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S haron’s Take – Sharon Byrne gives a comprehensive lesson about the ordinance known as Additional Unit Density, which is AUD to you and me Biweekly Capitalist – No matter what presidential candidates promise, Jeffrey Harding explains why the massive national debt – and its interest – will continue to spike State Street Scribe – When Gaddafi came to power, Jeff Wing was cowering at home plate, about 10 miles away. Just a coincidence. Beer Guy – Zach Rosen puts on his thinking cap and serves up instructions about beer education; he recommends learning at Lama Dog, The Backroom, and reading the book, Tasting Beer Fortnight – Stacie Burrows and Shannon Noel on Center Stage; Concert Across America at Arlington; Iron & Wine and Dolly Parton perform; Nick Offerman and wife Megan; acoustic event at Earl Warren; SB Bowl-ing schedule; Avofest, One Love Experience, and concerts abound; as well as “Love is All You Need” SB Digs – It’s on the house for Chantal Peterson, who surveys the market scene – particularly a downtown pad – with a tip of the cap to the late architect Barry Berkus Business Beat – Chantal Peterson rides the wave of Trim Shop surfboards and its owner, Ryan Lovelace, who specializes in the hand-shaped brand Backstage Pass Q&A with Shakey Graves – The Austin-based musician ventures to the SB Bowl, where he opens September 30 for Gary Clark Jr. Berry Man – Raised in a health-conscious home, Cory Clark remains in the 5-star groove thanks to Sanitas Per Escam, Latin for “health through food” Creative Characters – Zach Rosen shapes the story of David Cooley, the latest big man on canvas whose specialty is “Rhythmic Nonsense” and other geometric art Plan B – A booming sound awakens Briana Westmacott. Is it a bomb? An earthquake? Nope, a tree has fallen on her house. For Your Good Health – Tis the season: as the flu descends, Sansum Clinic emphasizes the importance of getting vaccinated Man About Town – Mark Léisuré offers a sneak-peek of Ken Burns’s documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea and his lecture at the Granada; ETC begins season with Macbeth; and SBIFF to honor Warren Beatty I Heart SB – Sailing away? Elizabeth Rose may need inner direction, but she doesn’t monkey around when her beau voices driving instructions. SYV Snapshot – Eva Van Prooyen dishes out Bob’s Well Bread Bakery’s Challah; Great Grape Stomp; Chumash Inter-Tribal Pow Wow; Blessing of the Animals; 25th Celebration of Harvest; Grassini Crush Cookout; Day in the Country; and SY Scarecrow Festival

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Housing Density: Boom, Bulk, and Bureaucratic Boondoggle

dditional Unit Density, AUD, passed in 2013. Before your eyes roll back in your head from boredom, pay attention. This ordinance basically lets you jam lots of small apartments onto a lot with breaks on required parking spaces. No additional planning fees! The ordinance was intended to be an experiment that ran eight years, or created 250 units, whichever came first. In the AUD discussion, three housing terms get thrown around: Low-income subsidized – Think HUD, Housing Authority; 17% of the city’s housing stock is often quoted as belonging to this category. Affordable – According to city’s website, affordable = your rent should not exceed 30% of your gross income. Market-rate – The ceiling of what people are willing/able to pay, and it’s spiked dramatically in the past few years. A quick search of Zillow: studios are $1,400 to $2,200, 1 BR at $1,600 to $2,600, and 2 BR start at $2,000. The nicer ones are $3,000+. Clearly, these terms are not interchangeable. For affordable housing advocates, AUD is a sacred cow that could provide much-needed affordable housing. They’re thinking “Big A” Affordable, meaning low-income subsidized. In contrast, developers are seizing on AUD to provide market-rate housing, and the hope is that more rental inventory means more “little a” affordable housing, meaning it’s affordable for a higher-income workforce. The multi-million-dollar question, then, is who is benefitting from AUD, and is it the audience intended? The Marc at Upper State, an AUD project, is pre-leasing 2

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BR at $2,950 to $3,050. Using the city’s affordable rent definition, two roommates need to be pulling down $60,000 a year each to rent a Marc 2 BR unit. Are there hordes of young professional workers making that kind of money? Where exactly are they working? Some at City Hall want to stop and assess AUD, but have hit a boondoggle on the subject. Councilman Jason Dominguez sees AUD as a city-subsidized program because there are no additional AUD permit fees. The resulting AUD boom is (ironically) driving up land prices, because ROI is instantly higher when you can pack more units onto the same property. That further pinches the ability to provide low-income/Big A-Affordable housing. Dominguez’s ultimate concern is that AUD created a form of subsidized housing for those who needed it least – the urban professional class that can afford $2,500+ rents. What about low-income working families evicted from an affordable, if ramshackle, property now slated for market-rate AUD units? The affordable housing advocates are silent on that subject. Interestingly, the planning commission pointed out that the state provides bonus density with rent restrictions as a way to lock in affordable housing. There’s no such provision in AUD. Councilman “Bendy” White has been leading the charge on infrastructure. The city is already grappling with a huge backlog of needed, but unfunded, infrastructure repairs, and will de-facto foot the bill for increased infrastructure usage resulting from higher densities. Higher development fees could have provided some infrastructure funding. White and Dominguez brought these concerns before city council but failed to get a majority to hit the pause button. AUD is creating more rental housing, and we need it. It could also possibly create a two-tier rental market, whether the much-ballyhooed horde of young, well-paid hipster-urbanites materializes or not. The new AUD units might well stay at higher market rate-pricing because some people will pay a premium for new and upscale, if smaller, units. Call it the hip-and-cool premium. What about those older crap-tastic rentals that Santa Barbara is so famous for? Units with 1950s kitchens, street-only parking, clanging wall-heaters, uneven floors, weird tiny closets, peeling paint, et cetera that tends to supply housing for workers not making huge money, students, and low-income families? These hovels are currently renting (obscenely) at market-rate, but if there’s any justice in market forces, a critical mass of AUD rentals flooding the market could well push the rentals back into something approaching “affordable.”

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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.

Eating Our Young Nothing really matters Anyone can see Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me. – Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody”

ur presidential candidates promise things they can’t possibly deliver. They propose programs that cannot be funded without massive deficit spending. They talk as if cost doesn’t matter. Their funding projections are wildly optimistic if not fanciful and impossible to achieve. When I discuss the national debt with people, I usually get a ho-hum – especially with anyone under 50. They think it doesn’t really matter, that it doesn’t affect them. They are in for a shock. We have a huge national debt – about $19.5 trillion. To write it out, it is $19,523,360,000,000 (14 digits). Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is about $18.5 trillion, so the debt exceeds our economic output – for the first time in 50 years. As recently as 2008, the debt was only 65% of GDP. According to USdebtClock.org, the debt amounts to about $163,000 for each taxpayer. The interest on the debt is $247 billion per year. Consider that Americans have on the average only about $2,000 in their checking accounts (4 digits). The government spends about $3.861 trillion (this fiscal year). Its total revenue is about $3.275 trillion which leaves a deficit of $586 billion, which it borrows. This is why the national debt grows. Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, defense, welfare programs, federal pensions, and interest on the debt cost about $3.38 trillion this year. These are relatively fixed costs (except defense), which the government is obligated to pay. Based on what I hear from the presidential candidates, it doesn’t look like the defense budget will be cut. What is left over, almost $500 billion, is what the government has left to spend on everything else. Whatever your political views are, debt is a problem, not a solution. Politicians don’t pay for it; we do. Suppose you have a lot of debt, such as student debt, credit card debt, auto loan, your kids’ braces – whatever. You’ve got to pay the debt and it limits your ability to buy a house, to take vacations, to save money, to start a

business. You have fewer options and it limits your opportunities. It’s not much different with the government. The reality is that the federal debt will never be paid off. It is just too huge. We have debt left over from World War 1 that is not paid off. So, we taxpayers will have to bear the burden of our politicians’ profligacy – forever. Since political sanity and fiscal restraint are unlikely to return to Washington, one can assume that spending will continue, and despite any tax increases, debt will grow and grow. People seem to think we can tax the rich and corporations to pay for it, but that isn’t the case: there are serious unintended negative consequences if you do. Here are some of the consequences of our debt glacier: Interest rates on the debt are projected to rise. That would leave even less for the government to spend on things such as national parks, FEMA (aid for natural disasters), education, sciences, aid programs to cities and states, climate-change initiatives, and all the other federal programs. Like you, they have fewer options. Something has to give. More debt and more taxes create a negative feedback loop. The more the

