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y father-in-law destroyed my single most prized possession last year. It wasn’t his fault, really, and he certainly meant no harm – he was actually generously trying to do me a favor – but nevertheless the fact remains. My father-in-law, truly wonderful man that he is, killed my baby. And I just haven’t been able to get over it. It’s worth pointing out that, from a big picture perspective, I’m really not much for harboring ill will. It’s not my style. Stuff bothers me, of course, but I don’t let it get too far under my skin. It’s not worth it, man, holding all that negativity is bad form. And it wreaks havoc on my emotional wellbeing. I mean, sure, I could have stayed bitter about that time in college a few friends stiffed me on a jaw-dropping and hugely irresponsible credit card bill I shouldered for an entire (hugely irresponsible) weekend at Mandalay Bay in Vegas. Or the time a friend smashed his car into mine while making what quickly became a futile attempt at automobile-based sexual humor. (I’d say more but it’s mostly inappropriate for these pages.) Or the time my wife blatantly cheated – thinking I didn’t know any better – and beat me in an ...continued p.12

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COVER

Mazza’s Missive – Matt takes a friend’s mountain bike into Santa Barbara’s rugged backcountry for a night and finds the strength to forgive his father-in-law for destroying his most prized possession last year. Will the family survive?

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City Council Candidate Question of the Week – The training wheels are off this week, and candidates – most of them anyway (um, Cruzito?) – respond to a question on downtown development and density. Who said what? Better read to find out so you can start decreasing your own density and developing your voter knowledge.

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It’s Crime Time – Nothing makes any sense anymore. Man with not one but two cylindrical objects in his groin arrested. Sleepy slobberer detained. All cyclists possess meth. Woman arrested for simply riding in car driven by drunk guy. Old timer arrested for using cane to defend himself. What the hell is going on this week, Santa Barbara?

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Letters to the Editor – Katie Cusimano, Briana Westmacott and Jeremy Harbin all draw praise from the general public; EIC Matt gets yelled at about typos and Crime Time. The world isn’t fair.

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The Beer Guy – Oktoberfest is back and cracking in Santa Barbara, and Zach Rosen knows all about it. Better read up quick so you can strap on your ‘hosen and do your wurst. Eight Days A Week – Jeremy Harbin’s editorial calendar thingy is gaining popularity. We’re hearing from more people about more, ah, interesting events than ever. Check it out and then go get weird all over town.

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Santa Barbara View – Sharon Byrne’s Government 2.0 vets non-profit sector partners carefully and actually holds them accountable; Loretta Redd actually drinks Santa Barbara tap water (and lives… and says it actually tastes good); Ray Estrada actually writes about business happenings in Santa Barbara (they taste good, too).

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Presidio Sports – American Riviera Bank Senior VP and Head of Operations Laurie Leighty is stepping up (again) as president of the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table; Todd Rogers returns with the AVP this weekend.

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Get Pumped – Jenny Schatzle felt the love recently at the American Heart Association Heart Walk and the She.Is.Beautiful 5K/10K Run. Now she’s passing it on in the form of a 5K of her own. And some hard juicing. (Yeah Schatzle!)

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Food File – Christina Enoch goes haute hippie with some delicious and totally healthy nutrient rich grinds at Alchemy Arts Center Café. We say get in there and detox, ASAP. Man About Town – Spike “the Big Tuna” Quartz steps in for Mark Léisuré this week and brings the low-down on the AVP’s Santa Barbara tournament at West Beach this weekend. (Bump, set… Spike.)

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Valley Girl – Be warned: Xombiewoof is coming for you. (Actually, it’s all good, Xombiewoof, aka Joseph Timmons, is just a music blogger from Santa Maria with some big ideas, and Jana Mackin caught up with him recently. But it sounds scary. Sort of.)

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Faces of Santa Barbara – Terrific shots this week from Patricia Clarke of Lobero Theatre Foundation ED David Asbell and his lovely wife, Denise Dannemiller. Check this one for sure. The Mindful Word – Diana Raab traveled to Peru with her eldest daughter and found a spiritual journey that left her inspired and invigorated. (Nice piece, Diana, looking to adopt anybody? We know a 30-something man-child looking for a mother-figure who loves to travel. Just saying.)

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Mad Science – Rachelle Oldmixon breaks down bicycle vs. pedestrian accidents up at UCSB. (If you’re not a Gaucho and haven’t experienced the bike paths on campus, it’s worth going up and riding around for a day. Wild. Just don’t get hit.)

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You Have Your Hands Full – Jackson Peters helps Mara wash away mommynumbness with saltwater. (Love it, Mara, right on. Hang 10.)

The Santa Barbara Skinny – The Santa Barbara Skinny (née LOVEmikana) brings your guide to Santa Barbara Living – this week it’s the Four Seasons’ food truck and Camp Canine. Oh, and the Weekend Guide gets you out of the house and into the wonderful world of Santa Barbara. Cool.

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Residential Real Estate – Michael Calcagno and Justin Kellenberger present a Montecito Summer Recap… What happens down there in Montecito anyway, guys? Is it as strange and insular a place as everybody says it is? Do tell…

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CANDIDATE QUESTION OF THE WEEK: On Downtown Development and Density A s promised, we got to a more difficult issue this week after last week’s giant soft ball, and the candidates responded. (Well, most of the candidates responded, anyway. You be the judge.) We asked them the following question on downtown development and density issues: “There has been a lot of talk – especially in this very publication – about sensible and responsible development in Santa Barbara. And it’s not just the Funk Zone that’s changing, the New Vic and Santa Barbara Market/Alma del Pueblo reflect a broader pattern in this regard throughout the downtown area. So, when does that development end, if ever? Are you in favor of increasing density in the downtown area by, say, pushing construction height limits? Give us your thoughts in 150 words or less.” Let the games begin.

Matthew Kramer

Our forefathers met on a Tuesday after the great earthquake of 1925 to unanimously approve that “Santa Barbara Style” would rise from the ruins. The buildings were planned and their building heights were selected so that certain navigation points like the Arlington’s spire would always represent our unique brand of California culture. I advocate that instead of growing up we grow out! I believe we should annex the unincorporated areas of the county lying on our borders. Add to the canvas for the builder and the planner. Let Santa Barbara be a thriving and growing city in revenues and in boundaries for our future. (Sentinel Says: Hmmm, we smell urban sprawl all over this one, Mr. Kramer. Should we annex Montecito, Goleta or the natural wonder that is the Front Country?)

Megan Diaz Alley

I support sound planning that makes the best and most efficient use of our valuable but limited local resources. We must be careful as designate infill to protect our City’s neighborhood character, few remaining open spaces and wildlife corridors, and small town feel. In particular, I will encourage and support housing and business development in population centers

and transportation corridors. We can do this without increasing heights established by the City Charter. I will embolden affordable housing developments that are sustainable and will encourage the bright individuals who are already living in community (UCSB, SBCC and more) to stay/live, work and be engaged. I will support and work to implement initiatives that support green building practices and I will further support those projects which provide increased opportunities for commuters to use alternative transportation. (Sentinel Says: Right, Ms. Diaz Alley, we get it. But where, exactly, are these “population centers and transportation corridors” that we can develop without pushing height limits? Are you talking about Milpas? Haley? Maybe San Andres? We dig green building and alternative transportation and open spaces and wildlife, and generally agree with your answer, but it would have been nice to see a couple words on particulars. We’re just saying.)

David Landecker

As long as Santa Barbara remains an attractive place to live and visit, development pressure will continue. My work, for 33 years, has created effective safeguards limiting new commercial development, helped maintain our City’s unique character, and assured that new projects advance community priorities. We should encourage development of financially accessible housing for those who work here. The new Average Unit Density Ordinance’s incentives for smaller rental units are a good start. Alma del Pueblo’s public market promises to revitalize upper downtown by attracting shoppers for local food from local businesses. But rental housing for workers in its upper stories should have replaced high-end condos for wealthy out-of-towners. Let’s stop repeating the mistakes made on Chapala. Innovative entertainment, dining, and retail options in the Funk Zone are also exciting. I support creating a pedestrian friendly zone with ample perimeter parking and bus access, while assuring preservation of artist work space. (Sentinel Says: Now that’s an answer, Mr. Landecker. People might agree or disagree, but they have a good idea of where you’re headed. Right on.) ...continued p.27

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It'sCrimetime...

...with the SBPD

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.

Man With Not One But Two Hard Cylindrically Shaped Objects Near Groin Arrested

45-year-old transient man was arrested last week in a frankly bizarre set of circumstances. (Even by our standards.) He was stopped as a known parolee and consented to a search. We’ll let the police report take it from here to ensure absolutely no confusion about what happened thereafter. “As I conducted a pat search on his upper left thigh, I felt two cylindrically-shaped objects near his groin.” Hmmm, not one but two large cylindrically shaped objects near a man’s groin? Suspicious. Very suspicious indeed. Let’s continue with the report. “As I patted for objects, the man moved his pelvis as to keep me from feeling the objects.” Ah, officer, correct us if we’re wrong, but you were firmly patting two cylindrical objects near the man’s groin. Are you certain that his (potentially involuntary) pelvic thrusts were to keep you feeling them both? Did the objects become firmer as you vigorously patted them or were they more, say, flaccid? (Flimsy. Floppy. You know, limp.) Anyway, maybe that’s neither here nor there. The guy was eventually found to be in possession of heroin and arrested. So, then, what were the two cylinders in his groin? Officer?

O Brother, Where Art Thou? SBPD found a 43-year-old local man lurking suspiciously on the top level of a downtown parking garage late one night last week for no apparent reason. In response to simple preliminary questioning, he identified himself, unbeknownst to officers, as his brother, which returned a significant misdemeanor warrant for his arrest. After being detained, the man came clean with his own name, which returned an even more significant no bail felony warrant. He was, ah, arrested again or something. Whatever. We just want to know more about these parents. Wow.

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CRIME TIME QUOTE OF THE WEEK “If you cheat on me, I will kill you.” – Romeo Montague to Juliet Capulet… er, ah, a 38-year-old knife wielding maniac to his wife just before being arrested at 8pm on a Sunday for assault with a deadly weapon, terrorist threats and zillions of other charges that he completely deserved. (See honey, we ain’t that bad. Be home soon.)

Research Shows Most People On Bicycles Are Carrying Methamphetamines We see this just about every week, and thought we’d take the opportunity to address it now. Here’s the basic fact pattern: SBPD sees a guy on a bike. (This week, it was a 52-year-old homeless guy.) The cyclist violates some minor traffic law. (In this case, failure to stop completely at a stop sign.) Officers initiate a traffic stop of the cyclist and ask whether s/he has any weapons or drugs. (Standard operating procedure.) The cyclist says no. (Standard operating procedure.) Officers ask to conduct a consensual search for their safety. The cyclist says no. (Uh-oh. It’s the classic conundrum – if the cyclist has nothing to hide, then why deny the search? We know, we know, the biker has rights. Inalienable constitutional rights. But don’t tell us that officers’ malarkey meters aren’t on high alert at this point.) The search happens anyway, and, as in this case, officers seem to always find meth in the cyclist’s pocket. The only rational conclusion from the frequency of this basic sequence of events is that most cyclists are carrying meth. We strongly advise, ipso facto, that you immediately stop your children from riding bikes, for such seemingly innocent leisurely activity is clearly the gateway to hell.

Less Common Bodily Secretion Leads to Arrest A 58-year-old man was found passed out on a retaining wall at 11:15am on a Friday. He had an unusually large amount of slobber on his chin and the front of his shirt. He was detained for public drunkenness. We’ve seen arrests for coverage with almost every other bodily secretion – urine, feces, blood, semen – but slobber? What, is the subject a St. Bernard? Is it illegal to be covered in slobber? Maybe the guy was exhausted and ravenous after staying up all night closing some massive local venture capital deal. Who knows? Oh well, there’s a first time for everything.

Man Covered in Urine Arrested A 59-year-old man was yelling at passersby on State and urinated all over himself. He was arrested for public intoxication. Now that’s more like it.

Passenger Detained for Public Inebriation After Driver Gets DUI A 24-year-old local woman was riding shotgun in her boyfriend’s car when he was pulled over and arrested for DUI at 2am one night last week. Officers asked her to get out of the car, which she did. Then they arrested her for public intoxication. This same thing happened to a high ranking official on the Sentinel editorial staff one night long ago in Newport Beach. Sorry guys, we are pro-reasonable and responsible law enforcement, but until someone can explain this one to us coherently, we’re claiming hogwash. Call her a cab and send her home, she’s done nothing wrong.

Man Arrested for Trying to Unlock Wrong Bicycle A 39-year-old local man was arrested at midnight last week after he was seen “tampering with a bike lock.” When approached by officers, the man readily admitted to “tampering with a bike lock” that he thought was locking his bike but was mistaken. His bike was just down the street. He was arrested for public intoxication. No urine, no slobber, no sleeping on a State Street sidewalk. Just attempting to unlock the wrong bike after a couple pops. Drunk people, officers are calling them pretty close right now. Be vigilant. You may be in danger of a public drunkenness arrest when you step out of a cab in front of your own house.

Old Timer Arrested for Using Cane to Defend Himself A 69-year-old homeless man was arrested for assault after he used his cane to defend himself against a younger and far more aggressive homeless guy. What has the world come to when an old man can’t smack some boisterous whippersnapper with his cane to defend himself? Ugh. We’re done this week. Nothing is making sense anymore.

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

On 24 Hour Fitness, Trader Joe’s and the Catholic Church

s a frequent Trader Joe’s shopper, I can relate to the recent Sentinel Rant. In Southern California, I’ve learned that you can almost always count on 24 Hour Fitness gyms, catholic churches and, yes, Trader Joe’s stores to have ridiculous parking accommodations. Anyway, I’d like to add that when leaving TJ’s in Goleta, people will often try to turn left on Calle Real when the traffic is too congested to do that. So some drivers will end up making unsafe left turns, while others will wait five minutes holding up cars behind. There are times when it’s best to just make a right and U-turn up ahead when it is safe and legal. I doubt they’d ever put a no left turn sign, but I sure wish drivers would use more good sense and courtesy when they need to go west. Incidentally, many people up in Lompoc have been wishing for a Trader Joe’s to come to town. That would be

wonderful, but hopefully they won’t build it between a new catholic church and a 24 Hour Fitness. Edmund A. Geswein Lompoc (Editor’s Note: Great to hear from you, Edmund, and glad to see that we’re reaching up into Lompoc. I truly believe that last week’s Rant was the single funniest column we’ve ever published – perhaps precisely because it was so damned true – and am tickled that you got it. There are plenty of bad places to park here in town, of course, and I recently had an experience at Whole Foods that had me on the brink of screaming horrifyingly profane language with my daughters in the car. Let’s just say that both “good sense and courtesy” aren’t severely lacking only at TJ’s. Anyway, thanks for reading and for writing, keep picking us up. Katie will be back with another Rant when the urge strikes her. – MSM) ...continued p.18

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by Zach Rosen

Time for Oktoberfest That pretty much says it all. The Brewhouse’s Oktoberfest creation.

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.

Hofbräu-Munchen. Each one has its own tent where it serves its own special Oktoberfest beer.

e are in the midst of the planet’s largest annual festival and, if I am writing about it, then you know it has to do with beer. Attracting six million people, the world knows it as Oktoberfest, even if the Germans call it die Wies’n (“the meadow”) after the fairgrounds where it is held.

