Santa Barbara Sentinel - Volume 1 - Issue 1 - October 5 - 15, 2012 - Once a week from pier to peak

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REAL ESTATE IS STIRRING

Get smart about sweet sorbet and Zannon’s latest designs

Is it finally time to get into the under-$700K market?

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THE DISH Rori’s Artisanal Creamery is coming soon

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IS LOVE ENOUGH?

by Matt Mazza

AN OPEN INVITATION

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y toes are in the sand.

I sit alone, cold Corona nearby and spent lime resting lazily on a round green plastic table, looking out at a very typical Santa Barbara afternoon.

Stand-up paddlers glide slowly across my field of vision, not working too hard, faded trunks and straw hats protecting them from the hazy sunshine. Surfers ride small waves with shape to my right.

A few runners pass by, talking business.

Seagulls wander the beach aimlessly. A group of women exercises on the sand with bungee-cord apparatuses and kettle balls. A few lunchtime holdovers around me play hooky from whatever, picking at half-empty shared plates and drinking water or iced-tea or other beverages of choice.

The angular contours of the islands seem close enough to swim to, maybe touch. I sip my beer. I smile.

This is my community, the one in which my wife and I have chosen to live and have a small business. The one in which we’ve decided to raise our daughters and make our life. This is our community, yours and mine. And it’s special.

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ONTENTS

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Mazza’s Missive – Editor-in-Chief Matt Mazza looks both backward at his recent trip around the world with his family and forward to more days like his last few spent wining and dining about town.

S entinel’s Take – Matt sets the political table for hungry Santa Barbara voters in search of a decent meal on November 6. See how the Sentinel comes out on California Propositions and learn why. Local Measures will be served up nice and hot next week.

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The Dish – Eat, drink and be merry with the Sentinel’s restaurant gossip gal, Wendy Jenson, as she dishes on Rori’s Artisanal Creamery, the much-anticipated Santa Barbara Public Market and Los Agaves (and its hunky proprietor, Carlos Luna).

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It’s Crime Time with SBPD – The Sentinel’s look at local crime.

Journal Jim – Montecito Journal founder James Buckley tees up the local golfing landscape and talks nicely to local pros.

That’s not going to lower your handicap, Jim.

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Santa Barbara View – Sharon Byrne riffs on her early morning dog walks and angry transients on lower Milpas (wait, there’s angry transients on lower Milpas? Who knew?); Ray Estrada previews epicure.sb and talks UCSB technology management in his Business Beat.

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Presidio Sports – UCSB Men’s Water Polo squad beats UCLA for the first time in 25 years; Westmont women’s doubles team qualifies for tennis’ small colleges championships and the Carpinteria Triathlon goes off without a hitch. Check out all the local sports scores and stories of the week too.

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But is love alone enough?

I mean, look at it this way. I love my wife and my two daughters (and my dog and my chickens…roughly in that order, frankly) but I don’t just say it to them. I show it each and every day by looking out for them, being kind, showing respect, picking my kids up when they fall and laying my jacket on the ground so my wife’s feet don’t get wet as she crosses a puddle. (Not the greatest analogy given the lack of frequent rain in Santa Barbara but you get the idea.) I even feed the dog and chickens and, ah, clean up after them. Now that’s real love; it’s the little acts of kindness and generosity that make the whole thing tangible and real and genuine.

So is my oft-professed love for Santa Barbara enough? How do I show that love?

By enjoying the weather? The spectacular sunsets? The slow, peaceful gyrations of the waves as they hit the shore?

This is an unrequited love, my friends.

Santa Barbara loves me by showering me with its gifts. And what do I do in return?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I must repent for my sins. I must demonstrate my devotion to the town I love so much.

And so I (we) give birth to the Santa Barbara Sentinel.

We come in peace, not to compete at all costs and toss others under the proverbial bus, but to add to the current conversation, to enrich it. We are not a traditional newspaper nor do we seek to be one. Instead, we plan and fully intend to reflect the ever-changing contours of our community’s shared values and expectations. To follow key issues. To lead the charge into new and locally relevant developments with a strong voice.

With all of that said, we don’t jump into the fray alone; we aren’t that silly. Instead, we have forged partnerships with solid

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LOVEmikana – Our favorite Santa Barbara birds introduce Ashleigh Zannon and her locally produced leather clutches in the Style File, and Sugar and Salt Creamery (a mobile sorbet truck) in their Wine & Dine feature. They also help you jam your packed calendar in their handy Weekend Guide.

Real Estate – Is it time to buy?

Sotheby’s realtor Michael Calcagno sets the record straight on the “rebounding” under- $700,000 market and breaks down the economics of a few standout properties this week.

oleta Girl – Jana Mackin spends an afternoon at the Mercury Lounge in G Old Town. Uh-oh.

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You Have Your Hands Full – Columnist Mara Peters considers whether soccer, swimming, lacrosse and Chinese – and a strict early morning math study requirement – have transformed her into the (perhaps notso) elusive Tiger Mom.

local writers and columnists, as well as with respected local online media outlets that are widely read and trusted for integrity and vision. We bring the latter to the print world with added editorial content and flavor, and truly believe that we have enlisted the best Santa Barbara has to offer.

But you don’t have to take our word for it, you can check it out for yourself. Read former New York Post fashion/lifestyle editor Mara Peters’ column You Have Your Hands Full, about her struggle to avoid the pitfalls of the Tiger Mom. Or journalist/ poet Jana Mackin’s poignant observations of the Mercury Lounge in Goleta, or, hey, even MJ founder James Buckley’s interviews with two local PGA golf pros and a pro prospect at their verdant places of business. We’ll be covering real estate as the important business it is in Santa Barbara (see Michael Calcagno’s residential driven column and Austin Herlihy’s commercial one), third in importance to only city/ county government and UCSB. And while we’re at it, we’ll toss in more than a little about local business and businesses. Truth be told, we are most interested in the people behind the companies that really create the Santa Barbara experience. After all, it is in fact the people that make this city – and its businesses – work.

Of course, there will be lots of other stuff too – we’ll always be on the lookout for great original content that fits with our values or speaks to the issues facing us here in Santa Barbara. We are proud of what the Sentinel brings to the table, even now in its infancy, and of the uniquely pro-business lens through which we view our fair city.

And it’s just that voice that we believe must be heard. It’s that voice that reflects the love we – and I myself – feel for Santa Barbara.

So sit back, turn the page, and dive on in.

Our fondest wish is that you’ll find room in your reading schedule for us.

See you next week, folks, we’re looking forward to it.

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C ommercial Corner – Radius Group Commercial Real Estate Broker Austin Herlihy takes us through his thoughts on pending and future development projects around town… and he’s actually optimistic about the state of the market. Good times ahead?

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MAZZA’S MISSIVE

by Matt Mazza

Looking Backward and Forward

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ife is funny, man. It’s unpredictable.

I mean, just twelve short months ago, my wife and young daughters and I were spending our days playing soccer and board games and eating meals with disadvantaged kids in South Africa, living at the Goleta-based Bridges of Hope facility in Franschhoek, a quaint town in the heart of South Africa’s delightful wine region, as part of a fairly extensive trip around the world.

We’d already spent months meandering around Europe, and there were months to go still through Nepal and India and all over Southeast Asia. We were a merry bunch then, together as one, living by the seat of our collective pants, genuinely enjoying (most) every moment.

The truth is those were some of the very happiest days of my life.

Although it now seems a bit cliché, we blogged our experience, not for attention but instead to keep in touch with interested family and friends and to create a multimedia journal of the experience for the

girls. That blog became reasonably widely read around these parts, surprisingly, and that led to a regular column in the Montecito Journal. And that column led to my introduction to publisher Tim Buckley, then to the idea for this column and, ultimately, to the creation of the Sentinel itself.

I think Steve Jobs put it best at Stanford back in 2005: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” That’s pretty much the whole deal.

In any event, while we were thrilled out there on the road for sure, with no buzzing Blackberry or regimented schedule of any kind, we are thrilled too to be back home in Santa Barbara. It turns out there just aren’t many places like our little sun-kissed city by the sea. In fact, my last few days really sum up just how fantastic – how damned cool – it can be to live right here on the American Riviera.

Few places on the globe can match Santa

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Barbara, especially if you can figure out how to do it right. And trust me, I’m doing my very best to get the hang of it.

Doing It Right Take last Friday, for example. It started like most other Fridays, with a fair amount of time rushing around the office and an endless barrage of telephone calls and meetings and arguments to be made and positions to be fortified and defended. (I’m a lawyer by trade; the paper business is a new one for me.)

But then things changed. Quickly. And for the better.

I met Kris Zacharias and Jennifer Guess for lunch at Koolaburra’s offices on the 1200 block of State Street. Kris is a friend – we met over a guitar and a beer on a family camping trip outside San Luis Obispo a few years back – and the Creative Director for Koolaburra, which, for those of you who don’t know, is a local footwear company that has gone from sheepskin boots to fashionforward international hipster brand in just

a few years. At this point, you can actually shop by celebrity on the company’s site – think Kristin Cavallari or Kate Hudson or Jessica Alba in my buddy’s boots, just to name a few.

Jenn is an established and growing local PR force, representing numerous Santa Barbara-based, regional and bigger brands and companies in their area-specific endeavors. Clients include the Canary Hotel, the soon-to-reopened El Encanto Hotel and the Wine Cask (there are more), and Jenn is engaging and dynamic and a hell of a lot of fun to be around. Let’s just say that we shared one or two glasses of wine as we talked local shop over a very good lunch at The Hungry Cat, and I quickly understood why her clients look to her for good advice. (By the way, the house-made chorizo and braised clams at the Cat are well-worth trying after you polish off a dozen oysters. Toss a crispy white wine into the mix and you’re in good shape, especially on a Friday. Trust me.)

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take The (Un)Certainty of Death and Taxes

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n this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.”

Ben Franklin – clearly a modern democrat (and a morbid one at that) – could have penned his ubiquitous quip yesterday to French President François Hollande and it would have been just as timely and prescient as it was more than 220 years ago when he wrote those words to French scientist Jean-Baptiste LeRoy. Not bad for a guy who liked kites.

Franklin’s words ring especially true today in Santa Barbara, where voters will be asked to decide on issues from increased and additional taxes to the continued existence of the death penalty in California. What follows are our basic thoughts and recommendations for those who will brave the polling stations on Tuesday, November 6. Brace yourselves.