Interest rates on the national debt are projected to rise government takes out of the private economy, less money is available for new investment in the things that create jobs and prosperity. The result is that the economy becomes sluggish and stagnant. Japan is the poster child for this. Their government debt is 229 percent of GDP, and their economy has been relatively stagnant for the last 20 years. Their leaders seem to be panicking. While the law says that the Fed cannot create money to buy federal debt, it is no secret that is what is done. They’ve pumped $3.7 trillion in new money into the economy since 2008. It is called “quantitative easing” (QE). The idea is to stimulate us to buy stuff and rescue the economy. QE has never worked anywhere in the world. Banana republics print money to pay for stuff, too. It usually ends badly. QE has pushed interest rates down to all-time lows. Low interest rates distort everything in the economy. It’s great for Wall Street bankers but bad for savers such as retired folks who rely on savings to live. Savings are what make economies grow. You’ve got to make money before you can spend it, and that only comes from jobs that come from capital investment by entrepreneurs who create our businesses and paychecks. Presently, economic growth is trending down. Are we following in Japan’s footsteps of systemic stagnation? It seems that everyone – except politicians – knows that you can’t borrow your way to prosperity. Yet that is what politicians are selling us. They borrow today and don’t think about the future generations who have to pay for it in taxes and in declining standards of living. It is the equivalent of eating our young.

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STATE STREET SCRIBE 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.

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he summer of 1967. Hoo boy. They called it the Summer of Love, because even then the Branding geniuses in the National Archives knew that calling it “That Summer the Kids Went a Little Crazy and Had Lots of Public Sex Against Trees” would cast a sorry light on an epoch they already knew to be one for the ages. (Note to Millennials: those doddering older folks you spot across State Street as you swagger out of the Abercrombie and Fitch cologne chamber? Someone who is 69 years old today was 18 in 1967; tree-tending age. And you can bet that hunched older gentleman you gaze briefly and pitiably upon did not go to the city parks that year to hunt for Charmander.) In 1967, I was not making love to

Treasure Island, on Florida’s Gulf Coast. We would sojourn there for six months while my dad went on ahead to Wheelus and made preparations for us. Florida, and the approach to Florida, would mark the first time I ever saw the ocean. I remember the moment. The scale of what I was seeing filled me with an awe that was actually a strange species of fear. Then in August of ‘68, my family and I boarded an airplane that to my nondescript little Cheyenne eyes looked like an enormous sideways building with wings and wheels. I’d spent the whole of the previous night sleeplessly trying to invent in my mind something that might approximate the horror of takeoff in an airplane. I didn’t succeed, and in the actual event I violently wet myself as the terrifying rocket left the runway.

The word “coup” appeared in the little newspaper the American and Brits followed, the Tripoli Trotter beautiful Grace Slick lookalikes against trees. I was a jug-eared, chronically shy Air Force brat with a crew cut and the approximate personality and facial expression of a tree. I lived with my family on Warren AFB, outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. I took the school bus every day to Clark Elementary school in the city (Cheyenne, that is), and an MP would salute our bus as it departed the base’s gate. My best friend in school was Kim Daifotis, who lived across the street from the school, on House Avenue. We each had a lazy eye, and I think Kim’s, like mine, was the left one. That year my dad received what would be our family’s last Air Force assignment, after which he would end up retiring from the Air Force and entering civilian life. Wheelus Air Base, outside Tripoli, had been built as Mellaha Air Base by the Italians in 1923. In the early days of WWII, the German Luftwaffe made use of the base until it was captured by the British in 1943. That same year, the popular and much fought-over little outpost on Libya’s Mediterranean coast came into possession of the U.S., and in 1945 it was renamed Wheelus Army Air Field in honor of a pilot who had died in a crash in Iran that year. In early 1968, my family drove across the country to

We lived in quarters 4G on the base. You could walk out from our front door, turn left, cross a bumpy little field full of stunted foliage and huge black ants, and be on a short bluff overlooking the “Med” in about 5 minutes. The water was cornflower blue and as transparent, even at some depth, as glass. Libya was hot, but I don’t remember it being dreadfully so. I do remember that the warm air was redolent with the smell of the smashed dates that fell off the palm trees and were mashed by pedestrians into a fragrant mush that to this day I can still smell if I concentrate. The change from Florida to Africa was not as freaky to my little bug-mind as the culture jolt of Wyoming-to-Florida, but for one smallish new experience that entered my daily life on Wheelus. In the wee hours before sunrise, the morning prayers would be broadcast from a mosque about a half-mile away in the countryside, on the other side of the base wall. The weird singsong prayers and the Rudy Vallee bullhorn effect of their broadcast – it freaked me out. Our grade school on the base had two penned camels in the courtyard; Adam and Eve. There had been a contest to name them and my entry, Sam and Sabrina, had ...continued p.28

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hannon Noel and Stacie Burrows met in 2010 while performing in the live, storytelling show Expressing Motherhood in Los Angeles. Back in May, the musical comedy duo, now known as Mommy Tonk, were the special musical guests playing a few original songs when (Santa Barbara Sentinel) writer Jacquelyn De Longe directed the local debut of Expressing Motherhood at Center Stage Theater. But now Noel and Burrows, who are alums of The Groundlings and Second City, are bringing their full-fledged 90-minute show to the same venue for its Santa Barbara debut. The two Southern-born gals are each the mother of two young sons, so the content is mostly about motherhood and marriage, but also anything that strikes this dynamic duo as funny, irreverent, or worthy of social commentary in banter or song. Their current tour was “sponsored” by Tito’s Vodka, Bulleit Bourbon, ProBar Bolts Energy Chews, and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax – so draw whatever conclusions you may. Full of fast-paced, irreverent comedy, and off-color, original music, Mommy Tonk pay homage to “bad moms” and even worse marriages, saying what women have been thinking about silently – or in text messages with each other. A mix of stand-up and honkytonk concert, Mommy Tonk’s edgy-yet-

endearing set is backed by the fiddlebased trio The Assless Chaps – Gabe Davis (upright bass), Gabriel Wheaton (fiddle), and Mark San Filippo (drums) – performing American roots music. The show has been called an evening of all-out, cathartic fun for women, but “men with healthy self-esteem” are also invited. Also appearing is local songbird – and another fellow Sentinel scribe – Tommie Vaughn of Wall of Tom. Showtime is Sunday, September 25 at 7 pm, the doors open at 6:30 and you can start priming the pump when the bar opens at 6. View clips and find out more about the duo at www.MommyTonk. com. Call 963-0408 or visit www. CenterStageTheater.org for details on the show.

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with which he made his debut 10 years back. We’re told he’ll be featuring songs from the entire Iron & Wine catalog as Beam reinterprets old favorites as well as plays new songs, all in the hushed, lofi approach that marked his debut, at 7 pm at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. Details at 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures. UCSB.edu. Meanwhile, country-pop superstar Dolly Parton brings her Pure & Simple Tour to the Santa Barbara Bowl, part of her largest North American tour in more than two decades. The tour takes its name from the double-disc greatest hits album that also features a few new tracks, while the concert has been sprinkled with deep cuts from throughout her career. Call 962-7411 or visit www.sbbowl.com. Finally, in something more akin to Mommy Tonk’s show, husband-andwife comedians/actors Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally – who appeared together on TV most memorably on NBC’s hit series Parks and Recreation – bring their sexually explicit variety show “Summer of 69: No Apostrophe” to the Lobero Theatre. A combination of stand-up and musical, the show is all about their marriage and features, in the words of the publicity materials, “the salacious details of their fiery union... songs, funny talking, heavy ribaldry, light petting, and an astonishing final act of completion.” Apparently, Offerman plays guitar and Mullally strums a ukulele on the musical numbers, but the show is mostly quips, tales, and oneliners about their favorite sex positions and love rituals, plus enough sweet and sentimental moments that show why they’ve stuck together over the years. Info at 963-0761 or www.lobero.com.

