently a public relations consultant, she relishes being out and about working on this column. Photos by Wendy Jenson

Mexican Delights The Tri-Tip Torta is topped with mayo, lettuce, tomato, jack cheese, onion, jalapeno, pico de gallo, and served on a telera roll (Mexican French bread); $4 small, $5 large.

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a Bella Rosa Bakery is heaven incarnate for sweet lovers. An entire wall of the bakery, from foot to forehead high, is devoted to Mexican sweets with row upon row, tray upon tray, of pastries, muffins, donuts, cakes, cupcakes, rolls and cookies (big ones). Here, even the bread is sweet. Just as it’s done in Mexico, you grab a tray and a pair of tongs and help yourself to desserts and breads in every shape and sweetness imaginable. “People come in all the time and say, ‘That looks so good. What is it?’” says owner Rosa Guajardo. “The question is often difficult to answer as there’s no American equivalent.” The Puerquito (piglet), for example, is a dark hog-shaped cookie. “People think Puerquitos are gingerbread, but they’re actually made with molasses. They taste so good dipped in milk,” says Rosa. In 1984, Rosa opened La Bella Rosa Bakery on Santa Barbara’s West Side, on San Andres Street near Micheltorena. A fifth generation baker, the trade is in Rosa’s blood. When she was five years old, the Cardena clan moved from Guadalajara, Mexico to Santa Barbara. Flash forward to adulthood when at one point, Rosa and each of her six siblings owned a Mexican bakery, dispersed throughout the TriCounties. Bakers start their “day” at 3am. “There’s a hot, full line of bread ready when our doors open at 5:30am,” says Rosa. The entire menu is available all day. “We don’t stop or start serving breakfast, lunch or dinner at any particular time.” Whatever the occasion, cakes are the especialidad de la casa. Kids of all ages can

milk, vanilla, and cinnamon); $5. For health conscious customers, there’s Fresh Carrot and Orange Juice; $4.50 and $4. Made from fresh seasonal fruits, Agua Frescas complement spicy dishes. Agua de Limon and Agua de Sandia (watermelon) sit in clear containers on the counter, the ice cubes having yet to melt. Masa (dough) is used in the preparation of many Mexican foods. Made from fresh ground corn, five pounds of masa yields about two dozen tamales. Salt Masa is used to make savory tamales; $1.80/ lb, and Sweet Masa is used for dessert tamales; $2.10/lb. Fina/Fine Masa is ready to be shaped into tortillas; $1.40/lb, and Regular Masa is for recipes from scratch;

$1.40. Vegetarian Masa is made with soy oil; savory $2.10/lb. and sweet $2.35/lb. If you’ve ever made tamales, you know it’s a ton of work, even with pre-made masa. Rosa recommends hosting a tamale making party: “Set it up like an assembly line, with each person manning their station.” La Bella Rosa once made 700 lbs. of masa for a church fundraiser. Says Rosa, “We’re the smallest, biggest bakery. Sometimes I don’t know how we turn out such volume.” La Bella Rosa is located at 1411 San Andres Street. Open Monday thru Saturday from 5:30am till 8pm, Sunday 5:30am till 2pm; labellarosa. wordpress.com; 805-966.9660.

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order from the giant picture book of cake possibilities. La Bella Rosa once made a 15-tier wedding cake with three fountains. “Mexican wedding and quinceañera cakes traditionally feature fountains,” says Rosa. Touching the fountain water is said to bring good luck. Are you more of a pie person? No problemo, as there are eight types of pie including Fresh Strawberry and Banana Cream; $9.25 and $10.75. The most popular liquid accompaniment is Champurrado, a hot beverage made from corn, milk, cinnamon, cocoa and sugar; $2. Fresh, fruity Licuados are light milkshakes in Banana, Chocolate, Strawberry, and Walnut; $4.50. The Smoothie options are even more numerous; choose from Banana, Chocolate, Coffee Toffee, Cookies N’ Cream, Mocha, Pineapple, Strawberry, Vanilla, and Horchata (rice,

n the last The Dish, we didn’t show the killer shrimp at Killer Shrimp. It’s not as bad as forgetting to thank your spouse when accepting an Academy Award, but nonetheless that omission is corrected with this column. Like waitstaff, I eagerly await tips. If you have any restaurant information, please contact me at wendy@santabarbarasentinel.com.

The original Killer Shrimp was served, and still is, with French bread for dunking; $15.

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ilsner. This style of lager has consumed the beer world, composing the vast majority of beer on the planet. Budweiser. Coors. Heineken. Stella. The list goes on and on. All of these beers are of the pilsner style, or something closely related to it, and all of these beers are lagers. When a beer is designated as a “lager” it refers to both the type of yeast being used and the fermentation process the developing beer undergoes (more on this in an upcoming column). Pilsner – which originated in the Czech town of Pilsen – is a light colored, low strength lager that has a restrained malt backbone and a prominent hop aroma. But pilsner is only one type of lager. And right now Santa Barbara is lucky, quite lucky, because we have some shining examples of other lager styles that show off the versatility of this genre of beer. Let’s get drinking.

The Light Ones Recently, The Brewhouse brewed a Munich Helles (helles means “a light one” in German) for their first time. This style of beer originated in (surprise!) Munich and is comparable to pilsner in strength but instead emphasizes malt sweetness over hop bitterness. The brilliant gold Brew Haus Helles has a honey-baked bread flavor that is not cloying or syrupy with the bitterness only coming through in the end, making for a quaffable, lighthearted beer. Try it with The Brewhouse’s Grilled Chicken Salad. The beer will not overpower the chicken and the mixed greens’ earthy-bitterness pulls out the grassy components of the hops while counteracting the brew’s maltiness. The honey mustard dressing provides a bit of

tang that makes for a lively combination with the sweet malts. Seasoned wonton strips emphasize the spicy notes of the hops and pulls out the beer’s bready flavors. Toasted almonds add a layer of complexity that builds on these different interactions. This light but satisfying combination makes a good meal for the afternoon, when there is still some of the sun’s heat left in the day. Santa Barbara Brewing Co. brewmaster, Kevin Pratt, is trying to make a statement with his newly released King Saaz, an imperial pilsner-style beer. “If I just wanted to make another IPA, I could just add another box of hops. But I wanted to make a beer that is still light, clean and hop forward like a pilsner but push it into the ethos of an imperial, which is more hops and more alcohol.” King Saaz (a pun on “king size”) is bright gold and crystal clear with a crisp malt character that is present but not overwhelming. The Saaz hops dominate the aroma with their flowery, green notes and provide a bitterness that drives the flavor. But despite the hops’ persistence they still respect the delicacy of the pilsner style, leaving

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

Dunkel means “dark” in German. This style originated in (surprise!) Munich as well but predates helles by a few centuries. Like their lighter counterpart, these lagers are low in strength with a malt emphasis in the flavor. The dark malts used in dunkels give these beers a more caramel, ...continued p.20

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

Friday August 23

Memphis Soul

here in October. The Sentinel will venture out of town to attend this fest at L.A. State Historic Park and will be reporting back next week. Weekend passes are still available at fyffest.com. So if you’re a fan of acts like Solange, Yo La Tengo, MGMT or Mac DeMarco, then maybe you’ll join us? We’ll be the only ones there that don’t look like totally L.A., man.

The Granada Theatre has left you with no other choice for tonight’s entertainment; it’s got to be the Memphis Music Fest. The Stax Records legends Booker T. Jones, The Bar-Kays, William Bell, Jean Knight and Eddie Floyd will appear starting at 8pm as part of the theatre’s 2013/2014 concert series. Tickets start at only $22 and are available at www.granadasb.org or by calling 805.899.2222. Find the Granada at 1214 State Street.

Monday

Saturday

Two weeks ago, Wendy Jenson, here in this very paper, wrote about Santa Barbara’s new lower State Street eatery, Killer Shrimp. If you haven’t tried it out yet, today’s a good day to go. Why? Well, first, what else are you going to do? Second, because they run a special on Mondays where you can get the eponymous Killer Shrimp dish at a lower price. They’re open today from 11:30am to midnight. 416 State Street.

August 24

Fermentation and You

Every now and then, a whole new world will open to you, one you never knew existed – much less had its own festival. It’s a good feeling; it keeps you humble knowing there’s enough folks out there to attend the thirdannual Santa Barbara Fermentation Festival. Come one, come all to talk to fermentation experts, learn about fermentation methods and history, and sample fermented goods. Ferme-famous authors Donna Gates and Jenny McGruther will be there. Don’t forget to stop by the “culture petting zoo!” Proceeds benefit the Fairview Gardens Center for Urban Agriculture, which is where the fest takes place (598 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta). Get tickets at the Isla Vista Food Co-op, Isabella Gourmet Foods, or online at santabarbarafermentationfestival.eventbrite. com. Tickets are $12, $6 for children. The festival starts at 11am and ends at 5pm.

August 26

Give Us Shrimp

Tuesday August 27

Coming to California

Tonight at the bowl, opening up for Heart is Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience. Jason Bonham is the son of the greatest drummer of all time, John Bonham. Here he plays his father’s band’s songs before Heart comes out to play the hits. The Heartbreaker Tour starts at 6:30pm and tickets start at $35. More information and tickets at sbbowl.com. The Bowl is located at 1122 North Milpas Street.

Wednesday August 28

Hard Work & Reward

Sunday

It’s not quite your last chance, but if you were planning on running in the Nite Moves Summer Sunset Series, now’s the time to sign up. Participants run a scenic route along Leadbetter Beach. When they finish, they’re herded straight into a tent where they’re given beer and food. Swimming and biathlon events are also open for registration. Head over to runsantabarbara.com to sign up.

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August 25

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August 29

Local Hip Hop

Tonight at the SOhO Restaurant and Music Club, there’s an event called Enyukay Presents: Top Shelf Thursday. Enyukay is a local hip hop artist. According to his website, he’ll perform his new tape “Don’t Scorn the Dreamer.” SOhO has food and a $4 happy hour going all night long. The show costs $10. Doors open at 8pm and music starts at 9. 1221 State Street.

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The women over in the LOVEmikana column would probably have this event under the “Hey Big Spender” portion of their weekend guide, but if African Elemental Stone and Shell Divination Reading is your thing, then you might not mind the $100 price tag on the hour-long private session with Mtuaswa, who also goes by Anthony Johnson. He’ll be at Paradise Found, the “bookstore and more” at 17 East Anapamu Street, today only from 10am to 6pm. Call 805.564.3573 to schedule a reading. See paradisefoundsantabarbara.com for more information.

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That New Old Sound

ran though some songs by one of their favorite acts – the brit-rock band the Arctic Monkeys – and The Caverns were formed. As soon as the band began to turn away from Arctic Monkeys imitation toward its current format, a penchant for marrying classic rock staples to just-plain-fun ‘80s hits was revealed: “Our first covers were [Pink Floyd’s] ‘Another Brick in the Wall’ and [Men at Work’s] ‘Down Under,’” Maxton says. But wherever they’re at on the radio dial, their minds are never far from the goal: “People wanna dance,” Alyssa observes.

A Little Help From Friends They’re used to it. The Caverns have had people approaching them, grinning, incredulous, since their first public performances. Some don’t even wait until after the show is over (the band laughs as

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they tell the story of a rogue harmonica player who once crashed the stage). But the most important connection they’ve made with their instruments still in hand is with some key FZ personnel. Sam recalls the group’s first encounter with Alex Jones of Figueroa Mountain at its first gig at the beer tasting room: “After the first two songs, he came up to us and said, ‘Do you guys wanna come back tomorrow?’” The band’s first real gig was at the Tavern in Ventura. (“By the end of it, we were just grinning,” says Sam.) The Tavern put the group in touch with Alex at Fig Mountain, who booked a slot for the band after hearing a demo. “Alex said he wants Fig to be our Cavern Club, the place where the Beatles got started, so that’s where our name comes from,” Sam explains, as his ...continued p.23

The Caverns from left to right: Sam Kulchin, Alyssa Davey and Maxton Schulte.

t takes The Caverns forever to pack up their gear. Last Thursday night, a networking event for young professionals called the Mega Mixer in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone bled into an already busy Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company. The young musicians playing just outside Fig’s patio – 19-year-old guitarist Sam Kulchin; bassist Alyssa Davey, 16; and drummer Maxton Schulte, 15 – ripped into their last song of the night, a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “No Quarter.” Afterward, they tried to wrap cables and put away guitars, but spent more time fielding questions and taking compliments from impressed onlookers who had all but lined up to get a word in. So you’ll have to excuse them if they take a bit too long to clear out.

