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Santa Barbara Says Goodbye To A Produce Icon, Milpas Hero, and Beloved Community Member

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im Dixon, long time owner of Tri-County Produce in Santa Barbara with his son John, passed away on February 5th, 2016. He was 83.

Canadian by birth, Jim, was reared on a 640-acre farm in the province of Ontario, near the town of Simcoe, where he was born in 1932. In 1962, he moved to the U.S. with his former wife, Joan, and their four young children, Cynthia, Sherry, Michael, and John. Jim was very proud to become an American citizen in 2003.

Jim went to work for Lee Brothers Stores and the Green Grocer in the Bay Area and established a reputation for excellence and leadership in the industry. He moved to Santa Barbara in 1969 to work for another local grocery icon, Peter Jordano.

He worked 18 years for Jordano’s as the head produce buyer and also managed the produce foods division. He pursed a lifelong dream of going out on his own, and purchased Tri-County Produce in 1985. He shared the ownership and operation of the produce business with his youngest son John, who will continue on with the successful operations.

Jim loved his family, the produce business, hunting, ballroom dancing, ice hockey, and his Crystal Cruises all over the world with his wife, Barbara. He and Barbara served two terms as the Co-Presidents of La Estrella Formal Dinner Dance Club located in Ventura. Together they shared six children, eight grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren, and many friends in the business and dancing communities of Santa Barbara, including his best friend Roke Fukumura.

Jim suffered a fairly massive cardiac episode in November, and then experienced

complications after surgery. That led to an extended stay at Serenity House, where Jim continued to display incredible fighting spirit. He received excellent compassionate care before peacefully passing away.

Jim was a consistently welcoming presence on lower Milpas Street, and a terrific community supporter. He was a fixture in the aisles of Tri-County, making sure the produce was top-notch. He was always up for a friendly chat. Members of the TriCounty team often handed out juices and fruit at community clean-ups, 5Ks, and other local events. We will miss him a great deal.

A celebration of Jim’s life will held on March 5, 2016, 11 am at the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara at 21 East Constance Avenue. The public is invited, and a reception will follow.

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ou can’t avoid it. Turn on the TV or the radio or check the Internet and it’s all about politics. Look, I get it that politics is one of our favorite sports, as Alexis de Tocqueville reminded us a couple hundred years ago. But I think that now applies to increasingly smaller circles of Americans.

The vast majority of us don’t follow politics that closely. All you have to do is check out the most-watched TV programs last year. To save you from the anxiety of suspense, the top 20 shows were football broadcasts (NFL), The Big Bang Theory, and The Walking Dead. While many of us watch the nightly news, the average viewing time is only 12 minutes.

Let me give you a caveat to these statistics: The ratings are for viewers 18 to 49. That excludes everyone 50 and up who is considered worthless to advertisers. So in fairness to you over-the-hill fifty-somethings, 25 million mostly older viewers watched the first Republican debate and 16 million watched the first Democratic debate (they’ve gone downhill since).

To put this into perspective, during the average week 23 million of you 18-to-49ers watch The Big Bang Theory (don’t know why).

I think the reason most people are sick of politics and politicians is because they think these things are making their lives worse.

And they would be correct. Politics and politicians are making things worse, not better. As I mentioned in previous columns, the top issues for Americans according to the pollsters are: government-Congresspoliticians, the economy, jobs, immigration, and healthcare (in that order).

People see the federal government as mired in nasty turf wars and unable to fix things. They are wary

about the future of the economy and they worry about their jobs. They see immigration as a threat. They are finding that their health insurance is costlier with less coverage. So they tune out.

And it’s not getting better.

Depending on the party, the current candidates either want to deprive you of your economic freedom, overregulate the economy, and tax the hell out of you; or deprive you of your freedom to choose whom to marry, what to smoke, or how to control your reproductive rights.

Just about all of them except Bernie are warmongers and all of them are demagogues.

So there you have it: these folks aren’t going to help anything.

You have to ask yourself, who or what is making your life better? I suggest that it is almost anything the government doesn’t control.

Think about it.

When you wake up in the morning, do you, like me, reach over and check your iPhone for emails, messages, appointments, and the weather?

Maybe even a little news, even before you get out of bed? You can thank Apple, a hugely wealthy corporation whose founder Steve Jobs is a billionaire (yes I know he’s dead).

And what about the Internet that connects you to everyone and everything in the world? And don’t give me the government-createdit mantra: it would have happened anyway (see Matt Ridley’s The Evolution of Everything). It was the entrepreneurs who made it work, making Google, for example, the most valuable company on the stock market and its founders billionaires.

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Do you play video games at night with your buds over the Internet or download a book from Amazon to read on your tablet or Kindle or watch programs on your 60” flat screen TV? Do you kick back with your kids by reading to them or playing games or helping with their homework? Why do you think you have the leisure time to do that?

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“Who or what is making your life better?

I suggest that it is almost anything the government doesn’t control.”

After work do you frequent a local bar or restaurant, almost all of which have been started by local entrepreneurs? Or do you work for one of these bars or restaurants started by a hard-working entrepreneur?

When you get home, do you know how your house or apartment came into being? First, thank your employer for creating the company that gave you the job that allowed you to afford to own or

markets to benefit you?

These are things that make our lives better and they affect us each and every day. Does any of this come from government? No. Without entrepreneurs and capitalists to create and finance businesses none of this would happen. My point is that we should be paying more attention to those who do make our lives better than the politicians who screw it up.

And I think you know that.

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Roses are Red, Violets are Blue St. Valentine Went Through the Ringer for You

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ove is in the air. What’s worse, civil authorities have warned that, thanks to prevailing winds, this freefloating toxic event is headed our way.

Instructions on the sealing of windows and doors have been issued on a shortwave emergency frequency and the population is being advised to stay inside.

Ha ha, lol and rotflmao (I think). Just kidding. Love isn’t really in the air. It’s in our jeans; or at least it parks its sports car there. Or is Love more than sex, more than the procreative impulse, more than blind animal instinct, more than careful coupon-clipping for discounted twelvepacks of Kirkland Bacon-Flavored He and She Body GreaseÒ at Lustco?

COSTCO I mean! (sorry).

People; IS there such a thing as love, or is Love just another frightened and distancing ritual devised by the wildly misguided species that believes Olympic Luge is a sport? From our exalted position at the top of the food chain we humans are a haughty bunch, believing ourselves miles above the “lower animals,” the helplessly copulating grabasses in the rest of the animal kingdom who hook up in the wild without so much as a how-do-you-do. We snicker like naughty school kids when we see dragonflies engaged in sexual congress while flying through the air, secretly marveling at how amazing that must be, except for the tiresome arm-flapping.

Are we really so different from the African elephants whose lumbering sex rituals we watch for hour upon mesmerizing hour on YouTube while nursing a series of too-strong rums-andcoke behind drawn curtains? No, I say.

You want to see a lower animal in the throes of the procreative instinct? Go stand in the greeting card aisle at CVS the night before Valentine’s Day and observe the defeated males, rumpled househusbands, and strutting hairproduct hipsters alike, as they stare forlornly at 60 feet of pink folded cardstock. It is positively heartbreaking.

Watch with your hand over your mouth as the hapless Y-chromosome victim selects for his beloved an $8 electronic “novelty song” card that screeches colorfully when opened. She’ll love it!

Shake your head in goggle-eyed wonder as the doomed nitwit then augments that ruinous purchase with a romancespurring bag of Sour Gummy Hearts

plucked off the “impulse buy” rack at checkout. It’s a wonder we are still able to populate the Earth.

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But if Love is just an edifice of our own invention, why are we so enamored of it? Why is it so central to the very idea of being human? Since speech and song entered the human culture some

wouldn’t laugh? These guys ruled the known world. They also wore their hair in an ill-advised cut that today would be called “baby bangs,” as in “oh my goodness, that @#$%&! hairdresser gave me @#$%&! baby bangs.” At that high point in Imperial Rome’s La Dolce Vita period, the Empire’s armies were constantly at war, clobbering their enemies with spiky clubs and spears and whatever else they could lay their hands on, the battered Roman soldiery both brutalizing and brutalized in the name of ruthless world domination.

Into this milieu strolls our star-crossed hero, the Patron Saint of Hallmark, Valentinus. He is said to have been a Christian priest who lived under the Emperorship of churlish, war-making, anti-Christian Claudius II. In that

“There was a guy in an annoyingly floppy burlap robe-thing who once made it his mission to unite young lovers and raise a bold middle finger to the Establishment in doing so.” two million years ago, Love has been the dominant theme of human expression.

Yes, humans’ first heartfelt Ur-language would have sounded like anguished, phlegmatic grunting, and the songs were probably pretty crummy – maybe only a little better than One Direction. But the paleontological record suggests that what we now call Love followed quickly on the heels of language, as did faceslapping, cheap-bouquet-mockery, and the then grotesquely glottal “does this light covering of hominid fur make me look fat?” Love and language! It was as if some inchoate, utterly human quality had been patiently waiting through the tormenting eons to be freed by language itself. Thus liberated from its silent prison, Love as an object, something to define and articulate, entered our world.

