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The Buddhist Novel, Frankly Speaking

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n Playing with Fire: A New York Novel, Frank Hotchkiss has written a Buddhist story.

For those who do not know Frank, he is a practitioner of Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism, whose adherents believe that chanting the phrase “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo” leads to personal and universal happiness.

The Buddhist character of Playing with Fire is most evident in the work’s closing lines, where Frank has the protagonist of the story, Benno Strong, express these views: “He realized that the parts of his life all fit. Each part needed the other to be whole. He needed one kind of love to appreciate the other. He guessed it was that way with other things, and that there were no halftruths, no incomplete sentences. Some just took longer to finish. There was no success without failure, no up without down, black without white, good without bad. There really was nothing to fear. He saw that now. Why had it taken so long? He had suspected so from the beginning. It was wonderful to find out it was true. What a life!”

Strong has many ups and downs in his life. He is in love with the woman he married and who is the mother of his daughter, but he also falls passionately in love with a much younger woman. Then, his wife dies suddenly and unexpectedly. What should he do?

Playing with Fire traces Benno Strong’s actions and decisions, the cause-and-effect that operates in his own life. It is an ultimately uplifting and positive story, as

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Strong chooses to spend eternity with his original wife and his one true love rather than with his later paramour. He overcomes the appetites of the body and chooses the spiritual essence of love.

But apart from its philosophy, Playing with Fire is just a darn good read. It is not a long book, and many readers will want to read it through in a few days. They will not merely be entertained, but edified by its action and message.

Playing with Fire consists mostly of dialogue, and readers will obtain a much better idea of councilmember Hotchkiss’s personal views and perspectives as a result of reading the work. As even a liberal critic of Frank, Santa Barbara Independent columnist Nick Welsh, has noted that he “gets to the point faster, clearer, and better

Frank is a rare combination, a Buddhist Republican than anyone else” (March 2, 2017) in council discussions.

This same quality of clarity combined with brevity typifies Playing with Fire. The novel could be hundreds of pages longer than it is. But Frank communicates so clearly and forthrightly that this is unnecessary.

Frank is a rare combination, a Buddhist Republican. At the same time, perhaps there is not the divergence between these views that might initially seem to be the case. Like Buddhism, Republicanism (or at least its original variant) preached and practiced individualism; like Buddhism, Republicanism preaches and practices selfreliance.

Playing with Fire is not a G-rated novel, hence its subtitle – A New York Novel. To his and the book’s good credit, Frank looks at human beings as they really are, feel, and live, and does not possess or present an idealized conception of humankind. He and his characters live in the real world.

This writer, personally, has known Frank for almost 20 years, and I have both benefited from and enjoyed the experience. Readers should buy Playing with Fire for the enjoyment and edification it will provide them, and voters should continue to elect Frank Hotchkiss to public office.

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Rent Controls: Politicians v. Tenants

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here is a belief among Progressives that rent control and other tenants’ “rights” will make housing more affordable, more secure, and more attainable for renters.

Tenant advocates such as CAUSE have been urging the City to adopt policies they believe will help poor tenants. At a special meeting on March 21, the Santa Barbara City Council decided (52) to form a taskforce to examine rent control, as well as other tenants’ rights policies proposed by CAUSE. Tenants in Santa Barbara face one of the tightest rental markets in California. But Santa Barbara is not alone; if there is a housing crisis here it is the same in most Southern California cities. Rents here are high, though not much different than other cities in Southern California. Rents in comparable areas, say West L.A. – not Santa Monica and not Ocean Park, which are more expensive – are higher.

But our problem is that there are even fewer rentals available here. Vacancy rates for apartments are less than 1%.

My survey showed Santa Monica, a similarly sized city, has 134 twobedroom units for rent; Santa Barbara has 38.

This is a problem for our financially disadvantaged residents, most of them Latino immigrants with families. As concerned, caring citizens, the urge to help is natural and generous. For our city council, such as most politicians, this means government intervention to solve the problem.

And therein lies the rub. These policies will do nothing to improve the availability or lower the cost of housing.

History, as well as basic economics, tells us that they would make things worse.

These kinds of controls ignore the laws of economics. The rental market is based on supply and demand, and tinkering with that mechanism always results in unforeseen and unintended consequences. Why? Because a few bureaucrats cannot make better choices for the thousands of us than we can for ourselves. And the history of rent controls has proven me right.

They either result in a diminution or deterioration of rental housing, or have no effect on rents or the availability of housing.

I challenge any proponent of rent controls or tenants’ rights policies to

show where the rental housing market in California has been improved by such policies. A good place to examine tenant rights and rent controls is Santa Monica, a city of about the same size (92,000) which has had rent control since 1979.

There are five takeaways from their controls that stand out:

an amount that would do anything to reduce rents or give tenants more choices.

Thus, it is dismaying to see populist members of the city council paint landlords as the bad guys in this political drama. Mayor Helene Schneider rails against “corporate” landlords from whom tenants must be protected.

Council member Cathy Murillo wishes to relieve tenant suffering from the “harsh reality” of Santa Barbara’s rental market.

The city council should look in the mirror to see where much of the blame lies. Yet our politicians are quick to blame and punish landlords for a situation

These policies will do nothing to improve availability or lower the cost • Rental housing has diminished by 2,123 units because of the Ellis Act, which promotes condo conversions and development. Because of rental caps, many landlords sought greater returns from condo development. While this activity is slowing down in Santa Monica, last year Ellis Act conversion notices for 90 units were filed.

• Because of inflation, changing markets, and occupant turnover, rents for two-bedroom rent-controlled units, for example, are only $165 less than market-rate units. This difference will continue to narrow over time.

• To enforce rent controls, they have a large bureaucracy with a sizable budget. While their website doesn’t list the number of employees, their staff compensation list has a minimum of 23 positions at high pay. For example, the head of the board is paid $198,000. If you add up the wage rates at the lowest pay scale, their salary budget would be at least $2.2 million, but probably much higher (total budget estimates are $4 million).

• Such controls resulted in litigation.

As of 2016, they were involved in 11 lawsuits filed or pending, which is why they need a staff of four attorneys and two legal assistants.

• According to the Santa Monica Rent Control Board, after 37 years of rent control, they still have one of the most expensive rental markets in California.

This information is derived from their 2016 Annual Report available online.

There is no question that the City with its restrictive development policies has been a prime mover in creating our housing situation, but that is something most of Santa Barbara’s citizens have come to expect and support. So, we can’t expect an increase in housing of

they did not create. Unfortunately, this is about politics, and politicians need to create scapegoats to satisfy their political base.

If our politicians would only do a little digging into the economics of “tenants’ rights,” they would find a large volume of research confirming the negative consequences of such policies. This research can be found from economists left and right (yes, even Paul Krugman).

In other words, these are basic economic truths supported by empirical data.

Here is what the unintended consequences will be from these tenants’ rights policies, depending on what the

city council enacts: • Landlords will be more selective in choosing tenants. Landlords are operating on thin margins in Santa Barbara. Making it more difficult to evict tenants will make them more selective, making it harder for poor tenants to qualify for housing.

• Rent controls will diminish the housing stock because a double-whammy of rent caps and mandatory maintenance requirements will incentivize landlords to convert properties to condos.

• Tenants will be reluctant to move from rent-controlled properties which tends to freeze the rent-controlled rental market leaving fewer apartments available for rent.

• The beneficiaries of rent controls in Southern California have been mostly middle-income, educated folks rather than poor immigrants. We should expect the same here.

• It will necessitate a significant expansion of staff to enforce these rights, imposing a substantial new cost on a budget-challenged city.

• Based on the experience of other rent-controlled markets, it is likely that such controls will have little impact on rising rents.

I question the motives of politicians who knowingly advocate policies which do not achieve the ends they seek. But then, they are politicians and that class of people would rather cause harm than lose an election.

We are never going to solve the housing shortage, but we can make it worse with those policies.

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A Beer-Filled Evening by Barbareño and Topa Topa Brewing Co. Barbareno’s staff was pleased to slice some freshly fried pig’s head (photo by Misty Orman)

Every beer dinner should begin with freshly sliced pig head (photo by Misty Orman)

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he Central Coast Beer Week just wrapped up and with it came a successful beer dinner hosted on Sunday, March 26, by Barbareño and Topa Topa Brewing Co. Since 2015, Barbareño has been bringing central coast cuisine to the area with a dedication to local ingredients, history, and modern cooking techniques. With dishes like Channel Sea Urchin with Squid Ink Capellini, Eggamuffins (inspired by a popular fast food item), and Eucalyptus Ice Cream, their food plays with classic dishes in a way that is both novel and elegant. The chefs focus on the seasonality of ingredients and dishes will come and go with the weather and what is in season. Topa Topa Brewing Co. comes from a similar ilk with a focus on hop-centric brews done in a clean, balanced and bright style that makes these two a perfect pairing for a beer dinner.

