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April 14 - Preaching at 9:00 & 10:30 worship services April 15 - Teaching at 7:00pm

www.ronaldcwhitejr.com Sunday, April 14, Dr. White’s title will be “Abraham Lincoln’s Sermon on the Mount: The Second Inaugural.” Monday night, April 15, Dr. White will lecture on “Abraham Lincoln: 2013, Wisdom for Today.”

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65 | THE WEEK Calendar of Events

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Living (Independent Staff) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 History 101: Aguirre Adobe

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Gardening: Marvelous Mallows

(Virginia Hayes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Starshine: Why Kids Need a Week in New York (Starshine Roshell) . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Sports: UCSB Men’s Volleyball Eyes MPSF Tournament (John Zant) . . . . . . . . . . . 77

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Food & Drink (Independent Staff) . . . . . . . . . . 79

Angry Poodle Barbecue (Nick Welsh) . . . . . . 19

Arts Life (Independent Staff) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

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This Modern World (Tom Tomorrow) . . . . . . 21 Voices: Feminist Movement Marches On

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In Memoriam: Lily Rossi

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On the Beat (Barney Brantingham) . . . . . . . . . 27

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Reviews The Year of Magical Thinking

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Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Preview Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Elizabeth Schwyzer) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Pop, Rock & Jazz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Previews Johnny Marr (Aly Comingore) . . . . . . . . . 89 Youth Lagoon (Aly Comingore) . . . . . . . . 91 Reviews Trinidad Jame$ (Jake Blair) . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Bobby McFerrin (Joseph Miller) . . . . . . . . 92 Positively State Street (Aly Comingore) . . 93

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Feature Community Film Studio Santa Barbara’s The Bet (Matt Kettmann) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Reviews Evil Dead (D.J. Palladino) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The Sapphires (Josef Woodard) . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Movie Guide (Aly Comingore) . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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DINO-MIGHT! From deep-sea dive suits at SBCC to

AK-74 machine guns in Nagorno-Karabakh, Senior Editor Matt Kettmann has handled a lot of gear in his nearly 14 years of working at The Santa Barbara Independent, but his meeting with the Chiodo Bros — who make the S.B. Zoo’s dinosaur puppets — was the first time he ever put on a dino skeleton. “The beast was surprisingly easy and intuitive to use,” said Kettmann, who said his 3-year-old son, Mason, is a big fan of Duncan the dinosaur and thinks his 9-month-old daughter, Madeline, will enjoy the new baby triceratops, too. Read his story, which kicks off the annual Summer Camp Guide, on page 28.

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Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Dining Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Tide Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . . 101

Crossword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Restaurant Guy (John Dickson) . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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A work of public art or an attractive nuisance? Cops want the brick bench moved; artist says, “Preposterous.”

Cops Take Aim at Public Art Piece

State Street Sculpture Cited for Attracting Aggressive Street People

BY N I C K W E L S H rank Mannix, assistant police chief for the City of Santa Barbara, announced Tuesday morning that his department would be seeking the removal of a sprawling brick street sculpture — Crescent Crossing — located on the  block of State Street in front of The Habit because it’s become a popular spot for younger, more aggressive street people to congregate. Mannix made his remarks at the monthly board meeting of the Downtown Organization. The police have long contended that these younger street people — dubbed by some “travelers” or “young urban vagabonds”— are decidedly more volatile and confrontational in their attitude and have been the cause of stepped-up enforcement activities. About a month earlier, Oﬃcer Kasi Beutel — the downtown beat coordinator — and Councilmember Randy Rowse addressed the same concerns in front of the City Arts Commission, the organization that had the art piece that doubles as a public bench installed in 2003. “The vibe is deﬁnitely ‘You got it, and I want it,’” said Rowse, former head of the Downtown Organization and owner of a popular downtown restaurant. The sculpture — originally intended to serve as a public bench for the MTD downtown shuttle — acts as a pinch point, Rowse said, forcing pedestrians and passersby to “have to get closer to people they’d rather not get close to.” Compounding the issue, he said, the crews occupying the brick bench are at times unruly and insulting and appear to delight in the discomfort they cause. “We don’t have enough cops to make sure everybody plays nice in the sandbox,” Rowse said.“We’re not going to enforce our way out of this.” His suggestion was 10

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that the piece be moved elsewhere, as was done a few years ago with some State Street benches. County arts czar Ginny Brush said City Hall should exhaust all efforts to modify or change the urban art bench before removing it. “Removal of the bench should be the last resort,” she said. Brush suggested that it could be cordoned off or have planter boxes installed on it. Others have suggested that the bench could use a good cleaning, a process that could take time and keep the popular roosting spot off-limits to anyone for a while. Brush noted that the art bench — an inviting, sprawling perch that mimics the brick sidewalks that were then being installed throughout downtown — has been a huge success. It was installed as part of a wholesale change of street furniture designed to make downtown a more open and inviting pedestrian experience. The art bench — designed by noted Santa Barbara sculptor Donald W. Davis — replaced a forbidding tile planter box about four feet high that blocked sight lines and impeded a sense of shared open space. Davis termed the proposal to remove his bench “preposterous,” and vowed to fight it. “Isn’t that shoving the problem under the rug?” he asked. “Doesn’t that become someone else’s problem two doors down?” Davis said the money required to move his work would be better spent dealing with the actual problem. Until two years ago, the Davis bench had functioned effectively as a place for shuttle riders to wait. But since successive waves of young “travelers” have claimed that spot, MTD drivers no longer use it as a place for passengers to get on or off. The bench clearly occupies a high-traffic zone, located close to the entrance of Parking

Lot  and even closer to The Habit, with its loud and bustling outdoor lunch crowd. According to police statistics, the  block of State Street has generated 312 police contacts in the past year. Only the  block of State Street — which boasts considerably more bars and nightclubs — has more. By contrast, the  block — popular with an older, frailer, less belligerent homeless population — generated only 139. Last week, the police department issued three press releases highlighting violent offenses associated with the crowd congregating near The Habit. One detailed how Trevor Ruggles panhandled passersby on the  block of State Street while tossing a 22-inch machete into the air. “Give me your (expletive) money,” the press release quoted Ruggles saying to witnesses. The day before, a 32-year-old transient was booked for felony assault after beating another street person — on the  block of State Street — over the head with a guitar neck with sufficient force “to cause the tuning machines attached to headstock to break off.” And the same day, the owner of a store on the  block was punched in the face by a younger street person after coming to the aid of two young women who sought the owner’s help from the assailant. Brush acknowledged there’s an aggressive, intimidating vibe from the people now claiming the bench, but she suggested “that energy will only bubble up somewhere else” if the bench were removed. The public review process for installing public art is very careful and deliberative, she noted. So too, she added, is the process of having a piece removed or altered. And according to state and federal law, any changes to the piece would have to be approved by the ■ artist.

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Santa Barbara Police announced the arrest of Pedro Alonso Bravo 24 years after he was alleged to have shot and killed Bernardo Santos Sierra in front of 1305 Punta Gorda Street. Sierra was shot multiple times with a handgun in 1988, and Bravo fled to Mexico. He was arrested last month in Mexico City and is currently in custody there. More than six months after the body of vintner and investment advisor Christopher Marks was found on the beach below Shoreline Park, Santa Barbara police have ruled his death a suicide, citing a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. “This case is closed,” ends a statement sent Wednesday afternoon. Police believe Marks killed himself with his own .38-caliber revolver, a weapon that remains missing. The gun was presumably carried out to sea by the tides and waves in the week before law enforcement began searching for it. Police originally thought Marks had died by stumbling off the cliff. The former chief of Santa Barbara County’s Mosquito and Vector Management District, arrested last year for spending public money on personal expenses, pleaded guilty to a single count of misappropriating public funds. Brian Passaro stole $11,426 from the small agency, which employs seven people and controls and monitors disease-carrying insects and rodents. Passaro, who has already paid back $1,310 of the money he took, is facing 60 days in jail, three years of felony probation, and 160 hours of community service. But, if he can pay $3,000 of the restitution by his September sentencing date, prosecutor Brian Cota said he will take away the jail time. If Passaro can come up with $7,000 at sentencing and the rest within a year, he can ask the judge to terminate probation early. PAU L WE LL M A N

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Lau Van Huynh exited the courtroom after his sentencing hearing.

Simon Chavez was a down-to-earth, caring 22-year-old who loved his family and baseball and whose time on earth was cut short, emotional family members told a judge on 4/4 at the sentencing hearing for Lau Van Huynh, the Murrieta man driving the vehicle that hit and killed Chavez on Highway 101 early in the morning of January 15. In accordance with a plea deal, Huynh was sentenced to three years of probation and one year in jail. He had served 69 days and received 68 days of good time/work time credit. Huynh didn’t utter a word until the

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very end of the hearing, when he asked Judge Jean Dandona when he could go home. After she explained she couldn’t tell him the exact day, he had brief words for those who had spoken. “Your Honor,” he said through the interpreter, “I would like to apologize to the family.” A longtime employee of Hillside House — a residential facility on Veronica Springs Road that cares for developmentally disabled adults — was arrested Thursday for stabbing another employee during an argument. Santa Barbara resident Evodio Garcia, 62, was booked into County Jail on attempted-murder charges. His victim, a 62-year-old Goleta man, was transported to Cottage Hospital and treated for two severe stab wounds. An investigation revealed that the two men — who’ve reportedly been having problems for years — started arguing in the facility’s kitchen, then challenged each other to a fight outside. As they began to walk outdoors, Garcia allegedly picked up a large knife and started stabbing his coworker. Staff separated the two and called authorities. The District Attorney’s Office has declined to file criminal charges against a woman who left her 2-year-old child in a car that caught fire in February, instead calling it a “mistake in judgment” that didn’t amount to a criminal act. City Fire responded to the 1300 block of Santa

Teresita Drive to find a Dodge minivan engulfed in flames. A subsequent investigation revealed the woman left her child strapped in a car seat while she went inside a nearby residence. Not long after, she saw smoke outside, ran to the car, and found it on fire. Investigators never determined the cause of the blaze. The child suffered second- and third-degree burns to her face and body. With badges pinned to their chests and handguns buckled on their belts, seven new officers officially joined the Santa Barbara Police Department during a ceremony last Wednesday. They are as follows: Ryan Aijian of Santa Barbara; John Barriga of El Segundo; Cynthia Carter of Corona; Michael Chung of Fullerton; Dominic Flores of San Carlos; Kaitlyn Heinz of Santa Paula; and Kendall Russell of Simi Valley. The group will now begin a six-month training course that will cover criminal law and investigation, traffic enforcement and defense tactics, and cultural sensitivity, ethics, and some Spanish-language skills.

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Vintner Blair Pence filed with the federal government this February to expand the borders of the increasingly renowned Sta. Rita Hills wine-grapegrowing appellation to the east to include his vineyard, which he planted in 2006 outside of Buellton, as well as parts of the Sebastiano and Rio Vista vineyards. Ever Blair Pence stood in front of his vineyard, which sits just east of since, the Bakersfieldthe Sta. Rita Hills appellation. born, USC-educated developer-turnedfarmer has been dealing with the wrath of his winemaking neighbors, and their terroir tussle is now making headlines in the international wine press. “If you look at the history, you look at the geology, you look at the weather, it belongs in the appellation,” said Pence, who built Los Angeles office buildings and industrial parks before growing grapes, ranching cattle, and raising avocados. “The science is so clear-cut.” Critics say the land does not conform to the Sta. Rita Hills parameters and complain that he’s an interloper who bought the property for cheap and now wants to cash in on the region’s reputation. “There are 81 properties that are either cut by or on the boundary,” said Wes Hagen of Clos Pepe Vineyards, who wrote the original petition to create the appellation and has said that the members of the Sta. Rita Hills Winegrower Alliance — which unanimously voted to not support the expansion — have spent $25 million and 20 years to define it. “Allowing any change of those boundaries will open a floodgate of petitions to expand it and will destroy the integrity and reputation that we have dedicated our lives to define.” Because he’s not in the appellation, Pence’s grapes can sell for $1,000 less per ton. But he says he found the property “more interesting” than what was available in the appellation and that while he’s hopeful, the expansion isn’t the crux of his business plan. The outcry on the blogosphere was a surprise, said Pence, explaining, “I didn’t think it would be as vehement, and I certainly didn’t think it would be as personal.” Though he opposes the move, which will be open for public comment soon, Hagen is trying to stay neighborly. “We hope Mr. Pence has success in the farming and making of his wines,” said Hagen, “as we realize that every wine made in Santa Barbara County — Matt Kettmann either elevates our reputation or does not.”

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Assistant Superintendent Helen Rodriguez grew up with 11 siblings. Now she’s in charge of Santa Barbara’s 2,000 special education students.

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t an elementary school in the rural upper reaches of L.A. County, a girl is standing erect, her pupils dilating on the expansive green mass an inch away. She has been punished by her teacher for having the gall to ask for a clarification, so she must stand for an hour with her nose touching the chalkboard. A contributing factor to her punishment may be the fact that she is the only Latina in her class. In fact, her parents are the only brown property owners in the city of Palmdale. At this time, the 1960s, real estate agents refuse to sell to ethnic minorities. But Helen Rodriguez’s construction-worker father had been offered his boss’s house in a private sale. A few days ago, surrounded by the accoutrements that personalize an office — a calendar with an illustration of Jesus, a coffee mug filled with mints from Sizzler, and a placard with a Martin Luther King Jr. quote that reads “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the staircase”— the adult version of that girl recalls thinking,“I will never treat a child like that when I’m a teacher.” In January, Rodriguez took over as the assistant superintendent of Special Education for the Santa Barbara school district. She is the latest addition to a cabinet that is now almost entirely selected by Superintendent David Cash, under whom Rodriguez worked for two years in the Fullerton district. And her sense of empathy for marginalized students will come in handy because, of all the challenges to running a public school system in California, none may be so insurmountable as maintaining a functional special education department. Districts are saddled with unfunded mandates, qualified administrators are hard to come by, teachers are undertrained, and parents often feel underserved. An outside consultant issued a withering report on systemic problems with the district’s Special Ed program in 2009. Those problems have been addressed, but Santa Barbara has seen a revolving door of administrators.

And just this past November, an administrative law judge ordered the district to provide its faculty with six hours of training on “child find,” the process of identifying students with learning disabilities. It was part of a ruling in which the judge found that a student was not provided a “free and appropriate public education” during the 2010-2011 school year.“The evidence established that most District personnel had not received significant child find training since they obtained credentials. And even those who had recently received that training still had mistaken ideas of what their individual obligations were as educational professionals as they relate to the District’s child find duties,” wrote the judge. Rodriguez agreed that teachers could use more training as any professional needs to continue their education. And she also said she understands the frustrations of parents; she has a dyslexic son who was not diagnosed until third grade. So she had to walk that fine line of prodding her son’s school without becoming adversarial. She is holding parent-training workshops to educate parents on how to best cooperate with the district. Just before spring break, she hosted one on the Individualized Educational Program (IEP) process whereby a plan is constructed to address the needs of special-education students. Next year, she plans on holding monthly meetings with parents. Rodriguez has led a peripatetic, upwardly mobile career, starting as a bilingual elementary school teacher. A devout Mormon, Rodriguez emphatically repeats that, despite her ambition, no material reward can trump her treatment of a child or the judgment of her maker. She says things like, “I will not sell out a child to pay my mortgage.” After earning her special-education credential, she taught a day class at Southgate High School in Los Angeles, where she later learned her students had bet she would quit within two weeks. What she found was that most of her students were cont’d page 12 april 11, 2013

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Celebration Dinner Auction

Beneﬁtting La Cumbre Junior High School’s

Literary Arts Programs • Posse Program • Healthy Lifestyles & Fitness Program & the Greater Westside Community

Saturday May 4 • 5 to 9pm SANTA BARBARA CARRIAGE & WESTERN ARTS MUSEUM 129 CASTILLO ST. HONORING:

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With Emcees John Palminteri, KEYT & Anita Perez Ferguson, Thrive Food provided by Fresco Santa Barbara JUST SOME OF OUR LIVE AUCTION ITEMS:

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wrongly classified, and she earned the ire of the school psychologist, who could not keep up with the special-education exit paperwork as she continually referred students. It was at that school where an assistant principal suggested she pursue administration, a path that led her, eventually, to Santa Barbara. Rodriguez noted that she was attracted to the job here not only because it was a step up from her previous position in San Bernardino, and not only because it was a chance to reconnect with her old boss, but also because of its high number of English learners. If they are not provided intensive reading and writing instruction, they will likely end up in special education within two years of being reclassified as English proficient, she said. Tinted by her own experience growing up as a Spanish speaker, Rodriguez said she has always taught kids not to pull out the race card — even when

warranted — but to be resilient and positive. Toward those who treat her diﬀerently due to race, she said, “I learned how to be civil with dignity and not lose respect. If they don’t want to be my friend … then they lost out.” This method of stubborn positiveness, Rodriguez said, was also useful in the classroom. Even with the most hopeless, drugaddicted students, she said, “You have to keep building them up” and maybe one day they will realize that somebody believed in them. For the business of special education is “saving lives,” Rodriguez is apt to say. Case in point, she said, is the Sandy Hook massacre, which was “a miscarriage of justice in special education.” Whether Rodriguez and her staﬀ can make parents feel like that attitude is being translated to their individual children will go a long way to answering whether she can stabilize special education in Santa Barbara. ■

Showdown at Hollister Ranch?

BY E T H A N S T E WA R T here is no denying the beauty and paradisiacal surf that lies behind the gatehouse of the Hollister Ranch, the private coastal community just west of Gaviota State Park. Similarly, there is no denying that the 14,600-acre swath of Central Coast land is about as exclusive and guarded of a neighborhood as you will find anywhere in Santa Barbara County, if not the state. In fact, it is one of only two properties noted in the California Coastal Act as a place that does not have any public access but, in the eyes of state policy makers at least, desperately needs it. Now, thanks to a mitigation measure imposed by the California Coastal Commission more than 30 years ago, that access has the potential of becoming a reality. This week, with the promises of that measure set to expire, the Santa Barbara County Supervisors had the opportunity to accept the Hollister Ranch’s irrevocable “offer to dedicate” a public access trail inside its gates and set the stage for what would be an immensely popular countyowned and county-operated way to the beach. However, citing the more than $10 million in operating deficits and the fact that folks with the Hollister Ranch Owners Association have promised to sue over the legality of the easements, the supes took a reluctant pass on the opportunity with a 4-1 vote. A visibly upset rd District Supervisor Doreen Farr, a self-described supporter of “maximum public access to the coast,” summed up the feelings of the majority of her fellow supervisors. “I am very conflicted about this [decision],” explained Farr.“I’m just not going to be happy with it either way.” Driving Tuesday’s discussion was a neverrealized plan to build a YMCA Ocean Center and Camp project on Hollister Ranch back in

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the early 1980s. At the time and as part of the approval, the Coastal Commission required that Hollister provide an “irrevocable offer to dedicate public access easements.” Specifically, the condition of approval called for lateral access both along the beach and the bluff top to a designated point 3.5 miles inside the Hollister property, a vertical footpath to the beach at the same location, and some sort of transit system that would bus the public in to the access point from Gaviota State Beach. However, in order for these mandates to have a shot at being realized, that “offer” has to be accepted by a public agency no later than April, at which time the terms of the deal expire. Hollister Ranch representatives, however, aren’t so sure the easements are enforceable at this point, especially since the YMCA camp was never built and the ownership of the parcel in question has long since changed hands. “There will certainly be an effort to have a judge or a court tell all of us whether there is even an easement there to be created,” said Hollister lawyer Steve Amerikaner at this week’s meeting.“No matter what you do today, we don’t believe any easements actually exist.” Despite the supervisors taking a pass on the trails (and avoiding the legal cost of fighting to see them come to fruition), the issue is anything but dead. Per state code, the California State Coastal Conservancy is required to accept any soon-to-expire standing offers to dedicate beach access that have yet to be accepted by a public agency. It was this knowledge that helped the supes vote the way they did. “I feel like the public’s interests are still going to be taken care of,” said Supervisor Salud Carbajal.“Without that, it wouldn’t even be a question. I would 100 percent support [accepting the offer].” ■

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grounds around and below it were declared historic, as well, in deference to Chumash villages that occupied the site for nearly 5,000 years. Many of the veterans who spoke in support of this designation also expressed opposition to plans to locate a new military museum somewhere on the site. Those plans — propelled by John and Hazel Blankenship of the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Museum & Library Foundation — have been the subject of ongoing controversy among the many veterans groups who make use of the hall. The landmark designation doesn’t kill the museum plans for the site so much as add another nail to its coffin. The discovery of human remains — most certainly Chumash or pre-Chumash in origin — underneath the site last summer effectively did in the museum proposed for the site. While many councilmembers expressed support for the museum in concept, it was clear by their vote that the Blankenships would have to find another location. A glass sculpture of two adjoining feathered wings — 20 feet high — that pays tribute to the importance of Santa Barbara as a training site for marine pilots during WWII will soon greet travelers coming and going from the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport as they pass by the Earle Ovington Terminal. The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously embraced the plans, designed by sculptor Douglas Lochner and sponsored by the Pierre Claeyssens veterans foundation. Crowbarring the project through the city process was John Blankenship, who recalled how 10 years ago Claeyssens — a major philanthropist who died in 2003 — gave him a check for $1 million and instructed him to follow his passion and never quit. Some members of the Airport Commission had expressed concern about visitors bumping their heads on the glass wings or the buildup of smudgy fingerprints, and praised the artists for addressing such issues with design revisions.

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Sheriff Bill Brown has been reappointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the state’s Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, a position he was originally appointed to in 2010 by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The commission advises the governor and Legislature on mental health policy and also oversees the implementation of the Mental Health Services Act.

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Former lieutenant governor Abel Maldonado told the San Francisco Chronicle this week that he has formed a committee for a 2014 gubernatorial run, the first formal step in the process that allows him to start fundraising. If Maldonado does decide to run for governor against Gov. Jerry Brown, that leaves the door wide open for another Republican to challenge incumbent Rep. Lois Capps in the 24th Congressional District in 2014. One Republican’s name being thrown around is former state legislator Sam Blakeslee, who served in both the Assembly and the State Senate. Paul Coyne, a conservative Democrat, officially announced his candidacy earlier this week.

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Santa Barbara County CEO Chandra Wallar will not come back to her post after her contract expires in October, the Board of Supervisors unanimously decided Tuesday. The brief announcement was made by County Counsel Dennis Marshall after a private, closed-session hearing. Wallar came under fire after news leaked out of Orange County in mid-February that she was quietly pursuing the CEO job there. After a drawn-out public process, the two sides ultimately disagreed on compensation, with Wallar declining the offer from the O.C. board for a salary of $254,000. The negotiations came after Wallar had asked the Santa Barbara board for a contract extension.

Last month, in a statement released via the University of California’s online publication service, 30 scientists, doctors, and public health experts cited “overwhelming scientific evidence” about the toxic effects of lead on the health of humans and wildlife and called for the “reduction and eventual elimination” of lead-based ammunition “in order to protect human and environmental health.” The “consensus statement” was issued as the California Legislature considers Assembly Bill 711, which would ban lead hunting ammo in the state. Such ammo is already banned in parts of the Los Padres National Forest and other areas considered to be possible habitat for critically endangered California condors.

As county officials begin to search for a replacement for Michael Harris, who left as chief of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to become the director of government affairs for CenCal Health, the Board of Supervisors elected to reclassify the position from a department leader to an assistant department leader. The OEM — which currently has seven positions — sits under the CEO’s office. CEO Chandra Wallar said the move was appropriate and consistent with what other counties are doing. She said that while she

Sometime last summer, the bluff top overlooking Haskell’s Beach was developed by the Bacara Resort into a grassy, oceanview wedding venue, complete with sod, wood chips, and irrigation. But the work was done in an archaeologically sensitive area without any permits, so this Thursday, the California Coastal Commission will issue a $575,000 fine and officially force the resort to restore the site — believed to be a Chumash village for 6,000 years — to its former state. Additionally, the Bacara must remove cont’d page 14 april 11, 2013

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a gate that was illegally installed to block hikers and horse riders from the bluff and erect public-access signs that were supposed to be put up years ago. Since the development was done by the former owners, Ohana Real Estate, that company will bear the burden of the fine and restoration costs; both Ohana and the current owners, Pacific Hospitality Group, have expressed their intent to comply “amicably” with the ruling. On March 27, the California Sea Urchin Commission announced plans to sue the federal government over the recent decision by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to end the quarter-century-old “no otter zone” south of Point Conception. The commission’s “notice of intent” argues that populations of black and white abalone were not properly considered in the decision, which provided the threatened southern sea otter species the same level of federal protection everywhere. This week, Friends of the Sea Otter pledged to “take all actions necessary” to fight back alongside the feds, and it called the commission’s filing “just another attempt by a segment of the fishing community to prevent sea otter recovery to advance their narrow economic self-interest.” There was a small setback for the Save Naples crowd this week at the Santa Barbara County supervisors meeting. Via a 3-2 vote (supervisors Salud Carbajal and Doreen Farr dissenting), the Save Naples Coalition, represented by attorney Marc Chytilo, lost its appeal of a Planning Commission–approved lot-line adjustment for Dos Pueblos Ranch (DP), the property just up the coast from Naples. The lot-line adjustment, which takes the roughly 2,000-acre DP property and reconfigures it from two lots approximately 1,980 acres and 30 acres in size to two new lots some 1,690 and 360 acres in size, was being bemoaned for, among other things, working against the agricultural leanings of the neighborhood as well as being in violation of California Environmental Quality Act protocols. The lot-

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line tweaking now makes a key component of the approved Naples development project possible as it calls for the purchase of the new 360-acre chunk to become part of the project’s inland portion.

EDUCATION Three bills intended to protect schoolchildren made it out of the Assembly Education Committee last week. One authored by Assemblymember Das Williams would require publicly funded private schools to fingerprint and perform background checks on their employees. (No schools in Santa Barbara County fit this description, but a handful in Ventura County do.) The others, introduced by chair Joan Buchanan — would require school districts to craft child-abuse reporting protocols and streamline the teacher-dismissal process. The Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy won its second regional competition in a month this past weekend. Their cowinners at the FIRST Robotics tournament in Las Vegas, composed of three-on-three matchups, hailed from Huntington Beach and Sandy, Utah. The alliance won the first two matches in a best-ofthree final. This year’s competition demands that robots throw Frisbee-like discs into scoring boxes and climb a pyramid. Next up for DP’s Team 1717 are the World Championships in St. Louis. Two not-so-new principals were formally approved by the Santa Barbara school board on Tuesday. Frann Wageneck had been a principal-in-waiting at Alta Vista/La Cuesta as outgoing principal Kathy Abney stayed on salary-free to ease the transition. Vanesha Davis had only been assistant principal for a couple of weeks when Harding principal Nuh Kimbwala was removed for an incident that precipitated notification of Child Welfare Services and the police. (No charges were filed.) Davis immediately took over in an interim capacity, but the job is now hers. ■

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Although a clear majority of the Santa Barbara City Council believes new sources of revenue are urgently needed to meet hundreds of millions of dollars in deferred capital needs, the council voted 6-1 against hiring a polling firm to “take the temperature of city voters” regarding a possible sales tax increase that might have gone on the November ballot. Mayor Helene Schneider — who had previously expressed the keenest interest in such an increase — argued that a city-sponsored survey made no sense if a solid majority of the council did not support the need for new revenues. At least three of the seven councilmembers — Frank Hotchkiss, Dale Francisco, and Randy Rowse — have expressed intense skepticism to such a tax hike. The discussion over the proposed $30,000 polling contract grew heated at times. Councilmember Grant House publicly challenged Hotchkiss to reconcile his stated opposition to any tax increase with his demand that City Hall hire more cops. “My question is, which programs do you want to cut?” House asked. Hotchkiss said he had homework to do before he could answer that, but he vowed to do it. Schneider’s turnaround on the issue was most dramatic. Not only was she most vocal in the need for new revenues, but she had launched an independent ballot campaign last year to increase the sales tax, split the proceeds with the public schools, and impose some modicum of “pension reform.” Schneider is up for reelection this November, and the burden of waging the pro–tax increase campaign would likely fall to her. With a split council, the campaign challenges would be significant. While City Hall can sustain yearly operations without additional funds, no services cut during the recession can be restored, and pay increases for employee unions that have long gone without will become more politically painful. The additional $10 million a year that a half-cent sales tax would have generated would have helped cover some of the city’s unmet road repair costs, among other things. Only Councilmember Cathy Murillo voted in favor of paying for the survey, passionately arguing that the results — Nick Welsh might reveal strong popular support for such a tax increase.

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BY T Y L E R H AY D E N f we get into a fight, and I give you directions, follow them immediately,” said Senior Deputy Brad Welch.“And if it looks like we’re losing, help us.” With those orders and a directive to duck should they reach for their batons, Welch, his partner Deputy Jeff Roberts, and this reporter left the Isla Vista Foot Patrol headquarters for a 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. weekend shift through the seaside college town, where beer pong and dubstep fuel big crowds of rowdy coeds. Welch wasn’t looking for a fight, and his mini-briefing wasn’t meant to be dramatic. It was a matter-of-fact warning. On any given weekend night, the Isla Vista Foot Patrol (IVFP) — made up of 14 Sheriff ’s deputies and seven UCSB police officers — deploys eight to 12 men and women to oversee more than 25,000 people packed into a 1.85-squaremile patch of middle- and lower-class neighborhoods. Some of them hoof it along Del Playa and Sabado Tarde streets; others patrol on bicycles and in cruisers. “When things get crazy,” explained Welch, “you suck up into the shadows and cross your fingers.” While the small force is able to keep relative peace in a community famous for massive parties and carefree yet contrarian attitudes, more IVFP troops are assaulted than any other group of peace officers in Santa Barbara County. From 2009-2012, there were 84 street assaults against the IVFP; the next highest was in Santa Maria with 40. Last Halloween, an IVFP sergeant was punched so hard he’s still not back at work. More recently, a young suspect high on bath salts tried to eat Welch’s fingers, and another ripped the sprinkler head off a holding cell’s ceiling, flooding the room and shorting electrical systems. While these flashes of violence make headlines — especially now that UCSB’s alert system warns students of recent assaults, rapes, and burglaries — the IVFP and its commander, Lieutenant Ray Vuillemainroy, have been qui-

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etly working to reimagine the adversarial relationship between cops and students. Since he came to Isla Vista in 2010, Vuillemainroy — a 17-year veteran of the Sheriff ’s Department who is originally from San Francisco and has a doctorate in education — has pushed “community policing” by reaching out to business owners, permanent residents, students, their peer governments, and UCSB/SBCC staff to tackle priorities. “Crime is a community issue, so it only makes sense that we work together to fight it,” said Vuillemainroy, who’s increased patrols in problem areas, installed more street lamps, and continued a sticker campaign to educate residents that locking doors could reduce burglaries by 80 percent. His pragmatic approach is catching the attention of law enforcement agencies near and far, including Tajikistan, which recently sent a cadre of generals to learn about improving relations between their citizens and police force. Vuillemainroy also traveled to Egypt to help state authorities at the height of the country’s violent upheaval. Though his community policing is making an impact, a decade of I.V. statistics still show an upward trend in serious felonies. “I think we’ve come a long way, but there’s more work to be done,” said Vuillemainroy. His most recent challenge was the spring break party Deltopia, a spin-off of the nowsquashed Floatopia beach bash, that happened this past weekend when 18,000 partyers took to Del Playa Drive under a warm Saturday sun and triggered 440 calls for service. Twentythree people were arrested, 71 were issued citations, 59 got tickets from the Highway Patrol, five got DUIs, and 44 people wound up in the hospital (including four who were standing on an overcrowded frat house balcony when it collapsed under them). Tragically, at around 8:20 a.m. Saturday morning, the body of 18-year-old Giselle Ayala was found by a jogger near the surf line west of UCSB’s Campus Point. cont’d page 16 april 11, 2013

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I.V. Crime CONT’D A Cal Poly freshman from Santa Rosa, Ayala had arrived in Isla Vista with her friends the night before to attend Deltopia. A toxicology report is pending, and authorities continue to investigate Ayala’s death but say her injuries are consistent with a fall from the cliffs above the beach. Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr said she was “greatly saddened” by the news. Efforts to end the many public-safety problems associated with past Floatopias haven’t work, Farr said, as revelers have simply moved the annual super party off the beach and onto the streets. “Going forward, we need to redouble our efforts to see what we can put together,” she said. “Obviously, we’re going to have to do more.”

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Before starting our five-mile trek along Del Playa, Sabado Tarde, and Trigo roads, Welch took me through the IVFP building, which was built a few years ago to replace the cramped quarters behind Freebirds World Burrito. Walking past a confiscated potato launcher, historical photographs of deputies in milkman-like uniforms, and the bullpen where officers ate almonds and filled out paperwork on rows of computers, Welch showed off the holding cells, interview rooms, upstairs kitchen, bunk beds, and bathrooms with air-conditioned lockers.

surly words from the spring-breaker and curt responses from the deputies, they parted ways with fist bumps and friendly words of caution. Welch — who has been with the department since he was 19 years old and was promoted to sergeant not long after our walking tour — said many arrestees are out-of-towners in college, high school, or area ESL (English as second language) courses, and the rest tend to be UCSB and SBCC students. There are currently 9,000 UCSB students living in I.V., according to campus spokesperson Andrea Estrada, and anywhere from 800 to 900 City College students depending on the semester, said that school’s spokesperson Joan Galvan. Many tickets, Welch went on, are for those who break either the county’s Social Host Liability Ordinance, which docks party-throwers who provide alcohol to minors, or its Noise Ordinance, which mandates loud music be shut down by midnight. Though the fines are steep for both offenses, they do little to dissuade repeat behavior, Welch noted. On patrol, Welch and Roberts are always looking at people’s hands in case they’re hiding a beer or cupping a joint. Minor-in-possession and public-intoxication charges are especially common, and depending on the situation — age, inebriation level, with friends or alone, etc. — they may be cited and released or booked into County Jail. At one point in the evening, a man under the influence and carry-

AT A GLANCE: These stats were provided by the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department. (Note: The CHP has primary jurisdiction over car thefts in Isla Vista.)