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The Oktoberfest “style” is an interesting conundrum, sort of a chicken and egg problem. German breweries started putting “Oktoberfest” on their labels, and, thus, that became the style. One thing is for certain, the “Fest” type beers are typically brewed to a higher strength than their everyday counterparts, coming in at around 6% ABV. Beer historians have seen a slow descent of the color of Oktoberfest beers. The original beer served was darker, with most of the current classic examples coming in at amber to a light gold. This beer style emphasizes malt and usually highlights ...continued p.20

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You read all about it in this very paper last week, but don’t forget about Taste of Milpas today from 3pm to 7. Get your advance ticket for $25 dollars over at www.mcasb.org and head over to Milpas Street today for plenty of art, music and food.

September 27 Prepare Yourself

There’s only one thing you can do today: get ready for a Saturday like 8 Days has never seen before. There’s more happening tomorrow than you’d be able to do in an entire week, so sit down at the kitchen table and figure out your plan. Make notes. Draw maps. Eat some carbs and lay out a comfortable outfit. Tomorrow’s a big day.

Saturday September 28

Foley Wine Every Time

Santa Barbara Culinary Arts is a non-profit that’s throwing a fundraiser today that benefits the organization’s Scholarship in Honor of Julia Child. It’s also the official launch party for the Foley Food and Wine Society; so naturally, the main attraction here is the wine from Foley, including some harder-to-find glasses that are usually only available at their wineries. Pairing nicely with the vino will be the culinary delights prepared by SBCC students and some heavy hitters of the local food scene like Chef Michael Hutchings and The Bistro’s Chris Turano. There will also be live jazz from Justin Claveria’s Jazz Quartet. It’s at the Bacara Resort & Spa (8301 Hollister Avenue, Goleta) from 3pm to 6. Find more information and a link to buy the $40-$60 tickets at www. santabarbaraculinaryarts.com or www.foleyfoodandwinesociety.com.

Flamenco With Jesus

It’s hard to believe it’s been 13 years already, but time flies when you’re having flamenco. The Flamenco Arts Festival will kick off its 13th year today at 7:30 pm at the Granada Theatre (1214 State Street). Jesus Carmona and Compañia will perform the U.S. premiere of Cuna Negra & Blanca. Tomorrow, the festival continues with master classes from Jesus and Esther Esteban at Santa Barbara Dance Arts (1 North Calle Cesar Chavez) at 11am. For prices, tickets, a detailed schedule of classes and more, go to www.flamencoarts.org.

Rock Music

Big Tree is a hooky, groovin’ rock band from San Francisco that has – if you can believe it – a glockenspiel player. It’s a wild scene up there. Trust us; we made a special trip recently to see the group play with locals Ghost Tiger (who also make an appearance in tomorrow’s calendar entry) solely for the benefit of this paragraph. Big Tree had such a good time that they decided to pack up the show and bring it to Santa Barbara. They’ll be playing at Muddy Waters (508 East Haley Street) tonight around 8pm. Big Tree recently released their My, How You’ve Grown EP; pick up a copy and feel that bay breeze waft from your turntable. See you there, glockenspiel lovers!

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Today’s Sustainable, Organic, Local Food Festival at Plaza Vera Cruz Park (130 East Cota Street) has plenty to offer. You can learn something: there will be workshops on topics like making cheese, brewing beer and composting. You can get caught up in the competitive spirit: there will be F E S T I V A L a chef competition and a salad eating w w w. s o l f o o d f e s t i v a l . c o m contest. You can also sample goods from a slew of vendors like Full of Life Flatbread and Sugar & Salt Creamery. It starts at 10am and ends at 6pm. Go to www.solfoodfestival.com for more information.

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10:15 am Living Soil 11:00 am Community Partnerships: The New Face of Food 11:30 am Water Harvesting to Enhance Food Production 12:00 pm Stir It Up! Compost Tea & Healthy Soils A Formal Affaire Growing Gardensin This evening, the folks at The Arts Fund will keep12:30 their pm 30thAeroponic anniversary classywith byTower celebrating 1:00 pm Know your Organic Certification? black and white. Called “A Formal Affaire,” this party isn’t just a party. It’s an exhibition displaying 1:45 pm The Missing Ingredient the works of local artists like Tony Askew and Peggy Ferris; it’s a concert featuring live jazz and 2:15 pm Backyard Beekeeping ferocious yet friendly rockers Ghost Tiger; and it’s2:30 a fundraiser. It will haveand food and drink from pm Tomato Grafting Irrigation some of your favorite Funk Zone spots. It will have3:00 façade projections. both live andGoats, pm Small AnimalsItforwill thehave Urban Homestead: Chickens and Rabbits silent auctions, which feature vacations in Carpinteria, Mexico and Palm Desert. Go to www. Cooperative Enterprises Building a Better World artsfundsb.org for more information and to follow4:00 thepmlink to the tickets page. 205C Santa Barbara 4:45 pm Local Food Access = Local Food Security Street; 6 to 9pm; $20. 5:30 pm “Generate“ A Permaculture Performance

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Monday September 30

Singing About Cake

People in the Venn diagram overlap of opera fans and chocolate cake fans: rejoice! Julia Child fans, you have something to be happy about here, too. Today at noon at the Center Stage Theater (751 Paseo Nuevo), Opera Santa Barbara and Epicure SB will present Bon Appétit, the short opera by Lee Hoiby about Julia Child baking a cake. As if that weren’t enough, the show’s star Catherine Cook will then perform Jake Heggie’s Statuesque. Now that sounds like a doubleheader worth the 13 bucks it costs to get in. Get your tickets for this one-time-only performance at www. centerstagetheater.org.

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October 1

A New Month

Why not ring in the first day of the month with a little music? Jonah Smith, Jim Connolly and Lucinda Lane play the SOhO Restaurant and Music Club tonight. Smith is an L.A.-based folk musician, Connolly is a local composer who’s worked with Van Dyke Parks and Jeff Bridges and Lucinda Lane is a jazzy band. 1221 State Street; doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:30; all ages; $8; tickets at the door.

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Wednesday October 2

Sing Like a Canary

The Canary Hotel kicks off its rooftop Sing Along Under the Stars movie series tonight with Grease. So go, sing along, wear a Grease-themed costume so you can win the contest, order a cocktail from Finch & Fork and enjoy the warmth of one of Canary’s blankets. This event starts at 7:30pm and is for Grease fans who are 21 and up. Find the Canary at 31 West Carrillo Street. This event is free.

Thursday October 3

First Thursday

It’s First Thursday… again… already. Try not to let that remind you that life is passing you by at an alarming clip, and just enjoy the downtown shopping, art and music. Highlights this month include the show Beauty and Light by artist Dorene White at Bella Rosa Galleries (1103 A State Street), which will pour its private label wine; Farm to Bar (15 West Ortega Street), which serves seasonallyinspired cocktails; and singer-songwriter David Courtenay playing on the corner of State and Anapamu. It’s all downtown; go check out the free action starting at 5pm.

Friday October 4 Green Gala

The Community Environmental Council has teamed up with The Lark for tonight’s fundraiser. Attendees will attend a cocktail hour, check out silent auction items and get a picture taken in the photo booth. After, they’ll be treated to a three-course meal designed by Lark chefs. The CEC’s programs include Solarize Santa Barbara and the Earth Day Festival. 131 Anacapa Street; 6:30pm; $250; RSVP by contacting Kathi King at 805.963.0583 ext. 108 or kking@cecmail.org.

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That’s where I dropped into the Santa Ynez side of the Santa Ynez Mountains, just a few clicks east of Romero Saddle on East Camino Cielo. Hairy descent into Blue Canyon.

otherwise innocent game of horse when we first met. (She still boasts and brags of her “win.”) Whatever. It’s all good. I think of all of it as water off this duck’s oily feathered back. All of it except for one damned thing. My beautiful mountain bike.

The Rocky I should start at the beginning. (Settle in, this is already longer than I wanted it to be. I’m venting.) I’ve known my father-in-law for nearly twenty years, and he is a hell of a guy. In fact, he’s more of a father to me than anything else at this point and I love him dearly. (Yeah, that’s right Don, you read it here first.) He’s a hard worker (like me) and he’s terrific with fixing stuff (not like me) and he’s careful about, well, being careful

with stuff. Look, I trust him (and his lovely wife, Patti, about whom I have similarly strong feelings) with my kids. So it wasn’t a stretch that I trusted him with my bike. And what a bike it was. I bought it many years ago, just after my first summer working as an associate in a fancy San Francisco law firm. I toiled away for hours and hours in the litigious bowels of the beast and was handsomely rewarded, earning more money in those summer months than I’d ever earned at any job in a whole year. Wendi and I talked about it and decided that, rather than save every dime, I might buy myself a present, an extra special trophy of sorts, one that would always remind us both of how far we’d really come. And, after much deliberation, we decided that the symbol of our newfound success would be a shiny new mountain bike, which I’d desperately wanted for years but never could really afford. I’d ridden my whole life. Sonoma and Marin counties are covered with terrific single track and Tahoe was only a short drive as a kid. (Snowboard in the winter; mountain bike in the summer… Tahoe ain’t bad.) Some of my fondest childhood memories are way back in Annadel State Park, with friends or alone, deep in the natural world, nothing else around. Fresh air. No noise other than the wind and the sound of my breath (and the occasional

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bit of punk rock in my headphones). The great outdoors, man, total freedom mixed with a bit of risk and hell of a lot of fun. Finally, after spending weeks demoing Cannondales and Gary Fishers and Santa Cruzes, and undoubtedly boring Wendi half to death with all sorts of obscure information about frame materials and sizes and components, I found a bike that not only fit me perfectly but also truly embodied my love for the sport. It was a full suspension Rocky Mountain Element T.O. – the T.O. stood for “Team Only” so only a limited number of the bikes had been made – and it was fit for a mountain biking king. It was a work of art as much as a bicycle – top end everything, geometrically flawless, aesthetically pleasing – and I gladly paid a king’s ransom for it. I rode that bike hard for years. I cared for it, I replaced components as they became worn, I treated it like a spoiled child. For those of you who are still reading and actually get it, this was my bike. Irreplaceable. Priceless. If you ride, you know.

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When Wendi and the girls and I left Santa Barbara to travel around the world back in 2011, we basically jammed everything we owned into a POD for “safekeeping.” But the bike got special treatment and was stowed away separately,

in a place where it wouldn’t be in danger of being harmed. In a place where it would rest easily, stress free. (Our super-automatic Italian coffee machine also got that treatment, but that’s another story.) The bike was stowed at my in-law’s place. And all went perfectly. The bike (and the coffee machine, I know, another story) rested well, just as I’d left it. I remember coming home to her vividly. “There she is,” I beamed and hugged Don and Patti, “thanks for looking after her. Can’t wait to get her back in the dirt where she belongs.” (That’s how I remember it, anyway.) I started to load the bike into the back of my Volvo, which was already getting full (and I still had that coffee machine to pack in there). “Don’t stuff it in there,” Don offered, thoughtfully, understanding the situation, “I’ll drive the bike over tomorrow when we come for a visit.” A moment of hesitation. “Ah, yeah, sounds good. You guys are taking the SUV, right?” “Yeah, we’ll bring the SUV.” “And you have room inside for it?” “Yeah, we can fit it easily.” Another moment of hesitation. “Sounds great, thanks again Don.” I was totally at ease with the decision, totally certain that transporting the bike from Pleasanton to St. Helena was a nonissue. And in that moment of casual certainty, the Rocky Mountain’s fate was sealed. Say goodbye to summer at Corks n’ Crowns with an Evening of Rosé and Barbecue! Enjoy a selection of rosé by the ﬂight, by the glass, and by the bottle, complemented with barbecue dishes presented by Blaze ‘n Blues.

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I received a telephone call the next morning. “Matt, you’re not going to believe this.” There was a lot of background noise on Don’s cell phone so it wasn’t easy to make out what he was saying. But it was clearly urgent. “What’s up, Don, is everything all right?” I was, ah… unprepared for what he was about to say. “Well, you see, I took the Lexus and put the old bike rack on the back and…” Time stopped. “…well, I don’t know how it happened, really, but your bike came, well, off.” Remain calm. Maybe everything is ok. These things can be fixed. “Don, where is the Rocky now.” I’m talking slowly, calmly, staring at Wendi across the breakfast table with the wide eyes of a lunatic. “Well, ah, it’s in the middle of the 680

and I’ve called the Highway Patrol to come get it. There’s lots of traffic and… oh, oh, OH… it just got hit. Your bike got hit.” Maybe not. For those of you unfamiliar with Highway 680 in the Bay Area, it is basically like the 405: When not clogged and snarled with commuter traffic, it’s jam-packed with speeding, weaving stunt drivers who care little for the safety of other human beings. My bike stood no chance. “Just don’t hurt yourself trying to get it, Don, the cops will be there soon. It’s all good, these things happen.” “I’m sorry, Matt.” “I know. Don, don’t worry about it.” I hung up the phone. I later learned that my Rocky Mountain fought bravely that morning, and I frankly ...continued p.28

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Government 2.0: Rethinking Non-Profit Effectiveness by Sharon Byrne

ocal governments often contract with non-profits to provide services to solve pressing social needs: homelessness, youth violence, senior services, drug and alcohol addiction and more. Recessions, like the one we’re still navigating, shrink pools of available funding, which would ideally separate the wheat from the chaff in the non-profit sector. Just like companies in tight times have to “trim the fat,” non-profits faced with shrinking donations and government funds have the opportunity to drive for efficiency and results, maximizing every dollar, so as to continue receiving them. Government should therefore determine what problems we expect it to solve, set goals for solving them and insist non-profits receiving its funding meet those goals. You hit the goals you aim for. If your goal is provide nights of shelter for the homeless, for example, you will achieve that. You may find over time, as we have in this city, that while meeting basic human need is admirable, it does little to reduce the problem of people living on our streets. We seem to keep them in place, though perhaps in less dire circumstances, at least in our minds. Possibly, we’re hosting non-locals who have learned we will host them, as meeting basic human need is the goal. These could then edge out our local homeless for services, whom we would presumably want to prioritize. So a big lesson here is for local governments to set firm goals about who we’re serving and why. A goal of reducing the number of people living on our streets,

in this example, is quite different, and would entail different funding priorities, than one of meeting basic human needs for shelter. After the goal is set, the next question is, who has success in achieving that goal? If you find a non-profit that successfully transitions 100 people out of homelessness every year, at a program cost of $300,000, and two years later they’re still housed, that’s effective. How do they do that, and can they scale? If we gave them $600,000, could they double their results? The answer to that question may be no. They might only be effective at smaller levels of service. The current practice of local government funding is to spread the dollars around fairly, to staunch the bleeding. But this practice gives a little funding to a lot of players, and masks results. We might be funding programs with lower rates of success, when we could fund better ones. If we want to reduce problems of alcohol and drug addiction, for example, why fund a facility with a 30% success rate? That’s like putting $1,000 into a bank account, to find it’s now worth $300. Who would keep depositing funds with that bank? A better strategy is to say, as a government, this is what we intend to achieve. Show me how your non-profit helps achieve it. Make it clear that funding is dependent on proof that they can help achieve your locality’s goals. Deploying this strategy requires that local governments become decidedly unfair with money given to non-profits. Some non-profits have noble missions, but they might not be able to meet your

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“Too often we fall for candidates with formidable speaking talent, but who ultimately prove ineffective.” goals as a government. Fund the effective ones to reduce serious social problems faster. Constituents expect results, after all. Psychological discomfort obviously arises for the elected official that decides to heavily fund a very effective program, but risks leaving someone out in the cold by not funding a less effective one that is politically popular, or covers some basic needs. Yet spending taxpayer funds poorly in the hopes of appeasement is not a smart strategy. Stopping the bleeding does not equal solving the problem. We seldom scrutinize non-profit performance. We should demand to know how they achieve their goals, and look for measurable, demonstrable results. Much of government funding of non-profits is done via established relationships, political appeal, and other factors not in any way related to goals or effectiveness in achieving them. Finally comes the question of non-profit executive talent. As with elections, the candidate that sounds great isn’t necessarily qualified for the hard job of executing. The best non-profit directors combine serious executive talent: the ability to get things done, build effective coalitions and generate demonstrable results, with excellent powers of expression. Too often we fall for candidates with formidable speaking talent, but who ultimately prove ineffective. We should have asked them some basic questions: Do you relentlessly drive for results? What in your resumé demonstrates that you can run this operation? How would you rope in disparate players who have no incentive to work with each other, and build coalitions to get the job done? Prove the results you claim to have generated. If we don’t ask hard questions, we shouldn’t be surprised when we discover the people we hired to solve tough social problems weren’t truly equipped for the job.

