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After a half-dozen years, the Lucidity Festival – SB’s indigenous music and arts affair – extends far beyond 3 days of revelry, shape-shifting into a holistic community reaching the land of “Trillium” in Oregon (Story on page 5)

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ade in SB – Silent lucidity? That’s not the Lucidity Festival that M Chantal Peterson knows in its sixth year as an “entrepreneurial endeavor” amid the Live Oak hills.

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iweekly Capitalist – Jeff Harding sizes up the negatives of Hillary B and Trump, advises what to do on November 8, and spotlights Gary Johnson

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State Street Scribe – Two hours to Homecoming and there is raw panic in the air. And then there’s the kids to think about. Beer Guy – Here comes the judge: Zach Rosen bellies up to the Great American Beer Festival and gets his brew on. Drink and be merry.

Fortnight – John Kay at SOhO; Los Angeles Guitar Quartet; spookystyle dancing; concerts in Carpinteria; Buckles ‘n’ Brews; and Joan Baez at the Arlington

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Creative Characters – State St Ballet’s Cecily Stewart has been on her toes for years, as dance is her livelihood. Zach Rosen gets in step. Berry Man – Cory Clark is seeing green: broccoli rabe, Castelfranco radicchio, Savoy cabbage, and Red Frill mustard Plan B – When it comes to story time for her daughters in bed, Briana Westmacott appreciates the here and now

E’s Note – Elliana Westmacott gives thanks to ResQ Cats and its owner Jeffyne Telson for rescuing four-legged felines in need Art Beat – There are no Burtts about it: Marcia Burtt Gallery showcases fine art while exhibiting style, as it has for 16 years. Jacquelyn De Longe canvasses the scene.

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Business Beat – Technically speaking, Chantal Peterson gets down to business with Ontraport, which minimizes entrepreneurs’ burdens and distractions, and ONTRApalooza

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In The Zone – Make no bones about it: Tommie Vaughn and her nom de plume Mr. Bones find love among a skeleton (brew) crew in the Funk Zone

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SB Digs – Chantal Peterson surveys the scene of Shadow Hills, a gated community with a 55+ demographic that boasts two quality, viable units

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Behind The Vine – Hana-Lee Sedgwick revels with SB Vintners Association during the annual “Celebration of Harvest” weekend, wherein wine tastings overflow

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I Heart SB – Despite the postponement of her nautical journey to Mexico, Elizabeth Rose sets sail anyway – all in the name of practice and learning

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SYV Snapshot – Eva Van Prooyen previews the annual Quick Draw in Santa Ynez, W.I.N.O. Radio Dinner Show in Los Alamos, Halloween Haunted House and Street Fair, Buellton bazaar, Time to Choose, and cruising at Cachuma Lake

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by Chantal Peterson

Lucidity Festival Puts Down Roots

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anta Barbara’s own home-grown music and arts gathering, Lucidity Festival, is an entrepreneurial endeavor of the highest order, if I’ve ever seen one. Music and art festivals have bloomed at an extraordinary rate over the past 10 years, and there is no denying that the

influence of festival culture can be felt in many other areas of society from health and wellness, to performance arts, new businesses ventures, and the way people travel. Experience is everything in today’s world, and festivals provide opportunity for special experiences that have the ability to transform people in a

deep and lasting way. The question for many has been: What comes after the euphoric festival experience? Okay, so you have an incredible weekend dancing, connecting, having your mind blown by great art and music, expressing yourself in new ways – and generally having a total blast. But then, on Monday, you are supposed to just go back to business as usual? Somehow, that feels… unfinished. It feels like there should be more, like those new friends should come with you and the dance party should continue, that the inspired idea you

had should be nurtured. This is the way many people feel after a great festival, and it is one of the sentiments that has motivated Lucidity Festival to grow into something more than a three-day festival experience. The huge community that grew around this local festival of ours (which brings about 4,500 people to Live Oak in the hills of SB, and which sells out every year) decided that it’s time to take the next steps – and they are big ones. Lucidity Festival, which began as a relatively small local team of dedicated ...continued p.12

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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.

The Lesser of Two Evils

y Republican friends tell me that they don’t like Trump but they will vote for him because, as bad as he is, he is better than Hillary. My Democratic friends tell me they don’t like Hillary but they will vote for her because, as bad as she is, she is better than Trump. That is what is called a dilemma, wherein you have a choice between two unattractive options. Actually, it is more like a Morton’s Fork where there is a choice between two equally unattractive options that lead to the same unpleasant conclusion. To say that this election cycle has been a disaster is to state the obvious. It would be great entertainment if it were a different country. But it isn’t. Shame on us for letting it happen. Our politicians promise us many things. If they could solve our problems by those promises, they would already have done so and we would be living in their promised Utopia. After all, they’ve had 80 years to do so. Their tool kit hasn’t changed much over the years, yet we still vote them in. We must challenge the intellectual status quo or resign ourselves to creeping stagnation and social disunity. In past months, I have detailed the failings of Hillary and Donald’s policies. Both candidates threaten our economic well-being and individual freedom as well as our security. Here are my concluding thoughts.

Hillary Clinton Hillary’s Progressivism will lead the economy into continued, steady stagnation. She has proposed an ocean of new regulations to reward her friends and buy votes from special interests. Far from bringing about progress, Progressivism does the opposite by deterring investment, innovation, business formation, competition, and jobs. Think of Hillary as Obama’s third-term presidency. I have detailed my criticism of Hillary’s Progressive policies in two previous articles (Why Hillary’s Progressive Policies Will Fail, parts 1 and 2). She, like Trump, proposes populist policies that will do the opposite of what is intended. Increasing income taxes on the rich, raising the capital gains tax, increasing taxes on corporations, and more business regulations will deter investment in businesses and jobs, the very things that America needs for a thriving economy. Hillary has proposed new costly programs that will be impossible to fund without huge tax increases or more deficit spending, which raises the national debt. Contrary to what she says, there is a rich history of the failure of programs like massive infrastructure spending, “free” college, restricting free trade to keep labor unions in power thus encouraging companies to offshore production, fixing Obamacare with a single-payer (government run) medical system are just a few of her costly “solutions.” Both candidates propose budget-busting spending programs, but Hillary’s Progressive populism outdoes Trump. Her policies would lower the standard of living of ordinary Americans. There is only one way for America to prosper and that is to encourage businesses to invest and grow their businesses here in America. Heavy taxation of businesses and capital and heavy-handed regulation of business makes it difficult for entrepreneurs and investors to justify new investment here. And without prosperous private businesses, there would be fewer jobs, less growth, and long-term stagnation. Japan is the epitome of Progressivism – for the past 20 years, their economy has stagnated and their debt has skyrocketed to dangerous levels, threatening their standard of living. We must not take that path.

Donald Trump Trump appeals to populist and nationalistic ideals. He says whatever he thinks will appeal to his supporters no matter how big the lie. And most of what he says are lies which are well-documented and proven (see Politifact.com). Trump keeps beating the populist anti-free trade drum, and his supporters accept as fact that it causes unemployment and economic decline. “We lose jobs to foreigners in the worst trade deals ever negotiated.” If that were true, then why has employment and GDP grown over the past 30 year? Free trade makes us wealthier, not poorer, and the supporting evidence is overwhelming. Erecting trade barriers will cause an international depression; it was one of the main causes of the Great

Depression (see Smoot-Hawley). I believe Trump would be a dangerous president, unbound by, and ignorant of, ideology, ideas, or history. He would be a threat to the freedoms granted us by our Constitution. Most Republicans seem to dismiss his rhetoric as campaign excess and have faith that this successful businessman will properly shape America’s future to their liking. They are wrong. At some point, they need to focus on what the man says and see him for what he represents: a demagogue in the mold of a classic strongman. He himself says “believe me,” and we should. In recent days, as Trump’s poll numbers decline he appears unhinged, threatening, and authoritarian. He lies unabashedly, threatens his opponent, and challenges the basic institution of our electoral system. The fallback argument of most Republicans is the Supreme Court. “If Hillary wins, we’ll lose the Court for a generation.” Their faith in Trump is misplaced, and their understanding of the Court is limited. Many conservatives including George Will and that conservative bastion, the National Review, argue that the court’s impact is important but limited, that justices voted unanimously more often than not, that they voted against the Obama Administration unanimously 13 times from 2012 to 2014, that you cannot trust Trump to do as he says, and that so called “conservative” justices often sell out (Roberts, Kennedy, and sometimes even Scalia). As National Review’s Ian Tuttle puts it: “[T]hose who cite the Supreme Court as a compelling reason to vote for Trump are of the befuddling opinion that the same man who has demonstrated willful ignorance of the Constitution, who has promised to subvert the Constitution, and whose dealings with the judiciary demonstrate contempt for the Constitution, is the man who will save it.”

