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S tate Street Scribe – What do Asian elephants and smugglers have in common? Frank Schipper. And he’s as surprised as you.

T he Capitalist – Why is it so hard for humans to change their minds? Jeffrey Harding explores why we have a tendency to only believe information that supports our beliefs, and gives up on the majority of Americans that refuses to keep an open mind.

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eer Guy – Zach Rosen looks at two ingredients you don’t expect to find in a B nice, cold brew: Pesticides and microplastics Fortnight – Adrian Legg rocks SOhO; The Immediate Family at Lobero; two groups pay tribute to The Band at UCSB; Arlington hosts Kansas; fifth annual “Spirits in the Air: Potent Potable Poetry” reading; play premieres around town

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Letters to the Editor – Jeff Harding changed one reader’s mind about Bellosguardo; Berni Bernstein believes the estate should be not be sold; John De Herrera implores the mayor and City Council to open communications about its future

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Creative Characters – Lucidity Festival celebrates its 8th year at Live Oak Campground with this year’s theme, Moon’s Eye View What’s Hanging – Another new gallery in town? That’s right! Check out The Funk Factory, along with a multitude of other exhibition openings around town.

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On Art – Deb Jorgensen makes pottery you can marvel at and eat off of. See her work at Linden Studio on April 10 and during Carpinteria’s Open Studio Tour May 11 and 12.

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I Heart SB – Elizabeth Rose asks the age-old question: if you like it, should you put a ring on it?

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Frank Schipper and the Long Way Home

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he Dutch are very generally known for (among many other things) their straight talk. Frank Schipper is holding up his end of that bargain today. Sprawling in as much repose as his straight-backed kitchen chair will allow, he is relaxed and accommodating, and is possessed of that twinkle in the eye that typifies the Dutch – once they’re satisfied you’re friend and not foe. I should also note that Frank’s every smiling utterance comes out in a clipped, booming tone that suggests something like “I said: put that hammer down!” Frank doesn’t murmur. Here he is relating an academic episode, ca.

1954.

“Santa Barbara High School was not a good experience for me. Mainly because of this really crappy counselor! I don’t give a damn if you use his name or not.”

I nervously look down and scribble in my little note pad. “He’s telling me what I have to take – history, geography. He says ‘You have to take beginning algebra

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and beginning geometry.’ I say ‘Mr. Green! I’ve already taken trigonometry and I’ve started calculus.’ And he says ‘Yeah, but you have to do it over again – in English.’”

I glance up and Schipper is wearing that deadpan facial expression that neatly combines amusement and ...continued p.15

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The Capitalist

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How to Have a Closed Mind

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hear this a lot from readers: “I like your columns but I don’t agree with you.” When I ask why they disagree, I get stonewalled. “I just don’t.”

This is something I think about a lot.

People just aren’t open to changing their minds. Which makes it difficult to convince someone of something. How can that be when the ability to reason is a prime qualification for being human?

Being a reason-logic-fact kind of guy, I find that rather frustrating.

Why is it so hard for folks to change their minds?

It all comes down to an evolutionary trait that helped us to survive as a species: getting along with our group, family, clan, or tribe. It seems that hanging in with your people gives you better odds of survival than just reason and logic. If your views are in opposition to your fellow clan members, you will not be tolerated. In primitive societies where survival is tenuous, cooperation is valued more than your own damn opinions. As a result we have developed some emotional traits that allow us to disregard facts and embrace whatever the group believes. “Go along to get along.”

In modern times we tend to choose our own social groups, less so the tribe.

These groups help create our identity. To maintain our identity and acceptance in a group, we conform our beliefs to those of the group regardless of the facts. Our common beliefs are “badges of membership” in a group (religion, church, political party, country club, etc.). Changing your mind may require changing your identity. Not so easy for us humans.

The result is that we can hold two or more contradictory beliefs at the same time. What an amazing, singularly human trait. One would think that would drive us nuts. And it sort of does: the “mental discomfort” it causes is what psychologists call “cognitive dissonance.”

“I know expert scientists say the earth is billions of years old, but I believe it

is less than 10,000 years old.” In other words, “I’m going to believe what my group believes, screw the facts. That’s just who I am.”

In order to get through the day we have developed emotional aids to manage our “mental discomfort.” For example, we have a tendency to only believe information that supports our beliefs; we reject conflicting ideas (“confirmation bias”). And there is the “backfire effect”: the more our beliefs are challenged, the more we dig in. Also, the desire to fit in with our group is a powerful emotion and we conform our beliefs to the group’s to get acceptance (“cultural cognition”). The bottom line is that ignoring the facts is easier than changing our beliefs.

Unfortunately, these evolutionary relics have become a problem in modern societies. It has led to negative behaviors like “groupthink” where dissent from majoritarian beliefs is not accepted or is prohibited. Or, the “sheeple” effect where blind adherence

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You would think in a country with more than one-third of adults holding college degrees that bad ideas would be rejected. But as economist Thomas Sowell says, “The fact that we don’t have people who are educated to be able to analyze arguments but who are swept along by rhetoric is one of the reasons that allows people to get away with these kinds of things.”

It comes back to cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, cultural cognition, and another human trait: the lack of intellectual discipline to try to figure things out.

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to a group ideology allows leaders to easily manipulate people to sometimes horrendous behavior.

Can you change someone’s mind?

What does it take if reason, logic, and facts are overridden by emotion?

From my perch, one of policy, this is a problem. If a policy is demonstrated over time that it doesn’t work and has negative consequences, why do people continue to support policies that are harmful?

“I’m a Democrat [Republican], my family were Democrats [Republicans], and I’ll always vote Democrat [Republican].” We’ve all heard this said.

These are the people who will probably never change their minds. Facts are ignored. It is all about who they are.

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Politicians are especially adept at this since party identity is where votes come from.

The other problem is that modern societies are more complex. The issues are complex. Most people are not capable of discerning good policies from bad policies. That is, until it gets so bad that it can’t be ignored. In failed states like Venezuela where bad policies grind people down, they vote with their feet and leave.

Here in America bad policies abound.

We hear Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez promote disproven, even harmful

AOC are fabulous. I’m not going to change your minds because you refuse to listen to contrary ideas. Ditto to those of you who think free trade is bad and Latino immigrants are destroying America – I’m not going to change your closed minds with facts.

I believe there are those of you out there who see themselves as independents, not bound up in rhetoric and bad ideology, and that are open to ideas, facts, and reason. I think you do listen and can change your opinions or at least you are willing to consider something other than the conventional wisdom. It’s for you I write.

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Pesticides, Microplastics, and Beer, Oh My

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ost scientists and health researchers are concerned with pesticide presence in our food and water supply and the overall impact they can have on the natural cycles of the world. Of the pesticides, one in particular has been popping up in the news more and more: glyphosate, or as it is more commonly known, Roundup.

This weed killer was discovered in 1970 by a Monsanto scientist and brought to market as Roundup in 1974. In 2015, the World Health Organization deemed it as “probably carcinogenic in humans” and a number of countries are considering its partial or complete ban. Although there is still chatter back and forth about the exact impact that glyphosate has on people’s health and what is an acceptable amount to allow in the food supply. But over the years, investigations and documents released during lawsuits often reveal Monsanto’s deft hand underneath the counter arguments minimizing Roundup’s health risks.

With questionable effects on the environment and human health, its prolific use in farming is of concern to many. According to a U.S. Geological Survey, there was an estimated 10 million pounds of Roundup used total in 1992 on crops. Today, that number is closer to 300 million pounds. According to the EPA in 2007, glyphosate was the most used herbicide in the country’s agricultural sector and the second-most used in home and garden, government and industry, and commercial applications.

The proliferation of glyphosate in our environment was even found to have affected our beer in a recent report by the US Public Interest Research Groups (US PIRG), a non-profit consumer oriented advocacy group founded

by Ralph Nader that seeks to enact

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Glyphosate, or Roundup, was found in a range of beers including craft beers like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

political change through grassroots methods. Their recent report tested the glyphosate levels in 20 beers, wine, and ciders. However they do admit in the paper that this was a single snapshot and not a comprehensive study done over a range of testing periods, although previous research papers have found similar results.

Out of the 20 samples they tested, 19 were found to contain glyphosate, even including the four organic brands. There were five wines, two ciders, and 13 beers tested. Sutter Home Merlot contained the highest amount of glyphosate of all with a concentration of 51.4 parts per billion (ppb). Beringer Estates Moscato and Barefoot Cabernet Sauvignon, had 42.6 ppb and 36.3 ppb respectively.

Stella Artois Cidre was at 9.1 ppb and Ace Perry Hard Cider contained 14.5 ppb.

Of the beers tested, Tsingtao had the most glyphosate by far with 49.7 ppb.

With the BudMillerCoors brews all having around 30 ppb, the premium brands like Heineken and Guinness around 20 ppb, and the craft beers containing around 11 ppb. Even Sierra Nevada Pale Ale had 11.8 ppb. Four

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organic samples (two beer and two wine) were tested with three of them having about 5 ppb. Samuel Smith’s Organic Lager had 5.7 ppb and Peak Organic IPA was the only sample tested that had no detectable quantity of glyphosate.

