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DEATH OF CANCER A

by Jeff Wing

bout six months ago, Kerry Witzeman decided to stop in at the doctor to see what the deal was with a nagging little urinary tract thingy she couldn’t seem to shake. Nobody likes a burning sensation when urinating, but this annoying and familiar little discomfort doesn’t top the list of symptoms one associates with ravaging illness and death. Life’s funny that way. “I thought it must just be a urinary tract infection,” Kerry says today. “I called my gynecologist, and they just gave me a prescription for antibiotics over the phone.” Kerry took the meds for a week and called her doctor back. She was told to come into the office, where they did a urine test. Two days later, they called her back and told her to head straight for an emergency room; there was blood in her urine and they didn’t know why. She went to the emergency room, feeling a little alarmed, and there she had a CT scan and underwent some blood tests. They gravely regaled Kerry with some medically obtuse chit-chat, the upshot of which was that she had “calcifications” in her bladder and they didn’t know why. “They told me to make an appointment with the urologist as soon as possible.” As soon as possible ...continued p.6

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Dominguez Could Lead to Focus on Schools

he election of Jason Dominguez to the city council may prove a milestone in Santa Barbara’s development. Dominguez is the first non-incumbent elected to a district seat in 45 years. As more new purely district councilmembers are elected in future races, this will undoubtedly change Santa Barbara greatly. Dominguez’s background and credentials are impressive. He was born and raised in Lynwood, a poor city next to Compton in Los Angeles. His mother was a public elementary school teacher, and his father was an Army veteran and accountant. After attending public schools through high school, Jason received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and his law degree from UC Berkeley, focusing on environmental law. Perhaps as a result of his own upbringing and background, he seems to be especially committed to youth and schools, which has not always been the case on the Santa Barbara City Council. In addition to his mother’s work as a public school teacher, Jason has taught at the high school and college levels. In his campaign literature, he wrote that he “firmly believes that school-based and extracurricular programs can help our youth to avoid crime and lead to family-sustaining jobs.” Although members of the Santa Barbara City Council have often given verbal support to schools, dollars have been less forthcoming. The Joint-Use Agreement between the City and the Santa Barbara Unified School District is weighted on behalf of the City: the City and community use school district facilities all the time; the school district uses City facilities relatively little. But the City has historically provided the Santa Barbara Unified School District a mere $20,000 per year for the tremendous use of school district facilities by the City. The City has also even intermittently charged the school district for crossing guards in front of elementary schools. The Santa Barbara City Council needs an advocate for local public schools on it, and Jason Dominguez could be that advocate. There are more than 4,000 students

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who attend Franklin and Cleveland Elementary schools, Santa Barbara Junior High, and Santa Barbara High School on the eastside. These students and their families would benefit from more than the pittance that the City now provides to schools. As a first step, the Joint-Use Agreement should be re-evaluated as to the appropriate amount the city should provide to the school district each year. Elementary and junior high after-school programs that were discontinued in lean budget years should be restored. Another concern that is ripe for a city council advocate would be acquisition of the National Guard Armory located between Santa Barbara Junior High and Santa Barbara High School for educational purposes. Acquisition of this site by the Santa Barbara Unified School District would be a huge benefit to the eastside. Now that there is an eastside city councilmember, perhaps discussion of this issue will reach a more productive stage. The battle for the first district was hard-fought, with two other candidates – Jacqueline Inda and Andria Martinez Cohen – running strong campaigns. That Jason nonetheless received more than half the votes indicates that his message struck a note. The theory of district elections is to empower neighborhoods. Because schools are such an important part of neighborhoods, district elections should lead to a greater focus on schools by the City. Other city-school district issues on which Jason could be a leader include the matter of a proposed city trade of land adjacent to Franklin School for the city fire station next to La Cumbre Junior High. As with funds expended by the city to the school district under the Joint-Use Agreement, the current proposal would be unfair to the school district, in that there is no way that the value of the two parcels is comparable. In addition, there has been some mention in the community recently that some City officials may attempt to inject the city into renovation of Peabody Stadium at Santa Barbara High School, which could delay the project and require the expenditure of more funds. Few things say more about a community than the amount of resources it spends on its schools. Historically, Santa Barbara spent much on ours. The Santa Barbara City Council needs a champion for local public schools. Jason Dominguez could be that champion.

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Kerry nervously receives counseling in frightening clinical setting

by Jeff Wing

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(a couple days later), she headed on over to the urologist, who produced one of those alarmingly tiny cameras that make tactical use of our orifi. He took a look-see at the inside of Kerry’s bladder. What he saw was, in his world, something of a commonplace, and he delivered himself of the news with the matter-of-factness of a seasoned deliverer of the verbal body-blow. “Oh, it looks like you’ve got cancer.”

Shunts and Bladders

The nightmare C-word (Stage 2, Squamous Cell Bladder Cancer, to be exact) seized and paralyzed Kerry and her husband, Jeff, like an enormous smothering blanket. They learned that calcifications had formed around a golf-ball sized tumor, a stroke of darkling good luck. The development had caused both the blood in the urine and the discomfort that had prompted Kerry to go to the doctor. Now the jury had returned their verdict. Hurry, hurry, hurry. The Witzemans made a panicked appointment to have the tumor removed, a procedure that had been roughly described to them as a “quick routine surgery.” In the waiting room, Jeff thought it was taking longer than it ought to and his mind began to race. When the urologist finally appeared, surgical mask dangling around his neck like a TV actor’s prop, his body language did not radiate buoyant good news. “He came out with this grim look on his face,” Jeff says. “And he looks at me and says, ‘Well, I’m very sorry, but your lives are going to change forever.’” The tumor had spread to the muscle wall, making its removal an

impossibility. While he had Jeff’s attention, the doctor went ahead and elaborated on what they could look forward to. Since removal of something seemed to be in the cards, he told Jeff that they would soon need to remove the cancerstricken bladder itself. The removal of a bladder is not a difficult thing, but the necessary accommodations thereafter are not the stuff of lilting song and dance. In the absence of a bladder, Jeff and Kerry were told, there are two options for dispensing of waste water: 1. The urine is conducted directly out of the body through protruding tubes that empty into a bag, and not the kind of stylish, show-offy bag Mary Tyler Moore used to sling around the streets of Minneapolis. 2. Faux-organ engineers take a slug of intestinal tissue and build a “neo bladder” out of it, which sounds like something from The Matrix but is pointedly not. “It has no muscle around it,” Jeff explains. “So in order to pee, you have to sort of bend over and tense your stomach muscles to get the urine out.” This solution requires the regular wearing of what can only be called a diaper for the rest of one’s days, because neobladders are known to leak. The Witzemans began to mentally brace themselves for a journey. Kerry e-mailed her family to give them the news. Shortly after that, her sister called and got Kerry on the phone. “What are you thinking?!” her sister wanted to know.

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before and received treatments for her melanoma, treatments that are considered unorthodox here in the U.S., illegal treatments comprised in part of illegal, unpatented compounds. “She’d gone over there and had her melanoma taken care of,” Kerry says. Jeff interjects. “What ‘taken care of ’ means is that she’d been given a year to live here in the States, went to Germany, got it (the cancer) completely killed, and has been cancer free for five years now.” When this so-named “Naturopathic” option was brought to the fore by Kerry’s sister, the Witzemans made some quick unscientific calculations and decided to board a plane for Deutschland. Kerry was enthused neither by the dangling tubules nor diaper scenario. Even with the prospect of having her bladder go away, her chances of living for, say, five more years were not that stellar. The choice seemed simple. They spoke at length with Kerry’s

sister, did some research of their own, and all but made the decision. A week later, they saw a specialist in L.A., a doctor affiliated with a storied university med center. They asked him point blank: might they be able to get this cancer taken care of over in Germany? The doctor looked them in the eye and did not mince words. “There is no way you will be able to deal with this in Germany.” He gave them the name of an oncologist, a radiologist, and a surgeon in L.A., a trinity of medical professionals to help them corner and pummel the cancer with poison and knives, a method that, it must be said, has a measurable, if physically and emotionally ravaging, success rate, depending on the type of cancer. But for all that, the vibe remained a sort of professionally muted hopelessness. “When a doctor looks at you and says basically you’re not going to make it… fear courses through you and the air suddenly feels

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call “alternative cancer therapies,” these methods are generally those that we in the U.S. have been conditioned to consider at best unserious and silly, and at worst deceptively hopeconferring, cruel, and diversionary. We imagine folks being spirited away from our aggressively modern attack scenarios by false hopes and dangerous

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like sludge,” Jeff says. “You can’t move. You’re planning for a death that’s about to happen.”

