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S tate Street Scribe – How did particle physicist and UCSB professor Joe Incandela go from art school to receiving a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics alongside Stephen Hawking? Jeff Wing investigates.

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The Capitalist – Jeffrey Harding examines how contemporary conservative ideals differ from those of the original conservative movement

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hat’s Hanging – Glenn Dallas Gallery closes its doors; Phoebe Brunner W and Meredith Brooks Abbott present artwork at Sullivan Goss; Armada Wines show; 10 West Gallery’s upcoming exhibit features student artists; SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery opens second half of two-part exhibit

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The Fortnight – Dianne Reeves brings “beauty of Brazil� to Lobero; more Brazilian music from Herb Alpert and Lani Hall; TV events at Pollock Theatre; Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival; authors visit Chaucer’s Books; various singer-songwriter performances around town; Lights Up presents The Music Man

Bud Guy – The (abbreviated) science behind our recently discovered endocannabinoid system and how it reacts to THC and CBD, and the difference between the two major cannabinoids

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Man About Town – Santa Barbara Zoo IMPROVology show returns to Lobero; Electric Hot Tuna with David Bromberg Quintet takes Lobero stage February 19

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by Jeff Wing

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

Joe vs the Vacuum

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utside Geneva, Switzerland: July 4, 2012] The one-and a-half-minute patchwork video seems to be someone’s idea of a highlight reel. Physicist Joe Incandela is pouring bottled water into a plastic cup against a backdrop of unbroken applause. The applause cuts and suddenly Joe appears framed in a little square in the lower right corner of the screen, speaking in the explanatory singsong with which some are familiar. “This is a very very preliminary result? But we think it’s very strong.”

There is a glimpse of lecture hall, tiered grownups all wearing some variant of the “lost in wonder” look Spielberg coaxes from his actors when the screenplay confronts them with spiritually overwhelming phenomena – like the giant chandelier lifting off at the end of Close Encounters. To this rapt audience Joe now delivers himself of what any fourth grader would

recognize as playground gibberish.

“If we combine the ZZ and GammaGamma, this is what we get. They line up extremely well in the region of 125GV – they combine to give us a combined significance of five standard deviations.”

This murmured arcana sets the place alight – a science-crowd eruption of sustained applause punctuated by measured but genuine frat-whoops.

Joe Incandela – noted particle physicist – scans the raucous audience with shining eyes and breaks into the widest, warmest grin this side of the Big Bang; an eight-year-old with a new cowboy hat. An older gentleman in the stands takes off his glasses and wipes his own eyes with a kerchief as the guy next to him labors mightily to keep his composure, eyes brimming with tears as he slams his hands together like a dock worker at a union soirée.

Welcome to cold, hard science.

Installation of the CMS particle tracking detector: 1/3 of it assembled at UCSB

UNEXPECTED COLLISION UNVEILS PHYSICIST When the existence of a Higgs-like particle was formally declared in 2012, it was a very big deal. It fell to UCSB’s Joe Incandela – Spokesperson (read: Chief Scientist) of the CMS Experiment at CERN – to make the historic

occasion known to the world. And the world was enthralled. However exotic and little-understood the achievement, the international press were all over the announcement, swarming Incandela in the CERN lobby as if he were a quantum Harry Styles. Indeed, to this

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Jeff Harding is a real estate investor and a writer on economics and finance. He is the former publisher of the Daily Capitalist, a popular economics blog. He is also an adjunct professor at SBCC. He blogs at anIndependentMind.com

The New Conservatism

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he contemporary movement that now goes by the name of “Conservative” isn’t conservative.

The movement originally was one of classical liberalism, something akin to the modern Libertarian movement. That is, they were proponents of the philosophy of the Enlightenment, and the ideas that flowed from it: individual liberty, limited constitutional government, free markets, and free trade. These were the ideas that founded our nation. They were known as “Liberals.”

Unfortunately, around the early 1900s, the label “Liberal” got hijacked by socialists and statists. It was a propaganda move: appropriate as your own the label “Liberal” and call the liberals “Conservatives.”

“Conservatives” historically were Big State authoritarian types, something the classical liberals definitely were not.

However, the Progressives and Socialists were Conservatives in that sense. By

renaming themselves “Liberals” they gave themselves an aura of progress and liberty.

As the character Symes said in the classic dystopian novel 1984, “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

Most folks now believe that today’s Conservatives want to oppress workers and rig the system for evil capitalists.

And Liberals are thought to be for the “little guy” and protect us from voracious capitalists. Because of this, many who do believe in free societies and free markets have abandoned the term “Conservative” and now refer to themselves as “Classical Liberals” or “Libertarians,” harkening back to the original meaning of “Liberal.”

Progressives and Liberals have largely won the propaganda war. No matter what evidence Classical Liberals present to prove socialism, welfare statism, and Big Government solutions have failed miserably, people are swayed by a largely ignorant media, partisan professors, and

politicians who pander easy solutions.

(If you want to argue the economics, go to my blog, anindependentmind.com.)

The “Old Right” of the “Conservative” movement, the Classical Liberals of yore, have been banished to the political cloakroom. At best, today’s Conservatives, the New Conservatives, pay only lip service to those golden ideals that did make America great. They have morphed into cheerleaders of Big Government.

Why? Because they have specific agendas they want fulfilled. They don’t come with the old ideals of free markets, individual liberty, small government, and an inviolable Constitution. They are issue oriented, not driven by ideals. That old stuff gets in their way.

Take federal spending for example.

A balanced budget is a staple of small government conservatism. But, as President Trump reportedly said, “Who the hell cares about the budget?”

Apparently, no one else in Washington does either. The last round of budget negotiations saw a lot of chest pounding by “Conservative” politicians, but they went ahead and passed a budget with a $1 trillion debt-financed deficit.

I had a college professor, a rather famous one at that, who told us that capitalism had failed and that Big Government was forced to step into the breach and save us. “Spend” he said, “borrow and spend. After all, what’s the problem? We owe it to ourselves.” He, an old New Dealer, was referring to the Great Depression. He was so wrong.

The problem, dear professor, is that it sucks capital out of the productive private economy and gets spent on mostly nonproductive things politicians want. It distorts and slows the economy down. Government programs and projects are mostly wasteful. It’s not just the Post Office and Amtrak – they pretty much are all run that way. The War on Poverty? After trillions spent over the past 50+ years, the poverty rate is about the same (13%-15%).

Unfortunately, today’s politicians follow my professor’s dictum. The current proposed Republican budget is projecting yet another trillion-dollar deficit. It assumes interest rates will stay low and GDP will grow at 3% per year for the next 10 years. Everyone knows that those assumptions about future growth and spending are pie in the sky. We haven’t seen 3% growth since the W. Bush era. Deficits and debt will rise and someone has to pay for it.

The government has just three funding options: raise taxes, print money, or both. Stagnation, inflation-boom-bust, or both; take your pick.

The Republicans are tightlipped about Trump’s budget: everyone knows this won’t be the real budget. First it has to go through the legislative meat grinder. And

then the budget will come out with even more spending and all the politicians will line up behind the president and smile while he gleefully signs the bill.

Just so you know, countries with huge deficits and debt loads eventually decline: growth slows and governments collapse. But, no one cares because that’s tomorrow.

Then there is trade. ConservativesClassical Liberals-Republicans have traditionally been pro free trade.

Free trade has been a keystone of “conservative” policy since Adam Smith.

Not that there haven’t been lapses in doctrine, but free trade has been seen, properly so, as something that has raised the standard of living of all Americans.

Now it seems the New Conservatives have embraced Trump’s protectionist barriers and tariffs. Protectionism, formerly known as mercantilism, does great harm to American consumers, farmers, and manufacturers. Tariffs are a tax on American consumers.

Yet where was the protest from these New Conservatives when President Trump started his trade wars? I didn’t hear the New Conservative pundits, the Republican Party, or prominent Republican politicians denounce these tariffs.

There are more examples of the New Conservatism: immigration barriers to needed workers; barriers to needed technology (5G); corrupt crony exemptions from tariffs; a wasteful border wall; knee-jerk military-industrial complex spending; Big Brother intrusions into personal privacy in the name of national security; marijuana prohibition; Keynesian economic and monetary policy; creeping national healthcare; endless wars; and more. These formerly antiConservative policies are now canon of the New Conservative mainstream.

If you go back to the Reagan presidency you will find something that resembles a Conservative. Reagan didn’t always walk the walk, but he did talk the talk. Reagan did understand the bedrock values of conservatism. Change came with the Bushes whose missionoriented-lack-of-philosophy policies created the values-lite movement that is now labeled “Conservatism.” They strayed pretty far from Reagan. This New Conservatism is more about politics and interest groups and less about philosophy and ideals.

The New Conservatism is nothing new.