Outside, he and Roberts explained how the Foot Patrol enjoys the challenge of the Isla Vista assignment.“Working here will test your patience,” said Welch, though few recruits or volunteers drop out.“They know the game and want to be there.” For years it’s been typical to arrest — or “hook”— six to 20 people on a gamut of offenses each night, but some things have changed, as Roberts explained, “It seems like there’s a little less respect for law enforcement now.” As if on cue, a man walking in the opposite direction flicked a cigarette butt right at the deputies’ feet. Roberts shone his flashlight from the ground to the man’s face and said,“Pick it up.” Shortly after, Welch and Roberts stopped another college-aged man carrying an open Fanta bottle. A quick sniff test revealed it also held vodka. The incredulous man said he was from Venezuela, had traveled here for spring break, and did not know about open-container laws. The deputies made him pour out the cocktail, issued him a citation, and sent him on his way. Though the encounter began with 16

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ing a can of Natural Ice beer walked straight toward the deputies. “What’ve you got there?” asked Welch. “You want it?” the man asked. “No, thanks,” responded Welch. “I’m working.” Because he was with a much more sober buddy, the man was let go with a citation and directions to head home. While more than a few people waved “hi” to the deputies, others hurled insults from balconies or down the road and out of sight. One sarcastically hissed,“Cops! Cops! Cops!” as he walked past. “It can get annoying,” shrugged Welch,“but it’s just people exercising their First Amendment rights.” A line was soon crossed, however, when a glass bottle arced from above and smashed into a nearby parked car. Backing into a darkened driveway, Welch and Roberts quietly watched the crowd for the next 10 minutes. Catching a public urinator in the act, Welch turned on his ﬂashlight and grabbed the man from behind. “Whoa!” the startled man yelled. “No pictures!” He was made to pour out his ﬂask of rum and asked to sign a ticket.

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Because he came from a nearby party, his citation counted as one strike against the gathering. If two more arrests were made in connection to it, the IVFP would shut it down, but the party ended before that happened. Altogether, they cited two people for public urination, a few for carrying PRECARIOUS PERCH: A UCSB police officer kept an eye on the open containers, and beach below Del Playa Drive’s cliffs. a couple of others for public intoxication, which translated to a very quiet night. As they Burglary incidents dipped when the IVFP took down the basic information on one of and UCSB’s Associated Students launched the subjects — or getting their “horsepower,” the “Stop Burglaries in I.V.: Lock Doors and as they called it — a girl walking alone stum- Windows” campaign in 2011, but a crew of bled directly in the path of an oncoming car. now-captured thieves from Los Angeles made Because she couldn’t tell the deputies where them spike again last year. she was going and was clearly quite drunk, Budget strain has cut gang and narcotics she was taken back to the IVFP for fear of detectives from the IVFP and reduced help hurting herself or being sexually assaulted. from the CHP and other auxiliary patrols, Welch and his colleagues also frequently call and Vuillemainroy could certainly use a comUCSB Community Service Officers to escort munity resource officer to handle the robust homeless population full-time. Meanwhile, solo women home. As the shift came to a close, Roberts spot- he maintains close ties to the staff and student ted a man lurking along Del Playa Drive and, governments of UCSB and SBCC, and right after a quick conversation, discovered he was now they’re working to raise funds for cliffout on bail for burglary. Back at the station, side fencing along Walter Capps Park. he joined a suspect caught smashing the side Rhandy Siordia, vice president of UCSB’s mirrors of parked cars, a young UCSB student Associated Students, appreciates the outreach who had threatened suicide and had been on and weekly office hours. “I do admire Ray’s her way down to the beach with a cocktail of community policing strategy,” said Siordia, pills and other drugs, and an arrestee who had “and he’s always been very receptive to us.” allegedly assaulted a female companion’s boy- Siordia believes the IVFP’s biggest public friend. Some were crying, others joking, the relations challenge is the misconception that rest sitting indifferently in handcuffs. All were officers concentrate on small infractions, like taken to jail in a van that regularly shuttles busting people for biking without helmets or between the Turnpike Road campus and the shutting down parties that go too loud, too late. Most people don’t realize, he said, that IVFP home base. it’s actually the CHP writing roadside tickets DAUNTING BUT DOABLE and that Foot Patrol officers only end parties Though trouble borders on the minor or petty, because of a new county law (though they do Isla Vista is no stranger to serious crime. Why often get complaints from residents whose it’s on the rise is likely due to a combination of kids can’t sleep). factors, according to Vuillemainroy, includVuillemainroy gives all the credit to his ing rising population density, tough economic hard-working, tight-knit troops.“These are the times, and the increasing releases of convicted men and women that do it,” he said. “They’re criminals from overcrowded prisons and jails. the ones making it happen.” ■

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raw chicanery are required, the native-born are egregiously and conspicuously absent. If I had the energy required to get worked up about anything, I would find this trend is alarming in the extreme and stay awake nights worrying about all the ill it boded. A few months ago, Mrozek notified the media that Stanley Kuo Jua Yang — of Fountain Valley — had been sentenced to 30 months for selling counterfeit name-brand exercise equipment. The integrity of name-brand equipment like Bowflex, Malibu Pilates, and Ab Circle Pro is apparently nothing to be trifled with and is of great concern to the Department of Homeland Security. It turns out Yang had imported several 40-foot containers of such equipment and was affixing to the equipment contained therein fraudulent name-brand stickers and labels for the purpose of charging higher prices. Mr. Yang — the prefix “Mr.” is used only to denote criminal behavior — is one of three foreign-born counterfeiters investigated during the past two years by the Department of Homeland Security for the crime of selling bogus name-brand gym equipment. Yang was also found to be in the possession of 10,000 ersatz Silhouette slim pants, those stretchy things endowed with magical “slimming” powers for those too busy to use his equally ersatz exercise machines. Just last month, Mrozek issued a release detailing how Yeon Soon Lee — a k a Susie Lee — had been put behind bars for selling counterfeit designer handbags, falsely bearing the labels

of such extravagantly inflationary name brands as Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Versace, and, yes, Dolce & Gabbana. Again, we can thank Homeland Security for bringing Ms. Lee’s predations to light. The judge who sentenced Ms. Lee termed her a “clear recidivist,” adding that Lee had demonstrated “repeated disrespect for the law.” Lee, it turns out, had been prosecuted before for the same crime in 2009, when authorities seized more than 1,000 handbags bearing counterfeit labels. I won’t suggest in the case of Lee and Yang that these are victimless crimes. I would suggest, however, that anybody willing to shell out the cash to buy these name-brand products probably deserves to get fleeced and that the U.S. taxpayers should not be on the hook for the cost of jailing their perpetrators. On a more serious note, Mrozek brought to our attention the 13-year sentence imposed on Uben Ogbu Rush — of Carson — who made over $8 million in an elaborate Medicare fraud scheme over a nine-year period. Rush owns a company that manufactures motorized wheelchairs among other things and to gin up additional “business,” she and her cronies — who included Phitsamay Syvoravong and Carlos Alberto Rezabala — got a crew of doctors to write fake prescriptions to fake patients. Everyone along the way, it should be noted, got kickbacks and payoffs. Over the years, Rush submitted over $15 million worth of claims, yet she was only reimbursed for $8.1 million. With such a low reimbursement rate, one can only be

grateful no real patients were involved. Imagine the hardships they would have endured. One can readily see how real doctors serving real patients can no longer afford to do business with Medicare. The same was true for Dr. Augustus Ohemeng of Long Beach, who also got slammed for enlisting hundreds of phony patients to submit claims for services never rendered. Ohemeng submitted $5.6 million worth of claims over the years, only to be reimbursed for $3 million. No wonder there’s a screaming shortage of primary-care doctors these days. What impressed me most was not just the duplicity and dishonesty displayed, but the amount of hard work required. Imagine the sheer effort required to submit hundreds of false claims. The thought alone is enough to leave me utterly exhausted. Better to be honest; it’s less work. These crime trends parallel to an uncanny degree the extent to which the United States has increasingly come to rely on foreign-born high-tech workers to handle the demands of living the attention-deficit-disordered life. In just five days this year, American companies exceeded the 85,000 limit for high-tech worker visa applications. Given that it took two months to hit that limit last year and 10 months the year before that, we can surmise the economy is improving. Maybe if we made higher education more affordable to more people in this country, we wouldn’t be quite so dependent upon the skilled workforce of other nations for our economic survival. Just saying. But until that fine day, the bumper sticker affixed to my car will read: “Steal American.” — Nick Welsh

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Weekend Takeovers

t is gratifying to see coverage of the until-now little-known ordinance loophole that has allowed short-term rentals to conduct weddings, parties, and commercial events in residentially zoned neighborhoods. However, I have to add a few corrections to the article “‘Party Houses’ Irk Neighbors” [4/4/13, independent.com/montecito-synez]. First, I am misquoted as saying “I’m tired of waking up to another weekend takeover,” when I was actually speaking on behalf of the immediate neighbors who have to deal with the problem house in More Mesa Shores, and my testimony stated that “We’re tired of waking up to see another weekend takeover of the street when no county inspectors are available for complaints, or calling the Sheriff for removal of cars or shutting down noise.” While I am personally bothered by the years of abuse to our neighborhood, the neighbors adjacent and nearby are most affected. Secondly, the constant weekend weddings mentioned are more associated with the Figueroa Mountain Farmhouse. Due to parking and other restrictions, we’ve been able to curb what used to be more frequent weddings and parties but still struggle with constant short-term rentals, film shoots, and the occasional wedding. We were terribly disappointed that the amendments correcting the ordinance loophole were not approved after all the work that went into righting a wrong that would not have hurt the hospitality industry but would have assisted those who are impacted by large commercial events that impede the peace and safety of their residential neighborhoods; we applaud Supervisor Janet Wolf for holding out and standing up for our concerns. As vacation rentals are on the rise, this issue will only grow. Other counties have used short-term rental ordinances to curb commercial and other abuses, and we’re putting our faith in the county to approve something strong to preserve our county’s zoning — Bonnie Freeman, Goleta laws for residential and agricultural properties.

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can’t fathom being subjected to those kinds of weekends where all the trucks and traﬃc start around Thursday. We’re not talking about a few weddings/events a year — or even 10. And it could happen to any of us in the future if that loophole isn’t closed. So where do you go if you don’t get help from the county, or sheriﬀ? I can only add if my neighbor was that disrespect-

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ful, my last resort would be having my Duck Dynasty friends over on weekends for redneck revelry — that could go on till the late hours. I wonder how they would feel about skeet and target practice during the vow ceremony? Nonenforcement of ordinances goes both ways, and not a road we want to go down.

— sambati, S.B. online comment

Esperanto Lives

was delighted to see the word Esperanto in the article “ Reasons to See Bill W. and Dr. Bob,” giving me an opportunity to let the reader know that reviewer Charles Donelan is mistaken when he writes that Esperanto was among those social concepts with “a relatively limited lifespan and impact, eventually running out of their initial energy as they confront the realities of an already existing social structure” [Arts Life, 4/4/13, independent.com/actorsmessagerealness]. For over 40 years, I have had the privilege of using Esperanto to get personally acquainted (by correspondence, home visits, and interna-

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tional conventions) with hundreds of people of diverse cultures all over the world on a linguistically equal level, with neither they nor I feeling superior or inferior because of language diﬀerences. Worldwide, Esperanto is currently enabling people in over 100 countries to experience the same thrill I have had — and still have. “Everyone speaks English” does not result in linguistic equality like Esperanto does. And Esperanto has the added advantage of an extensive literature, both original and translated, besides hundreds of people worldwide oﬀering hospitality to speakers of Esperanto.

letters cont’d No, Mr. Donelan, Esperantists have not “run out of their initial energy.” The language Esperanto still enables thousands of us (including members of the Esperanto Society of Santa Barbara) to savor other cultures without — Dorothy Holland, S.B. a language barrier.

Not Necessarily Guilty

ith your new recent-arrests interactive map, I think you’re setting yourself up for some type of legal challenge regarding public prejudice against arrestees who have not been convicted of any allegation [News, “South Coast Crime Map,” independent.com/goletasbcarp]. People are still presumed innocent unless proven guilty, yet your feature helps provide prejudice against these folks, as it’s very common for the average Joe to believe anyone charged with an oﬀense is automatically guilty. — John Seymour, S.B.

The Droning of California

orporations in California are at war with us and each other, vying over which will get the first $22 billion drone contract in our state. Legislator Jeff Gorell, th Assembly District, wants to build drones in Oxnard, turning Highway  for a 75-mile stretch — from Lancaster (Edwards Air Force Base) to Lompoc (Vandenberg Air Force Base) — into a “technology corridor” for drones. Point Mugu Naval Base, designated to assemble the drones, would complete the “military triangle” for drone technology in Central California. Assemblymember Gorell, fomerly a naval intelligence officer manipulating drones over Pakistan, wants to use drones on the American people to “fight crime.” Drones at 5,000 feet, and with infrared cameras, can take detailed photographs on the ground and detect movements within walls or curtained windows. Drones can also be weaponized, with advanced weapons. And reports on the evolving technology have suggested that drones will eventually

be reduced to “bug size,” fitting in the cracks of walls or windows, and entering homes for surveillance purposes. Gorell wants to secure the profits of the privatized drone industry “project” through tax-free incentives — on the backs of California taxpayers. He baits Californians by promising jobs, but mark my words: The switch is, the jobs will largely go to foreign workers brought in via international visas. Homeland Security and the Defense Department will move into the military triangle once the legislation is passed in Sacramento, undermining the project’s democratic accountability. Drone technology will, at first, likely target illegal border-crossing and marijuana grows. As the drone industry expands (by “700 percent in the next few years”), it will likely also spread to other states and impact every American. What will drone technology mean to the further eradication of American personal freedoms? If Americans are targeted as “terrorists” or “combatants,” could drones possibly lead to the elimination of due process? Can we really presume that this marriage of military technology, privatization, and corporate personhood will serve — rather than victimize — the American people? — Grant Marcus, Ventura

For the Record

¶ The repeated use of the word “drilling” in the March 28 news story about Venoco’s plans to restart an oil well was inaccurate [“Coasting Drilling Good for Goleta?” independent.com/spillhistory]. There is no actual drilling proposed as part of this project, as returning the old well to production is more like opening a tap. The Independent welcomes letters of less than  words that include a daytime phone number for veriﬁcation. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Send to: Letters, The Independent,  W. Figueroa St., Santa Barbara, CA ; or fax: -; or email: letters@independent.com. Unabridged versions and more letters appear at independent.com/opinions.

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Feminist Movement Marches On Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee Celebrates 25 Years

BY S U S A N R O S E he last two years saw major political victories

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tions on school boards and local commissions. During and celebrations in the feminist movement: Ms. its 25 years, the SBWPC has endorsed and contributed Magazine recently published its 40th anniver- financial support to 95 candidates; 56 were women. sary edition; January 22, 2013, marked the 40th The Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee has anniversary of Roe v. Wade; and though the percentage created a culture where women in public office are the of women in Congress remains low (18 percent), the 2012 norm, not the exception. Success is best demonstrated election resulted in formidable firsts as women broke by their impact on public policy. Legislation introduced several glass ceilings in both the House and Senate. by women elected to office in Santa Barbara has covered Here on the Central Coast, the Santa Barbara Women’s a broad range of issues including breast cancer, children, Political Committee (SBWPC) is celebrating its 25th anni- domestic violence, education, the environment, health versary with a yearlong series of events. In the late 1980s, care, housing, homelessness, human services, living wage, a small group of women met for several months to dis- rape kits, and reproductive rights. In its early days, the SBWPC founding board of direccuss the lack of women in public office in Santa Barbara County. Over time, the group expanded and included a tors created a set of tools that helped ensure the election of list of who’s who among woman activists in the commu- feminist women to office. They included position papers, nity: Ruth Ackerman, Gayle Binion, Marty Blum, Marga- recruitment strategies, campaign skills workshops, candidate assessment ret Connell, Anita Perez Ferguson, teams, endorseNancy Franco, ments, state and federal PAC money, Ha n n a h - B e t h and media supJackson, Barport. These tools bara Lindeare still in place mann, Lois Philtoday and guide lips, Mary Rose, the board in their Selma Rubin, decision-making. Ruth Rodriguez The question of Schaffer, Naomi supporting male Schwartz, Sarah candidates arose in Shoresman, and the early years. On Deb Sills. (In the occasions when full disclosure, they did not have the author was a founding mother, women candidates The SBWPC participated in the city’s 1992 July 4 march. They expected also.) to choose from, the They asked around 50 people to participate, but hundreds turned up to walk with them. SBWPC endorsed the question: men who supCan women have a significant impact at the local level? ported their agenda. As a result, the SBWPC’s endorseReflecting on 25 years of political activities, the answer is ment remains highly sought after by all candidates in an unqualified yes. Using an activist model, these femi- Santa Barbara. While other feminist organizations have declined or nists created a pipeline to elected office. The Committee was officially born in January 1988, with a raucous recep- disbanded, the SBWPC has been able to sustain itself for tion at a popular watering hole called Zelo’s that brought 25 years because of a diverse board of women and a memout 250 women and men. Betty Friedan was the keynote bership committed to addressing issues that are current speaker. Each of the founding boardmembers brought and compelling. 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Dr. Robert M. Norris // – //

A remembrance of Dr. Robert M. Norris will be held at the UCSB Mosher House alumni center on Saturday April  from : pm to : pm Please RSVP at bobnorris.org or call .. Rozella Lee Sanderson // – //

Rozella Lee Sanderson passed away March ,  in Santa Barbara, California. She was  years old. Most people knew her as Lee Sanderson. She was the oldest daughter of William ‘Eddy’ and Ethel Ross. She was preceded in death by her husband Robert John Sanderson, and by two of her younger brothers, Herbert Ross and Gerald Ross. Lee was born in Enid, Oklahoma February , , and spent her childhood in rural Tennessee, near McE-

wen. Her family moved to Redlands/Loma Linda, California when she was . Lee met and married Robert John Sanderson of Oak Glen, in May of . Lee and Robert were married for  years, until his death in Santa Barbara in . Lee and Robert moved to Santa Barbara in . They bought their first home in the Bungalow District, and moved there with their  daughters in . After Robert’s death, Lee continued to live in her own house until the time of her death. Her four daughters and granddaughter Marian Marshall all grew up there, and Lee’s oldest daughter Joan continued to live in the house with her mother, caring for her in her later years. Lee cared about, and cared for people throughout her life. She cared for children in her licensed day care home, and worked very hard for many years as a practical nurse. She was a ravenous reader with a wide range of interests, and had a keen sense of curiosity. She had a special way with plants, and just couldn’t resist beautiful linens and dishes. She will be remembered for her compassion and empathy for people and causes great and small; for her love of cats, especially Sweetie who purred her to sleep each night for many years; for her resilience in the face of life’s adversities, and for her courage sticking up for the rights of others. Lee will be greatly missed by her friends, neighbors, and by her surviving family – daughters Joan Marshall, Marina Ross and partner Joy Ewing of Lompoc, Katherine

Sanderson of Northampton, Massachusetts, Toni MacDonald and husband Frank MacDonald of North Saanich, Vancouver Island Canada; by her younger brothers Ralph Ross of Santa Barbara; Floyd Ross and wife Alicia Ross of Santa Barbara. She also leaves five grandchildren, Marian Marshall, Paul Rinaldi, Sharon Pryor, Miles MacDonald and Corina MacDonald; six great grandchildren; seven nieces, and one nephew. The family would like to thank Lee’s doctors, and all those who helped in her care. Should friends wish, memorial donations may be made in Lee’s honor to Amnesty International USA. Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery on April , :am, followed by a gathering of family and friends at the family home in Santa Barbara. For details, email: klsanderson@yahoo.com

Miriam L. “Mimi” Hanlon

Death Notices BELDEN, Carolyn Ella Sutton, , died at Mission Terrace Convalescent Hospital on March , . Interment to take place at the Mt. Hope Cemetery Mausoleum in Topeka, KS. Arrangements entrusted to Pueblo del Rey Funeral Services () -. DIAZ, Gladys C., , died on April ,  at her residence in Santa Barbara. The Graveside Service will be held on Friday, April , , : a.m., at Santa Barbara Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Pueblo del Rey Funeral Services () -.

MORAN, Paula Lopez, , died on April ,  at her residence in Goleta, CA. The Rosary Service will be held on Monday, April , , : p.m., at Holy Cross Church. The Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, April , at : a.m., followed by interment at Goleta Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Pueblo del Rey Funeral Services () -. STONER, June; of Santa Barbara; died March ,  (Born: //); she was . Private Services. Arrangements by Welch-Ryce-Haider -.

Our beloved Miriam L. Hanlon, “Mimi”, passed away April ,  with her nieces Susan and Sandy by her side. Miriam’s avid love to teach children brought her to Santa Barbara where she studied at UCSB on the Riviera. Upon graduation, she took a position with Jefferson School where she taught for several years becoming principal. She transferred to Peabody School as their princi-

pal from hence she retired. Mimi’s favorite things included reading the Bible and many other books, watching Shirley Temple movies, playing her piano and entertaining her friends in her home. She is preceded in death by her sisters, Pauline Ramsey and Genevieve Drake, survived by nieces Cynthia Reynolds, Robin Bott, Gloria Humble, Susan Doss, Sandy Drake, nephews Steven Drake and Scott Drake. Services will be held Saturday, April th @ pm @ The First Presbyterian Church @ Constance and State. Refreshments will be shared afterwards in the church hall. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the st Presbyterian Church, whom she dearly loved.

Joe F. “Pancho” Limón // – //

Joe F.“Pancho” Limón (Jose Francisco) passed away peacefully at his home in Santa Barbara from heart failure. He was born in Yahualica, Jalisco, México. He was preceded in death by his loving wife, Virginia. Pancho is survived by his two children Steven Ybarra and Jennifer (Hector) Valadez of Santa Barbara, his two grandsons Hector and Jesse Valadez, his parents, José and Maria Guadalupe Limón , three brothers Raudel (Silbia) Limón, Jaime (Liz) Limón, and Javier Limón, and three sisters, Elvia (Francisco) Elias, Lulu (David) Wasserman, and Hortensia (Frank) Cruz. He is also survived by many cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, and uncles, than is possible to name here. Pancho was employed for many years in the electrical trade, most recently as a journeyman electrician. He was also a proud member of the I.B.E.W. Local . Before that, Joe graduated from Santa Barbara High School in  and he and his

wife were true “Dons” for life, celebrating many reunions with old friends. Pancho’s greatest sense of joy came from being a part of a large family and had many friends. He will always be remembered as a loving and generous person. Pancho’s big heart and awesome smile will be missed deeply. We will cherish all the memories we had with him. He is reunited in Heaven with the love of his life, Virginia, who recently passed away, may they together rest in peace. Que Dios los bendiga y que en paz descansen. The Broken Chain We little knew that day, God was going to call your name. In life we loved you dearly, In death, we do the same. It broke our hearts to lose you. You did not go alone. For part of us went with you, The day God called you home. You left us beautiful memories, Your love is still our guide. And although we cannot see you, You are always at our side. Our family chain is broken, And nothing seems the same, But as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again. A Rosary followed by viewing visitation will be held at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church beginning on Wednesday, April ,  at : PM. A Funeral Mass will be held at Our Lady of Sorrows at  AM Thursday, April ,  and Interment to follow at Calvary Cemetery Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett Mortuary ()- www. mcdermottcrockett.com

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Lily Rossi 1942-2013

Former Santa Barbara City Clerk

BY L I N D A G U N T H E R any words come to mind in

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even above the standards of other city employees. She wanted to teach others, connect with thinking about Lily Rossi: warm, them, and help them personally as well as procaring, friend, strong work ethic, fessionally. Lily was always very helpful and sense of humor, honest, thor- cooperative with her coworkers and employees, ough, and professional. Lily was the city clerk as well as our citizens, and spent many hours for Santa Barbara from 1983-1998. Not only was working on weekly council agendas, elections, she an effective city clerk, advisory groups, and records management; she but Lily also had a genuwas committed to getting ine concern for everyone it all just right! who crossed her path. As Nick Welsh of The In 1986, The IndepenSanta Barbara Independent gave Lily a Local Heroes award. It stated, in dent wrote, “… Rossi part,“The City Clerk’s staff exuded a combination of warmth, competence, is the liaison between the and customer concern public and city hall, and Rossi is the ringleader.‘We that was dramatically at odds with the stereotype are the reference desk, the of the indifferent bureauofficial records keepers, and archivists of the city,’ crat. Rossi’s dedication to providing the public — Rossi says. But the ever and the press — with basic modest Rossi refuses to public information about take sole credit. ‘I have the best staff in the city,’ she city functions sometimes says.” Lily felt this as a great created tensions with the Lily Rossi exuded a warmth and honor, a public reward for city administrators under competence dramatically at odds whom she served. When with the stereotype of an indifferent all of her years working she retired in 1998, mayor bureaucrat. and volunteering in Santa Harriet Miller issued a Barbara, her favorite city. public proclamation extolling her graciousness, Lily was proud to be a member of the Unigenerosity, kindness, and compassion.” versity Club, taking various city workers there Lily was born in Chicago and graduated to lunch from time to time and encouraging from Northwestern University, then attended others to join. She was also a member of the graduate school at UCLA. Lily and her hus- Genealogical Society, where she volunteered band, Patrizio Rossi (deceased), moved to Santa on the weekends and helped folks trace their Barbara in the 1970s. Their daughter, Enrica family roots. Rossi Kurkulis, MD, was Lily’s pride and joy, During her employment with the city, Lily and her two granddaughters, Gabriella and Isa- met Fred Carlberg, an employee of the Public bella Kurkulis, were the apples of her eyes. She Works Department. They were married in 1998. loved to show their photos to all who knew her. He was the love of her life, and she retired to be Lily became a City of Santa Barbara with him when he became ill. Fred passed away employee in 1974, when former library director in 1999. Her retirement at City Hall was just as Robert Hart hired her to work in the Central she planned: a reception in Room  prior to a Library. When city clerk Irene St. Onge retired regular City Council meeting in the adjacent in 1983, city administrator Richard Thomas chambers. Those attending followed Lily into appointed Lily to fill the position. She loved the council chambers, where she received a working with active members of the com- standing ovation from many admirers, friends, munity, and she particularly enjoyed meeting and the City Council. the needs of the mayors and councilmembers. Several years after retirement, Lily became Some of her proudest moments occurred when the city clerk for the newly incorporated City she administered the oath of office to the newly of Goleta and was instrumental in assisting elected officials in the council chambers. Goleta to get off to a good start. “Lily took a Lily went above and beyond in her service to lot of work home, but never complained,” said the public. For example, she went out of her way Goleta employee Karen Hunter. to help residents from other countries, who are We will miss Lily — her friendship, humor, annually required to submit verified proof that and zest for life. Even when suffering from the they are still living so that they can continue effects of cancer, she was still very interested to receive pensions from their home country in what was going on and who was running — often conversing with them in their native for City Council. As demonstrated by the tongues. These special friends would regularly large gathering of past and present city officall Lily when they had questions, knowing cials and employees, family, and friends at her that she would go the extra mile to assist them. March 19 memorial service, Lily touched the When one of these friends was in failing health lives of many people. and needed the services of a notary, Lily used her lunch hour to transport a notary to the Linda Gunther, in her capacity as lady’s home. supervisor of the Santa Barbara City Lily was well recognized by fellow city clerks Administrator’s Office, worked closely with in the City Clerks Association of California. She Lily Rossi, and the two remained friends strongly believed that a city clerk was required until Rossi’s death. to have high ethical and professional standards, april 11, 2013

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FEAR THE NERD? What if the fattest nerd in

the 8th grade not only wound up with the cheerleader but also a whole country, and a fistful of missiles to boot? And to top it off, threatened to nuke the West Coast? Would Santa Barbarans be doing duck-andcover drills, screaming at City Hall to do something, anything, and packing up en masse for Scottsdale or Minnesota? It’s weird that around town, you don’t hear people buzzing about North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and his bellicose, missile-rattling ranting. Are we that blasé? The Rooshians never did it, and we fretted all the way through the Cold War, all for nothing. So now, I guess, it’s ho-hum. The coffee-shop talk is about the price of gas, the Lakers, the Angels and Dodgers, and the dadblasted taxes due this week. Give us something to really get fired up about, I guess. But clearly, something has got to be done about the Korean Peninsula. Kim’s grandfather, you may recall, touched off the 1950s Korean War by invading South Korea. When it was over, about one million people were dead, including 33,574 Americans and one of my high-school buddies. I almost got sent over there — twice. And the boundary between North and South was still about in the same place. Young Kim, by the way, has disowned the armistice agreement. With almost no dictator-

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What, Me Worry About Dear Leader Jr.? Only minor damage resulted, but there were blackouts, fear, and panic. A small army of aircraft wardens were enlisted to watch for the next attack so many were sure was coming. Pete Langlo, then a 12-year-old Boy Scout, volunteered as a proud junior warden. He and an adult warden would be driven out west along the coast to phone in reports of any aircraft, which all turned out to be friendly, but Langlo was one proud kid, doing his bit for the war effort. Langlo’s Scout uniform is on display, proudly saved all these years. Pete Langlo in 1943, collecting scrap iron for the war effort. The display also includes a shed door blown off an oil pier by a shell ship experience at all, he was elevated to the job and a fragment of shrapnel. In 1942, no one was when his father, Kim Jong-il, died. Now about 30, blasé. But along with patriotism and fear came young Kim soon attracted Ri Sol-ju, a singer and the shameful forced internment of West Coast former cheerleader (they have cheerleaders in residents of Japanese descent, including Santa Korea despite hordes of people dying of starva- Barbara County families, as ordered by president tion?) as first lady. Amazing what a uniform will Franklin D. Roosevelt. (If you can read this, no missile has hit us yet.) do for a homely guy, eh? Browsing at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum Sunday, I harked back to when Santa HOT MARKET: Santa Barbara realtors are salutBarbara really knew how to react to a threat. ing because the market, cold as a January night When a Japanese sub shelled the oil pier at Ell- just a few months ago, is hot, hot, hot. Prices are wood on February 23, 1942, just weeks after Pearl up, and buyers are lobbing in multiple offers. Harbor, all hell broke loose. Realtors are rushing door to door, chatting up

homeowners to see if they’re ready to put the homestead up for grabs. Two problems: “No inventory,” moan the agents. And getting a loan is still a challenge. But if you can pay cash, you’re “golden,” as realtors put it. MAGICAL THINKING: How do you cope with

the death of not just one loved one but two? In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion did a masterful job of intelligent, heartfelt writing about the deaths of her husband, author John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter, Quintana. Actress Linda Purl more than did justice to the one-woman play when it opened last weekend with the Ensemble Theatre Company. Purl took over the part after Bonnie Franklin became ill. Franklin died on March 1. UPCHUCKING: Who says there’s no inﬂation?

Shockingly, two-buck Chuck is no longer $1.99. Duck into Trader Joe’s, and you’ll find that a bottle of Charles Shaw wine has gone up to $2.49. A couple of years of poor harvests are blamed. But Sue and I loaded the cart with the Wednesday-quality vino anyway. (We swill the high-priced $7.99 stuff on weekends.) Drinkers buy about five million cases of Chuck Shaw a year. And there really is, or was, a Charles F. Shaw. He owned a California winery until he got divorced in 1991 and sold it. His name lives —Barney Brantingham on. Salute!

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How Burbank’s Chiodo Brothers Are Making Dinosaurs the Stars of the Santa Barbara Zoo BY MATT KETTMANN

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wo years ago, egged on by a crowd of eager children, an extinct reptile named Duncan reared his toothy head from behind a wooden fence, and the Santa Barbara Zoo hasn’t been the same since. Duncan, you see, is a 15-foot-long, human-powered Tyrannosaurus rex puppet that, in May 2011, became a regular fixture of the zoo’s programming, translating kids’ inherent dinosaur fascination into lessons about how zookeepers brush gorilla teeth and deal with animal poop. Built especially for the zoo by the renowned Chiodo Bros. special effects studio in Burbank, Calif., Duncan immediately filled an educational entertainment vacuum historically occupied by zoo residents — any of the anthropomorphic tricks with cuddly and/or carnivorous animals still pulled on late-night talk shows, or chimpanzees dressed up for a tea party, for instance — and made it easier, safer, and, many would agree, better for both the audience and the zoo. Today, if my 3-year-old son and his countless zoo-going peers are any indication, Duncan is probably the number one attraction for elementary school–aged children at the second most popular spot on the entire Central Coast of California. (The zoo’s nearly 500,000 annual visitor count is only trumped each year by Hearst Castle.) And that just might make him the most desired dino on the planet. But Duncan — whose 75 pounds of metal skeleton, sculpted foam, and specially designed skin are hoisted onto the shoulders of a trained actor for each show — is getting tired.“He had three shows a day last summer, and when you’re how many

millions of years old, that’s tough; that’s a lot for a dinosaur,” said the zoo’s head honcho, Richard Block, explaining that Duncan’s expected three-year lifetime, which has already been enhanced with a number of minor surgeries, means a slow fade into the Jurassic sunset sometime in 2014. Filling Duncan’s sizable shoes with a gradual transition that begins next month will be two new Chiodo-made dinos: a 10-foot-tall Parasaurolophus, built to stand erect with similar actor-powered mobility as Duncan, and a much smaller blinking baby Triceratops, which is handheld and portable, allowing for more up-close showing off, as well as offsite zoo outreach. I learned as much while Block drove me south to meet up with the Chiodo bros themselves, a trio originally from the Bronx who moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s to be filmmakers, but became experts in special effects, costume creation, and puppetry. They came on the zoo’s radar a few years back, when 28

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DINO BROS: Burbank-based brothers Stephen (above, holding baby Triceratops) and Edward (standing next to Stephen) Chiodo are the visionaries behind Duncan the T. rex, Lily the Parasaurolophus (her metal frame visible above), and a to-benamed baby Triceratops, the latter two of which make their debut at the Santa Barbara Zoo on May 10. In the lower photo, fabricator Zina Lahr cleans a stencil used to make dinosaur skin.