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his new festival pays homage both to the luthiers who craft and design handmade acoustic instruments – and the musicians who play them. The five-day event, which takes place Thursday, September 29, through Monday, October 3, is based at Earl Warren Showgrounds, where both concerts and workshops/master classes take place, as well as other venues around town that will host nightly concerts. Some of the finest acoustic instruments will be showcased at

the celebration, which takes over, following a one-year hiatus, from the now-defunct Healdsburg Guitar Festival. SOhO hosts the opening night event, a guitars-in-the-round concert featuring finger-style guitarist Michael Chapdelaine, Sean McGowan, and Kinloch Nelson. There are several shows on Friday night including Celtic guitarist Tony McManus at Warren; acoustic folk masters Stevie Coyle and Walter Strauss at SOhO; and classical guitarists Andre Feriante, Giacomo Fiore, and Chapdelaine at Center Stage Theater. Saturday brings gypsy jazz band Annie & the Hot Club, plus Richard Smith and Muriel Anderson to the Lobero. The festival closes Sunday at the Marjorie Luke with a nod to the “Acoustic Guitar Gods of the Future,” featuring Antoine Dufour, Craig D’Andrea, Trevor Gordon Hall, and Claude LaFlamme. Get all the details on SBAIC, including specs on how the instruments are made, online at www. sbaic.com.

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all was when the Santa Barbara Bowl shuttered after summer ended, with maybe a concert or two stretching into late September or early October. Now there’s a full slate of events just during this autumn fortnight, beginning with the aforementioned Dolly Parton concert. Also heading to our jewel of an amphitheater are Austin singersongwriter-guitarist Gary Clark Jr. on Friday, September 30, electrosamba/bossa nova ensemble Thievery Corporation with Café Tacuba on Saturday, October 1, punk-pop trio Blink 182 (who have been around for a quarter-century now!) with The All-American Rejects on Wednesday, October 5, and the legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame British band The Who, who make their absurdly overdue (52 years) Santa Barbara debut on Thursday, October 6. Info at 9627411 or www.sbbowl.com.

Think Green

Summer’s over. My calendar said so the day I wrote this in the middle of last week. But this isn’t New Jersey. We have festivals all year long. Sometimes two on a weekend a full week into October. That’s what’s happening on October 7-9 when the the venerable Avocado Festival and upstart One Love Experience hunker down in their respective locales of Carpinteria and Ojai. The Avofest, as the locals call it, now in its 30th year, is one of the largest free festivals in California, taking place

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in one of the quaintest little seaside towns, whose population multiplies by exponential numbers when droves show up from Orange to San Luis Obisbo counties to partake of the mushy green fruit and everything else, avo-related or otherwise. There are avocado agricultural photos, historical photos, lessons in avocado grafting, antique tractors, the contests for the largest avocado, best guacamole and best-dressed avocado, the “world’s largest vat of guacamole,” dozens of creative avocado dishes, a walk-

through flower tent, and zillions of arts and crafts booths. And music. Tons of music. More music in more venues than you’d imagine existed. More than 75 acts spread out over four separate stages. Just about every local band you care about, including the New Vibe, Redfish, The Tearaways, Jason Campbell, Grooveline, Cornerstone, The Upbeat, Rick Reeves, the Rincons, Dylan Schmidt and the Rhythm Souls, Mexcal Martini, Spencer the Gardener, Bruce Goldish, Jamey Geston and L.A.-based Beatles cover band Sgt. Peppers, to name some. Plus the La Boheme Dancers, who are hard at work readying their “Thriller” routine for Halloween. Get all the details, including info about parking and shuttles, online at www.avofest.com.

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days of empowered music, conscious vendors, and uplifting speakers – think of it as a more mindful Lucidity, perhaps. The huge lineup of musical acts includes such big names as Matisyahu, Trevor Hall, Drew Chadwick and Dustin Thomas, Dylan Schmidt (yep, he’s here too), plus something called “Beatles – Musical Journey to India.” Speakers and workshop presenters include power of love with David Wilcock, restorative yoga with Johanna Beekman, meditation with Scott Schwenk, sound baths with Michele Garcia, and sessions with Ojai’s own self-help gurus Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks (“Hearts in True Harmony”) and Peace Sticks’s ecofitness. The Pure Living Portal also features Conscious Exhibitors, Healthy Lifestyle Experiences, Gluten Free, Vegan & Raw Living Foods Classes, and more workshops, while there are other interactive and experiential activities at the Wisdom Village. Or you can relax and re-charge at the Healers Cove. Camping and glamping are available adjacent to the fest through Lake Casitas. Get all the details, reserve your spots, and check out the schedule online at www. onelovefest.com.

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ts hard to talk about Trim Shop, Santa Barbara’s new surfboard shop, which specializes in hand-shaped and collectible boards, without first getting into the story of how owner Ryan Lovelace put himself on the map as a surfboard shaper. And there is no way not to talk about Lovelace once you’ve met him, because once you’ve met him, you love him. His inherent likeability may be attributed to what he represents to Santa Barbara’s creative entrepreneurs, artists, surfers, and ocean lovers alike. What Lovelace is up to, even more than shaping surfboards, is creating community, and perhaps (gasp) a little more camaraderie among surfers. People say that there’s no better time than now to be a creative entrepreneur. Yet, starting a business in Santa Barbara has its own particular set of challenges. But you can make it in this town if you

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story stems from the simple fact that it’s a lot easier to make it in Santa Barbara if you start off with tons of connections from having grown up here, and/or come from a privileged background. But if neither of those happen to be your case, then you can go the proverbial “American Dream” route: Utilize your natural talent, develop a dogged work ethic, and (ideally) have an awesome down-to-earth personality. Then maybe Owner Ryan Lovelace at work, specializing in hand-crafted brands (photo by Roberto Moura)

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you have a formula that the gods may just smile upon. Lovelace went the proverbial route. Luckily, too, the gods seem to smile upon the rebirth of artisanal trades. In a time of fast-and-cheap-everything-allthe-time, hand-crafted products have become novelty items because their quality is often higher, but also because

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they have a bit of heart and soul. The gods may also just dig a guy who is hustling (Lovelace, by most estimates, is the highest-production hand-shaper in the world these days) and who, rather gloating in success or easing off the pedal, is leaning in further, cranking out up to five boards a day and actively finding ways to throw a line to other upand-coming hand-shapers. (Also, you gotta love a guy who hovers around 6’2’’ wearing (’70s-style?) shorts well above his knees and hands out hugs and highfives to employees and patrons alike.) Just to clarify for the non-surfers, truly “hand-shaped” means that at no point was the board, or the foam block it was cut from put through a shaping machine; every aspect has been handcut, carved, and shaped. Obviously, this method is labor- and time-intensive and not everyone is cut out for it. To commit

Lovelace inside his Trim Shop on Parker Way (photo by Jeff Johnson)

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Lovelace tells it, it’s not supposed to and doesn’t need to. “There’s customers for all of us,” he says about different shaping styles and preferences among clients. When asked about machine-cut boards, he respond simply, “They are still good boards, they just aren’t handmade.” He says his customer base is pretty diverse, from advanced surfers to “groms” (kid-surfers) to collectors, as well as college kids who save up for one of his boards. Ryan began learning to shape around 10 years ago. Hailing from Seattle, he came out to Santa Barbara to try out Brooks Photography School. He ended up falling in love with surfing (originally a snowboarder), then began to shape and left photography on the altar. Why is hand-shaping a big deal? First of all, the way a board is cut and shaped has a lot to do with the ride you get, especially as one advances as a surfer. Also, because of the realities of the business, once a shaper reaches a certain level of success, it is extremely common for him to begin outsourcing the work and start producing machine-cut boards, simply to scale up the business. Herein lies the distinction with Lovelace: upon reaching that moment in his career, he chose to keep grinding and stick to the fully hand-shaped production model. But the trade-off is that he has had to raise his prices and the wait list goes up. Yet, his continued popularity has proven that there is a market for this kind of board. Now that he has Trim Shop, which opened in August 2015, and has help with the business side of things, he can focus almost entirely on making the boards for which he is famous. Interestingly, Trim Shop is one of the only surfboard shops that actually makes most of its money from selling surfboards, rather than apparel and other soft goods as most surf shops do. Trim does have a tiny apparel zone, though, and it features a few choice apparel items, and soon his girlfriend Katie McLean’s new swim and active