It is important to note that this report is focused on Roundup, or glyphosate, and not pesticides as a whole. There have been several studies focused on tracing and quantifying pesticides in beer over the years. Some have looked at the role of hops, both in form (wet, dry, organic, etc.) and in process (late hopping, dry hopping, etc.) to determine the noticeable pesticide concentrations from hops. Others have focused on barley, tracing pesticide residues through the farming, malting, brewing, and fermentation processes to determine which stages have the biggest influence on final pesticide concentrations. In general, barley and cereal grains tend to play a far bigger role than hops do.

Reducing pesticides in finished beer all depends on whether the particular pesticide is hydrophilic (water loving) or hydrophobic (water hating), typically quantified by a partition coefficient. Hydrophobic pesticides tend to “stick” to the spent grain, hops, and yeast during the brewing and fermentation process. As these waste materials are removed, so are the pesticides to some degree, with some even being removed to below a detectable amount (statistically zero).

The water loving compounds however get carried over in the liquid and can end up in the finished beer. Glyphosate happens to be the most water loving of the pesticides measured in these studies, with 95% of it being carried through the brewing process. Also of note, more volatile pesticides will often be reduced in the finished beer by becoming entrained in the carbon dioxide released during fermentation.

Select pesticides have been reduced during the lagering and filtration stages, however in general this process does not result in a significant overall decrease of pesticides found in beer.

It is worth noting that all of these studies have found the pesticide

quantities to be far below what is currently deemed acceptable by the world’s regulatory organizations. The EPA’s current tolerances on acceptable glyphosate levels range from 200 to 400,000 ppb, depending on the food or feed item, so all of these samples (ranging from no detectable amount to 49.7 ppb) are still well under the current standard. That being said, the EPA has been known to have questionable tolerances on certain regulations, and slow to update standards in response to emerging studies. German researchers have found that even 0.1 ppb poses a potential risk of proliferating certain kinds of breast cancer cells, and killing of healthy gut bacteria while not having any effect on harmful gut bacteria. The presence of glyphosate in the organic products also shows how pesticides can enter water supplies and spread through our natural systems, contaminating a crop, even if it does not explicitly use pesticides. It is safe to assume that we will not be discovering any previously unbeknownst health benefits of pesticides and that minimizing them in our food supply and natural environment will have a positive effect on the world.

DRINKING PLASTIC Also of growing concern is the presence of microplastics in our environment and food supply. Microplastics are defined as any type of plastic fragment that is less than five millimeters in length. They result from the physical degradation of plastic goods (think of rocks turning into sand) and these small pesky pieces of plastic have been found in everything from our oceans to our food. In 2014, a disturbing study by German scientists (Liebezeit et al) found the presence of microplastics in beer. However, a counter paper by Lachenmeier et al was published in 2015 that questioned the results of this study. In this replication study, they noted the possibility of contamination in the testing procedure used by the Liebezeit study. Microplastics can enter the lab setting through the air vents and even the clothes that a researcher is wearing. The Liebezeit study did not properly control for these factors. They also found that the staining agent used, rose bengal, is not proper for the testing environment, resulting in false negatives and false positives based on the filtration medium and starches found in the beer.

A 2018 study has been making the news lately that sought to recreate the 2014 German study, but with beers from the Great Lakes. This study found that the 12 tested beers from around the Great Lakes had an average of 4.05 particles per liter (ppL). In comparison, the tap water sources they tested from

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Premium brands like Guinness were found to have a glyphosate concentration of around 20 ppb (parts per billion)

around the globe had an average of 5.45 ppL. This new study did a better job controlling these factors and was able to quantify the lab setting contamination and subtract it from their results. That being said, they did still use rose bengal as a staining agent. The study also examined the municipal water source each brewery used but found that there was no correlation between the water source used and the final microplastic content of the beer. This implies that microplastic contamination can largely be influenced by the environmental

factors of the brewery (ventilation, workers’ clothes, etc.) and the process and materials used.

Clearly there is still a lot to be understood about the presence of microplastics in our beer. Hopefully with time researchers will determine which factors contribute most, and how brewers can minimize microplastics presence in beer. In the meantime, I’ll still keep drinking beer and just raise my glass towards a future that has less pesticides and microplastics in the world, and especially our beer.

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ingerstyle guitarist Adrian Legg might just be the greatest guitarist you’ve never heard of. The dude who was named Acoustic Guitarist of the Decade by the UK’s Guitarist Magazine in 1994 and Best Acoustic Fingerstylist in Guitar Player Magazine’s Readers’ Poll for four years in a row, 1993-96, counts among his fans the guitar icon Joe Satriani, who called Legg “simply the best acoustic guitar player I’ve ever heard.”

The axe man who has released more than a dozen recordings of his original work comprised of a self-described “collision between European classicism and the American guitar” impresses with much more than his fast and nimble fingers and clever compositions, as he’s also an entertainer able to spin yarns that are as dazzling as his fret work that mixes an alternating-bass style with harmonics, banjo-peg retuning and single or double string bending. By all rights, Legg should be lapping up attention at larger halls across the land, but, fortunately for us at least, we’re still able to catch him on Sunday, March 31, at SOhO, where tickets cost just $15-$18, and you won’t even need to be imbibing to be transported by the music. Info at (805) 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Riddle: West Coast vs. Woodstock

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nce again, those of us obsessed with classic rock from decades gone by might be bedeviled by a decision on where to go and who to see on Tuesday, April 2. On the one hand, there’s the Lobero, where we’ve got the local debut of The Immediate Family, guitarist-singersongwriter Danny Kortchmar’s clever name for the quintet of quintessential studio and touring musicians who have recorded, produced, composed for and/ or played behind an incredible list of singer-songwriter superstars (James Taylor, Carole King, Warren Zevon, David Crosby) and other icons (Don Henley, Linda Ronstadt). Guitarists Waddy Wachtel and Steve Postell along with The Section’s Leland Sklar on bass and Russ Kunkel on drums have been on about 5,000 records in total, including some of the biggest hits of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Now they’re rockin’ out without a brand name frontman, playing songs they have written for themselves or others in what promises to be a breakout

evening of terrific rock ‘n’ roll.

Meanwhile, out at UCSB Campbell Hall, two of today’s most eclectic and enterprising American roots music groups are joining together for “Across the Great Divide: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of The Band,” in which the groups will perform in tribute to Music from Big Pink and The Band. Sharing the stage are the eclectic octet The Dustbowl Revival, the LAbased ensemble whose blend of folkAmericana and Stax-era soul into a genre-hopping dance party has already thrilled fans at SOhO and the Live Oak Music Festival, and Austin-based trio Hot Club of Cowtown, which delivers hot jazz and Western with the same sort of jaw-dropping virtuosity that characterized The Band, and which has landed them gigs supporting Bob Dylan (who recorded with The Band back in their Woodstock days), Willie Nelson, and Roxy Music. The groups will be playing their own music and songs from the classic Band albums in a time travelling tour de force.

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ant more classic rock sans the conflict? Try taking a trip down memory lane with Kansas, the ‘70s progressive rock band that scored big with “Dust in the Wind” – still a staple of classic rock radio stations – although the group doesn’t sell out arenas anymore. The wayward sons will carry on at the Arlington Theatre on Sunday, April 7.

Prolific Poet Presentations

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he fifth annual “Spirits in the Air: Potent Potable Poetry” reading at the Good Lion kicks off a series of local events to celebrate National Poetry Month.

The group of invited poets who will be reading their own work as well as poems by others that are at least tangentially about libations of all sorts features LaureAnne Bosselaar, who late last month was installed as Santa Barbara’s eighth poet laureate. She’ll be joined by past local laureates David Starkey and Chryss Yost, plus Susan Chiavelli, Natalie D-Napoleon, Amy Michelson, Diana Raab, Linda Saccoccio and Emma Trelles for the event hosted by George Yatchisin, the “Drinkable Landscape” columnist for Edible Santa Barbara

and a food writer for the Santa Barbara Independent. The free event at the watering hole next door to the Granada on Tuesday, April 2, takes note of the many ways poets have found inspiration, solace, and perhaps more bothersome outcomes by the alcoholic contents of a bottle, and also features a special menu of literary-themed cocktails.

Bosselaar, whose terms runs from 2019-21, is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, Small Gods of Grief which won the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001, and of A New Hunger, an ALA Notable Book.

Her chapbook Rooms Remembered was published by Sungold Editions in 2018, and her latest collection, These Many Rooms, is out from Four Way Books later this year. She’ll also be the headliner on Friday, April 7, when the Santa Barbara Poetry Series holds its last reading of the season at the Santa Barbara Public Library, where she’ll be joined by featured readers Emma Trelles and Taylor Tejada.

Trelles, the author of Tropicalia, winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and a recommended read by The Rumpus, is currently writing a second book of poems, Courage and the Clock. Visit www.sbpoetry.net for more info.

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entura’s Rubicon Theatre and UCSB Theater are the only two major producers of plays in the area that won’t be in action this month, but two of the smaller companies are happy to be taking their place. Those are the ones that actually launch the action with 10day runs from April 5-14, highlighted

by Out of the Box Theatre Company’s creative Santa Barbara premiere at Center Stage of Fun Home. The coming-of-age musical that won five 2015 Tony Awards including Best Musical is based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir and is a tragicomic tale told with enormous emotional impact and sensitivity. The show’s haunting yet amusing score illuminates one of the most extraordinary and original musicals of our times, says Out of the Box founder Samantha Eve, who will direct but not appear in the groundbreaking production that introduces us to Alison at three different ages, revealing memories of her uniquely dysfunctional family that connect with her in surprising new ways.