Of course all hell broke loose. But there was a guy in an annoyingly floppy burlap robe-thing who once made it his mission to unite young lovers and, in the climate of his time and place, raise a bold middle finger to the Establishment in doing so. Have you heard of him?

St. Valentine – MischiefMaking Matrimonial Martyr

In the late Third Century, the Roman Empire was throwing itself a party, and then some. Romans were it. Their footwear laced fashionably up the bare lower leg, their tunics were nicely tailored, they had tactless orgies at will and ate hoisted leg of lamb all day while laughing inexplicably. And who

period it was known that unmarried men were the preferred Roman soldier, and were more likely to be drafted into the bloody expansionist Roman juggernaut. Bachelors on the front line were known to do fierce battle without reserve; without the implicit hesitation of, say, a husband and/or father, who may reasonably be imagined flying into battle with combat tactics more informed by a desire for personal survivability than unfettered bloodlust.

So Valentinus went about his business, and he reportedly stayed very busy.

In order that more young men might be spared the rigors and death of war (and just incidentally be brought into the monogamy game at a time that permissiveness and polygamy were fairly common), Valentinus made it his business to marry, in secret Christian ceremonies, as many earnest young Roman couples as he could wrangle, scurrying around on foot in the Age Before Uber.

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This was, understandably, a bandwagon many starry-eyed young couples were eager to board, and his scheme met with some success. Though these marriages held no water in the eyes of the Roman court, Valentinus’ efforts threw a wobbler into the momentum of the Roman war-making machine, and before long he was, of course, arrested.

Claudius, a baby-bangs jerk straight out of Central Casting, gave Valentinus the usual stark choice of dumping his faith

or being beaten with clubs, then stones, then finished with a sword. “Do you choose death over renunciation of your foolish faith?” Since our guy is today known as Saint Valentine, we can guess at the refusenik’s reply. By several accounts, the evening before his execution Valentinus was approached by one of his jailers, a hope-filled fence-sitter named Asterius, whose beloved little girl was blind. When Valentinus healed Asterius’ daughter of her blindness, the jailer was thunderstruck, and wept tears of gratitude and joy, but was unable to save our mischief-making love martyr. When the young girl awoke the next morning, Valentinus was gone, having been, as promised, thrashed outside the city gates unto death. But she found a note he’d left her. Thanks to her new friend she was able to read it. History has forgotten what the note said, but he’d signed it, “From Your Valentine.”

Love is Approximately All You Need

Today this selfless love bug’s sacrifice has metastasized into a 2 billion dollar annual orgy of caring here in the U.S., centered around the yearly commemoration that bears the poor guy’s name and the ritualistic mobpurchases of candy, flowers, jewelry, and enough poorly chosen Valentine’s Day cards to fell an old-growth forest.

If his desiccated body bits weren’t spread over thousands of miles of church naves and reliquaries, I can imagine St. Valentine roaming our Sour-GummyHearted world with arms outstretched, not zombie-like but in an attitude of imprecation; “Really, you guys?!” It’s kind of a mess. Where is the Love? Is it All Around? A Many Splendored Thing?

Full disclosure: I’m in love and so are you, and love isn’t a foolhardy invention; it’s a discovery, a revealed element, like arithmetic or the wheel, one of the invisible gears that keeps this mystery machine humming. We partake of it whether we know it or not, whether we want to or not. Yeah, there are mishaps.

In the early eighties Burt Bacharach and his then-wife Carole Bayer-Sager went to a showing of E.T. with their pal Neil Diamond. The three were sufficiently moved by the film and its co-dependent, diaphanous, indefinite-article excluding alien, to write and unleash upon the world the 1982 glycemic seizure “Heartlight.” So things can go terribly wrong (true story), but by and large love is a marvel. Sex? I have to go with Bob Hope on this one: “Three beautiful women were frantically banging on my hotel room door all night. Couldn’t sleep a wink! Eventually I had to get up and let them out.”

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f variety is the spice of life, then the mix-pack is as spicy as it gets in the beer world. Assorted 12-packs have become incredibly popular with craft brewers and drinkers alike. One of the most exciting things about craft beer is the exhaustive number of beers available to beerdoes. While there are plenty of brews that I enjoy a 6-pack of, normally I like to jump between different styles and flavors when I am drinking beer. The mix-pack allows the drinker to do just that without having to buy multiple six-packs. Often these variety boxes feature three bottles each of four different offerings from the brewery. Usually the box includes three standard beers from the brewery’s yearround lineup in addition to a seasonal or limited edition beer. Breweries like Sierra Nevada and Sam Adams have even started producing several different variety packs. Stores like Whole Foods and bottle shops have caught on to this trend and have begun selling 6-pack carriers where people can make their own mix-pack by picking and choosing from a variety of beers and breweries.

Feeling the Folly

As in most variety packs, the selection will change from time to time. The Folly Pack from New Belgium Brewing has been a popular mixed box and normally contains their classic Fat Tire Amber Ale, the toasty 1554 Black Ale, the traditionally flavored Ranger IPA, and a seasonal offering. They have recently changed this to a Hoppy Folly Pack that includes RyePA, Ranger IPA, Rampant Double IPA, and Citradelic Tangerine IPA. The RyePA uses craft malts from Riverbend Malt House and has a spicymalt character underlining the tropical fruit, floral, and wet earth hop aromas.

Rampant is one of my go-to 6-packs when I’m in the mood for something hoppy and has a wonderful peach and mango aroma to it. The Citradelic Tangerine IPA has a fresh aroma with a pleasant crispness from the tangerines.

New Belgium also offers a Can Folly Pack that contains three cans each of Fat Tire Amber Ale, the light and floral Slow Ride Session IPA, the bready and crisp Snapshot Wheat Beer, and of course, Ranger IPA. Canned beer is desired over bottles for several reasons (see my column from the previous issue). If you are looking for more of this format, Oskar Blues Brewery has their CANundrum mix pack that features

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A Blend of Oysters, Art, and Beer

A personal favorite is the Flying Dog Variety Pack. The box art alone is a treat. All of the wild artwork for Flying Dog comes from the legendary Ralph Steadman, most known for his illustrations in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and other Hunter S. Thompson works. The mix pack includes their perfume-y Flying Dog Pale Ale and Snake Dog IPA, which is more citric in nature. Flying Dog made sure that their popular Raging Bitch Belgian-style IPA is in the box as well. Steadman describes Raging Bitch as, “Two inflammatory words... one wild drink. Nectar imprisoned in a bottle. Let it out. It is cruel to keep a wild animal locked up.

Release it.” And I don’t think I could describe the ambrosiac flavors of this tempestuous beer any better.

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The King of Broadway Returns

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he full circle and back again journey of The Producers thrills us to no end – not to mention the fact that it’s probably the funniest and fastest-paced musical in several decades. I mean, how can you not love the art-imitating-life-imitating-art-imitating-life-etc. saga of the show? The Producers is about a down-on-his-luck/deep-in-the-hole Broadway wheeler-dealer attempting to come up with an idea for a musical that was so tasteless – Hitler as lighthearted romp – it couldn’t help but flop, so he’d never have to account for selling investments in the vehicle that totaled many times 100 percent. (Think of it as the theatrical investor equivalent of a short sell). But then – just like America’s housing bubble in 2008 – things went a little kablooey, and the show becomes a smash hit, leading to all sorts of other shenanigans.

Writer-director Mel Brooks created The Producers as a movie back in 1968, but 20-plus years later decided to turn it into an actual Broadway musical, which in turn was so successful (a record 12 Tony Awards in 1992) that they decided to make another movie based on the musical, and then there’s been some Broadway revivals. The latest National Touring Company production at least isn’t coming up with anything new. In fact, the version that plays at the Granada Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 16-17 is an exact re-creation of the Tony-winning one from the early 1990s, even using the original direction, choreography, sets and costumes. Not the original actors, of course; Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane weren’t available. But we’ve got an up-and-coming conservatory graduate and a Broadway veteran in the roles of Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock, the former a quiet conservative accountant who eventually goes along with the latter’s scam. We’re hearing that they’re up to the frenetic pacing and do a fine job delivering the show-stopping songs that include “I Want to Be a Producer,” “The King of Broadway,” “When You’ve Got It, Flaunt It,” “Where Did We Go Right?” and, of course, the pivotal production number “Springtime for Hitler” without missing a beat.

Lauding Lisa

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e’re still deeply enmeshed in the Santa Barbara International Film Festival at this writing, so you’ll have to forgive the overly cinematic-theme approach to a couple of the fortnight’s events.

All that is by way of bringing up Lisa Fischer, the back-up singer who performed alongside, behind or at least in the neighborhood of such rock luminaries as the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bobby McFerrin, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Chaka Khan and Laurie Anderson. But despite her riveting vocal sparring with Mick Jagger on “Gimme

Shelter,” chances are you never heard of her. At least until the 2013 movie 20 Feet from Stardom – which, by the way, was produced by a Santa Barbara-raised dude and screened at SBIFF. Fischer was profiled as a central figure in the Oscarwinning documentary that chronicled the plight of the super-talented vocalists who, for any number of reasons, just didn’t break through on their own and thus wind up serving as side men and women for the big names we do know.