Origin Stories The Caverns are a good cover band – as good as you’re likely to find in any age bracket – but they’re an even better jam band. Their improvisational sections in and between songs do not fail to get the crowd’s attention. When Sam’s filling the space with bluesy, searching atmospherics, Maxton’s laying down a driving groove,

and Alyssa’s treating her bass like she’s mad at it (while pretending not to be), eyes turn, ears perk up and jaws drop. In other words, they can play. And if they play like more experienced musicians, that’s because they are. Maxton and Alyssa are graduates of the Rockshop Academy, the facility at 1109 De La Vina Street that offers music lessons and summer camp programs for musicians 17 years old and under. “We’re alumni students,” Maxton explain. “We’ve already played shows and had so many of these sessions that we can now help teach and be counselors for the camp.” Though Sam didn’t attend the Academy as a student, he helps instruct there too. The three are also alumni of other bands already. In fact, The Caverns got going while two other groups – Sam’s the Blue Suns and Maxton and Alyssa’s the Wha Whas – were stalling out. “Both of our bands fell through the cracks a little bit,” Sam explains. “I have a member who lives in England, so that kind of put us on a hiatus.” Alyssa put in a phone call to Sam asking him to fill in one afternoon while she and Maxton sat around their practice space waiting on an absent Wha Wha to show up. Sam came right over. The three Reserve Corks n’ Crowns now for your private party, corporate gathering, and holiday events, featuring a ﬁreplace and wraparound patio! Start stocking up on holiday gifts with award-winning, highly-rated wines!

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Keep the Change

Jeff Harding publishes The Daily Capitalist, a blog on economics and finance. He is the president of Montecito Analytics, LLC, and is a real estate investor who lives in Montecito.

The Funk Zone As Urban Renewal

like the Funk Zone. I mean I really like the Funk Zone. It’s hip, scruffy, avant, counter-culturesque, Cannery Rowish. A refuge for the young and creative. Yeah, it’s getting prettied up a bit, but it’s a nice remnant of Old Santa Barbara. By Old Santa Barbara, I mean that time before the Grand Redevelopment that resulted in Paseo Nuevo, which opened in 1990. Some folks, certainly not me, refer to this redevelopment as the Grand Pasteurization of Santa Barbara. Paseo Nuevo was done beautifully, but we are now privileged to have the same outlets as every other city in America. That’s OK, but, ah, progress? Cities always change and Santa Barbara is no exception. The Anglos tore down most of what the Californios built. Pearl Chase wished to recapture this earlier time in history back in the 1920s when she pushed for the creation of El Pueblo Viejo, a zoning district which is most of downtown and which mandates its Mediterranean-Spanish architectural

theme. The best example of this, in my opinion, is El Paseo, which opened in 1922 and is the gem of downtown. But, as found in every town, there were less than desirable areas that housed commercial and industrial activities. Most of those areas have been torn down and replaced with condos and office buildings that meet Santa Barbara’s strict design criteria. Old neighborhoods with funky (cute) bungalows now mix with Spanish-Mediterranean-Tuscan-style condos. The industrial spots are mostly gone, now limited to the areas near the Funk Zone, below East Haley Street, and behind Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort. Most of this newer development is a direct response to Santa Barbara’s limitation on new construction that elevated property values even higher than most California coastal cities. As a libertarian curmudgeon, I can complain ad nauseam about the heavy hand of government, but for the sake of argument, it has resulted in a beautiful city. But the

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Is change good? Yes, for the most part. We can’t keep things the same forever or we would be a moribund theme park. Every generation gets to put its stamp on the city. I think Santa Barbara has improved over the years and I have the benefit of time on my side to be able to make that judgment, having arrived here

“We citizens and property owners and developers are the ones who have made Santa Barbara what it is. The City can plan, but it is we who do the work.” in the early ‘60s to go to college. To prove my longevity and qualifications to judge change, I can say that I watched Willie Mays play at Laguna Park, the home of our former minor league baseball team back then. In a sold-out exhibition game between the Dodgers and Giants, I hung on the backfield fence right behind Willie. Laguna Park was where the City Yards are now located on Laguna Street. Is the loss of the baseball park progress? Well, the Foresters do have a venue… so all is good. Which (finally) gets me to the point of my essay, which is redevelopment. To those who aren’t tapped into the collective unconscious, back in the day, good intentioned reformers in government sought to alleviate “blight” (read: “slums”) from our cities. This gained federal traction with the National Housing Act of 1949, which created a federal Urban Renewal Administration that brought federal money into cities. Starting in the 1950s and continuing through the 1960s, federal guarantees and other aid started pumping money into massive redevelopment projects by cities. Urban renewal has a controversial history. Often run by corrupt politicians for their cronies, private property was condemned, destroyed, and sold off to crony developers for a song. New York City’s urban renewal under Robert Moses is a good example. Massive destruction of poor neighborhoods in our major cities resulted in the displacement of millions of people by the end in 1972. But replacement housing was not to come. According to Professor Martin Anderson who

wrote The Federal Bulldozer, an exposé of the program, from 1950 to 1960, 126,000 housing units were destroyed but only 28,000 were built. Since about half of those affected were black, author James Baldwin referred to the program as “Negro Removal.” Catch the YouTube video on New York City’s W. 99th Street tragedy. What was the result? Often friends of those in charge of redevelopment got the land cheap and built private projects, or the city built housing projects. Built in the 1940s and 1950s, Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green project became a slum in itself, ultimately riddled with gangs, crime, drugs and destruction. The last building was torn down in 2011. And what of the city’s promises to replace housing for the project’s 15,000 residents? Hopelessly behind. Nothing much has changed. We don’t want slums here in town, of course, but my point is that we citizens do a better job at “redevelopment” than does government. What we have seen in most cases of big city urban renewal was colossal misery for the poor, a result of the failure of government planning. As most displaced residents would attest: they didn’t want it. The record is depressing. If cities can’t do a good job of urban planning, then who should? I don’t wish to venture into a discussion of the benefits or failures of zoning and building codes. I will say that Santa Barbara’s planning process has become quite heavy handed and intrusive. It is easy to say that but for that process Santa Barbara would have become just another Ventura or Santa Maria. But it isn’t that simple. We have a beautiful downtown and I would concede that the process has done much to make it so. But the fact is that we citizens and property owners and developers are the ones who have made Santa Barbara what it is. The City can plan, but it is we who do the work. That is, we bring the capital, entrepreneurial vision and aesthetics to projects, not the City.

Taking the Funk out of the Funk Zone Which brings me back to the Funk Zone. It just happened. It happened because it was pretty much neglected by the City. It was also neglected for economic reasons in that it was seen by developers and capitalists (investors) as an undesirable place to put their funds and effort. The area was considered unsightly but kind of out of the way of tourists so it was not seen as a blight of our otherwise beautiful downtown. But then came the young entrepreneurs who were attracted by its low rents and funkiness. It’s like this in many cities, but for the most part cities are keen to un-funk these areas. Right now the Zone is zoned as OceanRelated Commercial (OC), which is “primarily ocean dependent and ocean

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oriented uses, commercial recreational uses, arts and related uses, restaurants, and small stores.” But that is what it already is. In other words, the City planners didn’t create it, we did. They just came along and at one of their endless planning sessions for a better tomorrow, designated it as OC. Now that doesn’t mean that the Zone is frozen in time. Acting within our zoning and planning guidelines, someone could tear down old buildings and build new buildings. It’s already been done as evidenced by the Zone’s shrinking area. More disturbing is that our City has earmarked the Funk Zone for a potential Design Overlay area. This is described as requirements for “Floor Area Ratios (FARs), building setbacks, landscaping and open space requirements, and design guidelines. Commercial areas, historic districts, streets, or a single block with unique qualities can be evaluated for improved guidance to ensure compatibility in scale, bulk and size.” This type of government intrusion would be the kiss of death of the Funk Zone. What makes it funky is that none of those things were done when the existing structures were built way back when. It’s unplanned, jury-rigged, unaesthetic and even makeshift. That is its charm. But our City Mothers and

Fathers always know what’s best for us. I’m sure they will have some hearings at which locals will rant for or against whatever is proposed and then the City will do whatever it wants. Folks, the Funk Zone is great as is and as it’s changing. But be aware that it won’t last. The pressures of rising land values in Ocean Commercial zoned property and the City’s nosy do-goodism will roll over the Zone and change will come. If you think it can be stopped, you would be wrong. You think special zoning or landmarking of the area would stop it? No. It’s going to change, in my opinion for the worse. Pleasant, perhaps, but definitely not funky. So what is the lesson of my screed? That nothing is permanent but change. Nothing can be cast in stone forever. Zoning changes happen and you can’t count on today’s zoning to exist tomorrow. Remember, political landscapes change too. Whatever the City does today can be reversed by future politicians. And, rising land values are sure to attract developers. What we have today is something rare in Santa Barbara and we need to enjoy and appreciate it while it lasts. We should thank the Zone’s entrepreneurs for their energy and vision. They are the ones who breathed life into it. And that is the best kind of urban renewal there is.

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...continued from p.5 they should, and design their literature accordingly. “Voters,” are defined as those with a history of actually casting ballots, not necessarily having the biggest blogosphere. In this town, they tend to be Caucasian, married, homeowners or highlevel renters; they drive cars and usually have children or grandchildren. Once a candidate qualifies to be on the ballot by filing the necessary paperwork, opening a campaign bank account, gathering necessary signatures from registered voters, selecting a campaign strategist, and writing the all important Candidate’s Statement, it is time to dive into the pool. Everyone is suddenly bobbing for early endorsements, media attention, attending fund-raising events, filling out questionnaires, meeting with deep-pocket rain-makers, power-broker politicos and members of the media. As a Charter City, Santa Barbara may have a “weak” council when it comes to absolute authority or garnering six-figure salaries, but the intense effort and sheer stamina required to win a seat should be admired. Back in 2005, I naively envisioned running as a “decline to state” candidate, hoping to take partisanship out of the council race and appeal to the common sense and values of voters from both political sides. Oooh, big mistake... or I’d possibly be finishing my second term about now. Voters always say they want someone who is fiscally conservative but socially liberal, though that puts a candidate in the proverbial “middle of the road.” I should have listened to Texas Governor Ann Richards who once shared with me, “Honey, there are only two things in the middle of the road: a yellow stripe or a dead armadillo.” Standing on principle is lovely in high school civics class, but learning to play the game of political favorites, while walking that fine line of subtle promises for higher salaries or tighter regulations or cleaner streets or cheaper housing, is an art form in itself. I was flying pretty high initially, with the support of ex-Mayor Harriet Miller, an early endorsement by the Women’s Political Committee, and the surprising support of the Police Officer’s Association union. For a walk down memory lane, other candidates in the 2005 city council race included: Iya Falcone, Roger Horton, Grant House, Dianne Channing, Terry

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Tyler, Charles Quinteros and Bob Hansen. Mayor Marty Blum, relatively unopposed by Lanny Ebenstein, Matthew Kramer, Thinker Bill Hackett or Ken Heimbaugh, designed and promoted her preferred slate of candidates: Horton, Falcone and House. Unlike previous races, the three candidates appeared on signs and literature as a unit; and she got her wish. The Independent also supported the tripartite; Horton was selected for his promotion of commuter rail between Goleta and Ventura, as well as childcare and affordable housing. They thought House would be indispensible in crafting the General Plan, and declared that Falcone “demonstrated a hard-nosed efficiency when it comes to getting things done behind the scenes.” All I know is that our City’s financial resources pretty much went into the tank until Mayor Schneider appeared, and the fiscal oversight crowd of Francisco, Hotchkiss and Rowse hit the dais. In order to get elected in Santa Barbara, attention must be paid to myriad groups that send out invitations to endorsement interviews or ask the candidate to respond to written questionnaires. The answers are rarely made public by the groups, and video of the interviews is never released that I know of. Here’s a sampling of the groups from 2005 – outside the media and League of Women Voters – that asked me for information and feedback to their rather specialized interests: Tri-Counties Central Labor Council (78,000 AFLCIO members), Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Santa Barbara Police Officers Association, Local SEIU 620, the Political Action Committee of SB Association of Realtors, The Men and Women of the SB City Firefighters for Better Government, the Santa Barbara Youth Council, the Greater Santa Barbara Lodging Association, Rental Property Association, and finally, SB CAN, which asked about support for the “HOT Project” of housing, open space and transportation. As it turned out, none of the traditional topics determined the outcome of the election. The surprising “dark horse” issue in this race was The Living Wage. I determined that it was crafted by SEIU and designed mostly to force janitorial contracts from the ServiceMaster Company to the union sector, by requiring a different scale of wages. I thought it was poorly written, required a citizens oversight committee staffed by costly city workers, and would result in limiting the award of contracts to larger corporations, causing a net loss of local jobs. But logic doesn’t matter in council races – image and emotions do. I lost the support of several liberal groups and the volunteers that came with them.

