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State Street Scribe – The last woman to be executed at San Quentin was a Santa Barbaran, writes Jeff Wing. We’ve since rebranded.

Beer Guy – The Brewhouse goes up in flames but rises from the ashes.

Zach Rosen raises a pint to them, with an eye toward Oktoberfest.

Fortnight – Tower of Power; music and dance on campus; Apostles, Bill Murray, and classic music; Ira Glass; Tim Allen; Husbands & Wives; Disgraced takes Center Stage; and SB Revels and SB Folk Orchestra

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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

Why You Should Ignore Economists

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hen I took Econ 101 and 102 as a young college student back in antediluvian times, the textbook we were assigned was Paul Samuelson’s Economics: An Introductory Analysis, the all-time best selling economics textbook and is still around today (19th edition).

I had the 1961 edition. In it, Samuelson, a prominent Keynesian economist who won the Nobel prize in economics, predicted that the economy of the Soviet Union would overtake the U.S. economy in 23 years (by 1984). Even as late as the 11th edition (1980), Samuelson stood by his prediction.

As anybody who knows anything about the Soviet Union, their topdown centrally planned economy was a disaster that left its citizens in poverty. It was inefficient, wasteful, driven by coercion, politics, corruption, and cronyism. Consumer wishes were ignored. Goods were under-produced or overproduced.

There were shortages of everything, except vodka and hydrogen bombs.

There was a joke floating around Moscow at the time about shortages: Yuri Gagarin’s daughter (he was the first man in space and hero of the Soviet Union) answers the phone: “No, mummy and daddy are out,” she says. “Daddy’s orbiting the Earth, and he’ll be back tonight at 7 o’clock.

But mummy’s gone shopping for groceries, so who knows when she’ll be home.”

They were far, far behind us.

So how could Samuelson and his fellow Keynesians even consider that a planned economy could work better than a free economy? Yet for 11 editions he persisted in believing that failed theory. And a generation of students left school with the idea that a centrally planned economy could work.

Mainstream economists today aren’t much better.

For example, one would think that you could rely on those economic wizards at the Federal Reserve, those guardians tasked with the dual mandate of creating full employment and stable prices, but they got it wrong too. In the run-up to the crash of ’08 and the Great Recession, Ben Bernanke, then-chairman of the Fed,

not only didn’t see it coming but failed to grasp the magnitude of the problem when it hit.

The truth is that almost no mainstream economist predicted the crash of ’08 or the ensuing Great Recession. Most economists, Bernanke included, were forecasting that the economy would recover soon and any downturn would be mild,

The truth is that some economists did see the 2008 bust coming, but they were ignored or laughed at. Most of these economists were free-market types who understood the causes of the boom-bust business cycle. Also, some contrarian investors were aware of the problems and when the bust came, they made billions for their clients.

Let me impart a basic truth: no one can accurately predict the future.

But if you can hear the train coming down the track, it’s best to get off the rails.

Fortunately for you, I am not an economist, merely a student of the science. But based on my 40+ years of observing and studying the economy

4. There are permabears and permabulls. Simple Internet searches will reveal who is who. Avoid both.

5. If you increasingly hear experts say we are not in a bubble, we probably are.

6. If you get advice from someone who says, “this time is different,” run for the door.

7. If the stock market is making alltime highs such as the present, it probably is too high.

8. If home prices are at an all-time high such as the present, they may be too high.

9. If commercial real estate prices are at all-time highs such as the present, they may be too high.

10. If personal and corporate debt

Almost no mainstream economist predicted the crash of ’08 and certainly there was no recession on the horizon.

If these are the brightest guys in the room, why didn’t they understand what was happening? It makes you wonder if these guys really understand how economies work. The obvious answer is that they don’t.

Therein lies the problem: contemporary economists are not able to explain what happens in the real world. The lack of valid theory, the improper use of mathematics (econometrics), and raw empirical research as a substitute for good theory has led contemporary economists to a dead-end. Even worse, they recommend economic policies that often achieve the opposite of what they intended and make problems worse. And, we are the ones who pay for their mistakes.

Oh, dismal science, you have failed us.

So here we are trying to figure out what to do. Do we buy a house? Do we change jobs? Do we start a new business? Do we move to another town or state? Do we invest in the stock market? Do we invest in Bitcoins? Do we take on (more) debt?

Do we buy a new car? Should we save or spend? Should we retire?

It would have been nice to know back in 2006, for example, that everything would eventually blow up (as it did in 2008). But the conventional wisdom then was that things were fine, don’t worry; it was the worst possible advice.

At any given time, we are somewhere in the business cycle. If you don’t know where we are in the cycle, you can get crushed.

But who can you trust?

and investments, I have learned what I believe are some basic truths that have worked for me. I have boiled them down to some contrarian tips for you to consider: 1. Free-market economists tend to be contrarians and you should listen to them – but if they are selling you something, run for the door.

2. Contrarian investors are worth listening to – but if they are selling you something, run for the door.

3. Because someone was right before doesn’t mean they’ll be right again.

is at an all-time high such as the present, there may be more risk to asset values.

11. Do not take on a lot of debt at this stage in the cycle; it will kill you on the downside.

12. Booms can last longer than you think.

13. Be patient.

As essayist Richard Epstein said, “True freedom comes only to a lucid mind unbound by conventional wisdom and suspicious of received opinions.” Take this to heart.

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hen Olga Duncan disappeared from her Garden Street apartment, her newish husband Frank wasn’t terribly concerned at first. We were less prone to anxiousness in that era. We feared neither gluten nor the anaphylactic shock brought on by a carelessly packed peanut butter sandwich. The habits of highly effective go-getters hadn’t yet caffeinated the life force and strapped it to a rocket sled.

Someone could wander off for a day or two and we wouldn’t think anything sinister was afoot. Sometimes we were wrong about that, but not often.

EISENHOWER HOUR Santa Barbara in 1958 was like most places in 1958. The young men all had jug ears and white T-shirts and looked like Martin Milner, the young ladies water-skied four-abreast with matching bathing caps, and daily life was the color of a Kodachrome© snapshot. Super-8 home movies were often silent and

featured lots of waving at the camera.

Gas station attendants wore funny little paper hats (extremely flammable, it should be noted) and would helpfully swarm an incoming car like beach gulls converging on a dropped hot dog.

1958’s murderers were also of their time.

Broadly speaking, they were dour men with downcast eyes and the unkempt, swept-back hair of the perennially fleeing, their black-and-white mug shots often radiant with disappointment.

SMOKE ON THE WATER That year, a Friday night in this tumbledown beach town would find a parade of hot rods peaceably cruising down State Street, revving their customized engines in great clouds of smoke and generally ignoring the spirit of the Paris Accord. The automotive pageant would terminate at the corner of State and Valerio and the beloved Blue Onion drive-in restaurant there, the cars clustering around the place in

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the blanched light of their innumerable headlamps, drivers happily shouting about exhaust manifolds while devouring gigantic burgers brought right out to the car by gum-chomping waitresses on roller skates (is that safe?).

MOTHER OUT-LAW Into this milieu I’m now obliged to introduce Santa Barbarans Frank and Olga Duncan, and Frank’s mother, the checkered and complicated Elizabeth.

Here they are in 1958’s present tense.

Frank Duncan is a grown man, a practicing attorney, and a doting son with the iron will of a napkin. He lives with his single mother, Elizabeth Duncan (born Hazel Sinclair Nigh) and they are oddly, even uncomfortably, inseparable. Elizabeth is a familiar and annoying fixture in the Santa Barbara courthouse, known for attending all Frank’s trials and gleefully applauding when he wins, to the chagrin of the local legal establishment.

In appearance, Mrs. Duncan is pinchfaced and bespectacled and nondescript, a flesh-and-blood version of the nice old lady who cares for Tweety Bird in the Warner Brothers cartoons. Since her nervous breakdown in 1948, ostensibly catalyzed by the tragic sudden death of Frank’s sister, Mrs. Duncan has been

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a wandering star, so to speak. She has married somewhere between 14 and 20 times, often remarrying without bothering to dissolve her previous union. She has lived on the disordered fringes of decent society—writing bad checks, engaging in shadowy financial schemes, and at one time managing a bordello. She is not a Donna Reed figure.

NURSE OLGA’S ILL-TIMED MERCY

Our story begins one evening at the Duncan home. Frank, as attorney, is going through his mom’s sheaf of marriage certificates in an attempt to sensibly establish her legal status. For reasons unknown, the task causes Frank to snap. He stands and boldly tells his mother he is moving out. She protests, grabbing Frank by the Arrow Shirt and begging him not to leave, but to no avail.