What to Do? Hillary, like Obama, is a known quantity. She will use the Progressive playbook to impose on us her vision of how we should live our lives. The Obama Administration’s Progressive policies have led us into the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression. Our economy is stagnating and, like Japan, we face years of low or negative economic growth because of bad policies. Hillary will lead us further into decline. Trump is an unknown quantity. We have no idea what he will do. But what we do know is that his anti-free trade policies would be an immediate disaster for the economy. If, as he promises, he erects trade barriers to protect American businesses, other countries would reciprocate and exports will drop, and, as the second-largest exporter in the world (e.g., Boeing, Caterpillar, GE, Dow, Weyerhaeuser, DuPont, Ford, GM, Cargill), there will be massive unemployment, business failures, and depression. Both have authoritarian leanings. Hillary’s Progressive policies assume the right to impose her vision on us depriving us of our rights to make choices about our own lives. Trump is clearly willing to sacrifice the Constitution and human rights to carry out his plan to expel 11 million immigrants. He fits the classic authoritarian strongman persona. Both stress an aggressive, interventionist foreign policy that will further entangle us in the Middle East with no real strategy for success, that will inspire terrorists, and that will increase military spending and grow our national debt. Both would be bad for America.

Another Choice There is only one party that supports limited government, fiscal responsibility, free trade, and economic growth, more personal freedom, and cautious foreign policy. I will vote for the Libertarian candidates, former governors Gary Johnson and William Weld. This is a protest vote. A strong showing by the Libertarians will help change the direction of American politics from the anti-intellectual chaos of Trump and Hillary to one of principled, issue-oriented policies that will turn America around. I urge my Republican friends in California to carefully consider the Libertarians. As you know, in an overwhelmingly Democratic state your vote doesn’t matter. It is a moral choice you need to make. It is likely that Trump has destroyed your party, so you must stand up for the principles your party used to support; those principles are the foundation of the Libertarian movement. Experience has shown me that it is unlikely I will convince Progressive Democrats to change their belief in a failed movement. My hope is that independent voters will see the failure of the Democrats and Republicans to solve America’s problems. Like most of us, independents want prosperity and peace, yet the two parties have failed them. The Libertarians offer an alternative that history has shown will achieve those goals. If there ever was an election to send a message to the establishment, it is this one. Remember, the lesser of two evils is still evil.

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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.

Homecoming Royalty

y the time we arrive in late afternoon, honey-colored autumn sunlight is slanting into the Santa Barbara Courthouse’s grand arched breezeway, painting the flagstones and lengthening the shadows there. We cross Anacapa with our own little sparkle grenade (our daughter, that is) and her longtime friend and fellow ballerina, and under the courthouse archway they spot someone from their group. There is a spontaneous piercing yelp of the sort that in another setting would cause one to spit coffee. The girls fly away from us to join their friend, and my lovely life partner and I, reduced again to the familiar status of chopped liver, exchange glances. Everywhere we look, tomorrow’s attorneys, account managers, software engineers, astronauts, and vascular surgeons are milling about uncertainly, shouting greetings and waving crazily, then crossing arms and looking around with self-conscious expressions. Our

collective future is a maddeningly lovely thing to watch. These vibrant teens in the final throes of genuine carelessness are throwing off unmediated energy like nobody’s business. Etch these moments in platinum.

Whose House? Don’s House! Santa Barbara High School’s 2016 Homecoming dance is bobbling up there in the evening’s immediate future, a couple hours away. Somewhere beyond that, the World at Large waits patiently with its hugely complicated embrace; the old story. So, yeah. Some of the kids and their emotionally ragged folks have convened here at the courthouse to do the paparazzi thing, take pictures of the kids in their glamor garb, snatch a photographic scrap of all this glory. The energy of the scene varies from moment to moment and is as unpredictable as one would expect a hormone squall to be. But occasionally a sort of low-grade

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excitement begins to permeate and settle the vibe, just for a few minutes at a time, like a confident little echo from that unimaginable but real future where tonight’s unrestrained Roman candles live as becalmed men and women with careers and documentation and car payments. If we can just stop the Brownian Motion of these jittery lovebirds for the couple seconds it takes to capture them in still life this evening, we’ll later have some evidence that this night, these twilight moments at the courthouse one October day in 2016, really happened; that they, and we, were younger once, and the world was an unfixed canvas.

What’s it All About, Alfie? Many of the young ladies this evening are wearing those seamless tube-like dresses that appear to have been painted on by automotive robots. The stunned guys, in their puffy pleated trousers and blousy button-down shirts, do not cut such aerodynamic figures. And while the gals are now jumping and shoving and madly howling with a kind of audibly panicked hilarity, the guys are sanguine in their sculpted hair. One hand irremovably fastened in a pleated trouser pocket, they cruise about the courthouse lawn with the

mesmerized solemnity of deep-sea fish, their goggle-eyed expressions likewise born of extreme subsurface pressures. They stiffly greet one another on passing and do not high-five. Removing the one jammed hand from the pleated pocket isn’t really in the cards. Every young man intuitively knows that the only thing more damning than pleats is the framing device of two idiotically swinging arms in blousy sleeves and no hands in pockets. Several minutes later, our whole friend-group of six girls have arrived and finished their jumping and hugging and heart-stopping shrieks. They’re beautiful young women. Ours is the cut-up. We raised her that way and continue to thank our lucky stars. All the gals in this little group of six are wits and live wires, but ours can’t seem to keep her hands still for long enough to appear in a photo without her arms blurring, her happy radiant face a reflection of my dad’s; the warming, happy magic of the Double Helix. Now the girls visibly begin to settle themselves and turn to us with a simple wordless acknowledgement; they are ready for their close-ups. We stand them before a vaguely prehistoric giant-leafed bush by the ...continued p.28

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GABF and the Process of Judging Beer The Figueroa Mountain team received four GABF medals this year (photo by @ HopLightSocial)

he Great American Beer Festival (GABF) just took place, and every year the beer industry swoons over the award ceremony where thousands of beers compete to see which ones are considered the best in the nation. Judging beer is a complex process and measures a brewer’s ability to hit a target, namely, a beer style. These styles are defined by the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) and the Brewers Association (BA) and are considered the industry standard for numerical and characteristic definitions of a beer style. Becoming a beer judge takes more than just an aptitude for drinking and requires years of palate training and study. While beer judges enjoy joking about what a difficult job it is judging beer, it does actually require a great deal of focus, knowledge, and follows strict guidelines.

Serving Conditions Since multiple beers are being judged at any given time, a judge is usually only given 2-4 ounces of each beer being judged. It is more common for beer to be poured into plastic cups than in actual glass. Real glass is preferable, but with five or more judges commonly filling a panel and a judging sometimes containing 12 samples or more (albeit rare since a palate will get fatigued after dozen or so beers in a single sitting), the quantity of glassware needed will quickly escalate and plastic is the more reasonable option (overlooking the obvious environmental issues associated with it). The type of plastic being used matters. Flimsier plastics such as polystyrene (think red SOLO cups used in beer pong) often cause excessive foaming, changing the flavor and carbonation

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levels. Hard, stiff plastics such as acrylic will allow a tighter foam structure to form than their weaker counterparts. Drinking water and unsalted water crackers are placed on the table as palate cleansers. Brewery sensory panels can be incredibly complex with isolation booths and controlled climates and lighting, though general judging sessions are held at tables with ample space among judges and an implied “cone of silence” upheld in the area. In the BJCP, each judge is given a score sheet that separates a beer out by Aroma (12 points), Appearance (3 pts), Flavor (20 pts), Mouthfeel (5 pts), and Overall Impression (10 pts) for a total of 50 points.

Judging a Beer While it might be a first impulse to jump at the glass and take a swig of beer, there is an order in which beer is judged. Some aromas can quickly dissipate, so the first step in judging beer is to smell it. There are several breathing and tasting techniques used by beer analysts; the most common one used in a judging setting is where the individual places his or her hand over the glass and lightly swirls the beer. This can often look pretentious and goofy, but it does have a

real purpose. The swirling motion helps release aroma particles and the palm placed over the glass concentrates these aromas. A beer judge is required to have a detailed understanding of the style being judged and the expectations of that style (though the written style definition is often provided to the judge). Certain aromas may be appropriate in one style of beer but not another, and the judge is expected to know when particular aromas are typical, and when they are considered an “off-flavor.” The next step is to observe the appearance of the beer. In America, color is most often measured by the Standard Reference Method, or SRM scale. A pale lager will have about 2 SRM, a red ale will be around 15 SRM, and a stout will come in at 25 SRM or more. The color of the beer deepens based off the width of the glassware; however, a judge will often tilt the glass to compensate for this. During this time, they are also looking at the clarity of the beer and observing the bubbles. The bubble size, frequency in which they form, and how they pack into the foam head can relay how the beer was made and the ingredients used. Finally, the judge gets to drink the beer. A judge rates the beer on “flavor” rather than “taste.” Flavor is the combination of aroma and taste. The palate has a limited range of tastes (sweet, bitter, sour, et cetera) but when combined with different aromas, there are countless flavors. During this time, they are also looking at the mouthfeel and body of the beer. If the beer is too thick or too thin, it can indicate an incorrect recipe design and ingredients or poor process control. The judge lastly gives an overall impression score that considers the beer as a whole and ties together these different categories. The number of beers entered into a category matters, too. If there are a small amount of entries and none, or few, of them are up to par, the judges can decide to only award the deserving beer(s). That happened this year in the Pumpkin/ Squash Beer category where there were only 10 entries. The judges must have thought that just one beer was worthy of an award, since only BTU Brasserie out of Portland, Oregon, received a bronze metal for their Butt-Ah Nut.