Attendees were welcomed by Barbareño owner Jesse Gaddy and Beer Director Doug Boring alongside a pint of Chief Peak IPA. The Chief Peak is hopped with Simcoe, Citra, and Ella and has a brush of honey malts with an aroma of green mango that ripens on the palate. As the guests mingled, they snacked on a Beercuterie Board featuring a selection of freshly baked bread, cured pork, cheeses,

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

pickled goodies, and slices of fried pigs head. The conversation simmered amid candlelight and the modern, warm wooden interior of the restaurant while guests continued to enter.

As people settled into their seats, Topa Topa founder Jack Dyer and Barbareño Chef Justin Snyder took the stage and introduced each course.

Every dish incorporated one of Topa Topa’s beers into the ingredients and the beer used was never the beer paired with the dish, which is a unique angle for a beer dinner. For the first main course, a California Tagliatelle was paired with Flatlands Saison. The tagliatelle pasta was crafted from acorn flour and had a coarse nuttiness that complemented the savory chanterelle

The evening ended with a Black Wing Sundae paired with Topa Topa’s Tux Nitro Stout (photo by Misty Orman)

mushrooms and broth made from Topa Topa’s Cali Common. Red oak smoked yolks and asparagus pieces added a dash of hickory and bitterness to the dish. The Flatlands Saison uses a French saison yeast and has a cookie dough maltiness with a floral nose and a well placed clove character. The beer subdued the smokiness of the dish, bringing out more of its fruity esters and restraining its spicy phenolic flavors.

The second course consisted of a Cubano sandwich paired with Howler Coffee IPA. This fruit-forward IPA is brewed with Citra and Lemon Drop hops and incorporates an Ethiopian roast into its bright flavors. It has a lemon-orange aroma that is sharpened by its coffee character. For the Cubano, a toasted brioche was layered with pork belly confit, bacon, and fresh lettuce. The savory sandwich was brightened by a kiss of acidity

coming from the pickle and a mustard made from Huckster Double IPA. The coffee notes in the brew highlighted the smoky bacon and accented the pork belly with a touch of roast that made for a hearty, satisfying sandwich.

The next dish was inspired by beer can chicken and was composed of a pair of tacos matched with Weekender Session IPA. The chicken was cooked with Level Line Pale Ale and was enriched by a High West Bourbon barrel smoke. The filling was served atop a Tapatío tortilla, which gave the tacos a light spicy-cumin snap that accented the chicken and melded with the topping of braised fennel and fresh greens. Many session IPAs can taste like hop water however the Weekender has a nice body that is accompanied by an aroma of lemon peel, wet earth and fresh flowers coming from the Mosaic and Lemon Drop hops used in the brew. With it combination of subtle spiciness and layered flavors, this dish was a personal favorite and exhibited the playful approach that Chef Justin has for food.

No beer dinner is complete without dessert and for the last course, Topa Topa’s Tux Nitro Stout was paired with a Black Wing Sundae. Tux has a luscious vanilla cake flavor accented by a chocolate liqueur note and a silky body from the nitrogen carbonation.

The dessert had an explosion of flavors and textures with a chocolate cake surrounded by soft, fluffy whipped cream, chocolate beerscotch and topped with bits of toasted hop chocolate ganache. The decadent character of the beer laced a lavish mocha note to the dish. The rich dessert was an elegant end to the evening and as the conversations drifted off, the night came to a close. One of the common topics of the waning chatter was a hope that Barbareño would do more beer dinners. Here’s hoping.

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The Power of Poetry

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anta Barbara Poet Laureate-Elect Enid Osborn headlines the Spring 2017 Santa Barbara Poetry Series Reading, co-sponsored by Gunpowder Press and the Santa Barbara Public Library, in the Faulkner Gallery at the downtown central library from 7-9 pm on Sunday, April 9. Osborn has been active in the local poetry community for more than 30 years and had a fulllength collection, When the Big Wind Comes, published in 2015. Also reading is featured poet Nan Cohen, whose new book, Unfinished City, was awarded the inaugural Michael Dryden Poetry Prize by Gunpowder Press. She’s a past Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and has taught at USC, Antioch University Los Angeles, and UCLA. Student Poet Pablo Robles, a fourth-year English Major at UCSB, rounds out the presenters.

The event, part of National Poetry Month, takes place two days before Osborn gets her official installation ceremony as the seventh poet to hold the honorary title of Santa Barbara Poet Laureate at Santa Barbara City Hall in a brief event at 2pm on Tuesday, April 11. Both events are free and open to the public.

Put it on Paper

Meanwhile, you can put your own stamp on National Poetry Month at a Poetry Workshop three nights later at Art From Scrap, where participation is the order of the day. The event is all about inspired poetry writing and recitation in the style of Exquisite Corpse, in which participants collective create a series of improvised poems. Vintage typewriters will be provided, along with optional prompts for people to possibly employ as the move at timed intervals from machine to machine adding their own verse to each of the poems stay in their respective machines. Perhaps you’ll be prompted by the last stanza written by the previous poet. And there’s no need to reach for a new piece of paper as you type away as repurposed wallpaper will be cut to fit the typewriter so that each collective poem appears on a long single sheet of paper.

For those of you who don’t know what a typewriter is, think about a manual computer keyboard, one where you get to enjoy kinetic and sonic qualities and forgo SpellCheck

and cut-and-paste editing. Which means whatever words you type in the moment end up in the final product, and hopefully actually reflect the writer’s true, unedited emotions. In case that sounds intimidating, the wine that will be served should help lubricate the hesitating joints. The point is, poetry need not always be a “spectator sport.”

Tickets to the 6-8pm Poetry Workshop on Friday, April 14, cost $20 and must be purchased in advance. Call 884-0459 or visit www.eventbrite.com/

20-20 Vision

Fishbon’s PechaKucha 20x20 night, slated to start at 7pm on Wednesday, April 19, at Dargan’s Irish Pub and Restaurant downtown, has a super simple format.

Presenters are allowed to show exactly 20 slides and speak for just 20 seconds per slide – with no going back and forth or lingering. The format originated in Tokyo in 2003 and is now a fixture in over 900 cities worldwide where the events are low-key (although sometimes high-energy) community gatherings where creative people get together to share their ideas, passions, musings, or performances. Think of it as a mini and freakishly formatted TEDx-style talkathon, perfect for a attention-deficit laden culture: Audiences aren’t too likely to get bored in a third of a minute, and less than seven minutes in total for each talk. Free admission. Visit www. fishbonsb.ning.com for more details on attending or presenting.

See How She Sounds

New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple in her new novel, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, a follow-up to her top-selling Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, the work that introduced the Yao people to See’s readers. The author, whose Dreams of Joy, which debuted at No. 1, reads from the work and signs copies at Chaucer’s Books on Monday, April 17, at 7pm.

At the same time the following night, Michelle Deen signs copies of her book, Saving America’s Grace: How Can We Fix American Culture and Politics Gone Wildly off Track, in which she tackles such taboo topics as family, religion, morality and politics.

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As for the gist of her perspective, here’s a quote from Deen – who calls herself “The Progressive Culture Warrior” – from her website: “Our moral crisis is not about gays, liberals or secularism.

The fundamental problem we face is this: Capitalistic values have overtaken humanistic values, hollowing out the soul of our society.”

A cultural discussion of a different breed comes from Sally Bedell Smith, the historian and author specializing in biographies of members of the British Royal Family as well as American political, cultural and business leaders.

Smith will speak about her new book, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life, at a Channel City Club brunch at The Fess Parker Resort in a 9:45-11:30am brunch. She’ll delve into the prince, who is the oldest heir to the throne in more than 300 years, via her biography created over four years of research and hundreds of interviews with palace officials, former girlfriends, spiritual gurus, and more.

Words of Wisdom from Woody’s Son?

After starting off his career with some decidedly political if certainly whimsical material like “Alice’s Restaurant” and “Coming Into Los Angeles,” Arlo Guthrie has more or less faded into the fabric of singer-songwriters who are mostly just fun. While Arlo’s daughter Sara Lee – who has lived on-and-off in Santa Barbara – was a prominent face on Bernie Sanders’ campaign last year, most memorably when the Vermont Senator came to SBCC last spring, Arlo has been more storyteller than activist in recent years.