Hitting the Streets

Candidates fill out questionnaires and appear before endorsement groups because that is where the money and

support, and especially “boots on the ground,” come from. Building an “army” of people willing to canvas a neighborhood and go door-to-door in promotion of your candidacy, leaving literature or having discussions about what you might stand for, is a difficult and exhausting task of enrollment, enthusiasm and efficient organization. There are the “No Soliciting” signs to navigate, locked gates and snarling dogs, the embarrassing half-clothed person who answers the door, and an occasional highdecibel domestic squabble you can’t help but overhear as you approach the steps. A good candidate should train volunteers about how to handle these types of moments, and what to say in their stead, offering “how and when” the potential voter might speak with the candidate personally. So why, exactly, are some neighborhoods saturated with candidate literature, robo-calls and doorknocks, while others claim they never darken their doorstep? Candidates will pull the voter rolls from prior elections. As a registered voter, your political party affiliation (Dem, Rep or Decline To State), your address and the voting history of everyone in your household, are all part of public records. There are pockets of streets throughout Santa Barbara where voting turnout is very high, such as the Samarkand and San Roque neighborhoods. I personally think it’s a good thing to suffer from the intrusiveness of candidates blanketing your area. It not only demonstrates your interest in your city government, but because of high voter turnout among your neighbors, your collective influence may be greater in determining the future look, feel and livability of Santa Barbara. Want to have the candidates interested in what you have to say? Then VOTE, and get your neighbors to vote as well, even if it isn’t for your preferred candidate. There are various tricks of the trade in every election. In order to build credibility, some candidates purchase a place on a “slate” mailer. This is usually a flat, large postcard with candidates from different elections or even different viewpoints, who are deceivingly grouped with people who are dressed in public safety uniforms. Those appearing probably aren’t really Santa Barbara fire, police, or emergency response employees; but they are dressed in dark blue, or in bright yellow firefighter outfits, or EMT type reflective vests, giving the “quick glance” reader the illusion that the candidate has the endorsement of the public safety folks. Like the issue of the Living Wage in 2005, the politics of running for office can sometimes twist on seemingly insignificant details, such as the “union bug.” Near the bottom of all liberal and most conservative printed materials, you’ll find a very small insignia verifying that the printing company utilized by the candidate’s campaign was indeed a union

shop. Unfortunately when I ran and probably true today, there weren’t any union print shops in Santa Barbara, so most campaign flyers, door hangers and other print materials were produced in Los Angeles. How’s that for stimulating our local economy? Ah, and then they’re the yard signs... Back in 2005, a certain self-appointed political watchdog created a website dedicated to putting up photos of any place in Santa Barbara where a candidate’s yard sign was placed “illegally.” Yard signs are not to appear in the median divide or on the city-owned grass strip between the roadway and sidewalk, or any other public space. Yard signs are to be used exclusively to show the support for a candidate by an individual voter on his or her own property, or place of business. Not only were photos posted on this website, but the candidates were “called out” publically for such egregious behavior. It didn’t take long for some overzealous volunteers to go out in the wee hours and move competing candidates’ signs to “illegal” settings. The following election, the yard sign ‘police’ apparently got bored by it all and decided to take down the website. Nowadays, vandals or volunteers simply steal the signs or burn them in your yard, so maybe a photo or two wasn’t so bad. But I cannot tell you how much time we all wasted trying to chase down our relocated signage in its “illegal” settings, when volunteer time was precious indeed. Finally, there’s the media buys and market saturation. In our current digital age – with its Facebook pages, websites, Twitters, Yelps and Tweets – the cost has decreased while the possibility of getting a candidate’s message out with the push of a keystroke has increased exponentially. But those with sufficient funds will certainly buy as much radio and cable time as they can afford. And though we complain mightily about their intrusiveness and repetition, media advertising produces results. When I was a candidate, Cox media solicited my interest, offering to produce a “30-second quality commercial” that would run over a four-week period. The cost was $2,500, and that was eight years ago. So what does it take to get elected to council? Perhaps it’s an issue of money. Perhaps it is name recognition and affiliations. Perhaps it is the assumptions we make glancing at deceptively designed literature and commercials. By November, voters may feel they are inundated with candidate information; when in fact, most of the answers to the private interviews and questionnaires that determine how they might actually govern, will never be disclosed. What will determine who will sit on Council, and ultimately decide the look, feel, security and future of Santa Barbara is your VOTE... and sadly, less than half of you will even bother.

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Living With Gangs

View From The Street – Part II by Sharon Byrne

he gang injunction is this bright, shiny object that people have collectively seized on, whether as panacea or anathema. Wherever you are on that spectrum, take into account how collateral damage from gangs affects our city through voices you might not have heard from, and aren’t likely to. For reasons pointed out previously, speaking up in public is a dangerous course of action for neighbors living at close quarters with gang members. That doesn’t make their voices any less valid in this discussion. It means we need to find a safe place for them to be heard. Caveat Emptor (repeated): there are no easy answers here.

Church Father The funerals are the worst. What can you say to the mother who just lost her son? The gang members, they’re all crying their friend is gone, it’s so sad. I tell them ‘you helped kill him. You got him into this.’ The 14-year-old that kills someone… everyone is shocked. How did he go from the playground to murder? It was not him, I tell you. A shot-caller (older gang member) put that weapon in his hand, and gave the order. They tell the kid never to throw rat (snitch), so he goes down for the murder. The shot-caller – he doesn’t get caught. He just recruits another kid to replace that one. On why isn’t he part of this discussion: They have no real understanding here, but they won’t listen. I must attend to the needs of my parishioners, not get caught in all these politics. Thomas, Eastside On a Parks and Rec proposal to install outdoor fitness equipment in a park heavily infested with gang activity, hoping to displace that: Great. Because what this neighborhood clearly needs is even bigger, stronger gang members… Juanita, Lower Eastside The young kids loitering on the corner are lookouts. They’re supposed to text when a cop drives by. The older ones all hang down the block, watching their phones. I know they tag this street. I wipe it down, sometimes in front of them. I got one of those kits from the City. They’re all polite about it when I clean it off in front of them. But why do they have to mess up the neighborhood? That’s what I want to know. Ramone, Westside My brother was a Westside Loquito back in the day. They rumbled, tagged, all

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sbview.com that stuff. He never took drugs. Just sold them. He’s a hustler. He wouldn’t let me hang with them. Threatened to beat my ass when I tried. I went to a party on the Eastside one night. I was told it was all cool (laughs angrily). They broke my nose… because I was from the Westside. I was fourteen. The cops put up a list of gang members. My name was on it! I was in football, but the (Westside) gang still tried to get me to join. So I asked them: You gonna be there when someone jumps me in the alley? They said ‘We’ll make them pay.’ But they couldn’t guarantee they’d protect me, so I never joined. My brother got out when his kid was born. That was it for him. But they don’t let you just quit. Once you’re in, you’re in forever. So he had to move away. Sally, Eastside I got home, and there was a cluster of them with bats on the sidewalk. I ran in the house and called 911. The [gang members] surrounded my car the next day, and shook it, with me inside! I was scared out of my mind. I don’t give my name when I call 911. So how did they know? Someone had to be listening at the window. Antonio, Westside They jump them into the gang [by beating them] over there (creek area behind the Boys and Girls Club). One day, we were playing basketball, and they totally pounded this fourteen year old. He was all bloody, couldn’t even hardly walk. I said, ‘Hey man, you need to go to the hospital?’ He shook his head. He was real messed up. Arturo, West Downtown Me and a friend were walking home from Fiestas. We were drunk from partying on State. We were walking by [now Chapala One], and Colonia Chiques (Oxnard) jumped us. I think he might have been a Chique, back in the day. It felt like they were waiting on him. I tried to talk them down, but they whaled on us. I stumbled home after. He woke me up, knocking softly on my door. They’d stabbed him. I took him to the hospital. We were there all night. ...continued p.31

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UCSB Soccer Looks To Regain Cohesion In New Season by John Dvorak

Freshman Nick DePuy takes on teammate Duncan Backus in practice last week.

Austin Mansker returns as UCSB’s starting goalkeeper.

UCSB returners Goffin Boyoko, left, and Achille Campion share a laugh during a preseason training session.

oming off a season in which it failed to reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 10 years, UCSB’s men’s soccer team started training camp last Wednesday with a purpose and a desire to get back to where the Gauchos feel they belong. “I like the attitude of the team, I like the mentality of the team, I like the fact that there’s a little bit of a chip on the shoulder from not having made the playoffs last year,” said UCSB head coach Tim Vom Steeg, who is starting his 15th year leading the Gauchos. The team will see their first game action when they host Westmont on Saturday, August 24 at Harder Stadium.

The Gauchos participated in a morning practice at Cate School in Carpinteria before regrouping after lunch for another afternoon session. The players were wearing new-look practice jerseys, sporting a solid navy blue with a vertical white band down the front. The team will also unveil new game-day jerseys this year. “I think it went great. Obviously the energy, the intensity and everyone willing to work hard, it was really good,” said UCSB senior Fifi Baiden after the morning session. “It shows we got a deeper team and a team that is willing to work together and not dependent on individuals, so I really like what I saw this morning and I hope

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we can continue to play like that.” Baiden is one of a group of seniors that Vom Steeg will be leaning on this season. Vom Steeg compared this year’s team to his very successful 2004 national runnerup group. “Every team is going to have a run. We had ten straight years,” Vom Steeg said. “At some point the wheels are going to come off on something. But I think more importantly for me is to get the team right. For me, it feels right.” Senior defender Peter Schmetz, who stands 6’6”, will anchor the backline of a team that, like the 2004 squad, is led by

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a group of players who have really bought into the team concept. “I think we have a good team,” Schmetz said. “The guys are standing together, everyone is fighting for each other and the rest is coming by itself because they are also great individual soccer players.” Gone are André Grandt, Nic Ryan, Josue Madueno, Machael David, Dion Acoff, Mac Cerceo and Peter McGlynn. Big West Conference Freshman of the Year Ema Boateng then decided to leave in July to sign a professional contract in Sweden, leaving UCSB without two of its leading scorers from last year. To fill the scoring void, UCSB will look to Achille Campion, who scored six goals in seven games last year in a season cut short by injury. Campion’s goal-scoring ability has Vom Steeg thinking he has a shot at UCSB’s all-time single season goal-scoring record of 20 set by Rob Friend, “if he can stay on the field.” Vom Steeg singled out Goffin Boyoko, UCLA transfer Reed McKenna, plus newcomers Adis Islamovic and Ismaila Jome as potentially dangerous playmaking threats. Baiden will direct the midfield.