Sharon Byrne

Sharon Byrne is executive director for the Milpas Community Association, and currently serves on the Advisory Boards for the Salvation Army Hospitality House and Santa Barbara County Alcohol and Drug Problems.

sbview.com For Government 2.0: Be smarter in our use of non-profits to solve social issues. Set firm goals on what we want to achieve, and insist non-profits meet them as a condition of funding. Demand repeatable, demonstrable results. Quit spreading taxpayer dollars around. It feels fair, and assuages our guilt temporarily, but fails to generate the needed critical mass for effective nonprofits who could actually make serious headway into solving some of our most pressing social problems. Allocate monies only to those with proven effectiveness. Ask hard questions of the executive staff of non-profits. That’s not too hard, is it?

Pour It On

by Loretta Redd

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o pour yourself a glass of tap water... and drink it!” Yes, before you grab your nose, cry “eewww” and turn the page, give it a try because I think you’ll be surprised. The City of Santa Barbara has spent the last two years constructing ozone processing facilities at the Cater Water Treatment Plant designed to reduce or eliminate chlorine to precondition our water. For those of us who barely passed high school chemistry, let me make it simple: your tap water no longer smells or tastes like the inside of a chlorinated toilet bowl. Although many of us would define “ozone” as the land where politicians reside, it is actually an “unstable molecule that readily gives up one atom of oxygen providing a powerful oxidizing agent which is toxic to most waterborne organisms... It decomposes during water treatment by a complex mechanism that involves the generation of hydroxyl free radicals.” Our “free radicals” on staff at the Water Department explained that it makes the organic materials in water more amenable to filtration during the treatment process. The result is a clean, clear liquid flowing from our taps that is safer than those 500 mL plastic bottles for which you’re paying twice the cost of gasoline per gallon. Using tap water also means we stop making mountains in our landfills, trashing our ocean and using energy for shipping around the world.

• Americans spent $11.8 billion on bottled water in 2012.

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• Cost including packaging: $7.50/gallon. • The U.S. consumes 15% of the world consumption with 61.4 billion gallons annually. • Bottled water sales have increased 371% since 1991. • The U.S. is 11th in gallons consumed per person; Mexico is the leader (probably for much better reasons than anywhere in the United States). Santa Barbara has a rich – if not a little dark – history when it comes to water. Before the white man decided to trash a few thousand years of respect for Mother Earth in the name of Kings and Popes, clean water ran naturally through our creeks and tributaries. The Franciscan padres built the lower reservoir to divert water from Mission Creek (then called Pedregosa Creek). Mission Dam was constructed with Chumash slave labor – that is, if you call clipping someone’s Achilles tendon while imparting the Gospel “enslavement” – on what is now the Botanic Garden property. By 1807 we had an aqueduct, other dams and were holding reservoirs that were used for decades. Were it not for the plentiful streams and aquifers in our area, we couldn’t have maintained our agricultural and community development. In the past twenty years or so, the Water Department has made continuous efforts to improve the quality and quantity of our water supply. They shifted from the exposed concrete-lined reservoir at Sheffield to underground protected tanks, creating an open space park and fire training area where the reservoir had been. The Water Department uses various ‘lift stations’ to improve the flow and taste throughout the system, which is no easy feat given the high demand at sea level, and the minimal demand by our mountainside residents. There are also 36 different sample stations (those strange cylindrical green locked boxes you may have spotted) to ensure our water is free of bacteria. There were zero occurrences in all of 2012. Indeed, “safe” and plentiful water is what we have come to expect in our town and in our country. The California EPA is constantly raising the primary and secondary treatment standards, which is one reason our water costs continue to rise. But only local residents and water

department employees set a ‘standard’ for taste, and believe me, it is different now! So in addition to beginning to conserve what precious little agua is left in Lake Cachuma and Gibraltar Reservoir, since groundwater isn’t being replenished through rain, perhaps we can stop supporting the Perrier (France), Dasani (Coca-Cola), Aquafina (Pepsi-Cola), Fiji (Fiji import) and other mega bottlers around the globe, and just drink from the tap.

“Since groundwater isn’t being replenished through rain, perhaps we can stop supporting the mega bottlers around the globe, and just drink from the tap.” We can also provide an enormous service to the working poor and immigrants in our communities by enlightening them about the safety of water from the tap, and the incredible cost in dollars, time and wasted resources by using those “purification” machines, or worse, buying it by the gallon. Help me spread the word by social media, or from the pulpits or through community groups like PODER, that the water in Santa Barbara is not only safe, but now, finally tastes good! Portability is convenient, but buy a bottle and refill a few times if you must take it with you. As commentator Garrison Keillor suggested, “If you want flavoring, add a slice of lemon; if you want bubbles, stick a straw in it and blow.”

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will take place on three weekends for the first time, she said. “After the first three years, artist Julia St. Morgan suggested we do it on two Saturdays,” Silva said. “This year, one of the customers suggested we have an early boutique to get early shopping and mailing done.” That means the series of gift boutiques will start before Hanukkah. What started as a 2008 Downtown Organization 1st Thursday event has become a unique happening near State Street.

On all three Holiday Gift Boutique Saturdays, door prizes will be offered and a raffle will raise funds for the nonprofit Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara, Silva said. The artwork and crafts will be displayed outside and inside the Massage Gallery building. For more information, see www. themassagegallery.com.

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Laurie Leighty Named Sports Volunteer of the Month by Randy Weiss

Laurie Leighty recently stepped up as Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table president.

he’s an empathetic friend, compassionate mentor, extraordinary role model and upbeat community builder. Solidly rooted in family, she’s enjoyed a distinguished, 30-plus year (and counting) business career shaping organizations strong within the financial services sector. And now she’s stepping up as president of the tradition-laden Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table (SBART). To recognize this important commitment to local athletics, Laurie Leighty is our newest Sports Volunteer of the Month. “Every committee under her direction has excelled because of her interpersonal and organizational skills. We are so fortunate to have her as our president,” shares Dave Pintard, longtime SBART board director. In her new role, Leighty blends a lifelong love of sports with keen business acumen and warm personal attributes, and continues the wonderful sports organizational experience she enjoyed as an active, participating parent of three

athletically talented kids. And she is just hitting her SBART stride at its signature Monday Press Luncheons that launched after Labor Day with summer over, schools in session and fall sports seasons in full swing. Held at Harry’s Plaza Café, the weekly lunch forum provides coaches with twoto three-minute podium slots to present season updates and spotlight athletes they’ve brought along with them. An all star team of sports reporters catch it all then blast it out on their websites, in their publications and across their news broadcasts, all contributing to one very unique and cohesive local sports community. There are Athletes of the Week awards for both boys and girls. Monthly awards, too, such as Scholar Athlete of the Month (each high school names one scholarathlete over the school year), Sports Person of the Month (given to an unsuspecting volunteer), Special Olympics Award (generously provided and graciously

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presented by Aaron Brown who serves with both SBART and Special Olympics, in addition to being a basketball coach for these wonderful, differently-abled, high spirited players) and the Phil Womble Award (named for the UCSB sports icon and presented to a high school junior who demonstrates great character, ethics, sportsmanship and leadership skills that will propel him or her during senior year). Leighty – a Gaucho grad herself (with honors and a nice tan) – initially chased early dreams of being the first female trainer for a pro football franchise before fate and opportunity propelled her in new directions. She quickly rattles off exciting developments for other SBART programs: Fall Classic (an October 30th reception featuring USA Olympic volleyball stars Todd Rogers and Lindsey Berg), Annual Women in Sports Luncheon (surprise awesome speaker already secured for February), March Madness (did she just say, “Howland”?) and the prestigious Hall of Fame Banquet in May, when yearly and lifetime achievement awards are presented. These easy updates all delivered via courtesy of Leighty’s trademark alwayssmile. She claims herself fortunate to work with such an incredible board of directors, comprised of a “Who’s Who” of selfless, uber-busy community leaders from the business, academic and sports fields who make good things happen for student athletes at the area’s high schools and colleges. The Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table is a 501(c) 3 non-profit, charitable organization that was formed over 40 years ago and still shines brightly as an inspirational source of local pride for its unrelenting positive impact on kids. “We are an all-volunteer organization with a ‘virtual office,’ a website and a post office box,” states Rich Hanna, immediate past president and a senior recreation supervisor for the City of Santa Barbara. Leighty’s SBART indoctrination was eight years ago with the Women in Sports Luncheon when good friend and fellow banker Catharine Manset recruited her, even though Leighty was deeply immersed in helping to launch American Riviera Bank. She’s been here ever since as senior vice president of operations, marketing and human resources. “I was a child of Title IX,” Leighty recalls of her swimming and gymnastics youth. “So I know first-hand that there is nothing better than getting five hundred young female athletes together and listening to a motivating speaker.” Asked in 2009 to join the board, Leighty was almost immediately sought to consider lining up for the presidency. She agreed to everything, thinking by then she’d be looking for a new challenge with her kids grown and gone and being

all settled into her financial services career. Before taking SBART’s helm, she served as president-elect these two last years, working closely with Hanna and filling in, where needed. “Laurie, a longtime friend, coach and mentor, is an exceptional role model for young women seeking to achieve a life balance inclusive of career, family, health and volunteerism,” says Manset, now senior vice president and regional market manager of Pacific Western Bank (this award’s sponsor) and longtime SBART board director. “I have no doubt that she will apply her principles of efficiency and excellence to her new position as President of the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table,” Manset adds. “I feel so privileged to have my presidency bookended by two local, powerful and dedicated women (Manset and Leighty) who share the vision for supporting local high school and collegiate athletes and athletics,” Hanna offers. “Laurie will bring all of her expertise both on the financial management of SBART but also as a mother of several previous local athletes. That combination makes her the perfect fit to lead SBART for the next two years,” he continued. “Laurie is a fantastic business leader with true 24/7 energy,” shares Jeff DeVine, American Riviera Bank President & CEO (and local runner). “She’s an asset to the Bank, and we’re excited to see what she can accomplish leading this organization. All of us at the Bank know she will do great things for the SBART.” “Laurie Leighty is a rock star!” beams decorated triathlete Joe Howell, another longtime board director. Laurie and her husband, Rob, have been married for 29 years and have three children: Andrew, Sierra and Blaire. Andrew’s wife, Ariel, and their 15-month old son, Landon, also reside at the Leighty home as she and Andrew finish college. “My mom has always been there for us since day one and it was rare if she didn’t make a game despite juggling work and three active kids’ sports schedules,” Sierra shares. “She is my role model and all my friends love her like their second mom. She’s just awesome and the glue that bonds our family together. We are all so very proud of her!” Safe to say, these are exceptionally busy times for her with work, family and community. But our newest Sports Figure of the Month Honoree, Laurie Leighty, really wouldn’t want it any other way.

Rogers Returns by Barry Punzal

odd Rogers has played professional beach volleyball all over the world and has recorded some huge tournaments in his career.

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It’s a no brainer that winning the 2008 Olympics gold medal in China would rank at the top of his list of accomplishments. The AVP Santa Barbara Open, too, has a place on Rogers’ list. This weekend, the San Marcos and UCSB alum returns to the home sand to see if he can create another memorable moment in his incredible career. Rogers will be playing with 7-foot-1 Ryan Doherty. In five AVP Tour events, their best finishes are a second and a pair of thirds. On a list of 78 career victories, the 2006 and 2010 Santa Barbara Open titles have special significance for Rogers. Going into the 2006 event, Rogers had finished as runner-up four times – twice with Dax Holdren (2000-01) and two more times with Sean Scott (200405). He finally broke through with Phil Dalhausser, beating John Hyden and Jeff Nygaard for that elusive title. “That was really, really special because Hannah, my daughter, was there and [my wife] Melissa was there,” Rogers said. “She came running out on the court as my daughter was leaping into my arms.” Rogers was on fire in the match, delivering 18 kills and hitting nearly .500. “I was a bridesmaid so many times,” he said. “I got the monkey off my back in that one. That was a very special one, a top ten moment for sure.” The 2010 final was a comeback for the ages. Rogers and Dalhausser were facing defeat as they trailed 14-9 in the 15-point third set against John Hyden and Brad Keenan. What happened after that was truly amazing. Dalhausser took over at the net, blocking balls straight down. Rogers dug any ball that got past his partner, and they converted those plays into points. The crowd, sensing something magical was happening, was going wild. “Being down 14-9, we were making the assumption, ‘Alright, this game is probably a done deal. We’re going to lose, whatever; they played great,’” Rogers recalled of being on the verge of defeat. Once they started making plays and scoring points, they started feeling the energy from the crowd. That changed everything. “All of a sudden you can feel the crowd get kind of antsy, and Phil and I are

going, ‘Alright, let’s see what happens.’ It’s 14-13 and you can see John and Brad are in a tizzy, saying to themselves, ‘What’s going on?’” Rogers said. Once they tied the score at 14-14, it was anybody’s game. Rogers-Dalhausser won the set 20-18 to steal the title from the jaws of defeat. “Getting that fourteenth point was huge and taking it all the way and winning that thing, that was big,” Rogers said. He recalled another big comeback he had with Dax Holdren in the final of the 2001 Hermosa Beach Open. “Dax and I were down 13-7 in the third in 2001 and we came back and won that one,” he said. Rogers-Dalhausser would win a third Santa Barbara Open in 2010, beating Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal in straight sets. Can Rogers rediscover the magic with Doherty this weekend at West Beach? It would be one heck of a 40th birthday present. His birthday is Monday. “I don’t have any expectations,” he said. “I just go into each match and play the best I can and go from there.”