Frankfurt: A New Hope

The Infusio clinic is a low-slung modernist edifice with lots of windows and resides in a Frankfurt neighborhood fluffy with foliage. The clinic’s neighbors are vaguely Bavarian, gabled-stone houses. Nearby are a Volkswagen dealership,

a discount grocery store and, tellingly, a Fitness First gym. Infusio has a U.S. office in Beverly Hills, and in that location offers treatments and consultation that are largely to do with auto-immune dysfunctions. The cancer treatments offered in the Frankfurt clinic have been to one degree or another disavowed by the medical establishment here in the U.S., some more severely than others. But as a loose grouping of what we

dreams of miracle cures. Infusio’s regimen cost $28,000, and that had to come out of pocket because these are the sorts of treatments that most insurers won’t approach with a telescoping 50-foot pole. A generous member of the family underwrote the treatment, and the Witzemans were made to understand that they could head over whenever they wanted. They picked a date in early June and flew to Frankfurt. An apartment had been ...continued p.14

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I swung by the other breweries in the surrounding neighborhoods to see what was new on tap. Here are some fun specialties around town. Try them while they are still on tap:

Kelp and Rye – Oh, My

ith so many new breweries opening up in the area, it is difficult to keep up with all of it. From M Special in Goleta to Topa Topa Brewing Co. in Ventura, there are many new options for beer in the area. One of the most exciting prospects is Third Window Brewing, located at The Mill on Haley Street. While they

are not open yet, I recently stopped by to meet with co-owner and brewmaster, Kris Parker to check on the brewery progress. It will be about another two months before we start seeing beer from them, but their brewhouse is already in place, and they are just waiting for some equipment to finish being installed. Since there was no beer there yet,

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Originally brewed for their Oktoberfest event, Bier Kamp Roggenbier, a Bavarian-style rye beer, is the real specialty up on The Brewhouse board now. Rye is known as one of the most pronounced grains to use in beer, adding a distinct spicy, bread flavor. While malted rye is used in various beers, it is rare to see examples of roggenbier. This beer style has never been popular with brewers. Rye is a difficult grain to brew with because it lacks a husk. During the mash (the first stage of brewing where carbohydrates are converted into simple sugars), huskless grains such as rye become gluey and result in a slow, messy brewing process. A small amount of rye grain in a beer recipe is not an issue, though roggenbiers use more than 50-percent malted rye, making them difficult to brew. Roggenbiers have a copper color and are fermented with hefeweizen yeasts, producing flavors similar to a dunkelweizen. There aren’t many commercial roggenbiers available, and The Brewhouse’s version is a great example of the style so make sure to grab a taste of this unique beer. There is a definite bready flavor from the malted rye and an aroma of clove and other phenols from the yeast. The beer has a mild sweetness with a full, creamy body and a faint burnt-wood character in the finish. While at The Brewhouse, try some of their other new beers. Football

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Saison (season in French) is back in time for, you guessed it, football season. This beer has a honey-like sweetness with flavors of clove and burnt raisin. Brewers Pete Johnson and Casey Smith also brew a Baseball Saison, which has a lighter, brighter flavor. I am just waiting for them to brew a Curling Saison to complete the set. They also have two collaboration beers on tap at the moment. Back to the Sea We Gose was brewed for a Save The Mermaids event at the brewery. Goses are a sour German-style wheat beer brewed with salt and coriander. Pete and Casey used kelp to help give this brew its salty edge. German hops add a floral note that blends with the coriander character and the starchy tang. The Brawlin Betties Black Eye-PA was brewed for a special event at the brewery to benefit the Brawlin Betties, Santa Barbara’s one and only roller derby team. Black IPAs have become all of the rage, and many breweries have their own versions. These beers are brewed using a special grain called carafa malt. This type of barley has its husk removed before being malted. The result is a grain that can color beer black while not adding any of that burnt-coffee character you expect in a dark beer (think stout). Traditionally, this grain has just been used as a color adjuster; however, blackened beer styles have become trendy with black saisons,

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While darkened beer styles have become popular, an additional trend takes the opposite approach. Brewers have started producing blonde stouts and other light-colored beers that have dark flavors. These brews are flavored with coffee and chocolate to give them a roasted character that belies their light color. Swing by the Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. tasting room to try their version of a blonde stout, From Zero to Sexy. This sparkling golden brew has been aged on vanilla beans, cocoa nibs from Twenty-Four Blackbirds Chocolate, and Rincon Red coffee from Santa Barbara Roasting Co. to give it a mocha character that complements its sweet maltiness. You can also try From Zero to Sexy at the Figueroa Mountain four course beer dinner being organized by Country Catering’s Chef Kyle Jones at the SB Public Market. The dinner will take place on Thursday, November 12, at 6 pm (805) 770-7702 to make reservations). Last week, brewer Kevin Ashford produced a batch of their Big Cone Black IPA so you will soon also be able to try Figueroa Mountain’s version of a black IPA as well. While at the tasting room, try a sample of Rude Boi, an oatmeal IPA. I first encountered oatmeal pale ales at Burnside Brewing Co. in Portland, Oregon, about five years ago. Although New Belgium recently released an oatmeal IPA, I am surprised this style has not caught on more. Oats add a silky body that gives the beer an elegant mouthfeel and contributes some astringency that plays well with the bitterness of hops. Oats add a slight haziness to the beer that some brewers find aesthetically unpleasant, but the flavor contribution of oats outweigh its visual qualities, and this is one of my favorite hoppy beer styles. Of course, Kevin is always experimenting in the brewery, and there are plenty of fun beers to try at the tasting room, like Boat Party, an American golden ale, or Gimme That Nut, a beer brewed with hazelnuts that

blends the American and English styles of brown ales. Scary Spice, an imperial pumpkin ale, was brewed with sugar pumpkins from The Lark and spiced with a blend of mace, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and allspice, with the last two spices being the most pronounced. At 9.1 percent ABV, there is a brisk, alcohol note – though its smooth, sweetness, and orange peel undertones make it easy to forget the beer’s strength.

Telegraph Gets Spicy and Sour This is the time of year when you see a lot of spiced beers being produced. A personal favorite is Winter Ale from Telegraph Brewing Co. This burnt sienna-colored beer takes inspiration from Mexican hot chocolate, being brewed with ancho chiles, cinnamon, and allspice. It has a tart raisin flavor that has a toastiness from the spices and a gentle burn in the finish from the chiles. Ravena Stout, their fall seasonal, is still available as well. This oatmeal stout has a touch of roastiness in the aroma with a vinous character underneath the flavors of chocolate and coffee. Telegraph is renowned for sour beers. In addition to their bready, tart, Reserve Wheat, they have a special release, Obscura Fortis, out at the moment. This beer is a blend of two pinot noir and two syrah barrels that had been aging a Belgian-style strong ale base with other special beers added. The wine barrels give this beer a jammy, blackberry flavor with a hint of astringency, and the malt sweetness balances its Balsamic vinegarlike acidity.  If you are a fan of barrel-aged beers then keep an eye out for the third release in Surf Brewery’s Scientific Series. This version is a Belgian-style, triple-brewed with orange flower honey and blood orange peels, then aged in French oak wine barrels. Surf is also set to release a bourbon, barrel-aged American, oatmeal stout and a Merlot barrel-aged porter before the year is out. While the local beer community is waiting with anticipation for Third Window to open, there are still plenty of tasty brews around the area to tie us beerdoes over.

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by Jeff Wing

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.

Breaking (Gluten-Free) Bread

hanksgiving is often portrayed in school plays as a feast featuring Pilgrims and Native Americans coming together for a rare peaceful gathering before the Trail of Tears and Little Big Horn stuff begins in earnest. In the portrayals of the first Thanksgiving, the Natives in their outlandishly feathered headdress and the silly Pilgrims in their buckled shoes and inexplicably buckled hats nod solemnly and hand each other bread. The holiday remains exactly that dull to this day. Except the bread is gluten-free.

San Marcos High School Performing Arts Department Performs The Laramie Project

n 1998, a University of Wyoming student was offered a ride home from a bar in Laramie, Wyoming. Once the two guys who offered him the lift had him in their truck, they drove to a remote location, robbed, tortured, and beat him to death, hanging his unconscious, mortally broken body on a buck fence in the middle of nowhere. Eighteen hours later, a passing bicyclist discovered Matthew Shepard hanging there, thinking at first he was a scarecrow fastened to the primitive lean-to poles, he was so hideously sprawled and

blackened with blood, but still alive. Shepard never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead on October 12. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were given concurrent double-life sentences for the murder, which is today considered a tragic watershed event in the history of LGBT hate-crime legislation. Shepard was gay. Tony Award nominated playwright Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie in the turgid wake of the murder and conducted hundreds of interviews with

local residents, from which a unique and sometimes disturbing human mosaic emerged. Kaufman fashioned the interviews into a play called The Laramie Project, and it has been performed and celebrated and picketed all over the world. San Marcos High School’s shrinking violet of a theater director, Riley Berris, is mounting this controversial, edifying, and important play in the San Marcos auditorium November 12-15, and San Marcos HS admin are to be applauded for supporting Ms. Berris’s vision of theater as a catalyst for sometimes uncomfortable thinking and feeling. SMHS, thanks for trusting your kids and your community to grasp this material and transform it into cultural scholarship. This is one of those wondrous works of theater that challenges both audience and actor, as the cast members portray a panoply of varied characters over the course of the play. The electricity in the auditorium should be palpable. The cast comprises these forwardthinking young artists: Amanda Albrecht, Jackson Cocciolone, Alex Feller, Jason Gonzalez Larsen, Kai Kadlec, Mary Maillard, Nyrie Mietzke, Olivia O’ Brien, Eddie

Wednesday

November 11, 11 am to 2:45 pm ■ Laguna Blanca stuns world by sending 8th grader to Mars! (at the school’s Spaulding Auditorium) O’Toole, Ryan Ostendorf, Dia Rabin, Avery Sorenson, and Megan Wilson. These actors will collectively play more than 75 characters in the course of the evening, all of them taken from life. This celebrated play is said to be an absorbing, jarring, mind-and-heart opener that leverages a ghastly murder into a teaching moment. With fireworks. Check this one out. The very fact of The Laramie Project’s performance in a high school auditorium is inoculation against the stuff that got Matthew Shepard beaten to death. This play is PG-13. Pacific Pride will be visiting campus on Friday to hang with the cast and talk about the historical events that inform the play. November 12, 13, and 14 at 7 pm, November 15 at 2 pm at San Marcos High School Theater, 4750 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93110. The play is PG-13. Only Natural, A Half-Century Later Have you heard of the University of California’s Natural Reserve System? No? It’s turning 50 this year and there is going to be a celebration (naturally, a somewhat reserved one)

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is, of course, tolerance; or to put it more plainly, garden-variety love. Why simply tolerate when you can actually love? Take that extra step. Oh, and here comes an extra step now…

