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INVASION OF PLANET X SUCCEEDS! SCIENTISTS JUBILANT!

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State Street Scribe – Dr. Alan Stern is bringing Planet X to Center Stage Theater. And that is not the name of a performance piece.

Biweekly Capitalist – Math addict Jeff Harding explains why Illinois professor Rochelle Gutiérrez’s race-based excuses don’t add up Creative Characters – Zach Rosen spotlights his uncle Bob Evans, ocean photographer and designer of Force Fins and Gas Pods eer Guy – Big in Japan? Zach Rosen gets a taste of Japanese’s B rice-laden lagers; he also previews Ramenfest, served up Sunday, November 12.

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Business Beat – Greetings and salutations: Jon Vreeland reads into Folio Press & Paperie print shop off State Street

What’s Hanging – Ted Mills previews the Friday Art Walk; Lindsey Ross and Matt Sesow; Arts Fund; “Reality is Relative”; Ricardo Peláez; John Nava; Wallace Piatt; and Studio 121 shows

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On Art – Margaret Landreau takes a look on canvas at oil painter Lety Garcia’s brush with greatness I Heart SB – Elizabeth Rose and beau Jason find themselves adrift but not all wet, as they bond with friends on other boats among the high seas

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by Jeff Wing

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

Clyde, Venetia, and Kelsi Travel to Planet X

Alan Stern and New Horizons Team celebrate Pluto flyby (photo by NASA/Bill Ingalls)

“Sometimes in stars or the swift flight of seabirds I catch a moment of you that’s why I walk all alone, searching for something unknown searching for something or someone to light up my life…”

– Antonio Carlos Jobim/Gene Lees

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hose of us who believe Life is a predictable and mechanistic march of ordinary days typified by ham sandwiches, yard sales, and various kinds of assault, will want to visit Center Stage Theater downtown the evening of Thursday, November 16.

There, Dr. Alan Stern is going to tell the yet-unfolding story of the spaceship we sent to Planet X. What did it find when it got there? A heart 990 miles wide, for one thing. Which fits the story like a glove.

This happened.

CLYDE In February 1930, bespectacled former farm kid Clyde Tombaugh likely did not foresee that in far-flung 2015 a bit of his burned corpse would be zipping past Pluto in a spaceship the size of a grand piano. Life’s funny that way, isn’t it? But it was on February 18, 1930, that Clyde, a 24-year-old space hobbyist from the Midwest, confirmed the existence of the insanely distant rock, at that time known colloquially as the theoretical “Planet X” (needless to say this all happened right around the dawn of science-fiction’s Golden Age) — a proposed Mystery Thing way out

there past Neptune.

As a kid with his head in the stars, he’d built his own wobbly telescopes out of farm junk and bits of dairy equipment, staring for untold hours at the cosmos and drawing pictures, his dreams of going to university foiled by a crop-destroying hailstorm at just the wrong moment in his life. When Lowell Observatory got hold of his illustrations, they hired the self-taught star-man forthwith, to his blushing astonishment.

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Clyde Tombaugh searched for, then traveled to, Planet X

So it was that Clyde discovered Pluto the old-fashioned way; hunched under an itchy blanket in an unheated observatory dome, staring intently at photographic plates spattered with

tens of thousands of white dots against a black background; pretty much the way he’d spent every waking moment back home. When one night, Clyde’s straining eyes noticed what appeared to be one of the migraine-inducing dots hopping fitfully about the star field, he knew he had something.

Clyde Tombaugh lived to be 90 years old, and in his longish life of earnest stargazing he also discovered some 15 asteroids, a comet, some star globs, and a galactic super cluster. But Pluto was his lifelong main squeeze, and (perhaps understandably) wife Patricia’s chief rival for the starry-eyed farm kid’s affections.

As he neared the end of his time on Earth, Clyde reached out one last time for the old dear who in his youth had so completely stolen his now-failing heart, and he crazily wished aloud for the sort of thing that compels uneasy laughter from well-meaning visitors of the geriatric; might his family please arrange to have his ashes flown out to Planet X? On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons planetary probe – a huge, needy-looking dish antenna strapped to what looks like an enormous garage-door opener – flew past distant Pluto and took pictures like a sonofabitch, the ashes of ...continued p.24

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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

How Not to Teach Kids Math

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read a news article by a tenured university professor who asserted that the perception that whites are more math-proficient than minorities perpetuates “white privilege” and discriminates against minorities. The professor alleged that whites have an “unearned privilege” because math skills such as algebra and geometry are generally associated with whites. She attributed the “so-called achievement gap” between minorities and white students as a product of implicit or explicit racism due to white privilege.

The professor said, in effect, that just because someone is good at math doesn’t mean they are really that smart.

She also said that “all knowledge is ‘relational,’ asserting that ‘Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively.’” What she meant is that there are no mathematical truths as we know them, because students perceive things through their own cultural and political lenses which may be quite different than standard (“white”) perceptions.

These are provocative, if not shocking, assertions and, since the article seems to have been generated by a Conservative site, I investigated those claims myself to determine if they were misrepresenting the professor’s views.

I can report to you that the professor does believe in those views, and that there is more and worse.

The professor, Rochelle Gutiérrez, is a full professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches mathematics education. She is not a mathematician, but she specializes in “equity issues in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning.” Her graduate degrees were in education, with, I assume, a specialty in the teaching of mathematics. She has received many awards and honors and is well published.

What brought her to public scrutiny was the publication of a new scholastic text, Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods, an anthology of articles on teaching mathematics which included one of her articles, “Challenges in Mathematics Teacher Education from a (Mostly) Constructivist Perspective.”

My criticism of Professor Gutiérrez is based on a scholarly article she wrote,

“The Sociopolitical Turn on Mathematics Education”, published in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2013, Col. 44, No. 1, 37-68. It outlines her views on mathematics education and supports the quotes in the news article I read.

Professor Gutiérrez sees mathematics education as a power play by white people to, consciously or unconsciously, perpetuate earned or unearned “white privilege.” Because minority students are perceived to have an “achievement gap” in mathematics, we must challenge our current “binary” view of education (e.g., bad scores vs. good scores) and look at how students “identify” themselves and understand the cultural and social power systems through which students see the world. She sees mathematics education as a political tool to achieve social justice and student betterment (selfactualization). That is, teachers need to teach “social justice mathematics.”

To her, everything in the classroom is political.

She refers to success in math as the “ability myth,” which is used to perpetuate white domination. Teachers, she argues, need to look for student success not just from such things as tests of knowledge but also “ways in which students are being creative and imaginative when doing mathematics.”

How, she doesn’t say. But to ignore them is implicit racism. Teachers need to be more empathetic to these students who are just discovering their identities and not view nonperforming students as inferior. I was not able to discover how her ideas could be applied in the classroom.

She goes on to say that there is no “rational, universal logic that allows mathematics to operate outside of individuals, morals, or power relations.”

In other words, math is “contextual” not a universal truth (such as 1+1 may not = 2?). As an old-fashioned rationalist, I believe that knowledge can be determined through reason and logic, rather than through her incomprehensible postconstructivist junk philosophy. I actually believe that 1 + 1 will always equal 2, and I depend on that verifiable universal reality every day in my life.

Professor Gutiérrez has fallen into an intellectual black hole. She is a proponent of various philosophies that see race and politics in every aspect of our lives, and

her remedy to the achievement gap is to politicize the academic environment and change the rules by which “success” is something other than proficiency in mathematics as measured by standard tests. These ideas are now pouring out of academia, especially from neoMarxist sociology and anthropology departments.

What is missing from her work is any actual research that proves the efficacy of her ideas about how to teach mathematics to “marginalized” students.

I have a solution for Professor Gutiérrez that will save her from the drudgery of empirical research. All she has to do is look at the data from public charter schools such as Achievement First or KIPP. Eighty-five to 95% of their students are minorities, yet they perform significantly higher in math than students in public schools. They are not allowed to cherry-pick their students (e.g., admission to KIPP is by lottery), but they do ask parents to commit to support their children’s educational goals.

