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A MISSED OPPORTUNITY WITH A TRUE DREAM JOB - ASIDE FROM THIS ONE, OF COURSE - WITHIN HIS GRASP, OUR ASPIRING GLOBE-TROTTER OF AN EDITOR FLUBS THE INTERVIEW OF A LIFETIME WITH HIS TRAVEL IDOL

BOTCHING RICK STEVES

by Matt Mazza

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botched it. I can’t believe I botched it; honestly, I can’t. But there’s no doubt about it. I completely and totally botched what could have been the single most important interview of my life, the one that could have conceivably made me a famous travel writer,

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trotting the globe, living the dream. But that’s all gone now. Because I botched it. Let’s start with the obvious: Rick Steves is the man. If you’ve traveled, or like to learn about travel, then you almost surely know what I’m talking about. Over the past roughly 35 years, the guy has single-handedly created a travel business empire that encompasses everything from informative public radio and television shows to guidebooks and travel services and consulting ...continued p.5

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Mazza’s Missive – Editor-in-Chief Matt Mazza had his shot to wow travel guru Rick Steves and set the stage for a life of exploration and leisure. But he blew it. So we guess he’ll be forced to stay right here with Sentinel. Sorry, Matt, for the disappointment. (Jerk.)

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It’s Crimetime – Two words: THANKSGIVING TURKEY!

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T he Beer Guy – Zach Rosen goes to Berkeley and drinks beer at the historic Triple Rock Brewery & Alehouse. Uh-oh. We hear Berkeley’s filled with pot-smoking dirt twirlers. (And disenfranchised law students… Matt.) Why would anybody want to go there? (Better read to find out.)

L etters to the Editor – Gun control, global warming and taxation, helicopter regulations and best practices, and the homeless debate rages on. Wow. Pretty heady stuff this week for a “light, informative read.” Can’t somebody just complain about Crimetime or our grammatical shortcomings already?

Days a Week – Jeremy Harbin is really into the holidays. Like, really into the P.10 8holidays. He may have had one too many Monsternogs at the Paradise this week before writing what has become his “comedy” calendar. Great.

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S anta Barbara View – Sharon Byrne brings the story of yet another Miracle on Milpas – a solar Christmas tree in the roundabout!; Loretta Redd goes the opposite direction with a cheery holiday column on DEATH and our culture’s total and utter FAILURE to deal with it appropriately (kidding, it’s a terrific column, Loretta, seriously worth reading); Ray Estrada talks young pros and their charitable contributions.

Sports – Local winter sports breakdown, SBART Athletes of the Week P.16 Pandresidio John Zant’s NFL picks for charity. Get some. Shop Girl – Kateri Wozny dishes on local fashion legend Wendy Foster, and P.18 she buys a “cute, soft plaid linen shirt” in the process. For herself. In this season YES, IT’S SNOWING! of giving. No comment. (Other than this a nice little piece on a longtime Santa Barbaran with lots of cool stores. Thanks Kateri.)

& Profilin’ – Cool sweaters, scarves, purses, arrowhead necklaces and P.19 Stylin’ turquoise bracelets. Huh? Oh, Megan Waldrep does Ashley Oswald in her weekly fashion profile this week.

ump It – Jenny Schatzle is concerned that you might slide all the way down the P.24 Pholiday slippery slope of oblivion. Don’t. Read her column this week for some realworld motivation, a painfully honest nutrition tip and a grueling workout. Happy holidays!

an About Town – The Downtown Theater District, Elements Theatre Collective, P.28 MJunior League of Santa Barbara, The Nutcracker and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. Wow, Mark, that’s quite a column for a man of leisure.

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ou Have Your Hands Full – Mara Peters is concerned for her relatively P.36 Ypampered children’s future in the cold, hard world. Let’s just say that the chore chart just grew ten-fold in the Peters household. (Truth be told, it’s a great column, Mara, one every modern parent should read and consider. Right on.)

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MAZZA’S MISSIVE

by Matt Mazza

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and classes and products and maps and, well, the list goes on and on (and on). In other words, “The Rick,” as he’s known around the Mazza house, has my own personal dream job. He spends around a third of his time in Europe (and hits many other interesting spots as well) researching guidebooks, filming television shows and exploring and discovering new people, places and things. Then he comes home and enthralls the masses with his diverse experiences and philosophy that travel is not only informative, educational and damned fun – that’s my inappropriate language not The Rick’s, he’d never talk like that – but also often powerful and meaningful (if done right), with the ability to change bias and fear to understanding and compassion. And understanding and compassion quickly turn into two of my favorite things. Peace. And love. Travel, friends, can be an intoxicating and compelling thing. I’ve experienced it myself, with my family, many times. And The Rick has his finger right on its vibrant and lively pulse. That’s why I’m so frickin’ bummed that I totally blew my interview with the guy. Yeah, that’s right. I had a shot at The Rick last week. Fifteen minutes to ask

one of my idols anything I wanted. And I flubbed it. From soup to nuts. I got nothing interesting. Zilch, zip, nada. Diddly-frickin’-squat.

(Re)Stating the Obvious

I mean, look, everybody knows that The Rick loves travel and sees it as a perspective broadening and generally beneficial thing. Everybody knows The Rick has turned his life’s passion into a terrific multi-faceted business. Everybody knows The Rick is pretty much The Guy when it comes to European travel. And yet, inexplicably, that’s precisely what I elicited in my fifteen minutes. I’m not even totally sure how it happened. I had some real doozies lined up, seriously, some real whiz bangers, but not a single one of them made it into the conversation. There’s not a single damned question I asked that was interesting in any way, shape or form. As I winced my way through the painfully dull transcript, the problem quickly became crystal clear: I fanboy-ed it. Super hard. That’s surprising, really, since I’m not the type to be star-struck, not in the slightest. As an example and in an effort to retain a shred of dignity, I once deposed Mike Dunleavy, Sr. –

This could have been me. (What’s that, Rick, French wine on a barge outside Burgundy? Damn.)

yeah, Coach Dunleavy – for a few hours in a tough securities case and gave him nothing. Not a “Hey Coach, can I get your autograph?” Not a smile and a wink. Not a single softball. But The Rick just blew me away, man. I gave him everything, and I got nothing. Here’s a great example. I started well enough with a couple slow-pitched softballs designed to break the ice. We’d just finished a whole exchange on – you guessed it – how travel has changed The Rick’s perspective on both foreign and domestic issues, and I was agreeing

and laughing about a little anecdote he’d relayed about traffic laws in Cairo. Nothing earth-shattering but a signal that The Rick was softening up a bit. Now was the time to strike with one of the doozies, one of the whiz bangers. You know, catch him in the moment, maybe ask him his single worst travel experience of all time. These are always great stories, and I bet The Rick has the crown jewel of shockingly humiliating travel yarns in light of his breadth and depth of experience. ...continued p.22

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

Thanksgiving Turkey!

50-year-old homeless man was arrested three times in five days over the long and frankly grueling holiday “weekend.” -First, he was picked up for public intoxication on November 27, just after he threw a full soda on a fast-food joint patron during the lunch rush. (He drew a public intoxication charge only since the person sitting and enjoying lunch decided not to further destroy the afternoon by actually pressing charges and engaging with the bureaucratic nightmare that would likely follow. Good call.) -Next, he was detained for public intoxication just before 11am on November 29, the day after Thanksgiving. He was lying in the middle of a busy downtown sidewalk on Black Friday and, when asked to move, advised that he couldn’t. (Good call.) -Then on December 1, he was found fighting with another man over a backpack that belonged to neither of them. (Good call.) He couldn’t stand or follow directions. Guess the charge. There’s only one. Got it? THAT’S IT! Everybody say it together now: PUBLICK IN-TOCKS-I-KAY-SHON! Three consecutive strikes and you’re out in baseball. But three consecutive strikes in a row in bowling and you’re a turkey. A THANKSGIVING TURKEY, in this particular case.

More Thanksgiving Turkey Please! Officers arrested a 40-year-old mansient just before 3pm on Thanksgiving for yelling at passersby and disturbing customers and pedestrians out on Stearns Wharf. He was generally not pleasant and only got worse – spitting and hissing and clawing at officers – until SBPD was finally able to get him into a jail cell. Hmmm, spitting and hissing and clawing. That reminds us of something… ah, yes. A deranged THANKSGIVING TURKEY! (Ok, we’re done with the whole Thanksgiving turkey thing. Sorry. It’s stupid.)

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CRIME TIME QUOTE OF THE WEEK “No, I’m not a slave.” -A drunken 38-year-old mansient in response to the dreaded “Are you employed?” question officers asked just after they arrested him for attempting to fight another man due to his steadfast refusal to give him a cigarette Sunday evening. (Hey man, you may not have a job but are you sure you’re not a slave to your nicotine and alcohol addiction? Check yourself.) Calm Down, Man, Pass the Thanksgiving Turkey A 33-year-old local man(iac) “attacked” a person inside a local gas station market, causing around $200 worth of damage to the store at 10:15pm last Saturday night. Officers responded and arrested him for public drunkenness, vandalism and disturbing the peace. On the way to the station, he picked up another vandalism charge when he kicked out a window in the squad car. He definitely should’ve eaten more THANKSGIVING turkey. What? The tryptophan would’ve mellowed him out.

Sorry, You’re Just Not Our Type of Thanksgiving Turkey… SBPD responded to a call of a domestic disturbance in progress last Saturday, November 30, around 1:30am. Upon their arrival, officers heard some screaming in the distance and ran toward the house; they soon spied, through the front window, a 26-year-old woman from San Diego, undoubtedly visiting for the holiday weekend, slapping a man in the head and chest area. A lot. And hard. They ran to the door and quickly calmed a pretty volatile situation. In questioning the pair, the responding cops were able to ascertain that (1) they’d been dating for, like, fourteen months, (2) the boyfriend was, like, totally talking to other girls in the bars, like hot girls, and (3) the woman was, like, really mad. Like totally really mad. Eventually, the young woman came clean and admitted, “I’m just the jealous type. It was all my fault.” Officers believed her, so she was arrested and taken to jail for domestic battery. That’s just not our type of bird. We prefer… oh forget it.

Thanksgiving Turkey Trot SBPD attempted to stop a 20-year-old local man on his bike over the holiday weekend for riding it at night without “a lamp emitting a white light that, while the bicycle is in motion, illuminates the highway, sidewalk or bikeway in front of the bicyclist and is visible from a distance of 300 feet in front and from the sides of the bicycle.” (That’s California Vehicle Code Section 21201(d)(1), which is often used to pull night riders over.) As soon as officers turned on their emergency lights, however, the kid “stood up on his pedals and rode away quickly.” After a “short pursuit,” an officer jumped out of the squad car, chased the kid on foot until he caught him, pulled him off his bike and arrested him. For resisting arrest. Nothing else. But it’s not really the officer’s fault (or the kid’s, for that matter). In fact, it is clear that blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the rampant meth cycling craze. Odds are that the officer thought the kid had meth somewhere on him since he was riding a bike without a headlight at night so, rather than letting a scared kid go, they chased him and arrested him basically for riding his bike at night and not wanting to be arrested. Damn those meth cyclists. They’ve screwed up night biking for everybody.