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“I think [Baiden] is as good as it gets in the country right now and that’s a result of being in four years and eighty college games, and crowds of ten, twelve thousand playing in tough places,” Vom Steeg said. Baiden and Campion were included in TopDrawSoccer’s preseason Top 100 College Soccer Players. The Gauchos went through a variety of drills on Wednesday that included possession work, a 2-on-2 attacking exercise in limited space, which was then expanded to include more players and the full width of the field. Vom Steeg is trying to have shorter sessions during training camp this year with the hope that it will keep his players from wearing down later in the season. “With that, we hope that we’ll have more at the end than where we were before,” Vom Steeg said. UCSB started unbeaten in its first 11 games but struggled down the stretch, especially at the end of games, and finished Big West play with a 4-5-1 record. The Gauchos have three non-conference games scheduled against teams ranked in the preseason Top 25. Nobody from the Big West cracked the Top 25, although UCSB was close at 29. After the Westmont game, the Gauchos will travel to the Midwest to face Northwestern and Illinois-Chicago before returning home for a match with Gonzaga on September 6. In a stretch from late September into October, UCSB will host seven straight home matches at Harder. “It is very important for us, and, you know this is our last year as seniors so we’re definitely, definitely going to fight our hardest and make sure we get in the tournament and make up for whatever happened last season,” Baiden said.

Running Product Review: New Balance 1400 by Frances Chase Dunn

he New Balance 1400 is a fun racertype flat that has the ideal fit, weight and structure for tempo runs, 5k to half-marathon races and distance speed training. I tested this shoe out on asphalt, flat dirt trails and on UCSB’s track to get a feel for its quickness and stability. Although the shoe is much lighter and more compact than most other running shoes, I found it to be very sturdy. My feet fit very snug to the shoe, making it ideal for faster tempo paces. I have noticed that with most other running shoes my feet have a tendency to move and even slip inside while transitioning speeds, especially from faster to slower paces. This shoe did a really great job keeping my foot steady inside because of its snug fit and properly placed support. The slight heel made it comfortable and stable at slower paces, while the mid-sole and light arch support kept my foot stable at medium to faster paces. This shoe had

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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.

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“I The New Balance 1400 is a great shoe for tempo training, speed work and races.

the support I needed for my longer runs, but the lightness and sturdiness needed for faster paces. However, for someone putting on a ton of miles in training, this shoe might not be the best pick to train in daily. It has lighter support and cushioning that may not last with the accumulation of a lot of miles. I would expect a new pair of shoes would be needed more quickly as compared to other running shoes with more support, if these were used for all training purposes. This is a shoe you would want to race in, and save for speed and tempo training. It is extremely stable and provides solid contacts for light to moderate heel strikers, and is made for 5k to 10k runs. It could even be suitable for half marathons. The tread on the bottom makes it good for road and dirt running. Although the New Balance 1400 is more of a distance racer-flat design, it is also great for sprint workouts and could even be used for hurdle workouts. For sprinters and hurdlers who try to avoid spikes but still want to feel light on their feet, this shoe provides a great alternative. I took the shoe over a few hurdles on the grass and the UCSB track and felt it was a much better alternative to my spikes than other running shoes I’ve used in the past that have a tendency to be clunky or not eliminate movement inside the shoe. For those interested, the New Balance 1400 is more for a narrow to mid-sized type foot. It is a really well-made New Balance product that fits great with the right amount of support for speed training and race-pace distance runs. BUY LOCAL: Santa Barbara Running Company has two local stores at 110 Anacapa Street and 129 North Fairview. The New Balance 1400, released in the spring of 2013, has a suggested retail price of $89.99.

f it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” All of you out there who have been doing these weekly Sentinel workouts are happily aware of this. That goes without saying. I believe, however, that to lead a truly full life you need to apply this to all parts of your existence. So now I am super excited and proud to announce the All New Jenny Schatzle Program! It’s a program I have designed that focuses not only on getting fit, but more importantly on changing your life through exercise, nutrition and positive motivation. I know, changing your life is a big deal. It’s a big statement. But it’s one that I deliver on. And it’s one that we can and will achieve. Together. Are you ready? Then let’s get started. We get so wrapped up in “life” that we stop actually living! Today we change that. Here’s what I want you to do: First, take a moment and think about what’s right in your life and celebrate it. Write it down. (Guys too.) Next, write one goal you want to achieve this week. It can be anything, and it should be challenging, but it should also be something you can achieve in the real world with commitment and follow through. Third, from a nutrition perspective, commit to eating fruit every morning instead of pastry. (Simple, right?) Finally, do the following workout four days this week. On the other three days, take a 30-minute walk. I am raising the bar, people, and you and I are going to rise above it. Together. Welcome to Week 1!

Warm-up: Jog in place – 30 seconds Jumping jacks – 30 seconds Plank – 30 seconds (Repeat four times) Workout: This is really three workouts in one. Set a timer for 10 minutes and see how many rounds you can do of each circuit in that time. There are three circuits and thus this is a 30-minute workout. Circuit 1: 10 – Jump lunges (or back lunges) 10 – Tricep push-ups 10 – Crunches 10 – Hip-lifts ( right foot off the ground) 10 – Hip-lifts ( left foot off the ground) ( Repeat as many times as possible in 10 minutes)

Circuit 2: 10 – Squat jumps 10 – Pop-ups 10 – Mountain climbers 10 – Push-ups 10 – Bicycles (Repeat as many times as possible in 10 minutes) Circuit 3: 10 – Burpees 10 – Tricep dips 10 – Frog jumps 10 – Scissor kicks 10 – Alternating side lunges (Repeat as many times as possible in 10 minutes) Like I said above, do this workout four days this week, and simply go for a 30-minute walk on the other three days. Replace breakfast pastries with fruit and work toward achieving the goal you wrote down. (Here’s a suggested goal, for fun: Make your goal to do the workouts and the breakfasts all week! But pick anything you want.)

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.

IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT THERE IS RISK OF INJURY ASSOCIATED WITH ANY AND ALL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, WHETHER STRENUOUS OR NOT. IF YOU HAVE ANY RELATED CONCERNS AT ALL, THEN PLEASE MAKE SURE TO SPEAK WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN BEFORE ENGAGING IN THE EXERCISE PROGRAM ABOVE. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT PARTICULAR MOVEMENTS, THEN PLEASE CALL OR WRITE JENNY SCHATZLE DIRECTLY SO SHE CAN ANSWER THEM. REGARDLESS, HOWEVER, AS A RESPONSIBLE HUMAN BEING, BY PARTICIPATING IN THE FOREGOING EXERCISE PROGRAM, YOU ASSUME ALL OF THE RISK OF DOING SO AND VOLUNTARILY RELEASE, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AGAINST JENNY SCHATZLE BOOTCAMP AND/OR THE SANTA BARBARA SENTINEL.

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(Editor’s Note: That’s two weeks in a row, Jim, right on. You’re not a pest at all, and I am – we are – thrilled to have you writing in. We dig the Funk Zone art scene (in fact, Jeremy Harbin will soon be writing about a longtime FZ artist in his FZ-dedicated column) and believe that the folks who are making developmental in-roads to the area want to and will support that constituency. It’s what made the Funk Zone what it is, after all, and that shouldn’t be forgotten. Metropulos is a personal favorite (in fact, it’s where Tim and I shook hands on our deal to do the Sentinel many moons ago). Artistic telephone poles are too. Thanks for the picture, please keep picking us up. And keep the letters coming. Thanks Jim. – MSM)

The Powerful Santa Barbara Tennis Lobby Gets Going For Election Season

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Matt, I think of all the good things the City of Santa Barbara has done right. All that hard work, with all good intentions, mostly executed properly. And then I think of that one occasional thing that detracts from all of that good hard work: 90% well done, then 10% wrong or even bad. But it seems that the public remembers and focuses almost entirely on the 10% poorly executed and negative results. If this rings true, then the City may want to focus on correcting the “wrong decision” in order to avert broad negative public evaluation. Here is an opportunity for our City Council to correct a wrong. At least 485 citizens have signed up and complained about the Las Positas tennis court giveaway by the Parks and Recreation Department and the City Council for $1 per year on an 18-year lease. The benefactor of the giveaway is Elings Park. They were given the six best public tennis courts, and Elings uses the profits from those courts to support its non-tennis operations and to pay a large salary to its director. A public facility should not be turned over to a non-profit organization (Elings) who then sublets/contracts the facility to a profitmaking company to the detriment of the tennis playing public. To the City Council: Right the wrong, cancel the lease, and return the courts to the public. To The Public: Remember, you do have a vote in November! E.A. Taylor Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for the letter, E.A., I haven’t heard anything about the Las Positas Tennis Courts for at least a few months now but remember well the dust-up earlier this year. Look, I’m not a huge tennis player and haven’t ever played at the subject courts, but my understanding is that the City leased the courts to Elings a few years back when the City was unable to maintain them due to the detrimental duo of budget woes and expensive deferred maintenance that was really necessary to keep the courts safe and in good working order. Elings has a pretty damn good record when it comes to providing park and recreational services to Santa Barbara, so the lease doesn’t seem too unreasonable, especially if the alternative was to shut the courts down (which, of course, benefits nobody). In any event, I sincerely doubt that the City can simply cancel the lease at this point – it’s a long-term deal as I recall – so I wouldn’t hold your breath. Especially after all that running around you have to do on the tennis court. – MSM)

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Jeremy – I enjoyed your comments on the Funk Zone, my new neighborhood! Someday, in between bars, check out the music. Reds, Oreana Winery and Tasting Room outside on Saturday and Sunday, even the Bay Roadhouse Bar and Grill has an excellent space and consistently good shows. I highly recommend all of them. Elizabeth Longstreet Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Wow, Jeremy, one column and already a letter (two if you count Jim Mahoney’s above). Nice work… I’ll let you take it from here. – MSM) (Elizabeth, I may be new-ish around here, but it’s weird that EIC Matt did an elaborate summer camp-style mail call when he gave me your letter, right? I do appreciate your writing, and will definitely check those places out (seriously – it’s a weekly column). If you know of anything specific that I shouldn’t miss, email me at inthezone@santabarbarasentinel.com. In the meantime, check out this week’s In the Zone for some FZ musicians, Fig Mountain’s house band of sorts, the Caverns. – Jeremy Harbin)

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After growing up outside of Boston, Lesley graduated from Middlebury College. She’s had two careers – one in finance in New York City and another in landscape architecture and public project management in Brisbane, Australia and Seattle, Washington. She’s in her fourth term as chair of the City’s Parks and Recreation Commission. She also currently works with a number of organizations that share her passion for Santa Barbara, from advocating for youth programs and neighborhood improvements, to educating gardeners about sustainable landscape practices to collaborating with organizations promoting public-private partnerships that benefit our community.

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ur youth are Santa Barbara’s future. So how do we keep our young people on the right path to successful and fulfilling adulthood and away from the negative influences of drugs, alcohol and gangs? There are many youngsters here who suffer from fragmented, dysfunctional family units, economic disadvantages, and parents struggling to balance job pressures with their children’s needs. This leaves some young people disconnected from important positive influences and can put them on a path toward a troubled future with no sense of where to turn. Our “slice of paradise” is simply not such a place for some. The good news is that there are many great local programs that help our young people get or stay on track and channel their energies in positive directions.

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The bad news is that spreading the word and getting them the funds they need to fulfill their mission is difficult. While many programs positively impact our youth and deserve praise for their successes, four in particular have caught my attention. These programs are all funded entirely through grants and donations.

Youth Interactive

The first is Youth Interactive, an organization that instills high values in its young participants such as respect, honesty and accountability. Santa Barbara is fortunate to now have its own chapter in the Funk Zone under the direction of Nathalie Gensac. My first encounter came via Ginny Brush, Executive Director of the County Arts Commission and fellow Santa Barbara Beautiful board member.