Street by Central Coast Brewing Co. won the bronze in American-Style Pale Ale, another difficult category with 157 entries. SLO Brew, also in San Luis Obispo, won a bronze for their Feelin’ Your Oats, in the Oatmeal Stout category (61 entries). Firestone Walker Brewing Co. picked up the gold medal for their DBA in the Ordinary or Special Bitter Category (39 entries). It is always exciting to see one of the iconic beers such as DBA win a gold in a style that it helped introduce to America. Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. received four medals this year and impressively they were all in lager categories. Lagers are considered more difficult to produce than ales, the other major family of beer styles (the yeast used is the major differentiating factor between these two families). Lagers take longer to make and typically have a “cleaner” flavor that allows off-flavors and other undesirable characteristics to stand out. If a brewer tries to rush a lager through production, you better believe that a judge will be able to taste it. Figueroa Mountain received a gold medal for their I Dunkled in My Pants in the European-Style Dark Lager/ Munich-Style Dunkel (38 entries) and bronzes for their Lighter Than I Look in the American-Style Amber Lager or Dark Lager category (108 entries), Figtoberfest in the Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest category (46 entries), and Once You Go Schwarz in the German-Style Schwarzbier category (47 entries). Central Coast Brewing Co. out of San Luis Obispo happened to take the gold in that particular category for their General Schwarz. This style of black lager is often overlooked but a personal favorite. It is rich and hearty yet uniquely light in character from the lager yeast and special de-husked grains that give the beer its dark color but lowroast flavor. The same grains are used to make black IPAs, which are pitch-black but not roasty in flavor. These beers may look like a stout, but they are anything but one. Overall, it was another good year for the Central Coast and with more and more breweries opening in the area, we can expect more medals to come in future years.

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music-loving friends with a lot of spirit and optimism, transformed itself into a full-blown movement: An experiment in holistic living and learning, and now, an opportunity to build an enduring community based on education, permaculture, and self-expression. Here’s how... THE HEROES OF OUR OWN STORY Lucidity Festival, about to enter its sixth and final year of a sixyear story arc, has made a big move toward contributing to the collective purchase of a large property about an hour outside of Ashland, Oregon, called Trillium. The vision for this land is to be the home of the Lucid University, “A living demonstration site for regenerative whole systems healthy living” as explained in their informational video for their crowdfunding campaign on Indigogo, through which they are raising money for the initial curriculum development, operations, and necessary structural repairs on the land. The property will be home to a core group of land stewards who will work and live on it year-round to help build and anchor the physical campus where Lucid University will offer workshops

and retreats throughout the year. Trillium, the name of the land itself as it’s been called for 40 years, is meant to become a place where people can come for a deeper dive into the experience of community and holistic living, pieces of which they get to experience at Lucidity Festival. This dream is a long time coming. Leaders at Lucidity began to experiment with the idea of an education-based component of the festival about four years ago with the introduction of an additional environment where talks and workshops were held on any number of topics from permaculture, to metaphysical theories, body movement practices, and nutrition topics. They received an incredibly positive response and so decided to grow the Lucid University into a larger component of the festival experience. So, in April, they held the first Lucid University Courseweek prior to the start of the festival, which brought out 125 people from all over the country, some of whom came for the coursework alone. This turnout and the positive feedback from participants helped solidify the demand for this offering. The course offerings are categorized within a five-track curriculum approach:

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CommunityWorks, CreativeWorks, BodyWorks, EcologyWorks, and SpiritWorks. While plans and talks about buying a larger property had been in the works for a few years already, the successful development of the Lucid University Courseweek gave the team even more reassurance to move forward with the university concept, the creation of a year-round sustainable living and educational community. A big part of that story for the founders has always been about grounding it eventually into a piece of land. Bringing the three-day experience into a more lasting and rooted affair was one of the goals all along. As part of the current crowdfunding campaign, they are offering tickets to a weekend-long land-warming party, which will be the first public offering on Trillium. The only way to get an invitation to the land-warming bash is through the crowdfunding campaign that is running now, up until Thursday, October 27. The gathering, likely to occur in May 2017, includes camping, community dinners, yoga, dancing, hikes, and tours of the land. It is one of the perks donors can choose when deciding to support the crowdfunding campaign. There are numerous other rewards and offerings based on which tier is chosen, including things such as a month-long immersion, a couples retreat, and even a lifetime membership, which includes one Lucid University event per year and one four-day retreat per year. Jonah Haas, marketing director and co-founder of Lucidity Festival, said that when members of his team first visited the land in Oregon, it was clear to them that it was not a festival site, but was perfect for the growth of the Lucid University – namely because it was already a community and a

school for the last 40 years. The land has been run by a couple, Chant and Susanna Thomas, who founded the Birch Creek Arts and Ecology Center, a 501(c)(3) that offered educational programming focused on wilderness knowledge, ecology, and the arts. “We have been meeting many people whose lives have been touched by Trillium over the years, and a number of people who were actually born there,” says Jonah. There will be a handful of people from the Lucid Family moving up to Trillium this winter. Even though the sale of the land has not yet been finalized, Chant and Susanna have invited a core group to begin learning how to steward the estate. WHAT’S NEXT FOR LUCIDITY FESTIVAL? As Lucidity reaches its six-year finale, the completion of the story arch that the festival was built upon, the community wonders what will come of Lucidity Festival next. According to Jonah, the short answer is: “The next chapters are yet to be written.” As the founders designed it, each festival year has been considered a “chapter” in the story and has its own unique theme. This April’s iteration is “Eudaimonia” and, as Jonah puts it, “is about our collective transformation and our thriving human future.” Tickets for Eudaimonia go on sale Tuesday, November 8, at 9 am (Election Day). Just FYI, every year the first three ticket price tiers sell out the first day tickets go on sale, so if you’re planning on going this year, get online at 9 am sharp. And make sure to check out the Indigogo campaign at: https://igg.me/ at/luciduniversity Learn more about Eudaimonia on the Lucidity Festival home website: www. lucidityfestival.com

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Tell us all about your art opening, performance, dance party, book signing, sale of something we can’t live without, or event of any other kind by emailing fortnight@santabarbarasentinel.com. If our readers can go to it, look at it, eat it, or buy it, we want to know about it and will consider it for inclusion here. Special consideration will be given to interesting, exploratory, unfamiliar, and unusual items. We give calendar preference to those who take the time to submit a picture along with their listing.

Rock You, Baby, All Night Long

ell, maybe not. When Steppenwolf ’s John Kay performs at SOhO on Sunday, October 23, there won’t be any crunchy rock ‘n’ roll classics à la his appearance at the club last year as part of the SOhO’s 20th anniversary celebration fundraisers. Back then he was backed by Dirty Knobs, who quickly learned a bunch of Steppenwolf classics such as “Born to Run” and “Magic Carpet Ride”. But tonight, Kay – who has lived in Montecito for the last five years – will be up there solo with just an acoustic guitar, and the material will be drawn from his handful of solo albums from over the decades, plus quite a few unrecorded numbers and other new songs. “When John Kay picks up an acoustic guitar, it’s the same guy who preceded Steppenwolf in the early ‘60s when folk music

was going through its revival,” he explained. So sit down, shut up, and listen. By the way, the show is also a benefit, this time for Kay’s own Maue Kay Foundation, which he and his wife of half a century, Jutta, created in 2004 with a focus on wildlife conservation. The fundraiser will support African elephants in particular, with Kay noting that one of these “living treasures” are killed every 15 minutes. “The fund is designed to bring financial assistance where they can’t rely on the government to protect them,” he said. So the night will be about rumbling on, not rockin’.