Her role in the film brought Fischer into the spotlight as one of those unsung heroes of the recording industry

who are celebrated professionally but largely ignored by the general public.

And of course, if somewhat ironically, that attention has now sparked her own solo career, leading Fischer to head out on tour with her own band, Grand Baton. We’re told play something like an “organic fusion of African, Middle Eastern and Caribbean rhythms along with psychedelic soul and progressive rock,” whatever the heck that means.

Fischer will sing some of her original material along with offering her own take on songs from years of touring behind the greats of rock ‘n’ roll and R&B. See if she’s got the same charisma and attention-grabbing pipes at the leader of the band out at UCSB Campbell Hall

on Wednesday, February 17. I wonder who her back-up singers are? And when will they get their own bands?!

Lunch with a Serenade on the Side We heartily recommend Opera Santa Barbara’s Noontime Concert series which has been ambitiously expanded and upgraded for 2016. The newly named Mosher Studio Artists – who also serve in various roles for OSB’s main stage productions at the Granada – will be performing on a regular basis at public libraries from Goleta to Ventura for the next two months, singing a variety of both famous and less familiar operatic repertoire as well as musical theater selections, often with piano accompaniment.

Want to know a bit more about the singers? If you’re an OSB fan, you’ve already seen mezzo-soprano Molly Clementz, a doctoral candidate at UCSB, who appeared in Don Giovanni last season and played Page in Rigoletto in 2014. She also performed the lead role of Viola in the West Coast premiere of UCSB professor Joel Feigin’s Twelfth Night on campus last year. Meanwhile, two of the other three – soprano Rachel Blaustein and tenor Lee Steiner – performed last year in productions at Des Moines Metro Opera, which also employed Kyle Naig, a Des Moines native who serves as the pianist. (Think they might be happy to be wintering in Santa Barbara this year?) As far as we know, baritone Tim Petty, who recently completed tenures at Opera Saratoga and Tulsa Opera, has never set foot in Des Moines, by the way.

The young artists perform for an hour at noon on February 17 and 24, and March 2, April 6, 13 & 20, and May 11, at Santa Barbara Central Library, plus April 25 at Goleta Public Library.

They’ll sing for your lunch (hour).

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Keep the Love Alive We’re big fans of David Courtenay, the Santa Barbara musician who has transformed himself from largely a cover band vocalist-guitarist into a soulful and gently spiritual singer-songwriter whose got that special something. We love his music, his energy and his smile – and if truth be told, we like the crowd he draws, almost universally similarly upbeat, happy folks who dance, sing along and otherwise connect with each other. Most of the time, though, Courtenay shows up at non-traditional venues, at private house parties, in the cavernous Carr Winery, at the tiny Seven Bar in the Funk Zone, or outdoors on the patio at the Benchmark.

But now with his new album finally finished and ready for release in hard copy format, he’s booked a big show at the Blind Tiger for Friday, February 19, where Courtenay will perform with band mates Jon Payne (guitar), Kasey Warner (drums), Michael Morgan (bass), Evan Laflamme (sax), and Ben Nomura (guitar) and guests vocalist Lynette Gaona and cello player Angus Cooke.

The show features a Valentine’s Day week theme of “Keep the Love Alive.” “We’re inviting all our fans to come dressed as LOVE, whatever that means to you,” reads the invite.

“If you feel so inspired, come dressed in your most beautiful ‘love’ attire, whether it’s as cupid, an angel, a dolpin, a hummingbird, or simply a Flower Child.” More importantly, Courtenay is also filming the show as part of an upcoming music video for “Godspeed,” his infectious song with the refrain “Godspeed your love, speed your love to me.” So if you dress up, feel free to get up close to the stage and dance your way into the picture.

All About Wine One of the great appeals of the California Wine Festival’s beach party every summer is the wonderful outdoor ambiance, with cool ocean breeze, views of the mountains, soft grass underfoot and the great big blue sky all enhancing the tastings at the massive event. Well the Winter Wine

Classic, produced by the same folks, hasn’t got any of that, since it’s held indoors in the grand ballroom at the Fess Parker DoubleTree Hotel, this year on Saturday, February 20. What it does have is wine. Lots of wine. Really good wine. The annual event attracts a truly impressive list of winemakers and vineyards, many of which don’t pour at too many other events in the area, such as Kessler-Haak and Le Cuvier. Come ready to sip, savor and enjoy. But don’t expect a party. It’s about the wine.

Banff is Back What? Between SBIFF proper and the Third Weekend you somehow still haven’t had enough of sitting in the dark watching something happening to and between other people up on a screen in the theater? Apparently the folks over at UCSB Arts & Lectures feel the same way, or at least hope there’s enough like you who can’t get enough of adventure and scenery on the screen, which might explain why they’ve booked The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour over February 23-24 at the Arlington Theatre – the same venue with all those Hollywood heroes just received honors and tributes during SBIFF. This year marks Banff’s 40th anniversary as well as 25 years of A&L screening some of the best from the short film fest encompassing adventure, extreme sports, mountain culture, and environment films. Each night has a different program (no repeats, we promise) full of epic climbs, ski descents, stunning paragliding, thrills and chills of seasoned mountaineers, and this year includs shorts on ultrarunning and kayaking.

While there won’t be any of that additional SBIFF-style hoopla, you can expect big crowds, as these shorts are very popular and perennially sell out. So if you don’t want to have to sit up front and crane your neck at craters and crevices or have to fish out your opera glasses to see if that’s a skier or just a small tree glued to the mountain if you get stuck in the back, you might want to come pretty early. You’ve been warned.

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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.

The Wild West of California Artists

Los Angeles Fine Arts Squad, Isle of California–Lunch Brake for Henderson and Schoonhoven (detail), 1973

Rebecca Harlow, Curatorial Assistant at AD&A Museum on UCSB campus

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C Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A) has opened one of the most exciting group exhibitions of California artists from the mid-century to the present day, California 101: Art from the Collection. This show includes works by notable artists John Arvanites, John Baldessari, Nancy Barton, Lawrie Brown, Chris Burden, Judy Chicago, Robbie Conal, Steven Cortright, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Connor Everts, Sam Francis, Charles Gaines, Betty Gold, Penelope Gottlieb, Maren Hassinger, Ed Kienholz, Mary Miss, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Catherine Opie, Lari Pittman, Ed Ruscha, Alison Saar, Audrey Sanders, Jeff Sanders, Richard Serra, Robert Therrien, Carrie Mae Weems, and others.

Almost all of the pieces on display are from the museum’s permanent collection and were select by AD&A curatorial assistant Rebecca Harlow. She explains, “The exhibition was mounted after Professor Jenni Sorkin asked us if we would have anything on view during her spring undergrad course Art in California, 1940-2016. The museum really is the student’s museum, as well as the community at large, and we work hard to collaborate with campus professors to make exhibitions that are relevant to students.”

Surprised by the high quality works she discovered in the museum’s collection, Harlow began to construct a show that brought new relevance to older works, juxtaposing contemporary

Richard Diebenkorn, View of the Ocean, Santa Cruz Island, 1958

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artists next to their historical peers and highlighting pieces that were incredibly risky at one point in time but now seem like common subject matter such as feminist, conceptual, and racial identity art.

Harlow says, “I wanted to show lesser-known and emerging artists

alongside iconic works by artists such as Ed Ruscha, Judy Chicago, and Charles Gaines. The exhibition can serve as an introduction of sorts, but isn’t intended as a history lesson. Rather, I hope it’s a place of discovery, whether that’s by viewing familiar artists in a new context, or becoming acquainted with an artist unknown to the viewer.”

There has always been a freedom for artists to explore their practices along the west coast. California has had a claim to its own artistic manifest destiny while art world has been focused on New York and Europe as international creative hubs as long as there has been art. Yet that is all changing I feel and Harlow agrees, “I think artists in California, and in Los Angeles in particular, are under a microscope – there is tremendous pressure and competition. At the same time, there are more avenues than ever before for artists to get their work seen ­­­– social media and the web, informal spaces, pop-up galleries. Artists have to be their own advocates, and entrepreneurial, now more than ever.”

Edward Keinholz, Entre 23, 1980

With the California landscape in mind, Harlow arranged the show to reflect the two oppositional experiences of our state, a spacious airy presentation in the main room, leaving a breath of fresh air between each piece much like the vast open terrain of the west coast and in the smaller adjoining gallery, a crowded salon style hanging, packed with works of numerous artists mirroring the density of big cities and the traffic packed 101 Freeway that runs the length of California.

California 101: Art from the Collection is up through April and is an overview of important artworks that will leave you inspired. Be sure to make your way to the UCSB Campus and check it out to get a clear view of what California artists are really all about.

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the oysters in this unique style of stout contribute more of a subtle saltysmokiness than a “fishy” character. Pearl Necklace uses a touch of midnight wheat malt, which adds dark colors to the beer but none of the burnt astringent character of other roasted malts traditionally found in stouts. The wheat malt gives the beer an elegant smoothness to the complex flavors of this stout.