Frank goes to his room to pack, and Elizabeth goes to her room and chugs a bottle of sleeping pills. Not surprisingly, the desperate gambit works. Frank finds her, rushes her to St. Francis Hospital, and she is saved. Elizabeth Duncan lies comatose for four days and emerges to find herself in the tender care of a lovely young nurse named Olga Kupczyk, a ...continued p.18

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s many know, The Brewhouse caught fire this past April. The culprit is thought to be a heating gun used to seal growlers. Most of the physical building was not damaged, though there was extensive smoke throughout the dining room.

Thankfully, the beer was all right.

Both the brewery and kitchen were unscathed by the fire and most of the damage was in the bar area. The staff and community speculated on when the brewery would be accessible and, after four months of guessing, the brewery has (finally) re-opened.

During the past few months as my friends and I planned our evenings out, the conversation would inevitably end up on The Brewhouse since it was our go-to dinner spot. After reminiscing for a while on The Brewhouse, we would settle on somewhere else. The brewpub re-opened as we were away at Burning Man, and upon returning our camp had a decompression dinner at The Brewhouse. The menu came just as it was before and a sigh of relief passed through the table as we saw that nothing had really changed. Sitting on the outdoor patio, we dined on our favorite dishes, the conversation falling on familiar topics. The newly restored bar could be glimpsed through the doorway but went largely unnoticed, seemingly unchanged besides a TV-beer list that has replaced the old beer board.

Of course, that is on the surface. Four months is a long time for a restaurant to be closed and though insurance covered the expense of the burn damage, there are other unforeseen costs. During this time the staff, from cooks to waitresses, were unable to receive income from their shifts and restaurants typically don’t want to hire a new staff member for only a few months. A GoFundMe

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account was started to help the staff and both breweries and restaurants in the community offered to help The Brewhouse family. The fire also affected the planning of their annual Oktoberfest event.

Now in its 12th year of celebration, The Brewhouse Oktoberfest is a classic event in the local beer scene. In years past, the brewpub would shut down its back parking lot, gating off the area and erecting large tents with pop-up stadium benches and long tables to house a three-day bash ripe with beer, schnitzel, and joy. The event typically takes five months of planning and with their focus on restoring the brewpub this year, The Brewhouse will be hosting a more mellow event for Oktoberfest.

It will take place Friday, September 29, to Sunday, October 1, and will be restrained to just the restaurant space with the back parking lot not being used. The staff will rearrange the tables into family dining style, and the weekend will offer many of the same games and competitions that they have done before.

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Feeling Horn-y for Saxes

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t’s hard to fathom that it’s been half a century since Tower of Power first started basting out their horn section-laced R&B up in Oakland, and even harder to come to terms with the fact that two of the founding members – tenor saxist Emilio Castillo a baritone saxist Stephen “Doc” Kupka – are still doing the reedy thing with the band. There’s been more than twodozen albums of “urban soul music” over the years, which averages out to about one every two years, a rather impressive fact. Then there’s the hits, many of which have become staples of the cover bands that play across the street at SOhO if not so much classic rock stations. Check out such timeless numbers as “You’re Still a Young Man”, “Don’t Change Horses (in the Middle of a Stream)”, and “What is Hip?”, plus whatever the boys are feeling hip about now, when Tower of Power plays the Granada Theatre on Saturday, September 23. Tickets will run you

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Now UC Them

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hile Santa Barbara City College has been in session since two weeks before Labor Day, UCSB doesn’t get going until summer actually ends in late September. Which, I suppose, only builds the suspense for the advent of the new season of events from UCSB Arts & Lectures, the campus-based organization that has become the largest presenter of arts and entertainment events on the South Coast. While A&L marked a major milestone just last year, the 2017 slate is no slouch either, and the five events that get going during this fortnight – actually within a span of only 10 days – covers a spectrum of genres.

Mexican-American world music superstar Lila Downs not only possesses a truly singular voices – an opera-trained instrument with what The U.K. Guardian called an “almost

superhuman three-octave range” – she also uses it with an innovative approach, synthesizing indigenous Mesoamerican music with cumbia, soul, jazz, hip hop, and other musical influences.

Downs’s newest album, Salón, Lágrimas y Deseo, her reaction both personally and politically to last November’s election and its aftermath, serves as the backbone for her concert at the Granada Theatre on Wednesday, September 27, which also boasts A&L’s opening night celebration featuring live music and dance from Chinelos of Santa Bárbara and Southern California on the theater’s plaza and Oaxaca-inspired drink specials next door at The Good Lion. Make sure to down ‘em before you head into the theater to see Downs.

Up next is the return of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, which does its own brand of mashing up styles as the company combines modern, jazz, and ballet to create its own athletic form of contemporary dance that has drawn

some of the top choreographers from around the world to add a distinctive international flavor. The Tuesday, October 3, show at the Granada is part of Hubbard’s 40th season celebration tour.

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he following night brings the Santa Barbara debut of Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles, which is the newest project of the Hammond B-3 organwielding Brooklyn native who is a member of two-time Grammy Awardwinning jazz-R&B group Snarky Puppy.

Like that band, The Apostles blend a bevy of styles, including blues, soul, R&B, Afrobeat, gospel, and jazz, coming up with a concoction that is said to be simultaneously futuristic and retro, experimental, and classic. We’ll have to take their word for it as the band’s debut LP, Chapter 1: The Art of Love, came out just a few days before press time and we haven’t had a chance to hear it yet.

(Take that, all ye who think UCSB A&L takes a bit too conservative, wait-and-see approach to booking!) The Wednesday, October 4, show also marks the season kickoff for A&L on campus at UCSB Campbell Hall.

Two days later, it’s back to the Granada for another Southern California debut, but this guy whose name goes first on the marquee might be a little more familiar than Henry. Bill Murray, veteran actor and comedian who first came to fame on the second season of Saturday Night Live way back in the 1970s, is teaming with world-renowned cellist Jan Vogler in a celebration of literature and music.

Murray will explore the works of Hemingway, Capote, and Mark Twain, dance a tango, and even sing on stage (remember his great lounge lizard doing the theme song to Stars Wars on SNL?) while Vogler leads a trio featuring violinist Mira Wang and pianist Vanessa Paredes performing Bach, Ravel, and Piazzolla, among other more modern works. Get a taste of what you’ll hear when the collaborative album New Worlds arrives on September 29, a week before the Friday, October 6, show serves as one of just a few dates before the mini-tour winds up at Carnegie Hall in New York later in the month.

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inally, the fortnight closes with Ira Glass, the creator of This American Life and Serial, who also appears at the Granada, where he will be sharing some of his secrets regarding what it takes to create a truly great story in “Seven Things I’ve Learned”. Glass will mix stories live on stage using audio clips, ...continued p.19

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CREATIVE CHARACTERS ELENA DORFMAN

by Zach Rosen

Repetition of the light boxes imparts a production-line quality to the installation

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s civilization progresses, humanity’s relationship with nature and technology is ever-evolving. With advances in AI, robotics, and our continued manipulation of the world around us, it is important to reflect on the impact that these changes will have on nature and civilization. Artist Elena Dorfman has spent her career exploring these topics and using her body of work

to pose questions that ask the viewer to pause and consider the world around them.

Born in Boston, Elena moved to San Francisco in her early 20s to explore new frontiers. Working for years between New York and San Francisco in film and photography, Elena’s first major show was Still Lovers (Channel, 2005).

This body of work revealed the secret

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life of silicon sex dolls, their owners, and the intimacy and care found in this culture. Elena became intrigued by the subject after meeting a woman, Adriana, who owned five dolls. Married with a husband and children, the dolls were kept hidden from their children in a secret closet. Adriana believed that each doll personified a different personality trait in herself, revealing an intimacy and a sense of reality in the dolls that Elena was unaware of. As she explored the subject, she traveled the world photographing doll owners and their interactions with silicon counterparts.

This exploration of fantasy and reality was continued in her next show, Fandomania: Characters and Cosplay, where she profiled and documented the world of cosplay and the personas found within. Her next project, The Pleasure Park, began as a commission to photograph a jockey and evolved into a series of photographs that featured jockeys and their horses. Growing up as a competitive rider, Elena was drawn to the subject of thoroughbred racing and wanted to question the relationship of man and animal, looking at their reliance on each other and what they ask of each other. In all of these works, Elena seeks to approach nontraditional subject matters in traditional forms, asking the viewer to reconsider their preconceived notions.

While her body of work has largely focused on portraiture, Elena became interested in landscape work in 2009 while photographing rock quarries around the Midwest. She was originally studying the rock-diving community of abandoned quarries but soon became more interested in the environment of these areas. Over several years, she accumulated a massive collection of photographs of rock quarries and the surrounding landscapes throughout Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana.