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unning simultaneously in Carpinteria’s Alcazar Theatre is Black Comedy, a unique one-act farcical comedy written by Peter Shaffer of Equus fame. The play takes place in London in 1965, where lovesick and desperate sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d’arts to impress his fiancée’s pompous father.

Unfortunately, he “borrowed” his new décor from the absent antique collector next door who, of course, unexpectedly returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness. What follows is a range of unexpected guests, errant phone cords, and other snares which impede Brindsley’s frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored. The title is actually a pun, and the reversed lighting of the stage – and audience – are all part of the fun.

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ignificant Other, the new play from Bad Jews author Joshua Harmon, closes out SBCC TheaterGroup’s 2018-19 season with a fresh-fromBroadway comedy that has drawn rave reviews from coast to coast. Heralded

by The New York Times as “A tenderly unromantic romantic comedy, as richly funny as it is ultimately heart-stirring,” SO plays April 10-27 in the intimate Jurkowitz Theatre on the seaside campus. Katie Laris directs the story about Jordan, a single gay man who is slowly sinking into lonely terror as his female friends all find husbands. Instead of using the gay character as a comic foil, Harmon’s vehicle imbibes the character with “as much depth and complexity as sass,” according to The Los Angeles Times review, which said the “audience is naturally convulsed in hilarity that’s interrupted only by paroxysms of sympathy for the protagonist…”

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he run of area premieres continues over at the New Vic Theatre, home of Ensemble Theater Company which is producing the Southern California debut of Everything Is Illuminated, Simon Block’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s best-selling novel about a young Jewish-American writer who travels to Ukraine to seek out the woman who may have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He hires Alex, a young Ukrainian tour guide, who takes him on a hilarious road trip in search of the woman’s village. Along the way, they confront haunting memories as his and Alex’s histories become entwined. ETC’s executive artistic director Jonathan Fox directs the production that runs April 11-28.

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LETTERSTOTHEEDITOR Although you might not believe it, we actually want to hear from you. So if you have something you think we should know about or you see something we've said that you think is cretinous (or perspicacious, to be fair), then let us know. There's no limit on words or subject matter, so go ahead and let it rip to: Santa Barbara Sentinel, Letters to the Editor, 133 East De La Guerra Street, No. 182, Santa Barbara, California 93101. You can also leap into the 21st century and email us at tim@santabarbarasentinel.com.

BELLOSGUARDO SHOULD BE SOLD

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adly, Mr. Harding convinced me that Huguette Clark’s mansion should be sold and the money used for the arts in Santa Barbara. And I was one of those who read Empty Mansions and was looking forward to Bellosguardo becoming a museum!

One thing he didn’t mention about the prospective museum contents was to be her extensive doll collection.

If the Bellosguardo is sold off, the doll collection can be displayed at one of our city’s museums, art or historical.

Thanks for the very persuasive article.

Faithfull Reader Santa Barbara (Jeff Harding responds: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art had a doll collection, a gift that went back many years, but sold it because it didn’t fit into the Museum’s collections. If there is a community movement to keep the dolls, then they should organize now, find a place, and put up some money to display them.

Perhaps the Bellosguardo Foundation could endow whomever gets the collection.)

KEEP IT AS A COMMUNITY TREASURE In the March 2, 2019 issue of the Sentinel, Jeff Harding claims that Bellosguardo’s Foundation members might want to consider selling the estate and use the proceeds to promote the arts in other ways. Amazing and spectacular, this unique property should not be sold to the highest bidder: My first response is a very clear “NO,” and I hope to hear more about this from the community and the Foundation in charge regarding other options to keep this property as a community jewel: We have had many examples to learn from. Remember the drive to keep the Douglas Family Preserve? It almost became walled from the public. However, every day now, hundreds of nature lovers and dog lovers enjoy the sparkling preserve.

Beautiful and rare coastal diamonds like this only come around once. This estate can become a Community Treasure for locals as well as Tourists. And there is an abundance of money to be made with just a bit of creativity. Please add your voice to a community discussion.

Thank you Berni Bernstein Santa Barbara

BEWARE OF HISSING REAL ESTATE LAWYERS As you may or may not know, Ms. H. Clark, a mining heiress, left a property she owned here in Santa Barbara, to the future. Her directions were that it become a public space for the arts – an enduring monument to her mother.

When Ms. Clark fell asleep at night in 2010, living out her final days in a Manhattan hospital room, it must have been great comfort knowing the place that reminded her of her mother most, and the best and brightest days of her life, was going to become 23 acres where poets taught poetry, playwrights and actors worked out plays, painters had open studio hours, and late afternoons, sunlight making everything golden, an orchestra or band played live music for a crowd of the living. That must have put a smile on her face, knowing so much education and joy would be happening there. She certainly did not fall asleep thinking, “Well, whatever lawyers are on the scene after I die, they can decide what’s best.”

Ms. Clark passed in 2011, and here we are in 2019, where in this paper we had a real estate lawyer making the argument that she was strange and not very clear about what she had planned – and she hadn’t even visited Bellosguardo for years anyway – so it should be sold to a billionaire, where a foundation could manage an arts fund from the proceeds, and the City would get revenues from annual property taxes.

The real estate lawyer said Ms. Clark’s plan for Bellosguardo was ill conceived, but here’s the thing: Ms. Clark never had a plan, she had a vision that others were directed to plan. She directed there be a foundation incorporated in New York for the purpose of planning and transforming Bellosguardo into an arts complex. That foundation was incorporated in 2014, based on its stated intention to create a public space for the arts – the very reason the foundation was conferred 501(c)3 status to begin with.

The real estate lawyer believes the members of the foundation, those tasked with planning and opening Bellosguardo to the public, must be well-intentioned, generous, and experienced people. But if they were

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well-intentioned and generous wouldn’t they have already held an open house for the city? Wouldn’t they have already let the hundreds, if not thousands, of Santa Barbarians who have wondered for decades, see the place first-hand?

Wouldn’t they have roped everything off, rented a few plastic restrooms, unlocked the gate, and let everyone up? If they were experienced wouldn’t they have already communicated to the city and the public what institutions they’ve partnered with, and how they’ve already covered the $10-15 million cost to meet American Alliance of Museums standards? If it’s going on five years without communication, and a year since publicly claiming a willingness to commence communication, and still nothing – how can that silence and inaction be considered well-intentioned and experienced?

If the real estate lawyer is going to be wrong about the foundation, what else might he be wrong about? Turns out pretty much everything – including the estimated $100,000,000 price tag for Bellosguardo. But before we get to that, let’s review who is involved in this matter and why Bellosguardo is not already open to the public, as it could and should be today.

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drama: the Foundation – essentially Jeremy Lindaman and Dick Wolf; the City – essentially the Mayor and City Council; and the Public. Foundation, City, Public, and a little over a year ago, the Independent published the bomb that Bellosguardo was no closer to being opened than the day Ms. Clark passed. At the time, Mayor Murrillo was quoted as saying the Foundation had not reached out to the City, but that she hoped it would be a beautiful place to visit one day.

Lindaman, the Foundation’s president, said that negative speculation about the Foundation and its lack of transparency was all due to legal negotiations, and with those settled, it was the time to talk about how to put Ms. Clark’s vision together. And we waited; weeks turned to months; and then it was announced the Foundation was going to hold its inaugural fundraiser. It did so. Again, weeks turned into months of silence.

Supposedly it brought in $500,000, no one knows for sure.

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CREATIVE CHARACTERS LUCIDITY FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH MOON’S EYE VIEW

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The Lucidity Festival offers workshops and classes, in addition to three days of music and fun

Come play at this year’s Lucidity Festival

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ow in its eighth year, the Lucidity Festival has become one of the mainstays of our community, receiving international praise and bringing together people around the world for three days of art, music, and lucid living. Each year tells a new part in an unfolding story that sets the theme of the festival. This Lucidity, Moon’s Eye View, will take place April 12-14, and will explore the element of water. In the ilk of Burning Man, Lucidity focuses

on creating an immersive environment rather than a series of amenities and stages. This open game board allows festival goers to forge their own path and pursue their own passions. The festival, set in Live Oak Campground, is split into different elemental realms, themed by their respective avatars, each area has its own ambiance and style.

At the core of the festival is the Spirit Realm. Here you will find the Lucid Landing stage with all of the headlining

acts and main performances. The DJ booth this year has a surprise design that will help people get down and take off. From thought provoking to mind bending, the Branches Mobile Gallery features a range of art for the eyes to feast on. Nearby is the Mindful Feeding Kitchen along with other local favorites like Nimita’s Cuisine and Bettina to nourish the soul. The Mindful Feeding Kitchen is a thoughtful option (that requires little thinking) to enjoy local, organic food prepared fresh every day. A commissary pass is worth more than its weight in food, providing

the opportunity to share meals with others in an environment full of warm conversation and silly antics. Down the road is SteveTV, local art collaborative Fishbon, and the fiery art car, Pyrobar (which myself and a few other mad souls bring out to Burning Man each year), where hijinks and irreverence runs rampant. Next door is the Art Temple.