California State Propositions Propositions 30 and 38 – Increasing Taxes for Public Education

Props 30 and 38 are effectively competing against each other to raise taxes to help fund our State’s ailing public education system. Think of it this way: Our school system apparently needs help, and Props 30 and 38 – assuming at least one of them passes – will determine who will pay for it. If both pass, then the one with the most “yes” votes wins.

Let the lobbying begin!

Prop 30 proposes to raise around $6 billion annually for public schools by (1) raising the State sales tax by a quarter cent per dollar spent for the next four years and (2) increasing personal income taxes on annual earnings over $250,000 for the next seven years. (There is also language drafted into Prop 30 that guarantees local governments certain tax revenue from the State to cover specific responsibilities transferred from the State to local governments in 2011, but that is not the primary focus of the proposition.)

High earning Californians will see a 1% tax increase on every dollar earned over $250,000, a 2% hike on every dollar over $300,000 and a 3% jump on anything over a half million.

Every Californian who buys anything in the State will pay the additional sales tax. And here’s the kicker: Governor Brown and our fine State’s legislature have already assumed that Prop 30 will pass and have drafted it into our budget. So, if 30 fails, then the budget will see roughly commensurate cuts (in other words, it’s a wash and things stay basically the same).

Prop 38 takes a broader approach, proposing a progressive tax increase across the board.

Every taxpayer earning more than $7,316 per year will see a rate hike (starting with a paltry 0.4% increase), but those earning the most money will see rates climb as much as 2% or more. Even without any increase in the sales tax – a consumption-based tax that theoretically impacts those with less money more than the other way around – the forecast is for roughly $10 billion in additional revenue, trending higher over time.

SENTINEL SAYS: Ok, all right, we get it. There may indeed be a real need for additional revenues for the public school system, but we believe that any plan to right the scholastic ship in California should also take a close look at what some in the voting public would argue are bloated salaries, pensions and other public benefits that taxpayers already cover.

We’re just saying.

With that said, if forced to make a choice (and it may be better not to), we prefer Prop 38 to 30. More money over more time (thus a likely greater long-term impact and less derivative legislation in the short term) covered in a reasonably equitable manner (a progressive tax increase) that does not include an across the board hike in the sales tax that may affect lower-income folks disproportionately. And why only cover the increased costs of the public schools on the backs of the rich, who are, frankly, less likely to use the State school system anyway? Let everybody pay something to support the system that benefits us all. What’s the harm in that?

Anecdotally, we also resent being told by our State’s politicians that they have already assumed something will pass before the vote is actually held. That’s what the vote is for. And forgive us if we are wrong here, but neither the Governor’s office nor California’s legislature has the best record for knowing what people actually want. So keep your prophecies to yourselves and let the people decide.

Yes on 38; No on 30

Proposition 31 – Reforming State Budget System and Expanding Local Government

Prop 31 is a mixed bag aimed primarily at restructuring key facets of our State budget system (e.g., two-year budget cycle instead of one, certain limits on bigger dollar expenditures without commensurate cuts) and creating wider latitude for local governments to develop and implement plans and procedures to coordinate services for the public. Some of what we see in 31 seems reasonable – especially in light of the annual budget gridlock mess we’ve grown accustomed to here in California – but some does not.

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...continued from p.5 the legislature fails to act promptly during “fiscal emergencies.” The Governor has the power to declare these “emergencies,” and the legislature rarely responds promptly. So the Governor ends up with a pretty darn mighty pen.

SENTINEL SAYS: There’s no doubt that Sacramento has a number of fundamental problems that must be addressed in the relative short term. Prop 31 has at least one concrete good idea (two-year budget cycle) and others that seem to make sense (local community leaders creating local solutions for local issues) if implemented appropriately.

But 31 doesn’t go that far as drafted and seems likely to create an even bigger mess than we already have on our hands.

Although the idea that local governments can act to develop area procedures and plans with respect to providing services (even State-funded services under 31) might sound good at first, the end result may be a disjointed effort by numerous localities to provide similar services in far different modalities. Can you say logistical nightmare? And who can forget the scandal in the City of Bell a few years ago? Maybe we should think twice about handing too much power and autonomy to local governments, and first ensure meaningful oversight and accountability. And do we really want the Governor’s office to have the final say in “fiscal emergencies?” We don’t think so.

We are all for reform, but it must be smart and practical. Prop 31 is neither.

No on 31

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Proposition 32 – Limiting Labor Unions and Corporations’ Political Contributions Prop 32 is interesting. If it passes, it will prohibit California labor unions from using monies automatically deducted from their respective members’ paychecks for political purposes. (Union members could still voluntarily contribute money to union political lobbying efforts, of course, but that money will not be automatically withdrawn as dues or fees or anything else.) Prop 32 also limits the ability of unions and corporations to contribute directly to candidates or committees that make contributions to candidates, and prohibits government contractors from making contributions to elected officials who play a role in awarding their contracts.

SENTINEL SAYS: No brainer. If union members voluntarily contribute to their unions’ political efforts, fine, but give the members a chance to make the decision themselves. Limiting the flow of corporate and union money that goes directly to candidates may actually help the people have a louder voice in today’s elections. (Corporations and unions will still be able to spend money independently of candidates and their campaigns and thus will still have a voice, but that direct lobbying connection will disappear with the passage of 32.) And stopping government contractors from buying the very elected officials who awarded them their government contract(s) is pretty straightforward.

Yes on 32

Proposition 33 – Permitting Discount on Auto Insurance Prop 33 allows insurance companies to offer a “continuous coverage” discount on car insurance policies to new customers who switch their coverage from another insurer.

If you find yourself scratching your head as you consider why we need to spend time and money on a vote for a proposed discount to an insurance policy, you’re not alone.

(The answer to this can be found, perhaps not surprisingly, in a proposition passed over two decades ago requiring review and approval by the Insurance Commissioner for any rate changes – whether higher or lower – in certain types of insurance.)

SENTINEL SAYS: Any auto-insurance discount that favors responsible drivers with a history of continuous coverage seems fair to us. Further, it seems reasonable that 33 will encourage policy holders to shop for similar insurance at better prices from competing insurers, thereby increasing competition in the auto insurance business and (hopefully) driving rates down for all of us. Happy times.

Yes on 33

Proposition 34 – Repealing the Death Penalty and Increasing Key Investigative Funding Prop 34 will repeal the death penalty in California as the maximum punishment for murder and replace it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole. It will apply retroactively to all persons sentenced to death (but not yet dead, of course). 34 also

requires people found guilty of murder to work while in prison (with any wages applied to victim restitution fines or orders) and provides $100 million over the next four years to law enforcement agencies for investigations of homicide and rape cases.

SENTINEL SAYS: Wow. Big, serious issue that requires careful consideration from every voter. These are the types of decisions that define us as a people.

For us, this is not a political, economic or social issue. It is a human issue, a moral one.

And until someone can demonstrate to this paper that no innocent people are ever put to death by the State, we stand firmly against the death penalty.

We note that 34 will likely be an economic boon for California, though not of epic proportion. And the idea of murderers toiling away for the rest of their lives for the benefit of the living victims of their crime(s) is quite pleasing. So is increased funding to go after those who commit the worst types of atrocities.

Yes on 34

Proposition 35 – Expanding Human Trafficking and Sex Offender Registration Prop 35 takes dead aim at human trafficking, expanding that term’s definition to include additional crimes related to the creation and distribution of child pornography, imposing significant prison sentences and fines and generally changing related evidentiary standards and bolstering law enforcement training. All that, plus

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Prop 35 expands requirements for sex offender registration to boot.

SENTINEL SAYS: From a (very) big picture perspective, and although it seems to us that many trafficking crimes are already federally investigated and prosecuted, we generally don’t see any harm in expanding State involvement (especially in California). And certainly anybody with friends and family who may be susceptible should be informed of who and what lives around them.

But, alas, it’s not that easy. Don’t we already have laws on the books that cover creators and distributors of kiddy porn?

Assuming we do, then why do we need more laws? Can’t we just enforce the ones we have? Some of these types of laws can impose potential criminal liability for people “disseminating,” for example, pictures of their kids sans bathing suits at the beach to their friends and family. We’ve even heard of a person being prosecuted in Pennsylvania for drawing a picture of a nude kid (weird, maybe, but pretty tough to argue that drawing a nude kid is a crime without anything more). Of course, these “criminals” may have to register as the aforementioned “sex offenders,” which will be devastating for them on all sorts of levels.

These types of laws have serious consequences and must be carefully considered, drafted and implemented to ensure that we get people that deserve to be gotten but don’t destroy the lives of those who don’t.

Ultimately, though, in this particular case, we like the amplified penalties for violating human trafficking laws and the broadened definition seems reasonably crafted. But let’s not forget to enforce the laws we have too, rather than simply drafting new ones all the time. The risk of misguided criminal legislation is very real, and, hey, put yourself in the shoes of the innocent person who is wrongly accused. It happens all the time and there must be reasonable protections in place, not just more potential charges to stack against him or her in a society that is already the most incarcerated in the developed world.

Yes on 35 – but let’s be careful here

Proposition 36 – Revising Three Strikes Law Proposition 36 seeks to revise California’s three strikes law to impose a life sentence on “third strikers” only where the offender has committed certain serious or violent offenses, including some drug, sex and gun related felonies. Some currently incarcerated felons with three strikes will be eligible for resentencing, but only where their criminal histories fall in line with the foregoing.

SENTINEL SAYS: We get it. The three strikes law, as currently written and enforced, results in some unfair and ridiculously long prison sentences for individuals who have committed relatively benign felonies. (We know, it sounds oxymoronic, but think of the guy or gal with a couple relatively minor drug offenses compared to the murderer-rapistpedophile – oh my!) Prop 36 continues to require massive jail time for those

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convicted of the worst types of crimes and appears to permit some judicial discretion, which is good.

On the other hand, though, these third strikers are repeat offenders who cannot seem to pull it together enough to quit committing felonies. [Insert liberal social commentary or conservative tough on crime rhetoric here.]

Ultimately, we believe that Prop 36 keeps enough of the force of the three strikes law where it is most important, and provides for reasonable common sense reforms in connection with non-violent, less serious offenders.