Block and marketing director Dean Noble, whom we pick up in the Conejo Valley, were brainstorming new programming. They had several dinosaur exhibit options in front of them, but all were both pricey and temporary. One day, Noble’s wife asked why they didn’t just have a dino made especially for the zoo? Around that same time, Noble serendipitously met the Chiodos at a zoo fundraiser. Duncan’s gestation began shortly thereafter. From the outside, the Chiodo Brothers’ studio on a backwater Burbank street near Interstate  looks like a small plant nursery, but once inside, it’s an eye-popping emporium of familiar monster faces, furry creatures, and puppets both tiny and massive.“We’re filmmakers first, but the films we wanted to make

always needed special characters,” said Edward Chiodo, who made Killer Klowns from Outer Space with his brothers in 1988; they have also contributed puppets, clay animation, and other effects to Team America: World Police, Critters, The Simpsons, and Elf, among many other projects. The brothers also once constructed the largest walking dino puppet ever for Universal Studios in Japan, a 23-foot Brachiosaurus that required two actors to operate, including one who was trained to walk backward.“For us, it’s all about the characters,” said Edward,“and we try to figure out the best way to bring that to life.” In Duncan’s case, the character was a rowdy, adolescent T. rex, but for the second round, the zoo and the Chiodos went a little softer, making the Parasaurolophus into a feminine, motherly character and the tiny Triceratops into a cute baby girl. Like Duncan, the Parasaurolophus will be fully mobile (legs, arms, jaw, neck, etc.) and outfitted with cameras so that the operator can entertain both a large crowd and individual fans.“It’s important to us that he can come down and address the little kids,” said Stephen Chiodo, who is also proud of the noise-making crest atop the Parasaurolophus’s head, which is what dino experts believe it was used for in ancient times. The Triceratops, meanwhile, is a bright purple puppet with green underbelly that fits easily in Stephen’s arms.“It’s a perfect size, like a baby pig,” he said.“You’ll be able to have really close-up interactions with the audience, and you can take it to clubs, organizations, and classrooms.” As for names, the Parasaurolophus will be known as Lily, a reference to the former owner of the zoo property, Lillian Child, as suggested by donor J. Carol Duncan (of Rusty’s Pizza fame, for whom Duncan the dino was named); the public is encouraged to suggest names for the baby tri via the zoo’s Facebook page. Of course, dinosaur puppetry isn’t for everyone, as the actors will have to be at least 5 10 to operate the Parasaurolophus, though it only weighs 50 pounds, about 25 less than Duncan. Plus, explained Edward,“It’s claustrophobic, hot, and very sweaty. It’s pretty intuitive — you know pretty quickly whether you’re up for it or not.” The zoo’s dinosaur projects pushed the Chiodos to innovate in both puppetry mechanics and the development of the dino’s special skin, which is a silica spandex material with a tactile feel and UV coating to protect the coloring. As usual, the Chiodos had to break free from the prescribed mold to do so.“We never follow manufacturer’s recommendations,” said Edward with a childlike grin.“What’s the point?” Because of their success at the Santa Barbara Zoo, the Chiodos are looking to dino puppets as a new market, making dinos for other places while renting models for birthday parties and other events.“It’s a business we’re looking to build,” said Edward, and that makes sense, given that the Chiodos were first drawn to special effects because, like so many kids, they were fascinated by dinosaurs.“That was the thing that got us into it,” said Edward,“that and King Kong.” And unlike their film work, the rewards of dino puppets are immediately tangible.“We get to see the reaction,” said Edward,“which is great.”

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The Santa Barbara Zoo welcomes Lily the Parasaurolophus and the to-be-named baby Triceratops at Member’s Night on Friday, May , with weekend shows until school’s out for summer, when daily shows with all three dinos start. See sbzoo.org.

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h, summer. School’s out, and the kids are free, but the adults are not. This presents a problem, as leaving large numbers of the county’s children idle could mean the neighborhood goes full-on Lord of the Flies in no time. Fortunately, The Indy’s got your back, parents. While hunting boar on a deserted island may seem cool to some kids, there are better (and safer) options out there. We’ve com-

piled an exhaustive list of activities — everything from surfing and sailing to trampolines to wilderness treks (without dangerous animals, probably). There’s soccer, basketball, and baseball alongside painting, writing, drama, music, and more dance camps than you could shake a ballet slipper at. Registration deadlines are coming soon, so read up, sign up, and buckle up for another fantastic Santa Barbara summer.

Adderley School Summer Musical Theatre Camp A

Students will work in small groups on an abridged version of a S Broadway musical, culminating with a performance at Center B Stage Theater. The camp focuses on instilling conﬁdence and S joy jo in each and every student through individual mentorship. Plays performed will include Peter Pan, Les Misérables, and The P Little Mermaid. L

Three-week sessions, Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. . Ages -, -am, T $. Ages -, am-pm, $. Adderley School, -A State St. Call $ - or visit theadderleyschool.com. 

Art A by the Sea

Th This camp gives children with a passion for ﬁne art the chance to to spend their time outdoors exploring a variety of arts media. Students will participate in trips to the beach and exhibit their S art a each week.

Grades -. Four one-week sessions, July  - Aug. , am-:pm. G $/session. The Arts Center,  Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Call $ - or visit artscarp.org. 

Art A Innovators Summer Camp  S

Ignite your creativity as you experiment with fun media, both Ig 2-d and 3-d. Young artists experiment with clay, fabric, and wire 2 sculptures; paint on canvas; explore colors and design; build a sc Fun F House Marble Game; and try out ﬂoating inks on water to create beautiful patterns. Two great themes run alternate weeks. c

Grades K-. Mon.-Fri., July  - Aug. . am-pm. $/week, $/ G days. Art Innovators Studio,  Hollister Ave., Ste. , Goleta. Call d - or visit artinnovatorssb.com. 

Arts at Laguna Blanca This camp features fun-ﬁlled days starting with a HulaHooping or line-dancing session followed by visual arts, dance, theater, and music classes and more special activities such as storytelling and arts festivals.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - July , :am-:pm. $/week. Laguna Blanca School,  Paloma Dr. Call - x or visit lagunablanca.org/440/.

Boxtales Summer Theatre Camp This three-week journey in the Boxtales method includes training in acting, storytelling, movement, and collaboration. This year’s campers will create an original stage production, The Wild Child, based on the traditional Norwegian folktale Tatterhood.

Ages -. June  - July . Mon.-Thu., am-:pm; Fri., am:pm. $. Marjorie Luke Theatre,  E. Cota St. Call - or visit boxtales.org.

Brooks Institute @ High School Photo Workshop Develop skills as a photographer while snapping shots of S.B.’s summer scenery — learn from Brooks Institute’s best at the one-week camp.

June -, am-pm. Entering high school freshmen through graduated seniors accepted. $, includes lunch and digital prints.  E. Cota St. Call - or email workshops@brooks.edu.

Dance Camp! at the Goleta School of Ballet Classes include ballet technique, pointe, stretch, dance history, and sewing and craft projects. The program ends with a performance on July  at the Center Stage Theater.

Ages. -. Mon.-Fri., June  - July , am-:pm. $. Goleta School of Ballet,  Magnolia Ave., Goleta. Call - or visit goletavalleyschoolofballet.com.

Debut Summer Camp

Prospective directors and budding ﬁlmmakers, take note — this camp will help develop skills behind the camera, putting applicants on the path to the silver screen.

Students experience a full week of learning, audition preparation, and fun with some of Santa Barbara’s most talented students and teachers from across the school district. Each weekly session includes dance classes, acting seminars, singing lessons, and a class highlighting the theme of the week, such as costume design, improvisational theater, stage makeup, and playwriting.

June -, am-pm. Entering high school freshmen through graduated seniors accepted. $,, includes lunch. Ventura Campus,  N. Ventura Ave., Ventura. Call - or email workshops@brooks.edu.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri. sessions start June , :am-:pm. $/session. Location TBA. Call - or email jessica@sbsopa .com. CONT’D

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Destination Dance Learn the latest moves and proper technique from the amazing staff, consisting of TV, film, and Cirque du Soleil veterans and internationally trained professionals. Age-appropriate classes for beginning- to advanced-level dancers all work toward weekly performances and fundamentals in a positive environment where all are welcome. Daily classes include jazz and hip-hop, plus each week brings a different blend of styles: aerial, break dancing, tumbling, ballet, lyrical, and more.

Ages -. Mon.- Thu., June  - Aug. , morning, afternoon, or full-day sessions. $-$/wk. S.B. Dance Arts,  N. Calle César Chávez, Ste. . Call - or visit sbdancearts.com.

DPHS Video Camp Join us for a fun-ﬁlled week of video making right on campus. Kids will get a chance to use cameras, mikes, and computers and work in a green-screen studio to make videos of their own. All kids will get a shirt and a DVD of the video they create.

Ages -. July -, am-noon. $. DP News Studio & Award-Winning Yearbook Apple Computer Lab at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

Earthlight Pictures Animation and Live-Action Filmmaking Training Animation and live-action ﬁlmmaking at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels for ages  to adult, with technical instruction, history, and one-on-one coaching in production of students’ own movies and a videoconference visit with a star animation or live-action ﬁlmmaker. Special group and private instruction options.

Animation: July -, :am-:pm, $. Live Action Video Production: July ,

:-:pm, and July -, -:pm, $. Anacapa School,  Santa Barbara St. Call () - or email jt@earthlightpictures.com.

Fairy Tale Dreams Dance Camp This three-week dance camp is geared for dancers ages  and up, beginning through advanced. For students interested in performances, focus will be preparation and production of a one-act ballet based on traditional fairy tales. All students will be cast and celebrated in a Showcase Performance at Center Stage on July .

Ages +. June  - July , :am-:pm. $. S.B. Festival Ballet, -B Chapala St. Call - or email info@santabarbarafestival ballet.com.

Fantasy Theater Workshop A fantasy-ﬁlled two-week workshop features drama, music, dance, and puppetry. This small program ( children maximum) is designed to nurture the imagination and spirit of young ones.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., July  - Aug. , am-:pm. $. S.B. Unitarian Society,  Santa Barbara St. Call - or visit sbsummerstock.com.

Fossemalle Dance Studio Young dancers will have the opportunity to learn a blend of ballet, jazz, and tap with one of the Central Coast’s best instructors.

Ages +. June -, Nutcracker Camp; June -, Dancer’s Camp; am-noon. $/ week. Fossemalle Dance Studio,  Numancia St., Santa Ynez. Call -.

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female mentors. Campers form a band, write an original song, and perform live at a music venue. Additional workshops may include screen-printing, songwriting, self-defense, zine-making, and recording. Every day during lunch, a guest artist performs and interacts with the girls. All levels are welcome, and all instruments are provided.

Ages -. Multiple Mon.-Fri. sessions June  - July , am-pm. $-$/session. Adams Elementary School,  Las Positas Rd. Call - or visit girlsrocksb.org.

Goleta School of Ballet Primary Program Summer program will focus on classical ballet technique and skills.

Ages -. Wed., July -, :-pm and -:pm. $. Goleta School of Ballet,  Magnolia Ave., Goleta. Call - or visit goletaschoolofballet.com.

Goleta School of Ballet Summer Intensive Session focuses on classical ballet technique and culminates in a performance at the Center Stage Theater on August . Students must attend the entire ﬁve-week session; no partial weeks are possible. Classes are held in variations, repertory, partnering, choreography, musical theater, contemporary, and more. note: Students not currently in GSB must arrange for a placement class.

Santa Barbara Surf Adventures Surf & Water Safety Summer Camp • June 10 - August 16 • Each Session 1 Week • Located at Leadbetter Beach Santa Barbara Surf Adventures Leadbetter camp is a one week surf camp geared towards first-time and beginner surfers. All instructors have CPR and First Aid Certification. Recommended for Ages 8 years and up with basic swimming skills. Leadbetter Camp - $59 Daily or $295 a Week Ask about multi-camp discounts

Call 963-1281 to sign-up

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Ages -. Mon.-Fri., July  - Aug. , am-pm. $,. Goleta School of Ballet,  Magnolia Ave., Goleta. Call - or visit goleta schoolofballet.com.

Gustafson Dance Camps Gustafson Dance oﬀers a variety of summer programs for all ages. Campers in the Dance and Mini Dance camps learn a variety of dance forms, art, and more, with after-care options available. The Junior Intensive is a serious ballet program that includes jazz, character, Pilates, and pointe or strengthening. All programs culminate in fully staged musical performances, including Wizard of Oz, Lion King, and A Midsummer’s Night Fantasy. In addition, classes for ages  and up will be oﬀered throughout the summer, TBA.

Dance Camp: Ages -; June -, July -, am-:pm; $-$/session. Mini Dance Camp: Ages -; June -, July -, Aug. -, am-noon; $-$/session. Junior Intensive: Ages -; July  - Aug. , am-:pm; $.  Las Positas Rd. Call - or email info@gustafsondance.com.

Jensen’s Summer Guitar RockCamp Jensen’s RockCamp is a full-day, weeklong music camp for ages -. RockCampers will have fun learning to play music, and beginners get a free electric guitar. All sessions end with a performance for parents and friends. Your child will learn what it takes to be a musical performer from someone who’s done it!

Beginners: June - and July -. Advanced: July -. am-:pm. $/session, includes guitar for beginners. Location TBA. Call - or register at jensenguitar.com.

Kindermusik Summer Music Camps Weekly camps focus on a variety of multicultural music, rhythm, songs, drums, instruments, and dances combined with art instruction.

Ages -. Mon.-Thu., July  - Aug. , various half-day times. $-$. Call - or email kindermusikathy@gmail.com.

Lights, Camera, Youth Media Workshops TV Santa Barbara, an area Multimedia Production Center, introduces teens to the exciting world of video production. The program provides a hands-on experience where kids learn to script, ﬁlm, and edit their own digital stories. Weekly topics are studio, PSA (public service announcement), and digital storytelling.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., July -, am-pm. $/week. TVSB Community Media Ctr.,  S. Salinas St. Call - or visit tvsb.tv.

Mexican Folk Art Camp This bilingually led camp is hosted at Casa Dolores, Center for the Study of the Popular Arts of Mexico, located in the historic Botillier Adobe and Garden (est. ) in downtown S.B. It features arts, crafts, cooking classes, storytelling, music, and more. Only  participants per session ensures a small student-to-teacher ratio.

Ages -. Tue.-Fri., June  - July , am-noon. $-$/week. Casa Dolores,  Bath St. Call - or visit casadolores.org.

Movie Stunt Camp Learn the tips, tricks, and ﬂips of the moviemaking business, including basic acting, stunt work, parkour, and martial arts choreography.

Ages -. June -, July -, Aug. -; am-pm. $/week, early registration $ oﬀ. Valhalla Training Center,  State St. Call -.

Music and Art from Around the World Camp Learn about the music and art from around the world. Every day, discover a new musical tradition and art style from a diﬀerent country. Each day is a new country, with instruments, dances, art, and more speciﬁc to that region. Open house is held for family and friends at week’s end.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., July - and -, ampm. $/session. Music with Malia and Friends Studio,  Chapala St. Call - or email musicwithmalia@gmail.com.

Nick Rail Music Band Camp This is the rd year that Nick Rail Music has put on a Summer Band Camp with professional instructors on woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments for kids at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. The band camp ends on July  with a ﬁnal concert!

Grades -. Tue./Thu., June  - July , amnoon. $. Reg. deadline June . First United

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Rockshop Academy Summer Sessions 

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Rockshop Academy aims to foster the next generation of aspiring musicians, teaching young rock stars how to write, play, and perform like the pros. Final session focuses on songwriting.

Learn L how to use a camera to see the world in a new way. Beginning and intermediate ph photographers achieve professional storyte telling skills by understanding exposure and co composition techniques. Maximum ﬁve st students per class.

Ages Ag -. Mon./Wed. or Tue./Thu. classes, June Ju  - Aug. ; am-am or -pm. $/ week. w Miramar Beach, Montecito. Call - or email photocamp@gmail.com.

Photojournalism P Camp Campers C learn photography, journalism, bl blogging, and more in this fun half-day ca camp. Program includes two location ﬁeld tr and daily assignment. trips

Ages Ag -. Mon.-Fri., June  - July , :am:pm.  $/session. Gateway Educational Services Se Learning Center, -C Hollister Ave., Goleta. Go Call - or visit gatewaycamps.com.

Prince P and Princess Camp This fun-ﬁlled morning camp is geared for young yo children wishing to explore movem ment, music, and friendships. Students may jo in for either one or both weeklong sesjoin si sions. A special studio performance celebratin all participants concludes each week of ing ca camp.

Ages Ag -. July -, July  - Aug. , ::am.  $. S.B. Festival Ballet, -B Chapala Ch St. Call - or email info@ santabarbarafestivalballet.com. sa

Ages -. Mon.- Fri., June  - Aug. , am-pm. $/week.  De la Vina St. Call -.

SBCC Summer Theatre Workshop Students work with sets, lights, makeup, costumes, and actors on an SBCC production and earn two college units.

Grades +. June  - July , :am-:pm. Free for high school students. SBCC Campus. Call - x.

SBMA Art Venture Camps Enjoy a host of artistic endeavors at the SBMA this summer, as a variety of camps will give students the opportunity to explore everything from impressionist painting to sculpture through diﬀerent sessions and themes.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , various themed sessions, am-pm. $-$/ week. SBMA’s Ridley-Tree Education Center at McCormick House,  Santa Barbara St. Call - or register at sbma.net/kidsfamilies.

SBMA Ceramics Camps These weeklong, full-day camps introduce sculptural and functional ceram-ics and include hand building, CONT’D wheel throwing, ﬁnishing, and

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Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , ampm. $-$. SBMA’s Ridley-Tree Education Center at McCormick House,  Santa Barbara St. Call - or register at sbma. net/kidsfamilies.

S.B. Summer Stock Camp Come join in the jungle fun as S.B. Summer Stock presents The Jungle Book. Everybody acts, sings, and dances. The plays are highly adapted works designed to provide maximum parts, creative license, and participation for young actors.

Ages -. One session, Mon.-Thu., June  July , am-:pm. $. S.B. Unitarian Society,  Santa Barbara St. Call - or visit sbsummerstock.com.

SBYMA Summer of Rock Camp Camp-goers will join and perform with their very own band. All levels welcome.

Ages -. Mon-Fri., Aug.- and Aug. -, -pm. $/week. S.B. Youth Academy,  S. Quarantina St. Call - or visit sbyma.org.

S.B. Youth Music Elementary Program Learn how to play drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, and be a lead singer! Experience performing with a band and singing in a rocking choir. Includes end-of-program performance.

Ages -. Mon-Fri., July - and -, ampm. $/week. S.B. Youth Academy,  S. Quarantina St. Call - or visit sbyma.org.

Sino West Dance and Kung Fu Summer Camps Full- and half-day summer programs are designed to enhance children’s all-around experience and creativeness. Campers engage in activities including ballet, acrobatics, jazz, kung fu, yoga, costume fun, creative photography, games and arts, and crafts.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. ; am-noon, am-:pm, and -:pm. $$/week. Sino West Performing Arts,  Hollister Ave., Goleta. Call - or visit sinowestsb.com/summercamps.

Songwriting Camp Kick your summer off with a week of music, playing, and fun! Learn how to write and perform songs in many different genres. In a positive environment, students will learn basic song structure, instrumentation, performance techniques, and other fundamentals. Each day will offer new activities and musical explorations. The week will end with a rockin’ live concert showcasing each student’s new composition.

Ages -. Three Mon.-Fri. sessions, start June , am-pm. $. Music with Malia and Friends Studio,  Chapala St. Call - or email musicwithmalia@gmail.com.

Stage Left Presents: The Little Mermaid Shana Lynch Arthurs and Steven Lovelace will teach intensive training for young performing artists, alongside audition technique, physical comedy, characterization, vocal technique, dance, and set and costume design/construction. Technical Track available. Interested students will not only participate in camp activities but also learn about lights, sound, design and construction, and backstage training. Culminates with four performances of The Little Mermaid.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - July . -:pm. $. Goleta Valley Junior High,  Stow Canyon Rd. Call - or email stageleft@cox.net.

Summer Dance Fiesta Intensive Daily dance classes will include ballet, preballet, jazz, modern, and hip-hop.

Ages -+. Mon.-Fri., :-pm. $-$. Montecito School of Ballet,  E. Gutierrez St. Call - or visit montecitoschoolofballet.com.

Triple Threat Musical Theater Camp Triple Threat Musical Theater Camp will focus on building conﬁdence in the area of acting, singing, and dancing! Led by local professionals Kit Steinkellner, Sharlae Jenkins, Denise Rinaldi, and Keely Moore, this camp is geared for the serious musicaltheater student. Week ends with informal showcase on June .

Ages -. June -, -pm. $. S.B. Festival Ballet, -B Chapala St. Call - or email info@santabarbarafestivalballet.com.

Young Artist Summer Camps Campers will get a hands-on immersion into the world of art as they are encouraged to release their creative spirit in a variety of media. Weekly topics range from basic visual concepts and media, to sketching, still lifes, color, acrylic painting, and mixed media. Call for more information on weekly themes.

Ages -. Six Mon.-Fri. sessions, June  July , am-pm. $/week. Santa Barbara Arts,  State St., Ste. . Call - or email youngartistcamps@gmail.com.

Young Singers Club A high-energy, inclusive, creative performing arts camp with a focus on singing choreographed solos and in groups. Artists and performances studied include Les Misérables, Wicked, Glee, Mamma Mia, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, and more. Weekly camp includes daily voice lessons, acting, skits, team-building games, and tons of fun.

Ages -. Weekly sessions, July  - Aug. ,  am-pm. $. Mountain View School,  Queen Ann Ln., Goleta. Call - or visit youngsingersclub.com.

Young Writer Camp This nurturing and stimulating camp maximizes writing skills through creative activities taught by classroom teachers. Oﬀered for the st summer through the

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& RECREATION The City of Santa Barbara’s Parks & Rec Department oﬀers a myriad of summer opportunities — too many to list! To help you choose from all the options, we’ve compiled a list of the various camps’ titles. Prices, dates, locations, and ages vary, so please contact the Parks Department for more information at 564-5418. You can also register for any of these camps online at sbparksandrecreation.com/summerfun.

Full-Day Camps:

Aquacamp Camp Rad Turf & Surf GeoCaching Adventures Summer Gymnastics Camp CATS (Creative Acting Theater School) Summer Camps (and half-day) Girls Rock S.B. VEX RoboCraft Camps

Half-Day Sports Clinics:

SK Skool Little Shredders SK Skool Coast--Coast Irish Soccer Camp East Beach Volleyball Clinic AAA Beach Volleyball Clinic Elite Beach Doubles Volleyball Camp Jr. Tennis Clinic Jr. Swim and Tennis Clinic HEARTS Horse Riding Camp Ka Nai‘a Outrigger and Kayaking Clinic Kiteboarding Clinic Stand-Up Paddling Clinic Club West Youth Running Camp Jr. Golf Programs, Camps, and League Guppy Golf at Muni

Half-Day Science Camps:

Teaching Engineering to Kids with LEGOs Summer Science/Adventure Camps CircuitCraft Camps

Half-Day Arts Camps:

Summer Clay Camps Art from the Heart Summer Camps Summer Ballet Camp Mindful Me

Individual Camps and Programs: Sports

Jr. Lifeguard Program Jr. Lifeguard Nippers Program Jr. Lifeguard Swim Lessons Summer Fun Free Drop-In Recreation Program

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Santa Barbara Saints Youth Football League Registration is now open Player sign ups and coaches applications are now online. Early Bird Registration: March 15- April 30.

Youth Enrichment Youth Ceramics

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Water Safety Instructor Course Lifeguard Training Franklin Community Center and Twelve Teen Center Activities

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South Coast Writing Project, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UCSB.

Grades -. July -. am-:pm. $. UCSB. Call - or email young writers@ucsb.edu.

Youth Aerial Charette Camp Charrette sessions will immerse beginner through advanced youth in the art of aerial performance by guiding  students through six aerial disciplines, including static trapeze, aerial fabrics, lyra, corde lisse, sling, and invented apparatus, as well as a challenging study in conditioning, choreography, technique, dance, and theater. Each intensive will culminate in a rich and diverse public ensemble performance that highlights every artist’s unique strengths and talents.

Ages -. Three two-week sessions, Mon.-Fri., start July , am-pm. $/session. S.B. Centre for Aerial Arts,  E. Gutierrez St. Call - or visit sbaerial .com.

SPORTS Bacara Kids’ Tennis Camp Join a fun-ﬁlled tennis clinic for kids. Includes expert instruction with Bacara’s renowned tennis pro on four Har-Tru clay-composition courts. All equipment is provided.

Ages -. Four Mon.-Fri. sessions, June  - July . :-pm. $/week. Bacara Resort & Spa,  Hollister Ave., Goleta. Call -.

Brady Tennis Camps Top teaching professionals and world-ranked players teach the best tips for improving footwork, consistency, and power at this residency and day camp for children and adults.

Junior Sessions for ages - begin June  at UCSB. $-$/session. Full details at bradycamps.com.

Buﬀ Platt Golf Camps Junior golfers with some playing experience and a desire to improve will beneﬁt from this camp. Instructors create a fun and positive atmosphere to develop the player skill set, including putting, short game, and ball striking. Campers play nine holes every day and learn game management and golf etiquette.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri. sessions start June , am-noon. $/session or $/ session for + sessions. Twin Lakes Golf Course,  Hollister Ave., Goleta. Call - or visit buffplatt.com.

Camp Elings Camp Elings oﬀers a variety of weeklong sports camps based on the Six Pillars of Character Counts: Camps are Sports & Nature Activities, BMX, Tennis, Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, and Soc- CONT’D

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YOUTH SUMMER SAILING PROGRAM cer. Camper-to-counselor ratio is : ratio, and each counselor is CPR and ﬁrst aid certiﬁed.

experienced surfers. Wetsuits and surfboards are available to campers.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , am-pm. $/ week. Elings Park,  Las Positas Rd. Call - or visit elingspark.org.

Ages +. Dates TBA. $. Carpinteria Community Pool,  Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Call - to register, or call - x for more information.

Cardinal Football Contact Camp

Climbing Adventure for Kids

All the techniques, contact included, put on by Bishop Diego High School football staﬀ, players, and area youth coaches focusing on teaching the proper and safe execution of football fundamentals and improvement of skills in a fun environment.

Throughout the program, campers learn different aspects of climbing, including safety, movement skills, resting techniques, different types of holds, basic knots, and intermediate climbing skills. Team belaying is taught on the high wall, and bouldering techniques keep campers aware and confident. Games like Twister on the wall, Hula-Hoop traverse, and speed climbing keep the sessions challenging.

Ages -. July -, :am-:pm. $-$. Bishop Diego High School football ﬁeld,  La Colina Rd. Call - x or email tcrawford@bishopdiego.org. Sign-up deadline June .

Cardinal Football Noncontact Mini-Camp Bishop Diego High School’s competitive football program will foster youth participation with a noncontact camp focused on building the fundamentals of the game in a fun environment.

Ages -. June -, :am-:pm. $-$. Bishop Diego High School football ﬁeld,  La Colina Rd. Call - x or email tcrawford@bishopdiego.org. Sign-up deadline June .

Carpinteria Junior Lifeguards Junior Lifeguards have great fun while they learn ﬁrst aid skills, CPR, ocean ecology, beach and wave dynamics, and the value of spirited competition and physical ﬁtness. All participants will be required to pass a noncompetitive ocean and pool swim test.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , :am-:pm. $. Carpinteria Community Pool,  Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Call - to register or call - x for more information.

Carpinteria Sailing Camp Have fun learning basic sailing and boating safety. Certiﬁed ocean lifeguards trained in sailing instruct campers on how to catch the wind and ride across the water on -foot Hobie Cats.

Ages +. Mon.-Fri., dates TBA, :-:pm. Carpinteria Community Pool,  Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. Call - to register or call - x for more information.

Carpinteria Surfing Camp Beginning surfers will learn surfing safety, technique, and etiquette from certified lifeguards who are also

June 10 - August 16, 2013 Ages 8-17

✦ 9am Morning Sessions and 1pm Afternoon Sessions ✦ Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Levels ✦ Tuition Starts at $350 for a Two-Week Session ✦ Scholarships Available

Ages +. Mon.-Fri., July  - Aug. , -:pm. $/ session. UCSB Recreation Ctr.,  Ocean Rd. Call - or visit recreation.ucsb.edu.

Cycling Camp Go green and safely experience the freedom of having a set of wheels. Learn bike skills, how to choose a route and ﬁx a ﬂat, and basic bike mechanics, while you navigate neighborhood streets.

Ages -. June - (Goleta), June - (S.B.), amnoon or :-:pm. $/session. Goleta Valley Junior High,  Stow Canyon Rd., Goleta; Santa Barbara Junior High,  E. Cota St. Call - or visit bicicentro.org/ youth.

DPHS Baseball Camp Dos Pueblos High School Community Programs oﬀer youth baseball players the opportunity to learn from coaches and players in a weeklong camp. During the week, campers will improve their hitting, ﬁelding, throwing, catching, pitching, and speed training skills, showing them what it is like to play baseball at a high school level.

Ages -. June- and Aug. -, am-pm. $/week. Varsity Baseball Field at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

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DPHS Basketball Camp Dos Pueblos High School Community Programs will help participants learn how to become well-rounded, team-oriented basketball players. This camp provides a rewarding and enjoyable experience for campers of all ability levels. Coaches teach campers defensive

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Ages - (-:am); ages - (noon-:pm). June - and July -. $/ week. Sovine Gym at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

DPHS Cheer Camp Campers will learn new cheers and routines to perform at the end of the week. Everyone will receive a T-shirt and a set of pom-poms to help create a sense of team spirit as they learn and dance alongside the Dos Pueblos High School Spirit Squad.

Ages - (exceptions made). Aug. -, am-pm. $. Cafeteria at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

DPHS Dive Camp This dive camp is designed for divers of all ages and abilities. Training will start with dry land conditioning and basic tumbling before moving to the springboards. Campers will learn and improve their skills for competition from experienced coaches who have trained beginners to Olympic divers.

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skills, ball handling, and shooting. Every camper will receive a camp T-shirt after competitions at the end of the week.

Camp Haverim Santa Barbara’s Jewish day-camp is back for its 7th season! Once again, camp will meet at the spectacular scenic Cate School. (Transportation available from Goleta and SB)

Two - 2 week sessions 9 am to 3 pm Session I: July 15 - July 26

Session II: July 29 - August 9 Our camp is accredited by the American Camp Association and has a non-denominational approach in activities (including Art, Music, Newspaper, Drama, Talent Shows, Daily Swimming (or an alternative water activity, such as slip-n-slid) and a full array of Sports to campers K-6. We offer a separate program with more challenging activities for 7th and 8th graders.

For more information: visit www.camphaverim.com or contact Camp Director Itzik Ben Sasson at 805/895-6593 or camphaverim@gmail.com

All ages. Mon-Fri., June  - Aug., noon-pm. $/week, $/summer. Elings Aquatic Center at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

DPHS Summer Swim Lessons Dos Pueblos High School Community Programs offer a variety of classes including parent/child classes for any student under  years old, adults who are first-time swimmers, stroke correction for advanced swimmers or water polo players, and more. The American Red Cross Certified facility has certified lifeguards and water safety instructors.

All ages. June  - Aug., :am-pm. $-$/session. Elings Aquatic Center at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

DPHS Triathlon Camp Join Dos Pueblos athletes and coaches from all sports to enhance skills needed for a triathlon. Held in the actual race location, campers will further their abilities and become comfortable with the racing environment.

Ages -. July -, -pm. $. Elings Aquatic Center at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

DPHS Volleyball Camp Girls from all parts of the community have the opportunity to learn and reﬁne the fundamentals of volleyball. During the week, campers will improve their passing, hitting, set-

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Photojournalism Camps 2013 Do your kids love technology? Do you want them to learn something worthwhile while online? • Integrated writing and photo assignments. • Photojournalists guest speakers. • Small classes with personal attention and help.

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Rainbow School Now Enrolling For Summer Camp 11 one-week sessions (June 10 - Aug 23) Arts & CrAfts • GAmes • DrAmA • GArDeninG • CookinG • DAily fielD trips & more!

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CreAte An online blog 2 Field Trips • 20 hours of instruction Learn photography • Improve writing skills

5689 Hollister Ave. • Goleta

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HORSE CAMP

oin Ridgewood Farm at the historic Rancho Asoleado for fun in the sun with horses. Specializing in teaching

children 6 & up the fundamentals of hunter/jumper riding and horsemanship along with horse related arts & crafts.

Three Sessions: July 16-20, August 6-10 & August 13-17 Tuesday - Saturday 10-3pm/ 250 Nogal Drive SB 93110 Visit our web site for applications and more information:

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SUMMER CAMP GUIDE 2013 ting, defense, and footwork. Coaches will be teaching and running drills while Dos Pueblos High School Varsity players will add instruction and excitement to the camp.