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November 14, 10 am ■ Coronation Day at the Monarch Butterfly Preserve on Coronado Street, out yonder near Ellwood at the Natural History Museum (the one with the Halloween Whale out front), sponsored by the Audubon Society. The UC oversees a reserve? HECK yeah. A bunch of ‘em. Turns out, there is more to the UC than blue lightsaber-wielding Nobel Laureates and Frisbee golf. The University of California Natural Reserve System (UCNRS, to those who lust endlessly after acronyms) is an archipelago of specially protected areas throughout the state. The Carpinteria Salt Marsh is one, for instance. So is Coal Oil Point. The UCNRS is part of the University of California Office of the President’s (UCOP) Office of Research and Graduate Studies. Yeah, two offices in one title. The whole of the system comprises 39 wild sites around California, many of them breathtakingly beautiful and a few of them homely and shrub-covered but meriting protection. On November 18 in the Natural History Museum’s Farrand Hall, the UC Reserve System’s director, Trish Holden, will jabber excitedly about the weird and useful science that continues to pour out of these protected and muchstudied sites. Wednesday, November 18, 7:30 to 9 pm, Farrand Hall, SB Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. A free event. Keeping Faith, Giving Thanks An Interfaith Thanksgiving Service on November 24, 7 pm at the historic First United Methodist Church on the corner of Anapamu and Garden streets, a couple blocks from the SB Courthouse, will be attended by representatives of the Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Unitarian, Roman Catholic, and Protestant traditions. The Rev. Douglas J. Miller, Ph.D, will speak at the event. Dr. Miller serves as the co-chair of HEAL Goleta and is general manager of Showers of Blessing, a mobile hygiene outreach for the houseless. The service will feature an Interfaith choir belting out a likely fascinating mélange of hymns and chants and other species of aural praisesong uplift. The theme of the service

Laguna Blanca 8th-Graders Plant Flag on Mars, Lose Homework Near Herculaneum Crater What would the first kid on Mars say? “That’s One Small Step for a Kid, One Giant Leap for… whatever!” Yes, Laguna Blanca School is doing the unthinkable: sending a child to the Red Planet! And who hasn’t once or twice wished that on their own teenage in-house slob? On November 11, from 11 am to 2:45 pm in the school’s Spaulding Auditorium (4125 Paloma Drive in the Hope Ranch neighborhood), teams of hopeful Laguna Blanca astronauts will compete for best idea on how to get to Mars and build a settlement. An international conglomerate of investors (or a group that roughly fits this description) will be on hand to hear the teams out and select the most scientifically feasible plan. This event is open to the public and promises to be pretty cool. Expect to see representatives from pennywise NASA plying the children with Apollo 13 souvenir pencils to learn their secrets. And don’t be late for this very important date! Laguna Blanca’s Sixth Annual Owls in Wonderland Carnival at their Lower School campus at 260 San Ysidro Road in Montecito, from 11 am to 2 pm on Sunday, November 15; a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the writing of the acceptably twisted classic Alice in Wonderland by the Mad Hatter himself, Lewis Carroll. Yes, people, this school has clearly gone down the Rabbit Hole. For more information about this special community event, please contact Tara Broucqsault at (805) 687-2461 x209 or tbrouc@lagunablanca.org. Butterflies Are Free to Fly Can there be too much of a good thing? Excuse me, but have you been to the Monarch Butterfly Preserve on Coronado Street, out yonder near Ellwood when the “guests” have arrived? You scan the foliage in search of a delicately bobbing little flutterby and realize the copse of trees is literally seething with the things. It’s the film Hitchcock didn’t live to direct. Your first time seeing this phenomenon may elicit a ragged, spontaneous scream as you sprint with arms a‘waving out into the meadow and over the nearby cliff. Having said that, why dontcha come on out for Coronado Coronation Day, Saturday November 14, 10 am? Birds, Butterflies, and Bees galore! (I know, I know – just think about something pleasant). There will be

restoration planting, kids activities, and docent presentations for the volunteer in you. Oh, and jostling, swarming millions of faceless, antennae’d butterflies. You have been warned. Visit weblink. donorperfect.com/conservationday or contact membership coordinator Jennifer Stroh, jstroh@sblandtrust.org for directions and more info. In The Books Lastly, a faithful Sentinel reader writes, “I loved Briana Westmacott’s great write-up on little libraries and local bookstores. I only wish she’d also mentioned the ‘big’ new library – the Children’s Library at the Santa Barbara Public Library downtown!” Here’s that mention now, Constant Reader! The SB Public Library’s downtown (main) branch has refitted its kids section into an expansive and spacious downstairs Shangri-La perfect for long stretches of chilling

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with the children in the company of thousands of books. Our reader eagerly reports the place is about four times as spacious as the previous kid’s section upstairs, and is cleverly modeled to kid scale, with shelves brought down to the level of a lit-loving Lilliput. And there is much cozy, family-friendly hangout space besides. And never begin a sentence with “and”. If you haven’t seen the new kids room, toddle on downtown to the main branch library on Anapamu with your voracious little reader and settle in. Reading is fundamental, as they used to say. Remember? You’ve been very patient listeners. Again. It’s been real, and it’s been fun. So I reckon it’s been real fun. Till next time – keep your feet on the ground, keep your eyes on the stars (though some of them likely burned-out or exploded eons ago), and be kind to animals. Which is to say, don’t overcook your hot dog.

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Jacquelyn’s creative interests earned her a degree in fine art from Art Center College of Design, followed by years in the Los Angeles art world working for major galleries and prominent artists. She is regularly published in West Coast newspapers and magazines, in addition to working as a producer and director in the performing arts. She is an advocate for children’s art programs and, she is not afraid to dance down the aisle at the grocery store with her kids when Talking Heads plays overhead. Contact Jacquelyn at www.delongewrites.com.

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bring self-reflective social ideas into a contemporary context. The seemingly simple shapes and bold colors of these abstract paintings require more than a breezy first read. Clearly a fearless colorist, Halley toys with space and control using geometry, color, and texture. Employing his iconic abstract shapes, similar to conduits or

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selected by the museum’s curator of Contemporary Art, Julie Joyce. “His paintings are not for the faint of heart; they’re bold, even audacious, and I deeply appreciate the risks he continues to take with color, texture, and even through collaborative installations. I feel that his work is prescient, especially now, as it relates to not only current discussions about abstract painting, but more importantly, systems that are increasingly omnipresent in everything from corporate strategies to social media, and, by extension, issues surrounding transparency and even open source Arranged, 2007 programming.” This group of paintings has a clear relationship to Halley’s earlier works, which is something Colin Gardner covers in his essay that will be included in the exhibition catalogue. Gardner states this work is “a twist on the artist’s earlier horizontal, side by side cell and conduit paintings (with their necessary sense of enclosure).” The exhibition opens to the public on Sunday, November 8, and will run through the holiday season at the same time as the site-specific installation Intervention: Cayetano Ferrer. Halley and Ferrer are two artists whose work, Joyce believes, “complement each other greatly.” Opening day will include an artist talk with Halley, wherein he will be discussing his paintings and the exhibition. It will take place in the Mary Craig Auditorium at the museum from 2:30 to 4 pm, and you’ll be sure to find me in the audience.

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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.

Read All About It: New Play Honors Veterans

ndrew Carroll never thought about veterans, much less the letters they exchange with loved ones back home, up until about 17 years ago. Nobody in his family had served in the military. And he had almost no interest in history, either. But back when he was in high school, just before Christmas of his sophomore year, the family house in Washington, D.C., was destroyed in a fire. Everybody got out safely, but there were some casualties among their personal possessions. “We lost all the letters and photos we’d saved from throughout the year,” Carroll said. “It really him me hard.” Shortly afterward, a distant cousin who had served in World War II called to check on the family, and in the course of the conversation the cousin mentioned that he’d come across a letter he’d sent to his wife describing walking through the Buchenwald concentration camp. “He sent me the original letter, which was written on onion-skin paper,” Carroll recalled. “It was so graphic, so intense. I told him I’d send it back, but he said, ‘Go ahead and keep it. I was just going to throw it out anyway.’” That was the spark, the catalyst that served as Carroll’s entryway into his passion project of collecting and preserving war correspondence between soldiers and their loved ones back home as a way to chronicle the personal side of international conflicts. “What my cousin was going to do, just throw out the letter – it made me realize that we’re losing history.” At first, Carroll collected letters through people he knew. Soon, through world of mouth, other veterans heard about the project and started sending him their collections of letters. Then Dear Abby wrote about his work in her column, and, as Carroll recalled it, “The floodgates opened.” At this point, Carroll has gotten his hands on more than 100,000 previously unpublished letters – and more recently emails – covering every conflict in U.S. history from the American Revolution up through the current battles in Afghanistan and Iraq. He’s traveled to 40 countries pursuing the project; when we talked, he was just about to take a nap prior to boarding a plane for the trip home from Boston where he’d just

spent time at Harvard pouring over their collection for an upcoming exhibit marking the 100th anniversary of World War I at the Smithsonian. Carroll wrote two New York Times bestselling books, War Letter and Behind the Lines, drawn from the collection and his experiences gathering them. “I wasn’t planning on doing that either, but the letters were so passionate, personal, and interesting that I wanted to share them another way,” he said. “Once the books came out, more people started sending in letters, and the collection grew in leaps and bounds.” More recently, Carroll also authored a play, If All the Sky Were Paper, based on the books and featuring the best of the letters that Carroll has found while also telling the story of his journey around the world to preserve them, experiences both dangerous and inspiring. The actors portray the roles of the military personnel, as well as their loved ones at home, covering the harrowing aspects of life on the front line and the terror of battle to the humor shared between the soldiers and stories of friendship and valor. “There’s much more funny letters than you would imagine,” Carroll said. “And very beautiful love letters. Things you wouldn’t expect. And some of the eyewitness accounts are just astonishing, like the guy who was inside a ship in Pearl Harbor as the bombs were falling on December 7, 1941, writing... what was happening in a letter.” Carroll and company are planning on taking If All the Sky Were Paper to New York for an open-ended theatrical run that may turn into a permanent living exhibit. But first, there’s a stop this Wednesday at the Lobero Theatre, timed to coincide with Veterans Day on November 11. The performance will benefit the local chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, which provides a variety of services to our veterans. More than a dozen actors portray the various roles, Carroll said, with letters in hand much as in the popular romantic duo piece Love Letters. “But there’s also interaction and a narrator,” he said. “There’s a story that builds in tension and gets resolved at the end. It’s a full theatrical experience.” Meanwhile, Carroll will be on hand to gather feedback for fine-tuning the final

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script, he said. “We’re inviting students and veterans to come and tell us what they think. Did it connect? Was it meaningful? We’ve toned it a down a bit, because at one point it was pretty graphic and intense. So I want to make sure that it’s still as powerful and see it one more time before we go to New York.” While the books and play are gratifying, however, making art isn’t the goal. “The overall mission of the project is still to bring in more letters to make sure they’re preserved for posterity. That’s why I do it, that’s the labor of love.”

