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Beer Guy – Drown your pandemic sorrows in a crowler, delivered right to your door The Capitalist – Jeff Harding outlines what must happen before the economy can bounce back (hint: it will be a slow process) Bud Guy – Trained biologist Liz Rogan’s firm offers cannabis business consulting, wellness coaching, and educational outreach Creative Characters – Nathan Huff’s show at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara blurs the line between visual and sculptural artworks

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Plan B – Briana Westmacott on how she is dealing with the stay-at-home orders E’s Note – Started right here in town, Zoomers to Boomers is now active in over 20 other cities

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The Fortnight – UCSB Department of Theater and Dance presents “Alone, Together”; SBIFF streams online; Pollock Theater releases Beatles content; and Tales from the Tavern archives past shows

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I Heart SB – If anyone knows how to survive sheltering in place with loved ones for extended periods of time, it’s Elizabeth Rose

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by Zach Rosen

Beer in the Time of Coronavirus

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uring these times of self-isolation and quarantining, it is easy to find yourself daydreaming of your favorite watering hole. Fortunately, many breweries have started offering to-go orders and deliveries so you can still get your favorite beers as you wait out the seemingly infinite sprawl of quarantine life. The tasting room often represents a large part of a small brewery’s beer sales so they are all feeling the economic pressure right now. Breweries are cutting back brewing sessions, adjusting hours, and repurposing staff to do to-go orders and deliveries to try and keep their employees employed and some money coming in for the brewery.

Ryan Morrill, Head Brewer at Island Brewing Co., mentioned that they just got back into some of the chain stores.

This is helping add to the to-go and delivery portion of the business, which is thankfully steady. But, like some of the other local brewers, they self-distribute,

which makes it all tougher on their staff.

They are offering to-go beer from their brewery daily from 12 - 6 pm. Currently they are only delivering to Summerland and Carpinteria and offer same-day delivery ($5 fee, free for orders over $30 with code: DELIVERY2020) if ordered before 2 pm and next-day delivery for orders placed after 2 pm.

Some of the brewpubs like The Cruisery have opted to stay closed during this time. The Brewhouse had been closed, however recently they have started to do to-go food and growler fills and keg sales on select days (Tuesday - Saturday, 4:30 - 7:30 pm) so regulars can keep a stash of their favorite brews at home.

Other brewpubs like Rincon Brewery have started offering food delivery services to try and alleviate the loss in business. CARP Growers, the association of Carpinteria-based cannabis growers, recently fed their farms with Rincon’s grub through their Keep the Lights On

Get your favorite beers and craft cocktails during these trying times (photo provided by Milk & Honey)

program, and it is always good to see local businesses support one another. Also in Carpinteria, brewLAB has been putting their experimental brews in several different bottle sizes for to-go orders and will soon be doing a delivery service as well.

In Santa Barbara, Night Lizard Brewing Co. has almost daily pickups (closed Mondays) from 12 - 8 pm, staying open until 10 pm on Fridays and Saturdays,

with shipping in California available on their website. Besides the 32 oz crowlers of their full beer list, they also have 16 oz 4-packs available, and are currently giving 15% off all merchandise (Code: 15OFF) on their website. Captain Fatty’s Brewery is offering beer to-go (12 8 pm) or by delivery (sent out by 7pm each day) at both locations. They have a 16 oz 4-pack that can be mixed and matched of any of their current brews on tap and recently released their grapefruit-flavored, Snappa Seltzer, in 12 oz 12-packs for those who are looking for a local hard seltzer to take home.

Some breweries have been hosting some of their normal entertainment options through online streaming services.

In addition to doing to-go beer sales (12 - 6 pm), M.Special in Goleta has featured live bands and is even keeping their trivia night going through Zoom.

Recently Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. had a live stream show of the popular band, The Caverns, among other local favorites. Figueroa Mountain has been featuring food and beer deliveries and to-go beer at all of their tasting rooms, except their Los Olivos location (check their website for individual tasting room hours). A new option is their ...continued p.8

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The Capitalist

by Jeff Harding

Jeff Harding is a real estate investor and a writer on economics and finance. He is the former publisher of the Daily Capitalist, a popular economics blog. He is also an adjunct professor at SBCC. He blogs at anIndependentMind.com

Coronanomics: Notes from the Bunker

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his pandemic has made it painfully clear that we never know what’s going to happen next. We live our lives thinking that things will remain about the same, but they don’t. Bad things happen. Good things happen too, but we don’t have to worry about them. It’s the bad things we have to look out for.

This pandemic is a tectonic change for us. Things will be different when it’s over. It will affect all of our lives.

The first lesson from the pandemic is that nobody knows anything. Panic, delay, and confusion were and still are the responses from the-powers-that-be. This is true even though many smart people told us years ago that there would be a pandemic (Bill Gates was one of many).

So, it’s not a Black Swan.

It’s too soon to discuss the fallout of government’s response to the pandemic.

But so far it appears that (1) local solutions are best, and (2) government’s actions have potentially done more harm than good – but that is more speculation than fact at this point. Wait until the dust settles.

The next thing to know is that we are in a recession, a really bad one. It will only end when two things happen: • We emerge from the pandemic; and • We scrap government barriers on businesses and allow them the freedom to recover. This will take time.

• Between herd immunity, warmer weather, and effective therapeutics and vaccines, we will survive this pandemic.

Be patient (and be careful). These factors are all on the near horizon despite what the media experts say.

This recession will be the eighth one I’ve experienced as an adult. I’ve studied each one and they have several commonalities. They all start with some form of monetary inflation by the Federal Reserve and they are all impacted by varying degrees of government regulations and responses which for the most part have made things worse.

This recession is no different. If you think that this recession is solely caused by the pandemic (“supply shock”) you would be wrong.

Even if you aren’t an economist you probably noticed that there were unpleasant things bubbling up from the economic ooze before the pandemic hit.

When the powers-that-be have to tell us

that “Everything is fine, move along,” you can guess that there probably is something wrong.

Every recession needs a trigger to set it off. In 2008 it was mainly the Lehman Brothers failure. This time the pandemic trigger is unique but it will, like all previous recessions, expose underlying weakness in the economy.

Weakness? you ask. But jobs were at

cies have undermined the economy.

As a “tell” that something was wrong, the Fed starting in September has been pumping new money into the financial markets at a furious pace: a staggering 85% increase! It does this by buying treasury bonds and now corporate bonds (something it has never done).

They only do that if they think the financial markets are in trouble. This money has been created out of thin air.

The Fed’s goal is to keep interest rates at historic lows so weak companies and the federal government can service their debt. The federal deficit is at $2.4 trillion this year and, with further attempts at fiscal stimulus, it could exceed $6 trillion requiring the government to

• Once freed, the economy won’t bounce right back – there will be a slow recovery.

• Government spending (fiscal stimulus) and Federal Reserve efforts (money printing and bailouts) to revive the economy will do little good.

• Deficit spending by the federal government will increase debt levels to historic highs.

• The Fed will “monetize” new federal debt which may lead to negative interest rates. Negative rates accelerate the destruction of capital.

• High government debt levels have historically accelerated economic stagnation. This time will be no different as they dominate the financial markets and crowd out the private economy.

As a “tell” that something was wrong, the Fed starting in September has been pumping new money into the financial markets at a furious pace... They only do that if they think the financial markets are in trouble. This money has been created out of thin air.

an all-time high and stocks are way up.

Yes, it’s confusing. But this is the economic reality: • GDP (inflation adjusted) has been sluggish for a decade, barely growing at 2% per year for the past decade.

• Productivity (worker output) has stagnated for the last decade.

• Corporate debt, household debt, and federal debt are at highs never seen in modern times. As of 2019 corporate debt was 84% of GDP; household debt was 76%; and federal debt (Q1 2020) was 119%. Recent massive federal spending has raised federal debt even more.

• There has been an explosion of corporate debt, especially in the “junk” category. In 2019, 65.1% of such debt had B or lower credit ratings. Credit rating downgrades are the highest since 2009.

• Much of the corporate debt was used for nonproductive things like stock buybacks and dividends. Stock buybacks might look good in the boardroom but it is a huge increase in companies’ risk.

• Corporate earnings have been stagnating for the past eight years. Earnings per share appear to have grown, but only because massive stock buybacks have changed the formula to make them look better than they are.

• Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) as a percentage of GDP have been flat for the past decade.

• Tariffs and other anti-free trade poli-

borrow even more. By monetizing these deficits, the Fed will have almost complete control over the bond market.

These policies are not the cure; they are the problem. The result will be the destruction of capital (savings), stagnant economic growth, stagnant corporate profits, declining productivity, more debt, more federal spending and deficits, and yes, possibly, negative interest rates. In short, we are continuing to go “Japanese.” Their economy has been moribund for two decades and they have done exactly what we are doing, but with even more spending and debt.