It is mostly a grab bag of policies that have failed throughout history. Like most of us, I want peace, freedom, and prosperity and I want it to last for future generations.

The only way we’ll get there is from the timeless values that made America great in the first place and it’s called Classical Liberalism, not New Conservatism.

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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

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

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et’s pour out a bottle of champers for the closing of Glenn Dallas Gallery on the 900 block of State. I never met Glenn (was he ever in town?

Did he even exist?) but I did know Laila Alamiri, the true force behind the gallery, and I think it’s fair to say she willed that place into existence knowing full well the average life expectancy of anything on State Street. (Rent’s still too damn high, yo). Alamiri showed some very odd art –some great, some er, well, not so great. But whatevers, man, that’s what made Glenn Dallas such a fun place to stop by. I had no idea, really, what I’d see from one month to the next, and that included the gallery denizens as well as the art. I will miss it.

EARTH MOVES UNDER THEIR FEET

Delight” continues to explore her visions of California landscapes, where flowers can be as big as mountains and clouds walk the earth. Brunner’s work is getting odder, and odder is always a good place to be. The other painter is Meredith Brooks Abbott, whose name contains Santa Barbara farming and ranching history, and whose plein air paintings are often portraits of her own land. This is Abbot’s fifth solo show in 10 years at Sullivan Goss, and both this and Brunner’s run through March 30.

ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT

Used to be that every winery used to hang work for the First Thursday art walk. That’s been dampened a little bit.

Not so at Armada Wines, hidden away in the plaza behind Mosaic on the 1100 block. This month they feature animal artist John Baran, whose depictions of otters, elephants, and sharks using a

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FRESH AND EASY

Student artists rarely get a chance to show in commercial galleries, so that’s what makes 10 West Gallery’s upcoming exhibit a must see next First Thursday (March 5): “Fresh” shows the work of 10 art students from UCSB, SBCC, and Westmont alongside some of 10 West’s best known artists. Curator/owner Jan Ziegler has also been working with the students on the behind the scenes work of the art world, such as artistic statements, labeling, and paperwork.

Should be an interesting evening, and I hope to see more such collabs. The collegiates include: Audrey De Haan, Alyssa Beccue, Jordan Marshall, Emily Mata, Julianna Carl, Dan Nimmo, Elizabeth McKean, Sophia Fleming, Davey Groke, and Kris Carrillo. Runs through March. (Don’t miss the current show at 10 West [10 West Anapamu] either: “Hello Forever” featuring Charlie Patton, Madeline Garrett, Mary Neville, Laurie MacMillan, Mary Dee Thompson, Pamela Grau, Douglas Dafoe, Chad Avery, and Scott Trimble.)

GO FIGURE

SBCC’s Atkinson Gallery opens the second half of its two-parter exhibit, “Eleven Figures in Two Parts,” and shows contemporary Southern California artists who use the human figure in their work. For this installment, which opens Friday February 21 and runs thru April 3, artists include Tanya Aguiñiga, Mario Ayala, David Leggett, Ry Rocklen, Amanda Ross-Ho, and Zoe Walsh. No clues as to what will actually be on display, but a skim thru their online portfolios, I can guarantee this will one of the most daring and funny shows this month. Opening reception: Friday, February 21, 4-6 pm.

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Beer or Wine: Why Choose?

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.

The Buellton-based Barrelworks makes some of the most renowned beer-wine hybrids in the world

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eer and wine drinkers have been known to debate the merits of each. But over the years, some breweries and wineries have gotten together to create beer-wine hybrids that bring the best of both worlds. With these unique fusions of beer and wine, there is really no choice to choose between either.

I recently sat down with Jim Crooks, Master Blender for Barrelworks (the specialty arm of Firestone Walker Brewing Co), to discuss the history of their beer-wine hybrid program and its evolution over the years. Given that his nickname is “Sour Jim” in the industry, he is one of the most revered figures in the world of wild fermentation and their beer-wine hybrids have become widely celebrated. They are easily the most successful examples of this concept I have personally tasted.

Barrelworks’ foray into beer-wine hybrids began with a collaboration between Firestone Walker and Mikeller.

When Firestone suggested doing something with grapes to Mikeller and they responded enthusiastically, that was all the green light they needed. This started what Jim calls the “curiosity phase” of the beer-wine program. They got some sauvignon blanc and chenin blanc and began experimenting with different techniques. That collaboration would later be released as Lil’ Mikkel.

Since then they have branched out into a whole array of grapes, barrels, and microflora.

The program really began to take

off when they started working with Andrew from Andrew Murray Winery in 2013. His skill and generosity greatly helped Jim and the crew understand the wine side of things. For Andrew it was a chance to experiment with brettanomyces (the family of beer bugs that are used in “wild fermentation”), usually something vintners avoid like the plague. Together they began experimenting with different varietals, moving first through white grapes before branching out to reds.

These beer-wine hybrids are true collaborations between brewers, wine growers, and vintners. For example, methoxypyrazine (smells like green bell pepper) was an aroma Jim found off-putting in some of their original experiments. When Jim brought it up to the vintner, he immediately recognized the component and how to avoid it. The compound was stemming from the grape skins and so on the next round they used just the juice, free of any plant matter.

Fairly early on Jim struck gold with some of his experiments. He was interested in harvesting the natural microflora of the area and was exploring nearby vineyards. He collected some chardonnay grapes two weeks before they were to be harvested and carefully brought them back to the lab. He crushed the grapes and allowed them to begin fermenting in a beaker. Jim then slowly started feeding in malt sugars to grow the culture, later removing

the grape material to create a pure starter culture. When he had grown the solution to about a liter, he decided to give it a try and was floored by the clean, crisp Belgian-like flavors coming from it. His initial response was, “Oh that’s going to be our house yeast now.”

They named it after Johnny Tevis who was working at Foxen Winery vineyard at the time and “the Tevis” became their house yeast that has fermented everything from Bretta Weisse to their range of saisons.

Today Barrelworks offers a range of beer-wine hybrids and the program has become part of their signature style.

Thin Skin is a beer fused with pinot noir grapes, and its companion beer, Zin Skin, uses zinfandel grapes. The Feral Vinifera is one of the results from their work with Andrew and for Jim, this beer really helped set the bar for what they could do with this concept.

While this beer may be currently hard to find, Bretta Blanc can be found in a

bottle near you. This beer incorporates sauvignon and chenin blanc grapes from David Walker’s family vineyard to create a joyous aroma of elderflower and honeydew with a tropical accent of guava and passionfruit. The beer has an elegant, soft oaky mouthfeel with a brisk acidity and a tingle of effervescence. Their Terroir Project is a culmination of everything they’ve learned from their beer-wine experiment. This beer-wine festival happens in the fall and brings together beers that all incorporate grapes that have been grown within 100 miles of each brewery. Definitely keep an eye out for when tickets go on sale as it is one event you don’t want to miss.

A LOCAL TRADITION One of the local beer-wine hybrids that have become a mainstay of the area is Bierbara. This beer is released each year as a collaboration between Third Window Brewing and The Bruery on December 4 to celebrate Saint Barbara’s Feast Day. The traditional feast day dish for our town’s namesake is burbara, a holiday porridge made of boiled barley, pomegranate seeds, raisins, anise and sugar. Now in its fifth iteration, the Bierbara concept has changed slightly each year however it remains as an abstract interpretation of burbara.

Sometimes different barrels, spices, grapes, or even base beer are used, but always Bierbara revolves around a fusion of beer, wine, and barrels taken on an

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intense ride of a flavor.

This year is true to theme as a Belgian Quad aged in bourbon barrels with syrah grapes and traditional burbarra spices. At 15.4% ABV this hefty beer packs a wallop, and it’s not just due to the alcohol content (although that certainly helps). Coconut aromas from the bourbon barrels leap from the glass with some earthy pepper notes drifting

through from the syrah and a cocoa-like finish that indicates the base beer. The spices come out full throttle in the flavor with elements of cinnamon buns, fruit cake, and treacle.

HOP ON TO SOMETHING NEW There is one beer-wine hybrid that approaches the subject from the other angle. Hop On by Buttonwood Winery

& Vineyard is a dry-hopped sauvignon blanc. This unique hybrid originated with Buttonwood winemaker Karen Steinwachs’ love for both beer and wine and her desire to fuse the similar aromas found between the two. After the grape blend (93% sauvignon blanc, 7% Sémillon) has undergone fermentation, it is infused with hops to the desired aroma before being matured in neutral

French oak barrels. The different batches of Hop On have largely focused on American hops like Crystal, Cascade, Chinook, and Citra. While the original project incorporated local hops from Pacific Valley Hops, the two worked together to establish a hop yard at the winery and the wine now uses all estategrown hops.