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wear line, Psychedelic Honey. The full glory of Trim Shop inventory is revealed only once you step inside, however. This humble yet stylish oneroom shop is home to boards made by some of the most legendary shapers in the world, including Rich Pavel, Jim Phillips, a host of collectible boards, and the legend himself, Gerry Lopez. The story of how Ryan’s boards got in the hands of Lopez is one of those right move and the right time stories – with a splash of serendipity mixed in. Lopez’s son, Alex Lopez, happened to start dating well-known North Shore surfer Leah Dawson, shortly after Ryan had given her a few boards to try because he liked the way she surfed. She loved the boards and ended up bringing them on a surf trip with Alex, who tried one, fell in love, and before you knew it Gerry was riding Lovelace’s board and was stoked about it. He tracked Ryan down in SB through one of Ryan’s early mentors, Wade Easterling, and asked him to come meet him in Oregon (where Gerry lives) and… the rest is sort of history. As of now, Trim Shop is Gerry’s worldwide distributor. “If you want a Gerry Lopez board outside of Japan, we are the people to talk to,” Ryan explains. In addition to the pros, Trim Shop also carries boards by one or two shapers in whom he sees potential and wants to give them the leg-up that he never got. “If you have some kind of privilege, whether you’re born with it or you work your ass off for it – regardless of how you got it – you have the obligation to share it.” He goes on: “I want to build a community here around surfboards. I can offer help to young guys who are trying to figure it out, or I can be the guy who wasn’t welcoming and didn’t give them the time of day.

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THE FUTURE OF TRIM SHOP Lovelace, Lopez, and Pavel are now planting seeds for the start of a new brand that mentors and trains guys who want to hand-shape for a living. The idea is to eventually grow the brand into a larger production brand of boards that are legitimately hand-shaped. This model isn’t a new idea, it was in fact the industry standard for shapers in the past, but it died out in the early ‘90s when machine cutters got popular. The trio believes the hand-shape industry is now ready for a comeback. Getting more shapers on board will help keep prices of some boards more manageable, offering boards made by newer shapers at lower price points initially. They already have a few guys that are starting to get involved in the mentorship program. “I believe there are people who want to hand shape for a living. I want to.” But even Ryan admits that he can’t work at the pace he has been at forever. Eventually, he needs to find a way to grow this business and pass the torch to some degree without burning himself out. Ultimately, the idea is, rather than fear the competition, embrace it and nurture talent in guys who share a similar passion. “If you can help people out and try to relieve a little bit of the negativity

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hakey Graves represents the kind of up-and-coming rock star (generally of the Millennial persuasion) whose way of relating to his fan base is as one would a friend. This style is understated, straightforward, and really likeable. Gone are the days in which people want to feel bowled over with the other-worldly wow-factor of a musician. People want to support artists and musicians who they can relate to, who they feel common ground with… basically, someone who they would actually want to hang out with. Graves, of Austin, Texas, will be coming to the Santa Barbara Bowl on Friday, September 30, opening for Gary Clark Jr. I chatted with him briefly about the tour and a few other topics such as the illuminated day he was introduced to Jimi Hendrix, via Gary Clark Jr. himself…

Q. So, it’s your first show at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Are you stoked?! A. Although I lived in Southern California for a few years, I’ve never been to Santa Barbara

other than passing through – so, yes, this will be the first at the Bowl. Unfortunately, we will only be there for the show!

A cool thing about your work is that you like to play in unconventional places (at least from what I’ve seen on various YouTube videos) such as bowling alleys, or the bottom of a storm ditch – is this a strategic move for creating unique content, or just something you’ve always enjoyed to keep performance fresh? Yeah, interesting content is something everyone strives for. But when I started out, my setup just naturally lent itself to all-weather situations for any kind of musical appearance. Originally, I had a kick drum and battery-powered amp, so my set-up was designed to sound good in any scenario. But that was years ago. I do want to bring more of that feeling back. For example, in the latest album, one song was recorded outside next to a fire. The point is to capture the feeling of the real moment and hope it comes through in the music. How did you meet Gary Clark Jr. and why do you guys feel it’s a good fit? We went to high school together. I don’t think I’ve ever actually told Gary this story, but the first day I discovered Gary was also the first time I ever had THC in my body: It was one day during my sophomore year of high school, and a friend and I split a weed cookie during lunch. I got really high and had a great time. That month was also Black History month and Gary (who was already well-known even in high school), was giving a concert at our school later that day. Somehow, I ended up wandering into the empty theater while he was practicing that afternoon… and Gary was playing “Little Wing” by Jimi Hendrix, and I had never heard that song before – so I thought he had written it and, obviously, and especially considering my circumstance, it blew my mind. (Graves laughs.) So, did you ask him later about the epic song that “he wrote”? And is this how you found out about Jimi Hendrix? (Laughs) Yeah, then I went home and did my classic-rock homework and found out all about Jimi!

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grew up in an extremely health-conscious household. In fact, my mom was years ahead of the times. We were eating coconut oil back when it was controversial and kale salads before they became cool. Recently, I came across something in the culinary scene that reminded me that I have her to thank for my keen eye on health and food trends. I was talking to a chef at a 5-star property, and as we were looking at his menu, something popped out that I usually don’t equate with fine dining: healthy ingredients emphasized on the menu. Generally, in fine dining, taste, quality, and appearance are the focus – which include foie gras, butter, cream, and all the usual suspects – but no, not on this menu! Rather, there were ingredients such as amaranth, turmeric vinaigrette, and a myriad of seaweeds. The dishes were elegantly prepared in exquisite detail. I could not get enough of the halibut poached in carrot juice with swirls of basil oil. It was a merging of fine dining with health food! It was love at first bite. As I listened to this chef passionately explain his menu, he introduced another little-known, newly recognized industry agency called SPE, which stands for Sanitas Per Escam, fancy Latin for “health through food”. The following is from The New York Times: “Hold the butter, a new certification coming to restaurants, cafeterias, and cruise lines has a message: our experts have vetted the dish, and it is good for you. It is also an acronym for Sourcing, Preparing, and Enhancing.” The owner of Michelin-starred restaurants in Brussels and New York is credited with the founding of the certification, and if he has his way, wants

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to see the SPE logo on menus around the world, even fast-food stands such as McDonald’s. It is similar to the Michelin Guide in that it has one-, two-, and three-star ratings for the foodservice establishment’s commitment to quality through ingredient sourcing, sustainability, and health. Although at this point in time, this is a third-party certification that an establishment must seek out, the landscape of foodservice is changing. People want more transparency. I believe this will ultimately catch on. At the grocery store, we can read ingredient labels, so it makes sense that we will also evolve into wanting to know as much as we can about what’s on the plate in front of us. I pause here because in the back of my mind, I hear many people asking: “Really? Isn’t this pretentious? It’s just food – right, people? What’s with all of this examination? Has it made us neurotic?” I understand these questions. It can be tedious having conversations about wild versus farmed, line-caught, free-range, cage-free, humanely raised. To be honest, I have gotten exhausted by these topics at times, but no matter what, one thing remains: once you have been educated about these things, it’s hard to go back. As someone who grew up as the child of a hippie mother, who had to eat more vegetables in one dinner than most people eat in one week, I still have two voices in my head: one belongs to the rebellious teenager whose first purchase, from her first allowance, was a bag of Doritos and as many candy bars as she could carry. The other belongs to the person who learned after years of eating anything and everything, that her mother was not so overbearing after all, but was actually pretty cool and visionary. You see, after being educated and exposed to truths about how important what we eat is, I cannot go back to those bags and wrappers of God knows what’s really inside of them! I’m not saying that I eat perfectly clean and healthy all of the time, and admit that sometimes I still have to quiet that voice that says “Are you really going to eat that?” but ultimately, I know that certain things are good for me and there are certain things that are not. Mom was right. Mother Nature knows best! Food is medicine. “Health through food!” Sanitas Per Escam. B