Yes on 36

Proposition 37 – Labeling (Some) Genetically Engineered Foods Prop 37 will require labeling on raw or processed foods constructed from genetically modified materials that are offered to consumers, and it puts retailers (e.g., grocery stores) on the hook to ensure their foods are labeled correctly. Sounds great, but there are lots of exemptions for “certified” organic foods, foods that are “unintentionally” produced with genetically engineered materials, foods made from animals that are “fed or injected” with genetically engineered materials… maybe we should just stop there. We’re nauseous from just writing all that, and you undoubtedly get the idea.

SENTINEL SAYS: It’s too bad. 37 started well but carves out so many exemptions that the end result feels a bit toothless. And while we understand that change happens incrementally in many circumstances, the result of 37 may be very misleading – how will the average consumer know if s/he’s eating a by-product of an animal with a second or third tail if that animal qualifies for an exemption because it was “only” fed and injected with genetically engineered materials?

All we need here are some standardized federal guidelines that would require food “manufacturers” (yuck) to tell us what exactly they are selling. State-level legislation just isn’t the way to go in this instance ­– if California passes 37 then, what, California food requires special labels that no other States require? Won’t that drive costs up for the healthiest types of food? And might some companies elect not to spend the money to create special labels for California, thereby lessening what’s available to us? And how many grocery store owners are going to be sued under this law in a State where one of the biggest concerns for business of any size is already litigation exposure? We are (very) pro-labeling but Prop 37 is a joke.

No on 37 – but let’s organize and get the ears of our federal legislators here.

Proposition 39 – Increasing taxes on Multistate Businesses and Funding Green Energy Prop 39 is a little quid pro quo. California will tax multistate businesses harder, and take a portion of monies raised from the higher tax to stuff the coffers of a new Clean ...continued p.8

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Energy Job Creation Fund that promotes energy efficient projects in public facilities and job training for the green energy sector.

Pretty straightforward tit-for-tat.

SENTINEL SAYS: Honestly, we’re tiring of this stuff. There is already a mass exodus of businesses from California due to tax and regulatory issues, and here we go again. Does the “green energy” business really need State support? Think Transphorm Inc. (recently selected by the World Economic Forum as a 2013 Technology Pioneer), Aurrion and Soraa. All Goleta-based, all venture backed.

(There are others.)

Promote business in California and let the market work out investment in business except in exceptional circumstances. If you need an example of government meddling in investment issues, think Solyndra (again, there are others).

No on 39

Proposition 40 – Resetting State Senate District Boundary Lines

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In some ways, a voter might consider Prop 40 the most important type of issue on the ballot since it directly affects State elections and thus the balance of power in Sacramento.

But we doubt many constituents pay that much attention. [Insert apathetic voting public rhetoric here.]

If 40 passes, then new State senate boundaries drawn by the Citizens Redistricting Commission will be approved and take effect. If 40 fails, then those boundaries will be rejected and State senate lines will be adjusted by officials supervised by the California Supreme Court.

So, the question really is, which group is less biased when it comes to redistricting?

Is it the CRC, composed of group of 14 citizens ultimately “chosen at random” – after a process to narrow the applicant pool is conducted by the office of the California State Auditor (who is, of course, appointed by the Governor) – or a smaller group of “special masters” (typically retired judges) appointed by the California Supremes (who

are, of course, appointed by the Governor)?

SENTINEL SAYS: As our friends across the pond might say, let’s call a spade a bloody shovel: This is a rigged political game any way you play it and will never be a perfect process. Is it better to have 14 citizens selected at “random” by a group of auditors appointed by the Governor or some retired judges appointed by other judges who were appointed by the Governor? Remember Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum? We have an alternative recommendation.

Blindfold Governor Brown, put him in front of a live audience and have him draw the boundaries on an interactive television screen with a magic marker. Audience members could yell and scream to influence him one way or another. “Go down, Jerry, go down; lump the students at UCSB in with the folks up in north county to better the chances of left-leaning representation!” or “Go right, Jerry, go right; take in most of Santa Ynez Valley and you’ll help Santa Barbara go conservative!” You get the idea. Sounds like fun.

And when he’s finished, we’ll drop red, white, and blue balloons and sing “God Bless America” and “I Love You California” (that’s our State song). Might just be the fairest way to go… and it’ll be entertaining too.

Prop 40 is a Toss-Up Next week – local measures.

State Proposition Recap Prop 30 – No (but vote Yes on 38) Prop 31 – No Prop 32 – Yes Prop 33 – Yes Prop 34 – Yes Prop 35 – Yes (but we need to be careful here) Prop 36 – Yes Prop 37 – No Prop 38 – Yes Prop 39 – No Prop 40 – You decide

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Back to Work… Sort Of I had to head back to the office to “finish a few projects,” but was soon whisked away in the late afternoon by my beautiful wife for a glass of wine (um… this is starting to sound bad, isn’t it?) before an event at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. A dear friend, Paul Westmacott, and his production company, Paradigm Pictures, had created a short film for the smART Families kick-off event at SBMA. (Paul is a local filmmaker, editor and producer, and has worked on feature documentaries like Juvies with Mark Wahlberg and the soon to be released Unlikely Friends, as well as TV shows such as On Duty about Santa Barbara County Firefighters and even the award-winning series Survivor.) smART Families is a program dedicated to exposing families – especially children – to and educating them about the visual arts, as well as to supporting the larger educational outreach programs of SBMA. The bottom line is that smART Families is a very cool thing right here in our own backyard; as a former San Franciscan, it still surprises me that we have so much access to quality art and theater and music and food in SB. Paradigm’s video really helped convey the important benevolent mission the group advocates.

Chair of the Steering Committee Jen Markham and Speaker/Curator Susan Ty – who is responsible for bringing together a nationally recognized and stunning exhibition of 17th century Chinese painting and poetry called The Artful Recluse (opening October 20 at SBMA) – provided the finer points in a couple short talks, and we were sold. It was a compelling evening and my wife and I quickly signed up for the program, which consists of a series of art-related events for the whole family over the next few months. You should check it out and sign up too. The arts are a big part of what makes Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, and smART Families is on the leading edge of an important effort in that regard. Bravo.

After we had our fill of passedappetizers and sparkling wine from Fire and Ice Catering at SBMA, we headed off to dinner with Paul and his wife (and Sentinel contributor and columnist) Briana Westmacott at Arigato. Manager Daryl Takehara – a friend for twenty years now since our time waiting tables together at Baccio on State and a true Santa Barbara standard ­– quickly arranged a great patio seat for us and even picked his favorite dishes for the table. (Thanks Daryl… the Mrs. Ebilyn’s Gyoza Steamed Pot Stickers and tuna Carpaccio were terrific, as was everything else we scarfed and slurped and sipped and sucked.) He also laughed in my face when I told him that I was putting out a new paper with the aforementioned publisher and friend Tim Buckley. He made quite clear that his laughter was distinctly not directed at Tim. (Thanks again, Daryl, some things never change.)

We bumped into Neil and Jill Levinson and Russell and Kristen Story – both couples had been at the smART Families

Bartenders and chefs alike keep a watchful eye on the distinctly urban-chic dining room of The Hungry Cat, which belies the Cat’s deep roots in and around the local waters and Santa Barbara Harbor

kick-off and were eating upstairs at Arigato while we were out front – before heading back home to the kids. The night ended too soon, really, but it was fun while it lasted. Sleep came easy.

That whole Friday experience represents what I like most about being back home.

Every day, Santa Barbara presents new possibilities, new experiences. You just have to look and you will find them everywhere. (A good place to start is looking at LOVEmikana’s Weekend Guide on page 19.)

Another Day, Another Night I spent this past Tuesday night enjoying a beer and some snacks at Eureka!Burger in Paseo Nuevo with another old friend, Adam Black. (Although Eureka! is a small but growing southern California chain, it has a dizzying selection of terrific micro-brews, a great atmosphere and pretty damn good wings.) Adam is a mortgage banker who has done a serious amount of business in these parts, and is now opening a new branch of the Bank of Manhattan after leaving Prospect Mortgage. He’s thrilled with the new gig and the expanded platform it provides. I’ve talked to lots of folks who’ve worked with Adam at one point or another, and my bet is that he will only grow his reputation as a loan officer who can get the job done under most any circumstances in his new role at BOM. Best of luck, Adam, though I doubt you’ll need it.

Now, here’s the kicker. It turns out that Adam married a woman that Daryl Takehara and I worked with at Baccio all those years ago (I’ll respect her privacy and won’t name her here. Is that all right, Heather?).

So, after 20+ years and a trip around the world, I found myself sitting and laughing and talking about the newspaper business a couple nights ago with the husband of a woman I met back in my teenage years at UCSB. Who’d ‘a thunk it?

As I said before, man, life is funny.

It’s unpredictable. I never would have thought a year ago from Africa that I’d be editing a new free weekly paper in Santa Barbara. And I sure as hell didn’t think two decades ago that I’d ever hang out over a few beers in my late thirties with some cute co-worker/waitress’s husband talking mortgage lending and litigation strategy.

Santa Barbara is chock-full of interesting people and world-class businesses and arts and beaches and food and drink and other good stuff. But you already knew that, so what are you waiting for? Get out there and do your best to have some fun and enjoy the ride. I know I will.

Have a good week everybody. See you in the trenches.

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(pictured) resembles a telenovela star.

Asked if he’s married, he blushes and says, “to my job.” Working seven days per week, when does this man get his beauty sleep? He’s so busy, in fact, that his mom has to shop for the crisp, fitted shirts he favors. He does find time to burn off those burritos by running 50 miles each week.

Shockingly single, he’d like to have a wife and family “someday.” For now, the only female in this Leo’s life is his German shepherd Bella.

by Wendy Jenson Fan of meats and sweets and a former magazine

editor, Wendy has worked at Santa Barbara Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, and Us Weekly (the latter three in NYC). Currently a public relations consultant, she’s concerned about getting plump while working on this column.

The Lowdown on Rori’s

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ssst! We’ve got the inside scoop on Rori’s Artisanal Creamery in the Montecito Country Mart. Set to open in mid-November, the corner shop “will resemble a tiny ice cream factory,” says proprietor Rori Trovato (pictured), a chef and food stylist. “It’ll be clean and open with reclaimed wood counters for warmth.” To maximize space, AB Design

Studio envisioned library ladders to reach vertical shelving. Photographs by Mr. Rori (acclaimed lens man Luca Trovato) will decorate the walls.