Since this was one of the first hybrids of its kind, Karen found it one of the most difficult label approval processes she’s ever dealt with. The regulators became very confused on what to call it since it incorporated beer ingredients.

In the end, they allowed her to refer to it as a “hopped white wine with natural flavors.” The last bit makes it sound like a wine cooler one used to drink in grade school, but don’t be fooled by the regulatory jargon, this hopped wine couldn’t be farther from one of those cloying alco-pops. Karen emphasizes that because the hops are not boiled, the finished product does not get any bitterness, only hop aroma. Hop On has a bright sauvignon blanc character of kiwi and honeyed gooseberry with the hops coming through as grapefruit and a hint of dried flowers. It is a refreshing and intricate blend of flavors that appeals to both wine and beer drinkers.

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ive-time Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves brings her new show, devoted to the “beauty of Brazil,” to the Lobero Theatre on February 18, the first of two superstar-powered performance with a Brazilian bent headed our way before February finishes. Music from the country has always been a passion of Reeves, as evidenced by just about all of her recordings, but this is the jazz vocalist’s first program devoted entirely to the approach. The singer awarded the 2018 National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master will be backed by a masterful band of John Beasley on keyboards, Romero Lubambo on guitars, Itaiguaro Brandao on basses, and Rafael Barata on drums.

Info at (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero. com… Ten days later, Herb Alpert and Lani Hall decamp across the street at the Granada for a visit to Brazil and other locales in their winning husband-and-wife act on February 28. Albert has succeeded as performer (only The Beatles and Elvis earned greater album sales than Alpert’s Tijuana Brass in the 1960s), songwriter (“This Guy’s In Love With You”), and indie label entrepreneur (his A&M Records has been a powerhouse for nearly six decades, beginning with, not coincidentally, Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66, which features Hall as lead singer). During Hall’s fiveyear tenure with Mendes, she helped shape such landmark hits as “Mas Que Nada,” “The Fool on the Hill,” and “Day Tripper.” Seems the tropical breezes will be arriving in Santa Barbara three weeks before spring. Call (805) 899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.org.

TV at the Pollock

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he 35th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival is firmly in the rearview mirror – and proudly so, both for a huge swatch of well-received films and informative Q&As and for its Oscar scorecard, as SBIFF hosted a whole lot of winners, notching 10 wins out of 28 categories, including three of the four acting awards. Attention, at least locally, now turns to television, specifically the new series at the Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB that honors the legacy of its founding sponsors, Marcy Carsey and Dick Wolf, whose output makes it not much of a stretch to claim they reshaped the modern broadcast landscape, preNetflix and other streaming services, anyway. The winter quarter series

celebrates some of the best in classic and contemporary shows, bringing traditional sitcoms, dystopian drama and more from its cozy confines of the living room onto the big screen to spark communal conversation. We’re already mid-series – locally-dwelling television titan Wolf himself already appeared to discuss the evolution of his own writing from Hill Street Blues to his Law and Order franchise – but still to come is actress Robin Weigert, who played Calamity Jane in the highly-acclaimed period drama Deadwood, talking about the show after a screening of the “Deep Water” episode on February 18.

The Pollock then dips into presidential politics just two weeks before the California primary via two iconic television shows that deeply explore the subject, The West Wing and Veep.

Award-winning executive producer/ writer/director David Mandel (Veep) and writer/producer Eli Attie (The West Wing) will join moderator Patrice Petro for a post-screening discussion of the creation and legacy of the two programs on February 20. The event serves as a prelude to the Carsey-Wolf Center’s annual “Television, Politics, Publics” conference, slated for February 20-22, which examines the ways in which the boob tube remains a crucial site for the deliberation over questions of “citizenship” and public discourse despite combatting an era of so-called “fake” news and clutter. Get details and reservations to all the events, which are free, at 805) 893-5903 or www. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock.

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or those still craving immersion in all things cinematic on State Street, may we suggest the annual Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival, a five-day extravaganza that features outstanding Jewish cinema including feature films, shorts, documentaries, guest speakers and filmmaker discussions. Sure the movies are focused on themes of Jewish culture and identity, but you can think of SBJFF as akin to an expansion of SBIFF’s Kolnoa sidebar, as not only is it co-produced by Kolnoa creator Mashey Bernstein, but the films are almost universally exceptional films and are culled from around the world for the March 11-15 fest at The New Vic Theatre. Visit https:// sbjewishfilmfestival.org.

Tell us all about your art opening, performance, dance party, book signing, sale of something we can’t live without, or event of any other kind by emailing fortnight@santabarbarasentinel.com. If our readers can go to it, look at it, eat it, or buy it, we want to know about it and will consider it for inclusion here.

Special consideration will be given to interesting, exploratory, unfamiliar, and unusual items. We give calendar preference to those who take the time to submit a picture along with their listing.

Chaucer’s Choices

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ormer Santa Barbara News-Press sports columnist Michael Takeuchi recently took over as Events Coordinator at Chaucer’s Books, one of the few surviving independent bookstores in our literary community, and he’s wasted no time in amping up both the quantity of authors arriving for signings but also, as might be expected, the flowery language of the press releases. Those headed into the midtown storefront over the next month include Frank Frost, the nonagenarian author whose career boasts scores of academic publications from his time at UCSB and elsewhere, a stint as a Santa Barbara County Supervisor in the 1970s, and a decades-long gig as a pianist with the Ulysses Jazz band. His latest suspense novel The Grottos of Barigoule, which you could consider a DaVinci Codestyle historical work, is the subject of his February 18 visit. Two-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter-director John Sayles’ (Passion Fish in 1992 and Lone Star in 1996) latest novel Yellow Earth, his fifth, which takes place at the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota set shortly before the Standing Rock confrontation arose, is the star of the evening on February 19, while February 23 brings local author Emile Millar for an afternoon of storytelling and music with his children’s adventure storybook Eagle vs. Bear, “A Rock ‘n’ Roll Children’s Adventure.”

Giddy up down to Chaucer’s on February 25 for renowned horse photographer Deborah Kalas’ signing of her book Wild Herd: A Vanishing American Treasure, culled from her 20 consecutive seasons taking pictures of the wild herds of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. Local writer Sunreyes (aka Brian Downie) shuffles on in for a night of slam poetry from his book The Art of Life! the following night (February 26), when the coffee table style art book, a collaboration of his drawings, photography, poetry and more in abstract, surreal and intentional will come to life with the intention to help others feel equally free. Speaking of free, all of the Chaucer’s events are at no cost, unless, of course, you want to buy the book and get it autographed. Call (805) 682-6787 or visit www.chaucersbooks. com.

Collision of Classics

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here’s an astonishingly wide spectrum of musicians who sing their own songs coming our way this double fortnight, spanning multiple decades, approaches and levels of stardom. Country large band lover Lyle Lovett kicks things off out at UCSB’s Campbell Hall on February 20 before Ladysmith Black Mambazo brings their amazing a capella efforts to the Lobero the following night. Joshua Radin and Friends hit the Lobero supported by Ben Kweller and William Fitzsimmons on February 22, and, in turn, are followed four days later at the Lobero by the veteran SoCal folk-rock songsmith JD Souther. February 27 brings former Men At Work leader Colin Hay to the theater for a career-spanning selection of songs, while the following night features Alice Peacock, the songstress who last appeared in town on a Sings Like Hell date at the Lobero, over at SOhO, where things get even more intimate. Heading into March, it’s back to country out at UCSB, where Rosanne Cash carries on the legacy of her famous father Johnny Cash, ably aided by John Leventhal, her husband-producer of 25 years, on March 4 before John Fogerty lends credence (as in founder of Creedence Clearwater Revival) to the Chumash’s showroom efforts on March 13.

You can’t get much more classic than the Beach Boys – I mean, I found well north of a dozen full-length offerings on the band or its former genius composerproducer Brian Wilson while casually surfing Amazon Prime Video the other night. Even if the one-time SoCal siblings don’t have any Wilsons left in the group, those heavenly harmonies still evoke wonderment and memories galore, so we’ll likely be heading up the San Marcos Pass for the March 6 date at the Chumash.

The following night the Arlington will be showcasing some veterans of its own, a three-headed monster delivering the best of the blues via Buddy Guy, Jimmy Vaughan, and Charlie Musselwhite, in a UCSB Arts & Lecture show.

‘Til there was Luke

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hat with all the truly fine area high school productions, not to mention other established outside musicalproducing youth organizations at the Lobero and elsewhere, you wouldn’t think there’d be room – or enough talented kids – for another teen-oriented ensemble.

Enter Lights Up, which pretty much blew everyone away with its debut offering of Big Fish last April. Now comes their show at a more traditional show, the alltime classic The Music Man, with such timeless songs as “Til There Was You” and “Trouble.” If they can pull this one off, for sure we’ve got a keeper. See for yourself March 5-7 over at the Marjorie Luke, which may be worth parking your butt in the back-breaking seats.