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LUCID LEARNING The Art Temple area is also home to Lucid University and the CourseWeek series that brings engaging classes to eager students during the days leading up to the event. CourseWeek opens the Tuesday evening before (April 9-12), ending as the festival begins.

This year, Lucid University is being more incorporated into the festival to make it easier for those who have take off work to attend. CourseWeek combines communal experiences with individual interests split into four tracks: BodyWorks, CreativeWorks, EcologyWorks/InnovationWorks, and SpiritWorks/CommunityWorks.

Each subject has a different focus with esteemed instructors guiding their students in two full days of practice, learning, and play.

The CreativeWorks course is led by esteemed Lucid University Headmaster and former senior Disney animator Dave Zaboski, whose charismatic warmth will fire up your creative mind and leave your hands charged with inspiration.

In “Escape Velocity: Open Studio for New and Returning Students,” Dave and the other Art Temple masters will lead a series of exercises that designed to help pupils accelerate their imagination and break free of their creative limits.

“Somatic Movement & Embodied Freedom” is led by James Kapicka and Bela Watson and will get students in the flow as they learn to communicate with their body and others through guided movement and breathing practices. In “EcoLiteracy & Earth Arts,” students will learn from internationally renowned permaculture designer and educator, Penny Livingston-Stark, about living systems and permaculture practices.

“Creating Harmonic Culture” will be taught by Priya Deepika Mohan, a specialist in social justice, sound healing, and wellness. She will lead students in a course that explores one’s individual voice, emotions, and empathy to enhance self expression and enact social healing.

IN THE REALM CourseWeek is one of many experiences you’ll find at Lucidity that

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seeks to engage the audience and enact change and growth that continues after the festival, helping spread these ideas in the community. The Lucidity storytellers have revealed that the first six years of the story arc were all one giant dream sequence. While they have identified twelve chapters to their tale, they are just beginning to reveal the next part of the story. Last year, Rising Dawn began a new trilogy. The fire avatar, Dawn, woke from her lucid dream. In this year, Moon’s Eye View, the water avatar, River, will awaken from her dream. This Lucidity will explore the bright and dark side of the moon, and the gravitational pull that keeps these two in a continual dance. As the first six years delved into lucid dreaming, in this next portion, the Lucidity storytellers want their audience to awaken and journey into lucid living.

This year revolves around the Water Realm where you will find more soulful and healing environments, such as the Temple of Awakening, that hosts guided meditations and energy work, or just the joy-inducing, like Bubble Camp. Visit the Oracle Tent to get a tarot reading or some spiritual guidance. The stage of this realm, PureEnergy.Love, will fill the space with more soothing singersongwriter tunes to calm and comfort the ears. If you find the water getting choppier though, you may be getting close to the Fire Realm next door.

The Dusty Barrel stage fuels the Fire Realm with boot-stomping jams and exuberant bands. Let your feisty side out at the Trixters Trading Post and Playground, or if you’re in the gambling mood, jump into a game of Frick Frack Blackjack. Bring some trinkets to throw down on the table for bets and get ready for one feisty and raucous card game.

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OPIUO and Emancipator will be headlining the Lucidity Festival this year

enter the Air Realm to find such invigorating spaces as the Quan Yin Tea House or the Sixth Sun Mayan Calendars Dream Catcher Manifestation Station.

The Pneumatic Nook stage in this realm will get your heart throbbing and breath deepening with electronic beats and bumping bass.

Up the hill from the nook you will find the Earth Realm that houses the I AM Family Garden, an interactive space for all ages. They’ve also expanded their ADA offerings this year, including Camp ASL Love, that brings American Sign Language to movement, art, and music.

Each year they have continued to build and develop this area. This conscious effort has not gone unnoticed, just last December they were named as the World’s Best Family-Friendly Festival at the 2018 FestX Awards in Las Vegas.

Over the years some of the children have grown up at Lucidity, and the organizers want to make sure there are safe settings for these young adults to explore their newfound maturity and blossoming creativity. You never know, one of them might be headlining Lucidity in the future.

OPIUO: THE MAIN SHOW Headlining performer, OPIUO, (along with Emancipator) actually was one of those kids who grew up at festivals.

OPIUO, or Oscar Davey-Wraight, was born in Nelson, New Zealand where his parents owned seventy acres that they would rent out for festivals. Growing up around festival culture he was always into music, collecting EDM and playing drums in bands. Around 14 or so he began to play around with music software, performing more as a hobby.

Oscar studied graphic design in school, with music being just something he loved to do. But as his popularity began to grow, he borrowed some money from his parents to support him for awhile, and decided to make the leap into music full time. He knew it could work when he was able to pay his parents back that year, and has not looked back since.

With the on-the-go lifestyle that touring can bring, Oscar actively finds balance in his life, and makes sure to keep his personal self and the OPIUO persona as separate realities to some degree. He has found that if he spends all of his time in the studio, he often will end up bored or uninspired. He now makes a point to not step into the studio if he doesn’t feel like it. When unmotivated, he will go mountain biking, relax in nature, hang out with friends, or sometimes just being alive is inspiration enough for him. These pauses from the music will often give him bursts of inspiration and he’ll find himself running into the studio to start work again, freshly charged with creativity. When we chatted on the phone it was actually his last day working on his new release and fans can expect to hear some of the new tunes at Lucidity.

This love of nature and setting also helps inform his music. When playing live he will adapt the set to the setting, paying attention to the space, time of day, and the mood of the environment.

When he played with a twenty-piece orchestra at Red Rock Amphitheater, he found it was more about elongating the moment, matching the speed of the moment. OPIUO grew up on a wide range of music styles like Beastie Boys, James Brown, the B-52’s, and Super Groove, a New Zealand funk band.

Today, he will sometimes listen to music that is nothing like what he makes, giving his mind a break as he just enjoys the textures of the sound. This diversity in his own musical interests comes through in his own work. Each track is filled with insatiable beats and eclectic cuts that are hard to box into a single style, but easy to move your feet to. His Lucidity show will be one not to miss, with jams that will wake up people’s souls and get them fired up for some lucid living. Or as Oscar put it, “Life’s amazing. Let’s get living.”

Visit lucidityfestival.com for tickets and more information.

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Frank, top left, coaching a hockey team at Mesa Rink (courtesy Frank Schipper Construction)

contempt. He continues. “I say, ‘Mr. Green! Two plus two equals four, it doesn’t matter in what damn language!”

The rough-and-tumble interviewer presses for clarification. “You really said that to your high school counselor?”

Schipper is unequivocal. “When I don’t respect somebody, I’m not too nice. I’m blunt,” he says. “That kind of stupidity still really gets to me. So, I turned off. I just… turned off!”

The churlish Dutch kid left that meeting academically discouraged. It can be reasonably said that the very instant Frank strode angrily out of Mr. Green’s office that day, strange apparitions briefly flickered in autumn sunlight throughout the kid’s adoptive hometown – architectural phantoms from the productive, happy, friendcrowded future the kid was now destined to inhabit. The Sea Center, the New Vic, the Marjorie Luke, Moby Dick Restaurant, the Mesa Shopping Center, the Glen Annie Clubhouse, the Zoo, Five-Points Shopping Center – and so much else that defines Santa Barbara today can be traced directly back to a pissed-off kid being told by a grown-up

what he couldn’t do.

This is how circles are drawn in time. If the angry Dutch kid had charged down the school’s front steps that day and glanced past the flagpole, he might’ve even seen a strange disturbance in the air, seen his Santa Barbara Gymnasium project fleetingly materialize to wave hello from his newly-hatched Tomorrow. Would that have surprised the hell out of young Schipper? We can only guess. Yes, Frank’s well-meaning but inept counselor had inadvertently closed a door, and you know what they say about closed doors. “If it wasn’t for swim team and shop,” Frank says today, “I wouldn’t have graduated. But I did.

In 1957.”

Luckily, for every Mr. Green there is a Marvin Melvin. One hopes.

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killed 1,836 people and 30,000 animals.

10,000 structures were destroyed. The Schipper family was 150 miles inland, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, and was largely unaffected by the floods, but given the country’s – and that family’s – economic struggles at that time, the floods may well have been the sign Frank’s parents were looking for.

“They just didn’t see, in the postwar Netherlands, a whole lot of hope for their four kids,” Frank Schipper says today. “They were looking for a place to take us. They looked at Canada, they looked at Australia, they looked at New Zealand, they looked at South Africa.”

Frank was 13 years old. Through a longtime acquaintance of Frank’s mother, the Schippers found a family willing to sponsor them in the U.S., and emigrated to a new beginning. “By stroke of luck,” Frank says, “the sponsoring family lived in San Bernardino.”

RIM OF THE WORLD That family also owned a cabin near Lake Arrowhead. Frank’s father, an architect without a U.S. license to practice, did carpentry work where Frank attended 9th grade; Rim of the World High School, so-named because the campus is perched on a mountain aerie that looks down on the San Bernardino

Valley. It must’ve been an eyeful for a kid from the sea-level flatlands of Holland.

A year or so later the Schippers’ sponsor moved to Santa Barbara, and so did the Schippers. At Santa Barbara H.S. Frank excelled on the swim team and in machine shop, where his Industrial Arts teacher, a beloved, bow-tied faculty wit named Marvin Melvin, became a change agent to Frank. A seedling was firmly jammed into the fertile soil of Frank’s… destiny? Not to get all woo-woo about it.