No one ever learns.

The economy will recover only when business is back on its collective feet.

Nothing that the government or the Fed is doing or will do is going to change that. As we’ve learned from experience, government bailouts and new regulations only delay recovery. Despite the Fed’s money printing and the federal government’s bailouts and spending, the Great Recession’s recovery was the slowest in the modern era and with the bonus of declining economic growth (GDP).

As I oft say, neither I nor anyone can predict the future. My “predictions” in my January article have been shot to hell by the pandemic. But I think I can safely say the following: • Until local, state, and federal governments free up the economy, the economic impact will be very painful for 90% of American families.

• Many “zombie” corporations will fail (those debt-heavy companies with junk ratings whose earnings aren’t sufficient to service their debt).

• There will be massive corporate bailouts.

• The trend of the economy will be deflationary keeping price inflation in check.

• The debt problem is worldwide making the recession worldwide.

The final lesson, and the one that is most important to us on a personal level, is understanding that our economic and government systems have become fragile. Nassim Taleb of Black Swan fame says we must develop systems that are “antifragile.” This is not the same as being “robust” where you have the ability to fend off shocks. Antifragile systems get stronger from shocks (your body, for example, develops antibodies to fend off invading viruses). This also applies to economics and government.

In a fragile world, with less certainty and more risk, we need to live our lives with that in mind and become antifragile. To survive a recession and then thrive, that means avoiding debt, increasing savings, and, where possible, arrange your investments to less volatile assets.

If you thought the government was there to bail you out, I think you now understand that is not going to happen.

No one said it was going to be easy.

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At Draughtsmen Aleworks, beer pickup is available from 4 - 8 pm at their Goleta location or 12 - 6 pm from their downtown spot at Mosaic Locale. They are selling their full lineup with a couple newer options like the Bodacious Brunette American Brown Ale with a classic American hop grapefruit-pine note, or Kalifornische Kolsch, a collaboration brew with the Solvang-based homebrew shop Valley Brewers and associated taproom, The Backroom. Their Cougar Killer 2.0 is a crisp citrus-themed session IPA that has been gluten-reduced to remove 99% of the gluten. Draughtsmen has also been working with their regular food vendors, such as Buena Onda Empanadas, Firefly Pizza, and Get Hooked Seafood, to offer food pickups and deals at their locations.

Third Window Brewing Co. offers same-day delivery for orders before 4 pm with several deals available. One of the most appealing is the three crowl-

ers for $30 deal for any of their brews, and 30% off their hoppy beers like the CAN NO1 (ALMOST) v3: Hazy Pale Ale that has gentle tropical and berry notes. For those who have a kegerator, or just want to host a self-isolated rager (hey, what else are you doing with your time?), Third Window kegs are 40% off. In addition, they are selling their other guest taps like the herb and flower-infused meads and ciders from The Apiary, with local wines to-go as well, just in case there are a few preferences sequestered in the house. While their kitchen is closed for hot food during this time, Michellene (Third Window’s owner Kris Parker’s wife) is baking up her popular sourdough loaves ($9 per loaf ) on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week. Their location is serving as the weekly pickup site for the CSA, Something’s Good Organics, every Thursday.

A TASTE OF NORMALCY Local dining expert, The Restaurant Guy, has put together a great list of all of the restaurants offering take-out and pick-up during this time at santabarbara.com/dining. So if you’re feeling a little tired of your own cooking, maybe order some food from one of your local favorite restaurants and support a local business. Recently, there were changes made in response to the quarantine so that cocktail bars have the option of selling to-go pre-packaged cocktails. Some local bars are now bottling up batches of their signature drinks for thirsty quarantiners. Milk & Honey is running a curbside pick-up and delivery ($45

Craft cocktail bars like Milk & Honey and Shaker Mill are mixing up their signature drinks to-go (photo provided

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minimum) Monday - Saturday from 5 9 pm that features not just some of their specialty drinks, but also food options, family meals, and even basic provisions.

Shaker Mill, along with neighboring food joint, Cubaneo, has to-go orders and deliveries ($50 minimum; $5 delivery fee) available Wednesday - Sunday from 2 - 9 pm of their Cuban-themed food and drinks. The menu even has a few cocktails from their sister bars The Good Lion and Test Pilot. Cubaneo is owned by BARBAREÑO, which is also selling pantry items and groceries to help stock up your kitchen while ordering one of their tasty, locally-inspired meals. The Black Sheep (Open Tuesday - Saturday; lunch from 12 - 5 pm and dinner from 5 - 8:30 pm) has one of the best family meal specials I’ve seen at $50 for a four-person meal with a rotating daily menu with delectable complete meals in different culinary themes like Asian-inspired and Mexican grill.

Local beers and wines are also sold

through The Black Sheep and other restaurants so it is easy to keep the whole meal local. Every bit of support, no matter how large or small, is important and means a lot to the local breweries. Or as Ryan from Island put it, “Our local support has been our saving grace; if it weren’t for our regulars and our community at large we might be singing a different tune. So we definitely want to say thanks to everyone who has supported us in some way during this whole thing. We will return to making the highest quality brews and cheersing in the tasting room down the line, hopefully sooner than later.”

To-go orders and delivery sales have U been channeled through the breweries’ and restaurants’ websites for touch-free purchasing so visit their individual websites to make an order and make sure to check social media for various offers and the most up-to-date information. But most of all, stay safe and sane during these tumultuous times.

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CREATIVE CHARACTERS NATHAN HUFF

by Zach Rosen

In Nathan Huff’s Meandering the Edges, visual and sculptural artworks play with one another, blurring the lines between them

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s we all spend the days imagining the outside world in the isolation of our own homes, one artist’s work is fusing these two into themes of domestic spaces and nature. Held at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB), Meandering the Edges, a solo exhibit by visual artist Nathan Huff, explores the role that the interior spaces of our domestic domiciles and the surrounding natural environments play in affecting our consciousness. Meandering the Edges was put up right before the quarantine set in and it could not be more timely. The show incorporates gouache-watercolor paintings and sculptural works into an abstract exhibit where lamps and furniture leap from their painting into the room, snippets of nature poking through the pieces, providing a dreamlike feel to the space. I was lucky enough to see the exhibit in-person and meet with Nathan (back when human interaction was still a thing) to discuss the exhibit and his work.

Nathan has loved art making all his life, focusing mostly on drawing and painting, but really just a tinkerer by nature. As he studied art, he was interested in what ways, other than two-dimensional works, an artist could tell a narrative. He was drawn towards the roles that common objects play in our lives and began to explore these ideas with a variety of materials and mediums. Nathan feels that one of the benefits of being an artist versus, say, an industrial designer, is that the work is not required to actually function (or meet safety standards) since the artworks are not actually being used. This allows a freedom to explore the form and function of these items without the necessity for them

to still physically operate, or be up to code. While he received his MFA from Cal State Long Beach, the Santa Barbara area drew him in about seven years ago when he accepted a job as an art teacher at Westmont College where he teaches drawing, painting, and inter-media art. Over the years he has solo exhibits around California and other areas, including a show at the esteemed Sullivan Goss.

For Meandering the Edges, Nathan wanted to explore the space of the historic Acheson House (built in 1904) where the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara resides. The house is multifunctional, with it also housing the Junior Women’s League, and the exhibit space serving as a conference room. In the show he intends to draw attention to the parts of architecture we don’t normally look at. In one corner, a painting of a wood fire is framed by the moulding of the wall. It rests just off the floor, drawing your gaze downwards towards a few steps that lead out of the room.

Throughout the artworks there is a dichotomy between indoor and outdoor objects and environments. One of the centerpieces is a large wall painting with dizzying lines in a restrained palette of blue and gray forming the ground as a maze of shovels dig out space. And that is meant quite literally. The large hole they dig is filled with the night sky. The piece is left unframed, with the ends of paper curling off the wall. A small painting of a bulldozer sits off to the side, its front blade scooping up the roll of paper as if it’s beginning the slow task of clearing the painting off the wall.

As we walked the show, Nathan mentioned there is a conscious decision between painting a finished object and

Nathan Huff explores emotion and memories around everyday objects in a range of two- and three-dimensional forms

non-finished object, him choosing between how revealed something might be. A line drawing might reflect more of an idea or a thought. A finished painting will bring it more into the viewer’s consciousness. He is also focusing on the memories and emotions we associate with the tables, chairs, and household objects that surround our living spaces. Memories are often not cogent. Only existing in our minds as fragments of images, sensations, and emotions. From an experience we may remember the feeling of the fabric and color of the room blending with the feelings we were having as that memory was being made. Many of the pieces also interact with one another. In one artwork, a large red reading chair sits in a torrential downpour coming from a single rain cloud above it. A standing lamp pokes itself through the storm, shining light down from above. The paper was cut so that the actual wall outlets seamlessly show in the scene of the painting. Off to the side of the painting, an empty wall stand pokes out, waiting for a piece of sculpture. Instead, it serves as a pedestal for a small painting of the same red chair that is hung where the wall stand begins.