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he pro beach action begins Thursday morning at West Beach with men and women’s qualifying tournaments to gain one of four spots in Friday’s main draw. Also on Thursday, the men’s final of the St. Petersburg Open will be completed. The title match between Jake Gibb-Casey Patterson and Theo Brunner-Nick Lucena two weeks ago in Florida was suspended because of severe weather. They were in the middle of the second set when play was called. Gibb-Patterson won the first set. Friday’s main draw action begins at 11am. Play on Saturday starts at 9am and Sunday begins at 11am, with the finals scheduled at 3:30pm for the women and 4:30pm for the men. Admission is free. VIP section tickets available will be available at $40 a day. The tournament will be the AVP debut of the women’s team of Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross. Walsh Jennings won three Olympic gold medals with Misty May-Treanor, who retired after their win at the London Games. They defeated Ross and Jen Kesey for the gold. Walsh Jennings and

his past weekend, I had the honor of warming up participants in the American Heart Association Heart Walk and the unbelievable and inspiring She. is.Beautiful 5k /10K run. Both of these events were so amazing and made me realize (again) how truly extraordinary our community is. Even more amazing, though, was seeing the fear that people start the day with and the joy and emotion when they finish and realize they can and did do it! It got me thinking… and I had an idea. This week is simple: I am challenging all of you to run or walk a 5k! (That’s 3.1 miles, for the uninitiated.) You can go as fast or as slow as you want, just time yourself. Then find me on Facebook – it’s easy, just search on Jenny Schatzle – and post your time. Before you say, “But Jenny, I can’t do a 5k,” remember that no matter how slow you go you are still lapping the person on the couch. It’s time to get out there and make it happen. Get moving and post your time. Seriously. Nutrition tip for this week: Juicing! (No, meatheads, not that kind of juicing.) Juicing is an easy way to get in your daily vegetables while at the same time benefiting your digestive system and boosting your energy (not to mention clearing your skin and lots of other collateral benefits). If you already know the deal and have a Vitamix, for example, try this one:

Jenny Schatzle Green Juice recipe: 1 cucumber 1 celery A handful of cilantro 2 handfuls of spinach 1/2 a lemon 1 apple Cut up all those delicious veggies and that wonderful sweet apple, toss it all in the Vitamix – it’s basically a super-charged blender – and fill to top with water. Then mix and enjoy. (If you like no pulp, just scoop it of the top. And this works in home juicers, too, just no need for water and the pulp is already extracted.) Don’t have a Vitamix or a juicer at home? Then get to Juice Ranch, a terrific local business that does juice right: Fresh, cold-pressed and organic. Check them out online at www.juiceranch.com, or just go by 33 Parker Way (805.845.4657). That’s it. Some juicing and a 5K (or a few 5Ks!). Don’t forget to post your time(s). And 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. Hope to see you in class soon. Write Jenny a letter (letters@santabarbarasentinel.com) or contact her directly with any questions at jenny@jennyschatzle.com. And go get ‘em, the Sentinel is rooting for you.

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Ross plan to make a run for gold at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The men’s qualifier has 30 teams while 19 teams are entered for the women’s qualifier. Santa Barbarans Jeremy Casebeer and Andy McGuire, the libero on UCSB’s 2011 NCAA men’s volleyball finalist team, are the second-seeded team in the men’s qualifier draw behind AVP veterans Matt Olson and Ed Ratledge. Santa Barbara’s Will Montgomery and

Avery Drost are the No. 3 seed. Other locals entered are UCSB alum Cullen Irons, playing with Lucas Black, the East Beach duo of Dillan Bennett and John Hancock, and Tim Nestlerode of East Beach and partner Jeff Steffens. There are no local women’s teams, although several players have competed in tournaments in Santa Barbara. Former UCSB star Brooke Niles is the main draw with partner Kim DiCello.

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Not only is Katie Cusimano’s critique of the Trader Joe’s parking debacle hilarious, it is spot-on. I have observed all of the hairball atrocities that Ms. Cusimano so accurately and divertingly describes. In particular, I have witnessed many times the remarkable spectacle of outrageously healthy, athletically-clad women obstructing street traffic for minutes so that they can park as close as possible to the store (while, sensibly, disdaining to enter the ominous and greatly-feared parking lot). May I add an observation of my own? Picture an intellectual-looking gentleman in a small passenger van; perhaps he is a UCSB professor of some sort (philosophy, perhaps?) who is driving a vehicle that is beneath his social station for complicated and noble reasons that are difficult for me to describe but, luckily, you know what I mean. This interesting man is exiting the De La Vina lot while carrying on a screenplay-worthy (Arts and Lectures-worthy?) conversation with his passenger, and he plows into the back of a compact vehicle (while he is looking straight at it) that has been motionless for several seconds in anticipation of the next warp in space-time that will enable it to safely merge with De La Vina traffic. Hmmm. Question? Is it really necessary for all of these trendy shoppers to drive to Trader Joe’s? When there were no TJ’s in Santa Barbara, my cohorts and I Joe’s-pooled to Ventura, it is true, but with three of these stores around town now, are there not some people who could foodiewalk or foodie-bike to the trough? As a (very) former bicycle courier in Santa Barbara, I can understand the terror that prevents mentallyhealthy people from wanting to cycle beside large monsters that can inflict grotesque injury so, okay, I won’t push the bike option too strenuously. But the same people who walk or run upwards of twenty miles a week on our trails steadfastly refuse to walk when walking entails displacing our number-one status object: the automobile. Nobody wants to look stupid – schlepping around town doing errands with a backpack, for example – when there’s a perfectly good Lexus parked in the driveway. I understand that sentiment, and I would like to propose a stunt and a service that might promote the idea of walking as a viable alternative to the open-air insane asylum that is asphalt. If people have status objects, so too should they have status humans. I could be a status Sherpa. I’m not kidding. For the low, low price of six dollars plus nine dollars a mile, I will schlep gourmet groceries on my back from here-to-hell-and-gone, walking in step with whoever needs proof that such things are possible, or whoever wants to take a (somewhat bizarre) social and environmental position, or whoever wants a walking partner, or just whomever. Camino Cielo from Milpas TJ’s? I really will. Six dollars plus nine dollars a mile. Sacramento? No: as every Californian knows, Sacramento is beyond hell-and-gone. By the way, forty pounds maximum, please (except for quick jaunts). The Santa Barbara Sentinel, in the spirit of quirkiness and Quixotic conviviality, and as a constructive response to Ms. Cusimano’s excellent lament, might assist me by forwarding Santa Barbara Sherpa inquiries to my email if those inquiries are not overtly pathological. I should add, in all seriousness, that there is a limit to how bloated, weak, sick, silly, unreasoning and unreasonable a civilization can be and still be a civilization. Sorry about that last bit. Mr. Mazza, the Sentinel is getting better with every issue. More please. Kolr Vestarson Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: I enjoyed that, Kolr, quite a bit actually. If the whole grocery Sherpa thing doesn’t work out – we’ll pass on any credible leads, seriously – please give me a call to discuss potentially contributing to the paper. Come to think of it, even if the whole grocery Sherpa thing actually does work out, please give me a call. It would be a terrific story to tell, and I could run some Joe Joe’s up to Camino Cielo with you. Fun times. Oh, and thanks for the kind words, more is in fact coming. – MSM)

A Very Serious Complaint (Not Really) Dear Matt, last week, I was reading your It’s Crime Time... page as I usually do while riding the bus or petting my pet turtle. The page usually brings me copious amounts of joy, so much so that I laugh in the face of fellow bus riders and spit cappuccino on innocent, unsuspecting people. However in this issue I found a typo that really twisted my pantalones! At the end of the short story entitled Biker Bewildered by Boy Brandishing BB Gun (Vol. 2, Issue 36) it says, “The

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man was arrested for brandishing a replica forearm.” I believe you meant to say firearm. Good sir, this has really offended me, for I was once arrested, tased and strip searched for brandishing a replica forearm. My forearm was that of the Terminator’s, with laser beams and a built in microwave. I am now super self-conscious about my replica forearm and fear it won’t impress the ladies anymore. P.S. The Sentinel rocks bro. Loyal Reader and Cheeto Eater, Christopher J. Marchese Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: I’m personally offended, Christopher, that you appear to be poking fun at the Terminator. It wasn’t his fault that his forearm was a lethal weapon with lasers and a microwave oven, a future society made him that way. He bore no responsibility for his making, so you can’t say anything remotely humorous about him. You’re insensitive and an obvious logizomechanophobe. And you’re definitely not impressing the ladies. Around here, anyway. With that said, nice catch on the typo, I own that one for sure. That’s especially the case since I repeatedly criticized the Crime Time writers last week for offensive content and poor language choices. (Now I know why they’ve worked the word “forearm” into every single conversation I’ve had with them all week, no matter how short, while giggling like school children. Great. I need to run a much tighter ship.) Thanks for the terrific post-script, too, I’m still thrilled every time I get a note like that. We’re working hard over here, believe it or not, and growing fast. And it’s nice to hear that our readers appreciate the rag we put out once a week (from pier to peak!). Finally, and seriously, your style fits Crime Time – interested in guest writing one or two? Let me know, it could be fun. Thanks again, man, great letter. – Frequent Writer and Taco Biter, Matthew S. Mazza)

A Very Serious Complaint (Really) Dear Matt, what’s the point of the Crime Time column? I have a good sense of humor, but for some odd reason I don’t

find crime in the least bit amusing. Nor do I find it humorous to constantly poke fun at the plight of intoxicated homeless people (many of whom are Vets with mental health issues). You’re looking for new writers? Nix the column and do something really constructive with the page. Katie Turner Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks Katie, it’s been awhile since I received this type of letter, although I responded to them weekly at one point early on. I could give you 500 words right now on why we aren’t “constantly poking fun at the plight of intoxicated homeless people” but are instead using humor as a way to talk about subjects that are otherwise often ignored by media outlets. While you may disagree with that, the truth is that Crime Time stories have led to robust discussions in this very Letters section on homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence and lots of other tough subjects that face us as a community. We’ve heard from folks on all sides of the issues – from non-profit leaders and politicians to homeless folks and ex-cops – and I continue to believe that there is value in the column. With that said, I know well its polarizing effect and we have played with structure and content over the past 50 issues we’ve put out. (Yeah, this is number 50, baby. Whoa.) Last week, we did seem to drift back into a more opinionated voice reminiscent of the early days; perhaps that is the source of the discontent. But make no mistake, we hear from people from all walks every single week who enjoy the column and encourage us to keep putting it out and raising challenging issues. So we will. Thanks again for the letter, I do appreciate your perspective. I hope you can understand mine. – MSM)

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...continued from p.9 the wonderful barley type, Munich malt. This characteristic grain has a deep malty flavor that brings notes of toasted bread to the malt sweetness. In America, you will often see the “HB” logo of Hofbräu-Munchen adorning 1L (one liter) mugs. Their Oktoberfest is a good example of the trend towards lighter colored fest beers. It possesses a pale gold hue with a hint of malt on the nose. The flavor emphasizes pilsner malt with the heartier Munich malt playing a supporting role before finishing with a gentle bitterness. The medium-low carbonation makes it easier to drink this beer by the steinful. Over at Santa Barbara Brewing Co., brewmaster Kevin Pratt has created a classic example of the style, with a solid amber color. When I swung by the brewery for a taste it was not quite finished, still needing to be filtered and carbonated, but by the time that you read this it will be available at the restaurant. The beer has a hearty malt taste that epitomizes Munich malt. It is malty but not overtly sweet and full of caramels or brown sugarlike flavors. Kevin uses a proportion of Vienna malt in the beer that lightens the intensity of its flavors while still keeping the presence of the malt character. The unfinished beer had a creaminess to the body from the physical matter still being suspended in the liquid but filtering and carbonating this brew will give it a very

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clean, quaffable quality. Once finished, my feeling is that this beer will capture the substantial flavor but easy drinkability that define this style.

The Santa Barbara Standard The spirit of Oktoberfest has spread throughout the world and these days you can find events being held in restaurants, festival grounds or just anywhere else you can fill to the brim with people and beer. In Santa Barbara, The Brewhouse (229 West Montecito Street; (805) 8844664; www.brewhousesb.com) remains the most classic Oktoberfest celebration. Now in its eighth year, hundreds of people pour into their parking lot where they transform it into a mini-Munich. Beer flows by the liter and guests dressed in dirndls and lederhosen participate in such events as stein holding or bratwurst eating competitions. To add to the spirit of the atmosphere, The Brewhouse offers Oktubafest, a collection of tubas playing classic biergarten tunes. Guests listen to the tubas, sing along to songs and drink beer while dining on a selection of German fare including schnitzels, wursts and other classics like sauerbraten. In addition to their own Oktoberfest brew, they will be serving HB’s and Hacker-Pschorr’s Oktoberfest and offering their Vixen Weizen for those wanting a wheat beer. The Brewhouse’s Oktoberfest uses

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This one says a lot too. In fact, it says that I couldn’t help but drink most of Santa Barbara Brewing Co.’s Oktoberfest offering before I took a photograph of it. Get out there for some terrific beers, folks, it’s on.

cara-munich malt, which gives it a deep mahogany color and a rich malty taste. The beer is on the sweeter side of this style’s spectrum and the juicy malts have a dense flavor that approaches the character of dates while still remaining “malty.” There is a bit of warmth from the alcohol in the finish that encourages the toastiness of the malts. Although there is some stickiness in the mouthfeel, this beer does not get stuck going down. It is very quaffable and I found myself counting in-between sips so that I did not drink it too quickly.

This year has also seen the addition of several new events including Figtoberfest. This Saturday, September 28 (11am – 6pm), Figueroa Mountain (137 Anacapa Street, Suite F; (805) 6942255; www.figmtnbrew.com) will host an Oktoberfest-themed block party at their Funk Zone tasting room. Should be a blast – we hear there is much planned including custom etched beer steins, rare crafts beers, live music, food and games. At Hoffmann Brat Haus (801 State Street; (805) 962-3131; www. hoffmannbrathaus.com) the festivities have already started and they will be celebrating throughout the duration of the Munich-based festival (September 21 – October 6). They will be hosting an array of different festive events including yodeling contests, drinking songs and live music. Their biergarten overlooks Paseo Nuevo and is a perfect place to hoist a liter and have a bratwurst while taking in the sights. Check their Facebook page for updates on what is happening each day. They will be serving 1L steins of HB Oktoberfest on draft and Weihenstephaner Oktoberfest in bottles. The Weihenstephaner brewery is the world’s oldest brewery, dating back to 1040 AD. Their Oktoberfest falls under the newer, golden-style of festbiers and is slightly maltier than HB’s example with a toasted note reminiscent of cinnamon sticks. With so many festivals going on it is tough to know where to begin but, wherever you end up, make sure to raise a glass of Oktoberfest to this 200+ yearold event. Prost!

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Detox Food Never Tasted So Damn Good

s a professional eater (yeah, that’s right), my body often needs detox food. You know, the kind that heals your body and soul, food that is so pure and so full of nutrients that every inch of your being thanks you for the reenergizing nourishment. I’ve been a huge fan of Alchemy Arts Center Café for a while now. I usually get my lunch there, but also stop in frequently for post-yoga munchies, afternoon pickme-up cold press coffee and smoothies. There was a period of time when I ate three squares a day there. (Embarrassing, perhaps, but true.) What can I say? It’s a good addiction to have. Forget the juice cleanse. (I can’t last more than a half day anyways.) Just come to Alchemy Arts Center Café for mindand soul-blowing detox food.