Then came graduation.

“I needed a job and I got a job digging ditches. That paid okay, but was not what I wanted to do. So I got a job as a carpenter.” To my question, Frank assures me he was not taking the long view. “I was just trying to exist.” Was his architect/carpenter father advising during this period? “We were all raised to be individuals and stand on our own two feet,” Frank says matter-of-factly. “I come from a wonderful family, a great father and mother, but there was never any thought in my mind to even discuss that.”

Whether or not this describes the pugnacious self-reliance for which the Dutch are known and celebrated – or a more tactical parental stoicism determined to see the Schipper kids carve their own unique paths in a new

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country – it worked. Frank drew from his SBHS experience a fuel mixture that would become richer as he haltingly launched himself into a career trajectory that he might be said to have discovered rather than pursued. At first anyway. “I was then working as a tracky-framer (a tract house carpenter-framer). I became very good at it, a piece worker. Then I learned to do rafter-cutting. I was making $500 a week. I mean, that was phenomenal money.” He pauses and grins. “Then pre-manufactured trusses put me out of business.”

THERE AND BACK AGAIN – OREGON, J.W. BAILEY, HOMECOMING From ’62 to ’66 Frank moved his own young family to Oregon. “My brother had gone there and I thought I’d try it.

But work was spotty and I had a family.”

When he moved back to town in ‘66, it was to go to college. “I was taking twelve units of night classes at City College, working full time.” He wasn’t sure what he wanted to do, but he knocked down

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an Associate Degree in Mathematics at SBCC (“I’m a numbers guy”), all the while working days for J.W. Bailey, an established contractor in town. When the Eureka moment came, it was with a whisper.

“I became General Manager of J.W. Bailey Construction. This happened around ’72 or ’73.” Frank pauses and seems to be looking for the right words.

Finally his face relaxes in surrender.

“Look, I could see, for some reason – and this is gonna sound conceited as hell, but it’s the truth,” he says, “I was very good at directing people on the job. And they liked it! People would quit their jobs to come work on my projects. I was very efficient, and a good guy to work for, if I do say so myself. That’s when I found out. Whoa! This is what I really liked, and what I really excelled at.” It is worth noting here that in 1990 Frank took home the “Mr. Motivation” award, bestowed on him by the Santa Barbara Kiwanis Club. Just sayin’.

Frank Schipper had taken the long way home, but had finally found his feet. He politely, if excitedly, gave Joe Bailey the news. Frank wanted to strike out on his own, begin his own business.

“You know, Skip,” Bailey said. “Why don’t you stay a while, and I’ll make it worth your trouble.” On December 31,

1982, Frank Schipper Construction was incorporated. “I drew wages from Joe Bailey till about ’85, or ’86,” Joe says with some emotion. “Because he was paying my wages, I was able to take whatever profit my own little company was making and put it right back into the company. He was that kind of guy.”

TRADART The rest of the story is Frank moving from strength to strength, becoming integral to a town he grew to love and nourish, as contractor, patron of the arts, and Industrial Technology avatar. His advocacy for the Industrial Arts (as they’re sometimes known) is probably best typified by his association with TRADART: a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and brainchild of a demure and determined Swiss woman.

Frank explains. “When I was President of the Associated General Contractors of California in 2001, I was a very busy man. And this gal who had just moved here from Switzerland calls me up and says ‘I want to meet with you because you are the voice of the blue collar worker in Santa Barbara.” This came as some news to Frank. “She was trying to put a construction academy together,” Frank explains. “That woman was Leslie!” He laughs heartily. Leslie

Schipper’s Castagnola Lighthouse Project (courtesy Frank Schipper Construction)

Meadowcroft-Schipper has been sitting across the way in an easy chair, and here she rises and walks over. “It was more than a construction academy, it was a trade school,” she says. “In the way the Europeans have trade schools. An all-inclusive, comprehensive technical trade school.” Frank is looking at Leslie with a slight smile. “I knew he would be interested in this. Because he’s Dutch!”

Leslie had already worked out the beginnings of TRADART with the Santa Barbara Contractor’s Association. Leslie Meadowcroft-Schipper is TRADART’s

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founder. What she wanted was Frank’s good name, his countless connections in town, his longstanding reputation, and his ability to push through walls. He signed on.

“TRADART… we got three or four contractors involved, we got three or four shop teachers involved,” Frank says. “There would today be no woodworking or carpentry shops in Santa Barbara H.S., San Marcos H.S., Santa Barbara Jr. High, La Cumbre Jr. High. We helped the district, we ...continued p.20

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cleaned up some of those shops. We began our Tools for Schools program, putting about $25,000 a year into those shops, because the schools wouldn’t do a damn thing for them.” Thanks to TRADART’s ongoing efforts, there are today six Construction Technology Woodshop classes in Santa Barbara junior and high schools, staffed by six superlative and dedicated teachers.

Students receive dual-enrollment credit from Santa Barbara City College, and the trades have been made a viable career track in the eyes of kids and parents.

More to come on TRADART… MARVELOUS MARVIN AND THE POWER OF PATHFINDING Frank Schipper Construction and Frank Schipper himself have taken some 70 construction awards since 1988, and through the years Frank has sat on about as many boards as he’s pounded nails into. He is a member of MENSA, a master leatherwork hobbyist, and an avid cycling enthusiast. When he turned 70 he did what most 70 year-olds do – he rode his bike across America. Leslie jauntily accompanied him for 1,000 miles or so, despite not having sat on a bike since she was a little girl.

Schipper Construction is woven inextricably into built Santa Barbara,

and the Schipper portfolio is varied, unique, and giving. Frank has given both beatific repose to the ashen dead in his Santa Barbara Cemetery Mausoleum, and a comfortably graded watering hole ramp to the Asian elephants at the zoo. Frank has ripped the back off the Old Vic, given seismic spine to our beloved Lobero, shored up Smuggler’s Ranch on Santa Cruz Island, and built the Sea Center around an enormous plastic whale.

This short list doesn’t even scratch the surface.

In 1999 Frank created an award to honor his former Santa Barbara High School Metal Shop teacher, this wisecracking bow-tied educator who’d helped nudge Frank down a path he has parlayed into a lifelong community embrace. “I’d lost contact with him, and he was retired. I looked him up and I took him out to lunch. I said ‘I want to give this award out to the top shop teacher, and I want to call it the Marvelous Marvin Melvin Award.’ And he said, ‘Will you do me a favor? Will you please just call it the Marvin Melvin Award?’” Frank pauses and looks me in the eye. “So I did.”

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WHAT’SHANGING? T with Ted Mills

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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

NEW GALLERY SPRINGS UP

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or the second column in a row, a new gallery space has opened in our town, more proof that things are on the move, or that rents are dropping (!!), or that the arts gods just want us to have a happy 2019, all things being considered in the crumbum world outside. Let’s dive in.

PERSONALLY SPEAKING

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’m still catching up with some of the shows I saw this last First Thursday and maybe you are, too. Prime among them and worth your time is the last two days (that’s right! Get on it!) for Jeffrey Aaronson’s large-format-Polaroid portrait series. For one thing, fine art photographer Aaronson is a newcomer to town, and secondly, it’s a great show. Aaronson contacted people on a personals site and invited them to sit for him, contrasting their faces with the first lines of their ads. If you’ve ever submitted an ad looking for love, “Maybe It’s

You” will delight. At Youth Interactive’s State Gallery, 1219 State Street… and while you’re at it… hang around a few more days for Aaronson’s work to make way for the large photographs of frozen flowers by Ryuijie, along with the phantasmagorical flowers of Cynthia James, and sculptures by Luis Velasquez.

hree guests artists worth your time this April at 10 West Gallery (10 West Anapamu) are Ruth Ellen Hoag, best known for her affectionate people-filled mural in the Funk Zone; Taj Vaccarella, who will show a mix of his abstract works and oft-brutal portraiture; and Dahlia Riley, who oscillates twixt landscape and abstracts.

Thru April, opening reception April 4, 5 to 8 pm.

MAGIC EYE

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eorge Legrady explores the fine art uses of lenticular prints in his new show at Cabana Home (111 Santa Barbara Street). You’ve seen lenticular prints – those postcards that change between two images as you alter your viewing angle. Legrady applies the art of experimental photography and double exposures to his enigmatic images of nature and humans, all which need to be seen in person for the full effect. He will be giving an artist talk on April 4, 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

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nother show that passed me by last month, embarrassingly so, is the Haley Street Collective at the Arts Fund of Santa Barbara (205-C Santa Barbara Street). When I first started getting involved in the greater Santa Barbara arts community, Tanner Goldbeck, Larry Mills, Jorge Rivas, Vanae Mary Rivera, Joe Shea, and Yoskay Yamamoto were the first contemporary “scenemakers” on my radar. Their “Homecoming” show that is currently up through May 3 brings them all back for a historically important show (and the handwritten “history” of the group is an essential document to read). Apart from Rivera they’ve moved on to bigger cities and stranger adventures, but now it’s your turn to catch up.

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ot exactly a show opening, but an opening for somebody out there to do a good turn for a Santa Barbara artist: Stuart Eiseman, aka Stuart Carey, is seeking a living kidney donation. Any questions, please send them to bonnie@ silo118.com.