He also admits that many of his works are an investigation into failure. When does a table fan lose its function? (Hint: it involves a rock.) A painting of a vase is placed on the wall so that it visually rests where an antique coffee table actually sits in the room, the volume of the vase physically carved out of the table. If that vase existed in the room, it would not physically be able to sit on the area of

the table where it is placed. This movement between two- and three-dimensional spaces gives the exhibit a surreality that makes the viewer drift between dreams, memories, and reality. In one area, a modern lamp juts out of the wall at an angle with a painting of the same lamp mirroring its form. The shadow of the actual lamp forming a spectral line between the two: real and unreal. One can also view it as a challenge to how our memory of an object persists and how that object actually exists.

Nathan is often curious about using visual images and thinks of them as combining together to tell visual poems.

He feels that these illustrative phrases can accrue into a larger narrative that the artist is trying to tell. The physicality of the exhibit means that this narrative is best seen in person, however both AFSB and his own website have images and videos up so that you can take a virtual tour. The show will be up indefinitely since the shelter-in-place order came in just as the show was getting ready to open. While the future of public interaction remains uncertain, at the time, Nathan wanted to see how “words get spun in the space” and hoped to bring in local poets to read their works in the ambiance of the exhibit. Hopefully at some point the public will get to see this whimsical exhibit, until then, the online photos will help us daydream of nature within the confines of our domestic spaces.

Visit nathanhuff.com for photos and a video tour of Meandering the Edges and his other works, and afsb.org to keep up to date on the exhibit.

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by Jeff Wing

Jeff is a journalist, raconteur, autodidact, and polysyllable enthusiast. A long-time resident of SB, he takes great delight in chronicling the lesser known facets of this gaudy jewel by the sea. Jeff can be reached at jeffwingg@gmail.com.

Armageddon Tired of This

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he world is filled with startling wonder. From tapeworms to collateralized mortgage obligations, life is a Bruegel painting – teeming with more puzzling detail than the harried museum-goer can begin to take in.

Ninety human years (if you’re lucky!) is scarcely enough time to get through the main rooms and still have a promenade through the gift shop – speaking mostly metaphorically.

To our great credit, though, the human race is capable of reducing this firehose of indescribable and even exalting detail to a beige binary brouhaha. Hooray! It is just this reverse alchemy that caused Shakespeare to call us the “Paragon of Animals,” paragon being Latin for “posterior.” Gold into lead – by most measures this is an unprofitable transfiguration, but it is one humans have spent centuries perfecting. Let’s look at a current example.

COVID RHYMES WITH OVID. SIMILARITIES TO CLASSICAL POETRY STOP THERE At this writing, our dear, wet, embattled rock is in the throes of a pandemic. A rogue microbe is having its tragic way with the global human family, taking lives and livelihoods – and sparking hollered discourse whose virulence may outlive that of the outbreak itself. Larks, ants, trees and inkfish are not affected by the outbreak, as far as we can tell.

Humans alone are affected. Epidemiologists believe this may indicate a viral mechanism attuned to a “maximal systemic collapse” model, wherein the

optimal host organism is the one most likely to flap its politically charged piehole in perpetuity. In this way, the lifeless little bug – just a cheap copy machine wearing a protein jacket – can be assured that long after an actual vaccine is found, we’ll continue busily tearing down everything the virus itself couldn’t get to. Talk about your novel virus!

DIVINE INOCULATION In micrographs, this world-slapping virus looks like a gang of fuzzy marbles loitering menacingly around healthy cells. In tidily-produced graphic illustrations, though, the novel coronavirus is portrayed as a sort of festive piñata; one that teasingly invites the antiviral clubbing we’re assured is in the works.

In either case, the appearance of the virus amounts to a world-spanning story of strangely magisterial proportions – just the sort of mail-order reminder the Divine sends down once in a while to get us united across races, creeds, colors, and the other wholly-invented gibberish we’ve so neatly leveraged – down through the hapless eons – to miserably divide ourselves. Are we taking the plausibly Divine hint and uniting? Um... let’s just put it this way. “Nope.”

SCI-FI MY EYE The COVID-19 crisis is the very stuff of late-sixties/early-seventies Charlton Heston movies that portray human beings as Armageddon-causing dimwits.

Soylent Green, The Omega Man, Planet of the Apes – these remonstrative collapse classics trafficked in collective human

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shame, and we filled movie theaters in droves to take our medicine. The final, mind-folding scene of Planet O’ Apes provides both Panavision® penance for human wrongdoing, and the opportunity for marvelous scenery-chewing by an unnervingly lithe Mr. Heston.

Heston’s Omega Man, though, seems to be the template for our current situation. The 1971 screenplay is tweaked to make us fear the Soviets – and to offer a more realistic plague (one of the screenwriters was a Chemistry PhD; parents of soon-to-be freshman chemistry majors take note) – but the original Richard Matheson novel on which the movie is based has humanity wiped out by a bacterial plague spread by bats and mosquitoes. Heston is chased and besieged throughout the film by a science-hating group called The Family – a collective of infected humans (captained by storied Santa Barbara thespian Anthony Zerbe) bent on tearing down the highbrow tech they blame for destroying the world. The Family wander around a deserted Los Angeles like post-apocalyptic Luddites in fashionable hooded burlap, light-sensitive eyes hidden behind swinging Foster Grant aviator shades.

Death by viral suffocation is not an occasion for uncivil discourse, people. What say we go a little easier on each other?

An early episode of The Outer Limits – the bizarre, gloves-off early sixties scifi omnibus – likewise takes a “divided mankind” theme to its naively human extreme. A team of hopefuls surgically alter a volunteer (actor Robert Culp) and stage a phony alien invasion, one the “Architects of Fear” hope will finally unite the world behind a common cause – defeating a threat from outer space.

The plan worked about as well as most Earthly peace plans, Culp’s character stuck looking like a Neptunian orangutan into the deal. Will we ever learn?

Not in the near-term, it would seem.

DYSTOPIAN DOPES As the novel coronavirus continues taking its toll, we’ve pivoted – in the usual jiffy – from alarm to recalcitrance to placard-pumping protest. There is, to date, no calamity we can’t turn into an embarrassing exercise in culture-war juvenilia. “Anti-Lockdowners” (known more colloquially as “Downers”) pour

angrily into the streets to agitate for individual freedom, seeing in microbial disorder the seeds of a newly-hatched oppression scheme, or something.

The willfully locked-down (known variously as “Snowflakes” and “Flakes”) continue to holler through the picture window that we need to stay inside until the All Clear is sounded – this despite millions of wage earners and small business owners having already been screwed for life by economic bronchial distress.

It may be worth noting that some of the most vocal stay-at-homers don’t themselves fear imminent homelessness, or anyway trust somehow that our Keystone Cops Federal Government will keep printing and mailing the necessary colored paper. Meanwhile the mainstream press – understandably terrified COVID’s fruitful news cycle fodder will go away – underreport, overreport and misreport the already jaw-dropping utterances of our bewildering President, and otherwise engage in a breathless new journalism I’ll call High School Inconsequential. CNN’s always-startling Chris Cillizza gets a special callout here for his sophomoric anti-President posturing and “Homecoming King of English 101” spirit of catty self-congratulation.

SNOWFLAKES AND TYRANNY TRACKERS – LAY DOWN YOUR IDIOT ARMS Death by viral suffocation is not an occasion for uncivil discourse, people.

What say we go a little easier on each other? Dear Flakes – are the folks who want to get back to work, feed their families and keep their homes really the enemy? Hey, Downers – do you really think the shut-ins are merely liberty-hating chickensh*ts? Everyone – get your heads out of your capsids. We’re all (and if you’re not, for g*d’s sake keep your hand down) Americans. This is the United States of America. Remember?

Do we really have to keep taking this crap out on EACH OTHER? This is a freaking terrific country, built on the best intuitions of the Old World (the Magna Carta) and pointedly divested by the Founders of the Continent’s most pungent offal (an unchecked executive branch, repped at the time by lovable Mad King George).

From sea to shining sea, the U.S. of A. is aswarm with an inimitable, globally unique people. We do not need to turn everything that besets our American Family into divisive jackass flapdoodle.

Our common enemy – in some interpretations – looks like the main event at an eight-year-old’s birthday party.

How hard can this be? Grab a stick and let’s go get some candy.