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Letters

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

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Art Likes Super Guns

att, I write in connection with your recent comments in response to a letter from Leoncio Martins (People with Guns Kill People, Vol. 2, Issue 44). Your answer to Mr. Martins reveals a somewhat one-sided view on the issue of gun ownership. First, your title ignores the fact that “people with other means kill many more people” than people with guns and that people with guns defend many more people than they kill. For example, many more people are killed by people with knives, or with bats/clubs, or with medical errors. Your comments also make me think that you aren’t at all familiar with guns. Several times you refer to “super guns.” Just what is a “super gun?” In the more than 60 years that I have owned and used guns starting as a teen hunter and including many years in the military I have never heard that term. If you are using it to refer to semi-automatic pistols and rifles, they have been around for more than 100 years and are simply the state of the art for many models of guns. Nothing is “super” about them; they are

just normal. If you are referring to the use of modern plastics instead of wood for gunstocks, that is simply the use of modern construction components. If you are referring to military “look-alikes,” that is simply cosmetic and has nothing to do with function. In fact many hunting and target guns copy some features of military weapons because the military spends a lot of effort researching the best design options. You infer that these “super guns,” as you call them, are machine guns. Well just to let you know, fully automatic rifles, or machine guns, have been illegal since the ‘30s. So inferring that these are available to gun owners is just perpetuating misinformation. And as a newspaper publisher you should be interested in presenting facts not misinformation. One of the biggest misconceptions about the use and ownership of guns is the idea that they are somehow inherently bad. But millions of guns in the US haven’t, by themselves, done anything bad. Hundreds of thousands of hunters ...continued p.14

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There’s nothing like the feel of a warm restaurant and brew pub on a cold Northern California night. We get that feeling here in town too, occasionally, but probably not often enough. It’s a beer drinker’s dream. (Oh who am I kidding, SB has pretty solid beer drinking weather itself. I’m definitely not complaining.)

y sister offered to host the family this year for Thanksgiving so I found myself heading up north for the holidays. Her apartment is located in Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto, a historic section of town that is credited with birthing the local and organic food movement. As you walk by the legendary Chez Panisse and countless other culinary delights found in this slice of foodie heaven, there is one brewpub that any self-respecting beerdoe should visit at some point in his or her life, Triple Rock Brewery & Alehouse.

A Historic Brew

Triple Rock Brewery & Alehouse was founded by two brothers, John and Reid Martin. They brewed Triple Rock’s first batch on Christmas Day, 1985, and the

second batch on New Year’s Day, 1986. The building was still under construction and those were the only two days the construction workers were not hard at work. It was opened to the public in March of 1986 and today is the United States’ oldest brewpub still in operation and owned by the original owners. In those days, it was known as Roaring Rock Brewery and Alehouse. Latrobe Brewing Co., makers of the well-known Rolling Rock, heard about this new brewery and were unhappy with the similarities between the names Roaring Rock and Rolling Rock. This thought had never occurred to the Martin brothers; who would confuse the generic lager with their hoppy, bold ales? A legal battle ensued and the fledgling brewpub lost against the large conglomerate. With a Triple Rock brew tasters, from light to dark. Just like my Mommy taught me.

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The walls are decorated with vintage beer memorabilia and antique beer crates. The words Top of the Rock Beer Garden and an arrow are painted on the back wall. Follow the arrow up a small flight of stairs to discover a beer garden decorated with string lights and covered awnings. In the restaurant, a glass window with olive green trim gives diners a glimpse into the small, historic brewhouse. The original brew system is still used today and was the first brewery to be professionally fabricated in the U.S. (many of the original craft brewers would meld their brew houses together from used dairy equipment). In 1999, they expanded the brewery by adding several serving tanks in the back, which allowed them to grow from three flagship beers and a seasonal offering to the eleven house specialties that are offered today.

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Saison de la Mort (French for Season of the Dead) is brewed in honor of Dia de Los Muertos. This mahogany-colored saison has wisps of black cherry and cocoa aromas drifting above the glass. The beer’s fruity, brown sugar sweetness is wellbalanced by an alcohol note and a distinct tartness. The acidity is traditional for a saison and gives the flavors a red winelike theme. A brisk carbonation adds a refreshing finish and a light mouthfeel. I also tried the Single Hop Experience (SHE) Stella. This crystal clear, sunlight yellow brew showcases the new Australian hop variety, Stella. The beer has a soft malt flavor that allows

the resiny, lemon oil and anise hop character to come through in the brew. A decent bitterness gives a robust finish to an otherwise light beer. If you ever find yourself in Berkeley, seek out Triple Rock. The house style of bold flavors balanced by an overall light nature makes its beers refreshing and drinkable. It’s easy to see how this pioneering brewpub has remained open for so long and will remain so for years to come. One thing’s for sure: I’ll be there next Thanksgiving at the latest (assuming my sister hosts again).

The Beers

Neon at 1920 Shattuck Avenue – hey, I think I see the law student ghost of EIC Matt in one of those windows!

small amount of time to change the name, they decided on Triple Rock, a reference to their three flagship brews at the time: Pinnacle Pale Ale, Red Rock Ale and Black Rock Porter. The name stuck and the legendary Triple Rock Brewery & Alehouse was born. In almost thirty years of operation, John and Reid have seen considerable success and have built a small empire of beercentric establishments. The most notable are John’s two ventures, Drake’s Brewing Co., whose bottles are available around Santa Barbara, and Jupiter, a Berkeley-based restaurant. Jupiter is a fiveminute walk from Triple Rock and well worth the visit. The red brick building is an antique livery stable dating back to the 1890s. This massive, lively restaurant serves wood-fired pizzas and craft beer in two stories of Gothic-inspired décor. There is a large outside dining area that has a more modern feel and features year-round music with an emphasis on alternative jazz.

The Rock

A large neon sign reading Triple Rock Brewery 1920 lights the building from the outside and makes it easily recognizable from the streets. 1920 is not a date but rather the brewery’s Shattuck Avenue address. You walk through the doors and are welcomed by a room full of warm wood and soft colors. The wooden floors resonate with people’s footsteps and provide a gentle rhythm to the melodic buzz of conversation filling the room.

The three original brews are still on tap, and Black Rock Porter is a personal favorite when I’m visiting Triple Rock. This classic American porter has a chocolatey flavor and a subtle smokiness reminiscent of charred wood, perfect for an overcast Berkeley day. Besides the three mainstays, the brewery is well known for its hearty Dragon’s Milk, a dryhopped brown ale, and IPAX, an aggressively fragrant IPA. Titanium Pale Ale is another favorite. At 6.8% ABV, this beer is light and strong, just like its namesake metal, and features flavors of honeysuckle and sweet orange peel with a light malt character. Bug Juice Ale is a sunset orange brew featuring a traditional Pacific Northwest hop character of juicy oranges followed by a soft touch of pine. A honey and toasted biscuit taste brings the fruity flavors into full ripeness. Triple Rock also brews Tree Frog Ale, a lighter Scotch ale featuring a caramel flavor and a subdued fruitiness. Despite being rich and chewy, the beer is surprisingly crisp in the finish. Every one of these brews are regularly on their lineup except the Dragon’s Milk and Tree Frog Ale, which are rotating offerings. Triple Rock will typically also have several special and seasonal beers up on the board. The

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Friday December 6

Have Yourself a Merry Little Monsternog

We’re firmly entrenched in the Holiday spirit here at the Sentinel’s Department of Calendaring, and hope you are too. In fact, “Grinches Get Stitches” is the 8 Days motto for the remainder of 2013, and we’ve got all sorts of events to get you feeling festive. So get your helmet on, get strapped in and get ready to engage in seasonal cheer like never before. To help you do so, Downtown Santa Barbara is really coming through today with its annual Holiday Parade. It starts at 6:30pm at State and Sola streets and ends at State and Cota. Michael Imperioli, best known for his commercial work with 1800 Tequila (the brand with the bottle that pours a shot for you when you turn it upside down!), will be the parade’s Grand Marshall. Before or after you check it out, swing by Paradise Café (702 Anacapa Street). From 4:30 to 8:30pm, they’ll have free hot chocolate for the kids, and they’ll sell you adults what they call a “Monsternog” for five bucks. (Add a little 1800 Tequila to that, and you’ve got yourself a “Michael’s Monsternog.”) Oh, and by the way, Imperioli was also on a little show called The Sopranos.

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Everyone aboard had a great time, and it was a true delight for the landlubbers to see the coast from a new vantage. The only thing that could have made it better is fireworks. The Condor Express will leave from Sea Landing at 5pm and come back to shore at 8pm. Beverages will be available – adult ones, too – and there will be complimentary appetizers. Tickets are $40 for adults and $20 for kids 12 and under. To get tickets or more information, go to www.condorexpress.com or call 805.882.0088.

Monday December 9

The Second Noel

It’s the second most popular day in December: Second Monday is here again. You know what to do. Today is the day we find a restaurant that’s open on Mondays and eat there. Sound good? Oh, it will be, because tonight we dine at Andersen’s, a veritable institution of State Street dining known for their European menu. They’re open today from 8am to 9pm. So let’s go see them at 1106 State today for breakfast, lunch, dinner and delicious baked goodies in between. We’ll be the ones with the Oven Roasted Duck. See you there!

Tuesday

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Shoppin’ Around the Holiday Tree

One way we like to get into the Holiday spirit is to start using mint toothpaste come December 1. Crazy, we know, but everyone has their own little ways of feeling Holiday-y. Do you have your own cheer tip that’s totally chestnuts?! If so, send it into tim@santabarbarasentinel.com (enter the contest early and often; no word limit). We’ll announce the winner here in this space next week. Until then, here’s the ultimate tip to get you in the merry-making mood: Go to the Garden Street Academy’s Holiday Boutique today from 10am to 1pm. You’ll find all sorts of artisan gifts (that’s the only kind, as far as we’re concerned), carolers, books, sweets and a tree raffle. We also hear the man himself – that’s right, one Mr. Claus – will be there to take pictures with. Find Garden Street Academy at 2300 Garden Street. For more information, go to www.gardenstreetacademy.org.

Sunday December 8

TIDE-ings of Comfort & Joy

You’re undoubtedly already planning to take the whole family out to the Parade of Lights that starts at 3pm with a “Santa’s Village” at the harbor and continues with the parade at 5:30pm. And, of course, you have surely already been looking forward to the fireworks show that concludes the event. But if you really want to do it right, you’ll hop aboard the Condor Express. That’s the boat that will provide you with the best possible view of the fireworks: right underneath them on the water. Your dear calendar writer once had the privilege of taking a tour on the Condor. There’s plenty of room on the main and upper decks to roam around, and there’s a spacious indoor area with ample seating. Owner Hiroko Benko mingled and made sure everyone was comfortable.

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Tonight, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra performs its second concert of the season, titled “String Triple,” at 7:30pm in the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall. Your favorite calendar writer recently had the opportunity to check out the Chamber Orchestra. It was a pleasure to visit the lush Music Academy campus in Montecito, and on this particular evening, we had NPR’s Rob Kapilow waiting for us inside of Hahn Hall. If you’re unfamiliar, Rob is the host of What Makes It Great? It’s a radio show in which he explains what makes great pieces of music great. So for the live version of this concept, he discusses a selection before intermission – in this case Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony – and then afterwards, the SB Chamber Orchestra plays the music that’s just been discussed. Rob’s a funny and engaging speaker. He uses references to movies and literature to get his point across; he’s not just using complex terms only professionals would understand. The whole point is to make the music enriching and accessible for everyone. The program’s great for everyone from dunce-cap wearing calendar writers to classical music enthusiasts. Though we were a bit skeptical going in – we’re not usually the orchestra-going types – Rob convinced us that even we can appreciate and enjoy classical music. The full orchestra in a hall built for it sounds grand and impressive, and Rob’s explanation let us appreciate the piece in a way that we definitely would not have without. And since we know a bit about what’s going on up there on stage now, we plan to go back again. Rob Kapilow will be back in Santa Barbara with the Chamber Orchestra on April 18 of next year (it’s the next installment of the Orchestra’s Musically Engaging Experiences series), but tonight, Heiichiro Ohyama will conduct pieces by Mozart, Rutter and Schubert. Though there’ll be no explanation of “what makes it great” beforehand, these three pieces that show off the technical skill of the Orchestra’s string section are sure to please. Get tickets at www.sbco.org. Find the Music Academy at 1070 Fairway Road.