But Guthrie’s April 11 concert at the Lobero Theatre might signify a return to form as the Running Down The Road tour represents a reunion with country band Shenandoah, his backing band for a decade and a half beginning in the mid1970s. The new show is said to celebrate the folk icon’s life on the road, promising to be a “flashback-inducing, mindexpanding” adventure culling the best of Guthrie’s material from 1969 forward.

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at his concerts, there are plenty of other options over the next four weeks, starting with Deb Talan, who is leaving behind her duo The Weepies for a solo set at 7pm April 14 at SOhO, which also hosts the Rainbow Girls and Royal Jelly Jive in a 9:30pm show. The veteran folkie Eric Andersen – whose “Thirsty Boots” was a civil right salvo way back in 1966 – will be performing with Scarlet Rivera, Cheryl Prashker, and Steve Postell in what looks to be a very promising Sings Like Hell show at the Lobero on April 22.

The angelic-voiced Aoife O’Donovan, whose songs veer from traditional to quirky and who has played both SOhO and the Lobero previously, steps up to UCSB’s Campbell Hall playing with Julian Lage and Punch Brothers’ Chris Eldridge on April 25. The next night, back at SOhO, John Craigie drops in with a set or two featuring material from his new album, No Rain, No Rose.

The Portland-based songwriter – whose outlook that “music is not about making you feel better. It’s about making you feel that you’re not alone” sounds right to me – will be back in town on July 18 when he opens for Jack Johnson at the Santa Barbara Bowl. I’m thinking SOhO might be just slightly more intimate.

The Rabbit Test

All three of the major professional theater companies in our area are in action this month, as are a couple of upstarts. David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Rabbit Hole examines what happens when a family that has everything copes with a life-shattering accident in a bittersweet tale that touches excruciating moments as the characters search for comfort.

SBCC takes on the play that was turned into a film starring Nicole Kidman, with Leslie Gangl Howe – a veteran of dozens of Santa Barbara productions spanning several companies – in the pivotal role. Directed by Katie Laris, performances run April 12-29 in the intimate Jurkowitz Theatre.

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South African singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov cites Leonard Cohen and Bruce Springsteen among his major influences, which makes him smart enough in my book, as you could hardly do better in the literary sense. Isakov also has their gruff singing voices, which give his superbly crafted songs extra gravitas, and have made them standouts on TV shows such as Californication, which used “If I Go, I’m Goin’” in Season 4 and the even more heartbreaking “She Always Takes

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It Black” in Season 7. See him at the Lobero Theatre on Wednesday, April 26 when we’ll be sure to hear such favorites as “The Stable Song,” “Big Black Car,” and “Raising Cain.”

On May 4, just two days before we return with a new issue of the Sentinel, Old Crow Medicine Show gets the band back together for a special show at the Granada Theatre, when the assembled acoustic artists will perform a cover of Bob Dylan’s classic album Blonde on Blonde. Hopefully we’ll also hear some of the erstwhile alt.country band’s own material.

Baby on Board

Ensemble Theatre Company takes on Tennessee Williams’ steamy and sensual dark comedy Baby Doll, which despite the author’s prowess with plays (A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie) began life as a film, which took home a 1956 Golden Globe. The new adaption for the stage by Pierre Laville and Emily Mann is directed

by Jenny Sullivan, best known for her work with Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre Company, and features four new faces new to the ETC stage in the cast including Lily Nicksay, Asher Grodman, Shawn Law, and Wendy Phillips in the twisted, oncecontroversial tale of two rival cotton gin owners whose competition careens toward arson and adultery. Dates are April 13-30 at the New Vic Theater.

Dog Days of Summer

Meanwhile down at the Rubicon, summer arrives early via the 1995 comedy Sylvia, the howlingly funny canine comedy by popular playwright A.R. Gurney (Love Letters, The Dining Room). The comic caper follows a love triangle that forms between emptynesters Greg and Kate (played by Kevin Symons and Stasha Surdyke) and an adorable mutt named Sylvia (Ashley Fox Linton). Greg discovers Sylvia on a visit to Central Park and brings her home without asking for

Kate’s consent, causing friction in their marriage. Rubicon company member Joseph Fuqua portrays all the other characters in the production that is set in 2017 in multiple locations in New York City by Ovation Award-winning director Stephanie Coltrin, and plays April 22-May 7.

Coming Back Around

DogStar Theater Company presents Last Train to Nibroc, the initial play in a trilogy by Arlene Hutton, which Rubicon completed producing earlier this season. Nita Davanzo directs, and Justin Davanzo and Ming Lauren Holden star in the April 13 and 15 dates at Center Stage Theatre.

Out of the Box gets all up in there with music and relationships in High Fidelity, the stage musical adapted from the Nick Hornby novel (and popular film) by David Lindsay-Abaire, yes, the author of Rabbit Hole, with lyrics

by Amanda Green and music by Tom Kitt. OOB offers just five days of shows in the Santa Barbara debut of the show, slated for April 26-30 at Center Stage.

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Juliane and two Bhutanese guides and, to her right, Norgay Tenzing, Sir Edmund Hillary’s sherpa guide on the first known ascent of Mt. Everest. Bhutan 1975

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hen Juliane Heyman and her parents and brother walked up into the Pyrenees Mountains one night, the object was not a moonlit picnic in the foothills. The Pyrenees range (as the geographically inclined will recall) forms the natural border that separates Spain from France, and thus from the rest of continental Europe; and in November of 1941, continental Europe was approaching full boil.

Juliane’s family had, through several desperate relocations, crossed 1,500 miles of denuded European countryside since fleeing their hometown, the Free City of Danzig, on the Baltic coast. Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, France – the family’s flight kept it scarcely a step ahead of a Nazi war machine that daily expanded the frontiers of the Third Reich, a lacerating tempest of metal and blood, and antiSemitism spreading like a virulent plague spore.

Now from temporary lodgings in unoccupied Vichy France, which they’d managed to enter with painstakingly forged papers, 17-year-old Juliane and her family stared up at the Pyrenees range. Was all this really happening? Lengthening shadows pooled in the mountain’s valleys as the sun edged lower and evening approached. A driver they’d hired at some risk in Marseille would take them to the foot of the Pyrenees. 1941. It was a date that, one month later, would ring with infamy.

History is a tapestry whose densely woven threads are the lives of the uncounted and unsung individuals who comprise it, and some of these vividly colored threads weave right through the middle of history’s most chaotic change events and emerge with a particular tensile strength. President John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10924 established the Peace Corps, in 1961. Shortly thereafter, a woman named Juliane Heyman had a chance meeting with the founding director of the Peace Corps, Sargent Shriver. At the time, she was working in a city in East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) on an assignment to establish a library there. The once frightened and bewildered schoolgirl fleeing across Europe was now an uncompromising young woman traveling alone, doing whatever she could to see that the misery and stupidity of war she’d witnessed with the terrified, unfiltered eyes of a child would be banished from the world. She would be among the Peace Corps founding staff, signing on as the first female training officer of that storied organization, and would otherwise give her life over to embracing the dispossessed.

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who’d seen the ruin brought on by inaction and ignorance. First there would be a killing, transfiguring storm, though. Its approach began as a whisper in the ear of a little girl on a playground.

“It was very sudden. I was perfectly happy in grammar school,” Juliane says. We’re speaking in her apartment, walls, and bookshelves festooned with the mementos of a life lived abroad. The storm that would define Juliane and provide her a lifelong compass first announced itself as an uneasy breeze. She was eight years old, living with her family in the Free City of Danzig (today’s Gdansk) on the Baltic coast, at that time a “semi-autonomous city-state,” a former Prussian metropolis that had been given special consideration after WWI. Belonging to neither Poland or Germany, the Free City status of Danzig was one of many humiliating terms of the treaty that ended the first World War, and particularly rankled the new German chancellor, Adolph Hitler.

In 1933, the year Hitler became chancellor of Germany, the Nazi party gained electoral control of the city government in Danzig, and shortly thereafter a chill was in the air. “Within several weeks of the change, I was told that I could stay in school but could not play with any other children. My very close friend used to come over to my house, and we would sit in the garden and talk, but then she was told she couldn’t come to my house anymore.”

Life in Danzig began to change perceptibly, particularly for the city’s Jewish citizens. One day, Juliane’s father and mother, who together ran a successful grain export business in the city, received a visit from the local Nazi party. The “inspectors” traipsed into the company offices and turned the place upside-down, looking for any pretext to haul Juliane’s parents away and to close down the business. They found nothing amiss, and in their frustration took Juliane’s parents away to the city jail anyway.