A Metheny to Their Madness

know what you’re thinking: what the heck is the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) doing performing

a concert under the aegis of jazz at the Lobero? Aren’t they primarily a classic music ensemble? Well, sure, that was the linchpin of the LAGQ when they formed back in the 1990s, but since then the fearsome foursome has perennially embraced Latin sounds and other genres in their ambitious musical explorations while maintaining superior standards for expression and virtuosity. What makes them eminently qualified for their performance in the Lobero series on Friday, October 28, is the program: the world premiere of “Road to the Sun, ”a new work by alltime jazz guitar great Pat Metheny. Metheny, who appeared himself earlier this year at the Lobero, wrote the piece for the LAGQ, who he calls “one of the best ‘bands’ in the world.” “Road” is a major work – six movements spanning 25 minutes that encompasses Matheny’s familiar pallet of expression, composed on the guitar, unlike his preferred compositional instrument of the piano. The work is the centerpiece of a jazz-focused evening that also features music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.

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he dancers of La Boheme, directed by Teresa Kuskey Nowak, kick off Halloween weekend by joining forces with DJ Darla Bea to turn Paseo Nuevo Mall into a spooky graveyard full of zombies, witches, and ghouls for one haunted hour on Friday, October 28. The troupe, known for its massive annual dance extravaganza during the Summer Solstice parade and for dancing the choreography from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video each October, will offer several different numbers flash-mob-style in the courtyard at the shopping center beginning at 6 pm. That same evening, The Dance Network presents its second annual Halloween showcase, The Voodoo Strut!, at Center Stage Theater upstairs in the mall. The show features all Halloween-themed dance pieces, guest performers, fun costumes, some tricks, and a surprise treat for the audience at the end of the show. The performers range in age from 4

to nearly 80, covering a wide variety of styles including jazz, tap, and hip hop – with choreography by Lauren Hovey, Karyn Laver, Deja Re, Daniel Rojo, Bethany Sutherland, Kyle Ybarra, and guest performers Just Baila – so it’s fitting for the whole family. The whole thing repeats at 2 & 7 pm on Saturday, October 29.

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he charming beach town a few miles south of Santa Barbara rolls up its streets even earlier than we do here in the big metropolis, where it’s already difficult to find a place that’s open after dark. But there are two happening spots in the city by the sea, that, coincidentally, are each offering worthy acoustic music on the same evening. Women of Song – a loose collective of female singer-songwriters who perform individually and in various combos as part of the The Palm Loft Songwriters Circle – are coming together once again to play a benefit for the Carpinteria Bluffs. Hear nuggets of acoustic gold almost as shiny as the sunsets from the bluffs from the likes of Penelope Salinger, Katheryn Boisen, Sherie Davis, Mary Madden, Jena Douglas, Mary Jeanne Ernst, Grace Feldmann, and others, October 29 beginning at 7:30 pm in support of protecting the remaining areas of the coastal treasure. Each of the singers will perform three of their original songs while also backing one another up with instrumental flourishes and vocal harmonies. At the same time, the Plaza Playhouse Theater hosts a more traditional sit-down sort of concert with Mark Heyes and Phil Salazar. The guitarist and fiddler, respectively, who share several decades making music individually and with many others, are celebrating the release of their new CD after three years together as a powerful writing and performing duo. Heyes is an Emmy Award-winning composer, singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose storydriven songs span a wealth of acoustic genres. Salazar is a champion fiddler/ producer/educator who straddles the borders between traditional bluegrass and contemporary sound, and is wellknown as a member of many favorite local bands (Rincon Ramblers, Cache Valley Drifters, Kinfolk, Acousticats). The two will be joined on stage with special guests Tom Corbett on mandolin and guitar and Chad Watson on bass.

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allusions, and other clever names for beer, wine, and food festivals by now. But you’d be wrong. Because lo and behold, there’s another one on the already crowded calendar, going by the catchy title of Buckles ‘n’ Brews. The event organizers of Surf ‘n’ Suds Beer Festival created this new event as spinoff in that the breweries are individually selected, and the suds they will be serving are specialty or rare beers. There will be 25 breweries – among them the not-so-ubiquitous Ballast Point, BrewLAB, Captain Fatty’s, Central Coast Brewing, Enegren, Ladyface Ale, Lagunitas, Macleod Ale, Poseidon, Third, and Topa Topa – each pouring beers they don’t serve at festivals other than Buckles ‘n’ Brews, including many that are saved for such special occasions. Every guest will receive a souvenir tulip glass to take home. Now, what about the buckles, you wonder? That’s got to do with the fest’s location, at the Santa Barbara Carriage Museum, from noon to 4:30 pm on Saturday, October 29. You can gawk at the venerable vehicles, but don’t try taking one for a spin, whether you’re still sober or not (try Uber in case of the latter). The Buckles ‘n’ Brews Invitational is presented by the

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Joan of Art

re men and women treated more equally in the entertainment world than they are in business or other environments? Who knows. But here are some facts to ponder. Joan Baez is credited with introducing Bob Dylan to the world. But while Dylan just won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Baez gets called “still the mother of us all” by The New York Times. While Dylan played at the Santa Barbara Bowl earlier this year and co-headlined one of the three nights at the so-called Oldchella massive Desert Trip concerts in Indio the last two weekends, Baez is performing at the Arlington Theatre on Thursday, November 3. Hey, at least it’s a significant step up, size-wise, from the Lobero, where the legendary folk singer performed during her last visit to town several years back. Whatever your conclusion, there’s no arguing the fact that her gently trilling soprano voice sounds a lot better at 75 than Dylan ever did. Diamonds and rust, indeed.

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by Zach Rosen Cecily Stewart of State St Ballet brings dance, music, and literature to high school students in her Library Dances program (photo by Kaitlyn Bathel)

hether performing on stage or just rocking out at home in your pajamas, dance is often seen as the ultimate form of human expression, capturing the emotion of music and releasing it through one’s own body. For Cecily Stewart of State Street Ballet, dance is not just a way to express oneself, it can be used to convey any story. Cecily’s first experience with dance was as a second grader while watching a performance of Beauty and the Beast by State Street Ballet as part of an outreach program. This experience sparked her fire for dance, and she began to practice at Santa Barbara Ballet Center. At 16, she decided to take the next step and enrolled in a professional program at the Marin Dance Theater in Northern California. After several years of study, Cecily headed east to tour with Richmond Ballet, New York Theater Ballet, and Allegro Dance Theater before returning to Santa Barbara in 2009 to work with State Street Ballet. As the ballet troupe would tour, Cecily noticed that the company did a lot of outreach programs while away but very little of them when back home in Santa Barbara. This inspired Cecily to bring more outreach programs to the area, including her popular Library Dances series in 2014. In this unique platform, Cecily and the State Street Ballet dancers partner with a local junior high or high school and work with their students to craft a performance that revolves around a piece of literature. From Gift of the Magi to The Scarlet Letter, and even A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cecily works to introduce participating students to concepts of choreography, stagecraft, musicality, and other aspects of ballet and dance. The program lasts anywhere from a week to a month and culminates in a live theater performance wherein the professional dancers and students, many of whom have never been onstage before, perform together. In 2015,

Cecily became the outreach coordinator for State Street Ballet, where she could continue the Library Dances program and develop additional school outreach programs, hoping to give young students similar experiences as the one she had with Beauty and the Beast. Library Dances combines Cecily’s love for music, choreography, and literature. With unfamiliar words and subtext laced throughout, complex literature such as Shakespeare can be intimidating for young students. Cecily sees dance as the universal language, being able to communicate feelings and emotions without using spoken words. It is her hope that programs such as Library Dances can motivate students to think of language in abstract ways, seeing a story through movement and music rather than words on a page. She believes that these experiences can leave students and audience with a deeper understanding of a story and its characters. Most recently, she brought F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic American novel, The Great Gatsby, to Laguna Blanca Upper School. This novel was a personal favorite of hers and the combination of era-driven music, dance, and fashion, brought the Roaring ‘20s to life for students, giving them context for the setting and mood of the story. This Saturday, October 22, you can see Cecily and the State Street Ballet performers at the Granada Theatre in An American Tango. Cecily is excited to be a part of bringing this enthralling story to stage and encourages people to come enjoy this poignant, true, American story of famed dancers Frank and Yolanda Veloz. The audience will follow the compelling rise of two of the world’s greatest ballroom dancers and the passion they shared. But if you can’t make the performance, you can always express your own passion through dance, and maybe next time try it with a book in hand.