Blitzen Blitz

One of Portland’s finest alt-folk-rock bands, Blitzen Trapper, makes another pilgrimage to Santa Barbara with a show at SOhO, also on Veterans Day, The group is celebrating the release of a new CD, All Across This Land, perhaps their most personal disc to date as it reminisces about their Oregon roots and current subjects of having children, and dealing with shifting relationships with parents.

Glorious Stories

Story Pirates are coming back to UCSB’s Campbell Hall on Sunday afternoon, November 8, with a whole new set of kid-created adventures drawn from workshops the organization conducts in schools year-round. The performance features seven or eight sketch-style pieces based on stories written by children during workshops in their school or submitted otherwise. It’s a natural process, said executive producer Gabe Jewell. “Kids are always thinking creative stories even if they don’t write them down,” he said. “Our tactic is to bring

Booty call: Story Pirates return to UCSB for land lubbers on Sunday, November 8

performance and comedy and narratives into the classroom, so that even kids who historically aren’t really inclined to write are so engaged and excited that they want to be involved in the creative process.” The show consists of a couple of recent stories from the workshops, two or three “greatest hits” collected from over the years, plus two brand-new pieces written by Santa Barbara residents premiering at Campbell Hall before the show repeats at Crane and Isla Vista schools next week. The winning kids will be present in the audience and get to come on stage to talk about their process with the audience. Plus, there’s an improv section where a story gets made up on the spot based on suggestions from the children in the theater. “That piece will kick off by asking for the title of a story that we’ve never heard before,” Jewell explained. “Then we’ll ask another child for a main character and name, and what that character wants more than anything. We’ll bring the character out on stage, watch for a while, and then freeze the story and get another character with more kids input. They can re-route or continue the path of the story as they wish. “It’s usually pretty great.”

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arranged and on arrival they put down their suitcases and, as they’d been instructed, placed a call to Infusio’s offices. “Hi! Come on in tomorrow and we’ll get you started,” they were told. The next day, Jeff and Kerry took a cab over to the clinic using the taxi vouchers they’d been sent. When they reached the Infusio clinic they were stunned. “First of all, it was like a spa,” Jeff says. “There was some New Agey music playing, it was very calm.” Kerry adds, “I think they were partly modeling how we’re supposed to be living our lives. Relax, have a cup of coffee. Have a glass of wine, take it easy.” Much of the treatment is done intravenously, and Kerry has floating veins that can defy easy “locating and poking”

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(if I may use a bit of arcane medial terminology here). One day, following a brief episode of vein hunting, the clinician threw in the towel. “You know what? Take the day off today, go do some shopping. If we can’t get it today, we’ll get it tomorrow.” Jeff picks it up. “Over here in the States it was like, ‘Okay, I’ve got this appointment for you with this doctor who’s gonna do surgery, a doctor who’s gonna do oncology, a doctor for chemo – you need to get right on this.’ It was like a ten-alarm fire! You go over there…” he starts laughing…”it’s a spa! They’re very relaxed. They’re in no hurry. It’s like, ‘Oh, you missed one of your treatments today. It’s okay, we’ll make it up tomorrow.’” He pauses to choose his words. “They had no fear of the cancer. They

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Life: A Cocktail

It’s a journalistic commonplace to describe life-giving drug combinations as “cocktails”, and I’m going to continue that tradition here, though one of the administered treatments at Infusio is delivered by what is described as a hamburger press. The Infusio regimen is generally a cocktail (see?) of detox, immune

In a procedure called Ozone Therapy, Kerry’s blood was removed and cycled through an oxygenating process and put back in her body

system fortification, and tumorbullying. The month-long regimen cycled between intravenous drips and two therapies called Hyperthermia and Ozone Therapy, these last two acute and localized assaults on the cancer where it lives. The laundry list of concoctions delivered through Kerry’s forearm included Reishi Spore Extract, Revivin, Myomin, Angiostop, Procaine-Base, Artesunate, DCA IV, Aminopeptides (2 different varieties), GC-MAF, EMS, Del Rio, Selenium, Magnesium, Calcium, Vitamin B17 (not the vintage airplane) and Dioxychlor. In addition, Kerry

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received in the course of the monthlong treatment 10 shots of a compound derived from the thymus of a grass-fed cow, to boost the immune system. The iv drips were aimed at drawing out the miasma of metals and other toxins that infest the body’s foundation. “Some days they would just say, ‘You’re not going to smell too nice tonight.’” Kerry laughs. And then there was the hyperthermia. “It’s basically just heating up a particular region of the body to 105 degrees (Fahrenheit),” Kerry says. “Cancer cells don’t like heat for some reason. I had what looked like a hamburger press applied to me, one on my stomach and one on my back. Some sort of microwave activity heated my insides, but there was no real sensation of heat.”

Love is Like Oxygen

Lastly, in a procedure called Ozone Therapy, Kerry’s blood was removed and cycled through an oxygenating process and put back in her body. “Cancer doesn’t like oxygen,” Jeff says. But for the mild daily discomfort of having the patient German clinicians politely chase Kerry’s nimble little veins around with the iv needle, the month-long regimen of treatments was quite comfortable. Apparently, the human body, if given a little respite and a good pair of boxing gloves, can rope-a-dope cancer into the turnbuckles and do all its own fighting. And like a cheating, refereedodging tag-team partner (excuse this brief conflating of the Sweet Science with WWF), the heat and oxygen therapies get in there and knock the cancer off its pins till the immunity team can clear their heads and get to swarming the illness with six billion

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began taking supplements. “And that’s when I decided to severely change my nutrition.” She delved into the nutritional research and pulled from it what she needed. They removed the polyp, and a checkup a month later showed that Kerry is cancer-free. Of course, the Witzemans had to tell their original urologist about all this. The bladder removal he’d all but insisted on had finally not been necessary. They’d gone to a medically augmented comfy-spa in Germany, where a team of soft-spoken chill-Deutsch had killed the squamous cell cancer and without much patient distress. Jeff further explained that they’d found a little cancerous polyp after returning home, and had lasered that off, and were for the moment cancer-free and felt they were moving in a good direction. He laid the whole thing out in an e-mail and hit send. Their doctor e-mailed them back in fairly short order “Thank you for sending an update. I wish you continued success. I’m glad you chose a new Western Medicine doctor to go along with your naturopathic doctor.”

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years’ worth of homegrown cellular and chemical ingenuity. Whatever conventional, highly specialized oncological wisdom says about the right and the wrong ways to deal with cancer (and a few of these “wrong ways” are legally actionable here in the States), Kerry’s tumor subsided and finally disappeared during her treatment in Frankfurt. The clinicians made it clear, though, that the rest was up to Kerry. “As great as the people were over there, their ability is just to kill cancer. The patient still has to do their own research to close the loop, and Kerry has done that,” Jeff says, referring to the recommended lifelong nutritional housekeeping one adopts in the wake of these treatments. Kerry cut refined sugar out of her diet completely, and buffed up her fruits and veggies, a less than muscular approach to what had been hinted at in Frankfurt (they truly do leave this part up to the patient). Some time after returning to the States, Kerry went in for a checkup and the doctor found a polyp in her bladder, and it was of a different kind of cancer. “That was very discouraging to me,” Kerry says. Tests showed that Kerry was deficient in chromium and Vitamin A, and she

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REAL ESTATE SNAPSHOT by Kelly Mahan Kelly is a licensed realtor with the Calcagno & Hamilton team and Village Properties. She can be reached at Kelly@homesinsantabarbara.com or at 770-5300.

Bowl Bungalows

ast edition, we told you about luxury condos within walking distance to all the action of State Street, the Funk Zone, and the beach. This time, to mark the end of what many are calling another epic season at our own slice of concert paradise – the picturesque Santa Barbara Bowl – we’re featuring three quaint bungalows on the lower east side of SB, all in quick walking distance to the 4,500-seat amphitheater. This is a perfect time to buy in the area; by the time escrow closes and you’ve moved in all your stuff, the concert season, which usually runs April through October, will almost be underway. Because the only thing better than seeing a spring or summer show at the Bowl is being able to get there sans wheels. And at these proximities, you’ll likely be able to hear the show from the comfort of your own home.