Their results are outstanding. For Achievement First elementary students in Brooklyn, New York, 67% of their students score at or above mandated state math proficiency requirements versus only 28% for public schools. For their middle school students, it is 75% versus 14%. At KIPP New York, 66% of their 3rd-graders test as either proficient or advanced in math versus 25% for public schools; for 8th graders, it was 65% versus 13%. At KIPP’s NYC high school, 95% of students took the SAT with an average score of 1356; 90% went

to college. These two nonprofits operate a lot of these schools with similar results.

If Professor Gutiérrez wished to make a valuable contribution to the mathematics education of minority students, perhaps she should ask why the public charter schools students do vastly better than public schools. They have the same kids and their students have to take the same state-mandated achievement tests.

The answer is that the “achievement gap” is created by poorly run public schools. One of the main differences between these public charter schools and public schools is that charter school teachers are not members of a teachers union, and underperforming teachers can be fired. They have also developed their own successful teaching methodologies and curricula. Their administration is effective, lean, and efficient, not bureaucratic. They can budget their own schools and, it turns out, they can achieve better education for the same or less money than public schools. Also, being the nice, dedicated people that they are, both KIPP and Advanced First share their methods with anyone who want them.

The ideas espoused by Professor Gutiérrez do nothing to help children succeed as math students and, if anything, they are destructive to learning mathematics. The world outside of academia requires knowledge-workers who understand mathematics, and telling kids they fail because they’re victims of racism rather than victims of their public schools, or that mathematics is all relative and there are no truths in numbers is a road to failure.

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hen you think of Japanese beer, the rice-driven lagers from such breweries as Sapporo, Kirin, and Asahi, are often the first to come to mind. While these certainly are nice beers for their respective style, they hardly represent the ingenuity and expressive flavors that come from the smaller Japanese brewers. Look for Japanese beers in the area and there are two breweries that you will most likely encounter: Hitachino Nest and Coedo Beer. There are a few others occasionally out there, such as Baird Brewing Co, but these two are most widely available on a consistent basis.

An easing of the law around microbrewing in 1994 made craft brewing a possibility for smaller organizations and dreamers in Japan.

Coedo Brewery began as an organic farming initiative more than 40 years ago. Wheat was one of their crops in the 1980s that sparked their interest in brewing. There was a lack of maltsters in Japan, so they were unsuccessful in malting wheat, though they later experimented with sweet potatoes.

They officially opened a brewery in 1996, and today one of their signature beers is Beniaka (“crimson red”), an imperial amber lager made with sweet potatoes to give it a starchiness that smoothes the caramel malts. Their flagship beers are all named after a different shade of color. Ruri, a pilsner, is Japanese for the “color of clear blue skies.” Shikkoku (“jet black”) is a nice example of the roasty yet light schwarzbier (black lager) style. The brewery works closely with German brewmaster, Christian Mitterbauer IV, giving their flavorful beers a sharp balance reminiscent of the Germanic style of brewing.

One of the most popular and renowned Japanese brewers is Kiuchi Brewery, which produces the Hitachino Nest line of beers. Hitachino was an ancient province in Japan where the brewery is currently located. The sake brewery was established in 1823 and started brewing beer in 1996. It is still owned by the same family, which is now in its eighth generation of ownership.

White Ale is the most common brew found in the U.S. In addition to the traditional coriander and orange peel, this beer uses a small amount of orange juice and nutmeg to give it a crisp spiciness. The Espresso Stout is

Hitachino XH is aged in barrels of shōchū, a Japanese liquor

Zach Rosen is a Certified Cicerone® and beer educator living in Santa Barbara. He uses his background in chemical engineering and the arts to seek out abstract expressions of beer and discover how beer pairs with life.

brewed with coffee beans, providing a smooth but strong-roasted note to the brew’s firm bitterness. One of their more unique beers is the Red Rice Ale which uses an ancient red rice in the brew. It has a delightful pink color and a soothing aroma of berries and peach with a hint of rice-like graininess.

Hitachino Nest XH (Extra High) is easily one of my top 10 all-time favorite beers. This strong (8% ABV) Belgian amber ale is aged in Shōchū casks, a traditional Japanese distilled spirit.

Shōchū is often referred to as distilled sake, though it can be produced from a variety of ingredients including barley, rice, buckwheat, sweet potatoes, and other sources of fermentable sugars. The beer has flavors of fresh cut strawberries and caramel apple with an acidity that keeps it bright and delicate. The shōchū barrel gives it a soft sake note and a distinct feathery mouthfeel. XH represents the elegant balance and imaginative flavors that Hitachino Nest brings to each one of their brews. ...continued p.19

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utpost at The Goodland’s third annual Ramenfest invites teams from some of Santa Barbara’s top restaurants to use their noodles in creating clever ramen recipes. These tasty eats are a far cry from the saltladen, pre-packaged ramen noodles we used to eat back when I was in college (maybe they still do at the off-campus UCSB apartments in Isla Vista, just a stone’s throw across the freeway from The Goodland Hotel); indeed, the dish has become one of the hottest trends in dining out. Champions Sama Sama Kitchen and Finch & Fork are back to defend their crown against other entrants, including fest newcomers Industrial Eats and Barbareño, in a friendly competition taking place from noon to 4 pm on Sunday, November 12, at the hotel hotspot in Goleta. Festival guests can sample a variety of ramen, from the traditional to the unique, to help determine their “Ramen King of Santa Barbara” vote, with their taste buds lubricated by Young’s Market’s sample offerings of Japanese beer, sake and whiskey. DJ Darla Bea, the female music-mixer of the moment who is also a favorite at Outpost, creates the rock ‘n’ roll soundscape for rippin’ through the ramen. Tickets will set you back $55, which back in my day, could buy about 220 packages of ramen noodles.

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rom solo recitals to string quartets to a chamber music concert and a pair of full-symphony orchestra performances, the fortnight is full of classical music in all its guises. South Korean piano star Seong-Jin Cho starts things off with his SB recital debut at Hahn Hall at the Music Academy of the West as part of UCSB A&L’s impressive Up Close & Musical Series. Seong-Jin’s career took off when he won the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in 2015 at age 21, seven years after he took home first prize at the International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists. Having made his Carnegie Hall debut in a soldout concert recently, Cho is coming to Santa Barbara at 7 pm on Tuesday, November 14, to perform some standard repertoire in a program featuring Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in C Minor,

Mendelssohn’s F minor quartet, Op. 13; and Dvořák’s exceedingly popular American Quartet. Details and tickets at www.sbma.net.

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lso highly decorated and still rather youthful, the Altius String Quartet – which formed in 2011 at Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts – makes its Santa Barbara debut at 7:30 pm Thursday, November 16, at Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s even more intimate Mary Craig Auditorium. Now in residence at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Altius claimed the grand prize in the Classics Alive Young Artists Competition and has won prizes at many internationally respected competitions, including the 2016 Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition, the 2014 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the 2014 Coltman Chamber Music Competition, and the 2013 Plowman Chamber Music Competition.

The quartet derived their name from the Olympic motto Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for “Faster, Higher, Stronger” (I’m thinking I might have chosen the latter word, as playing faster or higher doesn’t work out so well in classical music, but that’s just me). Having released their debut album with another enigmatic title, Dress Code (maybe it comes from having performed in such alternative venues as jazz clubs, bars, and cafes, where there isn’t any?), the quartet will play a program that includes Haydn’s Op. 76, No. 4;

far more challenging string quartet forms the backbone of Camerata Pacifica’s concert the next night back at Hahn Hall, where violinist Giora Schmidt, clarinet Bill Jackson, pianist Gilles Vonsattel, and cellist Ani Aznavoorian will play Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (quartet for the end of time”), considered one of the most emotional and evocative masterworks of all time. Premiered in a Nazi prisonerof-war camp during World War II, the piece is basically a transcendental meditation on the cessation of time as a response to unspeakable conditions.