The only organic ice cream place in town will sell eight flavors, plus four seasonal or just-for-fun flavors. An 805 flavor will feature a local food purveyor, for example Telegraph Brewing Company stout and molasses ice cream. “We’re also committed to a $1.50 mini cone,” promises Rori. “It’s for people who don’t want a ton of ice cream or to pay an arm and leg for a treat.” Ice cream sandwiches will be made-to-order with a choice of in-house baked cookies. There will be toasted pound cake ice cream sundaes, tricked out ice-cream bars, along with horchata and soy chai latte popsicles.

Yum. Rori’s will deliver – via green Smart car – four pints or more in Montecito, gratis. A second Rori’s is planned to open June 2013 at the Santa Barbara Public Market.

How To Say It

Ladies flock to Los Agaves to lust over tall, dark and handsome owner Carlos Luna (photo by Wendy Jenson)

Who’s that guy?

Local ladies love Los Agaves at 600 North Milpas Street and not just for the Mexican food (which is buena).

They’re drawn in by Carlos Luna, 32, the 6’2” owner. Guadalajara-raised Carlos

People tend to pronounce Montecito’s Tre Lune as “Tray Loon” so it rhymes with moon. Lune is actually pronounced as two syllables, “Loon-ae.” “The name is butchered by everyone. I stopped correcting people,” says manager Soemi Caramel, from Treviso, Italy (near Venice). No word on whether Tom DeLonge from Blink-182 properly pronounced Tre Lune when he dined there recently.

Tips: If you have any juicy restaurant tidbits (openings and closings, key staff changes, celebrity sightings, and the like) please contact me at wendy@santabarbarasentinel. com.

Speaking of…

Chef and food stylist Rori Trovato, owner of Rori’s Artisanal Creamery, is opening her organic ice cream shop in Montecito mid-November (photo by Luca Trovato)

The walls are going up on the Santa Barbara Public Market at 38 West Victoria Street, that’s the corner of Chapala Street where the downtown Vons once stood.

Scheduled to be completed June/July of 2013, the market will have approximately 18 best-in-class food and wine merchants in permanent spaces under one 15,500-square-foot roof. There’ll be a full grocery, eat in and take out cuisine, cooking classes and demonstrations, and wine tastings.

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CRIME: Cops bust a middle-aged transient for probation violations stemming from his possession of methamphetamine and syringes. Great.

OBSERVATION: Up to a point, this is a run-of-the-mill bust, but that changes when the parolee asks law enforcement to go easy on his shoulder; it’s sore from “muscling meth.”

(We’re collectively cringing.) How, exactly, does one “muscle” meth? And why? Is this some kind of new workout for drug addicts?

COMMENT: Hey SBPD, please do go a bit easy on the shoulder. We think this guy’s trying to get fit, and we imagine that the sore discomfort associated with a long afternoon of muscling meth – can you feel the burn? – puts that of a two-hour jog on East Beach to shame. Kid gloves, officers, kid gloves.

Beer Run… Almost

CRIME: A youngster walks into Lazy Acres, grabs two six packs and walks out of the store without paying. He’s later nabbed by SBPD near the store’s parking lot.

OBSERVATION: It should have been a simple plan. Walk into store, take booze of one sort or another (often some sweet and potent concoction that results in hangovers of terrific magnitude) and run away.

COMMENT: He got the first two steps right – walk into store and take booze – but he really missed the third and arguably most important step. Rather than run away, he sat down in the parking lot and texted friends about the caper. (To be fair, when he was approached by a couple suspicious Lazy Acres employees, he did take off “sprinting” – but only for about a half block.) He denied everything when the cops found him… but those incriminating text messages did him in.

THOUGHT: It’s called a “beer run” for a reason. It involves running, not relaxing and texting.

Maybe the thief should focus a bit more on academics and put his career as a thief on hold for a tick. And hey, leave the good people at Lazy Acres alone. We love that place.

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Here’s a quick primer of what not to do for those who would prefer to avoid time in the slammer: • Don’t pass out drunk and poop in your pants at MacKenzie Park. Ever. Please.

• Don’t lie on your back on State Street and refuse to communicate with SBPD before projectile-vomiting all over yourself… even if you’re visiting from Sweden.

• Don’t use your brother’s name as an alias when you are caught with several “large tools” behind Cost Plus as its alarm is going off in the middle of the night. Use some other name, or just don’t try to burglarize Cost-friggin-Plus. My wife loves their Indonesian Day Bed and would be devastated if they left town. And that would greatly impact my whole “Happy Wife/Happy Life” thing. Bad all around.

• Don’t challenge bewildered passersby to hand-to-hand combat while urinating on State Street. It’s not a toilet and you’re (probably) not as tough as you think you are.

• Last but certainly not least, don’t ask a cab driver to take you to Goleta to buy cocaine, proceed to smoke that cocaine in the back of the cab on the return to Santa Barbara and then refuse to pay the cab fare. This will almost always end poorly for the coke smoker, even if he didn’t drive his own car, and even if he lives in Montecito. In the words of the immortal Pato Banton, this is precisely why you “shouldn’t smoke the coke but only snort the sensimilla.” (Or something like that.)

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Journal Jim

by James Buckley Jim founded the Montecito Journal some

17 years ago. He is an avid golfer who currently sports an 11.7 SCGA handicap index. His goal in life is to get that index into the single digits, even if for only a two-week period

A Golfer’s Paradise

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f you don’t play golf, you should probably go on to Matt Mazza’s column on page 4. Better yet, join him for a glass (or two or three) of wine. However, if you are a golfer, if you have been a golfer, or if you’ve ever even considered hitting a small white ball with an oversized hightech device made of various compounded metals such as titanium with a shaft made of graphite, then listen up. Or, since this is on a printed page, keep your eyeballs steady and follow along.

The Santa Barbara area is indeed a golfer’s paradise. When I ask friends that visit when they’d like to tee off this morning, they look at me in wide-eyed fear, wondering if my sanity would hold until they left for home; after all, how likely is it that we could get a tee time the same morning we expect to tee off?

The answer is: very likely. Santa Barbara golf courses are not the same as, say Los Angeles area courses, or San Francisco, or San Diego courses. In and around big

cities, hopeful golfers call or go online days, sometimes weeks ahead to book a tee time. And they frequently pay through the nose for the privilege.

Not here.

In addition to the two newest local courses – Glen Annie and Rancho San Marcos – golfers can choose from a sizeable group of excellent courses, such as the Santa Barbara Golf Course, Sandpiper, Alisal Ranch River Course, La Purisima, Marshallia, or one of three 9-hole courses: Twin Lakes, Hidden Oaks, or Ocean Meadows. If you have friends in the right places, there are three private courses: Valley Club, Birnam Wood, and La Cumbre. Even better (for golfers, not necessarily for course owners), participation in the game leveled off nearly a decade ago and rounds played per year has been on a downtrend since then. More golf courses, fewer players may not be good for golf course owners, but the conditions spell opportunities for the rest of us.

PGA pro D.J. Limardi, General Manager at Sandpiper and Rancho San Marcos, lives in Noleta

Sandpiper & Rancho San Marcos D.J. Limardi is General Manager and Director of Operations at Sandpiper and Rancho San Marcos (the same person – Ty Warner – owns both courses).

“Before coming to California,” D.J. says as we converse on the patio at Sandpiper overlooking the blue Pacific behind us, “I had never seen mountains before in my life.” That was twelve years ago. He moved from Chicago to Santa Barbara at the age of 18 to become a golf professional and began working at Sandpiper his very first week in California.

He actually came here to work at Valley Club in Montecito, he says, “but it was a little bit slower than I was used to.” so he applied at Sandpiper a couple days later and got a job at the outside service department and has worked his way up from there.

D.J. is an athlete. He played golf (along with ice hockey, football, and Lacrosse) in high school (actually, he’s been playing golf since he was three years old). When he got to Santa Barbara, he played for SBCC (he played for Jim Rice and Chuck Melendez) for two years and turned pro at the age of 20. As a PGA professional, D.J.’s index is automatically 0, “regardless of the state of my game.” His best score at Sandpiper is a 66 (I didn’t ask, but I assume he played from the tips – 7,068 yds). Best score at Rancho (6939 yds): 69. “I’ve played many more rounds at Sandpiper,” he explains.

D.J. doesn’t give as many lessons as he once did, but there are four assistant pros at Sandpiper and three at Rancho that can easily take up the slack. Lessons run $40 for half an hour, $80 for a full hour. Sandpiper also runs a public clinic series every Tuesday from 5 pm to 6:30 pm for $20.

Walk-on costs run upwards of $100, but there are discounts for County residents and the Preferred Players Program features reduced rates and discounts on food, clothing, and equipment at Sandpiper and Rancho. D.J. couldn’t give me the 2013 Preferred Player fee because it hasn’t been

confirmed yet, but last year, I paid $500, which allowed me to play for free during the months of November and December; to play the rest of the year cost $50 per round (to walk) at Sandpiper and $45 at Rancho during the week, a little more on the weekends, and I’m allowed to bring three guests per month at the member’s rate.

Sandpiper and Rancho offer, among many other things, “On Course Dining,” whereby players can call the golf shop to order food. “If you want a hot dog at hole number three,” D.J. says, “no problem. Just let us know what you want and where you are and we’ll bring it right out to you.” Their blackened chicken sandwich is excellent, comes with a pickle and a bag of chips and is big enough to split.

Glen Annie Kyle Marmé is an assistant golf professional at Glen Annie Golf Course; he works in the pro shop, schedules tee times, assists customers, and gives private golf lessons and clinics. Clinics run $25 for an hour, private lessons run from $40 per halfhour with Kyle to $70 for 45 minutes with Marc Minier, head pro; that includes video analysis.

Glen Annie has a really inexpensive yearly membership (“really inexpensive” being relative to, say, Pebble Beach, where it can cost $575 to play one 18-hole round). For $146 per month – $109 for seniors – or pre-paid for the year at $1,664 – $1,243 for seniors – golfers can play any time after noon at no cost Monday through Friday; a cart costs $13, “if they decide to ride,” says Kyle. Family memberships and premium memberships go up from there, but they’re all a pretty good deal if one is a frequent player.

For SB Axxess Card holders it’s free replays on Mondays, and on Wednesdays after 10 am, two-for-one green fees ($32.50 per player, includes cart). County residents’ regular fee is $52, including an electric cart; twilight rate (beginning at 1:30 pm) is $36.