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alking about Silo118 in a roundabout way, a second Silo rep’d artist, Sol Hill, will be showing at Synergy One Lending, 1250 Coast Village Road in good ol’ Montecito.

Hill’s “metagraphs” are the results of playing with digital camera sensors until they create something close to pointilism. These are ghostly works from a dreaming electronic brain. Go check them out.

generation older, but just as integral to Santa Barbara’s art scene, Mary Heebner (prints, paintings, words) and Macduff Everton (photography) are one of our city’s power couples. This coming Wednesday, April 3, 7 to 9 pm, they’ll sit down with friend Patsy Hicks, Director of Education at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, for an evening of storytelling about their life together, their world travels, and illustrated with large projections of their works. The event is $10 and not to be missed. At the Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden Street.

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here’s a brand new gallery/space in the Funk Zone, kids, and you should go check it out. It’s called The Funk Factory (208 Gray Avenue) and two weeks ago they threw an opening party during the Art Walk. There was ice cream, a DJ, and a splatter paint booth where you buy white apparel like shoes or shirts and come out looking like a Jackson Pollock.

Owners Luke and Micah say they’ve got more up their sleeves but right now their funkfactorysb. com site should be on your radar.

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obin Gowan has a solo show of her SBbackcountry paintings, through May 28, reception April 4, at Sullivan Goss (11 East Anapamu); Jimmy Miracle shows impressionist works at Architectural Foundation (229 East Victoria) through May 9.

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with Mark Léisuré

Mark spends much of his time wandering Santa Barbara and environs, enjoying the simple things that come his way.

A show here, a benefit there, he is generally out and about and typically has a good time. He says that he writes “when he feels the urge” and doesn’t want his identity known for fear of an experience that is “less than authentic.” So he remains at large, roaming the town, having fun. Be warned.

Rustling up a Rug

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aybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m just dancing a bit freer, with fewer thoughts bouncing around in a head that might be losing some of its marbles. Or maybe it’s just the mold spores taking root in my addled brain.

(I’m so happy you are filling up with water, Lake Cachuma, but so did a corner of my bedroom.) Whatever the reason, I found myself moving my body up and down and all around almost effortlessly on successive nights at two different venues downtown on the first weekend of spring. (So maybe it was my bones thawing out from a long, wet, and more frigid than usual for sunshiny SoCal winter.)

The Friday night gig was Green Leaf Rustlers, the all-star band put together and fronted by Chris Robinson as a side project to his post-Black Crowes project that goes by Chris Robinson Brotherhood. The Rustlers are certainly a brotherhood, too, though, what with a rhythm section powered by bassist Pete Sears (whose early gigs include performing on Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May” and serving as a member of Jefferson Starship during its “Miracle Days”) and drummer John Molo, and licks and tricks from guitarist Greg Loiacono, and multi-instrumentalist Barry Sless.

The thing is, this band is even tighter instrumentally and looser mentally than the CRB, which I think is what got my feet, arms, and hips moving without my head getting too involved – not to mention the incredibly deep and far-reaching playlist for the two generous sets the quintet offered at SOhO. The first one drew to a close with a triplet of Uncle Tupelo’s “Give

Back the Keys to My Heart,” Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” and Arthur Crudup’s “That’s Alright Mama” (made famous by Elvis Presley) with a series of psychedelic jams in the midst of country-blues-Americana – that trust me was far more seamless and organic than any description in words can do justice.

The second set kicked off in much the same way as “Cash on the Barrelhead” by the bluegrass pioneers the Louvin Brothers gave way to Doug Sahm’s “Anybody Going to San Antone” and closed out with J. J. Cale’s “Ride Me High” – none of which you’d think would provide for more country-turned-space jam jollies, but somehow it all worked.

I mean, Robinson even secured a couple of singer-songwriters of the L.A.-based Americana band Beachwood Sparks to serve as the DJs, spinning actual records (as in vinyl, pulled out of inner sleeves and card album covers organized in carrying cases).

Green Leaf Rustlers are the real thing.

The good news is you can still catch them out here on the West Coast. But you’ll have to travel up to Alaska for the April 4-5 shows. I won’t be there. It’s still a little too chilly up in those parts for my taste, and my body.

MOVIN’ TO MITCH Same thing happened even more unexpectedly on Saturday night toward the tail end of Mitch Kashmar’s set at the 45th anniversary show of the Santa Barbara Blues Society at the Carrillo Recreation Center. The former leader of ‘80s and ‘90s local blues staple The Pontiax – who were the soundtrack to my many attempts to master West Coast

Swing back in the day – was performing for the organization for the first time in decades, and he, too, brought along a few fine fellow bluesmen. But just as with the Rustlers, it was more a case of masterful musicianship – a great beat, solid singing, and choice licks on the harmonica – that propelled me to start swinging my date around like we were in competition at the U.S. Open (swing dancing, not golf or tennis, thank you).

“It’s always been about the song, not showing off,” Kashmar confirmed at the end of the night. ‘Nuff said.

HALE ‘HAIL’ Things got a bit more cerebral

by Sunday night during the Q&A session with Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll director Taylor Hackford, a local boy made good, and producer Stephanie Bennett, who lives in the Santa Ynez Valley. Following a two-hour screening that drew at least half a house to the Lobero, the pair chatted with former Capitol Music president Hale Milgrim for at least half as long again. Hackford gave us way more than we could have imagined about the back story and backstage goings on surrounding the pair of 1986 concerts celebrating Chuck Berry’s 60th birthday. We heard tales about the legendary songwriter’s talent

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and nastiness, and lots about Keith Richards and Etta James, two of the stars that were part of the show. Space doesn’t allow for sharing too many of them, but you can read a bunch in Bennett’s new book on the subject, or check out Hackford’s four DVD release of the 1987 film.

BOWLED OVER Hey, I’m the first to admit I’m no spring chicken, but it was still more that a little shocking to realize that I don’t believe I have ever heard of – let alone actually heard – any of the acts that are playing the Santa Barbara Bowl in the first month that the amphitheater gets back in action for the new season. I could go to Wikipedia or just Google the bands, but I imagine anyone who is reading this far knows more about all of these groups that I ever will. So we’ll just list the shows, lick my wounds, and perhaps pop in a CD (remember those?) to reflect on rock ‘n’ roll from a generation or two ago. First up for the four nights in a row first foray for the venue’s new season: Blood Orange and Christine & the Queens on April 18, followed by Zedd on April 19, Rufus du Sol & SG Lewis on the 20th, and The 1975 (OK, wait, I actually think I know this band, whew!) on April 21.

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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.

DEB JORGENSEN

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veryone who is addicted to ceramics like I am will not want to miss Deb Jorgensen’s trunk show at Linden Studio on Wednesday, April 10 from 5 to 7 pm.

A potter for 20 years, Jorgensen revels in the rich history around the world of people spending their whole lives making beautiful dishes for people to eat off. Her travels in Japan included visiting a small mountain village where everyone had a role in producing ceramics that are highly prized and in demand. She found that artisans who create simple, beautiful, functional ceramics were respected and honored in the culture as “national treasures.” In New Zealand, she attended exhibitions, met other potters, and watched their processes. She admires the efforts of New Mexico potters who make their own underglaze by boiling wild spinach in a process that when vitrified results in a vessel “sealed with glass.”

Jorgensen derives satisfaction from following the process from wet clay to a vessel impervious to water that you can drink out of or eat off and describes opening a kiln as feeling like “Christmas morning.” She appreciates the tremendous support from our community over the years.

Drawing from the natural world around her she paints on pieces and then carves through the underglaze.

Currently feathers, bird images, and leaves are the primary motifs, complemented by geometric designs

like chevrons. The top glaze is clear, allowing her carvings in the underglaze to show through with contrast and definition. Another favorite technique uses antique lace over a celadon slip.

“Where the glassy transparent overglaze goes down into the lace it gets darker and looks really good,” she explains.

She creates small sets, repeating two cups each of a design in bright orange, yellow, turquoise, or lavender.

Currently Jorgensen works primarily with commercial glazes as she has limited space in her Carpinteria studio for mixing or storing. She shuttles between Carpinteria and New Mexico, in the mountains between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, where she is building a much larger studio in a barn.

She loves to garden and get her hands in the dirt, growing orchids, lilies, bromeliads, tillandsia and vegetables.

She told me “I grew up in a garden” and would watch her father, a plasterer, mix sand and rocks and cement and marveled at how adding water would cause them to form such a strong bond when dried. Her works are all high-fired, safe for food, microwave, and dishwasher.

Her ceramics are well constructed, the handles reinforced with a coil of clay where they join to create a thicker bond.

See Jorgensen’s work at Linden Studio, 963 Linden Avenue in Carpinteria, on April 10, during Carpinteria’s Open Studio Tour May 11 and 12, and on Instagram @deb_wheat.3

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y husband Paul recently strolled up to me with a sweet package in his hand. There were bright rainbow colors splashed across the side of a neat, white box. How intriguing, I thought, a gift!

“Ooooo, what is this?” I inquired.

“It’s 23andMe. A genetic test kit for you!” he replied, “I got one for each of us.”

“Oh. I see,” My enthusiasm fell flat.

We had talked about it a while back.

Wouldn’t it be interesting to know all about our ancestry? The fact that science can trace our family history back hundreds of years is fascinating. Who wouldn’t want to know all of this? Well, I had some trepidation.