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DAVID COOLEY

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rganic. It is the word that kept coming up as I spoke with artist David Cooley on the phone. Whether describing the progression of his art career or the development of his techniques and style, organic seemed to be a recurring theme. Geometry is nature’s math, and David’s highly geometric art has a mesmerizing and imaginative quality to it. Whether it is a disembodied head emerging from a sea of geometry or tornadoes whipping around a swimming pool full of diamonds, one can easily get lost in the ribbons of colors, elaborate mandalas, and absurd subjects of David’s works. “Rhythmic Nonsense” was the name of one of his shows and that phrase seems to concisely capture the organic forms and whimsical nature of his work. David’s skill did not come from years of art school. While he has drawn since he was a child, David first really began practicing art by drawing for 15 minutes each night before going to bed, an exercise he found therapeutic and calming before sleep. Over time, he found himself practicing a little longer each night. Fifteen minutes turning to 20, turning to an hour, until whole evenings would be devoted to drawing. He continued to experiment with different mediums at his house. He gravitated toward stained glass and mosaics, both of which would form the core techniques behind his art. As David approached painting, he was at first a little intimidated by working with color. A feeling that can clearly no longer be found in the elaborate color palettes of his work. David’s style grew organically. He had always dabbled with mandalas and geometric forms, and the

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influence of his stained-glass work began to seep into his painting. One of the major progressions in David’s style was when he realized he could make spikelets with the paint. Over time, David learned how to change the length and width of these spikes to give an additional sense of perspective and depth. David’s paintings consist of colored resin on a wood board with acrylic paints on top. He sometimes places fabrics underneath the resin that contributes the exotic designs in the backgrounds of his pieces. His art career grew as organically as his techniques did. David did not originally set out to exhibit his work, but when a friend needed additional art works for a show he was hosting at the now-defunct Blackbird gallery, David displayed a piece. That show led to him one at Elsie’s, which led him to another one – and from there, one opportunity kept presenting itself until he was offered the featured artist spot at the recurring L.A.-based art show, Cannibal Flower. Now, years later, he is currently preparing for two Florida shows at the end of this year. David will be exhibiting with ThinkSpace at Art Basel and a solo show in Scope Miami. His current body of work uses less subject matter and focuses more on pure geometric form. David mentioned that lately he has learned to not plan a piece too much. He thinks that this freedom has moved his work forward, allowing each piece to take shape and grow at its own pace. Even organically. In case you can’t make it out to Miami, many of David Cooley’s works can be found at davidcooleyart. com or in his Instagram feed @ davidcooleyart.

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While Lama Dog’s classes occur every other Tuesday, one can get a good beer education anytime he/she stops by the bar. The diverse selection of beer and knowledgeable staff means that with each visit there is something new to taste and new to learn. More information on upcoming classes is available on their Facebook page and other social media sites (visit www.waterlinesb.com/lamadog). Lama Dog is located at 116 Santa Barbara Street in the Funk Zone.

Study in The Backroom Since opening in 2012, Valley Brewers (515 4th Place, Solvang) has become the go-to homebrew shop in our area for ingredients, equipment, and general homebrew knowledge. In addition to the extensive store, Valley Brewers has a homebrew club of the same name with a little more than two dozen members that meets every month to compare beers and share knowledge. About 10 weeks ago, Valley Brewers opened up The Backroom, a cozy beer bar attached to the homebrew shop. Co-owners Chris Kelly and Sandy Harrison came up with the bar concept when first opening Valley Brewers, though The Backroom didn’t start to materialize until almost two years ago. Sandy and Chris wanted the bar to have

The view from Solvang’s new beer classroom, The Backroom

a speak-easy feel to it and have kept the space relatively unmarked with patrons entering through a back entry located in the store. They have 15 beer taps and a growing bottle selection, in addition to a nitro cold-brew tap and shrub cocktails as alcohol-free options. They have even been visiting breweries to pick up special kegs so patrons will never know what oddities to expect when visiting the bar. While The Backroom serves as a great place to grab a beer, Sandy and Chris’s real goal is to use this area for education (though it is available for rentals, if you would like to host your own little beer party there). So far, they have had Tyler Clark from The Libertine Pub host a beer tasting at the bar and have more special guests in the works. In the near future, they certainly will be hosting more brewer tastings and classes, so keep an eye on their social media pages for these events as they pop up. Or just swing by The Backroom (Wednesday to Saturday) to grab a beer and see what they have in the works. While those interested in learning more about homebrewing can always visit the store, Valley Brewers will be joining up with Telegraph Brewing to teach an extensive class on homebrewing at the beginning of next month. Sandy and Telegraph brewer and barrel master, Patrick Ceriale, will be co-hosting an Intensive Home Brew Workshop on Sunday, October 9, from 12 to 5 pm, at Telegraph brewery. Attendees will go through a five-hour brew session while learning about the ins-and-outs of homebrewing from these two talented

brewers. During the session, they will be brewing 10 gallons of a one-off saison that will be served at Telegraph’s tasting room once done. Telegraph’s plan is to not make this a one-time event and will be doing this as a recurring class with each one producing a small batch of something special. This class will be a great opportunity for anyone who is considering homebrewing but wants to give it a try before investing in their own equipment. Tickets are $25 a person and attendance is limited to 20 people, so make sure to reserve your spot early. Visit telegraphbrewing.com for tickets and more information.

Buy a Beer Book If you find yourself wanting to learn more about beer in between classes, then there are plenty of books that will fill that void. Tasting Beer by Randy Mosher has become the standard introductory book on beer. Mosher is a legend in the industry, and he uses his decades of knowledge to direct the reader through beer history, science, styles, food pairings, and many more topics with plenty of visuals to accompany his digestible writing style. It is an invaluable resource for beginners thirsty for more knowledge, and its wealth of information ensures that even more advanced beerdoes will learn from this book. Whether taking a class or reading a book, learning about beer is fun because at the end of the lesson you always get to put theory into practice with a glass of beer.

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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 multitasking through her days as a mother, wife, sister, want-to-be chef and travel junky. Writing is an outlet that ensures mental stability... usually.

WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS

t was 10 pm when I was shaken out of bed. There was a loud boom followed by the eerie rumble that could only be triggered by something stronger than man. I ran to my kids’ rooms. Everyone was okay; both girls still tucked into the covers, and my youngest was snoring straight through the commotion (typical). My husband emerged from his office with the same look of consternation that I had… “What in the world was that?” An earthquake was my first guess. I checked around the house to make sure nothing had fallen. Then we grabbed flashlights and headed outside into the dark. The front was clear, and it wasn’t until we opened my older daughter’s bedroom door that we discovered the culprit. Splashed across the entire back hillside and brushing up against the backside of our home was a tree. A tree had fallen on our house. THANKFULLY, THE CRADLE DID NOT FALL I have come to find out that they are called “widow makers,” the Eucalyptus trees that continue to wither with the drought and drop their branches without warning. Behind our home, they stand tall in a line, and until this night I had admired them, their smell, and their beauty. What happened to us is not rare. The severe lack of rain has battered these non-native evergreens that hail from Australia. We were quite lucky in that the large branch that came down on our house did not in fact land directly on the roof. It came close enough to

rip the gutter off the backside of my daughter’s room and cause the ground below to tremble. Had the whole tree come down, this story would be much, much worse. We did lose about 10 feet of our back fence and had a lot of debris to clean up. The remainder of the tree still lurked on the neighbor’s lot behind ours. I wrote the neighbor a note and they graciously offered to have the remainder of the tree taken down. This, in itself, is an extensive and expensive process, but they realized the safety issues that needed to be taken. For one tree, it took multiple guys swinging from ropes close to a week to saw it apart. My hippy heart was saddened to see this powerful element of nature removed from the earth. But the mom in me did not hesitate to see that thing taken down; a few more feet and that branch would have landed on the roof above the bed where my daughter sleeps. Should that have happened, our cradle would have collapsed.