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GLORIOUS GREENS

s we head into what we Californians call winter and as the memories of stone fruit and summer tomatoes begin to fade, people often ask what is good and in season. Many think produce gets boring in winter, but we say that’s not true! Yes, perhaps it takes paying attention to nuances a bit more. The cooler weather means more pronounced flavor, broccoli gets sweeter, bitter greens get more robust, and cabbage gets nuttier. If you look closer, you will see why these greens are as great as we think! WTFORK DO I DO WITH... BROCCOLI RABE/RAPINI Commonly known in the United States as broccoli rabe. Originating in the Mediterranean and also China, it is actually a descendant from a wild herb. It is, however, closely related to turnips, which is probably why the leaves look like turnip greens. Lots of broccoli-like buds appear here and there, but a head never forms. It is grown as much for its long-standing, tasty mustard-like tops as for their multiple small florets with clusters of broccoli-like buds. Used extensively in Italian and Chinese cooking, it is not as popular in the United States but gaining popularity. The stems are generally uniform in size (hence cook evenly) and need not be peeled. The stems can be removed up to where the leaves begin, and sautéed before adding the leaves to the pan. Rapini really shines on its own. It is pleasantly bitter. The best preparation is to blanch and shock in an ice bath then quickly sauté in olive oil. (photo by Roedelius) CASTELFRANCO RADICCHIO Also known as the Edible Rose, is a beautiful Italian heirloom. Like Parmesan cheese, Castelfranco is a protected variety, permitted to be marketed only if it originates in the region of Castelfranco. The voluminous heads unfold like a rose (hence the nickname) with wide, round leaves that of a buttery cream fully speckled with rouge. It is the mildest type of radicchio. The flavor is pleasant, sweet with a tang and a little bitterness. Its texture is nice and crunchy, making it ideal for fresh eating. In Italy it is also sautéed in a variety of dishes. but we love it in salads or as a bed for grilled meats. SAVOY CABBAGE Savoy cabbage is the prettiest cabbage of all, with its fantastic crinkly leaves and its contrasting dark-on-pale color palette. Only a few outer leaves are dark green and quite so textured, inside it is creamy and pale. Despite its rugged appearance, it’s actually very tender and sweet. The sweetness of savoy cabbage makes it a wonderful foil for rich and salty foods such as duck confit, bacon, or sausages. But because it is naturally mild and sweet, it is equally delicious as a bed for mild white fish or seafood. It can be cooked or used raw. It can be braised, roasted, or boiled, and it’s easy to sauté it in butter, olive oil, or bacon fat. It can be used in preserved recipes such as kimchi or sauerkraut. (photo by Evelyn Gunn) RED FRILL MUSTARD Red Frill mustard comprises radiant, deeply serrated oak leaf-shaped violet leaves contrasted by thin wasabi green stems. The texture is crunchy and frilly. Its flavor big, spicy, and peppery. Red Frill mustard is known as one of the spiciest in the mustard green family. It is a Japanese heirloom. This green is little-known and lesser-seen but should not be undervalued. Often mistaken for baby kale in spring mix, it has the durability and pop in flavor that adds extra dimension to salads. If it were up to me, it would be the new kale. I am madly in love with Scarlett Frill, and if you try it you will see why.

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Lila (on left) is 8 and Elli is 11. Right now, they are both really happy and healthy.

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.

WHERE TO NOW?

here’s a moment at the end of the day, when the night tempts my youngest to join him, but she resists. She looks at me with heavy eyelids and asks, “Where to now?” I cross my legs at the foot of her bed and I settle in to my storyteller seat. I ramble on about moon ladies and cloud cities until her breathing slows into a steady sleep rhythm. Typically, I pop up after the snoozing commences and hustle out to tackle more chores and lists and lunch packing… but the other night I didn’t. I continued to sit with the music of my child’s breathing in background, and take in the now. COME HERE, NOW! Right now, my girls are ages 11 and 8. Elli is a few months into 11. She is blossoming in a new school and teetering on the edge of teenager. She hasn’t fallen in yet; she still needs to be

kissed goodnight and hugged before she leaves for the day. I know I can’t stay in this “now” forever, but I’m holding on for my dear life. Lila is 8 going on 9 and, right now, she is bursting with questions: “Why do the waves turn white when they crash? Who invented pancakes? Why can’t George (our dog) talk? How many keys are on a piano?” It’s endless, even when her head reluctantly hits the pillow. I think she has a common case of the third grade. Elli and Lila are two and half years apart in age, and right now, they are the exact same size. All clothing and shoes are a convenient problem; at times they share, most times they fight. I do believe that Lila has passed Elli in height and I have found myself saying that at least Lila won’t be tagged as the “little” sister. (I’m the oldest of four girls in my family, and from what I remember no one really liked the little sis byline.)

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Most importantly, right now, both girls are healthy. Besides the agitating eczema that Lila is dealing with, our doctor visits are movable rather than mandatory. We had a chunk of time last year when Elli was sick, and I will forever hold good health on top of our list of nightly wishes. NOW, GO TO SLEEP Right now, my daughter’s ritualistic requirement of narration occurs nightly. Sometimes I am so tired from life’s mundane necessities that I feel it just isn’t possible to come up with those magical words to take her off to dreamland. But I force myself to that storyteller seat and start with one or two lines that quickly spread to more, because I know that this phase is fleeting. They all are. Once she stops asking for the stories, they will be gone. It is so hard to take in the now, to put away all the “must-dos” and “need-tos” and allow the present to present itself. But when we do, we can inject life into this life. It’s always a good reminder that the past has past and we need to save the future for later. Now, it’s time for me to go to bed.

BRIANA’S BEST BET

ight now, Santa Barbara has a lot of great family-friendly fall activities happening around town. Here are a couple of my favorites: • On Sunday, October 23, Crane Country Day School will host their annual Country Fair. From 10 am to 3 pm, Crane’s field will be covered with old-fashioned booths and activities. There will be a cake walk, a haunted house, an old-fashioned candy booth, a petting zoo, bounce houses, live music, yummy food, face painting, and much more! The event is free to attend, and tickets for all of the booths will be for sale that day. • Have you ever seen a horse in a Halloween costume? On Wednesday, October 26, Hearts for Horses hosts its annual Halloween at Hearts. From 3:30 to 5:30 pm, you can visit the Hearts ranch and see all of the horses dressed up. Wear your costumes and be ready to participate in trick or treating with horses, spooky barn festivities, and a broomstick bake sale. Admission is free with a $5 suggested donation. Hearts is located at 4420 Calle Real in Santa Barbara.

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E’S NOTE by Elliana Westmacott Elliana Westmacott was born and raised in Santa Barbara. She is 10. She loves to play the piano and soccer. Skiing, swimming in the ocean, reading, and visiting her Nana’s house are some of her favorite things to do. Her family and her dog George make her happy. So does writing.

CARE FOR CATS

t was a Saturday afternoon when my mom got a phone call from friends of ours. They were adopting some new kittens from the Montecito Pet Shop and they asked us if we wanted to come and meet their new additions. We walked into the shop and immediately saw their new kitten and her mommy cat. They decided to adopt a young mom and her little kitten. The kitten wasn’t even 1 yet! Not long after we arrived, a woman named Jeffyne Telson came to the shop. We soon found out she was the owner of the organization ResQ Cats. She came and showed us how to give a cat a vaccination shot. It wasn’t very joyful, but it was kind of cool. Who gets to see a cat get a shot every day? I’m guessing not very many people. Sundance was the mom’s name and she is only 1-and-a-half years old. She was abandoned with five little kittens behind an apartment building in Santa Barbara. Sage is one of the five kittens

that went to the pet shop. Our friends adopted Sundance and Sage. They renamed Sundance, Pearl. RESQ Cats got my attention. I went on their website and watched their video. What they are doing is amazing and also very heartbreaking. All these cats were left to die somewhere on the streets, and ResQ Cats helps these poor animals. They take care of them, feed them, give them shelter, they provide medical care, and they also have a huge yard that the cats play and live on. Then when the cats are all good, healthy, and happy, they are put up for adoption. Telson is the founder of ResQ Cats. She said she gets many letters from the new owners thanking her for helping these cats and kittens. I used to have a cat myself, so I know what it feels like to love them. Thank you, RESQ Cats, for helping the world! Love from, E

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n the city’s Eastside, among the auto shops and paint supply stores, is the Marcia Burtt Gallery on Laguna St. This space has been open since 2000, with a commitment to showing the finest contemporary landscape art Santa Barbara has to offer.

Robert Abbott, Divide Peak, oil, 48x36 in.

Erling Sjovold, Rise, oil, 20x16 in.