Kyle was born and raised in Montecito.

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Glen Annie assistant pro Kyle Marmé grew up in Montecito; his mother owns “Lana Marmé,” her popular clothing store there

Santa Barbara Golf Course’s Alex Millovich is not a PGA pro (yet), but does sport a 6.1 index

up,” he offers (and, since I’ve lived in Montecito for nearly thirty years and both our kids were raised there, I can’t argue with his assessment). He remembers playing Glen Annie when it first opened in 1997.

“As far as public courses in Santa Barbara, I don’t think you can beat Glen Annie for the price, the location, and the golf course in general. It’s a great course; it’s challenging,” he adds.

Kyle went to high school at Villanova in Ojai and competed (as a golfer) against Dos Pueblos and Santa Barbara High.

He spent two years at SBCC, one year at Cal Lutheran, and finished up at Cal State Northridge, majoring in business marketing. Kyle prefers to teach. “It’s more rewarding than playing the game,” he says.

ten range-ball tokens and two vouchers for nine holes of golf. It’s a great deal.”

Despite the lessening play, Muni is generally a busy place. There are lots of junior programs: The First Tee meets here, headed up by Doug Crane; City College teams play here, as does Santa Barbara High School, Dos Pueblos, and San Marcos. “We have a lot of programs,” Alex says, “so no matter who you are or what your abilities are, we can fit you into something.”

Santa Barbara Golf Course Alex Millovich works at Santa Barbara Golf Course, a course that stays in excellent shape despite being the busiest one in town.

You once had to arrive at 4 am to get a tee

time here, but with all the new competition, that’s no longer the case.

Alex, who has worked at SBGC “a little over two years now,” hails from Bishop, California, and arrived in Santa Barbara in 2006. He attended SBCC and went on to UCSB, but hasn’t graduated. He is in his twenties, so isn’t sure where his future lies. He’d love to be a competitive golfer but in order to make it on the tour, he says, “you have to play at least six hours a day, every day,” and he doesn’t have that luxury.

SBGC is our Municipal course (most call it “Muni”), and it offers a “Rewards” package. For $125 a year “it saves you all kinds of money” on your green fees and your cart fees,” Alex says. “And it saves you money at Mulligan’s Restaurant next door,” he adds. (Mulligan’s has its own fine reputation and serves the best – I mean the best – French fries in town, and a pretty damned good $5 Margarita). Muni offers a $99 “Lesson Package” that features “three 30-minute lessons with a PGA instructor,

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And the green fees? Los Angelinos can only dream of such things: the $23 county resident twilight rate for 18 holes begins at 2 pm (Super Twilight at 4 pm: $12 with a Rewards card, $15 otherwise). Axxess Cards work every day, allowing players to pay twilight rates two hours earlier.

There you have it. If these rates don’t encourage you to get back out on the golf course, then you were never meant to play the game in the first place.

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aturday: I walk the dog at 7 am. He doesn’t get the concept of ‘weekend,’ so my lie-ins are extinct. An RV is parked in front of the Family Services agency.

There’s a bike outside, and a man is working on it. I greet him, introduce myself, and ask where he’s from. He opens with, he didn’t kill his sister by stabbing her 19 times in the San Fernando Valley. The DA believes him.

That’s why he’s up here, chilling out, getting away from that mess, hoping to find work.

I nod, wish him well, round the corner and immediately call the police to please come by and run a check for outstanding warrants. We’ve had this problem before…

Sunday: 7 am dog walk. The RV is gone, a pile of trash in its place. I notice the creek is low, it’s late summer… and a woman stands up, and stretches in her pajamas in front of Family Services Agency. She slept there. She is 19, as it turns out, from my conversation with her. She hitchhiked in, landed on State Street at midnight, and camped. Today, she’s hitchhiking down to San Diego. At 19, I would never have hitchhiked or camped on someone’s property in a city I didn’t know. I should mention I grew up in Atlanta. People had rather strong ideas about property rights, and guns to back them up. At 10, I climbed a neighbor’s tree at the border of our property, far from his home, to watch some distant fireworks. His dog started barking.

He came out, looked in my direction, and cocked a shotgun.

I fell out of the tree and fled home, terrified.

I wished the girl a safe journey, and meant it.

I made a mental note to walk the dog on a different route in the future.

Tuesday, I am on my bike, across from Circle K on Cacique, and I notice a man

drinking in the parking lot. I call out to him, hey buddy, how about not drinking in public like that? We’re trying to improve the neighborhood around here. He stands up and screams profanities at me, challenges me to do something about it.

Challenge accepted. Bluetooth in my ear, I call 911. The man hurls his beer at me, and it spews at my feet. He’s charging towards me. I get on the bike and start pedaling. He chases me across the parking lot. I pedal, give the police location, description, and ask, can they not hear him? He’s shouting profanities at the top of his lungs, and people are stopping to look. I hightail it down Milpas on my bike. He chases me to the batting cages, and quits, winded. The police (still on the phone!) ask where I am now. The railroad tracks at Milpas. Wait there.

I wait. When they turn up, I tell the officer what had just happened. He replied that I really must have set this guy off.

My mouth falls open. I am wondering why he isn’t jumping back in that cruiser to collar the Enraged One. He admonishes me never to approach these guys, because they’re dangerous, and mentally ill. I could get hurt. I ask him what kind of world are we living in when a citizen cannot request that someone stop an illegal behavior on private property because she might be assaulted on the spot? He advises to call the police. Okay, but we do just that.

Often.

The police have to prioritize calls, and some days, it feels like ‘transient drinking in public’ is behind ‘wash the canines.’ That’s not how it really works, I know.

But that’s how it feels.

I push back on my nice, polite officer.

We’re supposed to let guys like this do whatever illegal thing they want, hope the

police show up, and tiptoe around in the meantime for fear we might set them off on a homicidal rage? If that’s how it is, then why are they wandering around the neighborhood in the first place?

I didn’t expect an answer.

Later, my nice officer calls me. Shelter security chased the man to the Post Office, where he was going off over a woman who’d just come in. He has some kind of serious problem with women, apparently. County

The police have to prioritize calls, and some days, it feels like ‘transient drinking in public’ is behind ‘wash the canines’ Mental Health took him, probably for a 72hour hold. Hopefully they’ll give him some real help.

The guy told the officer he was from Ohio.

And that brings me to Looper – brilliant.

I won’t give anything away except for this one dystopian element: in Looper’s future world, circa 2044, vagrants are seemingly more populous than any other group. At some point, characters reference a ‘Vagrant War.’ And the world is covered with graffiti.

Not too hard for LA filmmakers to envision, I suppose, looking around at present reality. Dismissive as we’d probably like to be of such a future, a thought pesters.

Remember Demolition Man where Stallone wakes up in a future where Schwarzenegger is president? Laughable in a theater in the ‘90s, it was less so after he became governor.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but dystopian sci-fi can send some scary predictions down the pike by drawing on seeds of the present.

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sbview.com The Neighborhood Anti-Graffiti Angel Now that fall seems to be in the air, and my upstairs loft has lost its furnace feel, my neighbor and I took to my balcony last night to enjoy a glass of wine and conversation in the cool evening air. Our recycle bins were placed on the curb for the Wednesday morning pick-up. While we were chatting, a man stopped on the sidewalk, checking out the cans. We’re used to various individuals coming through on Tuesday nights to sift through our recycling bins for bottles and cans. Sometimes it’s our neighbors trying to earn a few more dollars for the family budget. Sometimes it’s local homeless men and women we’ve known for years.

We thought he was one of these. He approached the cans, and bent over to examine one.

Hearing our voices drifting off the balcony, he turned and looked up at us, startled. I realized he had no shopping cart or bags to collect recyclables in. He was in his 60’s, and dressed for exercise – shorts, warm-up jacket, sneakers. My neighbor encouraged him to go ahead and do whatever he was going to do, thinking he was going to get recyclables out of the can.

The man responded that he saw graffiti on the backs of our bins (grrr!) and would be happy to remove it.

We were both speechless. I recalled seeing someone walking down the street one night about a month ago, a tall man like this, who sprayed something on the plastic strips of the telephone pole, and wiped it off.

In our neighborhood, we’re pretty vigilant about watching for vandals. I remember thinking that person was a really good neighbor for wiping off that graffiti. It’s nice to see neighbors doing that.

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I realized this was the same individual from a month ago. I asked if he lived in our neighborhood. I hadn’t seen him before… we wanted to introduce ourselves.

No, was the answer. He walks different streets because he likes the exercise, and carries graffiti remover and a cloth on his walks.

An anti-graffiti angel, I thought. What a

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nice gift to his city he’s giving.

He was quiet as he removed the graffiti, and didn’t want to reveal anything more about himself.

We thanked him. He wished us good night and wandered off.

Whoever you are, anti-graffiti angel, thank you for wandering through our neighborhood.

Santa Barbara Business Beat epicure.sb Previewed

This year’s preview version of epicure. sb kicked off with “From A to V, Abalone to Vino,” at the Four Seasons Biltmore’s Bella Vista Restaurant.

The five-course ‘locavore’ menu will be served during October, featuring ingredients sourced from within a 50-mile radius of the hotel and prepared by Italian Executive Chef Alessandro Cartumini, who paired each course with an array of Santa Barbara County vintners’ cuvées.

The Wednesday night preview dinner drew media from Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Milwaukee and even the U.K. The menu included a sumptuous abalone salad appetizer, heirloom tomatoes and fish tempura in avocado sauce.

The next day, the out-of-town media took a scenic drive up the 154 Highway to Santa Barbara Wine Country, passing by Lake Cachuma, Chumash Casino, Solvang and Buellton.

Margerum Wine Company threw a “Winemaker for a Day” preview in Buellton, which will be a popular attraction during epicure.sb. After the drive back from the Valley, the Downtown Organization threw a happy hour at Cielito Restaurant, which drew about 200 people to La Arcada Courtyard. That was followed by a preview performance of the play Food Confessions and dinner at the Lobero Theatre.

The play exposes the “unglazed truth about our own appetites.” During October, performances will be preceded by a light supper before the show and dessert during intermission for a price of $47.

For more information on epicure.sb, which will include a daylong “Focus on the Funk Zone” art tour and musical event on October 6, visit www.santabarbaraca.com/ epicuresb.