Santa Barbara’s Urban Healing Center So what is this place all about? Alchemy Arts Center is really the

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Holy Cabbage Wrap. That’s blanched cabbage leaves filled with shaved fennel, seasonal shredded root veggies, sprouted mung beans and a fresh peach and basil dressing served with tahini dipping sauce. Whoa.

meditation and alternative medicine/ therapies and healthy, delicious food. I remember the first time I stumbled upon the place; my jaw literally dropped. Where had it been all my life? Alchemy is exotic, peaceful and absolutely beautiful. I can meditate even in the bathroom. (Yup, it’s that calming.) I took a bunch of pictures with my phone so I could decorate our house exactly the same. (Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind living there.) There’s a spa upstairs where all sorts of therapies and treatments are available (think massages, facials, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, Reiki, yoga classes, etc.). After pampering yourself up there, you can come down to the café for some wholesome, pure, exotic and simply amazing food. Sounds good so far? I feel healed already.

New Chef, Same Great Food

Alchemy recently welcomed a new chef, the very talented Erik Stenberg, who quickly added his magic touch to the popular existing menu and generally ensures that the café runs smoothly. He works with the clinical staff to design new recipes and cleansing programs that integrate the wisdom and alchemy of Chinese medicine, Ayurveda and Western Herbalism. Alchemy is proudly certified as Farm Friendly Dining by The Santa Barbara Certified Farmers Market Association and of course makes nearly everything in-house (including almond milk, coconut cream and even tea blends). Ok, all right. Let’s get to the grub.

Nori Roll is raw chickpea and kale hummus and seasonal vegetables wrapped in nori with a spicy peach dipping sauce.

Alchemy Salad was my old favorite and still is. Fresh lettuce mix, avocado, crispy sprouted sunflower and pumpkin seeds with a goji berry dressing so good that I tried to make it at home (but failed). Medicinal Mushroom Miso Soup builds blood, supports the liver and kidneys and helps you adapt to stress. You can literally feel your body healing at your first sip. Nori Roll is raw chick pea and kale hummus with julienned seasonal vegetables in a spicy peach dipping sauce. (It tastes as good as it looks!) Warm Chickpea Falafel is served under seasonal fruit salsa, arugula salad and lemon-tahini sauce. Super fresh smoothies and juices from Tonic Bar are out of this world good. The Papa Smurf smoothie, for example, is blueberry, apple juice and coconut flesh. (Wow.) Rich in essential fatty acids, it soothes the central nervous system and strengthens the eyes. I can see better just writing about it. (I want to believe, the food is that good.) I love their chill-filtered coffee. Try the Coconut Almond Coffee served with homemade almond milk and a homemade coconut cream “float.” It’s like a dollop of whip cream on a frappucino, only healthy, and you just want to chase after it as you drink. And oh my, Mystical Mocha with Spicy Medicinal Cacao is just divine. As pumpkin season approaches, don’t forget to try their famous eponymous soup. (Coming very soon.) Last year, they had this delicious vegetable curry that I hope to see come back, too. Oy vey. There are so many mind-blowing goodies at Alchemy that it’s tough to figure out what to discuss next. So I will stop here and leave the rest to you to experience. But know that this rare gem is a beyond a simple health food restaurant. I don’t want to go all “cosmic” on you, but my guess is that you will come out of there feeling like a new person. Now if you would excuse me, I’m going to meditate. Ohmmmm Papa Smurf smoothie… (Alchemy Arts Center Café is at 35 West Haley Street, at the corner of Chapala. (805) 899-8811; www. alchemyartscenter.com. Open seven days a week, 8am – 6pm, Thursday and Friday until 8pm. Get in there.)

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ow do you follow winning three consecutive Olympic gold medals in beach volleyball? Try to win a fourth one. Duh! Well, there’s always retirement, too. That’s the route Misty May-Treanor opted for, calling it quits after 11 dominating years with partner Kerri Walsh Jennings, an unprecedented run that was highlighted by setting seemingly unbreakable records for consecutive match victories and tournament wins. May pulled the plug after the duo captured their third gold medal together in London last summer. But Walsh – who was already pregnant with her third child (Scout was born in April) – wasn’t ready to head for the rocking chair just yet. With an eye toward competing in Rio in 2016, she did the only logical thing and picked up a new partner. That meant raiding the No. 2 team, April Ross-Jennifer Kessy, the duo Walsh and May beat in the 2012 Olympic finals. It’s hard to turn down the No. 1 player

in the world, but Ross might have had to think it over after seven years together with Kessy – the only partner she’d ever played with as a professional – but Kessy made the decision easy by confirming that she, too, wanted to take a break soon to start a family of her own. Ross-Kessy got to play out the string through early September while waiting for Walsh Jennings to resume her postchildbirth career (she actually came back early and played a few events with Whitney Pavlik, capturing an AVP title in August). “Jen and I have had such a special partnership, we didn’t want to end prematurely,” Ross said in a phone interview. “We wanted to go out on a high note and play domestically on the AVP tour. So it was the perfect timing.” The Ross-Kessy duo were poised to go out with one final victory two weeks ago at the AVP tournament in Florida, but the championship match was canceled due to severe thunderstorms. “It’s almost like the universe didn’t

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want to see the partnership end,” Ross said. “That’s what we made of it. But it doesn’t feel bittersweet. We won our last tournament together in Atlantic City, and won our last match together in St. Pete. So we don’t feel like anything was taken from us. We played so many years together and won our fair share.” The new Ross-Walsh Jennings partnership makes its debut this weekend at the AVP’s Santa Barbara tournament, which takes over West Beach Friday through Sunday. Ross can’t wait to get the first event under her belt. “I think our on-the-court personalities and the way we’re driven and motivated and our will to win goes together really well. I’ve been leaning toward becoming

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a full-time defensive player and she’s obviously a full-time blocker. Everything feels really good so far. It’s just about working out the technicalities that come up with any new team. That takes time. “But it is weird for me. I’ve never gone through this with anybody else. I’m just learning as I go.” If Ross and Walsh Jennings hope to start a new winning streak of their own, they’ll likely have to pass through the breakout team of 2013, Emily Day and Summer Ross (no relation), a very young duo (both are in their early 20s) making their Santa Barbara debut. The upstarts have already won in Cincinnati after being seeded 14th and were set to play the final in St. Pete against Ross-Kessy, who had defeated them in the Atlantic City final. “They’re probably our toughest competition,” Ross said. “You don’t know what to expect from them. They’re both very athletic. I’m excited that there are these two young kids that are doing so well. But there’s a lot of great players on the tour. But Kerri and I are just excited to start playing together now to get ready [for Olympic qualification] overseas next year.” Over on the men’s side, several players with local connections are competing over the weekend, many with new partners due to realignment of teams after London in 2012. Former UCSB star Todd Rogers, who won Olympic gold in 2008 (plus world and AVP championships) with Phil Dalhausser, has picked up 7’ 1” youngster Ryan Doherty to try to work his professor magic again. Dalhausser is playing with Sean Rosenthal, while his former partner, Jake Gibb, has hooked up with Doherty’s ex, Casey Patterson. Theo Brunner, another more recent UCSB standout, also makes his Santa Barbara AVP debut partnering with Nick Lucena, who lived in town around the time he was playing with Dalhausser years ago. Several locals are also playing in the qualifier on Thursday to gain entry into this weekend’s main draw. Double-elimination match play begins Friday at 11am, with play continuing through 6pm. Saturday’s schedule is 9am6pm and Sunday’s action begins at 11am, with the women’s final slated for 3:30pm followed by the men at 4:30pm. General admission remains free for all three days of the tournament in this second annual event for the AVP, which emerged from bankruptcy just last summer. “It’s like a gift to the birthplace of beach volleyball,” AVP owner Donald Sun said, noting that Karch Kiraly, perhaps still the greatest beach volleyball player ever, learned the game down the street at East Beach. “Let’s have a good time and get a big turnout.” Details (and VIP tickets at $40 each) are available online at www.avp.com.

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Beauty, But Remember Civic Duty, Vol. 2, Issue 36.) Two mentioned walking their dogs, and only one City Council candidate mentioned Church. Having recently rescued my beloved pit bull, after profound disappointment with the acolytes of liberal Christianity. I find that factoid highly encouraging. Geof Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: I actually found the fact that only one candidate mentioned church interesting too, Geof. We considered changing the day of the week in the question from Sunday to Saturday to take that faith issue out of the equation but ultimately thought better of it, leaving it to the candidates to decide whether to raise it. Jason Nelson did bring it up, but in a noncommittal way (I thought it was an honest answer that resonated, especially given his background). And, to be fair, Mike Jordan referred to his Church of Basketball, which, if actually a world religion, would likely be quite popular. From experience, there is something occasionally divine about that game. Thanks for writing. – MSM)

Wallace Piatt Kicks Arse Hello Matthew, I finally got around to reading Jeremy Harbin’s article about Wallace Piatt. (The Wallace Piatt Guide to Grit, Vol. 2, Issue 35.) I was hoping that you could forward my compliments to Jeremy about what a kick arse article

it was. Really good. (I used to share that container space with Wallace, by the way.) Insert shameless promotion here: If you ever do another article about artists in the Funk Zone, I hope you’ll keep my details on hand. I have a new studio down there a few blocks from Wallace on Gray and Yanonali. The FZ is really coming online. Some good/some bad. Anyway... great work on that article and I hope you tell Jeremy that I said so. Cheers. Dan Levin Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for the note, Dan, I thought Jeremy Harbin’s piece on Wallace a couple weeks back kicked arse too. In fact, for me, it was a bit of a new direction for the paper – a bit edgier, a bit less constrained, maybe even a bit more mature (I know, how dare I say something like that) – and I’m glad that you picked up on it. Right on. (Wallace is a hell of a guy, too, and Jeremy will undoubtedly say that his “no holds barred” style really helped make the piece what it was.) We will definitely keep your details on hand and consider them as we look at future stories; the FZ art community is high on the list. Frankly, the idea down there with Jeremy and his column has been to get different perspectives In the Zone, and yours would certainly be cool and relevant. Thanks again, now here’s Jeremy. – MSM) (Thanks a lot, Dan. Wallace is an engaging guy who doesn’t hold much back – as I’m sure you know – so that one was fun

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On Mothers Forgetting Their Children Hi Briana, I so enjoyed your recent column (Falling Into Fall, Vol. 2, Issue 36) and was catapulted back to those days in my life when I was actively raising children and having some semblance of a career, and generally had more on my plate than possible to attend to all at one time. At one point years ago, I somehow managed to get a day off and went to Santa Monica for an event, after which I decided to take a more leisurely return home along the coast and through the fields in Oxnard to get to the 101. It was a little after 3pm when I remembered that it had been the short day at preschool and there was no late afternoon day care. I didn’t have a cell phone back then, but stopped as soon as I could find a pay phone and called. All was well. The headmistress had been busy with preparing for the next day, and kept my son with her until I arrived. I cannot recall why I did not have a backup plan. I raised four children and am so happy to have the opportunity of knowing them as adults. Sometimes, when I reflect on those years, I marvel that I survived and am still standing, with relative good physical and mental health. Thanks for the column. Louise Talarico MacKenzie, PhD Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: I genuinely love this letter, Louise, even though it isn’t addressed to me. That’s a real compliment to Briana – for me, there’s no better writing than the kind that transports the reader back or forward or wherever (as long as it’s not to sleep, I suppose, although that can be good too) – and we as an institution really try to pack that sort of punch. I’m glad you got it, and I’m glad that you enjoy Plan B. I do too. Keep picking us up. Here’s Briana. – MSM) (Hello Louise, I can just picture you— perched on the side of PCH on a pay phone frantically calling your son’s preschool. It makes me feel good to know that I’m not the only one who has neglected to remember to pick up a kid or pack a lunch box. It’s also

reassuring to know that those little souls still survive and thrive anyways. You deserve many more props for not only raising four beautiful people, but for completing that feat without a cell phone. Amazing. I often curse the cell phone’s presence in my life, however, as a parental tool, I consider it priceless. Thanks for sharing your story and keep picking up the Sentinel. We love hearing from our readers! Warmly, Briana)

Martin’s the Man Hello Matt, my name is Martin Wilson and we met last week at the Girl on Fire event at Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co in the Funk Zone. I just wanted to give you a shout out and also a hearty thank you for giving the people of Santa Barbara such a wonderful weekly. I now turn to the Sentinel to find out what’s happening in SB. I also wanted to give an extra shout out to Zach Rosen, damn that dude knows his beer or, as I call it, the Nectar of the Gods. We talked for about an hour and a half, and even my wife Shelly was in on the conversation. It is really awesome to talk to a man who knows his craft and is willing to talk to the folks on the street. Not only do I love beer but I also love talking about it. Matt I enjoyed meeting your staff along with your lovely wife, Wendi. I felt at ease chatting it up and having a few pints, talking beer and Santa Barbara in general. I love this city and I love the Sentinel. Keep up the good work and we will see you around town. Martin Wilson Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Oh Martin, this one means a lot to me. I know I speak for the whole gang when I say it was terrific meeting and talking with you and Shelly as well, and I am definitely looking forward to crossing paths again. (For those of you still reading this obscenely (wonderfully) long Letters section, Martin knew as much about the paper as I do. It was awesome. Loyal reader. Not sure about Cheeto Eater.) Please do keep reading, we will definitely keep putting it out there. Thanks again, Martin, right on. I like ending it on a positive note for the week. Peace. – MSM)

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Frank Hotchkiss

Keep in mind that increased density anywhere means increased traffic congestion, and increased traffic congestion is undesirable to people visiting/shopping/dining downtown, and is therefore unwanted by businesses in the area. One of the charms of our city is the small and old town feel that it has. Keeping density – particularly building heights – sharply restricted maintains this feel and preserves our open air mountain views. It would be a shame to lose those for any reason. (Sentinel Says: What about alternative transportation, Mr. Hotchkiss? And, assuming sufficient parking, might increased traffic actually be good for some businesses (e.g., restaurants, retail, etc.)? With that said, we’d be loath to lose those views, too(s). They are indeed a big part of what makes Santa Barbara such a pleasant place to live, and it’s an important point.)

Mike Jordan

That “broader pattern” will attempt to place residents and jobs in close proximity to each other or available transit, reduce traffic growth coming into the city core from city or regional commuters, and provide less expensive and more available ownership or rental housing by reducing unit sizes. It also includes a post-development review process to measure results, increased protections for historical and cultural sites, and combined with intense interest from the community, will test our ability to manage the delicate balance of our small town charm and attractiveness while planning for future growth. While I’m hopeful this will lead to less traffic, more middle class housing, and minimal negative effect on our city, not to mention an economically vibrant downtown, I’m committed to a vigorous review process allowing for rewarding successes while having the teeth to immediately stop poor results. Issues like dwindling resources, diminished quality of life from increased densities, our finite city services, and unacceptable changes to existing neighborhoods must be specific components of this review process. It’s so very important to protect the historical imagery and feel of Santa Barbara… why people came here, why they stay here, why they choose to visit here, and will they still want to do so. (Sentinel Says: We hear you loud and clear, Mr. Jordan, that a robust review process is a good thing given the unique nature of our town. With that said, however, the process must be able to move swiftly and decisively – one way or another – on projects as they come up, and must have the trust and confidence of the community. Our feeling is that the current

heavily bureaucratic processes sometimes (often?) lack these key features, so taking a good hard look at them from the top down is likely a worthwhile endeavor. Regardless, thanks for the thoughtful approach.)