The Original Craft

When Fritz Maytag first bought the dilapidated Anchor Brewing in 1965, he saved this antique brewery from bankruptcy and jump-started the craft beer movement. San Francisco was once known for its steam beer, a style that originated during the California Gold Rush. In the ‘sixties, Anchor was not just one of the last regional small breweries, it was the sole brewer of the steam beer style. At that time Anchor Steam was said to be inconsistent and full of off flavors.

Ten years later, Anchor Steam had been revitalized to its full glory and the brewery was producing four other beers: Anchor Porter, Liberty Ale, Old Foghorn Barleywine Ale, and the first Our Special Ale, their holiday brew. Fritz transformed Anchor Brewing into the epitome of quality and consistency in the industry and inspired generations of craft brewers and drinkers.

The Anchor Brewing Craft Originals mix-pack includes Anchor Steam, Liberty Ale, Anchor California Lager, and Anchor IPA. Of course the name “Craft Originals” is a little misleading considering Anchor California Lager and Anchor IPA were brewed in 2012 and 2014 respectively. Since Fritz’s retirement and the selling of the brewery to SKYY Vodka, Anchor Brewing has

kept its quality however its products have been more responsive to trends in the marketplace.

Liberty Ale was first brewed in 1975 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride. This beer was one of the first to use Cascade hops, easily the most popular American hop to this day, and was considered to be the first American-style IPA. These days, it is a shame that this historic beer is often overlooked for more high octane IPAs that use a cacophony of overly bitter new age hops. The brewery responded with its Anchor IPA. This beer has an increased alcohol content and a more exotic hop profile than Liberty Ale, which still just uses the single hop, Cascade.

In 1975, Liberty Ale was not Anchor’s only progressive beer. At that time, porter had gone extinct in England and there were no more examples being brewed in the country. Anchor Porter restored the smooth, chocolaty flavor of this ale style and introduced porters back to the masses. Old Foghorn modernized the English-style barleywines with the strong bittering hops of America, creating a more balanced flavor in these malty ales. While Anchor IPA and California Lager are nice responses to the modern demands of the marketplace, it would be great to see Anchor showcase the real “Craft Originals” and put the original 1975 lineup in their mix-pack. A set that blended steam beer, IPA, porter, and barleywine into one box, would be unique in the market and would tell the legend of this pioneering brewery.

While many changes have occurred in the industry since those days, mix-packs are clearly here to stay and this trend has only spiced up the lives of craft beer drinkers.

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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.

Panelists Impress at SBIFF

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can’t usually sit still through a twohour tribute to a movie star. But I’m a SBIFF panel junkie. Can’t get enough of what the creatives have to say about the movies they make. So you’re going to get much more info about words from the folks behind the camera than those in front in this report.

Jeremy Kleiner, who produced The Big Short, one of the front-runners for the Best Picture Oscar, candidly admitted, “Half the battle is staying alive long enough for something positive to happen to you” in the movie business.

Kleiner, who also produced Moneyball, which was also adapted from a bestselling book by Michael Lewis, called The Big Short “The movie I was born to make,” but then again he called Talladega Nights one of his subversive favorites, too.

Still, it’s been heartening that the film “about values” has found an audience, and

Kleiner said he hoped it “might have an impact on how we think and what we do.”

From Finola Dwyer, we learned that Brooklyn was filmed largely in Montreal for budgetary reasons, with only two days of the 30-day shooting schedule taking place in the New York borough.

Room producer Ed Guiney gamely went over the way the crew came up with a way to shoot the claustrophobic first half in a space the actual size of the space in the story, noting that, “On a per square-inch basis, no one’s talked about a set more than (this one).” Guiney, who has worked with Room director Lenny Abrahamson for 35 years, was also the panelist who most directly responded to a question about the supposed battle between producers and directors over issues of money vs. art, saying that, “Every good film is one long conversation, which is the one key agreement to have.”

But it was Spotlight’s Steve Golin who took the candid crown when he fessed up that, despite battles with the film’s financial folks for a larger budget, “Had we gotten more money, I don’t think we would have made a better movie.”

The panelists also offered some advice to would-be producers interested in entering (in K’s words) “this mysterious profession,” with The Revenant’s Mary Parent suggesting, “Be passionate, believe, don’t give up, be relentless, like a dog with a bone.” (Or, we might add, a bear with a trapped trapper.)

At the screenwriters panel later the same day, eight of nine were Oscar nominees, and they covered a number of topics, including their writing processes – responses ran the gamut from requiring total silence to needing to be surrounded by noise, and from methodically working the same hours every day, to doing virtually nothing until deadline pressure requires the words to show up on the page. We found out that Spotlight’s Josh Singer was surprised when director Tom McCarthy decided to maintain a full six protagonists after interviewing the reporters and editors of the Boston Globe team that won a Pulitzer for its coverage of the Catholic priests abuse scandal.

“I asked him, ‘Are we doing Altman’,” Singer recalled, then joined in the

unusual effort. Straight Outta Compton’s Jonathan Herman deadpanned that “I understand why they hired me. I’m a white Jewish guy from Connecticut.

Made a lot of sense.” Too soon?

Best moment? Room author and screenwriter Emma Donoghue making panel neighbor Pete Docter of Inside Out show the audience the paper giraffe he’d been folding while the others spoke – it seems like he found the right career at Pixar.

Over the next several days, there was a lot that was weird (Brie Larson eschewing a live appearance in Santa Barbara in favor of Skype-ing with the moderator due to having to return to shooting the new King Kong in Australia, despite attending the Oscar nominee luncheon eight hours earlier in L.A.), wonderful (we’ll start and end with Alicia Vikander’s pink on pink top and pants over pink sandals), tons of fun (most notably nine-year-old Jacob Tremblay absolutely stealing the show from his five fellow Virtuoso Award winners with a variety of hilarious lines).

The Virtuosos were, as usual, a big bang for the buck, as instead of delving deep into career retrospectives we get quick hits with several currently hot actors and actresses. We learned O’Shea Jackson Jr.’s biggest difference with his famous father Ice Cube (“I smile

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a whole lot more”), and that Love and Mercy’s Elizabeth Banks really doesn’t have any sympathy for the family of disgraced doctor Eugene Landy, the late psychiatrist who nearly destroyed Brian Wilson over a six-year period. “I don’t care,” she said. “He was not nice. He was a very bad person.”

Paul Dano, who played Wilson in the first half of the film, noted that his first meeting with the legendary Beach Boy was most fun when they talked about the music (“He still lights up like a schoolboy”). The talk had me running back to watch the movie again, which then had me pulling up my Beach Boys mp3s (listening to them as I write this), and wishing I’d found a way to crash the Beach Boys show at the Granada last month. Goldarnit that Brian Wilson sure was a crazy musical genius at a very tender young age.

Rocky and Creed actor Sylvester Stallone proved bright and humble in his chat, and it was interesting to have Carl Weathers, who played Creed in the original film, present him with the award.

So it’s been a good time.

And that’s not even mentioning the movies themselves, which have been a cut above to be sure this year. I haven’t seen all that many, but there have been no absolute clunkers. Even a clichéd independent

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feature like High Strung was well made and had terrific dance sequences that were visceral fun. I just came back from a late night screening of animated shorts that opened with a brilliantly simple yet evocative I Am a Pencil, created after the shootings at Charlie Hebdo, and closed with a charming Follow Your Heart that had owners being led by their hearts that had been turned into dog-like creates on leashes.

It’s far too early at this writing to give you the rundown on which films will be re-screened at SBIFF’s annual Third Weekend event, when locals get a chance to see most of the award-winning movies and other popular films one final time up at the Riviera Theater. Best thing to do is check www.sbiff.org for the lineup after the official fest closes on Saturday night, February 13. The good news (or bad, depending on your point of view) is there is no charge, and no red carpets, no priority lines for entrance for those wearing the cool badges, no postscreening Q&A’s, nor any other stuff to distract you from the actual films over the three days of screenings, FridaySunday, February 19-21. But there will be plenty of people vying for the seats, so be advised to show up early for the ones you want to watch – in person, since there’s also no seat saving.

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ssemblage artist Dan Levin has entertained our eyes for years and now he’s after our hearts. In his “Lonely Hearts” collection, Levin cut each card by hand then glued them together to create a 3-D world centered around a heart of the deck. Most are created with vintage cards, which means no two are alike.

Dan Levin’s “Lonely Hearts” collection can be found at ONWARD Art & Design 1233 State Street, Santa Barbara Call Dan for delivery: (866) 852-5891 danlevin@danlevin.com Instagram: @danlevinart www.DanLevin.com

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his issue is a diverse one, just the way we like it. We’ve got artist Dan Levin and photographer William Tover keeping us company in Obsessed With and On The Spot. Then Twenty-Four Blackbirds lands in The Sweet Spot while our tastebuds rejoice over The Andersen’s Danish Bakery & Restaurant and Private Chef Robin’s recipes in Raising The Bar and Quick Bites. DJ Magneto gives us a peak into his highly creative life in 5 Things and celebrated singer (and featured songstress in the movie 20 Feet From Stardom) Ms. Lisa Fischer takes five in our Q&A. How do we know about all these wonderful people? Because you tell us! Keep it coming: megan@ santabarbarasentinel.com or Instagram: @santabarbarasentinel.com. As always, thanks for reading. Look forward to hearing from you!