“For three days, they were in that jail. For no reason but that they were Jewish,” Juliane says. When Juliane’s parents were released from jail, they went back to their home and to their business, and by all appearances carried on as before. They knew, though, that they couldn’t stay in Danzig. They began methodically planning a hurried but orderly departure. Soon, that sense of order, and much else, was taken from them. Juliane’s voice catches here: “There was soon a rumor that the Nazis were going to come again to visit my parents at their business. And so then we just left in the middle of the night.” As it happened, Juliane had a violin recital that evening, and her parents told her she mustn’t let on, by her appearance or demeanor, that she and her family would be leaving in the night. “I’d never played the violin so badly as I did that night,” she says now with a weak smile. “And I never picked up a violin again.”

With the help of friends, the family were spirited out of Danzig and driven over the border into Poland proper and the nearby coastal city of Gdynia. A year before, Juliane’s older brother had been sent to school in England to be educated in a place free of the increasingly routine anti-Semitism that was plaguing Europe, and he would rejoin the family at this time. He would not return to England, as it was now widely rumored the Germans would attempt to occupy the island nation. In the weeks before the invasion of Poland and the outbreak of unbridled war, Juliane’s ...continued p.24

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Ms Illgner starting sewing festival costumes while in Japan, including Burning Japan

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assion comes in many forms. For seamstress Megan Illgner, it comes in the form of sparkly fabric and faux fur. Megan grew up with a needle and thread in hand since she was four, sewing next to her mom who taught her the basics of the craft. Her love for costumes began around the same time as her passion for sewing started. Megan remembers as a five-year-old cutting two

Her cousin had previously taught ESL in Japan and having grown up in Kansas, Megan wanted to immerse herself in a culture that was completely new and foreign. While in Japan, Megan found herself getting homesick and began finding comfort in her sewing. During this time, she sewed several quilts and some costumes for Burning Japan, a spin-off of the popular Burning Man

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holes in a blanket to make a vest. She would also make Halloween costumes for her and her siblings, dressing her younger brother Dustin up as a rock star while she went as his biggest fan.

For most of her life, sewing was simply just a passionate hobby. Life brought her out to Santa Barbara for a few years before she headed to Japan to teach English as a Second Language (ESL).

festival. Sewing made her calm and centered, soothing her homesickness. In 2010, she was given some pink faux fur right before Burning Man and decided to craft a pink panther-inspired bikini from the fabric for the festival. The costume was a hit and she ended up recreating it in several kinds of faux fur for other music festivals she attended.

In college, Megan pursued a degree in Visual Communication with an emphasis in Graphic Design from the University of Kansas. It seemed like a practical career choice at the time, but as she went on she realized that passion was a bigger drive than practicality. While sitting in a camp two Lucidity Festivals ago, Megan noticed that many people there were wearing her outfits. This was the first time that she envisioned a festival clothing line as a real possibility.

For her, one of the biggest joys she gets is seeing someone in one of her outfits.

Megan loves that costumes can cause a personality change in people, altering their body language and attitude.

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Seamstress Megan Illgner designed these custom bell bottoms using fabric from architect Jeff Shelton

her desire is to specialize purely in festival costume design and fashion.

Megan notes that her costumes are designed by a festival person, for a festival person. Her love for fur and sparkles is influenced by the loud, raver-style but these materials also have their practicalities. LEDs and digital lighting make good primary sources of illumination during the nighttime of a festival, but batteries run out and light sources can fail due to damage. The sparkles in the costumes help reflect light when there is not another source

of illumination. Many of the outfits are also designed to layer up or down. At Burning Man or other festivals there can be a large swing in temperatures between sunup and sundown and the faux fur used in her costumes can be warm and comfy during the night and then removed during the heat of the day. She even equips her costumes with Velcro pockets (and plenty of them), LED zipper lights, bottle openers, and other adornments that aid festivalgoers during their shenanigans.

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

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t seems unlikely that a girl from New Zealand studying filmmaking would end up in Los Alamos making wine, but luckily for us, Angela Osborne tasted Grenache and the rest is history.

For her label, A Tribute to Grace, she’s dedicated herself to producing single-vineyard, 100% Grenache wines, and with great success – her wines are certainly some of the best examples of California Grenache around!

Angela was born and raised in Auckland where she later attended film school in hopes of becoming a documentary filmmaker. A few months after graduation, she changed her plans and moved to Sonoma, then London to work in the wine trade. During this time, she became enthralled by Grenache and knew she wanted to make her own wine one day. In 2006, Angela returned to California to follow this

Angela Osborne produces 100% Grenache wines using grapes from the Santa Barbara Highlands

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In 2007, while working various cellar and winemaking jobs in Santa Barbara and Sonoma, Angela launched A Tribute to Grace. She started with just one wine using grapes from a very remote desert vineyard in the Santa Barbara Highlands, and today Angela makes several Grenache wines from various vineyards throughout California – from Santa Barbara to Amador County and the Santa Cruz Mountains.

As widespread as Grenache is, it’s not always the most sought-after grape for winemakers. The grape thrives in hot weather, but it also needs a lot of time to ripen, which can be difficult to manage. If harvested too late, it tends to take on an over-ripe, jammy fruitiness and can be flabby and high in alcohol.

That’s definitely not how anyone would define Angela’s wines, which can be described as, well, graceful. Naming the label after her grandmother Grace as well as her favorite attribute, Angela’s goal with A Tribute to Grace is to capture the true grace of Grenache. By

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Her approach to finding great Grenache sites is to look off the beaten path, hence her finding fruit from a vineyard located 33 miles east of Santa Barbara at 3,200 feet elevation. Situated in an arid, hot area with sand, brush, and exposed rock, it seems an unlikely spot for a vineyard. However, the wine she makes from this Santa Barbara Highlands vineyard is a lovely expression of Grenache – fresh and earthy with a silky, elegant texture, accented by notes of red fruit and spice.

In fact, all of her Grenache wines I tasted (and there were a lot) were beautiful examples of Grenache. Some incorporated whole cluster and others were aged in small percentages of new oak, but they all shared a similar fruit character and earth-driven freshness.

As this petite woman effortlessly climbed atop stacks of barrels to give me samples of wine, all while enthusiastically expressing her love of this variety, it was obvious to me that Angela has found her calling. She really is a champion of California Grenache.

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

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f you’ve ever been out drinking at a club or bar and are roughly in your 20s, you’ve been asked, very loudly and in your ear, “WHAT’S YOUR MAJOR?” And you know, too, the complete satisfaction of yelling right back, “ART!” Yell it right in their ear! Yell it over and over again until they go away and leave you alone! You will not get too many opportunities to yell “ART” at anybody in any other context. So yell away.

Then wake up the next afternoon and realize, well, I better get on this. I better get some art ready for the annual show. I better show everybody what I’ve been doing this whole year. On top of that, there’s a statement to be written. Should you be flip? Should you take it seriously? Is it really too late to get it together? Does a Rick and Morty sticker count as a statement?

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isten. You’ve still got time. You’ve got until next year. These students don’t.

On Friday, April 21, come check out SBCC’s Annual Student Exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery, starting at 5 pm. SLO-based performance artist Emma Saperstein is this year’s juror, and for the previous two years, she has served as an editor and curator for the feminist collective HYSTERIA, so expect a challenging, awesome show. The exhibit will run through May 5.

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t the same time, Westmont’s art program will also be showing its graduate exhibition, called “As of Yet Unknown,” which runs through May 6. Unlike SBCC, we already have a list of the artists: Sahara Barrett, Beau Brown, Briana

Gaultiere, Ryn Grotelueschen, Jenna Haring, Alyssa McKee, Judah Milner, Thomas Rubio, Aly Smith, Arianna Spiller, Sawyer Tautz, Bailey Tripp, John Wright, and Benjamin Zacaroli. Catch it at Westmont’s Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art right now.

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bstract art continues to maintain a hold on Santa Barbara, and this Saturday – the very day you have picked up this new issue! – the Corridan Gallery (125 N. Milpas St.) offers “Driven to Abstraction”, a meeting of three contemporary painters: Cynthia Martin, Kerrie Smith, and Marlene Struss. Runs through May 6.

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inimalism gets a shout-out in this two-person show at Porch Gallery (310 E. Matilija Ave.), featuring the work of Deborah Salt and Brian Wills. While Salt takes her primary colors to the side of her canvas, Wills works with thread and a full spectrum of colors. The show runs through May 14.