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cience is never done discovering and with the rise of medical marijuana and cannabis research, there is a whole new field of study for scientists. Much of this research revolves around the cannabinoid compounds contained in the trichomes of the bud. One of the most exciting discoveries was a completely unknown body system in humans called the endocannabinoid system (ECS). Due to the inability to properly research cannabis and its positive effect on health (more on that later), the ECS was only first discovered in the early 1990s. While the breadth of the ECS is still being explored, it seems to be a far-reaching system with the primary goal of maintaining homeostasis. So far it has been associated with sleep, mood, appetite, memory, reproduction, and fertility. Even if you are not currently using cannabis, the ECS is active and functioning in your body, due to the presence of endocannabinoids (EC), the cannabinoid compounds naturally produced in your body.

So far, scientists have identified two endocannabinoids in humans, anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglyerol (2-AG). As a quick primer on (and gross oversimplification of) cellular biology, you basically have a thing (a compound like AEA) that can attach to another thing (called a receptor). When the thing attaches to the other thing, something happens.

Now the thing with nature is that there

There are over a hundred known cannabinoids found in the cannabis plant family

by Zach Rosen are a lot of things out there. And certain things like things better than other things. In short, nature is complicated.

To go with AEA and 2-AG, researchers have also discovered two receptors, CB1 and CB2, in the body that respond to endocannabinoids. CB1 is largely found in the central nervous system and CB2 is mostly found in the peripheral nervous system and particularly in the immune system. Both receptors can respond to AEA and 2-AG and the actual effect depends on the specific location of the receptor and which compound is binding to it. Together with the enzymes that break down the EC compounds and the neurons, neural pathways, and other cells where these compounds are located, these collectively form the endocannabinoid system.

THC VS CBD While we do produce our own endocannabinoids, the associated receptors can also interact with the range of cannabinoids found throughout nature. One of the biggest subjects in cannabis is the ratio between two major cannabinoids found in the plant, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). Go to a dispensary and you will see labels expressing percentages or ratios of the two components. But what’s the difference?

THC is the cannabinoid associated with “getting high.” THC can bind with both CB1 and CB2, which helps explain why

this compound has such a wide range of effects on the body, stemming from pain relief and appetite stimulation, to paranoia and anxiety. CBD is nonpsychoactive and does not seem to like to bind to the known receptors. From the current understanding, CBD seems to affect other cannabinoids’ ability to bind, which also indicates there may be an undiscovered EC receptor. Because CBD does not get you “high,” it is often sought out by those who don’t want to influence their mental state, but want to use cannabinoids for medical purposes.

CBD is often used to treat things like seizures, inflammation, and pain.

CBD AND BEYOND Although CBD and THC remain the most talked about cannabinoid compounds, there are actually over a hundred known cannabinoids found in Of the cannabinoid compounds, THC and CBD are the most well known

the Cannabaceae plant family. Many of these compounds have not been heavily researched and the exact range of effects on the body remain unknown. The main reason for this is that for decades, cannabis has been classified by the DEA as a “schedule one” drug, putting it on the same threat level as heroin (for comparison, cocaine and meth are schedule two). With medical marijuana becoming more accepted throughout the states, researchers have been able to start delving deeper into these compounds. But because of the friction between federal and state regulations, it remains a messy subject.

Recently there was a premiere for the film Schedule 1, which covers some of these topics. The night was hosted by CARP Growers at the historic Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria and featured the documentary creator and subject Michelle Kendall and wrapped up with a Q&A session. The 30-minute documentary is a collaboration between Michelle and filmmaker Michael Hanrahan, chronicling her journey as she weathers through a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. Her frustration with traditional treatments leads here to seek knowledge and treatment from medical marijuana, which ends up greatly reducing her tumor size. The documentary features her conversations and meetings with various doctors and cannabis researchers, including the esteemed Professor David Meiri (check out some of his TED Talks).

The film showcases some of the silliness and impedance that the schedule 1 classification has had on cannabis research and treatments. But the film also has a level-headed approach and she warns not to treat cannabis as a cure-all.

Of course it ends on a funny note with her attempted suing of the DEA over the schedule one classification of cannabis.

Visit schedule1movie.com for more information on the film.

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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.

Frogs and Frets in the First Fortnight

Santa Barbara Zoo IMPROVology featuring Impro Theatre takes the stage at the Lobero on Thursday, February 20

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eing part of an improv show is probably as foreign to frog expert and wildlife ecologist Katy Semple Delaney, Ph.D., as the title of her 2005 scientific paper “Isolation of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite markers for the blackbellied seedcracker” would be to the rest of us. Fortunately for everyone involved, Dr. Delaney’s role when the Santa Barbara Zoo IMPROVology show – based on the long-running TV series Whose Line is it Anyway? – returns to the Lobero Theatre on February 20 – will be to serve as the event’s equivalent of the straight man, one of two animal experts who are interviewed live on stage, followed by comedy skits and song-filled sketches created on-the-spot by members of L.A.’s Impro Theatre.

Still, sometimes the performers engage the scientists in playing a role when the skit develops.

“Really?” said Delaney, who works for the National Park Service and manages the currently manages the program to reintroduce the red-legged frog into the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, when we talked in early February. “My background is absolutely not in any way to perform in entertainment. I’ve never done anything like this. I’m way out of my comfort zone.”

But the scientist couldn’t turn down the offer to appear on stage both because the frog program could always use more exposure and awareness and because the zoo has been instrumental in supporting her efforts.

“When we first started, I got a call out of the blue from someone at the zoo who wanted to volunteer their time to help us. They’ve spent a lot of time collaborating with us, training and coming out in the field with me. The project wouldn’t be what it is today without their help.”

The red-legged frog – the largest frog native to the West – was bountiful in areas of L.A. and San Diego up until the mid 1900s, but went through a huge population crash, Delaney said. “They used to be everywhere, but you can’t find them anywhere naturally anymore.

They’ve been driven to extinction in many places in their range. Then we discovered a teeny population in Ventura County, and the idea came up to reintroduce them back to the area to maintain biodiversity.”

Six years later, the project is working, with many of the frogs even surviving the recent Woolsey Fire.

“It takes them a while to get old enough to breed, and now we do have some adults in those locations, and they’ve begun breeding on their own. They’re growing up and act like normal frogs.”

If that sounds like fodder for an improv sketch or two, you’re spot on. If fact, the mating habits are exactly what “IMPROVology” had in mind for the special Valentine’s Day edition of the show that pairs frog expert Delaney with Joe Burnett, the Condor Program Coordinator/Senior Wildlife Biologist with the Ventana Wildlife Society who also started up the Oregon Zoo’s Captive Breeding Program for condors. Dating dilemmas of amorous amphibians and contemplating cultivating condor coupling should also likely spur the, ahem, animal instincts of the Impro Theatre crew, headed by artistic director Dan O’Connor with veteran company members Michael McShane, Stephen Kearin, Jo McGinley, Kelly Bashar,

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and Brian Michael Jones. Perhaps we’ll see avian adventure versions of The Dating Game or Bachelors in the bogs.

For sure they’ll have plenty of material in dissecting the details of how the frogs reproduce. “The male frog makes a very low grunting, which the female seems to like,” Delaney explained. “The male is smaller, so when he jumps on her back, sometimes she tries to throw him off.

But if she likes him, the magic happens and she releases her egg. But he still has to hang on tight. Fortunately, the male has developed really strong ‘Popeye’ forearms and he just hangs on tight.

When she releases her eggs, they’re lined up so he’s fertilizing them as they come out, making these egg masses that are like bobo-looking things, like clear jelly, maybe 3,000 eggs at a time.

“Then they separate and go their own way.”

Hmmm. Maybe it’s good that the show hits the Lobero six days after Valentine’s Day. Meanwhile, Delaney is gearing up for the role. “Fortunately I’m not super sensitive. I’m passionate and serious about my job, totally into the frogs. But it’s cool if they make fun of what I do.

I’m nervous, but I think it will be fun.”

Just don’t expect to see her kissing any of the red-legged creatures in hopes of watching the frog transform.

“No, I have not kissed one. I’ve taken lots of photos with them. But no kissing.

I’m an old married lady for a long time.

I already have my Prince Charming.”

HOT TUNA’S ELECTRIC-AL CONNECTION Hot Tuna began in the late 1960s just a few years after guitarist Jorma Kaukonen lured his old Washington, D.C. bassist pal Jack Casady to join him in a new band forming in San Francisco, creating the striking signature guitar and bass riffs that underpinned the psychedelic rock songs being created by the other members of Jefferson Airplane. Even as Airplane was taking off, Kaukonen and Casady continued to play their acoustic blues on the side, eventually signing a record deal of their own that has led to a half-century career filled with dozens of albums, thousands of concerts around the world, and never-ending exploration.