Deck Kerrwood Hall

We’re over halfway through this very festive week. Let’s do a quick Holiday spirit check; yep, looks like we’ve been really cheerful so far. So let’s take a deep breath and try to keep those visions of sugar plums dancing in our heads while we discuss today’s event: a business plan competition. This looks like a really smart, engaging and interesting event for smart, engaged and interested people. And this year’s competition (it’s an annual event) will feature plans to end poverty, with topics like water purification and vitamin deficiency. It all happens today from 3:15pm to 6:30pm on the Westmont campus (955 La Paz Road) in the Hieronymus Lounge in Kerrwood Hall.

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December 11

O Puppetry, O Puppetry

And here we thought “English major” was a hard pill for our parents to swallow; the guys from today’s event are puppeteers. Swazzle is a “full service puppet production company,” and it’s bringing its Holiday Extravaganza to not one but two Santa Barbara libraries today. Some investigative journalism (Googling “swazzle puppets”) revealed that these 30s-ish dudes of varying degrees of beardiness aren’t just some weirdoes ducking behind cheap sets with cheap puppets on their arms;

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they’re serious professionals with real show biz gigs. They’ve worked with Pee Wee Herman on Broadway, Patton Oswalt, Old Spice and The Simpsons – to name a few. So if you’ve got kids age four or up, take the family out to the Eastside Library (1102 East Montecito Street) for the 10:30am show or to the Montecito Library (1469 East Valley Road) for the 4pm show. And just hope your little one doesn’t get hooked on the Puppet Arts (though to be fair, it does seem to be a more glamorous path than the Bachelor of Arts this calendar writer has). Both shows are free.

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December 12

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Craigslist

The Santa Barbara Central Library offers a class today that you will need on December 26. It’s called Craigslist 101: How to Sell. They’ll show you how to set up a Craigslist account and take you through every step to create your own listing, but here are a few tips they won’t share, courtesy of the SDOC (Sentinel Department of Calendaring, don’t you remember?): 1) For every ten people telling you they’re on their way to come look at the thing you’re selling, one will actually come. Maybe. 2) Ignore people typing in all caps or with no punctuation in emails. They’re the same ilk that doesn’t show up. 3) Don’t worry at all about inviting strangers from the internet into your home; it’s perfectly safe in every way. Now you’re officially ready to start selling your stuff. This class is completely free, but we here at 8 Days will be offering How to Respond to the Text Messages of People Wanting to Buy Your Stuff for a nominal fee. Reserve a seat at today’s 3pm class by calling 805.564.5604. For more information, call 805.564.5635. Find the library at 40 East Anapamu Street and online at www.sbplibrary.org.

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Friday December 13

Little Drummer Boy (in a blues band)

For the final day of this very merry eight-day week, you might opt to stay in and watch the scary Friday the 13th movies, but that won’t help put you in the Holiday spirit. So instead, consider checking out the Bullfrog Blues Band at Roundin’ Third Sports Bar (7398 Calle Real, Goleta). They’re the band that likes to send emails with almost no information, but has been in this calendar twice now because nothing else was sent in for this date. (So, people with events happening: send us emails with information.) What we do know is that there is no cover charge and the band plays from 9pm until midnight. Alright folks, you know what time it is: merry Holiday and always remember to Tell ‘Em 8 Days Sent Ya!

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A Solar Tree in the Roundabout by Sharon Byrne

We felt like we’d hoisted the flag at Iwo Jima, cheering and clapping… and panting to catch our breath.

e do a lot of fun stuff here on Milpas: Taste of Milpas, the Halloween Trick or Treat, the Parade, and more. The community kept asking us for a holiday tree in the roundabout, and this year, we decided to deliver that wish. I spent months navigating planning and permitting hurdles, insurance requirements, struggles with engineering it all… I’ll skip noshing over it. Listening to a golf tournament on the radio in Mandarin would be more exciting. There is no electricity in the roundabout. That’s rather a steep hurdle to lighting up anything, holiday-related or otherwise. The city estimated they could electrify the roundabout for $30,000, possibly, if we raised the money. Public Works has a serious backlog of projects, some focusing on pedestrian safety. Usurping those was a non-starter. Plus, installing electricity would be a fairly major endeavor. In city time, that means a long time. So we decided to go solar. Here in the home of Earth Day, I thought that would be, ahem, easier. The only commercial solar that was portable (a city requirement – no permanent installations) cost a small fortune, and required loading up a horse trailer covered in solar panels into the roundabout. I had visions of the Public Works guys howling with laughter before they issued a flat “no.” It would also be very visually unappealing. Our budget was modest, and nobody on the team knew how to do a solar implementation. I called my dad in Puerto Rico for guidance; he’s an incredible engineer. He lives on a boat, a never-ending engineering project. I am an industrial

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

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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 engineer, not an electrical one. He taught me calculations for volts, amp hours and wattage conversions. We investigated various LED light strings for watt usage and brightness. We bought individually solar-powered light strands and tested them under different weather conditions. And I spent a lot of late nights with a calculator and scratch pad. We bought two portable solar generators. If they operated at maximum efficiency, we’d get up to five lit hours per

Yes, that’s Santos Claus of El Bajio.

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I groaned inwardly, and explained the struggles we’d already had, and the limitations of solar. She said, “Sharon, I will get you a star for that tree.” And Saturday, right before the evening tree lighting, she did indeed turn up with one. Her husband constructed it, using solar-powered light strands. All we had to do was get it on top of the tree. John Dixon, Alan Bleecker and Santos Guzman scrounged up a ladder, and rushed to the roundabout. John (the tallest guy) shot up the ladder to put up the star. Martha was thrilled, as were we. The community just has this way of producing miracles on Milpas. We threw the switch on the solar generators at 6pm Saturday, and the tree was lit! This is Santa Barbara’s first solarpowered community holiday display. The project cost about $2,300, borne entirely by the neighborhood. The volunteers were a combination of business owners and residents from the area.

When Death Seems Artificial by Loretta Redd

Santos had more fun than he’s probably had since childhood stringing 1,600 LED lights up on the tree.

night off a day’s charge. This is the darkest time of the year, and the sun hangs low in the horizon, making solar even more challenging. Setting the individual strands to blinking doubled the burn time. A team of 15 Milpas elves stole into the roundabout in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Some elves strung the individual solar-powered strands in the roundabout. The remaining elves tackled the tree. It had arrived at 2am at Lily’s, next to Tri County Produce. We loaded it, and drove it up to the roundabout. We then hoisted it upright during sunrise. We would have loved to use a tow truck or cherry picker to pull it up, but we had to have all vehicles off the roundabout by 7am. So we did it totally old school – with ropes and a fulcrum. It was a Herculean effort. We finished at 9:30am, having started at 4:45am. Our tree lighting was set for Saturday night. Friday, I got a call from Martha Jaime, an Eastside resident. She loved the tree. But it needed a star!

n an era when Grandpa’s taking testosterone replacement and has reconstructed knees, and Grandma’s at a post-menopausal Pilates class, stretching out after her last triathlon, I wasn’t surprised to read an L.A. Times article saying that “the percentage of Americans who say physicians should always do everything possible to save a life has more than doubled since 1990, rising to 31 percent from 15 percent.” The boomer generation seems to treat death as some avoidable condition, but other than birth, it is the only universally shared experience of every living organism. As our questionably healthy fear of aging translates into a growing industry of joint replacements, green breakfast drinks, facelifts and sports cars, it may ultimately bankrupt our nation. It’s not that we don’t want to die in pain… it’s more like we don’t want to die, ever. Aggressive medical treatment for patients within a month of death accounts for over $140 billion in health care expenditures. Put in a different perspective, one percent of the population is now responsible for 30 percent of total healthcare costs. And those costs extend life less than 30 days. The economic paradox is that the

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distress of our current medical cost has been brought on by the success of our post-war economy. As households became increasingly affluent after WWII, family members relocated to cities and towns farther and farther away from their “family of origin.” With the siren call of manufacturing, Madison Avenue and middle class jobs, the days when multiple generations lived – and died – under one roof came to an end. Why share a house, when, with the help of the GI Bill, you could afford one of your own? No longer were babies brought home to a family that included not only siblings and parents, but grandparents and often great-grandparents. No longer did seniors die in the arms of those they had given birth to. Today, severe illness results in a person being taken to the sanitized environment of a hospital to be cared for by strangers. If the diagnosis is terminal, we’ve created an industry of hospice workers – loving, compassionate, and well-trained but not family. “Family” now lives in different cities or countries or is simply too busy living their independent lives. So we call… or text… or email. No wonder death feels foreign. Rarely anymore do we hear a physician say, “there’s nothing we can do.” Modern medicine has given us transplanted organs, artificial hearts, bionic limbs and

life-extending drugs, to the point that rather than a natural conclusion to life, death almost seems like a failure to try. But try we will… as if the point of extending a life is to compensate for the time unspent together or to bridge the emotional chasm created throughout life. Economy has replaced emotion. Rather than, “Do whatever you can to keep them alive,” might I suggest a different trajectory. Take time this holiday season to have a fearfully frank discussion about your death with family members. Consider a Power of Attorney for Health Care, and Advance Health Care Directives, which spell out exactly what – if any – life-extending measures you might want to have taken. Yes, it may be uncomfortable and unfamiliar; unfortunately, that’s the kind of world we’ve created. But it won’t be a burden, because a burden – whether economic, emotional or physical – is what the survivors face when you have left things unsaid and unplanned. Having buried most of my family, and over 200 clients during the 1980s AIDS epidemic in Atlanta, I can speak with experience that clear directives are a godsend. The toll that death takes on all of us will be smaller financially, and even emotionally, if your wishes are clearly spelled out. The real gift is to your survivors

who will sleep free from doubt… though not free from grief. Grief is part of love. Love is part of living. Life is part of death, and death is not an option. Your decision as to what extraordinary steps should be taken to keep you alive are yours alone to decide. But don’t put this off.

Business Beat by Ray Estrada

Young Pros Gala Planned for December 12

anta Barbara Young Professionals Club (SBYPC) will have its 17th Annual Holiday Gala. Starting at 7:30pm on December 12, it will be at the University Club (1332 Santa Barbara Street). This year’s theme is “The Great Gatsby,” the title of the classic 1920s novel, and will mirror this social era of extravagance and fun. A VIP reception starts at 6:30pm. The Young Professional of the Year and Charity of the Year will be announced. SBYPC will donate funds to the Charity of the Year. General admission begins at 7:30pm. Live music and entertainment, casino games with raffle prizes, a photo booth, dancing, drinks, food from the University Club and desserts from Andersen’s Bakery will be featured.

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Tickets will be available for presale only online until noon the day of the event. Tickets will not be available at the door. Visit http://sbypc.org/events to purchase tickets. Members tickets cost $35 and non-members $55 for general admission. “We have a fantastic relationship with the University Club and felt its quintessence would capture the luxury and grandeur of our theme,” said SBYPC President JJ Lambert. “This year’s holiday gala is going to be a lot of fun and we look forward to seeing everyone there.” SBYPC is offering sponsorship opportunities for the gala, which anticipates an attendance of more than 300 young professionals between the ages of 21 and 45. The SBYPC network reaches approximately 26,000 young professionals on the Central Coast. E-mail info@sbypc. org for more information regarding sponsorship.

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every year go hunting with very few accidents. Millions of people each year use their guns in self defense. You opine that more laws would control the bad guys illegal use of guns. Well, we have tens of thousands of laws on the books already but the bad guys keep ignoring them. And often the laws aren’t enforced when crimes are pleabargained down. The FBI has released a report that states the 1994 federal ban of so-called “assault weapons” (a political, made up term by the way) had no effect on reducing crime or shootings. The idea that if we somehow take away the right of law-abiding citizens to own or use their guns somehow the bad guys also will be controlled is extremely naïve and proven false by reality and facts. And, as I stated above, millions of times each year lawabiding citizens use their guns for the self defense of themselves and their families. You don’t have to shoot someone to use the gun as a self defense tool and that happens much more frequently than the media reports or is even aware.