Schmidt and Vonsattel will also open the concert with Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata in F Minor Op. 80, written in Russia at roughly the same time, and a favorite work of the composer, as the first and third movements were played at his funeral. For those of you who picked up your Sentinel right away, take note that the Messiaen quartet will also be performed and “unpacked” at Cam Pac’s SpeakEasy at the DCH Lexus showroom on Saturday afternoon, November 11.

Info on both at 884-8410 or www. cameratapacifica.org.

The following afternoon, November 18, brings together violinist Han Soo Kim, cellist Sang Yhee, and pianist Constantine Finehouse to perform piano trios by Dvořák’s (No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90) and Shostakovich (No. 2 in E Minor, Op 67) at First United Methodist Church as part of the SB Music Club’s series of free concerts.

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hat night, the size of the ensembles scales up in size, starting with the Santa Barbara Symphony welcoming classical guitar master Pablo Sáinz Villegas, who has been hailed by The New York Times for his “virtuosic playing characterized by irresistible exuberance,” as the organization’s inaugural artist-in-residence. Villegas will perform Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Isaac

Albéniz’s Souvenirs of Spainon Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, November 18-19. at the Granada Theatre. (Also on the program are Manuel de Falla’s ballet El Amor Brujo and Bizet’s inciental music for Alphonse Daudet’s play L’arlésienne.

But the Spanish ax man also bridges the recital divide, as he plays a program of a variety of solo guitar works spanning several genres with an intimate show at the candlelit Presidio Chapel two days before the Granada concerts. Gourmet hors d’oeuvres and wine round out the event. Visit www.thesymphony.org or call 899-2222.

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he Presidio used to host West Coast Chamber Orchestra’s annual Mozart By Candlelight concert, but now that day-after-Thanksgiving show has moseyed on over to First United Methodist Church about five blocks away, where Michael Shasberger will conduct the delightful array of the composer’s works, ranging from separate flute, clarinet, horn, and bassoon concertos to the Eb sinfonia concertante that features all four, and the famous “A Little Night Music” serenade. Details at www.cieloperformingarts.org.

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We are attending the First Annual Fall Family Day, which is free for children under 17, and I notice many children running about in the autumn sunshine. “Fall Family Day is a great opportunity to fuel a love of nature and

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“We like to carry something for everyone: babies, children, adults, teens,” says Marlene. “We also like to keep it old-style Santa Barbara, so we also do complimentary gift wrap, just like everyone used to do here.”

But the biggest difference between Folio Press & Paperie and most other print shops is a 1924, leg-powered Chandler & Price Platen Press, as well as a 1953 Heidelberg Letterpress that runs by electric motor. Both sit on a cemented floor with giant letters spread across its glossy finish, and both are used to cultivate Folio’s custom products that are sold on site, as well as the company’s online store and catalogue, plus 40 retail stores spread throughout California, Hawaii, and New York, all who carry

the company’s original wholesale items.

“Also, about a year ago we had the idea to make our own wholesale card line. It’s so hard to make a living, so the more avenues the better,” adds Marlene, who says they have since then created more than 100 card designs for their wholesale line and catalogue.

Almost a month ago, Ray Rogers was also hired and has been handy as a display designer. Manson and Rogers are both fairly new employees, unlike veteran pressman Mario Adame, who began his career with Wootton Printing at the turn of this century. Adame is an expert with both press machines, as well as repairs and mixing the ink and powder with the colors on glass. And, according to Marlene, Adame has been a master of the trade for the length of his career, which spans nearly 20 years.

Folio Press & Paperie hasn’t always sat in the heart of Motor Way: from 2006 to 2012, the Bucys’ shop was on Hollister Avenue, neighboring the post office on the outskirts of Hope Ranch. Despite the move, Marlene says her customers are as loyal as ever.

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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

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double-stuffed column for our November issue, and hey, I hope you’re picking this up on the Friday, hot off the press. That will mean you’ll be just in time to rethink your Friday plans and head on down to the Funk Zone.

Why? Because the Friday Art Walk has been moved up to November 10, so as not to interfere with Turkey Day weekend.

But don’t feel bad if you miss it – most of these shows will still be hanging, waiting for you to stop by. So, let’s get to it.

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hose two artists I told you about last issue in residence at the Squire Foundation will have their end-o’residency exhibitions opening down in the FunkZone tonight. City treasure Lindsey Ross will be showing her tintype photography at her studio, La

Chambre Photographique, 214 Helena Ave., 5 to 8 pm. She’ll also talk about her site-specific work up in Guadalupe.

Meanwhile, bold and colorful painter Matt Sesow will show his recent works over at Silo 118, 118-A Gray Ave., also from 5 to 8 pm. Ross’s show is one-night only, but you can catch Sesow’s exhibit through January 13.

of Pamela Benham, Lety Garcia, Diane Giles, Holli Harmon, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Cynthia Martin, and Maria Miller. Opening reception tonight, from 5 to 8, at the Arts Fund (205-C Santa Barbara Street) and is up through January 7.

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eality Is Relative” makes a great motto for an artist, or what your college roommate said when you accused him of eating your leftovers. For the former, it’s curator Jan Ziegler’s title for her abstract show at MichaelKate (132 Santa Barbara St.), featuring the work of Theresa Carter, Karin Aggeler, John Carlander, and Iben G. Vestergaard. The show runs through January 7, and the opening is tonight from 5 to 8, with an artists’ talk at 6 pm.

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icardo Peláez is a Colombian artist whose 3-D works not only pop off the canvas, they descontruct and get rid of the the canvas in the first place.

Graphically pleasing and colorful, Peláez’s works will be up at Sol Hill’s gallery space (111-C Santa Barbara St.) alongside Hill’s own work. Opening reception tonight from 5 to 8, and on view through December 9.

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he Arts Fund’s Marcello Ricci has bid Santa Barbara adieu for the intense climes of New York City, but on his way out he helped put on last month’s annual fundraiser with its carnival theme and “Eyes of Another”, a group show co-curated with artist and fellow board member Rosemarie Gebhart. This is a show of shifting perceptions about the rapidly changing urban environment and the natural world, as seen through the paintings

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ainter John Nava is best-known for his updating of classical techniques from the masters, applied to beach culture, including bikini-clad women who look more perturbed or distracted than pin-up posing. Sullivan Goss’s latest show, which just opened last week, is Nava’s first exhibit in eight years and shows a body of work that explores the shadow world of our sun-and-sand lifestyle. The centerpiece of the show is a stunning 27-foot-long tapestry that updates George Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte for our times, and the accompanying paintings and sketches show the figure studies for the finished work. Through December 31.

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allace Piatt unveils his “Social Justice Series” at Loveworn (11 Anacapa St) tonight, with several new large canvases on display, exploring ills such as the pharmaceutical industry, rampant capitalism and consumerism, genocide, war, pestilence, and a stable full of apocalypse horses. Up through the month and possibly beyond.

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OF RICE AND BARLEY While there are a range of different traditional fermented rice beverages, some dating back millennia, by far the most well-known of them is sake. While we tend to refer to is as sake wine, because of its higher alcohol content, it is a grain-based fermented beverage, making it more similar to beer than wine.

There are some similarities and differences between the production of beer and sake. Grains such as barley and rice contain starches that first must be converted into fermentable sugars by enzymes before the liquid can be fermented. In beer brewing, this enzymatic conversion and fermentation happen in separate steps, but with sake those two processes occur in parallel.

Barley is malted to activate the enzymes; in sake the rice is polished, removing the enzyme-containing husk, to expose the starch-rich “heart”. Sake brewers then use a mixture of steamed rice and the native mold, kōji, to provides the required enzymes. An initial batch of kōji is blended with yeast and allowed to ferment, with kōji and steamed rice being added at staggered times for a process that lasts about two to three weeks. The final mixture is pressed and the liquid is separated from the rice mash.