1116 North Milpas

he closest listing to the Bowl (practically next door!) is 1116 North Milpas, which after only being on the market for a month, has already been dropped in price to $775,000. This charming Tudor cottage, which neighbors will recognize from its white brick privacy wall and turquoise entry fence, was built in 1927. Two condos were built An interior shot of 1116 N. Milpas, which is adjacent to the Santa Barbara behind the home back in Bowl the 1990s, making the three properties part of a small homeowners’ association. The home features high ceilings, refinished hardwood floors, and a fireplace with decorative tiles in the living room. There are four bedrooms and three full bathrooms, which include an upstairs bedroom/bathroom with a separate entrance. The kitchen has a gas range and plenty of counter space, with a door leading to one of several outdoor patio areas. The home, while certainly not new, has had a fresh coat of interior paint and has new(ish) flooring. There is also a large front yard and backyard patio with a

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charming rose garden, the perfect place to gather before heading to a concert. The clincher: two off-street, covered parking spots, a hot commodity in this area of town! The property is co-listed by Julie Barnes and Jeff Oien with Village Properties.

1116 North Nopal

xactly one block west from the aforementioned home is 1116 North Nopal, a classic 1920s craftsmanstyle bungalow. Perched behind a white picket fence and mature landscaping, the single-level home is at a great price point for those looking to enter the SB real estate market: just under $700K for three bedrooms A classic craftsman-style home on North Nopal is on the market for just and one bath. under $700K A paved walkway and covered porch lead to the front door: inside, wood floors, crown moldings, a fireplace, and lots of nooks and built-ins add appeal for those looking for a classic Santa Barbara feel. The home, while coming in around 1,055 square feet of space, feels spacious, with a separate dining room and laundry room near a cheery kitchen; a detached garage also sits on the property. The cottage is offered at $695,000 by Joe Parker and Garrett McCaw of The Santa Barbara Group at Berkshire Hathaway.

1006 East Canon Perdido

few blocks away, a completely remodeled home sits perched about 2.5 blocks off Milpas Street. The home was built in 1925, and the current owners spared little expense in making it move-in ready for new buyers: the kitchen and bath are both brandnew, and the decorative staging shows off an architecturally interesting fireplace, shiny oak floors, A completely remodeled home is for sale just a few blocks off Milpas Street, on East Canon Perdido and high ceilings. At 1,453 square feet, the home features a built-in office nook, a formal dining room with doors to a covered balcony, three bedrooms, and one bathroom. The two-tiered backyard features rock walls and an unfinished garden area, ready to be customized. Because the living areas are on the second story, many of the windows boast vistas of the islands and East Beach palms. The lower has 1,112 square feet of garage/storage/bonus space, ideal for a workshop area or possibly a second bathroom. Priced at $949,000, this gem of a home is within close walking distance to concerts, the Milpas corridor, and about a mile away from the ocean. It’s available through Kathy Spieler and Kathy Hughes of Berkshire Hathaway.

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rt collective The Guilded Table gets us started on the giving season with a Funk Zone-based holiday pop-up shop in their shared studio and gallery space November 14-15. Enjoy a glass of wine, nibble on food, and jam to live music as you wander through the lively shop of goods and wares from local makers, artisans, and craftspeople. See you there!

nd we are getting cozy with a holistic bone broth recipe from Miss Meagan Catering in Quick Bites, digging the handbags of artist Rusalka Designs, The Guilded Table’s holiday pop-up shop in Obsessed With, a Q&A with novelist and songwriter Monte Schulz, there are 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Clay Holdren of Holdren’s Steaks & Seafood, The Lark shares a recipe in Raising The Bar, and that’s just scratching the surface.

Holiday Pop-Up Shop at The Guilded Table Saturday, November 14 & Sunday, November 15 120 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara (805) 845-1482 www.guildedtable.com

How do we know about all this cool stuff? Because of you! Keep writing in, we love it: megan@ santabarbarasentinel.com or reach out via Instagram @SantaBarbaraSentinel

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ecycled leathers have a special place in the hearts of many, and Jessica Conti of Rusalka Designs gets us right there. Her cross body bags, like this killer rose number, are perfect for shows and strollin’ around town. Big enough for essentials and small enough not to overwhelm, the bags and her additional art jewelry pieces make great accessories to many an outfit.

Rusalka Designs will be at The Yes Store through Christmas 807 State Street, Santa Barbara Rusalkadesigns@gmail.com Instagram: @rusalkadesigns www.rusalka_designs.com

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by Tommie Vaughn 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.

FEAST YOUR EYES The perfect table set by Bright Inc. (photo by Serita Relis Photography)

t happens in the same way every year, I turn the calendar page from October to November – and suddenly, it’s the holiday season. My heart beats faster as I begin poring over all the DIY magazines, planning out my parties, feasting my eyes on holiday crafts and delectable meals, all to create the ultimate, unforgettable family experience. This year I have my hands full, since my mother has decided to not only get married at the ripe young age of 77, but to do so in my own backyard, and… a week before Thanksgiving. Yikes! It was time to call in the professionals. I needed help that I could trust to take such a special intimate event to a whole new level of gorgeous and unique. So when I attended an auction a few weeks ago, I could not take my eyes off all the amazing centerpieces that beautifully littered the tables, filled with stunning local and exotic plants and flowers, in whimsical boxes made from scrap materials and repurposed wood. I did a little detective work and found out they were all made by Amy Pihlar and her new creative outlet, Bright Inc. Bright Inc. is the creative brain-child of Kerri, Oliver, and Amy

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elebrate the life of loved ones this December during Hospice of Santa Barbara’s annual Light Up A Life ceremonies. The free ceremonies will feature special guests, entertainment, and the lighting of a memorial tree with hundreds of sparkling lights and stars, each symbolizing a tribute to a loved one. For those wishing to personalize a star and hang it on the tree, a suggested donation of $15 or more. All proceeds benefit Hospice of Santa Barbara.

– a floral design and event planning company that she recently began with her husband, Oliver Pihlar, and good friend Kerri McHugh.

DING, DING, DING, WE HAVE A WINNER!

I was thrilled; I have known Amy for years, since I actually interviewed her mother, the amazing conceptual artist Virginia McCracken, a Funk Zone darling who creates imaginary worlds inside tiny boxes, two years ago with her crew of visionary women at the Green House Studio. Amy comes from a long lineage of artists, which is why her work is so eye-catching and unforgettable. When I went to meet with Amy to discuss my event, I got to know more about her and how her new business idea blossomed. Every ounce of Amy exudes artistry, from her casual elegance and warm demeanor to her classic Spanish-style abode complete with her stunning flower studio brimming with, well, the ...continued p.25

Dates and Locations:

Saturday, December 5, 5:30 pm at Casa de la Guerra 15 E. De La Guerra Street, Santa Barbara Sunday, December 6, 5:30 pm at Camino Real Marketplace Storke & Marketplace Drive, Goleta Saturday, December 12, 5:30 pm at the Seal Fountain at Linden Plaza, Linden Avenue, Carpinteria

To purchase a star or for more information, call (805) 563-8820 or visit www.hospiceofsantabarbara.org.

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n Thursday, November 12, Wine + Beer at the Santa Barbara Public Market will host a Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company Beer Dinner in The Kitchen, featuring Goleta’s own Country Catering chef, Kyle Jones. Chef Kyle has created a mouth-watering, four-course menu featuring dishes featuring not only the best beer pairings with each course, but dishes that have been infused with Figueroa Mountain’s tastiest brews.

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eagan Soloff was raised with holistic cooking (read: zero processed foods). She brings this lifestyle to the masses as personal chef and nutritionist. Her healing talent is seen through this good-for-the-soul Bone Broth recipe. Email Meagan at missmeagan33@gmail.com for a one-time lesson from the pro herself.

48-HOUR BEEF BONE BROTH Ingredients: 2 -21/2 lbs organic grass-fed beef marrow bones 4 qts filtered water 1 /4 C Braggs Organic Apple Cider Vinegar 3 inch piece of fresh ginger root 3 inch piece fresh turmeric root or powder 3 Bay Leaves

1 Medium onion, peeled and halved 2 Carrots, peeled and cut in half 2 Stalks celery 1 Bunch parsley 5 Sprigs fresh thyme 5 Cloves garlic 2 tbsp sea salt 2 tsp black pepper

Directions: Tickets are $65 and advanced reservations are required. Call (805) 770-7702 to reserve.

*For stovetop, use a heavy bottomed stock pot and check regularly. DAY ONE: Pre-heat oven to 400. Place bones on a heavy, rimmed baking sheet lined with foil and roast for 1 to 2 hours. Place bones and melted fat into slow cooker, add apple cider vinegar, top with filtered water. Cook on high for 4 to 6 hours, then turn low for 20 hours. DAY TWO: Add remainder of ingredients to pot (except salt and pepper). Cook low for additional 24 hours. Add salt and pepper during last hour. Once done, strain the bones, herbs and vegetables, and place in containers. Can be cooled completely and frozen for several weeks.

Raising the Bar

ALICE FLIP Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. NOLET’S Silver Gin 3/4 oz. Rosemary syrup

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he Lark’s very own Alec Beloin made this creation in honor of fall, winter, and his feminine side “Alice.” He constructed the “Alice Flip” with one of his favorite gins, NOLET’S because of its “Turkish rose, peach, and raspberry” flavors that lean on the romantic side. In this cocktail fairytale, he adds a house made rosemary simple syrup infused with toasted juniper berry and long pepper to add body and compliment the gin. If you want one, head to The Lark and go ask Alice yourself.

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Dry shake components, then shake with ice and strain into an ice-filled Collins glass. Garnish with rosemary and mint sprig. Cheers. Repeat.

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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.

COUNTRY ROADS, TAKE ME HOME What a big sign to mark a tiny town!

t the bottom of The Ridgewood Grade, just past Black Bart Rock, and nine hours north of Santa Barbara is where I grew up. If you get on the 101 Freeway and you don’t stop driving for 459 miles, you’ll end up on Willits’s Main Street; no freeway exit needed. With a donated – or stolen, depending on who tells the story – sign from Reno, Nevada, proudly arched over the entrance to town; you can’t miss Willits, California. I am pretty sure the population in Willits has been 4,828 people since the day my parents moved there in 1978. I was 4 years old when this happened. We were coming from La Jolla. My dad had a beard that hung down to his chest, and my mom was a belly dancer. Together they had grand ambitions of buying property and building a house from the ground up; they accomplished this and much, much more.