Ages -. June -, -pm. $. Sovine Gym at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

DPHS Wrestling Camp Dos Publos High School Head Coach Anthony Califano and Division I AllAmerican Ati Conner invite area athletes to a ﬁve-day training camp where participants will learn the fundamentals of the sport of wrestling. Each participant will be instructed in core training, proper nutrition, and the many beneﬁts of working hard.

Ages -. July -, am-pm. $. Sovine Gym at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

Family Triathlon Experience Ten-week Triathlon experience will help prepare you and your child for the Santa Barbara Sprint Triathlon, parent/child division (-yard ocean swim, six-mile bike, and two-mile run) set for Sunday, August . Learn valuable skills while bonding with your child. Our program is for those with basic swim/bike/run skills and open to all levels. This is a noncompetitive introduction to the sport of triathlon. Pool development/ technique will be followed by ocean practices.

Children under . Sat., June  - Aug. , -am. $ per parent/child team, $ each additional parent or child. San Marcos High School,  Hollister Ave., Goleta. Call - or email info@momsinmotion.com.

Fifth Set Surf and Tennis Camp Program activities include surﬁng, stand-up paddleboarding, kayaking, and tennis, as well as special trips along the Gaviota coast and at the Channel Islands.

Ages +. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , ampm. $/week. UCSB. Call - or email fifthsettennis@cox.net.

Flag Football Camp Elevate your game at Flag Football Camp. Come run routes, learn the fundamentals on both sides of the ball, and get ﬁt doing it. Campers will get conditioning and a chance to swim, and the weeklong camp leads to scrimmages.

week. Girsh Park,  Phelps Rd., Goleta. Call - or email info@sbforesters.org.

Girls in Motion Running Our six-week running camp is designed to foster a love for running through fun, friendship, and giving back — all in one “girlpower” supportive environment. Girls will enjoy running games, obstacle courses, ageappropriate distance running, conﬁdenceboosting activities, guest speakers, and tracking personal progress. Girls of all abilities are encouraged to join this supportive group, led by Becky Aaronson — experienced youth coach, motivator, and mom.

Ages -. Wed., June  - July , :-pm. At various parks and open spaces around Santa Barbara. $. Call - or email info@ momsinmotion.com.

Golf and Swim Camp Get into the swing of things with our fun and interactive Golf and Swim Camp. SNAG® Golf, Starting New At Golf is the best ﬁrst-touch program to eﬀectively teach the game of golf to people of all ages and ability levels. Campers will also learn and practice Y core values and enjoy a dip in the pool.

Grades -. June -. $-$. Montecito Family YMCA,  Santa Rosa Ln. Call - or visit ciymca.org/montecito.

Harmony Horse Training Summer Riding Camp Learn to ride and care for horses in a balanced, fun environment. Located in the Santa Barbara foothills, the training facility oﬀers a large jumping arena, ﬂattening arena, and trails. The horses are gentle animals that work great with all levels of riders. Campers learn English riding technique and proper horse care in a safe environment under the guidance of a seasoned trainer.

Grades -. June - and Aug. -. $-$. Montecito Family YMCA,  Santa Rosa Ln. Call - or visit ciymca.org/montecito.

Ages -. Multiple sessions, June  - Aug. , am-:pm. $/rider.  N. San Marcos Rd., Santa Barbara, CA . Call - or email harmonyhorsetraining@gmail.com.

Foresters’ Baseball Camp

Inline Skate Camp

Have fun and learn more about baseball with the best college players in the country, four-time national champs the Santa Barbara Foresters. Each day includes baseball instruction (hitting, pitching, ﬁelding, baserunning) and baseball games in a safe and fun environment at Girsh Park — perfect for beginners or experienced players.

Learn or improve your inline skating abilities at Inline Skate Camp, but that’s not all! Enjoy playing small group games, working on arts/ crafts and learning about the Y’s four core values! Camp concludes with skaters watching themselves on video.

Boys and girls ages -. Weekly sessions, Mon.Fri., June - and July -, am-pm. $/

Grades -. July -, July  - Aug. . $-$. Montecito Family YMCA,  Santa Rosa Ln. Call - or visit ciymca.org/montecito.

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Y camps are all about adventure, healthy fun, personal growth, new friendships and lasting memories... all in a safe supportive environment. Camp info and online registration at ciymca.org CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA Strengthening Santa Barbara and Ventura counties since 1887 • Camarillo • Montecito • Santa Ynez • Lompoc • Santa Barbara • Ventura • Youth and Family Services

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Ken Ota’s Aikido with Ki and Judo Summer Camp Learn the art of aikido and ukemi — break falls and other exercises — in a safe, fun format. Develop conﬁdence, coordination, and respect — must-learns before any other sport!

Two ﬁve-week sessions, Mon.-Fri., -pm. June  - July , July  - Aug. . $. Two days/week classes $/month.  Magnolia Ave., Goleta. Call -.

Kidz Bowl Free Summer For the th year in a row, Zodo’s — Bowling & Beyond is turning summer into bowling season with Kidz Bowl Free Summer. Any kid under  can come in and bowl a free game in a safe environment, all summer long.

Ages  and under. Daily, May  - Sept. , :am-:pm. Call - or visit kidsbowlfree.com.

Kids in Motion Hiking Carve out time with your child to enjoy our beautiful Santa Barbara hiking trails. Share ﬁve Sundays exploring scenic beginner and intermediate trails while connecting with nature and enjoying new family friendships. Enjoy guest speakers, family fun, and an opportunity to give back in a noncompetitive, supportive environment. Led by hiking enthusiast and father of two adorable daughter hikers, Michael Williams.

Ages -. Sun., June  - July ,:-:pm. $/parent and child, additional family members $. Various trails in Santa Barbara. Call - or email info@momsinmotion.com.

Nike Tennis Camp Join the fun and improve your tennis skills this summer! The Nike Tennis Camp at UCSB oﬀers overnight (ages +), extended

day, and day camps for players of all abilities — for those wanting to learn all skills to tournament training and high school competition.

Ages -. July - and July -. Day, :am:pm, $/session; extended day, :am-pm, $/session; overnight (ages +), $/session. UCSB,  University Rd. Call () - to register.

one. Soccer Schools Summer Camps Known for its challenging curriculum and dedicated coaches, one. Soccer Schools oﬀers day and residential camps at Westmont College (unless noted otherwise) for ages -. Day programs include Premier, for focused training; GK Premier, speciﬁc to the goalkeeper; and Juniors, teaching core skills. Five-day and -day residential (overnight) camps train players with aspirations of playing at the highest club or collegiate level. DAY CAMPS: Premier and GK Premier: July  Aug. , am-pm, S.B. High School. Juniors: June - (Westmont); July -, July  - Aug.  (SBHS); am-noon. RESIDENTIAL CAMPS: Elite Week/ Elite GK Week: June -, June  - July . Elite Academy/GK Academy: June  - July . Elite West Coast College ID: June -. $-$,. Call - or visit onesoccerschool.com.

Presidio Fencing Club Games, drills, and other activities will introduce the Olympic sport of fencing — led by competitive athletes and talented fencers alike.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., July  - Aug. , am-pm. $/week before June . Presidio Fencing Club,  E. Cota St. Call - or visit presidiofencing.com.

Rainbow School Summer Camp Rainbow School’s summer camp oﬀers a safe, secure, noncompetitive, stimulating envi-

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Friends & Fun 10 weekly camps June 10th to August 19th

9am-3pm • Ages 5-16 • ½ day options Beginning to Advanced Levels Camp Directors Free Sign up by Hugh Stratman & Jeff Villano racquet to 805.682.4722 April 30th & all beginning receive hugh@sbtennisclub.com players 10% off

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life of one child, contact us today for more information.

There are more than 200 infants and toddlers in Santa Barbara County’s foster care system, and a shortage of homes to care for them. Angels is making a difference. We specialize in finding loving, local homes for babies and offer both short and long-term foster and foster-to-adopt programs. Angels provides all of the training, support and resources to make each family’s foster experience a rewarding one!

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SUMMER CAMP GUIDE 2013 ronment. Activities include gardening, drama, creative writing, arts and crafts, games, cooking, and bowling. Daily ﬁeld trips to area parks, beaches, and natural, cultural, and historical sites.

Grades +. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , :am-:pm. Rainbow School,  Hollister Ave., Ste. C, Goleta. $/ day full-day, $/day half-day. Call - or email rainbow.school1@verizon.net.

Ridgewood Farm Horse Camp Join Ridgewood Farm at the historic Rancho Asoleado for fun in the sun with horses. Specializing in teaching children  and up the fundamentals of hunter/jumper riding and horsemanship along with horse related arts and crafts.

Ages +. Three Tue.-Sat. sessions, July -, Aug.-, Aug. -, am-pm. $.  Nogal Dr. Call - or visit ridgewoodfarm.org.

Rocknroll Fight Company MMA Kids Camp Learn boxing, muay Thai, Brazilian jiujitsu, and more — valuable skills to increase conﬁdence, coordination, and discipline.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , am-pm. $/ month half-day, $/month full-day.  Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Call - or email rexppena@gmail.com.

SBFitKidz Sports Summer Day Camps Various camps oﬀer a fun all-sports program, including soccer, basketball, volleyball, lacrosse, and baseball, designed by SBFITKIDZ to educate, motivate, and inspire children to develop a love for sports, physical ﬁtness, and health.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., July  - Aug. , am-pm or pm. $$/week. Hope Elementary, Hollister, Kellogg, and Cold Spring schools. Call - or email sbfitkidz@gmail.com.

S.B. Rock Gym Weekly summer climbing camps for kids oﬀer ageappropriate instruction — from basic climbing skills to advanced movement techniques — all in a fun and safe environment.

Kids Climbing: Ages -, begins June , am-noon. Rocking Adventure Camp: Ages -, begins June , -pm. Weekly ﬁve-day sessions. $-$/week. S.B. Rock Gym,  State St. Call - or visit sbrockgym. com.

S.B. Sailing Center Kayak/ Stand-Up Paddleboard Camp Campers get to choose between an Ocean Kayak Scrambler or a YOLO stand-up paddleboard as they learn basic paddling techniques and exercise and play fun games along the majestic coastline.

Ages -. Weekly Mon.-Fri. sessions, June  - Aug. , :am-:pm. $/members, $/nonmembers. S.B. Sailing Center, between public boat launch ramp and Marina . Call - or email ian@sbsail.com.

S.B. Sailing Center Youth Sailing Camp With an emphasis on safety and fun, this wind energy camp teaches nautical terminology, knots, rules of the road, tacking, jibing, sail trim, and points of sail.

Ages -. Weekly Mon-Fri. session, June  - Aug. , -pm. $/members, $/nonmembers. S.B. Sailing Center, between public boat launch ramp and Marina . Call - or email ian@sbsail.com.

July 1st thru July 26th

S.B. Soccer Vacation Kids Day Camps These camps are a great way for kids to improve their soccer skills through creative and fun learning environments. Open to children of all levels. Campers are coached by UCSB men’s and women’s soccer players. Separate goalkeeping instruction will be provided daily.

$675 for all 4 weeks or $185 per week

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Sign Sign up up for for the the week week or or the the full full 44 week week session! session! The Wizard of Oz

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Jul 22-26

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June - and - (Hollister School), Aug. - (Girsh Park), am-pm. $-$/week. Call - or visit santabarbarasoccer.com.

FUN • CREATIVE • FRIENDS • PERFORMANCES AND SO MUCH MORE!

S.B. Surf Adventures Camp

DANCE

ACTING

COSTUME, SET MAKING, CRAFTS

ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop & more for all levels

acting workshops for all levels

learn costume design and set design for all levels

The long, rolling waves at Leadbetter Beach make this camp great for beginners. Each camper receives a camp T-shirt, hat, goodie bag, and lunch from the Shoreline Café in addition to an unforgettable surfing experience. Camp is held with CPR-certified surfing instructors and is best suited for kids with basic swimming skills.

Ages +. Mon-Fri., June  - Aug. , am-pm. $/ week or $/day. Leadbetter Beach. Call - or visit santabarbarasurfadventures.com.

S.B. Swim Camp Campers will work on improving all four competitive swim strokes, while building their endurance for a busy summer of swimming and playing in the water. Swimmers will work with our very experienced coaching staﬀ at all levels, including UCSB Coach Gregg Wilson.

Ages -. June - and July -, :am-pm. $$/week. UCSB Campus Pool,  University Rd. Call - or visit wilsonswimming.com.

S.B. Tennis Club Tennis and Swim Camps Enjoy a fun-ﬁlled day on the courts, in the pool, or both. Open to beginning through advanced levels with half-day options. Prizes, T-shirts, and a pizza party for all, and beginners receive a free racquet. Camper/ counselor ratio of : maximum.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. . Full day: ampm. Tennis only: am-noon. Half-day tennis and swim: am-noon. $-$, registration by Apr.  receives  percent oﬀ. Santa Barbara Tennis Club,  Foothill Rd. Call - or visit santabarbaratennisclub.com.

S.B. Youth Sailing Foundation Camps Summer sailing sessions for novices (morning) and racers (afternoon) develop self-reliance, responsibility, teamwork, and sportsmanship in young people, along with a constant awareness of safety.

Ages -. Two-week sessions, June  - Aug. , am-noon and -:pm. $/session.  Harbor Wy. Call - or visit sbysf.org.

The Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos beach volleyball camps is a grassroots youth camp focused on teaching children the fundamentals and strategies of volleyball using the techniques and philosophies that made Sinjin and Randy the greatest team in beach volleyball history.

Ages -. Mon.- Fri., June  - Aug. , am-noon. $/day, $/ﬁve days, $/ days, $/ days, $/summer. West Beach. Call () - or visit beachvolleyballcamps.com.

This fun-ﬁlled Girls Inc. gymnastics camp consists of instruction by certiﬁed

Santa Barbara Charter School

Small Fun Filled Day Camp for Children ages 5-12 June 3rd - August 2nd 7:30 am - 5:30 pm

We offer flexible scheduling $160 per week $35 per day $25 per half-day (4.5hrs)

Activities Include

• Indoor & Outdoor Games • Creative Playground • Arts & Crafts • Local Field Trips • Morning & Afternoon Healthy Snack Provided for more info call Ginnie & Becky: Cell - 729-2152

6100 Stow Canyon Rd located on the Goleta Valley Jr. High School Campus

Santa barbara tenniS club

swim & tennis camp

Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos Beach Volleyball Camps

Summer Gymnastics Program

Hollister Ave. #1 • Santa Barbara DANCE UNLIMITED| 5370 805.681.0684 • www.sbdanceunlimited.com

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10 Weekly Sessions, June 10th - August 19th 9am-3pm • Ages 5-12 • ½ day options • Nov-Int Levels 10% OFF Early Rigistration by April 30th FREE RAcquEt for All Beginners Cost: Between $200-$375

www.santabarbaratennisclub.com Santa Barbara Tennis Club • 2375 Foothill Road, 805.682.4722 april 11, 2013

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SAT APRIL 27

2013 1 - 4pm

DIA DEL NIÑO CHILDREN’S DAY ‘Marionettes of Mexico’

FREE ADMISSION

ARTS CRAFTS PIÑATAS STORIES MUSIC FOOD EXHIBITS

Stewards of God’s Creation

Day CaMp

featuring activities in gardening and music

& MORE!

1023 Bath Street | 805.963.1032 | www.casadolores.org

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:

Learn to celebrate and care for the earth, our bodies, minds, and spirits through music, gardening, Bible stories, outdoor games and arts and crafts. Campers will use food from the Trinity Gardens to help create healthy lunches each day. One week only, June 17-21, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm M-F. Inquire for availability of early drop-off and/or aftercare. For children entering grades K-6. Trinity Lutheran Church, 909 N. La Cumbre Rd. $125/child or $225/ family. Scholarships available. Lunch provided. Call (805)687-1577 or visit telcsb.org to register. Inquiries to telcsbsummercamp@gmail.com

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SUMMER CAMP GUIDE 2013 instructors, obstacle courses, arts and crafts, games, and more! No gymnastics experience necessary. Great for girls and boys, beginners and intermediate gymnasts!

Grades K-. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , am-pm (ages -), am-pm (age  only). $-$. Goleta Valley Center,  Hollister Ave., -; Santa Barbara Center,  E. Ortega St., -.

Surf & Kayak Camp Learn to surf, kayak, and stand-up paddle with talented and qualiﬁed lifeguards/instructors.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. . -pm. $/week. UCSB Campus Point. Call - or visit recreation.ucsb.edu.

Swim Tune-Up Clinic In anticipation of upcoming summer aquatic activities, such as junior lifeguards, swim lessons, surf and kayak, various other outdoor ocean sports and pool activities, summer swim leagues, or camps that partake in aquatic activities, join us for the Youth Swim Tune-Up Clinic. It’s a fun way to splash back into aquatic activities.

All ages. Sun., Apr.  - May , :-:pm. $. UCSB Recreation Center,  Ocean Rd. Call - or visit recreation.ucsb.edu.

Tennis and Swim Camp The Montecito Family YMCA will be oﬀering three weeks of Tennis and Swim Camp this summer. Quickstart Tennis is a fun and easy transition into tennis for kids. Campers will also share in character development time, enjoy arts and crafts, play in big group games, and get a chance to swim.

Grades -. July -, July -, and Aug. -. $-$/week. Montecito Family YMCA,  Santa Rosa Ln. Call - or visit ciymca.org/montecito.

Tramp Camp Bounce your kids to health this summer at aerobic fitness in La Cumbre Plaza. The wall-to-wall rebounding floor makes fitness fun! Camp activities include exercise, games, and Pizza Mizza.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , -pm. $/day. Call -.

UCSB Jr. Lifeguards Participate in a program that will improve self-esteem, teamwork, physical ﬁtness, ﬁrst aid/ocean safety skills, environmental awareness, and that’s just plain fun.

Ages -. Tryouts: Apr. , , and June . Four-week sessions, June  - Aug. . $/session, $ for both. UCSB Recreation Center,  Ocean Rd. Call - or visit recreation.ucsb.edu.

Victory Sessions Golf Camps Victory Sessions Golf Camps integrate professional golf instruction with Christian principles to help young golfers of all ability levels realize their full potential.

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Ages -. June -, July -, and Aug. -. :-:pm. $/week. Twin Lakes Golf Course and Training Facility,  Hollister Ave, Goleta. Call - or visit victorysessions.com.

Victory Sessions Surf Camps Victory Sessions Surf Camps integrate surf instruction with Christian principles to help surfers of all ability levels realize their full potential. Our Surf Safaris, for intermediate to advanced surfers, are roving day camps that travel the coast from Jalama to Malibu.

Beginner Surf Camp: Ages -. July -, July  - Aug. , Aug. -. amnoon. $/week. Santa Claus Lane Beach, Carpinteria. Surf Safari: Ages -. June -, July -, Aug. -. am-pm. $/week. Calvary Chapel,  N. Calle César Chávez. Call - or register at victorysessions.com.

Wendy Fereday Swim School Wendy Fereday Swim School sustains year-round swim lessons but has so many options for families to get involved for the summer time. Indoor and outdoor swimming lessons oﬀered on a ﬂexible schedule to work around vacation time.

Ages  months -  years. June  - Aug. . $.-$/class.  Modoc Rd., Goleta. Call - or visit feredayswimschool.com.

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Conscious Kids Preschool

A Mindfulness Based & Relationally Rooted Preschool 805-708-2218 ConsciousKidsPreschool.com TeacherTosh@gmail.com april 11, 2013

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Summer Adventure Horse Camp

Harmony... Enjoyment Balance Confidence

Campers learn all aspects of horsemanship in a fun and safe environment.

Harmony Horse Training Summer Camps

Summer Camp Dates:

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SUMMER CAMP GUIDE 2013 Westmont Athletics Warrior Summer Sports Camps Boys and girls of all skill levels get instruction in a variety of sports that range from basketball and track to archery, tennis, and soccer. Campers receive individual coaching by a professional staﬀ at state-of-the-art athletic facilities in a safe and healthy environment.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - July , am-pm or pm; extended childcare, $/hour. $-$. Westmont College. Call - or visit westmont.edu/sports/camps.

SCIENCE/MATH Ancient Architecture and Engineering Camp The ancient practices of building and construction create opportunities to learn various geometry and problem-solving games and activities.

Grades -. Mon.-Fri., July - and -, :-:pm. $/week. First Baptist Church,  Veronica Springs Rd. Call () - or visit kidzengineering101.com.

Design/Build Camp Work through the process of building construction to understand how engineers design and build. Also create a mini structure with building materials and landscaping.

Grades - (:am-:pm), grades - (:-:pm). July  - Aug. . $/week. First Baptist Church,  Veronica Springs Rd. Call () - or visit kidzengineering101.com.

iD Tech Camps & iD Teen Academies Take interests further and gain a competitive edge! Campers will create iPhone apps, video games, C++ and Java programs, movies, and more in small classes in a fun and challenging setting.

Ages -. Weeklong, day, and overnight programs, July  - Aug. . $-$/week. UCSB Campus. Call () - or visit internaldrive.com to register.

KE Lego Design and Building Management Camp Learn how to build like architects and engineers at this camp that uses math skills in building a company with Legos and play money.

Grades -. Mon.-Fri., July - and -, am-noon. $/ week. First Baptist Church,  Veronica Springs Rd. Call () - or visit kidzengineering101.com.

Math Camp at S.B. Family School Math Camp means fun, hands-on exploration of creative mathematics for “kids who like to play with numbers.” Weekly themes include magic, art, codes, sports, games, money, and inﬁnity. Run by an area math team coach with  years of experience.

Grades -. June  - Aug. , :-:am. $/week. Private Goleta home. Call - or visit sbfamilyschool .com/camps.

OUTDOOR/ GENERAL Camp Fox Your camper stays an entire week on Catalina Island in villas or cabins just steps away from the Paciﬁc Ocean!

Camp Fox is the place for beachfront swimming, kayaking, inner-tubing, hiking, tide pools, stand-up paddleboard, high ropes course, beach volleyball, snorkeling, Frisbee golf, campﬁres, and more!

Grades -. Sun.-Sat., July -. $-$/session. Stuart C. Gildred Family YMCA,  N. Refugio Rd. Call - or visit ciymca.org/stuartgildred.

Camp Natoma Residence Camp Sleep out under the stars. Hiking, swimming, crafts, music, archery, outdoor cooking, discovering nature, and backpacking trips are just a few of the many activities you will enjoy at Camp Natoma, which is celebrating its nd year.

Grades -. Sun.-Sat., June  - July . $/session. Paso Robles. Call -, visit campnatoma.org, or contact Camp Fire U.S.A. Central Coast Council,  Pomeroy Ave., Pismo Beach.

Camp QT In addition to exploring the community with beach excursions, nature hikes, and area attractions, the natural environment at QT is full of exploration and discovery. Children are able to extend and deepen their understanding through multiple hands-on experiences including gathering eggs from chickens, doing organic gardening, using QT’s own food and eggs for cooking projects, and learning how to compost and recycle. Other elements include daily splash-ﬁlled water activities, art in the art studio, music, music, music ending with a rocking performance, and rock-star costumes.

Ages -. June  - Aug. , am-pm ($/week), am:pm ($/week). Register by May . Quality Time Child Development Center.,  Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara. Call - or email qtinsb@gmail.com.

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Junior Lifeguards This fun and educational program provides children 8-17 instruction in lifesaving, rescue techniques, water safety, first aid, CPR, marine ecology, the environment and marine life. Activities include paddling, surfing, body surfing, running, swimming, water sports and beach games. This program will improve your child’s physical conditioning and emphasizes the importance of safety, respect and teamwork.

Session 1: July 1 - July 19, 2013 (3 weeks) Session 2: July 22 - August 9, 2013 (3 weeks) $285 ($245 each additional sibling) per session For more information go to www.sbparks.org/jg sbcojg@sbparks.org • 805-729-5028.

Circle V Ranch Camp Circle V is a traditional resident camp with activities such as archery, arts and crafts, nature hikes, swimming, painting, photography, sports, miniature golf, campﬁres, singing, and skits, plus delicious family-style meals and snacks.

Campers, ages -; Camper in Leadership Training, ages -. Eight one-week sessions (six days, ﬁve nights), June  - Aug. . $/week.  Hwy. , Santa Ynez Valley. Call - or email rlopez@svdpla.org.

Camp for Special Needs Children • Ages 3-10 • 3 week sessions from June-August • Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Music & Movement • Bilingual Camp Sessions

Extreme Explorers Camp Sail with the American Tall Ship Institute from Channel Islands Harbor, camp on Santa Cruz Island, snorkel shipwrecks, kayak, and explore the island. Campers will study marine science, geology, and archaeology — just like the historic HMS Challenger voyage! Campers also learn the leadership and teamwork skills needed for ship life.

Ages -. Three Tue.-Sat. sessions, June  - Aug. ; one Wed.-Fri. session Aug. -. $-$. Call - or visit americantallship.org.

Ocean Adventures Summer Beach Camp Campers join A-Frame Surf Shop for a surf camp that also includes stand-up paddling with dolphins and kayaking out to reefs, boogie boarding, and skim boarding. Other activities include volleyball, dodgeball, tie-dying, and paint-penning hats. All counselors are CPR and lifeguard certiﬁed, and lunch from Padaro Beach Grill will be provided daily.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , am-:pm. $$.  Santa Claus Ln., Carpinteria. Call - or visit summerbeachcamp.com. CONT’D

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botics

Using LEGO Midstorms NXT® systems, students learn and apply engineering, math and computer programming skills in creating unique automated and remote controlled robotic vehicles, sumo robots and battle robots.

June 21-21 July 8-12 July 15-19 ages 8-14

June 24-28 ages 8-14

June 24-28 ages 5-8

For more information, visit campgobotics.com or call Eric Prothero at 805.245.0288 april 11, 2013

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BOXTALES SUMMER THEATRE CAMP A 3-week journey in the BOXTALES method, including training in Acting, Storytelling, Movement and Collaboration. This year’s campers will create an original stage production, The Wild Child, based on the traditional Norwegian folktale Tatterhood.

Dates: June 17- July 5 Times: 9am - 3:30pm Mon-Thurs 9am -12:30pm Friday

Location: The Beautiful Marjorie Luke Theatre, on the Santa Barbara Junior High campus Ages: 8-13 Tuition: $750

Sign up now! – this camp is already half sold out! Call to Register: 962-1142 info@boxtales.org • www.boxtales.org Supported in part by The Marjorie Luke Theatre’s Dreier Family Rent Subsidy Fund.

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SUMMER CAMP GUIDE 2013 Orca Summer Camp In its th consecutive year, this camp features funﬁlled days of kayaks, surf, beach games, tide pools, dolphins, driftwood houses, and special new program for teens. Camps meet at various S.B. beaches and are run under the tutelage of enthusiastic counselors who make sure campers stay safe and have fun.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., July  - Aug. , am-pm. $/week. Call - or visit orcacamp.org.

River Way Ranch Camp Located in the foothills of Sequoia National Park, River Way oﬀers children a summer of friendships and memories to last a lifetime. Campers may choose from + activities including wakeboarding, horseback riding, ropes course, paintball, waverunners, gymnastics, overnights, and more.

Ages -. Two-week sessions, June  - Aug. ; one-week sessions, July  - Aug. . $,-$,. Foothills Sequoia National Park. Call () - or email inquiry@riverway ranchcamp.com.

S.B. to S.D. Surf Camp Check out the hottest surﬁng spots along the coast in this camp, which treats campers to two sessions of surﬁng a day from Jalama Beach to La Jolla.

Ages -. June -. $. Location TBA. Call - or visit surftosummitsb.com.

Summer Wilderness Adventure Day Camp Boys and girls will experience an array of activities on this pristine -acre equestrian ranch, including horsemanship, archery, volleyball, camp songs/praise and worship, and arts and crafts. Sponsored by Church at the Crossroads.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - July , am-pm. $/ week. Bruce Griﬃn Equestrian Ranch, Buellton. Call Cliﬀ Lambert - or visit clifflambert@comcast.net.

Surf to Summit Adventure School Santa Barbara Day Camp In this camp campers will explore and enjoy what the Santa Barbara mountains and oceans have to oﬀer. Students will be given guidance and direction, if necessary, in both their surﬁng and climbing needs.

Ages -. June -, am-pm. $. Location TBA. Call - or visit surftosummitsb.com.

Surf to Summit Adventure School Sierra Mountain Camp Campers will climb in the mornings, hike to backcountry lakes, fish, practice orienteering, tying knots, and attempt to summit a ,-foot peak in the afternoons, and finish the nights with a campfire and story telling.

Ages -. Aug. -. $. Location TBA. Call - or visit surftosummitsb.com.

SPECIAL NEEDS Camp Chit Chat This speech-and-language therapy camp will assist preschool children with speech and language delays. They will work along with peers with similar skills or with peers working on similar goals.

Ages -. Mon.-Thu., June  - Aug. , am-pm. $/ week. Scottish Rite Language Center,  E. Carrillo St. Visit sbspeech.com.

Camp Wheez Summer fun designed by Sansum Clinic for children with asthma. Campers learn to manage their asthma while they participate in recreation, enjoy arts and crafts, and have old-fashioned camp fun! Camp Wheez is staﬀed by medical professionals, trained volunteers, and community members.

Ages -. Aug. -, :am-:pm, extended hours available. Free. First Baptist Church,  Veronica Springs Rd. Call - or visit sansumclinic.org/camp-wheez to register.

Hearts Summer Horse Experience Hearts Summer Horse Camp oﬀers a unique equine experience for kids. This inclusive camp pairs children with disabilities and their able-bodied peers to learn horseback riding and horsemanship skills. Instructor to rider ratio is :. Working together, children gain an appreciation for the ways they are similar to and diﬀerent from each other.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., July  - Aug. , am-noon. $/week. Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center,  Calle Real. Call - or email nicola@heartsriding.org.

Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp Day camp for youth who use a wheelchair to participate in sports. Activities include basketball, swimming, tennis, hand cycling, rugby, racquetball, climbing wall, games, and more. Transportation provided from Oxnard, Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, Lompoc, and Santa Maria.

Ages -. July -, Mon.-Thu., :am-:pm, and Fri., :am-:pm. Free. UCSB Recreation Center, UCSB. Call - x or email rvanhoor@cottagehealthsystem.org.

TRAVEL Friendship Tours World Travel Blending community service with cultural awareness, adventure travel, and an insider’s access to living historians, these journeys enable students to experience the gentle spirit of Vietnam, Cambodia, or Thailand in a context of mutual appreciation and safety. All-inclusive trips are

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led by area teachers and include dynamic learning adventures, preparatory seminars, community-service projects, and donations to nonproﬁt partners abroad.

Grades -. Vietnam Discovery: June -, $,. Cambodia Alive! July -, $,. Thailand Discovery: Aug. -, $,. Prices exclusive of international air travel;  participants per trip. Call - or email nicola@friendshiptoursworld.com.

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For adults and young people summer classes in santa barbara

AHA! Summer Camp The aim of the Academy of Healing Arts is to create a community of socially and emotionally intelligent adolescents who are committed to compassion, character, positive creative expression, and celebration of diversity. Highlights of the summer program include restorative justice training, outdoor days, dream work, and fun community service projects. Teens earn up to  hours of community service for their participation.

Ages -. One six-week session, Mon.-Thu., June  - Aug. , -pm. Mandatory info meeting May , pm. Donations accepted. Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara,  Santa Barbara St. Call - x.

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Beit HaYeladim Preschool Camp Explore outer space, the ocean, nature, and more! BHY provides a fun, safe, and loving summer learning environment for preschool aged children.

Ages  months -  years. Mon.-Fri., Jul.  - Aug. ; :am-:pm (ages -), am-:pm (ages  mos. -  yrs.), half-days available. $-$,/month. Congregation B’nai B’rith,  San Antonio Creek Rd. Call - or visit cbbsb.org.

Best of the Best Summer Camp Inspiring, challenging, amazing, and mind-blowingly fun are just a few ways kids describe the Best of the Best Summer Camp. Each week is packed with sports, arts and crafts, games, iPad learning, character development, and martial arts training, as well as ﬁeld trips to places like Sky High and Pump It Up.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. ., am-pm. $-$/week.  E. Gutierrez St. Call - or visit kickboxers.com/camp.

Camp Haverim This Jewish day camp oﬀers activities designed to meet children’s diverse interests and encourage learning and growth, including art, music, drama, swimming, a full array of sports, and Jewish culture, values, and special events.

Grades K-. Two-week sessions, Mon.-Fri., July - and July  - Aug. , ampm. $/session or $/week, scholarships available. Cate School,  Cate Mesa Rd., Carpinteria. Call - or visit camphaverim.com.

Camp Tacanneko Day Camp Enjoy the day with friends and fairy tales. Daily activities include swimming, music, crafts, star ﬂight, or try-aid programs. Volunteer run day camp for  years.

Grades K-. June -, :am-:pm. $. Arroyo Grande Methodist Campground. Call - or visit campfirecentralcoast.org.

Cliﬀ Drive Care Center Summer Camp This camp features many educational and interesting experiences and tours in and around Santa Barbara; multiple weekly beach and park visits; science, cooking, gardening, and creative activities; lots of water play; weekly chapel times; and Vacation Bible School!

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Grades -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , :am-:pm. $-$. Free Methodist Church,  Cliﬀ Dr. Call -.

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art projects, gardening, ﬁeld trips to nearby parks, and lots of indoor/ outdoor play, play, play!

Ages -. June  - Aug. . $/week, minimum six-week sign-up.  Ricardo Ave. Call -.