While certainly parts of the process have been mechanized, the handmade touch remains a common standard for high-quality sake. A quick note about milling: The percentage given refers to the size of the kernel when compared to its original size (e.g., 70% milled rice has had 30% of its kernel polished off).

Lower numbers refer to a greater degree of milling, so high-end sakes will use rice that has been milled to at least 50%, whereas more pedestrian sakes will use 70% or higher milled rice.

NAVIGATING THE LABEL There can be a lot of confusing terms on a sake label; however, all those letters start to make sense with a little guidance.

Futsuu-shu, or “regular”, is the most common sake, constituting about 75% of sake production and is considered household sake. Most of the the generic “Hot sake” you order at restaurants are going to fall into this class. Honjōzōshu and Junmai-shu are the next grade of sake. These styles use a minimum of 70% milled rice. Junmai is a common term that you will see on sake labels.

This term indicates that the sake has been brewed only with rice, kōji, water, and yeast, and has not received any additional alcohol before pressing.

The practice of adding alcohol was

first started during WWII when Japan was rationing rice. The addition of alcohol during the mash resulted in less (to even zero) rice being used in the process. It was found that the ethanol aided in extraction and produced a more fragrant, lighter-tasting brew.

After the war, the practice remained and continues today, albeit with less alcohol added. While in other beverages the addition of grain alcohol is a sign of lesser quality, in sake it simply is a matter of preference between the heartier junmai style or the lighter honjōzō style.

In general, as sake progresses in quality, the term honjōzō will sometimes precede the distinguishing term (e.g., honjōzō daiginjō-shu). Junmai is always included on a sake that has not received the addition of grain alcohol.

If you see the term Tokubetsu (“special”) before either of these terms, it implies the brew has been made with additional care, though there is no official definition that distinguishes this from their base-level sake. Ginjōshu is the next grade and requires a rice that has been milled to a minimum of 60%. Daiginjō-shu is the top-end sake, with a minimum of 50% milled rice, but the milling will often go as low as 35%. There are generalities and grey areas to be made between the different

styles when comparing brands; higher-quality sake tends to get more lighter, complex, and delicate as the quality goes up. There are more terms such as genshu (undiluted), namazaken (unpasteurized), or nigori-zake (unfiltered), among others, that you will encounter on sake labels, but those are the main styles.

GET YOUR RAMEN ON A great opportunity to try some of these Asian libations is at the 3rd Annual Ramenfest, taking place at The Goodland, this Sunday, November 12, from noon to 4 pm. Come indulge in an afternoon of ramen and tunes by DJ Darla Bea. Try a range of ramen from traditional to innovative from such local favorites as Industrial Eats, Barbareño, Finch & Fork, and Sama Sama Kitchen. In addition to a welcoming cocktail, guests will receive samples from Young’s Market of Coedo’s hefeweizen, black lager, and imperial sweet potato amber.

They will also be serving up tastes of Japanese whiskey (a whole other subject) and Tentaka Kuni Junmai and the Kotsuzumi line of sake.

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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.

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ardon my saying so, but 1st Thursday seemed to be fading into the summer mist over the last few months, with the monthly art-andculture walk in downtown SB apparently losing both visitors and venues. October saw one of the slowest months in years for the event, with the street party on Anapamu having only a few-dozen curiosity seekers showing up at a time, despite live music from David Segall on the closed-off block. That was also the first month since Voice Magazine (nee CASA) shuttered its doors, its popular piano bar-meets-paintings locale next to the Lobero Theatre – always a 1st Thursday staple for serious non-singers such as myself – the venue a victim of soon-to-be-imposed drastically higher rents.

But things picked up dramatically for the November event, with more venues offering more varieties of art (and, not coincidentally, vino and vittles):

Giannetti Home served bountiful bites from Jane restaurant next door, the Barber Shop rocked it out with DJ tunes and folks actually getting haircuts in the storefront shop, and two bluegrass bands (where else west of Kentucky are you going to get that?!) broke into fiddle tunes just blocks apart, drawing crowds to stop by and catch a tune or two.

LENDING ARTISTS A HAND I didn’t make it over to either of the official 1st Thursday locales where guests could witness artists in action (Silo118 Art Gallery and Te Amo Estate & Fine Jewelry) because they were located too far off State for my taste (I’m all for expanding the size and scope, but there’s only so far I’m gong to walk on any given Thursday). But there was a popup show in an empty storefront smack in the middle of State Street not far from Paseo Nuevo, where about a dozen artists were creating new pieces before

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our very eyes. One guy was putting the finishing touches on a new work in his style that uses a special camera to capture all the energy that isn’t light, which is then massaged into fascinating colorful large-size pieces. I helped place the piece on its frame while we chatted and then had him take my photo with a friend, so who knows if the vibrational fields of my visage don’t show up as a visual art piece some day soon.

My favorite at the show was Matt Sesow, a one-armed painter who, in his own words, “produces an uncommon and somewhat obsessive number of paintings” from his home in Washington, D.C. – a place that could make anyone a bit obsessive, I guess. In his case, it means often completing several pieces a day; I think he did about four in his three-plus hours on 1st Thursday. While most artists make prints of their work to put on cards, he also does small-size pieces that sell for little money, which means anyone can afford an original.

SESOW IN THE ZONE

Matt Sesow has a brush with greatness at Silo118 (photo by Steven Libowitz)

Sesow’s work has been featured on a stamp for the U.N. Postal Administration along with three other artists with disabilities, and there was even a documentary film about his art and life called Join Hands, in which he explains his childhood accident when he lost his left hand after being hit by the propeller of a landing airplane. I spent more than half an hour watching him work, with him chatting away the whole time (“How can you focus on what you’re doing when we’re talking?”

I asked. “I don’t. But I don’t need to. I’m just adding this one there because I don’t want to have to put this paint away”), and it was fascinating to hear him say he doesn’t really like most of the work he produces, but since other people do, he keeps doing it.

Sesow has a show running for the next two months at Silo118 in the Funk Zone, and he’s in residence at the Squire Foundation here in town. I’ll be

checking it out myself. The least I could do for the guy who got me inspired by 1st Thursday again.

FESTFORUMS AT FESS If you’re thinking about starting up a music, film, or other food- or artsrelated festival, already work for one, or are just curious, you’ll want to check out FestForums, a three-day conference that takes place November 16-18 at the Fess Parker DoubleTree Resort. Such areas as attracting and dealing with talent, technology, and ticketing as well as sponsorships, scheduling, and sustainability will all be addressed at the event, which has two concurrent tracks running all three days and aims to serve as a think tank for new ideas in the field.

There are some huge names taking part in the conference, including T Bone Burnett, who will be interviewed

by Joel and Ethan Coen; Jeff Bridges; musicians Kenny Loggins, Chuck Leavell, and Judith Owen; Allison Brecklin, the head of operations at Eventbrite; Woodstock co-creator Michael Lang; Vans Warped Tour owner Kevin Lyman; David Strunk of United Talent Agency; Michael Jensen, founder of the PR firm Jensen Communications; Shawn Guthrie, who oversees the Student Academy Awards and Grants programs for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (which hands out the Oscars); and many others.

The full schedule is available online at www.festforums.com, where you can also arrange tickets and more.

HANSEN FAMILY & FRIENDS ANNUAL SONGFEST Gail and Bob Hansen bought SOhO 23 years ago and quickly turned the upstairs spot in Victoria Court into the city’s only upscale every-night musicclub restaurant, which hosts up-andcoming local bands and rising artists to big-name jazz, rock, and folk acts on a daily basis all year long. Every member of the family has, at one time or another, worked at the club, helping booking, waiting, bartending, or otherwise.