For the show Empire Falling, she produced layered images from the collection that were constructed by printing photos, cutting them apart, and superimposing them on one another. These altered photographs were digitally layered to form a meticulous collage of photos that produced a single constructed image. These fabricated images questioned globalization, consolidation, and the evolution of environment. With her various works, Elena strives to pose more questions than answers. Each piece provides a consideration rather than a statement, drawing light to aspects of our culture and our relationship with the world, and investigating such subjects as the artificial and the natural, animal and human, fantasy and reality.

Her newest work, The Origin of the

Artist Elena Dorfman’s newest installation will be on display at SBCAST until October 8

New World, returns to the world of silicon sex doll culture. Although she knew that eventually she would return to this subject, the plethora of attention the Still Lovers exhibit received made her hesitant to approach this topic again.

However, around 2015 Elena began noticing cultural cues and technological breakthroughs that made her aware it was time to revisit the subject. Elena observed cinematic works such as Her, Ex Machina, and Westworld that explore humanity’s relationship with AI and technology. While Isaac Asimov and other sci-fi writers have long been contemplating these subjects and posing their own questions, these conversations have recently become more prevalent in mainstream culture as our technology gets closer to turning sci-fi into reality.

Through the years, Elena also tracked the evolution of plastic surgery, noticing that once-taboo operations such as labiaplasty were becoming more commonplace and accepted by our culture. As doll technology advanced, the factories began incorporating speech devices, sensors, and other electronics to give the dolls a further sense of realism.

Through these trends, Elena noticed that women were making themselves more doll-like and the dolls were becoming more life-like.

With the technology advancing at an incredible pace, the world of AI and interactive robots are on the horizon.

Elena wanted to explore our relationship with this technology on the eve of the breakthroughs that are soon to come rather than after they have taken place. After viewing Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World 1866) at the Musée d’Orsay, Elena was inspired to re-create the image of the painting but replace the real model with a silicon sex doll. L’Origine du Monde features a nude female model lying prone in bed with her legs spread.

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The painting caused shock and awe in the art community with its realism and provocative subject.

With that project, Elena wanted to ask if the suggestive and revealing pose of Courbet’s masterpiece still had the power to shock in the 21st century, or had modern culture, technology, and the Internet desensitized our response to this image?

Elena worked with one of the silicon doll factories to take a series of photographs of different dolls poised in the fashion of Courbet’s painting. The collection explored the various aesthetic options that the factory offers, featuring different skin tones, body styles, and hair colors. Taking additional inspiration from Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés (The Waterfall; The Illuminating Glass 1946-1966), an image of a nude lady visible only through a peephole; the installation shrouds each image in a light box. The boxes comprise one-way mirrors framed in gold.

Guests enter the room to the series of light boxes displayed at eye level. The dimmed mirrors, similar to the type used in surveillance and interrogation, allows the viewer to reflect before pressing a side button that illuminates the box and reveals the image.

Does this image still have the power

to shock? In short, yes. The image of the sprawled doll imparts a brief falter as it is lit. The perspective traverses the female form and takes the viewer through the sensitive spaces of Courbet’s original.

The immediate response of shock to the doll’s life-like features and risqué pose are soon replaced by a curiosity as the artificial nature of the subject is revealed.

The intimate proximity of the female subject is what contributes to the arresting quality of Courbet’s painting.

In this installation, it is what reveals the underlying reality of the subject. A seam in the silicone leg, the fabric mesh underneath a tuft of pubic hair, small details that belie the doll’s artifice begin to become apparent as you observe the photograph. When several boxes are turned on, the repeating image exhibits the product-like existence of the dolls, as if one is standing in a company showroom. However, even knowing that the model is not real flesh-and-blood, the images still produce an intriguing discomfort as you observe its inanimate form attempting to mimic humanity.

The Origin of the New World will be on view by appointment at SBCAST (513 Garden St.) until Sunday, October 8. Visit elenadorfman.com for more information and images of her series.

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WHAT’SHANGING? with Ted Mills Ted Mills is a local writer, filmmaker, artist, and podcaster on the arts. You can listen to him at www.funkzonepodcast.com. He currently has a seismically dubious stack of books by his bed. Have an upcoming show you’d like us to know about? Please email: tedmills@gmail.com

LIFE GOES ON, MINUS TRICKSTERS

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he blows keep coming: even though he had been looking rather frail the last time I saw him, Keith Puccinelli’s death last week took me completely by surprise, and just over a week after I last saw him in public (at Philip Koplin’s memorial, no less). Koplin, Gary Chafe, and now Puccinelli: all three of these artists were inhabited by the trickster gods, letting us know that, yes, indeed, humor does belong in art. Keith often placed himself in his art, dressed up like the Italian commedia dell’arte clown Pulcinella, a nod to his family’s 16thcentury heritage. And now he, like the others, have gone, leaving us with only memories. Which leads me to ask: do we have a new generation of tricksters?

Let me know by dropping me a line.

REAP THE ART WIND

If you’re picking this column up hot off the presses, you are in luck because you should hurry thee asap to the

Faulkner Gallery at the Central Library (40 E. Anapamu) for the Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment (SCAPE) Art Show and Benefit Sale. That’s 100 paintings all for sale at affordable prices to benefit Direct Relief ’s hurricane relief efforts, which at press time were “only” three gigantic hurricanes. The sale runs through the end of the month. Artists will donate 40 percent of their sales to Direct Relief.

GRIT EXPECTATIONS

After several recent appearances at 10 West Gallery, abstract painter Madeline Garrett is set for her own solo show at the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (229 E. Victoria St.).

“Industrial Strength” is a collection of both paintings and collages that find her ruminating on our graffiti-covered urban environment, using stenciling, torn photographs from her archives, and her own kind of tagging. Opening

reception Friday, October 6, from 5 to 7 pm.

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“Art Heals” is a juried art show and fundraiser for the brand spanking new Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, with an opening reception, 5 to 8 pm, this coming First Thursday (October 5) at Gallery 113 (1114 State St., studio 8, in La Arcada). Rick Stich, a well-known Santa Barbara artist who also gives of his time to teach art at the cancer center, is the juror. During the month of October, a portion of all sales will benefit the facility, and artists receive a 50 percent commission.

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Browse a myriad of artists from Santa Barbara and beyond in this year’s ArtWalk at the Museum of Natural History (2559 Puesta del Sol).

Now in its 30th year, come stroll the verdant backyard of the museum along Mission Creek and check out paintings, sculpture, crafts, prints and more. The indoor show features the work of the Oak Group. Runs September 23-24, 10 am to 5 pm. $10 or free to museum members.

(15 E. Ortega) from last month with brand-new art. DJ Eric Crash will be spinning rekkids on Thursday, October 5, 8 to 11 pm for the opening. Even if you were here last month, come again.

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Meanwhile at SBCAST (513 Garden St.), select artists from Los Angeles’ Self-Help Graphics will show “Making Art in a Time of Rage,” a selection of posters and prints that may relieve a small percentage of all your bottledup despair and anger over 2017’s turn of events. Or maybe not. Check it out regardless, in suite E. Through October.

Opening reception and general fun times at SBCAST, Thursday, Oct. 5, 5 to 9 pm.

OUTSIDE THE BOX

ONE MORE TIME, WITH COCKTAILS

Miss the opening of MCA’s “Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960 – Present”? Well, it’s up for some time.

Perhaps they can entice you to check out the exhibit with Curated Cocktails, 7 to 9 pm, on Thursday, October 5. You know the drill by now: a delicious shell on the outside made of libations and DJs, a creamy center inside made of tasty art. Get on it, you gluttons!

PRESS GANG

Vanae Rivera and the gang of artists in and around Golden Eagle Tattoo will re-up their exhibition at The Press Room

Assemblage maker and walking cabinet of curiosities Michael Long will be this month’s featured artist at Elsie’s Tavern (117 W. De La Guerra St.) offering his illuminated boxes and dioramas. Long calls the opening night (Thursday, October 5, 7 to 11 pm) the “end up art show.” That is, where you should go after you’ve seen everything else. “See the rest, then see the best,” he winks. There will also be a few limited editions available of The Rondo Rag, Long’s bi-annual magazine of ephemera.

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kind-hearted beauty with whom Frank, briefly operating outside his mother’s controlling emotional purview, becomes quickly smitten.

MOM IS UPSET Elizabeth’s rage at her son’s suspected betrayal increases as her robust health returns, and when she is on her feet again she begins boldly visiting Olga’s Garden Street apartment during the work day, letting herself in with a key she has somehow procured, going through Olga’s drawers and cabinets looking for any tormenting evidence of the romance blossoming between the young lady and her Frank. Olga’s landlady calls the intrusive Mrs. Duncan on the trespass, to which Frank’s mother goes ahead and hollers that she will kill Olga before she lets the two of them spend any more time together.