The duo is heading our way once again this Wednesday, February 19, for a Hot Tuna Electric show that finds the twosome being joined by drummer Justin Guip for a different take on the power trio format they first explored back in the 1970s. Adding to the historical context, the concert at the Lobero will be opened by fellow 50-year icon the David Bromberg Quintet.

Casady talked about the pair’s

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ongoing passion project and what keeps it alive and thriving over the phone earlier this week.

Q. I read recently where you said that even when you and Jorma first met when you were in junior high, you “opened up to each other’s vulnerabilities.” I’m imagining that is still at play, what has kept you thriving over the years. True?

A. You can’t have barriers up as a human if you want to communicate.

Music is an odd art form, the only one where people come together in order to form something you wouldn’t get separately. In that coming together you have to leave yourself open and

vulnerable and exposed to tap into what each other uniquely offers. What I get from Jorma in that environment is almost like as if we just locked ourselves in a bathroom and jammed. You let the music work and open yourself up to be ready to respond to each other’s ideas.

We’re not playing solid hard wired parts where we aren’t willing to give up our territory. We’re always giving and taking in order to see what the new sensibility will yield. That’s how we play songs we’ve been doing for 50 years because it’s different every night. The atmosphere, the sound, each of us are all different.

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physically played those notes before, but each evening is unique. That’s what keeps it vital.

It seems like it’s about cultivating a continuing sense of curiosity. Still you’ve been together 60 years. I’m wondering how much does your familiarity with each other operate vs., say, the Zen notknowing concept. What’s the balance?

Actually, it’s very little familiarity.

Of course I know how the songs go, but not how the phrasing is going to go that night, and we play off of each other’s. When we’re happiest is when we make those real connections, when we look up and realize we’ve changed the phrasing in a way that we haven’t filled up the spaces. The idea isn’t to fill up the silences but to use them to create another layer within the music that helps out the song.

When we play together as a duo, there’s a ghost that appears, like a triangle. We walk into together as two verticals. Then we sit down on the stage, and lean into each other and make a pyramid. That combination is a variable that changes every night, and the quality depends on how well we’re interacting with each other. So it isn’t about how well I know Jorma’s playing after all these years – we can’t know who each of us actually are that night.

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Does that work equally well in the electric version of Hot Tuna?

Oh yeah. But we definitely work hard at it, work at our craft. When we bring that into the electric world, we have other sonic features to work with. It’s like having two tool bags.

With the electric you have to be ready to shift things around, take advantage of the sound of the hall, what’s going on with the audience, the different articulation.

For this tour, you’re back to playing with a drummer, Justin Guip. How does that affect the dynamic?

It’s definitely a more open sound but also lends itself to Jorma doing more innovative work, single line stuff with the guitar because we’re not handing the solos off to anyone else… The trio is a ton of fun. We’d burned out on it in the late 1970s and tried different stuff but now it’s exciting again because the original songs that are based around the sweet melodies and fingerpicking work we filter into the electric band as well as the more traditional rock ‘n’ roll electric guitar stuff he does. With a trio there’s a lot of room for development. We were one of the early groups to do that, then went back to the trio and rediscovered it and its really exciting stuff to play.

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mildly genuflecting writer, Incandela will be compelled to recount the crowdsourced, map-ignoring nature of the Higgs chase – “4,000 scientists from 42 countries worked together on this…” – pointing out as well that many of the happily collaborating scientists were from countries ostensibly in conflict with each other. Another example, if you needed one, of science blithely rising above the generalized nitwit squabble.

As a young physics undergrad, Joe had learned of – and pondered – the famously elusive Higgs boson, the cryptic “God Particle” that gives mass and substance to… everything in the universe. In 2012 he found himself announcing that same Higgs boson to the world. This outcome likely would have surprised Joe the undergrad, let alone his “can’t stop laughing” college roommate (more on him later). How exactly had Joe come to this crazy pass?

Incandela is a Chicagoan with a Chicagoan’s eyebrows – not to generalize. Actually he grew up just outside of Chicago. But still. Joe is an experimental physicist, UCSB Physics Professor, Vice Chancellor for Research, mountain climber, planner of future supercolliders, silicon-based detector innovator (not that again!), fluent speaker of Italian and French, ardent SpongeBob supporter, and – given his time spent in the company of caroming particles – likely a decent pool player; a Renaissance Man, one could say.

Though the SpongeBob thing does add meddlesome spin to the equation. As a boy, he’d had his moments of immersive intuition, standing alone in an empty room, for instance, stretching out his hand. But like most seekers after deep, empirical truth, Joe ultimately came to particle physics as you’d expect – through artfully molten glass.

ART FOR QUARK’S SAKE “I was studying art. My parents were both artists. My dad was very much an artist, and had won a scholarship to the

View of modular pieces of the experiment during construction in the surface building before being lowered 300 feet to the experimental hall. At left one sees the first “endcap” layer with the end-plug calorimeter (particle energy measuring device) protruding. Note that the end-plug calorimeters on each end of the detector are to be replaced later this decade and that is what Incandela is working on now. At right is one of the outer three central slices prior to completing the muon detectors or installation of the particle tracker or central calorimeters.

Young Artist Studio of the Art Institute of Chicago when he was six or seven, staying until he finished high school.

He learned drawing, painting, sculpture – everything.” Joe’s dad, a businessman with a deep art passion and innate talent, later spent summers studying marble sculpting in Pietrasanta, Italy – Michelangelo’s training grounds. Joe’s mother was also impassioned about art, and the household encouraged Joe and his sisters to explore. “They really wanted us all to have these experiences.

When I was a kid my dad sent me to the Art Institute, and I was there from seven to the age of fifteen.” Joe pauses.

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envisioned Joe as a great artist, Joe’s mom sensing science might be the curious kid’s destination.

Joe embraced molten glass as his medium of choice and became enamored of artist Dominick Labino’s work, which used chemistry to achieve certain striking effects. “And that led me to chemistry. And so for the first time in my life… I had to take a physics course.” The course was entry level physics – classical bewigged Newtonian mechanics. “But the TAs and instructor would occasionally talk about modern physics, and when they did, I quickly realized... these guys are talking about stuff I’d been thinking about all my life!

That was mind-blowing.” Joe was jazzed.

“The day I took the final exam I came home and excitedly told my roommate I was going to get a PhD in physics.” The eyebrows jump. “The guy could not stop laughing.”

PARTICULAR SEARCH FOR ANSWERS His roomie’s amusement aside, Joe nabbed his PhD in ‘86 and by 2012 was leading the most consequential quantum posse of the last 50 years – chasing the fugitive Higgs boson over hill and dale and spacetime. In the interim, other quarks warbled a siren song. In the late ‘80s Joe was working with colleagues at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland to study the W and Z bosons responsible

for the weak nuclear force – then returned to the States and his old Windy City stomping grounds, working with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) to produce and confirm the Top Quark – the long-sought heavyweight champ of elementary particles, and the most difficult to observe due to its massrelated flash-in-the-pan decay rate.

Joe led the construction of a detector crucial to the top quark discovery, and also led the team of scientists that used that detector to find the top quark. He then went on to design and build large silicon detectors intended to study the top quark in detail at Fermilab. These large new silicon detectors drew the attention of CERN’s experimental physicists gearing up for the coming Higgs search. “A couple of the European leaders of the project to build the CMS tracker came to see me at Fermilab and asked us to join their effort,” Joe says.

“They were looking at the possibility of a full silicon tracker for CMS. This was… bold! There’d been maybe five square meters of silicon detectors built – in the whole history of the field. A full silicon tracker for CMS would be 200 square meters.”

VERY COLD DONUT The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a ridiculously large, unspeakably complex, and deeply buried donut. ...continued p.20

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by Zach Rosen REJUVENATING SPACES AND SOULS AT LUCIDITY: RE-GENERATION EARTH Connect with others and the earth during this year’s Lucidity theme: Re-generation Earth (photo

by Amandala Photography)

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oin dreamers, explorers, and merrymakers this spring as you experience the next chapter of the Lucidity Festival. The intricate story the Lucidity team continues to weave into the ongoing festival represents a mindfulness their crew brings to all aspects of the event and the content they curate. Held in Live Oak Campground each year, the Lucidity Festival has received international recognition and provided a significant economic and cultural impact on the community. Now in its ninth year, this Lucidity represents the final chapter of the third trilogy.

With the first two trilogies moving from

personal to collective transformation, this last trilogy has focused on global transformation. Join Lucidity this year from April 10 - 12 on the next leg of their epic journey, Lucidity: Regeneration Earth.