Gregg Hart

Over many generations our community has worked together and made smart decisions about limiting development that has preserved Santa Barbara’s unique character. Change is inevitable, but the challenge going forward is how to best manage that change. The changes that have occurred physically to State Street over the past thirty years have dramatically improved the economic vitality of downtown. Widened sidewalks and cafés have made State Street walkable and human scale. Similarly, many of the affordable housing projects built by the City’s Housing Authority are some of the best developments in city neighborhoods. These award winning projects show that high quality design and well planned projects can improve the built environment. The City has a very rigorous design review process led by citizen volunteers that is very effective at protecting Santa Barbara’s high architectural and planning standards. I do not believe additional regulations are necessary at this time to ensure our community’s unique architectural legacy. (Sentinel Says: Mr. Hart, we’re glad to hear another perspective on process. But please see our response to Mr. Jordan regarding the current state of affairs. Thanks very much.)

Lesley Wiscomb

I don’t favor “pushing height limits” downtown to increase density. We live in an extraordinary city with an exceptional qualities and a great small-town feel. These qualities are part of what make Santa Barbara a desirable place to live, work and play and are essential to our economic vitality. To retain them, development must be carefully managed. Development impacts do not stop at the front door. Taller buildings would change Santa Barbara’s character, block views and bring traffic our streets can’t handle. Our recently adopted Average Unit Size Density (AUD) incentives will provide great test cases for development downtown. AUD projects that exceed 45’ are possible, but they must provide extraordinary community benefits. These projects should be

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Clean Creeks and Beaches – Authored Measure B Clean Creeks Initiative Open Space Preservation – Lead City Council effort to createthe preservation of the Wilcox Property/Douglas Family Preserve as a city park Solutions for Homelessness – Helped establish programs such as Casa Esperanza, Transition House, Low-Income Housing Public Safety – Provided more resources for public safety to address aggressive pan handling, vagrancy and other nuisance crimes Sustainability & Innovation – Increased recycling and promoted energy efﬁciency through Compact Florescent Light Bulb Exchange Program

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...continued from p.13 wasn’t surprised when the bike doctor told me that the bombproof frame had actually survived intact. But the rest of the glorious machine was mangled and destroyed right there on the grey concrete of a freeway it was never supposed to touch. The mighty Rocky was dead. Sadness. Darkness. Fade to black.

The Depression and the Catalyst for Rehabilitation I didn’t ride for a year. Hell, I didn’t even look at another bike. I couldn’t justify the expense after all the traveling and frivolousness; it just felt irresponsible. I wasn’t ready. We soon left the Napa Valley and returned home to Santa Barbara, choosing a rental here in town that is at the bottom of a much-used trailhead. Happy mountain bikers ride by all the time, wave hi, and hit the front country with grit and determination. For months I could barely acknowledge them. All I could do was watch. And live in the past. I had to rent a bike to do a long ride in a race back in May 2012. But the substitute machine felt flat; the passion just wasn’t there. I drifted, aimlessly. But life went on. I eventually began to

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acknowledge the guys and gals who ride by my place. I was making peace with the fact that I likely wouldn’t own a mountain bike for a while. I almost moved on. But then I ran into fellow dad Les Mayfield at back-to-school night a few weeks ago. I didn’t know Les at the time but quickly discovered in conversation that he rides, frequently. We shared some old trail tales. He told me all about a new bike he’d recently bought. I told him my story. We shared a laugh. Les got it. He rides. And, in a tender moment near the lovely cheese plate my daughter’s thirdgrade teacher had arranged, Les told me that I should start looking for a bike again. Les told me to ride. And something clicked. That night, after Wendi and I got home, I spent a few hours on the iPad looking at new bikes and checking the network of trails above my house. “You know, Wendi, I could literally get on a bike in our driveway and be up and over Romero Canyon and into the back country in a couple hours.” “Yes, honey.” (She’s reading and paying little attention to anything I say.) “There’s camping everywhere back there, you know.” “Yes, honey.” “Mind if I go for a night?”

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“No, honey.” (She has little idea of the substance of what I’m saying, but clearly believes this is another one of my generally hare-brained plans that won’t actually come to fruition. She’s wrong. This time, anyway.) The next morning I called Bruce Davis at Hazard’s Cyclesport and told him everything up through Les and the trip I was planning. “Yeah, Matt, no problem. I’ve got a bike for you. I sometimes lead rides for teenagers and have a bike all set up for a trip just like the one you’re talking about. Just take that one.” Bruce, as you can already tell, is a great guy. He didn’t know me from a hole in the ground and there he was, offering his own ride to me. Bruce got it. He rides.

A Night Out

I went down to the shop and picked the rugged old Specialized up. The guys had it set up just right for me and it felt great the moment I jumped on. I got so excited, so super-pumped, that I tossed all plans out the window, jammed over to Tri-County Produce, stuffed a bag full of fresh fruits and nuts and trail mix (and some chocolate covered pretzels), grabbed an Island Brewing Company Blonde Kolsch-Style Ale – a great pick for just after a long ride, if I must say so myself (Zach Rosen, how’d I do?) – and broke a variety of stopping and speeding-related traffic laws on the way home. By the time Wendi and the girls got back from some morning errands, I’d turned the driveway into a mountain biking and camping staging area. “Ah, Matt, whose bike it that?” “It’s Bruce’s from Hazard’s.” (Pause.) “Ah, Matt, what are you doing?” “I’m packing up for my trip over the mountain tonight. Don’t you remember our conversation a couple nights ago?” “Right. Who’s going with you?” “Nobody.” (Somewhat uncomfortable pause.) “Daddy, you’re going camping on a bike by yourself tonight?” Lily mercifully jumped in where words apparently failed my wife. “Yep, honey, daddy is going camping on a bike by himself tonight. I’ll be home in the morning and we’ll go to the beach.” “Ok.” Lily was satisfied. “Can I come?” my younger and rather adventurous daughter, Kate, asked. “Not this time sweetheart, but I will check it out to see if you guys could come next time.” “Ok daddy. Have fun.” Kate was satisfied too. Wendi looked at me and knew she had no chance. “Just be careful. You haven’t ridden in a year or two and there’s no water up there right now and…” “Oh come on babe, it’s just a ride. No

Oh David Weber from Venice, that Gatorade or Powerade or whatever the hell it was made a big difference to a sick guy on a long ride without much water. Thanks man, look me up next time you’re in town and we’ll get a ride in. And tell your half-brother that we actually have hit his shop, Polar Bear, often over the years for second-hand snow clothes for the kids. Cool.

worries, I’ll be fine.” She rolled her eyes and walked away. I’m pretty sure she was smiling.

The Rebirth

I left early that afternoon and began the long climb up Romero Canyon. It was warm but not hot, with a light breeze coming off the water. (Nice day for a ride.) I listened to the Dead – always a favorite for a grinding ascent – and quickly found an old cadence and rhythm I knew well. It felt great to be back in the saddle. And the world around me didn’t disappoint. I stopped often, not in a huge rush, and ate some of that grub I picked up at TriCounty, took some photos and generally just enjoyed the afternoon. It seemed that Romero Saddle came sooner than I’d envisioned, but there it was (thanks Jenny Schatzle, those jump lunges and power squats pay off), a little passageway to East Camino Cielo and away from the hustle and bustle of Santa Barbara and the front country. I was changing into warmer clothes for the descent down into Blue Canyon (that’s where I’d decided to camp), when I realized that I’d gone through more water than I’d anticipated. That was a problem, especially since I had a pretty bad cold. Just then, out of nowhere, another guy on a bike rode through Romero Saddle. “You going down the other side?” he asked, friendly. “Yep, what about you?” “Nah, I’m turning around and heading back to town. Camping down there?” “Yep, in Blue Canyon.” He looked me up and down. “Got all the gear and food and water you need?” “Yeah, but I think I’m a bit light on water.” He didn’t hesitate. “Take what’s left of my sports drink.” “No, man, you need it. I’ll be fine. You ...continued p.30

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...continued from p.27 carefully studied to assure that they create the kind of housing that Santa Barbara needs – housing that is affordable for the work force and compatible with our community. (Sentinel Says: Another good answer, we think. Process is key in making development determinations. But the process must work efficiently and be trusted. We suddenly sound like a broken record, but it’s an important point so we will keep making it.)

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I support the increase in density as outlined in Plan Santa Barbara. I also support reducing building heights from 60 to 45 feet, called out in The Plan. Santa Barbara is in a constant state of redevelopment. Projects such as La Entrada and Parker Hotels, and on Upper State, Sandman, are in the works. Good projects, I might add. Conscientious redevelopment is a good thing. Paseo Nuevo and the Crosstown Freeway are examples of projects which made Santa Barbara better. When I was a kid, State Street had four lanes of traffic, two lanes of parking, and scrawny sidewalks. State Street’s redevelopment, with parking garages and generous sidewalks, has transformed downtown Santa Barbara into a Pedestrian Friendly City. Projects face a challenging review process. There’s much room for improvement. But redevelopment, including Alma del Pueblo, is working pretty well, all things considered. (Sentinel Says: Thanks, Mr. White, pretty clear where you come out too.)

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...continued from p.28 keep it.” He ignored me completely, took a few long drinks, and poured what was left in his Camelback into my water bottles. “I’m David Weber,” he said, “I live down in Venice but love to come up for a visit and to ride. Be safe down there, I haven’t done it in years but it’s a lot of fun. Enjoy it.” And with that, David turned and rode back down Romero. He was the last person I saw until the next morning. The descent into Blue Canyon is steep and technical and dry and loose, and with a loaded bike and heavy pack on my back, it was admittedly tough. (I washed out a few times but that’s a part of riding and I fully enjoyed it.) I eventually made it down to Blue Canyon Camp and set up my tent near the picnic table and fire pit before I got down to the business of hanging out.

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Blue Canyon Camp, just before I settled into that screenplay and the moon came out.

(Honestly, it’s probably better after a few rains later this fall, it’s super dry right now.) After I had my camp how I wanted it and ate a bit more food (and drank David’s sports drink; thanks man), I went for a hike down canyon to Cottam Camp and took some pictures. (Cottam is a cool spot on a huge meadow and I’d probably have camped there had I known better, but Blue Canyon Camp was just fine too.) I didn’t come across or even hear so much as hear a single soul. So I felt safe strapping on these new (ridiculous?) Vibram FiveFingers

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Spyridon super-shoes a friend made me promise I’d test on a trail run – I’m not the most vain guy in the world but never really saw myself running around in light little slippers that look like gloves for your feet – and jumped from boulder to boulder in the dry creek next to my camp. It was wild, wearing those things out there in the middle of nowhere with nobody for miles, and I was frankly amazed at how fun it was to run around in them. You’re basically barefoot with terrific traction and agility and feel, and I soon felt like I was alone in the wild in a loincloth hunting game for the evening feast. I ran the trail back to the campsite and was fast and light. Vibram, man, who knew? (I take back everything I said about how ridiculous you look in them, Ryan, hope you can forgive me.) I was tired when I got back and it was dusk, so I popped that Island Brewing Company Blonde and drank it down with some chocolate-covered pretzels and trail mix. Then I hopped in my tent under the stars, listened to a nearby owl hoot for awhile, and fell asleep reading a screenplay a friend asked me to have a look at. Not bad. Not bad at all. It got a bit cold in the middle of the night and I woke up to a near full and brilliantly bright moon shining directly into the clearing where I’d pitched the tent. It was so inviting that I actually tossed my jeans on and sat on the picnic table for ten or fifteen minutes in the wee hours to enjoy it. I woke early the next morning, had a lazy breakfast, packed up and jumped back on Bruce’s bike for the ride out. I actually went down through Blue Canyon and up, past Forbush Flat, on to the backside of Cold Spring Trail to climb back out. Then I rode along East Camino Cielo to Romero Saddle, where I descended back home to my wife and kids. The whole thing was awesome. So awesome, in fact, that I got back on the iPad and finished my mountain bike research before we hit the beach. And by the time we’d returned home, I’d won an eBay auction for a 2013 Rocky Mountain Element 950 from a shop out of Grand Junction, Colorado. That’s right, baby, I’m riding again. Thanks Les Mayfield, thanks Bruce Davis at Hazard’s, thanks John Dixon at Tri-County, thanks David Weber in

Venice, thanks Wendi, thanks Lily, thanks Kate. My night away wouldn’t have happened without all of you. Perhaps most importantly, though, thanks Don. None of this would’ve happened but for that morning last year, and I had a wonderful time on my ride. And the new bike – which I definitely wouldn’t have without you – is amazing, seriously. Please just don’t offer to drive it anywhere for me.

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Now you all know that I love mountain biking. I mean it when I say that I owe a debt of gratitude to everyone mentioned above for getting me going again. Go say hi to Bruce Davis at Hazard’s Cyclesport (110 Anacapa Street; (805) 966-3787; www.hazardscyclesport.com), he and his staff are hugely knowledgeable about all things bike and bike-related (and they are just plain nice). John Dixon and Tri-County Produce (335 South Milpas; (805) 965-4558; www. tricountyproduce.com) filled my bag with healthy goodies, just as they do most weeks, and I might not have slept as well without that crisp, light Island Blonde I drank (IBC’s beers are everywhere, but check out the facility at 5049 Sixth Street in Carp; (805) 745-8272; www. islandbrewingcompany.com). Riders, don’t forget to use a bell and slow down around hikers and runners and horses and doggies. Otherwise, bomb hard and clean it. I like art and beer and squash (the sport, for clarity). And kids, I also like kids. So it’s perfect that the Santa Barbara Beer and Wine Festival is coming up October 13. Mark your calendars to head over to 15 East De La Guerra (Casa de la Guerra Courtyard) from 12 – 4pm to enjoy some craft beer, local food, live art and music. All proceeds benefit the Santa Barbara School of Squash, which effectively teaches low-income kids about the game that everybody loves (as well as provides academic tutoring and mentoring). Check out www.sbbwfest.com to learn more, and follow the links there to buy tickets in advance. Go drink beer for the kids, and for the love of the game! Finally, like I said, I like kids. (Is this getting creepy yet?) A huge Sentinel congratulations to El Camino Elementary out in Goleta for showing absolutely gigantic academic gains and really demonstrating the positive that flows when teachers and administrators and parents work together for the good of the kids. Right on, Dolphins, keep setting the bar high and jumping over it. I dig what you’re doing and wish you continued success going forward. Don’t settle. No Excuses. That’s it. I’m calling Don to be sure we’re good – I’m sure we are, I mean absolutely no harm in the foregoing story – and then hitting the sack with my new bike. Peace.

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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.

Here Comes the Xombiewoof Tellin’ you all the Xombie truth; Here he is the Xombiewoof.