LITTLE HARTS ARE THE BEST KIND TO HAVE

My first bike (which, still exists in my memory as a living, breathing horse) had a baby-blue body with a huge banana seat saddle and streamers that blew from its ears. I learned to ride it on Boscabell Lane in the town of Willits, just before my parents moved out to some land off of Walker Road. The Walker Road drive was approximately three miles of potholed dirt lined by fir, oak, and Manzanita trees. It took at least 20 minutes by car to get to town from our land. In the beginning, there were not even electrical poles that reached that far. We had propane lanterns and acres of open space. Country at its finest. On Walker Road, I started out with one sister, and I left with three. My

That’s Little Hart in front and me watching over her back, or possibly playing a trick on her

dad kept adding bedrooms onto our home along the way. Some time around eighth or ninth grade, my friends started calling me Hart (my maiden name). My younger sister, by just 18 months, soon got the title Little Hart. I like to think she enjoyed being called Little Hart, but I am sure there were times she did not. I also like to think that I was a good big sister, but I am sure there were times that I was not. Two more sisters arrived on the Walker Road watch. I actually watched both of them come into this world, because my mom was not only a belly dancer, but also a midwife. Through my mom’s team of midwives, I saw many souls enter this world. In Willits, everyone knew everyone, and their grandmother, and their grandmother’s mother. My stubborn grandmother insisted on driving around town on a Rascal after we were forced to take her car away. It was mostly just trips to the library and back on that powered wheelchair of sorts, but it was during my teenage years, and I was mortified when I saw her cruising down Main Street on that Rascal. Small towns are both a blessing and a curse.

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There were no locks on our doors back then, but my mom had a long set of bells that she hung from the door handles. I later figured out those bells were not put in place to warn of strangers coming in, but rather to raise alarm should one of us four girls try to sneak out. Being the oldest, it was I who learned this first. Once caught by the bells, I turned to pushing out my window screen and tiptoeing to the bottom of our long driveway for older friends to pick me up. I never did get caught doing that, but after a couple of successful missions at redefining my curfew, I went to push out my screen and found it had been nailed into the frame. My parents won that battle without even using words. Right on cue, I graduated high school at 17, and I ran as fast as my long legs would take me, straight out of Willits. More than once, I came running back to visit, wanting to hide from the great, big world. My suitcase never stayed unpacked for long. In Willits, there are forest fairies in the fallen trees; my first love, Buffy, is buried out on a hillside; my grandparents’ ashes fertilize the roses; there’s a pond and a barn and bridges and trails… but it’s all become too much for my parents

to care for at their age. My mom just told me this week that they are going to sell their land and home and move into a smaller place. It has been coming for quite some time; I just didn’t realize it would or could actually happen. I haven’t had the heart to break this news to my children. They have just started to build their Willits’s kingdoms out on that land when we visit Nana’s house. It’s going to be tough for me to explain how life’s clock works. Family is family, no matter where you grow it. Houses come and houses go. The walls and dirt that surround you are just that, walls and dirt. It is not easy to let go of a place that holds so many memories, but to get to the heart of the matter, it’s not the two-by-fours that beat.

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oving is far from an easy task. I’ve moved my family around Santa Barbara a few times now, and I never could have done it without Arturo. Arturo and his sons and helpers will wrap, pack, and move anything you are looking to relocate. They do it carefully and quickly. If you need help shuffling things around, call Arturo at (805) 452-5061.

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THE ORIGINAL AH JUICE ORGANICS Alfred Pomerleau and Deb Monroe, serving organic, pressed juice since 2009

After years of working full time for an ad agency, Christina found her passion in cooking and food. Now armed with her newfound title, “Culinary School Graduate Food Blogger,” she writes and shares her passion for food, cooking, restaurants, photography and food styling in her popular blog, black dog :: food blog. Christina’s a proud mommy of not one but two shelter dogs and lives here in Santa Barbara with her husband. She’s also an avid Polynesian dancer, beach lover, traveler, swimmer, snowboarder and most of all, a lover of anything edible and yummy. Check out her ramblings here and at www.blackdogfoodblog.com.

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any years ago, way before everyone jumped on a juice cleanse wagon, there was a juicery in town delivering fresh, organic pressed juice to people who were lucky enough to know its existence. And heck yes, I was the one of those who was running around town with a big green jar at the time when people actually drank soda. I did get reactions such as “What the heck is she drinking?” Alfred Pomerleau and Deb Monroe started AH (Ascending Health) Juicery back in 2008. It used to be a delivery/pick up juicery. I remember the days I picked up my juice early in the morning before I head out to my culinary class. And I couldn’t be more happy to hear they finally opened up their own shop and was excited to visit my old friends. The cute front porch is bright and inviting. A place you can come in alone without a love (book, significant other, or dog) and spend some “me” time. Inside, there are homemade gluten-free treats, homemade sauerkraut (don’t forget

Raw mint cookies with Ashwagandha (one of the most powerful herbs in Ayurvedic healing)

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to take daily probiotics), and ready-made juice to grab and go. The juices are 100% organic and smoothies are nutrient-dense. Try their breakfast too-avocado toasts with veggie bacon or smoked wild salmon or free-range organic egg scramble with smoked salmon. Bread they serve is small-batch artisan bread produced with starters only – no yeast, so they’re especially easy to digest. Breakfast, lunch, snack, juice, smoothie, baked goods, raw goods – AH Juice has it all. Come visit the oldest, the original juicery in town. It’s lovely.

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orn and raised in SB, Clay Holdren is a San Marcos High School grad. He started working in the restaurant business at age 14, at his aunt and uncle’s Italian pizzeria. He went to San Diego State, where his athletic skills were put to use on the school’s volleyball team. Post college, he worked in various bars and restaurants as acted as a rep for Southern Wine & Spirits. After noticing the lack of a steak house on State Street, Clay opened Holdren’s Steaks and Seafood in 2003, and we’ve been grubbing ever since. Here are a few more fun facts about the man behind the steaks (and seafood) on State. 1. I have two sons who are involved in local sports... right now I’m coaching 2

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nown for his literary works, and as the eldest son of the Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz, Monte proves his talents go beyond bound pages of a book. Monte will showcase written lyrics and arrangements for The Seraphonium Project, stemmed from his second self, Seraphonium. He worked with over 70 musicians to create the album, 30 of which will perform along side the multi-novelist at the Marjorie Luke Theatre on November 20. (Monte will also perform solo.) The concert is a benefit to raise awareness and funds for The AHA! Foundation, an organization working to end violence against women and girls in the U.S. Monte takes five with The Local to catch up.

football teams. 2. I grew a love for wine once we opened the restaurant and take it very seriously. I love learning all there is to know about wine, and trips to Napa and the SY Valley are my favorite. 3. I love to go camping with my boys. 4. I was raised by a great mom and dad! I’m lucky that they are still living here so now my kids are reaping the benefits of great grandparents. 5. I love all sports on TV... my wife often rolls her eyes about how often they are on. Holdren’s Steaks & Seafood 512 State Street • (805) 965-3363 www.holdrens.com • Instagram: @Holdrens_SB

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he half-mile loop meanders up the hill, by the creek, and through the picnic areas, open lawns, boulders, oak groves and deer-frequented wilderness. Once the land of Ray Skofield, the park was used as a base camp for Los Rancheros Visitadores, the riding group of which he was a founder. It was sold to the city in 1964, and is now the only city-park with reservable camping areas for non-profit youth groups. With stunning views of the mountains that are accessible by nearby Rattlesnake Trail, the city surrounding Skofield Park becomes a distant memory. Directions: Skofield Park From CA-192, take a slight left onto Mountain Drive, turn slight left onto Las Canoas Road, take the third left to stay on Las Canoas Road; entrance will be on left. (If you hit Las Canoas Ridge Way, you’ve passed it by half a mile.)

Q. I have to ask, what is your favorite Peanuts character? A. As a kid, it was Linus because he’s really clever and could do all sorts of tricks with that blanket. As an adult, my favorite character is Charlie Brown because Peanuts is his story. They called him the “lovable loser,” but CB isn’t a loser, his motivated by his passion for his own enthusiasm and determination to continue to try. He is endlessly hopeful, and as I’m an adult, I realize he’s easily my favorite character. Does your songwriting reflect the emotional state you happen to be in at the time? A professional writer can control the emotion in the work. I could write the lyrics to sad love songs without experiencing sadness directly. I discovered this when I wrote (his most recent) novel, Crossing Eden (coming out in early December). It took me 10 years to write. I realized you can’t be inspired all the time. If I wrote when I was inspired, it would take me 60 years to write. A professional writer has to be able to write in any emotion or physical state. For example, if you go through life long enough and you experience heartache, you can write about it in a song even if it’s heartache that happened 30 years before. It doesn’t have to be immediate.

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most unique flowers I had never seen before. I was welcomed into Amy’s home to find out more about what makes her creative mind tick. Like a lot of creative people, once Amy became a mother (two boys, OliverAtticus age 7, and 5-year-old Felix), her life became consumed with motherhood, and now that the boys are in school it was time for her to get back to work – but the idea of a desk job for one so artistically talented was much too stifling. After talking it over with her husband and good friend Kerri, (who is also a mom to Cal, 5) they decided to put their creative talents together to create their dream company, and Bright Inc. was born.