Mr. Martins made the point that the recent mass murderers weren’t stupid when they used a gun to kill more people. I agree with him that they weren’t stupid. But what you and he miss is the point that when they decided to do their evil deeds they picked – you guessed it – “gun free zones” like schools, theaters, malls, military bases – all locations where we have legislated away or outlawed our right of self defense. So in an effort to fool ourselves into thinking we’re making ourselves safer we are in fact making ourselves easier targets for those few that perpetrate these newsworthy events. So perhaps you will do a little more research and become more familiar with the facts to enlarge your understanding of the issue. Art Thompson Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for the letter, Art. Before I respond substantively, note that I have heard each of the arguments you made before and, despite not having formally checked your assertions, will gladly take

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Sensible gun control with clear lines that can be strictly enforced is the right thing in America today. Enough with the other bullsh*t [emphasis added].” I think that’s enough about that. Your point about mass murderers and “gun free zones” is misguided (at best). I’d be surprised to learn that any of the shooters had chosen to attack in a particular location due primarily to the fact that it’s a “gun free zone.” More often than not, it seems to me, locations are chosen for more particular and personal (and demented and sinister) reasons. Regardless, a military base, for example, has lots of guns and military police that are ready to shoot if necessary (think Fort Hood, where Hasan was shot and paralyzed). And in many other cases of mass shootings, the deranged shooter is often – you guessed it – shot (or killed by his own gun) in the process of stopping the incident. So the idea that “gun free zones” are the drivers behind these shootings is, ah, hogwash, if you will. I don’t think guns are inherently bad, Art, but there is little doubt at this point that certain types of guns are often used to do inherently bad things. Very bad things, Art, things that we should be doing everything we can to stop. Period. At the end of the day, that’s really the issue. The truth is that “gun control” has little to do with whether guns kill more people or less people than knives or are inherently

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ohn Zant knows a thing or two about football. The veteran local journalist not only won a CIF championship as a key player with the 1963 St. Francis High Golden Knights, he’s spent his lifetime covering football as an award-winning sports writer. Zant, currently the sports columnist for the Santa Barbara Independent, tends to follow the college game more closely as a devoted fan of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, but tries to keep up with the pros when he can. It didn’t help when his favorite team, the Los Angeles Rams, moved to St. Louis in 1995. “My favorite team no longer exists,” says Zant. “I grew up a fan of the Los Angeles Rams, from the days of Crazy Legs Hirsch and Tank Younger to the reign of the Fearsome Foursome, Roman Gabriel, Jack Snow and the Chuck Knox teams. I watched many Rams games in the L.A. Coliseum and didn’t like their move to Anaheim. When Georgia Frontiere put them on her broomstick and flew to St. Louis, it was a divorce.” Even still, Zant stepped up this week by taking a turn helping raise money for local youth scholarships by predicting the winners from the weekend’s NFL football games. The “Local Celebrities Football Picks” promotion with PresidioSports.com and Santa Barbara Brewing Company is raising money for local Junior Lifeguard scholarships while simultaneously raising awareness about different events and important causes around town. Every week, Presidio Sports is collecting predictions from a local celebrity on the winners of NFL football games. Each correct pick will trigger a donation that will accumulate throughout the season. The promotion will provide scholarship money for the seven-week summer camp that promotes fitness and an active lifestyle. For over 40 years, the Santa Barbara Junior Lifeguard program has helped develop youth with strenuous daily workouts, water safety, first aid, surf lifesaving, marine education and competition. So far, Olympic beach volleyball champion Todd Rogers was nearly perfect. Rogers nailed 12 of 13 winners to really set the bar high. Then professional

Christian Widmer, point guard for the San Marcos High School basketball team.

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John Zant names his NFL picks this week.

surfer Lakey Peterson took her turn predicting the winners from the NFL’s Week 9 slate of games. Lakey herself went through the Junior Guards program as a Santa Barbara youngster. Also having participated so far is KEYT Sports Anchor Mike Klan, Chicago White Sox pitcher Dylan Axelrod and Australian adventurer Tim Cope.

Z’s PICKS Houston Texans (2-10) at Jacksonville Jaguars (3-9) Indianapolis Colts (8-4) at Cincinnati Bengals (8-4) Oakland Raiders (4-8) at New York Jets (5-7) Tennessee Titans (6-6) at Denver Broncos (10-2) Cleveland Browns (4-8) at New England Patriots (9-3) Buffalo Bills (4-8) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2-10) Minnesota Vikings (3-8-1) at Baltimore Ravens (6-6) Kansas City Chiefs (9-3) at Washington Redskins (3-9) Detroit Lions (7-5) at Philadelphia Eagles (7-5) Miami Dolphins (6-6) at Pittsburgh Steelers (5-7) Atlanta Falcons (3-9) at Green Bay Packers (5-6-1) Seattle Seahawks (11-1) at San Francisco 49ers (8-4) New York Giants (5-7) at San Diego Chargers (5-7) Tennessee Titans (5-7) at Denver Broncos (10-2) St. Louis Rams (5-7) at Arizona Cardinals (7-5) Carolina Panthers (9-3) at New Orleans Saints (9-3)

WINTER SPORTS: Who to Watch This Season by Barry Punzal

he winter sports season is here for the local high schools, and to get you up to speed on boys and girls basketball and soccer, girls water polo and wrestling, Presidio Sports has put together a list of athletes to watch in each sport.

Santa Barbara High has a standout player in 6’5” senior Jack Baker. He earned all-Channel League firstteam honors as a junior, averaging a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds a game. The Dons also have an experienced back-court combination with Noah Burke and Isaiah Tapia. Bolden Brace, a 6’3” sophomore, figures to make an impact at shooting guard. Bryce Ridenour is off to a blazing start for San Marcos. The 6’2” all-Channel League player had back-to-back games of 27 and 34 points at the Alhambra Tournament. “He has taken his game up another level or two from last year,” says coach Dave Odell. Christian Widmer has stepped up his game and returns at the point guard spot, and guard Elijah Johnson is healthy and ready for a big senior year. Odell says Wesley Ghan-Gibson, the quarterback on the football team, will be a key player on the basketball court. The coach adds that junior Marcus Alvarado and sophomores Tyson Miller, Kele Mkpado and Scott Everman have made huge leaps and will help the team considerably. Dos Pueblos will be counting on the scoring of 6’5” forward Erik Olson. Once he gets his basketball legs after completing the playoffs with the football team, Thomas Lash will be a scoring and rebounding force for Bishop Diego. Bryson Frazer, Ian Craddock and Duncan Gordon will be key players for Carpinteria. Matt Eaton, who last season helped Providence advance to the CIF quarterfinals, returns for the Patriots. In girls basketball, Dezzy Coleman returns for her fourth varsity season at Santa Barbara. The savvy and tough Coleman, who started her high school career as a post player and is now the point guard, has received all-league accolades in each season she has suited up for the Dons. Amber Melgoza looks to follow in her footsteps. She earned all-league honors as a freshman last season.

All-CIF and all-Channel League Dos Pueblos water polo player Shannon Cleary heads to Stanford next fall.

Water Polo

Girls water polo again will have several standout players tearing it up in the pool. At Dos Pueblos, Shannon Cleary returns after earning all-CIF and all-Channel League honors as a junior. She has committed to Stanford next year. Santa Barbara High has loads of experience with four-year players and three-year starters Betsy Hendrix, Anna Brummett, Jessica Gaffney and threeyear player Erin McGeoy. Hendrix has committed to UCSB and Brummett to Indiana, while Gaffney and McGeoy are Brown recruits. San Marcos returns key players off a team that finished second in the Channel League last season. Senior Halie Johnson was first-team all league and honorable mention all-CIF in 2012. Junior goalie Jenna Phreaner is the “backbone of our defense,” says coach Chuckie Roth. Junior Riley Heiduk makes things happen and is the returning all-league player. Roth is excited about his younger players on the squad. “Sophomores Hailey Gellert and Kate Coski, and freshman Paige Hauschild and Brittany Prentice will also make a big impact in the season,” he says.

Soccer

Santa Barbara High is ranked in the preseason top 10 in CIF Division 1 for boys soccer and a big reason is three returning impact players: senior forward and captain Jose “Pepe” Barron, senior defender and captain Jumoke Hutton and sophomore midfielder Brandon Sanchez. “We’re looking for Pepe to be a leader this year and having him return from last year where he was tied for the team lead in goals (nine goals, three assists) with Matt Medina helps,” coach Todd Heil said. On Hutton: “He will anchor a defense that returns only one starter, so we’re looking to him for leadership on our backline.” Sanchez had six assists and a goal in limited action as a freshman. “We’re

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looking forward to watching him mature and grow as the season progresses,” said Heil. Heil enters the season four wins away from a milestone 300 at Santa Barbara. Cate has one of the premier players in the Southland in junior midfielder Geoffrey Acheampong. The native of Ghana scored 15 goals and had 12 assists last season and earned first-team All-CIF honors in Division 6. “He has superb ball skills, a blazing shot and incredible vision,” says coach Peter Mack. Acheampong leads a group of five important returnees from a squad that reached the CIF D-6 semifinals. Senior Leighton Brillo-Sonnino is a standout two-way player. He earned second-team All-CIF honors last season. Matthew Firestone is a four-year starter in the midfielder. An All-CIF second-team pick last season, he’s speedy on the wing and plays solid defense. Sophomore Joel Serugo is fast, athletic and has big shot. He had five goals and three assists last season. Senior forward Tyler Douglas is a versatile player who scored four goals and had four assists last year. San Marcos midfielder Robbie Landeros is a skillful player who can frustrate any defense. Dos Pueblos has an outstanding center back in junior Tim Heiduk. He was a key

member of Santa Barbara Soccer Club’s U-14 and U-15 national championship teams. Fleet-footed Julio Rubio is a dynamic attacking player who is in his third year on the varsity. Carpinteria has a trio of standouts in Brandon Canderos, Edmund Delgado and Benjie Garcia. In girls soccer, Hannah Brisby leads defending Channel League champion Santa Barbara High. The senior is an excellent server of the ball and a fine playmaker. San Marcos girls soccer coach Macie Berlin has a solid goalkeeper in fouryear varsity player and three-year captain Hannah Harrah. She’s made a verbal commitment to Loyola Marymount. Harrah has been first-team All-Channel League the past three seasons. Berlin has a pair of exciting young players in sophomore Olivia Jones and freshman Chloe Hamer. Jones scored 22 goals last year and earned All-Channel League honors. Hamer is an added offensive threat. “We look for big things from this new player,” says Berlin. Bishop Diego has a strong attacking player in Annalise Morando. Kelsie Bryant and Alexa Benitez are dangerous players for Carpinteria.

Wrestling

On the wrestling mat, Cameron Cox returns for Dos Pueblos after winning the

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Channel League title at 113 pounds as a sophomore.

San Marcos basketball player Bryce Ridenour helped his team win the Alhambra Tournament.

Athletes Of The Week: UCSB’s Ali Spindt and San Marcos’ Bryce Ridenour Ali Spindt, UCSB volleyball player, had 13 kills and 26 digs in a winning match against UC Irvine.