Representing more than a dozen local artists with many visiting artists joining in the group exhibitions, some of whom participate in the annual Mesa artists studio tour, this gallery has something for every eye. The lofty wood-beamed ceiling and Randall David Tipton, Mt. Hood with Orchard, watercolor, 14x11 in.

uncluttered interior provide an easy and comfortable viewing room to spend time and sit with the work. Marcia Burtt Gallery has been featured on travelmag as one of 12 unique things to do in Santa Barbara – and the arcade does not disappoint. The current show, Backcounty, is a group exhibition of paintings by artists Anne Ward, Marilyn Turtz, Randall David Tipton, Erling Sjovold, Ray Roberts, Ian Roberts, Susan Petty, Ann Lofquist, Marilee Krause, Michael Ferguson, Patricia Doyle, Marcia Burtt, and Robert Abbott. Collectively, their work explores the traditional subject of landscape each in their own unique styles. One of the first pieces I saw upon entering the space was Doyle’s triptych Rock Water, a large three-panel

painting of purple ravines and sandcolored cliffs. In Tipton’s Mt. Hood with Orchard, patches of rock jut skyward through blocks of white clouds in his abstracted image. In a more classical style, Burtt’s Snow on Toro Peak capture the vastness of the mountains and valleys with warm hues and wide open skies. Using a limited palette, Krause recreates the all too familiar Central Coast scenery in her Coyote Brush, as golden chaparral dominates and a lone green tree stands in the distance. The talented Sjovold paints the harmonious photographic work, Rise, in which it seems all the soothing elements of nature are present; water, sky, rock, trees. This group exhibition is up through November 20 and then their End of the Year 2016 show will debut. But there is more than paintings at Marcia Burtt; they have a thorough collection of artists’ books available in the studio and also downloadable online through the website (www.artlacuna.com). The gallery hosts occasional workshops, such as the recent one with artist Ward, who teaches how to utilize a technological medium, such as an iPad, for drawings and paintings. When your find yourself on the Eastside, be sure to catch a glimpse of nature at the Marcia Burtt Gallery.

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ONTRApalooza

he modern entrepreneur has, shall we say, a gazillion things to do at any given time, every single day. One of the reasons so many entrepreneurs burn out is because the plate is just too full – and as a result, business owners get bogged down with details that take them away from the big-picture stuff that allows their company to really grow and prosper. This is where the beauty of modern technology comes in. Ideally, technology allows us to use our brains and brawn in service of the most important aspects of business, rather than focus on the mundane details. One locally grown company, Ontraport does just that for its customers: offers all-inone solutions to remove the burden of technology from entrepreneurs. They build automated processes and smart software to help solve these core issues for entrepreneurs. Founded by Landon Ray, a former day trader on Wall Street, Ontraport has seen a ton of success and works with clients all over the nation and world. With their community growing ever larger, five years ago Ontraport decided to host an annual conference, an entrepreneurial bonanza of sorts that brings entrepreneurs from all over the country together for three days of “working workshops,” talks, and networking events. They call it ONTRApalooza. (Fun fact: the event name plays off the huge four-day music festival, Lollapalooza, that has been going on since 1991.) This is the fifth year that Ontraport has hosted ONTRApalooza; the event saw about 450 attendees and was held at the ever-dreamy beachside Fess Parkers DoubleTree Resort. With four different tracks to choose from (Publish, Market, Sell, Organize), participants could pick and choose the specific areas they wanted to focus on and learn more about for their businesses. Workshops ran all day long Wednesday through Friday. Thursday had to have been the highlight for most event attendees, however, because both the 10-year Ontraport anniversary party that all attendees were invited to took place that evening, but even more anticipated was the interview and book-signing event with one of the most successful female entrepreneurs in America,

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“Joan Baez is still the mother of us all.” The New York Times “Though many know her first for her gently trilling soprano voice, activism is as much a part of Baez’s identity as the sound.” Time The Lynda and Bruce Thematic Learning Initiative: Creating a Better World With support from our Community Partner the Orfalea Family Sophia Amoruso talking to a fan and ONTRApalooza attendee at her book signing

Sophia Amoruso, founder of the fashion empire, Nasty Gal, and author of the wildly popular book Girl Boss. (BTW, yes, she can be credited with the rise of the #girlboss hashtag that has become a unifying slogan for many female entrepreneurs, particularly of the millennial generation (Sophia herself is just 32 years old). In the midst of finishing up her big tour for the release of her new book, Nasty Galaxy and ONTRApalooza managed to snag Sophia for an hourlong talk, after which she gave all attendees a copy of her new genredefying book that is an artistic, highly personal, and in-your-face testament to her rise to the top of the game. For those who don’t know, Amoruso started her ecommerce brand, Nasty Gal (I know, quite a name, right?) by selling vintage clothing on eBay. Today she has grown her business into a $100-millionplus business. So, she’s kind of a big deal for millennials, and is also a stellar example of the ability in today’s world to grow an empire online, using systems and software that facilitate automation and enable rapid growth. Hence Ontraport’s crush on her. This is an affordable and timely conference that many entrepreneurs feeling overwhelmed or just ready to go the next level can really benefit from. Much recommended – looking forward to what next year has in store! For more info on the event, go to ontrapalooza.com, and to learn more about Ontraport, go to ontraport. com.

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with Tommie Vaughn (a.k.a. Mrs. Bones) Tommie adapted her

love of the stage to the love of the page. As lead singer for the band Wall of Tom, she created This Rock in My Heart and This Roll in My Soul, a fictional book series based loosely on her experiences in the L.A. music scene. Now she’s spending her time checking out and writing about all things Santa Barbara. Reach Tommie at www.TommieV.com or follow her on Twitter at TommieVaughn1.

Till Death Do Us Part I had seen her warming her bones by the pool at The Wayfarer; I just lost my nerves when I tried to talk to her

She was always the friendliest gal at Fig, mention Mr. Bones and you can get a buck off your brews till all Hallows’ Eve

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hey say there is someone for everyone. That perfect match to fit into your hallow soul, that special someone who fills an empty space where your heart should beat, a yin to your yang, like an Eve for Adam that was plucked from his own rib. Well, I can honestly say it has happened to me. I feel like I was dead before I met her, and when she is around, I feel more alive than I have felt – in more than a hundred years. Of course, I had noticed her around town a few Hallows’ Eve ago, even tried to get her attention once with no godforsaken luck at the Wayfarer pool. We finally connected not unlike many other pale skin-covered friends have told me in the past: she was a waitress at a cocktail bar… wait, pardon me, actually that’s a song. She was a bartender at one of my favorite haunts in the Funk Zone, Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company. It was her giant toothy grin that kept me coming back, week after week. She was a tad on the thin side,

even for Santa Barbara standards, but I like good bones on a woman, since it’s so much easier to see what she’s really made of inside. It seemed our dreadful humor was so similar; our dead goals so in line, I finally straightened out my spine one day and took a chance – I asked her out. She said “Hell yes!” and my cold black heart began a thrilling beat, as I finalized what was to be our first date. I picked her up at the morgue and we headed off in our SB buggy, tooling around town without a care in the world, her blonde hair blowing in the warm wind, and we laughed like the devil as the fleshies screamed to get out of our way fast, those silly heavy breathers. It was a perfect day to haunt the Funk Zone, so I took her to Gone Gallery and we ogled at the hipster art. We cackled wickedly at Llama Dog over a pumpkin brew. She dragged me into the Blue Door, swearing I needed some mean, new Oxford shoes as she tried on a stunning new beehive wig.

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I almost broke every bone in my body at Skaters Point trying to impress her, and after her laughter subsided, she convinced me that I needed a stiff drink to help with any residual pain. We floated into Test Pilot, and sure enough, after a few exotic cocktails, I couldn’t feel anything at all. But it wasn’t until our candlelight dinner at Loquita, when she ordered a bloody brilliant bottle of Spanish blood-red wine and swallowed an octopus whole, that I felt I had found the perfect girl for me. I professed my love right then and there. I know now, that not even death could part a love like ours, and even in my darkest hours, this lovely lady will always be the light of my life.

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njoying the natural beauty that Santa Barbara has to offer can be done from just about anywhere, regardless of the neighborhood. But the truth is, some spots are more scenic than others, and the view is what it’s all about. So if you can be surrounded by views of both the ocean and the mountains, then you are one lucky duck. Such is the case with Shadow Hills, the charming 55+ gated community found nestled a little ways off the 154. Pleasant and serene with that quintessential modern Mediterranean/Spanish look, this resort-style community is the kind of place people are delighted to come retire to (though only one of the owners has to be over 55). There are two places for sale in this community, each offering different attributes and price points. THE FIRST PLACE, UNIT N: A spacious 3-bedroom, 3.5-baths, single-family residence with a detached guest casita, giving it a total square footage of about 4,000. As you approach this place from the outside, you are greeted by a vine-covered archway and hand-made wroughtiron gate, giving it a quaint, inviting feel. Venturing on into the inside, this home is spacious with abundant natural light. Two of the three bedrooms are on main level, with the third bedroom and a bathroom downstairs, as well as the office and exercise room. Also on the ground floor is a patio that opens up to a wellmaintained garden area. It’s the kind of place the whole family can come stay at for the holidays, the hosting made even easier with the addition of the guest casita, a one-bed, one-bath unit with a small kitchenette that is totally separate from the main house. A unique aspect of this place is the excellent combination of views: From one side of the house, you have the ocean and the islands in full view; from the other side of the house, you have a gorgeous mountain view. Other resort-style amenities include shared tennis courts, gym, and a clubhouse. Then there is the pool and spa where you can relax and gaze at the mountains while