The stunned landlady reports this madness to a freaked-out Olga, who reports the threats to Frank. He responds with bland assurances and a knitted brow. He doesn’t believe his dear mother would say such a thing, let alone act on such crazy talk. Olga begs Frank for a commitment before his mom can tear them apart. His grasping mother, in turn, begs him to promise he won’t marry Olga without telling mom first.

He makes that promise, then secretly marries Olga the next day. When he builds up the courage to tell his mother and move in with Olga, mom goes off like an overpacked Roman candle, first raging like a madwoman, then falling pitiably to Frank’s knees and pleading.

The weakling bends, acquiescing to

incredibly, falls for the cobbled-together skit and annuls the marriage, believing (among other things) the weathered 56-year-old Elizabeth Duncan to be a 30-year-old blushing bride with second thoughts. How long can the ruse last?

Elizabeth knows the scheme will unravel quickly.

slippers, walks with the gentleman across Garden Street to the car, leans in to see Frank and is grabbed by the accomplice in the back seat, pistol-whipped and driven away, never to be seen alive again.

Olga is hastily buried at the bottom of a Casitas Pass embankment, near Carpinteria.

In that day, we feared neither gluten nor the anaphylactic shock brought on by a carelessly packed peanut butter sandwich mom’s wish that he returns home. He will remain married to Olga but will live with his mother; not an arrangement the MFT licensure board would endorse.

MOM, APPLE PIE, AND A BLUNT OBJECT Still, Mother Duncan is crazed with jealousy. Her criminal mind, such as it is, races. Not satisfied to have the young marrieds living at separate addresses, she hits upon the idea of annulling the marriage, hiring a Salvation Army boarder to impersonate Frank while she plays the role of Olga. The two appear before a Ventura magistrate who,

Although the bites of most spiders and insects, including mosquitoes, fleas, flies, bedbugs, and chiggers are seldom dangerous, mosquitoes in certain parts of the world may transmit diseases such as West Nile virus, dengue, malaria, and encephalitis.

Soon enough, Frank’s uniquely awful mom is thinking the unthinkable. She recklessly offers a car-hop at the Blue Onion $1,500 to hurl Olga off a cliff.

The waitress politely declines, and goes directly to Frank to spill the beans (SB was an even smaller town then, of course).

When Frank confronts his mother, she denies it. “Okay, then,” Frank says, or something like that, believing his dear old mom and dismissing the increasingly panicked pleas of his Olga. Next, Mrs. Duncan tries to enlist an elderly lady friend to lure Olga into her apartment, where Elizabeth will spring from a closet and bludgeon Olga. Her friend is taken aback by the scheme and also declines to help. Nobody thinks to mention any of this to the police.

MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION Finally, Ma Duncan finds a couple of jittery clods who will do Olga in for the sum of $6,000, to be paid in two installments. On the evening of November 17, at around midnight, the two amateurs arrive at Olga’s apartment.

One of them knocks on her door, claiming to be a friend of Frank’s. Olga’s hubby is reportedly very drunk and in the back seat of the man’s car. Could she come out and help get him into her apartment?

She throws on a housecoat and

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Some days later, the hired killers are apprehended on unrelated charges and in short order began to sing like canaries (to borrow from old Cagney movie terminology), implicating Ma Duncan forthwith. She and her accomplices are charged with first–degree murder, and when the case goes to trial, who should spearhead the legal defense of the murdering mom but Frank himself. The jury, possibly disturbed and bewildered by the victim’s husband defending the accused murderess of his own wife, and having incontrovertible evidence besides, returns a guilty verdict in about four hours.

Elizabeth Duncan will go to her death in 1962, proclaiming her innocence to the end. In her final days, she will repeatedly ask to see her Frank, who at the moment of his mother’s Statesponsored naptime is stuck arguing at the California Supreme Court for a stay of her execution. At this writing, Frank’s mother is the last woman to have been executed in San Quentin’s gas chamber.

Frank will remarry and become a successful and highly respected Los Angeles attorney.

Santa Barbara and San Quentin; two saints with Elizabeth Duncan in common. Who knew? And you thought genetically modified lentils were scary.

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music, and video, providing a unique look into his creative process in his event slated for Saturday, October 7.

Just to be clear, I’m not going to be telling you about every show all season long, because there’s about four score of them in all and I’ve only got this one column every two weeks. So you’d best be heading over the website at www.ArtsAndLectures.

UCSB.edu and checking out the schedule yourself. Still addicted to the dial tone?

Call ‘em at 893-3535.

The Buzz at the Chumash

You know you’ve made it as a comedy star when they let you use your real first name for your character in a sitcom. Tim Allen got that honor when he jumped straight from hammering home comedy bits in the clubs to a role as Tim “The Tool-Man” Taylor on Home Improvement in 1991. Three years later, he starred in Disney’s The Santa Clause, and then launched another landmark portraying Buzz Lightyear in the Disney/Pixar blockbuster Toy Story series. Now, Allen is back to the comedy circuit, where – I’m just guessing – they’re probably not guaranteeing him anything on the order of the $1.25 million per episode he got at the end of Home Improvement. But he can try his hand at doubling up his paycheck of whatever size by sticking it all on red at roulette after his set at the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom on Friday, September 29.

Tickets are going for $65 to $85. Call (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or visit www.chumashcasino.com.

Another Allen in Action

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nsemble Theatre Company (ETC) is going a little edgy for its 2017-18 season opening production – a worldpremiere adaptation of Woody Allen’s 1992 groundbreaking film, Husbands &

Wives. ETC’s artistic director Jonathan Fox is both directing and adapting the witty and urbane comic-drama from Allen’s script, which was nominated for an Oscar for best screenplay. The story follows two couples facing middle age who find themselves questioning their faltering marriages, and the play will represent just the second-ever adaptation of one of the director’s more than 45 produced films. Husbands & Wives runs October 5-22 at the New Vic Theatre.

Call 965-5400 or visit www.etcsb.org.

Producing Unit’s Santa Barbara debut of Disgraced, with the latter also starring in the play, reprising her role, as are all of the cast, from previous productions around the globe. The work has sparked conversations about everything from cultural appropriation in the art world to identity politics to what it means to be an American. Accordingly, a discussion will follow each of the performances, slated for September 28 to October 1 at Center Stage Theater. Call 963-0408 or visit www.centerstagetheater.org.

A Weekend to Wonder

Sea Songs by the Seashore

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isgraced, the 2013 Pulitzer Prizewinning play by Ayad Akhtar, has been one of the most-performed plays in the nation for the past two years.

But it might resonate even more in our recent turbulent times. The story follows Amir, a man torn between his Islamic heritage and his desire to achieve the American Dream. He’s a successful attorney with an adoring wife, and is living a life of hard-earned luxury before his Muslim cultural history clashes with his American identity in a series of events that throw his wellmanicured life into chaos. Peter Frisch and Ivy Vahanian are supervising The

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he Presidio Chapel will be swaying with songs from the sea as well as Scotland for two consecutive Sunday afternoons during the fortnight, and just about everyone performing the first weekend will also appear in the following show.

Revels’ Equinox: A Concert in Celebration of the Changing Seasons, slated for September 24, is bridging the divide between last year’s holiday show – Christmas Revels: A Scottish Celebration of the Winter Solstice, which was set in the 17th-century Scottish Highlands – with the big 10th anniversary December show,

and original scripts set right here in Santa Barbara and focusing on the sounds of Early California. Erin McKibben, the new Revels music director who sings and plays the flute, has assembled a diverse ensemble of musicians for the concert, including Kristine Pacheco (violin), Marie Hébert (violin), Jeannot Maha’a (cello/bass), Rebekah Scogin (harp), and Adam Phillips (voice, pipes, guitar).

All of them just so happen to also play in the Santa Barbara Folk Orchestra, the 30-member strong ensemble mashing up classical strings with bagpipes, Irish whistles, mandolins, harp, and acoustic guitars that was founded by Phillips last year, right about the time he was finishing up his tenure as McKibben’s predecessor at Revels. Songs of the Sea, which takes place on October 1, is the Folk Orchestra’s third full program and includes the title work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, plus “The Water is Wide”, “Spanish Ladies”, “The Navy Hymn”, two original pieces by Phillips, and several more. Admission for Equinox is $25 in advance or $30 at the door and you can find more information at www. santabarbararevels.org. For the Folk Orchestra, it’s also $25. Check www. nightout.com/events/folk-orchestraof-santa-barbara-songs-of-the-sea-101/ tickets.