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William Tover Photography 3950 Via Real #181, Carpinteria (805) 252-5202 willtover@hotmail.com williamtover.com

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The Berry Man, Inc. is a wholesale produce distributor supplying produce and artisanal products to restaurants, resorts, institutions, caterers, and markets from Big Sur to Santa Barbara to Santa Monica. While sourcing worldwide, special emphasis is on the locally grown. Cory Clark is sales and marketing director of The Berry Man, Inc. and the voice of this sponsored column, The Berry Man.

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HELPING THOSE WHO HELP US HELPING FAMILIES AND THE COMMUNITY

(From left to right) Executive Director Tim Hardy, his wife Pat Pinkerton, Campaign Chair Matt Rowe, Board Chair Jaylon Letendre, Associate Executive Director Vince Iuculano, and his wife Kelly Iuculano

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his is our tagline for a reason. Guy, our founder, started on a shoestring with a few flats of local strawberries. He grew the business by being persistent: selling his berries. As his reputation grew and his early customers knew they could rely on him for consistency in product and service, they asked if he could supply more than berries. He began adding other types of produce, and after a few years realized there was a demand for expanded lines such as dairy and specialty foods. Eventually, he grew a brand that today is known as The Berry Man. At The Berry Man, we consider ourselves a boutique company. We select the best product in a category and focus our selling on that line, exclusively. Although the core of our business is produce, we also sell what we call “complementary items.”

The Berry Man is also unique in wholesale distribution. Even though we are wholesalers and rely on high volume for profit, we allow our customers to buy in small quantities. This helps the smaller customer, or the ones with limited storage, to buy as needed. We are not the generic big box produce house – you don’t have to be a giant account to get a good deal!

Being a local business ourselves, we strive to support other local businesses – it is in keeping with our model for produce procurement. The first step in our purchasing process is to buy from local growers. We are fortunate that our centers of distribution in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and a soon-to-be-third location are positioned between some of the nation’s richest agricultural regions. The Central Valley is the world’s largest patch of Class1Soil, thereby producing some of the best produce available.

Having the option to purchase locally grown food has many benefits.

Locally grown food is full of flavor. When grown locally, the crops are picked at their peak of ripeness rather than being harvested early in order to be shipped and distributed.

Eating local food is eating seasonally. Even though we wish tomatoes were field grown year round in California, the best time to eat them is when they can be purchased directly from a local grower in the summer. They are full of flavor and taste better than the ones available in the winter that have traveled thousands of miles and picked before they were ripe. Local food supports the local economy.

The money that is spent with local farmers and growers all stays close to home and is reinvested with businesses and services in the community. Local growers can tell you how the food was grown. You can ask what practices they use to raise and harvest the crops. When you know where your food comes from and who grew it, you know a lot more about that food.

As we aim to enhance our business with local product lines, we do our research to select the best of the best – we see ourselves in partnerships with our purveyors.

When we place a company’s product in our catalog, it is our commitment to them, to facilitate the growth of their company by presenting their product along with our very best, to all of our customers. Whether it is honey from the Santa Ynez Mountains, San Marzano tomatoes from the Central Valley, or wild mushrooms from a local forager, we believe in local first!

INTRODUCING “WHAT THE FORK” FOR TIPS, TRICKS AND WHERE TO FIND THE LATEST PRODUCTS AND CULINARY TRENDS. What the fork do I do with green garlic?

Green garlic is just a young garlic plant. Garlic is planted in the fall then starts to grow rapidly in the spring when the green tops start to pop up.

At this stage the garlic has not formed bulbs yet. Green garlic looks very much like thicker scallions or spring onions – they are long and slender with tender green tops, and the white parts

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he Santa Barbara Family YMCA launched its annual campaign with a Kentucky Derbythemed soirée to raise money for placing kids and families in need into YMCA programs such as summer day camp, teen development, senior fitness, after school care, the LIVESTRONG cancer survivor (From left to right) Meredith Garofalo and volunteer campaigner, Darlene Love program, and memberships.

“Everything the YMCA does is in service of making us better. For some people, these services may not be attainable because of cost,” said Santa Barbara Family YMCA Executive Director Tim Hardy. “The YMCA makes sure that these services are available to everyone in our community, regardless of income.”

Donations to the YMCA can be made in-person, via mail, by phone, or online.

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Green garlic has a milder, fresher, and sweeter taste than regular hardnecked garlic. The whole plant can be eaten, and it has a spicier, more intense bite than scallions, but can be used in much the same way. Try sautéing it with other spring veggies such as fava beans, mushrooms, and baby spring vegetables. They also make a lovely garlic soup, which can be appealing to those who are sensitive to the sharpness of mature B garlic.

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t was a nice surprise to see that Pressed Juicery lowered their price per bottle. Now just five bucks a piece, we can afford to stock up on a few extras including this new refreshing drink made with chard, mustard and turnip greens, spinach, apple, lemon, coco water, and jalapeño for a kick. With seven grams of protein per half bottle, it keeps you fuller and functioning.

Pressed Juicery 1024 Coast Village Rd #C Montecito (805) 845-2093 7 am - 8 pm daily 651 Paseo Nuevo Suite 305 Santa Barbara (805) 966-0099 8 am - 10 pm daily Instagram: @pressedjuicery www.pressedjuicery.com

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t this time of year, lemons are bursting with bright, citrusy flavor. This recipe combines both salt and sugar, making these preserves versatile in many dishes, both sweet and savory. A special preserving process requires making a brine, which is not unlike pickling and takes a bit of time. After ingredients are combined, they are left to loosen up to transform. Once you’ve preserved lemons, it’s the rind, not the juice or pulp, that you’ll be using in most recipes. After a few weeks you will have something that adds brilliance to a rice or grain dish, dressings, Moroccan tagines, or even in a Bloody Mary. The sweetness of the lemons is also a nice addition to yogurt-based sauces. Makes 1 quart jar.

PRESERVED LEMONS Ingredients: 6 organic lemons 1/2 cup organic sugar 1/2 cup kosher salt

1 teaspoon crushed coriander seeds 1/4 teaspoon turmeric 3 cloves

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Set a large pot of water on the stove and bring to a boil. Scrub lemons well and place into boiling water for 10 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer lemons to an ice bath (a medium bowl filled with half ice and half cold water). Reserve 2 cups of the cooking liquid. Mix sugar, salt, coriander seeds, turmeric, and cloves in a small bowl. Score the lemons by cutting each into quarters but not all the way through to the other end. In a large bowl add the lemons with the sugar, salt, and spices from the small bowl. Then place the lemons in a clean 1-quart Mason jar. Sprinkle with any remaining sugar-saltspice mixture, then pour reserved cooking liquid in and cover completely. (You may have to push the lemons down with a wooden spoon to totally immerse them in the liquid.) Cover with the lid and chill for two weeks in the refrigerator. Once the lemons are preserved, remove a lemon from the brining liquid and push the seeds out with your fingers. Chop or puree the whole preserved lemon and add to your preparation.

Raising the Bar

HEART OF THE DRAGON

Dragon Fruit, cored and cut into triangles 1/2 squeezed Texas grapefruit Splash of Simple syrup Glass of Champagne

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he Andersen’s Danish Bakery and Restaurant has been serving Santa Barbara for over 40 years and what makes this place special – besides the beautiful sun lit space, amazing food, elegant desserts, and weekly specials – are the Andersens themselves, who are even sweeter than their delicious treats. Charlotte Andersen came up with this creative champagne cocktail on a whim and the exotic fruit combo makes this a drink to put in the memory bank. Sip on this with one of their decadent desserts, sans guilt because you deserve it.

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ater saving solutions are made easy with faucet aerators. To reduce water use every time you turn on the faucet, install efficient faucet aerators. Look for 1.5 gallons per minute (gpm) for kitchen and 0.5 gpm for bathroom.

WaterWise City of Santa Barbara 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara (805) 564-5460 • SantaBarbaraCA.gov/WaterWise

Private Chef Robin Robin Goldstein, known as “Private Chef Robin” to her clientele, cooks for special events and private parties.

To book: (805) 284-4264 www.privatechefrobin.com Find her salt infusions at The Santa Barbara Company, C’est Cheese, Isabella Gourmet Foods, the Santa Barbara Winery Tasting Room, Porch on Santa Claus Lane, and Viva Oliva in Montecito.

The Andersen’s Danish Bakery and Restaurant 1106 State Street Santa Barbara (805) 962-5085 Instagram: @andersensdanishbakerysb www.andersenssantabarbara.com

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ounder Mike Orlando’s extensive skill level brings this operation is down to science. Literally.

Mike’s science background has allowed him to build chocolate making machines no other company is using – and we’re talking about the big dogs, too. Each bar is hand-wrapped and every stage is carefully monitored to ensure we get the taste that keeps Twenty-Four Blackbirds Chocolate in a league of their own. Check their website for an extensive list of local and national retailers.