The change in the sports seasons was recognized by the Athlete of the Week awards presented at Monday’s Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table press luncheon. An athlete from each season was honored. UCSB women’s volleyball player Ali Spindt and San Marcos boys basketball standout Bryce Ridenour were the recipients of the awards for their performances on the court. Spindt, a freshman, recorded doubledoubles in two matches, as the Gauchos

clinched a share of the Big West title and earned the conference’s automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament. She had 17 kills and 20 digs in a five-set loss to Long Beach State and came back the next night to post 13 kills and a team-high 26 digs in a title-clinching four-set win at UC Irvine. Ridenour helped lead San Marcos to the championship of the season-opening Alhambra Tournament. The 6-4 guard/ forward averaged 21.7 points, 8 rebounds and 4.5 assists in four tournament games. In the final against L.A. City power Crenshaw, he scored 17 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and had 5 assists as the Royals beat the Cougars, 73-62. The athletes that were named honorable mention were Alan Williams (UCSB basketball), Cole Smith (Dos Pueblos cross country), Jenna Anderson (SBCC volleyball), Addi Zerrenner (Dos Pueblos cross country) and Leah Sully (UCSB volleyball).

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by Kateri Wozny Kateri is an award-winning journalist with a

background in print, online, radio and TV news. A native of Minneapolis, MN, she has written for the Chicago Sun-Times Media Group, Pepperdine University and Acorn Newspapers. She works full time as a public relations manager locally and loves exploring the Santa Barbara fashion scene. Follow her on Twitter @kitkatwozny.

A Local Fashion Legend

endy Foster is one of “the names” around town when it comes to fashion. Her boutiques represent a lifestyle in Santa Barbara that no one should miss. I had just gotten my paycheck and, with wallet in hand, was off to not only shop at one of the FIVE boutiques (that’s right, five), but to meet this remarkable icon in the community. I was not disappointed. Wendy is a bright woman with a warm smile on her face. But it’s her creative side that makes her stand apart from the rest. She has had a passion for fashion since she was a little girl. Originally from New York City, the fashion capital of the world, she moved to Santa Barbara with her family at age six. Her mother had a different wardrobe for parties every night. “She loved shopping and fashion,” Foster said. “I used to dress up in her clothes and dance to the record player.”

Going forward, Foster traveled around the world by herself for 10 years and became inspired by the fashion world. During that time, she was involved with a clothing company in Mexico City called Idolos, selling the line all over California. She even at one point took over her husband and local entrepreneur Pierre Lafond’s Solvang store in the 1970s. Then she opened her own. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Building Beautiful Boutiques

Wendy Foster has been a remarkable fashion icon in the Santa Barbara community for almost 40 years.

“I went into my own closet and counted how many skirts, sweaters, dresses and pants I had. It turned out my closet was spot on and was the perfect proportion to buy for the boutique,” she told me. Most of Foster’s customers have been with her since day one. Her first boutique, Sportswear, opened up in Montecito’s Upper Village in 1974 (where I found myself a cute, soft plaid linen shirt by CP Shades) followed by Wendy Foster boutique, which opened next door in 1981. “[The Sportswear boutique] is rugged and casual, you can find a lot of great items to go hiking. Wendy Foster is more my style, with clean lines, beautiful fabric and proportions. There are no tricks,” she

joked. “We sell a lot of t-shirts and jeans.” The success continued, with Wendy Foster State Street opening in 1983 and later contemporary fashion store Angel on Coast Village Road opening in 1988. There, I was drawn to a Chamomile Lavender candle for my bedroom by LAFCO. And it didn’t stop there: Fast forward 25 years, to when she opened up her Wendy Foster Los Olivos boutique just this past June. “I wanted a store in Los Olivos because my buyer Jenna Pound said it would be a prime opportunity. It’s been great so far,” she said. Prices at the stores vary, from $30 for a t-shirt to $1,000 for a jacket. Jewelry is also a huge part of her business, with exquisite pieces such as Rosa Maria from Beirut (Foster showed off her pretty raw diamond rings). She also has intriguing artwork from all over the globe. Speaking of all over the globe, Foster still travels with her buyers, Jean Panelli and Laura McGuire, to Paris, Los Angeles and New York to become inspired for the fall and spring trends. Most importantly, she keeps her customers in mind. ...continued p.26

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by Megan Waldrep With over ten years in the industry designing for her own label, she began writing because “it just felt good.” In addition to writing, Megan is currently the head designer and creative director for Mew Kids, a children’s clothing line, as well as a co-author of the much loved children’s book, Spice & Little Sugar. You can say she wears many hats. Which is fitting. For a fashion writer and all. Discover her world at www.mewkids.com.

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uncomfortable silence, and the following hard-hitting and powerful journalistic exchange ensued: ME: I don’t know. Have you traveled much with your children? THE RICK: We traveled twenty years with our kids [you moron]. Now, they’re old enough to travel on their own. [I can’t believe I’m answering this question. I should just hang up.] So my son’s basically living out of a backpack and mooching free wireless at fast food joints all over Europe. ME: So… he’s in Europe now? THE RICK: Yes. [Is this guy serious?] ME: [Uncomfortable silence.] Do you know what part? Happily biking in Amsterdam? Now you’re just rubbing it in, Rick.

I could have asked him the single worst meal he was ever forced to stomach so as not to offend his gracious hosts. (Mine was a “dinner” in an orphanage outside Kathmandu. I’m still not even sure what it was. But this isn’t about me. This is about how I blew it with The Rick. Sorry.) I could have asked him the worst, ah, stomach bug he ever acquired. (Mine was from an unidentifiable meat/bread thingy from a filthy pushcart in a deserted park in Istanbul that smelled heavenly. It was in fact delicious but I paid a heavy, heavy price for it. Sorry, not about me. Let’s get back to The Rick.) Maybe I could have asked about a memorable moment when he attempted a foreign language and said something offensive instead of what he actually meant. (I have a number of good ones here – calling my host family’s daughter “hot” instead of “nice” in a conversation with her father, asking my host mother to pass the [slang for male genitals] instead of the lovely chicken dish she’d spent all day preparing, etc. My daughter, Kate, actually takes the proverbial cake: She screamed “Nazi!” to a horrified gelato vendor in a crowded piazza in a small Italian mountain town near the French border; she was three and meant “Grazie.” Come to think of it, I’d put Kate’s gaffe up against anything The Rick has experienced. Let’s get back to the story.) But I didn’t do any of those things. Instead, the laughter died, there was an

Wow. The ineptitude is shocking even to me. I’ve lived twice in Europe for extended periods; I’ve traveled the world with my wife and kids. I’m a trained litigator for Pete’s sake; the ability to think on my feet is perhaps one of the most important hallmarks of my job (think depositions, courtrooms, mediations, arbitrations, etc.). And this was it? This was the best I could do? I was a babbling idiot.

A Shot At Redemption

Here’s the good news for all you still reading out there. You don’t have to rely on my interview to get the best of The Rick this time around. Why, you ask? Because he’s coming. Rick Steves is coming to Santa Barbara thanks to UCSB Arts & Lectures. (Go Gauchos!) Yep, my very own alma mater is bringing one of my very own travel idols to the Granada Theatre. He’ll be giving a talk entitled Lessons from a Lifetime of Travel, on Monday, December 9 at 8pm. It’s sure to be terrific and insightful, and any self-respecting traveler, or anyone who dreams of someday exploring the world, really must attend. Wendi and I will be there and we can’t wait. I just hope he opens it up to questions.

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globe, sharing food and drink with the locals and learning their ways, their culture, their history. Travel Channel? Food Network? Anybody out there? I have lots of ideas – hell, this whole paper started out of an extensive travel blog and related newspaper column – and you can reach me anytime. But this isn’t about me. In fact, I should start again. Pretend I didn’t write any of that.) I like Rick Steves. The interview wasn’t nearly as bad as I made it out to be and I genuinely enjoyed the conversation. So thanks Rick, I hope to one day buy you a beer and hear the answers to the questions I didn’t ask. (And I’d love to discuss any interesting job opportunities. There, I said it.) You can check The Rick out in lots of places, but a good start is at www.ricksteves.com. You can also search his name on YouTube or Hulu and see lots of footage, or hit his Facebook page. (I listen to him whenever possible on Saturdays at noon on KCLU, 102.3 FM.) Look for his guidebooks and products, and, if you’re hitting Europe anytime soon, consider reaching out to his travel planning and consulting business for some insight. The Rick is indeed The Man when it comes to travel – especially European travel – and I doubt you’ll regret checking in with him before you hit the road. Moving on, I like football, especially when it’s played by local youths dedicated to a particular goal. Huge congratulations to the Santa Barbara White Saints, who recently beat the Santa Ynez Pirates 14 – 0 to win the Youth Football League Super Bowl Championship. These kids play as far as Nipomo and Ojai, and Head Coach Doug Engel and his staff did a great job of teaching and ultimately orchestrating a championship run by a tough and intelligent bunch of young Santa Barbarans. Right on, White Saints, what a great way to start the holiday season. I also like the holidays quite a bit and am thrilled to once again see the folks over on Milpas really celebrating the season. Last year, we wrote a story about the successful effort by Santos Guzman (aka Santos Claus) and the Milpas Community Association folks to get the

lights and decorations back up on Milpas (Let There Be Lights, Vol. 1, Issue 9). I personally spoke with John Dixon at TriCounty Produce at the time and he told me, “I think [the lights] will lift holiday spirits for everybody traveling Milpas and be a real benefit to Santa Barbara at-large. Maybe next we will try to raise money for a big Christmas tree for the roundabout.” Well, that’s just what happened this year. The MCA spent many (very) early morning hours last week putting up a giant solar-powered Christmas tree in the Milpas roundabout. It looks wonderful, and the effort should be applauded. Go read Sharon Byrne’s column this week, Miracle on Milpas 2013: A Solar Tree in the Roundabout (p. 12), then go see the tree. Congrats, MCA, on yet another job well done. Finally, it’s no mystery that there are more and less fortunate people in town, and now is the time to reach out and make a difference if you’re able. We here at the Sentinel just got into the spirit by participating in CALM’s Adopt-aFamily Program, and we can’t wait to get shopping for our family’s wish list (think basic supplies, food, clothing and toys for young children). There are

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Santa Barbara’s own YFL Champs, the Division 2 White Saints: Adrian Arteaga, Hunter Boeddeker, Ben Boeddeker, Michael Brown, Richard Desales, Andrew Douglas, Josh Engel, Daniel Gaona, Alexander Gonzalez, James Harris, Deacon Hill, Spenser Jaimes, Zadyn Kear, Steven Magdaleno, Isaiah Munoz, Carlos Napoles, Justin Perez, Jonathan Perez, Daniel Robb, Dakotah Sierra, Willie Slone, Makai Trimble-Kjar, Aiden Trujillo, Miguel Unzueta, Jacob Valez and Noah Wood. Way to go, boys!

still around 25 families that need to be adopted by community members, and there is no time to lose. (Gifts must be turned into CALM by December 16 so therapists can deliver before the

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PUMP IT N.A.S.M, Kickboxing and SPIN Certified, Jenny Schatzle is known for changing bodies and changing lives. Her approach to fitness is about not only “getting fit” physically but also how, through exercise, nutrition and a positive motivational environment, you can change your lifestyle for the better. Jenny’s program and the results she consistently achieves have made her one of the most sought-after experts in Santa Barbara.