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Ginny proposed that the board fund one of YI’s local programs that helps known taggers channel their artistic talents away from graffiti and into a positive direction – public art. Once each tagger signed a binding contract to not tag, they joined a summer program at Youth Interactive that is creating a forty-foot mural that will be displayed on a blank wall in the Funk Zone and will dazzle tourists and residents alike. Ten artists are in the program working on the mural, ranging in ages from 11 years to early 20s. Recently I visited Youth Interactive to meet some of the artists. Their work is truly impressive. Some of the artists are on opposing sides of the City, but at YI they work side by side with respect for one another. The group will soon receive a paid commission to do artwork for a Malibu business. The local chapter also partners with other organizations to provide youth art programs, including Transition House, La Cuesta Continuation High School, Los Prietos Boys Camp and Academy, Police Activities League, Palabra and the county’s Juvenile Probation Department. For six weeks this summer, eighteen young probationers came to their facility every Tuesday to learn the skill of designing

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the award-winning “Seaside Murals” span a 200-foot long freeway sound wall and face a renovated play area. Seventeen �� artists created the murals in 2011 and �� helped transform a previously vandalized �� space into a graffiti-free and vibrant area �� for children. At any given time, as many �� as 150 children now play in this happy �� space that was previously empty and �� desolate. �� Arts Alliance’s murals are also displayed at�� Bohnett Park, the Eastside Library �� and other locations including Ortega �� de�� Park and Casa la Raza. Each�� mural �� a �� celebrates different subject that the artists have studied in depth.

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The second program is the Youth Culinary Arts Program under the direction of �� Anita Ho from the Parks and Recreation Department. This 16�� week program is designed for high school �� kids and operates at both the Westside Community Center and�� the��Franklin �� Center. Professional chefs generously �� volunteer their skills and the curriculum �� includes food preparation, recipe�� making, cooking and serving skills and �� healthy cooking practices. �� As a Parks and Recreation �� I�� Commissioner, was introduced to �� the �� program years ago at a luncheon. The ��and �� healthy delicious meal was entirely �� prepared and served by the teens and I �� was very impressed by their dedication to �� culinary arts. This year, as a board member �� of PARC Foundation, I helped �� organize �� our annual fundraiser that showcased wine �� and food. Although the teens had already �� graduated, they �� eagerly agreed to come �� back together because proceeds from the �� event provided funding for the program’s �� future. They’d never served 200+ guests but worked for weeks to create the menu and prepare the food, and then dedicated their Sunday afternoon to serving and cleaning up afterward. Attendees at the event raved about their culinary skills and the program gained valuable exposure �� because of their efforts.

The final organization to showcase is SafeLaunch, which takes a different artbased approach to youth issues. Since research shows that the adolescent brain �� is�� up to six times more susceptible to addiction than one that is fully developed, �� SafeLaunch, directed by Janet Rowse �� and Ron Cuff, is dedicated to preventing �� young people from possible addiction �� caused by early exposure to alcohol, �� tobacco and drugs. �� For science-based SafeLaunch, �� prevention is an imperative, and they �� work very hard to get their message out �� way. �� to�� young �� people in a positive It’s �� a peer-to-peer approach where young �� people create informed messages about �� the disease of addiction through art. �� They invite teens, usually 30 per contest, �� to�� participate in their�� annual�� Media �� $500 contests to challenge them in �� songwriting, video production, visual �� art, photography, poetry and prose. �� The contestants express what they have �� learned about addiction prevention �� through these various art forms. �� SafeLaunch also produces the Santa Barbara Teen News Network, a television show and media education program taught by professionals at TV Santa Barbara. The crew has interviewed International Film Festival stars and reported on many local community events. �� All of these programs are changing the �� by�� lives of our�� young people transforming �� into �� their self-expression positive artistic �� outlets, and�� promoting an appreciation of�� the possibilities ahead, and that �� dreams �� can come true. When�� teens �� realize that they have something positive to�� offer the community and their peers, �� they’re better able to create a successful �� future for themselves. �� I couldn’t highlight all the�� worthwhile �� art-centered youth programs here, but I �� know their needs are universal: funding �� and volunteer support. Please consider �� contributing your time and/or money �� to�� an organization that supports youth in arts. Your contributions will change lives and make Santa Barbara an even better place to live. After all, our youth are Santa Barbara’s future. Lesley Wiscomb Candidate for City Council

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by Rachelle Oldmixon

On Human Sexuality (Sort Of) and the Scientific Method

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o, you can prove that homosexuality is biological?” “No,” it had to have been the hundredth time I was saying this, “I can only provide evidence that would support that hypothesis.” The scientific method is something every child is taught from first grade all the way to twelfth. Yet, like many things in grade school, the lesson stops once the students learn the basic steps of conducting an experiment. I have never once heard a discussion about what the scientific method actually means. Yes, the steps are ingrained in every student’s mind, but not very well. If you ask a high school senior and a recent college graduate in psychology, like I did, you get roughly the same answer: 1) Create a hypothesis. 2) Test the hypothesis. 3) Evaluate the results. 4) Draw a conclusion. When I compared the answers, I was shocked at how similar they were. Both boiled down the method to a process, both got the same parts of that simplified process incorrect, and both ignored the same crucial non-formulaic aspects of the scientific method. Neither mentioned that informed and educated observations about the natural world must first be made before a plausible hypothesis can be created. And both insisted that drawing a conclusion includes deciding whether a hypothesis is true or false. Let’s just say that the latter is, ah, false.

Justifiably Falsifiable Hypotheses For most of life’s situations, only a scientist or science geek (like me) would be annoyed about the state of most people’s understanding of the scientific method. After all, that working definition gives everyone the tools to conduct their own experiments on the challenges of daily life and even some of the mysteries that science has yet to unravel. It certainly worked for Jack Andraka, the high school student who developed a new test designed to detect the early stages of pancreatic cancer. The problem arises when the education system does not tell its students that the scientific method extends beyond a set of rules for conducting an experiment. The scientific method also lays down a set of rules for how to interpret

A self-professed science nerd, Rachelle has her B.A. in neuroscience from Skidmore College in upstate New York, and is working towards her Master’s in psychology at UCSB. In her free time, she blogs at www.synapticspeculations.com. She never could quite understand why she had to choose just one area of science; they are all fascinating. Especially when paired with some classic rock.

results of a single experiment and how to unify results of many experiments into a theory. Ok. I still sound like a science geek just whining that the people I talk to are not all Sheldon Cooper and company. The truth is that I prefer talking to non-scientists. Their scientific thoughts tend to not be restricted by too much scientific knowledge. So often they are able to ask insightful scientific questions that challenge my own understanding of the topic. And that makes for great dinner conversation. With that said, sometimes it is imperative that the educational system remind its students that the scientific method is a guideline that has taken thousands of years to develop into what it is today. Galileo (who did most of his work in the early 1600s)

is credited as the grandfather of the scientific method. But Aristotle had a hand in its development, Alhazen – a Muslim scientist – published a book that included the introduction of the experimental method, and Roger Bacon – a Franciscan Friar in the 13th century – is also believed to have taught the importance of the scientific method. These men all believed that rigorous study of the natural world is the best way to discover new information. But it was in the 1600s that scientific societies began to set parameters. An experiment has to be repeatable. If another scientist cannot repeat the experiment and get the same results, the first set of results comes into question. In the same century, it became common practice for scientists to review each other’s work for quality and plausibility. In the 1700s, control groups were introduced so that scientists could compare the results of their manipulations to what naturally occurs. In 1934, Karl Popper’s work helped the scientific community to adopt the idea that hypotheses should be “falsifiable,” or worded in such a way that they can be proved incorrect through observation and experimentation. Yeah, that’s right, the hypothesis should be formulated in a way that it can be proved false.

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The reason for that apparent inconsistency is that the scientific method is not a method that allows us to find the right answers to the universe. Instead, the scientific method can only help us find the best available answers. That’s why our knowledge of the world around us has changed so much. Jan Baptist van Helmont, a scientist who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries, conducted an experiment over several years where he drew the conclusion that trees gained mass because they absorbed water. It was only after van Helmont’s death that photosynthesis was discovered, replacing his theory of plant growth with the one we use today. As our knowledge of the world improves and as technology advances, we are able to get better and better answers about the way our universe operates. Unfortunately, every time science proves itself wrong, students and graduates of our educational system are left with few options: Accept that Science – the deified academic field of our time – is a lie and thus reject discoveries and claims out of hand, or blindly accept what information Science hands down to them. Luckily, there are enough inquiring minds out there to realize that there might be a third option somewhere in the middle.

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Now, for those of you who remember the second sentence of my little rant, you might be thinking “Wait a minute!” And you would be right to do so. I said that science cannot prove a hypothesis correct. But now, I’m saying that some guy changed the scientific method almost 100 years ago to say that hypotheses need to be written in a way that they can be proven incorrect.

he Santa Barbara Sculptors Guild is pleased to announce Nathan Vonk, Curator of Sculpture for “The Sullivan Goss Gallery” as the Juror and Curator of our up coming exhibition at the Faulkner Gallery. It’s an open call to ALL artists and it begins on Sunday September 1st,Labor Day. We will have our ingathering from 10:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. at the Faulkner Gallery at the Public Library. Submissions are $25.00 for one entry, $35.00 for two entries and $45.00 for 3 entries. If you are a guild member or student the third entry is free. Remember Nathan will be done jurying and start curating at 3:00 which is when you must return to see if you’ve been accepted and to remove those pieces that were rejected and to sign up for a sitting time to watch the gallery for the Pieces that did make it into the show. There will be a First Thursday reception on September 5th from 5:00 to 7:00 with refreshments being served and awards being shared. Our show strike will be Saturday September 28th from 1:00- 3:00p.m. As well we ask that members please submit a recent 11x8.5 manifesto of their work and vitals for our new exhibition advertising booklet.

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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.

Cyrano in Solvang

CPA Theaterfest’s Cyrano de Bergerac features a tour-deforce performance by Derrick Lee Weeden in the title role of the swashbuckling, romantic and boundlessly clever hero hopelessly in love with his cousin but cursed by a huge nose. Weeden’s command of the language and the stage – you can see the spit coming out of his mouth propelled by his powerful breath – is truly inspiring, as is the rest of the cast in this fine production, which takes place under the stars at the Festival Theater in Solvang through next Sunday, September 1. But there is one complaint: the show clocks in at three hours and fifteen minutes. Yikes! Given Cyrano’s verbosity, that’s a lot of words to digest, quite a few beyond even expository or pure adornment. Cyrano’s demise was like watching one of those interminable opera death scenes where the diva laments her impending end over and over until her final breath. I mean, even a man of leisure can only sit in one place for so long!

Dancing Dilemma

I’ve also got a beef about the justconcluded concert series out at the Stow House in Goleta. Why the heck did they move the stage from the far corner up against the tall trees to the end of the paved road? I guess it provides better sight lines from more areas, but it’s pretty hard on the back and joints to dance on tornup, sloped asphalt. It’s a far cry from the portable dance floor employed in previous years. Area 51, who closed out the concerts last Tuesday night, more or less compel listeners to get up and dance, but the body doth protest. Oh well, I guess a man of leisure should be content to just lay back on a blanket and listen while the ladies drop grapes into his mouth. Could be worse...

Dead Man Jamming

Anyway, Area 51 – still the most popular and probably best dance band in town, due to the fact that unlike some of the others (Soul City Survivors, take note), they mix up their set and add new songs all the time – will be back in its usual stomping grounds for the monthly gig at SOhO Saturday night. Earlier, however, I implore you to check out the hot new avant-garde jazz trio The Dead Man. Percussionist Luis Munoz, guitarist Daniel Zimmerman

and double bassist Brendan Statom play truly heady stuff that both moves and intrigues, as evidenced by their recent gigs at Red’s down in the Funk Zone. Looking forward to seeing them in a place where people might actually pay attention.