UCSB Tech Management Program Touted On September 20, South Coast Business Forum members heard UC Santa Barbara Technology Management Program officials describe how dozens of companies have started on campus and grown on their own or have been acquired by a larger firm.

Mike Panesis, director of the Technology Management Program, said it is the creation of businesses that is bringing more jobs to the South Coast and other parts of California. “Our goal is not to just graduate students, but to start companies,” Panesis told about 20 members of the forum, made up of representatives from South Coast chambers of commerce, other business

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organizations and government officials.

“We want students to make waves,” Panesis explained. “There is an incredible atmosphere of entrepreneurship.” The program’s New Venture Challenge, now in its 14th year, brings out the cream of the crop of new business ideas, resulting in between four and eight new businesses each year, he said.

Last year, the competition drew 46 teams that included 150 participants and yielded 18 startups, Panesis said. “We have a broad and deep mentor network,” he said, which includes about 500 names.

Another program official, Sherylle Mills Englander, said many of the new companies stay on the South Coast, but some must follow their market to the Bay area or San Diego.

Sirigen, a medical diagnostic startup that came out of the UCSB program, was acquired by a much larger company recently, Mills Englander informed the group.

Several companies in the program have had international impacts. The Groovy Drum Skimmer made huge strides in technology used to clean up the 2012 BP oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, Mills Englander said. She also spoke about QuickClot, a company whose self-cauterizing bandage is used to help bind wounds of soldiers in Afghanistan.

Inogen, which makes oxygen distribution equipment, is another program participant that has grown in Santa Barbara. Phone Halo is a recent participant that has an office on upper State Street. It makes a device that alerts someone on their smartphone when they get too far from their keys.

“It is exciting to see real world examples of how UCSB, SBCC and Westmont are all promoting entrepreneurship here in our community, said forum chairman Michael Holliday. “Last month we heard presentations from Santa Barbara City College, the Scheinfeld Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the Small Business Development Center. This is all very good news for our South Coast business community.”

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Carpinteria Triathlon Winners Prepare for Future Events

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any of the front finishers who competed in the 15th annual Carpinteria Triathlon did so in preparation for upcoming world competitions.

The fastest in the Sprints Course, Leroy Thomas, and the fastest on the Olympic Course, Kyle Visin, used Sunday’s race as a precursor for the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii October 13th.

Despite a bit of a lonely bike leg Visin enjoyed the race, finishing in 2:07:47, and remembered it as his first race ever in 2006.

“I absolutely love this race,” Visin said.

“You know it’s really well put on, but it has a local hometown feel, so I really enjoy that, and to come across the line first is kind of special.”

Thomas, who finished first in the Sprints Course in 53:50, felt similarly about his race. “It’s fun to come and do the local

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seconds in front of Dearden.

Danielle Harper finished 17th overall as the fastest woman for the Sprints Course with an overall time of 1:02:22.

Jaime Lynn Wooten wasn’t too far behind Harper on the Sprints Course with the second fastest women’s time of 1:03:33.

For the Olympic Team competitions, “I’m Gonna Get You Sucka” placed first with a time of 2:07:44, just 3 seconds faster than individual champion Visin. The team was comprised of Chad Stewart for the bike leg, Erika Lilley for the swim leg and Tommy Schmitz as the runner.

The Olympic distance was made up of a 1.5K swim, 40K bike and 10K run seeing 227 finishers, while the Sprints Course distance consisted of a .5K swim, 15K bike and 5K run with 467 finishers.

Complete results can be found on presidiosports.com.

Odell Coaching San Marcos Boys Basketball Team this Winter

by John Dvorak

Crowds cheer competitors as they cross the finish line of the 15th annual Carpinteria Triathlon

races and just kind of get a feel for what my body’s doing, but you know, my legs were good today.”

Other competitors were in the mix as well, with UCSB’s triathlete and champion of the Olympic Course, Stepan Paul, taking fifth place overall.

Despite injury from a bike crash just two days earlier, Paul’s teammate Jonathan Waltman finished second overall in 2:13:48.

“The swim was just ‘get through it.’ I was swimming with one arm for a little bit and then it loosened up a little and I was able to just drag it,” Waltman said.

He guessed he was about five or six minutes slower because of his injury.

Behind Waltman, Patrick Hartman – in the 45 to 49 age group – finished third in 2:14:03.

For the women, teammates Lauren Capone and Savannah Dearden finished first and third (fourth and tenth place overall), respectively, on the Olympic Course with set plans to compete for USA in the Triathlon World Championships in New Zealand later this month.

Dearden, finishing in 2:20:36, thought it was a really fun course and enjoyed chasing the competition of her teammate Capone, who finished in 2:15:13 as the first woman.

“It was okay, it took me a while to get going on the bike, but once I hit the hills it was alright,” Dearden explained.

Stacia Watson finished second for the women in ninth place overall, just 33

San Marcos’ interim varsity boys basketball coach isn’t short on credentials.

With Jarrod Bradley taking the year off from coaching, current Westmont Athletic Director Dave Odell has taken the wheel for the Royals and will be coaching on the sidelines for San Marcos’ season opener in early December.

A former college player himself, Odell has the coaching pedigree. His father was an NAIA Hall-of-Fame coach at Azusa Pacific and a CIF champion at Long Beach Millikan.

“Basketball is in my blood and while I chose business as my career path, I’ve always had a tug toward coaching because of the things I learned from my father,” Odell said.

The Royals have eight seniors on the team and three juniors who expect to see big minutes. Odell helped coach the Royals’ JV team last season and has been working with the varsity players since the spring. Returning varsity players include All-Channel League second-teamer Kevin Hempy and honorable mentions Bryce Ridenour and Uriel Hurtado.

“After losing a lot early in the summer, we ended up winning nine of our last ten games and these guys really grew up as players,” Odell reported. “What we do have are eleven guys that are learning to play very hard. They are also learning how to work with each other and capitalize on each other’s strengths.”

Royals Athletic Director Abe Jahadhmy likes the addition.

“Dave brings a ton of basketball knowledge, integrity and credibility to our program. Dave has high expectations and the boys have responded by working really hard for him,” Jahadhmy said.

Odell has literally seen many of his players grow up, having coached basketball locally at various levels for nine years.

“I very much enjoy the interaction with the student-athletes,” Odell says. “I’ve known many of these men since they were very little and I coached a few of them in Club ball when they were in junior high school. I believe that sports, and basketball

Current Westmont Athletic Director Dave Odell will coach the San Marcos Boys Basketball Team this winter

in particular, teach young men and women important life lessons that will serve them well in whatever they do in the future. I look forward to helping these men learn these life lessons through my interactions with them.”

Oliver Wheeler will be an assistant on the bench.

“Oliver has been on the varsity staff for the past several years and I am thankful to have him on board as he brings some continuity and history to the team,” Odell said.

Chris Jackson, a former Westmont point guard who coached the San Marcos Frosh/Soph and JV teams last year, will also help out.

Bradley, who has been the head coach of the varsity program since the 2006-07 season, will return next year.

Sheets Collects Phil Womble Award for Providence Hall

by John Dvorak

Providence Hall junior Erik Sheets, Phil Womble Award winner

Erik Sheets was named Providence Hall’s Phil Womble Award winner for the 201213 school year at the weekly Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table press luncheon on Monday.

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by Jana Mackin

A journalist and a poet, Jana has lived everywhere from New Orleans and Butte, Montana to Saudi Arabia, where she taught English to children.

Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Washington Post and San Francisco Examiner. She now lives in Goleta.

Meet Me At The Merc

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he powerful lure of the mid-afternoon adult beverage proves too much for my fledgling sobriety, so I scurry across Hollister Avenue in the bright Goleta sun and enter the Mercury Lounge. It’s dim inside, and my eyes adjust slowly. The air is heavy. A few denizens are spread out, chatting quietly. Comfortable-looking chairs and an inviting bartender immediately put me at ease.

I spy Delirium Tremens – a beautiful Belgian ale that should not be confused with the severe form of alcohol withdrawal known by the same name – on tap.

It’s hot outside. It’s 3:30 pm.

I decide to stay for awhile.

Wedged between Left Coast Books and Noodle City in Old Town, this strip mall bar appears as a Rat Pack speakeasy for the Goleta crowd. No mere mortal (especially a local one with a weakness for an India Pale Ale or Sauvignon Blanc and reasonably functional liver) can resist the stylized Mercury sign attached to the flagstone façade or the iconic neon “OPEN” sign on the darkened window. I almost expected this place to be the Good Land’s version of The Frolic Room.

But, alas, I am distinctly not in Hollywood; this is no Frolic Room.

Instead, the “Merc,” as it’s known around here, whisks me into a time-warp, a beer and wine lounge decorated funky, midcentury chic. Tiki gods and ceramic firebirds decorate the hideaway, and a filtered light emanates solely from candles and swag lamps.

Relaxing in Googie/space-age style couches, a couple Echo Boomers sit and debate the merits of Sculpin IPA. At the same time, a pair of burnt-out Baby Boomer hippies sit at the bar, gazing forlornly at the floating colors and warped contours of an ancient lava lamp. Vintage ashtrays line the bar like orphans hoping to be adopted. The mirrored back bar reflects a glittering array of beers and wines. It is an intriguing place, a sanctuary from the ordinary.

After a hard day of work around Goleta, anybody from a tenured UCSB professor or technology executive to an oil worker or college kid can kick off his or her Birkenstocks or loafers or work boots or flip-flops and chill inside the lounge, listen to vinyl, play Scrabble, smoke Parliaments out back in the tiki hut patio… whatever.

The Merc protects and nourishes a casual living-room feel, and habitués cherish it.

The aroma of freshly popped corn that wafts through the bar to the music of tapped beers poured into pitchers and pint glasses by a friendly (but not too friendly) barmaid only furthers that feel; the crack

Erin Chavez pours a pitcher of the ever-popular Delirium Tremens from the tap at Goleta’s Mercury Lounge

A refreshing glass of Belgian golden ale Delirium Tremens; the award-winning beer is just one of over 80 kinds of handcrafted beers available at the Mercury Lounge

of pool balls punctuates conversations knowledgeable about Dogfish Head ales, road-kill existentialism and New OrleanianYat colloquialisms stolen from A Confederacy of Dunces.

Interesting Joint Finally, after nearly 40 years in the desert of cookie-cutter bars blaring FOX news in plasma-vision, I’ve returned home.