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THEBUDGUY LIZ ROGAN: HELPING THE CONVERSATION AROUND CANNABIS GROW

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annabis is an ongoing conversation. From legal regulation and industry standards to product testing and the ever expanding field of cannabinoid research, there is a lot to be discussed about the industry and cannabis as it continues to play a bigger role in our society. At the center of these discussions, one will often find Liz Rogan. A trained biologist, Liz has helped influence every aspect of the industry. Her own career has grown with the tenacity of a cannabis plant, evolving alongside the industry.

We recently met for a phone interview that lasted an appropriate 4 hours and 20 minutes. As we’re both science geeks, the chatter drifted between terpene chemistry and pesticide solubility to permitting and regulation, among a myriad of other subjects.

One thing is clear, there is a lot to be said about cannabis.

Liz has a lifetime understanding and appreciation of science, coming from

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a medical background with her dad being a doctor. One of her first jobs was putting together medical charts for her father’s office. Originally wanting to be a veterinarian, Liz ended up pursuing biology in college. She spent years working in the field as a biologist, studying endangered species in the wild and taking data. In 2003, Liz was accepted for a research project with the Predatory Bird Research Group as a joint effort between the Vandenberg Air Force Base, Point Reyes Bird Observatory, and UC Santa Cruz. This brought her out to the central coast where she would spend six-month seasons on the base, rock climbing and rappelling down cliffs to do population studies of different bird communities as the base’s seabird biologist. The seasonal aspect of field work means that she’s always had to work other jobs. At the time she would work days on the base and then drive to Montecito to work as a bartender

Liz Rogan works with every aspect of the cannabis industry

at the now defunct Peabody’s. After about four years, the founder of the observatory unexpectedly passed and the project’s contract was coming to a close. Fortunately, she had just met a couple who were starting a dispensary and offered her a management position. She wrapped up her project at Vandenberg and began on a new path that would lead to her storied career.

Over the years she ended up managing several dispensaries and even helped start up different delivery services. As she established standard operating procedures (SOPs) and oversaw inventory, she gained insight into the business of cannabis. This also put her in direct contact with patients ...continued p.20

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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.

MAHO-lo: Man About my Home Office

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don’t know if my editor will get around to changing the title of this column – new fonts aren’t cheap, after all – but this man hasn’t been spending a whole lot of time around town. Not in person, anyway. Last time I took a drive down State Street it evoked a very strange feeling, like a cross between nostalgia (missing all the activity) and grateful (a visual reference to how life has slowed down and become more about being than doing). And it wasn’t just the lack of pedestrian and vehicular traffic – it was seeing marquees at the major venues and movie theaters sporting only “stay at home” messages rather than what was playing or on its way, and all of the nightclubs with shuttered doors.

Also strange was perusing my own personal calendar in anticipation of writing this column. You see, I haven’t had the heart to delete more than a week’s worth of now-canceled events at a time, so looking down the road for a month and seeing a list of all the people, plays and shows we aren’t going to see was a bit disheartening.

For example, Tenderly – The Rosemary Clooney Musical was supposed to premiere at Ensemble Theater on June 13, but nope. SOhO and its nightly lineup of music is shuttered. There will be no Concerts in the Park, no shows at the Santa Barbara Bowl, no PCPA summer shows even in the open-air venue known as the Solvang Festival Theater. Insult to injury, the Lobero’s ambitious rescheduling of spring concerts proved too optimistic, as such rescheduled events as Taj Mahal (June 9) and The Moth Mainstage (June 11) have had to be canceled yet again, with, smartly, no new dates as yet announced.

Maybe not all of this will still be true by the time this paper exits circulation – although I’d imagine the concert halls and theaters will be the last places allowed to lift restrictions.

On the other hand, it’s been amazing how quickly and how much has migrated online over Zoom, Facebook Live and other platforms. It ain’t the real thing, that’s for sure, but you can’t beat the convenience of having live

shows beamed into your own home or other sheltering site for viewing on screens from tiny mobile phones to huge flatscreens in the living room.

LOCALS LAYING DOWN THE LYRICS ONLINE Glen Phillips has been leading the streaming party, having launched 30-minute (or longer) concerts on his Facebook page (https://www.facebook. com/GlenPhillipsMusic) that at one point back in March and early April were running nearly nightly but have now crystallized around shows every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 pm, when he offers selections from Toad the Wet Sprocket, solo and other catalogues and almost always takes requests. In the most recent gig just hours before this was written, Phillips had upped the game by doing a split-screen version of songwriters-in-the-round with old musical pal Sean Watkins (of Nickel Creek fame, with whom Phillips recorded an album as Mutual Admiration Society), who was a frequent participant in the live versions periodically at SOhO. The two traded songs and stories for more than an hour – Phillips called it Song Pong – with Phillips controlling the video to focus just on the featured performer and with both sides shown simultaneously. More than 300 people tuned in for the stream at the start. Making it even cooler, proceeds from viewer donations are earmarked for local nonprofits (Wilderness Youth Project on May 18, L.A. Regional Food Bank in deference to his guest on May 20).

Phillips also plays every Sunday at 5 pm in a slightly more formal format (in that you gotta go to their webpage rather than his) for the Stageit platform, streamable at https://www.stage it.com. And the Sprocket-man also leads weekly song circles over Zoom where he’s got to mute the participants because internet lag prevents everyone singing along in sync, but he’s gotten the looping of the various parts himself so you can harmonize along – and not even have to give a second thought if your voice wanders off key. (You’ll have to message himself to get that link.)

Similarly, one-time Minneapolis rock

Longtime blues guitarist Alastair Greene

star turned Santa Barbara singer-songwriter Tina Schlieske has been congregating her singing sister Laura (co-lead vocalist in Area 51) for Saturday night specials called “Tina & Laura Live From Lockdown,” loosely-organized concerts, storytelling and all around joking around that often runs upwards of 90 minutes or more. We’re told show No. 10, dubbed “Young Americans” – which was pretty dang great – might be the last one for a while, or at least on into June, but you can still catch the archives on Tina’s Facebook page at www. facebook.com/TinaSchlieske.

Then there’s Throwdown Thursdays with Alastair Greene in which the longtime Santa Barbara blues guitarist extraordinaire offers up an hour’s worth of original and cover songs along guitar geekery, a vinyl sharing segment of “What are you listening to?” and a new segment of “Name That Song!” All eight episodes through May 14 were still up and running on, as Greene calls it, Ye Olde Book of Face (www.face book.com/alastairgreene71). Like the others, Greene gabs it up with the camera giving a feel that he’s talking directly to you in something akin to a private online concert, and checks the chat for requests and other comments. He, too, gives a portion of the cash collected to a charity; that week it was Doctors Without Borders.

TEEN STARS AND TONY TWOSOME Among other cool local pop music stuff you can still stream is a special Stay at Home concert from May 9 fea-

turing nine of the winners of the annual Teen Star Santa Barbara, including current champ Andie Bronstad plus Allison Lewis, Bear Redell, Rachel La Commare, Sydney Shalhoob, Jackson Gillies, Daniel Geiger, Nolan Montgomery, and Sofia Schuster all singing their hearts out from the home hearth (https://www.facebook.com/ TeenStarSB).

Before we call it quits on this column, we’ve gotta mention our current fave rave in streaming videos during the coping-with-COVID era: Jason Isbell celebrated the release of his latest studio album Reunions by sharing the stage with his equally talented singer-songwriter wife Amanda Shires at an empty Brooklyn Bowl Nashville for a live-streamed performance on May 15, representing the first-ever (albeit fanless) concert at the new Nashville venue which was supposed to open earlier this year with 30 straight days of concerts. The acoustic show with Isbell on guitar and Shires on violin in the empty venue, available at https:// youtu.be/6boaC37xogk, was magical on many levels, not the least of which was the fact that no audience meant no whoops and hollers drowning out the more intimate moments from the pair, and no applause that at a normal show often breaks the spell by coming in so loud even before the final note is struck.

Gotta find the silver linings in every cloud.

Hopefully, if things go copacetic with the post-coronavirus reopening, we’ll see you around town real soon.

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ON ART

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by Margaret Landreau

In the last 18 years, Margaret Landreau has accumulated 13 years of serving on the Board of Directors of Santa Barbara County arts-related nonprofits and has worked as a freelance arts writer for 10 years. She creates her own art in her Carpinteria studio.

LISA MCGILL – FINE ART PAINTER

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e are all of us missing the Sunday Arts & Crafts Show along Cabrillo Boulevard, but especially painter Lisa McGill. McGill joined the Art Show three years ago and is still excited to go back to being there on Sundays. As McGill describes it, “It’s like my dream, to show my artwork right there at the beach that inspires it, that’s the best feeling. To have that be where I go to when I go to work. I sold a painting my first day! I’m so appreciative!”