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BRING THIS PAGE INTO THE MUSEUM FOR 2 FREE DRINK TICKETS FOR THE OPENING RECEPTION OF SHIFT, STRETCH, EXPAND EXHIBITION!

SHIFT, STRETCH, EXPAND:

EVERYDAY TRANSFORMATIONS MCASB presents art from both sides of State Street! The MCASB Satellite @ Hotel Indigo is celebrating the opening of a new exhibition featuring artists either from or working in Santa Barbara. This exhibition is free and open to the public, including an opening reception to take place February 20 from 6 pm - 8 pm at 121 State Street Beer by one of MCASB’s Tastemakers, Telegraph Brewing Company, will be on hand to quench your thirst.

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THERE’S MORE! As an extension of the Shift, Stretch, Expand: Everyday Transformations exhibition, Santa Barbara-based artist Weslie Ching will present a dance-work created specifically to be shown at Hotel Indigo, titled Temporary/Contemporary.

The piece unfolds in various areas of the hotel and uses this setting-a place in which people who have no relationship to each other, other than their temporary location--to explore the shifting sense of identity, anonymity, and restlessness that individuals can experience in this transitional environment.

Immediately following Ching’s premiere performance on February 21st, there will be an opportunity to talk with the artists in the exhibition.

Light refreshments provided.

FREE ADMISSION.

MCASB MEMBER BENEFITS EXTENDED TO ALL MEMBERSHIP LEVELS: Personalized membership card Being the first to know about upcoming exhibitions and events Member discount on ticketed events Invitation to the annual member party North American Reciprocal Museum Program (Free access to about 800 institutions) Access to Artist Development Workshops One complimentary MCASB Publication

MEMBERSHIP LEVELS: Deluxe ($150) – Includes all the above as well as early bird notification of BYOA and two complimentary drink tickets at Curated Cocktails, MCASB’s popular First Thursday event Premium ($250) – Includes all the above as well as a 20% discount to the museum store and four free tickets to Curated Cocktails.

Platinum ($500) – Includes all the above as well as an invitation to VIP preview receptions for each exhibition and and one complimentary limited edition art print.

(Left to right: Maria Rendón, Untitled, 2015; and Weslie Ching, We Are Made Of Stars, 2015.

Photo: Arna Bajraktarevic)

Temporary/Contemporary will be performed three times: February 21, 2016 at 11 am June 26, 2016 at 2 pm October 7, 2016 at 6 pm

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J Magneto aka Manny Roldan has been bringing down the house since he was a teen – the name DJ Magneto was given to him at his first big DJ gig in high school when he performed at a rave at the Palm Springs bowling alley in 1993.

This multi-faceted creative artist admits he likes “short walks at the beach and long sunset watching sessions,” usually at the bluffs in Isla Vista or the Douglas Family Preserve near his home on Mesa Lane. Manny breaks it down and gives us a taste of what it’s like in his world.

1. I moved to Santa Barbara in 2003 from Portland, Oregon after finishing design school at Portland State University.

2. I run the longest DJ night at The Goodfoot Lounge’s “1st Friday Super Jam” in Portland. As you can tell by the name of the club, I play lots of James Brown.

3. I love tunes based on funk, soul, disco, jazz, blues, and dub reggae vibes, so hip-hop, house, Icelandic noise core, Cumbia (Latin American dance music), yacht rock, drum and bass, slow jams, R&B, and stuff with congas. I take pride in making every event I DJ the most fun possible – some of my most memorable gigs have been DJing at private events for my friends weddings, UGG parties all over the world and, for sure, every time at The Goodfoot Lounge.

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Y her appearance in the hit documentary 20 ou may know this acclaimed singer from

Feet From Stardom. But The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, and other heavy hitters know her as a favorite longtime backup singer. Now we have a chance to experience her vocal styling for ourselves as Lisa Fischer heads her own band, Grand Baton, at UCSB Campbell Hall on February 17.

4. By day I’m a footwear designer and in-house runway show music selector for UGG at Deckers in Goleta.

5. On Sundays, you can find my daughter, Vivi, and I gallivanting around Santa Barbara taking time to do nothing.

Manny Roldan mannyroldan@gmail.com Instagram: @mannymagneto Facebook.com/selector.manny Listen at: www.mixcloud.com/djmagneto

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e decided to put Aga John Rugs in this section because having one of their vintage, handmade, and/or imported rugs in your home will transport it into a sublime space indeed! Walking into the new location (they moved across the street) will explode your mind with possibilities for floor decor and the super nice employees will help you find a perfect match among these woven pieces of art.

Do you remember your first moment that really turned you on to singing/music?

Yes! My mother was walking me to kindergarten and I found note paper on the sidewalk which I imagined to be music. When I got to class, I told the teacher I had written a song for the class. She allowed me to sing, but I just kept going and going. She had to stop me. I didn’t want to stop. I think that was the moment I knew I wanted to sing forever.

What was the first gig (big or small) you went out for? What was that experience like?

It was with the Crystals. Dee Dee Kenniebrew was an original member and was looking for a new singer. I met with her and she hired me after auditioning. I was very awkward and had no experience with choreography, but I could sing whatever she asked me to. She was very kind and patient with me. She was very much a maternal figure for me.

What has been your favorite moment on stage?

Singing with Luther Vandross at Albert Hall.

What kind of advice would you give to those dreaming of getting into the industry?

For background singing, I would say study hard, be on time, try to be as prepared as possible, be kind, and listen to direction patiently and caringly.

What advice would you give to your younger self?

To be kinder to myself.

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Ms. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton Wednesday, February 17, 8 pm UCSB Campbell Hall (Campbell Hall is located on the UCSB Campus, off Mesa Road and University Plaza.)

Tickets: $25 - $35 For UCSB Students: $15 (Current student ID required) Tickets and Info: (805) 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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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.

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

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Twenty years and we are still smiling!

e met twenty years ago when I was twenty. Nine years later we married. Shortly after, the kids came along, one then two. Now there are pieces of my heart walking around outside of my body. Sometimes they beat so hard I feel like I’ll burst.

My heart began this marathon with Buffy, my first love. Buffy had sandy blond, curly hair, and a wet nose. Buffy got my ticker running when I was just a baby. For close to fifteen years, we did everything together. When Buffy died, my heart broke. It broke again when I was sixteen and my parents got divorced. No matter how much you train, there are circumstances that arise to test your endurance. Divorce and death have been known to atrophy a heart.

THE HEART IS A MUSCLE I did a sprint in high school and a couple more races in college before I met my husband. I learned how to give my heart away and for the most part it felt good. Training with a partner can really push you further than you thought you could go on your own.

Then he came along and everything changed. It happened the first time he took my hand. My heartbeat shifted and would never be the same again. We ran up hills and down the other side, and we realized that our hearts worked well

together, so well in fact, that we created a couple of new souls to walk this earth.

I did not know what love truly was until they were born.

The other day my ten-year-old took my hand and said, “I love you more than anything, Mommy,” and I realized what all of this training is about. We are programed to love. It’s in our DNA. And the more we love, the more love we have to give. The heart, like any muscle, gets bigger the more we use it.

So be it Valentine’s Day or not, it’s important to remember that in life’s crazy race, the only way to win is to love with all your heart.

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y husband and I are not big fans of Valentine’s Day. We don’t usually go out to dinner that evening due to the set menus and difficulty making reservations. We do have a ritual that involves a picnic basket, a bottle of Qupe Syrah, a baguette from Our Daily Bread, some accessories from C’est Cheese, and a treat from Crushcakes. If you pack this kit and find a sweet spot to sit, you will be happy. f you are interested in the Hearts Therapeutic Program that Elli wrote about, check out all of their services at: www.heartsriding.org

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orses are pretty cool animals; I have always been really fond of them. We have been looking into horse programs in Santa Barbara, and I really like the Hearts Therapeutic program.

They do a lot of great things for injured people who fought in our wars, and they help people with all kinds of disabilities and diseases. You can support their program by taking riding lessons from them or volunteering.

Many other horse programs are just for lessons, but the Hearts program uses their horses to help people get through their struggles. What an incredible is me! I grew up riding horses at my Nana’s experience for people who need support This house. I love them so much. to get to ride these animals! People, like veterans, can get to know an animal and that animal can get to know them. It can be like making a new best friend for some people. The Hearts Therapeutic program gives many veterans and people with special needs an opportunity to connect with horses.

“Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said. I found this quote in the volunteer section on the Hearts Therapeutic website. And it’s true, even one little act of kindness matters.

Riding, summer programs, volunteering… there is so much you can do with Hearts Therapeutic! Help a horse help you and others. Oh, I’m so excited to get started!

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You’ll love entertaining again with your family silver or just having it restored to pass along to the next generation. So gather up your old silver today and come Save 20% Off!

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Do the fishermen work under contract per season or year?

We’re transitioning with our sourcing now that we are getting bigger and in need of more fish. We haven’t worked with contracts and I don’t believe we will until we get really big. Locking you into a contract isn’t always good for us or the fishermen.