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lu season is upon us. The best way to prevent seasonal flu is to get vaccinated each year. The flu can occur at any time, but most flu occurs from October through May. All people six months of age and older should get the flu vaccine. Vaccination is especially important for people who have a higher risk of severe flu and their close contacts, including healthcare professionals and close contacts of children younger than six months. Good habits such as washing your hands often and covering your mouth when you cough and sneeze may prevent spreading germs. Here are some recommendations by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to help you get through the flu season: • Avoid close contact with people who are sick • Stay home from work or school when you are sick • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when sneezing or coughing • Wash your hands often to help protect you from germs • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth • Practice other good health habits such as cleaning and disinfecting frequently

touched surfaces, get plenty of sleep, exercise, manage stress levels, and eat plenty of nutrient dense foods Over the next couple of months, Sansum Clinic will offer both adult and pediatric flu shot clinics.

MARJORIE NEWMAN, MD, ASSISTANT MEDICAL DIRECTOR Marjorie Newman MD, joined Sansum Clinic as assistant medical director in 2000. Previously, Dr. Newman was executive director of New York University Student Health Center, where she also practiced internal medicine. Dr. Newman earned her medical degree at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, N.Y., following completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology at Barnard College/ Columbia University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y. She is board-certified in internal medicine. Her academic appointments include clinical assistant professor of medicine at New York University Medical Center and clinical instructor of medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Adult Flu Shot Clinics are open to new patients and current Sansum Clinic patients with no appointment or physician referral necessary. Adult Flu Shot Clinics will be held at the following locations: Santa Barbara: Pesetas Multi-Specialty Clinic – (805) 681-7500 215 Pesetas Lane Friday, October 21, from 1 to 4 pm Pueblo Multi-Specialty Clinic – (805) 681-7500 317 W. Pueblo Street Friday, September 23, from 1 to 4 pm Goleta: Goleta Family Medicine – (805) 681-7500 122 S. Patterson Avenue Friday, October 28, from 1 to 4 pm Carpinteria: Carpinteria Family Medicine – (805) 566-5080 4806 Carpinteria Avenue Friday, October 14, from 1 to 4 pm Lompoc: Lompoc Multi-Specialty Clinic – (805) 737-8700

1225 North H Street Friday, October 21, from 1 pm 4 pm Solvang: Sansum Country Clinic – (805) 688-3440 2027 Village Lane, Suite 102 Saturday, October 1, from 9 am to noon Prescription Pharmacy will offer Friday Walkin Flu Shot Clinics. Beginning Friday, September 2, through Friday, January 27, Walk-ins are welcome from 1 to 5:30 pm. Prescription Pharmacy’s two locations are: 317 W. Pueblo Street (805) 682-6507 215 Pesetas Lane (805) 964-4831

Pediatric Flu Shot Clinics will take place at our pediatric locations. All children must be current Sansum Clinic patients to receive a flu shot at the flu shot clinics. Santa Barbara: Hitchcock Pediatrics – (805) 563-6211 51 Hitchcock Way (please enter through parking lot entrance) Saturday, September 24 from 8 am to noon Saturday, October 22 from 8 am to noon Lompoc: The pediatric flu shot clinic in Lompoc is by APPOINTMENT ONLY. Lompoc Pediatrics – (805) 737-8760 Friday, October 28, from 1 to 4 pm Saturday, November 12, from 9 am to noon Please call to schedule an appointment.

A $20 donation is requested. Costs for your flu shot can be billed to your insurance provider for Sansum Clinic patients with insurance information on record. Protect yourself and your loved ones from the flu this year. For additional information, please contact your healthcare provider or visit: www.sansumclinic.org/ seasonal-flu-shot-schedule.

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reflect more lucidly the effects of climate change. It may be within our lifetime that in northwest Montana we’ll be referring to the national park formerly known as Glacier. In my visits over the years, I’ve seen permanent year-round glaciers disappear entirely.”

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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Feel the Burns at Granada

hen a filmmaker as accomplished as Ken Burns is willing to give you a few minutes on the phone, that’s not something to sneer at, especially if you’re as big a fan of baseball – and the Boston Red Sox (Go, Sawx!) – as he is. After chatting for a few moments about the Great American Pastime (“You can bet we’ll do an ‘11th Inning’ [sequel to the Baseball series], if the Cubs win the World Series,” he assured me), we got down to the real reason he was on the horn: to talk about The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The entire 12-hour, six-part documentary documentary is getting shown on the big, high-tech screen at the Granada on September 24-25 through UCSB Arts & Lectures as part of the nationwide celebration of the National Parks Service centennial celebration, followed by Burns himself offering a lecture titled, “The National

Parks: A Treasure House of Nature’s Superlatives” on Sunday, October 2, at the same venue. I asked him to talk about the impact visitation in the parks, the fact that data shows that it’s mostly white suburban families and not the originally envisioned cross-section of Americans who utilize the resources, and what effect climate change is causing. Clearly, he’s still got a lot of passion for the places. Below is his long answer, reported verbatim. “They knew at the very beginning when they formed the National Park System in 1916 that there was a huge paradox at the heart of the idea. How do you permit the parks for the enjoyment of all people but leave them unimpaired for future generations? It’s a wonderful tension, but also a classically American one that we circle with. When Thomas Jefferson said ‘All men are created equal,’ he meant white

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It’s anybody’s guess why Ensemble Theatre Company (ETC) decided to kick off its 2016-17 season with its first production of a Shakespeare play in three decades. Maybe it’s simply about a return to the classics, as the next three shows are by boffo Broadway bigwigs Neil Simon, George & Ira Gershwin, and Tennessee Williams, heady stuff indeed for a company that dabbled in a decidedly lightweight comedy last year. But we note that the Shakespeare play in question is none other than Macbeth, which anyone can tell you is one of literature’s great stories of blind and bloody political ambition, with conniving plots for figuring out a path for ascension to power featuring a woman’s unquenchable thirst for influence and status. Our presidential election takes place just three weeks after the production’s October 1-16 run comes to a close at the New Vic Theatre, ETC’s state-of-the-art digs now in its fourth year of operations. Go see the play and then draw your own conclusions about what’s more terrifying – the Scottish pair or Trump versus Clinton. Call 965-5400 or visit www.etcsb.org.

SBIFF to Spotlight Beatty Warren Beatty has been tapped as the 2016 recipient of the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film, coinciding with Montecito resident Douglas’s 100th birthday. The star (and producer) of Bonnie & Clyde, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Bugsy, Bulworth and many other classics is still a multihyphenate Hollywood hero, as he wrote, directed, produced, and stars in the upcoming movie Rules Don’t Apply. The award will be presented at Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara on December 1. Call 963-0023 or visit www.sbiff.org.

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gone unchosen. When I much later named my son Sam, a name I have always loved, I felt vindicated. Each house in our section of the base had a plain white picket fence enclosing a scrubby lawn that reached around the side of the quarters to a fenced-in backyard. In what should have been at least briefly pondered as an ill-conceived gesture, each service family on the base was assigned a native gardener. Ours was a shy, smiling young man named Mohammed. He became a friend of the family, though his mostly incomprehensible English could sound like someone trying to talk around a mouth full of toast. My Arabic was worse, of course, except for a few words; “kafalik” (hello), “fulus” (money), and the truly untranslatable “malesh.” When spoken, malesh was always attended by a sloppy, happy-go-lucky shrug, the word’s closest English analog a peaceable and accepting “Whatever!” Malesh is still one of my favorite words, and I remember sentimentally its use by Mohammed and some other Libyan friends on the base. I can vividly picture standing with a couple of my friends in a small park in the middle of the base, near the high school and practice baseball diamond, and a handsome young Libyan guy in fashionably tailored pants and shirt standing on an unmoving merry-goround in the sun, laughing heartily about something one of us had just said and shrugging through his own rippling laughter. “Malesh!” We were laughing, too. Per the quasi-colonial template, our relations with kindly King Idris, a guy who had benevolently ruled Libya since 1949, were quite copacetic, surely due to whatever sweet deal the U.S. had struck with Libya’s leader, and in likely