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usan Tibbles’s latest curation is under the umbrella of “Beauty”, the topic and the name of her show at the Santa Barbara Tennis Club (2375 Foothill Road).

Who will accept this word on face value and who will undermine it? The answers lie at the reception (Friday, April 14, 5:30 to 7:30 pm) where awards will be handed out, judged by artist Dorothy Churchill-Johnson. The show runs through May 5.

(Full disclosure: I have a piece in this show!)

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ly your freak flag or what have you at Third Thursday at MCA SB (upstairs at Paseo Nuevo), with a chance to make your art in the style of Bean Gilsdorf’s “Soft Actor”, currently showing at MCA as part of Bloom Projects. There will be wine and the whole thing is free, but you must RSVP because there are only 12 spots available. MCA supplies the materials. You supply the open mind. nightout. com/events/third-thursday-studio-april-20-2017/tickets YOU MAKE MY HEART SING

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inally, Andy Proctor brings his “Wild Things” to the Press Room (15 E. Ortega) on Thursday, May 4, till the end of June. His detailed, colorful, and cartoony style will please and delight, and it’s just nice to see Proctor out and about and making art. There will be a DJ, and it’s at the Press Room, so a good time is guaranteed.

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Juliane in sunnier climes. Aspen, Colorado in the seventies.

parents sent her off to a boarding school in Switzerland, the 13-year-old travelling alone by train across Poland and Germany.

“My parents could not leave Gdynia, and I was anyway quite self-sufficient at that point. The Germans stopped me at the border and made me go into a little room, and a Nazi woman searched me. I was frightened, but what choice was there?” She immersed herself in the study of French at the Swiss boarding school while her parents worked to establish a semblance of a new home in Belgium. When Juliane returned, it was to an apartment there, in Brussels. Then on May 10, history again caught up with Juliane’s family.

“I’ll never forget that day. At around five in the morning, there was a sound of distant bombardment and shooting. At first, we thought they were doing practice maneuvers.” The family ran out to the balcony to see what the noise was, and Juliane saw that all the balconies around her were likewise occupied with families in their nightclothes and pajamas, blinking in the early-morning air and looking worriedly at one another with ashen expressions. “It was so traumatic because no one expected it at all. And it was later that morning that the Belgian government admitted that the country had been invaded. We fled again.” They just managed to board a jampacked train headed for the Belgian coast. “Ten hours and no sitting down,” Juliane says. “And it wasn’t just Jews on that train, it was all the Belgians. Nobody wanted to

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Juliane’s Free City of Danzig passport issued to her in 1938

get caught by the Germans. People were scared. They remembered 20 years before.

The first World War.” The train reached Ostend, on the Belgian channel coast, and disgorged its cramped and exhausted passengers in their hundreds. It was there that Juliane’s family finally capitulated to the inevitable, wearily falling in with thousands of the dispossessed on foot; a bewildered, slow-moving river of humanity pouring southward through open country with only one goal – to keep moving. The impeccably equipped and trained German army seemed to be in hot pursuit from every direction, unstoppable, spreading like a mechanized stain. People left everything and fled before the onslaught. Juliane’s family and many others made for the French border, about 30 miles away from Ostend. As they crossed open country, their few salvageable belongings on their backs and in their hands and on makeshift carts, the fleeing throng provided an easy target for a military machine that saw no dishonor in murdering civilians.

“I’ll never forget, the Stukas, they come like that,” says Juliane, and she makes a swooping gesture with her hand to indicate the diving of the German single-

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engine precision bombers. “They just bombarded all the refugees!” she says, still in wonderment. “This is something I never forget. I threw myself into a ditch during such an attack, and the man next to me had just lost his leg. It was... it was clear that it was all finished.”

And so between unheralded and terrifying attacks from the air and the harassment of German detachments, they continued south. The goal was Paris. One day, a German Panzer tank appeared and moved past them. “The tanks were so washed, so clean,” Juliane says. “And the soldiers, so disciplined, their uniforms unmarked.

And they were marching and marching. To compare them to the European soldiers, who were running and taking off their dirty uniforms... I really felt the war was over then, just looking at those soldiers and tanks.”

Once walking through a village, Juliane and her brother were stopped by German soldiers, who leveled their guns at the two. “Juden?” Her brother began speaking rapid French to Juliane, who quickly took up the scheme, pretending they were both French and couldn’t understand the increasingly agitated soldiers. Or as Juliane says plainly now, “If they found out that you were a Jew, the Nazis would simply shoot you down in the street. As a child, you didn’t understand, there was no depth of understanding. You only knew they were against you.”

Finally, to buy time, Juliane’s brother gestured as if to say “Just write down what you want,” and, palms out to show he was not reaching for a weapon, gingerly offered the angry Germans a slip of paper to write on. He produced it from his shirt pocket. “My brother was 17 and had been in a book club in England, and he had some kind of letter from that book club, and that was the paper he began to hand to them! And, oh my God, I saw this letter in English! English! To be English at that time was almost as bad as being Jewish, because the Germans wanted to take England. But another soldier arrived at that instant and said, “Oh, leave them alone, they are French.”

On June 22, 1940, an armistice with France was signed – at Hitler’s insistence it was signed in the Compiègne forest, the same spot where Germany had been forced to sign the humiliating Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI. The armistice partitioned France into, essentially, a Nazi-occupied north and a “Free” Nazi puppet south that would become known as Vichy France; named after the town that housed ...continued p.29

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by Margaret Landreau

In the last 18 years, Margaret Landreau has accumulated 13 years of serving on the Board of Directors of Santa Barbara County arts-related nonprofits and has worked as a freelance arts writer for 10 years. She creates her own art in her Carpinteria studio.

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’ve always been drawn to artwork by self-taught artists. Lacking indoctrination and the need to meet other people’s standards, their innovation comes forward and creativity comes straight from the heart. The art is often more outstanding because of the purity and clarity of the artists’ vision.

Innovation comes to the forefront when Megan Leal creates. Receiving a degree in human communication at CSU Monterey Bay, she went job hunting but kept encountering people doing artwork for a living and thought “I want a job doing what that person is doing. That’s how I want to live. I want a life like theirs.” Megan began creating the life she was really drawn to, making artwork and “Creating my own place in the universe.”

Lacking formal training in art, she began making art her way. Drawing on her interest in animals, she creates resin sea figures. Megan paints an abstract or representational background directly on wood, mounts the figures onto the wood, and seals everything in place with resin.

Having created this unusual process, she achieves an end product that has a different effect on the viewer than a traditional two-dimensional painting.

Megan’s results are dramatic and unique. She understands how to create interest using contrast, including bright

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colorations and accents. The multiple dimensions catch your eye and draw you into her worlds of color splashes, as if you were diving into the water. Not limited to 3-D executions, her abstracts stand alone and continue to give that feeling of diving in and luring you into another world or space.

She is learning cyber-marketing, using Instagram, her website (www. abstractexplosions), her Facebook page, and making YouTube videos of herself creating art. She says, “My parents owned their own business, and watching them build and be responsible for their company was a huge inspiration.”

Her best experience was encountering a woman who had purchased one of her paintings and then became homeless.

The woman told Megan that during this difficult time she would take out and decorate whatever space she was in with the painting. To Megan, “Knowing that someone would have my paintings with them on their lifelong journey was gratifying.”

Megan’s art sells at the Cottage Hospital gift shop, and she invites you to come meet her in person every Sunday in Santa Barbara at the art show along Cabrillo Boulevard. E-mail her (megan@abstractexplosions.com) in advance to get her exact location if you come to visit.

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A MONARCHY EMERGES

the younger leagues, but as the girls get older, the game changes and typically the number of girls on the rosters declines. This usually happens by the age of 13 or 14 when “checking” comes into play. Checking is the aggressive bashing that you see when you tune into a National Hockey League game and Sidney Crosby gets his face smashed

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f you build it, they will come. At least that’s what happened when the skating rink Ice in Paradise opened – the Monarchs have landed.

A year and a half ago, Ken Cohen’s daughter woke up and made the declaration that she was going to be an ice hockey player. Ken looked at sweet Caroline with fatherly affirmation, while silently pondering the chances.

It would be a tough prophecy to fulfill, especially since the nearest frozen body of water was more than an hour and a half away in Oxnard. But Ken is a man who can get things done, and a lot can

happen in 18 months.