And once a year, on the night before Thanksgiving, they all get together for what would be a private party, except they open the doors to the public. “My four adult kids are in a band and they play once a year,” Gail wrote in a recent email. “It’s all about having fun, being grateful for our family and friends, and sharing music, food, and libations together. Friends sit in and play, and you never know who’s going to show up.” Kenny Loggins has been known to come by and Glen Phillips too. But go to the free show if only to say hi to the Hansens before heading home to deal with your own family.

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Volunteer Deedy King shows Noelani how to pot and plant a pink yarro

Casey and Lauren Brennan along with their boys – Jackson, Luke, and Bo – cool off with a free Kona Ice treat

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As we walk to the potting station, there are children creating chalk drawings on the path. Many of the drawings are of flowers and trees. Once we arrive at the potting station, I see children planting California poppies and pink yarrow flowers with the assistance of adult

A colorful chalk drawing

volunteers. The children are happy and giggling as their little hands push the plants into the soil and the start of growth begins.

We conclude our afternoon with shaved ice donated by Kona Ice. Even though it’s November, it’s warm and the treat is a perfect way to cool off after the fun outdoor activities.

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my earliest memories are brief snapshots of his old studio at 128 Anacapa St., in the heart of the Funk Zone during the late 1980s and early ‘90s. Later in life, we would swim in his backyard pool on upper State, where I’d watch him test the properties of different Force Fin prototypes. Bob’s career is one that I not only have an intimate knowledge of but has helped shape and direct my own vocation.

With his father an artist and mother a cookbook author and food writer, Bob was exposed to art and culture from a young age. Growing up in Hermosa Beach, their house was a social center with artists and creative types coming over for candlelight dinners with vibrant music and a bohemian glow. Developing an early interest in Egyptology and other esoteric subjects, Bob exhibited an eagerness to learn and an adventurous spirit from the start. He began diving at an early age and took in interest in photography at 16, when he received his first camera. Upon graduating high school, Bob came to Santa Barbara in 1971 to attend the Brooks Institute of Photography.

During his time at Brooks, Bob and his friend, Andrew (“Andy”) J. McMullen, explored the Channel Islands from a 35-foot research vessel called the Haik, eventually logging more than 2,000 dives along the islands. After leaving Brooks Institute in 1974, Bob and Andy and their company, La Mer Bleu Productions, sought to discover new dive sites. Shane Anderson, collector/ naturalist from UCSB’s Biology Department, suggested that they visit the offshore oil platforms. Upon doing so, they discovered a vibrant marine life that rivaled, and even exceeded, other areas of the channel.

They soon found themselves as the lead vehicle for photo-documenting the marine life of the offshore oil platforms and were the first to receive carte-blanche access to these sites.

This was a time before GoPros and commercial underwater camera housings could be bought with a click of button. Bob and Andy, along with the assistance of researchers and other professionals, began to build their own equipment, crafting everything from camera housings and custom mounts to buoyancy-controlled submersible towing systems.

The engineers on the early offshore platforms did not foresee the amount of marine life that accumulates on the platform legs. Later platforms corrected this, but the early platforms were not engineered to handle the literal tons of marine life accumulating on its surfaces.

Bob and Andy’s Starfish Project on Platform Hilda established what is

believed to be the first natural and clean method of controlling biofouling of the platform legs. Using water jets, they cleared pathways for starfish, which were unable to pass through the stinging anemone strata, to migrate toward the large mussel clumps forming on the legs, where they could feed, effectively controlling the mussel population.

During this time, several fishery research projects, such as the California Marine Associates Red Abalone Habitat and the California Sea Labs, were established below the platforms. These are believed to be the first projects to research offshore oil platforms as potential fisheries, and Bob was granted permission to photo-document their projects (which eventually landed Bob a two-page spread in National Geographic). At the time, the California Department of Health and Fish and Game only allowed mussels collected from offshore platforms to be used as bait. Richard C. Williams and Frank Hester, Ph.D., lobbied for five years to get the law overturned, providing the documentation and research that proved these mussels were fit for human consumption. Together with Bob, they established The Mussel Company, which was the first business to commercially harvest mussels from an offshore platform for human consumption.

Bob’s first drawings of Force Fins were from 1971 while studying at Brooks Institute, and his first patent was filed in 1981, which led to a whole new era of his life. Force Fins were modeled after the structure of fish tails, and today he holds 33 patents for the different designs and components. Force Fins are used by amateurs and professionals around the world and are arguably the best swimming fins in the world (in fact, the U.S. Navy performed a four-year

study that found them to be the most effective fins out of 15 models). The Tan Delta Force Fin is part of the permanent collections of the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the years, Bob has logged countless dives around the world and his photographic works have been featured in more than 500 publications. In 1997, he received an honorary Master’s of Science from Brooks Institute, and in 2005 he was the recipient of a NOGI (considered the “Oscar of the ocean world”) from the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences. His experience in the ocean continues to inspire him today. His company AeroHance produces Gas Pods, which take inspiration from the tubercles found on whales. These small pods attach to the roof and side of cars, reducing drag and improving the aerodynamics of the vehicle, which results in improved gas mileage.

With a natural abundance of oil in the area, this region has a long history with the petroleum industry. In 1897, H.L. Williams built a series of wooden piers stemming off the shore of Summerland.

The derricks he placed on top pulled oil from a water depth of 35 feet and are recognized as the first offshore drills.

These wells were later abandoned (much to the detriment of the surrounding beaches), but oil fields continued to be established for decades after.

The Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969 still ranks as third-largest to take place in U.S. waters and led to a wave of

environmental policies being established both state- and nationwide. More recently, Colorado-based oil company Venoco announced its bankruptcy, turning over Platform Holly to the State for decommission. Which poses the question: what is to become of Platform Holly?

Bob sees this as not an issue of whether to support the petroleum industry.

For him, it is about our responsibility as stewards of the land around us. He hopes that people will recognize the value of the existing structure and its potential to provide timeless resources capable of fueling marine life research and educating generations to come.

In a statement to the State Lands Commission, Bob personally suggested the drills are pulled and the wells capped but the platform steel jacket is kept in place, protecting the marine life that has been established there for generations.

When the “H” Platforms, Hazel, Heidi, Hilda, and Hope were decommissioned in 1996, he notes that there was an estimated 4,000 tons of marine life that was killed and dumped in a landfill during the process. In the statement he provided a series of uses for the decommissioned platform, suggesting everything from establishing it as a research center for UCSB’s marine life programs to mounting cameras around the struts that could be broadcasted to schools and museums.

The platform could also be used to establish sustainable fisheries or even as a conduit for wave or current energy projects.

The accomplishments of Bob, Andy, and La Mer Bleu Productions during this era will be on display in the exhibit Marine Megatropolis 1974-1981 at SB Maritime Museum. The showcase will open with an Artist Reception on Thursday, November 16, from 5:30 to 7 pm, and will run until April 30, 2018.

The exhibit’s focal point is 26 images from the collection of more than 2,500 35-mm slides (in addition to 7,000 feet of Super 8- and 16-mm film) that were taken during this period. Each image is printed on metal to reflect the supporting base that the platform’s steel jacket provides to its surrounding marine life. Also on display will be some of the original cameras, custom-built housings, logbooks, images documenting The Mussel Company’s development, and the first can of mussels produced by them.

A few years back, Andy passed away from cancer. His last words were, “Bob, tie up the boat.” Bob sees this exhibit as him tying up the boat, one that weathered the tides of self-discovery and helped direct them toward a life of ingenuity, innovation, and adventure.

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Lobero Theatre.

On his blog, Minchin is calling the four-date Leaving L.A. tour “a happysad farewell to this lovely-wild city (and brilliant-crazy-scary country) that we’ve lived in for four years.” Guest musicians have been lined up to join the wildly inventive solo singer-songwriter-pianist for the gigs, during which, he said, “I’ll be playing songs rarely heard. And plenty you have. It’ll be special, I reckon.” Get on board via 963-0761 or www.lobero.com.