McGill paints her signature palm trees and seascapes using a color palette drawing from the blues and greens of the sea, the greys and blues of the local sky, and green and light brown from surrounding land. McGill has worked in watercolors and oil paint, and currently uses acrylic paint. She intersperses sea images with cacti in colorful bloom or bright backgrounds and creates a cooler southwestern palette by mixing traditional warm tones with teal and seafoam and soft blues that she collects from the sea.

Born and raised in Ventura and Santa Barbara, McGill bonds closely with the natural world around us. Considering herself a crafter, she’s explored many media since taking her first art classes in high school including building and decorating distressed furniture. “I feel that I need to be using my gifts. When I’m not doing it, I feel empty inside and guilty and need to be doing it again.

I am looking into offering a painting workshop through Salty Brothers Soap

Co. when they are fully open.”

She concentrates on staying healthy.

She expresses that she’s doesn’t fear becoming ill so much as that people will stop hugging and touching. Having worked as a massage therapist, she hopes to be a bright light, exchanging good energy with others, and the thought of people closing themselves off to others saddens her. Walking three times a day with her rescue doggies has comforted her amidst all the recent turmoil and crises. McGill has a strong interest in rescuing dogs and has talked with her best friend/half-sister about opening a rescue shelter when they retire.

Please come see the newly hung show of her paintings at Salty Brothers Soap

Co., 429 State Street, which is now open now by appointment; contact Saltybros soap.com.

She will be featured at an artist’s reception at the new Salty Brothers Soap Co. at a future date TBD. McGill also has shows pending at Roy’s

Restaurant and Carr Winery when the isolation order is released, and will be returning to the Santa Barbara Arts & Crafts Show when it opens again on Cabrillo Boulevard. Contact McGill at Palmerasb@gmail.com and Instagram: Palmerasb.

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E’S NOTE by Elliana Westmacott

PLANB by Briana Westmacott When Briana isn’t lecturing for her writing courses at UCSB and SBCC, she contributes to The Santa Barbara Skinny, Wake & Wander and Flutter Magazine. Along with her passion for writing and all things Santa Barbara, much of her time is spent multi-tasking through her days as a mother, wife, sister, want-to-be chef and travel junky. Writing is an outlet that ensures mental stability... usually.

Elli was born and raised in Santa Barbara and is now 14 years old. She has been writing E’s Note in the paper for four years. Elli loves soccer and has been playing since she was in preschool. She especially enjoys traveling the world with friends and family. Her goal is to pursue a career in journalism.

COFFEE WITH A CAT DURING CORONAVIRUS

SANTA BARBARA’S YOUTH TAKE ACTION

very morning I wake up, and for a few minutes, I question whether all of this is a dream. Wait, did I forget to set my alarm? Will we be late for school and work and life? It’s a fleeting moment that is washed away by the numbing reality – there’s no pressing reason to get up. I roll over and let some more time pass by before facing another day… in lockdown.

Like many of you, I’ve lost count of the days. Once I do get out of bed, I have started a new shelter-in-place-inspired-routine that involves having coffee with our cat.

We adopted Coco as a present for my youngest daughter Lila on her 12th birthday. It was way back on January 31, right around the time the world was getting news that the coronavirus was causing a great deal of trouble in China. Back then, as far as we knew, The Virus was nowhere near to here, and to be honest, I had no idea that it ever would be.

Now, I cringe just typing the letters, coronavirus or COVID-19, whatever you want to call the beast. The daily emails and news media posts about it make me dizzy, overloaded with too many ways to hand-sew a face mask and panic. To keep some sense of sanity, I turn to my cat.

We found Coco at Cat Therapy, otherwise known as The Cat Café. The Cat Café is a feline-filled forum that, before closing for COVID, had close to thirty kittens and cats cruising around for you to meet. Your close encounters with these creatures, termed cat therapy, involved stroking, cuddling, and playing with the furry friends. All of the felines were available for adoption and, of course, we ended up taking one special one home. I have to say; it was the best decision we made in 2020 thus far. We will never forget that we adopted Coco just minutes before a global pandemic.

t’s true; our world is going through a crisis unlike any we’ve ever seen before. COVID-19 has completely changed our lives and has affected nearly every human being on this planet, so, while desperately in need of something to do during quarantine, I found a positive thing to have come from this crisis.

Zoomers to Boomers is an organization I have recently been volunteering for that allows our older population to stay safely at home. At the same time, their groceries and necessities are brought to their porch. COVID-19 has had a more significant effect on our older community, and it is critical to help these people to remain at home as much as possible. Zoomers (Generation Z) go out and do the grocery shopping for “Baby” Boomers, as a service to the local community. Boomers put their list on the website, and Zoomers do their shopping and deliver it all to their door for free. Zoomers to Boomers is an organization that started right here in Santa Barbara. Daniel Goldberg, a local junior at San Marcos High School, is the president and founder of this organization. He started Zoomers to Boomers with a few friends who stepped in to help. They got many grocery stores on board, and it has spread from there.

There are now more than 20 other cities internationally that have set up their own Zoomers to Boomers community.

Daniel and his team have been putting in nearly 12 hours per day and work seven days a week, the definition of dedication. Because of their commitment, older people all over our country don’t have to worry about whether they will contract this terrible virus from merely buying groceries. And it gives many of us in high school a way to help our community.

When I heard about Zoomers, I real-

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NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEMA AND PETS “The trick of choicelessness: We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.” ~ Pema Chodron Highs and lows. Roses and thorns.

I feel like my family has been riding a seesaw of emotions. (Mind you, we are sheltering-in-place with two teenage girls – bless my husband.) I like Pema’s term

Coco the cat

choicelessness; we did not choose to see the entire world shut down, to see people suffer loss from a disease that we can’t cure or control, to fear the outside world.

We did not choose to have a constant drip of panic seeping into our veins.

We can choose how we deal with the choicelessness. During my morning moments (while the coffee is brewing), I take 10 minutes to get some sweet snuggles from Coco. Would this have happened before The Virus? Absolutely not. I was always in motion; mornings were a blur in our house, getting up and ready to shuffle out into the world.

Now, I turn my focus to the immediate, what I have in front of me. I’m lucky to have my coffee and my cat. Blessings.

I’m fortunate to be healthy. I’m grateful to have a job that is still there for me.

The choicelessness that I am experiencing is currently not dire or life-threatening. While I have not experienced a loss due to COVID in my family, and I have not had to line up for food, my heart hurts every day in a new way. The pulse of humanity is beating at an alarmingly low rate.

How do we keep going each day while souls are suffering? It isn’t easy, but the silver linings are all around us, and COVID gives a new lens to see them.

We now have time (a great deal of it); time to feel the afternoon zephyr, watch the night sky, count the birds in the backyard. There is also a lot of time to look inside, reevaluate ourselves, where do we come from, what do we want from this life? And through it all, I will hold on to Coco and hope – hope for a cure, a vaccine, an end.

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food. www.losarroyos.net • Get outside ~ Circle Bar B Ranch and Stables is open and ready to take you horseback riding. What a great way to have an adventure while safely distancing! www.circlebarb.com • Work it out ~ Local fitness trainer Terrance Brown can give you a virtual butt-kicking right in your living room. www.browns.fitness • Get out of your mind ~ Chaucer’s

A Zoomer on the frontline

ized the importance of this movement, and I’ve been participating as a volunteer for over a month now. It is something I enjoy doing weekly. Zoomers has created an opportunity for me to connect with people I would never have met before (safely, from a distance of course). The first time that I did shopping and delivery was for a lovely woman, who I now deliver to regularly. She was so thankful that she gave me a book by an author who shared my same last name; she also told me that I was an angel. These actions, these helpful deliveries, have changed people’s lives and have surely altered mine.

Although I came into this organization to gain a few volunteer hours and to be helpful, I have realized what a difference the volunteers are making for people in this time of crisis. I hope my experience will influence some of my teenage readers to consider checking out Zoomers to Boomers (www.zoomerstoboomers.com).

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Books has curbside pick-up. Call them to order a copy of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. It will blow your mind. Of course, you should also get Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart. www. chaucersbooks.com • Outsource it ~ Do you need a gift for someone special? Dylan Star will put together personalized baskets filled with treasures and mail them out to your loved one. www.dylanstar.com

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‘Alone, Together’

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ey, for sure UCSB Department of Theater and Dance’s title for one of its current projects isn’t particularly unique – we imagine there’s zillions of folks across the globe using that phrase to describe an online offering (pretty sure it’s been employed here in town a time or two before).