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oseph Timmons is an interesting guy with some big ideas. His online music and entertainment blog, Xombiewoof, has generated international buzz and claims upwards of 2,500 hits a day. And now Timmons is on the path toward releasing his latest creation, Xombiewoof Magazine, an all things music newspaper-style print publication. “I want this to become the next Rolling

Stone,” Timmons, 47, told me. “I see it as very grassroots and not too fancy but powerful.” The New York transplant has performed as a heavy metal, punk, blues and rock drummer with bands like Stormbringer and Shadowcage and knows his musical licks. He’s also a pragmatic visionary that makes things happens. So powerful is probably an understatement.

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Joseph Timmons – aka Xombiewoof (here with his wife, Katya) – has hugely high aspirations for not only his music and entertainment business in Santa Maria, but the local music scene and music education as well. (Right on, Xombiewoof, that’s something we can get behind.)

Xombiewoof Is Huge In the Bulgarian Metal Scene The concept for the magazine stemmed from Timmons’ online music blog, Xombiewoof (www.xombiewoof. com), and Timmons is nothing if not prolific. (He’s more than that, though.) Xombiewoof contains interviews, reviews and other information that he generates and writes. He also culls information from online-based news and entertainment resources. Timmons updates and publishes articles daily; in fact, he publishes at least one or two articles a day with updates on social media (think Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Soundcloud, for example). Besides video interviews, he also plans to put together a studio to do podcasts and studio artist performance videos right here in Santa Maria. Xombiewoof has a fan club and the related list has more than 5,000 emails. Album review requests come from Europe, Germany, Russia and other countries. Most days, Timmons receives CDs and DVDs for review (he also gets music equipment sometimes). Likewise, he regularly gets press releases and emails from record companies. “When you get a CD from a newly signed metal band from Bulgaria and they say that if they don’t get a review from you they won’t have a great release, it makes you feel great about what you do,” he told me with a smile. Ironically, while Xombiewoof generates big buzz elsewhere, it is little known or appreciated here in the area. Perhaps small town parochialism, fears of competition, new or diverse thinking and cultural

output and expressions may be playing into the challenges he has met in making promotion, advertising and local band/ musical exposure inroads. “I can connect with radio stations in New York and other states but can’t connect with people in my own backyard,” he said. “That’s too bad,” I said. And I meant it.

Xombiewoof Is Born

From the Big Apple to the Land of Barbecued Tri Tip, Timmons arrived in Santa Maria in 1990. Talk about a bit of culture shock coming from the heart of 24/7 art, music and culture to Santa Maria’s budding music scene – with some talented bands and interesting venues, sure, but SM isn’t exactly NYC in that regard. According to Timmons, that budding music scene withered due to lack of dedication to the arts and a “narrow vision about music.” As such, he explained, many bands were ousted, moving north or south or east to explore promise elsewhere. But Timmons sees the tide shifting again, and music appears to be making a comeback in the area, due, interestingly, to the explosion of wineries and tasting rooms and concomitant rise in demand for quality music. With the birth of the new trend, Timmons decided to get married to his wife, Katya, and raise their kids, work the day job and settle into his Santa Maria digs. But this painter, musician, writer and poet needed also to express his psyche. And, so, Xombiewoof was born. Timmons recalls, “I started Xombiewoof as a personal blog in 2009, just a way to express my interest in music and possibly

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find others who are willing to connect and share their music, with connection to Facebook and social media. I found people liked my writing style and followed me regularly.” “Shortly after my first major interview with a member of DEVO, one of my favorite acts, I decided to create a fully engaged music and entertainment magazine online. I bought the domain name Xombiewoof. I wanted to name it after a song that inspired me, Zomby Woof by Frank Zappa, but for legalities and not being able to pay for the rights, I changed the spelling to Xombiewoof.” The rest is, as they say, history. “I really wanted to create an entertainment website that is all about music, the love of music and the performing of music,” said Timmons. “So the site is designed to be news-worthy, enlightening and positive. I never write negative news stories or reviews.” (Hmmm… that sounds familiar.) “Their world already has enough bad news and gossip stories, who’s in rehab and who’s in jail. It’s not my thing.” “For me, it’s all about the music.”

Go Big or Go Home

A print publication isn’t all that Timmons has his eye on. “I also have plans to start a music television show for public television and a non-profit called Heartbeat4Kids, a program to keep music programs in schools, and after school music programs and music education scholarships alive. These are big plans that are based on a need for music to be a part of every child’s life with hope I that may be responsible for helping the next John Lennon or Jimi Hendrix or Pavarotti. The possibilities are endless.” On September 20, Timmons kickstarted the dream machine with the Xombiewoof Magazine Kickstarter Online Fundraiser Project to raise $25,000 for the leap from virtual to print, creation of online television show, musical outreach and charity and other endeavors. If he can raise the money by October 20, then the possibilities are endless for making Xombiewoof a local and global musical hub and nexus for a needed local music and arts resurgence. “This is not a ‘fund my life’ project,” he said. “Xombiewoof will be here for the long haul; I hope my children will keep it going. Or I will build it into a magazine that becomes as big as Rolling Stone did. But I plan to keep it humble, it’s not about Xombiewoof, it’s about the music and those that love music. That’s what is important.” For more information about Joseph Timmons and Xombiewoof, check out www.xombiewoof.com. And be sure and go to Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com) and search on Xombiewoof to kick in a few bucks if you believe in it. I do.

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f you’ve ever had the good fortune to spend even five minutes with David and Denise, you know that their enthusiasm and absolute joy for being around each other is infectious. David, Executive Director of the Lobero Theatre Foundation since 1997, has been an extraordinary resource for the Arts in the city of Santa Barbara for decades. His passion, vision, generosity and hard work have paved the way for incredible musical and theatrical experiences. He is now mustering all those skills to create a new and improved historic theater. A Santa Barbara native, Denise, as her husband lovingly describes her, is a doctor, dancer, philosopher, entrepreneur and teacher. She is down to earth and open, and has a megawatt smile that puts you immediately at ease. Her studio is a haven of light and relaxation, set in gardens of her creation. Together they are living an inspired life. www.lobero.com/foundation

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THE MINDFUL WORD by Diana M. Raab

An award-winning memoirist, essayist, blogger and poet living in Santa Barbara, Diana’s been writing ever since she received her first pen more than fifty years ago. She is the author of eight books and numerous articles and poems. Her passions include journaling and inspiring others to write. She’s a regular blogger for the Huffington Post and her website is: www.dianaraab.com.

Spiritual Traveling in Peru

ast month my eldest daughter turned 30. As a proud mother I thought this warranted a mother-daughter trip to Peru, a place we have both always yearned to visit. Our ten-day journey was absolutely magical. Even though Rachel is a world-class photographer, I have to admit that the pictures do not measure up or empower as much as visiting the place itself. In planning our trip, we chose to embark on a more spiritual orientation that would take us a little off the beaten path. I chose the travel company Amazing Peru to help organize our trip, and they did a superb job. As per my request, they found us two great guides – one older and one younger– just in case my daughter wanted to go out and party at night, she would have someone other than her aging mother in town! Our itinerary included visiting Lima, Cusco, The Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu. Every aspect of the trip – from the people to the food to the markets to

visiting the Inca sites – was unforgettable. Visiting Peru affected me on both a personal and spiritual level. Although I tried to journal each day, some days were so packed that I simply collapsed in bed at night. It’s too early to tell whether the writing I did manage to do will develop into anything (like my last major family trip to Africa, after which emerged my poetry collection, Listening to Africa), but even after being back a month, I continue to feel the transformation stirring deep inside of me. To prepare for the trip I read a few terrific books, including The Lonely Planet and Andean Awakening; An Inca Guide to Mystical Peru by Jorge Luis Delgado and MaryAnn Male. These books gave me a sense of the sites we would visit, but in reality, the photos and descriptions did not come close to the intensity of the experience. When first arriving in Lima, and throughout the journey, we were given coca leaves to chew on to help prevent

Diana Raab and her daughter, Rachel, in Peru. A picture cannot do the journey to Machu Picchu justice.

altitude sickness and intestinal upset. Except for Machu Picchu (which is about 8,000 feet), we were at about 12,000 feet above sea level. Also available were chewable candies we could buy which were made with coca leaves. We took a one and a half hour train ride from The Sacred Valley to Machu Picchu where we spent two days and one night at the Sanctuary Lodge – definitely the highlight of our trip. After resting for a bit, we hiked with Master Shaman Pedro who handed out coca leaves as offerings to the hikers and rangers we passed along part of the Inca trail. We learned that Pedro, similar to His Holiness The Dalai Lama, had been destined to be a shaman since he was a little boy. During the hike, he did a few short ceremonies until he found a suitable and quiet area to set up an altar with the sacred items he had carried in his backpack. He began a ceremony by unwrapping some hard candies and tossing them randomly in the surrounding forested area. “Mother Nature (Patchimama) has a sweet tooth,” he said. He then pulled out a horn pointing it in all four compass directions calling the spirits to join us in the ceremony, and asking permission that we use their territory. After the ceremony and blessings, he gifted Rachel and I with a small ceramic pot and placed a chakana pendant suspended from a black string around our necks. The chakana depicts the Southern Cross constellation that the ancient Andeans believed to be the center of the universe. They saw this very clearly in the Andean skies. Each of the four stars depicts a compass point. The Incas also called the chakana “The Tree of Life.” It has 12 points and signifies the three

worlds: the underworld (symbolized by the snake), the current world (symbolized by the puma) and the upper world (symbolized by the condor). The hole in the center signifies the city of Cusco. With the Shaman we continued our hike to Intipunku or the Sun Temple. The Incas worshipped the sun and always lived on mountain tops because they felt safer there. They also worshipped the mountains and saw them as their protectors. And now that I am back, I must say that I worship everything about that very sacred place! On trips like these, there are always surprises and this time one of our stops included a connection to Santa Barbara. My daughter is a yogi, specializing in acro yoga, and we had booked a few days at a yoga retreat called Wilka Tika (meaning “sacred flower” in Quechua). When booking I did not know that the owner was originally from Santa Barbara. On our first evening while sipping on a glass of Malbec in the lobby, I picked up a book, called Journey to Machu Picchu written by Carol Cumes and Romulo Lizarraga Valencia. In the preface, Carol wrote how she began her spiritual journey twenty years earlier, when as the wife of a dentist living in Hope Ranch and mother of four, she visited the Peruvian Andes. I nearly dropped the book, but then caught it and could not stop reading. Carol shared her love for the Andean culture and her own spiritual quest and how she became inspired to open this amazing yoga retreat. I was honored to witness the fruits of all her dreams and hard work in this vegan retreat where all the served food is actually grown on the land. It was wonderful and fortuitous, like our entire journey in the sacred land of Peru and the Andes.

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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.

cleared, no one seemed seriously harmed. The cyclist rode his bike in the direction of the campus bike shop and the pedestrian walked off (presumably to class) with little more than a rip in his jeans. All these biking accidents on campus got me thinking. I wondered why students were so cavalier about accidents. So I did a little math.

UCSB Freshmen Definitely Do Not Have the Right of Way

Can you imagine being run down by all of these bikes on your way to an afternoon philosophy lecture? Chilling, isn’t it?

t’s open season on the bike paths of UCSB. Every fall, hundreds of freshmen students learn, the hard way, that walking on the bike paths is distinctly not a good idea. Some of those lessons come in the form of bikers yelling choice phrases. Others come in the form of close calls as bikes whiz past the oblivious pedestrian. And yet for some unlucky Gaucho neophytes the lesson to stay off the bike path comes when a bike literally knocks them off their feet.

Ouch. Being a TA, I’ve seen plenty of students walk into class limping from a collision with a moving bike. One of my classrooms even overlooked a bike path and, once, we bore witness to a cyclist hitting a pedestrian who failed to look before crossing. The cyclist never even slowed. From the looks of it, I would have guessed that the pedestrian had broken a bone. Luckily, however, when the smoke

The weight of the average US citizen is right around 81.5 kg. (Well, that’s the number if you average men and women together. I didn’t want to do two calculations, after all.) The weight of an average beach cruiser with coaster breaks is right around 15.4 kg. That number is based, naturally, on the cruiser that I see most often outside of Isla Vista Bike Boutique. Why a cruiser? It’s what I see around campus most frequently. Single speed cruisers also have coaster breaks, which, anecdotally, have a slower reaction time than hand breaks. The estimated speed of a student biking on campus is around 16 km/hr (4.4 m/s). Single speed commuters can get up to about 28 km/hr, but campus bike paths are notoriously crowded. Even when traffic is moving at a fast clip, students rarely reach the speed capacity of their bikes. (Most Gauchos aren’t exactly in a hurry all the time, either. So there’s that.) The estimated time before a collision that a student begins to break is

approximately 3 seconds. Humans aren’t deer. We don’t jump out unexpectedly from behind bushes. (At least, not usually. We are Gauchos, after all.) Note that I’m presuming here that the cyclist has seen the pedestrian and is attempting to stop. If the cyclist was being unobservant or just plain masochistic, or the pedestrian was raised by deer or other paranoid and nimble animals, the force would be three times stronger. Plug all of those numbers into the formula to calculate force, and you get 143.4 newtons (N) of force. For reference, a newton is the equivalent of about 0.22 pounds of force. (A newton also contains approximately 0.6 grams of organic fig matter. I’m kidding. Different newton. Where was I?) That amount of force would barely bruise a human, let alone break a bone. The cyclist is more likely to get a bent rim than the pedestrian is to be seriously hurt. That makes a TA happy. Now I know that my fear of having to call an ambulance for a student was completely irrational. Of course, this math only works if a number of variables don’t change (e.g., the cyclist stays on his or her bike during impact, both people are healthy and in good shape, no other cyclists (or pedestrians) are involved, the cyclist is paying attention, the cyclist’s bike is properly cared for and doesn’t have spikes or other weapons protruding from it, and the pedestrian is walking exactly perpendicular to the bike). In other words, just because my math is saying everything is A-OK, doesn’t mean you should believe me and frequently test my theory. So hey, freshmen and other newcomers, we’re a friendly bunch up here but, please, when you step onto the UC Santa Barbara campus, look both ways. And stay off the bike paths. Bikes are faster than you are, and if you really get whacked, it’s going to hurt. A lot. I shouldn’t need a science column to prove that to you.

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You Have Your Hands Full

Taking a break from all the mind numbing activities and heading to the beach is one of the best decisions ever. Thanks Jackson for keeping us sane.

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

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

Nurturing Nature Nixes Nagging Numbness

just sit there. Numb. Every afternoon finds me firmly placed in the driver’s seat. It doesn’t really matter which day, my life reads like an afterschool enrichment program: water polo, flag football, soccer, Parisi, Kumon, piano, violin. That was something we never factored in when we decided on four kids. But now, as their worlds expand and they grow into capable human beings, my own world narrows in a disturbing way. Yeah, I sit behind that wheel, looking out of my window at their life. I drop off and then pick up, never leaving the confines of my car. At this point, I really wonder how many miles I have put on the car since the beginning of school. The statistic would be depressing. Incredibly depressing. But something recently changed. On a whim, I set my alarm clock for 5:30 – in the morning – to bike up the mountain and watch the sunrise. I can’t remember why I first did it. But, under the stars, that early morning, I knew it was the best decision I had ever made in my life. I was

tired of feeling numb, being an observer, and wanted to live again. The mountain had been screaming my name and finally I heard the call. So I pedaled and climbed; just past Gibraltar Road, the night dimmed and the sun started to rise with me. Up the grade I took it, my legs tired but my soul awakening. It was that way, the whole way up. Not even painful, just joyful. Because I was finally taking my life back.