Toad’s Travels

Santa Barbara-born band Toad the Wet Sprocket – lead singer-songwriter Glen Phillips still lives in town, in Montecito – has completed work on New Constellation, its first studio album since 1997’s Coil. The band – who got it’s name from an obscure Monty Python sketch (as in, you won’t hear it in Spamalot) – has been back together on and off for years, but has found some stability in recent times. They’re playing several gigs in California this week, including the Troubadour in Hollywood on Friday, Humphrey’s in San Diego Saturday and The Observatory in Santa Ana Sunday, but as usual, there are no Santa Barbara dates, as Toad honors its long-ago commitment to only perform in town as a benefit. (One should be happening fairly soon, we hear.) The new disc is set for release on September 17, following a successful Kickstarter campaign, with the official promo tour beginning the next night in Maine. But in the meantime, you can download an EP that features the title track and another new tune, “California Wasted,” along with re-recorded versions of Toad classics “All I Want,” “Fall Down” and “Crazy Life.” The “Something Old, Something New” teaser EP is available free at Noisetrade (www.noisetrade.com), although donations are accepted and appreciated.

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Just Getting Started For their next move, The Caverns will continue to work on original material. “We have two songs right now that are instrumentals that we really want to work with,” Maxton says, “It’s just a different process.” “With a cover band, you don’t really know how you sound,” Alyssa muses. An original called “Abandoned House” that the band played for In the Zone might lay down a funk-rock groove, but Alyssa warns, “It’s a funk song, but we’re not a funk band.” She continues: “We have so many different sounds with what we play it’s difficult right now judging where we

want to go with it.” For now at least, they’ll go with it to the Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company. Their six-week residency there officially starts next weekend and recurs each Saturday, but the band says they’re likely to keep up a regular schedule well past the sixth show. So when you make it down, don’t be surprised to find yourself – Hoppy Poppy in hand – waiting in line to talk to The Caverns as they try their hardest to pack up. Keep up with The Caverns and check out the live videos posted over at www. facebook.com/thecavernsofficial. You can also search for them on Instagram. For the real thing, let them melt your face off at Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company (137 Anacapa Street) every Saturday for at least six weeks. Confirm engagements with Fig Mountain at 805.694.2255.

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with Julie Bifano Ms Bifano is Drawn to micro-fiction and is currently writing her first novel – “The Grace Below.” She has a B.A. in English with an emphasis in writing from the University of San Francisco and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing, also from the University of San Francisco. More of Julie’s stories and poetry can be viewed on her website juliebifano.com.

Roarin’ and Rollin’

Warren Gardener (right), Chandler Guilbeault and Elasia Dedeaux are fans of the roulette table.

Leilany Lynch, Tatiana Almeida, Giseli Spera, Fabiola Pereira, Michele Miolt and Tyrone Martin celebrate the Roaring Twenties at Seven.

n Saturday afternoon, I realized my closet was clear of any roaring 1920s attire for Casino Night at local Funk Zone hot spot, Seven. Victorian Vogue provides excellent costume garments that you can rent or buy. For those of us on a budget, like myself, the rental prices are reasonable, and they have an extensive array of varied styles from different eras. I found a flapper dress with fringe, black gloves and a feather headpiece. With a day off and the recent

release of my favorite controversial film this year, The Great Gatsby, I was thrilled to step back in time and roll some dice. Walking across the railroad tracks on my way to Seven at 224 Helena Avenue in the heart of the Funk Zone, I pretended for a moment I had hopped off a long forgotten 1920s train, perhaps from another city, perhaps writing a telegram along the way. Ryan Bodycombe greeted me with a hug at the door and out of the corner of

Owner of Funk Zone hot spot Seven Shawn Comrie and his wife, Tania, pose for a quick shot.

Kristen and Chris Cyr show off their 1920’s attire for casino night.

my eye I observed long strands of pearls on ladies carrying cigarette holders, feathers in their hair and gentlemen wearing suits, ties and top hats. Ryan’s hug translated instantly to “Hello, Old Sport.” Locals spun around in their ‘20s garb, jovial, forgetting reality at least for a little while. Although challenging with my silky gloves, I took my notebook and

camera out of my satchel, and began to record the finest time I’ve had in Santa Barbara in years. Ryan, the welcoming host and one of the many event organizers explained, “I think that providing a place in Santa Barbara where people can experience the strange in life is something different and unusual where everyone is assimilating

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to a new environmental norm.” Stepping outside, “the strange” Ryan described materialized. A plethora of casino tables were set up on the back patio, and people were rolling the dice, shouting “big roller,” “hot shooter,” and “snake eyes.”

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The smell of sliders, pesto mac and cheese and French fries whet my palate. At the craps table, I bumped into owner Shawn Comrie, who was celebrating his 40th birthday bash. He explained that a portion of the proceeds from the 1920’s casino night would go to Fishbon (fishbonsb.ning.com), a local non-profit collaboration that focuses on supporting local artists’ street art and other endeavors in the Funk Zone. Shawn further described the evening, “The casino night is fun and different. It is the creative side of what Seven brings to the local community and the Funk Zone by doing something differently.” It was my turn to roll at the craps table. I shook the dice in my left hand (I’m not a lefty), figuring it might be good luck. With plenty more photos to take and a story to capture, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s words ruminated, “I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” I rolled for a half hour, until the seven hit and I was back to work.

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by Christina Enoch

Feeling The Love Dominic Shiach and Carmen Deforest make everything at Book Ends Café from scratch… and with love.

This sandwich board is the only way you’d know Book Ends Café exists. (Well, that sandwich board and this column, anyway.)

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ook Ends. Say it to yourself, gently, slowly. Book Ends. I’ve loved the way it rolls off my tongue ever since I read Jane Green’s “chick book” of the same name. (Yeah, I read all of her pink-covered books when I was a single girl, right around the time that I watched the entire DVD series of Sex and the City. But this is a food column so let’s get to it.) There’s just something nostalgic, deep and romantic about… Book Ends. I’m feeling the love. And so, you can imagine my surprise when my editor called and told me about the recently opened Book Ends Café right here in Santa Barbara. It started quietly, just a few weeks back, in a small space above Antioch University downtown. “Check it out,” my editor said, “and let me know what you think.” (He’d already tried it. He knew.) So I gathered up a few books I haven’t been able to finish – all downloaded to my iPad (what happened to real books, anyway?) – and set out for a nice quiet lunch. I got something more than I bargained for.

A Hidden Gem First of all… well, I’ll just go ahead and say it. I wasn’t hugely excited by the location of Book Ends Café. Above Antioch University? Really? But after I walked up the long flight of stairs I knew I was wrong. There is a huge outdoor patio for enjoying your meal (and in my case a book or two). It wasn’t overly crowded, with students and professors and guest speakers getting lunch and chatting quietly and hanging out. A perfect din, a buzz, if you will, just right for a little afternoon bite. At the corner of the patio, a small

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.

door led me to the simple but cozy and inviting café. Greeted warmly by husband and wife team, Dominic Shiach and Carmen Deforest, I was immediately drawn to homemade quiche, cookies and banana bread at the counter. (I was eager to hit those even before my lunch.) I quickly pulled out my camera to take a few shots of the goods. We talked as I shot their beautiful food. Dominic grew up in a family where food was more important than, well, family. He studied Restaurant Management at French Culinary Institute in NYC and has been dreaming of opening a restaurant of his own. After moving back to their hometown, Santa Barbara, from Brooklyn (the source of many culinary inspirations), he and Carmen jumped on an opportunity of opening a café with open arms. And then suddenly I was drooling over some delicious-looking homemade sea salt chocolate chip cookies. It was time to sit down and eat. Like I said, the café is quietly located

Carmen’s Pickled Beet Sandwich. Light and delightful. Wow again.

above Antioch University, which just so happens to be right by the downtown Saturday Farmers Market. So, then, guess where Carmen and Dominic get all their ingredients? That’s right, my friends! Book Ends uses all local, responsibly grown yummy things, and makes mostly everything from scratch. The food is simple yet delicious, and you can really taste the quality and care that goes into every dish. Most of all, though, I can taste the love. I know it sounds weird, but after lots of time spent studying and preparing food (often in high end kitchens), I’ve developed a bit of a sixth sense around the whole thing. I can tell if any given dish is made carefully, slowly, lovingly – and I can say without a doubt that Book Ends makes every dish just that way. With love. And love, my friends, makes all the difference. Brisket Banh Mi is one of the most popular sandwiches. Slow roasted brisket, pickled carrots and radish, cilantro and Jalapeno vinaigrette. Loved it. Definitely worth the trip up the stairs. Carmen’s favorite, the Pickled Beet Sandwich is made with roasted pickled beets, feta, kalamata olives and smoked Aioli. It’s also utterly delightful. I’d have climbed the stairs twice to get it. But Lemony Chickpea Salad Sandwich is no doubt my favorite – think marinated smashed chickpea salad, avocado, market lettuce and Tahini Harrisa dressing. It’s

The patio is huge. And sunny. And bright.

The deli salad when I was there was a kale and fennel salad, and boy was it tasty.

nutty and tangy... and it had me at the first bite. And suddenly, unexpectedly, we were on a roll. A roll of simple, delicious food. Book Ends doesn’t only serve delectable sandwiches, you see, they also serve local Kombucha, local Green Star Coffee, homemade granola, fresh deli salads made daily, many with “fresh made” pasta from local Mission Rose Pasta Company, local snacks and McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams. You really can’t get more local than that; and you really do feel like you are truly a part of the community here. (Note that they constantly change their deli salad depending on what fresh ingredients they can find at the Farmers Market, so you can basically go to Book Ends every day and never get bored.) Oh, and let’s not forget about those salted chocolate chip cookies. Chewy cookies with big chunks of dark chocolate and a touch of sea salt on top. (Am I on the rooftop or in heaven?) And then suddenly, before I knew it, my white cookie bag was empty. But I was full. Of love.

Off The Menu

ook Ends Café (602 Anacapa Street, 805.963.3222, walk into the Antioch lobby and then up the stairs… or just take the elevator) is a perfect spot to hit for a quiet lunch in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara. (There’s free wifi to boot!) You can slip away from the hustle and bustle and find yourself a terrific lunch at the same time. (I loved mine, seriously.) So go on in to Book Ends Café, say hi to Dominic and Carmen, and enjoy a wonderful meal. Take a few friends to a new place that won’t disappoint or just go alone. Sometimes we all need a little space, right? And sometimes we all need a little love.

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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.

Micro Mayhem at the Maverick

tep right up, ladies and gentlemen, step right up. Welcome to the “Greatest Little Show on Earth.” For one night only, the Valley’s last great honky-tonk will showcase little people with big-time attitude (and even bigger biceps). On Thursday night, August 29, the Maverick Saloon will host a wrestling extravaganza with a stable of some of the meanest, strongest and prettiest small stature wrestlers around. There will be everything from a 250-pound Freight Train bar bouncer to a midget master of martial arts and a camo-hellion from the hills of Arkansas. Finally, Valley Girl can watch a sport she loves. No, this ain’t dwarf tossing. We’re civilized here. This is wrestling. Micro-wrestling, to be exact. And it ain’t for sissies.