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From left to right: Co-founders Laura Johnson and Norah Eddy on a friend’s crabber in New Bedford, Massachusetts in March 2015

Sentinel: So you guys met at UCSB? Norah Eddy: Yeah, we met at the Bren School. Laura and I became best friends immediately. We wrote our master’s thesis together, so we were living in Galapagos for three months and traveled to Colombia and Panama.

How did the idea come about?

We were taking entrepreneur classes as part of an addendum to our master’s program. Laura and I knew we wanted to work in fisheries and we had all these ideas and we started testing this one. We kind of developed the brand before we developed the model. It’s so much fun. I was just saying to Gina Auriemma (head of marketing) earlier, I feel like I’m sprinting but it feels good. It feels good to wake up and sprint and get it done.

Where are your fishermen from?

We began with fishermen from all over the country when we started the

How many pounds of fish are you buying from one fisherman?

It’s highly variable, especially now.

(For example) we bought the Coho Salmon from one boat. It is from a family start-up in Alaska and that was their summer catch.

How does the fish get to you? Do they process it first or do you get it whole?

The fish comes to us whole. In the beginning, we did everything by hand.

Now we’re working with a partner who is going to do the cutting for us. When we started out, it was just us girls doing everything. We got our facility certified so we could.

That’s a lot of hoops.

It’s a lot of hoops, regulatory and certification wise. And it’s just a lot of cutting and processing fish.

How are the fish transported down here?

It varies, depending on the source we’re working with, so some boats will put their catch, literally, on an airplane.

Passenger planes that come down from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska will have fish on them. The Coho Salmon, in

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BY Elizabeth Rose

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

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was kinda surprised by his answer.

While traveling down the 101, he put his hand on my knee and gave a big squeeze and a grin. “What’s that smile for?” I asked. Endearingly, my love said, “I want to know about your past relationships.” Really? I thought. All of them? I am perfectly fine not knowing much about his. A-OK. Yes, we’ve touched on the subject but to ask him to rattle off former lovers sounded like an opportunity for my insecure girl ego to take over and subject me to psychosis.

He was married before, that I knew. His last relationship was a significant one; I get it. He also had a serious relationship with this other girl and blah, blah, blah.

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me off before I could finish. “No you don’t. It’s part of your story. Just keep going.” Wow, this dude is so grounded.

His strength makes me feel vulnerable and safe at the same time. I gave a big sigh and kept going. “Alright...”

The following relationship was a grand departure from the last. He was an immature party boy who I found painfully cute and his child-like quality was something I longed for after the serious bout with the Brit. It ended because it had to. Partying took a toll on the both of us and after that unhealthy relationship, I took a break. A very long, much needed, 3-year break. It wasn’t until I moved to Santa Barbara that I fell hard for a much younger, spiritual

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“All the previous relationships – the good, bad, and ugly – were just dress rehearsals for a bigger and better show” this situation, ignorance is bliss but I guess this is what mature people do to get to know each other better. But do we really need all the details? Not a huge fan. I do realize to be with someone at this time in life (I’m 34), means you both will have past love lives (some may call it, “baggage”) that you have hopefully learned from to become a better partner for the next. Fingers crossed.

“Well,” I began. “I’ll start at the beginning...” I told him of my first love in high school, a fairytale relationship that ended during fall of my freshman year of college like many teenage relationships do – because you’re too young. Then came the soulful boy-nextdoor with whom I traveled the country and broke it off (and his heart) when he wanted to take it to the next level. Next was the intellect. Kind of an ass but the conversation was stimulating and he made me laugh. It ended because, well, he was an ass. After that was an Old World romance with a gentleman from England. He was poetic and kind and showered me with love letters and red roses. Really. When he wanted to get more serious, I freaked out and broke it off. (Yes, I’m noticing a pattern here.)

“Geez,” I said. “I sound like a ...” He cut

man who opened my heart back up the way it desperately needed to be. After he moved from town, I began dating men from all backgrounds (also the reason I started this column!). It was a great crash course and learning experience about what I really wanted out of a partner and myself. I looked over to my sweetheart and with an admiring smile I said, “And then, I met you!”

Traveling back through relationships gone by made me realize the positive aspects of each person I dated was really what I was seeking in myself at that time, a true reflection of a young woman finding her own way. All the previous relationships – the good, bad, and ugly – were just dress rehearsals for a bigger and better show. For many, going “through the trenches” allows you to truly appreciate what you want out of life. I admit I do give mad props to all the women before me who made my love the confident, grounded, loving, thoughtful, kind, intelligent, strong, adventurous, fun (and more, more, more) person he’s turned out to be. And if who we choose to be with is a true reflection of who we are and who we want to be, I guess you could say, that goes the same for me.

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...continued from p.24 particular, comes into the Santa Barbara Airport. And as we grow, the process will be a little different. But we’re still small enough that the product is getting shipped to us.

So this is where the third party processing comes in?

Yeah, we just don’t have the capacity.

The amazing thing about the seafood industry... I was just talking to another seafood entrepreneur about this.

Seafood is such an old industry and for many seafood businesses, it’s about family. Even these hundreds of millions of dollar-seafood companies never go public because they are familyrun operations. It’s just this familial knowledge that is passed down through generations and it’s something that entering the business, not having been brought up on that side of the industry, you have to team up with someone who knows all of your yields and all of the cuts, all the little facets. With seafood, you typically make your money at scale in a lot of ways, which is what we’re trying to combat a little bit, de-commoditizing seafood. Processors, people who do this for a living, are thinking about pennies.

They’re incredible so it’s been a really strategic partnership for us.

How do you decide one fisherman from the other? One family business over the next?

That’s been really interesting. When we started, a lot of our fishermen came because they were interested in working with us. We had others we had connected with through our time as scientists working in fisheries around

The definition of “traceable” – each lable of SGS has a code you can enter on the website to learn more about the fisherman, where the fish is from, and how it was caught

the country. It’s like anything else. For us, it always starts at the fishery and evaluating, Is this a region and is this a species and is this a gear type that we want to pull from? - from a sustainability perspective. Figuring out who are the people to work with in the supply chain from that point on. But the fishermen we do work with, we really enjoy.

I gotta ask about the whole Fukushima* situation...

I don’t think there have been many problems with salmon. The problems have been with highly migratory species that are basically crossing ocean basins, like tuna for instance. We source tuna (Albacore) for our smoked line, but much of this tuna is the smaller younger fish, so there is not as much a concern about bio-accumulation. These fish are also caught in U.S. waters and landed in U.S. Ports. Things like Black Cod and Rockfish are benthic species that live at the bottom of the ocean and are eating what’s down there. So there isn’t a lot of opportunity for radiation to accumulate in their muscle and tissue the way a top predator bio-accumulates those toxins.

Less concerns for us but there are so many things like that in the industry where consumers ask, What about

Another win for Salty Girl Seafood. (From left to right) Head of marketing Gina Auriemma, and co-founders Norah Eddy and Laura Johnson accepting the Pacific Coast Business Times’s Woman-Owned Business of the Year award.

radiation? and What about mercury? We are very much focused on the education element around seafood. *The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station located on the coast of Japan endured a nuclear accident triggered by a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. The result was massive leakage of radioactive material into the environment.

I love the packets of smoked salmon and smoked tuna. Do you smoke them yourselves?

We actually work with a company out of the Pacific Northwest that has traceability throughout their supply chain. We had a lot of people who loved the frozen line but the frozen line you can’t throw in your backpack. We want people to have Salty Girl Seafood where ever. The great thing about eating fish is that it’s high protein, it’s low fat, it’s omega-3s, it’s all these great things that you want in a snack. People don’t typically think of seafood as being a snack, so that is the smoked line and we’ve had a lot of fun with that.

How do you find new markets? I see you’re in D.C. right now.

We are and we’re about to ship another order. We cannot keep fish in D.C., which is hilarious because we’re trying to be strategic about capturing region by region. We started in Southern California, moved up to the Bay Area and had great success in California.

Next move is Pacific Northwest and this account in D.C. was kind of a random situation but they are blowing through our fish. We’re thinking this is a great indicator for the east coast when we get out there, probably at the end of this year.

How did the D.C. connection come about?

It was totally random. I just started chatting with this lady and she was like, “I don’t know.” We were kind of comme ci, comme ça about the whole thing. Then finally she said, “Ok, let’s do it.” They placed a huge order off the bat. But so much of this is that you don’t know what itch to scratch so you’re just trying to be strategic about the ones you do. We’re always exploring.

Right now, we’re really focused on the health, organics, and nutrition retailers.

The natural food category is the fastest growing category in food right now so it makes good sense for us to be there. It also comes from where we are as people.

D.C. is semi-near water. I wonder if the demand for seafood in a land-locked state would be higher?

We haven’t tested that yet but that’s our next testing mode for us. We want to check out the Southwest. Big question mark for us but I think it would be great.

You guys were featured in the Huffington Post. That’s huge.