‘Tis the Season for the Slippery Slope

t can be hard to stay motivated this time of year. Even with my Post-Thanksgiving Tips from last week, I know that some of you have slipped. Some of you are still slipping. It is, after all, a slippery slope. A very slippery slope indeed. As most everybody knows at this point, the Sentinel has sponsored Jay Caplan and Bonnie Kenaith through my program. EIC Matt forwarded some of their recent comments about the class and how they are doing now that Thanksgiving has passed and Christmas and New Year’s are approaching. I like their thinking so much that I’ve decided to leave the motivation to them this week. Bestside Bonnie reported that Bestside Bonnie actually looks happy on that treadmill at 6am. she “exercised five days last week” That can’t be possible, can it? (Right on, Bonnie, keep going!) and has, despite some modifications to the meal plan to better suit her going forward, already lost nine pounds and 2% body fat (must’ve been smart modifications, Bonnie!). She’s “only lost a tiny bit of motivation, only because [she’s] so tired.” But the whole thing “has definitely lived up to [her] expectations.” San Roque Jay was in San Diego for much of last week, but that didn’t stop him. “I pretty much followed the meal plan, except for a few diversions. My biggest challenge is snacking between meals, but I am trying to keep it to nuts and fruits.” (Good thinking, Jay, that’s perfect.) “On the exercise front, I did work out most days I was gone, and

think I have only missed a total of three days since I started the program. I have found that I DEFINITELY don’t push myself as much as when I workout with Jenny. My energy level is much higher – I’m actually waking up before my alarm goes off – and I’ve lost five pounds and 4% body fat so far.” That pretty much says it all. Get off that slippery slope, everybody, or soon enough you’ll find that you’ve slipped more than you thought you did! NUTRITION: This is the easiest nutrition tip yet. Read the ingredients! Are my eyes playing tricks or is San Roque Jay actually smiling through an early morning push-up routine? (Looking good, Jay, If you can’t figure out what they are, looking REAL good!) then, in all likelihood, either can your body. If a product has to tell you on its packaging that it’s good for you, then it probably isn’t. A great example is breakfast cereal. The sweetest damned cereals out there say, “Buy me, I’m full of vitamin A!” Are you kidding me? Think about the healthiest foods you can eat – fruits, vegetables, etc. – they don’t have any fancy packaging or healthy claims to woo you because they don’t need them. Stop, read the ingredients on those pretty packages and remember that your body does not break down chemicals. Processed food is stored as fat. Who wants that?

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WARM-UP: Jog around your block (approximately 5 minutes) WORKOUT: Do each movement in the following series for 20 seconds, then rest for 10 seconds, and keep going for a total of eight rounds per movement before moving on to the next movement. The key is to go hard, very hard, when you are working here; this should be difficult. Squat jumps – 20 on/10 off (8 rounds for a total of four minutes) Push-ups – 20 on/10 off (8 rounds for a total of four minutes) Jump Lunges – 20 on/10 off (8 rounds for a total of four minutes) Dips – 20 on/10 off (8 rounds for a total of four minutes) Pop-ups – 20 on/10 off (8 rounds for a total of four minutes) Crunches – 20 on/10 off (8 rounds for a total of four minutes) This entire workout – it’s a doozy, I know – takes thirty minutes. There are no excuses this week, for anybody. If you have questions about any of the movements, just send me a note (jenny@ jennyschatzle.com) or stop by the facility (590 East Gutierrez Street). Get moving!

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

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“I look for a different point of view, more artisanal sorts of things,” she explained. A couple of her favorite pieces include handknit sweaters made by designers Jane Wheeler and Marion Foale. Foster has also met many icons in the fashion world to inspire her, including Calvin Klein, Yohji Yamamoto and Donna Karan, who all taught her to have confidence in herself. “Donna walked up to me and said, ‘I love the way you look, you have such great style.’ That really gave me a leg up.” Wendy’s ultimate fashion muse, however, is actress Diane Keaton. “Her personal style has evolved throughout time and that is critical for women as they age,” she said. “[For my personal style], I like to wear a uniform. I’ll have a certain look for awhile, then wear it again for another look.”

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public is invited to her Montecito boutique on Friday, December 20 and Saturday, December 21 to view jewelry designer Beth Orduna’s collection from 11am – 5pm. “All around, [my boutiques] have something for everyone,” Wendy said with a smile. And she’s right. I left a (very) satisfied customer.

Wendy Foster’s store locations, phone numbers and hours follow:

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At one time, Foster even had her own linen clothing line for two years called East Valley Road Clothing. “At the time, we wanted our own line so that we could produce what people in Santa Barbara wanted and have the perfect delivery time for us,” she laughed. In total, she and Lafond are pioneers in Santa Barbara and own 11 businesses, which also include two vineyards, two bistros, an accessories shop and a market. “I never saw myself as an entrepreneur,” she continued. “I think it always was a fluke. My husband is a great support system and he believes he can do anything that anyone else can do. He’s very intuitive.” Foster also hosts trunk shows. The

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with Mark Léisuré

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

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imes are still tough, economics-wise, so the papers – and lots of people – say. But you’d never know it from the mad remodeling boom that’s been going on in what’s now known as the Downtown Theater District. Both the Lobero and the New Vic are reopening within two days of each other this week, at a combined cost of plenty of millions of dollars, although nowhere near the $50 million-plus it took to give the Granada its makeover five years ago. The New Vic is the new home of the Ensemble Theatre Company, which is vacating its old dilapidated digs at the Alhecama Theatre, which had a charming name (the original owner mashed together the first two letters of his four children’s names) but rickety seats, cramped single toilets and poor sight lines, not to mention nobody could figure out where it was located. No such problems with the New

Vic, which is barely a block off State on Victoria Street, right across from the massive Public Market that’s supposed to be ready for its unveiling sometime soon. The theater is a great new space with all kinds of cool stuff, including a completely re-imagined seating plan that eschewed the balcony for a stadium theater-style gradation, meaning everyone can see well and feel close to the action. “We are the primary user, and it has been designed specifically for live performance of plays. The acoustics are designed just for us,” said Jonathan Fox, ETC’s executive artistic director, who is obviously excited to welcome audiences to the new digs. Things get going this weekend with ETC’s production of A Little Night Music, with a bunch of Broadway stars and Stephen Sondheim’s magical songs. But you won’t be seeing any other entertainment in the place until after the New Year, because

The New Vic marks its big opening this weekend with Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of A Little Night Music

ETC owns the 99-year lease and wants to make sure all the kinks are ironed out before renting it out to arts organizations. UCSB Arts & Lectures has already booked a couple of spoken word events at the New Vic for mid-January, so we’ll see how that plays out. No such exclusivity issues over at the Lobero, which has always been as much of a rental facility as a presenting organization. The remodeled former opera house has already hosted Warren Miller’s annual ski film and a 1st Thursday after party earlier

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around regarding the acoustics, stage, backstage, dressing rooms or productions areas – but you will definitely notice the difference. Remember how everyone used to have to stand up when someone in the middle of an aisle needed to go to the bathroom? Or how your knees knocked up against the seat in front of you, even if you weren’t especially tall? No more. Not only are the seats brand new, there’s also more than 10 percent fewer of them. So they’re both a little bit wider (there’s got to be a Jay Leno “fat-assed Americans” joke in there somewhere), and with a lot more space in between the rows. “We went with the idea of letting people have comfortable leg room determine how many seats,” Asbell explained, noting there are now 604 seats versus 680 previously. Mr. Léisuré snuck in on Tuesday evening ostensibly to catch a few minutes of the rehearsals for Rudolph (which was quite good, by the way) and he can attest that it makes quite a difference. Super comfy now, earning Mr. Léisuré’s seal of approval. The bathrooms have also been doubled in size and facilities, meaning much shorter lines snaking through the lobby for the women (which is good, except it makes it a little tougher for guys to flirt with captive ladies). There’s new carpet and paint, and for the first time in its history, the Lobero will have air conditioning. You’d think that might not matter in winter, but the heating didn’t work so well either. “Yeah, we had no real air flow at all before,” Asbell said. “It was a big draft for four to five rows and that’s it. But with brand new HVAC systems, things should be much better now.” Lastly, but likely the first thing you’ll

notice, the esplanade – which is what they call the front patio – is no longer a slope steep enough to accommodate continuous movement from a Slinky. It’s been leveled off and there are steps leading up to it from the street. (Also nice, but Mr. Léisuré is concerned that he can no longer position his taller friends on the lower part of the slope to make himself feel equal during intermission chat sessions.) Anyway, with two of downtown’s crown jewels back in business, as Asbell says, “It’s a very exciting time for the performing arts scene. We’re digging it.”

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John Likes A RevenueNeutral Carbon Tax

Matt, in his column entitled A Tax Is A Tax Is A Tax: The Folly of a Carbon Tax (Vol. 2, Issue 46), Jeff Harding critiques the revenue-neutral carbon tax proposal I presented (Do We Need a RevenueNeutral Carbon Tax?, Vol. 2, Issue 45). Unfortunately, in stating his doubts about this proposal, he includes several claims that are extremely misleading. First, Mr. Harding claims that the global

greenhouse-gas emissions problem is “not located in the USA but in China, India and other emerging economies.” Actually, in 2012 the five countries with the most emissions, in descending order, were: China, U.S., India, Russia and Japan. Certainly international cooperation will be needed to reduce total global emissions, however there is no question that reductions in U.S. emissions must be a significant part of this effort. Second, Mr. Harding attempts to characterize the revenue-neutral carbon tax idea as a big government approach that would discourage innovation and prosperity. Actually, the carbon tax would create market-driven incentives to increase energy efficiency and develop clean energy without government interference. By reforming the energy market this approach would encourage innovation and create new sources of prosperity. Third, Mr. Harding says, “There is only one problem with this scheme: It won’t work.” Actually, it is already working in British Columbia. Five years ago BC implemented a revenue-neutral carbon tax. A recent study reports that BC’s “use of petroleum fuels has dropped by 15.1%” and “personal and corporate income tax rates are now the lowest in Canada, due to the carbon tax shift.” The evidence is clear. Our greenhousegas emissions are driving alarming changes in the global climate, and these emissions can be significantly reduced by taxing them. By acting now to implement a revenue-neutral carbon tax we can create a stronger economy, ensure a more livable climate for our children and grandchildren, and protect American families and businesses from higher energy prices. P.S. I’m associated with the Citizens Climate Lobby (www. citizensclimatelobby.org), not the Carbon Tax Center (www.carbontax.org). John D. Kelley Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks John, I will leave this one to you and Jeff Harding. – MSM) (Jeff Harding’s Response: Thank you Mr. Kelley for your response to my critique of the carbon tax. The point of my article was that good scientific data shows that the carbon tax

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will not do anything to reduce the impact of global warming, which is the reason for the tax. You have yet to refute that fact. Second, no tax is revenue neutral in that it causes income to flow toward government-approved programs. The history of such interventions almost always reflects unintended consequences, most of them bad. No tax has ever resulted in “prosperity,” as you would have us believe. And no tax is ever “revenue neutral” because the proponents never take into consideration the unseen impacts of such a tax. Taxes always skew the economy and remove capital from the economy to be spent on things governments like, and result in such things as the “Solyndra Effect” and the collapse of US solar panel manufacturing. The market allocates resources efficiently and in ways consumers want, rather than what government wants. You should pay attention to scientific data, economics, and the fall out of such ill conceived plans as a new tax that solves nothing. – Jeff Harding)

Sorry Goose, But It’s Time to Buzz the Tower

Hi Matt, I look forward to the Sentinel each week and appreciate you and your writers’ dedication to local journalism. I love to fly. I’m not a pilot but I’ll go anywhere, anytime, in anything. To me, the view from any aircraft window is worth all the hassles of air travel. Back in the ‘80s, while on a business trip, I was lucky enough to have a front seat ride in a helicopter from Nashua, NH to Boston’s Logan Airport. It was a spectacular and memorable experience. In the last few years, thanks to Cottage Hospital’s helipad, the number of helicopters coming and going in the Santa Barbara area has increased significantly. What we don’t need is one more flying sightseer around. A passenger with a telephoto lens is even less desirable, as I think we all have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes and backyards. From the photos in your article, it appears that you were flying pretty low. I understand that helicopters have different rules than fixed wing aircraft, but if its engine sputters, it would seem that it is out of line with: “If the operation is