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SAMARKAND

September - December 2017

The Housing Market in Samarkand

Happy Fall! I hope you and your family enjoyed a relaxing and fun summer, and are hopefully settling back into the routine of the school year. It’s an exciting time for Adams School students, with new principal Kelly Fresch at the helm, following in the footsteps of Dr. Amy Alzina, who is the new superintendent/ principal at Cold Spring School in Montecito. Ms. Fresch joins our district from Tustin, California, and has 18 years of experience as a school administrator. She was chosen from a group of 26 candidates who applied for the position.

In the real estate market, we saw a nice boost in inventory in Samarkand this spring and summer, and there have been 10 sales (with 1 currently pending) since the beginning of the year. This is FANTASTIC news, considering only four homes sold by this time last year. As far as inventory, there are currently three homes on the market, ranging in price from $814,000 to $950,000. Two recent listings on Clinton Terrace and Hermosa Road went into escrow very quickly earlier this summer, and have already closed escrow. This tells me that there are buyers clamoring to get into our neighborhood, and it’s a great time to sell. If you are curious about the value of your home, feel free to call me for a confidential evaluation.

Since my last newsletter, interest rates have gone up slightly, and I’ve enlisted local mortgage originator Jon McCuskey to give you an update on the mortgage side of things. This bump in interest rates may affect buying power, especially for first time homebuyers.

Lastly, I wanted to make mention of my new last name, Herrick, which I’ll be transitioning to over the next several months. You may see me and my husband, Jason, during our daily walk through the neighborhood with our dog, Pickles. We all look forward to meeting you.

Kelly My best,

KELLY MAHAN HERRICK Calcagno & Hamilton 805.208.1451 Kelly@HomesInSantaBarbara.com www.HomesInSantaBarbara.com

A Few of My Recent Sales

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Charming Duplex on Haley Street, sold in July

Spacious Condo in Hope Ranch Annex, sold in August

Single level Goleta property, sold in August

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October 13-15: CALM Antiques Show (805.898.9715) October 25-28: Junior League of Santa Barbara Rummage Sale (www.jlsantabarbara.org) November 1: College Fair (www.sbcc.edu/collegefair) November 9: SBUSD Academy Showcase (805.966.4338) November 24 - December 23: Anthony’s Christmas Trees & Wreaths (www.anthonyschristmastrees.com)

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SAMARKAND ∙ RECENTLY SOLD Address 125 Romaine Drive

Original List Price $925,000

Beds/Baths 3BD/1BA

Days on Market sold off-market

Date Closed May 2017

535 Peregrina Road

$1,030,000 $1,299,000

3BD/2BA 3BD/2BA

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May 2017 June 2017

$908,000 $997,000

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2BD/2BA

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2808 Clinton Terrace 520 Alegria Road

$1,285,000 $1,325,000

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3034 Hermosa Road

$1,325,000

4BD/3BA

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August 2017

448 Stanley Drive 2920 Hermosa Road 215 Stanley Drive 2611 Clinton Terrace

SAMARKAND ∙ CURRENTLY LISTED Address 535 Baldwin Road

PENDING

Current List Price $810,000

Beds/Baths 2BD/1BA

2816 Las Positas Road 312 Samarkand Drive

$899,000 $950,000

3BD/2BA 2BD/2BA

3036 Hermosa Road

$1,495,000

3BD/2BA

SPOTLIGHT LISTING!

2808 Clinton Terrace Our team, Calcagno & Hamilton, sold this Clinton Terrace home after 2 days on the market in June, sold for $1,285,000

MORTGAGE HAPPENINGS Jon McCuskey Mortgage Loan Originator, NMLS# 357850 HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc., 3780 State Street Suite C, Santa Barbara, CA 93105 805.456.9120 jon.mccuskey@homebridge.com www.jonmccuskey.com I am licensed to originate mortgage loans in the following state(s): CA. HomeBridge Financial Services, Inc.; Corporate NMLS ID #6521

The summer season is behind us, vacations are wrapping up, and everyone is back to work it seems. Mortgage activity has been consistent over the summer with new purchases still rolling in, while the refinance market has been gradually winding down. Over the last few months we have seen a very slow downward trend in interest rates likely due to the delayed efforts of our administration to get any economic reform in motion. This has proven to be good news for homebuyers that are nervous about jumping into the market and also good news for those considering a refinance. With the average 30-year rates still under 4% and with Adjustable rates still in the low 3% range, scooping up a mortgage with an excellent rate is still possible.

Looking forward into the fall months, it is unlikely that we will see any large movements or spikes in the interest rate environment. Pending large geopolitical issues or our own internal political environment, it is likely that the Federal Reserve will continue to trim its balance sheet and slowly continue raising the short term interest rates. In layman’s terms, the rise of interest rates should be slow and steady and should not alarm home buyers. If anything I would recommend getting into the market sooner than later to secure a great rate and an even better home while there are still deals out there.

Remember there are many factors that go into making an interest rate. It is important to consider your long-term personal goals when speaking with an advisor, and most of the time buying wins over renting. Call me to get pre-approved BEFORE you begin home shopping. Oftentimes your buying power is higher than you think!

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MOM ABOUT TOWN

by Julie Boe The former Girl About Town is wearing a new hat for The

Sentinel as Mom About Town. When Ms Boe isn’t writing for numerous magazines, she’s zipping around town from one activity to another with her active 15-month-old son, Daniel. Julie and Daniel explore local activities, events, and spaces that are family-friendly and mom-approved.

SPROUTS AND ABOUT AT FAIRVIEW GARDENS

Louisa and son Milo splash and play at the water station

Kendra Moss demonstrates how to feed chickens and the kids attempt on their own

The autumn sun beams down on my son, Daniel, as he stomps up a dirt hill to the Fairview Gardens farm. We are warmly welcomed and checked in to the Sprouts session, which is for infants to 3-years-olds on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings from 9:30 am to 11 am.

Beyond the check-in area lies a world of fun for Daniel. He runs over to the craft table, where some kids have already started painting tomato planters and their arms, cheeks, and foreheads.

I make a mental note to wear running shoes and dress Daniel in clothes that we don’t mind staining. Education director, Kelly Campbell, points out that each week Sprouts has a different theme, and this time it’s tomatoes.

To the right of the craft table, there is a story time area underneath a striking, overgrown mulberry tree, which provides a large quantity of shade for the kiddos and a calming reprieve for parents.

From 9:30 to 10:30 am, children have a chance to explore all the various stations. Along with the craft table and story time reading area, there is a water play table and an outdoor mud kitchen

The day’s agenda, spelled out

Jackie works on painting a tomato planter with son, Alex, at the craft table

for creating mud pies, as well as plenty to explore in the garden.

Daniel and a couple of his newfound friends meander over to the water table, which has a red water pump and plenty of buckets, cans, and toys. This is instantly a huge hit for Daniel and several other children. They splash and play, and a couple of them pour buckets of water onto the plants in the garden.

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This is one of those moments you want to freeze in time, because it’s so sweet to watch these little ones playing outdoors, carefree and happy.

Next, the whole group cozies up under the mulberry tree for story time.

The four friendly Farm Education Apprentices take turns reading stories to the children. The books are related to animals, gardening, and nature.

Then we all gather into a giant circle and sing a few songs. The last song is all about chickens in preparation for our visit to feed the chickens.

As we wander down to the chicken area, we pass a John Deere tractor that many of the kids stop to see and touch.

Tactile learning is encouraged, and some of the kids decide to sit in the tractor’s driver seat and pretend to drive. My son loves wheels and spends a good five minutes or so patting each wheel on the tractor.

Marianne Humble and daughter Sylvie have fun at the farm

Once in the designated chicken area, the kids roam free, trying to chase, pat, and hug the chickens. The Farm Education Apprentices give each child a little handful of food to try to feed the chickens, and the fearless kids have no problem going right up and attempting to feed them. There is an abundance of smiles and laughter as our morning session begins to wind down.

Last on the agenda is snack time, presented tastefully at a long table with a colorful tablecloth and vases with fresh flowers. There are plates with fresh-picked, sun-gold tomatoes, and chopped basil for the children and parents to taste.

I have a few more minutes at the end of class to chat with Kelly. She explains, “There is value in exposing children to food in a fun, hands-on way, while increasing healthy eating.”

She also informs me that in addition to the Sprouts program, there is an afterschool program for 4- to 8-year-olds, a teen permaculture apprenticeship, field trips for elementary schools, and that Fairview Gardens is always open to the community from sun up to sun down.

Later in the week, I notice Daniel does not throw his tomatoes off the high chair and onto the floor. Instead, he picks them up and investigates them. He still won’t eat them, but we’re making progress.

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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.