Counselors- and Leaders-in-Training The YMCA is looking for dedicated, service-oriented teens to join our qualiﬁed staﬀ team as Counselors/Leaders-in-Training. Enthusiasm, willingness to learn, responsibility, and a genuine love for kids are prerequisites for CITs/LITs. They will receive a meaningful training program that teaches YMCA values, leadership, and communication skills. Once these skills are developed, CITs/LITs will be able to apply for a position to assist at summer day camp and preschool. This hands-on training will provide valuable job skills that last a lifetime. Most of all, summer will be fun and rewarding.

Grades -. Training begins Apr. , -pm, $. Camps run June  - Aug. , $/week. Montecito Family YMCA,  Santa Rosa Ln., Montecito. Call - or visit ciymca.org/montecito.

DPHS Best Self Camp Though based at Dos Pueblos High School, a variety of off-site adventure activities give participants the tools to explore the outdoors. A series of team-building activities encourage participants to find a confident and balanced way of living to become their best self every day.

Ages -. July  - Aug. , am-pm. $. Elings Aquatic Center at DPHS,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. Call - or email register@dphscp.org.

Ecology Art From Scrap and Watershed Resource Center Day Camp Campers will participate in art projects, nature exploration, experiments, environmental games, cooperation challenges, composting, planting, hikes, cooking, songs, nature crafts, tie-dye, stories, and walking ﬁeld trips. Only  campers per session and an : camper-to-leader ratio facilitate environmental stewardship, responsibility, and camaraderie.

Grades +. Four sessions, Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , am-pm. $/session. Art From Scrap,  E. Cota St., and Arroyo Burro Beach,  Cliﬀ Dr. Call - or visit exploreecology.org.

Isla Vista Youth Project Summer Program This program offers exciting learning opportunities in five core areas: math, language arts, science, nutrition and fitness, and fine arts. Students will also enjoy field trips to nearby areas of interest as well as trips to UCSB’s pools. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks provided daily.

Grades -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. . :am-:pm. $/week full-day, $/ week half-day. Isla Vista Elementary,  El Colegio Rd., Isla Vista. Call - or visit ivyp.org.

Montecito Family YMCA Camps Your child will be an integral part of a small group of children of similar ages as they learn new skills, develop lasting friendships, and pursue the Y’s mission of healthy spirit, mind, and body. Camp activities include arts and crafts, team building, swimming, sports and games, and barbecues. Field trips include bowling, skating, rollerblading, surrey riding, amusement parks, beaches and parks, museums, and Skyhigh Jump.

Grades K-. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. . $/week. Montecito Family YMCA,  Santa Rosa Ln., Montecito. Call - or visit ciymca.org/montecito.

Montessori Center School Elementary Camp Weekly camps engage students with topics ranging from forms of energy, nutrition, marine life, and more.

Grades -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , :am-:pm. $-$.  N. Fairview Ave. Call - or visit mcssb.org.

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Montessori M Center School Primary P Camp Weeklong W or monthlong camps interest young learne with activities including science, tie-dye, art, baking, ers k kayaking, and more.

S.B. Charter School Chart a course for the kids this summer at S.B. Charter School, giving them the opportunity to enjoy indoor and outdoor games, a creative playground, arts and crafts, and area ﬁeld trips.

Ages A -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , :am-:pm. $$,/session. $  N. Fairview Ave. Call - or visit mcssb.org. m

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., Jun.  - Aug. , :am-:pm. $/ half-day, $/day, $/week. Goleta Valley Jr. High School,  Stow Canyon Rd., Goleta. Call -.

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My M Gym Camp was created to enhance physical development d and a sense of individual success. Camp activities a include gymnastics, arts and crafts, story ti time, music, unique activities, nonstop games, and so m much more.

This tuition-based, for-credit summer school will be hosted at the San Marcos High School campus but is open to all high school students, regardless of what school they attend. Students can earn ﬁve to  units of high school credits, and most courses meet A-G requirements.

Ages A -. Multiple sessions, June  - Aug. , am-noon or -pm. Call - or email santabarbaragym@cox.net.

Page P Youth Center Various V coed camps feature sports like basketball, socc and volleyball, plus a special needs bike camp. cer,

Grades G +. Three Mon.-Fri. sessions, June  - July , amnoon. n $/week. Page Youth Center,  Hollister Ave. Call Ca - or visit pageyouthcenter.org.

Safety S Town Summer Camp This half-day safety education program allows campe to be taught in an interactive, miniature town ers e environment. Camp includes visits from firemen and o other safety professionals and activities such as pedal c driving, crafts, and singing. Safety Town is hosted at car d erent schools on different weeks. diff

Grade G K. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , :am-noon. $$. $ Foothill, El Camino, Franklin, and I.V. schools. Call -  or visit sbsafetytown.org.

Grades -. June  - July , times vary. $-$, scholarships available. San Marcos High School,  Hollister Ave. Call - or visit santabarbaraeducation.org.

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Credentialed teachers lead this engaging program that features ﬁeld trips, music, art, drama, and more. Breakfast and snack are included daily.

Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. . :am- or pm. $/month. Various locations. Call - x.

S.B. YMCA Summer Camps Specialty camps and day camps on oﬀer at two locations. Day camps are age-appropriate with activities that range from arts and crafts to hillside hiking and ﬁeld trips. Specialty camps dive into water sports, science, cooking, and performance.

Ages -Grade . Weekly sessions, June  - Aug. , daylong with extended care available. $-$, ﬁnancial assistance available. Hope Elementary School YMCA, CONT’D

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S.B. Zoo Camp

Ages -. Four-day sessions, July  - Aug. , am-pm. $. Early Childhood Campus,  Nogal Dr. Call - or visit waldorfsantabarbara.org.

Go wild this summer at Zoo Camp, voted “Best Summer Camp” by both The Santa Barbara Independent and Santa Barbara News-Press readers’ polls. All programs include hands-on science activities, up-close animal introductions, games, crafts, and much more.

Ages -. Weekly Mon.-Fri. sessions, June  - Aug. , ampm. $/members, $/nonmembers. Santa Barbara Zoo,  Niños Dr. Call - or visit sbzoo.org.

Season’s Child Summer Camp Campers will spend their time outdoors, exploring various Native Santa Barbara locations such as hiking trails, parks, and more.

Ages -. Three sessions, Mon-Fri., start July , am-pm. $. Various locations throughout Santa Barbara. Call - or visit seasonschild.com.

Stewards of God’s Creation Day Camp Learn to celebrate and care for the Earth, our bodies, minds, and spirits through music, gardening, Bible stories, outdoor games, and arts and crafts. Campers will use food from the Trinity Gardens to help create healthy lunches each day.

Grades K-. June -, am-pm. $/child, $/family. Trinity Lutheran Church,  N. La Cumbre Rd. Call - or visit telcsb.org.

Summer Adventure Program Girls Inc. of S.B. oﬀers fun, educational, and enriching programs for boys and girls alike, including reading, art, theater, ﬁeld trips, swimming, library skills, hiking, cooking, gardening, science, sports, dance, computers, and much more!

Grades K-. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. ., :am-pm. $ full-time, $ part-time, $-$ registration fee. Goleta Valley Center,  Hollister Ave., -; S.B. Center,  E. Ortega St., -.

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Whales and Dolphins Ambassador Program This camp oﬀers the opportunity for children and teens to become educated on anthropogenic (humancaused) threats to cetaceans and their ocean habitats. Students become empowered to protect all connected marine wildlife and their habitat through art action letters and by applying artistic skills to crafting sustainable alternatives to some of these threats, which include solid, chemical, and noise pollution; by catch; entanglement; climate change; ocean acidiﬁcation; and whaling. We also discuss ethics, cetacean captivity, and current movement toward a Declaration of Cetacean Rights. The goal of this program is to increase awareness of our impact on the environment and to instill a need for stewardship of all life on Earth through caring for cetaceans, their fellow beings, and ocean habitats.

Ages -. Aug. -, am-pm. $. Carpinteria Art Center,  Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Call -.

YMCA Santa Ynez Adventure Camps This camp is where summer fun begins. This camp is for campers new and old with fun-ﬁlled days full of silly challenges, weekly ﬁeld trips, and swimming at the high school and Y pools, and all based around a weekly theme.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , am-pm. $-$/ week. Stuart C. Gildred Family YMCA,  N. Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. Call - or visit ciymca.org/stuartgildred.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., July -, am-pm. $/week.  Cramer Circle, Unit A (private res.). Call () - or email svnixon@yahoo.com.

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Campers will participate in weekly activities in a creative, fun, and hands-on way and develop necessary skills for school readiness. Activities include arts and crafts, swimming, outdoor exploration, character development, reading, dramatic play, and excursions on Wednesdays.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , :am-:pm. $-$/week. UCSB. Call - or visit recreation.ucsb.edu.

Ages -. Mon.-Fri., June  - Aug. , am-pm (pm Wed.). $-$/week. Stuart C. Gildred Family YMCA,  N. Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. Call - or visit ciymca.org/ stuartgildred.

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Various camps, including Gnome and Fairy Camp, Nature Camp, and Water Camp, focus on meeting children with creativity, imagination, and rhythm. It is through a combination of creative play, purposeful activity, and social interaction, as well as art, stories, and music, that we help foster individuals who are able

Grades K-. Ten Mon.-Fri. sessions, start June . $-$. La Honda Elementary School,  N. A St., Lompoc, and Lompoc Family YMCA,  W. College Ave., Lompoc. Call - or visit ciymca.org/lompoc. ■

Join the Lompoc Family YMCA for a camp featuring themes, ﬁeld trips, arts and crafts, songs, and more.

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/: An Evening of Irish Poetry High-proﬁle poet Ethna McKiernan (pictured) has much more than lucky charms up her sleeve: Not only is she an author of three collections of poetry, but she also participates in long-term nonproﬁt work helping the homeless. Join her for an evening of poetry read-

/: Seeking Sanctuaries for Sharks Don’t worry; this meetand-greet will be nothing like Jaws! Join Dr. Chris Lowe and listen to him lecture about shark conservation eﬀorts and the physiology and behavior of sharks, rays, and a variety of ﬁshes. :pm. Ty Warner Sea Ctr.,  Stearns Wharf. $-$. Call -.

/-/: In the Heights Experience the sights and sounds of New York’s Washington Heights in a performance by Dos Pueblos Theatre Company of the  Tony Award–winning play. The performance is directed by Clark Sayre and features the most multiracial cast in Dos Pueblos history. Fri.: pm; Sat.:  and pm. Elings Performing Arts Ctr.,  Alameda Ave., Goleta. $-$. Call () -.

FRIDAY 4/12 /: National Grilled Cheese Day Toast your glasses to cheeses of all kinds, from cheddar and mozzarella to gouda and gruyère, at C’est Cheese for a grilled cheese of your choosing and a complimentary cup of tomato soup. am-pm. C’est Cheese,

/: Comics Cornucopia Comics are not just for Sun. morning — at least not for Regents’ Lecturer and comic theorist and author Scott McCloud. Join McCloud for this symposium exploring the relevance of graphic novels, sequential art, and comic

books in both educational and entertainment settings.:ampm. UCSB Theater and Dance Bldg., UCSB. Free. Call -. /: California Honeydrops with The Expanders With a sound sweeter than sugar, the California Honeydrops blend the sounds of blues, New Orleans jazz, gospel, and R&B for a unique sound featuring frontman Lech Wierzynski, saxophonist Johnny Bones, and drummer Ben Malament. Opening set by The Expanders promises an hour of the group’s rock-inﬂuenced reggae beats. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Ages +. Call -. /: Massenger, Magazine Dirty, and Andy Dick and the Dicks Rock out to punk-rock sets from bands spanning the

ing as she discusses a variety of critical perspectives in Irish poetry. pm. MultiCultural Ctr., Channel Islands Rd., UCSB. Free. Call -. COURTESY UCSB ARTS & LECTURES

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/: Script to Screen Presents: th Anniversary of Sleepless in Seattle It’s seldom that we get to see a sappy s rom-com favorite back on the big screen. The Pollock’s premium sound system will make you melt as the young Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan search for love in this Nora Ephron classic. -pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. $. Call -.

/: Morris Day & The Time Funky, dance-y, and awesome, Morris Day & The Time are probably one of the most successful acts to have worked with legendary performer Prince. Let loose and groove with this eclectic mix of musicians. pm. Chumash Casino Resort,  E. Hwy. , Santa

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/: The Skatalites The Jamaicabased band The Skatalites have come a long way since the early ’s with their release of “Guns of Navarone.” Join them as they perform live tunes inspired by funk, ska, rock, reggae, and more. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Ages +. Call -.

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/-/: Lucidity Festival Grow, dream, play, dance, and experience the area’s best festival of lights, music, and spirituality this weekend. You can try to stay lucid, but with far-out attractions and an out-ofthis-world music and arts lineup, the festival could very well blow your mind. Fri.: am-midnight; Sat.Sun.: am-pm. Live Oak Campground,  Hwy. . $-$. Ages + (minors allowed with parent or guardian). Call - (I.V. Co-op) or - (Bizerk) for tickets.

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11 –17 Southern California coast — including San Luis Obispo’s Magazine Dirty, Ventura’s Massenger, and Isla Vista’s Andy Dick and the Dicks. :pm. Whiskey Richard’s,  State St. $. Ages +. Call -.

building children’s conﬁdence and ending bullying in the community. am. Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu Academy,  State St. Ages +. Free. Call -.

 Veronica Springs Rd. Free. Call -. /: Bodies in Space III Experience the intimate connection between one’s bodily senses and the embodiment of academic and professional disciplines in this unique conference that will bring together graduate students and artist Karen Anzoategui in a performance that doubles as a workshop in listening and meaning making. am-pm. McCune Conference Rm.,  HSSB, UCSB. Free. Call -.

/: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scavenger Hunt Pediatric cancer patients and survivors and their families are invited to this scavenger hunt that will take them on a fun-ﬁlled tour of S.B.’s landmarks while hunting for clues and completing various activities. Noon-pm. S.B. Mission Historical Park,  Laguna St. Free. Ages +. Call -. COURTESY SANTA YNEZ VALLEY MUSEUM

/-/: Blood, Thought, Muscle & Grace Dancers transform physical exertion into artistic expression in this spring performance by UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance directed by Mira Kingsley. pm. Hatlen Theater, UCSB. $-$. Call -. Read more on p. .

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/: Quips and Clips Volume Four: Treasures of the Lost Art Relive the glory days of live music at the Lobero this weekend, checking out rare footage from vintage live shows of times past, alongside commentary from . KTYD’s morning host Hale Milgrim. :pm. Lobero Theatre,  E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Call - to reserve tickets. COURTESY SOhO RESTAURANT & MUSIC CLUB

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/-/: Spirit of the West Carriage Symposium It’s probably been a while since you last indulged your inner cowboy and rode on a stagecoach. Gather for a special evening soirée of cocktails, Santa Maria–style BBQ, and country dancing on Fri. evening, followed by stagecoach and carriage rides on Saturday. Proceeds from the event will go to the restoration of the Parks-Janeway Carriage House, which is located on the museum property. Fri. Soirée: -pm; Sat. Rides: am-pm. Santa Ynez Valley Museum and Carriage House,  Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. $-$. Call -.

SATURDAY 4/13 /: Anti-Bullying Program Learn the Gracie Barra way and help yourself manage and negate bullying this weekend during a self-defense and antibullying seminar focused on

13 /: Operation Prom Dress Boutique Every girl deserves a prom night to remember, and this free event by the Assistance League of S.B. will help high school seniors ﬁnd the perfect prom dress to remember it in. The boutique is open to all high school seniors attending prom with a valid school ID. am-pm. Assistance League Thrift Shop,

/: Tom Curren Multitalented is an understatement for artist Tom Curren (pictured), known for his surﬁng prowess, as well as his unique folk and blues-inspired sets combining drumming, bass, guitar, and vocals. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $-$. Ages +. Call -. /-/: Four Seasons Winter, spring, summer, and fall all in one night? Well, metaphorically speaking, yes! The talented guest conductor Gregory Vajda, violinist Nigel Armstrong, and the Santa Barbara Symphony will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, a series of four iconic concertos. During the concert, Glazunov’s ballet The Seasons will be projected onscreen to enhance the viewing experi-

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WEEK ence. Sat.: -pm; Sun.: -pm. Granada Theatre,  State St. $$. Call -.

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/: rd Annual Sexual Assault Awareness n Month K Fun Run & Walk Stand up and walk for what’s right. Take a few hours on your Sun. morning to walk on the beautiful UCSBB campus for a great cause. Stu :am-noon. Student Resource Bldg., UCSB. $-$. Call -.

/: Accordionaires Pop Orchestra Concert The Accordionaires got it goin’ on; hailing from North Hollywood, these cool cats are one of the largest accordion orchestras on the West Coast and play a range of genres including lightclassical music, Broadway musicals, and pop music. Prepare to be accordionized! pm. Trinity Lutheran Church,  La Cumbre Rd. $. Call -. /: FMLYBND This area indie band takes the stage with guitars, synthesizers, vox, and electronic drums. pm. Velvet Jones,  State St. $-$. Call -.

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/-/: Stories by Edith Pearlman & Ron Carlson This dynamic duo has more talent than most. Four performers will read a variety of stories from author Edith

Pearlman and American shortstory writer Ron Carlson, including “Elder Jinks,” “Binocular Vision,” “Line from a Movie,” and “Status Quo.” Sun.: pm; Mon.: :pm. Center Stage Theater,  Paseo Nuevo. $$. Call -.

/: Japandroids and Cloud Nothings Duo (from left) Brian King and David Prowse of Japandroids bring their rock-and-roll tunes to S.B. along with Cloud Nothings — an indie-rock band composed of Dylan Baldi, TJ Duke, Jayson Gerycz, and Joe Boyer. pm. Velvet Jones,  State St. $-$. Call -. Read more on p. .

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WEEK TUESDAY 4/16 /: Seeing War: Identity, Purpose and Play Explore how war both evades and invades communities in this special presentation by photographer Nina Berman as she explores the consequences of violence in a post-/ world through examining three pieces of art: “Purple Hearts,” “Marine Wedding,” and “Homeland.” pm. McCune Conference Rm.,  HSSB, UCSB. Free. Call -.

WEDNESDAY 4/17 /: The Politics of Passion: Activists Take to the Streets in Mexico Relive the heroic activism of Jesusa Rodriguez during the  Mexican elections at this enlightening talk that explores the power of art to transform large political movements. :pm. McCune Conference Rm.,  HSSB, UCSB. Free. Call -.

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singer Marley Quinn and alternative-rock trio and S.B. natives the Wha Wha’s. pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club,  State St. $. Call . /: The Expendables From the surf swells to the stage, The Expendables’ four members and friends tear it up with their reggae- and punk rock–inspired sounds. pm. Velvet Jones,  State St. $-$. Call -. /: Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice and the Promise of America Eboo Patel, author and founder/ president of Interfaith Youth Core, will speak on the problem of prejudice faced by many Muslim Americans and how the issue challenges the concept of a free and pluralistic America. pm. Corwin Pavilion, UCSB. Free. Call -.

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/: The Prestige This screening of the  ﬁlm (above) starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman that documents the tumultuous relationship between two rival magicians is part of the UCSB Film and Media Department and Carsey-Wolf Ctr.’s series Tricksters and Labyrinths: Christopher Nolan and the Process of Illusion. pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. $. Call -. /: Harrison Reade, Marley Quinn, and the Wha Wha’s Alternative guitarist and vocalist Harrison Reade takes to the stage, following acoustic guitar player and

Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, -:pm Carpinteria:  block of Linden Ave., -:pm

Friday Montecito:  and  blocks of Coast Village Rd., -:am

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Art ART EXHIBITS Assn., through Apr. . S.B. Public Library,  E. Anapamu St., -. MUSEUMS Gallery  – On and Oﬀ the Wall group Art, Design & Architecture Museum – show, and works by featured artists, through Art on the Table: Food and Drink from the Apr. .  State St., -. Permanent Collection; Fame and the Mundane: Gallery  – Seen/Unseen Surrealist, Andy Warhol’s Photography; and Gas Station through May .  W. El Roblar Ave., Ojai, DeSign: A Tour of the Collection; through () -. May . UCSB, -. Gallery Los Olivos – Saturated in Joy by Erin Karpeles Manuscript Library and Williams, through Apr. .  Grand Ave., Museum – Multiple permanent installations. Los Olivos, -.  W. Anapamu St., -. Ganna Walska Lotusland – Swarm: Lompoc Museum – Horse Country, through A Collaboration with Bees, through May . June . Centeno Gallery,  S. H St., Lompoc,  Ashley Rd., -. -. Goleta Library – Goleta Valley Art Assn. Rancho La Patera/Stow House – Multiple April Art Show, through Apr. .  N. permanent exhibits hosted by the Goleta Fairview Ave., Goleta, -. Valley Historical Society.  N. Los Carneros Historic Union Hotel – Just a Few Miles Rd., Goleta, -. from Home by Liz Grigoreas-McDermott, S.B. Historical Museum – De la Tierra — Art through Apr. .  Bell St., Los Alamos, of the Adobe, through Oct. ; The Story of Santa -. Barbara, permanent exhibition. Free admisHospice of S.B. – Permanent installations sion.  E. De la Guerra St., -. by painter Mary Heebner.  Alameda S.B. Maritime Museum – The Wild Blue Padre Serra, Ste. , -. by Kim Snyder, through June ; Lost Surf Hotel Indigo – Limuw: An Ode to the Sea, Art Posters of Santa Barbara by Rick Sharp, through Jan. , .  State St., -. through April .  Harbor Wy., #, James Main Fine Art – California -. Romantics: Early California Artists by Edward S.B. Museum of Art – Myth and Materiality: Borein, through June .  E. De la Guerra Latin American Art from the Permanent CollecSt., -. tion, -, through May ; This World Jane Deering Gallery – Linda Ekstrom Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs, | labyrinth, through Apr. .  E. Canon through June ; California Dreaming: Plein-Air Perdido St., -. Painting from San Francisco to San Diego, Leigh Block Gallery – Rick Stich, through through June ; Scenery, Story, Spirit, permaApril. Hospice of S.B.,  Alameda Padre nent installation.  State St., -. Serra, Ste. , -. Ty Warner Sea Ctr. – Multiple permanent Left Coast Books – Reversal by Kimberly installations.  Stearns Wharf, -. Hahn, through May .  Hollister Ave., Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art – Goleta, -.  Speed, through May .  La Paz Rd., Los Olivos Café – Inspired by Light and -. Shadow by Renee Kelleher, through May .  Grand Ave., Los Olivos, -. GALLERIES Lumnos Gallery – Blue Visions by Richard Ann Foxworthy Gallery – Fine Arts Faculty Salas, through Apr. . S.B. Frame Shop,  Art Show, through Apr. .  S. College Dr., State St., Ste. J, -. Santa Maria, - x. MichaelKate Interiors and Gallery – Architectural Foundation Gallery – Birds and Other Flying Contraptions, through Leslie Lewis Sigler: Relatives, through Apr. . May ; Modern and Abstract Art, ongoing  E. Victoria St., -. exhibitions.  Santa Barbara St., -. Art From Scrap – Mulch, through Apr. . S.B. Tennis Club – Spring Forward,  E. Cota St., -. Apr.  - May .  Foothill Rd., -. Artamo Gallery – Art Spring: Spring Art, Santa Barbara Arts – Sculpture and through Apr. .  W. Anapamu St., -. jewelry by James “Bud” Bottoms, through The Arts Fund – Big Splash, through May . Apr. . La Arcada Court,  State St.,  C Santa Barbara St., -. Ste. , -. Bronfman Family Jewish Community SOhO Restaurant & Music Club – LargeCtr. – Santa Barbara Printmakers at the JCC, scale paintings by Liv Zutphen, through through May ; Upstanders: Courage in the May .  State St., -. Face of Evil, permanent exhibit.  Chapala Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery – Just St., -. Between Us, through June ; Robin Gowen: Buenaventura Art Assn. Harbor Village Night Must Wait, through June ; Along El Gallery – Learning To See Youth Outreach Art Camino Real: Edwin Deakin’s Twenty-One Showcase, Apr.  - May .  Spinnaker Dr., Missions in Watercolor, through June .  E. Ventura, -. Anapamu St., -.

APR. 11–18 Trowbridge Gallery – Chris Provenzano Sculptures, through Apr. .  E. Ojai Ave., Ste. , Ojai, -. wall space gallery – Jardin by Ryuijie Douglas and Janelle Lynch, through May .  E. Yanonali St., C-, -.

LIVE MUSIC CLASSICAL Granada Theatre –  State St., -. SAT: S.B. Symphony: Four Seasons (pm) SUN: S.B. Symphony: Four Seasons (pm) Lobero Theatre –  E. Canon Perdido St., -. SUN: The Romeros Return (pm) Trinity Lutheran Church –  La Cumbre Rd., -. SUN: Accordionaires Pop Orchestra Concert (pm)

POP, ROCK & JAZZ Adama –  Chapala St., -. TUE: Robert Brown (-pm) Brewhouse –  W. Montecito St., -. THU-SAT, WED: Live Music (pm) Casa de la Raza –  E. Montecito St., -. THU /: Baauer and Danny Brown (pm) Chumash Casino Resort – Hwy. , Santa Ynez Valley, -. THU /: Morris Day & The Time (pm) Coast Restaurant & Bar –  W. Carrillo St., -. SUN: Romani (:am) WED: Romani (pm) Cold Spring Tavern –  Stagecoach Rd., -. FRI: The Hoagland Conspiracy (-pm) SAT: Sean Wiggins and Paul Houston (-pm); King Bee (-pm) SUN: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (:-pm); Teresa Russell and Cocobilli (::pm) The Creekside –  Hollister Ave., -. WED: Country Night (pm) SUN: Karaoke with Jody (pm) MON: Karaoke with Dyno (pm) Dargan’s –  E. Ortega St., -. THU: Dannsair (:pm) SAT: Traditional Irish Music (:pm) TUE: Karaoke (pm) Endless Summer Bar/Café –  Harbor Wy., -. FRI: Acoustic guitar and vocals (:-:pm) EOS Lounge –  Anacapa St., -. THU: Huge Thursday with Mackie and Bix King FRI: Live Music (-pm); DNA Presents SAT: DJ Calvin and Kohjay WED: Salsa Night Indochine –  State St., -. TUE: Indie Night (pm) WED: Karaoke (:pm) The James Joyce –  State St., -. THU: Alastair Greene Band (pm) FRI: Kinsella Brothers Band (pm) SAT: Ulysses (:-:pm) SUN, MON: Karaoke (pm) TUE: Ben Markham and Brian Cole WED: Open Mike Night Jill’s Place –  Santa Barbara St., -. FRI, SAT: Piano Bar with Al Reese (:pm) Live Oak Unitarian –  N. Fairview Ave., Goleta, -. SAT: The Hay Dudes (:pm) Moby Dick Restaurant –  Stearns Wharf, -. WED-SAT: Soft Latin Jazz (-pm) Monty’s –  Hollister Ave., Goleta, -. THU: Karaoke Night (pm) O’Malleys and the Study Hall –  State St., -. THU: College Night with DJ Gavin Ojai Valley Inn and Spa –  Country Club Rd., Ojai, -. FRI: Natalie Gelman (pm) Old Town Tavern –  Orange Ave., Goleta, -. WED, FRI, SAT: Karaoke (:pm)

Palapa Restaurant –  State St., -. FRI: Live Mariachi Music (:-pm) Pattaya Thai –  Hollister Ave., Goleta, -. THU, FRI: Country Night (pm) SAT: Latin Night (:pm-:am) Roundin’ Third –  Calle Real, Goleta, -. THU, TUE: Locals Night (pm) S.B. Maritime Museum –  Harbor Wy., #, -. SAT: Ukulele music and singing (-:pm) Sandbar –  State St., -. TUE: ’s Night (pm) WED: Big Wednesday (pm) THU: College Night (pm) Seven Bar and Kitchen –  Helena Ave., -. SAT: The Mutineers, American Dirt, The Dead Volts (pm) SOhO Restaurant & Music Club –  State St., -. THU: The Skatalites with Nahko and Medicine for the People (:pm) FRI: California Honeydrops with The Expanders (pm) SAT: Tom Curren (pm) TUE: Glen Philips (pm) WED: Harrison Reade (pm) Statemynt –  State St., -. THU: DJ Akorn WED: Blues Night (pm) Tiburon Tavern –  State St., -. FRI: Karaoke Night (:pm) TonyRay’s –  De la Guerra Plaza, -. FRI: Karaoke (pm) SAT: Live Music (pm) SUN: Live Music (pm) Velvet Jones –  State St., -. THU: Intuition with Chalk B (pm) SAT: Your City Matters (pm) SUN: FMLYBND (pm) MON: Japandroids and Cloud Nothings (pm) WED: The Expendables (pm) Whiskey Richard’s –  State St., -. FRI: Massenger, Magazine Dirty, and Andy Dick and the Dicks (:pm) MON: Open Mike Night (pm) WED: Punk on Vinyl (pm) Wildcat –  W. Ortega St., -. THU: DJs Hollywood and Patrick B SUN: Red Room with DJ Gavin Roy (pm) TUE: Local Band Night (pm) Zodo’s –  Calle Real, Goleta, -. THU: KJEE Thursday Night Strikes (::pm) MON: Service Industry Night (pm)

theater Elings Performing Arts Ctr. – In the Heights. Dos Pueblos High School,  Alameda Ave., Goleta, () -. FRI: pm SAT:  and pm Center Stage Theater –  Paseo Nuevo, -. THU-SAT: Happy Destiny Productions presents Bill W. and Dr. Bob (pm) SUN: Stories by Edith Pearlman and Ron Carlson (pm) MON: Stories by Edith Pearlman and Ron Carlson (:pm) Ojai Valley Grange – Curse of the House of Atreus.  Cruzero St., Ojai, -. FRI, SAT: pm SUN: pm Old Mission Santa Barbara – April Voices: Three Poets Sprung.  Laguna St., - ext. . SUN: pm

dance Arlington Theatre –  State St., -. SAT: Alvin Ailey (pm) SUN: Alvin Ailey (pm) Hatlen Theater –  University Rd., UCSB, -. FRI-SUN: Spring Dance Concert: Blood, Thought, Muscle and Grace (pm)

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Whiz Kids

here was a time when it just took some baking soda and vinegar to make a kid feel like a scientist. Last summer, however, Dos Pueblos High School (DPHS) junior Robert Sumner was busy expressing genes in nematodes. His DPHS classsmates Léa TranLe and Madeline Matthys were stem-cell researchers (from left) Robert Sumner, respectively studying the spatial Student Léa Tran-Le, Madeline Matthys, and Ben Haslund-Gourley. organization of cells in retinas and messing with mouse embryos, scieninto their summer research-mentorship tiﬁcally speaking, in the search for drug programs. Half of the participants must therapies that could treat blindness and come from underrepresented groups, and polycystic kidney disease. Ben Haslundthey are eligible for stipends to make sure Gourley, a San Marcos High School student they have a “worry-free” summer, said and aspiring surgeon, was busy designing a Vessal. test that measures the pancreatic response The Santa Barbara kids shared their to blood glucose that would be especially research at the annual CIRM conference, helpful to those with type  diabetes. which was held at Stanford University last These four Santa Barbarans were the summer. And then, this past Presidents’ hometown heroes of UCSB’s Summer Day weekend, they traveled to Boston to Research Institute, where participants present at the American Junior Academy perform cutting-edge research that could of Sciences. Aside from sharing their work, potentially lead to life-altering technologies. they met other budding scientists from Sumner, Tran-Le, Matthys, and Haslund- around the country and toured area colGourley were all working under the leges. For Tran-Le, the highlight was talking auspices of the California Institute for to physicist and inventor Stephen Wolfram. Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), created by Sumner said he enjoyed the opportunity to California voters when they passed Propolearn about other areas of science. sition  in 2004 to fund stem-cell research. While they haven’t all committed to CIRM has made California a mecca for being stem-cell researchers or even scienstem-cell researchers, and it paid for 12 new tists — Matthys is a mock-trial star — they facilities across the state, including the Cen- fulﬁlled Vessal’s goal of getting young peoter for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering ple to think creatively, and they performed at UCSB. the same work that professionals do. (Some Mani Vessal, a CIRM administrator, of CIRM’s high school students do better wanted to make sure that funding was put work than graduate students, said Vessal.) aside for school-aged researchers. “UniverAs a matter of fact, Haslund-Gourley is still sity is too late to introduce [young adults] conducting cancer research at UCSB under to cutting-edge science,” he said. Nine life-sciences professor Jamey Marth. — Brandon Fastman institutions, including UCSB, fold CIRM

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Zumba Nation

Fun

In which city was the YMCA founded?

❏ New York ❏ London ❏ Sydney

James Naismith invented which sport while at a YMCA training school?

What year did the Village People release the song “YMCA”?

