WEEKLY CAPITALIST
WAXING REPTILIAN
NEW CARBON TAX PROMISES BIG BUCKS TO COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING; PROBLEM IS, IT JUST DON’T WORK, P. 14
O FOUNDRY NIGHT: THE BRONZE WAS BRIGHTLY MELTING, IT IS THE NIGHT OF A NEW FROG SCULPTURE’S BIRTH, P. 24
SANTA BARBARA PAGE 39
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once a week from pier to peak
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WHIRLYBIRD CATCHES THE WORM
THIRTY MINUTES IN A PERFECTLY SAFE (AND SURPRISINGLY COMFORTABLE) HELICOPTER COCKPIT IS NOT ONLY FUN BUT ALSO PROVIDES AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE WILDLY BEAUTIFUL PLACE WE ALL CALL HOME photo by Corey Sanders
DAN DAN THE HELICOPTER MAN
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by Matt Mazza
suppose I should start what will be a mercifully brief column with the following disclaimer: I am not some crazed aviation enthusiast with a death wish. Sure, I’ve flown in lots of airplanes – including one wild ride in a tiny private plane from Santa Barbara to Tahoe a few years back – but there was pretty much always a purpose to those flights; none was simply for pleasure.
8 DAYS A WEEK PAGE 10
PRESIDIOSPORTS PAGE 18
And I’d never flown in a helicopter. Ever. Until last week. Frankly, I always thought a thirty-minute Hawaiian pleasure cruise aboard TC’s chopper – yeah, that’s a Magnum, P.I. reference – sounded like a boring (overpriced) novelty. I was just never interested in that type of “experience.” ...continued p.5 Boy was I wrong.
TIME, TIDE & SURF PAGE 20
AMERICAN GIRL PAGE 32