First came the rink. Ice in Paradise opened in Goleta in October 2015 and has been a hot spot for skating enthusiasts, hockey teams, and fun seekers. Caroline started taking skating and hockey lessons at the rink, and then the harder question came into play: Where could Caroline play in a girls’ hockey league? The answer to this question is, nowhere nearby. The nearest leagues are in Los Angeles, so girls in these areas, for the most part, have to play on boys’ teams if they have hockey dreams.

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into the glass.

It isn’t that the girls are not aggressive enough to engage with the boys. In fact, Ken said that most of these girls want to check players and play hockey the way their idols do. They love the ice and the thrill, but it’s complicated.

Ken started to ask around to coaches as to why the number of girls on the teams decreases at this age. The level of play and skill was there, but there was a problem of separation from the team as a whole. Separate locker rooms and size began to affect the girls as well. No matter how you go about it, at this age, most boys were getting bigger than the girls. According to Ken, they “age out.”

Caroline was 13 when she woke up with her hockey vision, and this is when Ken began his journey to what now has him holding the title of manager of two all-girl hockey teams. Ken plainly reported, “If there are boys leagues, why can’t we have a girls league?”

PLAY LIKE A GIRL! So for months, Ken stood at the doors of Ice in Paradise looking for girls who were coming in carrying hockey skates.

When he saw those girls, he approached their parents and before he knew it, he had 12 girls who were fired up and ready to play hockey… and not on the boys’ team.

Within the past nine months, the number of girls on the team has more than doubled. The Monarch teams now have 25 girls and two age brackets.

Twelve girls compete in the under-10 age group and the rest are on the under-14 team. Now that the teams were built the question became: whom are the Monarchs going to play?

Girls’ hockey is not a popular sport. There were no teams to play within a two-hour radius of Santa Barbara. So the Monarchs started to compete within the boys’ league, but they played against boys slightly younger than them. This proved fun, but also problematic because they were too good. Thanks to head coach Joel Goldzer and assistant coach, Heather McDaniel, the older girls went undefeated against the boys.

(Heather just happens to be the first woman to referee in the National Hockey League.) The Monarchs were thinking about playing boys their own age when they were contacted by the Los Angeles Kings organization.

The Kings have a large girls team called the Lions, and they have now partnered up with the Monarchs. Ken is working with Domi Didia and Megan Rivera from the Kings/Lions organization, and together they are in the midst of building a combined competitive allgirls team.

Thanks to Caroline’s vision and her father’s diligence, a group of girls who shared a love of hockey now get to play as an organization. Within a short time, the Monarch players have truly demonstrated their strength. So much so that the Lions want them by their side.

While hockey may still be a sport dominated by boys, the Monarch allgirls program is looking to change that statistic and expand their reign.

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Juliane Heyman’s restless life of service included her being one of the first female trainers in Kennedy’s new mission of mercy: the Peace Corps

the Nazi-supported French state there. Unoccupied Vichy France became the new goal then for Juliane’s family.

They continued south, for a time (by agreement with a village mayor) working an abandoned French farm for the absentee French family who had fled, and later sheltering and taking work at a French winery for many months. The winery’s brawny foreperson, a Nazi informer, had heard Juliane’s brother listening to BBC radio in the night, and dutifully reported the family to the police. The family braced for arrest and the inevitable deportation, but nothing came of it. Years later, Juliane learned why. “Those police were actually in the French Resistance,” she laughs ruefully.

The family finally made it to the French capital and through the shadow system that then existed in occupied Paris managed to secure precious, expertly forged papers allowing them passage to unoccupied (Vichy) France. And it was from there the family made their treacherous night journey over the Pyrenees Mountains, in utter darkness and silence.

Alighting in a small village on the Spanish side, the nearly beaten family was welcomed with caring and open arms by a rural community that had grown accustomed to bands of ragged and exhausted refugees coming down from out of the darkened mountains. The family was given food and a room, and they traveled from there by train to Lisbon, Portugal, where they managed to board the SS Excalibur, one of the last ships to leave the embattled European continent before the attack on Pearl Harbor and U.S. entry into the war. Juliane remembers the ship stopping twice in the transatlantic journey to pick up people whose ships had been shot out from under them by German U-boats.

COMING TO AMERICA The sea voyage to New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty’s dramatically hoisted beacon of freedom took 12 days. Juliane describes a ship-wide atmosphere of spontaneous jubilation on the Excalibur’s entry into the harbor. “It’s a cliché, but that statue is the symbol of my salvation.”

Her parents settled in Manhattan, her father settling uneasily in a new country to which he would never grow completely accustomed. “That’s why he passed away early, not so old,” Juliane says quietly. Juliane had by that time been effectively out of school for two years and was sent to a private tutoring school to immerse herself in English language studies and American history and culture. “It was only later that we found out. It wasn’t until after, in 1942 or ‘43, when we didn’t hear from our relatives, that we learned they had died in the camps.”

Juliane would take a degree from Barnard College in New York, and two master’s degrees from UC Berkeley: International Relations and Library Science. Following an internship with the Library of Congress, she applied for a job with the United Nations, whose hiring quotas hoped to build a diverse, post-war workforce in the U.N. But Juliane’s somewhat unrecognizable Free City of Danzig passport worked against her, and she didn’t get the job. “They had no quota rules for Danzig!” she says, smiling.

But she was already forming a loosely defined, ironclad desire to go back out into the wounded world and bring back to it what she could. She and a fellow UC Berkeley grad took jobs as civilian librarians on an Air Force base in Japan, agreeing to save their earnings for a year and then travel around the world together. When

Juliane and her brother, Lothar, in Danzig, circa 1932

the appointed date came, though, her friend opted out, and Juliane went on alone, traveling by freighter to India, where she worked for a time for the U.S. Information Service (USIS), and lived among the Indian people, unlike her more handsomely paid State Department counterparts there, and Juliane was in turn adopted by the Indian friends she made. The country still occupies a place in her heart.

From India, she travelled to Afghanistan, Turkey, Yugoslavia, drinking in the colors, scents, textures – the panoply of humanity in the places she visited. She returned briefly to the States to see her parents, then, pining for Asia, took a Norwegian freighter from San Francisco back to India, with an unplanned stop in Vietnam, where she would work from 1957-59; one year for the Asia Foundation as library advisor to a new university being established in the ancient South Vietnamese city of Hue, and the second year in the same role for Michigan State University, which also had a development program in the city. She was in a unique position to see the coming denouement of the French presence in Vietnam and the approach of American involvement in that country’s civil war. Her next assignment would formalize her international mission of mercy.

While working as a consultant in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Juliane crossed paths with the charismatic director of the newly launched Peace Corps, Sargent Shriver. He just happened to be visiting the town of Comilla, where under a pioneering administrator named Akhtar Hameed Khan, a new model of rural development was being tried, an effort to which Juliane had signed on. Shriver warmly and keenly received Juliane’s ad hoc reporting of how the program was playing out, and his assistant spoke to her at length when Shriver departed.

On returning to the States, Juliane was summoned to Washington, D.C., and asked to throw her lot in with the Peace Corps. She jumped in with both feet. She served from 1961 to 1966 as a training officer with the storied program (the Peace Corps’s very first female training officer), and was later appointed deputy director of training and university relations for NANESA (North Africa, Near East, South Asia), thereafter consulting abroad in her expertise of library science in places such as El Salvador and Mauritania.

Juliane Heyman has recorded her wartime memories for Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, adding her story to some 53,000 other accounts of the Holocaust from around the world. At this writing, she is also working closely with noted filmmaker Alana DeJoseph to produce a comprehensive film of the Peace Corps story, a project to which PBS has committed broadcast time.

The child of war whose later plowshares were spread far and wide through a lifetime of reflexive peacemaking, the girl whose whole world had been a panicked sprint through a bombed-out and smoldering Europe, became the young woman who hopped freighters to parts unknown and threw herself tirelessly at the mission of sowing an ordinary peace built on simple human contact. She has been monogamous to the mission.

“I had a friend, an Indian doctor who wanted to marry me at one point. And I thought I would take a freighter back to India from San Francisco and visit him and think about it. I had no job assignment, but thought I could make contacts once there. Well, freighters make many stops along the way, and the ship put in at Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) on the way, and I went ashore and a man from the Asia Foundation offices said, ‘We’re setting up a new university in Hue. Could you go up there and see about establishing a library?’ I’m afraid I forgot about my Indian friend. I spent two years there!”

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by Chantal Peterson

QUEEN OF MAGICAL REALISM

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sabele Allende, one of the most celebrated Latin America authors of our time and one of the writers responsible for shaping the genre of Magical Realism itself, will be coming to the Granada Theatre on Wednesday, April 19, at 7:30 pm.