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practicing your backstroke (otherwise, you’ll have to get out and lay on a poolside chair to take in the views – both good options) Listed at $1,725,000 For more information about this home, you can reach: Sofie Langhorne – The Langhorne Group CalBRE#: 01851983 (805) 689-5759 LanghorneGroup@compass.com SECOND PLACE, UNIT A: Also available in the same Shadow Hills community, is a 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath condo (all on one level, so the whole house is wheelchair accessible). It also includes a spacious den, rounding off the square footage right at 2,800. So this is a slightly smaller place than Unit N, at a slightly lower price point – just depends on what you’re looking for. As with all the units in this community, it has charm and has been well-cared for inside and out. Also included, of course, are the same amenities describes above that are included with the purchase of any unit in this community (pool, tennis courts, gym). Listed at $1,295,000 For more information on Unit A, get in touch with: Pamela Taylor CalBRE License# 01238656 (805) 895-6541 (cell) Pamela@TaylorinSB.com

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Behind the Vine by Hana-Lee Sedgwick

Hana-Lee Sedgwick is a writer, wine consultant and lover of all things wine and food. As a Certified Specialist of Wine and Sommelier, she loves to explore the world of wine in and around her hometown of Santa Barbara. When not trying new wines or traveling, she can be found practicing yoga, cooking, entertaining and enjoying the outdoors. Visit her popular blog, Wander & Wine, for wine tips, tasting notes and adventures in wine and travel: wanderandwine.com

CELEBRATING HARVEST IN SANTA BARBARA

Sanford’s Laura Roach, Fiddlehead Cellars’s Kathy Joseph, Cambria Winery’s Denise Shurtleff, Erika Maldonado of Runway Vineyard, Sonja Magdevski of Casa Dumetz, and Kitá’s Tara Gomez.

very year, starting in August, hundreds of Santa Barbara winemakers spend their fall months in the vineyard and in their winemaking facilities for what is known as harvest. And, every year, the Santa Barbara Vintners Association celebrates their tireless efforts with four days of special wine and food events aptly named the Celebration of Harvest. This year, the Celebration of Harvest

weekend began on October 7 with open houses at tasting rooms and wine dinners throughout the county. Various events included a Foxen wine pairing dinner at Santa Barbara’s Wine Cask Restaurant and Grassini Family Vineyards’ “Crush Cookout” at their Happy Canyon winery. In Solvang, guests were encouraged to bring a special bottle of wine to share with others at the Harvest Dinner at Root 246 – a nod to the post-

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harvest events in Burgundy known as La Paulée de Meursault, where winemakers and guests bring wines to share with one another. The morning of October 8 commenced with a Woman in Wine seminar at the Hotel Corque, complete with a panel of six female winemakers from throughout the Santa Barbara County. The panelists included Laura Roach, assistant winemaker at Sanford Winery; Kathy Joseph, owner and winemaker of Fiddlehead Cellars; Denise Shurtleff, winemaker at Cambria Winery; Erika Maldonado, owner and winemaker at Runway Vineyards; Sonja Magdevski, owner and winemaker at Casa Dumetz Wines; and Tara Gomez, winemaker at Kitá Wines. They each shared their wines, stories, and insights through an informal discussion moderated by Gabe Saglie.

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The highlight of this event each year is certainly the Celebration of Harvest Grand Tasting on Saturday, showcasing the wines of more than 75 Santa Barbara County producers as well as food from local restaurants, caterers, and artisan food purveyors. Taking place outside on the lawn of the Old Mission Santa Ines, the Grand Tasting is an opportunity for guests to sample newly released wines – often poured by the winemakers themselves – and explore the many different styles of wines from Santa Barbara County’s AVAs. The Celebration of Harvest weekend is not only an opportunity for winemakers and producers to take a break from the demands of harvesting grapes and production, but a great way for all wine lovers to celebrate their efforts and toast to Santa Barbara County wines!

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garden steps and begin snapping pictures. The other girls’ parents have ambled over from their various parking spaces to join us and we’ve greeted one another with bemused eyebrows and knowing glances as if to say, “Aw, isn’t this something?” It’s freaking madness, is what it is. I can still pretty vividly remember my own mortifying high school prom. And now, quite within memory of that, in walks this tower of legs and attitude, my own daughter. What in G*d’s Name is This All About?®

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We parents jostle around one another like the White House Press Corps and take innumerable snapshots of our girls. One of us sheepishly allows that the dress her daughter is wearing was purchased on daddy’s watch. There is laughter. Hoo boy! Yeah, leave it to a knucklehead dad. But this group of cool, smart, funny girls all look tasteful and fab and selfrespecting, and Judie and I are reminded how pleased as punch we are that our kiddo runs with these ladies, and we two exchange glances, again. There are lots and lots of exchanged glances between the parents, between the

couples, between passing strangers on the lawn who have to share (via silent exchanged glance) just how tickled they are by the proceedings. This whole preHomecoming, picture-taking ceremony at the courthouse is more crammed with weighty exchanged glances than a Days of Our Lives marathon. When we march the girls over to the south courthouse steps for a final round of electronic memory-capture, they strike several poses – here a Monkees album cover, there a sort of palmbedecked police lineup – and a couple minutes later the photo session is over. We raise our cameras to take one more, and the girls brush past us and out of frame. The parents smile nervously and exchange glances.

Unlikely Outcome of the Trojan War

Now in approaching dusk, all the girls fan out across the property and begin to visibly revel. They meander and clump and separate in groups. They swirl about the walled courthouse lawn like sandpipers at the surf line, erupting with bursts of barking laughter so sudden and jarring one flinches on hearing it. These kids! Our freaking kids! I caravanned across the southwest desert to California

with a ragtag group of friends some 30 years ago. My wife approached me in a bar around the time of the Trojan War, and now this! I didn’t have the spiritual equipment at that time to even vaguely envision this freaky scene. What is this madness? My little girl... not to get all Mike Douglas about it, but where has the time gone? Where did all this come from? Those dumb questions. Look at these... people. Sons, daughters. We’re their parents. THEIR PARENTS!

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Look Carefully)

Ahead of these giddy Homecoming kids, behind a curtain of increasing translucence; Life. There is so much up ahead there, of course. A riotous pageant, a rollercoaster without brakes. The narrative becomes more colorful and stirring with each backward glance as one advances through it. The trick, of course, is to feel the present moment as piercingly as you will tomorrow’s remembrance of it. How to tell the kids?! How to shout – like the guy in the Delmore Schwartz story, but happier: “It’s all ahead of you! Everything is ahead of you! Look carefully!” But you can’t shout at this crowd, it’ll just sound like noise, or like the muted bugle of

Charlie Brown’s folks yammering away off-screen. And anyway, the kids are doing their own wild shouting now, and it’s freaking grand. Our gals are getting a ride to the Paradise Cafe, where a hunky waiter will sweetly serve them a free dessert, to the girls’ blushing delight. When we’re summoned in an hour or so, we’ll head back downtown, the girls will pile in, and we’ll take them to the dance at the high school. And after the dance? Any day now, “maturity” will rush in with its gift of Womanhood and all the political accessories that come with that; the gender tango, the culture wars. Our girls are walking into a bit of a shit storm, and girding for that will cost them some gaiety, as will the rigorous workaday miracles of life and love. It’s all good. And anyway, that’ll be then. This is now. The kids stride off in their 21stcentury ball gowns, gabbing and gesturing, crossing the courthouse lawn while I stare. Then the newly minted teenage girls run up the stone steps in their hazardous heels, graceless as ponies on roller skates. They’re windblown and waving arms for balance and laughing their asses off. Don’t go changin’, sweetie. Don’t go changin’.

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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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ince our sailing adventure to Mexico is postponed until next summer (due to weather and – most of all – timing, according to the powers that be) and with pent-up energy from the great adventure we planned, we took off on a week-and-ahalf jaunt around the coast to get familiar with our sailboat and day-to-day life at sea. Below are a few notes from my experience you may one day find useful. A little “Things They Don’t Tell You” list. It’s not pretty, but it’s real life. Because when you live on a boat, sh*t gets real. • Let’s say the compostable head (read: com-pos-ta-ble toilet. Think about it. Yeah, exactly.) is not completely installed. You may find yourself in a bind, especially when you’ve just had a big cup of morning coffee and a bowl of oatmeal. To add to the equation, there’s no land or marina in sight. What do you do? Well, when offered a bucket to relieve yourself from inner turmoil and pain, take the bucket as a blessed gift to your bowels. This is an opportunity to do something different in your life by doo-dooing in said bucket in the cockpit of the boat (the outside area where you steer). Your thought process may go something like, “Holy $#!&, I can’t believe I’m taking a dump in a bucket,” to “Wow, the view is pretty magical,” to “Hey, this ain’t so bad,” to “Must dispose gently overboard…,” to “Joy to the world!” in the same sing-song vibrato as Clark W. Griswold in Christmas Vacation.