❏ Ping-Pong ❏ Basketball ❏ Racquetball

❏ 1976 ❏ 1978 ❏ 1980

Fiesta Spirit Auditions

Twenty Santa Barbara youths will strut their footwork in hopes of becoming Spirit and Junior Spirit for this year’s Old Spanish Days. Since the late 1950s, area dance students (ages 16-21) have competed for the honor of Spirit of Sabrina Ibarra, Fiesta. According 2012 Spirit of Fiesta to the book Old Spanish Days: Santa Barbara’s Local Legacy, “They are judged for their Spanish dancing ability, poise, and appearance.” Auditions take place Saturday, April 20, at 1 p.m. at La Cumbre Junior High School (2255 Modoc Rd.). Tickets are $25 and include a meetand-greet reception (3:30-6 pm) following tryouts. For info and tickets, call 962-8101 or visit the Old Spanish Days office (129 Castillo St., inside the Carriage & Western Art Museum). — Michelle Drown

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block away from the Carrillo ing Zumba; Roozen-Tkacik studied with Recreation Center, we were the best. already bouncing our heads What makes Roozen-Tkacik’s Zumba to the lively beat of the Latinsuccess story more compelling is that in based music emanating from the brick 2011, she was diagnosed with rheumatoid structure. We followed some women in arthritis, which causes inflammation of sports attire into the brightly lit ballroom, joints, tissues, and organs; for most, lifelong where nearly 100 additional women (and treatment and toxic medication are necesa few men) wearing sary to prevent joint neon fitness clothing destruction. Roozenwere stretching. SudTkacik, who was in denly, a slender form extreme pain and could with a huge smile on barely walk without her face sprang onto some assistance, was the stage and began told to forget about dancing wildly. It dancing. However, she was dance instructor decided to “take the Josette Roozen-Tkacik, path less traveled,” she and she was teaching said. She denied all her popular Zumba medication and made class. Soon everyone extreme changes to in the room was folher lifestyle and diet by lowing her lead, the going vegan and cutentire floor moving to ting out alcohol. “Years the beat. later,” she said, “I have Zumba is currently no symptoms and have Zumba is the number-one fitness trend the number-one returned blood tests all in the U.S., and instructor Josette Roozenfitness trend in the negative, leaving docTkacik’s classes are extremely popular. United States, accordtors stunned.” ing to the Huffington Post (U.K.), and it took Now every step she takes comes with less than 30 seconds to understand why “gratitude for being able to move,” she said, — my friend and I were out of breath, giddy, adding that “Zumba is a huge healing proand perspiring profusely after the hour-long gram.” Not only did Zumba help her get betclass. Zumba is a combination dance and fit- ter physically, but it has also been a spiritual ness movements — a swirl of samba, martial savior — every day she tries to “touch the arts, belly dancing, and lunges, among other spirits” of all of her pupils, she admitted. “I moves — and Roozen-Tkacik’s sessions are think that is something Josette understands extremely popular. Throughout the class, on a human level because for many of her her passion and energy shone as she danced students, she feels a lot more like a friend or enthusiastically in front of her students, mentor than a fitness teacher,” confessed her encouraging them not only to push themstudent Sonia Lucyga. selves but also to laugh and smile with her. “It doesn’t matter if you’ve had 20 years Born and raised in New York, Roozenof technical [dance] training,” said RoozenTkacik began dancing at the age of 3; by Tkacik. “[Zumba] is for everyone. People 12, she was studying ballet with companies are able to let loose for an hour.” During the such as the Joffrey Ballet in New York and class, it is obvious that she is acting without the Metropolitan Ballet of St. Louis. From reservation and having a lot of fun doing so. 1985-1987, she attended the Juilliard School’s When one of her students approached her Dance Division in Manhattan and studied after a class and jokingly said she danced with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. like a “spazz,” Roozen-Tkacik replied with a For the past two decades, she has taught grin and a huge, “Thank you!” — Amanda Arenas more than 500 dance classes (tap, modern, jazz, ballet, and dance technique) and attended more than 100 master classes. Classes: Monday-Friday, Yet her first experience with Zumba was 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m., just three years ago in South Florida. “I knew at Carrillo Rec Center (100 E. Carrillo St.). from the first time [I tried it] that I would For more info, visit josettetkacik.com or teach,” said Roozen-Tkacik. In 2009, South facebook.com/ZumbainSB. Florida was an international hub for learnPAUL WELLMAN

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HISTORY 101 • GARDENING • STARSHINE • SPORTS • FOOD & DRINK

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BY THE NUMBERS The year the YMCA was founded by George Williams, a draper by trade, with the aim of putting Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy “body, mind and spirit.” SOURCE: wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymca.

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answers: . London; . Basketball; . 1978.

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‘What can you tell me about the old Aguirre adobe?’ — Noreen Starna

Built in the 1830s, the Aguirre adobe (represented in this 19th-century illustration by Henry Chapman Ford) was one of the most impressive homes in Santa Barbara.

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he adobe’s builder, José Antonio Aguirre, was born in the Basque country of northeastern Spain about 1795. By the early 1820s, he was a successful Mexico City merchant, who owned several ships that traded between China, the Philippines, Mexico, and California. When Mexico broke away from Spain in the 1820s, Aguirre remained loyal to Spain, left Mexico, and settled in San Diego. In 1838, he moved to Santa Barbara. Shortly thereafter, he began to build a house about where the Little Town Club is today, at  East Carrillo Street. It was one of the most impressive homes in Santa Barbara. The 19-room house formed a quadrangle around a large central courtyard. The home had one of the few wooden floors in Santa Barbara, and the windows were fitted with glass, highly unusual for that period. The living room was 30 feet long and boasted three crystal chandeliers. Aguirre outfitted the house with furniture of the finest craftsmanship, and beautiful frescos adorned the walls. The adobe sat upon an elevated stone foundation, and a stone wall surrounded the property. The courtyard had a well and was enhanced with fruit trees and flower gardens. In 1842, Aguirre married María Francisca Estefana Estudillo of a prominent San Diego family. One of the first guests they welcomed to their new home was Bishop Francisco García Diego y Moreno, who had just transferred his residence from San Diego to Santa Barbara. Tragically, the newlyweds were to have a very short life together, for in October, Maria passed away. Nonetheless, Aguirre continued to prosper in business. In 1843, he became co-grantee of Rancho El Tejon, nearly 98,000 acres, in what is today Kern County. In 1846, he married María del Rosario Estudillo, a sister of his first wife. That same year, she was granted a rancho of some 49,000 acres in present-day Riverside County. Aguirre turned a portion of his Santa Barbara home into a general store and engaged Agustín Janssens, a former business partner, to run it. Janssens would later use the adobe as one of Santa Barbara’s first post offices. In 1845, torrential rains filled the adobe’s courtyard and partially flooded the house. The walls absorbed a great deal of water, and this began a slow decline of the house. By the 1850s, Aguirre was dividing his time between Santa Barbara and San Diego. He died in San Diego about 1860. In ensuing years, the adobe was put to a number of uses. It served as the county’s first courthouse from 1850-1853. The Sisters of Charity, who later established St. Vincent’s Orphanage, used the adobe for a school upon their arrival in Santa Barbara in 1858. During the Civil War, part of the building was used as an armory. A number of Protestant congregations met here during the 1860s and ’70s, and during the ’70s, the adobe also served as an election polling place. By the early 1880s, the building had fallen into total disrepair and was razed in 1884. All that is left of what was once a most elegant home are the carved wooden porch columns that now adorn a building at  Santa Barbara Street.

Michael Redmon, director of research at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, will answer your questions about Santa Barbara’s history. Write him c/o The Independent, 122 W. Figueroa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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Marvelous Mallows Pretty Flowers and Pest Reduction

by Virginia Hayes

he mallow family, malvaceae, has several thousand species, and the botanists are not quite done deciding just what belongs in this group. There are several very well known genera. Some, such as Sterculia (monkey hand tree is probably the least common but truly fascinating and a subject for another day), Dombeya (most species planted locally have many very small flowers in clusters that have led to names like strawberry snowball tree and pink ball tree), and others are woody shrubs or impressive trees. But there are some more modest members of this cosmopolitan family that will fit into many landscapes. Among them are hibiscus and hollyhocks, both old-timey favorites from Grandma’s garden. Hibiscus cultivars grow well in Southern California, and the woody shrubs can thrive for decades but can also be prone to the dreaded giant whitefly. Hollyhocks, for some reason, have fallen out of favor, but their towering spires of colorful flowers can add plenty of interest to gardens, still. Some other relatives of these showy flowering species are less well-known. Two shrubby ones are making some headway in the landscape trade. Both of these are nearly ever-blooming in Southern California gardens. Chinese bellflower (a misnomer, as most are from South America) or flowering maple are two of the common names for some of the species and cultivars of the genus Abutilon. Their flowers could be likened to bell-shaped origami creations, with crinkled petals loosely wrapped around a dramatic conglomeration of pistils and stamens that have been twisted and fused together, rather showy in itself, at the heart of the flower. Abutilons are delightful shrubs that have divided leaves that are similar to maples, hence that common name, and the dangling flowers come in many shades, from pure white through yellow, coral, pink, and red. Commonly called the blue hibiscus, Alyogyne huegelii is native to Australia. Its flowers have the same twirly shape, but in a more relaxed way. The five, vibrant lilac petals flare outward from a similarly seductive sexual center. As with all the members of this family, the flowers produce nectar and copious amounts of pollen, inviting visits from a wide variety of insect pollinators. The whole aspect of the blue hibiscus shrub is somewhat airy, as the leaves are divided into many lobes and crenulations and the stems branch rather sparsely. Periodic light pruning will encourage more branching and the resultant increase in flower production, as well as a fuller complement of foliage. There is a California native with several selected cultivars to include in this rundown. Lavatera assurgentifolia, also known as malva rosa, is native along the coastal bluffs, including the Channel Islands. It happily grows in gardens a little farther north and even a little farther inland throughout Southern California. While it is an evergreen shrub, it has a relatively short lifespan, and some insects may find it tasty if it is grown in conditions that maximize off-season watering and fertilization that provides higher than its normal meager nutrient requirements. So starve it, and it should thrive! The added bonus for any and all of these malvaceous beauties is that those prominent sex organs prove attractive and accessible to a wide range of insects. Many of these will provide other services in the garden as their offspring colonize and parasitize some of the worst garden pests, such as aphids and mealy bugs. Pretty flowers and pest reduction? What could be more perfect?

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Leah Wright and Jason Dave are thrilled to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Jason asked Leah for her hand in marriage on the Playa at Burning Man, August 27th, 2012. They will be married on August 27, 2013 on the Playa at Burning Man amongst their loving friends. They will celebrate locally with a reception on October 19th, 2013, here in Santa Barbara.

Family and friends are pleased to announce the engagement of California native Randine Horibe to Travis Mañach of Cape Cod, MA. Travis proposed to Randine on May 30, 2012 at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, CA. The couple is getting married in May at Rincon Ranch in Carpinteria, CA.

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grew up in a big city with billboards and litter and bellowing horns. We lived in a concrete jungle with beggars and highways and smog — and we vacationed, naturally, in charming, palm tree–punctuated beach towns. Now I live in this charming, palm-tree–punctuated beach town. It’s lovely — a safe, peaceful, pretty place to raise kids. And yet a part of my urban-bred brain wonders if there’s something missing from the soul of children who don’t know how to hop a subway turnstile or sleep through the blare of constant, distant sirens. Are they too content? Too … untested? So when the tourists began pouring into Santa Barbara for spring break, I dragged my family to Manhattan for a lesson in culture, congestion, and crabby cabbies. We needed grit, I felt. Too much sustained simplicity makes ya soft in the head. But could two laid-back pups from paradise really glean value from a week in a city that never sleeps? Could my dyed-in-the-wool country mice ever truly appreciate the bracing bedlam of Gotham? Most of what the boys knew about New York came from Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”: “Yeah, I’m up at Brooklyn, now I’m down in TriBeCa, right next to De Niro, but I’ll be ’hood forever. I’m the new Sinatra, and since I made it here, I can make it anywhere …” So I played them Ol’ Blue Eyes’ “New York, New York,” bought them actual coats (“No, a cotton hoodie is by Starshine not a coat, stop asking me that”), and booked four tickets to JFK. My little-town blues are melting away … email: starshine@roshell.com We rented a fourth-floor walkup apartment in a brownstone on the Lower East Side. Whole place was the size of our living room back home. You had to move the sofa (and I use the term loosely) to get your luggage through the front door — which had several merciful deadbolts. I heard my kids say “this is sketchy” 13 times before we went to bed the first night. The morning shed light on the city’s swarms of denizens, untold brusque masses crowding the sidewalks and subways and Shake Shacks. “There are so many humans,” said my stunned 14-year-old, “that you can’t ever again feel like you’re important at all. You’re just … another one.” But the kids soon adapted to the breathless pace and breathtaking possibilities of a messy metropolis. It started with an egg cream — and worked its way through knish, cannoli, and something called a “sanegwich,” which turned out to be a sandwich, only infinitely more delicious. (Say it. It even sounds yummier.) These vagabond shoes are longing to stray right through the very heart of it … We walked miles and spanned lifestyles, from Park Avenue to the Tenement Museum, from Broadway to the Bowery. We ate street-cart gyros on the steps of the Met while watching five phenomenal old guys sing a cappella doo-wop, and ducked out of the rain on Fifth Avenue to buy a paper cone of exorbitantly expensive chocolatedipped strawberries at Godiva. By week’s end, the kids had hailed cabs, haggled with surly street vendors, played chess in the park with a weird stranger, and learned to use guts and good sense (rather than a crosswalk signal) to decide when it’s safe to cross a street. You can’t learn that stuff on a beach. Our last hour in the city, we walked past a man who was vomiting quite unapologetically on the sidewalk. “I want to be a part of it,” our oldest crooned Sinatra-style as we all continued walking, unfazed. “New York, New York …”

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Courting Potential UCSB’s Men’s Volleyball Team Eyes MPSF Tournament

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CSB’s record of 14 wins and 14 losses in outside hitter. Evans, a former Dos Pueblos High star, men’s volleyball might induce yawns if was playing for SBCC two years ago.“I was rooting hard for UCSB in the NCAA finals,” he said. Before it were not for what happened two years rolling his ankle, Evans was one of the Gauchos’ most ago. The Gauchos went 14-14 in the 2011 potent attackers during their seven-match winning regular season and barely qualified for the Mountain streak in March. Pacific Sports Federation Tournament. But then they went on a road rampage, culminating in an upset of WESTMONT 400: The Sam Adams Multi-Events top-ranked USC for the MPSF championship. They Meet has become Ashton Eaton’s version of the Daybeat the Trojans again in the NCAA Final Four, but Ohio State denied the Gauchos their ultimate glory by tona  — a season-opening display of speed. Eaton, the world record holder and Olympic champion in winning the national title in a five-set donnybrook. the decathlon, ran full-throttle around the Westmont “It’s kind of eerie where we are,” Dylan Davis said. Davis, a 6 9 middle blocker, was the only nonCollege track last Friday, finishing the 400-meter dash senior starter on the 2011 team. Now he is the only in 45.64 seconds. That bettered the 45.68 he clocked senior starter, as long as outside hitter Miles Evans last year and is the fastest lap ever run by a decathlete. is sidelined by a sprained ankle.“This team has more The Oregon star also recorded a personal best in the potential [than shot put (49 3½ ). the 2011 group],” He competed Davis said. in four of the 10 “This team events, tuning up is a lot younger, for next month’s and it’s taken international them longer to decathlon at figure things out,” Gotzis, Austria. UCSB coach Rick … Eaton’s fiancé, McLaughlin said. Canadian hep“The way they’re tathlete Brianne Theisen, also hit playing now, they high gear in the can compete 100 hurdles, skimwith anybody out ming over the there.” barriers in 13.31. The Gauchos … Top scorers in proved that last the competition Friday night, were Florida’s when top-ranked UCSB’s Grant Goswiller (2) and Dylan Davis (13) put up a block against BYU Gray Horn in the BYU came rolling star Taylor Sander during last Friday’s match at the Thunderdome. decathlon (7,526) into the Thunand Maryland’s Kiani Profit in the heptathlon (5,909). derdome on an 11-match winning streak. UCSB twice Runner-up Aisha Adams (5,788) competes for the knocked the Cougars to the mat, winning games one Westmont-based Women’s Athletic Performance and three, but BYU prevailed in the end, 20-25, 25-20, Foundation, which presented last weekend’s meet. 18-25, 25-21, 15-13. The Gauchos were up 13-11 in the final game, but Evan Licht’s serve into the net swung JUNIOR ELEVATING: Former All-Pro quarterback the momentum to the visitors’ side. It was a flaw in Randall Cunningham set a high bar for athletic an otherwise heroic night by Licht, a junior middle performance at Santa Barbara High — including blocker who had a career-high 21 kills. a clearance of 6 8 in the high jump — but his oldest “Our serving has been our biggest improvement,” son is reaching higher. Randall Cunningham Jr., a McLaughlin said.“We’ve been knocking other teams off the net with their passing, which sets up our block- junior at Bishop Gorman High in Las Vegas, won the Arcadia Invitational high jump last weekend by clearers.” Davis leads the MPSF in total blocks with 143. Jake Staahl, a 6 6 sophomore, and Jonah Seif, a ing 7 1 . Over the summer, he soared 7 2 . Randall Jr. 6 8 freshman setter, help the Gauchos put up a forwas a backup quarterback on the gridiron last fall. His midable wall. dad, by the way, turned 50 on March 27. Davis said that McLaughlin, in his fifth season as TWO-FOR-TWO: Westmont College senior Tu˘gçe UCSB’s coach, instills a sense of responsibility in the players. “He lets us make changes,” the senior said.“He Canıtez received her second consecutive NAIA Player of the Year award from the Women’s Basketlets us be men out there.” ball Coaches Association on Monday night in New UCSB finishes the regular season with two more Orleans. … Former UCSB coach Lindsay Gottlieb home matches, Wednesday night (April 10, 7 pm) inherited a super-talented roster when she went to against USC and Friday night (April 12, 7 pm) against Cal two years ago, and the Golden Bears made it all Pepperdine. Then it’s on to the MPSF Tournament, the way to the NCAA women’s Final Four. Louisville where the top four teams will host first-round games. The Gauchos, who could finish anywhere from fifth to knocked them out in the semifinals. eighth, will be on the road, just like in 2011. Evans hopes to be ready to return to action. “He’s a For more sports, including a weekly highlight very important player,” McLaughlin said of the senior schedule, see independent.com/sports.

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ou weren’t dreaming if for a month at the beginning of the year you got the idea that Seagrass Restaurant was trying to be a mid-level, smallplates, drop-in kind of joint. There was even a legendry burger, sadly gone now, but perhaps back for another menu, for Seagrass is more than willing to keep changing.“The [January] change didn’t go with the Seagrass name and the white-linen atmosphere,” explained Ruben Perez, who holds the owner slot in his family’s business (father Robert is the chef, mom Marianna Perez is the GM, and brother Richard is running the new wine bar Taste … more on that in a bit). The latest incarnation of the menu still features some small plates — such as “black cod dressed in black,” the equally witty and tasty fish atop black vegetable “noodles,” dashi finished with squid ink, candied ginger, and watercress. Ruben Perez said, “We’re hoping to attract people who want to come in for a couple of appetizers and a glass of wine. We don’t want to be just a special-occasion restaurant, even if you will feel special when you come in here.” Perez also says the restaurant has dropped its prices so that “most entrees are $23, $24 now — there’s nothing over $30 anymore.” For instance, a hearty hoofand-snout fest like slow-braised pork cheeks with pork belly, crispy lamb sweetbreads, roasted bone marrow, and rocket will only set you back $23. Seagrass also has kicked off Wine Cellar Dinners, letting oenophiles show up with their own stash and drink it corkage-

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ow you define “feel-good music” depends a lot on your personal tastes. For some, it’s anything with a snappy beat; for others, it’s a song with whistling or a catchy hook. For Japandroids, though, it all comes down to a feeling. The Vancouver-based duo, made up of guitarist/vocalist Brian King and drummer/vocalist David Prowse, makes music that’s meant to be cranked to 11. It’s big, boisterous rock with long intros, thunderous buildups, and a whole lot of shout-out-loud lyricism. “I think in the entire history of our band we’ve only written two songs that clock in at less than four minutes,” said Prowse in a recent email interview. “It’s really natural for us to find some guitar line or an idea for a chorus and then build around it and really try to make it as energetic and epic as possible. We just don’t really know any other way to play.” And that’s precisely where Celebration Rock fits in. The follow-up to Japandroids’ critically lauded 2010 debut, Post-Nothing, plays out like a rip-roaring night of excess. It’s a short burst of rock — just eight songs long with a runtime of only 35 minutes — built off of King’s anthemic hooks and Prowse’s now-signature blitzkrieg fills. And compared to Post-Nothing, it’s also a much crisper, cleaner affair; the guitars are more intricate, the cymbal crashes are pristine, and the fuzz factor never sullies the mix. In other words, it’s precisely what you’d expect from an album called Celebration Rock. “I think we both felt like we had a lot to prove to ourselves and to everyone who knew about our band,” said Prowse.“We wanted people to know that Post-Nothing wasn’t a fluke and that we were capable of making a better record than that. I think that pressure ultimately pushed us to make a record we were really proud of and wanted the whole world to hear.” Japandroids play Velvet Jones ( State St.) with Cloud Nothings on Monday, April 15, at 8 p.m. Call 965-8676 or visit newnoisesb.org for — Aly Comingore tickets and info.

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n the arts as in agriculture, Santa Barbara tends to produce year-round. Yet it’s in spring that we get some of the freshest, most vibrant products. This April, there’s a chance to sample new work by emerging student choreographers, as well as dance set in the ultimate springtime theater: a lush garden. Check ’em out below.

Blood, Thought, Muscle & Grace : That’s the title of this year’s spring dance concert over at UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance. Faculty member Mira Kingsley directs this showcase of student and faculty choreography alongside the work of American dance great José Limón. Among the works in this program are faculty member Christina McCarthy’s “Requiem for Bubbles”— a study of grief upon the death of a beloved goldfish — and “Entropy,” created by student and scientist Alannah Pique and inspired by her studies of particles. There’s clearly some sophisticated thinking behind these works; let’s hope the blood is metaphorical. Catch the show at UCSB’s Hatlen Theater April 12-14 at 8 p.m. Call 893-7221 or visit www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu. Bees Circling Heaven : Fans of site-specific dance need journey no farther this weekend than Montecito’s Lotusland. Now through May 4, the fabled property plays host to Swarm: A Collaboration with Bees, a group art exhibition curated by Nancy Gifford and devoted to that curious pollinator, the honeybee. As part of Swarm, Santa Barbara choreographer and filmmaker Robin Bisio will present Bees Circling Heaven, a playful and sensual dance opera set to the live music of regional indie rock group Ghost Tiger. Stick around after the performance for a reception including honey tastings and a chance to visit the exhibition. Bees Circling Heaven features dancers Weslie Chang, Bonnie Crotzer, Monica Ford, and Kaita Lepore. The performance takes place at Lotusland’s Theatre Garden on Saturday, April 13, at 3 p.m. Reservations are required. Call 969-9990 or visit lotusland.org. Collective : The following weekend, April 19 and 20, Santa Barbara City College presents its first annual spring dance concert. Since being named director of dance at SBCC, Tracy R. Kofford has gone in search of opportunities for his students to interact with the greater dance community. Their show, titled Collective, reflects that emphasis and features choreography by SBCC faculty members and students, as well as work by guest artists from Radford University, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, Nebula Dance Lab, and Fusion Dance Company. Collective takes place at Center Stage Theater April 19 at 8 p.m. and April 20 at 2 and 8 p.m. Call — Elizabeth Schwyzer 963-0408 or visit centerstagetheater.org.

PICK it UP Kurt Vile’s Wakin On A Pretty Daze : In the current generation of indie-rock heroes, Kurt Vile may be the closest we come to a Tom Petty. The former War On Drugs player and already-proliﬁc solo artist makes music for the everyman: tunes that meander and charge forward with an equal sense of intensity. Vile’s no perfectionist, though, and his balance of prowess and vulnerability is precisely what makes Wakin On A Pretty Daze so great. On the album’s almost-title track, “Wakin On A Pretty Day,” the hook speeds up with every pass, as if Vile were trying to ﬁnd his groove, then ends in an intricate, dazzling display of free-form noodling. Blessed with a voice that carries the grizzled edge of Springsteen and a delivery style that draws comparison to Neil Young’s mumble-mouthed poetry, it’s no wonder Vile is fast becoming the go-to man for road-trip mixtapes. He makes the kind of guitar music that begs you to — AC shove your head out the car window as you wind down the interstate.

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A NEW LUKE If you’re looking for a full-time job in the arts, the Marjorie Luke Theatre may have the gig for you. The Marjorie Luke is currently looking for a house manager/administrative assistant to support the theater’s general manager and technical director. Interested parties are encouraged to send a résumé and cover letter to formsubmission @luketheatre.org.

DISCIPLES OF DIBBLEE The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission is seeking works from former students of the Alan Hancock College photography teacher and photojournalist Dibblee Hoyt. The accepted works will be part of the upcoming exhibit W. Dibblee Hoyt: Far Reaches, which will be on display at the Channing Peake Gallery this June. Submissions are due Wednesday, April 17, at noon. For info, visit sbartscommission.org.

IF YOU DRAW IT The Kids Draw Architecture series is back. This Saturday, April 13, from 1-3 p.m., the downtown post office (836 Anacapa St.) plays host to youngsters who want to try their hand at drawing buildings alongside area architects. An additional sketch session takes place April 27 at the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum. The sessions are free, and materials are provided. Visit afsb.org for info.

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RETURN

ENGAGEMENTS APRIL 12TH – MAY 19TH Written by Bernard Slade Directed by Brian Harwell Starring George Coe, Heather Heyerdahl, Sean O’Shea and Tiffany Story This ingenious comedy follows four couples through the various stages of their relationships and how they become linked together in life and love.

PERFORMANCES FRIDAY & SATURDAY Dinner at 7pm Show at 8pm

SUNDAY MATINEE Lunch at 1pm Show at 2pm

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WORKING-CLASS HEROES

Return Engagements Opens Season at Circle Bar B COURTESY PHOTOS

by Charles Donelan

he Circle Bar B Dinner Theatre is an idiosyncratic, endearing, and enduring Santa Barbara institution that’s located deep in the recesses of Refugio Canyon, and, especially if you have an interest in the ecology of theater, you owe it to yourself to go. Circle Bar B regulars and season subscribers will need no prompting to secure their seats for Return Engagements, the first play of the 2013 season, as it features many of the theater’s most beloved performers, and it is directed by Brian Harwell, the multiple Indy Award–winning performer whose theatrical résumé reads like an almost comically comprehensive list of the top plays in recent Santa Barbara theater history. Although Harwell has acted in shows with virtually every high-profile theater artist in the area, from Genesis West’s Maurie Lord to Lit Moon Theatre’s John Blondell, he remains intensely loyal to Circle Bar B, where he has done more work than in any other single venue. When I asked Harwell about what makes Circle Bar B special, he immediately warmed to the topic.“I always tell people that this is the place for honest, blue-collar theater,” he explained. “When an actor wants to know what it’s like to work on a show in the barn, I let them know about everything because there’s no sugarcoating it. But what I also say is that it’s a place where I feel very closely in touch with what I believe theater is all about. Circle Bar B offers a tremendous opportunity for actors to really focus on what matters.” With a four-play season that begins in April and runs until the end of October, the programming is as ambitious as, and the performance schedule perhaps more taxing than, that of any other theater in town. Producers Susie and David Couch pour heart and soul into selecting and casting each of the year’s choices. They draw from a broad but specific set of playwrights, frequently returning to the work of a small handful of sometimes underappreciated artists like farceur Ken Ludwig and the author of Return Engagements, Bernard Slade. Nevertheless, despite an understandable reliance on the comfortable familiarity of genre plays for the bulk of the schedule, Couch always throws in a wild card to raise the stakes. This year that show is Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, which opens at the end of May. In the meantime, though, there will be comedy filled with clever remarks, touching moments, and psychological insights, as Harwell assures that Return Engagements is “classic Bernard Slade. He’s best known for Same Time, Next Year, and this show is similar to that one in some ways, but I actually like this one better.” Four actors will

(from left): George Coe, Heather Heyerdahl, Sean O’Shea, and Tiffany Story play two characters each in Bernard Slade’s decade-spanning comedy. ABOVE : This bride forgot to take off her veil. See why this weekend at Circle Bar B Dinner Theatre. TOP

play eight characters as we track the life stories of four couples who all happen to have stayed in the same room of a Canadian resort hotel at one time or another. Act One shows the initial state of these parallel, but as yet unintertwined, relationships. In Act Two, vignettes that take place 15, 20, and 30 years later reveal what has happened to each of the pairs, and the unexpected ways in which all their lives have begun to overlap. It’s a tour de force for the actors, who must not only play two distinct characters, but must also play them at very different times in their lives. Harwell acknowledges the challenge, but he sees it as an opportunity, saying, “The physical representation is as important as the verbal one in this show, and so the actor has to use his or her whole toolbox.” And what could be more fitting for the actors — George Coe, Tiffany Story, Heather Heyerdahl, and Sean O’Shea — of this blue-collar theater than to use their whole box of tools? Return Engagements opens on Friday, April 12, and runs through Sunday, May 19, at Circle Bar B Dinner Theatre (1800 Refugio Ranch Rd., Goleta). For tickets and information, call 967-1962 or visit circlebarbtheatre.com.

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CROSSING PATHS

ROB GRAYSON

In The Last Five Years, Time Moves Two Ways by Charles Donelan

usical theater is a resilient art form. Just when it seems as though there’s nothing new to do, out pops a novel take on the song/story combination, and the magic is back. In recent years, the broader influences of pop and jazz, along with the specific challenge presented by the innovative work of Stephen Sondheim, have come together to spawn a younger generation of writers/composers who are pushing the musical sophistication of the traditional Broadway song to its limits. Within this class of 21st-century musical movers, Jason Robert Brown, the writer of such shows as Parade and Songs for a New World, stands out as perhaps the most striking example of a composer who crafts songs that are stories unto themselves, miniature plays within the play Emily Jewell (left) and Elisha Schaefer play a that not only reveal character but talented couple who are coming apart in The Last also advance the plot, complicate Five Years. the narrative, and develop the show’s themes. For the next three weeks, S.B.’s Elements The- set in Central Park, and it ends with Jamie and atre Collective will perform Brown’s autobio- Cathy getting married. graphical two-person show The Last Five Years After pulling off the neat trick of producat nine different locations in Santa Barbara, ing the complex faux-Restoration comedy Or, Goleta, and Carpinteria. This idealistic group in the fall of 2012, Elements has headed in yet of young theater professionals brings together another direction, but that’s according to plan. an interest in ambitious, next-generation pro- “We don’t want to be a company that has just gramming with the desire to reach audiences one type of show that we are always doing,” said who may ordinarily lack access to such perfor- Jewell. No danger there, as this contemporary mances. They do so by producing their shows at musical could hardly be further from the period such diverse locations as The Piano Kitchen on costumes and clever-but-contrived wit of their Rose Avenue, Java Station, Casa Esperanza, the last effort. The material, which has a splendid Carpinteria Woman’s Club, and the Faulkner musicality to it that raises it above the level Gallery at the Santa Barbara Central Library, of nearly any comparable recent two-person and by making all their performances free. Yes, musical, seems like a great choice for this group, that’s right, FREE. who are blessed with consistent access to such For this production, director Sara Radem- talented singers and musicians. acher and producer Mary Plant-Thomas have For Rademacher, Plant-Thomas, and Jewell, gone with their team’s star performer, the versa- the challenge of switching spaces every few tile actor/singer Emily Jewell, and have cast her performances is just one more way to stay opposite Elisha Schaefer, an actor who grew up creative. “Our mission is to reach the whole in Santa Barbara, trained at Vassar College, and community,” says Rademacher, “and not just appears made to play the leading role of Jamie the people who already go to the theater. We Wellerstein, the on-the-rise novelist whose want to help people overcome the things that relationship with actress Catherine Hiatt is dis- have stopped them from going to plays in the sected over the course of the show. past.” As for the next goal for this 21st-century The principle conceit that playwright Brown theater organization? “We are buying our own has used to create dramatic interest in what he lights,” said Plant-Thomas. “LED, so that we can has acknowledged to be a thinly veiled drama- get more watts per socket. That’s been one of the tization of his breakup with ex-wife Theresa toughest things about moving around, trying to O’Neill is a one-sided reverse chronology. As figure out where we plug in.” the play begins, Cathy laments the breakup of her marriage to Jamie, to which the Jamie of five The Last Five years previous replies with a song that celebrates Years runs Friday, Cathy as his “Shiksa Goddess.” From there, the April 12 - Sunday, Jamie character moves forward in time, while April 28, at various locations. Cathy goes backward. Their opposing narrative For full information, visit arcs meet in the middle, when, for the first time elementstheatrecollective.com. in the musical, they sing together. That scene is

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A Cool Customer Reviewed by Charles Donelan

DAVID BAZEMORE

The Year of Magical Thinking, presented by Ensemble Theatre Company. At Alhecama Theatre, Saturday, April 6. Shows through April 21.

rom the moment that Linda Purl steps onstage in The Year of Magical Thinking, it’s clear that this onewoman show offers the actress multiple challenges, which she rises to completely. The play, which describes in vivid detail the reaction of author Joan Didion to the back-to-back deaths of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and her 39-year-old daughter, Quintana, remains ruthlessly demanding for every grueling minute of its nearly two-hour, intermisLinda Purl holds the audisionless runtime. And yet, for the most ence spellbound throughpart, it moves swiftly, propelled by Didout the one-woman ion’s language and Purl’s performance, show The Year of Magical which succeeds in making these wry Thinking. laments into something mesmerizing. Although there’s no question that Purl gives a great performance, it is less certain that The Year of Magical Thinking is a great play. A staffer at her husband’s hospital refers to Didion as “a cool customer,” and while in the show that’s offered up as yet another irony, it’s a perspective that refuses to completely go away. Didion drops the names of fellow show-biz insiders and familiar (to her) elite locations so compulsively — Honolulu and Cannes, Santa Monica and Malibu, Lynn Nesbit, Katharine Ross, and Brian Moore — that even the hospitals involved take on the reflected aura of Didion’s hyper-identification with her own rarefied milieu. This tendency to rely on the trappings of her celebrity remains stubbornly at odds with Didion’s initial assertion that her experience is universal. The show’s core message — that death comes to us all, ready or not — becomes diluted, rather than strengthened, when it’s watered down with these Didion-specific status markers of a privileged show-biz insider. ■

Chords of Hope Bill W. and Dr. Bob. At Center Stage Theater, Thursday, April 4. Shows through April 13. Reviewed by Joseph Miller

ecades ago, when playwrights Samuel Shem and Janet Surrey read the biographies of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, they were overwhelmed. “Here was a great American story of two men who, alone, were going to die,” they wrote, “but who together not only found a way to live, but created a program for healing that has spread throughout the world.” That program is Alcoholics Anonymous, and this carefully crafted and well-acted production portrays the chain of events that brought about the unlikely alliance of a failed stockbroker and a struggling surgeon. With a simple set and a cast of six, Bill W. and Dr. Bob excels at tracing the dramatic curve from loss to redemption, and at illuminating the critical insights that made AA different from earlier approaches. Presented by Happy Destiny Productions, the play features Tim Whitcomb in the role of Dr. Bob Smith. John Brindle turns in a fine performance as the restless and ambitious Bill Wilson, who stumbles along the razor’s edge of sobriety, swinging helplessly between zeal and despair. Whitcomb and Brindle are entirely believable in their portrayal of dissimilar personalities who fatefully complement each other as dynamic sail and stalwart rudder in their visionary work. A fair measure of the script concerns the anguished spouses of the title characters, Lois Wilson (Jean Hall) and Anne Smith (Kathy Marden), and shows the conditions that impelled the parallel inception of Al-Anon, the support program for nondrinkers whose lives have been affected by drinkers. Ray Wallenthin and Kathleen Leary bring imagination and chameleon skills to important miscellaneous roles. Ben Crop’s sound design lends important color to the atmosphere, as when a single plaintive piano note that is repeated between the early scenes of loss later develops into chords of hope. Bill W. and Dr. Bob has enduring meaning beyond its special focus on alcoholism. Bringing darkness to light is never easy, but 78 years ago, two ill men discovered that honesty about weakness, amid a nonjudgmental community ■ of support, could release unsuspected and redemptive strength. april 11, 2013

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CENTRAL COAST DEBUT!

igmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and CS Lewis the scholar and author of The Chronicles of Narnia, never met. But in this ﬁctionalized account the two great thinkers convene at the invitation of Freud and the sparks ﬂy.