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im Wilson, the blues singer and harmonica player who has fronted the Texas band The Fabulous Thunderbirds for more than four decades, is coming back to town. Wilson, who was known as “Goleta Slim” back when he first started plying his trade in the seedy bars around Santa Barbara and the orange-grove bedecked suburb to the west, formed the Thunderbirds with Jimmie Vaughan, the brother of the legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Wilson is also an accomplished solo recording artist whose new CD is called Blues and Boogie, Vol. 1, so I’d imagine that’s what we’ll hear a lot of when he plays Saturday night, November 18, at the Carrillo Recreation Center for the Santa Barbara Blues Society (SBBS).

Opening are The Paradise Kings, who

bested a bunch of other SB-based groups, including the great Alastair Greene to claim the SBBS Battle of the Blues Bands title last month. The gig is part of their prizes for winning, with the booty also including a trip to Memphis for the International Blues Challenge in January.

Details at 722-8155 or www.sbblues.org.

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Mother of All Duos

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ommy Tonk, the irreverent musical comedy duo of Shannon Noel and Stacie Burrows who send up motherhood, marriage and more, have performed at Center Stage Theater several times, both as the live soundtrack to theater pieces, and as part of performance arts pieces. Now, they’re finally making their full-evening debut to celebrate the release of their debut album 2 Moms.

1 Guitar. Cursing in Perfect Harmony.

The title pretty much sums up what the girls will be doing at the November 19 show when they’ll be backed by their band, The Assless Chaps, a fiddle-based variety trio who perform American roots music with a country-bluegrass style.

Expect to laugh at their “Did I say that out loud?” song-tales that are delivered with earnestness and empathy and an inyour-face attitude, “the prettiest, filthiest music you ever did hear.” Tickets at 9630408 or www.centerstagetheater.org.

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New Horizons roams the outer ‘hood (Photos courtesy of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

an unstoppably curious farm kid from Streator, Illinois, fastened to the inside of the spacecraft’s upper deck. The tiny accompanying commemorative plaque’s words — composed by New Horizons principal investigator Dr. Alan Stern – would remind the probe’s far-flung interstellar finders that here was a starryeyed kid along for the ride: “… Adelle and Muron’s boy… an astronomer, teacher, punster, and friend.”

VENETIA The photos beamed back in the summer of 2015 show surface details of a world nearly 4 billion miles distant; 11,000 foot-high ice mountains, a huge, dazzling heart-shaped plain of frozen carbon monoxide, and an atmosphere as stratified with haze as a 1930s speakeasy.

But the New Horizons probe carries a full suite of instruments for measuring and testing the unseen elements Out There at the edge of interstellar space, too; among them the Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter, a cosmosspanning gadget with a curiously Edwardian name. The device, which measures the dispersal of deep-space dust particles at the outer limits of our solar system, is named after the precocious 11-year-old British schoolgirl who gave the newly discovered Planet X its official nom de pierre back in 1930.

When on March 14, 1930, the morning newspapers all hollered as one about the discovery of the long-sought planetoid, little Venetia was nibbling at Lincolnshire sausage and toast at her home in Oxford, England. The article her grandfather was reading let it be known that public suggestions about a name for the new discovery were welcome. As an older, graying woman

That Could) has so smashingly completed its flyby of Pluto – analyzing atmosphere, deciphering ice floes, and taking snapshots like a caffeinated tourist – it’s on to more distant and oddly shaped things; one in particular.

“At this point, we know so little about MU69 that I think most of the instruments have a good chance of turning up some surprising data,” Dr. Kelsi Singer told me. She is a planetary scientist, and co-investigator on the New Horizons deep space probe’s Geology and Geophysics team. “We really don’t know what kind of geology might be occurring on MU69, and we might even see geologic features with LORRI (the craft’s onboard camera) that we have never seen anywhere else in the solar system!”

Yes, New Horizons’s next and final flyby will be a close encounter with the musically named MU69, a largish and possibly two-headed “Classic Kuiper Object” drifting out there in

in spectacles softly explained in a later interview; “I was having breakfast with my mother and my grandfather. And my grandfather read out at breakfast the great news and said he wondered what it would be called. And for some reason, I, after a short pause, said, ‘Why not call it Pluto?’”

As a well-read young girl, Venetia had pored over many children’s books on Roman and Greek mythology and knew the players by heart. As it happened, the mythological Pluto was not only ruler of the Greeks’ cold, dark underworld (a name nicely suited to such a cold, dark, and remote rock as the one in question), the first two letters of the word paid handy homage to Percival Lowell, the astronomer who had first postulated the existence of a big rock out beyond Neptune way back in 1906, and the millionaire founder of Lowell Observatory. Venetia’s grandfather was taken with the idea, cabled some astronomically influential people with Venetia’s suggestion, and it was entered into the mix, ultimately edging out the name Minerva which, to the chagrin of its sponsor, was already appended to an New Horizons going where no approximately grand piano-sized machine has gone before asteroid. a quiet life teaching economics and what’s called the Kuiper Belt; a massive Venetia Burney just recently left our math, marrying, never mentioning to “circumstellar” field of icy rocks that solar system, passing away in 2009 at her students or friends or neighbors encircles the solar system and may be a the age of 90, and so lived plenty long that she had – you know. As she once drifting junkyard of unrealized planets. enough to watch the 2006 televised quite reasonably explained in her polite Pluto’s controversial demotion to “Dwarf launch of the New Horizons planetary British accent, “On the whole, it doesn’t Planet” has to do with the discovery of probe bearing her eponymous space arise in conversation, and you don’t many large, Pluto-comparable rocks in instrument. Venetia managed to just go around telling people that you the Kuiper Belt, among them spheroids become, in her autumn years, one of the named Pluto.” called Haumea, 50000 Quaoar, and space age’s quieter avatars, unbeknownst MakeMake. Seriously. Some of these to passerby and all the more brilliant KELSI (AND MU69) rocks, or “worlds,” depending on the for that – the nondescript and littleNow that the plucky New Horizons reader’s disposition, are some 900 miles noticed grandmotherly figure in the probe (known to warm-hearted thick and may be wrapped in envelopes produce section, squeezing cantaloupes planetary science insiders as The Little of atmosphere; you know, like proper and having named a planet. She’d lived Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator planets? Dr. Singer weighs in.

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“It would be incredibly surprising to find an atmosphere around MU69. The conventional wisdom is that objects this small don’t have enough gravity to hold onto the lighter gas molecules to make an atmosphere. So, again we would have to re-think our theories – or it is possible that some recent event on the body, either an impact, or even a geologic event, created gas relatively recently, and that is why it is still around MU69 as an atmosphere.”

BADASS Time, and New Horizons, will tell.

Once having engaged that final flurry

of knowledge-deepening note-taking, billions of miles away from home and the heartfelt gang of science peeps who built and raised her, our favorite deepspace explorer will exit the solar system proper and soar soundlessly through the vacuum between the stars until her decaying, power-generating plutonium pellets wink out for good, calculated to happen in 2026. Then she’ll just coast straight out into eternity. She and Clyde, and little Venetia’s namesake gadget.

New Horizons is a machine, but like a fine cabinet built with loving artisanal hands, she carries the spirit of the builders and scientists who made her

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and gave her purpose. New Horizons also bears the hopes and deep curiosity that define us as humans who can see beyond, and have the means to carefully craft, the day after tomorrow.

While corresponding with Dr. Singer, I explained the conversation to my own 15-year-old STEM woman-in-waiting.

Her response was pure Stella: “Wow! Tell Kelsi I said she is badass!” I told her, and Dr. Singer laughingly dug it, and offered sweet words of encouragement to my little scientist.