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Allende’s adventures began for her at a young age: as a prominent journalist for Chilean television and print media in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, Allende and her family were forced to flee her home country of Chile after her cousin, Salvador Allende, who had been elected Chile’s president in 1970, was killed in a military coup lead by general Augusto Pinochet. She and her family spent the next 13 years in Venezuela, where Allende went on to create her extraordinary career writing novels informed by wild experiences and the extraordinary people who have influenced her life most. Her first novel, House of Spirits, published in 1982, launched her career as a renowned author and established her as a feminist force in Latin America’s male-dominated literary world.

Allende’s style is definitively political and historical, but woven expertly with a sense of the divine, of true romanticism, and is also marked by her strong feminist convictions and fascination with the great mysteries of life. She is currently touring her latest work, The Japanese Lover, a novel that artfully weaves her characteristic romanticism with her unique wisdom. I had the pleasure of talking to her about work and her upcoming visit to our beach paradise: Q. I find that the accelerated speed of life is reflected in so much writing I see today, and that yours is somehow still immune to that modern frenetic feeling.

Your thoughts?

A. I think it’s pretty much cultural… we live in a hurry here (in the U.S.).

It is reflected so much in the culture – everything is in such a hurry. For me, creating the universe of a novel is a slow process. I am pretty much always in the present moment, because that is the only way I can write.

Your work has really shaped the genre of magical realism – made it what it is. Why magical realism for you? Were you always inclined toward that genre even before you began writing novels?

I think that much of Latin American writing has been labeled “magical realism” but it really is not. If you compare it with writings from other countries (such as India, Africa, or Scandinavian ones) you realize the idea that there are more dimensions of life and the world than we can perceive, control, or experience is prevalent in the world. It’s only in the industrial nations and the U.S. where things have to be very realistic, in the sense that you have to prove the facts. In Latin America, we accept the idea that there is a spiritual dimension of reality – that maybe we can somehow be in touch

with the dead. The memories are so strong that it is as if they live with us sometimes.

For example, in Mexico, if someone dies of an accident in the street, we build a little chapel in the road, and we call it animita, which means “the little ghost house.” And it’s not that we believe there’s a ghost in there, it’s just to remind us that someone died there and that we miss that person who was killed there. It’s the same as El Dia de los Muertos, the day of the dead— in Mexico people go to the cemetery and bring food to the dead—not that we believe they will eat the food; we are just celebrating their lives and that they at one time shared a meal with us. So all of those things that sound animistic or superstitious, they are part of our lives.

Although the magical aspects of your novels are labeled as such, I feel that the “magical” aspects are what make your novels the most realistic! They get into the mysticism and the underbelly of what life really is, or may be…

Yes. So magical realism is rooted in reality, and that is the difference between fantasy and magical realism.

Fantasy is the invisibility cloak of Harry Potter. No one has ever seen that. But in Latin America, for example, we have seen “invisible Indians” – because in the Amazon some tribal peoples paint their bodies in the colors of nature, and they move so swiftly in nature that you don’t see them. So that would be (an inspiration for) magical realism, and fantasy would be the Harry Potter cloak.

They are things that you have experienced. I mean, we have all experience the feeling that we have been in a place before when there is no possibility that we ever have been, or that we’ve met a person before when we haven’t, or when we experience a coincidence: you are thinking of someone and there it is that person…

So there are things that we cannot explain but happen to us all the time.

This is magical realism.

Have you been to Santa Barbara before?

Do you have any plans while here?

Unfortunately, I won’t be there long at all. I am going on tour for my new novel, coming out in June in Europe and in November in the U.S. So I will be on the road a lot this year. I also travel frequently to Chile to see my mother and father, who are 101 and 96 years old, respectively. I very much enjoy spending time with them.

Thank you, Isabele, for taking time to chat today and all the best with your tour.

Santa Barbara is excited to welcome you in just a few weeks!

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ON MUSIC

by Chantal Peterson

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he Santa Barbara bowl season has arrived and it’s shaping up to be a diverse star-studded lineup this year.

One of the performance highlights of the season is sure to be London-based indie rock band Glass Animals. I chatted with lead singer and producer Dave Bayley from his hotel room in Bogotá, smackdab in the middle of their world tour, to get a taste of what is inspiring them lately and to learn more about what we can expect at their show Saturday, April 22.

The band is showcasing their new album, How to be a Human Being, on this tour and will be sharing the stage with Swedish dance-pop band Little Dragon, who will open for them.

Q. You guys are coming straight from Coachella to Santa Barbara, which is pretty

crazy but will probably be a welcomed change.

A. “I am so excited for Coachella – so excited to be in that lineup – it’s a great lineup. Some of my heroes are playing, so it’s going to be brilliant. We will bring the festival [Coachella] with us.

Are you guys going to stay the night in SB? We fly out the next day, but we will party through the night, yeah.

What’s up with the retro theme of the new album How to be a Human Being?

The videos, website, and artwork associated with it all seem to be reminiscent of past decades? I see this common retro thread in a lot of popular culture today, in fact.

The retro theme is certainly there.

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What I was trying to do was make the artwork span a lot of different eras. There are definitely references to cultural icons of the 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. I wanted

to make the artwork not really of a specific time, but some kind of weird mash-up.

I also checked out the Tumblr page for the song “Youth”, with its endless stream of compelling and again, ultra-retro images. I love this idea of having different mediums associated with different songs. What inspired that creative extension of the music?

I was thinking about the way people consume music now. Everyone consumes it on their phones, streaming it, or downloading – it’s all just black-andwhite text on a screen – and so there is hardly any artwork surrounding (music) anymore, and there is no context. When people got vinyl, they used to get that context: a bit about where the music came from and where it was made, and [there were] some references in the artwork that might lead people to understand the lyrics a bit more. And I thought that was missing from the way that people consume music in the modern age. All our websites and the strange digital artwork is a way of trying to bring that back a little bit.

(Dave created all of the artwork associated with the music himself, collaborating with other artists such as a man named Whoopie, who helped create the video game associated with the song “Season 2, Episode 3”.)

I read in another interview that you put a lot of time into creating and then casting the characters for your new album cover. Your process sort of reminded me of how screenwriters and authors develop characters. Do you have a background or interest in film and/or theater that influences your work?

I love film and TV. There are some genius character developers out there.

But yeah…I didn’t really know what I

was doing when I started developing these characters or what I was doing it for. I just started making up these characters and writing down every little thing about them. It’s an interesting and fun way to kind of comment on the state of the world… and also kind of secretly write about yourself.

What gets you guys fired-up and really inspired creatively these days?

We are traveling a lot and meeting loads of people, and that’s always something that’s really inspiring – having lots of strange experiences and encounters. I don’t know how, but I always end up finding myself in really bizarre positions and places. I found myself in a guy’s garden shed yesterday, and his shed was lined with guns and pictures of naked women holding guns and he was trying to get me to watch him blow some shit up… it was so weird… so surreal. So yeah, things like that keep happening, so that’s definitely a big source of inspiration.

Always getting things to write about!

I know you have a background in neuroscience and are fascinated by people and the human mind. I have found that such a fascination usually stems from an interest in one’s own psychological nuances.

Is that true for you on some level?

I don’t spend that much time thinking about my own mind or myself. I find other people way more interesting. I just do. When I was at medical school doing psychiatry, I actually spent most of the time trying to see the world through other people’s eyes – which is almost impossible – but you kind of have to try to understand why people behave in certain ways and how you can try and help them. I spent much of my life doing that… trying to see the world in a very different way, not necessarily in my own way.

Okay, tell the truth, do you ever get sick of playing “Gooey”, the song that everyone knows you for?

(Laughs) No… I don’t. I enjoy it, and it’s a little bit different every night.

Sometimes we extend it and play a long version; sometimes a short version, depending on how much time we have and what kind of crowd we have.

Sometimes we speed it up and play a dance version; sometimes we slow it down and play a really ambient version.

So, we keep it interesting for ourselves and we do that with all the songs. We just try to keep it fresh for ourselves.

Glass Animals and Little Dragon will play at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Saturday, April 22, starting at 6 pm.

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

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he first time I smoked pot was at a friend’s house just after my senior year of high school. There were eight of us on the back porch, huddled in a circle among cigarette butts and empty beer cans from past late nights. I was known as the “good girl” in our group, so you can imagine my friends surprise when I said I wanted a hit. I knew I’d experiment in college. A “smart” decision, I thought, to have my first time with people I trust rather than a bunch of frat boys who would see me as a nameless piece of meat. I was eighteen. I had it figured out. I told myself I could handle it.