The Mercury Lounge rivals The English Department, a legendary watering hole where I misspent many (many) hours as a UCSB undergraduate back in 1976. I loved The English Department and its academics and hippies and coeds and, well, its quirkiness. The Merc took me back. It relaxed me and welcomed me.

And I accepted its warm hospitality.

“We love the Merc,’’ gushes Cesar Estrada, as he gestured to his friend, Cras Sepani, both thirty-something technicianengineers at InTouch Health in Goleta.

(It was after 5 pm by the time I spoke with them, so please do permit them to keep their jobs.)

“Delirium Tremens – that’s the best beer,” said Sepani, sipping his DT from a pink elephant glass.

“That’s why we love this place,” adds Estrada. “You find things you don’t at the mart.”

Cesar’s right. The Merc is no pit-stop for a snort of tarantula juice. Au contraire, the lounge invites you to stay for awhile and peruse its list of some 80 kinds of handcrafted beers and several signature local and regional wines. Just name it and the barkeep makes it appear. Perhaps you fancy

a New Belgium La Folie. Or a maybe it’s a Brother Thelonious Belgian Style Abbey Ale (named after jazz icon Thelonious Monk).

Or an Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout.

Or a Stone Ruination Beer.

The list will make you thirsty. Trust me.

I fancied glasses of the 2009 Qupé Chardonnay Bien Nacido and Goat Bubbles from Flying Goat Cellars. (What I really fancied was a bottle of Herman Story’s white blend tagged The Newsman, but at $42, I elected to pass; alas, champagne taste on a beer budget.)

Outside, Nels P. Anderson, a carpenter, relaxes in the sun on the patio in a bamboo

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chair. “Harp is Guinness’s version of Bud Light,” reasons Anderson, 27, as he pulls hard on his cold beer. “Some of the older people still call this place Gus’s,” he reminisced, and pointed to an old sign on the building’s rear wall that reads “Gus’s Cocktails 1957-1995.”

Indeed, owner-proprietor Dawn O’Brien – yes, that Dawn O’Brien, the same one who did Elsie’s and the nowshuttered but once loved Firebird – envisioned, built, decorated and generally transformed the Mercury Lounge from Gus’s cinder block shell nearly seventeen years ago. Dawn’s unique and very local vision has brought retro life to the Merc, a place where residents can and do take refuge from the harsher world outside and talk story with friends and neighbors over a pint or glass of wine.

“We have an amazing clientele,” says Dawn, adding, “It’s really great the way it is, and we hope to keep it that way.”

So… how did the Mercury Lounge get its moniker?

“It was named after my 1959 Mercury Montclair Turnpike Cruiser,” whispered Dawn.

A classic. Just like the Merc.

Patron Jelly and his friend Joanne Murray, both retired, have been coming to the Mercury Lounge for 16 years.

Coincidentally they first met at The English Department, many moons ago.

“This is our hangout,” Jelly proudly remarks, “we come here Friday evenings during happy hour.”

See you next week, Jelly.

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You Have Your Hands Full

by Mara Peters Former editor for the fashion/lifestyle section of the New York

Post, Mara moved to London and worked as a contributing editor for the Daily Mail’s You Magazine, freelancing for Look Magazine, NY Post and the Style Magazine for The Sunday Times. To remain sane during diaper years she writes a mommy blog, You Have Your Hands Full – www.handsfullsb.com.

Learning To Take My Own Advice

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never really considered myself the Tiger Mom type.

I’m just a different breed from my sister-in-law who lives in Connecticut. Whenever we chat I am astounded and left pondering the differences. She can manage three sports per child, violin lessons and Chinese. I feel comfortable and smug with my limit of one sport per child policy. She has a perfect handle on two kids; I am out of control with four. Her Ralph Lauren catalogue kids wear matching collared shirts and khakis. Mine are wild in their skinny jeans, ripped t-shirts and Vans.

But I’m a strong believer that kids need to be kids. Don’t book them up, I confidently instruct friends. They

need to play with dirt (even eat it) in the backyard. Haven’t you seen that great documentary, Road to Nowhere?

If there is one thing that I excel at, it’s dishing advice – parenting, nutrition, and husbands. That’s why I agreed to do this column; it also might force me to actually follow some of it.

We’re a month into school and I’m staring dazedly at a fall schedule that is enough to make my head spin. Two soccer teams (two practices per week), one swim team (four days a week) and Kumon. (There is that little voice inside that shouts, “Uncle!” but I’m good at tuning it out.) The reality is, it’s easy to rationalize: Teddy, my third, not so competitive (or coordinated) could be musical. Should he start an

Ten-year-old, lacrosse-obsessed Jackson

“The kids run wild over the acres and I am reassured that they still know how”

instrument as well as learn about soccer? Add more bookings.

Then there’s poor Charlie, the youngest, who found himself strapped to the car seat for three hours on Thursday. He cocked his head, stared at me with a profound look on his face then told me, “This is crazy Mom.” As he looked out the window, I found myself thinking, “Oh, God, he’s right.” Our afternoons are just torture.

Olivia begs me to watch her swim.

“Look Livs, I am not that Mom,” I explain still very much in denial -- no helicopter mom here. “If you want to swim for you, that is fine, but don’t swim for me. You’re going to have to drive this yourself.”

I’ll just do the driving – to the soccer fields, the swimming pool, the after-

school tutors.

But it’s those conversations that make me feel pretty good about myself. Because I am not a Tiger Mom (well, except for the extra math study requirement at 6:30am). I feel even better when we head up north to my mom’s farm. The kids run wild over the acres and I am reassured that they still know how.

It’s one of the laws of nature.

Bubbles burst – tech bubbles, real estate bubbles, and Moms-lyingto-themselves bubbles. It was only a matter of time before mine burst.

Jackson, our oldest, is slightly obsessed with lacrosse (he is doing fall soccer to cross-train). Now, a 10-year-old’s obsession is a little different than a grown man’s. Enter my husband, let’s just call him Alpha. He starts to get worked up when Jackson tells him he wants to play for Johns Hopkins, one of the top lacrosse colleges in the country.

“Jackson, this is great. We’ll work on this together.” Alpha goes on to explain the process – set attainable goals, daily regimes and hard work.

All this might, just might, get him in the running.

Really, daily training? The schedule is already looking kind of booked.

What happened to dirt time?

Then this past Sunday, Alpha and I met with a UCSB college player to start private coaching. The all-out assault on playing in the backyard was pretty clear. “Could he train after soccer practice?” they both asked me looking expectantly. I felt like a member of the Taliban with U.S. drones circling overhead. There was just no chance.

I have no doubt we need to answer to realities of a competitive world, but it’s our own urge to give our kids all opportunities that create this madness. We want them to succeed but, at some point, you have to ask, at what cost? Clearly, I have yet to find the right balance. A good start would be the ability to say no.

Walking Mr. UCSB to his car, I couldn’t help but ask, “Oh, by the way, what do you major in?”

It just so happens to be Chinese.

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• weekend guide • • LOVE IS FREE What: Presidio Pastimes – Asian American Festival Where: El Presidio de Santa Barbara, 123 East Canon Perdido Street When: Saturday, October 6, 11am - 4pm Why: Take part in a true cultural experience complete with live martial arts, music, origami, taiko drumming, bonsai, food from Studio Nihon & Culture Shock and more.

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Ashleigh Zannon’s handmade leather clutches and wallets can be found at 19 Blue, located at 19 West Ortega Street

What’ll It Cost Me: This event is free!

• LOOSE CHANGE What: Goleta Lemon Run 5K Where: North Glen Annie Road, Goleta (near the entrance of Glen Annie Golf Club) When: Sunday, October 7, 3pm Why: Add a dash of zest to your race routine with this first annual sunset 5K that benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

How: Pucker up and run!

What’ll It Cost Me: $30 per race entry.

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e recently stumbled upon something special tucked away in a corner of local salon 19 Blue. Neatly organized on a small shelf sat a collection of handmade leather clutches and wallets. We quickly inquired about their maker and were introduced to hairstylist-leatherworker-seamstress-crafty soul, Ashleigh Zannon.

Ashleigh lives on a ranch outside Santa Barbara where she keeps herself busy creating a variety of things, including leather clutches you will want to get your hands on. Each piece is handmade from different leathers Ashleigh collects, and some she paints as well.

They are all unique and quite reasonably priced. We recommend you clutch one as soon as possible; they’re going to be picked up quickly.

Ashleigh also hand-stamps vintage silver pieces with clever sayings that we adore too.

You can shop at 19 Blue – 19 West Ortega Street – or contact her at (949) 751-8853.

What: epicure.sb Where: Various locations throughout Santa Barbara When: Now thru October 31st, 2012 Why: Bask in Santa Barbara’s month-long celebration of all things food with unique culinary events focused on cuisine, libations and culture from more than 70+ local restaurants and businesses.

How: Have an epic edible experience.

What’ll It Cost Me: V isit www.santabarbaraca.com/epicuresb for a complete list of happenings by day and treat yourself.

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Enter Sugar and Salt Creamery, one of Santa Barbara’s sweetest rides. Santa Barbara natives and founders, Jon Carpenter and Garret Davis, have reinvented this savory treat (and truck) that we all love so much.

All of their sorbets are handmade fresh from locally sprouted almonds making them not only tasty, but also lactose-free and healthy.

Their luscious list of flavors will make you melt. Home-baked Cookies and Cream, Maple Brown Sugar Bacon, Roasted

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and No. 3 Stanford in order to reach the championship match. The 11-10 victory over UCLA in the tournament’s semifinals was UCSB’s first over the Bruins since 1992. “It was a huge win,” said UCSB head coach Wolf Wigo after the UCLA game. “It was probably the biggest win in UCSB water polo in twenty-five years. We took down the Number Two and Three teams in the country. To get one of those in a season is a pretty good deal.” Derek Shoemaker, pictured playing defense on UCLA’s Danny McClintick, scored a team-high four goals in the upset of UCLA.

Womble, was in attendance for the first time this school year as were Erik’s parents Julie and Dave Sheets.

“I’ve been an athletic director for just about fourteen years now, and Erik is one of my all-time favorite athletes,” Luberto said.

“Erik always shows respect to the game, to the opponents, to the officials. It really is a blessing and a privilege that he’s a part of Providence Hall.”

Sheets plays basketball, volleyball, cross country and track & field for the Lions.