Reality is so deliciously mad, we don’t need to dress it up. That throbbing lump of fever-jelly trapped in your ribcage has

long been planning its escape. So, hand it the keys already. There is no such thing as an ordinary day, folks. Not really. Just ask Clyde, Venetia, and Kelsi.

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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

AUGUST RIDGE VINEYARDS

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ure, it’s a bit unusual for a Paso Robles-based winery to find a new home in downtown Santa Barbara – after all, we’ve got a lot of great places around here to sip Santa Barbara wine.

But for John Backer and wife Jill Zamborelli Backer, opening August Ridge Vineyards’s additional tasting room in Santa Barbara just made sense.

Although they live in Paso Robles, John graduated from UCSB, the two got engaged in Santa Barbara, and they are frequent visitors to the area. “We searched around California to find the

perfect place to open our second tasting room, and Santa Barbara just seemed right,” shared John, while I sat down with him in his new tasting site located on Figueroa just off State Street. “Our style of wine is distinctive, as we focus on Italian varieties, so we’re excited to bring something a little different to an area dominated by Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.”

The husband-and-wife duo started August Ridge Vineyards in 2001 after purchasing 40-acres in Creston, just East of Paso Robles. As a fifth-generation

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farmer, planting grapes on the property was a natural fit for John, whose family started growing grapes in the Fresno area as early as the 1860s. Jill, an avid chef of Italian descent, comes from a family where food and wine traditions were passed down from generation to generation. For both of them, cultivating a lifestyle filled with wine and food was a priority and ultimately what drew them to starting a winery. “The overall theme of our winery is eating, drinking, and sharing meals with friends and family,” explains John. “Wine is a lifestyle for us, and August Ridge is a natural extension of that. It’s the context of our lives.”

Today, August Ridge Vineyards is dedicated to producing Italian varieties in a style atypical of the Paso Robles AVA. “Where we are, it’s distinctly cooler than the surrounding areas... it can get into the low 40s and 50s at night during the summer months,” he continues. “The varied microclimates and five different soil types on the property allow us to produce these delicate, lean wines that aren’t traditionally found in Paso Robles.”

With special emphasis placed on farming, John also puts extra attention into his barrel program, carefully selecting different barrel types and using longer aging techniques to produce wines that are complex and food-

friendly. “Our interest in food led to our passion in wine, so the two go hand-inhand for us.”

The name August comes from both sides of the family, honoring their grandfathers who both happened to be named August. The ridge on which their property sits gives them perfect views of the sunrise and sunset, which is the significance behind the faint sun icon displayed on their wine labels.

Since opening the doors of August Ridge’s Santa Barbara tasting room this summer, John shares that he’s been excited to showcase their wines in the bistro-like setting, reminiscent of the Paris bistros he’s enjoyed on trips to France. “The idea behind the tasting room design is for it to be a comfortable, inviting place to taste wine,” said John.

“Wine shouldn’t be something that’s frightening. We want August Ridge to be a place where all are welcome.”

Customers can taste from three different flights, including the Italian varietal flight, a Bordeaux-based flight and the signature estate-grown reserve wine flight. From the racy 2016 Pinot Grigio to the spicy 2013 Sangiovese and their flagship 2012 Jovial, an earthy Super Tuscan-style red blend, August Ridge offers a slice of la dolce vita for food and wine enthusiasts in downtown Santa Barbara.

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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.

LETY GARCIA, OIL PAINTER

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am looking forward to what I expect will be one of the most interesting shows of the year, viewing work by one of my all-time favorite painters, Lety Garcia. “Eyes of Another” openedTuesday, November 7, with a reception on Friday, November 10, The Arts Fund Gallery hosts the invitational show of six women painters from California’s Central Coast brought together by Rosemarie Carrillo Gebhart.

Garcia discusses “Women at the

Shore”, which will be showing. “While looking through old photos, I chose these three after reflecting on the theme of middle-class disappearance, these images now, and how their meaning has changed over the years. This is my contribution to the show and what the Central Coast contributes to me now – I’m the one who has changed.”

With Garcia’s first inspiration being a neighbor who allowed her to observe while she painted, Garcia’s formal training led to the development of her

distinctive style. Garcia describes her technique: “I break down into colors and shapes and something clean and abstract, so it becomes linear. I only leave what I think is important, and I take out what I think is non-essential.”

The visual impact of her scenes when rendered sans insignificant details allows major impact of the clean lines and squared-off shapes of her subjects, which are primarily architectural.

Garcia says, “Typically, I am interested in painting the architectural forms that I’m known for. Now and then, I have an urge to paint completely different, more organic, circular in nature, like big agave plants. I’ve noticed in architecture-based paintings there aren’t a lot of circular shapes.” Her style includes whimsy, in a recently painted much-larger-than-life pink donut.

Garcia shares, “It’s the only thing I do that makes me lose track of time. I enjoy the process of making objects, seeing

my idea manifest on canvas. Even more when someone takes home something and lets me know they derive pleasure from it. My best day is getting up at the crack of dawn in a quiet house and getting to work. I’m a messy painter, I get it all over the floor, myself, my hair.

If I go too long without painting, I feel off-balance and definitely know what’s missing. On a good day, someone says to me, ‘You have blue on your nose.’

I would paint even if I never sold anything, I’d give them away, I have to paint. They just go. I would hate to live with all my paintings. I’ve been known to keep working paintings, sometimes even after it’s framed and up on the wall.

She earned her degree at UCSB in art/ painting and works at the Art, Design and Architectural Museum of UCSB. She currently serves on the board of directors of the CVAC, hoping to create a teen mentorship program. She can be reached at letygarcia.com.

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IHeart SB

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

FINDING OUR TRIBE

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ur first stop in Westport, Washington, came and went and we left a few days later, when the weather was safe enough to head out again. Our next stop was 27 hours away, so Jason and I split the time in three-hour watches or shifts – while one steered the boat, the other would eat, read, or sleep. This leg of the trip was pretty uneventful: pea-soup fog; damp, cold weather; separate shifts. Rinse and repeat. My time at the helm was spent checking the radar and narrowing my eyes through the heavy fog, mesmerized by mist billowing over the deck and through the open companion way door.

The next morning, we entered Newport, Oregon, motoring past fishing boats and crab traps through the busy and narrow canal. The fog lifted as we crossed under the Yaquina Baby Bridge, and we drove just beyond to the marina to find a spot. On the dock, we saw a familiar face. It was Chris, a new friend we met almost 300 miles prior in Port Angeles, Washington. He waved us over and I threw him the bow line. After handshakes and hugs, Chris invited us over for coffee.

A few minutes later, after cutting the motor and hanging up our foul-weather gear, we walked to his boat in the neighboring slip and climbed aboard. His wife, Summer, passed around mugs of fresh coffee and their 8-year-old son, Tommy, blanket-wrapped and bleary-eyed, joined us in the cockpit. We spent the next few hours catching up on our travels since we last met. Chris pointed to five other boats around the harbor heading to Mexico like us. Eventually, the other sailors came over and huddled on the dock next to us with coffees in hand and even more stories to tell.

It was the first time we could talk about plans and receive encouragement This became our new normal. Mornings were spent eating scones on one boat and pot-luck dinners on another. My favorite part was connecting with other women, how they work along side their spouses, what their lives were like before cruising, and what inspired them to take off and go. Through these conversations, it was the first time I saw Jason and I as a real sailing couple. It was also the first time we could talk about plans and receive encouragement rather than looks that we were crazy. Individually, we call each other by name, but collectively we refer to one another by our boat names. Jason and I are Astronomer. Chris and his family are Westy. There’s a Tuwamish, a Rhythm, and a Mobert too.

Some boats have kids and some don’t. Some brought pets, others, none. Some continue to work full-time, some plan to work for a few months next year to refill the kitty, and others saved enough for five years with plans to circumnavigate the globe. But as Rhythm put it, “Because the get-to-know-each-other phase is in a time crunch, people just get right down to it. They give you one-hundred percent, they build community, they see the commonality despite the difference, and it feels like home.”