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perpetuity. The base was not widely embraced by everyone in the area, though all Americans regularly went into Tripoli to shop and drink and ogle the old city and the beautiful boulevards there. As for the base itself, razor wire and jagged glass shards topped the 11foot wall that surrounded Wheelus. It was a somewhat uneasy time, but the inertia of American hegemony was still considered inviolable in some ways. Naturally, I was made to join the base Little League, and of course I was terrified of being hit by the baseball. On the Athletic Continuum, I was a couple notches south of Winnie the Pooh, and I couldn’t have made a worse show of it if I’d gone to bat like Pooh; naked but for a yellow velveteen vest, open at the front. I was positively maddened with fear every time I was made to shuffle up to home plate in my crushed purple baseball hat and ill-fitting, sackcloth-like jersey, the huge wooden bat propped leeringly on my stooped non-shoulder, like a dare. “Go ahead, you bruiser of a pitcher. Throw Abner Doubleday’s inexplicably angry little ball at me with all your strength!” Absolute terror. One kid on my team, an English kid, was so stricken with fear at bat, he would simply lay down at the plate during the pitcher’s wind-up. Not jerkily, like a guy flinching, but very smoothly. He would lay down the bat and in a synchronously fluid bit of choreography lay his entire body gently down on the chalky dirt next to home plate. It was like a weird modern dance move, very balletic, or like someone being gunned down in Sam Peckinpah slo-mo. It was almost dreamlike. I used to watch him from behind the backstop and marvel, envious of his technique. I would lean against the chain link with my gloved hand against the metal, so in the event of a foul ball my fingers wouldn’t be hurt. I was that kid. I’d bought a leftie glove at the base commissary, one of the ones with a famous player’s signature manufactured into the leather. It didn’t get much use because I played outfield. Photos of me out there show an indistinct dwarfish figure with his arms slack, in purple. The glove was in mint condition the whole time I had it. To this day, the smell of a baseball glove fills me with dread. One of the base’s two practice diamonds was across a narrow street from a stretch of the wall that surrounded the place. Foul balls would fly over the jagged top of the glass-festooned wall, out of our bastion of sovereignty and into the mysteries of Libya proper. A few minutes later, a skinny little kid in white Gandhi shorts would shimmy up the trunk of the palm just outside the wall, clinging expertly to the palm tree with one arm, while with the other he would

energetically brandish our baseball and yell, “Fulus! Fulus!” Pre-incarnate capitalists and swindlers (no, I do not believe the terms are interchangeable), we never went to the practice field without a bunch of bottle caps, and at his signal we would begin the transaction, earnestly gesturing and showing our bottle caps on the flattened upturned palms of cheats and typhoid merchants. The kid would throw the ball to us over the wall, we would throw a fistful of bottle caps in return (I can see them flashing in the sun as they sail over the wall like chaff), and the boy would hurriedly shimmy down to collect his dough. At the count of about 6, an older man would shimmy up the tree shouting indecipherably and waving his free arm. We had no shame, but neither did we take any particular pleasure in the arrangement. Our moral compasses were spinning like little propellers. One day suddenly, the adults were all talking with some concern about a “coup.” “Did you hear about the coup?” Suddenly the “coup” was all anyone talked about, but there was no sense of emergency. It was as if something possibly interesting had happened, but nothing too concerning. The word “coup” appeared in the little newspaper the American and Brits followed, the Tripoli Trotter. The word didn’t look quite right. Coop, maybe? My beanheaded command of the King’s English made me wonder if something chickenrelated had transpired, and I couldn’t figure out what mildly anxious situation would involve chickens in that setting. Kindly King Idris had been toppled by an opportunistic colonel from his own army, a Mr. Gaddafi, whose mostly young followers welcomed the removal of something so antiquated and undemocratic as a king. Then Gaddafi was all over the Libyan news, striding around Tripoli amidst wildly cheering mobs in his dress-brown army uniform, cap, and sunglasses. He was young and handsome and energetic. It had been a laudably bloodless coup, Idris being locked out of his own country while away seeing to his health in Turkey. Gaddafi then asked us to leave. We had till June of ‘70 to get every last man, woman, and child off that base. Gaddafi took the gloves off and his regime began attacking Jews in the city. The base’s H.S. principal, our next-door neighbor, Mr. DeCarlo, was caught on the tarmac at the Tripoli airport trying to spirit a Jewish friend out of Libya in a tuba case. The plan failed, and Mr. DeCarlo was sent out of the country, to Okinawa, where he would await his wife. I don’t know what became of his Jewish friend. DeCarlo’s wife Genevieve, a French academic, was placed under

immediate house arrest and subjected to heated but non-physical questioning by Gaddafi’s thugs, day after day after day. Gaddafi’s plan was to strip the DeCarlos of all their belongings, everything they owned, before sending Genevieve packing to join her husband in Japan – a situation my mom and her crazy BFF successfully schemed to prevent. That has been written about elsewhere. Our Libyan friends from the city stopped coming around and were rumored to have been killed or arrested. We went to school an extra half-day Saturdays to try to finish the academic year before we had to go home to the U.S. Our accelerated departure from the base was particularly bitter to me because I’d developed a completely mad crush on a girl in my class, the daughter of one of the teachers. I hadn’t spoken two words to a girl before, and I wasn’t about to start now. I was rapturously, freakishly in love, was having unsavory dreams, and could feel my face getting hot whenever she came into the classroom. I looked at the floor a lot in those days and once memorably tore the pencil sharpener off the wall with my shoulder while bolting through the classroom door in downcast haste. I was mortified of girls and pitchers, and when I looked in the mirror with my bean head and military haircut, I saw a guy whose Venn Diagram did not include Davy Jones of The Monkees, and I knew I would never get the girl. Meanwhile, every day more and more friends left for the States. We all said teary goodbyes to one another, we kids and our parents and their bridge and drinking and golf friends. We knew we would likely never see one another again. Near the end of my Little League “career” on Wheelus, I did manage to summon a little courage and even took a few hopelessly slow swings at the oncoming ball. The season ended and I felt I’d given it my best, which of course wasn’t true by a long shot. I began to stare more carefully at the long, nutty name in my glove and decided to look the guy up. I’d seen the fake scripted letters a hundred times but had never thought much about it. The factory signature in my baseball glove was that of a player named Tony Conigliaro, and I learned that in August of ‘67 he’d been brutally hit in the face by a wild pitch that nearly killed him. The horrific injury compelled the redesign of the standard batting helmet. I’d picked up a Tony Conigliaro baseball glove. It still stuns me. Did this mean something? When our plane touched down in the States, at MacDill AFB in Florida, the passengers broke into spontaneous cheering. Two months later we were in Boulder, and I began to grow out my hair.

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I Heart SB is a social experiment in dating and relationships through stories shared with and experienced by a thirty-something living in the Greater Santa Barbara area. All stories herein are based on actual events. Some names, places, and timelines have been altered to preserve anonymity and, most of all, for your reading enjoyment. Submit stories (maximum 700 words) to letters@santabarbarasentinel.com.