Starring Ed Giron as Sigmund Freud & Justin Stark as CS Lewis

Fresh from New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, “Freud’s Last Session” is a delightful and witty exchangeof ideas that explores belief, sex, faith, life, death, and philosophy in a “session” that is entertaining and insightful.

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closely at architect Michael Carmichael’s Whale House, which is embedded in Mission Creek on Andante Road in Santa Barbara, will know that it would take a very unusual kind of person to call that particular structure home. Inspired by the fantastic imagination of Antonio Gaudí, the sprawling shingle-covered structure contains a custom elevator, an indoor-outdoor heated pool, and several idiosyncratic bedrooms, but not a single straight line or right angle. The project, which was begun in the 1970s and then abandoned by the builder some three years and one million (!) shingles later, has become a source of singular pride, even as it requires the constant attention of its current resident, jade artist Jeff Spangler.“See that?” Spangler asked me as we crane our necks to look up at the outside of the eaves that overhang the house’s third floor aerie.“Bees love it in there. We’ve tried to transplant them, but they always find their way back. I know we’re supposed to be sensitive to the plight of the bees right now, and I am, but when every night before you go to bed you have to sweep bees out from under the covers, well, that’s a bit inconvenient, don’t you think?” Spangler, who is the sponsor and chief architect of this weekend’s mermaid pageant at the Lucidity Festival, has lots of friends and nothing but respect for Mother Nature. In fact, it’s this combination of a strong curiosity about the earth and an equally robust desire to connect with other people that has made Spangler one of the world’s most successful harvesters and carvers of jade. He routinely travels between his claims in Northern California and his studio near the Funk Zone, toting large blocks of this precious substance that he discovers prowling the streambeds of the Sierra foothills. Once Spangler has captured his prey — or, as he likes to put it, once “the stones have found me” — he returns to his workbench, where, with the aid of high-speed diamond drills and an encyclopedic knowledge of world mythology, he creates a variety of jade objects, ranging from the large mounted sculptures known as suiseki, or “waterstones,” to gorgeous, nearly silent jade fountains; ornate netsuke that can be inlaid with gold or other contrasting precious stones; and fantastic original jade sculpture and jewelry. For Spangler, the collaboration with the Lucidity Festival was a perfect fit, in part because of a piece that he keeps in a case by the door at the Whale House, a sculpture of a mermaid that has long been a conversation piece for visitors to this unorthodox home.“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a woman who was drawn to that particular piece look at it for a long time and then turn to me and say,‘You know, I’m a mermaid,’ ” he tells me. Ever obliging, Spangler has devoted the last few months to realizing this dream, first acquiring, and then, when many of them proved to be too heavy, designing his own prosthetic mermaid tails for the more than a dozen women who will perform this weekend. What has this to do with jade, you might ask? As it turns out, everything. As Spangler explains it, “Jade originally comes from the center of the ocean floor, and it’s among the hardest of all stones, which is why it has been traditionally used to make blades and cutting tools called celts. In Chinese cosmological terms, jade is complete and total yang, which makes it the perfect complement to the feminine force of yin.”And that’s why, when these mermaids splash to the surface of the special pool that Spangler is constructing for Lucidity, they will be bringing jade with them. For more information about jade and about Jeff Spangler’s art, visit jadehunter.com. For more on Lucidity, visit lucidityfestival.com or turn to The Week (p. 65). ■

AN AMERICAN LEGACY Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

ANDREW ECCLES

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Returns to S.B. by Elizabeth Schwyzer

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, now under the artistic directorship of Robert Battle, will perform works by choreographers Battle, Paul Taylor, Rennie Harris, and Ronald K. Brown.

n 1958, a young African-American dancer and choreographer named Alvin Ailey founded a concert dance company in New York City. Fifty-five years later, that company has grown into one of the world’s most renowned performing arts groups, as well as an icon of American culture. This weekend, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Santa Barbara, courtesy of UCSB Arts & Lectures. The company is led by Robert Battle, who in 2011 succeeded longtime artistic director Judith Jamison. Last week, Battle spoke to me about the program he’ll bring to Santa Barbara and his vision of the Ailey legacy. You’re bringing a number of newer works this time. Tell me about Kyle Abraham’s “Another Night.” Kyle is a very successful choreographer who is getting lots of rave reviews, awards, and commissions. I love his sensibility: an urban edge with a modern-dance sensibility. I wanted him to set a work on the company because I admired his sense of narrative, the inventiveness of his movement, and the intelligence of his compositions. “Another Night” is set to Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia.” This version is played by Art Blakey from Pittsburg. Kyle wanted to celebrate something having to do with the flair and energy of that city. In this work, much like in the bebop era, you get this sense of improvisation, polyrhythm, and syncopation. You’re also bringing Paul Taylor’s “Arden Court” from 1981. What made you decide to bring that classic work of American modern dance into the company repertory? Paul Taylor is a genius, and “Arden Court” is a wonderful work. What I love about the composition is the beautiful adagio section that happens close to the end of the ballet. It’s so subtle and minimalist, and I thought it would be wonderful to see my dancers do that. The thing I love, too, is when the curtain finally opens after a kind of prelude you see this beautiful backdrop of a rose, and I thought, What a wonderful way to open my first season as artistic director. Do you ever go back to watch old video footage of the company, and if so, how does that inform you? I’m a person who loves looking back. There’s a wonderful version of Mr. Ailey himself doing “Sinner Man” from Revelations. I watch that film, and I don’t say to my dancers, “Do it like that,” because things evolve — they have to evolve. But I love thinking, what could those dancers have been thinking at the time, and could Mr. Ailey have known that the company would be such a tremendous beacon for the country and the world? I sort of look at those dancers on the old films and think of them looking out into the audience and the company’s future, and I wonder what they saw, back when they were dealing with their own costumes and riding in station wagons. To look at where we are now and realize the shoulders we are standing on — it’s centering and humbling.

In the earlier Ailey works, religious and spiritual experience was central. How do you think that emphasis has changed or evolved? I think it was always about spirit, and about finding spirit in everything that we do. When I look at newer works like Jiří Kylián’s “Petite Mort,” say, I think that along with the brilliance of the movements and the brilliance of the dancers and the technical virtuosity, we still dance with that sense of being spirit-filled. I think that’s the company’s intention from those early works, and Mr. Ailey’s spirit is very much still in the house. I always remember that the company was built out of a political statement as well as an artistic one, and that is always part of how I view the works I bring into the repertory. I always ask,“How does this work reflect the impetus of the company?” What do you think having a dedicated space like the Joan Weill Center for Dance has done for the company? It’s a center for dance that also represents an investment in the arts that you can see and touch. I think the building shows that the performing arts are important — that the company is important to this country and to the world. When you see an edifice of that magnitude, people take it seriously. There’s something about it that says, “Wow, this is amazing.” The building is all glass, so people are always looking in, and wanting to get involved. There are now thousands of people registered to take classes through our extension program. It brings the community together. Do you think that prominence and exposure gives Ailey responsibility to the larger dance community? Yes. One of the first things I did when I started was that I launched the New Directions Choreography Lab, which addressed the need for choreographers to have time and space to create, and a safe place to fail. We choose four choreographers each year. They get seven weeks of creative time, and a decent stipend. They also get an artistic advisor or mentor — we’ve had people like Lar Lubovitch, Gus Solomons Jr., and Elizabeth Keen — real luminaries who give constructive feedback. I wanted it to be a process where the artists don’t have to come out with a product. And I hope people copy that, because we have to address the need for time and space to experiment.

UCSB Arts & Lectures brings Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to the Arlington Theatre for two different programs, Saturday, April 13, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 14, at 2 p.m. For tickets, call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu. Arts & Lectures and the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance offer a master class with the company on Friday, April 12, at 5:30 p.m. For more information or to reserve a spot, call 966-6950 or visit sbdancealliance.org.

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JOHNNY MARR’S BIG DEBUT JON SHARD

After Years of Collaborating, The Smiths Guitarist Is Going It Alone by Aly Comingore

t’s been a long time coming. After leaving The Smiths 25 years ago, guitarist and founding member Johnny Marr has (finally) struck out on his own with The Messenger. But that’s not to say he hasn’t been busy. Over the course of the last two decades, Marr has lent his talents to everyone from The Pretenders to Modest Mouse to, most recently, The Cribs, as well as written music for films and produced albums. “I was a super studio rat, and I thought that was where I wanted to be forever,” he said recently from his rehearsal space in the U.K. For fans, The Messenger is classic Marr, filled with bright Brit pop melodies and jangly guitar riffs that lovingly nod to his post-punk past. It’s a record that’s big, dreamy, and, many would argue, well worth the wait. This Thursday, April 18, Johnny Marr plays the Santa Barbara Bowl alongside New Order for a night that, Marr admits, even he’s excited about. After so long, what made now the time to do a solo record? I’d been touring for so long, so my enthusiasm for getting back in the studio was really high. In my case, it was unusual just because I’d spent year after year before I joined Modest Mouse full-time being in studios and working on people’s records. But when Modest Mouse started touring, we played and played, and I really got to like it. I went from one extreme to the other, and it really surprised me. So when it came back to being in the studio to work on my own stuff, it was somewhat of a novelty. It made me really happy and taught me not to take things for granted.

MESSAGE RECEIVED: Johnny Marr’s solo debut is a shimmering guitar-pop treat for longtime fans and a welcome introduction for newcomers.

What kind of headspace were you in going into the recording process? I couldn’t get into the studio quick enough, but I didn’t have a super concrete plan. I thought over the years that it’s nice to keep some things mysterious and up to the process. I took a lot of things that I wanted to say lyrically, but you don’t really know how it’s going to go until you start doing it. … I knew it was important to not analyze the hell out of what I was going to do before I did it. I knew I wanted to make a record that was good to play live, that expressed things that I’m interested in, that hopefully people could relate to. I wanted the fans to like it; I knew that much. And that came directly from playing to a lot of diﬀerent people between 2005 and 2010. You’ve talked a bit about how you wanted to make a record that wasn’t overly introspective. Are there certain lyricists that you looked to for guidance? Brian Eno in the mid-’70s was really deﬁnitive and set the tone for a lot of the music that became new wave and punk rock. On the more classic tip, someone like Ray Davies, who was able to sing about his environment — I know he sang about himself, too, but he’s someone who’s more looking out than looking inward. I always liked Lou Reed for his observational and storytelling techniques. There are quite a few people. I just wanted to deliberately avoid some situation where I was just putting my feelings onto rockin’ music. There seems to be a certain trend towards earnestness in rock music, and I think it’s boring. Do you feel like that’s pretty indicative of your disposition, not wanting to navel-gaze? Yeah. It just doesn’t seem very interesting to me. The things I am interested in, like my environment and the feeling I get in cities and the energy of cities and travel and society, make for cooler music when it’s put together with electric guitars

and drums. It’s not all “me me me me me me me.” Being a songwriter is such a cool thing if you look at it as a creative way to come up with poetry that perhaps moves at the speed of life. I wanted to make a record that you could get into when you’re on your way to work, or on your way to school, or traveling on the train. I certainly didn’t want to make records that you kick back to at 1:30 in the morning with a glass of red wine and some candles. Or a joint. You’ve spent a chunk of the past few years in Portland, Oregon, yet you decided to make the record in England. Why? I was on tour a lot in the U.K. and Europe directly before making the record, so I was getting out and about quite a lot in the day, moving around town a lot in diﬀerent cities. Portland is a city that really suits me, and I fell in love with it like a lot of people fell in love with it for all the reasons that most musicians and people on the political left do. It’s a very groovy town, as everybody knows. But [for the record] there’s an energy and a certain kind of uptight attitude that I thought it might be good to be around, and the place to do that is the U.K. I also recorded some stuﬀ in Berlin, just so it wasn’t U.K.-centric. I didn’t want to be that guy making a “British record,” so to speak. I just knew it would be good to go back and be in the place where I got a lot of my values for the kind of rock music I was working on in the days before The Smiths.

Johnny Marr and New Order play the Santa Barbara Bowl (1122 N. Milpas St.) on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. For tickets and info, call 962-7411 or visit sbbowl.com.

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hen the world stumbled upon Youth Lagoon in 2010, it quickly met Trevor Powers. Introduced as “the introverted 22-year-old from Boise,” Powers and his record, The Year of Hibernation, were touted as introspective, innocent, and nostalgic, but that was only part of the appeal. As Youth Lagoon, his penchant for memorable melodies, thoughtful (albeit mumbled) lyrics, and aﬀectionately lo-ﬁ templates made Hibernation — and its indie-pop tropes — feel altogether new. As the followup, Wondrous Bughouse seems d e a d s e t on shirking expectations. Here, Powers’s thin, affecting voice remains the constant, while fantastic and at times whimsical soundscapes come to life THE WONDROUS ONE: Youth Lagoon’s Trevor around it. If Powers plays SOhO next Thursday. Hibernation was his quiet record about staying inside, Bughouse is its counterpoint: an album about voraciously exploring the world and coming back awestruck. This Thursday,Youth Lagoon makes his Santa Barbara debut at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club. Below, we chat with Powers about the story behind Wondrous Bughouse.

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I know you recorded with a full band. Were there certain sounds and instruments that you knew you wanted to play up? I don’t see one instrument as ever being a main role on this record. That was essentially a goal — and to create a sort of existence sonically where instruments don’t always sound like instruments. I have a lot of fun turning things into something they’re not supposed to be.

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What (if anything) do you do to avoid those outside pressures, expectations, etc.? Delight in the negative opinions because it means you’re probably doing something right. Would you attach an overarching theme (or themes) to Wondrous Bughouse? It’s interesting how this record came together because all the focus was put on the pieces instead of the whole. But because of that, everything ﬁt together better than I could have imagined. When you ﬁnish a record and take a step back, you instantly forget how it even happened. Wondrous Bughouse was this mentality of having one foot in a physical reality and the other in the metaphysical. A lot of my writing has been like that lately, observing the Creator through the creation. Over the last few years you’ve expanded Youth Lagoon from a solo project to a two-piece to a four-piece band. Do you feel that stepping into the role of bandleader has changed your approach to songwriting? No, it hasn’t. But I think my approach to songwriting changes every day for other reasons — mainly curiosity. That and never being content with music.

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obby McFerrin brought his own infectious blend of groove and good cheer to the Granada on Tuesday, one week into a U.S. tour promoting his new album spirityouall, which is scheduled for release next month. “Concert” is an inadequate word to describe a McFerrin performance.“Encounter” is good; “epiphany” better. McFerrin is a rare and truly original artist who has always deﬁed categories, an uncaught bird who moves between genres, collaborating with a broad swath of artists. While I would never call it a variety show, Tuesday’s event was a wild ride through music and comedy, amateur guest performance, a game of “stump the band,” a sing-along, and a Q&A session thrown in for good measure. McFerrin is a kind of jester holding court, mining the margins of the social context for the unsuspected spark that will keep the moment fresh. His inspiration was in full force Tuesday night, delighting the audience with a generous two-and-aquarter-hour play session (no intermission), all the while showcasing his new quintet and new material that centers on the American spiritual. McFerrin has always been discreet but never coy about his spiritual life: His 1988 title song “Simple Pleasures” makes mention of his daily devotion to the good book. The current set is a combination of new approaches to traditional hymns like “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore,” and spiritual-themed originals, all dedicated to the memory of his father, the great baritone Robert McFerrin Sr. His choice of instrumentation — mandolin, resonator and lap guitars, accordion, and bass ukulele — steered some of the music toward country and even bluegrass. Tambourine emerged for a tent revival feeling, while gutsy electric guitar broke out for the down-and-dirty blues. Midway through, the band took a break while the audience was treated to classic solo Bobby. The one-man band mesmerized with his distinctive fourpart take on Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile”— melody, bass, head-tone ﬁll-ins, and chest percussion all at once. Gee-whiz factor aside, one is astonished by the musical elegance and the suggestion of harmonies in the manner of Bach’s unaccompanied string works. One hymn McFerrin didn’t cover was “This Little Light of Mine”— but there can be no doubt about his determination and good graces to keep on lettin’ it shine.

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THE MUSIC MAN: Former Capitol Records CEO and longtime Santa Barbaran Hale Milgrim brings his collection of rock ’n’ roll archival footage to the Lobero Theatre this Saturday.

Into the Archives by Aly Comingore HALESTORM: In recent months, it’s been all eyes on the Lobero. The historic theater located on the corner of Anacapa and Canon Perdido streets has spent the first quarter of 2013 with its sights set firmly on the future. Come June, Santa Barbara’s beloved theater house will undergo a massive renovation, which will include reworking the seats, prettifying the courtyard, and expanding the women’s restroom. Of course, this facelift is fixing to cost a pretty penny, which is where Encore: Lobero comes in. The ongoing “campaign to preserve and enhance” is currently creeping closer to its $5.2 million goal, and pulling all of the Lobero’s supporters into the spotlight. Last month, S.B. big shots Jeff Bridges and David Crosby took the stage to show their support. This month, the stage will be graced by perhaps the Lobero’s biggest supporter: Hale Milgrim. The former Capitol Records CEO, current KTYD broadcaster, and longtime facilitator of the Lobero-hosted Sings Like Hell concert series will presents his Quips and Clips, Volume  on Saturday, April 13, as a way to show his support for Encore: Lobero. But this is no fundraising event. In fact, the almost sold-out event is free to the public. Rather than raising money, Milgrim is simply looking to draw attention to the theater he lovingly refers to as his “other living room.” For the fourth installment of Quips and Clips, he’ll be presenting neverbefore-seen live concert footage from his personal music archives.“I’ve always enjoyed playing music for my friends,” Milgrim said. “I always wanted to be the first kid on my block to have whatever new music was coming out, and to be the person to excite somebody about what I was loving. It’s that symbiotic relationship; if you’re turned on to something, you want your friends to know about it, too.” While he’s hush-hush about the artists he’s planning to present, the flyers for the event give some good hints. In typical Milgrim fashion, all featured singers, songwriters, and bands are being marquee’d in code, with names ranging from “F-Wood Mick” and “Velvet Lou” to “YNSC” and “Dire Mark.” In addition to the clips, Milgrim will be dishing on the stories behind the songs, though he promises he won’t be talking too much. “I won’t even be on stage for long,” Milgrim laughed. “I’ll be roaming around where I’m the most comfortable: in the audience. I’d rather be 15th-row-center any day.” For music lovers and Encore supporters, this is sure to be a night to remember, if not for the insider anecdotes, then for the pure pleasure of seeing the Lobero’s number one fan championing the theater he calls home. “I just wanted to do something to give back,” he said.“I’ve been so fortunate to have these treasures that I’ve been able to archive over the years, and I’m even more fortunate I can show them in a room that makes me feel like I’m showing these in my living room to people.” Hale Milgrim presents Quips and Clips, Volume  at the Lobero Theatre ( E. Canon Perdido St.) on Saturday, April 13, at 8:03 p.m. Tickets are free but going fast. To reserve yours, call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com. Limit two tickets per person. ALSO THIS WEEK: Speaking of the Lobero, this week the theater plays host to the king of protest folk, Arlo Guthrie. He’ll bring his talents — and penchant for storytelling — to the stage on Monday, April 15, at 8 p.m. Call 963-0761 or visit lobero.com for tickets. And on Tuesday, April 16, Wildcat Lounge ( W. Ortega St.) hosts the second installment of Girls Run This Sh!t, a femalecentric night of area music and art featuring Benedicte, Johanna Jordan, Vera Clay, La Radia, and Pretty Awesome. The show starts at 8:30 p.m. ■ Call 962-7970 for info.

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BETTING ON THE BET PHOTOS BY RAY HAMILTON

Community Film Studio Santa Barbara Releases First Feature Film by Matt Kettmann

ne morning last August, a unique brand of moviemaking magic was happening just off Milpas Street. Inside a former elementary school, veteran soap-opera star and Carpinteria resident Finola Hughes was on the other side of the lens for the first time, directing a cast and crew consisting completely of volunteers in a feature film called The Bet. “Can you play a cop?” Hughes asks one of the many people standing around, watching the grips employ elegant carpentry to turn the hallway into a police station. “Sure,” the man replies, hurrying off to the wardrobe room to don his uniform. Standing next to me is longtime radio man Ray Hamilton, who’s donating his public relations expertise to The Bet. “That’s classic,” he says in hushed tones fit for a film studio.“That’s the way everything is done here.” “Here” is the Community Film Studio Santa Barbara (CFSSB), the first all-volunteer, nonprofit, donationfunded film organization ever created. Anywhere. It’s the brainchild of Jack Presnal, a 56-year-old who grew up acting in community theater in Austin, Texas. Presnal went on to lead a wide-ranging career that included photography, filmmaking, software development, and educational administration before moving to Santa Barbara to study psychology and work at UCSB until his retirement in 2007. A couple of years ago, while recovering from a surgery, Presnal was reading up on the latest film technology and trends. “I realized that it was now possible to not only make a film far less expensively than we did when I was making movies, but also to be in charge of your own destiny with regard to the marketplace,” said Presnal, explaining that, thanks to direct-to-consumer services like Netflix, filmmakers no longer need to go through a distributor to reach the masses. “It occurred to me that it might be possible to marry the idea of community theater with the idea of making motion pictures,” he explained. By July 2011, the studio was officially incorporated as a (c)() nonprofit, with the goal of producing about one film per year and providing educational opportunities along the way. When she heard of CFSSB, Hughes — also a former community-theater actor — signed on immediately to direct.“I was just fascinated by this concept,” said Hughes, noting that the timing was right because of “how democratic filmmaking is at the moment.” Though initially worried that she wouldn’t be able to get the volunteers to return to the set each day on any of the 120 different locations used in the film, Hughes quickly realized that wouldn’t be a problem. “It was just sheer enthusiasm and a kind of camaraderie and wanting to be part of this experience that brought everybody back each day,” said Hughes, explaining that, unlike the typical Hollywood set, there were no tantrums or meltdowns.“It was great.” Last Thursday, The Bet’s cast, crew, and supporters got a sneak peek of the finished product at the Bacara Resort’s movie theater, where Hughes, some of her famous soap-opera friends, Kenny Loggins (whose daughter contributed a song to the film), and other less recognizable faces gathered to see the outcome. It’s a sweet film about a teenager (played by Scott Hagood) who gambles with his grandfather (played by Tim T. Whitcomb) to see who can get laid first. It’s a cute, sentimental, funny, and even occasionally moving study of youth, middle age (via the mother, played by Portia Thomas), and senior-citizen life. But considering it was made by all volunteers for around $60,000 — even similarly small, independent films often cost three or four times that —The Bet is nothing short of

ALL ACTORS ON DECK: Soap-opera star Finola Hughes (top, with glasses) makes her directorial debut with The Bet, the first feature film produced by the all-volunteer, nonprofit Community Film Studio of Santa Barbara. Shooting occurred all over town last summer, including outside of the Westside Market on Micheltorena Street (below). amazing, a thorough success and evidence that Presnal’s bet just might one day pay oﬀ. Better yet, The Bet and the hometown CFSSB format also shine a bright light on the Santa Barbara we know and love. Our cityscape is the silent star of the ﬁlm, and people will get a kick out of seeing and hearing the places where we work and play. Even more powerful, you will recognize the actors or names when the credits roll because they are, quite literally, your friends and neighbors. It’s exactly like going to watch a community theater production — with spontaneous bursts of applause upon seeing your buddy’s mug included — but this is on the big screen, and, if you buy a DVD, you can take it home for later viewing on your little screen. All that said, making movies and providing education is just the tip of the iceberg for what CFSSB could become. “Our hope is to take this as a concept and convince communities across the country to embark on the same thing,” said Presnal, who wants to create a network of studios nationwide that produce a feature per year.“We hope we’re starting a movement here.” The Community Film Studio Santa Barbara premieres The Bet at the Arlington Theatre (1317 State St.) on Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12.50, with a VIP package (drinks, dessert, and meet-and-greet after screening) available for $40. Visit cfssb.org and thebetmovie.com for info.

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Deader Than Ever Evil Dead. Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, and Lou Taylor Pucci star in a film written by Diablo Cody, Fede Alvarez, and Rodo Sayagues and directed by Alvarez.

There’s gore aplenty in the new Evil Dead with Elizabeth Blackmore.

Reviewed by D.J. Palladino

ou cannot minimize the effect Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead had on fans. Used to cheap-o terror like Friday the th, the cruddy quality of Raimi’s opening scenes suggested grade Z drive-in movies (it was made for less money than Spielberg spent on rides to the studio), yet it wasn’t long into the film that fans knew they were seeing something new (perhaps Joel Coen’s editing helped). The woman brutally raped by a tree gave scandal to a tree-hugging and politically correct generation, and the dingy look seemed to imply unexpected traumas lurked around every clapboard corner. Raimi’s remakes and sequels added humor and games, but the original set the grisly fun mood. This officially sanctioned reboot substitutes gallons of gore for grimy unexpectedness. In other words, real horror fans won’t get a scare out of this new journey into the woods, but they will be impressed by the beautiful gross-outs and sheer ingenuity used on the five new kids encountering a sucker of souls. There is no Ash

(Bruce Campbell), though his Pontiac rusts outside the cabin. Instead we get Mia (Jane Levy), whose vulnerability (as well as toughness) increases by the fact that she’s out in the old family cabin kicking heroin cold turkey. Wouldn’t you know, just then, some longhaired doofus finds the Necronomicon and just can’t help but pronounce those unsafe words that bring the Prince of Darkness minions back out of the woods in one scary signature tracking shot. If there is a novel theme to this gore bonanza, it has something interesting to do with burial and rebirth, though God knows coming back isn’t always blissful. The film’s triumph is director Fede Alvarez’s beautiful filling of its screen: a burning tree, a deluge of red, red rain, and a hearty pop-up from the undead in the cellar all maintain nice levels of stylishness; it’s one part Saw to two parts Cabin in the Woods. Sure, Evil Dead isn’t going to obsess your mind, but it’s an impressive calling card from a new director out to prove yet again why you really don’t want to ■ bury your friends alive in the wilderness.

The Power of Song

The Sapphires. Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, and Jessica Mauboy star in a film written by Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson and directed by Wayne Blair. Reviewed by Josef Woodard

n paper, the premise of this tasty entertainment snack of an Australian ﬁlm may strain the brain. Did you hear the one about the Supremes-like Aboriginal girl group in the 1960s who bucked white-leaning racism in their rural neck of the woods Down Under and were discovered by a good-hearted ne’er-do-well and shipped oﬀ to play army bases in Vietnam? But, in fact, the tale is based on a true story, from a screenplay adapted from Tony Briggs’s 2004 stage play, and nicely transformed by director Wayne Blair into a touching, bubbly — and musically retro-soulful — feel-good movie. Underlying the saga are social themes such as the racist divide in Australia, between whites and native Aborigines, circa the late ’50s through the late ’60s and the power music has to transcend boundaries and biases. At an otherwise all-white talent show, the wannabe soulmanturned-manager (Chris O’Dowd) finds his ears are perked up to the girls’ charms, soul, and musical potential, and he assures them, “I may be pale on the outside, but my blood runs negro.” Visions of fame swirl in the air as the sisters head to Melbourne to fetch their lost,

Based on a true story, The Sapphires charts the musical odyssey of an Aboriginal ’60s girl group. white-acculturated cousin into the fold, and the proving ground is the fertile performance realm of Saigon during the Vietnam War, and to points deeper into the battle zones. Internal tensions and points of dramatic allure arise involving the band’s queen bee (Deborah Mailman) and matters of romantic intrigue and military angst in a war-torn landscape, but the ﬁlm’s real heart and soul is the music. When The Sapphires weave their harmonious voices on the theme of old-school ’60s pop, some kind of magic happens, whatever the external trappings and sometimes sentimental maneuvers. It’s all about the power of song, the ■ ﬁlm’s ultimate selling point. april 11, 2013

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The following films are playing in Santa Barbara FRIDAY, APRIL 12, THROUGH THURSDAY, APRIL 18. Descriptions followed by initials — AC (Aly Comingore), DJP (D.J. Palladino), JW (Josef Woodard) — have been taken from our critics’ reviews, which can be read in full at independent.com. The symbol ✯ indicates the film is recommended.

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✯ Evil Dead (91 mins.; R: strong bloody

42 (88 mins.; PG-13: thematic elements including language)

violence and gore, some sexual content, language) Reviewed on page 97. Camino Real/Fiesta 5

The Sapphires (103 mins.; PG-13: sexuality, a scene of war violence, some language, thematic elements, smoking) Reviewed on page 97. Paseo Nuevo G.I. Joe: Retaliation (110 mins.; PG-13: intense sequences of combat violence and martial arts action throughout, brief sensuality, language)

This sluggish sequel to the ingeniously junky G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra has only one virtue: Channing Tatum. Once the filmmakers ingloriously dispose of their prime point of interest (him), the rest of the film seems abandoned by all the rest of the production departments involved in churning out this cheesy, expensive blockbuster. Not long after the screenwriters give up, the director, after producing one good rappelling ninja fight, decides to let the good guys win without much more than futile resistance from the snarky Cobras. In fact, when Snake Eyes and his brother finally square off during the final fight for the White House, you would do well not to look away from the screen for more than 10 seconds, or you may wonder how the righteous won so easily after all the toughness the bad guys showed in the last film. Oh yeah, and how did they talk Jonathan Pryce into doing both of these films? There are no underwater cities, no Eiffel Tower–eating nanomites, and no super-speeding battle suits in this one. All we dedicated fans get for our efforts is Bruce Willis. And he seems to have decided against doing anything more than raising his eyebrows. All in all, it’s a sad day for film franchises built flimsily upon action figures. Let’s just pray that when they finally get around to the My Little Pony movies, the company that makes it doesn’t model itself on G.I. Joe. (DJP) Camino Real (2- D and 3-D)/ Metro 4 (2-D and 3-D)

Chadwick Boseman stars as the historymaking baseball hero Jackie Robinson in this biopic. Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo Scary Movie 5 (85 mins.; PG-13: crude and sexual content throughout, language, some drug material, partial nudity, comic violence and gore)

The spoofs continue with this installment of the Scary Movie franchise. Here, a couple is stalked by a demon after bringing their newborn home from the hospital. Camino Real/Fiesta 5

The Place Beyond the Pines (140 mins.; R: language throughout, some violence, teen drug and alcohol use, a sexual reference)

A motorcycle stunt rider (Ryan Gosling) starts robbing banks as a way to provide for his family, and then meets a rookie cop (Bradley Cooper) working beneath a corrupt detective. Camino Real/Paseo Nuevo Trance (101 mins.; R: sexual content, graphic nudity, violence, some grisly images, language)

Danny Boyle directs this story about a criminally entangled art auctioneer who partners up with a hypnotherapist to recover a lost painting. Paseo Nuevo

SCREENINGS Beautiful Creatures (123 mins.; PG-13: violence, scary images, some sexual material)

A bored Southern boy meets a mysterious new girl, and together they unearth secrets about their families and their small town. Richard LaGravenese (Like Water for Elephants) writes and directs. Fri., Apr. 12, 7 and 10 p.m.; Mon., Apr. 15, 7 and 10 p.m.; Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero del Norte

The Gatekeepers (101 mins.; PG-13: violent content including disturbing images)

In this documentary, six former heads of Israel’s secret service reﬂect on their actions and share their insights about the ongoing War on Terror. Sun., Apr. 14, 4:30 p.m., Ojai Playhouse, 145 E. Ojai Ave.