On the other hand, what the school’s theater folks are doing sure seems exceedingly rare. Heck, the Launch Pad program that’s producing this special event is exclusive to UCSB already, the creation of Artistic Director Risa Brainin to give students an opportunity to work with professional playwrights on pieces that are still in development via a collaborative incubator for playwrights-in-residence, UCSB theater students, and professional guest artists.

When COVID-19 caused the closure of the campus and the loss of face-to-face instruction and productions, Brainin had the brainstorm to invite all of Launch Pad’s alumni playwrights to provide new material for the department’s students. No fewer than 24 of them said yes to the invitation to write monologues and short plays inspired by the prompt “Alone, Together” that are tailored specifically to be performed over the Zoom platform – a sort of virtual, online theater. That means that the works won’t have to be adapted to the strange online shelter-at-home environment because everything will either take place with one person set in one location, or have a reason why they can’t be together in the same room.

“Alone, Together” participating playwrights include Linda Alper, Katie Bender, Jami Brandli, Leo Cabranes-Grant, Dan Castellaneta, Mia Chung, Yussef El Guindi, Anne García-Romero, Idris Goodwin, Enid Graham, Lila Rose Kaplan, Davies King, Deb Lacusta, Beth Lincks, Jenny Mercein, Brian Otaño, Lynn Rosen, Cheri Steinkellner, James Still, Alison Tatlock, Annie Torsiglieri, John Walch, Cheryl L. West, and Sheri Wilner.

The brand new pieces are the centerpiece for the now-online directing class and provided nearly 100 roles for acting students to perform. Culminating in an endof-year “Zoom Festival” open to the public, “Alone, Together” also includes professional directors and guest artists who will showcase the whole thing on June 6.

The exact time was still to be determined at press time. Visit https://launchpad. theaterdance.ucsb.edu/alone-together for details and the Zoom room.

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than your arm, you’ll likely have to wait longer than it’ll take COVID-19 to be as harmless as the common cold to get in.

Meanwhile, Durling is sharing daily movie recommendations via email and online and engendering film oriented conversations via social media and emails. And the organization is part of a network of theaters that has arranged to have film that would or might have screened at the Riviera be available for rental for streaming, with half of the fee going back to the local theater. Check www.sbiff.org and https:// sbiffriviera.com for the details.

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UCSB Pollock Theater is also not resting on its considerable laurels in featuring filmic entertainment followed by discussions with the filmmakers, instead highlighting one of its past event series each week via posting links to videos of its post-screening conversations with scholars and media makers along with links to where each film can be watched online in advance. The most recent Series Spotlight in mid-May was Beatles Revolutions, with films that span documentary, animation and fictionalized versions of the Beatles’ lives, and interviews with distinguished guests who have written about, toured with, and produced music for the Beatles.

A Hard Day’s Night, which is available on Vudu and Amazon Prime Video, had a post-screening discussion with Santa Barbara-based journalist Ivor Davis, author of The Beatles and Me on Tour, which can be accessed at https://www.carseywolf. ucsb.edu/pollock-events/harddaysnight; 2007’s Across the Universe, Julie Taymor’s reimagining of the Beatles music as the soundscape for art, revolution, and love in the 1960s (also on Vudu and Amazon Prime Video) was dissected by the famed music and cultural critic Greil Marcus (www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock-events/ acrosstheuniverse) while the 1968 classic Yellow Submarine, set in the psychedelic paradise of Pepperland (available on iTunes/AppleTV), featured a post-screening discussion with artist and writer Bill Morrison and colorist Nathan Kane of The Beatles Yellow Submarine graphic novel, which you can watch at www.carseywolf. ucsb.edu/pollock-events/yellowsubmarine.

TFTT-T: Tales from the Tavern Television

Tales from the Tavern has been presenting concerts in the Santa Ynez Valley by traveling troubadours and world-class singer-songwriter-storytellers since 2003, and in that time every single performance along with an interview with each artist has been recorded and filmed by renowned music photographer Henry Diltz. A few DVDs have come out of those archives, but now with the concert club venue known as the Maverick Saloon shut down due to the pandemic, the performances have migrated over to online in an endeavor to help the touring musicians facing many months of cancelled gigs and keep the community together during the coronavirus crisis.

The series’ creators have created a YouTube channel, Tales from the Tavern Television, which has produced four programs that each include live concert performances, stories from the stage and backstage interviews, while the featured artist or artists are on hand to interact with the viewers and listener in a real-time chat.

Four more shows have been scheduled to run in June, every Wednesday night at 5:30 pm, and are offered for free, although online donations are accepted during the premiere broadcast, with the money going to the artists to help offset revenue loss, and to Tales from the Tavern to help mix and edit more episodes. Visit www.

Getting SBIFF-y with Streaming youtube.com/user/roncolone to tune in, catch the archived episodes (while they’re The Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Cinema Society wasn’t about to still available), or go to www.talesfromthetavern.com for more details. let a silly thing like stay-at-home orders submerge its periodic preview screenings of new movies followed by Q&A with a filmmaker or two. Sure, the Riviera Theatre FULL SERVICE MAINTENANCE & REPAIR has gone dark for the duration, but “The Durls” – aka SBIFF executive director Roger Durling – has found a way to still get his interview on, via the magic of Zoom, of course. You’ve got to be a member of Cinema Society to get invited to the Established 1978 Locally Owned actual live screenings and Q&A sessions, but anyone can tune in after the fact via IMP IM PORT AUT UTO O REPA IR SBIFF’s YouTube channel (youtube.com/user/officialSBIFF) to watch the virtual Q&A sessions. Both of the films that have been featured so far have since been Specializing In Mercedes • BMW•Audi released for on-demand viewing, so you can actually even know what the director is Rolls Royce• Mini•VW talking about and duplicate the original experience, should you so choose.

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where she could put her background in biology to use and help guide them to the right product, often working as a patient specialist. With this she also got to see firsthand which products worked, and which ones didn’t, sparking her interest in the science behind what was happening. Throughout her career Liz also worked on the plant side, helping trim and grow cannabis.

Working directly with grow operations helped her understand the biology behind the plant, its lifecycle and nutrient uptake behavior. She worked with formulation and edible production as well, which gave her an understanding of these processes and what was going into the products being sold on the market. Sensing a ceiling with the dispensaries, a friend encouraged her to branch out and start a consulting business that could put all of her knowledge and skills to use.

At the center of her career is Liz Rogan & Associates. This firm offers business consulting, wellness coaching, and educational outreach. Between the state and county licenses and landuse permits, it can be a lot of hoops to jump through for anyone looking to start up a cannabis business. Her firm helps streamline this process guiding businesses through the permitting process. They also offer established businesses in everything from branding to product development. There is still so much that is misunderstood about cannabis, and part of their

firm’s goal is to help educate people on the industry, permits, and medical potential of cannabis. Over the years Liz has spoken at conferences and organizations like the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center and the American Arthritis Association. Liz has also been involved with patient treatments using medical marijuana since 2003 and continues that work today. She provides oneon-one patient consulting, working alongside their doctor. She will listen to what the client is going through and come up with a formulation and treatment plan that suits them best.

Hearing everyone’s stories and helping treat their medical needs is one of the parts that she enjoys most and finds the most rewarding.

Liz is uniquely positioned to consult on the permitting process as she actually helped write the regulations and process. Years back she attended a women’s cannabis grow and leadership conference. Liz was inspired from the experience when she returned and decided to establish what would later become known as the Cannabis Business Council of SB County (CBCSB).

The council was comprised of cultivators, distributors, dispensaries, lab analysts, tourism, basically all areas of the cannabis industry. AB266 and AB243 were the first two laws coming down the pipeline after the recreational use of cannabis in California was approved.

The CBCSB worked together with community organizers, policy writers,

attorneys, and a publicist to write an ordinance that put together a suggested policy framework. They also worked on educating local officials and the public about the cannabis plant and industry. Overall the process took about two years, but they were pleased to see that a lot of their suggested language was adopted into the finished bills.

Since then, different members of the CBCSB have splintered off into other associations that address the individual concerns of those specific regions, like the CARP Growers and Good Farmers Great Neighbors in north county. Regulation, industry standardization, and community engagement is an ongoing process.

In addition to her other roles in the industry, Liz serves as a partner in a 10,000 square foot propagation nursery where they get cannabis plants started for the surrounding farms, or as she calls it, “just making babies.”

Many cannabis companies choose not to grow their own babies, but rather, buy them from a nursery. This is partly because a nursery requires a separate license and partly because a nursery is valuable space where full sized plants could be growing. Raising clones for a full-sized operation requires having a large library of genetics on hand and the scaling-up process will often take over a thousand plants and a nursery has to have enough plants on hand to take those cuttings. Liz notes that many farms would like to grow their

own plants from seeds, but oftentimes it is easier and more efficient to just go through a nursery. One of the other benefits is that this allows farms to switch up strains more frequently, giving them more versatility in the market. All of their plants are grown 100% organic using chemical-free pest management.