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Working together closely with their clients, the team discovers color schemes, themes, floral likes, dislikes, and so much more – all to create the perfect design dream board to help bring the event to fruition. It’s all an exciting process and watching it come together is much like Cinderella’s fairy godmother in action. Q. Amy you have a true artistic flair in all your work, can you give me a little background on yourself? A. I worked as a clothing designer for over 17 years, mostly in New York, but also here in Santa Barbara. I come from a family of artists so creativity is in my family. I have always had some type of creative outlet, with dance, music, and making things. How did you decide on Bright Inc. as your creative outlet? After a long career in clothing design, I was ready for a change. I started experimenting with flowers and loved it. One of my first jobs was at a flower stand and my grandmother would teach me about plants and flowers when I was young. I love the immediacy of the results and the ability to work with color and texture, which was always my favorite part of clothing design.

ddie is a poodle/terrier mix that lives on Santa Barbara’s east side with owners Leslee and Jeffrey Sipress. Also known as Mr. Happy, gets at least four good walks a day! He loves a good tug-o-war with a pull-toy and then curls up with a bunched-up pair of his owners’ socks. You can find Eddie running around and chasing the ball in late afternoons at SB High School.

The colors of fall sprinkle this bouquet (photo by Serita Relis Photography)

Does Bright Inc. just create fabulous floral designs or are you an event planner as well? Actually, we do offer full event design and planning. I have two partners, my husband Oliver and my friend Kerri McHugh. Oliver owned a bar/ restaurant in NYC for over 12 years. Not only has he produced countless events, he is amazingly creative with food and drinks. Kerri has worked as a stylist, furniture developer, and interior designer, also in NYC for a time. She has amazing style and taste. Our combined skills and experience allow us to focus on all aspects of an event. How would you help inspire a new client who wanted to throw a Thanksgiving party to remember? Ooh, I would say always do something unexpected, untraditional. Use unusual colors, textures, and materials. Foraged designs are trending, so any flowers you can grab from your garden are great. And add something thoughtful for your guests, say a small loaf of persimmon bread for them to take home for breakfast the next morning. You use a lot of natural elements, not only in your floral arrangements, but in your pottery and bases too. Is this part of your trademark style? Yes. I am very attracted to natural materials, one main reason I moved to Santa Barbara! There is endless inspiration here. Since the holidays are quickly approaching, what is your time allowance and details for turnaround with arrangements? It would depend on the size and scope of the event. For something small, one to two weeks; for something larger, three to four. Amy, are you a part of any special events coming up this holiday season, where people can come see your beautiful centerpieces? Yes, a lot of them! I am doing a pop-up holiday shop at Upstairs at Pierre Lafond

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he lawn’s been removed, the new irrigation’s installed, and the new drought-tolerant landscape has been planted. As recommended, you’ve spaced your shrubs and other slow-growing plants to allow room for future growth. Now, what can you do about the expanse of bare soil until the landscape grows in? A layer of organic mulch is one good option – it will help retain soil moisture, prevent erosion, suppress weeds, and moderate soil temperatures, among other benefits. Another option is a carpet of low-growing wildflowers, which will provide a colorful spring display, and self-sow to fill in empty spots in future years. Tidytips, Goldfields, Sky Lupine, Baby Blue Eyes, and Five-Spot are all good possibilities. And of course, California Poppies are always wonderful! Check out the selection at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden for these and other options. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 1212 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105, (805) 682-4726 www.sbbg.org

in Montecito starting Thanksgiving weekend for the season. I will have wreaths and living pieces, along with some arrangements available. I will also have wreaths available at Porch, the amazing home store on Santa Claus Lane. I am doing an event with other local artists at Folly, a new store of handmade goods in Carpinteria, on Saturday, November 21.

And I will have a Green House Studios holiday event on December 11. I know my party is going to be a success thanks to Amy, Oliver, and Kerri at Bright Inc. How about yours?

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is drawn to micro-fiction and is curby Julie Bifano MsrentlyBifano writing her first novel – The Grace Below. She has a B.A. in English with an emphasis in writing from the University of San Francisco and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing, also from the University of San Francisco. More of Julie’s stories and poetry can be viewed on her website juliebifano.com.

WINE, JEWELRY, AND CHOCOLATE

Volunteers Randy Weiss and Steve Schinnerer pour donated white and red varietals

CALM members Mary Ann Froley, Barbara Flanigan, and Marcia Wolfe greet and check in attendees at gorgeous Montecito Country Club

ith breathtaking floor to ceiling windows and wide-open spaces, The Montecito Country Club was the ideal place to hold the 5th annual Wine, Jewelry, and Chocolate benefit for CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation). With approximately 30 distinct jewelry vendors and the donations of lovely pre-worn jewelry by CALM members themselves, it is truly an exceptional event. Even better is that 20 percent of the jewelry and chocolate sales, along with 100 percent of all entrance fees and CALM donated jewelry purchases, go directly to CALM. Upon arrival, I had the opportunity to chat with one of the co-organizers of the event, Martha Rogers. She explained how the event began five years ago in Meredith Scott’s home. Martha expressed, “I wanted to help organize this event in memory of Meredith who passed away this past year.” She explained that the affair generally raises around $10,000 for CALM. As I perused the unique jewelry while tasting the rich, pumpkin pie fudge from the esteemed Chocolate Gallery, there were sparkling rings I couldn’t take my eyes off. They were hand-made wire wrap rings with semi-precious stones by Kaylin Fox (www.ablondeandherbag.com). Also eye-catching were the necklaces and cashmere ponchos by Victoria Taylor of Santa Barbara Jewelworks. With more than 60 different colors, her ponchos are remarkably reasonable. While eyeing the jewelry, many

Kaylin Fox shows off her hand-made wire wrap jewelry and loves to support CALM

CALM members Sharon Bifano (right) and Ann Hammond get together between chocolate tastings

Victoria Taylor displays her cashmere sweaters that come in 60 different colors

Co-organizers of the event, Janice Ingrum and Martha Rogers, with owners Tim Johnson and Karen Kegg from the established Chocolate Gallery

Ellen Bartfeld represents Gravity Ranch Designs unique kiln-formed glass with beaded detail

attendees were sipping tasty wines provided by many various donors, including The Nugget, Andrew Murray Vineyards, and Kalyra. Jessica Foster Confections and Robitaille’s Candies

kept everyone coming back for more samples! For more information on CALM and how to get involved, check out www. calm4kids.org.

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ou’re not alone. As humans, we sometimes allow past experiences to drag us down. But there is good news in the bad – the yin to the yang. Noticing when this happens is a step in the right direction. According to my meditation teachers, and every magazine in Lazy Acres, it’s called “being mindful”. And if there is ever a great practice to work on one’s mindfulness, it’s interacting with other people – especially when it comes to matters of the heart. I started this column as a way to get out there. To have an excuse to be brave when I wasn’t so sure if could do it on my own. The column was also a reason to be accountable and force myself to go through with plans (turns out, deadlines are a really good way to do that). I’m a big believer on taking advantage of times in life such as career choices, living environments, and milking the single life for all it has to offer – and, Lord, has dating proven to be one of the biggest self-growth challenges one can do. Dating, it turns out, is the best way to get to know yourself. Your likes and dislikes become as apparent as flashing neon lights telling you what you already know deep down inside. For example, let’s say you went on (what you thought was) a successful date. The night ends and you head home. Now come the questions: Is he or she into me? Is he or she going to call? What did he or she mean by that? Loops of dialogue crowd our mind by playing conversations over and over again, and it’s a dangerous and energy draining place to be. And this is only the first date(!). The storytelling capacity our brain is capable of (particularly the female brain) is pretty incredible. It’s Oscar-worthy and Pulitzer Prize-winning content. Even as I type, I am struggling to shut down crazy-ass stories of what is, what could, and what will be. (It’s refreshing to admit out loud, so thanks for listening.) If being mindful of our crazy brain is considered a

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practice, and practice makes perfect, then we’ve all got the potential to hit the level of mastery. It’s a constant crusade to work within the present while acknowledging feelings that may arise (also known as “baggage from the past”). Starting anew expresses an effort to handle ourselves in a different way by not wanting to make the similar mistakes from before. For example, feeling triggered

Fear is working from scarcity rather than abundance – believing is receiving, no matter how you slice it

when a person says or does something to is only the beginning. Feeling vulnerable and/or pissed is the easiest part of the practice and not reacting your usual way is the hardest. Not reacting requires you to pause, take a breath, and question why you’re feeling triggered. Being able to control the thought process is the difference of enjoying yourself or bringing yourself down the rabbit hole of self-doubt. I’ve been reviewing text messages from several girlfriends and guy friends over the past week, and the underlying theme is prominently, fear. As a dear friend says, fear is working from scarcity rather than abundance – believing is receiving, no matter how you slice it. How do we conquer this? By chilling the F out. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to “do it right this time.” All that pressure pushes you out of the now and into the “Now what am I supposed to do?” If anything, don’t get ahead of yourself. And if I am saying this to anyone, it is myself.

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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.