To the Sea As I started to thaw out, I began to wonder about the impact of all these activities on my kids. Am I actually serving them well by booking them to the max? I wonder how they cope with instruction all day in school followed by instruction all afternoon in sports and music? Where is it leading us? Are we better for it? I’m not sure I know the answer. Just as I was questioning THE PLAN, my oldest son announced his decision

MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT A vacancy on the Governing Board of the Montecito Union School District was created on September 6, 2013. The Governing Board will be filling the vacancy by making a provisional appointment until the next election in November 2014. Any person is eligible to be a Governing Board member providing he/she is 18 years of age or older, a resident of the school district, and a registered voter. Interested community members are invited to complete an application and submit a letter to the Superintendent, Tammy Murphy (385 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108), indicating their interest and willingness to serve in this significant public capacity. The application and letter must be accompanied by a personal resume. The application can be found on the Montecito Union School District website at www.montecitou.org or applications are available at the Montecito Union School District Office at 385 San Ysidro Road between 8:00am-4:00pm. The final date for submitting applications is 3 p.m. on October 14, 2013. Candidates will be interviewed individually at a public meeting of the Board on October 29th 2013. The person selected will join the Board at their regular meeting on Tuesday, November 19, 2013. The person appointed shall hold office until the next regularly scheduled election for district Board Members in November 2014. Questions should be directed to Mrs. Murphy at (805) 969-3249 ext. 261.

not to play soccer this fall. No big deal, I can hear you say. But it kind of was. He had been playing for six years. He went from below average (kindergarten) to pretty darn good (5th grade). We invested years of soccer camps and AYSO Saturday mornings. Now, by 6th grade, it seemed he was burned out. And he begged for it to end. (“Mom, please. I hate it. I’m sick of it.”) Then he told me he wanted to surf. He didn’t want (or need) a structured sport, he said. And I have to say that I really questioned THE NEW PLAN. The other kids were super busy and, well, I didn’t give any weight to the budding interest in surfing. I figured he was just looking to goof off. Like, say, I don’t know, Jeff Spicoli. But all that apprehension went away the first time I saw him walking out of the water carrying his board. He emerged fresh eyed and buzzing with a huge smile. I recognized it, precisely because it is the same expression I wear arriving home from a bike ride. It comes when we

connect into ourselves, into nature. And that is when we build character, intention and purpose. It is an intoxicating experience. So I started to make more room for him. I’d drop kids off and we’d head to Campus Point every chance we got. Friday play dates are now at the beach. In my head, I call it our little jailbreak. The light is beautiful and the younger kids skip on the beach looking for treasure. Originally, I had taken my beach chair to watch him and read my book. But then it struck me, just like in that car: I can’t sit and watch anymore. It was time to start living. So now I wiggle into my wetsuit and head out into the waves with my kid. Sure, Jackson ridicules me, teases me, tells me I am not ever going to get up on my board, but I am determined to try. Because the battle is already won. I have been in the mountains and now I am tasting the saltwater. And boy, I am certainly not numb anymore.

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What: Can Do Art Where: On Milpas Street by La Super Rica When: Saturday, September 28, 3 – 7pm Why: Make your own artful planters using recycled cans, soil and a variety of seeds. How: Come with a can-do attitude.

by Kim Wiseley

Four Seasons Goes Food Truckin’

he Four Seasons Taste Truck is rolling into town and we couldn’t be more excited! Arriving from Palo Alto – one of the eight destinations along its journey from San Francisco to Santa Fe – the Taste Truck will host mobile breakfast, lunch and dinner stops throughout Santa Barbara serving luxury cuisine (would you expect anything less from the Four Seasons?). Track down the truck for breakfast and get a taste of the Bacon Burrata and Basil Croissant Egg Sandwich, a Fried Jalapeno Chorizo Burrito or even homemade Gluten Free Banana Bread. Oh Taste Truck, you had us at hello! Is lunch calling? Try the Quinoa Sweet Potato Lettuce Burger or BBQ Certified Angus Beef Brand Short Ribs. If it’s October Fest you’re wanting to celebrate in style, don’t miss that party! Beef Goulash, Chicken Schnitzel, Polish Sausage... even Apple Cobbler! There’s one week of this sweet and savory satisfaction, so don’t miss out! Remember that it’s entirely acceptable to be a groupie and follow the truck everywhere. We probably will.

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Thursday, October 3

Time: 5:30 – 8:30pm Location: Coral Casino Menu Served: Octoberfest!

Time: 5 – 8pm Location: SB Historical Museum Menu Served: A La Carte Dinner

Time: 11am – 2pm Location: West Beach Menu Served: A La Carte Lunch

Time: 5 – 9pm Location: Telegraph Brewing Company Menu Served: Octoberfest!

Wednesday, October 2

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What: Taste of Milpas yo u r g u i d e to Where: Milpas Street – from Puerto Vallarta SANTA BARBARA LIVING up to Canon Perdido When: Saturday, September 28, 3 – 7pm Why: Patrons will get a goody bag and can stroll up Milpas, stopping at each participating restaurant, where they will be treated to free samples of some of the finest cuisine in Santa Barbara. How: Make (and eat) your way up Milpas. And enjoy the live music along the way!

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What’ll It Cost Me: Tickets range from $25 – $45

• HEY BIG SPENDER What: The Foley Food & Wine Society Official Launch Party Where: Bacara Resort & Spa, 8301 Hollister Avenue When: Saturday, September 28, 3 – 6pm Why: Taste from the prestigious Foley Family portfolio of world-class wines including Chalk Hill, EOS, Firestone, Foley Estates, Foley Johnson, Kuleto, Lincourt, Sebastiani and Three Rivers, all paired with some exquisite bites from Bacara. How: See what all the buzz is about.

Friday, October 4

Follow the tour at Taste by Four Seasons (www.taste.fourseasons.com/food-trucks) or by searching #FSTasteTruck on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Visit the truck, post a photo of your experience on Instagram using #FSTasteTruck and use it as collateral to redeem a cocktail at The Four Seasons Biltmore. Keep on truckin’, Santa Barbara.

What’ll It Cost Me: Free to attend!

What’ll It Cost Me: Tickets range from $40 – $60 and can be purchased online at www.foleyfoodandwinesociety.com.

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Hounding Around

By Eve Sommer-Belin e all want to be the perfect pet parents, but sometimes life gets crazy. (And sometimes our pets are crazy too.) Thank goodness Camp Canine exists! One of our chicks sends her pup to Camp Canine’s amazing dog training program – Coffee Shop Dogs – and dog’gonnit that puppy (aka a German Wirehaired Pointer named Caper) is on her way to being one top dog! Whether you just got a puppy and need some major help or need your older dog to learn some new tricks, Camp Canine’s training classes will do the job. In minutes, your dog will be responding like you’ve never seen before. The rules you will learn are the foundation for your dog’s behavior for life and it is up to you to hold your part of the deal of being a dog owner. Camp Canine expertly teaches you the tools needed to do so, leaving you with a dog that everyone coos over at the local coffee shop. Just sign up for their group training classes or an individual session. Already have the perfect pup? Then treat them to a day at camp where they can frolic with other hounds and take a swim in Lake Splashmore. Camp Canine, we woof you! Get the (poop) scoop at www.campcanineinc.com, or just stop by anytime. 803 East Montecito Street, (805) 962-4790.

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REAL ESTATE by Michael Calcagno

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

Montecito Summer Recap

hile I am not a meteorologist, despite what some Sentinel editors claim, summer is officially over according to the calendar I purchased from Staples. I have never done the numbers for the Montecito area despite actually having sold and listed many properties there. This week, we are going to take a look at those numbers because, while it is a different market, it does directly correlate to the Santa Barbara area. This week let’s examine what happened in Montecito in the price range from $1,200,000 to $2,000,000. Starting from June 1 to present, the total number of listings both active and closed was 27. Out of those 27 properties, 12 are still active with 12 of them

811 Alston Road

being closed and three currently pending. The closed properties had an average of 28.4 days on the market, while the current 12 properties on the market have an average of 298 days on market, two of which were listed in the last three weeks, skewing the average on the lighter side. What does that mean? It means that Montecito in this range and area has a very low inventory and that when a home is priced well, it sells very quickly. The fact that some homes have been on the market so long definitely is a factor of the higher list price and smaller buyer pool, which tends to reflect that it may make sense to lower the asking price. Here are two homes in the 93108 area, both priced under $2 million, that you may want to consider:

Mortgage statistics provided by Justin M. Kellenberger, Senior Loan Officer at SG Premier Lending Group, Inc. Justin can always be reached at justin@sgpremierlending.com. Note: The foregoing economic breakdowns do not include potential tax benefit analyses since that will ultimately depend upon a number of additional factors. But home ownership can indeed have tremendous tax-savings potential and should be considered with your realtor and/or tax accountant as part of the ownership decision.

631 Orchard Avenue

Purchase price: $1,895,000 Down payment (20%): $379,000 Loan amount: $1,516,000 Loan payment: $7,569

(30-yr fixed at 4.375% (APR 4.55.%)) Property taxes estimate: $1,737 Home insurance estimate: $100

Total Monthly Payment: $9,406

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Purchase price: $1,370,000 Down payment (20%): $274,000 Loan amount: $1,096,000 Loan payment: $5,472

(30-yr fixed at 4.375% (APR 4.55.%)) Property taxes estimate: $1,255 Home insurance estimate: $80

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SUNDAY September 29

Downtown

18 West Victoria Street #212 12-5pm $2,500,000 2bd/3ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 Village Properties 18 West Victoria Street #214 12-5pm $1,750,000 1bd/2ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 Village Properties 18 West Victoria Street #207 12-5pm $1,300,000 1bd/2ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 Village Properties 2224 De La Vina Street 1-4pm $1,295,000 3bd/3ba Robert Watt 252-2190 Village Properties 18 West Victoria Street #109 12-5pm $855,000 0bd/1ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 Village Properties 401 Chapala Street #108 11-4pm $750,000 1bd/1.5ba Michael Calcagno 896-0876 Sotheby’s International Realty 1532 Clearview Road 1-4pm $749,000 2bd/1ba Phyllis Lenker 886-2342 Village Properties 407 West Pedregosa Street 1-4pm $625,000 2bd/2ba Garrett McCaw 252-2335 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 523 Santa Barbara Street 1-4pm $595,000 2bd/2ba Alan M. Chierici 680-0501 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 3340 Mccaw Avenue #111 1-3pm $459,000 2bd/2ba Jennifer Berger 451-5484 Sotheby’s International Realty 2012 Anacapa Street 2-4pm $2,195,000 4bd/3ba Robert Johnson 705-1606 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 2130 State Street 1-3pm $1,425,000 4bd/2.5ba Jay Krautmann 451-4527 Sotheby’s International Realty 1818 Olive Avenue 1-5pm $1,295,000 3bd/2.5ba Ron Harkey 886-9871 Village Properties 1800 Garden Street 1-4pm $1,248,000 3bd/2ba Cimme Eordanidis 722-8480 Village Properties 400 East Pedregosa Street #I 1-2:30pm $850,000 2bd/2ba Ed Kaleugher 963-1391 Sotheby’s International Realty 1208 Blanchard Street 2-4pm $695,000 3bd/3ba Isaac Garrett 729-1143 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 236 Por La Mar By Appt. $575,000 1bd/1ba John Sirois 455-6277 Village Properties 1409 Shoreline Drive 1-5pm $4,749,000 4bd/4ba Gene Archambault 455-1190 Sun Coast Real Estate 2321 Edgewater Way 1-4pm $1,700,000 3bd/1ba Christopher W. Hunt 453-3407 Village Properties 129 Palisades Drive 2-4pm $1,175,000 4bd/3ba Mary Layman 448-3890 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 2423 Murrell Road 1-4pm $875,000 4bd/1.5ba Alyson Spann 637-2884 Village Properties 1074 Miramonte Drive #1 2-4pm $499,900 2bd/1.5ba Kathy Hughes 448-4881 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 1737 Loma Street 12-3pm $2,195,000 3bd/3ba Omid Khaki 698-1616 Sotheby’s International Realty 1542 Hillcrest Road 2-4pm $2,150,000 5bd/5ba Tim Walsh 259-8808 Village Properties 1213 Viscaino Road 1-4pm $1,999,999 3bd/2ba Joyce Enright 570-1360 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 10 Rincon Vista 2-4pm $1,895,000 4bd/3.5ba Wilson Quarre 680-9747 Sotheby’s International Realty 1808 Loma Street 1-4pm $1,775,000 5bd/4ba Kevin Schmidtchen 689-6877 Sotheby’s International Realty 15 Loma Media 2-4pm $1,599,000 2bd/2ba Nancy Hamilton 451-4442 Sotheby’s International Realty 1102 East Canon Perdido Street 2-4pm $1,495,000 3bd/2.5ba Phil Shirinian 637-8722 Sotheby’s International Realty 805 Via Granada 2-4pm $940,000 2bd/2ba Joan Roberts 448-0526 Village Properties 3761 Lincoln Road 2-4pm $1,695,000 5bd/3.5ba Wanda Livernois 252-9382 Sotheby’s International Realty 3945 Stacy Lane 1-4pm $1,399,000 4bd/2.5ba John Comin 689-3078 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 325 East Alamar Avenue 2-4pm $1,098,000 4bd/3ba Justin Corrado 451-9969 Sotheby’s International Realty 3879 Nathan Road 1-3pm $1,050,000 3bd/2.5ba John Sener 331-7402 Village Properties 3666 Eileen Way 2-4pm $1,050,000 3bd/2ba John McGowan 637-5858 Sotheby’s International Realty 3888 Nathan Road 1-3pm $915,000 3bd/2.5ba Teresa Salivone 570-7812 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 3708 Greggory Way #2 2-4pm $749,000 3bd/3ba Debby Rexford 886-8773 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 2621 State Street #4 1-4pm $675,000 2bd/2ba Doug Van Pelt 637-3684 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 2639 State Street #V1 1-3pm $599,000 2bd/2ba Randall Kempf 331-4389 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 2821 Miradero Drive #B 2-4pm $549,000 2bd/1.5ba Suzanne Lawson 886-9316 Sotheby’s International Realty 3663 San Remo Drive #5k 1-4pm $509,000 3bd/2ba George Lambert 350-0924 Sotheby’s International Realty 4395 Via Esperanza By Appt. $5,995,000 5bd/4.5ba Grubb Campbell Group 895-6226 Village Properties 4693 Via Bendita 12-2pm $4,295,000 5bd/5.5ba Adrienne Schuele 452-3960 Village Properties 4650 Via Roblada By Appt. $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 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 3021 Hermosa Road 11-4pm $1,425,000 4bd/3.5ba Lanora Bradley 895-0102 Sotheby’s International Realty 4523 Auhay Drive 12-3pm $1,295,000 4bd/4ba Team Scaborough 331-1465 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 551 Apple Grove Lane 2-4pm $869,000 3bd/2ba Sharol Mulder 259-7988 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices 124 Romaine Drive 1-4pm $699,000 2bd/1ba Bill Urbany 331-0248 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices

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