There are a few things we have in common. One, there are no obligations to be anywhere at any time. Two, our lives are dictated by the weather (and obsessively checking it every hour). And three, we’re living off the grid, truly free from the push and pulls of society. We all wondered if it was normal to meet other sailors early on or, if by some universe-planned coincidence, we were lucky.

We kept in touch as we traveled further south, chatting by radio or locating ships on our navigation systems. When Jason and I hit bad weather, we found comfort knowing the others were dealing with the same conditions. Our new friends almost quite literally in the same boat and if they could do it, so could we.

Eventually, after days or even weeks apart, our fleet would reunite and create a new hometown at a new port. Our band back together, more weathered and accomplished, we’d dinghy to someone’s boat or meet at a bar on shore to welcome our adopted family home again. We’d handshake and hug and congratulate one another on another journey well done. Then someone would yell, “This is the life!” and we’d trade humble smiles, thankful to feel so alive.

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SYVSNAPSHOT

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.

THANKSGIVING RESERVATIONS, WINE GHETTO, & AN EPIC GRAN FONDO

DITCH THE COOKING AND DISHES – VALLEY DINING ON THANKSGIVING rom intimate quintessential wine country dining to over-the-top decadent buffets for the entire family, here is a list of dining experiences throughout the Santa Ynez Valley offering a place to join with friends and family to give thanks to the blessing of the harvest. Reservations required.

SYV Marriott in Buellton – A traditional Thanksgiving Day cornucopia buffet.

11 am to 4 pm. Adults $60, children ages 4 to 12 $25; children 3 years old and younger are complimentary. (805) 688-1000 Mad & Vin at the Landsby in Solvang – A preset four-course dinner including an entrée selection of all-natural turkey, beef short ribs, or herb-crusted king salmon with all the fixins. $60 per person, $25 children ages 3 to 12. (805) 688-3121 The Gathering Table Restaurant in Ballard – Four-course prix fixe menu with a traditional turkey dinner as one of the main course offerings; restaurant open from 3 to 8 pm. $85 person and $125 with wine pairings. (805) 688-7770 First & Oak at the Mirabelle Inn in Solvang – Chef Steven Snook will offer a dinner served family-style featuring First & Oak’s take on traditional Thanksgiving fare including lobster bisque and pecan pie with blueberry compote. 5 to 8 pm. $65 per person. (805) 688-1703 Brothers Restaurant at the Red Barn in Santa Ynez – Soup or salad starter follower by a classic Thanksgiving buffet with turkey, prime rib, two types of stuffing, sweet potato gratin, all the sides followed by apple or pumpkin pie. 1 to 6 pm. $75 per person, but $35 ages 12 and under. (805) 688-4142 The Bear and Star in Los Olivos – Chef John Cox will serve up a classic buffetstyle dinner with his “refine ranch cuisine” twist. Noon to 7 pm. $55 per person.

(805) 686-1359 Root 246 in Solvang – Create your own à la carte “farm to table” dinner from a special menu. 2 to 7:45 pm (805) 686-8681 Aly’s by Alebru in Solvang – Owner team Aly and chef Richard Bruce present two Thanksgiving Day dinner seatings at 3:30 and 6:30 pm for a three-course prix fixe menu with main course offerings including: smoke roasted turkey with savory bread pudding, seared swordfish, and local vegetable risotto and desert choices of pumpkin or pecan pie. $80 per person and $95 with wine pairing that includes 2014 Brewer~Clifton Pinot Noir. (805) 697-7082 When: Thursday, November 23 Where: All throughout the Santa Ynez Valley

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FIG MOUNTAIN GRAN FONDO armichael Training Systems of Santa Ynez presents their 1st annual CTS Figueroa Mountain Gran Fondo cycling event. Three long-distance big ride routes are

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being offered for cyclists of all abilities with the Epic and Fig Loop routes, including the ascent of the iconic Figueroa Mountain. The crown jewel of this gran fondo is undoubtedly Figueroa Mountain. The climb-up is long and laced with steep pitches that will test your legs and will power. Those who conquer Figueroa Mountain will be rewarded with stunning views and a fast, winding descent. Chris Carmichael, CTS CEO says, “The Figueroa Mountain Gran Fondo is a celebration of cycling in the Santa Ynez Valley, one of my favorite places in the world to ride a bicycle. I have long dreamed of hosting an event here to give back to the community, provide a great cycling experience for cyclists of all ability levels, and then bring everyone together to enjoy live music, beer from Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co., as well as food, wine [from Santa Ynez Valley wineries], and products from the region.” Technical support provided by Shimano and proceeds benefit People Helping People.

When: Saturday, November 11, from 8 am to 5 pm Where: Carmichael Training Systems, 3640 Sagunto Street in Santa Ynez Cost: $95 to $150 per rider Info: www.trainright.com/granfondo SAVOR THE LOMPOC WINE GHETTO he Lompoc wine trail started out as a community of urban wineries in an industrial setting with the distinction of offering artisanal, fine, hand-crafted wines. Considered the western gateway to the Santa Rita Hills AVA, the wineries and tasting rooms of Lompoc are primarily located in an industrial park affectionately known as the “Lompoc Wine Ghetto.”

As the Central Coast’s original urban destination, The Wine Ghetto has evolved into a unique collection of wineries, tasting rooms, and production facilities located off Pacific Coast Highway 1 and 12th Street, with approximately 20 boutique tasting rooms to choose – most are open Fridays to Sundays, but some are open Thursdays and Mondays too. Nearby in Midtown Lompoc – just a few blocks from the Wine Ghetto – there are several more great wineries to visit. Wine adventurists are invited to “swirl, sip, savor” and join Lompoc winemakers for a day of wine tasting at Savor the Lompoc Wine Ghetto wine event.

When: Saturday, November 11, from noon to 4 pm Where: Pacific Coast Highway 1 and 12th Street in Lompoc Cost: Tickets $45 per person and include an exclusive Wine Ghetto hat, a reusable wine bag, a bottle of water, and a brochure of participating tasting rooms Info: www.explorelompoc.com

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WIT, WISDOM, & BEER he oldest known recipe in the world is for beer, which was discovered in May 2016 when archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old Chinese beer recipe and ancient “beer-making tool kits” in underground rooms built between 3400 and 2900 B.C. But if your trivia skills are on point and you are a balanced consumer of history, science and nature, humor, geography, current events, and the like, you already knew that – and you are ready for a battle of brains for beer. Figueroa Mountain Brewing in Los Olivos hosts Trivia Night every other Wednesday. The rules are “Teams of four or less, and funny team names required.” $5 each to play, ($1 goes toward the Column of Quarters for Make a Wish foundation). Four rounds of 10 questions with 10 different categories will be presented and, “If you win a round we buy you a round. If you win three out of four rounds, you win the jackpot.” For kicks and trivia giggles, it is worth noting the oldest Arabic cookbook lists a recipe for “Hangover cure stew”, from 900 A.D. called kishkiyya.

When: Wednesday, November 15, from 6:30 to 9 pm Where: Figueroa Mountain Brewing, 2363 Alamo Pintado Ave. in Los Olivos Cost: $5 per player Info: www.figmtnbrew.com or call (805) 694-2252

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ANNUAL HOLIDAY WINE & DINE ith the Holiday Season upon us, Roblar Winery wants to spark the holiday spirit and “get together for some merriment and cheer – and cheers-ing” at their annual Wine & Dine event pairing Roblar wines with their chef ’s holiday fare and offering discounts on wines in their 5,000-sqft tasting room, complete with an enormous walk-in stone fireplace. Reservations required.

When: Saturday, November 18, from 5:30 to 8:30 pm Where: Roblar Winery, 3010 Roblar Avenue in Santa Ynez Cost: $50 for members and $75 for non-members Info: www.roblarwinery.com or call (805) 686-2943

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