Their nursery is unique in that the owners are very hands-on and they are also active in research. Their facility is looking at genetics as well as cannabinoid and terpene contents from cannabis plants from around the world, such as a promising strain from Morocco. There is still much left to be discovered about the medicinal benefits of cannabis and their research is probing into these unknown areas of science. Typically we think about the flowers of the cannabis plant, however, the leaves have shown promise in treating cancer patients. The nursery also provides a fresh source of leaves for patients. By having access to the lab space, if Liz wants to look more into a certain aspect of the plant, she has the ability to do that.

Most recently, Liz became the Executive Director of the American Academy of Cannabinoid Medicine. This clinical medicine scientific association is comprised of doctors, physicians, and other medical industry members who have a focus on the field of endogenous cannabinoids in both plant-derived and synthetic forms. The scope of their organization covers clinical and physiological studies of cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system, as well as education outreach for both the medical industry and general public. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, they released an article detailing the cautions and possible benefits of cannabis use. The article explores the differences between consuming cannabis from smoking and eating it (of course it used the more technical terms, “respiratory” and “orally”). Recommending that people ingest cannabis, and do not smoke it during this time, due to bronchial irritation smoking causes, among other concerns. This is a new position for her and she is excited to step into the role. But really she just finds it an honor to work alongside such prestigious doctors and researchers, and a promising opportunity to provide real help to people in need. One thing is for sure, there is a lot more to be said about cannabis, its biology, and the industry.

Fortunately, Liz is there to say it.

Visit lizrogan.com for more information on Liz Rogan & Associates and their services.

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By Elizabeth Rose Since 2015, I Heart SB has followed Elizabeth Rose through dating in Santa Barbara and falling in love, a long-distance relationship, living on a 34’ sailboat then sailing from Washington to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The couple is now engaged, back on dry land, living in an Airstream in Carpinteria. Comments welcome at ihearterose@ gmail.com. For more stories, visit www.ihearterose.com.

UNSOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN A 22’ AIRSTREAM

Our Sprinter Van we roam the country in. We were in the middle of a secluded desert when this picture was taken. To us, mobility = freedom!

The 22’ vintage Airstream I share with my fiancé during the stay-at-home order. (And we love it!)

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read Les Firestein’s column in the Montecito Journal entitled, Unsolitary Confinement and Other Considerations in the Age of Coronavirus, in the 22’ Airstream I share with my fiancé, Jason. Our bedroom is our living and dining room.

Everything we need is almost an arm’s reach away. We have one door to the outside and one for the bathroom, and, for the most part, we like it that way. For those who have followed this column over the past five years, you know it’s how we roll. For three years, we traveled on a 34’ sailboat from Washington to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. On land, we travel the country in a slightly built-out Sprinter Van that we park near the 22’ tin can in which we live. Unsolitary confinement is all we’ve known in our relationship. You could say it’s our specialty.

Which made me pause while reading Les’s column last week. Especially the part about “how we live in our homes and what we’re stuffing into them says much about how our species adapts... and how it doesn’t.” Though I believe he meant hoarding toilet paper, it led me to think about why Jason and I decided to live in a sailboat, and now an Airstream. Living small is a lifestyle more than a dwelling.

It’s unconventional from the norm. (Honestly, it feels like the magical clubhouse or pillow fort you built as a kid, but with the bonus of a kitchen, refrigeration, and indoor plumbing.) As true Millennials, we value more experiences and less stuff.

Extreme downsizing from a “normal” home was a challenge, but it freed us from, well, all the crap we didn’t need. Goodbye, fifteen coffee mugs. Peace out twenty pairs of shoes. See ya later drawers of t-shirts, half of which I never wore. Downsizing can be stressful, but if you’re ready to make a change, it is liberating AF. (That’s Millennial talk for “very liberating.”) We live small to lead bigger lives; to have the freedom to pick up and go and do as we please. Our species is evolving into Millennials and Gen Z, and I think it’s a testament that we acquire meaningful moments and let unnecessary stuff go. For example, many Millennials are foregoing wedding registries for matching sets of china and opting, instead, for honeymoon funds to travel to China. Less stuff, more freedom, and less distraction from what matters most. Quality time over quantity of stuff. It’s how we roll, but there are no wrong answers here – different strokes for different folks.

The other part in Les’s piece that stuck was, “Last I checked, there is no ‘ohm’ in home.” The thing is, there is, quite literally, an ‘om’ in home, and it means the same thing. Ohm, Om, or Aum, or however you want to spell it, is how you perceive it.

I’m paraphrasing here, but Buddhism suggests that if you change perspective, beauty is found, even if your annoying loved one who’s just two feet away. This brings me to what Les mentioned about the Ms Pinkett Smith interview about not knowing her husband after two kids and twenty-three years. I have to say, that makes me sad. Believe me, I completely understand the saying, “Relationships are hard work.”

Jason and I are over four years in, and it’s exhausting. (My mom laughs, saying, wait until you hit forty.) And I realize people change in relationships, but it seems if the Pinkett Smiths opted for a tiny house at the beginning of their marriage, they’d be better off, and I’ll tell you why. Though Jason and I trigger each other at least once a day (I’m being modest AF), arguments in close quarters are dealt with as quickly as they come, whether we’re ready to deal or not. We have nowhere to run and stew over what the other said. There aren’t doors to slam (unless we slam the “French doors” to the bathroom, which just seems silly). Instead, we tirelessly communicate to squash the drama because when you live in a small space, ain’t nobody got time – or the space – for that. As a woman expressed in a writing group once upon a time, triggers are mere “reflections with love.” Either way, since I want to marry this guy and “reflect with love” till the day I die, here are a few ways we find alone time in a tiny space. I call it, “Separate Togetherness”: • Keep your favorite snacks separate. What saved our relationship on the sailboat and, now, in an Airstream, is keeping separate jars of peanut butter (we both like crunchy, but he prefers salt). and bags of organic dark chocolate chunks with dried cherries. We even write our names to tell them apart. Watching Jason polish off the last of our snacks is reason enough to terminate the relationship. It’s one of those, pick-your-battles type of thing.

• Zoning out side-by-side. Getting lost in books, magazines, computers, or scrolling through phones is the easiest way to peace out from your loved one. You can up the experience by politely telling them not to talk to you for an hour (or four).

Plus, earphones work magic. Sometimes we’ll kiss each other goodbye, put in the earbuds, and Boom! Sayonara, sweetheart.

• Sleep separately. If you’re struggling, this is most helpful. In our boat, the V-berth was the ultimate “separate togetherness.” (For those who don’t sail, when a couple lies in a V-berth, their shoulders are about a King-sized bed away from each other, and their feet share a space about the size of 1/2 a Twin mattress.) To me, it’s perfect balance. You’re so close yet far away. In the Airstream, we have separate pullout “couch” beds, which enunciates this point even further. Which, I’m beginning to understand, is the reason my grandparents were married for sixty years – separate twin beds.

• Find an outdoor hobby or encourage your partner into one. Hobbies like gardening or outdoor projects, which Jason loves, are key to our happy relationship. As a writer, I man the WiFi through deadlines and spread out on the extra workspace in the kitchen area like it’s my own 3’x4’ bachelorette pad.

If you try some of these tricks and have more than 22’ of living space, I promise you’ll survive the stay-at-home order with family. There is “om” in home if you aren’t hiding from the people and stuff that surrounds you. Face that stuff head-on and you’ll be stronger for it. Excuse me – you’ll be stronger AF.

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by Eva Van Prooyen Keeping a finger on the pulse of the Santa Ynez Valley: what to eat, where to go, who to meet, and what to drink. Pretty much everything and anything situated between the Santa Ynez and San Rafael Mountains that could tickle one’s interest.

THE VALLEY REBOOT: HELLOS, GOODBYES, HEARTS, AND BLUEBERRIES

THE MAVERICK SALOON… AND GRILL? e’re making some changes. We are planning to offer a full menu,” says Jimmy Loizides, owner of the Maverick Saloon, “but the bigger news is – we will be open to all ages!”

In the face of adapting to the current global reset Jimmy says, “We are reinventing the Maverick. We wanted to do it anyway.” Jimmy reports they have been repositioning seating for dining inside and plan to add a patio front cover for open-air seating.

The new menu is taking shape and has yet to be revealed, but guests can expect “a Maverick inspired full menu” geared to a new bar and grill, “with really cool appetizers and nightly specials,” says Jimmy, giving a vague top-secret wink to nightly specials likely to include a tomahawk night, prime rib night, fried chicken night, and even rolling a smoker out front for smokehouse chicken and ribs.