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he morning felt like side jabs from the universe. Little hiccups and annoyances provoke my tolerance, seeing how far I can be pushed before going ape on somebody. With hands white-knuckled at 10 and 2, a dead stare on the road ahead is all I can muster to calm my nerves and decompress the aggravation in my soul. And just when I thought I had reached brink of chimpanzee, my lover, my sweetheart, my loving man chimes in with his best helpful tone. “Babe, just a little driving suggestion for you…” Holy shit. Is this really happening right now? “When you turn left, you tend to swing out in the lane and it makes it hard for others to pass…” “Uh huhhhhh.” I say. My lungs fill with hot air and my throat starts to burn. “It’s better to hug the center line so they can go around you. Just something to be aware of.” That’s it. I’m about to go gorilla. I turn the car into the boat yard, park, and collapse my defeated limbs onto the seat. “I need to be by myself for a little bit.” “Ok… Is it because I said that thing about your driving?” “No… well, maybe a little. That was a cherry on top. This morning has been poking at my side like ‘Eehhn! Eehhn! Eehhn, Eehhn!…” I use my right arm to simulate my best poking motion but end up looking like a bad re-enactment of a Jason movie. “I just need to re-center.” He pauses for a second, then proceeds with caution. “Do you think it’s also because we’re leaving on the boat in a few days?” “Yeah, probably!” I say, my head nodding at bobble-head speed. “Are you sure this is what you want? You sure sailing is what you want to do?” “Yeah, I’m pretty sure… Ninety-eight percent of me is already in Mexico. The other two percent… the other two percent, I need to have a talk.” He’s seen this reaction, my need for solitude, before. “But it’s not you!” I jump to explain. “I just need some time to think about everything.” The warmth of his hand comforts my goose-bumped skin. “Okay. Do what you gotta do, babe. We have dinner at six, so be back by then.” He gives my arm a squeeze as his hazel eyes twinkle back with compassion. “I love you,” I say. “And thank you for understanding!” “Of course, lover. See you soon!” He hops out of the car and blows a kiss as the door shuts behind. Okay, where was I?… I point the car south and let my intuition guide the way. The city begins to fade into suburbia and soon, small farm towns shrink in the rearview mirror and the wilderness begins to take over. My heart slows to a rhythmic pulse as I muster up the courage to have an honest conversation with myself. “Alright, Elizabeth,” I say out loud in a forceful, parental-like tone. “Are you actually going to do this? Are you really taking off on a 34-foot sailboat to Mexico?” The words ring in my head as I glide along the winding roads in my 2002 Toyota Highlander, simultaneously realizing this may be one of the last times I drive a car for months. Although the trees lattice the expansive water beyond, I can feel its presence. The open ocean. The frontier I would get to know in a deep, profound, and intimate way. I drift into a lucid state and visualize myself at sea. The thought of rooting with the ocean, wind, and sky grounds my spirit and brings peace. So the question makes a dramatic turn. How could I not go? How could I pass up an opportunity to experience the world at an elemental and spiritual level? I couldn’t. A kaleidoscope future of unknowns is what I long for. Where change is the only constant, where time doesn’t exist, where life isn’t what you expect, and you are not of yourself anymore… I turn the volume to deafening levels as pent-up anxiety, confusion, and distrust cumulate into a loud and awkward roar. My heart races as I surrender to the unknown and I realize it’s time to let go.

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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.

BLESSINGS, BREAD, AND A WINE-FILLED WEEKEND CHALLAH AT YOUR BAKER! ob’s Well Bread Bakery and restaurant announces they are taking orders for their freshly baked challah for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Created for the holiday by head baker Eric Henning, Bob’s challah is steeped in tradition and loaded with symbolism and ideal for beginning one’s traditional family celebration with a Jewish New Year dinner. When: All challah orders must be submitted by Thursday, September 29, and pick up will be available from Friday, September 30 – Monday, October 3 Where: Bob’s Well Bread Bakery, 550 Bell Street in Los Alamos Cost: Pricing per challah is plain or sesame $10; with raisins, $12. Info: (805) 344-3000 or emailing to info@bobswellbread.com

THE GREAT GRAPE STOMP alyra Winery’s flagship event has been voted “Most Fun Grape Stomp on the Central Coast,” and has become a staple over the last decade for those in search of a classic “Lucille Ball up to her knees in grapes” experience. Bring your camera, kick off your shoes, climb into a vat full of grapes, get your feet wet, and see what all the messy purple fuss is about. Kalyra staff says, “Wear your toga to bring things up to the next level – you won’t be the only one wearing one, we promise!” Luncheon feast, live chill acoustic Cali rock with Headshine, hayrides through the vineyards, an outdoor library tasting, and of course, flowing wine included. *Designated driver and child tickets available. When: Saturday, October 1, from 11 am to 4 pm Where: Kalyra Winery, 343 North Refugio Road in Santa Ynez Cost: Wine Thieves $55 and guests $65 per person Info: 805-693-8864 www.kalyrawinery.com

21ST ANNUAL CHUMASH INTER-TRIBAL POW WOW onoring tradition and culture, the community is invited to enjoy an educational and cultural experience that focuses on Native American music, arts and customs. Join in the excitement of Native American dance and drum competitions among tribes from across the nation. There will also be vendors selling food, arts and crafts, jewelry, pottery, baskets, and much more. Bring a blanket or lawn chair – all are welcome! When: Saturday, October 1, from 10 am to 10 pm and Sunday, October 2, from 10 am to 6 pm

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Where: Live Oak Campground, 4650 Highway 154 in Santa Ynez Cost: Admission is free, and parking is just $5 Info: www.santaynezchumash.org BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS FESTIVAL t. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal hosts a “Blessing of the Animals Festival” in remembrance of St. Francis of Assisi’s love for all creatures great and small. All ages are welcome to bring pets (on a lead or in a crate) for a special individual prayer of blessing by the reverend Dr. Randall Day. A reception will follow the service featuring animal treats and water for pets and sodas, wine, and cheese for their human guardians. The service will be a casual one, held outdoors in front of the church. If a pet cannot be transported or is unable to attend, a photograph can be blessed instead. Children are also welcome to bring stuffed animal toys for a blessing. When: Sunday, October 2, at 4:30 pm Where: St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal, 2901 Nojoqui Avenue in Los Olivos Cost: free Info: (805) 688-4454 or info@SMITV.org

25TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF HARVEST n what is easily billed as the “Ultimate Wine and Food Weekend,” the four-day Santa Barbara Wine Country celebration of harvest is upon us, with dinners, open houses, seminars, and the Festival Grand Tasting. Vintners take a break from the vineyards and cellars to pour their wines and share harvest tales. Throughout the weekend, select wineries host their own events, ranging from winemaker dinners, library tastings, new wine releases, and barrel tastings. The festival showcases more than 100 Santa Barbara County wineries alongside notable food from prominent restaurants and catering companies. When: October 7-10, 2016 – Grand Festival Saturday, October 8, from 1 to 4 pm Where: River View Park in Buellton Cost: $30 to $200 per person – Grand Festival tasting is $80 per person Info: www.celebrationofharvest.com

GRASSINI CRUSH COOKOUT ake it a wine-filled weekend! Cap off the harvest festival weekend by relaxing under the shade of 400-year-old oak trees next to a tranquil pond in the middle of rows upon rows of vines at Grassini Family Vineyard’s (GFV) exclusive invitation-only estate. Spend the afternoon challenging your friends to games of corn hole, snacking on savory foods, and sipping on GFV wines – they plan to uncork and share their newest ones – including some extremely limited production bottles. Music by The Coastal Commission, fronted by none other than GFV facilities manager and jack-of-all-trades Tom Bryant. When: Sunday, October 9, from 1 to 4 pm Where: Location disclosed upon ticket purchase Cost: $55 per person or $110 per person for the “Wine-Filled Weekend Bundle” – purchase Celebration of Harvest and Crush Cookout tickets together and get a $25 savings Info: (805) 897-3366

37TH ANNUAL DAY IN THE COUNTRY he tiny town of Los Olivos will roll out the family fun for its annual event, inviting everyone to “enjoy country living the way it used to be in simpler times.” A 5K run/walk, pancake breakfast, parade through town, silent auction, vintage tractor and antique car display, a new beer garden, and more than 100 arts, crafts, food, and wine booths will line Grand Avenue for some good ol’ downhome, sweet, happy fun for all. When: Saturday, October 15, from 9 am to 4 pm Where: All along Grand Avenue in Los Olivos Cost: free Info: www.losolivosca.com

SANTA YNEZ SCARECROW FESTIVAL ore than 200 handcrafted scarecrows return to the valley for a hearty hay-filled competitive autumnal throw-down between business owners throughout Santa Ynez, Los Alamos, Los Olivos, Buellton, and Ballard. Restaurants, bakeries, fudge houses, wine tasting rooms, taprooms, candy counters, ice cream stores, museums, salons, merchants, companies, individuals, school organizations, and even law offices will flaunt their creations and compete in the 7th Annual Scarecrow Festival and Contest. The public is invited and encouraged to judge and vote for their favorites. Ballots available at each scarecrow site. When: October 7 through November 7 Where: Valley-wide Info: www.syvscarecrows.com

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