BREWERY ESPIONAGE
THE MOLE TAKES A TOLL
IT’S THE MONTH OF MÄRZEN, WHEN GERMAN BEER SPIES FLEX THEIR SEASONAL MUSCLES WITH OKTOBERFEST IN THE DISTANCE, P. 8
HARDING VS. CAPPS
YOUR GARDEN IS BEING ANNIHILATED BY FURRY CRITTERS; TIME TO CALL IN GREENJEANS THE TERRIBLE AND HIS SAVAGE TACTICS, P. 20
A NO-HOLDS-BARRED POLITICAL MUD WRESTLING DEATH MATCH WITH POTENTIALLY DIRE CONSEQUENCES FOR ALL HUMANS, P. 32
SANTA BARBARA
VO L U M E 3 | I S S U E 5 | M A R C H 8 – 2 2 | 2 0 1 4
every other week from pier to peak
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THESE PEOPLE DIED. QUESTIONS?
SB IANDS ASKS, AND ANSWERS, THE BIG QUESTION: IS YOUR SOUL STUCK TO YOUR BRAIN?
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arbara Bartolome was 31 years old when she was, in the words of writer C.S. Lewis, surprised by joy. And there were other surprises that evening. Clinical death – that was a surprise; then, later, a pummeling such as a tomato can might receive at the hands of a top-ranked practitioner. And there was something else,
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by Jeff Wing done in collaboration with missionandstate.org something that completely blew her mind. It was a night she will never, ever forget. Ever. Some days before, Bartolome had painfully blown her L5-S1 disc in a tender area known to backache hobbyists as the lumbosacral joint. The culprit: a gravity-bound ...continued p.14
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