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conducted without hazard to persons or property on the surface.” I wish Dan Casey’s business success. He has one of the best jobs in the world. What I would ask, however, is that he show some consideration for the thousands of citizens and pets below who may not find the “Wop… wop… wop” noise as much fun as his passengers are having. Ron Buckley Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: Thanks for writing, Ron, I’m glad you’re enjoying the paper and hope you’ll keep picking it up. I had a great time in the whirlybird with Santa Barbara Helicopter Tours and continue to believe that seeing our home from that perspective is something worth doing for anybody interested in a unique and intimate look at Santa Barbara. With that said, there is no doubt that heli-pilots should comply with any relevant laws and regulations on the books to ensure adequate protection of privacy and safety. Pilot Dan, any insight here? – MSM) (Pilot Dan: Sure, Matt, thanks. And thanks to you as well, Ron, for the letter. I personally try and keep most of our flight operations out over the water; when I do have to fly over town I am always cautious of the areas we fly over. Our company flies much higher than the other helicopter operators in the region, and we usually urge them to behave themselves too. Please don’t hesitate to contact me directly with any future thoughts or concerns. – Dan Casey, Chief Pilot, Santa Barbara Helicopter Tours)

A Friend of Bill’s

Last week when I spoke of a street brother, you put it in quotes, which I suppose is a somewhat clever way of indicating suspicion of the idea or otherwise being surreptitiously derogatory. To me it simply indicates the vast gulf between your society and mine. You and yours, who are well employed, who have succeeded by one or more measures of polite society, who spend time discussing the latest microbrews and the best sushi, you “civilians,” you all live in a very competitive society. Solidarity is foreign to a competitive society. The ...continued p.32

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...continued from p.31 poor and the truly destitute do not have that luxury. The extent to which we share our resources is the only security we have. We take care of each other as best we can to alleviate the alienation the rest of the world gleefully foists upon us. It is part of why we find you all so incomprehensible. We, who have so little, share so much with each other so gladly that we do not understand why you, who have so much share so little so resentfully. Maybe that is why you all get to live in the pretty houses up on the hill, lights shining warmly, while we sleep outside in the cold darkness. I know charitable giving is above average in Santa Barbara, and we are grateful, but I probably give a larger percentage of my net worth every time I bum out a cigarette. This week I lost a brother. Bill was about as old as we ever get out here, in his early sixties. This life is too hard to breed centenarians, and who would want to live like this that long anyway? Mainly we kill time. And it dies hard. Bill’s soft spoken voice emerged from an epic gray beard, and was usually used to say something kind. Not that Bill was a pushover mind you. I once stood side by side with Bill to face down two street toughs who had made the mistake of trying to threaten Bill into giving them a rollie after they saw me buying one. It would probably surprise you all the extent to which we police our own ranks. Never did I see those two downtown again, as Bill made it quite clear they were not welcome. Bill had a bad tooth that caused him a lot of pain, and when my own sciatica was under control I’d give him some of my pain meds to make it easier to sleep. I suppose that’s illegal. Whatever. Bill and I were neighbors, sharing the vicinity of a graciously offered sanctuary where, again, we refuse to allow the real troublemakers to find any rest. Don is pretty sure he walked by Bill after he died. He seemed to be sleeping peacefully, which is of some comfort to those of us who will miss him. I hope Bill found the peace and acceptance over there that are in such short supply here. If the aphorism that man can build up his treasures in Heaven is true, then Bill is now a very wealthy man. I know a lot of you do not think we belong in what you consider “your” town, but officially at least we don’t belong anywhere. We don’t mind sharing it with you, and we are a little perplexed by how much you hate sharing it with us. A lot of us are much better people than we ever get credit for, we just aren’t particularly

marketable, which is the real crime in this society. We have as much right to live somewhere beautiful as anybody does. We didn’t ask for this life. We are simply trying to exist for as long as we can get away with it. I don’t feel bad for Bill, dying was probably the smart move on his part. Perhaps it is an age-old delusion, but I like to think Bill is now in a position where he feels bad for us. What I am really grieving for is not that his life has ended, but that my life must now continue with one less person I knew I could count on. Mac McGill, Santa Barbaran Santa Barbara (Editor’s Note: I am truly sorry for your loss, Mac. Despite being a “civilian,” I know what it’s like to lose someone close and offer my condolences, for what they’re worth. I put “homeless brother” in quotes last week – and “civilian” in quotes this week – not to be surreptitiously derogatory but because I believe it only furthers the very divide that you purport to dislike so much, that “us” versus “them” paradigm in which you seem to see so much injustice. I don’t know, maybe it wasn’t fair. This very rag calls you and your “street brothers” homeless and transient; you call us “civilians.” Perhaps it’s all the same. Anyway, the season is turning, Mac, and I hope you are able to find a warm place soon. Happy holidays. – MSM)

CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT This is embarrassing, and we are frankly pretty surprised we didn’t see a condescending letter or two float down from one of the many watchful ivory towers around town. (Truth be told, we probably deserved one this time.) Last week, we made one of those glaring errors that we found before the paper even came off the printer but couldn’t change it, so it was, for me anyway, particularly painful. In our response to Robert Flores’ letter entitled Lois? Hannah Beth? Anybody? (Vol. 2, Issue 46), we mistakenly referred to “Senator Capps,” who, of course, doesn’t exist. Congresswoman Lois Capps does exist, however, and she represents California’s Fighting 24th Congressional District, as the incomparable Stephen Colbert might say. Sorry for the inadvertent error, Ms. Capps and Sentinel-reading public. But hey, now that we cleared that one up, Congresswoman Capps, can we please get that response to Mr. Flores’ concerns? Pretty please?

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...continued from p.29 while overlooking the Pacific on a specially created rink, although that costs $15. It’s like a little bit of Rockefeller Center right here in Santa Barbara!

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Your first crack at The Nutcracker comes this weekend, as The Goleta School of Ballet dances to Tchaikovsky’s classic at the Marjorie Luke on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Can’t make it? Don’t worry. There are at least three more companies doing sugar plum waltzes and snowflake twirls before Christmas arrives.

String & Things

The Junior League of Santa Barbara is thrilled to present the first annual Festival of Trees this weekend (December 6-8) at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort

The next Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra concert comes with strings attached. In fact, it comes with only strings attached. It’s dubbed “String Triple,” which refers to the fact that all three works played that night will feature solely the ensemble’s string section – none of those unwieldy other instruments like brass, woodwinds, cymbals or other percussion to get in the way of the pristine sound. But if you won’t have other sounds to sample other than bows gliding across (and the occasional finger plucking) strings of various thickness, at least the program is pretty darn diverse and spans more than 200 years: Mozart’s Divertimento No. 2, K.125b (137) in B Major (1772); John Rutter’s Suite for Strings, composed in the very late 20th century and based on four English folksongs (“They Are A-Roving,” “I Have A Bonnet Trimmed With Blue,” “O Waly Waly (The Water Is Wide),” and “Dashing Away”); and Schubert’s String Quartet in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden,” arranged by Gustav Mahler (originally composed by Schubert in 1824). The concert takes place Tuesday night, December 10 at Hahn Hall, as the Chamber Orchestra couldn’t wait around for the renovations at the Lobero and instead decamped to the venue at the Music Academy of the West, which is half the size and made for music. We’ll see if they come back to the Lobero next year. Tickets and info at 966-2441 or www.sbco.org.

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Merry Marketing Madness skyrocketed at gas stations where the smell of coffee was artificially piped into the entire store, not just naturally localized to the coffee station. In other words, creative marketing works. Well. Are you lovin’ it?

ave you ever noticed how some gas station stores smell like coffee? Not stale coffee from countless spills, but freshly percolated coffee. Mmmm! The coffee is fresh! Or is it? Freshly brewed coffee probably wouldn’t catch your attention when you walk through the door. Especially when it’s sitting in the far corner of the store. So that delicious smell is not from freshly made self-serve coffee. Instead, the smell of delicious, caffeinated goodness is being artificially piped into the mini-mart just so that you will crave that cup o’ joe and pour yourself a 16-ouncer before paying for your gas. I’m sure some of you are thinking that simply smelling coffee isn’t going to make you buy it. And you’re right. A simple smell cannot convince you to do something against your will. But it can influence you to start thinking about coffee. And the caffeine in coffee is addictive. So if you think about coffee, you just might start craving a “fix” of the stuff. So, really, the smell of coffee is merely (potentially) triggering your preexisting addiction to caffeine. The scariest part of it all? Coffee sales

A Psychological Assault on the Senses

Retail, restaurant, gas and any other major businesses trying to sell you something have invested many millions, even billions, into figuring out how to get you to buy their products without you ever knowing that you’ve been influenced. Commercials are great, but they can be avoided in today’s world of TiVo and Hulu. So companies have become even craftier, inserting influential stimuli wherever they can. And they are good at it. By the time a child raised in the U.S. can speak, for example, he or she can accurately identify over twenty corporate logos. Take fast food restaurants. The next time you go in, pay attention to the decor and music they choose. Are the colors bright? Yep. Is the music fast? Probably. Most fast food companies are worth more than I could ever begin to conceptualize, so you know they’ve spent the time and money needed to design the most effective environment. The colors and music are no mistake. Bright, warm colors seem inviting but they serve a two-fold purpose you may not be noticing. First, the color red tends to influence us in the direction of

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.

thinking we are hungrier than we really are. Therefore, we buy bigger burgers and more fries than we normally might. (The term “Super Size” comes to mind.) Second, “warm” colors that are as bright as the ones we see at In-N-Out, Wendy’s and McDonald’s are not as welcoming as we might think. In fact, after a while, they start to make us downright uneasy, forcing us out the door quickly. The same can be said about music with a faster beat. A quicker beat generally will get a dine-in customer to eat quickly, without realizing it, so he leaves the fast food joint, ah, fast, and another customer can take his place. This kind of psychological marketing has been going on so long that we think it is normal. When was the last time you questioned a department store’s music choice? Or when did you stop and really analyze the scents assaulting your nose? How about color choice? Almost everything you experience about the ambiance of a large chain store or restaurant is intentional. And the marketing masters are getting better at influencing you every day.

Make A List and Check It Twice

Marketing techniques are constantly being evaluated and improved. Perhaps the scariest new development in the marketing world is only just now becoming popular with large retail and entertainment

corporations: Neuromarketing. Rather than listening to what customers in a focus group say, marketing consultants are going right to their brains. (Yeah, you read that right.) Members of a focus group are placed in an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machine or hooked up to an EEG (electroencephalogram) cap. Both devices record brain activity in real time, so marketing researchers can see exactly which areas of the brain react to stimuli. Then the focus group is shown several different commercials for the same product. The commercial that elicits the most attentional and emotional responses is then chosen for the national market. On the surface, it doesn’t seem like skipping the small talk and going straight to the brain is a big problem. After all, we know what we think and would tell the marketing researchers the same thing in a traditional focus group. Except that isn’t always the case. Sometimes, the commercial we like the most is not the one that is most effective at capturing our attention. By bypassing our conscious thoughts, marketing gurus can develop commercials that hit closer to home and stick with us longer than we might realize. Luckily, in a world where we are inundated with subliminal advertisements, we have one very powerful tool to subvert the effects of expert marketing: Awareness. (See? By writing this column, I’ve already done most of the work for you!) If you’re aware of how your brain and your perception is being manipulated, then you can rationalize your way out of it. Bringing strict lists and budgeting while you shop is also a great way to avoid falling prey to marketing. So here’s a tip: Keep this article in mind while working your way through this year’s holiday gift list. And wear dark sunglasses, ear plugs and a clothespin on your nose. Happy holiday shopping!