ABOUT THE AWARD: The Round Table presents the Phil Womble Ethics in Sports Award to student-athletes who demonstrate the highest standards of ethics and sportsmanship. With this award, the Round Table seeks to recognize and promote the development of good character, positive attitude and conduct, and respect of others.

Shoemaker, Yekrang, Yvanovich named SBART Athletes of the Week

by John Dvorak UCSB’s Derek Shoemaker and the Westmont doubles team of Tara Yekrang and Nicci Yvanovich were named Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table Athletes of the Week on Monday.

Shoemaker led UCSB’s water polo team to a pair of wins over the No. 2 and No. 3 teams in the country over the weekend.

Tara Yekrang

In an 11-10 upset of No. 2 UCLA, a team the Gauchos hadn’t beaten since 1992, Shoemaker scored a team-high four goals including the game-winner late in the fourth quarter. The UCSB sophomore finished with eight goals in the weekend’s SoCal Tournament, leading UCSB to a runner-up finish.

Yekrang and Yvanovich won the ITA Regional championship on Saturday, qualifying for the USTA/ITA Small Colleges Championships in Mobile, Alabama. The doubles partners are also roommates at Westmont, forging a strong bond that has served the duo well on the court.

Honorable mentions were: Charlie Miller, UCSB Soccer; Morgan Nevin, SBCC Football; Blake Parrish, Dos Pueblos Water Polo; Tim Goranson & John Bertram, Westmont Tennis; Anthony Carter, Bishop Diego Football; Marcus Hutchinson, Carpinteria Football; Cecilia Instebo, SBCC Cross Country; Melissa Jewkes, San Marcos Golf; Elaine McClure, Dos Pueblos Cross Country.

UCSB Men’s Water Polo The UCSB men’s water polo team claimed a runner-up result at the weekend’s SoCal Tournament, which brought every single top-12 team in the country to Santa Barbara. The Gauchos enjoyed a fantastic tournament by upsetting No. 2 UCLA

Bishop, Carpinteria Riding High Entering Rivalry Game

by Barry Punzal It’s a weekend of rivalry games for local high school teams.

The Game of the Week is in Carpinteria, where the undefeated Bishop Diego Cardinals travel to Carpinteria Valley Memorial Stadium for a Tri-Valley League football opener against the rival Warriors.

Bishop Diego is 5-0 and ranked No. 2 in the CIF-SS Northwest Division. The Cardinals are coming off a thrilling comefrom-behind 13-8 win over San Diego Section small schools power Santa Fe Christian. In that intense, hard-hitting game, they drove 80 yards in the last 3 ½ minutes and scored the winning touchdown with 41 seconds left.

Carpinteria shut down Fillmore’s deceptive wing-T offense and posted 27-0 shutout for its fourth win in a row after starting the season 0-2.

“It’s going to be another intense dogfighttype of game,” Bishop coach Tom Crawford said of playing Carpinteria.

“It’s certainly an intense rivalry,” said Carpinteria coach Ben Hallock, who also coached at Bishop Diego several years ago.

This will be the first league meeting between the two schools since 2009. Bishop Diego played in the Frontier League the last two seasons and was promoted to the TVL this year after winning the Frontier title and reaching the CIF East Valley

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SB Athletic Round Table Athlete of the Week Derek Shoemaker defends UCLA’s Danny McClintick during UCSB’s victory last weekend

semifinals in 2011.

Bishop Diego got a big boost last Friday with the return of senior running back and team leader Jack Gregson from a knee injury. He ran hard on the last drive and scored the winning touchdown on a 16yard run.

The Cardinals run a multifaceted offense operated by the two-headed quarterback of Anthony Carter and Gabe Molina. Carter is a slick ball handler and an elusive runner.

Molina can move around, too, and is a good passer.

Carpinteria also has a fine quarterback in junior Ian Craddock. He’s thrown for 638 yards and seven touchdowns and has rushed for 74 yards in running the Warriors’ option attack.

Carpinteria has a trio of small, quick running backs that give defenses fits: senior Paul Cortez, junior Jonathan Esqueda and junior Paul Ramos.

Both teams have solid offensive lines and defenses. Carpinteria held a good Fillmore team to 200 yards on the ground and picked off three passes in its shut out. Bishop Diego stymied a high-scoring Santa Fe Christian team.

“We know we’re in for a challenge on Friday night,” Crawford said. “It’s the first league game and everybody likes to get off to a good start in league.”

Other notable games in town this weekend: THURSDAY Girls volleyball: Dos Pueblos at Santa Barbara, 6 pm. These rivals have been battling each other for the Channel League title the last few years. This year, however, there is more parity in the league. Each team already has suffered a league loss, so this is a crucial match.

FRIDAY Football: Dos Pueblos at San Marcos, 7 pm. This will be the first Goleta Valley football showdown for DP coach Nate Mendoza and Anthony Linebaugh of San Marcos.

“This is our second season and we need to get better in a hurry,” Linebaugh said of playing the 4-2 Chargers. San Marcos went 1-5 in the non-league season.

Mendoza’s team is coming off a 27-14 loss on the road at undefeated San Juan Hills in San Juan Capistrano. Its other loss was against two-time defending champion Lompoc.

“We’re looking forward to league,” Mendoza said. “We’re ready to come back hungry after a tough loss.”

College Soccer: UC Irvine at UCSB, 7 pm. In their last four meetings against the Anteaters, the Gauchos have lost three and tied one. At 7-0-3, UCSB is one of only eight unbeaten teams in the country.

UC Irvine (3-7-0) comes into Harder Stadium after losing to UC Davis and Sacramento State at home in Big West play last weekend.

SATURDAY Women’s Volleyball: Hawaii at UCSB, 7 pm. The Gauchos take on the No. 8-ranked team in the country in a Big West match at the Thunderdome.

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here is a lot of talk these days about the “rebounding” real estate market and the lack of inventory in our area.

At the same time, the conflicting chatter is that the coming elections coupled with coming changes in government regulation have frozen sales on bank-owned properties, thereby generating a misleadingly low inventory. Frankly, I believe both opinions are accurate, but one must consider them locally rather than on a national level.

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them. Why? Most sources say that due to regulation changes by the government, banks are being forced to hold properties and restructure their procedures before releasing more properties. Others believe this is a political move to artificially control the “supply and demand” equation in order to boost the economy via the real-estate market… and it seems to be working.

So what happens when the banks start

releasing properties for sale? Here is where you have to consider your local market.

With interest rates at all-time lows and demand high for Santa Barbara property, I don’t think we will see much change at all, except for more buyers. Interest rates are at such low levels that buying makes sense again whether you’re an investor or not.

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by Austin Herlihy A Commercial Real Estate Broker with Radius Group who

has completed over $400,000,000 in total transaction value and Leased / Sold over 1,500,000 SF since 2005, Herlihy was the lead Broker on the sale of the Fairmont Orchid Hotel listed in 2011 for $150,000,000, as well as the high profile transaction of the sale of the Hotel Californian

Optimism in Development

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t’s no secret that commercial real estate has been one of the slowest industries to recover during these sluggish economic times. Not surprisingly, the past few years have seen a dramatic decrease in new development projects across the country as many businesses large and small have hunkered down to weather the storm and put off plans for expansion.

And recently more than a few mainstays in the Santa Barbara area have either downsized their space or moved out of the market altogether.

Although it would certainly be premature to say the market has turned the corner, I believe there’s cause to feel optimistic here in town and the surrounding communities. In fact, I have only to look out the window of my downtown office to see real signs of resurgence.

Now – I’ll admit that I probably get a little more excited about commercial real estate goings-on than the average person. It’s my passion, my livelihood. I get paid to spot patterns and trends in the industry and to use that information to help shape decisions of landlords, tenants, buyers and sellers. That’s true even if it sometimes means I have to persuade clients to wait for a better day, which has been the case far too often over the past few years.

But right now, from my vantage point, I’m seeing some good days ahead. Good days indeed.

Recently a number of developers and business owners have been making noteworthy strides locally with several projects – some new, some admittedly long in the tooth.

Individually, these projects may not be enough to get you too excited about the state of the local economy. But when taken together, they might be shaping a bigger story that’s worth keeping an eye on.

Like I said above, I’m seeing real signs of resurgence around town and am cautiously optimistic for smart, local development and what appears to be a healing economy. I’ll be keeping a close eye on the market like I always do, so check back again soon to stay up to speed.

The much-anticipated Entrada de Santa Barbara beachfront hotel project recently underwent major demolition to remove the back half of the Hotel Californian. The front half of the building has been supported to keep the existing hotel’s grandfathered legal non-conforming height and will actually be incorporated into the new development.

The off-site construction phase is expected to begin in late October and early November, starting with upgrading the underground utilities, narrowing traffic from two to one lane in either direction and widening the sidewalks on the west side of State Street from the Union Pacific train tracks to Mason Street. Two additional phases of road, sidewalk and underground utility work will ensue: The first spanning the east side of State Street to Mason Street, and the second involving improvements to Mason Street itself.

Soon to follow will be the actual construction of the 123-room hotel and commercial retail space, which will begin on the existing hotel site and will change the landscape of lower State Street forever. Exciting times.

Alma Del Pueblo The Alma Del Pueblo mixed-use condo project near the Arlington Theatre has broken ground and is beginning initial phases of construction. Plans for the condo project include 36,000-sq-ft of commercial space for a European-style public market and retail shops. With a sloping staircase design, the second and third stories will include 37 new residential units totaling 23,000-sq-ft. Parking for the site will be underground. (I personally see this as potential boon for businesses and residents in the surrounding community, and am looking forward to the finished product.)

El Encanto Hotel “Out of sight, out of mind” has sometimes described the progress of one of the area’s longest running renovations. But come spring, the remodeled El Encanto Hotel on APS in the Riviera will return the historic hideaway to one of the best views in Santa Barbara. The 92-room hotel, which has undergone a major renovation by new owner Orient-Express Hotels Ltd., is scheduled to reopen March 18, 2013 and is expected to compete with the top luxury hotels in Santa Barbara and Montecito.

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A recent project was approved for the corner of Olive Street and Canon Perdido to create nine studio (flat-style) apartment units and ten two-story, one-bedroom apartment units to be constructed above a new two-level, 59-space parking structure. The residential units and parking structure will be added to the existing two-story, 18,276-sq-ft office building, which will also be completely overhauled. The project is expected to break ground at the beginning of 2013.

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