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L. FRANK BOMB: Oz the Great and Powerful stars James Franco and Michelle Williams as Oz and Glinda. Oblivion (126 mins.; PG-13: sci-fi action violence, brief strong language, some sensuality/nudity)

In the year 2077, a repairman on war-ravaged Earth (Tom Cruise) rescues a young woman and ﬁnds himself battling to save mankind. Thu., April 18, 10 p.m., Camino Real/Metro 4

✯ No (118 mins.; R: language) An advertising executive (Gael García Bernal) devises a campaign to take down Chilean General Augusto Pinochet in 1988. Wisely, director Pablo Larraín approaches his subject with a rare seriocomic deftness, inserting a certain ﬁzzy black humor in the background. (JW) Plaza de Oro

One Answer to Cancer (98 mins.; NR) This documentary examines alternative cancer treatments and the problems associated with big pharmaceutical companies and the so-called “cancer industry.” Wed., April 17, 6 p.m., Villa Santa Barbara, 227 E. Anapamu St.

Olympus Has Fallen (114 mins.; R: strong violence, language throughout)

A former presidential guard (Gerard Butler) ﬁnds himself trapped inside the White House in the middle of a terrorist attack. Camino Real/Metro 4

Oz the Great and Powerful (130 mins.;

NOW SHOWING Admission (117 mins.; PG-13: language, some sexual material)

An Ivy League admissions oﬃcer (Tina Fey) risks it all when she meets a collegebound kid who she thinks might be the son she gave up for adoption. Fiesta 5 The Call (95 mins.; R: violence, disturbing content, some language)

A 9-1-1 operator (Halle Berry) receives a call from a girl who has been abducted, and comes face-to-face with a killer from her past. A better director or a decent writer could have made profound philosophical points — or at least some compelling thrills — out of this. Instead, the ﬁlmmakers opt for false controversy. (DJP) Metro 4

✯ The Croods (98 mins.; PG: some scary

PG: sequences of action, scary images, brief mild language)

A lowly magician with questionable ethics ﬁnds himself in a magical land where he must decide to be a good man or a great one. Just as Tim Burton did with his Lewis Carroll–shaming Alice in Wonderland, Oz the Great and Powerful is a meager, tarnished slickster visit to Oz, with nothing much going on behind the curtain. (JW) Fairview (2-D)/Metro 4 (2-D)

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(Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): German theologian Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a central ﬁgure in the rebellion against the Catholic Church that led to the Protestant Reformation. You’ll never guess where he was when he was struck by the epiphany that became the core axiom of his new religion. I’ll tell you: He was sitting on the toilet in the Wittenberg Monastery. The Holy Spirit gave him the crucial knowledge then and there, or so he testiﬁed. In this spirit, Aries, keep a very open mind about where you will be and what you will be doing when your illuminations arrive this week.

(June 21 - July 22): “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place,” wrote the poet Rumi. This is excellent advice for you right now, Cancerian. You are nearing the peak of your power to express yourself with beautiful accuracy. You have more skill than usual at understanding and conveying the interesting truth. As a result, you’re in a position to wield extra influence. People are receptive to being moved by your heartfelt intelligence. So please do more than simply push for greater efficiency, order, and discipline. Those things are good, but I hope you will also be a radiant role model who exemplifies what it means to be soulful.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20): Your task is to uncover the semihappy ending that was hidden back in the story’s beginning. Once you do that, you may be able to create a graceful and honorable climax. In fact, I don’t think you will be able to bring about the semi-happy ending any other way. It’s crucial that you return to the original ﬂash of inspiration — the time when all the plot lines that eventually developed were ﬁrst germinating. You need to remember fate’s primal promise. You’ve got to read the signs you missed in the early going.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20): If you play poker, the odds are one in 649,740 that you will get a royal flush. That’s an ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of one suit. As for drawing a straight flush — any five consecutive cards of one suit — the odds are one in 72,192. Judging from the current astrological omens, Gemini, I’d say your chance of getting one of those hands is far better than usual — maybe one in 88,000 for the royal flush and one in 8,888 for the straight flush. But those still aren’t great odds. On the other hand, getting a flush — all five cards of the same suit — is normally one in 509, but these days it’s pretty likely for you. The moral of the story, not just for when you’re playing cards, but in whatever you do: Expect really good luck, but not miraculous, out-of-this-world luck. Homework: I’m guessing that many of you will soon be discovering secrets about where you came from. Report results to Freewillastrology.com.

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22): Golden Rock is a Buddhist holy site in Burma. It’s a small pagoda built on top of a giant boulder that in turn seems to be precariously balanced at the edge of a down-sloping bed of rock. How does the boulder remain stationary? Why doesn’t it roll oﬀ the edge? It appears to defy gravity. Legend says that it’s held in place by a single strand of hair from the Buddha’s head. I suspect that many of you Leos will soon have access to a tricky asset with resemblances to that magic strand. True, it might be merely metaphorical. But if used correctly, it could become a key element in a future foundation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): It’s Soul-Searching Season: a good time to go in search of your soul. To aid your quest, I’ll offer a few lines from “A Few Words on the Soul,” a poem by Polish poet Wisława Szymborska. “We have a soul at times,” she says. “No one’s got it non-stop, for keeps. Day after day, year after year may pass without it. For every thousand conversations, it participates in one, if even that, since it prefers silence. It’s picky: our hustling for a dubious advantage and creaky machinations make it sick. Joy and sorrow aren’t two different feelings for it. It attends us only when the two are joined. We can count on it when we’re sure of nothing and curious about everything. It won’t say where it comes from or when it’s taking off again, though it’s clearly expecting

such questions. We need it but apparently it needs us for some reason too.” (Translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh. Read the whole poem here: http:// tinyurl.com/SearchSoul.)

them for the rest of your life. Make these breakthrough moments into talismans that will serve as magical spells whenever you need rejuvenation in the future.

LIBRA

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had his priorities straight. This is what he said about his profession: “In philosophy the race is won by the one who can run slowest — the one who crosses the ﬁnish line last.” It’s my belief, Capricorn, that a similar rule should apply to you in the coming days — no matter what project you’re working on or goal you’re trying to accomplish. Proceed slowly enough to be absolutely thorough, meticulous, and conscientious. As you make your way to the ﬁnish line, be as deep as you dare.

(Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): “I do not believe in God,” said Mexican painter Diego Rivera, “but I believe in Picasso.” My poet/musician friend Tanya has a similar philosophy. “I don’t believe in God, or even Goddess, for that matter,” she says. “But I do believe in Patti Smith.” Do you have a God-substitute, Libra? Or, if you do have faith in a Cosmic Wow, is there also a more approachable, second-tier source of divinity you love? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you would really beneﬁt from feeling an intimate kind of reverence right now — a tender devotion for something higher and brighter that awakens the sleeping part of your lust for life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): This would be an excellent time to stage staring contests with yourself in the mirror. There’s a high likelihood that you will win every time. I think you’ll also have great success whenever you try to read your own mind. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’ve got an uncanny knack for plucking buried secrets and self-deceptions out of their hiding places. One more thing, Scorpio: Have you ever considered how fun it might be to wash your own brain and kick your own butt? Now would be an excellent time to experiment with those radical acts of healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness,” writes novelist Chuck Palahniuk. “We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” Your assignment in the coming days, Sagittarius, is to prove Palahniuk wrong. As the surges of sweetness ﬂow through you, as your secret joy ripens into bright blooming bliss, imprint the sensations on your memory. Vow to remember

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): In Samuel Beckett’s novel Molloy, the main character talks about a long overland journey he took on foot and by bicycle. Before the trip, he had read somewhere that when people are lost in a forest, they often imagine they’re moving in a straight line when in fact they’re going in a circle. That’s why, during his own travels, he intentionally walked in a circle, hoping thereby to go straight. Although this might sound like a loopy strategy, Aquarius, I think it will make sense for you to adopt in the coming week. Your apparent path may be very diﬀerent, maybe even opposite, to your actual path.

PISCES (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): Are you in competition with someone who is doing mediocre work? Do you ﬁnd it incomprehensible that anyone would pay attention to that weak expression instead of ﬂocking to your beautiful vibe? If so, here’s my advice. Withdraw your attention from your inferior opponent. Don’t waste a minute feeling jealous or resentful or incredulous. Instead, concentrate your energy on making your production so strong and smart and irresistible that you simply overshadow and overwhelm your rival’s.

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PACIFIC CREPES 705 Anacapa St. 882‑ 1123.OPEN Tues‑Fri 10a‑3p & 5:30p‑ 9p, Sat 9a‑9p, Sun 9a‑3p From the flags of Bretagne & France to the “Au revoir, a bientot”; expe‑ rience an authentic French cre‑ perie. Delicious crepes, salads & soups for breakfast, lunch & dinner. Tasty Crepe Suzette or crepe flam‑ bee desserts. Specials incl. start‑ er, entree & dessert. Homemade with the best fresh products. Relax, enjoy the ambience, the food & parler francais! Bon Appetit! pacificcrepe.com

PIERRE LAFOND Wine Bistro 516 State Street 962‑1455 $$ Open Every Day M‑F 11a‑9p Sat/ Sun 9a‑10p Brunch Sat/Sun 9a‑3p Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. A local favorite since 1993. California cui‑ sine showcasing the best local prod‑ ucts. Steamed Mussels, Flatbreads, Grilled Duck Breast, Vegetarian dishes, Sherry Wine cake, Wines from around the world. Happy Hour Mon‑Sat 4:30‑6:30. Sidewalk patio. www.pierrelafond.com

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Coffee Houses SB COFFEE Roasting Company 321 Motor Way SB 962‑5213– NOW WITH FREE WI‑FI! Santa Barbara’s premiere coffee roasting company since 1989. Come in for the freshest most deli‑ cious cup of coffee ever and watch us roast the best coffee in town at our historic Old Town location ‑ Corner of State & Gutierrez. Gift baskets, mail order & corporate gifts avail. sbcof‑ fee.com.

Ethiopian AUTHENTIC ETHIOPIAN Cuisine Featured at Petit Valentien Restaurant 1114 State St. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Open Sat‑Sun Lunch ONLY 11am‑2:30pm. Serkaddis Alemu offers in ever chang‑ ing menu with choices of vegitarian, vegan, and meat options. Catering Avaliable for parties of up to 40 people.

PETIT VALENTIEN, 1114 STATE ST. #14, 805‑966‑0222. Open M‑F 11:30‑ 3pm (lunch). M‑Sat 5pm‑Close (dinner). Sun $24 four course prefix dinner. In La Arcada Plaza, Chef Robert Dixon presents classic French comfort food at affordable cost in this cozy gem of a restaurant. Petit Valentien offers a wide array of meat and seafood entrees along with extensive small plates and a wine list specializing in amazing quality at arguably the best price in town. A warm roman‑ tic atmosphere makes the perfect date spot. Comfortable locale for dinner parties, or even just a relax‑ ing glass of wine. Reservations are recommended. RENAUD’S PATISSERIE & Bistro, 3315 State St. in Loreto Plaza, 569‑2400 & 1324 State St. Ste N 892‑2800 $$ M ‑ Sat 7‑ 5, Sun 7‑3 & M‑Sun 7‑ 3 Wide selec‑ tion of wholesome French pastries. Breakfast & lunch menu is com‑ posed of egg dishes, sandwiches & salads representing Renaud’s favor‑ ites. Our Brewed coffees & teas are proudly 100% Organic.

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PALAPA 4123 State 683‑3074 $$ Sat/ Sun Open 7a. M‑F 8:30a‑9p. Seafood enchiladas, ceviche, salads, tamales, chile rellenos. A mini vacation in Baja! Smoking deck.Lots of heated patios. Refrescos, flan, black beans, green rice, Mexican organic coffee.Cervesa y Vino. Breakfast * Lunch * Dinner daily. Live Mariachi music Fri’s 6p. Gift certificates.Private parties & catering. Nos vemos!

HOLDREN’S 512 State St. 965‑3363 Lunch & Dinner Daily. Featuring $20 Prime Rib Wednesdays‑ USDA 12 oz Prime MidWestern corn‑fed beef char‑ broiled over mesquite; or try from our selections of the freshest seafood. We offer exten‑ sive wine & martini lists & look forward to making your dining experience superb! Reservations avail.

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ALDO’S ITALIAN Restaurant 1031 State St. 963‑6687. $$ Open 7 days. Lunch & Dinner. V MC AE DC DV. Local SB favorite for over 25 years offers fast, friendly service in the heart of downtown. Dine outdoors in our heated courtyard. Enjoy new home‑ style cuisine like Chicken Parmigiana or Fresh Fish specials in a comfort‑ able, romantic atmosphere. Vegan & Gluten‑ Free Pasta and Salad Options available. Wine & Beer. Full menu at: www.sbaldos.com

Japanese KYOTO, 3232 State St, 687‑1252.$$. Open 7days M‑F 11:30a‑2p; Sat Noon‑ 2:30p Lunch; Sun‑Thur 5‑10p Dinner, Fri‑Sat 5p‑10:30p.Complete Sushi Bar. Steak & Seafood Specials! Sashimi, Teriyaki, original Japanese appetizers & Combination Boat Dinner. SB’s only TATAMI Rooms reservations suggested. Beer, Wine & Sake.Take Out. Birthday customers get FREE tempura ice cream & photo on our website! KyotoSB.com

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Epiphany Revelation 2010: With violet, rose, and certainly herbal notes on the nose, this powerful, 60% syrah/40% grenache blend of Camp Four and Paradise Road vineyards from the late Fess Parker’s son Eli and daughter Ashley dives into leather, smoke, and blackberry on the tongue. Most impressive is the long finish, indicating a right acid balance to considerable fruit and tannins. Expect Epiphany and Fess Parker wines to shine at the Santa Barbara County Vintners Festival on Saturday, April 20, at Mission Santa Ines. See epiphanycellars.com and fessparker.com for more on the wine, and sbcountywines.com for tickets.

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BANGKOK PALACE 2829 De la Vina St. 687‑1828 $$ Open M‑F 11a‑9p Sat 5‑9p Fine Thai Cuisine in an intimate authentic setting. $15min.+ $3 fee for deliveries. Beer/Wine/Sake.AX/Disc/VC/ MC.WI‑FI www.BangkokPalace.co YOUR PLACE Restaurant, 22 N. Milpas St., 966‑5151, 965‑9397. $$. Open Mon 4‑9:45pm Tues‑Thurs & Sun 11:30a‑9:45p, Fri/Sat 11:30a‑10:30p. V MC AE. Your Place ‑ The One & Only. Voted “BEST THAI FOOD” for 26 years by Independent and The Weekly readers, making us a Living Legend! Lunch & dinner specials daily. Fresh seafood & tasty vegetarian dishes. Santa Barbara Restaurant Guide selected us as the Best Thai Restaurant for exceptional dining reflected by food quality, service & ambiance.

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RODNEY’S STEAKHOUSE, 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard at Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort 805‑884‑8581 Open for dinner 5:30pm‑10pm. Reservations recommended. A classic steakhouse at the beach with bold & beautiful décor. Featuring USDA prime‑grade steaks, fresh seafood, baked lobster & nightly chef specials. Incredible desserts. Full cocktail bar specializes in 15 distinctive martinis. Wine cellar with Santa Barbara County & California best vintages by‑ the‑glass www.rodneyssteakhouse.com

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RENEGADE WINES, 417 Santa Barbara St., Ste A‑6, 568‑1961. Tues‑Fri 10‑6p Sat noon‑6p.Fine wines @warehouse prices, including hard to find wines! Venture to our warehouse & choose domestic & imported wines from our select stock. Fresh caviar & fine food products

Wineries/Tasting Rooms BABCOCK WINERY & VINEYARDS. 5175 HWY 246 Sta. Rita Hills. 805‑736‑ 1455 Open 10:30‑5 p.m. daily. For 30 years Bryan Babcock has been honing his craft. Venture into beau‑ tiful wine country and savor his extraordinary collection of highly expressive single‑vineyard Pinot Noirs rarely offered outside of the winery. Sample highly acclaimed Chardonnays, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris. Cabernet and Syrah sourced from warmer SB Co. locales are voluptuous. Taste wine and shop for eclectic gifts in a newly renovated, vintage inspired atmo‑ sphere. www.babcockwinery.com SANTA BARBARA Winery, 202 Anacapa St. 963‑3633. Open 7 days, 10a‑5p, small charge for extensive tasting list. 2 blocks from both State St & the beach. This vener‑ able winery is the county’s oldest‑ est.1962, and offers many interna‑ tionally acclaimed wines from their Lafond Vineyard in the Santa Rita Hills. Try some of Winemaker Bruce McGuire’s small production bottling. www.sbwinery.com WHITCRAFT WINERY, 36 S. Calle Cesar Chavez 730‑1680. Family owned & operated. Specialist in Pinot Noir .Est. 1985. In Sideways! 1 block from beach.Tastings Fri/Sat/Sun 12‑4 & by appt. www.whitcraftwinery.com

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o do anything great,” the old adage goes, “you must do it for 10,000 hours.” With more than 65 years of combined experience in the food and beverage industry, Tom and Vicki Dolan bring that level of dedication to Toma Restaurant and Bar at  West Cabrillo Boulevard, which they opened this week in the former location of Emilio’s. Toma offers Italian and Mediterranean dishes from Santa Barbara’s seasonal bounty. “We have a passion and love for the business of entertaining Toma Restaurant and Bar’s head chef Nat Ely (left) and owner Tom Dolan our guests, friends, and family,” celebrated the opening of their Cabrillo Boulevard spot this week, in the said Tom Dolan, who worked at former home of Emilio’s. Emilio’s for 20-plus years.“We in December of that year. Reader Patrick let me know strive to offer an incredible culithat the bakery has reopened in Carpinteria with a nary experience with a warm and friendly serviceslightly changed name: Whodidily By Wendy. This is driven atmosphere that you will want to come back the third name for the dessert destination, which was to time and time again. We have always loved the called Sprinkled Pink when it launched on Coast Vilexperience of meeting new people and are excited to lage Road in August 2008. From looking at facebook welcome you.” Co-owner Vicki Dolan has been work.com/WhodidilyByWendy, it appears that all orders are ing with the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts company, holding positions as food and beverage director, placed by phone. Call 450-2392. resort manager, and capital project manager. COAST BECOMING FINCH & FORK: On April 15, Chef Nat Ely, another Emilio’s vet who was fordowntown Santa Barbara will see the evolution merly executive chef at Los Olivos Café, created a of Coast Restaurant into Finch & Fork restaurant, menu that includes entrées (sea bass $25, grilled located at  West Carrillo Street inside the Canary prawns $27, cioppino $29, roasted chicken $24, Hotel. braised short rib $26, vegetable roll $18,‘flat iron’ steak At the helm of Finch & Fork, Chef James Siao $27), pasta (raviolo $16, black spaghetti $18, gnocchi will be creating a modern American bar and grill, $22, lasagne $18, rigatoni $17), and pizza (guanciale highlighting ingredients from Santa Barbara’s fish$16, margherita $14, il fungi $16, smoked salmon $18). ers, farmers, and ranchers.“In developing my menu, A full bar offers area and Italian wines along with I wanted to offer guests a variety of dishes that are handcrafted cocktails and spirits. locally sourced, said Siao.“I kept many of our current Toma is open for dinner nightly, 5-10 p.m. Call favorites on the menu, such as our shareable market 962-0777 or visit tomarestaurant.com. fish tacos, flatbreads, and our signature lamb burger, BRASIL ARTS CAFÉ OPENS: A new Brazilian resbut I also wanted to add some new favorites such as taurant and fitness spot named Brasil Arts Café has my fried chicken oyster sliders, grilled asparagus, and opened at  State Street. Chef Lica Sfredo offers macaroni and cheese.” açaí, smoothies, juices, Brazilian BBQ, coxinhas, feiIn addition, Chef Siao is launching The Daily, a joada, Brazilian desserts, and more. Fitness options different special for each day of the week, including include classes in capoeira, samba, Afro-Brazilian his buttermilk fried chicken with creamy potatoes, dance, Brazilian drumming, Portuguese, forró, and pepper gravy with house-made pickles on Tuesdays; more. Hours are Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m. - 9 p.m. Call Pork & Cork pork dishes paired with wine flight 637-5355 or visit brasilartscafe.com or facebook.com specials that change weekly on Wednesdays; seafood /BrasilArtsCafe. Thanks to reader Greg for the tip! pot pie with a house-made puff pastry on Fridays; and, on Saturdays, a Farmers Market lasagna made with PRESSED JUICERY OPENS: Los Angeles–based ricotta and fresh vegetables from that morning marPressed Juicery has opened at  Coast Village ket. On average, entrées will range from $16-$34. Road. The store sells fresh juice shipped from Los Finch & Fork’s beverage program will focus on Angeles each morning in 31 different flavors for $6.50 fresh cocktails, vodkas, tequilas, and mezcals. The per 16-ounce bottle. The beverage reportedly has a wine list will feature many Central Coast wineries. shelf life of three days. Breakfast is served Monday-Friday, 7-11 a.m., and brunch Saturday-Sunday, 8 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Lunch is WHODIDILY REOPENS: Whoserved Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., and dindidily cupcakes closed its Santa ner Sunday-Thursday, 5:30-10 p.m., and Friday-SaturBarbara store in April 2011 and day, 5:30-11 p.m. Call 879-8100 or visit finchandfork MORE the fl agship Montecito location restaurant.com. FOOD

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Legals ABC Permit NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Date of filing application: March 08 2013. To Whom it May Concern: The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/are: MICK MONSTER, INC The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 11 Victoria St Ste 10 Santa Barbara, CA 93101‑5142 for the following type of License: 47‑ ON‑SALE GENERAL‑EATING PLACE and Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 1000 South Hill Road Ste 310 Ventura, CA 93003. (805) 289‑0100. Published Mar 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Date of filing application: March 28 2013. To Whom it May Concern: The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/are: SANTA BARBARA SHOWGROUNDS FOUNDATION The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 3400 Calle Real Santa Barbara, CA 93105‑3285‑for the following type of License: 47‑ON‑SALE GENERAL‑EATING PLACE and Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 1000 South Hill Road Ste 310 Ventura, CA 93003. (805) 289‑0100. Published . Apr 11 2013. NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Date of filing application: March 26 2013. To Whom it May Concern: The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/are: C’EST CHEESE, INC The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 825‑831 Santa Barbara St Santa Barbara, CA 93101‑ for the following type of License: 41‑ ON‑SALE BEER AND WINE‑EATING PLACE and Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 1000 South Hill Road Ste 310 Ventura, CA 93003. (805) 289‑0100. Published . Apr 4, 11, 18 2013. NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Date of filing application: April 4 2013. To Whom it May Concern: The Name(s) of the Applicant(s) is/are: ROSALINDA ORDAZ MONRROY The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 3007 De La Vina St Santa Barbara, CA 93105‑for the following type of License: 41‑ON‑SALE BEER AND WINE‑EATING PLACE and Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 1000 South Hill Road Ste 310 Ventura, CA 93003. (805) 289‑0100. Published . Apr 11, 18, 25 2013.

Administer of Estate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: MICHAEL J. SCHUIT aka MICHAEL JOHANNES SCHUIT CASE NO: 1416188 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of MICHAEL J. SCHUIT aka MICHAEL JOHANNES SCHUIT A PETITION FOR PROBATE: has been filed by: CHRIS SCHUIT in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that CHRIS SCHUIT be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions,

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Fictitious Business Name Statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SSS, SSS Pixography, Triple S Pixography at 3345 State Street #3094 Santa Barbara, CA 93130; Sally S. Schultz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Sally S. Schultz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000711. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Team Dazzle, Team Dazzle California, Team Dazzle Promotions, Team Dazzle Santa Barbara, Team Dazzle SB, Team Dazzle Socal at 330 E. Micheltorena St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Michael George George (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael George This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 15, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Joshua Madison. FBN Number: 2013‑0000841. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Brain Fitness at 5266 Hollister Ave, Suite 204 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Danny Staso PHD This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Danny Staso This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 14, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑0000825. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013.

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BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Canary Hotel at 31 West Carrillo St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; KHP II Canary, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Jennifer Gilbert This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 22, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Joshua Madison. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000617. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: L.J.’s New Orleans Creole Pralines, L.J.’s Southern Belle Cookies at 4831 8th Street #4 Carpinteria, CA 93013; LaJuan Juardine Washington This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: LaJuan Washington This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000666. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Amphitrite Designs at 6282 Newcastle Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Joannie Hirashima (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Joannie Hirashima This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Joshua Madison. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000861. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A‑OK Power Equipment at 1671 Fir Ave Solvang, CA 93463; A‑OK Mower Shop Inc 14 North Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: James Gally, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0000864. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A‑OK Power Equipment at 14 North Milpas Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; A‑OK Mower Shop Inc 14 North Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: James Gally, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000862. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Sheik Boutique at 11 West Arrellaga B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Mission Grocers Inc 915 Elm Street Carpinteria, CA 93013 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: James Gally, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0000865. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: A‑OK Power Equipment at 4621 Carpinteria Ave Carpinteria, CA 93013; A‑OK Mower Shop Inc 14 North Milpas St Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: James Gally, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000863. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Carpinteria Valley Lumber Company at 915 Elm Street Carpinteria, CA 93013; Carpinteria Valley Lumber Co. Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: James Gally, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000866. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Eat This, Shoot That! at 141 Holly Avenue #7 Carpinteria, CA 93121; Taralynn Jones (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Taralynn Jones This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0000822. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Dancing Lady Gifts at 829 Marilla Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Ann Fox (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Ann Fox This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabrielo Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑0000787. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Central Coast Tank Testing at 843 Cheltenham Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Baseline Enterprises (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Robert P Hankenson, Pres. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000869. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Carisma at 142 Northridge Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Marilyn J. Panter (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Marilyn J. Panter This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑0000719. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hammered Hoops at 2925 Buckboard Lane Solvang, CA 93463; Rachel M Kett (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Rachel M. Kett This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000624. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Crown Point, Crown Point Ranch And Vineyards, Crown Point Vineyards at 1777 Fletcher Way Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Crown Point Vineyards, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Roger K Bower This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 07, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000754. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ranch Hands at 3694‑B Tivola Street Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Recovery Ranch, LLC 3687 Manzana Street Santa Ynez, CA 93460 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Daniel Ross, Partner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0000811. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Fish‑Footage, Man Around The House, Professional Troublemakers at 531 Miramonte Dr. Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Michael Fisher This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Michael Fisher This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Joshua Madison. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000808. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lunchbox, Lunchboxyum at 113 W. De La Guerra Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jennifer Shively 26 W. Constance Ave #8 Santa Barbara, CA 93105 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jennifer Shively This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Joshua Madison. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000803. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Atlas Surf Suits, Oliver’s Table, Soil & Sea, Space On Waves at 22 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Oliver Drew Parker 93 Humphrey Rd Montecito, CA 93108 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Oliver Parker This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 14, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0000827. Published: Mar 21, 28. Apr 4, 11 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pal 8 Media, Inc. at 2580 Sycamore Canyon Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Pal 8 Media, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Steven Manis, CFO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 04, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0000717. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Style At Tiffany’s at 621 W. Ortega Street Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Tiffany Marie Soxman (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Tiffany Soxman This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 19, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000892. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cleo Instruments at 924 West Sola Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; William Charles Kingsbury (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: William Kingsbury This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000963. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Edge Tone at 5110‑A Cathedral Oaks Road Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Neal Robert Eatherly (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Neal Eartherly This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 22, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000957. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SB Massage, SB Massage Therapy, SB Massage Therapy Center at 827 State St., Suite #14 Santa Barbara, CA 93102; Eric A. Schlobohm 2201 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: A. Eric Schlobohm This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 08, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013-0001140. Published: Apr 11, 18, 25. May 2 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Local Publishing Company, SBLocal. com at 223 E Figueroa Street Apt H Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jued A. Martinez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Jued Martinez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000783. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Adapt Construction at 1335 Bath Street, Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Kenneth N. Herzog (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Kenneth N Herzog. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 20, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000924. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Precise Fingerprinting & Notary at 1025 N. Kellogg Avenue Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Thushara Nahallage Don (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Thushara Nahallage Don This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 19, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0000882. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Crown Point Winery, Westerly, Westerly Estate, Westerly Vineyards, Westerly Vineyards W, Westerly Estate, Westerly Wines at 1777 Fletcher Way Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Crown Point Vineyards, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Roger K Bower This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 07, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000755. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Cosmo, Gals and Guys Club, Miracast Media, Cosmo.la, Guys ‘N’ Gals Club, Gals ‘N’ Guys Club, Guys And Gals Club at 785 Camino Del Sur Apt. #206 Goleta, CA 93117; Matthew Iwaskow (same address); This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Matthew John Iwaskow This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 19, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000901. Published. Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Land‑Tech at 427 W Ortega Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Abelardo Landeros (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Abel Landeros This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Feb 28, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑0000668. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Shared Crossing Research Initative at 820 State St. 4th Floor. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Shared Crossing Project, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Susan Y M Toney This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Joshua Madison. FBN Number: 2013‑0000859. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Roxipan at 4564 Via Maria Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Thea, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Myriam Doussineau This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 11, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000790. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Pilgrims, Santa Barbara Pilgrims of The Camino, Santa Barbara Pilgrims of The Path, Santa Barbara Walkers, Santa Barbara Walkers of The Camino at 5662 Calle Real #331 Goleta, CA 93117; John Harrison (same address) This business is conducted by a Unincorporated Association Signed: John Harrison This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 25, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑0000967. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Francisco Cleaning Services at 6742 Abrego Rd. #89 Goleta, CA 93117; Francisco Vargas Perez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Francisco Vargas Perez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Joshua Madison. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000872. Published: Mar 28. Apr 4, 11, 18 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: The Flowering Earth at 2429 Bath Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Alexis Slutzy (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Alexis Slutzky This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 22, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000947. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: Santa Barbara Helicopter Tours, Santa Barbara Helicopters, SB Heli Tours at 404 Moffett Place Goleta, CA 93117; SB Helicpters, Inc 15 W. Carrillo Street Suite 220 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Brad Hasse This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0001036. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Studio 920 at 1120 Laguna St Apt 10 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Rafael Parmegiani Coelho (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Rafael P. Coelho This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0001031. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Nite Bite at 3400 Calle Real Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Nite Bite, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Carlos Lomeli This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 13, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000823. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Maggie’s Creative Concepts at 3523 Modoc Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Margaret E Chambers (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Margaret Chambers This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0001024. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Califun SB at 549 El Sueno Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Adolfo A. Guillen (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Adolfo A. Guillen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 08, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000768. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Roasting Company, Santa Ynez Valley Roasting Company at 136‑A Loureyro Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Anna Taylor (same address) Jonathan Taylor (same address) This business is conducted by a A Married Couple Signed: Anna Taylor This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 12, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melinda Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000806. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Educraft, LLC at 8409 Vereda Del Padre Goleta, CA 93117; Educraft, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed:Mackenzie Fixler This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 20, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melinda Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0000927. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Queen Maya Cleaning Services at 4400 Carpinteria Ave. #62 Carpinteria, CA 93013; Reyna Maya (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Reyna Maya This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑0000987. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Down To Earth Garden Supply at 900 McMurray Road #13 Buellton, CA 93427; Seamus Ethridge 200 Mail Road Lompoc, CA 93436 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Seamus Ethridge This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000989. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Creative Yearbooks at 46‑C Ocean View Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Timothy Goebel (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Timothy Goebel This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 29, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN Number: 2013‑0001030. Published: Apr 4, 11, 18, 25 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brisas Del Mar Inn At The Beach Reservations at 223 Castillo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Harborside Inns of Santa Barbara, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jeanette Webber, Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0001108. Published: Apr 11, 18, 25. May 2 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Inn By The Harbor Reservations at 433 West Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Harbor Inns of Santa Barbara, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jeanette Webber, Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. FBN Number: 2013‑0001109. Published: Apr 11, 18, 25. May 2 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lavendar Inn By The Sea Reservations at 206 Castillo Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Harborside Inns of Santa Barbara, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Jeanette Webber, Vice President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 5, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0001110. Published: Apr 11, 18, 25. May 2 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Thirsty. Thirsty.Swim at 831 West Anapamu Street #1 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Tomi Eaton (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Tomi Eaton This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on April 4, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jessica Armstrong. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0001093. Published: Apr 11, 18, 25. May 2 2013.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Lark at 131 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Acme Restaurant LLC 120 Presidential Way Suite 300 Woburn, MA 01801 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Daniel Russo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑0000981. Published: Apr 11, 18, 25. May 2 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Caveau SB at 131 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Acme Anacapa Wine Store LLC 120 Presidential Way Suite 300 Woburn, MA 01801 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: Eric Railsback This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Mar 26, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000980. Published: Apr 11, 18, 25. May 2 2013. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Roundabout at 1018 Garden Street Suite 206 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Babalu, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Blair Everett This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 18, 2013. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. FBN Number: 2013‑ 0000868. Published: Apr 11, 18, 25. May 2 2013.

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and extramural funding administration. Reqs: Excellent organization skills with ability to pay strict attention to detail. Ability to prioritize work load within deadlines. Excellent communication skills. Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Note: Fingerprinting required. $18.36 ‑ $19.69/hour. Open until filled. AA/EOE Apply online at https://Jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20130118

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2640 Tallant Road, Santa Barbara $2,350,000

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998 West Mountain Drive, Santa Barbara $1,675,000

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Duplex located on a one block street. Offers 1BD/1BA in each unit 2nd floor unit w/ mountain views. Comes Downtown property great for contractor or investor. & includes a shared 2-car garage & laundry hook-ups in each unit. furnished. Close to tennis courts & picnic area. 3BD/1BA. Adjacent to creek, fenced yard, R4 lot w/ potential. www.GTprop.com/615Mulberry www.GTprop.com/133PorLaMar www.GTprop.com/314WestOrtega

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