GLOBAL IMPACTS START LOCAL To fit with this year’s theme, the Lucidity Festival has introduced two new initiatives that focus on Earth regeneration. For each ticket sold, Lucidity will be giving a donation to Trees for the Future that will plant ten trees per ticket. With about 3,000

Of course the Pyrobar will be there at this year’s Lucidity (photo by Eric Allen)

tickets sold for the event, that donation will equal 30,000 trees planted. Trees for the Future is a nonprofit organization that has been around for thirty years and focuses on regenerative farming programs with over 4,000 farming families across six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa including Cameroon, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, Guinea, and Tanzania. Their Forest Garden Programs partner with farming families in areas that have been affected by logging, deforestation, and harmful agricultural practices. The organization works with these regions to plant native or naturalized fast-growing trees, fruit trees, hardwoods, and food crops in a systematic manner over a four-year period. This also provides a source of sustenance and revenue for the families farming them. To date they have planted over 155 million trees and each attendee this year at Lucidity will be helping support their mission with their ticket. You can visit Trees.org for more information on their program.

On Wednesday, April 8, before the event, Lucidity will also be offering a new Regenerative Action Day program.

This single day experience will be replacing the three-day coursework that used to take place in Lucid University.

The morning session will focus on regenerative theory with instructor Loren Luyendyk. A Certified Arborist and Master Gardener with a degree in botany, Loren founded Santa Barbara Organics in 1999 and was a founding

partner of Permaculture Design International. Attendees will get to learn about regenerative design from this master in permaculture. Participants will then get to put the key principles and practices they’ve learned to use during the afternoon session where they will take part in a regenerative action project planting oak trees in Live Oak Campground. This has been one of Lucidity’s goals for years, however it has taken a while to get the proper approvals. It is fitting that it was able to happen for this year’s theme (which is also coincidentally the 50th anniversary of Earth Day). And to keep the creative juices flowing, the day’s programming will even include some special content with the Art Temple and Movement Lab. STAYING THE COURSE Of course, mindful practices and sustainability have been part of the Lucidity ethos since the very beginning.

One of the returning programs that exemplify this is the Mindful Feeding Kitchen. Each year this kitchen practices the SOL (seasonal, organic, local) principles. Lucidity sees this as an ecosystem of sorts where the money spent on the food for the kitchen is being spent within the community through local organic farmers with other pantry items coming from Isla Vista Food Coop. This food is going to fuel the people creating the experience. By supporting local farmers with organic food that provides calories for the builders, this creates a complete communal system.

The food commissary is also just a fun (and delicious) experience. As someone who has been part of the build week over the years, the Mindful Feeding Kitchen has been a source of many great meals and memories with old and new friends. Festival attendees can also purchase a pass for the Mindful Feeding Kitchen during the event if they want to focus on enjoying themselves and not have to worry about prepping tasty and fresh organic meals.

Lucidity’s bamboo structures have become an iconic part of the festival’s infrastructure, and over the years the role of bamboo construction has become increasingly more important to the organization. You can now see Lucidity bamboo structures at many other events around the area with the large, vibrant structures adorning everything from the Summer Solstice Festival and California Avocado Festival to smaller events held around town. Bamboo, being strong, fast-growing, and sustainable, has become a popular building material for temporary structures. Lucidity sources all of their bamboo from a farm in Colombia which they have a direct

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E’S NOTE by Elliana Westmacott Elli was born and raised in Santa Barbara and is now 14 years old. She has been writing E’s Note in the paper for four years. Elli loves soccer and has been playing since she was in preschool. She especially enjoys traveling the world with friends and family. Her goal is to pursue a career in journalism.

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ave you ever heard of a TED Talk? You know, those educational lectures you can watch on YouTube about current events, politics, health, science, pretty much any and everything. Well, my school, Laguna Blanca High School, hosts our very own TED event called TEDx. TEDx is an individually organized event that happens once a year at Laguna. Laguna has been hosting this for three years and it is completely student organized. The students in the TEDx elective are in charge of finding speakers, organizing all of the food, setting up the stage and the lighting,

and so much more.

This year’s TEDx event had the theme “Re.Imagine.” The speakers were very intelligent and they all had something to say about our world and how we live life. One woman, Victoria Strong, talked about her daughter, Gwendolyn Strong. Gwendolyn had a disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. I remember going to school with Gwendolyn when I was in early elementary classes. When she was born, Gwendolyn was only given a few months to live. Victoria talked a lot about her struggle with this diagnosis and her anger after the doctors told her there was nothing

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she could do. Mrs. Strong decided she wouldn’t believe that there was no hope and this led her to start the Gwendolyn Strong Foundation. Due to Victoria and her husband’s perseverance, their daughter Gwendolyn lived to be seven years old. Because Victoria reimagined her daughter’s diagnosis, she got to spend seven hard but joyful years with her beautiful daughter. “We knew her life had a purpose and that she had this magnetism and for whatever reason people donated, people rallied around her and we knew it was what we needed to do to channel that energy into helping future generations” – Victoria Strong.

All of the speakers at our 2020 TEDx had inspiring stories like Gwendolyn’s, and they made me reimagine how I live my daily life. Some speakers came from right here in Santa Barbara and others flew thousands of miles to take our school’s stage to tell us their life stories; it was pretty amazing to witness. The whole event was captivating and gave

me a new outlook on my life. Speakers like Chef Jeff, a professional cook and former inmate who made a deliciously smelling meal right on our stage. And Jessie Graff, a stunt woman, and former American Ninja Warrior winner, who inspired me to work harder even if it’s just on a little assignment or essay.

Some of our very own Laguna Blanca students gave speeches and they were all impressively organized and wellspoken.

The second I got into the car after the event I told my dad, “I want to do that next year.” I plan on trying to get into the TEDx elective to help with the 2021 event. I hope this article will inspire you all to come to next year’s TEDx and stay informed by following Laguna’s TEDx website (www.tedxlagunablancaschool. com). Life can always use some reimagining.

Of course, there will also be the plethora of workshops and live art throughout the festival that helps set the mood at Lucidity each year. But naturally the music is one of the main draws of the festival. Each year the Lucid Landing stage features the main acts. And with the eclectic grooves of Polish Ambassador, the sharper beats of LSDREAM, and the live, bootstomping sounds of The California Honeydrops, headlining the event this year, this proves to be one jamming Lucidity. My personal favorite is The Dusty Barrel stage. Decorated with a

country flare, this area features some of the wildness of the West with a focus on high energy live music spanning from rock to bluegrass and beyond. If that is not your pace, The River Stage always offers softer sounds and a gentler mood. The Pneumatic Nook remains a crowd favorite and is where you can find DJs dropping beats deep into the AM. Whether it is the rocking tunes of the main stage or the hands-on experiences found throughout the festival, this year’s Lucidity is sure to regenerate your world.

Visit lucidityfestival.com for more information and tickets.

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This year’s TEDx event presented by Laguna Blanca School had the theme of “Re.Imagine” (photo by Brad Elliot)

relationship with, even visiting the farms and meeting with the farmers as they walked through the bamboo fields.

NEW AND FAMILIAR PLAY One of the new environments being featured this year is the Deja Vu Portal.

Those who’ve been playing along with Lucidity for a while will recognize that Deja Vu was the smaller, gamification festival that Lucidity held in the fall of 2017. Since then the festival storytellers have been peppering these interactive elements into Lucidity. This year the Deja Vu Portal will replace the Lucid

University area but will still have many familiar faces and spaces. Once again the Art Temple will be bringing creative conversations and hands-on experiences to the area. Or if you’d like some palm guidance and maybe a touch of tarot, head to the Oracle Tent next door. If you are up for some late-night antics, the nearby Steve TV, Pyrobar, and Fishbon are always a source of silliness and irreverence. This area will be the hub of the Deja Vu gamification experience where players will explore the Lucidity mythos and interact with the festival in a whole new way.

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Seventeen miles around and about 500 feet beneath the French/Swiss border, near Geneva, LHC is the highest energy particle collider in the world at this writing – a near lightspeed demolition derby that directs opposing proton beams into spectacular head-on collisions. Where the beams collide, the particles explosively spray in every direction, passing through the surrounding detector’s sensitive, differentiated strata where they’re “read” for identifying characteristics. It’s like blasting a layer cake with a shotgun, but more rigorously scientific. The LHC is a stupefying marvel of engineering, and also takes honors for – if you can imagine – the Largest Machine in the World. Seriously. Incandela brushstrokes a few of the more glaring engineering improbabilities made manifest in the collider.

“The magnets that keep the particles in a circular orbit are 8 Tesla and 40 feet long –and there are over 1,200 of them. They operate at 1.9 degrees Kelvin [colder than space! – ed] and are cooled by the largest cryogenic system ever built. This was one of the biggest challenges – to build this accelerator that pushed every technology known.”