SYV Historical Museum Vaquero Show & Sale

owboys, cowgirls, horse lovers, and old-school “Californio” devotees and the like are invited to the 31st Annual Vaquero Show and Sale celebration to be held November 13-15, honoring the lifestyle and horsemanship of the California Vaquero (cowboy). The Vaqueros developed unique skills on the expansive cattle ranchos of Central California during the Spanish/Mexican Colonial period. They blended classic European horsemanship Classic Vaquero craftsmanship will be on display, for sale, and can training with the “rough and be seen used in demonstrations during the SYV Historical Museum ready” riding of early California Vaquero Show ranchers. In blending these horsemanship styles, the Vaqueros created their own distinct method of horsemanship, as well as a unique look in apparel, tack, saddles, and other horse equipment. A highlight of the Vaquero Show weekend is the gathering of noted artisans and collectors from throughout the western United States. These artisans who keep true to the Vaquero horse culture and craftsmanship display and sell their hand-tooled leather saddles, braided Vaquero-styled riatas, bridles, reins, and other Vaquero inspired horse tack, as well as quality Western artwork, apparel, unique books, memorabilia, and jewelry. The schedule is as follows:

Friday, November 13, from 4:30 to 7:30 pm Viva Los Vaqueros Preview & Dinner Preview the show, visit with vendors, bid on silent auction items, celebrate a special tribute honoring Jim and Linda Grimm for their contribution to the preservation of Vaquero Art and Culture, and enjoy a dinner with musical entertainment by Steve Woods. Where: SYV Historical Museum, 3596 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez Cost: $70 museum members/$80 non-members Saturday, November 14, from 9 am to 5 pm Vaquero Show & Sale Where: SYV Historical Museum, 3596 Sagunto St, Santa Ynez Schedule: 11 am Pat Puckett – roping demonstration; 12 pm Cowboy barbecue sandwich lunch; 2 pm Ramona Beccera bareback roping demonstration; 6 pm “An Evening of Cowboy Poetry and Humor” with Waddie Mitchell, nationally renowned cowboy poet; $20 per person. Saturday, November 15, from 10 am to 3 pm Vaquero Show & Sale Where: SYV Historical Museum, 3596 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez Schedule: 11am Jeff Derby Vaquero horsemanship demonstration; 12 pm cowboy barbecue sandwich lunch; 1 pm raffle drawing/winner need not be present to win; 3 pm cowboy lunch and no-host cocktails to celebrate the closing of the show. For more information, visit www.santaynezmuseum.org

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My personal picks, best bets, hot tips, save the dates, and things not to miss! Giggles and Beer

igueroa Mountain Brewery features a “Comedy Night” every third Thursday of the month in the upstairs bar at the Buellton Taproom – appropriately referred

to as “Laughter in the Rafters.” These events have been gaining in popularity over the past year, and it’s a legitimate evening of good fun as they bring in professional comedians. This month, Jason Love joins Marc Yawffee (Showtime and Comic Unleashed) and headliner Chris Strait (Laughs on Fox, Funny or Die, and National Lampoon) to bring in the giggles. Food by Vanessa Loves Food will be available to complement your favorite brew. When: November 19 and the fun starts at 7 pm Figueroa Mountain Brewery at 45 Industrial Way in Buellton Info: www.figmtnbrew.com

Willows Reopens!

s part of the Chumash Casino Resort’s casino-hotel expansion, Willows, a AAA Four Diamond-rated, fine-dining restaurant is getting a significant redesign and is nearly ready for its big reveal. Executive director of Casino Hospitality Bill Cheek assures the debut will feature a new grand entry with a wine wall, stone texture accents, and a sleek inviting lounge featuring classic cocktails and creative mixology. “We’re going to have two elegant private dining rooms and a versatile reception area,” says Bill, who is excited about the restaurant’s new design and assures guests, “day-boat fish caught in the Pacific Northwest will arrive in our kitchens in less than 24-hours, and we will serve Wagyu beef from Snake River Farms and Free-Range Jidori Chicken.” Many Willows signature dishes will return with a modern take and many former favorite items will be featured on the lounge menu. When: Re-opening November 16 – dining room open Sunday through Wednesday 5 to 10 pm and Thursday through Saturday 5 to 11 pm Where: 3400 East Hwy 246, Santa Ynez Info: (800) 248- 6274

A Slice of Life…Soaked in Honey

here is actually a National Baklava Day that ironically happens to share the same date with “National Take a Hike Day” (interpret as you will), but nonetheless, this traditional dessert of the former Ottoman Empire can be found at the upscale California-Hellenic (read “Greek”) cuisine driven restaurant at Petros Los Olivos. This sophisticated eatery can be found in the Fess Parker Wine Country Inn and Spa – right in the center of the historic town of Los Olivos. Baklava is made with walnuts, almonds, pistachios, and layered and wrapped in phyllo dough soaked with citrus honeyed syrup, and served with vanilla ice cream. When: 7 am to 10 pm daily Where: Petros Los Olivos 2860 Grand Ave., Los Olivos Cost: $8 per Baklava dessert Info: (805) 686-5455

Bounty of the Valley

ounty of the Valley, an annual celebration of the innovative food and wine culture of the Santa Ynez Valley moves to Rancho San Antonio for its third year. Delicious and unique cuisine by Jeff Olssen of Industrial Eats, Valley Piggery, and Autostrada Pizza – in addition to an exceptional selection of local wines and craft beers – will be featured. Guests will enjoy live music from local performers Banjo Bill and the Bluegrass Boys, live and silent charity auctions and dancing under the stars. Tickets $100/person includes all food and drinks When: Saturday, November 14, from 5 to 10 pm Where: Rancho San Antonio, 2051 Jonata Park Road in Buellton

Winter Wine Pass

anta Ynez Valley offers a Winter Pass, offering 15 tastings for one low price. For $40, participants receive one wine tasting at each participating Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country Association tasting room (over $150 value). Pass holders may choose the dates they would like to taste, anytime through January 31, 2016. Reservations are not required, and there are no blackout dates. Passes expire when all 15 wine tastings have been used, or on January 31 — whichever occurs first. Participating wineries: Alexander & Wayne, Arthur Earl, The Brander Vineyard, Buttonwood Farm Winery, Casa Cassara Wines, Daniel Gehrs Wines, Dreamcôte Wine Company, Imagine Wine, Kalyra Winery, Lincourt Vineyards, Lucas & Lewellen, and Lucky Dogg Winery. Winter Passes are available online or at Rideau Vineyard, Standing Sun Wines, and Toccata Wines. When: through January 31, 2016 Where: Santa Ynez Valley Wine Country Cost: $40 per wine taster Info: www.santaynezwinecountry.com

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by James Luksic A longtime writer, editor and film critic, James has worked

nationwide for several websites and publications – including the Dayton Daily News, Key West Citizen, Topeka Capital-Journal and Santa Ynez Valley Journal. California is his eighth state. When he isn’t watching movies or sports around the Central Coast, you can find James writing and reading while he enjoys coffee and bacon, or Coke and pizza.

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he 33, not to be confused with Jim Carrey’s incalculably bad The Number 23, chronicles the Chilean miners buried alive for two months in 2010. The harrowing true tale is directed by Mexico’s Patricia Riggen and boasts an inspiring cast: Antonio Banderas, James Brolin, Juliette Binoche, Gabriel Byrne, and Lou Diamond Phillips. Whether it’s melodramatic mush or an earnest effort will be revealed in mid-November. Real-life stories aren’t in short supply. Quite promising is Spotlight, which illuminates the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal exposed by the Boston Globe circa 2001. The newspaper office is enlivened by many personal favorites: Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, and Stanley Tucci. Perhaps most controversial will be Concussion, slated for Christmas as an unwanted gift to the NFL. Regardless of its script’s medical precision, the compelling cast includes Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, and Albert Brooks (“You’re going to war with a corporation that owns a day of the week!”) In lieu of prolonged reviews that aren’t feasible this time around, I offer succinct appraisals of a half-dozen pictures already showing:

On the Jobs

uch of Steve Jobs, the third and best biopic about the late computer guru and Apple co-founder, transcends its genre. As penned by the unequaled Aaron Sorkin (deserving victor of Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network), this project is a well-meaning, reasonable depiction of its revered, divisive subject – though the filmmakers confine the scope within a couple of decades; nothing after 2000, so don’t expect anything about Jobs’s pancreatic cancer. It’s true Sorkin and director Danny Boyle (in his most accomplished work to date) trump up the dramatic discourse. It’s no less true that Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, but especially Jeff Daniels and Michael Stuhlbarg (Pawn Sacrifice and A Serious Man) are up to the task. Any would-be viewers who are tired of this story will miss one of the best pictures of an exceptional year.

Ho-hum Horror

aranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension marks Hollywood’s latest installment of the California haunted homes monitored by video cameras; the upshot includes more screenwriters (four) than actual frights. The flaccid stabs at “gotcha” jolts amount to somebody off-screen knocking over the family’s surveillance camera, and a spectral spirit emerging as, apparently, a small cyclone of black glitter. Uncovering the previous residents’ archival footage only compounds our boredom, evoking more snores than scares.

Fact or Fiction

ruth is a lame-named if heartfelt valentine to ex-CBS anchor Dan Rather, who resigned in March 2005 after his disputed report about George W.

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Far and Away

n Rock The Kasbah, Bill Murray stars as a washed-up rock manager who exaggerates his client list and accompanies his assistant (Zooey Deschanel) on a “tour” of Afghanistan. Bruce Willis, as a smirking mercenary, and Danny McBride tag along to squeeze out laughs – a desperate ploy that backfires. The lone highlights come courtesy of unlikely sources: Leem Lubany’s endearing turn as the secret singer – based on a real-life cave crooner who appeared on the Afghani equivalent of American Idol – while Kate Hudson scores as a high-minded hooker.

What’s Cooking

urnt describes an American chef, persona non grata within Parisian eateries, who seeks redemption: specifically 3 Michelin stars. The man-child gets a second chance, bringing to his kitchen a potential love interest, when he isn’t submitting to drug tests or evading debt collectors. In their central roles, Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller (the glue that holds this creation together), turn up the heat as they did in American Sniper. Director John Wells serves up equal samples of sincerity, culinary insight, and contrivance (its hero’s shady past and addictions), while instilling just enough tenderness and discipline amid the melodrama.

Damage Control

ubiously titled Our Brand is Crisis (whose name worked better as the 2005 documentary) chronicles the semiretired political consultant “Calamity” Jane Bodine (serviceable Sandra Bullock), who was lured to Bolivia to breathe life into a selfish candidate lagging in the polls, circa 2002. Bullock shows fortitude, as does underused Anthony Mackie (persuasive as an attorney in Black or White), but Billy Bob Thornton has become lazy portraying smug antagonists, and the governmental foes’ personas barely register, if you will. Judging from its paltry box-office receipts, Crisis has been averted.

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