Indeed, the idea of discovering more about my family’s genealogy from unknown places around the world was alluring. I’ve always thought of myself as a mixed-breed mutt. Paul’s dad was of direct descent from England

and his mom was from Guatemala.

Me… I had a big crazy story that had already been uprooted from my family tree. My great-great grandparents had immigrated from Europe. On my dad’s side, I knew I was predominately Irish and my mom’s side was supposed to be mostly Norwegian. It wasn’t until after my maternal grandmother passed away that we found out she had hidden an entire Lithuanian family line. A tragedy had pushed her to keep this monstrous secret, and she kept it to her grave. It

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was such a shock to everyone, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to dig into that bag of roots much further. Yeah, I admit, I was scared.

I took the quaint colorful 23andMe box from my husband and stashed it in a corner on my desk. Paul immediately opened his box, spat in a tube, and shipped his entire DNA info off to some company, somewhere. I waited.

MY POKER FACE Paul began to push me a bit, “Did you send in your 23andMe sample?”

“Umm, not yet,” was my reply for days that ticked into weeks. “What are you waiting for?”

I couldn’t explain it to him. Beyond the fear of possibly finding out about more buried family treasures (there was one forty-year-old woman who found out through 23andMe that her parents were not her parents), I was more fearful to receive the health reports.

Then, the day came when Paul received his full report. I told him not to share anything with me until I was ready to hear it. This was the moment where I faced my truth; I was not sure I could handle knowing if he carried the Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s genes. This information would change me. I’m the type of person that consciously leaves my phone at home; I desire to live in the moment; I want to embrace each day and each encounter for what it delivers.

Knowing that Paul had the Alzheimer’s gene would forever be tattooed on my mind.

You see, we have both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s on our family resumés.

We took care of his mother through ten years of hardcore Alzheimer’s. (Hardcore is actually an understatement.) That disease desperately needs a cure. And, my stepfather just passed away in November from Parkinson’s Disease.

This too was beyond what I ever imagined I would witness. These are our truths, and I was not sure how to handle being dealt the knowledge that we have one or more of these cards in our genetic deck.

Paul reviewed his full report and came out of his office with a grin. I didn’t really need to ask; we simply hugged and appreciated the fact that our current hand was something we could keep playing without fear. I glanced over at my desk where the rainbow box was still tucked neatly in the corner. Unopened.

ANTE UP It was one thing for my husband to have a strong desire to know all of his health predispositions and variants, wellness reports, and traits. I honored that and stood by him (and I got lucky). However, I still wasn’t sure I

wanted to know.

Interestingly enough, his ancestry was far more mixed than we had predicted. Rather than two direct lines, Paul had links to multiple continents throughout the world. It was captivating. He also found out that he was likely to wake at 7:35 am, he prefers salty over sweet, can smell asparagus, is less likely to be afraid of heights, and he has the muscle composition common in power elite athletes. How incredible, all of this information and more came from a little bit of spit.

I was being lured in. Paul had discovered some fascinating things and most of it was correct. I finally caved when he used his convincing logic about how we can better battle some of the health issues if have the knowledge. So, I opened that rainbow bright box, spat in the test tube, sealed it up, sent it off to the lab and waited for my cards to be dealt.

It took a couple of weeks to get the reports. Again, we got lucky. All of my health variants came back clean, including the BRCA1/BRCA2 gene that is linked to breast and ovarian cancer. (I was really scared for this one too.) After nervously scrolling through the health section, I moved on to some of the fun stuff. I prefer sweet to salty, have hazel eyes, am likely to consume more coffee, and mosquitos don’t like me. All things I knew. What I didn’t know is that I’m 100 percent European. This was interesting considering my family tree issues and I had always assumed there might be more of a spider web of my genetics draped over the world. It turns out I’m Norwegian, Irish, English, and Lithuanian – Northern European to be exact. I can’t smell asparagus and I am likely to have freckles (yup, I’ve been sun-kissed all my life). It also said that my wake time is 7:39 am, which is two hours later than when my normal coffee brewing commences, and that I’m likely to have dark hair – both false characteristics. The science isn’t perfect just yet. However, at 43, I now know a great deal more about myself than I did before my husband gifted me that little box.

I’m not sure what I would’ve done had I found out that I had some of the alarming health variants. I suppose I would’ve started with research and used all of the preventative tools I could scavenge. And then, I would’ve kept waking each day at 5:30 am, making coffee for my husband, scrambling to get the kids out the door and continue to live my life to the fullest. Because isn’t each day that we get to be on this earth a blessing?

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revenue for the City. The Foundation exists to open it, and if it fails to do so, not only does it deny Bellosguardo its legally rightful status as directed

by Ms. Clark, it denies the City revenues. The City threatening to sue the Foundation sounds about right, going on five years of silence. The City threatening to sue the Foundation is not a political charade, it is standing up for Ms. Clark and the interests of the City.

The City Charter, which is like the mini-constitution of the City, says very clearly that anything within city limits the City has exclusive control over.

The City can claim imminent domain over anything it wants, for any reason, at any time. The powers of the City are vested in the Mayor and Council.

Their job is to exercise the powers of the City in the City’s interests. All this seems to go without saying, these days though, probably better to say it.

But before the City could take action, it would have to first exhaust some plain, speedy remedies, such as simply requesting documents from the Foundation in order to assess how far

along it is in planning and completion of its task. If the City attempted to get a dialogue going, and nothing happened, there would be grounds for action. It could, and especially in an instance as particular and stark as this, evict the Foundation, set up Bellosguardo as a public arts complex as directed, and let the Foundation tell a panel of judges why our City Charter is dead letter, and why they let five years go by without offering any plans for an invaluable asset contingent on their discretion.

The City’s own website states it has built an arts economy directly related to the City’s vitality, that the impact of the arts and “cultural tourism” – ticket sales, dining, lodging, all related services, shopping – brings in over $40 million annually to the local economy.

Bellosguardo would probably add another five million to that amount all by itself. People don’t seem to realize what we’re talking about, a stunning example of our American past, that will be visited by Americans from every single state in the nation, year in and year out. And not only Americans,

but of course people from all over the world. It will become a national treasure with international visitorship.

Hearst Castle, which is three hours from anywhere, gets close to a million visitors a year. If opened, Bellosguardo would get at least as many but likely more. Millions in spending going down due to Bellosguardo being open to the public? That’s a better deal for the City than to have it sold to a billionaire and gone forever, right? If sold, it would yield one percent of its assessed market value, which is currently just over $52 million (which is shocking considering that if Bellosguardo were put up for auction, the bidding could start at a quarter billion and go from there). In other words, at present, the City would get roughly $520,000 in annual property taxes, instead of the millions and millions of dollars as a cultural tourism asset.

The current problem is that the City – Mayor Murrillo and the Council – have done nothing. They are mute and catatonic. Almost five years and they haven’t even inquired? Haven’t scheduled it, not even once, for an administrative meeting? If there were such a meeting, the real estate lawyer would argue that Santa Barbara doesn’t need a venue like Bellosguardo, when it is arguably the premier example of such a venue. If you go to the Frick Museum near Central Park, you find it’s packed with a line out the door, even in cold rainy weather. Bellosguardo is overlooking the mighty Pacific in sunny Southern California and the best weather in the USA, the line to see portraits of Ms. Clark in their original setting will also be out the door. It’s the perfect place for such a venue, down by the beach, near the bird refuge, away from neighborhoods. Put in a curb for Uber drop-offs and a City shuttle that loops back to State Street, and let the magic happen.

If the Foundation is so inept that it can’t secure the funds to renovate and open Bellosguardo, then it doesn’t need to meet the standards of the American Alliance of Museums right now, that can be achieved as soon as it’s up and running. Take a roll of red tape, run it from one door out another, and send local, regional, national, and international tourists right along its Gatsby-esque snapshot that everyone will want to see and experience. For a $20 ticket that line would be going all day every day, i.e. an easy $20+ million a year, and that’s just the museum experience. And then there are all the shows, corporate events, and weddings, and the AirBnB of the beach bungalows down on the sand.

All expenses could be taken care of in

a year or two. The fact is, the place is a gold mine if it’s public, but not if sold.

The real estate lawyer said many millions will be needed to upgrade it, and millions more to run it. But is that true? The answer is, No. The salary of a 24 hour security detail is not millions of dollars, nor is a groundskeeping corps of volunteers. The gate next to public beach access opens to a gently sloping driveway up to the great lawn and manse. Bellosguardo could literally be opened to the public with less than a thousand dollars for a couple of plywood ramps for the disabled. That’s the difference between Hearst Castle and Bellosguardo, the former had severe challenges opening to the public, Bellosguardo has none, a turnkey venue with immediate revenues.

The real estate lawyer said Bellosguardo’s architecture is more Long Island than Santa Barbara, and doesn’t fit in. But when something has been done well, and is stunning to behold first-hand, style is irrelevant.

Bellosguardo is a beauty, and its difference from local G.W. Smith architecture is charming, even endearing.

As Mayor Helene Schneider said in 2015, when the Los Angeles Times was running a feature story about Bellosguardo, “The possibilities are endless.” And she was right. At present we’re still waiting for Mayor Murillo and City Council to discuss what’s going on and what they’re prepared to do. If the Foundation can’t fulfill its task, should it be sold to the City?