He pauses and grins. “I heard that an engineering society estimated the chance of LHC actually working reliably at one in a billion, because there were so many ways the design and construction pushed

Joe Incandela, CMS Spokesman – in the CMS control room on the surface

the envelope.” What Joe has been thus far describing has to do with efficiently steering the proton beams around the donut for maintenance of maximum velocity. The detector for analyzing the billion collisions per second was its own challenge. “The silicon detector of CMS was unprecedented and considered very risky. The magnet in our detector is the largest superconducting magnet ever built. You could park a truck in it.”

Joe among other recipients of the 2012 - 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

JUST YOU WAIT, PETER HIGGS. JUST YOU WAIT. The Higgs boson was postulated the very year John, Paul, George and Ringo first appeared on the Sullivan show, driving dozens of teen girls in the studio audience to madly bat their beehive hairdos and scream like banshees.

Physicists that year were also batting their hairdos, albeit in a more subdued manner. The Standard Model of physics

had nagging energy-and-mass-related anomalies no one could figure out.

That year, Robert Brout and François Englert in Belgium – contemporaneous with Peter Higgs in the UK – theorized a cosmos-filling “field” that confers mass to the W and Z bosons; the particular issue that had been vexing them. It may help to imagine this Higgs ...continued p.22

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Joe Incandela, Fabiola Gianotti (current Director General of CERN), and Peter Jenni (founder of the ATLAS experiment)

Field (as it came to be called) as an omnipresent and invisible substrate of molasses throughout the universe, and The silicon pixels system that is used to track particles flying out of the proton collisions. Only two meters of actual sensors, but 20 years of R&D. particles being made sticky, lugubrious electromagnetism, if you must know) life-giving furnace and other such trifles. an emissary from the Higgs field – and – and massive as they pass through it. are not unanchored effects adrift in Likewise, the force conferred by the until 2012 – a phantom with the power Regrettably, pancakes did not figure the aether. These basic forces of nature Higgs is mass itself – the fundamental to confer a migraine upon the Standard into the calculations. inhere in, and are conferred by, specific heft and “thereness” of all things. To the Model if it remained unfound.

It turns out that Nature’s “forces” force-carrying particles. The W and Z extent that a particle (according to field [From a science-fictional omni(gravity, the strong nuclear force, bosons confer the weak nuclear force, theory) is more specifically an excitation Armageddon point of view – it is worth the weak nuclear force, and for instance, responsible for the sun’s of its associated field, the Higgs boson is ...continued p.24

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noting that the proton would probably be just fine without the Higgs, since the proton largely gets its mass from the group hug of u and d quarks that comprise it. Strip the electron of its Higgs mass, though, and it flies out of the atom’s orbit – whereupon you and I cease to exist.]

Zurich newspaper playfully giving Joe the Michelangelo treatment. “Physicists find the God Particle.”

Proton-proton beam collision. Low energy particles bending in magnetic field, high energy bits are straight lines. Colored blocks are energy measurements.

Peter Higgs and Joe Incandela drinking a toast at the European Physical Society meeting in Stockholm, in 2012.

Joe accepted the EPS 2012 prize for particle physics on behalf of CMS.

Now the Higgs box has been checked, and the surviving Beatles-era theorists, François Englert and Peter Higgs (Brout regrettably passed in 2011) have collected their Nobel Prizes (2013). Peter Higgs, the gentleman wiping his eyes earlier in the story, was present when Joe announced the findings. You can see Joe looking at him in the aforementioned video. “The day I announced that CMS had observed a Higgs-like boson, Peter

Higgs was there, and was brought to tears. He said he did not think it would happen in his lifetime. Englert was there, too, and after the presentations he met me and hugged me emphatically. I couldn’t get loose. Not bad for an older gentleman!”

In 2013, Joe Incandela received the Special Breakthrough Prize in physics, ...continued p.26

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The Intermediate Silicon Layers detector proposed by David Stuart (back row, left – now a professor at UCSB) and Incandela – 2000

alongside Stephen Hawking, Fabiola Gianotti (whose Atlas detector – a scant several miles away on the same LHC donut – shared in the Higgs discovery), Lyn Evans, Guido Tonelli, Michel Della Negra, and Tejinder Singh Virdee. Joe has parlayed his love of art into a speciesenlightening vocation. One intuits a connection of some kind between highenergy physics and art. What is it? Joe thinks he knows.

“Both physics and art have a significant amount of idealism associated with them –idealism in the sense that you’re trying to make a cultural contribution that’s timeless. Fundamental physics is timeless in the same way a great work of art is timeless. Contributions to fundamental science are never forgotten.”

STRANGENESS AND CHARM Joe Incandela’s career has been out of the ordinary, let’s say. While seeking answers from the cosmos at CERN, he met the love of his life, a softspoken Englishwoman with a sly sense of humor, perpetually poised smile, and habit of breaking into musical laughter. Their wisecracking sons, both burgeoning scientists, have Joe-like eyebrows and use them to great effect.

Joe’s own childhood was ordinary.

Mostly. “At age thirtten, I was smitten

by Lisa Anderson, who is the younger sister of [unclassifiable artist and Lou Reed’s widow] Laurie Anderson. As a kid I visited Lisa in this big, very old house and Laurie was living there, and had been doing paintings on the ceiling of the third floor. Laurie took us someplace one time – maybe ice skating.”

Lisa and Joe went their separate ways, reuniting some seven years later

Fully completed central detector viewed end on, as the protons would see it as they came down the beamline

in Manhattan. By that time Lisa was at Barnard and her sister Laurie – who five years later would transfix the world with her radio-bending art song “O Superman” – was living in a tiny place in SoHo. “We visited Laurie once, and then went to a show. It was Philip Glass performing in a loft, and Laurie I think did his lighting. I remember hypnotically mesmerizing piano music,

and sitting on oriental carpets with lots of people. It was 1977.”

By then Joe had long since switched to physics from art. Had the quest always been in him somehow? He remembers a strange early brush with the fundamental questions.

“I was ten or eleven. I remember trying to understand what modern terminology would call ‘the vacuum

of spacetime.’ I still remember exactly where I was in our house. It was quiet.

I remember staring at the space in front of me – having imagined there’s nothing in it; no air, no dust, no light – and just staring and staring and staring. And then I reached into it with my hand.

And I just knew,” Joe says emphatically, “I knew that it was more than that. I knew it was more than nothing.”

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ON ART

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.

NADEREH SUGICH STAINED GLASS KALEIDOSCOPES

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hen First Thursday closes up, keep the art vibe flowing at Salty Bros Soap Company at 208 West Canon Perdido, with live music and a local artist’s gallery. Salty Bros Soap Company will host a meet-the-artist reception for Nadereh Sugich’s show of beautiful handcrafted glass kaleidoscopes on March 5, from 5 pm until the last person leaves. Sugich and her husband, David, set up their studio in Santa Barbara over 40 years ago and began selling at local events and at the Santa Barbara Arts and Crafts Show along Cabrillo Beach on Sundays. Sugich has enjoyed meeting people from all over the world when they visit the show. “I’ve learned a lot

from the people; it’s a wonderful place to be.”

Sugich began making jewelry boxes out of stained glass that sold well. Sugich shares, “Making the kaleidoscopes was David’s idea. He taught me how to do it.” Their hand-crafted glass artworks were carried for many years through The Nature Company, Natural Wonders, etc.

The Sugiches traveled to other countries selling them. They became a regular part of the Yes Store, where Sugich says she feels a part of the family after so many years. “In November and December, for me it became a place to go; I have no brother or sister here.”

When asked how they are made, she

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usually answers, “Oh, they are magic.”

Not only are the scopes an intersection of art and science, making the scopes is also physical work, and takes its toll on her hands. And after an exacting task of crafting mirrors and glass and soldering them together, the result she produces is a fantastic place created by capturing light inside a glass cone. On the outside the stained glass has its own beautiful artistic finishing.

When asked about her favorite things, Sugich answered, “I like being everything, cook, mom, working artist, creating, I like everything.” Her daughter Nadia hopes to open her own Bay Area restaurant soon and shared, “Watching my mom was inspirational, I learned I could create a lifestyle outside a traditional career path.”

Sugich would also like to paint someday. “I’d like to do really big canvases that would fill the wall, my vision is much bigger. I’d have to have a huge studio, like a warehouse.”

View Sugich’s show at Salty Bros Soap Company in Santa Barbara, the Yes Store each December, and Sundays along Cabrillo Beach at the Santa Barbara Artwalk.

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By Elizabeth Rose Since 2015, I Heart SB has followed Elizabeth Rose through dating in Santa Barbara and falling in love, a long-distance relationship, living on a 34’ sailboat then sailing from Washington to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The couple is now engaged, back on dry land, living in an Airstream in Carpinteria. Comments welcome at ihearterose@ gmail.com. For more stories, visit www.ihearterose.com.