Ducks and Covers: the Cure for Curmudgeons The songwriting’s on the wall, thanks to California Feetwarmers

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hose of you who have been reading this column for a while know that I can be something of a crusty curmudgeon. But just last week on a nondescript Thursday, I was early for a dance class at Carrillo Recreation Center and found myself wandering up Anacapa Street toward the parks.

Even an Eeyore or Gloomy Gus would have been hard-pressed to not feel some gratitude and appreciation with what I witnessed.

Fewer than two blocks up, there was a wonderful jazz band playing for an elegantly dressed crowd assembled in the Courthouse Sunken Gardens, and I got a good view (and listen) before realizing it was a private event. The security guard told me it was a special party for the doctors at Cottage Hospital but I was welcome to stay on the higher ground part, where the sounds wafting from the garden were decorated by palm trees and the clock tower accented by the setting sun.

Next stop was Alameda Park, where volunteers were serving dinner to the homeless, a weekly occurrence that brightens a few lives. Someone kept trying to offer me a tray, even though I repeatedly declined. (Maybe I need to

dress better for my strolls?)

Kitty corner away at Alice Keck, there was a cacophony of quacks as parents with toddlers were feeding the ducks in the pond, and the kids giggled at the gaggles. The plump and pleasant ducks were friendly fowl indeed, happy to come within inches of all comers, hoping for another crust of bread.

Then it was back down to the Rec Center for the dance classes – samples of Latin, ballroom, West Coast swing, waltz, and more, all at no cost as part of introductory week from Santa Barbara’s Park & Rec Dept. Later, a few blocks south, I heard more jazz that seemed to be coming from a State Street storefront, even though Ulysses only plays the James Joyce on Saturdays. Intrigued, I wandered over and caught a crowd taking in a band call the California Feetwarmers, who were swinging Dixieland jazz and old-time tunes from their perch atop a brick wall near Tonic. The group, it turns out, had been performing earlier for the Navy League’s Chili Cookoff and decided to do a little busking for fun.

The high point came on an original song from the banjo player, which

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features three of the horn players passing the accordion among themselves for separate solos. They were so good, I ended up staying for the better part of an hour, even though I’d hoped to catch the tail end of Portuguese-British singer-songwriter/sound healer Ness Gomes’s show at Yoga Soup. Turns out, she was playing extra long, so I managed to catch the final 45 minutes of her marvelously mystical set that had kept close to 100 people enthralled for more than two hours.

The sum total of the night: Fewer than four hours and 15 blocks. No admission charges. Music, dancing, ducks, and smiles. Life is good.

SINGIN’ AT THE SOUP Need a little gratitude fix of your own, perhaps with a little music to make the appreciations appear more easily?

Saunter on over to Yoga Soup over the next couple of weeks for some special events that just might do the trick.

SpiritSings has had several moving moments over its few years of existence as a public event – and that’s not even counting the heart-opening sensations that arise during the course of an evening of singing of original chants and songs largely composed by founder Noell Grace. The monthly gatherings began as private sessions at her home, then transferred to the Center for the Heart in Goleta for many months before returning to Grace’s Arden Light House for more than year. An excursion to Unity of Santa Barbara’s sanctuary lasted only two months before SpiritSings went on hiatus at the end of the summer. But with the advent of autumn, the monthly group singathons

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have found a happy new home for all to practice wholehearted self-expression through the mostly call-and-response songs in English, Sanskrit, and a few other tongues, all expressing affinity with the divine and affirming the sacred essence of life.

The events will take place every fourth Wednesday of the month at Yoga Soup, and the September 28 inaugural also marks the debut of the new full SpiritSings quintet featuring Ejé LynnJacobs on bass/guitar/vocals, Bobby Le Blanc on percussion, Steve Miles on guitar, and Randy Tico on bass. Each month also features a special guest, who perform just a couple of songs following the midway cookie break. September is for Sudama Mark Kennedy, the healer/ musician who is also a leader of kirtan.

Admission is $10 in advance, $15 day of.

There’s a lot more meditative musical musings at Yoga Soup this fortnight, including a special 432hz Sound Activation sound bath with Shane Thunder, Daniella Windsong, and Lighthawk – who will collaborate in offering the penetrating and cleansing sounds of gemstone crystal bowls, gongs, didgeridoos, chimes, guitar, vocals, and more on Friday, September 29 ($20 in advance; $25 day-of ). On Saturday, October 7, Lorin Roche and his wife, Camille, bring “The Radiance Sutras” to the soup, offering their uniquely sensuous musical translation of this tantra, which has also been published in book form. For the Yoga Soup event, they’ll be backed up by several local musicians including Kennedy and Wayne Marshall. Admission is $20.

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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.

COMING UP FOR AIR

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ou are only the fourth person that I have ever shared this story with.” Terrance Brown nonchalantly threw out this statement as I sat down to interview him at the base of the stadium at Santa Barbara City College. We had just finished a workout. By we, I should clarify that I had just finished getting my butt kicked

by Terrance. He’s a personal trainer and his story is, well, it is something to read.

It all started 28 years ago in Miami when Terrance was born. After his father left the family, his mother stepped up and single-handedly raised Terrance and his sister. He always had a love for fitness and athletics, while his ultimate goal was to one day take care of his mother and family.

After Terrance finished high school, he began attending community college Terrance, in all of his glory in Miami. He proceeded to transfer to the University of Alabama to play baseball (Roll Tide). It was there that homesickness set in. After battling to keep up with his studies and the rigorous baseball practices, he decided he needed to return home. The bills were a constant struggle, but Terrance’s mom knew that he was down and so she pulled her resources and bought Terrance a ticket to fly home.

“I needed to find myself. Every night, I was going to bed without a purpose,” Terrance explained. So, he returned home to figure out what to do when he got a phone call from an old friend.

One of his buddies from high school was attending SBCC and playing football for the college. He convinced Terrance to fly out to see Santa Barbara. This is where the story begins to gain some glory.

PAIN STOLE SOME GAIN BUT NOT THE HEART Terrance decided to try out for the SBCC football team. (Yes, he played both baseball and football really well.) After being selected as a third-string player, he worked and worked until that same year he was bumped up to a first-string running back. Things were looking good, so good that Terrance had offers from multiple universities to transfer and play football when… POP. That was the sound he heard one practice from his Achilles tendon. That POP changed everything. All offers were pulled off the table and Terrace had to spend a year rehabbing his injury. A running back can’t run without an Achilles.

With a faulty heel and no financial support, Terrance was in a bind. He debated calling his mom again but decided that he needed to “man up” on his own this time. He had no job training or resumé for that matter.

Being a self-proclaimed introvert, he also lacked the people skills necessary to talk his way into any sort of job. He was more than willing to work hard but didn’t have the means to obtain a job. Before long, he found himself living at

Ledbetter beach. For close to six months, Terrance was homeless and struggling to survive.

“I told myself I could either break or bend. If I break, that’s it!” He went on, “No doubt, that time period made me stronger,” and he continued to persevere and labor toward his goals.

Terrance continued taking classes at SBCC and connected with his anatomy professor, Peter Aguilar. Aguilar and Terrance shared a love for football, and after class, they would chat about players and game stats. Aguilar gave Terrance guidance and made him realize that football wasn’t everything. “A professional football player usually only gets ten good years of playing, and then what?”

Terrance explained his revelation. Aguilar helped Terrance to see the lifelong value and importance of an education, so he was able to stay positive and on a path toward his degree.

Terrance got off the street, finished his studies at SBCC, and transferred to Cal State Channel Islands. He went on to earn a degree in criminal law.

With a degree in hand, he discovered he still didn’t have a job or knowledge of how to obtain one. So, he found himself back at the doors of SBCC, this time, he went to visit the Career Center. He wanted to know how to get a job: “I was willing to learn anything and work my butt off!”

With the help of Chris Phillips, the director of the Career Center, and Ben Partee, former Dean of Student Services, Terrance found himself behind the information counter at the front of the facility. “Chris bought me a polo shirt from the bookstore, and he put me at the front desk. My legs were completely shaking below that desk. I didn’t know how to talk to people!” Terrance described his first day on the job.

Again, SBCC had opened another door for Terrance. He learned how to talk to students by listening and, it turns out, he was a really good listener. Students would line up to meet with him. They would wait for his lunch break just to be able to sit down and chat with him. He heard their stories and shared his own hurdles with them. He would tell them, “Keep waking up and working hard.

Put in 100 percent. At the end of the day, not everyone is putting 100 percent, but you can!”

This went on for two years. Terrance helped many students find direction, and he was seen as a pillar of support at the Career Center. Students thanked him with cards and gifts, and he credits this experience as some of his most pivotal years. He said, “I learned more from helping others than I had ever learned anywhere else.”

WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER An athlete at heart, Terrance never stopped working out through all of this.

He actually started to have people inquire about getting help with their exercise routines, so he decided he would charge $5 a session and his personal training career was launched.

“I would use everything extra from my Career Center paycheck to invest in equipment for the training. I got some business cards printed and passed them around everywhere I went. I gave free sessions to people to get them to try it out. And my client list began to grow.”

What started with five people grew to 10, and now he has more than 50 clients. He never thought he would be able to make a living doing personal training. How could anyone possibly pay the bills in Santa Barbara by giving clients workouts? But lo and behold, that’s what happens when you labor as hard as Terrance does.

He snipped away at his hours at the Career Center until his director Chris finally convinced him to let go of his position and trust where this new path was heading. This was two years ago, and Terrance has only gained momentum along the way.

Last year, Terrance was able to buy his first car and get his driver’s license.

He lives comfortably in Santa Barbara while also supporting his mother, sister, BRIANA’S BEST BET and nephew in Miami. “I flipped from f you are interested in getting some introverted to extroverted, and now personal training from Terrance, I have my own business in paradise,” contact him by phone or text at (786) he says and looks a bit shocked when 617-6851. You can also follow him on describing his reality. “It’s all about Instagram under brownsfitness. He staying humble.” always has new ideas for how to use Those who get to have Terrance freestyle fitness exercises tailored to motivate and train them are lucky; his your body. It’s a tough workout that positive energy and gloriousness are will get you into shape! contagious.

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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.

ROYANNA ROBERTSON, WATERCOLOR AND TEXTILE ARTIST

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ecause I appreciate and take pleasure in fine fabrics and textiles, I try to surround myself with examples of fine handmade artistry.

When I found Royanna Robertson’s booth at the Blissful Boutiques event at Paseo Nuevo Mall, I was enchanted.

Unable to resist running my hands over the rich textures, I find her creations delightful.

A talented watercolor artist, Royanna also knits and crochets baby clothes and accessories for all ages. The perfectionist in her assures each item has no flaws and the beauty is in the delicate pointelle edging, the pattern details, and highest quality of yarns so soft they are perfect for a baby’s delicate skin. The artist in

her takes this to the level of creating the artistic and beautiful in, literally, the fabric of our lives.

Taught to knit by her mother when she was young, it’s a media Royanna has always loved. She began painting watercolors about nine years ago when her son said to her, “Let’s take a painting class.” They took a Santa Barbara adult ed class, and then she took more, crediting them with teaching her quite a lot.

After painting a vivid scene of Arizona’s Red Rock country for a friend, her teacher observed that the colors in the landscape should soften on objects in the distance, that only close colors are so vivid. In disappointment, she dumped the painting in the trashcan and re-painted it, softening colors in the distance. She gave the second painting to her friend, who found the first painting in the trash and begged Robertson for it. From then on, Robertson was clear she was painting to please herself, not others’ expectations.

Many consider watercolors difficult because you can’t go back and re-do anything once it’s on the paper. Having begun with watercolor, Robertson prefers it. Putting down colors and dragging them to get her images, she says, “It’s really hard to work with a medium that just sits there. When I first tried oil, I would put down color and wait for them to move and they’d just sit there.”

Robertson credits the computer generation with expecting instantaneously gratification but is no stranger to social media, using it to market her work. “I discovered Pinterest, and before I would go to bed it would say, ‘You have 5 new pins,” and an hour later I will still be lost in it.”

Robertson invites you to come visit her at the Blissful Boutiques show in the Paseo Nuevo Mall on Saturday, September 23, October 28, and December 16, and on November 25 at the Carpinteria Valley History Museum, and December 2 at Living Faith Church in Goleta. Contact her at (805) 403-9569, Royannarobertson@ gmail.com, or at www.etsy.com/shop/ CashewCashew.

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this year will feature a more selective lineup, with pilsner, hefeweizen, and of course, Oktoberfest, being served. While this year’s Oktoberfest will certainly be a change of pace compared to previous years, the more intimate event will reflect the neighborhood hangout that The Brewhouse is known as and the reason why so many local residents flock to the place.

OCTOBER IN SEPTEMBER Oktoberfest has grown over its 200year history. Today, the German beer festival attracts more than 6 million visitors and serves up 7 million liters of beer each year. At the event, only the six major breweries within the city limits, Augustiner-Bräu, Hacker-Pschorr-Bräu, Lowenbräu, Paulaner-Bräu, Spatenbräu, and Hofbräu-Munchen, are allowed to pour beer for the occasion. The festival takes place in Munich the last two weeks of September and ends on the first weekend of October, lasting between 16 to 18 days in total. The original event took place for two days in midOctober as the affair grew more popular it was extended into September. The celebration was shifted earlier into the year since October is a drizzly month in Munich (while drinking beer in the rain is vastly underrated, outdoor beer

festivals do not lend themselves to wet, damp environments).

The original Oktoberfest took place on October 12, 1810, and celebrated the wedding between Crown Prince Ludwig I and Princess Therese of SaxonHildburghausen. It was held on the city’s fairgrounds and featured horse races and games. Today, the fairgrounds are known as Theresienwiese, or Theresa’s Meadow, and is often called “Wiesn” (meadow) for short. Games and sideshows are still a central feature of the event that each year features parades and other revelry.

A CHANGING TASTE Oktoberfest is not just the name of the festival but also the name given to the beer served there. Oktoberfest has a complicated history as a beer style since “Oktoberfest” is just a moniker given to the beer being served at the event.

There is no evidence that beer was publicly served at the first Oktoberfest; however, the German poet Achim von Arnim reported that by the fifth festival there was an array of beers being served.

The majority of the first beer served is thought to have been the dark malty lager, dunkel. It was noted in 1841 that Spaten introduced their amber-colored Märzenbier. It grew in popularity and in 1872, Märzenbier, or Märzen, was

named the official Oktoberfest beer style. This lasted for more than 100 years until the 1990s, when the maltier Märzen beers began to be replaced by lighter, golden lagers, often called Festbiers.

The Brewhouse Oktoberfest is designed in the traditional Märzenbier style, featuring an amber color and a nectar-like maltiness. While the malt flavor is traditionally dominant in an Oktoberfest, the beer is not overtly sweet and there is a drinkability that is signature to the style (especially when drunken by the stein). To try the more modern Festbier style, head to FigtoberFest this Saturday, September 23, from 1 pm to close in all six taprooms, Arroyo Grande, Buellton, Los Olivos, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and Westlake Village. Each year, Figueroa Mountain hosts its own aptly themed affair, FigtoberFest, that features their version of the brew.

Figueroa Mountain’s example of an Oktoberfest follows the newer trend of the style, filling the glass with a deep golden hue and a prominent floral perfume in the nose. The flavor has a malt character that is apparent but brisk with a bitter touch in the finish. Every year, the beer is showcased at FigtoberFest, a day laden with lederhosen and dirndls as crowds

enjoy German food, festive music, and games. Throughout the day, they will be featuring specials on all of their German lagers, so the event is a good chance to try their version of a dunkel, I Dunkled In My Pants. The beer won a gold at last year’s Great American Beer Festival and is a great example of the style, capturing the dunkel’s complex maltiness with a hint of char accenting the rich yet light flavor.

Joining in on the festivities is Lama Dog Tap Room + Bottle Shop, which will be featuring a different Märzenstyle beer throughout October. On Thursday, September 29, the taproom will be offering a range of beers from Moorpark-based Enegren Brewing Co. Although Enegren brews a range of styles, this brewery largely focuses on lagers and brews them quite well. Swing

by Lama Dog to try both their Märzenstyle Oktoberfest or their bright and delicate helles lager, The Lightest One, among others. As a beer and sausagecentric restaurant, it is only natural that Hoffmann Brat Haus has an extensive Oktoberfest, and they feature specials and events throughout the month.

Regardless of where you go, October is a great month for beer in Santa Barbara. While it may be drizzly in Munich, it is always sunny here (except when it’s not).

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By Elizabeth Rose

I Heart SB is the diary of Elizabeth Rose, a thirty-something navigating life, love, and relationships in the Greater Santa Barbara area. Thoughts or comments? Email ihearterose@gmail.com

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om, dad, my boyfriend Jason and I sat around a table on the back porch of my parents house eating low-country boil. For those who don’t know, low-country boil is a South Carolina staple of local shrimp, Andouille sausage, sweet corn cut in two-inch in cobs, and red potatoes boiled in Old Bay seasoning eaten best when drained and dumped on a table covered in newspaper.

Most Southerners would choose to eat this over a five-star restaurant meal any day. Myself included.