“We will be ready by July 1st if we are allowed to open. We are excited, but we are more excited to be open and part of the community again,” says Jimmy.

At the end of 2017, Jimmy and Karen Loizides became “lucky number seven” in line as new owners of the Maverick Saloon. This long-standing, classic honky-tonk watering hole and dance hall in Santa Ynez opened in 1963 and was named after the TV series starring James Garner.

Jimmy says, “We will have acoustic music for ambiance and a Sunday brunch for sure,” and once California enters into Stage Four – ending the stay-at-home order, “we can go back to offering dancing for 21 and over after 8 pm on the weekends.”

Jimmy also owns K’Syrah Catering and Events in Solvang, offering farm to table culinary experiences with season-driven dishes. For more information visit www. themavericksaloon.com.

Buellton on Fridays and to Solvang, Santa Ynez, Los Olivos, and Ballard on Saturdays between 4 and 8pm.

Ice cream lovers can choose from a selection of 20 flavors including: vanilla bean, pistachio amaretto, mint chip, and whiskey caramel pecan praline – and toppings like rainbow sprinkles and hot fudge; each pint is $10.

Place an order no later than Thursday by 3 pm, the ice cream truck gets loaded on Friday, and pints of ice cream are delivered to your door. It is recommended you leave a cooler by your door for drop off.

To place an order with Solvang Trolley Ice Cream Parlor call (805) 794-8958 or visit www.solvangtrolley.com.

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STAR DRUGS CLOSES nding a twenty-year run, Santa Ynez Star Drugs owners Steven and Joan Reden closed the doors to their celebrated independent community pharmacy on April 24.

Steven and Joan report they will miss seeing their customers on a regular basis, but they are closing to enter retirement, and look forward to new adventures with family and friends.

Steven has been a pharmacist for more than 50 years, and all their clients’ information will be transferred to the new CVS location in Solvang. Their employees have all been offered positions there as well, reports Reden.

Established in 2000 and known for their small-town friendly service, Star Drugs’ boutique-styled pharmacy was conveniently tucked away on Madera Street, one block off the main thoroughfare of Santa Ynez. The pharmacy offered a full line of vitamins alongside a carefully curated selection of greeting cards, soaps, small gifts, candies, sundries, and office supplies, as well as FedEx and UPS shipping services.

Star Drugs had become a main staple in Santa Ynez Valley, and they are sure to be missed.

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CVS OPENS s Star Drugs closed on April 24, CVS Pharmacy opened a new location in Solvang on April 25. Star Drugs customer files and prescriptions were transferred over to be managed by the new CVS. According to Merkantile Shopping Center developer Josh Richman, the new CVS construction project broke ground in 2015 and was completed in two phases, New Frontiers being the first.

CVS Pharmacy is open for business and offering free prescription delivery. They are located at 1982 Old Mission Drive in Solvang, (805) 691-6139.

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ach night, the east side windows the Chumash Casino Resort are illuminated to reveal a heart. Tribal officials shared it was important to let the community know they support them, and most specifically show their appreciation for all local health providers, first responders, nonprofits, essential workers, and their families.

“Every day they put the needs of others before their own, providing critical services that enable so many to stay at home. We are grateful for all they do to meet the needs of fellow residents during these unprecedented times,” says Chairman Kahn.

LAKE CACHUMA iking trails, boat fishing, strolls through the park, disk golf, fresh air and nature’s beauty are currently “open” and available at Lake Cachuma Recreational Area – for day use only.

Cachuma Lake is located in the Santa Ynez Valley and is approximately 22 miles northwest of Santa Barbara. Lake Cachuma is a non-body contact reservoir lake with a shoreline stretching 42 miles long where you can fish for Bass, Crappie, Trout, and Catfish.

Boat Rentals are available at Cachuma Lake through a private concessionaire at Cachuma Marina run by Rocky Mountain Recreation Company. A bait and tackle shop, along with a gas station, is located for your convenience on the marina dock. California Fishing & Hunting licenses are also available for purchase at the marina store.

Open seven days a week at 7 am, fisherman-style boats, single and double kayaks, canoes, and pedal boats are available for rent.

Mark your calendar as the annual Cachuma Fish Derby has been rescheduled for October 17 and 18. For more information call 805-688-4040

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WINE, VEGGIES, AND BLUEBERRY PICKING olded Hills Winery Ranch and Farmstead is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 am to 4 pm. They report they are stocked up with organic fresh produce, “straight from our fields, and baked goodies from the Folded Hills Kitchen.”

They are currently offering weekly Fresh Farm Boxes which include a varying assortment of fresh produce – for example: Shepherd salad mix, spinach, broccoli, chard, celery, cilantro and parsley. Each Farm Box is $30, or $20 when added on to any wine purchase. They will deliver straight to your front door when you add a Farm Box to an order of six bottles of wine or more.

Farm Box orders are available for pickup at the Folded Hills Homestead in Gaviota located at 2323 Old Coast Hwy. Pickups are available Tuesdays through Thursday from 11 am to 3 pm. Order online or call 805-694-8086 to schedule your pickup. Farm Boxes are packed and ready to go with any wine you may wish to add, they walk your order right out to your car, “no touch, no fuss!” and “your purchases go directly towards supporting our two awesome and beloved local farmers, Tom Shepherd and Maximino Iniguez,” says the Folded Hills team.

Neighbor Santa Barbara Blueberries opened for the 2020 season on Saturday, May 16th at 10 am. They report they are following current safety guidelines and invite guests to come and enjoy, “nutritious fruit, fresh air, and fun,” on their 18 acres of outdoor blueberry fields. They are located at 1980 US Highway 101 in Gaviota just south of Buellton.

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various things, and then I left so others could say hello. Turns out we were actually saying goodbye. We’ll miss you, Ted Mills is a local writer, filmmaker, artist, and podcaster Bob! (In lieu of a memorial service, the on the arts. You can listen to him at www.funkzonepodcast.com. He currently has a family has asked for any donations to be seismically dubious stack of books by his bed. Have an upcoming show you’d like us to put in Bob’s name to The Santa Barbara know about? Please email: tedmills@gmail.com Parkinson’s Association, The Santa Barbara Community Arts Workshop, The APOCALYPTIC ART Santa Barbara City College Center for ho knew that the apocalypse him during the summer of 2008 where Lifelong Learning, The Santa Barbara would result in an army not of he and I were both teachers slumming Art Association, The Santa Barbara Arts survivalists, but ones wearing it in Stephanie Dotson’s printmaking Fund, or a charity of your choice.) jim-jams all day, becoming apprentice class – I don’t know if he had already bakers, and learning how to sew? That started teaching there at that time or GRADUATE DAY was unexpected. Still it’s early days be- was about to do so. But he was just so ight now, one of my favorite galleries, fore we really get into some Mad Max inventive and his style so odd – lumpy, Sullivan Goss, is open by appointterritory, but hey, give us a chance! In almost naive figure drawing, but also all ment only. It’s a large space, and they the meantime, artists continue to work, deeply personal. Every print had a fam- promise you will have all the social disand they still have their shingle out, ily history behind it. Nothing was friv- tancing you need during your one-hour needing to sell. Some are loving the ex- olous. And as with all great artists, he visit. They currently have two shows tra time. Some have branched out into made it look so easy. For years after that hanging: Angela Perko – Just Another more experimental work. Some are des- he taught many a student in his Figure Pretty Picture, a modest way to describe perately poor and filled with anxiety – Drawing classes out of Adult Ed, and this artist’s deeply saturated paintings of actually, scratch that – *filled with even so many remembrances on my Face- foliage and insects (up through July 27); more anxiety than usual.* They all need book post were from his students. The and the UCSB MFA show, featuring your love and attention at this time. last time I saw Bob was when a lot of works by past graduates, many of whom us did: at his 2018 retrospective show are familiar names here in this column: IN MEMORIAM - BOB MASK at CAW, where years and years of his Ann Diener, Nathan Hayden, Yumiko ust a few days ago many of us read prints took up two full rooms. By this Glover, Mary Heebner, Tom Pazderabout the passing of Bob Mask, who time Bob was in a wheelchair, but still ka, Maria Rendón, Elisa Ortega Monsuccumbed to Parkinson’s at the age of kind and chatty as usual. I was lucky tilla, R. Nelson Parrish, Madeleine 72. If you were an artist or worked in to buy one of his nude prints, and told Eve Ignon, and Eric Beltz. And there the artist community, you probably him so – finally to have a Bob Mask are three solo shows upcoming May 29: knew Bob as a teacher or a friend. I met original in the collection. We spoke of Patricia Chidlaw, Leslie Lewis Sigler,

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