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ighly anticipated in this corner, Out of the Furnace blows into theaters nationwide this weekend. The crime drama involving backwoods vigilance stars Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson and Zoe Saldana and exudes the true grit and tenacity of last year’s Lawless. Also clawing its way into cinemas will be The Wolf of Wall Street, based on a true tale of a stockbroker and peopled with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey (quite a demanding year for him). Anybody who has read James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (present company included) must have at least a passing interest in the upcoming silver screen version. Ben Stiller directs and, in front of the camera, pairs himself with Kristen Wiig, while fantasizing about ways to shake up his lackluster life. If the photo of Sean Penn coming to life doesn’t lure you in, nothing will. Those casual filmgoers who don’t recognize Inside Llewyn Davis or unheralded star Oscar Isaac ought to realize the movie springs from the unrivaled minds of Joel and Ethan Coen. It also spotlights John Goodman, Carey Mulligan and – are you sitting down? – Justin Timberlake, whose presence may entice younger patrons who wouldn’t know the Coen brothers from Santa Claus. My peering into the near future hasn’t included Anchorman 2 because that comedy’s publicity has surpassed overkill. I’ve seen no fewer than three different trailers, to say nothing of the endless ads and promotional stunts featuring Will Ferrell (a.k.a. newscaster Ron Burgundy). Evidently, the film’s marketing campaign doesn’t believe in “too much of a good thing,” which could lead to dead air among audiences by the picture’s mid-December release date. Speaking of excess and overload…

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Catch This Fire

unger Games: Catching Fire is an impressive sequel that follows the volatile, swift-moving path of one Katniss Everdeen, temporarily back home after capturing the Hunger Games crown with fellow tribute Peeta. Not long after the pair’s victory tour, they’re preparing for the 75th annual competition under the baleful gaze of its president and puppeteer (Donald Sutherland), who consorts with a shadowy gamemaker (Philip Seymour Hoffman, afforded the best line of dialogue, which the actor mutters with typical ease: “Let’s see how they tell time now”). It carries on for upward of two and a half hours, probably a holiday treat for passionate fans of the books, but a taxing length for the less enthused. Even so, the production stays afloat and often moves at a brisk pace, propelled by its formidable cast: Yes, Jennifer Lawrence and John Hutcherson are serviceable again, but I got more satisfaction from peripheral players such as Woody Harrelson and the invaluable Jeffrey Wright. Creative twists bubble up, including a toxic fog that raises eyebrows. By now, anyone who cares about this ongoing series is aware of the cliffhanger. The suspense isn’t killing me.

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 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG-13) Fri-Wed 12:40 1:40 3:50 4:50 7:15 8:15 9:20 Thu 12/12 - 12:40 1:40 3:50 4:50 7:15 9:20 Playing on 2 Screens

DELIVERY MAN (PG-13) Fri-Tue & Thu 2:30 5:00 8:00 5:00 Wed - 2:30

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Vince Vaughn.....Chris Pratt Cobie Smulders DELIVERY MAN (PG-13) Fri-Tue & Thu 2:30 5:00 8:00 Wed - 2:30 5:00

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

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

An Inconvenient Truth

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icture this, I’m at the University of Oregon, telling a room full of young kids about to go out into the job market that I get my latte with three shots of espresso on this certain corner in Portland every morning at 7:43 am,” explained the top executive of a massive retail company. “Then I went on to say I’d be available to chat if they wanted to buy my drink for me. And you know what? “Not one kid showed up,” he finished, shaking his head. We were talking about our kids and what behaviors we would want to see in them, how they are going to get an edge in the work force, how they might succeed in life. Alpha was putting his weight behind creative thinking. In the age when robots will someday replace most jobs, there will be those ahead of the trends and those that are made redundant. He’d argue that you’d want your child to be the creator – the maker of the innovation that will drive a generation. Not so, says our good friend who’d trekked down to Santa Barbara for Thanksgiving. What he wants most is a hard worker who shows initiative. Now in charge of a work force of 10,000 people, he told us stories of kids showing up to meetings underprepared or late, employees floating mediocre to poor ideas and expecting the room to break out in applause, then punching out at 5pm. “I am dealing with kids who for the last twenty years have been told by parents,

teachers and society in general that they are special and important,” he told us. “And to be honest, they’re just not.”

Tabula Rasa

That last comment really made me pause. You see it was all going well until the spotlight turned onto us, the parents. My own mind started to spin fast. I reviewed the many times, when asked whether the kids should get a medal or a trophy at the end of the sports season, I answered trophy. (In Teddy’s case this year, he won one game.) Or when I wanted the perfect “match” for my child in the classroom. My daughter once had a really rough school year. But now, looking back, it was okay. More than okay. She learned some serious skills about dealing with difficulty. In fact, I would go as far as to say that out of all my four kids, she grew up the most in that year. So then, why do I fret about what teacher they’ll have? It’s the unintended consequence of hovering, helicoptering and doing. There’s no doubt that I am definitely an offender. Our friend was showing me a crystal ball and I didn’t like the future. So focused on the short term, making sure they are on track and doing well, I’m not sure I am allowing them to trip, fall, learn how to pick themselves up and come back stronger. When I went into the workforce, I was

offered a job at the New York Post at 22 – the night shift and the mailroom. I was ecstatic to get a chance. Confident in my ability and that I would be able to advance, I worked hard. Maybe that was attributed to the fact that I had to rake the leaves off the driveway or maybe it was the fact that my parents were not hoverers. From 6th grade on, anything that I wanted to do had to be driven by me. By the time I entered the work force, I had serious passion burning inside of me. I’d failed many times, and in those moments, I re-grouped and re-evaluated, honing in on my strengths, working on my weaknesses. When I got an interview at the Post, I was so hungry, so ready to prove myself, that succeeding was part of my story. Going to the right school. Getting straight A’s. Perfecting an instrument. Achieving in sports. All that is a great side story. But the tale that merits the most time should come from my kids directly. And they need a blank sheet of paper. To write their own story.

Are we properly preparing our kids for the workforce? I’d argue no…

Peters’ Pick

have a little girl. And trust me, I say “Thank God for Olivia” most days. It’s hard in a house of three boys, Alpha and our dog Wolfgang. We are outnumbered. So even though there’s not much room for dolls and girly stuff at our place, we can still dress up and see the most amazing ballet performance of The Nutcracker over Christmas. It’s a gentle reminder that we’re different and life doesn’t just spin around lacrosse and football. Santa Barbara Festival Ballet presents the 39th Annual Nutcracker, Arlington Theatre, December 14, at 2:30 and 7pm, December 15 at 2:30pm Box Office, 805-963-4408.

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his is a story about craft. A tale of passion and celebration. A tribute to talent. And a gift that gives back. This is The Art of Craft. The Art of Craft recently launched its line of t-shirts based on craftsmen and women who command honor and respect within their field of work. Santa Barbara local Derek Galkin partnered up with Sal Masekela and Tu Pham to create something that we feel is truly special. Every tee has an original design based on the artisan that is being celebrated. These tees are limited, they are unique, they are organically soft and they give back to a charity aligned with the featured artisan. We can’t think of a better gift to give this holiday season. The current shirt is based on photographer Timothy Hogan and the FIN project. Buy a shirt and a portion of the proceeds will be given directly back to the Surfrider Foundation. Be sure to check out all that The Art of Craft is up to on its website, www.artofcraft.com. And while you’re there, order some shirts for the loved ones on your gift list.

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OPEN HOUSE GUIDE SUNDAY DECEMBER 8 Downtown 212 Equestrian Avenue 2-4pm $3,395,000 3bd/5ba Pippa Davis 886-0174 18 West Victoria Street #205 12-5pm $2,500,000 2bd/3ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 618 Anacapa Street #6 1-4pm $1,795,000 2bd/2ba Lynda Bohnett 637-6407 18 West Victoria Street #205 12-5pm $1,459,000 1bd/2ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 18 West Victoria Street #307 12-5pm $1,250,000 1bd/2ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 18 West Victoria Street #108 12-5pm $1,100,000 1bd/2ba Alma Del Pueblo Sales Team 845-4393 817 Castillo Street 2-4pm $899,000 2bd/1ba Jay Krautmann & Darcie McKnight 637-7772 401 Chapala Street #110 11-4pm $850,000 1bd/1.5ba Michael Calcagno & Nancy Hamilton 451-4442 1924 Bath Street #D 2-4pm $745,000 3bd/2ba Lynette Naour 705-6539 343 North Calle Cesar Chavez 1-3pm $517,000 2bd/2.5ba Debby Rexford 886-8773 Eastside 1818 Olive Avenue 11-5pm $1,249,000 3bd/2.5ba Ron Harkey and Richard Naiman 886-9871 400 East Pedregosa Street #I 1-2:30pm $799,000 2bd/2ba Gail Beaust 689-3801 16 East Padre Street #9 1-3pm $599,000 2bd/2ba Ann Zafiratos 448-4317 Hope Ranch Area 4650 Via Roblada 2-4pm $3,995,000 4bd/6ba Natalie Grubb 895-6226 4005 Cuervo Avenue 2-4pm $3,995,000 5bd/5.5ba Linda Lorenzen 886-1842 2625 Samarkand Drive 1-3pm $1,200,000 4bd/2ba Alan M. Chierici 680-0501 4638 Puente Plaza 1-4pm $1,100,000 4bd/2ba Cimme Eordanidis 722-8480 2837 Clinton Terrace 1-4pm $849,000 3bd/2ba Anderson-Hurst & Associates 680-8216 1040 Portesuello Avenue 1-3pm $826,500 4bd/2ba Jamie Jo Sim 689-5799 Mesa 1409 Shoreline Drive 1-4:30pm $4,749,000 4bd/4ba Gene Archambault 455-1190 1927 Camino De La Luz 1-4pm $3,395,000 3bd/2ba Ken Switzer 680-4622 2321 Edgewater Way 2-4pm $1,550,000 3bd/1.5ba Christopher W Hunt 453-3407 628 Juanita Avenue 1-4pm $1,039,000 3bd/2ba Renie Kelly 886-3303 919 Calle Cortita 2-4pm $869,000 4bd/3ba Scott Williams 451-9300 50 Barranca Avenue #7 1-3pm $799,000 3bd/2ba Tracy Nelson 246-7288 Riviera 1850 East Las Tunas 1-3pm $3,195,000 3bd/3ba Beverly Palmer 452-7985 10 Rincon Vista 1-4pm $1,799,000 4bd/3.5ba Wilson Quarre 680-9747 1300 Las Alturas Road 2-4pm $1,795,000 4bd/2.5ba Pascale Bassan 689-5528 15 Loma Media Road 12-3pm $1,549,000 2bd/2ba Team Scarborough 331-1465 San Roque 3069 Calle Fresno 2-6pm $1,285,000 4bd/2ba Laura Collector 451-2306 3945 Stacy Lane 1-4pm $1,249,000 4bd/2.5ba John Comin 689-3078 3518 San Jose Lane 1-3pm $995,000 3bd/2ba Marilyn Rickard 452-8284 West Side 1535 West Valerio Street 1-4pm $1,095,000 3bd/3.5ba Jason Siemens 455-1165 3893 Cinco Amigos 1-3pm $579,000 3bd/2ba Lisa Van Deusen 689-1961 4128 Via Andorra #D 1-4pm $489,900 2bd/2ba Doug Van Pelt 637-3684 Goleta 355 Oak View Lane 2-4pm $1,095,000 4bd/3ba Linda Brown 666-9090 20 Sanderling Lane 10-5pm $1,004,471 4bd/3.5ba Lorie F. Bartron 879-5017 1072 San Marcos Road 1-4pm $989,000 3bd/2ba Diane Randall 705-5252 50 Sanderling Lane 10-5pm $925,000 4bd/3.5ba Lorie F. Bartron 879-5017 40 Sanderling Lane 10-5pm $897,000 3bd/3.5ba Lorie F. Bartron 879-5017 7900 Hollister Avenue 10-5pm $600,000 2bd/2ba Lorie F. Bartron 879-5017 7042 Marymount Way 1-3pm $495,000 2bd/1.5ba Mary Layman 448-3890 280 North Fairview Avenue #2 By Appt. $429,000 2bd/2ba Gail Pearl & Michael Pearl 637-6888 357 Moreton Bay Lane #6 By Appt. $349,000 2bd/1.5ba Michael Pearl & Gail Pearl 637-9595

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