That was hilarious because we were actually all sitting in the office and this guy (a fisherman) that we actually turned down for work said, “Congrats on the article!” I thought he was talking about something else and he mentioned Huff Post. Then we looked it up and

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Total surprise when they picked us up.

We’ve had Forbes twice now, NPR... we’ve had some great write-ups.

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the plan guys?” We told him we wanted to launch a company. He wrote us a big letter about how he’d like to be the CEO and why that would be important.

Thank God we had him and have him.

hoping someday. It’s also great from a sustainability standpoint.

What makes shellfish sustainable?

A lot of shellfish is now raised by mariculture and aquaculture operations.

We have worked with some awesome oyster farms, abalone farms, and have our sights set on mussels as well.

Shellfish, when raised properly, are a great source of seafood. They are high in protein, but low on the food chain, which means they don’t require many inputs. It’s a great place to start eating farmed seafood.

So how did you guys meet Craig Cummings, your CEO? Craig was a judge in a business model competition internal to the Bren School (of Environmental Science & Management). We happened to win “Most Investible.” He said, “I was reaching for my wallet the whole time.

You guys please follow up with me.” I followed up with him and we wound up having coffee every week and he grew into a mentor. When we were getting ready to graduate, he was like, “What’s

How did you meet and assemble your team?

We have a new member of our team, Jason Liehr, who is a UCSB grad. He is our logistics coordinator, and is a great guy and a total waterman. Gina has been with Laura and I since before we graduated. When we were students she was super passionate about the ocean and fisheries and teamed up with us to launch Salty Girl!

Your logo is really cool. How did you decided on it?

The first year of our graduate program, I asked a good friend from Rhode Island (my hometown) to draw us a logo. I gave her the general idea and she drew something that was fairly elaborate. And then Gina ended up parsing it down to what you see now.

Who came up with the name?

I came up with the name. Laura and I started with another name…

What was it?

It was called, “Fishing Forward.”

We just had to have something, a placeholder basically. I literally woke up one day with this idea for Salty Girl Seafood. I asked Laura, “What do you think?” She said, “I like it!”

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Of course, I had to toot our own horn for a second. So what is the grand scheme?

The master plan! We have big ambitions for this company. We feel like we’ve seen a lot of positive impact from the consumer awareness perspective. But what we really want to do is start pushing the envelop in terms of driving change in fisheries on the ground. And to do that is going to take us being a bigger company.

You have to have a little more might to swing for the fences and really have an impact. So the focus now is just growth and growing fast. But not growing so fast that your production out-struts your demand. We want to be a national brand.

With the price of fish changing – the price of salmon has significantly dropped this past year compared to a couple years ago – how do you determine the price you pay the fisherman? What is the cost?

When we started out buying small volumes, you’re paying this high premium at the dock. So that’s something that we’re working on moving forward.

The interesting thing about seafood, since it really is a commodity right now, is that there are market prices out there.

It’s really the dock price.

How is the dock price determined?

There are a lot of factors that contribute to the price. A lot of our American fisheries are driven by Chinese demand.

So the dock price is influenced by the first

buyers in a region and the climatological restraint on the fisheries (i.e. the problem with Dungeness Crab from the central coast all the way to the Pacific Northwest). Who is calling the price is also set by region but is often decided on previous years prices, predictions of the total landing of the fisheries, or the amount allowed to be landed. It’s an art and a science.

Do some fish sell more than others? Does the salmon outsell the rockfish?

It’s been interesting for us to watch.

Coming from a scientific background in analytics, some places blow through some products over others.

Salmon is great because Americans are comfortable with salmon. We kind of went out on a limb with Black Cod but we sell a ton. And the Rockfish is a white fish that people are comfortable eating, so I think we did well choosing our assortment. We have awesome products in the pipeline, so stay tuned for those.

Is shellfish something you are interested in carrying or are you just sticking to fish?

We love shellfish. We worked with shellfish in the past. There’s a lot more regulation and risk associated with it so it’s definitely not low hanging fruit for us. But I love shellfish so I’m

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Greyhounds Welcome An off duty Solvang police officer officially clocks each hound’s speed with an official radar gun during the “fun run” (Photo by Steve Uyehara)

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California’s Wild Edge

The exhibition captures the beauty of the California coast from Mendocino, Point Reyes, and the San Francisco Bay down through Carmel, Big Sur, Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica. Woodcut artist Tom Killion’s prints combine color with dynamic composition to portray the coast’s ever-changing moods and diverse formations: storm tides crashing at Point Lobos, serene moonlit coves at Mendocino, fog encircling the Golden Gate Bridge.

Poetry and prose from Gary Snyder (co-author of California’s Wild Edge) and other well-known California poets of the past and present accompany the exhibition.

The exhibition is originated by the San Francisco Public Library and is based on a new Heyday book by the same title that was released last summer.

When: Saturday, February 13 from 11 am to 5:30 pm Where: Wildling Museum 1511-B Mission Drive, Solvang, CA 93463 in Solvang Cost: Wildling Members FREE, General - $5, Children 16 and younger - FREE, Military with ID - FREE Info: (805) 688-1082 or info@wildlingmuseum.org

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These tall, slender, graceful, smooth-coated, swift, and keen-sighted greyhounds can be found parading through Solvang’s sidewalks, streets, parks, and shops during the twelfth annual event from Friday, February 19 through Sunday, February 21.

“Greyhounds Welcome” signs will be posted outside the establishments of furry patron-friendly shops, tasting rooms, and restaurants. Father Matthew Elshoff of Mission Santa Inés will bless the hounds at the mission grounds, Lemos Feed and Pet Supply will provide goodie bags for the four-legged registrants and their guardians, and a slew of weekend activities will get underway, including a silent auction, raffle, vendor display at the Veteran’s Memorial Hall, guest speakers, wine tastings, a candlelight ceremony, a “fun run” for the hounds, and a “Merchant Poker Run.” In a barkingly good boost to participating Solvang merchants, during the poker run, festival attendees can obtain a poker card by purchasing an item from a participating merchant. Each player can obtain one poker card per merchant per day, and at the close of Saturday, attendees choose their best hand, place it in a poker run envelope – signed and sealed, and can win 1st place for a royal flush, 2nd place for straight flush, and 3rd place for four of a kind.

A candlelight ceremony remembering those hounds “gone but not forgotten” will be followed by a bell ceremony where a memorial certificate will be presented for each name read and a commemorative coin given to each family with a greyhound(s) in the ceremony.

During the Solvang Streak fun run, hounds have fun and show off how fast they still are down a fenced-in straight run while the crowd cheers on. Volunteers “man” both ends of the run – one end for release and the other end to catch, and an off duty Solvang police officer officially clocks each hound’s speed with an official radar gun.

This year’s keynote speaker is Greyhound Adoption Center founder Darren Rigg, who was included in a list of veterinarians, scientists, trainers, and animal welfare pioneers who have contributed to revolutionary changes in dog care, and named one of the 45 People Who Changed the Dog World in the March 2015 issue of Dog Fancy magazine.

The Greyhound Adoption Center is one of the largest rescue organizations for retired racing Greyhounds. The non-profit has rescued about 6,000 Greyhounds and Greyhound mixes to date.

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Meet Your Maker: Wine & Cheese Reception

Cozy into The Good Life, a partially underground whimsical stone cottage craft beer and wine cellar as it welcomes Estate Wines from Ballard Canyon’s Harrison Clarke.

The last Sunday of each month is your chance to meet small production winemakers, get the dirt on what it takes to make wines in the SYV, and taste their latest releases, alongside a beautiful display of artisan breads, California cheeses, cured meats, nuts, olives, and delicious desserts. Yet another great reason to spend an afternoon tasting wines, meeting the person who made them, savoring local fare, discovering hard-to-find wine and beer gems, and relaxing with friends.

When: Sunday, February 28 from 4 to 6 pm Where: The Good Life, 1672 Mission Dr. in Solvang Cost: $25 per person gets you all of this and discounts on featured wines Info: info@thegoodlifecellar.com (805) 688-7111

Sunday is for Sewing

Presenting an interactive craft playground for all ages, Sunday’s sewing class teaches the basics to spark creativity. Craft goers will learn the back stitch, blanket stitch, split stitch, French knot, and stem stitch. These are simple but innovative ideas for everyone wanting to create something special. There is also a drawing class every Thursday in February from 4 to 5 pm.

When: Sunday, February 21 from 1 to 3 pm Where: KnitFit, 473 Atterdag Rd., Solvang CA 93463 Solvang, CA Cost: A $15 fee includes lesson and supplies Info: (805) 688-0686

Cachuma Lake - Wildlife Cruise

Enjoy the little lift the recent rains gave to the lake. Every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Santa Barbara County Park Naturalists lead two-hour cruises that focus on deer and other local wildlife, resident nesting hawks, herons, and songbirds, flora, cultural history, and geology.

When: February 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, and 28. Fridays 3 to 5 pm, Saturdays 10 am to noon and 3 to 5 pm, and Sundays 10 am to noon.

Where: Cachuma Lake, Hwy 154 Solvang, CA Cost: $15/adults, $7/kids (4-12 years old; please, no children under 4) Info: (805) 693-0691

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