They passed the bong. A homemade contraption made from plumbing fixtures and a plastic salsa bottle stolen from a local Mexican restaurant. And as I lifted the bong filled with schwag (bottom shelf weed) to my lips, I saw my friends look at one another, silently questioning if I was actually going to do it. My friend, Travis, struck the lighter. As a newbie, my coordination wasn’t the best. “Cover the air hole with your thumb and slowly suck in when the fire hovers the bowl.”

I took his lead, inhaled, and watched as the bong slowly filled with thick white

Paranoia and doubt had become such a part of my life that I didn’t know how to exist without it. smoke. “Ok, remove your thumb!” I unblocked the air hole and pulled the cloud of marijuana into my virgin lungs. I held it in until my throat started to burn, then coughed and gagged as my friends clapped and laughed at my first attempt.

I didn’t get high, of course. And that’s pretty normal for a first timer. So I tried again the next weekend. This time, behind a dumpster at an apartment complex of another friend’s home – because if you’re gonna start doing drugs, you gotta start by doing them right.

Before I knew it, I became a career smoker. I used weed as a means to entertain myself. As if day-to-day life was too easy or boring, it was a way to add some sort of challenge and a little edge. It became a barrier between myself and others. I floated through life in my own delusional world.

Any activity – going to the grocery store, gardening, cleaning the house – was an excuse to get high. Then, the worst part, I’d attach to negative thoughts and feelings that I otherwise wouldn’t think twice. Doubting my self worth and my relationships, I’d have so much anxiety that my heart would beat irregularly at times. I even went to a doctor to figure out why.

Me: “I get these weird murmurs in my heart occasionally. It really freaks me out.”

Doctor: “Well, sometimes freaking out is the cause of irregular heart beats.”

That’s when it hit me. Paranoia and doubt had become such a part of my life that I didn’t know how to exist without it. Turns out, paranoia will actually destroy ya.

It most definitely destroyed me.

The strange part is, I miss it. I miss the ritual of finding weed and buying it.

Opening the bag and smelling it. Inspecting each bud then filling a glass bowl.

Searching for a lighter (Where the F is the lighter?! ) and the relief that came when I found it. Lighting the bowl and sucking down the smoke. The burning sensation of holding it in. The exhalation. The pressure in my head that meant I would soon be high. The moments of happiness and boost in creativity before the inevitable anxiety set in. The crippling bliss that became an identity.

My name is Elizabeth Rose and I’m an addict. I cringe to think that for half my life I existed as a stone cold stoner but after seventeen years in this abusive relationship, I finally called it quits. We all have struggles in life, some more than others, and I’m not saying my struggle is over or that is my only one. If you said to me years ago that I would live in a state where weed is legal and I wouldn’t smoke, I would have spilt bong water while laughing in your face.

It’s been about a month since I’ve smoked weed and I still think about it every day. But knowing I’ve gotten this far in life with it, I’m hopeful to think how far I will go without it.

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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.

SPRING FESTIVAL WINE WEEKEND AND EASTER WATCH 2017

35TH ANNUAL SANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FESTIVAL repare to have your wine savvy palates calibrated Thursday, April 20 through Sunday, April 23 with four days of wine, food, and fun throughout Santa Barbara Wine Country at this year’s Vintners Festival.

The highlight of the weekend is the Festival Grand Tasting, held at the River View Park in Buellton, on Saturday, April 22 from 1 to 4pm with an Early Entry and Connoisseurs Club starting at noon. Swirl, sniff, sip, savor, spit, and repeat at the largest tasting of Santa Barbara County where guests can enjoy new release wines from over 100 participating member wineries and winemakers, food sampling from more than thirty food purveyors, live music, wine and culinary demonstrations, local artisans, silent auction, and free parking all included in the ticket price.

The Saturday morning Santa Barbara Wine Seminar from 9:30 to 11am will take place at the Santa Ynez Valley Marriott, and feature an in-depth tasting, and optional lunch, with a winemaker panel moderated by renowned wine writer, Elaine Brown.

Saturday evening at 7pm presents the Big Bottle Bash at K’Syrah, a new special event venue in downtown Solvang, featuring large format wines brought by guests and winery representatives paired with a delicious family style dinner. (Guests are invited to bring their own bottles to share with fellow guests.)

An all-inclusive Vintners Visa Wine Country Tasting Pass is available offerings at a choice of twelve participating tasting rooms for all four days, and many wineries host their own events, including open houses, winemaker dinners, library tastings, vineyard walks, and barrel tastings. Some of these individual events require reservations directly with the host winery. Anywhere from 25 to 40 wineries and tasting rooms can be expected to participate in this program.

Bus transportation from Santa Barbara and Lompoc and a festival for designated drivers and under 21 will also be a part of the weekend.

Cost: Grand Festival Tasting $85 to $200 per person depending on the perks you choose.) The Vintners Visa is a $180 value for $50 per person. Seminars and lunches $50 to $75.

Info: www.sbvintnersweekend.com

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over 10,000 eggs, prizes, games, and a visit and photo op with the Easter Bunny. The Hunt begins at 10am sharp followed by kids’ activities, group games, and Easter crafts. Plus there will be a second annual adults-only egg hunt.

When Saturday, April 15 from 10am to 2pm Where: River View Park, 151 Sycamore Drive in Buellton Cost: Free, however sponsors and supporters are “desired” Info: (800) 324-3800 www.buelltonrec.com HIPPITY, HOPPITY, HUNTING, AND VINO ring your basket and the whole family for an afternoon of Easter fun at Andrew Murray Vineyards for games and activities culminating with an Easter egg hunt. Anyone who finds a Golden Egg will be the “big winner of the day.” Bunnies of all ages are encouraged to participate. After all the eggs are found, enjoy a glass of wine on the terrace while the kids play on the lawns.

When: Saturday, April 15 from 11am to 2pm Where: Andrew Murray Vineyards, 5249 Foxen Canyon Road in Los Olivos Cost: $10 for wine club members, $20 for guests, and free for children Info: RSVP Christina@andrewmurrayvineyards.com

RIVERBENCH VINEYARD EASTER EGG HUNT aking the Easter Bunny rounds since 2008, over 2,000 eggs are hidden in the garden surrounding Riverbench vineyard tasting room. The eggs are filled with candy for the kids and some special prizes for their parents, including Riverbench hats, shirts, and hoodies. Bring the little ones and take in the festivities while sipping on some wines and enjoying a picnic lunch from local food truck, Javed Kabob Paradise. Bring a blanket for a wine country picnic on the lawn, don’t forget a basket for collecting eggs, and although not required, kids are encouraged to dress in their Easter best.

When: Saturday, April 15 from 10am. Egg hunt for children ages seven and under begins at 11am, and a hunt for all ages at 2pm Where: Riverbench Winery and Vineyard, 6020 Foxen Canyon Road in Santa Maria Cost: $5 per child Info: RSVP (805) 937-8340

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VINCENT VINEYARDS EGG HUNT ubbles and bunnies are in order on Easter Sunday. An egg dyeing and hunt for children ages up to ten years old starts at 1pm, with a visit from the Easter Bunny at 2pm. Cookies for the kids, wine (especially sparkling rosé) for the adults on the covered patio.

When: Sunday, April 16 from 1 to 5pm Where: Vincent Vineyards and Winery, 2370 N. Refugio Road in Santa Ynez Cost: Free Info: www.vincentvineyards.com

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EGG HUNT AND PARTY hole-family fun can be found at Kalyra with an Easter egg coloring and hunting party for kids and adults. Kids are invited to scour the entire property for eggs to redeem for chocolate and adults can hunt for eggs in the tasting room to redeem for wine tastings, discounts on wines, and other fun prizes. There will be egg dyeing on the porch for all ages and cheese and wine pairings and chocolate and wine pairings for the grown ups.

When: Sunday, April 16 from 10am to 5pm Where: Kalyra Winery, 343 North Refugio Road in Santa Ynez Info: RSVP recommended www.kalyrawinery.com or call (805) 693-8864

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EGG HUNT AT THE MISSION apuchin Franciscan Brethren and Sacred Heart Sisters say, “Easter eggs are symbols of the Risen Christ as eggs are the symbols of new life or new creation of mankind by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The hard shell of the egg symbolizes the sealed Tomb of Christ. The cracking of of the shell is a symbol of Christ’s resurrection from the dead.” All children are invited to participate in the Easter Egg Hunt.

When: Sunday, April 16 after 9:30am mass Where: Mission Santa Inès Cost: Free Info: www.missionsantaines.org

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