Quite A Micro Line Up Meet the wrestlers: Let’s hear a New York cheer for ‘da Bronx Thug. This bad boy was raised on the Big Apple’s mean streets. If he can’t win clean, he’ll use pool cues, steel garbage cans and baseball bats. Anything to get a win. Then there’s Pixie, a half-pint hell-cat from the hills of Arkansas. She usually referees but can wrestle with the best. Jay-Z ain’t got nothing on J-Mazing. A midget master of combat and martial arts, he takes aerobatics to new heights. (He also competes at a national level in midget basketball.) Lil’ Nasty is a tough \wrestler from the school of hard knocks. Pound for pound he hammers it out. Just like his namesake, Pit Bull is Alabama Red Neck from the get-go. Many have wondered if he learned his pit bull-style winning wrestling matches at ‘Bama’Gator football games. Speaking of redneck, Freight Train is four-foot-five, weighs in at 250 pounds and rates among the largest and most powerful midget wrestlers the world has ever seen. He must have learned his style from wrestling ‘gators in the Florida panhandle. Freight Train was discovered as a rarity – a midget bouncer. And he knows how to take out the trash. Raven is new to the game from Baltimore (think a smaller Ray Lewis for sure daring, strength and chutzpah). Texas Longhorn country heralds Ricky Benjamin, who excelled in high school

wrestling. Strong, fast and super tough, he’s appeared in Fox’s hit show Bones and a few nationally televised commercials. That’s not all. Not even close. Oh baby, Russian Princess melts down any Chernobyl when she comes out. Think Blond bombshell, stacked, packed and what an accent. Feminist Free Spirit Shae Strong sports an “I support midget violence” spaghetti strap top. My guess is she loves Harleys and is a Sturgis favorite. Short Dawg is the “whiskey drinking, weed smoking, dirtiest cop you’ve ever seen!” So tough, he was kicked off the Lexington Kentucky police force for his third offense of excessive force. Still not done. Wow. Drill-em Stephen Diesel is a gladiator cum laude. He was also a state wrestler in the 105lb class, earning a University of Michigan scholarship. Alas, he was only a Wolverine for a short time before he was kicked out for assault charges in a bar fight. He was discovered in an underground fight club.

The Bosses Speak Jesse Jermann, President of the Micro Wrestling Federation (MWF), said, “The MWF began in 2000 and has traveled all over the country. Last year, we performed in more than a 180 venues across 33 states.” He explained that the MWF’s mission is to show that participants are serious athletes with the will and determination to win over a new audience with a new perspective as “new midget wrestling fans.” Midget wrestling’s storied history dates back to the heyday of the 1950s and 1960s. The novelty of wrestling and TV was a marriage made in the ring. Wikipedia states such wrestlers as Fuzzy Cupid, Little Beaver, and Lord Littlebrook as big names in small stature entertainment touring the country. In fact, Sky Low Low first held the National Wrestling Alliance’s World Midget Championship. It began waning after WWF’s Wrestle Mania III, declining until a nadir in the mid-1990s where such matches were mainly comic venues. However, wrestlers such as Mascarita Sagrada continued to compete in Mexican promotions and, by the mid-2000s, US midget division once again slated major wrestling cards. While the Little People of America see “midget” as a racial slur, performers don’t

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Plan B by Briana Westmacott Hailing from NorCal, Briana has lived in Santa Bar-

bara for the past fifteen years. While she is indeed an adjunct faculty member at SBCC and has contributed to LOVEmikana, Wake & Wander and Entrée Magazine, much of her time is spent multi-tasking her way through days as a mother, wife, sister, wantto-be chef and travel junky. Writing is an outlet that ensures mental stability… usually.

Mindlessness in Mexico

ven the lightning is happier in Mexico. It slices the sky like a butter knife. Soft luminous rails on the distant horizon dance around on top of the black ocean at night. This is the typical opening act for rain to follow. The whole production rolls on through the early hours of the day, only to deliver a pure, aqua morning. The lightning is one of my favorite things in Mexico this time of the year. When we arrived in Puerto Vallarta, the steward came over the speaker in the plane cabin, “Folks, the local time is… who cares?” I giggled. For years we’ve been coming down to a special spot an hour north of Puerto Vallarta called Punta Mita. But this year was different. This year was not going to be filled with endless Pacificos and margaritas on the beach. This year, Punta Mita was where I was going to start meditating.

My Meditation Practice Needs Some… Practice I’m well aware that I am already breaking the rules of meditation by writing about it. I’m not supposed to go about this process in an outward fashion (which is hard for me – I’m not the best at keeping things in). I’m also not at all good at sitting in one spot and quietly thinking about nothing. The second I try to do this in Santa Barbara, my mind immediately conjures up one of the many mundane tasks that I must fulfill and I soon ditch my mindful moment to attend to it. This August, however, I went to Mex with a goal. I needed to get centered. Better focused. More aware. I was not going to fill my vacation days with mindless frivolity. I wanted to take the opportunity of being away to truly “be” away. To simply be.

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It’s possible that the kids were more centered than I ever was after hours playing in the pool led to exhaustion and staring blankly at the ocean. Maybe I should try that instead of a mantra next time.

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keep the mind clear and focused. Lord knows I needed all the help I could get to keep my cluttered psyche clear. Bring on the mantra. Everything was set. I had all that I needed. A pristine, sugary beach was waiting for me to sit on it while my husband was in the pool with the kids. My meditating on foreign shores to instill inner peace was about to begin… and here’s a little snippet of how it went:

I tried. I really, really tried.

My mom suggested that I try Transcendental Meditation. She has been meditating for a good thirty years and even boasts an out-of-body experience. I do remember times when I was young when we were all sent outside to play because “mom was meditating.” (This was just another reason – beyond enlightened status – to get me going with my practice.) I already had a clear vision in mind: I could justifiably inform the children, “You may not ask mommy for anything for the next thirty minutes and you must remain quiet and calm.” It was a pretty picture, no doubt. I had done my research. I read up on the practice and even toted a couple of books with me south of the border. I thought it would be beneficial to use Transcendental Meditation because you get to use a mantra, a repeating phrase or sound to

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learly I could use some coaching with my meditation practice and so I am going to try the Transcendental Meditation Program of Santa Barbara (www.tm.org/transcendentalmeditation-santa-barbara). They offer free talks and meetings with certified teachers of the TM technique. Once I’m finished with that, I may head to Cielito Restaurant in La Arcada for a margarita. They make a great one.

Breathe ~ One, Two, Three Nothing. Try to think about nothing. I need a mantra. What would be a good mantra? Maybe just… mantra? How can I stop thinking? Focus. Clouds. Ocean. I really need to work more. Or possibly work less? Definitely write more. What I really need to do is start composting in my garden. Darn it. Mantra, Mantra. Breathe ~ Four, Five, Six Clear my mind. Clear like the Mexican ocean. Why is the ocean color so perfect here? All of the colors seem to be intensified in Mexico. And the people are so friendly. How could we move down here? Could I teach online courses and we could dwell here? The kids would definitely be bilingual. Damn. Mantra, mantra. Breathe ~ Seven, Eight, Nine Focus. Inner quiet. I cannot believe summer is almost over! No, don’t do that, nothing, think about nothing! But I didn’t finish all of the projects on my summer list. I never got around to organizing the garage. Damn it. Mantra, mantra. Breathe ~ Ten, Eleven, Twelve Revive the breath. Focus. I think I need to do a juice cleanse. Maybe when I get home. Healthy body, healthy mind. Coconut ice cream sounds really good right now. Right after a fish taco. Damn. Mantra, mantra. Maybe I need a different mantra besides mantra? Ah, mierda. Maybe I should go have a margarita... So there it is, twelve minutes of mindfulness or mindlessness or something like that. It’s pretty clear that I need some practice with my practice, and I have given up all hope of coming home from Mexico having found inner peace and self-awareness. Whatever. I’m off to get that margarita.

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• LOVE IS FREE What: Trails ‘n’ Tails Where: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon Road When: Saturday, August 24, 10am – 4pm Why: It’s National Dog Day! How: Celebrate your best friend with 5 miles of beautiful trails, Paw-casso Paw Print Art made by your dog, doggie raffle drawings and more.

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ummer’s still in full swing and try as we might to stay logged on, the gogo-go of it all has got our systems on overload. In true “Be Active” fashion, we’re not ready to crash and burn just yet so we’ve heeded the advice of our trusty IT guy – who, more often than not, asks “have you re-started lately?” – and rebooted our fitness routine in order to reenergize our central processing unit… er, ah, our bodies and minds. We recently discovered a fitting 10-machine circuit workout on the trail surrounding the QAD property above Summerland. We leg pressed, rowed and did pull-ups to our heart’s delight. And, by adding a little cardio in between each rep, this fresh, fun and outdoor workout certainly restored our drive, giving us more than enough reasons not to shut down. Go ahead and rewire your regimen by downloading doing a circuit of your own – it’s free and open to the public (and it has a simply sublime view). Just exit Sheffield off the 101 and turn right onto North Jameson Lane. As you start to go around the bend, make your first right onto Ortega Hill Road. Immediately after turning you can park – this is right where the relatively new bike path along the freeway connects Montecito to Summerland – and where you’ll find the trail up to the QAD building.

GREEN SCENE Pickle Me This

by Courtney Dietz aise your hand if you like wine or beer! Chocolate? Pickles (even when you’re not pregnant)? Cheese? Bread? Sounds like a pretty perfect dinner to these birds! Many of us aren’t aware of the diversity of fermented foods in our daily lives, even without including the relative oddballs like sauerkraut and kimchi (though also delicious). This Saturday from 11am to 5pm, Fairview Gardens in Goleta is hosting the 3rd Annual Fermentation Festival and it will be fun for the whole family. No really, with a DIY Pickle Station and a Cultured Petting Zoo (think kefir grains and kombucha starter), it definitely will be educational and entertaining. There will be hands on workshops and demos with tastings all afternoon, too! We’re ferment believers so please beer with us. Brine there, done that? We’re doubtful so head to the Festival and get yourself in a pickle. Advance tickets are available at Isabella Gourmet Foods, the IV Food Coop and online at http://santabarbarafermentationfestival.eventbrite.com. See you there.

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Feeling Cheesy / Daily Rind

by Eve Sommer-Belin hether creating a delicious plate, platter or smorgasbord, there is always room for new local cheese! Casitas Valley Creamery’s organic artisanal cheeses are molded by a family committed to quality and responsible production. You’ll discover carefully hand-crafted herb, spicy or plain feta in organic olive oil, spicy farmhouse (similar to a cheddar) and fresh brie. (Mmmm, brie…) Order a variety box for pickup or just swing by Isabella Gourmet Foods or Pierre Lafond to satisfy your need for cheese. Get away from the daily rind and grab some cheesy delights soon! www.casitasvalleycreamery.com.

What’ll It Cost Me: One free admission per leashed dog.

• LOOSE CHANGE What: The Art of Camp Cooking Where: Lake Cachuma Recreation Area, 2225 Highway 154 When: Saturday, August 24, 11am – 2pm Why: Learn how to make gourmet camp food for your next outdoor rendezvous. How: Enjoy live music from local band The Kinds, sip on wine from Municipal Winemakers and dine on some tasty grilled grub by Chef Kim Schiffer.

What’ll It Cost Me: $35 per person

• HEY BIG SPENDER What: Red Obsession Screening & Wine Reception Where: Bacara Resort & Spa, 8301 Hollister Avenue When: Saturday, August 24, 4 – 7pm Why: Good movie. Good wine. Good location. Seems like a no-brainer to us. How: Sample twenty local wines on the beautiful Bacara grounds followed by a private screening and Q&A of the Russell Crowe-narrated wine documentary Red Obsession.

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by Michael Calcagno

Commercial Real Estate Agents with Radius Group who have completed over $550,000,000 in total transaction value and Leased/Sold over 2,000,000 SF since 2005. In 2012, along with Radius principle Steve Brown, the team completed 42 deals comprised of 19 sales and 23 lease transactions totaling $113.5 Million in sales volume and more than $21.5 Million in lease value upwards of 500,000 square feet

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

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Q2 2013 South County Commercial Sales Review

ommercial sales for the market during the first half of 2013 were just off the 15-year average of 16 per quarter since 1998, but the 29 sales recorded still outnumber the 24 transactions for the same time period in 2012. Additionally, the second quarter improved slightly from the first quarter with 15 sales total. Of those 15 sales, three were off-market transactions and four properties were bought by owner-users. This may represent a shift from the past year’s trend of owneruser purchases to investors looking to capitalize on the improving market, and we will be watching closely to see if this storyline develops further. Also of note, comparing Q2 2013 with the same period last year, there was a considerable change in total sales volume jumping from $47 million in Q2 2012 to $130 million in total volume this past quarter. It is no secret the market is continuing to improve.