Should it be sold to the County?

Should the City and the County join forces to purchase it? Maybe it should be sold into the State Parks system?

Any one of those scenarios and the Foundation gets its arts fund and the City gets millions every year into the future. Mayor and City Council, where are you? We need to talk about this. You’re supposed to be standing up for the City’s interests, not to mention honoring a gift for the ages.

John De Herrera Santa Barbara (Jeff Harding responds: Thanks for your penetrating analysis of my article on Bellosguardo. You say that Bellosguardo would attract one million people a year from all over the world. That would mean about 3,800 visitors a day (@ 5 days p/wk), which is exactly what Santa Barbara doesn’t want – a tourist trap.

BTW, I get the feeling that you don’t like real estate lawyers – you labeled me that eight times as kind of an epithet. Well, anyway, I’m not a lawyer. Like you, I am also an activist. And I don’t hiss, but I do fume.)

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I Heart SB is the diary of Elizabeth Rose, a thirtysomething navigating life, love, and relationships. She lives on a 34-foot sailboat and navigates that too. Follow her adventures on Instagram or at www.ihearterose.com. Thoughts or comments: ihearterose@gmail.com

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want to get married and some of my California friends wonder why. I blame my family. The strongest relationships I grew up around were married couples. So no matter how long I live on the West Coast, consuming Reshi mushroom tea and açai bowls, I’m still a traditional girl at heart. Marriage, to me, means security. That you’re wanted and desired. It means you both chose each other over everyone else in the world. And as far as your love life is concerned, you’ve got that part figured out.

Of course, this isn’t always the case. Rings come off, people get divorced, relationships end. As a woman in her late thirties, I have enough experience to know the risks involved when committing to another. For example, you have your own dreams and goals then all of a sudden, you fall in love and want to build a life with another who has dreams and goals of their own. Then, the give-and-take begins. How much are you willing to compromise? What sacrifices are at stake?

I recently spoke with three women about marriage. Two in relationships, all with careers. The first, a single woman in her early thirties, could take marriage or leave it. “Sounds pretty archaic to be ‘owned’ by another, don’t you think?” she said.

“But if the relationship goes down that road, I don’t know… it just depends on the person I meet.”

The second woman, about thirty-four, had been with her partner for over seven years and was in the midst of In Vitro Fertilization when he proposed. “Honestly?

I don’t care about a wedding,” she said. “I just wanted the ring.” To her, In Vitro didn’t mean total commitment. The ring did.

The third woman, in her late twenties, said the same thing. She isn’t about a legal union, but went on to explain a pretty memorable event including a ceremony in front of family and friends with maybe a few monetary kickbacks thrown in. And to be clear, it isn’t a diamond the last two women are after. It’s just a ring.

Millennial women are paving a new path, just as generations have before. But instead of saying, “I do,” commitment now exists in the form a shiny metal band.

It seems the modern woman is more interested in a committed relationship than actually making it official. Maybe with high divorce rates in our country (and as children of divorce), the word “marriage” to some women means there will be an end. So, instead of throwing out the concept all together, they’re redefining a committed relationship to fit their taste. Something less intimidating but with the same bells, whistles, and Instagrammable moments involved. And if it’s commitment they’re after, instead of a white wedding, isn’t that more meaningful?

The other night, Jason and I were in the galley of our sailboat. He was texting with a high school friend who now lives in Puerto Vallarta. “I’m excited to introduce you to him,” he said, “as my beautiful girlfriend, soon-to-be wife!” My heart melted yet a wave of nerves hit me all at once. Even though we’ve discussed marriage many times (and he’d already asked my father for my hand in marriage), hearing the word “wife” made it hard to swallow. Maybe the noncommittal vibe of my friends was rubbing off on me after all.

I see marriage similar to a business contract and the ring, a down payment. I need to be sure the other party is equally at risk before investing more time, money, and work (both emotional and physical) into a future together. After a certain point in your adult life, you’ve got to put your heart aside and use your head.

And as unromantic as it sounds, you eventually learn that romance in an intimate relationship becomes merely incidental.

The day I met Jason, my life completely altered to include another which turned out to be a great adventure and learning experience all its own. Though being with Jason is something I want, I can’t help but feel a little nostalgic. I think back to my single days, before we were boyfriend and girlfriend, when I dated men of all ages and learned so much about myself in the process – my likes, dislikes, and more importantly, how I hoped to evolve. In a way I miss not knowing who my future partner will be, when the path of a committed relationship had yet to be traveled.

Single life was exciting, scary at times, interesting, spontaneous, and freeing.

But I find myself in a similar space again. In an area in our relationship that has yet to be defined. Where the terms “husband and wife” do not exist and the delicate space on my ring finger remains untouched and unclaimed, save only for me.

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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.

EASTER WATCH 2019, FISH DERBY, AND THE VINTNERS FEST

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here are many opportunities to fill the family’s Easter baskets with egg hunts, bunny sightings, chocolates, and sweet jellybean searches in the Valley. Here is the round up: 10,000 EGGS he hunt begins! Grab your baskets and bonnets for the Valley’s 30th Annual Easter Eggstravaganza and Egg Hunt. It is an enormous egg hunt with over 10,000 eggs, prizes, games, and a visit and photo op with the Easter Bunny. The Hunt begins at 10 am sharp followed by kids’ activities, group games, and Easter crafts. Plus, after the kids have their fun, there will be the fourth annual adults-only egg hunt.

When Saturday, April 20 from 9 am to 2 pm Where: River View Park, 151 Sycamore Drive in Buellton Cost: Free, however sponsors and supporters are “desired” Info: (800) 324-3800 www.buelltonrec.com

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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. This year there will be three opportunities to enjoy the fun, with different times for different age groups. 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 trucks. 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: Friday, April 19 at 11 am – all ages are welcome Saturday, April 20 at 11 am – ages seven and under only Saturday, April 20 at 4 pm – all ages are welcome 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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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 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 21 after 9:30 am mass Where: Mission Santa Inès Cost: Free Info: www.missionsantaines.org

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24TH ANNUAL FISH DERBY et out the “Gone Fishing” sign. There is good news for all types of anglers.

With the recent rains, Lake Cachuma water levels have risen to nearly eighty percent, just in time for the 24th Annual Fish Derby Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28. (For the record this derby has been without interruption and seemingly drought resistant over the last seven years.)

Touted as “good times, good cause, and good odds,” six tons of trout have already been planted this season, with at least another ton more coming right before the Fish Derby.

There are many ways to win at the Fish Derby, with awards for anglers ages four and up, and prizes for all different types of fish, including trout, bass, crappie, catfish, and carp. $5,000 has been guaranteed in cash and prizes, and this year’s Derby will include prize categories for multiple types of fish. The prize pool dollar amount has been increased which means everyone has a chance to win cash, fishing gear, and more.

Cash prizes include: $599 for Heaviest Fish by Type, $599 for Highest Tagged Trout, and $50 for ages 15 and under for Young Angler First Catch of the Day. The Fish Derby is a benefit for the Neal Taylor Nature Center, a non-profit organization with a mission to “encourage public understanding, enjoyment, and protection of Cachuma Lake, the Upper Santa Ynez River, and the San Rafael Mountain Range Watershed.”

Children’s activities will be set up on the Nature Center lawn, a raffle is open to the general public (one need not be present to win), and visitors can rent a boat, reserve a campsite, shop the sale at the Books & Treasures store, and view tons of wildlife on a two-hour curated lake cruise. The Nature Center reports, “we’ve been seeing bald eagles, golden eagles, mule deer, osprey, great blue heron, red-tailed hawks, and the occasional mountain lion, bobcat, and even wild boar.”

When: Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 and an Awards Program at the Fireside Where: Lake Cachuma, 2265 Highway 154 Cost: $40 per angler and $10 for anglers ages 4 to 15 Info: Visit www.TroutDerby.org or email Julie@clnaturecenter.org to register or for more information

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SAVE THE WINE DATE! he 37th Annual Santa Barbara Vintners Festival is truly the “Original Santa Barbara Wine Festival,” and this year, the highlight of the weekend, the Festival Grand Tasting returns to Rancho Sisquoc Winery in the Santa Maria Valley on Saturday, May 4 from 1 to 4 pm.

Guests can experience new release wines from over 70 participating member wineries, tastings from more than 30 food purveyors – including regional restaurants, caterers, food artisans and farmers, live music, wine and culinary demonstrations, local artisans, participation in the silent auction, and free parking all included in the ticket price.

This year, the featured exhibition glimpses into the inner workings of wine making, as well as live music, the return of the Bubble Lounge, and an all inclusive wine tasting Vintners Visa pass. With over forty wineries and tasting rooms participating in the Visa program, pass holders can visit up to twelve tasting rooms for complimentary offerings from Thursday, May 2 through Monday, May 6.

Guests staying in Santa Maria Valley Hotels will receive a complimentary Santa Maria Valley Vintners Visa to explore the surrounding area.

Where: Rancho Sisquoc Winery, 6600 Foxen Canyon Road in Santa Maria Cost: Grand Festival Tasting $100 per person with a Santa Barbara locals discount of $60 for the first 250 buyers. The Vintners Visa is $50 per person, and a transportation partnership has been set up with Santa Barbara Airbus throughout the county.

Info: Visit www.sbvintnersweekend.com for more information

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