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xcuse me, Miss! I have to say; you’re wearing my favorite type of belt.” I turned to find an older gentleman with smiling blue eyes staring back at me. A silk tie-dyed scarf was fastened around his neck, neatly tucked into a blue pinstripe button-up shirt – a classic style with a twist. I liked him immediately.

“My name is Phillip Schaffer,” he said as he extended his hand. My face lit up. We knew each other. At the time, I was an editor at a local paper, and Phillip and I had emailed, hoping to start his column on wellness. Unfortunately, it didn’t pan out.

So, with a tail between my legs, I explained who I was and proceeded to apologize for the column not going as planned. He waved his hand in the air, as if to say not to worry, then held out his arms and said, “Elizabeth! It’s so nice to finally meet you,” before leaning in to hug me.

Not long after, he invited me to his home for coffee. And as he poured the black liquid into the small white ceramic cup, he looked at me from the corner of his eyes and said, “Elizabeth, you and I are family. We’ve met before, in other lifetimes.”

I nodded my head, totally flattered since I had felt the same feeling when we first met. As we settled in the living room, surrounded by art and curiosities I would pay to see in a museum, we sipped on some of the strongest coffee I’ve ever had to this day. I told him I had recently quit my job as an editor to move to Washington.

I told him that I felt he was my Guru and was sad to not have more time with him since I was moving in less than a week.

I would live on a sailboat with my boyfriend, Jason, and we planned to sail to Mexico. “That’s wonderful!” Phillip said without missing a beat – a long departure from the are-you-insane looks I was used to. Realizing I had less than an hour until I had to leave, I jumped into journalist mode to soak up as many stories from this man as I could.

He told me about his time in Big Sur – sharing a hot tub and joints with Henry Miller on more than one occasion (some of these meetings are documented on VHS!) – and how he sailed his yacht around New York harbor with loads of friends on board. As time ticked down, I mildly panicked feeling we’d only just begun. I told him that I felt he was my Guru and was sad to not have more time with him since I was moving in less than a week. But he smiled, waving his hand in the air as if to dissolve my worries, and gave me a short list of things to remember on my journey: - Drink lots of good, clean, healthy water.

- Rinse your eyes out daily, “To get all the dust and shit out of them.”

- Sun-gaze for twenty minutes a day. “Blue skies do it all!”

- To enjoy life at any stage. “Even the boring parts.”

Before I left, we wandered downstairs to his wife’s office to say hello. She was stunningly beautiful, sitting at her desk immersed in a project. Phillip told me to turn my head so she could see my profile. He said I had a strong, Egyptian nose and she agreed. (This meant a lot to me since my nose has always been my insecurity.)

Though we connected only a few times after, I’d think of him almost every day as Jason and I sailed to Mexico. Sometimes I’d feel a tug at my heart, telling me that I was missing out on moments with Phillip. To calm myself nerves, I’d pull out his book, Codes for Longevity, and read a chapter. His words are friendly, full of wisdom, and just as comforting as if he’s speaking to you. To this day when I’m stress out about work, traveling, or life in general, I’ll think of Phillip. I’ll wave my hand in the air like Phillip would, as if to say not to worry, then tie a colorful silk scarf around my neck in honor of him.

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he Third Annual NatureTrack Film Festival (NTFF), the only nature-focused film festival between San Francisco and Los Angeles, returns to Los Olivos March 20 through 22 – “where nature takes center stage on screen and blooms in abundance throughout one of California’s most scenic valleys.”

More than 65 long and short films from 21 countries, in both live and animated form, will be judged and then screened during the festival, and all entries are curated and selected to “ignite passion for nature through film.”

Categories include: Adventure, Animation, Biography, Conservation, Kids Connecting with Nature, Scenic, Student, and a special category, Outdoors & Out of Bounds.

The festival kicks off with an opening night reception at Artisans’ Gallery Garden followed by a slate of films on Friday, March 20. The Festival timing coincides with the Figueroa Mountain wildflower bloom, a season of fantastic flower displays from February through April with late March bringing out the early blooming specimens such as purple shooting stars. A profusion of annual species including goldfields, sky lupine, and California poppy will carpet the hillsides and open grasslands, and NatureTrack will offer two docent led hikes on Saturday March 21 and Sunday March 22 at 8:30 am.

Festival film highlight titles include: The Bee Rescuer, Warren Miller’s Timeless, 83° Ski the North, Street Surfers, Lost Kings of Bioko, Threats in the Northern Seas, and Taming Wild – Pura Vida, a film sure to be interesting to the Santa Ynez Valley equine community: “Two Costa Rican horses rescued from lives of pain and hardship that needed a second chance at life, with two horse trainers, Elsa Sinclair and Andrea Wady are on a mission to understand new beginnings and connection through movement. With a country to cross from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, over mountains, through valleys, across rivers, and embraced by Costa Rican jungle, would this shared journey be enough to build trust between horse and human? Could horses from a history such as theirs learn to trust anew?”

The festival was founded by Sue Eisaguirre, who conceived the idea as an extension of and fundraiser for the nonprofit NatureTrack Foundation she started in 2011.

NatureTrack introduces schoolchildren to outdoor spaces from the seashore to the inland oak woodlands of Santa Barbara County by providing cost-free outdoor field trips. Since it began, NatureTrack has provided more than 22,000 outdoor experiences for school-aged students.

Festival tickets are available in a variety of packages. A VIP All-Access Pass is

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THE BLOOM IS UPON US ature lovers are in for magnificent displays in the coming weeks, and as a friendly reminder, the National Forest Service says, “when you stop to look and take pictures of all the beauties, please make sure you park on the shoulder of the road and not on the road itself. If there isn’t a place to stop, find a turn-out and walk back to the area. Please do not block the road at any time, as this will be enforced.”

Wildflowers are starting to wake up and California poppies are preparing to pop, in both brilliant orange and bright yellow. Stunning and enormous swaths of the poppies’ colorful patch work will soon be seen on the top portion of Grass Mountain. Flower fanatics should prepare to find some tiny cream cups, Ceanothus, buttercups, fiddleneck, blue dicks, some lupine, carpets of goldfields, coreopsis, shiny buttercups, milkmaids, blue dicks, delightful fiesta flowers, fiddlenecks, Johnny jump-ups, fillaree, and miners lettuce soon to be on full display.

Happy viewing! Grab your picnic, camera, plein air art set up and supplies, and hiking boots and water.

When: Now through April Where: Figueroa Mountain, starting point is 6.9 miles from the intersection of Hwy 154 and Figueroa Mtn Rd. to the trailhead parking area Info: www.fs.usda.gov/main/lpnf/home LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL AND BOUNCE, ROCK, & SKATE arks and Recreation hosts an evening of “roller skating madness and fantastic family fun” for one night only. Bring your own skates or blades or rent onsite to roll and bounce to the disco ball, flashing lights and DJ music. Games, prizes, refreshments, limited rollerblade rentals and child sizes available.

When: Friday, February 28 – ages 10 and under 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm and open skate for all ages 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Where: Solvang Veterans Hall, 1745 Mission Drive in Solvang Cost: $4 general admission, $6 with skates, $10 if you need blade rentals Info: (805) 688-1086 or visit www.cityofsolvang.com

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FASTELAVN astelavn is the name for Carnival in the historically Lutheran Danish tradition celebrated before Ash Wednesday and in the days before Lent. The evening fundraiser will host great fun as children and adults dress in costumes, enjoy delicious traditional treats, Danish hot dogs, drinks, and play a Danish style piñata game called “Break open the Barrel.” Costume contest for kids, desserts, silent auction, crowning the Cat Royalty (the barrel breaker) and Grand Dance.

When: Sunday, March 1, from 5 to 8 pm – dinner is at 5:30 pm Where: Parish Hall in Bethania Lutheran Church, 621 Atterdag Road in Solvang Cost: $8/adults and $5/child

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HONK! BEEP! VROOOOOOM! he trucks are back for the SYV Touch-A-Truck event! Construction, emergency, specialty, and military vehicles will be on dis“play” at a family-friendly event for all ages of kids and “kids at heart” to climb in, climb on, honk horns, and turn on sirens and explore and learn about trucks of all sizes and kinds. Live music, a bounce house, Kona Ice, face painting, and tons more. All proceeds benefit Bethania Preschool and Afterschool.

When: Saturday, March 7 from 10 am to 2 pm (No Horn hour from 10 am to 11 am for sensitive ears) Where: Bethania Lutheran Church grounds, 611 Atterdag Road in Solvang Cost: $5 per person, $20 per family of five Info: (805) 245-1561 syvtouchatruck@ gmail.com

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