Another tradition in the South, and perhaps elsewhere: it is customary for a father to ask the gentleman you’re dating of his intentions and, this being Jason’s second visit to my family’s home, the question was well overdue. Although it can be viewed as a bit invasive to some, to others it’s a right of passage and respectfully old-fashioned. My Santa Barbara-born-and-bred boyfriend had never been asked this question. let alone knew fathers still inquired. Fortunately in the car earlier that day, I told Jason this moment would come. I was met with a, “What? That’s weird,” in which I responded defensively, “It’s weird that you think it’s weird! It’s the gentlemanly thing to do.”

Our East versus West coast differences became apparent, and I could tell his laidback California vibe was a little shaken by my family’s civility. So I let down my defenses, leaned over, and kissed him saying, “Welcome to the South, babe. Just be honest. You’ll do fine.”

As we picked through the last of the shrimp, mom refilled our glasses with sweet tea, remedying the spicy Old Bay seasoning from our lips. My dad decided it was time to heat things up even more. “So, Jason, I have to ask. What are you intentions with my daughter?” Jason paused. “You know I have to ask, son,” dad said. “This is my oldest daughter we’re talking about.”

On a side note, the relationship with my father has always had an edge. Our similar personalities mean we tend to butt heads, and at times we’ve struggled to have a good relationship. But to his credit, he’s always been attentive, engaged, and mostly supportive of my life choices. Although we may get into insignificant arguments now and then, no matter what I love my dad. And to him, I will always be his little girl.

“Well, sir,” Jason said, choosing his words carefully. “I love your daughter and respect her very much. We’ve discussed marriage. We are very serious about our relationship.” Dad reached for his glass and took a swig of tea, keeping his eyes fixed on Jason. I glanced at mom and she smiled back, nodding in approval.

“And I know you both are concerned about our sailing trip,” Jason said, his words trailing off, turning his attention to my mom.

“Yes, that definitely concerns us a lot,” mom said.

“Well, I promise our safety and happiness is first. If we find it is too dangerous or sailing doesn’t fit our lifestyle, then we will do something else. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do my whole life, and I am thankful I’ve found Elizabeth and that she wants to go on this adventure with me.”

The conversation continued through dessert with more questions about how we’ve managed to live together on the sailboat for the past nine months, what our next five years look like, and a few funny stories of my dad and mom when they first got married. After the last slice of key lime pie was served, my mom looked over at Jason and said, “You know, I feel a lot better now that we’ve talked. I can see that you both are happy together and I really like you, Jason. No, I take that back. I love you.”

She leaned over and squeezed his arm and Jason returned the gesture. My dad reached out and shook his hand. Jason turned to me with a big smile on his face and leaned back in his chair, beaming with pride.

As Jason and I washed the dishes, I noticed his demeanor had changed. He seemed more confident as if “manning up” to my father about our relationship had made him more of a man. Hearing him talk about our future with my family made me more comfortable in our relationship. I felt more valued by my partner, my family, and in a way myself too.

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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.

TONS TO CELEBRATE: HARVEST, ACCOLADES, & THE ANNUAL POW-WOW

HARVEST CELEBRATION he Santa Barbara County Vintners Association (SBCVA) puts on two highly anticipated daylong “wine-and-food-a-palooza” festivals each year in the Santa Ynez Valley – the spring event known as the Vintners Festival and autumnal Celebration of Harvest. This fall, the Celebration of Harvest will be a little different. The SBCVA is foregoing a huge day-long festival, replacing it with four days sprinkled with wine and culinary events and a “Harvest Passport Experience” from Friday, September 29, through Sunday, October 1. For $50 per person, Harvest Experience Passport holders can taste at up to 12 different participating locations. There are 50 participating wineries and tasting rooms to choose from, and each will offer complimentary tastings, a sneak-peek at harvest happenings, and exclusive special offers.

An opening night wine and food celebration will kick off the weekend on Friday, September 29, from 7 to 9:30 pm with a new “Taste of Santa Barbara Wine Country” party at The Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort downtown Santa Barbara, where 50 Santa Barbara Vintners winery members will pour new fall releases and library wines alongside mouthwatering bites from Santa Barbara Wine Country’s top restaurants and artisans.

Tickets are $95 per person for General Admission at 7 pm and $125 per person for early entry at 6 pm. Designated Driver tickets are also available for $40 per driver.

Other events throughout the weekend include: Harvest Lunch & Barrel Tasting at Flying Goat Cellars Make Your Own Sparkling Wine at Cebada Vineyard and Winery Three Decades of Lane Tanner Pinot Noir at Lumen Wines L&L’s Harvest Weekend Winemaker Dinner at the Coach House at Santa Ynez Inn Collaborative Dinner – East Meets West at The Gathering Table Collaborative Dinner – Surf & Turf at Angel Oak Harvest Vineyard Walk & Lunch at Buttonwood Farm Winery & Vineyard Celebration of Harvest Picnic at Ampelos Cellars Collaborative Dinner – Los Alamos Cowboy Barbecue at Valle Fresh + Babi’s Beer Emporium When: Friday, September 29, through Sunday, October 1 W here: Santa Ynez Valley Wine Trail, Santa Barbara, Lompoc Wine Trail, Los Olivos, Santa Maria Valley, and Buellton Info: www.celebrationofharvest.com

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22ND ANNUAL CHUMASH INTER-TRIBAL POW-WOW isuksuk’uwun A C’ic’ihi’ is Samala, the traditional Chumash ancestral language, meaning “We Honor Our Children” – and is the special theme for this year’s pow-wow. Honoring 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 between tribes from across the nation in different age categories including Tiny Tots to Golden Age. Prizes range from $150 to $3,000. There will be vendors selling food, arts and crafts, jewelry, pottery, baskets, and much more. Bring a blanket or lawn chair – all are welcome at this proudly “zero waste event.”

W hen: Saturday, September 30, from 10 am to 10 pm and Sunday, October 1, from 10 am to 6 pm Where: Live Oak Campground, 4650 Highway 154 in Santa Ynez Cost: Admission is free, and parking is just $5 Info: www.santaynezchumash.org

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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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CHEERS TO PRESQU’ILE AND SUNSTONE eptember is California Wine Month, and Condé Nast Traveler, a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine, reports in celebration of California wine they “scoured the state and picked the ten most beautiful wineries in California.”

Two local wineries made the list: Presqu’ile Winery, celebrated for views of lush, rolling vineyards, and the glittering Pacific Ocean came in at number 2.

Sunstone Vineyards and Winery, known Provençal-styled grounds, with rustic French architecture, lavender-filled gardens, and fairytale-like guest villa – built using limestone imported from France came in at number 7.

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SAVE THE LOS OLIVOS DATE he 38th Annual Day in the Country, where the tiny town of Los Olivos will roll out the family fun for 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 old, down-home, sweet happy fun for all.

When: Saturday, October 21, from 10 am to 4 pm Where: All along Grand Avenue in Los Olivos Cost: Free Info: www.losolivosca.com

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THE OPENINGS, THE CLOSINGS, AND THE RANDOMS t was with “heavy hearts and most disappointments” that Bacon & Brine owners chef Pink a.k.a Crystal Delongpré and Courtney Rae announced the closing of their “hyperlocal” eatery in August. Where they will land is much anticipated but yet to be announced. Alex Uribe, owner of California Tacos, is moving in to open a new “California cuisine” restaurant in its place sometime this year.

Where: 1618 Copenhagen Drive in Solvang Info: (805) 688-8525

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n case you’ve missed it, there is Caribbean cuisine in Solvang at Hummingbird Restaurant, serving up island dishes that include: grilled baby octopus and shrimp with guava Dijon dressing, roasted pumpkin and coconut soup, Jamaican jerk chicken, and fresh young coconut noodles with hemp seeds and cashew sauce.

Where: Hummingbird Restaurant, 453 Atterdag Road in Solvang Info: (805) 403-7100

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oasting “Fine Hellenic California Cuisine,” there is a buzz among the vines that Petros is opening a winery on Foxen Canyon Road soon. No surprise, really, as owner Petros Benekos imports olive oil, feta, honey, oregano, and wines from Greece – for their wine club, dabbles in vintage jeans and leather, and they say more details on “The Farm” are on the way.

Where: Petros, 487 Atterdag Road in Solvang Info: (805) 686-5455

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here is a not-so-secret wine list foodies ought to be privy to when dining in the Valley. Leonardo’s Cucina Italiana, serving up authentic, familystyle cuisine, offers a special and sip-worthy wine list Monday to Thursday of imported and local wines sold by the bottle for $25 a pop with dinner.

Where: Leonardos Cucina Italiana, 632 Alamo Pintado Road in Solvang Info: (805) 686-0846

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