The only way to communicate urgency is to pepper your words Your perspective on life will change drastically, and you will never be the same again (in a good way). The alternative? Don’t use bucket and have a bad attitude all day because you are full of it. Full. Of. It. • You have a 36- to 48-hour window, post-shower, for sex. Since bathing can be irregular (depending on where and when you find harbor facilities) that not-sofresh feeling will creep in and reroute you both from Loverville straight to Cuddle Town. Baby Wipes become your savior for all activities of the loins. And one day, you both will believe your words when declaring Baby Wipes is all you need for sexy time. • The phrase “to cuss like a sailor” is well-known for a reason – because it’s &@*##!%$ true. The only way to communicate the urgency of a situation is to pepper your words. Any expletive will do. For example, when the $*#@!^% jib sheet gets loose and the sail is flapping all over the %*#!^@$ place, you need to get your #@&% $#!% together and pull that #$&!@& in! #^@$! • Bye-bye wardrobe. And no, turning your car into a closet is not practical. Due to limited space (hello, 29-by-8 feet of living area), you will not have room for your vintage leather fringe skirt, long peach faux fur vest, and blue suede, six-inch heeled boots. You’ll wear gear – all the time – and think, “How the hell do I make this look unique and cool?” This will become your number-one, first-world problem. Hats become your best friend as do printed pants, earrings, bandanas, and scarves. They’re easy to stow (minus the pants) and will help you feel a sliver of your stylish self when you finally dock on land. • You’ll feel seasickness knocking at your throat and you will say, “Not today, vomit! We are not playing today!” You will force that nausea away by talking yourself out of it, gnawing on that chunk of ginger you just cut from the root, and singing 1990s R&B songs while staring at the still, nausea-free horizon. • You’ll swear off social media and TV shows, proclaiming you “do not care anymore.” Then, after four to six hours of cruising on day three, you’ll click on Instagram just to “see what’s going on” and find yourself with a giant case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), while everyone posts pictures of Mick Jagger from the Desert Festival show. The only cure will be an episode or two of The Real Housewives of Who Gives a Sh*t on the Bravo app. Weeks later, you’ll find courage to delete Instagram from your phone, but the Bravo, HBO, and Netflix apps will stay.

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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.

ON YOUR MARK, GET SET…DRAW!

ore than 20 artists will sculpt, sketch, paint, craft, and create original pieces of artwork within one hour for the 30th Annual Quick Draw event in Santa Ynez. In celebration of this milestone anniversary, the Santa Ynez Valley Arts Association is collaborating with other organizations, businesses, restaurants, and wineries to offer an entire Arts Festival Weekend that will run from Friday, November 4, through Sunday, November 6. Art enthusiasts are invited to step into “virtual studios” and observe talented artists as they work en plein air – revealing a different style from tool application and process to medium and subject, and afterward everyone has the chance to take an original piece home only, of course, if they make the highest bid during the live auction. There will be something for everyone, and guests will want to begin the weekend by picking up a free Quick Draw and Arts Festival wristband which can be presented for discounts and specials at participating locations. Tickets and printed guides are available at Wildling Museum of Art & Nature and the Elverhøj Museum of History & Art. The guide shows visitors where to discover additional activities such as live music, art, and craft fairs, Art Crawls, the “Art” of Wine Making, and the “Art” of Sunday Brunch. A free evening reception on Friday, November 4, from 4 to 6 pm at the Elverhøj Museum of History & Art (1624 Elverhoy Way in Solvang) kicks off the weekend. The Quick Draw event is Saturday from 10 am to 3:30 pm, and held on the grounds of Flag is Up Farms (901 E Hwy 246) just outside of Solvang, and Sunday afternoon, a free closing artists’ panel and reception will be held at the Wildling Museum of Art & Nature (1151 Mission Drive). Flag is up Farms, home to Pat Roberts, a renowned sculpture artist and one of this year’s Quick Draw participants, and her husband, Monty Roberts – “the original Horse Whisperer” – is the location for this year’s Quick Draw event. It opens at 10 am, when guests can enjoy live music, browse the fine art walk, and peruse the silent auction before watching the artists create. Artist introductions start at 10:30 am; the Quick Draw launches at 11 am. All of the featured artists have studied for years, had their work shown at prestigious galleries, museums, private collections, and are award-winning. This mastery of their medium is what allows them to create beautiful artwork in such a short period of time. The Quick Draw will be held in the covered arena, which has ample space to move around and watch each artist from every angle. A spirited live auction begins at 12:30 pm, and additional works from the Quick Draw artists will be for sale in the Featured Artists’ exhibition next to the silent auction. This year’s Quick Draw features artists Vicki Andersen, Chris Chapman, Ken Christensen, Camille Dellar, Kevin Gleason, Mark Greenaway, Suzan Hamilton-Todd, John Iwerks, Gary Johnson, Jay Johnson, Renee Kelleher, George Lockwood, Joe Milazzo, Vel Miller, Donna Moser, sculptor Richard Myer, Karina Puente, Luis Ramirez, sculptor Pat Roberts, Ray Sevilla, Arturo Tello, and Jerry Vande Berg. For more information, visit www.santaynezvalleyarts.org.

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EVA’S TOP FAVES: MY PERSONAL PICKS, BEST BETS, HOT TIPS, SAVE THE DATES, AND THINGS NOT TO MISS! MAKE AMERICA GRAPE AGAIN! he Bedford Winery Players return to Los Alamos for the 14th Annual W.I.N.O. Radio Dinner Show. The original production embraces the excitement and spontaneity of live, radio dinner theater of yesteryear, and has been touted as an up-tempo Prairie Home Companion on wine. It is a compilation of entertainment featuring the music of the Susie Glaze Folk Ensemble. Comedy skits include another installment in the Adventures of Peno Noir, Wine Detective series, and appearance by the slightly tipsy Captain Bucky, a creation of puppeteer Kevin Carlson. Games, prizes, good old-fashioned fun. Includes a Wine Country Harvest Dinner by the Bedford Culinary Team. When: Saturday, October 29, from 5:30 to 8 pm Where: Bedford Winery Tasting Room & Courtyard, 448 Bell Street in Los Alamos Cost: $60 per person Info: For reservations call (805)344-2107

BOO! he 23rd Annual Halloween Haunted House and Street Fair offers up scary wholesome family fun in the transformed Solvang Festival Theater with food, drinks, and games along Second Street. The Haunt, the giant haunted house cosponsored by Solvang and Buellton Parks & Recreation departments, has a theme of Fractured Fairy Tales this year. For two terror-ific nights, a dark forest will come alive with creatures casting their shadows on fables such as “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Hansel and Gretel”, “Goldilocks”, and more. The first half-hour each night is kid-friendly. When: This community haunted house is open from 6 to 9:30 pm on Friday, October 29, and Monday, October 31. The Street Fair is open from 6 to 9 pm on Sunday, October 30, and Monday, October 31. Where: Solvang Festival Theatre, 411 Second Street in Solvang Cost: Adults $11; for ages 13 and under $9. Info: Call (805) 688-7529

BUELLTON HOLIDAY BAZAAR ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR uellton holds an annual Holiday arts and crafts fair, showcasing the talent of Santa Ynez Valley artisans. It is an opportunity to start your holiday shopping. All treasures are handmade and fall into the categories of textiles, clothing, jewelry, decorations, ornaments, and ornamental décor. When: Saturday, November 5, from 10 am to 3 pm Where: Buellton Rec Center Gym, 302 2nd Street in Buellton Cost: Admission is free Info: Call (805) 688-1086

TIME TO CHOOSE he Santa Ynez Valley Natural History Society and WE Watch offer a screening of Time to Choose, a serious exploration of one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today: climate change. “This is a crisis, but we have a huge opportunity because we can shift the way we live and prenominal things are happening.” Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson turns his lens to address worldwide climate change challenges and solutions in his new film. When: Saturday, November 5, at 7 pm Where: Little Theater at Santa Ynez Union High School, 2975 East Highway 247, in Santa Ynez Cost: free Info: For more information, visit www.syvnature.org, and the film trailer can be viewed at www.timetochoose.com/videos/

WINTER EAGLE CRUISES AT CACHUMA LAKE riday, November 4, is National Stress Awareness Day. It might be the perfect time to treat yourself to some fresh air, nature’s beauty, and peaceful visit with the Valley’s resident and migratory bald eagles and water fowl. Santa Barbara County Park naturalists lead two-hour winter season cruises. When: Every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 10 am and 2 pm Where: Lake Cachuma, Highway 154 in the Santa Ynez Valley Cost: Adults $17; children 4 to 12 years old $7 (please no children under 4) Info: Reservations strongly suggested (805) 686-5055

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