Impressive Montecito Sales That said, we think the real story coming out of the second quarter is the huge increase in average sales price per square foot, which has risen to $420. To put it into perspective, that represents a 25% increase from the $336 average price per square foot we saw in the first quarter of 2013. This significant increase is due in large part to three landmark sales in Montecito. The historic Old Firehouse located in the Upper Village sold for an impressive $2,517 per square foot. It was purchased by US 3N LLC, an international fund focused on buying an income stream guaranteed by a credit worthy tenant. The prominent building is now occupied by Union Bank, formerly Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, which maintains a long lease that insures tenancy for years to

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come. Additionally, the former Hayward building located at 1101 Coast Village Road sold for over $900 per square foot to an LA investor who saw value in the irreplaceable asset. (The space is currently for lease.) A neighboring property located at 1111 Coast Village Road, home to Smith Barney Morgan Stanley, also sold during the quarter to a local investor coming out of a 1031 exchange.

Santa Barbara (And Carpinteria) Strong As Well Beyond Coast Village Road and Montecito, notable sales this quarter include two hotels for a combined total of more than $80 million. The larger was the sale of the Santa Barbara Hyatt for $61 million, a deal that included the 200-room Hyatt (consisting of 171 hotel rooms on the main property, 24 rooms at the Parkside Inn and 5 apartments). Prior to the sale, Hyatt had completed a $12 million renovation of the majority of its guestrooms and public spaces. The other transaction involving hospitality property was the sale of a 160-room, full service hotel in Goleta for $24 million. The hotel was sold without a franchise affiliation or management agreement included in the deal, although we have heard rumors the property will be managed by Kimpton Hotels. Further south in Carpinteria, a revamped 1001 Mark Avenue sold for $4.4 million at a 6.5% capitalization rate. The office building had recently undergone $1.7 million in renovations and is now occupied by lynda.com, an online video and tutorial company whose main corporate campus is located next door. And so, even without the impressive Montecito sales, the average price per square foot was still up at $345 per square foot compared to $336 per square foot last quarter. As we predicted in the previous quarterly report, prices have been rising due to limited supply and high demand, which is just simple economics. Although we have seen price sensitivity due to the quick rise in interest rates that began in May, as Q3 continues to develop we believe that the average price per square foot will continue to rise as the fundamentals remain strong. Thanks for reading, everybody, see you in the trenches.

ver the last few years there has been a resurgence of people wanting to live directly in downtown Santa Barbara. We have seen areas like the Funk Zone transform seemingly overnight with hip restaurants, local breweries and the Urban Wine Trail. There is a new luxury hotel known as the La Entrada Project being built at the end of State Street, and buyers are looking to purchase their own piece of the downtown experience. Until recently (meaning the last couple of months), there has been very little to choose from and almost no newer projects available. Now, there are three complexes new to the market and coming in the next week, which I highlight below (there may be a shameless plug here if you look really close). One that is getting a lot of buzz these last few months is the project called Sevilla, which is located on corner of Chapala Street and Gutierrez. The building has been under construction for the past several months so you might have noticed the scaffolding around the exterior if you have driven by. The property consists of 46 luxury units with large modern interior spaces, top quality design and amenities, very generous exterior terraces, completely secure with key fob access and no two-unit floor plans being alike. On street level, there are seven retail spaces also for sale. The property’s location puts you in the heart of downtown, close to Paseo Nuevo shopping, restaurants and entertainment, the beach and the Urban Wine Trail. The sales office will actually be opening in the next week but the property is available for private tours currently. The prices start in the low $700,000 range and move up from there. The property is listed by yours truly (shameless plug #1), Sotheby’s International Realty, and the commercial spaces are being listed by Radius Group. The second development is called Alma Del Pueblo and is located on West Victoria where the old Vons used to be. This complex is under construction as well and will have 37 luxury residential units with a neighboring marketplace hosting local food, beverage and wine shops. Since these units are not yet complete, buyers can choose from four different finish plans. This complex is located behind the 1300 block of State Street next to the Arlington Theatre. Prices start in the mid $800,000 range and up. The property is listed by Village Properties. One of the last newer complexes in the downtown area is the Anacapa Villas. The building consists of eight luxury units that were designed by architect Barry Berkus. Five of the eight units are large three-story Spanish style townhomes with private patios and two-car garages. The final three units are all single-level contemporary designs with private elevators opening to the interior of the residence. The building is located at 618 Anacapa and, just like the other two complexes, it is close to all that downtown has to offer. The property is new to the market and is also listed by yours truly (shameless plug #2), Sotheby’s International Realty. If you have any interest in living the downtown lifestyle, I highly recommend you stop by all of these complexes and take a better look at what they have to offer.

Anacapa Villas is listed with Sotheby’s International Realty

Alma Del Pueblo is listed by Village Properties

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

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12-5pm $2,500,000 2bd/3ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 Village Properties 2-4pm $1,695,000 2bd/2.5ba Dan Crawford 886-5764 Sotheby’s International Realty 2-4pm $1,450,000 3bd/3ba Vivien Alexander 689-6683 Village Properties 12-5pm $1,350,000 1bd/2ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 Village Properties 12-5pm $1,250,000 1bd/2ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 Village Properties 2-4pm $1,245,000 3bd/2ba Laurel Abbott 455-5409 Prudential California Realty 12-5pm $875,000 1bd/1ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 Village Properties 1-4pm $859,000 2bd/2.5ba Billy Mandarino 570-4827 Village Properties 1-4pm $699,000 4bd/2ba Jordan Robinson 451-3222 Sterling Properties By Appt. $595,000 1bd/1ba John Sirois 455-6277 Village Properties 2535 Anacapa Street 1-4pm $2,395,000 5bd/4.5ba Cara Gamberdella 680-3826 Village Properties 2012 Anacapa Street 2-4pm $2,195,000 4bd/3ba Angela Moloney Braverman 451-1553 Prudential California Realty 516 East Micheltorena Street 1-4pm $1,610,000 3bd/2ba Sandy Lipowski & Daniela Johnson 403-3844 Sotheby’s International Realty 504 East Arrellaga Street 2-4pm $1,395,000 4bd/3.5ba Alyson Spann 637-2884 Village Properties 1818 Olive Avenue 2-5pm $1,295,000 3bd/2.5ba Ann Harkey 564-1921 Village Properties 1430 & 1432 Lou Dillon Lane 12-3pm $1,295,000 6bd/5.5ba Ricardo Munoz 895-8725 Prudential California Realty 1219 Laguna Street 1-4pm $995,000 3bd/1.5ba Tobias Hildebrand 895-7355 Sotheby’s International Realty 400 East Pedregosa Street #I 1-3pm $850,000 2bd/2ba Stephanie Wilson & Ed Kaleugher 895-3270 Sotheby’s International Realty 16 Eeast Padre Street #9 2-4pm $639,000 2bd/2ba Ann Zafiratos 448-4317 Prudential California Realty 4650 Via Roblada 2-4pm $4,295,000 6bd/6ba Grubb Campbell Group 895-6226 Village Properties 4687 Via Roblada 2-4pm $2,995,000 4bd/3.5ba Ken Switzer 680-4622 Prudential California Realty 785 Carosam 2-4pm $2,850,000 5bd/4ba Laura Johnson 252-3389 Village Properties 550 Carriage Hill Lane 1-3:30pm $899,000 3bd/2.5ba Doug Van Pelt 637-3684 Prudential California Realty 1409 Shoreline Drive 1-5pm $5,000,000 4bd/4ba Gene Archambault 455-1190 Sun Coast Real Estate 2451 Borton Drive 2-4pm $1,095,000 4bd/2ba Christina Ruelas 452-9931 Village Properties 425 Fellowship Road 1-4pm $965,000 3bd/3ba Scott Williams 451-9300 Prudential California Realty 1050 Vista Del Pueblo #29 1-4pm $499,900 2bd/2ba Miguel Avila 896-0581 Sterling Properties 2645 Todos Santos Lane 2-4pm $2,095,000 3bd/2.5ba Paula Goodwin 451-5699 Sotheby’s International Realty 1051 Palomino Road 1-4pm $949,000 3bd/2ba Michelle Cook 570-3183 Sotheby’s International Realty 1850 East Las Tunas 2-4pm $3,425,000 3bd/2.5ba Tim Walsh 259-8808 Village Properties 1213 Viscaino Road 1-4pm $1,999,999 3bd/2.5ba Joyce Enright 570-1360 Prudential California Realty 10 Rincon Vista 1-3pm $1,995,000 4bd/3.5ba Stephanie Wilson& Ed Kaleugher 895-3270 Sotheby’s International Realty 1300 Las Alturas Road 2-4pm $1,795,000 4bd/2.5ba Pascale Bassan 689-5528 Prudential California Realty 1102 East Canon Perdido Street 2-4pm $1,595,000 3bd/2.5ba Kathleen St. James 705-0898 Sotheby’s International Realty 3021 Hermosa Road 2-4pm $1,495,000 4bd/3.5ba Robert Heckes 637-0047 Sotheby’s International Realty 507 San Onofre 1-4pm $885,000 3bd/2ba Elizabeth Wagner 895-1467 Village Properties 3761 Lincoln Road 2-4pm $1,695,000 4bd/3.5ba Wanda Livernois 252-9382 Sotheby’s International Realty 3711 Hitchcock Ranch Road 2-4pm $1,450,000 4bd/3ba Kellie Roche 705-5334 Prudential California Realty 21 Saint Francis Way 1-3pm $1,386,000 4bd/2ba Wilson Quarre 680-9747 Sotheby’s International Realty 3666 Eileen Way 1-3pm $1,150,000 3bd/2ba John McGowan 637-5858 Sotheby’s International Realty 325 East Alamar Avenue 2-4pm $1,149,000 4bd/3ba Rich van Seenus 284-6330 Sotheby’s International Realty 3791 State Street #B 1-4pm $1,099,000 3bd/2.5ba Mary Whitney 689-0915 Prudential California Realty 3888 Nathan Road 1-4pm $915,000 3bd/2.5ba Brooke Ebner Coburn 453-7071 Prudential California Realty 3708 Greggory Way 1-4pm $749,000 3bd/3ba The Easter Team 570-0403 Prudential California Realty 319 West Pedregosa Street 1-4pm $799,000 2bd/2ba Bob Ratliffe 448-6642 Prudential California Realty

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That’s why I don’t like Fiestas. Jim, Eastside I saw them dealing drugs behind my business, and called the cops two, maybe three times. Then one [gang member] comes in and said, ‘We know where you live.’ My wife totally freaked. Raoul, Eastside Football kept me out. I see in the paper they arrested this guy, and he’s an Eastsider. It’s weird seeing their mug shots. I went to school with these guys. Dennis, West Downtown Why don’t the landlords evict these

gang members? [The City] has to know where all the gang houses are. Why don’t they go after landlords who rent to gangs? Saul, West Downtown [His tenant’s kid] isn’t really affiliated. It’s all those other gang members that stabbed him – they’re the problem! Why don’t the cops crack down on them?! Chava, Westside We (his family) avoid walking by that house. They hang out on the porch, and threaten us. The mother, she’s nice, owns that house, grew up there. I just want to go to the store, but we go the long way so we don’t have to walk by them.

Me, West Downtown I went to Cathy Murillo’s first proyouth meeting. There were a lot of people there. I wondered if this was really the team to solve this. I didn’t know. We did introductions. As people spoke, I felt this collective grief well up in me. The Cottage Grove stabbings had just happened across the street. This is how it feels: wake up on a Saturday, go out to walk the dog and get coffee…. and discover you’re behind police tape. The forensics van is parked in the middle of the street, and the police are locking down the neighborhood. They order you back

into your house. After four years of police patrols, watching out for each other, getting streetlights in, and an anti-graffiti mural up… We’re back at ground zero. Is this how it works with serious social issues? You start with the best of intentions, organize, collaborate, implement some things, make progress… and hit a big, bad setback that knocks the wind out of you. That grief I felt, it was for us, for our neighborhood. We tried so hard, and yet were powerless to stop violence yet again from occurring on our street. What is it going to take?

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